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Ask HN: Why do most Hack/Security websites have a black background?
Does this have to do with the dark side. Even thogh some of this websites are legal and have nothing to do with black hat, they still use a black backgrough. I've seen this since the 90's and always wondered why?
It's not the user's responsibility to update their browser. The updates happen automatically unless a user intentionally disables it.
One small interesting point was the test where people were given their own answers (but not told) and were more critical of them.

This almost seems natural based on my viewing of code. Sometimes you don't know who wrote the code, or made a change, etc. Every line is suspect. I find that I'm best at debugging when my code when at the end I say "who wrote this crap? oh it was me."
I don't think making it distributed solves the productivity problem, though.
To add to this, UBI would also allow people to provide value in areas other than research. A few examples would be arts, sports, charity and community work.
The metro isn't that bad. I commuted from Hollywood to Torrance by metro/bus daily for a few years. The metro fare cost me more than gas actually but staying off the 110 was golden.
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Where do you draw the line against line-drawing without being hypocritical?

You challenge their support. Continue to push them to draw more lines, until they've drawn so many lines that they're all alone inside their fence. Try to convince them that no one matches up to their worldview, not even their family and not even themselves.
People who care sufficiently about the security of their crypto don't use NYT or the guardian as an information source to base their opsec decisions on.
Do you live outside the UK?

The BBC is publicly funded, visitors to BBC news from outside the UK will get served ads.
Actually, Uber’s PR disasters aren’t that great for Lyft
It's interesting to note that Julian Assange didn't demonstrate control of the wikileaks private key during his Reddit AMA 1 month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5n58sm/i_am_julian_as...

Considering the political situation unfolding in the US and who this leak weakens, there is some evidence that wikileaks is not in the hands of a neutral party.

There is clear motive right now for undermining the CIA. This may not have been an act of altruism like Snowden. While shockingly damaging to the American arsenal, the CIA is by far the biggest loser.

This comment was immediately down voted on Reddit. Someone is seeking to control the narrative.
> First, there is no such thing as "passive" that is 100% sustainable for a long period of time.

I think a large enough and diverse enough investment is.. i.e. something across many markets across many asset classes. That is as close to passive income as you can get.

The downside is obviously you need $1 million dollar seed money to tap out 40k a year from it...
Pharma stock prices should go down. That is a good thing. Drugs should be first a service and second a source of profit and that should always be the order of it, or we will continue to have drugs that bankrupt people till they cannot afford it.
In other words, we have a faster server chip coming
I've been in a few Lyft and Uber rides and at some point I just stopped counting how many traffic laws were being broken (red light, no turn signal, improperly overtaking another car, driving on the bike lane to cut traffic, turning left wher eits was prohibited, etc). Never mind the loud music too.

I don't have the same careless experience when I take a taxi. Of course, this is anecdata only, but the fact that there are virtually no requirements make me worried. I only take Uber/Lyft if someone else is ordering it (when we're in a group), otherwise I'll find other options with actual professional drivers or public transportation.
Generally, it seems that the success and failure of a language depends on libraries, and most android libraries are written around Java rather than native.

But if you want, you can write libraries which will allow you to write Android Apps in C, C++, C#, Rust or Go (as people have already done, see Qt and Xamarin for example). The thing is that it's much easier to write a simple CRUD app in Java than in C++.
That sounds right. How is that in conflict with what you said? I saw it as expanding on the reasons to reject the "bad heuristic" under discussion.
Good point, thanks. Still close to useless for professional use, which I guess is Microsofts idea.
There's a lot of reasons against classes in JS.
This list has a lot of articles.
https://github.com/joshburgess/not-awesome-es6-classes
A common point seems to be against the brittleness caused by inheritance (including prototypical) in general.
Personally, I find that the tiny amount of performance you give up by using factory and composition patterns is generally worth not having to deal with binding the right context
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I doubt this has any effect, rich people don't care, poor people can't afford to move somewhere else. Public transport is the only effective approach to reducing the congestion.
That's not much of a moral argument, which from context is the type of argument the poster was making.
No offence but this reminded me of the instance where many kids recognize a floppy disk as a 3D-printed save icon.
Never heard of it before this article came out.

Is this just a US/Canada thing? I remember my parents having an old-school pressure cooker 20 years or so ago.
And we all know the people who can't afford to pay tolls can definitely afford the cost of moving which includes losing their likely rent-controlled apartments.
The compressor does not heat the air to the ignition point. The flame that is already in the engine provides the ignition, and the flame is prevented from blowing out the back by "flame holders".

