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LastPass has jumped the shark. Major vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2011 and now 2015. Their purchase by LogMeIn is not inspiring. I closed my account and started using KeePass (by way of KeePassDroid) stored in Google Drive. This way only I control the encrypted data.
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Stupid licensing will prevent this, I'm afraid.

I have a nVidia Shield TV plugged in to my 4K Smart TV that I do almost everything on, but I still have to use the smart TV app for Amazon Instant since Amazon stubbornly refuses to release it for stock Android.
Argentina and Chile almost went to war for three little barren islands in a desolated place, but it's not about the islands but about claims to sea (or also in this case, Antarctic territorial claims) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_conflict
I simply don't use those websites.

I have never had a password stolen and I can retrieve them if I forget my phone and have to borrow someones to visit my password page. This happens a lot since I find my phone to be a anchor and my life is better when I leave it at home.

A few weeks ago I had to return something to Target I ordered online. I didn't have my phone with me but my sister had hers and they wanted a order number that was only emailed to me. So with a pencil and some paper I was able to visit the page with my email password and convert it and login to my email on her phone. It saved a few hours of driving back to my apartment and back to the store.
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Very well said. Particularly when first starting out career-wise, the time and effort spent on something like this appear disproportionately large.

Though ... remembering myself when I was first starting out - this advise will be likely be hard to accept and act on.
SVMs, Kernels, Online Learning are pretty well understood. Neural networks are an abuse of the chain rule and makes your model dependent on a bunch of partial derivatives that you don't necessarily understand why are important, but happen to be extremely effective when given lots of data. I think neural nets are probably what you're referring to. If you understand the intuition about your problem, then you can reason about what those partial derivatives might represent. Except a lot of the time we don't really have that level of understanding. What is your level of experience with machine learning? I'm a little surprised with your perception.
I wish pocket was a optional feature during install or something, instead of having to disable it in about:config...
What if I have a million A/B pairs, measured in parallel. Each bit is 100 A measurements, 1 for up and 0 for down. Why is this not FTL communication of 10k bits?
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No. France has very far reaching mass surveillance laws and still they weren't capable of prevent the last two terrorist attacks. Mass surveillance does nothing to prevent this. Only change in politics does.
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No. By all accounts the French government was already hip deep in intrusive surveillance. They apparently had ramped up surveillance twice in the last 12 months. It didn't help.

So, there's some ulterior motive for wanting dragnet surveillance, and it's common to a lot of governments, including US and UK. What is that motive?
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I highly recommend the Domain Driven Design approach.

But I've found it a lot harder to comprehend and make others give it a try (probably orders of magnitude harder than object oriented design or design patterns or normal refactorings).

I like to think about designing classes and aranging them in packets/modules/applications more like creating birocratic systems.
You have to think in general terms what an institution/building does, what is its core activity, what it is authoritative over, then you design each room/department with its own mini-authority, make sure there is no duplication of authority/data between rooms, make sure each person inside a room does/knows about only the stuff in that room so they can really perform by being specialized and not commuting between rooms with their arms full of customer/citizen's files.

Make sure, as much as possible that each room knows about adjacent rooms only (or maybe at least at the same floor).
At the same time you have to think how the regular citizens use these institutions and what interfaces you provide them with to solve their requests.

You don't want a taxpayer modifying his own tax file, you probably want a clerk to do that; you also don't want a taxpayer visiting 100 rooms to submit his tax files.

Then you have to think about how many customers you would serve, how wide the coridors should be made, what kind of security you need at the entrance and so on.
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Personally I am pretty glad that I had a "normal" childhood.
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"Long shot"? English already has a good shot-based idiom here.
This reads alarmingly similar to many techcrunch articles.

Perhaps techcrunch could be improved with the addition of plastic cows and/or hedgehogs.
Microsoft tried this a few years ago. Getting top 10 apps like Instagram took a lot of time -- and presumably money too, although that was of course never disclosed.

When Instagram did make a native Windows Phone app, it was feature incomplete and stuck in permanent beta. I don't think they ever released a final version.

Most other top 10 apps never did ports. At the same time, Microsoft was also spending quite extravagantly to get small indie devs making Windows apps through initiatives like "App Campus". Those didn't make a dent either.

