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> Ok so given that this is a hardware flaw and not a software flaw is this kind of disclosure reasonable?

Yes. Always, always yes. Even if it's unfixable, ignorance of there even being a problem is not better.

> Is there anything analogous here for hardware?

Yes, actually. BIOS updates can include microcode updates and workarounds for hardware issues. Similarly if it takes a specific pattern to happen (which this almost certainly does as that's how these things work), that's going to be trivial for everyone's antivirus scanners to catch.
Your mention of the idea of DoSing someone's brain reminds me of Ewen Cameron's experiments attempting to "depattern" people.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation... )

Rather horrifying.
Ah, so base salary plus vested options, aka handcuffs.

And you're getting, on average, what, 400-500k a year in RSUs vesting?

Am I wrong is that basically bonkers as far as compensation goes? That feels at least a few standard deviations outside the mean... Which is great for you, and congratulations!

But "win the lottery" doesn't make for very compelling early retirement advice. :)
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Thx! Always got to have in mind :)
But you have the choice to use or not use those sites. You also have the ability to block those things. You can't block government surveillance.
Sending you positive energy. We all face that kind of thoughts on day. Life is yours; make it beautiful; pain won't last! I swear, believe me!
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It is not a rare case that some startup will have more seed capital than you and a lot more drive. They will probably have an entire team of hungry interns too working for free to push out product revisions. I say let them steal my ideas all they want, because frankly if my idea gains some weight, my job is done and I can go home. No I will not smoke a cigar in a Hawaiian beach house because of it, but that is not the point. If egoism and money gets in the way of idea dissemination we have a real problem.
Take that, iOS App Extensions.
You should post your to Show HN, it sounds like a something that HN community might like. But make it available, people in here will want to test it immediately.
Messages like this restore my faith in humanity. May everyone be so blessed as to have such a great community of caring people to reach out to in time of need -- it is a real privilege.
It's unsettling to see how irational people become when faced with the question of privacy.

It is obvious that in the next 10 years, privacy will become frowned upon.

I personally see surveillance as progress, and am ready to embrace it. Feel free to ask me anything about that.
Monetization just got a little tricker :( http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/04/facebook-lite-app
I've found that my weighting is a function of recall. The more often I recall a memory, the more likely I am to continue to remember it, conversely unrecalled memories tend to fade more and in a sense become compressed or move to cold storage which requires more concentration to recall.

I've always assumed this was an evolutionary result of weighting memories based on their usefulness, wherein the most useful memories are correlated with their recall frequency. I.e. they are the most useful for surviving my day to day life since I seem to need them a great number of times.
If that's the case, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on two things:

1) If you don't think that gender diversity is strongly related to education, why are you participating in a group that's designed specifically to address that problem?

2) Are there not qualified female candidates for running RailsGirls in your area? If not, why do you think that's the case?
Yes Good one!
We used C* for a similar use case and encountered some of the same issues.

The article doesn't even mention that there are a lot of places in the docs where it says: "If you configure a keyspace like this, your node will most likely crash". Not just degraded performance, any develeoper with some access might crash a node (and maybe the whole cluster) with a userspace error.

The main lesson I took away from Cassandra is that battle-tested@Netflix(/other bigcorp) doesn't mean resilient and might require a engineer on standby at all times to run correctly.
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I experience a very similar thing. You aren't alone in being able to look at meta-states of your mind and realize it's different, or things are slipping.

For me, I noticed I no longer had instant recall of various remote control buttons. Was a small thing, but until that time, I stored maps of buttons and modes for everything. Now, I sometimes do, but I find I have the general rules, and need to parse devices and apply them now, not just thought as action as it was before.
If you know how to block tracking by Google and the New York Times, you have the expertise to throw the Feds off the trail, too.

How many people know how to do this?
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That is the standard python convention.

https://docs.python.org/2/faq/programming.html#how-can-i-pas...
You have plenty of time. Here are some articles if you're ever feeling "too old" from reading HN:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235357
http://www.forbes.com/sites/krisztinaholly/2014/01/15/why-gr...
https://hbr.org/2013/06/entrepreneurs-get-better-with/
i think being 'half' racial in the US is an extremely complex and subtle experience of existence, and by entertaining the thought that this is somehow unique to japan is doing a huge disservice to the experience of being biracial or mixed in the US and anywhere in the world.

the reason it is notable is because it is notable almost anywhere on earth.
"Privately, there were moments when I worried that we might have put our privileged lives at risk for nothing — that the public would react with indifference, or practiced cynicism, to the revelations."

