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Build it now: clang-3.7 -fsanitize=safe-stack does not catch it,
and the clang and gcc optimizers with -O optimize it away.
Do you seriously not think the Supreme Court wouldn't hold up a signed plea bargain between Snowden and the DOJ?

Rule of law still exists in this country, even if the laws are out of whack.
BBC Panorama had an excellent episode exploring these very questions. At least I think it was Panorama. I tried searching for it but all I get are hits about Jimmy Savile.

They found a young man who selfidenties as a pedophile, who was actually willing to go on camera and talk about his desires and urges. It was quite fascinating, and I do see many parellels not just to the war on drugs but to homosexuality as well.

We aren't treating these people in a humane way, and IMO we are making the problem worse by perpetuating a Wich Hunt.
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That has nothing to do with the analogy. The form of the analogy is "do something uncomfortable so that something desirable happens later."
I'm not sure if you were making a distinction between vaping and smoking, but I checked and there is indeed vapeable caffeine (plus taurine and flavoring.) I feel weird dropping a link, but search "Energy Shisha" if you're interested.
Seems unlikely, considering Obama’s stance on surveillance and his stance on leakers and whistleblowers.
Clojurescript in Clojurescript is demoed in the last 5-6 minutes of the video. I think this is an awesome way to ship a repl with applications.
Wow! This is really cool! I would love to use this at my workplace. I had a small problem, though: it seems the clients don't keep very much data.

For example, I filtered based on an expression that matched about 1-2 lines per second. The lines appeared, but disappeared almost as quickly. I suspect there is some small client-side buffer that I'm overrunning almost instantly; the log stream I used produces about 500 lines per second. Is this too much for the tool? Can I tune it to work with that load?
Well, you can control it by not smoking for a week or so. Admittedly I don't know of any proper studies, but I have always heard rules of thumb around 1 to 2 weeks. For myself it was about a week, and not really that bad of a week compared to what I expected.
The article states that the normal fine was tripled due to TWC effectively being in contempt of court. $500/call is reasonable, given that the situation has to be taken to court to be resolved - if you're already in the situation where the problem gets to court, a smaller fine is meaningless compared to the time a court case takes and the lawyers fees (and court costs, if you have to pay those).

The point of punitive damages is to make it uneconomical to play 'court lottery'. At $2/call, it's not worth anyone's time to take a bad player to court, and the law becomes toothless.
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No, it argues that the Tor hidden services that the author knew about were overwhelmingly used for bad stuff. This is problematic in two ways: the methodology of gathering addresses was pretty suspect, and it glosses over the fact that the VAST majority of Tor traffic is headed to the open Internet, not a hidden service.
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> addiction and capitalism are a terrible combination.

Have we ever seen that play out for hard drugs, when capitalism is also allowed to work on treatment and rehab?
I've never understand the idea that in non-polarized light, the "amplitude" of the light wave points in all directions, whereas in polarized light it points in only one. The amplitude of a light wave doesn't literally mean something is oscillating up and down, right?? The amplitude is just the light's intensity. So what does it really mean for light to be polarized? And why do thin slits cause polarization?
and this is not just any federal appellate judge, but one of the most respected jurists of this generation--an immigrant (from Romania) and child of two Holocaust survivors, who has been a federal appeals court judge for the past 30 years.
For a bit of history regarding OS-X which may answer some of your questions, Amit Singh wrote about the history of NEXTSTEP[1] and also about XNU[2].

BTW, Singh's writings regarding OS-X are exceptionally well researched, detailed, and thorough. I highly recommend them for anyone interested in OS-X/XNU internals.

HTH

1 - http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/appleoshistory/7.ht...

2 - http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/arch_...
i wonder whether it is such a big deal to have a small, like 20m range, hydrolocator built-in the board with some simple software which would be able to identify a 500-3000kg moving body inside that range. Like with submarines, only at like hundreds times smaller scale.
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No. Scala neither needs to compile dependencies, nor does it need to recompile everything on a change.

The first compile might take a bit, but after that all changes are usually incrementally compiled in less than a second.
There must be a rate below which physiological dependence is impossible. I doubt you can be dependent on, say, 2 cigarettes a week.
The public transport system in my hometown of Melbourne has a two-tiered fine system if you're caught travelling without a ticket. ~$75 if you pay on the spot (but you forfeit the right to contest in court) or $250 if you don't. They were actually losing a few court cases, so brought in the two-tiered system.

