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Terry Tao's a mathematician and he seems to think their ideas are interesting:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/biases-between-con...
>> But biometrics cannot, and absolutely must not, be used to authenticate an identity.

I understand where the author is coming from, but as someone who did their phd in biometrics it also comes across as a fundamental misunderstanding of what a biometric does. A biometric 100% authenticates identity - even if only used as a username. This is because a biometric is both a username and a password.
Actually a couple feet of separation is sufficient to get significant drafting aerodynamics going on. See, for example, the distance that bikers can draft behind a truck, or cyclists slipstreaming in the Tour de France, or drivers in Nascar or birds flying in a V.
I hated the writing style of Wired guys. The blog from Dropbox is much more clear: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastr...
Seems to be one of those HN posts with a lot of negativity and little constructive criticism.

I on the other hand immediately see a large niche market...lawyers/law firms. For example, here in Florida the Bar issued an ethics advisory opinion that deters lawyers from using cloud services altogether. The opinion calls out some cloud services by name, and specifically "noted a flurry of concern recently over Dropbox".

If you are interested in talking about the legal market send me a note.
Yeah that would be awesome! We actually have a very high powered version too that we just released:

- 8 Core XEON
- 128 GB RAM
- up to 50TB of storage with 250GB SSD cache
- still passively cooled

https://protonetinc.com/lp/protonet-launches-new-model-priva...

edit: if you know anyone that'd like to try that setup - drop us a line - we'd love to help out!
I dunno, it's a weak argument, but bad guys can't put effort into attacking that which they don't know exists either.
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Even if Microsoft was just tired of having to ask the user for every little thing, there is a gulf between “ask the user if he or she wants to update” and “auto-install multi-gigabyte blob that changes everything, over a data plan that we don’t pay for, affecting users in dozens of ways that we cannot possibly know in advance” (as Microsoft has now chosen to do).

Microsoft could have started really small with this, even updating a single app. There is no non-marketing reason to simultaneously change massive amounts of software. And since it is now clear that parts of Windows 10 really are half-baked (like duplicate settings panels), there are clearly some things that should have waited for a later update, once there was time to finish them.

And you know, Microsoft has made billions and billions from software so frankly they do not get to screw around here. Nobody with that much money and that many engineers should get an ounce of sympathy for being so incompetent. They needed to start by doing a lot less, with a lot more care and attention.
OK, I said "tiling" instead of "window management", I should have been more precise but instead opted to use the same language the parent used. Coldtea claimed that the name tmux was a reference to "multiple sessions, kept open, switching between them, persisting", which I interpret as all the non-window-manager functionality — the attach/detach ability that makes tmux attractive for use on remote machines where the connection might die and you don't want to lose your processes.
How would I solve it without parking n number of aliases which are now forever unavailable for anyone else to use?

You could do what I do and just create a separate google email address (mine literally has the word spam in it) that feeds into your primary Gmail but goes straight to all mail and is marked as read by default.

It is funny when some websites reject my email address because the word spam in the address. Perhaps Google could make this process simpler by allowing autogenerated email addresses that feed into the real primary email without the user having to create a second email address. I think this would benefit Google as the user data isn't scattered around in multiple Google accounts.

So for example I can request a new alias and Google would make one like ezJVoWkJFBPvMm98xhOUsi7X52l06RNblLXhhCFse3nwdkpCW7VUkIO7zgJqQDd at gmail Dot com and forward that to my real email address. If I ever respond to any email that came to that address, make it look like my email address is that string above.

Now since it is just a random 63 (or longest allowed by Google) char alias that the user didn't choose, it is unlikely that it will be anything someone wants as their email address.

Is this along the lines of what you were thinking?
All I meant by "special case" was that "mod 30" isn't the whole story -- more like the most significant correction on top of what the OP said, with other smaller corrections possible, and the entire set of corrections being described by the k-tuple conjecture.

It's amazing how people can be picky and negative on HN. Someone positive would instead congratulate me for making the gist of what the prime k-tuple conjecture says about the biases easily understandable. Oh well.
> Clearly what they did before didn't work, and now they are trying something else

Erm no, they're trying the exact same thing even harder. The top of the economy is awash in capital with nowhere to go, while the bottom has to run ever faster on the debt treadmill. Creating even more debt that funnels wealth upwards is obviously the solution <g>.
That will work until they make KB3035583 "Important" again.

Basically, the way they're going, it's only a matter of time before Win 7 & 8 basically don't work anymore.
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Upgrading to Windows 10 from 7 requires a single button click after opening the upgrade reminder in the task bar.

