skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to you, your encryption is more important than being able to come after the bad guys using it. Can I similarly argue that the precedent of government control over firearms will eventually apply to encryption?

Otherwise, you just fluff it off as "whining from a bunch of conservative, mouth-breathing gun nuts."
What do yall think
IiRC they aso exploited an Android bug to give themselves more memory. Facebook is woefully buggy and slow that many people are now either using the website or alternative wrapper apps that don't drain their battery immensely.
In America, it is actually surprisingly difficult to buy 'half as much food' at many places. Most mid-scale (Approx 10-30 USD/plate) restaurants attempt to convince you the service is worth the price by giving you far too much food (and also not paying their employees enough either; hence tips, which BTW I'd be inclined to stop paying in 'living minimum wage' cities (15+/hr)).
The same statement could have been said about Enron at a similar time during that collapse.
Big Nerd Ranch and Amazon Create No-Cost Training Courses for Amazon Alexa
The Power of Paranoia – The Art of Delightful Software
Why does this simplistic analysis permeate HN, of all places?

There are certain technologies and trends whose full potential is not presently obvious, or realizable, and the ability to exercise that potential could be capped or cut short if investors force a near-term focus on profits. It's the same reason why we ideally teach children any number of skills which have no direct application to their future vocations. Future options are sometimes more desirable than current profits.
I don't think so. I did a brief look at how it works. It was basically a centrally-hosted, shared-secret setup. I've built those before. Super easy to build and use compared to high-secure, P2P apps w/ their trust management. Here was the user experience when I tried it:

1. Go to the right site. So, tell them to check domain and HTTPS.

2. Type in information you and other person agreed to preferably in person.

3. Chat.

Very, very usable. That could've been implemented in a simple, secure-coded app communicating over a secure tunnel with another simple app on a robust server. The crypto to do that sort of thing right (outside a browser) is pretty basic. One could even run the deployment server and untrusted storage separately so complex TCB couldn't affect trusted app delivery or operation. Not past availability.

Cryptocat's design was actually simpler than some high assurance systems of the past. That tells me it could be done robustly with a different implementation and protocol. Is it the best idea? Hell no for all kinds of reasons that start with centralization then get worse from there. Its usability can be recreated, though, in a more secure solution.

Note: As I said to tptacek, even the original with its security issues kept users safer than fads like Facebook Chat that spy on them. A fun, usable solution with better than average privacy is still a step up if used by the right people. Just gotta be clear to use something stronger (less fun) to stop hackers.
Except that didn't happen, so there's that. I did pretend to do it though. Also, never applied at PagerDuty
Good point, and it's so easy to remember how hard life was in the past, and it's so easy for people in the modern age to take things for granted.
It's probably still nice to actually know what is happening. At least you switched it on in this case.
Why are they using staggered keys? Because it's cheaper to produce and more familiar for most people? I can't go back to staggered keyboards after using one with a columnar layout. But I never liked staggered keyboards to begin with. For me it felt awkward to touch type (maybe a problem with my small hands, idk).

But the config looks beautiful.

My dream keyboard would be something like this: https://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/katy-keyboard-or-k80cs-k...
> I do the work

I find it hard to believe that you believe that scanning a work (even if rare) that they own the rights to means that you deserve a cut of future profits. You could argue that $50 may not be enough money, but a fixed rate fee seems pretty reasonable for doing what amounts to manual labor.
Or, you know, when your friend is hosting a StarCraft game over TCP and you have to write their address. People don't have DNS addresses and even if your ISP has a mapping by default (usually to addr-x-y-z-w.isp.com), the OS doesn't show it.

On the other hand, DNS could fix this - just have a TLD of ip6 and have it resolve all the examples in the article. It would require no changes to current software and will work transparently. I.e. you'd enter http://deadbeef.ip6:1234 and when the ip6 TLD servers receive a request for deadbeef.ip6, they will reply with dead:beef:0:0:0:0:0:0. Similarly with deadbeef.1.ip6 and so on. You could easily implement this in the OS too without much hassle and not even need servers on the internet to do it.
The idea that focusing close causes myopia is called the "near work hypothesis" (by the Wikipedia page on myopia): "while an association is present it is unclear if it is causal."

