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So the numbers for police and burglars are "really" about the same, rather than the police exceeding the burglars by over a billion? Whew! What a weight off the mind! TIL there's nothing to worry about with forfeiture...
Good luck with that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/opinion/cover-up-in-chicag...
Cyber attacks on government agencies are routine and the "adversaries" range from thrill-seeking hackers, through to criminals and foreign states.

But the ABC has been told this is a "massive" breach and one official said there was little doubt where it came from.

"It's China," he said.

The motivation for the attack on the bureau could be commercial, strategic or both.

The bureau is a critical national resource and another state would place a high value on its intellectual property and scientific research.
What is the Alabama Justice Project. 99% reliability on a
POLYGRAPH test?

I wish I could read more of the article since it seems to be down and google webcache isn't the best. How come none of these cases have been covered by any other organization? Wouldn't a pending lawsuit against the police organization be news?

Surely there is corruption/racism in the police department. But is this article valid?
Telling her they're donating $45B seems like a clear message on how to be a better person to me. Selflessness and the desire to improve the world.
"eFOIA is currently closed. Typically, eFOIA operates Sunday through Saturday, 8am to 10pm Eastern time.

Please try again within those hours."

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I just got around to skimming the release notes, and I'm curious about running tests in parallel. I'm looking forward to upgrading, and seeing if this has a meaningful impact on my tests. I don't have a large number of tests yet; my project runs its full test suite in ~10 seconds at the moment. But I'm well aware this should grow significantly as my project matures.

Does anyone have any sense yet of how this affects the speed of the test suite in your real-world projects?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/releases/1.9/#running-...
> I can understand how repeated interaction with a recalcitrant criminal element could harden and corrupt a police officer.

If a job is hard and hardening, and the job requires you to behave fairly, sensibly, and rationally, then a reasonable employer will often and regularly check to ensure that the job hasn't damaged the employee in such a way as to render them useless or ineffective.

One common way to handle this sort of thing is to proactively rotate employees in and out of the stressful portions of the job.
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As a private citizen there is no expectation that one will have a dashcam, so with discretion it would be possible to benefit from good driving without being penalized for bad driving.
>> The damage to me was done when the board promoted him

How was that damaging to you? Did he take your job?
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Back in the day, some friends of mine were stuck walking home from the movie theater after the buses stopped running. As they were walking past a Domino's, one of them had the idea to order a pizza delivered to their house and then hitch a ride with the driver. It worked.
I'm so glad I'm not on Facebook.
Hah :) Cool. I'm sure there are lots of people that can relate to your stories in one way or another but what with us being active in the exact same market (but you did way better on the execution and on the business part) it really hit the spot here.
Rather than inferring that all thugs are black, you should have inferred that mafia isn't there to help people.

Anyhow, sorry if my story isn't interesting.
The reason I ask is because I worked for one of the largest traders of physical commodities in the world, and was involved in that trade.

What you're talking about is called cornering the market, and when it happens, the people go to jail. You're using anecdotal evidence to support your claim about a large swathe of people.

Also, if their buying activities meant to create artificial scarcity was the only factor driving the prices up, why did their selling not have an equal effect pushing the price back down?
Yep. Also, your customers might have good ways to steal power (e.g. run a miner under a desk at work).
> I upvoted him because it's difficult to read what he wrote

Does this mean that you upvote greytext comments because it makes the text too difficult to read, and you find that upvoting such a comment not infrequently makes it easier for you to read it?

If yes, then you might be pleased to know that you can solve the contrast issue by selecting the text with your mouse or whatever other pointing device you use.
This is the same guy who was criticized by Greenwald for arguing bank bailouts were a good idea. (http://www.salon.com/2008/10/31/pearlstein_3/)

I am a professor. This man's ideas are totally naive. Universities and colleges are engaged in a cold war to avoid gaps in endowments, buildings and other metrics of prestige. Their students are willing to pay more for this prestige and so the cost goes up. It's simple as that. If universities that decided not to heavily invest in themselves were effective at generating that prestige, the cost wouldn't be going up.

Only a fraction of the people at the university are there because it is a place of learning, and almost all the people are engaged in research. Many of this guy's ideas are worse than bad, they are poisonous.
Well, given the mandate by some police departments to only hire the less intelligent...

I subscribe to the notion that cops absolutely need to be held to a higher standard, esp. given their potential for exponentially causing harm (because guns and LE powers).
Yes, previous law and treaty has generally established that there are no private property rights, ownership, or sovereignty in space.
People care more about their position relative to others than their actual income
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_income_hypothesis
Didn't we have the gros michel?
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There are some options, https://faq.ssa.gov/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=3821...

