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Or you maintained an open source crypto library? Yeah, that might be tougher.

But if it was an open source crypto library, the feds could just fork it and leave you alone...
This got to the point where I actually tossed a real invoice thinking it was a fake one... That lesson cost me 40 euros in extra fees.
One could argue every passenger on a bus saves some fraction of a car trip. Even if the total number of car trips saved is a much smaller number than the total number of cars, there's a 'breakeven' point above which the pain of the buses is less than the pain of the bus passengers in cars. I bet in most cities, we've hit that breakeven point, regardless of bus behavior.

<wild speculation>
I bet that number is about 6 passengers per bus, excluding environmental concerns.
</wild speculation>
"some interesting new phenomenon" ;)
Hooray, get ready for broken websites with modal overlays, CSS popups, ads, and tracking built-in, and no way to disable them!
It helps that people are oblivious to how damning metadata is. One could easily foresee being able to tell who is adulterous just by when the front door opens and closes, for instance.

And in some other parts of the world, far removed from TV cameras and annoying privacy advocates, that's basically how we decide who gets a drone strike.

Metadata is really, really important... otherwise the government wouldn't be interested in collecting it.
What you describe would not defeat a brute-force attack on the PIN using a duplicate flash. The only way NV-storage on the A6 chip would do that is if it stored the attempt counter there.
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LA is actively building its public transportation https://www.metro.net/projects/

The downtown / Santa Monica Expo line extension is opening in March, the Gold line is opening a bunch of new stations in April, extending it almost all the way to Claremont, and they have an LAX metro line they're building to prevent the traffic clusterf* that LAX has become.
Does any one stay more than a year then? I looked it going ex pat with a big uk company and it was quite a nice package.
I've used it too. It's nice and unobtrusive.
However looking at Lavabit example they could do the same with Apple - ask them for the key (in digital form so Apple won't print it with font size 4) and then sign their trojan software themselves using it!

If there were true rule of the law and everyone would have been treated equally in US, then either both Lavabit and Apple should give out signing keys, or none at all.

Lavabit was forced and had no choice. As far as my reading and understanding goes, the Gov created some sort of loophole where Lavabit was denied a hearing and because of lack of hearing he was... found guilty (catch 22). I'm sure others can shed more light...
Performance bonuses?
The context the law was originally written in is just fluff.

You have never actually studied law, have you?
Title should say the algorithm exposes an average viewers preferences. The algorithm is making recommendations based upon user choices and isn't biased. Not really a fair characterization.
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My question is - why are bus drivers such assholes (as depicted by the comments here)?

Serious question I'm curious about. Is this societal, is it a technology problem (do the way buses work somehow encourage this behavior towards other motorists), is it likely a combination of both?
Performance would probably not suffer at all...

EDIT: But if you really want to make this a useful lib, bake in a way to disable the `armor` for debugging/development.
It's not really true in my experience. If you can live in the East Bay, there are definitely still really nice and affordable places to be found. Yes, the prices have gone up significantly over the past few years in the East Bay too, but it is still cheap enough where it probably will make the high Bay Area salaries financially worthwhile.
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I'm focusing on the other end of this. Couldn't those blockchains or at least those related to criminal activity be made illegal, controlled via regulation, or seized? I don't see how a blockchain is immune to this if people ever try to convert it to cash.
But the AV wasn't moving the whole time. Once it stopped for the sandbags, it was effectively a parked car.
Ya. That's prolly a good idea in many cases. You just have to be careful that the FMV doesn't climb too high, and employees correctly handle their 83b paperwork or there will be tax problems.

Honestly I suspect this is why it isn't more standard. It's kind of a pain in the ass to get right. Options are just easier.
> The government's position also produces a wholly different kind of absurdity: the idea that the First Congress might so thoroughly undermine fundamental principles of the Constitution that many of its members had personally just helped to write or to ratify.

In 1798, the fifth Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were signed by President John Adams, and were used to arrest or deport people critical of the government. [1] I don't think that's absurd at all. They weren't saints and they didn't have precedent to stop them from doing things like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
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> Specialized machines exist for doing this, but require a highly skilled operator.

That's true. But come on, this is the FBI we're talking about.

> They want something they can plug the phone into so they can give every site one and not send it out to a expensive technician for modification and data extraction.

Yes, of course that is what they want. That is the whole point.
The problem is that drivers don't know when to not drive. I've driven a relatively large number of kilometers over the years as a non-professional driver and it always amazes me how many people will continue to drive in conditions that are nowhere near safe. The best way to avoid accidents is knowing when not to drive. Nothing you have to do is so urgent that you're willing to risk a detour through the hospital (or the morgue).
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Exactly. Be upfront. Ben Horowitz spoke critically on this topic, responding to Sam Altman's post on equity which is the genesis of all this. Really mandatory viewing. [1]

Sam was in the room and added that he is "revising" his recommendation because "there needs to be more incentive to stay." (@26:00)

I personally haven't seen Sam post about his revised position. Would be great if he did.

