skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is silly. Enough people (especially self-reporting), a large percentage will be well below 50% (unless it really is an oracle). About as soon as I started, it quickly dropped into the 30's. Even after several minutes and hundreds or thousands of keystrokes, it hardly moved over 50%.
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I don't see anything in Marlantes's background that qualifies him to make clinical assessments re: sociopaths and depression. I do see a lot that says he's been quite gung ho for some time--not that there's anything wrong with that. See also "fanboy" and "humble brag." But this is a Memorial Day piece, so...

Side note: How are Americans supposed to recognize the sacrifice made by "contract security" personnel, going forward?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marlantes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung-ho
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outing_(Seinfeld)
There's a story behind it - apparently there was a better response from consumers with annual pricing. People often didn't understand the concept of a one-off fee for a web service, and got confused between the once-off and the recurring options

> Right now, users pay a one-time signup fee that grows by a fraction of a penny with each new signup. At the moment, this fee is $10.55. Pinboard also offers archiving accounts, which cost $25/year. Users who upgrade after joining Pinboard can deduct the signup fee from the first year of archiving.

> Under the new scheme, basic Pinboard accounts will cost $11/year, while archiving will continue to cost $25/year.

> My main reason for making the change is so that I don't have to keep explaining how pricing works. An astonishing number of people already believe that they're paying annually for Pinboard. Others accuse me of baiting and switching them when they upgrade to archiving and get a renewal notice. Note how much easier it is to describe the new policy than the old one.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/
But the topic of discussion at hand is a contrast of launching a business in the person's home country or their current country. In that context the response makes a relevant point that deserves a considered response (or acknowledgement).

The comment was phrased in a way that could be construed as a personal attack and that's not ideal, but it can equally be read as a genuine point if we don't jump to the immediate conclusion that it was a personal attack - The point being: if conditions are more favourable in the home country wouldn't a rational actor move back to their home country and launch there, instead?

I don't agree with the OP by the way, but I interpreted the comment first in the way I described, rather than as 'grr if you don't like it go home'.
Visualizing city similarity
This article seems ridiculous both because Yahoo messenger isn't going anywhere. And if it did, moving to another service would be a small hiccup.
I recall someone once getting a Squeak Smalltalk image down to 384k. However, there was a Digitalk originated project called "Firewall" that could produce Smalltalk images as small as 45k, suitable for writing command-line programs, even on early 90's machines. (Even recent versions of VisualWorks can get their memory footprint down around to that of Perl 5's, and even beat Perl 5 in terms of startup speed, provided you are prepared to dig around and shut a whole lot of things off.)
Take a natural language processing course if possible
Why didn't Yahoo focus on further developing businesses around these services (Finance, Fantasy etc.) that people love?
And low taxes.
TFA has 2FA hacks:

"They remote connected in at 5AM MT, went into my Chrome and used my PayPal to buy about $3k worth of gift cards. And yes, I had two-factor authentication."
To be fair, it's kind of the same thing as just using someone's name: "So I was chatting with my colleague Chris, and he mentioned..."
POCs are a part of any good bug disclosure. It should be easy to test that one is no longer affected. Besides, trying older versions to undo problems is a very old and reliable technique.
I have this funny vision in my head where people start practicing strange contortions of their faces in photos designed to counter current facial recognition algorithms. Then the software writers adjust their algorithms to compensate. Then new silly faces are invented. Rinse and repeat. Although I suppose in the end the algorithms win because they can easily just try each past variation and choose the best one.
or you realize Perl, Ruby, Python give you everything good from Lisp anyway with an environment and packages that can talk to the real world, and that macros and metaprogramming are massively overrated and a danger in almost any hands that touch those features.

Ask me how long I spent banging my head against the wall trying to get OpenGL working in CMUCL with Alien. Jesus jumping-jack Christ. I can only hope things have improved in the past 12 years or so. But I highly doubt it.
Then host your own Firefox-Auth-Server and Firefox-Sync-Server. At least Mozilla has open-sourced those repos, and made their browsers capable of connecting to custom servers with a simple configuration change.

But hey, you'd still be running Mozilla's code in and as your browser. As you say, they can "decrypt your synced data" and "at any time target one a send one's password anywhere they wish" even if you self-host the sync and auth servers.

But at least Mozilla has a history of standing for the consumer and protecting user rights. And Firefox is perhaps the only browser that allows hosting your own sync and auth servers without having build your own copies of the browser.
Have you got a link to a post mortem?
Right, no arguments here. Backing up is really hard. Many backup systems are "push", and so you have to limit the production system's access so that it can't maliciously overwrite old backups.

From what you describe in the last paragraph, that sounds like a special Owncloud client. It needs decryption keys and it needs some automated tests for verifying the backup which vary based on your use case.

