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> Nice thoughts, but none of the groups you mentioned in your analogy have the worldwide penchant for terrorism that Muslim groups do. Berlin, Brussels, New York, Israel, Orlando, etc.

This is called the availability bias - you're correlating the tendency of a group to take certain actions with the ease of which you can think of examples of members of that group taking those actions.

If I can think of an equal number of examples of Christian (or Jewish or Eskimo) terrorists, then by your logic we should be equally suspicious of those groups.
One might want to wipe their drive even if they hadn't copied code, for any number of nefarious and non nefarious reasons.
Hapi came out of Walmart Labs, which is the pristine example of how to execute an OSS project.
That chart looks like the beginning of an exponential curve or an "S" curve. How long will that be sustainable and what might layoffs look like when Amazon invents a new robot or has a sales downturn.

Just to share some of my perspective. The US DoD and the India Railways are the two largest employers I am aware of. Each has just over a million people. For a private company breaking 300,000 is very impressive, that is larger than some governments.
I didn't realize expert testimony could be non-public. That seems to undermine the entire idea of a public trials, IMHO. Is there some justification for it that I'm not seeing?
Yeah, their TVs look nice. But I wonder what hidden issues it might have? I am just skeptical of everything LG now. Of course this is just anecdotal, so I am sure there are people who say everything LG is awesome.

On the upside, LG refunded me the whole purchase price of the Nexus 5x that broke. So props to that.
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I really don't understand why anyone would expect private browsing to be completely anonymous. I suppose they could change the name to something better but seeing as how I only use it to browse khm websites which I don't want in my browsing history and I know other people use it only for the same reason as whell. In any case I suppose that anyone who really needs anonymity is aware what browsers mean by "private browsing". I even have to block Firefoxes tracking protection to browse my favorite "website"
What an incredible way to conceptualize and compare computer versus biological viruses (with the size of them in bits looking reasonably similar).

In the virus writing scene there are a number of trends that have allowed generic approaches to outsmart even incredibly complex "virus scanners":

1. polymorphic code - basically you keep the Turing Machine / Program Logic the same, but you use random widgets with random side effects to implement the program logic. In this case each instance of the virus is different per infected host and there are no reliable signatures based on the bits to recognize them.

2. Packers - basically a program that on its own is not malicious but can carry another compressed and encrypted program that it will "unpack" in memory and then execute - allowing a virus to ride through virus scanning.

3. Stagers - A small and otherwise innocuous piece of code that pulls commands in either real time or as needed from the network, keeping all program logic in memory, and executing malicious code that is never packed into a formal executable file (and thus never scanned by anti-virus). These have the advantage that they are basically impossible to forensically debug because the attacker will change or turn off the payload after the stager succeeds the first time.

Has nature found a way to emulate any of these creative methods for bypassing immune systems? I remember hearing that HIV can look innocuous to an immune system, but I'm not sure that's because it uses a technique like the above.
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Can confirm. I sold my MBP and bought myself one of the new Dell 15" developer editions. Trackpad is about on par with the prior physically-clicking mac trackpads. I run Fedora and the only thing that doesn't work is hot-plugging the Ethernet adapter. Otherwise all the usual Linux pitfalls like sleep/wake, wifi, hidpi, touch screen, etc. work fine out of the box. No plans to switch away.
Is there any level of evidence that could convince you?
I'll believe it. Tons of DoD jobs where I am/
> Ends up still using less memory than Java in many cases.

It will run slower in any case, and if I really care about startup speed, I will just use one of the third party JDKs and AOT compile to native code.
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It's not a regression either, if an app developer wants to use their own version of base libraries they will already be doing that in their .deb, .rpm or .tgz packages.
Good question. Ideally it should... operating on Apple's scale, it would be a great idea to have their cloud based solutions running on multiple platforms to reduce dependency/vendor lock-in.
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Who wouldn't perform a search on secure wipe when they learn they're being sued for computer related stuff?

Pretty much nobody in my opinion. From that premise, probability theory says this is a tiny piece of evidence.

