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GoFundMe has, in my head, turned into a beggars corner.

I have a friend on Facebook who created a "legal fund" to help her friend who needs $7,500 for legal counsel for her first felony 5th-degree possession charge. I thought it was for weed or something, so I didn't think too much of it, and I said that her friend will likely get 2 years probation/stay + random drug testing, and then it will be dropped.

Then I learned it wasn't weed. Heroin.

I stopped feeling so bad.
As a descriptive, not prescriptive, grammarian, the deeper meaning that Morissette's song accidentally has is that there were at least three or four distinct extant definitions of "irony", many people were very sure their definition was universal, and none of those people were right.

It's sort of shocking this five-letter word turned out to have several simultaneous different non-overlapping meanings, with so many people not even realizing the differences in the way other people were using the word. There's probably a PhD thesis in there somewhere. No joke, irony, or sarcasm.
Yes, people hear "crytocurrency" and think "hidden". Bitcoin just uses cryptographic signing for authentication, to prevent theft and double spending. It's the opposite of anonymity.
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Corrected:

<sarcasm> I thought this was entertaining. </sarcasm>
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You can't short stock right after an IPO, and cannot trade options for a while either.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591621 -

> I love how Republicans believe that outlawing guns won't stop criminals from having guns while at the same time believing that outlawing encryption will keep criminals from using encryption.

> Encryption methods are far easier to transport and spread illegally than gun are.
Ah. I was thinking it was the other kind of NLP : "These are not the access points you are looking for"...
PDP-8 was a 12 bit machine. I bought an Intercept Junior PDP-8 one board system in about 1977 as my first home computer. I wrote a cross assembler for it on my company's Dec 10. Good times.
You have to be more precise - which investment bankers? The ones that underwrote this deal (and were thus paid by Square) aren't going to be happy - their job is to price the stock and anticipate demand accurately enough that there is only a 'reasonable' pop, say 15-30%.
You should put a radio-tacking collar on that straw man.

There's a big, obvious difference between tracking the crossing of individuals across sovereign borders and monitoring/regulating the travel of individuals within a country. Ensuring that Carlos the Jackal doesn't fly into LAX is not the same as setting up a Stasi-like organization.
Wow, you are getting down voted.

Honestly, I'm kind of amazed with how little political violence there is (like, zero) around the US-Mexico border considering the history here. I also tend to share your opinion about the war, which is pretty much Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant's opinion about the war, which is that it was unjust.

Look at the border wars that go on out there in the world. Where is our border war? There isn't one. Mexican immigrants want to peacefully live and work in the territories that were (again, I'd say "in my opinion", but instead let's say "Lincoln and Grant's opinion") pretty egregiously annexed through force with no justification.

To me, this peaceful border is a giant gift that the US treats like some kind of curse. The biggest problem as far as I see it is a violent drug cartel war that (in my opinion, not Lincoln or Grant's opinion) is at least to some extent a product of a very misguided drug policy in the US.

Beyond that, I'd prefer to see us mimize the relevance of this border. And at this point, data suggests there won't be some mass movement north anyway (for all I know, you might start seeing more US citizens moving south).
Over the course of a day or so this is pretty small though.
Express support and you'll get the same fireworks, just launched from a different camp.

The point being, ignore the general population. If your opposition is expressed in a civil way and you're talking with reasonable people, there won't be any moral policing.
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Losing your job and access to employment opportunities is a very common and very effective form of censorship.
No offense, but did you even read the parent post? The person above clearly points out that a sudden shock may cause more genetic changes through selection than slow deaths.

Such a case has never happened in the past, unless I didn't learn about an antibiotics crisis in ancient Egypt.
> One of the few lessons to stick with me from high school English was during the lesson on irony, when a student asked "Is sarcasm the same thing as irony?" and the teacher thought about it for a moment, before responding that, yes, it is, kind of, but it's the lowest form of irony.

