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> I also think that since modern society is the one we find ourselves in, that privacy should be aggressively protected. Privacy is more important now than ever precisely because we're an urbanized and connected society.

That's an interesting and important point I learned to appreciate in an explicit form only recently. Thank you for making it.

That said, I still don't see from a practical point, how we can expect to keep privacy and progress? The always-on automated license plate readers exist because cameras and computing power are dirt chip now, and no amount of effort sans starting a third world war and rolling us back to medieval times will revert that. Laws are weaker than technology, and the current development will make it only easier to create more complex and cheaper machines that replicate various functions of humans, only faster and better.

We could try and fight for changes in law that would make mass-scale data collection illegal, but that would not make it impossible or unfeasible - it will only limit the access to "the good guys". So criminals, creeps and government services (at least those secret ones) will keep spying on us anyway, while we would be throwing away a lot of potential improvements and scientific advancements that could be enabled by a "god's eye" view.

And so I sometimes wonder, since we can't put the genie back in the box, and fighting it only means giving up our own powers while merely inconveniencing the bad guys, maybe we should just embrace the society that's becoming self-aware and make sure this awareness is put to a good use?

ETA:

> And to go full Godwin, the Nazis were far more effective with IBM's help.

True, but I don't think we should frame it as anything else as (1930/1940) IBM helping evil people who they know were evil. The Nazis were equally more effective with help of any other country that provided them with materials they used for war.

On the other hand, we are all better off thanks to IBM, so this can't be an argument against general-purpose computing, or punchcards and identification numbers.
Is this just an assertion that no money == no counsel, or is there some other attack on the 6th amendment here?

I think the notion that 'clean' assets can be frozen pre-trial is unfair, but as long as a public defender is actually available, that would seem to satisfy the amendment.
>“We will provide the most technologically advanced audio and video communications platform to allow calls with a high level of security,” reads the company’s Integrity Pledge.

I see the problem. It's really a case of simple miscommunication. They specifically state that they "will", i.e. in the future "will" provides this platform with a (note: the singular) high level of security. They do not state that they "are" currently providing these amazingly secure services.
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Right now the government is like the clothed guy on a nudist beach and it's awkward.

That's a fantastic metaphor for the situation. That could be quite an effective advertising campaign against government surveillance because it visually shows the disparity of exposure while capturing the impropriety of the act.

Perfect.
Devil's advocate: you think your landlord should be allowed to double your rent at the end of your lease? (If they can choose to not continue the lease and evict you, I guess it's the same thing.) In Ontario, for example, there is essentially an inflation-adjusted rate that landlords are allowed to increase their rent by every year (http://www.landlordselfhelp.com/RentIncreaseGuideline.htm) without prior approval. I'm sure there are many flavours of rent control, tilting either towards landlords or tenants.
The 20% top-up happens at IPO time, while the shareholder is still subject to a lock-up period. Some of those lock-ups can extend to 18 months, so it's still possible to lose money overall.
It's impossible as long as there are real actors that are a threat to it - i.e. as long as there is more than one government in the universe and all want access to the same resources.
and ends, unfortuantely.
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Yeaaaahhhh no.

In exactly the same way that the military is not mercenaries.
The page doesn't talk about the CI component. Is it available in the app?
A new way to program, what do you guys think?
I always wonder if UK politicians had to read Orwell in high school, 1984 was mandatory reading for me here in Austria.
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or (c) doing nothing, as it's probably a decently small enough subset of people to not be a problem
>This exact thing has been tried many, many times - and sometimes to great success. What inherently makes you believe Apple's spin will be so much better than the other services and their unique problems?

Well, they managed just that for payments with Apple Pay -- and with the iPod, iPhone, iPad etc for their respective markets, so...
I would love for you guys to poke holes in my logic as well as add to the discussion.
How are they going to build on Google's land? Will Google own the housing?
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I work at a game company and over length of my career interacted with quite a few engine companies. The separation is at where you set the bar.

If a game company shipped a game in a state that an engine company does it could only fly on PC and would only take a little while before players would realize that this company ships half-done games and stopped buying them immediately after release.

