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I sometimes use Chrome, just for the few times I want Flash.

I've created a separate Standard user for this on my Mac. I don't really care if a Flash exploit takes over this user. The exploit would then have to work a little bit harder to get its tentacles into the rest of OS X (although I'd bet there were OS X zero-day exploits in that Hacking Team dump).

I suppose it's time to add a VM to the recipe. Then my protections would be:

1st Flash itself
2nd Chrome sandbox
3rd VMware
4th OS X Standard User

What are the odds of any exploit being able to circumvent all of that? Probably high if I'm a strategic target, probably very low if I'm Joe Random User.

Anything else I could do to protect myself, other than eschewing Flash altogether?
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Can anyone confirm? I don't have a mac but wouldn't JavaScript that can cause a kernel panic be defined as an exploit? (You might be able to resize it with an iframe)
I really don't know how it has such good value, did they sell it at a loss?

The only problem I've found on it is its lack of a gyroscope, and subsequent lack of ability to use the Cardboard.
Surely standing on the right is to facilitate the right hand holding the hand grip, which corresponds to the article's suggestion that keeping to the left facilitates the right hand (to draw a sword/mount a horse).
Used to develop J2ME apps, pretty sure they didn't. There was a weird app you could use to get them on to any of that generation motorola phones.

The JVM was utter crap though, with no JIT, so everything was 1/10th of the speed of Sony Ericsson phones or Nokia of the same era... still, at least they weren't too nonstandard, like Samsung and Lg who would change JVM and bugs every phone.
Some companies manage. 3M is probably the classic example. IBM and GE, arguably.

In biotech, a standard practice is to spin off development start-ups, then re-acquire them.
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No, it seems like the mix moves against the airflow, so they'll inject it and collect it upstream. He refers to a trick from the chemical industry. It seems like with the massive temperature difference, the mix will move (expand?) to the warmer part, and the force of this is stronger than the airflow so it moves upstream.
For that, there's now intN_fast_t in stdint.h - the fastest data type that's at least N bits.
The Next Web experimented with a pro account that removed ads. That has been discontinued but the site is still very much alive.
Sorry, can't get past the weird scrolling.
What if you have a load command in your mach-o which asks for an address below the 32-bit boundary? Will loading the image fail?
I feel sorry for those being laid off, I imagine that the next generation of Microsoft phone hardware will not be a good as the Lumia range, which is the phones main strength.

The Windows Phone OS problem is that they are playing catch up, it has come a long way in a short time which has hurt App developers. But given another couple of years of stability and I think it will be on par with iOS8 and Android 5.1.

Microsoft is just lowering its overheads whilst it matures the platform. By the time we get Windows 11, they'll ramp up for a big push to ISV's.
Yes, it is indeed very rare and exceptional.
Special investigation: Auckland house prices driven upward by Chinese investors
> I personally use 1Password and if it had group password sharing, I would be lobbying to switch every day of the fucking week.

Wouldn't the multiple vault feature work group password sharing?
Given China, Russia, US all steal from each other when it comes to military-aerospace technology (making no statement about who steals more mind you), it would be entirely irrelevant if it fell into the wrong hands.

If China gets it first, the US will steal it from them. If the US gets it first, China will steal it from them.

Of the countries that could actually put it to use, they're going to get it no matter what. The other countries are of no concern, they're all at least 30 years behind and will perpetually remain that way.
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Communication would've happened, but probably between far less actors. So, you have a communication channel which is orders of magnitude slower, and bigger communication needs. Not good.

That said, about the reliability point, I agree with you. If you're building an specialized system, and reliability is your main concern, microkernels+multiservers are the way to go (or, perhaps, virtualization with hardware extensions, but this is a pretty new technology for some industries).

Probably you're going to need to add orthogonal persistence to the mix, to be able to properly recover from a server failure, or an alternative way to sync states, which will also have an impact on performance. But again, you're gaining reliability in exchange.
Hmmm, same thing as this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9600364
VIPER = ChibiOS and Python on Arduino
I think you might be interested.

VIPER (Viper Is Python Embedded in Realtime) is an easy to use development suite for the high level design of interactive objects ready for the cloud and the IoT. With VIPER creatives, designers and professionals can develop in Python for Arduino DUE, ST Nucleo and most of Particle (formerly Spark) products, and similar boards using paradigms and features typical of PC and mobile programming.

http://www.viperize.it/

About the example project linked:

The script is implemented using 4 threads that run in parallel. One thread is used for acquiring and normalize the analog signals acquired through a potentiometer and a IR proximity sensor. The other three threads are used to instantiate a generic blink() function that drives two LEDs at different frequencies and a generic buzz() function that drives a buzzer at different frequency e length of the sleep (to create a "beat" effect), calculated on the basis of the acquired analog signals.

