skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
POKE 16407, 43

This wrote a value into an absolute memory address. 16407 was one of the registers of the video controller. Poking various values into it would cause various funky things to happen on screen. 43 was one of the best values to put in there, but others were interesting too.

Sometimes you had to reboot the machine to recover, though...
take a look at the loop holes added in the recently passed omnibus spending bill. The tax code in the US just keeps getting patched. Would it not just be easier to choose a flat tax for individuals and stick it to everything? Think of all the paper work costs saved.

Another idea would be to go back to an apportioned scheme like we originally had in the constitution. Maybe by congressional delegates than by state as RI could not possibly match CA in tax contributions.
I'm sure the small segment of Microsoft's userbase that would recognize the name Micah Lee would find this story interesting since it provides some very helpful instructions.
> And is it really rich people lobbying for more surveillance and resisting decriminalization of drugs, or is it my mother?

While your mother may be voting for such policies, she is likely not lobbying for them (or writing them). The companies and high net worth individuals who have a financial stake in these policies are the ones doing that.

Every piece of legislation that exists benefits a rich person in some way.
> I think it's more like creating a car by reverse engineering Ford's in order to tap into Ford's ecosystem of parts and mechanics.

So Ford makes the Mustang, I make after-market brake pads for the Mustang and therefore I have to use the same mounting interface as the Ford pads. I also make callipers and axles and so on; all the parts you need to repair your Mustang.

In theory if I really make all the parts then I can put them together and get a whole car with no OEM parts. But notice that nobody really does this. Because if you're capable of making the whole car yourself, you no longer care if the parts are compatible with Ford parts, you just become Toyota.

What you might see is people selling "whole cars" which are 75% Ford OEM parts and 25% something new and different, like the Shelby Mustang. But it's not clear how that should be something bad.

> I think with API's: you can copyright the header, but not the ABI. I.e. nothing prevents you from making an LLVM module that exposes the same interface as what the header compiles down to.

That's kind of weird. The header and the ABI aren't separable. You can decompile the ABI back into the header. Does it really make sense to be able to copyright something which is just a deterministic transformation of something you can't copyright?
Petals Around the Rose is a fun game to bring out at techie gatherings, as many people have not heard of it. A few years ago I was visiting some friends at Startup Chile, and I decided to entertain four other people with this game. They were all highly intelligent, though the only one to not solve the problem is also the most successful among them. Go figure.
From wikipedia above >> Section 29 – Crime and taxation. Data processed for the prevention or detection of crime, the apprehension or prosecution of offenders, or the assessment or collection of taxes are exempt from the first data protection principle.

Note that the exception does not state that a warrant is needed for the collection or sharing in such circumstances.
Love the interface. You're assuming you found the right subtitle but it's not always going to be the case, a list of possible or top results would be helpful.
I agree that this is better than no encryption. And they're likely escrowing (in most but not all cases) the key for valid UX reasons. The tricky part is doing it without asking the user. Apple used to do optional escrowing on OS X with File Vault 2, but they asked the user.

The privacy/surveillance concern comes to play now that China has a law (as of Sunday) saying that tech companies need to be able to hand over keys on demand/request (whatever). Since Microsoft escrows them, they'd be capable of complying. Google and Apple who don't escrow them at all anymore, can't actually comply. Uncertain is whether the law requires them to start a key escrow function.

EDIT: And then what if/when U.K. wants access on demand to that escrow service? And then what if/when the U.S. does? If the companies have the keys, it doesn't require a law to get access to them, just a subpoena. It'd require a law to compel the companies to create the escrow capability though.
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This is a misconception. When you read about quantum things (superposition, for example), it's convenient to replace "observe" with "interact with."

Without interacting with the universe, it's probabilistic. The problem being that a lot of things in the universe interact with each other as a matter of course. A particle bumping into another particle breaks the probabilistic state that you're talking about – regardless of whether that particle ends up in the view of a conscious observer.
> How do we know they don't?

Maybe someone can resolve this question by asking Google, examining Android source code, finding relevant online documentation, or even monitoring what a new Android device does on the network when setting up FDE. I don't feel like this should be a big insoluble mystery for the ages; it's a basic security property of a largely open-source OS that's one of the most popular in the world. We could even ask Micah Lee to do a follow-up article directly addressing other operating systems' FDE key management behavior.
All too often people think that being smart is one dimensional trait that applies all over the place.
For those wondering, the sentences were 4.5 years, 4.2 years, 3.5 years, and 3.5 years. I'm not sure what the conversion rate between sentence and typical time served is in the UK, though.
There was one blog post that had the most profound impact on my development approach for Single Page Apps. http://www.pocketjavascript.com/blog/2015/11/23/introducing-...

