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This is a great article! Been thinking of writing one myself for a while now. I have a project (https://github.com/johnBartos/RadioFreeTwitch) which siphons Twitch's HLS streams and extracts the audio-only portion from its manifest file. Up until recently, it's been near impossible to get a reliable, easy to use solution for non-flash HLS. So I shelved the project until the technology matured. Just last night I decided to take a crack at a flashless solution and was blown away by how easy it was - I use Flowplayer, and hlshjs (https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer-hlsjs) was just plug-and-play for me.
You realize that most farmers in California have received zero surface water for the last two years, right?

Some farmers in the Imperial Valley (east of Los Angeles) have an abundance of water because it comes from the Rockies and they have strong water rights. Another group near Sacramento have strong water rights as well. All of the farmers in the central valley are getting 0% of their water allocation for the last two years which kinda puts 25-40% voluntary reductions in perspective.
This looks great. Any tips on how to terminate mixed-mode protocols like MySQL's SSL mode and IMAP's STARTTLS? Vanilla unwrapper daemons generally don't handle the case of initial unencrypted bit twiddling, and then SSL negotiation.
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That's a good suggestion. Guide quality runs the gambit so checking reviews of the licensed guides for a particular museum can save a few bucks. I've had guys recite the brochure and not even get it right.

Right now I'm taking the time consuming approach of reading a couple books on major destinations and hoping for the best. Next up, A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between.
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a larger sample is required to ensure the results are statistically significant

Bad science. Worse reporting.
You do not. We all pay for our roads through gas taxes. The real question becomes then: Why should I pay for you to ride the bus?
This all makes a lot more sense if you just accept that the government isn't 'working for you' or however people think of it these days. They're working for them. They're playing a shell game to work around you. Not exactly breaking news when we have long-standing political families and parties. It's not a new thing. There is a political ruling class. We're not in it and the people who are like this ability so they're going to hoodwink us to keep it. It's just that simple.
This is very different than the Target hack -- we have become numb to credit card focused hacks -- we all know the drill, we just get a new card in the mail a few days later, and the banks are pretty good at detecting fraud: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/credit-card-fraud-and-id-theft...

To me both Sony and Ashley Madison are part of a very different type of hack, that we are just starting to understand.

They leak massive amounts of personal information, and this personal information can and does ruin lives. This article outlines much of the emotional turmoil that Sony employees went through, and in Ashley Madison, there were suicides as a result:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/08/technology/ashley-madison-su...

You can rotate your credit card number, but rotating your real life is not possible.

I don't see a way out. Going anonymous might be possible for living on the internet, but you cannot be anonymous to your employer.
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They've just been waiting to use phrases like these since Snowden went public. There just hasn't been a large enough terror attack to justify it.
>I'm having a hard time with the statement as a super-majority of economists agree that liberal trade is a net boon

Not the OP but familiar with some of these arguments.

Free trade is held to be pareto optimal outcome - you and I get cheaper tshirts, people in bangladesh get higher incomes because of tshirt manufacturing, everyone is better off because of comparative advantage, etc.

However, if we distinguish between development or industrialization, then free trade provides strong disincentives wrt investing in capital intensive industries where one does not have a comparative advantage.

If I have capital to invest in Bangladesh, it does not make sense for me to try to create a high-end equipment factory; German manufacturers are way more efficient and effective, so it will be very hard for me to compete.

The competitive advantage of my region is cheap-labour, so all investment will be biased towards that. Unfortunately, this means that it's very hard to create high-value-added industries that can substantially raise average incomes.

If we look into the historical record, we find that the industrial revolution was a period of high tariffs and protectionism; the British empire had a great advantage in acquiring raw materials but IIRC, the French textile industry was more efficient at the time.

As a result, they were incentivized to export raw resources and import high value added materials. This is a loser's game. Instead, with the application of high tariffs British manufacturers were now able to compete and thus were incentivized to develop their own industry.

Again, IIRC, you can basically take every well-industrialized nation and look back to the period where they gained their industrial edge and you will find high tariffs and protectionist policies aimed at protecting and developing their own internal industries.

(This is a decent segue into talking about how pareto optimal outcomes, without taking the initial distribution of resources into account, aren't automatically moral or just http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5537.html )

TLDR: free trade makes things cheaper, and spreads money around, but it does not automatically make poorer countries substantially richer.
LOL almost! Sometimes I stop and ponder that if I followed the exact same career path but offset by -4 years (start in tech ~1994, move to banking in ~2004), I'd probably be a multi-millionaire and retired at 40. Luck of the draw.

