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I honestly think that apparent flip-flop comes down entirely to how terribly ineffective the large human sounds at stopping the train. Telling people to pretend it works is not an effective measure. People can't cancel their biases just from being told to do so, and a bias against such an awful plan is quite reasonable.
Right. But, who benefits?

I'm not arguing that it's good for taxpayers or government employees. I think you're forgetting the context of my original comment. My point is simply that these choices--i.e. paying below market rates to employees, while spending exorbitantly on contracts with corporations--are not a matter of accidental waste or the relative importance of projects, as seemed to be implied by the comment to which I replied.

That "waste" is profitable. And it happens that those who profit also tend to have cozy relationships and armies of lobbyists.
Isn't it possible to have developers tag the commit in this case?

We already have the different between master and developer uses on protected branches. But it is an interesting idea to protect release/* and stable-* branches by default.

The third paragraph is a bit of an edge case to me. Either you allow them to participate in non-protected branches or you have them work from a fork. Pushing changes is on the same level as creating branches to me.
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My mistake, You are right. I had read the question as foolproof sandbox that included eval.

One can see the banning the syscalls approach as cutting the Gordian knot.
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You are quite correct.

The main problem right now is -- there is no way for you to know how any particular autonomous driving system will handle it. With every second auto maker and start-up claiming to have independently developed super-duper auto-drive technology, I think it will get worse before it gets better.

Without standardised testing frameworks (ie. sending my car's autonomous driving system through a simulator to see what it will do), I remain ... unconvinced.

Being an industrial programmer for 30 years, I think I'll continue to err on the side of assuming incompetence and failure, until proven otherwise.
unsandboxed behaviour being abused... you mean like all other apps written natively for any platform since the dawn of time? There's no vetting process for Windows utilities or bash scripts you find online. The closest you can get is that it's hosted on a store, but that's a mobile paradigm and is a problem as much as it is a solution.
Shouldn't there be some kind of regulation on products that use a lot of sugar? Specially those sold in large quantities ..
wow - that is amazing. An outright ban. No, "strict labelling laws", no "strict regulation" in the amount or limitation on the kinds of foods that can still have it. Ban.

I'm surprised!
Personally, if this processing infrastructure is managed by a big/trustworthy company (MS/Google/Amazon etc.) I should be OK with it, as long as its sandboxed. But if every individual website wants to implement its own way of using my processor power, I will prefer ads to it any day.
My dad actually did some work on this. When I was younger I couldn't believe that such a thing was true. Now that I'm much older and got a couple of engineering degrees and have worked for a while, it doesn't surprise me much at all.

The older I get the more I recognize that shit is weird. Intuition is extremely useful for "simple" deterministic systems. Once biology gets involved, though, intuition (at least in an engineering sense) tends to go right out the window.
Be happy, one of my banks has a 6-digit numeric PIN (I shit you not) as their "security".
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It is not an outright ban. As the fine article says:

Food companies will be able to petition the FDA to gain approval of specific uses of partially hydrogenated oils if they have data proving the use isn’t harmful. Companies will have until June 2018 to comply with the FDA’s determination either by removing trans fat or gaining a waiver.
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Een America, first you get da trans fats. Den you get de money. Den you get de power. Den you get de weemen.
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Oh I get it now, there's a misconception here.
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This stuff really isn't liberal at all. Our culture is Protestant, Christian, Puritan. Always present beneath it is a deep subsurface ocean of sexual paranoia, prudery, and holier than thou moral crusading. Overt religious forms of this are out of vogue, so it creates a sort of pressure that must be released. Campus PC ideology forms an easy framework for a good old fashioned Protestant moral crusade.
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or sugar?
> > If doctors and professionals are using BMI blindly

> They aren't.

I see, I misread your original comment. The phrasing just threw me.

> How can the results be skewed if they are straightforward math from the body mass (independently of it being mostly lean or fat)?

That's splitting hairs. I think you knew I meant interpretation.

> this is not a problem with the indicator, nor the . It's a problem with (lack of) honesty.

In fact, it IS a problem with the indicator, because it's being used as basis for large decisions, and it has the backing of the medical industry in spite of it's limitations.

You conveniently skipped over the other issues I mentioned.

