skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it IS scary.
First, even if an attacker can wiretap my network, and I assume that at least my ISP and government always can, I want my main means of communication to be secure: I PRETEND HTTPS on mail, Twitter, Facebook and so also on WhatsApp before using it. (Also, with https it's not hard, it must not be possible, if it is, is a bug)
Second, if you try airodump-ng in a public place you will realize that you don't wiretap a Wi-Fi MAC address, it is screamed in every direction by every device that have Wi-Fi turned on, and note, not associated to an AP, simply turned on. Because this is how the network works, your device keeps yelling "I am /MAC address/ and know these APs, is there anyone near?"
So, if a service authenticates me based on a broadcasted value or on a easily retrievable value (I usually don't think that the guy that asked me to make a phone call might obtain some password of mine) I would not call that password-based authentication.
He is definitely connected. He is part of the team behind the go programming language.
Banque de France - Username:None Password:123456
Is Ask.com still doing private-label corporate stuff?
Oh this is just awesome. I remember looking at the shuttle map inside of Google and thinking "Wow this is like a real bus company or something."

40% of Caltrain's daily passengers. Makes you wonder what Caltrain could do with that money (I know, probably not invest it as efficiently as private companies do) But at what point does it become cost effective to build a people mover at this scale?

And something joked about but never implemented inside Google was the idea that the busses in SF load up on a hovercraft ferry in SF and then jet down the bay to the 'plex. Figured they could come ashore near the Palo Alto Airport and disgorge busses that would take the Frontage road down to Charleston.
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Synchronized flushing won't change the fact that Zimbabwe is a fucking shithole. This kind of "let's cross our fingers and hope for the best" measure was never necessary when the place was called Rhodesia, because when Whites were in control, they knew how to engineer around droughts. If Mugabe's government would simply stop killing Whites, there might be enough left to help out with such situations, even if they are in the minority.
Everyday I face problems that I've never solved before. I can query a nearly complete repository of human knowledge and find solutions nearly instantly.[1]

When I'm exploring a new city I have satellite maps of the entire world tied to a searchable index of millions of places, all on a device that fits in my pocket and is more powerful than as a supercomputer was 25 years ago[2].

There's an electric c on the market that rivals gas powered vehicles from Mercedes, BMW, and Porsche in luxury, power, and price. [3]

I'm plugged into a network that can notify me in advance of an earthquake that's going to reach me.[4]

Cars that drive themselves have been approved as street legal vehicles in several states.[5]

[1] http://bit.ly/Qs14ZG

[2] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/mark-hurd-is-still-...

[3] http://www.teslamotors.com/models

[4] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/earthquake-twitter-use...

[5] http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/09/06/self-driv...
As a counter point, management of US fisheries seems to be finding a good balance:

U.S. seafood catch at 17-year high

"Last year's increase, up 23% by weight over 2010 levels, is evidence that fish populations are rebuilding. Still, a number of fisheries remain in trouble."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafood-20120920,0,261...
Too late, the locations of Apple, FB, and Google shuttle stops are probably the worst-kept secrets of SF.
The stops are far from secret. I think there was an article in the New York Times in 2007 about how they were increasing property values.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/technology/10google.html
What?

I fail to see what is "non-average" about wanting to restore a machine from a Time Machine backup after a hard drive failure. Time machine is the only backup solution an average user will ever use, and is supposed to be a backup solution, not a placebo. As indicated in the article, it doesn't actually work for the the most (or second most) common case.

Rob Pike is most decidedly average in this case, he is most interested in working on his projects, not understanding the trivialities of maintaining the Apple Macintosh. Just like most people who have work to do that doesn't really revolve around shuffling boot disks around.

The "experts" (that, those who read macrumors regularly), will, of course, have not trusted time machine and will have a carbon copy cloner backup they can clone onto the new drive. They're ok. Meanwhile, the "average" folk who trust that an Apple provided backup solution... I dunno, backs things up... will be screwed.

