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I care about frat boys being funded at the expense of people with actual ideas. I care about a generation of technologists that has been sold out because a bunch of smooth-operator, manipulative invaders have come in and outcompeted true technologists for funding and coverage, and the VCs have let it happen. If they were worth their millions per year, they simply wouldn't. If they could actually spot talent sufficiently well to justify their obscene salaries, they wouldn't be funding frat boys. I react strongly because this nonsense is very bad for the world.

As much as I wanted to believe in this vision, I've realized that the sole purpose of a so called Venture Capital Company is to provide an investment upon which they expect a large return. This usually entails all manner of searching and sifting (YC, etc.) to find the best potential status signallers, which can then be presented to Wall St banks who put on the finishing PR touches before a big IPO for the ignorant masses.

We are both technologists at heart Michael. That's why we have to leave SV behind. A long time ago, during Shockley and Wozniak's era, it was about science and technology. That has changed, and it will won't return for a long time.

Today, progress in science and technology is in the dilapidated workshops, the ignored academic labs, and the rare R&D corner of a dying company. It's not in SV.

I've always taken an evolutionary perspective to life, but it wasn't until I spent a few years in the "workforce" that I truly understood man's depravity. Your writing was therapy for me, but also a resounding validation of my evolutionary perspective on humanity's behavior.

It is the rare individual that manages to understand his biological impulses and how deeply they affect his behavior, and attempts to transcend it. The vicious lifelong status hierarchy battles, the ruthless mate seeking, the negative sum destructive competition. It's the law of the land.

You and I, and others like us, will forever be outcasts. I consider myself a curious traveler, put into the body of a primate so that I may truly empathize with their struggle. But I can never be one of them, because I see the futility of it all. I see that the only purpose of our species is to transcend our limits through deeper understanding of our universe, and to build more powerful tools and technologies which serve us in achieving this end.

Alas, it was not meant to be Michael. See us for what we are, and let go of the hatred for our collective failures. Instead, live life in the footsteps of those great travellers who came before us [1]. Take heart, for we are not alone [2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijxMHhuwGQ

2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/
100 terabytes is pretty small for a movie company. Sony has done several animated feature films, and modern feature animation has insane data requirements. 100 terabytes isn't even the assets from one movie.

I haven't seen numbers for any particular Sony movies, but numbers for several Dreamworks movies have been published, which can give an idea of just what goes into an animated feature film. "Rise of the Guardians" [1] had 250 TB of assets. "How to Train Your Dragon 2" has over 400 TB.

[1] No, not the owl movie. That was "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole". People often get them confused because of the slight similarity of titles, but they have nothing to do with each other.
The North Korea link really confuses me.

How is a small country like North Korea capable of mounting such a sophisticated attack when they aren't even teaching their computer students about the Internet? - http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/07/suki-kims-exper...

Even if they specifically trained a hacking group, the talent pool would be tiny.
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They do comment on most CVEs https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/540632677914001409
Ah, a clear instance of http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/01/26/10120...
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Hi sah88, thanks for this :)

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Better yet, use multiple hashes. Finding a simultaneous collision in sha256 and md5 seems pretty unlikely.
"Your sense of humor is a bit of a high-wire act, isn't it?"
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Yeah, the threat is highly unlikely to come through.

Problem is, if it did - by as little as one random nutcase coincidentally firing one shot during one screening - the studio would be sued into oblivion for failing to act on a then-proven threat. This movie is not what they want to make a stand on, for principle nor for profit. Cancel the release, eat the losses, and move on.
What I took from this was someone else has probably taken over and raised the prices for no real reason other than "they can". (if people complain, they can point to the DEA -- making addicts hate them further! /s)

Mind you, it's an interesting thing about the old man. Logic says he probably was very much in control, had no dementia etc when he started out. Probably thought "I'm old now, what do I have to lose?" and turned out to be excellent at what he did. It makes me wonder though... why did they keep him running, when they knew something was wrong with him, and that they knew his memory was deteriorating?

From everything I have read about the Sinaloa Cartel, they're not that silly... but I guess they were this time. (they strike me as the sort of people who are not sentimental and would "get rid" of someone who was putting their local operation at risk...
This is pretty ridiculous. Want to clear out an entire NFL playoff game in a few weeks? Tweet out a vague threat against the game about 24 hours prior. Want several million dollars? Send emails to about 20,000 bars and restaurants demanding $5K in Bitcoins or their business will be blown to bits.

