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Sounds like you want Debian or Debian-based distribution. I recommend you'd try vanilla Debian first because it gives you only what you want when you want it. No extra BS.

If you did like older OS X (10.6) you'd probably want to at least try Elementary OS which is essentially a Ubuntu on steroids and without the Canonical's BS trying to attain the polish of OS X. I would stay away from Mint as much as possible because it's not well optimised distribution in my opinion.

Even if you choose Ubuntu, you can always replace the complete desktop with something else. For example you can have Ubuntu without Unity. In fact many people do run Ubuntu with Gnome 3, KDE 4, Enlightenment e17, XFCE, CDE, or something else.

If Linux isn't your thing you probably might want to also check out what FreeBSD (or PC-BSD) camp has to offer. It might be little bit more familiar for you. And if you really want, you could run Darwin with XNU kernel and have a free and open source system which is made out of the same blocks that form the core of the OS X.

iTerm is pretty handy on OS X. There are lots of terminal applications out there for GNU/Linux. E.g. Gnome Terminal is pretty damn good and does wrap the text. But that doesn't mean it's the only one out there.

As for Alfred... there are several different similar "Quicksilver" replacements. I'd suggest that you check Gnome-Do. But again it's not the only one out there. You might also find it funny and useful to use something like Guake Terminal which is Quake's console stylish terminal that you can access by pressing tilde.

I'm giving you Gnome programs but KDE has its own completely equivalent programs too.

If you're new to GNU/Linux you probably want to start with KDE or XFCE. (Disclaimer: I'm using XFCE because it's flexible and small.) You probably might find the kind of polish OS X offers in Gnome 3 but it requires quite a bit of tuning to "feel good" as a DE.
The web is a great distribution platform for one subset of applications (news, email, social, etc.) and a bad distribution platform for basically all others. Pixlr is a great example; GIMP will do everything Pixlr does, faster, and without a network connection (yeah load time is bad, but that's a GIMP-specific problem). GIMP doesn't have to pay any money, other than hosting (which an asm.js application also would have to pay) to distribute their app. I can use GIMP without downloading it every time. I can also continue to use GIMP if/when its developers decide to give up. When Pixlr's developers give up, it's gone for good.

I also think pouring millions of man hours into a transpiler and JavaScript engine optimizations is probably the least efficient and most convoluted way to take advantage of the web as a distribution platform. I think the way this should all be framed is, "it would be better if browsers supported a lower-level bytecode, or more languages, or both, but that's politically impossible to achieve, so we have asm.js". That's the only thing that makes sense to me here.
I'm impressed, thank you for taking time to answer in such a thoughtful manner! Those questions have been very useful to me, as I've discovered many unknown unknowns and things I had yet to be clear about.

1) I've no clue about the correct percentages but, for now, I'm going to prioritize the safest choices. I know about the ETFs, but I'm a little puzzled by all the acronyms and variants: is there any One Sacred Book for the bare basics and jargon?

2) I can watch it on a daily basis, for up to 1 hour distributed throughout the day.

3) I'm new to this world, so I have no favorite source. seeking alpha seems a good suggestion, the best I've found so far. I fully agree with you on twitter.

4) I know the meaning of the individual numbers, yet I feel overwhelmed when it comes to connect the dots and decide. What data or pattern do you look for when trading?

5) I would have very little to invest at first, the equivalent of 1000$. Given enough money, I would opt for a diversified portfolio. Is it foolish to start with such a small amount?

6) I guess I'll have to try both methods and find the right mix.

7) Basically any event that 1 sets my target apart from the competition and anything that screams 2 "I'm going to be here X0 years from now!". It could be an acquisition, changes in the Law, new production and/or distribution processes. To put in a cheesy way, it's like looking for the one butterfly that will cause the tornado.

8) Diversification. However, I don't know much outside of tech or what happens in YCombinator. I mainly follow TechCrunch et similia.

9) I've yet to think about it, but I'll keep in mind all the great advice you wrote.

Yesterday I discovered Investopedia. The tutorials and stock simulation make it an incredible website for beginners like me. I'm going to study and practice until I get enough confidence and save $1000~2000 to trade with.
Thanks, I've really enjoyed the read! I even printed it.
Anybody can file any kind of lawsuit. If you can't demonstrate harm to the person filing (with a few exceptions) that lawsuit will be tossed right out, though.
Any reasons to prefer Solr over elastic-search?
A very interesting paper indeed! Thank you for replying. I'm going to practice with Investopedia stock simulator, but swing trading doesn't seem to align well with my time and stress commitments.
Thank you for describing such a clear learning path!
Wow.

There is no minimum spend to use AWS IAM. $1k a month over there goes a bit further, too.
Solr is not a web-based application. You shouldn't directly expose your Solr instance to anyone. Regardless of whether or not you secure your admin interface. That's not Solr's core business, and I don't see why they should was their efforts on it.

