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Believing you're more secure simply by using Linux instead of Windows is dangerous.

The Mirai botnet is the living proof of what happens when you use Linux and forget to take care about your security, not using Windows is not an excuse to lower your guard.

As an example, think about all the untrusted code you run, something so simple like `curl -o angular-react-vue-example.sh | sh`.

OTOH, not being familiar with troubleshooting low level issues means you'll never know whenever you get infected, remember kernel.org's hack[1]?.

[1] http://pastebin.com/BKcmMd47
I see. I will take that as a great suggestion. Thank you. We will update our terms to reflect it.
Very nice, but that ain't "machine learning", of course.
Your logic is backwards. Neither Extra Credit or you cited any credible sources to prove the terrible outcomes of such system claimed in that YouTube video is accurate or true.

Note that I don't totally disagree with Extra Credit in that such credit rating system may potentially be abused by government. However, from this Chinese version of wikipedia page of Sesame Credit[1], it specifically read as those credit rating agencies are independent 3rd party entities. Also in the use cases, it mentions online shopping transactions and dating site records, car rentals but nowhere does it mention social networking sites activities(I mean people don't talk about radical political views in their dating site profiles, do they?) like what Extra Credit claim Sesame Credits will source data from.

[1]: http://baike.baidu.com/view/12108011.htm
ME isn't the last obstacle though, is it? Looking at the purism/librem pages, there are still various other subsystems like FSP/EC/SMC.

https://puri.sm/posts/bios-freedom-status-nov2014/
The graphics alone make me want to punch this tool in the face.
That might be my favorite thing I've read on HN.
what are the odds plaintiffs will get anything?
That's the ROI I'm seeing at some of my clients. That said, there is one that is having great success ($10/conversion, average conversion value $200 @ 40% margin) with it because of how they targeted their ads and what they're for (consumer products).
I ended up moving away from Postgrey because the delays (especially coming from Gmail) were a huge problem. Since the mail would come from some random IP in Google's massive server farm, each time it tried to get delivered, postgrey would delay it again.
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It almost sounds as if Microsoft is the next IBM. Rather than crush everyone else, they're finding out it's very profitable to service everyone else's hardware and software.

At the same time, though, Microsoft is selling Surface bundled with its OS despite overall market declines in new laptops. I'd bet the likes of Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, HP, and Toshiba aren't very happy about that sort of encroachment from a vendor upon whom they've come to depend. They advertise it against the Macbook using largely features a tablet or phone has, but many of their customers' laptops are also touchscreen and lightweight.

They've set themselves up as a game publisher alongside the people to whom they used to just sell OSes and developers' tools. Don't they even have a couple in-house development studios for games? So now you buy your X-Box, your Windows, your Visual Studio, and your X-Box SDK then write your game and give Microsoft a cut to sit on a shelf next to content of theirs.

SQL Server on Linux might interfere some with Oracle and IBM's DB/2. It's also likely to try to take share away from Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. There are lots of extensions to SQL Server already. Don't be surprised if they after a few years they make it really easy to come from other DBMSes but hard to leave.
It only strengthens by argument.

FDA saved people from Thalidomide ? What about over 100K people who lost their life because FDA delayed approval of Provenge and many other life saving drugs ? What about the near monopoly that FDA has granted to EpiPens ? What about millions of Americans who can afford basic healthcare because of FDA's compliance costs and die as a result ?

Just for sample check this : http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2010/11/FDA-Delay-of-O...

FDA or market based regulation totally depends on the outcomes and at least for me it is very apparent that market is extremely good at figuring out what works and what not than FDA. Also at significantly lower costs.

>Throughout the world, about 10,000 cases were
reported of infants with phocomelia due to
thalidomide; only 50% of the 10,000 survived.

It is actually a very good example of how quickly market can detect signals and respond to it. FDA in this case is purely awarded for being slow. FDA has a very poor history of preventing harmful drugs one has to only look at the list of lawsuites after which the drugs ere taken back from market.
I believe the founder has a controlling interest. The board can't do much without her say so.
It is not fabricated, it just wasn't accurately reported.

Every article I read described it as a government system already implemented and measuring every aspect of your life, when it was actually a scheme created by a private company within their ecosystem and most people used it for showing off.

The government proposed system is still in pilot stage.

https://www.techinasia.com/china-citizen-scores-credit-syste...
If you actually read my post more closely you would see I said any two orthogonal dimensions, that could be two spatial dimensions..not necessarily including time.
Don't many customers view this as being creepy? Does it cause more brand damage than the sales are worth?
>> "This forces people to get credit cards."

