skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If AT&T is using this for advertising then I wonder what net effect it would have to take advantage of the no data cap on home Internet and serve them up a heaping helping of contradictory data. If you automate a process to search anything and everything (within reason) then their targeted advertising becomes...nonspecific advertising.

Amazon goes to AT&T to ask what users are searching and buy that data -> AT&T says they're searching everything -> Amazon stops writing checks to AT&T since this does them no good as far as choosing what to sell to which individuals.
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> Automated discovery and exploitation of architectural flaws is merely the next step in the evolution of software.

> This has an end condition, of course - and that is the total loss of control over our technological infrastructure.

Why can't you use the same technology to defend your software?
>I'm always happy to see a site using HTTPS but people need to understand that means no more HTTP assets - this is really basic and cannot be overlooked. If you want HTTP great, stick with it and quit dabbling with HTTPS.

It's probably a plugin of yours causing the mixed-content issues, since this post links to the HTTP version.
Maybe so. On the other hand, a lawyer who loses too many cases is likely being too aggressive on behalf of clients with poor claims, to the detriment of the client, the other party and society in general.
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What do you propose as a solution to Hobson's choice?
Doesn't it also have requirements (which may or may not be strongly enforced) that users are not allowed to run their own kernel code? (because you could then undermine most of the point of this whole system.) With possible key revocation (blacklisting) being the enforcement?

The cost alone is one thing, that'd only ruin the ability of hobbyists to create new OSes. Something exceedingly rare anymore, sadly.

But the restrictions stating what your kernel is allowed to let you do is quite another. I want the ability to write my own kernel space drivers on my own hardware, if I so choose (and I have done so in the past.)
Doug, if you use a Linux distro that is not signed, then yes, it is an issue because you will have to track down laptops that allow allow disabling secure boot. BTW, I didn't intend to sound flippant in my original comment, it is just that as I get older (I turn 2^8 next month, yeah :-) I am more concerned with convenience, fun and productive development environments, etc.
Just pointing you to @sama response.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9239370

I am from Pakistan and was funded by YC. I know at least 6 people in current batch who are from Pakistan however we were not running our startups from Pakistan. I have seen startups from multiple regions.Being from PK obviously reduces your chances because of the small market size if you are focused locally. In addition, VC like to invest in bigger economies and a startup close to them. Exceptions already exist.

Summary: If you are from PK, be extremely good
> If Microsoft’s stance on this issue is not reversed it’s possible we will see a spike in sales by manufacturers such as System76 and ZaReason who ship computers running Linux out of the box without any signs of Secure Boot at all.

Come on. I prefer BSD based OSX and Linux myself, but to think that a large enough number of buyers care about Linux support to "spike" sellers is just silly. It's done well on servers, but it's a very small market for consumers. Not to mention Ubuntu and RedHat are compatible, so it isn't even an issue for some of the biggest distributions.
Paying to get rid of ads since you chose a free app that is supported by ads over a paid app isn't nearly the same.
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Is there any evidence that MS's recent OSS efforts are a reflection of anything other than the fact that Ballmer, who was ideologically against OSS, has left and so now MS can act rationally and use the OSS community the same way many other large companies do?

If working with the OSS community is in their own immediate self interest -- and I'm curious whether someone can point out something they've done that isn't -- I don't know how much light it sheds on an area such as OEMs where their self interest is best served by locking linux out.
That's not a contradiction, it's a context sensitive definition substitution.
As a fellow devop, I say that you shouldn't need drugs to do your job. IF you have to stay that late all every day, its time to rip it all out and start again...

to quote from drugs.com:

"Lisdexamfetamine is a drug of abuse and may be habit-forming."

But that said, you've heard these all before.

To new users; Long term use usually requires higher doses, the longer you're on them the worse the withdrawl symptoms. The majority of these drugs work in a similar way to coke, with all the either positive/negative personality changes that come with them.
The negative impact is not on the average Linux user who just runs a distro, but it will be bad for anyone who wants to compile and run their own kernels.

It will be bad for the average Linux user, because whoever has the signing keys can decide what Linux distributions a user can run and what versions not.

Let's not forget that e.g. Mint also started out as a distribution with a tiny user base. They are now big, because users could install and try Mint. In a UEFI world without unlockable boot loaders it's game over for OS competition, because parties can be excluded because they are too small, too competitive, or just because.
Same reason someone should be taxed to fund the police even if said person can afford a private security guard.

