skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linus posts are legendary because of a combination of his high profile and their extreme hyperbole. It's trivial to be condescending and insulting in ways that wouldn't be entertaining to post about (note: I have not read many of Greg KH's posts, so I have no idea how he usually comes across), so that doesn't say all that much.
This article by Eleanor Saitta (Dymaxion) is excellent on this stuff:

"Ethics and Power in the Long War"
https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-ele...

You're right that stopping it politically is hard:

If you look at the historical record of surveillance structures, you have never, we’ve never seen a modern state without going through a revolution or something similar, roll back deployed and operational and technical capabilities.

You can though tweak the economic cost (and I'd guess that legal process is part of that, technical measures are too):

The economics of spying is the structure that controls whether or not spying is done. The notion of return of investment is very germane here. How much intelligence product are you going to get for a given investment. That is what determines which intelligence methods are used.
Working for a UK-based division where our corporate Internet gateway ingress/egress is in San Jose, things do get confusing - for example, when I browse ebay.co.uk, (in my lunch hour, of course!) without logging in, the postage charges are astronomical as ebay assumes the UK sellers have to ship to California.
> they would have to make sure that they are offering something far superior to torrented content

I'm starting to sound like a broken record here, so this is the last time I'm going to respond to that (no offense): I want exactly the torrent file. I don't want them to pile on any of the additional crap they assume I need or should need.

Anyone who wants subtitles, or dubs, or a free rootkit, or whatever can use the existing sales channels. I want you to give me your product, as is, without any additional considerations or features, just straight up. I want the torrent file, and nothing else, no guarantees, no contracts, no nothing.

Just me giving you money for the right to legally consume what you made. Not some version of it, just the thing, with nothing added or subtracted.

You seem to assume torrenting shows is popular because it's free. Well, it's not free, it carries a substantial legal risk. There may well be a big portion of downloaders who don't have the money to buy the show legally. But the rest of them do it because of the benefits of the medium, not its price tag.

Offer us exactly the benefits and the convenience of the bootlegged medium, just give us an option to pay you for it. It really is that simple. Nobody is advocating you should cease any of your current offerings. Just create an additional sales channel and allow the money to flow in.
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Chrome OS and Android may seem similar from a distance – they’re technically similar and do similar things, but they have very different goals.

Android was trying to imitate iOS and needed to establish itself and survive in a harsh market environment. It needed to be flashy, appeal to elitists, be affordable enough for the „poorer“ market segments, foster an economy around „apps“, etc. The result was an unholy monstrosity that, nevertheless, managed to beat iOS (on market share) as it was supposed to.

Chrome OS instead was an attempt at reducing a computer as much as possible to being just an interface to the internet – merely a technical artefact required to interface with the digital world, since humans don’t happen to have WiFi built in. Sort of like Google Glass, but envisioned in a world were smartphones did not yet exist. Market concerns and technical viability were secondary. The result was something that functionality-wise works as well as current technology allows, but nevertheless is the only laptop out there that truly „just works“. If anything actually ever breaks, you can go to the store, buy another one and have it work exactly the same like your old one – just type in your login credentials and everything’s back to where you left it.

I agree that in a perfect world both these „things“ should be achievable by only one product, but, reality being the mess hat it is, lead to Google developing two different products and now painfully trying to converge them into only one as much as possible.
Possible at a pinch, the flyback I was using right there was about the size of a walnut. You could lay most of it out flat with the voltage multiplier and encase the whole thing in epoxy for (ha) safety.

I really wanted to go much higher with the voltages, but the amount of noise this thing puts out de-focuses the camera.
Whilst an option, I feel it's a bad one if security is actually a priority.

Having worked at companies who actually have a high level concern over computer security, telling someone simply isn't enough. Being told is passive. Passive defence and active defence are two entirely different states of mind. Defending against an attack needs to be active and instinctual. Every time you open, close, or set down your laptop, a small part of your brain should be thinking about it. In computer security, a single failure is enough to lose control, so it's useful to have an environment that reflects that.

A simple example is being told to keep your terminal locked. This is a common rule for most workplaces but is usually met with dismal failure. One of the companies I worked at actually made a game out of leaving your terminal unlocked. I can tell you, after a few days of your colleagues kindly laughing at you returning to a screen full of Internet memes, you instinctively Ctrl + L upon standing up, even if it's to walk to the windows to look at the view.

