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That’s still a manual, non automatable backup. To have any reasonable backup strategy you’ll need to find something service by service, giving up some that just have no API nor compatible query language (I think keep is part of that, you’ll have no way to auto backup)
I want to quibble with "informed consent", which many people use to describe this situation.

Yes, there is a privacy policy, and companies like Apple and Google take that policy seriously.

But, question 100 random iOS or Android users and ask them if they use Apple Maps or Google Maps. Many/most will say "yes". Then ask them if they realize that their phone is uploading their GPS location in real time to Apple or Google, and probably 90% will say "no".

So I don't think there is "informed consent" for most consumers. It's more like "this works, I love it, I don't want to know how it works". Google and Apple make an attempt at informing people by having them click on various agreements that nobody reads, but I'd call the result of that more "indifference" than "informed consent". When is the last time you ever read any of those things you clicked thru? For me it's probably been decades, perhaps as far back as the 1980s.

Stuff like Google Voice is another thing entirely. It's not really a mainstream product, it's more for geeks. The types of people who use it are generally quite cool about giving Google their personal information.
I'm thinking you just violated the Liskov substitution principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle).

A sum type is the same thing as a tagged union, a variant record, or a discriminated union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union).
> V8 is pretty efficient and lightweight

How much lightweight? Similar to Lua?
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> it's efficient in the sense that you don't have the wrong regulation. ie. in the sense that wrong regulation is extremely expensive.

How efficient is it to regulate the behavior on a case-by-case basis, taking years and often millions of dollars for each case, and with all the unpredictable outcomes of a lawsuit? Maybe one ruling by an expert regulator rather than many by inexpert judges and juries isn't such a bad idea after all.

It sounds like a rationalization for deregulation.

> if people was always employing an optimal strategy, then litigation would rarely be needed

If people did that, we wouldn't need government at all. We could live in happy anarchy with all our well-meaning, honest, optimizing neighbors!
i am a film student. after each film is finished, i store the smaller proxy files and get rid of the rest. since this is an archive of my literal life's work, i store everything to my attached USB drive, which gets synced to my NAS, which then should sync to the cloud fulfilling 3 2 1. i am a broke student: CrashPlan was my only lifeline to guaranteed recovery in a total disaster scenario. the smaller proxies still clock in at over your cost threshold for B2 vs Backblaze.

now, because i believe in the ideals of free and open source software and use the operating system that is an instrument of those ideals, i am not worth it, despite knowing that given a passage, the open source community would build you a Hyperloop.
If you do not like the idea that by default Firefox will send data to Mozilla about your Firefox usage (no matter the privacy protection techniques being used), you should probably be aware that Firefox is already sending this kind of data to Mozilla. This is called Firefox Health Report and is pointed out in their privacy policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#health-report

FHR is also opt-out, i.e., enabled by default. If you do not like this, you may want to disable this as well.
I'm curious, what would you use device management tools for? They auto-update, so it's not that, and they don't hold much local software (other than Android apps). It seems like a small enough number of devices that it's fast enough to run one-off tasks on each of them manually.
His comment is relevant as to how would a new product be perceived through the experience had with other products offered by the same company.
The real point is that it is possible.

Any specific suspicious death may come and go, but the fact that something like this is believable with conventional networked cars is enough reason to be very skeptical of security and government access (and criminal access) claims of manufacturers, no matter how well-meaning.
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The Google Play Store ($5), iOS App Store ($100/yr), probably almost every big online service have experienced substantial term and law violations so it's obviously ineffective as a preventative measure.
Signalling is part of who we are, it's a trait of our species - long before LV and Cartier, there was feathers, bones, fur. Things that would define positions in society, wealth, or simply to please others.

We are social beings, and we have a lot of unconscious decisions made via interpretation of such signs.

You can't just say someone who noticed you because you had some cool Vans shoes, is toxic because that someone used his senses and made a judgment - that maybe you are a cool approachable dude. No one likes you because of what you buy - that's not how it works.
> It's not an article about CoCs

It's not. But it contains thoughts relevant to the topic. Surprisingly, you are allowed to support your points with articles on common relevant topics, not just with ones that repeat your point verbatim.

> it repeats a claim that's been both debunked before

Irrelevant. The fact that somebody somewhere said "nah, it's not so" means nothing. For mostly everything you can find "debunking" if you look hard enough. That doesn't mean that automatically the side you're on wins because there are people on internet that agree with you (oh no, surely it does mean that?)

> is pretty scientifically inaccurate about people with autism/Asperger's syndrome.

