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The one thing the article didn't address is exactly the pushback from regulators and corporations. They will NOT stand by and watch idly as their control is getting pulled out from their hands.

Even if such a network gets invented, I am pretty certain governments will make aggressive laws along he lines of "if your computer caches a trailer of this new Marvel movie, we can confiscate your tech for copyright infringement".

As much as I want the problems to be only technical, IMO the much bigger battle will be in courts and public hearings.
Is this article a joke?

"Last year an employee at an IT services company sent a private chat message to a friend at work worried that he had just shared his sexual identity with his manager in a meeting and fearing he’d face career reprisal. Wiretap detected the employee’s concern and alerted a senior company exec who was then able to intervene, talk to the manager and defuse the situation."

What. the. fuck.

thanks "senior exec" for reading my messages, stepping in and "defusing the situation" whatever that means.

it gets worse:

"Or if you usually touch 10 documents a day and print two and suddenly you are touching 500 and printing 200 that may mean you’re stealing documents in preparation of leaving the company."

of course, that's the only possible logical conclusion.

What a waste of time, if I ever saw this in place as an employee or manager I would immediately leave and possibly sue.
Multiple downvotes on my comment proves my point. There is serious hate on the EOS project. No matter how much you downvote me, EOS is still doing one of the most promising research and development on how to improve crpyto network throughput and latency. Ethereum research on sharding is also interesting, but seemingly there are extremely hard problems to be solveed there with way more complex software than EOS.
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Liberal arts help you to analyze information in front of you and express the outcome of such analysis in prose or speech.
Absolute favorite for me too. ESP32 is now also widely available and pretty cheap for it's performance.

My second favorite ESP8266 hardware are the "Sonoff" brand WLAN mains power switches. I especially like the Sonoff S20 for its form factor, and the Sonoff POW for it's power metering capability. They contain an ESP8266 and can be reflashed with different firmware that does not need the vendors cloud services to work.
It's not unreasonable to ask but it's completely unreasonable to expect that anyone pumping a coin on HN would have even the slightest inclination to be truthful about their position.
And from https://jaycarlson.net/about/:

> Jay is available for engineering services on a contract basis

I'm not saying that's the number one goal here, I think this very thorough and informative piece goes way beyond a personal advert. But it must help (and rightly so).
No hardware wallets? I thought pen and paper were invented a long time ago.
Being an extension also makes you entirely dependent on somebody else's platform, and makes it possible that your work will simply be subsumed by the platform if they think it's important enough. It's a very weak business position to be in and you have to have incredible future looking planning and brand buy-in to make sure you succeed like this.
As if Netflix and HBO have everything you would ever want to watch?
This looks great, I've worked with teams that have their code on GitHub and don't want to move but would benefit from using GitLab for CI/CD.
But the PoW is for small IOT devices right? Or at any case it is for regular users, and does not take them minutes to compute. I cannot see how that is resistant to an adversary with dedicated hardware.
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Thanks, but can you please give a specific example?

One, I do not share this experience, and think the quality issue is overstated (you are more likely to remember the time that a query failed, than when it succeeded).

Two, if you can produce a POC, Google can use this to improve the search results.

As is, the issue brought up by original poster is too vague and unspecified to be of any use.
Mullard

UCL has a space lab named after Mullards, Cambridge has a radio telescope. Was there one person who set up these gifts, there are few other companies who have gifted money to space science. Wellcome is very generous for medical research.

Mullard were taken over by Philips back in 1927, so were these gifts really from Philips?

I'm keenly aware of this since my Dad worked for Mullards for 30 years.
Thanks. The citation describes the existence of vulnerabilities and laments the lack of transparency. While the latter is indeed lamentable, and is known to be a contributing factor in increasing risk, vulnerabilities do exist in any system, including transparent ones (e.g., OpenSSL). Still am not seeing any evidence of malice by this vendor, as "providing a full set of entrenched vulnerabilities, user espionage tools and privacy-evading mechanisms" would perhaps imply. Vendors have a hard time with security. Chip vendors are no different, only the stakes are higher.
How would you know you’re being monitored?
Speech analyser could tell if you're too tired to drive
Isn't this an issue with large scale solar panels still?
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I love the effort and thought put into this, even though I knew Taco's would take the crown.
Don’t put too much stock into these overblown articles written by credulous reporters who trust the self-serving delusional optimism of people whose funding depends on dumb investors believing that this stuff is “just a few years out”. A.I. researchers have been promising grand visions of a future in which computers can do everything for us for 70 years if not longer. In reality they are not significantly closer than they were in the 80s. We just have a lot of cheap, fast, networked storage now and statistical analysis can feel like magic. But creating programs that recognize very specific patterns in totally inhuman ways using auto generated heuristics incomprehensible to humans is not A.I. and won’t replace humans anytime soon.
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Nice. How does it compare to factory boy ?
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I think it’s that there are two fiber companies and one was working on New York to São Paulo and São Paulo to Cape Town. The other was working on East London, SA to Puducherry and they signed a joint provisioning agreement.

