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A team of PhDs using modern control theory can prove stability of an aerospace control loop across all different operating conditions.

A team of software engineers can then implement that with static analyzers and run time checkers during development to give confidence to an implementation.

Can you prove stability of a deep learning system across all possible operating conditions it may encounter?
> For a double whammy, one could write the backend in Go, the mirror universe Oberon

Fully agree, Goberon for lack of more imaginative name. :)

I guess for that to be fully possible, the plugin package needs to be better supported, as it still is a bit WIP and rather fresh.

Then it would be "only" a matter of porting the runtime to bare metal. :)
Yes right, but the gm45 chipset is a core2Duo chipset. And the X220 features Sandy Bridge (2011).

While it is possible to mess around with older implementations of the IME it is pretty much impossible with recent versions. It sits now on the CPU die and is inaccessible.

An it is only removing the ME blob in the system's flash memory. The ME has also it's own internal ROM which contains firmware which cannot be altered or read.
Reminds me of this emacs plugin, deldo:

https://youtu.be/D1sXuHnf_lo?t=2m57s

Slightly NSWF.
Especially a security critical program, you really need to be using bug discovery tools as much as possible.

You might even find some zero days just by addressing all the warnings.
Haven't tested out GCP yet, but am familiar with AWS and have played around with Docker a little.

Am I correct in saying that all this does is effectively a:

>docker build
>docker push

But builds it all server side, then stores it in Google's Container Registry?
IKEA actually publishes a yearly report[1] that is close to what a public company would publish. But they don't have to.

Regardless, the 500 shareholder thing specifically applies to American companies as far as I know. [2]

[1] http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pdf/yearly_summary/IKEA_Group_Y...

[2] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/5/500-shareholder-threshol...
One very interesting thing is that the exploits, rootkits, etc are all unclassified and the CIA has no copyright on them either. The logic is supposedly that an agent putting a classified rootkit/trojan/whatever on a machine is mishandling classified information and thus it would be illegal.
Actually, in UK you can get actual opioids (as co-codamol) behind the counter, without a prescription. Funny how they don't seem to have a disastrous and deadly opioid epidemic like the US has.

Because it is sold over the counter, buyers have to first talk to a pharmacist to get it. This will likely involve discussing what you're suffering from, so that the assistant is sure that what you're buying is appropriate. Finally, they aren't going to sell you ten packets of pills at once, you'll get just one pack containing a few pills.

So, to get an addict's amount of codeine, you're going to have to visit all the pharmacies in town and give each of them a story about terrible dental pain or some such rubbish. It's just not going to be practical.
I don't think so, as the Economist believe that that event occurred in 2006 (http://www.economist.com/node/3536168) and consumption fell from then until 2013 http://www.ias.org.uk/Alcohol-knowledge-centre/Consumption/F...

The extent to which this can be said to be driven by changes in the licensing regime versus changes in the population structure can't really be determined from this data.
I generally see prices of 2 cents per gigabyte per month for active storage, even less, most under half a cent per gigabyte per month for long-term archival. Assuming there were willing to fork out 10 dollars a month, they would be able to get around a terabyte of storage.

Lets imagine our average citizen uploads quarter of a gigabyte, that means 4,000 visitors uploading files per $10 client. Assuming you can keep other costs really low, it's not too outrageously expensive.
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I have been using one for more than a year. It makes cooking so easy and quick and the flavor stays inside and food turns out really delicious. Best part is it doesn't even make slightest of the sound or smoke.One of my best buys.
I owned my own Recording Studio and still do work for time to time as a sub-contrator. If you in your smug dialog think that adding a delay to different tracks and syncing them down to the bits is the issue I am sorry but you miss 100% of the point and you didn't read the link that I tried to show what I am talking about.

> I don't believe I ever said otherwise. But to say Mac never outperforms Windows for audio is wrong. And to say Mac requires just as much setup work as Windows is a flat out lie.

Nope. Its actually a huge pain BUT most people don't really care or need to actually dig that deep.

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/210...

https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207546515-Op...

Then you have the issue with your i/o in Macs with all your Desktop options that isn't a problem but all the laptops its a HUGE problem. I have no idea how people do audio with the i/o issues that Apple throw at you all the time. Thunderbolt anyone?
Based on the overview alone (of course I can't read the entire report that fast!), this is exactly what I expect a spy agency would be doing -- if they were not then I would be disappointed.

What exactly in the admittedly shortened list am I supposed to be upset about? It makes no distinction between US citizens and overseas parties. If these actions are being done domestically against US citizens, with no just cause sure I will get upset, but that has yet to be seen.

As usual it seems Wikileaks publishes a sensationalist story around one of their leaks, claiming dozens of zero-day releases where most were already patched. Hell, they included the i0nic jailbreak as one of the 0-day exploits (https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_13205587.html).

