skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One caveat is that the battery life on used or refurb laptops tends to be quite poor, because they don't usually replace the battery with a new one. All they guarantee is that it's tested/working, which can mean battery life as short as 15-20 minutes, just so long as it holds enough of a charge to turn on and run for a few minutes unplugged. Sometimes you get lucky and it might be hours, but I wouldn't expect anything like 6+ hours. So I usually add on the cost of a new battery when comparing, unless you're planning to use it as a "luggable" that's mostly plugged in.
What do more advanced societies generally do with less advanced societies that they don't need something from? They leave them alone and maybe come to visit once in a while.

What does a sentient replicator robot care if a little boy just wants to whittle a bowl out of a piece of wood? It's kinda neat, and stories are interesting and the minds of the future will presumably have solve the security problem, or at least as much as MAD solves it, and the scarcity problem, at least as much as scarcity is a problem for most people. After that there is just discovery, enjoyment, merriment, world building, love. What do we do with our abundance of CPU cycles? We watch cat videos and text our friends. I kinda view it the same way if we can survive the next 100 years or so where things are little unstable.
Can someone explain how Certificate Pinning works in a "trust no one" scenario? From my understanding, the idea is that you grab the certificate for a given domain once with the correct public key and then store it for later so that you can be notified when you're being MitM'd. But that assumes that the one you got was trustworthy to begin with: what happens if you're already a target or in a surveillance state and, having not previously visited the domain before, cannot guarantee that the pinned certificate you're getting is trustworthy?
You should google before you naysay.

https://github.com/jessfraz
Some of the motivation is that users who need security tend to switch sims fairly often. If the messaging system doesn't deliver messages when that happens, they will stop using it.
You left a four paragraph reply after beginning by announcing that you hadn't read the article, then ending by saying you don't care regardless. Those are strange motivations.

In any case, Thiel has outright declared Star Trek communism, and Star Wars capitalism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-confi...
> The Apollo space program, which ended before most people were born (or thereabouts), affected our lives in a peripheral manner if at all. Tang, Velcro, and a big swinging "if we can put a man on the moon, we can put an ICBM on your capitol" dick to show for it. Umm, thanks, I guess. Too bad there's no real follow-through fifty years later.

That's an extremely pessimistic view on it. Space exploration has created tens of thousand of new materials, science, and products as a result.

The biggest impact that it made was in the hearts and minds of young children that grew up dreaming to be scientists and astronauts that would one-day go to space. Our society has lost that vision for the most part.
There're two Chinese online shops doing quite sophisticated shipping to EU countries via UK. This seems to be legal and you get it for the Chinese price.
The 'Star Wars' botnet with 350k Twitter bots
>Can we put up a wall to keep the alligators out during the flooding?

Judging by the way the US handled the flooding in New Orleans - no.

But least the alligators will take care of the PR problem of corpses floating in the streets.
Sorry for hijacking this.

I have some free time available and am based out of India. If you have some immediate requirements, are happy to pay a decent rate and have interesting work, drop me a mail (in profile). Would be glad to talk.
Bruce Schneier:

"How serious this is depends on your threat model. If you are worried about the US government -- or any other government that can pressure Facebook -- snooping on your messages, then this is a small vulnerability. If not, then it's nothing to worry about."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/whatsapp_secu...
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You don't have to wonder whether Schneier believes The Guardian should retract; he signed Zeynep's open letter.
Cybersecurity Experts Uncover Dormant Botnet of 350,000 Twitter Accounts
The fact that you are replying to the comments about how to make progress and keep coding, while not replying to some of the other kind of comments, is actually the biggest red flag. Coding is not going to be your biggest problem.

Of course, it's possible you'll get lost in the weeds of some framework or scaling something that you don't need. I can tell from your replies that you get this and you understand you have to ship. Let's assume you got that covered.

The real danger is that you will ship, and only then you will discover nobody wants to pay for what you built. From your pattern of replies, I suspect this is what is going to bite you, and it's why you shouldn't start with code at all and you shouldn't have any expectation of finding revenue before your savings run out.

Anyway, as others have said, whether you take the excellent advice here or not, either way you will learn a lot by trying!
On my Windows desktop, I work in a FreeBSD VM. With an X11 terminal (st) forwarded to VcXsrv via putty. GUI apps work seamlessly. I wrote a tiny PowerShell script to manage that stuff https://github.com/myfreeweb/xvmmgr
Its pretty obvious that the Federation is collectivist and has many characteristics of idealized post-state communism. In many of the episodes, greed or money are motivators of the less-advanced species or the adversary.

