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>Indeed, most of the corruption that was (and still is) out there was big name publishers inviting reviewers to lavish review events or blacklisting reviewers that give unfavorable scores - something gamergate seemed to care little about.

Which is the majority of what I saw only weeks after the initial episode. Although it took the movement a few months before realizing that mainstream media outlets were going to lock step with the media outlets being criticized instead of independently researching at all. It's easier for me to cite a source that cites its sources than simply parrot them here [0] [1]. The blacklisting/censoring reviewers is also mentioned quite frequently ,on Twitter, at least. Not sure about on Deepfreeze.

>Gamergate also seemed to fundamentally misunderstand the purpose and form of games criticism - frequently demanding "objective" reviews. As if that's something that's possible or even desirable in an artistic medium.

There is a place for critics, who develop their palettes of tastes, and review games based on that. You can find a critic you tend to agree with and hold their opinions with more weight. The problem surfaces when the critics all have the same (social) biases and aren't reviewing the game itself so much as they are reviewing the game as a form of media from a social commentary slant. Especially when the community doesn't give a shit about the social commentary slant and wants to know about the game. (Which is why Gamergate quickly devolved into a culture war - which is when I stopped following the movement as closely.)

But I disagree with your second point. You can create an objectively bad and poorly designed game. Riddled with bugs with little to no thought of how game mechanics should interact with one another. Throw in a jarring, repetitive soundtrack and poorly written dialogue/story full of typos. If you were able to picture what would be considered a completely trash game with no redeeming factors - you're certainly capable of doing the opposite.

This will be my last post on HN regarding this thread. If you'd like to continue discussion (although discussion around #GG tends to be quite fruitless as anyone with an opinion on it has long since chosen their side) you're free to email me or contact me through any other means I list on my website, found on my profile.

[0] http://www.deepfreeze.it/ethics.php?s=Corruption

[1] http://www.deepfreeze.it/ethics.php?s=Cronyism
The official term is MPU - minimal publishable unit.
I consider the analogy to be does a manufacturer have a legal obligation to not make a safe that can't be broken into by the government?
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I just looked this up and to save others the time, this was an integer underflow bug in the Grub2 bootloader's password protection[0], not Linux itself. Cool example, though.

[0] http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-by...
Brave already comes preinstalled with MetaMask. Still, I think there will always be demand for third party key management like Elph provides.
Thanks for the correction! (And as also noted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8066340 )

Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" seems relevant here.

It's illegal, but it's also murkey enough that it can be made effectively exclusive through permitting delays, etc.

If the incentives were flipped (say, a federal road fund multiplier that scaled with average speed * number of options), I feel like we'd have a lot more competition.

As is, in the contracts I've read, they're essentially "ISP gets a non-exclusive franchise right in exchange for paying local government x% of their fees from the area, and both parties agree that the portion rebated to the local government may not be separately itemized on the bill."

Which sets up some pretty perverse incentives for most part-time commissioners.
no. I probably should.
Naw, the next 0day might rely on Bluetooth being enabled even while the phone is locked, for example. Or even the cell radio being enabled. There's always some vector for attack.

(Even if it's none of these, the next exploit might be "we can decap the secure enclave and read/manipulate data on it with an electron beam")
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Netflix has an internal spot market for compute, letting them use their reserved instances somewhat optimally.
> Redhat have an obligation to make reasonable effort to keep malicious code out of their supported software.

No. read the license terms. For all Linux distro, there is a clear mention that the software is provided as is, and they are in no way responsible for whatever happens with it. Very standard. So absolutely no legal standing and therefore no obligation.
It's entirely possible that the guy the FBI declined to prosecute is this guy: https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/24/8099531/gamergate-jace-co... Roughly the right area and description. In any case, he's a good example of the problem with the whole Gamergate harassment narrative.

