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> I appreciate from your other comments that your views are nuanced, but posting something this glib about something this horrific crosses the line here.

Here's the thing. Eventually, Islamic extremism WILL disappear. Today, tomorrow, or in 100 years. The only question is how that happens.

My wife is Muslim (and dark-skinned). I married her in an Islamic ceremony (meaning I became Muslim, at least in the eyes of some Islamic authority). Her family all have Muslim names. Our children will be visibly non-white.

We're also secular, and like to do secular things. I'd love to go to Europe with her, we both have family there, and I'd love for the world to be a place where she isn't discriminated against (and she HAS experienced racism here, in Canada), either by the state, by ignorant red-necks, or by other Muslims.

The fact is, every time terrorist attacks happen, she feels it. The looks at work, the comments on Facebook. I don't remember people talking about 'deporting all the Muslims' in Canada until very recently. We (as in myself, my wife and family) have a stake in this. She didn't choose to be Muslim, but she does suffer consequences today. And she knows it can get worse. Some of her family have converted to another religion and changed their names - she's considered it as well. It would be nice if abandoning your birth identity wasn't something you even had to consider.

Anyhow, either extremism is rooted out now, or it'll be rooted out later. It'll likely be more painful later...
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He has infinite wisdom that failed the 97% of the scientific researchers who make it their profession to review this stuff.
People normally associate WebGL with 3D game content, but it's for 2D too! I decided to build our own GPU rendering pipeline for the performance and document size benefits you mentioned and also so we can guarantee top-quality, consistent rendering across platforms. A GPU rendering pipeline is actually a pretty normal technology choice for a cross-platform desktop app. It hasn't been too hard to find people with that expertise to work on the editor. We're looking at people with game development or browser development backgrounds.
Didn't really think there would be more to the story, though there very well could be. I think this is more the case of:

1. We made something awesome in labs (by bending/breaking some traditional rules)

2. It's X% faster than traditional connections/has all these properties, let's get to market ASAP

3. Oh, in the real world, this tech doesn't play nicely with other tech because of how we built it

4. Maybe we can just muscle it through?

If the scale were smaller (let's say, developers on some widely used open source standard/code), this would have been a simple case of "oops, that's a bit shit, better get back in the lab and try to figure out a way to not trample other broadcasts, but keep the speed boosts we were proud of".
For smaller-scale blockchains you would probably adopt a non-proof-of-work consensus mechanism.

(This is probably what you want, anyway, when the value of the assets that back the network exceeds the value of mounting an attack! You might argue againt the wisdom of having the network secured by general mutual mistrust, but it's no worse than relying on cost.)
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/air-pollut...
> But bits can never yield singular values; like any tool, they can be used to promote harmony or discord, greed or selflessness. [...] Valid values require constant human construction, surveillance, critique, reflection, rebuilding, and a commons in which we all have a stake, over which we all care, or, to put it more sharply, we all should care.

One thing I don't get from this argument is: does he consider programming a profession? It seems like his argument is that, replacing professionals with a strong code of ethics by automated systems might lead to some sort of societal decay. But that's only true if the people building those systems are inherently less ethical or perhaps less aware of the issues than the original professionals. Otherwise, the systems can be build to bias towards a very high ethical standard, even as they crowdsource some of their functions (there might be an ethics vs economics trade-off for some systems, but if the trade-off is approached in an informed manner by ethical people, then a 'reasonable' compromise should be often found).

Perhaps his argument for the eroding effect of technology is tied to his argument about the eroding effect of markets: because programmers are employed by large corporations which have strong incentives to increase profits[1] at the cost of much everything else they will eventually be led to bend any professional codes of ethics if market forces act against those. This could very well be true, but I am not sure that's what the article says.

The article seems to imply than a doctor or a lawyer is likely a more moral person than a programmer or at least than the system the programmer can build. I am not sure I understand why it would be so.

[1] Long-term profits, being generous. But still.
So here is something I want to happen in the future:
You create a CAD design in some open source language making use of parametrised component libraries. You then dispatch the manufacture, assembly and delivery to providers that specify their capabilities via an API, the final product is delivered to your doorstep.

This service is one step towards this, but ideally eventually almost everything would be automated away.
...5 GHz WiFi is more than capable of going through walls. In fact, 802.11ac has significant improvements to multipath rejection, meaning it should perform better in environments with many reflections than the protocols that offer 2.4GHz operation.

