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> in a large company, if the main products are management politics, as you say, a capable critical thinker ought to be able to dominate that game, instead of focusing on relatively unimportant priorities like "shipping".

Um, they do exactly that? Upper managers are notorious for spending most of their time playing politics and very little time delivering product.
Key phrase on the timing of this doom: when the sun dies

Interesting article nonetheless.
Not yet. But you can already write code that shares memory with objects that you also access from hand-written OpenCL code, and since OpenCL can interop with OpenGL, what you are asking for should eventually be possible.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12425313 and marked it off-topic.
Also, the shapes are nowadays pre-bent in the opposite direction, so they get more optimal when they are loaded. You can do many things in a wind turbine that would be dangerous in an aircraft.
Most of those weaknesses are well known and easy to deal with.

In particular:

* Use a separate system for Tor traffic, never use that system for anything else

* Don't use BitTorrent (which you shouldn't be doing
anyways - the network wasn't built for it!)

* Don't touch non-TLS sites, the exit node could be hostile

* Javascript off
Having worked with real-time systems, it's far from being an urban legend. Please name "real-time" garbage collectors available for mainstream languages.

And note that I'm not talking about ability to serve soft real-time services where you're allowed between 1 to 5% of all transactions to miss their deadline. Do that for a car break system or for an airplane guidance system and lives are lost. Heck, do that for video decoding and frames are dropped.
Yet, a lot of hierarchical structures I see are full of "ref" and "id" attributes, which effectively encode cyclic graphs.
Have you ever been to China? There's a plenty of people who work there and have to use various proxies to do so, is the Chinese government cracking down on them? Nah, they'll just mess with those connections a little to keep up appearances.

But hey, if you decide to use a proxy that screams "I'M A POLITICAL DISSIDENT" with every packet you send they might just get interested.

It's really not as naive as you think.
Sorry, should have been clear in saying that the first link was to a tweet @nexxylove had retweeted.
Your experience with Coinbase seems to be common with many companies posting hiring ads each and every month.

I've emailed and applied to various positions for the past 9 months, through these Hacker News hiring posts, but never once hear anything back at all. And then keep seeing the same positions showing up again and again.

Practically all these monthly hiring posts have been regurgitated over and over for months and months. It is very frustrating for many serious job seekers visiting these threads every month, and seeing the same positions time and time again.

Wish Hacker News has a way to flag them.
But it's a default requirement for most white collar entry level jobs in this country, and many blue collar manufacturing jobs have been exported out of the country. College feels like a default requirement for many students because it's the only way they see to get entry into a saught after career, even if they don't have a definite career chosen yet.
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I'm just saying that if I was trying to hide data from the government, I would be much more paranoid (in some cases it might be a good idea to use a device not owned by you on somebody's else network, for example)... but in cases where you are facing a low-resource adversary, I would not bother with a non-free VPN when you can have Tor for free which have the potential to be better then a VPN.
Yup, they certainly did. Marco made Instapaper but eventually sold it to a different company (Beta Works) which built a team around it and monetized it via the developer api (https://www.instapaper.com/api). It was recently sold to Pinterest so that developer product is being sunset, but that's irrelevant in this example.
Not sure if sarcasm... do you mean IPFS?
Just curious, but have you tried a brand-new iDevice out-of-the-box as a disabled person? I have. I am quadriplegic and within five minutes of help from a able-bodied person, I had as much access to my iPhone as any able-bodied person does.

Sometimes good news is just good news.
Anyone trusting Tor for anything anymore is asking for trouble. Their new branding and associated bravado is just weak-sauce attempts at projecting technical soundness in the face of getting their tech butt-torn by the CMU hack. You can google the details of the hack yourself.

Anyone, with even an iota of self-preservation in them, is best served staying away from this identity-leaking crapware. There is no gentle way of putting it. Tor is fundamentally and practically compromisable, do not trust it for guarding your anonymity against a determined adversary.

No. I don't have any suggestions for alternatives either.
Thankfully, this threading depth only goes so far which perfectly coincides with my interest in responding.
> Using Tor already marks you as suspicious depending on who's looking, regardless of why you use it

Is this based on experience or assumption? I've had minor issues with Tor and VPNs abroad, when questioned about them. Brushing them off as a "security tool" usually worked.

