skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends what "security" we're discussing.

I was talking about passive signal noise which could be used to locate a potential target (e.g. pick the president's vehicle from the identical ones in the motorcade). Even a hardened phone will still leak EM radiation.

If we're talking about informational security, well, I don't know why we would. The Fitbit doesn't sync realtime and most of the president's meetings are public. So while it would be extremely embarrassing, I don't know how compromising it would be.
When was the last time NBC, CNN, Fox, or CBS leaked government secrets?
> If you are truly worried about spy devices, you should really consider dropping your cell phone in the toilet.

> Honestly, if you're worried about this sort of thing, you shouldn't own a cell phone.

People keep saying this but not owning a cell phone doesn't help against being in the vicinity of a far-field microphone connected to echo?

Then your idea about pcapping 24/7, I'm not sure what this data would look like, but given that the software emitting it is closed-source and auto-updating, wouldn't it change every other update or so? You'd have to re-reverse the data every time to see what it's actually sending, sounds like a lot of work, like keeping an eye on a young child to make sure it's not creating/getting into any trouble.

You can call it "paranoid", but I think by now we have all seen enough reports about these sorts of things going wrong (on purpose or by accident), it's more reasonable to say that you are okay trading convenience for privacy+security than calling the people who aren't, "paranoid". It's 2016.

BTW if you can make sense of the pcapped data sent out, that means it's not encrypted, right?
It would seem that other than being a little more automated (giving anyone access to my email however is a deal breaker in my book), this Paribus service wouldn't seem to have any real advantages over (what appears to be) a competing service from Citibank: https://www.citipricerewind.com

A compare/contrast on the Paribus website would be helpful.

I see statements that Paribus doesn't sell customer data, but on the Paribus blog, I see analytics run against what appears to be customer data. That dichotomy concerns me.

Are there any limits on how often a customer can request a rebate? What happens if the customer hits that limit? Will a company "fire" a customer, as can happen to people who return items too frequently?

I'm also surprised to see that Citibank has a patent in this area…
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Teenage hackers, huh?

Sure. I bet this isn't actually their work.
To be fair, infrastructure jobs are almost all temporary while GE will generally provide permanent and higher quality positions. The incubator might be a better general idea, but I'm not sure Boston is the best city to take advantage of that considering that many of the region's colleges end up promoting local entrepreneurship in their own ways.
The Xiaomi cam looks like it has virtually identical image quality for $60. You give up water-proofness but you can get a waterproof case add-on.
The US isn't run by an autocracy so there are competing interests in the government. It doesn't make sense to claim they are being controlled by the government, because they wouldn't agree with each other on what should be said. That said, there's definitely an implicit bias that America is right and North Korea/Iran/Russia etc are wrong but that's a nationwide problem, hardly evidence of some mass conspiracy.
Anecdotally, I know a couple people who buy a GoPro for a specific adventure. They use it, it's cool, but then it gathers dust for months afterwards. It's not hard to find used ones locally. Or to have a friend who you can borrow from if you know you aren't going to use beyond your own single adventure of the year.

In terms of daily videos, the mobile phone is good enough for most people who want to capture moments.

My comment isn't meant to poo-poo the GoPro because the product definitely fits a niche, rather to say that it wouldn't surprise me to see GoPro hit a certain ceiling with just focusing on portable camcorders.
Of note: it is called Pajero in Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking country.

I wonder what happens when someone crosses the border (any border) with it.
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> The next phone manufacturer that will be able to make a smartphone / laptop that can last more than 1 working day on a single charge will rule the world of smart phones.

My OnePlus One lasts 2-3 at least. I've never let it run down, but there were a few days when I had its USB cable plugged in backwards (doh!) and was wondering why it didn't charge.
It's sort of like the Middle Eastern version of the Christian Science Monitor. Kooky religion, surprisingly professional and credible newspaper.
From Brett Cannon http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists

I think maybe the Python 2/3 split was a huge performance piece on how NOT to evolve a language, but we just copied Perl 6.

Do you think a stop the world, forced upgrade is something that should be done in the future? Was it avoidable?
Setting up an identity helps them save their tasks

You're missing the point. Many people don't want to use Facebook or LinkedIn (or whomeever) to login to other companies because we don't want our tracking histories aggregated.
It does not what? Can you share quotes from the article or the translated article source you read?

Confusion:

Are you saying that ffmpeg doesn't detect file by extension?

or

Are you saying that ffmpeg won't execute the malicious code if it's found appended to a valid video?
Does this mean Al Jazeera English will be viewable online again in the US? I never watched AJA because I don't particularly want to watch US-Focused news and I have never had and will never have a cable subscription.
>social engineering

That's still hacking.
Phone manufacturers typically optimize around a 1 day use case. The battery takes up a significant amount of space and adding more than a day of charge at the expense of a thicker or larger phone typically doesn't play out well in the market.

