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"It would be really nice if you wouldn't consistently post such balanced comments"

Lol. Believe me, a few people on social media agreed and I can't see their stuff any more. ;)

"I'm trying to think of comparable societal changes that we've been able to reverse at least sufficiently ameliorate. "

Similarly having a hard time. This particular one got reversed temporarily each time new mediums were invented. Then, the people using such tactics mastered them for the new mediums. Helps when the start rolling in money then use it to ensure the dominance. The social media has more potential to counter this than ever if they just adjust the algorithm to bridge the groups a certain percentage of time. They can mostly create a comfortable experience for the ad revenue but should make sure articles citing at least half-ass sources float into opposing feeds while letting bullshit stuff Snopes counters fall lower. That simple change, applied to everyone, might have a significant effect on the situation at least for moderates or rational people likely to effect change.
Any modern phone should be able to run a TOTP client. For my own FastMail account I have a TOTP client on my phone plus two Yubikeys, one I carry with me and one that I keep at home. We require all our staff use 2FA because emails from us get the magic green tick :)

So yeah, if I have my phone, I have a 2FA option already without SMS. I normally use the Yubikey because it's super easy.
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I recognize several of the people in your front page screenshot [1]. They are well-known in the design community.

Did you get permission to use their photographs?

[1] http://imgur.com/a/nWbtt
DIY medicine at the edges of civilisation
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No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones
So the average people mostly wants to live in a reinforcing bias, and not "truth" ?
Also im-proving the safety by getting tons of experience on what works and what breaks, while only risking some of your own hardware.
I keep a light profile there myself, but I know of a lot of folks who are older for whom its the only platform they or anyone they know uses.
Isnt this what folding@home and similar services have been doing for decades now?
> Alpine doesn't use GNU by default. And it would fit into what I call "Linux".

I'd have no problem calling Alpine musl/Linux or whatever.

> You need GNU coreutils. But you need a lot of other things too, why are the other things omitted from the naming?

Calling GNU/Linux also reflects the history of the operating system. This is actually the main reason that Stallman objects to calling it "Linux" -- because you're ignoring the fact that GNU came first (and the reason why GNU exists, which lead to all of the other projects you're talking about). You wouldn't have X.org, vim or many other projects without GNU -- simply because the community wouldn't have existed.

> If something requires GNU, i can say "requires Linux with GNU"

... no. Because you can run GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/kNetBSD or even GNU/NT. How would you describe GNU/kFreeBSD to someone (remembering that to users it is basically indistinguishable from GNU/Linux)? "It's like Linux but doesn't have Linux in it?"
Ideologically, they're all extreme.

Practically, one of those three groups were widely successful among many millions of people. So you'll find a great sensitivity to that one.
Exactly, especially now with yen being so expensive. For the past 6 months I've spent $29000 on candy and $26000 to ship it. If I used airmail with tracking it would cost 3 times as much.
I recently had occasion to play a slot machine briefly to cash out some free credits and I was highly amused to find an option to have a split screen so you can watch TV while you play...
Why go forward when you could go backwards
Why did they let the order go through and cancel their accounts?! they should of canceled the order
Before there was an All Lives Matter movement, there was one candidate who said:

"Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter."

Whatever may have happened after, there was little justification to destroy that candidate for saying this.
The costs are distributed evenly, in the form of the markup on all products that covers the interchange fee and losses to charge backs.

You do pay them, but in small undetectable increments all the time instead of random surprise large losses.
Anyone know how QuickSight compares to KlipFolio and ZoHo Reports?
Between this, self-driving Teslas, and Tesla solar panels and battery storage, absolutely.
you probably wanted to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12972554 ?
Hi, congratulations on your release! Where can I find the source code to inspect?
In truth this happens to all races.

It does happen to black people somewhat more often, per capita, but 50% of people killed by police are white.
Why did they let the order go through and cancel their accounts?! they should of canceled the order
Remember when one of the richest and most valuable companies in the world couldn't properly implement the HTML/CSS specs for over a decade?
Is this a native app or Electron? Electron is super slow and was a mistake.
Wouldn't it not need to? Presumably if there are 4000 satellites it wouldn't need to look from horizon to horizon, just approximately up.
> Unfortunately, it's now the equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity.

Yeah – or to put it another way, they champion social equality instead of equality under the law.

It's the difference between Classical Liberalism and the Social Liberalism which is currently in vogue.
The Rift has better apps in general than the Vive, so you're fine. This will come to Rift and others in time.
Is anyone on HN relying on Facebook for news?

Do people outside of typical HN users know who is/take advice from Snowden?

