skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The example I previously used was this old case:

Google Engineer Allegedly Fired For Accessing Private User Information To Stalk Teens

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teens...
I don't understand how this allowed them to conceal their location. Surely whatever connection was being used to send commands could be traced back to the attackers. Could someone explain why this isn't the case?
Dropbox has been, for me, a most disappointing outcome of the whole Internet'ization of computers.

I truly believe that Dropbox is a lousy solution to a problem created by ignorance on the part of the OS vendors. There is absolutely no good reason that the computers of today cannot share media seamlessly between themselves, without requiring the use or involvement of an external third party - the only reason its necessary to have Dropbox now, is because OS vendors fell asleep at the wheel and forgot that they're producing Operating Systems.

I think this will change, though - OS vendors are going to catch up to this market, and Dropbox will become less and less important as the OS starts to do its job again, and lead on these kinds of services.
Well, this was helpful. Listened to a great podcast w/ Sarah Blakely from Spanx (How I Built This) and she did the opposite of JCrew.

Really appealed to woman in a way male designers didnt even consider. Stayed focused on what they wanted and delivered. I mean she was also a straight up hustler which helped; but your points drive home the concept.jcrew should've talked to users like you and it sounds like they totally lost their customer base
Besides working stuff (laptop, etc...) and good internet connection; I find it very important to have an area to rest my eyes. Not an open office, but like windows where I can release some stress.
Same for Synology.
> Amazon is now providing options for customers to choose the storage plan that is right for them.

Something about that wording really irks me for some reason.
And I didn't know it, hence me thinking there were 5 arguments.
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Good post.

The only way to fight against drug cartels is to deal with the demand side.

As long as there is demand for an illegal product people will supply it. As long as there are illegal markets people will restort to using violence to resolve disputes, control the market etc.
What you're describing is a hot real estate market. It's not always hot.

Take a look at Toronto now. Everything you said was true, now it's taking a long time to sell and prices are dropping.
I just stayed in a 8 x 5 sqft NYC hotel room (The Jane).
The bed fills over half of it. It has a 3 foot storage place below the bed and shelf above. The wall away from the bed has 6 x 5 ft mirror making the room seem twice as large. It also has a flat screen TV at foot of bed and 2x 5 window. The walls were thick enough you really couldnt hearbthe neighbors except when closing the door.

What is amazing is that some of the same size rooms have a second bunked bed instead of the shelf. I guess you have to take turns using the stand up space.
Yes it can see here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

The only thing it can't do yet is delete local storage due to the API not being implemented.
I eventually settled on Apple Time Machine. It backs up to a home NAS and a handful of drives at each office. The NAS can be configured to back up to S3 automatically.
/r/datahoarder will be devastated. Actually, they are devastated [0]. Where are they going to put all of their Linux ISOs?

In all seriousness, this move is another example of why I don't trust cloud storage. I use cloud storage, both GDrive and OneDrive, but never for mission-critical data, and especially never as a complete replacement for a good old JBOD in the basement.

Building Servers doesn't have to be difficult or complex [1].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6fydbz/looks_l...

[1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-servers-for-fun-and-p...
I recently started moving away from Dropbox after realizing I am not comfortable with how aggressive and anti-user this software is.

Last year the story broke about very questionable tactics of Dropbox Mac to gain root access.

This year I had a client whose machine was crippled because of a fun Dropbox default where, upon inserting any USB device Dropbox will automatically copy. The user inserted a camera with 4GB of hunting pics and it basically downed his machine. Now maybe he clicked on something to technically approve of this. But I surveyed the user base whom I had asked to install Dropbox and more than one had experienced a problem with this "feature". In one case the employee almost got in trouble for personal use of a machine, because she had connected her phone and didn't realize all her personal pictures were copied there. Less savvy users were involved, but I need to feel comfortable recommending a product like this to less savvy users.
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The japanese were willing to surrender before the bomb, if allowed to keep all of the territories they had conquered. That's a far cry from the conditions we got or deserved.
Canada's health care system certainly isn't perfect and it's not comprehensive. I live in Vancouver near the Downtown Eastside. I'm very aware of how much it doesn't cover in this regard (although it does pay for a safe injection site that's pretty much a miracle of public health spending).
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So we're opening a whole new floodgate of lobbyist propaganda?
Ad networks can track you without cookies. Cookies are just an easy first step.

Any time any user hits any page with your javascript[1] in it: record ip address, referer (sic), locale preferences, available fonts, what's in their cache, what extensions they have, and anything else you can get. You can even track if they have certain 3rd party sites blocked.