The problem isn't that Sony capitulated to a threat. It's that they capitulated to a nonsensical threat. They gave credence to every threat. Earlier in the day I was somewhat neutral on this, but now that I've had a chance to consider it I think that Sony is actually endangering our national security with this move. This is the first time in recent memory that America has been seen as caving to terrorist demands, and it can only create more disasters.
Not to re-relitigate old discussion, but (as I'm sure you know) it's now more probable that you might overflow your integers and then pass them to unsafe code or external APIs, and there are many other bugs or undesirable behavior that could be killed dead instead of allowing them to behave badly. For a not contrived example, I don't want weird stuff to happen when my semaphore counter overflows, or underflows, I want it to just crash, right there. (My perspective and desires come from a project where I didn't care about "raw" performance that much -- the project being a storage engine where C++ was chosen with the performance concerns in mind being lack of GC and resultant traffic shockwaves, so my preferences lie a bit away from CPU integer operation performance and more towards crashing obviously at the spot of the foul. It's the worst kind of bug when you hang mysteriously in production or to write garbage to disk when the error could be caught, and I had many C++ integer underflow worries at that job.)

I also think overflow errors should be conveniently handleable without putting a try! or match expression on every operation, and so should other errors, but I'll spare you that rant :-)
Yes it is more likely to be applicable to other apps other than WMs, but I also have integration in mind. So what if you want to write a WM like a library that can be used by whatever runtime a user may choose. Not sure that is a good idea but it sure would not be very portable if a GC must be carried inside the library. Memory consumption is not the only issue here.
If it was a western leader maybe, but North Korea's leaders are comedy punching bags in the US. See: Every late night show monologue ever, Team America: World Police.
This exploit is mitigated by the fact that the keyboard/mouse normally only have user permission (not admin)
I would love to be able to pop open a web page, login, and click off some great clothes at consistently great prices and never a mention of "sale", "discount", "promotion", "free", or "almost out of stock" and just be done.

For kids in particular who are outgrowing their entire wardrobe every 6-12 months, streamlining the process would be incredibly useful.

But I think you need one more thing -- you need branded product lines which set expectations on the product and consistently back them up. I think JCP, without the draw of a big sale, didn't have enough draw left over. No one showed up to ever see all those consistently great prices.
No, you misunderstand. Obviously, he didn't intend for the Sony hack to happen. My contention is that, after the hack happened, he got quickly to work on figuring out how to use it best to bolster his reputation.

I agree with the above poster (I too was interested to see your thoughts), but this is really weak. Between believing that 1.) Evan Spiegal is a sociopath who drafted not only a grammatically correct email from Mitch Lasky but also a grammatically incorrect email from himself in a fake convo, and took advantage of his connection with the Sony CEO to "leak" this report vs. 2.) This was just business as usual and the result of an already very public Sony hack, I'd choose the one that didn't take me 90+ words to explain.

I'm going to call Occam's Razor here. Other than that the rest of your post has little to do with the content of the email. If Einstein had presented the theory general relativity to me, I'd be rightly less concerned with the fact he could use a semicolon.
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They could have massively funded a group of hackers in China to carry out the attack.
I don't trust this analysis. There's no clear mechanism for why forcing the CSS to the same domain would speed things up. Also, the comparison doesn't truly isolate the same-domain/different-domain decision as the cause of any slowdown. Perhaps, the test server is simply less-loaded/less-laggy/network-closer to his measurement browser... so it's the move fo the CSS to that server, not the unification of source domains, that causes the measured speedup. Or many other things.
Sorry, not a valid point. Both entities use the name "Sony" for a reason: the goodwill associated with it. They have to accept the bad press along with the good.
Hi fillokus,

The lycra we use can't be printed on. And that's a good thing!

A printable lycra is polyester based. Ours is nylon. The difference is the key to a lycra that feels luxurious to one that doesn't.

Some tech facts:

Graphics are printed onto stretch fabrics using a process called sublimation printing. The ink based graphics are printed onto a paper, from which they are heat pressed onto the fabric to allow the colors to adhere to the individual fibres within the fabric. This process is only possible with polyester based fabric. Nylon fabrics simply melt when subjected to heat from the sublimation printing process. However, we didn’t want to compromise on our design principle for The Bib and stuck with a nylon based fabric to achieve the superior comfort unattainable when using printable lycra.

Nylon too is a less complex molecule (without the dreaded Benzene ring that's in Polyester). This means that from a chemistry standpoint, its a less rigid polymer, achieving that soft and compliant feel.

