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I had difficulty parsing that title.

At first I read it as '"Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways" Say Drones Looking For Speeders'

i.e. there are already drones enforcing the speed limit, and they are reporting (or being confused by) fake signs (maybe installed by pranksters for that purpose.)

Why would it freak them out any more than the helicopters which they have seen before?

Except that many of us carry smartphones that are worth more by themselves than the amount of cash we would normally consider carrying and expose you to further online fraud if stolen.

Maybe a script could be set to release a random subset of the documents and delete another random subset, i.e.

    if snowden_has_not_logged_in_for_7_days():
        for doc in documents:
            if random.choice([True, False]):
                release(doc)
            else:
                permanently_delete(doc)

Then all parties have something to lose (either undesired leak of some document, or losing the chance to learn the contents of a document) if Snowden dies.

Can you give some examples?

My experience has been slightly different. I have often found stackoverflow questions (closed as NC or NaRQ) from google searches and thought "This is interesting, but I would be embarrassed if my boss saw me reading it."

Parsing JSON is also a solved problem. And JSON is also easier for humans to read than XML.

Unless your site is on cloudflare

It passes the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" test for me.

Verbal irony rarely works well on HN

I disagree. "fucking" (and directly-censored variants like "f*%$ing") suggest anger on the part of the speaker. "freaking" much less so.

But presumably the female mosquitos will eventually learn to avoid the males with the modified Y chromosome?

> I'm amazed that people are amazed by photo quality from two decades ago

It's partly because the media (especially TV news) deliberately blurs and desaturates pictures to indicate what decade they are from. Which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the film technology of the time. But it is easy to forget that they are doing this and assume that the original photos are really like this. Why would 70s and 80s photos be desaturated more than 60s photos for example.

Even for digital media (e.g. youtube) tools like this are popular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChY8IIc_fv4

Correct. (I have no strong opinion for/against remote working.)

She seems to be good at getting nerds talking about Yahoo. I don't think I was ever in the target market for any of their products, and I almost forgot the company existed, until the recent controversy about the ban on remote working.

In that respect, is it any worse than being in possession of a copy of GPG?

Don't forget that makes you more vulnerable to malware on the client, which now has easy access to your keys, and your known_hosts file (which gives the attacker a convenient list of servers to attempt to log into using those keys.)

But you would be a hypocrite if you also complained about people speeding in the street where you live.

"Ethnic" is not a synomym of "non-white."

PC World the magazine. Not to be confused with the retailer of the same name (http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/index.html)

Not that I would be too upset if that retail chain closed down.

> ...without the ethical problems...

I think that is a bit too optimistic. Political battles over robots' rights are inevitable.

Edit: I think this is also relevant: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/

This one is quite good at maintaining balance. It is demonstrated in the video.

> Thousands are in Iraq and Afghanistan

Those are not humanoid.

A robot that drives a vehicle can be an integral part of that vehicle, likely far cheaper than a humanoid robot that fits in the seat (and also shares the human driver's disadvantage of poor peripheral vision.)

Eventually (e.g. via targeted advertising) they convert that data to cash. If they weren't going to make cash from it, they would not be collecting it in the first place. And when they do convert it to cash, that cash will be taxed.

I don't imagine many developers see hash(secret||data) as a replacement from HMAC. I made that mistake once, but I had not yet heard of HMAC at the time.

Looks good. But how do you resync?

> I know what is illegal today

That is impressive, even if you are a lawyer.

> You mean "pre-web blog"

And just as importantly, pre-DNS. Its impressive that a domain expired a decade before DNS was invented.

>You could imagine a more clever implementation of lexical environments that avoids this problem. Each closure could have a dictionary containing only the variables which it actually reads and writes; the values in that dictionary would themselves be mutable cells that could be shared among the lexical environments of multiple closures.

That is basically how Lua implements closures.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542074

Reminds me of one of mine: http://stackoverflow.com/q/137060/12048