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Journalism needs to be repositioned as "selling time" or "life extension".

Good writing takes much longer to write than to read, not counting investigation, research or subject matter expertise, which in some cases may be a lifetime's work. When you pay for quality writing, you are saving (buying) time and avoiding paths that would waste your limited time.

Money can't create new time, but it can fund journalism that saves your life-time.
Right, so you understand that for 90% of users this is a bad deal. For the majority of users this is a very bad deal.
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The irony is the statement applies equally even if you switch the roles of Amazon and Hachette!
Investors in the private market are presumably more sophisticated, which often boils down to ability to CC a CPA and a financial advisor on an investment proposal, and ask them to chime in.
The ignorance in this post runs deep.

For example:

Speaking of zones and Solaris, if that’s an option for you it’s probably the best of breed stack right now.

Does the author have no idea what's going on with Solaris? Hint: Nothing. Nothing is going on with Solaris, because Oracle doesn't care about Solaris. They closed the source, and now push out the occasional minor update from on high for their enterprise customers. Anyone who is suggesting Solaris as an alternative to Linux at this point in history is simply not credible.
In my company we have exactly the opposite. We have a rule called "there are no stupid questions". If you get stuck at what you are doing you should ask for help(this goes for senior resources too).

In fact if you had got stuck but didn't ask for help and for some reason the work got delayed this will get escalated and you will be blamed for not asking for help. I just think thats the way it should be.
She is talking about moving to a new system outside of capitalism, not causing a dip in profits for one particular company.
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Probably pressure from investors who want some money back & board
>Relying on obscurity alone is the mistake you are alluding to.

Ok, sure.

>Why wouldn't you recommend using fail2ban and changing the port?

IMO, changing the port will have nearly the same overall effect as f2b: minimizing the number of failed password attempts from unknown users.

To that end, changing the port is changing one value in a config file, which has the attractive advantage of being far simpler to setup + maintain.
I'm on my way out the door right now, but I remember there being a theory that the NSA/CIA/top level org, in bed with Redhat, wants to kill (take over) Linux, so they use Lennart and Kay, the puppets, to get it done.
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If you don't improve the 'hardness' of the authentication scheme - that is, if you continue to use a password instead of, say, SSH keys - then, for all intents and purposes, you've just made the system more _obscure_, rather than improving _actual_ security.

To be sure, a dedicated brute forcer could still brute force any system using f2b... it just might take a few months/years instead of a few days.

(However, as noted by other commenters, there's something to be said about obscurity within a system's overall security scheme. You just have to strike a balance...)
Hmmm, I bet this survey didn't control for location of employment.
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Trying to cross-compile with Clang v3.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Very little information available that is helpful. EmbToolkit seems to be the recommended way to go, but why hundreds of small patches to binutils? Whatever happened to the KISS (Keep It Stupidly Simple) principle??
Over a QR code that you scan? I have to express my admiration for the elegance of that exploit. Very nice work.

Nintendo are not going to like it. (However it cannot be used for piracy at the moment; you'd need a user mode -> kernel privilege escalation as well, and no-one's waving one of those around.) It'll be interesting to see what results of this, aside from the price of unpatched versions of Cubic Ninja skyrocketing of course and Nintendo pulling that from the Japanese eShop (according to smea, the only one where it was available?).
> allowed many of those clicks to be handled right within the browser without waiting for the server at all. Fast forward 10 years and this architecture is the norm, having been adopted by most websites

GMail made async HTML popular and well known. AJAX got popular in 2005 around the same time. Many media articles often cited GMail as a good AJAX website back than.
The reality was, GMail used invisible iframes for async data transfer and not AJAX. One reason was browser backwards compatibility. Memory leaks were an serious issue in early GMail days, especially IE 6 users complainted a lot. Gmail switched to AJAX around 2007. Interesting is also that AJAX was added to IE 4/5 for OWA (outlook web access) in ~1999 but it was little known and got popular as Mozilla completed the API reimplementation in 2004/5.
Curious logic you have. "It doesn't have a constant stream of fixes. That proves it's no good. Things that need fixing are better than things that don't need fixing".
Art is often where change first appears, but it's also where change starts to figure itself out; to find a syntax and a vocabulary. In this sense, it's more than just a reflection, it's an agent - which is not to say it's causing the change, so much as channeling it.