There are some choice quotes here: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Money
There's a great Defcon talk about someone breaking Little Snitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRcHt-sxcPI
Ayn Rand's novels are not-even-veiled polemic for objectivist politico-economic ideology, whereas ST:TNG is grounded in (though not, mostly, polemic for) a nearly diametrically opposed ideology.

So, there's probably some tension between appreciation of those two things.
As I've actually never seen Star Trek, I may be wrong on some details, but there was a fan theory that all the crew were future LARPers. They weren't actually agents of the Federation, only pretending to be so. So, why have to robots do all the work for then, that would take out all the fun!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7237395
> On a side note: the developers also have Micro Snitch, an app that warns when the camera or the microphone on your mac is in use.

I did not know that, that's awesome. I'm going to check that out.

link for anyone that's interested: https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
"man hier" and "man ln" are a decent start (the second one is because you mentionned links).
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>The Apollo space program, which ended before most people were born (or thereabouts), affected our lives in a peripheral manner if at all. Tang, Velcro, and a big swinging "if we can put a man on the moon, we can put an ICBM on your capitol" dick to show for it. Umm, thanks, I guess. Too bad there's no real follow-through fifty years later.

This comment shows a lot of ignorance about the importance of the space program in general, and Apollo in particular.

From this[1] answer on StackExchange:

Here are some Apollo specific innovations: microchip, cordless tools, joystick, CAT scans, technology in MRI machines, modern shoe designs, freeze dried food, vacuum sealed packages, dampening material, retro-reflector (detects chemical leaks), water purification, silicon based storage of records, fly-by-wire, ground water cleaning, large fabric roofs used in landmark buildings, anti-tip rafts, insulation blankets, and countless others.

Here's a link to the NASA spinoff technology data base:

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/database/

The iPhone was revolutionary in a particular field. The space program was revolutionary in a broad spectrum of fields, and the iPhone wouldn't be possible without the innovation required by NASA and the Apollo program.

[1] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/411/what-are-the-ev...
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This is no problem. You can get a Windows key on ebay or Amazon for 20 bucks and reinstall an English version or as I did Linux (Arch).
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My background is scientific and systems programming in C and C++. Currently I write a lot of Python for my job and a lot of Rust for my spare time hobby programming, which consists of things like writing a BLAS, reimplementing other C and C++ projects, etc. So I haven't only programmed in dynamic or scripting languages.

I strongly disagree with the assertion regarding single letter variables. I would gently correct a junior programmer who tried to do that and I would chew the hell out of a senior programmer if he tried it. In any language.
Droids seem to largely hold the same position in Star Wars that slaves did, except nobody seems to be worried about a Droid rebellion - and in slave-owning societies, many jobs were done by free citizens for pay.

And as far as Star Trek and AI, it's a weird problem that doesn't make any sense. It seems that you can't program your VCR without spawning a self-aware AI entity - Wesley Crusher accidentally creates one while doing a homework assignment, and the Enterprise (D) computer spawns one after someone casually requests a harder Holodeck challenge. And yet, Data and Lore are rarities, the possibilities of the EMH are completely unexplored and EMHs are, in fact, treated as Roombas instead of potentially sapient citizens.
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»TripMode activates itself on networks where you used it before.«

Wow, that's amazing. Apple should buy them and make this feature default :-)
Not even 24 hours.

For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy
industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary
policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.
Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages
by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy
You'd think, but he's decided to take the weekend off (not kidding). This, after it came out that he wanted tanks and rocket launchers at the inauguration. Our Dear Leader had to be told that it would look bad, and that the weight of the tanks would turn the streets to rubble.
The projects in which we are most successful are those where we have been able to quickly bring a lot of relevant experience to the table, not just knowledge and skill.
Yeah, I have an aeron and have had it for many years. Got it used for 400 I think and it's been a much better chair than the 100-150$ ones that you buy at staples every few years once the padding goes out. Mine is still going very solid and I use it every day and work from home.
Multiplied by millions of people that obviously matters.
https://imgur.com/a/QTfvS
I'm not sure how the economy of the Empire works, but I am pretty sure it's not a "libertarian fever dream" as suggested by the article. Most of the places in Star Wars are places not under the thumb of the Empire, and the closest place I can even see that isn't effectively a black market (like Mos Eisley) is Cloud City, which, of course, the government came in and shut down after promising it would allow it to operate freely. Where free trade does seem to operate (the Trade Federation) it leads to corruption and war. And let's not forget that Han Solo is a smuggler. He's in debt because the government caught him with contraband and had to lose it.

Star Trek also features many other economies, including that of the Ferengi, which are extremely materialistic. This is the focus of many DS9 episodes. And even the Federation crew somehow get their hands on money to spend; money that mysteriously can't be replicated. (And, in DS9, back on Earth, Sisko's father makes honest-to-goodness actual food, while Jean-Luc has a vineyard.)

