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He should stand trial, but he had no whistle-blower protection as Hillary claimed he might have. So he had no choice but to flee to avoid getting caught. Sure he broke the law, but without him breaking the law we would not have known about the NSA domestic spying.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/...

Reddit sees Snowden as a hero, the Federal government sees him as a traitor. I think he is more of a hacktvist. He did what he did to bring out the truth, even if he did break the law and flee to another nation for protection.
The Espionage Act, an absurd broadly worded thing that's been used how many times? Contrast that with how many people have recently "leaked" classified info but in contrast with Snowden, those leaks served the interests of some faction in the government. Why haven't there been dozens of others charged under this law?
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I'm left wondering why the parent would be compulsed to push the child agressively.

Maybe it's a US thing?

We are are engineer parents in northern Europe, we try to raise our kids so they remain curious and emotinally fullfilled, we wish every good thing for them - but it's really hard to imagine to go all helicopter on them. If anything, I imagine we will let them make all the right and wrong decisions about their education when the time comes - but we try to make them understand what options they have and what likely outcomes their decisions entail.
In complex analysis, this is generally true; in particular for any function on the real numbers, there is exactly one differentiable function on the entire complex plane that has the same value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphic_function . You can also go forward/backward in time with the functions, and knowing the value ahead of time is predicting it.

On the other hand, there are non-differentiable events all the time in nature. It's madness to claim that salmon populations contain enough information to predict earthquakes (that could dam a river and cause a massive population change).
Your knowledge is out of date, I'm afraid. Simply being a geek is no longer sufficient. Teenagers today are competing in a much larger pool of increasingly sophisticated candidates; there's an entire class of businesses dedicated to getting students into colleges.
Do you have a lawyer? If not, you should probably get one. Representing yourself in a lawsuit is a risky proposition.

"I decided to troll them by creating buzz on Twitter so they will go after a product that I am no longer interested in making."

A judge might get upset if you admitted that you misled your opponents into filing a lawsuit over something that didn't happen. You're not just wasting the plaintiff's time - you're wasting the court's time. The court system is not your toy. (A huge corporation with lots of lawyers might be able to get away with something like this, but you'll just end up with a pissed off judge who might order you to pay the plaintiff's legal expenses and court fees.)
Signalling and networking and group association and stereotypes are inherently human and have remained the same for the past 6000 years of human history no matter the changes in technology. You can't just throw out contentless buzzword bingo like "disruption" and "technology" and seriously expect anyone to believe it's going to change.
What?

Botnets 'listening' or 'streaming' is fraud.

That it's not immediately identified is obviously not an issue. E.g spotify isn't affected by the fact that the steps outlined in this post occurred. They are however affected by the fact that this is possible on a larger scale.

The post has demonstrated that the cost of server time for generating 'listens' is less than the amount of royalties paid out. Therefore any artist with the appropriate technical ability could code up a botnet that generates him more revenue then he is spending whilst having literally 0 legitimate fans/listeners.

Are you seriously not able to understand why this is an issue?

Yes; In isolation, this singular post isn't a problem. But when freemoneyforbadmusic.ru pops up offering 10000000 listens for 5$ spotify will have a real problem.

What are you not understanding about this?

There's nothing really semantically wrong with what you've said. It's just factually incorrect.
You can't be imprisoned for being unable to pay a fine, but you can be imprisoned for being unwilling to pay a fine. This goes back to Bearden v. Georgia in which the SCOTUS ruled

>If the probationer has willfully refused to pay the fine or restitution when he has the resources to pay or has failed to make sufficient bona fide efforts to seek employment or borrow money to pay, the State is justified in using imprisonment as a sanction to enforce collection. [0]

So yes, had Levinson refused to pay the fines imposed he could have been facing a prison sentence. You can easily find a plethora of news stories about people being imprisoned for failure to pay fines.

[0] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/461/660.html
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Well. More gas used = more CO2 released. Arguably, that's bad.
>"One claim is that the shape of the stains has fungal morphology. If Amyloid-beta concentrations can have fungal morphology then I would think that might strengthen your claim and weaken the paper's."

The evidence in the paper consists of a few representative pictures. I have never seen human brain stained for amyloid-beta, but if it stained at all I would bet lots of money that I could find at least one clump with "fungal morphology".