Dismissing the upgrade reminder is impossible and requires a registry edit:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351

Microsoft is a disgusting company, and I hope they are fully aware how much social capital this has eroded.
"Wait so 'criticising government policies' is now grounds to classify a high school student as an extremist?"

They are afraid of the masses waking up see here:

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Now it's more 10 hours work, 2 hours commute, 5 hours recreation (read: cooking, cleaning), 7 hours sleep
the system will disengage and tell you to steer manually

Does it make a sound like this when it disengages?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XxEFFX586k
Haha actually that is the case! I need to use Unity and the latest Linux build[1] doesn't yet have all of the features like in the latest version 5.3.3 for Windows/OSX. It's still experimental but now that I think of it... I might not need all of the features in the latest release, hmmm.

Also I need Remote Desktop Connection to do some contract work. I know other non-Windows remote desktop applications exist but I'm currently stuck with what their IT department will give me. :)

EDIT: Thinking more about the remote desktop connection. I could just use a Windows VM on Linux. Dang, that never crossed my mind before.

[1] http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/08/26/unity-comes-to-linux-exp...
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You have to understand the basic differences between Windows and Linux. The way Libraries are installed in Windows is different from Linux. For one there is a registry in Windows and Linux stores things in directories and text files:
http://superuser.com/questions/295635/linux-equivalent-of-wi...

Windows is closed source and changes how things work without informing others because some APIs are hidden. Linux is open source and they share all API calls and etc.

So there might not be an apt-get for Windows because of the way it is designed is different from that of Linux.
It's not an unexpected property to me. In particular, I would never have assumed an even distribution of last digit of primes. I'm not sure why this is so magical. It's only so if you assumed it should be evenly distributed to begin with, and there's no particular reason I can think of why this would be so.
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In this example, you probably don't use zlib or libpng or SDL or libcurl or GMP. Your application targets a version of the .NET framework and you use System.IO.Compression, System.Windows.Media.Imaging, DirectX, and whatever the .NET equivalents are for your curl use case and GMP. You might use NuGet to find alternative packages to add to your solution - you are authoring in Visual Studio - for some or all of this. DirectX looks tricky.

Or, if you insist on writing 'unmanaged code,' you are probably finding similar capabilities in native libraries distributed with Windows; it's DirectX's natural environment. Otherwise, you're responsible for doing as you suggest: downloading/compiling the various libraries and stashing them in a nominated area for use by your build toolchain.

Also there's always msys2/mingw64, which does have a package manager (pacman I think?) and you woudl then distribute the necessary runtimes with your program.
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Why is avoiding "money laundering" (whose modern legal incarnation can apparently be trace to the misguided days of Prohibition) a laudable goal? As far as I can see, the concept amounts to inventing a new crime to force third parties such as banks to help law enforcement do its job of preventing and/or punishing actual crimes. In doing so, it undermines the fungibility of money, makes the financial system more costly / less efficient, and leads to systematic persecution of and inconvenience for people innocent of any crime (e.g. those who get into legal hot water for "structuring transactions").

The whole idea should be scrapped.
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What a weird title for this. He doesn't even say that that actually happened, just that you can override your firmware to make the delete button not work.
I knew somebody would mention this. OK, there IS something that can be done, but I believe it only works if you do it while you're young.
It is amazing what a generation of brain washing and isolation can do to the perspective of a nation. Amazing to hear a quarter of the population is mentally deficient due to malnutrition, no wonder they believe the world is in awe of their accomplishments. I chuckled when I read they believe payments form other nations (International Aid) are their spoils from war.

Topographically what a beautiful country, I hope some day the North Koreans are afforded an opportunity at freedom.
So your answer should have been "ML" :p
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I think, somewhere in all this, one has to read between the lines.

Young kids, while still in high school, might be terrified of mom and dad finding their secret social media profiles, but otherwise they're very active, downright sloppy, and probably not mindful of carrier-grade government tier national/international surveillance.

Are they enabling full disk encryption? Are they hardening their passwords? Are they even remotely secretive beyond their immediate social spheres?

This means it's a huge, ripe fruit, full of vital information, and eager to be plucked.

So they intend to pull as much data as possible, pre-emptively, so that there's something to mine. Just in case, later on, maybe something will eventually prove useful.

So many other age groups are too savvy now. Ruined by revelations, cautious and jaded to the fact that convenience means naked exposure of identity. But in time their ways will sunset, as they grow old, and are put out to pasture.

