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>> That is a systemic problem, one which we don't have a good solution for.

There is a pretty straightforward solution. I'll leave to the reader whether or not it is a good one.

Redefine the crimes so they are easier to prove. In many cases that is going to involve moving from a mens rea (guilty mental state) of intentionally to recklessly, negligently or even eliminating mens rea altogether and just requiring an actus reus (guilty act). In some cases that might mean criminalizing more acts of omission instead of requiring proof of an overt bad act.

I want to be clear that this wouldn't be costless. It goes against much our existing framework for what makes people criminals. It would increase the chance that someone who made honest mistakes would be criminally punished. But remember Blackstone said that it is better for ten guilty men to go free than one man suffer, not one hundred, not one thousand and certainly not all the guilty men. And he was writing in an era when all felonies were capital crimes.

A small percentage of murderers getting off on technicalities is something a society can live with, even be proud of in a strange way, but when the exception swallows the rule that society is playing with fire.
When the seller deliberately tries to deceive the buyer, or when the seller does not disclose something that the seller has a legal duty to disclose. In principle, it's not real hard.

(In practice, of course, it can get very complex and grey...)
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>Xanarin is disliked by independent developers for its pricing structure.

Define "independent developers". Because a lot of them do use Xamarin.
This has nothing to do with the contents of any particular document. It has everything to do with Assange's larger strategy to weaken or destroy "unjust systems of governance".

Assange himself explained the "non-linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance[1]".

His rationale is that illegitimate power requires conspiracy and conspiracy requires secrecy.

Therefore, by leaking information Assange makes secrecy so difficult that it cripples the organization's ability to communicate with itself and operate the conspiracy.

The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks
induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.

This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications
mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent
system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability
to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption.

Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust
systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems.

Since unjust systems by their nature induce opponents, and in
many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves
them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with
more open forms of governance.

[1] http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf [pdf]
3-5 years ago everything had a API. No nothing has.
Sorry Jack, I believe in Twitter's future as a user, but I'll be damned if I give it one ounce of control over mine. That bridge is burnt. If you want us to trust you, go do another startup and toe the line from beginning to end. Because at this point, almost anything cool that Twitter does will be seen as a failure by current investors. Nothing short of being the next Facebook will satisfy them, and Facebook knows damn well it can't afford to try anything cool anymore.
You want to go tell the emperor he has no clothes?
There's a finite population that a single planet can hold, so there will have to be some form of population control eventually.

Now, why the heck would you (the farmer entrepreneur) care about what the government does with the taxes it generates from your revenues? The question is: is your investment profitable enough? Everything else about your scenario is politics and, in a democracy, these things are decided (or supposed to if you drink from the cynic's cup) by the population.

If the farmer (as a person) disagrees, he can just not buy or buy in another country or planet or whatever. A post-scarcity society has value enough for some of us that we'd run such an automated farm for little profit if only to selfishly sustain said society.
> Twitter is just like that, and there are actually lots of small engines making sure the characters get from your keyboard to other people's eyes."

That's an abstract explanation of what Twitter's code is, it doesn't get you anywhere closer to being able to actually understand the code.

Just like I wouldn't expect a layperson person to be able to find and fix a bug in a codebase, I don't think they can reliably evaluate the nuances of the financial system.
If I go to Redtube and redirects me to youtube, you better know I am still doing my thing to all them videos. All of them haha!
But then what about a partially shared seed (sharing only a few digits) ? Couldn't you imagine a hidden variable only influencing the probablity distribution, making it only more likely to see an up on both, although still keeping it partially random ?
Most formal document policies cover drafts and works-in-process (ie, so they don't become less classified because they are incomplete or penultimate in version control.)
In that case, Twitter is a dead duck. If Twitter isn't worthwhile spending money on, I can't see how they can operate as a profitable business.
Just like drug offenses are insignificant compared to "small" time white collar crime, small time white collar crime is insignificant compared to what's going on in the financial sector. It brought the world as we know it to the brink of collapse. Some people in the financial sector were stocking up on food, water, fuel and firearms in case society would experience a meltdown. Not only did no one get convicted, but it's back to business as usual.

There seems to be a rule here. The punishment is inversely proportional to the scale of the crime.
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I created this small utility because I am doing a lot of talks recently and most of them with live coding sessions. The experience is usually terrible, on retina display when mirroring to SXGA, WXGA or even lower, coding is very hard.

