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Hitman Pro Uses Debug Feature Intel CPUs to Prevent Return-Oriented Programming
A new version of the Alert function Hitman Pro uses a debug feature in Intel Core chips and newer Atom CPUs to protect users against ROP (return oriented programming).

Here is the original article translated with Google Translate:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F102378%2Fhitman-pro-gebruikt-debugfunctie-intel-cpus-om-gebruikers-te-beschermen.html
The Dao of Immutability
The secession of South Carolina was a reaction only to Lincoln being elected, not to anything he'd done.

Lincoln was elected in November; South Carolina seceeded in December. Inaugurations were done then in March. Sumter happened in April.
Surfing.. I'd hope!
+1 for teaching me about the inotifywait command.
Science reporting is really hard. This story comes off as if there was enough research to start to move away from the researched sweeteners. Especially the part in the end is laughable: "Segal, for one, is taking no chances: he says that he has switched from using artificial to natural sweetener in his morning coffee."

However the study done on humans had small sample size, the only studied sweetener was saccharin and the subjects were given the full ADI. These are very preliminary studies and are useful mostly for deciding future study targets. So not really studies to base your diet decisions on.
How to trade equity indexes using ETFs
There was, in the form of the -fno-nil-receivers compiler flag. It looks like clang doesn't support this flag. I'm guessing nobody used it. You'd have to be really careful when turning it on, since you're effectively using a language that's similar but not quite identical to Objective-C, and which will crash on lots of legal and sensible Objective-C code.
Even though I've worked for some total jerks over the years, I could never be tempted to insert a logic bomb.

I did get blamed for one once after I left a particularly bad gig - they deleted "some old files" - the SVN repo - from an old server and lost anything that wasn't a year-old+ checkout on another developer's machine.

But this was the same shop that disabled SQL Server transaction logs and backups since they ran out of disk on their web server.
> Guess which had blood sugar spikes at the end of the challenge... the one eating fat/protein.

I believe this is thoroughly discussed in The Four Hour Body, amongst other things. It's the reason you eat beans and other "slow carbs" on that diet, since breaking down fat without any carbs will spike your sugar.
As an LA-area resident, I definitely feel like an overall "Los Angeles" category is important. Santa Monica and Venice are LA; leaving them out is like leaving out Palo Alto or Mountain View from a "Silicon Valley" category.
I just manually curate in these cases. HN hiring threads don't ever exceed a level where 0.5% manual review would be onerous.
As far as I can recall, it was in the 90s.
> This annoys me so much because you are essentially arguing that problems caused by refusing to read are problems caused by operating systems, and this really isn't the case. This isn't something Apple has done a better job with either, it's just that the marketshare for Apple wasn't high enough for the malware vendors to bother with them.

If you have to carefully uncheck a bunch of options to avoid killing your computer with malware, then yes, the operating system is at fault. These sort of dark design patterns shouldn't exist, and the OS should be designed so that it's harder to implement shady things like this.

Yes, there is Mac malware out there, but Mac apps tend to have no installer at all, which is where most of the malware and crapware come from. It's harder to install some OS daemon when "installing" is just copying a file into your Applications folder. Mac apps almost never ask for permissions so I think users are more wary when the OS is asking weird stuff.

And Malware is practically unheard of in the Linux/Free Software world. I trust "apt-get install" implicitly when dealing with the main Debian archives.

> See, you're doing it again. You're not dealing with "Windows issues", you're dealing with issues on Windows boxes, caused by non-Windows problems.

That's a reasonable distinction, I suppose. How about this: The Windows software community sucks. The product may be fine if you know your way around the horrible alleys where malware and crapware lie in wait, but for normal people, the whole external environment is designed to screw you and mangle your computer.

Windows itself may be great, but the whole ecosystem is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
India Satyam Computers former head jailed for fraud
Yes. Certain instances of "more market" decision making where technology permits it, e.g. making people pay the true cost of driving their own car, would probably have gotten more cities better and more extensive public transit sooner. The free market produces efficient results without respect to morality, so it can just as well choose overt racism and murder to achieve that perceived efficiency. It doesn't make a free market inherently bad, but it's certainly not inherently good or better than a sometimes "nanny" government. When I think of anarcho-capitalism, it's visions of The Gangs of New York. Something that could possibly arrive at more moral results most of the time would be anarcho-syndicalism, but the syndicalism component drives staunch capitalists bezerk. What? No one to exploit? That's not fair!
Watch this motivational playlist on Youtube. It will get you back on your feet and focused to change the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26U_seo0a1g&list=PLYzEWmEmHy...
My introduction to this was Jeffery in Virtua Fighter.
PCP is much finer-grained than Zabbix in terms of the metrics it makes available (esp. from the Linux kernel); not sure on Zabbix costs but PCP is quite light on all resources (mem, cpu, net) and very robust.

