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> while Tim Schafer’s Broken Age ran over budget, needed to be split in half, and delivered a disappointing final product.

Speak for yourself, quite a few adventure game fans don't agree with it delivering a disappointing product. And there are quite a few more success stories... Broken Sword 5, Tesla Effect, Resonance, Shadowrun Dragonfall, ...

It's true that there are conflicts with Kickstarters due to the fact that most backers do not really understand how hard it is to estimate Software Developments (especially in games, refining gameplay and puzzles until it become fun is by definition not something that can be estimated accurately) and game developers that suddenly have to take on the role of PR which the publishers used to do. But overall, there's been more than a few success stories.
TOP 10 new technology gadgets this Fall 2015
I am a data scientist. I am working on two side projects.

The first project is a cloud based power/sample size calculator as a competitor to PASS.

The second project is a statistical distribution visualization website with API to generate random values.
You should write a paper explaining your views. And title it "'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".
The problem is that if you're trying to build a secure computing environment (like Joanna is with Qubes OS), you run into limitations all the time.

Those platform issues may not be a problem for Jane Doe on Windows 10, but when users decide that they need more security than that (and Qubes points in the right direction, although there's still some miles to go) they may have a reason (or just paranoia).

In either case, they won't be very happy with the sad state that is x86 "security" because there are way too many places where an undue trust into Intel is implied.

Eg. the SGX feature, which can run userland code in a way that even the kernel (or SMM) can't read it: The keys are likely mediated by the Management Engine (ME) - which also comes with network access and a huge operating system (for the purposes of an embedded system: the smallest version is 2MB) that you, the user, can't get rid of.

So who's SGX protecting you from if you fear involvement by nation state actors? x86 isn't for you in that case (Intel's version in particular, but pretty much all alternatives are just as bad) - and that's what this paper points out.
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Neither of these are valid criticisms.

Yours first: it is a new paper. It was just released. It has an "October 2015" dateline. It isn't a variant of any previous paper she's released. It's also a very good paper.

Second: this isn't a blog post. It's not a news site. It's a research paper. She gave it a title that follows a trope in computer science paper titles. It's silly to call it "clickbait".

As someone who's had the misfortune of going toe-to-toe with Rutkowska over details of the X86 architecture, let me gently suggest that whether she knows what she's talking about and what she's trying to say [isn't] really a fight you want to pick.
> Note above minecraft: Notch used minecraft to learn. The code in it was never great, and you are completely right that it generally ran like shit but it is getting better, and the development are stream lining the code but they cannot re-write it because some of the things that make minecraft good was the odd behavoir that a recode would most likely lose.

Yeah I actually went back and edited my post to say about the same thing as you did. It used to frustrate me but honestly you can't blame Markus, and Mojang has done an amazing job at making it run pretty well nowadays.
This is basically an ad for the author's service. It also has several grandiose statements that do not stand the test of scrutiny.
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Mean age is 13.3 ± 2.7 and the mean body weight is 93.0 ± 22.1 (~205lbs) at study start. That's pretty big for a 13 year-old.
It wouldn't break encryption because you don't give away the private key when requesting a certificate from a CA.

It would definitively compromise the identity/trust part of it.
> And title it "'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".

http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

[edit: clarified context]
Do it. If not you, somebody else will do it, and that may make you repent later on, if you don't.

Not to be insensitive to the loss of employment of so many people. But if its possible to automate the process by you in spare time, then its likely that few others in the company at the top, also know of that possibility, and are just plain busy with other things, to think of it right now. Happens all the time in companies.
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Depends, are there people that might try to shoot you specifically, or does non-bullet-proof glass have weaknesses against other things that might happen more commonly?

(= just because something isn't in widespread use yet/maybe hard to do doesn't mean it isn't used in targeted attacks. Or might become widespread after new discoveries or in combination with other vectors. And a lot of her work (e.g. Qubes OS) aims at making things secure on a very low level)

Also, some of these features are marketed and sold to us as additional protections, and I think it is important to see if they can actually do what they promise or if they just add complications, especially if they inconvenience users.
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It's free for months, so probably not a mistake.
I like some of the ones like .ninja, .xyz, and .space just because they're cheap more interesting then .me which is what used to pop up a lot for personal projects I was linked to.
The FDA posted its inspection reports for Theranos's labs. They don't look good
I think all programmers are the "oil". Some are higher quality that others, just as is the case with oil. Maybe tech companies are like refineries?

This analogy is getting strange, but I like it.
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Of course they are. We ran the Internet on C code that was positively riddled with trivially exploitable stack overflows for 7 years after the Morris Worm demonstrated RCE through overflows --- 6 years after the "microscope and tweezers" paper explained how the attack worked.

