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There is an option: Don't use voice assistants.

That's my option. I trust Apple (and Google for the few devices in my home) to not be listening persistently when they say they don't. I don't enable Hey Google, Hey Siri. That could be naive but as you said you have to trust at some point (even if it's the compiler or hardware).

I can disable hardware at the USB bus level on my MacBooks and other generic OS - I don't use microphones on them anyway. If you really distrust you can wire a headphone in and disable that.

Persistent voice recognition is a rubicon I don't want crossed in my home. It's a "feature" I don't think is needed. DONOTWANT is a signal I want to send to the market, fwiw, by not buying these devices.
Why do you assume this happened in the US?

Chances are good that it did, but to me it sounds like a story that could have taken place in just about any country in the world.
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Thank you for your insight.

Please also check http://fl.corge.net/ because it contains outrageous amounts of outstanding code.
Doctors who claim someone id safe enough to release after treatment don't claim the person can't reoffend either. They say it's unlikely enough that it's not worth spending tax money holding them.

Obviously if someone is found lying they should be held responsible - but the released person reoffending does not make the evaluation willfully dishonest.
> The fact the prosecution is accepting a non-guilty plea in obviously winnable criminal trials is merely part of the "pretending" involved in a scheme to jail people indefinitely and push them into civil trials without constitutional protection.

I was thinking about this, but the numbers don't support this interpretation. It seems like involuntary commitment post-NGRI would be a place rife for abuse, and yet such a tiny tiny tiny fraction of criminal cases go that way. You'd think the number would be much higher if prosecutors wanted to use NGRI for nefarious purposes.
Did you see an Beautifuller River as this here
Actually, I'm thinking of some of my, uh, close-minded relatives who would refuse to eat such a thing out of 'principle.' The only way to convince them would be to trick them for several years.
> But it’s enough to give clients both anonymity and coveted US registration for their planes

Well, a US registration is "coveted" because of fairly reasonable and light regulation for GA (general aviation) aircraft (and the pilots who fly them [1]). Other jurisdictions (EU) are cracking down on N-registered planes based in their territory, though. It's not like the US registration is prestigious or hard to get or anything.

However, as it happens, only US persons may register a plane in the US (don't quote me on the exact terms, IANAL). That means that if you want to operate an N-registered airplane as a foreigner, you have to go through a trust (or some other legal construction, IANAL). That's why there's a cottage industry for those, and I suppose criminals tag along happily.

[1]: The Chicago convention established (a long time ago, after WW II) that every country ("contracting party") would have a register of aircraft, and a register of pilots ("airmen"), and that a pilot of one country with an aircraft registered in the same country could fly in that country, of course, and also all other contracting parties. So, if there's an N-registered plane (i.e., an aircraft registered in the US) based in Europe or Asia, a pilot with an FAA license (i.e., an airman registered in the US) can fly it.

A pilot from country A can fly a plane from country A in country A (of course) and B and C and all other countries (by Chicago convention), but can't fly a plane from country B in country A or B necessarily (there are exceptions) or country C or any other country.

As FAA rules for pilots are fairly reasonable and benign, a good number of (non-commercial) pilots internationally likes to fly on a FAA license in N-registered planes.
Why is the comparison itself absurd? Both are just normal people that work all day. I guess whether the dentist "should" earn 2x or 50x is a matter of values and culture. As such I find it quite reasonable to attribute the high dentist salaries in the US to the population's high tolerance of the high income inequality.
Cue.
I hope Postgres keeps on getting Cooler. Reading all the Change Logs makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside .
The thing is I'm not really too concerned about my home's physical security (I lock the door, but the entire attack surface area is too large for my risk profile to lock it down extensively). If the cops want to search my house, they can kick the door in. If a thief wants to take something they can break a window. If a fraudster wants to trick my landlord into letting them in they could do so. As a result truly important property and information is fully secured using passcodes and pin numbers.
In a system of binary black holes where one is 31 solar masses and the other is 25 they have event horizon radii of 93 and 75 km, respectively. At the point their event horizons start to touch they have a relative distance of 168 km. Each of them have a gravitational potential energy in the other's gravitational field of G m1 m2 / r or 1.22e48 Joules. Both of them together have a total gravitational potential energy of 2.44e48 Joules or 1.36e31 kg (6.8 solar masses).

(In reality the mass contribution due to the gravitational potential energy is included in the "mass", this is just illustrative.)
Oddly, the source code doesn't show up with JavaScript disabled.