Those who are young now... well... it's already too late.
In love digital ocean but they are apples and oranges to aws. Pretty much all they have IIRC is the equivalent of ec2, elastic ips and pseudo snapshots (you must reboot). So not really a fair comparison. It's HARD to explain all the myriad aws services let alone make clear and intuitive client sdks.
This is economics, not physics. Since we have institutions like the Fed and "fiscal policy" (where and if it differs from "government spends more money NOW") you cannot have a widely accepted economic theory without influencing the economy.

Two things immediately come up when looking at economic theories:

1) a LOT of them (the ones "followed") are "by" high-level Fed officials. Biggest example: Keynesianism.

2) They all seem to have the same conclusions (government needs to spend more, either directly or through the fed or finance dept)

3) because these people want to but can't be bothered to manage an economy (meaning hundreds of thousands of small companies) they massively advantage large corps over everyone else.
In case anybody was wondering, your C compiler almost certainly will not generate different assembly code for ++x and x++. (This is easy enough to test if you have a compiler handy.)
The only problem with that is that Windows 10 is, from a privacy perspective, a downgrade from 7 and 8. Many people are not fond of the UI changes, either, and of course Windows Store is just utter shit, as well.
Haha, sorry about that. I forgot about game dev :O
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A writeup from LWN for those who prefer text:

https://lwn.net/Articles/660428/
Not a bad looking case they sell for it and the pi

http://store.wdc.com/store/wdus/en_US/DisplayAccesoryProduct...
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That's not an apples to apples comparison. Old age happens to ALL women - and ALL women are young at some point, thus it doesn't affect any one individual adversely. Short stature only affects SOME men, and is a huge disadvantage throughout life to the individual.
That definition doesn't apply any better to the attach/detach functionality of tmux than the window management functionality, so you're going to have to use a more flexible definition than that for the term to ever apply to tmux.

A USB hub multiplexes a USB port by making it so that multiple USB devices can be connected to the same port and all pretend that they're the only ones connected to it.

The Ogg container format multiplexes a bitstream so that multiple timecoded media streams can be streamed through the same data channel and pretend that they're the only things going through it.

An preemptive-multitasking OS kernel multiplexes the CPU so that multiple processes can run on the cpu and all pretend that they're the only ones on it

A terminal multiplexer multiplexes the terminal so that multiple processes can output to the terminal and all pretend that they're the only ones using it.

That describes the window management functions of tmux.
$4 Trillion dollars between 2008 and 2014 added to the Fed's balance sheet, coupled with zero percent interest rates afforded to the Special Few who were able to take out loans and sell bonds to buy back stocks to drive up the price per share, definitely caused the stock market to go up.

The stock market is not the economy...
I would like to learn more about the techniques used here. Can anyone recommend some books, or online materials but I generally find those worse. I have a moderately strong math background (undergraduate degree with double major in CS/Math).
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I see everyone here complaining about the hardware, but isn't the real product here the hardware bundled with the software(SOUL)?
I agree with you, but let's play devil's advocate here. How many attempted terrorist attacks were stopped? That 30 might've been 31 or 30,000,000. We'll never know for sure for two reasons:

1. Anything that could remotely reveal a method of surveillance wouldn't be included in these numbers

2. It's pretty hard to define an "attempted" attack - a lot of attempts might be thwarted in the planning, etc... What about something that wasn't intended to stop a group, but did? Or maybe an underground group that wasn't being monitored, how do we know the gov't stopped them?
Gruber brought up how in Apple Maps, if you suggest a correction, you are eventually informed when the fix is made.

However, with Radar, it is just a blackhole. You file your report and an awful lot of bugs, no matter how well written or even if they have example code, they will never hear back again about it.

He said that this was a negative feedback loop because developers will end up submitting less bugs because of this lack of communication.

Craig said that they aren't where they want to be with the "external interface" of Radar. They use Radar heavily internally but they face challenges with Radar and the general public.

He expressed that the Radars are read, but then the process is usually that they are duped with some internal Radar issue. Then they struggle with how to externally communicate what release a particular bug will be fixed in, or to make particular promises about certain bugs, etc.