I'll let journalists parse through the full report before coming to any conclusion as of yet. I just find it hard to get excited about any Wikileaks release that has yet to be vetted.
There's too many qualified people and not enough jobs to go around. Under those conditions, which person without a felony would you like to volunteer to take his place and no longer be gainfully employed? There's already plenty in that situation, perhaps this felony conviction means a non-felon can now become gainfully employed, which is good news.
VLC 2.1.5 compromised https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_15729066.html

edit: please see response below from remlov

edit: this post was premature, see below posts
Not always true. I'm now 40 and still struggle to keep my weight up. Same as OP I have to consume a large number of calories throughout the day, eating every two hours.

If I let my guard down I slide back to 145 lbs within a few weeks and have to climb the mountain all over again. Age has yet to cure me of this.
Does that mean that someone who leaked them could not be prosecuted? Or simply that they would be prosecuted under some other law?
Cyclomatic complexity[0] is a decent proxy for indentation level all though not all indentation increases cyclomatic complexity and not all increase in cyclomatic complexity increases indentation. However for the purpose of reducing complexity it is wonderful. The ruby community is fairly good at using Rubocop[1] to enforce number of lines in methods and cyclomatic complexity. I've found that limiting yourself to 10-20 lines per method and a cyclomatic complexity lower than 7-10 is very beneficial to code quality and perceived complexity. Those numbers obviously need to tweaked to suite the language, but work well for ruby.

Often this does involve pulling out blocks of code into a methods that's only called once, but as discussed elsewhere in the thread this is still an improvement in perceived complexity and readability.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
1: https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop
Why is that cool? Many cars are made from wholly or partially recycled raw materials. The only thing that is hard to recycle is certain plastics but future recycling is already part of the design phase of almost all vehicles.

This article:

https://www.thebalance.com/auto-recycling-facts-and-figures-...

has the percentage of recycled material in a car pegged at ~80%.
Yes, AMD was asked if they would release the PSP source code. But IMHO that doesn't change anything as discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781408
Just Do It.

Assuming you have any significant knowledge (and you probably do), the good you'll do by sharing that knowledge will massively outweigh the harm any mistakes may cause.

Just be open to corrections if they come up.

This sort of fear is very normal, and is what stops a lot of people from giving a lot of value back to the world by writing about their area of expertise. If you overcome it, you'll help not only yourself but also lots of other people.
The "with no just cause" part of the argument is what scares me because the government's idea of a just cause for domestic spying and my own, are often very, very different.
Yes, but this is a general trentment gurantee. If you get cancer the times have to be shorter, and are shorter usually messured in weeks. It's better but still not good. If there is suspected cancer, you should get diagnosis started the same or next day, and treatment/surgery within a week.
I'm having dinner tonight from an instant pot but it hasn't lived up to the hype for me.

What do you cook in there that you've really enjoyed?
It is incredibly tough. The manual steps in trade, down to scribbling a note on the back of a single original piece of A4 paper, are tedious and tediously documented, UCP for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Customs_and_Practice_f....

Maersk will be implementing a new standard of implementation here, replacing a standard that's been bootstrapped over centries. Expect an ISO or similar to be created to define it, with a lot of reach into the workflow of insurance companies and banking (LCs, etc).

This would be an interesting area to 'disrupt' if you could catch early wind of the emerging standards and ride on the back of a new standard coming into implementation.
- Smart TV turned into listening devices with fake off mode?

- Intercepting audio/texts before encryption by Signal, Whisper, WhatsApp etc.

- Dozens of O-day attacks again Andriod and iPhone.

Pretty powerful stuff.
This is straight up false, why do you think Scala doesn't have primitive values? Long will be either a value or reference type as needed, despite being spelled only one way instead of two different ways in java.
Sincerely having perspective in technology pays off.
I feel the tech market is like a rollercoaster.
You start your career going up with one technology, then leave when it is going down, switch to other stuff...

... and suddenly you witness the same pattern you saw 15-20 years ago. And you know how the market will respond.

Use that experience wisely.

And enjoy the ride ;-)
Maybe it is just my lack of knowledge but why were all the recently leaked hacking tools made by US and none by Russia or China?
The F-35 (JSF) is DO-178B. The RTOS itself (INTEGRITY) is mostly C and C++.

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2013/10/software-c...
> Facebook asked that the BBC reporters send the company images that they’d found on Facebook’s secret groups that the BBC would like to discuss.

I don't remember too much regarding my university criminal forensics lectures, but here goes: If the BBC reported that they had found child pornography to Facebook, then Facebook should investigate and alert the appropriate authorities. They can't delete the images as they're evidence, I'm sure they have a way of setting images to be non-public or 'hidden' whilst these kinds of things are dealt with.