I've worked on production systems where everything else was failing (hardware, kernel, applications) but PCP kept chugging along, recording and telling the sad story to anyone that would listen.
Sometimes I would combine all functions back into one and rethink how to refactor them.
There are several versions of the S&P 500. The version used here is the price index, which doesn't include dividends. The total return index, ^SPXTR[1], does account for dividends.

https://ycharts.com/indices/%5ESPXTR/level
In Memoriam: Get Satisfaction (2007–2015)
how is this spam frontpage?
Write it yourself. ISO games tend to have a lot of little difference and it's hard to find an exact fit, plus most of them are just hacked up versions of regular 2d tile maps. You'll end up customizing it enough that you might as well write it from scratch. If I was in your shoes I'd use SDL.
Thinking of the Children pales in comparison to "But what about my ranch?" Wolf extinction, wolf reintroduction, and wolf hunting licenses are all fun topics in Montana.
JavaScript All the Way Down – Linux Journal
You must have been drinking around 2 litres of Coke for that many calories. Have you tried switching from Diet Coke to water? You'll need a few trips to Starbucks a day (an americano has 0 kcal, it's like caffeinated air!) until you can reduce your caffiene dependence.
California Lawmakers Press on with New Vaccination Bill
As someone hiring some people* remote, your rate is at the way way top end of the scale. Even for people with core experience in Node (where I'm hiring).

I get what you're saying, but as an employer, the "non negotiable" and inflexible attitude is a point-blank no for me. Your OS contributions (caveat: spent 2 minutes looking) are hardly much (lists on github are not 'valuable programming', to me it's just content marketing that may as well be on a blog) compared to people asking for 1/2 to 2/3 of your proposed salary, who have core contribs, manage production-deployed packages/code that are in frequent use etc.

Your mileage may vary, so best of luck. But that's my perspective, as an employer, looking for remote devs. The competition is actually pretty high, and you can get awesome candidates that might earn $120-160k a year when working in the valley for $80-120k due to the lower costs they can incur ('valley tax') and the flexibility you offer as a remote employer.

Don't get me wrong, I know the value of a high-priced consultant (am/was one) to fix an emergency. But you're not asking people to deliver you an emergency, you're asking for a job. And to deliver in an emergency, you need a hell of a lot more credibility and slickness, which your post suggest you don't have.

* might be one, might be more. Depends on who applies and what it looks like.
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Btw, for people that are somehow stuck with Microsoft's make - "nmake" and its syntax, but lack threading (e.g. make's -j), you should try out Qt projects jom. It was mainly done so Qt and rest of the projects recompiles faster for Windows. It can even integrated with Xoreax's IncrediBuild:

http://wiki.qt.io/Jom

It's wonderful!
The tone is admittedly aggressive, but his feet are way more in the ground than those of the authors of the article. What those guys are doing is essentially illegal.
When I'm working consulting for a non-technical client, I like to formally put together a 'how to fire me' document.

Including things like 'here's how to disable access to github, the server, the database, change ssh keys, here's where the backups are, these are the services you need to change over, this is how you request a final invoice and pay it, here's how you engage another contractor or consultant, here's a rundown of the project to get them up to speed', all of that kind of stuff and more I can't think about at the moment.

I think it's very important to make sure the client knows that they are in charge - and it makes it easier to do things your way, since the client has a very clear picture of what power they have and how it operates. This means they can trust you to do your job well, and actually makes them less prone to interfere just to reassure themselves they can.

These are useful in a non-client environment too - having a run sheet for your job is great for when you're out sick or on vacation. If you can't be sure that your work will be just fine without you, how can you really enjoy a vacation?

I think we spend a lot of time automating our technical tasks, while missing a bunch of easy 'automation' in terms of checklists and documentation. Make it easy for someone to fill your shoes for the day if needed.
The point is when you include your time your comparing ~10k products and there purchase price is a rounding error, not that Linux is inferior because it's free.
The bigger question is what happens if you don't sell at that price.

Large bond placements usually begin with testing clients' enthusiasm at specific interest rate, and then adjusting the interest rate in case of under/over-subscription.

Not saying you couldn't do that via an online auction system, it's just that cost and time it takes is usually under-estimated.
AirBnB possibly farms craigslist for leads
I prefer and run Linux. However, troubleshooting Linux issues, even on Ubuntu is a pain in the ass. The fact that Google's page rank favors older stable pages in search results is a factor. A forum post from 2004 is not the best source of information in regards to dual monitors (and xrandr). 2007 instructions for changing the default boot will be based around Grub. I shouldn't adjust ~/.bash_login in 14.10 despite what the internet says. I should use the configuration tool.

