skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet, millions of homes have this or worse sitting as their only gatekeeper into their networks.

Which is why computer OSs should start treating these as the potential hostile devices they are. None of this "trusted network" nonsense, no unencrypted or unauthenticated connections between devices on the same LAN, etc.
Iridium NEXT satellites, to be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, will be hosting Aireon’s ADS-B payloads.

http://aireon.com/2016/06/01/harris-completes-production-of-...
> What they've always said is that they need to invest in all the companies that might be winners, knowing that many of them will turn out to be losers, and that in order to ensure they got all the promising companies in their portfolio, they need to be highly founder-friendly.

The key phrase here is "all the promising companies". This is the same as "I will bet on the promising horses". It's not a novel strategy.

And how are the promising companies selected? Either a16z selects them, in which case they are trying to pick winners, taking me back to my caricature from earlier. Or they base it on a shotgun approach, selecting anyone who shows up. Then the selection function becomes "which jockey thinks they have the race-winning horse?", which is just another variant of picking winners.

I bounced up and down the long (and very interesting, thank you) interview looking for something more. The closest I found to a thorough explanation was this:

> So, basically, here's the way to think about it in the math. There's about 4000 startups a year, [?] a year, that want to raise venture capital. Of those, maybe 400 will get funded by top venture capital firms. Of those, about 15 will be responsible for over 90% of the profits for that entire year of companies.

Which turned into a conversation about Google which I found myself nodding along to. Then:

> And so it's one of the things, again it goes back to what's humbling about what we do, is--it's limits of knowledge. There are real limits to what you can know. Which, by the way, means that if you are going to operate in the field and if your requirement for investing in something or backing something or going to work for something is you are going to know for sure that it is received[?], you are never going to do anything. There is no return above the risk.

Which is a much more reasonable position.

So now I'm wondering if my whole recollection really is based on the initial publicity.

> dang is right to point out that you're capable of much better.

This gives me flashbacks to every school report I ever got. I'm capable of better and worse. It generally depends on the weather that follows me around.
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I will be honest, I run a small web community of about 20,000 users, so it's different than hardware/firmware updates for potentially mission critical systems... That said, the reason I haven't implemented tighter security practices isn't so much a response to cost-benefit analysis. My users simply haven't made a lot of noise demanding more strict password tolerances, identity verification, or SSL. I have a limited amount of time I can apply to the demands of the community, 'more security' rarely if ever comes up.
Those icons don't change unless a certain percentage of the overall count of instances in an AZ or region are affected.

Most of the time people here might be seeing good portions of their infra go away, but the number isn't statistically significant to the overall region health for them to post an outage.

Don't ask me what those numbers are, but that is the way it is determined.
You may want to do something about the formatting of the XML messages, they seem to be truncated at the moment.
In retrospect, "espouse" is a loaded word. Let's pretend I said "advocate".
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I just removed Messenger in favor of the Facebook Lite app, which can be found on APK mirror sites if Google Play doesn't offer it. There does seem to be a significant improvement in idle battery drain.
One thing I really hated about living in an apartment was that the landlord would show up twice a year with very little warning to inspect the fire alarms etc. As a security person, having all the keys to my home and neighbors homes sitting in a nearby office wasn't very reassuring of my safety or privacy.

The bank on the other hand doesn't care what you do with your alarms or anything else as long as their payments keep showing up.
You might want to check out Deis [0], which is supported and - as far as I know - used by Engine Yard. Also deployed at several other orgs including Mozilla.

[0] http://deis.io/
You should never trust the network; firmware updates should have to be cryptographically signed and validated against a pinned certificate to be accepted.
You should see my full write-up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906999

I went into detail on what it takes on hardware side:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468624
The implication seemed to be that Nextstep required some inherently expensive hardware to run which it didn't. If in some parallel universe Microsoft had come up with Nextstep, they could have launched it as 'Windows 95'.
Thanks for explaining that aspect of it to me!

I'll do some homework, and keep plugging along on learning Rust.

My interest would be in Cuda programming with Rust instead of C.
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this is the one slot i have to hire a person for at least the next six months to help me prop up my project. i usually have an hour to try to figure out whether we are going to be able to work together productively and whether this person has the knowledge and the inclination to do that, or really anything.

so we can get up at the whiteboard and solve a problem or two together, and i can see how this person works, or we can chat about their personal situation and trade jokes. what does this non-technical interview really accomplish?

it's not a test. this isn't school. i want to see your exposed thought processes and make a very mercantile decision. if that offends you then i probably dont want to work with you anyways. if you are a programmer then it really shouldn't bother you at all to spend time working through fictional problems.

and if they are hard enough, its usually pretty fun for both of us.
You should definitely set up SSL/TLS for your web site. Let's Encrypt lets you easily do that.
(Sarcastically) So thats why those ads started taking over the gradient outer part of the page for me " Thanks a lot FB
I find there's a pervasive hardware culture that's at odds with both software and security cultures.

