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> Does Google harming the reputation of a competitor for it's own advantage not cause some societal harm?

If they're harming the competitor's reputation by exposing a legitimate flaw in the competitor's product, I don't think that causes societal harm, no.

Apple could open up their own Project Zero, if they wanted to. Then you'd have two competing companies making each other better, which sounds to me like the ideal of the free market.
They were assuming 10% would participate, so that's why he had to bump it up 10x to accommodate.
At least, I may agree with the following: bad program infers bad presentation but bad presentation does not infer bad program.

In my career, I've seen many times peer programmers laugh at me when looking at my code and subsequently keep laughing, but in the other direction, as we were rolling over our competitors. Once, at a FANG, I've had the perfect setup where our team was doing the same project than another team. We did it in 12 month with 8 people, it took them 4 years with 18. Both projects started from scratch.

Follows an example of code of my own. This is the perfect example because it looks like complete utter garbage and you will think I'm a beginner and I've never seen any good designed code. You are gonna laugh. While it is certainly not flawless, I'm pretty sure you would like to be on my team with that code if you'd knew more. All the features, to the tiniest nice subtlety are there, it has almost no bug and it's dead simple. Really dead simple. Please note that I code with sublime text which has multi cursor making duplicated code not so bad. So there is a lot of duplicated code. Again, I'm not saying the following code is flawless, I'm saying that despite its flaws, or even because of them, from my experience you'd prefer to be in my team.

https://github.com/IndieRobert/example_code/blob/master/src/...
Perhaps also not get eaten by herbivores, not damaged by bigger animals, humans and vehicles and protected from insects.
I have a friend who works planting trees (small saplings). She says she targets 3000/day.
Isn't this quite similar to the scientific bases that exist on the Antarctic though?

I mean I imagine any Mars colony could be incredibly selective about who to take.
Why build it if the cost is 10K+ to deploy?
It's worth going back to the App Store reveal video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9cKe_Fch8

30% might be high, and there's certainly a case to be made for conflict of interest in the Netflix/Spotify arena, but the App Store is solving a lot of problems: it's a single, universal way to get an app out to every iThing, it manages updates, and there's no nickel-and-diming in terms of processing fees or hosting or anything like that.

I thought it was in that keynote but maybe not: I remember someone comparing a 30% cut to the costs associated with getting a physical copy onto retail shelf, and if I recall correctly it was in the same universe.
That's after they grow up though, right?
I believe Natalie Silvanovich is giving a talk at Black Hat about some of these next week. Silvanovich is a machine.
Yeah. That's the only way you get companies to slow down and do it right. The vast majority of those flaws are completely preventable, we are just not investing in quality as an industry.
That was for the GPS 10-bit bug. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/12/current_gps_epoch_e...

Apple's runs out in November 2019 instead of April.
There is - schedule a meeting (even if it is a 15 min "sync") the day before, so I know I have a context switch coming up.
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Chinese President’s Cousin Draws Scrutiny of Australian Authorities
I think Paul Verhoeven and PKD might have beaten you to this one.
Many deep space probes in vacuum have RTG's as well (like Voyager), and they can radiate the heat just fine. Also, over time of course the amount of power and heat they generate lessens.
In the comments I replied to, there was no usage of the word 'sold' just 'left' their family home. So, that implies to me, they still have it, and now the couple have at least 3 homes across them. I realize journalists are exceptionally bad at being explicit, and editors were all fired because nobody can afford to pay them, but it doesn't excuse a basic ability to convey an idea with a minimum level of precision.

> If these people were single, or just starting a relationship, would we look at pairs of them as "owning two homes"?

Expand your circle. How many people do you know living completely singly vs having room mates? Most of the people living in the US can't afford to have their own place, and many couples in the US can't afford to have a place for both of them, let alone children. Life is much different outside the ivory towers.
Except this happens all the time. It's the same details you'd provide to a CSR at a call center.
The Story of the Ping Program (1997)
...it's really not that expensive anymore. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20009/cubesat-laun...
It's appropriate _now_ to discuss the shooting; but I'm not really sure it's ever going to be appropriate to turn the Onion's blistering satire into a punchline here.

What the Onion did is a valid, necessary, mildly amusing, but incredibly pointed and powerful criticism of the gun problem in America.

What this article is doing is making that criticism into a punchline in and of itself. That is what is disrespectful.
I read the book reviewed in the link because Alcibiades was such an interesting character in Assassin's Creed :-).

