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It's not just that. If I, as a non-Intro using person, email someone who uses Intro (whether I know this or not), LinkedIn has that email.
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I've typed on a T530. It was pretty good, but the removal of several keys I actually use and the relocation of others bothers me. I don't think the feel is quite as good on the T530 as on the T60, but it's still one of the best laptop keyboards.
Yeah exactly, it's not that general purpose CPUs will be outlawed like we worried about in the 90s, it's that the generally popular ways of using technology won't be using their capabilities.

It's not just the data itself, but really about protocols used to access the data. Protocols mediate between parties, and by choosing to download a binary blob simply to check your email, you've given up any true bargaining power in that exchange. You still have some autonomy by hacking the blob (userscript injection, etc), but you're only building on unstable ground.
Why are people so adamant about auditing TrueCrypt instead of just migrating to an alternative?
I signed up for cable without previously experiencing it, and I honestly expected no commercials, since I was 'paying for it'. I was not a customer for very long.
With so many people willing to give Linux a shot more than ever before, I think Ubuntu (or any well supported Linux dist) is really at that stage where there is a great chance for them to be commercially very successful. I really hope and wish someone really gets there.
Debian/Ubuntu dominate in the Linux web server market, RedHat/CentOS come 2-nd
Not at all.

I am happy to live now, just as happy as I would have been to live 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago.

My happiness is not tied to technological enhancement.
My initial reaction to this is nothing but love.

I hate the idea it needs all sorts of server connections for their business model. I don't know a way around that, but if they or another company figure out how, that's what people will gravitate toward. Especially given the paranoid climate.
Wow. That was more than enough to prove to me that this guy is an idiot.

I don't know why this is on HN.
Indeed. Do you offer them a (possibly rebated) way to change to the per-agent model, or do you keep supporting the legacy per-ticket mode?
The issue being discussed is the choice of right level of abstraction and the right tools for modeling a given real-world phenomenon. My comment says that statistics is essential in modeling this particular phenomenon, based on my experience and intuition and that of many experts in the field. Responding with "who cares?" doesn't make sense to me. What part of my statement do you disagree with?
You lend that out, but your depositors still have access to "spend" their money

They have access to their money because the bank keeps a reserve that is enough for covering regular activity, but if the depositors as a whole tried to withdraw more than that, the bank can't simply invent USD with which to pay its depositors. That's why banks default when there's a run.

And of course, Bitcoin banks could also keep a reserve of BTC, so I really don't see why you can't have fractional reserve banking with Bitcoin.
The older Mac laptops had (SMCUtil?) a utility to change the threshold for the fan - I know lots of Wintel systems have this in BIOS/EFI.
Revenue is income before cost of goods sold.
Unlike Apple who sells direct to consumer, it's likely that quite a few of those Surface units are still sitting on store shelves.
I too have an OG Nexus7 and I'm sorely disappointed by it. The flash modules Google put in them were shit and Android didn't support TRIM until very recently, so memory performance degraded very quickly. As soon as I hit over 40% full, it becomes unusable.

On the otherhand, I've been overall very happy with all the HTC devices I've bought...HTC is really the Apple of the OEM world
Dell has gone private, HP has flat out called them a competitor.

Their online division giving Google some heat is all well and good but that Wintel thing is still their bread and butter - alienating all their hardware partners by doing Surface and buying Nokia is a big deal and a great gambit if it works out - but so far its failing and seems desperate. Their position is increasingly precarious.

I don't think they are doomed, I do think they have a very real crisis in leadership and focus.
When your website serves what Google considers malware, you mean.
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A dirty, smelly black Toshiba Satellite C660D.
Costs associated with sale mean not everything is profit, but are irrelevant to revenue.
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This. I am going to US now in November and the one thing I wanted to come back to Brazil with was an Apple 4K Thunderbolt Display... I even had hopes for it being the one more thing but no.
It's weird,but I feel like my PCs are all you slow. I bought a rMAcBook Pro recently expecting to be blown away, but it still feels sluggish to me. I want instantaneous response when it comes down to it. There actually is a qualitative difference between 100ms and 10ms response time. I'm surprised, I really thought we would be closer.
In order for your compiler to propagate the backdoor into my compiler and my compiler's output, it needs to recognize that it's compiling a compiler and insert the appropriate backdoor. It needs to identify the parts of my compiler that output binary code as opposed to an XML dump of the AST. That's hard.
The Surface Pro got a rave review from Penny-Arcade: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/09/23/the-surface-2 (seen on HN). I'm an Apple guy now, but if I were to do college again I'd probably opt for a Surface Pro 2 (with the Wacom stylus). The mechanical engineering course notes I've seen generated with OneNote look fantastic, plus the ability to search through them via handwriting recognition would be a great advantage over a stack of notebooks.
Ask HN: Whats the diff b/w a lifestyle business, a side project, and a startup?
I asked this a few days back but got no replies. Then I asked it again with no replies. Three times lucky? :)

How would you define whether what you are building is a lifestyle business, side project or a startup? Are there any specific metrics which can be used to decide between the three? Are there any other categories that I have not listed?
It's a Cryptography Research paper from earlier this year and involves both a series of lattice reductions and the inverse fourier transform, which smooths out a very sharply defined bound into a much broader bound to make a search faster --- the latter trick is due to Bleichenbacher and referred to in the CRI paper as an "underground" attack.

