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Yeh, we in Ireland have been a target for GCHQ for decades, long before PRISM and ECHELON. However, it doesn't negate the fact that the US, UK Courts don't have the right to violate our sovereignty as they see fit. Unfortunately politicians in Ireland would rather dig the head in the sand (as usual) on this sort of issue.
You do realize that there are people in those cars, right?

In any case, the use of the analogy is correct. People are currently moving to the Bay Area because of the concentration of tech jobs and talent and investor money here. More people moving here means a greater concentration of the things that make people move here. For years this could be seen as a virtuous circle, but I think it has gone well past that. Especially if, as is widely felt, that we are in another bubble fueled by cheap investor money.
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That's definitely a way of using it, another is to just manually type it in as you see it and clear the terminal buffer afterwards. If you do use your clipboard it does require a certain amount of due diligence in making sure you empty it afterwards if you're concerned about that as a security risk. It would be easy enough to create a simple script that could copy it to your clipboard and then clear the clipboard after a time delay.

It would be possible to construct an attack using Flash to access a users clipboard form a web browser.

I know a lot of people like to have browser plugins for password managers but i always feel uncomfortable using them because i don't understand enough about the technology to trust that it wont be vulnerable.
Yeah: It forces parties to be broad-based and adaptable if they're going to compete nationally.

It also avoids bizarre situations like France's 2002 election, wherein the Left had to choose between Chirac and Le Pen (something similar is not improbable in 2017, as well!)
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Market seems to want a lot of them, different profiles and CVs for different domains and responsibilities: data wranglers, data analysts, statisticians, machine learning, business analysts, communicators, infrastructure operators, big data architects. The best shot is coupling your academic / self-matured strength with a domain you really like and start building your own portfolio from real-world case studies in the field you choose.
I would love to see it load various zoning laws and as well as building requirements for a particular city and then work within those constraints. There is not a lot of regular sized conforming building lots in bigger cities. In many cases, you have to get a variance from the zoning board before you can even get a building permit.

What might be a cool feature also is a renovation tool that can sort of plan what you see on a show like Property Brothers. Given a blue print of the existing house, the tool can help you visually plan a renovation.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-24804...
It's not a modernization question, it's a political battle. See

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/opinion/e-books-libraries-...

for example. Some points from there:

1. It's only been in the last couple years that all of the big publishers would actually sell eBooks to libraries.
2. It's not selling, it's licensing, with severe restrictions.
3. They charge higher rates for the eBooks to Libraries than they do to the general public.
4. Some publishers only offer eBooks to libraries when the books have been out for six months.

Not in the article, but also important: publishers claim that libraries cannot simply digitize and loan out e-versions of their existing book catalogs--they claim that the eBooks are a different product, and that libraries have no license to do that. That would probably not stand up in court, but libraries aren't eager to antagonize the publishers, from whom they are still trying to get regular eBooks at regular prices.

The article is kind of ill-informed on this, too, I'm afraid. The difference between filesharing and public libraries is that public libraries operate within de facto and legal restrictions that don't apply to filesharing. A much better comparison, that fits the author's claim that the only difference is efficiency, is home taping and CD-copying.
It's on our roadmap. Plus screenshare too.
It's a one-dimensional argument that relies heavily on rhetoric. It's hard to draw any practical conclusions from such an argument. The point is mostly just to persuade you that file-sharing is good and anyone who opposes file-sharing is dumb.
To be fair, responding to a warrant for stored information and installing a backdoor in your software are two pretty different matzah balls.

If the servers in question were on US soil, Microsoft would comply with the warrant in about a second and a half. They're not "sticking it to the man, man" by refusing this particular request. It's just a question of legality.
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https://youtu.be/gqV_63a0ABo?t=533 is the start of a brief demo of an earthquake data processing system for Niagra Files (NiFi).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jctMMHTdTQI seems a little slow but could get your started.

After a few minutes fiddling it seems you make "processors" which can do things like file input/output and data manipulation, chain them by dragging a connector; outputs can be things like SFTP. Closest thing I've used to this would be YahooPipes but this is self-hosted and so can access local files and such - seems powerful but I [as a non-coder] wonder if it wouldn't just be quicker to knock up a bit of python script for the sorts of things I imagine doing with this; that's probably a lot to do with limitations in my knowledge (of both).

Some good demos/examples one can mess with would be great.
I told him the same thing yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10184926
Falkvinge's argument boils down to this:

So we can observe that public libraries and file-sharing differ in scale and efficiency – and only in scale and efficiency...

