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Very funny, End of Life for a popular product just means more trouble for 3rd-party-devs since they need to continue supporting the product as long as a significant chunk of their users don't feel like upgrading, but with support for the required SDKs cut off. Case in point: WindowsXP's End of Life was 2 years ago, but between 25% and 35% of (mostly casual) gamers still run it worldwide (this is heavily skewed by XP installations in China): http://hwstats.unity3d.com/web/os-win.html, http://hwstats.unity3d.com/pc/os.html.
Don't use this one, popcorn-time.se it's closed source and potentially full of spyware/malware...

Use the Community Edition based on popcorntime.io instead, its source is open on github!

https://popcorntimece.tk/
That doesn't make sense:

The groups that would take control:

Japan: Likely already have this tech, ally of US

Korea: Likely already have this tech, ally of US

Russia: Already have this tech

China: Already have this tech

USA: Already have this tech

Or do you mean some minor group, rather than a state taking control of a failed NK?
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How is privacy really a good solution to the problem of mistaken convictions?

The lack of privacy may very well reduce the amount of false convictions. Sure, you looking up pix of teen boys might look suspicious. But the lack of privacy might catch the real criminal too.

If we had accurate gps for all people all of the time, it would probably reduce false conviction rates.

Plus, the way the system works now is that once you are a suspect, you really don't have privacy anymore. That's how the Constitution works. Once there is probably cause, the state will rifle through your stuff, ask your friends and family, etc.

On the mistaken conviction issue, I'd probably rather live in a privacy free state than a state with privacy. Assuming I was innocent.

Though I prefer privacy for other reasons.
Really? I know that would be easier for developers, but think about it from a "it's my computer" point of view - do you really want people doing that to you?

It's your computer, you should be able to to run whatever software you like.

A reminder to upgrade, OK, that's fine. But actually disabling? You go too far.
Can I ask why not AWS?
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Mad Men (TV series) was shot on film, it looks very nice.

But I suppose it could also have been shot digitally and nobody would have spotted the difference. Maybe.
AI, I think we may hit the 0% error magin in computer vision by the end of this year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722774
We've been seeing personal concierge remote services pop up (and usually die) every year for the past 15y. What's new here?
Blockchain shouldn't include Proof-of-Work. Proof-of-Retrievability at least provides the same properties(paper: http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/permacoin.pdf impl: https://github.com/ScorexProject/Scorex-Lagonaki/tree/master... ). And Proof-of-Stake also could do the same under some assumptions(please see a new paper of mine http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00275 ). Formal model of a lottery with anti-Sybil identity tools is definitely needed to shape borders.
I live in Switzerland. I am so much tired of this particular style. :)
Yes, I agree. But still, there must be some entity that tests for non-aggression. And everything can be gamed. It's far safer to bake in privacy such that it can't be compromised.
I'd certainly agree that we wouldn't want the the most powerful system in the world to have originated as an uploaded human with all their cognitive biases and undocumented value functions, as opposed to an intentionally designed system.
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Large parts of the tech crowd are making big money from advertising and tracking people. Unsurprisingly, it seems these developers and entrepreneurs have a hard time understanding why their source of income has negative effects on society.
I've tweeted to you twice and asked your customer support about this too but I have never gotten a reply to it. So I'm asking you here.. When are you gonna allow reserved instances for Indian customers?
Right now I cannot purchase reserved instances and so my bills are much much more than what others are paying.
P.S. Here is the screenshot when I try to purchase. There has been no update for 1 year now.
http://i.imgur.com/oZAHMt5.jpg
A lot of VCs read HackerNews...
Can't be sure, but if they wanted to go through with it they would negotiate as hard as they can.
Here's what 44KT would do to downtown San Francisco:

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=44&lat=37.7564509&lng...
Yes, in addition you can statically link MPL code, which you can't do with LGPL.
One-sentence summary:

MIT: Do whatever you want

BSD: Do whatever you want, don't use our name

APL: Do whatever you want, don't sue us for patents

MPL: Do whatever you want, as long as you release modifications to the original source files

LGPL: You can use this as long as you publish changes to the library and dynamically link it in software with a non-(L)GPL license.

GPL: Any source code connected to this to this code must also be GPL.
It's not a personal attack, it's something that ryanlol publicly claims in ##security on freenode FFS.

If it wasn't, I wouldn't have referenced it

From what I gather, he thinks law enforcement is hilarious.
I don't understand why Microsoft divides its browsers this way.

They seem to be the only one that actually has versions, and [security] updates within a version.