My point is that Ubuntu is complex [as is Windows] and when something doesn't run quite right, the right answer is usually hard to find and hard to recognize because it will be embedded in a culture of highly technical cross referencing. The tradeoff for going down the rabbit hole is that Linux is really powerful and flexible.

I'm loving me some Xmonad this week, but I had to root around in xkb and xmodmap and write a little haskell and read about out how to switch layout engines in Ubuntu [and then translate that into xfce based Ubuntu Studio]. It's non-trivial and requires reading stuff on the Arch Linux Wiki. Ubuntu isn't really self contained in the way Windows is.
S.F. airport had most breaches into restricted areas, study finds
While I don't think legality is a question here, it's a hell of a way to generate a $1B company.
I don't think I've ever had to install a driver manually on Windows 7.
If you asked an experienced effective high school teacher "how do you do it?" What could they tell you? It took a lot of work to learn how to teach: experimentation, analysis, etc...you simply have to learn how to teach!

Take a look at Teach Like a Champion 2.0 by Lemov. It answers this precise question! (http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Like-Champion-2-0-Techniques/dp/...).
Another vote for pass. It doesn't integrate into other applications, but I don't mind that. It also doesn't sync, but it does create a git repo by default, so syncing isn't hard to set up yourself.
Couldn't they have made the update slightly smaller than 2GB? Apple sucks at distribution and their software update infrastructure is hosing.
In theory it shouldn't be too hard for a private insurance company to develop a similar product if there was enough interest from startups.
Holy Apple can't be wrong. Microsoft bad bad and clunky.

We're talking about a security issue!
Any hints for the coupon?
The part about undergraduate versus graduate marks, to me at least, doesn't seem to say what the author thinks it says.

To me, it says "your marking scheme for graduates is broken".

The entire purpose of marks is to classify the people taking the course. Or, to put it another way:

When everyone is super, no-one is.
Two things jump out for me. 1: pre-IPO and 2: "vested substantially".

If I were in a similar position to yourself, I would carefully analyse the financial pros & cons of staying vs leaving. I see a risk of jumping ship and ruing the decision down the track.

The pre-IPO state might be triggering increased political activity. The scent of money does that to people.

If staying is the better option financially, then moving to another team and learning to play politics better might make your situation easier to handle.

If at all possible, it would be great to find a mentor in a different company but similar industry. There are so many nuances to situations such as yours that it is difficult to suggest viable alternatives without hashing out the many constituent options.

Good Luck!
Where's all the holier than thou posts calling you all squatters? Or is there is a difference because maybe, one day you might decide to use it??
This is being talked about now with [PEP 411 - Provisional packages in the Python standard library][1].

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0411/
Or maybe it requires specific knowledge of obscure names like Adobe Reader. Or did I miss something and Adobe started charging for Reader once there were double - digit numbers of free alternatives including those built into the browsers?

Heck, do Chrome or Firefox actually register with the system to handle PDFs? Wouldn't surprise me if they did.
How does this work when you travel abroad? It seems like various currency-issuing governments are small-to-medium players in this arena with large transnational companies being the only ones to capture the economies of scale.
You are right. I suppose a more complex system might be a better example where there are several competing forces. "X wants to go to state A, but Y wants X to go to state B" with some relative probabilities of each. Then again, I just don't buy the argument that our big problem here is that the language here is somehow misleading the general public, and that's really my main point. If we accept that we can't say things like these, we then should also stop using terms like "greedy algorithm" because they sound so sinister.
Again you are completely missing the point. The SAT is not "pro" guessing. It is mathematically neutral.

If you get rid of guessing completely, then there's no way to differentiate between people who have no clue what the question is and people who actually have a clue. Giving 3 points for a blank question rewards people who are clueless and punishes people that aren't.

If you really did crush the SAT I am rather confused how you fail to understand any of this.

PS: this thought just ran past my mind, it seems like you actually think your scoring scheme is actually mathematically fair. Someone that is able to eliminate 1/5 answers will average 1 point per question (4 points / 4 choices) Someone who cannot eliminate any answers gets 3 points per question??? Where is the logic in that?

If you crushed the SAT they must have removed the probability questions these days lol.
Totally agree, why not put on your website what you'll offer to tell people in the first 5 minutes of a conversation.
>There is no magic in Ada, Oracle, etc.

There is no magic but there are strong constraints that shift reliance for correctness from fallible human programmers and peripheral tools to the type system and compiler, providing better integrated, systematic assurance.
There is ultimately no law and no right between nations, except persuasion and force.

The moment the South separated, they willingly subjected themselves to that. If they wanted someone to step in and say, hey, you can't do that, then they should have remained a part of the system that provided exactly that.