Hardware culture involves designing it once, testing it once, setting up the supply chain and production line once, and from then on it's just quality control and marketing: totally a fire-and-forget weapon.

That means in a hardware dominated organization, where you sell hardware, revenue is in terms of units sold. Anything else is fixed overhead which detracts from the R. All those once-s above have moved on to other projects or they were short term contractors anyway.
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But they also were emailing - I got like five emails for my personal projects warning me that things were changing. Plus it was reported in the tech press:

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/17/instagram-new-api-change...

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/just-instagram/

I'm really not sure what more people expect instagram to do.
Beta means what you think alpha means. Alpha means that some features are done, but others aren't, and the entire application is still subject to change.
Why Housing Is About to Eat the US Economy
That used to be a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole#Prisoners_of_war
Until you've had to kill people yourself, seen the results, and lived with yourself afterwards, I don't think you have anything to say about what someone else has been in that situation and decided not to kill that day.
The mortgage interest is deductible, and for many people the one thing that makes it possible to itemize deductions rather than take the standard. That's an advantage that renting doesn't have, all else being equal.
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Inspired by this we made a guide to shell out from ruby in a safe way: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/develop... (on mobile and only seeing the GitHub link in Google)
There's also Laundroid announced last year that can supposedly fold your clothes without hanging it first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apeh4tjsgI
Pro-tip: if you're going to go this route, stick these lines in a file in sudoers.d as you're likely to end up with a lot of them, this will help make your config more readable.
Snowden is already so far down this road, I don't think he would accept anything that forced him to keep quiet. It's pretty clear that he doesn't value his own freedom over his beliefs.

And even if he agreed to not release any new information, that's not really what I meant. If he came back and did an interview on every talk show about what he thinks about the surveillance state, the current administration, whatever, that would make it a huge issue again. If you want it to go away, you need to keep him out of the country and out of the public eye.
What?! Do you fold your clothes? It burns about as many calories as watching TV and picking up the remote on commercial breaks...

Folding a week of laundry for 3 people takes about an hour. Reclaiming that time and doing actual exercise instead would work miracles.
The Asus version of the 2.6.22.19 Linux kernel has many, many backports, so a simple vuln search for vanilla Linux 2.6.22.19 will not yield pertinent results.
keep the deck at 10 slides..
Who is this basic income aimed at in Switzerland? Somehow I can't picture homeless people living on the streets of Bern but like anywhere else I'm sure there are homeless there people too.
Bitcoin lacks untraceability. USG implementing taxes for bitcoin will be relatively straightforward. KYC focus on exchanges, merchant wallet registration, and then a gradual tightening of the screws.
"They have no issue with their work being used..." Stop. Right there. Do not pass go do not collect $200 dollars. There is where you should have stopped.

People who write code and release it under a BSDL want people to use their code. ALL people! Users and business.
That is called freedom. You, whoever you may be, are free to use this code any way you see fit just don't sue me.
The GPL on the other hand hates proprietary software. Good for you. But keep in mind in your induced hatred of proprietary software, that it is usually proprietary software that innovates and pushes things forward. Free software developers are great. But they only work generally on things of interest to them. They don't solve the "hard" problems unless someone pays them too. Take ZFS. After fourty years of fs development what does OS have for FS's? Linux has btrfs? BSD is still using ffs, hammer maybe. That's really... Sad. It took millions of dollars and I don't even know how many man hours for sun to create ZFS.

Or the UI. Look at what Apple has had to spend and the time require to create the HIG and the UI for OS X. And yes I'm sure some OS jackasses are going to attempt to declare kde or gnome etc as equal or superior to the OS X UI. But that is plain flat out disingenuous. They are not even in the same ballpark. And the apple UI is far from perfect! And the OS UIs are light years behind it.

The point is the BSDL encourages everyone to use it. We believe in true freedom.

