skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"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."

Are you implying that social media created Donald Trump?
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I think the appeal of this product might end up with user demand for this feature as well. That could result in Canonical and/or Xiaomi offering fixes to support Ubuntu on Mi Notebook Air.
Has anyone ever had substantial conversations about the idea that maybe, just maybe, this is a human beings problem? As in we're not conditioned nor designed to communicate in such an environment? And that this type of access to the public and each other is so new (in the greater scheme of the world) that we have no damn clue what we're doing? Or is everyone going to continue to make arguments that are heavily based on the presumption that we're all good little boys and girls who only desire / are capable of having "meaningful interactions" online and that's the natural state of things by which everything should be analyzed?
I feel a more accurate way to put it would be that Twitter the $11b, 4,000 employee juggernaut is fucked, but Twitter the niche, 100 employee, 100 million dollar site for news junkies still has a chance
If you're talking about HFT and front running (which HFTs do whether you like it or not) a retail trader can't compete in that sector.

HFT operates on algorithms that mostly involve making money on the spread by running ahead of the brokers, buying the cheap stuff, and selling it to the broker who needs it. They don't trade on market microstructure, mostly because all of it starts to fall apart at the tick level.

250k is CERTAINLY enough to invest in futures contracts. You can do it with much less. Much much less. Futures are highly leveraged instruments. You can diversify by trading multiples of futures contracts (or e-minis depending on account size) because you're only required to post initial and maintenance margin.

You can easily blow up your account, but if you're just TRADING 5000 is enough to start selling a few contracts. If you're looking to start building something sustainable 10k is enough. But, the more the better.
But that shouldn't be necessary here, if I understand the problem correctly. The code Lastpass was looking for was simply `document.location.hostname`.
Have you ever spoken to Razer's 'support'? Good luck with that!

Not to mention, you don't have to look very far to see others with the same issues. Here's a sample from /r/razer.

USB-C issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/comments/4b6gj5/razer_blade_s...

Screws falling out: https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/comments/3vq4pu/do_not_buy_a_...

Fans buzzing: https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/comments/4eoh15/razer_blade_s...

Sticking trackpad: https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/comments/4l1v00/razer_blade_s...

Various threads complaining about their support: https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/search?q=support&restrict_sr=...

Hope your Razer laptop never has a problem.
That's the level of stupidity we're at.
It had something to do with device drivers not loading. It was stupidity. It was also 2003.

The printer is a classic linux desktop experience. CUPS wouldn't recognize the printer, not even as generic postscript or something, or maybe it did, but wouldn't take advantage of its high resolution because binary blobs being evil or some other high horse. Either way, binary blobs figure into this. So I had to actually buy a driver and color profiles from some company in Germany that had paid a license to make a closed source driver. While I could now print at high resolution, all the photos had a pink cast, that no amount of correction could take away. Boot into Windows, thing prints fine. Ironically, the company touted its color profiles as being better Windows.

In 10 years, I never had a machine that had all of it's hardware working correctly. But hey, maybe 2016 is finally the Year of Linux Desktop!
Sure. I took the original question at face value: It was a user who was concerned and wanted reassurance. Imo, it's a big leap to read it instead as a setup for a hostile "gotcha" style followup. I mean, is it possible? Sure. But there's no evidence for that interpretation. And to take a stats view, the bayesian priors aren't there (ie, most people aren't conniving snakes). Given that, it seemed to me that you were bringing your own kind of evidence to the table -- perhaps a personal experience in which you'd been similarly setup and mistreated.
Exactly, this moment reminds me of the same time they did that with the first "Miphone" as they branded it. If I remember correctly, Didn't Apple try to sue them for that?
This sort of event will ruin Jacob's life. You think there's any chance he'll ever get a job again?

Occam's razor, and straightforward root cause analysis -- via the weight of numerous (largely very credible) statements from multiple witnesses -- suggest that he ultimately ruined his own life by choosing to engage in a persistent pattern of aggressive and uncivil behavior towards others in his community.

Not that it was ruined "because of" the statements the Tor project made about his case.
> "The poster child for open source is Linux, a software operating system that holds roughly 25-30% of the server market share"

That doesn't sound right? I'd assume it is way higher.
Should the funding of critical discoveries such as this be left to the success of a social media campaign, which may or may not succeed?
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I call to your attention a series of three blogs written by someone who had the opportunity to interview Elon Musk himself before the writing.

