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I, too, work at Airbnb, and I'm also a host. A very significant majority of us care a great deal about the quality of the stays booked through us (I can't speak for everyone here, but if they don't care, I would question why they work here). Although there's not much of a reason to be public about it externally, it's a pretty regular occurrence to see poorly reviewed listings warned or failing to improve after that are removed for consistently poor reviews. We take a lot of pride in facilitating meaningful experiences between guests and hosts.
This seems like a decent project that has the potential to become very popular. I just tested it and it worked well; however, it clogged my CPU and the extension crushed in the end.
^ i'm interested in this as well.
Would it be faster to build a secure OS using similar tech from seL4/CertiKOS now than their 14 yrs?
Like OpenStack?
I understand CertiKOS used Coq so the verification was at least half-automated? How L4 was certified -- what were the tools available at the time? Verification still remains huge work but sounds less heroic nowadays.

Now that we have tools and methodologies for verification, the announce of yet another secure OS suddenly sounds much less impressive.
Wikipedia says: "L4 is widely deployed. One variant, OKL4 from Open Kernel Labs, shipped in billions of mobile devices.", links to a press announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20120211210405/http://www.ok-lab...

Okay, if I look more closely, OKL4 seems to be used as a hypervisor to host regular kernels. I am not sure how much that buys one, really, from a security point of view.

Also, the same Wikipedia article states: "Apple mobile application processors beginning with the A7 contain a Secure Enclave coprocessor running an L4 operating system. This implies that L4 is now shipping on all iOS devices, the total shipment of which is estimated at 310 million for the year 2015."
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Naming seems like the hardest thing now. But yeah, I thought of Pizza too. I was like "Why would a large corporation with restaurants around the country" need outside investors at this point.
That sounds like a recall.

I had the same thing on an older MacBook Pro with dodgy graphics card. Took it in to an authorised dealer, who didn't charge me up front for diagnosis, to then get a call saying it had been replaced and no fee was due as covered by Apple under a previous recall. This was in the US.
> 50% doesn't trust the other 50%

Nah, even most of those who voted for the media's candidate knew how biased they were.

Not buying used cars from them any time soon.

(Also, only between 50 and 60% of the voting age population do vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St... )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#Commerci...

> OKL4 shipments exceeded 1.5 billion in early 2012, mostly on Qualcomm wireless modem chips. Other deployments include automotive infotainment systems.

> Apple mobile application processors beginning with the A7 contain a Secure Enclave coprocessor running an L4 operating system. This implies that L4 is now shipping on all iOS devices, the total shipment of which is estimated at 310 million for the year 2015.
Exactly... This effect might reinforce 'upvote'-grabbing behavior, to either not lose the ability, or regain downvote if lost.
My friend mentioned this to me this morning and he's devastated as well. (edit: I just realized he helped me to download out of print Jazz albums from the 60s on that website so I guess I am devastated as well!)

Since we are on a tech-friendly site, I would like to ask: what are tangible solutions to avoid a disaster like this? I don't think a centralized website and bittorrent tracker is the answer, since it can be taken down pretty easily.

So what other options are there? A few years ago, everyone was about peer-to-peer protocols and technology, but it seems to lack the "centralized" bit that seems mandatory to create such a vibrant community.

This is a genuine question and I'm really interested in any information in that regard!
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That opens another can of worms: What is system control panel: is that gnome control center? Or command line dconf tools? Or is that dconf-editor? Or one of the myriad tweak utilities?

Cut off one of these and brace for the whining, that gnome is dumbing everything down and locking up your settings.
What different things?
Just don't use Windows... See how this gets down-voted
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Nope, I'm also on a late-2014 MBP. It's no slouch.
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Dignity? So you think economic coercion and slavery-with-a-choice-of-masters (or the non-choice of none, and starvation) is somehow dignified?

A leisure society is being able to do your vocation. It's about hackers being able to hack without needing a "day job" and without trying to squeeze what you want to do into the leftover energy after spending your day on makework.
Maybe this one did evolve, but others displaced it for reasons we don't know yet.

I sure hope that's what happened. I'm somehow emotionally attached to all the life forms plodding along using only those rotten old pathways, I don't know if I took kindly to lab life taking over.
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Yeah right, you had mentioned in your P.S. two other names dave and matt, I did a whois for those two and got some information:

https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=matt.blog
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=dave.blog

So yes it seems it got reserved. I wonder why too.

