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Are you sure your summary of that thread is really accurate?

To me it reads as Chris providing an exceptionally detailed bug report (including the exact code paths triggering the problem, and statistics from lockstat and dtrace on the lock in question). Nobody in the thread asks for more information (why would you want a "crash dump" for a non-crashing bug anyway?). Everyone seems to agree that the drivers are in fact taking spinlocks for long periods of time, while holding other locks. Nobody talks about "hardware known to be bad". What is talked about is how it's been too long since the drivers were last synced with upstream.
Very informative! Thanks for sharing.
> The entire discussion was about how good Carlyle's work on slavery was. The entire subject matter is a defense of the use of slavery and in particular black people as slaves. Which he was defending and promoting, as he then directly said slavery was a natural human relationship.

OK...so now it sounds like I need to read the entire wall of text to get the point? That illustrates a big difference between how you responded to me and how tptacek responded to me.

After I said that I saw the AMA, and that Yarvin's discussion of suitability of various groups to slavery did not seem to indicate he called for enslaving black people, your answer was to cite a couple of his blogs posts, and mention very specific parts of those posts.

I went and read those specific parts of those posts, not the whole posts. I found that those parts did not support your argument.

tptacek, on the other hand, told me that he could provide a citation for the claim, but that it would be complicated because Yarvin is an obscurantist. The impression I get from this and other comments of tptacek is that individual parts of Yarvin's writings have reasonable non-racists explanations (deliberately) so you have to look at the whole giant walls of text.

tptacek has an excellent record of backing up claims with complete and accurate cites when requested, and from this and other comments he's made on the matter the impression I get is that if I were to ask for the details I'd end up with a big list of long articles that I'd have to read in their entirety to get the point. I don't want to read a bunch of giant walls of text on this subject, and it sounds like it would be a lot of work for him to produce it, so I didn't ask for it.

> Maybe you should ask the other person in this thread who you trust implicitly if I'm wrong about this.

I'm not saying you are wrong on this...I'm saying you've failed to show that you are right. I accepted tptacek's response not because of any implicit trust, but rather because he offered a good explanation for why he was not providing a list of citations unless I really wanted them.

If you had said something like "Yarvin can write reasonable justifications for individual points, like he did in the AMA, but when you look at the writing as a whole a different picture emerges" and then linked to a few of his posts, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because as with tptacek I'd have decided I was not interested in going that deep.
That's kind of tautological.

In particular, if you don't buy the whole premise (that dollar bills are US government liabilities), then RobertoG's statement (that "Money is an IOU. That is a promise of something.") is completely unconvincing by itself, without further support. And your "support" is not very helpful.
While the claim about accessing the iPhone seems difficult to substantiate, the suggestion that the FBI have dropped the case seems likely. The fact that they can drop the case in this instance, when the wheels had started to come off, smacks of having their cake and eating. Let's hope the next case where they try to get the ball rolling towards the dangerous precedent they are looking to set yields a similar outcry as this one.
They would have to make a claim against the DoJ. A party (the DoJ) has the right to drop their claim.
If no prosecutor would ever touch it, is it really illegal?
To clarify, by "false positive" I mean showing abnormal results when it shouldn't. For example, if the cheap test is usually accurate, but when it's wrong it erroneously shows dangerously high cholesterol, then a more expensive but more accurate follow up test can compensate. But I agree that if the test has a lot of false negatives (showing normal levels when they're actually abnormal), it shouldn't be used at all.

What prompted my comment was, "While most of the results were similar for the three labs, 12.2 percent of the measurements reported by Theranos were outside the expected normal range for healthy people, compared with 7.5 percent for Quest and 8.3 percent for LabCorp."

To me that sounds like at least some of the tests may be erring towards false positives. More research needed.
I was expecting quite a lot more, this is simple, too much actually. I would have liked to see more on topics such as histograms, how to read them, work with them, mention of subjects such as lift-gamma-gain (or GOG), reference to high-end grading systems, vectorscopes, RGB parade, etc...

An excellent resource on (high end) colour correction / grading is this book by Alexis Van Hurkman: http://vanhurkman.com/wordpress/?p=2854
Except that's not how courts work. Apple is the defendant, the government is the plaintiff. The plaintiff should always have the right to end a case/action. Allowing defendant's to continue cases allows for highly malicious actions to occur.
Reminder that the FBI used the deaths of 14 people to prop up their agenda of 'make the invoices we receive cheaper'.

They chose this case and not any of the dozens of similar investigations mentioned in articles that have come out since.

It's a disgrace to the victims, their families and friends.

It's also a disgrace to the public, trying to scare us into complacency.
It was used quite a bit in Customer Success. It was used when I was told to leave a few days into my four-weeks' notice.

Eng was in another world, especially after the move where your team wound up in your own, separately keyed area of the building, complete with your own kitchen.
Apple has, as part of the case, admitted that data access was obtained by the FBI.

