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Non-religious moral philosophies, at their core, do generally try to optimize for reducing harm and promoting helpfulness wherever possible.

Even if one does not subscribe to a specific moral framework, or a group of people subscribe to different ones, there are still some activities that they can agree are immoral. That's why it's okay for vegetarians/vegans to think that something is wrong even if they may not have developed it in the context of an existing moral philosophy. To say that something is immoral is merely to say that "I have subjective reason to believe that [something] is causing more unnecessary harm than good for other lifeforms".
His #3 point solves that with a femto-cell to provide a fake gsm signal.
Yes, but it's hard to quantify the benefits (or even the costs) of a security measure—it's just as much a risk evaluation as it is a cost one.
I ended up getting an DigitalOcean $10/month box and set up GitLab (which is awesome). I figured for almost the same price of GitHub micro plan I could get unlimited repos by self hosting and could additionally use the box as a private maven repo host and maybe a build box (barely though).
Academic funding vs. Venture Capital (notice something different)
Linux Challenge Blackbox #1
The challenge covers some Linux file manipulation, C/ASM, GDB and filesystem. Please post questions or feedback in the comments
Might you know what HP's current stance on memristor research is, by any chance? It's one of those technologies we've all seen simmering away hopefully, and HP's been (or, perhaps, was?) one of the few large SV corporations with an interest in longer-term R&D.
Is Facebook promoting a monopoly in the dating space?
On September 29th 2014 Facebook disabled our ads for a dating mobile app specific to Brazil. Upon further investigation we discovered that Facebook closed their doors to all dating apps EXECPT those they have made a commercial agreement with. They claim that these ads have to be more "serious" (ours are!) showing less flesh and be more geared towards real couples (ours is!) and that they are not open to new partnerships. Interestingly they allow ads from a larger dating service (starts with Z) to run, even though their focus is on "meet female singleS now"- note the emphasis on the plural; it's about scoring. Yet facebook is happy to show their ads.

It is sad to see facebook closing the doors on the little guys like us and promote the big players, hindering competition and innovation from the new, little guys.

Here's their answer:

"To make sure everyone has a positive experience on Facebook, ads for dating sites and apps are only allowed from approved advertisers through a direct sales partnership. This means that you must have prior authorization from Facebook to buy dating ads on Facebook. Unfortunately, we aren't accepting new partners at this time."

I support their motivation, but closing the doors on services that are compliant just because you already closed a deal with a big player just does not seem correct to me.
A. I'm currently serving as faculty at a graduate program, so I ostensibly have a say in the admissions process. This is my first year so I don't know how much time it takes, but I imagine a lot, even though the program is small. I don't know how in the world the academic staff can quickly filter from tens of thousands of applicants without some kind of broad benchmarks.

B. You act as if there is some absolute benchmark for "best able to succeed at [some subject]"...There is not. Sometimes the best engineers can come from people who hadn't initially aspired to be engineers and thus lack whatever credentials they could've built in their high school time. Sometimes character can be the factor in success, sometimes not.
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Down vote? Petty.

You're right, of course. I conflated Pret a Voter with another hare brained scheme: Chaum's Punchscan, which at least makes a token attempt to protect voter privacy. My apologies. (It's been a few years since I studied this nonsense.)

Pret a voter does not throw information away (a la secure one-way hash), it merely obfuscates the process. It's just a more fancy kabuki.
I actually liked when they had Compaq as their low-end brand and HP as their high-end. They should bring that back. It works for car companies. Right now HP sabotages their own brand name with their cheap low-end crap, even though they make some good devices.

I want to ser a win/android compete with apple properly - a well-defined and short list of mid-to-high skus and no cheap stuff to apologize for.
I wonder if I should wait for usb storage support on Octeon or if I should just buy a Soekris. It's for home, nothing big.
I thought the question was whether the UID is protected from malicious Secure Enclave firmware or not, no?
It may seem absurd to outsiders but it does make a certain amount of sense to me, especially in hindsight. I learned as much, maybe more from my classmates than I did from my professors, and am certainly glad that those classmates were people of character, budding entrepreneurs, and sportsmen (and all sorts of other eclectic types, yes even some friends with rich parents; connections come in handy later on). Had my University selected the entire class based on your criteria it feels like my experience could have been very different.
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>Also, for an article only two months old, Amazon reports I can buy the game new with free prime shipping for $17.99 which makes the "rent 90 days for $30" rather odd, because less than 60 days later I could buy the game for about half the rental cost.

The PS Now works on PS4 and PS Vita among other things. The game you will buy for 17.99 will only work on PS3.
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There are instructions on the bottom of the page. The github page also has examples: https://github.com/anubiann00b/HexLogic
That surprised me, too, because in 2013 I was installing from FTP. But mostly from habit.

