Post #540 152 Jul 22, 2018, 15:33 UTC Also on the offensive side of things: American Fuzzy Lophttp://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
Post #539 144 Jul 22, 2018, 15:32 UTC See also the HN discussion of negative side effects for mutation tests:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17515602
Post #538 136 Jul 22, 2018, 15:25 UTC Watching the Watchers, Testing Tests: The State of Mutation Testing at Googlehttps://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46584 Google Research State of Mutation Testing at Google – Google Research
Post #537 120 Jul 22, 2018, 14:42 UTC https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479 queue.acm.org C Is Not a Low-level Language - ACM Queue In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it
Post #536 139 Jul 21, 2018, 10:21 UTC https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/ Quanta Magazine The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature | Quanta Magazine New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”…
Post #535 142 Jul 20, 2018, 04:44 UTC https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_windows_10/ Theregister Now Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown CPU design MSR's E2 processor EDGEs into public view... with a little help from Qualcomm, too
Post #534 155 Jul 16, 2018, 05:50 UTC TLDR: Daily GTA5 during 2 months has no measurable differences to daily Sims, or no games at allhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0031-7 Nature Does playing violent video games cause aggression? A longitudinal intervention study Molecular Psychiatry - Does playing violent video games cause aggression? A longitudinal intervention study
Post #533 167 Jul 12, 2018, 23:57 UTC https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1017514366290178048?s=21 Twitter When someone says “military grade” anything, remember that classified documents were stolen from an open FTP server run by a guy who’d just received his military issued cyber security awareness award.
Post #531 147 Jun 25, 2018, 17:49 UTC https://status451.com/2016/09/15/social-gentrification/ It's Eternal September, again :( Status 451 Social Gentrification Earlier this week a friend of mine was talking about nerd culture, and was surprised when I mentioned that I don’t like it. I avoid nerd culture and, despite being the exact target demographi…
Post #530 166 Jun 13, 2018, 19:01 UTC Apple code signing can be bypassed. for added lulz, the bug seems to be on the signing side, not verification side, so all 3rd party apps need to be rebuilt before new checks can be deployed by Apple (you can't distinguish real signature from fake)https://www.okta.com/security-blog/2018/06/issues-around-third-party-apple-code-signing-checks/ Okta Security I can be Apple, and so can you A Public Disclosure of Issues Around Third Party Code Signing ChecksSummary:A bypass found in third party developers’ i
Post #529 159 Jun 13, 2018, 02:07 UTC on microsoft and github - http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_single_most_important_criteria_when_replacing_Github/
Post #528 183 Jun 10, 2018, 16:33 UTC https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/training-a-neural-network-in-phase-change-memory-beats-gpus/ Ars Technica Training a neural network in phase-change memory beats GPUs Specialized hardware that trains in-memory is both fast and energy-efficient.
Post #527 183 Jun 5, 2018, 11:55 UTC for hardware DIY guyshttps://groupgets.com/browse Groupgets Create and join group buys for existing products. Hack Minimum Order Quantities. Sign up and create your own group buy for free.
Post #526 183 Jun 4, 2018, 14:45 UTC An article on quantum mechanics suddenly references Rashomon. Ookay.http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-philosophy-religion/tim-maudlin-defeat-reason Boston Review The Defeat of Reason - Boston Review Two new books—one on quantum physics, one on Thomas Kuhn—seek to reestablish the authority of reason and evidence.
Post #525 179 May 31, 2018, 18:51 UTC https://www.evonide.com/side-channel-attacking-browsers-through-css3-features/accessing cross-origin iframes through CSS side channels. awesome.
Post #524 198 May 28, 2018, 14:59 UTC https://medium.com/@erushton214/a-simple-spell-checker-built-from-word-vectors-9f28452b6f26 Medium A simple spell checker built from word vectors If you have heard of word vectors, you will probably know they enable a type of algebra on words. So, for example,
Post #522 133 May 27, 2018, 19:36 UTC Overfitting 80 LVL:A single parameter is always enough: Fitting any scatter plot on any number of points with a fixed precision with a single parameterhttps://colala.bcs.rochester.edu/papers/piantadosi2018one.pdf
Post #521 151 May 6, 2018, 11:32 UTC Looking for a specific kind of a stable topological sort algorithm: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/91553/stable-topological-sort-algorithm-preserving-chains