Is windows worse? Maybe, but you know what -- as shitty as their incremental backup to a series of .zip files is -- at least it takes a complete image of the boot drive by default as part of the backup.
Anti-trust laws...

--Not the solution. The problem is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem
And.. just as a reminder. You know that they say that your messages are encrypted on the wire? Well, http://pastebin.com/g9UPuviz ; Or that they are encrypted when stored on the phone? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24569917
The point is, when you speed, you take something from someone else for your own benefit and that's the essence of criminality.
This is a beautiful statement in regards to how ignorant and racist it is. Zimbabwe, despite It's history of turmoil and colonial exploitation, is on the verge to economic security and prosperity. I recently met some government ministers from Zimbabwe at a network security conference in Malaysia where they had been instructed by their government to not come back until they understood how to develope respectable and effective network infrastructure that would support the local people.

Sure Zimbabwe and many other African countries have issues, but so does every country around the world. The constant perpetual negative cloud that people associate Africa with really denegrates the vast growth and improvements the continent has recently gone through.
The Rise Of The Mobile-Social-Vertical Marketplace
There are legitimate reasons for the taxi regulations and the taxi monopoly.

Why does every article about some regulatory body/union overstepping have to turn into a platform for some aspie libertarian rant about regulation/unions in general?

This is why we can't have nice things. In Europe, people can complain about one bad union or one bad regulation without people turning it into a screed about unions or regulations in general.
Fairness For Shareholders Who Bust Their Butts
Let me clarify:
You pay a premium for the entire ecosystem - hardware and software.

Also, there are a lot of Mac apps not made by apple of better quality and inexpensive.
Here's a working link via a prgmr.com server (California, USA): http://nfriedly.com/px/poxy/index.php?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc...
(For God's sake can we skip the predictable Betteridge's Law Wikipedia reference?)

This seems to happen a lot and not just in the ocean. Population dynamics are complex. Things often seem inexhaustible until they're not and that changes has a nasty habit of happening almost overnight. Look at the Passenger Pigeon, the Alaskan King Crab, bison, various whale species (some may never recover from the whaling industry), cod, etc.

I think this is exacerbated by it being hard to tell what exactly is in the ocean. With land animals it tends to be somewhat more obvious.

Some governmental oddities haven't helped here. Britain really screwed up in how it joined the EU (then the EEC) in the 1970s with the CFP (Common Fisheries Policy) [1], which is (now) a textbook case of the tragedy of the commons.

Norway didn't join. And they're swimming in oil wealth. Not that I think oil fields would've become a common resource (the North Sea oil fields aren't AFAIK).

And then there's the insatiable appetite of the Japanese for bluefin tuna that will probably drive the fish to extinction in a matter of decades at most.

IMHO all of these resource problems stem from the fact that there are simply too many of us and we're unable to live within our means.

[1]: http://www.global-vision.net/facts/fact9_3.asp
Run your Cloud Storage company
As far as I'm aware it'd save lives, lots of them.
A symptom of the sickness, IMO, and another example of the tech boom failing to hit anyone except techies.

Our success and our wealth is failing to float all boats, or even any boats that aren't our own. Instead of tech worker demand driving infrastructure, it has simply created a separate (but equal?), exclusive, mirror transit system.

Also an example of complete and utter urban planning failing on the part of the city of San Francisco. A large part of why companies don't set up shop in SF proper (despite the bulk of their work force wanting to live there), is due to the complete lack of development. Rents, both commercial and residential, are completely out of control and it actively drives away business. Meanwhile SF has completely crossed off new development in large swathes of the city - including pretty much the entire downtown commercial core.

