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How _lucky_ that github itself was the subject of the attack in npm. Unless I'm missing something, this attack could have gone unnoticed for a long time (it would be hard for someo…

An interesting side note about this story is the homogeneity and lack of relevant background among Theranos's board of directors. All the outside directors were white, prestigious …

I'm not sure that accuracy/HP are the right things to tweak. I've always wanted to be "surprised," in an unscripted way, by AI enemies in FPS and RTS games.

It's an interesting point, but I'm wondering how to unpack it. "If Twitter was open... a dozen people innovating on it..." Though not 100% independent of their funding model (loss-…

> Someone could probably also create a video with a payload to hot patch libstagefright. This is brilliant. Assuming that it doesn't cause further problems.

Independent of the question if "everyone" is owned is the interesting (and scary) possibility that specific people have been (or will be) targeted.

The comments here remind me a little of Pierre Bayard's delightful(ly) postmodern monograph, _How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read_ [0]. It's an entertaining read. [0] http://w…

One thought is that we could reframe the question (as e.g., Sweden has done) and work to increasing gender equality. If the starting point is recognizing that people have kids and …

I believe it's a licensing arrangement. Those locations often buy and license Starbucks coffee (though often not their baked goods), but are not run by Starbucks. e.g., Barnes and …

The rebuttal: http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/...

It's a pretty interesting sequence of events that turned on configuration errors and humans overriding automated pauses (what the Order calls circuit breakers) without really under…

Make sure they're well separated! c.f. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487033765045754919...

What a great question. I do think that, generally speaking, confidence that the markets are stable is good for an economy, and these sorts of events undermine that confidence. It's…

I have heard Gregg Berman speak, though I hadn't read this speech until skimming it just now. I do think that there is, generally speaking, a heartfelt desire to develop the tools …

One of the authors here. I think that's a pretty good summary. And, yes, I agree that there are ways to introduce damping into many such systems and some has been added since the C…

If you could modify the driver, you may not need to rely on the subtlety of the emissions patterns...

Do you have a reference to this? I've heard this argument before, but haven't been able to find any hard stats.

Are you sure you're the mark (i.e., their target audience)?

Full disclosure: this is my article, but my hope is that it's interesting to the community here, and I'm really interested in people's feedback on what we got right and what we mis…