A perfect example is the correlation between screen sizes and the launch of LTE. At the time if you asked anyone they wouldn't have wanted a larger phone however carriers wanted LTE phones and the market wanted phones that lasted all day. At the time thickness was a fairly standard comparison so what happened? They sold you a bigger screen so that they could fit a larger battery without producing a thicker phone.
I disagree. To me, certificate sounds like something tiny. I.e. you're a certified .NET developer.

Traditionally, a degree can be very broad. For example, a CS degree can cover a lot of classes in different areas of Computer Science in addition to other non-major classes.

In contrast, a Nanodegree, sounds like a specialized degree to me. The Nano implies that it is small, but degree has that well known definition to most people. Together, it brings a sense of being a highly specialized program.
I thought the author was reaching for a questionable "Tale of Two Cities" Dickens pun :\
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It's a good point.

But I'd challenge you on your assumption that this is a bad thing for stores and consumers.

It's a powerfully negative experience to buy something, and then find out within a few days (or hours) that it's selling for far less. It happens millions of times per day (www.forbes.com/sites/walterloeb/2014/11/20/amazons-pricing-strategy-makes-life-miserable-for-the-competition/), and most people don't find out. But the reality is that it's happening.

A customer could return it for free (and re-buy it -- many states require this by-law). Or a store could do good by the customer and give a price adjustment.

It turns out that when stores do good by customers when this happens, shoppers become far more loyal (and spend FAR more on average too, growing store top-line & often net bottom line). This is part of the secret of Amazon Prime.

While I can't claim that it is the right or only view, I fully believe that stores will benefit far more than the costs.

*Revised based on mquander's feedback
don't use company owned equipment for personal reasons

It's a bloody computer, not a backhoe. I know precisely nobody who has a computer at work that doesn't at least check their mail on it.

Why companies feel they have to treat their employees as serfs in this matter is beyond my comprehension. Nor do I understand the mindset that treats a mail check as "abuse".

Have you worked at a company which had different departments all using whatever they wanted?

Have you ever worked at a company which had an IT department that was so bureaucratic and slow moving that it prevented people getting actual work done? Your diatribe ignores the reason shadow IT springs up - because the "official" IT isn't doing their job and providing decent services.

I've been on both sides of this. The old quote "the harder you squeeze, the more slip through your fingers" applies. Shadow IT means that things are being provisioned without official approval, not that there's a policy allowing random things to be provisioned without approval.
> python 2 executable is named python while python 3 is python3

Nope, not quite. Python 2 is named python2 and python 3 is named python3, on every system I am aware of. 'python' is ambiguous and can be linked to either [1]. I know at least on Arch Linux, python links to python3, and I have run into a handful of scripts that break by assuming python is always linked to python2.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
I disagree, I think PaaS is in its infancy and will grow not die. One PaaS not mentioned in the article, Microsoft Azure, is growing fast and provides a vast range of services.

We run an enterprise grade SaaS product on PaaS, and I personally have several apps running on PaaS. These solutions would have taken much longer to get to market without PaaS and be much more complex to manage and maintain.
For context, here is a laptop from the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T1100

4.77 mhx 8088, 640x200 monochrome display. MS-DOS 2.11. 4 kilograms. $1899.

That's a bit more than $4k after adjusting for inflation.

Looks like a pretty expensive toy to me. I sure wouldn't take it fishing either. What use would it even have?
I'd be interested in seeing that once you're done
>TAOCP worth the time and effort?

Early in my career, I got the first three volumes.

The volume on sorting and searching was the most useful, and there the most useful was AVL trees. Next, heap sort and the Gleason bound. Sort-merge? I'd known that already, but if don't then can learn it there. Radix sort? That's what the old punched card machines did; in some cases it's faster than heap sort (doesn't contradict the Gleason bound because that bound assumes that the sorting is from comparing pars, and radix sort doesn't do that). Radix sort could be still be useful in special cases. Lists, queues? Obvious.

The fast Fourier transform remains important, and some of what Knuth writes about it is good and tough to find elsewhere.

Somewhere in those first three volumes are some really good summaries of combinatorial formulas, with some results not easy to find elsewhere.

The volumes give some good examples of how to do the math to evaluate the performance of an algorithm -- might need to do that sometime, e.g., for some guaranteed performance in some embedded system -- and if need to do that then it's far easier to read at least the start on how from Knuth than reinvent it yourself and likely easier than from other sources.

The level of clarity, precision, and quality in Knuth is about as high as those go and a great example for others.

That's most of what I got from those three volumes.

