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> Also, I suppose the man-in-the-middle issue is mitigated by downloading directly from GitHub over https. Unless there is something else I'm missing (very likely, feel free to enlighten me).

There is no substitute for end-to-end encryption, from you, the author, to me, the user. The only generally accepted relaxation is end-to-encryption from the maintainer (e.g. Debian maintainer) to the user - which is what you have in the distros.

Compared to those best practices, the "HTTPS from GitHub" has the following flaws:

1) You have to trust GitHub. If GitHub is hacked, or starts to behave like SourceForge, you are doomed and nobody will notice.

2) Unless all of your users do certificate-pinning, a compromised CA (or a malicious CA) may be used to issue an alternative SSL certificate for GitHub, which is then used to deliver malware.

It may seem implausible that anyone would go that long way to attack your prettyping project directly. However, it is very attractive to attack GitHub as a whole and to manipulate all hosted programs systematically.

> Sure, I'd love to have it packaged on several distributions (...), but I can't do it myself. I hope users from other distros find it useful and contribute packages to their distros.

Maybe it helps to ask them. I know that Debian has a mailing list for that. Sure, you still need to find volunteers if you can't do the packaging on your own. But maybe there are people willing to do that, who just need a little more motivation.

> "How easy to install from scratch?"

Agreed, that would be a much better wording.
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Gremlin is certainly more readable in my opinion. Cypher has always felt like it was trying to hard to be different.
BW author here. Ack. Will get back to you on the GH issue asap.
I'm not sure I follow why the system has to be so complex. Why not just block access to Instagram entirely? China does, and they seem to be satisfied with the results. I don't forsee prison inmates getting access to VPNs. As other users have proposed, a locked-down version (not 'unfettered') of the web seems like a reasonable compromise.
I don't understand why the author persists with...

Maybe she is writing for a more general audience, with a goal of Resistance is Futile, You Will Be Assimilated?
You shouldn't be confused. It's all just numbers and ideas. There isn't really such a thing as a "vote" or "clear" or even "Hacker News" apart from the idea you have of it in your mind.
How does a low hood affect pedestrian safety? I'd much rather be flipped over the car then hit and possibly pushed under. Any studies on this, perhaps?
Even "Fairness" isn't quite as useful a metric - where do you draw the line between things that should be eliminated as being unfair and things that are valuable culture and individuality? Parental intelligence is strongly causally coupled with their children's future intelligence simply through their working vocabulary and talkativeness, which is clearly unfair from the perspective of the newborn child; how do you fix this unfairness without invasive changes to home life starting from the minute the family goes home from the hospital?

And, of course, this entire thing is a symptom of fixed-pie mentality. When inequality exists - when some people have bigger slices of pie than others - people seem to be reliably made happier by throwing chunks of the pie on the floor as long as they're someone else's chunks of pie. They're happier about throwing away chunks of pie than they are about getting an entire new pie to split up. It really bugs me when I see "fairness" valued over actual goodness.
> Prisons like the Maryland facility featured in the hit podcast “Serial” sign exclusive contracts with companies like Global Tel-Link, and receive a cut of the proceeds from each call, creating an incentive to raise rates as much as possible.

Cause the prison makes $$$.
but the Win32 api also comes from what, 1993?
Number input type is quite a bit more recent, we might expect something better.
It would be nice if there was an extension/script that enabled "max privacy mode" by frobbing all these config bits.
What are you trying to say? Pretty much every measure affects millions of people. Are you terrified to think that some things --no matter what!-- might get blocked?
Gremlin3 is now apart of Apache and nearly every graph vendor supports TinkerPop3 (or in the process of migrating to TinkerPop3). http://tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org/ Next, with TinkerPop/Gremlin you not only get a language but a virtual machine that can execute other languages (e.g. SPARQL) http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/the-benefits-of-the-gremlin... . The virtual machine executes over OLTP graph databases (Titan, Neo4j, OrientDB, etc.) and over OLAP graph processors (Spark, Giraph, etc.).
For a while I worked on a 3rd-party/collect-call billing system for a major telecom company. For several days after starting, technical discussions mentioned "inmate" every few minutes. Still getting my bearings, I finally piped up in a meeting with "surely it doesn't mean what I think it means, what is this 'inmate' you keep referring to?" Indeed it meant "prison resident". The problem was that inmates very often abused the phones, rattling thru call menus until they could get a live operator - then proceed to berate/insult/degrade/abuse/etc the person. Result was that our call processing had to ensure that, at every juncture, prison inmates were NEVER able to reach a live operator - and a bunch of money got sunk into this system JUST to mitigate the rampant abuse by prison inmates.
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Why should your government continue to enrich a single company from another country that tries to lock you in as much as possible into their software so you never leave them?
Pretty easy for wikipedia. Just route through tor...
Sometimes it takes ages for an age to get aged.
BW author here. Work in progress.
I'm pretty sure that the loved ones of prisoners are being punished (by, you know, being physically separated from the prisoners) regardless of the cost of phone calls. Again, I'm not saying you're wrong. Were I a Mississippian, I'd prolly be in favor of cheaper phone calls for prisoners. But aren't we drawing a line in kind of a weird place?