[1] http://www.bhorowitz.com/one_management_concept_from_how_to_...
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I'm a successful consulting software engineer with a masters and a charge-out rate of $1000/day, which I've been billing at for over a year, and not once have I had to implement a linked list. My clients love me.

This kind of 'orthodoxy' (you must know about X) confuses computer science (purely academic) with business outcomes (what engineers are paid to deliver).
I think about the half-measures like new paint for lane markers and I'm equally skeptical, but that's probably just me being pessimistic.

All we really need is an idea that we can't fathom today. Google has a library of images of just about every street in the states. If they could run that same project and in the process lay out markers of some sort that would be helpful for the next generation of autonomous vehicles, then from that point forward incremental change is simply a matter of re-tooling an autonomous vehicle. Cooperation from local governments could be pushed through in a similar way that the 55 MPH speed limit happened.

Of all the "billion dollar ideas" floating around silicon valley, the person/investment group who's willing to take on an idea like this to a nationwide scale is going to be the winner.

The first round doesn't even need to be high tech. They could have a paint ball gun hanging out the side of a car spraying out a biodegradable path that a series of other cars can follow. Those cars could then train other cars.

...

Yeah, I'm flip flopping. I'm actually an idealist deep down inside. Sometimes I forget that for a little while.
I think you mean "role", though I love the image of a virus rolling a d6 to determine whether it succeeded or failed.
I think that this amounts to a small pebble in the mountain of technologies that have to be developed to enable AVs.

Here's an easy solution: every bus stop has a kiosk that dispenses a RFID bus pass if you put in your payment info. Then, when the bus comes, you can enter from any door and the RFID receivers detect your presence. Attempts to board without a bus pass are detected with weight sensors and a camera network (current computer vision techniques are probably reliable enough for this application; they'll be even better in a few years). Unauthorized persons are advised to get off at the next stop by audio recording and identified by displaying a snapshot of their face (taken earlier on the bus). If they don't get off the transit police are summoned.
I thought we had this through SPF. Ie. Your mail server can reject mail if the domain doesn't match spf records in dns.

Maybe it's time to start something like an SPF Everywhere campaign.
That humans are bad drivers is something most of us experience everyday. Of course, everyone thinks THEY are the exception.

Self driving cars being better than the average driver is absolutely to be expected since they can only get better. They'll be consistent. They will always be focused, not get distracted, not get tired, have more sensors than a human could. It's not just about the environment but also about the mental state of the driver.

Sure it's difficult but your using one case to flip things around doesn't seem to be a very strong argument.

> Self driving cars will get there someday, but I think it's much farther away than many assume it will be.

There's no evidence to support your assertion given the tests that have been going on so far. There's no evidence to support that switching back and forth would be better than having the AI all the time either.
The whole point of options is to not have to offer above-market-rate salaries to attract great talent to infant startups.
Google already has moved: they have offices around the globe, Sydney, Singapore, New York, London, etc. They still rely on Mountain View as their main campus.
<who would have the right of way if the bus was already stopped at a light, but the AV split the lane to turn right and passed the stopped bus?>

The AV can proceed "when safe" to approach the intersection and then, "when safe", make its turn, but the bus owns the lane otherwise.
This is why the new trend of dismissible pop-over 3-step intros is a wonderful thing, to be frank.

Honestly, there are many problems with an overlay follow-me Intro experience. It's good for certain things and in certain situations, but you should be open to using the best method of introduction for whatever you need people to learn. Sometimes the best way is just a paragraph of text, and there are several things in-between that are simple and highly effective.

To add to your critique, something with which many of us are likely familiar is the Slack intro experience. The intro dissolves into three (and only three) small, subtle bubbles that go hover over important parts of the UI. They're just light enough that you can completely ignore them if you like and get on with your work, but if you're confused they stand out. It's quite a nice compromise that makes this follow-the-UI intro really work.
It feels to me like the argument of this article can be boiled down to: "The Majestic Monolith is a Good Thing, since when you know you're dealing with a monolithic system, you know you'll be hosed if you don't take extra special care." But I don't see anything here arguing that such care is inherent to the pattern--only that such care is needed when applying the pattern. I see that as a caveat, not as a built-in feature.

