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> this made it easy for CentOS to roll a "clone" of RHEL

This makes no sense. Having patch sets or a single huge tarball is exactly the same as far as CentOS is concerned. Also, the patch sets for RHEL6 would be around four times the size of the kernel itself so there are also practical reasons to stop distributing them (of course Oracle _is_ a reason, I'm not denying that).

The delay in CentOS 6 was due to personal reasons, not to the change in the distribution policy for kernel patch sets.

CentOS was acqui-hired because Red Hat needed CentOS as the base for community development of its RHEL-based products (oVirt for RHEV, RDO for RH OpenStack, and so on).
Man oh man I enjoyed running across this comment. Massively true of the HN clones as well.
Yeah, that's what the author thinks:

people are switching to things like Dart, Coffeescript, and Typescript.
The neural nets still need to have experiences that are trained on a realistic simulation of the events which it needs to understand. Historical data does not train the networks the same way that interactive learning does.

There was an old study, in an earlier time of ethical strictures, where they took two kittens, paralyzed one, and strapped it onto the other one and let them run around and do kitten stuff. The paralyzed kitten saw everything the intact kitten did, felt the same breeze on its fur, but was completely blind to the universe. Without interaction, you cannot learn.

In order to provide that interactive environment you either need a robot body or a really rich virtual environment for your AI to grow up in.

At that point, they are developmentally limited to human timescales. No hyper-accelerated intelligence exponential.
Trying to connect dots together. If Zenefits solution was so manual and archaic then was ADP right in the year old controversy...

On June 4 (2015), we disabled Zenefits access to ADP’s RUN small business solution due to unusual and alarming demand for data from Zenefits far out of proportion to the number of clients who have allowed them access to our system. Despite Zenefits serving less than 0.25% of the clients on our system, they had been responsible for up to 25.0% of the total user traffic (in other words, a hundred-fold times ordinary user traffic).

…it was pulling sensitive information, including unmasked Social Security numbers and employee banking information, in a manner that did not comply with ADP’s standards for data security.

http://www.businessinsider.com/adp-and-zenefits-are-at-war-2...
I don't understand how that isn't classed as a back door.
A couple of years ago I got the Civ bug and couldn't get any of the official versions running reliably under Wine, so I tried playing FreeCiv for a bit.

Man, that AI. In Civ 1, on the lower difficulties I could happily defend myself and expand my borders and explore the world. FreeCiv doesn't exactly have a "difficulty" setting—it's got like twelve pages of buttons and sliders—but on the default difficulty it seemed like I always spawned next to two or three other civs that would near-immediately grind me to paste.

I really, really wanted to like FreeCiv, but I don't think it likes me.
Affiliate marketing, price arbitrage, integrating with things that don't have APIs or have very poor APIS.
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World's cheapest smartphone costs $5 and doesn't seem terrible
Just curious on binder specific here. I could never got it to work out-of-the-box. In this example, it gave me "ImportError: No module named 'seaborn'" error. Now I could do something like !sudo pip install seaborn but still... Did you guys have same experience?
The screenshot in https://github.com/jflesch/paperwork/wiki/File-import suggests that paperwork can import already scanned files.
How does this "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful"?

I'll be disappointed if there isn't some ulterior motive at play. Some in this thread have pointed out they stand the collect more customer information or they may potentially have a use-case for drones.
To be honest, I really like the approach of network blocking. If you strip everything bad from that product and leave just the interactive firewall - it's great! Mainly because it's a whitelist rather than blacklist - so you need to spend time configuring it, but then it really does the right thing.

Or at least tries to... does windows security expose the actual network connection hooks to personal firewalls, or do they have to fight for dll hooks in the same way as malware?
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Looking at the numbers on a single repository website will give you lousy data. You can see the same thing on Github: it became popular with the Ruby community, so Ruby is one of the most popular languages there.

Open source websites are also problematic because they don't capture what a lot of businesses are doing (which is Java, the replacement for COBOL).
> Does this not basically say that javascript is still being used but people are opting to use transpiled siblings?

It sounds like it. So in the grand scheme I guess JS is still growing, except that it's increasingly not written directly. While it's useful to look at TypeScript & Co. somewhat separately, it makes little sense to treat them as completely separate and conclude that JS is now shrinking.
I think the two parties need to hold a meeting and make some agreements in the future because more and more personal information or activities will be saved on the phone. The number of conflicts between Apple and the government will keep increasing. People need to find out the point of balance.
South Korea is a dictatorship, under-developed country (even less developed than North Korea) before 1980s.

