skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writers, too, and folks with social anxiety. Two classes of people who think very carefully to every little word they use and the subtle tonal effects and interactions of the tiniest details.

I suppose this article is more about listening/reading than speaking/writing, but I reckon most people would easily be able to notice a difference between the example professor and student messages, and put it down on first thoughts to formality. And we certainly notice when people communicate with a level of formality that greatly differs from what we expect from them.

The article says that this might be used for contentious stuff like being able to tell if people are lying, detecting their gender, or economic status. I have my doubts to be honest, and fear the consequences of applying this stuff naively. I suppose if their results check out... but the article doesn't go into that, instead saying the "most interesting work" is about power dynamics. Well that to me is the bleedin' obvious part.

Anyway yes, when I reached that categorical 'puny humans' put down I rolled my eyes and started to scan the rest.
What an advertisement. How much did Apple pay them for this?
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That is just the typical blather devoid of content we've come to expect from online journalism.

We already know of one significant security issue with iCloud that was just posted on HN this morning. There was an outside API that allowed to trivially bruteforce logins without any apparent rate-limiting.

It might be hard to convince a judge of that, but for a provider like Apple, this is to me gross negligence. I mean, World of Warcraft, of all things, has more meaningful security measures in place than iCloud apparently. Apart from obviously not allowing to bruteforce passwords, they very stricly geofence any logins and will rather suspend and force the original owner to reactivate an account than allow login from an unknown IP range.
Yeah this article is completely awful and was most likely written by someone without any security knowledge whatsoever. Considering the number of victims, all of the possibilities discussed in this article are completely unreasonable.

There's only 2 real possibilities here:

1. iCloud was hacked

2. Someone at Apple can access the data and decided to leak it

I'm leaning towards number 2 myself.
Yeah this article is completely awful and was most likely written by someone without any security knowledge whatsoever. Considering the number of victims, all of the possibilities discussed in this article are completely unreasonable.

There's only 2 real possibilities here:

1. iCloud was hacked
2. Someone at Apple can access the data and decided to leak it

I'm leaning towards number 2 myself.
Worst was the guy who called, I dismissed him with "not interested <click>". He called back. And chewed me out.

SRSLY?!!!

I patiently (?) explained that his first call was a waste of both our time. And the second far worse than that. But I'd be more than happy to spread his and his employer's name over teh Intarnets.

He didn't call back.
I think now is a good a time as any to reflect on the wise words of Taylor Swift,

> You cannot leak that which does not exist. That's the ultimate answer. But that's the same philosophy as abstinence. We need education. - https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/50629058660991385...
You'd have more luck with fixed-odds games. The APIs for those tend to expose the results of the RNG in ways that are fairly easy to piece together. Some of the API responses will literally tell you enough to know "we picked a random number between 0 and x, and the result was y".
Hooray!

Also, why hasn't this been around before?
"While it’s highly unlikely to be a security issue with iCloud, the incident has served to remind us all of the issues around internet security in general."

Uhhh... pardon me? Potentially 100 high profile users just had their private photos removed from their private accounts and this "likely" isn't an issue with the system? What would be a security issue then?

Edit: Followed by this double negative which is accidental but still makes me smile:

"It’s highly unlikely that the “hacker” (or it may have been a group of hackers) was not able to breach Apple’s security in general..."
bash in cygwin.
You should have no such expectation. This isn't a namecheap-specific security issue - they are reporting their perspective of a global security issue.
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Not according to the article:

> In fact the String Deduplication is almost like interning with the exception that interning reuses the whole String instance, not just the char array.
>Your appeal to his business success is a complete non-sequitur.

Sorry, but the parent wanted to downplay Jobs, not just in his technical profeciency but in general (hence the "visionary" label, which can mean "nothing at all" etc). So my reference to his business success was to counter-balance that. And it shows a kind of "10 x" Wolf type, which is what we're actually discussing, in business too. Hardly a non sequitur.

Second, if you're going down that road, the parents comments about how Jobs had "pathological narcissism" and about how he couldn't "stand him" are also non-sequiturs in a discussion about the Wolf type, and wether Jobs was one. How are his personal feelings towards Jobs revelant in this discusion?