Alex Balducci in our office actually got this attack working from the paper and walked us through the code --- the lattice reduction steps take 8 hours to run, and are followed by an IFFT-aided search that I would have zero chance of getting right and so never would have bothered waiting 8 hours to try, but he did it anyways.

Maybe I can get him to write it up.

Moral of this story by the way: hire people smarter than you are, and give them semi-unreasonable problems to work on.
I try to never use any distro installed Python or libraries when developing Python software. In fact, I even went to the trouble of creating a self-contained Python build that had no dependencies whatsoever on distro-installed libraries. That way I have even more control over the foundation of my applications than you get with virtualenv.

Next time I do some Python development (other than system admin scripts) I will be using Python 3.4. And I will likely also create a self-contained build of that as well.
Push.

Plus nothing really came along that was a viable alternative to Office. Don't count MS out of tablets yet, Surface falls into line quite well with an Office dominated culture.
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One of the biggest things Apple will have to manage going forward is the issue of backwards compatibility. The Windows ecosystem has had to deal with this for a long time. Windows XP was released twelve years ago and the installed base is huge. For the most part you can still use any current Windows software with XP and anything in between.

Apple is somewhat famous for summarily killing off whole product lines in the interest of technological innovation. I get it. No issues there.

However, as their installed base expands it will be increasingly hard for the average person to stomach the idea of their expensive computers or iOS devices becoming obsolete. Not everyone lives on the bleeding edge. In fact, most people don't.

It'll be interesting to watch what happens. It sure feels like the rate of innovation might have slowed down a bit. Thinner and lighter only go so far.

There are a few surprising things here and there. For example, I can't understand why Apple didn't acquire Bump [0] and and tightly integrate that capability both iOS and OSX. Google grabbed them instead. We'll see what happens.
I entered just to say it's an incredible work done by this guy... it's been years since I analized a file on hex mode (from Norton Commander, jeje).
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Well mercury is in retrograde...
I look at what it does, do a quick architecture in my head, then compare it to what I see. This helps me because before I even look at it I have an understanding of how I think it should work rather than an absolutely clean slate.
I agree on most points, my only argument is that the Intuos5 drawing tablet is developped for a defined action (drawing), where a normal tablet hasn't (allround device), their could be a future where the tablet is really used for producing things, but not today.

For the record, i'm not an Apple fan anymore . I've bought the iPhone 3GS and iPod 32 GB (the fat one) as an "early adapter" in the past and both products had disappointed me (software fault on the iPod's hard-drive firmware and failed support from Apple).

What's more, those costly Apple devices seemed the only electronic devices that haven't survived more then a year. For example, my HTC Desire (2010 - Cyanogenmod) still works as a charm, my primary phone is a S2 (bought somewhere in 2012 and yet again, Cyanogenmod) and i still have a Nokia 1100 (2004 and no Cyanogenmod :P) in my car just in case something would happen. Added bonus, that old phone had a flashlight ;-)
Quick solution: USB3 (or e-sata or thunderbolt) external hard drive. Alternatively, NAS (that you can cloud-ify).
In case you signed up using your work email, like practically everybody does

1) Why would anyone use a temporary email to sign up to a social service?

2) Why would anyone use their work email for a job networking social site knowing full well that work emails are not private?
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Fair enough! Swig is an interesting project too.

The problem I have with swig is that it takes a lot of shortcuts for speed and simplicity of the code. For example, if you have a js function that you call in your template, like {{ foo() }}, the output is not autoescaped ever, regardless of your autoescaping setting. That's dangerous.

Would it help if nunjucks had a "strict" mode that removed a few tags like "set"?

EDIT: that and it seems to be completely against precompiling templates for the browser, which is insane
Well, if PC had to die then on what are we going to write all our code ?

