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I agree that HN can operate how it wishes.

I'm not sure that barring disgusting speech is "necessary," if only because "necessary" can be such a loaded word.

reddit, for example, seems to have a principle of free speech, where there only a very specific things you are not allowed to say board-wide. So there is a fair amount of disgusting speech there. It seems to work for them -- although I have been slowly disengaging from it over the past year or two, and maybe that's part of the reason.
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I feel like you misjudged the tone of my comment.
In OSX at least, there's a way you can make Caps Lock behave as Ctrl when used as a modifier key, or Esc when pressed alone. Way better than adding an extra keystroke to every time you want to hit Esc.
Oh, I call them back on the number that I have in my address book. I just want them to never do it again. To anyone. It s a bad practice that serves only to condition users into giving out personal information to any random person calling up and pretending to be from a bank.
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Can you expand on what you do for adding content to linked in every day? And how does that help?
You don't need an $85,000 camera to play around with slit scan photography. As with just about everything these days, there's an app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-camera/id419292360...

Note that this is slit-SCAN, which is a bit different in that it moves the "slit" across the face off the sensor, rather than capturing from a static slit over time (the same technique was used in Star Trek:TNG to show the Enterprise going into warp). Nonetheless, you can play with time similarly.
One small suggestion (I make this every time vim comes up):

Don't remap "jj" to escape. Remap "jk" instead. All of the same benefits, plus one more - if you get into the habit of nervously hitting "jk" all the time, as most people do in vim, using "jk" means your cursos stays in place. On the other hand, "jj" means your cursor will move.
This is how goal line cameras work - there's one at every race course and sporting event around the world. I had a weekend job running one at a race course growing up.

Nowadays they are digital I guess, but the technology is the same - you record only a sliver (the goal line) - the analog version has the film running past the sliver on spools, with the speed being adjustable based on how fast objects you want to record.
>Is there a word for market based socialism? You know capitalism with hair cut upside (taxation) and a hard floor protected low side (poverty).

It's what holds in most European countries with a welfare state (and, to a lesser degree even in the US). It has been called various things, from "the third way", to "social democracy".

Though, in Europe (and also in the US), the "free market" guys, neo-liberals and financial interest have reigned supreme since the Thatcher/Reagan era, with the dire results we see today. Kind of like the US economy actually worsened after Clinton, despite him being more "socialist" (to the degree accepted by the american public).
One thing's for sure: it will be a lot more "feasible" if Facebook actually tries. Right now, they are manifestly not trying, or rather, trying to do the opposite.
I'm not in favor of it, but it's worth noting that the lock on all of our front doors right now is not terribly hard to pick. When the SWAT team wants in, they dispense with the lock altogether by just battering through the door. I suppose if that wasn't fast enough for you, you could blast your way in. The lock-picking technique would not work on correct code--but producing proven correct code is very expensive and unpleasant, so not likely to happen. And you'd still be susceptible to the other two options.

My point is that security is not primarily a technical problem--or at least, there isn't a 100% technical solution, and probably never will be. In practice we benefit a lot from looking innocuous and having neighbors that know us and like us. The main thing keeping people out of your home isn't the lock, it's the inconvenience and unpleasantness of what would most likely happen if they were caught.
Just because you say it does not make it true. Social considerations are some of the most powerful forces. People considered me "weird" because I wasn't on Facebook for a long time. Eventually I re activated my account, because I was tired of explaining to people why I wasn't on, and because I was missing out on photos and experiences and events that were only shared on Facebook.

I agree that you can sometimes seem cool by seeming aloof to what everyone else is doing, but when it damages your social life, most people aren't going to do it.
Aww, I would be much more excited to go read if it were a bit. (A comedy routine, or alternatively, very very short)
Pretty depressing story, both Facebook and the group owner have their own faults here.

In this case I don't know why the group owner didn't think it was more appropriate to ask people "Hey, want to join our facebook group?", not to sign them up in bulk, given that it's obviously a touchy subject for some people.
"I'd like to note that there's a really strong association between schizophrenia and self-medication with cannabis. (I'm told -- this is purely anecdotal, but comes first hand from a dignosed schizophrenic -- that it makes the voices shut up for a while.)"

