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Genymotion is a breath of fresh air for Android development, much needed.

Recording screencasts is a big win. It was previously too slow using emulators or screen cappers. There are a few Android apps that do it directly on the device, but you have to root it to run them!

Also, it's great for co-workers who don't have an Android device. e.g. we're porting to iOS app right now, and the iOS developer can see Android features without having an Android device.
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I would talk to EFF. If the state can be sued over Internet policy, my best guess is that the EFF lawyers know how feasible it is.
Dammit, already taken:

http://hugo.neocities.org/

Would have been such a nice fit.
I've only visited LA once for about 3 days. I saw at least 12 different Model S'.
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"Lets be frank here, Political limitations are the only thing stopping government agencies from shooting Laser Microphones half-a-mile away listening to your entire house. (4th Amendment, Illegal Search)"

Why go through all the trouble when they can turn our cellphones into listening devices?

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142412788732399700...

"We know that anything pulled out of the NSA system is recorded and checked by the FISA courts, to ensure that Americans were not part of the targets."

That is absolute bullshit! Have you not payed attention to the latest leaks on XKeyscore?
Something tells me we will soon learn that the judicial branch purposely creates loopholes for the executive branch to exploit.
Oh, yeah. Totally agree, I must have worded it poorly. I'm just saying all theories are technically "speculative" until we can replicate cognition, but his quantum theories sound unnecessary and hand-wavey, akin to "The Soul".
Extraditing people to US for computer crime is like extraditing to Iran for insulting Allah.
Does it taste like despair?

Seriously though, that's always my first thought when I read a story about something like this. It's like my brain can't help but cringe of the thought of eating something made this way, even if it's irrational.
Indenting with tabs (that are displayed as wide as multiple spaces) would make the first scenario much more noticeable.
I think you misunderstand who the average SUV buyer is. Most people never use an SUV to it's potential. That includes the roof racks. They basically replaced minivans.
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Shouldn't Google acquire them already? It's surprising and quite unnatural to see other companies make faster emulators than Google themselves (which may not be because Google doesn't have the technical expertise to do it, but because they're not that seriously committed to doing that, and they think the current emulator is fast enough).
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Isn't it perjury, a free pass to the jail?
A better analogy might be someone selling armour piercing rounds marketed as "cop killers", espousing their efficiency at getting through standard issue police vests, with a tiny disclaimer that you shouldn't kill cops.
I wanted to do the same exact thing except in a browser:

1. fire up a JS-based shell

2. implement basic commands like mkdir, cd, ls, rm, touch etc. (using HTML5 FileSystem API)

3. implement extra command 'edit' that fires up an Ace session on target file

4. allow to mount Google Drive folder via JS API

5. allow to mount Dropbox folder via JS API

I did 1-4 and found out that Google Drive was not a good candidate for this project (too many files of unexploitable format + no real tree-like structure).

Then I lost interest and motivation. Should have inverted 4. and 5 :-/

Please, someone without a demanding day job and/or children, implement something like this! It would be a perfect companion to a Chromebook (offline).
I love Top Gear, but you're getting your timeline mixed up. It went like this:

1) Tesla loans Top Gear a Roadster'

2) Top Gear does a show showing it running out of power and being pushed back into the garage at the track and they state that its range is comically low.

3) Tesla claims it was all staged

Whether or not you believe Tesla or Top Gear (and it seems relatively clear that Top Gear probably did stage it) the timeline does not show a shift in attitude from Top Gear regarding Tesla. They've always made fun of it.
He's citing this as a potential cross-authorization vulnerability, not SQL injection.

The form he's demonstrating is a common misstep in Rails. Instead of writing something like:

current_user.apartments.destroy(params[:id])

The programmer wrote:

Apartment.destroy(params[:id])

Meaning that the apartment lookup is not being done within the context of the current user, it's global. This means an attacker can delete other users' apartments with crafted URLs.

When I'm testing Rails applications, I always grep the source for something like:

/[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9_]\.(find|destroy|...)/

To find vulnerabilities of exactly this kind.
Worth a repost here:

http://thetrichordist.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse...