Paying their way to a mobile ecosystem was a complete failure for Microsoft. Even with its deficiencies, I'm sad that Windows Bridge for Android ("Project Astoria") is dead. The iOS bridge is nowhere close in practical use. Windows 10 universal apps don't have developer mindshare in the mobile space. Windows 10 Mobile is pretty much dead.
John Lennon used to say:
> Imagine all the people living life in peace

But my imaginary friend used to say:
> Imagine the most average people you can imagine. Imagine the most 50%isch people you can imagine.
> And then internalize that half of the population is dumber, cares less, is less engaged and thinks less that that dude.
> And then, just forget about what you thought and try to make something that you enjoi. Because, people are dicks.
> Like those data tracking dicks. Just on a very personal level.
Which is symbolic for the much more important Ceuta and Melilla.
"I'm sure if he wants to play sports or learn history, he'll excel at it too." I'm not so sure about that, maybe it depends how you see excel
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IP cannot be copied; IP is any of several categories of legally exclusive rights to particular things.
Data uploaded to Google Drive is not data only you control. You may believe only you control the unencrypted data, but that is up for you to decide. If you read the entire post the author states:

"To finish, we want to point out that the security team at LastPass responded very quickly to all our reports and lot of the issues were fixed in just a couple days. It was very easy to communicate and work with them.

We have seen media and tweets mentioning that we “hacked LastPass”. We did not hack LastPass. We also don’t feel comfortable with those claims. What we did is find a number of bugs, bad practices and design issues which we used to obtain the vault key and decrypt all passwords in different scenarios. There is no bug-free software and any future research on other password managers would likely have similar results."

... which is doubly worrying if you do not control the data you believe to be securely encrypted.
I'm glad to hear it. Some of us have had neither a normal childhood, nor the perks of one dedicated to study. Thus my remark.
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Yes: pure, unreformed Abrahamic religions are not very peaceful. They are quite blood-thirsty and vengeful. Let's for a second agree that everyone reasonable wants their religion modernized and adapted to the current world (and ISIS, religious white supremacists, and abortion clinic bombers are not "reasonable"). We can disregard everyone who wants pure, unadulterated, literal Islam or Christianity.

That said, there's a reasonable case to be made that this is ISIS "branding". What their leaders truly believe is unknowable, but we can see their masterful use of propaganda, with smiling jihadis next to happy-looking children, and of course also the brutal beheadings shot in high-definition using modern techniques. I doubt the Prophet approved of HD cams.

There's also a good case to be made, as in this article from The Atlantic, "The Phony Islam of ISIS" ( http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/wha... ) that "literal" intepretations of the Quran and other Holy Texts are a red herring. You cannot claim there is a literal interpretation; just an interpretation that claims to be literal. But holy texts are rife with ambiguous and contradictory paragraphs, as explained in the article -- you can find an equivalent of "You Shall Not Kill" and in a different verse "Kill The Infidel", and you need some Wise Man to explain to you "ok, you shall not kill believers, but you can kill the unbeliever, unless there is a full moon (as mentioned in verse XYZ), in which case you can only kill goats". But this is the Wise Man's interpretation; by definition there is no single valid "literal" interpretation. And once you accept there is some degree of interpretation at play, you can no longer claim ISIS is evidence that Islam is fundamentally more blood-thirsty and terrorism-prone than other religions; just that some of the current high profile terrorist organizations are using their reading of the Quoran to justify their actions, and that they claim their interpretation is the "purest".

Even within ISIS and Al-Qaeda there is doctrinal dispute, as evidenced in this other article from The Atlantic, "What ISIS really wants" ( http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi... ), which shows fundamentalist clerics disagree, and this creates splits. How can this be, if all of them believe they are following "pure, unadulterated Islam"?
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I consider 4 years of my highschool a complete waste of time and would have loved to jump straight into a university right after elementary school. It would have been great to have OCW available at that time and not having to do everything myself including finding relevant books/sources.

Good for Ahaan he escaped it and I wish him the very best of luck @ MIT!
I loved the interface design and discovery. There was a lot to like about Rdio, but no gapless playback? C'mon who wants to listen to Darkside of the Moon with a 2 second pause between each track?
what's the difference between this service and the one from Google (Chrome) described here? https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?p=swaa&hl=...
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That was the first question I was curious about. Secondly, which dish is their specialty...
"When Rungta turned 12, his family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, as his parents realized he needed to be in a more intellectually stimulating environment."