Properly speaking, sarcasm often uses verbal irony, but sarcasm does not necessarily involve irony. Though maybe that definition is changing; its not that uncommon to see "sarcasm" used as if it were equivalent to verbal irony.
Not really relevant, the day will come when no terrorists communicate in the clear. I'm not suggesting we outlaw encrypted communications, but I do wonder how law enforcement is supposed to track terrorist communications after they go dark.
Telegram is the dominant communication app in Middle East and most people prefer unencrypted massaging because of multi-device capabilities. I don't think ISIS people are any different
So in other words, you can scam terrorists safely if you have a time machine handy.
The basic rule of thumb in investing is "buy low, sell high". The twist here is that you don't need to do it in that order (i.e. he was hoping to "sell high" first, then later "buy low" - referred to as "shorting"). So, since he thought the stock was overvalued (and that the price would eventually drop) he decided to sell some shares, even though he didn't yet own any. The way he did this is by borrowing the shares from ETrade, then selling them. So he then owes ETrade the amount of shares that he just borrowed. Later (hopefully for him, when the price dropped) he could purchase shares of the stock, and repay ETrade. So, what he's hoping for: Borrow X shares from ETrade, and immediately sell them at $2. Sometime in the future, buy P shares at ($2-y$) and return them to E*Trade. He makes a profit of P($2-$y) (excluding fees). Note here that the absolute maximum he can profit is P($2), if the stock goes to $0. What actually happened was that the stock had a dramatic price increase (something like +$14). At that point, ETrade wants its shares back that he borrowed at $2 a piece, so he buys them at $16 and loses P($14), which is much more than he had in his account.
hell no, here is why. I use a semi-anonymous username for a reason. I generally respond to most threads without properly thinking most responses out (after all, its a forum) and a lot of the time those responses are something I regret later on.

Nothing I post here I'm really embarrassed about, but nothing I'm really proud of.
>But, ultimately people will inevitably try to claim ownership, control it, use it, and prevent others from using it.

And, they will fail.

>Equally, those who create it will wish for it to remain private.

Maybe. Maybe not. People may wish all day long.
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If this is a program for women, why do the photos on their web site feature mostly men?
No one's getting the capital to climb on to every telephone pole, dig up every street, etc. Deregulation just leaves Comcast to do whatever it wants.

I'd love to see massive consoldiation of the reserved-for-government portion of the EM spectrum so we could reasonably do this wirelessly.
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Drupal lead, Dries, also wrote a read-worthy post on the release:

http://buytaert.net/drupal-8-0-0-released
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I agree that it seems like a big misstep to discontinue the service so quickly. Given their relative size, there have to be hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers, and an order of magnitude more Free subscribers that are dedicated Rdio customers. That's significant. Why inspire all those people to go away and risk them getting attached to another competing service? Why not simply re-brand Rdio as Pandora for the time being?

I understand that there are costs associated with maintaining the Rdio application back-end; all the API services the clients use, databases, content delivery network, media storage, new music ingestion, royalty payment system, the mobile, auto, TV and set-top apps etc. It costs a lot of dough just keeping the lights on.

But how much does it cost to a) keep the lights on for say 6 months to a year versus b) what, develop your own product and market the hell out of it so you can start from 0 paying subscribers and try to work your way back up to where Rdio was? (is what Pandora has in mind? Can't believe they just wanted to snuff the service.)

But somebody must have done the math and said "yep, makes sense, kill it." Either because they just wanted to flush Rdio out of the way or because the math comparison was a no-brainer.

In the meantime, I'm going to join you in continuing to enjoy the best, and most beautiful on-demand streaming service available.

(not sure about the comments regarding buggy mobile streaming. At 320 it may drop in the countryside, but dial it down to 192 or lower and you're fine. Yeah I like high grade audio too, but I prefer lower grade music to no music at all.)
And also let us not forget that dictionaries are not authoritative sources for word definitions of living languages, they are historical records. Words mean whatever their users intend. My favourite recent example of this is 'literally' which once meant "actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy" and has now come to also mean it's direct opposite: "in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually".

Ironic.
"But sarcasm comes by definition at the expense of an idea or another person."

Even to the extent that is true, which I could quibble with, the sarcasm can be at the sarcastic one's expense, as a form of self-deprecation, or it could be at the expense of a person not present and one who may not even properly-speaking exist.

Sarcasm at a coworker's expense isn't wrong because it's sarcasm, it would be wrong because any social interaction at a coworker's expense is generally wrong.
I don't mean to downplay the importance of this tragedy for the people involved, but it's interesting to observe the media reaction to this event with a more detached frame of mind than I was capable of as a child.

The attacks have played right into the hands of parties with political interests lying in wait. For months articles on one or the other side of the encryption "debate" have been produced by news organizations at a low hum. Now that something, anything, loosely relevant has occurred, they can now point to this as further evidence in support of whatever position was espoused over the course of the preceding months. It strikes a person who pays attention to such things as rather methodical.
It's called Goodwill. You may have heard of them. ;-)
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Intel already supports OpenCL on previous versions of the Phi. I see no reason not to assume that code will run at higher performance on Knights Landing than it did on previous versions, even if the code generated does not squeeze out every tiny bit of performance of the x86 side of the cores.
There is already Ada academy: http://adadevelopersacademy.org/
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This is how they all operate. I used to work for MakerSquare which is now owned by Hack Reactor. Both schools have very selective interview processes and the point is to select highly motivated people who already have great qualifications. We were even instructed to screen for hireability (sp?). Then we teach them the basics of "software development" which really amounted to Javascript fundamentals and introductions to some commonly used frameworks.

