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>Alleged pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the full panoply of rights available...

For starters, lets throw right to privacy out the window, from the US perspective what we are talking about is 4th Amendment "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."

>Only after THAT hurdle is cleared may the rights of the alleged criminal be intruded upon by the state...

No. In many instances police are not limited to obtaining a warrant/judicial oversight before conducting searches and seizures (including communications). Just a few examples: (a) if an officer conducts a lawful traffic stop, and smells marijuana (plain-view/plain-smell doctrine) the officer can lawfully search your person and the vehicle,seizing any evidence of a crime, even if unrelated to marijuana; or (b) subsequent to a DUI arrest, an officer can impound the vehicle and conduct a search/inventory of the vehicle and seize any evidence of a crime (even unrelated to the DUI). These are some of the many lawful Government searches and seizures without prior judicial approval.

>At least in America, a judge cannot issue a warrant for the wiretaps you described on the mere accusation that "so and so is a {pedophile,terrorist,drug dealer}."

A judge certainly can issue a warrant based on accusation as long as the judge makes a finding there is probable cause. In fact an officer can obtain a warrant from a Judge based on an anonymous tip, or what would be called hearsay evidence which would be inadmissible in an actual trial.
Hopefully this gets more love than it did last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739343

I found the analysis very interesting and consistent with my personal bias (I almost always think I did worse than I actually did).
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Sure, but what if my work depends on a library that uses C extensions that isn't supported by pypy? Any of the scikits, for example.
I think the problem with music broadcasts (TV or radio) is that they'd need permission of the artists and/or publishers before they could sell it commercially. It's probably for similar reasons that they don't show all the Glastonbury stuff (mixed in with revenue sharing - some artists/publishers might want too much, for example):

> "On occasion an act may not wish to be filmed or recorded. Artists may also agree to be recorded but only allow a limited number of songs to be aired. This could be for a number of reasons for instance: the quality of some parts of the performance, because they do not wish to broadcast new or unreleased material, or they do not want to broadcast their entire live set."

I do agree that it'd be a good idea to do, though.
I am too getting negative vibe from the Tesla comment. Even though all they said is true. Maybe it's because they start with telling how improbable in their opinion is that someone other then google could beat them in any shape or form.
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The usual criticism is that MBAs believe the degree endows them with far more strategic intelligence than they really have.

It's like officer school. The worst graduates come out absolutely convinced they can run an entire army, when in fact they're still almost completely clueless.

Aside from the networking - which is not trivial - the benefits of an MBA for talented individuals seem to be exposure to the idea that strategy, cost/benefit analysis, accounting, marketing, and the rest all exist, and are more relevant to a business than the code base.

This can be a surprise to straight CS people, many of whom only care about code.

But by analogy, many MBAs only seem to care about money.

There's more to running a successful business than the bottom line - or at least there should be - and more subtle management principles that build businesses by making customers and employees happy as well as making shareholders rich don't seem to figure at all in MBA schools.

The MBA point of view seems to be that happiness doesn't matter when there's profit to be made.

Ironically, there's a lot of poverty in that view - not just morally, but politically and economically. In the longer term it leads to the kind of economic picture we have today, where there's a lot of profit being made, but at the cost of rapidly shrinking broad prosperity and economic freedom for most of the population.
The first one looks more random to me? It has more runs. There was some article (can't remember the source) about generating a random coin flip - the way to tell the difference between a real physical coin flip and a computer is that the real physical flip will have a lot of runs, like 10 times in a row where you get heads. A computer random will attempt to "even out" the spectrum. The two images presented in the article looked similar to these but were reversed, true random looked more like a pattern, while computer generated random looked more like even noise.

TL;DR long strings of repeated results are a sign of true randomness. Am I misinterpreting the relationship between that and this article?
It sounds like what you are needing is more of a donor management system which is like a crm for non profits. They provide membership levels and can process recurring donations and some provide donor login.

I work at Kindful.com and we provide these services, but there are many others, so do some research and see what is the best fit for your client.
That's literally the third sentence in the article, which also mentions the rise in suicide and fall in gun homicide rates two sentences below that. The title is dry and accurate.

> yet there is zero reason to conflate that with homicides involving a firearm.

The article doesn't conflate anything; it makes a very interesting and important comparison: vehicle deaths (which have been extensively studied for decades, with much federal regulation and other pressure to improve safety) are now on par with gun deaths (which had been banned from federal research for nearly two decades).

