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>As a practical example, /out/ and /diy/ are two of the only places on the internet where you can get useful information about gear. Everything else is tainted by ad money.

Maybe /g/ is just more aware of the shills? I have a picture where one of the Windows Nokia phones had like 200+ threads made within a week all with the same image and very similar OP. There's a lot of shills and unfortunately it can take some effort to convince people "this is a shill thread". Sometimes a fake-advice question will get posted with fake answers meant to shill a product/service as the solution.

>/fit/ ironically does not discuss actual fitness, but is more a social group for people into fitness to discuss seemingly everything except fitness related issues.

Mostly just 'mirin each other.

I feel like people who have a very negative outlook of 4chan (as a whole) either never ventured outside of /b/ or can't wade through the cruft to get to the actual good discussion.

With the help of 2 friends of mine, we hosted a fun "learn interesting physics" thread for a while. There was also a guy who hosted Reverse Engineering threads (his job was to reverse engineer malware...). Both very informative and a lot of people took genuine interest.

I also made a short (and now defunct, though I can rehost it) web-based puzzle for people on /g/ to learn a bit about encryption. Starting with a simple ROT13 and working up to audio stenography.

It's a lot like Reddit with, I'd argue, a bit more extreme on the "bad" side - equivalent on the "good" side - but a lot more honest opinions due to anonymity. You'll get a lot of smart people who (wisely) value their public image self-censoring themselves on Reddit. Though on an anonymous board, they're more free to say what they want to say.

In exchange for that honesty and freedom of opinion - you get a lot more of the "darker side" of humanity. (Ignoring it doesn't make it go away, as so many people seem to believe.)

The level of honest opinions is something I enjoy - and is something that is increasingly being lost on an ever-connected web where one politically incorrect statement can lose you your job/career.
are people worried about bond market liquidity?
On the other hand, if they ship policy with -every review- as just now, and can get rid of the bit where resolutions endorse (getting s'mo data and intervening it where we pay them to get it intervened,) I won't be tempted to shred them to pieces. I mean, put them in a theraputic chilled bath without depth inhibitions, and with appropriately sized workstones. From newsrelease: 'The picture from the survey is more complex than usually covered in news...' faint praise. Mark Appelbaum! I'm callin' you out!
You are absolutely correct. But my point is the nighttime raids were not only a waste of resources, but they just killed civilians en masse. This didn't really do anything to change the war. Germany had no shortage of slave labor, so some dead civilians were just less mouths to feed.

Britain would have been better off just not building those bombers and bombs. The resources could have been diverted into something else. Maybe fighter escorts for the daytime raids?

I'm not trying to totally destroy the British contribution to the war. It is just that this policy of night time carpet bombing was totally misguided.
No, you don't. If you want to stick with the $75k number, then you say "I make just under $75k". If you want to round, you say "I make $73k".
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Yes! You're right. This is true.

So... if the trend is down, and somehow games are a force for increase in tendencies, then something else is pushing down even faster than games are pushing it up. What might that be?

And what evidence do we have that games are pushing it up at all?
My point was not that it would mean there is existing code you can leverage--as open-source is exceedingly rare in games development--my point was that you are likely entering a saturated market.
Haha what? I.G. Farben, Chemie Grünenthal, these are not German companies? Siemens, Ferrostaal bribing Greek politicians. H&K arming Mexican drug cartels.

The modern German self-image is a lie.
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I reported the same vulnerability to a company with millions of users last week, as of now it is still not fixed ...
I was talking about what he will be known for (which is pretty much /b/ and /pol/), not what 4chan is. That's a much different conversation, and not exactly black or white.
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Right now it's for all. I'm actually fixing it right now, to be access only for the one specific file.
>It's anti-corporate not anti-technological, not quite the same thing. After all the open and free Internet is the creation of government departments and government-funded universities.

The only thing that made it useful though was commercialization.
Doing that is inherently racey (as acknowledged in your man page quote), and you will lose some log data while the rotation happens if it's being written to quickly enough. If you need all your log data, you can't rotate or shrink it with this style of logging, hence 'known-bad'.
>>Jesus, why do Android engineers keep getting security so wrong so often?

What can you expect from a company that names its version releases after chocolates, candy and ice cream? That's literally the level of maturity with which they view their own product. So no wonder security is an afterthought.
What's difference between this one and rsync？
It looks really good on mobile.
Why isn't the fact that lots of baby boomers are getting older and retiring or getting close to retiring any part of this story?

