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First off, I tend towards the left politically, but Dianne Feinstein is somewhat of a control freak.

Maybe the switch to Jungle Primaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary
will help resolve this in the long term.
Even though we had pretty thorough proof of this with ECHELON? Including the EU parliamen report into echelon; and the stuff about the US using it to provide commercial advantage to their aerospace industry?

Risk assessment has always been part of security. And people have always said that you should probably assume a well funded government can and does read everything. This was more of an assumption, but the fact that governments do listen to everything should not have been a surprise.
Actually if you did a subscription based service, almost like a BirchBox, that may work better. The customer sends in the first set of clothes, you get measurements, and now you know size and style. From there each month you send them a clothing package with suggested items. They can either wear them for a bit and return (Netflix type model) or purchase at a discounted rate from you.
There is something like this in Bonn, Germany, along the Rhine, starting close to the Post Tower. It's called Planetenlehrpfad but I currently can't find an English resource on it.
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;-)

Do not even think of trying to go fast to Google HQ...

Or how about a red light district ?! Some kind of age verification for each passenger for sure.
This got me thinking about the future of ML. Right now ML solutions are like large blocks (centerpiece), which we feed with data and extract "value" from.

Perhaps rather than making ever more powerful ML "monoliths," maybe the future is with "ML modules" that can be glued together meaningfully (i.e. beyond data proc. pipelines). It would make sense that probabilistic programming languages will be useful for gluing such modules together.

Link to church in js book from the article: http://dippl.org/chapters/02-webppl.html#and-inference
You used to be able to make emergency calls in the UK without a valid SIM card, but it's been required since 2009 [1][2] (apparently to cut down on untraceable hoax calls).

There is a technical difference though, between 'Roaming' and using another network in the same country. I have roaming enabled on my Vodafone account, but I can't connect to O2's UK network when Vodafone is out of range, because the other UK networks are on a list of not-permitted networks. The technical solution is called LSS - "Limited Service State" (sometimes referred to as "Emergency Roaming", and that's what allows us to 'camp' on another network to make an emergency call, but it's a different technical implementation to roaming.

Here's a thought though…if someone visits the UK from abroad, and hasn't activated roaming, is their SIM card considered 'valid' enough for the sake of LSS/Emergency Roaming?

[1] http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Using-giffgaff/Emergency-Ro... (GiffGaff is a UK mobile operator, but the requirement stands for all UK operators).

[2] http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2009/next-steps-to-ensure-ava... (Ofcom is the UK regulator for communications industries).
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No, not really with ECHELON. That would have required all phone calls in the u.s. to be routed outside of the u.s., and really the only cooperating country was the UK, even though Canada was part of the group. It wasn't practical to route all communications from the u.s. through the UK, and it probably would have been noticed.
In most cases I believe time estimates for technological advance to be far too short, but in this case I believe the estimate to be far too long. We've already got decent 3d engines running in the browser - it's not theoretical. With the current pace of web tech advancement and the advent of web assembly, it could easily happen within five years.
In many parts of the world reverse-engineering for the sake of interoperability is legally defended right, and any such clauses of the EULA are void.
SDET?
The submitter might have been triggered to look the topic up on Wikipedia by the most recent (Aug 10, 2015) installment on Ben Krasnow's Applied Science videos:

Learn how magneto-optical storage discs work, and see how a focused laser can directly alter a material's optical characteristics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTquUbvzJII

This video uses a magneto-optical disk as an example material, but there also the material is heated up above the curie point to allow the bit-domains to swap orientation. Readout is optical, though. (hence the name)
Blend4Web homepage with nice demos: https://github.com/TriumphLLC/Blend4Web
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It's hard to imagine that prime real estate like that would be "uninhabited".
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I'd be all for it. A permanent site can rely on repeat business and a permanent economy can grow around it. A sort of Mecca for sports.

The current process is a shambles. It's basically about telling the world how prosperous the host is, and for the IOC members it's all about milking the process for money. You end up building a ghost town someplace every four years at huge cost.

I suppose the same arguments apply for the winter olympics. They have mountains and snow in Greece too, so how about building twin sites?
What a depressing read. Jeff Bezos needs to tell us why he is treating our fellow human beings so badly. I am willing to wait another day for my gadgets from amazon, or not even have gadgets. I didn't ask for this, no customer asked for this. I don't want people to be treated like this,

Some of the reports about the sick and unlucky being penalized is grotesque and Bezos needs to stand up and defend himself or be dismissed as a psychopath.

