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Then your "standup" meetings are being run by an incompetent person; I've had that happen
on several teams, as well, and it resulted in some miserable months; but, when it works well it works
well. It is completely up to the person leading the meeting to set the tone and keep the pace - they should be interrupting people who take too long and moving it along.

Properly run, people should just be reporting on status and impediments, not details.

Remember, most people don't have anything to report:
"I'm working on my stuff, no issues, that is all."... that's like 10 seconds tops.

or, "I'm done, moving on to my next task". What's the next task? That's already been assigned at the start of the sprint, don't need to go over it here. If someone wants to know, they can look at the task tracker - if someone needs to change priority "need X done so I can work on Y", they can make a quick comment, or email after the meeting.

even if it is "I'm done with my last thing, i need something new" -- you don't need to get that new thing in the meeting, the boss man knows you need something,
they'll assign you something after the meeting.

... that leaves room for people with issues. And they still shouldn't take long. "I'm stuck! I need help with Z!" that gives time for a few people to
say "I can help with that" and someone to be picked.

Anything more should be a meeting of its own with just the effected people (not the entire team). Detailed status should be in nice clear comments in your task tracker.
According to TFA, they "overheard 2 communications between the keyfob and the transponder", which reduced the number of possible keys to 196,607. This was brute-forceable in half an hour. So the answer is both - the algorithm was flawed enough to reduce the strength, but they were brute forcing it the rest of the way.

2 communications isn't much at all. Getting something from your car and locking it back up is all it takes.
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Thanks for the feedback! Absolutely - that was actually a screenshot from the iphone messages app. I tried to replace green with blue with not the best results :) Ive introduced the "Examples" section at the bottom though.
Exactly! I did see the response to the petition and thought the exact same thing. The government is pretty much saying, "We know what you did was just. But you broke the law, so come back to suffer in federal prison."

"In the land of the free and the home of the brave..." Haha. Ed Snowden is brave and we are freer as Americans knowing what the government is capable of when it comes to electronic surveillance.
I think the problem with text based apps are that they cannot access our location constantly and I as a user has to take an extra step to inform the AI about my location every-time I need something.. As Myra is only limited to San Francisco, it is suggesting only places in that city.. I do not whether its possible for the message recipient to access our location on facebook..To the Myra Developers, But there is a share location feature on Whatsapp and Facebook that you guys should utilize to access our current location to recommend more location based queries..

As this feature is in Beta, I do not expect it to be perfect - but they could really improve on NLP in the application and understand my queries better, as it goes off-course if two different queries with different words but same meaning are asked..It is amazing, how this system is implemented but, if anyone is trying to build similar product they should try SMSsync[1] by Ushahidi - its still sort of beta product but gets the job done for a feature similar to this..

[1] http://www.ushahidi.com/product/smssync/

EDIT: I was only talking about how to implement the gateway part of the application quickly and not the whole Myra product, apologies for the mistake..
Not a bit coincidental that said firm seems to be the only antivirus firm in recent memory (unless I'm mistaken) that seems to be able or willing to uncover government-level shenanigans. No, not a bit coincidental at all.

edit: And of course this http://www.wired.com/2015/06/kaspersky-finds-new-nation-stat... from two months ago.

First, security breach; now, an attack on their reputation?
Whoops. What was your exact query? I haven't found that wide of a difference. Worth debugging :)
I'm pretty sure they sell them as the Golf GTI in Europe where the research was done, so probably included under the Golf model.
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It is not in the criminals best interest to commit more crime. One criminal is probably only responsible for .0001% of the crime rate in any given city. So the incentive to commit more crime to revoke the law is infinitesimal. The disincentive created by the increased risk of incarceration would completely overwhelm the incentive to create more crime.

This isn't true when the effects are measured in an industry with only several major actors. For example you decide to test out net neutrality to see what effects it has on broadband cost. So you create a bill that says "Net Neutrality unless broadband costs go up". Then Comcast could just increase their prices to deactivate the bill. But situations like these would be easy to stop and the exception.
> Adult fiction - particularly romantic and erotic - has migrated strongly to the e-book, whereas cookery and religious books still do well in print, as do books with illustrations. All for fairly obvious reasons.