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

The ignition at engine start is done with spark plugs.

The purpose of the compressor is to provide dense enough air to support combustion, and the pressure is needed to prevent the exhaust gases from blowing out the front of the engine.
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Thanks, I will look into it. I started off with Janus too but I had some odd bugs and segfaults. Since time was short I decided to give Kurento a try and since it worked, I stuck with that. There are still some warts but it does the job so far.

Xvfb looks to be pretty straightforward about what it does; now I just need to figure out how to control firefox after it was started.
Given the topic was Javascript class-based programming in-the-large, I was surprised this paper didn't mention the use of closures as a means to implement encapsulation. Especially during the part about supporting static properties shared between objects. One method to implement something like a static property is to declare a variable (and optional getter/setter) in an anonymous function that also contains the "class" definition.

The most surprising part is the title "... The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" given that Crockford's similarly named Javascript book brings up relevant cases that I didn't see addressed.
Here's a more hacker oriented write-up at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/firefox-52-introducing-web... (published today). Discussion (if it comes) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13812145
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810721 and marked it off-topic.
Steele is compelled to make restitution to victims of the fraud scheme (even outside of the specific charged offenses, per the plea agreement.) I believe in order to get identified as a victim and have a claim for restitution considered, you would need to work with the Justice Department, probably specifically the U.S. Attorney's office that is prosecuting the case.

This is probably more cost effective than pursuing private litigation against Steele or any of the Prenda principales, because the U.S. government does most of the heavy lifting.
> I understand not wanting Uber in your country

Norway wants Uber and its drivers to follow Norwegian laws, namely fulfil the requirement of a license for paid passenger transportation.

> to hit bottom-tier employees is just wrong.

Uber sells them as independent contractors, and regardless norwegian law requires that the operator of the vehicle has a license, which is the drivers.
Someone with money to burn can already get priority access to so many things. I don't mind if they can buy priority access to roads and reduce the amount of funding that has to come from everyone. When there's no harm or risk of harm, it's a pretty big exaggeration to use a phrase like 'above the law'.
Why are Americans with disabilities more important than people from other nations?

This is entirely separate from your examples, as people in india arent taking american buses or elevators - but they most certainly are taking advantage of american educational content that is publicly available.
> What exactly in the admittedly shortened list am I supposed to be upset about?

That, with taxpayer dollars, the government of the United States is undermining the security of consumer devices around the world.

Part of the difference between your worldview and the view of those of us who find this behavior childish and unacceptable is that you "expect a spy agency would be doing [this;] if they were not then [you] would be disappointed." Whereas for many of us, the legitimacy of the state is already on thin ice and is subject to descent below the x-axis as the internet comes to supplant it.

Listening to my neighbor through their TV set is just one thing I want the state to stop doing as our species moves into the internet age; other things I want it to stop include all the other things it does.
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I'd program a bot better than the one that took my job and take his (and yours)! :)
The problem as I see it is that we force everyone onto the freeway. Need to get somewhere a few miles from here? They make it very difficult to get there without getting onto the freeway.

There was some point in the last 30 years where city designers decided the best way to handle local traffic was just to force everyone onto the freeway. It's horrible.

There should instead be a reasonable main grid of smaller (2 lane max) low stop count streets such that I can get across town without getting on the freeway.

A large number of small roads can handle a lot more traffic than a small number of large roads.
Thus protecting the country from having to endure the sort of people who can't help but ignore the pragmatics of a question.
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Sounds like the clock resolution would be limited to the ticket interrupt in this case - how does it handle high resolution timers?
Do you have any particular example or domain in mind?

Regarding the automatic analysis, Automatic Statistician (Tenenbaum & Ghahramani et al.), which is supposed to automate / assist the exploratory analysis, comes to mind. Not sure if it'd be fair but I tend to lump some of the probabilistic programming - such as BayesDB - platforms into the same bucket. While these are exploratory tools, they are ideally (pragmatically) meant to help identify associations and context whereby correlation is highly suggestive of causation.

Another area of interest: one of the comments below mentioned adaptive clinical trial design. I know that Bayesian trials are intensively implemented in some cancer research centers such as MD Anderson (off-topic: curious to what extent IBM Watson was used as part of this protocol). I would love to know whether adaptive trials are increasingly popular or widely used in pharma industry.
I don't want a temp to hire job. If you put me in than situation, even if I take it, if a better job comes along, I'm going to leave. If I want to freelance, I'm going to charge you twice the effective hourly of my last job.
Nope. Two remarkably different approaches.