Will bad people do bad things with it? Probably, but that's inevitable in a FREE society. The GPL on the other hand tries to enforce it's imperialistic view of "freedom" by the barrel of a gun. Or if you don't want to share that flawed world view don't use our code. Which is fine, your free to hold that belief. But don't call it freedom and don't expect people who understand freedom not to call you on your bullshit either. The GPL is not free. It has stings attached to its use. Continuing to claim otherwise is disingenuous at best and outright lying at worst.

And i object to the wording "it's caring about users enough to not allow someone to take advantage of them by taking your work and giving them a proprietary version." This is absolute nonsense and bullshit Linux/GPL folks have been using for 20 years. You cannot make bsd licensed code proprietary. Period. What you can make proprietary is your own added value code on top of it. The original unmodified code is still free, still under the BSDL, still available for a user to take and use as he sees fit. The original code doesn't magically disappear to a land of unicorns and leprechauns the second someone forks it and modifies it in a proprietary way. That's simply untrue and disingenuous to keep vomitting that line.
Which standards would those be?
I'm generally against state surveillance, but how else would you properly tax?
It's quite common to have both bundled together when voting on ballot measures. In the East Bay there was recently a proposition to expand public transport via a temporary increase in sales tax called measure BB.
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And they usually pay royalties on said resources? Pay for rights to said resources? Trust me, we learned a long time ago how to extract $$$ for said resources.
> I don't care about the folding. I do care about the steaming. If I could steam it at home, that would be awesome

I often visit the comments first, but I typically take the time to at least skim the respective article before commenting:

"DE-WRINKLING

Get those pesky wrinkles removed using steam"
This is so compelling! I'd like to experience such a place.

However being from some part of this planet I googled a few keywords and came across this: https://www.vice.com/read/guide-to-european-racist-leagues

The website features a lot in HN so but I don't know about the quality of their journalism. Anyway, you never know till you try...
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Is it just me or does this look very sketchy/like vaporware? They start off clipping the shirts into those things and then they flip to a CGI render, suggesting they don't even have a working prototype, and yet they're already accepting "pre-orders." For a startup that was started in 2012 (and the founder is listed as one of the seed investors) this seems like worryingly little progress.
Yeah so I'm not sure first of all quoting theo or openbsd folks is adding value to your argument. They are known to be quite, how should I say this, on the extreme side of things.

And just because obsd holds this view that doesn't refute my statement. Illumos and FreeBSD are both OS and both are using it. So it is what it is.
Until it decides to completely fuck up your apache webserver config and you have to spend a whole day to properly configure your virtual hosts again.

I’ve done it twice, never again.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that the never-attribute line is dangerous and damaging.
This isn't satire? I thought I'd come to the comments to see comments about it.

It's a real potential product? The WSJ reviews like "I'm going to save up for the FoldiMate! That's what I am waiting for." is REAL?

...
"and on my hardware it caused the splitValue to be equal to point2"

The fix is the right one, but in C/C++, hardware is not what dictates rounding mode, the language implementation does, and that can be changed at runtime (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cfenv/fesetround/)

I think C/C++ default to 'round to nearest', with ties doing 'round to even'. Gnu libc certainly does (http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Rounding.h...)
The real-estate market in Geneva can be pretty daunting. Low supply, high demand, wary landlords...

* I wouldn't bother with France unless you're willing to drive and waste a lot of time in traffic jams. Annemasse is the exception, but it's pretty sketchy imho.

* On the other hand, living in the countryside can be a good option. Public transportation works better than if you cross the border, and biking to work can be reasonably doable.

* Living a bit further in Vaud, near a train station, is a good option too.

* Most apartments belong to estate companies (régies immobilières), not individual landlords. Contacting them directly is definitely the way to go.

* https://www.scrapeo.com (disclaimer: it's run by friends of mine, you can scroll down and see the websites they're scraping if you prefer).
So... Your argument is, if the thing taking your money provides you with some benefit it's moral?
I don't get why people would use functional programming for anything. It's both more difficult and slower.
One of the reasons why it was rejected, is because the supporters were slightly too idealistic. The elephant in the room is obviously, who would be eligible for the BI.

Most of the supporters and some of the initiators of the initiative, that I've spoken with, were strongly for a idealistic implementation, meaning everybody physically located in Switzerland would be eligible.
While the number one argument against a BI was that exactly this absolute unconditionality would be a recipe for a disaster, especially given the current migration situation in the EU.

The Swiss are notoriously risk averse, so any proposal that does not take into account any possible side effects, usually gets rejected with a margin just like this one.