Discussed here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619933

I find it to be the one article I can link to people that has a profound impact on the way they think about web app development.
"And it's not all physics and math; the entry for the Ka/s ratio, a useful measure in evolutionary biology, assumes you already know a lot about evolutionary biology and the genetic code."

It seems to me that any information - in an encyclopedia or anywhere else - on a subtopic must assume knowledge of the parent topic.

Other gripes by the author seemed to be nitpicks about article quality, which are fair but extremely minor.
Stick a fork in it, it's done.

I was typing in a list of blurbs this morning, titles for a to-do list. I thought about putting the punctuation the "right" way inside the quotes, then didn't do it. At some point it's better to get your message across clearly than it is to follow strict rules.

Relatedly, we're starting to see the rise of two words joined together, aka JavaScript, or SyFy. Looks like computers are doing all sorts of odd things to our punctuation.
On iOS it's substantially clunkier for the user. They have to keep agreeing to the coo popup every time they visit the site. And there's not background geo-locating. It's really not even comparable.
We actually found a ton of this stuff couple of months ago http://blog.binaryedge.io/2015/08/10/data-technologies-and-s...
Everybody's talking about encryption these days. People are finally waking up and getting a bit suspicious. Obviously it is convenient for Microsoft to produce an inferior solution which also happens to be what the government wants.

What people need is education about the situation and a real solution. Not a "solution" that makes them feel secure, which is what Microsoft sells here.
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Tavis Ormandy started tweeting at AVG about this subject several months ago.

And it's been pointed out that they aren't able to remove the extension from users' machines due to how it bypasses the Chrome security system. So their best bet was to ask AVG to do the right thing. AVG won't or can't.

So, what can Google do? Just silently accept it? The 90-day policy is worthless in this case.
I've been there myself, but it's really mentally freeing to just let go of the tabs.

If you have something open because you need to finish a task... Put the task explicitly on your todo list, set a reminder, and close the tab.

If you have something open that you are need to finish reading reading but don't immediately have the time? Add it to your Pocket or alternative, and close the tab. If you feel you might forget it, set a calendar reminder to follow-up.

If you have something open that you think might just be nice to reference for that project you're kinda tinkering on... Summarize your finding in a way that would be meaningful to a future-you searching for that reference. You can do this in whatever method you prefer (bookmark, txt file, journal, pocket, etc.) And finally, close the tab!

In my personal experience having tabs open for weeks, to years on end did nothing more than exacerbate my anxiety over the fear of somehow missing out or loosing that information.

Give your working brain a rest and externalize this effort onto something that you aren't constantly being reminded of every second you're using the browser.

If you're worried about not finishing something, give yourself deadlines and set reminders.

If you're worried about not finding something, make it easier for a future-you to find it.
I'm going off of the standard treatment of the problem, from people who do a ton of interviews:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev...

My reading is that the scaffolding isn't the problem, writing that loop and conditional, within the margin of error of what compiler errors / an IDE can tell you to fix, is the problem. So essentially yes, they're staring at a blank sheet of paper.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this with a link, then adding your text as a first comment in the new thread. Good luck!
Communicate within voluntary relationships, get forced into a cage for years. Sounds like justice to me!
You admit you arent an expert and you dont have time to understand the data. Yet you have already drawn a conclusion.

I am not an expert. I also do not have time to understand the data. That is why all I am comfortable saying is, my gut instinct is that H1B visa's dont drive down salaries (more than adding more workers affects salaries) but I dont know for certain.

The next best thing we can do is look in the literature for someone who has done this analysis. I like scholar.google.com.

If we dont even have time for that, I guess its just not that important and we just go through life not knowing, hopeful that the day will come when we will see a reddit link to a blog post about a behind-paywall news article summarizing an academic analysis.

C'est la vie.
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Temporal said 'criminal', not 'fatal', and gave the example of 'maimed or fatal'. There are also non-fatal, non-injurious ways to be criminal in policing.
I don't think Von Neumann failed to make an abstraction, I think using the time to impact is about exploiting the structure or symmetry of the problem, and does not provide a good example of an abstraction being made.
Some people read faster than others. I work full time as an engineer (~45-50 hours) and read 2-3 books a week.
If I were in charge of reviewing code for a coworker I might object to their coding style as a matter of preference but if they were able to provide a reasoning for their position then I would "pass" them without requiring them to modify the code.

