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>A colleague of mine purchases fresh laptops for when he goes overseas and then never uses them again. He doesn't even work in an industry where commercial secrets are common. I'd hope that anywhere that features security implications or commercial secrets would also act at this level.

IMO that's an overkill. Why not just use ICloak [1] or Tails [2]? They are both Linux distributions which boot from USB stick without touching hard drive, randomize MAC address and give you access to Tor and other goodies.

[1]: https://icloak.org/

[2]: https://tails.boum.org/
> We still believe Xen is currently the most secure hypervisor available, mostly because of its unique architecture features, that are lacking in any other product we are aware of.

Does anyone know why KVM would be considered less secure than Xen?
> However, promisey code is still hard to read, because promises are basically a bolt-on replacement for language primitives like try, catch, and return

I find promises quite readable when combined with arrow functions. async/await certainly is nice, but the difference in readability doesn't seem that big to me.
Awesome, I will note that and pursue it in time. That sounds very inspiring. As a writer I do enjoy the guidance both from Stephen King's craft discussions, but also the James A Michener Writer's Handbook [1]. Art is work, no doubt in my mind.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/James-Micheners-Writers-Handbook-Explo...
Being able to change it on a per connection basis is required for earlier applications. If we use Wordpress as an example, upon initial connection it will set the SQL mode to what it is compatible with (magento, drupal, others also do similar).

Integrity can also not be upheld if applications lie. i.e. I always enter the same incorrect birthday if an application asks me for this, but I don't think they have a reason for it.
Yeah, we're still working on keeping the data completely up to date - this will be corrected pretty soon though.
I'm totally being helpful. If you increase the sincerity of the code (and remove the stupid non-apology and change the spiteful name) and provide more diverse oversight then you will have an immediate positive impact.
If you like that low contrast style you might like the zenburn emacs theme. It is a bit too low contrast for me so I use hc-zenburn (high contrast zenburn)
More production use means more attention. Plenty of security issues everywhere.
I recently got back from my second trip to Disney World in which I had a Magic Band, the first time it was still test phase and had lots of kinks. This time around it worked flawlessly. To get into the park it requires you to scan your fingerprint as well, to buy anything with a credit card linked to your account or use your dining plan requires your pin number. Other than that it's pretty much tap and go.

The crazy part about the band that scares me is how much you are tracked because of it. After getting back we noticed we had Photo Pass photos, you know the photos after you get off the ride you used to buy. Now these photos are all digital and online, normally requiring you to tap your band at the end of the ride. Well they were just loaded onto our account, we never even scanned our bands for these rides or anything.

At the resorts you can buy a refillable mug, or you are given one on the dining plan. This refillable mug has an RFID chip in them, same with the paper cups. You must place your mug/cup on the sensor below your drink option in order for it to be read and dispense your drink. You can only get so much dispensed in a certain amount of time, or it will just stop dispensing. I also believe they had or used to have a limit per day on refills, I never hit it.

Not to mention their "free" Wi-Fi that they highly promote. I'm curious what all is going on behind the scene and how much is being used. Because they obviously now are tracking what I drink, where I stay, how much money I spend, where I am in the park, what rides I go on, etc.
Unit Tests are a god send when you have good coverage on a legacy large project.

Refactor code, and it gives you that much more confidence you have not broken anything.

They're seriously useful mid-later stages of a project, which is probably why startups devs aren't doing them...
Several web serials, as a matter of fact. Ed stories, Fine Structure, and Ra (his most recent). Sam's work is a bit unpolished and suffers heavily from a lack of planning (Ra's ending is a great demonstration of that as Sam himself said that it got away from him). But it's still some of the most amazing sci-fi I've read.
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Blockchain pruning would drastically reduce the size and it could be implemented relatively easily but it's not on the standard client(or any other afaik). You only need to keep unspent transactions (after you're confident a block reorganisation wouldn't go as deep as the block where you're pruning old tx).
When I have edited people's writing, at times I have been too scathing and when I was in my twenties, a few writers even called me abusive. When I am stressed out and faced with what I consider incompetence, I don't always do a good job of controlling what I will write. I have deeply insulted people in my time, including people who were doing things for me for free. Heck, go through my comment history. A few days ago, I was so scathing on a Show HN that I am scared I actually destroyed an entrepreneur's confidence.

I'm only sharing this because I'm not particularly qualified to answer this question. Personally, I don't find LT all that bad, but that might be because at various points, I have been worse.