That has to be a first in the public debate: Are those people actually standing up and demanding that public services, such as public libraries, be made less efficient, to have less output for the tax money spent on it?

I have to assume he's playing naïve here to make his point, because otherwise this argument is pretty silly.

First, "differs only in scale" is a ridiculous way to try and erase the distinctions between any two things. A snowflake and an avalanche also differ only in scale; that doesn't mean that if you like a white Christmas you'd love being buried alive on K2. Scale is the difference between a refreshing drink and drowning.

Second, no public service operates under a mandate of "maximum efficiency at any cost"; they operate under legal and regulatory frameworks designed to balance various different public interests. Highways have speed limits and traffic laws and restrictions on driving while intoxicated, along with uniformed officers to enforce these. They all reduce the theoretical efficiency of the highway as a conveyor of traffic, but they're there because there are other interests the highway needs to serve as well, like getting as few of the people who use it as possible killed. Different jurisdictions have different sets of laws that balance these interests in different ways, but they all try to balance them somehow.

Libraries are the same way. Knowledge-sharing is an important public interest that they serve, but the public has other interests as well. It has an interest in authors continuing to want to write books, for instance, and publishers continuing to want to publish them. So libraries strike a balance; they pay for their books, they lend them for a limited time, and so forth. These restrictions allow for wide public access without unduly cramping the market demand for books.

E-books make the old balance libraries set more complicated, since it's harder to lend them. Without some kind of DRM, you're not really lending them at all, you're giving free copies away, which is something very different than what libraries do with physical books. DRM can address that, but it makes using the library's resources more difficult and annoying. So the old balance needs to be recalibrated to find a way to meet all the interests the old one did. But replacing the world's libraries with the Pirate Bay would be blowing up that balance completely, not recalibrating it.
Well haskell is not the only option.

From .NET: http://rdotnet.codeplex.com/
there is also a dataprovider directly to F# : http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/FSharpRProvider/

Also there is C++ binding available also: http://www.rcpp.org/
Any action that has a social effect is a political act, and buying consumer goods is no exception.
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I agree, and the maddening thing for me is that my fellow people in the tech industry so rarely say, "Why yes, we are the problem. What can we do about it?"

I wrote this more than a year ago: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-some-San-Francisco-residents-a...

As far as I can tell, the willful obliviousness is just as bad as then, and maybe worse.
> Quite honestly, I don't think they would lose that many clients.

You're underestimating the amount of industrial espionage that the U.S. does to favour its multinational corps. MS, Apple et al. were fine to benefit from the fragments this might bring them when it was a fairly well guarded secret and it was assumed that the U.S. was on relatively equal footing with other countries such as France, UK, Germany, Japan in this regard. The Snowden leaks show that the NSA capacity is a couple orders of magnitude larger than any other country and suddenly the U.S. players would lose more business through distrust than they would gain through government espionage.
I've also recently been reading this blog on MDN that covers pretty much all the concepts in ES6:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/es6-in-depth

(note it's extremely similar to this one, both are guides on ES6 and cover pretty much all the areas)
It's a heck of a lot cheaper than trying to secure something without manufacturer support.
some form of distributed set of nodes based on a blockchain would be cool to see.
Vermont and Rhode Island get two senators apiece as well, and they're not exactly the most conservative states.
He claims that these are not copyright royalties, but rather a cultural grant.
>Current taxi system is screwing everybody.

This implies that there are some taxi companies out there that are worth a massive amount of money, since they are capturing all the profit. Can you point to a single company worth even one tenth of what Uber is worth? I'm sure some companies do very well, but I don't think there are any taxi billionaires out there.

But it matters little anyway. The pie is divvied up so many ways. You pay the fare, some goes to the driver, some goes to the middle man. When you pay a smaller fare, there is less for the driver, middle man, or both.

How much of Uber's valuation is based on that pie (the number of people desiring taxis) growing?
Yes, because Intel doesn't do the same thing. /s

Granted, Intel's supply chains probably aren't nearly as difficult as Apple's, but the supply chain is probably the least difficult part of shipping the next generation of a chip.
If you have played your cards right, your last day should not be anything special, as you should have started wrapping most things up weeks to months ago. Then your last day can simply be doing any last-minute cleanup, administrivia, anything your boss specifically requests, and taking a nice lunch with colleagues.