Unless they're in on it too, of course.
They are probably everywhere, but we lose their insight when they can't post as anonymous or it is hard to do so. Pseudonyms just won't cut it.

Anyway, we also lose a great deal of spammers, trolls and just disturbing people. That's the other side of the coin.
As long as the "good" journalism doesn't offend any of their listicle sponsors, of course
Why would it be dubious? It's an older phone without a secure enclave - that's subject to the NAND mirroring trick.

Then again, why can't Apple sue Cellebrite under the DMCA for bypassing their security?
Why not just switch to an entirely different database?
What hardware was there "all along" for consumers? As I understand the latency and tracking problems have just now been solved with the latest revisions of oculus/vive. You can't say it failed in the past because of X and Y external factors when the product itself wasn't even a thing.
CGI, basic auth, and bash can go a long way. Add git and baby, you've got a stew going.
Books are almost the perfect item to sell from a catalog. They require no personalization, they have a pronounced long tail demand distribution (i.e. a small store often won't have what you want), they can be stored space-efficiently and near indefinitely in a warehouse, they're rarely returned due to manufacturing defects, they're rarely returned due to "poor fit" or because "the color wasn't what I expected". All information required for deciding to purchase a book is also ideally suited to the internet -- i.e. opinions of authoritative figures, discussion among like-minded people, etc.

To think that profitable companies could be built around selling clothes, furniture, and appliances by mail from paper catalogs, but that there might be no profit in selling books online, is absolutely daft.
I am the only person who thinks the entire idea of Theranos is nuts? It's far more painful to take blood from a finger than from the MCV in your cubital fossa (arm). The fingertips are some of the most highly innervated structures in our body (probably second to the sex organs). Then you have to go around touching things all day with a band-aid on your fingertips, while you would immediately forget about the band-aid on your arm.
>why Google thinks they're good at moonshots, or why they're a good idea in the first place.

this is the only way to deal with a perpetuum mobile of a money printer they've got in house and the resulting 70B+ cash pile problem, and to avoid it growing into 200B problem that Apple is battling (when did you hear anything new from Apple? - yep, this is how left unchecked small issue grows info a big problem). So, either moonshots (probably a lot of them and god forbid one turns into a money printer too) or pay the dividend like IBM.
There was an active warrant allowing it.
I'm not a fan of the app launches from Safari. If I wanted to use their app, I would have opened their app. App launches (especially those opening up the App Store) seem eerily similar to pop up ads of the late 90s.
The iMax theater in my house isn't a draw for me. Things I do currently watching a movie that I can't do in VR

* Grab my snacks on the table in front of me (can't see them in VR)

* Take a drink (headset gets in the way of putting a half full class to your lips and drinking)

* Interact with friends and family also watching at the same time
They obviously care as they implement extensive moding to avoid this place from devolving into something like Reddit.
Containers are not VMs
You're right, this is not new to psychology itself. It's more of a direct challenge to the culturally powerful psychiatric/biomedical approach to depression and anxiety.
Me and a friend went to a programming class ages ago that was teaching AS/400 and programming in RPG/400 on them. That was a funny language. I was working at the state for a bit too, doing smaller programs for the database of inhabitants. Some of the bigger industries had a few AS/400 too but never got a job there programming.
Cover Apple's legal fees maybe? Argument for damage to Apple's reputation, etc?

Pretty sure Apple doesn't want either of those things.
Don't startups need to put physical hardware inside Amazon to make this work ? and if to, that's a tough barrier to crack.
When was it? Must be at least 20 years ago judging by the Netware reference.
> Seems more like a failing of our society to recognize the importance of relationships. I'd argue this is especially true in the US where we obsess over careers and monetary wealth much more than we emphasize the importance of friendships, family, and romance.

{{ citation needed }}
Nope. The government does not have to disclose investigative techniques. If Apple wanted to help the government, they could have, but they chose not to take that tact. Expecting the government to help Apple now is folly.
To which it would be reasonable to ask, "so why did you hold this whole case in public, against Apple's wishes, if it is now so secret you can't even comment on it?"
Big companies can still buy little companies to take on their lawsuits, or they can provide funding & resources to fight a legal battle as part of an investment.

I suspect that Google bought YouTube in part to avoid precisely this situation. If Viacom had won their lawsuit against YouTube, it would have endangered Google's core business: they would become liable not just for copyrighted material that they know about, but any copyrighted material on their servers, which encompasses the whole web. So they pay $1.6B for a tiny startup and a big lawsuit, and then use their full legal resources to fight (and eventually win) the lawsuit.