I imagine you are speaking as a seasoned researcher on the topic, far outmatching the original author, a mere psychology professor. I respect your credentials on this, but regret to inform you this is also irrelevant - it is not a scientific paper, and neither original author not the tweet author was not asking for a scientific peer review. If anybody that ever recommended scientifically iffy article on twitter would be banned, we'd have nobody unbanned left. The fact is the attack had nothing to do with scientific merits of the article (which nobody even discussed) and everything to do with the outrageous crime of sacrilege by questioning the sanctity of the CoC.
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> What is money in the face of a 0.00001% chance of annihilation?

Every day that you commute to work, you have a higher then 0.00001% chance of dying in a traffic accident.

Yet, you still roll the dice, and go to work. Presumably because you get paid.

For a more global catastrophic event, consider that the odds that you will die in a catastrophic nuclear war between Russia and the United States are far, far greater then 0.00001%. Yet, we all carry on as if its business as usual. (When we could take steps to reduce how catastrophic such a war would be, or how likely such a war would be.)
IMO, as a fairly staunch NN defender - no it's not. But only so long as the limiting is applied equally to all video providers, including Verizon's own.

Traffic shaping (QoS) according to protocol is nothing new, and it can actually generally improve responsiveness for everyone given a congested network. If my VOIP packets have exactly the same priority as your Netflix - I'll be the one to suffer for it. On the other hand, if my VOIP has higher priority than your video, I'll get a good VOIP session, and thanks to buffering, you will still probably get the same quality video.

The overall drop in bandwidth being offered sucks, but it also seems a bit more honest than their previous "unlimited" offerings.

Again, this is only the case in my eyes so long as Verizon doesn't start offering a fast lane for certain providers. If (probably more "when" than "if") they start doing this, then I'll gather up my torch and pitchfork and join in the fun.
Different strokes I guess. There's plenty of documentation out there on CSS engines that you'd find readable while others lose interest pretty quickly. The diversity in approaches ensures that the pool drawn into Firefox development is diverse.
I suspect that legislators are so far behind the curve on this, that they'll never protect decent humans from such guys.

Answer: Forget the protection afforded by the state. Protect yourself. Blacklist the scum manufacturers, warn your acquaintances.

What other suggestions.
Yeah we've definitely worked at different sorts of companies. At the kind I've worked at, employee happiness and retention is valued way higher than whatever it is you think is lost by employees handling personal tasks at work (bandwidth? computer depreciation? time, when none of us work strict 9-5 jobs?)
To some extent, you can look at mobile app platforms for guidance:

- identity service

- payment services

- 3D positioning data, including 6DOF

- hand tracking and object tracking (AR)

In terms of future-y stuff, I can see some sort of blockchain integration, like CloudStorage as an IPFS version of LocalStorage. That would potentially need to dovetail with the identity and payment stuff.

I suspect as we get deeper into AR times, some kind of device-relative geo services will need to be necessary. Like, give me a list of services that are within 1 foot, 20 feet, and 1000 feet respectively.

Personally, I also think the browser is ready to make the leap to a kind of raw metal relationship with hardware. ChromeOS is an example of this, Firefox OS was an attempt. I'd like to see more specialized OS's that can boot hardware directly to the web. The security models on Mac and Windows are slowly approaching something more like the web anyway, where apps run in a sandbox. Web pages have been doing that forever, so it seems like a good fit for a security-conscious OS.

A mobile headset would be a good opportunity for such an OS to differentiate itself. Which leads me to...

The other huge opportunity I think is in web "filters". We've gotten to the point now that there's just a lot of crap out there, and with ad blockers and readability filters we've started to dabble in a meta layer. I think a future web browser will go full meta, where by default you don't see the actual web page, you see a thumbnail and a bunch of views on the data in that web page, and you only dip down into the giant messy interactive ad-riddled view if you want to.

Past endeavors include the whole space of web annotation, semantic web, etc. Not sure why none of that has taken off, but seems like something that will find product market fit eventually.

One of those "filters" could be an AR filter. Take a web page and map it into AR space. Also VR. Add avatars of other people around the content. But there should be a whole marketplace of filters, language translation, low power filter, etc. Opera was doing some version of that. You could have political filters too. "Block all misogyny", "Add Fox News' take", "Keep everything tidy and German" etc.

A lot of this marks a general transition from a site POV to a user POV for the browser.

If anyone wants consultation on any of these ideas, I'm available for hire. :)
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what kind of math problems were the students supposed to solve? I ask because the approach you mention is still the best way we have of determining whether two polynomials are equivalent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_identity_testing
Would you happen to have a PDP that's ripe for torch passing?

Couldn't help but ask....
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The fix could be a memory safe language in theory, but in practice it's very unlikely.