Had situations been reversed a decade ago, I would have been much more difficult for Hypatia to deal with than she was for me. Again, she was reasonable, she was 100% correct, and she had cause to roast me and the company I worked for over the coals. Despite this, she was kind and helpful. Heck, my boss yelled at me every time she emailed me, yet I have enjoyed and learned from every single interaction I have ever had with her.

In light of how she behaved in contrast with how I would have, I trust that she is better qualified to make statements like this. Not only is she more talented than I am, but she is far better at communicating through difficult times than I am. It is unfortunate that Twitter confines you to 140 character bursts because 140 does not give much space to be constructive. I hope we get to hear how Hypatia would change that document because personally, I would learn from that.
I didn't say anything about wanting more Calvin and Hobbes. I agree the strip ran its natural course.

Are you honestly of the opinion Bill Watterson is/was only capable of that one strip?

My point is that he had a platform to do all sorts of other artistic endeavors...completely unrelated to Calvin and Hobbes.

He did nothing.
Ah yes, the ANAL stack. It's really nice, if you can talk your boss into allowing it.
TLDR: Bill Watterson did an interview and you can buy it. It was great. It was great. It was great.

What an empty article. I kept reading hoping to get some information. I guess they were worried the would get in trouble for quoting any of the interview?
I use sanityinc-tomorrow-night which is pretty similar:
https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow
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I believe there are proposals to allow pruning the blockchain, but I'm not 100% sure on the details.

To guarantee a transaction goes through you have to wait for it to be confirmed, but most transactions really aren't that important/high risk, so beyond checking that the address does actually have the money, it's instantaneous. Many payment processors (I know Bitpay has this option) actually take the 0 confirmation transaction risk, allowing customers to pay instantly.

Transaction fees are not high, with a typical fee of .0001 bitcoin (3 cents), which is small compared to credit card fees. While work needs to be done converting to/from cash, actually using bitcoin (that you already have) to buy things is a better experience than using credit cards. You simply grab your phone, scan the QR code, and hit send. This is much better than entering your credit card for the thousandth time on another website, or being redirected to paypal, entering your password, and choosing your preferred payment option for the thousandth time (stop asking me to use Paypal Credit!).

Using an Android wallet such as Mycelium, or a desktop wallet like Electrum doesn't require you to download the entire blockchain, and although that comes at the cost of some trust, I personally don't find that problematic.

Basically, bitcoin has some problems, but I think some of your criticisms are no longer applicable to most everyday usage of it.
No way, man. Their reviews are solid.
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I didn't even click the article because, AFAIK, no one has "unlocked" autism yet and thought it was spam.

"May" or "might" would have made the tense clearer.
CPM rates for enterprise technology sites are significantly higher.
Shameless plug:

I created an ST3 plugin called SynCycle[1]. It switches themes at sunrise and sunset.

e.g. a light theme during daytime and dark theme during nighttime.

For who's interested: you can install it with Package Control.

[1]: https://github.com/smhg/sublime-suncycle
Yes, click on the link to their Github page.
In particular when you're developing in languages which are insecure by design.
Testing obviously takes time. The problem with not having tests is that it takes time, but you don't necessarily know that it's taking time or how much. Lots of people think they are too smart to need tests, and it's just a waste of their time. But they are spending huge amounts of time fighting bugs, and even more bugs are getting out to users.
Humble: A front end framework for Go
You can easily port it:

Step 1: write down the colors for default foreground face, background face, keyword face, string face, comment face, functionname face, type face, variable face and constant face.

Step 2: Go to http://emacs-theme-creator.appspot.com/, paste the colors and click done.

Step 3: have fun with your new emacs theme.
This looks great.

Here's the best Sublime replacement icon I've found: http://dewith.com/2014/muir-yosemite-icons-volume-ii/
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gruvbox theme for Vim is very similar.

https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
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I think what they are saying is the kind of tests they see in a corporate environment are not the kind that add any value to the refactoring process (or worse, inhibit it).
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Even if you hadn't seen it before, it's clear enough in context.
Full text is here:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-015-0451-7/f...

They correlate something called "Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI)", which is a (short) questionnaire, with the impressions of observers.

So they are saying that scores on the ASI correlated with the various interpretations.
Apple's product lineup keeps on growing and growing. Wonder if this is a good direction? Now there are five different iPad models, five different laptops and three desktops.

Sometimes choice is good, sometimes not. It used to be that buying an Apple did not require too much thinking because there were not that many to choose from.
Yeah the article sucked, I think people just upvote because it's Bill Watterson in the title.
A new paper argues that the handshake may have evolved to judge scent signals
So soon we forget about this last discussion "Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8824691
> anyone could fork a program and release an identical, competing version of it. And still, all of the developers I interviewed considered the right to fork to be a cornerstone of open source software.