It's probably bad to keep the eyes focused at one distance all the time, whether it is infinity or 12 inches.
Aren't the contents of NV memory pretty important though?

Anyway, it's just different than software. You can't sha sum your hardware to verify its what you expected.

I'm not sure, maybe an x-ray could see inside. Not unlike how binary blobs can be examined, but usually that's not considered open.
Do you have data to support that a few unicorn valuations being corrected will spread to the rest of the economy, particularly housing and not just be largely limited to private markets and investors?
1) prevent covert takeover from the original founders

Wouldn't this be more reliable to do by keeping control via different classes of stock and or limiting the total size of the employee option pool to some significantly less percentage than the founders have? What's the most common/recommended size of the employee option pool (I want to say I've heard it is like 5-15% depending on the age of the company)?
I've had credit cards since 2005, and at least 15 different ones, and they've all had an option to autopay online so that you don't even need to remember to pay your bill. I highly doubt any major bank issued card does not have an auto pay full balance option.

Card issues make crazy amounts just in the transaction fees merchants pay, they have no reason to dis incentivize people from using them for as many purchases as possible.
What's the point of using non standard ports with IPv6? If a machine can have a million different IPv6, why would one even bother using a non standard port?
Thanks for the recommendation! I will definitely read that. I've no formal education in this area, but have read Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding", and got quite a lot out of it.
They are coercing companies into using their resources to produce software and introduce backdoors that can hurt honest customers. And this will hurt companies like Apple, since security is something they sell.

In regards to subpoenas, can the government read your mind? Should they be able to? Well, our devices are an extension of our mind and if you make the case that the government should have access, that's a slippery slope imho.

Furthermore, this will only work against small time criminals. Crime syndicates on the other hand have the resources to acquire knowledge and protect themselves. There's always the analogue loophole and some would argue that such tactics do nothing but to misuse resources, instead of good old detective work, ultimately hurting the honest taxpayers.
you are confusing business and technology fundamentals.

Business fundamentals -- bottom-line numbers on the P&L statement -- are not furthered by increasing the number of active users alone, or by delighting users. Only ad revenue would increase the fundamentals being discussed here.
The open-toolchain FPGA sounds interesting too, is there any more information on that?
I believe it is ~10,000 lux, or direct sunlight.
How did things work out from a tax perspective if you don't mind my asking? Also, what sort of communication did you have with your company before/during this transaction regarding it?

Is this the kind of thing employers might freak out about if they are blindsided by the request?
Since the Apple chip is derived from an ARM design it would make sense to have the secure enclave implemented with TrustZone rather than being provided as a separate piece of hardware. Most probably a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment). Lots of TEEs are based on L4.
Pretending to do that is ok? I can't believe you're still employed there.

Also, I upvoted the comment because I think it should stay visible. I hope other users do that too instead of just downvoting.
> Yes, and if I don’t want people to steal stuff I should lock my door.

Wrong example. More like: If you don't want people to take and make a thousand copies of what you placed outside your garage and do whatever they want with it, don't place a sign outside your garage door that people are allowed to help themselves.

Yes, by all means do give back to the original author. Give credit, buy support agreements, recommend, report bugs etc etc. I'm happy to pay a little more than necessary here and there to support good projects (including elementary OS) and I push for a support agreement with the team that provide the wonderful server stack we use.

But don't tell me I have a moral obligation to not do something the license goes out of its way to allow me to do, please.

Oh, btw, people picking on elementary OS might have picked the wrong target : it is actually beautiful and works surprisingly well for some of us and it seems the money they get in goes towards bug bounties.
Outside of the big purchases, home and transportation, it is safe to say if you cannot save for it in a reasonable time you really cannot afford it.

The only time I buy anything on credit is when it is zero percent on the terms and even then if I could buy it outright or save for it quickly.

It just is too easy to get in the trap of credit and reasoning it out is the first indication you have a problem. If its important save for it, if you cannot save for it get credit counseling
He's not. And I can describe his penis, so.