It can also go the other way by leading us away from things. 1984 is the classic example of a work that gave people the tools - in the form of language and images - that they could use to describe all manner of disturbing developments that could take place within heavily centralized, industrialized nations. Dystopian visions are now so deeply engrained that any efforts to move government in that direction meet an immediately negative response.

Like the immune system, they don't block everything. But they block enough for us to know we'd be in very bad shape without them.
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When you want to invite your friends for dinner via messages on your iPhone ,
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don't you think it's a bit complex?

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How do you guys think about the app?Does the app solve your problem when you have no idea on how to make a hangout plan? And in the next version,I consider to integrate more service into our keyboard,what service do you need or you think should be added in ?Now my app is at the beta stage,I need more feedback from you .

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> Thus if you are playing actor 'A', and I am playing actor 'B', we state the game 'balanced' if every offensive action that 'A' has, has an equivalent defensive action on 'B's part, and vice versa.

That's a very different definition of "balance" than what I have ever heard used in the context of competitive video games.
Meh. Lyft is not even in my city.
> Can anyone explain to me what the marginal costs are for additional traffic, within Comcast's network?

Marginal costs within the design capacity of the network are close to zero. If the traffic happens to be external, to a network Comcast pays transit to (if such exist) and it's in a direction that's billable (transit is paid in the direction that is larger) then the wholesale rate (for that fraction of the traffic) would be billed at about 0.1 cents per GB.
I had a fairly long reply typed out but I read through it and realized that Mark Suster did it far more justice on his blog than I could in a HN comment:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/09/05/the-truth-abou...

> Convertible debt with no cap is stupid for investors. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders.

> With a cap means that every person who wrote you a check assumed that they were going to pay the cap. So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 million cap I am assuming when I write the check that I will own 10% of your company. If I didn’t assume this I shouldn’t write the check because I have to get involved knowing that I might pay that price.

> But entrepreneurs – convertible notes have no MINIMUM! So you’re taking all of the pricing risk. This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. But many convertible-debt companies are starting to feel that pinch now. I’m starting to hear it more often. And then the market does slow down you’re going to hear an entire generation of convertible-debt companies moan.
That was definitely true in the 90's and early 2000's. I don't think it's true anymore. Totally normal non-geeky people use absolutely enormous amounts of bandwidth on services like Youtube and Netflix these days. Unless you're some kind of torrent nut, your data usage patterns probably pale in comparison to that of the average joe watching sitcoms to wind down at night, and there are a lot more average joes than there are pirate hoarders.
It's a nice thought, but it'll never happen. It'll be a 'matter of national security', supporters will be branded 'terrorists' or other such nonsense.
You can get IP transit for under a buck a Mbps. So your 100 meg line has a "cost" of $100 for shit-tier transit. Add better providers, now it's $200. Add last mile, support, etc... All of a sudden, no one wants to pay so much for residential.

So it is disingenuous to complain that your top speed means you burn up your allocation. It's unlikely anyone is happy to pay per Mbps, so they gotta work out something which requires compromise.

Now, the limits are tiny, the pricing nuts, etc., but it's not fundamentally a terrible model. On cell data, I'm very happy to buy per GB so I can decide how much to spend.

The real downside is that capping users or offering low cap plans stifles innovation. It sounds nice to be able to "pay what you use" but that has a negative impact overall.
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Using firefox? It's impossible to use, or even just scroll. Works in Chrome though. I suppose it is the star animations at the top of the page that bring firefox to its knees.
> If you value your privacy, avoid using any Russian-based search engines or social networks if you live in Russia

Pushing this forward, if you so much value your privacy you should not use any service which has official representatives (official company behind it), because in many countries they should provide user data on goverment requests (e.g. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/RU...). This is a disturbing fact, but this is how modern society works. You should throw out the window all your electronic devices and move somethere to the North Pole to protect your privacy (and I can't guarantee that satellite will not watching you). "Privacy" nowadays is just a huge illusion which is an euphemism for the statement: "Somehow, you can be sure they will not come for you for what you doing. For now...".
This thread is dead, but: everyone really should enable OpenVPN's tls-auth option. tls-auth simply HMAC's each packet that would otherwise be fed to the SSL protocol, which is really good for reducing the impact of SSL-vulnerability-du-jour.