Clergy also may have the ability to opt out.
Yeah, I actually hadn't seen that, but I know there are also longstanding tickets for this. I actually don't like the solutions in those threads, I think better to just add an extra field to the models, so have something like 'db_email' and 'display_email'. I realize you can do this with a functional index or whatever, but I think that's actually kind of hacky given the lack of ORM support for functional indexes.

My big issue with the current state though is that if you're relying on usernames or email addresses being unique then you're potentially opening yourself up to all sorts of security issues without realizing it.
To quote the letter itself: "We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others."
Why parenting may not matter and most social science research is probably wrong
I suspect physical security will be robotized before policing is. Robots could get very good at recognizing firearms held in human hands (i.e. rather than stored in a holster) and then incapacitating the owner of those hands. Once enough such robots are installed in crowded public areas, the current mass-murder-mania (and one hopes, the hysteria that has arisen in reaction) would be eliminated.
I mostly agree. At this point they are both excellent frameworks with all similar features. Django has a really nice admin out of the box that some people love.

Rails is built with a "convention over configuration" philosophy. Rails apps tend to look similar whereas Django apps tend to be setup in a number of different ways. The downside of Rail's "convention over configuration" setup is that devs can get things up and running fast and then get frustrated and lost if something breaks....but it's really not that hard to dig around the code. With Django new devs get lost first and figure everything out. After a few months of heavy use and breaking things you won't notice much of a difference between the two. I find rails a bit easier to work with but I like python so I use django/flask.
A few local supermarket chains here sell red bananas. I tried them a few times[1], but the taste difference was not dramatic or worth the additional price.

I'm an American, so not all of us are clueless :)

I'd wager that most of Western Society doesn't know other varieties exist (not just Americans) because most varieties not easy to transport long distances.

[1] Reading http://www.amazon.com/Banana-Fate-Fruit-Changed-World/dp/045... and listening to an NPR interview with the author prompted me to go on a search for banana varieties.
This is an honest question.

Realistically, how do we dismantle the police state. It seems like the NSA, FBI, and some not insignificant percentage of the police forces have gone entirely rogue or lost track of their mission entirely.

It feels hopeless. So much outrage but so little actual ever changes. Does anyone have any ideas because I'd love to hear them.
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> What do we do about the legions of victims?

Financial compensation and putting those that caused the injustice in prison equaling the total of all of the terms served by all of those affected. That is as close to justice as could be had.

As for preventing corruption- there's no way to do this as long as there are people that can be corrupted. You can add oversight. You could replace the entire force with minorities. But if there are people that are corruptible, these efforts will fail. The best that you can do is to (1) promote ethics education in schools and flag students that reject it/scoff at it as they may need much more help and (2) don't divorce government and schools from religion which is an additional force for peer-pressure and community support against corruption.
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> I propose that...

We're not in short supply of proposals, so what's the point? Everyone has ideas like this, they're meaningless because they don't address the problem, cops don't police themselves and never will.
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Whoa OK well then by that line who said Earth creatures get to claim non-Earth objects?
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>On the whole the effect of Snowden's revelation is a big disappointment, I thought far more would happen because of them but maybe I'm just too impatient.

I have similar sentiments for similar reasons you list. I also tend to find the battle that people seem to create of "privacy vs security" to be sucking up all the air in the room of plausible ideas that can change the status quo and bring upon more effective societies, with namely corporate sponsors and individuals within governments reaping the benefits (effectively status quo) with most individuals in a given society mostly being taken on a ride with no true internalization of how any of it will enrich their life at best or end up dead from mostly being a function of where they happened to be born at worst.

I guess in saying that, it's not too surprising that I see that using technology to subvert our present collective individual behaviors that takes advantage of how we operate today could break the apparent deadlock in a way we might not expect to unfold (with the ethics in mind of how some ways of going about such could just enable more of the same).
Useless web site. Can anybody please post the text of the article so that it is readable??
This is horrible news. I love bananas and eat at least 365/year. I recently got a blender so that I could make smoothies -- to fool my kid into eating both a banana and a glass of milk in the morning :)

The article didn't make it clear, though, whether every variety of banana is affected, or just the big yellow ones called "Cavendish". When I lived in Taiwan (early 80s), there were all sorts of bananas -- Cavendish, little yellow ones, little red ones. In fact these little reddish-skinned ones with a tart yellow fruit grew in my back yard at the time. Really tasty.