This seems a bubble of pointlessness.
It's interesting about the familial relationships. My father is pretty far along the religious spectrum and I am not, however we get along just fine. Of course the alcohol is something of a taboo and there have been certain frictions in between my life choices and his (such as the drinking and piercings/tattoos) however overall the relationship is still what I'd consider stable.

I realize I might have taken this a bit too personally and lost track of the overall theme. I do agree that judging the effect of certain vices could also be judged by more than just "does it affect your livelihood".
> The gambling industry is exploring the dimensions of the mind trying to find the optimal Skinner box to take all your money. They are exploiting a bug in our brains design. We evolved to run around the Savannah and throw things with weird accuracy. We just are not built to defend against it. They should be banned.

So we should ban viral mechanics, those old Facebook games, dark UI/UX patterns, and pay-to-play mobile games as well? They often work in the same manner, and yet you yourself appear to know the risks and appear to be immune to them.

For the record: I like gambling. I like drinking, too. I have neither a gambling addiction nor an alcohol addiction. Should I be disallowed these things I find pleasurable because a subset of the population abuses these things?
It's very possible that the SWEs responsible didn't consider this possibility

"Very possible"? More like "guaranteed". Everybody who pays the slightest bit of attention knows Google has a gigantic blind spot when it comes to thinking through the consequences of algorithms and automation. And there's no sign that the company is interested in fixing that, ever.
You are interpreting "all lives matter" to mean this.

It could also mean that black people are not especially target by the police and that outrage at law enforcement is misplaced. For example we know that the rates of police violence against black people vs white people roughly mirrors arrest and conviction rates.

Now you might consider this incorrect, but I think it's a debate that has to be had in the open and not shut down by calling people racist.
Did I say something about how mass stabbings don't happen?

Nope.
What we need is decentralized social media without any one entity running it who can impose anything from censorship to advertising to going out of business.
Twitter doesn't have to be a neo-Nazi propaganda platform if it deems that unacceptable. They should (and do) have the freedom and liberty to choose who uses their service.
And Vive reprojection doesn't work on AMD hardware, unlike Rift.
Yeah, I wish they provided more details on this.

It would also seem rational for the investigative reporter to ping 20-30 LinkedIn contacts who listed Theranos as their employer in hopes that 2-3 would reply, so maybe he wasn't the only one the reporter contacted.
Linux did not win, yet
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It would have to have its drivers signed by a known CA before it was capable of operating while the device was locked - that's all.
My preferred analogy to use here is that saying "it's not just black lives that matter, all lives matter" is like going to your fire department and saying "it's not just houses on fire that matter, all houses matter".

Yes, of course, they do. But some houses need immediate attention because they're in danger.
> Your post reads as picking at my the wording of my questions

Nope, my complaint is that you write-off Hillary's destruction of federal records, multiple active criminal investigations, and suspicious evidence of pay-to-play (in direct violation of her ethics agreement) as nothing warranting suspicion. And then accuse anyone who points out these flagrant breaches of public trust of being mired in a "fever swamp" and making "extraordinary claims" instead of factual observations.

It is certainly possible that Clinton is guilty of no further crimes than those which have already been revealed, although I wouldn't be money on it. With that said, I'm glad to hear you support the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into HRC and the Clinton Foundation, and view it as an exonerating step that will redeem Hillary's questionable political legacy.
Buzzfeed, of all places, actually has a great article on this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-...
this is really interesting, company I work for has recently started working on "location analytics" using signal strength (rssi) of the signal sent when your phone scans for wifi
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Ask HN: How to handle date, time and timezones for an MVP
I'm building an mvp that has core functionality that involves setting date and times for future reminders. I have become completely overwhelmed by what I've read online. One can't just use UTC time, nor can they just track timezones, because of daylight savings. There are tools like pytz, which is just one more tool I have to learn that'll delay launching.

Given I can limit my scope for an MVP, what do you all think is a reasonable approach to handling date and time, for scheduling purposes, for an mvp.
I'm very sympathetic to that viewpoint. I mulled over the idea of voting for a third party long and hard. I would have preferred Sanders, Stein, or Johnson over Trump. In the end, I decided it was worth more to me to block Clinton. But don't pretend that it's an easy clear-cut decision to make.
"There's something about the text-based medium in particular that encourages the total dissolution of empathy."

You're right. Two related things at play here, I think:

- Text-only is very low bandwidth. You don't get any of the body language, facial expressions, tone of voice that you get in person. emoticons and emoji are attempts to counter this

- Distance: You're protected from any negative reaction due to the effect of your messages.
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> First, the GRSecurity patchset contains a kernel-level USB whitelist, so you can whitelist only known USB devices. A targeted attacker could attempt to spoof an existing/whitelisted USB device, but it does significantly harden the USB attack surface:

Actually, the GRSecurity patchset includes a toggle to disable all new usb devices after boot. The whitelist mechanism you're referring to relies only on udev (no kernel patching needed). You can even whitelist by driver to, e.g., allow all usb storage devices by default.
IMO, full cryptographic security should be the baseline.

