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The environmental and animal rights groups in the UK became a major target of the Security Services and Special Branch after the Good Friday Agreement.

Essentially you had lots of surveillance teams and analysts who had nothing more to do, because the Irish terrorist threat had pretty much evaporated over night.

They kept watching the Russians and some internal SOCA type targets (organised crime), but mostly there were lots of people twiddling their thumbs.

Alongside this, the animal rights campaigners had done things that were vaguely "terroristic" in nature. Since the target of the animal rights campaigners were often the elite who hunted foxes, the hunt group lobbied to make sure these groups got Special Branch's attention. Special Branch like paid overtime, hence they got someone new to focus on. The hunt campaigners won however and hunting with hounds got banned. Though it must be pointed out that a large number of the public in general favoured the ban by 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_Act_2004#Public_opinio...

Now nearly everyone is working on the Islamic desks. Some Russian stuff still and maybe 1% on the Irish to keep an eye on them, but the large Irish informant network will have been left to rot.

As a side note, the Security Services have traditionally had difficulties building informant networks inside the Islamic targets (inside the UK). The Irish responded well to payment in cash and drugs and "look the other way whilst we continue our Mafia-like activities", since for the most part, they were a well armed and well funded crime syndicate with a religious hard-core. Islamic fundamentalists haven't responded so well to offers of cash for information.

Also in terms of putting officers inside these groups, the UK has a very small minority of officers that could actually blend in undercover, although the trend is increasing. Total minority ethnic police officers made up 5.5% of all officers on 31 March 2015. There were 6,715 Minority Ethnic police officers in the 43 police forces on 31 March 2014. This represents 5.2 per cent of the police officer total. Only a handful of officers become Special Branch officers and they are hand picked (I believe unofficially). The chances of a having a Muslim minority Special Branch officer, prepared to spy of other Muslims is therefore rather slight.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-workforce-...
It made some sense at the time the law was conceived. SSL was crippled to uselessness by US export restrictions. IE 6 had a monopoly. So they built their own much more secure encryption (using ActiveX to plug into IE) and mandated its use for everything that matters.

The incompetence was in mandating a certain implementation instead of writing a technology-neutral law requiring a certain security level.
`git diff` is a beautiful thing; I often use it instead of the usual diff (with --no-index --color --color-words)
> During compilation time, do you think it's possible to let your mind stay idle, as to avoid distraction and internet compulsive disorder?

Probably, though this is certainly a problem I run into. Your line also gave me an idea, how about a script that blocks sites but only when compiling?
Perhaps we should consider regulating false advertising (in and out of the Internet) before trying such strange measures as "forbidding infinite scroll". Perhaps such regulation should include the form of false advertising we call click-bait (of which this article is, perhaps, a borderline case).
So - as a result, the VCs may be in conflict with management/common shareholders when it comes to making a decision between selling the company (and collecting their liquidation preference) versus an IPO (in which the VCs lose all their seniority) - which is why the ratchet is in place, to protect that preferential treatment?
I think you misinterpret collective rationality, as Weirich never try's explain a historical progression for western morality.

And as mentioned there have been other cultures with strong rational traditions that have come to far different moral conclusions than today - e.g. soviet/communism, Islamic societies,etc.. Pure reason thought doesn't go one direction, it can take you to very different and uncomfortable places.
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I don't know what yummyfajitas is saying with the "case by case" thing, but your outrage does seem to be a bit misplaced.

On the scale of Bad Things Cops Have Done In The Last Six Years, pretending to be someone's boyfriend seems pretty insignificant. Cops in America will shoot a black teenager just for walking down the street (literally). That's the loss of someone's entire life, not just six years of it. In fact, police frequently kill innocent people of all races due to misunderstandings or with stray bullets. It is unfortunate, but we all understand that it happens.

It is possible that you would be equally eloquent in your deridement of police procedures if those stories were on the homepage of hackernews. But I doubt it.
Why? Just drop DST and adjust the schedules.
How  to Fight Gender Bias in Performance Reviews
I'm not sure whether we should use "addiction" and "lack of discipline" interchangeably. Ever since I was small, I've associated the former word with changes in brain chemistry that cannot be overcome with a regular dose of self-discipline (e.g. heroin addiction). If we can break it behaviorally, then isn't it a compulsion disorder of some sort?
Effective Communication in the Workplace: 3 Tricks to Fuse the Old with the New
If you need 8G of resident memory to have the apps you want running then you need 8G... no shortcuts. That is a pretty high figure, though. Afaik things like disk caches aren't restored during a suspend/resume.
I think its more a case that reviews after your first have a lot less manual intervention, they certainly seem to happen much faster after the initial review.
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They only need one original precedent. If they get that, apple will have to stop all the others.
> She would lose 6 years and trust issues if he were a private actor also.

