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You argument is a common one. (So I upvoted you)

The response I have against it is it suffers from the fallacy of gray. War is horrible and it sucks. Sucks for the old lady cooked to death in a air raid shelter in Dresden, sucks for the GI machine gunned down on the beach at Normandy. Sucks for the Merchantman drowning in the Atlantic. Sucks for the little girl accidentally run over by a jeep North of France.

What ties these together is, none of these people are under the protection of the hostile forces. (And the little girl is an accident)

The difference between what the US army did, or the Soviet Army soldiers did. Was the German Army and police killed people who were supposed to be under their protection. And they did so via policy. That's the difference and that's the body law Nuremberg trials created, that creating such policies was illegal and punishable.

Personally as to the article, that a very fine reasoning about legislative law. But the Nuremberg trials are really about common law. Common law is older, fuzzier, and currently out of fashion, but here we are. The fundamental thing about common law it's it's based not on legislation but in previous rulings. The act comes first, then judgment is passed based on previous rulings and cultural mores.

Fundamentally I think the based on the then current rules of war, the people who were tried under Nuremberg, their lives were already forfeit. The victors had the right to dispose of them anyway they saw fit. Frankly in my view is that the idea that what those people did somehow fell under ordinary criminality is facetious.
What is so impressive about the way she lives? It was considered a normal living 100 years ago. The conditions are not that extreme (Southern Russia, same latitude as Berlin).

She gets regular help from others, and she hasn't been shy to ask for help. Also, she made several trips to nearby towns when she needed medical help.
It's not that bad actually - I've been using one since February. Here's a demo (+ code): http://www.anishathalye.com/2015/02/07/an-asynchronous-shell...
When I interviewed at Amazon it was mostly the team I was joining doing the interview. It may be that they do not have a uniform hiring bar across all their organizations, which makes shuffling people around a lot harder.

(Maybe not impossible, but harder)
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Honestly I'd take a cheap phone with no Amazon customizations. I don't think you can ship an Android phone with Google Apps and not with the Play Store though, and I can't imagine Amazon would want that since they have their own Market to promote.

On the other hand, it wasn't like the phone was originally cheap; if anything it was priced like a high end phone. That being the case, perhaps they got too greedy.

When I was at Amazon I asked someone in upper management why they priced the phone so high, telling them nobody would buy it at that price. They said the reason was so that people would think it's high end, and not dismiss it as a low/mid range phone. In the end, I think nobody bought that it was high end.

To be honest it amazes me that people at Amazon drink the koolaid when it does so little as a company to promote company pride, compared with the other tech giant in the area, Microsoft.
We have data that shows that desegregation is very effective. However, people seem to stop there and not question why it's so effective. It's not nice to think about, but isn't desegregation just "diluting the problem until it no longer creates a poisonous learning environment"?

I agree that I don't get the impression that some communities aren't doing all that they can to improve education irrespective of funding.
You wouldn't care if people who are not at all involved are implied to be coke dealers because they had their identity stolen?

Public exposure of individuals' private information is irresponsible, period.

Vigilantism is against the social contract, upholding it implies you gave up that power to the institutions that have the responsibility to judge and prosecute.
The impasse seems to be that the kernel isn't going to roll over on all their other kernel development concerns when someone waves the "security" trump card. As much as I'm into making sure people understand the importance of security and often am the guy fighting for better security in my professional capacity, I can't fault the kernel. That kind of arrogance not only doesn't work, but makes my job harder when I encounter IT and developers that have been bitten by terrible interactions with "the security community" in the past.
Yeah... that is kinda the the tipping point where I stopped believing this story.
Why do they move large amount of salt water when they could move only the sweet water? When the plant is 100 meter down, the water pressure is already the required 10 atmospheres, and when it is offshore at an ocean current the saltifying effect is a not problem. The energy needed is basically the same, but there is much less friction in the pipelines when you move only the non-pressurized end product. In my hand-cranked reverse osmosis plant the difference is 100-fold and you get good 30 minutes exercise for a cup of drinking water. If you live in a submarine, you could just turn the tap and the clean water flows in without any cranking.
While I agree that Nuremberg was a dose of victor's justice, there's a more nuanced point lurking in here. Some of the men brought to trial beat the charges by pleading, essentially, "you did it too." Dönitz, for example, was convicted of waging unrestricted submarine warfare but this wasn't taken into account during sentencing. Goering received a death sentence for his involvement in slave labor, mass murder and a host of , but not for bombing London.
I pay rent on a storage garage and the owners have a policy: either use automatic payments or pay $15 extra per month.

That kind of thing is not my choice. It's lose-lose. And if I could afford a bigger place, or had the money to move that stuff, I wouldn't be renting storage.