Like writing on a notepad, reading a physical book does a good job of communicating with body language what you're doing. And if you believe in judging books by their cover, the book cover provides further information about its subject. And you can leave physical books in public places to start conversations.

Additionally, large books like cookbooks and illustrated books often come in a large form factor that tablets struggle to match. That's not too surprising, given that humans have been making books for about half a century, but only making tablets for maybe a decade.

And it's mostly the books we don't want others to know we're reading (adult fiction) for which we use the e-reader, where others can't tell what we're reading.
Wow, 300kg per second of water ejection. Seems like a pretty decent delta V for the comet, which makes me wonder how orbital calculations work at all on these things if they start randomly thrusting in various directions like that.
They know what whistleblower means, they just don't agree with it. Being on power and being transparent are simply not compatible on this day and age. Unless you are dutch, pretty much the exception to the rule
The paper is right here: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/sec15_supplement....

They captured 2 uses of the RFID-based immobilizer. That gets used every time you start the car, regardless of how you unlocked the car. It's completely separate from the UHF-based keyless entry system which you use to unlock the car.

The paper makes this distinction in the first paragraph, but of course the article fails to distinguish.
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No, it's also an attack on the actual wireless key which is used to open and start the car. It's just making the car "think" that the key is inside, so you just press the Start button and the car starts, after which you drive it away like normal.
Not just prison, the "Espionage Act of 1917", which is he charged with, has death penalty as a possible punishment.

And it is pretty clear that he is guilty of this law. Not much room for whistleblowers in a wartime law.
I believe that USGS maps published after 2009 use NAD83, which for practical purposes is identical to WGS84 used by GPS. Also, beginning in 1984, older maps have both NAD83 and NAD27 tick marks. If in doubt, check the datum designation at the bottom of the map.
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We started with a simple idea—that everyone should be able to accept credit cards—and we've been rethinking buying and selling ever since. Buying and selling sound like simple things—and they should be. Somewhere along the way, they got complicated. We’re working hard and building a team to make commerce easy for everyone.

We’re looking for talented and passionate engineers to come join us in ATL. We work on a variety of problems and products at Square, with a strong focus on solving shared engineering problems and improving all of our products. We strongly value correctness, scalability, and availability.

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Strong coding skills and Computer Science fundamentals
Analytical problem solving skills
Pride in shipping

Technologies we use and teach:

Java, Jetty, protobufs, JSON
Ruby, JRuby, Rails
MySQL, Hibernate, JOOQ
Redis, HBase, Hadoop, and Kafka
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Projects we work on:

Platform Infrastructure: The foundation that enables building highly scalable and available products.
Commerce: The core platform for our products.
Register: our point of sale. Everything a seller needs to start, run, and grow their business.
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Links would be great, but I'd be happy if they just put a hard date somewhere in the article/page for archival purposes(in general). Amazing how often I find write-ups with no indication of publication/posted date whatsoever.
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Our BMW or Benz Could Also Be Vulnerable to That GM OnStar Hack
Broadcasting your attack DAB security presented at Black Hat USA 2015
It's also not coincidental at all that Kaspersky steers clear of exposing any shenanigans by Moskow. I mean, Eug himself claims Russia produces not only the best programmers but also the best exploit writers.... But surprisingly no exposés on them.

Hmmm.
I hope I never have to face you in a hackathon!
Thank you!

The language models here are still being trained, so there will definitely be things it doesn't understand yet - eg, the fact that "party of 20" should translate into "good for groups". But that's great feedback and glad you liked it!
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This is a free event and the last Vulcan will be flying for the final season.
I'm one of those who experienced (and continue to do so) the useless "Something happened" upgrade failure on my laptop. I wonder what Microsoft are going to do closer to the end of the one year of free upgrades. After all it is their fault I can't upgrade to Windows 10, but unless the upgrade happens I can't get the free upgrade.
Fair, but only on cars which have only passive security (that is - where you don't need to use the fob to unlock the car and you don't need to use a physical key to turn the ignition).
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Give it five minutes
There was an article about this in the New Scientist (UK) a few weeks back. They highlighted concerns that unlike mass illegal cannabis production the heat/energy footprint of producing opium in something like a bathtub would be almost undetectable.