Yes, you need the other things too, but until you've got full current cryptographic security, you're simply not done in that area.
Html.App used to be a namespace, I suspect you mean Program? In any case, how is that any more, or less, magic than Signals? Considering that the compiler has removed syntax in later versions, later versions of Elm has less magic than earlier versions.
A discussion on Linux kernel virtual-memory topics
Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company–And His Family
Assuming 1 login/day and 85k/year annual employee cost (practically a joke, especially in the Bay Area) and 250 work days/year, it comes out under 3 bps (0.03%) of the employee cost. Probably not crazy for two factor, vs distracting yourself from your actual business goals?
> Keynesian approach

Please explain.
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>You may perceive many opinions as invalid, but you don't know how people arrived at them - from their perspective, they're perfectly valid.

Of course. But this has no relationship at all with their actual validity.

>a sign of respect and understanding that information processing is difficult and that we acknowledge that the opinion is reasonable from their end.

But it's not about opinion, it's about the effect of those opinions on other people.

I don't really care if some people think the EU is an organisation of Satanic Communists who plan to take over the world, and that Britain has been cheated out of its empire and self-respect by EU membership.

They're perfectly entitled to their opinion, even if I think it's nuts.

I most certainly do care if those people have the political effect of depriving me of my right to travel and work in neighbouring countries. Then it's no longer just about opinions, but about someone imposing a crazy world view on other people and having a real effect on their lives.

The opinions can be dismissed. The political effects can't.

And that's the real problem. Free speech doesn't just mean the freedom to criticise the government - it also means the freedom to try to persuade others of the validity of a point of view, and to convert that persuasion into political power.

Which is a problem, because it allows bad faith actors. Currently as a voter I have more legal redress if I buy a toaster and it stops working than if a politician wilfully and knowingly lies to me during a campaign of persuasion. Similarly, there is very little redress against media outlets that lie or make up content to further a political agenda.

I'd suggest both of those need to change. The action of deliberately and knowingly misleading the public should be not be protected by free speech laws. Politicians and media companies that do it should be held accountable.

The rationale is simple - professional liars benefit no one except themselves. There is no case to be made for allowing wilful, deliberate dishonesty in public discourse.
Literally nowhere have I mentioned identity politics of any sort.

Your "rebukes" have been nonsensical, as if you're not actually reading what's written. You're responding to some imaginary argument that you have constructed.
Wait until they get into the thought police business for some real interesting situations.

All jokes aside, for those who remember, it's pretty amazing what Microsoft got punished for (bundling a browser with the OS, with no other restrictions) compared to what Apple and Google get away with.
This is the "alt-right" and it didn't come from Clinton.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/16/translator-migran...

frontpage of breitbart today.

This article is racist af, and the comments are even worse.

This article basically has no source, and is a bunch of anecdotal race war bullshit. The only "facts" are so lacking in context that they are meaningless. Like number of total attacks for example....
Because one user on a multi-user workstation could prevent all of the other users from adding an interface, I believe.
Can you expand or rephrase? I don't follow what you are saying but would like to understand what you are getting at.
Evil ideas need to be analyzed and refuted absolutely. Their adherents should write them up in depth and place them on the web so that they can be discussed widely and in depth and, if erroneous, be refuted.

It's hard to see how 140 character snipes, provocations and occasional calls to hostility fall into that category. But maybe.

Is it censorship to remove random stickers from telephone poles? To erase graffiti?
Which is exactly why we need to fix this problem. Consumer products don't have good security at all and it's making the world a worse place
Honest answer: I don't know. Moreover, I'm quite skeptical with others who seem to have such certainty on this issue.

I disliked and dislkike Trump. But my mind recoils at the thought that the Clintons' shenanigans will reap them the White House as a reward. The thought of that injustice makes my blood boil. My vote was a blocking move against Clinton.
Duplicated: http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-whistleblower-shook-the...
Borrowing Ideas from Trello, it seems.
We had a better word for it at Mozilla: deCOMtamination
I don't think it is unreasonable. I think we've fallen into a culture of low expectations regarding the ability of "normal users". Many people will (perfectly legitimately) choose convenience over quality or reliability, but I think we should be pushing users to engage more seriously with the tools that they use.

We can certainly do more as developers to make things easier, but I think we have a tendency to pander to an imaginary "AOL granny". We often present oversimplified advice, because we expect too little of users. To pick a random example, I think we're too eager to say "use Dropbox" rather than "use Dropbox, but buy yourself a NAS too because X, Y and Z".

