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(To play devils advocate, coming from the perspective of my retired LEO friend)

legal warrants can we written to seize guns which can then be tested and information extracted from them.

Legal warrants can be written to search and seize cars, so they can be searched and extensively examined to extract information/evidence from them.

The argument goes that right now, warrants can be written to gain access to basically everything a criminal has/owns/has been in contact with so that it can all be gobbled up and analyzed.

People supporting the government in this believe the same is true for digital data - they don't care that it's on a phone or laptop or "online", they just think a warrant should let the government access it. If Apple can do it, then they must.

(Note I don't personally agree with that, but I understand it)
Sail boats are able to sail into the wind. This, however, requires the drag of the keel to work. It might be possible to use a traditional rocket engine to act like a keel to allow using the laser energy to slow down the craft.
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I have prior experience in quantitative finance, analytics consulting, and education technology. Here is my Stack Overflow Careers profile: < http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ely >.

My primary experience is in Python, ranging from low-level stuff with llvmlite and writing extension modules in Cython, to database management stuff with SQLAlchemy, through on to tons of stuff with numpy/pandas/etc. I have about 8 years of scientific Python experience if you count grad school, and a little over 4 years of professional work experience.

My background is in applied statistics (mostly machine learning for image processing as well as a lot of MCMC methods).

I care a lot about software quality and best practices. I also have some experience in one job doing functional programming, and my best functional language is Haskell.

I think I'm most motivated by strong attention to quality, so as long as that is a heavy part of the team's ethos, I would be pretty happy working on a wide range of scientific computing / data-focused topical areas of work.

But what I find time and again is that people want me to sit in a large open-plan office with undifferentiated desks, where you can't think straight, while cutting every possible quality corner to crank out code for deeply uninteresting parochial business logic. I could happily compromise on some of those things (and every job will have its downsides, which is OK). But I can't find even one job that doesn't require compromising all of those things.
English, Sir or Ma'am. We speak English in this forum. I do not know what you're saying as it is foreign to me. Please refrain from that bothersome language as we are all about communication here.
Yeah, this is an impressively low information landing page. From reading every page I could find a link to I've discovered that they generate a chart based on something or other... and that's it. I guess they're a $20/month meaningless-line-chart-as-a-service startup, since there's zero details about what the product actually does.

They sure do have the "talk about how awesome we are" part down, though.
> I've used Mint in the past, and it was my go-to distro for family members who aren't so technical.

I would consider myself pretty "technical".

And yet, I am not willing to spend more effort than absolutely necessary for setting up my Linux OS.

Just b/c I am a programmer and even love to use zsh and Git from the CLI does not imply that I have any patience for fiddling with drivers and kernels.

In the "Linux Community" there only seems to exist the hacker (who loves to spend ages tinkering with config files and debugging hardware issues) and the technically incompetent user (who most likely uses Windows anyway).

There is a lot in between.
And that's still not responding to the criticism: even with those downsides, it's better than all the government-endorsed options. Whose fault is that, and what does arresting them accomplish with respect to their welfare? (Which I believe was your motivation for objecting to the practice.)

Edit: I'm not trying to be snarky; it's just that this issue comes up a lot, and I always look for such an explanation and yet never get it. Hence why someone came up with the "Copenhagen interpretation of ethics" argument. If you could actually fill this gap in my understanding, I would gladly help spread the insight to those like me who don't see consistent internal logic behind it.
have you got a source for the Africa population growth vs rest of world? intuitively your stats seem unlikely.
I don't think it's just the racism that's propelling him in the polls, it's racism combined with populism.

For some people, being economically liberal can only occur when they feel that the 'other' groups aren't getting in on the deal.
The 4th amendment also helps pedophiles and rapists get away with crimes. It's obvious why police need some limits on their investigative powers.

Are you also in favor of DNA typing and fingerprinting everyone at birth into a national database? How about requiring all citizens to carry a GPS locator, camera and microphone which are always recording into a national database? We could always just limit access behind a warrant, right?

We create limits on police power because police abuse that power and it harms a free society. Backdoors into our personal electronic devices should not be allowed for the same reason.
> If that's true, then these folks will find no work via the gig economy.

Exactly. So why "rethink the entire safety net, affecting nearly every federal entitlement program, so that it is oriented around the gig economy"?

The gig economy isn't going to change the fundamental problem that there is not enough work, there won't ever again be enough work, and we can't centre our measurement of human worth around work. If we just keep pretending that's not the case we'll either end up with bullshit jobs that create no worth and are subsidized by the companies offering them (at best just a more convoluted form of benefits, paid by corporations directly); or with even more working poor that have a job and still depend on government benefits. Or both.
Great, thanks for the update.
Hadn't heard about it. Just checked it out, and it looks interesting. Unfortunately, due to network effects and my social circle, 99% of the people I know pretty much only use either Wechat, Facebook, or e-mail, but I look forward to seeing something disrupt this space with something better, more functional, cross-platform, and multi-login.

