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Have you ever tried your argument with s/guns/encryption/?

"We just need to ban encryption. The First Amendment isn't written in stone. Or it could get some extremely significant limitations added, like backdoors.

People wouldn't like it of course, so it would never fly. But we need to get rid of this idiotic notion that you need encryption to protect yourself in a civil digital society. You don't. You're not going to rise up against the government, and you're not going to need it to protect your family.

Are there exceptions? Sure. But when AES is so readily available, any criminal that wants one has one.

The ridiculous line "if you outlaw encryption only outlaws will have encryption" or whatever, is nonsensical. If encryption is outlawed, most criminals will have a hard time finding algorithms. But all three letter agencies (ie: NSA) will still have them."
You didn't address the question. Of course it's illegal -- how would you stop them from __getting__ them, though? We've seen that making it illegal won't be enough, as drugs and prohibition have shown: there would be a black market, just as there almost certainly already is.
The article fails to mention how this is likely to be kickstarted by their chumminess with Shopify, long seen as Etsy's competition.

Amazon Webstore owners can already migrate over to the Shopify platform to give Amazon Webstore sites the soul they sorely lack [0].

Along with a carefully curated list from their integration in the other direction (Shopify -> Amazon [1]) this will work out quite nicely for both companies

Shopify has offered integration with Fulfillment by Amazon since 2007 [2]

[0] https://www.shopify.com/blog/52368069-shopify-and-amazon-par...

[1] https://www.shopify.com/amazon

[2] https://www.shopify.com/blog/3029062-fulfillment-by-amazon-i...
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I think you raise some good points. Another issue is the prevelance of guns. From a recent article (I don't know enough to vouch for these numbers in any way) [1]

* "America has 4.4 percent of the world's population but almost half of its civilian-owned guns."

* "In 2013, the US had 106.4 gun deaths per million people. In 2011, the last year for which we have numbers, the UK endured 146 gun deaths total - or 2.3 gun deaths per million people."

* "Plenty of research has found a strong correlation between the amount of guns in an area and its gun homicide rate" ... "Perhaps the single most supported contention in all of gun research is that more guns mean more gun deaths."

> let's not blame officers. They're probably doing the best they can with a bad situation.

If by "blame officers" you mean assign group guilt to all individual police officers, I'd agree, but it's just as mistaken to say all police officers are doing the best they can. We have many examples of specific police officers harming civillians, including outright murder (something clearly not related to threats to police and not happening in Sweden). Whole classes of Americans see the police as a threat. As these problems occur in many places, I think we can say there is a systemic problem with policing in the U.S.

[1] http://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9454161/gun-violence-solution
This guy is a terrible hypocrite; he creates art bemoaning new people in his neighborhood, while being a recent transplant from New York himself. He's cashing in on the worst kind of 'us vs them' mentality.

Some people make excuses that he's only rallying against the stereotypical brogrammer, but I don't think that's true. He's really against anyone being in his neighborhood he didn't personally approve of. He's the same as the neighborhood watch keeping the 'undesirables' out of the cul-de-sac.
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I assume I'll have to declare personal bankruptcy as soon as I launch one.
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I still have yet to have anyone explain to my why "grit" is a desirable trait in a neighborhood. I can understand wanting diversity, unique cultures, but that absolutely does not conflict with a general quality of life increase.
>It's not about territory control, it's about industry control.

He's talking about application of laws in foreign territories. Naturally, for the benefit of US and its own industry. How is that substantially different from what you're saying?
To the many people who say "this will never work": luckily, we don't have to theorize abstractly about "human nature" and can just go look at successful non-hierarchical organizations. Frederic Laloux describes the practices of 12 of them in the 2nd and 3rd parts of his wonderful book Reinventing Organizations (http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/). Still some very new ideas, but these organizations have enough interesting properties that we should really explore how to make them work.
I suspect that regardless of how good a device MS comes up with, they can't win with the consumers, since Windows is strongly associated with the dreadful office computers and the IT-tyranny of the workplace. Who wants to use Windows at home after using it in the office all day?

Besides, every single Windows computer I have had in family after a 6 months of use turned into slow as crawl horrible insufferable piece of junk. A full minute to switch users on a pretty powerful machine! The Macs, on the other hand, seem to be holding pretty well. Viruses, crappy drivers, bad software, the entire Windows ecosystem just does not work all that well, and it is very apparent to people using it at home.

I suspect the same group of people that bought Lumina phones and Zunes will buy this, a couple of idiotic suits at work will show up with it, and a couple of years later this will wither and die like all other things Microsoft. MS is yesterday and there's nothing they can do about it.
Thanks, I forgot that git got that wrong :/

Edit: Actually, looking at the code (do_sign_commit), git appears to gpg sign the whole commit object.