Exact same story with error oracle attacks in cryptography.

Attackers go after the low hanging fruit first, and then they move up the tree.
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Let's all give ourselves a pat on the back for eating fruit.
Probably worth pointing out that the author is the project lead of Qubes, one of the very few promising projects in the vast wasteland of computer security.
I really had to do that once. Reverse-engineer a wifi driver in an embedded board, some niche RISC instruction set invented by god knows who. Invented a disassemble-annotate-repeat tool called GOLEM based entirely on bitmap-pattern scripts, that would produce a listing. You could edit the listing to include symbolic names for code points and data, then re-run the tool and it would use those names (instead of hex addresses) in the new listing (built a symbol table iteratively). Ultimately I had complete source for the firmware again.
Like a macro-scale Civilization ? I'd play the hell out of that.
Please try to comment constructively. The HN community enjoys lively debate and discussion, but this type of comment doesn't add much.
And REI has some history of caring for the employees and customers more than profits. Apple doesn't have this history, and would get ridiculed for having ulterior motives.
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Oh sure, I was just talking about workbooks containing multiple sheets with static data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
"We've adjusted the dupe detector to reject fewer URLs...[snip/].. Allowing reposts is a way of giving high-quality stories multiple chances at making the front page. Please do this tastefully and don't overdo it."

Considering that this second post got much more traction than the first, I don't see anything wrong.
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Hello HN. Please take a look at my project.

As to why the world might need another search for the App Store, I have written a blog post here: http://blog.appapp.io/post/131747237960/the-raison-detre-of-...
2) can be discounted probably, because students were chosen at random

1) and 3) seem a stretch. How do you teach to test in such a way ( assuming no cheating by teachers ), that kids can do math on the test, but later they lose that skill in such a way that they become worse (!) in a statistically significant way than those who weren't in pre-k ?
> The idea that the poor are just too stupid to know how to work is insulting.

If you think that is insulting, try getting your ideas attacked through a straw-man argument - that's even worse. What most poor people do not understand, however, is that in order for them to live off welfare, somebody else is personally sacrificing their own efforts, labor, life, money that could be saved for their kids, just to pay for some guy who not only has no skills to help society in building wealth, but has a strong enough sense of entitlement to demand that someone help them survive while they get to pick where to live. I want to help all the poor, but being mathematically literate I know this can only work if we put these poor people in a situation where instead of takers, they be producers.

> The point of a city isn't anything like what is suggested. Its a place where a lot of people gathered to live.

You are over-simplifying it to the point of being ahistorical. No, actually cities came about because farmers increasingly wanted to take their chances at being entrepreneurs or employees in an industrial setting. So if you fail at your chance of making it in the city, then you should go back to a farm. Sounds logical to me. That way everyone can keep trying to make it in the city without being a burden on anyone else.

> And 'transporting' folks is what they did to criminals in Britain in the bad old days (usually to Australia).

This reads like an emotional sophism to make me feel bad about giving the poor food and shelter that they can actually pay for themselves. Again, think back to our recent past pre Industrial age (1850 and before). Most people were farmers. That's the default. Living in the city, where you can't produce your own food and have to rely on other people's services (which costs money) is not the default. If everyone in the country can never be poorer than owning a small self-sufficient farm where one can live by oneself without needing money, then can you better point at the part of this plan that makes you be against it? I honestly see no problems here, not even an inkling of disrespect towards the poor.
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In that first case - do you mean equal amount or equal proportion?
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This is a fascinating idea!
The root cert they use for the free certificates is not in my Browser (Chrome 46.0.2490.80 )
Facebook: The Secret Force Behind CISA?
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That sound really interesting, is it English only? Can it handle tasks scheduling as well? What I mean by that is:

"Clara, find me a time to do xxx next week"

That integrated with Google inbox (the remind me later feature) would be great!

P.S: I found it kind of expensive, isn't it?
I believe it (not having read the article). I went Paleo when my blood sugar finally went from borderline diabetic to your blood sugar is now diabetic, you either get results or go on pills at my doctors suggestion. Just had my three month bloodwork done and the reduction in blood sugar and cholesterol are staggering.
A lot of breads in North America have a lot of added sugars. You have to actually go out of your way to find breads that aren't sweetened significantly.
What a refreshingly cynical argument!
the CDC says 50th percentile is about 100 lbs.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-weight-of-a-13-yea...

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41c021.p...

93 kg puts them at something like 90th / 95th percentile.
> It is hard to describe how my life changed

I've sought out these types of experiences but never see the dramatic changes that other people do.