As for Facebook reporting the BBC, I can technically see why. We were always taught (it was a class dealing with software used by police forces to scan phones and PCs) if you were on a job and found something, don't make a copy to give to your manager, don't email it to someone etc - all of these can fall under the 'distribution' part of the law.

What makes the title interesting is Facebook requesting the images. If someone at Facebook was informed of the images content being child pornography, I'm not sure how the law would work in this instance. BBC are distributing, Facebook are requesting, both are in the wrong. If this was a case of BBC reporting an 'indecent' image without much context, Facebook may very well request to see the content, BBC are still distributing, I'm not sure what this means for Facebook.

Long story short: If you ever find CP online at work etc, don't save it, don't alert a manager, don't email it or a link to it, report it to the correct authority for your area, then alert a manager or boss - anything else and you run the risk of conspiring/distribution.
> I'm seeing more quality research from Fraunhofer in recent years that is also useful for practical purposes.

This is their intended mission. Only about 30% of Fraunhofer is financed through public funding, the remaining 70% or so have to be earned through doing contract work for the industry. This has a number of goals:

1. It makes advanced R&D accessible for small and medium enterprises that cannot afford their own R&D department.

2. It is a fairly effective way for the government to subsidize private R&D. It's effective, because businesses still have to pay the majority of the cost, so they aren't going to waste money.

3. Less research is hidden behind corporate walls, but can be more easily shared and reused, as Fraunhofer retains intellectual property to some of it (or even straight-out opens it up, such as GPI-2/GASPI [1]).

[1] http://www.gpi-site.com/gpi2/ http://www.gaspi.de/ https://github.com/cc-hpc-itwm/GPI-2
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Or as cperciva put it, "Playing chicken with cat.jpg"

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...
I got one for Christmas. I've been cooking more than half of my meals with it. It's great.

Here's a few things I tried:

- Mississippi pot roast

- Carnitas

- Pulled pork

- Cilantro lime basmati rice

- Butter chicken

- Chili

- Chicken breast

- Crack slaw

- Pulled chicken

- Chinese hot pot

- Hard boiled eggs

- Soft boiled eggs

- Steamed broccoli

- Steamed cauliflower

- Kale and bacon

- Mussels

- Cheese cake

- Meatloaf

- Italian sausages

- Beef curry

- Poached salmon

- Pork ribs

- Swedish meatballs

- Taco meat

- Chicken fajitas

- Black beans
Is this different from any of the other similar cooking devices?
Russian tried the US walked out of the treaty and has been pulling quite a few risky moves.
> The asset has the ability to plug in a personal thumbdrive to the network.

Sounds like it just patches a local copy of VLC by running an installer. I don't know if I would consider that compromised.
Wow this is really big. There are tons of documents about the various tools they use, but it seems the majority of the actual source code is still being reviewed and the links just show a link to the file list. I hope they eventually release the source code, as a lot of these tools seem very interesting. I can imagine that many at the CIA are running around on fire, as this seems like a big problem for them.
> I think one exciting area is voting

Uhhh… I'm no expert regarding blockchains, just know what the basic idea is. And in my understanding you can't have truly anonymous votes using a blockchain. Or can that be done?
I'm sure there's a point in on the adoption graph of any technology which should be labeled as "Used to generate PR buzz". Second Life, 3D printers, etc. My gut feeling is that it comes just before the mass realization that something isn't ever going to be mainstream.
I wonder how many of the exploits/tools released are still usable today.

Also, the actual video press release had to be rescheduled due to their video stream being attacked.[0]

"NOTICE: As Mr. Assange's Perscipe+Facebook video stream links are under attack his video press conference will be rescheduled."

[0]: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839104886625157120
Unbelievable the depth and scope. Absolutely frightening that most of these tools are out in the wild.
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Facebook failed to remove sexualised images of children
The snake would start eating itself..
You could allow the police to do that without a warrant, if you wanted to. Amazon doesn't need to argue whether the prosecution have a legitimate order to seize the data if the 'owner' is willing to turn it over.
What? The most popular choice for aircraft RTOS seems to be INTEGRITY which is written C/C++ itself.

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2013/10/software-c...
Dropbox and S3 are too far from us right now and I wouldn't call them competitors.

NoFile is a simple tool that allows you to quickly share files with lots of options, nearly no limitations and at the same time as you don't have to sign in.

"I'd rephrase this - definitely remove the shouldn't as that tells me that while my files shouldn't be deleted, they might be."

You're right about that as the premium plan will never lead to files uploaded by free users to be deleted. The premium plan will only be targeted to more heavy users and won't affect the free users.

"Finally, just a minor thing, but the down arrow under the "Click Here Or Drag & Drop To Start Uploading" doesn't work for me (latest Chrome on Mac). I assume it should scroll down the page but it didn't for me at least."

