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You do realize that the DNC not being "fair" might have affected who won the most votes, right?

That's the entire point.
I do like the WTC, but it is hard to photograph in B&W on cloudless days because it's the same color as the sky.

I "appreciated" the creative input.

With some clouds around it looks better: https://goo.gl/photos/M3aTnTZ7uso4eqSA6

Finally, a professional photographer is probably going to be carrying a camera that's 10x more expensive than mine. I bought my Toyo 45CF for $500 used.
> Does no one else see how this is not against flash, but in favor of code which google can analyse and extract data from. When the analytics are in flash, google has no insight, but when forced into js they have full visibility into everything a developer does.

The bytecode format and semantics of both AVM1 and AVM2 (the VMs used in Flash) are common knowledge.
What people don't tell you is that directness also has a cost. The Dutch directness of "GTFO my country" what minorities are confronted with daily is not quite contributing to any minority's happiness (it's a big reason why I moved to the US).
The 90's desktop market was more interesting. Yet, you must have never met anyone doing applications that require fast CPU's and plenty RAM. Or looked at the desktop sales figures that are well above zero.

Hell, I built one for a guy's gaming rig a little while back. That replaced his hand-me-down from a company designing & installing sprinkler systems. Why he have that? They just bought new desktops for all there CAD users. Lot of CAD users out there probably have one too. ;)
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This reminds me of my sometimes curiosity into why helicopters don't have a central parachute, presumably located in the center of the main rotor. Not a parachute for occupants, mind you - for the entire helicopter.

Why isn't that workable ?
I had a problem of burnout in the past. My boss was an asshole, he lacked any planning or technical skills, he want impose his point of view without listen anyone opinions. He change assigned priority every seconds and want to take technical decisions without any knowledge.
He was crusty when someone try to reply to him and explain a different point of view. He changed position during the time trying to earn merits and charge others to his own faults. He ever defend one of two employees who he like, even if they are completely wrong. Also holiday planning was a nightmare: he pretend to stay one month in holiday and we have to cover this period (I come from Italy where everyone usually go in holiday in August).
Unfortunately he was one of the founder and of the owner of the company. When he decided to sell his share, we opened a big bottle of champagne. Now, with a democratic, polite boss (that is also a technical guru) the climate in the office is great and no one want to leave.
It's just one individual acting on his own authority. I don't think we're quite at dystopian levels yet. Merely annoying at this point.
That is what the code writers want. The court system currently holds differently though, so today you can legally copy the cities version for cost, and make further copies.
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> People pleasing isn't caring about other people. It's being selfish and manipulative in interactions with other people (often without realizing it). Quite the opposite.

Indeed, it's passive-agressive behaviour rooted from low self-esteem. "I'll cater to you, so you'll return the favour", but when this isn't reciprocated (since the receiver isn't even aware of this "business transaction"), the giver is feeling anger (sadness).
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238

Have you considered something like TOTP paired with Google Authenticator or the like instead of just the Yubikey for one-time passwords?

EDIT: I know you don't just use Yubikey. But, unless I'm not reading this correctly, the other tokens are pre-specified and can be exhausted.
Thanks for clarifying. I was confused because I followed a series of links to abajournal which appears to be a more authoritative resource, and it seemed to contradict the OP.
I think: (1) Congress really doesn't care what the ABA thinks; (2) there is zero chance of making these codes public domain. Agencies do not have the expertise to write these codes, and there is no other practical monetization strategy for the expert organizations that write the codes.

So I guess the answer is "this doesn't make it less likely than zero and is probably the best we can get."
Most of the real, boring software problems needs boring software solutions that are out there but for some reason aren't being done.

More than likely, the problem with e.g. airline systems needing upgrading is political within the company - not an engineering challenge.
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A testament to one of the worst decisions in computing history - not to fail displaying a web page with an error message in case it is not a valid HTML document.
It's not really, though. Or at least, what the DNC did wasn't just operating how they chose.

The DNC portrayed itself as a candidate-agnostic intermediary that wanted to see a Democrat win the election. They fundraised, did press coverage, and organized events using that claim. They were repeatedly accused of being biased, and they denied the accusations then publicly mocked the accusers for spinning crazy conspiracies.

