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There is no stable sandboxed browser protecting against kernel vulnerabilities on any platform that I know of prior to Chrome. That's the very definition of pioneering. Do you have an example of prior art? There may be sandboxing mechanisms in various kernels, but that's not what browser users care about.

As for the other points:

* "seccomp-nonbpf" is a vastly more limited mechanism than seccomp-bfp, and inappropriate for Chrome use-case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seccomp. seccomp-bfp is pioneering in Linux kernel space, even if, ironically, the team might not have wanted to spend their time there. See below.

* Popular consumer distribution of Linux doesn't have SELinux enabled by default. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux. "SELinux can be enabled in Ubuntu by installing the "selinux" meta-package". In my bubble we everyone uses Ubuntu on desktop, apologies to other distributions vying for the title of "popular consumer Linux distribution".

* Not sure why we are talking about security mechanisms on non-Linux kernels. Chrome is a browser, the team's job is not to innovate in the kernel space. http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox. "Do not re-invent the wheel: It is tempting to extend the OS kernel with a better security model. Don't.".
In the case of a claim of sexual harassment, proving the claim false is that first step, sure. But the second step is almost a fait accompli. Barring a psychotic break, it's pretty hard to made the original claim, about what happened to themselves, didn't know it was false.

For clarity, too, I'm speaking in the genetic, not specific to this incident.
Looks like a nice work environment. Obviously not as relaxed as that all the time in real life, but they seem to emphasize modularity and transparency in the code base.
KotakuInAction is one of the major GamerGate organizing sites – that's like telling someone to go to the Scientologist Temple for opinions on Dianetics.

… and, yes, it's rather relevant: GamerGate started with a bunch of people on 4chan attacking a stranger on social media at the behest of her ex-boyfriend but it escalated quickly to coordinated harassment on a bunch of different forms of electronic media and attempts to bring it close to home with real-world stalking at work & conferences, SWATing, etc.

That's the problem here: the people who started it might have had no intention of anything beyond enjoying making someone else unhappy but they repeated things widely and loudly enough that other people fell for the cover story and escalated it further.
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It struck me that he was doing something similar to what he's complaining about.
What would happen to someone who made comments like these about Obama's daughters?
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I agree to a point. I think the general rules of thumb would be more along the lines of, "don't flatter someone in a suggestive or inappropriate way". Some people work very hard on their appearance. I would go so far as to say it (their looks) is, to a large extent, who they are. That's not to say they are necessarily shallow people either. They find pleasure and take pride in keeping up with their looks and overall aesthetic. So if you're out and meet someone who might be a friend of a friend / co-worker, or a co-worker from another department who you may not have met before, if they look like they've gone above and beyond to look good, they more often than not will appreciate the compliments. If you don't look like you've put all that effort into your looks (which is not to say you purposefully try to look ugly) more often than not you will not receive those compliments.
I love dogs, but I agree that quite often office dogs are not "handled properly" and are poorly trained because there is no real specific person in charge of taking care of him.

You also can't ignore the fact that many people are likely going to have allergy issues. It's difficult to find a dog that a large number of people will be OK with.
If the police bother with it. It helps if you're famous.
For those debating whether or not these tweets constitute an actual threat there is a related case before the Supreme Court, Elonis v. United States [1]. It was argued back in December but because this will be major precedent I doubt we'll see an opinion until SCOTUS Season in June. The case seems to hinge on "subjective intent to harm" and will be the first major case (that I'm aware of) that will deal with speech like this on social media. Elonis is different (petitioner was convicted for making threats against his ex-wfe) from this thing with Schilling, but the context of the case is the same here - and the justices are quick to acknowledge that conviction standards are pretty strict in defining what constitutes a "true threat" and what a "reasonable person" would construe as a threat. Justice Breyer gets particularly snarky during oral argument.

From the ScotusBlog summary:
Issue: (1) Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Virginia v. Black, conviction of threatening another person under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) requires proof of the defendant's subjective intent to threaten, as required by the Ninth Circuit and the supreme courts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont; or whether it is enough to show that a “reasonable person” would regard the statement as threatening, as held by other federal courts of appeals and state courts of last resort; and (2) whether, as a matter of statutory interpretation, conviction of threatening another person under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) requires proof of the defendant's subjective intent to threaten.

[1] http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/elonis-v-united-s...
It's remarkable how little Internet trolls do to conceal their identities. I see amazingly bigoted stuff posted under real names on the local newspaper's comment section.
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In no world would what you did help them. Poor judgement.
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Think about how everything in the computer is represented as binary ones and zeroes. That's kind of weird. When a non-programmer counts 5 items in the real world, they don't think of it as being equivalent to saying "101", or "YES NO YES".