Maybe it's time to install a small tropical greenhouse in the back yard and grow one's own bananas. If mainstream bananas become scarce and expensive, this could be like tomatoes -- everyone will want to grow them. A business opportunity for someone, possibly.
Woah, comments like these are why I read hackernews. Sounds potentially dangerous from a hacking perspective but almost certainly this will be the future.
I'm not really an OSX developer, but shouldn't it be possible to bypass the sandbox in a way by offering the user to install an unsandboxed auxiliary application via a download from your website which then communicates with the main sandboxed App Store application using some protocol and performs any actions which the MAS version would be otherwise unable to?

For example, perhaps the auxiliary application runs a local HTTP server with a REST API. The MAS application simply makes HTTP requests to the auxiliary application such as `POST /applescript/doStuff`.
Do you have a source for your claims?
You're saying it's not true? That policemen don't assume all blacks must be guilty of something? I'm sure a lot of them really do. That's just how human nature works. We all judge people on flimsy evidence and form prejudices. Police are humans like the rest of us and are bound to have those same kinds of prejudice.
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All I see is a gray screen (Chrome 42 Linux).

Console errors:

Uncaught TypeError: Object.assign is not a function bundle.js:21

Uncaught ReferenceError: ___onError___ is not defined (index):79
This is not a question of ability but what is gained from making it native vs. hybrid. You don't gain anything from using the native layout model that can't be done via web view.

There is no doubt the App Store is horribly done, but for the kind of content that is going to be in the store I simply don't see why they would choose otherwise.

Keep in mind that the apps also exist on the web. This would force apple to still make a web version and a native version.

Don't see what is gained from this.
Yep. Thought I was missing something since he was taking about cpu bound tasks and threads, if you are using c extensions then it is wasteful to spin up additional interpreters and you can also get fun bugs like numpy reusing the same random seed in child processes!
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To be fair, all of this means government protection against harmful, unfair action against you.

Even if they don't sanction it, can they actually stop you from doing as you please with an asteroid, obviously assuming you somehow had the resources? I mean, would they actually block a private launch if the company behind it showed technical capability to do this in some kind of responsible way? Who cares about somebody stealing it or somehow ripping you off in your ownership of this thing, how would that come into play here?

Sorry about the internet tone - not meaning to sound like I'm arguing, I am genuinely asking!
I'm not snarking.

You've heard about the Pentagon Papers? The NSA domestic surveillance documents were at least as big as the Pentagon Papers. They would have been national news.
Why do you constantly assume that he voted to take away rights? If you've been paying attention to what he did do in relation to same-sex couples you'd know what he has been working for years to get them equal rights. But through other means. This is hardly the same man that was portrayed in the attacks.

Your entire argument is based on a false assumption that just because he doesn't think redefining marriage is the only way to get those rights that he wants to take rights away.

There is a base assumption that anyone who disagrees with redefining marriage is unacceptably evil and wants to strip rights from a minority. This is false.

Redefining marriage is not a right, it's a tactic to give same-sex couples the same rights as married couples. Not everyone agrees with this tactic.

And guess what, the redefinition of marriage complete is now across the entire country and these people still don't have equal rights in many areas! Maybe he was on to something?

Don't assume someone is fighting against you just because he doesn't agree with a particular tactic.
Against Apple Terms I believe. They will ban you if they find out.

I was talking with apple support and they basically said that if we even offered some extra component to get rid of the spinning gear we would most likely be banned.
David Koch, worth 44,200 million dollars, is donating literally millions?!? How generous of him to give away approximately 0.002% of his fortune here and there.

Please be serious. This comparison is laughable, the ≈ $300M listed on his foundation is literally 0.7% of his net worth.
While I agree with this statement - I would like to point out that drug possession is particularly easy to frame someone for, and it has a high payout (that is, long and severe punishment, easy to re-frame someone, etc) compared to other crimes. Making drugs legal would put a huge dent in a lot of problems.
You can set a sync passphrase that is separate from your Google password.
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The FBI is surprisingly responsive and "human" for FBI file (e.g. dead people records) requests, at least for the non-controversial ones. For example, MuckRock sent a records request for "Leslie Nielson" with no proof of death and yet the FBI (as far as I can see in the message chain) didn't give them a hard time about it: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi...

I recently sent in a request for Paul Newman and got nothing back (which was both very disappointing and surprising, given Nixon's well-known hatred of Newman, and Newman being an all-around big name and businessman)...the only hold up was that they required a snail mail address to send things to. I thought they had dropped my request but realized they had sent the "no records found" letter to my mailbox well before the required deadline.
This is extremely long (12,000 words) but it gets surprisingly dramatic at the end:

"What happens when the Board Of Directors begins to panic?"

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/what-happens-when-the-b...
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