It doesn’t read like they got together beforehand to discuss the best way to connect New York and Puducherry, rather they were both making connections to South Africa and chose to connect their new routes together afterwards.

It’s an odd way for an African news agency to write about two major undersea cables landing in South Africa.
No love for the PIC10 series? Perhaps too many PIC already in the review would make it look like a MicroCHIP(TM) press release. I do see some justification in that the 10F series is more of the twenty five cents class not the $1 class. Those things are strangely charming, I had a lot of fun with the now-discontinued 10F2xx series. Adjusted for inflation the 10F3xx are now cheaper than the 10F2xx were, which is cool. Its strange to drink a can of diet coke knowing it costs 3 times as much as the controller you're troubleshooting.

Another novelty of small/cheap controllers is when I was playing with the defunct 10F2xx family I didn't own a meter sensitive enough to measure the current draw at 32 khz clock. I do now, but it was an expensive meter! In the old days cheap EE would wire up a capacitor and run the ckt off the cap and time how long the voltage drop took and use that to create an imaginary resistance and use the measured V and theoretical R to calculate the theoretical current. Of course my cheap meter drew more current than the microcontroller which leads to weird games like sample voltage for a second. Also leakage currents in most caps is larger than the uC current draw oh so much fun fun fun. One trick is to drive a square wave generator thru a diode to a low leakage ceramic disk cap, assuming your reset circuitry is faster than the square wave and you trust the DC response of your scope. Another thing I tried was creating a transfer function where a 100 watt lightbulb and a tiny solar panel generate say, 1 mA, so a 99.9% optical attenuator in front of the cell means 1 uA, right? Of course sleep current is a tiny fraction of that, so you stack a SECOND optical attenuator on the solar cell, say merely 99% blocking, and that should be 10 nA which is about half sleep current, right? You can also play games when your CPU costs 30 cents like hooking up 100 in parallel for $30 to measure 100x average current. Low current is fun if you're ever bored.
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The older Patagonia was very vertically oriented with a compartment divider down the middle. I liked it until I decided it just didn't accommodate bulky items well and wasn't easy to dig things out of. These days I mostly use an Osprey travel backpack which unzips to a single big compartment and that works pretty well for me.

I do have rollers on a couple larger pieces of checked luggage but I only use those a couple times a year.
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The prices are because of the recent big airline mergers (Alaska/Virgin America 2016, US Air/American '13, United/Continental '10, Delta/Northwest '09) [1].

United does its heavy maintenance in Beijing, China [2], so some maintenance issues are inevitable. I find it amazing that their planes even fly, it must be a huge logistical hassle.

[1] http://airlines.org/dataset/u-s-airline-mergers-and-acquisit...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...

(When this Vanity Fair article was written, 2015, American still did major maintenance in the US, but apparently not for much longer: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/08/25/american-airli... )
Pah! Some of us see Catesby's traitors as the villains they were and celebrate with a guy.

Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot...
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Why do "cloud" advocates always jump to the extreme opposite: you manage everything yourself down to mowing the lawn in front of your own custom built DC.

You can buy and colo or even rent dedicated hardware. I've never heard of a DC that didn't offer a remote hands service for hardware issues that requires a physical presence.
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I agree that they go hand in hand. In practical terms however it can take a long time to write comprehensive test cases for legacy code, even if only writing integration and system tests and ignoring unit tests.

A pragmatic approach would be to write a few tests quickly first. Then implement CI as quickly as possible. After the CI is working end-to-end running the few tests you quickly setup before then you can focus on expanding coverage of testing. Basically, I'd suggest writing only enough tests to test the CI first :-) Then once that's in place you can add tests.

One other thing that is important to get right is reporting (at the end of your CI flow, once each build and test run has completed). This will help you keep on top of regression but most notably demonstrate the real value of what's going on with all the work you're putting in now.

You don't have contact information in your profile but I wanted to add that I've worked in the role of a software engineer focused on automation (CI and testing) at large tech companies and I felt so strongly about how important the reporting aspect of this is that I started a web-based reporting service that is growing in usage. Check my profile for details, I'm the founder, contact me with any questions or feedback.
Sorry I should have being more specific. Delivery via the website.

If you purchase in store hey do delivery, but the queues can be an hour on the weekends.

