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I don't think adblocking has gone far enough.

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Sounds something like "geeyo gee, boo geeyo peen"

More direct translation is "help emergency, not help poor"
I stopped feeling very different from year to year after age 25. I'm now 30 and of course I change, but not dramatically every year. The prefrontal cortex doesn't fully form until 25.
This is what happens when you have an "app store" with no approval or review process. Google should be cracking down on this, just like those ads they were displaying[1] which would serve up malware-infected versions of Firefox whenever someone searched for "Firefox".

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IFl...
It's not a symlink, but that's a good idea. Eg, openssl has 'nodes' (no DES) which means 'dont encrypt the file you're about to make' and if you omitted it and did encrypt it wouldn't use DES anymore anyway.
Thanks! I will test that out on my laptop.
>Security? What security? Every single release with iOS has been totally broken

Here's a recent report from computerworld - Malware infections delivered via mobile networks - Windows 80%, Android 20%, "iOS and other operating systems were at nearly negligible percentages"

Nothing's perfect but iOS isn't that bad.

(Window's numbers seem to be mostly pcs with tethering. "Data generated from scans by Alcatel-Lucent's Motive Security Guardian technology, which is deployed worldwide by both mobile and fixed-line networks, and monitors traffic from more than 100 million devices")

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984444/mobile-security...
Nice! A few years ago I made a little program like this, called packet flight, to visualize network flows. It's a nice way to see the magic:

https://vimeo.com/17248120
No, I wouldn't suggest such a thing for the project that is the subject of this story. But in the theoretical sense or if an upstart were to take a "start-from-scratch" approach starting today or maybe some time from now; that's where I'm wondering what those with better insight than I might think.
In China we have a single, big, timezone. It's a bless, there's no need to convert time when you are travelling. I live at northwest China, has more than two hours difference from Beijing. You only need to delay your living pattern by 2 hours, so no bonus for late sleepers.
Like many subjects in recent times (last 50 years or so), they've gotten really entrenched and dusty because they're afraid to go beyond their well defined borders (and then get more difficult to teach and make industry out of).

IHO, from a bigger anthropological viewpoint, philosophy and religion are extremely rich areas of idea prototyping. They came first. They are based on intuition and are good-faith efforts to understand our world. Science came later and was much better at it. What needs to happen culturally is that people need to all be philosophers, they need to have a reverence toward the sacred and toward the cultures that hold it dear. However, they can't let religion, or philosophy, prematurely cut off in their minds what the realm of science can embody. There are long lists of famous scientists that did this, and even they were proven too quick to place arbitrary limits on science and prescribe "everything else" as religion, or metaphysics.

To me, philosophy/religion/metaphysics are all "pre-physics" in a way. Intuitions without proofs...yet. The intuitions of many individuals, over many centuries, however seemingly incorrect scientifically, aren't completely worthless. It's like saying art is worthless. They may not explain mechanically how something behaves, but they offer insight and new ways of thinking, which are really at the core of how to truly understand something difficult.
I totally agree. The vendors that made stuff like that later made memory expansions for that exact reason. Even great embedded demos like QNX came on a floppy (1+MB). My 28.8kbps connection handled that download fine. Plus, SymbOS already showed us how much more interesting things get with more memory/storage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS

Little excuse for arbitrary limitations even in retro scene. Exception is demoscene where it's kind of the point.
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Mozilla hosted a Rust Meetup last December on crypto you might be interested in.

Tony Arcieri's talk in particular covers a lot of the areas Rust help prevent some of the recent snafus but also covers the areas Rust might be more dangerous to implement crypto in https://speakerdeck.com/tarcieri/thoughts-on-rust-cryptograp...

Videos: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-december-2014/
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Hm, I'd like to try this, but it's going to take some time to talk with different people about what keys might be obviated (made before Feb 2014) ..... Argh....
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> Why do you really want to duplicate work and write, test, debug, maintain... a FLIF decoder yourself?

