skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually quite simple: follow the money.

Apple makes little to no money by invading your privacy. They've already made money once you bought their hardware. Which is why they will be a much better champion of your privacy.

However, companies like Google and Facebook make almost 100% of their revenue by knowing every detail they possibly can about your life. That's why they try to commoditize hardware and place all the value in your personal information.
Most 2FA schemes give you some backup codes. I'm sure people use Find My iPhone differently, but it's not unreasonable to suspect them to be used rarely. Once your device is back in-hand you could generate a few new backup codes.
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It is not a product offering, it is a research project. So it does not have to have a clear use case (yet).
Then the right question to ask would be: "Am I good enough to join a startup?".
Speaking of byte/short literals, we can already have a syntax for them with string interpolation. In fact, that's what is already implemented in Spire: https://github.com/non/spire/blob/ac12fd02180e39d2d482217319....
Dude. 1Password. Switching to using it for everything was one of the single smartest things I did this year.

I agree with you about the wider industry problem, but for your own personal use just start using a password manager. Just do it.
Why would you read

"Like most people, I don't like to be tracked"

and understand

"tracking is, a priori, something bad, even when it's open and part of a relationship in which you appreciate the other party remembering certain things about you"

?
Not to crap on this, but IFTTT can do this without code for plebs and muggle's like me who can't code.
So i'd wager there'd be quite a few celebrity dick picks available too if hackers wanted them. We know men like to send them unsolicited, and I'm sure those celebrities had received more than a few. But there are none. And why? Because those women were specifically targeted by people with a lot of resources and patience. (it's important that they were targeted specifically for being women).

To all of you idiots blaming the victims out there right now "should have used 2fa, should have used stronger passwords":

1. You don't know if 2FA was in place, you don't know what strength the passwords were.

2. Again: those women were highly targeted. Can you defend yourself if someone takes a week/month long project to break into your phone? (Also this was during heartbleed and other big vulnerabilites)

Come off your bullshit high horse. Don't blame the victims here.
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Are you implying that the silk road was not safe for people who followed protocols?
Aren't you supposed to have separate high-speed track for high-speed trains?
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You can never make claims like that before the fact. Every company, group of founders, group of investors, and opportunity is different. I'm certain there's a startup out there who you would take 75k and 1% from because you really believed the business would change the world and exit for Facebook money. You'd be crazy not to.
AAPL stock is up today, despite iCloud being implicated. I'm not sure what exactly that means, but my personal guess would be that cognitive dissonance and a general "slut shame"-y attitude means people blame these celebrities for taking the photos / getting "hacked" and not Apple.

Not saying that's right, I definitely think that's the wrong take-away from all this, but I suspect that's what's happening, at least in these early days...
Why won't you use the Oracle version? atm MariaDB isn't a replacement for the stock version of MySQL.
Except the author then proceeds to toss all his eggs into Apple's basket. No, it's not about putting all the eggs in one basket, it's about paranoidly avoiding Google at all costs for some unknown reason.
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Maybe http://popurls.com/ ?
What owncloud plugin, I mean. I have not been able to locate 2FA in the OC config, and my searching for plugins has had mixed results.
Total occupancy but larger spaces can be segmented however they might want (order line, dining, bathrooms, bar area, etc.) Just need to separate two sections with a sensor.

1 sensor... ingress = movement into one area out of an adjacent area. Simultaneously, that counts as an egress (that person having moved out of that adjacent area into the next).
Thank you. Just a small piece of feedback: I clicked the title expecting a story on Unbabel failing the startup game, ie: I thought they'd gone bust and this would be a post-op.
It would be interesting if someone from Github could discuss why they chose to do this migration by taking the whole site offline and doing the migration all at once. Did anyone investigate if this could be done without taking the site offline?
might be a dumb question but how much time do you spend figuring out about these websites ? or do you have some sort of crawler ? some repo or something else ? I mean how do you have new content/week
Congrats on the validation . . . don't think about competing or going big, quickly . . . you can continue to grow your B2B app as planned . . . You can watch learn/innovate based on what they are doing . . . you can also make faster decisions being small . . . I would offer a concierge service to migrate their desktop users to your app . . . maybe create a tool so they can even do it themselves with a click or two . . . sounds like you have a good app idea . . . keep working and growing it as planned.
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This is a good start. Many railway systems in the world have that since, I don't know, 70s. Even in not first world exactly (Moscow railway in mind).

