skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was skeptical the last time this subject came up, too, but someone pointed out that for an attacker with root access, it would be easy enough to reprogram the phone's power button to act like it was turning the phone off without actually doing so.

Given the fact that US law enforcement and security agencies are (now) indisputably known to be in the zero-day hacking business, the burden of proof is on those of us who've always claimed these stories were exaggerated.

Personally, I no longer feel confident about calling bullshit on much of anything. With the US government's infinite budget and unaccountable influence over device manufacturers and telcos, no hack is impossible.
The basic physics give us a lot of headroom.

* Earth is not a closed system, it receives an enormous influx of energy from the sun

* We are no where close to using even a fraction of that potential, or using too much of it, most of our energy use is in the form of digging up time-compressed solar energy.

* We are enormously wasteful in manufacturing, no where close to what can be achieved according to the laws of physics

* Life itself shows you that you can manufacture or an enormous quantity of material and continue to recycle it sustainable over eons. So while our current manufacturing techniques cannot sustainably scale forever, there's no fundamental reason why we can't have a manufacturing ecosystem that works more like a biological one

* Matter is neither created nor destroyed by our industrial processes, only rearranged. We benefitted by digging up low-entropy material filtered and concentrated by slow geological/biological processors, but again, there is no proof that we cannot, in an energy efficient manner, recover the used material. Whether through bio-technology or nanotechnology.

The basic premise that man is clever and keeps finding ways to postpone the Malthusian bombs is correct, but it's not just because we keep finding new pockets of resources to exploit, it's because we are getting more efficient at using those resources.

Not to mention the fact that the assumption that GDP growth is equal to manufacturing or population growth is wrong. The math allows value of goods and services to go up even as amount of energy, people, or raw materials used goes down.

We have clear challenges, and we should be scared enough to invest in them heavily. But if you're not a techno-optimist, that we will find ways to address and improve these issues without throwing away our entire style of life, and instead thing the world is going to renounce the last 300 years in favor of a return to life before the industrial revolution, you're backing a set of policies that will never succeed.

As I see it, if collapse is coming, only our smarts are going to save us, not a retreat.
Damn straight! If someone in the US gets sick or is in an accident[1] they should suck it up and be responsible for things they cannot control / were not their fault; even if it bankrupts them.

[1] RollingJubilee pays mainly medical debts.
Daniel Dennetts "Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking". Certainly parts of it won't be timeless as they touch a rapidly changing field but many parts of it likely are.
How do other distributed databases handle this?
Why am I not surprised that Paglia loves this stuff? Wherever there's a well-bred controversy, she's in the thick to concern-troll with grotesque absurd sophistries.
RNA’s Secret Life Outside the Cell
That's not how it works, the best leaves, the political ones stays. Microsoft is so toxic now it's hard to imaging them saving themselves anymore.

Maybe if they fire all middle and upper management.
Aren't all modern basebands SDR?
Thanks for catching the spelling error; as much as I pride myself on my spelling, I should let 2013-era tools do their job.

I was concerned that might be interpreted as spin, but I hoped the rest of the article would reinforce the point that there is no way to guarantee an update is preserved in a distributed system without an approach more sophisticated than blindly trusting clocks.

Writes to a new object are inherently less problematic; while it's possible to temporarily receive a negative response about the presence of an object, the data will always be there, barring catastrophic multiple server failure.

Updates can be entirely lost, and that's something that developers and operations people need to be aware of.
Except food is held to a different standard than supplements.

Soylent is regulated as a supplement, but sold and promoted as a food.

People aren't asking for weird amounts of scrutiny, just for the same amount of regulation as the rest of the food chain.

Seeing the filthy conditions that the beta product was made in was surprising - the founders knowing how bad it was but continuing to ship beta product to paying beta customers is weird.
There is no such thing as ”a rat", trust me.
Internet Explorer is the first browser to implement SSL/TLS 1.2? What about Firefox and Chrome - anyone know their status?
That is an unhelpful response. If you have more to add than what the wikipedia article spells out regarding reporting requirements for under $10K transactions, I would very much like to hear it.
People who think judging performance is hard have a broken development methodology or no technical chops.

I suggest you reflect on this. It seems to me that you've convinced yourself that you are good at certain things but there isn't really any evidence supporting your beliefs.

When I was younger, I actually used to think like you - that perf evaluation is easy and a good engineer (e.g. me) would be able to evaluate others easily. Over time, I've realized this is an incredibly complex and nuanced issue because everyone's strengths and weaknesses are so very multifaceted. I am more or less convinced that people who think they have all the right answers simply have a lot of blindspots.
LOL. The other [two] answers justifying RATs are hillarious.
The GPU, bluetooth, wifi, and GPS chips are not running their own operating system kernels. They have firmware microcode that gets loaded when their drivers are loaded, but they aren't running a completely separate dedicated realtime OS.
Fucken psychologist-nigger thinks the brain can interact with a 400Mhz clock. What a fucken nigger, huh!