Yes, and that would be a very bad thing.

> Again - would this be OK if he just wanted a shag while undercover and his bosses were unaware?

He's an undercover cop, what his bosses are or are not aware of is immaterial. He's on 'company time' so to speak and if he does things while on 'company time' when interacting with people the company tasked him to interact with and he does not tell them about it that does not absolve them, especially not if that lasts for 6 years. That would make them dangerously incompetent if they weren't aware of it.

> Is sending a sexy lady cop go seduce anti-gay terrorists also unacceptable?

To seduce them per-se: absolutely not acceptable, especially not if she sexy lady cop is the one taking the initiative.

To gather evidence: to pretend to be their friend (not to seduce them) for a limited time, maybe, if the crimes those people are engaged in are serious enough and that is the only way that evidence can be gathered.

A police officer being ordered by their superior to have sex with a subject is already crossing a whole pile of lines. After all, the police is supposedly there to serve the public, not to get off on the public.

> Particularly if it turned out that they weren't actually gay bashing but instead just protesting gay weddings, pushing employers to fire gay employees, and other assholeish but legal behavior?

See above. It's all about proportionality.
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I don't think special relativity is quite on the same level of strangeness (no pun intended) of quantum physics. For one, the axioms of special relativity are actually pretty believable, not to mention the incredible elegance of its integration with classical electromagnetism.
I've been working in both startups and large multinationals and I'd say, you should go to startup first. It will give you sense of the freedom, that will stay for the rest of your life. It's important, because some independency is necessary to build successful career. Then go to a big corp to get REAL experience. There you'll improve your soft skills, build good network, learn about processes and tools, that you might never heard of in startups, and that will help you in future to scale your code and your future teams. Try both approaches, never choose single path, and eventually you will know what you want to do.
The way this is going, Elon Musk might be right, again
Every time I tried SVGs over past years there was always some problem with them. They didn't work in one browser, required some different format in other. I hope it will work flawlessly in all browsers some day because it's really nice format.
7. Pretend to fix the issue, but instead get k-street to bribe the politicians.
8. Repeat
You are mixing up dark matter and dark energy. The main effect of dark matter is not universal expansion, it is from both influences of gravity on galaxies and theory.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid...
The biggest problem with caching things during the boot process is that turning our devices off and on again will not magically solve our problems any more.
Refoodgee app pairs Berlin locals with refugees to share a meal
That refers to the end of extended support, which just recently happened for Windows XP. Vista is under extended support until April 2017, as mentioned on the page you quoted from.
Can someone please fix the link title? The article is very interesting, but I almost skipped it because of the miscontructed sentence. The only reason I opened it was to check whether the article itself had that headline...

(edit: actually, the target page title is grammatically correct)
> IF the observed expansion of the universe is indeed due to dark matter as we think of it, and

The accelerating expansion of the universe is thought to be caused by dark energy, not dark matter.
I think Microsoft is deliberately confusing there, but that's referring to the end of extended support. Extended support means only security fixes (and fixes you pay tons of money for).

Scroll down to the table on this page:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/lifepolicy
Probably because phones are rebooted so rarely - it only happens on an OS update or if your battery runs out.
Don't we need something to keep our brain active during compilation? It's rather the opposite: Black out Facebook/email as soon as compilation is over. The problem isn't being on fb, the problem is being there too long and decreasing the productivity.
I wrote a self-contained svg application in 2009:
http://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2009/05/01/cubetest.svg
Then and now it works fine in chromium and firefox.

Edit: here is a link to background information on using SVG for complete applications:
http://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2009/04/27/writing-applicat...
In the vast majority of deals, collecting your liquidation preference is a sort of soft landing - the VCs just get their money back (without interest). It's much better for everyone if there's a big exit (either a high priced acquisition or selling shares on NYSE after an IPO) in which case the VC will convert to common and get 5x or 10x or what have you.

That's not to overlook the host of differing incentives between preferred and common-which are numerous and often even intentional. Ratchets are closer to antidilution than they are to liqpref.
Yay! More click bait-y doom-and-gloom nonsense from Medium.com. /s

Seriously, what's the deal with these poor quality posts and why do they float so high in the Hacker News rankings?

Aside: The same can be said for posts linking to theguardian lately.

The internet dream is far from dead. Despite numerous setbacks surrounding lack of security/privacy, new standards/practices are being introduced to fix the issues.

The whole personal computer ecosystem that used to be dominated by vendor-monopolized platforms have continually become more open and flexible over time.