Sounds like doable in a few years. You may even keep some at-grade crossings.
Thanks for that. Looks good. Pity there's no HTTPS though.

Do you know/can you recommend any other OSM providers? Here.com is one of the best I've come across, but I'm wondering if there are any others.
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Truthfully. I would have no problem with the amount of data google aggregated on me, if I could depend on them not using that data against me, or to manipulate me, or to sell it to someone who would do either of those two.

If someone came up to me and said "I'll give you 5 dollars if you give me the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and personal vulnerabilities of all your friends", agreeing to that would be considered a massive breach of trust and a horrible act. On the web it seems like standard procedure.

I will give you that tracking isn't innately bad, but it is an act of trust, and the question is: do you trust google?
In a perfect society, full of perfect people, I don't think we would have much use for privacy. In the society we live in privacy is valuable.
I think I was 4 or 5 when I first encountered that message, and totally expected the feds to come kick down my front door.

EDIT: I believe I was playing "Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey" at the time.
Intriguing, but zero technical information.
I'm in the same boat - working at an economics / public policy lab. Tool of choice here is stata even though a lot of what it gets used for is basic cleaning. It has quite a bit of trouble with larger datasets, when they're larger than memory. Common statsmodels regressions go with speeds on par to stata for data sets with observations in the 10-100 millions for me. R and Python are known to a few but most folks shy away from it because they need to learn how to set it up and how to program, even though it's quite basic in terms of programming. I'm sticking to python now because of how well it works as a scraping / cleaning tool and as glue, and the trustiness of the ipython / pandas / statsmodels / matplotlib (and ggplot and seaborn and vincent etc) stack. I found RPy to be super handy to get to weird regressions and stuff that I wish I had otherwise.
Speaking as a guy who runs an IT Management & Consulting org I can confirm that there is still a ton of XP in the market that needs support. For those this product could be a godsend.

For everything since XP though, I and my team strongly prefer PowerShell. Once you grasp the logic of PS it, in my opinion, crushes every other scripting language that has ever been native to Windows. We routinely pull in .NET libraries for third party software to automate them as well. And the out of the box WMI support makes system administration tasks a snap.

All that said, batch scripts are still absolutely needed for some purposes and applications. There is no way around that until the last XP and 2003 boxes go to the great window in the sky...
Yeah, Tor as a whole, and Hidden Services specifically are very vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks.

I'd love to see a project with a real focus on anonymous publishing of content. Tor's original goal was anonymous retrieval of content, with anonymous publishing just added on as a secondary goal.

In order to make anonymous publishing robust against traffic analysis, it may be necessary to sacrifice the "real-time" goal that Tor has.
Doing this online would of been very tricky while maintaining 100% consistency. We perform major infrastructure changes often without ever having to take the site offline. In this case and at this time it was unavoidable.

I feel 13 minutes of maintenance at 5am PST was a good trade off for the benefits we gained.
And 100% of the evidence was that they met at the same pizza place? There were no other indications? In that case does it flag every single group of high school friends who regularly get pizza after school, or every group of co-workers who hit up the same happy hour a couple times a week?

Sadly, that's not outside the realm of possibility, but that information alone is practically worthless in determining if someone is a terrorist. "Regularly meets with the same people in the same restaurant" describes almost the entire young, single adult population.
It sounds a lot more like you don't actually understand how advertising works.

No, tracking helps to provide you with better services, full stop. Since you use an adblocker, tracking isn't making anyone money at all. Your personal information is worth exactly $0.00 on its own.
> I ask myself is there some way we can have our cake and eat it too? Can we go on trying out new features while still oferring stability to those willing to wait for it?

Honestly, it seems like this is precisely that.

