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I often wonder how this would map to other languages (as C++ often entails complexity and clever work arounds such as this article).

In Java or C# (and of course in C++), you could have a token system where the token can only be provided by Device :

VFS: void register(DeviceToken):

DeviceToken: empty interface (marker)

Device: private DeviceToken provideDeviceToken();

This hides both VFS and Device classes from accessing each others' private members.

You can also constrain how gets to provide DeviceToken by adding sufficient comments in code.

You should add a /s to make this more obvious .

Like Pokemon cards? It's fun. But does not carry any value.

You can't buy a car or toilet paper with your precious Pokemon cards.

I should have explained my comment. It's about a strain called IR8 that yields more rice per hectare. This saved so many lives in India and elsewhere. And yes I am thinking of Norman Borlaug.

Why do they even bother answering allegations? If the other group believes whatever they believe in, any answer or evidence will only bolster their claims because they are already way into the pseudoscience camp.

I don't like the taste of it but by golly I am going to support these new fangled vegan stuff: they are doing the right thing.

Without GMOs a billion people in India will not be alive today. So let's not give these people any more attention than they deserve.

But that's what Elon promises. He is careful never to publicly say it outright but his PR machinery wants you to believe this car can do things it literally cannot.

People keep harping on about 'delete Facebook': it doesn't matter because they have laid cookies everywhere and have already built a profile. Newly born people will at least have some connection through their other properties that will help lay their Pixel tracker all over the web properties.

It almost feels like these two corporations (IBM and Oracle) and giant marketing, consulting and legal firms than technology firms.

Haha. So this ingenious method started with packet number 1 and examined thank you to the Patreon supporters John Jim and Richard now onto Packet number 456 where the color red was found. Thank you and please subscribe like and share.

What a time to be alive!

That's true but I have higher hopes for our country's politicians.

It's a shame that a private citizen has do this. Reflects poorly on our country that the economically disadvantaged really do not have a choice or a voice.

And these are not people who choose to be poor or incapable. They really don't have any other option.

I am more wary of any nutrition study though .. A lot of these scientists aim for newspaper coverage than actual honest research or science. Most of these are touchy-feely social science stuff that shouldn't be in the category of science to begin with.

It's the 21st century and I think it's time to stop calling these'records'.

This is an example of releasing things that are potentially unsafe but 'meh we are part of silicon valley enthusiasts, let's fail fast and fail often'.

The slight problem with this approach is the failures end up killing a few human beings. Sure, you can learn from the failures but is this the right way?

Very callous and self-righteous behavior from these Elon Musk-style people.

I am not sure what to make of such survey based studies. They are not science and often have lots of issues around experiment design, p-values (181 participants).

I really wish these conferences just go away. Great for the authors to progress their careers but of little or negative value to human kind.

This is classic Wired- style writing. They want a protagonist, a hero, a villain. It's always painted as far too simple and dramatic when most technology is actually developed in the most mundane boring ways.

People have gotten too comfortable. We no longer have the will to care for the things we are surrounded by.

We wait for government regulations and lawsuits to make things happen. That was not how this country was built.

Once you concentrate power in corporations or in politics, people just don't have the will or say anymore to do anything.

It takes too much time to build a bridge, and too many players involved and everyone seems to need more checklists and committees and regulations and vendors and contractors just to build a damn bridge. Private construction/ builders are only slightly more efficient because they don't run for election but due to monopolies or regulations they are ever more inefficient than before.

And everything gets amplified a million times through Twitter with not much substance but just generally shouting about things and not actually doing shit.

Nice now the judges and their sons who got bug fat checks have to face the truth finally: that they might have all the money but they still live in Eastern District of Texas that won't have an Apple store for them to spend their cash on.

Sorry to be pedantic as this is often incorrect: King county was NOT named after MLK Jr, but rather changed recently from referring to Rufus King to MLK Jr. I had mistakenly believed this too before I learnt about our history.

But Washington State is indeed named after George Washington.

Is it ethical or possible to attack the attacker by spawning a few cloud instances that POST dummy but nearly legit responses to their website? This way they would have to comb through and hopefully verify a lot of crap to find victims' card numbers?

Unless of course they were clever enough to embed some fake cookie to track responses to specific emails...

A vocal tiny majority has gotten hold of the loudest most annoying sound box. It's hard to even close your ears.

I did read the abstract.

Most such research simply monitor the participants' diets through a questionnaire or some indirect mechanism. It's not a scientific, reproducible approach.

I am making a meta-point that such research has started to affect more and more of what we think of as science which is extremely disturbing.

The harder scientific work would be to analyze the effect of specific foods with how the heart works over a much longer epriod of time. Granted that there isn't a way to track or pursue this line of inquiry yet, but taking shortcuts isn't science IMO.

Are there any evidence-based efforts to monitor, diagnose these at an age where it was previously thought to be too early to have an heart attack? (Calcium score? CT scan?)

Most other diseases that killed vast populations at this age have been resolved or worked around, so looks like we are looking at one of the last remaining killer dieases.. would love to strap on Apple Android whatever devices if it will help diagnose or monitor such patterns.

This is nearly pseudoscience..

Indians have one of the highest rates of heart attacks even though a significant population is purely vegetarian.

I think science has to be focused on biology and science, not social surveys and asking questions to a small bunch of uncontrolled strangers.

This is not accurate because the first breakout search is some Chevy dealer who happens to be named keras....

Apologies. Won't do that again.

I did intentionally want this to be inflammatory.

ICOs,crapcoins have took money from the general public without any regulation and funneled into shady, dodgy ventures. So yes of course my comments come out to be inflammatory.

The NuCypher has the Hallmark of a marketing website for ICOs and perfect whitepapers and awesome 'team' photos and other stuff that should raise a million red flags. I have seen this game a million times with so many ICOs with 'super nice squeaky clean websites' before.

I am sure there is _some_ technology hidden there. But to me it just screams money money money. Not technology technology technology. Have seen this game play a million times.

Really really would love to have SEC scrutinize all these crapshoot ICOs ( not accusing you). Have seen so much money swindling with fake whitepapers and promise of Alice and Bob in wonderland security whitepapers. Yours is probably legit but I have no idea. SEC should weigh in.

Alice wants to decrypt the rabbit hole. Bob wants to sell ICOs. Oh my

Please at least add a HUGE disclaimer that all the NuCoin things are your own products and not some childlike curiosity. It's important that people understand that because HN doesn't allow ads without disclaimers.