Efficiency, performance and wealth should not be a ruse for businesses to drag us a sterile world stripped of humanity in pursuit of profits. No one signed that social contract.

Ultimately the only reasons sociopaths thrive and succeed is there are too many people willing to do their bidding, every single time, to dehumanize themselves and others.
Notifications are location dependent.
How do you solve the issue without having everyone publishing their location all the time ?
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Not sure why you are down voted but the US Intelligence Agencies are Amazon's single biggest customer.
I'm curious about one thing: what exactly was the source of your work-related stress, apart form the on-call pages? This is something people rarely elaborate on and I think is very important to get a good picture of the place.

I see two different sources of stress in engineering work: large volume stress and "hostile dev environment" stress (sorry, I wish I could come up with a better term). The first means just that you have a large load of things to do. Personally I am not that much bothered by it if my environment allows me to execute on that volume of tasks. What often has me going into mad rages is the second type of stress: IDE slowness, random unexplicable build crashes, inefficient engineering systems, poorly designed code that makes it really hard to test it quickly. You get the idea. You have a task to get done and you could get it done if it depended on your competence alone, but the development environment is so fucked up that you constantly battle it when trying to make the smallest of changes. That builds up a ridiculous amount of stress because now you feel like you're lagging behind, and it's not because you don't know how to do something, but simply because the very thing that should enable your work prevents you from doing so.

What of those kinds of stresses did you have at Amazon? I'm genuinely curious.
> It didn't require a license to ride a horse or drive a buggy,

Horses were taxed. Carriages were taxed.

http://www.genguide.co.uk/source/taxes-miscellaneous/177/

Etc.
If only I could motivate myself to read the lengthy article about motivation maybe I could understand how to better motivate myself in other aspects of my life. But it really is a long article and I have other things to do, so... chicken, meet egg. Egg, meet chicken.
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Or alternatively, why must the Olympics be held in one place at all? The infrastructural burdens of large events are massive. The World Cup distributes this burden throughout cities and even regions.
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We have a really attractive offer from a US competitor but no experience selling brands. It would be awesome if you know someone or could point us in the right direction.
To be fair, the previous Unity version he links to is obviously a beta design. It actually says "beta" at the top. For me, the Unity version loads and runs smoothly.

The Blend4Web version seems more polished because it is more polished. They've toned down the lighting, completely changed the interface, and reduced the map area.. you're confined to quite a small space. The Unity version you can drive further, only the ground texture needed work. Zoom out though and you'll see why the ground texture is more blurry than the Blend4Web version.

I'm sure Blend4Web is great, but what isn't great is that Blender is required!
> Re: Paternity leave, I was able to take as much as I needed - it depends on the team/org I guess.

Yeah, I'm sure the teams have some ability to be flexible, and if I'd pushed I could have gotten more time. Managers understand very well how difficult it can be to hire a new engineer, and they recognize the importance of keeping the ones they've got, but the company-wide policy literally is zero paid family leave for fathers. Regardless of available workarounds, I wanted to express my dissatisfaction with the policy.
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No he didn't explain why anything was just, he got pendantic about the meaning of the word right, and no I didn't start the semantics, I clarified my meaning. And I wasn't proven wrong nor did I start with any insults. Read much?

> You didn't even address the argument that "being convicted of murder triggers conditions on most of the rights we have as citizens"...

No, I didn't, because at that point the debate had already turned sour with his pedantics so it wasn't worth addressing as there's no point in continuing such a discussion with someone so anal about every word.
Software Development Engineer in Testing, I think.
What makes you think they are not already breached?

By any available evidence, these guys can't even maintain a simple download counter on their wiki. A random IT contractor like Snowden was already gone for a month and they had no idea. I think they still have no clue what he has.

All the science fiction gives this very distorted picture when really the people working at the NSA are private-sector leftovers, and even if someone with half a brain slips into their ranks, a layer of ignorance and government inefficiency will promptly suffocate them. It's a good thing, their incompetence is our only protection.
Why would they do it non-profit?

Google Fiber is this.
>Trying to change winner's parameters.

>Changing winner's parameters to default ones.

>Retraction of the idea to change parameters.

