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Seems like the OS should be doing a lot more sandboxing of hardware features. And is Chromium ever run as root? How could it install a rootkit if not?
How useful is a humanities degree
Apparently "marrying up" used to be a major factor of social movement. Now feminists are barring that up. No free lunch for women, I guess.

They think they only limit the options of professors, but they also limit the options of students/women (and nurses, actors, what not).

Personally I will advise my kids to not study in the US because it seems too dangerous - not to be raped, but to be falsely accused. (I'm in Europe)
This is an excellent post - thanks for taking the time to share your resources!!
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Team sizes have increased, development cycles have increased, the size and amount of content expected in games has increased. Just because you now have better tools, doesn't mean it's guaranteed to get any cheaper.
If the expectations around QA aren't clear and you have a bad manager they'll actually force you to rely on QA since QA should be vetting things before they get to the customer. I've been told by one manager that I should not waste time writing unit tests and that I should rely on the QA person to test.

If the QA person has skills along the lines of a software test engineer (like at Google and other places) and can actually create tools and automate things and write some unit tests or acceptance tests, then they're half-a-programmer and I'll be happy to rely on them and share the work. Otherwise I assume the QA is there just to bow to management/marketing and give the OK for deploys.
(d) The car would stop because unlike human drivers, a self-driving car would be programmed to avoid going so fast that it can't stop if a sudden obstacle would appear (aside from maybe something falling from the sky).
Four years ago I was driving down a hill in insanely slick weather. Though I was driving very slowly, the car skidded, and was heading into an extremely busy street. I had enough steering to put the car into a tree, slowly, rather risk something really serious.

Not quite a Trolley Problem -- _I_ was among those better off by cutting the losses. But yes, weird situations and choices do emerge.
As so often in life, "follow the money"! Victimhood sells.

The media loves to write about a damsel-in-distress, especially it the story sexually titillates, e.g. the UVA rape hoax or the Columbia U mattress-girl hoax. It sells copy / drives clicks.

Narratives of victimhood open doors. For example Rachel Dolezal was on some police committees. I would surprised if coin wasn't involved. Mattress-girl was invited to the state-of-the-union address. Highly monetisable fame.
This is a good point, but still shows how our laws and the reasoning is never transparent. I wonder what they really are up to? It obviously opens the door for other regulated products (as in more profitable) will now have a higher demand. The FDA is the mobsters in America by the way.
To entrepreneurs, of course. Money doesn't beget money by magic; it needs to flow to someone who actually makes things and works, or the rate of return drops for everyone.
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After 3 years.
How much of that is due directly to the alcohol and how much is due to good old-fashioned human stupidity, slightly enhanced?

The issue with this stat is that someone hurts/kills themselves or someone else, they had alcohol in their system, ergo it's an "alcohol-related incident". The problem with this line of reasoning should be obvious.
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We are totally secure because all of our Windows users run with limited privileges!

...that is until the domain admin checks his email and opens a malicious PDF.
No, cars are sometimes in a situation where someone is going to die. If you don't think about these situations and plan who to kill ahead of time, then you don't know who is going to die and the outcome is unpredictable.
The difference between a lean steak and a nicely marbled steak in both taste and calories are significant. Not that lean meat is not palatable, but it might require some sauce due to dryness at most places (if you make it yourself, you can probably do better than most fast food restaurants) - and that extra sauce might bridge that calorie gap. Most places always overcook their meat, sadly, and lean meat isn't very palatable when overcooked; or it at least has less resistance to dryness than the fattier cuts.
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Because people like drinking alcohol, but no one's going to protest over one type of oil being replaced with another in junk food.
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already disabled the google analytics code on all my sites, which I consider a major invasion into peoples privacy. Now next step is to kill the AddThis nonsense. What are you guys using to implement sharing buttons?
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In my argument I used Somalia as a metaphor to transport an idea of a certain type of hostile enviroment.

I don't see how - in this context - a debate on somalias current affairs can be seen as something other than derailing.
Is they code actually performing physics calculations, or is it a good fake? I can fake much of that behavior with animation keyframes and that doesn't make it physics in my mind.

If it is, then I suppose I'll agree it's physics based.
Yes, if there is an underlying deeper problem, supplements aren't the answer.