A lot (all?) of the parsers for various formats are written in C or C++. Two small exceptions: I've seen that there's a Rust image library available, however it's part of another larger project and has almost zero documentation or comments. There's also a Rust lib for zip files, but it wraps a significant amount of C.

It looks to me that Mozilla aside the industry has given up and decided to sandbox.

Considering the amount of crap code out there, it's understandable. I like to read the details about vulnerabilities when updating Ubuntu. Most of those could be easily avoidable in C++ if one knows how to write secure code. The fixes are usually adding some checks, an extra if, an initialisation, etc - treating the symptom.

e.g: the Bitdefender team missed that a 64 bit uint was passed to a function taking a 32 bit parameter. They likely have all casting warnings disabled - a lot of C library code spews a ton of warnings.
"Fixed" by changing the parameter to 64 bit.
>Also, activating Bluetooth is as frictionless as activating WiFi.

Oh my, no. Activating bluetooth is so frustrating that Apple built a special chip to make it easier. That Sonos work over Wifi and not Bluetooth is the primary selling point.
Even when you're happy to use floats for calculation, counting the error when rounding / ceil()ing to integer values is great for things like layout where you want to distribute X pixels across N columns.
"Assuming that the size is not explicitly casted, the compiler should throw a warning of the following kind:"

In D, implicit truncation of an integer value is an error, not a warning.

I've predicted before that lack of memory safety will be the demise of C in internet-facing programs. Dealing with the bugs is just too expensive.
Nah, it's not really skeuomorphic because it doesn't really imitate, at least until recently. The authoritative format was plain text, and that was intended to be printable (originally probably on what were in effect computer-driven typewriters), and if you want to have printable plain text, you kindof have to have headers and footers on every "page" (and page break characters between pages in order to accomodate different paper sizes, which are actually there if you look closely at the plain text version). The HTML version of those RFCs does not so much imitate the format as it is a rendering that is supposed to reproduce the authoritative document as true to the original as possible, so as to not risk any unintended changes in meaning, while adding some of the benefits of having hypertext.
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Can you link to more details? If this is true then it should be flagged and fixed.
Differential privacy is relatively battle-tested. I wouldn't be too worried about it standing up to scrutiny.
I wasn't under the impression Somalia had a particularly reliable court system.
All my speakers are low-tech analog only devices. There really is little benefit to making most of these devices "smart".
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No, but there's a huge difference in the amount of oversight token holders have on an ICO, and the amount of oversight that VCs have on a startup.

It's certainly possible to structure an ICO in such a way that token holders will get board seats, proper auditing, etc, but I've yet to see one that is.
You might be thinking of WonderHowTo. HowToBasic is a satirical YouTube how-to channel.
You realize Gad Saad, the person in this tweet, is himself Jewish and had to escape Lebanon as a child due to anti-Semitic violence? He is not remotely alt-right. He's a tenured professor. I don't know how you could associate him with Nazism.
I think it was circa 2012, and I may be exaggerating somewhat, but I particularly remember seeing new, lots-of-option Kia Souls selling for ~$18.5k new (window price) right next to used ones going for ~$18.5k used (window price) with nearly the same options on both. I think I also saw something similar with a few models of Honda, but my memory is most vivid with the Souls. And if memory serves, even when used was cheaper it was often not a whole lot cheaper. I also remember at least one dealer marking up all their new cars in the $17k to $25k MSRP range to new MSRP + $5k, and interspersing them with used of the same model at new MSRP (obviously sticker price is supposed to be negotiated, but it was still kind of ridiculous).

I think for the most part there just weren't very many quality (workhorse model, a-la Prius, Civic, etc.) used cars for sale in my area at the time that weren't 4-ish years old or more or which didn't have more than 64k miles or significant and obvious problems.

And yeah, interest rates on new cars loans were sometimes sub 1%, rarely more than 2%.
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Oh, right, I recall your earlier posts on this subject. That's a fair use case, although it is also fraught with legal perils.
I think the main browsers will continue to dominate (it's tough work to launch and maintain a browser, so there's a high bar to entry). I feel native features will continue to be exposed via the browser, and eventually, I can see web apps eventually replacing their native counterparts. I am personally a big fan of web apps, and prefer them to native downloads that highjack my phone or computer - browsers just need to be careful to manage permissions to intrusive APIs in a sensible manner.
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Why isn't this computerized and super easy?
This kind of misses the point of the beauty where in his original algorithm worked perfectly with pure integer math and only needing addition/subtraction/comparison.
Look at it from a security-conscious user's perspective: I would have to verify that:

1. The concept is sound.
2. It is implemented as described.
3. It is implemented with no bugs.
4. Mozilla is trustworthy
5. Any third-parties Mozilla involves in this process are also trustworthy.
6. All of the above will remain true.

