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> What, exactly, would you have us do to "regulate cars like guns"?

Given what I have read about most guns used in crimes originating through straw buyers or stolen guns, I think substantial penalties for people who don't properly transfer guns if they wind up being used illegally would be the most effective way to reduce gun related violence. This, of course, would require a system of registration and proper transfer documentation, like we have for cars.

This, along with secure storage requirements, I think could do a lot. I agree accidents aren't that big an issue when compared to intentional violence, I assume secure storage would substantially help with this along with suicide. I'd also be in favor of severe penalties for not using secure storage.

In terms of new technology that could improve safety, fingerprint readers and id stamped ammo would help with both violence and safety.

Insurance could play an important role. If you pass a test, get your refresher training and have proper storage you'd pay a low rate. If you have an accident or have a gun stolen insurance could pay part of your penalty but your rate should go up enormously.

> ... non-starter in an environment where the people proposing these measures continuously demonstrate their bad will.

Continuously demonstrate bad will? 10s of thousands die yearly and even modest proposals are dismissed with hysteria like:

> Registration? Sure, go ahead if you want a 2nd Civil War, we know our 20th Century history. Never again are not empty words to us.

Seriously, this is into "UN black helicopter", "Obama is an Al-Qaeda member" territory.
If you're still using SHA-1, you might as well skip SHA-2 and go straight to SHA-3, aka KECCAK.
It's super clever, yet surprisingly simple. Check out the pseudo-code implementation at http://keccak.noekeon.org/specs_summary.html
As I get older I realise how much of the world runs on bullshit. Not outright lying, but getting close to that end of the scale.

A baseball bat to the head is far more harmful than most lying.
Let's pull the last one from the list, because not only is it the most important, but it's the one which best demonstrates the attitude the systemd maintainers have towards interoperability, standards, and security. Can systemd's logger send to redis stores for aggregation? Can it email if there's an issue? Can I pull windows events into the same aggregation systems? Is there an RFC for syslog's file and network format?

These are all flaws in systemd with just one of those daemons you mentioned. Were I to get into init, I'd ask you about BSD-style rc files, which are tiny and very readable, as well as being shell scripts, so you can run more pre-execution tests to ensure your job will run correctly. With BSD atd and crond, I'd discuss how atd functionality has been merged in as a cron job. There are a lot of other solutions to sysv init than systemd. Unfortunately, the Linux monoculture sees bash as the only shell, sysv init as the only pre-systemd init, and the poorly configured rsyslogd distros ship with as the only syslog.
It is also fairly easy to spoof, especially given the number of PII leaks in the recent years.
We're pretty similar in a lot of ways. It's definitely a pain point, but from a UX perspective its tough to solve. In theory you could manage a lot of things with the API (most of our UI runs off the API these days).

Even with the limitations, we have many people with hundreds of projects, and the general problems we see are more around notification settings than anything else. The usual suspect is that people are getting too many emails when they either want none, or they want digests.

We are giving this a lot of thought as part of our upcoming infrastructure pass. From my point of view it'd make a lot of sense if you could just have a massive stream of events and sort through them however you want. That causes a lot of challenges so it may not be feasible.

Either way its a problem we're aware of and looking to address. The simplest solution from our point of view is to allow you to configure some kind of organization-wide defaults. That won't resolve the API key constraints, but we don't feel that specifically is a pain point.
The scenario I alluded to:

1. A student views leaked documents on a university computer.

2. They inform an SCI wanker of their recent academic pursuit.

3. University knuckleheads decide to destroy the equipment and do so.

At which step does harm occur, and who's behavior is destructive?
That advice isn't aimed at people who are genuinely poor, it's aimed at middle class whiners who earn middle-class money and still complain that they "can't get ahead" and "will never be able to retire".

MMM has never claimed to be frugal -- indeed, he likes to talk about the "extravagance" of his $25K pa spend for a family of four.
I'm a heavy Lyft user, and I only tip when I have a particularly impressive ride (i.e. Driver goes above and beyond to be accommodating or I had a very insightful conversation). There is no expectation to tip, and I have never met a driver that's been offended with there being no tip. This with over 1k rides...
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I enjoy life also.
AOL’s ad network will be able to match millions of Internet users to their real-world details gathered by Verizon, including — “your gender, age range and interests.” ... AOL will also be able to use data from Verizon’s identifier to track the apps that mobile users open, what sites they visit, and for how long. Verizon purchased AOL earlier this year...