Instead just have a single browser (instead of 5 or more counting from IE6) and any update increments the version. Both Firefox and Chrome work this way.

They would have to allow installing the latest version of IE on any machine all the way back to XP, but there is no reason they can't do that. They just don't want to.

I know they hope people will upgrade the Windows version - but has that ever happened? Has someone ever upgraded Windows just to get a new browser? I highly doubt it, that's not why people upgrade the OS.

So just give it up, let any version of IE run on any version of Windows and stop making developers (and users) crazy.
> Get you reservations at places that nobody else can

How is this possible? If it were true then anyone wanting a reservation at "places that nobody else can" would go through Magic+, and then what? There are more rich people than available seats at hot restaurants...?
For academic labs you can add 'perceived future commercial value' to that list. In my experience these groups are often run by people with little or no commercial experience and lack the skills to appreciate the difference between a prototype and a commercial solution. Coupled with the pressure from Universities to 'commercialize all the things' this can inhibit attempts to distribute the code freely.
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But dropping a bomb like that on Japan, US, S. Korea will kill skilled, educated people, destroy their technology, infrastructure and put country to a recession. Dropping it on NK will, like, kill thousands of slaves and destroy no meaningful infrastructure.
Hey, your landing page has me impressed already!
Nope. The original post is about fake engineers hired due to political correctness against recommendations, i.e. diversity hires. I made no statement or implications about non-diversity hires.
> If they are stuck on XP it's not really a choice.

I never understood why users stuck on XP don't just install a different browser (Chrome or Firefox). You don't have to use IE, especially not in the version is so old it barely works with modern sites.
> Where is Magic+ available? Anywhere you need it. Magic+ is there to make your every desire and need happen, wherever you are.

Can I use it from a non-US phone carrier? How do I pay? Would be really interested in testing it. Is there a direct/non-short number?
Second Lubuntu. Installed to breathe life into an old af Toshiba laptop. Stable, fast, no bloat.
That's what one part of the original post was about.
Facebook timeline change late 2011/early 2012 was catastrophic. It rendered Facebook useless to me. Before you could browse the timeline page in linear order (ordered by date descending) - no filtering, no bullshit - it was perfect. Now you see only certain posts of your friends that Facebook thinks might be interesting for you. Very bad change.
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Not just that, the guy wants to buy TWO!

This is a purchase normal people would spend hours agonizing over. Should I get the 64GB model or the 128GB? Should I get the latest one, or one generation older? Should I get the slightly more expensive gray/white one, or stick with black?

But that's okay. It's not meant for everyone, and that's perfectly fine with me
I'm sure that same mobile telephone was capable of far less than a smartphone. I remember my Nokias being able to last for days on end (unless I played a lot of Snake!)

While I wouldn't trade my current smartphone for one of those, I do miss the lack of battery anxiety, and wish the manufacturers would make models for those of us who aren't obsessed with thinness. An iPhone 6 at 5/8" (15mm) would be awesome.
cult |kʌlt|
noun
1 a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object: the cult of St Olaf.
• a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.

The veneration of Yudkowski and others in the LW community is more than a bit "religious". So I'd say by definition it's a cult.

LW hasn't done harm to people physically, but what it's done is spawn some very questionable ideas, perpetuate pseudo-science and pseudo-mathematics. The cult leader has no formal training, zero research in peer-reviewed journals and still calls himself a "senior research fellow" in an institute he himself started.

Hell, he even has an introductory religious text - The Sequences and the Methods of Rationality fan fiction (which by the way, he wanted to monetise before the broader fan fiction community stopped him. A clear violation of copyright law).

For more, see: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Yudkowsky

I'll quote the section titled "More controversial positions"

Despite being viewed as the smartest two-legged being to ever walk this planet on LessWrong, Yudkowsky (and by consequence much of the LessWrong community) endorses positions as TruthTM that are actually controversial in their respective fields. Below is a partial list:
Transhumanism is correct. Cryonics might someday work. The Singularity is near![citation NOT needed]

Bayes' theorem and the scientific method don't always lead to the same conclusions (and therefore Bayes is better than science).[21]

Bayesian probability can be applied indiscriminately.[22]

Non-computable results, such as Kolmogorov complexity, are totally a reasonable basis for the entire epistemology. Solomonoff, baby!

Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics is correct (a "slam dunk"), despite the lack of consensus among quantum physicists.[23]

Evolutionary psychology is well-established science.

