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Microsoft invented it? I recall working on a digital mapping system in the late 80's that was very similar. We had a very large drum scanner that we used to scan paper maps and imagery at various scales. First we'd rectify the result, then we'd do a color reduction to both cut down the file size and to match the capabilities of the machines of the day. Next we'd slice the image up into 128x128 pixel tiles and assemble the result into a database of various scales that allowed a user to zoom, pan from map to map, overlay symbology, etc. At the time we were working with 300 MB drives, so we were very restricted and had to create specific databases that matched a user's need.
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If the attackers are saying that, their real message is probably "Look, the French are not safe. We are capable of revenge." to other ISIS fighters in Syria. Morale of your own troops is of paramount importance in a war.

I think France, or any nation for that matter has very poor track record of backing down military operations after terrorist attack.
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Right or wrong, it's pretty standard practice to sell the vision of the product as opposed to the actuality of the product.

"Otto will some day hopefully be able to deploy to many different infrastructure providers" isn't a particularly attractive statement. You could try something like "Otto currently only supports deploying to AWS, but will eventually support many more" but while perhaps technically correct it'll probably shy more people away than get them involved. Those same people might just contribute additional deploy targets if only they got nudged enough to get involved in the first place.

You're not wrong, but getting people on board with the vision is much more important for a "hive mind" project such as Otto, than being technically correct as to the current state of things.
That article reminded me once again what an utter scumbag Dana Perino is. The worst press secretary for the worst President of all time.
To list just one value: Google maps is a very strong reason why Android device manufacturers feel like they need to go with a Google-service model and follow Google's requirements, rather than do it Amazon Fire style. This alone is worth billions in search revenue. (And Google was smart enough to let it take a decade for this value to materialize.)
I borrowed the book after hearing Ben mention it at a talk at Columbia, and I posted the 100 point worksheet here:

http://denis.papathanasiou.org/posts/2014.05.27.post.html
It's common sense that if you're providing a service for money, that's a business.

Now, that doesn't mean you're wrong about what people usually think. It's just an argument that people are not being sensible about it.
I'd recommend something in the spectrum of Jon Kabat Zinn's work in whatever format you prefer. For casual interest, you can find him guiding mediations on youtube or buy any of his older books for pretty much nothing on used book sites.

People with chronic pain or health issues may want something with more support like the stress clinic at UMASS lowell medical. But you really only need about 15 minutes of instruction and guided meditation and then to find whatever motivators work for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn
Entrepreneurs who have a) a very strong track record or b) easy access to large sums of capital can do whatever they want.

For the rest, it's helpful to conserve resources while searching for a business model or product/market fit. Then, once you find fire, pour gasoline on it.
Oh yeah. I remember when Google Maps first came out. Nobody thought that this degree of interactivity was even feasible in a browser. It was really revolutionary.
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How does that work? is the moarvm bundled in the executable?
Perhaps 9/11 allowed the bureaucracy to push its agenda, but it is very clear that it took Bush completely off his plan; Bush campaigned for a less activist foreign policy (which many criticized as being isolationist).
Then they should publish annual or quarterly reports detailing their counter-terrorism ops and how many terrorist attacks they foiled thanks to the surveillance and smart data algorithms and how many they failed to avert and why that happened and who are responsible for the fiasco and what measures to be taken in the future to avoid this outcome, you know a true and functioning democracy in a free society.
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That's very interesting. How was the digital mapping system named? Which company did you work for? Who were the customers?
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We'll know you're right when they strong-arm Apple et al into providing backdoors to their encryption.

(Which will of course do absolutely nothing at all to stop people from obtaining and using strong crypto.)
I'd like to be wrong on this one too.

Functional democracy is as intelligent as average voter is. Hopefully education can make the world better place. But it's going to take a long time to do it.
I've memorized a few values, like the radius and mass of the Earth. What meaning would it be for them, I wonder, if I answered '40,000 km / (2 pi)' (or '25,000 miles / (2 pi)'?

BTW, there are three factors that affect your calculation which you left out. First, the fencepost error. While SF and NYC have two timezones in between, neither city is on the furthest edge of its timezone. With better knowledge, an estimate of 3.5 is more correct, giving (24/3.5)3000/(2 pi) = 3274 miles.

Second, 3,000 miles is the driving distance, not the great circle distance, which is only 2,500 miles. (24/3.5)2500/(2 pi) = 2728 miles. Still, I think 3,000 miles is good for the ballpark estimate you made, and it's certainly not a fact I have at hand.

