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ECC won't save you from Rowhammer. See the ECC RAM section of http://www.thirdio.com/rowhammer.pdf

On some systems, ECC is flat out broken or silently ignored. On many others ECC errors aren't reported to the OS in granular enough batches to do anything about them.

Edit: relevant portions:

> Before we begin to discuss our results, we must first discuss ECC protected systems and the fact that there are no standards on what constitutes ECC protection or ECC event reporting. At its base level, ECC protection simply means that a server can handle or correct single bit errors, although some systems advertise the ability to correct multiple bit errors. Generally, it is our belief that ECC events should be reported to the operating system so that savvy users can gauge the health of their infrastructure.

> Unfortunately, server vendors routinely use a technique called ECC threshold or the 'leaky bucket' algorithm where they count ECC errors for a period of time and report them only if they reach certain levels of failure. From what we understand, this threshold is commonly above 100 per hour, but this remains a trade secret and varies based on the server vendor. So, to see ECC errors (MCE in Linux or WHEA in Windows), there generally needs to be 100 bit flips per hour or greater. This makes “seeing” Rowhammer on server error logs more difficult.

> In addition, we have observed some server vendors will NEVER report ECC events back to the OS, although they might get logged into IPMI. Typically, users expect to see correctable ECC errors logged directly to the OS or that halt the system when they cannot be corrected. During our investigation into this phenomenon, we even encountered one server that neither reported ECC events to the OS nor halted when bit flips were not correctable. The end result was data corruption at the application level. This is something, in our opinion, that should never happen on an ECC protected server system.

> ...

> Using these advanced techniques, we were able to observe ECC events within the first 3 minutes of test time. Generally, this system would lockup or reboot within 30 minutes. Once again, this was on a Rowhammer mitigated system using both ECC and double refresh. So it follows that dual mitigations, on some systems, appear to be flawed and can be exploited as a denial of service.
A and b are both well established facts. You are, however, still allowed to leave both the country and Facebook without restriction. For now.
Fellow BSAC member here.. We recently started calling it the "Pit of death"
The ETH / ETC situation was only possible because ETH has a much smaller block time than Bitcoin and the difficulty re-target happens every block instead of every 2016 blocks. The upshot for Bitcoin is that any chain with a minority of hashing power will die off.

Dev's are just FUDing to keep control and scare people.
"Americans Think Cloud Computing Comes From Actual Clouds"

http://www.webpronews.com/americans-think-cloud-computing-co...

Personally I think people are most ignorant when they're most comfortable. The number of people reading & talking about politics right now, at least in my circles, is higher than it's ever been.

Much of what they're saying it led by FUD and isn't balanced at all, in my opinion, but that's a different issue.
I thought this too. You could easily ship/eval the toString()'s of the functions in individual Lambda functions, the name is definitely confusing haha.
NASA Plans to Drill into Europa's Crust in Search of Life
One thing I wished I had done earlier is study money enough to have figured out my favored investment vehicle and how to best utilize it, preferably before my first dollar earned at any job/trade. That and the tax code (incentives) of my country/state (US).

Of the main three (building businesses, real estate, and paper assets/commodities/derivatives) I figured out that I personally favor real estate. So that is where I choose to focus and feel most comfortable.

I also learned that an over-funded whole life insurance policy can be used as a savings account with benefits (thanks Grandpa!). Depending on the company (and there are specific criteria), I found one that is paying 4% on amounts I over-fund, as well as on distributions (it has to be a mutual company), which I can borrow against for down payments on the next property, while still having Life Insurance addressed for my spouse/other survivors. They (I have more than one) are also the foundation for a family trust my partner and I are setting up for our families.

Finding mentors who have already walked the road that fits is key for me. She or he can point out things I am missing, help with obstacles, suggest areas to study, etc. For example, there are many Life Insurance policy types, and the one that I favor is not well known or recommended by most insurance brokers (they stand to make quite a bit less commission). It is also at times railed against by the Ramsey/Orman crowd, not always for the right reasons based on my values/strengths (everyone is different). With real estate, there are so many markets and sub-markets, figuring out what best suits can take a bit of effort. Same with paper assets/commodities/derivatives, and obviously (as this community is fairly well familiar with) businesses that are grown into IPO/sale/other-exit-plan candidates. And a good CPA is constantly studying the tax code (it is always in flux) so they can be a great source of planning information for the various financial endeavors I get into. Oh, additionally a knowledgeable attorney can assist with the right entity and liability limitation planning, among other facets.

For what it is worth, of course.
I actually think we are in the same roles (CSA) :).

I have seen the same thing you are talking about and it is certainly one of the shitty parts of the job. Luckily I've done enough with the sales group around me that they are starting to understand that you don't sell Azure like you would O365 or whatever. There are still days where I walk away thinking that I must be on a different planet but the time I get to spend working with customers and building cool shit makes up for all of the bs.
Breath is monetized quite often. How much do you think an assisted breathing machine costs? Or a CPAP mask, or a scuba tank?