There's a strong correlation between self medication of ~all~ variety and schizophrenia. The reason being (or so I hear) is that the most effective psychiatric drugs to treat schizophrenia tend to have very unpleasant side effects. Cannabis is an interesting case because it's been observed in some cases to exacerbate schizophrenic conditions.

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I believe that throwing in the towel is appropriate because in the early 1990s I was deeply involved in research into the mathematical foundations of computer security (that's what my doctorate is in) and there was a paper written by a guy called Jeremy Jacob(1) that proved that security and functionality are at odds with each other. Thus my basis for my belief that as Facebook adds functionality security will worsen is the underlying theory.

You may not think of security in this context (calling it privacy) but it's all about the same fundamental thing: the control of information flow. In the privacy context it's information flow about people. Jacob's theorem shows that Facebook's privacy will worsen over time as new functionality is added.

(1) http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/csfw/csfw199...
I agree 100%. I simply brought up the novels because they speak solely to the stories success where there is a large portion of people who play the games solely for the multiplayer without giving any attention to the campaign/story aspect of the game. & as such it could be argued that just because the game is success doesn't mean there is a good story. An example of this would be the COD:MW series of games, which most ppl would say that story is horrible(i actually simi enjoy them).
The key phrase in my comment was "pretty much." You should still test, but there's been virtually no time spent making something work in IE8 that works elsewhere.
That's not a pattern I've noticed generally. A lot of the sites I deal with are very specialised with content.

For example, posting a listing to Etsy.com requires some very specific details which are not relevant to other sites. To post an Etsy listing, share the same photos on Flickr, share that content to a blog post would require a lot of data at the central point to spread to all those services.

I think it's easier in the cases I've seen to post to the end services and pull that data back in.

Shared fields are not often more than Title, Images, some Body Text. Then there are hundreds of smaller options from price to tags to materials to photosets to choose from.

The other issue here is that where cross posting is easy, usually the main service already provides it, i.e. posting from Instagram to Flickr. If you include services like http://IFTTT.com then you're pretty covered for this case.
The cool kids on Tumblr or whatever is next still have a Facebook account they check fairly often.
Because they get paid more than $5000 / month at their day jobs, building more significant things, like the world's largest neutral network.
I'm missing something here, I'm aware you can invite people to join a group but I didn't realise you could force add people to your group.
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My first comment to your first comment answered those objections. I consider all problems as optimizing a single metric. Anyway, let's let this slide.
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i'm sorry. the downvotes would suggest when your network is not connected to the internet you are invulnerable to cyber attacks? lol
Security through obscurity is, ultimately, betting your system on something you can't ever change.

A key that you give out to thousands of people and cannot be changed afterwards ceases to be a key and becomes an intrinsic part of the system.

With a real key, when a leak like this happens, you invalidate the leaked key and issue a new one. In this particular case, they're basically stuck hoping that nobody does anything nefarious with this key.

The mere existence of a physical key does not make it security through obscurity. It's the fact that the same physical key is distributed to thousands of people with no good way to control them all or compensate for a leak that makes it security through obscurity.
Adopting your line of thinking: if India, as you claim, is the originator of all this knowledge why is it not the current global leader of science and tech?
It's because all those big corporations outsource their customer service to India and surrounding countries, and whenever we get a call from those outsourced agent, they're always unable to do anything because they're not given access to the big corps network. So specifying 'Indian' most likely meant that - the typical outsourced customer service - instead of being a specific rant about the nationality. It could be any other nationality if the Call Centre of this World were held somewhere else.

Now I'm not saying this is appropriate or not, I'm just explaining the reference.
Based on your testimony, it seems the interviewer did not ask you a question about big-O, and you thought he did.
Yeah, the question is really which potential harm is larger: unauthorized access, or the possible failure of authorized access? Then you need to ensure the system is more likely to fail in the less dangerous direction.

