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This is everything I hate about language learning through pure immersion (Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, most language schools). For example, I struggled for an absurdly long time with genders in German when I started because I assumed it was like French (male, female, plural). Turns out there's 4 genders, and often the female article is the same as a the plural. Once English sentence could have solved that.
Several reasons, but I think the main one is filling Seattle with lots of people (programmers) that don't really culturally fit in with the rest of the population. There's also a lot of resentment about rent prices etc., but unlike the Bay Area there is one company (Amazon) for all the anger to be directed at, because Microsoft is far away in the suburbs and everyone else participating in the tech boom is tiny by comparison.
If you're interested in these topics, I strongly suggest you to take a look at Facebook Presto's source code. Unfortunately, they don't have any documentation about the internals of Presto but they extensively tested and implemented these techniques in order to archive C/C++ like performance in Java. The slice library (the underlying memory management library of Presto) might be a good start for that: https://github.com/airlift/slice
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Yeah thanks for that. Top news this is. I love a privacy policy.
Snowden didn't decide which document's to publish - journalists did. He handed over a trove of information, among which was damning evidence that our government was/is doing something they shouldn't, and gave journalists the responsibility to publish relevant documents appropriately. I for one believe that the releases have been done with impeccable professionalism, and in fact if it were up to me I would have been even more liberal with the releases (Greenwald, Poitras, et al. have actually worked with the government during this process).
His tin foil hat told him so...
My bigger takeaway here is that they are supposed to be working with them. I'm quite sure that German intelligence would have offered up this information if some NSA official just asked.

Instead of coordinating with the people that they share so much other more sensitive info with they stole it. That is where I see a problem.
>trial is not a verb, except as a very recent (post 1990) colloquialism

Are we not in post-1990?
When national security requests come with built-in gag orders, little-to-no oversight, and are probably easier to issue/get than warrants (no pesky judges or explaining to do) why would one ever use a warrant again?
> But it's not. It's beta and broken in some OS's

iPlayer works for a very large number of people on an enormous variety of platforms. Whatever you're trying to implement across that range is going to produce compatibility problems.
While a technical, low effort solution would be desirable, Google modifying a package after signing is not a desirable solution.
What if someone put these chips into some volunteer students. They later do a lot much better in school in term of test scores, homework, writing, reading, science, etc?

What if you have a mentally disable child, but help with this chip implant, he/she can do much better than normal students or can easy get high enough SAT score to get into the best colleges /grad school and cant easily match/beat the best programmers in Google/Facebook/Apple.

Would you do it?

What if with this implant, you can learn new foreign language in a few days, learn a new programming language + most complex programming patterns, concepts while you are sleeping in couple days. You can easily get the best jobs in any tech company. You can also train yourself to be the best CTO/Programmer in a few weeks and finish the Backend/FrontEnd/IOS/Android/Windows program much needed for your startup in no time at all.

Would you do it?

Assuming such chip/software exists and if you don't do it, others might have huge competitive advantage. Would you care?

Maybe AI stand for Augmented Intelligent soon?
Colloquialisms are not standard vocabulary. But more to the point, this isn't the original headline: because the BBC has editors.
@jamesbaxter:
"Under the BBC’s existing commissioning quota system, 50% of corporation’s output must be made in-house and 25% by indies, while both compete for the remaining 25%, which is known as the WoCC."
Source: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/bbc-trust-strong-case-for...
I've been teaching a beginner's guitar class at the office with another coworker. Teaching to adults is interesting because as a kid I was satisfied without necessarily knowing the underlying foundational concepts of music (something that held back my development for a while) but adult students are quick to ask questions and dive deeper. "What do you mean play a minor chord?" is easy to explain away to a child and get the to accept an intuitive definition (to be explained more thoroughly later) but totally throws off adults who are used to having acquired deep knowledge in some other field.

As with music, math, programming, one does need a deep foundation to be good but also one needs to develop a feel by repeated effort so that your mind begins to recognize patterns.
> There are a multitude of things you can do to reduce inequality at birth

The most egalitarian folks actually dream of a society where it would be forbidden to have your own children (since it's actually VERY unfair to pass your genes down to the next generation... Smart people get smart kids, that's furthering the gap of inequalities) and let the sacrosanct government take care of human race reproduction and ensure it's genetically fair.

I'm not too excited by the idea.
I've never heard the "hundred flowers bloom" phrase before. I've never heard of the history to which it applies. I don't know major political events of the 1950s for most places in the world. The post WW2 era was a tumultuous time.