Have Solr listen on localhost and have your web app talk to Solr. If your Solr is visible to the world, you're doing it wrong.

Edit: by saying that it's not a web-based application I mean that it shouldn't be on teh interwebz -- it's obviously a webapp in the sense that it mostly speaks HTTP.
Why did he expect to find the password in the clear in the memory dump? He indeed found it there, but why would one expect to?
A more "lo-fi" attack vector: Many verify the user (for both free and premium) by last name and room number. Make a dictionary of a few common surnames and it's pretty easy to brute force combinations.
That's because you find them obscure. If your community used them more frequently you would just read them in place, like people do with IANAL, LGTM, AFAIK, etc.

Incidentally, I didn't understand this one, but I don't blame OP (oops, I mean 'original poster') for misunderstanding the linguistic norms of HN (hacker news).
...for users¹

¹ ...of our targeted advertising platform
New abstractions are generally better introduced to new audiences via concrete examples that can later be generalized rather than formal abstractions that float high above our heads.

The GP's explanation of the concrete features (with simple examples!) is one of the most useful explanations of monads I've seen. It isn't complete, but as a gateway to a complete explanation it is extremely good.
No. But it sounds like it's a good place to not work; who knows how many other unreasonable things go on.
0_0 Uhhh...no. No, it is not.
The problem with the statement is that Lenovo owners need to be aware of the news to find it.

I'm on Lenovo's mailing list and haven't seen a similar statement in my inbox with remedial instructions.

I was only half-lucky with Superfish. I bought my Y50 before Xmas and removed Superfish and all other non-essential software but didn't know about the certificate, which I deleted today.

Sadly, I don't think the typical non-technical Lenovo user is even going to find out about this or know how to fix it.
You can still use iPhones with car's built in systems so it's not really Apple only.

If you mean accessories like wireless keyboards I think the same 'just works' arguments directly apply. There are lot's of terrable 3rd party products out there.
Accidental CSS Resets
Germinal (minimalist terminal) 9 released
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What Is Isomorphic JavaScript and When Should It Be Used?
In the past, Twitter did provide RSS feeds of your status updates.
This is one of the most honest and genuine observations I've ever heard; an observation that one can likely only fully appreciate in the face of mortality.

Beautiful, indeed.
> We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns.

I work at a large Telco/ISP and I understand how this kind of thing happens (though I'm not excusing it).

First they come to the tech people and we explain exactly what's going on. Our managers translate it so they can understand it, and push it up with their name on it. Those Directors translate it so they can understand it and push it up with their name on it. The VPs dumb it down a bit, put their name on it and push it sideways to communications, where it goes all the way back "down" the organizational structure until someone actually makes the press release. By that time sometimes the release isn't even about the same original thing anymore.

Our company puts out press releases all the time and us tech people just shake our heads at how inaccurate and plain wrong they are.

EDIT: As Kurtz79 points out, I forgot the step where it gets translated through Legal/PR before it goes down to communications.
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I wonder how much of that we owe to the fact that people were finding ways around region locking, and that DVDs were also used for software distributions.
I feel like many marketing professionals have deluded themselves into either thinking this is true or redefining enough words in their vocabulary that it becomes true. eg, If these ads result in people buying something, then that "proves" they were "useful" and thereby provided a "good experience" to the user.
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It's usually safest to go with the unambiguous and uncontentious "datums".
> Can you ever imagine Apple pulling a stunt like this? No

Why would you jump to that conclusion? Apple is just a company... and through the right view-port, even something like this can appear to be "consumer oriented" to management ("we're helping customers locate products and services easier").

Recently Canonical thought it was a great idea to bake-in Amazon ads into their search lens... so ads and product placement tagged with their affiliate link were baked into your OS.

No company is immune to doing stupid things, even Apple.
Some folks in the Fluentd community uses Graylog2+Fluentd as an alternative to EFK (Elasticsearch Fluentd Kibana) See http://www.fluentd.org/guides/recipes/graylog2
Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans
Interesting take and I have to say I agree with it. Microsoft recent (1-2 years) moves have been pretty exciting and are coming to fruition. Google hasn't excited me in a while and the last few times they have the results have been less that stellar (Glass, Google Plus, Wear). It's great to see MS buy startups and keep them alive. Much more interesting to me than Google's purchase and kill strategy. e.g. MS bought Acompli, rebranded, and have a great mobile email solution. Google bought Sparrow (at the time the best mobile and desktop Gmail solution), killed it and didn't come out with anything better.
> We are getting off-topic here. If you have questions pertaining to the differences between adware, spyware, potentially unwanted applications, and viruses please post on the Security & Malware Forum. We'll be glad to clear up any misunderstanding.

