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No no no. That's not the hack.

The real hack will be using Facebook to infect people with malware. Which will probably be staggeringly easy once they get inside.

It will be impossible to remove, it will hijack legitimate connections to non-FB accounts with injection attacks, it will expose all the credentials of all the users of all the services of these 1 billion people. The compromise of sites that rely on Facebook for authentication tokens will pale in comparison.

Attack vectors: app upgrades, browser exploits, e-mail/messenger/comment phishing, 3rd party comment section or ad-network injection, desktop integration, and of course, all the mobile networks that provide Facebook data access for free (which are largely non-smartphone and have rudimentary interfaces).

One billion people will be prompted in some way, or immediately exploited using 0-days, and I would wager around 20% of users would be infected within a few hours of actually starting the attack. That's 200 million infected devices (edit: users; number of devices may be many times more). Depending on the point of entry and the access gained (let's say 20 percent of the infections lead to compromise of the whole system), that's 40 million accounts compromised in a few hours.

Banks, email accounts (which lead to everything else), online shopping, e-wallets, etc all stolen. Then the data extortion packages will encrypt all the phones and wipe any usable data and demand payment or destruction of data. There'll be a very short timer, too, because the bank and other financial account session data may be reset quickly. There is a potential that markets could crash worldwide as financial balances get shifted around at the speed of the internet.

Screw the Facebook data. This is a compromise that organized crime and state actors would invest millions of dollars to set up. And it's a virtual certainty that it will happen one day.
It's harder to be aggressive when dealing with human-driven cars because people can react. The commuter dozing in his self-driving car is not aggressively driving, and with his car legally mandated to be in super-safe mode, it's going to take twice as long for it to make it through rush hour traffic.
Microchip does have a standard license for maybe 99% of its firmware libraries, that includes this proviso, that just forbids you from using the software on microcontrollers made by other manufacturers:

Microchip licenses to you the right to use,
modify, copy and distribute Software only
when embedded on a Microchip microcontroller
or digital signal controller that is integrated
into your product or third party product
(pursuant to the sublicense terms in the
accompanying license agreement).

If there are any other restrictions, I'm not aware of them.
Most of the things you need to do, to fix something like this are tangential, and have nothing to do with your job, else you would have found a job that fits you.

You didn't mention anything about your social life, or if you are married or not. If you don't have at least one of those, it is very likely you would suffer some level of depression.

Since social skills take time, here are somethings you could do:
- Go to gym
- Care for cause or somebody or something, something that takes focus away from yourself. Like raising a garden or getting a dog, or joining a meetup for like minded people doing things that matter

And slowly build a social circle for the long term.
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Why on earth would you think Redhat, of all companies, wants Linux to become a desktop OS? They literally make all of their revenue on Linux server deployments.
Pundits have always made somewhat of a sport predicting a tech bubble bursting. Some of Manjoo's ideas of what could bring about a "bubble" bursting are ludicrous (read: a "Donald Trump inauguration??") If anything VCs and angels may fund fewer or safer startups, but there are numerous reasons why this business environment isn't a bubble like in the early 00's
Where is the meat operating Predator/Reaper/Global Hawk drones? Thousands of miles away in an air-conditioned cargo container in the outskirts of Las Vegas.
Openly carrying a firearm is a display of intimidation and a threat of violence. Whether or not this is the reaction that open carriers intend is irrelevant. The reason you 'try extra hard no to piss that guy off' is that if you piss him off, he might shoot you.

This is what Robert A. Heinlein described when he said "an armed society is a polite society." But what that really implies is "a polite society is one where every head has a gun to it." Understandably, that is not the sort of vibe most people want to encounter in their day to day life. Fear and the instinct for self-preservation are not adequate substitutes for civility and society.

That said, the actual threat is probably coming from the guy with the gun you can't see. But if I walked around everywhere with a sword of large kitchen knife, even if I never intended to stab anyone with it, people are still going to wonder why I've got it out in the open like I might.
I have family that work for homeless shelters in NYC. Usually the ones he works with are the fresh homeless. These are foster kids that age out of the system, abused kids turned adults, and male spouses. The first 72 hours are the most critical. After that they start to have a mental breakdown. Being homeless becomes the new normal and they go feral. These are the homeless most people think of. They can no longer function in society. They are antisocial, unemployable, and have poor hygiene.

These homeless aren't living a hobo dream. They traded one form of stress for another. Now instead of worrying about rent they have stress from lack of sleep. The ones that choose to live in a tent because it is less stressful is actually quite small group.
Martin Odersky is planning to add polymorphic side effect types to Scala.