Then it is a matter of bayesian guessing about who they are. Given that a typical person spends most of their time in only a few specific places (home, commute, work, favorite coffee shop/pub, etc) you can make very good guesses about which person is visiting your page after only a few visits... even if they have cookies disabled.

[1]And if they have js disabled they can't really use your site because js is basically required now. And you can still track that information and advertise to that cohort. How many people hitting the site from these 5 ip addresses, who use chromium, and have no cookies, and have js turned off? One? Well, then they just identified that person
I just realized that I have an unlimited Amazon Drive subscription that I've been paying $59.99/year for and not using. Thanks to this announcement I'm canceling my subscription and saving $60 next year. :)
> Android, which is a privacy and security nightmare

Only if your only source of information about Android is WWDC keynotes.

But did Phil Schiller tell you about the Korean "malware" that was very quietly purged from App Store last week?
There's the popular "tiny house" movement in the USA - building complete homes on just 100 square feet.
Crashplan is a backup service. Different category of company.
But Butterfly isn't exotic in most of indoeuropean-speaking countries?
In Slavic languages apparently motyl etc comes from motit (motać się) = to move around randomly. Kinda fitting if you've seen a flying motyl.
I found an article: man in Florida bleaching fives to print hundreds.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-10/news/os-bleac...
Coinbase Support on Hacked Accounts
So last night at 9:30 I got an email saying my 2FA was changed, I used SMS. Stupid, I know, I had set up GA but it was still defaulting to the SMS. Anyway, whilst freaking out for a few hrs, I tried to log in and saw the phone number had changed for 2FA. Not long after that, I got another email from Coinbase saying the original email was sent in error.

Now, I am still locked out of my account with no way to tell if it is actually hacked. I have sent emails to Coinbase Support with title of hacked account with literal 0 response.

For a company that wants to value themselves at a billion dollars, not having real support, especially not having even a phone number is ridiculous.

Coinbase promotes themselves as being the way for the common man to get into BTC, I have been involved in the BTC/Cryptocurrency world for a while and so far, from my recent experience coinbase is the not the best entry point for anyone, let alone the common man.
Regarding your 2nd point, do those rankings actually provide any useful information? How is it fair to rate an entire university, especially when they offer multiple studies? Shouldn't the ranking be based on discipline e.g. software development, language, *ologies, etc.?

Also #200 out of what? According to this Quora[0] question, there are anywhere between 26,000 and 40,000 universities globally. 200 out of 26,000 puts your university in the top 1%.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-universities-are-there-in-the...
If you've actually never used it, you can probably ask for a refund.
No, it isn't, my dude. That comparison is not only ridiculous but offensive.

With slavery, the slaves don't get a voice. They can't choose to not be slaves. With taxation in a democracy you can choose to run for office and change the laws yourself if you really wanted. Or you can just work to get someone else who better represents your views elected.

With racial segregation, again, the victims don't get a voice. They are prevented from voting, they are intimidated and oppressed.

You are not being oppressed because we've chosen to pay taxes to fix the roads and take care of the elderly.
They bounced back by raising prices, after users upload too much data to switch.

Dropbox for Business launched at $12.50 per user/mo for unlimited storage.
It's now $20.00 per user/mo.

Bait and switch your way to profitability.
I don't think this attitude is exclusive to "the west". It manifests itself in (most) modern economies.
I assumed "encrypted at rest" to mean encrypted with the user's passcode, meaning it could only be decrypted from a properly authorized user session, not some internal apple tool.
I love seeing the updates. It is also a great way to get feedback and answer questions about your open source software. Because of this, I plan on posting the next OpenEMR project update here, even though it is mainly bug fixes and UI tweaks.

A lot of good feedback and questions were posted last time the update was posted here.
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Sleep, diet, and exercise. There's a good chance you need to improve in one of these areas—we all do.

Otherwise, think of stress like your email inbox; a stressbox. You can zero this out on a daily basis by being honest with yourself about what is important in your life.

If it's not important, delete it.

If it is important, archive it and come back tomorrow, wait for your brain to detach the emotion from the event. Anger is a symptom; you need clarity to figure out the cause of the symptom (the event).

If it's someone else's anger causing you stress, mark it as spam and unsubscribe; sometimes this requires telling someone to stop being negative around you.
Whether or not you personally like Dropbox, they are an example of going up against the largest competitors on the planet and surviving.

