skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
please don't parrot nonsense like "responsible" disclosure; it mangles language to normalize behavior these companies want (what's the opposite of responsible? Not letting companies sit around and procrastinate while users are or may be being exploited is therefore irresponsible.)

I'm not necessarily saying people shouldn't disclose first, but labeling it as responsible is grating.
Do you really think netflix wouldn't have solved that yet?

the problem is not that you are not finding what to watch. The real problem is that there is NOTHING LEFT to watch.

their inventory sucks. Yeah, they have a couple movies, but chances are you've seen them all already.

Netflix is not a blockbuster/torrent/movie theater replacement. It is a TV replacement.

It works for people that sit down, select from the few series they are following, and press play.

It may work as a movie provider for the first 2 months, until you get to the point mentioned above; you've seen them all.
If we take your idea and added a mechanism that plays new episodes (from those pre-selected series) at a user-designated primetime showing, I think we would have a winner.

Why can't one of these services just give us our own legit pseudo-channel? (Hulu???) BTW, you can sort-of do this with a combination of XBMC, a few plugins (mainly pseudoTV), Couchpotato, Sickbeard and a good tracker, but it is way too much of a headache to setup and maintain.
> when we knew a good story or "episode" was coming out, we would buy several of those comics.

This has always been one of those things that seems ludicrous to me about the US comics market. In Europe, in many market it is common to assume 3-4 readers to each comic when selling advertising etc. Comics would get passed around the family, loaned to friends etc.

While in the US, it's the opposite: The number of comics sold is usually assumed to be higher than the number of readers.
how difficult it is selecting one item from your list?

the problem is finding anything worth of moving to your list.
Yes, it looks more like a diary of somebody going insane (note: three years he sees it sometimes, now more often, he's "fighting" alone, he cuts the speaker and the mic in the notebook to block the malware, doesn't publish network captures, others see nothing in his BIOS captures (!)) than the pragmatic investigation of the real malware.
You don't if you disclose it before reporting it.

This is why I was so impressed. The contacted me after I published the post, and yet they still sent me a token of their appreciation. That to me showed a ton of class.
The Journal's editors stress the independence and impartiality of their reporters.[27] In a 2004 study, Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo calculated the ideological bias of 20 media outlets by counting the frequency they cited particular think tanks and comparing that to the frequency that legislators cited the same think tanks. They found that the news reporting of The Journal was the most liberal, more liberal than NPR or The New York Times.

This just demonstrates it is important to baseline. Secondly, the editorial page and the reportage are not monolithic. I'd be pretty skeptical of anecdotal claims, especially of the type outlined in that NYT link.

The WSJ was also a pro/fessional tool, when it was owned by DowJones, and had a different purpose in life than a paper like the NYT.
For those interested (notlisted appears to be!) here are some actual numbers from Google Analytics for October:

Unique Visitors
6,461,357

Visits
7,592,870

Pageviews
28,461,178

Avg. Visit Duration
00:02:07

Geos

USA: 1.6m visits
Indonesia: 687k
Japan: 569k
not set: 513k
UK: 369k
Mexico: 261k
Turkey: 247k
France: 232k
Germany: 213k
Spain: 185k

And an amazingly long tail from there. So that is definitely part of the problem when it comes to monetization. There are 120 different countries that had more than 1000 visits in October.

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I do not actually believe that rss produces a significant amount of traffic for Twicsy. I don't see any evidence in the stats it has much of an impact at all.
> now that many APIs are moving into Play Services

Which APIs are you thinking of? As far as I know, only a couple location services are in play service for no good reason.
That response is awesome!
GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
Leaving aside the crazy hypothesis coming from nowhere about sound transmission, what can probably be done is hiding a persistent malware in a microcontroler connected to the smbus. Very hard to detect, most (all?) modern motherboards already have at least one, FW distinct from the bios, might not be even readable without a dedicated hardware programmer and custom wiring (even in this case the FW might be locked down), and probably can own the whole system.
IIRC the smbus goes pretty much everywhere in a modern computer.
Is there a reason why LinkedIn couldn't have run the IMAP proxy on the device itself, instead of having email pass through their remote servers?
That is the theory. However, these sorts of local business regulations are the kinds of things that I think you should be particularly skeptical of. A few points:

1. It's hard to imagine that there's a ton of democratic oversight over hotel regulation. Prior to AirBnB, did anyone EVER, in your life, suggest to you that you should be concerned about the specifics of hotel regulation in your town?

2. These are local laws. Smaller government components, like city, county, and state, are probably more vulnerable to being captured by medium or large businesses than the federal government is, due to less sophistication and professionalism of the politicians (especially) and bureaucrats (less so).