Anyway, it would be far more risky to try to move out. And then, if I end up with a shitty roommate who steals from me, you'd probably tell me that this is my fault too. That I should have used my infinite time to make perfect decisions at every step.

You pay extra to be poor. Whether you choose it or not. It is not worthwhile for you to believe otherwise just because you have some ideological preference.
The sun is eight light-minutes away.
I flew up in First Class on Virgin to Seattle next to a key lead on the fire phone. We had a nice long talk about the project and what happened. He vehemently defended the Fire Phone and touted its great and unique aspects while I examined it and admired the hard work he put in. 3D modeling, gyroscopic-driven interactions, an universal activity feed -- some interesting stuff was there...

But there were some serious problems with it like forced promotions where users would would prefer instead functionality, useless gimmicks, and other silliness. Without fail everytime I pointed one out, the Lead looked down a bit bashfully and admitted Bezos had insisted on this nonsense.

Bezos is an blind, egotistical CEO, forcing hardworking engineers to take the fall for his naive and frankly stupid decisions. His instincts in hardware and product without fail have been downright pathetic -- and now he will to blame those who work tirelessly under him for his own failure.
It was doomed from the beginning. There was zero redeeming value. high price, bland, thick, non-stock Android, 4 camera gimmick.
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There's a difference between telling a lie and being sneaky. Amazon didn't lie about this, it's true. But they definitely spent a lot of time implying that you'd be getting the same app you'd get elsewhere, just for free. Whether or not you consider the addition of ads to qualify as the same app or not is another question.
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> Before the pill, women couldn't sleep around without fear of getting pregnant. Before condoms, people couldn't sleep around without fear of STDs.

I'm going to push back on that assertion. There are still STDs in developed countries with plenty of access to condoms. Assuming that STD patients are not intentionally contracting diseases, it appears, at least on a social level, that condoms are not effective ways to prevent STDs in populations, at least not yet. Likewise for other forms of birth control and unplanned pregnancy rates.

I think our morals are outpacing our science and habits. And the disadvantaged disproportionately pay the consequences. Or the people who pay the consequences end up disadvantaged. Or both.

> We are adjusting our social values in response to advances in technology.

Are we? I'm not so sure. We take a very non-judgmental view of all sorts of risky behaviors. Scientifically speaking, anal sex has many more risk factors associated with it than other forms of sex. I haven't seen any studies about health risks associated with infidelity, but it's plausible (if not almost certain) that a person having unprotected sex with a secretly promiscuous spouse is exposed to STDs unwittingly.

I think you can argue for more personal freedom, but I'm going to disagree when you assert that we, as a society, have evolved past the consequences traditional morals were set up to protect against.
Where I think this might cause problems, be likely to be appealed, or are ripe for legislation to change are cases like this where it would have been completely legal to have an undercover agent stake out the house and obtain the same footage of firearms use and thus obtain the same warrant. I don't know if that was the case here (but it sounds like it was). To be clear, I don't think it's impossible to create laws outlawing that situation, or find that current laws find it illegal, just that those cases will be where there is extreme friction between the law and those it applies to, and there will be a higher likelihood to ignore it.

> Although perhaps your standard holds, and the argument would that constant warrantless surveillance would be illegal even if done by a human.

That's possible. Then again, depending on what is outlawed it may run afoul of what I think is a related (and probably root) phenomenon, where something easily accomplished with little risk or cost by the average person is outlawed, and is often ignored. e.g. Jaywalking.
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Except when it is transitioning color temperatures, I don't see why this would be the case. I reversed f.lux and it just calls some UpdateRGBLUT type function based on the color temperature. I think this LUT is applied to the frame buffer (perhaps this is how color profiles work?) even if f.lux is not being used.
Is bypassing the firewall illegal? How do you avoid getting caught? It would seem that using a vpn all the time would implicate you. I can only see it working with something like tor where you're always connecting through a different node and the nodes aren't officially affiliated with any common organization.
Offensive how?
BWC - business worship culture.

He who holds the purse string holds the power.
I think unabst is asking why the pitch for Cortana is similar to Microsoft Office's paperclip, which was a much ridiculed failure.
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>reason was so that people would think it's high end, and not dismiss it as a low/mid range phone.

Wow, that is whole another level of disconnect with reality!
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I'm curious to know how many people who've interviewed have received honest feedback about the current situation at the company.

Most people don't know how bad it is, until they're in the job, unless you know someone who works there outside the interview.

Morale can be a leading indicator but the honesty/transparency required to actually capture the indicator is somewhat difficult
Re: ISO file signatures: the actual "blessed method" involving getting install media is actually to order a CD-ROM set. IIRC, the ISOs don't actually include the SHA256.sig file necessary to verify the installation tarballs; this is only present on the official CD-ROMs.