The book is very enjoyable - it's a non-fiction book, but aimed to be readable in the style of a historical fiction novel. The events are all true, but the author takes considerable (and fun) license on the details of the narrative to flesh out the events. Highly recommended, and yes - what an amazing life.
Isn't convection against conduction high school level physics though ? I know it was here in France a decade and a half ego when I was there ...
Can someone explain more clearly how being in a deterministic universe resolves the “problem” of Bell inequalities? It seems like even if the universe were deterministic it would not cause the classic polarizing-filters Bell inequality to seem “reasonable”. In fact it makes it seem less reasonable to me!
All AWS APIs are deny-by-default. Only if a pertinent policy (IAM or resource policy) grants access is it allowed.

IME, the usual mistake many implementors make is that they inadvertently grant too many privileges and often to the wrong audience.
This comment started out good but then stumbled in to some odd critique of philosophy as being incapable of dealing with unknowable things when indeed that seems to be perfectly within the purview of philosophy.

Humes Problem of Induction, for instance, is exactly an example of philosophical practice grappling with these unanswerables.
Taxpayer money shouldn't be spent in funding such competition.

While education systems in west are focused towards collaboration, Indian education system makes them compete against each other like wild dogs.

When will India understand, it's not about competition but collaboration.

We can argue this system creates very few winners and a lot of people feel like losers in this system.

If they made them feel better, they can increase their net education output which would be far better than showcasing any specific rank or endorsing any specific brand like IIT.
No, the golden rule is never build your own crypto. Building your own auth is damn near inevitable unless you are running a fairly simple operation and off the shelf Django or RoR components are good enough.
Got a lot of calls today about phones being down, went to down detector and our phone provider (TDS) had a spike at around 10 AM, Verizon also had a spike. Could this solar activity have caused this?
From the comment guidelines:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
I would think incognito would make it easier to track, if your session persists until you close incognito. Youd be much better off with umatrix blocking cookies and javascript.
I had an imaginary friend. It was a dog. My parents wouldn't get me a puppy, so I just imagined having one.

It was a lot of work because I imagined having to take it for walks (so I would walk around the block), or try to train it. In the end my imaginary dog bit someone (but it was self defense!) and I had to put it to sleep. No wonder I 'm now a depressive adult.
How so?

What can be said with writing can also be said with speech.

But with speech, you also have verbal queues, pauses, tone, inflection, that implies so much more.
Google Assistant on Web
S3 is not a database, but that's not the point. As explained by Capital One, the attacker gained access through a misconfigured web app. This could have happened on any platform (on-premise or cloud), and the underlying AWS services weren't compromised in any way.
Glad to see tech companies holding each other accountable. I hope the white hat hacking between these folks continues. The more vulnerabilities found, the safer our data will be.
I think the flatMap method is pretty solid evidence for my contention the language is really getting bloated now.
No chance of hardcover?
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It's the language of someone married to a business model. The publishers can't exist without search engine indexing and user tracking, but can't make money without paywalling.

We have the technology to subsidize media creation appropriately, in the manner of performance royalties organizations. However, since there's no equivalent of radio station middlemen, it's not a problem that can be solved by an unregulated market.
I think Julia is still too new to really tell. There are some web frameworks for Julia and I think it does have the potential to be as general purpose as Python, versus something like MATLAB / Octave which is dedicated to scientific computing.
Almost no cost except:

- Credit card processing fees

- Hosting the content (yes minimal but can't be ignored)

- Approval process (the people)

- "Editors" that create the curated lists every day

- Developer support hours (technically you get with the yearly subscription but I doubt that actually covers the cost of those hours).

- The engineers building the developer tools (Xcode, the developer portal, TestFlight, etc)
They'll need tunnel boring machines to carve out new space, and enough equipment to bootstrap production of everything. That's a lot, but then they could branch out and groups could conceivably split off.
> If you JS code is upgraded from ES n to ES n+1, you need to polyfill and transpile in perpetuity, otherwise end users with access to only ES n browsers will not be able to run your code at all.

I'm still not seeing the difference. End users of JS applications don't compile their code the same way end users of a C binary don't compile the code.
Honestly talking about him and his companies is very controversial on HN between the for and against, but I would disagree with you; on almost every PR and marketing pieces and talks he tends to take insane shortcuts.
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Project Zero Works for the manufacturer of the largest data exfiltration vector in human history and don’t seem to be making meaningful progress on fixing that.