P.S. I'm a chris too ;) that's why im so interested in this, I own chris.lu but as it is a country tld this is not so good from a SEO point of view. I want to change if I find a better one, but haven't found one yet. Have fun with your new chris.lol :)
I was expecting to get hit by pizza advertising when i clicked this link
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Obama mentioned that he wants an internet "curating function" for determining truthful information. Watch about 5 minutes of this talk starting at 58:00 to get the full context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikQFWNYct4&t=3480s

I refuse to believe that he's not smart enough to know how problematic that is. It's not totally clear from his speech (does he just want a central repository of trusted information, or does he want to actually remove certain information from the internet?) but it's a perfect example of Obama couching dangerous ideas in soft, pragmatic language.
yours?
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No leaks doesn't mean there's nothing to leak.
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There's that word "just" again. The countries where it's happening don't want to let their people starve; you'd have to make them. You'd have to use military force to guard vast forests all over the world from hundreds of millions of desperate people. Good luck with that.
I have the impression that ever since Snowden happened, yes. Any mention of a non open source OS gets accompanied by remarks about NSA, FBI and co.
The reduction of the exchange rate is unlikely to actually help the UK. Have a look at some of the academic research, while business leaders and politicians believe that a reduced exchange rate helps exporters there's not that much evidence for it. Also, even if it does help exporters from the perspective of average voters costs and inflation will go up - which they may not have thought through.
See also http://hospitalrun.io as an example of a pretty substantial open source effort. They're funded by a nonprofit (https://cure.org) that operates charitable hospitals throughout the developing world.

The app itself is fully offline-capable and pretty neat.
Facebook Scam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

Most of views, if not all, are from click farms. Stop wasting your money.
Supreme Court appointments can actually be effectively undone, if the party that wants to undo them can get control of both houses of Congress and the White House.

They key is that there is nothing in the Constitution that sets the size of the court. All that the Constitution requires is that there be a chief justice. The actual number is set by statute. We have nine now because that's what the statute says we should have. It has not always been nine, and there is nothing that requires it to stay nine.

If a party doesn't want to wait for current justices to retire or die in order to shift the direction of the court, it could expand the court instead and fill the new seats with its preferred justices.
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It boggles my mind how often I visit company or application websites that make it difficult for me to find out what the thing is for and what it does.
More effort needed is less free time for nonsense and procrastination.
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Power brokers oppose all sorts of redistribution but public movements can demand it.

A minimum wage is already part way to a basic income. The other half, a minumum wage for just being human and alive, would require similar political support.
Agreed! An alternative (open sourced as well) is http://hospitalrun.io/ , at least they get the look'n feel better.
The links to end-users use beam-steered microwaves, sat-sat links use laser.

I was more making a more general statement: that wireless is not necessarily synonymous with shared medium.
> WikipediaP2P uses WebRTC for all Peer to Peer communication.

Is this a sign that WebRTC isn't optimised yet, or is it the extension itself that needs some love?
Ask HN: Why did Nikesh Arora resigned from his job at Softbank?
Has he done a comment on this?
Do you know the real reason?

Still feel a bit weird, as he was clearly designated as the next CEO by M. Son.
3 minutes is just enough time to stand up, walk around a bit, rest your eyes, stretch, and get a drink of water. That's probably what I would do.
Where does it say it will be free?
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It might be because when you say "just like there is freedom of speech" you are making a reference to a legal term of art which isn't "just like" what you compared it to.

The latter part of your response (after "Still") is a sensible statement, and in the future I'd suggest stating that directly, rather than tying it to misapplied legal terminology.
I think it would have been better had they mentioned some financial costs for OpenAI to use Azure. Since OpenAI is a non-profit foundation, giving them a free or substantially cost reduced access would mean the Microsoft is doing their bit to promote AI research. There are various ways to make something whole.
It's a pitty it doesn't have a firefox plugin.
I can see that not everyone likes Cloudflare, but generally a CDN that allows cheap delivery of the bandwidth heavy parts (e.g. images and scripts) makes probably more sense in reality than P2P.

While the P2P idea is very nice, most residential lines are heavily geared towards download speed. Upload speed is often only 5-10% of the overall speed. Using a P2P network outside of your Lan will probably lead to a slower experience than using a CDN that has PoPs very close to you.

Now I'm pretty sure that Cloudflare would save Wikipedia at least 95% of bandwidth with the free tiers. And I don't think that Cloudflare would complain, the gain of having them as clients would be larger than the costs for bandwidth. Similar for other providers, Wikipedia and their traffic levels would probably get very cheap offers.

But I can also understand that it would somehow question the independence of Wikipedia from corporate interests. That's why they didn't do it.
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My experience with Google Play Store returns is similar. I have bought a Nexus 5 for a friend and returned it three times because of various issues. Every time they have shipped the replacement phone immediately after I have submitted the claim.