Re: package signing: yes, this was a strange oversight, and I'm glad they sign their packages now.

> Then there is limited choice of packages

It's not that limited, at least on i386 and AMD64 (other platforms are a bit more limited). Are there particular packages that are missing that you'd prefer to be available?

> and I don't trust randomers maintaining them.

So compile them yourself, with or without ports. OpenBSD ships with GCC, binutils, etc. Besides, I'm pretty sure this is the same situation as with Gentoo, Arch, etc. (and know for a fact that it's the same situation as Slackware's SlackBuilds.org).

> In practice OpenBSD is good only for servers where you are willing to put some effort in maintaining them

I run multiple OpenBSD servers. I can personally attest that the effort required to maintain them is minimal.

The only situation where OpenBSD maintenance is less than dead simple is when it comes to upgrading a machine where you don't have console access (such as a server in a remote datacenter), since now you have to do the installer's job yourself. When you do have console access, however, OpenBSD's installer makes it dead-simple to upgrade. Plus, it does so safely; no more total breakages like you'd get in, say, Ubuntu.

I will say, however, that it would be very nice to be able to track the stable branch without having to pretty much build OpenBSD from source. I think there are some folks that maintain stable-following ISOs, but this is really something that could and should be supported as a first-party feature.

> but it isn't prepackaged solution like Ubuntu is.

I'm pretty sure Ubuntu uses AppArmor - not grsecurity - so I'm not really sure how that's relevant in this particular discussion. Unless, of course, you happen to install grsecurity on Ubuntu, at which point I highly doubt OpenBSD not being an Ubuntu-like "prepackaged solution" is really as much of a problem as you make it out to be :)

Regardless, OpenBSD has as of late been progressing toward such a prepackaged solution. Boot the CD-ROM, mash the Enter key a few times (interrupted by entering some usernames and passwords), and you have a complete server operating system ready-to-go; a webserver or mailserver or fileserver or DNS server or timeserver or what have you is just an edit of /etc/rc.conf.local away. Maybe not a prepackaged desktop solution, there are plenty of other operating systems for that.

With that said, I'm not sure if the OpenBSD folks want to be comparable to Ubuntu. Canonical's demonstrated a willingness to compromise security and privacy for the sake of convenience (see: shopping lens), that's (hopefully) not something de Raadt and friends would want to emulate.

> companies like Verisign aren't likely to burn their CA business for anyone

Not voluntarily. You're inherently trusting some random company to be up to snuff on their security.
I don't get it, design is important but not nearly as important as engineering to any organization. All of these hipsters today in our industry doing design seem to think they are the most important, but the truth is they aren't.

I got news for you, Google has one bar and one button and was built by engineers and is the most successful company in the world of software. Facebook had a shit design and UI and became the leading social network. Microsoft never gave a shit about design and did great.

In the end engineers build great high tech organizations and it's especially true and even more important than ever today.

Fuck design, its like icing on the cake. Without a good cake the icing won't make you eat shit. It's not that important what's important is to get a product out, you should learn code it up and see if it's any good worry about hiring the hipsters when you're rolling in the dough.

EDIT:
In the end I'm saying I disagree that having designers is a sign of anything in a good software company as the article seems to stipulate.
Oops. You're correct: a 2x1 vector is two-dimensional, a 3x1 vector is three-dimensional, etc. <Trying to remember the terminology from linear algebra 15 years ago.> Each element of the mx1 vector represents a magnitude along an orthogonal dimension ('scalars' for a set of 'basis vectors'). So then a 1000x1 vector would be "thousand-dimensional"; each element represents a magnitude along an axis. But is this strictly equivalent to 1000 single-dimensional vectors? `eli173 suggests not, and I agree.

In constructing my incorrect answer in the grand-parent comment, my though process was being guided by the way Matlab/numpy treats these items (and I think I'm on solid ground that Matlab/numpy treat them differently because mathematicians consider them differently). The built-in functions operate very differently (if they work at all) for

size(A) = (m,1)

and

size(A) = (m,n≠1)

So there may be 1000 numbers floating in the ether, but conceptually they're not the same. Multiplying a 1000x1 vector by a 1xp vector has a completely different result than multiplying one thousand 1x1 vectors by that same 1xp vector.