The fact that you seem to revel with the "raging arsehole" accusation and dislike my "business success" comments, doesn't make the first any more relevant.
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Go is nice because:

1. Its build tool is simple.
2. It compiles incredibly fast.
3. It is native compilation with no runtime required.
4. It enforces uniform code formatting, and is strict with no compile warnings.
5. It has a standard build tool and standard test tool.
6. It has a standard documentation tool.
7. Only requires a single environment variable GOPATH for all autocompletion to work out of the box WITHOUT an IDE. No IDE project files necessary.
8. Its a decent language that can be learnt quickly.
9. It has CSP.

You are criticizing point 8 out of context, Go is a sum of its parts.
The "dual" of this paper (Wehrman et al. 2009, mentioned in the introduction) is quite nice and worth reading along. It is likely paywalled (depending on institutional access), but there is a pre-print version available from Wehrman's website [1].

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iwehrman/www.wehrman.org/m...
Funny? Sad, rather.

(There was no 381 kB CSS back in 2001, obviously.)
> 100 high profile users just had their private photos removed from their private accounts

Can you verifiably prove at this moment that all of the leaked photos only came from iCloud and iCloud alone? Until they've completed their audit or more information becomes available, you can not just make assumptions of guilt like that.
> You explicitly stated that the example was "for those who doubt the central role of explanations in science".

Yes, and my example proves the point I am making -- one must have tentative, falsifiable explanations in science. Choose your own example if you don't like mine, but make no mistake about it -- scientists explain things. If the explanations fail, then another explanation is tried. But description is not science, that's stamp collecting.

This goes as far back as Francis Bacon, who first articulated it -- reading Bacon's philosophical works, the role of explanation, of theory, is clearly set out as a requirement.

More recently, falsifiability has been made a requirement for science, especially in cases where science is defined in legal actions. And descriptions cannot be falsified -- if I say that I saw many tiny points of light in the night sky, that can hardly be falsified. But if I make the claim that those points of light are actually thermonuclear furnaces at a great distance, that explanation is open to examination and falsification, and I have crossed the threshold of science.

This is why the dried gourd example is perfect for my purpose -- it aptly caricatures real psychological work. And once one tries to take a step toward science, to explain the result, it falls apart, like so many psychological studies do.
I think the point is NOT to do that. Keep the power structure flat, until such a time as somebody YC wants to intervene (by the aforementioned email).
OT, but why is that providers like Namecheap implement 2FA but not organizational team support?

If I set up 2FA, only my device can log in. If I become unavailable for some reason, none of my team members can access the account. The only way to do this is for all team members to do the 2FA setup at the same time, which I believe will seed the generator so that they will all produce the same sequence of tokens. But that's just unacceptable. It's like renting an office and only getting a single key.

I find it amazing that in this day and age, most providers still conflate the concepts of "login" and "account". I log into an account; that login is a set of credentials giving me access, but one account obviously must support multiple logins.

Without a clean separation, you turn employees into single points of failure. Shared account credentials is a potential security risk. And it makes it harder to lock out employees who leave the company once given access. And of course, it makes auditing harder because you just have the IP.

Most providers make this mistake: Among DNS providers, I use Gandi, EasyDNS and iWantMyName, all set up like this. Cloud-oriented providers like Digital Ocean and Mailgun, same problem. AWS does the right thing.
Sure, it's possible, but good luck getting funding.

Doing research for profit is very tricky, which is why it almost inevitably winds up being done at a loss. The world is full of entities (such as universities and government labs) which would love to be able to do research at a profit, but they succeed only sporadically despite the advantages of lots of smart people and equipment.

The sort of research that can turn a profit is usually fairly incremental stuff (e.g. let's formulate a new kind of paint), and is done within large companies' own research labs with deep domain expertise and trade secrets you won't be able to get your hands on. You can try to invent an improved paint and licence it to DuPont if you like, but if they want it they'll probably have got there before you.

Bluer-sky stuff, on the other hand, takes really long timescales and large numbers of people, with low probability of success. You'll be competing against university researchers in the same field who aren't even patenting their work.