I'm certainly not destitute, but I feel my experiences have given me a more realistic understanding about the role luck plays in your career vs. hard work--certainly more than the average 20-something today who has never experienced a single career-crippling downturn let alone two.
> The problem is that Canonical is (intentionally?) vague about what you need to do with their software to redistribute it.

What does trademark law say on the issue? I assume there are some differences between using a trademark and merely mentioning it, because if not then this post would be illegal due to having the words "Canonical" and "Ubuntu" in it.
Training over 1,000s of sales people of SaaS Start-ups by sitting next to them making the call, I like to share some insights on this topic:

This is a great story BUT:
+ This was a professional, there are few of them left, also there are fewer and fewer people who like to "talk to a stranger on the phone"
+ This does not scale for many reasons, you simply can't train this
+ This only applies to a certain kind of sale

So how do you cold call in a scalable and trainable way - in todays always on economy:

COLD
+ Never make it COLD - but you can do plenty of other things before you call, visit their LI profile, retweet something, share their post, etc.

CALL
+ There are many ways to CALL - make it based on their behavior/role, calling an IT manager on the phone is not going to be appreciated, but calling an HR person may be. When you call make sure you do something along the following lines - this can be copied:

1) Make this about them
2) Show them you have done the research (have LI profile open)
3) Give straight answers if they ask straight questions
4) Do NOT pitch, instead share how others have benefited
5) Offer them value...
6) Follow the conversation, ask, listen, summarize what they said...
7) Try to ask a handful of questions to diagnose their problem, NOT to sell them something

You can find more via this article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-sales-teams-need-trade-pi...

Hope this helps.
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Regardless of why this is here, negligence or cost cutting, this is pretty bad and leaves the systems pretty open.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when law enforcement compromises the security of a network without a warrant, they need to be prosecuted and jailed under the same law that any other hackers breaking the law would be. As long as there are no consequences for breaking the law, the NSA will continue breaking the law.
> Humans can do things on Mars that drones cannot

Such as? The only thing I can think of is that they can test if the human body can endure life on Mars. Honestly, as cool as sending people to mars is, I don't think it is an idea driven by rationality at this point.
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The scenario of the person "under a pile of medical-school debt" isn't what's being looked at here. The study behind the article is looking at senior cardiologists, who, presumably, have paid off their student loans already.

What we're looking at here isn't economic conflict of interest, but simple bias. Doing things feels better than not doing things, so they do it. Experience might even work against them because we're biased to remember the good outcomes from things rather than consider carefully the general success rate of a procedure.
> This doesn't change the fact that you can use their code as you wish.

But I can't use the code as I wish. If I want to make a modification to it and then redistribute it, I then have to go through the entire codebase and remove trademarks. I wish to do the first step without doing the second step, and I can't.
3D niche? I can't go to any movie anymore cause they are all fg 3D and I hate it. My head hurts horribly after onw of those.
this is exactly right. when i took piano lessons as a child my parents would chide me if i tried to learn music that interested me (blues, pops, rock). they would literally prevent me from learning what i wanted, which would just manifest in resentment and reluctance in learning what they wanted me to learn (basically nothing but classical). lose-lose.

good intentions, shockingly terrible execution. i still give them grief for that today, and they admit it was ill-conceived. it's a great example of smart people doing stupid, stupid things.

and as far as museums go, perhaps it isn't a great idea to spend 4 hours straight in a single place walking in circles with a young child. the next time you want to go to a museum, what are they going to remember? the beautiful art, or the forced march?

it's all these little things are what build resentment in children, not the big ideas. it's sabotaging your own good intentions. maybe i just don't know anything about parenting (i have no kids myself) but it just seems patently obvious to me that you shouldn't ruin good things like this by projecting adult-levels of discipline on little kids!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite#Power_.C3.A9lites

It's been a lot longer than just recent days that surveillance agencies have had their top members inside of the power elite. J. Edgar Hoover ran the country for quite some time without any real democratic process to stop him.
You're completely missing the actual conflict of interest, balance the creed of 'do not harm' with the reality of protecting themselves from the patients. No one wants to be sued for 'not doing enough' and stick of a potential malpractice suite makes the already incentivized extra procedures make a lot more sense.

For once the larger problems don't lie with the system (although they certainly aren't helping), but rather the disgusting culture we have built up surrounding medical care and expectations. When your obese octogenarian grandmother dies the first thought shouldn't be litigation because the doctor didn't "run enough tests".
Those fundamental freedoms are what determine whether a license is free or not, according to the FSF.

