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A tech pledge to support user privacy which ignores the risk and market dynamics of security breaches? The mind boggles...

How about dedicating resources to making sure everyone upgrades their devices, patches security vulns on internet-facing servers, uses password managers, etc?

How about at the very least asking "if we suffered a breach, how would we know?". Because ethics aside, there seems little incentive for startups to worry about it.
I see more watches but still question whether it's 'really caught on'. I don't have a fashion objection but for me the basic functionality of waiting for the face to light up is close to a dealbreaker and the convenience of Apple Pay seems to be moving backward as I'm forced to use my PIN and sign in all sorts of places I used to be able to just wave my phone at.
So, now's the time to buy?
It is not as bad as you think in terms of fashion. I had a lot of people compliment me as I wear my Apple watch with a tan leather suede strap.
A Neuromorph's Prospectus [pdf]
We all have blindsight re subliminal stimuli and can "guess" where these appeared with something like 80% accuracy.
If you go to your Safeway, Publix, or Kroger, you'll probably find half the salmon to be farm-raised. And all the catfish.
It's been done:

> The Auroville red soil got its colour from iron oxides, which give excellent properties and make remarkable building materials.

http://www.earth-auroville.com/earth_in_auroville_introducti...
Etsy Replaces CEO and Plans to Eliminate 8% of Jobs in Cost Cuts
Yes plinking is cheap these days, no doubt. I emphasized guns because they are typically the #1 thing that takes precedence over anything house-related unless we're talking some major malfunction that needs to be addressed.

And they do add up - an "average" household from the likes I'm talking about would typically have 2-3 diff caliber hunting rifles, maybe a bow, a 12 and a 20 shotgun, a 22 (typically one per member of the household - rugers for the kids, henrys for the grown ups :) ), not always but almost always an AR or Mini14 or an AK.

Then there are the handguns - there would be at least one but most of the time there would be an assortment - a 9mil, something more high powered like a 40 cal glock or a .357 revolver, maybe a Kimber 1911 but that one is optional :)

All of that adds up, especially with ammo. Which, after the shortages few years back ppl are still stocking up. Not like they used to, but more like - go buy a fishing lure and if the price is right pick up $100+ worth of ammo.
It's a good policy to buy back stock whenever you have excess cash flow and the stock is undervalued compared to your other investment options. An example might be your stock has a PE ratio of 8, so it's yielding 12.5% and your other options look to yield 10% or less.

Of course I'm not saying IBM is right, or undervalued. If profits are falling a 12% yield might be a 6% yield before you know it, that's why valuations are more complex than my simplistic example. And many companies do buybacks to juice stock prices for the execs options, regardless of value, so it's not a grant signal.
I was asking for a function that converted a number (auto incremented id) to a string, such that all possible shortest urls would be iterated through.

E.g. given character set a-z,
0: a
1: b
26: aa
27: ab

etc.

I probably had no idea what the interviewee was suggesting and tried and failed to explain my question any better.
While I like the idea of a tech pledge to identify what Right is, and then do the Right Thing, I can't help but feel that this particular implementation is extremely narrow in how it was designed and how it ended up scoped out.

It seems very specifically about managing how the US govt. has interacted with specific companies holding user data, and also the current trends expressed by Trump regarding immigration.

These are both important issues, but it's hardly what I'd consider The Tech Pledge, being so narrow. I'd love to see a version that talks about, say, security practices, and endeavoring to put consumer privacy above business needs.
I lived in Nenana as a child. I had no idea it was this complicated. I figured it just pulled a pin to stop the clock.
Dunno, at least you still have a soul.
Could it be because of a news[1] that iPhone8 may be delayed until 2018, and they would try to see a iPhone &s that would look like the 7 instead?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/2/15518898/ap...
It's the exact same rate once you sell.
it can all be done through the browser. or on a phone\tablet.

onedrive is a dropbox clone with office integration that makes it really easy to save your documents.
Haven't watched the video, but it sounds like something I would've watched on my Amiga - 20+ years ago.
You may prefer the Epic Privacy Browser.
Of course, no one wants to put guns in the hands of bad guys.

This seems like a problem which can't be regulated away without severely impacting other industries (ie preventing production 3d printing machines which could produce these firearms).

Even with plans being illegal, it seems that where there is a will, there will be a way, even if it's through a black market or trial and error.

If that's the case does regulation make sense? Is there a more viable alternative?
I prefer a Berkey myself.
The same thing is true of freedom of speech and other systems that allow for that. Give people the ability/right to say anything without censorship and you'll get bullies, trolls, extremists and other horrible people taking advantage of it. But it's better you live with that in order to protect 'normal' people's freedom of speech rather than censor it and set a bad precedent.

