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> Curious, why is SMS-based auth a downside in your opinion?

If I go 40 miles south I'm in ( the Republic of ) Ireland and can't receive SMS.
WWF supporters?
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People say that, but I'd prefer the actual LISP syntax then (being a fan of xlispstat back in the day). I'm surprised nobody has created a "Lisp-flavored R" analogous to Erlang's LFE or Python's Hy.
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> Write a kernel driver on Linux and NT and you'll see how much more superior the NT I/O subsystem is.

I wrote Windows drivers and file systems for about 10 years, and Unix drivers and file systems also for about 10 years.

I'd rather practice substance agriculture for the rest of my life than deal with Windows drivers again.
Or

plot(sin)
plot(D(sin))

(Programming from memory on my phone so might be slightly off)
Benchmarks are indeed valuable, but I think one of the points in the article was that if the field focuses too much on them, research with theoretical depth gets excluded. However, those theoretical papers have value that is hard to quantify--it may take years to see it!
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Forced free upgrade.

You don't want to know how much money they are losing with it, all because they want a shift to a newer OS. Which makes their platform more future proof..

Yes, it's forced, no doubt. But if i were Windows, i'd rather have a lot of people a free upgrade ( and unknowing users forcing to upgrade), then leaving everyone in the Windows Vista erra :)
http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/mobile

I could imagine that this could be integrated in the firmware.
Forced free upgrade.

You don't want to know how much money they are losing with it, all because they want a shift to a newer OS. Which makes their platform more future proof..

Yes, it's forced, no doubt. But if i were Microsoft, i'd rather have a lot of people a free upgrade ( and unknowing users forcing to upgrade - there are a lot of unknowing users...), then leaving everyone in the Windows Vista erra :)
FakeItEasy v2.0 just came out, and it boasts thread safety as the big new feature. I haven't evaluated it yet (we were also bitten by the lack of thread safety in v1.x) so I can't validate the claims.
No. R is a language that is beautifully well suited to data analysis and interactive computing. Stat people don't use it simply because we don't know better.
Because I don't have a car and don't drive except on vacation (at which point it's whatever the rental agency has).

The subways are already electric and about half the bus fleet here have been upgraded to hybrids. Transit FTW!
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Bots? Combines with the insane high number of mail.ru it would be my guess that mail.ru has made it easy to creates account in some automatic way and that's what the bots are using, along with a silly password.
> Subscribe today to view the raw data itself and receive unlimited searches! As low as $0.76 a day!

Is that site legit ?
I would love to know what you mean by data wrangling because I think R has a lot of good tools for it.
> Hardware/Software 2FA tokens are based on a PRNG with a shared seed. If the table with passwords was accessed it's likely the table with 2FA seeds is hacked.

Oh, damn. Thanks for pointing this out. I'd never looked into the details of HOTP or TOTP -- I assumed they were using public-key crypto rather than just a hash of shared values. That sucks. :(
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I've had the Pebble Time for about a year and really appreciate it.

First, the fact that its "E-paper" display is always on means it works well as an old-fashioned watch so I can instantly tell the time. (I still find it crazy that the Apple Watch display is off by default!)

Pebble's notification support works really well with Android so I can see at a glance whether a new email or WhatsApp message is something I need to respond to on my phone. Most of the time I don't, so I spend less time fiddling with my phone.

The feature that I most appreciate that I hadn't anticipated is that the Pebble vibrates and shows who's calling when someone calls me. Which means I can keep my phone on silent all the time but never miss a phone call.

So I'm definitely a fan of the Pebble Time. Its UI is really simple and well thought out, especially compared to the Apple Watch, and there's really nothing else I need it to do, apart perhaps from being more physically attractive.
Trust and a well implemented feedback system cost money and effort and if you're going there it's most likely to get the lowest price and not the best service.
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That pales in comparison to their hostility towards Open Source. They are maneuvering desperately to remain relevant among developers, but at the same time they're happy to appear on behalf of Oracle to claim that APIs are copyrightable. It would be in the best interests of the developer community to ignore them until they mend their ways.
> It seemed to me like you weren't familiar with the concept
And you seem to me, like you were not familiar with the topic being discussed:
output of the same amount of land, no matter the required work (because of robots)

So, nevermind ;)
In the 90's MS employed shills to spread in-fighting within F/OSS communities. If Hillary Clinton can still do it today with COR, there are no laws against it, and there is financial incentive to spread FUD, then it's likely still happening.

