skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post is off topic and misses the point entirely which is why you are being down voted. Routing all http traffic to China and back would certainly introduce noticeable delay in page load times.
by the time you're physically close to it, it's too late.
Speaking of Lenovo being full of shit, there's also this gem:

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

Right. You loaded adware onto users' computers, not for financial gain, but to enhance the experience for them.
Didn't they come that way? It's not like they secretly snuck into your house and changed your computer. They sold something broken. It's the difference between going to your house and breaking the latch on your window, vs selling you a window that won't latch.
Some banks do have custom security envelopes with their company's name on the inside, although they'd also be easy to fake.
and the police who arranged the sting, mishandled the situation, resulting in her kidnapping and eventual murder?

I will hazard a guess, not guilty on all charges. She was a druggy after all and got everything she deserved.

That is some serious messed up state of affairs that allowed this to happen.
Or simply wipe the HDD and reinstall OS.
Hypochondria isn’t what people think it is. The US medical system makes it worse
So you are against other people having freedoms because they might do something bad? Isn't that the definition of FUD?
But it works the other way around: it will not be standardized before there's an implementation. If it ever happens (which I think is unlikely), the standardization will follow the shim.

And the knee jerk reactions are meaningless. The people who ship stuff don't seem to mind, and they are the ones who make things matter.
Well I'm glad that you seem totally qualified to be our great arbiter of racism. What would we do without you?
I don't understand your not understanding. Could you explain? I don't see a desire to preserve the value of one's own property, or certain qualities of the environment in which one lives, as difficult to understand, if that's what you mean.
They are choosing whether or not to reveal evidence at a potential trial. With cooperation, they do not reveal damaging evidence at trial. Without cooperation, they reveal everything. This is exactly how blackmail works in a lot of mafia movies.
Scorched Earth, 2200AD
This is really cool. I hope it'll move forward!

I'm also very excited about the IHaskel kernel mentioned, though it is very difficult to install currentlyb(I've failed on 2systems so far)
Should there be some form in intention, I wonder?
So true, that's amazingly cheap!

Still, you need tools and a real strategy for your backups in the Cloud: S3 and IAM will help as well!
http://cloudacademy.com/blog/amazon-s3-vs-amazon-glacier-a-s...
They may not own the content, but they do own the traffic and (I think) your reader list.
You are creating a straw man argument here.
For a terminal on Linux: use terminator..

http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.at/p/introduction.html

Alfred: use Kupfer on Linux.

Linux Mint: gets my vote! Also consider one of the non-Unity versions of Ubuntu.. I love my UbuntuStudio rig.
I'm not running a 4K display on my laptop but a QHD+ HiDPI display (with a resolution of 3200x1800).

I've settled on Debian Jessie(testing) with the Cinnamon desktop environment and Opera Beta as my web-browser, it all works perfectly and the clarity is wonderful and couldn't imagine ever using a non-HiDPI screen again.
Postico – A modern PostgreSQL client for OS X
Does the term "economies of scale" mean anything to you?
Show HN: Vulnia – Security email alerts about technologies you use daily
It's perplexing you still need to put a couple of days work into setting a up a computer. In the 90s it was all about getting all the peripherals to work. Now it's all about removing the bloatwear, data leaks, and security holes.

On a PC I do a Linux install and go through some extra settings.

On Android I install CyanogenMod with an IPtables firewall. The number of apps that try to raid your address book on Android is mind-boggling. When you set Privacy guard to "ask" instead of "deny" you will have so many popups that the phone is bogged down for a couple of minutes after startup.
> When Twitter was gathering steam back in 2009-10, it did so because tweeting was done via SMS and not over a proprietary interface.

I don't believe this for a second. In 2009-2010, there were already a huge number of smartphones and Twitter clients out there. In fact, that time was probably better for third-party Twitter clients than today. Smartphone growth exploded in 2009-2010, so the idea that "everyone was getting a featurephone" is complete bullshit.