Except I don't see anything other than that. I don't see the world saying no to servailence. I see Europeans complaining about the NSA while turning a blind eye to their own governments doing the same thing, but that's nothing new. I see Americans demanding the government do whatever they can do 'stop terrorism.'

I only see people agreeing with Snowden and really being annoyed with the survailence because I frequent the small groups of people that do. Outside of that, I don't see it.
It's good to know that you're providing Linux PCs to those who can't afford them, but let's be realistic - unless they turn out to be really interested in computers, as soon as the kids start working and get some money, they'll go out and buy the same shiny iDevices that all their peers covet.
Except for the part when they will care eventually. Secrecy loves silence
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You can really build one for yourself today. Go get a wetsuit and start hiking through the desert in it. It'll capture all your water just fine.

Of course, you'll also die. The problem with a stillsuit is that you can either evaporate a given bit of water for cooling, or you can capture it, but you can not do both. It's physically implausible. Not necessarily impossible, because maybe hypothetically there's some way to concentrate more heat in less water, evaporate that, and recover the rest, although doing that with A: nothing but human power and B: not actually making it so much harder to walk that it's a net loss. And I'd say the efficiency number given in the book probably are impossible, probably provably so in some manner.
Yes it's a niche market, but the markup isn't there because the companies that make TBMs don't actually MAKE much of them. There are probably 100 or more companies that make the parts and the company that says "that'll be $15mm please" doesn't do a lot more than put together the design from the various parts and contract everything to be produced, manufactured, etc.

What they do have that you or I don't is contacts and business relationships with all the various suppliers and the knowledge of the myraid things that you need besides a bit spinny thing at the front, the conveyors that move the stuff out, and the hydraulics that move it forwards. In a very basic sense that's all a TBM is. But of course it probably does at least 20 other things that are absolutely vital to it functioning properly and efficiently.

But if a few senior guys decided that they wanted to work for themselves they could probably take enough supplier relationships and domain knowledge and start up another TBM company.
Did you see the episode of John Oliver's show recently about the subject? Oliver went out and asked people about it, and the general response was "Who is Edward Snowden? Didn't he release some documents that compromised the safety of the U.S.?" and "NSA? Privacy? Meh."

On HN and Reddit, there's plenty of knowledge of the subject because that's the kind of stuff we're interested in and concerned about. But most of society apparently couldn't care less.
Stolen from the top comment on Reddit:

> Providing homes does not equate building a brand new home. Why would people think that?

>> When land was not available for new homes, the Red Cross provided a range of housing solutions including rental subsidies, repairs and retrofitting of existing structures, fulfilling our promise to ensure tens of thousands of Haitians are back in homes

> Red Cross takes a tough stance in NOT paying off greedy government officials. Saying there was a lack of land is the same thing as saying they couldn't justify paying outrageous prices for land. Many charities have to enter environments like these knowing they are going to be inundated with scammers. And that's the kind of news they don't need, being tricked into doing business with them.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/38nkp8/the_red_cr...
Thinking of family and friends may be related to the distress that our friend finds unbearable.

I've been suicidal. Thinking of friends and family helps keep me alive. But everyone's not like me.
The kids of today grow up to become the leaders of tomorrow. If they grow up with a European worldview and come back to the US, that certainly couldn't be a bad thing.
Here's laughing. I guess you chose convenience over performance or scalability, which is a valid choice.
But We're running a 1000 Cassandra nodes to handle Millions of ops where mongo would simply require too much admin work. the whole clusters are managed by two guys. Mongo's simplicity comes at a cost at some point.
Have a look at RC's "Annual Report" from 2014 ... http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m4...

This is a fluff piece full of pictures and words. No numbers or financial statements. On page 26 there are a couple pie charts that vaguely outline some general categories of outflows and inflows. No details. If a NYSE company (or even a private company) tried to put out an Annual Report with this kind of glossed-over detail, they...well, they couldn't get away with that.

Guidestar.org is not quite as nice, rating it 3 out of 5 stars: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/53-0196605/american-n...

People who run these 'not-for-profit' 501(C)(3) institutions are ironically not held quite as "accountable" as people running normal businesses who have to report to shareholders. In the N4P world, where the "shareholders" are reduced to the general public or generic taxpayers or even to the disaster victims themselves -- it's a lot more difficult to get them to own up accountable to the people they serve.

Most of the time the donors are just happy to get their tax write-off and they leave it there.
being half japanese in brazil is rare, and the brazilians have a word for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilian
I've been where you are right now.