I've recently been testing git-annex with the webdav special remote, and it mostly solves the integrity piece but a) if you want encryption you lose the web UI, b) even if you don't want encryption, you still lose the web UI because there are no indexes, and c) it would be too high a bar for most people to set up.
That's a very cool website that I've never heard of, thanks.
Snapchat has undoubtedly grown; it's really impressive. But much of Twitter's content you can consume without being logged-in. Is that accounted for at all?
Yes, next question.
That is a super cool service! I love the stream of alternate words with confidence scores.
IME RDP performance is fine these days if you've got even a halfway decent upstream connection-- the newer clients and servers are much better about tolerating low bandwidth/high latency connections than they used to be (they finally ditched the naive "forward the GDI calls" approach they used to take and do lossy compression much like VNC now).

I don't expose it to the internet, though. Only thing on my home network that is exposed directly to the internet is an SSH gateway (using public key auth, passwords disabled); from there, I can forward SSH or VNC or whatever I need access to.
I've looked at ownCloud several times simply as a tool that I wanted to use, and each time I was turned off because of very distinctly je ne sais quoi icky feeling. For what seemed like an open source, drop-in dropbox replacement, the sales pitch seemed to add a lot of unnecessary crap.
I get that, but when you roll back, you don't really control what else you're removing, and you're implying that a roll back wouldn't break other parts of the system, or that it even makes sense, given the state of the system (it could be years before a vuln is noticed).

Imagine waking up one morning and realizing you can't use uppercase on your file names anymore because of a rolled back vulnerability.
Everywhere I've worked, mostly very small companies for the past decade, has kept local mirrors of critical infrastructure we depend on, specifically distro repositories, CPAN, etc. It's just a sane best practice. It really doesn't take all that much work to run apt-mirror or reprepro.
Could this be related? Today we got an email from Amazon that our EC2 instance server has degraded hardware. We have until June 16 to spin up a new server before they kill this one.
Ah, cool, thanks!
This seems like skeleton's exact syntax with a different name... http://getskeleton.com/
Totally agree, the weightings on follower/following ratios are non-existent. Would be nice if quality of following/followers could be valued over quantity.

There's also far too many bots on Twitter now. Feels like Twitter is going to be a shit load of bots talking to one another when all the real humans leave.
It's great and can do differential syncing. It also doesn't blow up if you try to upload a few thousand files. OwnCloud is a joke in comparison.
Yup, hence my "actual choice in software" bit. Generally it seems all you do with iPhones is lease them from Apple.
How do you monetize that? But they were adamant that they were a 'media company', so your point is very valid.
Bootstrapped businesses can be susceptible to price competition from companies using other peoples' money though... when the investor climate supports it. With mattresses it's maybe a little hard, but bookstores were effectively priced out of business by Amazon.

I'm sure Casper gives Saatva very healthy competition -- in fact, it's the only of these companies that I've even heard of until now.
All of the cloud providers have an incentive to downplay incidents and only post them to the status page when they're really bad. The bar is pretty high to get something on there.
I've been using https://pydio.com for the last 6~8 months, and so far so good. I came over from owncloud. Admittedly, I had planned to use for my family of 3, but I'm really the only one using/syncing stuff. THe server side for pydio has been great, though their Windows client has had a few little issues. In all cases they were easy to fix, and ultimately caused no damage to server data (who knows it could even be a local Win/laptop issue). Though pydio is php-based, while seafile IIRC is python (I like both languages so doesn't matteer to me, but thought you might want to know ahead of time).
Still not as bad as development on Windows though.
Nice!! ^^
Too expensive. A Bloomberg terminal starts at $24,000.

Not using a free IM service like Yahoo's seems like a fiduciary sin.
I had this realization a while ago, Snapchat is basically what Twitter tried to achieve, a realtime pulse on everything happening anywhere, democratic and spontaneous because of information constraints. The difference being that Twitter is plagued with bad actors (you can be mean when you're just typing), whereas Snapchat is much more engaging, friendly, and to put it in a term that everyone understands: fun! The sad thing is I think Twitter engineering is much more talented than Snapchat... cough
Did OS/Hypergrid ever solve the avatar/inventory issues? I haven't followed SL/OS for the last few years so my information is probably out-of-date but when I last used it, it was still a hit-and-miss experience.
What's to "hate" about android? When is the last time you used one? Android has closed the Gao with iPhone, and surpassed it in many ways.
Talking about C, not objective C. :)
> There is nothing noble about warfare

Sure there is. There's gallantry and bravery and … nobility. There's also ugliness and cruelty and murder. Clauswitz commented famously that war is diplomacy carried out by other means; more accurately, war is humanity carried out by other means. It's inhumane but carried out by men; it's uncivilised but carried out with the fruits of industrial civilisation.

In short, it's paradoxical.