Utilitarianism is a correct theory of morality. In particular, he proposes a framework by which an extremely, extremely huge number of people experiencing a speck of dust in their eyes for a moment could be worse than a man being tortured for 50 years.[24]

Also, while it is not very clear what his actual position is on this, he wrote a short sci-fi story where rape was briefly mentioned as legal.

TL;DR: If it's associated with LessWrong/Yudkowsky, it's probably bullshit.
Indeed, Vista being EOL 11 April 2017. It does mean that IE 10 is EOL, but not 9 for another 15 months.
Exactly. Between themselves, Google & Facebook have access to a disturbingly large amount of the private information and the thoughts of billions of persons. Pictures, emails, messages, social graphs, you name it.

And now Microsoft decided they also want a piece of the pie.

The kicker? I see people still defend Google all the time, nowadays with bullshit arguments like "I am tired of this you are the product meme" and still excuse Facebook because they need it to keep in touch with others. And they found startups based on advertising and tracking, they work for them and generally support analytics as an inalienable right of software development.
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So, can they take OpenJDK, through a series of commits revert it back to what they have now, release that under the GPL, and be legally in the clear, as long as they don't call it OpenJDK or something that might be confused with it (the license for the name is stricter)?
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A lot of people are not blind about this at all.

They understand fully that their data is collected and they expect nothing less than the top result of their Google, Amazon, and Facebook queries to match exactly what they are looking for.
The fact that "tech" behind this is totally transparent is its strength and not a weakness.
You should also tweak your guide for RHEL7 based distros. Things like journald, firewalld etc. Also remember that in RHEL7 sysctl and security.conf are configured a little bit different now.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Guide is a good reference.
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And all I'm saying is it doesn't matter how Bitcoin does it. The problems being solved are different. Bitcoin has to use a stupidly inefficient method of selecting who adds the next block because the participants aren't known. That's it. The proof of work waste adds nothing else to the security of the system except when you don't know the participants. So if you don't have to do that then proof of work adds nothing. You're hung up on proof of work but it seriously sounds like you're over estimating how important it is to the process. The block chain itself has nothing to do with proof of work. Remove proof of work and you have a blockchain. PoW is only for deciding who adds blocks.
Consider this: if you use Magic for 40 hours a month, you end up wiht a bill of $4,000.

That's the salary of a full-time assistant who would be on call only 8-12 hours a day.

If you are the kind of guy who is rich enough for a personal assistant, I'm pretty sure $100/hour isn't unreasonable
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...Just because we've spent money on one laughable research doesn't mean we should spend it on more, does it? Are you seriously going to argue that?
Nope, it's just bad software engineers. Africa has those pretty very battery friendly "smart phones" and they do everything that yours does, probably without the fancy games.

I've been tweaking my Android tablet's code (10" screen), profiling, setting up all of the possible GPU optimizations (whole UI is whenever possible displayed using it) and this is the result.

http://imgur.com/QLN17SS

This is about a one year worth of work but I guess Android engineers don't have time to optimize per device.

You could probably squeeze out the same for any mobile device, although iPhone is probably not that configurable.
Doctors are actually professional. They have rigorous certifications, they have a professional board that administers examinations and issues licenses, they have a defined structure for reporting ethics violations with a code of ethics dating back centuries.

Programmers are just a loosely-defined group of tinkerers, labourers, and the odd scientist or engineer. How do you expect to impose a structure on that? A teenager can tinker around with software in his bedroom and nobody gives a damn. If he were to conduct medical experiments on his little sister, on the other hand, he'd go to jail. That is the difference.
Maybe it is the physical proximity to artistic Italy. I don`t understand how a clearly Alemanni / Germanic culture like the majority of the Swiss managed to get world-wide known for things like "Helvetica" or the "Swiss Railway clock".

Besides my main job as a software engineer, I work as a tech-recruiter in Zurich and I observe that the more work is frontend-heavy the less it is subject to being outsourced as it is usually closer to the client.

If you look for a tech-job in Switzerland, check out my story "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" on https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... or send me a mail to the address in my HN-profile.
You should also checkout myrddin, a new systems programming language sharing many features with rust and C.

github: https://github.com/oridb/mc
website: http://eigenstate.org/myrddin/
I'm very interested in the results. I have some of the same questions.
More than one entity is paying for continual patches for XP -- http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/26/technology/microsoft-windows...
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The package being tampered with was problematic, but the hole is made when the container is filled with blood not when removing the blood. If you're removing blood, you just take the lid off.
Lock down your damn firewall too.
I'm also curious to know how folks get new clients if their services are very niche.
Whenever I read one of these articles I am wondering why the examples of WHY mass surveillance affects ME as average Joe negatively have to be so weak / contrived:

For example, imagine someone convinced by the argument "nothing to hide nothing to fear". Would this example convince them that in fact they do have to fear something? "You might think twice about contacting or meeting people (exercising your freedom of association) who you think might become “persons of interest” to the state". I do not think so, after all, average Joe does not know such people.