- OK to lock someone up in a cage.
- OK to charge them $0.11/minute to talk to someone outside of that cage.
- NOT OK to charge $1/minute to talk to someone outside of that cage.

And given how weird that line is, should it really be drawn by outsiders who feel no effects of where the line is drawn?
I'm a consultant in Silicon Valley. Rails engineer.

I've done hundreds of hiring interviews and coming from a YC backed startup might get you a "cool, ever meet Paul Graham", but that's about it.

You're still going to go through the same live coding exercises as every other candidate.
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I've read the first one ("Grouped by Color") and isn't the solution more complicated than it needs to? It seems to me, that essentially the same process could be described by one simple rule: every dwarf should take place directly to the right of the rightmost dawrf with blue hat or to the left of the leftmost dwarf with red hat.
If you read the commission's charter broadly enough, and without regard to either the original understanding or the original intent, you come to all kinds of absurd conclusions. From the text you provided, one could, for instance conclude that the FCC has the authority to issue regulations which require parents to provide all children above the age of two with a cellphone capable of high-speed internet access with no data cap (just as easily as you could find that the FCC can regulate prison phone prices).

The FCC does not have authority to regulate phones or networks in any business or home, and cannot dictate whether your company can block certain websites or phone numbers, and the company can have a carrier set up these restrictions for them. Likewise, the FCC does have authority to regulate how phone services are provided to the prisons (though it is not clear that the FCC could discrimate prisons from other businesses), but not what happens within the prison itself or under the prison's request.
I love comments like this. "I have a random hunch about a subject I have spent 30 seconds thinking about. I bet it is correct and the regulators who have full time jobs researching this are wrong"
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Because not doing this means that the government is saying: "If you want to interact with our documents on the internet, you need to buy your OS from Apple or MS and another application from MS."

I'm not sure what you mean by:

> not very suitable for document exchange, when conversion between formats is easy and loosing relevance because of cloud based services

It's actually the opposite - conversion between formats is very hard and you may not even realise when you lose data unless you have the official software available for comparison.
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Not sure if there is a word for it. But it always strikes me that newer models "look better" in some intangible way, as if it's some sort of continuous improvement process. And they don't do it all at once, but drag it along so that they can do it over multiple models.

That, and maintenance. The car purchasing field is so dodgy and rife with weirdness that people are a bit distrustful of the reliability of older cars. Whether that is just a perception thing from false advertising or actual fact, I don't know.

But for me, at the end of the day, I want security and reliability, and the easiest method to that (from what I can tell) is to generally stay at the "newer" side of the market.
http://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/the-gremlin-traversal-lan...
Here is another interesting data point - Taylor Swift has been making a million dollars a day this year so far, and she is on track for 365 mil by the end of this year. She will make in 2 hours what these PhDs will make in one full year

As a society, we sure have interesting priorities ...
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Nope, one of the others in San Francisco (on Masonic St.) has the same ridiculous parking ordeal -- At any normal time, the line out of the parking lot blocks a turn lane + one of the traffic lanes onto Masonic Street.
Neo4j does support Gremlin: https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/gremlin-plugin

Gremlin was originally developed by Neo4j co-founder Peter Neubaurer and Marko Rodriguez (Titan founder) while they were both working at Neo4j.
Looks very promising. I'll give it a try.
Ok, we changed the headline and can change it again if anyone suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) one.
True, except we have a lot of degrees that produce "mechanics"—the various engineering degrees. And we have an organization (ABET) that makes sure schools teach the right stuff.

We just happen to not have one for programming.
So, it's to a large extent to address that last concern that we are doing this, right. We are moving the ownership of the language out into its own project, and inviting others to design the future of graph query languages together with us. We think that, while that means we loose a lot of control of our golden goose, so to speak, it is exactly the right choice if we want, as we do, for cypher to be the go to standard for querying graphs across the industry.
Anyone can get Edward Snowden's public key on the Internet, so no, Blockchains clearly aren't the only system which is censorship resistant enough to achieve this goal.