There was also stabbing employees (to the point of requiring an ambulance) while fooling around with a knife, setting the building on fire more than once, and tormenting other employees who he didn't like. All of that was tolerated and dismissed by management, specifically Chris Aker and Tom Asaro, which should tell you what you need to know about ever working there. One of Linode's early forays into hiring women ended very, very badly, and the only one who made it from that time period was forever marked by the experience.

And since he outed himself (I was careful not to), it's worth pointing out that the same individual now sits on the school board where he lives. Food for thought.

I required several years of counseling to recover from working at Linode, and I am no longer under any legal obligation to keep that a secret. I'm consulting with an attorney regarding the best way to tell my story without incurring legal liability, because Linode nearly killed several people who are very dear to me.
Add this to the list of projects he has walked away from that people were using
The Lounge – A Self-Hosted Web IRC Client
This reminds me, does wisp work on Windows yet?
This was a law passed in Arizona that likely doesn't happen without Theranos pushing for it. It certainly seems relevant that a company making illegitimate claims about their product wants to bypass the scrutiny of medical professionals.
> The real question is, "Why would they ask for scans of old books and pay $50 for them", with the only commercially reasonable answer being, "Because they think that they will obtain much more that $50 woth of value, or the work required to obtain and scan it themselves is worth way more than $50".

If you think this is a ripoff ("Thanks, chumps!"), the only possible conclusion is that any time anyone gives you money for anything, you're getting ripped off.

The alternative, sane model is known as the gains from trade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gains_from_trade
To add to that, bcrypt is not the best recommendation if choosing a password hash today. In theory they should be adopting Argon2 (or maybe scrypt).

In practice, I suspect that either the bindings for Argon2/scrypt don't exist or aren't easily adoptable given their use of ColdFusion. They do exist in Python.

Either way, it seems like a sub-optimal decision.
'Lick' is an old slang term for 'blow', in the a-blow-was-struck sense. That's why the title of the Rolling Stones' greatest-hits album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Licks is a three-way pun. 'Forty licks' is a proverbial term for a particular kind of corporal punishment: forty blows of the cane or whatever. Or see "The Return of Ulysses", the final chapter of The Wind in the Willows: http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/grahame/wind12.htm
Question: could an x-ray device be made sensitive/high resolution enough to "read" whether a bit is flipped in silicon? (and extract the private key)
Beck describes it in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU

[edit: slide at ~ 47 minutes]
In the original sense of the word, yes. The sense has evolved with the self-described communists though...
Ricochet sits over Tor and doesn't require much or any in the way of education. The implementation details and use of Tor is virtually invisible to the end-user. It's nothing like using public key encryption to send an email for instance, and more akin to AOL Instant Messenger from a user perspective.
I did not downvote you, but I think people might feel that you seem to let your personal disdain for Apple color your response regardless of the facts of the case vs. having a real discussion.

Even this point is a bit disingenuous - your quote from the article in no way supports your position that Apple would deliberately brick your phone - and in fact, there is a quote further down in the article you cited that further undermines this claim:

<<a user identified as ansuz07 said, "The percentage of iPhones that have become bricked from hacks is very low. Even those that experienced problems could be fixed by a simple restore. Apple is going to make it sound a lot worse than it actually is since they are the ones who don't want you to do it in the first place">>
I used some of my savings and a cash bonus I got at work to exercise some of my options. I held on to that stock for a year. The next year I sold a portion of that stock in the transaction described above. I used the proceeds from the sale to replenish my savings, which had taken a small hit due to the AMT from the previous tax year.
Waiting until login until you upgrade to bcrypt is a requirement is compotent password storage. At this point in time all Linode should know is SHA-2(password) and they can't use that to derive bcrypt(password).

The way upgrade should work is that the user provides their password, which is verified with SHA-2 and then hashed with bcrypt and stored again.

In order to do this without people logging in Linode would have to bcrypt hash the SHA-2 hashed passwords and then keep doing that for all password validations.
Interesting idea, good luck!
Captured: People in prison drawing people who should be in prison
There is another issue I've read about, which is that outside the context of a medical diagnosis, even a very accurate test would still be relatively unhelpful because it can be measuring natural variability. (E.g., testing some metric associated with prostate cancer in young men/women — prostate cancer only appears in older men, so testing young people is mostly useless.) Whereas if you're already potentially sick and go to a doctor, the relevant tests then have more predictive power.
Recent discussion of the original paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098655
Isn't any attack illegal?
It's the normal thing to do in the States too.

