emmab

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by emmab 10y ago
> sub 1% chance of being killed by a crazy person. Please don't attribute homicidal political views to insanity. These people don't have schizophrenia, and people with schizophrenia aren't terrorists.
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by emmab 10y ago
Would JUnit categories work? https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/wiki/categories
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by emmab 10y ago
I've had PCS my entire life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome Definitely not worth going to the ER for.
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by emmab 10y ago
> Isn't MITM required in enterprise environments where they want to filter content? Then don't filter content.
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by emmab 10y ago
You could try spoofing your email address with the correct reply-to? (if you do find any vulnerabilities you should of course report them responsibly)
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by emmab 10y ago
> Except no amount of specially crafted noise will trick a human Or quite possibly we just don't know how to construct the noise yet :P
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by emmab 10y ago
Better title would be "Non-persistent XSS on McDonald's website through AngularJS misuse"
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by emmab 10y ago
> And if you're worried about the sensors being vulnerable to hacking—Eldada says they've engineered the sensor with seven layers of protection to make sure the system can't be tricked. A seven layer seal? That could surel
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by emmab 10y ago
> Which as the AI-safety people say, isn't to say we should be researching it just that we should be devoting more energy to doing it safely as the potential consequences are so high even if the chances of things going wrong is low.
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by emmab 10y ago
If a given PR would be acceptable except for its maintenance burden, and you do not expect the PR submitter to provide sufficient help with maintenance to compensate, you could request the difference from them as payment for acceptance of t
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by emmab 10y ago
You don't need to program Ego to program a drive to learn new things, just a procedure to calculate the expected value of new information from engaging in some candidate training activity.
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by emmab 10y ago
See QuickCheck for Haskell https://wiki.haskell.org/Introduction_to_QuickCheck1 Theories for junit https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/wiki/Theories (see http://junit.org/jun
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by emmab 10y ago
Because AIXI_tl has failure modes (it doesn't model itself as being embedded in its environment so it can't ensure its own survival) demonstrating that any approach which is just a weaker version of it will have those same problem
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by emmab 10y ago
Have you tried ensure? It's intolerably sweet (comes in chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and butter pecan). There's no option for people who want a meal replacement, not dessert. It gives me indigestion every time I drink it. I swi
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by emmab 10y ago
Better is relative to a utility function.
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by emmab 10y ago
There's not even a way to buy it as an individual who's not part of an organization! They don't even state this as a possibility.
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by emmab 10y ago
Related: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-calle...
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by emmab 10y ago
This would break e.g. mouseover events. Ultimately the only foolproof way is obscuring the ads but leaving the space they take up on the screen blank. A "stealth mode" button on my adblocker that did this that's automatically
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by emmab 10y ago
> 3) Why does FB only do sweeps annually? Why not daily? Maybe to avoid giving a feedback cycle on their detection mechanisms?
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by emmab 10y ago
If they could go to some sort of common holding organization bound by contract to never sell them and to only use them for defense that seems like it would resolve this problem.
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by emmab 10y ago
Maybe these deserve different kinds of code schools?
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by emmab 10y ago
I thought that was client side? Dunno
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by emmab 10y ago
Do people really care if you use "they" instead of (s)he? I suspect most don't even notice.
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by emmab 10y ago
> One "trusted" site with some malware can be used to attack people that never actually intentionally visit it The only thing that bothers me about this is that someone could deliberately embed an iframe of the bugged website s
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by emmab 10y ago
> The module name has been crafted to blend-in with other kernel modules. > keysniffer is intended to track your own devices and NOT to trespass on others. This sounds inconsistent...
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by emmab 10y ago
You also gain tolerance to individual pieces of music over time, so would need a steady supply.
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by emmab 10y ago
Topic hierarchy involving either vote based sorting, temporal sorting, or personal relevance sorting. e.g. forum -> subforum -> thread; HN's comment system. You can extend it to allow multiple topic parents via a tagging system,
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by emmab 10y ago
That's still a problem. Having an incorrect breakable public key posted on the server. Why doesn't the key server scan for this and reject them?
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by emmab 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/167/
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by emmab 10y ago
They're so much slower to interface with though. I couldn't live without keyboard shortcuts.

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