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So, I'm relatively young; at 22, I've been old enough to halfway understand politics for at most a decade. Nevertheless, I did a double take at "more emphasized in the latter", and perhaps there is an advantage to looking at the short term. In that time span, in terms of big mainstream issues, on Democrats' side in favor of less government control of social norms (for its own sake rather than to effect another policy), we have:

- gay marriage legalization - not that the ideology has had much to do with the role of government, but treating would-be spouses equally gets the government out of the picture

- abortion - quite explicitly with "women's bodies" rhetoric

- stem cell research

- marijuana legalization

- immigration, sort of, in the sense that acceptance of illegal immigrants is a social issue in addition to an issue of laws

- euthanasia (not a big issue)

On the Republicans' side we have:

- opposition to affirmative action

- opposition to education centralization - but No Child Left Behind was signed by Bush

- gun rights - gun violence, obviously, directly hurts other people, in contrast to most of the issues on the other side, but the proper role of guns also a social issue

Maybe I just have a bad memory, but the first list has a lot more in the way of hot-button and clear-cut issues than the second.
"In Detroit, officials say that their busts have helped raise the street price of a kilogram of cocaine to roughly $43,000 from about $30,000."

As another user pointed out, what's the end goal here? Why is that a good thing? I don't know. I definitely think hurting the pockets of the poor-er drug addicts is a bit... pointless as you said.

Imagine how much money was spent on this entire operation... it must be a bloody lot, and from what we can see, not a lot of gain either. As a guess, maybe they got some better intelligence, new informants.. which they can use to further their "war on drugs".

In reality, "took down * drug runners who spent * years evading us and supplying * with amount of drugs over * years" looks really good on someone's CV than "Did an undercover bust and put a drug dealer in jail". All comes down to politics in the end doesn't it?
Please introduce him to us at CloudHelix (avi @)... Always looking to meet wizards as long as they are of reasonable ego:clue ratio :)
Sony is Japanese.
It's not an empty threat. They completely compromised Sony's servers. Who knows what they haven't leaked yet, or what they are capable of.

The movie theaters decided to not show the movie because they couldn't implement a nationwide security system in every one of their theaters in 2 weeks. Since there is 0 security at movie theaters, I as a moviegoer would be extremely scared to go to watch this movie in it's opening week.
Will the hackers bring down the torrent network if the movie is shared by torrents.
I wonder if Sony has an insurance policy that pays if a movie can't be released? I can imagine such a thing would exist to protect them in the event of a copyright problem with the story or script. I see lots of movie industry insurance, but it appears to be geared toward filming accidents, so this may not exist.
Wow, is this site an actual business or some kind of parody?
To a lesser degree, Comedy Central did too, when they refused to fully air the South Park episode featuring, apparently, Mohammed hidden inside a bear costume.
I am a recent convert to C++ for the same reason (though not from Pascal but other high level languages like Prolog). I wrote my own Prolog interpreter with minimal footprint so I can still get an interactive prompt with a high level interface if I want to, but it is designed to be easy to expose C++ instead of the other way around.
Is that really true about Honeywell? Last I checked, Honeywell was a Fortune 100 with a $70B+ market cap. Nest's 3B acquisition is really nothing compared to that...
Would it be easy to replicate that, though? I share your skepticism.
hi shiftpgdn,

We chose .cc because its synonymous with "cycling club". Its also quickly becoming a common web domain for cycling clothing brands.

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Our niche is - Long Distance BibShorts. When you come to us, we want you to come with the confidence that you will absolutely find a great BibShort.
> Unemployment wasn't that low before the minimum wage was established. What was the primary source of unemployment then?

The poor state of travel and communication at the time. You couldn't exactly hitchhike to the nearest city with a public library and find work via the internet in 1938.
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The biggest issue to be addressed is the last one, how do you change the legal liability. If I have a shop, that is receiving public threats, I choose to remain open, you choose to visit even after hearing the threats. Something happens to you, I'm not liable, you chose to visit. Forgive me, but I think about the abortion clinics, the people working and volunteering go even in the face of threats, even though people get shot by doing what they believe in. The clinics aren't held liable for the attacks. The theaters should not be held liable.

How should that work, how can we change it?
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I would actually like a site that's identical to HN, except that comments lacking proper capitalization are auto-killed.
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"operates within the laws of their country" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

Doesn't excuse others illegal activities, but it certianly makes it easier to feel a certian level of schadenfreude in this case.
I don't think you got the "important to you personally" part of my post. Thanks for your condesending tone as well.
While EEG neurofeedback doesn't always work ,isn't it safer than tDCS , and if it works it's more targeted ?