I was not asked to do any troubleshooting.
Yes, it's called a sun-synchronous orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit

The exact orbit has to be arranged so that it precesses once a year, keeping it aligned with a particular local time of day. "Typical sun-synchronous orbits are about 600–800 km in altitude, with periods in the 96–100 minute range, and inclinations of around 98°"
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Closed source OS from an anti virus company with a dodgy history? I will pass.
Alternative news sources with extra info.

BBC: “Europe launches Galileo satellite quartet” http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38000538

Spaceflight Insider: “Ariane 5 booster soars into orbit with four Galileo navigation satellites” http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/arianespace/...

NASA Spaceflight.com: “Ariane 5 ES successfully launches Galileo quadruplets” https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/11/ariane-5-launch-gali...
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"Anticipating your questions: not even the slightest smell of Linux. All the popular operating systems aren’t designed with security in mind, so it’s simpler and safer to start from the ground up and do everything correctly."

It looks like a realistic assessment. General purpose operating systems ( at least the 3 most famous ones ) are built with ease of use in mind, not security. Even Torvalds admits it, saying that he sees performance as a top priority, and not security.

If Kaspersky OS is more secure or not, we will see in the future.
Real root of that was in eastern Ukraine and in Russia, just look where the "rebels" (or "green men") are.
They have played Christians for a long time, but I suspect they have also over-played their hand, and are losing that support base, mostly via war, corruption, and generally taking the Christians for granted while completely disregarding their core issues, justice, mercy, compassion, &c.
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Compute clusters that look like house walls?
All you need to do is install XFCE. It has a great terminal, a solid file manager, a compositing WM, and easy configuration. I don't bother setting things up piecemeal or fiddling with .Xresources any more.

Also, it would be great if we could stop using "rice" as an adjective. Even if you don't find it offensive, some people do.
I just started learning about opencores and various buses (wishbone, axi, etc.) I am surprised many designs say spartan 3 or some vendor specific Fpga. I thought an Fpga is an Fpga. Yet, I see logic analyzers, open source softcores, etc. target specific devices. What gives?
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It's probably still worth running them all though a de-noise filter first tho.
A bad actor could also use a super narrow beam pointed at the satellite as a jamming signal that saturates the receiver, which prevents reception or even damages the satellite. Depends on the power.
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The word "adventure" doesn't appear even once on the Airbnb Experiences page. I think they are two completely different things.
I think changing the links to point to the cache instead of the original server needs that permission.
Do you mean logged into Chrome (e.g. profile sync)? or just logged into Gmail?
Yeah, I wonder when will we have a hurricane sized wind generator (with a huge set of batteries or other storage facility)
We have to remember that this law still forces ISPs to do something that costs them money. They won't do more than requested in the law, especially if it means buying more servers just for that.

Agencies can of course do that, but that's independent of the law.
> Instead, the internet seems to be helping people create cocoons of ignorance and "evidence" to support even the most specious claims - such as the world being flat.

I've yet to see any evidence that it overall makes the world a worse place.

People give examples like immigration but leave out things like gay marriage acceptance which would have been unheard of pre-internet. Drug reform seems to be improving.

> Knowledge does not seem to be enough.

Correct, access to knowledge is useless, but the internet is more.

It's access to incredible AI machines and software, like Googles search engine. The ability for Uber to work. For free phone calls.
"not even the slightest smell of Linux."

So me too I have a dream. In my dream, every shop that needs two threads running and one semaphore synchronizing, will cease porting Linux and instead will roll up the sleeves, writes their own kernel 100% matching their need, prove its validity via formal verification and then use it.

In the world where this is possible, why would one go for a non-generic OS from a third party? Does look to me like Kaspersky might have that same vision for the future and tries to leverage their assets while it is not too late.

But security-by-brand-name is not really better than security-by-verification, isn't it?
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A lot of the news this election was fake.

https://sharylattkisson.com/newsgate-2016/
RethinkDB has joins and I found its grouping to be straightforward and super powerful. Selecting distinct values is as simple as putting .distinct() at the end of your ReQL. While it doesn't have foreign keys, any value can act as one as long as it holds a tables primary key (or other indexed fields), in which case you can do db.table('other_table').get(primary_key_val) (or getAll(foregin_key_val, {index: 'my_index'}) if not the PK, but otherwise indexed).

Granted, it won't validate that the keys exist, however (since its schemaless at the DB level), so nothing will prevent you from inserting a document with foreign keys that are invalid, but from a querying point of view, foreign keys are easy. Would be nice if you could set insert/update-checked constraints though.
Absolutely. I'm not saying manuals are better. Like any technology choice there's a trade-off. In this case the trade-off is it makes driving a car less complex, which is good, at the cost of some other things.

