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We are students from IIIT-Bangalore. We have created a virtual stock trading game. This game provides a platform for users to trade real stocks at real time prices with virtual money in a risk free environment. It's a good learning tool as well as a fun and addictive game. It contains stocks from both the Indian National Stock Exchange as well as from NASDAQ Stock Market.

http://spandan.iiitb.ac.in/StockXchange/
I don't think "snafu" quite cuts it. This is a fuckup of epic proportions. They screwed up quite badly by installing this crap and then made it worse by lying about it and pretending that it's not a security issue ...
The truth is closer to that the "ruling class" is more like "slaves" to us than the other way 'round. We can ( and do ) turn on them in seconds, and they are not heard from again.

Read Marshall MacLuhan and Vance Packard. Yes, they are dated and the words are musty. The reason not to watch a lot of news has more to do with the effects of that sort of media on your nervous system than what anybody intends by it. You sort of can't just unplug, but know the game and realize you're in it. Have a diet of long-form works to balance out the blurb feeds.
One of the most effective ways we can shut down companies that make this kind of crapware is public shaming.

Publicly naming companies and executives associated with this horrendous breach of privacy and security should hopefully serve as a deterrent for VCs who are considering making a quick buck by funding companies that are fucking over non-tech literate consumers.
Clickable link: http://spandan.iiitb.ac.in/StockXchange/
I tried it on Linux and I was not impressed at all.
What does it say? Ironically my work proxy blocks their website
Not to mention how reluctant they were to even admit the security issues presented by Superfish installations. They (and Lenovo) repeatedly denied that the injection of a trusted root certificate posed a security threat.

Spin your mistakes however you want in a press release, but don't lie about security vulnerabilities that put users at risk.
Ok, so there is no better way than screenshots to test if it looks good in a mail client anyway.

Still don't get why it is formulated in this way, but keep it the way you want.

A real "about us" would be nice - who is behind this, what did they do before. Right now it doesn't tell me much "about" and "us".
It creates a higher demand for green energy production.
This post will be 100x more effective (in my sample set of 1)
Edit: Signed up to see how it worked but don't actually want a public profile indicating I'm looking for a job - how do I delete my profile?
I was thinking that the Physical Upper Bound Register (ohci_11.pdf, 5.1.5) should protect against that (at least where implemented, since it's "optional").

But it seems that even linux set this registers to allow pretty much everything (writes to OHCI1394_PhyUpperBound in src/drivers/firmware/*.c)
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Cost of re-mediation is one
I do not know how any of the other films even had a chance. This was the clear winner.
Plus Denmark is able to buffer their unreliable wind energy with Swedish nuclear and hydro so even when the mills aren't turning they can import power to offset their coal when they're making green claims.
Are you stabbing the dragon with our language? Quite a lot of proverbs are still used where I work and sometimes during a presentation it leads to strange remarks, only funny to the dutch people. Such a a person then falls through the basket as a true dutchman, the ape comes out of the sleeve so to say. The presenter then often laughs like a farmer with a tooth ache. But who cares, who laughs the last, laughs the best.

Haven't you ever been sent from the closet to the wall? Life doesn't go over roses.
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I use Lastpass, but it seems a tad janky. It's saving grace is that it's ubiquitous and works on every platform I can think of.
What does it matter that Lenovo is chinese and Superfish Israeli?
Both Ireland and Denmark are notoriously "tax efficient" options in Europe.
You can't really blame corporations themselves for seeking the best deal for themselves, their customers, and let's not forget the shareholders.

However the system that brings this about is of course to blame, the same system that brings sweatshops and environmental ravage; feral market capitalism.

Although it's a system that does indeed increase the overall size of the pie, it must be properly stewarded and milked (via anti-trust laws, taxation, etc, etc) to ensure that the capital owners don't run away with the whole thing leaving just crumbs for everyone else.

Unfortunately as you can see, the international environment is not ideal for providing the consistent measures really required, and companies will slip through the cracks to find the best deals for themselves, often much better than if they were under any single tax regime.
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Optional types are great. I think he meant static types like in Java / older C#
ZFS drives?
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Have we forgotten what constructors are for?
Thanks, the weekly report is a great thing!
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So with the release of 4.1.15, that will truly be the year of Linux, hitching a ride with the much bigger year of the terminator.

It might also be close to the end of humanity, but at least it finally terminated Windows.
I hate nothing more than "X considered harmful" titles on Hacker News. Something about them really infuriates me.
I think i made it clear in my comment that I also dis-agree with it being a criminal matter. That was not really the argument I was responding to.
Debian: Transition plan to systemd by default
Got it. Sorry to hear that you're dealing with that shit.