(There is possibly an interesting get-rich-quick hack in there: do something in a legal grey area that lots of big companies are doing too, as part of their core business, and then get sued. It is then in the big company's interest to acquire you and fight your legal battles, lest they get put out of business by an unfavorable precedent. You're playing with fire in this case, though, since if the big company doesn't come to your aid you have a multi-hundred-billion dollar lawsuit hanging over you.)
There are laws against breaking into people's homes, and yet the police still does it daily. IANAL, but I assume a warrant would apply to this case just the same.
I wonder what the government's obligation is to Apple, to let them know the nature of the vulnerability.
Am I thinking right when it seems to me like the feds are kicking the can down the road?

Even though the feds found an exploit that allows 'em to decrypt the current iOS, Apple's response is undoubtedly gonna be much-improved security in the next version.

So in a few years when the feds demand that an iOS 10.x device be decrypted, this whole pageant will start over again.
Definitely agree with this. The exchange the doctor describes to begin the article is also common online. I've spent a lot of time in anxiety and depression support forums and chat rooms for my own problems with anxiety. The most common view is that anxiety and depression are diseases that you need to take medicine to treat.

No doubt medicine has its uses in treating anxiety and depression, a momentary reprieve can grant you the clarity to see what you do need to change to feel better. However, I see many people online who cling so strongly to the idea that anxiety and depression are chemical imbalances that you are unlucky enough to be predisposed to developing and that balance can only be restored through medication, that when you suggest that anxiety and depression are not diseases and so can be treated to the point that they are not a problem anymore, people will react violently, as if you just assaulted their identity.

This line of thinking makes it extremely difficult for them to get relief. It is also beneficial to pharmaceutical companies who can make a customer for life by convincing customers that if they don't have a certain medication they will always feel miserable.
for builds locking the IDE I usually peek at my inbox, unless I have a second IDE were I'm working on something else. For build running remotely it depends, if the build takes 10-20 mins (in my ideal projects) I just keep working. In other worse projects were it can take 1-2 hours, I tend to run them at the end of the day so I don't have to think about context switching too much.
Yes that's a valid point, glass or screw caps are also used increasingly in Europe now, but cork remains in heavy use especially for the pricier wines. In France (and many other countries) it would be very difficult to sell a "good" wine with a screw top, as people just expect the cork as part of the "user experience".
Cyber crooks spread Surprise ransomware via TeamViewer
From hercules-390 FAQ (which I was a developer long ago).

OS/390, z/OS, and other ESA or z/Architecture operating systems are definitely licensed to a particular machine. Therefore, in practice you cannot run any classic ESA or z/Architecture operating system on your PC unless you can obtain a license from IBM allowing you to do so. It is believed that there are, however, four ways you could run z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, OS/390, VM/ESA, or VSE/ESA under Hercules using currently available licenses:

1. Running under Linux on the Pentium processor of a P/390 which is licensed to run the OS.

2. Running under Linux/390 on a mainframe which is licensed to run the OS.

3. Running under the terms of a disaster recovery provision of the OS license (but I really don't recommend depending on Hercules to be your disaster recovery solution!).

4. Using the IBM OS/390 or z/OS DemoPkg, which is available only to IBM employees and IBM Business Partners
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Well, if your values are not in the best interest of the company or project, then my views are: I don't care about your views.

Companies define their values and if they're not defined you can ask a manager or stakeholder. If some anarchist dude shows up not wanting to unit test their code because of some hippie ideals I cannot care less.
10 years of e-voting in Estonia [pdf]
On the flip side, Asana clearly indicates that they don't test candidates on day to day development. This is good, because now I know I would never work for Asana.

Those interested in non-applicable CS problems would probably love Asana. Although I'm not sure how any of this relates to a pretty basic project management app.
FBI will comment if it benefits them. Otherwise they'll continue the 'no comment' charade.
Cable group: Net neutrality rules for Netflix (But not for us)
FBI breaks into dead gunman's iPhone
Do these companies not recognize that moment of cognitive dissonance that surely -must- come when, as they're faced with "how do we determine if someone will be productive coming here" decide "I know; let's ask a bunch of questions we don't expect them to know! And then, let's provide a study guide so that they -can- cram before the test and come in and show they know it!"

I mean, it's bad enough to ask questions you know don't really relate to the sorts of problems you have to solve, but to implicitly admit it, -and- to also acknowledge that it isn't something you expect people to have off the top of their head by providing a study guide? What are you trying to measure?
Yeah, exactly! It's like fucking insane how these companies hype themselves up. All you are is a glorified to-do list, calm down, Asana.
In shipping, volumes are so huge that, for all practical purposes, improvements in marginal costs justify any upfront expenditure. That's why freight companies keep buying these $200MM+ ships even though the improvement in fuel costs over their existing fleet is just a few percent.
Taking a vial of blood prior to a finger prick blood test could dramatically alter results. Further, when the baseline (i.e. other labs) also have varying results, its fair to call into question the whole study.