I have two problems with this article (and probably thesis).

First you can not just fork and release identical version of program. Most licenses require to use different project name, clear author identification and so on. If you fork and release Firefox with some spyware, you probably get sued by Mozilla.

And secondly forking is not 'right'. Rights have to be codified, are guaranteed by someone and can be taken away. Ability to create fork is just something which is not forbidden.
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In the U.S. the cheapest Mac Air with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD is the 11", which sells for $1,199. That's compared to the new Macbook's $1,299. That they barely differ in price is precisely the thing that struck me most.
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What about putting it in a plastic bag, with big sticker - "DO NOT PLUG THIS INTO ANY DEVICE. " :)
I don't think jrochkind1 was appealing to any kind of universal principle, he was just pointing out that there are many ways of coercing people to have sex, and some of the violent ways of doing it aren't obviously worse than some of the non-violent ones. That certainly raises the question of whether we'd want to make a sharp legal distinction between violent and non-violent coercion in the specific case of rape. As some other people have pointed out, it's important to distinguish times when it is and isn't useful to go into a philosophical discussion. If you want to figure out some kind of moral axiom system that makes it possible to "prove" that one form of forced sex is or isn't as bad as another, then that's best saved for a philosophy seminar. In practical terms, it's obvious that there's a danger of minimizing the significance of non-violent forms of sexual coercion due to the view that these don't count as rape.
there's a couple of missing stars in that command between the slashes.
That said, this didn't replace the icon for me.
I needed to touch the app folder as well for the update to work

touch /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app
rm /var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.dock.iconcache;killall Dock
What's with all the kukuruku articles on the front page? Where did this site come from?
You've hit on a key point: the ability to measure ROI with digital media has drastically changed the advertising landscape. Magazine advertising has always had notoriously low impact, as an example.

Considering that prior to the web, the most trackable advertising was direct mail.
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Why Color failed
No kidding; so far as I can tell, the first ~15 paragraphs are all essentially paraphrases of each other. I like C&H as much as the next guy, but is this much... breathlessness really called for?
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Hiding in plain sight. There is so much crud, in so many menus, you tend to not read them after a while. I still have no fucking clue what Services are for, yet it's in the first menu of every application, and has been for years. (Probably something useful.)
We are entering a where people have huge potentials. It's not that everybody adds some value, but that anybody could add a huge amount of value, and we have no means of knowing who.

It may end before it fully starts, if computers do replace us. If not, things may get quite interesting (in a good way).
It sounds like some variant of the hardware Bitcoin bank idea that has been floating around the valley.

The rough sketch of the idea is

-Hardware device runs a full security bitcoin node in your house
-Provides a multisig for your mobile wallet.
-Automatically moves savings into cold storage
-Provides a basic environment for implementing crypto banking features
Only reason I wrote 'is/was' because it's been a couple of years since I used Tornado and other Python HTTP servers might have gotten better. I hack node all day now.
Colours are decided by the scheme though I believe.
You are exactly right. There were issues at UBM that had nothing to do with the industry at large. And GigaOm just had too much debt to overcome (IMHO). Many, many other tech pubs are thriving online, in site growth, revenue and profit.
I'd much rather have my iPhone hacked by Anonymous
> I suspect the black market is adequately efficient at self-policing when there's money involved.

I suspect that too, and this is something I'd really want to read more about - how does self-policing work in black markets and how effective is it. If anyone has any good sources, I'd be grateful for sharing.

RE fraud prevention, there were two interesting lines in the Starfighter's announcement:

> We assess for skill first, passively as players play our games and then actively. Our founders — talented technologists — personally reconstruct candidates’ solutions and evaluate them.

> We follow-up with players to ask if they have any interest in a no-obligation chat about career options. If they’re interested, we have an honest geek-to-geek conversation.

I suspect that between the first and the second there will be a place for Starfighter team to verify that the candidate has the skills his account shows. After all, if they want to maintain the access "deep into the hiring funnel", they have a strong incentive not to send bad candidates and waste their clients' time.
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Just keep in mind that it's incredibly difficult to make anything a 100% secure. The Blackphone gets some interesting things right, but they have/had bugs too:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/bug-in-ultra-secure-...
There's a daily newspaper comic called Frazz that has constant C&H references. The conceit is that Frazz is Calvin after he grew up and decided to work as a school janitor to be around kids. https://www.uclick.com/client/sea/fz/
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The blockchain ends up being useful as a public secure ledger, so perhaps it's going to be used in that way somehow.