Despite what was in my view an education that lacked a lot of depth the students were able to put together some impressive projects. Particularly impressive for the many who really hadn't written a line of code before they got involved with the program.

I've heard people who run bootcamps say things like "we're revolutionizing education" but I have to say I really didn't see anything revolutionary in the 15 months I was an instructor. What I saw was a process that took highly motivated people and gave them the tools they needed to get what they want.
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It's really a shame that Google has abandoned Google Finance. Seems like a pretty low-cost high-reward vertical for them (advertising to people who care about financial markets is lucrative).
Can optionally include this solution - http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing (at the end).
There was no censorship on saying a lot of things the puritans didn't like said, but the consequences of saying them could be your life. Nowadays the consequences for saying what you can't say are merely limited to loss of job and any future career in your field and the only media exposure being to solidify how evil you are. See: https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-bad...
Two similar projects:

http://mod.haxor.fi/

http://www.cyrilpereira.com/modplayer/
http://sourceforge.net/p/peerguardian/bugs/330/
The big point of this article is, given all of the NSA spying and mass surveillance of pretty much all phone networks worldwide, they still failed to detect anything related to this attack.

It shows two main things:

1) Mass drag-net style surveillance programs are not very effective.

2) Banning encryption will have minimal-to-no effect on improving mass drag-net style surveillance programs.

This means, to date, the only "terrorist plot" thwarted by the NSA mass drag-net style surveillance program remains that one guy who tried to send $8,500 to the Taliban (and was promptly arrested)[1].

[1] http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/nsa-spying-did-not-re...
That is very true and you might think that my next point is off-topic but too much surveillance power (or lack of privacy) is also a treat to democracy.
Margin interest is margin interest. Compounded daily. I assure that Etrade (or any brokerage firm) wouldn't do if it didn't make them lots of money.
Mexico City is already safe. Mérida, a big city in the Yucatan, is extremely safe -- Japan level safe. Immigration is easy for educated professionals and teams. Urban living is cheap and has amenities comparable to SF or NY.

Language is a barrier, though. PR is a barrier. The business culture is more Wall Street or Bourbon Street than Sand Hill Road. Still, it's a great place to come to.
it only proves again that H1B process is seriously broken. they must have sorted people by salary in the offer picking higher paid.
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It raining on your wedding day isn't ironic unless you're marrying an umbrella shop owner who has recently gone out of business.

Being stuck without a spoon to stir your tea in a spoon factory would be ironic.

It's like good advice you just can't take? No?
Couple of Computerphile videos featured Brian Kernighan [1], which I also enjoyed. I particularly liked the Bell Labs one where he talked about what it was like to work there, pretty fascinating stuff.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile/search?query=Bria...
Rights are established and protected by constant legislative and judicial battle.

There are obviously a lot of people who think that hard-encryption shouldn't be available to the public. If you're not willing to engage with them you're just going to get steamrolled. In matters of law, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
"The startup has lost seven top executives [...] Five former senior employees, all female, spoke with Fortune on condition of anonymity [...]" [emphasis mine]

Oh, Fortune!
My own code uses pickle. The problem is using untrusted pickles. My scan of a few dozen of those pages shows no insecure use.
80% of antibiotic use in the USA goes to farm animals, not people. We could therefore significantly reduce the amount of antibiotics in our environment without affecting human lives.

Good luck with that. This would mean regulation, and that would mean going up against corporate farms and their lobbyists as well as the Senators and Congressmen they have in their pockets. America's legislative branch is actively hostile to science and anything that could impact the bottom line of their campaign donors.
Well, yes: encryption is hard to use and sticks out a mile. Whereas good old codewords defeat dragnet surveillance and are easy to use. For every single concert and sporting event there are thousands of people discussing meeting up and going there over SMS, discussing times, locations and who's going to be there. How do you determine who has malicious intent?
No, it's a closed loop of externalized costs. Workers have to try to eat, businesses have to try to compete, voters have to promote their economic interests, politicians have to stay elected. Climate change and antibiotic resistance et al don't cost any of these people anything -- individually. If nobody has to pay for them, and everybody has to compete to take advantage of whatever they can to live and prosper, the rational thing is to fuck everything up. It's a massive scale prisoner's dilemma with high stakes.