Now you aren't wrong. But I also don't think it's fair to call dumb and insensitive. It's not dumb because it's a perfectly reasonable and useful analogy. And I don't think it's fair to call it insensitive because the author almost certainly didn't know the 60 year old foreign history from which it is derived. That's not someone being callous or insensitive.

It's just good old fashioned ignorance. But ignorance that's kind of ok and fine. Like, it's just totally ok for someone not to know the origin of the phrase.
There are three genders in German. And four cases. Multiply them together, throw in plurals, add in uses of the indefinite article and the definitive article, and, well, it is far too much for a single sentence to explain.

But in principle I agree with you. We need a bit of book learning to go with the "just start speaking" approach.
I like this model but my version to monetize would be a credit or point system. If you watch the discover stories you earn points or credits to use to replay snaps. This drives overall views on the discover stories allowing them to charge the companies more for advertisement.
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"and not use such dumb and insensitive titles for their blog posts."

It's reasonable to infer offense from that statement.
Engineering is a social activity. Engineering degree programs do attempt to impart non-technical skills required for success in the field. This is further evidence that software engineering needs to be turned into a bonafide engineering degree program.
It's a shame the options to disable sending your local spotlight queries to bing and apple are hidden away in a huge list of other apps. I wish they had one giant button for disabling all remote queries instead of 4-5 options spread throughout different settings sub-pages.
>Pointing out that this phrase might carry extra meaning beyond its literal interpretation != taking offense.

That's correct, and I wouldn't mind if it was just that.

But OP's "I wish people would stop" etc and calling it "dumb and insensitive titles" goes a few steps beyond "pointing out that this phrase might carry extra meaning".
I'm a British expat living in Amsterdam. My company uses this service called MyPup - they give me a username and a code, I have all my stuff shipped to them and when it arrives they send me an SMS message letting me know it's arrived. Around an hour later I get another message letting me know it's been delivered to my office and the code to get into a temporary locker to retrieve my package.

They have someone at their office 24/7 to receive packages and another guy that does the "last mile". Once I urgently needed a package that arrived out of office hours on Friday - I sent them an email and they bought it to my house on Saturday. It's awesomely convenient!
I have been using Perl since 1996, but I only use a handful of the secret operators. For me, the power with Perl is CPAN and the stability of Perl 5.
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IMHO Patreon is probing otherwise. I now make more money per page drawing my weird comic about a robot lady with Philip K Dick problems than many people make drawing stuff for Marvel or DC. And I'm an obscure cartoonist with a tiny following.
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> Oh well, whatever. Hell of a second act for that guy.

And a much more legal one, too. For those that don't know the history on Blodget, you should look it up. He's barred for life from the securities industry. Silicon Valley really is the place for second chances. He played this game of musical chairs correctly.
Low-level enforcers don't have easy access to such orders.
I don't think its as stock as "a modest proposal", and yet, there will be people who have no idea about the origins of the phrase.

Likewise, I think it's disingenuous for readers to begin their indignation at every corner they find someone who is ignorant of the baggage a phrase or word might have with other people. I sometimes wonder if these kinds of oversensitive people don't go about putting a list together of all the inventions and things furthered by disgraced people because partaking in such things would give such detestable things their imprimatur.

So and so was a philanderer, this other one was an opportunist, that one was a bigot, this one was sexist, that one a hedonist, an atheist, a Christian, short, stinky, tall, too cultured, not my type, too much my type...
Then learn when new knowledge is offered to you, and apologize if you offend (not "I'm sorry that you're offended", all too often the clarion call of people who think "SJW" is a pejorative), and be better as a person afterwards.

Ain't that hard.
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> It is a really pleasant system.

It is making you a slave worker, since you have to scan items yourself :)
On top of that, there's all sorts of IP issues around popular video codecs, meaning no one codec is supported on all browsers.

In short, blame rights holders.
> someone had been stealing money and cooking the books at the hotels Glossip managed

From https://theintercept.com/2015/07/09/oklahoma-prepares-resume... ,

"[the victim's] brother Kenneth, who took over operation of the motel after the murder, testified in 2004 that the motel’s financial shortages were “really insignificant amounts of money” and would not have worried Barry. The Oklahoma City motel, he said, was a “very profitable operation.” "

> Glossip, as manager of the hotel the body was hidden in, reassigned cleaning staff specifically to prevent them from discovering the body

"Sneed would [later] testify that he was the one who told the maid to ignore Room 102."