(tls-auth doesn't protect you from vulnerabilities in the OpenVPN data protocol, but that's a lot simpler.)
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Great idea, thanks! We're currently developing a series of videos to replace the explanation so I'll definitely look into the sherlock series and see how they've portrayed it.
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I know a tax lawyer who worked for the tax authorities and with specific interest in corporate tax avoidance. He loved the challenge of going after companies who were trying to avoid tax. He left to set up his own consulting company and now prints money, for those same companies.

I think a rational company would have no problem hiring a competent person who proved they know the business better than the people who currently work for them.
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For the most part, my cofounders and I followed the advice in this video—with the one exception of founder salaries. To be honest I really regret the vesting cliff.

I worked without pay for 6 months. I had no indication anything was wrong. We raised a seed round were about to finally start paying ourselves the cofounders booted me. Suddenly they weren't happy with my performance, though days before they'd praised it. Worst of all one of them still hadn't quit his full-time job!

The vesting cliff protects those who stay from a founder leaving early, but it also creates the possibility of a founder getting strategically booted once the business is less risky and/or starts getting traction. To be perfectly honest after going through this, I'm not very inclined to do a founder vesting cliff again.
I'm a bit confused, was that sarcasm? Doesn't Solaris use SMF and not SysV?
Hahaha... Americans.
It is not right to say more STEM means wages will be lower. In high end professions like engineering etc. more people could mean faster innovation and faster expansion of the industry.

For example despite relatively higher number of tech employees Silicon valley engineers earn lot more than engineers pretty much everywhere else.

Even if there is a relative drop in wages, everyone wins because lower wages eventually drive the prices of services provided by these people. For example if Google's salary expenditure reduces it might also reduce advertising prices almost everyone else.
I'm mostly curious as to how the sculpture got approved without anyone else knowing what it said.
In California at least, that's because you can sue the company for underpaying you (at least 2x minimum wage as stated above) but others cannot bring that suit on your behalf. I don't believe California has any sort of "significant ownership" bar. So yes, the $1/yr salaries are against the rules, but just don't sue your own company.
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I don't think that's what 'balanced' means. I would say a 1v1 competitive game is 'balanced' if for any pair of actors A and B, a top player piloting A wins a substantial proportion of games against a top player piloting B, and the sum of all matchup advantages and disadvantages for any character isn't very big.

So for example this is a matchup chart for a really balanced game: http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Chaos_Code/Tiers

And this is a matchup chart for a really not-balanced game: http://static.squarespace.com/static/50f14d35e4b0d70ab5fc4f2...

For instance, in StarCraft, it's reasonable to say that the races are balanced even if Zerg and Protoss have no analogues to the Terran ability Scanner Sweep.

This isn't a very useful post for me to make though; it looks like you are already on the right track and you meant something like "homogeneity" when you said "balance" initially.
That said I wish I didn't have to choose from this pick any two triangle of open source vs. cross-platform vs. gui.
Software maintenance matters. A lot. Particularly for networked systems.

Also, it hasn't been Open Source in several years. That makes Solaris utterly irrelevant in my world. This blog post is suggesting Linux users move to Solaris. It's just a bizarre recommendation, made as an off-the-cuff assertion with no reasons given.

Also, Oracle. What hacker chooses to be beholden to Oracle?
It's as if they want to lose against other mobile options.
I agree it's aimed at a broad audience (not a bad thing in this case) but could you give an example of what's inaccurate?
This is a great post with many informative asides about the in's and outs of Unix. As a guy who can't stop looking under the hood myself, I found this to be a very palatable introduction to a lot of things I previously found to be complex. Great stuff!
Nice looking. But I can't use it as is now — it has no tabs/sidebar for more documents. TextWrangler FTW.

I actually run Notepad++ via Wine too for HTML. It's the only editor I've found that can expand and contract a hierarchy of *ML using plus and minus signs in the marginal of the editor. Difficult to explain, I guess you have to try it to understand.