Then again, most people are very bad at probability theory.
I don't know about the Irish in particular, but the list of links you've presented --- sorted by casualties, on a year-by-year basis --- makes a powerful case for the diversity of terrorist attacks in the 1970s. It doesn't well support an argument that terrorism is somehow endemic to specific ethnicities.
And in less than 50 years the entire surface of the earth will be covered in a layer of Amazon employees more than 10 meters thick.
Vice-Versa too, I hear about more red parts in California
The difference isn't that big. It had been US policy for decades to grant residency to Cuban refugees. Obama could have made the change effective as of a date a couple months in the future to avoid stranding those in transit but he chose instead to make it effective immediately.
The question was if diversity is valuable in engineering. I gave a specific example of a specific kind of diversity that is valuable to engineering teams.

If you're interested in Google's data, they make an excellent search engine that you can use to find that kind of stuff. I encourage you to do your own research, in part because I think I've done enough work leading you to the proverbial water.
Formatting a drive is fairly common when doing game development/3D, in other cases you would often use VM's and, but you don't want the extra abstraction layer. It's also both imortant and uncommon enough that you may do this search on a regular basis.

His search history over the last 10 years has probably included formatting instructions several times.
That was beautiful. Your morning routine is very similar to mine was last year before the company I was working for 'wasn't able to pay me anymore' -- which is possibly one of the best things that could have happened at that time!
FWIW I have heard the same thing.
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It is generally accepted that it is impossible to recover data from a single wipe on modern hard drives. There is some mention of it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure#Number_of_overwri... and also I believe I read somewhere that there's unclaimed prizes available for anyone who can prove otherwise (but I do not have a source available for that now).

What can bite you is the drive firmware silently remapping sectors, causing your write request to be mapped to a different sector altogether.
I wonder if there are pattern-based behavior analysis and statistics on machine-based penetration testing in comparison to human penetration tester habits and results. I'm generally suspicious of AI and even more so of machine-based automation that works without a traditional AI engine. The suspicion is not a commentary on AI itself, but my own failure to anticipate (occasionally) an AI's next move since modern AI has moved far beyond imitation of "human" models and can be quite cagey :-)
To be honest I kinda hate Anders Hejlsberg. If it wasn't him I wouldn't have gotten myself into Turbo Pascal and later Delphi and later into C#. I would've probably looked into C and Lisps. I spent years thinking Windows is the best OS and VS is the best IDE. I wish there was someone 20 years ago to stop me from falling into that trap.
Well, I broke out of my bubble and now I feel free. No matter how nice it may look - dotnet is a mental prison.
> "then learn what you need."

But how do I learn the 5+ years of experience?
It's just another Linux distro, not a new operating system.
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so i read it : "What happened to Tareq and Ammar is illustrative of what happened to dozens—if not hundreds—of LPRs and immigrant visa holders throughout the country on January 27 and 28, 2017.

In these circumstances described above, any relinquishment of rights via a form I-407 was not voluntary, knowing, or freely given. Instead, it was the direct product of respondents’ agents’ misrepresentations as to what would occur if these individuals refused to sign.

On information and belief, similarly-situated individuals who did not sign I-407s were ultimately admitted into the United States—thus demonstrating the falsity of the representations of respondents’ agents."
Sometimes you'll be working for a creative agency when working with ad execs which I think are a different personality type than a typical banker who always work for banks.
In fairness, the statistics don't disambiguate whether these were multiple toddlers, or a single armed toddler on a spree.
I can't speak for the HN mods, but I am fine with seeing offensive words here when they are employed in a documentary rather than a pejorative sense.

Let's examine a few examples, using 'oompa-loompa' as an imaginary term of abuse. Shut up Alice, you're just an oompa-loompa! - not OK. Ignore Alice; she's a stupid oompa-loompa. - not OK. Bob denigrated Alice by referring to her as an 'oompa-loompa.' - OK.

It's not the specific words that are offensive, but the context in which they are employed. When you're reporting someone else's speech, it's OK to quote them accurately and in full - indeed I think it's often necessary. If we use euphemisms or bowdlerisms - such as saying 'the f-word' or 'f---' to avoid saying the word 'fuck' when reporting what someone said - the we are not only insulting the intelligence of our interlocutors, but we are softening the impact of the original statement. To do so out of a regard for the tender feelings of others is misplaced, because by implication we're saying that the offensive content inheres in the word rather than intention of the speaker, and the use of offensive words is easily dismissed nowadays by someone saying they 'misspoke'.