Also, ruling out the other explanations (such as they stained for amyloid) is not the audience's job, it is their job. They are the ones with access to the most detailed information, putting them in the best position to think about various explanations for what could be going on.
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I'll need to try this as an OpenGL (ES) shader in an app I work on regularly. I've been meaning to replace the default bilinear filtering with something a bit nicer-looking for ages, and this seems like it fits the bill nicely, as it avoids the usual ringing and moiré issues. (I don't need to worry about perspective correction as the app is 2D only)
What would be "the right tool for the job" here?
If no processing is needed, why is the kernel bypass is "a huge red flag"?
Re: confusing positional arguments-
Functions are defined with partial application in mind. So, is it more likely you are mapping values over a list or lists over a value?

This is usually more readable as well. Consider:

λ: 3 `elem` [1,2,3]

"Is 3 an element of 1,2,3?"

Also, div is not the same as (/):

λ: 3 / 2
1.5
λ: 3 `div` 2
1
No, I just think after Objective C it's hard to get into a lot of new concepts simultaneously. So it's better to start with those dirty hybrids where you can start with imperative style to get into idiomatic OCaml/Scala approach then and only after dive into pure lazy functional programming with strict static typing. It would be useful to read "Types and Programming languages"(and maybe some other books) as well on this road.
Sure, maybe they could get to an IPO without addressing the issue, that doesn't in any way invalidate the legitimacy of the posted article.

There is a vulnerability. It is exploitable. In the long run spotify _will_ be negatively affected if it isn't addressed.

Honestly surprised that there is any arguement whatsoever to the contrary.

If it was, 'well they can make it to IPO before addressing it' as you've stated, sure, that's valid. The parent was saying, 'it's not an issue, it's a matter of perception'.... Which is extremely naive and shortsighted. Perception is the very thing that drives advertisement cost.
From the description, they use "proper" packets. Probably not TCP, but UDP or their own protocol would still enable them to use a lot of existing tech instead of special purpose devices. Which I guess is the reason why they don't use "dedicated PCIe cards" with special cabling (if I understand correctly what you mean).
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The narrative in the EU the last 10 years has been that if we don't release less CO2 we'll drown the dutch and the Seychelles by next year, so the plan seemed to be to quickly cut CO2 in half, no matter what. The EU-norms do put restrictions on many types of pollution, but only CO2 is ever discussed. Tax breaks and company purchase restrictions and so on on are normally based on the CO2 emissions alone.

There has been little/no discussion about pollution other than greenhouse effect, and even among those pollutants, basically only CO2 is ever discussed in relation to cars (Methane sometimes when discussing meat).

I don't see the EU5/EU6/... pollutions norms as being complete failures. They haven't only switched europe to diesels, they have brought all combustion engines down to very good consumption, even better when you factor in that the power has actually kept on increasing. Petrol enginess too have become very lean too, and people do buy them still. The latest VW Tiguan SUV is available with a 1.4L 150hp gasoline engine (In Europe that is, in the US it's only available with the 2.0Litre. Basically the US had the option to get 2 trims of Tiguan -- the lean one and the performance one, while still avoiding the diesels. But the lean one wasn't even an option apparently).

As for Europe, this year will probably see 10% hybrids (for larger cars in the nordic/western market at least, I only know those markets), and within 3-5 years the hybrids will be competitive enough to replace diesels completely, especially if the subsidies are moved from diesels to hybrids.
They probably could have used cards/systems capable of RDMA instead, but I don't see what's wrong with their approach.
"Today's environment is extremely competitive and the margin for error is lower."

The number of poor in the world is steadily declining. To fuck up ones life in a western country basically requires a mental or health problem. I am left wondering what one is competing about.
Ahhh, okay. My mistake. That makes more sense.
Right, but they didn't build an optical computer that is even close to competitive with something like this:http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc26/...
I did just fine because I liked to read too, but I talk to younger students and that is something that has fundamentally and seriously changed. Things are MUCH more competitive now than they have ever been, and everybody is studying the system and learning how to game it. People who focus on the things the metrics are supposed to be measuring (like reading) will lose to the people who game the metrics themselves, every time. Putting a college education up on this pedestal like we've done as "the thing you MUST HAVE to succeed" or "the key to any future besides gas-pumping" is like throwing a chunk of meat into a pit of rabid hyenas.
It's sad that even after all this time, the diversionary topic "hero or traitor?" gets more attention than the actual issues exposed.
Yes, assuming 4:2:0 that's just under 5 cycles per byte at 3 GHz, which is enough for simple processing, or 2.5 cycles per byte for 4:4:4. But they're using the other cores for processing and just one for network handling.
Right and people are always looking for a quick fix and "just a pill to take". My understanding is that how nutrition affects the body is a poorly understood complex mechanism and isn't as simple as all fat is bad or all carbs are bad or red meat is poison. Keeping a diversified diet that is rich in real food and very little processed food is a good thing. Exercising is a good thing. Beyond that it seems like micro-optimizations with very little benefit.
Thank you for your informative and critical feedback - skepticism is at the heart of science! Very true, the system could potentially be used to promote a specific agenda. However, we very much want to avoid a system that allows something such as this as much as possible. Ideally through implementing open-source / 3rd party / community-input based protocols. If you have suggestions in this regard we'd love to hear them!