Compliance with free licenses makes the software free (legally). And of course, licenses are legal documents, subject to the laws in the jurisdiction that applies.
4KB is the size of a page on x86 and most architectures, the smallest unit of memory the OS can dispense. SSL termination is definitely a function you don't want the kernel to swap to disk, therefore each connection would get at least 4KB of physical memory under a process-per-connection model.
But it completely ignores the main reason we do this: because we're humans and we're not rational. We have irrational emotions, and we think symbolically. Sending a human to Mars and bringing them back is way less about actually going to Mars and back and way more about humanity making sure we can still beat challenges that face us.
with the speed of robotics advancement, compared to advancement in material science and human preservation technologies, we actually might have a team of base-building Martian robots before being able to send astronauts there.
When I was 19 I was diagnosed with something called hydronephrosis. It's effect on my kidney function wasn't significant but my parents took me to see one of the most famous urologists (I think the hospital was in philadelphia) anyway. I don' remember the specifics but the doctor immediately recommended invasive surgery. My father then took me to another urologist he knew from a friend's recommendation. This doctor said that there was no reason to have surgery yet. The kidney with the hydronephrosis had something like 4% below utilization rate that was normal and that we should wait. We decided to follow the second doctors advice and do regular checkups every year and the problem actually just went away.

The most amazing thing about this experience was when we called 3 weeks in advance to cancel the appointment for surgery the nurse got angry with us and said something along the lines of "You actually dare to waste the doctor's time?". It was very surreal.

TLDR: Don't get pressured into getting surgery, go get second opinions.
If the problem were the medical-school debt, I would expect junior physicians to be more worried about it than senior physicians, no?
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I could be totally off base here, but couldn't people without access to a good grocery store just buy their groceries online and have them delivered? Does it cost more to have groceries shipped?

I understand Co-Op's offer more cheaply priced groceries and that's a great community project so I'm not suggesting Co-Op's have no point. They're great things. I'm just wondering what the difference between big box grocery stores and online grocery delivery is?
I really wish people would quit treating doctors as unquestionable authorities on health. Rather, they should be treated as consultants - expertise for hire - who should be able to give good answers to most questions, but should expect to have to defend their recommendations, and can sometimes be wrong.
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Most medical doctors in the US aren't paid as a function of patients seen. Unless they're in a niche subset of medicine (cosmetic surgery) or have their own practice setup (hint: you won't find surgeons buried in school debt operating their own practice; the overhead is insane [staff, material goods, and oh god the insurance] would bankrupt a surgeon straight out of residency/fellowship), they're going to be debtors regardless of whether or not that blood test or drug is administered, or whether or not they send out for that radiology consult. It's almost certainly "when all you've been trained with is a hammer <from MS3, through residency, then fellowship for most surgeons, ~7-8 years>, ..." syndrome as others here have said
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Don't worry about it! I figure most of us only have the time and attention to work on a few things. If you don't happen to be fascinated by integrating lightbulbs and Minecraft, that doesn't make you a boring/uncreative/dumb/whatever person.
Because the so called "oversight" committees are acting like the NSA's biggest cheerleaders, instead of making sure they don't exceed their legal powers.

Feinstein even admitted after the Snowden revelations that she wasn't even aware of many of the leaked programs NSA uses. A failure to punish the abuses only increases the number of abuses, as they learn that they can "get away with it" with no accountability.
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According to 60 Minutes, competing big banks have blocked m-pesa type services in many countries.
> On the other hand, I-270 through Maryland sees about 200,000 cars daily.

Daily... so one commuter to work and back home counts as two? So the road enables 100,000 commuters, or somewhat less than that, if we subtract people who drive through during other times than commute hours.
Maybe a drone can build Starfighter too...
I wrote the parent comment on the go so here's more details. I'm specifically referring to the python script [1] mentioned in the article titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" [2]. I don't know much about ANNs but after a quick glance at the code, it seems to be setting up a generic three layer RNN. Based on this, I would argue that ability to learn patterns in sequence of data is all that's needed to learn a language. Calling it a "grammar" ties it too much to concept of language since such learning ability extends beyond human languages.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/karpathy/d4dee566867f8291f086

[2]: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
Yes, that is exactly whose safety they are concerned with. People who are willing to give their life for a cause may be too willing to do so. There is nothing wrong with making a project as safe as possible, even if you can find volunteers with higher risk tolerances.
Here is a great contrarian point to the CityLab discovery about induced demand. An individual is unwilling to walk 2 miles to the nearest grocery store, the solution would be to take a bus, however a route does not exist the ideal solution would be a car.
However, entrepreneurs stepped in and identified what the non-car community would pay for things and still turn a profit: $5 for milk from readily available stores. As an aside, how is this any different from Walgreens/CVS' model of having multiple convenient locations, but charge a larger premium.

