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Then what do you think of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism regarding precision? Is this an "out of place artefact"? A unique piece of work, only made once, or did they made many more which simply haven´t been discovered by us yet? Seems to require some precision, though not in working with steel.
Where did the water for the ice come from? What is the optimal sea level for the governments to set? How do you calculate an energy output without knowing it's environment? Why do scientist, who are dependent on government funding, use words like 'suggest', 'surprised', or 'consensus'?

The truth is that none of us know what the actual dimensions of our solar system were 5,000 years ago, nor do we know the measurements in the next 1,000.

An object is never the same when nature is applied over time.
Isolate your concerns and risks. There's no reason to drop into an interactive root shell for a single command, and your chances of forgetting your current privilege level and running the wrong thing are not insignificant.
Reminds me of that time the head writer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was hired by a think tank, because he'd spent so much time imagining what the future of warfare could be. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/press-releases/call-of-d...
I certainly agree that a fingerprint is a much greater claim to an identity than a username. 'Casually' of course fingerprints work fine for auth, but fingerprints can and have been reproduced. Technology may alleviate that issue eventually, and you could argue that all auth methods have their issues.

The bigger issue I see is that 'rrmm' is an identity I assumed. I have many different identities. I only have one set of finger prints. (Fingerprinting to unlock a local store of keys would fix some of this problem, but I am fond of plausible deniablity in identification).
That actually happened to me. Friends of mine run a business I did some low level setting up of IT and design work for. Recommended they use Dropbox for important data in a folder I shared with them. One day, I keep getting notifications from Dropbox. Temporarily disable it on my machine because it annoyed the heck out of me. A few hour later, I get the "I think we have a virus" call.

Turns out that me being annoyed means I now have a fully intact version of the data and nobody had to pay anything.
I have the same figure as well, as If Apple uses certain fix formula to decide on EU price. But it makes it continue to wonder what make the actual EU price $130 higher. While it is only 5% difference, $130 is still quite a lot.
It's a "something you are" authentication factor, since it is presumed that the cost of faking a fingerprint is too high to be worth it in those cases.
They also get it 24/7 for a good chunk of the year.
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I don't think this is very useful, at least in my usecase, where most things don't require sudo in the first place (homebrew installed DBs, etc.).

Would be awesome to TouchID restart Upstart things on remotes, which is not really feasible. One can dream, though :)
Yes, but in this case I am sure you were able to reuse a lot of your knowledge.
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I saved my dad from ransomware using the Crashplan backups I set up. Ransomware can't retroactively encrypt remote (incremental) backups (unless they hack the service). Admittedly, I now realize they could have deleted them, so I need to enable the password protection in the app, so nothing can be changed without the password. However, I don't think it's worth it for the builders to invest in that: the number of people that could rescue themselves in such a way is probably negligible.
You've addressed a real need here. I've learned so much from talking to other technical founders about managing engineers and projects. I feel that this stuff isn't as well-documented as much as other parts of startup and engineering life, and I think this could be a big first step toward fixing that.

I was especially psyched to join as soon as I saw a reference to that fantastic Camille Fournier article. Her blog is one of the few incisive resources I've found on technical management at startups.
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Can you elaborate? I'm not sure to understand the "ATM machine thing" and the "feels wrong on the lips".
Thanks for adding clarity.
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What special "wrong thing" can root do? There might os level files that only root can edit or delete. I don't care about those. I can reinstall the os anytime if I should ever mess it up. All the value is in my data.
yeah, some sites will 'break', but not a problem to me so far...

I suspect it can be done via Firefox's userchrome.css file, but I never dabble in it
@jetsnoc: I totally respect wanting to keep this open to just startup CTOs, but if there's any wiggle room on this, you should totally let lpolovets in. :) As an investor in my company, he's helped me think through specific technical management issues, and is really eager to aggregate knowledge across his network.
Sitting in some other nice place while a slave oversees administration of your landholdings is well documented in the US south too. See e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Time-Cross-Economics-American-Slavery... . They take pains to emphasize that slaves were educated, motivated, and taken seriously.
I am in the same boat.
Right now I am looking into

1. Asus Zenbook Pro UX501VW

2. HP Spectre x360

3. Dell XPS (but I really really don't like the webcam position)
Very odd your selective memory. You don't remember the Macintosh IIfx?
Second System Syndrome would be if all of this had been jammed into the 3.0 release, eight years ago.

