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Wait, what?

Western intelligence came to the conclusion pretty early on that Russian separatists were to blame -- only Russia's intelligence still contradicts the content of this article, insisting that Ukraine was at fault.
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Updated title on original source:
"Jack Dorsey is giving up at least 50% of his stake in Square to help underserved communities"

Update: This post has been updated to correct that Dorsey will commit 10 percent of the entire company, not just his equity as previously stated. In addition, our calculations were off and I regret the error.

This is commendable. Actually intending to making the world a better place (in the non HBO-Silicon-Valley-Show-way).
I found the Orthoganal trilogy brilliant as an experiment in character development, and extending "alternate realities" about as far as they can be extended, but they aren't as engaging as most of his other books (IMO).

I think this is more due to the fact that humans like reading about characters they can easily relate to, and Egan really pushes this boundary!

Still worth a read, and I'll almost certainly re-read them in the future.
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> how devoid of credibility the West's intelligence agencies have become. I know it has been known for a while since Snowden

It's older than that. I remember 40 years ago it was possible that rather obvious facts (such as "you need to queue a long time to get basic consumer goods in the USRR") were dismissed simply because they could be labeled "CIA propaganda". In my country we even had an initiative for a "peace law", whose purpose was to outlaw discussion that might pose negative light on the Soviet empire, as any such discussion was obviously only there because it is spouted by the discredited Western intelligence agencies.
"Meanwhile, Russian officials denied the allegation.
Officials of the producer of the Buk missile, Almaz-Antey, told a news conference on Tuesday that they had carried out their own analysis of traces found on the aircraft. They said even if the jet was shot down by a Buk, it was an old type that is no longer used by the Russian military.

The official also hinted that the missile was fired from a village in the Donetsk region, where Ukrainian forces were said to have been stationed at the time of the crash.

Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov called the report an attempt to make a biased conclusion.
He argued that the report had failed to take account of the Russian investigations."

From:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20151014_06.html

So, even if the truth is out in the open (and given the tweets right after hitting the plane there wasn't much doubt) there is apparently no way Russia is going to own up to this.
A couple of them had Bluetooth. The only 68k-based one with builtin Wi-Fi was the AlphaSmart Dana, a writer's keyboard.

You're very very unlikely going to want to type a truly secure (= long) password over and over and over, which you'd need to do in a situation where the browser's password manager is turned off, and/or a website disables password caching anyway.

The Palm m5xx series could solve this problem: it had full USB, and I once read of an Palm app (like any other) that bridged the m5xx's SD slot to behave like a block device over USB, ie it turned the Palm into a USB SD card reader. That means there's a raw USB SDK out there, and adding HID keyboard support wouldn't be too hard (no kernel driver development etc).

Getting passwords into the device would be nontrivial; Palm keyboards are proprietary to the series they were made for, with a few arbitrary connector updates thrown in for good measure (think iPhone docking connector saga). If the password is irritating enough to repeatedly type on a full keyboard, it would take you a good 5 minutes (and a punching bag, for afterwards) to get it into the PDA, Graffiti and custom keyboards taken into account.

I think it would work out though: if the only way to get data out of the device is to tap something on its screen, that should be enough of a brick wall to dissuade would-be attackers.

I guess I'm responding to this so enthusiastically because it's about Palm :P - I unfortunately never owned one of these awesome little things, but I'd love something of similar capabilities built using today's tech. With modern advances in power consumption, like MemoryLCD, micropower CPUs, short-range bluetooth, etc, the result would probably last literally weeks. It'd be enormous fun to hack on, too, and carve out a little niche for itself. :)

I wonder if I should Ask HN if this would be a good idea.
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A FTSE 100 company I was working for has outsourced all their back end operations and is not stopping any time soon. 90% offshore, 10% onshore (legacy employees).
App Store started speaking emoji too
Err but old Ben's quote is invalid here. We didn't surrender, nor did we vote for this, nor did we want this, nor did we expect this, nor do we have any power to stop it or prevent it from being introduced.
What Iraqi engineer has a million dollars in a Swiss account? Even if it were legitimate, it certainly isn't the norm. Also to get that many head shots at a distance, obviously professional. Then one must ask, why did this man warrant the expenditure of a professional hit? Certainly not just some local random violence -- French hunters can barely hit the side of a barn let alone multiple head shots and common thugs are very rare in Annecy. Motive is the key here. If this were in Marseille, then I'd suggest drugs or smuggling, but this kind of hit on a person with that sort of background? The killers had to have intelligence, funding and logistical help. Perculiar.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman on Thinking for the Future [video]
Hopefully someone will guide MPs in setting up an encrypted alternative.