And not just an example in general, but an example in detail -- decisions and efforts they made at every point, from engineering to corporate finance -- have been factors in that story.
One thing I see quite frequently is ads for items I already bought. Not like "oh you just bought a T-Shirt, well let's show you another great T-Shirt", no no, it's "oh you just bought this T-Shirt, well let's show you the exact same T-Shirt in case you want to buy a second one completely identical".
My restore experience was also poor with Backblaze. The download speed was slow. If I had to restore an entire drive it would have take me many days to download the entire thing.

I switched to Arq with Amazon Drive as the storage backend.
Is MIT actually well-endowed? I don't know the answer to this question so it's not intended to be snarky.

But there are plenty of schools (my alma mater CMU is one such example) that have mind share but a very small endowment. CMU has made a point of building its endowment over the last few years -- there was a single $250M donation, a few others in the $50-100M range, and calls for much more.

Endowments are important to the long-term financial health of an educational system. They help schools borrow money at very cheap rates to fund large infrastructure projects that otherwise would need to be built by donor / grant money alone. A school like CMU with a small endowment ends up having sky-high tuition to compensate (indeed, CMU has the highest tuition in the country across nearly every degree program they offer) and limited scholarship opportunities. They also have to accept a greater percentage of foreign nationals who otherwise might not qualify (and who can usually pay the tuition out of pocket no problem, since the wealthy across the world want at least one degree from a US school on their resume).

But essentially, the endowment is a nest egg that the school uses to ensure its long-term survival and academic independence. If you feel your alma mater made you the person you are today, and you want to encourage that to continue into the future, a large endowment gift goes a long way to ensuring its continued existence, independence and prosperity. Agree that there are a few schools that don't really need more (Harvard being the prime example) but the vast majority of schools really do need that much money sitting in the bank. You're donating to a school of thought more than anything else.
Visit England some time. The UK doesn't even routinely let the police handle guns, not even pistols.
Isn't this just a collection of essays on the promise of anarchism? It's been many years since my sister lent it to m, but I don't recall any discussion of contemporary anarchistic societies. My contention is that if they were a truly viable alternative, more people would migrate into them, and attrition would not be a significant problem.
You gave me some clarification, but I remain unconvinced that what you're proposing is a major influence over more prosaic ones.
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Not if slaves/segregated are minority.
And interesting perspective. What do you forsee happening when tech like this replaces the labour of those currently earning less than $1/day?
Node version numbers are weird. I'm not a node user but if this is semver sth. is certainly wrong, I see a major version update every other month here.
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I think you should revisit the line in the linked page that you disagreed with so strongly. It doesn't say "go back and rewrite in assembly", but simply asks that you develop with performance in mind (with an awareness of the costs of the choices you are making). Your comment was that performance effectively doesn't matter, deal with that later.

Optimization in the context of "premature-optimization" doesn't refer to going back and rewriting code early. It refers to a mental concern about performance, where there is a very wrong, but persistent and common, attitude that performance is something you can add later. But in most cases that simply isn't true, and it's one of the biggest lies in this industry, trotted out like it's grizzled experience and wisdom when it's the foundation of countless project failures.
I think he's just saying that a company is more likely to be founded after its cofounders have met.
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I'm guessing Arq using them as a backup destination might be one of the major motivators behind this decision. I was wondering how long it would take. About 6 months to a year longer than I predicted.
Incidental to properties of numbers themselves; it's a part of the language, not a part of numbers. The function is asking a question about the property of numbers. I find it more clear when the computation to determine that property depends on number properties, not language properties.
In which case it's sarcastic, not literal.

Why not state directly what you believe to be the case?

Just say "that isn't the case, and you only believe otherwise because you are not a victim", them defend that claim.
What about multi OS. You think a Windows pc, a MacBook pro, and an android phone will all sync files at the OS level? Really?
This is an outrage!

> 254 GB Used | Unlimited

Never mind. I've got 'til the end of March to find a 'better' provider, but probably won't bother.
Gerrymandering is already illegal. It can be fixed relatively easily by redrawing the districts, which is done routinely. And it's not like the electoral college is written in stone either. Since you can't see why it matters, here are some examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#Effects
During 25+ years of doing IT, I've been a contractor ~60% of the time, and I can say that for me, being a permie was the most stressful time of my life. It eventually caused me to have a total breakdown, which required lots of therapy just to recover. I then quit the job, and switch back to contracting.

Oddly enough, previously to that incident, I treated contracting no different to being a permie, I'd heavily invest, commit 110%, and push and push until stuff was delivered. I didn't know how to take my foot off the gas, even when I was only hired to do one specific thing.

I'm now in my second contract since my breakdown, and I have that disconnected attitude, when I can just walk away, and I try not to let the work issues affect me. I'm now a much calmer person (although that could be the daily drugs talking... I don't know).