I think it's in signed tags where git only signs the sha1 being tagged.
It seems to me that the fact that Capitol Hill was the unique, Bohemian, and affordable neighborhood that it was in your memories was just an accident of the 20th century. It's:
* Right next to downtown
* Has great views and
* Has very easy access to a major road, I-5.

Why on earth wouldn't having credentials like that make it prime property, even if a certain retailer didn't exist?

But from 1950 - 1990, nobody wanted to live in a city, they wanted to drive in from their suburbs. So cities became refuges for the interesting and weird, while the rest of America had their half-acre.

That trend is reverting now, and the real value of property in major cities is being reevaluated, and at something closer to what it probably should be.

Also, I really liked this Wonkblog[1], not just for highlighting the differences in densities in world urban areas, but also because he talks about the mentality of "Well, I've moved here now, but the development can stop now!"

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/th...
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If the gun supply is strained, the chances of encountering such a person are lowered.
Holacracy actually has way more structure than a hierarchy. Just look at the constitution (http://www.holacracy.org/constitution), or read about the rigid way they conduct meetings.
That's why lawyers and LLC's exist.
A brief elaboration on "many people hostile to software engineers in general": the major source of this are the employers who have done a deal with the apartment owners to all but exclude anyone who doesn't work in the tech industry. The apartment owner simply doesn't rent to anyone who doesn't work for Amazon, Microsoft etc[1]. This makes people grumpy at the folks who apparently do the deal with the devil for this advantage. By the bye, there is a difference, at least politically, between Seattle and Bellevue, much like between San Francisco and Oakland

[1] http://www.thestranger.com/news/feature/2015/09/09/22831041/...
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For those unfamiliar with Seattle, SLU is adjacent to Capitol Hill. So, some Amazon employees inevitably live in Cap Hill, which is for some reason a desirable place to live (lots of night life activities, crappy transit options).

Cap Hill used to be a gay / artist / low income district of Seattle but is increasingly wealthy tech workers. I don't see this as a bad thing but obviously some people do.
My main computer is a UX305 running Ubuntu, can still dual boot to Windows. Trackpad seems great to me. In fact, I don't like the feel of the trackpads on the Macs I occasionally use. I think a big part of it is what you get used to.
Yes, you could consider Drupal 8 basically a rewrite.

Massive modernization. Most high-level concepts remain the same. The implementation became much better. And it's a joy instead of a pain to extend/customize.

I recommend you to take a look :) See https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0 — RC1 was tagged _yesterday_.

It sounds like you will particularly like the Configuration System. See https://www.chapterthree.com/blog/principles-configuration-m...
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It's specific to processing IP packets, but not to routing. It has a really elegant interface for handling packet events.
Dart is not just an elegant language, more like a complete programming environment.
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ha, "gemini", get it?
Still missing the dislike button... I would rather have "dislike" than "angry"
In Dota 2 if you AFK for more than 5 minutes (no xp) you get an abandon and the game is safe to leave for all players. In ranked your MMR (roughly your Elo) gets updated win or lose if the game goes past first blood. The abandoner gets a loss regardless of outcome.

If you abandon 2 ranked games you get put into the low priority queue and have to play a certain number (at least 5 I think) of all-random games that don't record anything.

If you get reported for communications abuse enough you get a communications ban and can only use the chat wheel and rate-limited pings. Other reports get turned into low-priority queue time (supposedly).

If you dodge a game (even if you don't ready up) you get progressively harsher queue timeouts. It goes something like 4 min, 10 min, 30 min, 1 hour, etc.

There is also rumor of a hidden queue pool of toxic players. Kinda like a shadow ban but it lumps all the ragers and dodgers and AFKers and feeders together to play with each other.

Honestly, LoL never appealed to me. Every champ is about the same with about the same skillset and every game has the same laning. Riot seems to not really be able to make changes and their community management is bad.

If you can get past the turn rate and inability to spam spells in Dota you might enjoy Dota more.
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I know it's happening, but I'm so surprised to see them cater to technologies like SAP HANA. 3 years ago, there was basically no overlap between people who wanted to run products from SAP/Oracle and people who influenced product offerings from AWS.

Obviously, that's different today.
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You're making an awful lot of assumptions here.

I don't hate Microsoft today, and only did during the period they posed an existential threat to Linux/FOSS (and it was a relatively gentle sort of hate, made particularly easy by Vista).

I don't run Apple hardware, never have in my life. In part because I count them as worse to users (well, prior to own goals like Vista and Windows 8), but also because as of late they've been behaving particularly bad. Made that decision in 1987, who knew, avoiding particularly closed ecosystems turned out to be a good idea all around in the long term.