Ugh. Patronising, misleading and evading the point all in one answer. This was a horrible thread to read.
You just can't prove that... Maybe because is by far not true.

For example, you can create an app that only uses LAME + VideoLAN encoders and supports two of their formats, MP3 and MPEG4 nothing else, cause you're sure those work on the hardware you're building, that's exactly what Apple does, and Ubuntu, and Windows.

Just use your LOGIC how the hell is an open protocol the reason why stuff breaks? If everyone is looking at it and it goes through a lot more review than closed standards, they're the reason why we have the internet and how it works.

Contrary to what you believe on, Apple actually uses tons of open protocols and standards, they made Webkit what it is, that's free and open source, they still work on it as far as I know, they have their fair share of closed ones too, but open has worked for them pretty well.
I was also quoted the $1000/month price, and followed up with this same question. I was told it was separate from (in addition to) all other service pricing.
I tried Inbox, really tried to love it, eventually switched back. It's something about how it sorts or arranges your mail in non-chronological order that really messes with my way of finding things. Also only being able to see 7 emails on the screen is a huge issue - if I get 20+ emails, I'm not able to glance through all of them to get a sense of how much work I have to do that day. The end result is that I felt very uncomfortable and insecure using it, even though my brain told me that I loved it (because of the nice fast UI).
Domain names and politics: Why Chrysler might have to let .ram go
Eh honestly Mailbox by Dropbox does a better job. There are no silly bundles that Mailbox forces you into, better snoozes, as well as just a better mobile app.

Plus, there's the huge risk that Google will kill this off in a year or so. Based on that history alone, all users should be reluctant to get on board with it.
Here! My first OS X app, and I'm no developer, so probably poorly written. https://github.com/SidLeeParis/UndoLogger
People are having lots of success with https://github.com/mongofill/mongofill-hhvm
In a way I'd argue that Google suffers from the same real underlying issue that started to cause Microsoft to fall: complacency. They see themselves as a king of the world that can't be beaten. And in a way they aren't strictly wrong right now. So many people will still jump up and defend and support everything Google for no reason other then "because Google!". But that's also starting to change. In my opinion the best thing that could happen to Google right now would be for them to take a market share hit.
Honestly, I wish there was a way to comment on their stupid statement. These bullsh*t companies need to realize that users don't want the stupid bloatware in the first place. I paid you a TON of money for this computer the least you can do is give it to me in its best condition.

You wouldn't buy a car that came painted with advertisements on the side!
Cut the Bullshit Lenovo! Stop Lying to Us!

> We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns.

A bald-faced lie!

> our goal was to enhance the experience for users

A bald-faced lie! Adding ads to a page cannot enhance user experience!

I'm on, I think, my 4th ThinkPad. A loyal customer.

Stop treating us like shit! This is completely unacceptable.

Issue a real apology and start firing people, or shut the fuck up.
Intent to cause harm?

By checking all the locks, and not just a handful of them?

I don't think it's enough to show he was thorough to establish there is actual mens rea for a crime to have been committed.

I bet that site had at least 44 separate form inputs. No sense checking just a handful of them. None of the third-party certifications you suggest looking for to assess a vendor's worthiness are even roughly analogous to a bank with, for example, FDIC insurance.

If I have never undergone the certification processes myself (or perhaps even if I have, more so) they are the information-security equivalent of "tiger repellent" to me. I can only take the word of "experts" that they are good.

If I can't tug on all the exposed levers, then I guess at least I can be assured only people who are paid to do that (or people who are breaking the law) have actually tugged on them.

Can you understand how this kind of assurance would not reasonably instill any confidence of a system's security? The law does not forbid one from looking over one's own shoulder, so why should it be any more criminal to do that at every single corner you passed, even in an airport?

There is a reason info-sec experts are sometimes seen as paranoid, it's because you don't know if you don't check.
At a guess, it's patented?
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I have an hp elitebook, works great with ubuntu
Microsoft seems to have a vice like grip over OEM's regarding preloading windows on every product they sell without exception, IMHO this is a terrible thing, but can't they do at least a little good and prevent OEM's from shipping anything other than a pristine image with no preloaded software?

Surely the endless bundled crapware from every OEM just gives Windows a bad reputation in the long term. The popularity of chromebooks now are a testament to that.
I was thinking more something like an amber icon instead of green, which shows this connection is somewhat secure but there are problems detected.
I seriously consider stopping buying Lenovo laptops for the company I work with, I simply cannot go through the trouble of removing all of Lenovo pre-loaded crap each time I replace or buy a new machines.

I used to recommend Lenovo as a good laptop for work, with great quality hardware for the price but since a couple years my vision is shifting towards "Lenovo isn't what it used to be, I think we should stop ordering from them..." I had a lot of problems with defective hardware lately even on Thinkpad...

