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That's the Declaration of Independence, which is a purely rhetorical document. The Constitution itself justifies itself very differently:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

And the Fourth Amendment itself, which enumerates the right at stake, specifically talks about "reasonable":

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

They might talk about "natural" rights in grade school, but that is not the reasoning that the legal system was ever buillt (not even in the 1790s!) to operate on.
I am sure that the team who owns voice recog at G is working on it.

I wonder organizationally if it's structured that way, but I digress...

This particular integration is really impressive after some cursory testing.

If I were CTO at, say, Dragon... I would be having a sleepless night.
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It makes sense, still.. Smells like censorship, when they put it in writing like that.
who moved my cheese?

There is lots of opportunities now around Embedded Systems for web engineers due to the IoT (say what?). More precisely the "Web of Things" [1] (see also WoT W3 WG). I always considered the web my thing and only recently jumped (after long reluctance) onto this. There is a real get-go attitude in this domain and you can tell companies are willing to spend money on it which makes the same jobs less of an uphill struggle.

Most web developers I know wouldn't touch anything embedded with a stick but this is really an interesting topic to get into. To explain why this is a good match consider that a lot of the fundamental skills stay same because it will essentially be built on the same concept of linkable data so you can take along all you know (e.g. REST, TCP/IP, JavaScript, NodeJS). Also look into these IoT counterparts:

* JSON => JSON-LD [2]
* HTTP => CoAP [3]

If you like security there are massive challenges due to the real-life damage an exploit can cause (hacked insulin pumps, or vehicles etc.) but from skills pov again pretty much the same skills you can just carry across and apply them there.

[1] http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/05/30/the-web-of-th...
[2] http://json-ld.org/
[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7252
I think your post could do with some bullet points about what design is.
Its pretty impressive. I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking.

It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training.

But I did say pretty close. Not exactly right. And I'm only speaking a few sentences.

I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right (but getting some remarkably difficult words/names correct), the thing that struck me is how written word, and the art form of such, is in fact quite different from a verbal stream of spoken words. The little sigils and breaking up of a written text conveys a whole bunch of meaning and subtlety that a word for word stream doesn't quite get.

For me, its just inaccurate enough to still be irritating. Everything's working fine, and then I hit a mis-dictated word, have to do a bit of a double take and ask myself "What the...what on earth does it think i'm trying to say here...oh...i said THAT!" which breaks the flow of anything but the most basic and primitive sentence.

But then that makes me wonder, you know what... how many humans can actually follow everything I'm actually saying? It's not like I can peer into their heads and verify the transcription of voice-to-words inscribed on their brains.
this is garbage, the geographic variation of salaries are significant (maybe not for teachers or servers, but for others certainly). also, all the astronauts live in florida or houston ;)
> I wonder if there will be 100TB spinning read/write drives by 2020, an exponential leap instead of incremental

The problem with spinning disks is that speed and reliability has not increased in line with capacity. There comes a point at which it doesn't make sense to make them any bigger (capacity-wise).

Just creating a filesystem on an 8TB disk takes hours. If you bring in disk (block level) encryption and the requirement to fill the disk with random data and then encrypt before creating the filesystem, you're looking at a multi-day task. Expanded to 100TB, you could be looking at a month just to bring a disk online.

On the reliability front - a spinning 8TB disk is probably about as reliable as a 1TB disk, so that means you have a 8x increase in probability of data loss, as well as ~ 8x more data to recover/re-distribute for every failure
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Not as alarming as it might look at first glance: data is unencrypted but apparently signed.

This is essentially the same way that most Linux distros update: the data is not protected in transit (although with modern SSL being cheap both on servers and money, it ought to be), but integrity is preserved (assuming a trusted key distribution channel plus assuming the signatures are checked before install, and an update would only install with a valid signature).
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Interesting. I was fortunate to be born in the late 70's in Blossom Valley in SJ because both sets of my grandparents happened to be US military families whom lived in Europe, US and Asia. I remember the wineries along Blossom Hill Road and a couple of the hold-out farmers, one whom had this massive square field at Allen Avenue & Blossom Hill Road, plowing every autumn as a signal school would start soon. Also, occasionally finding rusty shards of nails in the backyard from the turn of the century and roaming the hinterlands of Almaden Valley on a bicycle (flying down Hicks Road at 38 mph while riding the rear tire).

Even luckier that my father's small business allowed my attendance for K-3 to a private school, then public SJUSD and finally UC system mostly because the herd was steamrolling onto Harvard, MIT and Stanford (where I later moonlighted between quarters).