Because multiple implementations are useful.
They claim this is good for responsive images:

The download or file read operations can be stopped
as soon as sufficient detail is available, and if
needed, it can be resumed when for whatever reason
more detail is needed.
-- http://flif.info/responsive.php

Unfortunately that's not how HTTP works. Your browser opens several connections to a website, and makes requests for resources. Each connection is in use until that resource is fully loaded, at which point you can send a request for another resource up that connection. Yes, the browser could close the connection after it has received enough of the image for the desired quality, but there's a lot of overhead in setting up a new connection, including some round trips, and so that is probably a net loss.

The JPEG image format also supports progressive images, in browsers today, and no one has figured out how to use that for single-file responsive images yet.

(You might be able to do something in HTTP/2 where you set the priority of the stream to 0 after you have enough of it for your needs, but I don't think anyone has gotten this working yet.)
BSD/MIT, or ASL2 are pretty much the standard if you want to see something as widely used as possible, which this sounds like might be the case.

Cool work in any case!

One thing the page could use is "how much processing power does this use, compared to other things?"
Especially when Waco only has ~150k people to begin with:

https://www.google.com/search?q=waco+population&ie=utf-8&oe=...
"So other than a genuine desire to do good or vanity seeking that can motivate philanthropy, you have a third element in China - preventing a revolt by the poor on the rich."

Very much so. China is a communist country. Here's the China Communist Party's current policy statement.[1]

"The basic line of the CPC at this stage is to unite the people of all ethnic groups to, with economic construction at the core, adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles, adhere to reform and opening-up, and in a spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, to build China into a prosperous, democratic and civilized modern socialist country. The Four Cardinal Principles -- adhering to the socialist road, adhering to the people's democratic dictatorship, adhering to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, and adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China -- have been established by the Constitution of the People's Republic of China as the basis to maintain the nation."

Well within living memory, China's government was sentencing rich people to death for crimes against the state. That's one reason many rich people in China try to get money out of the country and get out themselves. There might be a policy change, and they could be sent to labor camps in the western provinces. It's happened before, and might happen again.

[1] http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/45981.htm
Its so sad there isn't a site with everything in plain sensible formats. data.gov seems like a good start. But a plain text UI (like gopher or ftp) seems better. A subfolder for each state. And a subfolder for each department. Maybe something like Linux's /proc for laws and federal data.
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More simple for whom? Those who'd rather not think about it?

This perspective likely varies widely based on the culture with which you identify. Some cultures have been explicitly exploited, generally along the same axes of privilege in modern life.
Very cool. Thanks for the tip!
If Cities: Skylines has taught me anything, I can answer this question without reading the article.

First, dead bodies start to build up in various buildings, especially well-trafficked buildings such as high density commercial buildings and offices.

The presence of the bodies dramatically decreases land value and happiness resulting in an exodus from the city.

As people leave the city, demand for new development rapidly decreases, along with revenues.

The city quickly digs itself into deep debt as it quickly becomes a ghost town, thousands of buildings become derelict, further decreasing the land value. Nobody wants to live here any more. Chirpy wheezes his last tweet as the last person complains they no longer want to live in this city and leaves.

(though, in cities skylines this usually happens because you have so many garbage trucks and hearses trying to collect the dead people & garbage that they all get stuck)
Good luck convincing people to get rid of cops tho.
After 10-15 years of incremental improvements in web & mobile apps, I have started feeling that technology has finally started to try to solve real problems. General purpose robots, self driving cars, internet of things, virtual / augmented reality, etc are all very interesting! The kinds of things that people in 70s & 80s would think we'd have in 2010s. I'm getting excited about future again!
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what a bunch of stupid children
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Yeah, I always had hard time with this verb, excuse my french.
Nope but in this case it does mean "spent lots (~a month) of time in jail and lost your job".
Some of us have a VERY big problem with such removal without review by judge & jury. Seems the police were already there and prepared for a battle, and there's a viable theory they were just waiting for an excuse (not the first time such has happened in Waco, with comparably bad results). We have a judicial process for a reason, and bad things happen when "removal of such people" is taken lightly.
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One candidate is http://redash.io/ My team has a backlog task to set it up. We use bigquery to hold onto our data, and redash can work with that.. It's open source, so it's free (except for one server) and looks good.
I'm pretty sure it has. I always feel jet-lagged in Paris, in a way I never felt in London or Berlin (both closer to their solar noon). Also felt deeply unwell in Bilbao (although the city's so brilliant). The most noticeable thing is that 7am is night time about half the year in Paris (from October to April) when it's at least dusk in London all year long (maybe not in December).