Tablets, those funky phones are popular today something else will get popular after them. PC may never get as popular as them but they are here to stay.
For those who don’t know the term ‘chaebol’:

They’re South Korean business conglomerates, controlled by a chairman who has power over all the operations. Often, the leaders of the divisions are blood relatives. The chaebol have enormous influence in South Korean politics. The largest chaebol are Samsung, Hyundai, and Lucky Goldstar (LG).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
Many business people depend on outlook and it's integration with exchange. I don't understand it myself, but it's a fact.
Well yeah, something like the Titan has no price / performance at all. Usually the best valuation is around $200, ie, an r7 270x or a 760. And if you want a premium card, 280x / 770 are both devouring modern titles. Anything past that is "I want the best there is right now, screw the cost".
Lets not pretend that anything web startup related really changes the future that much. Is twitter really improving peoples lives and happiness? Probably the reverse.
Has Reddit proven itself as a net gain for us, or have billions of hours of productivity been squandered laughing at the latest meme or lolcat.

I actually joined HN a few years ago, but decided to leave my old account. I would probably stop looking at when people joined as some measure of their worth if I were you.

As for your last statement. I like playing on computers. I love building fun things. But I would be equally happy if the internet didn't exist, and I was fulfilling that 'building' desire someplace else. I don't "need" it to be happy.
Same here, I've been waiting a year now. I don't even want 4k! I just want something that's not 3 years old. I would take a slimmed down monitor (like the new iMac) with the new thunderbolt adapter in a heartbeat, but I can't bring myself to buy the current one.
One possible explanation is that the compiler and linker don't produce 100.00% same output because they have somewhere uninitialized space which gets written to the disk. That's why disassembly can still match 100.00%: the bytes that differ don't contribute to any observable functionality. If you know C, you can imagine how it happens:

You have somewhere char buff[ 32 ] which you don't set all to zeros, then you do strcpy( buff, "something" ) then you write all 32 bytes of buff to the file. What's behind "something"? It can be different in every run.

Now look at the picture: https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie...

See the "RSDS"? It's some initial value, just like c:\truec... that follows some bytes later. And what's behind? Some small sequence of random bytes. I've just checked and confirmed that it appears in the ".rdata" (read only data) section of the executable.

Now the fact that this doesn't happen on much more places also means that somebody in Microsoft obviously from time to time does fully clean the code, that is, somebody worries about such effects too, but it seems that from time to time some "late" fix then slips through, misbehaving.

Another explanation would be that there is something in the building code or script that produces some different values in the initialization area. That can be then observed by source inspection.

The third explanation would be some kind of "unique id" generated by the compiler or linker. Then this effect should be observed in all binaries even when the source is fully different (e.g. compile some program which generates Vogon poetry, observe the same effect). This hypothesis doesn't match the observations, according to the pictures presented.

So I believe the highest possibility is the first assumption being true.
> The fabled year of the linux desktop never happened.

That's partly because the desktop became more irrelevant, while mobile became more relevant, and linux dominates the mobile market. One could say that the it switched from being about "the year of the linux desktop" to "the year of the linux palmtop", and that already happened.

Of course, depending on your point of view, that may just be double speak to obscure original point, which to varying degrees it most certainly is.
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Could it be argued that:

Gold Market Cap = I + f(V)

with V ≈ 0, since gold isn't used for many transactions? (AFAIK)

Why hasn't gold stabilized entirely? Are there reasons why it's affected by capricious international politics or policy, but Bitcoin won't be?

If I had to guess, I'd say that Bitcoin, like gold, will be affected by e.g. future economic delveragings that cause people to expect that the government might print money.
Re: MBA/MBP - with Mavericks 4GB is doable given how it aggressively manages memory: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/#compresse...
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Feel free to offer your unique perspective. But we can still look at this from other avenues.
I did read it. And all he says is that C was zero based but doesn't say why that happened. Unless it was in the comment thread or one of the several second order articles which I'll freely admit I didn't read.
"This is a really good looking ad. Do you know what the problem with ads like this is? They don't work."

Actually, they do. They become part of the brand story. Whether you realize it or not, Instagram has evolved the SAME WAY as TV commercials in the Post-WWII world.

What started as TV shows sponsored by brands (the Coca-Cola Hour!) became magazine style ads interspersed between the show's content (TV commercials as we know them today).

Instagram started with entire channels sponsored by the brands (@NikeRunning) and now are moving to the magazine/tv commercial model of putting branded content between in-stream photographs.

This is not new. This does work. Stop fighting change just because you think "startups" are above it. They're not. Originality is the art of concealing your sources. Embrace that and just make it work as best as possible given your product + audience and get on with it.
Using Django ORM. if you haven't used an ORM before you are missing out.
Right, from the revenue report: "Commercial cloud revenue grew 103%". This appears to be the largest section of growth reported, so it looks like Microsoft is doing pretty well in the cloud space.
IMO the aliases for git should be in ~/.gitconfig instead. I have a bunch of these, like:

[alias]
br = branch
co = checkout
ci = commit -v
sci = svn dcommit --interactive
cp = cherry-pick
l = log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
l3 = log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit -n3
lm = log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit master..
rc = rebase --continue
st = status -sb
squash = !git rebase -i --autosquash $(git merge-base master HEAD)

Also, I prefer to set aliases in my ~/.functions instead of in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc. I find that this makes it easier to move the .functions file from one machine to another, especially on a lab/test machine with a shared account where I shouldn't be modifying things in the shared ~/.bashrc. To make this work, you can add this to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f ~/.functions ]; then . ~/.functions; fi

This will source your .functions file if it exists when your .bashrc is run.