I call it the 'fuck the poor' system, because poor people generally don't have the ability to pay $75 on demand. Paying $75 is a lot more convenient than having to find time and the know-how to contest things in court. For comparison, a day's travel costs ~$7.50.

I'd heartily welcome an income-scaled penalty system, even though I am not poor myself. A fine that is crushing to poor people is a mere momentary inconvenience for wealthy people, which isn't the point of being penalised.
Poorly disguised communism. I'm disappointed.
Exactly my question, this is a big missing piece and something that cursors solve nicely.
If you're watching game of thrones, you are watching people kill each other. You are committing a crime.

See how that's silly?

There are people who watch animated child porn and they are ruled as criminals even though no actual child was directly harmed.

There are people who watch snuff films, where people actually are killed, and the viewers are not breaking the law in most states.

Perhaps you would argue that snuff film viewing should be illegal, or that watching Game of Thrones should be illegal because it portrays rape, violence, murder, etc.

To me, it's clear that there is a distinct difference between watching that content and in producing it. Sure, if you actively encourage it to be produced you're breaking the law (same as if you try to convince someone to make a snuff film, you're breaking the law).

It's really not that simple and the laws are not consistent here.
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Wasn't this raised a year or so ago? Vehement denial from Apple, despite everyone understanding the real story: no one has their privacy any more and lying is in vogue.
> Like synthetic credit default swaps?
You mean a synthetic CDO? CDS don't need to be synthetic.

>Tell that to Greece people that got into the Euro because of clever CDS from Goldman Sachs
The people of Greece (and their political leaders) wanted to get into the Euro. They spun their own fiction.
I use a similar feature on Android.

What I really want though is a very simple feature. I don't want my phone to accept phone calls unless the number is in my address book already. Its so straightforward and already implemented in other communication mediums, I do not understand why it is not a feature yet.

Just one vendor including this feature would force all of them to.

My parents do this the old fashioned way. They don't pickup unless they recognize the number.

In fact, my colleagues do the same, and this has actually caused problems for On call if the colleague calling at 4am isn't in the callee's circle of friends.
Garbage collection was never really anything I recall being discussed in my Cmpt Science curriculum, back in 1990-1993, though there was lots of interesting theory about memory allocation/deallocation/defragmentation. It wasn't until I ran into Java around 2000 or so that people started talking about Garbage Collection.

I'm not saying that it didn't exist, it was just less of a priority 25 years ago than 15 years ago.
And JSPM still does.
So much of these discussions are overly focussed on an general purpose AI singularity, and what the AI itself would do.

That makes for interesting discussions, but I think a much more immediate concern, is what strong AIs will enable their owners to do.

For example, nation states owning large fleets of robots, corporations owning powerful AIs attached to markets and industry.

The first group or few groups of people to control a rather powerful AI would have incredible power and leverage over other humans.

The danger here is not the AIs behaving "badly" of their own accord, but rather their owners instructing them to further their own selfish goals (which appears not to be uncommon behaviour among those in power) and succeeding wildly with complete political, military, and/or commercial domination. In fact, succeeding at any of these may well lead directly to succeeding at all of them.
Their control group seems a bit questionable to me -- maybe sitting there quietly for 12 minutes increases the risk of flashbacks? It seems possible that you'd end up thinking about the traumatic event.
The parent never mentioned zero interest, why not have a interest just because the loan is granted by the government? Just call it a tax instead of interest.
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What would you expect to occur in terms of impact to the US and rest of the world?
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Just wondering how long it takes for sharks to adapt.
I've been using an Android app called "Mr Number" [1] for a few years now to help block nuisance calls. One of it's more useful features is its use of crowdsourcing to identify spam numbers and automatically block them right from the first time they try to call you. There's a bunch of other similar Android apps (presumably for iOS too?) that are worth a look too, depending on your particular needs. See the "Similar" section on the link below.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrnumber.b...
Wouldn't amplitude just be the height of the wave, while "intensity" is dependent mostly on the frequency?
Does anyone know what the cognitive behavioural therapy the article refers to is?

I know what it is in general, but how does it relate to sleep?
What you're probably hearing is probability amplitude, which is the product of a wave function with its complex conjugate, rather than amplitude referring to wave intensity.