SF is a vibrant, innovative, creative population subsisting on the surface of a government that is firmly hanging onto antiquated notions of the 19th century, not even the 20th, and this conflict has reached epic proportions of ridiculousness. Everywhere you go find vibrant pockets of activity, but you can't shake the feeling that you're walking in a museum, instead of a evolving, changing, adapting city.
They also asked for a permanent injunction on sales of the infringing devices.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/22/us-apple-samsung-i...
Haha, yes - I lost my iWork apps likewise.
It actually looks pretty good. I can see they spend a lot of effort to make sure it fits into the existing system, keeping new syntax or new form to the minimum.
pg on Twitter several months ago: "Uber is so obviously a good thing that you can measure how corrupt cities are by how hard they try to suppress it."
The Race to Preserve History as It Happens Online
I'm a race realist, and the racial reality in sub-Saharan Africa is that blacks have very low IQs. No amount of foreign aid and wishful thinking will change this fact. You say that it is "on the verge of economic security and prosperity" with the government wanting to "develop respectable and effective network infrastructure that would support the local people", yet you conveniently leave out the fact that Zimbabwe, as Rhodesia, already had all of these things. Whites created economic security, prosperity, and an overall infrastructure which supported everyone, including blacks. It wasn't perfect, just like in South Africa, but it worked, and it did so due to Whites applying their knowledge and creativity to solve hard problems. The current majority, over the last few decades, has been slowly dismantling the civilization which Whites created, while simultaneously drastically increasing the amount of foreign aid the country now needs.
'Downshifting' sounds like reducing economic growth, which would destroy investment in emerging economies as the developed ones have less use for them. The resulting poverty would kill people. 'Degrowth' sounds like a lot more of the same thing, with even worse results.
This website is an utterly chaotic mess of information.
Current DirectX/OpenGL API and I would try to build a renderer in C++.
Apple won the court case, not yet won the mobile war.
Twitter remained in sf because the supes and mayor gave them (and workers) a huge tax break -provisionally for workers. Twitter got to stay; the city got to expand its revitalization of mid-market
There are other places that have published them already. e.g. see Appendix B in this report http://www.sfcta.org/images/stories/Planning/Shuttles/Final_... from http://www.sfcta.org/content/view/584/1/
I'm not saying that it's OK. I'm saying that this isn't the sort of showstopper for corporate Ubuntu adoption that the OP seems to be suggesting.
But this isn't just ads. In fact, I doubt it's even primarily ads. I like this functionality a lot, as long as I can turn it off. I like being able to quickly press a key then search Amazon. It's a great new feature for me and I'm happy it's included.

A lot of people are upset, but this isn't like having a banner ad on the desktop. It's a real feature, just with a nice side effect for Canonical.
Harris is really not the best source for information on the craziness of Mormonism, both he and Dawkins can't get their facts straight on several key issues.

I'm a 'Mormon' and it's obvious everytime they open their mouths on the subject that they are as unaware on the nuances of the theme as creationists are with the nuance of Natural Selection.
Public Service Announcement: the poster you are replying to has decorated their personal homepage with swastikas. I wouldn't waste your time.
There's so many to add to the list, but nothing feels like a revolution to me. Do you feel they changed your life, I mean really changed your life ?
This era is a fuel towards next golden era. low tech with a very high profit, we need as much resources to go to the next level. As an example -> google mobile (android) + facebook + wikipedia, etc = Project Glass.
I love your website. http://thaddeusquay.com/

edit: I don't really love your website.
Newspapers Get Libya Intel before US Senate
The world of computers is large enough that expertise in one area doesn't make you connected. An immunologist doesn't necessarily know about new surgical techniques.

If he had someone who knew about Apple, or even if he searched google for 'bootable lion usb' he could have had his problem fixed in 20 minutes (disk utility to 'restore' the main .dmg from the installer onto his other USB stick)
IMHO not having install media as the default option is a problem. It doesn't matter if all the media does is boot up a network stack and FTP it from somewhere and then run it but recovery scenarios aren't something you should have to twist yourself into a loop to solve.

One of the advantages of the App Store model is that software is (AFAIK) easily redownloaded and reinstalled, so much so that I know people who have re-bought Aperture (for $80) on the App Store just for the convenience (plus then it can go on multiple Macs).