> It's amazing that we've improved vehicle safety in the last 60 years

Wouldn't it be nice if fewer people were dying from guns as well?
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I think nobody may be a bit of an exaggeration, e.g.

"The risks of a high-protein diet are even comparable to smoking, the researchers said."[1]

1: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/diet-high-in-meat-...
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>>> print("hello world")

And that's so much harder to grok?
I was the first generation of my family to attend college. Throughout high school (graduated high school in 2006), the idea that college was the answer to everything was everywhere. Go to college, get a degree, you'll end up with a job. After seven years of paying high college tuition for a sub par education, I graduated in 2012 with a BA degree that was not in any demand, provided no real skills, and spent several years during and after college working in dead end retail/customer service jobs.

I ended up teaching myself how to code and landed a very well paying career as an engineer with a huge passion for what I'm doing.

Here are the takeaways I have from having gone down this route:

+ Don't go to college just to go to college. If you don't know why you're going, don't go.

+ If you do go to college, don't expect your major of choice to land you a job. If you know what you want to do in life, you should probably just go and do it on your own. College is not synonymous with landing a career.

+ If you go to college and don't end up landing a job, more college is not the answer. A master's/graduate program is not the answer.
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"you got nothing" is kind of empty criticism
What you did here is not cool.

On HN, we start from the benefit of the doubt. A person can be both a programmer and a judge. pqdbr's comment was coherent and plausible. The null hypothesis is therefore that pqdbr is making a valuable contribution.

It's fine and interesting to look through someone's comment history for background. It can also be ok to ask questions based on that, but this is always delicate and must be done respectfully. But to dig around for a bit, leap to a sinister conclusion, and fling it at them with a couple insults for good measure is a serious violation of civility on this site.

HN members with outlier backgrounds (and 'judge' certainly is one) are some of the most valuable contributors we have; doubly so—if not more—when they speak computing too. Imagine what it would feel like to share from one's expertise in the most on-topic way possible, only to be randomly slapped in the face and have your character impugned. You owe pqdbr a lot more of an apology than "Cool! Always happy to be wrong when evidence supports it." (Edit: which, now that I think of it, reads more like a humblebrag than making amends.)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10751003 and marked it off-topic.
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It looks very nice. But I can't integrate it into a project if I can't guarantee that it will run even if Fieldbook-the-company changes business models next year. When can I deploy a self-hosted version, and how much will that cost?
Fun story, I have a set of scripts that extract, decompile and process various sets of files, outputting them into a build directory. At first I wrote shell scripts to automatically do all this, then I figured this is the sort of thing Make was built for (right?). This is what I ended up with after days of work:

https://github.com/HearthSim/extract-scripts/blob/master/Mak...

Turns out, Make kind of just assumes you're building a C project and makes a lot of further assumptions which made writing this Makefile a living hell. In the end, I didn't even manage to do proper checks for built files.

Make seems like a really poorly execution of a good concept. I think a large part of why autotools suck also comes from that.
Given that the CDM is sandboxed, does this mean that it should be significantly easier to recover encryption keys from it given that you could effectively run the CDM inside of a tracing emulator?
It is easy to confuse the names, but it takes 2 seconds in the REPL or in Idle to figure it out, and the concept behind them is pretty obvious, IMO.

I'll take an occasional 2 seconds in the REPL over the headache of debugging codec issues any day of the week.
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That's true in general, but note that the runs should show up in 2 dimensions in the image. The second one appears clumpy, which exactly what it should look like. People tend to avoid runs, which would make it look more uniform. The first one has an obvious bias because it doesn't look the same in the x direction as in the y.
As a scientist, I was amused by a simplistic representation of what the "scientist" class of people need to be happy in the game Anno 2205. In order for the scientists to be happy, they need (aside from subsistence food, water, and lowbrow entertainment): luxury food, stimulants, computers, replicators, and secrecy. In my experience, all of the above (save for replicators, which are slated to be essential but not yet developed) are critical to being a scientist.

But, how do we produce scientists? By fostering open minded curiosity and its cousin, wonder, then introducing critical thought as a guide once the former two have been established firmly. The path of curiosity inevitably leads toward uncharted territory, and, instead of cautioning against the unknown for fear of failure, we should encourage the young to forge ahead-- this is something that most parents will not do, because the unknown is frightening. To raise a scientist, I assume it might also be helpful (but not ethical) to have a complex series of lies / unprovable or counterfactual stories to tell to the child as though they were truth, so that they may have practice in combating poor thought or ignorance, another critical task that scientists must perform at all times to the best of their ability.