The solution, in my experience when talking to sceptical people not convinced of the risks is talking about money. Imagine someone with the kind of knowledge we are talking about with mass surveillance. And imagine this person could inform your insurance companies. Do you still think that you have nothing to hide? One then must only show that data is never "safe" and could always be "leaked" to make a very simple, everyday example of why it is not in my (average Joe's) interest to be continuously monitored.
Configuration (mis)management or why I hate puppet, ansible, salt, etc.
Is there a ruby alternative?
Isn't it dangerous to entrust the whole pattern of your habits and spending to anonymous organisation?
> Any of those searches could be legitimately borne of pure, unadulterated curiosity, but taken out of that context by people with whom you're hoping to establish some kind of relationship, they could easily doom that relationship before it begins. Hell, those searches may not even be made by you but by someone in your household, but if decisions are made and opinions are formed based in that information, you've suffered an unnecessary loss.

I think the negative effects there are largely due to how private we are. If we were constantly confronting these things that seem embarrassing or concerning, we'd come to realize how normal they are.

It would require a completely shift in how we view privacy, one so large I doubt it would ever happen, but I think those are ultimately a symptom of the current system, where we often keep things private for the sake of societal or cultural norms, sometimes to personal detriment.

I'm not particularly arguing that either way is inherently right or wrong - but I do think the consequences you speak of are only meaningful in a world where a large measure of privacy, at least between most people in their day to day interactions, exists.
I don't believe there is any known lossless algorithm which can achieve 7.5:1 compression on already-lossy-compressed media files.

If you want further lossy compression for existing media files, look at the newest algorithms supported by ffmpeg.

If you want generic lossless compression, you can do a bit better than the usual suspects (gzip et al), but only if you're willing to put up with very slow compression times.

If you have some other type of specific data (e.g. sparse files) then you could do something custom, but I guess this is unlikely to be your situation.
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I suspect that this was a very powerful (for NK) fissile weapon and not an actual hydrogen bomb as claimed (regardless of if they had fusible materials in the device).
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I'm the author of the article and the code example, and I can confirm that it runs well on Google Cardboard, Gear VR and the Oculus Rift DK2.

By "running well" I mean within the limitations of the framerate browsers can currently produce, which is definitely not 90 or 120 fps.

The best performance I've had with WebVR has been a very stable 75 fps in Firefox using this configuration: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/web-vr-discuss/2015-Novem...
Just curious, but what is your line of work and that of your friends with assistants?
I'm giving a go at their application and I'm right really pleased to see how easy a potential complete transition from Slack would be done. You provide your Slack's API Token and everything gets imported from the look of it: channels, history, snippets / files, etc...
Ehm... 37signals.com comes in mind.
One fact that mitigates the risk of large scale abuse by government is that the power to surveil is easily gained by a bad faith government.

Bush administration is a good example. They just did warrant-less wiretapping. It wasn't hard or particularly expensive. No public debate. And that was a government that more or less followed the rule of law. Imagine one that no longer follows the rule of law.

You don't even need an apparatus. Just send an FBI analyst to pick up Sundar Pichai and Zuckerberg. Have the companies run queries on their own database.

Our government already has the power to mass murder. Obama can order entire continents destroyed. The air force can drop a JDAM on any house in America. The police can arrest any political enemy of the state. The government already has immense power.

Comparatively the sort of privacy issues we are talking about are smaller powers. And like I argued above, they are easy to acquire.

Any government willing to abuse the power of surveillance would be willing to flaunt the law to create a surveillance program overnight (well not literally, but they could do it in months).

I'm not arguing that there is no downside to surveillance power, just that it's not as dangerous as many make it out to be. For example, there is still risk in official abuse by government employees acting rouge. There is risk of data leaks. And smaller scale abuses that can be covered up or that the public wouldn't care about.

But I think the fear that we shouldn't give the government power to surveil because they might go full nazi/communist/theocracic/etc. is silly.
Chang In-suk [1], head of the North Korean Defectors’ Association in Seoul at the time, says Lee Soon-ok is a liar. The Guardian tackles the question, "Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?" [2]

[1] http://uskoreainstitute.org/research/visiting-scholars/past-...

[2]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-ko...
Ah yes, I hadn't thought of that - thanks!