Sounds like physical keys do that.
Oh, just noticed the username. I hope someone hires Marshall soon, or he finishes the book he is working on , or whatever, so this long form trolling can come to conclusion.
It is mind-boggling to me that those at Facebook could not foresee that this would happen and that it would possibly ruin somebody's life.

So, either thye saw it and didn't care or they are not thin king through the impact of their decisions very well. ...Either way, this is awful and not very impressive.

Truly sucks.
How is this different from Mr. Acosta tweeting "Welcome Ms. Duncan to the Queer Chorus!"? Sure, it was explicitly messaged to the father... but what if that tweet had gone viral somehow, or otherwise found its way to the father?

Facebook is clearly wrong for making it unclear that group membership was publicly available information, that it is in essence a tweet of that information. But is it wrong for understating the fact that publicly available information can be publicly distributed to interested parties at any time? People need to know that this is the direction in which Facebook (and the Internet) is moving, and that they should just assume that anything they publicly post will be distributed to interested parties (of which the father surely counts). Sure, a lot of the blame falls on Facebook, but not all of it - if you don't want to be outed, tell your friends to make sure that anything they post about you is explicitly marked as a private share (which group membership is not).
Why is this article so Mac oriented?

So here's tip 9:

Use a nice Linux or similar machine with a pleasant to use clicky keyboard and a mouse which allows text highlight and middle click paste.
How often do happy customers leave positive feedback compared to unhappy ones?

Sounds like they're pretty brave to me :-)
On linux caps lock can be mapped to both control and escape, depending on context.

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> An I think that throwing around loaded phrases doesn't help anyone

Are you saying that your contention is that we shouldn't use the word "sexism" in a post with "sexism" in the title?
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Do most locks really need to work in emergencies?

My house has no master key, after all. If the fire department needs to get inside, they will break the door down. That is the universal master key for any situation, and my understanding is that fire departments are well equipped for this.

Why not simply not have a master key, with the understanding that the door will be destroyed in the event of an emergency?
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Too bad the site is down. Alexis is really an insightful person. He really understands the web.
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it’s obviously a sticky situation and different people draw the line at different places. some would probably argue that they should; i personally wouldn’t.

where i draw the line (and where i personally see a clear distinction), is when the service itself is being utilized to facilitate the infringement. in the examples you cite, the services (playstation network, itunes) are not involved in the infringement, they just happen to be tied to devices on which the infringement is taking place. i think it would be a different if case people were freely streaming (paid) movies from the playstation store or itunes; i feel that’s more analogous to what’s happening here because the connectivity that comes with the service is tied to the product being stolen.

i guess it’s sort of an odd-line to draw, but that’s how i see it.

also, to clarify on my point from above, i didn’t mean to imply that the cost to develop/produce the good ia necessarily a major factor, nor should the fact that it be from the same entity that runs the service; $100MM to microsoft is no-different than a couple thousand to an indie dev and, in both cases, it’s in the service provider’s best interest to prevent theft directly facilitated by their network, and i'd say they’re right to do it.
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I didn't. Whenever I see someone who thinks they're clever saying something like "don't click this" or "I know I'm going to be downvoted but..." I immediately take the action they don't want. It's not clever. It has been done / said 1000 times before.

Tabule's website is terrible. It says absolutely nothing about what it is. I bounced after 5 seconds and will promptly forget about them.
> They've been put in place when the US is arguably more dependent upon science and technology than at any time since World War II.

I could say the US is arguably less dependent upon the government's role in science and technology than at any time since World War II. I honestly don't know if that's true, but it would at least be an interesting discussion (I'm thinking of the transitioning privatization of space exploration, for starters); I don't see that it's clearly obvious either way.
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Can you be more specific about this part:

"Then, I contact those companies. I set up meetings when I can"

How do you contact them, how do you pitch the idea of meeting with you?
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Yes this argument is becoming true with time because ARM is really gaining phase. But we have Virtualization and its already cheap and works best at the moment. I dont see why anyone should go for separate ARM server ( in normal scenarios of course ) instead of using virtualization
It seems excessive to invent a new type of cameras just to take pictures of taichi masters.

j/k
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I'd also like to know why, mainly because I decided to finish off my LinkedIn profile during a lazy afternoon and for the past couple of days I've had recruiters from Google, Microsoft and loads of other companies sniffing around my profile and on my website/github profile.