When I was still in college I travelled to and from my home by train. I know now, with the help of a psychologist, that I was suffering from a depressive period during that time.

I had arrived on the station, and I saw that my train had just left. That was almost the last straw for me. My memory of this day is very fuzzy, but nearby a jamaican-looking guy was blasting reggae music from his phone speakers, and people all around me seemed so busy with their lives. I felt invisible, like I wouldn't be missed. I tried to make eye contact with the people passing by, but nobody seemed to take notice. I then turned to the schedule to see when my next train would arrive. Instead I noticed that an intercity train would be passing through this station. While the trains do slow down when they go through a station there's still plenty of mass and speed left to kill you, I knew. I left my bag on the bench I had been sitting on and was mentally preparing myself to take the jump when the train came.

I guess I wasn't ready to do it yet, because the train came and went and I hadn't taken the jump.

Now, some time later, while not cured of my depression, I'm feeling better. I never told anyone close to me about that moment, though I did seek help after this. I also quit my study, since that seemed to be the root cause of the extra stress on top of my depression. I've found full-time work in the tech industry, and I've settled in quite nicely.

I'm glad I did. Because while I'm still not the happiest-camper in the world I've also not reached the point again where I contemplated leaving it. These days I look upon it as an anomaly in my mood. I don't feel all that good every day, but it's bearable.

So my advice to you would be to wait it out. Don't trust the feelings you have right now, because it really is only temporary.
Wow, that had to be fastest and least I had to question whether I wanted to know more. Yes...Yes I do.
retroshare uses DHT

It also uses PGP keys to facilitate encryption, authenticity, and a comprehensive web of trust
Looks like you forgot to read to the end of the paragraph.
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I just don't get "The world says no" part.

The world says "meh".
Retroshare is fantastic!
A lot of people don't accomplish anything until their forties. Easy to understand why too: you're wiser, have more money and built up a network of connections over the years.

The edge younger people have I think is a drive, higher energy=levels and an optimism that comes from not being jaded from years of full-time work.
You responded to a complaint about the website providing insuffcient information about the game and simply asking for an email address... with no information about the game and a request for an email address.

I hope the game itself is more logical than this.
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If you execute something everyone wants badly, they often still buy it, if there is no competition.
Would you mind sharing what vertical this was in?
Theft is a genuine option that some choose to take. However, it can also be attributable to a cross-roads of ideas that emerge at the same time. Often, A product (or products) enable another product. Other times, ideas are rediscovered (eg. Luck, influence through a TV show).
As you said though, the competition is good for us all. If someone is asleep at the wheel, someone else will take over.
That's great in theory, but should the people suffer more of Haiti because of these individuals? I'm guessing that none of these organisations could exist without compromising things for the greater good.
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What is it like being so brave?
> they include statements from locals who "cannot see that $24 million has been spent here," whatever that means.

I took it to mean that the area didn't appear to receive redevelopment projects worth $24 million. Isn't that a reasonable quote to include in the context of the article?
I think the point is to give them a PC as a leg-up, not to change their OS religion. Linux just makes it easy and possible.
There are some large-scale charities which I think do use the money well. For example, I felt no hesitation in donating to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) at the beginning of the Ebola outbreak, when they were the only ones with boots on the ground actually helping people.
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Dont know which stage of life you are in but an easy way to hit reset is to go back to university in a new city and forget about the past, during kick in you will surely find new friends, student dorms are cheap, no boss to report to, you will learn new interesting things.
Has the title been updated? It currently is "Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end", which is not click bait at all. The author used Protobuf instead of JSON as an experiment, and concluded that there is no reason to use it.
> Governments are similarly inept at spending their money efficiently ... [big charities] will never get another cent out of me until at least one of their large scale disaster responses works out well...Because of the total lack of end-to-end accountability with organizations like the red cross...

Your post is ideological - sweeping application of game-theory style logic, but without the evidence to suggest that the logic applies to this case.

1) 'Governments are similarly inept at spending their money efficiently' is overly simplified. The most obvious counter-example is that the US and the UK spend the same amount of tax money as a percentage of GDP on healthcare; the former gets limited programs covering a minority of the population, the latter gets a universal health service (albeit obviously with limitations).

2) On what basis do you say that no large scale NGO disaster responses work out well? I would say that is an incredibly difficult conclusion to draw.
Rust could still have a toolchain like DMD devoted to fast compilation with minimal optimization. It just doesn't, yet (and likely won't for quite some time, since the present advantages of having a single toolchain are fairly significant and Rust doesn't have a formal specification yet).
Is London, the home of design inspiration?
Google doesn't offer a managed cassandra, rather a manager Bigtable with the HBase Api. But we run a huge Cassandra install in multi dacenters on GCP. And we're good. And yes it requires you to understand distributed storage systems, and the some of Cassandra internals.
Like it or not, technology is not politcally neutral.