It would be killer if Telegram could interoperate with at least 1 or 2 of the other services, which would allow it to ramp up adoption. Unfortunately Wechat is very insistent about not allowing 3rd-party applications to use their messaging protocol, and Facebook seems to have closed their XMPP interface as well. I would guess Whatsapp probably has the same attitude.

In this respect I really, really miss the days of Pidgin and those other similar applications which used to be able to put MSN/ICQ/AIM/QQ/Yahoo/Zephyr all on one interface. That seems impossible with the state of mobile apps now.
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Things didn't use to be that way.

But they did. The most successful series of books of all times (the Bible) was written by a people who were beaten, broadly persecuted, and generally not considered victors in any practical matter.
Most of these cars will be taxis like Google's. There's no reason for Uber's car fleet to have manual controls, and they will probably cut them.

That said I'm not too worried about this. It's already possible to lay out roadblocks, or just shoot people driving by. It just isn't done much outside of third world countries. And robot cars will have cameras and an internet connection.
At least we've got a killer army.
You use 2 kites on board the spacecraft. One gathers the transmitted beam and reflects it to kite #2, which then reflects forward again. Careful design is important to ensure the spacecraft in the middle isn't struck by the photons. And you will have significant losses by the double-reflection, so you have to turn earlier than 50% of the way there.
Cancancan is one best tools to do this in Ruby. Maybe its DSL-like syntax will give you better ideas.

https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan
I'm struggling to a think of a subpoena that wouldn't involve being compelled to work. Subpoenaing unencrypted customer data still requires work on the company's part. When does a subpoena become a burdensome amount of work?

Furthermore the government already forces companies to preform work. For example, paying taxes, providing insurance for employees, complying with industry regulations.
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Every single time I've had something come damaged from Amazon (which is far too often), it's been from inadequate/incompetent packing on Amazon's part. When you put a 20 lb item loose in a box with a bunch of other fragile items, the carrier is not remotely at fault when everything arrives crushed.
I used them as well this year for the first time, because they seem to be the only filer that will file contracting income for free. I really liked their interface and the lack of upsells.
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Yup. (Was that intended as a correction to something I wrote? If so, I wasn't clear enough and I apologize.)

Regardless, it may be worth adding that ZetaLisp was one of the most important "source" dialects from which Common Lisp emerged, and that Symbolics people were heavily involved in the process. Genera wasn't so far from being "an OS of Common Lisp" even before there was a Common Lisp.
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I don't think there even existed a concept of a multi-programmer gamedev team back then. When your whole application must fit into eight kilobytes of assembly with zero room for separation of concerns, it's very much a Mythical Man-Month situation. Like Brooks noted, nine women can't make a baby in one month.
Thanks for writing -

The 'legal warrants' part that you said is interesting. I'm not sure I'd heard that thought clearly articulated. The idea that when a legal warrant is issued the Gov't should have access to everything. Something to consider.

OK - thanks for the input!
This sounds amazing, brilliant recommendation!

If anyone is into similar stuff I recommend Meshuggah - Catch Thirty Three -> it keeps me programming for hours at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfMC2DIA1A&list=PLe8GYqVK4w...
Just a guess :- Maybe the decryption needs to happen through means present on the device and not in any old VM. Maybe the decryption requires multiple keys :- the 4 digit code, a per-device key, a per-session key generated on every boot-up, etc. And they all could be stored such that they never leave the h/w making sniffing difficult.
Can't wait til they run an actual brothel this way. I mean, it is only a couple of throw away society doesn't care about and just imagine all the monsters we could catch doing so... :(
On my Note 4 you can disable 'Multi-Window' entirely, have you looked into this?
I'm one of the people behind codebeat, we have docs (https://help.codebeat.co/docs/software-quality-metrics) explaining the analysis and metrics in more details - have a look.
I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here and argue that understanding some facets of psychology (perhaps wrapped in a broader definition of people skills) are essential to long term success managing teams and projects.

Specifically, understanding Goal-Setting Theory, Motivation Theory, and Self-Regulation Theory can provide substantial insights into why people think the way they do and give managers a framework to understand their employees and how their actions will impact their motivation and goals. The book PeopleWare touches on this a little bit when they discuss the role of autonomy in improving worker performance. Knowing that people like to feel ownership of their work and projects helps me, as a manager, guide the team and work on framing things in terms of my direct reports exercising autonomy rather than me dictating. They'll be happier and feel more involved in the work and as a result, the quality of work will be higher.