I'm hoping it's because they are going to be using HTTPS with pinned certs to ensure you are downloading from a proper mirror. But that's hope, not actual knowledge.
> The way to select them is to let the academic staff who will be teaching them decide. They will do that by means of exams and interview. How hard is that?

This debate is often framed as "Harvard vs MIT", where Harvard has been very successful in being ever more prestigious and important with their explicit "the smartest and the richest" strategy, while MIT is great, but not "near monopoly on the halls of power" great. The arbitrariness and thinly veiled racism of the admissions process is vexing, but they are crazy successful.

All that to say, it's not as easy as it seems it should be.
It's interesting how the ideas displayed here for the most part avoid what I've seen many geek-identity marketing pushes do, i.e. treating it as predominantly an identity built around consumption (Which shows do you watch and collect memorabilia about, what IP do you catalog and spend money on, which conventions do you throw money at for signed items, etc)

I don't know that each of these are for everybody, but then again, that's (at least, in my opinion) not the point here. The waveform rings, for example, are very personal. I like it.
How would pseudonyms work? How do I know that Skippy or voter # 123 is eligible to vote in my precinct?
June 21 is the longest day only for the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere would therefore celebrate giraffes on the (or about) the 21st Dec.

Also, from a cursory search, giraffes occur both north and south of the equator in Africa. So neither northern or southern hemisphere could lay sole claim to picking a day.
I recently (~3 weeks) got an Android phone (where I assume most of this data comes from) and I'm at 4.5MB.
I think I would prefer the "solitude" of a 360deg coding environment that would be afforded by an Oculus, NR headphones, and music. No visual distractions!

Besides, I imagine that this setup would be cheaper than two monitors and a desk. I'd need to drastically improve my touch typing skills...sometimes even now I need to look down. Maybe in this set up there's a representation of my hands or better yet, a VR native way to interact with code that isn't a keyboard.

Addendum: I remember seeing something awhile back about building an IDE designed to be used with a gaming controller only...
This seems long dead, also didn't find a link to the source code.
I find the second plot looks almost linear, IMHO plotting price/time versus price (or time, doesn't really matter) visualizes the sharp price increase much better
Of the two remotely exploitable OpenBSD holes in the default install, one was from IPv6. But it was ~7 years ago, so it's weird that they waited until now to turn it off by default.
Nice idea. Perhaps you could add a scale slider in addition to opacity. I know that in my case I’m delivered designs at 2x resolution and would have to view them at 50% size in order for it all to match up. Thanks
>As a speculation, Bitcoin is zero-sum.

Only if you assume bitcoins end up worthless so the guy who got a bitcoin for nothing and sold it for $500 is up $500 and the guy who bought it is down $500. That's quite possible but not inevitable. They could maintain value because people like them in the way similar to the way that art works do.
You are stating an opinion/ideal as fact. If you'd look at actual data, you'd see that the vast majority of internet use by consumers is client to server, not peer to peer traffic (e.g., youtube vs. bittorrent), which means there is no need to be "on the internet" for most people. Distributed federation is great and it does not require end-to-end connectivity for everyone.

> See also: Everyone Hates Facebook.

I don't know in what kind of bubble you are living but 1.3 billion people are on Facebook; whether it's cool to hate it is not germane to the topic at hand.
Would like an open standard defined for bank account integration. Unfortunately that's unlikely to happen given the mass amounts of banks and their relationship with credit-card companies. (ie Why implement bank-to-bank transfers where there's no margin to be made in comparison to credit-cards?)
What is preventing the Federal Reserve or any other central banks with endless supplies of liquidity, from collapsing the value of bitcoins or any other convertible currency, virtual or otherwise?
Based on your search query on google, they present videos to you.
Its in the pipeline, will be out soon.
Well that just isn't very nice.

To be fair I'd really like to see this implemented. Pitching in on gifts/dinner/tickets would be so much easier with this rather than having to give my bank account number out and checking for payment..
HN locks the visible count at -4 even if the real count goes below that. Now that comment scores are private (i.e. you can only see scores for your own comments) I'm not sure why they wouldn't change that feature though.
Because there aren't dozens of other ways to do this already..
[Remember to press "show more", because the description of the video is long and has a lot of information.]
I have 127MB of Location History, trying to use this takes out my browser.

It's a shame really, I bet that much data would make for some good visuals.
> This is the crux of the matter. Stated differently, why would universities want to shake up their proven business model? For vaguely defined virtues like creativity, wisdom, and well-roundedness?

