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More on All Writs Act of 1789.

The Dangerous All Writs Act Precedent in the Apple Encryption Case

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/a-dangerous-all-w...

"Tim Cook, the C.E.O. of Apple, which has been ordered to help the F.B.I. get into the cell phone of the San Bernardino shooters, wrote in an angry open letter this week that “the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create.” The second part of that formulation has rightly received a great deal of attention: Should a back door be built into devices that are used for encrypted communications? Would that keep us safe from terrorists, or merely make everyone more vulnerable to hackers, as well as to mass government surveillance? But the first part is also potentially insidious, for reasons that go well beyond privacy rights.

The simple but strange question here is exactly the one that Cook formulates. What happens when the government goes to court to demand that you give it something that you do not have? No one has it, in fact, because it doesn’t exist. What if the government then proceeds to order you to construct, design, invent, or somehow conjure up the thing it wants? Must you?"
Massive mistake! This makes me delete my FB Messenger.
That's pretty much what the Meji era Japanese Navy told themselves and that didn't turn out very well.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/eating-too-much-rice-almost...
I don't get it. What is the average person going to do themselves with the results of a simple blood test?

Car analogy: is there any point in taking your car to a garage and having them look it over and just make a list of the status of common components on the car, without any (vehicle specific) interpretations? As in "you have 5/16 inch wear difference between the front left and right brake rotors, the steering toe-in is 1.3 degrees, and the alternator is providing 13.2 volts".

If not, why is the blood test thing different?
How big was triplecheck tech last year?
For anyone interested in the origin of life I can heartily recommend Nick Lane's "The Vital Question", which sums up a lot of the most recent research in this area and also briefly talks about the Cambrian explosion. Really fascinating, deeply interesting stuff.
Hi,

May be its right that facebook overpaid for whats app. But, at that when facebook paid whatsapp grabed a strong portion of the market. Its became popular in very less time. Now also people are using whatsapp than other chat apps.
I'm not sure about just standing, but I know that so far... It's been a challenge to train myself to work on a treadmill desk.

Sometimes it's hard to keep a high degree of focus while walking.
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Worst case, you tell a doctor beforehand, and they remove it with a swipe or two of a scalpel. These things are usually put in by a professional body piercer with a scalpel and no anesthetic; it's not like they're deep in the flesh or anchored to anything.
Comments based our experience with production Haskell at Front Row:

* stack is pretty solid at multi-package builds, save everything in one single git repo for easier snapshotting. See yesod for reference

* use stack with stackage LTS unless you have a really good reason not to

* TH is nice to avoid, but you also miss out on great libraries like Persistent. Seems reasonably hard to dodge that one if you're sold on the conveniences of the yesod ecosystem

* We've been overall pretty happy with classy-prelude as Prelude replacement. Can throw off beginners at first, but is quite convenient to work with.
http://phabricator.org/ seems really good.
Any health or fitness regime needs repetition and commitment to be effective. A universally beneficial regime that can be easily done at home is yoga. http://getcheaptwitterfollowers.org/
Both meanings apply in British English, it's just a matter of context. There aren't usually that many insulted patients raging out of the opticians in the UK.

Nevertheless some opticians are forced to don a face mask when breaking the news to certain patients, in cases where the "How dare you!" slap is likely to leave a mark.
Not related to the company and remembering off the top of my head, but I believe the rules state that two commands must be implemented by all SMS short code users: HELP and STOP. HELP returns information about the service whereas STOP must remove someone from the system instantly, after a final text (may be) sent.
USB keys have never been sensitive to magnets, and platter drives are heavily shielded to keep the magnet inside from screwing with stuff on the outside. Credit cards are vulnerable in theory, but I've accidentally carried a wad of Buckyball neodymium magnets in my pocket next to my wallet for several hours with no ill effects; briefly touching the card with a tiny finger magnet is unlikely to do much.
Talk to technical recruiters, who do have a network. If you want to stay in the Bay area, talk to Aline Lerner (http://blog.alinelerner.com/posts/) or if you want to move to Switzerland, talk to me.
$8.15 an hour after taxes.
50% of the parking tickets I've been issue have been done so incorrectly.

I've had two parking tickets in my life, in London. Once, only a few months after I got my licence, I parked for 10 mins in a bay where stopping was allowed, but not at that particular time. Fair cop. I hadn't bothered to read the sign.