Although, only many hours later do I realize that the original submission title might've been wordplay on the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words", so my brain is not reliable today. I shall refrain from spewing more-likely-than-not incorrect statements concerning linear algebra.
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You should really do some research into why your startup times are so long instead of blaming your service provider.
One could value the headphones and charger at $20, so an $11 phone!
Moreover, it's very likely that these are hardware engineers, not SWEs.
interestingly, I just had one in my cart, and now they are "currently unavailable".
what happened to customer obsession. leadership principles 101 bro.
So ... why is it free?
That's great. You see, the quote even applies to quotes. ;-)
Very true.. all depends on who has the leverage..

if the startup has big traction, they have it..

if they are seeking better traction then the VC's have it...
Regarding the virtual desktops: They sadly remain useless since you can't have one program occupy multiple/all desktops. Any program can only ever be on one single virtual desktop.
Those "idiots" are now the ones that learned an expensive set of lessons to apply to that v2
Glad the Fire phone has flopped, simply on the basis that it will help reduce confusion for people looking for a Firefox phone.
I'm curious what the latency is like for interactions, given the human element.
So you think the Free Software Foundation should really be called the Ad-Supported Software Foundation?

"Free" and "ad-supported" mean completely different things, and always have done.
Yeah, saw the same thing with the good devs at Nike :-/
It is as shitty as the unity interface from ubuntu.

But for stupid zealotishs reasons people will develop a Stockholm syndroma and will find the new UI un/correct according to the terrorists kidnapping them.
This place should be called Amazon News.
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It sounds like you are concerned that these inferences are over-fitting the training. But it is important to note that once you have a highly trained data set -- maybe one that can't produce anything novel but does extremely well at doing what humans agree on -- then it is probably very easy to relax your process to produce novel results through iteration. At least then you know you've built a robust enough system to get things right in a sterile setting.

On the other hand, demanding novelty from a system that can't even get the basics right isn't likely to give you useful novelties so much as it will give you random mish-mash.

To find a local maximum, you'll want to overshoot your target slightly and then back up slowly.
I think the more pertinent question is "will the Google Hub become a competitor to the Echo anytime soon?".
I agree with you.
"Photoshop-designers" can only export their PSDs and that's it.

I can actually build and design it. If the design isn't satisfactory, I can.... wait for it.. actually iterate on it.

In fact, if I had another engineer instead of a photoshop-monkey we could iterate twice as fast on either device or browser.
It's amazing that Amazon thinks a useful feature is "ability to purchase stuff from Amazon faster". I don't make my decisions about products based on 1 touch ordering of supplies. If it solves a problem I have, great, but I certainly don't have an "Amazon ordering problem".
> If Ashley Madison were a website for child sex trafficking, and the names of registrants were exposed, leading to arrests, and public shaming... How would you feel?

This is still an irresponsible exposure of personal information. This is still vigilante justice.

What happens to the people whose identities were stolen and used on that site? Their lives will be ruined.

It is not the public's responsibility to judge or prosecute/persecute. Give the database to the authorities.

> I'd be very surprised if you kept the same opinion, that publicly outing those individuals, was not a fit punishment for the crime. Given that, then this entire conversation is completely subjective, and based entirely on your opinion about cheating, lying, and infidelity.

This has nothing to do with what the people were doing and everything to do with mob justice and innocent people caught in the crossfire.

Public disclosure of personal information is irresponsible and hurts everyone associated with the exposed.

How is public shaming justice? Who are you to decide who and how to punish? What's an acceptable amount of innocent people to expose as cheaters/child traffickers? What about the amount of innocent family members and friends of the exposed that will get to experience this as well?

How many of the gay men in Saudi Arabia exposed by this hack are allowed to be stoned to death before the ends do not justify the public exposure?
Yes, and? That's hardly a secret.
That's life. Companies make bets, hire people to execute, and when things don't work out, plans change and staffing sometimes need to adjust. No reason to bash Bezos for taking gambles. They certainly didn't risk the company.
Do you mean Spengler, perhaps?
There's another comment above where kentonv explains why they don't, and why it would be difficult. But beyond that, I don't think a Raspberry Pi is a great choice for this sort of application. If you really want something similar, I think there are now x86_64-based micro-PCs that might work.
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I still think the Windows 7 UI was one of the best desktop UXs made to date... Windows 10 is less annoying with the stupid web search disabled. WTF would an application with a start menu entry not come up before a web searched term, ruins the UI... At least Unity does/did better on that.

With it disabled, my workflow is mostly the same.. apps I use the most are pinned to the dock/taskbar, and anything else I hit the meta/super/win key, then type what I want and hit enter. It pretty much works everywhere (except osx).
No I think you're right, reading it again.
Unless you die of kidney failure as the result of your harsh diet, like her two siblings...

According to the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, we've seen dramatic improvements in lifespan in just the past few decades: "Under current mortality conditions, people who survive to age 65 can expect to live an average of 19.2 more years,
nearly 5 years longer than people age 65 in 1960."

For the majority of human existence, most people died before their 30th birthday, with life expectancy increasing in the late stone age, alongside all the troublesome unnatural cultural production.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/magazine/who-lives-longest...)
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The post you responded to specifically said that Linux support is substantially more difficult that supporting any given other platform. Do try to keep up.