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Negative. While the debtor's prisons thing misses it, you missed it also. FTA:

"...handing Vigilant all of the data they gather on drivers for nearly unlimited commercial use..."

Debt collectors thrive on collecting every scrap of information they can about debtors: where they live, where they work, their cell numbers, and so on. This LPR database could quite easily build up profiles about debtors that collectors in the past could only dream of. One immediate application is watching where a car is driven and parked in order to repo it. That's probably the most acceptable use I can think of.

It gets worse from there: think data mining for alimony and custody battles, use by private investigators in infidelity cases, locating and stalking former lovers, and so on.
Well if I stay, I probably will gain more money in the future if company does go well, but the risk is high as well (and most risk is out of my control). Also if I leave now, they will have a hard time in next couple of months.
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As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes
there's no reason to believe that wealth destroys one's empathy. i can think of numerous examples of the exact opposite (bill gates, etc.)
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Railroad companies are old, arrogant businesses, who would never consult anyone.
I still remember the BUILD 2015 (I think) fiasco where mods to Minecraft was used to demo VS2015's Java support.
> things move forward

That's still the same euphemism to abstract human responsibility away. The clock moves forward, otherwise what we tend to call "progress" as if it's on a one-dimensional line is just a point on one branch in a tree with infinite branches, and it's made up mostly of decisions.

I just explained this; now "things moved forward", and you'll simply have to drop your euphemism and never use it again. Don't look at me for help, unless you're looking for help to have this explained more thoroughly.
Capitalism works best when two parties have similar information, resources, etc. Cell phone contracts are a perfect example. They've had teams of lawyers, arbitration and everything thing else on their side and lobbyists to write the laws to fit them. I can sign it or leave it. I also remember democracy isn't two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. So I'm not saying socialism's the answer either. I think taxing the rich is the lazy way out. like libertarian-ism "let's do nothing and that will fix it". I think we're on the wrong side of the Laffer curve and because poor people spend more and there for generate more now income.
It's unfortunate you had such a bad experience with Docker. No doubt there's a steep learning curve to use more advanced features. If you're still willing to look in to it, I'd recommend taking at look at https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/dockervolumes/ under "Mount a host directory as a data volume."
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Its a legal minefield because some parents are getting arrested for not supervising "baby sitting age" girls.

And with teen pregnancy you can end up in weird scenarios like a mom with her toddler legally requiring a grandparent, technically.

I've seen some writings that its a pretty effective weapon against people of the wrong demographic. The same crazy cat lady who files HOA complaints for having the wrong species of daisy in the flowerbed will hover over the neighborhood's jews or blacks or whatever she doesn't like, until she sees a kid alone in the backyard long enough to snap a picture, then CPS is called in. Its not that we don't like section 8 people, or republicans, or whatever, its just that we don't like unsupervised kids, you see.

I've also seen writings that in some municipalities this is the only way to handle barking dogs.
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I can certainly praise their current movements to be a more open company. The worst thing we as technologists can do is to be reserved in providing positive feedback on movements that we see as positive ones.
reading https://randomascii.wordpress.com Im not so sure. Microsoft has a habit of shipping unoptimized buggy crap in every niche, including dev tools.
If the poor end of the wealth gap are still better off than 90% of the rest of the world, why does the wealth gap matter?

That was my thinking for quite a while.

However, the one thing that happens here in the US is that the wealthy have more representation and power in the legal system. Be it federal or local, the systems tend to get slanted against the not-wealthy because the wealthy take over the communications channel to the movers & shakers.

It's in many ways becoming the new "taxation without representation".
I get the difference in the situation from a macro perspective. But consider being a lead developer, or the person with the batphone that week during an outage.

Executives breathing down your neck demanding answers and things "just work".

I get being paid, and I get assholes in general. I'm just saying from a pure mentality standpoint, it's not 100% opposite.
That's because with the advent of TV/advertising they've turned political manipulation and spin into a science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Full thing here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdJMuCreDA
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They were probably running RHEL5, but even in 2014 they would have been in the Production 3 phase which is really should only be used for legacy purposes, and that's definitely not the sort of system you push new software to. Red Hat even pushes those customers towards virtualization because a) hardware rarely lasts 7 years and b) they won't bother backporting drivers for new hardware to the old kernel at that point.

I still use a few RHEL5 machines but nobody would ever dream of pushing new software to them.
No, I don't suggest it's higher. I suggest that there is no obvious correlation between religion and crime rate...