And yes, we plan on including food at a later date!
Isn't there potential here for a much more nefarious plan than merely earning revenue from fake listens?

If you could do the same thing across a few services, spreading the number listens out on a viral pattern, based on a bit of investment in highly marketable songs, it sounds like you could create a bedroom-singer rags-to-riches superstar story and potentially make millions upon millions.
This sounds like a homework question, but I'll bite.

App store rankings based on downloads or ratings? http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/B8z3...

Yelp ratings? http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/every-person-here-thinks-about-...

Basically anything with a rating or ranking system where individuals contribute to an aggregate score and the highest scores get more attention, and if you get more attention you get more revenue/exposure/even more attention.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10398742
92 `div` 10

> I think this is pretty ugly, and it feels like it was glommed on to the language in some kind of compromise. For div specifically, you can use the operator / to achieve the same thing, but this won't work for all other functions.

I don't see what's wrong with backticks for infix functions; they highlight a change in fixity that makes it easier to see that `div` is being applied to the surrounding arguments rather than being used an an argument:

a div b

a `div` b

I'm not familiar with other languages that have support for named, infix functions. Are there better syntactic alternatives?
That actually supports my argument: boarding schools are just helicopter parenting by proxy and even more extreme. Parents send their children away to professional helicopter parents to socialize only with the other helicopter parented-children.
One of our laws, in this nation of laws, allows the President to issue pardons - even when "someone broke real laws."
>Macrobews are defined not by quality but by availability.

Not so. Macrobrews are extremely consisten, a quality which makes availability a viable reason to drink it. Customers know exactly what they're getting every time they open a Bud Light.

Your points focus on how craft beers are flourishing now, without looking at the implications of the recent developments: mergers that take over distribution, conglomerates that have the power to lobby for laws that are in their favor.
Yeah I was thinking about conductors, didn't realized it's different in semiconductor.

Regarding the wavelength - it's another of these things I never quite understood about physics. I've been told that every particle can be thought of as a wave with a frequency, and that it corresponds to the energy of the particle. Photons have lower energies than electrons or protons, so the wavelength of electrons should be shorter, not longer?
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Signaling will become worth more at the very top (top 20 schools) and less below that tier, which ironically will increase competition for the top 20, but probably reduce stress on the majority of kids who were always looking locally or regionally to begin with.
Let them come and they will build it
Feel free to downvote me but the title is quite misleading as I was expecting a developer introduction to 3D to be heavier on code and show what's behind the hood.

For example, the tutorial starts by creating box, I'd love see the equivalent using code. Same goes for adding vertices, moving vertices.

Cheers!
I'm not a liar when I say Spotify has expanded my global listener base beyond any other service I've used in the past. Through DistroKid, I can actually examine where, when, and how my music gets to listeners. That includes country of origin.

Yes, the prospect of worthwhile income is shit, but it always has been whether on the radio or signing over a license just "for exposure." Or, yeah, Spotify is shit for people who signed a shit contract with a shit label who doesn't do shit for their artists other than point the finger elsewhere. I'll give you that.

So I guess this is a matter of perspective, because I'm not a liar and I don't think it's shit for artists.
Well that's a delightful just-so story.

"Remember that the people worst affected by the things wrong with the political system are also those least likely to, or unable to, vote. This too is an emergent property of the system and is just a mathematical inevitability, however unfair it appears to be."

It's not emergent, the elites have fought to prevent democracy for a long, long time. See the Peterloo massacre for example, and the current conservative party is actively trying to disenfranchise voters by making it a hassle to register. This from a government with a "nudge" unit to take advantage of the power of defaults.
That's a joke; that form is by Cory Doctorow. The point is that the proposed reputation system isn't a new idea. Such proof-of-work and proof-of-stake systems have been proposed for spam control many times before, and predate Bitcoin. They didn't work.
What do you mean? There's still a network card at both ends of a connection, which handles physical layer tasks like voltages or timings. A kernel can't perform those tasks.
Blender's UI is like Vim's powerful but with a steep learning curve.