The flexibility to share data and services across the web in a standardized manner has never been better. 10 years ago, tools like Zapier that thrive in the ecosystem of openness never would have been possible. There are public APIs and microservices for anything and everything nowadays.

The developer tools and platforms are evolving at an ever-increasing rate. Data silos are crumbling. Patent/copyright trolls are getting paid their due. Sources of very high quality educational materials are abundant and free. etc...

We live in truly exceptional times.
Still is clean and simple. I like the new syntax.
I wish the article would have talked more about the alleged danger this environmental group posed to warrant a 6 year plant like this. Did these environmentalists make threats, act on threats, how severe were the threats/actions? It just seems so overblown.
Has anyone booted the pdf in a minute?
I wonder if there are any disk suspend systems that are smart enough to tie into the VM system... instead of a specific monolithic RAM-sized suspend file, just flush everything to virtual memory on suspend, and on awake only restore the minimum needed for the OS and accounting, then start swapping everything else in lazily as the user needs it (or in advance in the background if the user is idle)
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I think people overuse #ifdef when they should really be using #if.
Transcribe video and audio to synchronised, searchable, sharable text
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Quite obviously, they are trying the American model of suing everybody in sight again and again until they give up.
That sentence almost sounds like a garden path sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
why do you consider this article click-bait? The content-to-link ratio of that page is extremely low. I agree that the HN link title is a bit sensationalist, but I'm a bit puzzled why the article itself would be bait-y.
> The environmental and animal rights groups in the UK became a major target of the Security Services and Special Branch after the Good Friday Agreement.

They were a major target in the 1980s when they were firebombing department stores.

Anti hunt campaigners got increased attention when the Hunt Retribution Squad started desecrated a grave with the intent to remove the corpse and send the head to Princess Anne, again in the 1980s.

There was some crossover between the groups. Increased restriction on rights to protest and increased protections of businesses have probably created more extremism. Now instead of campaigning against a laboratory using animals the protestors will campaign against the companies who supply the lab - companies selling stationary or office equipment or chairs, or supplying admin staff.
With my Nexus 4, rebooting every other day is a pretty good idea. Usually fixes my Wi-Fi, 3G, and all sorts of weird bugs for the moment. Don't know how representative this is for Android phones in general, but most Nexus 4 owners I know tell me this is normal.

Oh, usually once a week, sometimes twice a day, the phone will do the rebooting for me. Sometimes when it's in my pocket, sometimes when I try to watch a video that's just too long. Maybe some kind kind of memory error?
Could you elaborate on point 4? I thought google prides itself on having a very coherent technology stack without unnecessary choice and variety.
that doesn't make sense? Who would go to the effort of adding type hints and then not run the checker?
I think you misunderstood me. I am saying the electromagnetic force can be fit the bill where we currently are trying to squeeze in "dark matter". Please be aware that we have not discovered dark matter, we don't know what its made of, its properties, or really, if it even exists.

But i get it. Thinking outside of the box is frowned upon around here. Lets all be fanboys, and fuck yea downvote me some more.
It's often a lot cheaper, at least in the Netherlands, to buy an unused banking license than to actually jump through all the hoops to get a new license. Reading this, this regulator seems to have a lot of leeway to propose arbitrary restrictions thus hampering business in the interest of protecting customers. It's hard to do a cost-benefit on this type of customer protection by the regulator.

Related reads:

* Rule of Law in the Regulatory State by John Cochrane [1]

* WebMD versus FTC [2]

[1] http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.nl/2015/08/rule-of-law-in-regu...
[2] http://www.scmagazine.com/dismissed-labmd-case-could-impact-...
I think Yahoo has had multiple interesting projects of enormous potential.

Yahoo.com, the homepage itself, has been and still is amongst the most trafficked websites on the Internet. Even now it's in top 5, coming before Amazon, Wikipedia or Twitter. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites

Yahoo Mail existed before Gmail and I don't know what happens in other countries, but in my country Yahoo Mail is still the most popular web mail. But they've been bleeding marketshare, because frankly, Yahoo Mail sucks due to poor UI, poor spam filters and stupid restrictions (like they wouldn't allow POP unless you had a paid subscription). Compare with Gmail and the rise of Google Apps. Gmail with btw keeps people locked in Google's ecosystem, along with Android, insuring that Google's search engine also dominates mobile, because that's how complementaries work.

Yahoo Messenger was a natural extension of Yahoo Mail. In my country everybody was on Yahoo Messenger. It had enormous potential for building a social network and they even made a half assed attempt. Nowadays that's been replaced by Facebook and Skype. Even Hangouts is more popular amongst my acquaintances, because Yahoo Messenger also sucks and it's basically dead.