Slightly ironic considering James H. Ellis worked for GCHQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis
And Russia's politicians and the so-called rebels. In NL there is a ton of activity on various newspaper and news websites trying to discredit the report. Makes you wonder how much of that activity is due to organizations such as this:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-professional-trolls-hel...
This quote is taken egregiously out of context.[1] You could still say its a nice quote, but its power comes from an appeal to authority, in this case, a founding father, and despite the fallacy inherent in such a tactic, the extent to which it does not apply to the liberties we talk about today suggest we could do much better than to bring it up every time.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said
Protecting against 2nd and 3rd party tracking was never the goal. "Incognito"/"Private Browsing" mode on browsers was a feature to protect against leaving local browsing records.

It's often nicknamed "pr0n mode" for that reasons, by people that didn't want pr0n websites showing up in their browser history.
does anyone really say 'Pwn' anymore?
That wasn't the original stereotype he was describing, but koreans DO make great fried chicken. I'll take BonChon over KFC any day.
Seminary Student Here. The really cool thing is that the Ancient Hebrew writing (One of the earliest in the world) started around the time of Moses. I have read many ANE (Ancient Near East) laws and papers and almost all of them had dietary rules and rules on just about everything. A person's national identity was directly tied to one's national religion. Reading other papers kind of shows that this isn't some wacky crazy idea but a very common thing in the area.

I might say the academic integrity of most non-religious disciplines is horrible and lazy. Academics will take text (for example The Epic of Gilgamesh) treat all the copies as one story and try to prove stupid things compared to the Old Testament that are just plain silly or they don't know how to read dates. Heck the way academics had treated the New Testament was also just play lazy and stupid, but now things are improving.

PS As a seminary student I had several non-believing professors come and teach in my classes because they found looking for the answer to the question you asked worthy of a life long pursuit. Theology is really a great discipline and very enjoyable academic pursuit. It deepened my faith but I must say most are terrified at learning too much will change their faith, which they shouldn't in m opinion.
I doubt relying on lane markers alone will be enough given the variety of markers, and possible road construction that will be encountered by these cars.
Square says its employees might get too rich
We made this (Dutch) dataviz a couple of months ago about the gentrification of Amsterdam, and indeed, the number of yoga studios and coffee bars closely resembled the gentrificated areas:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/amsterdam
Eventually the UK may decide that no one should be monitored without probably cause, but suggesting that any portion of society, especially those with power, should be exempt from a regime the rest of society is subject to is a worse proposition than having pervasive monitoring applied equally.
> The point is that the more data they have, the more valuable and "accurate" their analysis is

This is covered by my comment that participating in research should be voluntary.

> So your complaint of "why don't they just sell it at the cost plus a margin" doesn't work here.

Yes, my complaint makes perfect sense here. They are selling below cost price to build themselves a bigger market. This is not a fair way of doing business, in my opinion. The fact that you are framing this as "we are paying you to help us build a bigger market share" does not make a difference.

In my opinion, everything that is being built by crowdsourcing belongs in the public domain. It is not fair to have one company keeping that information hostage.
It depends upon what you use your ops staff for that can mean different things and how you're structured across a service lifecycle. For example, WhatsApp had no operations engineers that were dedicated - everyone was an operations engineer that was writing the software by helping keep it alive. This to me is the intent for the devops organizational style - your developers have full visibility and responsibility into seeing their code through the entire cycle of existence and can quickly fix and prevent problems better than split teams. While most software developers tend to be terrible operations engineers and vice versa, I'm quite sure that well-written software makes operations work far, far easier and thus makes O&S much cheaper as a result.

Also, a lot of companies opt to use Heroku first then migrate to basic ol' AWS once that gets far too expensive for them and may hire an operations engineer or two to replace the cost and to help them scale better with capital.

NoOps in a very literal sense being used to describe tech operations is something I never think I'll see anyone take seriously and that can scale.
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Guns don't kill people. Criminal toddlers kill people!
As a lover of fried chicken, i'm not sure this is the right metric to use for my housing search.
Here's an article on this particular topic trolls:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/13/russias-reality-trolls-a...
I don't care about portable. How often do I want to use a computer to make something somewhere that's not the office or at home? Never, in my experience.

"Well, you can hook it up like it's a desktop."

The laptop may be portable, but the monitors and peripherals definitely aren't. That setup isn't portable, only the laptop part of it. In the event that I hook it up like a desktop, I'm paying more for the privilege of having an under-powered desktop running whatever god-awful driver collection goes along with it's cruddy components and not infrequently pre-loaded with a bunch of bloatware as part of the install that has those drivers (often hard to find otherwise.)