Why Rob Pike wouldn't fork over $80 for Aperture and save himself the hassle is beyond me. You can say "it's the principle of the thing; I've already paid for it!" but really? What is your time worth?

iWork can be had on the App Store too. Photoshop obviously can't but Photoshop should be recoverable somehow (right?).

These days I have a box with the few disks I need (Win7, MS Office), I store my personal files on Dropbox and any media gets stored on a hard disk. If my Macbook Air got stolen or just died I'd be up and running within 2 hours of getting a new one.

The only real annoyance for me is changing what computer your iDevices sync to. THAT is a major PITA. If you are migrating machines it's not so bad (but harder than it should be). But otherwise you need to backup, wipe it and reinstall everything and even then you lose all your iOS folders and so forth.

I don't like the iMacs because they're not built for replacing hard disks (amongst other things). The Mac Mini however is. If this had happened to me I would've been shelling out money to avoid the hassle and the whole thing would've been over in a day or two.

The moral I get from this post isn't how Apple is making things harder than they need to be (which they clearly are): it's that you shouldn't get caught up on the small shit that doesn't matter.
"I'll take socialized medicine any day of the week. the private sector does a terrible job of healthcare."

Go find the nearest veteran and ask them about their experience with government-provided healthcare.

EDIT: I don't mean to say that this is true everywhere, but in the US it definitely seems to be the case.
Well...

To be fair...

When it was called Rhodesia...

They also hung black guys from flying military helicopters with piano wire.

So they can live in a "...fucking shithole...", or they can live in a "...fucking shithole..." where they are hung from helicopters with piano wire.

They say "...the good old days, weren't always good..." That rule DEFINITELY applies here.
Exactly right. SF is surprisingly conservative despite its social liberalism. It wants to remain a Victorian oasis in the 21st century. Development seems to have to meet extraordinary reqs compared to say SJ. SJ on the other hand is built out like a huge suburb with no downtown core.
What's on my website doesn't change the facts on the ground in the former Rhodesia. Unlike most people with specific belief systems, I feel that I can be objective about anything.
This would be a better criticism if the other distros had anywhere near the mindshare that Ubuntu has.
I had an annoying scenario recently.

I reinstalled Snow L on an older machine and then could no longer reinstall iphoto. I'd paid for it on my app store account but there was no way to install the older version (and I couldn't upgrade to the newer version).

Once again reinforced the danger of the cloud hosted licensing model; software I paid for wasn't actually mine to keep/use.
There is no way he had a core duo system that is only 4 years old. Apple only made core duo MacBooks in early 2006.
As a Debian user, you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get anyway :)
Note that unlike what TFA claims, symmetric keys are safe. They're, in fact, SAFER than public key crypto for the SAME key size, as public key crypto depends on prime numbers. That's why you'd see 256bit symmetric keys, and 2048bit or more public/secret keys.

It's just that the key exchange for symmetric keys is inherently unsafe online.
But if you share the keys in a safe manner (ie, physically, secret location, no camera, etc.), its all good.

A long time ago, well, not so long in fact, before public key cryptography was invented, symmetric crypto was used by businesses. They had people carrying those keys and delivering them. That was a pain.

it also worked that way for a couple of thousand years, with weaker algorithms, but the same concept.
I'm mostly amazed that the person being sent to replace the hard drive with a blank one didn't think to bring installation media...
I mentioned in another post - you can't always redownload. They don't keep older versions so you're screwed if you can't upgrade (I have an older machine stuck with Snow L).
> What does that even mean? Does the execution context need to be kept hanging around?

Once the block containing the declaration of 'error' has been exited, the only way anything could refer to 'error' would be if there were at least one additional lambda expression in the same block that was closed over the same binding of 'error'. Two such lambda expressions could thus communicate with each other through the shared binding.
It seems to me that well thought out email marketing should take responses into account as part of the funnel. That being said, I haven't seen any good examples besides just forwarding responses to a customer service queue, as rmaccloy mentions.