Sorry, I misinterpreted this phrase as being a suggestion that it's higher: "Note that this does not mean that immigrants do not commit less crimes than residents."

So what are the numbers, for immigrants and Germans?

The racists don't have a plan to prevent another Cologne. Not a credible one, anyway. They live in a fantasyland where you can just push a button and immigration stops.

Most politics is pure fantasyland. Consider Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders here in the US - both are spouting pure fantasy that appeals to the emotions of their base.

In the end, what happened in Cologne is like a mass shooting in the US: individually, a horrific event, but one for which there is no quick and easy public policy response, and in the end, does not pose a much bigger statistical risk than being hit by lightning.

Eyeballing the numbers, this seems unlikely. As far as I know, tens to hundreds of people were not struck by lightning in Cologne, and similar numbers at the Swedish music festival "We Are Sthlm" every year since 2014.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/its-not-only-germany-that...

So on the one hand, we've got left wing types denying reality as you do above. Then we've got right wing types at least acknowledging the problem and proposing to do something about it.

Unless left wing types can compromise on ideology and actually acknowledge reality (Muslims raping women is a vastly larger problem than lighting strikes), people will turn to the racist right for solutions.
Missouri, for one, but I think it is common:

"...more than half the courts in St. Louis County engage in the "illegal and harmful practices" of charging high court fines and fees on nonviolent offenses like traffic violations — and then arresting people when they don't pay."

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/25/343143937/in-ferguson-court-fi...
In SF tonight (1/26) at the AWS Pop Up Loft, Ryan Park (infrastructure eng at Runscope) is presenting on this migration to DynamoDB. If you're in the city come on by. Ryan and many other experienced ops folk will be there.

http://www.meetup.com/AWS-SANFRANCISCO/events/227832959/
If we're going minimal, the base Lua install is still measured in hundreds of kilobytes, not megabytes.
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I keep hearing about this, seeing mentions and links to github, but I have to ask: where's the "meat"?
Although such behaviour has gone on in one way or another for as long as there have been police/soldiers, this is not part of the Orwell 'Big Brother' script. In most Dystopian futures the apparatus of Police state is paid for with some type of other taxation, not the police officers doing highway robbery.
Around Java 7, there was experimental support for scalar interpolation. I'm not sure how it progressed though.
not gp, but I think of rwandan genocide where this idea of power/wealth superiority lead to Really Bad Things.

Maybe French Revolution or Soviet Revolution of 1917? Here I mean that things before the revolutions were really bad and the revolutions were bad in themselves (as bloody).
I'm the last person you'll hear using the "but think of the children!" tactic. American paranoia has been exploited for nefarious purposes long enough (I'm glad to say, I'd be surprised if you found any such message in the Nest Cam advertising campaign.)

Politics aside... it's your prerogative to buy or build any system you want. I was just clarifying why, in my personal opinion, if you really have a need for a security system, choosing a hobbyist project over a system built by a team of professionals is probably a bad idea (again, look for the article I linked before about how easy it is to "hack" into streaming baby monitors.)
> The only sane answer is "Don't to put any roadblocks between them and catching up."

I like to phrase of it in terms of designing feedback loops and augmenting existing ones when they aren't strong enough.
Yeah. They do. That's not GPS stamped. It's not loaded into a commercial database for a company to sell to other companies for gain. And to add insult to injury, who pays for it?
Alpha channels in H.26x (really any delivery codec) are a nightmare compared to APNG/GIF.
Yes, your additional option is to be extorted into paying a 25% fee.

Let's do a root cause analysis of the problem, since it goes much deeper than mere small fines.

First, the leveraging of state fines, backed by government force, disproportionally affects the poor. The poor are damaged most, because they do not have the money to pay the fines.

Second, unable to pay their fines, many members of the poorest segment of the population are incarcerated for their inability to pay.

Third, this results in a system where those that are incarcerated for debt lose employment, and are driven deeper into poverty.

Finally, the most important part of this piece is that the state of Texas has set up a massive dragnet surveillance operation at the state level.

Their goal is not national security. It is domestic surveillance.

This technology should never be deployed on American soil, at this scale, and especially not for collecting debt.
>It also seems that we should each take some personal responsibility, and help whomever we can. It is too often that we pawn off our responsibilities and moral duties on society.<

So very true...the single most important thing a person can do to strengthen a community--interpret community as broadly as you like--is to spend time helping those in your immediate vicinity...I'm prescribing this because of it's accessibility; it's a course of action available to anyone, usually costs little, and leaves you feeling pretty darned good...