There's a general feeling in the community that the future of the Scala language and toolset is closely tied to the business goals of one specific company, at the expense of other members of the community. As long as the fork stays close to the existing mainline -- and it seems they intend to -- this seems like it should work out well for both sides: the community gets to fix some longstanding pain points with their tools, and Typesafe gets a fertile source of pre-battletested improvements to roll in to their slower-moving distribution.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambassador

> 2 a : an authorized representative or messenger

> b : an unofficial representative <traveling abroad as ambassadors of goodwill>
Firefox 32 == position:sticky for all, yoohoo
Just curious how "mega-rich fucks in Atherton" prevent railway from functioning?
Standard OPSEC for transactions on Tor markets is to GPG encrypt all communications. If you're just a customer, you have very little risk.
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> your interests, preferences, and proclivities are being used to make others richer.

Your logic here villainizes a behavior simply because it benefits someone else.

Let's say that every day you stop at Starbucks and order a cappuccino. The people who work at there recognize that you always show up at 8:10am and order the same thing so they begin to make sure it is ready for you every day so you don't have to wait. Did you give them explicit permission to notice your habits? No. Does their behavior benefit them? Yes, they keep you satisfied and paying obscene amounts of money for coffee on a daily basis. It's mutually beneficial. Now an employee of Starbucks could potentially give information about your daily routine to someone else who was looking for you (say to the police for whatever reason) but you don't hear anyone lamenting the presence of eyeballs in the heads of baristas as massive privacy invasions.

I believe what you are really getting at is that these companies like Google and others can - and have at times - abuse the information they have available. This is exactly my point: what's needed is greater accountability.
>Dude. 1Password.

Password managers only protect against certain kinds of attack. Many cloud services do not or can not properly encrypt their users' data, so having a strong password won't help in the event that your cloud provider's datacenter gets rooted.
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Without intending to invoke Godwin's Law, I think what happened in WWII is a good lesson in dangers of overexposing your private life. Before WWII, Germany used "tax deductions" to entice people to reveal their religion to the government. Data which was later used to identify Jews during wartime.

Nobody is saying you need to unplug your machine from the internet, but just that because something doesn't impact you today, might not be true tomorrow. If you decide to run for office in 10 years, for example, you can bet your location data will become relevant (and it's not that far-fetched that the other party will try to obtain that data - reference the IRS email scandal).

The point is to minimize the aggregation of your data, to limit the impact it will have on your life once it leaks. After all, you never know who will get a hold of all your data once a company goes out of business (fir example).
Advocating for greater accountability across the board sounds great in principle, but what does that even mean? Are we to hold Google, accountable for monetizing the data they collect on us? That's the social contract you engage in with Google, when you use their services.

Looking at the underlying business model is more effective. I am confident that DDG is going to respect my privacy, because that's what their whole business is built on! Similarly, I would be shocked if Apple turned around and started selling my data to advertisers, because I am their customer and I am the one paying them.
The way they worded it can be interpreted to mean that it is still a possibility that the Find My iPhone bug was involved. And anyway, I'm still wondering if it was exploited in this celeb pic scandal or other breaches we haven't heard about yet, so I still have those questions.
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Haskell's actually got a pretty great (if informal) standard which has been used to write a number of different compliant Haskell compilers. GHC is obviously the most popular open source one, but Standard Chartered Bank has its own Haskell compiler it uses a great deal of in production, for instance.
> data never leaves a company desktop, laptop, or blackberry.

That's not all that draconian. Data never leaves the servers, full stop. (Other than for back-up purposes and those had better be encrypted.)
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IIRC, the gpg-agent is sadly not that capable or intelligent. In theory, it should be usable for this.

In practice, I believe the agent actually just retrieves the passphrase and hands it to the requesting program, which is then responsible for actually working with the private key. So it doesn't keep your keys safely out of the hands of 'normal' programs, even though it seems like it should. Although it is somewhat confusing, and gpg-agent seems to mediate access to smartcards.

Protocol docs here: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Agent-Prot...

The ssh-agent, on the other hand, does keep the key material out of the ssh client executable.
Did you remember to move the undo log outside of ibdata1 ?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-undo-tablespac...

Because in mysql, ibdata1 can never shrink, only grow.

And that's how you end up with massive ibdata1 files that cannot be managed.

Oh and undo can only be moved outside of ibdata when mysql is being initialized, not afterwards.

innodb has some serious flaws

http://www.percona.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/InnoD...
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Couldn't agree more: I look at the max allowed number of characters on website X and I ask 1Password to generate a password of that length with whatever complexity the website allows (so preferably numbers and symbols if allowed).
The problem in WWII was not that the government had a list of who all the Jews were. The problem was that there was a government that wanted to kill all the Jews. If the latter is true, they'll find out the information they want one way or another. Hiding a list does not solve the problem, which is that you have elected genocidal maniacs to your government.
> Build a very complete profile of you, sell that data to advertisers.

