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I'm down voting because you are saying: "This policy is good because it is good for me."

You are saying "we are doing fine", but you provide no evidence and no explanation for it.

Social policies should be evaluated by their impact on everybody in the society, not just on you.
"Apple's trick is to realize that high resale values help sales"

I think that's only an extra. Their real trick is that they realized that, as long as each new generation of phone is a lot better than the previous one, they don't need to design mid-end phones, but can instead sell last year's phones as this year's mid-end phones.

Apart from the "don't need to design" part, that means they don't need to market those mid-end phones as much, as millions of people already walk around advertising them. Also, customers who buy such a phone do not look like mid-end device buyers; they look like premium device buyers who bought a new phone last year.
I think you've misunderstood the parent. By making explicit that the founder does all these things, it makes the urgency of hiring and delegating clear.
The world gets hacked because programmers make mistakes, and their management cannot evaluate those mistakes -- if only for no other reason that sometimes it isn't even obvious they made a mistake until a couple years later.

Users have been fooled: Turn it off and on, is a reasonable and well-known troubleshooting guide, but nobody blames the software vendor. If I'm on the phone with a company and they tell me to turn it off and on, I can't even point out "so you sent me something defective?" this is normal folks.

Maybe we need to teach programming younger and younger -- and it'll take two or three generations to become common enough that management will actually understand what I'm doing. Or maybe we need awareness campaigns to keep users from putting up with shit experiences!

Or maybe someone has some other idea, but the major barrier exists: We don't know how to program computers, and saying that out loud makes a lot of people with the job-title (or description) of programmer clam right up.
Someone actually said, we can't all be super-genius programmers who can program without Google. But that was the norm when I started, and I'm only in my 40s. A copy of W Richard Stevens and a copy of K&R is all you needed for 99% of real work.
That's unduly personal and crosses into incivility, indeed personal attack, which is not allowed here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14330781 and marked it off-topic.
It's made more people with the job title (or description) of programmer. That's not the same thing at all.
When my previous employer sent me my offer letter and contract, they'd already signed it on their side. I simply crossed out the non compete clause, signed it and returned it. I don't think they even noticed.
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can somebody explain why posthaven is so widespread? i don't see any reason to use it over medium etc
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I'm not so sure. They now produce a ton of their own content which they may want to protect.

That content is not broadcast with DVB, it's not distributed on BluRay.

To that point if they can prevent there being a way to rip the raw video bitstream from the handful of platforms they do support, then they can prevent their shows being pirated (at least in full quality.)

The licensing of other content was definitely the reason they locked down the geo streaming though 100%.
Hopefully governments will one day take GNU/Linux based OS & Software. I know, I know ... Linux for Desktop is hard, but it seems like making exploits are harder than doing the same for Windows ( maybe hacker focus is on windows, who knows. ).

Anyway money equation I think is quite simple :

Why buy Windows, when you can use Linux and buy backup infrastructure.
This is not accidental. Not even close!

This story, if true, details a person who profiled this malware and correctly logged the network requests it was making and then correctly identified a fundamental vulnerability in the software. This is not an accident at all - it is rather a profile in supreme competence. We should recognize it as such.
> When they realise that the media here is just as one-track mind about these things

Yes. When I got access to the internet, 25 years ago or so (only a few years after we got rid of communism in Romania), I was shocked to discover this about the US. In Romania, we had state propaganda and we knew it about what it was. It was everywhere and nobody believed it.

In the US, state propaganda is also everywhere, but everyone accepts it as fact. ("America is the greatest country in the world", "the US government would never do something like that", "we leave nobody behind", "we defend freedom"... I could probably come up with dozens of obviously false things that all Americans believe.)
Oh please. How many "legitimate businesspeople" believe its their moral duty to spend millions on tax evasion lawyers and schemes. That think nothing of destroying thousands of lives and millions of man years worth of hard-gotten savings from the defenseless with legal but immoral schemes. It is perfectly legitimate business people that refer to patients as "units" and literally let them die if not money can be made of them. I'll type all day and not get to 10% of legit accusations I can make against "legitimate businesspeople".

I'll take an honest crook any day.
I've been thinking about this for fuzzing my own ssh server, there are various paths that depend on external stimuli other than the main network stream - TCP data incoming or writable, TCP sockets closed, processes exiting etc.

It seems that wrapping select()/read()/write() to have random readability/writability/closing seeded by a fuzz input might exercise those code paths. I'm yet to implement it though - be interested to hear of prior work. Getting the fuzz input corpus to correlate to program actions might be problematic.
>Every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA and some hackers knew how to use it.