3. A big hotel has a lot of incentive to try to corrupt local regulation to quash competitors and shore up their business. It directly affects their bottom line.

4. These regulations have accreted over time, leading to complex regulations that have lots of loopholes and potentially anachronistic components to them.
Its a funny phenomenon where you'll sit through 3 hours of movie+commercials to watch 'Tommy Boy' for the twenty something time on cable but you'd never seek it out on Netflix.

I really think some sort of 'channel' on Netflix where movies just play and you can tune in would catch on. Something about knowing other people are out there watching the same thing..
What's really interesting is the section on linked-lists: author seems to suggest that yeah, arrays of pointers have much better performance.

I'm curious what sort of performance they run into in MT environments--lockless applications are handy with linked-lists.
I don't actually know where to find one any more. I live in Londons most populous borough. I know there must be some in Central London still, probably in one of the locations I used to go to a decade ago, but the largest chains I used to go to have all gone bankrupt.
My general anti-B2C bias may be showing, but unless you've discovered a new core interaction for people (Instagrammy) I'm betting the 6 million visits a month is basically just a function of having a lot of content about Justin Bieber (and a zillion other topics) which is beating Twitter because Twitter has relatively poor SEO (for a reason). This sort of suggests that the momentary attention of 6 million people is worth what people are willing to pay for it.

You're clearly smart and connected. You've built sites this successful before and probably will again. Why not make something which matters rather than aggregating hashtagged selfies? There's more money in things that matter and they are frequently more rewarding to work on.
I haven't tested on a laptop be honest. Interesting point. What is atrun? I'll do some research and see if I can do anything about it... For reference node idles at about 3% CPU on my dev-box.
see my reply to e40
Spot on man! I gotta admit the website is meh (although what can I say, I've never published+hosted a website before) but that story is pretty amazing!

Maybe OP should try to publish an ebook on his 10 year adventure?
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From what I've understood he is actually defending and white knighting Apple's patent trolling.

For anyone still in doubt whether Gruber is actively paid by Apple (and possibly others) to deliver viral marketing - here you go.
Maybe Lua would be a good candidate? From the usages I have seen of Lua, it could match the use case.
Was the audio hardware disabled on a live system? Or was the computer turned off first?
If I want an introduction to complex topic, I usually won't use man pages. I will open up a web browser and search. That will give me web pages that have pictures, diagrams, and possibly even introductory essays about the topic.

There are many more people who know how to write web pages or forum posts than who know how to write "info" pages. There are also great tools for searching the web, but poor tools for search info pages. "info" pages can't even have diagrams or pictures. Consequently, information obtained via "info" tend to be stale, incomplete, and generally unhelpful.

The real question is why "man" pages are still useful in the era of the internet. The answer is that sometimes, you want a concise, accurate, quick reference to what is installed on your system. "man" fills this function admirably. "info" fills that function awkwardly and poorly.
"these things you do are stupid" is not personal or rude?
" so I trust that if there are advertisements (beyond this), it won't be hostile.
"

So often we make this decision based on obtrusiveness of the ads. What about the information you give away every time an ad is shown, or a search performed on your behalf?
"A point." What a sad pathetic little point they have. In fact, they said if I had done it our on issued laptops it would have been OK. But this - no - this is a crime.

It's non sense. Their network wasn't at risk - it's impossible to access the internal domain from the guest network. This should have been a discussion. Not a firing.
Apple still uses EFI. It's not a form of BIOS, it's a BIOS replacement. They're quite a bit different.
This. You _will_ get compromised. Maybe not today or tomorrow but it is inevitable.
"Based on world smartphone sales it looks like it could be just as easily taking market share from Apple"

Except we're talking about the US where Apple didn't lose marketshare.

Since Nokia's successful models are at a price point where Apple doesn't even have an offering Occam's razor suggests they are taking share from Android.
Cycloramic iOS app - Take panoramic photos without holding the camera
But this is just political hijacking of the subreddit. I don't see why anyone at reddit should support this as a strategy.

What you will end up with is a bunch of astro-turfed sub-reddits. The greas roots will make r/_x_ popular, then some PR firm will get someone to "a "better" moderator team" so that their clients can hijack _million users.
"Responsive" to what?
Could anybody comment on the practical difference between tmux and using a tiling wm?
It might solve the "unfundable" and "piece of shit" adjectives in the title.

pretty much the whole Internet is built on the idea that if you can get metrics like his up, and get funded, you can figure out monetization with the help of your expert investors.
The Audience Building Challenge: 10,000 Subscribers in 30 days
The explanation that the Eel doesn't shock itself because it has a larger resistance than smaller fish probably isn't correct, as it can eletrocute bigger animals as well, like a gator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYwE9mNloO8
So in Gruber's mind, if someone drops a bomb on your country, and you launch a retaliatory strike, you're just as bad.