It does seem better in the Midwest. And it's not that bad in New York, although the cost of living is brutal. The nuttiness going on in the Bay Area seems to be a young man's game (and, if you're not well-connected enough to be made a founder out of the gates, a stupid young man's game).
If Microsoft had any residues of a spinal cord, they should react with a steep increase in license fees for Lenovo, otherwise it's setting a precedent that any vendor can mess with OS internals as they like.
We had all this planned for the past month, but "recent events" definitely make it timely.
Publicly shaming Comcast doesn't seem to be working, at all. I think it's good in theory, but doesn't work so well in practice.
Yah. This seems to be a sufficient lay summary:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/05/opinion/l-constitution-all...
It seems the natural in-app purchase would be for some kind of package that would add more data sources. Maybe you get the daily bank rate for free, but if you want some other data sources then that would be extra.
Not so sure that you can pile all the responsibility onto Microsoft for this debacle. If your favorite Linux distro is to include some adware crap on it, should Linus take the blame?

Ultimately, Lenovo should take the full blame for this.

edit: grammar
Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones
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4. Ireland has some pretty good tax breaks.

5. Amazon house their EU-West data centre there so infrastructure should be fairly good.

6. And it's pretty god damn windy there - perfect for "green" wind turbines.
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Most likely someone showed them some Powerpoint slides, and the hapless investors just did not understand that there could be serious privacy and security implications.

That doesn't mean they aren't responsible and shouldn't burn their fingers; investors actually should look into these things when they decide where to invest.
I know. Initially, I wanted to link the article I've read, however, Google referred me to this slatestarcodex article, so I figured I would directly link to a discussion about it.
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There's a proof of concept here using postgresql https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike
Maybe that's how they define "cheap" :)
Yes, someone will. Not the ones who get caught but the ones who caught them, e.g., Ed Snowden.

I know Snowden isn't in jail, but it isn't for lack of trying or will from the USG, only because they couldn't get their hands on him.
Airbnb for prostitution exists:
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"The Academy" is ~6,000 people. They're also pretty much the people you hear politicians call "Hollywood Elites".

So the award itself probably doesn't mean anything. I guess the associated publicity might lead a few more people to watch the film.
We haven't tried my means.
How do you define "it works" ?

The price of a user is defined by the following formula [0] : CPU = CPC * (C / U)

Google AdWords gives you the CPC and if you have a Google Analytics set up you should be able to know the C / U ratio. That will define how much you have to pay to get a user using Google AdWords.

For the C / U ratio to be precise you should use only the organic search numbers (people coming to your website from Google after a search) because it is closest behavior you can study.

[0] : * CPU : Cost per User

* CPC : Cost per Click [on ad]

* C : Click [visitor comes on the website from ad]

* U : User [visitor becomes a user after he clicked on the ad]
You can find names of this 2 people team here : https://targeted.io/press
Good read man! I made me consider to start an app with an idea I had for a while. Can you go a bit more technical and talk about the technologies you used? (besides git of course xD)
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Seen every architect do this time and time again.
This sounds more or less exactly like what I wrote. What part did you disagree with?
Damn right. A grand jury can indict without the defendant present (in fact that's how it usually works). Then the US can work to extradite, or just arrest if any of the defendants ever try to enter the US.
>> but how can the industry see performance improvements without cost reductions?

I imagine for example, data centers willing to pay the same price for a chip that only reduces power. Or that chips that will be twice as fast but cost double, but they'll allow to double the density in the server room, etc.

BTW that's what already happening in mobile SOC - the new process nodes aren't cheaper, only lower in power.
"DevOps - it’s giving a small blanket to someone who wears chunky boots before throwing himself down a slide."

Great quote.
.. except that the entire sales pitch for "craft", "handmade", and "indie" relies on believing that the items are being made in a particular way, by non-alienated labour. Turning it into mass production is the opposite of what the original buyer's culture wants.
> Ideally, the next time a laptop/desktop vendor is looking at the bloatware they are going to load onto a system, they'll do a cost-benefit analysis against the (potential) punitive damages associated with a lawsuit, and decide not to install the stuff.

Ideally they wouldn't do that cost-benefit analysis and just do the right moral thing to do.
and http://vimeo.com/channels/coastermelt/111417458
>>> Apple supports nearly 672,000 European jobs, including 530,000 jobs directly related to the development of iOS apps.

A bit off topic and NOT just Apple related:

When corporates list such achievements as above, they need to do full disclosure like how many old type jobs are destroyed due to their actions/products/services and how much time it took for the effected people to readjust to new reality.