And clearly you're an exception. And i'm not talking about buying - just general awareness about that tech and it's possibilities(which might be tied to more investment and faster development of the tech).
I think that Sony is actually endangering our national security with this move

Oh FFS, that's just as stupid as calling it an act of war.
Yes, and? That says nothing about the general case, which is that crude humour is often hated by critics.
LVM3 experimental mission was a success! The launch vehicle performed flawlessly, and the crew module payload re-entered atmosphere and splashed down in Indian ocean.

LVM3 (also called as GSLV Mk3) is the next-generation heavy lift launch vehicle developed by Indian space agency ISRO. It's a three stage vehicle - 2x solid boosters in first stage, dual-engine liquid motor in second stage and a cryogenic upper stage[1].

Today's flight was an experimental sub-orbital mission (LVM3-X) to quality its atmospheric flight regime. LVM3-X didn't had the upper cryogenic stage.

LVM3-X also carried a Crew Module[2] weighing 3.7 ton as its payload. ISRO tested crew module atmoshperic re-entry, guidance systems, parachutes and splashdown in this mission.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_Satellite_Launch...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISRO_Orbital_Vehicle

LVM3-X info: http://isro.org/gslv-mkiii-x/gslv-mk-iii-x.aspx

Crew Module info: http://isro.org/gslv-mkiii-x/care.aspx

LVM3-X mission page: http://isro.org/gslv-mkiii-x/mission.aspx
Yeah. That guy was being rather offensive in the way he tried to communicate his thoughts but there definitely is some racial and gender discrimination that comes into play. I was not expecting this very old, ill-health man to get much prison time as that would be rather inhumane, given his dementia.

I was preparing myself for no prison sentence. In New Zealand, he'd probably go to prison for a month or so and then be let out on close supervision, or a house on prison grounds). At that age, and with those medical problems, I do not think he will be living for much longer -- which is sad. I'm not empathising with what he did, but rather, as a human being.

Prison is to... stop criminals being criminals, right? I know here, Prison is about rehabilitation however, I think we can all safely know that if this old man went home on home detention, he'd pose no risk to society. It's not like he'd be able to get back into his old "job". (but this poses an interesting question: would he be harmed by someone in the cartel if they could reach him at home? -- but I'm sure they can reach him in prison too).
> Test and measure. If you can't measure the difference, it doesn't matter. If you don't measure the difference, the rule you are following probably isn't helping you.

/Yes/.
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I place a lot of value on Spiegel's view of the market. As the CEO of one of the "hottest" startups in the past couple of years, I think he has access to a lot of people and information that most of us don't. I'm a believer in semi-strong market efficiency to be sure.

If he is turning down valuation money, he is also explicitly acknowledging that the fundamentals of the company simply don't justify the leverage of taking on additional investments.

He uses startup era Facebook to inform many of his decisions. Monetization is where Snapchat is finally breaking from Facebook's precedent, allowing the user to opt into ads disguised as high-quality content, and adding a money-sending service by partnering with square. Personally, I find this strategy a lot more effective than Facebook's attempts: jamming ads down users' throats, auto-play videos, breaking messenger off of the main Facebook app, selling robot clicks and false engagement, etc.

Should be interesting to see how Spiegel is planning to ride out the readjustment that he is predicting.
> Heavy NFS load (ZFS NFS, not linux kernel NFS) caused a kernel panic, pretty reproducibly.

"ZFS NFS" is "linux kernel NFS". Setting "sharenfs" options on ZFS on Linux dataset simply informs the normal kernel NFS service of those exports.
I don't want 3, because I don't want tag bits or space wastage, but also because I don't want to have to link a bigint library.
There's a Wikidata UI Redesign in development [1] which should improve the default site's visual appeal.

That said, while the San Francisco Wikidata page may currently be uglier than its Freebase counterpart, it is not slower. webpagetest.org has the Wikidata page fully loaded at 8.8 s and the Freebase page 11.2 s [2, 3]. And while Reasonator is certainly dog slow (21.2 s to fully load! [4]), its San Francisco page is much more polished than the Freebase's.

[1] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input

[2] http://www.webpagetest.org/result/141218_DR_9W4/

[3] http://www.webpagetest.org/result/141218_ZA_9WF/

[4] http://www.webpagetest.org/result/141218_6N_9WK/
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That was a decade ago, they paid out several million to settle the matter, and the actual impact of it was virtually nil. The endless harping on this transgression has reached the point of being posturing rather than substantive criticism.