I don't "speak ill of banking corporations" because I don't see, well, any that I can think of offhand in the US, being actively, aggressively evil. Stupid in many cases, for sure, but that's a different thing, and not axiomatically akin to Microsoft's crimes.
The article is also odd that it says "The role of a multimillionaire bolstering Cruz’s candidacy stands out in part because of an apparent contradiction." There are plenty anti-establishment donors in the party, plus it ignores an important part of Republican party history (Goldwater for example) and how patron-style donors effect change in the party.

I would say the article uses a lot of loaded words to try to create controversy and contradiction where none exists.
I don't understand Amazon's cloud HSM product. Amazon says they don't have access to your HSM but presumably they do if they wanted to. Also, how does HSM protect the hot wallet if an attacker is able to get access to a machine that is using the HSM for signing? Your only hope is that you can obscure the credentials for the HSM from the attacker.

HSM for the hot wallet probably provides greater security than no HSM for the hot wallet but I don't think it gives you that much extra security.
> * Right next to downtown * Has great views and * Has very easy access to a major road, I-5.

> Why on earth wouldn't having credentials like that make it prime property, even if a certain retailer didn't exist?

Crappy transit (49 is your only bus route for many parts of the hill and is slow and only runs on Broadyway; 10/11/43 serve very specific areas); I wouldn't call the I-5 access great (the intersection at Denny is frequently really slow and backed up because people run lights and block the intersection).
How long have you been there? I've been gone for over a decade, so I'm curious if you can confirm a suspicion I've had recently - that NASA has a bit of Silicon Valley envy and are trying to emulate the tech startup world in ways that may or may not be appropriate to their mission. When I worked there during the .com bubble, nobody cared about Silicon Valley at all - it very much had a military industrial complex feel to it.
I'd say the 95% of Americans were utterly right if you define poverty as "a standard of living which anyone raised in America would consider to be extreme poverty", as opposed to "below the income threshold of the latest World Bank redefinition", in which a person earning 10 cents per hour needs only the energy to work 90 hours per week to bootstrap their way out of extreme poverty...
Thanks! I have tried Bitvise a few times over the years, but it seems to be missing some features of WinSCP such as "Keep remote directory up to date..." which I use a lot. The terminal immediately seems nicer to use than Putty, but I have to find some way of using Bitvise terminal with WinSCP, or I need to find that one feature of WinSCP in Bitvise' file explorer.
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> Why would I approve of, say, the LAPD any more than I would approve of the MVSN?

I had to look up MVSN. They were the Italian Fascist Blackshirt thugs.

If you think life in LA would be improved by the absence of the LAPD, I strongly question your grasp on reality. If you think the LAPD hassles people they shouldn't, beats them up, and sometimes kills them, you're almost certainly correct. But if you think that, in the absence of the LAPD, the total number of beatings and killings would go down, you're dreaming.
If it's obviously ridiculous and embarassing, why is it just being addressed now? There is a deeper, systemic problem that created this situation.
Every day we're hearing about another country attempting to apply it's laws on people not in the country. I've seen Canada, France, Germany. The US is huge in this, but they're hardly alone.

[1] Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ordere...
[2] France: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984524/privacy/france-reject...
[3] Germany: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98593
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All fixed, thanks!
Sputnik[1] is a Russian government-controlled website with very little credibility when it comes to anything Western. Secondly, this is Assange, while no doubt the US is guilty of a lot of things, Assange and Wikileaks' purpose seem to be an anti-US organization at this point.

I also find it ironic how a group "dedicated to transparency" aren't themselves transparent with their finances.

>The WikiLeaks chief said the US investigation of himself and others involved in leaking sensitive government information is a prime example of Washington engaging in lawfare

>"I'm an Australian, Why Is the US Investigating Me for Espionage?"

Is he serious?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_(news_agency)#Receptio...
Oh, I wasn't aware this was happening. Totally makes sense, although this is not the case in my instance.
Sure you should be able to defend yourself. Just not with guns.

If you need guns, call the police.
Very cool project, and thanks for sharing the code :)
> I would say the article uses a lot of loaded words to try to create controversy and contradiction where none exists.

Yeah. They are trying to be clickbait-y and ignore the substance that actually exists. [e.g. The influence of patron-style donations]
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Just guessing here, but it would seem reasonable to define extreme poverty as deprivation that substantially impedes one's ability to maintain a decent life expectancy. I might also include very poor access to (say) basic education.

'Poverty' is a rather broader definition, including issues like housing affordability, decent food variety, access to secondary/higher education, perhaps life stability (for example, no access to permanent employment).
ban guns? really, tell me how making drugs illegal has stopped their procurement. tell me how making guns illegal will stop the violence?