It's all horses for courses at the end of the day, some people like to be neck-deep in work, and thrive on the stress and pressure, and others just want to be left alone to do what they are good at during 9-5 and then forget about work until the next day.

What is true though, is that stress will kill you, and no matter what your role is, it's not worth your life.
It's technological negligence if you set out to protect customers privacy, but your employees decide to steal it anyway, because they can.
If you intend to deploy this for your organisation, who is going to deploy and maintain the service for you? Does your company / organisation emphasise the same level of support for internal tools as you do for external services for (paying) customers?
I live in Vancouver. BC #1? LOL. We're 9th in education spending in a country with 10 provinces.
To the "be a zero" tip, I would add that it's important to learn to trust your assessment of a situation so that you can move in the direction of being a 1 (vs. 0 or -1) when it matters. There are two concerns here: leadership and management. It's important to build skill and the trust of your team as a leader as a you develop as a manager.
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Well by definition it's harder to come back from that edge. The whole point of regular exercise, meditation, and reflection is to not get there in the first place.

Stop trying to fix the symptoms, fix the cause. Why does work of all things make you this angry? Is it a lack of control? Would you be happier running things or doing consulting? Is it the project(s)? People/a particular person?

Stop trying to get rid of the cough and start trying to get rid of the illness. It is not normal to get so angry at work that you bring it home.
Part 2 is here: https://lwn.net/Articles/720550/
and microsoft accessed a hotmail account to investigate a leak https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/microsoft-will-n....

One perspective is that every company gets to screw this up once and then has to get serious about privacy.

But it's possible this is happening all the time, victims don't know their saas vendor was complicit in releasing their information. If the companies ever catch the perps, they're quietly fired in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement that serves the interests of all parties (except the consumer).
Yup. Technology to do this has existed since the birth of filesystems. This is a non-issue.
"Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck" : Read that book. It can help a lot.
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I gave up my flat and moved into a caravan. It's about 75 sq ft and less than 6ft high. Within that is a kitchen (I cook all my own meals, bake bread etc. despite only having gas burners and grill) and a tiny wetroom/bathroom which I built myself. I live and work from here (I make and sell art and store my A3+ printer which I'll be using again soon). 27" monitor, spare bed, work area..

I do my laundry by hand in a bucket. My water tap is operated by a foot pump lol. I do a tiny bit of web work (used to be an Actionscript dev but that career died with Flash, the remaining jobs in that tech don't appeal to me and my CV has such a huge chasm in it now that my professional programming life seems to be over). I'm incredibly poor financially but life is challenging and interesting, the miniature home suits me fine and it's really good fun optimising the space.. just requires an adaptable mindset!
That does not work when it's a programming language or a library because people depend on it and don't want to have 8 versions of the interpreter/vm to support all the programs they may have that are written in that language. Rapid releases do work with applications.
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Yes, why not use git for the code files?

I have a single command on alias that goes and checks out all my git projects, and does a bit pull on any existing. Can switch between Computers in like 30 seconds. And it's all free git on bitbucket.

Git is much better way to deal with small files. Dropbox is ok for large files or nontechnical users.
I emailed security@apple.com and never received a response.

Generally, when I need to get the attention of big tech corporations I talk to a friend who works there. Unfortunately, I don't really know anyone who works at Apple.
I always wondered why they even put the "x" there.
It's a line out of the current administration's "we're [slashing this important program so as to benefit the few] to give people more choice over [healthcare / education / etc]."
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Even if remain won, I would still like to see at least 2/3 majority requirement for such an important vote. I don't mind simple majority for periodically repeating votes(parliamentary elections) but decisions which are almost irreversible or which have deep and long-lasting consequences(leaving/joining EU, going to war, breaking up the United Kingdom, changing constitution) should have a 2/3 majority requirement.
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> I did not realize .Net Core had diverged this much from .Net Framework.

Yeah me too.

On the flip side I consider it a healthy sign for the project as a whole and especially as an open-source undertaking.
Maybe it is, would we've lived in a world of standards being developed, implemented and followed and users having good understanding about their computer systems and networking concepts.

Have you ever saw HLS or DASH HTTPS traffic tagged distinctively from bulk .iso downloads, and all that being distinct from page loads? Does your VoIP client uses DSCP field? Which level does it set? What ISP is to make if some "smart" client marks all their traffic as "critical"? And more importantly - how that's supposed to even work across multiple ASes?

Heuristics is the only way it can be made work in the real world scenarios.

That, or "sorry, we understand that your MMORPG lags terribly since the last week but we can't even try to help you" ISP support replies.