Press statements as above -which we see from several organizations- give the impression of all positives and no negatives which is not true. Public companies are supposed to inform complete truth to public (since some of them are shareholders) and statements as above are not complete truth. Their actions may be innovation to the organization concerned but it is not for the affected. Personally, I feel, now-a-days, modern organizations and their executives are showing the habit of abusing the word of innovation[0] for whatever they do.

This is not just applicable to Apple only but to every other organization in the world. Amazon has to list how many brick and mortar stores are effected in addition to creation of new jobs and similarly vehicle, energy companies has to list the pollution they/their products caused across the world. Cities like Beijing has polluted air and is it not human made through innovated products developed few decades before? If they are proud of positives, they should feel sorry and/or pay for negatives as applicable. Is n't it?

In some cases, measurement may not be easy or indicators/metrics are not defined yet like "number of jobs ...etc". Governments and other competent organizations need to define and enforce them just like enforcing in the cases similar to harassment/discrimination/workspace issues/environmental issues. Even reference year also needs to be defined.

Jobs alone is not indicator and it is just tip of the iceberg of the total effect due to the actions of organizations.

[0] Some background on origin and growing popularity of the usage of the word "innovation": http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/r-gopalakri...
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Hopefully some of the numbnuts in the US will get up and vote about it.

Hopefully some of the numbnuts in the AU will get up and vote about it.

Hopefully some of the numbnuts in the NZ will get up and vote about it. (Kia Kaha)

Yes I understand its a downvote post. Just wondering what will change this hellish situation.
There's a fork of Debian without systemd [1]

[1] https://devuan.org/
Are they paying extra for the green energy? Or how does it work? I meant it as a serious question (I can see it gets downvoted - for some reason?).
I actually think that part of the reason why Comcast has had such a horrific time getting their proposed merger approved is because they suffer from such a horrific reputation.

Obviously, shaming only goes so far... but realistically speaking, besides boycotts and shaming, there really aren't many effective ways to register your disapproval towards privately owned companies.
List me 5 jokes that does not offend anyone.
Sounds? Where? All I see on that page is a photo of him and a LinkedIn link.
Ah, I was born and raised in Athenry, so this is a very nice surprise :)
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I like how the survey shows How many nodes do you have to manage, for Foreman to become a very handy tool :)
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Interestingly, we don't even have Apple stores in Denmark yet, despite a wealthy and seemingly voracious market. Guess we don't promise enough growth opportunity.
I'd first spend money improving the spelling and grammar across your site...

https://www.hackerearth.com/recruit/source/ for instance, at the bottom under past challenges has a lot of spelling and grammar errors. Hire a US-based copy editor.

Also why not advertise on careers.stackoverflow.com? Or stackoverflow itself in certain markets, is probably more cost effective and targeted than your google ads.
This is awesome! "undefined is not a function" was one big problem for me when I started cleaning up code, and didn't know what caused the issue, I spend a lot of time debugging.
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I know this has been discussed all over the place to the point of exhaustion but I am still somewhat shocked that Debian adopted systemd so quickly. For a distribution that is known for it's stability and conservative approach to new software I just think this happened way too fast.

I've been a happy Debian user for many years but lately I've fallen back to using *BSD (particularly OpenBSD). I guess that puts me in the "old and afraid of change" camp but for me it's nice to be back using something that looks and, more importantly, _works_ like Unix.

Debian will remain my goto distribution when I want/need Linux but it's no longer my first choice...
In the context of the broadcast the joke was so quick, and it came after an impassioned speech by Laura Poitras. I can't even imagine someone being inspired to see the movie by either its Oscar win or the acceptance speech and being thrown of course by the quick little one-liner that followed it.
Has anyone tried a "open plan office" term yet?

So work at home people, and people in sane environments, can experience the huge performance boost of an open plan office.

So just vanilla unicode-rvxt or whatever you use, with some really special additions...

1) ghostly reflections of people constantly walking behind you and sometimes glancing at your screen as they walk by in the background as a transparency layer.

2) If you're a glossy screen in a brightly lit office you get torturous reflections causing eyestrain, make sure to include that. If you can't see what you're doing, you should just work harder.

3) A continuous mix of noise plays in the background at random levels, probably stolen from youtube type videos. So dramatic arguments, sports gossip, people asking each other questions to google for them, ringtones and other noisy beepy stuff, all mixed together continuously. If you're distracted, its your fault for being distracted.

Might have to script the background activities although an option to just mash up purely random youtube traffic would be funny. To get people to use it, you could create kind of a directed, scripted story that plays out. This lowers the technological bar to merely being a video player with high transparency and a probably very large video file.

I have no idea if this is a genius idea or mere parody. Probably a work of performance art if done well.