They have services like GoGoVan to get some bulky items home cheaper.
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You are conflating two different things. It is indeed completely possible to have nice looking websites without javascript. Heavy use of javascript is often a huge waste of resources anyway.

The question is only; how much is too much. And considering your competition is Google, that answer is: not a lot.
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I should do that--the two providers in my locale both stink!
I like books that introduce the concepts of good urbanism

{Geography of Nowhere,
Streets are for People,
Great Good Places}

They really opened my mind to understanding structure and place
The Mullard Observatory on Google Maps:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.1673827,0.0332374,1234m/da...
Apology accepted!
Is anyone actually using Intel Management Engine? I understand why Intel would have it as a feature, but the majority of all users, including large companies and other organisation with 1000+ desktops, don't need it or use other solutions.

Besides not being able to turn it of, it actually seems like a nice enough offer, I just never heard of anyone using it.

Is there a demo of the ME somewhere?
When you look at the iPhone X teardown [1], you can see a number of custom Apple chips. And then you scroll down and see the Broadcom and Qualcomm chips that implement mostly the radio stack. What's to say those won't be Apple chips in the future?

[1] - https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+X+Teardown/98975#s182...
That figure (0.5%) would suggest to me like theres a lot more room for disruption.
Where do you see these "more and more ISPs having data caps" exactly, please?

I live in Eastern Europe and I have a legit gigabit connection with no limits. A load of people around here pay $10 for 75Mbps and connections most USA can only dream of.

Assuming you talk about USA... just saying, world > USA.
> Keep in mind that IOTA asked the team to attack Curl, not the other way around. This was planned.

This seems to contradict the researcher's own post [1]:

> We discovered a vulnerability in IOTA after reviewing their code on GitHub in July. We disclosed what we found to the IOTA team on July 14th, and have been in contact with them since then as we discovered new issues and exploits.

Finally, even if Curl is meant as a new, lightweight hash function, it was broken by differential cryptanalysis, not some novel, exotic attack vector. Sounds like it needs a lot of work before it's fit for purpose.

[1] https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...
The "right" way to gamble is to decide how much fun gambling is and how much it's worth to you and then spend that amount. Like for example I could go skydiving for $350 or play a few hours of blackjack and poker for that much and decide to choose the latter. So you spend that much to get the expected result.

Sometimes you bust out quickly, sometimes you make money, just like sometimes you see a bad movie or concert for full price. But as long as the calculation is actually utility all is well. Of course in practice that's hard to do, our brains aren't quite wired for it.
Yes, Ethan was then forced to admit that the IOTA team actually approached him in May.
IOTA made their own crypto, then when got called on it they denied it mattered at first. Then they backed down and said it was intentional! So that they could destroy anyone else using their open source code. When pressed to promise that they had not left more backdoors in, they refused. Of course they had to refuse, these were accidental bugs rolling their own stuff.

That looks totally incompetent to me. Then mention centralized coordinator and they throw fits. Refuse to discuss it because it is only temporary.

But judge for yourselves. Look at this nice comment by Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum) and the childish retorts from the IOTA people:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/72l7kp/why_...
Does not look good for mobile phone manufacturers if it goes through
Whenever this kind of low current stuff is discussed, I like to bring up the master, Bob Pease: http://www.electronicdesign.com/test-amp-measurement/whats-a...

(also the article has reservations about PIC, pointing out its strangenesses and describing PIC24 as underwhelming)
You could have made a fortune selling this to a slot manufacturer in 1982. So why didn't you?
This seems like the sort of thing antitrust regulators should take a long hard look at.
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Civic traditions don't just go away--look at how look at how Christianity still has its pagan connections that were placed there in order to market the religion. Santa Claus and Easter bunnies, lol!
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To some extent, people could also just watch the recording online, and skip through the boring content. When I attend a presentation, it's usually to engage with the speaker and with other people in the room. Powerpoint or not, if the speaker is just reading an overly rehearsed script, I'll probably fall asleep.
Broadcom and Qualcomm own significant patent portfolios covering things Apple would need to produce their own chips
Some great bits on here about effective cloud strategies

http://www.venturi-group.com/podcast/
I've felt like this in the past and it's a tragedy of modern times that so many smart, hardworking people feel this way, not just about software but their careers in general.

I agree that having no users has caused some or even most of your anguish and that needs to be fixed but I disagree that joining a large company with customers will necessarily make you that much happier in the long run. In the short-term it may help and perhaps it's something you should try but down the road you'll start to feel like an inconsequential small cog in a machine and possibly end up back at this state of mind again.
The default presentation structure of PowerPoint makes it very easy to build bad bullet point presentations.
One could argue that means PowerPoint has bad default settings and thus is not a very good tool.
> Google is closing you in your own bubble. It will present to you websites that you already know or that are related to sites that you know.