So far I haven't heard a good answer as to how artists, musicians, and other creators will get paid in this new world.

Usually people just toss out buzzwords like "micropayments," which are "magic happens here" answers, or are ignorant of the economics of the industry. That talk explains it well.
I know the PHP/PDO way to do it, is prepared statements.

I'm not able to see why the parent's suggestion to just escape the strings is not a valid solution from a security perspective.
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A little something we needed ourselves, so we put it together over the last few days. Would love to hear your feedback!
Yes the design page is interesting. Implementing as a library not a command has uses in odd environments too, have used parts of llvm in other projects as libraries.
Well, here is mine: https://github.com/piranha/gostatic

Unfortunately it has no pretty documentation, only README on Github. On the other hand, Hugo seems to have a bit more hardcoded configuration, while gostatic was written with 'whatever you want' idea in mind and is (maybe, I just skimmed though Hugo docs) a bit more tech-savvy people oriented.

Anyway, it would be interesting to compare performance. :)
Build your solution suitably decoupled, such that if you lose access to the API you can easily switch to another provided. Ideally build solutions across two competitors services such that if you get any surprises it's clear that your solution works / users are able to migrate to the alternate provider.

For authentication I'd argue in some ways it's better to provide the option of third-party. This means users don't have to submit credentials to you. Given most people (against advice to the contrary) use the same username and password for most sites signing up to an unknown company's service feels riskier as they're then giving that company their credentials, which someone may then try on other sites - having a token which allows them to sign in with their Google/FB/Twitter/etc account saves this worry / only requires the user to hit an "authorise" button.
No, it's not. Example: Netherlands. Illegal weed is way, way cheaper than the one you can buy in any coffeeshop.
> IIRC, I read elsewhere that they can only store data for the last 24 hours.

the XKeyScore slides are 5 years old. who knows what they can do now.
From barrier to entry I mean the browser itself. Chrome is just more convenient and up to date. I am a web dev and if the latest html5 gig doesn't work it might be a dealbreaker for me. Now I understand I don't have to use onion browser as my primary browser, but I just don't use more than one browsers, at all. If it's chrome then I use chrome everywhere, phone/laptop, desktop, tablet. Consistency and up to date browser is currently more important to me than my privacy.
How many bank officials that were responsible for even more losses are serving their 67 years in prison?

Money is just money. It's just means of deciding who gets to use the stuff our machines produced. Serious crimes are those that do actual damage, like killing someone, destroying his life or destroying serious amount of some resource. Making money change hands unfairly doesn't warrant life of inprisonment.
It depends what the joke is. The joke about the DB9 and the Veyron is that they are ridiculously cool. The joke about Teslas is that the battery runs out.
Given that "rich" is relative, this could apply to the entire Western world vs the developing world. I'm a middle class American, but to a poor Chinese farmer I am filthy stinking rich and incredibly entitled.
If the US were to apply this same principle to our bankers and white collar criminals then we might have a leg to stand on. As it is, this isn't an argument the government of the United States can make in good faith.
My initial reaction was also "....Wtf? No..." This is just a mathematical function equivalent to Skype's RC4 obfuscation. You can reverse engineer it, it just takes a long, long time to undo it all and all the associated protocols.

That being said, having a unique method to encrypt every program so each one required an equivalently long period of reverse engineering would make it very costly to reverse engineer programs. But it would only make sense in terms of protecting new functions.

Protocols and other components that have to survive over multiple versions could not simply be re-obfuscated once they were cracked (or at least, it would serve no purpose). You'd have to change the protocol every time and make the previous one obsolete to new clients while still retaining backwards compatibility with old clients.
Before David Simon created The Wire he was a reporter on the Baltimore Sun, covering the crime desk. He somehow managed to convince the Baltimore PD to embed him in the homicide department for a year. Ed Burns (who co-wrote a lot of the series) used to work as a Baltimore PD detective, and the technical advisor for the first two seasons was a Baltimore police commander.

A lot of the plots on The Wire are based on actual cases and occurrences. In some cases quite loosely, in others not so much. It's a depressingly realistic show.
I would be put off paying $99 for a lifetime account. These should be available up to 5,000, but users should be able to still opt for the $5 or $45 options.
Thanks for that list.