Let's take another example. Bob says to Alice: 'Your life is unimportant because you are only an oompa-loompa' in some public confrontation. Carol reports this on the evening news as 'bob said that Alice's life was not important, and employed an ethnic slur.' Technically true, but 'employed an ethnic slur' sounds pretty mild compared to the unpleasant experience of being called an oompa-loompa directly, or feeling empathy for someone subjected to such a term of abuse. By resorting to euphemism, the offensive nature of Bob's aggressive remarks towards Alice is significantly understated, which is a win for bob.

I think that when a public figure (qua someone whose utterances or actions are consequential because of their social reach) makes an offensive remarks such as 'You know what? fuck the oompa=loompas!' it should be reported verbatim on the evening news, not bleeped or euphemized. There's an argument that doing so spreads it and normalizes, it, and that is true to some extent. (There are increasingly common reports, albeit apocryphal, of school students excusing offensive or assaultive behavior by citing the President's well-documented model). But the unpleasantness of hearing that repeated and perpetuated has to be balanced against the value of people knowing exactly what was said and how it was said, so that the fact of offensive or assaultive behavior is not obscured to the end of deniability or dismissability.

Linguistic infantilization is but a prelude to cognitive manipulation, and the latter has reached pandemic proportions in an age of almost-instant global communication. The averred reluctance of some to be exposed to horrible words is really a plea not to be informed about the existence of horrible behavior, a preference for not knowing about the fact of conflict. Meaningful discourse on how we should behave is impossible if we cannot express ourselves honestly about how we do behave.
You can of course use multithreading to get parallelism, eg. if the expensive calculations are not done in Python itself but rather some other library, be it cryptography, compression, numpy, serdes'ing stuff and so on. I/O works in parallel as well.
Let me clarify: when I see "you're being intentionally obtuse", I read "you are not just stupid, you're stupid on purpose". Because that's exactly what it is: a next level insult disguised under slightly fancier words.

*Obtuse - Synonyms: stupid, slow-witted, slow, dull-witted, unintelligent, ignorant, simpleminded, witless;

Needless to say, I have no patience for those kinds of insults.

> Intention can be inferred

Sure. And when you're talking to strangers, your inferences of intention will be wrong more often than not.

"You're intentionally avoiding my question" - objective statement, not an insult and can be discussed further.

"You're intentionally being a dumbass" - subjective statement, an insult and a non-sequitur

Hopefully you can see the difference.
Qubes does not use Whonix for anything. Whonix can use Qubes, though.

Qubes and Whonix are fundamentally different. They attempt to solve two different issues.

Whonix solves privacy via obfuscation, Qubes solves security through virtualization / compartmentalization and specifically does not believe in security by obfuscation. You do not have to choose between the two if you run Whonix inside of Qubes, but I have a feeling most users who think they want privacy really want security, and it would be a hassle to constantly use Whonix.

I highly recommend Qubes, if you aren't already using it. It isn't for the faint of heart, however, and there are a long list of bugs to squash and features to add. Things are coming along nicely though, and this year they plan to test-drive corporate support for Qubes OS as a business platform, which if successful should give them quite a bit of capital for expansion and auditing of essential code.
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Prior to 9/11, the all-time US terrorist record was the Oklahoma City bombing, by two white dudes. Divide out the number of deaths in each attack by the number of people directly involved in the attacks, and you reach comparable numbers.
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If he's not supposed to use misdirection and hyperbole to fight back, how can he possibly expect to get his side of the story out there?

Beats me. But at least we agree as to the basic nutshell description of his standard communication technique.
I would argue it's because of the scientific revolution, not the free market. Science is what got us all the great stuff. Why? Because even the Soviet Union, which was not market based had huge advances in industry and science.

To say this is because of the free market, when most technology development is heavily government funded, even in the USA is just plain wrong.
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Walmart back end and Walmart labs are completely different, just like Amazon's Lab126, A9, and web site are completely different.

However I don't know that many people who are/were happy at 126, while to my surprise everyone I've met who works at Walmart labs seems happy with it.

(not much of a wal mart customer, BTW)
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If it was just that, it would be legal.

Clean room is a way to prove you couldn't possibly have infringed copyright. It is not mandatory.
> By using software to block digital advertising, critics say, users are breaking an unwritten pact with websites and digital publishers, many of which generate the bulk of their revenue from these ads.

No. The unwritten pact is "you can show ads, as long as they're not intrusive (layer ads, popup ads), don't distribute malware and don't unneccessarily invade the privacy of the users".