Social good.
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When compared to placebo, Melatonin has no significant side effects[0]

[0]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278206/
is there some consensus in the research community about what will be a good replacement for the von neumann machines we are currently running?

Take this with a grain of salt because my exposure is admittedly limited, but what I've seen of the "research community" is that many of them are pro-DRM, pro-anti-user-security, and are mainly interested in furthering such technologies without considering the wider implications. I once asked someone with a vision of making all systems written with formally-verified provably safe languages what he thought of jailbreaks, console homebrew, and all the other exploits that bring freedom. His response was that they shouldn't exist.

I'm not really pleased with what Intel has been doing with x86 recently, but fortunately it wasn't always that way and a huge amount of software and documentation was created during that time so we don't have to start from nothing at all. IBM released schematics and BIOS listings for all the models of PC up to the AT. Thus it could be better to "fork the PC"; but individuals have designed and built their own CPUs and complete systems before, so a from-scratch design is still quite doable for a crowd:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/ringhome.html

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/
Hi .. you are right the location is not really relevant for a software company but we support many different business types where location is relevant and different services exist for different parts of the world .. such as restaurants, salons etc.

We do add other categories as we support new services that require further classification ... but it really comes down to are there any services that are only relevant to a specific subset of software companies and if there are some we will add the subcategories.
the only reason my home does not have 4 ms surface pro is because Linux support will be poor.

if they already sold it with dual boot i mighty even be tempted to switch to use windows mostly with time, but on blind faith it ain't going to happen at all.
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Pumping isn't great, but actually nursing a baby can be wonderful. It releases hormones, and is generally very relaxing for me if my baby is calm.
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn168167.aspx

"All Certified For Windows 8 PCs allow you to trust a noncertified bootloader by adding a signature to the UEFI database, allowing you to run any operating system, including homemade operating systems."

That's listed separately from disabling secure boot, which is what this article (and the previous Ars Technica article) are about.

Is there any reason to think that this part has changed?
You can solve this in one of two ways:

1. Whatever mechanisim you're using to send data to Graylog, you send that data to S3 as well. You can then reload Graylog at anytime with S3 data.

2. Backup your Elasticsearch nodes to S3

I should've mentioned I run this in AWS. Sorry about that!
I think a lot of people already did this (including me) and they're probably flooded with offers. Thanks for the support though, I'm sure they're happy about any they get. It's about time to demolish the great firewall of China. :-)
So what if Microsoft decide to no longer allow Ubuntu or Redhat to get signed keys?
In France ADHD is not in the book of diseases for adults, so the psychiatrist didn't even want to try a diagnostic (and I guess he didn't have the standard tools to do it).
It doesn't rule it out per se, but just rendering a texture is much easier, with fewer dependencies. Android toolbar icons are PNG, not SVG. Most renderers have trouble with all but the simplest SVGs (filters, etc. can be a pain in the ass – Inkscape renders them nicely to PNG and I just don't have to worry). There's a trade-off everywhere and all my solution did was take input SVGs and render the PNGs in various sizes which we previously had to maintain by hand. If rendering vector graphics would have been a major competitive advantage to the app I'm sure it would have been considered ;-)
Why is that not a great sign. All security bugs are non-public, even on Firefox, until they are fixed. The fact that they are non-public is arguably a sign someone looked at the bug and marked it a security issue which also means it's likely being actively worked on.

Keeping the public just means if you want own people's machines you could scan the bug database for bugs marked as "security" and exploit to your heart's content until they were fixed.
Thankfully, that's just about any x86 laptop at present.
It's good that most of future customers will see it at the end of year at best. Old customers won't.
what is your position on non-US focused startups. We are applying based on an article on Techinasia about YC warming up to Asia focused startups as well.

We have applied to other accelerators in the US and made it all the way before being told "oh hey.. non US focus".
Like an autopilot in a plane, I imagine that there are some problems that a self driving car cannot or should not attempt to solve.

This shifts the ethical and moral burden to the human driver as it should be.

Though Armstrong in "Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence" makes an interesting point:

"these programs [autopilots and stock trading programs] occasionally encounter unexpected situations where humans must override, correct or rewrite them. But these overseers, who haven't been following the intricacies of the algorithm's decision process and who don't have the hands-on experience of the situation, are often at a complete loss as to what to do - and the plane or the stock market crashes."

This is pretty much what happened in AF447 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447). In a self-driving car case, I hope the human will be able to exercise at least a defensible judgement.

