skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably there is a lot of social/technical space for making passwords better and more secure for the average user. But dropping the knowledge factor isn't a clear improvement.
I identify myself with the below statement/finding, and this should be an eye-opener for many politicians and lobbyists:

This distribution of infringers also provides some interesting insights into claimed consumer spend on legitimate content and its relationship with infringement. During an average three-month period, infringers tend to spend more than non-infringers on legal digital content (£26 vs. £16). A similar pattern, although less pronounced, is seen when we include wider spend on offline content-related purchases (£110 vs. £83). Furthermore, the top 10% and top 20% of infringers tend to spend the most, in contrast to the bottom 80%, whose lower spend is more in keeping with non-infringers. But this hides significant variation between content types. For example, among film, software and video game consumers, non-infringers reported a higher average quarterly total spend than infringers.
I grew up in Louisiana, and also wondered what the connection there was. It's not a state you see mentioned often (in a positive light, anyway).
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I understand the motivation for promiscuous early adopters but what's the motivation for the business?

If your business implement this strategy, you're relinquishing (in exchange of nothing) to the benefit of user retention created by the loss aversion bias and sense of belonging that the "harder" conversion has generated.
Which itself clones many attributes from dwarf fortress.
Frankly, if they are fun games and "different enough" then I don't care.
As long as there is an option to view the desktop version of the site on the phone (presuming it is usable at all), I don't really care.

It's very seldom I see a mobile version of a site that is better than the desktop version. Mobile versions usually aren't scrollable, so they're much harder to see in overview and zoom into the interesting bit. They usually don't show as much information overall in the interest of reducing clutter, but this makes them harder to scan and navigate.

Mobile Wikipedia commits both of these crimes, and even more annoyingly, mobile Google redirects WP search results to the mobile version, and there's no way to turn this off.
And from a startup point of view, legacy IE means Enterprises, Enterprise means big price tags:

1) Because they are Enterprises.

2) Because nobody wants to support those browsers.

If you think it's a declining market that'll be dead in 18 months, we have contracts to support IE 6 until 2019, not to mention 7 and 8.
Any idea what they use it for? What's the advantage over all the other pastebin websites in the wild?
The words "older", "versions" and "of" are superfluous.
That's putting the cart before the horse.

The first step would be for Government to Announce Steps to Restore Confidence in Government.
Google cut the price a couple of weeks back.

The 8GB N4 is £159. You can grab it from here https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_8_GB?i...
DNS on its own can be enough in some scenarios
overly literal
What big eyes you have grandma.
""Seriously: McKinsey? WTF do they know about starting your own company?"

Eh.. I don't know, maybe they've been consulting and guiding startups since before you were born?"

Consulting and guiding from the sidelines indeed. Being a consultant is pretty much the furthest you can get from being an entrepreneur. They know next to nothing about risk taking, only about mitigating risk to others. I believe it's a true disgrace that new venture is the most well-known startup competition in the Netherlands, and I'm definitely not alone in this. Over the years it has become a bullshit bingo where some 50-year old Shell exec lectures young talent about why their startup should be a sustainability focused business. They just forget to mention how they have been ignoring any form of sustainable behaviour in their own business model for the past 5 decades.

I'd rather take advice from someone who's done it himself instead of following up on some macro-level bullshit business plan book. I don't really believe in stories that promises me golden showers based on some assumption-overloaded excel model. Webvan anybody?
One would assume when he says "well-behaved e-mail clients", he was including his own company's product.
Just because the lock-down was in the name of security doesn't mean that it's going actually help improve it...
On Google Play last week (the 8gb version), it has now sold out. The 16gb version is available for £199, which I bought two weeks ago and am thrilled with.
Can you name some examples of the cultural issues needing to be addressed?
Author refers to smart phone market as "segmentable", not other markets. Your statement doesn't really disprove his.
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This doesn't seem to me to mean as much as the author thinks.

By the same reasoning, after all, email as a communication mechanism is "dominated by" spam, much of it similarly shady in nature.

