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I support more strict laws against marijuana.

Why? To give the IQ ≤ 100 voters something scary but harmless to criminalize. We know what happens when you criminalize pot, and it ain't that bad.

Create a punishment vacuum and they will cook up some mad new criminalization scheme, as surely as the dog returns to its vomit. The FSM only knows what insanity they will foist on us. Maybe they'll recriminalize condoms, it got so many votes last time. Inflation busting is always popular too, nearly made FDR president for life.
>One thing I would strongly recommend you to do anytime you visit a page where you want a little more security, is opening a private navigation window and using https exclusively. Doing this single-handedly eliminates attacks like BREACH (the latest https hack).

As far as I'm aware, it would not mitigate BREACH. Can anyone shed any light on why it would?
Linux kernel development is also primarily[1] done by paid engineers

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012...
Actually, I think there is something about the cold logical mind that deals with logical computers that is more likely to come down on the legalization side.

If we say that legalization is rational and its irrational emotional concerns that keep it illegal, it would make some sense, right?

See, when I talk face to face to people who are against it, they usually accept all the logic to legalize it, then say something like, "well, yes, but I just don't like the idea". They then shut down.

So, I do think there is something in it. Not universally, but I reckon there is a correlation.
Weed is hard to study because it's a schedule 1 drug. Change that and you will have a massive surge in the amount of studies done on it. It's safer than alcohol, we know that much. Not that it should matter. I'm an adult and should be able to put whatever I want in my body.
Did someone post this to Reddit yet? This guy should get the bounty.
For number 115: by moving the bigger piece side to side you spin the two wheels. Each wheel spins the same amount but in opposite directions. Shafts attached to those wheels can be used to drive components that need to move equally but in different directions.
Yeah, I suppose you do have a point there...

Nasty way to run things, no?
That was certainly an interesting read. The costs of things is quite a conundrum in my opinion too... Photoshop - $600, yet many people are preferring to use apps on their phone that provide just what they need (colorization, liquify-type filters, cropping, etc). But back in the day there wasn't that much choice (and I guess that left piracy to fill in the void).

The other weird area is the app store: 99 cents (and freemium) is a model that depends on MANY people getting your app, otherwise it's very hard to make a profit. People don't mind paying for quality, but the low cost bar means everyone double-takes when they see an app for $5.99... yet on PC that would be very low for even an indie game or random trial-type-software. Also, app store discovery = major problem... but that's a separate issue lol.
They're not "denying him the reward". He demonstrated the vulnerability on someone's actual account. They can't pay people to fuck with other people's accounts. That's not what bug bounties are about. Only on a message board is this hard to understand.
Thank you for posting Snow Fall. Simply stunning, both the story itself and how superbly presented it was.
>'Technical people' are just as (if not more likely) to be biased than ordinary people.

[citation needed]
I do. I think there's lots of good information on Yelp.
How didn't he make a good faith effort? It seems that a language barrier may be part of the issue, no?
Looks like the tide is really turning on legalisation - more and more political rats are turning over and claiming they have always been in favour of legalisation. Tacky, but still a sign of progress.
Neighbourhoods change over time and we have to be comfortable with that, but we also have to seriously consider what the long term effects of displacing residents are. If there are other obvious neighbourhoods people are able to easily move to, then that's the best case situation, but it's troubling if there aren't, and all too often I find that people hand wave at that problem and say that people will just go somewhere else, but don't seriously consider the effects of displacement.
Really. What has Apple ever done to make you think they value privacy more than say Nokia, Twitter, etc? Or, Aside from the fact that they don't do ad supported services, even Microsoft or Google?

The only thing I see them doing is deploying a allegedly end to end encrypted messaging system that rather clearly isn't[0], and participating in "PRISM" while loudly asserting their system is secure. I'd actually say this puts them in a worse position than say Google or Microsoft, since neither of them ever claimed to provide end to end security and in the case of Skype admitted as much in their ToS.

[0] http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/icloud-who-h...
They wouldn't paying him to violate the terms ... and it's not like Facebook has any problem with changing a user's privacy settings without permission - except I guess we probably somewhere in the agreements agreed to allow that, or not hold them accountable - probably both..
While those uses may be ``legitimate'' in the sense that they enforce social norms, it is important that users are able to use their own discretion; laws exist---where appropriate (and sometimes not)---to help deter such things, but a citizen has a right to disobey that law if they so choose. If Apple decides to implement this technology, they are choosing enforcement before any legal process: They, or whomever is controlling such an anti-feature, are acting above the law, because these devices so heavily influence their users' lives.