I find the future of ethics of intelligent machines fascinating. I plan to put a lot more energy into this area.
Who needs karma anyway:

http://xkcd.com/1455/
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L-Theanine. Recently went through an interview spree. Helps me get rid of nervousness and focus on solving problems. Naturally found in tea leaves but obviously in small dosage. Can't confirm side-effects but sometimes gives me headache if I drink beer on the same day, particularly IPAs!
And it's misguided, unfortunately. Companies go to the west cost because investors want them to (which is somewhat one of the same types of problems as tech culture diversity), and you're failing to tap some MAJOR tech centers. It also massively increases costs of living, and reduces diversity of ideas.

SF talent is on the same level of experience and variability, though if anything it's easier for people to job hop.

But what it really does is fail to capitilize on the assets of an entire nation (or nations, in the case where people from other countries think they also need to move).
> I read an article a couple of months back (like October-Novemberish 2014) about the NSA putting a virus into the firmware of a RAID controller on some Dell servers that would patch Windows Server 2003 (R2?) during startup.

The NSA and the PRC will get their payloads signed with the appropriate keys. Everyone else will do something cheaper and simpler, like reading their target's gmail accounts.

> So, while I am by no means a security expert, I have been wondering the same thing. The entire "Secure Boot" stuff just seems like a lame excuse to allow vendors control over what operating systems you can boot on their devices.

Yes: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html [1]

[1]: It's worth noting that mjg59 is a big secure boot fan, and did most/all of the Linux implementation.
no - Gnome extensions are installed in 5 seconds from a browser. It is very different than the experience of traditional installing.

It is one of those It-Just-Works experiences.
No, because Adderall messes with my creativity.

I was doing a math major in college, and whenever I took adderall (legally prescribed) before doing a p-set, I always came up with a long and unelegant solution to a problem. It seemed to motivate me to work very hard, but not to work smart.

No idea if this was just something I had in my head or there is some neurochemical basis for it.
Ouch. This is terrible.
Motherboards were produced with flash write-enable jumpers around the end of the last century, but my guess is that the cost savings of omitting the part and not requiring users to physically move the switch whenever reflashing BIOS, combined with what seems to be now perpetually buggy BIOSes needing constant updates, made them disappear. I think it's still a good idea, however.

Regarding the switches/jumpers, hardware is now complex enough to set up that a wakeup after suspend requires more data than what CPUs can store by themselves to revive memory without data loss. That data ends up in flash, so something needs to change in that area before a flash chip could be write protected with a jumper.

How much data is this? I thought it'd be stored in the CMOS NVRAM, which could be a better design.
Plus, you know, Dell will ship you a laptop with Ubuntu on it.
I told ffmpeg to use `-r 25` but the console output says `fps=7.6`.

I just put it together in a few hours to see if it was possible. Given the unexpected interest in it, I'll put some more work to see where we can take it.
surely Comodo can check if there is an existing cert?
To do that, you'd also have to harden everything - including the hard drive's firmware - so you get the proper boot sector.

Not all bios bugs can be worked around in firmware -- if the memory controller isn't initialized correctly, all processing is suspect. And if the manufacturer can't fix a bios, then it falls on the shoulders of the OS writers -- who do not have neither the motivation to fix 100's of board-specific problems. Worse yet, if I wanted to inject malware, I would pretend to be a motherboard manufacturer and submit bad kernel code to beleaguered OS people.
> Domain validated SSL was always a bad idea.

I strongly disagree. We need to move towards using TLS everywhere and part of doing that is making it easy for everyone to get a cert. You can validate domain control through DNS / whois records instead of the standard group of admin email address.
Oh man, I remember getting deep into this because of "Denthor's Asphyxia Tutorials" in pascal and C - I went looking for them again recently, but ended up just chasing a trail of dead links: does anyone have them lying around?!
Not a nootropic per say but I've noticed a huge difference since focusing on my general health;

1) 7-8 hours sleep per night.

2) 1 hour of exercise per day (some days cardio, other days weights(focus on compounds; squat, deadlift, bench press, shoulder press, pullups, rows))

(for people thinking "I'm too busy to spend an hour of my day exercising". I think the productivity increase of clearing your head doing this exercise more than makes up for the hour it takes.)

3) balanced diet consisting of fresh natural foods. (fruit, veg, meat, fish etc. not frozen meals, microwave food where your not quite sure what's in it)

Found I've lost weight, cardiovascular endurance has increased, I'm stronger and just feel a lot better.