However, if it is possible to become slightly iodine deficient by eating a modern diet in the US-- which seems plausible-- and if slight iodine deficiency causes or contributes to mild depression -- which also seems plausible -- an iodine supplement could be a easy solution.
With computer controlled braking, the car could spin around to take the hit on a front corner. This would provide the least danger to the occupant while not hitting the people. Though it does assume the truck is not stopping. In all likelihood it would just stop assuming the truck would stop... The same call any human driver would make if they weren't texting or otherwise distracted. It doesn't have to be perfect, just better than today on odds.
Trans fats taste terrible. Butter, ghee and lard have all flavor.
The argument that we could end artificial trans fat with tons of sugar is a straw man. The most sensible replacement which in most cases only affects the cost and shelf-life of food is either healthy or less-damaging fats.

Banning trans fat may be bad for orangutans but it's good for consumers' health.
Wow, anything that can be compared to New Relic and come out cheaper really must cost a fortune. New Relic are great, but at the moment they're probably the most expensive part of our infrastructure (including servers, through virtue of AWS giving hefty account credits to companies in incubators).
> They can't decrypt or MITM anything because they don't have google's keys

Hard to prove a negative.
I still don't quite get it; couldn't they have just mandated the usage/inclusion of trans-fat in product, and let the consumers avoid it? By the same standards, we're still letting people smoke and drink.
Agreed.

I live rural and to me deer are a pest. I do not want them traipsing through my property and not really because of the damage they do to my plants but because of the tick issue.

As we have removed the deer's natural predators it is our job now to manage their population in absence of those predators. Lyme disease is one example of how we have failed to do that adequately.

Another thing we have done to make Lyme disease prevalent is make the fox a rare species. Part of the tick's complicated lifecycle involves mice, and mice and vole populations explode in the absence of foxes. Having a healthy fox population helps to keep the population of mice down, which can interrupt the lifecycle of the tick.

We need an active deer hunt, reintroduction of wolves in places, and a program to encourage foxes. Coyotes won't do much to suppress the population of mice.
"the downside for [boys] is they are often the victim of trumped up "rape" charges"

I do not know a single person that is the victim of trumped rape charges but do know several girls who were victims of actual rape (and many more of sexual abuse).

If fake rape charges is a downside for boys then it's not an actual downside, it's a trumped up downside.
Considering how efficiently trucks stop, I wouldn't be worried. Plus, that truck is probably going to be driven by a computer too.

A) all day long.
No, I'm talking about actual scientific evidence published in peer reviewed scientific journals. There are mountains of it available.

Being in a caloric deficit is not starving yourself, it just means that over a period of time, usually a full day, you spent more energy than you consumed, and the difference is taken out of your energy storage, which is mostly adipose tissue. This is how fat loss happens.
I'm not saying there are outliers that are distorting the average, I'm saying that there are few people that are the average. Hence we can't make decisions based on the value of the average.
Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for young people. Why not ban cars while we are at it.
How useful are humanities degrees in the work environment
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Toward the end of the second wave (late 60s/early 70s, I think), feminism morphed from a social movement into an all-encompassing political and philosophical worldview that ultimately suffers from the same issues that every absolute social ideology does: shoehorning events and disciplines into its predetermined framework.

This is the time we got the various unsavory elements like lesbianism as a political identity, the idea that male homosexuality is a result of misogyny (espoused by the Redstockings, for example), separatist feminism, "womyn born womyn" and the radical feminist transphobia espoused by Janice Raymond, Mary Daly, Sheila Jeffreys, Germaine Greer and I think even Gloria Steinem at one point.

The problem is that the feminist ideology, the movement, and the principle are all different things. In common discourse, however, the feminist principle (gender equality) is equivocated to give legitimacy to feminist political theory, which is often in conflict with it.
> I would strongly disagree that an employer should feel compelled to maintain public ties with someone they wish to distance themselves from

Here's one of the secrets of the world: companies don't really care who they associate with. They don't really care about much of anything, to be honest. They're businesses, they exist to make money, and most of them don't care beyond that. So to say that a company "wishes to distance themselves from [someone]" is a bit disingenuous. It's not like the company decided "yeah, we don't like X anymore". Maybe people inside the company feel that way! But companies don't have much of an opinion about that. What they do care about is, are there people angry with the company about X? If so, they're going to fire X, or demand their resignation (if firing them would make the company look bad), or if they can't get rid of them, shuffle them off into a corner where nobody notices them. But it's definitely not, the company has a crisis of conscience, and doesn't want to be involved with X anymore.
A discipline for hard choices in the realm of human mortality are what separates professions from mere occupations. It's what gave birth to the term 'software engineer' on the Apollo team. It's the price of lunch for the self driving car team. Ignoring the implicit decision doesn't relieve anyone of responsibility. Engineering means accepting the fallibility of one's decisions and the potential consequences of failure include people dying.
Margarine was developed as a replacement for butter. Just bring butter back (or any other saturated fat. coconut oil is also awesome)
Chrome is eavesdropping software. Claiming it was installed without authorization does not cut it.

