skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of malware uses social engineering to become deployed, including on Windows, with or without exploits. If you don't think so, I seriously doubt that you work at Malware-Bytes in an R&D capacity, given that Malware-Bytes is the most popular tool for removing stuff that relies entirely on social engineering, e.g. Fake AV malware.

> You see more social engineering and less exploitation on OSX because there is far less to exploit on OSX.

That statement might be true for applications that users typically install on these systems, but it's not true for the operating systems themselves.
Note that the ACLU has come out strongly in favor: https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-strongly-support...
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Liberals tend to believe that other countries cooperate with the United States because American ideals are attractive and the U.S.-led international system is fair.

I just watched The Four Horsemen on Youtube. It's pretty interesting, although nothing eye opening, but good to see it in one package (so to speak). The economic model to screw over everyone else to advance itself should have made it more than obvious everything you ever suspected was true. Now that more and more of these suspicions are being confirmed the US is on the back foot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU
Making no mention of Microsoft SQL Server seems like a pretty big oversight.
At least, there would be no wondering who (human vs. computer) has been at fault if it was driverless.
My favorite was Noplu (North of Plum) but the debate rages on :)
Those mechanical overrides can still come in handy: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-hot-seat-samuel-l-ja... [granted, incident allegedly from 1990, but still applicable]
The issue wasn't that the error happened. The issue was Toyota did not do proper due diligence to prevent errors.
Sometimes race correlates to need. In the case of First Nations peoples in Canada, it very much does.
That's why you buy a car with a manual transmission. Those haven't been electronic-ized yet and are unlikely to be as the forces involved in depressing the clutch are substantial and unlikely to go away.

Once the clutch plates are no longer in contact the engine can do whatever it wants but none of that makes it to the wheels. And then you can get the car out of gear to coast, turn the whole car off and then back on.

There's no substitute to having a human being in the loop to execute high-level "executive" functions, especially when things aren't done to the very high standards of aerospace. You know, like cars.
I'm confused about why this would be a good way to save bandwidth. The same number of pixels are still required to give you a smooth picture. So unless Skype adds more pixels to the zoomed-in area (which would presumably negate the bandwidth savings), you're still getting reduced resolution. Why not forget the zooming and just reduce resolution?
Can you be specific about subreddits that consistently surface great news content?
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You broke my back button. Prepare to die.
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Could it be that your understanding of Toyota quality is based on millions and millions of dollars of marketing money spent each year. And then it turns out they are just like every other large global company.
Some see it as their responsibility to give the user a good user experience, even over the wishes of the user himself. Now, we can have a sensible debate over the need to warn a user about unintended consequences, but should we really be building features that act solely to restrict a user?
The list is only growing longer . . .

If you have computer-assisted hill starts, collision avoidance, or computer assisted braking [through ABS, certain traction & stability control systems, etc] your computer has control of your brakes.

If you have range-assisted cruise control, or early collision alert, your computer likely has total control over your throttle.

If you have parking assist, lane departure warning, lane following assist, or electric power steering etc: your computer has control over your steering.

If your car has a DCT: your computer has control over your shifting _as well as both clutches._ -- Meaning you have _no mechanical interface_ to disengage the motor from the transmission. This is similar to your Prius example: the shifter is not mechanical.

On many new cars: there's no ignition key to remove. You likely have a smart "keyfob" that simply needs to be within X-feet of the car, and then you have a push button ignition.

I'm sure there's some override for the button [push and hold for three seconds], but it's still going to go through some electronics to figure that out.

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The only bit that scares me is that all these systems potentially share the CAN bus with the horrendous "Infotainment" systems that every manufacturer loves to install. shudders
I was a very early user of Uber, and the initial experience started the same as yours; living in Presidio, then upper Noe Valley - I could never get a cab. I was actually banned from several cab companies as I would call two or three to get a cab to my house, as most would never show up.

Recently, a few weeks ago, I used Uber to go from Mtn View to SF, then later from SF to Alameda. While I spent nearly $300 in cab fees that night, the experience was just as fantastic as always (It was my first date night out with my wife after our latest child was born - so her first night out in nearly a year).

The driver from Mtn View to SF was fantastic and accomdated us wanting loud music playing the whole way.

I Love Uber - what I have a tough time with is cost -- but really because I think everything is overpriced.
I hate that we're not allowed to self-medicate. I understand the risks, I've done my research, I know more than my local pharmacist, yet they won't give me s&&t without a piece of paper signed by someone who supposedly knows better.