Has anybody here ever even used Twitter via SMS? Desktop and mobile apps made Twitter. SMS was a niche thing at the very beginning.

I wouldn't even bother raising the issue if he weren't trying to premise his bigger point on it.

So that gets to his bigger point, which I'm not so sure about. Yeah, I can reply to Jira tickets from my email. But it's a huge pain. The replies end up with a whole bunch of email crap jammed into them, and it makes it harder to follow conversations. I usually edit other people's email responses to remove that stuff. So yes, it can be done. And maybe it's just Jira, but in this case at least, it's a much degraded experience.
It's pretty similar to what Comcast are doing by injecting ads into the web pages you visit.

Perhaps the real problem is that tech companies hire too many product/marketing managers, resulting in them having to cook up ridiculous money-making schemes in order to justify their own existence.
Is it really a choice though? I imagine most people would feel a fairly strong obligation to watch the video if they were told it was recorded as, say, a birthday present for them. The temptation would be very strong at least, and difficult for many to resist. I suppose after a few miserable experiences with it, some might be able to put the box of tapes away forever - but then they'd probably always carry some guilt.

I think it's better to do what one of my best friends (inadvertently) did when they died young - leave a good legacy of mementos for their loved ones. I, for my part, have a collection of musical recordings we made together that I can pull out when I feel like it. It's incredibly emotionally difficult to listen to (especially the parts where the tape was running between songs) but it helps at times. His girlfriend of the time has a lot of his writings/journals she can read to remember his thoughts on life or incidents that happened.

If you know ahead of time, record some memoirs and thoughts. Perhaps build something for them. Give a general message to your loved ones that you had a happy life, etc - whatever seems suitable for the situation and people involved.

...but the idea of recording "A message for my daughter on her 6th birthday from beyond the grave" is incredibly macabre to me and I personally would not want that.

There's much risk involved as well for the tiny little "cuteness" of the fact that the videos were recorded for specific life events. I for one wouldn't want to listen to a deceased parent go on about how proud they were I found a husband on my wedding day to my new wife for example. Or have to spend my whole life staring at a tape marked "for your wedding" and never watching it.
Great. More 'X is the new Y' articles. I wonder if there's a list of cliches somewhere that get repeated by tech journalists every so often.
A man who was mugged and beaten started to see the world in a different way
Haskell can be very handy for solving real world problems as well.
What about the hardware level, which you cannot easily cleanup without knowing the full details of. If they're willing to try another route.
Just to be clear, this is Apple, the company famous for putting user experience ahead of everything else (and often criticized by developers for putting user experience ahead of developer experience). Apple, the company that routinely tops customer satisfaction surveys. Apple, the company that has gone on the record time and time again about how user-focused they are.

There are plenty of valid things to criticize Apple for, but accusing them of sneaking malware onto their devices is not one of them.
>It had a different UI.

That's your answer. Users hate drastic UI changes, especially ones that optimized for a specific experience (touchscreen) different from what they're using it for.

W8 is a beast of a performer, but the Metro UI killed it for many users.
I like your style better, but your function doesn't return 0 || 1 (yours returns true || false).

I also wouldn't read too much into it. It's unlikely that the same person wrote all the code involved, and many smart people I know write these kinds of functions, no matter how much I complain about it.
Typing this while scarfing down a burrito....

For example "hey, do you know what kind of animal that foot on the front steps is from? There's a blood trail behind it but the cats aren't very interested."
> That depends on <X>. I can't answer that question unless you tell me what <X> is.

Isn't that kind of the problem? I have no idea why it's a good abstraction for anything or what sorts of things it's a good abstraction for. Is it a good abstraction for adding numbers together? God knows, nobody can explain it.

> Why would a special-purpose abstraction be easier to use?