Doing this would take a tremendous amount of both time and expertise, if even possible. If every piece of software I use makes me do this every year or so, I would get nothing else done.

In practical terms, your argument is no better than just saying, 'trust us, we're good for it', regardless of the merits of your tech. And we know Mozilla baked Google Analytics into FF's addon page, so trust is in short supply.
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Autonomous cars are going to kill people, lots of people. They are going to kill passengers, bicyclists, pedestrians etc. It has already happened and will continue. Even though autonomous cars will be (and Tesla argues already are) safer than human drivers the fact that these deaths will be at the hands of machines rather than people will outrage the public. The industry will become even more heavily regulated, and there won't be any tolerance for testing unproven autonomous systems in the wild soon.

Related... it will be interesting to see how well autonomous cars handle mechanical failures as they (and their tires) age. Good drivers really distinguish themselves in the moments where the inputs and behaviors that are expected do not occur (ex: tire blow out).
I don't meant to conflate corporatists with libertarians - just that they tend to come to the same conclusion on these issues.

And looking at the American political landscape, there are far more dyed-in-the-wool anti-human corporatists holding power then there are libertarians.
Why? There's no particular requirement that all submitted stories be in text form.
Let's forget about statistic. AV doesn't make your system immune from risks, but it's a good check. Perhaps going extreme, some vaccines are not 100% preventive (there are many that do). I download a file, run file check, and if I am still not convinced, I go to Virustotal to get more feedback. From experience there were a few malicious one passed by most of the AVs, because many AVs determine maliciousness based on same algorithms.

I get the idea that we should ditch an AV if vendor sucks at producing and maintaining the AV software, because that's literally inviting for a thief to stop by. You are better off reducing the risk exposure. But there is still a value to have one.

As with any software there are bugs. It just so happens Edge is shipped with Windows 10, and is also made by Microsoft. So should we give up on Chrome / FireFox / Opera because they also contain vulnerabilities but are made outside of Microsoft, which means we have another update schedule? No, because people value other browsers and most importantly Chrome and Firefox updates are so frequent we feel safe. If we assume AV vendors are as responsible as Chrome and Firefox developers, constantly pushing software updates so security bugs are fixed in no time, then why should we reject something that can be helpful?

How about Windows Defender? It's built-in, but doesn't have 100% successful rate in independent testing, and even so those are just samples that aren't like WannaCry, popping up out of nowhere.

So being able to defend the basic attacks is good enough. What really sucks is people are paying a lot of money for basic protection (and even more for the "Internet suite" and bundled with VPN etc). This is a true ripped off, but whether one is computer savvy or not, we can't take out a screw if all we have is bare hands and nothing else (nothing around you but on a lonely island without trees or plants or rocks but water and dirt). You can try by breaking the wall or the plank, but it would be a painful task. So take your risk. I won't stop you.
The problem comes as you get streets such as this just off major roads being used as cut-throughs: http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DXHF2G/terraced-street-in-hillsboro...

Those roads can barely handle the traffic they get because they are so narrow, so people using them at speed to avoid more suitable roads is a problem. It's:

* less safe for residents (inherent to more traffic, but especially so given how close the entryways are to the road), and, for better or worse, there may be children playing in the street

* makes it more dangerous to park there (risk of damage from passing vehicles)

* less convenient to park if you have to negotiate heavy traffic

* adds unwanted noise - typical residential traffic volumes/patterns aren't too bad, but I wouldn't want heavy traffic passing by just outside my front room.

Its negative connotation is well-earned IMO (especially as _anecdotally_ many of the drivers looking to take advantage of such routes drive at excessive speeds for the road conditions). In a lot of cases, the volume of traffic on those roads SHOULDN'T increase - they just aren't designed for it.

I'd also question if it is actually more efficient - with how narrow these sorts of streets are, and the likelihood of people wanting to park etc., you aren't going to get a smooth flow of traffic as people try to negotiate round each other.

> It seems to me that these residents associations are trying to push the problem of higher overall road use on to others that don't have such strong residents associations.

It's mostly a term used where there is a larger road in the vicinity, but people use the residential streets to avoid congestion or take a marginally shorter route. It's not really a case of shuffling the traffic off onto other residential streets.
It seems like your prediction is not becoming reality.

I have the following issue: I would like to be able to download a file from the internet (jpeg, pdf, mp3, mp4, etc) without the risk of getting malware on a Windows machine. Or Mac. Or Linux.

Can't be done.

Everything is relying on crappy C code dragging around pointers and sizes, making index calculations, calling malloc and free.
Awesome. My 20 year old car is in great shape but it is getting older and I will need to replace it sooner or later.