In both freedom of speech and privacy, you have to be willing to support the rights of those people consider 'horrible' in order to help the greater population as a whole.
I still remember the surprise I felt when I idly Googled the author of some computational chemistry paper, only to find he was a billionaire :-)
How is the average person supposed to know to do that?
These are pretty good general rules of thumb. Interestingly the Vietnamese, by contrast, are very much in to rare meats.

Broccoli and other vegetables are cooked only slightly because it is considered wasteful of the natural qualities of the food to overcook it (and probably because it wastes fuel also, which is also the reason for everything being cut small before cooking).
Just as a side note, you said you hosted the Discourse on AWS, but Digital Ocean have a $10/month automated, one-click deployment which includes TBs per month of bandwidth.

Perhaps that's an option should you choose to self-host again? :-)
For mere facts, I could kind of agree, though it is important to learn certain things, like certain historical dates, which you could perfectly google quickly, but not having them in mind means you can't follow a live discussion on the topic. But in disciplines like math or physics, it's about understanding what you are doing. Googlying-copy-pasting without understanding the solution of an exercise defeats its purpose. And it's not because you can google-translate a piece of text that you can speak that language.

I am all for modernising education but I am kind of appalled by the culture of google-copy-paste that I have seen 20-something doing when they are confronted to a problem, instead of trying to understand it and having a "what would make sense?" approach.
Well, we have been buying spices from Indian grocery stores in Northern California for the last 15 years. BTW, the better known brands of Spices that you get in larger supermarket chains also are imported from India/Vietnam etc. So, not much of a difference other than the price for the brand/packaging, the supermarket expenses and margin percentage.
This in my opinion is the exact reason.

Either they get $50 from users and let them go buy/install off-market, or make the money in the long run from paid app developers who are pressured now to put their applications on the store.
> But if we're going to lose our collective shit about this, can we start by getting mothers in blue-collar jobs 6 weeks of paid leave before we start worrying about six-figure fathers needing more than 6 weeks off?

Some of us don't live in barbarous backwaters like Illinois, but instead in places that, if not actually civilized like the rest of the developed world, are actually aware of and occasionally making efforts toward civilization (e.g., California) and already have gotten most working mothers up to four months of pregnancy disability (typically, without complications, 4 weeks prior and 6 weeks after delivery for vaginal delivery, 8 weeks after for C-section, but longer is permitted with medical necessity) plus 12 weeks of bonding time, all job protected, with potentially all of the former paid as for other disability and up to six weeks of paid family leave that can be used for the latter.

So, can we keep talking, now?
The principle of least privilege seems very applicable to keeping user data secure from the government. You cannot hand over data that you do not have. If your business model requires collecting data that would not be conscionable to hand over to the government upon demand, you should seriously reconsider your business model.

I'd strongly prefer something based off that rather than the actual pledge. It's fairly easy to lose a legal defense, go back on your pledge to produce a legal defense, or change owners to one not bound by the pledge. It's much more difficult to retroactively collect data.
I think you'll find that AWS doesn't do that outside of the vCPU credit-system nodes (which I think are just t1/t2). The resources you have rented from Amazon are your resources, especially as you get up to scale (when it really starts to matter in a big way, capitally speaking).

I didn't make up that sentiment, by the way; an account representative said it to me verbatim. It seemed mostly true in practice, and it's a big driver of why it's tough for firms like Linode and DigitalOcean to compete in the same arena.
Use of Badly is aweful grammer, use poorly instead
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It's true that the cultural role of music has changed a lot; that's important to bring up. However, I view it more as an evolution rather than a decline. The same way that paperback books "cheapened" the old experience of reading, or record players "cheapened" the live interactive experience of music. Things just became different, and it resulted in new cultural elements.

I think it's the same thing that happens with anything that you make more popular, easier to get, and cheaper. You'll get way more people who only engage with it superficially and maybe even detrimentally, but you'll also reach way more people that will appreciate it as much as ever, and help expand it into something greater.
I'm curious as well. There's little a child, let alone an adult, could that would result in a permaban.
> Given the target market (schools)

The target market is students, not schools. They want kids to get a windows computer instead of a mac before they head off to college
I'm very skeptical of that claim, particularly wrt pork. Once we've completely depleted the oceans of wild fish stock and rely entirely aquaculture, then it'll be a fair comparison.