There is money to be made in the last mile -- taking technologies from the point where they're almost ready to hit the market, doing that little bit of extra research to bring them to market, patenting your method and watching the bucks roll in. But opportunities like that are rare and heavily sought after, and even then it usually involves a crapload of money and risk. You can build a startup around just one of these ideas if you can find one, but nobody will give you money to go around looking for them in general, just like nobody will invest in your gold mine until you've actually found some gold.
I certainly am not claiming infallability.

But in a corner of the world where predictions are a dime a gross, Stallman's made many, and his record of hits is considerable.

Adding to his credibility and significance are the fact that:

⚫ He's not commercially vested in his predictions. Unlike virtually everyone else in the space, whose "technology forecaster" title is followed by some company name.

⚫ His logic is Talmudic in its rigor. If Stallman has a position on something, it's virtually always because he's thought it through very thoroughly. Even if you don't agree with the conclusions (or if it turns out he was wrong), you're almost always better off knowing why he came to that conclusion.

⚫ He gores sacred cows. Much of the antipathy toward Stallman comes from those whose business model he's just invalidated. Or worse, proven to be utterly and completely socially and morally indefensible.
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V8 thinks in terms of classes
I didn't knew Alef and Limbo had so much users.
Aren't multi-table indexes otherwise known as indexable views?

Plus, I can't see any mention of how exactly the data is stored on disk. A lot of stuff about the language used to access it, but nothing about the storage which is 99% of any database engine. One of the purposes of a properly normalised RDBMS (eg. key tables/star schemas/etc) is to minimise the number of bytes on disk in order to optimise the slowest component - reading from disk.
If he's called 911 then ipso facto 1) his phone is on and 2) all location features are activated (on pretty much any phone of recent memory), as dialing 911 enables just this.

The fact that the exception proves useful doesn't mean my phone should transmit and the telco provider, app manufacturers, and others record, possibly indefinitely my location data every few seconds.

If you haven't read Maciej Cegłowski "The Internet with a Human Face", do. It's quite simply one of the best and most completely cogent arguments against the advertising-supported services model I've seen ever and anywhere. He's "idlewords" here on HN.

http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
A former employer of mine hired a plant service for the office. They provided both the plants and people to come in every week or two to tend to them.
> Teenage pregnancy in the first world has little to do with either sex education or values.

i don't know where you get your ideas but they do not jive with many more learned observations than yours.

http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2012/03000/Compre... Comprehensive Sex Education for Teens Is More Effective than Abstinence

http://www.siecus.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Feature.showFeatu... National Data Shows Comprehensive Sex Education Better at Reducing Teen Pregnancy than Abstinence-Only Programs

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/250073 The Effects of Sex Education on Teen Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080319151225.ht... Comprehensive Sex Education Might Reduce Teen Pregnancies, Study Suggests

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194801/ Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S
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PLoS One. 2011; 6(10): e24658. Published online 2011 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024658

related: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/abstinence-only-educati... Abstinence-only education does not lead to abstinent behavior, UGA researchers find

http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/11/30/uga-study-... UGA study: Higher pregnancy and birth rates in states with abstinence-only sex ed programs in schools
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I wonder if it works if the plants are fake?
> Is waiting 5 years always an option? Is 5 years always enough to distinguish good from bad science?

In the case of Relativity theory, it took 55 years for full validation of all its aspects. In principle, to assure solid science, one might say, "as long as it takes."
For simple use cases I still use batch files as the performance is much greater. Powershell feels too heavy when I just want to run a build with some parameters and a couple of other commands.
Agent forwarding is an antipattern, and insecure usage of it is prevalent. Forwarding it allows anyone who has root access on the remote system to impersonate you, and it can therefore be used to escalate privileges after a single system compromise.

Alternatively, consider Kerberos and kinit.
Why not just sterilize everyone who you consider lower class and incapable of raising acceptable children?
Eh? Stealth edits are lame...amendments (as you did) I think are strictly better.
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There's a config switch to allow execution of scripts. I agree it's a complete pain (literally falling at the first hurdle), but it is a one-time thing change.

I had mixed opinions of powershell when I tried my hand at it. The naming convention and documentation system were well designed, piping objects is an interesting concept, and IDE support was great for a terminal (step through debugger, intelligent auto complete). Despite this, there were numerous quirks and ugly spots that diminished the experience. I felt it was a missed opportunity. This was powershell 3, I can't speak for later versions
I think that might mean the opposite of what you think it does.