Flickr has been and is still is the best service for amateur and even professional photographers to share their stuff. Photo sharing is a really big market. Facebook, Instagram, Google Photos, Imgur, Reddit all of them have a place in photo sharing, plus I feel there's still enormous untapped potential in this place. But ALAS they let it stagnate, though I appreciate that in 2015 we finally have mobile apps. But then the Pro subscriptions are now more expensive and make absolutely no sense, as you're paying for something you can get with an ad-blocker - a fatal combination IMHO. I was a Pro subscriber in the past, but not anymore.

Their Search could still be a credible competitor. They just made a deal with Mozilla for distributing Firefox with Yahoo's search by default. But on one hand they ditched their own technology, now relying on Bing for their own results. And also they bring nothing new, while being inferior. They could at least take a stance on privacy, I mean if you can't compete by being superior, at least compete by being the ethical choice. But no. And I'm pretty sure many Firefox users simply switch back to Google, just like myself.

Delicious, just like Google Reader, had enormous potential for a specialized social network of things. They couldn't see value in it and sold it. Oh well.
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Those aren't mutually exclusive.
If you strip out the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes, the market is valuing Yahoo's "core" at less than $8bn. It has $5.88bn of cash, cash equivalents and short-term marketable securities on its balance sheet, which means that the core business is valued at less $1.5bn.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UHMfzlmE7HXY_ph9BN68...

The balance sheet figure for "Property and equipment" is higher than that.

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/900583056x0x1637...
Here's a thought:

There's a field where Google has been doing slightly worse as time goes by: questionable search. It's a running joke by now that Bing's video search is much better for searching porn that Youtube. Similarly, searching for "<band> full album mp3 download" on Google is bound to return useless websites. Sometimes the actual results are to be found inside the text of a DMCA takedown notice, meaning that Google has the result, but refuses to show it to you.

And speaking of bad results, some specific terms (such as moving companies) are so full of SEO garbage that there's no way to get a reliable result.

There's definitely room for competition - otherwise, DuckDuckGo would have been out of business by now.
What does matter to me is whether the standard build tool for the language will run that tool on a proposed library release before that library gets uploaded to PyPI (or equivalent). If there are type annotations in the standard package repository that are lies then that seriously limits the usefulness of the whole thing.
I guess they hope eventually a judge will confirm their ridiculous position, and then they can go "See!?!? We told you so!" and once again go after ABP.
It is so encouraging to see this European beachhead of sanity. Recent Canadian and US steps toward copyright sanity, driven by public consultation and expert debate, will be rolled back by the TPP, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/users-ustr-dont-sign-a...

"… the Register of Copyrights issued a report about this very problem called Orphan Works and Mass Digitization … acknowledges a need to do something about the fact that "orphan works are a frustration, a liability risk, and a major cause of gridlock in the digital marketplace." … One proposal is to put limits on the legal consequences for those who do anything technically infringing, in order to make it less daunting to take a chance and use them."
How do farmed tuna have more mercury than wild harvested? They're both swimming in the same ocean eating the same pilchards.
Dark matter seems like a misunderstood component of gravity.

The current explanations just seem ridiculous.
Regulation, when implemented correctly, is the process of delegating power from a self-selected few to a democratically controlled body.
vonklaus is talking about consumer response to the label, not government response.

What had an effect was that the US forbade tuna that didn't fulfill the dolphin-safe requirements. The label itself is incidental to that.
Impossible for who?

It's MIT licensed. If you want to setup your own CI servers, you're free to fork the code.
I used to have a Nexus 4 and had the same problem. I now have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and still have the same kinds of issues, just not as frequently. From what I've heard from other people I think it's fair to say it's a general problem with Android-based smart phones.
> IIRC from some resarch I did, a decent card provider will reject a magstripe transaction from a terminal with EMV capability if a card is known to also be EMV capable... At least, it could in theory.

That's how it works for all countries other than the US. In the US EMV capable terminals are not common so transactions in the US are typically permitted no matter if magstripe or EMV. This is why starting with October this year the US are finally making the switch to EMV and once that roll-out is complete, magstripe transactions could (theoretically) be either disabled or severely limited. For instance you might have to confirm a magstripe transaction with a text message.
The universe does not expand:
www.cosmology.info/newsletter/2014.05.pdf

I follow the BSM-SG model in which dark matter/dark energy is absolutely clear what it is and how it functions.
The illustration is even a bit similar to the BSM-SG model, if you see it as the CL dimensions. Larger astronomical bodies have their own CL space, which means they carry a bubble with them those geometry is dependent on the body itself. This is why the photons get into a gravitational pull on heavy bodies, time goes differently, ...
The system is so broken it's not even funny.