All their bug reports come with a bad taste in my mouth.
One issue is that apps seem to require much more ongoing maintenance just to continue working on iOS. Most of the Windows software I bought 10 or even 20 years ago would probably still work on my current PC, but apps I bought only a few years ago are no longer working for me or have become unavailable on the app store because the developer stopped putting in continuous effort to keep up with iOS.
I was in an empty pool ride for 45 minutes taking me from inner Boston to the suburbs and I paid $5. Unless I'm wrong, that's below minimum wage so someone somewhere is subsidizing the difference
I think that curated list focuses too heavily on modern philosophy. Does Lacan even belong? Kierkegaard is Christian philosophy, which I don't think belongs in a list of general philosophy resources, except as case studies for spotting logical faults and wishful thinking.

Listing Foucault, but not David Hume, says a lot.

A few surveys would probably be more valuable than trying to slog through most of the primary sources of philosophy.

- Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

- A.C. Grayling, The History of Philosophy

- Anthony Kenny, New History of Western Philosophy (4 volumes but also published as a combined single volume ebook)

- Adam Peterson, A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (3 volumes, 4 later this year, also a podcast[1])

- Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

A common sentiment is that Bertrand Russell is too biased in his presentation, but his survey was a popular classic for many years.

Perhaps also a supplement specific to eastern philosophy, like van Norden, An Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy?

[1] https://historyofphilosophy.net/all-episodes
… and to embarrass themselves? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?q=vendo...
For me it was actually the opposite. I was thinking that only paid workspaces were impacted, which would be mildly funny
I hate web 3.0 features like this, more so for CPU than psychological reasons, but this is textbook useless government overreach; it's the web equivalent of those firearm bills than ban some auxiliary features that looks scary but are functionally irrelevant
Excellent book. I’ve read it a few times now.
I agree. 10 years ago I wouldn’t believe the language would be evolving (mostly improving) at the pace it currently is.
This bill would only apply to social media sites, so unless your 'quit smoking' app was such, it woulnd't have affected it at all.
> No it's not! I can run whatever software I want on Windows, Mac, Android and Chromium.

Just as you can on Safari!
The fastest and easiest way to colonize space is to advance cybernetics to being able to transfer a human brain into a machine one. At that point, you can custom-build any kind of machine body designed for pretty much any environment, saving the trouble of adapting to the new environment through genetics (messy, slow, difficult to test) or bringing the environment with you (terraforming, purpose-build earth-like facilities).

Good on the article for outlining a lot of the issues with this, though I don't think enough time was spent on the mental aspects. We're adapted to live in a certain environment - a different one with different, more boring light, minimal plants, extreme temperatures, no area to roam, etc., is most likely going to be a miserable experience for all involved.
You can be selective about who you take, but only so long as it's a small group. I'd hesitate to call it a proper colony if there's no way they can ever raise children there.
Difference being that one was not actually said by Gates: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...
The Nitty-Gritty of the Equifax Settlement
Sure, but this is a distinction without a difference from the perspective of the end-user.
One might say the same thing about any retail store - that distribution of my product could be done considerably less than what that store is asking for. But the whole calculation is that the value of distributing somewhere is weighed against the opportunity cost of not distributing there.

Apple's < 20% global marketshare isn't anywhere near enough to make the assertion that customers don't have alternatives.
Yes, but that assumes most people try to retain that knowledge longer than it takes to pass the final.
The first time I heard about Foxconn was in a French newspaper, Libération, on the day we learned about Jobs' death. Steve Jobs was on pages 2-3, Foxconn on pages 4-5. I don't know if it was a crazy coincidence or they were just keeping the Foxconn story on hand to publish the next time they had anything else to say about Apple.
According to your link the price is more like $100k+
I didn't know that the payout was capped.

"The fund for paying those $125 payouts is initially capped at $31 million out of the larger consumer fund. So, if more than 248,000 people claim them, each of them will get a prorated payout for less than $125 at first. We’ve asked the legal team representing the plaintiffs in the Equifax proceeding how many people have filed claims so far, but they said they cannot comment on those numbers yet because they are still assessing which of those claims are valid and made by class members."
Check this out as well: forests attract rain! So if they can manage to keep a forest healthy it should help improve the local climate rain patterns and increase rainfall.[1]

1.
Https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/59/4/341/346941
Sorry, this time I really don't get the downvotes. Did I say anything incorrect? If so, please correct me. If not, why am I downvoted?
Outlawing X doesn't mean almost-X is completely fine. That said, none of your examples make much sense (to me).

> - autoplay of gifs vs web videos

Presumably the content is what matters, not the particular compression format. Does it show animated content continuously without being triggered by active user interaction? Yes, so it's an auto-playing video.

> - does Pinterest count as an auto scroll ad

It's primarily focused on a call to action, so yes, it's an ad. Would they show an equivalent popup for ordinary user-generated content that they have no stake in?