Quote stolen from another thread:

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age of beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one 'makes' them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on the guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Try just asking for a discount on purchases of single items above ~100€/$. It can be as simple as saying 'Can you give me a discount?'. Sometimes you get free stuff added, sometimes a few percent off. And this is just the simplest level where you don't even really negotiate, you just ask one question nicely, no conflict. Eg. hiking boots, bikes, computers are things where that worked for me.
Honestly, it is likely because they are spinning/lying that it is confusing to you.

If you just assume they are attempting misdirection it makes perfect sense for them to insist things are fine.
Sourceforge seems to be slowly getting out of the mess they created.

download.com, yes, it is.

Then again, elementary OS is completely different as not only do they package a complete distro but they also create and maintain multiple programs.
They are also backed by the financial industry and are considered financial and legal instruments.

while it isn't possible to "front run" your insurance deal as your broker, putting you into the wrong insurance has a variety of outside financial consequences that are not insurance related at all.

For example - Zenfits could theoretically "redline" certain kinds of businesses into certain kinds of insurance, even though the employee pools qualify for something better/totally different. By doing so, Zenefits could make more profit per insurance policy sale and renewal, but their is more risk in the lifetime customer that they will explode, since it is the wrong policy. Zenefits see hypergrowth and projections towards even further hypergrowth. However, they also create systemic SMB risk

Since SMBs do not typically get lots of help with these sorts of HR issues, the "wrong" insurance could be the difference between bankrupcy and existence 5 years down the line, even though there is competition among policies. The broker is supposed to act as guidance among many competing insurance policies against that eventuality, hence the regulation.

If Zenefits can't guarantee their employees can actually act not in Zenefits interest as brokers when queried about two policies and the benefit to the customer, despite what Zenefits would make out of the sale, because of behavior within Zenefits, then there are problems for the businesses that brokered with them, and any bank that loaned them money (since part of the premise there is that this stuff is properly managed!)
Linus Torvalds Rant on Media commit causes user space to misbahave
I wonder if some sort of base64 encoding wouldn't have been better.

"dead:beef:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001"

becomes

"3q2+7wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ"

Which sucks because of the non-alphanumeric characters and the long run of A's, but one gets the idea. Which is to a general user hex encoding might as well be Hungarian.
pro tip:

click on https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/

then open the console in your browser and type this :

setInterval("$('a.option.active.remove.login-required').first().click()",400)

I didn't find the option to remove all default subscriptions at once in the settings, it might exist though. setInterval is needed because for some reasons ajax communication is throttled by reddit.
> How so? Either they're 100% clueless or they aren't being transparent.

Linode has a long, long history of being less than honest and less than transparent.
I think NZ imports a lot of cars from overseas. The used-car market is great!
Please don't post off-topic replies to the top comment. Or to any comment, really, but with the top comment people sometimes do so to get their own post closer to the top of the page, which is not legit.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11136707 and marked it off-topic.
To Keep America Safe, Embrace Drone Warfare
I've never needed or carried any debt my whole life, unless trying to build some credit on purpose when I was younger.
But, "unfortunately" my car is in great condition and over 10 years old. I have zero need for a new car as I work remotely and live in a walkable neighborhood with metro and uber, et al.

But beware: Credit expires after 10 years! I didn't know that. You wouldn't believe the hell we had to go thru last time we moved. Trying to get a landlord to accept a tenant with "no credit" was like pulling teeth.
I would submit that any attempt at "clear-cut criteria for an objective judgment of art, food, and literature" will be subject to the culture in which it is developed, and that when these criteria are transplanted into foreign cultures, they will or will not work to varying degrees.

You allude this this when you say "GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture as a whole". Obviously your own criteria includes how this work affected America. How objective can this be if it may be assessed entirely differently by a Chinese, Russian or African person, where it may have had little or no discernible influence on their culture?

Leaving that aside, the passages in comparison are actually saying different things. Regardless of who wrote them, 3minus1 should be free to prefer that slightly different definition of courage. The source is irrelevant.