Which is not to say you may not have had a bad experience with 5 GHz routers/access points -- there are plenty of commercial APs that are frankly terribly designed.
One of the ways I've seen botnets skirt this problem is by using cartoon profile pictures. Cartoon bots don't work quite as well on Facebook as they do on Twitter and Instagram (where they're only used to inflate favorite/follower stats, not to sell stuff). Unfortunately, it's probably hard to convince someone to hail a Lyft if "social proof" is coming from someone with a cartoon face.

With that said, these bot puppeteers could feasibly get around identity theft/copyright/social proof issues by using CC0 stock photography sites. There's plenty of free photos out there for people to use, i.e. as profile pictures.

Not that it'd be any more ethical, but at least it would be legal.
That's a very fair judgement, but it's also something the d3 team knows about. D3 4.0 is breaking d3 into a bunch of reusable components. The exact use case you mentioned, getting the path/layout data so React or anoth DOM manipulation library can be used, is supported by d3-shape, which just can out recently. Tree diagrams are still in progress, but various curves and pie charts are already implemented.
I assume DDG does not have $300M in the bank to pay Mozilla for year one, but perhaps DDG could scale that big with Firefox traffic? I prefer DDG's privacy, UI, and search results over Google, so Firefox users might conceivably be less likely to dump DDG than they were Yahoo!.
Is The Three-Body Problem worth reading?
Benefits like healthcare coverage are usually explicitly exempted. For example, see the relevant law in the State of Alaska: http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/statutes/title18/cha..., specifically section (c).
Since when are Spain and Portugal not part of Europe.
It's called a Filibuster, i think. 99% may be in perfect consensus, but as long as the idiot (or mallevolent) 1% is allowed to keep claiming that there is insufficient information, the "debate" will keep going and going.

It is remarkably similar to a DOS attack.
Several people have suggested similar. I should do it, but the nice part of OSS: I can do it whenever it bothers me enough :)

Do you have a config posted anywhere? I'd love to see exactly how hard it would be to switch.
That's a pretty lame critique. It seems they're purposefully reading the wrong study, since there is another study that focuses on Chinese students and backs up Brooks' article.

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1995-...

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxy906/COMPS/CLT/cul... (full text)
*apologies for duplicate post, (just looked when I noticed the initiative wasn't that new, was surprised this hadn't been posted earlier - but dupe detector didn't flag it, maybe more attn this time around for good cause)
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I don't know anything about this guy or what he advocates, but what was David Brooks message or point in his apparently mostly made-up comparison between American and Chinese students observation habits?
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Ars Technica did an article on this earlier this year: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/08/im-now-an-estonian-e...
Evaluation of deep learning toolkits
Great work, I've hoped for a website like yours to come out! Like others I've used Big Blue Saw but it's fairly expensive. I recently got parts cut locally (laser cut steel, 16ga) and it's around 20-25$/part (30$/part shipped locally).
From what I can gather from your site for others to reference:
- free shipping anywhere
- 300x300 max size

- 1.5mm: 18.09$ per sheet + 6.96$/1000mm of path length

- 2mm: 22.95$ per sheet + 7.87$/1000mm of path length

- 3mm: 32.97$ per sheet + 9.90$/1000mm of path length

By the way, those prices, per sheet are less than mcmaster sells!!

Only things I would add:
1- add a stainless steel PCB Stencil service (very thin - 0.125mm, but may be not accurate enough?)
2- change max dimensions to 500x300mm (increase of 200mm on one dimension) or 432x300mm (so it would fit in 11x17" envelope).
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That would depend on your instatution, all of the private schools I work with let the teachers find new apps and we can push them to the iPads pretty easily. Budget has been provided with a little extra so we can buy apps during the year if needed, and we do.

Win a decent MDM, the apps work and work well.
Yup. Got a DO VPN and get this. Didn't always get it though, can't remember when it really started but I think within last year or two.
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I don't think it's entirely ad-hominem. This is actually a fairly accurate description of his output:

"...He has been a reliable producer of out-of-touch, tissue-thin pronouncements on the perils of our secularized, technologized 21st century lives, virtually all of which rightly can be interpreted as passive-aggressive nostalgia for what Family Circus comics told him “outdoors” might have been like when he was a kid. You could just about set your calendar by it: In a month of Brooks, you’d get the call to begin or continue a war with Iraq or Iran, the grasping attempt to paint some cretinous Senator or presidential hopeful as the intellectual heir to Edmund Burke, and then, at last, the decline-and-fall column. You’d see a headline like “The Slow Virtues” or “The Hollow Century” or “Why the Teens Are Despicable,” and you’d know ol’ Dave’s coffee shop was out of plain croissants a week ago and the barista had a nose-ring and he’d decided he’d witnessed the death of the Western moral tradition."
I'm guessing there is probably a disconnect in what "frequently" means between you two.
The reason I thought the previous version was a webview was due to the not-really-native-looking settings pane (Cmd+,), which turned into a much more typical looking one post-update.