It's clear that the async story stumbled into a tarpit after that, but I would be very surprised if it wasn't straightened out eventually into a clean syntax & implementation.

Although it will undoubtedly take longer than anyone would like to deprecate the crufty bits.

Oh, and it is mythical, not mystical.
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I meant that I'm now considering changing the thing the article is about: using immutable data in the database and considering any mutable parts of it a cache, in a sense. Basically he's describing CQRS but not using the term.

Moving off of Elixir certainly isn't being considered :-) We chose it particularly for its concurrency and robustness features, which are important to us (we're a messaging component for marketplace/platform sites so deliverability and concurrency are very high on the list). We'd have picked Erlang if Elixir didn't exist.
I guess I like the trade-offs of something-you-have/something-you-know even if the cost of faking them is actually lower.

I am probably in a minority.
ATM Machine = Automated Teller Machine Machine.
it is actually in the west's hands, where most tycoons and climate change deniers reside.
It is actually kind of difficult to get fired at a large tech company, unless you do something illegal, and you'll get plenty of advance notice since you'll be put on a performance plan.
The phrase "PAM Module" would be expressed in full as "Pluggable Authentication Module Module".
the M in PAM stands for Module, so saying PAM module is redundant (like saying ATM machine, where the M stands for Machine)
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"ATM" machine: "automatic teller machine" machine
The individual feature significance tests do not have any parameter, they just generate the p-values.

The only parameter that one can tune is the overall percentage of irrelevant extracted features. That is the expected FDR of the Benjamini yakutieli procedure.
This article quotes sales numbers in the millions and asserts that this means games like Bioshock Infinite were "hugely profitable".

That's not necessarily true.

Bioshock Infinite in particular was "disappointing" compared to projections:

http://www.p4rgaming.com/take-two-in-retrospect-ken-levines-...

2K posted losses in the hundreds of millions in the year leading up to Bioshock Infinite's release (Bioshock would have been a significant percentage of that) and continued to lose money in the year of its release:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-05-13-bioshock-in...

People often ignore that these games may cost over a $100 million to develop and the same again to market (Bioshock Infinite ads were everywhere). Selling 5 million copies might only net $100 million back again (after taxes and other distribution costs).
I was surprised about that and looked for a source. Here it is:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-...
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Given their handling of the Clinton investigation, I wouldn't call anyone at the DOJ a legal expert.
>>There might os level files that only root can edit or delete

Nailed it.

>>I can reinstall the os anytime if I should ever mess it up

Not everyone has the luxury or time to do this. Why break it in the first place?

>>All the value is in my data.

? Cool story.
I use a Surface Book at home mainly because I was seduced by the dGPU and a real keyboard. However if I was in the market right now for a laptop I can't see how I'd pass on a Surface Pro 4. Much cheaper than the book and pretty much as good, type cover is not too bad at all.
Nothing special: Acer Aspire S.

And it's far from the only ultrabook around that thickness with those kind of ports. I'm just amused that it has more variety of ports than the Pro machine which costs 3 to 4 times as much. (though, no thunderbolt 3)

But it's not even in the same market as the Macbook Pro, it should be competing with the Macbook. I was kind of hoping to upgrade it to a Macbook Pro when the new model was released.
One example relating to OS X is that malware running as root can defeat anti-keylogger protections such as this: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2150...

If you were running your web browser as root, and a malicious website used a vulnerability to drop some malware on your system, then it would have complete power to do what it liked without needing to escalate privilege using another vulnerability.
Is it possible to switch the overlays from within a program while the program is running on the board?

Or do you have to do the overlay switching from an external system?
I remember the exCTO of etsy announcing something like this on Paul Fords podcast - is this that?
It isn’t. It’s the equivalent of the Windows and Mac versions.
Mythical, of course. Thank you.)
How does "making stuff" make it any better? Making (and consuming) stuff is the problem we are talking about. One needs to stop making stuff.
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> I suspect the vocal minority are the users in the upper end of the prosumer range who can't really justify moving to truly pro workflows / infrastructure.