Speaking of Keccak their landing page is full of snake-oily marketing such as "rock-solid security strength level" and "heavier SHAKE512" or "extremely high 256 bits" like they are trying to sell me a battle armor video game addon. I realize there is misinformation floating around ever since the questionable SHA3 competition but bolding arbitrary words and injecting "rock-solid" into your criticism debunking isn't helping. http://keccak.noekeon.org/
There was a ST:TNG episode whose plot covered similar symptoms to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Terrors_(Star_Trek:_The_...
Here's an article about procrastination which is so long many people put off reading it until they have more motivation and time.

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/procrastination/
I'd be more interested in downloading it if the iTunes page included actual screenshots, and not just marketing material. As it stands, I have no idea what the app looks like, and the description doesn't matter to me as I don't use Yahoo News Digest.
Taxed != license. No one ever lost their horse riding license.
I just hope they retrain the option/default to strcoll for the final sort. For internal parts it doesn't matter.
The only argument you have presented is that restrictions on [rights or whatever you call them] are fundamentally wrong. No matter what words you choose to use, he disproved that argument and you have presented no other.
Car ownership rates in European countries are not vastly lower than in the US. In some, it's actually higher. On average the rate is a bit lower, but it's not anywhere close to "the exception rather than the rule."
Oh man, you should read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html It's a brilliant account of the process!
I worked at Amazon for 2 years and it was literally nothing like this. I feel like the article is talking about a completely different company.

Why didn't you change teams?
If Volvo would have to rely on Apple Maps I guess they would not take any responsibility either ;-)
Visual Studio and another yet-to-be-determined one.
As others said, Software Development Engineer in Test. She's a dev that writes test automation code.
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But isn't Unity required when using the Unity plugin? Blender is at least open source!
It could just be a technique to convince you it's perfectly normal to give up the data. I wouldn't be surprised if many people would fall for such a thing.
I wonder if ex-Amazon employees will seed Seattle's startup scenes with "the Amazon way". Maybe they'll do the exact opposite, since they've seen how unhappy life can be when they're treated as grist for the mill.

I try to take my dollars elsewhere because I think Amazon is detrimental to local economies or their employees in warehouses and HQ. Kind of like how I feel about Wal*Mart.
Well, heck. That's the only way they can do it. Any other way would offend someone's sense of political correctness.
Only broadcast them from towers near the emergency. Or tag each notification with an affected area and let the device decide if it's applicable.
hand-eye co-ordination has a timing element. that timing element is based off of emipirical sampling from the environment. music is also structured in time, but it pollutes the time-sampling process when you do something like parralel park with limited visibility.the brain doesn't have enough bandwidth to process incomplete information sets (parking) and embellished information sets (music) at the same time.

TLDR: music is distracting (in this context)
Google Fiber is for the last mile, consumer/business users.

I'm suggesting a non-profit organization or entity that is a holding company for dark fiber assets for tech companies, with a charter that specifically protects the privacy and integrity of the packets that travel over it.

If your packets run over AT&T, you clearly have lost. But if you control physical access, the only way the government is going to gain unlawful access is through someone who has integrated themselves into your org or through an illicit fiber tap. You've significantly reduced your attack surface.

EDIT: You could even go so far as to require different orgs to travel over physically diverse strands, thereby preventing any sort of multi-tenant shenanigans, with the cable being shared ownership.
He didn't disprove any argument because I didn't make any, I expressed an opinion about my belief of what was just; that cannot be proven wrong. Go find someone else to troll.
Read cracking the coding interview and solve every single problem in it.

Then start with the leetcode.com problems and solve every single one.

Hen do 5 practice interviews with companies that you don't care about.

That's all. It's simple but it takes determination and time to do.
There are a couple of lawyers on this thread and, I suspect, also a few law students.
Really clever! Hope this sticks around.
Cannot wait for 9.5. Migrated from MySQL. So happy I did.
A business engine always breaks with the very people that make up the engine. If people aren't happy, the product sucks, managers go into panic and begins pushing people more and the downward spiral continues.

My speculation here but I think Amazon has reached peak. It got what it wanted, the largest retailer in America. Jeff Bezo got his feature on magazine and tv shows. Stock leaps one more fold. Amazon has consistently led on investors that future profits is everything while undercutting everyone else in a razor thin margin operations. Now that it's reached the title it wanted it finds the very people that got them there miserable and jumping ship. That's very hard to fix especially when you piss off the work force and give the impression that it's a hell hole.

Reminds me of a startup that grew super quick while maintaing crazy turnovers until they couldn't hire anymore directly because their reputation has gotten so bad. They never recovered. I think we are seeing something like that to a certain degree but in much larger magnitude.