I think that there's a substantial latent desire among ordinary users to have more control over their technological lives. People are increasingly worried about the power of big tech companies, but they don't know what to do. We aren't doing a good enough job of informing users; those big companies have an obvious incentive to keep users uninformed. We're not communicating the risks and benefits well enough, we're not providing clear explanations of the alternatives to the Big Five.

In the process of writing this comment, I've had several startup ideas. I hope that the people reading this are having ideas of their own. I think that there are substantial opportunities to start returning control to users.
We're considering making the jump from Jira. Has anyone else done this? How did it go? I especially wonder how well Asana deals with estimating tasks.
PoisonTap responds with a barrage of data-caching malicious iframes for the top million Alexa sites. And those iframes, equipped with back doors, stick around until someone clears them out.

It sounds like this is the default response to any HTTP request, so I'm guessing these top million iframes are stored locally on the device. The TechCrunch photo shows a 32GB card - how many iframes could that store, alongside a tiny Linux-based OS?

And it's not that attacks can only happen while the PoisonTap is connected - it's that connecting the PoisonTap for just 60 seconds or so will likely have it install itself and respond to at least 1 request, seeding the laptop, desktop, or server with 1 million backdoor'd iframes, likely in some background AJAX process that you don't even know is happening in your browser, or when some process like Windows Update or Chrome or Firefox or Safari or Spotify or Skype or Hangouts or Dropbox tries to phone home. Or anywhere.

Then, once the PoisonTap is disconnected, those 1 million iframes are free to route through the same wifi or other connection the device used prior to the attack, to the general internet, for whatever secondary steps the attackers choose to perform.

What may be even more worrisome would be something like this, but with wifi capabilities. It could pose as a free wifi hotspot, possibly even bridging other free / easily hackable / commonly-known wifi hotspots - while replacing ad banners with the same malicious barrage. Or even filtering ads completely, for a "Knight in Shining Armor" solution.
Yeah, I use my bank's bill pay service that sends a check in the mail once a month for my HOA fee.
Your own clarity of view has gone up.
I think you want it for the '... nicknamed the "bug"' logo.
Crazy CAT: $4.1B cost for SEC audit trail unable to analyze next Flash Crash
I just got this set up on a Linux system and I think these fonts are absolutely fantastic. This is the only "programmer's font" I've tried that was ever any good.
Patterns are patterns, regardless of what language that uses them. Cocoa SDK shouldn't have changed much between Obj-C and Swift.
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Meanwhile, tonight, Jesse Draper (Tim's daugher and Elizebeth's close friend from her youth) is engaged in a vitriolic argument with John Carreyrou (who broke the Theranos story) on twitter: http://i.imgur.com/pd3llVU.png
Wait if they get into the automated car driving business for some real sad situations.
Simple answer: don't use social media.

I don't understand why this is controversial. If you don't approve of the way they do business, don't use their products. I use no social media accounts and my life is plenty-full of engaging, useful discussion.
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If you concerned about security, you should have full disk encryption (FileVault) turned on and be powered down anytime you walk away. Though you question still has value for the low percentage of times one forgets to power down.
I think not using anything Google is probably the wisest move as they have made it very clear on numerous occasions that they simply do not care about customer service.

The problem is, they're so damn convenient.
Very bad sign when you start copying other companies in your space.
There were similar problems when the X-Pro1 first came out, but over time firmware updates (for the camera body AND lenses) improved the shooting experience substantially.
Interesting discussion on students perspective: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5dbwkm/n_f...
"No latency" is a fiction. The only question of any relevance is how much latency is tolerable for a given domain. And describing latency in worst-case timings is standard, so I understand latency just fine thanks.
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I would take your side on most of your bets. But I disagree with your implied conclusion that banning this type of speech is therefore OK.

The reason is that it places our government (or Twitter, in this case) in a situation of making impossible judgment calls. A person who is "proud of their European heritage" could be anything from a docile recent Polish immigrant to a rabid neo-Nazi. Yes, you can make probabilistic determinations as to which account or individual is truly racist and who is not, but to what end?

Speaking very broadly, we live in a democracy. And the underlying "faith" that is necessary to believe in a democracy is to believe that voters can distinguish between true and false, right and wrong. If we don't have that, we are completely lost.

So I choose to believe that voters are mature enough to see alt-right posts on the Internet and, on average, consider the reasoning and reject it. What's the harm of letting voters see the alt-right's arguments and decide for themselves? Either we believe the median voter can come to rational and ethical conclusion or we don't. If we don't, we have much bigger problems than deciding what Twitter's specific censorship policy should be.