Minor details like him not actually being part of Gamergate in any way and his videos being obvious jokes didn't stop the media reporting this as an example of Gamergate death threats against women. Meanwhile, in actual non-media reality Gamergate was split between people who thought his jokes were distasteful but not actually harassment and those who considered them over the line. Then when it became clear he was a fictional character, the narrative changed to one where Gamergate were now threatening him because they'd discovered he didn't really support their harassment of women. Of course, the Gamergate position all along was that he obviously wasn't serious, the fact it was like harassment made him unpopular, and it was still that other internet community sending death threats and harassment. (A community, if I'm remembering rightly, which went out their way to go after a bunch of Gamergate supporters for taking a stand against their harassment.)

The most important thing to understand about Gamergate is this: the entire media (and social media) anti-harassment campaign of the time was primarily about attacking Gamergate and criticism of the game critics in general. Everything else fell by the wayside. All the groups actually doing the harassment went unmentioned. The most powerful, long lasting meme to come out of this fight, "It's about ethics in games journalism", was entirely about crushing the idea that games journalism has ethics problems. About discrediting criticism of games journalism, not stopping harassment or death threats or anything like that.

(The second most important thing to understand is that the media coverage attracted a bunch of hangers-on who wouldn't otherwise have had anything to do with it, and some of them were exactly the kind of people you'd expect to be attracted by that kind of coverage.)
Also the Brave browser, which comes preinstalled with MetaMask.
I expect the rationale is that once governments have total access to phones, criminals will stop using them, and governments will still have the access.
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I liked this one https://www.rithmschool.com/courses/git
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this write is so lame, you're a ponzi scheme. do you even know how central banking works? fractional reserve banking? keynsian vs austrian economics?

oops. ignorance is bliss.
Was just deciding whether to order smartcards with 4096 RSA or NIST ECC curve support. Whilst not directly related to this, I feel RSA has been examined more closely than ECC given it's long history now of use. Not sure I fully trust the NIST curves, or have faith that ECC implementations have been thoroughly tested.
Details about the “Lazy FPU” vulnerability
When I was doing forensics for the police, 9/10 times if we had an iPhone we couldn't get into there'd be an unencrypted iTunes backup. Didn't even need to go to Apple for it, it's all local.

Wouldn't get everything from it, iirc it's photos, bookmarks, contacts and documents as well as some app storage (WhatsApp, notably).
Yes! I'm very curious if they've managed to figure the actual vulnerability. It's possible that they have, but they're concerned about similar bugs leading to the same situation, so they're just sitting down the whole approach.
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Nice. Very Vermonty.
Location services and iCloud backup would cover most of it.
and what is your "not so ponzi" fiat money backed with?
The Verge article called the fee out. It's $4.025B, and Comcast offered to pay all of it (Disney & Fox's portions) in addition to the premium cash offer.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17457244/comcast-21st-cen...
That quote jumped out at me too.

Like, does he actually believe Apple is using "privacy for their clients" as an excuse to accomplish their true goal of protecting criminal activity?
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I was happy with how this went and the coverage has been nice.
>Americans don't have a monopoly on intelligence.

Sadly, we seem to be quite deficient in that department compared to other first world countries...
I was thinking about starting a forum for independent researchers, but looks like you beat me to it.

Can't say I'm a fan of websites that require JS to do anything, unfortunately, but I'll check it out more closely when I get the time.
It's not just that the eye is less sensitive to chroma.

Although your 4:2:0 subsampled 1080p video only has 540x960 pixels with chroma information, the decoder should be doing chroma upsampling, and unless its a super simple algorithm it should be doing basic edge detecting and fixing the blurry edges chroma subsampling is known to cause. I posit that even with training, without getting very very close to your screen you wouldn't be able to tell if the source material was subsampled 4:2:0, 4:2:2, or 4:4:4.

The truth is that generally people DO subjectively prefer high resolution source material that has been downscaled. Downscaling can clean up aliasing and soften over-sharp edges.

People who watch anime sometimes upscale video beyond their screen size with a neuron-based algorithm, and then downscale to their screen size, in order to achieve subjectively better image quality. This is even considering that almost all 1080p anime is produced in 720p and then upscaled in post-processing!
At the interview, ask how long before they plan to make a decision. If it is longer, then you are likely their 2nd choice as the first one (or two) did not pan out.

