skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security professionals are almost completely unanimous about how effective Apple has been with it's "walled garden". I'm not even an Apple fan, but what they have done is pretty amazing from a security perspective. Like it or not it has worked to keep people safe from many many types of attacks.
Because they assume a false premise (hah! Does this count as a pun?) and take a high road. Best series of books i read about matg tgst really helped me were the "for the practical man" series of books!

Another book i recommend that helped me was "the architecture of math" by pierre basieux.

These books really assume nothing beyond the ability to read and do a great job!
I always assumed if the CIA recruited someone from another government agency for covert activities, the recruitment would be "dotted line" on paper, i.e. that person would officially still work for the military, FBI, State Dept or whatever.
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There are two things here (1) A lot of people involuntarily dropped out of the workforce which not captured by simple unemployment rate (2) What's important is quality of jobs which is what you can buy with your income. We may have an abundance of food and LCD TVs at the moment -- goods that may have faced inflation before their production was less mechanized/automated but these efficiency gains have been more than eaten up by inflation in housing, education and healthcare which all are associated with competition for a scarce, less elastic, resource.
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For me, shit. I was in rural Australia. What I had to do was pour over the documentation and experiment a lot.

Now this was back when is as 9 and using Qbasic though.

I was able to write a bunch of questions to ask the senior teachers at high school, but that only led to more questions.

I did eventually get given c++ by a friend, but I was absolutely stuck.

Admittedly though, the lack of books was the sticking point. I believe if I had a few more text books, that it would have been a hell of a lot easier. Not as easy as im-stick-quickly-google as I do now, but a ton easier.

Hmm after typing this out I realise it doesn't really answer your question, bit I'll post it anyway.

But imho learning from. Textbook with no outside resources (which I did later in life), made me come up with some interesting work around a, which later on gave me insights, but to get software out quickly, SO and Google help a lot.

Not very clear I know, sorry but that's my 2 cents.
Books and mailing lists.
Because there is rarely a need to be sexist about it. Why not accept everyone?

This is my major issue with many "womens causes" because it's not womens causes as much as it is human causes. In fact, it feels like they have something against me as a man by denying men help and it makes me furious.

I would never support this movement.
If you have open ports and SMBv1 is unpatched/enabled, I believe you can randomly get from a random scan of your ip by the worm.
Every shelter is for men by default. Women-only shelters are the exception and are far fewer in numbers. Shelters can be ugly, violent places, especially if there's a cold-weather snap and they have to open their doors to those with severe behavioural issues.

The big reason why most of the homeless are male is because as rough an existence as that is, they can survive out there. Women simply do not last as long. They're pressured into sex work, they're dragged into abusive relationships, or they die.

Women are also more likely to be homeless with kids, a nightmare scenario. They have significantly more motivation to get off the street by any means necessary if they're in that situation. By comparison a homeless old male can just stumble along at rock bottom for decades.

Survivorship bias. Be careful how you observe things.
"I had to go through this and figure out everything myself, so you should too".

Some of us like it and don't see value in the long winded motivational style. Things like group theory are targeted on people who are interested in math itself and like the mathematics for what it really is.

It is interesting to learn history once in a while and there are good books about that. However, most of the time you want to move on faster.
That rant is a bit ridiculous to post here - the foundations of computer science is largely the result of mathematicians who weren't particularly interested in physics.
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It's a shame you're being downvoted for sharing your opinion. Personally I think you're delusional, but it's not like downvotes are going to change your mind.
Books would provide the general guidelines on how to do some stuff. I used a search engine (not sure if google at that time) to decipher the exceptions and it eventually would point me to some random message board. It taught me to RTFM.
I think windows user account control where you just have to click the button to allow admin privileges is much smarter.
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I would like to hope so, I haven't tried intercepting something like that(I just listen for certain keys), I do wonder if someone more experienced than me could listen for Ctrl and alt, then intercept the delivery, and display their own. (I would 'assume' the system gets first dibs on any keypress, but what if you listened for Ctrl and alt then used a sendkey to upkey the Ctrl and alt, and detect a del key press and then display a fake).
1) It's using a SMBv1 exploit, which can be done via LAN or via Internet if ports are open. Security Roll Up from March will fix it, there is also a specific release for other unsupported OSes like XP/8 & Server 2003. Disabling SMBv1 should also work.

2) Only in WINE and you'll have to run it yourself.

3) Partly NSA for weaponizing the exploit. Users for not updating. Hackers/Crackers for creating it.
Do you use a mouse and keyboard with the iPad? I've tried to use an Android tablet for anything other than a media player and web browser and everything took far too long (only using a mouse). Even to write a long email I could go downstairs, power-up my computer, type, send, power-off the computer, and return upstairs faster than I could on my tablet.