Otherwise, I don't know of many companies who've actually worked into the space of the less well-known features of bitcoins that can be used via the embedded pseudo-language.
Not at all. Both are about not conforming to unstated conventions. A lot of what's been written about "unprofessional" applies equally well to "offensive".
Exactly as much good as Bill Watterson wanted it to.
Me too. I'm currently using 'jellybeans' as my default and I love it but I'd give a try to this one.
> actually using bitcoin (that you already have) to buy things is a better experience than using credit cards

It's just not. It's not easier than swiping a magnetic strip and signing something, or typing in sixteen digits (or using autofill or the site's previously saved CC info) and pressing buy.

It's not good that I can't demand a return or have recourse in the event of fraud. And it's not a benefit that with bitcoin I have to spend the money first (to buy bitcoin) and wonder if it will hold its value, versus just buying stuff when I feel like it on credit and covering the transaction within 30 days at no interest cost.

I know there are a lot of people who really want your above quoted statement to be true. But, for now and the forseeable future, it isn't.
When I read some of that stuff back in 2010 I was curious why some of the targets didn't try to understand how they were compromised and then publish the details. Especially attacks with such an, errr, tangible vector of infection.

Clearly some attacks are quite stealthy and difficult to characterize, but some are not, and in the 2010-era reporting about Chinese computer espionage against travelers to China many targets seemed to believe that they had confirmed the compromises.

So people could have taken a computer with some extra sensors or logging processes, a different OS than usual, and then publish the results, helping defend similarly situated others, including their own coworkers. If they believe the attacks are pervasive today, they could do this today.
I write lots of unit tests. One thing I'm struggling with now is the organization of a large number of tests. It's hard to know what I have tests for without going into my tests directory and reading comments. Even then, I feel like I could do more to have a "big picture" overview of my testing strategy rather than seeing a bunch of one-off tests. I haven't quite figured out what that should look like.

I think the IDE could do more in some cases. For example, when unit testing a method, I'd like to be able to tag a reference to the method I'm testing. Then, when I'm in my code, my IDE could show me the docstrings of tests I have for that method.

It's the difference between "hello world" and software design principles used to build large scale systems. I see lots of "hello world" for testing, but not much of the other side. Does anyone have suggestions?
Usually the first 3-5 characters are the grantee code and the rest is the product code. For this product, Q3E is the grantee code for Disney.
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* corruption (what's the main cause of your second bullet, is a direct cause of stagnating wages, and is a big cause of market power concentration - a bullet you missed)
Customs officals are agents of another, sometimes hostile, power.

If your risk assessment says you're worried about AoHPs then you can't trust your computer after they've had it in their possession.
Socialised risk and privatised reward is how government should work.

Banks take (less than they used to, since some legislation was brought back) insane risks because they know Joe public will cover disastrous losses when it goes wrong, and the bankers can keep the massive profits when they get lucky. Socialised risk, private profit.
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It's not just sublime, you can find the same thing for old textmate themes and even some vim themes.
I thought he had said that he quit because he didn't like being a celebrity, and people were constantly invading his privacy and considered his personal life fair game because he was famous. I even heard a rumor that he painted a watercolor landscape every day and then burned it so no fans would be creeping around trying to get their hands on one.
Before this I was using Soda Dark 3 -- also a theme which changes tabs, etc.

After installing Afterglow, my tabs and sidebar are badly distorted and garbled after restarting SublimeText3 with the configuration lines added.

Am I missing something, or do I need to clear something?
How much Bitcoin do the founders, employees, or investors own? Curious to see what real gains they could realize if they succeed in making people see Bitcoin as a legitimate means of payment.
CIA sought to hack Apple iPhones from earliest days: The Intercept
I didn't know people were forcing you to use their libraries.

If you want the freedom to do whatever you want with your code, then write it all from scratch.
In a way Calvin was growing up and becoming a more introspective and thereby pessimistic person growing into young adulthood, leaving his carefree days behind. At least that is what I took from it. Then the last panel, if I remember correctly, was an ode to the carefree days of childhood.
Well, look at it this way; the politicians raise money so they can campaign to us, the citizens. So obviously our voice still matters. We're just not using it.

Thankfully, for the most part, its not dangerous (yet) to exercise our right to contact our representatives.
1) they sure did advance technologically. Compare the Clovis culture of the Lithic stage to the Aztecs of the Post-Classic stage.

2) The book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" goes into this topic in detail, without starting from the wrong premise that Native Americans made no technological advancements.