> people who really should look at BMI for their job (i.e. doctors an nutrition professionals) are aware of its shortcomings.

You yourself admit that it has shortcomings, but then defend it as what... 'better than nothing'? There are many examples if BMI being used incorrectly by those 'nutrition professionals', so it's hard to see your side of the argument.
Does anyone have a link to the original solicitation?
> But it would be better to say that the downside of being is male is that it appears they are more inclined to rape people.

That's long been held to be obviously true. But a recent study shows that it may not be correct.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_...
Logged in just to praise that last sentence... very well put.
> ... they don't have google's keys

Assumptions, assumptions.
Well the issue is, we need to program the cars so that we optimize the outcome when every car on the road behaves that way and is expected to behave that way.

Do we get the best outcome when everyone expects the computer to spare the pedestrian? When everyone expects the computer to drive "selfishly" or to try to minimize its own impact velocity?

I don't think it's a good idea to program the cars with a "utilitarian" policy of saving the most human lives possible, as not only does that require quite a lot of inferential power to be packed into the car, it doesn't set up any concrete expectations for the passengers and pedestrians. You would have to add a mechanism for the car to first, in bounded real-time, infer how to save the most lives, and then signal to all passengers and bystanders exactly what course of action it has chosen, so that they can avoid acting randomly and getting more people killed.

This is why we always demand very regimented behavior in emergency procedures: trying to behave "smartly" in an emergency situation, in ways that don't coordinate well with others, actually gets more people dead. Following a policy may "feel" less "ethical" or "heroic", but it actually does save the most lives over the long run.
To be fair, they don't monitor whether the 0Day exploits are widely used so they have no idea when they should make them public for general security purposes. (yes, that's sarcasm)

But the way the entities operate that are actually seeking these, is by thinking of themselves as outside of the regular set of rules and even reality. They are seeking 0Day exploits with an assumption that the individual or individuals that provide them will not sell them to someone else or even use them for themselves.

I can guarantee that these "cyber wars" are going to result in some sort of cluster-fuck-up at some point because humans have a tendency to entrust the least responsible people with the most devastating technologies even remotely before we fully understand the ramifications.

On a side note; please take note of the fact that many of the current issues regarding anonymity and security on the internet and in technology in general is a direct fractal result of prior decisions by researchers and developers to not focus on anonymity and security as a primary requirement. The internet is a security nightmare, precisely because some researchers decided to ignore security requirements early on.
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Statistically, yes. But stating that statistic is like stating the (also true) statistic that "black people commit statistically more violent crime" - it's worthless on its own, and is often a political dog whistle.
Vraxx has some good point (although a rebuttal is that you could just round transfat up to 1 gram unless it's below some very low threshold like 0.001 g).

But more generally, I think the argument might be "the cost benefits of transfats are very slight, and greatly outweigh the health risk, such that a very small fraction of consumers would choose transfats if they were well informed". Obviously this would need to be backed up with a cost-benefit analysis which tried to honestly estimate consumer preferences (rather than assign them preferences paternalistically), and I have do idea whether that has actually been done.
Like sugar itself?
> 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.

Fellow academic here. I'm shocked a member of faculty would suggest that is a realistic option. You of all people know how difficult it is to find a tenure-track position. Yet you are suggesting voluntary career suicide for a consensual relationship between two adults? This is both unrealistic and complete overkill.

You seem to believe that an adult is not able to differentiate between romantic feelings and objective grading criterion. I think anyone who is unable to do so not only is a poor faculty member, they would be a poor spouse and a terrible scientist.

That is to say nothing of the edge case we are discussing. Unless students/faculty are gotten much more frisky, this is a negligable fraction of the interactions between students and faculty, and is lost in the noise of much more pressing academic grievances, such a treating grad students like human beings, or giving increased consideration to the role of teaching in promotion, instead of the pure emphasis on research at tier-1 institutions.
How do we know if that is true? I'd trust the article's diffing history, though. But that is gone - just as the text of the article is nowhere to be found.
Yeah, the reasoning has gone a full Orwellian loop, from an excuse/discussion-terminator to something people take seriously.
Does anyone else remember when the Center for Science in The Public Interest pressured everyone to move away from saturated fats to trans fats?