Bill Cosby did awful things to women decades ago. We still hold him responsible for that. If he donates to womens shelters do we forgive him for the rapes he committed?

So yeah as far as I'm concerned MS is a horrible company, especially if you value your freedom.
Is it still alive? I remember being excited about it when it came out initially but then things seemed to slow and then stop.
What is this from ?
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I still don't have any idea what she was telling me to do.
It should be possible to run without X. Set print-mode to text, it's supposed to work in a terminal.

I'm not sure if that code works on OS X, but if it doesn't, you can still run it on a server. The interface won't be perfect, though, and you'll need to remap some keybindings.
I'd recommend reading http://r4ds.had.co.nz for an R workflow that eliminates a lot of those pain points.

(Except for infix string concatenation - I've never really understood why people prefer that to paste(). Maybe if you're not thinking in vectors?)
Amazon have their own app store for Fire devices and Androids. It requires installing Amazon's apk though, which also requires changing a security setting.
Seems like bad jokes may affect user conversion. I should write my next article on that.
> Yeah if you forget on purpose they act as patent trolls at the same time with Android

They are actively competing with Android. How is that patent trolling?

> try to make every file format incompatible with the previous versions just to ensure you keep being locked in in their products

huh?

> keeping a monopoly on PCs by having Windows installed by default everywhere

You're right, Microsoft should compaign to have more macbooks sold and force OEMs to install linux by default on 1/3 of machines.

In fact, they should just limit the number of copies of windows they sell. THat should destroy the monopoly.

> forced windows 10 upgrade

What's that? I have never heard of such a thing. I'd imagine something like that would cause endless whining from HN.
You can hash a fixed salt + password + some other user info like surname or email address. That way if you have the salt you can't just compute the hash of salt+"123456" to see who had that, you have to compute separately for each user.
What is Ozmosis, a firmware based Bootloader…
A perfect solution for those who will have jobs and money after most do not.
The activity tracking is the Pebble's killer feature for me. While I like getting notifications on my wrist, and being able to see the time whenever I choose is nice, what I really love is passive tracking of how far I've walked in a given day and how long I slept for. They've also just today released a mood tracking app alongside the rest of the tracking which prompts you once an hour for a quick summary of your mood and what you did in the last hour.

Being able to later go back and correlate all these things is awesome - even now I know that on days I get out and exercise more I'm happier, soon I should be able to give objective numbers on that, along with being able to determine things like the correlation between caffeine and happiness/energy levels over the day.

I'm pretty excited for the Pebble Core as well, especially since they announced Alexa integration, I think its got a lot of potential for drastically changing how we interact with mobile computing and moving on from the current interactive glass paradigm.
I really hope Pebble can take advantage of the swelling backlash against the overly complicated and 'feature'-ridden watches put out by Apple and other Android manufacturers, rather than be caught up in it. They got right pretty much first time around the minimal set of things you actually want to use a smart-watch for, and haven't swayed from this principal over their various iterations. I had one of the first KS originals, and have worn it, then my Time, almost every day since I got it.
> “Self-flying aircraft is so much easier than what the auto companies are trying to do with self-driving cars”

I guess until everybody starts using them :)
stepping back and looking at the big picture, I get this same feeling about many apps. Especially ones produced by Google, when you upgrade an app, suddenly the UI is totally new and you don't know how to use the app in the same way you did before.

Yes Google might not have chosen poor words in this case, but it does create friction when you switch around the whole UI.

The example I always cite is when Microsoft switched the whole UI in Office from the 2003 version to 2007 version. People who had mastered pivot tables were suddenly up the river without a paddle
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I know what you mean. Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos [1] is very representative of that. Unfortunately, it's single player (there is a multiplayer arena but it's not great).

A few years ago a friend and I were working on a spiritual successor to EoC. When the Star Citizen kickstarter was announced, we gave up - no chance to compete with that, and we found they could apply our vision with a lot more money and a much more serious team.