Lucas Rytz' PhD research describes an early incarnation. The syntax will be different: side effects will be modeled as implicit evidence. But the semantis will be largely the same I believe.

I seem to remember that the default will be that if no side effects are declared that any side effect is assumed. At least that was the idea in Rytz' PhD thesis. The reason for this was pragmatics: the only effect system in a main stream language is Javas checked exceptions. And for that the communis opinio ended up being that the idea is right but having to declare exceptions in intermediary layers of the call graph was not worth the effort.
That's why f.i. Anders Hjelberg left checked exceptions out off C#.
So getting the usability right is extremely important for a widely adopted effect system.

Btw there are a lot of publications around 2012 on the topic of effect systems.

http://lrytz.flavors.me/#publications-talks
Awesome -- thanks so much for that! It always makes it a happy day in the office when we hear from happy users :)
> Once people learn how to spot these cars, very quickly the tricks to passing them are going to be learned.

You say that as if arriving at your destination one car-length in front of a self-driving car somehow renders autonomous vehicles worthless.

Who cares if they stop or slow down when you cut them off? It's only idiot humans who think that the reward pathway signal of "woohoo I'm in front" means that you've won something. You haven't.
In Indiana (where I live), roughly one in 11 (of the adult population) has a "License To Carry a Handgun" (LTCH) -- a "gun permit", in other words (Indiana laws make no distinction between concealed and open carry).

Most people, however, simply don't think about it that often. For example, my mother (who doesn't care for guns) would never be in a mall and stop to think of all the people who (statistically) are carrying concealed firearms. One person, however, walking around in that mall open carrying will have a ton of people watching him very closely.

Basically, people don't seem to think twice about all those who are carrying concealed (done properly, of course, no one knows!) but get anxious and nervous when the know that someone is carrying (openly).
One of the interesting things about this is figuring out what services this government would actually provide, and where. And whether or not people would just be dual-citizens in perpetuity.

Thinking about my day-to-day interactions with the various levels of government here (Canada), the vast majority of it requires a physical presence: policing, firefighting, road maintenance, building inspection, etc. None of those things are very well served by a distributed/digital government. Taxation could be done digitally, of course.

If the primary goal is to affect public policy on a global scale, there's nothing preventing a "crowd-sourced lobbying organization" from being established.

Call it a government if you want, but for a lot of people the main things that government does for them is maintain infrastructure and protect public safety. It's a neat idea, no doubt, but there's a lot of things that citizenship (i.e. the right to live in Canada forever) gives me that couldn't really be replaced digitally.
I'm not American, so I actually don't know the DoI very well.

I still think people need to be protected, but the world is a lot different from what it was back then. International law needs to be changed, government needs to be more digitally connected with it's citizens, and the idea of governments and nations need to be revised for the modern world.

For the record, I didn't really think of this as a complete replacement for physical governments, but more of an overarching one that would protect your rights and freedoms using an international legal system while also providing services that some established governments might not be able to.

This would probably be more like a global NGO with a membership I guess.

Or it could be like a citizen-based lobbying group. If enough people are a part of it, voting for the rights and laws they want it could make more politicians take notice.
This announcement makes me think of a quote from the Urbit dev mailing list [1]:

Infinite or effectively infinite identity systems are not impossible to make spam-free. There is a very easy way to make them spam-free. Install a dictator. The dictator (call him "Zuck," because that's his name) is then subject to political pressures of various kinds, and pretty much has no choice but to decide, say, which kinds of videos you can and can't host.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/urbit-dev/zuck/ur...
We are much better off, of course, but that isn't enough to get the thing done. We also need to figure out how the "much better off" gets distributed, in a way that convinces everyone to actually do the thing.

If, for instance, Google is held liable for accidents while reducing the overall rate, self-driving cars aren't going to be a thing (unless you fix that particular problem). Or if the victims of self-driving car accidents have difficulty getting compensated.
> Law forbids it.

I believe some cities do have ordinances against giving food to the homeless. I'd be very surprised if they are enforced. Even if they are, here's a simple solution: How do you know who is homeless? Simply don't ask about their living accomodations.
How should the car have responded to the cyclist? In ambiguous stops like this I find non-verbal social cues like nods, facial expressions, and hand waves are the only way to break the impasse.
> it's going to take twice as long for it to make it through rush hour traffic.