Perhaps it was coincidence, or perhaps putting the right things in your profile tends to get you noticed?
I speculate that, in a world of total transparency, things like this will become much less important as everyone realizes how weird nearly everyone is. I think that, to an extent, everybody thinks that the general population is much cleaner and more "normal" than they really are, and that in an environment where everybody can know everything about everybody, revelations like this will cease to be interesting.

However, I certainly could be wrong, and I'm certainly not advocating for anything in particular here.
As any book about RSI will tell you, you should not use your pinky finger for pressing Ctrl regardless of whether it's mapped on Caps Lock or on the default key.
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Japan is already very familiar with the english word "Lucky" and "I'm Feeling" is probably also not difficult. English words are cool and trendy and very commonly peppered around in Japan.
> "I think that this article represents the need for digital locks."

I disagree. We are talking about keys to critical infrastructure - fire doors, elevator overrides, utility areas of subway systems.

These are all resources that need to be accessible in a power outage or disaster situation. I do not want our firemen to be locked out of where they need to go because some digital lock lost power.

There is a reason in traditional engineering emergency overrides and shutoffs are mechanically implemented and don't go through a computer.
You're assuming that it's already as good as it can be for the current functionality. That's not necessarily true.
Huh? Your study is a single experiment, which sends a single modified resume out to people and asks their opinion on pay/qualifications.

In contrast, the one I linked to examines real market outcomes at multiple career events. Unless you believe the situation has changed significantly in the past three years, your criticism of the age of my study is irrelevant.
Are you sure grad students get paid more than that (that's who we're discussing here). And kaggle competitors aren't in it for the money. Almost every entrant will lose (it's winner take all) so all have them have day jobs.
But you pay for it on the back side when it comes time to, heh, collect. There was a paper which suggested it takes five times as much RAM for a GC'd program to equal the coorespondng manual-allocator program in terms of performance: Hertz and Berger's "Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management".

If you care about performance you will avoid the garbage collector like the plague. Best to write it in C, C++, etc.
If this goes through, I would think it would only accelerate (or even solidify) Amazon's rumored entry into the smartphone market.
Maybe it depends on where you order from but I ordered one from element 14 a couple weeks ago and had it in 4 days.
I personally start by checking LinkedIn to see if I have any connections there - if not, then I go to my school's alumni network or ask my friends who work in that industry or live in that city to see if anyone can connect me.

Otherwise, it's the cold email...
I think the context and purpose of the article is more like this: Coursera + Kaggle performance is a legitimate a way to identify promising data scientists. As a hiring manager, I would be as interested in talking to these competitors as talking to a kid who just received his BS in computer science with a couple of machine learning/statistic classes under his belt.
Because you do not have a choice about being added to groups. The article talks about facebooks privacy settings but those are essentially fine. What's not is their completely fucked up group system.

You can only opt out of groups but everyone / allowed members can add you to it.

Even better, get added to a very active group and wake up to 700 notifications.

I could create a FB group called "Gay hackernews users" and add you to it (provided I have you in my friendlist) and it would be published to your friends. You could leave it afterwards, but first you'd join and it'd be published.
No, he did. The question was roughly: "As you seem to like algorithms could you explain what skip lists are, draw on the whiteboard if necessary.".

After that came, "Now, using Big-O, explain why this could be better than a normal linked list".

Before finally the "Why wouldn't you use skip lists?" and that classic answer.

And there were 2 interviewers in the room. One was leading and the other was observing and learning how to interview.
Do people really not use caps lock? I use it every day, when I need to type more than one upper case character in a row. Like, every time I type NSString, not to mention CLOCKS_PER_SEC.