It feels like in a world where people were generally interested in solving the issues with the drug trade the DEA wouldn't need to exist. It's something that should be solvable.

People will take recreational drugs, so obviously the solution is not to create an organisation to fight that. There has to be a safe source for these drugs that plays nicely with society and the political system. Do you have any good recommendations for information regarding places where this has been tried in earnest?
Also one in Park Meadows where I live. Slightly less weird...
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php isn't going to hold your hand, if you want to write awful code or don't know any better then god help you.

That said, all the mysql_* functions have been officially deprecated and we steer newbies to using pdo and named parameters.
-1 for inadequate comparison to Waffen-SS
This is a fair counter point, but there's very little short of capital crimes that truly (IMO) warrants a pseudo-life sentence in a US max prison. The conditions are horrific by the standards of developing nations, to say nothing of other developed countries.

The fact that our legal system routinely doles out punishments that are not in proportion to the crime is quite reason enough to deny extradition.
I assume you are talking about MorningStar or Boca products. They aren't that bad are they? I eat a lot of red meat. Probably for both lunch and sometimes dinner almost every single day. It's gotten to a point to where cooking a meal without meat is an extreme challenge.
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That's actually incredibly optimistic... it means if someone has to struggle really really hard to get something, they're quite possibly better to teach it to others. The struggle itself imparts a unique skill that those that get it more "naturally" might not have.
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I also speak from my personal experience! ;-)
The director was a 12 year journalist for the Baltimore Sun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simon

Ed Burns worked 20 years in BPD in the homicide and narcotics divisions, then became a school teacher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns
I'm surprised they don't just stick a banner at the top and call it a day.
Yeah, I have that set up and ~/Dropbox works pretty well.

One big place the docs fall down is explaining how it talks to multiple dropbox accounts. Or how it authenticates to any account at all. I'm not nearly as interested in uploading to one dropbox account as 50, or 50K.

The usage case is probably something like an ebook delivery service where you release edition 3 of your "learn trendy language in a ridiculously short amount of time" so you run a script and all 100K previous buyers magically have ebook_version_3.pdf magically appear in their dropbox. There are ebook publishers doing this now. Like Pragmatic. I would imagine they have a tool vaguely like this in their backend system. Or teams of hundreds of bored interns doing it all by hand. Perhaps there's a completely different API for .com bulk uploading. Hopefully we never get Dropbox spam delivery.
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And they force you to have at least one numeric.

Someone spent time and effort implementing this, thinking it must be a good idea. Why?
We eat things made this way every day. Almost every food product nowadays contains synthetic components. This is just a step further.
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Hmmm...I do not know anyone with the mentality of "prison should be as harsh as possible". Prison shouldn't be a "cake walk" either.
Hasn't Veridian Dynamics done this before?

Edit; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_bPobs8T5w
It so happens that I consider HTTPS by default for all users a requirement. A problem which a pro subscription does not solve.
I strongly urge you to look outside your box. When you hear the words 'our world' do you take it to mean "us here in our western paradise"?

Because if you look at North Korea: definitely. If you look at the wars in Syria and Libya: definitely. If you look at the NSA in the USA: oh hell yes. Doubleplus1984, brother. No question about it: you can be taken away and disappeared, in most Western societies, for not thinking like the Party wants you to think. Russia: sexcrime!

Thoughtcrime? You're probably committing one right now, just arguing with a stranger on the Internet.

Look, lets just go away and come back when we're actually really living in a world like 1984, shall we? Or - while we still have the capacity, lets talk about the similarities and what we can do to prevent the downward slide. Because there is very little doubt that we are, rapidly, sliding into the hole as painted by Orwells' warning, and without those of us with the intellect to do something about it actually DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT, we're going to see things get a lot, lot worse.
On the other hand, they ARE mathematicians. Presumably with Phds. Working at some university.

That's enough accomplishment for a Lifehacker reader.
For those that don't know, US is the only country in the world where there are much more reports of male victim rapes than female victim rapes, most of those rapes in prison.
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I think Stephen Hawkins is a great example here. He was an average performing student in his class (albeit a highly advanced course). Many of his lecturers would comment about how lazy he was. It wasn't until his health turned against him that he really started to apply himself. (to paraphrase his life somewhat).