Everything is monetized, and profit drives everything, we are a capitalist society. A business will not operate on charity very long...
This is the USA were talking about. Have a turban? You're probably Muslim. Funny sound, non-Latin name? Possibly Muslim.

I'm sure some family of a CBP agent or super patriot will jump in to defend them. The CBP answers to no one except the president so good luck in getting a legitimate reason from them.
The other big succesful 'dark PR' campaign I can think of was the tabacco companies' attacks on health research on smoking. Probably this is a perenial strategy in societies that require the consent of the populace for government actions.

Actually I suppose almost all wars fit this model.
The labelling of ACA as "Obamacare" will allow Republicans to save face while they preserve much of the substance of the law.

Personally, I say leave it to the states...
It's funny how they managed to smear enough lip stick on top of that idea to make us beg for it. These days you're not even allowed to question the less power is more mantra in Go circles, even though it goes against all common sense. We need to back track to where we lost track of the goal. Which is what I'm doing these days instead of playing the system, https://github.com/codr4life/lifoo.
So you are already a victim of a xenophobic control apparatus.
I suggest installing a shell OS (with a neat GUI, no hacker-ish looks) on the Notebook's first partition, the rest (where the main Linux installation is residing) will be encrypted and can be decrypted and booted into only using a USB bootloader with the missing LUKS header (which can be downloaded later using a VPN, for example).
The emailed patch model is still incredibly popular and combined with an application such as Patchwork remains efficient.

good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client

$ git send-email

GitHub is easier to get started with but both methods have their benefits. I personally prefer GitHub but don't have problems contributing to projects that use the emailed patch model.
I'm puzzled by the idea of "I live in a city and I pretty much need a smartphone to do anything". I also live in a city (albeit a small one) and rarely even switch on my smartphone. What are some of the things that you can't do without one? The only thing I can guess offhand is Uber, but I walk everywhere.
Well, putting 'affordable' in the name was its own version of propaganda.
This is such a pernicious problem because (1) people are very susceptible to wishful thinking and (2) there's no mechanism for self-correction when the misinformed don't know (or refuse to accept) that they're misinformed.
The Mayor of Stockton, while returning from China, was forced to give up his password and then subsequently had all electronic devices seized. That was in 2015; this isn't about race, the broader issue here is privacy and where do I rights kick in.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151002/15583732429/homel...
I feel myself discouraged from visiting the US for the next few years at least.
Long term one possibility is that Python will defer to your OS (in this case, OS X) to make trust decisions for SSL

https://lwn.net/Articles/711954/

This will involve Python ceasing to use OpenSSL in favour of native SSL APIs (except on the Unix platforms where OpenSSL is the native API).

Right now your Python uses OpenSSL, but nobody at all was responsible for keeping the trust store up-to-date. So, making you responsible was in a sense a step up. Certifi basically bundles the Mozilla NSS trust store, which is also used by the BSDs, Linux distros, Haiku and whatever else isn't Apple or Microsoft. But it won't reflect OS X changes, for better or worse. On the other hand, if that PEP goes ahead and Python trusts the OS X built-in stores, Python code may work on your Mac, but not on some guy's FreeBSD machine, because the different trust stores don't agree about whether to trust a certificate. So, swings and roundabouts.
Democracy is a farce.
So many things could be better or much worse if left to the states.
" If a landlord wants to rent their place out to short-term tenants, and tenants want to rent it, and AirBnB want to act as a marketplace, I can't see what the harm is."

Have you ever lived next a to unit used for AirBnB? I have. After one incident where 8 college students partied the weekend away non-stop, I finally let the HOA know. They then aggressively enforced the building policy of a 28 day rental minimum.
I wouldn't want to be that test case for the Trump administration.
"intuitionistically" refers to the intuitionistic logic.
I wrote one on how to use an opensource testing tool for which there was lots of interest but not a lot of documentation at the time. That was quite popular for a while (almost 11 years ago).

Another book was on an emerging technique for collaborative analysis for software projects, that started becoming popular some time back in 2008-9 but was still not well understood.

Two more were on practical tips for how to work with user stories and how to come up with good testing ideas.
> — Even if something “suspicious” is found, that is not guilt and no charges can be laid so what is the point!?

I'm not defending this highly disturbing practice, but the point is that it's a political test. If they find anything politically disturbing on the phone, they can refuse you entry.
So, it sounds like you would dismiss all historic knowledge, including written history, even from multiple sources? That doesn't seem like a very good approach to learning about the past. Skepticism is fine, but, really, we have to work with the data we've got. We can put modern interpretations on that data, based on new knowledge and understanding of science, but disregarding all of it it seems rash.
As an aside, one of my greatest embarrassments as a computer scientist is that I never memorized the Greek alphabet. Instead, when I run across a Greek letter that I don't immediately recognize, like ϕ, I call it "smegma".