That's the point. They designed the system of incentives and constraints to make you their customer.
Great list - I had all of them growing up. Be mindful of the age though. My uncle (an IBM engineer) got me a breadboard/ciruit kit when I was way too young to understand it, and it was frustrating and turned me off of electronics for awhile. Lego mindstorms was similarly frustrating, though also fun.
you get bad credit for failing to do what you voluntarily promised you'd do. you get good credit merely for following through on your promises.
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Haters gonna hate ;-)
Board can't make that decision if the CEO has majority voting rights.
Only if they actually have an interest in that, or development in general.
> Should I care how badly will you fuck up your own proprietary version of the product I granted you to use?

YES, because your name is on it. If it's white boxed and no normal consumer knows you are responsible (like the Android underpinnings of the Fire tablets) then they're OK.

But Android phones are seen as Google's phones and are known to run Google's OK. So when they suck, it reflects poorly on Google. Always crashing? Battery doesn't last? Got malware? Confusing to use? Never gets updated? "Android is like that".

So techies come out and say "Well only the Nexus line is real Android" and that's cute. It may be technically true. But it doesn't matter to a normal consumer. If your name is on it (and all the prompts to use Google software and log into Google don't help this) then you're going to be associated with it.

Let's say there are two restaurant chains. You have Taco Bell and Mex Express Featuring Taco Bell. They're both advertised the same way, and MEFTB makes it clear that Taco Bell is involved in the creation of their recipes.

Now as an ultra-informed consumer you may know that MEFTB simply buys their ingredients from TB and has additional original menu items as well.

When someone gets food poising from an original item at MEFTB do you think normal consumers are going to bother to understand that? Or because all the ads are intermingled do you think they'll assume that Taco Bell is having issues too and avoid them?

This is a fundamental problem with Android that a lot of fans seem to want to sweep under the rug. If your name is on it then it effects YOUR reputation. Doesn't matter if it's customized. Doesn't matter if it's not your fault.

Little Billy got an Android tablet (that's how it was advertised)... it was a piece of junk... Android tablets are junk. That's the lesson a LOT of consumers would learn.

In the case of phones the horrible low-end Android phones don't do that much damage because there are highly successful examples of good Android phones, such as the Galaxy series.

But if 95% of Android phones, including flagships, have serious security problems then saying 'But not Nexus' isn't going to do much for you.
I bet getting that article on the top of HN should help!
... and put all their keys and values in Redis. And use curl for testing their revolutionary REST-API!
Good luck have fun, if your focus is new people that means you're an altcoin and get lost.

Hipster analysis applied to software engineering, basically.
In a proper implementation, the data diverges (which is relatively fine) but the code/program counter does not diverge (which is what you want to avoid).

There is nothing bad about Octrees on the GPU, but most people use BVH trees now.
Pittsburgh is on the other side of the (eastern) continental divide--the Appalachian Mountains--from NYC. They're not the highest but they'd still cause a lot of difficulties to HSR. I also doubt you'd have enough traffic just to Pittsburgh and NYC-Chicago is too far. Even if you wave your hands and reduce the current travel time by half to about 8-10 hours, very few people will take that rather than fly.

NE Corridor already works well for train obviously. Amtrak has various plans to upgrade service though I don't know the current status of those plans.
Once I started actually buying products of interest, I will admit I started clicking on a lot more facebook ads as they have become better targeted.
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Yes, exactly that.

I'd love an easy option to only include ads on sites that I trust, or that do ads well, and some reliable metrics surrounding that. Then content producers could get some feedback on "ad acceptance rates" and create better user experiences.

Now that I think about it, one of the most obnoxious things about online ads isn't that they are eerily intelligent, but that they are still mostly dumb forms of broadcast.
I, too, would like 2FA for my email account(s). So I wrote Migadu support and got a quick and reassuring reply:

We'll add 2FA in the near future. We were unaware of the great demand for it. :)
This is a false abstraction. Android is designed to be used as a component in proprietary products and Google requires that those products carry its brand. Google is intentionally taking credit for the products it brands, and therefore must also take responsibility for their shortcomings.
This strikes me as thoroughly oppressive.

Its a bit like the American credit system in that it can kick people in the balls...except its more arbitrary, outside of the persons control and very vulnerable to abuse.
Better headline:

"Arduboy, the game system the size of a credit card"
Like clockwork for every story just like this...

China has had similar systems for decades
....
The US has something like this for travel

and

How different is this from our current credit system through FICO scores?

Sorry, that technique doesn't work. Come up with something new.
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This is the Microsoft problem, right? People bought tons of computers with Windows and they were loaded to hell with crapware.

It wasn't MS's fault any more than it was Intel's. They just sold a component to the company (Dell, HP, NoNameBrand, whatever) that put all the crud on the computer.

But it was a WINDOWS computer so people blamed Microsoft and said "Why can't you fix this"?