Likewise, it's not clear how replicator use works; perhaps they have an allowance. The crew of the Enterprise barely use it, except for food. Their quarters are scarce. So either through monetary, social, or rule-based means, they limit themselves heavily compared to the average American today.
The open letter answers your question. I'll flip it around on you: what makes you think you're seeing some important wrinkle of this problem that Matthew Green, Bruce Schneier, Matt Blaze, Steve Checkoway, Chris Palmer, Dave Adrian, Bart Preneel, Jonathan Zdziarski, Steve Bellovin, and Emin Gür Sirer aren't seeing? Many of these people study backdoors, and crypto backdoors in particular, practically full-time.
Objective Development were there from the very beginning of Mac OS X.

And prior to that, they were a well known developer for NeXT. Their LaunchBar app originated on NeXTSTEP.
I'd argue the author is half right: people want their sales person to have these qualities (which there is plenty of evidence that introverts are better at). What he's wrong about is that people are willing to give up the social skills they are used to in good extroverted sales people. You still need those social skills to get your foot in the door. 9/10 what people want is extroverted sales people who've put effort into developing these other (often introvert-attributed) skills to round things out. Yes, the cartoon stereotype of the sleazy extrovert salesman is out. Everybody is on the lookout for them. Consequently, in the meantime, real extrovert sales people have gotten the memo and adapted. I find it very easy to classify people I meet into the different personality categories (introvert/extroverted, thinkers/feelers,serious/casual,etc.) I'm an introvert and I can spot these well-rounded extroverts salespeople a mile away. I appreciate their efforts to tune into my wavelength and I can tell when they are operating outside their natural strengths to do so. Anyone willing to adapt like this I am happy to do business with and be sold to by them.
Ok, reading the comments I feel obliged to respond... I could find an error almost in every row, but I picked the most misleading ones:

Service Fabric is not equivalent to Lambda, we have Azure Functions for that. SF is a cluster orchastration framework (think mesos) and it also has a rich .net and java sdk for developing Microservices that will be orchastrated on the cluster. it can also run exe \ containers. it is not server-less at all. It is nothing like API Gateway.

App Services is just web site as a service. I wouldn't call it PaaS but I understand this term is subjective.

Cloud Service is an old concept that we never recommend for new workloads, so I think it doesn't belong on this article.

Virtual Machines is self explenatory and it's very much like EC2 unlike who the article present it.

API Apps is not a proxy, it is an API. You could host you web API (any web framework) here. It is the same as website but with some semantic difference and cool swagger integration.

Virtual Network is not just for hybrid scenarios, it is the fundemantal container of all IaaS based resources in Azure.

Traffic Manages is not a like a classic Load Balancer (as the comparison suggests). It is a "Smart DNS" service for multi-region geo deployment.

Data Lake Analytics foes not "hold" any data. Data Lake Store does. Analytics is a batch processing technology that can process data from Store, but you can use Spark or whatever to do that as well.

Data Lake Store - see above. I think they confused this one with Data Factory.
Then they will stop driving for Uber and find something else to do that pays them better.

I'm generally more concerned about the precedent Uber sets riding roughshod on legal regulations, but fairness of compensation is very much an emergent market phenomenon and people are free to not drive for Uber if they find themselves inadequately compensated.
Star Trek, particularly the television shows, very clearly describes a command economy with elected leadership. I'm not sure how much explication you'd want in that regard.

Star Wars, I'm not so sure. It seems to me that they spent a lot of time on that stuff and I just probably missed it, but in my defense, the films that focused on it were the most boring in the series.
Do they? The history colonization of says otherwise, and even in the best case scenarios where outright colonization didn't take place, less advanced societies are slowly eradicated because they can't compete.

If robots became advanced enough, why would they (or at least some of them) not see humans as animals to be used or disposed of?
You just need to go back in time further than the ice age:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

"Outside these ages, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes."

If you want to maintain the status quo and not allow human impact on the climate, you can expect the glaciers to arrive sooner rather than later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#/media/File:Vostok_Pet...
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I am not a fan of how people try to downplay the situation and 'play fair' but giving someone the benefit of doubt who openly denies climate change and has appointed key members in the cabinet who have a lot of reasons to deny climate change even if they know its true. The Secretary of State is the former CEO of Exxon.

There is no wisdom in trying to be neutral. There is no smartness and tolerance in trying to protect and tolerate things that are by themselves intolerant and harmful.
If you are breaking the windows of a very rich man who has most of the windows in your community due to his enormous house, and your economy is largely window-installation based...
And honestly, I'm not seeing much connection between those two things.

