skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are candy/confectionery manufacturers supposed to feel guilty that they make stuff kids like and nag their parents to spend money on their products? Supercell has carefully designed the game to encourage impulsive purchases but that doesn't mean that the players are not deriving any pleasure out of it. And teens maxing out credit cards is something that can be easily stopped.
DRM prevents digital data/signals from going where an end-user wants them to. So you cannot play DRMed media on a open-source player, but only players blessed by the DRM-vendor. The end-user has his choices artificially limited.

And now the end-user cannot use any cables he likes. Only those cables blessed by the proprietary connector vendor. You have authentication where none is needed, exclusively to give the vendor power, not to provide the end-user with benefits.

Both are about digital data/signals and having artificial restrictions imposed on them. I think the similarities are good enough to warrant the name DRM.
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> I can't really figure out a situation in which a person actually needs to know how a SQL injection works but can't/doesn't want to understand basic SQL syntax.

When you need to explain to PHB why it takes so long to do task X when really, it's just foo bar baz!.
The pins are on the outside of the connector. It's trivial to short-circuit them by accident, which could easily cause a fire if there were not a chip in there to control when you "shove 5V over the wire".
The precise definitions of "science," "religion" and "philosophy" change over time. If you described the activities of modern scientists to someone from the 17th century or earlier, they'd say, "Mine own time doth have the selfsame scientists of which thou speakest! We callest them Natural Philosophers!"

What we call "science" today was considered a subdiscipline of philosophy for thousands of years.
Glad to see this getting attention, but it really should be obvious to anyone in China.

I wrote about it 4 years ago here:

http://blog.stacktrace.com/2008/10/02/chinese-monitor-tom-sk...
to me, Young Lee sounds more Korean than Chinese :)
That is expected. But the way Microsoft systematically mislead the users is the problem. Microsoft is actually putting a rootkit software for download in china.
I have always been fascinated by "sous vide" cooking, but could simply not put up with the idea of eating food that has been in contact with plastics for hours in a hot environment.

Most plastics do leach some very nasty compounds, not to mention the whole estrogen controversy (which has been known by the FDA since the 30s). Besides, I am sure it is very eco-unfriendly to use them to routinely cook foods since all those plastic bags will end up somewhere in the ocean for the next hundred years...

Therefore, does anyone know of any hacks for cooking in low temps and vacuum WITHOUT the damned plastics bags?
curious: aren't you taking the "ingredient" bit out of the equation?

E.g. vegetable X is riper than last time and thus requires less cooking or stuff like that.
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I believe Skype transitioned to client-server-client some time ago to allow for Mobile-Mobile skype calls and similar.

P2P may still be available (someone with some time and a packet sniffer could check?), but it is not the way most people use Skype these days.
"a company that's supposed to be beholden first and foremost to its users" - it's only supposed to if you're stupid enough to believe the PR talk. Generally Microsoft is as trustworthy as Google and any other big corporation (i.e. not much, when it comes to power struggle - which is what privacy is all about).
Not P2P anymore. Everything goes throught Microsoft servers.
My first thoughts were also on the same line as yours, but I guess that any disruptions (or mini ones such the way this story was delivered), we start off by being floored by the technology. Once the technology becomes ubiquitous, the content comes to forefront and becomes key.

I hope this trend of story telling with rich media content continues. Total immersion could be just around the corner.
(not an expert on this - but some observations I've made earlier: )

I don't think apple disallows GPL apps per se (in fact if you google gpl apps itunes, there's several hits).

I think it is more of a matter if the app publisher doesn't own the copyright of the work. In that case, other contributors may choose to raise hell regarding the GPL (which is what that Nokia employee did when VLC was briefly in the app store).

But if you own the copyright, obviously you wouldn't hassle yourself for publishing your own app in the app store.
Tanenbaum, is that you?
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Scary, when you see linux loading in browser
I really do think the downvotes were unfair: that site's layout is appalling. So appalling that I could only just now bring myself to read the bit that you think supports your statement. (perhaps there's more but there's no way I'm digging through all that chartjunk)

The paragraph on that page that mentions batteries is not at all rigorous - it doesn't attempt to be. The statement "It could be predicted that most Priuses will be junked at age 10 years" strikes me as pretty contentious.
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fixed the .ca domains, thanks
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i think the site is down. Did anyone have a chance to mirror it?
They'll probably have some shiny new schnazzy razzle-dazzle name under which to sue numerous other people for including a single letter in front of their product name.
All the teams are definitely pretty independent and each person is responsible for a lot. There's lots of swapping around between the teams depending on where the talent is needed too. (source: I worked for them over the summer)
Absolutely.