So no, the DNC didn't 'rig' the primary, they didn't have the power. But everyone who donated to the DNC has a right to be angry. The DNC is free to operate as they choose, but they lied about how they operate, and took money under those false pretenses. We aren't expected to accept that behavior from companies or charities, and I don't want to accept it from political groups either.
That's true, I stand corrected.
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Seems like some bits are missing on that page, e.g. I see nothing between "What is the bootstrap? Well, it's what turns our PNG into code and runs it. Here's the one I use:" and "The 4968 here is really the size of the decompressed data in bytes times 4"
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> they voted to maintain the status quo

It is my impression the ABA voted for openness (just not as much as the author wanted). Right now, parts of the public register may not be available online and/or in a single place at all.

ABA is saying put them in one place, put that place online, and sure, since it's private property, let the owner control access with a price. Requiring tax dollars be spent on giving free access to obscure references forces one to choose between the taking of private property (i.e. your software retails for $10,000 but some legislator incorporated so now you must offer it at the state-mandated price of $10) and running a risk of massive abuse (government ends up paying some ditz $10,000 per view of a one-page PDF, views which have a habit of coming from the author's neighbourhood).
In case anyone needs extra incitement to click: "pyramid honey truther"
In that respect, every possible situation that could happen is part of the standard, as it separates everything into defined and undefined. Cosmic rays twiddling bits in memory is part of the standard by UB under that view. While technically correct, it's useless in practice when taken to this extreme.
Sell them what they want and give what they need.
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I am going to graduate this year from a 2-tier Indian university. I have two options: either take a job or do MS at a foreign university (not considering Indian universities). I can take up an above average job at India and continue the job, possibly switch company after some time. But I am also interested in research and would like to do higher studies.

I want to know is it worth doing MS at US university, considering the fact that most of computer science subjects are now covered by MOOCs. So instead of investing money and time for MS, I should continue to learn on my own and take up the job or go for MS and possibly get a good job.
Cast in another light, it was standard Stephenson fare -- the first half of the book explores a topic deeply and interestingly, then the second half basically sets it aside to trail off into some weird no-man's land. Seveneves was particularly obvious version of this issue.
This is for the US. In fact it is the US Postal Service version of the service.

https://moversguide.usps.com/icoa/move-info/icoa-main-flow.d...
Or one of the best. Switch wen browsers to strict processong and you will hardly find working web page.
Almost any interesting property about programs is undecidable. Yet somehow programmers still write nontrivial programs.

Undefined behavior in C sucks, but being its presence or absence being undecidable is not the main reason.
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I wish every time someone tries to assert too much authority on me (or any ordinary citizen) there is a way for me to quickly find these citations to my legal rights that I can point to them and tell them to F off......
Are you including the capability to control it over a network? Burning potentially unfixable 0-day exploits into ROM would probably be a non-starter.
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I tried to remain as neutral as possible with the summary. My personal opinion is that it should be possible for the owner of a device to install any OS they wish, and do so without compromising the device security.

Unfortunately, we are very far away from that goal. Either there is no (official) way to unlock the bootloader, or we get a full unlock where everybody with physical access to the device can install whatever rootkit they wish.
Auto rotation provides a built in parachute when the helicopter loses power. Mechanically losing blades is like a wing falling off an aircraft and basically never happens. There are a few edge cases dealing with loss of control that are rare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation

In combat helicopters ejection seats are just safer as 'helicopter on fire' is a real risk. Further, parachutes don't really work unless your well above the ground and in reasonably level flight in the first place where ejection seats can be safe near ground level or when the craft is violently flailing around at altitude.

Finally, helicopters are one of those things that just barely works in the first place. Every pound you add makes them significantly more expensive over their lifetime.
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This answer in particular makes sense: don't go with the names, becaue they often hire brilliant people, and you're doing really dull things. Have a search round old HN posts and discussions about that. A smaller or medium sized more tech-oriented (rather thn advertising and huge custimer numbers) company might serve you better! Or perhaps a real startup
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Keep in mind that you're on salary, so no matter how much you work while on-call you still get paid the same. How often you're on-call depends on how big your team is, if you get unlucky and have a tiny team for a while (say, because everyone else quit) you might end up on-call quite a lot. Also, depending on the code base and what your team is doing at present there might be long periods of time (months) where when you're on call it's very intensive, with frequent periods of getting up at 2am to fix problems, working a lot more hours, etc.

Most importantly, unlike a typical Ops/DevOps job where being on-call is "your job" you are still expected to deliver on your "real" development job in addition to being on-call.
Probably affects Android too since it uses the Linux kernel.

Personally I consider this to be a mild to moderate vulnerability since under no circumstances should you ever trust a non-encrypted non-authenticated channel to be safe. TCP offers in-order delivery and decent integrity checking but otherwise offers absolutely no security guarantees at all. From a crypto point of view an authentication method like TCP sequence numbers should be considered "not even there."
It is the ventilation building for the Holland Tunnel on the New York side; it's located directly above the tunnel, near the Manhattan portal.