To have a realistic chance of acceptance, I think the 'unconditional' needs to be dropped. Add a conditional on citizenship, flesh out the financing some more and just try again. The problem here is that a "national basic income" instantly catapults you politically very far right, even though it's a very leftist position.
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It's even simpler in Ontario: security/cleaning deposits are not allowed.
An assembler is usually C-typed and non-stack. If you want extra features, you're welcome to write a translator for higher level language - you just have an opportunity to use Forth as your target, not typical assembler. At the same time you can have top performance with a concatenative, dense language.

It doesn't mean Forth is most convenient to write for any kind of problems, or that translator can easier optimize for Forth target... yet this at least is an opportunity to have a nicer language on the bare-bones level. Do you think it's a good enough thing?
Indeed, that is an excellent feature.

Money transfers without the banks, but I can potentially get buy-in from my government and use it to pay my taxes (which I am happy to pay, because I am buying civilization with it)?

Sign me up!
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In other words, zero BS tolerance is not an excuse to just talk all the time.
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I used http://nightwatchjs.org/ as a library talk to selenium, but plethora of WebDriver wrapper rather confused me, than added value.

Btw, can you point me to some tutorial that teach you in 15 minutes from zero how to setup something that can change any url into a thumbnail screen shoot. You can do that with phantomjs:

brew install phantomjs

http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html

Maybe a selenium pro can do it quickly, but for me:

1. How to install selenium? It took me few attempts until I realized that Docker containers are the best way.

2. Install Docker on MacOS and start container.

3. Find some toolkit that talks to selenium. There are tons of libraries, but just some have reasonable docs and are well maintained.

4. Configure this toolkit so it can talk to Selenium.

5. Beware if your container die. Also figuring out that website is loaded is also non-trivial in Selenium and default are worse than in PhantomJS.

6. Etc.
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Before that point, laundry service is a great candidate for automobile trunk pickup and delivery. Just put your stinkables in a trunk box, have them removed at some point in the day, then your clean, folded clothes are delivered to your trunk the next day. It just happens, like a laundry fairy.

The problem right now is that trunk pickup and delivery is not really an expected use case. Cars aren't really designed to support delivery drivers/automation being able to open your trunk and only your trunk, especially without a key.

But it could be something that can be retrofitted decently, thanks to US-mandated inside trunk releases. And at the high end, limited-entry trunk delivery is already being tested in some places: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/delivery-drivers-can-now-leave-...
Apparently being a 'virtual CTO' is a thing these days. Might be worth looking into.
Odds are that I'm not from your community, but I follow a personal policy of not visiting plain http websites. I have strict HTTPS enabled at all times, and for the few sites that I visit that exclusively serve insecure content, I visit through archive.org or google cache.

Needless to say, I can't interact with these sites through proxies. It could also be the case that those who care about their security and privacy simply left your community or limited their presence to just being spectators.
To make your plan work, you'd have to have around $1mil in investment dollars that you'd place into various investments to make the "free" rent money. Since you're relying on those investments to provide shelter, they're just as illiquid as owning property (except with property you can make money off of it).

The best plan here is to keep $800k in investments, move to rural nowhere and buy a huge house for $200k cash and live off the investment income entirely and not bother working. You can then rent off portions of the property (a bedroom, a basement, airbnb etc.) to surge your income if you need it.

If you don't have $1mil up front to start, like most people, building equity in the place you live makes far more financial sense over time than does renting because you both get to live there and because it doubles as an investment. Starting from the same lack of a million dollars, renting only covers cost of living and does not provide for any investment opportunity.
I stopped using the FB App back in 2014 when the upgrade required a whole heap of additional permissions - the ones you mention. It then forced the update along with separating out the Messenger app.

The mobile web version gave me everything that I needed when using FB - checking some occasional updates, messages and people posting baby pics. Nothing that requires a separate app, and nothing that requires an app, esp since you need to be connected to the internet to see anything. I really don't see (from my perspective) the point of any FB app.

The mobile view was awesome for me. This move blows. Since the messaging is still available on the desktop browser version, this literally means zero extra development time.

FU FB.
I don't have time for a full write up of this system yet, and a paper would be really great.

That said, here are to me the most salient points:

* Exchanges (essentially banks in Taler) must have external auditing; there are no in-built technology mechanisms for noticing or defeating over-issuance

* HTTP/HTTPS focused -- this is intended to be an API-layer tool

* Token based, so you could use it with any system you want

* Government audit friendly -- it tries for high levels of privacy for users and almost none for merchants as a conscious decision to be bad for money laundering.