The people leading the charge on this are the primary reason why we went to trans fats in the first place!
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So here's the thing. The first time that an accident kills pedestrians with a self driving car involved the creator of that car will be open to a lawsuit. And in court the question of what that car should have been programmed to prioritize will come up. A response of we tried to emulate the likely reactions of a human driver in this situation won't hold up. The whole point of a self driving car as you said is that they are safer. In fact safer to the community as a whole. So if a car plows into crowd in order to avoid colliding with an obstacle and killing the rider. (something a real human would likely due without even realizing it) Would be grounds for that suit to award damages to the creator of the cars software.

It's not as simple as it sounds at first.
I totally agree, but…. :)

As silly and pointless as it to worry about whether robocar morality should be primarily deontology or utilitarian, I have to admit I love it. I'm a sucker for this kind of science fiction thinking, brought on by everyone's expectations of technological progress. The average person has a tremendous amount of confidence of the "they'll figure it out" kind.

I think it's a good sign, the opposite of cynicism. Also, I think moral questions are interesting and if teaching is the best way to learn, maybe imagining how to teach a machine to be moral is a good exercise.

On that note, deontology fits nicely with the way computers tend to think - rules. OTOH, utilitarianism means seeing the future - a nice use for all our future computational power. While we're on that, do computers have a duty to be true to their nature?
I don't believe we have the structures in place ever to 'prove' alternate-day fasting will extend human life.

In response to your point b), presumably you mean the deficit is ~1800 kcals per fast day? Why was this so terrible?
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Is Seagate back to being good? We had 100 drive failures in a batch of 120 HP netbooks, and we had a large number of our server drives go down the tube. I switched to WD at that point.
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Borneo used to be covered in forest that was home to one of richest habitats in the world. If you fly over Malaysian part of Borneo now (don't know about Indonesia since I wasn't there, but apparently it is following Malaysian lead), you will see palm plantations for miles and almost no old forest.

There is stil some forest left for orangutans and other endangered species, but it is under constant pressure from expanding plantations.
I went on the title - I'm a busy guy! (Okay, I did skim.) Still, what you quoted is quite different from how I thought something like this would go down. In particular the standard of proving it isn't harmful is quite high!

I would have thought consumers would be allowed to choose it in certain cases, despite its being harmful. (As they can in other cases.) Or, a small amount might have been allowed even though it is obviously deleterious, e.g. in foods consumed in small amounts and which are obviously exception and not considered healthy.
What possible corporation out there would intentionally increase direct and indirect financial costs, lowering profits, merely to not increase sugar/hfcs use to lure people into buying their product?

Highly processed foods are now going to be much less greasy/oily and much more sugary to attract consumers. You need to do "something" get people to eat junk food, and if its not going to be the oily/greasy axis of evil it will be the HFCS/sugar axis of evil.

Maybe 1% of the market, the green/organic or at least greenwashing segment, will increase prices and switch to saturated fats and dramatically lower shelf life, but on a population wide scale that is a rounding error.

Higher carbs means more fat people and more diabetes and fat related illness including heart issues. So we're trading large number of heart disease related deaths for rather optimistically a slightly smaller number of obesity related deaths. Its probably a net win, but this is not the technological singularity where we'll all live forever...
I assume you're being sarcastic, but on the off chance you're not, I'll refer you to the last 50 years of research in social studies (and I'm not going to go through the "please cite one paper" game; I've done it too many times, the people "asking" for them are clearly not interested in the vast incontrovertible evidence, there are literally thousands of papers -- some by very renowned researchers -- and you can find most of them with a simple Google Scholar search). It's a myth just as much evolution is a myth. Both have been thoroughly studied and confirmed. Of course, there are people who deny facts because they don't agree with their world view -- that is also a well-known psychological phenomenon as is the phenomenon that that no amount of evidence can sway most people's opinions once they've made up their minds, so -- learn if you want, or don't.
A tyre blows. A rock hits the sensor on top of the car. An electrical contact gets disconnected due to vibration. Water gets into computer. Those things happen thousands of times, daily, to cars around the world. Automatic cars will have to deal with all of them, in one way or the other. Like you said - the most "failsafe" solution the computer can do is slam the brakes. Which will be good enough in most cases. But I will repeat my question again - what if slamming the brakes causes more injuries than doing something else, and computer "knows" it(as in - it has calculated that it would cause more damage)? Should it still do it?