The point of email marketing is that it scales, and you can do testing. One on one communication is almost the opposite. Companies shouldn't have to choose between one or the other.
The first step to making software do what humans do, is to analyse what humans do.
CBC ideas did an excellent series on sleep which went into depth on biphasic sleep research.

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4578034
The true test of your VP of Sales should never be: "What do you know of the domain and what do you know of the customer" particularly when we're talking about an early-stage company, still searching for a repeatable sales model. It's my view that best test of the VP Of Sales is the following question: "What do you do when no one is buying our product?"

Sales executives that are trained and deeply experienced in sustaining innovation sales models are great when the repeatable sales model has already been discovered, documented and integrated into the entire organization, including the marketing and product. At this level, the role of the Sales VP is there to "caretake" the sales organization through the maturation stage of growth and dependable business objectives led by the CEO. Their rewards are aligned with the ability to keep the engine humming or fine-tune it for increased sales revolutions.

In a startup, prior to full discovery of the repeatable sales model, one should avoid any sustaining innovation Sales VPs like the plague. One should take a bigger risk on high-energy, untrained sales reps/managers, who are capable of learning disruptive sales models and can be trained (and retrained cheaply) to patiently listen to the customer buying cycle and business circumstance around which a new marketing model must be built. It is my view that most VP of Sales are not trained for disruptive and innovative sales roles because their experiences were anchored around very predictable revenue models.

At the VP of Sales level, there are many ways to vet a candidate and those methods should align with the corporate structure and the corporate culture. However, let’s be clear. The first VP of Sales or VP of Marketing are high-risk hires who the CEO should be prepared to replace as quickly as possible as the product market fit process, customer segments, and customer buyer-cycle and buyer-profiles continue to change and settle.

Don’t get obsessed over your first VP of Sales as “The One”

Obsess that you have athletes that are capable of running a hard sales race and that your organization is nimble enough to adapt and change, as needed to survive the sales discovery process!
When I had issues doing an install of Lion (I wanted Lion on an external HD before I upgraded to ML), I just drove out to an Apple Store and booted off one of their network images.

What Apple should really do is ship an app with OSX that lets you create recovery boot media (either on DVD, a thumb drive or a full on external HD). That would make things so much easier for everyone.
If Rob Pike can be said to be too technically unfamiliar for an Apple product, then there is something very very wrong with Apple's expectations of their users.
Debian Stable doesn't break - it is The Other Linux when it comes to servers. Debian Testing and Debian Unstable do occasionally break... but that's kind've in their names.
Why this web guru wants you to learn PHP, a.k.a. “Internet English”
This seems deeply, deeply misguided. Let's say you eliminate hospitals -- where are you going to get surgery? Even if it's done by remotely controlled robots, it's not exactly going to happen in your house, since it's not a sterile environment. What about when you break your leg; do you expect a robot ambulance to drive up an treat you in your driveway?

Hospitals and doctors alike have to change to make things better -- more advanced technology, different business models, etc -- but throwing them away entirely is just downright silly.
(This does not in any way excuse anything he encountered. That is and will always remain inexcusable.)

Apple is aware of those problems and hard at work fixing them. All current Macs, for example, now come with Internet Recovery, meaning it is possible to boot them into the recovery manager (and from there it’s possible to run Disk Utility, the Terminal or the installer), even with a completely empty HDD. All the iLife apps you get with your Mac (and all apps you buy in the App Store) are automatically tied to your Apple ID, meaning you can download them as often as you want. You cannot even buy any software on CDs from Apple anymore (the lone exception to that is Logic Studio).

I assume (hope!) that all Time Machine bugs have been fixed, but do not know. It seems weird that even the latest version of OS X Lion would come with those bugs, so I’m not sure what’s going on there. At any rate, the experience he had is unacceptable.