Interning reuses whole String instances. Deduplication is like interning with the exception that it does not reuse the whole String instance, it just reuses the char array. Therefore surely deduplication does not reuse String instances.
When to learn new programming tools, languages and other tech?
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"Wolves" -- if you accept the concept -- are basically the anti-entrepreneur. We're talking about engineers who get head-down in deep problems, without the interest or ability to turn them into actual products. I learned the hard way that when a startup's key differentiator is "run by a brilliant engineer/scientist/mathematician," back away slowly.

Someone on this thread mentions Woz as a prototypical "wolf," which is probably right -- what made him work within the later Apple environment is that he could work on very focused, discrete projects such as the Disk ][. Compare with Burrell Smith, who was equally brilliant and equally idiosyncratic, but was able to function within the confines of the Mac development team (albeit with a certain degree of effort by management).
I like the part where he's ignoring the wishes of the countries joining/trying to join NATO/EU. The fact that Russia does not want them to join is not an excuse for Russia getting buttmad when they do.
"WAS IT VIA ANOTHER SERVICE?
Since many of the images appear to have been taken with Android devices and webcams, the leaked images may not have originated from the iCloud photo backup service at all. Many services have automatic backup tools, and could be accessed in similar ways to iCloud (as above)."

Ok - let's blame iCloud for some stolen images from iOS devices. But how to explain Android ones? There is no iCloud for Android and never will be. Some apps as G+, DropBox, Box also do "picture backup" and run on many mobile OSes. Why everyone blame iCloud for some hole that can't be used more than 36 hours for hacking over 100s accounts.

My guess - there is fault in some very popular application that have access to your photos. So maybe insider in company owning this app can leak them or hackers take control over app. In all cases this is huge PR crisis for them.
Wow, what a completely vague and useless warning. It should just say "be secure, but not too secure, you know just don't buy Russian stuff, would probably be a good start. Change your password, but make sure you use no special characters and keep it under 16 symbols in length, use only approved SSL cert authorities and don't look behind that curtain!!!"

"We'd love to tell you more, but that would compromise our position of compromising positions, so stay compromised but if ur compromised don't do anything important unless you know, you have to or be safe while you do it by not being too secure but being unsecure enough, you know?"
Given that we're speaking hypothetically (Since physics gets in the way) not sure why're saying Netburst would be consuming 500W - as the manufacturing processes shrink so does the power consumption.
What's up with the line 'We like sex.' on page 12 under Arithmetic?
>You're overlooking several factors -- the influence of very creative people who worked with Jobs, a prime technological opportunity (new technical devices and abilities culminating in the personal computer), and chance.

I don't say he created OS X or the iPod, etc. Neither in their technical details, nor even in their high level UI (although he had some influence in that too)().

Just that he created a very specific climate and culture were those things could be produced in the way they were, and steered towards specific approaches to product lines, pricing, etc that could make those products thrive.

Competitors with the same amount of assets (or even far more at the start), and tons of "very creative people" couldn't get something as coherent out, and seemed to miss the whole point time and again. Not with things that require luck or money or access to talent, but with things that require specific decisions.

Similarly, those "prime technological opportunities" were available for all who could see it, and "very creative people" were working in all companies too. It's not like Apple, NeXT, Apple-2-in-near-bankrupcy were even a particularly attractive employer (at least before the iPod's success).

>Of several companies in competition, if you somehow were able to erase anything but superficial differences, one of them would still come out on top, because of a snowball effect in which people decide en masse that they prefer A to B for no particular reason.*

Don't know, the IBM PC market for example had IBM, Dell, HP, Compaq, etc competing rather strongly for 2 decades or so (which are aeons in IT).

And I don't think most competitors to Apple products had just "superficial differences". Following the scene since the late nineties I see a repeated, generalized lack of a plan and understanding of the markets they tried to compete with Apple in.

(*) Also I don't doubt that he had sociopathic aspects, although I'm not his doctor and I didn't have to be around him, so I don't care about that. At least he didn't kill anyone, which is better that lots of people in my book. I'd call any banker or golden parachute type of manager a worse sociopath.
It's like you know what you want to rant about, and it doesn't matter what you're actually responding to. I'd hoped to learn something, but I think I've got to give up on your posts.