I've been thinking about blockchain use cases pretty extensively for the past two years and written extensively both personally and pseudonymously on the topic. That doesn't mean I have to be right, but if I'm wrong, it's not for a lack of reflection on the matter.
I bet they didn't randomise for brand of deodorant and diet which makes this research almost meaningless.
It provides room for the hood to give when your head hits it.

"The hood of most vehicles is usually fabricated from sheet metal, which is a compliant energy absorbing structure and thus poses a comparatively small threat. Most serious head injuries occur when there is insufficient clearance between the hood and the stiff underlying engine components. A gap of approximately 10 cm is usually enough to allow the pedestrian’s head to have a controlled deceleration and a significantly reduced risk of death[3]. Creating room under the hood is not always easy because usually there are other design constraints, such as aerodynamics and styling. In some regions of the hood it can be impossible. These include along the edges on which the hood is mounted and the cowl, where the hood meets the windshield. Engineers have attempted to overcome this problem by using deformable mounts, and by developing more ambitious solutions such as airbags that are activated during the crash and cover the stiff regions of the hood[4]. Some models, like the Citroën C6 and Jaguar XK feature a novel pop-up bonnet design, which adds 6.5 cm (2.5", C6) extra clearance over the engine block if the bumper senses a hit. In 2012 and 2015, the Volvo V40 and the Land Rover Discovery Sport have a under-the hood airbag with operates if the hood senses a hit. The airbag also covers the windshield pillars to provide better protection in all areas struck by the pedestrian's head."
there's a great wikipedia article about it.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_safety_through_vehi...
Giving them access to the internet, while monitored live, is definitely possible.

Even giving most prisoners full, unrestricted access is possible.

Look at prisons in Europe (I’m thinking about Germany here) and you’ll see that it works.
Which is explicitly not Fair
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Why do people always get the notion that "high end" work would be difficult for machines, even though we're seeing lots of breakthroughs in that field ?
Except Bananas are zero VAT rated, meaning no VAT is paid on them either. :)
It's an opportunity to both present my view, even if it is biased and probably flawed, as well as to invite discussion and debate. Additionally, in a setting where individuals with a wide body of knowledge and experience are present.
Any plans on open sourcing yours?
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> I found that CS theory was great, once I had the practical experience to recognize how to use it.

Exactly my experience. When I started college, I hated all the theory and built apps. Now I am a senior and spending most of my time reading theory books and wishing I had minored in math!
I always look for restaurants for a limited menu for precisely this reason, and am rarely disappointed by them. on the flip side I find it a turn off when a place has a 3-4 page menu, and the food is often (but not always) mediocre.
Your comments betray a profound ignorance of historical fact. The "old literature" you refer to is a carefully curated set of highlights, the loftiest and most sophisticated work collected over a span of centuries, written at a time when literacy was largely confined to an elite.

Disposable pop culture has always been with us, we just have much poorer records of it precisely because it is disposable.

I have a particular interest in broadside ballads, cheaply printed song lyric sheets that were made between the sixteenth and nineteenth century. All the critiques of modern pop lyrics are equally applicable to music that is older than the American republic. It's all there - sex, violence, drunkenness, repetitive lyrics, rehashed old melodies.

For example, are you dismayed by the crass sexuality of "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj? Take a look at "The Maid's Complaint", a charming ditty from the late 17th century that features lyrics like this:

For I am a Maid and a very good Maid,
and sixteen years of age am I,
And fain would I part with my Maiden-head
if any good fellow would with me lye:
But none to me ever yet proffer'd such love,
as to lye by my side and give me a shove
With his dil doul, dill doul, dil doul,
O happy were I, etc.

http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/21716/citation

The impression most people have of history is mere propaganda, a self-aggrandising origin story. Our past was systematically bowdlerised by generations of puritans and reactionaries. By any conceivable standard, we have not degenerated from some halcyon ideal; rather, we have advanced greatly, becoming more educated, more civilised, more peaceful, prosperous and decent.
Was this because the phone system had the only people the prisoner could talk to about their problems?
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Ok, to be more accurate a number of variables come together with drag. If you are buying a crossover, you're probably interested in a roomy interior, safety, a higher vantage point for visibility, a short hood for easy maneuvering and again visibility.