I'm not sure how this information is supposed to help you, but I hope it improves your life somehow.
> I think the move towards functional programming, and putting the onus on developers to do the mental elbow grease of converting what are largely macro-style tasks (do this, do that) into functional code (feed this transform into this one) has done a great disservice to software engineering, especially with respect to productivity.

I think you've got this exactly backwards. Functional programming lets you think at a higher level of abstraction (data flow) than imperative programming (control flow). The compiler then applies elbow grease to translate your high-level data flow transformations into low-level control flow constructs.

Let's translate your statement back a generation and see how it sounds: "I think the move towards structured programming, and putting the onus on developers to do the mental elbow grease of converting what are largely assembly-level tasks (branch, copy, add a value to a register) into structured code (if, while, for) has done a great disservice to software engineering, especially with respect to productivity."

Hopefully you can understand how silly that seems to a modern programmer.
Marginal Changes That Have Improved My Quality of Life
As Daniel kahneman said once to him "you are unnecessarily rude to economists"
if you define propaganda as any effort to be convincing of anything then there's nothing left that isn't it anywhere, in which case the point was not to point out propaganda but to be right about everything
Recently found Z80 video of how a guy makes ZX Spectrum computer from ground up, fixes bugs and problems as he proceeds. Video is in Russian, but still amazing even if you don't understand it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rWCYo1UcOQ
> Intermittent fasting != calorie restriction - you can eat the same amount.

But most people will not. To keep numbers simple lets say I eat 2kcals/day. Now I decide to intermittent fast and only eat every other day. On the days I do eat, I will have a really hard time pushing down 4k cals unless I plan to make them up (when I used to bulk eating became a chore). Also, since I'm already doing IF, I'm probably a bit health conscious and likely eat pretty health on the days I do eat making it even harder to make up the missed calories.

Over the course of a week and month those cals missed on the IF days but not fully made up on the eat days do add up which leads to weight loss.
I wish I could down vote, instead I am registering my disapproval here.
Owners of first and second generation Kindles can’t register them
The New York Times Claws Its Way into the Future
I have a friend who eats 3000~4000 kcals with no exercise and he is as thin as a stick. I have another friend who is a complete couch potato and eats junk food all day with no exercise, and he looks like a gym rat.

I think a lot of the magical thinking surrounding weight loss is because there's no one-size-fits-all solution, so people make up patterns in their heads and believe them to be true.
> trying for "mass-market luxury" is a precarious position

I guess, Apple seems to do okay.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#AMD_virtu...

I don't know how well its supported by software though.
> If you are trying to hide the company name, I dislike this but understand you are likely a recruiter working on commission.

Why is it bad?
Which is one of the reasons I prefer the term "constructive logic"; "intuitionistic" doesn't tell me anything.
The product I've most commonly seen being delivered by bike courier was high quality medicinal cannabis. I think there's a considerable demand for bike couriers after 5PM.
This entire article is the best argument I've seen yet for not using buzzwords for marketing
It's not even overeating. For example people who eat their daily calorie budget within 6 hours temd to lose weight. Intermittent fasting is great for your body. It promotes burning fat and building muscle, but no seems to know or talk about it.
Sometimes I cancel a card, to revoke access to accounts I lost the password to.

When I cancel a card, that doesn't mean that certain people should predict their own capacity to use a new card.

Glad to know that the destruction and replacement of a card might not work. I will now reconsider my tactics for revocation.

Clearly, I need to destroy, uproot the account, migrate elsewhere across provider boundaries, and deny further awareness of cards that might possess the property of re-use.

Certain companies must only be aware of disposable numbers, since they seem to be frisky about what I'd elect for them to know.
Must be an international thing. In my country as well the act of "oiling gears" means giving bribes in order to obtain something and/or speed up the process by having your papers put on top of the pile.
Lol. Are the majority of people as dumb as they seem?

I'm continually amazed at how well propaganda works on people and how easily they'll go against their best interests.

Voting seems to be just a battle of propoganda to sway dumb people instead of two sides presenting scientific evidence to back their views and people actively working to make things better with rigorous scientific method.