This isn't to say you need to be a life coach, therapist, and parental figure wrapped up in one. That's not your job -- though team member's lives will impact their work at some point and you'll need to empathetic. Your job to is to guide your team to meeting their objectives and understanding part of the human psyche and what motivates people will make you better at this job. Hands down.
Anecdotal at best. Can you link to a study?
I've used Prime before, but I don't think it's worth it when I can (could) just spend $35 on qualified items (which would be qualified for Prime also), and I can get actually free shipping.
Yep. Pretty much anyone not Ottoman.
Supposedly, the backdoor has already been fixed by the Secure Enclave, which was included in newer models of the iPhone.
Yes, but that doesn't seem like a very strong point. "I found the article poorly written" would likely also be equally objectionable.
Thanks for the article and the other discusions, especially the pointers to Caddy.

I have been using Cloudflare for https for my main site only and have been deciding whether to use Cloudflare for everything or bite the bullet and set up my own https.
Great to see this issue finally being tackled head on.
Slackpkg is relatively new, it was part of the slackware 9.1 release. A lot of people, myself included, remember experiences with older releases without a real package manager.
and not to forget: "fifty shades of gray started" out as a sexy internet fanfiction.
If you're parked in a dead zone, and your car doesn't have manual controls, you should be able to return to the place you came from. Going some place else might be problematic. Tell the car to go home, hit the "stop" button once you're out of the dead zone, and then give it the new destination.
If I could be 101% on this, I would be.
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Forcing people to do work they don't want to often times leads to disgruntlement. It appears that you are purposefully misreading what I wrote to come up with the last rhetorical question you made. Such tactics are not conducive to proper discourse.

Great to write on paper that we will exempt those who are mentally/physically unable to work. Then we will end up with a bunch of edge cases that force a government agency to be created that will end up drawing up rules/regulations in order to arbitrate these decisions. We will employ enough people in order to process/monitor all exempt people. It would in my opinion just be better to ensure a base level of existence regardless of ability.

I've met a number of welfare recipients who don't want to work and it is a good thing that they aren't working due to their toxic personalities. Then there are people who are on welfare who are great to be around. It's a sufficiently large group that you'll find all kinds.

In regards to your first sentence. Surely you don't believe that every person who can be employed can find work. I don't think anyone really believes that it is always the case that the number of people who wants jobs is less than the available number of jobs. Even if the system proposed is enacted then some people will still not be able to find work since there aren't enough jobs for everyone. We will add another layer of bureaucracy to ensure that those who claim they can't find work really can't find work. This already exists to some extent with unemployment benefits but would need to be expanded to really make sure no one is taking advantage of the system.
We will not have a technological Babel fish until we have portable (power-efficient) computers that are both 1. roughly as or more intelligent as a human and 2. understands the world in the same way as a human, including both semantics and pragmatics of such things as humor.

This is not anything realistic in anything like the near term. Most of the automated translation software I've used can't even handle something like deixis through a text between two such well-studied and similar languages as English and Spanish. You're talking about a device that could translate between Scots, Tamil, and Huasteca Nahuatl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
This was just to prevent this specific attack - kind of a stopgap until the AV detects it properly.

IIRC last time I checked the Word doc on virustotal it was picked up 22/55.

Fortunately at least AV did pick up the payload when a user let the macro run...

Edit, ran it by virustotal again and got 28/55
Suggest working on your interpersonal skills (soft skills)
How marketing slipped this past QC is dumbfounding.

Maybe they know their little niche will face decline and they need to squeeze whatever they can out of it now.
I think technically it meant that the Geneva conventions were applicable to them, but as the enemy combatants, not civilians. (There is an important distinction with unlawful combatants there.)
It is one of many aspects of the fish mind mentioned in the article; things like developing memories, comparing oneself to other fish, exhibiting preferences, etc. Each of them alone may not be enough to argue "fish have feelings" or "fish can think" or "fish are sentient beings", but they are evidence of those things. They don't make it so, but they hint at something that it is hard to figure out without a number of data points.

Occam's razor can just as easily be applied here to come to a conclusion that is opposite your conclusion.

Fish do things that mammals (humans) do. We know that mammals do those things (stress fever) because they are experiencing things in a way at least somewhat comparable to the way we experience them (they are experiencing discomfort and fear and their body is responding to it, just as ours do). What is the simpler explanation here?

1. Your conjecture that fish are utterly and completely different from other living things that exhibit this response and that they are exhibiting this response for reasons unlike our reasons (i.e. they aren't experiencing discomfort and fear, but are still heating up like we do).

