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by wmil 12y ago
My 10.9.5 box fails the tests. What does /bin/sh --version give you?
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by wmil 12y ago
Yes, but there's another issue. Apple hard links /bin/sh to bash. They could switch /bin/sh to an Almquist shell like dash to mitigate Shellshock.
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by wmil 12y ago
I'm guessing an aggressive new manager came in and demanded it, and he was the type who viewed counterarguments as disrespectful to his authority.
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by wmil 12y ago
I'm not so sure about that one, FARC is a marxist group that had ties to Chavez. I can't see the CIA helping them. It seems more likely that anyone looking at the flight / maintenance logs noticed discrepancies. No legitima
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by wmil 12y ago
The US gov will make substantial efforts to help you if you're caught in a war zone. That's a big plus if you live or travel to dangerous areas. I'm a Canadian, but I've heard stories about people working overseas with
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by wmil 12y ago
You're missing the point. Look at this code. export evil='() { :;}; exit'; echo $evil # prints '() { :;}; exit' bash # new bash session immediately exits Imagine a dev using eval() in PHP. The PHP i
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by wmil 12y ago
It's not setting arbitrary environment variables, it's setting specific ones. Bash is basically calling eval on the list of envvars without re-escaping the values. The people who wrote the CGI spec didn't expect that to happ
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by wmil 12y ago
It seems like there must be more to the story... But it's fun to imagine the US Forest Service subpoenaing GPS data from Instagram / Facebook whenever they need to raise money.
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by wmil 12y ago
I imagine it's more of a "check this box to verify you are not a US citizen" system. The bank could then charge your account fees if you lied and they had to deal with the IRS. I actually think the US tax return laws are rea
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by wmil 12y ago
No. Or rather not yet. The CRTC's position is that they have authority over Netflix, Youtube, Vimeo, Blip, etc but regulations aren't yet needed.
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by wmil 12y ago
A blanket exception for all online services was issued in 1999, in 2007 it was amended to require financial reports when requested. So there's nothing specific to Netflix. However most streaming providers aren't available in Canad
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by wmil 12y ago
Libertarians, basically by definition, are people with a low group instinct. So any project that requires large numbers of them to work together tends to fall apart. The other big problem with the micronation / charter city idea is th
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by wmil 12y ago
This was doomed from the start. By trying to make it more realistic they exposed the limits of technology. A key problem is that the weight of a blade is a huge part of swordfighting. A light bladeless controller can't capture the t
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by wmil 12y ago
Do you have a full numpad? I can't type it on my laptop so I can't verify. But pasting the js snippet into the console works.
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by wmil 12y ago
Angular doesn't really provide a data model, you generally have to roll your own for an app. Think of this as client side ActiveRecord. It handles queries, relations, and syncing with the back end.
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by wmil 12y ago
That actually sounds like what Firebase ( https://www.firebase.com/ ) offers, but that's a service not a library. You might want to have a look at http://pouchdb.com/ but I don't know how (or if) th
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by wmil 12y ago
Xcode is extra strange because it's so non Mac like. Drag with right mouse button to connect things, unintuitive icons with unhelpful hover text...
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by wmil 12y ago
"A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History" by Nicholas Wade. Controversial but fascinating.
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by wmil 12y ago
Picasso and Cézanne both got popular in the 190x's. As photography got better the art world stopped being impressed with accurate perspective. Cézanne was famously bad at perspective, but kept painting anyways. Essentially they were b
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by wmil 12y ago
Many people don't, check out Generalizing From One Example http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ key passage: "The debate was resolved by Francis Galton, a fascinating man who am
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by wmil 12y ago
The kill -1 behaviour seems like a bug. Sure, it's documented, but how often is it done on purpose? It seems like something that should at least be a separate function.
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by wmil 12y ago
The equivalent would be a registry of people who will send you seeds if you send them a self addressed stamped envelope. Next season you'd be expected to donate back your extra seeds.
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by wmil 12y ago
This has been discussed a few times. I think the short answer is that we don't have enough information to verify Postol's theory. But I think there's one major problem with his analysis. Iron Dome works by tracking rockets
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by wmil 12y ago
Well the photographer set up the camera and the trigger. Framing the background is an artistic contribution. And the important part is that the photographer would have still owned the copyright if it was a human who set off the trigger. Ho
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by wmil 12y ago
If you care about jpeg size you're probably already using a build/preprocessing system on your assets. This is just another tool in the chain.
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by wmil 12y ago
The goal of speeding tickets is revenue generation not lowering speeds. It's essentially random taxation on people who drive quickly. Because of that they need mobile, disguisable, hand held units. Video from a handheld unit wouldn&#
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by wmil 12y ago
His analysis is flawed. For example, imagine if several rockets are fired at a hospital. Iron Dome intercepts the rockets, throwing them off course. The rockets then land in parks and parking lots, killing no one. Under Postol's stan
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by wmil 12y ago
On the 1st of every month there's a "Who's Hiring" thread, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366 Just post there.
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by wmil 12y ago
I find using SFDebris' score works well for all Trek series. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/SFDebris
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by wmil 12y ago
A "not guilty" verdict means that there was enough evidence to go to trial, but not enough to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. It's far from a confirmation that you did nothing wrong.

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