According to this article, based on CO2 production farmed salmon has the same impact as pork:

http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/a-meat-eaters-guide-to-climate-change-health-what-you-eat-matters/climate-and-environmental-impacts/

And chicken has a substantially lower impact than either.
Exactly; the whole point is that there is not a free market here. Like I said, ISPs are a cartel.

It's funny, since these corporate goblins and their government lackeys spout bullshit about free market and competition and innovation and blah blah blah whenever someone asks them to justify their blatantly anti-consumer maneuvering (or something tangentially related).
All it takes to choke my i5-2500 to death is running Battlefield 1
Would it kill developers of open source to provide a simple, two-sentence explanation of what their app does?
It doesn't. The $139 windows laptop Microsoft is coming out with later this year will.
The article begins with looking back many years. In those days there were technical limitations and clever workarounds.
One MB was enormous.

Today, what are the technical limitations?

PCWorld's summary of by the comments in the talk lacks much insight. The article itself is misleading because it seems to suggest the goal is a "consumer PC". As I understand it the goal is a build machine, a computer whose purpose is to run a compiler. This is not a computer primarily for consumption. Graphics are optional.

Here is how I understood the comments:

1. Need expandable memory. Not everyone will require the same amount of memory. For example, the kernels I compile only need about 200MB of RAM, max. But this might not be true for other users. Back in the PC days, users could add their own RAM. This concept has been lost on mobile phone manufacturers. Not everyone needs the same amount of RAM.

2. Need better secondary storage. I would guess the reason is not to supplement RAM i.e., swap space, but because source trees have become so large. This is a pet peeve of mine. I keep writing half-baked tools to reduce the size of source trees to only what I will need. If the trees were smaller, perhaps more customized, then I could fit them in RAM (mfs or tmpfs). On my RPi I never use SD cards as writeable storage. They are just where I store a read-only copy of the kernel and userland which I can load into memory.
I pull out the card after booting. I/O via secondary storage is just too slow.

Looking back at times past there was some incredible creativity to find ways to make due with limited memory. Today we have enormous amounts of RAM (and computing power) but I see little effort or creativity in getting systems to fit into these "constraints" (sheesh).

The systems of the past fit easily in today's "minimum" amounts of RAM. The systems of today are still used by a majority of users for many of the same boring tasks as in times past but cannot fit into GB of RAM?

Software is like a gas. It expands to fill space.

Forcing one to keep purchasing new hardware. I guess that is the point.
Your analogy is a complete false equivalence.

Different cryptocoin designs have very significant differences in feature sets and algorithms. There is much more difference than name, or "printing press implementation(..?)"
Should every case be reviewed now? Is this coercion? Has corruption envaded so deeply into the justice department that deception and crime are the only tools they know.
Which states have those policies?
In my past personal observations, large amount of AAPL movement has to do with where the prevailing options contracts lie and not with any underlying fundamentals.
Definitely. That wasn't an option when I first created the forum. Nor was using Docker. I changed my forum to Docker later, but things could still go wrong occasionally. There's a nice web interface for updating to newer forum versions but that still broke once or twice.
> It is illegal (discriminatory) to have any policy based on gender.

No, it's not. Obviously, it's discriminatory to have a policy that differentiates on any axis, but not all policies (whether public or employer) that differentiate based on gender (or sex, which may be more to the point here, if we define "mother" as "parent giving birth" and not "parent of the feminine gender"; the two often go together but are not equivalent) are illegal.
iOS Dualboot
> Islam hasn't had an enlightenment yet,

It had a pretty good one, but then got lost. Searching with "Islamic golden age" will get you started.
Thanks!

And thank you very much to share your experience with us. I think that the same provider can offer you a very different experience in different regions. Even AWS is not immune to that, they had datacenters with some major outages in some US regions while in another countries almost none big problems.
I tried to cover that in the example I gave at the link I posted. The forum link in the example is broken now since this was 2014 but the idea still holds:

Imagine Jimmy wants to know how to pin a topic on a Discourse forum. He searches Google for pin topic discourse or whatever, and he sees a result with a text preview saying "...icon in the upper right to get the staff menu for the topic; select Pin Topic."

That looks right, so he ends up here: http://www.phylobabble.org/t/discourse-admin-quick-start-gui...

That's a big post, so he Ctrl-F searches for "pin topic". Normally his browser would already be highlighting the text in the post, but nothing happens, so he tries clicking on the only result. This just refreshes the page and puts him back at the same post.