If you're interested in this stuff, check out the 160 or so videos from leonard susskind on youtube on modern physics.
Haha, photographs of consensual sex between high school seniors is rape porn I guess. Good thing high schoolers never have sex, since it would be rape.
Numbering hidden services is something you publish papers on, and most researchers arrive at much larger numbers than 4000. But just as the author pulled numbers out of thin air (20 out the 4000 are deemed worthy of anonymity), 9 out of 10 paedophiles caught by him would turn out to be other researchers (or "researchers"). They are much more likely to run the spyware he offered.

At any time, Tor is frequented by many like him. Some law enforcement, some working for child abuse organizations, some academia, and a lot of regular people with the same ambitions. Advertising a high child porn site is the best way to attract them. Most likely many of them have an unhealthy interest in this stuff, and line between "researcher" and paedophile is not always clear. The law does not make a distinction.
If you harmed 1000 people by taking a dollar from each, to me you've robbed 1000 people. But, there has to be room for lenience in every law.

Was it intentional, was it a computer error, did each person just forget to pickup their change on the counter before leaving? What is the cause? You better have a damn good explanation or if I was the investigating officer I'd book you.
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I imagine you would trigger something like a datomic transaction, which returns a new version of the database.
Light is an electromagnetic field: a wave-on-a-rope type thing except the rope is space. An electromagnetic field exerts a force on charged objects like electron, protons or even entire atoms and molecules. If you put an electron and shoot polarized light at it, it's movement will be consistent with the electric field going up and down in a particular plane. Analogously for unpolarized light.

A thin slit cause polarization the same way only one plane of oscillation is possible for a rope passing through a slit. Except what is stopping the oscillations in 'bad' directions is the interaction between the electromagnetic field and atoms that make up the boundaries of the slit.
It's a common conspiracy theory, in part because it's a good one. It's very difficult to disprove, and it's easy enough to find troublemakers who have died in accidents.

Accidents are, by their very nature, caused by unusual events... so it's easy to see a conspiracy where there isn't one.

Of course, the flipside of that coin is that if the government was skillfully staging "accidents" it would be very difficult to prove.

Personally, I think that snowden showed that we... well, our government isn't competent enough to pull that sort of thing off cleanly. Someone would let a powerpoint deck slip somewhere, and word would get out.

but... like I said, it's a good conspiracy theory, 'cause it's so difficult to prove either way.
Some real-world examples with a little more flavour:

* designing utility networks (e.g. energy / telecommunications) to be cheap / robust

* routing vehicles / ships / parcels to serve all customers cheaply

* dispatching and arranging emergency services vehicles (e.g. ambulances) to best cover anticipated future demand

* managing inventory levels in blood banks. it goes off after a while! there are different types, some are substitutable. which types are better to keep in stock?

* figuring out the most profitable way to chop animals into different cuts of meat
We should appreciate the contributions of Serhiy Storchaka, who appears to be in the Ukraine (or Kazakhstan, or Tajikistan).
Arrrgh, but Lambda-4 was kinda similar... pretty light and quite simple, yet orbital launcher it was. So may be Lebanon had a way forward, which could lead them to orbit...
> Not being a troll here... Why would anyone care unless they are writing a libc replacement?

Statically compiling the libc is common with proprietary Linux software, if I remember correctly.
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This must be the simpler solution compared to that though. Maybe if people stop dressing up like seals (big black wet suit) they won't look so tastey to the seal eaters.
Well, yes - it appears to mostly function as a front group for tobacco companies and is nothing to do with the US government, even if they imply it (as per last weeks article)

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Windows Phone goes one further: you can explicitly block any number.

Tap and hold on the number in your call history, and "Block caller" is right there!
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Very interesting. Didn't take too long before seeing faint yellowish blobs. The only problem was tilting my head too fast, made my neck joints creak. Slowing down was better, it didn't take more than modest offset (say 25 degrees) anyway once knowing what to look for.

It worked differently on two computers. One is a fairly recent MS Surface Pro 2 tablet, the other an ancient Dell D630. The display on the Dell is TN, and not as blue as the IPS screen of the SP2. The effect was a little easier to evoke with the Dell, though its screen color made the yellow less distinct but the blue counter-color more visible.