So my advice would be try and do all the above before taking any drugs that aren't very well researched and could cause long term issues.
No. Don't use music or any other form of noise to drown out ambient sounds at work. It causes slow but irreversible damage to your hearing. In game theory terms, such an act constitutes rewarding defection (employer insisting on open plan office) with cooperation (harming yourself in an attempt to help your employer) - always a bad move.
there's no reason having a cert should prevent you from registering another one, afaik. There are plenty of reasons you might legitimately want to do that, and running the certpatrol firefox extension shows that lots of sites change cert (and even issuer CA) fairly regularly.
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I read the changefeeds post, but I don't think I understood exactly what they're for. Would clients be talking directly to the database, or would a persistent app worker block on database updates and then send this to the client?
Care to back that up? Please list this "lot" of WebGL and Native Client exploits. AFAIK there's been < 5 total over 5 years. Compared to the total number of exploits that's certainly doesn't seem like WebGL nor Native Client are an issue.

As for rarely used, I'd guess Google Maps is a pretty well used site that uses WebGL.
CMOS NVRAM addresses 256 bytes (minus 16 for the clock).

Unfortunately that's not enough. Maybe things could be stored smarter, given that the data should have some structure, but the raw format is ~2000 bytes, IIRC.
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I would be more worried about other OS projects that are either too disorganized to meet whatever the signing qualifications are, or have ideological issues which prevent them from participating.
This was one of the reasons I left AT&T.

They have hotspots everywhere that my phone would connect to and they inevitably either sucked or were located just far enough away from the store I was visiting that the phone could connect but not get usable internet.

I'd have to keep turning wi-fi off in order to use the internet, then naturally I'd forget to turn it back on.

Between the removal of unlimited data plans and the strategic placement of wi-fi internet sabotage devices I wouldn't be surprised if I had to pay AT&T some overage as a result.

I'm on T-Mobile now with unlimited data and no useless hotspots.
I dunno.

When my new Nexus 7 tablet got "upgraded" to Android 5 it felt like a downgrade. WiFi worked OK before but now it is slow and unreliable on any network I try. Also the full disk encryption makes EVERYTHING slow.

Lots of vendors are releasing new tablets with Android 4.4 because the user experience is so much better. And don't get me started on the "Material Design" fanbois who just have to have their car and their house and their rug fit in with Material Design.

So far as I am concerned, Android 5 is like Windows 8 but the media is treating Google with kid gloves compared to Microsoft because if Bing dropped them out of the search results they wouldn't notice, but Google could put any media company out of business in an eyeblink.
Probably they're going to bash DDoS protection providers there in the future, who knows. ;-)
I'm a US citizen by birth. I just happen to have traveled and lived abroad for a time, and I find the labor laws especially, but the social welfare laws in general in the US to be rather backward and uncivilized: barbaric is a word I chose deliberately because in my opinion it is accurate.
We're far far away from autonomous driving software being at a state where this is an interesting question. And, PR aside, Tesla's latest update is the same sort of assistive driving tech that's already in a number of high-end cars. It's not self-driving in that the driver is supposed to remain alert (and remains fully responsible for being in control of the vehicle).

We do seem to be rapidly heading toward an "interesting" place where assistive driving technologies are good enough that a lot of people realistically won't pay attention while driving (given that plenty of people text and use their phones even without such technologies).
Feature idea: BRUSH. After finishing a shape or stroke, call it a brush and drag it.

Brush from a shape (like in the example chevron):

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This would also ease creating complex strokes with rounded corners: with ellipses or other rounded shapes as a brushes.
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I'm looking into a CRLSet push to block this certificate in Chrome now.
At the simplest level, because we the people design laws that allow the company to exist. Without our consent, these invented human things called companies would have no legal standing. So, because we say it should be so.
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Why is this comment being downvoted? The explanation is correct and the analogy quite good too!
Jail breaks shouldn't (need to) exist, but physical presence triggered introduction of a new root trust should be a mandatory for locked down hardware.

Jail breaks are always a stop-gap measure, since they're quite obvious against the interest of the system designer, and so they'll work on plugging the holes.

At some point they will develop the safe methods themselves, and if we "shun" public work in that area, only jails will be safe, not the open spaces - which, among many other things, would be a PR nightmare for general purpose computing (Example: Apple and their "safe", filtered appstore).
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Good luck with your research! Peter Attia could be a good place to start -

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