So read a book or work on something on your laptop or go on Amazon and buy a present for your partner with the health insurance money you'll eventually save by registering your commute as autonomous.
Thank You for that interesting view. Do you have a reference for the early Fortran compiler design? I've always wondered why people say Fortran is blazing fast, even compared to C.
Probably true, but they're the most effective tool that would have the greatest singular impact available to us right now.
One of the best articles I've read in while
"Seven years later came Bloomberg’s introduction of green cabs designed primarily to reach the underserved outer boroughs. Prohibited from picking up customers in Manhattan’s central business district, they were nonetheless despised by the yellow cab industry. Freidman sued, contending the new law allowing green cabs was unconstitutional. The courts ultimately disagreed."

This right here is why I hope Uber and other services like them burn the NYC cab industry to the ground. The cab industry in NY treats people like crap if you don't live in midtown. Especially if you live in a minority community. I lived in Harlem when that fight was happening and was astounded by the argument the cab commission put up. They admitted they don't go to minority communities because of violence but they do not want anyone else to service the area either.

My ex was riding home with two white coworkers from her job. They were getting dropped off in the 60's block and she was getting dropped off in Harlem. The cab driver knew that. He dropped off the first two and drove a block up and old my ex to get out of the car. He wasn't driving to Harlem. That is just one of several messed up NYC cab stories. I just stopped taking them and went green car only.

The cab industry is crappy to a lot of the community in NYC. They deserve everything that they are getting right now.
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That single review though
As well as those points, it also seems that the on-board sensors for the car are not good enough, as Google has spent a great deal of time scanning the roadways and constructing high resolution models of the environment. The cars apparently use this pre-prepared data to help them drive well.

This strongly suggests that the cars, in their current form, are not as autonomous and self-reliant as people assume. It also implies that the cars are not going to cope well if they encounter sudden changes in the environment.
> I have seen them get jobs, but are fired after the first day.

For what reasons are they fired?
Because Algebraic Data Types. It's bizarre that I have to give up that power when going from VHDL to C.
One thought is the title Director is everywhere nowadays. Not to take anything away from this guy but it could be 2+ rungs below CTO. Probably just 1 though.
You're using a first approximation to a self-driving car ("follow all laws to the letter") to extrapolate.

There are a large number of reasons you'd notice that won't work the very first time you take a car out for a drive (you give a great one: "it's going to take twice as long for it to make it through rush hour traffic"). With no eye contact or hand gestures available it's a harder problem, but aggression and counter-aggression is going to have to be a part of any self-driving model. Even if all cars were self driven you'd still have pedestrians willing to cross the street at any sign of hesitation.
To a fixie? Pursue it remorselessly at top speed for however long it takes to run it down.
Is this being reported on by anyone other than WSJ? I don't like paywalls.
ELI someone who knows mips?
Is the Requests for Startups http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ anything new here? Very interesting, will spread the word.
I used SXCE, OpenSolaris and finally SmartOS for a while after the death, and unfortunately the benefits just werent' really there any more. I also hit some pretty nasty performance issues storage wise on my OVH gear (some interrupt related issue, unsure if fixed, but it was well above my head to grok, and I' not terribly new to this) which were instantly solved by converting to BSD.

With FreeBSD, the userland is pretty capable (I run all my DBs, some node apps, reverse proxies etc under it) so jails kinda made sense again. With SmartOS I had to run most of my stuff under KVM, so what was the point?

Interesting to see what direction the linux abi stuff joyent are working on goes though.
What organization/corporation approves all of these releases? I'd imagine Tolkien's estate is extremely aggressive in preserving his legacy, especially if the new books are so different from what's made his novels loved by millions (billions?)
Yes.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/junaid-hussain-...

Apparently it didn't take Obama long to do another 180 on this issue as well:

"I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," he told reporters during a news conference in Senegal.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/nsa-leak/index.ht...
The first time an airplane flew it only went 120 feet (37 m).

11 years later the world had it's first regularly-scheduled commercial airline. [2]

A lot can happen in 10 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Flights

[2] http://www.space.com/16657-worlds-first-commercial-airline-t...
Can you link me to their guided trips?

What exactly are they? I could not figure it out. A humanist society that translates book!?
The robot equivalent of a "work-to-rule" strike could be a possible response to this kind of behaviour: the driverless cars all around an aggressive driver could go into a slower, more defensive mode and box the aggressive driver in—to ensure the safety of neighbouring traffic, of course.
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Where do you live that little old ladies are jumping out in-front of fast moving traffic with cliff edges that lack any safety barrier?!