I, for one, think that big thoughts, big visions, and big ability to implement them can't help but change the direction of humanity.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-m...
The people who are the brains behind the project can always fork. An organization that's turned inward and primarily concerns itself with rules, codes of conduct, procedures, and investigations will always lose to an organization full of people who are passionate about the problem and the code.
It's called a "Talos Secure Workstation" "designed for security-conscious users." Then they mention the ownership and openness differentiators but nothing else. Other "secure" workstations were CMW's, separation kernels, hypervisor schemes, and so on that protect the system from attack.

So, I think it's a misleading label. "Secure" workstation has a meaning that goes way back. In isolation, it has an established meaning. They should just say open and/or DRM-free as that's intended meaning.
> Conservatives were dismayed as he proposed a traditional Keynesian stimulus which Democrats lauded. Above all, he made one of the most dramatic federal interventions in American history by his aid to the financial system

> Conservatives and libertarians have criticized Bush for greatly increased domestic spending, creating a new entitlement program for prescription drugs, failing to veto a single bill, and expanding both the size and scope of government

http://www.conservapedia.com/George_W._Bush
I do not understand this comment. It would be a coin toss if we were talking about random chance, but nobody flips a coin when going into a voting booth.

All that can be truthfully said is that N people wanted to stay, and N + Y wanted to leave, where Y is a small number. One of the negative sides of democracy - sometimes more people wind up disappointed than others, but the only thing that matters at the end of the day is 50% plus one person.
> The poster child for open source is Linux, a software operating system that holds roughly 25-30% of the server market share against formidable competitors like Microsoft

I would sure like to see some citation on that claim, to me it feels like it could be much higher!
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"...I think it’s theft, and it’s lazy."

Not reinventing the wheel is a great business strategy. Everyone copies everyone in the tech space. Apple didn't invent lightweight laptops.
You're ignoring the context. Milo knew what he was doing. It was deliberate harassment.

And thanks to his thuggish role in gamergate, he had plenty of "previous".
Obviously yes, if the alternative is no campaign and no funding at all.

A chance reasonably larger than zero is better than a chance very close to zero.
Nah, I tend to upgrade every two or three cycles. It seems this last one is unusually long though.
I didn't mean to imply you were a Trump supporter, I said Trump supporters wouldn't care if Russia was responsible for hacking the DNC, and they probably wouldn't, as long as the end result hurt Clinton and helped Trump.
I think it's more about being critical of people who were critical for no reason.
Thought experiment: Someone is accused of behaving improperly in a way that does not reach the bar of criminality, but is unprofessional enough to justify Tor firing them. Should Tor be able to warn others about their unprofessional behaviour?
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Your problem, I think.
HN changes my opinions. Or at least, helps me understand those opinions.

It helps that I'm not employed in software engineering, so I have a degree of humility. Well, a little.

The rules are: Don't believe anything that isn't substantiated, Do be open to new ideas, but don't be afraid to question them, and don't be afraid to re-evaluate your position. After all, your ideas deserve as much skepticism as anybody else's.
The point of an urban transport truck is to transport goods within dense urban areas so that we don't have to suck down exhaust fumes all damn day. Your objection is absolutely irrelevant. You could have realized that by reading the entire title of the article!
After years of thinking about starting a podcast, I finally got one off the ground, with my friend Hans. (You can find it at http://www.thekerfuffle.com, if you feel so inclined.)

I had a lot of questions, though, and googling these points often led to more questions than answers. Around that time, I realized that I do run a site that allows folks to get advice—and maybe I should use it. (Funny how it’s tough to change even your own habits around such things.)

Anyway, I learned a lot, ranging from where to host, how to prepare, what equipment to use, and ways to promote the podcast. Additionally, a number of folks made recommendations I hadn’t expected: like considering a limited-run podcast, so it didn’t seem as daunting.

Along the way, I figured that others would probably benefit from some of the same talks, so we started this feature. In it, we’ve reached out to a number of our podcasting advisors, and asked them to offer some sessions.

If you have questions, feel free to drop by and request a session. These are all free of charge, and a great way to get a personal take on your podcasting questions.
> Attacks that can go from inside the network are in practice quite rare (AFAIK)

This is not true. Most real world attacks I've seen begin by infiltrating malware via the web, e-mail, social media, or phishing. Once inside existing connections between existing internal systems are exploited to crawl around the network.