QT has its own widget system on top of low level rendering.

Xamarin wraps native OS widget API's so it's not write once run anywhere but more of a porting solution.

See this: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pick-right-cross-platform...
Even if they were employees, it should not matter. They knowingly personally broke the law. Being paid by someone to do it is no excuse.
https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/81662291586096332...
I like code that reads like a Dick & Jane book ("See Dick. See Jane. See Dick run. See Jane run.").

However, it appears to be trendy to write insanely difficult to read code. To use the analogy, Shakespearean code. Instead of one line of code doing one thing the developers will write a ton of functionality into one line of code by using fluent and method chaining. As someone reviewing the code I have to keep this mental stack of what the code is doing and it just becomes too much to process.

It's a personal opinion, but I had to share.
The whole topic is about coding on the whiteboard, not just expressing the thought process.
If I were the CIA I'd be quite pleased for people to know how clever and powerful I am so they don't mess with me. Human assets are rare and precious, but I have no problem flinging a few technological ducats in the general direction of the peasants.

This may or may not be an accurate read of events, but in my view many major 'leaks' of recent years are backdoor propaganda; the State Department Cable archive was embarrassing only if you consider it as a leak, but a really great way to express our government's outlook on a wide variety of topics that would result in conflict if done through formal channels. One can't really know what teh motivations of the people revealing teh information is, and one can imagine many benefits as well as headaches from its release, so it's best not to get too invested in any one one model.
We're shipping binaries for Debian and derived platforms. Other platforms will follow.
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I seconded fr0sty comment: Teflon vs Stainless Steel.

Stainless Steel is better for health than Teflon.
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Hollywood to Torrance on the metro?! Gosh, how long did that take?
Aha thank you, though they do say "The underlying studies and calculations concerning the storage capacity assume a charge-discharge efficiency of 80-85 %" So will be interesting how results corelate towards that calculation.
You are not so smart podcast did a great 3 parter on this topic.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/

#93, #94, #95
The other way we pay for roads is through sales taxes (aka the most regressive tax). At least tolls are use-based, rather than on the general population.
> You would never require this of regular employees would you? You would hold the corporation responsible.

Both would be responsible. Consider a truck driver without a driving license (at all), the company would probably be investigated for having a driver without a license, the driver would definitely be charged.
This is an excellent idea which is unfortunately too simple, fair, and straightforward to have a chance in California.
They're already paying for it. The injustice is that even people too poor to drive pay an undue amount. Sit on the packed 720 crawling down Wilshire blvd at rush hour and realize those people have just as much right to get around. I need to find the source but a few years ago, more people got down Wilshire in buses during rush hour than in cars, yet the condo canyon folks screamed and wailed about the prospect of a bus lane.
Tolls or Holes?

Link to Elon Musk's tunnel plan: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-16/elon-musk...
"If this was C, it should be NULL, and it is almost always better to just write `if (variable)` to check for NULL pointers instead."

Imagine that it was this instead:

if (5 != variable)

As the author points out, this was typically used by C and C++ developers to prevent accidental assignments inside conditional statements.
If you already have a job, the likelihood you're going to go through the normal hiring channels is small anyway. There's no reason you couldn't have one hiring process for those you're trying to woo away from other companies and one hiring process for those who may have faced a layoff or whose startup just collapsed.
It's hard to tell from the auto-translation of Norwegian, but weren't these drivers not paying taxes and not licensed to be a taxi?
I would, if they'd not store my contributions locked away and assume ownership. Same with Google Maps, they have a contribution feature which I'd use if you could download Google's map under a similar license to OpenStreetMap.

For Gmail and stuff I get it, but translate and maps are data projects, not software projects, which take hard work by thousands of people to build. It's extremely hard to build a competitor, and so I refuse to contribute to the existing de facto monopoly.
If horses could invent cars, things would be very different. We are not horses.
You can, if the work is contributing to open source software.
Yes, Battlestar, for fun and for the educational process. It's a different take on assembly, with the goal of creating tiny executables.

I would have done it completely differently had I started again today, but it works, and "life" example code is kinda nifty.

https://github.com/xyproto/battlestar
The direction the web has taken recently is horrible. And I'm convinced that this time will be looked back on with disgust.

Fear not, my friend. If we accept the premise that everyone should be forced to switch software every few weeks to retain access to useful content, even if doing so means losing access to other content in the process, then much of this time won't be looked back on at all.
This was also presented at the last AWS re:Invent in December. See AWS EC2 Deep Dive: https://de.slideshare.net/mobile/AmazonWebServices/aws-reinv...
The point of tolls is not to make roads exclusive for the wealthy

But that's exactly what it accomplishes. Further pushing the poor into poverty punishing the commute to a minimum wage job in a part of town they can't afford.
It's mentioned in the article.

