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>No I don't think anyone has said that but you.

The implication that I intended, is that if merely visiting that site is going to place you on a watchlist, other, similarly casual interactions with information about Edward Snowden would probably do the same. It's absurd to consider that a danger worth mentioning given the amount of coverage Snowden has gotten, and the information that's freely available everywhere about him and his disclosures.

We're discussing this topic on a site where actual hackers and security professionals, US government employees and millionaire Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs with legitimate political and financial influence hang out. Yet no one seems afraid to talk about Edward Snowden, government surveillance or whatever they like here. Surely, if the chilling effect were that pervasive, it would show up here? If visiting edwardsnowden.com puts you on a list, you're probably already on a list.

>You have provided no evidence to back up this claim, while there is plenty of evidence to support otherwise

Yes I have. Edward Snowden's presence in various forms of modern major media, to the point of doing an interview with a comedy show, is evidence that people aren't afraid of discussing him, and that the US media isn't afraid to cover him. He has a public twitter account which is being followed by a million people, which is evidence that people at large aren't afraid of that association, nor do they appear to be afraid of "consequences" from the government for doing so.

>That doesn't remove the fact that the chilling effect is real, is growing, and still affects people though, so stop pretending otherwise.

I'm not pretending. I honestly don't see the evidence of widespread fear about discussing Edward Snowden.
I agree that actually measuring the real emission is a good idea, but there is a way of checking that the binary and the source does not match, at least in theory.

The way is to require reproducible builds. If the source is built with a specific compiler with known source and known parameters, and the source of the system in question is available, then running the compiler will produce the exact same binary every time if the compiler is sane. If all of this is published, then it is possible to check that the binary in the cars firmware and the binary produced by the published source match bit by bit. This isn't just some sort of academic exercise, but something that have been demonstrated to work in practice. In fact debian try to make this work for the whole distribution. This may not be totally practical yet, but this kind of checking can be done if the vendors are required to make reproducible builds and the regulators bother to check. All of this are big ifs, but at least in theory it is possible.
Microsoft Research has done some interesting things (Singularity, Barrelfish, Verve).

But Apple, nowadays? They still ship that 1980's badly done micro-kernel research experiment Mach together with a whole BSD kernel in the same address space, same thing NeXT has done since 1988. All the innovation since then is in the high-level UX, not the base OS. And Apple nowadays does have the large cash pile that would allow them to waste some money on this kind of research.

Google too, their innovative stuff (GoogleFS, BigTable, MapReduce, cloud tooling) is running on top of a UNIX-like base OS (actually Linux, but it could have been any UNIX).
No, for you in the states it's 70mph ;-)
Well, Python is certainly better than VBA. But what these "improve Excel" addins or replacements tend to overlook is that compatibility with existing spreadsheets is key to adoption. IMHO of course.
The whole controversy is over manufacturers reporting false numbers, i.e. lying.

Saying a manufacturer deserves extra scrutiny can absolutely be inferred to be an accusation of them reporting false numbers, i.e. lying.

My reading comprehension isn't at fault here.

Secondly, it's still irrelevant.

You would have to prove that an improvement at throttle position 0.10 over 5 years equates directly to an improvement at throttle position 0.40.

How an engine performs in condition A has no inherent relation to its performance in condition B.

So yes, I stand by what I said. Maybe before accusing people of "not paying attention", you should look at your own language and see if it's ambiguous?
PSVita Firmware 3.55 released. Patches fail-mail tricks and more
I'm not so sure, it really depends on what the major browsers need for a funding model.
I thought the conventional wisdom was that Twitter needed someone that wasn't usual suspects of Jack, Ev, and Dick. Also given the fact that Jack was specifically slighted with the "Twitter needs a full time CEO," remark, I can't see how this is anything good.
I think the use of 'I' and 'we' is most interesting in Formula 1 where the drivers always use 'we' in the winner's driver's conference. Hang on a minute, you were the one driving, nobody else was in the car, yet you use the word 'we'? What is going on?

Well, at times, they also use the word 'I'. This is in the other scenario - losing! 'I clipped the kerb' etc. But you don't get the losers in the driver's conference, hence 'we' is the term used. F1 is very much about individuals wanting to win, team mates are perhaps the most terrifying rivals as they have an identical car - they have to be beaten before the rest of the field can be beaten. Yet it is always 'we' and 'the team', even though there is nobody else in the team doing the driving for them. Sure there are things like good calls for pitstops that comes from the guys in the garage, but it isn't a team sport like cricket/rugby/football is.