Third, those two cities lie at about 40 N latitude, so you computed the length of that latitude, not the length of the equator. You need to divide by cos(40 degrees). cos(45 degrees) is sqrt(2)/2 = 0.707, so I'll use 0.75. (24/3.5)*2500/(2 pi)/0.75 = 3637.
Minecraft is Java. It has awful performance (but it's simple enough and mixed desktops are powerful enough)
As a non-American who once spent a year living in the USA, I can't help but point out the downside of holding the owner of a swing liable when it kills someone:

Swings and related fairly dangerous toys are dissappearing from the US. In the year I spent there in 2001/2002, I saw two swings, in the same playground.
"No, the big story here is that Tor was broken for a pittance."

That was my prediction and take-away from this. I've constantly warned against relying on Tor to stop nation-states. It's requirements, especially synchronous and performance, make the anonymity goal ridiculously difficult.

That the attacks are still so inexpensive is more disturbing. Opens up doors to non-nation-state attackers that have money and connections to smart people.
That's actually an amazing scapegoat!

Blame encryption and omit the violent nature of Islam.
No, I'm not "misunderstanding" anything. If the refugee camp is safe, has food, etc., there's no reason for anyone to leave on a dangerous journey. If it's not safe, there's no excuse for leaving your children there.

I realize that life in Germany is more pleasant than life in a refugee camp in Turkey (or has been, historically... that seems to be changing), but that's an entirely different thing.
Is this really a new conspiracy theory? This is pretty much the same thing we hear after any major terrorist attack.
Interferometry on the microwave background allows the U.S. military to track all people, weapons, and aqueous objects bigger than a thimble throughout an entire city such as Paris.

Advanced technologies allow them to know when these things are brewing, but per game theory they allow them to happen to not reveal that capability.

Encryption and Snowden have nothing to do with it. They are limited hangouts to gaslight and decrease the power of the lower echelons of government (you know, the regular people who might actually have stopped this).
> I don't really buy the comparison that what CERT did is similar to a university-sponsored DDoS. I think a better parallel is the Dan Egerstad case.

Here's why it's worse: they inserted a plaintext encoding into the response from the onion-address lookup relay, and so anybody observing the user (e.g. the ISP) could detect what onion address the user was connecting to. This applies after the fact to recorded traffic as well. Thus the researchers had no control over who got deanonymized, to whom they were deanonymized, and when they were deanonymized.

> I do wish both sides would acknowledge this is a tricky issue. On the one hand, if I run a tor exit node or relay, it is my node and it seems like I'm allowed to do with it as I please.

You actually are not allowed to do with your relay as you please. At least in the US, the legal theory protecting relay operators (i.e. safe harbor) also makes it illegal to observe user traffic content except in certain cases (e.g. to improve network performance).

> One other thing to keep in mind here is that SEI is a DoD funded center.

This doesn't seem very relevant. All researchers have an obligation to consider and mitigate possible harms that occur during their research (source: I work in a military research laboratory). These researchers clearly did not fulfill that obligation, and I'm sure their institution is reviewing or has reviewed their procedures to make sure it doesn't happen again.
If you're interested in developing virtual globe applications, take a look at http://cesiumjs.org
Sorry, but almost every restaurant in NY delivers ... When I lived there we used to have a giant basket of menus on the kitchen counter, everything from sushi to Argentinian arepas to Cajun.
Why do you say their purpose is to only pretend to fail? Governments have very little incentive to succeed in many areas. Terrorism appears to be much like regular crime in that if there is little, the government is lauded, and if there is a lot, the government is given more money and power to fight it.

*edit: I do not mean to say that government officials were willfully negligent; they have been given an impossible task, and their jobs depend on believing that a little more money and power will allow them to succeed.
FWIW, this is the new foreward from the second edition printing, which is being released next week (Nov 18th).

This has been on my reading list for a while, and never quite made it to the top. It's age plus a faint memory about Intel's notorious "late sheet" for tardy employees made me assume management advice from the era had lost relevance. But Ben's foreward has changed my mind. Pre-ordered!
I hear on the news from time to time that terrorist attacks in my country are stopped from time to time thanks to surveillance systems, I guess it's the same for France, so I don't see what the problem is.
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I would respect a "Bad side in ww2" Japanese or German boy who decided to lie about his age to enlist and AFTER seeing the horrors of combat still acted more heroic than most grown men. I think this guy was a complete bad ass.
Lawrence H. Dunn III from FSU put together a really nice honors thesis that provides a gentle overview of HoTT. The author was an undergrad math student, so there might be a couple mistakes here and there, but the text was quite accessible.

http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1357...