By its turn, Chromium's only selling point was that it was free of the eavesdropping features.
That wasn't the point of the comment. A cow catcher is a rigid set of bars designed to stop a heavy animal from hitting the rest of the car. A vehicle with a cow catcher hitting a human is more likely to injure or kill them than a vehicle without a cow catcher. The pedestrian safety features on modern cars are a bit like the opposite of a cow catcher - they try to soften the blow on the pedestrian, at the possibly higher risk of the pedestrian going through the windscreen and killing the driver. After all, if you wanted to protect the occupants of the car at all costs to pedestrians, you would just install a cow catcher.
Accessing dep web? this easy?
Since this is by regulation and not statue, what's to stop the next administration from simply changing its mind?
Under what situation would that happen? It happens with human drivers because they are driving too fast to stop in time. It's very simple... if you need 50 feet to stop you make sure at minimum you have 50 feet to stop. If there are things obscuring your view to the left and right you drive slower to reduce your stopping distance and make sure if something jumps out you still have enough time.

Now, if you are to consider that something jumps out in front of your car (say a deer) which reduces your reaction time, the car should do the same thing a human would do. Slam on the breaks to reduce impact speed.
Thermodynamics saves the day...
I read that first article about the liberal professor and his "liberal" students. The only student who seems to have threatened anything to get course material changed was a far-right student demanding that the course thoroughly cover the hypothesis that black people getting housing loans caused the Global Financial Crisis.

I'd really like to see some statistical evidence that the academic thought-police are louder, more prominent, or more powerful than in previous times before I start panicking over it.
The Credence Calibration game
My kid sister and all her friends use Kik. I've had a blunt conversation with her about technology in general, but she is probably the only one in her peer group who has had such a conversation.

That said, the 'controversy' section is an interview with two people. I could say the same about any app being used by children; if you know how to manipulate people and children use it, you can find children seeking validation that will do just about anything for it. Is there any actual reason that Kik is worse than normal technology?
It's possible one might be better off drinking slightly more than recommended..

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/truth-wont-admit-dr...
You wouldn't think an alternate perspective like "People, including undergrads, should be free to do what they want" would as controversial a statement as it is, but neither your statement nor mine are fully germane because they're broad principles that don't necessarily cover the minutia of every situation.

My (abandoned) dissertation was on academic novels, and one thing I found interesting is the way feminists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s fought relentlessly to argue that women were adults who could make their own choices, sexual and otherwise, and didn't need institutions to act like their parents. Lynn Peril's book College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now has an okay but not great account of this.

Sometime in the 80s or 90s, though, the script flipped, and now there is a small but loud minority calling for colleges to do the thing a lot of women wanted colleges not to do! For those of us with a sense of history, the results are entertaining.
Bridges ice before roads. It is easy to imagine conditions where stopping distances on such a bridge suddenly jump.
Don't you get it. The cyberwar isn't "heating up", what "cyberwar" exists has existed since the 90's. Yes technological pervasiveness is making vulnerabilities being taken advantage of hit larger swaths of devices, but that's not why you see the heating up of the arena.

The real reason is that we need a new boogieman to justify the level of surveillance. The public, as deluded and propagandised as they are, is starting to get tired of the same ol terrorism argument, so this is the new communism/terrorism, etc.

The point is that it's never about what they say it's about. It's about control. Inverted totalitarianism.
How did the insurance work out for you on that one?
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Everyone who read this has now given more thought to this issue than Safari's developers seem to have.
I'm neither a greedy politician, nor do I have an "IQ thinner than" a tree. And I have absolutely no idea why we would not want to cut down a really old tree.

Have you sat down and actually thought about this? Other than the emotional, nostalgic response, is there anything else there?
The car should protect it's occupants at all cost because that would be the normal reaction of someone driving the car themselves. In that case the car has been pre-programmed not to make a choice.

When faced with a split second decision whether to live or die, humans choose to live, that's how we made it this far...
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Remember: we do not even have cruise control that is usable in the winter. Once any autonomous driving system can provide even this basic function (not soon, I fear), then we can talk about more complex behavior...