There is an interesting difference, though -- while spam actively hurts the usability of email, botnet traffic which parasites on the TOR network helps make the system as a whole stronger, by adding more noise in which the important uses of TOR can be lost.
The 'nobody' in the title is used figuratively for emphasis. The point of the link is to raise the issue for discussion, not to provide scientific proof that no one uses older versions of IE by choice.
That's impossible. I'm a Mac lover. How could I have unknowingly betrayed my allegiance???
Surely there will be an third-party aluminium case available for the 5C within a day or two of launch?
...two years ago.
Sorry but I don't really see the link between that article and Microsoft's inconsistent use of the term RTM.

They can still move to a rapid release cycle and have a solid RTM. Chrome and Firefox manage to do it every 6 weeks.
Passwords will go away about the same time Java does.
> Aren't they _neccesarily_ weakening security against foreign attackers when they intentionally weaken crypto, which we now know they do?

No. In fact, most of the schemes that we know about in which they have tried to weaken crypto have involved them having some secret key which can be used to crack it, but without which you don't have a better attack than the standard brute-force attack.

That's the case with Dual EC DRBG. What researches discovered was that the constants in it could have been picked such that with knowledge of a secret constant, you can predict future output given only a relatively small amount of past output. Without knowing those constants beforehand, you wouldn't be able to do better than brute force.

Previous attempts have been similar; the Clipper Chip was supposed to have strong crypto, but store a master key in escrow with the NSA that they could use to crack it. Lotus Notes would encrypt part of the session key with a public key, for which the NSA had a corresponding private key, so if the NSA wanted to eavesdrop they could decrypt that and use it to speed up the brute-forcing process[1].

So, there are numerous cases of the NSA trying to balance the need for crypto that is strong for other attackers, while leaving them a backdoor that only they can use.

1: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html
The iPhone 5 has become relatively less stale in the total mobile phone market compared to what the iPhone 4/4S became. The current model of the phone can still compete, it's good enough. Apple recognizes this, but also knows that it needs to innovate to keep its early adopters happy. And so they split their product to tailor to these two market segments -- those who need innovation, and those who would be perfectly happy with the current specs. These two market segments do not differ greatly in their purchasing power. Splitting the product wasn't to create a mid-tier and high-tier phone for the respective price points. It was a targeted refresh of the product for two equally valuable market segments.

I suspect that as the mobile phone landscape changes, the iPhone 5C will begin feeling more obsolete, and it will then be relegated to the level of n-1 offering, and all attention will then go to the iPhone 6, which should presumably be a huge leap in innovation and design.
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Actually, Horace Dediu is a pretty well respected writer who does know what he's talking about. Go read some of his past posts, they're pretty insightful.
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A small point that's usually overlooked: assuming you're on AT&T, there's a ~$35 upgrade fee, $30 for a case, sales tax, and maybe an extra charging cable or other accessory. A $99 phone is more like $200 for the average person, so the comparison should be closer to $200 vs $300 rather than $100 vs $200.
I've read/heard that too I'm thinking either on QI or r/AskHistorians?
In a big corporation I used IE for all intranet sites (because those crappy sites simply couldn't be rendered properly in any other browser) and Firefox for the world web. Why not do like this?
I think he means that looks like a quality event, but not very well-known (yet). We should definitely have more of these in the netherlands
What's tacky today might be fashionable tomorrow. Fashion is very fluid.
This isn't just a corporate phenomenon, state and local governments use IE 8 almost exclusively. There are a lot of bored government workers browsing the web on IE 8 during the week.
There is a start up in the UK trying to do something very simlar: http://pixelpin.co.uk/
In terms of credentials, just wanted to point out that Marijn is also the author of CodeMirror,[1] which is a wonderful in-browser code editor used by Light Table, Bitbucket, and lots of others.[2]

[1] http://codemirror.net/

[2] http://codemirror.net/doc/realworld.html
Actually a lot of people have decided they don't need it. They remap caps lock to something like spotlight search. The alternative to the caps lock key is the shift key. And this is a really bad metaphor for functional programming. Sorry GP.

I suppose the important point here is it's not possible for something going wrong with your monitor or speakers to suddenly remap your keyboard without warning.
Well, that's silly. All of our "Freedom!"-loving allies seem to be in on this. UK, Australia, Sweden, etc. This article mentions that the standards process was being run by Canada, and the Canadians were "finessed" by the NSA. Canada? Really?

And, of course, the non-"Freedom!" countries do this also.

The only difference between the US and all the other countries is the amount of smarts, work, and money the US is putting into subverting privacy. Some of the other countries just seem to be along for the ride.