I worked for one company that could not seem to schedule an interview before a resume was 2 months old. They missed out on a lot of people, although the company was very stable.

I agree with Epiddy that government can be VERY long process. If you are unemployeed, I would not set your heart on a government job, as you might starve.
Buy an iPhone, and get a seperate sim card for it. That way the phone is yours. And if you are careful, it shouldn't cost you more than a 1-digit sum, and even that would only be to cover postage when you hunt down a cheap offer.
Could you please elaborate?

If I understand correctly what is written here, observingicle causes it to increase its, and its peers, state. Wouldn't this let you to decide afterwards if you wanted to again observe it and invert the state if you wanted? Or does observing break entanglement / an inverted particle doesn't get inverted back after another observation?
That's not even a complete fucking sentence.
That's because those who won the 2016 election don't want you here. Indeed it is cruel to say, but I sit here with action after action trying to stick it to "foreigners" in every way possible. And there's nothing I can do to change any of these policies, other than vote in every election I'm allowed in.

We used to want people like yourself. Intellectuals, science-minded, entrepreneurs; we used to cater to excel and bolster all of us. Because if we enticed you enough, you'd want to be a citizen here, live here, and continue the hard work and bring us all up.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to get while the getting's good. Ive studied enough history to see how these current actions will likely take us. We already have an "enemy". Its being set that the G7 that it's G6+1. I just hope if things get too bad, your country will consider allowing us in (wherever that is).

Maybe there's something we all can do to turn this around. We don't have the numbers, but we have intelligent people here on HN. There has to be some sort of solution between all of us.
If there's a need for a human to take over (e.g. traffic jam dispersed and the car can no longer drive autonomously), that's not full autonomy (Level 5), that's weasel-autonomy (or, more charitably, Level 4): "autonomous, autonomous, auton-gotcha, not autonomous, that block straight ahead is your problem now." That does sound familiar, doesn't it.
The investment bank syndicate often takes on some or all of the risk of a failure to sell a new issue. Also, in the equity markets, there is a legal and regulated way for the syndicate to prop up the initial price to maintain the target sale price. So, even with an ICO, the role of an investment bank syndicate may be necessary.

Also all of the equivalent safeguards against insider trading, self-dealing, and restricted transfer protections would need to be created.
Considering the article is from the press office it is full of buzzword bingo words and meant to be that way. The real article (haven't found a preprint yet) should be far more scientific and worthy of notice. The 'internet' won't benefit directly, today, but might somehow in the future.

As with all fundamental research: we don't know yet. Let's not be judgemental beforehand.
It's also simply not practical to apply these mechanisms to guns without making them less safe or reliable.

A gun must always work when needed for protection - it's not like software where it's ok to be "down", rebooting, or having battery troubles some of the time.
The floodgates to open soon?

>Though it’s unclear whether Equifax’s bottom line is being affected, news agencies across the country have reported a flurry of class action lawsuits and small claims court cases against the company in recent months. A Stanford University student made headlines nationwide when he created an online application that streamlined the process to file against the company, and some cases reportedly have been resolved against the company for up to $10,000 each.
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An issue which wouldn't exist if Apple provided access for people with warrants.
> While these phones could lead to arrests, the likelihood of them leading to the rescue of a child is negligible

I think you're ignoring some aspects of how the US criminal justice system works. Arresting a child abuser is one thing; they have to be tried in court and found guilty by a jury/judge. Criminal cases especially have a high requirements to prove guilt since they are very serious charges. So even if unlocking the phones may not help save actual children from abuse, I think what the guy means is that you can get more convictions for these child abusers who have been arrested and prevent future children from being abused.

Note that I'm not stating an opinion about the ethics of reducing security of phones, only pointing out what the person meant when he said that doing so prevents child abuse.
> As I see it right now you're getting capped on bandwidth, total data, and absolutely no guarantee about any of it working.

