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I think I agree with you to some point. There have been a couple of suggestions and it's unfair of me to attribute them to you.

My concern is with a physician's office (or a bank, etc.) calling from a phone that does not provide Caller ID information and leaving a message that goes something like: "This is a message for you, please call us back at your earliest convenience." This would result in a call that I would ignore, followed by a voicemail that I would also ignore. Effectively it would mean that there would be no phone communication between myself and this office, bank, etc.

In my opinion, when you provide a bank or physician's office with your cell phone number and authorize them to contact you via that method, you are agreeing to let them leave the minimum required information. In my opinion, I need to know (1) who is leaving the message and (2) is it important. In a pinch, I will settle for (1). Without either, it may as well be static on the phone for all of the information it conveys. I disagree that I am allowing these offices to treat my information "less sensitively". On the contrary, it's my responsibility to treat my end of the communication channel sensitively.

A code word is an interesting idea, but people are pretty poor at remembering arbitrary information (on the whole). It's common for many people to use the same password for every website, since they have trouble memorizing more than a couple at a time. Code words, I fear, would have the same issue. People who don't need a code workd would forget it and they'd just be confused with the message; I think it would need to be opt-in for those who cannot secure their own side of the communication channel (voicemail, email, etc.)

Some of the electronic medical record (EMR) systems that have a public facing web interface do provide a more secure method of communicating with clinician or their office. In my experience these often mimic email and are secured via SSL, they require the typical username and password (or PIN) combination. These will probably become more popular, but I expect clinicians will still fall back to phone calls if the information is time sensitive.

For those who insist on listening to voicemail via speakerphone, it seems like the smart move is to ask the physician to contact them only through a secure website or email and never via cell phone.
I don't understand what "open to the public" means. I suspect that a complaint on those grounds is grasping at straws from a coalition of NIMBY neighbors and entitled hikers.

If I buy a property that people have been illegally trespassing on for years and put a house on it, is that open to the public?

I would think you would have to explicitly post permission to be on private land because I assume it's implicitly not permissible to trespass...
This is the same guy who made the dumb article, "destroy all ifs". He probably just wrote this article to troll hackernews
I think OP is referring to DotA being a custom map for Warcraft III.
I'm an Australian expat and one of the surprising things I discovered is that no, you can't do that. Despite the US being technically ahead in so many areas (like internet speed), regular banking here is stone age. It's like going back in time around a decade.

Until some time last year most stores didn't even accept cards with chips (they still swiped), it's still normal to "authorize" a transaction with a signature (even with a chip) and many things you interact with (particularly landlords) still expect you to pay with pieces of paper (cheques, money orders).

Not to mention that your account numbers are closely guarded secrets because your account number is all that's needed for literally anyone to withdraw money from your account.

Admittedly, there are some areas in finance where they're kinda ahead. Micro-loans are interesting and new for example. Day to day purchases are around a decade behind though.
> But problem for nick and others is that lenders want a 20% down payment because that gets skin in the game.

Lenders typically charge PMI if you have LTV > 80%.

Our first home was purchased with 0 down (perks of being military brat), and no PMI. Current home was ~10% down, with ~$500 in PMI (kind of a cluster-fuck--the mortgage broker said the loan had no PMI, but last minute it had PMI. We had 2 days before closing, and couldn't find a better deal, so we had them drop the rate).

Our family income is north of the projected Merz' family income of $290k, and while we could afford that 1.8m home, financially it wouldn't make sense to tie up so much of our income into a house (even though it would be straight baller).
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So it's barbaric to torture a terrorist or someone who can help you stop one? Don't think so.

Why don't you talk with loved ones of victims of 9/11?

Empathy his key.
There's nothing inherently conservative or liberal about being offended and wanting an echochamber at times.

Both want freedom of speech sometimes and both want to be able to block out dissenting voices at others.

The trick is finding a balance. Too big of an echochamber can be unhealthy, too small of one and little discussion about core beliefs gets discussed (everything gets sidetracked by the dissenters).

Young conservatives definitely seem to be outnumbered online, and I've seen them put up walls so they can discuss their beliefs without being constantly picked apart by people with alternative beliefs.

So I think the divide on ideological lines is unrealistic. Just human nature (good and bad).
Did you even read the links?

'Violent speech' and 'violent communication' are a form of violence. They have a nuanced definition. They can be used in multiple ways. Language is not strict. It is fluid, it changes over time, and in this case, totally applies to the subject. You are arguing for an unrealistic, unenforceable, overly-literal use of language.
You can change somebody's opinion, just not through one direct interaction. An opinion change requires time, internal rationalization, and repeated exposure.