I am not putting down the engine companies, it's just the different priorities that both have. A game ships to a consumer who has no way of working around its bugs, an engine ships to a developer who has likely already rewritten half of the engine anyway and, even if not, is able to get back with bugs and request fixes/workarounds. For an engine company's customers it's preferable to get the new features than a 99.99% bug-free build. Game company customers are of opposite preference.
THIS, SO MUCH! Yes, I completely agree that this is the correct solution. Be very strict about people being ejected who use electronics and interrupt other patrons. That is the proper solution.
No they raised $105M in preferred shares with 1x or more liquidity preferences. The common stock is worth no more than the value of a way out of the money penny option that is only excercised in the case of a liquidity event. Meaning the real valuation of the company is maybe two or three hundred million. Of course founders don't tell employees that because they can get talent for pennies on the dollar this way.
I ordered In-N-Out from DoorDash and it was quick (~6 minutes) from the time it says the restaurant prepared it, around 20 minutes total from the time I ordered it. The problem is that they got none of my customizations correct. The well done fries were regular, the shake was the wrong flavor, and my animal style no pickles burger had pickles on it. It's tough to say whether the restaurant got it wrong or the driver ordered it wrong.
DNSSEC only seems unnecessary under the assumption that you're already making full use of existing security measures everywhere else in the stack. If you live in a world where unencrypted HTTP still exists then it's nice to have some defense against ISPs who like to lie in DNS responses. And even if I am connecting over HTTPS through a shady ISP, I'd prefer not to send any packets at all to the wrong IP rather than wait until it presents the wrong certificate.
Fair point, I've never done any console dev. On the PC, it's really only code related to the way you might alloc memory, files, and some other io related tasks...
Good. Building up is the way to go. Here in Melbourne, >30-story apartment towers have become the norm, and it's succeeded in slowing the rise of housing prices in the inner city quite a bit. I also think it's helping to delay our transportation crisis.
As a Mnt View resident myself, I strongly applaud this, but
am disappointed that families got the short end. I get that
the media age at Google is low, but I bet that a short commute is disproportionately important to parents.
I wonder if it makes sense for for profit banks to have interest bearing savings accounts at all these days.
OK, so I don't currently have a server to test that on. And I'm a little rusty.

But are you saying that my query doesn't resolve the NULL issue? I know that I've done just that with tables containing NULL values. Maybe I screwed up the format.
... revenue is absolutely meaningless in this conversation. You should be looking at profit. It doesn't matter what Marriott charges, it matters what they make, and saying they "made > $12 billion" is totally false: they made at the high end something like $2 billion (which is still high enough that you could have used those numbers as an honest ratio instead of distorting the discussion by looking at revenue).
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VC funded, exit strategy focussed, zero profit producing, unsustainable startups are not the only companies that have tech needs.

As has been said, skilled workers will find work elsewhere.

Overpaid junior developers who are more adept at rattling of the latest hipster buzzwords, and subsequently rewriting the same 100 line program over and over, than actually writing maintainable code, may find the unlimited flow of snacks is about to end.
There's broad protections for reporting crimes incidentally observed. It's why parallel construction exists in the first place - to avoid the absurdity of happening to observe a murder, but then grant immunity to the victim due to how it was initially identified even if you later find the body, weapon, and DNA evidence.

In the case of Tor, when you go probing hidden services it would be very easy to find a lot of crime you'd definitely want to report if you knew who was doing it.
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Depends.

First of all, before people go out to the streets they need to coordinate somehow, and Facebook seems to be a good way of doing that recently.

Second of all, the rants that are done publicly have a chance of creating a huge PR shitstorm for CMU when some journalist gets a wind of it. Sadly, in this age media pressure is the only thing that actually works (usually for worse).
But a million dollars at age 18/21/whatever isn't. Trust fund kids still get a head start of a couple decades.
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A great piece of reporting, made worse by all the distracting and jiggly animations.
So they are actually holding a physical key? Am I misreading the article? I am just imagining the case when people all get kidnapped...

How do you become the crypto officer? What are their credentials? How often do you change the people?
Eh, before saying that, go ahead and read some recent research. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rgrosse/phd-thesis.pdf, for example.
Unless you are going to have "Perzon Onely" at "perzon@company.com" and "Perzon Twoly" at "perzon@company.com.au", I would recommend using only the main .com version while providing forwarding from any non-.com to the .com. In other words, if there is no intent of having the same name mean different people or different departments on the different locations, then they should all use the same location's address.
Of course I do. You had a lease for a negotiated price for a year. That year ended. Now you can negotiate a new price based on current market conditions.

A co-worker got tired of moving every year due several years in a row of homeowners wanted to sell their house when his lease ended. So he asked to sign a two year lease. The homeowner said no. Then he offered an extra $200 a month and two years. And the homeowner said yes. Voila!