I think Walmart would be very much poised to begin eating at Amazon's margins. These days I find myself comparing prices with walmart.com before ordering on Amazon.
> "Appalling in every way, I think I'm going to shop elsewhere in future."

Same here. This article convinced me to stop shopping at Amazon. I'd even consider avoiding services that used AWS.
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Your post is too general (headline, questions, are you recruiting or looking for "help?" do you want feedback on your product?)
Really weird downvotes on this topic. I love it! I really wish we could see who votes on what topic. Part of me wishes the u.s. has its own government supported web-brigades like Russia so that they can be exposed and ridiculed. But the sad truth is most of these are probably coming from the HN readers that have drunk the u.s. government cool aide.
What did you end up using instead of Pandas?
Yeah, that's a good point that numbers used in a made-up example might have an effect on what people think about real-world diagnostic tests. The example is probably copied from another web page such as [1]. If you're sure they got it wrong, maybe write to them and get it fixed, or at least add a link to a page about the real tests.

[1] http://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
curious to know how many years of experience do you have?
I'm sure the IOC will be all for greatly reducing its massive profits and increasing its now nonexistent costs!
Who are these lucky "rest of us" fellows who have both advanced technical infrastructure and no government spying? They don't live in the EU, Russia, and I guess most of Asia.
Even if we ignore units (i.e. 1, -1 in the ring Z), the prime number is a factorization of itself (one factor).

Otherwise the famous theorem that any integer >= 1 can be factored uniquely (up to order of the factors) into prime numbers would not hold (it even holds for 1, since 1 is defined as the product of zero factors).
I should really learn some PG and move away from MySQL. But at 40 years old i have a problem learning how to sit properly. sigh
I'd like to hear it if I scrape or bump something. My parking space is really close quarters.

There's probably a lot more going on re: concentration and the distraction of music, but that's one factor.
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How can a user confirm that their traffic isn't set to be sent over the vpn?
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Well put - I hadn't thought of it that way.
I like the thought that Wikipedia the result of massive collaborative procrastination.
In terms of presentation, you're dead on. In terms of tooling and development environment, not sure that that's going to be.
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Law is not all books. There is something physical about law school. It may not be as physical as med school, but the three-year process of getting the JD is more than a pile of textbooks. Interaction with students and professors, structured or not, is as important as the reading. It changes people. By third year you realize exactly how vast the practice is and no longer focus on the gritty aspects of constitutional debate.
I absolutely agree with your last sentence. My intention is not to stand on the law as authority, but try to work through the logic of the law.

Why do we punish people criminally? For doing bad things with malicious intentions. Intention is the most important thing in criminal law, because a guy who shoots at someone is equally a bad, culpable person worthy of punishment whether or not his aim is very good. On the flip side, someone who kills someone while driving in an accident that could happen to anyone is not worthy of punishment while someone who kills someone intentionally with their car is worthy of being punished as a murderer. Even though the end result is the same--the intention is what matters.

That's why drunk driving is illegal in and of itself. You make a conscious reckless decision to put other people at risk. Even if you don't hurt anyone, you're guilty of that act and that recklessness is a form of malicious intent justifying punishment.
This is such a shame. I know people who would probably pay good money for those GenRad manuals pictured. And that's probably just the tip of the iceberg of what's stored.
The makers of Phaser.io were commissioned to make a game for each of the emotions from "Inside Out". I believe it's on their blog or the main developers blog.
Besides the distraction of music in general, there's a couple other factors going on. One is that parking is a relatively less practiced skill than driving, so it should naturally require more concentration. It is just plain awkward as well. Second, unless your stereo system automatically adjusts the volume level based on speed, the music will seem louder than when you were driving.
The spying outside the u.s. is nothing like the corporate-government partnership spying in the u.s.

You can go to any Western country besides the u.s. and not be subject to indiscriminate spying.

What's funny is that if you're an American in the u.s. you have other governments in Europe, Australia, Canada, etc spying on you on behalf of the u.s. government and sending all of your information back to the u.s., but they're not spying on their own citizens to the same extent.
The idea that rights can never have restrictions is not an opinion. It is objectively wrong. The old quote about swinging a fist comes to mind.

You can disagree with these restrictions, but you have not presented an argument that's actually focused on driving.

If you really think I'm trolling to explain such a simple thing, I'll leave. Good luck in the future!
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