I am aware there are lots of sites that play background audio such as a coffee house or whatever. I'm looking for the open plan office experience, specifically.
It's been a while since I tested it, but I believe that reading public info like stars and following/followers requires no scopes. I only needed that scope for writing. May be worth checking out?
So Apple has built one other data center recently. Are they seeing this much growth from their video offerings to justify this?

I always thought that the primary video offering through Apple TV was NetFlix, not Apple's services.

Are these data centers to offering Video for iTunes or are they the storage for iPhoto/etc?

Or is Apple just moving off of others infrastructure to their own for efficiency sake?

What is the drivers for these huge data centers?
Besides van Gaal being famous for translating the rich Dutch proverbs into English/German there is some merit to the first post. I've notices since moving from Zeeland (province, sparcely populated) to the Randstad (Near The Hague, city style) some years ago, that in Zeeland we used a lot more proverbs in common speaking language than people do in the 'city'.

But that might just be me 'pulling my own plan'.
Comcast has a monopoly in most of the markets in which it operates. This makes a huge difference.
From the link:

> The facility is also designed to capture excess heat from equipment inside the facility and conduct it into the district heating system to help warm homes in the neighboring community.

Geography matters, as you can place your data centers where cooling is efficient and where there is lots of renewable energy available/possible to be harvested.

Also, a minor nitpick: please don't say windmill, wind power plants don't mill anything.
Not many buildings would stand upright if what you said was true.

An architect absolutely needs to be on top of the technical implementation of both ventilation, fire systems and plumbing. They won't be the ones who installs them those things are taken into consideration when the plans come together. If you think an architect only dreams up what it should look like and then leave the project you are mistaken.

With that said, I think a building architect is a terrible metaphor for what's done in software engineering for plenty of other reasons.

And yes, you absolutely need to have intimate details of how the coherency protocol works if you are the software architect of a clustered system, just to take an example. In the opposite direction lies disaster (which I've seen first hand).
Yup. I loathe th update culture - every wifi router I've bought in the past decade has been barely useable before updating its firmware to current. Regular WiFi crashes requiring re-setting the router should not be the default state.
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I work with data sets > 250GB: GTX Titan eBay

I have no money: 3GB GTX 580

I do Kaggle: GTX 980 or GTX 580

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I never used deep learning before: 3GB GTX 580 eBay

I started deep learning and I am serious about it: Start with one GTX 580 and buy more GTX 580s as you feel the need for them; buy new Volta GPUs in 2016 Q2/Q3

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Why can't the HDD vendors publish a md5/sha1 hash of the firmware so we know what the value should be?

If the NSA ( or anyone ) are going to modify the firmware and hide malicious or preparatory exploit code in that area, the end user will have little recourse post-exploit. Though, beforehand, if the HDD vendor published, for example: the md5/sha1 of the firmware the OS vendor could then write a "control panel" or application that the number has been entered/seeded by that vendor. If the hash on boot does not match the hash in storage, alert the user the drive has been hampered with. Alert the vendor, they send you a new drive, and you throw away the old drive.

I'm not entirely sure how to do this if they happen to not modify the firmware but instead just store in the areas wasted space. I can think that you would use sized to make values you could then hash. As long as the vendor knows the values of of what they did, those can always become keys to compare to make sure they have not been modified. ( I hope at the very least. I don't want a stalemate or a loss when it comes to this type of security, it has to be a win for the consumer. )

Is there any reason this approach wouldn't work? What other alternatives are there if they are writing to the firmware area of the HDD?

What if this were the firmware of the hardware itself. There are firmware(s) within your USB bus, wifi chipset, cpu chipset, keyboard chipset, display, power management, some cables, everywhere. Those can be leveraged individually or via a RAID style merging of all these firmware areas to give you, hundreds of MB of super difficult to locate storage space.

If no one is looking, you can get away with anything you want. And in this case, even if someone is looking, it will take a very good set of eyes a few times over, as it seems one voice is never loud enough to get the word out. Be prepared to go to jail for talking about any of their methods, even in a theoretical sense.
Well it may not happen quickly, depending on how long it takes to get it to stable.

> but it's no longer my first choice

What is out of interest?
I may have read it wrong.

I would have said: "Because when it's done right, 80% of "architecting" stuff is coding."

If that is spirit of what you are saying, then I got it backwards! (apologies)

Edit: I think I see the problem. There is an "of" missing. "Because when it's done right, coding is 80% OF "architecting" stuff."
I didn't want to wake sleeping dogs. Now I dug this hole and fell in myself and got schooled by the best horse in the stable. I guess I am really lodged in the monkey ;)