Saying "we should not be doing this because it only benefits multinationals and harms internet users" is an important part of any technical discussion.
So are you still running Cassandra? And why rely on counters for analytics when it's wildly known to be a bad idea.
What a wonderful story! and really a great gesture on multiple accounts, and very thoughful for sure.

Even something like a raspberry pi would be more than enough for someone like a kid who wants to learn and just needs a means to do so.

I never could afford a computer as a kid growing up. All my computers were donations or throwaways that I tinkered with and learned on and fixed up. My first computer was an SE/30 that was getting thrown away. I ABSOLUTELY would not be where I am today if it was not for the kindness of others who gave me the opportunities to tinker and learn.
In my experiences, it seems that contactless payments just never caught on in the US and I'm not sure why. I remember in the early 00's when mobil (the gas station) had their speedpass system that was a key fob (linked to your credit card) that you waved in front of the pump. I'm not sure how long they lasted but I haven't seen any for quite some time now. Similarly, I had an american express card some years ago, that had an rfid (I think) chip build into the card to wave in front of a card reader rather than swipe. If I remember correctly, I was able to successfully use that once, as most machines would fail. I've also tried (and usually failed) to use the Google Wallet version from my Nexus 4, when it came out.

Come to think of it, of all the people I know with a new iPhone, exactly 0 of them have their cards imported to apple pay. I've also never witnessed anyone else using it at a store. From my memory, whenever I'd try and use these systmems, the store clerks would always say "it's the coolest thing they've seen" (aside from speedpass, since I was alone at the pump). However, they seemed to take more time than to just swipe my card and be done with it. Maybe that's why?

Edit: Also in my area (south florida), outside of major retailers the support for these is atrocious. Most places only have the small telephone line based readers to print and sign.
Software patents are immoral.
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> it's a Japanese word, after all, and is not derogatory in Japanese

That reminds me of 外人 (gaijin). Many will argue it's not a negative word, but when you hear people say it, it's almost never said in a very friendly, inclusive sort of way.

It reminds me of the way white people in their 80s and 90s will use the word 'nigger', and the expectation is "that's just what everyone called them back then, it wasn't racist." And you know, some of the time it may well not have been. But it was always meant as a way of saying, "not one of us."

Now sure, as a literal fact, this person is half Japanese, and this is the word to express that. But what's more important, is when and why is it being brought up? It shouldn't matter, and there should be very few times in life when you need to say or ask it.

These sorts of things seem inevitable when you have such an overwhelmingly homogenous society (99% native, and most of the remaining 1% still Asian.) I'm not quite as hopeful as the author that this is going to change any time soon there.
You may be in a terrible situation right now and feel absolutely trapped but by the time I'm commenting here you already have 51 other comments and 79 votes on here of people supporting you. You can get through this crossroads. People are willing to help you. Accept the help and suggestions here.
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"Bring patience, though.", and that's the exact thing; when starting out with a new framework/technology/etc. I really need test examples that are digestible to get me going - the machine learning part of the tutorials: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/ml/table_of_content_ml/... is no doubt brilliant but it is utterly inaccessible to me without serious time input.
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The Shield is Android rather than SteamOS. It has an integrated ARM+GPU Tegra X1 SoC rather than separate CPU and GPU. They are both competing with consoles though.
If a company blames its demise on a piece of tech, then they either need better engineers to change that tech. Or the product had no future at all. And Cassandra has changed a lot since then.
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What about your ability to understand and process new information?

I'm finding almost everything to be much easier to understand now, compared to how it was when I was younger. Back then, I could focus, read at much faster speeds and my memory seemed way better, if measured by the amount of information I could remember. Entire texts were memorized with one or two passes. But then I'd have to spend time figuring out what to do with the information.

Now, my feeling is that wherever data I absorb is slotted right next to familiar concepts, so even though I read slower, the amount of 'post-processing' is much reduced.

It feels like a compression algorithm. "This new concept is like A and B, except for X, and Y, which are similar to Z". Sometimes, I caught myself saying that aloud. I've had to develop coping mechanisms however, to avoid jumping to conclusions, as my brain loves to do.

Entirely unfamiliar concepts are now way harder. From foreign languages (with different roots) to... Haskell.