Maybe I'm naieve but it seems humanity will keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again until we run government scientifically with peer review.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it's less of a farce than all other forms of government.
> $ git send-email

Ah, thanks. If I only had known! :)

Maybe someone at OpenWrt (with edit access to the Wiki and such) could write a simple script for git send-email with a wrapper for the [PATCH] [architecture] what subject and Signed-off-by thing. Would speed things up quite a bit imho, especially for newcomers. I see quite a few "not formatted properly" rejections.
pretty sure this is common in many countries. I know here in NZ they have had that right. Though, there was a bit of a backlash against that and they (government) were looking at changing so that there are reasonable grounds for search. Quick search seems to indicate UK and Australia is similar.
Isn't it a common practice to find nicknames for pieces of legislation? In that case, the Republican found one that stuck. The name "Obamacare" is nothing more than a portmanteau of "Obama" and "Health care", and as such it does not entail any political message per se, except that it's supposed to name an health care legislation in which Barack Obama was particularly involved.

So, calling the use of this word "propaganda" seems highly incorrect.

In fact, IIRC Barack Obama himself appropriated the name and said something like "I don't mind this to be called Obamacare, because I do care" (I'm paraphrasing).
Even if you choose to follow the blogspam sites, given that the actual source is referenced right in the blogspammer article, why submit the abbreviated (sometimes erroneously) and adware-laden pale imitator?
If you missed out there were a lot of lefties who didn't vote for Clinton. Paving the way for Trump. Hell, I know lots of libertarians who voted for him in protest not actually expecting him to win.

Speaking of globalism where was the right wing during the WIPO protests? So the right didn't recognize globalism would be a problem until it started to be a problem. Meanwhile the lefties, the really old ones, were out there protesting in Seattle and NYC, London.
And they are all tricks to eat less.
>To get the embarrassing statistics out of the way first, the survey found that 51 percent of respondents believe that stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.

To be fair, power outages at data centers caused by storms and hurricanes are a serious problem. Being on-call in NYC during Sandy was not fun.
What would be worse except maybe the military?
Most of my suggestions seem to be people I either went to HS with (mutual contacts), or via FB groups... though there's the obvious bot requests, and an occasional wtf is that?
I guess it matters for single core performance bottlenecks. I.e. let's say you are compiling. Higher frequency CPU will manage it in less time. More cores naturally help as well.
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HN is the best for honest feedback, help me improve my product!

It's not failure, it's only feedback, thanks hackers.

http://gameofchat.com
> What if an independent app store, fails at adequately stopping malware from getting through?

Then don't use that one. You don't have to use any but Apple's if you don't want to.

> How do you install independent app stores to begin with? Do you install them with he App Store? That would put them at a disadvantage similar to how Microsoft put other Browsers at a disadvantage with IE.

As opposed to the status quo?
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Because you don't know what company you're applying for?
Well then here is human trials:

In a pilot human trial, three cycles of a similar diet given to 19 subjects once a month for five days decreased risk factors and biomarkers for aging, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer with no major adverse side effects, according to Longo.

BOOM.
>You can completely automate it if you don't want to spend time maintaining it.

What do you mean by "completely automate". MailChimp or similar tools, or something more automated?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13626221
Well, overeating is maybe simplified too much but it can be reduced mostly to "wrong eating". Perhaps not overeating in absolute volume but overeating of effetcive calories. There might be metabolic difference between people leading to different eating patterns working for different people, sure. But if you are obese in virtually all cases it is simply a matter of changing your diet (even for the cases that have an independent medical cause such as a thyroid disease). And in most cases the fix is to simply eat less callories in general by eating less and/or healthier alternatives.

And exercise does help you lose body fat, unless you start eating extra to compensate for the exercise as most people vastly overestimate how much calories you actually burn working out. And of course power-training that helps you build muscle mass can increase your weight but that does not mean that it is bad for you. If you're going to the gym regularlly anyway during your diet just measure your body-composition to track your effective weight. (not sure how accurate that is though).
Currently, when an EU citizen enters UK from the Heathrow Airport we can just scan our passports on the machine and get through. Usually there would be a nice lady to assist you if you are having trouble with the scanning.

Usually there isn't even other personnel around. I never encountered any checks or questioning.

But then again, the British tend to be very civil and I can't imagine getting a treatment similar to those we keep hearing about US borders.

I hope Brexit doesn't change this too much.
Yet, that doesn't stop Christians from misinterpreting the Muslim concept of jihad
Dilapidated arrival halls, endless lines and queues in the peak season, aggressive UK Border posters everywhere that make you feel like you're entering a prison visiting lounge, face/RFID scanners that frequently crap out, miserable/hostile border staff barking at you. I felt like a harassed cow going through an industrialised slaughter house the last time I flew in to Gatwick in the Summer.

Quite a contrast when you're used to travelling between Schengen area countries (or in my case, watching my French wife enjoy the benefits).

Will be fun to see how closely we start emulating the US once Brexit happens. Am sure my EU friends will love having all 10 of their fingers on file and a thorough "why are you here? how long for? where are you staying? when are you leaving?" questioning session every time they pass through...
Education would probably be worse in some states if there were no federal standards or oversight.