Personally I think that 'we' is an important word to use in the workplace as it sends out a quite powerful signal that someone is part of a team, even if 'we' can be used nefariously, e.g. to not acknowledge blame for having broken something.
Confirmed that it was a test update: http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-accidentally-issued-a...
"... renewed promotion of the industry's AdChoices program, which aims to give consumers some control over their digital experience."

The site says:

"Welcome to Your AdChoices, where you're in control of your Internet experience with interest-based advertising—ads that are intended for you, based on what you do online."

This isn't an alternative to adblocking - it's pretty much the opposite og adblocking.
Microsoft mistakenly posted a 'test' Windows update patch
Don't panic, it was just a boo-boo:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-accidentally-issued-a...
> No, we've been trained by centuries of experience that the concentration of power invites abuse.

And this is what tech can solve. We could be "ruled" by adaptive algorithms we collectively vote on. If a better algo is discovered it can be voted up and eventually replace another.

Many refer to society as a machine, what would happen if we really treated it like one?
> Because its not a hack most likely, its just MS screwing up.

That was my point, yeah.
You can also change your religion, marital status, and parental status. Those are all protected from discrimination.

College isn't just a matter of putting in work. It's a matter of putting in money. That is the clear dividing line versus work experience.
Only on Windows? If so, it should be in the title.
Everything old really is new again.

This reminds me of a paper by Gary Kildall published in 1970 called "APL\B5500: The Language And Its Implementation" [1], which I think will fascinate many by just how modern it reads. Just about all of the terminology and concepts were refined by then and remain identical to the present day, when the conventional understanding of the software industry -- where everything allegedly becomes obsoleted every 6 months, would dictate that it must be hopelessly anachronistic by now.

We're not as innovative as we think we are.

[1] https://www.cs.washington.edu/tr/1970/09/UW-CSE-70-09-04.PDF
Pretty sure this is the real reason Musk wanted a superior air filter - playa dust storm protection: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1057/1338020035_678b988a6e_o....
I had to look up what immunotherapy is... not sure if it would do much good in my case, because I don't have much of an immune system at this point. I've already quit chemotherapy.. think I went 6 rounds before 'throwing in the towel'. Seems pointless to postpone what is inevitable, but I can understand how some might want to hang on.. particularly if one is married and with children.
The general mindset of comments on articles like these is they should not be spying on anyone and I said go away not a mere cutback.
His comparison sounded much more like "research languages vs. mainstream imperative languages" and Haskell definitely came from research land, just as Idris and Agda are.

Plus someone is seriously working on dependent types in Haskell - so no, I think it's fitting.
You cannot do politics by saying "everyone who disagrees with me is in a cult". That's pretty much exactly what McCarthyism was.
The closed system of the car is more efficient. It's not clear that allowing cars to travel at speeds that makes it impossible for them to share roads with pedestrians is globally efficient. Really, allowing cars at all is a concession to global efficiency. In that light, one can see the benefit to abridging driver's generally assumed right to utterly dominate any place they aren't completely prohibited.
So based on your 3rd paragraph, you frequently see Brabus 800Gs running at 170mph on the highway? I mean, there's always a bragging rights speed metric to brag about, which means it's not worth bragging about...
Let me fix that for you:

The Adblockers will lose horrifically. It will be worse than wack-a-mole, similar to the file-sharing industry's futile attempts to keep music free and shareable...

I now pay more per month for music than I did at any other time in my life, and I am becoming locked in to paying more per month forever. The music industry has won, they've replaced their old business model with one that costs us more while they take less risk.

Some people really dislike the idea of ads. They install adblockers. Publishers who make their living from ads respond. Who has more motivation, those who are vaguely annoyed, or those who lose their jobs and companies if they fail? The latter, of course. They will find a way around this because they have everything to lose.

I dislike the IAB, it's a force against progress within the ad business. But they're not going to lose horrifically, and even if they lose slightly it won't mean that you have won, just like with music.
https://www.google.de/webhp?hl=de#hl=de&q=%22microsoft+updat...

how about confessions?
By law, Snowden IS a criminal irrespective of whether his actions are moral or not (as I am not American, I don't take a stand on that and I don't care).
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almost the same but I log using the exception call instead of event

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
It is apparently a known thing. From the article:

For first-time mothers, those whose babies were delivered by Caesarean section, and mothers of preemies, the milk supply can take even longer to start.
Well, the exact number of countries is a very messy issue and the definition of what is a country tends to be "whatever other countries acknowledge to be one". This can be especially awkward if some of the other countries don't want to accept its status and the rest plays along because they have no incentive to get involved.
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The conclusions in the article are bullshit. There are a number of possible explanations.

1. offical does not reflect real world.
2. defeat devices.