My friends in Fort Lauderdale are gonna LOVE this!
Are you refering to simulations of physical phenomena? If so, then I disagree: You'll fare much better with large arrays of dumb structs, which enable immense performance improvements on today's computing architectures.
It seems he has a passion for learning (at the end of the article): "As he ponders declaring a major next year, Rungta pauses for a moment, and then he lights up. “In an ideal world, I would want to major in everything.”"
At one time I was looking into starting a secure messaging business myself. Had I done so and then found myself in this situation, I would probably shut the business down. Ethically, that would probably be the wrong thing to do, since it's implicitly a vote in favor of NSA spying, which I am against. But the thought that I might be facilitating mass murder would be too much. Don't think I coukd sleep at night with that hanging over me.
I doubt most small businesses could afford a bug bounty that would exceed potential illegal profits from selling an exploit to bad actors. I don't think the economics work at any scale. Could Google, Apple or Microsoft even outbid a nation state seeking to purchase an exploit?
The crazies, maybe. I hope not most NASA folk; there really is no way for lunar landings to have been common using chemical propellants and disposable rockets. Even today alternatives are mere speculations. So either our NASA dreamer was a poor engineer, or a nut job willing to nuke Earth to visit a lifeless rock.

Which is not a bad thing: given the immensity and ludicrousness of the Apollo accomplishment, I think NASA had quite a few nutjobs!
If they pull this off though, it guarantees Windows Mobile survival.
Thanks! This is another great explanation of the vent that I can use against those who think moon landing was fake. In the past, I always told folks that landing occurred during Cold War and USSR was watching closely. If this was faked, Soviets would love nothing better than to discredit the US worldwide.
These recently popularized ML techniques aren't necessarily dangerous in the hands of experts, who deeply understand their limitations, but they might be in the hands of less sophisticated practitioners, who misread outputs and extrapolate conclusions. And those less practiced in ML aren't necessarily in positions where they might cause less damage.
I applaud this family, and am glad for Ahaan's sake that he isn't just shipping himself off to college, but is going to still have his support structure.

I was homeschooled, along with my two sisters, my entire educational career until college. We all started taking college classes early, my older sister correspondence at 14, my twin and I correspondence at 15. All of us took classes at local colleges before starting 'real college'. All of us scored high on our ACTs, all of us got scholarships to college.

My parents didn't really push us, we were just smart. We had childhoods, I was a starter on the basketball team, and played college soccer for a year. I also read 10+ books a week, played way, way too much Civilization and Total Annihilation, and did plenty of volunteer work, especially at our local public access station.

For my sisters, going to and living at 'real college' worked out well, they both succeeded in their own ways (my older sister graduated with two masters a few days after she turned 21, my twin sister received a lot of recognition from professionals in her field before graduating, was salutatorian, etc), whereas I didn't do so well being away from home and the support structure. I'm lazy, and I thought could just not do assignments I didn't want to and do well enough on other assignments to make up for it. Long story short, my GPA dropped enough to lose my scholarship, and I decided that the private college experience wasn't worth borrowing tens of thousands of dollars for.

So I moved home, finished my bachelors from the state university in town. Snagged an internship and then got a job offer from that company, essentially during my junior year for a full time job, contingent on finishing school.

My point in typing up this story is not to say that I am or was awesome. My point is that I am pretty sure that Ahaan Rungta is a pretty smart kid, his parents probably pushed him less than you think, and that as long as he and his family figure out how to navigate the maturity journey, he'll be fine.
Did they look for such patterns in their own study? Their conclusions seem full of obfuscating jargon, such as "obfuscating jargon" for example.
Here's one example I remember, though only $100 offered per app: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-d...
I think I've worked with their CFO
It is almost like I left out important parts of how I retrieve my passwords.
I'm guessing it's purely for DRM purposes. In that sense, it's a case of "We'd like to price this physical item at two different price points, and control it in a soft fashion".

Playing devil's advocate, I guess there are certain situations where you could justify this type of thing. Let's say that a product has an additional capability which 90% of the market doesn't need, but required significant research to accomplish. It's a soft-capability, so there's nothing additional that you need to manufacture to enable it. You have a couple of options - you can make two different models (essentially identical underneath, except for the cheaper one disabling the extra capability), but this is inefficient. You can of course have one product, one price. But this is also less than perfect, as you have everyone paying for a feature 10% want, and you can be outcompeted at a cheaper price for the basic product. Another option would be to DRM the product and soft-enable the feature for the 10% who want it, at a higher price.

