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Another example is Laos. The US dropped a couple million tons worth of bombs there, leaving a third or more of the country contaminated.

The use of cluster bombs in particular, left unexploded bomblets embedded in trees or under soft earth, where they're detonated all too frequently.

(The US has slowly begun sending some money over to assist with cleanup.)
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>hey I still retain control of this and it hasn't been compromised.

For the most part certificates have never provided this guarantee. What they do guarantee is that A) the entity you're communicating with is in control of the private key and signed certificate that you expect B) your communication with that entity is secure from a man in the middle attack. And mostly B if you're visiting the site for the first time.
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Douches are harmful to female anatomy, so using them as a negative term is arguably pro-woman (is there a better term for that?).

It's similar to if "corset" or "foot binding" were used as a negative slang for something.
Yeah the enterprisey turn of MS, which is an extremely profitable business, was definitely all Ballmer. He deserves all the credit for that.

But the Apple turn was a pure consumer play, all bottom up.
some of us get by just fine in happy ecosystems that exist outside of linux.
Understanding is hardly the "only" potent defense. There are better ways to prevent things like this from happening but they are also pretty unpalatable to modern society.

Holding families accountable for treason worked pretty well in feudal cultures. Same here. Put the onus of responsibility for prevention of tragedy on the family. Failure to report / take adequate measures is negligence.

Also I think you are making the mistake most engineers make about the mentally unwell: that they can be "fixed" if only they were "diagnosed" early enough.

Very little evidence this is the case. You can medicate someone to the point they don't care anymore but you can't really fix bugs in their programming.
Among the benefits is that naming them in the media allows people who know them, have previous contact that perhaps the authorities don't know about, and have relevant information to have a trigger to recognize the relevance of the information and come forward with it. This may be information which is inculpating, exculpating, or which relates to potential previously unknown parties that may be involved in addition to the identified subject.
This machine is not going to help the most common use of paper in the offices these days as the monitor stands and height elevators for the tables.
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I bet what I considered reasonable.
The reason streaking at sports spectacles is not a thing anymore is because sports broadcasters refuse to show the streakers on TV or even talk about it when it happens. It's a form of censorship but it has worked, streaking is very rare at sports events nowadays.

I think the same effect could work for mass shootings, If all the media organizations refused to broadcast any info about mass shootings it would probably reduce the number of incidents. Unfortunately it seems unlikely that the news industry as a whole would collaborate and agree to censor themselves in this way, especially since there is a legitimate public danger while the incident is ongoing. Government is prohibited by the constitution from getting involved in media censorship so it would have to be done by the media companies themselves. And of course nowadays we have social media so it's even harder to enforce any kind of censorship.
I work on research close to this area -- time series w/ macro applications, but not on these specific models. These specific models are very very important for estimating the effects of monetary policy decisions, forecasting, etc. because they embed a fair bit of economic theory with a decent amount of estimation theory so that the models can address questions about "causality" in a meaningful way: if I intervene by changing the interest rate, what is the distribution of outcomes that will result. (The stuff I work on uses less economic theory so it can't address those questions.)

That's not to say that the NY Fed takes the model's recommendations uncritically and assumes that the models are perfect or the recommendations are the truth, because that would be nuts. Just that this class of models is one of the few ways to use "the data" to provide guidance about policy decisions.

The people who've developed the NY Fed's DSGE model are some of the absolute top people working on these models. It's based on a lot of academic research and a lot of research published in top journals by people at the NY Fed involved in building the model. Other banks have their own models, but I suspect this one is the highest profile. (Again, not precisely my field of research, so I could be missing one or two.)

So, to get around to answering your question. For academic research in economics, this is as "production level" as it gets. Is this the same as using Julia for algorithmic trading? No. The NY Fed's not running this model in real time, and if something crashes then they can restart it. But I think this is huge for Julia's adoption in economic research.

(For a pdf with more about the modeling strategy itself:
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
but that is 2 years old now.)
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I disagree. People are good about segmenting their lives. Few people have value commitments that are stronger than their ability to pay the mortgage.

I've worked with police who privately express feelings and take actions diametrically opposed to how they behave in a professional context.
Iraqi IEDs are a tiny drop in the bucket that is 'deployed landmines'. Most landmines are mass-produced by munitions companies. Start there.
> So do you include the future and the past?