Now imagine you have a set of questions like that, to be stored for kajillions of items. You can efficiently pack those yes-no questions into a single number for each item. Like, in the unix file permission system, 5 expands out to "let others read this; don't let others write this; let others execute this".
> But that said, any threat that looks like "but on the web you might send malicious code to user X" is also true of other app update mechanisms.

Traditionally, app updates don't happen without the user's knowledge. I'm not entirely certain what the case is with the app stores. Point is, you can easily choose to stick to a specific version with, at least, most desktop applications. You only have to verify that one version.
Maybe this should just be a sub-category on Airbnb?
From grandparent:

> ...labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register.

I understand you're pointing out the fact that grandparent said "if convicted," but parent's point is that _even if convicted_, being put on a registry for the rest of your life is extreme.
Being a CFA carries a lot of weight. It seems like certifications (unsurprisingly) work when a lot of effort has been made to set up the certifications properly. The reason why we haven't seen such an effort in a lot of areas is probably because most places are relying on college degrees.
Actually, you could do a reverse IP lookup against any user agent claiming to be googlebot followed by a forward IP lookup against the domain name you were returned. Legitimate googlebots will be in the *.googlebot.com space.

Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
This is the usual argument in HN when client-side encryption comes up, and I have a question about it.

Doesn't virtually all encryption on user computers come from servers? I mean, Chrome updates itself from a server, and I first downloaded it from the same server. Google (or anyone breaking in to Google) could maliciously break the SSL code in my browser and I'd never even know it had been updated.

Likewise, I downloaded dropbox and putty and ssh.exe from servers, all apps I installed on my phone came from a server and were put there by people I don't know at all.

Why is in-browser encryption considered so different that even smart people like tptacek get all worked up about it? Is it that browser apps get "reinstalled" on every use, and not "only" when an autoupdater or user detects a new version? If so, can I use appcache to achieve the same and enjoy the exact same security as I'd get in an installed app(lication)?

In short, what am I missing?

(note to the angry security people: I'm not dissing you, I really don't know. I'd appreciate non-snarky replies)
Title is a fudge – the article should really be titled "Why you should not build a recommendation engine unless you have lots of existing users and vast amount of content". That message is a lot more common-sensical, from a stats perspective.
That's not quite the point being made, since the site didn't even attempt to block indexing via robots.txt or a meta tag.
Would there be enough incentive for customers to pay?

In a word, no. Companies will often pay a lot to survey their customers. Getting the customers to pay to be surveyed sounds like a very tall request. And any incentive of value the company could add would run counter to the value proposition you've outlined for the company.
Large parts Sauerbraten (http://sauerbraten.org/) were ported to Firefox using Emscripten under the name BananaBread (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/demos/detail/bananabread).
I've submitted it to Google, hopefully it makes it.
The question is, do these type of comments on Twitter cause harm? If you've read anything by people being subjected to online bullying and harassment then you know that it does cause psychological harm by itself. Especially when a number of people all start in on one person, but even one person can cause a lot of fear and harm from cyber stalking someone. Does someone doing this deserve to have their life ruined, probably not, but they should not be free from all repercussions.
I'm pretty sure lots of people do this.
Wouldn't that only prevent the user from seeing the cache? I mean, if it's indexed, then google must have it cached, right?
I often ask people if they click on Facebook/Google ads, and they've never said yes. That doesn't mean people in general don't click on ads. The same could be said for Xiaomi. Just because the Chinese you've asked don't love it doesn't necessarily mean it's a company to doubt.
As parent pointed out, these things occur in "real life" and are no less extreme. Streaking, being underage and sexting, having consensual relationships with someone slightly younger but under the age of consent, etc.
> The reason why we haven't seen such an effort in a lot of areas is probably because most places are relying on college degrees.

In the world of IT, university degrees mean very little, as universities almost universally fail to teach anything useful for that industry.

There's still very few certs that mean anything. At the entry level, all of the certs are dreadful, and past the entry level, experience usually matters more than what certs you have.
I'm working on a device that turns any mailbox into a smart one. If you insert my device into your mailbox, it will send you an electronic notification when mail comes in or is taken out. Currently working with a functional prototype. Thoughts?
They wouldn't expect to make international news by being mentioned in a blog post from the president, that's for sure.
All true, but aside from risk, school has little relationship to modern workplaces.

The public school system was designed to squirt out interchangeable cogs for the regimented institutionalized factory / sweatshop workplace with the ability to act as cannon fodder as military industrial complex profits dictate. That workplace is dead in this country other than blue collar style criminality (WRT entering for-profit prisons).