I just find it curious the notion from some Americans that driving a manual is inherently old fashioned and thus inferior in every way. Maybe it is a technology bubble thing as well.
Don't worry, it's not only you. You only have to read the Twitter feed of the lead developer (@meanmicio) to confirm your suspicions.
I never said that they are going to be forcefully rewritten, I meant that whoever maintains initscripts might eventually rewrite them using systemd units more tightly because they are going be simpler and easier to maintain (in general, not because systemd is making anything any harder). You will still run something with systemd, this something can be the plain executable or an initscript, it is not like systemd checks and makes sure it likes whatever it is running...
So apparently google reached out to this customer after he made his way around social media.

Customer support in 2016 folks. I remember calling the tax office in Denmark because they really did a number on a parsel they inspected (It was a 3d printer kit and they basicly destroyed it, cut open printed parts, bend 6mm steel steel sheet parts etc). I called first and was basicly told that there was nothing they could do for me and that it was my fault anyways. Then I tweeted SKAT (tax office) with a picture of my banged up parsel and 15 minutes later I had a ticket in their system for financial compensation of the destroyed parcel...
That kinda doesn't matter with ZFS or btrfs, though; as real CoW file systems their consistency properties are similar to a fully journaled FS (not only metadata but also data, like ext4 in journal=data mode). In that case you don't need to care anymore as an application developer about file committing patterns, as long as it's only about one file.
Paywalls. Quite a few right-leaning papers in the UK have already gone that way. As have WashPo and the NYT! The Telegraph and the Times are both behind paywalls. For the Times, their readership crashed but their profits went up.
From a deep learning point of view I totally get the appeal of doing this, however...

Surely for the old black and white Pokémon games it would be easier to just rip the assets from the ROM and ask the Pokémon community to re-colour them as a crowd-sourced effort, I'm sure many fans would love to do it.

Would it then be possible to re-inject the assets back into the ROM? (I'm thinking not, as 1-bit images are way smaller than 4-or-8 bit images, and that's not even considering that the original Gameboy ROMs probably don't understand colour images at all...)
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But isn't an isolation kernel enables you to limit spread of malware between modules and to detect when a module was compromised and reset it ? Isn't that a big improvement ?
>>> Tryton has taken a wildly different path than it's ancestor OpenERP

Could you elaborate ? I'm interested in knowing what are the differences, business wise (I think Odoo is now on the web and Tryton is not, but that's superficial for me)
I think changing the mindset of Republicans will have the most impact. If we had another candidate they would have made "defending traditional family" a stump issue.
GDI, I just flipfloped to Firefox... I guess no P2P goodness until Firefox supports Chrome addons or the addon gets ported...
Just buy a 4G/LTE USB dongle.
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1. Learn to Code as goog as possible BUT don't try to code your product. Use what you learn to be able to be on tech people shoes and make communi cation flow.

2. The valley is a good place to interact with people that is building things... But it is not THE place to be 100% of the time.

The best place to be is where you can get/onboard customers better. Maybe you can get an important market share from Buffalo. After all you live near financial market customers. Look what it makes sense to you.
Doesn't appear so. But here is a list of phones with standby > 768h

http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nBatCapacityMin=4000&nB...

Click refine to tune the parameters.
> There is a reason we are all of the sudden talking about Fake News

There's even two reasons:

- Distract from looking at how biased the NYT et al. were

- Censor those pesky midges who say different from the approved line

Win-win.

(Bonus URL: http://nypost.com/2016/11/15/new-york-times-edits-its-electi... )
If you want to do IPFS, you need to run IPFS locally to make it work, otherwise you're just redistributing bandwidth to the ipfs.io gateway.

IMO the presented solution is a bit better since it only relies on WebRTC to establish P2P, no extra software required.
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Open source projects are not shielded from this either. Plenty of paranoia, justified or not, going around these days.

https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/julian-assange-de...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-milli...

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-backdoor-left-in-Unix-or-...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-the-nsa-may-have-put-a-backd...

On one hand, we've been privy to some of NSA's operations, on the other, there is still a lot left to be disclosed, most will of course, never be out in the open.
Yes I would not take their mention of Linux as a personal attack on your operating system of choice.

Treat it as someone saying "I don't like pizza" when you do like pizza - it means nothing to your enjoyment of pizza.
I'm sure CloudFlare's free plan doesn't target websites with the amount of traffic wikipedia has.

Come to think of it, it is interesting that they server all this traffic using Varnish + HHVM/3.3.0.
> Oy, give it a break. Not everything is about this election

Very true, but not relevant: as a rebutal to the statement that "you're overstating the effect of fringe communities", they do have a point.