I agree that with a small team it's much more feasible to keep the monolith well-polished. But that polishing is more a product of professionalism and discipline than something that will come along naturally with applying the pattern--which is orthogonal to whether or not the code is monolithic. Good patterns are supposed to be non-orthogonal to good discipline--that is, they should bring along design benefits as an artifact of the pattern themselves.
There's only so many demographics that you can alienate.

It's a golden age on the coasts, but many areas of the country have been spiraling downward for decades. If you're a working stiff with negative wage growth essentially working as servants for boomers with fat pensions and reverse mortgages, you're going to get more and more resentful. That's why a demogague like Trump is successful.
>> Apple does not have the information being sought

But the guy who owned the phone can unlock it. Why not have a judge force him to unlock it? Why Apple?
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Please tell me what tech jobs are available with good salaries in Ohio. Most of my friends are in Indiana/Ohio/Kentucky, my parents are in Northern Virginia (very drivable from Ohio) and I would love to be closer to all of these. However, I've not seen anything at even half my current salary (though I do like my job so I haven't been the most motivated job-seeker).
This is honestly the more interesting answer. Having a little device with a portable screen, keyboard and mouse that you can attach to various RPI as needed. As for price how about a nexdock that has a port where you can stick a Pi Zero in or even just include a Pi Zero, I would be happy to pay $5 more for it?

Scratch that: Motorola Lapdock 100 is the same thing as this laptop
http://hackaday.com/2016/01/26/turning-a-lapdock-into-a-lapt...

Edit: Just wanted to call out this line from the above article.

> The Lapdock 100 has long been a useful accessory for the Raspberry Pi

The market has a problem and this was a solution. The phone /laptop isn't really a problem that people need solving. But the Pi owners have a problem they need solved.

Just imaging a Pi with a USB-C port connected to one of these laptops via just 1 wire.
Wouldn't that be this decision? And thus unfavorable to the government?
Chinese say 好吃！ (hao chi, literally "good eatin'!")

Thai say aroy ("tasty!") aroy mak ("very tasty!") or perhaps, if memory serves, gin dee ("good eatin'")!

'Mmm' is a very western sound I think. Probably not that historically established either, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a post broadcast media development. Remember how uptight the Victorians were. Perhaps it's French?
What I worry about with all of this is the massive loss in productivity. As far as I'm concerned, there is a very clear externality here.

If I walk through a city center and I'm bombarded with unavoidable billboards, it's just not good for my brain. I don't want it, it's pollution, poison. I would love a real-life ad blocker for public transport, for example.

So what happens next? When do cities, local governments (London boroughs, say) start to care? Do they ever start to care that commutes, everyday lives of citizens are being destroyed (is there a clear enough causal link)?

Or do we have to wait until people like me start moving out of the city because they don't want to see bollocks flashing lights everywhere, they don't want to walk through a Minority Report like scene of pervasive unavoidable attention grabbers?
Hasn't statistical learning already surpassed human expertise in a number of areas, particularly in Computer Vision and loads of classification problems?
I'm desperately looking for a C preprocessor that dumps the AST (preferable in JSON format) instead of expanding the macros. And it treats the C/C++ code as just data.

I plan to take the rest of the code and send it through clang to get C/C++ AST dump. Currently I'm getting clang's AST dump which "includes" all the headers and the size of the AST just blows up (e.g., 300k lines of AST for a 4k line C++ file that has about 10 include files).
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They are pretty close to magic. I've only ever heard of one case where an NSL was challenged in court.

From what I remember, the NSL comes with a gag order which prevents even the council of the recipient from knowing about the issue.
Not sure about the validity of the research, but entire land value of the US was estimated at $23 trillion http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/generalmoney/what-us-land-is-...

To extract $3 trillion out of $23 trillion the tax would need to be established at an average 12% annually, which will probably cause some massive repricing.
What, did you see the picture?

That virus is literally a D20.
It seems likely to me that this case would be referenced in the upcoming San Bernardino decision, but I am not a lawyer.

Does anyone know? Does this prop up the chances of that judge ruling in favor of Apple?

Could the DOJ try to bring the Brooklyn case in front of the supreme court? What are the next steps we're likely to see?
No, if it's upheld and home manufacturers already have a literal backdoor for use only by themselves, a court can force the home manufacturers to allow the FBI to use them as well for specific investigations. The AWA power to compel an action only works when the party being compelled has some special ability to help on a specific case with probable cause (not future cases), as Apple does with its system update backdoor for the San Bernardino and Brooklyn cases.
In fact, I would argue that Ghost in the Shell's entire franchise remains the most intriguing and exciting science fiction media about networked technology.