Occasionally I experience aura of migraine, in one form appearing as blobs of color moving around the visual field. (Not necessarily yellow, can be any color.) Maybe it's a reason I've never noticed the polarization effect before, the faint yellow/blue spots just got lost in the noise.
I am skeptical about "component knows what data it needs". For example, I have a component with two combo boxes: in the first combo box I select a country and the second combo box is filled with cities of that country.

Now I need a similar thing: in one combo box I choose car brand, and the second combo box is filled with models of that brand. Can I reuse my existing component? If the component knows what data it displays, it can not be used to display different data.
> "We stepped up and fixed all the problems, so there is no need to continue the debate."

Interesting take. When I read Holder's quotes, “we are in a different place as a result of the Snowden disclosures” and “his actions spurred a necessary debate”, I got the sense he was acknowledging progress we'd made as a society. He didn't seem to imply the debates or reforms were over though.
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Yup, that's them. It should look like this, only _much_ fainter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger's_brush

(The blue part is a bit harder to see than the yellow.)
Your examples all have something in common which is that the harm is caused indiscriminately by which I mean that there is I reason to think that any one group of people is affected more than any other. In other words they are like car accidents. Everybody has a roughly equal chance of being affected and therefore everybody has the same incentives to fix or not fix the problem. But when some problem affects a particular group of people disproportionately and when that group is itself powerless to fix the problem, well then the situation is fucked. Especially if those who do have the power to fix the problem instead choose to wash their hands of it.
Nice article! I only "visited" the dark web once and was surprised and disgusted about the content, which was like 99% illegal, immoral shit.

Did the FBI corporate with you? You said, you contacted them twice
Now; on x86_64, with gcc and clang an int is still a 32-bit integer type;

Minor nit. The size of int is typically defined by the platform ; the compiler follows along. All the major/popular ones happen to define int as 32-bit, so that's what you are seeing with gcc/clang. Maybe on Solaris you might see it as 64-bit.
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Question: Didn't he need to host some illegal / immoral stuff to get some visitors around this topic.
Somehow I question the "research".
Maybe it depends on the screen type. I can see it very clearly on my macbook LCD screen, but I can't see almost anything g on my Samsung S4 OLED screen.
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Thanks! After reading this [0] I'm surprised that my high school recollection seems to be how it really works. It still seems very strange. One thing in that article bothers me though: it talks about the wave itself as vibrating, e.g. "A light wave that is vibrating in more than one plane is referred to as unpolarized light." But how does a wave vibrate? It seems like a sloppy use of language. Using your own words maybe it's more correct to say that space is vibrating? Or rather vibration is just a metaphor for the EM field?

[0] http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-1/Polariz...
Of course, him being God he would've probably known the exact amount of righteous individuals in the city. Not to mention being able to define 'righteous'.

That said, I've always been very fond of the passages in the OT where individuals managed to 'change' God's mind, as well as the general human emotions he appeared to have.
>it is a communist country after all,

That's like saying the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is 'Democratic'. Which is to say, it's totally not.

They might call themselves that, but for the last few decades China has been communist in name only. It's far more capitalist than any western country I've lived in.
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I guess your next hacker news article will be like: "I published an article on hacker news of how I get nearly $5k in pre-orderes. And I got another $1k pre-order after the 10k visitors to my site. "
The "r" stands for restricted perl, the real name. Like in rpython.

The author is a bit confused what a optimizing compiler is. You have to forgive him. rperl is a restricted perl which maps typed data via Inline::CPP to C++, and if all ops and data in a function are properly typed and not-dynamic ("no magic"), then the function can be compiled to C++ and executed there.
Thus the 200x performance win for certain static and typed parts.

And there exist "optimizing compilers" for perl 5, rperl is more a transparent perl - C++ mapping where gcc does the optimizations.
Am I the only person who welcomes this? Obama could come out tomorrow and admit he was wrong and people would still think there is some ulterior motive there. Of course, the government has lied before, but Holder isn't even part of the administration anymore. The fact that anyone, even someone no longer in the loop at least acknowledge that the leaks might have had a positive effect is a concession from the hardline conservative, Snowden-was-wrong side, if anything.
Agreed on both points. Plain int hasn't been very good for a long time. C99 <stdint.h> is really the way to go, but since this is C++ we're talking about, both the C++ committee and Microsoft Visual Studio deserve most of the blame for why people weren't using them since neither recognized/supported it for the longest time. (Visual Studio just finally got stdint and stdbool, about 15 years late.)

And agreed, good catch.
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