They're trying, but because their product was so central to what was being purchased, as well as so obvious and in your face, that people associated them and they got blame they didn't deserve.

Same thing can (is?) happening to Android.
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My go-to answer for questions about legacy code is: "We did it for legacy reasons." ;)
This code is C code written as unsafe Rust:

let mut ptr = buf.as_ptr();
let end_ptr = buf.as_ptr().offset(buf.len() as isize & !0x1F) as usize;
while end_ptr > ptr as usize {
a = a ^ read_u64(ptr);
ptr = ptr.offset(8);
b = b ^ read_u64(ptr);
ptr = ptr.offset(8);
c = c ^ read_u64(ptr);
ptr = ptr.offset(8);
d = d ^ read_u64(ptr);
ptr = ptr.offset(8);

....
match excessive {
0 => {},
1...7 => {
a = a ^ read_int(slice::from_raw_parts(ptr as *const u8, excessive));
a = diffuse(a);
},
8 => {
a = a ^ read_u64(ptr);
a = diffuse(a);
},
9...15 => {
a = a ^ read_u64(ptr);
ptr = ptr.offset(8);
excessive = excessive - 8;
....

This bothers me about Rust. There's too much "unsafe" code in libraries. The language is unable to express some essential concepts. Known areas of trouble include partial initialization of an array, needed to implement growable collections, and single ownership doubly linked lists. Neither of those is expressible within Rust, which leads to unsafe code to implement them. Here, though, it's purely a performance issue. That's disturbing. If you can't do fast big-banging in safe Rust, there's a problem somewhere.

If Rust let you access a slice of bytes as an slice of ints, alignment and length permitting, the code above could be much more straightforward. That's what I mean about expressive power. The hack to do that used here:

let end_ptr = buf.as_ptr().offset(buf.len() as isize & !0x1F) as usize;

is iffy. Why is there an "isize" (a signed quantity) in there? They want to align with a 32-bit cache line, yes, but why the signed quantity? The documentation for Rust's "std::ops::BitAnd" doesn't say what the semantics are for signed numbers. What would happen on a 32-bit machine if someone allocated a buffer bigger than 2GB? Exploitable?
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> $5000 per system per year

But what constitutes a system? Will this end up mostly just being $5k per customer per year for cognitect?
How is it for someone with no credit history at all (say, someone who doesn't use credit cards because they have enough of their own resources)?
I'd rather HN was the kind of place that didn't take a stand against anything. It's a community utility and it would be a shame if it was abused to make points for issues which to be honest I think are at the student-politics level of petty things to be worked up about.

I'm not being facetious when I say if you don't like them don't post them or read them. Please don't try and stop me reading or posting them just because you don't like them.

Of course if the HN people themselves have a strong opinion on it they're entitled to do what they want with the site, but as the admins have said, they don't have that strong opinion.
CHIP, the single board computer, is 9 dollars.

PocketCHIP, which is a CHIP with a screen, case, keyboard, battery, and breakout is 49 dollars.
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"and the fact that you have to separately purchase so much software for it to make it useful."

That's not a negative, especially for anyone who makes their living selling software. And there's nothing special about Linux that saves it from that; if it became popular, commercial software would be written for it as well, and you'd have the same problem.
I've always wanted a double-o form of "so" to match "to/too" when it's used as a measure of degree. "Summer vacation is soo far away!"
> Imagine that $15 million dollar invested in $50k USD increments into 300 startup ideas, the jobs that will be created, increased human capital and impact on their respective local economies, that are not there because of risk adversity (it still amazes me VCs would shun risk but still throw around "venture") towards people of lower class then them. For example, somebody coming straight out of university vs. the daughter of a CEO at a large company who also attends the same country_club/religious functions, suddenly looks like a safer bet.

This doesn't make sense. I'm fairly certain that a random person graduating college is a worse bet than a random person who is graduating college and is also socially well-connected. I imagine that 300 startups started by people who are both college graduates and socially well-connected have better odds of success than 300 startups started by randomly-chosen college graduates.
No. As soon as there's unsafe code, there's the possibility of safe code misusing the unsafe code to create unsafe behavior. One would like to have un-abusable unsafe code, but the language does nothing to guarantee that.
If you reread his comment, it is clear his point is not that there shouldn't be large investments. His point was that this was a bad investment chosen due to who the CEO was, and that so much more good could have potentially been done with that money if it didn't flow "to people not based on merits but by their socioeconomic lineage."
"Crony capitalism" specifically refers to favors aided by government power.
pocketchip has orders of magnitude more processing power and more wireless connectivity than arduboy. although i guess no one's buying these things for performance...
That's not necessarily true. Getting content marketing articles up on the front page of big news sites (like Hacker News) can be an important spark to longer term sales. Once your article hits one big site, the other bigs sites tend to pick it up and you see lots of viral spread on Twitter. If viewership is wide enough and your product worthwhile this can be a big enough spark to initiate organic word-of-mouth marketing. In addition all this aggregation of your content drives increased link ranking back to your site, which improves SEO. That last part works better if the article is hosted on your own domain, though.