If you find anything else, let us know!
I thought that security through obscurity was no security at all.
If you've ever seen the spies running those programs you'll understand why it happened. They look and act much like the terrorists. Drunk on power with a feeling of invincibility (e.g. sociopaths).
Think of it this way - people with a calling in life go and do that, accepting whatever compensation that comes with it. But nobody says "I really love facilitating house sales". So people become realtors for the money and that is what they optimize for - there's no passion for the activity itself. And while there is probably the rare exception, you will only think you have found them.

Selling a house, I'd recommend skipping the realtor and hiring a good real estate attorney from the start. After you sign a realtor's contract, their entire job is based around managing your expectations and simply waiting until they convince you to lower the price enough for the transaction to clear. If you can be honest with yourself about needing to lower the price, and can manage different people asking you to leave your house (as opposed to just funneling through a single one), you're better off using that 5% as a direct incentive to buyers.
I named it. I called it the "Digital Application Map Manager" or DAMM. That way my boss had to ask "When will those DAMM maps be ready?". We had a sub-contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory but the ultimate customer was the US Army.
Wow, I had totally forgotten about Terra server. I remember this now.
Yes, that's true. I suppose it isn't new.

I guess it's new in the sense that it was applied to a particular attack, but that's not really a great reason to call it new. Good point.

However, I do think the minimal form of it I expressed in a way that seemed more likely than most of the time I see it?
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A great part of the native French has always been openly or covertly racist towards the North African immigrants in France. I am not surprised by the presence of feelings of hatred amongst the North Africans. This event will make the native French even more racist and the North Africans even more filled with hate. Then, you also have the aspect of religion. The native French like to make derogatory remarks about Islam, while the Muslims may badly overreact. As outsiders, we can only watch how all of this will unfold ...
No, Google Earth has.
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Osama Bin Laden avoided electronic communication well before the NSA's illegal domestic spying activities were revealed. He passed notes and relied on trusted couriers. This is nothing but political opportunism.
> or written in Perl 6 itself using half-baked Perl 6 to 5 converters

Oh, I don't think that ever happened.

That might be a reference to viv, which was used to implement STD (cf http://perl6.org/compilers/std-viv ).

There was also the initial idea that Perl 6 could run Perl 5, but this is proving impossible.

Personally, if Rakudo ever starts outperforming Perl5 for practical workloads, I believe that idea might eventually be revisited.
Transparent government, justice, and open elections. Likely in that order.
>>Advanced technologies allow them to know when these things are brewing, but per game theory they allow them to happen to not reveal that capability.

And you know about them.....how? If you haven't realized, I'm asking you to provide a source for these extraordinary claims.
Maybe it's the same gut feeling I have.

It's not the targeted survielence as such, but the consequences of institutionalize the process by which you select who should be monitored.

It's one thing to monitor an individual you have good reasons to suspect are involved with a serious crime. Another to start monitoring people based on some vague selection criteria based on probability.

I see two scary implementations of such a process

1. Machine Learning. Some algorithm monitoring as much data as possible ("it's not survielence no human is watching...") will select people to suspect. Lots of hard to diagnose false positives will get their life's destroyed.

2. Some arbitration process where people decide who to suspect. Even more false positives, and frankly miss use of power for political reasons.

In both scenarios people will also start to become very anxious about having dissenting opinions, or non standard interests in fear of getting "flagged" by one of the above mechanisms.

In the end the system won't be used to create a free world but as another weapon to wield by those happen to have the most influence at any given moment.
How far down the rabbit hole does it go though? Even if you show a physical mechanism, you can always claim it was your belief system and mental state which allowed the physical mechanism to take place. You're liable to end up in a cholera-esque place where people subconsciously or consciously create their own realities.
Not sure I want to live in Walt Disney's utopia. He was great at his business, the original Jobsian, but dialed it up a bit too far.