Are you suggesting that they are Pro'ing it wrong?! Your comment reeks of no True Scotsman: if a persons workflow is local, then it's not "truly pro". You seem to be forgetting that not all people can be wired into the pro infrastructure all every time they need to do work (travel, connectivity).
Uhhh, no. Anesthesia is rather dangerous. It's unsafe without medical supervision, which means it just shunts the costs from passengers to the anesthesiologists that'd have to accompany them.
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So this has nothing to do with Django, other than being built with it? It took me a while to realize that.
> Maybe because after decades I'm frankly pissed of all the infinite glitches in windows and Linux and I want something that just works?

I actually ended up switching from OS X to Linux (on a MacBook) for this reason. Things break all the time, but at least I can usually figure out how to fix them on Linux. (OS X would freeze at random times, requiring a hard shutdown, and also sometimes resume from sleep with a black screen and no way to change it, the former happening across every version and the latter only after I upgraded to Mavericks).
Has anyone tried the Razer Blades? They were linked on that page and I must say they look very nice.
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Kernel upgrade. 4.7.something or other, I think.
I'm certain that's probably because the product was finalized too late to begin production early, not an artificial shortage.
Gosh this makes me want to buy a skateboard but I feel like I'd look like such a manchild / dweeb trying it out.
What does something that does "have to do with Django" look like to you?
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Modern ransomware is continuously evolving. It is not only just encrypting, locking the computer or locking system files, but also disabling the very security software that is meant to protect the system from these malwares. Our ransomware intelligence team (within the Threat Intelligence group of Paramount) always keeps an eye on new ransomwares. We recently found the new version of Cerber ransomware which is the Cerber v4.

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I agree with the idea that using a client device as a window into a cloud machine with an arbitrary level of resources on demand is something we will and should move toward.

I strongly disagree with any suggestion that there is no point currently in building a more powerful Mac. Gamers are the best illustration of the phenomenon I'm referring to. Serious gaming is a large market of people who are poorly served by the Mac market and well served by the Windows market, and the difference is NOT that Windows (OS) is inherently better for gaming than Mac (OS) but entirely due to the fact that Apple won't build hardware configured to meet the needs of serious gamers and, worse, refuses to allow anyone else to build good gaming Macs, either. You can get bulky Windows laptops that are much better for gamers (yet no more expensive) than fashionably anorexic Mac laptops, and you can get even better gaming machines for no more money if you buy even bulkier (less-compact) desktops instead of laptops. Relaxing the tight size constraints allows you to provide much more power for the same price. Some people would rather pay for the power than the thinness.

Many developers are in an analogous situation: MacOS itself meets our needs better than alternatives, and Apple can clearly deliver high-end hardware build quality worth paying extra for, but they build hardware optimized for things that don't matter as much to many of us (thinness, elimination of unsightly "lines", minimal connectors, etc.) at the expense of things that matter a lot more. If they doubled the thickness, for example, they could give us more battery life and would have more room for less-compact, cheaper, previous-generation components, giving us more RAM and SSD for the same price.

I believe that thinness is extremely important for some products, such as a tablet (should be large enough for easy reading yet light enough to hand hold for long reading sessions), and a type of laptop for working on the go with a laptop always at your fingertips (frequent business travelers, college students). A MacBook (with more connectors!) would be great for that.

BUT, thinness above all else does not have to be the design ethos for EVERY product line. The MacBook PRO line could use the same OS, high-quality screens, battery mgt., wifi, etc., but be optimized for how much screen (offer a 17" again), battery (replaceable), RAM and SSD (large and upgradeable), and so on, while still being "thin enough". Although various business objectives (ex: wanting to be associated with wealthy, fashionable partiers, not workaday drudges) may make it not useful for Apple, the general idea that there is "no point" in machines optimized for power instead of thinness is wrong.
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When you're doing maintenance on a production environment which is serving hundreds or thousands of customers, in many cases you can't just "reinstall the OS anytime". Sure, ideally your environment is set up with redundancy and you fail over nicely, but still...
New Locky Ransomware Variant Gaining Pace
The latest version of Crypto Locky Ransomware seems to be propagating treacherously. Once this ransomware infects the victim machine, the files are appended with ‘.ṣhit’ extension after encryption. The variant is primarily infected through email campaigns.

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Black and white horizontal lines or misrendered text for a split second until a white blink rerenders the whole page. Happens somewhat frequently when I have heavy CPU load on a Linux laptop.
Right. They don't give a fuck about us so it's hard to continue giving a fuck about them. But the question for them is, will they really be better off in the long term giving the creatives the middle finger?
(a) China and India are doing the best they can, as highlighted by several links in this thread. I don't know where you get this information that China and India are "doing nothing". Please share your source.
(b) "I say let it happen", "No one is going to take it seriously until its to late anyway ". Do you see the irony?