The second time, I stopped in a 'loading' zone, where loading is permitted for a certain amount of time. I don't recall the amount of time, but I was within that amount of time. When I challenged the person who had written the ticket, he told me that loading was only allowed for commercial vehicles (which is untrue). I challenged the ticket by post, outlining what had happened, and including the parking attendant's inaccurate understanding of what loading bays are for. My challenge was rejected, and it didn't seem worth my time to continue the process.
In the UK, you no longer need to be a lawyer to own a law firm. You will need a lawyer somewhere in the mix, though.
They don't. You can get cheap/free STD tests from non-physician providers. You can also buy STD tests at the drugstore, over the counter. But like it or not, anyone who collects biological samples from strangers' is going to require some training and licensing.

Moreover, the interpretation of an STD test is not as straightforward as you might think. False positive rates can be high for the cheaper tests, and there's natural variability in things like antibody titers. People also neglect that timing matters -- if you test too soon after infection, even the most sensitive tests won't work. Or they fixate on one particular scary illness (e.g. HIV), and neglect testing for others that are less well-known, but more common (e.g. Chlamydia). Some of these problems can be mitigated. Others can't.

Regardless, having someone trained to interpret tests is a good idea for just about everyone. Even the cheap/free/OTC tests come with that service, at a minimum. It's a bad idea to just allow people to pick and interpret their own tests, even for the "simple" ones, like STD tests.
The net effect of negative interest rates is to transfer wealth from savers to debtors. This would reduce the amount of total debt that's crushing the economy, theoretically leading to growth. But would do so by confiscating wealth from savers either indirectly through inflation, or directly through depositor fees combined with capital controls. Effectively it will reward all those who have taken on too much debt and punish all those who have been prudent and saved. A very perverse incentive indeed.

In a negative interest rate environment inflation is not going to be a very low positive number. It is going to be much higher. That's half the aim. To inflate away the debt and pay it off with cheaper money. Instead of banks needing to pay the central bank to borrow money, the central bank is going to pay them to take it. And they have the power to coin. Inflation is going to be dramatically higher.

In my opinion, what should be done now is to let the market crash. The long term cause of the crisis has been the constant effort to stop the business cycle from occurring. Instead of having lots of little, regular, mini 'crashes' that would reallocate capital to solid businesses and erase bad debt, we have been propping up and preventing (to the best of the central banks ability) any markets' natural attempts to rebalance.

So we've had this enormous, multi-decade boom. 2008 was a chance to correct, and that was not allowed to happen. So now the bust we have will be ferocious and terrible, far worse than 2008 would have been. But there is nothing we can do. We should have taken our economic medicine years ago, and prevented these insane bankers from doing this for their own personal gain.

Central banks were established to 1) ensure a stable currency and 2) to be a lender of last resort. Since when did propping up the stock market become part of their purview? Or ensuring asset prices continue to rise?

If we don't take the medicine now with an economic down turn, then the problem will just grow bigger, and the next time it will be far, far worse. Just as now it is far worse than 2008. We are effectively screwing our children's prospects for our own greedy self interest.
You can only kick the can down the road for so long. With each kick it becomes heavier. Its now a boulder. Eventually we'll break our metaphorical foot on it, trying to kick it.
Was this exact conversation not had decades ago regarding C & assembly-type languages? Tomorrow, lua vs C, then Go vs java, then spoken language vs whatever. (I surely got the specific comparatives wrong)

Tomorrow we will take terabytes & terahertz for granted.

I see no end. Old-school vs new-school ad-infinitum.
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this very bad news!
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There's a good chance that that's actually caused by something else, and the nearness to increased computer time is just a coincidence. You should see an eye doctor, if you haven't already.
HTTPS Everywhere sure breaks this.
We're talking about 256-bit AES, not public key crypto. Unless additional flaws are found in AES, quantum computing only weakens 256-bit AES to requiring on average 2^128 AES encryptions on the quantum machine.
Keras (http://keras.io) is a similar library, although only for TensorFlow and Theano...
Japan? The country that has in its constitution that it cannot hold an offensive military, nor take part in researching/developing offensive military technology... Which expert believes that?

Or do you mean historically? (Pre WWII)

I would hazard a guess that China's korean war "Human wave" tactics would be sufficient against Japan (assuming US was not also involved).
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China has 300 million people middle class? Do you stop for a moment to listen to yourself? Middle class where? In China, earning $500/month?
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> in a poorer state of physical and mental health overall.

> mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.

Or: having depressions and anxiety and/or being in poor physical & mental health makes you eat crappy food
If a trait doesn't prevent people from reproducing (whether by killing them, making them infertile, or making them unattractive to the opposite sex), and also doesn't make them more likely to reproduce successfully, then evolution has no effect on that trait whatsoever.