I do agree tablets are great support tools. For watching videos, music, and email (reading) they are great.
Well these are the old Atoms, which are responsible for the bad rep of the brand.

"Neither fast nor efficient, but it surely is slow!"
I didn't know it was mandatory, thought it was just practically necessary for VPN tunnels etc.

http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

I've recently bought one of these and it's been great so far. Though its a NanoBSD currently you can squeeze an SSD in there.
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Agree. But while the majority of the population just needs to browse the web, view pictures and play a few games at home, for which the ipad is fine, the majority of the population also works with computers during the day. And without a keyboard, it's hard to create anything. Try even creating your resume on an ipad.
Well my PC is hard wired, so I can pull 1gb on my system, that leaves room for my wife's of/our phones/ etc.

I'm actually looking into a new system atm(due for a full upgrade) and am trying to see how I can fully utilise that on my PC.

Edit: typos, fat thumbs again
Ok, I agree, but to be fair basic group theory is not PhD level. Group theory is taught in first year of college - right after high school.
So, which curated software store/repo do you prefer?

http://download.com? Now owned by CNET, and full of sketchiness.

Or maybe you like http://freeware.com? Oh, snap, it's down and parked by a squatter now.

Or maybe an open source site? How about https://sourceforge.net? How'd that work out?

Could start by installing Java, let's see, oracle.com, click, ah, what's this? It's installing the Yahoo! browser toolbar by default??!!!

Yeah. Curated.

And even if you do manage to get a curated software store without lockdown that has a business model, it's not clear to me how you solve the problem of people sharing passwords with sketchy family members and friends who then install hidden software that secretly, behind their back, stalks them without so much as an informational prompt or opt-in.

No, I think there are good reasons for having devices somewhat locked down, especially when it's being done for the sake of the end user.
This makes me think of a different kind of a kill-switch. What if the OS itself is required to have a kill-switch that triggers once it goes out of support, and it prevents regular use unless the admin goes through some serious hoops to override. It at least squarely puts the blame on 1) Orgs that willfully override v/s passively ignoring to update 2) OS vendors who have really short support cycles (~1 year for most android phones)
* who paid for your iPhone?

* who paid for your MBP?

In many cases, your employer did. After the MBP is written off and after the phone contract renews, you get a new one. Not so for the iPad.

Also, iPads serve mostly three purposes:

* feed a bluetooth speaker

* watch movies in bed

* lookup recipes in the kitchen

It does this very well, and you don't need a new one every two years.
Another point which hasn't yet gotten much attention is the valuable role Wikileaks played as an early working system. Without Wikileaks it is likely that Microsoft wouldn't have had the chance to release a patch ahead of any attacks.
I'm not convinced Amazon would suffer significantly if they raised their prices by 10% on average.

So there you have it! Create your own "Amazon," 10% more expensive but we treat our employees better.
If it had any way to provision a second non-USB Ethernet port, I'd already own several.
I use to be like that, try and run traditional only, and I lost a lot of customers to people who would update dishes.

Food is like code, keep updating, or lose out to someone who does.
Out of curiosity, what are some reasons to run the Clojure program inside of docker? Could you bypass the issue by just running it locally?
You're working yourself up the wrong tree... take it easy, it's not that anyone that doesn't exactly follow your very same mental model is a monster. Please
Why I chose ClojureScript over JavaScript
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WTH Is Modern Application Delivery?
That's because phones are heavily subsidized (whether as a discount or a payment plan) by mobile service providers, who put heavy marketing effort into making sure you always have the latest and greatest.

Meanwhile the iPad is basically a toy.

What's surprising to me is that anyone is surprised by these numbers.
Isn't this just typical of being 'in between' age-wise? I'm not saying it is, but it just strikes me as a more likely explanation.
Yes and no. Some do, and those that Doe know the traditional are more likely to leave recipes(imho), so now I run a dual system. I'll offer the fish as both traditional, or the 'restaurant name' special version to add a twist. (As long as it's not adding too much overhead to my chef's, if it is, I'll drop whichever one i think isn't as good).
Why Australia’s NBN rollout has become a worldwide embarrassment
But how often is she going to upgrade it?

I for one love the idea of a durable product with a long usable life span. But Apple investors might disagree.
Three separate points here:

1) copyleft versus non-copyleft

2) which copyleft license to choose

3) the strategy of the dgraph

Regarding 1), non-copyleft leads to higher short-term adoption, but copyleft is often the better choice long-term. Moreover, history has shown that if you switch from a non-copyleft to a copyleft license, people will feel tricked. So the "early stage" argument doesn't hold. If you want to use copyleft long-term, better be honest and do so upfront.