For the later volumes, right, I didn't bother. But, if I have a question that might have an answer in one of those volumes, then, sure, I will eagerly look.
I've been using this since April, and do a ton of shopping on Amazon. I've saved $27 since joining, and since I wouldn't have checked those, I consider it free savings. One negative is that it doesn't support the 2-FA for Amazon.
GE creates lots of middle-class jobs. Startups create very few jobs in comparison, the jobs they do create are often out of reach of ordinary people, and many startups probably destroy jobs on net by automating-away things that previously took human labor without growing the demand side of the equation.
There is this Hindu[1] tale[2] that goes like this:

A king once solicited a scholar to read an ancient hindu text, so that the king may better understand God. The scholar goes away, and after a period of time comes to the king. The king asks "Have you read the text?" to which the scholar replies "Yes I have." The king does not believe the scholar and sends the scholar to read the text.

Some time passes by, and the scholar returns. The king again questions the scholar, and again the scholar replies that he has read the text. The king sends the scholar away telling the scholar to read the text.

Some time passes by, and the scholar does not return. After some additional time, the king has grown impatient and sends some men to find the scholar. When they arrive at his home, the scholar is no where to be found, and has seemingly disappeared.

After studying the text so diligently, the scholar has ascended to heaven and joined God.

My assumption is that once you've truly read The Art of Computer Programming, you will transcend your human form and be one with the Cloud.

[1] Source: My dad, who is not the most reliable person when it comes to these sorts of things.

[2] I'm paraphrasing it, as I am also no the most reliable person when it comes to these sorts of things.
I was thinking the exact same thing. To expand, if retailers get upset and try to work against this in any effective manner, doesn't that just put them out of business? It's like basing a business off another company's api without asking for permission or verifying that you're not violating ToS. They could just pull the plug on you at any moment. This seems like a very perilous business strategy..
Are you rerferring to CVE-2015-3193? I believe it did not affect libressl
> TAOCP is designed to stand the test of time, not focus on micro-optimizations . . .

Hmmm. My edition of "Sorting and Searching" has a section devoted to tape-sorting.
> if you're unhappy with that amount, change the laws.

That's what they tried to do so GE left the state...

> It's not somehow patriotic to pay more in taxes than you legally owe.

But they go one step further, they actually dodge taxes they're meant to legally owe using loopholes.

If GE paid the same proportional taxes as a locally owned sandwich shop I'd be happy.
This is still very much the case uptown, too. Try finding a parking place in Flatiron on a summer weekday morning.
Is there still a chance of a race condition when you use the "with" operator? It seems like this is one of the major use cases it was designed for
In 1984 he was basically correct. Computers could barely handle it. On a 80x25 terminal they're not that useful, and when the Mac came out with it's tiny screen it wouldn't have been that great.

Not that it mattered. The 128k of RAM was so little it couldn't run two real applications at once, only one app and one 'desklet'(?) like the calculator.

It took a few years before it would have started to make sense.
ironically, the only station not following the old-US media book is going away because they followed their business model.
I’m not defending this deal, but: I don’t think $200m buys as much infrastructure as you might think
I've heard that, but I don't quite understand it.

1. Advertise open positions that aren't really open

2. Collect a bunch of resumes

3. When a position opens up 6 months later, offer it to someone
who hasn't been able to find a job in 6 months...?

More likely it's something to do with hiring quotas -- perhaps they have to show they made an effort to fill a position with a non-H1B worker, or something.
.....where do you go to school and how many credits can you transfer in with? :p
The BBC is not seen as a trustworthy news source by all in the UK either, but its biases are harder to spot than some other outlets. Generally speaking, you only get a clear picture of their news manipulation when you're on the opposing side of the messages they put out.

To give a recent example, there was a story a week or two ago where they held back on an interview with a politician they knew was going to resign until just before a parliamentary debate, which appears to have been a move to undermine the leader of this politician's party, which they've been making efforts to discredit.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=81049649
Well have I got some sweet news for you then: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160111/BLOGS02/1601...
Moreover I am curious about whether they will charge in USD or CAD.

If USD, then a Canadian firm still has to deal with currency exposure as with the US AZs

If CAD, it might be interesting if a lot of US load heads up to Canada chasing lower prices.
Man, when active matrix came out and started replacing the old passive matrix it was night and day. Suddenly things weren't horrifically blurry anymore.
> Field has 2 or 12 pay triple and the other pays double

> Only do field, place, or come bets

The house edge on the field with those rules is 2.78%, which isn't bad, but isn't great. Ideally you want one that pays triple on both 2 and 12 (good luck finding that!) because then the house edge is 0.00%

All the rest of your bets are either 0% or 1.4-1.6% house edge.