An echo chamber is bad because it not only repeatedly re-broadcasts beliefs, it also amplifies them. "The President is wrong and should be voted out of office" can turn into "The President is wrong and ought to be shot" in an echo chamber environment much faster if there's nobody around to say "wait, hold up, maybe don't."
Yes, that's correct. You claimed there were no black sheep, and I found a black sheep.
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Don't look at the trees for the forest. Challenging the status quo solved the aphartaid, freed nations, emancipated women and much more.

Sure those changes are generational as people don't get their opinion changed easily.

But allowing these discussion to take place freely especially amongst the youth is essential to let them shape their world.
My rule is that if nobody would pay for your service, you probably don't have a worthwhile business.

If Google instituted a $0.99 monthly fee to use Google search, people would line up to pay it. They don't have to, because their business model works differently, but they could do that, and it would work. I'd probably pay for an account.

If Facebook instituted a $0.99 monthly fee to use that, a lot of people would do it just because it keeps them in the loop with their friends. And in fact, many people would be willing to pay $2.99/mo for a business account which gets to do more (like post more events or whatever). Again, this isn't their business model, but this would totally work as a business model.

People would pay for Uber de-facto; they do pay for Uber.

Likewise, half my coworkers have bought coin packs in Pokémon Go. In general, lots of games do pay models.

If Twitter added a $0.99/year fee, there would be a clone written in a more scalable architecture taking all their users within a week. Some businesses would keep Twitter accounts, but that number would decrease as they lost users. Remember that Twitter added some minor advertising and instantly started losing users.

There are tons of other startups with this problem. The idea these days is, get a bunch of users and introduce ads. The problem there is that when you add ads, you're fundamentally changing your service. It's a bait-and-switch. And once you do the switch, if people weren't willing to pay for your service before, they're not going to want to start paying for it in the form of ads.
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It's like the business equivalent of forest fires. How dead wood/companies and sick companies/trees get cleared off to make room for new younger ones.
They're great. The keycover leaves some to be desired, but if you're doing any serious typing just connect a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
iOS has this too for cellular: Settings > Cellular > Use Cellular data for.

I used it on my recent trip, so I dont accidentally use all my roaming data.
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If you think that enforcing real names induces civility and you use Facebook as an example, your argument is wrong and self-contradictory.

Facebook is /proof/ that the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory doesn't need anonymity. What the Internet proves about communication is that fuckwaddery (yes, this is a word, my word) is inversely proportional to interface friction. The quicker it is to spill the contents of your mind without the filtration enabled by interface difficulty, the more crap you can put out. Since 90 percent of everything is crap, [Sturgeon] even what you are thinking 90 percent of the time is crap and you're lucky if you manage to only commit the remaining 10 percent without contaminating it with the rest. Interface difficulty enforces thinking about what you commit to discussion. Which is why pen-and-ink letter writing "is an art" and the twitterverse is a cesspool - real names or not.

This is not to say that if everything went back to pen-and-paper that there would be no fuckwads. There would simply be fewer of them.

Lastly, I never used my real name on Facebook or other social media. Why should I give up what I have every right to do in real life just because it's electronic? People don't care whether I'm using my real name or alias as long as they know who they're talking to.

BMO's Revised Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

(Normal person + communication medium) / interface friction = fuckwad

And when friction=0, you have a black hole of fuckwaddery. You usually get this when you use alcohol as a lubricant.
I do agree but a lot of it depends on the business case. Sometimes the business requirements dictate you have password authentication enabled. :(

You're right that key only logins are the easiest quick win, but it's also worth remembering that they can still be vulnerable if the box needs passphraseless keys (eg lazy automation) or if you cannot guarantee the security of those keys (eg they're generated by third parties and/or stored on third party systems). In those situations it would pay to firewall SSH and specifically whitelist the third parties IP address.

Good suggestion about the logs too. That's an often forgotten step yet invaluable when it comes to forensics.
I do think it is fun! My firm works with companies and their shareholders. Issuing a letter to a lender is something I do for clients as a professional courtesy. I receive no special compensation in connection with it, and strongly prefer to mark assets to market (i.e. the last comparable trade or fundraising event) over model.