www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt-disney-a-fascist
They don't. Most likely, they drive in off-rush-hour (like Uber drivers).
The feedback issue is in http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions... but Pirate Praveen mostly sends updates by email and the GitLab issue tracker. He has it running and seems to be in the final stages.
This helps explain something I've noticed over time using these services. At first, it seemed like most of the delivery people were local and now it seems like they are coming from further and further outside the bay area. When the drivers are driving monster trucks, they probably don't live in an urban area.
They forgot to blame Russia in this one.
I'm not sure if Perl 5 has adopted these features, but these features have been implemented in Perl 5 via modules [0], which is excellent - but sadly, this is vastly different than being in core, or even having the modules in core. I don't even think you can set default attributes in Perl 5 methods. You still have to pass around the object, shift it off - a whole lot of boilerplate.
Something as simple as that has been proposed, but it's not been in production for Perl 5. (without Moose and friends, of course)

Really, there hasn't been a terrible amount of new features in Perl 5 - and certainly not a new model for OO. Moose is great! And the constant release of CPAN modules is also wonderful, but the core of Perl 5 is full of dragons, which makes backporting features from Perl 6 hard to do in core - and perhaps a good argument can be made against doing that. Example: Moose is a very successful project, but thee given/when statement in the core of Perl was a failure.

[0] http://moose.iinteractive.com/en/
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Yup. And originally done with a 1 pixel iframe rather than the XMLHttpRequest method if I remember correctly.
Exactly what I was thinking. Goodie on the media, using the bad guys' tactics on their audience. This day is really not getting better.
All true. That doesn't change the fact that some (in fact, much) subjective experience arises from external stimulus, and so it is not correct to say that everything you experience is all in your head. Some of what you experience is all in your head (dreams, psychosomatic conditions, hallucinations), and the rest is a combination of in your head and not in your head. (Obviously, any phenomenon that is entirely outside of your head is not part of your experience.)
It's probably more germane that she makes a living on Fox News, hosting a show that more or less spends it's time pandering to a segment of the American population that is afraid of everything (I don't mean Republicans or the right wing of American politics, I mean the people who watch "The Five"...). It's not entirely clear to me if the hosts themselves are afraid of everything or simply effective in their cynicism.
So we fight for liberty and privacy but blame the ones that risk their lives bringing it. I fear these attacks will convince everyone that mass surveillance is a necessary thing.

Surprisingly, you only need a few terrorists to change international laws and double those military budgets. Snowden or not, it's the virus that comes first and the anti-virus after. I don't think any mass surveillance program can stop such actions unless you become a militia state which I highly doubt (and hope not) will ever happen.
Sports -> you should check out NextVR (http://www.wired.com/2015/10/nba-opener-live-in-vr/) who recently covered the Golden State Warriors basketball game. Also of interest to the startup community is that they just raised a $30 million A round (http://uploadvr.com/nextvr-raises-30-million-vr/)
Is that right? I would have said the Irish. According to Wikipedia, over 10000 bombings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_No...
It doesn't, no idea where the OP got that idea from. 'Fakecutables' bundling interpreter and bytecode might arrive in the future, though.
So "Elite Firms" basically have horrible hiring processes?
If you're using GitLab.com or GitLab EE it has a project service that sends you an email on every push with the diff of the commits.
Of course I grew up in a time when everybody's name, address and phone number were published in phone books that were widely distributed. I remember it was unusual to have your phone number "unlisted". And the phone company charged extra to leave your information out!
Issue is two fold.

1) The devs don't play nice with designers, so... why would the designer want to contribute?

2) There is no product manager there to drive features, or make the devs play nice with the designers, or push deadlines... and if there were the devs would probably bail.

So... yeah. This is why open source projects tend to suck... you don't have product managers or designers. Just devs to who do a half-ass job of PM and UX. Anyone can say all they want about management and schedules and planning... at the end of the day job security for managers is ensured due to the fact that devs, when left alone, produce inferior quality software.
I'm not going to bother convincing you that printf is not the highest form of string interpolation. Seems like you've got your bases covered pretty well.
While I'm emotional thinking of those who were killed and their loved ones, realistically this attack is not a credible threat to France.

I hope the government lets the state of emergency expire doesn't lower itself to the level of these criminals by taking any further action to undermine justice.
Please note: Radicalization is not a unique trait to Islam or even religion.

Also see: Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Ted Kaczynski. (American examples because that's what I'm most familiar with)

It makes no sense whatsoever to concentrate on Muslims over every other group on the planet. And no, it isn't more likely for radicalization to occur among Muslims.
In the article it wasn't even in at a later hour!

A 33 dollar salad approaches the profligacy of Sodom and Gomorrah :-)