In short: first cultivate a hunger for knowledge, and then a hunger for facts, and finally a hunger for truth.
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It's complicated. For starters, if you're looking for a _secure_ PRNG most practitioners would strongly advise _against_ the system you described[1]. There's a difference between a cryptographically secure algorithm and a secure system. For the overall system to be secure you need to make sure the seed data is secured, which you're bound to fail at unless you really know what you're doing.

Providing a "cryptographically secure but not really secure" alternative implemented in user space alongside a "really secure" alternative that's been thoroughly vetted would likely just add to the confusion. If you _really_ need secure numbers you should be using the really secure one. The really secure one is almost definitely going to require a syscall worth of overhead, at least, so it's _definitely_ going to be slower than a PRNG like xorshift128+ which literally takes a single digit number of CPU cycles.

Now to answer your question, if you're just talking about a CSPRNG algorithm they're probably fast enough for almost every use case. I think there's still an argument for some things like array shuffling, but those implementations could go out of their way to use the non-CS algorithm as an optimization. Unfortunately in Javascript land there's aren't many batteries included, so if you switched Math.random() to use a CSPRNG most people would end up using it for trivial stuff like shuffling arrays. If you're talking about a secure system... it's probably still fast enough for most things, but it's less obvious.

[1]http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random...
That can't be true, unless you also want to claim people are born with ability to program or not.

What you are saying is that people can't learn period. Which is not true. 3-4 years is not enough time to master anything, but 10 years might be:

http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I'd love to hear from an individual (not a magazine or a writer who reps a magazine) who has tried all 3 vr headsets coming out soon (the Rift, the Sony and the HTC).

Is there a clear and obvious winner? Do you think any of them truly live up to the hype?
Bush rode out the STS program way after any sensible retirement date. Then his team threw together the unfundable and questionable Constellation program. NASA was "asked" to do this and couldn't for a variety of completely predictable reasons.

Obama stepped and called Constellation "over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation." And he was right. He tasked NASA to build out the Orion/SLS and continue to fund the Commercial Crew and Cargo program that funds companies like SpaceX. This was done in NASA Authorization Act of 2010, a measly 5 years ago, which is nothing in human spaceflight engineering timelines. Its kinda incredible the SLS and Orion are where they are at considering the very short timelines involved. The debut flight on the SLS is in 2018 and I believe Orion is either completed now or will long be completed by then.

On top of it, NASA keeps hemorrhaging money to the Russians for Soyuz lifts instead of funding these programs. Charles Bolden writes:

"Since 2010, the President has received approximately $1 billion less than he requested for NASA’s Commercial Crew initiative. During this time we’ve sent $1 billion to Russia."

Congress needs to fund these programs if you want them to happen. NASA can't work without a proper budget.
It's just one darned thing after another, innit? Fundamental attribution error for all! The FAE is like a drug.

Our entire approach to prison has been like this since the Quakers invented it.

Someone once pointed out to me that our University system was "hijacked" by, of all people, the Unitarians in the early 19th century ( when Harvard ousted the Congregationalists/Puritans/Calvinists and replaced them largely with Unitarians ). These are long-term , nearly sectarian conflicts.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/10759-how...

"Unitarianism is not a revealed religion. It is a social movement based on the notion that man is basically good and morally perfectible, and that all that is needed to achieve this moral and social utopia is a good secular education. And that is why the Unitarians became the major force in the public school movement."

Now, perhaps I am taking my dose of FAE here :), but that sure looks like the shape things are in. I'm also quite aware it's not clear where the Quakers fit in; but the basic initial design for prison did initiate with them - for humanitarian reasons.
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Her words are carefully chosen. They don't look at it when they make hiring decisions. They do look at background and skill set when selecting candidates. (i.e. If you can lateral into the interview process it's cool that you don't meet the job description. If you come in off the street looking to interview, you better check all the boxes if you want our time.)
I have a $3.5K sofa, well-built with elegant fabric, that did not fit in with my house after I moved. It now sits in an outbuilding and my dog loves it. I got a replacement on Craigslist for $350, and I like it just as much.