Why is it important I lock the screen even if standing a metre away? My friend walks by whilst I'm staring at the view and invites me to [coffee|walk|game|X]. Security has already left your mind and you head off to do [X], leaving your terminal unlocked. Even worse, your screen might auto-lock in a few minutes, giving you a false sense of security when you return. Even if it was unlocked when you returned, you'd likely get back to work, not realizing your error.

Making security a game is a good way of instilling the practice. Colleagues make for cunning adversaries and make you actively defend yourself. This defence is useful against both pretend threats and real ones. Wargames are wargames for a reason.
I went to Disneyland for the first time last year (so have no experience of it without bands) but the bands really are magical. They are so convenient and unobtrusive. There are several colours to choose from before you arrive at your hotel and you can even get your name engraved on them! As others have said, I never had to use my wallet once as the band is linked to your room which is linked to your credit card. It really is an ingenious piece of marketing tech. Kids love them too, as you can buy and collected little attachments which sit on the wristbands!
> You see this happening with for-profit colleges, where grade inflation is particularly egregious

I see it happening with people all sorts of colleges and universities. It's gotten to the point where if/when I meet a young graduate who has good communication and thinking skills, I consider them an anomaly, or suspect strongly that they already had these skills before college.
In German law, there is the principle of "Es gibt keine Gleichheit im Unrecht" which means that it is not admissable to break the law if some other person does it.

The land of the free should be ashamed of its mass surveillance no matter what. Even if Russia and China and whatnot continue to do it. And, the USA has much more grip on critical internet infrastructure. Therefore it makes a difference if they care.
Interesting take. Maybe somebody will write a kernel extension to easily disable the USB subsystem/hub on demand?
I don't really understand your use of "slog" here, do you mean carry?

Why then didn't you need a camera - do they have photogs around the site?
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It is a bias, but it is similar to the following bias: http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-are-tests-biased-a...

How do you test for noncompetitive but still productive people using a competitive test?
'kill the sim card', What poppycock.

Considering the sim card has a bunch of secrets that identify the sim card to the network more than just a user/password, and frankly more secure. I consider this article very naive and poorly researched.

The phone network isn't comparable with wifi. There's complicated handoffs so your phone doesn't drop calls/network connections between cells. I know the author is in the USA where connection drops appear to be quite common, but in the rest of the world it's not.

The phone network is old and cranky, I agree with that. I mean, we're using a low latency fixed length packet switched system that could barely carry voice and using that to route packets that are variable length and doesn't really care about the real time aspect of the phone system.

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In regards to the Twitter link: user has fuchsia hair, of her opinion I do not care.
It doesn't really. There are photographers throughout the park that will take your picture then scan your band. You can then buy said pictures.
There's nothing more important than helping to save someone's life
Strengthening encryption standards strengthens the enemy too, at least this seems to be how they think.
Thanks so much! I appreciate your comment. I thought the same thing which is why I'm writing it. When I got into this it just seemed like all the resources assumed a ton of knowledge.
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>when you're actually scanning it can be a bear to get it just right //

So it uses some sort of direct contact rather than NFC? [Perhaps to make it less easy to clone?]
Is there any recording of his talk or something? Regardless of his actual points, this sounds like an extremely weird thing to do.
A standard procedure in somewhat-security-concerned firms is that when you travel, you go and get a freshly installed travel laptop (a loaner) from IT dept, use it on the trip, and after the trip, you return it to the department that wipes out everything on the disk and re-images it.

This wouldn't protect against things like firmware-based malware, attacks that major three-letter spy agencies could deploy when they focus on a target, but because there is no absolute security and measures need to be balanced to the threat scenario, this is a model that works pretty well.
On NSA stories, the top HN comment is always "too bad. whatever. let the NSA do its thing." NO.

This is not about you. This is not about your data. This is about our society's collective ability to think and act for itself. Blanket acceptance of surveillance is a dangerous attitude and shockingly common.

Political efforts, technological efforts, societal changes are all required to keep democracy alive. And that's what's at stake here, not your personal files. Nobody cares if you can keep those safe - I want my democracy to be safe, please.
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giving him the benefit of doubt: maybe he was just unable to articulate properly that he noticed some problems in the redis community and thought it would be better if $WHATEVER happened.
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What you describe is coping with situations of high infrastructure complexity and unreliability (many servers, moving and failed servers, etc.) by adopting advanced scripting and more abstract and sophisticated administration tools.
It is an interesting technology trend, but I fail to see any significant social and organizational aspects beyond demanding everyone to be more competent.
I still think "almost any language" is a stretch, but I'm not in the mood of profiling several languages in order to assert this claim - without numbers my experience is as anecdotal as yours.
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This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs.