I wish they would address the topic, though. I interpret this article as if they mean that HTTPS solves all censoring and content sensing issues, regardless.
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Solid materials are much more complex than single atoms and support several types of multiple particle states. One
noteworthy example is the Cooper pairs that result in conventional superconductivity. Spin-liquid states are also multi particle states with the interesting property that they exhibit entanglement between the magnetic moments of the atoms, and it is this entanglement that makes them intersting for quantum informatics because it can be used fo form qbits.

An intersting feature of the Herbertsmitihe crystals that were used for the study is that have a geometric structure that frustrates the ordering of the magnetic moments (or spins) of the atoms. The magnetic moment will try to align in opposite directions but the crystal structure has three magnetic moments in each unit cell and therefore only two of them can allign in an energetically favorable state while the last one is unable to moove into a stable equlibrium. Since there is no distinction between the three magnetic moments per se, the frustration is spread across the whole solid structure and a "large" entangled stage is formed.

Because these states are not locallized they are not constrained by the atomic properties of the cryatal atoms and therefore they are allowed to accept excitations at a continous range of engergies rather than the discrete ones that we normally see. It is a little bit similar to free electrons in metals. They can also be excited by a continous range of energies because they are free to move within the material.

An important thing to note, however, is that these experiments were carried out at 1.6 K, where thermal fluctuations play a very small role compared to room temperature. Therefore it is not likely that this effect will be portable to regular electronics devices. More likely quantum informatics applications include massive server like facilities that has the infrastructure to cool the devices down to cryogenic temperatures and the best we can hope for in terms of avaliability is some kind of cloud service.

There is an interesting press release at Phys.org: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-newly-quantum-liquid-beauty-sim...

Edit: Corrected BSC pairs to Cooper pairs, and added a bit more information after reading the actual paper which is available for those sitting behind a pay wall: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7429/full/nature1...
How can you rip people off who want to pay and know what they're getting? I guess I'd call it good design and user acquisition.
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That people on HN have too much spare time.
Do you need to short the data end at the device? Probably not

It may make sense to not leave them "floating", not sure how chargers do (I mean, not considering the ones that do some electric tricks for the device to recognize their "vendor extensions")
You could reuse the cold drinking water holes in your fridge.

Simply circulate water in a loop through those pipes into your fridge and then into the water bath.

A sous vide already uses a water bath, and a circulator pump.

You need a powered valve which you can easily get if you search for zone valve. You only need one valve BTW.

When it's time to cook, use the zone valve to direct the water in a circle instead of into the fridge.

You'll waste some energy heating the cold water (instead of using slightly warmer tap water), but it shouldn't be too bad.

Make very sure to properly insulate all the water pipes, and the water bath.
I am at a non-US profitable startup where the founders know exactly what people actually want and would pay for, but I wouldn't say the technical side of the start up is good enough to even call mediocre. The "technical" co-founder is more like a sales guy who takes a brief look at the technical side of things one day a week. They've been hiring fresh graduates without any experience. The code is getting difficult to maintain and performance is sluggish, resulting in excessively high server costs. The founders were fresh graduates when they started this company and I don't think they got funded by any venture capital. They have a knack for figuring out what people want and selling to them but I feel they lack technical experience.

I've been interning here for a few months, and they've already asked me to stay when I graduate, so that I can lead the IT team (around 4) on two products, handling software architecture, development process, performance optimisation, etc, etc and basically replacing him and hinted at offering a more than average graduate salary. They were apparently very impressed at my software engineering abilities. (I had done some freelancing work before) I've asked them why don't they consider hiring someone experienced in their 30's instead and they said that's what they're going to do if I reject their offer.

I know how to do what they want me to do more because of what I've studied at university than from my experience, and I feel nervous being given such a large responsibility. I want to work with people who write good code, with projects that already have a good architecture in place. Is that possible or are most companies in similar shape? I also feel that it won't be easy to advance this fast at another company and I could be missing a great opportunity. My friends who recently graduated and are working at large companies tell me they're lucky to write >10 lines a day and that they are always stuck in meetings. There are other startups here but I don't think I'll get offered a salary that's any good.

What should I do?
> "Apple would not approve"

To think that in 2012 we still have to worry about things like this...
You must understand that a startup should be "sacred" for founders.You don't go on this quest just for money/fame or any other superficial reason.There needs to be a synergy and passion in the team.Of course no startup is without problems but some things must come naturally.

