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by rolux 14y ago
Sure. But what Ortiz is pulling here is not a Nuremberg Defense ("I was aware of the injustice, but my hands were tied"). She clearly states that she's completely fine with "severe punishment" in "appropriate cases", just that with regard
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by rolux 14y ago
That's a question you'd have to ask his lawyers. If you look at other cases, from the Pirate Bay to Wikileaks, you'll see that there are always options. Aaron didn't see any. I'd find it almost disgusting to make a judgement. Abstract reaso
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by rolux 14y ago
> "At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law." > Is a falsifiable claim. I'm looking forward to Aaron's lawyers' response to this statement.
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by rolux 14y ago
Just a - friendly - reminder that the field that such ethics operate on isn't always symmetrical. At the other end of every "I'm right so I nuke you" you will find some "I'm right but they nuke me", and if you're looking for a rational expl
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by rolux 14y ago
> Nobody should gain monetarily from someone being sentenced to prison. I agree with your sentiment, but... are you aware of the fact that a large part of the US prison system is run by private corporations that have clear profit motive
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by rolux 14y ago
> And there are many more esolangs out there with much wilder and more beautiful semantics than Brainfuck. Implementing those can be a really valuable learning experience. Like, for example, INTERCAL with threading via `comefrom`: http
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by rolux 14y ago
You're right. The bug described in the article is just of the "may fail under load / with multiple users / in real-life scenarios" variety. In the zoology of bugs, that makes it a common Mandelbug (1), but not a rare Heisenbug (2). For an e
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by rolux 14y ago
As you can see in the example above, there are a few features that can make a Brainfuck developer's life less miserable, like source formatting, error handling or logging.
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by rolux 14y ago
As any other Brainfuck interpreter, it shows that Brainfuck is a nice, simple, small language. Things become mildly more interesting when you write a transpiler, lets say to Scala. See here for a sketch of a "Brainfuck IDE" that compiles to
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by rolux 14y ago
From the article: The best ad is indistinguishable from content We can expect to see Facebook deemphasizing traditional advertising units in favor of promoted news stories in your stream. The reason is that the very best advertisi
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by rolux 14y ago
The main problem with "illegal numbers" seems to be that for any illegal number a , which represents someone's intellectual property or trade secret A , I can easily create two original pieces of intellectual property B and C so that
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by rolux 14y ago
No need to apologize. The meaning of "hacking" has changed over time, and of course you're free to contribute to that.
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by rolux 14y ago
If you're asking me for a thesis, then I guess it would include the idea that what people should be willing to devote to politics is more than, and fundamentally different from, attention . Once politics become politics of attention, they
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by rolux 14y ago
Insightful article that would have benefited from a less sensationalist headline. "Hacking the Y Combinator Application Process" makes a promise that you fail to deliver on.
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by rolux 14y ago
While I don't think the post you're referring to offered any deep insights, it's definitely not a conspiracy theory to state that the ability of the US to sustain their deficit spending largely depends on the dollar remaining the default cu
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by rolux 14y ago
Thanks for sharing that link, good article. Still, its main concern seems to be the predictive value of forecast models, given that "stuff happens" -- while I'm more concerned with the fact that the obsession with polling and forecasts coin
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by rolux 14y ago
Not being a US citizen, I'm always quite stunned by what I perceive as an obsession with polling results. Especially when fundamental flaws in the US voting system (see, for example, http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/ ) se
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by rolux 14y ago
There is one important aspect that the article doesn't address, which I think would be a crucial element in any strategy to dethrone the US dollar: http://www.google.com/search?q=yuan+oil+china+iran
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by rolux 14y ago
Given that the posting has risen quite high on the front page, can the link be changed to the URL of the original? Not that there was much meat in the article, anyway, but at least the following is mildly insightful: I prefer Python to R f
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by rolux 14y ago
I don't get the point that the article is trying to make. Of course banks won't trade at mid-market price. Of course there will be a buy/sell spread. Take a look at exchange rates for more exotic currencies than British Pound vs. Euro. The
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by rolux 14y ago
but I'm not just a user I'm a supplier Unfortunately, you're neither of those two. If you have an account on Facebook, you're their product . A lot of the disappointment here seems to be a result of ignoring this relation.
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by rolux 14y ago
In this case, to call a spade a spade would be to call EdgeRank a spam filter, and "promoted posts" a paid option to circumvent it - right?
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by rolux 14y ago
No, I was actually trying to be specific. There's usually nothing wrong with 0/1 or 1-9. Empirically, 0/1/2 either means no/yes/yes-and-something-obscure-on-top-of-that, or, worse, as in this case, no/kind-of-but-not-really/yes.
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by rolux 14y ago
Of course the developers are at fault here, but good API design would be to not invite developers to mess things up. When designing the Curl API, it should have been obvious that VERIFYHOST is likely be set incorrectly, especially once it's
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by rolux 14y ago
When it comes to API design, a good rule of thumb is that parameters that can be either 0, 1 or 2 will cause bugs.
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by rolux 14y ago
Which, as the authors show in section 7.1 and 7.2 of their paper, many PHP developers, like the authors of the Amazon Flexible Payments Service SDK and the PayPal Payments Standard SDK, will happily override with true .
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by rolux 14y ago
The issue with the code above is the return statement, most likely inserted during development, with the good intention to remove it later, since the "bit of random junk" that follows would have validated the server's certificate.
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by rolux 14y ago
Further down in the PDF, the authors present the decompiled source of the Chase app: public final void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] paramArrayOfX509Certificate, String paramString) { if ((paramArrayOfX509Certificate
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by rolux 14y ago
From the PDF linked in the article: "Not the most interesting technically, but perhaps the most devastating (because of the ease of exploitation) bug is the broken certificate validation in the Chase mobile banking app on Android. Even a pr
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by rolux 14y ago
Just to let you know that the current .zip doesn't include the change log, just the license. (Caching issue at gosquared?)

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