First-hand case in point: A boy who lives a couple of miles away from me started dropping by occasionally to visit...he'd pedal by on his bicycle and stop to chat if I was out in the yard...

During our visits I learned about his circumstances...his father, a drug user, committed suicide in the shower of their home when he was 6 years old...his mother had had a series of boyfriends, and there were 3 partial families--14 people--living in his house, a 3 bedroom trailer...

As we got to know each other a bit better he asked me one day,"Hey, everyone around here calls you the computer man; how could I learn about computers?"

I told him I could teach him a few things, and did...he would drop by when my schedule permitted and was willing to sit for as long I was willing to teach him things...just basics, a few tricks...

I could tell that he had a quick grasp of the material, and asked him how school was going, his grades, etc...turned out he had around a 3.7 GPA, and admitted that he never studied outside of school...

I told him one day that he should consider college...the next day he said he had mentioned what I said to his mom and she flatly told him,"We can't afford something like that".

To make a long story short, the state that I live in offers a program that essentially pays (combined with grants, and college scholarships) for those below a certain income level to attend 5 years of in-state college...I spent several days gathering information, presented it to him, and told him I thought he could do it...he just needed to sign up in the program right away, and keep his grades up...

Rather predictably, his mother was initially skeptical, so at his invitation I visited with her and explained how this would work...

I'll leave the story here...he's a junior in high school now and is on track to enter college in 2017...he would have never become aware of the opportunity if I hadn't mentioned it to him, and all it cost me was about 2 days of research and another day helping him apply... we'll see how it goes...
Personally I'm not interested in YC Core. The fellowship is perfect, its deal much better suited to my goals.
And you can (should) probably set up a cron job to do that every 2 months!
Some further details on the issue: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283
> From where I stand, there is a compelling, coherent story of people being idiots, but the cynical, blatant corruption seems missing.

Yeah, like I said, its closer to opinion than verifiable fact.

However, the paper basically admits the facts I use to conclude that are correct but draws the opposite conclusion by comparing incestuously rather than across verticals.

Yes, relative to other mortgage related things, the ratings were correct but such ratings are published as absolute probabilities and not as relative assurances that AAA > AA > A > BBB. The fact the absolutes were in error for a single portion of a single vertical among multiple firms implies its an incentive problem which the paper agrees. It just draws the line in a different place because its analyzing a different question [Insiders vs. Outsiders rather than Insiders vs. Insiders].

> The answer may well involve the information and incentive structures present inside Wall Street firms. Employees who could recognize the iceberg looming in front of the ship may not have been listened to, or they may not have had the right incentives to speak up. If so, then the information and incentive problems giving rise to the crisis would not have existed between mortgage industry insiders and outsiders, as the inside job story suggests. Rather, these problems would have existed between different floors of the same Wall Street firm.

The paper believes its internal to the firms but the uniformity of the problem between firms implies it was the culture of all the large firms and likely exported to the credit bureaus due to heavy competition in a single vertical. The difference between what the paper is arguing vs. what I'm arguing is likely impossible to determine because of the incestuous movements between those firms and even the credit bureaus of the human capital involved.
Often, a company can make use of open source software within enterprise environments without breaking the law - particularly on the back-end. I have been in such a situation many times throughout my career. Open source software's vastly lower barriers to entry and greatly improved platform support are both relatively new phenomena. I have a feeling that the combination of newcomers to the field, plus the greater role open source software plays in corporate environments, are strong contributors to the problem discussed in the article.
Camera speeding tickets are totally common across Europe already
C++, not C#. Why isn't Microsoft using its own language? It seems late to be doing new starts in C++.
Exactly.

Wealth isn't a zero-sum game, but power/influence is.
use lobbyists. throw lots of soft money at politics. hold bazillions off shore so they can avoid as many taxes as possible. become patent trolls. buy back their own stock so they make themselves rich while screwing ordinary investors and employees and companies. pay less in taxes than their secretaries. Colluding into oligopolies and monopolies so that can extract monopoly profits. stop spending in a recession then complaining because the government does. not training employees and cutting benefits.
> The next thing I look to see happen is automated speeding tickets. There's no reason radars shouldn't be set up in conjuction with license plate readers, or actually just pulling speed data from cars with in-car transmission ability and tickets being auto-generated to constituents.

I'm fairly certain that this happens already in the UK.
The EFF isn't a problem solver, they're a watch-dog.