Get the script from github https://github.com/viper-dev/projects/tree/master/theremin
It would be fantastic if those down-voting this comment could explain why they think it is OK for somebody to place others in mortal danger for the "privilege" of playing with a toy while driving. And, in particular, I would like them to explain how they would feel about this if they lost a member of their family to some asshole texting while driving as my family has. It's easy to have a fucking opinion about everything when you are not exposed to the consequences of your ideas.
My experience of religion as practiced deals very little with the "cognitive" (see article), and very much with emotions, such as gratitude, affection and reverence (as well as less positive feelings). It is rare that an appeal is made to syllogism rather than sympathy.
Perhaps Pluto https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh...
T-junctions in Sweden often have a stop or yield sign, but not always. When they don't drivers on the through road should yield to cars turning in from the right, but in practice the rarely do. Stop lights are not common in smaller, low traffic junctions.
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Wouldn't the other two chips have the exact same backdoor and react in the same way to the same inputs?
This was flagged off the front page earlier this evening.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872149
If you're looking for fair discussion about free speech, the US education establishment is the last place you want to look. They are completely overrun by PC moral panic, and not only real dissent and vigorous discussion representing diverse points is not welcomed, be it about free speech or any other topic, even mild critique from the friendly side or discomfort with exposure to unsettling thoughts is intolerable. E.g. see: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
Not getting listed on Spamhaus was a constant battle. One time our network engineer made a huge mistake by announcing 15-20 /20 blocks registered with RIPE out of the US ASN. Spamhaus apparently automatically scans for this type of suspicious behavior and falgged like 20,000 ips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
It even create reflux stores and actions. Like +1
This sounds a lot like Android's binder mechanism for inter-process communication.
Isn't this true only if the 3rd party apps are saving the data and/or redistributing it? Apps should be able to request data from reddit just as a normal user would through their browser, since reddit has permission to use (and serve) that content.
You should have chosen to be fat. They are the protected class at Reddit.
Another possibility is that users of the extension reported the fake reviews, even used the examples of the extension page, forcing Amazon to ban the sellers.
Hmm. Maybe, but probably not. They're talking cranberry while Pluto would be a smallish peppercorn.
> End the culture of punishment that festers in the traditional American Puritan psyche. That people ought to "pay for what they did." Focus on rehabilitation, and make prisons conducive to that end.

Coming from Scandinavia, where the focus is on rehabilitation, I agree that is a better goal. At the same time, I think it important to recognize all the purposes of prison: Protecting others from further crimes, revenge for the victims, scaring other potential criminals and rehabilitation of the inmate.
These goals are all good. It's just that the US of A have got the balance all messed up. There is no justice in the system anymore.

The Scandinavian system have a positive view of humans - that even a murderer can be rehabilitated. That the deed is different from the human. There is a decent balance - someone like Breivik is kept locked up for decades but a teenager caught up in the wrong gang is rehabilitated and released in a year or two.

The American way of prison is a disgrace, seen from the outside. It is a nearly medieval way of punishment. Even animals gets psychologically damaged when locked up in cells like those. How can anyone expect humans to come out better.

How about applying A/B testing to prisons? Compare a US prison sentence to a Scandinavian prison sentence. Then choose the better one. Rinse, repeat.
I sympathize with your plea for us to move beyond labels, but that doesn't change the nature of this TechRaptor piece.

This is a smoke screen and it is being used in the same old way to obliquely discredit an argument that a member of the GG community doesn't like. And the argument being discredited is, once again, about the status of women in tech and on the Internet. Far from being an "unfair" characterization -- it's depressingly apt here.
This comment made me get off my ass and remember my YC login. Your post parses correctly, but what you're saying doesn't really correspond with reality.

> Guns can even fire accidentally, with an accidental discharge on dropping the firearm being a possibility on any gun without a firing pin block (which is practically any long gun, the kind you can buy at Walmart in some states, with no waiting period in some states).

Poppy cock. Modern firearms don't just go off [0]. It is true that many long rifles and shotguns don't have a firing pin block. They have hammer blocks instead (the difference being a firing pin block is activated when the shooter grasps the grip, while a hammer block prevents the hammer of pin from making contact with the cartridge until the trigger is actually pulled). Most firearms incorporate multiple safety systems.