The timeline here would be instructive. Microsoft and Apple sued and threatened Android OEMs first. Apple's CEO is on record as practicing 'thermonuclear war'. Steve Ballmer gleefully cheered about their patent licensing. Both companies love patents. Jobs "and booooooy have we patented it!"

Weaksauce attempt by Gruber at drawing an equivalence.
The idea that Apple is using to go on the offensive because they are "failing in the marketplace" is ridiculous, since extensive patents were touted during the iPhone's 2007 introductory keynote.

Also, what evidence is there that Google is still committed to making Android open source even since Andy Rubin left the project?

Finally, I don't know enough about Andy Rubin's relationship with Apple, but can somebody who does comment on this?
http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/09/apple-to-itc-andy-rubin-g...
That first example is going to scare a lot of people away. What's with the indentation and that semi-colon at the beginning of the line?
Right you are. Let me add that.
minus irritating, uneditable typo.
The artist who makes pictures with a typewriter
> I wonder if Comixology will go after older properties.

They already are. They do have some issues going back to the 30's. It's just spotty, and generally seems to be driven by "special events", e.g. they seem to have filled in bits and pieces related to Guardians of the Galaxy with the newest series in the run-up to the movie.

Also, I expect they're also affected by poor archiving in early years - I know some publishers outside the US used to just dump excess stock and sell off or give away originals without ensuring they had proper archive copies.

Many of them have had to buy individual issues from collectors when wanting to do reprints etc.
Here in China people barely use emails and never use gmail, and most run android.

Or maybe your note needs to add "in my little personal tiny slice of the world" context?
> "Linkedin isn’t that kind of company"

But it is the kind of company that set up this massive MITM hole in the first place, and thought it was a good idea to "offer" this "feature" to unsuspecting targets, er, "users".

They may have fixed this "bug", but the bug that is the feature itself remains, and it can only be fixed in one way...
WaterlooWorks is set to be available for Arch students Spring 2014, with a full release in Winter 2015 I believe.
I can see why it feels personal this time. Before you were let go due to outside circumstances, but this time you were fired for something that they say you did wrong.

Like others have said, you're better off without them. There are other jobs out there. Don't let it keep you down.

One thing I'd say about starting your own company is that you shouldn't make that an emotional decision. Carefully think about whether you're able to make that leap yet. Do you have money saved up to build a company on? Do you have someone to go into it with you? I'd say today isn't the day to answer those questions. Sleep on it. Tomorrow you'll see the world from a fresh perspective.
I know you're trolling here but I'm pretty sure Apple has gone through at least two similarly large changes in their toolchain since launching the iPhone. And this isn't the first change Android has had. Over time you figure out better ways to do things.
"I had a USB wireless adapter plugged in to my company PC. I was using it to access our guest network. They called it "circumventing the network" - a fire-able offense. Oh, I'm sorry - it's against the rules to Facebook on my lunch break on the guest network. Snore. Typical corporate "security policy" nonsense."

Well, that would get you fired at the last two places I've worked as well, so perhaps one move could be learning to know your companies policies and not break them in obvious fire-able ways, or not work for places big enough to have network policies.
Pretty much why I cant watch Colbert anymore. In the last year or so, perhaps I have changed, perhaps the show has; but it's like a quick-gratification joke circus to me now while The Daily Show seems like it's getting lazier.
nope. The T1 (to the Internet) came in when we connected to BARRnet.

SWAN got T1s (Dallas, D.C., Boston) about the same time.

Then RMTC came on-line with a T1, and Denver-Dallas, and Chicago-Dallas got T1s. Then the SWAN 'ring' got a pair of T1s. The cross-bay link went to a DS3. Lots of offices got upgraded to 10BaseT in the form of AT&T's "starnet" offering.

I left after that.
There is an email at the bottom of every page on Twicsy. Unfortunately you need to jump through a hoop after that because I am trying to avoid spam, but there you go!
Apps can't elect to be started up when the phone boots, nor can they count on avoiding being killed if the user is running a graphically intense game or something.
A ridiculous Common Core test for first graders
Ok I did not know that, thanks !
I'm running CM since my first android, works well. I had some issues but apps are responsible, and nothing some googling on sda didn't fix, eventually.
No, both of us are saying that buying a house to rent out full time is no different than running a hotel. "nothing" is the difference. tptacek appears to have recognized the sarcasm, but apparently nobody else did. I win again.
1. The world is not fair. Your attitude in your post reeks of entitlement "Oh, I'm sorry." Get over yourself. You can play by their rules or you can play by yours.