Is there any proof of this?
Surely capitalism has to do with the existence of capitalists who don't do labor? If Walmart's shareholders couldn't extract all surplus income from the company, the Walton family wouldn't be making an entire country's worth of store owners' income for doing no work.
The problem is dumping all that data to disk, or encoding on the fly and doing so.

HDMI caps are mostly kind of shitty quality. Look at the UHD BluRay releases (smurfs excluded.)
The same way you handle every 'new' world order, of course .. you build another one right on top.

i.e. IPFS, Akasha, Ethereum, etc. These need to become first-class services in a default OS install. Then, maybe, we'll start evolving again ..
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Why would anyone spend effort to develop ransomware to target OS that is used mostly on servers, by computer professionals and enthusiasts, and in organizations that are managed by admins that are willing to put extra work to support not-standard solution?
Interesting, but I suspect that a slight variant of it would work.
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Its worse than you think. The Australian Constitution is highly racist. One set of laws for whites, another for the natives. This should be the first thing we fix.

Then of course, there's the fact that Australia is a British dependency. This needs to go. Australia is not a sovereign state - it is a colonial property. Yes, even still today.

The Constitution also doesn't protect the Australian Parliament as a democratic institution. It doesn't address, nor protect, the Australian environment. Equality: not guaranteed, at all, by the Constitution.

There are just so many things wrong with it.
The physical things that you note - well, depleting them would mean death or unconsciousness and collapse, so that is a definite limit on will-power. On the other hand there are many cases of individuals dying while crawling home or resisting torture until death.

In terms of parameter inheritance - is there science on this? Are some humans predisposed to have less will power than others?
You can get started here:

https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display...
Well, not exactly. Two of the examples above still hold; some others include the US Civil War, the Crusades and other religious conflicts, and genocides such as those in Pakistan, Armenia, and Rwanda. Sorry to be inconvenient, but I keep coming back to this: you need a better theory than these ham-fisted ones.
Wanting smartphone providers to provide less cloud backups is an interesting suggestion, considering I usually hear the exact opposite. Usually in the context of travelers being forced to give up their phone password at the airport there are suggestions that people wipe their phone before leaving then restore after arriving. Then there are complaints that current smartphones make this too difficult.
Mobile OS security models are bound to land on the desktop soon-ish. What does any random App have to do with anything in ~/Library that is not its own Application Support or .plist preferences?

To be honest I don't mind if all Apps are sandboxed with the exception of a couple "user super-user"; I don't really care if my machine's root account is secure if all my horses sitting in $HOME are let loose on the net.
This is really not an advise or anything. I'm not an expert on relationships although I had quite a few and met quite a few women who wanted a relationship with me over the years. Of course many of them were driven by social stereotypes that would make me an overall good draft pick.

You can't really engineer a relationship. Approaching them with an engineering mindset is wrong and misleading in my view. That's why usually we let feelings decide what should happen and take risks.

If you're not a-sexual[1] then you must be attracted to a certain type of woman. Usually men are attracted to sweat, good looking, smart, responsible women. At least that's what works for me. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Relationships are marathons.

When you live with someone, the relationship goes on another level. You start noticing things that you like and things you don't like. Your partner does the same. There are also external factors that will affect in ways you can't tell: Will your friends and family like her? What about her family? etc.

Believe me, a posteriori, every relationship seems like a poor choice. We usually focus on what we give to our partner but rarely contemplate what we take back.

IMHO the bond between a couple must grow organically and only then been taken care of. You need to fall in love with someone, respect him, etc. To the very least you need to have strong feelings towards your partner. Otherwise, there is no way in hell that I see a 37-year old male going through a relationship with the solid foundations that are needed to get through the relationship happily. As most married people will say, it's not always sunshine and rainbows. I dare to say, it rarely is past the first 2 years.

Of course if you want a relationship that will end up in a divorce after 3 years, then I guess, things are a lot easier.

Relationships are not simple, nor static. Indeed IIRC Einstein or Tolstoy said that relationships are the most complicated thing I've came across. There are too many variables. This means that there's no perfect deal when picking up a partner. I dare to say that it's very hard thing to predict how an individual, male or female, will change and adapt to a relationship. People seemingly different, get fine, while others who seem perfect for one another do not.