There is the interesting analogy of high school study hall vs open office concept. Nothing ever got done in study hall other than goofing around and socializing. Real job (aka not an open office) of a higher social status are more like the silent study tanks at uni or studying at home (office job as opposed to open office)
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The original prototype for push was built in Lego and Akai did a great job turning it into real hardware. Really cool project and makes Live so much fun to use.

http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/interview-ableton-push-c...
I have long suspected that for software developers, not bakers, you could hire off the street after a very brief interview and then do a combination of training and auditioning for the work. My belief is this would be both cheaper and more effective than all the money spent in the traditional process. The one caveat is that teams would have to be willing to work at 2 or 3 times their optimal size until the culling was done.

This is an experiment that really needs to be done. Google and the rest of the gang are beating the living hell out of "tell me everybody else you know that's cool" -- there's got to be some opportunities at the other end of the spectrum.
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Nonsense. The OP sets up a straw man just
to knock it down. The descriptions of
recommendation engines are naive,
uninformed, narrow, and not
at all comprehensive.

What can be done with good applied math
for making recommendations has variety
nearly beyond belief; the approaches
outlined by the OP are, of course, just
silly.

For the cold start problem, that need
not be very difficult -- just start in
niches.
Noticed this was a winner of Launch Hackathon. But how does it work exactly?

If I become one node in the distributed network of tellers would it require me to have a massive amount of liquid cash available for withdrawals? Will strangers be approaching me at odd hours asking for their money?
Yeah, but I find that -- like dimensional analysis -- keeping careful track of what's upstairs and downstairs can help me keep a computation from going off the rails.
Your employees probably aren't passionate about it either, unless they have significant skin in the game (equity).

If the calls being outsourced are sales calls, you could pay a commission. That would lead to more motivated sellers at least, although perhaps too motivated and too short sighted.
Maybe they do now after it was pointed out. Take the bottom 20 positions from that list and see how many of them feminists talk about. It's pretty much non existent.
Ask HN: How to Prevent Suspension for Reader Apps on Google Play Store?
Hello,
I recently published a reader app of a popular online community.
After an hour I published it, Google sent me an email telling that the app is being suspended due to "Violation of the sexually explicit material".
However, there are several apps of the community on Google Play Store without any filtering.
Why is my app the only one being suspended?
Is there a way to prevent such suspension for reader apps?
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But that's what work life is likely going to be. Work life is not going to be building a fort in the forrest.
Do you have some code to make it a spec by chance? I've been thinking about doing that.
That meta tag prevents Google from publicly showing their cached version of the page. In practice this means the "Cached" link, within the results, doesn't appear when a given page asks Google to NOARCHIVE -- which I believe can be 'asked for' via either the meta tag or via a special response header.

Edit:

Yeah, 'noarchive' can be specified via the meta tag or via header. Also available to you are a handful of other directives such as NoIndex, NoFollow, NoArchive, NoSnippet, NoTranslate, etc...

See these links for more in-depth info about the directives & which search engines support what:

Directives & Usage in Meta tags - http://noarchive.net/meta/

Usage in Response Headers - http://noarchive.net/xrobots/
Then:

1. Compile evidence in your existing job.

2. Find a new job

3. File a lawsuit.

That's how we manage things in a civilized society. It's precisely why we have a court system. We want:

1. For Google to follow standards we've agreed upon as a society. There are extremists on both sides for what constitutes harassment. We don't want them duking it out with vigilante violence (whether physical, as 100 years ago, or over Twitter, today).

2. There to be due process before action is taken. It's imperfect, but it's a lot better than going vigilante. For a company like Google, if there is a pattern of sexual harassment, with over 50,000 employees, at least some of them will have an open-and-shut case.

3. In the context of something like sexual harassment, the typical damages are set at a level where only a small minority need to win lawsuits before it is financially painful.

I don't care how bad things are at Google. The way to settle this is within the legal system.

By the way, HR's job is to protect the employer from liability. Going to HR is the last thing you want to do. HR will almost never do anything to help the employee -- that's sometimes seen as tantamount to admitting guilt. Once you go to HR, their primary strategy will be whatever minimizes liability. That's often something not great for the employee. A common strategy is to set you up to fail, destroy your credibility, and work you out of the company. If a lawsuit does come up, they can play the disgruntled worker card.