Put all these things together, and the basic shape is that of an enlarged classic mini cooper. Then put this somewhat large, somewhat tall vehicle in a wind tunnel and sculpt it for efficiency, and you arrive at today's crossover.

You're right that aerodynamics does not leave us with only one possible body. We still have sports cars, vans, sedans, etc, each with a basic shape dictated by basic goals. But drag sculpts the shapes that go into the wind tunnels in generally uniform ways, because the wind treats a Dodge the same as a Ford.
Not fair in what context to whom?
Wow that sounds like an insulting educational experience.

As if the teacher was really teaching "How To Be A Jerk." or "How to Copy And Paste."
And please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there also often a risk that they get fired or laid off at an acquirer and lose it all?
Because "you have unfettered access to the internet, except for the parts of the internet with other people" doesn't really work. It's so stupid that pretty much anyone who hears it will immediately realize it doesn't work.

We're trying to prevent prisoners from communicating. The internet is a tool the sole purpose of which is communication. To be remotely plausible, you'd have to use a very restrictive whitelist approach, something like "you are allowed to send email (through the prison's forwarding server) to the following addresses".
What? How is this possible? Entry level web developer with a starting salary of $100k... and a guarantee... That looks like a straight up lie.
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The idea of prisons being governed by a trade commission would be almost comically ironic if it weren't so serious - we seem to be taking it literally the idea of prisoners being modern slaves. Contracts are always written to favor the one with more power.

Edit: In this case even there WAS a contract - the prisons signed an exclusive contract with Global Tel-Link, which would provide a percentage of the proceeds back to the prison. The deal incentivized both parties to raise prices as much as possible while the zero rights inmates had no recourse. Those are the sorts of contracts that happen all the time when there are no regulations. What would a trade commission do in this situation?
There's no guarantee that the parents would be spending their added income on these dependents.
"States rights" only gets brought up when the Repulicans don't like a Federal decision. If they'd quit the special pleading, people might believe them.
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Nice that it's open source. :)
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I drive an honda element. Its a odd car, but I really like it.
Its not a beauty, but its certainly different and practical. It didn't see an update, sales slowed and its no longer made.

The design presentation linked is revealing in that its a car that was designed for something and totally missed, but ended up being different anyway.

The Honda CRV which is in the same class, is in the car lineup in the article and impossible to find. The element would have stuck out.

http://www.skidmore.edu/~pdwyer/e/files/schumaker.pdf
it was a sample of 12 people, so it's already meaningless. this "research" is the justification for a study, not a study in and of itself.
Well, if diet or deodorant causes Parkinson's, that's absolutely meaningful. ;)

The methodology should have been mentioned more in the article, and should be scrutinized, but that doesn't mean it's worthless if she truly diagnosed these people after a (single?) blind experiment.
You see the part about "no financial advice please"?

I listened to people like you for a while. I tried not investing anything until I had spent a bunch of my free time on getting a "basic financial education".

Now that I have a basic financial education, I know that I know nothing, and if I invested based on my own personal knowledge it would be a disaster. I also know from experience that if I try to save that tiny margin from making my own decisions, all the investment banking sites would say "okay, smartass, you're on your own, don't expect anything convenient to ever happen".

And I wish I had just invested first and spent that time learning things that are interesting.

All that time and interest wasted.

Your advice adds to the problem of decision paralysis and it only works for people who are really interested in money.
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I'm afraid you would just be moving the problem to another area of the game. By updating the camera matrices on a separate loop, the render thread may draw some objects with one view-proj and then the last few objects with another. This would lead to the objects look like they are flickering. If you queued up the input then you could imagine this would be quite undesirable if the game suddenly unfroze and did all the movements that made sense a second ago but not now (but for a 3d viewer tool this would be desirable, much like how a text editor will sometimes freeze but then catch up with everything you typed during the pause).
I don't understand what you disagree with. You can hire talent both with cash and with shares. If you are paying market salary - fine. The article clearly talks about situations 40% below market pay and such. If you don't like the 33K salary and your risk level then just pay yourself more money and give the equivalent book value shares to the employees. That's a fair deal too.
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Would that be the squirrel? Which I'm about to steal.

This author was on usethis not so long ago. Funny and probably as sharp as razors to work with (in a good way).
That's terrible but it does not make commercial prisons 'good' in any way shape or form.
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A buyback seems like a statement that the best use of google's cash-on-hand is to increase the value of the stock directly; that there is no other investment that would give a better ROI.

Google execs think GOOG will be ahead vs the value of other investments in the future.
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