As a point of reference, my grandparents paid 30k for a house in the late 60's which is now worthy a megabucks... no middle- or working-class person could afford that today because the global demand to be in SV wasn't what it is today obviously. It is somewhat of goldrush fever, however the density of talent, wealth and customers is a compelling, complete ecosystem which evolves as fast as anywhere, probably with a nod to the historical demographic "filter" of the more open/risk-tolerant persons venturing to the mostly "new" land c. 19th century onwards (take Japanese culture as one example, where misfits and eccentrics tended to flee to other major cities).

Overall, it seems that the quasi differential equational model of resource scarity meets population / technology / wealth gradually leads to better technologies, cheaper goods/services but it becomes gradually harder (but not impossible) to profit from innovation (3000th ToDo list app), afford to pay workers fairly (coupled with decline of unions) and materials tend to become more expensive (before pervasive recycling).

It may be that prices are pushed up as workers get smart and demand higher pay, since fewer living in their cars working minimum wage and exploitation in emigration limbo (hospitality, agriculture, industrial), seems like a Good Thing(tm). Another enabler would be more rapid mass transit such as hyperloop, able to foster more distant suburbs to make city work livable for more families, despite increased distance.

Space and biomedical seem the most promising industries long-term, as are other business models that are durably defensible or decommodifiable (wow, I sound PHB).

Finally, static anything is an illusionary, psychological construct affording apparent safety and continuity; change is but one of the constants.
In a way, that's even worse. You're more likely to forget a complicated passphrase when you only have to type it in very seldomly.
They have my emails, they have my documents, they have my pictures, they have my location, they have my browsing history, and now they can have my voice.

Only lacks DNA, fingerprints, retina footprint and non-verbal communication.

Oh wait, it's only a matter of time.
I've been reading conversations here on Hacker News and noticed that this has created a lot of frustration among existing Mandrill users, especially for those that have setup the system for their customers.

I believe that MailChimp was aware of this before making this decision and knew that they are going to loose some customers.
At this point they will become a bit expensive, even more expensive than SendGrid and a lot of their customer base will migrate away.

However, I do believe that this is something they wanted with this move, so that people using the service for free which took advantage and sent spam and also small businesses that cannot afford to pay a high end service will move away.

Then, they will keep the MailChimp fans, those that afford the service and will spend more on the service.

In conclusion, it's a bold strategy change that will weed out some of the bad accounts and will ultimately improve the revenue stream for MailChimp.

What is really sad is the fact that they are going to also lose a lot of their genuine customers who do not want or need MailChimp.
If they go with anything Arm and Platter I'd be shocked.

I'm imagining a 10 acre array of NAND
I agree with both of you, and feel pretty strongly (without any real concrete evidence, but with lots of anecdotal personal experience to back it up) that the vast majority of pro coders are software developers but by no means software engineers. I personally put "Software Developer" on my resume/linkedin for all of my dev jobs, regardless of what my employer/client calls the position.

On the whole engineering vs developing thing I think that dev is still in its infancy. Professional certs that are really meaningful and indicate some level of knowledge on various dev subjects would be a good baseline in the future, IMO. In Canada, to be a P.Eng. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...) one must, by law, be licensed.

From that link:

> The regulation and licensing of engineers are accomplished through a self-governing body that is given the power to license and discipline professional engineers, as well as regulate the practice of the professional engineers...

> A self-governing body's prime purpose is to protect the public.
If your setup makes sense for you, its fine - stay with it. focus on real problem, not ones people on this thread think you have :)

I'm not one of those mongo bashers. I've used mongo before for the same purpose you do - time series statistical data along side a postgres db for everything else. And it worked fine for me. However, at that time postgresql was pre 9.4. Today I would have kept it all in postgres and simply archived older data if needed.
And to be fair, its not even a "problem" until you need to filter by one data source and sort by the other. We had to be creative when we got to those problems.