For me, the desktop is the clear preference. If I want portable, I'm just consuming content - a tablet will do fine for that.
Can I borrow your debit card for a minute?
Wrong on both counts. Both companies entered markets considered completely saturated.

Friendster and Myspace were the big players for Facebook, Lycos, AltaVista, and HotBot were competitors for Google. A new social network or search engine didn't get noticed back then.
They do, but they will not phrase it that way.
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As I understand it, this fix has already been proposed for TLS by the developers of the triple-handshake attack, but it may take some time to be implemented and may never be implemented everywhere.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bhargavan-tls-session-...

I'm not quite sure why this Internet-Draft expired without a replacement or if this work is still continuing somewhere in the TLS WG.
In Search of the Science in Economics. Should Math Be Dropped from Economics?
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Spitballing.. What about sharing the responsibility by having one person responsible for 6 months, then change after that? Salaries transparent in a spreadsheet like at Buffer

Alternatively wonder if you could've spent the same effort networking as a team by group interviewing prospective HR people to fill the role you wanted.
Rape of the Mind – Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, Brainwashing (1956)
Downloadable formats (epub, kindle, pdf)

https://archive.org/details/RapeOfTheMind-ThePsychologyOfTho...
Guix-tox, a functional version of tox
While we're at it, Criminal podcast is a little less obsessive about one case and takes an look at a number of interesting\quirky\old cases http://thisiscriminal.com/
The video has me thinking this is foreshadowing some new type of warehouse. Maybe Amazon is going to make a "life size" version of this.

Now if this is efficient in any way - no idea.
The Galaxy That Got Too Big
This is exactly what I wanted to ask. The article only mentions things like "a company did so and so" etc. Other than big companies like Netflix closing down their in house data center operations, which has been in the news lately and companies like Uber running entirely off Salesforce, I've not heard of major decline in IT outsourcing activities.
This is why I want the ability to "sandbox" my apps, so even though they might want to have access to e.g. my telephone numbers, they can't because the sandbox will hide them.
When you say one person, do you mean didn't have a co-founder/team when they started? Or still only one person to this day? If the former, then Balsamiq was started by one guy.
This is explained in the story - the sort of Iraqi engineer whose father was a deceased and successful businessman. It sounds like you're familiar with the case but haven't actually read the story as you're asking exact same questions which are (attempted to be) addressed by this very article.
I'm curious, why overload the & operator for stream functions? The STL use of >> and << is weird enough but at least we are all used to it by now. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Looks pretty cool overall, especially the RPC stuff.
React and Flux: Migrating to ES6
Prior to the Space Shuttle, all deaths related to our space programs happened as part of training: the Apollo 1 cabin fire during a pad test, and Gemini 9 crew's plane crash resulted in five total astronaut deaths.
It's not that simple. A CA can intercept your SSL traffic, but to do so it has to create a fradulent certificate for the end site and proxy your traffic to the site, presenting the fradulent certificate to you.

This means it can't be done without risking that you might notice it. And it can't be done just by passively hoovering up all the traffic and then retrospectively going back and decrypting it.
Don't forget that your clipboard manager also stores the last N things you copied in your clipboard history. I won't lie, it is very convenient for passwords I need to type frequently while sitting on a machine I trust, that doesn't run any remote logging applications and that locks when I'm not there, but it's still obviously a security issue.
That's good news!

I could never image to work for a company that works for companies. Doing good work is rarely honoured or even noticed. And who cares. Good, that even non-tech people start to understand. How long did it take.
The numbers he mentioned are gross salaries, not net salaries. The things you mentioned are already paid by the difference (the highest income tax bracket here is 52%). You would expect the gross income to be much higher.
I've never been to China -- what went wrong?
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Brilliant thinking on your feet of taking a problem and turning it on its head, still as a team. When a good group of developers get together the things that can be achieved are incredible. Well done!
It's what FT Labs fastclick tries to mitigate - try it for yourself: http://ftlabs.github.io/fastclick/examples/layer.html
Another "up and coming"-ness indicator is the abundance of white guys walking around the neighborhood wearing small shorts.
I think it would be naïve to say that it doesn't have a chilling effect.
Interestingly, Nintendo did similar things for US launch: called theirs an "Entertainment System" and designed it to have a technically not necessary loading mechanism similar to a VCR, to dissociate it from the game consoles of the day.
Wow, I have the same experience, and the very same misgivings! Good to know it's common, and probably not dangerous! Thanks for the information! :)
Funny. Except that sitting on a chair will not make you feel weightless. Also, we can't replace space stations and parabolic flights by chairs.
Not to mention that until Apollo, all of our manned space flights flew on ballistic missile hardware. Redstone, Atlas and Titan were all designed to carry nuclear warheads.
The problem here is that the politics don"t want to have issues with Russia, the researches even say: 'We don"t have the mandate make accusations'... Basically the dutch goverment prevented them from accusing russia, because thats politically dangerous.
Benjamin Franklin, being a big man, but still a human. We must not think, that he could comprehend our future problems.