If bonds are the safer choice for retirement investments (compared to stocks, while cash makes no interest/dividends or gains in value, these are the only 3 choices), then clearly lots of older people who are retiring are going to be buying into bond funds. Hence, huge upswing in bonds held by ETFs and mutual funds, since that's mostly what working-class people have access to through their employers or in their other reduced tax retirement accounts.
yeah I thought he was going to tamper with them
Agriculture also brought in a massive change in how humans regarded territory. For hunter-gatherer societies there was basically no impulse to fight over territory. Everything they needed could be foraged, and the things they foraged were plentiful.

Once we switched from foraging in a bountiful nature to scrounging a meager living from the dirt, defending that dirt or seizing more of it became a much bigger thing.
I don't disagree with you, but mbed TLS and other similar libraries partly exist to solve the need for high-quality crypto/TLS in very small operating environments, where it may not be possible or easy to use OpenSSL. They are designed to be highly modular and lightweight, and easy to integrate custom crypto acceleration hardware. I don't know enough about OpenSSL to say whether it's easy to work with in these environments, but this is why these idiosyncratic libraries exist, and it may not be as simple as 'just use OpenSSL' in all cases, especially for the non-TLS crypto parts.
Either origin matters more than current composition or it doesn't.
Can you (or any pro-gamergaters) show me one site that you think counts as a pro gamergate site?
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Yes and no. For some crazy reason it's easier to run server infrastructure when you're not doing hyper-aggressive data collection and running computationally complex operations to fetch and decide the data to display.

It's impressive in the sense that the staff size is in the order of magnitude you would expect given their publicly-visible product. Many companies will brag about their ops staff being big (because they're so great that their system has to scale) or small (because they're so great at building scalable systems), but operate so opaquely you have zero way to judge the impressiveness of the number and you have to trust the opinion of a journalist that doesn't even care to know.
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Why mention AWS at all, other than to mislead?
On a slightly unrelated note, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what could have possible warranted a downvote there.
What, you think a high school would pay the same that private industry would?
yes! but now its working.
I actually want to update our CSS to something better (PRs welcome!)

Initially I picked this theme because it looked really nice in Servo, but we support a lot more CSS now and one of the nicer themes should work well too. I know that the older This Week in Rust theme works in Servo (they recently switched to Bootstrap which mostly works, but has some quirks), and I've wanted to switch to that for a while. Never really sat down to do it, perhaps I should do that next.
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I'm looking to start an open discussion on HN related to VATMOSS and how US-based tech companies have been dealing with it since its release on Jan. 1 of this year.

Did you roll your own solution? Use a 3rd party provider? Find some obscure loophole to get out of it?

Did your implementation to collect VATMOSS impact your PCI compliance?

Really, I'm just looking for any stories, solutions, or problems related to how your company incorporated VAT collection.

Thanks!
I'm hearing a bunch of excuses which are used to rationalize your bad behavior, but nothing based in reality.
Isn't this one of those very few cases were nationalisation of a company is called for?
I, for one, would be upset as a manager to find out that I had been lied to (and taken advantage of, really). I would have zero qualms about firing someone for negotiating like this. It's fine to say "Hey, someone else over here thinks I'm worth more, and I'm inclined to agree with them - are you?" It's not fine to say it if it's not true. I'm also not super-impressed with the leveraging of a tough moment in the company to extract more $$. It's not dishonest, although if I were your manager in that situation, I'd be looking for a replacement.

My take on this whole idea is this: instead of focusing on how big your balls are, focus on how much value you can bring to the company. Your monetary compensation will reflect that (and actual honest negotiating techniques are recommended).
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Don't forget the contribution to climate change. It's probably negligible, since the cheating VW cars make up a very small portion of cars worldwide, but it's still worth thinking about, in my opinion.
Just a guess, I imagine they'd have to go through the whole new drug approval cycle as opposed to the show its bioactivity similar to existing one.
You are correct, it is satirical. But its a common misconception that its some sort of military love-letter.

Edit: So I assume that downvotes now are a form of disagreement rather than a measure of contribution to the discussion.
I use lsyncd for this. Why would I switch?
Indeed agreed.
No. I heard it as a common, repeated observation about 2008, but I don't have a link to actual data.
Plus asynchronous text chat.
I average 51mpg in an unmodified 2013 Jetta TDI on the highway, usually at exactly 65mph.
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/g/ not good enough for you

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Perfect! That was the only thing holding me back from getting started. Nice work, BTW!
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This is actually true for American cars as well. I used "Ford Fusion" and "Ford F-150" in my example because one's a family sedan and one's a big pickup truck. I bet the Fusion shares more than a few parts with the Focus.

At the very least, each American manufacturer shares engines and transmissions across its various models.