I know that the author is right: there are people who are suited for war. They're not psychopaths — it's not that they don't have empathy for others (they do), but I wonder if they have reduced empathy for themselves.
On a less serious note, maybe mask culture will re-emerge, in response to constant identification. Personally I would love to break out my decorative gas mask, I'd love to see a computer ID me wearing that!
Much of this is also true for productivity/business (aka entrepreneur porn).

There are whole networks of business/startup podcasts where hosts interview knowledgable entrepreneurs to share tips & tricks. More often than not the entrepreneurs themselves are hosts of other podcasts and their company/product is their podcast.

It's the same reason celebrities follow each other on social media.
Is it that TV got hacked because passwords were compromised and reused? I fail to see security in an ap that uses uknown servers to connect to a personal setup. Somehow I think TV did get hacked and they just don't want to be honest about it. ??
I've used nomachine with good results from my lan but have never used it outside that.
>- TeamViewer has been the primary medium for tech support scams that lock people out of their own PCs for years now. Despite a usage pattern that should be easy to detect, they've seemingly done nothing effective to curb this.

Yes, and they also use join.me and logmein. And with 0 user feedback it's hardly an easy to detect usage pattern.

>- TeamViewer is blaming insecure configuration, which is probably mostly true, but TeamViewer has refused to do much to encourage or ensure security practices are upheld. (Random six character passwords on by default?)

AFAIK by default it requires you to accept any incoming connections, and a random six character alphanumeric pass should be quite sufficient assuming proper ratelimiting. 2238976116 attempts without uppercase and 57731386986 with uppercase letters included isn't gonna happen very fast over the network.

>- TeamViewer has clearly failed to police large scale attempts to test credentials against their server, if they're using password dumps to find people using the same password elsewhere, as many people on Reddit confirmed was likely the case for them.

We really don't know. Reddit speculation isn't very useful as mostly everyone will be in those dumps.
Minecraft is selling 53k copies per day on 2016
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You linked to the migration of a single operating system kernel. That is very different from reproducing the running state of an entire distributed system. Migrating a single kernel is not easy, but straight-forward: you have access to all of the relevant pieces (in memory process state, and state on disks) in one place. With a distributed system, that is not so, since the the running state of a distributed system will include information in-flight, some of which is not virtualized.

It is possible to migrate the state of a distributed system by designing a protocol such that all of the components stop sending information around, so that you can be sure you did not miss anything. But I think that violates the spirit of the phrase "running state", since you essentially stopped the system. It's also not necessarily so that post-migration, the system will act the same.
Really, everyone with any software with administrative rights that has an auto-update feature does it. These days, that's... Windows, Chrome, dozens of other applications with a huge market share.

At least with TeamViewer, it is manual update only, and remote users only have the same permissions and visibility as a desktop user. When you access a locked Windows PC over TeamViewer, you get the Windows login screen. You only have the level of permissions your computer is allowing the user you log in as.

If you lock your PC when you aren't at it, and your password is decent, you haven't a huge security problem with TeamViewer. Arguably, less of one than many other pieces of software that can make administrative-level changes to your PC without your knowledge or permission.
Google Remote Desktop, maybe?
To further your argument I would imagine the search volumes of Instagram (and in particular Snapchat) are lower than the actual popularity of their apps because those services aren't as "Google searchable" as actual websites Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook.
For financials? Charge for better data. Its a pretty solid industry, and seems to make Bloomberg lots of money.
Facial temporary tattoo that throws off machine learning?
Minecraft's always been a place to go when I want to be alone for a little while, so playing on a server has always been a little uncomfortable to me.

I've had other places that I'd go for companionship that cleared out over time, so while it wasn't Minecraft, I can imagine some of how you feel about it :-/
It's not only police that call non-police civilians. Dictionaries do as well.
Situation dictates:
Any kind of business website/ blog/ landing page is probably going to be Wordpress. Not because I really like Wordpress, but because it's fast. These are "good enough" pages.
For anything else, I'm likely to choose Flask if I can. I think Flask strikes the right balance for me between having all of the features I want without bogging me down.
For the front end, I normally just stick with html/css and Bootstrap or another css library.
This is for OP if its their project. Feedback your mobile version needs work. I see that it's responsive, but a lot of the content is off the screen.
still is.
ls and grep are in /bin on my system. wc, coming from coreutils is in /usr/bin. But that's really only a small part of /usr/bin.

$ dpkg -L coreutils | grep -c /usr/bin
76

Are you suggesting that all of e.g. GNOME should be a single program?
Alexa could be running on the smartphone paired to your Pebble, though. It already does voice recognition that way.
Second Life is/was actually great especially in its open content and customization system and economy.

But there's kind of a weird thing about Second Life and VR and video games. Video games have really filled the virtual reality space without being called virtual reality.