Furthermore, every firearm made in America in the last century has been certified as drop safe. The test is that the gun is dropped from a certain height (I think it's 39 inches) onto a concrete floor, with the hammer back and a round in the chamber - ie the worst case 'I was about to shoot something but butterfingered and now my live firearm is falling to the ground." That was instituted by firearms manufacturers after a spate of bad press when a factory defect meant a batch of Colt 1911's could fire if dropped with a round in the chamber (for those interested, the problem was with the strength of the firing pin spring; after several thousand rounds were fired through the weapon, the tension on the spring would be low enough that it could be over come by inertia). The 1968 Gun Control Act made drop testing mandatory.

> A poorly handled gun may shoot in a totally unpredictable trajectory, and a first time user would be unlikely to consider collateral damage. (Nursery behind the attacker?)

Yes, and an orphanage across the street in case you miss popping your own kid.

Here's the thing - everything you're saying is based on some pretty big assumptions that just aren't true. A study conducted back in 2007 by the Force Science Center where people who had never fired a hand gun before were put through simulated gun fights found that "naive shooters ... are amazingly accurate in making head shots at close range." [1] Point and shoot is something we humans tend to do really really well.

The biggest issue you aren't considering is that the biggest advantage of a gun is that you just have to have it. Power isn't shooting someone accurately - it's bringing a gun to a knife fight. Having a knife means you have to close to the target to engage - having a gun means I can stand back and project power.

[0]There are cases where guns will fire accidentally. These are extraordinarily rare, and are generally due to trying to use an unmaintained firearm in a way it isn't supposed to be.

[1] http://www.forcescience.org/fsnews/66.html

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This is pretty interesting, I was waiting for something similar to this to happen that looked like Interface Builder in XCode.

That said I'm curious to see how good this can be without static types.
I expect that DES, 64-bit KASUMI, or other crypto cracking ASICs will probably want to use 14nm, right?
Install Device Manager from the Play store. It's Google's official solution for the same thing (which also has the advantage of probably being on other people's phones when you lose yours).
That's great. I've followed her blog for a long time for her physics and her humor about it but never had a clue she was a YouTube personality and performer as well. A whole new Bee dimension (or 11) is revealed!

She recently shifted her physics research focus and I'm dying to see what she comes up with and her way of telling it.
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I think he's reaching with this, comparing reddit to stormfront. That tickled me.

Why not instead ask yourself; where are the black empowerment subreddits? Why are young white, and sometimes angry, males over-represented on reddit?

Reddit, and all other communities like it, are only internet forums. Anyone can subscribe, anyone can discuss and in the case of reddit anyone can set the topic and moderate it.

So it's a waste of time to throw blame and fear around without discussing the real question he's interested in, where are black people on the internet? What are they doing? What sites are they interested in?

Questions that I would be interested in.
My theory about why these big hardware companies went bust (Motorola, Siemens, Philips, etc):

- They never got software development right, they couldn't grow sw development beyond some basic ones for hardware

- They never got User Experience right. They never thought it was an issue, or they developed for engineers, not everyday people

- They don't think ahead of the curve, they don't treat their customers right (what about the Android upgrades from Motorola that were promised and not delivered)

Of course Android was developed outside of them, but they try to stick a "custom experience" there which is crap. They can't even do that one thing right.
> why is it considered perfectly acceptable for them to track you to such a relentless degree?

Throwing around "tracking" as a dirty word made sense when the Internet was a brochure. Paper doesn't normally remember that you looked at it, and HTTP pretended to be a way of looking at a piece of paper, instead of what it is, an interaction.

Tracking is integral to all interactions. Taking sensory data from two different points in time, and deciding that both are representations of this thing called a person that's standing over there, and that said person comes with all these characteristics that are fixed, and all these characteristics that are mutable over time, and that I have all these previous experiences with that person, and a mental model of how they might react to certain things, and a mental model of their hidden internal state like mood or sleepiness, that is the essence of tracking. Friendship is sort of its ultimate form, so it makes sense that an electronic medium for friendship is the heaviest "tracker" on the internet. We humans can absolutely consent to and facilitate tracking that we want, or else we wouldn't associate with each other.

Google's suite of services and the tracking it performs make it more useful to me. When I search for an English word that has a special meaning in programming, it knows I mean it in the software engineering sense. When I open Google Maps I can tap two keys instead of 20 to get directions home. I have the agency to accept that.

The privacy issues of the modern world, to me, have little to do with tracking: rather, they are a violation of expectations, of confidence. You might think, when you send a "private" message on Facebook, that it will only be read by the named recipient. But it may just as well be read by an anonymous NSA analyst. That's where the evil lies. Or, you may think, when you're on a site other than Facebook, that Facebook has no idea you're there. But the "Like" button is watching you, associating that visit with your Facebook profile. That's what's fucked up.
At the time the code was written the warnings you get now didn't exist. Then the 32-bit code worked, so nobody needed to change the it. Now with windows 8 they see it for the first time that it doesn't work.