Isn't delivering text precisely what HTML is supposed to be so good at? Should a web page about underhanded programs work even without JavaScript enabled?
> Especially in academia, where women and men of astounding intelligence are doing work that in 10 years will probably reshape the industry (put forth, naturally, by breathlessly enthusiastic 21 year old "devrel" folks mis-attributing the work of 2 generations of academia to the brilliance of the senior technical staff at that company).

I may be misunderstanding your sentence structure, so please forgive me, however, the vast majority of research in nearly every corner of science/academia is no longer done by anyone over 35. The large majority of professors have transitioned to grant writing and nearly none of them 'touch the bench' anymore. As such, the near entirety of science today is done by 20-somethings, from experimental set-up through completion, validation, writing and publishing. Professors provide guidance (stress) and funding, not really anything more.
c) to improve profit margins at customer UX expense.
You could also sign up with an email address. I attempted "fuck@off.com", but it said "please use another email". Heh.

Either way by the time I'd got past that level I'd forgotten why I was there in the first place so I'm off to youtube to watch kitten videos.
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I have a workable setup with Gitlab CI - my g1-small runner starts a preemptible vm on GCE with docker+machine, and using node: alpine & coreos its about 5-10s before its ready and running the ci job.
Can you give an example in popular Julia library(ies) that do that, and, very important, to speed comparisons? Are those operations close to the speed found in MKL for example?
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I'd advise you keep a decision diary and a log of all interactions on the subject you have with your boss and colleagues. Even if they are just casual discussions, don't force anything. It's just good to have an honest (no porkies, no revisionism) account of who said what when and a clear timeline.

If you have a good project and things move fast it can get muddled and messy, like a big pile of spaghetti. A lawyer should ask for this if you have it and they will find the situation easier to understand.

So yes, a lawyer would help.
> You don't need to shut off the phone to get into the hardware.

Do you mean row hammer [1] or cold boot attack [2]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
> Nobody is forcing you to use redux, you don't need it

This is hand-waving to deflect Redux from legit criticisms, and is part of the reason I find both responses frustrating and unnecessarily dismissive.

You need to build your own framework for React SPAs because they're intentionally un-opinionated about the pieces you use. Just look at the scaffolding in place for create react app and all the various libraries. I would much rather solve real problems than discuss how to get Immutable to play nicely with Typescript or argue thinks vs. middleware.

"Get good" is a poor response to anyone wanting to see the wildly used/discussed state management solution for React get better, and implies that there aren't good devs out there with experience outside of JavaScript saying there is a better way.

You're right though - there are choices. I didn't like how the JavaScript ecosystem was progressing so I made a choice to not deal with it anymore professionally and it's been a very rewarding career change.
Not sure what we are discussing - if doctors can decide someone as being disturbed and dangerous then they by definition can also decide that they are not.

Now, this is obviously a hard and delicate problem when it comes to the releasing part of the equation.

But the argument that they are either incapable or untrustworthy to make the judgment doesn't fly - why were they capable and trustworthy when locking someone up then?
I could really do with a brief rundown of a what a data processing engine does? Have briefly scanned https://www.wallaroolabs.com/ but the descriptions are both too general and too specific. Let's take the machine learning scenario: what does Wallaroo do for me here specifically..?
People will still use them for riding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KayizT3NWF8
And they love trombone music.
> What more you want?

RMS would like for those users to know about their rights and be able to change the software on their individual devices (whether they know enough to do so themselves, or they use some modified third-party build of the software). Even if people think that not many end-users are very interested in these rights or freedoms, RMS would like them to be clearly established and clearly publicized.
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Keep track of all the hours you're working, when you're working them. On average where I work has 10 hours of on call usage on the weekends. To cope we send out an email chain Friday to have people note any upgrades or planned activities which could cause a call. Better to know what may happen and when. It also helps that two people are on call on weekends. One 6am to 6pm and the other from the international team covers nights.
Bad metric. Also: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3045249/linux/linux-gaming-i...

Valve doesn't really care how many users are running Linux right now —they still have their Windows revenue. What they do care about is how many users would switch to Linux if Valve was for some reason forced to drop Windows support altogether (like, Microsoft goes Apple on their users and mandates an app store). That number may be much higher.

You'd also have to keep in mind what's keeping users to Windows. From where I stand, exclusive titles play a big role. Linux has no exclusive title to speak of. Why would it, that market is way too small for such madness. Windows, understandably has loads. My only reason for still using Windows is a couple titles I can't bring myself to renounce.

