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> I think people call meetings so they can have people’s mindshare

Yup, so true most of time. Rather than doing something productive, people resort to showing off in a meeting (especially when their superiors/executives are present)
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That's exactly the point. So my question remains: if threads are the right answer today, either the C10K folks were wrong or something has changed since then. What?
That one focuses more on privacy protection than ad blocking. I think using Peace in combination of a blocker app would be best route.
yeah I find interesting that many legend and myths all have the sea rise event in common.
Not at all. The client apps were written in their respective framework/languages.

Yes yes, I do believe there's some boosterism going on when their success is entirely attributed to Erlang/FreeBSD alone. Sure the stability and scalability of the backend may have been helped by using Erlang but the fact that they got to scale at all has to do with all these other business/cultural/timing/design factors that I mentioned above.

Btw, the one factor I forgot to mention above was the call to use phone numbers as the namespace for user identity. I believe they were one of the early ones, if not the first ones, who eschewed email and/or social login and went straight to phone number. That made them a direct replacement for SMS in large parts of the world where SMS costs were meaningfully expensive to the population. One more example of focusing outside the US market in general and outside of Valley bubble in particular.
Interesting. Why is that?
"The budget spent on anti-terrorism should be better spent teaching people to swim."

That's true assuming the goal is to reduce harm.

If the goal is to increase the power and control of the state, then teaching people to swim wouldn't be very helpful.
That said, none are perfect. Swapping between all three and reloading Slate.com, it seemed impossible to block an after-page-load ad inserted at the top of the article via JS.

Except when I ran Purify with Scripts disabled on Slate, then the page loaded instantly with no ad for obvious reasons. (Sadly Purify is missing an extension to selectively enable JS.)

Searching the store, Blockr looks nice enough, specifically calling out blocking of Cookie Warnings, but other than that, seems like a more configurable Crystal with features of Peace.

1Blocker which I have yet to use, currently takes the cake on configurability -- perhaps too much so -- it lets you turn on and off individual rules as well as add your own by typing in the filter directly.
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I'm curious as to why more WebGL games aren't popular? Is it due to the infancy of the WebGL scene or is WebGL just not capable of creating great games yet?
so..does S3 objects becomes IA automatically if it's access infrequently, or do we have to do the implementation on our side?
I was surprised to learn that PayPal has 16,000 employees! If I'd had to guess, I would have said something around 1000.

I guess there is a lot of manual work involved in handling all those transactions and fraud attempts.
Neither, really. You're technically not allowed to do business on Venmo. The intended use case is to send money to people you trust. If someone sends money they can always get that money back by claiming the recipient violated terms or something.
Ah! Thanks. It might be worthwhile to mention in the FAQ that not this does not run on all devices running iOS 9. The App Store description shows a list of supported devices, but because of the fragmentation of the iOS market :-), it is so long and incomprehensible that I don't bother to read it.

And no, I don't think "requires a 64-bit CPU" is sufficient to describe it.
Safari Blocker: http://blog.appgrounds.com/safari-blocker-preview/

It's in App Store review and should be out shortly.
> it's basically just some syntactic niceties over existing functionality.

OK, cool! Can you point us to the existing functionality, or any example of it being used for stackless coroutines?
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Something inside me wants to yell "But that's racist!".
Ask Apple :)
See this tweet:
https://twitter.com/awfulben/status/638510622167052288

Apparently, content blockers work on 32-bit CPUs, but Apple is restricting them on the store to 64-bit only. So you can go the BlockParty + EasyList route:
https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty

It works very well.
> We need more "life goes on" and less fear.

Thumbs up for that. And respect to Boston for the way they handled the marathon bombings back in 2013.

> the actual damage they did in the September 11 attacks has been dwarfed, at least economically, by the fact that we have essentially ruined our air-travel system in response.

That however is a one-sided statement. The question is always: how many attacks did we prevent with the new security? You can't just weigh up 9/11 vs. the cost of airline security. You have to see 9/11 plus any attack that was prevented (which I agree is hard/impossible to measure) vs. our security costs.

I don't deny that some air-travel security is OTT. But you can't claim it's pointless.

(Quite apart from the fact that customers, out of fear, nowadays probably wouldn't fly with an airline that didn't provide an insane amount of security. Despite an almost century long track record of astounding safety, the air-travel industry still has to convince its customers all the time that flying is safe.)
You can compile and sideload an open source content blocker on a 32bit device. But performance on some sites is slower then without blocking because of the regex performance difference, it's almost 50% slower. I'd quote the statement from a dev on reddit, but can't remember where it was.
It doesn't look like an improvement to me.