The contents are less "this is where you should mark this asset" and more "this is where others have marked it, the circumstances under which they did so and how those circumstances may differ from this situation". The value isn't in providing a "right" number as much as turning a zero-information situation into an information-positive one.
We are numerous enough and produce enough toxins and pollution that we are close to the point where no one can escape the effects. That's why this time is different. The scale is much larger now.
You can open up your DMs so anybody can message you now.
step 1: don't have "production servers" without "security experts"

you don't have a small company... you have a joke.
I think that's the only way you could displace Android now, by having a paradigm shift so strong that it's a brand new market.
You're ignoring the cash flow that real-estate-owners get from collecting (or not paying) rent. Once you factor that in, 5-7% returns are the norm.
What other people choose do with their privately-owned platforms does not limit anyone's freedom of speech, as the law currently stands.
Sorry to pile on, but I wanted to throw out the fact that there's currently a huge transaction cost to exchanging real estate in the US too -- the largest factor of which is real estate agent commission (typically 5% in California, 6% in some states).
You're obviously not in a small minority, most of the world does not use Twitter. I've had accounts on there for my name, random projects I've started, and I've to this day not found anything worth my time. Coupled with overall disinterest recently in social platforms, I've been systematically just removing myself from them. The amount of time wasted on things like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc, is now redirected towards reading more, traveling more, finishing projects, sleeping more, and enjoying a social life outside of a virtual one.

I'm going to say something crazy, but I don't think the future of the internet is going to be a MORE social one. We're already at the saturation point, where people are just getting completely sick of updating their status, keeping up with a thousand conversations on Tinder that go no where, posting pics, tagging people, and on and on. I think there is going to be a breaking point where people are just going to actively unplug. You're already seeing it with the resurgence of board games. People want real human interactions.
Wait, If sleep/hibernate, nvidia, and webcam don't work, how does it have good linux compatibility?
Please, no more NIH syndrome. Linux, which is built by an international community, is good enough.
Not a dev on either product, but I use 1Password for my personal accounts, and a corporate LastPass for my work accounts. I do not believe that 1Password is as immediately vulnerable as LastPass.

LastPass (on Chrome) will auto-fill information on a detected site, which a malicious site can read immediately.

1Password (on Chromium nightly) requires me to hit the 1Password Mini button and select a site/account to log in with. If 1Password had a similar vulnerability, a malicious site as described would merely wind up showing me accounts for the wrong site in the dropdown. Clicking one could wind up submitting/leaking my credentials to the attacker, though.
I'm on my 3rd house. The escrow length isn't just about the loan, it's also to give you time to complete inspections. Home inspectors -- especially in hot areas -- can be booked out for weeks.

It also gives the sellers time to find a new place/get packed and moved.

The lender gets their ducks in a row because they're going to package and sell the loan, and there are lots of compliance issues to jump thru to get it sold (properly) after what happened during the crash. Lenders are very careful now, verifying down payment sources, income, credit, etc.

I also did cars for a while and I can tell you most (all?) in-house car financing is provisional, and they do the hard work AFTER you drive off the lot. They like it this way because once you've parked that shiny car in your driveway and shown your friends, you'll work hard to keep it should something come up with the financing. If it doesn't work out they can (at worst) tow the car back to the lot. Not quite that easy with a house ;)
In the US, and in this particular decade it is true that the left is keenest on actual politicking to create censorship. But in terms of the human weakness of not wanting to hear arguments against your own POV, then the right is at least as bad.

I think the difference behind the political fireworks is this: conservatives already revel in sub-communities like churches where they can protect themselves from unwanted speech. Progressives are starting to dominate open places like universities to the extent that they want the same privilege there.
Aren't skip-grams equivalent to NMF of the PPMI matrix?

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5477-neural-word-embedding-as-i....
It is a genuine message. It is also simple. But it isn't actually true. Computers are not able to learn like humans : the learning process is entirely different. And what they learn is different - even though it can be visualized in a way that makes it look 'humanlike'.

These techniques are impressive, and yhat is demonstrating that they are very capable. It's just that I feel a little sad that the 'AI pitch' is being turned on, when the 'really good tech' is a much more valid way to understand what they're doing.
1Password is very nicely integrated if you're on a Mac and/or iOS. It's not free like LastPass, but I consider it a reasonable one-time* purchase.

*every few major releases
>He avoids paying taxes on the sale of stocks to finance the home.

Can you elaborate on that?
I don't buy that. This sort of event will ruin Jacob's life. You think there's any chance he'll ever get a job again? I think you have to be held accountable, legally, if you want to bring forward acusations that can do that.
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All true. Also important to note that it would be dangerous if the car was completely silent. Even if the car is autonomous and has a crazy smart AI, there can be accidents if people outside don't notice the car. Also, any car will spin up dust from the road that people outside breath up. I think, the only way to truly increase quality of life for pedestrian and bikers is to have zones and streets which are banned for cars, like many European city centers.