Yes. I think the point of confusion is around "universality". I'm not talking about a unanimous agreement on preference between people born and unborn, I'm talking about attributes that define kindness (the set theory kind, not the Disney princess kind). I was hoping to make that clear with the perfect circle bit, but I wasn't aware of contention on the issue... pretend I said square, I'm pretty sure that is a safe universal definition. I have no opinion on the morality of geometry, but all squares share universal attributes. All humans share universal attributes as well, by way of biological imperatives - life is preferable to death, all things being equal and outside of coercion.
Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidance scheme?
When you download the app, it registers with Parse, which generates a registration ID for your device. When you use the CLI, it goes to Parse with the key you received from the app and queries for your installation, sending the notification to that specific installation.
The cool thing about Chrome extensions is that they're trivial to modify and implement. Feel free to make changes.

The word "douche" comes off as non sequitur. I don't think it's appropriate to use it when talking about murder right after it's happened. Sure, at some point that's fine, but this is really a "too soon" moment in my opinion.

Just my opinion, though. And the great part is, we can have it both ways. (It would be even easier if it were possible to customize the name from the extension settings. Then we wouldn't be bikeshedding right now, right? :)
yeah most of us.
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There are many people that don't condone those things but still think law enforcement should be able to get into people's computers or read communications with a warrant. It's more nuanced than you would like to believe.
This might be the best Hacker News comment I have ever read. Excelsior.
I'm sorry to be a wet blanket here. I know it's early and these are still alleged murderers but I feel no responsibility to "grow my mindfulness" with respect to the human condition of alleged murderers. Sometimes people are evil and do evil things and I can understand why good people get angry enough to disrespect the names of evil people.
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Zuckerberg has not donated anything, you gullible, credulous pinheads
Maybe you believe in the media distilling knowledge to us... I believe in the people fortifying and defending themselves with competence.

"Terrorism" is a rich field, and we shouldn't shy from its macabre quality. We have the right to overturn rocks, look underneath, and make our own determinations for what's actually happening.
when the Oligopolies and gov't create regulations to fully squash the independent small content providers and the internet becomes a web of infomercials.

Or comcast becomes the sole ISP provider.
It is a huge step for Swift. Finally it is no longer the Apple walled garden and it will become a popular universal platform like Python or JavaScript, for sure. If you want to learn Swift, it is high time. Start with the huge collection of 300+ video tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSwiftLanguage

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> What do people who believe this use as their reason for refraining from harming others for personal gain?

This is an interesting and deep question! The game theory of life. I don't know the answer or if there is a clear answer, but I imagine there's generally a lot of risk involved in harming others for personal gain, and basic fear of individual or group retaliation (either mob or police) is a significant deterrent.
I don't agree that that provides any backing for this plugin:

The potential mass murders have no way to know that you won't see their name. This would have to become a viral phenomenon and be reported on extensively to even possibly have any effect beyond making you feel better. I severely doubt this plugin could ever have a material effect on the number of people who read the names.

This also does nothing to punish those news organizations that do publish names and faces for mass murderers and since the people who care about this won't know who does and doesn't, it actually reduces the incentive for news organization to not publish names for faces.

Want to make a plugin that has an effect? Make a plugin that blacklists any news site that publishes names/faces so that when you try to read ANY article from those sites, the plugin instead finds similar articles from non-blacklisted publishers and displays links to those instead.
That's a start!
Exactly, it should be the responsibility of the legal departments involved to delve into those people's lives. The media wants eyeballs on them, if you really get down to it.
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We always hear so much about the history of Helvetica... nice for a change to read about the other big font out there
Streaking in general has become less popular than at its height, even when not done in contexts that would involve medias attention. I suspect that the drop in popularity in all contexts is because it was a passing cultural fad that burned itself out, and that the degree of media attention specifically in public events with a media presence (which also tends to have large audiences that aren't viewing through a media filter) had minimal, of any, impact.
I don't believe there are any published plans to support wildcard certs.
Are you saying a "terrorist" is no longer a human being?
"These kinds of events are sad for the people involved, but probably not worth spending time trying to figure out, as they are exceedingly rare."

These events aren't exceedingly rare. Quite the opposite. In fact, the San Bernadino shooting wasn't even the only mass shooting in the US on December 3rd. IIRC, there has been one mass shooting, on average, every day since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.

More info: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/03/458321777/...
Yeah, I missed this the first time around. But you are not quite correct. An LLC is a pass-through entity. No doubt it will be treated as a disregarded entity for federal tax purposes. So, gifting shares to an LLC is not a taxable event. If the LLC sells shares for a non-charitable purpose (e.g. lobbying, or funding commercial ventures), then sure, that will be taxable. But if it in turn donates shares to either a private foundation or another charity, in that case, it will not be taxable, and will in fact be deductible for the Zucks.

Basically, if the Zucks own the LLC, then until funds actually leave the LLC they really haven't made a donation at all.
I don't understand why it's so bad to name the shooter or their background?
It's a subset of Bootstrap with BEM naming conventions.