"I think in some ways it’s more privacy protective because it’s all within one company,” said Verizon’s (chief privacy officer) Zacharia"

Good to know she's looking out for our interests.
"Restaurants are moving away, slowly, from the tipping model, mostly due to increases in base wages, making it unpalatable for all but the rich, to pay a premium price and a tip on top of that."

they are ?
I wonder what would happen if savings accounts was ditched completely at least from for-profit banks.
Thanks. Soon Chrome for Android will be supported!
These kinds of bare HTML pages are better than many sites, but a very welcome alternative is applying just a bit of CSS to keep the width of the content at a readable length, apply a bit of spacing to the text between lines so everything isn't bunched up, and a few minor touches like that to enhance readability and make the page look aesthetically nicer.

You can go really, really far with less than 100 lines of CSS essentially.
My google skills fail because I try to find stuff all the time I read before and I can't find it.
People were discussing this in the ECE labs and in student government today. I think the consensus is that the administration overreacted but that they were kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with academic free speech vs. compliance.

In general Purdue does seem to have more of a government and conservative bend to it than other colleges so I'm not surprised that the speaker was called out about the currently classified material on his slides.

Also whoever was saying they were considering DoSing schools.. please don't. My compiler is not going to turn itself in :).
Well to understand Fourier transform for example you need to master the better part of the calculus as prerequisite. Did you get all the way to convolution theorem without taking any math classes? Then congrats, I'm certainly not in your ballpark.
As much as I hate the serfitude economy companies, the fact that the cab companies have not adopted the app approach boggles my mind.

I would have zero problem calling a cab, even with the regulated cab prices, if they had a Lyft/Uber-like app. Hit the button, accepted in 60 seconds, tracked to your door. The fact that the cab companies simply won't do this grinds my gears.

This is also why Lyft/Uber grind my gears. JUST BE A COMPETENT CAB COMPANY and people would love you. Uber/Lyft doesn't have to flout the existing laws while lobbying to get them changed.
Yes, that's precisely what I mean. And that's what makes this kind of move from Lyft so interesting. They're walking a fine line. Banking on the time it takes to be regulated as runway for pivoting to automation. Google says they'll be delivering fully autonomous cars by 2020. If we give Google til 12/31/20, that's more than 5 years out. Seems like Uber/Lyft will be regulated hard before that, unless they've got something up their sleeve.
I think they're great - they remind me of what the internet was like before the marketing departments showed up.
Doh! Fixed ;)
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what if Uber/Lyft etc let you lend your car to drivers? So instead of sitting in the parking lot, an uber driver could be driving it. Uber/Lyft could background check the drivers. I wonder if it will be worthwhile for them to provide insurance against theft. The driver would also need to be added to your personal insurance I guess....the insurance companies might eventually come up with plans specific for this type of scenarios.
Why has the Xcode team not solved this problem. It's been a consistent complaint since the interface builder was released. Xcode has git support out of the box. I have to think a visual differ would've been along by now.
No, they all target the mu opioid receptor. I don't know if they all bind the same site of said receptors, though.
I think it would be fascinating to look at the dynamic of how young people interact with an increasingly-old government today. Personally I don't know too many people who believe in the system/even care enough to show up to public meetings, write their representatives, or even vote for that matter. Have these dynamics have changed over the years?

Is your research group working on anything in this vein?
Although I agree when it comes to Uber. I mean, I don't need great service from my Uber driver, I just need them to get me from point A to point B. However, the restaurant service I've gotten in places outside the United States is just awful. It's 15-20 minutes before you'll see your server again, regardless of whether the place is busy or empty.
Yup.

This isn't the first account I've heard of this. I personally haven't been targeted, but every interaction with a LEO seems to be shit. Where I am being treated as a criminal by default. I had a traffic stop a few months ago and the LEO had their hand on their gun while having the conversation. WTF.
Some real estate is a positional good, which has the price set by how much money the richest people have.

There is no way around this. If everyone wants to live as close to (say) Times Square as possible, that land will be expensive.

But you don't have to enter that zero-sum rat race. There are lots of places to live that aren't the only places the very rich want to live. They still enjoy decent schools and low crime.

Some college education is positional, too. If you want "Ivy League Education" for your kid, well, there are just about as many slots as there were 30 years, but a lot more rich people, so the price will get bid up to infinity. Here the real shame is that the non-gold-star educational system is still getting more and more expensive, for many many reasons.
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Addendum to my last comment:

There really should be a requirement that SaaS services supported some kind of load/dump configuration API, where you can deal with raw config. The admin UI should be completely optional.