Relevant illustration: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/24948/to-a-pedestri...
That's all fine and good, but this response is entirely different from the blog's original argument that I was responding to. The original argument was "Icons should be based on real world objects because they give the user an immediate sense of what the icon is for." The argument here seems to be "People know what the current save icon means, so there's no reason to change it", and the thing is, this sort of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" viewpoint is pretty antithetical to our jobs as interaction designers. Even if most people know what the save button means by convention, that doesn't rule out that might find a better icon, one that is strictly iconic and not skeuomorphic in any way (in fact, I think some better alternatives have already been found are are gaining in popularity).

So in summary, while I agree that it's sometimes fine to use an old icon if enough people understand what it means by convention, this is not a good reason to avoid using the newer, less skeuomorphic icons that the linked blog post was trying to argue against.
The issue is whether an account has a pattern of incivility, which yours unfortunately does. Please fix this.
I work on film and television. My work consist of writing a lot (A LOT) of text and emails and spending a lot of time in Photoshop and Premiere. Sometimes even After Effects. Also, I'm mostly not around power outlets and am carrying the damn thing in my hands around. Air is really where it's the sweet spot for me - considering build and weight. I had several HP pro ones before (two different models), but they didn't really fit the bill. Too heavy and get hot and noisy real fast. Battery life was crap too. I really hate when laptops get noisy and hot due to dust (which I can't avoid and can't bother to clean often/at all). Air, for some weird reason seems to be mostly immune to dust. It's wonderful. Sure, it gets hot and a bit noisy after you push it, but it reverts to normal ops soon enough when you lay off the gas pedal. Not sure if it makes sense, but I presume anyone that manhandles laptop around a lot can relate those being important.

I'd get a new MBA if there were a new one with updated specs and a better screen.
Are these closely aligned with their actual salaries? Less than $10K of cost of living adjustment for Bay Area positions?
This is a fair point. Maybe the hacker is evil and hell bent on destroying your server / company.

But if we treat every hacker like that by default then what kind of world do we create? Certainly take prudent safety action, but then practice what many here claim to value: knowledge sharing among curious individuals.
> Don't get too ahead of yourself.

That quote about aging is from Blaser:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser
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> Look, the Fed is going to raise rates RSN.

What in the considerations that drive monetary policy (employment and inflation, mainly) suggests that another interest rate hike is imminent?
Actually, that's... not a terrible idea. It's not the best idea, but pulled off right, a simple "we'll help you but if it's not a security issue, site downage or a serious harassment incident you gotta pay" is way better than current help models for social media/large sites.
"Mortgage interest is tax deductible."

In practice, not for zuck.

1. Only the interest on the first 1 million is deductible.
2. The income phaseout probably also hits him hard
Facebook requires a real name and most people provide it, because they also use it as a Friends & Family social network. We've also drilled into an entire generation's heads that employers will check Facebook, so realistically most of the conversation on Facebook these days is either carefully groomed, or Tumblr-style Buzzfeed reposts, or personal updates scoped to friends & family.

Twitter is intended to be public -- as private accounts vastly limit your audience, and at that point, you have much better alternatives to share content within your circle like Tumblr or Facebook or Instagram. You can adopt a pseudonymous identity, and most importantly, you can tag (ie. 'reply to') other public accounts, essentially arbitrary people.
Everyone knows, the only valid form of justice is dispensed by the state. /s
There's been discussion in subthreads about why sandboxed browser extensions are more protected from a malicious page hijacking parsing the URL.

It's easy to forget that sandboxed extensions don't exist yet in iOS (as of 9.3.3), and sometimes we still have to use bookmarklets.

As far as I know, bookmarklets aren't afforded any level of sandboxing type protection. I wonder if a malicious page could intervene like that.
Which of the following is from Walmart's open source software's website, and which is from Silicon Valley?

> Revolutionize the way you report bugs on your mobile platform

> Deploying paxos algorithms for consensus protocols

> Software defined radio for cloud computing

> Accelerating product delivery in the digital economy through continuous application lifecycle management

> Scalable, fault tolerant, distributed databases with ACID transactions
You make a good point, in the Android world you can manually install the Amazon Underground application and grant it the ability to install it's own apps. I don't believe there's a similar side-loading method on iOS, however: Apple has take steps to prevent this.

IMHO, I expect Microsoft to release a solution more like Apple's App Store and less like Google. Clearly, Epic Games' founder has the same concerns. He's also expressed concern with Microsoft only allowing something like Steam to be installed via side-loading, which he thinks provides a barrier to entry that is too high. I tend to agree, it's easy to slowly make side-loading more and more difficult as time goes on, or to make more and more critical APIs unavailable to non-UWP applications.