Source: I recently finished researching a ton of successful startups to determine what common factors they share (and wrote an article with all the data and analysis).
> I also don't want to be using puppet on dev machines. Configuration management tools also take longer to run all scripts then just pulling down an image.

Which is why you should be provisioning with Vagrant locally to properly replicate production.
I agree with all of this.

I would add that if you host your own server, then your email is your property. On google, it's their property and they can discontinue their service and purge all content if they so desire. (Not that they would, just saying they could)
Before Nov. 8 I would have said the same thing but now I will say that at least half of America. I'm being serious. And if you disagree with me FU, Trump won, this is the new normal.
I doubt you'd get an answer from them.
Focus on your physical health. It's no panacea, but it's the basis for feeling better about the world.

People who discount you? Fuck them. Move on, before their attitude can infect you about yourself.

It's taken me a long time, myself, to start to incorporate this into my own sense of being. I was always the "nice guy" who went out of his way to accommodate others. To pro-actively fix problems even when doing so caused me more strife than thanks.

Feel better about yourself. People respond more positively to that than to anything else. It makes you seem "safe" to them.

I know, it's a chicken and egg situation (which comes first?), to some extent.

But most of my disappointments come from not taking care of myself, and people's responses to that.

Also, my biggest regrets.

So, make sure you are getting good physical activity. Explore medication if you believe it helps. (And, again, from personal experience, often it doesn't -- at least not a particular medication.)

The world basically wants you to take care of yourself, first. Whatever is said -- whatever! This is the truth of the matter: Take care of yourself, to gain acceptance from others.

And, the rare friend who accepts you for who you are, warts and all. They are indeed rare -- but they do exist. You take care of yourself for them, too, because you find yourself wanting to be a positive factor in their life.

Hang in there. And find somewhere where you fit. Whatever that is. You deserve and need to make yourself happy -- content, at least. The rest follows from that.

If you turn it around, make X goal -- particularly if X is making you miserable -- the pre-requisite to being happy? That is the recipe for failure.

Best wishes!

P.S. I struggle with social connectedness, as well. Yet it is the single thing that brings me the greatest happiness and peace in life. And you know what? It does not depend on any title or position. Not the connections that matter. It does both gain from and feed feeling better about yourself.

If it's lacking, add it to the top of your list.

Life first. Career and all that bullshit, second.
We built this app, it tells a real-time story through a messenger. We've replicated a messenger-style experience to deliver a story centered around a girl who goes missing following a night out with friends.

The story is delivered in real-time through messages, voice notes and videos across the seven days.

We were inspired by the likes of making a murderer and serial podcast. Would love to get your thoughts on the concept and the app (if you choose to download it!).
Android has the major barrier of extra complexity. It's refreshing to see a simple computer with a beginner-friendly development environment. It reminds me of drawing things pixel-by-pixel in QBasic when I was starting out. It's that kind of thing that really attracted me to programming in the first place.
The problem is: How the do people enjoy working 40 hour weeks? Going to the same office? Seeing the same people everyday? This is driving me crazy.

More proof that Google is still asking the wrong questions in its interview process.
We're talking about dev mindshare today. What you have installed is irrelevant.
A kind of post-modern inversion of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

Also worth considering:
http://www.paglen.com/?l=work&s=symbology
Isn't gaming the use-case?
Apple has been going through and removing old/unused apps from the App Store more recently, fortunately. I agree it isn't fast enough and that they will hopefully do more about it.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/apple-is-going-to-remove-a...
Yea I think an ATmega is actually a bad choice because it can't dynamically load code from somewhere else. It'd be neat to be able to have something like an SD card or some other form of swapable storage store the code for a game.
"Reckless monetarism"? Meaning what, precisely?

We're in essence in stagnation because of low interest rates - assuming that's the cause and not the effect.

So now we're gonna go back to a demonstrably deflationary regime ( the gold standard ) and raise reserve requirements to 20%?

How is that not even more deflationary?
The entire Michelle Fields thing was coordinated attack bullshit that sites like Vox and Mother Jones swallowed uncritically, one might even call it this "fake news" everybody is talking about.
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The laws of double-entry accounting being what they are, there is no "trade deficit" - the difference is made up mostly in financial services.
Redirecting to a URL that describes XSS mitigation would have been a bit classier.
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