At this point Jimmy either leaves the forum to try another result that doesn't hijack his browser search, combs the whole thread manually, or mashes Ctrf-F enough that he discovers the Ctrl-F-F override and types "pin topic" again, instantly highlighting the section that he wanted all along.
I think that a lot of it is based on the general premise that market actors are nearly perfectly rational (which is the general premise in a lot of libertarian economic analysis, and, more broadly speaking, the Austrian school), which just doesn't hold up to practical observations.
A clickbait headline if you have ever seen one. Sure, it's the biggest percentage loss, but then of course AMD rose four fold in the last year or so.

AMD on May 3, 2016: 3.7

AMD on May 1, 2017: 13.6

AMD on close May 2, 2017: 10.32

It's still more than double, this is just the natural correction after all the hype. And since they went 4x in a period of 1 year where .. nothing .. really happened (until Ryzen very very recently) there was a lot of fluff.
My negotiation skills are abysmal relative to my engineering skills, but I'm never going to give anybody a pass for exploiting that either.
It is amazing to think about Apple in terms of its size and influence on computing compared to IBM. And that makes me wonder who is going to replace Apple 30 years from now, or if Apple will have a 100+ year run like IBM has. I hope they get a chance to repatriate their cash hoard.
They don't deserve net neutrality if they choose to do business with an ISP that doesn't give it to them. You say that they don't have a choice because there's no competition; I say there's no competition because government regulations raise entry barriers and remove profit motives.

> And I'm sorry, but if the only reason you're giving internet "for free" is so that you can violate net neutrality, then you are not doing anyone a service.

You're certainly not doing anybody a service by trying to prevent a transaction that doesn't even involve you because you don't like the terms.
So you'd prefer them to what? Go to court so people can keep seeding illegal torrents? They'd never win in court and it would be business suicide.
..... After having gone up 400% in a year
Advertisers and Facebook don't have to try to target emotionally troubled teens in order to target emotionally troubled teens. All they have to do is have an advertisement that works well on emotionally troubled teens, have sufficiently correlated targeting tools, and run an optimization algorithm like gradient descent.

To take a slightly different example: it doesn't matter if Facebook doesn't offer racial targeting if a payday loan company runs ads segmented by zip code and picks the best performing areas that happen to be predominantly black.

EDIT: This should teach me to read the entire article first, since I made up an example that was literally used in the article. My bad.
Don't use Tor Browser. It's probably the least safe browser on the Internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13623735

(For people unfamiliar: Tor and Tor Browser are not the same thing!)
> they're back to a plain, old laptop configuration?

why not both?

surface book if you want tablet\convertable

surface laptop if you want a traditional laptop
Not only does SICP use Scheme, but it uses a really old and primitive Scheme, so that's what a lot of students who've only had exposure to SICP think all Schemes are like -- almost a toy language. They usually have no idea what a modern, full-featured Scheme like Chicken Scheme or Racket is like: light years ahead of the Scheme used in SICP, with a rich ecosystem of libraries.
The GitHub closed issue rebound effect
Show HN: Ship Serverless Functions to Your Docker Swarm with FaaS
"The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively showing a Get Out the Vote reminder in certain counties of a swing state, for example, was a running joke."

Woah. They're asking to be regulated.
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Microsoft has let you easily change Windows edition for some years now. It was called Windows Anytime Upgrade in 7, it dates back to Vista.

Unusual that the Windows RT-alike supports it, though, but perhaps that's because Windows 8 and Windows RT were mutually exclusive in their hardware support (x86 vs ARM), and this isn't.
In other words, he passed the marshmallow test.
A shout out for LinearML

https://github.com/pikatchu/LinearML

Development kinda stopped after the author joined FB. Hoping for a revival.
I'd count commodity electronics in there.
And, more important, how much they type. I'd say that for a machine aimed at teenagers this might not be a good idea. Time will tell.
This is not true - have to disagree.

The touchpad on a mac is not mechanical - you get a uniform "click" no matter where you press.

For PC laptops, the touchpads are still mechanical and work almost as if on a hinge. The hinge is at the top of the pad so clicking near there sometimes is impossible.
I pay a service to do my grocery shopping for me. It's a bit of a markup, but I highly value my personal time, don't own a vehicle and have an extreme dislike of grocery stores. There's a great market for such services (gig economy).

Chicago Resident.
if the claim is that Chromebooks are instant and Windows is slow, and the counterclaim is that Windows 10 S is down to 20s which is "Chromebook speeds" because they're not actually instant, then it seems very useful to point out.

(I haven't used either)
Would be nice if the "Notes" section referenced the matching table entry. Example:

>Send root password by email	Yes	No[1]	No

>Notes:

>1. DigitalOcean sends you the passwords only if you don’t use SSH keys, in plain text.

Otherwise, great comparisons.