You're also paying a fraction of what it would cost to get a line with an SLA, even in a commercial building with several competing providers.
Devuan 2.0 is a Debian fork for Linux users who want to avoid systemd
Not at all. Instantaneous communication can be used to send messages back in time, so it would be a much bigger deal if that was expected.
lame, pointless, ignorant

there's nothing more transparent that bitcoin. if you don't believe simply don't run a full node and enjoy your fiat money and the cycles of boom and busts(the real ponzi).
The Keynesian economics is a money printing from thin air and never ending debt. good luck with hoarding fiat money.

the argument that gold is not volatile is childish, writer doesn't understand basic concepts (senseless copy pasting from wikipedia etc), when only a few hands were trading gold in its infancy, it must have be super volatile. simple math and economics that the writer can't comprehend
Yes, the GUI apps are user-friendly (though UNMS requires a VM and Unifi Controller requires Java; they should merge these 2 which they are doing I think, ditching the latter).

If you want to, you can SSH into the machines. The disabled bash completion will bring you back to the 80s and reevaluate how "user friendly" it is (it does work as root, but then you gotta be root all the time...). I call this part of user-friendliness, and not in a positive way.

Regardless, I'm happy with the Ubiquity gear I got. The entry level hardware is cheap yet good quality. If you want the more advanced stuff, that's expensive though. 16 port managed switch with PoE costs nearly 300 EUR while 8 port costs 100 EUR.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack.

General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.

General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen... tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?

General Jack D. Ripper: [somewhat embarassed] Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.

General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.

General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.

General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence
https://github.com/janeasystems/nodejs-mobile Is the most promising project right now! Secure Scuttle Butt is using it to get running on mobile.
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No, not really. I started studying computer science in 1995, and functional programming was presented as a very nice concept that never worked out because the performance was terrible. I heard about academic types loving their functional languages, but I had never seen it used in any practical projects, although there probably were some out there.

LISP was the best-known functional language, although I learned a bit of ML in one of my programming language classes to give us a look at what a functional language looked like. The professor was terrible at explaining functional programming, so I didn't understand it until many years later when I slowly started doing functional-style Javascript and then learning Elixir.

Functional languages really shine under parallel-processing conditions, but that wasn't a big thing at the time. Processors could handle multiple threads, but there was only one core, so only one thing could run at a time. Systems with multiple cores or multiple processors were rare and expensive.

C++ was the dominant language then and all multi-threaded programming (at least all the multi-threaded code I ever saw) used threads with locks to access mutable state shared between threads. No doubt there were some people who had better knowledge, but virtually all software developers at the time were either doing single-threaded code or writing C++ code using threads.

Many languages we use now didn't exist then, and we just knew what was widely used at the time. Haskell existed, but I had never heard of it. Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Go, and Rust weren't around. Javascript was just introduced that year. A lot of stuff was written using languages like C, C++, Ada, and (ugh!) Visual Basic.

It wasn't until many years later (after 2010) did I slowly learn about immutable state and functional programming. Languages had evolved a lot in that time and functional programming overhead no longer mattered now that processors had become so much faster and had started sprouting multiple cores. We also have fastly more memory at our disposal, so we don't have to write code anymore that is super memory-efficient at the expense of everything else. Functional languages aren't performant enough to write an operating system in (and they usually don't allow manual memory management), but they're just fine for most applications.

Functional languages and the concept of immutable state have really flourished since 1995, now that the environment is much more favorable for them. Faster processors and more cores made functional programming and immutable state much more practical to use. I'm so happy that this is the case, because writing multi-threaded code with a shared mutable state was really tough.
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I can't say in the particular case of surveillance.

One generalized answer to your question is:

"if the cost is unethical" then paying it really isn't on the table for ethical people.

So the cost of doing something unethical is infinite, assuming that you need to remain ethical, and any benefit is necessary smaller than the cost of losing your ethical status.

You might not agree that ethics are pragmatically important, but the point here is that it's possible to do a utilitarian calculus even if you don't know fully understand the possible upsides.
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