Seems like another group of front-end developers who had too much time on their hands and instead of just writing a style guide on top of Bootstrap or Foundation, decided to rewrite the CSS styles below it as well.

Welcome to maintaining a separate status quo.
It still might get annoying (for both sides) if you request thousands of them, + you might not want to publish a list of all valid ones. Example: The issue came up in relation to sandstorm.io, which uses (for security reasons) a subdomain for every document that exists on a server.
I think when I looked single instr crc32 was ~5 times faster than the pclmulqdq version.

As an aside, if they have a server in production that doesn't support CLMUL, they should junk that machine - it appeared in Westmere and Bulldozer - everything earlier is EOLed. Crc32 was in sse4.2, so Nehalem.

The crc32 instruction is hard to beat, has been around for years, and I would guess the different poly could be phased in on their systems like you would for changing a password algorithm, or just try the new poly since it is quick, and if it fails use the old poly.
It didn't help streaking to take it from a harmless prank to something that can easily put you on the sex offender list and ruin your whole life.
A parallel PCLMULQDQ version is faster than a serial CRC32. Because CRC32 has a latency of 3 cycles.

A parallel CRC32 can be slightly faster with more data segment used, and more code size.

Also PCLMULQDQ can use an polynomial I think. So they could make a compatible version.

The lookup table version they used has to have used lots more CPU cache. Also, I would suggest they look at reducing the amount of times they call the function. Since there are two ways to speed up functions that are called a lot. One is to stop calling it so many times.

Or since IO is limiting, they could consider compressing/decompressing the data as well. Using something fast like LZ4 compression. This will give them faster IO and a checksum at the same time. Something like Blosc can be faster than memcpy. Especially since the data is replicated over the network as well, and they would save space on their storage.

Modern CPU performance optimization is very often about memory IO. If the data is in L2/L3 then you can do a LOT of computation on it, almost for free, compared to the time it takes to get it into L2/L3.

During that time waiting for memory/disk/network IO, they might consider other things. Like indexing, better checksums (like SHA1) or even encryption. Especially if the data is already in L2/L3.
> That's an impressive achievement. But how many offices use substantial amounts of paper entirely internally any more?

Just to add to the data points: nearly every large engineering firm, or any utility (power/water/O&G/etc.) with an engineering capability. Most drawings are still printed for markup/review, and many are issued as hard copies to be retained on-site (within switchrooms, cabinets, etc).
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If "life is preferable to death" were a universal attribute of all humans resulting from a biological imperative, no one would ever choose to end their life. I suspect any other proposed "universal attribute" -- at least one that take the form of a universal preference -- will fail to correspond with reality in the same way.
> C++ has too many gotchas, slow compile, to feel productive.

Which raises the question: Why was the compiler for Swift written in C++? I know writing a compiler in C/C++ is probably an instinctual reaction at this point, but um ... what's the advantage of C++? especially if the language will become self-hosting?
It's easy to understand if you just abandon the idea that stupid-to-smart is a single 1-dimensional spectrum. There are all kinds of intelligence, and having one doesn't imply having others.
Right, I get that. I've been looking through their code and the draft RFC here and there over the last few days (I'm considering using it for internal applications). He mentioned yubikey, pgp, and openvpn and it started to sound more like he was talking about a supporting client use cases. I can see the convenience in using a common client key but it seems more secure to keep things compartmentalized, particularly when it comes to mixing client and server stuff.
I'm not talking about whimsical preference, I'm talking about group membership defining attributes - preferences that make one a human being and that every other human has or will share. And yes, this would define a human being even in a world were no human ever existed or will exist.
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(It would be even easier if it were possible to customize the name from the extension settings. Then we wouldn't be bikeshedding right now, right? :)

agreed.
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Awesome! With that + HTTP/2 server push, we'll really be flying.

We already started to proxy our S3 / CloudFront assets through our load balancer so they can be cached and served through the SPDY (now HTTP/2) CloudFlare connection. However, since we're using imgix to serve different images by device, we can't allow CloudFlare to cache.

I've set up some tests to proxy Fastly through CloudFlare and my initial tests are inconclusive as to whether the crazy extra hop is worth it. It seems that if we have tons of images, it probably will be faster, but most of our pages only load about 6 images above the fold and lazy load everything else, so that might be why the difference is negligible. I'll have to test on a page where more images download concurrently to see if 1 extra hop to get SPDY and HTTP/2 is worth it.
I don't think society can rid of evil entirely. The best we can do is prepare ourselves (read: "guard"), and be able to respond with competence as a society.

True, some people shall/will not be "fixed" but that doesn't negate our duty to understand.
Because people like you are quick to judge that there's only one possible motive. It seems like there was a dispute before the shooter left and came back with guns.