One major reason North Korea is shit today is because Soviet fail and international embargo.
There is no explicit right to privacy in the Constitution. Some of Scalia's rulings happen to favor privacy while others do not. For example, he also said the Miranda ruling is judicial overeach, so in his view, you have rights (privacy or otherwise) only if you know about them ahead of time. Roe v. Wade established precedent for an implicit right to privacy interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Scalia has said that interpretation is wrong.
This is crazy, I had this idea like 1 month ago and I thought I will find some free time to make this happen by the end of this month, I guess I should thank you :)
Nice story by the way :)
I'm late to the thread but just wanted to say THANK YOU for all the hard work in general; and especially now for this:

"iTerm2 can change your profile (for example, affecting the color of your terminal) when you ssh to a remote host, when you run sudo, or even depending on your current directory."

Like many people, I use profiles mostly to have different colors for different hosts. This will make my workflow a little easier and a lot more consistent Every. Single. Day.

Köszönöm!
How would a backdoor look? Some secret additional encryption key capable of unlocking the encrypted data?

Such a key exists, and it is whatever key Apple uses to sign the iOS updates. Only Apple can sign a new iOS release, so only Apple can update the code to remove all security features. This looks a lot like a backdoor to me, just that the implementation hasn't been written. But all you really would need, in theory, is the signing key.
I built something like this myself using a Raspberry Pi: http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2014-08/23-paper_backup_1_sca...
That may be true but seems like Zenefits did not really focus on product building. Otherwise these kind of incidences should not be happening (customer details getting ‘lost’)..

Arroyo, who runs the Los Angeles software agency, made Zenefits his company’s health insurance broker in 2014. He experienced a string of minor problems at first, he said — annoyances like an inability by Zenefits reps to explain a mysterious charge on his insurance bill. Then, last fall, he was told he would have to submit to a random audit by his insurance carrier. He gave his information to Zenefits, trusting that it would make its way to the carrier.

“A week or two later, I got a letter saying I wasn’t compliant, and our insurance had been canceled,” he said. Zenefits, he said, “never gave me an answer of what happened. They just said, ‘Oh, it must have gotten lost somewhere.’” Arroyo dropped Zenefits in December.
This is standard British (also Australian, NZ) humour. Make fun of yourself, if it's slightly hurtful so much the better.

Example, which I'd not seem before: https://youtu.be/taTSxDVEHRM
Hey Avi,

I'll try to be concise:

- There is no performance penalty.
- We can do hardware profiling prior to installation/upgrade to
guarantee capabilities as defined in the system requirements
for an application.
- Updates are applied in a "rolling" fashion with rollbacks in
case of a failure.
- No, I am afraid we cannot not do 24x7x100% the application needs
to be designed to deliver this.

Happy to dive into the details. Your profile doesn't have an email address listed, ping me at ev@gravitational.com!
In this context, comply means "cooperate with the courts" or "do what the courts ask."
That pretty much answers it. I had no idea about the exchange, which alleviates most of my concerns. Thanks a lot
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I've had serious anxiety issues and meditation has been the only thing to help significantly. I've spent ~1.5 hours/day meditating for the past six months or so, and I've studied meditation literature pretty seriously for about the past year.

At least in my case—and I think this isn't so unusual—there is a steep learning curve: for most people there's just not enough reason to stick with it. That said, at this point I can hardly imagine something more worthwhile. After acquiring some facility with it, my everyday experience with life feels more substantial—more 'real.' There's a kind of energy, curiosity, and enthusiasm that now often presents itself which I hadn't seen in a long time—maybe since I was ~22 or so (I'm 30 now). I also feel way less need to do things like smoke/drink, and have a restored sense of smell and taste. If you've felt like the world's turned grey at some point, give it a try.

This is my favorite source of info on the subject—very substantial content, yet light and even entertaining at times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEw2mHpVv9A
There's a difference between individual consumers and corporate customers. Microsoft profits most from the "small and medium business" sector.
Subjunctive tense. Since it is still not known whether they will comply or not, the verb is unconjugated. Writing "it complies" would be confusing. It's highly proper grammar and not used in everyday spoken speech and not used all the time in most written speech, but since this is more formal and written, it's used. It's one thing the NYT gets right.
That time I had to call a lot of SOAP APIs. Not Java SOAP, but .NET SOAP. There's a difference and I regret having had to know what it was.
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The adversarial nature of integrating with payroll, insurance, and healthcare providers does not help when it comes to building such systems. Everyone is mistrustful and there are no APIs or SLAs to speak of. So I agree that Zenefits can and should do more to smooth out the wrinkles in the system as much as possible and dropping the ball is not cool. Even large company payroll and insurance systems go awry more frequently than you'd think would be acceptable. My paycheck at pretty large companies has been adjusted more than a few times because of "clerical" errors in ADP or the in-house integration component. There have also been a few times where my insurance paperwork has been lost in the sea of other paperwork and I've had to reach out to HR to get things fixed.