[1] GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/independence_war_2 - Highly recommended if you're into space sims.
Fair enough I haven't tried that yet. AWS or Heroku aren't trivial to get a Django app running.
"You don’t use your watch at night, because you’re asleep"

Your Watch, or a better version of it, could monitor your sleep.

https://blog.cardiogr.am/what-do-normal-and-abnormal-heart-r...

"It’s that smartwatches are a solution in search of a problem."

Also not true. Health and safety are a huge reason most people will be wearing a smartwatch, or wearable, in the future:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...
It wouldn't violate the rules at all, that's the trick... at least according to my layman interpretation of the rule.

Of course, Hamas is run by crazy people; who knows if and how they'd react. I didn't mean to say that my imagined response would be without any risks either. It certainly takes courage to do anything against Hamas from within Gaza.
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Could we have a less click-batey title?
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Take away "constructive" and "legitimate" and you become a diplomat.
>the malware sent every saved username and password from browsers like Chrome and Firefox back to the hackers

I wonder how you protect against that apart from the thing banks do where they say enter the third and six character? Even with those if the malware monitored a few of them it could probably figure your info.
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"Nicer."
But 1 second of CPU time on your Web server is a lot different than 1 second of CPU time on a supercomputer.
What? No. Don't use a fixed salt.

Each record should have a unique, random salt. You then store salt:hash(salt+password).

There are numerous guides on how to do this properly, for example https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet
Absolutely no! Maybe it is because people at FreeBSD and it's users believe in OS.
though I'm partial to rethinkdb now

Me too. RethinkDB is my document database of choice these days. In my experience, its proven to be reliable and fast and the development team very responsive and helpful. They also seem quite mindful when it comes to new features and will delay things for years (eg auto-failover, which they now support but it took a while) if rushing it would impact quality.

That's what I want from a database: first and foremost it must be solid and not lose my data. Everything else (including high availability) can come after.
Thanks, but no thanks Microsoft.
In this domain, yeah, "bankers" are in trouble.

In general, though, it strikes me that we're only scratching the surface of what computer augmented humans can do, what we might call depth, while the major thing today's "algorithms" bring to the table is breath, such as what Google is (in)famous for.
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Distributed electric propulsion is promising, check out the NASA papers.
You're massively overestimating the strength of bcrypt here. olcHashcat on a single modern GPU will do several thousand hashes per second, depending on work factor and GPU speed.
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Why doesn't Twitter have 2FA or U2F? Problem solved, at least in terms of users not losing reputation within their own social space because someone is posting as them.
It's not for everyone. I agree that trying to put real apps on the thing was clearly done too early. But for me, the weather widget, GPS prompts, silent and unmissable notifications (and good integration on some apps like PagerDuty where I can Ack a page from the notification itself, no waiting on an app to launch or pulling out and unlocking my phone), and quick timer setiing (I use this multiple times almost every day--to remind myself to rotate laundry or check on what I'm cooking or all sorts of other tricks to help keep my ADHD brain on track) all combine to make something that has improved my life at the margins. I hadn't worn a watch in 20 years but Apple came up with one that was worth wearing to me.
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I recently built a website for a social media group for a local area, with 20k members very active in the group. The groups used as a platform for selling/buying, news, and just general discussions pertaining to our area.
The site is fairly new, and I was thinking I would post articles about specific businesses, host events, and do some affiliate marketing with the businesses located here.
I have no idea what reasonable rates would be for this. I imagine they'll be a good deal of traffic, and a lot of people reach out to us directly in email for local tips/tricks/questions. Another service we'd like to do is go to the business, take pictures/videos/etc, and do a write up about them and feature it on the site.

Has anyone done anything similar or have any tips when figuring out a pricing model for this type of business?
I don't think anyone is arguing against "Excellent colleagues trump everything else." As someone else mentioned, statements like these are simplistic truisms. However, I think that treating employees like adults is also recognizing that there is more nuance to people than simply defining them in static terms such as "A players" and assuming they will always remain in neat little categories. Given how quickly things in tech change (or life for that matter), one day you may be an "A player" and the next you may be a B or C. People are dynamic, events happen; how you treat your existing employees when things change matters.
To be fair, I was probably exaggerating a bit when I said "trivial" but it is pretty straightforward and you can do all of it from inside Visual Studio:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/web...