2. They're more like other sentient beings than we'd previously assumed, and are experiencing things in some ways similarly.

In short: If you're coming at this with the strongly held belief that fish are impossibly different from humans and can't possibly have feelings, you would interpret your way. But, if you're coming at it with no strongly held beliefs on the subject, and you see a fish behave in ways that indicate they are sentient and experience suffering like other animals...well, you assume the responses and behaviors are because they are kinda like those other animals.

Your assumption (that this response has no relation to the similar response in mammals) requires a new explanation for why the response happens. Thus, it seems to not be the simplest explanation (to me).
Switching the DAC will only help with quality, not with latency, because the latency is a software issue. Samsung has implemented software workarounds to skip some parts of the audio processing path and reduce latency, but I'm not sure how low it gets. See http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency and https://github.com/felixpalmer/android-visualizer/issues/5 for more info on all this.
What about all the conversations the terrorist had with his fellow terrorists in person? Is it an awful, terrible, no good thing that the FBI can't retrieve those conversations? Should we put in place ubiquitous video and audio surveillance in every square foot of the country just in case the FBI ever wants to review something that happened?

It's not "going dark" that is an unprecedented change, it was the brief "going light" period that preceded it. Law enforcement has apparently lost the ability to do on the ground investigation work in favor of whiz bang-ery (and intelligence has lost the ability to do humint). Well, whiz bang-ery is a two way street. Now is the time to revive those old skills and deal with a _return_ to a world where you can't just outsource your job to a wire tap.
This is "unsustainable" in the economic sense, not the ecological one.

From an economic perspective, 1500 private jets (with crew and maintenance and fuel etc etc) are much better than a couple of developers and sysadmins to run Skype.
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It's the "Anti-Pattern Tour", with "Inappropriate Metaphor" being joined on stage by the techno-rock band "Impedance Mismatch", followed by the soulful sounds of "Leaky Abstraction".

"I hope they play their old stuff like 'You Ain't Gonna Need It", and 'Now You Have Two Problems'. Their new album, 'Second-Systems Syndrome', took forever to be released, and doesn't have the same simple sounds".
Hi, Adam (ahewett).

I tried getting in touch via the website's "Contact Us" link. But apparently the form is broken due to your email server verifying DMARC records.

Please, get in touch with me via brain-fm@leafac.com.
Sure he can. All he has to do is have too much faith in a source that puts him on the wrong narrative --- that Pakistan is deliberately harboring (and concealing) Osama Bin Laden. The rest of his claims fall into place from that, and they all make sense if that's what Pakistan is doing.
Which are the main candidates for new paradigms in systemic biology ?
For ASP.NET MVC I use to roll my own AuthorizeAttribute (just inherit it and overload OnAuthorization). I avoid dealing with IIdentity and IPrincipal, I find it sorta messy.

Looks like things are different on vNext though: http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/security/authorization/index.h...
A case I heard recently is that if a undercover CIA operative was captured in e.g. China (with an iPhone), should Apple be compelled to break the security if demanded by the Chinese government?
Another thing to consider: mirrors are never perfect. 100% of the light is not reflected.

If the spaceship uses high quality laser mirror with 0.00001% absorption rate, absorption from 5.8 terawatts is still 5.8 megawatts of power to get rid of in space.
They'll hire entry-level workers in AZ, quit hiring them in SF, and let the high churn rate take care of the transition.
Ran into this myself very recently. Ordered a 5-star posture brace for my back, and what I got was nothing as described in the picture or description.

For the first time - ever - in using Amazon, I went back to the reviews to verify where the communication breakdown was. Indeed, every review was succeeded by "I was given this product at a small discount to review it with an honest opinion" -- which of course was a 99% discount. The process is technically legal by way of FTC, so long as the reviewers add the disclaimer.

Infuriated, I asked for a refund and was denied by the supplier. Escalated to Amazon and got the refund two weeks later.

I then opened several tickets, one after the other, trying to get Amazon to remove these fake reviews. Each one had the response of "We take your concern seriously. We cannot share any action taken by this ticket" -- and months later, nothing was done about the reviews.

So for the first time in years, I try to buy elsewhere before Amazon.
I've tried Mint. It's basically Ubuntu + a bunch of bugs. The quality is seriously sub-par, I'd much rather use any 'official' Ubuntu derivative.
So I'm not sure I get your point -- if certain highly visible people who talk ("lecture") about a certain issue appear to be hypocritical, that means... it must actually be a non-issue?

I'll believe there's a crisis with the people who say there's a crisis act like there's a crisis."

Some of them already are. You might want to pay closer attention:

http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/jan/2...