I mean, it's a bit of a stretch, but it's plausible in some situations.
I don't know if you're beeing sarcastic or not. If so, excuse me please. Anyway you are probably right. I am still not sure about that phrasing. What I wanted to refer to, is that the Stuff you get teached at MIT still isn't any harder or easier than the stuff you can read or maybe already have read in books anyway. When I started college my profs where constantly referring to Tanenbaum, Dijkstra and co. Texts I have read and understood 5 years before I finished school.
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Clearly. I never understood how anyone could take the "don't be evil" slogan seriously, actually. It's comic book level of ethics. We can disagree over whether they are actually being evil though, but what is clear to me is that there is a seriously worrying potential for evil with the amount of information they control through being de-facto monopolies.
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and the MeegoPad T01 / T02: http://www.amazon.com/Meegopad-Pre-Installed-Activated-Windo...

Looks like they have the same insides.
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It doesn't. The drm needs it as a very simple way to tell the chip inside that you've paid for it. SD cards can be trivially bit-banged from almost any processor, unlike other protocols such as USB.
There is only one shop in DE that offers the Chromebit right now, I suppose it is imported. You should wait until Chromebit is officially announced in Germany before drawing conclusions regarding the price.
Feels the same. I'm a paid subscriber. FWIW - I love their UI
Everyone knows that angles on the moon are different due to the gravity difference!
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I'd say as long as you only have to remember one terrible string of junk, it might as well be xPv4rz$23aAjQ1&oD rather than xPv4rz.
The code is for anyone who can understand the business requirements it solves to make a similar product by using the same techniques. Basically at this point it's like a bunch of notes on how to solve a particular problem.

Any business will require substantial investment of a resource to read that code and remake the solution. At that point most of the scaffolding and UX code is redesigned and you have another clone with a different IP. This is different from the old brand but solves the technical problems in many similar ways.

In business it turns out that the UX is the requirement most of the time and the business IP will follow who ever has the same UX. No one really gives a shit about the nuts and bolts of the code unless it's open sourced.
Some people force maturing, when maturing comes on its own... And by doing so they loose childhood, which never comes back.
Which was written by one of the Y Combinator founders (Robert Tappan Morris)
I love how you think you can deduce that after reading a couple of paragraphs of an MIT article.
>"Early on, when they said they wanted the capsule to come down at a certain place, they were trying to compute when it should start. I said, 'Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.' That was my forte."

>By 1962, when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, NASA was relying more on computers.

>"You could do much more, much faster on computer," Johnson said. "But when they went to computers, they called over and said, 'tell her to check and see if the computer trajectory they had calculated was correct.' So I checked it and it was correct."

This lady is fantastic and it's about time she gets this - absolutely deserved.
You're right, not every scenario can be handled automatically. For that reason, the Boxfile is king: https://docs.nanobox.io/getting-started/boxfile/
It is a government organization. If it can be run badly, it will be run badly.
I use Mixpanel, but I'm getting a lot of pushback from coworkers on parts of their ToS that allow sharing of contact details with unspecified third parties.

Of course Mixpanel doesn't actually share anything, but it has been a point of contention that they might be able to.
Given it's not even in reference to terrorist attacks, I don't find it in any way offensive personally. And I was pretty shaken up by how close to me the Paris attacks were.
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"two-year-old son — already an avid reader" sounds somewhat unusual?
>school is mandatory where I live

Do you mind if I ask where you live? In most of the US school is "mandatory", but pretty much anyone can homeschool if they want.
No!
You could run Android apps in some fashion on Blackberry devices. Is their survival guaranteed? Not even close. This made no difference
Wow that really sucks. I use Rdio daily. It's really good for exploring new music - I've built up a great list of favourites. Is there any way to back that info up locally?
What's weird to me, is everyone's acting like this is a technical issue but... Astoria worked fantastically on all the apps I tested it with.
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As someone who has spent years building software on top of compiled android binaries, as in, adding features to apps with nothing more than the APK (no source code), I can say that what they are building is not only difficult but quite fragile. I have the benefit of customers who agree to certain OS versions and specific app versions. MS wants it to work universally with every app. It's possible to get it close enough that getting any single app to work is a few tweaks, but very hard to get it to the last mile, where every app "just works".
Jolla achieved this. My Jolla phone can run most Android apps without problems.

Maybe Microsoft's scope was too big?
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The scapegoat for what was clearly an organizational failure. Why was the system using multiple units of measure. Did it pass navigation tests prior to launch? Was the test flawed?
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Some people mature earlier than others without being foced.

For some the ideal childhood is playing outside, playng games or playing sports. For others it's technology and science.
When I was 5 years old I had trouble mixing up the letters b and d.

Given an MIT course at that age I probably would have ignored it in favor of playing outside.
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