Do you have any number to show that developed nations cannot put a dent on global warming? Whatever I could gather in 5 minutes points otherwise [1]. Even if you believe so, they can still help by:
(i) Using their technical expertise and money in helping developing countries develop and deploy green technology.
(ii) They are the consumers of most of the manufacturing output. They can set stricter rules on ecological impact of produced goods. They can set local laws that will not allow companies to buy from polluting industries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
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I don't think the economic drawback to slavery is about the labor conditions, I think it's the lack of ability to improve you position. Chattel slavery puts about as wide a gap between two human's interests as anything I can think of, with war being a possible exception. The suggestions that slavery grew out of organized warfare explain a lot, I believe.

So even if you had similar working conditions, I think you would have dramatically different social pressures and interests.
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This looks like an interesting tool, and a great way to sharethis sort of knowledge internally.

I'm hankering after a SQLAlchemy version, though.
Ask HN: How to vet an unsolicited USB drive?
I just received some marketing mail with a USB stick attached. Awesome, free USB stick! By which, of course, I mean attack vector.

What tests (if any) would convince you that it's safe to use such a USB stick?
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> How is this not a solved problem?

It's not because the big 3 (Apple, Google and Microsoft) do not want you to encrypt your email, so they can use it for data mining. If 70% of their gmail users used encryption, I'm sure they'd be turning the service subscription only or (as it's customary for G) shut it down.

So, if you need encryption you have use an external "add-on".

The problem of secure email is solved, it's just not pushed as a standard because:

a) Users don't understand they're being tracked (or don't care)

b) It's not promoted (actually it's being demoted) by industry leaders

The fact that H. Clinton and her equip didn't use GPG is appalling, doesn't make sense. This group of people had big stakes on the privacy of their communications, they went as far as setting up a mail server and forgot to apply encryption? I just don't get it.
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Once upon a time, when you bought something, you had to buy it from the guy who made it. It was mostly unique and personalization was the default. You didn't have many options, and he didn't have many customers. Both of these were problems of distribution. And distribution was a Hard Problem.

Then we built factories and distribution chains. This provided a solution to the problem. It offered more choice, and more customers. There were drawbacks, as with anything. It centralized wealth, which was worrisome. It decoupled the value created from the value the creator received. It made producing identical products easy, and custom products intractable. It built cities, and long commutes. But it was worth it.

A couple hundred years passed, and we built computers. We built the Internet. We made solving the Hard Problem so easy children could do it. But we forgot that there were drawbacks we took on. And instead of shrugging them off, we used the tools that could remove those drawbacks to expand those drawbacks.
> I feel like the video really really was based on faith that the future will just become more complex.

Well as long as we keep churning out more coders and more code, it will! Automatically. Just by definition.

We're buffering some of that explosion & redirecting a lot of that complexity potential by evolving a relatively harmless "JS frameworks all the way down" song-and-dance. Turns out we don't need Basic Income, we can just have unlimited middlemen ("the service economy") multiply a single GDP-growing transaction into infinite GDP-growing transactions, and have infinite "creatives" each add their own unique superfluous additions of bits & bytes to infinite new numbers of "products & services". Who cares about "economical", prudent, frugal, there's too many pensions to save and nothing else can as credibly inflate into infinity as the digital "industries". Crikey, I'm railing off track here.

Ever more complexity, thus ever more fragility, ever more reproduction. Has been the name of the game since the coal age. Would have to happen this way with any brainy species ending up at the top of the foodchain sooner or later. Once you eat up your prey animals and go "civilized", the direction is irreversably set. But hey, Elon is gonna blow us into space so the future is as bright as the night sky :D
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I signed up but got a white screen the first time. The second time it worked but I might be there two times :) Good idea anyway!
Heh, that's an interesting point you make. Assuming you can't or don't want to use Bluetooth, I was surprised to see that in The Netherlands, there's only 1 brand that carries an USB-C mouse, and it's a budget brand as well:
http://www.trust.com/en/product/20969-usb-c-retractable-mini...

So I have to admit it's indeed very, very slim pickings.
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