I always had a strong suspicion that the doctors prescribe too many medications (which were also brands more expensive than the generics). Not so paranoid after all.
Songs of Diridum: Pushing the Web Audio API to Its Limits
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/songs-of-diridum-pushing-the-web-audio-api-to-its-limits/
http://labs.gooengine.com/mozlod/
The camera delivers a fixed resolution. Zooming by necessity reduces resolution of the displayed image, you could probably notice if you were looking for it. Net number of bits crossing the wire is reduced so its a win.
None of the businesses that I have run have ever made money by advertising...
oh totally - I was just objecting to the use of the word "correct" :).
> I strongly recommend not following the provided link, which is basically inane...
This was my personal rumination on the differences between the two approaches to OOP. Or a way to verbalize it, if you will.

> to my knowledge, you most definitely can not do that in such a manner in Self. Slots manipulation in Self can only be done through primitive messages (e.g. `_AddSlots:`, which takes an object whose slots should be copied into the receiver).
This is probably true, I haven't used Self in anger so I will remove that.

> I'm not saying maps-as-objects is great, but I am saying these assertions are 1. wrong and 2. nonsensical.
First thing you do to diss a statement is call it flat out nonsense.

> In ES5, the exact same behavior is provided by Object.getPrototypeOf providing access to the internal [[Prototype]]. Most implementations also provide direct access via the __proto__ property, which IIRC ES6 standardizes. And of course the `instanceof` operator has been there since ES3, but that's only ~13 years ago.

Why do there have to be `typeof`, `instanceof` and `.prototype`? Whereas you actually want one way to get at the object's type?

> All runtimes but MSIE (unless they've added it in IE11) already implement `const`, and it's standardized in ES6.

Maybe I should note that I was talking about JS as it is deployable today, to narrow the scope.

> You mean, something like ES6's yield?
This one? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2282140/whats-the-yield-k...
> Terrible exception handling
No objection there, javascript may well have a worse exception handling than Go, a language whose users try very hard to make others believe doesn't have exceptions in the first place. At least runtimes are finally trying to generate callbacks worth reading.
Not that this help when mixing with async, as your final traceback will lack 90% of the necessary context.

If your stack records the necessary metadata it could easily give you something like `closured on line X in Items.fetchItems` insted of the 'anonymous function' 5 levels deep.
Your country might have a more liberal system than others. Which country?
If you think the ACA should be repealed, and you do not have a suggestion as to what should replace it, then you are essentially in support of the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans a year. The ACA isn't perfect, I would have preferred single payer, but people were dying from lack of health care affordability and something needed to be done.
I assume the heuristic they're using is that single faces are the primary use case, and will tend to be in the center of the frame. If I'm right, their solution would use more of the available bandwidth resolving the user's face rather than anything which may be in the background.
One thought: there are other industries which sell services and tools that fluctute in price or are so complex that it is amazing how they can price their products at all - but they do. Just the fact that I cannot get any reliable pricing information for most procedures from health care providers seems strange and might point to the fact that their processes and methods are under no self-regulating forces/pressure. The situation reminds of Florida, 10 years ago, when the parties could not agree on a way to fix schools and the only bipartisan solution possible was to issue grades for the schools. That little "market transparency" started a whole avalanche of changes most of which came as a surprise and all of which have moved Florida ahead ever since. It performs dramatically better now, than it did 10 years ago in almost all assessments (minorities, drop-out rate, avg. Math/Science). I think giving people a choice by posting transparent pricing information is crucial to improving the American health care situation.
Separate systems, FOR NOW. How long do you think that will last? And would you care to bet your life on it?
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So... what's the actual bug? "Cyclomatic complexity" this, "single point of failure" that sounds very damning, but if you don't see the bug it's sort of less convincing. I mean, I can look at any code and say it's too sloppy to work.
You disagree with people creating value and selling it for money? Genuinely curious, what is immoral about that?
At the risk of a flame war, I'm going to state the obvious. firmware code often has quality issues because it is often written by Electrical Engineers.

EE's often have little software engineering taught as mandatory subjects in college, and often only get to learn good SW engineering practices on the job, or via milspec/aerospace certification, if ever.

No disrespect is intended, it's just my experience after working with a lot of otherwise very talented EEs.
Witnesses are often paid by the party on behalf of who they are testifying.
>Yes, but a completely separated system.

Are you sure? It seems sensible to me that accelerator inputs would factor heavily into the braking system, so it seems very sensible to me that an unexpected condition in one could translate over to the other - as the article noted the only way to undo one unexpected acceleration condition was to completely remove your foot from the brake pedal. Sounds like cross-over to me...

>you still have a neutral position.

... which is likely just a software input to the transmission computer.

In all likelihood the only non-electronic failsafe is the handbrake, which I still think is a direct mechanical connection in almost all cars.
Digital control allows for digital override. In the not so far off future, automatic driving systems are going to radically reduce the number of car accidents, and for every 1 accident that occurs because of a firmware bug, 10 will be avoided because computers will be that much safer drivers than humans (who should never, ever be driving in the first place - they kill about 40,000 people a year in the united states, and maim hundreds of thousands more. )
Why Does Building Software for the Government Cost So Much?
If your child's leg is broken at a soccer game after close of business, it is not a "true emergency" because she is not going to die. But you are not going to leave her in the most significant pain she has ever experienced with a bone poking out through her skin until the urgent care clinic opens tomorrow morning.

How long she should suffer before getting treatment definitely doesn't have anything to do with your disposable income. Some people might agree with you that poor adults deserve whatever the market gives them (I won't) but how are you going to hold people's kids responsible for having parents who are too price-sensitive to get them timely medical treatment?
Could you speak more about the things you dislike in Liquid? It's one of my favorite templating systems, especially if you're treating it in the same way as you would mustache templates, i.e., using a view-model or decorator to prep data from a model. If you're using a lot of `assign` or `capture` tags, it's horrible.
I think they are referring to this change: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2013/10/01/memshrink-pr...

Images that aren't visible aren't decoded as they are downloaded, or something like that. It reduces peak memory usage on image-heavy pages. It should be coming in Firefox 26.
Not necessarily. What happens if someone challenges Facebook on their flags? If you're a bouncer, you can hunt down the person who looks underage and re-check their ID. It's much harder to do that with something like Facebook.
I guess you weren't working on the 787, which is exclusively fly-by-wire -- turn off the computers and it crashes.
> That's why you buy a car with a clutch pedal.

There exist "manual transmission" that lack an operator controlled clutch. DCTs are very much manual transmissions, but many of them rely on a TCM to disengage the clutches.
It's interesting, though I cannot envision how any system that does not enforce complete anonymity can avoid either corruption or domination by special interest groups.
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I just emailed you to continue this discussion offline. Thanks again!
WOW! Skype is sooooo cooool. Now, if they could stop spying on me that'd be great.
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I thought PostgreSQL's replication was ACID-compliant?
It happens to be a slow and blocking action on MySQL, yes. That's yet another problem with MySQL. You can only make a new table and swap it in if you can stop writing to your old table, or don't care if records go missing. I've lost weeks trying increasingly convoluted methods to get an online schema migration safely in MySQL, with no satisfying conclusion. You can sometimes get away with pt-online-schema-change's method of adding triggers to copy new rows while copying over the existing table contents, but that failed pretty badly for us because of collisions with the innodb gap lock on the table, so we ended up having to do multiple passes, populating the new table once without the live updates, then copying it over again while the live updates were copied over with triggers. It was a mess.
Modern ignition keys are electronic - they send a signal to the computer. This is NOT adequate.
That's why we use the term "fetus". It's not a baby, and it's also not not human. It's in an intermediate category, which is the whole reason there is a debate at all.

IMO, both positions—the fetus is "my body" and I can do what I want with it—and—the fetus is a full human being, a person, like everyone else—are disingenuous. It's okay that a fetus be neither, and that we have special rules governing that situation. A fetus doesn't have to fit into pre-existing categories.
Really cool idea. The next step is to use basic face detection to focus towards the largest face in the stream.
So this is only for php5-cgi, right? Usually a standard LAMP stack uses mod_php instead of cgi - unless you're going for suEXEC.

Does it affect lighttpd + php5-cgi? If not, why not?
Looking into the changes with Glass
Not sure if troll, but.. XMPP is Jabber.
It was candid, but before I'd call it conspicuous I'd like to see him explain the driver on-boarding process and the level of knowledge it requires of city routes. This especially applies to UberX. I think it'd help everyone adjust their expectations.
I know very little about Galera replication, but its FAQ states that it provides only snapshot isolation.

You are certainly correct that we have not provided a complete overview of the DB market! That is a very ambitious project. We built this page largely to call out the use of "ACID" terminology by vendors that don't actually provide it.
I worked on the 757, and got it hammered into me how to do failsafe design.

I don't know the failsafe design of the 787, but I have faith that Boeing, the FAA, and the aerospace engineers know what they're doing with failsafe design.
"Just like the big red STOP button you'll find on every table saw, drill press, etc."

For those that like finding out, "What's the formal name for that?"... it's called a kill switch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_switch

For further reading, see the related "Dead man's switch":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
You misunderstand the absolutely beautiful concept of the The Invisible Hand. It refers to the self organizing (emergent) behavior of the economy and it's many benefits. The concept itself makes no assumptions about perfect information, quite the opposite - it describes the coordination of individuals with vastly different information sets (as well as resources, capabilities, etc.). Did you ever think about the absolutely enormous amount of coordination required to product the computer you type on? Most of that is the invisible hand. It is very much a real world concept as comes from Adam Smith's observations of the world around him. You might want to reread the Wikipedia article you linked.

The debate is all about when, how and for some even if the invisible hand can be improved on. Medical care should be a particularly difficult area for the reasons you list among many others. At least so far the results of efforts to improve on the invisible hand in US medical care have been mixed as the examples in the OP point out.
You have to think what those 40% in taxes mean. What is the return? Good public health care, decent educational system, good public safety, good social security.

Those are things the US don't give to you, so it is an illusion thinking that in the US you make more money. Taxes there are quite high depending on the state you are going to live. A friend of mine moved from Rio to Massachusetts and told me there are a lot of taxes and he pays around 25% in taxes plus health care, private pension plan an so on. In the end 50% of his salary is for these things.

I moved to the UK this year and I make about the same as I did in Rio. I can say that I have a much better life now than before. Money here means a lot more than in Brazil.

If you want, we can take this conversation privately.
I had 19 books matched (also out of hundreds of physical books, purchased only up until Kindle emerged), and picked up most of them. The prices were almost always $2.99.

>update: The more we support this program the more publishers will buy into it. They have just received new dollars from me that are generally 20% bonuses above the cover prices of books sold years ago. There is no cannibalisation as I'm not in the market to buy any of those books again.
I really want to get to the stage where all my books are digitised and I can choose whether for not to maintain a physical library. If Amazon and publishers provide a simple and legal way to do this then sobeit.
CRDTs can either be commutative or convergent; much of industry and academia have settled on the opaque "conflict-free" instead of CmRDT/CvRDT for simplicity
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ACID refers to actions that can take place within a transaction.
Transactions refer to logical operation to the data.
The data is the content, not de container.
DML affects content, DDL affects the container.
ALTER TABLE is a DDL operation.

Now, I know that _some_ databases offer some level of support to include DLL operations within a transaction, but its far from being common, and most of the implementations are quite recent.
Open hardware cars already exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_Fighter
The poster child for socialised medicine, the UK.
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Transactional DDL is a dangerous game with any DBMS. You must know the idioms of the systems you use, and use them accordingly. You would be a fool otherwise.
> Eventually there was a backlash

Mostly by people with beachfront property who didn't want anyone getting in the way of their expensive view.
Wouldn't this get implemented in the client code rather than the API itself?
From what I understand, Datomic sidesteps the ACID issue altogether by dealing with immutable data at the application layer. You add your changes on top of a version of the database, so you're always working on a consistent view of the database (pretty much like Git).

On the backend, Datomic doesn't implement it's own storage, it plugs into SQL databases, Riak, etc. so you may or may not have ACID at that level.
Some of these are very nice, will definitely use them in my next project, thanks!
Excellent. I was of course using the royal "we". I don't work for an ad-supported product either. Anymore at least. I quit.

Still, even with my hardcore stance against it, I take advantage of many "free" ad supported products rather than supporting businesses by paying directly. Perhaps you are better than I.
"Powered by WebRTC" means, to me, "we aren't going to charge you PBX prices" and "no need to install 3rd party software that may or may not work for each of your agents". If this has a competitive pricing model and support for Android we're in.
> That’s because most of the world today lives within an order that the United States built, one that is both underwritten by U.S. power and legitimated by liberal ideas. American commitments to the rule of law, democracy, and free trade are embedded in the multilateral institutions that the country helped establish after World War II, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and later the World Trade Organization.

Gee, all of this sounds pretty good! But as the author acknowledges, this is all "underwritten by U.S. power." I couldn't have put it better myself. If the cost of maintaining that power is some hypocrisy, then I say: there is nothing wrong with hypocrisy.

The article reaches the core issue but has trouble grappling with it. Would any other approach be better than the one the U.S. is currently taking? Would it be beneficial to the developing nations of the world for the U.S. to abdicate its hegemony, leaving a power vacuum for Russia or China? Or would it instead be better for the U.S. to stop with the hipocrisy, and be clear about its naked intentions to maintain its power? Would the existing multilateral order survive that revelation? Or is the current, if hypocritical, state of affairs the best: for the U.S. to foster the current international order while acting behind the scenes to maintain the power that "underwrites" that order?