The button was indeed not working and it's now been fixed, thanks for pointing it out.
Microsoft Live and Skype outage
Accounts with Microsoft's Live.com is currently having problems which is also effecting customers who use a live account to log into Skype.

http://heartbeat.skype.com/2017/03/sign-in_into_skype_with_micros.html

Edit: started having problems around 8:30 AM ET. About 20 minutes before this was posted.

Edit 2: looks like it's back online. This page was more helpful in finding out Skype was back than their official heartbeat site http://downdetector.com/status/skype
"ask them what they liked least about their parents" -- ouch
2 executables with the same SHA-1 and MD5
One cause for concern is that the CIA appears to not only have lost control of the documentation, but of the tools themselves:

"Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal...and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection...gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA."

So, now, you get to worry about anybody else that might have this toolset. (Not withstanding your note that some of it might have already been available)
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> Perhaps it would be useful to add an option that toggles the animations on/off.

If hundreds of people are telling you the animations are too much, kill the animations.

If a small handful of people are saying it, ignore them.

But please, please, do not add _any_ complexity to a small-margin, intentionally simple service like this in the hopes of pleasing everybody.
So, heptagon of control?
I am part of the cult. We bought after the recommendation of a friend. What I liked: nice set of presets, comes with a cookbook with quite a few recipes, very easy to operate.

Some time ago, when Apple bailed out of self-driving car business, my friend and I discussed what would be the good category for Apple to try next and I suggested advanced kitchen devices. Seriously though: instant pot with Nespresso machine are close to best damn money I spent. Currently I am investigating Anova devices and dreaming about something that would cut down (hehe) my peeling and chopping time.
Once you start compressing and decompressing air you get a lot of heat loss though, that I would imagine isn't as much of an issue when you're just pumping plain water back and forth
You can combine it with the AST and template packages, getting half-way there.

In any case, I agree with you, but given the Go's culture I guess that is the closer we will ever get to compile time code generation.
The basis premises (privacy amidst a sea of devices which record at various times and save these recordings off-site) are universal.
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Life is too short to worry about details as small as that, just start.

If you're blog is about doing something that could be destructive (How to migrate data from X to Y) etc, just start with a disclaimer, and ensure you do as much testing as you feel obliged to do.
Don't get a false impression, everyone is hacking everybody.

Some are just better at hiding it.
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They didn't really call out what a fix would be, but maybe the legislation of the visas could require sponsorship by host company for green card and a timeframe for them to get that as well as an expedited route to attaining green card.

This would make the H-1B visas exactly for specialized skills that might not be able to be sourced in the US or at least be for skills that are in high demand. It would fit the current administration's nationalistic agenda and it would reduce the half-pay visa's that the body shops bring into the country.
They have vim editing tips https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_3375350.html

No emacs?
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Great, thank you! I'm glad to hear it. I'd say in the last 3-4 years, the number of Romanian employees has grown from 1-2k to 5-7k. Of course I could provide official numbers, but Oracle sues its own employees on a daily basis :)
I'll count valgrind if your program always runs in valgrind. Otherwise it doesn't protect you dynamically.
Yeah, but why would the police ever see your plants at all?

Also keep in mind that the police in the Netherlands is not as trigger happy as American police by a long shot. You're not getting swatted for having a few plants because our police is not militarized at all, we have a separate branch of LE that does riots and SWAT-like tasks and they're mostly used for large drug operations and soccer riots.

AFAIK as long as you're not using high-powered lighting (and not the modern LEDs or sunlight), tapping the neighbors' electricity and therewith creating a fire hazard you're fine.

Plantations are usually found either by the electricity company or because a helicopter with IR vision (or regylar vision on a snowy day) happens to find a house with an unusually hot roof.
It's a version of VLC that, in addition to the things it normally does, collects information. The operator, who knowingly runs the software, can then collect the information and turn it over to someone else.
I guess some responsible disclosure to the affected vendors would be nice. If the tools are being actively exploiting bugs, which they are, there's not much else to do in order to stop the exploitation. Give it a few weeks and then publish them in the wild.
This idea that the government should somehow be exempt from proper cybersecurity ethics is disgusting. When the CIA or the NSA find zero day attacks in software, they should report them immediately to be fixed, not build tools specifically to exploit them. It's only a matter of time before these attacks either leak or are rediscovered by other malicious parties. The government is effectively turning their own people into cannon fodder for their ridiculous "cyberwar."
Please don't spread disinformation.

"...the asset will have 'downloaded' the portable version of VLC player (2.1.5)..."

This does not sound like a copy of the public version and that it's "compromised". You could check for yourself if you like: https://github.com/videolan/vlc :)