CWinApp theApp;

using namespace std;

long long i=0;

void MyTask(int u)
{
while (true)
i++;
}

int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR* argv[], TCHAR* envp[])
{
int nRetCode = 0;
CreateThread(0,65536,(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)MyTask,0,0,0);
while (true) {
getchar();
printf("%012u",i);
}
return nRetCode;
}

-------------------

Gods says line: 9632

that offereth it.

7:10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the
sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.

7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
shall offer unto the LORD.

7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the
sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of
fine flour, fried.

7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an
heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that
sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall
not leave any of it until the morning.

-----

Why do we take communion? So that Christ will dwell with-in us. It is Christ, not our brain that controls a 400Mhz clock! Nigger!

Randomly open a book you've never read. Psychologists are stupid. God I hate them.
That's the point. You don't get to "beta" foodstuffs.

Try running a public beta on some cancer drugs and see how far you get.
There is, in fact, a TL;DR at the end:

> If your distributed database relies on clocks to pick a winner, you’d better have rock-solid time synchronization, and even then, it’s unlikely your business needs are served well by blindly selecting the last write that happens to arrive.
Google Patenting Electronic Tattoo
I was going to say, I learned about this in class! Then I read the article and the link to "CMU’s study."
...
My professor was one of the authors. Go Garth Gibson!
Blackberry exploit that allows arbitrary reading and writing of %APPDATA%
The problem with this approach is that preventative care is the best care. It might cost someone $100/month to take some pills -- or cost the state $10k+ when they have a life-threatening episode of whatever ails them. If the price of the preventative care is too expensive, and there's light at the end of the tunnel (so long as you survive your critical episode, I guess), then there's an incentive to just wait it out until it gets so bad it's free.

I live in New Zealand, and I have Ulcerative Colitis. We have a public/private system somewhere along the lines you propose (although a little more forgiving), and are really quite lucky:

* There's a strong tendency for doctors to work both publicly and privately. They'll put in time at the public facilities, but those facilities are generally pretty highly loaded -- turnarounds can be slow. If you've got the money, you can see most privately (that's generally not overly expensive).

* Thanks to a Government agency known as Pharmac, we bulk buy all our drugs -- so, I pay $5/prescription (prescriptions can last up to 3 months), instead of $120+/prescription. For someone with a chronic condition like myself, this is fantastic. It also works out cheaper for the Government too: we have the market power to negotiate much better deals from pharma companies.

* If you do get into a critical state, the public system will provide care. Alternatively, if you've got insurance, you can go private (but private care for critical stuff -- where surgery/non-Pharmac drugs are required -- is generally prohibitively expensive).

* Elective/preventative care is also available publicly. This means you're in a queue ("we'll get around to it sometime in the next year"), but does mean you're able to maintain a higher quality of life.

Medicine is hard: reconciling care with expenses is a moral quagmire. There are absolutely inefficiencies in the NZ system, but I've come to really respect it.
A basic, sub-$1,000 3D printer that prints metal
My boss asked me if I was a sociopath. I said yes.
Just hit my two year anniversary.
You have good intentions that are not realistic. Your model would work if everyone is selfless, honest and moral. Everyone has to be a perfect moral machine.

More concretely: free software always mimics commercial software badly after someone takes risk building it. No free software is comparable to Google or Watson in both technical capability and market results. They need 100s to 1000s of PhDs working full time. These PhDs have already slaved off in academia for years.

If software should not be treated as property, nothing else should be!
No, it won't help to remove the SIM card. Unless you've removed the battery from your phone, then you can be tracked. And there's no such thing as "can't ditch my phone."
"There would be no advantage over just trading with bitcoins" for me the purchaser there very much is, because in case the person at the far end is a scammer I have, in theory, at least some recourse.
"Take off your clothes."

slap "No!"

"I am an authority figure. I have <good> reasons."

"Oh, well then that's fine."

strips

Humans. We're funny sometimes.

Repeat ad nauseum.
For one thing: It was sold as a fire extinguisher agent both in pressurize-able canisters, and in glass bulbs as "fire grenades" and to be hung from the ceiling by lead or babbit fuses.

http://imgur.com/CWpr8Xa

http://www.oldfirestuff.com/FyrFyterCarbonTetSalesmanSampleo...
That's a side-effect of having fewer phonemes.

But with 2000+ characters to choose from, written text can be very dense.
It would be better for the borrower, but since it would create an incentive to default on loans [slightly more], it is not better for the creditor - so creditors simply don't do it because of that.

They can and do make direct discounted offers to the debtor; but these are completely different offers than sales to debt collectors; it is not in their interest to match the offers.
Ah gc... always behaving as something alive

good question by the way
Yes, it is crazy.

A bank would be likely unwilling to engage in such a practice, because by doing so they would gain a reputation for being "soft". In particular, anyone who borrows from the bank knows that they can "default" on the loan and pay much less than they originally borrowed.

Your sympathy for people who owe money is misplaced. We already have tax and welfare that transfers money from the rich to the poor. Conditional on a given income, owing money to a bank is a poor measure of your true wealth. Furthermore, it sets up perverse incentives compared to the current taxation system. That is it encourages people to consume now and go into debt, since they know that debt will be (partially) forgiven.

EDIT: The last sentence is wrong: once this proposed measure is introduced, interest rates will adjust. People who choose to (cheaply) default we be subsidized at the expense of people who do not. However, the poster imagined that people who owe money would benefit, and so my point still applies to the impact they imagined this measure would have.
These are drivers in the kernel.
RTOS is another thing.
Why wouldn't debtors always default?
Cheating! Its shorter than the Sears Tower without the antenna.
Hmm... this looks pretty dang interesting. Looking forward to getting into it and playing around. I'm fascinated with better approaches to using computers to help people learn, so this kind of thing really excites me.

I haven't explored enough yet to really know if this question even makes sense, but I'll ask anyway... Would this be more of something that would compete with traditional LMS software like Moodle[1] or Sakai[2], or would be more of a complement to an LMS and integrate with that approach somehow?

Likewise, any connection between this and SCORM[3] or Tin-Can[4] and a LRS[5]?

[1]: http://www.moodle.org

[2]: https://sakaiproject.org/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Can_API

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Record_Store
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> Try running a public beta on some cancer drugs and see how far you get.

1) This isn't a public beta.

2) If cancer drugs WEREN'T tested before being sold, I would be far more worried.
Hello from Singapore!

Some of the local hackers here frequent HackerspaceSG (which is currently relocating) — http://hackerspace.sg / https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackerspacesg/.

For a list of upcoming tech events in Singapore, http://webuild.sg has a good list.
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Atomic Age bomb shelter opened after 50 years
There is "compassionate use"1 by cancer drugs which would be similar...though perhaps more like a private beta.

[1]http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/cli...
Way back when a wrote a couple chapters for Android Application Development I wrote about Android's RIL daemon and the underlying device-specific RIL libraries. It's gotten a lot more complicated, but the source code is open and includes what appears to be a reference implementation: https://github.com/android/platform_hardware_ril

I have not looked at this part of Android source code in depth in a while, but from a quick look it still looks very edifying about how this part of a smartphone works.
>That was the beta/promo batch. I fail to see how that's relevant now.

Beneath the snark and hyperbole in my post, this was intended to be my point. I don't feel like someone with this mindset necessarily warrants trust in their ability to safely make the product in the future.

I just get this gut reaction against Soylent that makes me care less about structuring my thoughts in a more civilized manner. Back to ruining fun at bake sales.
Hair is often an artistic expression. Can we start including that in our height measurements? Might help Iman Shumpert:

http://sinbapointforward.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/iman-sh...
> Why would web development/design be different than almost every other technical industry? This sounds much more like surface intuition than considered insight

I'm not the OP, but I am working on side projects here in Japan with two guys working for local large internet players, and I personally worked for another very large one where I was close to technological decisions at the company level, so I'll offer more than "surface intuition".

Language barrier exists. Not only the lack of documentation (which is real), but the lack of Japanese stackoverflow (&co.) answers, fewer people on the mailing lists, and other language related problems seriously hamper the adoption of new technologies. It is also one of the many factors behind the large amount of NIH seen around. Using open source maintained libraries in your software makes less sense if no one on your team will be able to read the docs, changelogs, & co. NDAs prevent me to cite examples, but I'm sure you get the point.
Even the better - someone who has decided that he really doesn't need to ever borrow money has no worries about any credit ratings, so borrowing $20 000, 'defaulting' and paying $10 000 to cover the loan would be completely free legal money with no practical consequences.
My apologies for being a little gruff. I am coming at this from not being a user of Riak and currently exploring options for distributed processing of data as our companies data needs have gotten a bit big. I was just expressing my concern over the complexity of the problem and our understanding of a technical term. It makes it harder to consume documentation on systems for evaluation, to get an idea of how they fail and how to adjust to failure. It may not be rational but in my gut it causes me concern.
Because pharmaceutical/clinical nutritional sales have very little at all to do with websites!

In our tech focused, Business to consumer / mass business market, it is easy to forget about hands-on sales.

These products, remember, have lots of legislation around them, very strict instructions on when they are appropriate to be used, training is required in order to really use many of them properly, and so on. That tends to be the first indicator of the need for sales reps.

Equally, and perhaps more importantly, remember that direct to consumers is a market for these products only because of clinical teams recommending them. Their typical sales targets are huge, and are acquired in big bulk contracts with entire hospitals, if not healthcare regional bodies. Contracts on that scale are, again, typically done via sales teams who work closely with a client, build a relationship, and help the client get the most out of their sales. This model also exists in the tech industry, and indeed is how most Big Enterprise IT works.

I'm sure they could get more direct to consumer sales if they improved their website, yes. But even ignoring any legislative issues with directly aiding that market, why focus on growing the 5% of your market (being generous!), when that 95% of hands-on sales is really what you should be investing in?
> Care in a life-threatening situation (cancer, stroke, heart attack) should be considered a human right ...

Health care can not be considered a fundamental right for a couple of reasons.

1. It requires taking more basic rights away from others.
2. If it is a fundamental right, then we would necessarily spend all of our money to preserve it. At no point could we decide to stop paying for care with no chance of success.

Additionally, you create perverse incentives to avoid preventive care which is probably orders of magnitude less money long term.
My rule of thumb when I wonder that sort of question is 7 years. Nearly all statute of limitations fall at or below that point. By which I would then conclude, no chance could they still be prosecuted.

There are certain violations that will be exempted from the statute of limitations, but a moderate scandal/invasion of privacy isn't going to qualify. Wikipedia lists fraud against the court, international crimes, and heinous crimes, e.g. heinous violence
Yup exactly. Your use of the word "entire" is what is wrong with your thinking, and what every other package manager gets wrong too. There is so much duplicated code out there as a result of people thinking to themselves "this is too small to be its own component". Instead, they just copy-paste it into the bottom of the file.

Yes the "on-escape" component just attaches an escape handler to the document. One of the reasons for it is just to not have to write that code yet another time, since doing that is boring and, more importantly, prone to bugs.

But the other reason is that it turns this:

document.attachEventListener('escape', fn, false);

into this:

onEscape(fn);

without losing any clarity whatsoever.

It's also more performant than attaching tons of different escape handlers, because across all components everyone will share the same event listener. Even for components that somebody else wrote and you're just using.

So yes, there's a component just for onEscape.
Why does the universe appear fine-tuned for life?
TLDR: It's only the tallest US building if you include the antenna atop 1WTC in the measurement, and disqualify antennas atop many other tall buildings. No technical rationale exists for the unequal treatment.

The World Trade Center tragedy isn't respected by cheating in a penis-measuring contest, and the organization that made this decision should be forever embarrassed and discredited.
This could never be self sustaining because it would increase the cost of debt (if the debtors could pay, it wouldn't have been sold).
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I love good food. But I fall in the amateur athlete category, and for me getting the right nutrition mix is a massive chore on a day to day basis. I would never go to just Soylent, but I'd love to experiment with substituting a number of meals with it.
Beijing to set up powerful national security body in face of mounting threats
Nope, we just let you add friends in the app from your contact list. (If you add them, then we do get their name and email so we can put them on your friend list.)
Or the neo900

http://neo900.org/
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This is really quite silly to me.

Lyrical content can't be "sold" to consumers - it can only be used in promotional material. I can't imagine how anyone would be able to calculate damages for punitive action, but I can't imagine that it's very easily demonstrable, except directly to the licensing company who would supposedly otherwise be paid the licensing fees.

To me, this resembles a flailing music industry fishing for revenue.

At the same time, the published material itself is certainly copyrighted.

Does anyone believe these sites are, in any way, not helping the artists?
This is a sorta common thing to do when installing complex software; especially hacks like this that could be detected as a rootkit. If during the install, some anti-virus decidecs to quarantine a file and the updating of hyper-sensitive data locations(firmware/bootloader/etc) fails at some random block I/O .... that device is finished, unless you have the right JTAG unit, have the stock(proprietary) binaries, have the chip-schematics for the pin-outs...
actually the three level explanation includes this facet through the little Indian girl - Sati.
Remember when she makes a sunset for Neo at the end? And the story by Morpheus about the legend of "someone who could make the matrix as he wanted. born into the matrix". Obviously only a program can be born "into the matrix".

I think Sati was really the One and inserting Neo's code into the Source rebooted it, effectively deleting her. This did NOT happen thanks to Neo not choosing the Source (and tge Oracle's tricks).

But the real world is still not real ;)
I'm in Kansas City too, I'll have to stop by!