Tier-2 private colleges are having a tough-ish time right now, it could be a way to differentiate and attract ambitious students- "after you've thrown your application into the goofy lottery system, why not apply here, where we take you seriously? As you can tell with this significantly less goofy admissions process!"
If you have four mouths to feed, you better not expect to be treated as royalty making 130K in the Bay Area. Get your spouse to work, or just admit that you need to scale your spending habits downward.
This is a cheap way to buy "token minority positions" and increase the appearance of diversity.

Its a smart, if somewhat cynical move.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/the-work...

"Blacks, who make up just 11 percent of the workforce, account for more than a third of home health aides and about 25 percent of both security guards and bus drivers—rather low paying jobs."
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For largely the same reason that relational databases need identity. The classic example is the users table. Everything about the user, from their username to their email address, can be changed. So you need some way to stably reference that user. In the timeless Tarpit/Edelweiss world, the current state of the program is a pure function of its inputs. That means that the id has to be deterministically derived from the inputs.

For now we synthesise ids out of contextual information eg "the user created at time T by event X". This works for now but it feels a little awkward. Once we have written more code in Eve we will have a better set of examples to guide thinking about a solution.
I agree to some extent (and I'm excited by the progress in "opportunistic encryption"), but I'd like for people to also start thinking about what's possible and what's simply not.

For example, modern block ciphers like AES can protect data against an attacker that does not have access to the encryption key. However, in this case we're talking about an attacker that has perhaps 90% of the encryption key, the UID, in its physical possession. The UID can be concealed in many ingenious ways, but that doesn't change the fact that the attacker is in physical possession of the atoms that encode it. This is essentially "security by obscurity", albeit on a high level.

In contrast I would argue that message exchange over the internet can be made secure, even against a nationstate adversary.
The article they cite to support the claim that diversity promotes creativity cites studies that looked at problem solving and communication in small groups.

The interesting thing about those studies is that what they seem to show is that what is important is that there be someone in the group who you perceive as being different in some significant way. It appears that what is going on is that when you see everyone in a group as being the same as you, you expect everyone to think the same, and aren't as open to new ideas, and don't put as much effort into promoting your ideas.

Most of the studies used race as the difference, putting one or two blacks in a group of whites. One used politics, comparing two democrats or two republicans against mixed pairs, and one used groups where the diversity was geographic.

That raises some interesting questions. In the following let's take as a baseline a small group of white males.

Does the degree of difference make a difference? Is adding a black female better than adding a black male to the group, because she differs on both race and gender?

What differences besides race, politics, and geography matter? We are all white males in the engineering jobs at my office, but we are split evenly between married with children people and single people. We've also got a nice split between liberals and conservatives. Are these enough differences to max out our creativity?

There's a lot a more research needed here.
non-tech black = 3%

black national % of security guards = 20%

every little bit helps I guess
Might as well use Linux.
Ask HN: What's the next big computer interface design?
First, computing machines had light indicators that showed what bits were stored in memory addresses. Then, text terminals were introduced that made computing feasible for everyday people. Lastly, the graphical user interface was invented that allows anyone with eyes to perform computing tasks.

So, what's most likely to come after the GUI...brain implants?
Does any know or care to hazard a guess on how much BTC Andressen Horowitz owns?
but it always leads to the possibility of DoS attacks against my own data.

It depends on the nature of the data you want to store: there is some data which you would be concerned with letting others get access to but whose existence is more important, and other data where you absolutely must not let others get access to, even if it means that no one (including you) can. This drive is designed for the latter case.
> it's definitely possible.

You can't track an external, independently moving object using only inertial sensing.
What i can suggest is that go the other way around.
Instead of creating ads from your facebook page, Use your personal accounts to boost posts. I know its not the right way, but if you can create micro contents a basic QnA contest and other stuff that somewhere relates to your business through your facebook page & then share it from your personal accounts and then boost it it will surely give you a reach & Engagement you deserve.

Focus on micro content now. (Facebook has its own rules and we cant do anything) Also, explore Reddit for ads, there amazing sub reddits and you can target each of them that matches your app and create an add there. It only costs your $5 for 5000 impressions there. Try it.
Ebola Patient in Dallas ‘Fighting for His Life,’ C.D.C. Director Says
I've heard only positive things when using OpenBSD on Lenovo X2XX's. What window manager are you using?
If the highest tier actually was perpetual rather than 90 days, then I might consider it. (I remember that's actually the way OnLive had it.)

Though, maybe I'm just not their target demographic of the service as I haven't ever "rented" games in the past.
Something I don't understand: can someone explain why FireChat needs an account when it doesn't require internet access?
Author of the post here. I totally agree that comprehensive tests are still necessary. The blog post/talk don't cover this, but we actually have both kinds of tests - unit tests to test components in isolation and end-to-end tests that hit functionality from the front-end all the way to the DB.