If every car manufacturer is using defeat devices it really shows how poorly EPA requirements have worked. Blame car manufacturers, sure, but they're supposed to be selfish. That's how economics works.
EVs are the holy grail, at least for the next century. Thinking EVs are the holy grail, is incredibly smart.

You link them up to nuclear, wind, or solar and drastically reduce the total pollution output across the life of the vehicle, versus a gasoline or diesel vehicle.

EVs are as clean as their energy source. Gas and diesel cars are the exact opposite: extremely polluting no matter what you do to them. EVs win period. There's no scenario in which they don't, especially over the next few decades as they leap far ahead of traditional vehicles in every regard. At worst they're less polluting than gasoline vehicles over time, at best they're far less polluting.
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I think you should reconsider "physically impossible". Sure, in some idealized situations, the statement you're responding to would be wrong, grievously wrong.

But the actual situation has two novel features: (1) the engine uses up power just by being on; (2) you must maintain a minimum speed in order not to block traffic.

If you put these constraints in, you can see that it's possible for a pulsed-acceleration strategy to win. You put in a pulse of acceleration to get up the hill, turn the engine off, and coast down, maintaining enough speed to keep up with traffic.

Now sure, without the minimum-speed constraint, you'd probably be better off flat, and possibly using a pulsed-acceleration strategy.

I haven't done the math, but I think it would be reckless to say it's "physically impossible" for all values of static energy use and slopes.

Take a look at the stack exchange answer the commenter above linked to.
You floor the car each time you get on the highway? Also if we are talking about rolling start Tesla's advantage over the Turbo S would practically melt away.
I'd trust McDonald's buns and meat to contain LESS preservatives and other bizarre compounds than a pack of burger bread and patties that I'd pick up at my local grocery store. The main reason is that McDonald's is a well-oiled supply-chain machine with (probably) low storage durations for the various ingredients, whereas consumer grocery products can suffer weeks on a store shelf before purchase. The second reason (also just speculation) is that the intensity of regulatory agencies' scrutiny of McDonald's ingredients (especially with regard to meat) would dwarf that of the small packages I would be able to buy for a barbeque.

I believe in staying away from foods high in lipids in general, but fast food burgers don't scare me. It's fries and pizzas that I abhor.
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> Unless, of course...

Unless the servers are compromised and used as C&C?
This is not necessarily true at all. Based on what I've heard of Jack and Elon, they work 16+ hours a day. I think that's the answer.
I read that Dorsey basically divides his day into Twitter in the morning and Square in the evening, or something to that effect. I believe he lives walking distance to both offices in the Mission.
Yes it was my bad - I've added it now. Thanks for pointing that out.
Performance is all that ends up mattering at the end of the day. Both Apple and Pixar ended up as wild successes - so yes, Jobs could effectively run both (in hindsight).

The futures for both Twitter and Square are not so sure. At face value, seems like a net positive for Twitter and a net negative for Square.
The role of a CEO and an engineer are typically much different. Most would probably say that being the CEO of two companies isn't feasible. However, some of the most important parts of a good CEO are hard to replace. A part-time CEO with strong vision and leadership may be able to more effectively lead a company towards success than a full-time one without the right vision or leadership.
Quite so, and that's specifically one of the things that prompted the feature. There are extra restrictions on (some) noob accounts because of past abuse by spammers and trolls. But when the creator of a project shows up in the thread about their work and their comments are auto-killed, that's a disaster for HN. There's only so much we can do to solve this with either software or moderation, but community members see right away what's going on. Letting them fix it seems like the obvious solution.

So far it seems to be helping! I haven't yet seen a case of the above getting fixed by vouching, but those are relatively rare.

Edit: we got one! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306786. As soon as we see vouches on these we'll mark the account legit so future comments will be ok.
I doubt it will happen, if human beings were such rational creatures, we would have all quit watching TV and playing video games (I have, but I'm sure I'm the minority, and I think the ratio of people who end up using those vintage phones you mention will be much lower than those who don't watch TV, because of network effect). I have seen plenty of super addictive technologies die off if the value it provides is pure entertainment, but I have never seen any technology that provides clear benefit go away just because it has side effects--people who realize the side effect and want to do something about it will find a way to discipline themselves, but most people are not disciplined enough to be able to do that.
APL\B5500: The Language and Its Implementation – Gary A. Kildall (1970) [pdf]
Why would I care where the processor in my phone is made?
By having trusted and capable senior leadership in each company, so that the CEO job is limited to managing that team and harmonizing disagreements among them.
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> For something so critical, there should simply be too many safeguards for any test to make it through all the way to end users.

The only way to guarantee that is to not allow updates to be published at all.

> If a test could get through without being discovered, then so might malicious code.