80s and 90s American car interiors were sort of quietly hilarious. They shared common parts like crazy. You'd see the same gearshift, steering wheel, and so forth on various models. Maybe that's why it was a really ugly era in automotive interiors; their designs were constrained by all the common parts.
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So the Servo window by default only takes up a quarter of the screen, which makes some sites behave more like mobile sites. I picked this theme because it looked nice on Servo, so it's looking nice on mobile as a consequence :)
Is that the one with the cancerous growth top-back?
You conveniently missed ad revenue. 4chan has around 650m pageviews a month. At $0.25/1000 that's a few million a year.

And I didn't say he was lying, I said I don't believe him.
I pronounced this 's-shync' in my head. I am happy.
I believe Rome too. I've wondered for a while if this is a long holdover from the short-lived Alexandrian empire.
This is a nice little project, but I think rsync is better suited for any serious use. It can do ssh, it's own protocol or any connection program that would tunnel bidirectionally. It does very efficient transfer, can create off-line patch files, and basically do any one-way file/dir sync function you can think of.

Edit: this one is continuous and rsync is one-shot. Personally, I've been using inotify+rsync+timeout (intofy+rsync has a race condition, so limiting the inotify wait and syncing anyway is essential). Does sshync avoid the race?
Still, there has to be some some value in having "Creator and administrator of 4Chan" on one's resume.
I guess similarly to C:

for i in foo:
print(42)

would be considered equivalent to something like

it = iter(foo)
while True:
try:
i = next(it)
catch StopIteration:
break
print(42)

and jumping to print(42) would skip the init and first iteration expression.

Of course that's non-obvious behaviour, so in practice you would make it a compile time error. A careful language designer might even decide to not support goto at all. :)
He's comparing him to Hitler. Hitler had a huge influence on the world, for better and for worse, but that doesn't mean it is something he should necessarily be proud of.
I love these articles, thanks! I can't wait for rust to get more involved in this space. How do you plan on doing error handling in timely? Do you expect it to be more along the lines of MPI, where you restart from the last snapshot, or MapReduce/Spark, where lost work is transparently recomputed?
This is a spectacularly bad article.

The author starts out with the right idea,

"It’s about as pitch-perfect metaphor for what it’s like to go to war a civilian can ever hope to absorb—not only is the organized violence of the battlefield interminable, but the dislocation brought about to those subjected to it is total and unrelenting, too."

but then drops off into the convenient and easy, but completely false, proposition that science fiction is about predicting the future. And does so badly:

"In fact, when we begin our discussion in earnest, and I tell him his book has seemed to have proved prescient, that all signs seem to point to a perpetual state of forever war, he laughs."

The forever war of the Forever War is a completely different kind of beast from the forever war discussed in the article. That first quote above is a very good description of the book, that war permanently removes even those who survive it from the society they were part of before, but the "military adventuring" that they go on to discuss has more in common with the late 19th century exploits of the British Empire (and the fiction regarding those) and with Vietnam itself than with the story of the Forever War. (As an aside, does anyone have any information about the longest period the United States has gone without using military force somewhere? I have this suspicion that post-Vietnam may be it.)

Then we get things like

"...3D printers may soon allow anyone with the right hardware to manufacture deadly weaponry at home. Obscene weapons are increasingly obscenely easy to find."

(Does someone need to point out that, historically, everyone has normally had access to something equivalent tothe most deadly weapons of their time? How about the fact that "3D printers" doesn't do anything but advertise that this is a "techy" article?)

and

"His words resonate, depressingly, when you consider that the US now averages one mass shooting per day[1], and that the trend is only accelerating upwards."

(The link defines "mass shooting" as "any single incident in which at least four people are shot, including the gunman." If you're having to defend your ideas with statements like "But there's an uncomfortable assumption here that some crime victims' lives should be valued differently — or are less worthy of attention — than others." you have likely gone off some kind of edge somewhere.)

And what am I supposed to do with quotes like, "'I don’t know what we do about that,' he adds. 'I wouldn’t feel uncomfortable taking away that freedom, and I don’t even have guns.'" and "'The idea of abolishing war has been with us for thousands and thousands of years,” he adds. 'I think we’re more likely to invent the speed of light.'"

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/26/we...
Not mentioned in the article, is why salting is important even if rainbow tables aren't part of your threat model:

There is more than one reason, but they all boil down to one fact; two accounts with the same password will hash to the same value if you do not have a salt.

As an example, if an attacker gets a dump of all the hashed passwords, the weak passwords will be immediately apparent just from an analysis of duplicates.
Is that actually true?