In our experience, unit tests are useful because they run quickly (so you can run them literally every time a file changes), and let you much more quickly figure out the root cause of a failure. To us, the ability to run tests in a few seconds vs over a minute is important, because we want the dev feedback loop to be as immediate as possible. Just as we would hate waiting on slow compile times, we also hate waiting on slow tests.

That having been said, we also run comprehensive end-to-end tests before pushing changes to the site to ensure everything works properly. We think both are important to ensuring site quality and keeping the dev cycle efficient.
Everybody else supports nvidia chips by running a big blog of proprietary code in the kernel. That kind of defeats the purpose of openbsd, right?
I don't think the GUI goes away anytime soon, and I don't think that is what you meant either.

People are visual beings, so I think the interaction gets smaller, or more integrated into our lives. I would love something akin to a contact lens that lets us see the GUI, and a computer that responds via voice.

So to me, GUI doesn't go away, how we interact and how we view that GUI does. A contact lens, brain implant all seem reasonable, but I would assume the natural progression will be hardware wearables, then biological wearables (contacts etc), then implantations.
Plus assuming you're running an EBS-backed instance, it's already backed up. And it's easy enough to set your instance to automatically apply security updates. If all it's doing is hosting a few git repos, breaking things isn't really a huge concern. I love GitHub, but I wouldn't pay for it as a way of saving money, I'd pay for the extra features.
What is the current standard for graphite frontends? There are so many, it's hard to know where to aim. We're in the process of setting up a few metric collection systems for evaluation, and setting up the right frontend for graphite is a hard choice.
What I have done currently is I have just set the width of the overlay to 100% of the browser width, so if a front-end dev has his browser width set to simulate a mobile device for example, it would just scale automatically.
While some of the more sensationalist parts of this were debunked, here [1] is the article that goes over a critical (non-technical) analysis of the binary itself.

The app uses some private Apple APIs, including capturing the SSID of your wireless network.

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/facebooks-messenger-a...
I don't see a link to the challenge at the above site page.
>Is there such a thing as a dishonest stock exchange? If so, how is that dealt with?

I'm not sure there is such a thing as a dishonest stock exchange but there are unethical players trading on most exchanges. The reputation for honesty of the traders varies a bit from exchange to excange, for example the reputation of the NYSE is generally good and of the Vancouver exchange generally bad. There are quite a variety of different scams and ways of dealing with them. The Mt Gox manipulation worked out as something like a ponzi scheme where players selling at a profit were bought out by Mt Gox's bot using money coming in from new players. To avoid that in the stock market I would recommend only buying shares backed by assets and earnings and avoid buying things with no intrinsic value because they are going up. So it's a bit buyer beware at the end of the day.
> For peeping in windows, a drone is extremely impractical.

Well, say I set up a drone for remote control over the internet, then rent it out to people that are located half around the globe. I act as a cut out, and whomever is spying will (may[1]) be hard to track.

[1] If I'm getting paid, there's the issue of anonymous transactions, and as for control, latency might be too high to use Tor -- but the main point is that drones already facilitate something new, if not revolutionary new.
Yes, you're right. I wrote without having actually tried it. It works nicely. Thanks
is it also not weird that the outliers are approximately the same radius out from each other - and also seem to be evenly spaced around the circle??
A friend to friend payment system in facebook messenger is a killer. Now i want to see what will be the move of all the p2p money sending apps, as many are coming up with it here in India. Excited to test it.
Because you want to. If not, don't.
Where assessment is possible, they already do it. The music department and art department require your audition or portfolio. Most other programs assume students are starting from zero (or near zero) and so assessments aren't possible. Any other systems are going to be a way for colleges to choose politically rather than academically. ("Street smarts?" Do you get bonus points for time in the state pen?)
Given how important Facebook is to so many people (plus just the sheer size of its userbase) I literally do not think it is possible for them to make any changes whatsoever that do not provoke some sort of backlash. If they merged Messenger back into the main app there would certainly be an uproar over that as well.
Do you know of a group using Spark on petabytes (or even a terabyte(s)) of data?
It's been 15 years.
We generate the pages dynamically. When code gets pushed to a repository indexed by Sourcegraph, we re-analyze it, which means that the location of definitions/references changes and the stats about who uses what change, too. This happens fairly often, so it's easier just to generate pages dynamically.

If you want to get an idea of our site architecture, you can check out https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/thesrc. (It's a link aggregation site (thesrc.org) that pulls from HN, Reddit, and a few other places and only displays links with programming-related content.) We made it to share some patterns we found useful for building a web app in Go, and the interfaces and structure mirror how Sourcegraph.com is designed. There's also a talk here if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zYXhhrRn2E.
I thought Apple automatically scanned and rejected apps for private API usage