So I created this small utility that gives the opportunity to select just a small portion of the main screen that is later available to be fullscreen on a secondary screen.
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You're asking that we overturn centuries of jurisprudence just because you don't like bankers.

I think that's a much bigger crime than anything financiers have supposedly committed.
No there were plenty of vivo and the other mega-channels there, but saying that they only promote the big guys is disingenuous.
Those pages would be mapped at a different, random address while the executing code has an instruction pointer pointing right at the RX page.

It's much more difficult getting access to the JIT's internal data structures, traversing them to find the correct RW page, then modify it, then jump to the same place in the RX page. If you already have that much control you're probably not far from getting the JIT to emit arbitrary code anyway.

Note that writing to ICs can happen from a different thread, so the current thread stack does not need to know much of the JIT's internal data.
You spoke to Daniel Suarez's Daemon!
Primarily Yahoo Pipes with a PHP and COBOL backend. All stored in Microsoft SourceSafe, if the project you're working on is even using a VCS.
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What currency is p? And what is that 50% tax (Europe / USA tax depending on location)?
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The point of the tool is to statically analyze your code and only include what the code actually needs. It doesn't mindlessly concatenate and minify everything like what everything else does.
"getting more sleep" -- how much are you getting now? For me, this is the #1 thing that affects my mood and productivity.

Also, on average, how many hours per day do you spend working or thinking about work? If it's more than 8-9, stop it. Go be with your family/dog/whatever is important to you and don't think about work at nights or on the weekend at all. If you need to, turn off work emails (or even better, don't have them on your phone to begin with), Slack notifications, or whatever your org's ball and chain of choice is. I've worked at places where it seems impossible to disconnect like that, and that's a pretty solid indicator that you should look for something new (at least in my experience).
Great point...please don't get me started on this I've already embarrassed myself enough here today with my f-bomb tirade.
For many things that are no longer used, there really isn't any value. But languages are special- languages are intimately connected with culture, and potentially vast bodies of other knowledge. As the article says, in this case "it is their language that binds them together as a people more than anything".

There is scientific value is preserving languages, just like there is scientific value in preserving endangered rainforest frogs and weird plants- they might have useful things to teach us, and we'll never know if we let them disappear.

When a weird tradition dies out, we lose some emotional connection to past people, but that's probably OK because it's still documented, and we can go read about it. When a tropical frog goes extinct, we lose access to any biochemical tricks it might have been hiding, and that's a little bit sadder. But when we lose a language, not only do we lose the emotional connection to other people (which is a pretty freaking big deal all by itself! But you could argue that losing a culture isn't inherently bad, if nobody cared about it anymore anyway), and not only do we lose the ability to study the workings of the language like we might study the workings of a frog, we also lose access to all of the knowledge of other things that was encoded in that language. It's not just losing a tradition, it's losing everything that people who spoke that language knew about all of their traditions. If it had extensive literature, and was well documented, we might be able to translate some of it into other languages for preservation, but that is incredibly difficult to do, and simply will not happen for most languages. And plenty of knowledge is not preserved in literature- it's purely oral. Cultures that die may have their knowledge preserved if their language is still carried on, but when a language dies, all of its knowledge dies with it.

For any particular language, there may not be much that it has to offer that is unique and can't be replaced. But, then again, there might. The potential is enormous, and thus the risks associated with losing a language are also enormous, and thus it makes a lot of sense to care about preserving languages, just in case.
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I don't follow. How are the prosecutors making money by losing a case that they decided to prosecute?
They've been grasping for relevancy the last few years ever since Assange has gone into exile but the Chelsea Manning disclosures were newsworthy and responsibly handled.

The Cablegate leaks were newsworthy and responsibly handled.

Syrian/Saudi diplomatic emails, Iraq/Afghanistan war documents, Trans-pacific Partnership reporting. These actions bring attention to large groups of people in power and hold governments accountable for their actions.

Publishing the emails from an AOL account of a CIA director doesn't quite fit that mould.
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There's a lot I didn't like about Holder. But, compared to some predecessors, he's closer to being a saint than a sinner. It's all relative. :)

E.g. here's one of the worst offenders, only 40 years ago:

On February 21, 1975, Mitchell ... was found guilty
of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury
and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in
prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and
cover-up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell
talk is cheap. until we see substantive change from Twitter, such as changing their ToS, or re-instating previously suspended apps, its all just talk.