Lawrence Lessig goes into the concept of social norms and the dangers of this type of enforcement in Codev2 (http://codev2.cc/); he summarizes it as follows:

> Thus, four constraints regulate this pathetic dot—the law, social norms,
> the market, and architecture—and the “regulation” of this dot is the sum of
> these four constraints. Changes in any one will affect the regulation of the
> whole. Some constraints will support others; some may undermine others.
> Thus, “changes in technology [may] usher in changes in . . . norms,” and the
> other way around.

Who decides what is and is not a ``good'' time to use this anti-feature? The RIAA might want this feature enabled during concerts, for example, and try to compel Apple to do so---DRM in the real world. This is a slippery slope that one should not go down.

> [...] stopping cameras in a locker room or other place where one has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Sort of like I have a reasonable expectation when using my personal devices?
Budgeting and launch costs are probably the biggest reasons.

Kepler, for example, has already used up its budget to build, launch, and operate the telescope for several years. Even if free replacement hardware was available there may not be enough money to launch it. Also, the way most spacecraft are built is as one off prototypes, so building another copy, even if all the spare parts were available, is a very non-trivial endeavor. Even if it didn't take as long as building the original it would still be fairly expensive just to go through all of the necessary testing and integration steps.

The end result of all of this is that it rarely makes sense to spend the time and money to refly a spacecraft and instead it usually makes more sense to simply forge ahead and seek funding for a follow-on mission of a new design.

Here's a few case studies. The inaugural launch of the Ariane 5 rocket failed, which resulted in the loss of 4 "Cluster" spacecraft which were designed to study Earth's magnetosphere (a loss of about $370 million in hardware). However, ESA decided to fund replacements and they built 4 new satellites, making use of flight spares and extra hardware to save on costs, and then launched the new satellites on 2 separate Soyuz-Fregat flights. However, it still cost almost as much money to launch Cluster II as for the originals, so this was a rather heroic effort on ESA's part.

In 1999 the Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) spacecraft was launched, shortly after launch there was a malfunction that caused a loss of the main science instrument on the orbital telescope. The mission was not replaced. However, the loss of WIRE caused other IR survey mission proposals to receive greater interest, which led to the funding of the "Next Generation Sky Survey" Medium-class Explorer mission. This infrared full-sky survey mission was launched in 2009 (as WISE, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) and achieved all of the science goals of the original WIRE mission.

In 1993 all contact was lost with the Mars Observer spacecraft right at the moment of planned orbital insertion. This loss led to a re-evaluation of the unmanned Mars exploration program at NASA and eventually led to around 10 new missions to Mars over the following 2 decades, most of them successful.
Obviously you cannot do so any longer as the bug has been fixed, but that seems like a good description of the exploit as shown in the video.
His examples only close over parameter variables and lifted functions, not local variables that actually, you know, vary.

The fact is, in JavaScript, lifted functions can close over local variables but the fact that they do is not obvious - in fact it's so counterintuitive that you're generally best to avoid doing so.

In the first example he gives, two functions that, in the original, are nested, in the refactoring are placed in the same scope, rather than nested within one another. His amended solution prevents the second function from closing over the scope of the first, which is possible in the original, or an async form. If you wanted to share state from the first function to the second, you'd have to realize you could bring the second function into the scope of the first, and then move it, and then you're back where you started with nested callbacks. But amending this code is made harder than it should be by the decision to factor the two closures out to the widest possible scope, rather than the narrowest.

And the fact that ctrl-F closure yields no results just confirms the feeling that the examples gave me that the author is playing around with closures without knowing what he's actually doing.
Given a choice between having money that allows you to afford crap, and not having it, I'd be willing to bet that almost everyone will chose to have the money.

That implies that people with money -- regardless of how they chose to spend it -- are doing better than people without money.
I think it's also possible that she's realizing that she owes herself a fulfilling career, and then she's taking steps to change her situation...?
That's exactly how problems like that can be solved - not with antidepressants.
So no one reasonable is allowed to actually make a decision eh? Must be shitty working at Facebook if decisions don't have a human-compassionate influence to them.
...... I don't contest that ......

You said it "flipped out", which I took to mean that it didn't function at all. I replied saying that it worked for me. That's it.
You can't do arbitrary requests, which is required for that attack (and CRIME) to work. This is normally done by injecting traffic in http pages, but if you are using incognito mode for https exclusively then this can't be done. In fact the same goes for normal browsing mode, but it's so inconvenient to have to close all other tabs just to do a wire transfer or something. And incognito mode has the additional advantage of also disabling tracking cookies and the like. My bank actually uses Google analytics on their website...
Voz island in the Aral Sea is another example of this happening but on the chemical weapons side of things.