Most SaaS vendors don't have APIs that cover all parts of the service. Some do have decent APIs -- for example, we store our DNS records in files and use Gandi's APIs to update our zones, using a custom script (with some nice diffing capabilities), and we do some automatic configuring of Mailgun -- but APIs are always stateful and never declarative, which means that a client will always have to issue half a dozen calls to diff and converge its state. It's painful.
It's leaving a huge amount of money on the table generated by activities unrelated to Google's expertise, such as producing the actual car. Google does a lot of things, but I'm pretty sure running a car factory is not one of their fields of expertise.
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What kind of unix sysadmin can't understand 200 línes of shell code which most of it is just boilerplate code?
Those are not unique systemd features. supervisor provides that, as well, without requiring to replace the init system underneath.
what kind of unix sysadmin can't understand 200 línes of shell code which most of it its just boilerplate code?
Yes, see for example: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6439290
Well, imagine a world where every site you visit, every purchase you make, etc. is tracked and a score is assigned to you. Imagine that the activity your friends undertake also affects this score.

Now, imagine that it's happening in China.

You don't have to. They're actively building it.

Advertisers in the US would kill to get that kind of an individualized profile. So would insurance companies, credit card issuers, etc.

How long before you employer demands access? Because guaranteed that someone in Congress would agree that it's a good idea.

How long before Homeland Security becomes interested?
Fraudvergnügen: It's what makes a car a Volkswagen.
With two applications running under the same user, if one is compromised, it has ready access to the other.

Generally it's fairly easy to make a system user for an application if no special accesses are required - just make a custom system user for the application, and ensure it can access the various things it needs to touch (eg: logging).
> purchase a burner laptop with cash

Easy.

> and not in sight of any cameras.

Almost impossible, unless you're buying from a fence. Laptops are high-value items; almost every place that sells them has cameras on the area where they are sold.

> Is this sufficient operational security to remain totally anonymous against every reasonable threat save for an extremely motivated nation state?

You go to those extremes, and you're likely to motivate a nation state...
> Do you view farmers the same way?

Providing food for free is next on my list. I don't need labor. I just need clean energy and automation.
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Microsoft said: "You can turn off Input Personalization at any time. This will stop the data collection for this feature and will delete associated data stored on your device, such as your local user dictionary and your input history. As Cortana uses this data to help understand your input, turning off Input Personalization will also disable Cortana on your device. At https://www.bing.com/account/personalization, you can also clear data sent to Microsoft, such as your contacts and calendar data, user dictionary, as well as search and browsing history if your device also had Cortana enabled."

Cortana is just a cute name for part of the indexed search feature, which is controlled by Group Policies:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208%28v=vs....

Cortana is not turned on by default, and if she's not been turned on, there is no real benefit to removing "her".

However, for the record, I think Cortana is great....

Since Windows 10 is "Windows as a service", patched and maintained remotely, I'd expect random screwing around to be repaired remotely. However, it would be interesting to know if this will affect Windows' stability or performance. However, in general, it's probably a bad idea to mess around with the workings of things you don't understand.

This is one of the reasons I don't mess around with Android, or try to remove all the Google apps I don't want, or remove Google Now ;-)
Useful how? What will we do with a virtual rat brain?
similar experience here. I agree that it's very nice, although we all probably have biases towards the way we grew up :)
It's not about Verizon. Of course they know where their users connect to. But by injecting a special HTTP header field, they make it possible for third parties to track the user – for example an ad network that serves ads on sites the user visits. Regular cookies are limited to certain domains, but this header is added to every request, making it cross-domain. HTTPS would prevent Verizon from injecting it.
>MMM has never claimed to be frugal -- indeed, he likes to talk about the "extravagance" of his $25K pa spend for a family of four.

And imagine how well that sarcasm goes with those of us who have never seen 25,000.
That's an interesting idea. We're Datadog users and one behavior I like is that, while they have a fancy way to build the charts, you can simply click an advanced mode and grab the full JSON configuration (thus being able to copy paste it).

We'll give some thought into this, as it's not too far from being a possibility.
Even if it's undocumented (as far as I know it is well documented), at least this code is in one place.
The fact that Hitler was a serious addict is true. He was also bipolar, and it is quite likely that the combination has contributed a lot to the beginning of the end of Operation Barbarossa in 1943 (through his faulty decision about not attacking Moscow in 1941, before winter, and before Stalin realized what is really happening). The thing to remember is that amphetamines were way more acceptable in the early 1940s (because the bad side effects were not yet that obvious), for example Wehrmacht soldiers had "superpower chocolate bars" beefed up with amphetamine. They were allowed to consume it in a dire situation. There is a lot of unnecessary buzzing happening in the article though.
my point was that apple is trying to push them into integrating it.. but obviously I don't want that- and most sane people don't want that either.
It's covered at the end of the article:

"There is no doubt about Hitler’s guilt; he planned the mass murder of six million people well before he began using drugs. The “total rush,” the loss of reality and megalomania have always been his state of mind"
Let me add to that. Starting from my own profile page at mubi, it took three clicks and a bit of scrolling to get to https://mubi.com/users/59108 — people know each other.
Doesn't it invalidate a patent if someone else was already doing it?
Curb and Flywheel don't meet your criteria?
FYI, the (free) "Lirum device info lite" app will tell you what CPU you have installed in your iPhone 6s/6s+.
N66AP and B71AP are Samsung CPUs, N66MAP and N71MAP are TSMCs.
er, what is exactly a 9m^2 apartment?!
Which jobs could a 100-year-old do?
AWS IoT doesn't support retained messages.
shrug maybe, maybe not. I sometimes have rather low cash reserves; credit cards and a checking account that lets me overdraft for free (via margin borrowing) can give me a bit of liquidity. But credit cards come due every month, and margin borrowing can always result in a margin call, so it certainly does feel like a risk. Having a bit of cash around gives you some peace of mind, but what's that worth depends quite a lot on the individual.

I believe there's a significant risk of deflationary times ahead - the prime rate over the last five years really makes much of that argument for me. It is not a given that keeping the money in a savings account guarantees real losses.
Am I correct in inferring from your second sentence that by "young people", you mean "single, straight men"?
They pay pretty well, especially because 28% of your pay won't be going towards rent or mortgage payments.

The job hunt is a little harder(going through it now), but not that much harder.

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

There's lots of nice places in the top 50 of there that aren't crazy expensive.
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Your job can imply your socioeconomic status. When it's the first thing you ask, it can come across as deciding whether you're worthwhile or not. Maybe you're not worth the connection because you're a fry cook at McDonalds, but the doctor over there in the corner is.

Learning what someone does for a living is, to me anyways, far less important than learning what they like to do, what interests they have, etc. I can be friends with anyone where there's common ground, not just fellow software folks.

Talking with work is fine, it just can be interpreted as rude if it's one of the first things you ask.
See comments just below. You've been able to use external graphics cards with Windows for ages, and it was a feature of ThinkPad docks back in 2007 or so, if not before.
Who needs calculators? The same can be done "by hands".
But the problem with that is that doing it many times is error prone. Why not let it be solved once for good?
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Mid-west is probably a good choice since you can afford to live there on a stipend. Other coastal places not so much.
Disclaimer, my knowledge on this subject consists of an undergraduate course on world history.

It worked relatively well. The role of government was considerably smaller than it is today. Also, during their term, serving on the council was a citizens full time job [0]. Additionally, their were still career politicians who advised the council; they just did not get a vote. Notably, among the politicians were generals, who were elected and did not have term limits. In addition to being influential with military and foreign policy, they tended to be influential for domestic matters as well.

[0] Rather, It was their full-time job for one month out of their one year term. For the rest of their term, they attended monthly meetings.
You see the same sorts of comments on torrent sites, people saying like "this is not actual 320kpbs audio, I analyzed it with [whatever] and it's clearly 128kbps reencoded as 320kbps", which I guess is fine as a PSA, but it does imply a really high expectation from people illegally uploading music for free to be illegally downloaded for free.
Yeah, but they'd be even better if they were more like:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
That's hardly a portable solution considering that California has 4 National Labs when most states are lucky if they have even one.
There's two assumptions many in the civic tech space seem to share that I don't think are so obvious (not that I think they are wrong, just that I think they're not obvious):

A1: The world would be better if politicians paid more attention to public opinion or knew more about it. I don't think this is so clear. Citizens support many policies not in their interest, don't know everything that experts do, etc. Most democracies reflect a tradeoff between popular control on the one hand and expert judgment / elite control on the other. I don't think either extreme is the best, and don't know where we are on that continuum relative to the ideal. But for what it's worth, my sense is that citizens actually understand this to some extent and ofter defer to legislators' judgments: http://stanford.edu/~dbroock/papers/broockman_butler_legisla...

A2: In order to increase citizen engagement, we should focus on lowering the cost of acquiring information about politics, the cost of participation, or the cost of providing information to representatives. I think this misses the real challenge: increasing people's motivation to participate and the benefits to participation. It's never been easier to participate in myriad ways -- the cost is epsilon. But if people see the benefits as zero, which many seem to, they still won't engage. I don't think the cost side of the equation is where the action is.
I only use a handful of apps on my phone and the ones I do use, do everything I need out of them. As someone who used iPhones, androids, and now as of this year a Windows Phone, I have to say, the UI is extremely well done. The live tiles give me most of the information I need. Glance is great, I don't have to turn the phone on, I just lift it and it gives me a low light version of date, time, notifications, etc.

I'm definitely going to pick up the Lumia 950XL phone when it goes on sale.
The obvious answer would be non-physical jobs. Administrating obscure obsolete boxes running ancient Linux kernels such as v4.3 perhaps? :-) Who will still know these systems by heart 20 years from now?