I work at a small company (<20) and we're looking for new office space. For some locations we can lock-in a pretty good price if we're willing to sign a 5-year lease.
Is the app prevented from starting after 90 days?
> "Though I see you're talking about the UK now"

There are similar monetary reform movements in the US, the one I linked to just happened to be driving for change in the UK.

With regards to recreating the Federal Reserve, you could argue that any central bank has a similar role to play, and the UK already has a central bank (the Bank of England). In some ways, you're right, that is similar to what is being proposed, but there are some key differences. Let's use the US system as an example again.

The money in the new system would be debt-free. This is a very important part of the system. Central banks like the Federal Reserve would not be accruing more debt just to do their job (for those that may be thinking having that debt is good, a decent chunk of US taxes goes into servicing that debt, effectively paying off the interest on a loan you didn't need to take out in the first place).

Not only does it take the debt burden away, it also allows greater flexibility with economic strategy. For example, in the current global economic system we go through cycles of activity. When the economy is booming, more money is created, facilitating easier trades. However, in times of recession, the money supply shrinks (or rather the flow of available currency shrinks), making trades harder just at the time when more money would be useful to help the economy recover. Instead what you want is a money supply that can expand even during a recession, and that's easier to arrange by using debt-free money guided by a central authority.

Transparency is another key difference. It should be possible to follow most/all of the debates shaping monetary policy. Correct me of I'm wrong, but we don't seem to have this level of insight into the inner workings of the Federal Reserve.
Not that I want to defend a billion dollar valuation from a private company with no liquidity... But the sector is one that is arguably incredibly lucrative. Last year I was reading lots of CVs as we were trying to hire people. The number of people who have Coursera courses on their CV is amazing. And to be honest, it works (on me, anyway ;-) ). It communicates the idea that they have initiative and that they value improving themselves. These are traits that I want in people that I work with.

Personally, I hate organized forms of education (and I spent 5 years teaching English as a foreign language in a high school!) Point me a text book, or blog posts or whatever and I will work through it at my own pace and in the order that I prefer. But I have to admit that it's pretty hard for me to put anything on my CV. The Coursera certificates (and I suppose these "nanodegrees" -- I haven't looked into this and know nothing about it) have a lot of value in that sense. From my experience hiring, I think it's certainly worth a few hundred dollars to have things like that on your CV. If it catches on (as it appears to be doing), then the bar will be raised and you will have to spend more to stand out. There is definite opportunity.
As someone who worked on payment processing in the US, there are a hundred absurd or obscure regulations. The most important involve making sure terrorists can't use your service to launder money; this usually boils down to adding some basic or clunky checks as there's really nothing else to do.
I wish people would taboo[0] the word "privacy" in such discussions. They often mean too many too different things; the whole discussion is done at too low resolution.

[0] - https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Rationalist_taboo
>the court will decide whether the government can freeze all of a defendant’s assets before trial, even those the government itself concedes aren’t tainted by any connection to criminality, thus effectively preventing that defendant from paying for his own defense.

The shadow issue of our time is equal access to the legal system. It will be interesting to see how this changes the dynamic of the court system if the Supreme Court really decides that defendants cannot hire their own counsel though it is a bit like solving the equal access to education problem by banning all private colleges -- more than a little absurd.
I first read GEB when I was a teenager (and I've re-read it many many times since). It is one of the few books that made me re-think the way that I think, and it's one of my favorite books of all time. "The Emperor's New Mind" didn't thrill me the way GEB did, but I enjoyed it. I recently read "I Am A Strange Loop" and it got me thinking again :)
I little different perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9GdMywFj0
Oh wow. You're totally right. I feel quite silly now!
Most of that money in the stock market is "on paper" and so the losses will mostly be on paper too. The people hardest hit will be those who are recently retired or soon to retire. Young people who bought in at the top will have decades to recover. (How quickly did the S&P500 recover after 2008?) I'd worry about the knock-on effects more than your stock portfolio.
> actually available

Define "actually available"

Most public defenders offices are so oversubscribed and underfunded that they can't really provide good representation for the majority of their clients.
Article author here: I do mention the idea of using a chess engine to improve compression. I propose a simple scheme and calculate/estimate my scheme would compress moves in a reasonably played game to about 3.9 bits each on average. I am sure it's possible to do better, but I suspect you'd hit diminishing returns before you get close to 3 bits.