Thank you so much for the input, and thanks for helping build something I enjoyed using.
why not the moon?

The L2 Lagrange point is "behind" the moon.
You don't have to have forks. When there is no agreement, the network can just stop working. Some might think that a bit useless, but when you're trying to reach agreement it is in many respects a lot better than a fork...
It's perfectly feasible to build a smaller, sustainable business then sell to someone who does want to have that lifestyle.
Doesn't have one. Reference counting is available as a (what looks like third-party) library: http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-97-reference-coun...

I guess you could say that is even less reliance on GC than C++ has, with smart pointers being part of the standard.
Why not halfway between us and the moon? It could be an easy-to-reach halfway point for the Moon, a refueling station and very-low-g launchpad other points, internet relay base, and also have commercial, industrial, and housing areas.

This could be an interesting new step in human modification of the environment - "orbitforming" (like terraforming?) a better solar system. It's like razing a hill to make way for farmland or better city building conditions.

An asteroid that's easy for vacationing billionaires, mining companies, and highly-pollutant industry to reach would be a great next step for humankind.
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Ah, yes, Viginition is the word you were looking for!
I wish i will have NaCL-sompatable encryption that can be used to easily implement your own clients.
Apple watch clone for $28?
Monitoring web changes
I'm sure some of them are still there, however. They shutdown the product and put the team members to work elsewhere. So it could be prorated over a longer period depending on the acquisition deal.
Had to look up the author, fascinating profile > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Miles
Depends on what you mean by "frequently".

I live within a 5-mile radius of 5 of my siblings, my parents, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle. I'm a stay-at-home parent, my wife works from home, and our son attends an excellent school a block away. My wife's family lives a little less than 600 miles away. We travel out that way 2-3 times per year, which is frequent enough that I wouldn't want to rent a car every time we did it. It wouldn't make sense to try to move closer, but it does make a lot of sense to have an efficient vehicle. If a full electric could make the trip with quick-charging stations along the way, I'd be all for it. For now (given that my old car was totaled in a hit-and-run this weekend) I'm leaning toward something like the Chevy Volt.

The GP poster may be in a situation with similar characteristics -- frequent enough travel to want to do it in your own vehicle (rather than flying or renting something), too far for most electrics.
"Your inbox never leaves your phone", copy isn't my strong suit either.
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No, because wifi is a nice protocol. It waits for the channel to be clear before transmitting. It's not a matter of transmit power, it's a matter of collision & airtime.
This works fine with most non-police, but please realize that police have license to kill. Even if your shooting is unjustified, the bias is going to favor the police officer, and there are many things in the justice system that work in their favor, not the least of which being that many of their colleagues, associates, and friends will be responsible for their prosecution.

If a normal person shot you, they'd be arrested that night. For police, if they're ever arrested, it will probably many months later, after someone in the organization has decided that they don't like the officer involved in the shooting anyway--err, I mean, after Internal Affairs completes the investigation.
Yes, but the most reliable set-up is batteries + solar panels + wind turbines.
I'm sure if someone wanted to destroy the earth, there are far more manageable ways to do that.
>It wasn't about this one interaction, it's about the relationship that police have with black people, and vice-versa.

I agree. The OP does a great job of capturing the emotions of the moment. Despite this, many commenters here fail to entire context of the situation beyond the legalities. Maybe one reason why people still deny systematic racism exist is it really takes a person to experience it in first-hand to truly understand.
I can see the blunder, but aren't the reactions from the women already in the tech sector a non-sequitur? They're not the target audience.

The SMBC comic is right on, but "removing the stigma of math as unfeminine" is HARD, and "making math pink" is much easier, and potentially lures in more girls - maybe some of them will discover that they like math.
It affects you even if you never use Tor and never use encryption, because you still have to pay for all that infrastructure. You still have the risk of France becoming a police state. You still have the barriers to entry for new start-ups having to comply with onerous regulations. And you won't even be any safer.
I agree, coal is bad and we need cheaper more reliable wind/solar. But people are dying today and coal is available today.

To see some of the issues involved with running and maintaining wind power on large scales, this is a great article showing China's struggles.