For a time, I cut sugar out of my diet. I didn't notice any changes other than my desire to eat sweet foods went away. I did experience the flu like symptoms for a few days, but that passed. Now, if I really binge on sugar, I get a headache, but consuming it moderation doesn't make me feel any different than when I had cut it out completely.

I've also experimented with cutting out caffeine, eating vegetarian, different sleep patterns, and different exercise routines. Only messing with my sleep had much effect (I need it, duh).
I think what it is, is bad sampling procedures. For example, in the study, they had to get permission of parents to evaluate the kids and only 36% ( ! ) of those not in pre-k agreed to be evaluated. So, I think this is just biased sampling at work.
I like this assessment much better. Software programmers are finite in number.

Maybe ordinary software programmers are like crude oil because there is finite number of them, but still abundant. And fairly fungible.

Talented ones are like highly enriched uranium in that they're much more rare than crude oil by volume.

But they're still fungible because they can jump ship and decide to burn themselves at a different company.
They'll remain linked for at least another decade. Bezos can now lean on AWS to print money that he can funnel into numerous other expeditions. He won't let go of it any time soon, he has been seeking a big money maker for some time (see: efforts in search, auctions, advertising, phones - where the leaders have generated sizable profits).

Why did Amazon launch a semi-high priced phone (rather than stay consistent to the traditional low price strategy)? Bezos was hoping it would spit off a few billion a year in profit, and they'd finally have a big cash fountain to swim in like his competitors in tech.

In four to six years AWS will be a $150-$200 billion company in terms of valuation. It'll be capable of generating $4 or $5 billion in operating profit in that time frame. It'll likely pass Facebook in terms of sales within 36 months, and Facebook is worth $292 billion.
Except those will get eaten up rapidly as well. Is [???].horse better than get[???].com?
I have a few nice names I get regular emails about. I have one such name where the guys found where I worked and figured out how to reach my office phone. It was a bit annoying, but I told them I had plans for the domain.
I remember getting hooked on DinoPark Tycoon as a kid :D
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Amateur radio also has a lot of rules, and you have some people whose primary interest in the hobby seems to be tearing down other peoples work by citing FCC (or equivalent) regs.

I'm thinking in particular about the rule that encryption is banned on amateur bands, which really makes it not suitable for general internet access. More sensible people just ignore those rules, and that creates animosity with the above-mentioned group.
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>>you might be nowhere near your valued customer when they call

Traveling adhoc without planning is only for single 20 year olds start up techies. People with families, elderly etc generally have to plan in advance if they decide to do something.
That statement seems to draw a narrow definition of "fruit". Olives have no sugar. Tomatoes and cucumbers have very little. All three are fruits and good staples in any diet.
Julia Reda claims that the regulation doesn't even achieve that: https://juliareda.eu/2015/10/european-parliament-delivers-ne... (last paragraph)
I'm arguing with your lies that the only thing CISA exempts from disclosure are "compromised account names and passwords".
Would be nice if cmd and powershell also looked in App Paths allowing to be an actual replacement for %PATH% (without having to do "start app.exe")
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There are breads that DON'T have sugar in them?! Where do I find these mysterious breads?
Smartcards can be used in one of three ways:

- Secure the physical device (i.e. if no valid smartcard is provided the laptop won't boot, and the drive cannot be decrypted). This is rarely used as it is a PITA to set up/manage, is vendor specific, and duplicates what Windows provides anyway. This is what HP calls their "ProtectTools."

- Windows authentication: Active Directory can be configured to force certain devices (e.g. off-site laptops) to require a smartcard and to validate the smartcard during login. This stops someone attempting to authenticate with AD or login to the laptop without the smartcard. Combined with Bitlocker, it is fairly effective.

- VPN authentication: This is extremely common. In order to get onto the corporate network you need a smartcard in addition to credentials. This means you physically need the business's hardware to even attempt to break into the VPN (even with stolen credentials).

Many businesses that deploy smartcards are doing #2 or #3, with #3 (VPN) being by far the most common. Combined with bitlocker full drive encryption, and policies that force a password on each wake, it is "good enough" security for all but top-secret levels (and those shouldn't be off-site regardless).

So in answer to your question "secure enough." More secure than not having it.
Cool idea, but the best part of HN (aside from the content) is how simple the layout and design is. Yours is not complex nor does it perform badly, but I don't get the same feeling.

I'd get rid of the infinite scrolling and the column with the "Subscribe" message.
So were PHP and goto statements.

How influential something is has nothing to do with how good it is.
That sounds to me like using the "longest job first" scheduling algorithm in your OS--very inefficient, and certainly not fair.