I don't think the community of developers should be willing to work with Twitter going forward. they blew it. they've done nothing to earn a "reset" in their developer relations. if anything their product now is significantly worse and less appealing to integrate with than it has been in the past.
Coming to Python from Ruby I was happy to find `mamba` - an `rspec`-like tool for writing tests.

I'm still getting used to it, but so far so good. Has anyone got any pointers/gold-nuggets/advice for a newcomer to the mamba scene?
I was one of the 8 people to move into the first Campus house. All of the other 7 people became my close friends and I never regretted paying premium to be a part of that community.
Would I have chosen to do so without the community promise? Maybe. Would I have stayed long? Probably not.
Even with 5 items, it's bad. It would be better if they just disabled scrolling altogether and gave me a big "next" button to click on - at least then it would be possible to reach a discrete slide.

I think this might have looked good on whatever device it was designed for (I'm guessing PC+mouse), but as soon as you try to interact with it using a trackpad or mobile the experience turns to shit.
> While in non-cop indictments, they somehow manage to indict people much sooner.

What does that have to do with TFA at all?

I'm 100% certain that the prosecutors of financial crimes are absolutely trying to get the jury to understand. A win in this space is great for your career and they have every reason to hope for it.
Really? IMO the interior looks absolutely dreadful. The knobs aren't even round!
Stocks, bonds, currencies, property, alternative assets (i.e. acquire a profitable something, invest in passive income assets such as solar energy SPVs, music royalties, etc)

It still takes a time investment to achieve that. There's no free lunch.
Russian Rubles. The tax is about 30-50 USD for the US location.
Matt Cutts' wife used to pass out "porn cookies" if anyone found porn with safe settings on. Google's culture is very permitting, so I don't think it's much of a problem.
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Being a JS dev myself, I really hate how they just pile tool after tool just because they can. Kinda defeats the original design of JS.
Maybe it wouldn't. Maybe courting developers does not help them be profitable. But then they shouldn't pretend they want to do that.
Considering that in NYC cars transport hundreds of thousands of times the number of people that bicycles do, the pedestrian death toll for bicycles per useful unit of transit is far higher than that of motor vehicles.

And of course accidents will happen. I am referring to being nearly hit at high speed several times by cyclists who were blatantly disregarding the traffic signal. It's just needlessly reckless.

Also, you have not addressed the issue of why someone who is allegedly healthy enough to cycle would be so lazy as to want to avoid having to stop at a signal and pedal to get up to speed again.
This sounds pretty awesome and as soon as it comes to my country I will subscribe. HOWEVER, I hope they come up with a family subscription or that the Play Music family subscription covers it. Because the main reason I want the ads gone is for the sake of my kids.
It must be terrible if you are going to ESPN.com instead. I can't stand going there any more since they redesigned the site earlier this year.
Hulu is now ad free. I don't use Hulu much, but I pay $12/month to not get any ads. I want to reward the major networks, the owners of Hulu, for offering their material to be viewed whenever I want to watch it.

I don't watch YouTube much, but $10/month for no ads, with prime music sounds good, and I will probably sign up.
>Historical events can be translated into a more relevant and useful language that's then more accessible to people who don't understand whatever language is dead/is dying though, doesn't that make more sense?

This requires we preserve the language long enough to study it. Preferably the more eyes studying the better, especially if the language is only spoken in a declining population.

Not to forget to mention that the meaning can be lost entirely between translations even if the words mean the same thing.

For example - translating Japanese honorics to more generic titles. You lose the subtle but important differences between calling someone 高村さん vs 高村ちゃん vs 高村 which could describe a friendship that grows closer and more casual over time. Dropping or changing an honorific has large implications that translations fail to capture. That's something extremely important and not all that nuanced. I can give more examples if you like.

>Traditions: The value of a given tradition is only expressed in the culture that holds it. If the tradition is dying, the culture obviously isn't holding it very much.

This isn't necessarily true - and in many cases its the older generations not teaching the younger generations, regardless of how much the younger generation is interested. Often times its hard to show or express interest or perhaps the parents don't feel qualified to teach the traditions but there aren't any more experienced elder around, etc. There's many many many reasons why traditions die out and sometimes they are discovered and "brought back to life".

Anthropologists have a hard time expressing this. One of the largest hurdles in anthropology trying to explain the importance of it. This goes double for linguistic and cultural anthropology because the benefits to people aren't as straightforward as advancements in other fields of study.