Go around and ask people how much they like ADP and Trinet. Chances are you'll find more than a few customers that hate them with a passion. Not just because of clerical errors like the ones I mentioned but because of how bloated and error prone their products are. I recently had to change my address in the ADP online portal and I couldn't do it. I had to reach out to both their customer support and my previous employer to get them to change a single text field.
> Of the $77.8 billion revenue Microsoft generated in its 2013 financial year, China, Brazil, and Russia each "exceeded" $1 billion

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-naked-pcs-lay-bare-microsof...
This is a really common experience. See Explainers Shoot High, Aim Low!: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kh/explainers_shoot_high_aim_low/

>We miss the mark by several major grades of expertise. Aiming for outside academics gets you an article that will be popular among specialists in your field. Aiming at grade school (admittedly, naively so) will hit undergraduates. This is not because your audience is more stupid than you think, but because your words are far less helpful than you think. You're way way overshooting the target. Aim several major gradations lower, and you may hit your mark.

This phenomenon has a name, the Illusion of Transparency: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ke/illusion_of_transparency_why_no_o...

Also see some of the other posts there on the issue, it's quite interesting.
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For those of you who consider meditation a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, I get it, for I felt (and sometimes still feel) the same way. But let me try to phrase meditation in the terms I understand it as.

We often find ourselves in stressful or difficult situations, we are constantly bombarded by external worries, and we think it is difficult to deal with our problems. However, no matter how big external issues are, the way that we ultimately interpret these problems is up to our mind. At times we might find a dark joke about death incredibly funny, and at other times it may make us cry. Meditation takes a break from dealing with these interpretations of the world for a moment (instead concentrating on something basic like breathing) and in doing so, gives us a way to acknowledge the fact that our interpretations of the world are all in our head. So even if we can't extend full control over them, these thoughts and feelings are still ours and we might have some influence over them, and it turns out even briefly having this feeling can affect your mind in the long term.

A side effect of meditating is that you might learn to replicate the sense of "stepping outside the situation" even outside of meditation, allowing you to relax and consider the big picture rationally in intense moments in which you might've been originally felt too caught up "in the moment".
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I think you're probably right - it should be "... requiring it to comply" or "... requiring that it complies".

The original is not very wrong though - I don't think most native English people would even notice.
I've played Civilization 1 and 2 and Alpha Centauri when I was a kid, kind of liked 3 and 4 even more, but they were not such a big deal for me anymore. Had a long pause I didn't play at all, and then picked up the fifth installment with the Brave New World DLC. And oh my, how good that is... I really recommend to get the game with that DLC, it adds very important aspects to the game, like religion, tourism, trade routes and the world congress. For the first time ever the cultural victory is super fun to play, no need to fight wars if you don't want to.

Now I have the Beyond Earth with Rising Tide waiting for me, but that game doesn't scale that nicely to my television... And oh, btw, Civilization 5 played with the Steam Controller comfortably from the sofa is a very nice experience.
Given the powers and size of the national security budget and the NSAs in particular, why do they need Apple? Shouldnt the NSA be able to crack this on their own?

Kinda makes ya wonder what all that moneys spent on...
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Sad irony that this highly relevant comment got buried in downvotes.
The FBI isn't asking for Apple to give them the update to apply themselves. They're asking for Apple to apply the update. To brute force another phone, the FBI will have to go back to Apple.
> the country's taxi market to a foreign led/managed/owned company? LOL

You really think Uber China is Uber? LOL. It's managed, operated, financed by a Shanghai based independent company called 雾博 infotech.
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Asciinema could also be a useful way to present the example.

https://asciinema.org/
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They are capable of unlocking the phone. There is no philosophical question about this, as they have the knowledge and the ability and the authority.

That it might take some expertise and effort is not really relevant - some is required in any case even if the firmware already existed, so its just a matter of scale. For example I know several people who could not update a phone firmware without supervision, and probably some who could at a stretch (given massive time and resources) reverse engineer it. Apple firmly occupy the sweet spot in this range, they have the secret knowledge that would otherwise have to be reproduced and it would be a bit of effort to build on this but not huge. Changing a bit of code [to remove the delay] and rebuilding a binary image is not a complicated task for their engineers, it is likely something they do all the time.