If every homeless person had an estimate attached for the amount of effort required to return them to mainstream society, you have made the problem of allocating caseworkers to people analogous to CPU resources for a process. An automated algorithm could make the perfectly rational decision to prioritize someone who just needs to find some affordable housing quickly over someone who needs a few weeks in rehab, a psych counselor, vocational retraining, lifestyle interventions, etc.

Select a fair algorithm, and you get a fair allocation of limited resources, without having to "nice" any process so far down that it never actually gets to execute.
The physical analogy isn't even close. The volatility at the present time may be applicable. Software is a product of someone's imagination, while oil is pumped out of the ground. Without invention of the combustion engine (also a product of someones imagination), all the oil in the world would be nearly worthless.
No it isn't. It's the proposed changes being unscientific. It really hard to explain how sugar could be the culprit when its consumption didn't increase.

Edit: I would just add that the name makes the result even more suspect, he seems to be the only person pushing this fructose hypothesis. I wouldn't take the results seriously until it's replicated by somebody with no connection to him.
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This isn't an "essay", nor is it "axe grinding". It's one of the best current available surveys on X86 platform security.

Go to SCHOLAR.GOOGLE.COM and search for "* considered harmful". Most of what Meyer has to say about "considered harmful essays" don't apply to these papers.
If your going to deploy it, you should find a way to capitalize on it. Either create a SaaS or ask for a higher salary.
Thank you!

After a quick look, already this post is very cool:
http://notcrud.com/topic/220/show-nc-a-i-assisted-code-gener...

generates react native code from an image!

Watch the video!
Also, this very important piece of title is omitted: "...with obesity and metabolic syndrome". Sugar is getting too much bad press already (along with meat, white bread and computer games). Nothing is just black & white. </rant>
Agreed on 1-4 but you lost me at #5. Explain?
This is a very good first step - now we need more research into whether this holds for non-obese kids who are not Hispanic or black.

I.e. does cutting out almost all added sugars from the diet of a normal weight kid improve health outcomes?

Also note that the lead Author is Robert Lustig - I first ran into a lecture called "The bitter truth" by him against Sugar. So it seems to be a pet crusade of his (not that that invalidates the result).
I am not saying this is the solution to all people who are overweight or anything like that.

I am only saying that for someone like me who was clearly addicted go suggar, the result is clearly here.

I tried to stop eating too much since I was ~17 years old and I was never able to do so until I cut added sugar.

I am only speaking for myself (and for my dad who needs to cut added sugar :))
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Seems like you're aware of the relationship between gluclose and fiber, since you built up to glycemic index as your final question, but for those that don't know:

Fiber content in foods affect how the human body absorbs glucose. High-sugar fruits generally have decent quantities of fiber which mitigates the rate at which ingested glucose enters the bloodstream. At least this is my understanding of it from my nutritional scientist, sister, but I'm no medical professional. For more details, fiber:

"Attracts water and forms a viscous gel during digestion, slowing the emptying of the stomach and intestinal transit, shielding carbohydrates from enzymes, and delaying absorption of glucose,[62] which lowers variance in blood sugar levels"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_fiber#Effects_of_fiber...

Also, compare an orange vs orange juice:

Orange Glycemic Index = 40

Orange Juice Glycemic Index = 50

http://www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-eating/glycemic_index_...
I don't know, you tell me.

If you receive a plot of farmland that you can live off of without any other citizen's help, and you don't owe anyone anything for having received that plot of farmland, then are you a serf?

Plus, after living in that farmland for a while, whenever you think you have the skills to be employed in the city, you are free to try again. But it would be illegal to be homeless in the city, so that if it doesn't work out, you'd have to go back to the farmland you own.

Is that serfdom? The answer is no, and contrary to your question, you are not really sorry you asked, you are just doing this coy exaggeration routine that people who aren't interested in engaging in argument but still want to poo-poo it do.
At which point I would say "What evidence?" The government, with its warrant, is seeking to find information on my phone, if there's no information on my phone, who's to say it was there in the first place?
IANAL but companies don't have the 4th, only humans.
I was merely referring to the 'And title it "'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".' part of the parent post.
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I think the author of this article kind of missed the points being made by Hoffman. For instance, he asks:

"But how did the icon come to look like a snake in the first place?"

Sort of presupposes that it does look like a "real" snake. The icon doesn't necessarily have to look like anything ... we just have to evolve in a way that gets us to jump out of the way. It's the jumping out of the way that is adaptive, not the similarity to anything outside the system trying to survive.

To use Hoffman's analogy, it's like asking why do files on a desktop look like the files in the computer. They don't, they are useful interfaces however.
The first photo looks not very humane as for me, don't know why...