During normal operation it has a black box that validates passwords quickly. The PloyPasswordHash is the key to how it does it - but really it doesn't matter. All that matters is a password (or a hash of it) goes in, the blackbox maybe reads some data from the (effectively public) password database, and a yes/no comes out at the cost of stuff all CPU time.

The point is - if you can reproduce the blackbox once per GPU node on a password cracker it's no better than any other scheme.

So the security of the scheme rests on the attacker not being able to reproduce the blackbox. If it were a real blackbox sitting somewhere secure then maybe - but it's not. They make a large point of saying this scheme has no secret hardware sauce - is it's just software, in reality just another process running on the web server. If you managed to get a copy of the memory image of that process it's game over. But we can't use that weakness to attack it because it is acknowledged in the paper.

During normal operation the blackbox creates it's secrets by effectively combining a _lot_ of passwords (say N) from users. Thus you need N valid passwords before you can crack one. I think they achieved that, and it does indeed make the it near impossible to recreate the blackbox by brute force - if all you have is the public password data base and a copy of the code.

But it's not that simple. Firstly they acknowledge a naive implementation doesn't work because an attacker can just create N accounts and feed the passwords to the blackbox so it can initialise itself. In addition there is a bootstrap problem - no user can validate their password until N password have been gathered by having N attempted logins.

They get around that by having N (or close to N) special accounts which they call protector accounts. These accounts are presumably created by the server admin and thus can be trusted. They are used for both bootstrapping (implying they are available at boot time) and preventing the flood attack (by insisting some of the special accounts must be part of the N).

And so we get to the real issue: the passwords for those accounts must be entered when the machine boots. Effectively they are the secret the blackbox needs to do it's stuff. Replacing the PolyPasswordHash with a process that demands a single secure password be entered when the machine boots would work just as well. Eg, that password is an extra salt fed to a cryptographic hash along with the password word and on disk salt, and the result must match the hash stored on disk. Without knowing that salt there is no way to validate the passwords.

Sure entering N passwords isn't hard, but would you enter N passwords when there is a method offering equivalent security when you enter just one? And even that isn't the real issue - the real issue is fuck all corporations on the planet have employees willing to be woken up a 2 AM in the morning when a server boots to enter just one password.
Shouldn't the same feelings of smallness be imparted by staring at a sufficiently large building? So the sensation of awe fades as you become accustomed to seeing the object in question?
I guess they are assuming that if you are installing a content blocker, you are tech savvy enough to know what CPU the device you own has. I agree this is a problem. This is a transition period. Most likely iOS 10 will be 64-bit only, so these kind of problems will get worse before disappearing altogether.
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This sounds like a textbook candidate for superoptimization.
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Can't one keep more than a single blocker active at the same time?
"no one" is two words, though, confusingly, for all intents and purposes it's a single unit, grammatically.
I absolutely loved using BlaBlaCar when I was backpacking in France. It was recommended to me by several other travellers who all raved about it. It is a fraction of the price of the train, and far more convenient (in terms of pick-up/drop off locations and timing) than the bus. Plus I met some pretty cool people along the way.

Unfortunately I'm not optimistic about a similar service doing well in North America. The main advantage BlaBlaCar has in Europe is geography. Cities in North America are more scattered. Also, French culture is much more open to hitchhiking, which BlaBlaCar feels like a natural extension to. And European road tolls are far more expensive than in North America, giving drivers a much larger incentive to take some ridesharers with them. For example, on a long weekend roadtrip along the Cote d'Azur my French friend and I racked up close to 200 Euros in tolls, but happily made almost half of that back by picking up BlaBlaCar passengers at various convenient points along the way.
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Well I need to set up a new account on that thing and give it my bank details. Then my counterparties have to provide me with their ID on that app which is pretty much the same as providing a bank account number. So I don't get the convenience aspect.

I see the value of paypal, which is to create a screen between me and a dodgy website which I am buying from. That website can't get my credit card number and therefore take further payments. But when I am making a payment to someone why should I need an app to protect me against fraud? So I don't get the security aspect either.
Didn't know about them before, looks interesting. I've managed to find their site - https://tutanota.com - even though I was searching for Tutanova (should have just used copy & paste. The name is indeed not easy to remember...

A few questions remain:

* How do they 'encrypt emails to anybody'?