Remote attacks against non-DMZ things are fairly rare in practice.

The only way to stop this is to implement even more firewalling inside the network, which basically breaks LAN.

I very much agree with the parent and have been talking about Google's beyondcorp and deperimeterization for years. A device that can't be safely connected to a network is broken, and we should stop degrading our networks to support broken junk. If broken junk gets hacked, it is the fault of the makers of that broken junk.

It is not hopeless. I've been into this stuff since the mid-1990s and things have improved a lot since then. I would not be too afraid to hook up a Mac or a fully patched Windows 10 machine to the public Internet. In the 90s or early 2000s I would not even consider this. You'd get owned by a bot within an hour. I remember in 2000 hooking a virgin Windows machine up to a campus network and being able to watch it get infected within 5 minutes.

The trends for the future are positive. Safer languages like Go, Rust, Swift, etc. are getting more popular everywhere. Advances in OS security like W^X, ASLR, etc. are getting ubiquitous. Local app sandboxing and containerization is a thing almost everywhere. Devices security postures are improving.
Windows developers might, but if I'm trying to create lua dependent software that runs on Windows for other people, I can't mandate that they install WSfL before they can run my program.
It's the void supposed to be filled by parent and copyright law. But it's of no use when China's government doesn't honor US company property.
Milo knew what he was doing.

What objective facts do you base this on? The tweets themselves are completely innocuous.

And meanwhile, people who post actual harassment and threats are left unscathed (I've personally reported a few myself), and while I'm not privy to what happens in Jack's office, it definitely quacks like it's okay to to harass if you subscribe to one political mindset, but not another.
How does it ransom developers? That's a bold claim.
Finding $50K worth of drugs is one thing, converting that to cash would involve a lot of effort on your part.

This is more akin to finding the accounting records of a drug kingpin that could be used as evidence to bring them down. This could have destroyed Lastpass.
Sounds similar to Bitcasa's original approach, or Dropbox Infinite, just without the option of what you manually sync. I wonder what it's like in practice.
Is "Twitter's" a valid contraction? My understanding of contractions was that they were only used with pronouns and helping verbs but I can't find where this is stated in online definitions.

It makes me very uncomfortable.
While I understand your concern, and to some extent, sure, you're right that owning your own data does reduce certain attack vectors it's also a trade off that a vast majority of people don't have to worry about either.

But the real important thing to consider is whether the protection you would get from a hosted solution so above and beyond overkill that it matters?

If you're curious why I feel that way, we have written up a white paper on how 1Password Teams (and therefore Families and now Individuals) stores and secures your data.

https://1password.com/files/1Password%20for%20Teams%20White%...

We designed 1Password so that we cannot know anything about your data. We also designed it knowing full well that our servers would be a target. So, we designed it in such a way that if a malicious person were to acquire your data there's more or less nothing they can do to acquire the decrypted data.

What we settled on is having two secrets. Both of which are not known by us. The first is your Master Password, something that you're likely well aware of having used 1Password already. The second part is an Account Key, which is a random 128-bit key generated locally. These two things are never given to us and should never be shared. They are both used for the cryptographic functions in 1Password. Without them both, you can't see the decrypted data.

This is unique in that it actually protects weak master passwords. That's the big deal to worry about if our database of user data is compromised. The first attack is to start running password cracking tools against it to try to find the weak passwords. Except in this case, there are no weak passwords because even if your master password is "a" the attacker still needs your Account Key, which looks something like this:

A3-Z4JZ6V-P9BALK-S6J69-FAXCN-LTDY8-T3QHJ

So, now a password cracker is going to have to guess all those combinations of weak passwords against something much much stronger as well. I wish them luck because the math more or less makes this impossible if a user uses a strong master password as well.

There's some math in the white paper if you're curious about more.

Knowing how it works and how extremely unlikely it is that I am such a target that someone is going to literally spend millions upon millions of dollars trying to crack my account (and still likely get nowhere)... I'm small fish, it just isn't worth it to even try.

Either way, for the sake of learning (I love learning, so I always assume others do as well), I would recommend reading the white paper, if not only to gain some new knowledge that you may not have been exposed to previously. If you have, awesome!

As always, if you have questions let me know!

Kyle

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> This provides a civilized version of Twitter that is mostly populated by smart and funny people.