A "human rights" tool, on the other hand, makes Tor dangerous to be caught using in many parts of East Asia. I find most Westerners (myself included until recently) don't understand the cultural and political sensitivity around the term in certain countries. OP's analogy to the Western treatment of anything rhyming with drugs is spot on.
Quit my "prestigious" but hollow job of 10 years. Sold 90% of my possessions. Let go of my loft apartment. Dramatically cut back my lifestyle.

I'm much freer (and happier) as a result. Thoreau calls it Economy. I like to say that I broke out of captivity and am now an outdoor cat.
The CMU attack required setting up a very large number of malicious relays on the Tor network.

It was bad that Tor didn't notice the large number of new relays joining the network but greater vigilance is being shown.

Tor is effective against many threat models and yet many attacks are known. Further work is required.
I completely DISAGREE with this.

My experience with YAML is that it's very temperamental with respect to /whitespace/ and that your editor might try to get too smart and damage the document.

JSON, if you see a pattern and follow the pattern, is likely to work.

JSON CAN be stored in a 'pretty' way, with extra whitespace, which makes it even more obvious how to format a document; that's frequently how I write out small bootstrap config files (IE the database connection string to get the main config from).
As far as I understand it sort of happened -- Norway was in the EEA because it was trying to become a full EU member, and then later it decided it didn't want to.
How terrifying would status quo power holders find a free, universally available and readily usable software tool that provided real and uncrackable anonymity for anyone?
Shared memory is fast but dangerous if not done right, lots of opportunities for data races. I used it for low latency data access. It took an inordinate amount of time to debug. With hardware at the time there was no other alternative given the constraints.

Two other things that would be fun to benchmark is Unix Sockets and System V IPC messages (anyone uses those? probably the most obscure IPC around these days). Hmm, maybe some of those are already used behind the scenes by some of the Java methods described.
... "and the rental car agency and everyone they share data with."
why these title changes?!? Does one really have to write separate blog posts with the same title so they don't get changed?
In Florida, a child can quit school at age 16 with the parents' permission. I don't know how many USA states have similar age thresholds. I'm guessing many do.

If you meant that Germany high school ends by default at age 16 for all students, then yes, the USA is radically different in that respect. Also, Germany's summer vacation is 6 weeks instead of USA's 12 weeks. Since Germany ranks ahead of USA in primary education standings, maybe they have the better system.

[1]http://statelaws.findlaw.com/florida-law/florida-compulsory-...
[scrolls up, notices username isn't "mr_bucket" or similar]

OK, now I'm confused — I've seen plenty of Keeping Up Appearances episodes and I've made a few friends over things that look like social networks if you squint at them hard enough. What am I missing?
There are people who take multiple busses with a travel time of over an hour to commute less than ten miles. Peole who can't afford a car and/or don't have a valid license. If an uberpool costs five dollars, it can be a viable option for these workers and significantly raise their quality of life.
Wifi MAC address or other identifier is one method.
No we shouldn't, but has he charged the women who have come forward with slander? If not why not? Should we believe his denials? Shouldn't we presume the women to be innocent of slander?

Presumption of innocence is a red herring. It's a legal principle, not an ethical principle.

In real, messy situations without sufficient evidence or will to overcome the "legal" presumption of innocence, we are forced to make heuristic decisions (and inaction/ignoring the allegations is such a decision). THe decision can be more than black and white, too. For example that Applebaum is not rapist, and maybe hasn't done anything outright illegal, but has probably exhibited ethically questionable behaviour that would more than sufficient grounds for not wanting him associated with your project.

For a thorough overview that I found persuasive:

http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-08/jacob-appelbaum-rape-sexua...

People in the movement describe him as someone who likes to experiment with sex. As one who usually gets what he wants. "I’ve also seen him be inconsiderate of other people’s feelings," said one person who knows him well, "or be overly persistent about asking for permission to do things other people didn’t want to do." But, he added, Mr. Appelbaum asks for permission.