> The person who is known to have performed the killing, an employee of Glossip's, says he was paid to do the killing by Glossip.

From http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

The murderer was threatened with the death penalty unless he fingered Glossip. He says he would recant his testimony in a heartbeat if he could be assured he wouldn't be executed himself.

> Glossip has had a trial and a retrial, and was convicted in both of them.

Said one juror, "“If the defense would have presented the case that they are presenting now in the original trial,” the juror said, “I would have not given a guilty verdict.”"
To my understanding, an NSL could mean "give me everything you have". And the NSLs have no disclosed accounts linked to them.

Edit: Why the downvote? If my understanding is false, please indicate so.
Dubious, given Apple's support of CISA.
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Not talking about subways. All TGVs run only with human drivers.
>gave journalists the responsibility to publish relevant documents appropriately

Journalists will be tempted to publish regardless of the original intent, let's hope they are not desperate for a story.
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It does. The RSS feed items are treated like emails, so you can choose a feed folder or multiple folders and set up whatever search parameters you want. I set one up to show all articles posted by "ris," and it worked as you'd expect.
> There's a lot of docs that are useful for laypeople to improve their privacy, and then there's the ones that are going to do nothing but damage the spying capability of US intelligence agencies against nation-state adversaries.

That's a false dichotomy. Snowden didn't risk his life just to help people improve their privacy - he did it to expose wrongdoing and start a process to reform our government.
Definitely. There was a story a few years ago about the South African postal system delivering 99% of all letters over a period of time. Turns out when you aggregate that across how many they sent they only lost a couple of hundreds of thousands of letters.

Percentage is a convenient con used in some contexts.
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What would be a cultural fit for Seattle? Seems like such a diverse place.
This is legitimate activity for the NSA, but it plays badly in Europe. My guess is that Snowden and his friends are pandering to folks in Europe who naturally dislike this kind of thing, and particularly to folks in Germany.

Imagine the reaction on the far right here in America to a news report that Russia, Germany or France spies on American intelligence agencies. It's natural that such things should happen, but its also certain to create discord among certain factions here in America.
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This.

It is amazing how many people don't know this (that he did not just leak everything indiscriminately).
I like the story, but I think you should explain upfront what the service is. Most people have a 8 second attention span, so you want to get the point of what your service does across in a fast way.
> I'm quite sure that German intelligence would have offered up this information if some NSA official just asked

probably not
Wasn't the Fappening because of a iCloud hole?
You'd probably have to check algorithmically. Starting from the top-left most piece, have they (reasonably fuzzily) covered the 6x10 grid proceeding down and right? If so, yay! You can also check for things like too much overlap, but checking if there is a piece covering each of the centers of the relative grid should be sufficient.

My first solution: http://i.imgur.com/rV2Ueow.png

edit: It also was not clear up front that I could click to rotate/flip the pieces, until I did it by accident.
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> BBC is state funded yet it competes with all the other big companies to become as technologically obsolete as possible.

Of all the times to make this comment, in a story about iPlayer is probably not the most sensible time. The BBC invented the whole idea of internet catch up TV. It was the first big delivery of TV or film over the internet. It was launching in 2005, years before Hulu, Netflix or any other equivalent. The technology required to do this (particularly in CDNs) didn't exist and they built up the infrastructure from scratch.

In terms of technology to deliver it, they work with what's there in terms of getting it to as many people as possible.
If it wasn't for Tim Cook this would be considered an insanely radical view by most people. Thank you Tim!
Link? Sounds like something I'd want to purchase.
I agree that this is a legitimate intelligence target. All of the allies spy one one another all of the time, that's how we keep trust.

I think the biggest scandal that isn't discussed often enough (in the US) is not spying on foreign government officials for legitimate security-related reasons (e.g. this), it is spying on foreign government officials to give the US an advantage in trade negotiations or worse passing on "tips" to US-based private companies so they can gain an advantage during negotiations/bidding.

The US constantly beats the capitalism drum, and that's fine. But it seem hypocritical to beat the capitalism drum with one hand, while with the other quietly subverting capitalism by giving certain favored entities tips and advantages.

Even people in the US should be asking why large US corporations are given these tips/advantages/etc while small-medium US businesses are not. Let alone the immorality of helping a US company win against a foreign one due to state supplied corporate espionage.

The justification "well China does it!!1!" while true, is just kind of pathetic. China does a lot of things, doesn't make it right for a country that claims it is the beacon is capitalism and democracy to do the same.
As a citizen of EU country I'm grateful. If Snowden is committing crime, it's political crime.