Twitter circa 2009 before Kutcher vs CNN? This still exists?
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Disabling Autofill is the second checkbox in the General section on the first page you see when you open Preferences in LastPass. It appears to be specific to each instance, so if you have LastPass installed in several browsers or on multiple systems, you may need to change it in each place.

You can also likely mitigate some of this by setting a fairly low autologoff timeout, though how well that will work may vary widely depending on how different people use the Web.
If you use the word 'trigger' or 'sjw' unironically, you spend way too much time in the alt-right cesspool of reddit.
I saw "alsa.org" on a HN post, and expected this to have something to do with sound cards.
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Chromebooks are outselling Macs in the US [1]. There's still competition, new entrants are still possible.

1: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outso...
Statistically, how many attacks have been prevented by torture?
That's not all that's questionable about them.
The inverse only works when you are a public figure with greater power/sway than those who enforce rules, ToS, standards et cetera, or if you have an insider track with those who enforce the rules who can elevate you above them (the rules), ignore them, or give you a free pass (ie you are friends with a high up employee at twitter).
That's America.

Elsewhere the state will pay for an attorney if you can show in a pretrial proceeding that your claims are not obviously without merit and that you are indigent.

Not "reimburse later and hope you're solvent long enough", but actually "paying the attorney".

So maybe you should reexamine your premise before dismissing the idea.
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It looks like the [flagged] label was incorrectly displayed—users haven't flagged it.
Perhaps because even someone who would engage in and document a conspiracy to break organization rules via email wouldn't be dumb enough to do the same thing with breaking the law.
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Yet how would I be viewed if I applied the same logic to acquiring goods and services? If you aren't able to earn a living then you should focus on improving yourself. If you can't then you are SOL.

It's funny how high production skills are forcefully shared but there is little effort to even try to share social skills. If anything, being socially awkward is met with scorn. Maybe we should swap the name to socially poor and people would have some pity
Saying he did nothing wrong is ignoring the entirety of the situation. At the very least, you have to agree that falsifying tweets from another user was against the ToS, and thus earned him his ban.
Android has reached a level of maturity that makes comparison with Apple ecosystem neglectable nowadays; simply its no longer a selling point compared to previous years.
Also, high end Android phones were able to introduce new technologies to the mobile market much faster that Apple (in example: VR).
Just anecdotical, Im a Windows Phone user, but due to R&D work I use Apple and Android devices regularly. That unique, luxury feeling of Apple phones is no longer that visible as it was a couple of years ago.
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There are no torch-wielding mobs here. Nobody is attacking his physical person. They're excluding him from an organization.

What you are arguing is that, in the absence of a trial by a government, people have the active right to participate in an organization that doesn't want them. That goes against every bit of the ethos of a project like Tor. (And if you won't believe any other argument, keep in mind that it's not fair to him: why would the state be inclined to treat him fairly, for everything he's done to oppose the state?)

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
I'm assuming they differentiate linux from, e.g., BSD or other Unixes?
Strangest thing I've seen on HN in a while. Anyways, it's gone now.
Except online, all platforms are privately owned. Hence you often get de facto censorship. You can technically say something not allowed on those platforms, but then find there's no way to draw any attention to this content/those views. It's like living in a company town where anything the administration don't like isn't allowed.

It's a problem with freedom of speech and private property in general, and why some people have considered the idea of treating large social platforms as closer to utilities rather than businesses.
Yotsugi from Monogatari series, Kuriyama from Kyoukai no Kanata, Azusa from K-On (more-so admiration of Mio than romantic), Free!, Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? just to name a few.

If MAL wasn't for whatever reason blocked by my work's filter I'm sure I could come up with 10+ more from relatively popular shows (Monogatari, Beyond the Boundary, and K-On! being the most popular)
Hacking Teams exploits were released and they are nothing like the one in this blog post.
Also http/2 for IIS and Packet Direct which are already in the current Win 10 and Server 2016
Thanks for the 'really good tech' comment, I'll take that on HN any day. I'm sure we could agree on many structural differences in human and machine learning, and in that sense, I'd agree that it makes sense to be clearer about them.
Point being this is exactly what people were afraid of when Facebook tried to become an pseudo-ISP for India.
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Trump is pretty open about the bad things he wants to do, though. Although I'm still hoping he's just a loudmouth.

P.S: Not a Killary supporter (just making sure I'm not misunderstood ;-)