Why not ban cars, more people are accidentally killed with automobiles than guns used for homicide or suicide.

as for the statement people won't rise up against government, where have you been? They did after the shootings in LA, Oakland, and recently St. Louis.

Frankly the idea of a society where only law enforcement has guns with their track record isn't a society anyone should want to live in.
It looks to me like all you have to do to uninstall them is go to System -> Apps and Features, select the app, and click uninstall.

Am I missing something? I tried it on a few and it seems to work fine.
This is a severely under-appreciated point about housing costs. I live in a college town and rents have been climbing to the degree where the ratio of income to housing expenses is the highest in the nation, leaving New York and San Francisco in the dust.

Every once in a while there will be more proposals to build condos over existing houses or apartments. We've been here before: housing stock is considerably increased while rents around town are given an implicit "go" to be raised across the board. If you're a financially struggling student at an Ivy League school you're not just gonna up and leave cause your rent went up another $100-$200. You're just gonna take out more debt. It doesn't help that aside from campus housing there are like 3 landlords in the whole city

Building housing in a bull market is almost always the right choice, but let's not pretend rents are going to magically fall. Or stop rising. Housing is one of the most elastic goods one can find. Everyone has to sleep somewhere.
Netflix recommendations have essentially never worked for me. It occasionally identifies a category I might be interested in, but essentially drops the ball on actual content. I think the best film I've seen recommended in a genre was Charlie Victor Romeo.

There are still some excellent movies (Primer, Metropolis, Ronin, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, etc...), particularly classics. And the documentaries are probably under appreciated (Genius on Hold, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, both Cosmos, etc...). So, someone is probably paying attention. I have to randomly search for specific things from time to time though. Sometimes sites like https://reddit.com/r/bestofnetflix help.

One of the bigger problems I've noticed is that some movies tend to be cut short though. It's almost never a director's cut.
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Nice work man, I am working on something similar - would be cool to chat? PM me on twitter @desicochrane
The eastside is less obsessed with preserving an image of itself as a "gritty" place. Parts of the eastside (I'm looking at you, downtown Bellevue) are sort of obsessed with the opposite — shows of ostentatious wealth.

The Cascades have a lot of great hiking and are reason enough to live on the eastside :). If you don't already, get an "America the Beautiful" pass (http://www.nps.gov/findapark/passes.htm) which will get you into National Forest areas as well as National Parks (Rainier, Olympic National Park). And of course the state Discover pass gets you into a few areas (Tiger Mountain is not super wild, but very close).
While the changes to Capitol Hill alarm me as well (having lived there for 25 years), there have always been gay hate crimes on Capitol Hill.
So, why wasn't a mechanical hook used instead? It seems to me they overengineered that part a bit.
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Oh what a shocking surprise: a hedge fund guy is pouring money into the GOP.
> How often have I wished I could at least see the age of someone when reading through comments.

I don't know if age is as useful as something like list of projects, publications, or contributions. Something to denote saying "yes - this guy has been down the path I have and released it's a dead end" rather than just spewing what he learned in class or some random article on the internet.

Someone laughed at me on reddit when I told them you didn't need a lot of money to make a good game (as you can outsource if you need to - trust me there is someone in India who is willing to create that sprite sheet for less than $20 versus your artist friend would charge $200+). They claimed you needed like $X million. An obvious counter-example would be Terraria - I know not everyone likes it but I think it's a pretty successful and well put together game. It was made by 2 guys sitting in a home office somewhere. I asked him how many games he worked on - I believe he responded with, if I remember correctly, 3.
What/where is your privacy policy?
god forbid they actually create something people want and will pay for.
I don't have a question, but I'd like to thank you. I've been a MUBI subscriber for a month or two now and love it. You've a subscriber for life here.

My best experience was when I fired up my MUBI app in my holiday home (different country in Europe) expecting nothing (like with Netflix and Amazon film), only to find another excellent selection of films.

Discovering that rather than punish me for trying to use MUBI in two countries, you actually gave me twice as much content, was a beautiful surprise to say the least. Thank you.
When I tried to do that, a bunch of them had no uninstall option and I had to do a PowerShell command to get rid of them.

I followed the instructions on this page:
http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s...

Uninstalling Cortana is even trickier so I haven't done anything with it yet, but it's probably the feature I would most like to get rid of.
Yeah, I just emerged from the Git code myself ;-)

So you're correct that GPG-signing commits (but not tags) prevents collisions in commit objects. The problem though is that a commit ultimately contains a SHA-1 hash of a tree object, so now the concern is someone generating colliding tree objects.

Edit: fortunately, the format of tree objects looks pretty rigid. I feel somewhat reassured, but only somewhat.
Hacker news has become AWS news lately. In serious note, I am curious to see pricing structure on X1.