Regarding 2), whenever you ask a lawyer in that field, they usually tell you that AGPLv3 is almost always what you want, preferable to GPLv3 and most other alternatives. So the "draconic open source license" argument doesn't hold. AGPLv3 just closes large holes which GPLv3 left open, to ensure that people actually stick to the copyleft principle. So if you want copyleft, choose AGPLv3 unless you have a very compelling reason not to.

Regarding 3), the dgraph people seem to see it a similar way:

https://open.dgraph.io/post/licensing/
> The fact is, the majority of the voting public did not vote for Trump.

That only puts him in the company of Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln.

If you don't like the electoral college then fix it. But all that changes is how candidates will campaign. Republicans would still win half of elections, because that's the nature of a two party system. The only way out of that is to adopt a different voting system (e.g. range voting) so that there can be more than two viable parties.
We used to "run through" books like that. Their reasoning was to prove a theorem you only need the definitions/axioms. They really wanted us to be able to grasp the truths of a logical system from just its theorems and definitions. It was horrifically difficult. (Not all professors taught that way there.)

I feel that a lot of blame lies at modern academias curriculums. They feel every student needs to graduate in X number of years with a pretty long list of courses. It leaves little time for students who need or want more time with topics.
That gives you 64 characters to the left of the dot. The maximum number of characters allowed in any single component of a domain name is 63. Some systems might react in unexpected ways if you try to resolve an invalid domain name, making your check unreliable. Better use md5 or sha1.
> You must work for one of those other companies with 340,000 employees that always makes the right decisions, always puts people before policy, always maximizes shareholder value, always engages positively with the community, and always makes sure every single employee and customer and client and partner is 100% happy with everything that happens at all times. You should write a book about how easy that must be. It would be a bestseller. You could even sell it on Amazon, I bet.

Honestly, I've written some pretty controversial things on HN, but your response is frightening.

Bad behavior, behavior that some people would say is more than little evil, isn't excused because other corporations behave just as badly.

The fact is that the behavior we're discussing is quite easy to get right: just stop forcing people out of their jobs when they're sick or pregnant.

Your response is like saying "human rights violations are such a big problem that we shouldn't do anything about it".

It's a good thing that there are people that say we should stand up against hyper-wealthy corporations who are actively trying to exploit and harm their employees, instead of making excuses and looking the other way.
if you put a killswitch in Windows that can be triggered from Redmond, I guarantee you it will be used by virus of sorts
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This kind of thing is going to just keep happening, and there's really not a whole lot anyone can do to stop it.

It's been an escalating war of intrusion capabilities among nation-states for the past 20 years, and when some of those weapons are released into the wild, this is sometimes the result.
> But I really just don't believe that's why Windows security is just swiss cheese sealed off with duct tape.

If you're basing your argument solely on what you, personally, believe or don't believe in, can you provide some credentials to back up your status as a security expert? Or, at the very least, OS developer?
> NSA is also responsible for the defense of government computer systems and communications.

Incorrect, with the exception of DOD (and even there it's shared with DISA).

> didn't do enough to harden fed computers.

Interesting statement considering there have so far been 0 cases of fed computers being exploited. That figure is from US-CERT, the entity actually responsible for defending Federal systems.
Why not solve the generic problem instead of only a subset? Cure all cancer, not just prostate cancer.
Yes.. as a bay area resident can confirm this. I switched totally to Lyft the past few weeks and have no issues finding a ride promptly. Also all drivers that I met seem to be driving only for Lyft.

PS: What convinced me to totally switch was this https://github.com/lyft/envoy, my way of saying thanks for the Lyft team.
It won't be long before this is actually used very successfully against a company like Google or Amazon or Facebook.
Do Altera have something similar to Zync?
I think the commenter means that jerks are less likely to tip drivers who do deserve it.
Run wine inside an emulator... oh wait
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software is not subject to entropy...
Just to add to what you said, the reason that language is prohibited by Kickstarter is because it's prohibited by the FDA. Specifically those words.
you want to make us feel old?
> I'm encouraged that now that the Republicans are trying to kill women, children, and the elderly by taking away their healthcare

> united Republican political and propaganda machine literally trying to murder them

If people prefer to hear an intelligent argument, Stefan Molyneux lays out some of the healthcare problems and makes the case for a free market solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peVLkW7uirI
Microsoft was a monopoly when they sold that contract, which makes it subject to much stricter guidelines on what is allowable in the product they sell.
I uninstalled wine a few weeks ago :)
I call bullshit on this one. In Germany all 3 major providers offer LTE (O2, though, only since ~2-3 years), and still the most common cap are 3-4 GB, some discounter/business tariffs excepted. Telekom and Vodafone offer a high quality network but high pricing at both and outright scammy sales practices at Vodafone makes me say "no thanks". O2s network is rotten, and it regularly breaks dowm when it's congested (bei it due to political rallies or soccer games) but at least they're cheap and improving.