The car is going to make the best effort to minimise impacts to its self, given there's a cliff for it to fall off it's not going to swerve over it. Also as said in a sister comment while you're car full of precious children go over the cliff you can find peace in the knowledge that on average less children have died because there's self driving cars.
> Someone with a foot on the hydraulic breaking system and mechanical steering for when the electrics fail

A huge number of accidents are because of inattention or distraction today. How are you going to the the bag of meat to pay attention in case of an anomalous situation if 99+% of the task is being taken care of for them?
Thanks very much for the thoughtful answer. I do get your focus on providing access for users in censored regions. And it is arguable that few of those users are doing anything that would be problematic for access-providing peers in uncensored regions. But still, Lantern is a system proxy, and so there's more potential for abuse. Have you looked at port filtering and blocklists?
You will quickly learn that many of those panhandling in urban areas will not take you up on the offer for a mean. They want the dollars for their habit. Happens all the time here in Santa Cruz. Offer leftovers, no. Offer to buy food, no.

In the discussion around homelessness, there are individuals that are on a self-destructive path involving drugs and until they want to change, they won't. The catalyst will vary, but often requires hitting rock bottom.
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Call me naive, but some of these, especially the first, seem borderline illegal and I doubt that even in their greediest hour Microsoft would dare to implement this shit. If this is true, I'm sure they could be sued on quite a monumental scale.
I think you strongly overestimate how helpful having a human being in the car would be in any of those scenarios. If my mother is the driver and the power steering goes out, she might as well not be there. And we already have well established systems for giving out tickets to cars whose owners aren't physically in the car (license plates, registrations tied to VINs, etc.).
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The number of individual lines marked "unsafe" isn't what's important. The safety of those lines relies on invariants put in play by by the rest of the code. All the code behind an asserted-to-be-safe API has to be correct, or incorrect but lucky, in order for the data structure to be safe.
There should be zero homeless (or close to it) in the United States. The U.S. is the richest country in the history of the world, by a long shot, and growing wealthier every year. Certainly Americans can afford to provide basic food and shelter (and healthcare) to everyone. We lose sight of concrete reality when we get caught up in the economic and social philosophizing and political conflict; nothing justifies leaving a human being on the street, like a stray dog, when you can do something about it. There is no excuse.
Docker isn't perfect, but you can't argue with the fact the container ecosystem was rather stagnant until recently.

For years I knew of openvz (weird? needs custom kernel? supported?) and lxc(seems to be low level? how do I get started?) and just used xen/kvm on servers and virtualbox/vagrant locally.

It's funny when Bryan Cantrill talks about how solaris+zones had solid containers years ago.. and he is right, but the end user UX was abysmal [1].

And then docker comes along and shows...

That this can work:

$ docker run -t -i --rm centos:7 /bin/bash
[root@2214e639debe /]#

That building containers can be easy using Dockerfiles instead of 'make random changes to this container and then clone it forever'

That with a few cli options you can have persistent volumes and locked down networking.

So, sure, docker may have some issues. In a year we may all be using rkt or rocker or who knows what. But for now, docker is here and people are using it for things.

[1] I ran opensolaris at home for a few years. I think I only ever made 2 zones. I never got patching to work and either had to choose between sparse zone that wouldn't work right or a gigantic full zone that I couldn't manage to patch.
Do work through the application and learn what sort of questions you should be asking.

Do you have insights? Things you know about the world or have learned from customers?

How do you know what you're working on is worth your time?

If you have answers for those questions, even with no growth or product out yet, still apply!
I'm giving both a try. Nix is more polished, has many more packages, and is better documented.

I prefer Guix choice of using a real programming language (Scheme!) instead of a DSL, but I really like Nix anyway.

Something that annoys me sometimes is that Nix has a few really bloated packages, compiled with all dependencies on. For example, if I try installing mutt I eventually get python as a dependency. This is a bit ugly. I'm aware it's easy to change this, but I'd still love to get thinner binaries from hydra. Otherwise, a really neat piece of software.

Guix tends to be a bit more like Slackware or Arch. Very vanilla things. I would love if Nix went a bit in that direction too with regards to packaging policies. It's more secure and nicer to humble devices, like cheap Chromebooks.
Does it matter if they rely on some pre-processed data, as long as they have some form of fallback that allows for manoeuvring when a change in environment is found?

Human drivers also face immense difficulty when there is a giant tree fallen across the road. Luckily, such changes in environment are relatively infrequent.
Uber is actually highly regulated in NYC. When you get an uber, the car that's being driven is a licensed livery cab with the city, and the driver is a licensed livery cab driver with the city. They're subject to all of the regulations that the other livery cab companies have to follow.
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"Wait in line" means I'm unable to get to a charger because they're all occupied by other cars. That explains why your comments are so confusing.