Of course there are very poor deals, e.g. You shouldn't pick a drug addict or alcoholic partner. On other what if your partner had a predisposition in alcohol that you never knew about and suddenly ends up being an alcoholic. You give up, or keep on hanging? What do you do? A movie[2]!

I don't know. I can't stand being with someone who wouldn't give everything to me. I need to take everything and give back everything.

ps. To the brave who reached the end os this comment: hopefully I didn't sound like an idiot in this post. If I did though let me know, for future reference, I'll try to change my wording or keep quiet :-)

[11: AFAIK about 1% of the population is a-sexual meaning that it doesn't feel any kind of strong attraction to either sex.

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6oxB257a7Q
I believe state of the art methods aim for linear time complexity, using the Fast Multipole Method to perform matrix-vector products in O(N) operations rather than O(N^2), and applying that in an iterative solver such as GMRES, which typically requires a constant number of iterations, because the matrix is just a slight perturbation of the identity matrix.
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They also want you to use Edge or their UWP app just to be able to get 1080p content, because of DRM.
Oh, the Intel Management Engine :)

Now quite a lot of eyes are on it after the recently discovered AMT vulnerability so we will see how good this DRM thing is in practice. Can't way for the day Netflix will start demanding running the latest BIOS version to patch DRM bugs.
it doesn't matter how long barney fife fucks around. God is perfectly just.

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Yes. Gross negligence from gov for under funding a core government service.
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You are dead wrong in everything. To start with, your analogy is bad. You cannot compare psychical items with software. When you buy a car do you expect it to run and last forever? Software does, so you can see immediately that it's not a good analogy.

Large systems are extremely complex but even so we have process, tools and methods to build reliable, verifiable and bug free code. What is stopping us from using them for every piece of software is the cost.

Consumers are happy with the status quo of quality/cost.
But I specifically asked about small pockets of the world, like silicon valley. Specifically, I asked about billionaire wealth in the United States.
I invested in 2013 I think, in BTC. I doubled my money took everything out and never looked back.

I did it as a game, because it was fun. When I realised that BTC price fluctuations keep up at night, I didn't thought it was fun anymore so I sold everything and never looked back.

I'm more mature now, have a good income from multiple sources which would allow to spend 10x times more but I didn't so far, no specific reason why.
The people who count these figures _have_ thought of this, you know - this is called "mid-brow dismissal". They publish more than one number.
You seem to be overlooking the fact that, thanks to "that dogma", America is not a part of the Soviet Union today.
Main gripe I have with PTVS:
Please improve doc rendering, you can use sphinx to create rendered docs as Spyder does very well. It makes coding so much easier for use mortals you have not memorized numpy and every caveat. I'm specifically talking about the very large docs in functions, rendered equations, links and references. Putting all of that in intellisense hoverbox is unusable, make a separate window box.

Otherwise it's pretty good. I actually use both Spyder and PTVS and am unhappy with both. Bad doc rendering in PTVS, no git in Spyder.
There is PIT[1], it calls it mutation testing, but I guess it is roughly the same idea

To put it another way - PIT runs your unit tests against automatically modified versions of your application code. When the application code changes, it should produce different results and cause the unit tests to fail. If a unit test does not fail in this situation, it may indicate an issue with the test suite.

[1]http://pitest.org/
The primary problem economist have with Piketty is not is analysis but his solutions.
Yes, it is feasible. Most of the talks are in English, the ones which are not will be translated by the Translation Angels.

I would guess that almost everybody of the participants can speak English, although a considerable amount of them will be Germans.
It's not a gift if both parties received something of value. If you notified a company of a security problem, and they gave you nothing, that would be a gift from you to them. If a company gave you money out of the blue, that would be a gift from them to you. If you think the extra money will negatively affect your taxes (it won't), you can always decline it.
The recent attack on the NHS targeted Windows XP. I dare you to run a Linux distro from 2001 and tell me its secure from modern attacks.
All things you can freely choose do in life were already dictated by those who came before you.
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Good one but not as mysterious as Tamam Shud case.
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> I've always been OK with DRM in apps

You want to eat your cake and have it too. DRM is technically impossible, so problems like the one you described are inevitable. Bummer, I guess.
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There is not enough incentive to do so, carrot or stick.
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The article states this:

> The money they made from these customers hasn’t expired; neither has their responsibility to fix defects.

This is wrong. We don't ask for mandatory lifetime guarantees in any other industry I'm aware of, and perhaps more importantly, much of what is done in the field wouldn't be possible if it did (could you imagine having to continue to maintain an IE5 webpage for another twenty years?).