* Where do they encrypt - locally or on the server?
Nothing in particular against Fritzboxes, it's just there is plethora of good producers and devices and I like to have a choice. Fritzboxes are everywhere in Germany, by strange coincidence retailers expose them in the most visible spots, many ISPs promote them heavily by offering them for "free" or very cheap with their subscriptions. In the same time it's quite impossible to buy a plain VDSL modem and most VDSL capable routers cost well over EUR 100.
You can enable more than one blocker at a time.
Good to hear. I haven't programmed in Java in about that much time :)
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They're not only incorrect but also stating facts out of context. Furthermore, Microsoft doesn't have any obligation to expose their real numbers if they don't want to.

If it's ever needed to cite numbers, at least tell what the context is instead of naming some number out of the blue from 15 years ago and assuming it's still the same windows
> For example, in a native threading model, it is an awful idea to spawn a thread for every incoming connection on a server. It's the easy way to write it, but it's wrong. With a green threading model, though, that's easy and efficient.

A thread per connection isn't wrong, though. You're begging the question by assuming that green threads are faster than native threads. I'm specifically arguing against that.
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While I do sympathize with the victims, Venmo protects sending money and so I'm totally okay with their policies. The people involved in transactions should be mutually trusted parties. Craigslist is a place where scams happen all the time. This activity is possible on many platforms, not just Venmo.

They do however need to work on customer support and transparency, but that's if what's being reported is even completely accurate. My entire network of family, friends, and colleagues all use Venmo and none of us have had any issues.
Apple only says:

Note: Apps containing content blocking extensions for Safari on iOS are available only on 64-bit devices, due to performance limitations of 32-bit devices.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
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in terms of skill, the current ublock maintainer seems to be a kid with little to no skill who is not updating the project and instead milking it for money. I'm sure the iOS implementation is sound though.
While I agree with the first part of your post, I would claim that it will be several centuries before 9/11 is forgotten.

The impact it had on the world is just too big to forget within 100 years. 9/11 fundamentally influenced American foreign policy. Think of the Iraqi invasion, the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, heightened airline security.

We still learn about the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. It may have been the killing of just one man, but it led to WWI. We still learn about the Black Hole of Calcutta (whether it actually happened or not is a different story). We still learn about the Boston Tea Party. We still learn about the Defenestration of Prague that started the 30 Years War. I could go on...
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Keep in mind that there will be zillions of these in short order and many will also be free. Since they all use the same Apple-provided matching/blocking engine, there isn't going to be much in the way of innovation there - there won't be a content blocker that is 3 times faster and uses a quarter of the memory of some other content blocker.

It'll be down to config UI and the quality of their rules - the rules are all going to be derived from publicly available rule lists. There will very likely be publicly available lists in Apple's format quite soon as well.

Marco Ament comes out looking best on the last point by being completely upfront about where the rules in his blocker come from.
In Setting ->Safari -> Content Blocker,

You can Enable/Disable each one, so you may enable all at the same time
Cool technology, but I don't understand why every tiny little feature or program costs money on mobile. The price of convenience?
The other thing is that events pre-1990s are poorly documented on the internet. Anything happening since yields a lot of material. So I'd expect the internet to introduce a big bias in term of how we percieve history in the future.
'To read this page, please turn off your ad blocker'
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So what you're saying is that traders should play Diplomacy....
While I'm not a security expert, but I guess most of the attacks don't copy the database from the disk directly but use the SQL server for that through injection. If the SQL server can read your database (which is mandatory if it wants to work with it) then the underlying disk encryption doesn't help.
Yes, I ultimately don't want to though for both performance and debugging purposes. If something goes wrong, I'd rather easily know who did it. But yes, I would prefer if say, a "no script" content blocker specifically focused on that, an "ad block" one on that, a "privacy" one too... You could also combine apps to block regional ad variants, maybe, if in future country-specific ones are developed. Running more than one might work best for something like 1Blocker as a way to add your own block rules...
Is it just me or does it seem Apple is trying to put a hurt on Google and in turn hurt the web simultaneously. Safari has so many awful bugs that it's reminding me of the days of when you had to develop specifically for IE6.

Such tactics are reminiscent of when Microsoft ruled the land and well that didnt turn out so great for MS.
In fact the majority of Windows networks both corporate and small business I can safely say that it barely works and is usually a mismanaged unpatched mess or filled with crapware.

And yet, no vendor can hold a candle to Active Directory, which is the single best thing about running Windows in an enterprise.