This debate about what autonomous vehicles will do in extreme situations is but the "tip of the iceberg".

Until all autonomous drive systems can be "unit tested" under a standard suite of simulated sensor inputs, one would be wise to assume that they are wildly unsuitable for anything but the most trivial driving situations (eg. Golf courses, closed estates).
Speaking as a college faculty member...this essay is just fucking absurd. The problem is not just the power dynamic that the professor wields over the student, but that an intimate relationship creates an uncomfortable, likely hostile environment for everyone else who is not fucking the professor.

Think about it...assuming that you (like most HNers) are male, you'd be at a distinct disadvantage -- especially in engineering and CS -- if your (presumably male and heterosexual) professors felt OK to pursue sexual relationships with the relatively few women in their classes...while the males have no chance to boost their grade with such favoritism. Even in a more egalitarian scenario, where the professor is bisexual and has no problem with being intimate with anyone in the class...well, the students who are less attractive, or choose to pursue a monogamous relationship with a non-professor...again, they're going to get screwed by the curve.

The OP comes off as a self-involved brat who has been tenured so long that she doesn't remember what it's like to have to spend $20,000 to $80,000 a year (obviously, she doesn't...that kind of money for tuition is a recent phenomenon) for a college education. The rules against professor-student relationships aren't there to baby the students, they're there to protect against incentives and dynamic that fuck everyone else over, not just the student who manages to score with their professor.

edit: In the rare chance that your true love coincidentally happens to be in a class you teach...OK, stranger things have happened in life. So do the adult thing: quit your job, then continue the relationship. True love should be stronger than the benefits of a tenured position. Don't screw it up for all the other poor students whom the gods did not make to be your soulmate.
A build tag can be used to rapidly go from a commit to a binary and from a deployment to a sha in cases where the build attribute isn't the sha, but a number or version.

There are many other permission uses cases such as fine grain create and delete branch permissions. Only the release users should be allowed to create release/* branches. No one should be allowed to delete the 'master' branch.

There are projects where I want to give developer access, but they are not allowed to create or delete any branch, they can only push new changes that are "finished". If they want to make a in progress branch they need to do it somewhere else.
No it couldn't. Spinning -> less traction -> less stopping power -> longer stopping distance.
No, the H-1B program is a useful tool for tens of thousands of immigrants to get established in the USA. Its structure lets it be abused by bottom feeding offshoring shops paying below market rates for onshore workers, who are enabled by their clients buying low-value IT services in bulk without any real thought as to what they are trying to achieve. You can't fix that without ending a comparatively low friction immigration channel for a very large number of people.

At one of my past employers we used H-1B visas to transfer Indian workers from our offices in Hyderabad to New York. The paperwork was much easier for us than trying to do L1s; the tradeoff being that, once here, they were free to seek employment elsewhere. None did: we treated and compensated them the same as our US citizen workers.

The visa is not the person.
A quick google search on the matter will reveal many sources. Though not the most professional news syndicate, VICE ran a great story a few months ago on the environmental impacts of palm oil in Indonesia.

https://news.vice.com/article/indonesia-is-killing-the-plane...
How about an animal jumping in front of your car - a very common situation - when there's no way to avoid it. Computer could assume it's a human and do absolutely anything to avoid it, crashing into a tree and seriously injuring anyone in the car. I encounter so strange situations on roads, I can't imagine self-driving car being prepared for all of them.
> “I don’t know how many lives will be saved, but probably in the thousands per year when all the companies are in compliance,” said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

"Saved" in this context means what, living 3 months longer because your heart disease is slightly milder than it would otherwise have been?
To select just one of their arguments--that palm oil's production results in deforestation/climate change--one can make the same sort of argument about nearly any industry. E.g. if solar power companies of the future were to deforest mass swaths of land to make way for large solar farms, then one might argue that the solar industry contributes to climate change. It's a poor argument because the production of solar energy in no way necessitates deforestation; similarly palm oil production does not necessitate deforestation, animal cruelty, and non-sustainable production methods.

I'm not arguing for or against palm oil. I know virtually nothing about palm oil; I'm simply criticizing the source.
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I don't think is a good place for a developer, only wasting of time and money.
Psh, what's a little false rape allegation? Man up!
Because substance A is taken willingly and knowingly and has no realistic substitute. Substance B is slipped to consumers unknowingly in many cases and there are plenty of cheap healthy substitutes.

Alcohol and Transfats are apples and oranges.