We've hit a plateau on overall compute speed. There are incremental improvements, but the difference in performance over 5 years today is much less than it was 7-10 years ago.

My 10 year old laptop is awesome, and it's a Thinkpad too. I have fixed it, replacing a fan, upgrading RAM, etc... all good, but it's performance isn't so hot. Buying new made a lot of sense.

But, my current 4-5 year old, high end, laptop is still competetive in a way that didn't used to be true.

I've a 2012 MBP, and it's still plenty fast. The newer machines are nice, but it's not like the 2012 is irrelevant, and that particular MBP is servicable. Just barely, but possible. I've done a number of things on it.

The new machines now just aren't. So even the expert user service is off the table, and I find that hard to deal with personally, because I know I absolutely do plan on running the machine for 5+ years.
The bulk of this article seems to be concerned with potential privacy implications of widespread sequencing of patients. Which is a worthwhile topic, but not what you might expect from its headline. Some of the scenarios seem tired to me, like the idea that insurers might penalize you for having increased odds of expensive conditions (already against the law in the US; also, why not imagine that they would give most of their customers discounts for not having those risks?)
Yes, it makes sense ethically to push the FDA not to approve a drug you think won't work. It also makes sense financially to bet that the FDA won't approve a drug that you think won't work. But it doesn't make sense ethically to do both, both directly because it creates a conflict of interest, and indirectly because that very conflict of interest undermines both the objectivity and the credibility of your recommendation not to approve the drug.
Here's a few:

http://deepfreeze.it (exhaustively sourced list of complaints against game journalists and information on the movement as a whole)

http://techraptor.com (games news site, spawned in the wake of gamergate)

http://escapistmagazine.com (games news site, updated ethics policies after initial complaints, allows open discussion on the forums)
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There has been so much speculation and FUD surrounding a potential connection between violent video games and violent crime; it's tempting and easy to blame things like mass shootings on violent video games. I appreciate you're not doing that

Personally I do not believe there is a noteworthy connection between violent games and violent crimes. Anecdotal, but I myself played plenty of violent games and I'm a borderline pacifist. I don't even kill bugs if I can help it. (Exceptions made for things that try to eat me or my food...) I just enjoy the competitive nature of the games.

My only point in all this is that critiquing this study because there's a negative correlation between violent video game usage and violent crimes on a societal level is contributing to uncertainty and doubt parts of the FUD. Rather, I would critique the report itself for appearing (as you noted) to be fairly FUDsy and as other commentators have noted, not particularly rigourous.
I'm willing to bet he'll do a lot more great things in the future, and "created 4chan", even if you didn't capture much value from it, is more than 99.999% of people have accomplished.
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For intraplanetary communication, yes, I'd agree. But those signals shouldn't be strong enough for us to detect (otherwise, what a wasteful species).

Now, for interplanetary signals, radio does not look that interesting.

There's the problem that it, like everything else, is jut too damn slow. So just the assumption that long distance communication is common is already iffy.

Then, radio is either too hard to manage, or has a too long wavelength. Yes, some hyper intelligence out there may think differently, but from our current understanding, it looks way more likely that such hyper intelligence will still find it easier to send matter, neutrinos, or whatever it is that composes most of the Universe.
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That's just silly. Of course 100 years of action matter more than 1 year of action.
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As I understood it Henlein wrote the book at a time when he'd just formed a campaign group denouncing opposition to nuclear testing as a 'communist plot', and spent a great deal of time after the book's publication defending some of the book's more controversial ideas and their compatibiity with his otherwise mostly libertarian views

Agree that it might actually read better with a healthy dose of irony, but just as with Henlein's awkward sex scenes, that's not really the intent.
safety issue i would assume. many pit crew members have been killed over the years in motorsports so precautions and rules have been progressively been put in place to prevent them
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If you are referring to the Nortel Meridian One X11 platform, certainly as of X11 R24 (circa 2000/2001) you could spoof your ANI information on outbound calls if you had PRI cards installed in your cabinets. I was kind of amazed that you could just specify whatever information you wanted in the configuration, and that's what appeared on the caller ID of the person you were calling.
Why do poor business decisions make a case for nationalization?
You're hopelessly, utterly wrong. I refer you to, for just one of millions of examples, the Apple II reference manual: https://archive.org/details/applerefjan78. The early culture of PCs was one of end-user fixing and upgrading by default, often primarily.
> Saying they're "nearly identical" seems to miss the point that the former is a paen to the military

Its been quite a long time since I read Starship Troopers, but IIRC it doesn't read like much of a paean to the military on any but an extremely shallow reading.
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