Why would advertisters spend money for a profile of you? Answer: they don't. This market just doesn't exist. It's fabricated. It's a fantasy to pretend your trivial existence is worth big bucks. It isn't.

Advertisers do not want your information. They want your money. Google uses your information to try and match you up with relevant advertisers. This is how ad networks work, a form of online dating basically. Your information does not go to the advertiser. Your information on its own is not worth anything.

> Maybe tell insurance companies that you frequently do high risk activities. Sell the information that you were at the beach when you took a sick day. This list could go on and on.

Who would spend money on this and how the hell would that market ever come into existence, much less in secret, such that everyone does freak the hell out?

Do you think Google sends employees out to secret hotel rooms with members of random stores to swap dirty secrets about you or something? Remember, advertisers are places you go to buy things. Not evil supervillans.
Didn't Google scale Adwords primarily with MySQL?
I wonder if this got downvoted because someone read it as sarcastic. It wasn't meant to be so; I thought the parent comment was useful and I was wondering how to change the culture around consumer lending, which I agree has got a lot of people trapped (or at least burning a lot of their income on interest payments and fees).
This. Also from a business- (and CYA-) perspective, this gives you a punchlist of functionality to give to executive management, which can be used for anything from doing a proper scoping exercise to actually giving you a metric to show progress against.
Really cool. Signed up to hear more.
MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for stock MySQL. It's performance is actually better than MySQL.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibi...
Another potential repo:

https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/ubuntu/nginx-devel
By the time when, Google will be our overlords. Running the world with no one to be able to resist their ironclad rule. Because they know you, they know where your most loved live, what you need most to live, what your habits are, what medications you need.

Doesn't that sound bit too pessimistic? Of course it does. You already trusted Google, why trust another company and risk your data?

What if, from the 10 companies you trust your data with, 2 of the go rogue and use your data against you? OR what if they get hacked, and lose everything? That's what I fear more than giving too much data to Google. I'd rather trust one super reliable guy (Google), than trusting 5 (Self hosting) maybe trust-able, 3 shady guys, and 2 unreliable guys. But that's just me, I make sure all my accounts have 2 step auth.
I spent a lot of my middle-school math classes programming on my TI-86. This was in the mid-90's. My algebra books had a lot of BASIC programs that I translated into TI-BASIC. I had no background in programming at the time, and didn't even own my own PC for a few more years, but that early brush with programming (plus using Apple II's at my elementary school) helped set me up for doing computer science later.
I'm currently developing an app with the ionic framework and I'm quite pleased with the overall performance (both Android and iOS) and the UI boilerplate it provides. I haven't developed anything super advanced yet, but so far so good.
Why is nobody talking about password reset questions?
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Isn't DDG showing places from Yelp?

I've tested a few searches and things that are definitely in OSM don't show up.
Productivity in LOC/developer/day drops dramatically with increase of the team and code size. Every change requires extensive testing, figuring out interdependency, etc. If codebase is bad, it can take multiple days to make 10 lines change.
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Funny how only internet in the US is broken. The rest of the world can combine net neutrality with superior performance to that of the US monopolies. Why on earth should you try to put a bandage on the symptoms by throwing away net neutrality instead of focusing on the cause.

Not all businesses are suitable to deliver content over CDNs (and not all wants to anyway), thanks for forcing that part of a business in to a third party.
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>> "If you bought a ticket for a reclining seat then you should be able to recline your seat."

I disagree. When travelling in such cramped, close quarters with lots of strangers you need to be respectful of other people. If it's day time on a short (3-5 hour) flight and the person behind you is watching a movie on the screen on the back of your seat you shouldn't recline. If you don't think it will bother them, turn around and ask. Besides, you didn't buy a ticket for a reclining seat to begin with - all the seats recline. Maybe the solution is to allocate a certain section of reclining seats and charge for them separately (if demand dictates).
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This is awesome. Love the simple execution of the door/proximity sensor.