If this is not the case, then the usual list of recommendations for leaving a job apply, just applied faster and more selectively. :)
Sure there is. But are we really going to say that it is the official stance of the entire Republican party to actively prevent black people from voting? Despite the fact that one of the leading Republican candidates right now is a black man? That is absolutely ridiculous and can only be the product of a childish and overactive imagination of a conspiracy theorist partisan nutjob that produces nothing of value whatsoever in a modern society. Maybe, just maybe, the problem you describe exists mostly on the local level and it's completely unfair to paint half the country as racists or bigots because of political differences?

Are there people who actively scheme to prevent people from voting and/or get their candidate to win in nefarious ways? Sure. Are some of them Republicans? Yep. But some of them are Democrats too, they just target different people in different ways. All in all, this is the voter fraud of the modern age; using laws to give your candidate the advantage.
Not just London.
You don't read fiction? Libraries have massive kids sections, I doubt they're reading Applied Chemistry.
Except ebooks come with licensing terms. You can't just buy one copy of a book and give it out infinite times. They have limits on use. Its modeled very closely on the physical book system.
So you draw the line at "desires to vote" rather than "is capable of answering a few trivia questions". But say passing the test was a requirement to vote, wouldn't the people who want to vote naturally proceed with studying for and taking the test, while those who don't want to won't be bothered since overcoming the obstacle is even greater than overcoming the resistance of mailing in a form or going to an actual booth? (Or perhaps using an app?) Thus the test would serve as a proxy for desire, with even more potential upsides according to GP. What would the distribution look like given no filter, filtering by test passers, and filtering by people who want to vote?
Apache ServiceMix is the more direct equivalent: http://servicemix.apache.org/
SnapChat is a battery hog on my phone. I use WhatsApp with all my hometown friends as a way to group chat.
I've long had an unrealized dream of doing something similar with R and Racket as the HaskellR people have done. I've thought that it would be cool to:

1. implement R or something very akin to R as a Racket language. I'd call it "Arket" because is far more Googleable than R or Racket ;-) Functions would be callable either from Arket or Racket.

2. Ensure that all my important R packages work with Arket, either by porting or by virtue of similarity between Arket and R.

3. Use Racket for everything.

I think this would be great until I realize I would need to do a lot of work to create this.
More like NServiceBus it looks to me
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold is an excellent book I have recently begun to read. It's even longer that the Bloomberg post, and also such much more detailed and in-depth (-;

In fact, I found the book very enjoyable. It gives a nice pedagogic twist on how information can processed with hardware.

It has been discussed on HN here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1936474
Lightsabers are plasma anyway. So really we should be focusing on fusion research to nail down the magnetic plasma containment technologies.
If Flash had been open source early on it might have succeeded and become a core web technology. Microsoft, Apple and Google would have been in charge making the runtime secure and high performing.

Macromedia/Adobe would have continued to be in the position of providing the leading development tools.

The web would be very different. I actually think that we are lucky this did not happen. I find our current web technologies to be a much better solution over all.
I mentioned in another comment the idea of a blockchain based system.
Wow, sorry for this! I just used default colors that were in the Google Sheets chart tool. For my own education, is there a different spectrum that would do better?
Wouldn't it be simpler to just go all the way towards direct election than take a halfway step towards direct elections such as this?
Yeah totally get it, the curation is the important part! Keep up the good work, and thanks for the project.
> There is a downside to diagnostics tools being freely available, you can clear any fault codes before you sell the car to an unsuspecting buyer, this will prevent the dash warning lights appearing until the sensor registers the fault again, which could be under particular driving conditions.

This is already reality. Any AutoZone store, and probably most other large auto parts retailers, will read and clear codes for you at no charge. Their upside is that you might buy a part to fix the code.
A 51% attack will let you double spend and roll back transactions. If one wanted to steal an established name on Namecoin, they'd need to either roll back to before it's registration, roll back to before it's previous renewal and force an expiration, or mine past it's next renewal to force expiration. Renewal limit is 36,000 blocks. For a name that consistently renews early every 18,000 blocks a 51% attack would need to go on for months to steal it. Still possible, but very difficult.

Namecoin is merge-mined with Bitcoin by many miners, so if you wanted to 51% it you'd need a pretty large chunk of Bitcoin's hash power. An evil pool could do this, however it would be visible on the Bitcoin blockchain that they were doing it (although not what transactions are present/not present in the attack chain).
Except their bottom line. Anyone remember the cost to Intel for their faulty FPU in the P5?
I count 13-16 low population states. Pretty much all of them are red states. Vermont and Rhode Island don't remotely make up for it. The reality is that if you live in a highly populated state, your voting influence is greatly diluted compared to the people in these states.