I know as I also worked on the huge codebase where the oldest pieces of the code were written around 1995.
Why would either of them do that, though?
Just a URL that gives a 404 error. No indication that it was removed by Google.
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I remeber the same joke being told (by Norwegians) about the Swedish change

On the border there had been country roads that crossed back and forth across the border .....

And of course there's the issue of driving from Hong Kong to China

http://www.fastcompany.com/1660258/ingenious-flipper-bridge-...
Everyone always says that but I find Verizon's data network to be a joke. Drop down to 1x multiple times daily and you want to die.

Also non GSM based phones/networks are a losing battle. At least AT&T and T-Mobile give you HSDPA when LTE isn't available.
As a hobbyist linguist, do you have any thoughts about how it might have happened?
Generally, if someone comes to an "ought" conclusion that is different from yours, I tend to think that happens only for two reasons - either they are reasoning incorrectly from their own premises, or they are reasoning correctly but simply hold different moral axioms (values) than you do, values that are the kind of root-level ought statements that "reasonable people can disagree about". I haven't come across convincing arguments that people have actually found moral facts (bridging the is-ought gap), because those arguments usually just come across as very strenuously insisting that a certain moral ought statement should be accepted as a fact.

In the case of this paper, I believe the author is suggesting that they've bridged the is-ought gap by suggesting that moral axioms are only created after the fact as justifications that came from emotional impulses. But I don't really see how that argument follows. If one's moral axioms are arrived at after the fact, then they would vary depending on the whims of the arguer's emotions, but then it's just a matter of pointing out the contradictions and demanding consistency. That would only prove inconsistency, not that moral axioms themselves are invalid. The author's discomfort at the end of the paper strikes me more as the type of discomfort that comes from realizing that one's initial axioms might lead to uncomfortable conclusions, leading to a re-thinking of those axioms/values - that's great in terms of the desire to maintain consistency, but I don't see it as bridging the is-ought gap. Such an examination might lead us to alter our values - or alter the conclusions that come from our values - but I don't see it as necessarily supporting the argument that values themselves are invalid, or that everything should (there's that word again!) be looked at entirely in a consequentialist fashion.
I wasn't able to get access to it on BigQuery .. the progress bar just sat and sat .. can you confirm that its usable on BigQuery - I'd sure love to play with this data.
Have you considered the possibility that Amazon's fraud detection systems independently caught the same product that your extension caught?

Also, another part of your story doesn't make sense: Amazon is growing like crazy right now[1], so why wouldn't they continue with the hiring process if you passed the interview? Setting up a "sham interview" like you're suggesting implies that it's worth the company's time to talk to you for 20 minutes about your Chrome extension, but not worth the company's time to actually hire you. This might be true for a company that has a hiring freeze or is downsizing or laying people off, but not a company that's hiring tens of thousands of people every year.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2014/company-town-amazons-rapid-grow...
People write about Google interviews but my Amazon interview was significantly worse than my Google one. Totally disorganized, confused start times, reinterviewed by people I'd already been phone screened by to that asked me the same questions. I wouldn't assume either way that this had anything to do with your extension, their interviews and interview choice process is pretty bad.
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http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm

and

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tunguska/

I've seen a few more recent declaration of building one, but most of it without results.

So I guess we use binary mostly because our whole toolchain is designed to work that way. And people aren't very motivated when it come to reinventing the wheel.
Almost certainly, someone at Amazon was impressed with your app, but ultimately they just weren't that into you. It's not a big deal. You're a smart guy and capable of something different than being a tiny cog inside of Bigco anyway.

Happy to brainstorm about standalone services you could build with your abilities.
I liked it when I downloaded an early release, but I didn't see any reason to change from Sublime Text.

Atom has the advantage of having many people working on it, as opposed to one in the case of Sublime Text, so perhaps in time will ship features I didn't know I wanted. Will try again.
I agree. This is, unfortunately, the biggest point old media have been delusional about.
We might also add that the way old media tried to stick to old ways of displaying advertising has contributed to fuel the current status quo of Internet Advertising. It was their model that pretended to make every pair of eyeballs equal, now they pretend that they shouldn't be when it comes to content quality...
It's obvious that the current page views based model of Advertising is going towards self annihilation. In the meantime you can still exploit it with explosive growth and cash in on that, like viral nova did in just 2 years.
The mingw cross-compilers have been around for like a decade, are far from experimental and work great. Many open source projects use them to produce executables for Windows users.

http://mingw.org/
Yes but I still find it hard to give them any journalistic credibility, because I know where they come from.
I'm aware that I'm part of a minority though