Of course, as Warren Buffet once said, "You’re looking for three things in a person: intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two." Because if they don't have integrity, the last thing you want is for them to be smart and driven.
For ultimate job security, write your ActiveX controls in COBOL.
> Does it make sense to have to learn Haskell and a Haskell framework just to understand Clojure?

I have a strong feeling that once you understand either Haskell or Clojure, it will be a breeze to learn other.

My point was to get framework for functional programming that deals with a lot of I/O and side-effects and see docs for real-life examples of usage.
It kind of sucks if you are the only employee of a certain class in a company doing an "anonymous" review of your employer.
It would make for a good conversation starter, though.
Same in IE7.

"Error: 'd3' is undefined"
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I just choked a bit on my coffee.
But people do continue to use IE voluntarily, even if it tends not to be HN geeks..
Unfortunately I think it's 3), you've missed parent's point :) They are not saying that HTML5 tags do not order correctly. They are saying that it's difficult to create a semantic document, where the order of the tags suits screen-readers (i.e. article before nav, as the article is the important part) but the resulting webpage (when styled with CSS) suits viewers (nav at left of article).
Can we stop talking about every single piece of content like it it were an original Dali?

Be happy your amateur photo got viewed by millions of people, go outside and take more photos.
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In this day of multiple megabyte applications, it's amazing to me how much Mike Pall is able to fit into ~300 kB.

Mike Pall is without doubt one of the most talented developers of our generation, alongside people like Fabrice Bellard and Jeff Dean (to name a few).
I was having a minute brain freeze until I've realized it is not nature but (the?) Nature
If by "make" you mean create the schematic in LTspice and simulate it, then I would guess about an hour or two (mostly because this might be your first time using LTspice). If Linear has a part that already meets those requirements, it should be a very straight forward affair.
But what is the purpose of that action? Traditionally warfare [it seems to me] has primarily been about geo located resources. That is you want the land or the resources on the land that your neighbour is on. If you destroy the land/resources then you might as well have let the neighbour stay there so long as you ensured they didn't impinge on your resources.
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I exchanged a few emails with an underfunded high school teacher in Louisiana who was using the book to teach his students programming. Hence the reference.
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But skip the ones where he predicts success for RIM and Nokia (this is pre-Windows Phone, which he predicted they would never move to), and failure for Samsung because the former are "integrated" and the latter is "modular" (even though they make their own silicon, screens, RAM, etc.).

And the one when he says Android will never have more than 15% of the market... (currently at 80%) and certainly never more than Microsoft (currently 3.7%).

And any when he mentions open source, which he doesn't understand at all.
Dude, are you the long lost cousin of Sherlock Holmes? I just asked how popular it was.
I only want to echo what others are saying: avoid frameworks in the beginning. Frameworks will only confuse you. Learn basic programming concepts using the core language only. Eloquent JavaScript is a great book to use.
Care to explain how DNS alone can do distributed config management?
They are exploiting a hack -- namely, that there are lots of stupid people out there who think that "non-profit" somehow means "good."

When revenues exceed expenses, non-profits still distribute them. They just distribute them to employees, meaning management, meaning themselves. It's like a tightly-held for-profit company.
Has there been any exploration into an idea where the problem with side effects is not that they make functions impure, but they are often against the metaphor of the instructions being given?

There are lots of posts on blogs, newsgroups, etc. about the aesthetic value of having one's code be math-like, but the working programmer doesn't necessarily care about that. That programmer probably does care about avoiding spooky action at a distance. Conforming to a "traditional math is [beautiful|divine|the true Dao]" ideology does not matter to that programmer as much as knowing what data a function depends on or affects.
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They make some cogent points about Zookeeper, but is javaphobia really a valid concern here? Yes, you have to install a JVM, and Oracle doesn't make that as friendly as it could be. But in my experience ZK doesn't bring along "a ton of dependencies". Likewise, I'm skeptical that the performance of Java v. Go in this case makes a huge difference: you're only spinning the JVM once, at startup.

Maybe I'm too technically conservative, but it seems like the advantages of Zookeeper's maturity and support base outweigh the ickiness of Java and the whizbang factor of Go. Complaining about the politics of the ASF doesn't really factor in; they're still much more likely to be around in 10 months
What you get for the price, best deal there is! Months ago, this phone was being offered for free on a 2 year contract. I paid $50 for mine 6 months ago.