If you have never seen the 2-season TV series (and 3 additional films), "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alon...), it is by far the best contemporary outlook on near-future internet technology still. Black Mirror is up there, but I think that Ghost in the Shell: SAC presents this cultural criticism in a much stronger (ie., less unhappy) tone.
ReactOS has been going at this problem for a loooong time. It's a pretty amazing initiative, and the fact that it's taken so long goes to show how insane a kludge Windows is under the surface.

I wonder if the reason we haven't seen more work on ReactOS compared to Linux development is the commercial backing that Linux development receives from the big guys (Red Hat, IBM, et. al.) I wonder if people are wearisome of funding ReactOS beacuse of Microsoft.
Don't be so sure. This will push the client authentication problem further up the stack.
Where in Vancouver are you making $45K? I have dozens of companies on file that are seeking engineers in the 80-110K range.
What you're overlooking is the users who type website addresses into google, and compose entire emails in the "subject" field. Some people just require a little hand holding no matter how obvious the UI is to the power users.
Why not just open source the code and make the data easy to import/export? My thought is that Svbtle is two things: 1) a website 2) a company/brand. This promise seems to be mostly about the website. As long as I can export the data, keep the domain name and use the same code/design/theme options then it doesn't matter to me if my Svtble branded blog is hosted on their website or $2.99/mo shared hosting. It'll look the same to my readers and function the same to me as a writer. I don't need a promise, just let me export/import everything or at least pay someone to do that for me.

What I think is more interesting is the question of what will happen to the brand and culture of Svbtle, and Posthaven as well. Would it even be the same company if it was run by the executor of the founder's will? And if so, then why not just hire an executor now? I've always been intrigued by the idea of Autonomous Corporations, and it seems like something kind of similar would be an interesting way to solve this problem. It really comes down to, can a brand and style be maintained into perpetuity without daily human effort and upkeep, or will it lose its haecceity over time? I guess we'll have to wait a long time to find out.
This is probably a really shitty and probably mostly incorrect analogy, but it sounds like you're describing Huygen's principle, which roughly says every point light travels can be thought of as a very weak point source. For example, loads of old buildings have hallways with an open window, and rooms adjacent to the hall way would have "light-borrowing" windows. So light traversing down the hallway could still emit light in to the perpendicularly facing windows.

There's some other stuff regarding light's wave/particle duality, so I don't know if there's a simple solution to whether it propagates in all of these paths, or as a particle moving in a straight line.
Or maybe Apple has a substantially reasonable argument and is willing to spend the resources on sending it to court.
Seeing this "dump AST" option for Swift is truly refreshing.

I've come to the opinion that when sending data in or out of software, it should always preserve as much structure as possible in an easily parseable form accessible to off-the-shelf parsers; e.g. s-expressions, JSON or, if it can't be avoided, XML. Even thrown-together debugging messages. Basically I should be able to reconstruct all of the structure in basically any programming language with something like one module import and a function call (or equivalent); I shouldn't have to define my own parsing rules, no matter how simple their author thinks they are.

Not only this, but any format which, for some reason, cannot be represented in this way, e.g. programs in languages which consciously avoid s-expressoins, should pass through a layer which does convert to a structured form, and this form should be obtainable, e.g. by setting an environment variable or a commandline flag. That's why I commend this "dump AST" flag.

It's basically the opposite of the many "Lisp-on-top-of-X" approaches. Instead of being able to write s-exprs which translate to some underlying language, like Swift, I should be able to translate any Swift into s-exprs to be manipulated. Why? Because there will always be strictly less code written in a Lispy language than there will be for the underlying platform as a whole. For example, there will always be less code written in Clojure than code written for the JVM.

The benefits of s-expressions (and accessible AST structures in general) is that they can be inspected, transformed, manipulated, pulled apart, recombined, etc. This is of some use when programming, e.g. having macros manipulate our Clojure ASTs, but not a huge amount; after all, we could write our code in a different way which didn't need the macros (we could even, in principle, write it in Java!).

In contrast, being able to manipulate code which isn't ours is much more useful; since we don't have the option of writing it a different way (since we didn't write it at all!).
>> Our project is a result of more than 7 years of industrial and consulting experience in different sectors, including transportation, automotive industry, retail and finance.

While technically the careful wording leaves open that Retail could mean 'sat on the board of Walmart' we all know it really means 'worked at a BestBuy'.
Are you sure? It always looked like MonoDevelop (before it looked like Xamarin) to me... Guess I thought wrong then, but it's interesting both are in C# at least.
I hope I'm not stretching an analogy too broadly, but forcing Apple to rewrite it's OS seems to me like it would equivalent of making a locksmith who had invented a theoretical pick-proof lock uninstall each of the locks, open it up and introduce a mechanism to allow for a skeleton key, then reinstall the lock.