Also, if you're really worried about one seven wiping you off the table and don't mind being contrarian, play the don't. While the odds are basically the same (slightly better actually) in the long term, I find the short term odds much better (because of the aforementioned deadly seven).

However if you value the social aspect of the game or your casino player rating, don't play the don't. :)
That's kinda what an iPod Touch is, right? (The question mark is not rhetorical.)
> For what it’s worth, most Citi Bike trips start and end in Manhattan

That's because Manhattan has the huge majority of Citibike terminals. In Brooklyn it's still virtually non existent (yet it has a high population density).
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For C# at least every version is at least better than the previous. 2015 was the big Roslyn makeover so I suppose I can accept a few more regressions than usual. But feature-wise, each version has had at least one killer feature that made the previous seem dated on day 1. Examples: edit-and-continue, or lambdas in watches.
The first chapter is deliberately impenetrable, using obscure words from many different languages. I've seen commentaries that explain what it's supposed to mean, but it strikes me more as a tall mountain that exists to be climbed. It's more like you're translating it than reading it.

That said, if you can convince people to house rule it as a word-source for a Scrabble game, you can terrify people who want to challenge.
I cannot imagine how many startups would have failed to successfully launch (as they had) if it wasn't for the ease-of-use of hosting their platform, such as Heroku. I know that early on I wouldn't have had the patience/confidence to roll my own stack on a node, let alone trust its integrity.
The multi-signature feature in the bitcoin scripting language allows to add a refund process into bitcoin transactions. Bitrated, which I founded, provides consumer protection using that mechanism and a marketplace for dispute resolution service providers.
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Hi k33n,

Thanks for sharing what you learned. We will look into integrating with existing security tools.

In the meantime, we believe that providing a security notifications API to users is valuable.
I'd also like to add that Al Jazeera's most likely viewers are obviously going to be pretty liberal, and therefore younger and much more likely to be cord-cutters. Basically, their best demographic is going to be Millenials, and those are the most likely to not have a cable subscription.

They really shot themselves in the foot with this move.
Physics tests with a female bio get worse grades from inexperienced teachers
One thing that always baffled me was "routine software audits" by Microsoft, Oracle, and the likes.

So, you license a technology, and now your supplier can police you at their own wish. OK, there are situations when you have no choice - they are the only game in town. But in the last decade much of the infrastructure has been available in an open-source form.

I am surprised anyone would touch anything from such companies if there is a free alternative not connected to such companies (and in this case there are many).
Doesn't it air on any open channel?

when i got my friends to watch the world cup at home i attached a $5 antenna to the DVR (i build a computer with a $120 TV-in card, and had never used until then!)

the image was not the best, but for live sports, who cares?! oh and it got worse every time a plane passed above.

anyway, the antenna was a very easy solution for the impromptu need for live sports.
Well, or what if you hire in big cycles? Like no hires for 2 months, then you have 30 days to fill 50 seats. If you always have job postings, you could always go back 30 or 60 days and have a bunch of resumes to go after. Makes sense maybe from the HR side (but super annoying from the applicant side).
Saying "I'm going for a bike" would be the equivalent for "I'm going for a sneakers" (for a run).. its the action of riding that makes sense.
That's pennies considering their annual CoGS ecpenses and revenue. It's not nothing, but its unlikely to figure into any pricing.
Both currencies used to trade at par.

At times, but those were historical anomalies.
I've been on the service for a few months as well and have been refunded ~$100.

Another possibility- Amazon just coopts the idea and rolls it into a feature of prime, ala Orbitz.
That makes me terribly uncomfortable because Microsoft is likely to just silently turn it back on in the future.

I used Powershell scripts to uninstall a bunch of the bloatware (XBox Music, Money, etc...) and they just come back. It's very frustrating.
"why are these laws never symmetric?"

They are, in a cooperative company, that is, in a company owned by their workers, it is symmetric and transparent.

In a company that is owned by someone else, obviously this someone else decide what is done in the company.

"Why can't employees also access things possessed and used by the employer, like, say, HR personnel files, or executive emails, so that employees can verify the company is not committing fraud, engaging in discriminatory practices, etc.?"

Some employees have access to such information on any company, but those employees are trusted by the owner.

Employees are not saints. If a design of a prototype is valued in millions of euros and they have access to it, they could have the temptation to sell it to the competition and become rich, or just compete with the original company with the info without having done the investments.

This is valid to anything that could be considered "trade secret" that if competition knows, could simply destroy your company. Information like geomineral prospective studies that took millions of dollars to make in the end is so simple like "here there are so many tons of gold or platinum". With this info in a phrase a competitor could save millions.

You can extract all the info you want about a company if you have access to their private communications.