Lack of communication outrageous me honestly.I've seen this over and over again.It is extremely important to have good communication.Plus the fact that he works is another downside here.A successful startup needs dedication.
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I don't believe that this is simply about enabling advertisers to message users. Until I have more data this is speculation on my part. That said - I believe this is an attempt to expand their nearly-saturated US market by facilitating users to connect with users outside their friend network. Until now this was discouraged and could lead to termination of your account.

More details: There is a new tool tip in my FB account now stating "Your messages get filtered automatically so you mostly see stuff from friends and people you may know in your Inbox. To review your filtering options, click Other > Edit Preferences. Note: These filters replace the old "Who can send you Facebook message"
Probably iOS X...

I'm curious, why this question? How does the project name matter?
If you record them and follow up on them to see how well you did, predictions are also an excellent way to calibrate your mental model of the world. If you make predictions that you feel pretty certain about based on how you think the world works, and those predictions turn out to be false, that gives you an opportunity to adjust your point of view and figure out why you might have gotten it wrong.

At a more general level, making and checking predictions is really the only way to get a good sense of whether your certainty about your beliefs in different areas should be upgraded or downgraded.

The problem is that if you don't predict anything, then your brain will automatically fit whatever happens to your existing model. We're frighteningly good at witnessing an event and then recalling the beliefs we have that would predict that event, and we're absolutely terrible at witnessing an event and recalling the beliefs we have that would have ruled it out. This gives us the sense that we have a firm grasp of what's going on, when in reality we're holding onto beliefs that should have been discarded long ago.

Making a prediction is a way of trapping yourself so that your brain can't sweep your faulty beliefs under the rug. Once a group of beliefs have been organized into a hypothesis, and that hypothesis has been falsified, it's harder to ignore the reality that something in your model is broken. And since those beliefs have been organized into a hypothesis, you then have the ability to analyze and narrow down what you need to rethink.

So we should all be trying to make predictions. But don't just start imagining stuff that sounds cool. Actually look at what you believe and figure out what you should expect from those beliefs and why.

And if you can't come up with any expectations, you need to scrap your model and start over. Because predicting is what beliefs are for.
This assumes that https traffic isn't being attacked by the GFW, which it is. But I don't know, the app store was down for me up until a few days ago, so maybe this is working.
So what does Google not do for their users that they could legally do?
I belive there is a real moral hazard to selling addicting/impulsive products, especially to children. After all this is part of the reason why zynga has such a bad reputation.
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and then comes the amusing lack of proper configuration on the OS side. I am not an Apple person, but I have yet to see a trackpad- configuration that works even remotely as well as the MBP ones. The speed and acceleration multipliers in there have always been off.

EDIT: +1 on the NavPoint. I disable the trackpad on all my thinkpads and just use the NavPoint whenever I can.
It's not even the real unemployment number, because that unemployment only counts the registed unemployed (who are registered at the Employment Office and receiving financial aid for job-seeking). The actual number of unemployed and people working without taxes is much higher (how much higher, nobody knows).
It could vary per payment method but there could be a confirmation email and one with the license. If you received confirmation of the purchase during checkout you should be fine.

The latest update from twitter, "Payment processor is expecting to process/confirm all pending orders in a few hours after the promo ends. Everyone will get their licenses! "
Honestly, I don't know how it happened.

The changeset was unindenting an HTML file with in-line JavaScript by 4 spaces.

The JavaScript stopped working, so I reverted the change and it worked again.
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It is, but somehow schools still manage to make it not so.
Do you mind expanding on your Evernote strategy? I've thought of doing something similar but have never gotten down an exact system.

Do you take notes on almost everything? How extensive are they usually?

I've always felt like it's too time consuming to take notes (especially in my own words) but also recognize the likely increased retention advantage from doing this.
Search on "group coupon" gives me available gron.com, but on GoDaddy it is not available...
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My point is that there are security products with configurations where the keys are cleared from RAM when the system is not running (including hibernation modes). Therefore, in those configurations they are at most only vulnerable while they are running.

Used in that way, this greatly mitigates the risks mentioned in the article.
I don't know, are tobacco manufacturers supposed to feel guilty for selling addictive cigarettes that kill?

Is anything that makes money automatically good? After all, somebody is willing to pay for it?