As for my choice of Postgres over mySql - that is for 2 reasons - first being that postgres is not owned by Oracle, and second that postgres is more mature, feature rich and reliable than mysql (i.e., better).
If Congress does pass such laws, I would love it if Apple considered security so important to it's product vision that they'd be willing to use their cash reserves to restructure the company and engineering and moving it's security engineering to a country that pledges never to force it to compromise on security. Apple is no stranger to keeping internal secrets and keeping concerns isolated. I have no doubt that they could find a way to guarantee security. IMHO governments are security bugs to be patched.
Humans don't follow what you say :)

On this topic I have never managed to get my typing above 60 women because this is as about as fast as I can think ahead writing.
This article is really poorly research when it tries to make historical comparisons. As recently as the 1960s, San Jose was a fraction of its current size. Subsequent city councils and managers gobbled up adjacent towns and almost every unincorporated parcel available (almost 1,400 annexations under Dutch Hamann alone!) Almost all of that growth was residential. Combine that with the difficulties and costs of doing business within SJ, and San Jose became just a "bedroom community" for the smarter-run Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino, etc. and SJ was doomed from a tax-base standpoint. Mineta and Hayes presided over the bulk of that.
In Germany, the term "Ingenieur" is still protected so you don't even have that option.
I've been to hospital in one of the places you're thinking of, and I noticed that phrases like "approved for use in the EU" were used as code for "this is not a scam".

I fear the market niche between "scam" and "not a scam" might be very narrow.
Strong unions negotiate good wages. Good for them.
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Anyone understood why should I use CloudFlare instead of e.g. Namecheap? I consider myself a security minded folk. Heck, I even suggested the idea of what later became universal SSL to Matthew on Twitter, after HeartBleed happened - funnily enough he called it "dumb money" - luckily, dumb money is still money ;-) and he apparently changed his mind --> https://twitter.com/mobiplayer/status/474617969780469760 kudos for reconsidering.
There's an easy way Apple could offer a true cryptographically secure cloud backup service - support local backups with a physical keystore. Make it an advanced option but use it as an excuse to sell users a Time Machine backup unit with RFID built in to read a security key.

Apple could make truly secure systems user friendly if they wanted to. It seems they may see some value in doing so.
It is not that surprising, since the Rust compiler used to be written in OCaml, so naturally OCaml influenced the dasign of Rust in some way.

Glad to see OCaml concepts get popularized by other languages, that's a win-win situation for everyone.
If the person knowing the passcode is around and you can fool them into using their passcode then yes, you could capture their passcode. Touch ID is even less of a problem because taking someone's fingerprints is a lot easier than taking a passcode out of their head.

But in both those situations the weakness is in the person, not the device. Apple devices still potentially have security weaknesses which the FBI is asking Apple to exploit for them. Apple wants to fix these weaknesses, to stop Apple being forced to exploit them.
The manufacturer exhibited such disdain for the GPL. Amazing.
Average person has half a penis.

It doesn't mean stats are useless. It means you have to know how to interprete them.
I guess it addresses a fundamental desire for calmness and simplicity - most likely similar to what drives some nerds towards attempting to do as much as possible in a text based way and in a terminal.

It's like the Linux Shell for people who never even heard of Linux.
I am a publisher located in Europe and my life's work is all in one .com domain. I often wonder how secure the ownership of a domain is and if there are any steps necessary to secure it. My registrar requires a signed document to transfer domains. By post or scanned. But how secure is that? How would they know if I sent the document or somebody else?

And what if somebody hacked the registrar? Are there global mechanisms to undo wrongful domain transfers?
Does anyone actually believe that key wasn't already stolen by the NSA, or even the Russian spy agency, though?
I have a proposal. I'll give all the transactional email competitors (mailgun, postmark, sparkpost, etc) a week to get their shit together and come up with a migration proposal for all of us moving away from Mandrill. I'm sure they're scrambling around trying to figure out how to take advantage of this ridiculous situation, and I bet a bunch of them are on HN. So how about this:

1. Any HN user trying to figure out what to do next, leave me your email on this Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16wrzK3srobnRKXzbhpsftCvmhgf...

2. Any transactional email provider, write a blog post or something with how to migrate to your platform. Include differences vs. Mandrill with regard to pricing, API, DNS, etc and anything else you can think of to ease our transition - maybe promise of an upcoming Mandrill template importer, coupon to price-match, etc. Email me the link (contact info in HN profile)

3. In one week (Thursday, March 3, 1200 UTC), I'll email everyone in (1) the responses I get from (2)

I promise not to spam people who leave their email address and will only ever send just the single email next week, and then delete the Google Form and its responses. Check my HN history, I'm just a developer trying to figure out what to do now. My hope is that enough hot leads in one place will be incentive enough for the various competitors to spend a bit of time writing a detailed migration plan (which would help me!), and they probably can't make a good one while this thread is still on the front page.
I don't know of any other forums to discuss this stuff, other than philosophy seminars that I'm not invited to, so... what do you think about this?