A tweak to the "editbash" suggested alias will make it so that you don't have to reopen your terminal. My equivalent alias is "vif", for "vi .functions":

alias vif='vi ~/.functions; . ~/.functions'

Note that the second command (after the semicolon) sources the modified .functions file.

Lastly: brevity is king. I love 'alias psgrep="ps aux | grep"', since I use it several times a day, but to "level up your shell game", keep it short. My alias for this command is "psg". The other alias that I use all the time is "d" -- "alias d='ls -lFh --color --group-directories -v'".
You could argue how you measure it. US has the most worth clearly. On a per person level tiny Luxemburg might have higher rate but clearly not the power the US has/
It sounds like you can give some solid insight on this issue. Could you please state your position instead of simply mentioning that other people are unqualified to do so?
Good for you.
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Something about this sounded sketchy...

http://www.liveside.net/2013/05/06/skydrive-reaches-250-mill...

places Sky Drive in fourth, behind Dropbox, Google Drive, and ICloud....
I think much of the HN audience deals with the business side of the house enough to get their bearings on an revenue statement.
Presumably it's also sending up a log of exactly where and when you used them, too, so it's basically your full high-res location history if you're as smartphone-addicted as most people in the tech industry are these days.
I switched my default search in chrome to bing when the new tab page changed. I've since fixed the tab page, but left the search provider alone for now to see what differences I notice over time. So far, it's OK, but fails to give me my geek-centered results for generically named things like orange and amber.
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Judging by the reaction here, I think people would.
Are you trying to put down Tesla down for using a smart business tactic, while acquiring someone good?
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> Sure there is Azure, and you can ask many VPS providers to put Windows into the box, but Linux system images dominate the 'cloud' OS space by a large margin.

That depends if you're talking about the host OS or the guests. There are plenty of people running Ubuntu instances on Azure.
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Tons of people use LinkedIn...
Yes. It was more of a general statement.
That's not creepy, that's useful.

Most retailers have the address of the source and destination of every case they've shipped going back many years. Most bus companies have the starting and ending points for every trip that most riders have taken.
> People tell LinkedIn "Please, please, pretty please build something that lets me view LinkedIn contact info while reading email on my phone."

Did they? Did they really?
i am a graduate of tealeaf academy. i took all 3 courses, which took about 4 months to complete. I got my 1st dev job about 2 mo. later. They did help find a job by introducing me to their rails/ruby contacts in the city i was living in. I didn't have any OOP experience prior to the course. I totally recommend this if you want to learn rails to bootstrap your own product or change careers and become a dev. I did this for both.
I don't see how the timing would have better then vs. now. It's a strategic move to bring someone talented from an extremely valuable company who produces "great" consumer products over to Tesla.
Can the 13" rMBP IGP handle 4K?

4K is about 2x the pixels. So how comfortably does the IGP handle the onboard display?
Did you even read the article? He has automotive experience (Ford) and other transportation experience (Segway).
Do you expect some kind of reward? Sheep of the year maybe?
No, it's creepy. I can't think of any benefit to the passenger.
Giving away email credentials to a third party service, regardless of reason, should be both covered in your internal training materials, as well as be maintained as a firing offense.

This is really just a case of well-branded spearphishing. You should already be protecting against that.
Making them gold or shaving off a few ounces isn't very exciting.

I have learned not to underestimate the apparently voracious appetite of the Apple customer base for unexciting changes.
I'm missing the part that proves that the guy is an idiot. Help?
TrueCrypt is highly trusted, they are verifying that trust is well placed. What alternative were you proposing?
This is not news. All distros will. News would be: Fedora, that normally is late, has switched to Python 3 a year after others.
What? First, they have enough cash to weather quite a lot of financial upsets.

But to say they are dependent on their OS for revenue is silly.

SQL Server income is not dependent on the OS -- anything can talk to it. Their cloud solution is not dependent on their OS. Search. Even Lync and Office can be used with other operating systems.
Maybe we should also ban junk food. I mean, I'm sure many people don't "fully understand the ramifications of that choice".
> Can the 13" rMBP IGP handle 4K?

Yes, it can handle 4K ‘Ultra HD’ over HDMI 1.4, like the 15" rMBP.

The new 13" rMBP can also drive 2 Thunderbolt Displays plus the notebook’s internal display (which has the same resolution as a Thunderbolt Display, 2560x1600 pixels.)

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/