It's pretty clear that Paris is less of a morning-city than London.
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I'm always happy to hear of any scraps that leak out of Google's robotics/AI divisions. There is no certainty that we'll see human level AI in our lifetime, but I am pretty confident we'll see machines master the basic physical world- Anything from cleaning to building houses to driving etc etc will be possible with only limited human intervention.
Can be done. Basically just change the type of ColorVal and implement a float variant of writer() and reader() in maniac/symbol.h.
Mistakes happens. But it should not be possible to put production data in publicly accessible systems by mistake. Not without committing a criminal offense, at the very least.

Your customer data is your customers' data. It's not yours to toy with as you please.
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Since I'm not from US I have no idea whether this idea is good or not, but here are a few points from your fix form.
- no email validation / phone number, zipcode, comcast client# mask: Your user could easily mistype something without noticing
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It's interesting though because this is not a technical problem. A cremated body's ashes don't take up much space, and don't need to be housed in an urn.

It's entirely a cultural issue, in that we have special feelings about death and the treatment of a body after death. But thing about culture is that it's really flexible, but really resistant to change.

It's never going to be a problem that can't be solved. People are resilient and eventually if cemetery space does become completely unavailable, we'll make due. But it doesn't mean we won't be upset while we learn to cope.

It's more that it's a problem that we don't want to solve (because it would mean changing our cultural habits) but not a problem that is hard to solve. It just needs to get to a point where we actually need to solve it before anyone will worry about it.
He intends to make the spec public as well as to switch to a more permissive license once the format has stabilized, so I wouldn't be too concerned yet.
Aside from all the ones the cops killed by indiscriminately firing into a crowded restaurant?
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This is a great idea! Once you figure out a good model for making processes like this efficient it will probably be easy to apply it to all kinds of problems (as your splash page hints). Good luck with this project.
This came up last year when I was talking with a friend in Boston. Even though we're in the same timezone, their sunset is over half an hour earlier than ours. Interesting to think about.
If you're using more common visualizations (e.g. bar chart, line chart, scatter plot, etc) there's an excellent js library called C3 (http://c3js.org/) that wraps charts implemented in D3 with a super-simple api. I'm a huge fan.
This is where I believe things are heading... as I type into a text box.
A lot of people lost bitcoins because of the malicious ad problem. Somebody spoofed blockchain.info and stole a bunch of credentials... The entire bitcoin subreddit reported it, yet 2 months later it was back up.
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-- A “democracy” in which 400 families give 50 percent of the money in campaigns is not American democracy.

That's a really compelling statistic if true. I wish there was a source for it. Anybody know more?
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I have heard of Patreon, and used it to support a number of artists and other projects.

You and your one brain and human experience are an incredibly bad sample size. :)

And why in the world would they want to get PR by faking a data breach?
We want all that for probability theory. We want countably infinite so that we can discuss, say, the event that a coin never or always comes up heads. We don't want uncountably infinite because it would create a big mess in the theory.

Who should I read for an introduction to that "big mess"?

So many of the cases I'm actually interested in require real valued (continuous) inputs and outcomes. While one can quantize these to create an approximation of something countable, it seems like that a much simpler theory would be possible if it was built from the ground up to handle these common non-discrete real-world cases, rather than trying to shoe-horn them into standard probability theory. I was hoping this might be the direction that Terry was headed, with the emphasis on probabilistic methods.
Cubby-holes lose something along the way though. I have faint memory of visiting a relative whose grave is a marker on a wall- likely a soldier- and it comes up very lacking compared to a headstone in a field.
Do you normally handle contracts by someone coming into your office and slamming a pile of money on your desk, and you start work immediately?
Nobody wants to be "forced to be positive", including us. If you try to find a different interpretation of what I wrote, I don't think you'll find it very hard.
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Firefox doesn't actually ship anything proprietary. DRM module is an optional plugin from Adobe.
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