If someone finds a way to produce addictive drugs from yeast then a whole new ball park could be opened up in the war on drugs.
Oh, right, I do remember now. I had a CC for a bit. I was always leaving the fob in the cupholder.
Actually, no, not your party balloons.

Most terrestrial helium is formed as nuclear decay products -- beta particle emission -- from heavier elements, mostly thorium and uranium. A beta particle is essentially a naked helium nucleus, so it picks up a couple of electrons from elsewhere.

Because it's nonreactive (and so doesn't bind to form heavier liquid or solid compounds as oxygen and hydrogen do), and at ambient temperatures exceeds Earth's escape velocity in the atmosphere, free helium that might have occurred in the primordial Earth would long since have escaped into space.

It's actually sourced as part of natural gas extraction.

So: terrestrial helium's actually younger than Earth.

Related: there are concerns that a hydrogen economy might increase the rate at which molecular hydrogen escapes into space as well. About 25% of Earth's original water supply is thought to have disappeared this way already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium
Andy Davis nccgroup slides:

https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/resources/uk/present...
Actually, being the originator of the words in question, I do agree that you are "putting them in my mouth." At the very least, you seem to be inferring a lot of things which I did not imply or intend to imply.

The previous commenter is correct. I view all of these statements as clarification of a single argument and its originations. That argument involves no conspiracy theories, simply a suspicion of price fixing (that's not an outlandish suspicion, in my opinion. I mean...drive manufacturers have been found guilty of it before...)

I don't think it is a conspiracy that some enterprise drives come in odd form factors, you completely misread that part of what I said. My point was that, normally the most advanced enterprise drives come in strange (i.e. much larger) form factors. This is because they have not yet worked the size and power requirements down to fit the smaller form factor, which makes complete sense. However, this drive uses a standard form factor, which tells me it is not "bleeding edge." There are probably rack mount SSDs with much higher capacities than 16TB.

So, the reason it seems weird is that they have obviously passed that hurdle with the 16TB offering. They can now fit 16TBs of SSD storage in a standard form factor. It is odd because if they can fit 16TBs, and we assume that at scale, the variable costs are almost exclusively due to the capacity of the chips, why is there not a consumer drive even a factor of 4 smaller (i.e. 4TB) available? I understand there not being a 16TB drive...or a 12TB, 8TB, etc... available. But a factor of 16 seems oddly large.
When do you get the something happened?

It helped me to create a USB installer and start the upgrade from there.
Success mostly depends on the size of the team and their culture. Do they do code reviews? Refactor early and often?
Is there a architecture plan that is enforced and trained to new hires?

Frameworks do give you a corset to work within. I do not claim backbone wasn't a success. Just providing that was big.
Many people are less productive while listening to music. They get less done, but because the day feels shorter they feel more productive.
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> I’d recommend the immutable-js library for it. It has nice API and it comes from Facebook itself. Another option is the baobab library - but it works better when more ‘reactish’ ideas are present in your codebase, like global app state.

Another option is a library I wrote, react-cursor[1], which is basically sugar over the React immutability helpers[2] which the article mentioned. react-cursor has a couple advantages over immutable-js and baobab:

1/ simpler types: use regular react state with plain old js data structures, 2/ simpler implementation - about 100 lines of code and tiny api, 3/ super easy to integrate with your existing large codebase already using react state

[1] https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor
[2] http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/update.html
Thanks for the hint, I know Nim.

However I have came lately to the realisation that .NET and the JVM worlds already take too much of my time to look elsewhere.

Due to my interest in programming languages I still keep on reading about new developments, but at the end of the day what matters is what my employer cares about.
Sometimes I wonder if shallow people are actually happier than 'deep' people, and if so, is it worth it?
The statistical hierarchical nature of Watson could be exceptionally useful when determining the probability of an anomaly's existence.
Broadcasting your attack – DAB security
This presentation was presented at Black Hat USA 2015

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio receivers can be found in many new cars and are often integrated into what has become known as the “infotainment system” – typically a large screen in the dashboard that the vehicle occupants interact with to control anything from what music is playing, to making phone calls, to viewing vehicle diagnostic information.