I really should have included something about adding an opening book as I thought about that quite a lot. My conclusion was that an opening book is not going to be a really dramatic win. A simple scheme might encode say 64K opening sequences using 2 bytes, and save an average of perhaps 10 (half) moves. So a saving of 10*4 - 16 = 24 bits, spread over an average of 80 (half) moves. So about 0.3 bits per move.

You might question my estimate of 10 half moves max, but it's an educated guess. One thing I've discovered whilst working on my chess database is that the standard tabiya positions are reached by huge numbers of different transposition possibilities. See my blog post at

https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/statistics-and-...

This means that the standard canonical way of reaching a well known position doesn't serve as a good proxy for the start of all the games that include that position.
For domestic transfers, under what circumstances do people use wire instead of ACH transfers? I've only used wire transfers for international purposes.
I think it probably started when the banks became less profitable, right?
> Is a WiFi hotspot a "station?" It's not licensed either. Though it is "authorized" to operate in the unlicensed band.

It's a very interesting question, but there is a very good argument that it is.

Have a look at pages 3-6 of this for a taste: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001011985
I can't really find a statement on that either way. The 3 requirements in this memo do not include such a stipulation, though. (The requirements are to minimize the capture, destroy extra data, and not use extra data.) Part of their operation involves MITM'ing between the phone and the network[0], which probably means the network has not been told it's happening.

Even if they have permission, do you think that's as stringent as it would be if they had to subpoena this from the network? Some agencies are using these things daily, or hundreds of times in a few years, without even telling the courts.[1] The FCC only approved them for emergency use.[2] They are probably not licensed for most of the times they are used, even if the network says OK.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker#Interce...
[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/03/stingray/
[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/new-e-mail-shows-...
> Still expressed as lists when it comes to the syntax level.

alists are not expressed as lists.
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So the same government that is spending money to prosecute you gets to determine how much money they will spend on a public defender for you? We've covered this ground before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177778
I am one of the first cohort of Udacity to complete Front End Web Developer Nanodegree. However, when I applied for a developer job(something called Udacity Experience Program) on their career site, few weeks after I got an email describing I am not a good fit for the role.

I have been looking for an entry level developer job for last couple of months. During job interviews when I mention regarding the Certification Program from Udacity or discuss on the projects that I did it does not ring a bell to most of interviewers.

Agreed I learned a ton on front-end development from the program but so far the nanodegree has not really helped me in my job search.

It will be interesting to see if Udacity can gather and publish data on number of nanodegree holders getting developer jobs after completion.
> "Also, it's not clear what "not being part of the government" means if some positions are politically appointed."

Are judges in the US legal system part of the US government?
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Article author here: Hope you are not being sarcastic/ironic. I thought the disclaimer was necessary and complete :-)
That sounds like a different argument: that the current public-defender system operates so poorly that the result violates the 6th amendment by failing to provide effective counsel. But the proper remedy there would be to issue an injunction ordering the system to be improved, not to unfreeze certain defendants' assets, since the latter would leave the 6th amendment violation uncured in the case of defendants who don't have assets in the first place.

The current case seems to be arguing something different: that freezing defendant's assets that they could use to pay for counsel is a 6th amendment violation even assuming an effective public-defender system. That requires a separate right, something like: the right to pay for the best defense you can afford. Afaict, this is at the Supreme Court because they've never ruled either way on whether the 6th amendment includes such a right; the previous cases have focused on the minimum threshold for what constitutes effective assistance of counsel.
I don't think this is a Google's land. This (better) article has a map which shows it being along Shoreline blvd:
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2015/11/11/city-opts-to-max-out...
Yes, the theoretical availability of public defenders satisfies the literal text of the amendment. That being said, effectively banning most private counsel (except those working for free or possibly on contingency) and, in practice, forcing most defendants to rely on a government-employed counsel means locking up the spirit and throwing away the key.
Too bad there are no minimum size restrictions and all apartments in those 30-story towers are essentially shoe boxes.
On my New Zealand business account we can see transactions turn up every hour - that's how often they are cleared between the major banks. And my personal credit card balance on my mobile app changes seconds after I make a purchase.
Yes, once a provisioning profile expires, apps built against it fail to launch.

You have to rebuild and reinstall the app (with an updated provisioning profile, but Xcode takes care of all that behind the scenes now) to get an expired app working again.
I'm learning to code myself too. What courses did you take on Udacity?
Under the laws of quantum mechanics, all of those anomalies could have happened spontaneously.
Wells Fargo's online banking can send money to anyone with an email address, mobile number or Wells Fargo account number. And there's no charge to use it, though they have a message saying they might start charging in the future.
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