This news just adds to the pile of deception I had with Lenovo lately.
I hear it all too much! Serious BS!
No clue, never purchased one.
I've had track points on hp and dell laptops (I always disable them)
If I base myself on that statement to decide that there's no need to remove the software, then get my bank account emptied, won't that backfire pretty hard on them?
Of course not, but with at-will employment you can be fired for any reason or no reason at all [1]. Including, yes, the way you talk.

[1] Except for a small list of specific protected reasons, of course, but good luck proving you actually were fired for one of those reasons. If the boss has an ounce of sense then they won't give a reason at all, which is 100% legal.
You know the saying, "If you can't join us, we'll beat you."
That is normal protocol for any new PC I buy. The crapware that PC manufacturers don't even bother trying to hide like antivirus, photo management, browser helpers etc... always warrants an OS wipe after unboxing.

If my next laptop isn't from Apple it will be one I can buy from Microsoft directly where they don't install any of that garbage.
I expected that quote, but this one is even more off the rocker:

"The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users."

Right.
>Superfish was previously included on some consumer notebook products shipped in a short window between September and December to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping.

It's not adware, it's a feature!
Frankly I find the suggestion that I manually give every single file on my computer an inconspicuous name even more ridiculous than a document of nuclear launch codes.

Metadata is data too. It should be protected.
I don't use snooze, or reminder. This is why I never use Inbox, there's way too many action possible on 1 mail. The done, later, pin of Inbox is perfect for quick management.
There are some interesting corollaries that make this interesting from an InfoSec perspective.

Heart of the matter is that most consumers - whether personal or business users will have little to no visibility into this. And, even a smaller fraction will have the technical chops to remove this garbage unless there's a tool that's openly presented to them.

Since there are a ton of small businesses that purchase and consume laptops just as the come out of the box, I'm really interested in the industrial espionage potential with this.

Couple in all the PRISMish like revelations over the last year and a half, and I simply have trouble putting much faith in their, "oh, it's just to show better ads, sorry..." statement.
And my Gmail experience improved substantially with the introduction of tabs (Primary, Social, Updates..) so I did the same as you.
"In front of clients" is neither the time nor the place to interrupt someone about their pronunciation. If I saw that and I worked there, I'd already be sending out job applications.
What's weird is that if you try to create a label called "Important" in Inbox, it will say it already exists. Yet it doesn't show that label as an option when creating bundles. It's like they went out of their way to prevent you from doing exactly what you're suggesting.
It doesn't always go bad. I worked for the Secret Service for two years as a CI. At the end they screwed me out of a few hundred dollars but I also didn't have to serve the eight years in prison I was facing. They never asked me to rat on someone, I built up new online identities and trained them.
It's clearly an adware with backdoor to espionage on user. In many countries creating and distributing that kind of adware is classified as crime. What a nonsense they are talking.
While I may have disagreed with you, I felt your original position was a reasonable one. Now you're attacking the straw man of someone being brought up on charges for an apostrophe in a form field. When that happens I'll gladly join you in declaring the ludicrousness of those charges.
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So because a few people decide to cheat at a game they paid for, everyone who paid full price for the game is forced to install spyware which can and does modify files on your pc, take screenshots as you play the game, monitor your mouse inputs, keyboard, etc...?
> supermarket special offers

Why would you not want to sign up to know about what discounts are available at your local grocery store, especially if you frequent it weekly.
He is an illustrious MD with connections to the best medical schools around. You can assume he has excellent doctors and excellent medical advice.
Sorry you had to click an extra time.
I like inbox, on my phone. However, on a PC, I like the ability to use gmail's keyboard shortcuts etc. Inbox seems poorly designed for use as a desktop interface
Solr is backed by the Apache community while ES is backed by a private entity. Is that a good reason?
To be honest, it seems something coming out of PR/Lawyer guys rather than actual engineers.

I mean, the statement is pretty clear and leaves little room for doubt, it would take a lot of simplification and misunderstanding to twist a proper technical analysis (provided it has been done, or even asked) to this level.
That's only one of the definitions in Webster. It also includes:

> 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto

(Note: I'm not calling the article's author racist, just noting that the above claim about Webster is factually mistaken.)
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I've been hoping for years people would wake up to the risks of these things.

I presented on the topic at Blackhat Europe a few years back, where I disclosed several certificate validation flaws in Cisco Ironport. I understand there's legitimate reasons for enterprises to want to decrypt and inspect TLS connections, but it's not without it's risks and downsides.

If you're curious about my past work, see:
http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/threats...
http://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Jarmoc/bh-eu-12-Jarmoc-SS...
> IN YEARS to come we will look back at hotels that charged for Wi-Fi with a kind of incredulous nostalgia. But how far in the future will that be?

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I'm feeling a bit of a knotted irony here.