Do what you will with the information they give you.
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That doesn't get you out of Comcast's cap system.
There is nothing new in the way the powerful wield more power than the powerless. It's a story older than history.
Where did we get that [Schrödinger's equation] from? It's not possible to derive it from anything you know. It came out of the mind of Schrödinger.
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For anyone who wants to study quantum mechanics and has a math background, I strongly recommend Shankar's quantum textbook. It has the most rigorous, clear, and correct derivations I have seen thus far, starting with vector spaces and moving to physical systems only after a hundred or so pages.
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And now the paranoid neighbors have clear rule to stand on if the kid is under 10. Gray areas go both ways.
A weird statement to make, given that the jury is still very much out as to whether any technology currently on deck (or even reasonably foreseeable) actually qualifies as artificial "intelligence" in any meaningful sense. By and large, it's still mostly data mining, automated classification, that kind of stuff. Like the article itself says:

Palantir Technologies, which has made the CNBC Disruptor 50 list for three consecutive years, helps government agencies and Wall Street firms mine data sets for practical applications — from thwarting terrorism to preventing financial fraud.
Exactly. It wasn't about Lua being better than Python, just that "in this challenge, the solution was Lua". Another challenge will have another solution.

I've only ever done game development in Lua and have never considered it for anything else honestly. Very cool use case here.
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Agree with that as well, I don't want it to turn off people from making awesome things. At the same time people need to realize what they're getting into, or just suggest (finally) that people contribute or take the project over.
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Think of it as occuring between TCP and HTTP. So you browser establishes a network connection to example.org, then negotiates to speak SSL/TLS, and then all the web things happen over the top of that (there are minor exceptions for vhost TLS configs).

So no web traffic should traverse in the clear - the URL, domains, GET data, POST data, headers, etc are protected.

however that does leave a surprising amount of info. Your IP address, the IP address you're connecting to, the host domain you're connecting to if your browser just did a DNS lookup (99% likely it did), how long you communicate with that site, the traffic shape, etc etc.

As a crude example: your ISP sees a DNS lookup to pornhub.com, followed by a connection to the IP address associated with that name, followed by 3 hours of fairly large packet sizes in regular repetitive patterns. It's highly likely they can extrapolate what's in your browser.
I find it difficult to relate to someone who could hold this opinion. It may be a feature of not being a parent.. But how helpless exactly do grownups think kids are?

Beyond the age of 5, maybe 6, a child is surely more than capable of independent living for several days? They should be able to handle their bodily functions, feed themselves, keep themselves entertained with books and/or TV and/or the internet, play outside with their friends and cycle around (slightly depending on the living arrangement and distances involved), commute to school, get their homework done etc.?

I remember being home alone for days going on weeks during early school years, if my parents were out of town/out of country. 20-45-minute commute of walking+subway (/metro/underground) is still the norm for everyone at my (then) primary school starting from first grade.
I'm not sure my brain is up to wading through the site trying to figure out what this is. Can someone break this down into it's purpose and components? Is it a code deployment system, container manager, open-stack, chef/puppet/fabric?

http://oneops.github.io/admin/key-concepts/#oneops-system-ar...

Side note, every-time I see an enterprise message bus, I throw up in my mouth a little.
This argument is basically argumentum ad populum, and your concluding sentence is nothing more than the very same statement that I originally refuted.

> Even as open source .NET is still a huge pain to get running under Linux and development of .NET anything is extremely difficult without Visual Studio (which doesn't run on Linux). Not only that but most of the .NET libraries one would use for any given purpose only work on Windows. So even if the core of .NET is open source and cross platform any software written using that platform can only effectively run on Windows.

https://github.com/dotnet/cli

The open-sourcing and cross-platform development of .NET is an ongoing process that's still in its infancy. Yes, of course it's a pain in the ass right now. Installing git on Windows was also a pain in the ass, and even now it's still basically a prepackaged Linux emulation environment wrapper.
This is the counterbalance I find free-market enthusiasts forget about. Rich people need the state, too, once the angry mob starts looking around for torches and pitchforks.
Struggling to wade through the thicket of buzzwords. What is this? Looks a bit like OpenShift or something?
so chrome supports the notifications but only if you are currently on the page? is that right?
In addition to what soneca said, it could also motivate a government to enact bad populist policy (confiscatory tax rates, punitive wealth confiscation) and leave us all poorer.

Or the elites could convince the government to execute bad policy to protect themselves at the expense of society (like our awful patent system).
The biggest problem is the false belief that success is based on merit. This leads to classism. Classism is just as bad as a caste system, but the meritocracy myth makes it harder to take down.
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