> - does an endless scroll populated with 50% real content count as non-ad?

Is there an ad that appears when the user scrolls? I don't even see what this example was supposed to demonstrate.

> The law will just create more headaches for the producers and less innovation thanks to having to fight lawsuits.

More headaches and less innovation in how to sell bullshit sounds like a very positive outcome to me.
Snowden leaks confirmed that gmail was compromised under PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

They now claim its secure again because they are encrypting internal traffic. It's such a high priority and centralized target with so much valuable intelligence that any such claims have to be taken with a grain of salt.
The Business Value of Design
Art Influences One’s Sense of Belonging, Says Research by Yale Med Students
Verge3D 2.13 for 3ds Max is out with better shadows, VR, visual logic and SSR
Headline is speculative and unprovable since "never" is a very long time and there's no reason to think we are any good at predicting the far future.

But otherwise, it's a good argument. It would be much easier to live underground, on the ocean, or in Antarctica, and if these aren't worth the investment, there is much less reason to think the obstacles to living on Mars are worth taking on.
IP Replay. as dumb teenagers my friends and i abused this system for prank calls
Wouldn't they need to compare people born in different size cities but now working in the same city? It doesn't seem that surprising to me that people born in larger cities make more since cost of living is higher.
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An interesting aside: elephants and whales do still have more neurons than us - African elephants have about twice as many.

But fascinatingly, those neurons aren't evenly distributed, and in fact humans have far more neurons in the cerebral cortex than elephants. Their extra neuron count is almost all in the cerebellum. Primates are skewed towards the forebrain, but elephants are far more cerebellum-heavy than e.g. rodents, which implies that a lot of their extra brainpower is being 'spent' on operating their larger bodies.

By forebrain neuron count, humans are beaten only by pilot whales - and all of the other close contenders are also cetaceans. No one quite seems to know why pilot whales have twice the neocortical neurons humans do, but it's still the number that tracks best with observed intelligence.

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/the-paradox-of-the-elep...
Under development medical camera could help cut time and cost of procedures
Perhaps it was a bad fix.
Apple has a bug bounty program, yes? Are they paying Google for these?
Give me feedback that is qualitative, broad, and random
I'm a citizen of a country that is likely responsible for more preventable deaths than any other.

Guilt by association is in fact not completely unjustifiable. But either it attenuates quickly, or every human you know must be shunned for ethical reasons.
Hot take: The Onion's version of this article is a blistering, sobering satire. The verbatim re-posting for different mass shootings [1] makes even more powerful. This article, however, is inappropriate and offensive because it takes that quite necessary critique and turns it into a joke.

The Onion wasn't joking with their article. Satire isn't just about humor (though it sometimes leverages it). This author entirely missed the point of what the Onion did and should really re-think if this is something they want to be associated with.

It's entirely appropriate to talk about gun control and gun reform, all the time - even (and especially) immediately after a mass shooting. It's never appropriate to turn the mass shooting tragedy into a punchline for to get more clicks on your article.

1: https://www.theonion.com/search?blogId=1636079510&q=%E2%80%9...
Apple carefully controls its messaging to its customers. With Google able to disclose software security flaws, and Apple not able to keep up in fixing them (some non-trivial), it puts some control into the hands of Google.
> the entire code base got forked, and the entire org is now held hostage by the dumbass.

> Of course in a Good team, needless dependencies would be weeded out in code reviews, and a Culture would evolve over time avoiding needless dependencies.

Really, the one consistent thing is that if you have a good team, you'll make it work no matter what tech or decisions you make (assuming you're also good enough to know when you've lost and change course), and if you're a bad team, you're doomed to failure, because, well, you're bad (by definition).

I think this article also vastly underestimates the cost and annoyance of the tooling of CI'ing a large number of repos, especially if you have to match or do some kind of cross product on the feature branches. (such as, repo A branch B can only be built with repo C branch F, but all the other repos should be master)
There is a moral/philosophical connection to free speech and the app store pseudo-monopolies (code as speech), but it also happens to be very concrete in Apple's case: you literally cannot tell customers through your app what other alternatives might be used to pay you.

(And before someone comments about how this doesn't conflict with the 1st Amendment, you are obviously correct; but free speech is as much a societal value as a legal construct, and is not limited to the Bill of Rights as its sole champion.)
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If they were, we probably wouldn't be there to see it. :D

Where No Wolf Has Gone Before.
Thanks for your question. Valid concerns.
Our main goal is to save developer's time. For the specific use cases we support (internal tools, scripts, etc), we feel like the convenience and productivity gain are worth the trade-off.

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Nobody forces you to use Apple Pay.