There are plenty of examples of characteristics that actually make individuals less likely to survive, but flourish because they also make the individual a more attractive breeding partner--the peacock's cumbersome tail, for example, which is used in mating displays.
China's still not developed enough. Foreign media and foreign freedom of the press doesn't mean all press are publishing good things, or things good for the public.

In a developed nation this is OK because the public has fewer problems to worry about and can devote the time to punish bad press or filter out bad actors. In China where people worry about many things including clean water and corruption, having to have to worry about a large portion of the population being swindled by a bad acting foreign media propaganda is a real concern. In the US if some nazi propaganda publication gets published its ok. Most people know well enough to dismiss them. In an undeveloped country this could potentially result in a nazi takeover. See impoverished Germany after World War I as an example.

This doesn't mean the Chinese government isn't spewing its own propaganda, but at the least its working well enough to drive economic growth at the moment, and they don't want to derail that with chaos or dissent.
Just thinking back in recent history, U.S. v. Jones (2012) [0], Scalia writing for the majority of the court [1]:

> The Government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining information. We have no doubt that such a physical intrusion would have been considered a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it was adopted.

But additionally, he argues that without the physical intrusion, long term tracking via GPS may be permissible:

> The concurrence posits that “relatively short-term monitoring of a person’s movements on public streets” is okay, but that “the use of longer term GPS monitoring in investigations of most offenses” is no good. ... That introduces yet another novelty into our jurisprudence. There is no precedent for the proposition that whether a search has occurred depends on the nature of the crime being investigated. And even accepting that novelty, it remains unexplained why a 4-week investigation is “surely” too long and why a drug-trafficking conspiracy involving sub-stantial amounts of cash and narcotics is not an “extra-ordinary offens[e]” which may permit longer observation.

So at a clip, I'd go with my usual and say that Scalia had an independent mind that tried to balance a original reading of the Constitution with federal law. How he'd land on the Apple case is entirely unclear.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones_(2012)
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/10-1259#writin...
On what system (resources) are you running gitlab? In my experience it is not slow. I also run a gogs instance; great for the modest resource requirements but by far no match in features and look. Both make sense imho and do not overlap much.
depends on what you want to make. i think node/javascript is a good use of your investigative abilities at this point.
Maybe you should explain why.
> I don't get it either.

You may be missing it, yes.

As I understand it, the issue is not about software, but about the security keys. It isn't about some code being written, but about signing that code with the root certificate of all iOS devices.

Nobody is celebrating their closed-source codebase as a paragon of security. If Apple used open source code, sure the FBI could pay a third party to write the code, but Apple would still be right to refuse to sign it.

[edit: softened tone]
TOMs practice was small scale. But the effects of if they increased their impact and handouts would be anticompetitive to underdeveloped local competition.
How trivial it is to send/accept pull-requests with Gitlab? This is one Github feature which I'm highly dependent on. Unlike Mr. Torvalds, we all aren't experts in sending and managing signed pull-requests by emails. Maybe, I'll learn that one day, but Github's features have made me quite lethargic!
I'm really surprised that Github hasn't done what Stackoverflow does, and advertise jobs. They have an awesome knowledge of the skills of their users up front.
Is there such a thing? Sounds a bit like 'favourite colour'.

Anyway, that said, Fira Sans is very nice.
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The biggest issue here is the rent. You can definitely find places in the East Bay, near BART stations, for less than $1000 for a bedroom/studio. Add a roommate, and you're looking at less than $500 per month for rent.

And if you're willing to live in a somewhat crappier area, you can might be able to go as low as $300-400/month with a roommate.
Github jobs has existed for years and years but I agree that they are massively under-utilising their data. https://jobs.github.com/
Thanks a lot, I was looking for such topics for a while !
Thanks, but I'm not very productive in Lisp. Lisp development environments need emacs and emacs and my brains are not compatible. I've tried the 15 years to pick it up time and again but to no avail. Last time I even made a cheat sheet for myself (a link here as a proof of effort):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ceiijwn8s31j8hv/emac_memo.svg?dl=0

Given the platform availability I'm pretty sure C++ will eventually reach the living fossil status Lisp and Fortran have.
This case seems to increasingly be handled by DeriveGeneric. I realise the performance isn't quite the same, but so far my experiences of GHC generics have been pretty positive.
What I'm saying is that a lot of energy has gone into "Assuming an attacker has gotten us into an undefined state, let's try to prevent them from pushing us into a chosen redefined state." And what I'm saying is, maybe we can create an environment where we don't end up in undefined states, or at least, there are bounds to how undefined they can be.

For example, I'm exploring ending use after free bugs by just not freeing memory. This sounds ridiculous until you realize that on 64 bit, leaking virtual memory (and therefore never recycling pointers) is actually not an insane idea, particularly for browsers that get to kill processes outright because they feel like it. Also, lots of UaF in there.
I don't need the Supreme Court to tell me what my natural rights are regarding privacy.