Disclosure: I may be biased here. I wanted to be a cultural and linguistic anthropologist but the desire to live a comfy life on a decent paycheck got the best of me. However my love of language and cultures and how humanity relates through them and the relations between languages and cultures themselves is still something of my interests.
The question should be are those cases really that complicated or does the defense makes them overly complicated because they can afford too?

People who steal millions or billions can hire an army of lawyers that can bring so many expert witnesses that can make the jury doubt in the existence of the Sun beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Several years ago there was a case that a guy got caught speeding, he petitioned the laser speedometer thingie to be sent to a impartial lab for testing on his own dime and got enough expert witnesses to rip that thing to shreds claiming that the device was inherently flawed and that the police didn't calibrate it and maintain it properly including leaving it locked in the car where the high temperatures could affect it's accuracy.
He then also went own and brought evidence that other police equipment like the speed tracking radar might not be accurate on his car because of it's design and the fact that it was build of composite materials and not metal which what the speed tracking radars they use are calibrated for.

This case and several like it combined lead to a sweep of people appealing every speeding ticket which eventually got a law passed that every speed enforcement system which gets certified by the local standards institution cannot be brought to question in court.

When you drive a car with 5 or 6 zero's in it's price tag you probably have 10 more zero's in your bank account, which means you can spend allot of money on casting doubt on everything from the devices that the polices uses to the competency of their operators.

If you are a guy who got speeding in a 2006 Jetta? well pay the fine.

So while I can understand how a case involving complex financial fraud can be complicated I'm also quite aware just how easy it is to complicate things, I work for a consultancy which means I work with people who's their definition is to shuffle shit out of their mouth until the case gets complicated enough to warrant the hefty price tag they want to charge for that work, 10,000$ an hour lawyers should be able to bring that to a whole new level.
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The internet of paranoia
I was in college in 1998 when the Starr report came out, detailing President Clinton's sex life. Back then it wasn't easy to download such a big document to your computer, so a lot of people came to the computer center, which I managed, to look at it. But it was long and they didn't want to read it in the computer center, so they started printing out the 90+ page report! (printing was free)

It go so bad we had to ask all the people that printed it if they could bring their copies back when they were done, so we could have a lending library of the Starr report.

My point is, you're right, it's a great time to be alive -- you don't have to tell anyone about your interest in these things. :) (although on the flip side there was a pretty good watercooler discussion of the report at the computer center)
Tesla owners are sharing their AutoPilot fails on YouTube
I trust AOL more than some random shop when it comes to system security though. She may not have been vulnerable to some password reset hack, but that doesn't mean the server wasn't setup with other poorly secured services.
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I served on a jury for a murder case last year and think your characterization is not accurate (and only partially because I don't think I'm dim or plyant). Yes the prosecutors were clearly selecting for their own advantage but that doesn't necessarily mean dim or plyant. There's as much reason for one side to select for intelligence and skepticism as there is for the other to select for sheeplike qualities. During deliberation we did have a couple of folks who were imo way to casual hangemhigh types, but the majority were methodical and serious about getting it right and held the rest of us to a high standard. Juries are far from perfect, but the system has some merit.
As far as computer disciplines go, my core interests are in language design, distributed systems design, software engineering, security, string and graph algorithms, high performance computing, OS and filesystem design. Aside from that I have interests in genomics, nanoscale optics, and AI/ML.

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However Facebook requires potential viewers to log-in to view videos, which completely nullifies their service as a spontaneous click-link-and-watch option. Also prevents embedding.

Remember that well under half of the Internet's population have a Facebook account.
You can't make this in Unity. Unity doesn't support the mobile browser whereas this runs on an iPhone 4S.
This guy went to my university, and so did Donald Trump (before he transferred to Penn).

Very proud of my alma mater.
So a guy is charged with tax accounting fraud for basically not putting some number into some entry in a spreadsheet when some external event happened, and instead putting that number into a different entry in the spreadsheet. You can't just say "you know how cars are complicated? Well so are spreadsheets. That's why this guy is guilty." Your analogy has to capture some legally-relevant dynamic of the system you are trying to explain.

Imagine your case depends on proving that only a guilty person would have failed to shard a particular database. It's not enough to just explain at the highest possible level the concept of splitting up a database. You gotta get the jury to understand it enough to know why you do it, and why it would be so out of the norm to not do it in a particular situation that the person must have had a nefarious motive.
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Not an excuse. Read the link.

In 2010, they claimed to have a massive cache of information.

Then guess what?

Moscow sent very subtle but real threats towards them.

And their tune hasn't been the same SINCE.

Its well outlined in the link.