Because it says what it does on the tin, rather than being buried under several abstraction layers. My for loop is a lot more obvious than your "lifting functions into the list monad" or whatever it is you do with them, and is quite obviously doing an entirely different thing from, say, dealing with the contents of a Maybe, or storing state, or executing IO operations.

We can play with abstractions upon abstractions all day, but unless they actually mean something solid, how are they useful in explaining or solving a problem?
I was just doing this [0], but with boxes instead of provision scripts. I was going the script way but it bit me when I was without internet for a while. Arguably your approach is better because people can see exactly what packages you are installing.

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/breb/vagrant-boxes
Show HN: OpenBKZ an Open Source Ebook Reader That Tracks Your Reading Habits
And that's why we have DAs, grand juries, judges, and juries. If someone gets brought up on charges for literally putting an apostrophe in a form field on a website the system has failed because there's no clear intent to perform an attack of any kind in that case. When that happens, let's talk.
"No, a windows user would have to buy a second copy of windows from microsoft"

Or procure a legit, OEM install disk/image and reload using the key affixed to the bottom* of the laptop.

*Pre-8 days, now you get to "hope" the gUEFI recognizes the media and auto-populates the embedded key for you. When(not 'if' in my experience) it doesn't, then "buy more" is the only option outside of Linux.
If they make their money off of people legitimately interested, I wonder if there could be a way to convince the spammers that we're really not, so they can stop wasting their paper and bandwidth.
Stack Overflow (and its offshoots) was (is?) very MS-centric, but it's clearly in the minority.
I'd suggest reading this article in full. I almost stopped when I read "big data" but it was a worthwhile article with some interesting thoughts on one potential future.

I agree that UUVs could play a big part in underwater warfare/intelligence gathering 10-20 years from now.
The absolute best part?

"Superfish will be removed from Program Files and Program Data directories, files in user directory will stay intact for the privacy reason. Registry entry and root certificate will remain as well. The Superfish service will stop working as soon as it is uninstalled via above process, and following reboot."

Per Lenovo's removal instructions [1], the compromised root certificate will still be installed and trusted. This is completely laughable.

[1] http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Removal-...
Yeah, I saw a slightly different take saying that in the battle between stealth and detection, physics gives the advantage to the detection side. I have no idea what the justification was or even if it's remotely true, but it seemed like a plausible idea.
> Nobody builds the next facebook or twitter using MS tools and Windows

Well, then again: http://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/11/22/what-it-takes-to-run-s...
And how do you decide what N is?
Wow, how is this even legal to advertise?

"... allows you to get/modify/inject all SSL traffic decrypted and without any warning messages to the user."
Clickbait is the new journalism
The latest version of Gnome, 1.4, detects high res displays out of the box and scales everything automatically (except for applications that don't use GTK3, like Chrome, but Firefox with the Gnome theme scales well).
Lenovo was discounting 30-40% around Black Friday. For weeks! The simple truth is that crapware pays for cheap PCs, and the economics don't work otherwise.
Be very careful accusing people of racism. When you get it wrong, you undermine complaints about real racism.
What area of SC? If it is the Charleston area there are quite a few good opportunities for junior programmer. If you are planning on looking in or around Charleston be sure to take a look at the Charleston Digital Corridor[1] for some good leads. Also, I would be happy to speak with you as I have worked as a programmer in Charleston for the last 2 years and I love it. Feel free to get in touch: hello [at] jakejohnson [dot] me

[1]http://www.charlestondigitalcorridor.com/
and who are we hiring to defend us from JPMorgan?
Wow...

Now Lenovo is "soon" going to explain how to remove this certificate after the "uninstall" in a buried forum post...