Only thing I'm disappointed in is the camera, but that's why I have my Canon.
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If you think this, then you don't understand enterprises. The vast majority of users you will encounter, even in their 60's, are aware, through friends, kids, family, etc that this "Google Chrome thing makes the internet faster".

They want it, but your typical large enterprise foces IE down their throats, courtesy of 20+ years of rape by the legions of IT guys who, through the cognitive dissonance inducing Microsoft certification/training/tools process now think that everything Microsoft is magic.

If you are reading this, and 3 years ago you were telling everyone at work how amazing Silverlight was going to be, you are part of the problem. If you were talking about how great Sharepoint was going to be, you are part of the problem.

FYI: Most people working in the Pentagon are forced to use IE8. Just in case anyone here had any illusions about how deep Microsofts' shitty certificate-holding fanboy culture has penetrated our government.
Yes. Ever mobile browsers people use less on weekends in absolute numbers (but more in relative).
About a year ago I deployed Zookeeper to support the Redis failover gem. All of the problems were a result of my lack of knowledge on how to deploy and configure it. My guess is that its mostly used right now in Hadoop/Solr installations and is configured specifically for those.

I've been using Doozer at home on a few side projects and, mainly for it being written in Go, have enjoyed using it a lot more. The point on security is spot on. After reading this post I am definitely going to take a look at etcd.
That's the thing, though: this article doesn't say that the NSA did generate the Dual_EC_DRBG constants with a backdoor in mind. It just says that internal memos suggest and appear to confirm that they did.

That is, the article isn't really anything new.
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IJburg (East-Amsterdam) is full of parking garages. Huge ones underneath almost every large building :-)
Yes but the author also states that it is a "radical idea for the brand", which it isn't. It also isn't a radical idea for the smart phone market, as Android manufacturers have been doing it for a long time.

So we have a brand with experience in segmenting approaching a market that has already been segmented by competitors. Not such an interesting story.
Because the purpose of capslock is specifically to create stateful behavior, you program capslock exactly as it is now (or you eliminate it from the keyboard as is advocated from time to time).

It's no different than reading from a file - the state is out in the world and to be useful, a functional program must deal with it.

But note that the key difference is that the programmer does not create the state - it comes from the data. Probably also worth noting that the keyboard is used as an illustrative analogy not as example code.
Ahhh I see. Thank you for the clarification.
It'll disprove a genuine universal statement of the kind that can be expressed with a "∀x" quantifier.

But anecdotes are pretty useless against hyperbole. About the best you can accomplish by going that route is to devolve the conversation into a quagmire of "dueling anecdotes" sophistry.
Certainly a general title flourished with a little hyperbole is not atypical.
Oh! Treat records as key-value pairs, and encode the value into the IP. If your timeout is 10 seconds, add a DNS record timeout.server.yourdomain which resolves to an IPv6 address with value 10. It gets tougher with ASCII strings, but you could support multi-record configs as well. Then your application just uses nslookup to download the config when you reload it.

If someone builds this I will be their best friend
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Bollocks. It doesn't need an asterisk. It has a graph that proves your point! The graph doesn't show IE8/9 use going to 0% on the weekends.

In fact, it clearly shows about 35% of IE users still cling onto older versions during the weekends.
Even though Zookeeper is "mature" it is definitely a beast to fine tune and wade through. Zookeeper definitely does not bring along a ton of dependencies. If you're deploying it as documented it should be running on its own dedicated machines. I don't see why dependencies are a problem there especially with Chef/Puppet nowadays.
I am not sure - when you post enough js-code into a gmail compose "window" it will crash.
I concur. My niece who just started high school (and many of her friends) are very excited about the 5C. The funny thing was an erroneous statement I heard from my niece: "iPhone 5C is the cheap phone .. only $100. The iPhone 5S is the expensive one ... over $700". I had to explain contracts and why the 5S is only $200 with a contract, which is the comparable number to $100 for the 5C price. I wonder what clever kid came up with the erroneous statement to get his parents to buy her/him a 5C!
The "C" in iPhone 5C doesn't stand for China
Probably because it is so clean and free of buggery.