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Disney has some nice patents on this stuff, too: https://www.google.com/patents/US8646695
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130249301
https://www.google.com/patents/US20140197991
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> Some people who plagiarize will pass a thorough Q&A about their code, because they fully understood the explanation of the solution, but are getting an unfair advantage over candidates who worked out a solution themselves from scratch.

This reminds me of the debate over whether performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in mathematics. Why do you think it's so important for the candidate to personally invent every aspect of their solution? What if you just told people that it's ok to use external resources to solve the problem?

A class might give exams in any of these ways:

- exams only happen in class, where everyone can notionally be supervised

- exams are take-home, but you can't read the textbook while you're taking one

- exams are take-home, and you're free to read the textbook

There's cheating under all of those models, including the first one which takes the form that it does specifically to prevent cheating. The implicit goal (for the students) of model 1 is to make sure they've internalized whatever is being taught. The implicit goal of model 3 is to make sure that, even if they haven't internalized the material, they're capable of applying it. The implicit goal of model 2 is to make sure they'll comply with arbitrary, unenforceable demands (in this context, usually called "the Honor Code"). That might make sense if you're hiring a cashier -- but is it really your first priority?
> This might not cover or replace the existing subscriber base, but it would be an opportunity to bring additional customers on board at next-to zero cost. Just by shutting up and taking my money.

Except now they can no longer sell exclusive content rights to companies in each territory which means they lose a ton in license fees. So then HBO has to take over all the local marketing that each licensor was doing for them. Now, instead of collecting $1m from RomaniaTelekom with close to 100% margin, they have to set up a local office in Bucharest, contract with an ad agency, etc etc etc.

Exclusive content is a HUGE driver of consumer spend and so providers are willing to pay a TON of money for the content. Take away the exclusivity and all those big contracts go away.
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> worth remembering that the guy in the sofa in front of his TV is not the only HBO customer

It's funny how those pass for prohibitive reasons why something can't happen until suddenly these reasons go away. This is exactly what happened to music downloading. There were international sales, fears of organizations competing with their own sales partners, and oh dear all those unsolvable problems that come with offering content free of DRM. Oh the horror. And then, all of that went away.

Arguing in favor of the status quo is always a safe position, because obviously you have current management on your side. That doesn't mean consumers don't have a nasty habit of breaking out of their straight jackets. There are good reasons why torrenting TV shows is so popular, and it only partially has to do with the price tag. I would argue that for most downloaders, the primary reason is actually quality and freedom from hassle.

Things are reasonably impossible until they aren't.
It was much better for me than Twitter, but once the acquisition happened (FB w/ a rumored $50M), they decided to show the middle finger to its users. Isn't this the same as what happened to the thesixtyone (t61)?
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With 'more than 6.5 million monthly' they should do between 50K - 200K/m depending on the bizdev and sales skills.

50K is not enough to keep operations running, 100K would work with editors from low-wage countries.

But still a bit odd that they ran out of money.
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Requiring a three-button shortcut just to open a folder is a horrible design.
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It would be interesting to see how revenues have increased due to band usage - the act of taking out your wallet or handing over cash or using a card act as a good barrier to excessive spending, making this mindless (just hold your hand near here) strikes me as a big win for Disney.

Do Disney do the IAP trick of having their own "coins" to insulate from displaying proper prices too?
They needn't have been so bad: one small change--tilting the pins at an angle--and they could've been mechanically sound like Aussie ones.
>Which is precisely why you are not required to do it

Right or wrong (I know, it's wrong), this silly 'phrase it in your own words' idea is taught to many students as the way to avoid plagiarizing others' works.
Just tested, works in Win7 too.
well if you love democracy so much you need to recognize that the majority is against you on this point.
I also imagine that the parent's mentality is one people only have after the fact. I imagine if you hypothetically described a US government with its current surveillance powers before Snowden's leaks, people would have said they wouldn't want such a thing. They would have said it was equivalent to 1984.