Hell, the city I live in has TWICE the population of North and South Dakota combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
The article irrationally assumes the best effort maximizer has no competition and long life, which we have not seen in endless lower powered implementations, and there seems to be no trend so unless it starts going exponential...

There might be a barrier here, like speed of light or various mathematical limits that formalize the old saying of too many cooks spoil the broth. The required complexity of a uber-maximizer to handle the complex universe means its unprovably complicated and unreliable. Or you'd need a bigger computer than the universe to answer the halting question for a universe controlling control loop, or even something much smaller like a mere multinational corporation. Or another way to put it is a predatory competitor maximizer would inevitably be better at predation than its victim that focuses more on some arbitrary goal than on avoid becoming a meal, so in a hyper optimized playing field all you'd get is ever better predators eating each other and eating weaker non-predation focused orgs, or basically the modern business/finance system.
Just in case you don't know the interesting history of NiFi:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-partners-with-apache-to-rel...

Thanks, NSA!
That's too broad a claim. Why are non-developers in your organization not willing/able to read test cases?
Oh I wondered how good the security questions and availability questions are solved here for IoT. Now I know: "Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL."
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we are more likely to get an umbrella corp that is using FPGAs to do facial recognition and soft AI to control and monitor our lives before we get an AI singularity.
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I wouldn't say it ignores, more that he's making a supposition (an implied one). He supposes that if libraries had no expenses, no physicality, and nobody had to get paid, it would resemble file-sharing.
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Always a good idea to weigh financials heavily when analyzing a company's strategy. After all, that's what the C-suite and investors are doing. Granted, they have more info than us, the public, but sources of revenue are an important part of the framework for sure.

Perhaps it makes more sense that Google is investing in high-cost infrastructure because they want to move away from the ad-model business. It's risky to have 95% of your revenue coming from a single industry.

Google can eat a lot of the costs of setting up a better network, which is a great investment in the future if you're betting that a majority of people will need high speed internet access 10-20 years from now. Then they can start extracting monopoly profits just as AT&T, Verizon, Comcast etc. do now.
DART? I guess, but is one side of Google at odds with another?

Google Will Not Integrate Its Dart Programming Language Into Chrome

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/25/google-will-not-integrate-i...
I'm curious to what extent this comparison holds true for the content these two systems share. My (under informed) understanding is that piracy mostly traffics in movies, TV shows, video games, anime, adult content ahem, etc. While libraries loan some of those things, they mostly loan books.

If PirateBay was mostly promoting the sharing of fiction and nonfiction, I might be inclined to buy this argument for an educated populace. But I don't think that HBO's Game of Thrones or The Seventh Son really provide the same level of education as many (if not most) books a library would lend.
I hadn't even heard of STS until I got to college. I was pretty disappointed that I hadn't had a chance to participate simply because I didn't know I could.
This is a pretty cool project!

I especially like how easy it is to combine two shaders automatically into one. Andrew Ray, the brilliant guy behind ShaderFrog, automatically parses the shaders to intelligently merge them together -- something I've never seen before.

Andrew has also created a run-time library to make it easy to adopt ShaderFrog shaders into your own tools (sort of like how Allegorithmic has the Substance run-time library for Unity and UE4). It is available here:

https://github.com/DelvarWorld/ShaderFrog-Runtime

We here at http://Clara.io, an online 3D modeling & rendering platform, are exploring adopting the ShaderFrog material run-time.
Case in point: OpenSSL. More of a TLS specification than the RFC is, nowadays.
Do you think that peer to peer filesharing communities are not also funded and maintained by the community that uses it? I contend that this is exactly the case.

There must also be an original legitimate customer of the work being shared, so the publisher is still getting paid.

The difference does only lie in efficiency. In a world of ever-increasing efficiency, why do we shackle libraries to 20th Century levels of service?
If you include io.js, sure. Node did technically jump considerably.
It is a lot like Spring XD. They both use a data flow model: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming

I have been playing with both, and I prefer Spring XD's DSL. It looks a lot like Unix pipes, which I could easily grok (and it has the full suite of Spring monitoring and logging tools built in). That being said, they are both excellent projects.