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Removal-...
Societies (of ten through their governments) restrict all sorts of behaviors that affect others in various ways. My neighbor (in a residentially zoned area) can't decide to open a gas station on their property. You can argue about various laws and rules at the margin but it takes a pretty anarchist perspective to argue that no such rules should exist.
I would say yes e.g. with CSS Regions and WebGL. The other way around you have to render the HTML and the video on textures.
RunAbove (OVH) offers $0.01/GB/month. It's Openstack so everything that works with Rackspace works fine.

https://www.runabove.com/storage/object-storage.xml
I remember a few years ago you could order a hollow sphere to be printed by SLS. At the time, the pricing mechanisms would just charge you by the volume of material you use. What wasn't considered was the trapped volume inside the sphere which would contain SLS powder worth much more than the cost quoted!
I agree Akka has way more mindshare than Retlang/Jetlang. DRW seem to be happy to throw it over the wall but not promote their stuff. I'm curious about the perf figures. Mike was reporting 2.3m msg/s in 2007 and it's seen a number of perf improvements since then (as has hardware :)). Admittedly, I'm sure it could be optimised further since it just uses classic locks.

And this is a single datapoint, I know, but it's _ridiculously_ stable in my experience.

Literally, I've been telling people to just use Retlang since 2007. So many people still just fire up the threads and locks...
Couldn't you extend this logic to complete anarchy?
So it's OK with you if your neighbor rents out his property to a sketchy couple that open a meth lab?
Are there any major projects built using mono?
The biggest complacency is in Google's search results, which are dated, scattershot, and the opposite of "The Old Google's" simplicity. Here's some of my thoughts: http://newslines.org/blog/googles-black-hole/ Moonshot projects are fine, if the core business is strong. When investors realize the core search business is brittle, Google will be in a lot of trouble.
Machine Learning: Throwing gimmicks out of Weight-loss
I like my ThinkPad, but between this and the fact that Dell is selling several Linux laptops, I think my next laptop will be a Dell.
I think Richard Feynman is a good counter-example to the "single function machines" hypothesis.
Yep. Bummer for him. Consider the fact that while Google makes this public, all this law is doing is ensuring that unseen data brokers sell the data privately, while you don't know what they know. :-)
I read a book about Fordlandia a while back. Absolutely fascinating look at applying manufacturing principals to agriculture/horticulture without domain knowledge.

Was hard not to think of Fordlandia when reading this... odd they don't mention it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

Here's the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Fordlandia-Henry-Fords-Forgotten-Jungl...
I'm not out of my depth, this is what I do for a living. Verifying that a site is using valid SSL is one of the myriad of tools at your disposal to make sure a site is taking reasonable safety precautions with your data. That, accompanied by a third party trusted certification that indicates some basic penetration testing has been performed is reasonable protection for almost any data you'd be putting on the internet.
It's a proxy, so every request and response is routed through it. Not just the ads. Every element of every page would have this delay added.
See my response below.
Two issues.

1. "HOAs exist for a reason." They exist under the pretense that they maintain or increase property values. There is no evidence that this is the case. I have spent well over 100 hours researching this, and was unable to find conclusive data to prove this (and used said data to help communities dissolve their HOAs).

2. Short term rental restrictions fall under city/local (and sometimes state) government ordinances, which are enacted to allow for reasonable housing costs for local citizens.

I'd highly recommend Portland's local government get in touch with the NY Attorney General's office to get their recommendations on how to persuade AirBNB to maintain compliance with their local laws.

[+] http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/Airbnb%20report.pdf
Or you could pay $7/month for office 365, get 1TB+, office and 60 skype minutes. You can even buy a $75 x86 tablet and get 1 year of free office 365 for a total cost of $6.25/month.
Compare Ruby Gem Build Statuses Across Different Rubies
It's hard to put a number on it. I can get the basic screen at a doctor in the US for $200.

Throw in some more specific stuff, it goes up to $1500 or so. I have a medical condition that requires a blood test every 4 months in that price range. Thankfully insurance covers it, but checking one box on the list of things to test increases the price 800% for reasons that I don't understand.
> I don't see why it 'exploits the common good' to want to charge or monetise a service you provide.

To charge your users, no, of course not.