This is the type of instruction the does not teach critical thinking that is crucial for success in higher education. Instead it teaches the student to memorize the book no matter how wrong it may seem. It also teaches them that the authority in any situation has the absolute ability to determine what is right and wrong, not that one style might be appropriate in some situations and inappropriate in others.

If I were writing a novel, I might use the illogical American style because I don't anticipate quoting other individuals and having to convey their exact meaning.

In philosophy courses I struggled with this because professors would request that I quote exactly, but also request that I put the period inside the quotes. As a result the style of the paper and the readability would both stuffer while I was stuck putting in more effort to disambiguate what I was trying to say when it could have been done in a simpler manner. The solution was often block-style quotes at the beginning of a section and references back to that section, or direct references to a page and line no. in the book.
Just curious, what do you use instead?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusis_(card_game)

Found it in one of the Martin Gardner books.

Various rules I've found online:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5217/eleusis

http://howell.seattle.wa.us/games/rules/Eleusis.html

http://www.bicyclecards.ca/game-rules/eleusis/189.php?page_i...

http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~kieran/eleusis.pdf

The rules vary, and all these seem different than what I read in Martin Gardner's article. A quick and easy version of it can be played with a single deck, sheet of paper (to record the rules) and 3+ participants (dealer + at least 2 players, more is better, too many needs more decks).
If we assume 300 pages per book, that's ~85 pages per day. Reading speed heavily depends on the material, but I'd say 30 pages per hour is a typical average. So 3h per day...whether you can hit that probably depends on your family situation and how much you like reading. If you're reading undemanding non-fiction you can probably hit 3x that speed.
I'm pretty sure that key can be deleted/removed from the online account; of course it's already out of your control, so you're now in a position of trusting the completion of Microsoft's key deletion.
Sidecar doesn't get enough credit for starting the rideshare movement. (Uber started the mobile-calling movement, but were black cars and TNC compliant until they started UberX.)

Sidecar was often were piloting products a half year before Uber and Lyft implemented them (ridesharing, Shared Rides, etc). I think Uber and Lyft won since (a) Uber was first and had an extra 2 years of brand recognition already, and (b) Lyft had superior marketing in their early days (bright pink mustaches, mandatory fist bumps). As Uber/Lyft raised more money, they caught up more - though Sidecar was still first in a lot of products (Sidecar Deliveries, having HIPAA compliant drivers, etc.)

If I were them, I would explore the niche of regulation-friendly drivers - e.g. HIPAA certified drivers. They've already started doing this, but I'm sure their consumer facing product has bogged down product development and such. The Medium post isn't clear on if they're laying off team and such, does anyone know?

Edit: I would also explore using their logistics infrastructure and making it available to any businesses that have their own delivery fleets, but don't know how to optimize them. There was a Techstars co doing this (https://routific.com/) but I imagine Sidecar is much further along.
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Agreed, but it also kind of assumes stories are actually important and integral to the video game. Most stories in the current dominant video games follow the John Carmack mantra of "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

To go deeper into the problems of story telling in games, see Jonathan Blow's Conflicts in Game Design Talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGTV8qLbBWE

But as for actual story telling games with female protagonists, go back to King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella. Designer Roberta Williams said a lot of interesting things about it, like how it was more uncomfortable designing deaths for her, and how she was worried there would be a fan backlash to playing a female character (but never happened).

Hell, since I mentioned both Jonathan Blow and King's Quest, somebody just did a big ass Sierra retrospective applying Blow's talk to Sierra games, examining both why Sierra was able to successfully do story telling games for 20 years and how they differ from modern adventure games. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wua96SI6SBE&list=PLPAVYgFfed...
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Rubbish. I had a period when I read one book every day, including reading The Dice Man (which is a huge book) in one day. Of course I did little else. But 2 books a week is easily achievable.
How have they "screwed" you? (Genuine question, I don't follow the Glass project much.)
But Einstein's theories were still testable.
I made a map with the route and all of the stops: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z4kMRHXgBTVs.kq8lQ1TU...
These kind of hallucinations are not uncommon with NMDA receptor antagonists like DXM, might well be that receptor damage can cause similar symptoms.
Thanks for the 2 day notice.
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There is a strong tradition of physicists (scientists of all stripes, really) assuming they have some deep understanding of the natural universe and logic far beyond that of philosophers and stepping far outside their expertise to say laughably absurd and quackish things about hard problems in philosophy. So I appreciate your caution.