Personally, I think they should just do it if they are legally compelled to do so. They have done in the past and this is an older device and in 5 years the issue will be moot, as any firmware they create now would be useless.
JavaScript is immature compared to Java
Uh wait - there is a Java Magazine?? Editorials on just java? Mind blown.
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Thanks for the link. I'm excited that Crohns seems to be an area with promising active research so we might have it solved in the next few decades. For me personally, as my condition is only mild / moderate, I believe I should be able to get it under control without the more experimental methods, although will always consider them when appropriate. Between my father (who is a doctor) and my mother (who is ... open minded), no potential treatment seems to go unanalysed in my household.
Thanks, that's helpful. Did you study meditation by yourself and if so, is there a book/manual that you would recommend?

I frequently spend long moments in silence "doing" nothing, but thinking about a lot of things; when I try to not think, I tend to fall asleep quite rapidly; I wonder how to not think and yet not sleep...?
Yeah, so it is PR to re-surface that content exactly when the wheels are falling off.
This a very stable version of Implementation of Persistent Queue.
Actually, this is a data structure which is deployed in enterprise environment for a long period. I am very confident about this JAR. Don't bother to raise BUGs to challenge!
Well, they'd arguably need the certificate that Apple uses for signing updates. That's well-protected, I trust.

There's also the issue that Apple software is closed-source. But that's presumably less problematic.
> they cannot use many of iOS features like Apple Pay

Joke's on you, China is the 5th country has Apple Pay. Earlier than most European countries.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/17/apple-pay-goes-live-in-chin...

it's confirmed you can withdraw cash from ATM using Apple Pay in China if your UnionPay card has Quickpass enabled.

Rumor says 38 million UnionPay cards added to Apple Pay devices In the first 24 hours.
China and Russia already have this ability. They use it to make iCloud data requests. In what way is that different? If a government is too shady to deal with, Apple has the option of not doing business in that country, which is what those countries would enforce if Apple didn't comply.

The other option is to make security that even Apple can't circumvent. They might have achieved this with their newer phones, but it has now become clear that they did not with the iPhone 5C.
I had the idea a month ago too. I even started working on this yesterday but got distracted. Thought I would do it today, but woke up to see this. This is even crazier.
> Is there a way to make a previously hidden iTerm window show without also bringing any other iTerm windows to the front?

HyperDock[1] Lets you do that.

[1] https://bahoom.com/hyperdock/
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Not only was Zenefits doing lots of manual work behind the scenes, but also was the quality of that work incredibly poor.

Personal anecdote:
Enrolled for health insurance through the Zenefits portal. Waited a few weeks for my insurance information in the mail. Eventually I got an insurance card for someone with a different name and gender, but with my address, phone number and even social security number! I even got the insurance nurse hotline calling me for this person, but not for me. It took Zenefits 2+ months to correct this data entry issue.

Another anecdote:
The insurance plans we had selected with our account rep were different from the ones offered through the Zenefits portal. We assumed these were the same, but employees were actually enrolling for worse plans than we had thought.

Account managers were generally very unresponsive, then again - we were just a small startup (but with very simple, standard needs).
hilariously, I'm British/Australian, so perhaps I've been overexposed to it.
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I don't know if that's true. Say we lived in a world where those regulations didn't exist and the fraud risk was on par with what it is today. If one bank introduced their own fraud protection program, wouldn't they basically capture 90% of the market overnight?
Why does San Francisco seem to have such a huge homeless problem?
If it's about Apple, some key detail will always get jacked up by a journalist like Shane Harris of 'the daily beast', trying to translate it for the public.

Report is extremely misleading and an example of bad journalism.
From
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

> Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories.

Also http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html
> interpretations of the world are all in our head

I don't think most people are stressed because of "interpretations" of the world rather than very real problems like paying the bills and terrible working conditions.
> If this is considered a back door, then everything that will accept signed updates has that same backdoor, which is a lot of things.

Yes.

So.. we should think about that and make it so that the keys are stored in a box which cannot be broken into. I think Apple have been working on this, but it is not clear that they are yet successful.
[..] please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Insurance is for if someone suffers losses because a valid certificate was issued to someone it shouldn't have been.
Whoever employs the core team, controls the project. For a while that was Oracle.
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Thank you! We live to learn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive