skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only is it "read only," it's not even necessarily read only:

#include <iostream>

void f(const int* var)
{
*var = 42;
}

int main()
{
int* ptr = new int(78);
f(ptr);
std::cout << *ptr << std::endl;
return 0;
}

Compiling produces:

[scott_s@local Code] g++ const.cpp
const.cpp: In function ‘void f(const int*)’:
const.cpp:5: error: assignment of read-only location

But if we make it:

#include <iostream>

void f(const int* var)
{
int* sneaky = const_cast<int*>(var);
*sneaky = 42;
}

int main()
{
int* ptr = new int(78);
f(ptr);
std::cout << *ptr << std::endl;
return 0;
}

We get:

[scott_s@local Code] g++ const.cpp
[scott_s@local Code] ./a.out
42

C++ gives us escape hatches all over the place. I think that the modern approach of compartmentalizing all escape hatches into explicitly regions of "unsafe" code, and providing no escape hatches outside of such regions, is much better.
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Of course, but the story focuses on a group of women whose project was hindered by U.S sanctions.
I guess we need a chrome extension to uuencode your next social network over FB status updates.
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The web and foursquare.
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This describes a certain kind of corporate agile that I like to call "Agile in a Waterfall".
According to the law, yes. They absolutely deserve that money because that's what the law says. You can't choose to ignore a law because it's inconvenient for you. If you choose to ignore a law for your own benefit then that allows others to do the same for your potential detriment. That's extremely bad short-term thinking.

Your complaint is with the law, it has nothing to do with the content providers. You say but the content providers influence the law with money. In that case your complaint is with the system that writes the law. Your ire is misdirected and likely will cause nothing to change.

Of course, there's civil disobedience to consider. It would be an interesting way to combat the laws at hand but I'm not sure how to go about that in terms of media consumption. I suppose if enough people did it at the same time.

But you fall into the common problems with these type of discussion; you act as if your choices are limited. For instance, with piracy it's usually "they don't make it easy and/or cheap enough for me to buy so therefore I must steal it" which is a self-limiting range of options. It totally ignores several options such as simply not consuming the content in question and move on to something else. You present only one option in your desire to create, a derivative work based off of another's content. That's not your only option in this case.

Finally, this idea that this stuff is a part of our culture and we're locked out of it. I would say if we're locked out of it so tightly that we can't enjoy it then I wouldn't call it part of our culture. But this culture defense is new to me in these terms, it's an interesting idea. It will ultimately fail in the end but an interesting defense nonetheless.
In past cases, some of these ram scrapers have been in the form of dlls which are injected, by Windows (AppInit_DLLs), into the intended process.
thumb screws is all anyone would need with me.
I don't understand. If I come to a carrier and say "Here's a codebase for your baseband. It's OSS, well tested, secure, and supported. Buy support from me." why won't they go for it. Surely, an OSS solution is cheaper for them than developing an in-house crap solution that I'm sure it is now.

Also, is there any harm in just open sourcing their baseband code? It seems to me that it's worthless without the license to use the frequency anyways, so who cares if the code is open from a losing business point of view. On the other hand, things like security review are to the carriers' and manufacturers' benefit, no?
Imperial system is bad, even for you who grown up with it, it should be obvious how inconvenient it is. As for temperature, while F is not telling me anything useful, C is always telling me if it will rain or snow, actually when it snows it is always closer to 0 (or 32).

As article mentioned, we got time from Babylonians, who got it from Summerians. Time and calendar are one of the weirder things we deal with. I used internet time for a while, you know the Swatch thing. It looks weird in the beggining, but very quickly you get it and it works well and it is convenient that it is not time-zone dependant. And that was just a marketing gimmick from Swatch.

I think the whole idea that we somehow manage to create bridges and build buildings despite weird measures we use, is more testament to our ability to overcome difficult obstacles.
Thanks for your feedback, bdfh42!

Actually, to view content you click on it, and you can scroll like a normal page.

The "brochure" is not a single article, it's like a list of content that you click on to read.

I don't know if it's a terrible idea, that's why we're looking for feedback :-)

What do you guys think?
Yes, let's. You take care of the non-US citizen part and I'll give you a low-ball for the US citizens killed by other countries number.

If we use this handy wikipedia page shown below we can see that US military casualties are at a touch over 1.3 million.

Let me know when you're done being facetious and/or have an answer for your number of non-US citizens killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualti...
It has problems because it lacks context.

With human int, you can get more understand of what the thinking and intentions are.
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I have always wondered about this. An interesting thing to think about is if there is a correlation between programming language and type of music a programmer likes.
> If you are in favor of the US bullying and spying everyone they don't consider an ally

Oh come on man. This is plain old Appeal to Emotion.

Let me know when you find a powerful country that does not engage in spying.
I haven't read the decision, just secondary sources, so I am probably incorrect. The reply above yours linked to:

http://recode.net/2014/01/15/whats-net-neutrality-what-happe...

Which seems to do a good job explaining it. Specifically this bit:

> It’s those rules [the Open Internet rules] that Verizon is saying the FCC had no legal authority to enact. The reason that Verizon was successful was because of the basic incongruity I described to you at the beginning — that 10 years ago, the FCC deregulated these actors. And it can’t now simultaneously pretend to regulate them.

My original comment was incorrect: I meant they can either not regulate or classify ISPs as common carriers and then regulate. Again, totally open to being correct here, this is complicated and I could totally be wrong.
I doubt that is what drove this. I'm sure they teach them that sort of thing so they know how to treat themselves in a pinch if they are on there own and can't see a real doctor. The problem is that some of them are too self confident and a little dumb so they think it is a fine idea to give it a go during every day life even when there is a doctor available to them. Think, "I'm not lost and don't need to ask for directions I'll just follow the north star like they taught us."
> Some people are imprisoned for the anti anxiety pill in their bllodstream that they took before the flight.

OMG, where? I need to be sure to never go there, given my random (being treated) phobias and such.
This is so on point for any company not just software ones. I work at an NGO and not a tech company, and this just reminds me of every meeting we have about internal processes.

We end up creating grandiose plans, but they usually just turn into endless bullet points for strategic road maps rather then actionable items
Local car boot sales, private adverts in shop windows.
If you are in or near London, Brick Lane market may still be a possibility, although Wikipedia says it's not so notorious as it once was.

Consider challenging the insurer's decline of your claim, particularly if the bike was expensive.
This story was still on the front page, with the identical title, when this submission was made.
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But this still breaks net neutrality. You don't get to treat some traffic differently because it's served by a 501c3.
Are you implying that the Chinese are more transparent than the "Most Transparent Administration In History"? Or are you taking the claim at face value? Perhaps I misunderstand?
The real question is why is there one python. Perl was already doing everything python can do and it is pointless to write every supporting library in 20 different languages. You can write good or bad code in any language; the language is nearly irrelevant. Of course, I wouldn't propose going to Bourne shell or something.
You are absolutely correct in your analysis, but you seem to have ended up with a very strange conclusion. The entities who participate in the formulation of open standards do have immense power, this is correct. As opposed to...people who write proprietary software having immense power. Are you actually arguing we return to a closed-door model where individual companies like Apple or Microsoft are the gatekeepers of innovation, as opposed to a process that is at least semi-public and can theoretically be contributed to by anybody?

Very strange conclusion.
LZMA compression (used in the xz format) is much slower than the disk interface and uses a lot of memory, so it would reduce performance.
Is there any way to try the workflow before giving up e-mail/phone?

I do similar thing with my friends and it's whole lot of fun to know that ten other people are achieving something great too:)
I've probably got about 60 open across two sessions right now, and this is typical or lower. It's as simple as having a queue of things to get to, plus groups of tabs represented in-progress research on some topic. It's especially useful given tab-sync across devices. It's not a workflow for everyone, but if the benefit of having easy access outweighs the intangible mental cost of a zillion tabs, it can work very well.
You also can't store things like WSUS server's updates on it; I have no idea why. It rather mitigates the point, and frustrates me, that I can't use it for a lot of the things I'd like to be robust against such problems...
It's completely irrelevant anyway. Whoever is in control of releasing press statements in the NSA has no idea what the organization is actually doing.
Yes, X11 itself can display over a network. But
it's quite painful over an even somewhat slow link.
The high density displays we are starting to see may end up solving the artifact problem - we won't be able to discern individual pixels for much longer.

The other problems: elements that vanish, such as lines and thin structural rectangles, would require some pixel-related restrictions in their definition. I'm not sure vector programs are able to deal with them right now, but it would be useful.
"but, but, I've hitched my cart to that horse!"
I can only guess your parent believes the NSA should be in defensive-only mode because we are not at war. That's the only half-rational position that fits with his statement that I can think of.
Except for kids and parents who saw "Tangled."
Well, I don't think that's correct -- it would make the term "type system" meaningless. In particular, lots of programs have bugs that type systems can catch.

For more on whether all programs have types, I wrote this: https://medium.com/p/8a3b4bedf68c
Danzig anybody?
> At least not anymore.

Why not "anymore"? What has changed?
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> Fully support the initiative for an open baseband.

How do you ensure that the manufacturer doesn't modify the baseband code?
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+1 on Hypercritical's discussion on widely used file systems and their problems. When I saw this article on Ars I was surprised that John Siracusa wasn't the author. Somewhere he must be smiling.
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2 Common ways to leak memory in Go.
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It's not even a good blog post. That Google is expanding its strategy is pretty obvious. Actually proposing what it might be would have been interesting.
If Google offered dinner suggestions, it would recommend whatever restaurant bids the highest in AdWords.
There's a big thread on Reddit that suggests programming to video game music, as it's designed to be in the background. Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1u4xh1/lpt_look...
The buzzword of the day is "reactive".)
One issue, the site highjacks the back button.

Otherwise, beautifully amazing.
Interesting writeup and cool that Mr. Ligh has provided these plugins / tools. On the whole though, doesn't appear to contain much novel information.

Of course, partition-only encryption has weaknesses in that the OS may store data in another partition (i.e. you've encrypted the "D:" drive but Windows just dumps a cached file to "C:", let alone the whole pagefile challenge). So you need to trust your OS to not write the masterkey to disk, which is widely acknowledged. I personally run with no page file, so memory ought not to be written to disk by the OS itself (barring a malicious adversary), although this solution isn't the best for someone on 1GB RAM.

Full-disk encryption would block this attack, i.e. encrypted swap on Linux (crypttab makes this quite easy) or system-drive on Truecrypt. Even if it's dumped to disk, you can't get it, again barring online access to the system. Online access this is all null and void regardless as they could just issue commands to dump memory to disk no matter what you've done!
How do you like the laptop? I broke my MacBook Air and I am looking for a good replacement.
Damn.. this is one of the best firewalls available that I haven't used because it won't work on the embedded hardware I have. I'd (figuratively) kill for this on a Pi.
That's hardly newspeak. A key part of any good defense is information. Infosec to protect your own information is not sufficient.

Thus, information gathering is an active part of defensive operations.

Imagine you are an antimalware company (a real one, a good one). Maintaining a virus tank, actively trawling the internet for brand-new viruses, and studying them as they appear, would be part of an active defense against malware.
That's odd because agile methods like scrum have a definition of done, which has to be complete before you can class an issue as done.

definition of Done usually includes things like written code, unit tests, code review, documented etc

I suspect most people doing a agile, don't actually do agile. And think its a term for little structure.

Agile methods, such as XP programming are highly disciplined methods, more so than traditional.

The main difference is that they react to customer change, and don't follow plan than stretches 6 months into the future. The priorities of tasks can change from sprint to sprint. Allowing the team to react to the outside world.
Fahrenheit was supposed to be 0 degrees for freezing, and 100 for body temperature.

It turns out that Fahrenheit's reference thermometer was a bit... off... however.
Oh, well if they said it, then it must be true.
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Another +1 for Toastmasters.

I've gotten a lot more comfortable speaking in front of people.
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To me, there are a bunch of people who can't do Agile. They have huge legacy software projects, with low test coverage. They have customers that want (or can only cope with) traditional requirements based contracts.

In situations where agile doesn't make sense, do you think 'fake agile' can be a better way of working than 1990s waterfall?
In a recent book, which I learned from a podcast[1], Lant Pritchett argues that much of the increase of education in developing countries is to a great extent fake, being inflated by governments which "have created all the appearances of schools that provide education but without actually doing it " by producing "enrollment statistics, numbers of buildings, numbers of toilets, numbers of textbooks, numbers of everything (...) all of which can project the image that there's a functional system and providing real learning there."

I think a similar effect has happened to RESTful architectures; people making them have (inadvertently, I believe) produced very convincing emulations while skipping the parts that effectively distinguish them from RPC systems.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/12/lant_pritchett.html
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Yep.

The efficacy of those antibiotics, I'd wager.
The Saudi Arabian government didn't (as far as I know) sponsor or train the 9/11 hijackers. I also don't see how they were really furthering Saudi interests either.
Anyone thinking of making a video to sell a privacy product to mass consumers should probably stay away from creepy music and women walking around in all black hoods. Instead go for soccer moms buying stuff with her credit card or librarians doing research for a school kid. Let's not make secure/private communications something weird and creepy but something normal that everyone does.
Nonsense.

Bugging a hundred thousand computers? That's a lot of resources thrown at a problem and the results are terrible. Maybe a single attack averted since 9/11. We know why: too many false positives waste resources - and you don't have that much humint to start with.

That they're doing that much surveillance is a sign that they're either incompetent or the official justification is a smoke screen. They're also spying on allies. Was it really necessary to bug Merkel's cell phone?

Spying on allies and passing off trade secrets only results in backlash - and when that many computers are bugged it's only a matter of time before it's discovered.

While you're growing sigint budgets, you're not spending enough on humint.

Do you really feel safer with the government conducting spycraft so incompetently?
If he hadn't particularly registered his bike, I think he's out of luck, but he can try.

I work for an insurance company (not in the UK) and we specifically ask for such easily movable objects to be explicitely registered in the home insurance policy (make, model and in some cases identification numbers), they're otherwise excluded. People must remember to register new purchases (they usually don't), and it's up to the insurance company whether to cover them or not. As part of a bigger (proven/proveable) theft, they might, but usually not as a singular event (too easy to abuse).

Apparently in the UK it's an optional:

http://www.which.co.uk/money/insurance/guides/contents-insur...
Mozilla would have an awful lot of security work to do. If you check the CVEs for Firefox, there was, on average, a remote code execution vulnerability each week in the last 3 months.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=firef...
Hey, thanks !
>Cheap antibiotics will cause a drop in the Most Holy Profits of Our Sacred Corporations

The opposite is true: with bacteria resistant to ancient antibiotics that are out of patent and work in weeks, the only alternative will be treatment for months or years with heavily patented drugs of dubious effectiveness and long hospital stays.

Is that your preferred outcome?
We don't do those things because they don't trust us. We do those things because they are a threat that need to be contained and ideally mitigated. Pakistan is a nuclear power, and Saudi Arabia is incredibly wealthy, and both are quite hostile towards us regardless of certain feigned diplomacy.
The US also has usury laws, which I found fairly surprisingly when I was just starting out. I previously thought usury was a strictly a historic crime, like adultery or eating bacon on the sabbath. But some people are very much offended by the idea of lenders charging too high an interest rate.

They actually become relevant for late fees, since you usually do want your fee to be punitive enough to encourage timely payments. The usual practice is set your fee to 1.5% per month or the highest percent allowed by law (i.e. just below usury if that's applicable in your state).
Increasing access to antibiotics is not necessarily a good thing.
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That was my mistake. I posted it after reading, and didn't notice I was on the home page.
To clarify: Python is not a scripting language because you can throw a .pyc over the wall to me, but Ruby is a scripting language because it has no intermediate bytecode representation?
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If this is half-arsed, then what is the enterprise definition of full-arsed?
I'm not sure what you are describing as incorrect. Tipping 100 Bitcoins would cost nearly $100,000. Yes, you can tip the same value in Bitcoins, but tipping a decimal amount is not fun since everyone is conditioned to local currency value that generally goes to 2 decimal places at most. Nerds are considering this. There is a big movement in bitcoin to denominate coins in millibitcoins or microbitcoins.
Baking is actually science-like and needs to be done with precision while cooking is much more about having a feel for the ingredients and tastes.
Sound to me like Tahoe-LAFS [0] on global scale. Shall we build this ?

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
They would be the same atrocities if the US was intentionally targeting buildings with 5000 civilians in them just to make a point.
I disagree. It's still the language that is interpreted or compiled in that specific implementation. The author is also somewhat confused by the word "compilation". Most programmers use it exclusively to talk about generation of native code ahead of time.
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The "explosion in an ascii factory" wasn't doing one thing very well at all - make it easy to code.

That answers your question, really.
How is it their responsibility if your droplet is running a DOS attack?
The hour. Minutes are usually unimportant for day to day life, as long as I am in the right hour. This is not true of month-day though. I imagine most people would be caring more about day than month. The day is both more important and harder to remember, so it makes sense for it to come first.
"We do not use foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of - or give intelligence we collect to - US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line."

Right.
The Web Literacy Standard is dead (long live the Web Literacy Map)
I'm not expert in Agile, but from the pieces I used, and ones I read, Agile is not something you can do "perfect".

Agile is not something you can follow to the letter, like you said it's a bunch of processes that help you succeed. Which ones to apply, and more importantly, how to apply each process is highly dependent on the circumstances.
If we assume for a moment your assumptions about corporate motivations are correct they would be just as well to let this continue and promote it so that even the most common infection can't be treated by cheap antibiotics any more due to resistance. At which point people are forced to run into the arms of the large drug companies and their patented expensive antibiotics which can't be bought w/o a prescription at the pet store.