===

As an aside: Presumption of innocence is not how society works. Say a friend tells you that a particular plumber in your village cheated him out of some money, so you should avoid that plumber, would you disregard the advice because your friend didn't secure a conviction against the plumber? If you're hiring and a trusted friend tells you that XYZ was harassing women at his last job, nothing outright illegal, but definitely toxic atmosphere, would you disregard that advice because of a presumption of innocence? So the real question isn't presumption of innocence, but the trustworthiness of (sometimes anonymous) sources. That's a hard judgement call to make. People who parade "presumption of innocence" around instead of thinking about that judgement call essentially advocate never trusting any allegations of improper behaviour. Tellingly I have seen that fallacy used overwhelmingly when it comes to sexual misbehaviour. Calling it victim blaming misses the point as well of course, because that presumes that the accuser is a victim. Anyone have a good term for that?
I don't doubt it was used at some time or another. Ancient texts are filled with grammar errors, even judged by the proper grammar of the time.

"He" has been the _proper_ usage way back from its roots at the German "er", which has the same usage.

"Man" or "one" (German, "Mann" or "man") has been used in the indefinate case.

http://english.stackexchange.com/q/30455/69352
Anyone a little suspicious about the bias of this report given that it's owned by Jeff Bezos? Not to say it's untrue, but I wonder how much of it is spun to favor one side.
They all knew their native languages and had enough critical thinking to be accepted to college. SAT/ACTs include math and writing sections. So I would venture all 18-23 year olds accepted to college can learn a language and think critically.
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It seems logical to me that as society grows more complex and sophisticated, citizens require more years of education to ensure political stability.

Restricting education to what's needed for employment creates a class division between high and low education groups. Social decisions become dominated by expert language that's incomprehensible to the majority, creating conditions for a populist backlash.
have you actually went and send these alleged run down buildings? no clue where you were looking, but your comment is not true.
Slack search bot. Because saving 7$ per user per month matters
> it's interesting to me how the US federal consumer protection agencies never look at how much data the federal, state, local, etc. governments leak ...

And the private businesses security help, such as Google's, only talks about government and not business attackers.
I'm not sure this is correct. Maybe if you completely isolate it from radiation. The human body is constantly repairing DNA damage.
Doesn't linux have something similar: System V messages or even Unix Dgram sockets say using named paths for queue names.
I did the same than him, and I had to recreate a facebook account.
Reason n°1 were for group project : 90% of the people seems to have forgotten how email is working
Reason n°2 were for the associations i am part of.

But I definitely missed last year (scholastically), and i feel that all the social network are addictive, so I am trying to avoid them (I only use Facebook through Messenger, I don't have Twitter, but it never took off in my country, Snapchat). I also don't use Youtube, because it is for me the television of the 21st century.

I am going back to college in 2 weeks, and I am slowly deleting all of my last online accounts.
There's a pastebin of a Nodevember slack channel.
http://pastebin.com/3mQc7DfG

Granted, it still isn't official, but even one of the conference's founders said to look to twitter for more context for the disinvitation of Crockford, so it isn't too off base.
I've read that many states sell their drivers license databases, as one example.
I've been advised to cease using Tor when travelling to certain places.

Previously, I could have a reasonable conversation around "securing sensitive but non-threatening communications". The rebrand makes the tool dangerous to be caught using. The OP's comparison between Western treatment of anything drug related and certain cultures' reactions to the term "human rights" is spot on.
Well, freezing/thawing will create sheer that destroys the DNA, so I think the reason is different.
I noticed that YouTube's recommendations had suddenly gotten better! I wondered if they were using a new statistical approach, or had just started really optimizing at all because the old recommendations were extremely naive. I'm actually a little disappointed to find out that it might just be another deep learning thing. (Yes, it works, but I feel like you learn a little less about problem structure when what you read is mostly "we threw a generic function approximator and 30,000 hours of GPU time at it".)
I don't know. It seems stupid to entirely drop peer-to-peer but maybe that's the case now.
At the very least, there should be a mode to charge via USB while disabling the data pins at the hardware level
Kicking out a serial abuser from their ranks = Social Justice?
The people complaining are the people in areas with high unemployment.

Migrants don't go there, they come to where the jobs are.
I keep saying this but we need a working implementation of riffle sooner than later. From what I understand it solves some of the shortcomings of tor.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/stay-anonymous-online-0711
> A small codebase can be buggy too.

True, but in general, the more code, the more bugs. Now there are a number of qualifications to that statement:

- More dependencies doesn't necessarily mean more code. Each dependency could be small (and well tested).

- "More code" doesn't necessarily imply a higher percentage of bugs per amount of code.