Just go back to hosting and managing your own ads - print media most certainly can do this, given their print ad sales teams, and I believe there's a market for advertising brokers which allow a 1:1 connection between advertiser and the content platform.

Edit: And for heavens sake, do not roll out fucking video ads, especially not on mobile pages. Not everyone has 50GB+ data volume like in Finland...
While there are still a reasonable number of very talented engineers at Labs, having talent is sort of meaningless if you stifle their ability to actually ship (which Walmart at large does very well).
For Jollyturns (https://jollyturns.com) I'd like to overlay my users' ski tracks data, as well as various ski resort objects (lifts, runs etc) on a 3D Earth, to be displayed inside a browser.

Why would I use Melown instead of CesiumJS (https://cesiumjs.org/)? Especially since the latter appears to be free?
Deriving a "lethal bit count" from virus genomes is not quite fair, since the virus requires considerable metabolic support from the host genome.

I think I can kill you with 21 bits: hydrogen cyanide is a three-atom molecule. Assume 128 chemical elements --> 7 bits per atom. And the molecule will assemble itself from the constituent atoms, so no extra information is needed for that.

Hydrogen fluoride might work, too: 14 bits.

And, of course, a slug of plutonium would kill you both chemically (poison) and radioactively: 7 bits. Can't do better than that.

Oh wait, if I shot a stream of electrons at you, that could kill you, too. There are six types of leptons (ignoring anti-matter), so that's three bits.
Whonix theoretically provides better protection against de-anonymization via through-the-browser attacks, because it runs the Tor router and in a separate virtual machine from user applications like the browser. So if the browser is compromised, it can't "phone home" to the attacker over the regular internet: all the attacker's traffic is obliged to go over tor, unless he/she can break out of the VM.

Such an attack was used by the FBI to de-anonymize users of Freedom Hosting, a few years back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Torpedo
> The post says their college graduate friends...not graduates in CS

Ah, I concede this. Maybe this isn't an issue in US as it is in the UK..

> They are not mutually exclusive: you can do both

What stops industry becoming dependent on it though? There are big advantages to H1B visa workers, there is a risk that it saps market demand. Immigration might be the path of least resistance to solving labor shortage, rather than any long-term native plans.

If technology comes to be seen as a reliable high-paid job, via being sustainably high-paid, then it's reputation will bring in more people. Immigration is a threat to this. You can argue industrial benefit to this, but how sustainable is it? What if the US lost it's attractivity, what would happen to the H1B workers then? The US needs to figure out how to produce workers - being able to skim the cream from other demographics is a benefit, but a dangerous temptation as well.
Would you mind going into some of the specifics of the diet and how you were impaired during your recovering?
It's not because "the bit might still be visible under a microscope" - it's because of something called (IIRC) "intra-track data".

Basically when a hard drive stores the data on the physical platter, it writes it as a series of concentric tracks. These tracks are spaced very close together. When data is written to the drive, the magnetic regions that are written on the track can "bleed over" to the intra-track regions, leaving a faint trace that with the proper equipment ($$$$) can be read, even if the tracks are all zeroed. Think of the magnetic regions as not being (say) "spikes", but rather "hills", where the greatest magnetic intensity is at the peak, tapering off as it reaches the edge/base of the hill. That energy might be small, but it is there.

By overwriting each track multiple times with varying data patterns, these leftover tale-tell magnetic leftovers are essentially pushed into the noise of the rest of the data, and are effectively "wiped". But you have to write the pattern multiple times, over all the tracks.

This effect has "recently" been used to an advantage (depending on how you look at it) for something called an "SMR Hard Drive" - or "Shingled Magnetic Recording":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording

In this kind of hard drive, the tracks are purposefully placed very close together so that the magnetic regions purposefully overlap, allowing for a higher density on fewer platters (so, larger drives in a smaller space for a lower cost). However, they tend to be slower - and not recommended for purposes like RAID NAS or anything where you want speed and proper data retention (my understanding, at least).
> perhaps I should have said persnickety.

Or maybe just debate in a way such that the strength of your argument is not dependent on your choice of insult?
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That doesn't protect the data in transit from my production database. Only a secure connection can do that. It also doesn't solve the problem that I don't want to ship my production data to Google, or anyone else really, in the first place.