This is a good explanation for why my friends search results are very different from mine. Google would spin this as individualization.
Is there any way to get around this bubble and unearth fresh results each search ??
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What's your motivation behind this comment? Do you really want to live in a world where some of humanity's greatest achievements are seen the same as random garbage? In any case, current brain scans are crude, but they measure function, not data. It's like putting an ammeter over an ethernet cable. You're not going to be able to see the data flowing over the wire, but you'll definitely be able to tell that data isn't flowing when it should be. You can also physically inspect a computer and see when a capacitor has blown.
Patents mostly. Even if Apple made the chips themselves they would still be stuck paying royalties to Broadcom and Qualcomm.
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Usually computers don't die if they run out of power. Programs can be restarted from a previous state that can be save often enough. So pressure for survival could become an impulse to backup or make copies.
Not parent, but Javascript enables a lot of nasty business and often slows pages down on my not-so-fast work PC, so I disable it. If a website has a good reason to need it (e.g. apps like Google Docs), it gets whitelisted. Typically, one doesn't need a script for displaying text and filling forms.

Let's reverse the question: the task "map this text input to a list of links" could be done in 1998 with no scripts, why is it dependent on JS in 2017?
I saw people repacking bags at Copenhagen airport the last time I went to Germany (start of September), so they could fit everything while still barely scraping in below the weight limit. Multiple heavy jackets and winter boots. For southern Germany in the late summer. It was 30 degrees C in Stuttgart when we landed. Some people...
> It essentially requires you to be ultra clear in your mind about message and narrative

I think this is a requirement (unfortunately too infrequently enforced) for making any presentation to more than a few folks. If a number of people are dedicating their time, brain cells and energy to listen to the presenter, that presenter should make his message as clear as possible. Know exactly what you want to say, write main points into charts, say it.

There are some exceptions -- at scientific conferences it is usually OK to lose all but narrow specialists in the last 25-50% of the presentation, but even then the "general" section should be clear.
It is really nice. Can I use it in a Python Jupyter Notebook?
"Qualcomm is preparing to fend off the unsolicited offer, arguing it undervalues the company, people familiar with the plans have said. Qualcomm will argue that the proposal is an opportunistic move to buy the chipmaker on the cheap, the people said, and it will likely recommend that shareholders reject it."
Do you expect a plan that covers 100% of all problematic points from the get go? As if the current technologies aren't patched to oblivion right now. We can at least avoid the problems we already know exist. That's a progress in itself, wouldn't you agree?

Like with physical exercise, you start off somewhere and you discover solutions to problems you didn't know how to solve, along the way.

Also, I am not sure what you mean. What part of distributing encrypted data and decrypting it with your key on arrival is hard?

Admittedly, it would require a big shift in how we code apps. I am not opposed to that though.
Fiction - Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. Contrasting the lives of a free spirit and a disciplined mind.

Non Fiction - A Time of Gifts/Between the Woods and the Water/The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Recounting a trip from Holland to Constantinople by foot in the 1930's when he was a teenager. A trilogy of books written when he was in his 60's and 70's. An erudite raconteur.
Patents I'd expect, wireless stacks are patented to the hilt.
Does anyone know the differences between Whonix/Tails/Qubes? Which one is better?
They are likely referring to the MLA style manual, which is heavily used in some academic areas, and is often the subject of complaints regarding its highly specific and easy-to-mistake rules regarding citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLA_Style_Manual
Can you provide a link please? All I see in the comments to the researcher's piece is an IOTA advisor threatening a libel suit - a really good sign that they "really care" about their technical issues.
Rarely is it a good thing for the market when two behemoths merge. I hope regulators pay attention and don't just rubber stamp this.
Beans are the best, as they have the highest percentage of fermentable fiber in the form of raffinose. Pectin in apples, pears and citrus, the beta-glucan in oats and barley, and inulin in alliums, chicory and jerusalem artichoke are all good as well.

To get the most benefit, pair your fiber source with a probiotic food. Good examples are unpasteurized sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt, kefir, etc.
Qualcomm is feeling guilty over its anti-trust violations, just like multiple governments have found it to be. This is why its investors/board members want to get rid of it. I would hope that if Broadcom acquires them it also cleans house of Qualcomm's leaders and board.
Ask people to buy what you're selling. It's the only validation that counts.
If malfunction voids all pays and plays, and if the casino can legally not pay what the machine says it should, then it should also be on the casino to track down every single person who's ever put money into that machine and give them a full refund. If a machine has the kind of coding glitch that could cause this sort of payout, who's to say it hasn't been stealing from players all along?