- Having more dependencies doesn't necessarily mean I'm calling more functions or hitting more code paths.

However, a larger codebase will tend to have more "pieces" of code that can interact, which will tend toward combinatorial growth in the number of ways to (mis)use those bits of code. If I have more dependencies, there are more pieces of code interacting and exponentially higher potential for bugs. So, while I listed out those qualifications, I don't believe they are the norm.

On the other hand, if I need some functionality, then either I use a dependency the provides the functionality, or I implement whatever it is myself. In that case, I'm taking a bet that my code will be better tested and more correct than the library author's code. In most cases, I think I would lose that bet.
I've experienced that many, many times with Zipcar. One that I use regularly, will have several phones all synced (with contacts downloaded, etc...) :-/
This is begging for using http://hylang.org instead of vanilla Python.
Are you really that unaware?

People called you out for being religious, and you respond with a list of things you "believe" using fuzzy logic, with appeals to emotion, and imprecise language.

So you're proud to be religious. Fine. Be religious somewhere else.

For instance, should hackernews be welcoming to you? When you don't respect the community norms by responding in a logical way and refuting arguments?
If what you're saying is true then it's easy to provide evidence: just find a case where a company has been successfully sued for not minimizing their taxes sufficiently. I've never heard of such a case and I can't imagine how it could exist and not be mentioned every time a company receives criticism for evading taxes.
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I have never seen a subjective comparison where Apt-X beats SBC. It seems to bee all marketing hype.
> It's utterly absurd.

Your argument is literally argumentum ad absurdum. You can't show something to be absurd by pointing out that other, hypothetical non-existent things are absurd.
Facing my fear: when I moved back to America, I felt like a foreigner
Honestly it seems like either nobody cares about this, because it is too esoteric to be relatable, or the narrative has been successfully turned into this being some kind of witch hunt by the right around an insignificant issue (not mutually exclusive).

It's a shame really because it's clear, and the FBI publicly stated as much, that these activities were egregiously bad and that similar actions by anyone else would result in severe discipline.

Personally, after being in the intelligence community so long and in a technical role, I know much risk this server incurred (especially from an infosec & opsec perspective) and especially as relates to sensitive sources. This is why professional intelligence people despise politicians.

Politicians constantly do these types of practices dangerous to security and spillages because of expediency but this case is especially bad because it was so structured.
Spotify's Discover Weekly is based on collaborative filtering. Some of the techniques they use are described in these slides: http://www.slideshare.net/MrChrisJohnson/collaborative-filte...
It would actually be the opposite effect. If I found a way to cut developer costs in half I would become fabulously wealthy, not poor.

Why wouldn't someone want to both become rich by putting devs out of a job and making the world better?

Maybe due to misplaced loyalty, and so as to screw over the rest of society To Help a small rich group?
You could even just use a small USB condom, or cable adapter. There's several retail ones, all shiny and easy to use. I keep several of these in my bag http://syncstop.com
I guess my opinion comes from the idea that there hasn't been a product or company that exemplifies a basic/robust system as we have both described. Everything has had the flashy app, or cloud connectivity, which in itself is a cost. If you're able to build a basic system completely contained, mark that up, you have just a regular hardware product, doesn't need to be IoT. Now, if you want remote monitoring, or backup systems you can start charging for that. Which, I might add, traditional security companies already do. And what many IoT companies seem to consider "essentials" rather than "extras". I think once the idea is shifted from user base / experience towards a goal to hit the actual benefits (ease of expansion / cheap data monitoring ) then we'll start to see IoT really explode.
Nothing, except that sort of thing takes about to decade to negotiate.
Quite understandable. That is a very impressively close fit!
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> reduced from 93 containers with 2GB of RAM to 33 containers, 30 (with 2GB of RAM) for the RoR routes and 3 (with 1GB of RAM) for the Elixir POST route.

Nice, that's tangible direct money-in-the-pocket results you can take an owner and make a case for a technology. Can talk about functional features, or advantage of actor based paradigm for concurrency but something tangible like that is hard to beat. They might answer with something like "I don't know anything about beams and elixirs but this looks good for the bottom line, let's adopt that".
Can you give an example of where an editor has damaged your documents? I've never had that experience when editing YAML with Vim, Emacs, or TextMate… which editor are you using?