Although I have my doubts Theranos blood tests are as acurate, I feel the study was pretty flawed.
Perhaps autostereoscopic displays can be theoretically used by multiple people simultaneously, but it's not how the 3DS is currently implemented. The original versions of the 3DS required the player to keep the screen at the right angle to get the 3D effect; without doing that, it's just a blurry image, much like taking off the 3D glasses at a movie theater. The New 3DS (yes, it's actually called "New 3DS") has built-in face tracking so the display automatically adjusts to the eyes of the SINGLE person it believes to be playing, which is much more convenient, but still not perfect as it can lose track sometimes and takes a little jiggle to get back into place.

On both devices, any time more than one person is looking at the screen, the display has to be set to 2D mode or it will be blurry for at least one person.

Nintendo also puts a disclaimer in place that states 3D mode should not be used by individuals under 7 years of age. From what I've read, this is just out of an abundance of caution and there's no real evidence that the 3DS's autostereoscopy can harm developing eyes.
Most of the time, people can't kick down your front door, search your house, and pack up a bunch of your possessions without your permission. Start digging here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...

There are really a few sub-questions: Is it legal, and are the results admissible as evidence?

Whether or not it's legal depends on the circumstances. There are many cases in which the police can search something, e.g., if they believe it's critical to prevent an immediate threat. Whether or not it's admissible is more thorny, and something that's still being fought out in the courts. (google: warrantless cell phone search admissible)
> Instead we just get occasional meltdowns of the entire economy

I think we have different metrics for what constitutes a meltdown. We haven't had another great depression, which is what I would consider a meltdown. We've had recessions, less than desirable economic growth over periods, but that's a far cry from a Grapes of Wrath dust bowl type situation.

> it must provide enough benefit (on average--obviously there's always risk involved in individual cases, but that's true of any economic venture) to make him willing to bid away those real assets from whoever else wants to use them.

That argument only works if you think the banks don't make their own assessment on the risk of individuals and whether they are even going to lend. If money was unlimited then that would be the case, but there's a cost to borrowing, and a cost to lending. In a well balanced system the costs of each are outweighed by the gains. As it is now, different people and different ventures get different rates because the risk is not the same. The Fed provides liquidity, which makes the market more efficient, and uses rates to simulate supply. The banks provide market pricing by assessing borrowers and additionally tweaking the interest rate up or down, further simulating supply.

> We'd be better off if everyone admitted that nobody knows how to run the economy, and adjusted our expectations accordingly.

We're driving in the fog. We have limited time to see the dangers and take action, but if we don't attempt to steer in any way, for all we know we'll just start going in circles. The clues that we're makign headway aren't always clear, but they do come occasionally. I would rather tweak the current method than abandon it entirely, as it seems to be working overall, even if not fairly (we're all gaining, just not at the same rate).
There are at least a dozen other cases where the FBI has issued All Writs Act orders to Apple.
> I feel like cases shouldn't be droppable unless both parties mutually agree, and the courts also must first agree.the courts should not agree if it's a case that could set a precedent that can have far reaching implications.

But what if both parties mutually agree, but the courts don't agree? Then we get a precedent set where one side doesn't see any reason to bother to try to win. That's a horrible way to set precedent. And that's how horrible precedents get set.
The phone belonged to San Bernardino County, which was quite happy to have the FBI get to work on it. Syed Farook had been authorized to use the phone, but only under the county's terms. If it had been Farook's phone, and if his surviving relatives asserted some claim, that might have made matters a little trickier.

But in this case, Farook is dead. He never owned the phone. The organization that did own the phone wants the FBI to crack it, for easily understandable reasons. On ownership, at least, the facts are unusually friendly to the FBI.
Yahoo uses Bing because Microsoft was willing to cut Yahoo a better deal than Google, which happened because Microsoft was more desperate than Google. That's not exactly a good thing and it's not really a meaningful number.

It would be different if Yahoo users used Yahoo because Yahoo uses Bing, but that's not the case. For example, Bing gets used in some searches because they cut Yahoo a good deal, and Yahoo pays Firefox to be the default search provider. That has nothing to do with Bing's search quality.
If you're going down that path, might as well reference that the research done by Page & Brin that created Google was funded in part by DARPA.
My Ubuntu desktop at work has 2GB and has been up for ~300 days (uptrack-patched) for development work. The phone version only has 1GB and doesn't crash when the browser has three tabs open.
A smaller form factor (not necessarily this particular one, which looks stupid) could give you more consumers though. Coke sells more cans than 2-L bottles, after all. If I could buy something like a half-bottle at 75% of a full one, packing good wine, I would buy loads of different ones.

As it is, I know that I would overspend for a couple of glasses, because my wife doesn't drink; or I would have to limit myself to the industrial plonk, the only stuff that comes in smaller formats. So I buy a beer or soft drink instead.