Then there are drivers and tooling, but that's just the same kind of network effects, really.
Well can't the same argument be made for cutting costs in prisons and working inmates to the hilt?
While many social evils, like the ones mentioned in the article, can be stopped when we end privacy, profound harm can be caused by doing so as well.

In a democratic society, the end of privacy means we are all fully at the mercy of the majority. When the majority errs, our freedom and even our lives can be lost. Privacy is the check against that unimaginably large systemic risk.

The piece doesn't even look at the other side of the privacy argument. That highly placed opinion makers like the authors of this article can write such a one sided article about privacy just goes to show that we could very well end up in a situation where the majority is steered in a terribly destructive direction.
Yeah, reading the old id and then using the new id seems like the textbook example of db triggers.
Your coworker might be confusing the LIGO observations (widely considered to be some of the most meticulously done research in science) with the BICEP2 early big bang gravitational wave research, which has since been called into question substantially.
The problem arises without the viewport meta tag, and not on all browsers or devices. This site does use this tag, which has become sort of mandatory even when there’s no layout.
Huh? I just ran a color picker over the squares in the article's pic [1]. They're all RGB 0/199-200/0 except for a left mid-upper one, which is 0/206/0 ... is that what sticks out to this tribe?

Then I follow the link to the original [2] chart, which claims RGB values of 80/186/15, except for the odd one which is 97/192/4. But my color picker is showing the same as before: everything is 0/199-206/0.

Something is not right here.

Edit: Here are the two colors he intended, based on the labeling of [2]. I can tell them apart.

https://www.webpagefx.com/web-design/color-picker/50BA0F

https://www.webpagefx.com/web-design/color-picker/61C004

[1] In Mac OS X you can pull up the "digital color picker" from spotlight search.

[2] had to to change to http from https ... should be safe for this context: http://origin.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ring...
The belief that eating carrots improves night vision is a myth stemming from propaganda used by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War to explain why their pilots had improved success during night air battles, but was actually used to disguise advances in radar technology and the use of red lights on instrument panels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot#Night_vision

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#...
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14221848
This sounds fascinating.
No computer system, or even individual computer that has the ability to be turned on, is 100% safe. Every system can be compromised, if the attackers have enough time and resources.

So, your last sentence is true.

However, there are ways to secure things in a practical manner and ways to detect, and stop, intrusions - though those ways look nothing like they do in the movies.

There are practical ways to limit exposure and to make data exfiltration more difficult. There are layers and practices that can be put in place to make it more difficult to do and easier to notice.

They are expensive and they do impact efficiency and may impact efficacy.

The easiest way to avoid data exfiltration is to not store it in the first place. But, that means they are less able to track the consumer and then less able to do effective targeting of ads and things like that.

The bottom line is it is expensive to reasonably secure your systems and the penalty for not doing so is less than the profits being made from not securing their systems in a reasonable manner.

Without larger penalties, this is unlikely to change. Maybe, just maybe, enough people will be impacted to where they actually start imposing serious penalties for negligence or willfully neglecting security. Maybe...
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> I have a samsung, and I generally think that the smart tv aspect sucks

It certainly does, and the remote is awful. I'm very happy that there's a setting to completely turn that feature off (which I did in a fit of rage when the TV I had just purchased for $2000 showed me an advertisement without being connected to a cable box or antenna).
How does it? THere's nothing specifically incompatible between PiP and post-video overlay.
The thing about that is, in practical terms, the prisoners are making a terrible choice by sticking to their guns. They options are:

1) Keep professing innocence and stay in prison.

2) Lie and express remorse, and maybe get out.

3) Lie and express remorse, and maybe get out... and then work to retroactively exonerate yourself, when you're on the outside and actually have some chance of doing so without a lucky guardian angel taking interest in your case while you're in prison.

There are no legal ramifications to "admitting" guilt and expressing remorse. You already have the conviction on your record, so in the eyes of the law, you committed the crime, end of story.

I'm sympathetic to the parole board here, to be honest (which feels really weird to say). While they of course know abstractly that some innocent people are in jail and shouldn't be, they don't have much to go on when it comes to the prisoner in front of them. They have the prisoner's conviction record, without enough context to make a guilty/not-guilty call of their own (and do we even want them making a call along those lines?), and their purpose is to determine if the potential parolee is likely to re-offend. They have to assume the conviction record is correct, or it's basically impossible for them to do their job. And if it is correct, and the prisoner professes innocence, they can't responsibly say that releasing them is a good idea.