You literally cannot manage SSO, patching, and config management on a non-Windows environment for more than a few hundred machine without the right tools. Shell scripts and Chef aren't going to cut it when you have 20,000 laptops to take care of.
According to the release notes for Safari 9 [1], it's because of performance concerns: "Apps containing content blocking extensions for Safari on iOS are available only on 64-bit devices, due to performance limitations of 32-bit devices"

I imagine there's no real reason that content blocking shouldn't work on 32-bit devices, but that Apple are trying to hit certain minimum performance numbers (for marketing/brand purposes)... and I'm sure they won't be upset if this should happen to encourage a few users of older devices to upgrade (i.e. forced obsolescence).

I think there are various examples of Apple doing this kind of thing (saying a certain generation of hardware is supported by software X, but then you find various things are disabled for you). Not exactly the same, but pre-2011 Macs cannot mirror their display via AirPlay (Apple saying the video hardware isn't up to the task) -- at least not until you install the third-party app AirParrot, then it works fine.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
Hi, I'm one of the developers of the game. Feel free to post questions.

Also, be sure to try the mobile version with your phone or tablet.

More info on the project here: http://littleworkshop.fr/keepout.html
Loved this and want to share with friends, but afraid they'll think I'm calling them jerks.
entire content of post (pasted because it is very short):

On her LinkedIn page, Ingram touts her “exceptional interpersonal skills.” Which is a funny thing for an AI to say, but it’s true. You can exchange pleasant task-related emails with her for weeks and never realize she isn’t real. That’s the point: As created by the startup x.ai, Ingram represents a new class of machines that don’t sound like machines. They sound like us.

:end

Why is this page so short? I've written comments much longer than this. It looks like the start of a longer article, but everything on it links to the same url, or a different story, so it seems like this is the whole thing.

That paragraph doesn't have any meat to it. It might as well be:

There is an AI called Ingram created by the startup "x.ai", which has a LinkedIn page. It responds very realistically to task based emails, to the point where one might not notice that it is not a real person for multiple weeks.

That it two sentences. It could almost fit in the title of the submission.
If that is all that is going to be there, why does it need an article?

Am I somehow missing the link to the "read full article" still? If I am, why wasn't that link linked to as the submission in the first place?

This comment is now more than twice the length of the article.
Typing in your friends name (or asking them for their username if it's non-obvious) is significantly easier than exchanging bank account details. Especially when you're dealing with groups of people.
Here's my user flow.
I sign up and connect w/ Facebook. I connect my bank account.
Separately, my friend who I rarely see does the same thing w/ his Facebook account and bank account.
A few months later we meet, I pay the full check and he Venmo's me 20$ for the meal w/ a few taps on his phone. He doesn't need to ask me anything. Because we're already Facebook friends, he has access to send me money.

I have Bank of America. For the same transaction to happen I would need my friend to sign into his bank account on a mobile phone, initiate a wire transfer from his checking account to my checking account, which requires me to provide him my checking account number and zipcode and full name.

And that's just a 1 on 1 transaction.

The most common use case is if I'm eating in a group of say... 6 people. Instead of splitting the bill 6 ways which many restaurants won't allow one person will front the bill. The rest of the group just "Venmo's" the person who fronted the bill whatever they owe. No exchange of account numbers, no asking for Paypal email address, none of that. The assumption is that everyone has Venmo and everyone's connected on Facebook. As long as those 2 facts are true (which is common for American millennials) the convenience is bar none.
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The 4 equations in the modern form are a wonderful compaction which summarise a whole bunch of different observations:

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I suppose it's mainly due to the infancy of WebGL. The technology itself is well capable of creating good games, which I hope Keep Out! helps to demonstrate.
If your threat model is "DEA busts darknet seller" they'd get a big stack of delivery addresses where drugs have been sent.

If a bunch of those addresses turned out to be AirBnB they could subpoena the details of who paid for the leases. Especially if their orders were large enough to indicate they were selling the stuff on.
I am curious how this will impact the web. Ads are the only revenue stream for most of the sites. Blocking ads is good for user experience but when you think from publishers site how will they survive? "I like ads because I can support people I like without even spending a dime" said one of my friends. I cannot agree more because there are plenty of people on mid and small scale try to earn living with the content they provide.
I'm Dutch and I write it that way. This is the first time in my memory that I consciously thought about how I write an 8 though. Probably I did when I was learning to actually write an 8 many years ago. Then again it's been a while since I actually wrote anything with a pen.
The prices are usually tiny as well. Peace is $2.99.