Of course he did only talk about his current problems.

Still it is a very good quote that deserves to be seen not only in it's singular, historical meaning, but also in a wider look.

And as we see, we all need a broader look to preserve humanity -- or freedom and humanity will finally perish.
In this case, the British surrendered -- and all free nations are about doing it also.
automated can mean 'pre-programmed' automated, instead of dynamic automation, where the actions required aren't known ahead of time, and the machine(s) have a split second to make a choice out of the hundreds of different options available.
Economics similarly suffers.

Economists are the priests of a science twisted into religion.
back in the early 90's nyc , it was when you started seeing French bars.
Correct! A (quite long) game would be to find one more interesting than his version
You don't even need ETags - if the server sends out a unique (or mostly unique) "Last-Modified" header, the browser will return the cookie in "If-Modified-Since".
Not "in stead" but "in addition". Through all my career I have faced various issues related to calculus, linear algebra (heck, Jacobian elimiation has its use in SAT solvers! nevermind the computer vision), strength of material (one of my bosses asked me how I'd develop more or less destructive game world) and thermodynamics (because you need that for computer hardware and hardware in general).

I believe that I find those problems once in one or two years. Through all my career.
I"m from the netherlands, and i can say that the dutch report, didnt blame anybody, because the researchers didnt have the 'mandate'. Basically they didnt have the right the blame russia. Its clear from all the facts that this is from russian-sepepratist.
The report that this article is based on discusses this and concludes: "Alternative scenarios presented by the Russian Ministry of Defense and Almaz-Antey are at best deeply flawed, and at worst show a deliberate attempt to mislead using fabricated evidence."

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/10/08/mh1...
And nowadays "you might notice" in an automated way because of HPKP!
Ask HN: Since Zite is dead. Looking for a replacement
Hi HNer,

I'm sure we're all upset that Flipboard acquired and killed Zite. Have you been able to find a good news reader post this?
> Poor on average take worse care of their health and fitness

Not intended to be snarky, as I grok the intent of your comment, but poor also don't typically have time to come home and go for an hour jog with frequency during the week.
> Even if flying is inherently complex in itself, there's almost no traffic and almost no obstacle in air.

Different aircraft are by and large keeping to the same standard routes, altitudes and holding patterns, which is why mid-air collisions are a thing. (The reason they keep to standards is to make air traffic control easier.)
Supercharging the Elasticsearch Percolator
It seems more like an investor story time exercise in order to attract capital in order to acquire the companies already holding the market share.
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Developers are not cost centre. They are wealth creators.
Why assume it is the "on-board" human (if there is even one) that has to resolve the situation?

It could be a remote pilot (sort-of call center, except the people are trained to remotely drive cars, much like drones are piloted right now).

Then, the situation (and the remote pilot reaction) are sent to the engineering team, analysed and the software is improved.

Rinse and repeat until the need to solve situations is reduced to zero.
My "rule-of-thumb" indicator: whether or not there are a lot of check-cashing, bail-bond and furniture rental establishments.
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I think it kind of is. There wasn't really hacking involved here, just people taking advantage of an older woman and "pwning" her. Really cringey if you ask me.
Yea, like I said: elevators can be used for that. I take my race bike in the elevator up to the 21st floor every day and park it in my appartment.
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A good vim setup will do what you want...
The (failed) Economics of Android Security
The real problems start with production costs. See how overpriced the locally assembled Arduino boards are, compared to their chinese clones.
If I'd do "pure sports" at parks, many parents with children would be not so happy about that.

I love to go on long bike rides. Like 4 or 10 hours long. Parks is not an option for that. While backroads are awesome. Once out of town, I usually meet a car once in a while. And while in town and suburbia, I guess I can qualify as A to B commuter. Even out of town, sometimes it's sort of A to B commute, because I want to go to some sightseeing spot or fancy cafe in the woods or smth. I just happen to cycle instead of drive. Or sometimes I dispatch my family in a car and go by bicycle myself. It's still A-to-B, isn't it?

Saying what is and what is not a "proper road use" is a very slippery slope. Is it OK to drive to get to a grocery store? Is it OK to drive to some spot in the middle of nowhere for sightseeing? Is it OK to drive for few hours to bbq in an unseen place? Is it OK to drive to go fishing in a nicer lake instead of the one nearby? Is it OK to drive to see friends if you can video call them instead?
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