I happen to like Vim which perhaps explains why I like Blender. Blender isn't really designed for the dabbler. It's designed for the serious user. For that type of user it's worth the learning curve since you can get really fast in it. So fast that a common activity is speed modelling. If you only dabble then something like SketchUp is probably more your speed. If you plan to create stuff like this: http://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=... though then blender is well worth the learning curve.
I bought a diesel pickup a few years ago, specifically because I wanted something that was less harmful to the environment (and needed a large truck for an audiovisual company I'd founded, and now need it to haul my house around as I've moved into a travel trailer and will be traveling full-time again). I suppose I, too, was duped by the propaganda of the diesel industry.

I haven't been able to figure out how wildly mistaken I was in making the decision to buy diesel over gasoline for environmental reasons. Most newer trucks have the urea-based system to reduce emissions, but mine is old enough to pre-date that addition.

Even with the regulations being stricter in the US for some time, am I driving a climate nightmare despite trying to choose the more efficient option? (It does get somewhat better mileage than the gasoline version of the same truck. So, at the very least, I'm burning less fuel. That counts for something, right?)
Manufacturing environments are probably among the best use cases for "the Internet of Things" but also magnify the security concerns tenfold. Stuxnet was a similar attack on networked manufacturing infrastructure, and it proved that if you give a sensor/automation network control over manufacturing processes, you create a massive vulnerability in the supply chain itself.

If a Russian student owns my Nest and makes my home freezing cold in the winter, I reconfigure or replace the device and its fine. If the automation system in a Siemens plant gets bricked, that's millions of dollars in damage before considering lost revenues.

The Risk Managers are gonna go wild for this one...
Specific occupation is not the point - rather what the child thinks what his/her family thinks of her career choices and that this does not drive them into places they would not naturally go to. I.e. that their important life choices are not made because of extrinsic but of intrinsic motivations.
It's not a matter of perspective. The numbers you would need to be pulling on Spotify are huge to sustain yourself on a decent level. By that point, you're already big enough where you wouldn't need Spotify's income because you're big enough to have other sources.
It's great the see discussions going on here - would like to tie a few comments to the questions of ethical aspects of web scraping:

As some has pointed out scraping is not exactly a new thing and a lot of the biggest sites out there are built on the basis of web scraping or crawling. We provide a tool and expect you use that tool while abiding the law - and if not we will of course shut your account down immediately. Breaking the law includes violating copyrights and performing DDoS attacks (Although they will be rather small attacks since even 50 concurrent agents is no big deal for most websites).

We consider ourselves good netizens. We wish nothing more than to provide a good, easily accessible and safe tool for extracting valuable information from the internet, be it for a price comparison site in a market that lacks transparency, business intelligence for your company to make informed and wiser decisions, or a PhD project that requires access to millions of data points available online in unstructured form.

Additionally if you feel we're providing services that has ill-intent - we are not providing any services (Captcha and proxy rotation) that anyone with a bit of programming skill can not easily use in their own software. The main difference is that we are actively improving and focusing not only on making a good experience for our users - but also on minimizing the impact on the sites being scraped. This involves several things like automated throttling and slow-site detection, request caching, and blocking requests to services such as google analytics - to not interfere with site owners stats.
I am out of money to pay the lawyer. I am in the same business but not building the same product. I would tell the judge that I was talking about the current project I am working on. They simply didnt do any searches.

I understand the part about wasting court's time. Thats why I sent a letter saying I have pivotted my business and started working on a different project. I can explain the judge about the buzz I created. It was for my new project.
Agreed!

Considering how much discussion there has been regarding transparency in the music business - the leak of confidential information via the Sony hack being one of the few instances where numbers are exposed - I think this could be a viable avenue for Spotify to make their case better to artists.

Also, I'd hope it's one of the few areas where Spotify and other services can legitimately have "free reign" to discuss their operations without being handcuffed by non-disclosure clauses in contracts.
This is only true in a world where being an electrician, plumber, heating and cooling technician, etc. -- all jobs that are in-demand and pay $100K+/year -- have a negative stigma attached to them. Mike Rowe gave a great Ted talk about this: https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs
Why wouldn't they? It has all the hallmarks of one. Most people don't research their beer origins.
Websites use captchas & IP based limits to prevent abuse of their resources & make it harder for copycats to mirror their data. There are often cases where copycats outrank original content in search rankings. (see this example : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103545 ).

If I were a content owner/producer and I see automated scraping from IP addresses owned by Cloudscrape that violate the ToS, I would sadly treat the entire pool of IPs as violators (even though some might be genuine users who are respecting the limits).

I'd like to know what's a legitimate use case of auto-resolving captchas and IP rotation other than circumventing limits imposed by webmaster.

P.S. Why the throwaway ?
I thought that their rates are comparable to radio stations (in countries where radio music is licensed, e.g. UK) The rate per listener is tiny, but there are lots of listeners.
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