It's not accessible directly via the street. It sits out on a long pier in the river, with a gate at the pier head. The public isn't allowed on the pier, but the gate sits along the Hudson River Greenway, a very big and very-highly-trafficked park. (With plenty of tourists)

It is common for both misinformed law-enforcement types and infrastructure agency employees (outside of the legal system) to hassle people for taking photos of infrastructure - construction sites, ventilation towers, power substations, sensitive landmarks, subway areas, aqueduct facilities, etc. As a matter of fact, since the WTC is itself treated as a VERY sensitive and vulnerable site, it seems weird for a PA employee to tell you to take pictures of it instead. The site is a fortress!

And yes, these people issuing warnings and making threats are all wrong. You can stand in a public place and take a photograph anytime, there are very few restrictions on this. It's also fairly safe; there aren't any reasonable vulnerabilities to public infrastructure that a single photograph from a public park can uncover. (If there is such a vulnerability, it's not a reasonable one; it should be mitigated through security hardening, not by hassling park-goers)
Yeah, I saw them - a little difficult to tell with the loop, but they still seem 'off'. Buh.
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What's the best long-form text generator that can produce something beyond your average CompSci Markov chain results?

You might not need to pass the Turing test, but even getting the "Eye of Argon" out of something random would be pretty impressive.
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Look for stripes on the face: without them, it's probably a squirrel. Both ground squirrels and chipmunks have body stripes, so the face is a better indicator.

http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/facts/chipmunk_vs_...

http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-squirre...
Did anything come of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
I hope you're not implying that the logical conclusion of "standing up to the bullies" is police murder.

Ever heard of non-violent civil disobedience? It was popularized by a little known guy named Martin Luther King Jr. He got it from another guy who went by the name of Mahatma Gandhi.
This question is only asked by those who cannot measure how far they have come.

We all have our subjective distances. But if you are a human being, some combinations of the following will be that distance:

1. Sustenance (food, water, housing, money)

2. Community (belonging, love)

3, Self-expression

4. Self-transcendence (altruism)

This is a gross simplification of Maslow, but give me some slack. If you question every person saying "you won't get very far in life" with "how do you measure getting very far", you are not only annoying the other person, but also yourself. Spend that time trying to measure how far you have come.
> Pretty radical, eh? Send money to: lcamtuf@coredump.cx

How to send money to your email address? Not that I would send you some, but I wondered how you want to have that money received?
My guess is they couldn't confirm it... or they're in the process of reporting a follow-up story, who knows :)
You didn't get your photo. You got a worse rushed photo that's only sort of like the one you wanted. That's not the same thing. The Port Authority's intimidation worked.

We need a name for this fallacy:

"We are empowered to stop terrorism."

"X can be used for terrorism."

"Therefore we are empowered to stop X."

Some relevant possible values for X: photography, money, cryptography, travel, social media...
Now I want to make a vector rogue-like with Tolkien-ish world maps...
I've conducted hundreds of technical interviews, mostly at Google. It bothers me a lot when I read comments here saying that tech interviewers are just testing trivial knowledge or for memorization of obscure algorithms. (And some are, but they're bad interviewers.) As if you need only memorize the right magic spells, and bang, you're in.
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> OK, but you still have to tell me how you are going to pay the technical experts who write the rules.

In the case of many of the industry standards incorporated into laws (this is certainly the case of the transaction standards under HIPAA), the payment doesn't actually go to the people writing the rules, who are largely industry employees (both public and private sector) paid by their employers to work on standards, because the employers have an interest in the standards reflecting their concerns.

It goes to standards bodies who don't actually employ the technical experts writing the rules. And only some of those standards are from standards bodies that charge for them (e.g., X12 charges for its transaction standards, but CAQH CORE doesn't charge for its standard operating rules (it does offer compliance certification, for which it does charge, but certification by CAQH CORE isn't a HIPAA mandate.)
If the government takes your land and gives it to the public to build a new road, the Constitution says you have to be compensated. If the government takes your standard and gives it to the public to build a new law, it seems like the same conclusion should apply.

When the government forces private copyrighted materials into the public domain, they should pay the copyright holders for the revenue they would have gotten from paid distribution.