Competition does obviously not work, and Germany is still stuck with slow internet over copper wires and universally shitty mobile providers as a result.
I theorize the rise Chromebooks has at least partly contributed to the slump in tablet sales. I thought it was odd they weren't mentioned at all in the article, esp. given they are increasingly touch enabled and run Android apps now.

Speaking of which, I'm kind of blown away Apple hasn't tried to take all their touch expertise from the iPad and add it to MacBooks in some fashion.
There was a time before forums and newsgroups when all you had was magazines.

For many Dr. Dobb's (http://www.drdobbs.com) was the only real source of programming information they had. Those with more of an academic background had access to the books by Knuth and others, but those were hard to come by in those days. Bookstores didn't carry them, libraries didn't have them, and Amazon didn't exist so you couldn't buy them special-order even if you wanted to.

I learned C from a book and open-source software I could hack away on that was also written in C. I learned C++ from the Borland manuals that came with their compiler. I learned Perl from of the first O'Reilly books ever made. Newsgroups were only so useful, you'd have trouble getting answers to basic questions in a timely manner. Most were more interested in more high-level discussions like how to evolve the language.

If you wanted mentoring you could take your chances on IRC. Most of the time you'd have to endure an unofficial hazing ritual where they'd ignore you, then ridicule you, then finally, if you hadn't run off in disgust, begrudgingly answer some of your questions. Getting a straight answer to a basic problem was pretty much a social engineering problem.

It was only in the late 1990s that programming-specific sites like Perl Monks (http://perlmonks.org) popped up and filled that niche. That was the precursor to sites like Stack Overflow. I'm extremely glad to have been a part of that community where even the dumbest question would be given a straight-forward, non-judgemental answer, in some cases by the guy who literally wrote the book on Perl.
Google please buy Lyft for 25b in cash and stock.
Indeed. That comment was implicitly referring to operating systems like Palm OS and Windows CE which had user interfaces which were essentially impossible to use without a stylus. (You could sometimes muddle your way through with a careful fingernail, but it was awkward going.)

The Apple Pencil is something rather different -- it's an entirely optional add-on for artists/designers who want to use the device as a drawing tablet.
Hmm, do they/you have any concrete numbers to back this up?

For example, Uber has a disengagement rate of once per 0.9 mile, whereas Waymo shows numbers higher up at 5000+ miles.

The California DMV report [0] has numbers for a couple other companies that tested in California. The other runners ups are Nissan and BMW with 247 and 638 miles respectively. Still an order of magnitude behind. But Volvo isn't there, and I'm curious to see concrete numbers. Because no amount of press and videos really means anything. Anyone can come up with a video of the car doing a nice ride. Google published one of those in 2009. It's spent the last 8 years perfectly that. That's the hard part, making it work in all cases, not just for one video.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...
This is bay area bubble mentality (I live downtown SF). Does not represent the vast majority of Uber's business and market.
Bizarre. I wonder why users are flagging these posts?
WTF. For hundreds of years people with overflowing coffers have built themselves splendid mansions, headquarters, castles, what have you. Churches. Sometimes they built in good taste.

But now that Apple does it it's a sign of something about tech?
Apple has a lot to gain from controlling user experience, preventing malware, and protecting their 30% cut of software costs. Its not merely that they don't have much to gain from protecting users from snooping girlfriends. In almost every other instance they actually stand to gain from helping the other side.

Apple has every reason to help your mom/dad/boss/school ensure that you don't misuse THEIR property.

Your perspective seems to be mostly unfounded speculation that doesn't hold water.
> The top-rated answer is ...

Please use absolute references (a link to the specific answer) instead of fuzzy references that change over time.

Currently, your answer is the top-rated, so which one did you mean? (And even if your answer was not at the top, the top will almost certainly change over time, leading to all kinds of misunderstandings.)

EDIT: It seems that this referred to the top-rated answer on MO, not HN:

https://mathoverflow.net/a/13149/66043

This demonstrates my point even more: Please use absolute references, as fuzzy references make for misunderstandings! (And as my comment received quit a lot of upvotes in the beginning, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thought this was about the top-rated HN answer.)
I think he means that

A pixel is not a little square:
http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
This logic doesn't quite hold up. The NSA discovered the flaw. No one knew about it before them.

If the NSA didn't discover it, the world would be equally insecure. The fact that they weaponized it and then lost control of it is a secondary effect at best.
I work at https://www.cultureamp.com so I'm biased. Of course, we use the product ourselves. I think it's great.