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21660164-though-wind-gen...
You need to present a legal travel document (passport or ID-card), driver license won't do as mentioned in an update to the original article.
I mention this because I think I see a revolution coming (laser cut steel sheet) for robotics, 3d printer designs, etc as the manufacturing costs will be so low it does not make sense to buy the raw materials and mill/drill yourself.
Hahaha... This post made my day.
Crap. I absolutely adored Mailbox; it did everything I wanted, but especially:

1) The ability to snooze emails

2) A really nice UI on both OS X and Android letting me quickly swipe emails to archive or snooze them.

3) A unified inbox that showed multiple email accounts as a single inbox.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a mail client that meets these requirements? I'm quite happy to pay.

Edit: Google Inbox doesn't have a unified inbox, which drives me nuts, and nothing else I know of has message snoozing. ANY suggestions welcomed.
Tip: just because you are getting downvotes does not mean you should remove or edit your comment. That's how this website is turning into a libertarian circlejerk.
Data caps aren't even an effective traffic management practice to begin with. It's completely inadequate as a solution to actual congestion, which results from too many people using the service simultaneously.

The only purpose data caps serve is to segment users to extract more money out of them, and, as rightly mentioned by the article, to use as competitive leverage against video services not operated by the ISP.
Thanks for all the details!

Given your knowledge of the science fiction space, are you able to recommend any books that delve into what living/working in a Venusian cloud-top base might be like at the scientific level of Seveneves, or similar to the "slice of life" approach of PlanetES? I always had a thing for wanting to know more about the nitty gritty of living in such a "Cloud City" type of place.
Agreed. So I taught my eldest arithmetic at home and discouraged the schools from giving him more calculators until the sums involved more than two digits and other operators than the basic four. After the third calculator they got the message. Interesting aside: the teacher couldn't do anything beyond single digit arithmetic without reference to a calculator either. Pretty sad affair, and I really wonder how someone who does not understand the basics gets to be a teacher.
Troll of the Week Award: Donald Trump.
Laser cutting aluminium is quite a bit harder, the cost is higher as the laser needs to work more to cut (due to heat absorption).
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>When prejudice in my favor decreases, it feels a lot like prejudice against me increases, so I can get why he feels that way. But I don't think that personal experience justifies a broad claim of increasing prejudice.

You are leaving out the possibility that real prejudice is decreasing, but that prejudice against males is increasing, just not as much as prejudice against females is decreasing. Not appearance, actual prejudice.

The reason for the slight of hand is that being open about the possibility of prejudice against males increasing tends to get a number of quite negative reactions, from the common (and I'm paraphrasing here) 'you have too much privilege to be able to comment on the matter' to the far less tolerated (at least here) insults.

As for increasing prejudice against males, there is far more evidence than just personal experience that there is real increases, not just perceived. From the negative effects of lacking male role models in grade school (it doesn't matter why this happens, as it does and thus it creates a negative effect by society impacting young boys) to issues such as biased definitions being used in government reports to cover up or down play male victims of crimes.
Instead of having the conspirationnist view maybe you could have the simplest one, that politics don't want another attack like that and asked the secret services what tool they would need and secret services being secret service they told them they wanted to be capable to tap everywhere. It is the role of the elected politics to be reasonable about that and say no to the stupid and impossible demands.
Make sure you're serving the full chain to the root CA, that might be the issue.

LE certs might have that issue with Java apps, since the cross-signed CA isn't currently included in the Oracle root store (they're working on that).
There are tons of reasons why this is so hard. Leaving aside all of those there are 2 that I see as the biggest:

* A 100x improvement over current email is needed for a switch.

* It has to be 100x cheaper than the current product.

While you can't multiply by 0 and I meant that facetiously, users won't pay for the software or only niche consumers. Which is why email providers that get paid focus on things like security, collaboration and and backup. These products are essentially 90% other things and 10% email. examples:

* dropbox
* slack
* telegram
* silent circle
* sms

obviously I am not going to name everything in the space. I can't think of a company that has email at it's core. maybe 'hushmail' or some small encrypted mail providers but what profitable business is at it's core an email provider
I'm sad that wifi-blocking wallpaper seems to have never taken off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_wallpaper
"...the company had bookings of $2.2 billion, double the level one year ago. The company also generated $340 million in revenue in the third quarter, according to the Journal.

The home rental company last raised money in April 2014 at a $10 billion valuation. This round makes it the third-highest valued startup out there, after Uber and Xiaomi."

These guys are just quietly moving forward (for the most part) and crushing it. Nicely done.