But after Snowden's leaks? It's simply something we have to accept.
Explorer does disclosure triangles (well, pluses in Windows's case) in the Folder tree side panel. It works better than incorporating it in the main view, IMO, but your mileage may vary.
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It looks like videos will be published "shortly", I wasn't there but I'd imagine there was some cross over with this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/a/redis-db/PxFeA0fH...

The guy is pretty passive aggressive in that thread which makes it hard to take his points seriously.
Evil.

I've often wondered what percentage of those dirt-cheap UBS devices sold on eBay are actually trojan horses. Provide a basic functional USB hub at a cut-rate price, but exploit the access to your customer's PC for nefarious purposes. Seems like an easy crime to perpetrate.
This is an example of someone really mis-using the power of the microphone. I think antirez summed up quite well:

> Technical leadership is a reward for the work you are capable to do, is not asked at conferences

If this was something Matt Stancliff really wanted, trying to stage a revolution of sorts from the stage is not the way to go about it. Prove yourself and rewards will come your way.
said before, saying it again - I still like backbone + underscore templates better than AngularJS. When written using standard JS patterns I find that stack easier to work with, coupled with whatever (usually either Django or Loopback) on the backend.
Also, if you care to read the FCC documentation, take a look at FCC ID: Q3E-MB-R1G1

You can search for any FCC transmitter on the FCC website: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm

This is very useful if you want to see how things with radios inside them work. Most companies do not restrict the internal photos and user manuals from being posted publicly by the FCC (although you can do so).
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Salvatore, next time you should have everybody come to Sicily. Such a beautiful place. I would happily come. :)
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> This is not about you. This is not about your data

Democracy means that your fellow citizens get a vote too. If you and those that agree with you can't craft a message that appeals to them and their day-to-day concerns, the grandparent comment will continue to be quite correct.
Creative and alternative ways of realizing empathy for emotional-intelligence state security issues are at will of our ability to trust network.

That is more an issue of unflagging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Trust_network than worrying about who is the alpha agent. We can count fine against secret traumatic wars if we each log action, community action (with secure, stable, distributed tools like http://www.matrix.org/alpha and https://www.getaether.net), and begin to self-determine our social systems and safety issues.
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Follow Ty Harris as he trains to work his way back after spending a couple years dealing with off the court issues. Attending 3 different high schools and colleges, he opens up about personal battles and how he balances basketball and the outside life while he waits for his next opportunity.
What enemy is that? Would it really be that horrible if everyone had access to strong encryption regardless of their beliefs.

With sufficient know-how and sophistication you can keep your messages private anyways no? If that's the case, then isn't it really just the average joe using off the shelf tech that's screwed?

Edit: That sounded combative, but it wasn't meant to be.
could never be overcome by the little guy [...] airbnb [...] Uber

Yep. These two companies, valued at $13B and $40B respectively, employing 800 and 2000 people respectively, are the definition of "little guy". It doesn't get more underdog than that. /s
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Eh, USB carries data, not just power. I don't trust any USB socket that I don't control.
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Well, sure, but the referenced paper mentioned "net worth", not cash. I assumed they were ignoring people whose net worth included hard to value private company stock.
Person I replied to said 10-20 "valuable" channels.
If you talk to a travel agent they might be able to have several flights on different carriers on the same ticket, avoiding the problem of having to buy the second flight if the first one has an issue.

Through Switzerland or Germany it might be easier than London.
What if "what we see" is not accurate of how it actually looks and works? I think the math behind it would have a more accurate way to describe how it looks and works, which is what the render does.
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> it didn't get too fancy and guess at your common tasks

When does the current Finder try to guess your common tasks? Sure, by default it shows all the files in your home directory but this can be turned off easy as pie.

I'm not really sure what your problem with Finder is. The defaults are there for those who have little/no experience of OS X but all of these can be easily overridden if you've got the more than the very basics of OS X skills.

Like one of the commenters below, I'm finding you're being rather vague in what your problem is with it.
Wow, my bad, I thought the parent was genuinely asking.
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Let me give some perspective from a high school senior: The main reasons for going to college is (a) a highly specialized education, (b) ability to grow your network, and (c) a good social setting that you may not get anywhere else. Particularly on point (a) - sure there are a lot of good online resources to learn, but you can't beat having an expert in the field at your disposal. Some topics like The basics of machine learning (Stanford CS229) can be found, but it's the truly specialized courses (more advanced machine learning) that are hard to find.
heh, he actually mentioned me in his post on the thread... I didn't notice it, I'm kinda out of the loop of the community lately.
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