Beyond that, if the prisoner is indeed innocent, there is a process for dealing with that outside the parole process. It's not perfect, and it's difficult for a prisoner to gain access, and I'm sure could stand to see some large improvements, but the parole process just isn't the place to get your sentence reduced because you actually are innocent.
Had this happened in my home the headline would have read: "AirBnB host kills man assulting daughter"
> This is also a far cry from your original assertion that Google was blocking Amazon from developing on chromecast. You seem like you have an axe to grind here - why is that?

I bought a Chromecast. Two actually. I refuse to use Google Play Services.

And guess what happened when Google made Chromecast require Google Play Services? I could throw 70€ away, because they had become useless.

So I used open source reimplementations and made my own apps, but guess what? Google decided to obfuscate the protocol and change it every week to prevent that.
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I agree calling it a cell phone sets the wrong expectations, but it's still neat and I think a good application could be an elder care pendant (help, fallen, can't get up, yadda yadda) where close promity and custom base station aren't an issue, but never needing to worry about the status of battery would be a big plus.
It would only make sense from a financial perspective if the market they were entering (think: auto) is bigger than the one they could be endangering (mobile).

Also, would they then be making camera sensors? Or would they just figure Sony (whose profits they'd be stepping on) would just take it? Do they have a 2nd source for this critical component?
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I am not sure I understand, who is supposed to add the TLDs to HSTS preload list ? I don’t see TLDs like .com,.net,.io etc. ever being added so is this an option only for likes of Google who own TLDs ?
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When tech writers write about things they don't understand, they tend to omit all the caveats, like "cripplingly short range" and "probably illegal to operate as a consumer device due to RFI".
Battery-free wireless headset would be a better name I believe.
> when their own government ramped up their control over their own people

My solidarity with those resisting oppression is thicker than blood, while my loyalty to those who do not is more of an outer space kind of density. It's all the justification I need to speak freely about anything I see.

As for "proverbs", while we're picking cherries:

> Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Wow!

Great explanation. Thanks!

I just can't start to fathom the complexity of these instruments.

Also... how cool that you get to work on such interesting field and with such cool "lab" devices!
Not that I disagree with anything you’ve written, but you’ve fallen into the “X sucks but I offer no alternative” trap.

What is your suggestion instead of DNSsec? DNScurve? No DNS security at all and rely on TLS and certificates? Other?
If you are really interested, read this ArsTechnica article [1]. Interesting tidbit [2]. This makes it far superior to even chip+pin. You have to enable TouchId to use Apple Pay - there's the 2FA which doesn't requiring writing it down. It never sends the real cc number - no way for the waiter to even see it. It's a shame it's not catching up. Even in a tech-savvy city like SF it's adoption is abysmal.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/how-mobile-payments-...

[2] On top of that, Apple has introduced tokenization into its payment system. Like Google Wallet's Virtual Card, this obfuscates the user's actual credit card number, but it does so using a security standard developed by various standards groups and big-name card networks like Visa. It all happens without having to go through another bank as an intermediary supplier of a virtual card.
NS-NS collision, everything doesn't disappear into an event horizon, wouldn't they deform and maybe some mass gets ejected, so would the impact event sound more complex/irregular?

It would be cool if we could hear a NS-NS collision of sufficient masses such that we could hear a BH being born for the first time.

Will we reasonably ever hear a supermassive BH collision? I would assume their loudness to rarity ratio is just too low.
1) Plurality not majority.

2) The end of privacy means you are at the mercy of a minority not a majority, possibly a minority of one.
That reporting is completely factually incorrect [1]. There is no evidence that the tribes are unable to distinguish colors or are able to see colors that other people can't.

[1] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18237
Who is going to be pay for the raised cost then. Government tax?
Why don't you think that lab-grown meat will satisfy meat lovers? Lab grown meat is still biologically meat.
Am I the only one who wonders how what the actual difference in suffering is in free range vs. factory farming? There might be a lot of projection going on - people imagining themselves in the same circumstance as the animals and missing the mark because of the differences between our sense of life and that of other animals.

As an example, I once spoke to a person who thought the movie _The March of the Penguins_ was horrific because the penguins just stood there week after week in the freezing cold doing nothing. That may be perfectly fine for a penguin. It might even be like what a adept meditator would experience in a life of meditation.
Looking through the different approaches on the list, I am missing one large one. Fishermen are currently throwing away a majority of caught fish because people only buy a very small selection of species (which also differ between nations). We could more than double the amount of fish meat that get eaten without changing the number of fish being killed, and yet for mostly cultural reasons we don't.
Even if people install your free app, it does not mean that they need it
Edit: actually, no, it doesn't, it misses much of the text.

Reader View in Firefox 55 works fine.