The idea of a food desert is non-sense as people have access to food, they just want cheaper prices.
Unfortunately not. STARTTLS is the bane of standalone TLS terminators like titus, which is one of the reasons I really dislike STARTTLS. I won't rule out titus supporting STARTTLS some day, but the idea of integrating parsers for a bunch of different protocols into titus is really unappealing.
Even the GPL says you can't misrepresent the origin of the software. Besides changing attribution clauses, all you'd need to remove is artwork.
A lot of debate's going round over what is M-Pesa and what it isn't. Yes, M-Pesa is the specific variant of mobile money transfer introduced by Vodacom. However, M-Pesa in Kenya is what pushed mobile money transfers to light in Africa. For the longest while it wasn't just successful, but also the only large scale deployment of such a service (At least Half of GDP flows through the service!). Unlike other countries that had continual relaunches, rebrands, and failures, M-Pesa just bloomed. All that led to this brand genericide where it's much easier to talk of M-Pesa rather than account for Tigo, Airtel money, and all other fledgling counterparts. M-Pesa is the 'kleenex' / 'xerox' of mobile money transfers. (African Telecos are always being acquired, renamed, or merged leading to rebooting/relaunching of their mobile money brands. Contrastingly, Safaricom, the telecommunications company that deploys M-Pesa, is remarkably stable and is the biggest earning corporate entity in Eastern & Central Africa)
I think this is an unlikely explanation, but you got an upvote from me for even suggesting an alternative explanation for the findings.
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Yes and no. They believe the peninsula where they may have found the city of Kane used to be a separate island. They think there used to be a channel that filled in over time, converting the island into a peninsula.
So, essentially, make my life and home even more expensive, pushing me further and further out into a cheaper area, making my (still car-centric) commute even longer?

I'd love it if you could wave a magic wand and simply "make" bikeable-to-work housing in the Bay Area more affordable, but good luck with that.
The US has a long tradition of not jailing its political lawbreakers, though. The way they pitch immunity in this case is to claim that a prosecution of an NSA official that broke the law would cause the remaining NSA employees to be on-guard for lawbreaking, and too busy to watching their ass to do their job at the NSA effectively, leading to terrorist attacks against the US.

In effect, they say that it is unreasonable for us to expect the NSA to both obey the law and do their jobs.

Nevermind that they've re-written the laws to make their invasive surveillance completely legal.
From what I have witnessed, the average American I come into contact with still doesn't seem to care about the spying. I have recently had conversations in the past week since the Paris attacks with a few people that seemed to really believe Snowden's leaks were a big reason this happened and anyone who has "nothing to hide" should support the dragnet NSA policies.

The sad thing is that the US intelligence community apparently notified the French spooks about the possibility of an impending ISIS attack(s) (which seems ambiguous, after all, an attack could occur anywhere) and a few of the attackers were on fundamentalist watch lists, and yet the attacks still happened. Yet no major media outlet has (at least that I have seen) identified this as an example of a failure of the US/EU ICs. Glenn Greenwald was on CNN yesterday throwing CNN's anchor under the bus for allowing all these major IC talking heads to come on and blame snowden, talk up dragnet, etc. - it was pretty interesting.

Terrorist attacks, which are black swan events, are not preventable. So if I have to deal with them, I would rather deal with them without the dragnet than with it. I also cant think of a single example of the NSA/CIA preventing a major terrorist attack in the US (at lets face it, if they had one, they would have used this as a shining example by now). All of the attacks that were thwarted were just by luck: shoe bomber, underwear bomber, time square bomber, etc.
Thats the reason I don't like dentists who are also proprietors and have fewer patients due to the location of their clinics. Too much conflict of interest - there is no point for them to wait and see if a tooth can reinitialize, they'd rather take off healthy tissue to make a buck. I'd rather go to a established chain clinic where dentists are employees and they always have patients anyway because of the location (large popular mall).
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The world is not moved forward by those who seek the safety of their current existence. It is those who dare to throw caution to the wind and embrace the challenge of the unknown.

Just because there is a danger of dieing doesn't mean that it shouldn't be attempted or that there are not those willing to attempt it.
Almost. It's now connected to the mainland as part of a peninsula, which seems to have complicated things somewhat.
I don't see any Unity-specific patches in the glib package in Ubuntu. What are you referring to?