But it's also the case that just because a physicist is trying to tackle consciousness -- a much harder problem than anything physicists have taken on this far -- doesn't make him a quack. To dismiss it out of hand is foolish; IIT is a thing and this paper certainly fits within that framework, though I don't know enough to judge it beyond that without careful study. But from your post, neither do you.
It says conscious can't be divided, but that's not true as far as I know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

"In a more serious effect, the patient may have two different consciousnesses, one on each side of the brain."
Honestly would anybody really care that much if Uber shut down? The users and drivers would just move to Lyft or some other service. This isn't Facebook that has a bunch of your life's history.
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It irritates me, perhaps more than it should, how many people cite David Chalmers' term "the hard problem of consciousness" while proposing solutions that show they aren't remotely interested in the question (see for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness, http://consc.net/papers/facing.html, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/).

Maybe ignoring the question is right. Maybe philosophers have nothing useful to say about it. But if that's your view, then don't talk about that question.
check out https://www.reddit.com/r/mathgifs - that's the format to upload to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery is one very prolific poster of such images.
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As they should.
Unfortunately the proposal doesn't solve one of the main problems with the mobile web: Battery usage. It doesn't matter if you run all that extraneous js on background threads. It still uses power.
You can read a lot more than you'd think.

Ryan Holiday had a great post about this very topic: http://ryanholiday.net/how-to-read-more-a-lot-more/
Google Photos is really good at viewing/galleries/sharing and indexing, and especially so at applying machine intelligence for categorization and tagging. How well does Dropbox handle this stuff?
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I missed that one. I had a similar issue, but marked all the emails as spam and stopped seeing them in my inbox.
I am excited and worried about what CRISPR will bring about.
You can't audit the firmware of the baseband processor, which is capable of sending the key to anyone, so there's not much point of auditing Android/asking Google. You cannot rely on any phone with a closed firmware baseband processor to be 100% secure.

It might also come as a surprise to many than most every post-2008 Intel processor is similarly insecure: http://libreboot.org/faq/#intel
Lots of short side street trips (groceries, hardware, parks) and a few longer trips (hiking nearby, weekwnd getaways, etc) but I only drive it on the weekends. I take transit to work. Highway driving is brutal on the battery (in a mileage capacity per charge...wind resistance and whatnot).
Unlikely that the KEK on the TPM is moved into RAM. The TPM would internally decrypt the KEK encrypted DEK, and then use the DEK in RAM (more likely it's just in the CPU using AES-NI, finding it in RAM would be non-trivial assuming the implementation is good).

This is compared to e.g. either Linux (LUKS) or OS X where the encrypted DEK is stored on the drive itself (outside of the encrypted volume of course), since neither of them leverage a TPM at the moment.
Um, no. Einstein's ideas were, at least in part, testable. Parts of them were confirmed rather quickly.
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I still wouldn't escrow my disk encryption keys, but I'd be happier if Apple and Microsoft could guarantee that they couldn't access the escrowed keys, kind of like how tarsnap's design means that cpersiva doesn't have access to my backups.
Are there any good Postgres GUIs for OSX?

SequelPro is incredible - easy to use, beautiful, reliable, powerful - but it only works with MySQL (or MariaDB). I've tried Toad but it's very buggy and ugly. The AppStore has SQLPro for Postgres, but I've not heard any reviews, so I'm reticent to spend $30. I've used a Navicat trial for MySQL and it was good but costs around $200.
It also depends on the lifecycle of the application. Some applications only exist for 2-3 years, just because of requirements changes; at that point, it's easier to "declare bankruptcy" by deprecating the old code base.

0% interest isn't the best analogy for technical debt, however, because technical debt often carries recurring costs that are analogous to interest. Every time you have to make changes or enhancements to a technically indebted system, the cost of those changes in time, effort, complexity, and bug hazard is higher than it would be in a clean system.
> If I were to do this again "for real" I would spend the time to build some epic string class designed especially for APT,

... or you could instead re-work it to use what are now called string_view and what used to be called string_ref.

* http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n392...

* http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n344...

* http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/utility/doc/html/s...
An impressive amount of OPSEC fail. This is why you shouldn't mix real names with activity that gets you noticed!
Lyft is still only available in the US, so yes.
Teenagers and young adults are ripe for causes. It's part of their psychological makeup; find a cause and be passionate about it. It's why protest groups are mostly young adults, and why armies are full of teenage signups.
Hasn't this been discussed multiple times? Microsoft tends to backup your key because the majority base doesn't understand how encryption works. When an average person thinks of passwords, they think there is a way to reset it. Good luck explaining to your grandma why all her favorite photos disappeared when she forgot the password.

I think for an average Joe this seems like a good strategy. With the defaults being off if the computer is stolen, all of their data and identity are stolen with it. This atleast acts like a door for an otherwise open house. Advanced users can use another encryption or do what the article suggests to not sent the key to Microsoft.