But he reiterated that they had really fallen short on providing a good tool with feedback for the general public.
It's not a binary difference between learned and untaught. Many people have taken calculus classes and probably not enjoyed any lasting insight, either because the teaching was bad, or there were too many other subjects swimming around their mind at time. Or never taken a class but developed a surface familiarity with the main ideas. These types of tutorial could be useful for them.
True, though it's usually not worth the hassle. Most production implementations of quicksort just drop down to heapsort for the current sub-array if the stack gets too deep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort
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As the lead developer of the Slack Windows app, this move is absolutely phenomenal for me. Win7 is a huge proportion of our support tickets and causes us no end of grief.

To put what these Windows users are doing in perspective, Windows users are holding onto an OS that was released at the same time as OS X 10.6, and not only doing it, but demanding that developers support this version. If you asked any Cocoa developer to support Snow Leopard, they'd laugh you out of the room.
i don't want to be a debbie downer because i like the raspberry pi too, but this article looks like a Press Release fluff piece. They link to 'prnewswire' and the whole thing seems like an SEO gimmick.
"If so, how exactly do VCs verify work history?"

I'd guess they'd verify work history the same way that potential employers would:

- Contact the applicant's past employers listed on their resume. HR departments will generally confirm an ex-employee's job title(s) and dates of employment (but not much else).

- Contact the applicant's references. If you worked at a big tech company, it's possible that the VC knows your reference or knows someone who knows them.
No, this is how banks have worked for hundreds of years. Regulations and (especially) insurance have now made this much safer.
Weird they don't show for me. I even went back and looked again. Still no watercolors. Using Safari and feeling stupid now.
There are many cloud hosting providers and they are competing intensely.

AWS marginal cost increase for supporting Dropbox is far below the cost of Dropbox building and maintaining their own solution.

Given these facts they should be able to negotiate a far better price/cost than their current solution of building it in-house.

There is nothing unique about their requirements which justify this move. It's a really weird decision. Probably we're missing something here. This must be part of some larger strategy they are executing.
The goal of a trial is to eliminate other possible explanations for the phenomenon in question. You take a large sample, and randomly assign people to groups, so all the idiosyncratic variations average out.

With only one person per group, you can't eliminate many possible reasons for their differing life spans: one may have caught a disease the other was not exposed to, they may have had different nutrition, different amounts of exercise, different habits, a zillion other things.

After all, do other twins die at exactly the same time? No. They die years apart for many other reasons. Unless this twin experiment could eliminate all those possible reasons, it shows us nothing about coffee specifically.
It force-upgraded me and I declined the terms when it finally booted up, it rebooted and went back to W7 luckily working correctly but with un-closable popups everywhere demanding I either install W10 now or schedule an update within a week or so.

Microsoft has taken to installing malware on our machines using their update mechanism and signing keys; I'd delete their cert if it were feasible. I think the CFAA is broad enough to make this a felony if this has bricked machines/destroyed data (apparently it has), it certainly should be illegal. If I were running the machine in a medical system someone could have died.
That's it, I'm out.

As soon as I save up enough money I'm moving to Iceland while I still can.
Turing created computers to decypher German U-boat codes.  Why deny encryption?
Cypher and encryption methods are certainly not the same thing, but they are related.

It strikes me as odd that today, after roughly 65 years of existence, some of our civil servants are in denial about one of the core concepts that saved lives and contributed to victory during World War II.

As technologists, we've always known encrypted communications were possible. We didn't know when. A combination of a) fast, wireless internet, b) everyone having interface devices in their pockets, and c) math have enabled encrypted communications.

On the other hand, the layperson, particularly those in law enforcement who are blinded by their desire to catch criminals, is only just now beginning to understand encryption.

They are misrepresenting the facts of the situation because they do not understand something so fundamental to computers that it is directly related to the reason computers exist. Obama, the executive branch, and law enforcement have a lot of catching up to do.
Just anecdotally : I have my grandmother, brother, and his mother on Kubuntu, and my mother on Lubuntu. So far, the most updates anyone has gone through is 3 (my mother went from 10.04 to 12.04 to 14.04 and soon 16.04) and we have never had an issue. Oh, and you get to chose when to do the upgrades rather than having them backdoored on you.

Desktop Linux works fine for regular people. They aren't going to go digging in the terminal to brick their own computer. Show them the software center and that their app store uses things online called apt links and anyone with a smartphone understands it fine.
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I love how scifi this looks. Ordered one, thanks.
While this is what they're told, it's not necessarily what they believe. In the socialist eastern europe people have been regularly told lies on the radio / TV. Most people knew. And others knew they knew. That doesn't mean the propaganda stopped.

Lots of old movies, songs, comedy shows, etc. referenced that fact subtly, and often they managed to get it through the censorship.