NB You can move to more sensible deployment mechanisms, but for getting going quickly it is pretty neat to deploy straight from your IDE.
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Ghostery granted patent on displaying information about trackers on web pages
This is great news! It excites me to see the continued support of open-source and well-maintained programming languages in academics.

(Someone may have said this already, but there is no way I'm reading through all the "Python vs R" BS to find out)
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The slogan is really relevant today -- "Linux is for people that hate Windows, FreeBSD is for people that love unix". :-)

I'm a Linux guy, but would be happy to do FreeBSD at work.

To give the Devil his due, I must admit that Microsoft has done lots for the development of software. For instance, it is really hard to google the infamous "bloody monitor in bed" quote these days. A SEO triumph at Microsoft, worthy creating a chess/Go world champion AI? :-)
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Twitter has some legitimately hard tech problems. At MesosCon last week (which I was at in person), they stated that their largest Mesos cluster was over 30,000 physical nodes. Believe it or not, handling the hundreds of millions of tweets (or more!) per minute they handle at peak load is an unbelievably difficult technology and platform problem. This takes a team of really smart people to manage.

That being said, I'd be shocked if a large number of that headcount weren't marketing and ad sales associates as that is what supposedly keeps the lights on.
Isn't DNN simply the way how we currently implement pattern recognition by statistical learning? I mean, you can do it a bunch of other ways too, but at the moment it seems that e.g. pattern recognition by a convolutional net trained on lots of unlabeled images is a better way that many classic algorithmic approaches to detecting specific patterns/features.
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Yup, that makes sense. Do you have an idea for a better indicator of development activity we can tie into? I thought about telling the contributor how many commits the team makes on an average month, and capping the maximum contribution they'd like to make.
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Exists:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/

Snowdrift looks interesting too:

https://snowdrift.coop/
> These resentful programmers also hate that the new kids seem to be skipping all of their favourite indoctrinations.

Those indoctrinations are the derivation of the general wisdom of software engineering. Being green, not taking time to learn things properly reminds me to the London flats where everything is just hack on hack, electricity, plumbing, furnitures included. Then everything is inconvenient and broken 10x often than it should be, because someone didn't invest time learning things properly.

It is not about the resistance to change. It is about to learn what is the state-of-the-art now and why it is to avoid to commit mistakes of the past and harm others.
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Do they also mine personal data? I can't find any clear details on their website. If so, a very ungerman startup considering their culture with private data.
> I don't see how a company can afford all that hardware and power to do something that is illegal to begin with.

An evildoer would use stolen credentials, stolen credit cards, or stolen hardware (botnets).
I thought this was base ability of the parser to parse CSV in chunks.
They are not losing any money, because Windows 10 is undoubtedly adware. It's "free" because you are the product, and they don't even try to hide this fact:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053622 (a default install of Win10 communicates with third-party domains of well-known ad-serving/analytics/tracking companies.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053352

http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/204595-lock-screen-ads-...
Thank you, I'll give that a try next time. Wasn't aware cmake could handle running the build system like that.
By the way, their job openings are all for B.S. and M.S. level (no Ph.D.), which seems a bit odd.
twitter does have 2FA. You can either get a login code texted to you whenever you login or use the Twitter app to verify logins from new devices.
You realize you can be arrested and held in jail before a trial right? That's exactly same thing as confiscating assets pending a trial.
Isn't a big federation required if we want to have any weight in negotiation against the USA? I mean all small lonely countries of the world are merly more than banana republics. But I retain your point.
I know right. Why don't poor people just get more money?
No, I'm just saying that the legal standard for proving that property (usually money) was obtained illegally is lower than the legal standard for convicting someone for a crime and throwing them in jail.

Asset forfeiture is, and always has been, subject to judicial oversight.
I hope we have hit peak click-bait titles too.
That still does not sound it would validate to investment? A 10 dollar bluetooth earplug does not vibrate but aurally guides you. And at least on my car (2016 C-Class) after pairing you can skips songs via the steering wheel.
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Just curious -- why would you think not?
There is due process for civil asset forfeiture.
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