The way the system is set up, suing your former employer is your civic duty, and does a few things:

1. Applies financial pressure to fix the problem.

2. Is generally confidential, protecting both your reputation and your former employers'.

3. If you have a credible claim, rewards you financially for doing your civic duty.

Until you're ready to file a law suit, you want to act professionally at work, and play the role of a good employee. There is absolutely no upside to doing anything else -- whether to your career, or to your odds of winning a law suit. Think about it. You're on a jury. Case 1: There's a clear rockstar employee, who loves the work, and leaves because of alleged harassment. Case 2: An underperforming employee gets fired after bitching out their employer. They claim harassment. How does that bias you? You're upper management. You get similar claims. How do you behave? You're a future employer, co-worker, etc.

This stuff ain't rocket science. You're not in kindergarden anymore.
Your own link says "The main reason women give is dissatisfaction with their pay and promotional opportunities".

So it's not harassment.

So basically they leave for the same reasons men leave.

I've never been promoted, ever. I got a salary raise once, I think. I increased my pay by switching jobs, just like 95% of the IT people out there.
hi, thank you for your opinion, when you say ' I try to delete an arbitrary post I get a JSON parse error'

is not a parse error, is a error because you are not owner of that post, i handled that error. the message for that error is "Only the owner of the group or of the post can delete post" so i do not undestand whay you say is unhandled exception.

this is no imitation 4chan/8chan this website use the concept of the chan forums but is not a copy of them, i reinvented a old idea and improve it, like facebook reinvented myspace or like google reinvented the internet search engines.

when you say 'none of the links in the footer appear to work because of multiple js errors' is 'not multiple js errors' that is a lie, is because i have this "<a href="#">name_link</a>" at href i have # is for that not work yet

always when a startup start begins is no necessary to have all complete, have you ever read some essay of paul graham?? i invite you to read it

that is all, thank you
A year is not along time 10-20 years is a long time
Most of these people, I'm sure, had their real name on the account, or had their account linked to from some page with their real name, so Googling for their handle would easily find it.

At that point, as he mentioned, many of these people were college athletes, so their names would also show up on rosters and various campus newspaper accounts of games.

While it is possible to harass anonymously if you try, it's pretty likely that many of these people didn't even try; they just didn't think and said the first thing that came to mind that they knew would get a rise out of Curt Schilling.
"The average 15-year-old girl devotes five-and-a-half hours a week to homework, an hour more than the average boy, who spends more time playing video games and trawling the internet."

I think it shouldn't be underestimated when it comes to gender gap in tech. The sad (and short) story is that a lot of teaching is uncoupled from the future career life. Vide http://xkcd.com/519/
As a woman in this industry, you have to be twice as good as men to be taken seriously. Thankfully that is easy.
Would not any human-devised outcome, no matter how intellectually superior its capacities, ultimately be secondarily dependent on the same metabolic laws as humans, even if in a different order of magnitude? I mean those delimiting laws would not disappear. Their indefatigability is powered somehow, and our fatiguability is adaptive.
Do you have an About page? How are you acquiring your network/database of caliber engineers for these start-ups? What are you going to charge after a limited time?
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I tried to formulate a response to it as well, but it was impossible to even figure out where to begin. I'm thankful I'm at a company that proves all of his assumptions wrong.
It destroys the accuser -- I don't want to hire a liability. She may make a similar accusation at my company.

It destroys the accused -- again, I don't want to hire a liability. He may harass someone at my company.

Quite frankly, in a situation like this, I personally wouldn't take a risk hiring either of them. I have a lot of job candidates, and there's no reason to take a risk. Googling someone before you hire them is universal, and a news story like this basically kills careers forever.

It also hurts the employer -- I don't want to work for for a company where this stuff happens -- but much less so.
It might even end up fulfilling some of the goals from Tim Sweeney's "The Next Mainstream Programming Language" talk from way back.
I signed up for this last month. Apparently only most things are free, as I got a bill for $4 after one month. I tried contacting support to figure out what's up with that. I haven't heard back yet.
Can we change the perception of the wrist turn?
Why is it so hard for twitter to implement some optional filter for this stuff?

You have a complete history of a users tweets and a record of how long the person has been active, number of followers, textual analysis of the tweets, block/mute status with respect to other people, whether you follow ect. It seems like it should be really easy for twitter to put messages into a spam/harassment folder, never to be seen by the target.
Pretty much. Sadly people will do the dumbest things for attention. Just look at the number of down right degrading "entertainment" shows that are out there, and that they seem to never run out of participants.
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So that makes it okay?
Should you use an algorithm that appears to be protected by a patent?
When I have looked at Google API's they always seem to be half completed and badly documented.
Graduate degrees make sense almost always, as long as the prestige and quality of the graduate program is an order of magnitude better than your undergraduate alma mater.

The calculation is trivial -- top masters programs often publish entry and mid career salary information.