As for chocolate, we still have adverts praising health effects of some chocolate for children (in Germany). I think eventually they might get sued, as happened to the cigarette industry.
If you include indonesian dishes (rendang, coconut type curries etc) in your stews category, then browning isn't an essential step. Meat is not browned first in indonesian cooking in my experience, I'm on the fence as to whether that detracts from the taste or not as I've never tried it with browning. I'm not allowed in the kitchen when my wife is cooking!

With western style stews though I think browning is an important step: I did a shin of beef stew in the slow cooker over the weekend in a hurry and it wasn't as good as if I'd have browned the meat first.

I'm a little weak on what the actual definition of a stew is, but rendang is chunks of beef that's cooked for a long time in a little liquid, so I guess that's close enough!
i think this is due to temporary burst load on the server.
will check on it.
The question is, are their users children or adults? I have seen it a lot of times that children are being ripped off with mobile games. They don't really know how much they are spending.
More like "Learn scaling your web app the hard way" ;)

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Not just companies. Charities and bureaucracies also suffer from massive scope creep.
Occam's razor doesn't work like that. It states that when you have two competing hypotheses, you are better off exploring the simpler one first.
I've got a question for security experts. I've always assumed that government should have enough cpu-power to decode a few encrypted emails and some https connection. So why don't China decode https traffics and perform the same filter as for simple tcp connection? And even tough they wouldn't have enough power to do so, why don't they break down the https connection when it is established?
Oh! If that's the sort of thing we're talking about, then I'm all for it. The proponents of Hypermedia APIs have been saying a lot of vague things about how it will enable automated clients, and I assumed that the clients they had in mind would be able to do something useful with arbitrary APIs.

But it's clear from GitHub's API that it will do nothing of the sort: those link relations (and even concepts) are very much GitHub specific, and no machine will ever be able to figure out what to do with the them, what methods or media types the endpoints support, and so on.

(I'm not sure that it adds very much over a text document that that gives the relations and how to generate endpoints, but at least it's cheap to produce, and not actively harmful.)
I recall an older release of Skype used the penultimate scene from Orwell's 1984 (where the protagonist finally gives in) as sample text used to preview font preferences.

At the time I saw this as a rather clear signal.
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According to my friend in China, the App Store is still too slow for him to update his applications. Apple really should build some CDNs in mainland China.
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Cool! I was looking for a table with OLAP capabilities to use in examples in my BI course.
502... Bad gateway?

Or I may be missing something deep and hard?
The Pirate Bay doesn't have everything, but yes, it helps... ;-)
I think this is an unfair comparison. I mean, I could claim that Mandalorian is bigger than EA in terms of monthly penetration testing revenue and be right, but it doesn't really mean much.

Having said that, Supercell have a good product and are shifting volume, so more power to them.
It loads if you give it awhile, the linux console is completely dead though.
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The brilliant minds at XDA Developers have done it again; this time, a user by the name of alephzain claims to have discovered a vulnerability in multiple Samsung devices that gives access to all physical memory.
> For whatever reason-- probably tenure-- he was allowed to stay.

I attended a very good university (by various rankings), and even there were a few terrible lecturers.

They are allowed to stay not because of tenure (they could stop lecturing and do research instead) or departmental indifference (the board of studies takes feedback seriously, and sometimes does "fire" lecturers from teaching particular classes). The reason is instead that there is nobody else to replace them.

The great professors teach a class in their specialty which they are most knowledgeable and enthusiastic about. But after that, there are many small undergraduate classes left over, which nobody wants to teach, but someone has to. Given that the other option would be to throw the class out of the syllabus, bad lecturers still stay as teachers.

One of the deeper reasons is that grant funding and academic careers depend only on the number of articles published. Being a good teacher (or teaching at all) is only a "distraction" done out of good-will or enthusiasm for the topic.
I agree. I quoted MichaelGG’s answer in a comment on the question so it would be on the page: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25684/how-can-i-...
> I've always assumed that government should have enough cpu-power to decode a few encrypted emails and some https connection

It doesn't (that we know of), that's pretty much the point of encryption.

Read the excerpt from Schneier's book, presented here:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_c...
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There is an explanation for why also. I recently downloaded Simpsons: tapped out. The "game" wouldn't start for two days because it couldn't connect to the Orion servers. I'm not going to spend real money on in-game donuts if it refuses to start. I found out on the forums that it was a common problem. People aren't going to spend real money on something that isn't reliable.

(NOTE: actually I wasn't going to spend the money anyway. It isn't a game. It is a Skinner Box).