2. How do you recover? You just do. Take any job you can get. Find a better job. Learn skills. Network. Build a reputation and respect. Good things will come.

3. Sounds like the most recent place was a shitty company, and yet, those are their rules - you call them nonsense, they call them reasons to fire you. Be glad you left. Enjoy the next place more - but don't ever be satisfied - keep looking for better!
Is this anything like Robocode?

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

Because I had an amazing time in high school doing some local Robocode competitions. This could really bring some memories back.

Edit: Ahh, I see, it appears to be a sort of discrete turn-based version.
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> He saw packet counts increasing and it stopped when he disabled the audio hardware.

I guess if you think that detail adds meaning, there's not much I can say.

> Then there is all the other circumstantial evidence regarding booting from a CD

This is extremely common. Macs have had flaky CD booting issues for ages.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4292694

"After doing a software update, my Mac Pro got stuck on the gray screen after restart (seems like a very common problem recently). I am able to boot into safe mode by holding shift (only works like 10% of the time) and verified permissions. It says I need to repair my disk, but i can only do this by booting from my install disk.

However, I can not boot from my install disk. It gets stuck at the gray screen every single time."

> "self-healing"

Didn't happen. Because there was nothing to self-heal.

> and systemic blocking of his debug attempts.

It didn't block any debug attempts. He says it disappears on him when he goes to look at it. That's because it isn't there. That's like saying the ghost beside me is evading my photography attempts, and citing this evasion as proof that something is up.

> In what way does that not make sense?

Beeps on the speakers or listening on the mic doesn't involve packets to begin with! Even if that was true, it wouldn't make packet counts go up. You would have to go out of your way to implement this in the stupidest possible way for your audio channel to have anything to do with a network interface. Compared to the obvious way, it would take way more code, completely ruin your stealth, be far less reliable, and add a ton of packet header overhead over what is already extremely low bandwidth. You cannot be smart enough to implement this malware and also be stupid enough to put your covert channel through network interfaces. Yet we are supposed to believe it's so stealthy that no debugging tools can see it ever, and it's disappearing from low level memory accesses and disk reads wherever he looks for it. But it's spewing packets out on an interface that it doesn't actually need to communicate. I mean...really?
There are examples on the recent ArsTechnica article:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...

As you say, advanced location services, and then Cloud Messaging (an upgraded Push Notifications API), and some APIs which do accelerometer/sensor analysis. Maps API, Play Store In-App purchasing and Play Games (user accounts, cloud saves etc for game developers) are already there.

You're right to pull me up on the post, though. It's not really correct to talk about moving the APIs into Play Services, so much as developing what's there, and creating new interfaces with new, advanced features. But still, that doesn't alter the basic point, which is that a lot of Android Apps won't work on systems which do not have Play Services installed.
Flashing BIOS used to require a hardware manipulation - like moving a jumper or a dip switch. I hope this is still the case?
Regardless of "the policy" - it isn't as obvious as you make it out to be.

I'm human. Have a conversation with me. Tell me it's wrong. It's cutthroat. What a terrible way to treat a person.
Also, what evidence is there that Google is still committed to making Android open source even since Andy Rubin left the project?

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/kitkat-relea...
I still wish people would not refer to TSA employees as "officers", they don't have peace officer status they don't have any law enforcement training. Call them employees.

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/198357-house-gop...
I'm getting a bit tired of all the Thorium link-bait about that car. As far as I can tell, there's no working prototype, no working engine, nothing. Just some hope that this may some day be possible. So why does everybody keep repeating this non-news?

I love Thorium as much as the next geek, but give me some results, rather than repeating the same baseless speculation over and over.
I can't ditch the piece of shit I love!
They seem to be going by Eric Ries' definition, in which case it's totally possible.
Are "phone calls" between Android users with sufficiently up-to-date versions of the OS routed entirely over the internet as G+ voice chats? iOS bypasses carrier SMS with iMessage, and, I think, Facetime audio-only calls between capable devices. Seems like the next logical progression.
There's a world of difference between filing protective patents and using patents offensively against your competitors. Until fairly recently, this was considered to be something that was largely beneath the dignity of the big players in the industry.

And, even if Android were completely closed, it would still occupy the higher moral ground since Google did not instigate this war and would be happy to see it end.
Yeah, and I've seen that in Portland and Seattle, but for some reason in the Bay Area plenty of companies are willing to compete on salary so you've got lots of 22-year-olds making at least $90k, but they work 12 to 16 hour days.