You can't declare yourself a separate nation, then get upset when you're treated like it.
So you don't have a GPU card I guess?
Can Circuit Breakers Be Used to Store Memory?
There is a character limit of 2000, so please see my comment below.
Recently my Kitchen Lights have been finicky, in that they won't immediately Flip On. To turn the lights on, one needs to flip the switch On, Off, On, Off, etc. several times in order to get the Kitchen Lights to physically light up and turn on. The Kitchen Lights were like this for some time, and I didn’t really think much of it. It seems like the circuit is “Stuck” in an “Off” state.

Similarly my Bathroom Lights displayed the exact opposite, in that the light stayed On (i.e., lit up) after hitting all the switches to off. Again, I had to begin flipping the switches On, Off, On, Off to finally get the Bathroom Lights to physically stop and turn off. As if the circuit were “Stuck” in an “On” state.

So we know that Transistors in a computer typically hold a voltage, and by the variance of this voltage we can develop two distinct states; e.g., High and Low voltage. We translate this physical voltage signal into a digital signal; representing a One or Zero. That is, a "Bit" of information. Follow me so far?

Now I am wondering, not being a hardware engineer, electrician, or an expert in computer information theory, and a relatively rudimentary (compared to many people in this forum) understanding of how a digital computer works; but, is it possible to use a circuit breaker, the electric grid, appliances, or any other ordinary household item as a store of information via High and Low voltage?

In other words, is it theoretically possible that with a Nest-like device (a computer connected to the electric-grid of a house) one could pulsate, change voltages, or somehow induce other appliances on the same circuit to store a bit of information? Could, an algorithm or program, be running throughout the electric grid, using [1] a circuit breaker, [2] appliance, or [3] any voltage carrier as a store of information? Could voltage running through a circuit be used as a Bit of information?

For example, my home has 24 circuit breakers, or potentially 3 Bytes of information. Let’s say I have an Xbox connected to the Internet, and it has an IP address. My Xbox changes the standard voltage from of 120V to 119V on its circuit and thus stores a Bit of information. Similarly, my Apple TV is upstairs, on a completely different circuit breaker, and manages to change the voltage to 121V, storing another Bit of information that is again, outside of any known data store, computer, etc. If these IP connected devices could manage to store these two bits of information on their respective electric circuits…

My question is, ignoring the inefficiency of this method of information storage, could an algorithm or program be run across a set of circuits like this? Could my Internet Connected devices, each on their own respective circuits, be harboring some unknown “Bit of Information” in a much larger scheme?

Apologize if this is a stupid question. But now my mind is running on about how AI might evade the detection of humanity and already be existent or running throughout our electricity.

Thanks for your attention.
Linux desktop is and has been second rate for a long long time. Turns out unless there are corporate sponsors paying for development, open source software sucks. The OSS community is pretty much in denial about that.
Author response to “HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it” objections
PyCon 2015 Channel
Sigh. No practical way…
They are uploading next-day.
Tidal friction from the moon (and to a lesser extent from the sun) would also have contributed.
For what it's worth, I enjoyed the world-building but found the actual plot too simplistic.

Kind of like Flatland in that regard, I suppose, so it's not terrible.
Ubuntu's announcment:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/04/09/designed-for-develope...

Developers Blog:
http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-devel...
Is trendy Berlin losing its edge?
Do you want Roko's basilisk? Because that's how you get it :). In seriousness, I love this thing.
Oh, it certainly can change. When the rightful owner of a property decides that it's time.

You have no legitimate right to demand that anyone do anything with their property based on your preference.
> Windows is out of the question after seeing what a factory OEM image comes with nowadays. I'm not giving them money and spending 2 days formatting/reinstalling/seeking out drivers on slow Taiwanese servers just to make a half-usable computer.

"Dude, get a Dell!"[1] Seriously, one of the selling points of a Dell system is rock solid components, and a centralized place to find drivers (at least for the business line of systems). Keep in mind, Dell sells hundreds of thousands (or more?) systems to corporate America, all with support contracts. Everything they can streamline and make more stable and reliable is money in their pocket. I mean, they wrote their own RAID drivers for the AMI and LSI Megaraid chipsets which they resold under the PERC brand, and in my experience, they were better than the manufacturer drivers. That takes dedication.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Curtis_%28actor%29#The_Dell...
Secret Republicans in Silicon Valley
well I don't know about that since operational history from Iran tends to be shaky in credibility. I mean they have no training and maintenance capabilities after the revolution when the American technician sabatoged the Tomcats as well as critical parts.

Even the two times the Phoenix missile was fired they both failed. Not sure how a completely cut off Iranian air force with no spare parts or maintenance knowledge would've been able to fire at Iraqi, an equally incompetent force, my guess is the Iraqi air force actually crashed before the Iranians did.
how many smart people are there compared to the current appetite for software?
Things that Saved Apollo 13 (2010)
If everyone cared that much about copyright I think no one would ever make anything. There's always a way to sue someone over something, especially copyright.
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