There are more important concerns and loyalties than those we have for individual countries. If he is revealing how US spies friendly nations, he is serving greater good. His document leak to journalists seem to avoid information of NSA spying Russia or China.
The greater effect has been on the suburban sprawl towns in between Boulder and Denver. Places like Louisville, Lafeyette, and Longmont have seen dramatic increases in both prices and quality of living, just in the past 5 years. These towns don't have the restrictions on development that Boulder does. So that's where the growth is going.

Boulder continues to develop, but its pace can't keep up with demand at all (which is a good thing). It's a university town, so there's lots of rentals. But as for purchasing homes, there's really nothing "affordable" in Boulder proper (except perhaps compared to SF). Nor are there any "unsafe" parts of Boulder...
I went to school here in the UK, getting good marks in English and I have never heard of the Royal Order of Adjectives. It sounds like some official lackey the Queen might call on when she just can't find the right word.

I remember our English teacher giving us one single lesson on conjugation, and that was only because we were so confused by all the stuff about conjugating verbs in French class. Other than that I cannot remember us going near any kind of formal grammar.

edit - I just thought, it is also not that hard to construct a context in English where 'old little lady' can work.

I looked again at the little lady sitting across from me. At first, from her height, I had assumed her to be young. However now, looking closer, I could see she was a very old little lady indeed.
that was speculated, but denied by apple
It's also subject to many fallacies, not the least of which is the Inductive Fallacy.

I wouldn't use it as part of any argument as it will likely lead you to miss important details and cannot lead you to valid conclusions.
> Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a “backdoor” in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed any government access to our servers. And we never will.

Did Apple ever provide any insight into what access the Prism program had? They denied knowing about it[1], so either they are lying or it was a mole. Did they ever follow up with an investigation or conclusion as to what exactly the government had access to?

[1]: https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/
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What started out as a pure DI framework has gone to the level where it is a full container with "support" for almost anything.

In today's world where micro-services are the thing and thin and agile software development (stress on thin) is the key - what does he community think?

Interested to find out the stories of success and failures with the framework.
fixing up the javascript to my mobile web app that focuses on food. I have to try to find beta users who like to eat out as my next task.
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I scan the item and put it in my bag. This is less work than putting it in a cart, waiting for the cashier to scan everything and then I pack it in my bag. I'm done a lot faster and have never even thought of it being any more work on my side.

It may help that we never had people to pack your bags for you, which some countries seem to have.
No, it was because celebrities are normal people and tended to use the same password for multiple services. One service was compromised, which compromised every other one because the passwords were the same.
Yes, bison now is both, reentrant, thread-safe and supports push parsing. I helped implement the push parser support many years ago with the help of the Bison development team.
Of course he is. His documents have already provided huge benefit to the public. Are we really going to nitpick over every single document from the hundreds of thousands and go "Aha! this document probably shouldn't have been leaked - he's totally a traitor now"?

I'm sure there were documents in the Pentagon Papers which probably shouldn't have been made public, too. Looking back, was that relevant to the larger cause of informing the public about the Vietnam war's lies?
Nevertheless, journalists work for media companies which run on ad revenue. Their motivation and Edward Snowden's don't necessarily align, now that he has become (perhaps inadvertently) a cult of personality figure and a marketable brand, and attaching his name to anything guarantees readership.
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I'm surprised and disappointed at the quality of reporting here by Cassidy, and the quality of the quotes by the FT's CEO Ridding. Cassidy is playing softball, letting the executive get away with the usual corporate propaganda:

“Number one is they are fundamentally supportive and excited by the strategy,” Ridding said. “Like us, they believe in the value of quality journalism, both as a mission and also as a business. They also think the language of business is English, and if you are going to be a global player you need a strong English-language position, or voice, or publication. So it made perfect sense from their strategic global perspective.”

Seriously? Are we supposed to read this and think it's news? News organizations are sometimes guilty of a certain hypocrisy, going easier on themselves, and each other, while they treat the rest of the world with more skepticism.
I'm not sure that high level enforcers should have easy access either, though. What's the old saying? Something like you rise to the level of your own incompetence?
Whenever I read something like this I have a bad feeling about it. They are trying to get "C/C++" performance in Java by bypassing all the JVM's management and garbage collection. They even basically reimplemented malloc() for memory heap management. Why not just ditch Java itself?
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