Edit: The difference between a human slamming on brakes and a computer doing the same is that humans are not perfectly rational. If I see a deer in front of me, I'm probably going to break as hard as I can. But will I take into account that the road is slippery and braking will cause the car to spin and land in front of a lorry, and maybe the correct decision is to not brake and hit the deer? Of course I won't - humans are not quick enough to decide on that. The problem here is, that computers are fast enough - and now we have to decide whatever they should behave in a "dumb" way, like a human would - or whatever they should be making those decisions no human could make, even if they verge on being unethical?
>a script being download and run would be a as much a security incident as what happened.

Like opening a webpage?
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I'm not sure I follow? I am trying to say (maybe unclearly) that vegetables are healthiest and then [unprocessed] meats. So meats are the healthiest non-vegetable.

Vegetables, raw meats, everything else.

Fruits are a tough category as some are extremely healthy (e.g. Blueberries) while others are barely better than candy (e.g. Figs, Grapes, etc).
Commercials. And American football isn't like futbol, you can't run around for 90 minutes straight knocking each other out. Breaks are good. Plus the whole thing is entertainment, you don't have to optimize for time - that's the antithesis of entertainment.
I've found the opposite, IME; perhaps the issue is with your boards? We regularly have this happen at work and the permanent marker is always removed. It also works on plastic containers - I've successfully done this hundreds of times on both reusable plastic bins for my food at work, as well as items I buy (and resell) from Goodwills and Savers / Value Villages. I've not yet run across a plastic container that this hasn't worked on.

I've obviously not tried this with "hundreds" of whiteboards, but the one we have on the fridge at home works as well as the several size and types we have at work.
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Currently the biggest pressure on demand for palm oil is for biofuels. The result has been a significant recent and planned expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia. It doesn't help that many countries now have a mandatory biofuel component. I think the potential increase in demand for replacing trans fat is probably not that big compared to what comes as a result of demand for biodiesel.
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Which part of "their behavior of dumping huge changesets and lack of documentation and communication wears everyone out." is not clear to you?
Then show an example that proves the NSA has Google's keys. If you want to do proofs, how about you put your money where your mouth is?
Trans fat content is listed on EVERY nutrition label, by law.
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Depends on the cost to implement and the margin you can charge over competitors I guess.
Can you imagine how many deaths there would be if alcohol was banned?
> This is why the mission of securing America's networks needs to be removed from the NSA.

And who should be responsible for this mission? Are you saying that the offensive and defensive cyber capabilities should be split between different agencies?

> “What’s more noteworthy is how little regard the government seems to have for the process of deciding to exploit vulnerabilities,”

The article mentions that the government itself acknowledges that there is a delicate balance between disclosure and maintaining the ability to accomplish other missions [1]. That dilemma never going away, no matter how the responsibilities are organized.

> “As we’ve explained before, the decision to use a vulnerability for ‘offensive’ purposes rather than disclosing it to the developer is one that prioritizes surveillance over the security of millions of users.”

Haven't read the EFF paper yet (and I hold the EFF in high regard), but in the context of zero-days, that quote is a bit of a strawman. You don't burn zero-days by indiscriminately propagating exploits (eg, for mass surveillance), it would be found out pretty quickly. You tap cables and get NSLs for mass surveillance. Payloads attached to a zero-day would be used for more specific purposes, rather than slurping up data en masse.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/04/28/heartbleed-unders...
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> The FDA is the mobsters in America by the way

The FDA might make mistakes, even mistakes that lead to deaths, but mobsters?

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Along with the deer population, controlling the rampant spread of Japanese Barberry - an invasive species becoming very common here in the Northeast - can help control the tick population:

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Neither is paper only storage. But it's still going to make it harder for the adversary than being connected to the internet.

Security is all about striking a balance between how hard you make it for the adversary vs how hard you make it for yourself.

Even committing only to memory and never writing it down is not going to stop a committed enough adversary kidnapping and torture do exist after all. The only question is where do you want to draw the line.