Nick Middleton travelled there in 'Going to More Extremes' (which is well worth the watch).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAFGx9nU3q4
I guess this is the online equivalent of a reality show...
> Doesn't a prohibition period on hiring only work if you're hiring children? ... Does immediate termination come with a three month severance package?

My thoughts exactly. You're asking someone to take a big risk with your company by bringing them on on probation. They may be leaving a well-paying, stable job to do it.

You have to do something to temper that risk, ideally with a very large severance or something like it.
There isn't actually good evidence to distinguish the flow of causation with cannabis and schizophrenia. In a significant plurality of cases, schizophrenia manifests in the 15-21 age range, regardless of cannabis use.
Firstly, no idea how you can conclude he hacked an account. A bit strong of language there? Second, does reason not come into play here? You don't have to write a policy to compensate people for violating privacy - however if you have a human making decisions, and not just a drone following written orders, then the ability to make compromises exist. Just no one at Facebook wants to engage and be human it seems.
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This is seriously an awesome name for a load tester. The concept totally fits that "desperation" attack Vegeta would use on any season boss before he got his ass kicked (the screaming and throwing a million fireballs thing)

Nice project, btw. Do you think it's worth building cluster mode into the tool itself when there are existing methods of sync'ing commands across boxes?
"Paying people to fuck with people's accounts" is a pretty dishonest way to frame this.
Why startup culture is such a fragile and precious thing
I wasn't expecting anything specific, I clicked it because it was at the top. There have been many "Why I left [Big Corp]" in the past, subconsciously I was expecting something like that, or at least not a motivational speech.
Perhaps, because the inventions covered by this patent are patently relevant to social issues of the day.
(Pun un-intended.)
This was widely covered over two years ago, when the patent application was published. Boing Boing was among those that covered it [1].

It was also widely covered a year ago, when the patent issued. Again, Boing Boing covered it [2]. That article was written by the same author as the present article. In that article, he mentioned likely legitimate uses (movie theaters), and said that the paranoid side of him imagined government might use it for bad purposes.

This new article seems to be redundant. Everything it says was already covered in their second article.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2011/06/16/apple-patents-mobile.html

[2] http://boingboing.net/2012/08/30/apple-granted-patent-for-lo...
Yeah, I wonder why the guy who said "This is not a bug." isn't actually the one getting in trouble. Clearly I understand why not - but then his actions lead to the person reporting to escalate their actions to get attention. If the "This is not a bug." guy actually helped guide the person reporting to the proper, expected actions, then this would have likely gone completely differently.
Thank you all for your kind words and helpful suggestions! I shall adapt both the post and the code accordingly.

Jeroen
In general, I'd expect that you learn a lot in the process of building and flying a spacecraft, even if it ultimately fails to meet its objective.

If you're going to have to launch a new spacecraft anyway, why not take some of those lessons into account when you build the next one?
I'm going to disagree. I've reading HN a for a while now; over 5 years. This article reminds me of Paul Graham's post, "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss" from 2008 which was one of the things I read on the site early on that I particularly liked and identified strongly with. Though the focus of this article is different I think the underlying themes are the same and I also identify with some of the things here as well. I think it is a decent article, certainly worthy of consideration for up-votes, and strongly in the tradition of the type of material that has been posted here for some time.

http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
I painted it as illegitimate because it is. ONDCP does propaganda, not science.
Computers which magnify our prejudices
So the security person who said "This is not a bug," - what's happening there? If they had guided the guy reporting the bug, asked for more information or directed him to the expected methods for reporting, then this would have likely gone completely differently, right?
The point of the article is the pursuit of epiphany and not
the epiphany itself.In my opinion she is not there yet.
It's phat to blame the prison industrial complex, but they're just taking advantage of the Puritan strain in American society. Remember, we're a country that actually passed a Constitutional amendment to make alcohol, even beer, illegal.

I'm sure the DEA loves the status quo, but that's not where the votes come from. The votes come from everyone who bought into Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign. People like my mom, who thinks pot causes young men to give up on life and not get jobs or girlfriends and just play video games all day, and supports keeping it illegal because she thinks that's bad for the country. If you poll your mom and her friends, I bet you see that viewpoint pretty well-represented.
Tips for bootstrapping and completing side projects
He posted something to them - he didn't access them.
I would like to direct you to the study by Dan Gilbert that concluded that a year after either winning the lottery or being paraplegic, the levels of happiness of people were about the same.

http://zionsphere.hubpages.com/hub/perceptionofhappiness

Unfortunately, I could not find the original study, however that link seems to summarize it pretty reasonably.