In many cases the infotainment system is connected to the same network as computers that control physical aspects of the vehicle e.g. steering and braking. This is because automated functionality is becoming more common in modern vehicles – the ability to automatically park a vehicle at the press of a button requires a computer to be able to electronically control the steering. These are known as “cyber-physical” systems as there is computer (cyber) control of what was traditionally, a manual, physical process such as steering the vehicle. Therefore, an attacker who finds a way to gain control of an infotainment system can in many cases use that platform to attack more sensitive, safety-critical vehicle functions.

DAB radio is significantly more feature-rich than its predecessor (FM). Although FM could broadcast simple textual messages such as the radio station name via the Radio Data System (RDS), DAB broadcasts can include much more text, with international langue support, images, web pages and even video.

All of this complexity increases the “attack surface” (number of avenues of attack) of a receiver.

Download the slides from Andy Davis’ talk at Black Hat USA here.

Published date: 06 August 2015
What about audio books? I've read more in the last few years than the decade before, since I switched almost entirely to audio books. In many cases they are much better than the printed version. Case in point, Ulysses by James Joyce. The audible.com spoken version is a masterpiece, and this is definitely a book that's meant to be listened to.
Using Twitter to figure out which vulnerabilities you probably need to care about is a neat idea. Not as thorough as going through all the CVEs by hand, but better than nothing.
@machbio - thank you for the feedback! Definitely, not only can you share locations in whatsapp/FB, you can also do so in text messages. We have plans to integrate that soon, especially as the system launches on more cities.

Regarding the natural language - yes, the language models are trained on a dataset that doesn't yet account for all possible ways of expressing intent. As more users such as you interact with the system, it will get better at handling them.
If there are so many ways standups can go wrong maybe its not a good generic tool after all?

I don't think that's a useful conclusion to draw. Standups go wrong if they are too long, and that's about the only way they can fail.

What if your work consists largely of research and experimentation? No tasks or stories, mostly many long spikes.

"I researched this area yesterday. It seems like a good approach. I noticed we need to think about how it will scale, but I'm going to look into that further today."

Or even consider that standups are indeed not for your organisation. That's fine.

Have you experimented with alternatives to daily standups?

This is something I would encourage every team to do if they don't feel standups are useful. Try a status email at the end of the day instead, or a weekly status meeting. I definitely think that a standup had value, but I imagine it depends on the environment.

What if standups are misused for micromanagement?

Then fix it. If you are in a situation where you are being micromanaged, then it's not the fault of a standup – it's the fault of a micromanager, and eliminating a standup isn't going to fix that.
I later found out that my trial actually was a retrial from a previous hung jury. I don't know if they retried him again. I remember searching for him a couple of years ago and didn't find any convictions. So, if they did retry him, they didn't convict – or it's not public.

My understanding is that it's common to retry cases like this, but I don't really know.
Additionally, could you create multiple VMs in a way which gives them the same hardware hash? That could allow for re-use of a license.
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Wouldn’t you need to have a device actively running within a few feet of the vehicle to run such an attack? Couldn’t the car start blaring an alarm or something in that case?

We’re not talking about a website here.
shared_ptr uses an atomic counter. In rust you can choose to use an atomic ref count or not. The type system is sufficiently smart to ensure that you do not use the non-atomic one in a thread unsafe context. C++ has no ability to do so, so it does not provide a thread unsafe version.

Additionally, in C++ there's nothing stopping me from wrapping a unique_ptr around a pointer that's aliased else where. This violates the guarantees of a unique_ptr and forces the user to make sure its invariants are held. In Rust the compiler ensures that your Box (Rust's unique_ptr) can never be owned more than once.
If you need to have this feature, then you should have to opt in (git config for example). But i have very good reasons to say that the default should properly escape the messages before printing them. I would not like it to clone a repo from github and having "git log" let my terminal go crazy. You unterstand, that this issue can have bigger impact than blinking commit messages, right?