It's indispensable and I can't be without it. I'd love to go native, but I haven't find an editor for OS X that does this.
You can get a dedicated gigabit line for like a grand a month - possibly less - which if you max out 24/7 gets you like 300 terabytes of bandwidth = $0.00333 - and one gigabit line is hardly wholesale.
$0.003/GB is what $1/1Mbps is, at 100% utilization. 324GB is what 1Mbps can do in a month. Perhaps a bit less but low quality providers (HE, Cogent) will do a dollar a Mbps easily. So work backwards. (Another way, you need 3kbps to do 1GB in a month. That times 333 is about 1Mbps, so $1. I'm ignoring 95th percentile billing here.)

Better providers like L3 are around $3/Mbps, last I heard.

So $0.001 a GB means you'd only pay 33 cents per Mbps, which seems pretty low. But maybe at terabit commits, HE goes even lower.. I've only looked at 10G commits.
Oh, you are correct. It's chosen by the client here:

https://github.com/covertcodes/multitun/blob/master/multitun...
I'm sure Jason will be just fine.

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/lessons-learned-jobster-jason-g...
How do you people in US even allow that to happen?
In Poland we pay less than $10 for 10Mbit/s. We pay $30 for 250 Mbit/s DL 20 Mbit/s UL , and last time we had limited data plans was like 8 years. If we were to pay what you pay, for the quality you have, we would basically go for nationwide strike.
This is pretty nice. Great job. Drag-n-drop to tag is nice.

Some feature requests:

- Keyboard shortcuts, especially for tagging.

- Alternate layout that supports narrow window widths, much like email clients (Mail.app).

- Resizable / collapsible sidebar.

- Sortable tags list.
As long as we're going to maintain the fiction of national borders, it would be nice to do so in a way that doesn't consistently fuck over the lower rungs of society in favor of the politically connected.

Once we have a global governmental organization of some kind that can provide open immigration globally we can revisit this.
The problem with the 'collapse' point of view is that it's easy to say "and thus only the observation we saw actually exists". But that's an extra postulate beyond asserting the wavefunction describes all of reality. By just saying the wavefunction describes all of reality, you wind up with Many-worlds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation So the coins/paper analogies do make sense, except that there's not a single outcome: there are two possible outcomes, both realized, but each version of you interacting ("observing" is a loaded term) with the system to the point of decoherence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence) only ever get to see one of the worlds, which is the one you find yourself in. This isn't that mysterious given that your brain and everything else in your body are made of the same fundamental particles as everything else.

You highlighted a problem with quantum computers and other things: how to make sure a system is in a quantum state without directly measuring it. It's hard to fight decoherence.
If they put colored sections indicating appointments around the circles in the latter example, as if they were 24h clock faces, it would be even more useful than the first example.
And less than half that time was spent configuring it! ;)
Exactly that. You know what's insanely great? When you watch this presentation video of 1978 at AT&T where Ken Thomson explains Unix and type some commands on his VT-52 and you think: all of this is still current knowledge, and all of his explanations still hold true. Just like celestial mechanics or Pythagorean theorems. We are heirs of this ancient wisdom and this is friggin good, this is culture.
That seems naive. Current connections are encrypted. Those with the desire and means to break crypto aren't going to be deterred by line-of-sight issues.
Oddly, the table is priced identically in Euros and Dollars ($999 and 999€).
Solaris is dead but Illumos lives on kinda.
If every state stood up and passed bills like this the NSA couldnt have giant data centers in this country.
My Rogers/Fido contract specifies $6.47 per KB for data while roaming in the US. Canada is worse than third world countries for telecom. The corrupt CRTC doesn't do anything. My uncle was paying $400 a month for his residential internet (occasional browsing, Netflix, plus a gamer kid). The worst is he thought it was reasonable.

Canada actively fights competition too and won't allow other telcos to invest because they "aren't Canadian". It's this lame thinking from little countries in the stupid idea of pride. Kinda thing you expect from some Bananaland place.
Don't let them control the narrative. The discourse they have is absurd.

Their system not only doesn't work but creates haystacks so big that needles get deeply hidden and no real intelligence happens.

The rationale for the spy-everyone story is such an implausible fantasy. We have to stop letting people get away with saying it without being challenged.

This needs to stop.
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