I 100% agree with the principle that free access to the complete text of every law needs to be given to every person the law applies to. I'm just pointing out that any implementation of this principle which involves government appropriation of copyrighted works is constitutionally required to take into account the property rights of the copyright holders.
Sell them what they want, give them what they need (2012)
email money transfer should work fine aka Interac E-Transfer.
see http://interac.ca/en/interac-e-transfer-consumer.html
Two gdb articles in a day! http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-08-09/gdb-example-ncur...
I agree. It is very nice to buy on steam for that, where you can return the game easily. But it would be a lot nicer if just everything worked.

The driver situation is getting better and better, I think Linux will arrive there. And I hope they find a good solution for the library dependencies, be it snap or static linking or whatever is out there.
Is it really that hard? Tons of companies do it. LAMP stack has been scalable for couple decades or so. There are platforms and services that you can rent/buy if you don't wanna role your own. I can get a free databricks account and go to town with pyspark there's even free courses on it.

Threading is hard and I'm sure will always be hard. But threading is the wrong way to scale or parallelise.
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Using just one rating is a bit flawed. You'll probably find a lot of people who would give the corporate culture one star but would give it 5 stars for the fact that they got to work with emerging technology -- which is the legitimate draw of working for Amazon. But that inflates the single rating that you give the company to a 3 where otherwise you might have given it a 1 for the culture being shitty.

And the fact that Amazon is as big and healthy of a company as it is and the fact that it loses an entire point compared to Google and Facebook in ratings means that the culture must be really bad. And when you consider that the lowest of the companies in Glassdoor are not only shitty culture but businesses that are fundamentally swirling down the toilet bowl as well -- and Amazon for all its success can only eek out an 'Average' rating?

That means the culture must be pretty bad.

(And based on my working there for 5 years, I know the culture is pretty bad -- but if you asked me to rate it, I'd probably rate it a 3 overall -- good place to spend a year or two to learn some cutting edge technology to get on your resume, but then you should escape before you stay there too long...)
What do you use it for? Academic research?
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A VC once told me he would drive by our office at 11pm to see if the lights are on.

"Otherwise you're fucked"
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It's amazing that this is what is now publicly funded "science" or "research". It would make a good moralistic story for 12 year olds in the 19th century, but now people like her get PhDs in this (likely publicly funded), from the same institution that awards PhDs in algebraic geometry or string theory!

https://www.christinecarter.com/about/dr-christine-carter-bi...
Yeah, imagine if processors gave best effort to processing binaries... what could possibly go wrong :/

The decision to allow this was made early and the liberal accept/strict transmit paradigm has in general made the web a mess.

On the plus side, the consistent failure of browser vendors to apply strict controls to input means that as an application security person I will probably never be out of work :D Even though this pattern of behavior is starting to change, legacy support means that I will still be dealing with these issues well into my retirement!
Which are the faults of the authors. No one expects malformed source code to compile, a video with corrupted headers to play properly or a binary containing invalid instructions not to crash. This decision allowed people to get away with broken web pages instead of forcing them to fix their mistakes.
nice trick!
This might be a dumb question, but when an ejection seat is activated, what prevents the crew from being fired straight into the helicopter blades?
If Chrome blocks a download, you can always go to chrome://downloads (or click the 'see all downloads' link) and unblock it manually there.
The pier on the left-hand side of my picture is actually a jogging path now; you can walk almost all the way down to the building. (The careful observer will also note that the public side of the path has nicer light fixtures than the private side.)
I like that picture! Great work, thanks for sharing. Do you license or sell your work?

Played a bit with a 4x5 camera in the past. It was amazing and confusing how much stuff can be done (selective focus, perspective control) by adjusting the front and back independently.
Prior discussion, years ago, many comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209052
He\she isn't actually expecting payment, just as they don't really think that the trick is "pretty radical." It's just a mildly amusing way of providing contact information.
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> Almost any interesting property about programs is undecidable.

It's only undecidable if the language makes it undecidable. For example, subject reduction is decidable in a type-safe language (EDIT: with decidable type checking, oops!), because the very definition of type safety means that typability implies subject reduction.

Of course, not everything of interest can be made decidable in a general-purpose language, but the integrity of a language's basic abstractions should never be in question.
Yep - or someone who ostensibly would have been the target of the alleged 'vengeance' but doesn't feel victimized as a result of it.

I'm not saying that Title IX is perfect - nothing is, especially not redistributive policies. What I am saying, though, is that the notion that it is motivated by vengeance is a little paranoid and a little silly.
This.

It's becoming rather annoying how "holier than thou" the modern American has become. What's so distressing, is that these authors/people, never recognize their own shortcomings, but are so adept at pointing out others.
I was thinking more like an IDS.