Genius can help - massively. But it doesn't automatically guarantee success.

It's like how Olympic athletes still have to dedicate their lives towards training and competing in their chosen event despite being fortunate enough to posses the right genes.
I don't see the problem. Most of us (mobile developers) don't have the manpower, time, or the money to support the Windows platform. They have a very small market share and their surface platform just tanked, big time. Partnerships and incentives are actually how Microsoft works so it's not unheard of to ask for help. Particularly in the license department. I can't afford to give my staff full enterprise MSDN subscriptions or even just Visual Studio on every machine. Never mind the fact that no one I work with uses Windows and would need that too. If they can give cheaper or free tools and then lower the cost of entry it would really help us support the platform.
I'm struck by the comparison between what Tesla can be and what Apple is now within it's own industry. Who cares about market share when you're making the highest profit margin? Many comments here are regarding BMW's or Mercedes global sales numbers. I'm sure both manufacturers would trade most of those lower margin sales for the kind of cream that Apple sees on every sales of a Mac. I'm guessing Tesla isn't there yet (profit margin wise) but if I were Elon I'd rethink my goal to build an everyman car, unless he's thinking it will be Tesla's iPad moment.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

The USA is a tyranny, there is nothing you can do about these things.
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Fake. https://twitter.com/ScottWapnerCNBC/statuses/364370798892421...
My humble understanding is this is a very theoretical result, unlikely to result in unreversable malware, or improvements in the DRM near you.

Here's a brief summary (obviously, I might be missing a lot of things):

1. "They (researchers in 2001, some of which are authors of this new paper) showed that there exist unobfuscatable functions – a family of functions {f s } such that given any circuit that implements f s , an efficient procedure can extract the secret s; however, any efficient adversary given only black-box access to f s cannot guess even a single bit of s with non-negligible advantage."

That result still holds - one cannot obfuscate any function, and this is proven.

2. "indistinguishability obfuscation: An indistinguishability obfuscator iO for a class of circuits C guarantees that given two equivalent circuits C 1 and C 2 from the class, the two distribution of obfuscations iO(C 1 ) and iO(C 2 ) should be computationally indistinguishable."

Note that this works only for equivalent circuits.

3. "Using indistinguishability obfuscator for NC 1 together with any (leveled) fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme with decryption in NC 1 (e.g. [Gen09b, BV11, BGV12, Bra12, GSW13]), we show how to obtain an indistinguishability obfuscator for all polynomial-size circuits".

Again, this is indistinguishability obfuscator, which works only for equivalent circuits. Also, FHE is very slow nowadays, AFAIK there are no actual deployments of that concept, because of the prohibitive slowness (e.g. a single AES encryption taking days).

4. "Using indistinguishability obfuscator for polynomial-size circuits, together with injective one-way functions, public-key encryption, and a novel variant of Sahai’s simulation-sound non-interactive zero knowledge [Sah99] proofs, we show how to obtain functional encryption schemes supporting all polynomial-size circuits."

This is awesome and sounds like it can obfuscate malware or be used to make actual DRM, but again, the indistinguishability obfuscator is likely so slow as to not be practical these days. Maybe in a few decades?

Obviously I'm not writing this to take anything away from this huge theoretical result - just saying this is likely not what other commenters think it is. And again, my reading of this is very possibly inaccurate.
Portugal is on it:

http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/23/portugals-drug-experie...
Rite-Aid? :)

Seriously though, I wonder what will happen to the prescription/drugstore model if full drug legalization ever took place. It's an interesting question - you can get cocaine or heroin walking in off the street, but you need a doctor's prescription for some Xanax or Aderall? Would everything go over the counter? Is that wise?
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I suppose it's less ironic when you consider that its predecessor's lifetime was cut short, in part, because they didn't charge for their product. ;)
Try googling for the Hacker News usernames of these people who're trying to help you. Very likely you'll find them on Twitter, LinkedIn etc.

E: If you haven't already done this, of course.