You are conflating very different things. MSFT being able to publish updates is normal and does not require a security breach, even if one particular update shouldn't have been published. An external entity being able to publish an update containing malicious code would be a huge security breach, requiring both the ability to sign the update and to publish it.
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Also, the sea ice itself is much fresher than the ocean, so it's melting temperature is much closer to 0C than you might expect. And even the distinction between freezing seawater and freshwater at the surface is less then 2C, so it's not a huge difference.

I can't think of an obvious way that acidification factors in, unless there are important connections between sea ice and sensitive biological factors (I'm not aware of any, but I'll wait to be corrected).
Yeah, they're in beta right now. They work well but we're polishing them before public launch.
looking up to it!
The StackExchange post that he linked lists several cases where it's possible. I was skeptical too - I was a physics major in college, I know all about potential vs. kinetic energy and rolling resistance. But engines are not perfectly efficient: you're going to lose some energy to internal friction within the engine, and to combustion efficiency, and to transmission losses, and to a number of other effects which vary based on speed, RPM, and torque. Add in an engine computer that's trying to minimize these effects based on inputs, and actual fuel efficiency will vary significantly from the simple "chemical energy in = kinetic energy out" model.

I've also observed the effect that the OP mentioned: in my Honda Fit, I get a fairly consistent ~45 MPG on 101 (completely flat highway terrain), ~40 MPG on 280 (rolling hills, highway), and ~43 MPG on 84 (across the Santa Cruz Mountains; ascends 3000 ft. in a series of tight switchbacks and then descends 3000 ft. in a wavy line). My working hypothesis is that the descent on 84 is consistent enough that the engine computer can idle the engine for all of it, burning no fuel - this is consistent with the car being nearly silent on the downhill, and of the instantaneous mileage display being stuck at its max of 80 MPG. Probably also helps that speeds are much lower, so there's less air resistance.

Anyway, the point is that cars are complex enough that the simple models you learn in Physics 101 don't really hold.
For me symptom were extremely severe over several weeks. In end, I could quit coffee for good.

Recently, I had some stomach troubles and doctor told me to cutback or completely stop drinking coffee to help stomach heal.

I decided to go cold turkey. Figured it would speed up recovery. A bad mistake. Headaches and irritation was easy to control and disappeared within couple of days. But my body is so dependent on caffeine. I had constipation, I could not motivate myself to go workout in evenings, I felt the world was moving at different pace than me. I just felt all sorts of wrong and I keep on thinking it was just a pace it pass soon.

Finally, I could not take it. Went back to drinking as much coffee as I needand life is great now.
It was a test update and there will undoubtedly be a review of this. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-accidentally-issued-a...

The fact that a test patch got to this stage doesn't mean the safeguards aren't in place or that malicious code could have slipped through, though. Assuming even basic competence, this test update could not have been signed, and if someone had managed to push malicious code, the same would be true, so it wouldn't have been installed onto target machines.
Double repost:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10266191
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10262186
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| There are no human activities immune to the proclivity towards so-called reasoned association with idealistic/authoritarian ideology as a means of life experience |

This is true; it's why lots of car salesmen think that plaid jackets and bling is cool. Culture is usually just an excuse for bad behavior.
The old guard dies, it does not surrender.
My Subaru Outback has been a nice surprise in this area.

The combined highway/city mileage on the sticker was 24 mpg, and I've been getting 27 or 28 mpg for the entire 2 years I've owned it. For a while I was commuting between Denver and Boulder (about 45 miles each way) five days a week and taking it up to the mountains for hiking or skiing every weekend, so it's been over a wide variety of terrain.

I'm using the numbers on the in-car, computer, though, so maybe I should double check...
> It's less of a problem if ... you're doing something more applied/normal, like software development, where you can just have a conversation or work some problems to demonstrate ability

My experience trying to get a job with highly-classified non-intel software experience (distributed real-time, to boot) is that this is still extremely difficult. The conversation couldn't include anything really interesting. Hell, my resume couldn't contain anything really interesting so I rarely got the conversation in the first place.

I have been gone for 3.5 years, but I still have that problem because the work I did then is what I want to do, and the work I'm doing now (Java-based NLP) was the escape. I can only given detailed information about what I do now, though, which skews everyone into thinking I'm a Java or ML developer. :/
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auto-installing new security updates but having a delay of 24-48hours before installing them might be a safer alternative
Really like the car. Just a tad concerned that the huge front window will break/shatter a lot if you hit some debree (or there is just a lot of junk on the roads where I live).
have you paired any iphone over bluetooth., try to remove it and turn off the bluetooth. check if you still getting that issue., I created a local account and turned off bluetooth., havent seen it for a while now.
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