The polarity between relativism and absolutism in morality is going to end up totally irrelevant, since it leads to nothing but squabbles and more confusion. It's not a productive way forward to try to decide which of those extremes is best, because they each have irreconcilable stances, and they both ultimately come down to arbitrary decision (either "because I feel this way" or "because the ultimate ineffable authority says so").

Even the new school of quasi-objective morality, á la Sam Harris, seems to fail to be convincing, inspiring, or even as rational as it wants to be.

I think a realistic approach to morality should start with the question of what people actually care about. What values exist, in the actual society that I could conceivably influence? How does a person become respected, what motivates people, what appeals are possible?

I have no influence over, say, Saudi Arabian Islam, except for maybe through some secular channels... Actually, the recent article about the global appeal of metal music was interesting. If there is any ethical content in the metal community, which I hypothesize that there is, then it could end up being a kind of covert channel for values...

I'm reminded of the story of the Velvet Revolution, which ended Communist Party rule in Czechoslovakia without violence... and which was rooted in a story that involves The Plastic People of the Universe, an obscure experimental rock band inspired by the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, and Captain Beefheart.

> "The Plastic People were ultimately a major catalyst to the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. History would most surely have been very different without them."

http://www.furious.com/perfect/pulnoc.html

Um, I'm heading for work and don't have time to think up a coherent way to end this. But a lot of my thinking is influenced by Richard Rorty's Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.

Just one more random speculation: the focus on "habits" subtly inforces a morality of stability. People who emphasize habits probably aren't going to say that the primary ethical injunction is to dismantle the existing structures of oppression. And you could argue that self-help, including mindfulness and much of psychology and psychiatry, has a stabilizing function within the capitalist system of labor.
It's not selective: it's specifically about the desktop space. I've mentioned that they did fine on the server.

So, IIS and xBSD etc is out of scope regarding what I've said. I also mentioned explicity community/bazaar projects, in the original FOSS spirit of the late nineties that was said to conquer the world.

As for Firefox and Chrome, both are based from code by big (at least at the time) corporations (Netscape, and Apple, and later Google).

If the latter didn't get involved with Webkit, I don't see us using KHTML 2016 today. As for the former, Mozilla (which begat Firefox) also started with big commercial backing with full time employees from Netscape for several years (until the company burned to the ground), and until today works with mostly paid Mozilla staff, not random community people. It was able to do that based on inheriting some of the momentum of Netscape (which at one point was the number 1 browser), and, based on that, to ask for millions from Google etc to have it as the default search engine. Without Netscape's legacy code, 2+ years of refactoring/engineering work, and initial user base (at the time of the transition) it wouldn't have gone far.

In other words, yeah, open source can do a great job on the desktop too, if it starts as a proprietary code donation and has huge funding. But that "open source" is just a licensing model, so of course it won't be any different in any characteristic to proprietary projects, apart from the licensing -- the CLR released by Microsoft is also "open source" under this metrics.

My comment was about the FOSS bazaar model of volunteers from all over the world, the one touted by the Gnome, etc teams, -- which didn't fare as well on the desktop space.
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This is the most impressive part! Well done! So in theory, we can run anything that a real PC can run, albeit a Win98 speced PC. Any takers to get the next generation in the Windows series to run on it. WinXP? I think.

PS: Just came across the HN discussion around the said x86 emulator.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6567967
The could've called it "Silicon Valley." Including Monterey county is weird because that's inland and costal to the south.

Santa Clara county encompasses most of Silicon Valley "proper."

San Mateo county includes the peninsula which starts at Menlo Park and just NW of Palo Alto/Stanford.

It's hard to define clear boundaries of what San Jose because it sub/urban sprawls into many other communities (Campbell, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Santa Clara), like individual trees growing into one massive tree cluster. Plus, most readers out of the area aren't familiar where Willow Glen, Blossom Valley or Almaden Valley are without maps.

It might've been more interesting to compare the price fluctuations as a heatmap and a function of distance from economic intensive areas.
Well, I know where I want to go after the web, and am beginning to scheme - space - the final frontier.
This couldn't be more correct. I'm a student at a UK University studying Computing Science and if I didn't learn in my own time and become passionate about the field then I would never have chosen to study this - secondary schools introduce students to Computer Science in absolutely the wrong way and kill off interest from the high achieving students who take other STEM subjects.
You sound sarcastic. I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

At a glance his previous articles seem to be about Go and PHP (with a little bit of shell scripting) as well, so GP's point seems to stand.
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Yep we did! We're looking at all options
Definitely. I noticed the tone too. Somewhat brash and arrogant.