The answer is to reject this perverse notion of Judicial Review. This is what we should be lobbying for.

I do not care what SCOTUS or a private corporation does or says. If you attempt to diminish natural rights you should be forwarned; I am coming after you directly to either alter or abolish the policies and government you have unjustly imposed over me and society.

I don't care about these silly irrelevant constructs. My rights to privacy preexisted government, Apple, encryption and the Bill of Rights.

If the DoJ ot FBI disagrees, then we should abolish them. I am no fan of the FBI and their fascist organization built by an oppressive corrupt criminal named Hoover.

One day they will no longer exist and neither will this idea that little men in robes need to tell people what their obvious natural rights are.
I am uncertain how one could consider Scalia's jurisprudence as advocating civil liberties.
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You know, there's this thing called judicial review too.
With the risk of sounding overly critical, I really can't understand why people get so emotional about software. Github isn't a public utility company and so isn't obliged to provide free services to anyone or cater specifically to the needs of one group of users, if they do so it is by their own choice and because it helps them to fulfill their monetary goals (making money is the main purpose of a for-profit company). Also, I can't see any significant lock-in effects at work here.

Personally, I have several dozens software projects: Some of them are on Github, some on Bitbucket, some run on a custom Gitlab instance and some are plain git repositories on some Linux server. I think we have more choices for hosting code projects today than we had ever before, it's just that like in many other markets there is a power law at work which makes that one player has 90 % market share, this doesn't automatically mean that the largest player has a monopoly on source code hosting though.

As the author says, the fact that the software Github provides is affordable, convenient and works very well is probably the only lock-in there is, and this kind of quality-based lock-in is actually desirable in my opinion. What would not be acceptable to me is a lock-in based on the fact that your data is stored somewhere from where it's very hard/impossible to get out (SAP comes to mind), this isn't the case for Github though.
If this bug ends up traversing caches, it'll affect Amazon just like everything else. That the bug is so resistant to clear-cut answers on cache traversal vulnerability is unique, practically unprecedented.
> Haskell code tends to be of high quality by construction, but for several reasons that are only correlated; not causally linked to the technical merits of Haskell. Just by virtue of language being esoteric and having a relatively higher barrier to entry we’ll end up working with developers who would write above average code in any language.

I think this happened to Ruby for some time, not anymore probably. Maybe the next language to get the benefits of the "experienced early adopters effect" will be Elixir.
To be fair, companies are able to treat people like this (is not just tech companies - ask many entry level employees in many non-tech industries in New York how they're doing) because they can.

It's simple supply and demand. There is an oversupply of people with her background who are willing to endure minimum wages. A lot of these people are willing to endure entry level jobs because they won't "settle" for something short of their dream (a white collar writing/media/comedy job, in her case). That's a perfectly fine goal, but understand that you're competing with thousands and thousands of other people with similar or superior educations.

Either accept the resulting low wages, or join a profession that is actually facing a shortage of labor (e.g. nurse, plumber, etc.)
There's your business model right there. For a modest sum, you will buy your customer's house off them for the new market value, then immediately sell it back to them for the same value. $8000 - 2 x property taxes should still leave some margin.
And indeed there are well known "sunken cities" off the coast of Italy, which is a pretty geologically active area...

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-sunken-city-of-baia
And social networking features, which have proven to be its gold egg imho. Like the article mentions, Github has for many become a defacto showcase for your body of work.
This was good. Thank you.

The part that most worried me was If we look at the history of programming, there are many portents of the future of Haskell in the C++ community, another language where no two developers (that I’ve met) agree on which subset of the language to use.

I also perked up when he talked about the difference between pipeline-paradigm coding and coding involving monadic trees.

I'd love to dive into the language, but with F# I'm happy enough that I code as little as possible and create lots of value. While I think that would be even more true in Haskell, it doesn't seem worth the switch -- yet.

Having said that, I'm definitely seeing some parallels between my own experience in F# and this author's experience in Haskell, especially the part about multiple ways to solve a problem. Are there no good books about common FP best practices? Seems like much of what you would consider a "best practice" would apply whether it's F#, OCAML, or Haskell.
You seem to be under impression that the issue she raises is somehow not 'Talia is an entitled person unable to critically evaluate and plan her life'
Surprised the article had nothing to say about thermal expansion of the sea, thought to contribute at least as much to global sea level rises as meltwater, and something which would likely also affect local sea level dynamics.
Google moved over €28bn through State in tax scheme
or TempleOS?