I view the economic philosophy of the two to be contradictory. Though I suppose one could argue that a post-scarcity economy would be a Randian dream (one is now truly free to does as one wishes without bowing to the necessity of collecting resources and the social structures that go with that), I think ST:TNG would eliminate the imagined need for Rand to have written anything at all.
Are we talking about the same Apollo space program that brought us satellites? Do you appreciate weather forecasts, satellite TV and improved trans-oceanic telecommunications? That "supercomputer in your pocket" wouldn't be able to give directions if it didn't know where it was, and for that you can thank GPS satellites.

We have honestly not followed through in space the way that many of us would like. But our space programs have changed our world. For the better.
It doesn't exactly take a giant leap of imagination to stick a battery onto a DC motor.

How many of those attributions were simply things that Apollo brought forward months or years and how many wouldn't have happened without Apollo?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13443810
Most key change events are innocuous, so a key change in and of itself carries much more noise than signal, in the same way most HTTPS errors are not MitM attacks but misconfigurations.

Asking the proverbial Johnny to make a security decision each time happens will result in alert fatigue. The overwhelming majority of users will always accept the new key because they just want the app to work.

They are not a magical panacea that makes MitM attacks go away. There are two good solutions to this for users who care, however:

- Verify keys with each other in person
- Move to Key Transparency / CONIKS-like systems for auditing key servers
That false precision really bugs me. It's obviously not exactly 100 feet - no-one is ever going to get a measuring tape and check it - so 30m is a much better unit conversion!
It has to be the grandest irony that Thiel dislikes Star Trek, when, in the show's spectaculive history, the future society emerges from the rubble of a eugenics-driven oligarchy that set off World War III. Heterodox Science Fiction indeed.
Wire is fantastic and I hope they address this authentication issue soon. What is the value of verifying contact fingerprints if other communication stages are not verified?

I would like to see more disclosure on server retention of encrypted messages and documents, especially when:

(a) msgs/docs have been delivered to all devices

(b) msg / doc has been manually deleted by the sender

Twitter posts [1] suggest that encrypted msgs are retained on the server for weeks, even if already delivered. This creates an attack target. Wire has promised to open-source their Haskell server code, so maybe the community can help remove this technical limitation by implementing a proper store-and-forward mechanism.

It would also be good to have the option of choosing P2P E2E msgs that go directly between devices and never touch the Wire server. This would only be useful for synchronous conversations, but would again reduce the central server as an attack target.

[1] https://twitter.com/wire/status/822421405937659908
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Do what I did: Find a store that carries Herman Miller (and others) and go in and spend an hour sitting in various chairs. Everyone's body is different and there's no substitute for personal experience.

Note that I said an hour. At least. You can't really tell how it's going to feel after an extended period from just sitting down for a minute. Bring a paper or two. :)
I'm pretty happy with this:
https://www.wayfair.com/OfficeSource-Engage-Mesh-Series-Mesh...
A good book, but not widely known (maybe a little low level, but still...)

Ah, it's also free ;)

From the the haiku project website:
https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/practical-file-system-d...
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That might seem nice for your limited example, but it breaks down when you realize that in example #3 there would be no easy way to differentiate between scopes.

y = 100
x = 15

class MyClass(object):
x = 50
def __init__(self, x):
self.x = x

def length():
return x * y

What does that mean? Does MyClass(10).length() raise an AttributeError because MyClass doesn't have an attribute named y? Does it automatically recognize there's a y in the outer scope and use that, or does it call __getattr__ first (i.e. method that gets called when a missing attribute is accessed)? Furthermore, how do I specify that I want to access the class attribute x, or that I want to access the nonlocal x?
Neither is the fact that vaccines can sometimes make you sick or kill you.

But putting "VACCINES CAN KILL" as a headline in a mass-circulation paper would be just as wrong, and for the same reasons.
Could you elaborate a bit on the message reflectors and using follower trees instead of lists with regard to messaging like Twitter? I am genuinely interested in improving messaging patterns in twitter-like scenarios (ie. large fan-outs)
I asked this question in a number of places a couple years ago and the answer is basically no.

I did, however, find that my undergraduate university had a great program for people with nearly complete degrees who had been away for a few years.

I'll be finishing undergrad this May and am now looking at grad schools. Feel free to contact me if you want to chat about this because it's been surprisingly hard to find info or advice in our situation.
core ones. See above my comment
SMS isn't the only alternative. People who are worried about encryption also won't use SMS.

Signal doesn't make that bad trade-off, for example. There are viable alternatives.
It's not user generated content though.

That's the point - that these businesses are providing enough information to allow Google to aggregate them for a user with intent, rather than just pass the user off to another website aggregator.
No matter how trollish or uncivil others behavior may be, please don't be uncivil in return. Encouraging better behavior is one thing. Asking someone to "sort [their] shit out, or leave" is quite another.