My lessons: (a) buying sofas is hard; (b) for me, nothing is forever; (c) it's hard to generalize about the wisdom of various furniture purchase strategies.
Or they will laud and eulogize you as a visionary that forever changed the tech industry.
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The correct answer is that strings shouldn't have length methods. There is no such thing as the 'length' of a string because as you pointed out there is no clear definition of what a 'character' is.

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-06-why-is-s...
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You are saying Mozart was poor?
> No, success is not guaranteed even if you try many many times times, even if you train a lot and believe a lot.
In fact, the rule is this: No matter how hard you try, you might still lose. Sorry about that.

I agree. As soon as you stop trying, you've lost.
I don't have any, but I'm a bit removed from that team. May want to ping them again to see if there's any status updates.
How will his arrest affect the price of the drug? That is really the only I care about.
Nobody has a problem with encode/decode when talking about, say, json. You have some semantic object that you want to encode to some bytes representation, and some bytes representation that you want to decode into some semantic object.

The confusions is around people viewing byte strings implicitly as ascii codepoints, and not fully understanding what the things they're looking at actually are.
Blame those that own the copyright (i.e. the labels). The list of what tracks can be used will change weekly, if not more often, and offering them for sale will be an even bigger headache than being able to play them on the TV/radio.
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There's just a bit of hyperbole in your comment. Most major libraries have been ported to Python 3. I wonder if the opposite of what you're saying will happen--i.e, the libraries that don't support Python 3 will be left behind. Fabric is an example of that for me.
But, from the article, they're talking about the tech industry. You work in the finance industry.
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Yet Japan has one of the highest suicide rates and almost no gun ownership!

Also, prior to enacting gun control, Australia's non-firearm suicide rate doubled (1980-1996) while firearm suicide was cut in half.

Not sure there is any correlation.
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Its not that difficult to use Google Spreadsheets as a database - here's an app I put together in a couple of hours to allow people to rate players after a soccer game - currently used by a reddit sub:

http://www.teamrating.com
I really hope this comes with big changes. The App Store on all platforms has been a disaster for years, IMHO. Overrun with junk ware, it really needs some serious people power put into curating categories to help you find what you're interested in.

Years ago I used to download new iOS apps all the time, I rarely do any more. Every time I go on the store all I see is junk apps loaded with in app purchase traps.
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There's a sort of general nostalgia for attractive parts of the past that exists in addition to nostalgia for one's past though. as the article brings up, "Mad Men" has started a fad for 1960s design even among people who weren't even alive in that period.
I mean, obviously artists could opt out (and tracking them all down for back catalog perms would be a nightmare - I'm not without sympathy for the effort involved) but going forward could they really not set up a default agreement? The fact that they DO release some stuff commercially seems indicative it's entirely possible.

Glasto is indeed another great example of audio tracks I'd gladly pay for - funnily enough though by the time the BBC takes it's coverage down some valiant internet person has stuck what I want up on torrents.
Done, I appreciate it.
Also like said in the article to mid century stuff. They are often said to be timeless, but I guess only time will tell if they stay looked after.
Classic "butthurt giant is mad at new competition and sues them to death" move.

Subscribing to DSC today, wanted to do that a long time ago anyway.
Exactly.

Also, I remember reading somewhere that one of the Google founders (Brin, I think) was actually proud of not having an MBA. Not 100% about the validity of the story though.

Thing is, if it's true, I can understand the sentiment of rebelling against the older business culture that people with MBAs represented at the time. Thing is, all the VCs that bankrolled early Silicon Valley did (and do) have MBAs. So the point is the stance is a bit hypocritical.
No, his position, as I understand it, is that it cannot be conscious. It certainly can be intelligent.

Searle does try to explain why there's a difference. Although the person in the Chinese Room might be conscious of other things, he has no consciousness of understanding the Chinese text he's manipulating, and will readily verify this, and nothing else in the room is conscious. Chinese speakers are conscious of understanding Chinese.
In general, you may be right, but is this really what could be happening here — how can the fact that future colleagues consider the interviewees political views reactionary be used to set up any licit line of questioning?
This is a perfect fit. Both products are really well done and incredibly polished. I've repeatedly asked the Respondly team to build Buffer-like scheduling into their product so I'm really excited to see them combine.
What else can be sent to a browser without the user being able to inspect it?
Non modal: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gillette-sues-dollar-shave-...
Anyone shed some light on whether there is any validity, or is it just Gillette trying to scare DSC and their customers?
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