It goes on:

> In its defense, Microsoft probably could point out that its operating systems have come a long way in security since Windows XP, and it has spent a lot of money updating old software, even above industry norms. However, industry norms are lousy to horrible, and it is reasonable to expect a company with a dominant market position, that made so much money selling software that runs critical infrastructure, to do more.

If I buy a toaster it comes with a one year warranty, maybe. A nice car might come with a five year or two hundred thousand mile limited warranty. Microsoft sold a product at a fraction of that cost and supported it, unconditionally, for 8 years. 8. And they supported it for five more after that with appropriate arrangements with enterprises (and after a select few enterprises who somehow concluded that paying some engineering salaries at Microsoft for dedicated support was cheaper than upgrading). That's a 13+ year lifetime of support on what was an $80 a license product. Industry norms can only be "horrible" insofar as there's only been a serious industry for 30 years... And XP was supported for half of it (man, I suddenly feel old). My point is that there is no world in which the "cash-strapped National Health Service" is not the primary entity which was grossly negligent in its maintenance of critical infrastructure.

Stepping back and looking at the article as a whole and less at specific inflammatory parts, it is, well, filled with inflammatory parts. It starts as a thin attack piece on Microsoft for being slow to provide free support for a 16 year old product, offhandedly references IoT for some added scare factor, then starts calling for action (from both corporate and government actors) without any serious discussion on either the merits of the proposed actions or the impacts taking them would have on those organizations or the implications that they would create for future actors.

But hey, if you're a fan of Bruce Schneier's more recent musings, at least you'll enjoy the conclusion: That we must legislate software, and fast.
If DRM is technically impossible, then encryption is technically impossible too... yet we use it.
> Note: The domains in red were not registered at the time of my research, although they were registered last night by an unknown entity. They seem to be back up domains in case one of the first two stops working.

Or they could be domains for checking if you're in a sandbox like WanaCrypt. Why wouldn't you just use 20 well known domains otherwise?
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The problem I found with sticking to using Pomodoros or longer periods (90 minutes) per work is that they work for a short while. After a couple of days or max. a few weeks I plunge back into my old self.

Using self-discipline techniques help in the short term, but in the long term I find them harmful. Because after a while of dedication, I feel exhausted and kinda burnt-out.

It's true that working for the time you allocated removes guilt. It's true that setting aside a fixed amount of time for working makes you more efficient.

If I could only find a way to sustain this kind of movement.
One thing I've seen working is listening to easy-listening music. After quieting down my brain, I have much more self-discipline and focus.
Different scale/complexity. You could hand-code waiters decision tree for recommendations and the possible choices end in ~hundreds. Personalized music suggestion has to pick from millions of choices and there's no straightforward algorithm behind it.
> extremely important work that should be respected and compensated

Why someone who chose to work and pay taxes instead of having kids have to pay for raising someone elses kids? I am assuming you expect "the government" or some other non-participating entity to compensate, right?
That's harder than you think, it's not even possible to disable all WiFi connectivity on some choosers.
I run a distro from 1998, it's entirely secure as it has zero network access except via serial port to the CNC it controls.
It is very likely that this will eventually end up in sdsl-lite and/or other compressed data structures libraries https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite
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> Netflix app won't show me 4K content as they require you to have a Kaby Lake CPU,

So we've gone from "this website works best in Netscape", to "this website works everywhere" to "this app requires you to have a specific motherboard".

Sure sounds like progress. Who do we have to thank for this?
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There are repercussions of China's aggressive market hunting. Taking an example of Northern Laos, the Chinese have been buying farmlands and converting them into Banana farms. Lots of farmers have sold their land for good money. If you don't sell you land, you'll be a fool because a) the size of land isn't that big so you are dependent on your neighbours good will for letting the water flow into your patch b) the neighbours already sold their's to the Chinese. The Chinese also very cleverly opened a casino. So, now you have villages full of farmers who go to the casino and gamble the money back to the same people (because as the saying goes, the house always wins) who bought their lands. Lao women who used to work in their farms now work in these casinos. Drug abuse has always been a problem in Laos but with this inflow of cash, it has been exacerbated.

One might say, the Lao government is equally responsible - which is not entirely false. If a chinese company tried to buy an Indian farmer's land, there would be outrage but Laos is a tiny country so no real comparison. Anyway, the net result is a social impact that is far from the carrot of "economic growth".
Although one can argue it's a configuration feature.

Having proper multiuser envrionment is already a huge security win.