Government is ostensibly the system that prevents external costs, and imposes rules that skew what's rational for individuals today to be closer to what's rational for society tomorrow, but in practice it fails to do so much of the time.
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There are plenty of situations in which SSL-everywhere is not useful, but it doesn't mean it isn't a good idea. You have a choice to encrypt your communications, and if you choose not to, you never know who is listening. A simple Google search isn't cause to need SSL usually, but say many various searches could give people insight into what your lifestyle is, and could narrow down various facts and information about you.
It's still illegal to sell fake drugs, because you're contributing to the facilitation of the crime. I suspect this would be similar.
And I buy a lot of that clothing from Buffalo Exchange and similar stores, but in spite of Buffalo Exchange being a national chain it's a modestly sized private company:
http://www.buffaloexchange.com/about-us/
IIRC third world countries are large antibiotic abusers and they have no regulations in place to control for these things.
Does this not fall under the requested:

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Getting the broad spectrum of bacteriophages is not easy. Nor is a sample of infected tissue (ex: meningitis).

Don't get me wrong, it could be a viable backup. But, it's not nearly as useful for things like surgery where you want to knock everything down before there is a problem. And it's not nearly as cheap as handing out penicillin was.

PS: Another issue is separating out the Bacteria phages without introducing a lot of new possible infections.
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In that regard it's hard to beat the Curies (barring the older Bernoulli family, of course): https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3laog8/til_t....

That's 5 Nobel Prizes (or 4 if you disregard the Peace Prize that the son-in-law earned).
That many victims should be cause for more years than what he received in my opinion.
Perhaps not, but if there was a spate of people working at Arby's for free, I'm pretty sure it would become a topic of research.
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The same way they track them now -- with all the other
investigation and intelligence methods they have now. It's not like cyrpto makes investigation impossible or magically makes terrorists immune to OpSec errors that enable the authorities to find them.
My brother lives in Alaska, and he just built a home this past summer. No Internet, no phone. Just electricity. He has to fill a 1500 gallon water tank in the town because he's up too high to drill a well, there's no running water.

He's not too confident in his heater, and being away from home when it's -20C for more than a few hours can do serious damage if the heaters not running. Most people would just use the Internet, but he can't. So what do you do?

We scripted around APRS raw packets [1] and APRSDroid [2]. He bought some 1WIRE temperature sensors that are plugged into his OpenWRT WAP. The values are served up by apache, and a $10 smartphone from craigslist reads the values and pipes them [3] through APRSDroid. This then goes via the headphone jack to his radio and it gets digipeated a couple times before it hits the 'net.

Now he can watch his home temperature while he's at work and not get worried. How cool is that?

[1] http://blog.aprs.fi/2010/03/decoded-and-hex-raw-packets-defa...

[2] http://aprsdroid.org/

[3] https://github.com/sielickin/local2aprs
Although it has so many problems it's still my favourite method to get from A to B. Yes, windows, Internet, well spread out network. That's nice.
Absolutely, so we as community, seeing these problems, need to be pro-active in helping government discover more effective ways to protect the people of this world from extremists.

The hands-up "Well, terrorism happens. Nothing to do about it." sentiment of many in our community is obviously not resonating with the general public. If we don't provide serious alternatives, they will continue pushing these sorts of methods to greater and greater extremes.
I'm using the server monitoring with StatsD integration pretty heavily and am pretty happy with it so far. I'm guessing the app monitoring is probably pretty well done based on how nicely the server monitoring works.
I'm not sure I entirely agree. Having been on the "other side" I can say with confidence that at least some employers truly dislike the hiring process and would be eager to hire the first candidate who shows signs of competence. Unfortunately, at least in the tech sector, competence can be more difficult to ascertain than in other industries. Even lengthy resumes often come affixed to very incompetent candidates. I suppose one could subject them to the indignity of an actual "coding test," but the whole process of finding a test that accurately reflects competence is itself quite difficult. The result is that we've ended up doing "trial runs" with contractors with the promise of full employment after some time, many of whom clearly demonstrate a real lack of preparedness after the first two weeks at the cost of a few thousand dollars.
I have been studying this, Elm explicitly forbids "signals of signals". This basically bans dynamic mutation of the dataflow graph and makes dynamic Gui's very difficult. The solution is not to enable signals of signals, because they are a source of problems. The solution would be to hoist all the functions up one level and operate on a dataflow graph comprised of transformations of signal transforms. This will kill many of the nice properties of Elm (hot code replacement), but the cost of the current system is that its unusable for application context switches and dynamic GUIs. In the literature the high level style of FRP is called AFRP (arrowized FRP).

I am currently prototyping AFRP ideas in Typescript and RxJS, although its very early days and basically not usable ATM. https://github.com/tomlarkworthy/animaxe (a better typed version is in a branch and not compiling ATM)
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