> This objection also ignores just how inequitable and dysfunctional our current system is. Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads.

Is this false equivalence?
Use taxes such as highway tolls are among the most economically efficient ways to raise revenue to maintain and improve public goods. Since most tolling is electronic now, it's straightforward to provide a means-tested toll credit for people who would otherwise have trouble paying for their portion of the use of the expressway.
> On the other hand, there's people suffering in North Korean camps that endure Holocaust-like conditions right now, as we speak. Liberating those people would be a moral justification for war if I've ever heard one.

You said yourself that it would be at the expense of hundreds of thousands casualties, not even counting the consequences of possible nuclear war. That's a pretty bad argument for a moral justification for an invasion, don't you think?
Not to mention that the very same person will sometimes WANT to pay a toll for an uncongested lane. Running late for an interview? Maybe $15 is worth it to go 70mph for 20 miles at 8:30 AM.
I have been aware of and researching the deep state long before Trump was even dipping his hand in the political arena, so please don't try to associate the very useful term with right-wing conspiracy sites, clickbait, or political agenda. I resent your condesending and patronising attitude and your misappropriation and misattribution of my sources of knowledge, of which you know nothing.

As a matter of fact the term, as far as I know, originates with one of the best authors on the subject, Peter Dale Scott.

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo...
What if everyone "seeded" random content that others are browsing? Sort of like a Tor Relay for P2P traffic. Everyone assumes some small responsibility and yet could argue plausible deniability.
Really dumb move by Intel, this what happens when a company becomes too arrogant. They knew about Zen but probably just laughed it off as nothing. At the high level business decisions, things like this matter just as much as technical details like performance/$. Hard to believe they were dumb enough to piss off Amazon AWS, MS Azure, and others.
LOL the same arguments where used in Sweden, Stockholm and Gothenburg, worked for a few months, the traffic is worse again. It was just a great lie for the the public to finance other prestige projects.
Plot twist: the dump is a list of summer intern projects
yeah, let's write js as pure functional language.
So, to hit it from the other side: maybe none of that matters.

For an industry practice that everbody is saying is so badly broken, people sure seem to be making it work--or sidestepping the braindamage.

For CTFs like Starfighter, or for any take-home work product exam that is objective ("Pass the tests, meet the performance requirements, etc."), the emphasis is placed on the deliverable and not on the candidate, right?

Which in turn suggests a question--is this perhaps a signal that we don't need to be hiring employees at all if we can just spec out the work correctly and the associated acceptance criteria?
The issue wasn't units. It was a break in (programming) "contract". Catching such bugs could introduce further (logic related string parsing) bugs.

A much more robust method (especially considering that this table was prepared in advance) would have been to have someone else to independently duplicate the work and compare results.
The thermal design power is the maximum amount of heat generated by a computer chip or component that the cooling system in a computer is designed to dissipate in typical operation. TDP =/= power consumed
Maybe we should also consider the concept of mass transit? The increased likelihood of injury or death from increased transit time in automobiles alone is a health hazard.
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Sorry, I guess where I was going was when someone defines something as a right, they should be able to explain how they arrived at that conclusion.

For instance, if you believe that we have a right to live, and healthcare has some relation to life, then haelthcare might arguably be a right.

Another might be an analogy, such as with law enforcement. Some might say we have a right to a life free from crime. Most jurisdictions prefer to run and staff their own police departments, or contract with another government-run police department. Only as a last resort would privately-run police departments be acceptable. Additionally, police officers, given their mission and tools, have the power of life and death over the citizens they serve. This is a typical reason given for government-run law enforcement.

Healthcare, to a certain degree, also has the power of life and death. Therefore, one could argue governments should run healthcare.
uhh, we are commenting on a post about a school who had to pull all of their videos because they were sued that the closed captioning was not accurate enough.
try harder? did you forget an /s?
> ...although the language is prototype-based, the latest JavaScript standard, named ECMAScript 6 (ES6), provides native support for implementing classes...

Ohhh boy. I predict trouble ahead.
If you care about security in the slightest, you should probably already have done that.

These plugins have been click-to-play in the major browsers for a long, long time.

Obviously they still provide some attack surface, but the biggest threats today don't come from plugins, they come from the main browser functionality, thanks in no small part to all the things browsers now have to provide so we can still do useful things that we used to do with plugins.