For example, the detailed simulation of Los Angeles in GTA 5 or the details and immersive story in The Witcher 3. It isn't usually called virtual reality and doesn't usually involve HMDs, but these types of games are largely what people were thinking of when they started talking about VR many years ago.

Now there are things like GMod (Garry's Mod), Minecraft, Space Engineers, Scrap Mechanic etc. that allow you to satisfying your virtual reality engineering itch with component-based development i.e. snapping things together, which is just much more practical, efficient, and just easier for people who are trying to entertain themselves than doing a bunch of scripting in OpenSim/SL/OpenCroquet/High Fidelity/etc.

Look at the first person perspective in the Mirror's Edge series. Its a very cyperbunk-type vision along the lines of early VR concepts.

Anyway long story short, VR is a massive business, they just call it "gaming" and we don't bother wearing HMDs.
When I say "the browser for the server side," what I mainly mean is the isolation layer between the browser and the OS.

For example, suppose someone designing the first JS environment at Netscape had suggested that since JS is so great, you should be able to make POSIX system calls from it. Or link to locally stored libraries. Or use a language someone had heard of before. I think you'll agree that if this decision had been made, most people would never have heard of JS.

The browser is a second-level OS which provides a service no first-level OS offers; it loads applications almost instantly and sandboxes them securely.

Now, in theory, you could modify a Unix to solve this problem. Arguably, it's a problem any OS ought to be able to solve. We are certainly much closer with containers. But still, imagine what it would take to replace webpages with Dockerfiles. (sandstorm.io is the closest to something like this; definitely check them out as well.)

Urbit's semantics are isolated from the platform in just the same way. The job of a general-purpose personal server is very different from the job of a general-purpose client -- they have almost nothing in common. But the isolation layer over the current systems platform is the crucial element.
Can anyone elaborate on said consequences? I fail to see how demoing your product in another country could have an adverse impact at home.

But this looks to be more complicated... ownCloud GmbH is unaffected? What was the purpose of having both companies then? There are many EU firms that seem to compete just fine without the Inc/LLC/Co at the end of their name
Considering this is the only one of the lawsuits he's funded that he's revealed, it's unclear that all of them have merit. On top of that, they forum shopped this specific case and dropped claims that would have allowed Gawker's insurance to cover damages.

Further, even in the cases where there is merit, that does not preclude them being SLAPP.

Your argument is poorly thought out.
Can you record your conversations (I think you can)? But most importantly, can you use WhatsApp without a cell phone number? It has to be tied to your email address and not a cell phone.
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What you're thinking of is product lock-in, not segmentation.

Besides, many superior solutions exist and have for a long time: TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Mumble. Skype is laggy, buggy, and high memory overhead, without mentioning the DDOS risk (exposes IP).
Would it kill them to write "npm install"?
Golang binaries are also very large [0].

package main
func main() {
println("Hello, world")
}

That compiles to 1.1M using go 1.5.

0. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853
Yeah... the ones that aren't a get-rich-quick schemes are called 'small businesses'
Relevant article on what it's like to wear anti-surveillance camouflage makeup, aka "the dazzle":

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/makeup...
"Everyone, including harbormasters and terminal operators"

Hard to see a harbormaster with a Bloomberg terminal.
Are you familiar with HTTP cache headers? Better to focus on your application and let the browser think about that stuff, if possible.
Check out Jump Desktop: https://jumpdesktop.com. It has a zero setup client that you can install - no need to port forward etc, works across firewalls and easy enough for your parents to install. It's secure - we use WebRTC underneath the covers (connections are encrypted end-to-end). It has iOS, Android, Mac and PC clients. We're also beta testing a free PC to PC+Mac version here: https://support.jumpdesktop.com/entries/109741706-Jump-Deskt...

If you have any questions about security feel free to ask.
Not everyone affected is going to post on reddit. There are plenty of tech-iliterate victims who don't even know something is wrong.
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Do you hire interns from the United States? I have both domestic and international experience, and am definitely interested.
And Yahoo Messenger is stillll waay better than Slack
Uh. Twitter is instantly public and indexed by google. Snapchat content goes away.

They have very, very different goals.

That said, it's easily agreeable that Snapchat the app is a flaming pile of brogramming.
Chevron operates one of the world's largest Hadoop clusters.
I did python professional y for a few years and I missed lisp every day. There is much work to be done, but lisp has improved tremendously in the last decade.
Yes, because your childhood and socialization is the same as the countless women who were raised to think that their value is an extension of their sexuality or partner. You did not face the same sets of problems that women did. Presenting your "analagous" situation is entirely disingenuous.

If you want your argument to mean something, it can be related to gender. It can be related to a critical analysis of the way that our society treats and raises boys and girls and the implications that this has on their lives and livelihoods.