To charge advertisers and make your users products instead of customers, that's where the problem is.

(And part of the problem is that users have become so conditioned to getting services like Twitter and Facebook and Google for free that the idea of having to pay for those services would shock them.)
> We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns.

Apparently a wildcard SSL certificate valid for every domain on the internet installed in a certificate store isn't a security concern.

Apparently said SSL certificate having a extractable private key installed within a user certificate store isn't a security concern

And apparently leaving said certificate behind in the certificate store even after uninstalling the crapware (according to a very reliable InfoSec Taylor Swift) isn't a security concern.

Wow? Wow.
I totally detest such language.
>What I see is a company willing to listen and admit their mistakes.

Apply this to a human who did something similar.

"I'm sorry I purposefully allowed my previous employer's systems to be infected by a virus in return for payment. I'm willing to admit it was a mistake and I've taken steps to correct it."

Would you honestly hire someone like that to be a sysadmin?
> Also remember that Google brought us HTTP/2 when Microsoft and Apple were completely ignoring the web.

You only have that half-right, Microsoft hasn't been ignoring the web for several years, but Apple still is. The problem for Microsoft is that it can't move the web anymore. The center of gravity is in mobile and they don't have any market share there. Apple doesn't want to move the web, their walled garden is making much more money for them and there's no need for competition.
Thank you for the lecture on downvotes. You are 100% wrong because we are discussing the presence of the private key. Your scenario imagines an intelligent proxy that interacts with China intelligently. In that scenario the private key remains on the end user machine to enable low latency as you describe. The upthread poster presented the scenario wherein the key is not distributed on end user machines for security reasons, but that then means the key must live on the theoretical server in China (otherwise how else would you encrypt a connection against your certificate), which would require passing the entire TLS connection through that server to perform the MITM.

This subthread is about private key distribution. It's really poor form for you to react to being downvoted (as legitimately wrong) by lengthening your comment by a factor of 5 and lecturing people about downvotes.
> “It’s theoretically unenforceable unless you have someone sitting outside the door and checking the box that ‘Yes, they stay here 270 days out of the year,’"

What about taxes? It has to be illegal to claim one place as your primary residence for tax purposes then another as your primary residence for AirBNB purposes.
Be careful when updating packages. As an OS X user used to blithely updating anything and everything because it always "just works," I've gotten into shocking situations where I've actually bricked my Elementary install simply by doing an update. When I approached Linux users about this, their response was something along the lines of "Yeah... don't do that." (Seriously?)

As a result I've had to run Elementary in a VM with snapshotting, and I roll back the snapshot if an update hoses the install. Kinda shitty, if you ask me.
It is less likely that someone would send a falsified bank document through the mail, as mail fraud is a federal crime with harsher sentences than most online versions of spam/phishing.

Also records are kept for mail regarding where it was received by the post office (which likely has security cameras), when, who is on the return address and the recipient. There is physical evidence of who has touched a piece of mail such as fingerprints, hair, DNA etc.

This is part of why you don't get 50 letters from nigerian princes each day
Having interesting work is definitely a plus when you're excited about completing something time usually flies by.

The Pomodoro technique might be something for you to try.

Basically choose a goal/task work only on that for 25 minutes then take a 5 minute break (play a round of a game you like, browse the news, etc) the get back on your task or move to the next task if you complete the first one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Sometimes when I'm in a groove I just keep going, but if it's a boring tedious task it's nice to break for 5 minutes.

There is a cool OSX app that shows a countdown at the top bar and that's good incentive to keep at it and try to knock out tasks in 25 minutes.

Soon you'll be estimating in pomadoros (30 mins).

Good luck staying focused.
It doesn't matter if they're a sketchy couple, and local law enforcement would provide for removing any meth lab (or other illegal activity) and the associated people.
Most of the US has laws that define B&E like the CFAA defines hacking.

"unlawful entry" is usually the common denominator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary