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I have read this piece before but I mostly disagree.

"Putting aside Usenet as a relic and artifact of the past, [...]"

I think this is a crucial sentence for the whole post. He brushes aside the probably best example for a threading model. He never asks the questions "why did it work on Usenet?", "why didn't/doesn't it work on the browser?", and "could we make it work in the browser?".

Most of his arguments concern wrong UI designs for a threaded model. For example "you are talking to everyone". The argument that the reply button leads people to reply to the wrong message is completely refuted by reddit. It's just that the location of the reply button has to be carefully chosen and on reddit they have done it right. There's one reply button for the thread and one on every message.

I usually can accept opinionated design decisions but in the case of discourse, they implemented a half-assed solution. You can expand replies in discussions but then you can't drill down and expand the replies to those replies.
Hehe, that was exactly what I was thinking of, but I wanted to avoid Godwinning. So I Godlost.
As long as I can remember I have had periods when I have been bored. When I was small I kept nagging at my parrents and they just ignored it, it's important as a child to find things to do by yourself. When I got older I started feeling proud that I could just sit and wait without bouncing off the walls. Now I get a bad conscience when I'm not doing something, it feels like I'm not pulling my weight. But at the same time I know that being bored is important for my wellbeeing. This is time when my brain gets to rest and recover.
Source on that? If nobody prove it's have access to all system memory that doesn't mean PSP don't have these access. Otherwise it's will have at least MMIO-based access to the network controllers.
My issue is that I tend to have a lot of tabs (> 5) open at once. Because apps and tabs were combined, switching between apps became a chore as I had to swipe through so many tabs. I like keeping them separate.
Where is it then?
> standards are there for a reason
> you don't just ignore them because you don't agree with them

People always ignore the bits of the standards they don't agree with; taking an entirely dickish and non-random example e.g.

<img src="http://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/df0e70f6e810442b86d701afcb...

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ says "4.8.4.1.1 Except where otherwise specified, the alt attribute must be specified and its value must not be empty"

Or having 4 <section> but only 3 </section>.
I'm not sure if this is possible. You need to replicate the entire process, not just the final results. I mean the time it takes to print may vary, but the result probably would look aesthetically the same but structural different.
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Well, I think we're gonna need a source on that.
A worthy submission to the "Found Prose" subsection of the Little Lytton Contest...
I seldom downvote. But since crossing the 500 karma mark recently I seldom up vote too - when using my iPhone. The reason? I have inadvertently downvoted a few times. The buttons are too close for dexterity-challenged fingers.

Voting is an anxiety ridden experience now for me. HN got interesting with karmic power.

Edit: I was not the downvoter, btw.
The password space is big. They could release trillions.
AR-15 is needed because that is what Second Amendment requires. Currently, police and military use them as the most common personal weapon, hence the militia (as defined as all the able bodied adult male citizen by law) needs to use the same. It's needed by civilian precisely because it is a weapon of war.

Read Washington DC. vs. Heller to understand this. Don't argue on the Internet.
A big chunk of it is already. MSR is the one of the largest corporate research organizations.
It seems to assume people who read a CS professor's blog or a site called Hacker News will know Carnegie Mellon University, given that it has consistently hosted a top-5 CS program for the last 20+ years.
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On the other hand it costs time and money to backport fixes to older versions. We add feature X and remove feature Y, refactoring a bunch of code. Now we fix a security bug. Applying that patch to the old version won't build. Someone needs to fix that, right?

Microsoft supported XP for a long time, but that was paid. At some point it becomes unfeasible to maintain older versions.
Since the resulting hash must be deterministic, you can't use a salt, and since you may login from crappy smartphones without JIT engines, you can't use many rounds. So the resulting hash will be trivially cracked using rainbow tables. The problem of variable-length passwords is better solved by only allowing the use of block ciphers in your TLS configuration, which you should probably do anyway.

As for the disadvantages, it makes logins take longer, forces the use of JavaScript, increases the complexity of code and increases the site size.
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Why be a racist?

jk.

There's a reason Samsung seems to be not that great as a software shop. I wrote up a long post on HN almost 2 years ago (God, it's been 2 years!!). I'm reposting the link here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712192
This is great news!
It will allow to hugely simplify the encoding and distributing workflows, with the same fMP4 segments for HLS, DASH, Smooth...
>the world's most honest and law-abiding country

Based on the experience of female friends: don't believe everything you hear about Japan. If you are a gaijin being mugged or harrassed by Japanese men, even police will question your word when describing the villain. They will honestly ask if you have "not just seen him wrong, because Japanese people don't do such things. Must have been a foreigner."

Also, witnesses reject to help, look away and mind their own business. Sometimes not even moving away on a train, just sitting there while a woman gets harrassed, mugged or raped. These women do not always report such crimes due to the shame of something like this happening to them, and other people not even helping. The logic goes so that they themselves must have deserved it, since noone came to their aid. For more, see schoolgirl gangs beating and raping single bullied targets in public places like restaurants. People just sit and look away. Some take videos and pictures to post online.

In court, the judges do not question the legitimacy of police findings and accusations, so if the police presents evidence that would accuse of you wrongly but which is half-assed or plain wrong, judges take those evidences at face value. The onus is on you to prove thee two biased parties wrong.

Don't believe Japanese stereotypes without a couple years spent in a big city there.
I would wager moving from being a tenured private university professor in Pittsburgh to Seattle to work for Amazon for money, even in a VP level role, would be a poor choice.

Unfortunately, moving because you believe Amazon will throw resources at a problem shows a distinct lack of familiarity with the "frugality" aspect of Amazon's culture.
Manta doesn't run on a proprietary OS, but runs on SmartOS, a distribution of illumos [1][2]. In fact, almost everything at Joyent is open source, including all of Manta [3]. As for why not anything else, Manta has been around since 2013 [4], before other similar solutions, and allows you to run arbitrary programs on your data. As an example, some of our customers run ffmpeg on videos that they upload, to produce different variants to then store in Manta.

[1] https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live

[2] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent

[3] https://github.com/joyent/manta

[4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/joyent_object_store/
That was my first guess as I read the title yesterday and was quite disappointed to see a security guide
Indeed, the blob can be reverse engineered.

Even more, an unbreakable signature can have it's private key stolen by hacking, by agencies inserting personnel into the companies, by agencies blackmailing key personnel and by agencies compelling the companies legally or ex-legally to hand them their keys.
For the record, there is no "proprietary [operating system]" involved here. The Triton stack (upon which Manta is based) runs on top of SmartOS[1], a wholly open source operating system built around an illumos[2] core.

[1] https://www.joyent.com/smartos

[2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate
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I was very disappointed as a first saw that change pop up in Chrome Dev for Android, but thought it was maybe a change of defaults and the option would get put in again before the release.

Now it's not in and I think thats very sad. It just degrades the open web in relation to native apps even more and the context switch between browser tabs and native apps is as big as it was years ago. Why don't keep the option?

I know progressive web apps that are added to the homescreen still have that functionality but the main idea of PWAs was that the move from a website becoming an app should be as seamless as possible...
I find irrelevant gifs embedded in a blog post like this make the entire article unreadable. It's distracting and annoying.
Thanks; appreciated, and that's a great explanation which I'll remember next time someone is questioning my choice!

There is clearly a common thread of morality through his books which is rare these days. My son responds well to it, and wants to be one of the good guys! (I should be so lucky.. but still :))

My other, non-hereto-mentioned reason is that Dahl is of direct Norwegian ancestry, and so is my son (well, with an Australian mum) - so I take that as a bonus.
I imagine it's illegal most places. Even without a zoning violation, garages tend not to meet basic habitability rules.
If you want a single IDE, vscode is really great.
That would be spacex acquires joylent
Does the idea of more debt excite you? In my opinion, it's too costly, and not a good return on your investment.

The things you'd learn from an MBA track can be learned from books, much more cheaply.

I'd start with "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman. He's got several other books in there that he recommends.
My phone has lots of performance issues. None of them are in the audio processing.
Why would one expect a person who can't keep up with the simple instruction "eat less" to keep up with the complex instructions "get surgery, install this tube, keep it sterile, empty it out into the toilet after every meal, get regular checkups...oh AND don't eat more to make up for the hunger you feel when you empty out your stomach."
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3 images is not unreasonable for an article, but I do agree they felt a bit irrelevant.
Strange that Intel gives people more reason to go to other processors like ARM when Intel is under such pressure from competition.
Yes, the CRISPR dispute is about patents. But, as the article says in the third paragraph, "But in the midst of this debate, perhaps a more fundamental one is taking place", which clearly indicates it's talking about a different debate than just the CRISPR patent.

The issue here is that CRISPR is like a printing press when scribes were state of the art. Yes, the patent on the printing press is important, but arguably more important is what's the status of all the stuff you can write with it. Previously, synthesizing long stretches or precisely editing DNA was hard enough that there weren't many people doing it (and synthesizing long pieces of DNA de novo is still pretty niche, though there are some pushing for a massive investment in making this tech a lot easier). But as it becomes easier and people get more experienced, it's worthwhile to have already thought through and discussed these issues.
Can someone tell me if people have actually spotted the Intel ME doing unauthorized communication?

I imagine it should be easy to spot in any network firewall log (note I said network, not OS), and in reality, if it's never been observed to communicate with the outside world without explicitly being told to then do people really need to worry?
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Very interesting presentation. Is the video available? I had no luck with the standard searches.
http://2014.ruxconbreakpoint.com/speakers/#Igor%20Skochinsky
I agree with you in principle however as far as I can tell people are being banned for what is essentially hate speech, i.e. speech that incites to violence. That is not the same as banning for political views - Google and Twitter are under no obligation, not even an ethical obligation, to allow that stuff on their sites.
>Since the resulting hash must be deterministic, you can't use a salt

You can as long as it stays the same over time. Either lookup salt by username (requires an extra call back and forth) or use a single salt for the whole site, or actually you could have the salt deterministically depend on the username. All of those defeat hash tables.

I agree that the password length problem is not a great benefit, but the benefit that the server never sees the plaintext is pretty good in my eyes.

Logins take longer: a single hash+salt won't make a big difference even on low end devices.

Javascript: fair point, although plenty of sites require it for signing in anyway. I suppose you could make it optional.

Complexity of code: if it's in a library and vetted this doesn't matter as much. Conceptually this is pretty simple, would probably be 3-5 lines of code (2 lines to hash, 2 lines to generate salt from username).
top of frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913652
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Smartphones are paid too. To me, this should be covered under the EU's warranty laws, since it's clearly a defect of manufacturing (even if it's software manufacturing), so it should be guaranteed for a minimum of two years.
In academia most professors are doing some or most of their projects for the source of funding, which I think is not too much about public good anyway.

I think it is about time for machine learning researchers to go to industry, there isn't that much data in academia. Good public datasets are rare, like ImageNet, and have been basically overfitted to the core. In industry, it is totally another story.
It's supposed to be distracting, but moodlifting, seeing the post exposes essentially negative oppoinions. Of course they are devoid of content.
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For me C++ is all I need for portable native code, no need to add extra layers that kind of work, that only increase code entropy and debugging efforts.

Directly available in iOS, Android, WP, Tizen, Ubuntu SDKs.

The only major problem is the way Google disregards their NDK stack, while Microsoft and NVidia engineers are able to do what Google PhDs are not.
AKA "torrent". You are so cute.
Patenting dna is also a bad idea, especially for obvious transgenics, "express gene X from organism Y in organism Z". It's the equivalent of a software patent that says, "program a computer to sell X... over the internet".
If Google were to buy Twitter, they wouldn't do it because they want Twitter's content or community, they'd do it to merge Twitter's single-digit display ad share with theirs and defensively eliminate a future competitor. I feel they have no more interest in Twitter than does Facebook.

Twitter acquired Crashlytics, and they released Fabric.io as a "Twitter Inside" SDK to entice app developers to Twitter integration and its MoPub ad network. This is their big push to beat out Facebook and live inside every app, but Google already plays this game, and Twitter isn't yet a huge threat to them. Either Google or Facebook could buy them defensively, but they need not at this time. (I feel that Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn was also defensive, but that's a different story.)

Verizon, on the other hand, could buy Twitter. They bought AOL to enter the content creation market, and they could cement their share. Or more likely, they could instead buy Yahoo, and with it Tumblr, on the cheap.

Amazon could buy Twitter. They bought Twitch, and they could use Twitter to expand their social presence, logged-in time, and display ad share.

Yandex could buy Twitter. They would break into the US and Japanese market in a huge way. The Fabric.io SDK would be a perfect fit to drive more engagement from apps to their properties.
> When you develop a fully native app you do it pretty much in one place. On iOS you’re in Xcode, for Android you’re in Android Studio. With React Native you have a terminal (with a couple of panes), a text editor, perhaps Redux Remote DevTools plus your IDE for the platform you’re targeting.

It's not like those IDEs can't be configured to work with the raw tools.
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Japanese copyright laws are backwards, even more so than in the US.
Note that the VIRGO detector, located near Pisa (Italy), has already taken a set of measurements a few years ago, and it would have been sensitive enough to detect waves like the one from last September. Unfortunately, Virgo was down for upgrades when GW150914 came. I recall that they plan to restart Virgo by early 2017, so it should be operational well before Ligo India. (And I like to underline that Ligo and Virgo joined together in the Ligo/Virgo collaboration and thus work together: as a matter of fact, the first guy who saw GW150914 in the raw data was from Virgo, and the papers presenting the detection were signed by people in both collaborations.)
They give you updates. They don't give you updates to old versions that only fix bugs.

Also Android/Chrome is free, so just because phones are paid doesn't mean such laws would apply.

Phone security updates are sometimes provided for some time, actually. I know Samsung at least went back and made new releases for abandoned phones after stagefright.
"You can't (and hpefully won't) be able to execute your own code there."

You don't have to beat the encryption scheme to executed code. You just need to jail break the signed code. If the code is complex there will be bugs and likely security holes. One sufficiently wide hole is all it takes to jail break a system.

edit: This is an example of breaking in to a jail rather than out of one.
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If you were to share a bunch of copyrighted material in the States, the MPAA/RIAA et. al. would come and threaten you with a law suit (and you'd settle out of court). In Japan, if you do the exact same thing, you will be arrested [1]. It's a difference in "what is normal".

[1] http://aramajapan.com/news/music/40-people-arrested-for-ille...
And I thought that I had accidentally turned that feature off and have been searching for a while to get it back. Really disappointing.
In japan they are. People have gone to jail for double digit years and have been ordered to pay millions of yens in damages for file sharing. From wikipedia straight:

>Unlike most other countries, filesharing copyrighted content is not just a civil offense, but a criminal one, with penalties of up to ten years for uploading and penalties of up to two years for downloading.

I've done my fair share of trying to get vintage animation via Winny some 10-12 years ago. At one time a Galaxy Express 999 uploader just disappeared. Later on there were reports of his trial, sentenced to jail for uploading videos of cartoons that aired between 1978-81. That is, 25 years ago at the time of the events.

Also see Nintendo's case against M2 and R3 card manufacturers that are now basically illegal in the country. You could be stopped by police on the street and retained if they saw you with a Nintendo DS and a non-standard game cartridge.
See "The World Beyond x86" presentation for a presentation of alternatives, focusing on POWER8:

https://raptorengineering.com/TALOS/op_twbx86.php

https://static.rpteng.com/TALOS/assets/the_world_beyond_x86....
Such decisions are not made in the face of pressure. I think, they are made years ago and now they are (still) executed.

In the corporation centers, nobody thinks of critical users that look very carefully on things. They mostly think about the average user, that just wants more "power".
Many do. Foundations of mathematics is a specialized but deeply philosophical topic. Many would be interested orthogonal to maths, too.
Don't know. There isn't even a word about Node in the statement from then CEO, but before today I didn't even know what the main business of Joyent is so I can't say how they and Samsung think it's important for them. Just figure, my first thought was "Samsung wants Node, but why?" :-)
Anyway, it's not tightly bound with Joyent anymore so even a worst case scenario won't affect ot much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osS9EaKNSI4

Serious question: Do they not teach Hamming codes in undergrad anymore?
This is something I believe Google should have done way before. They need an external hand to make a footprint in social media and Twitter might be the perfect bet.
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Yes, there's also a lot of xenophobia, but that's not relevant to this case.
>> coast-to-coast USA on 40 gallons of fuel in a small SUV

Without having a source, I suspect a caveat wherein he will plug in to fully recharge the electric battery every X hours, which would be far less impressive.

Now, if this is cross-country, on a single 40 gallon tank, without plugging in to recharge, in an SUV that is not gutted to reduce the vehicle's weight... that would be impressive.
Same initial reaction. I can't stand Samsung and refuse to have anything to do with them. All started when they took my 5k dollar tv and started injecting ads and such all while claiming they didn't (this was before the recent media caught on)
That was genuinely upsetting listening to how desperate the scammer was getting. These guys, sure, steal money. But... That's cruel and unusual, for any person.
Oh. I thought you could include v2 code in v3 codebases but not vice versa? I may need to go through my projects if that's really not the case.
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For those wondering what the offense is, the news reports specifically indicate public distribution of a program to circumvent copyright protection. Japanese copyright law does make circumvention itself illegal, but in general you won't be bothered until you try to make your tools widely available.
Chrome will start nagging you on almost every page load as soon as the next security update goes live, I doubt you will stand it for too long. Nonetheless, I also loved that feature and see little reason to stay with Chrome on Android now.
I was among the folks who at first didn't care for the feature, but it quickly grew on me. Things I noticed (perhaps useful for UX folks)

* In a default one-handed grip, it was easier to switch between tabs because the multitasking button on Android is near where one's thumb usually is. Now to switch tabs, you have to reach diagonally across the screen on top near the address bar (which is aggravated by unnaturally big phones, but that's another story)

* I am not on the dev channels, and was not particularly "in the know" about the upcoming change. So I was extremely frustrated to find one day that not only suddenly a fundamental behaviour changed, but there was no option to set it back!! Really disrespectful to the user. If I was dead-set on changing it I would put a highlight near the setting that it was going to be deprecated soon.

I then resolve to switch to Firefox on Android, and I can't believe I didn't do it earlier. While I've made peace with the fact that "merge apps and tabs" are gone, I found out that Firefox had a vastly superior feature set, the most delightful of which is the "Tab Queue" feature. (E.g. when browsing in the Twitter app, and you click on links it doesn't switch to the browser, it queues the link in Firefox. Once you're done with Twitter, you can now switch to Firefox and all the links are retrieved then)
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