While most people may choose the money, that choice isn't necessarily better, and hence doesn't mean the people with more money are necessarily 'happier'.
This program wasn't always classified - it started life as an open project, and later "went dark" when scavengers started showing up at Semipalatinsk - see this blog posting from 2011:

http://lewis.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/4021/tunnel-re-seal...

The same author as the original article here, Ellen Barry, actually wrote about this program back in 2011 too. So it hasn't been suddenly declassified.
How to life a fulfilling life with less material consumption seems like exactly the kind of problem the first world should be solving right now. It's much less selfish than it sounds.

Incidentally, saying you're happy for what you have because it could be taken away at any time sounds like Stockholm syndrome.
Do you think this puts her in the majority or in the minority?
I don't understand all the negative people. I truly don't.

You weren't forced to read about her problems. You weren't forced to upvote this post to the front page. Yet all you people do is complain.

The post made it to the frontpage because maybe it hit home for a lot of people here? Perhaps people are fascinated by her very personal story? There could be a number of reasons.

HN gets very tiring very fast because of all the negativity. It's terrible. Stop and reflect and realize that HUMAN BEINGS are on the other side of the words written here.
You're right, Mozilla didn't initially depend on Google. It depended on Netscape, which created Mozilla.

I think it's hard to argue that Firefox's ultimate rise to prominence wasn't directly related to funding provided by Google, though.
You're using a terrible example. There is exactly one city in Arkansas with greater than 100k people, and that is Little Rock with 193k. That state has zero claim to being "a cross section of what makes up the US".
That is correct. i work in nuclear material security and safeguards. For what I can say, which isn't much, it's the security of the material (HEU and Pu) that makes it hard to make a bomb. Its hard to enrich, and furthermore you need HEU or Pu. LEU won't get you a big boom. Without enough enrichment, no Bomb.

Theft and diversion is a big deal with Pu and HEU for this very reason. Which is why access to either has a two man rule. And because you can safely handle Pu and HEU,(its just an alpha and criticality hazard so unless you inhale or eat them, or you have bad geometry it's no big deal), that makes it vital that you carefully account for all of it. It won't kill the thief, and you don't need much Pu for a bomb.
That wasn't even the first fatal criticality incident involving that particular plutonium core (known as the "Demon Core"). Funnily enough, I submitted an interesting article just a few hours ago on the history of this core:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229011
"How do they attach and unattach"

FTA: "The team is now developing an assembler robot that can crawl, insectlike, over the surface of a growing structure, adding pieces one by one to the existing structure."

FTA: "Cheung produced flat, cross-shaped composite pieces that were clipped into a cubic lattice of octahedral cells, a structure called a “cuboct” — which is similar to the crystal structure of the mineral perovskite, a major component of Earth’s crust. While the individual components can be disassembled for repairs or recycling, there’s no risk of them falling apart on their own, the researchers explain. Like the buckle on a seat belt, they are designed to be strong in the directions of forces that might be applied in normal use, and require pressure in an entirely different direction in order to be released."

There was slightly more info in the article, but these sections were the most relevant.
Microsoft attacks Google in YouTube app row
We're upfront about the probationary period with all candidates, they start knowing they'll receive a lot of feedback in the first few weeks, they'll get an opportunity to see if it's a fit from their side and also from the team's side.
Do they usually know how to spell Siegfried?
I really agree that the cost between off the shelf software and custom software is too large.

We are trying to solve this type of problem by providing a framework developers can use to create general purpose templates. Those templates, a long with help on how to configure them, can be used to "slap on a feature or two".

It is an interesting problem to solve.
Faceebook's abiolity to track you does not reqquire you to loginn. Yore y vewing pages with lick bittons preevids a rabust seat of indieacktor variaabbles. This why some cuntry mek illegal teh luke bouton.

Also, all the text you type on your smartphone goes to the fbi. You can probably be id'd by what you mosspell. It.s a question of whether they give a fuck.

Resistance is poodle!
> I believe the incognito mode has more potential than it's currently being used as. For example multiple parallel sessions[...].

Chrome actually got this feature recently. Check Settings > Users.
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"It was that moment that I realized I was truly free to do whatever I wanted in this world"

I've been there. One tends to have such 'realizations' after working at a job like hers and banking 100k or 2. This type of freedom is not the general condition for human beings, is usually fleeting, and is almost always bought with a lot of money.
I'm really curious, how did you get that impression? I see her realizing she is unhappy, that the reasons keeping her in place weren't relevant (status, etc), and taking action to correct that. We don't even know the details of what she decided to do, or her goals, to make any judgements.
I think you misread his comment. I think he's saying revenue never really went up. It's just all reported now.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but there are accessible papers listed at http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/index.html Three of the listed papers have Cheung as an author/co-author, the first two look relevant to his conceptual and research progression.