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I'm having trouble finding an article I read a while back, but it was discussing the failure of effective community policing. I'll keep looking.

This article discusses the mess that is Belgian governmental organization: http://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-failed-state-security...
Yes, pretty much HAL. I've never seen an API use this in the real world. I integrate with a lot of non-startup APIs and they can barely respond with proper JSON.
This one creates optimized indexes based on the social graph's intrinsic semantics.
It seems far more likely then most of the conspiracy theories here that the FBI was simply running parallel work for breaking into the phone that has recently yielded results.

Since the All Writs Act has as a test, necessity, to stay within the law they're required to notify the courts if that changes.
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Agreed, except when you have no idea what it's related to. Then there's nothing poignant because there's no message conveyed, the contrary of the initial objective.

Like an4rchy mentioned here in a comment, yesterday I thought it was "a styling issue or maintenance mode etc", and had to google it to learn about it. Not really intuitive.

EDIT to your EDIT: "a flag at half-mast" has shared meaning among sailors. I'm not so sure about an innocuous black bar on a website.
If we had a functioning state university system, you could have gone to UMass for basically nothing.
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I don't see how that example applies. You're trying to compare ISIS (a group brought together by a common ideology) to Palestinians (a nationality/ethnicity).

You're drawing a foreign/domestic distinction when none exists. There is no reason someone cannot be Belgian, and also a member of ISIS. What is your criteria for inclusion in "ISIS" if it's not someone saying "I'm with ISIS"?
They are, living in a place where such things can happen at any time is stressful and sooner or later people will get pissed of.
Crazy people can be found from all walks of life. Unfortunately many of those people do not receive the mental health services they need. It's not the religion that makes people crazy, it's the lack of other social support services available to the very few that really need it. Instead of the support they need, these people get a radicalised church offering meaning and the promise of a better life.
i haven't really used PS, but from what i understand you'd also need to rewrite every other program to adhere to its rules. as - if i understood it correctly - the real benefit of powershell is that they all use the same output format.
this decreases the trouble of handing output from one command to the next significantly.
Scott Adams has been musing on this theme lately: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/141428843311/social-media-is-th...
I think that's the point- they're amazingly powerful. Additionally with POSIX, you can assume that the command you used on one OS behaves or at least outputs the same on another.

I feel like the interface for these commands is exactly what you'd want from a collection of executables that do only one thing.

As for shell scripting, you don't have to use bash/sh/whatever. You could write your script or executable in any language that will let you call system commands, so it's really a non-issue if you absolutely can't stand the syntax. I write plenty of bash scripts and I do feel your pain, they're not usually very pleasant if you have to go beyond trivial use cases- but it's also (generally) not impossible.
Different sense of the word "authentication"!

What you (and, no doubt, the Apple engineers) are thinking of as authentication is really a signature. Signatures and authenticators aren't the same thing.

Here, we're referring to message authentication, which is the mechanism of using a secret key (usually agreed on at the same time as the secret key for the cipher itself) to apply a "secure checksum" to the ciphertext, to ensure it isn't tampered with.

Trying to use a signature in lieu of an authenticator is what got Apple in trouble here. In addition to ECDSA signatures, those messages also should have used a MAC, or, better still, an encryption mode with a MAC built in, like OCB or EAX or NORX.
What I mean by that is it gives you the choice of what kind of work you do, and when you do it. If you're financially independent, you are free to do what you like with your time.

For example, when I (hopefully) reach that point, I'll probably still code websites because I like to do that, but I won't do it 40 hours a week.

An important part of it is realizing what is enough.
> Now, if a programmer decides whether or not study and understand the pasted code has nothing to do with the quality of the final product.

I deeply disagree with this and for such obvious reasons.
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Agree with you.

I also feel governments today are under much more scrutiny than they have ever been. Are we at a place were a new Bin Laden is going to get a new Bush to launch a war. Who knows? But people are much more aware of the costs than in 2001.

Still security responses aren't mature/sophisticated enough to prevent such tragic incidents, and must be given some leeway to evolve.
Probably related to the same change that brought the black bar, but the Chrome extension I use to add collapsible comment threads is now broken.

Can we please get native collapsible threads here?

edit: Also I just attempted to use an emoji for the first time here, and it was stripped. ????

edit2: I thought it was a simple design update, had no idea it was a tribute. RIP Andy Grove.
That's just one strain of terrorism i.e. religious terrorism or more specifically Islamic terrorism as I may speculate that's what you intended.

There are many other strains of terrorism like the last terrorist attack in Ankara last week where a female Kurdish ultra-nationalist militant blew herself in a bus killing about 40 civilians in the process. This was just an instance of a political/nationalist violence/terrorism that has nothing to do with religion or Islam for that matter.
While I agree, I think we can admit that doing so will take some time. Would it not be appropriate to have compensating controls in the meantime?
I came here to post this, you're a great person.

This post fills me with dread, it's come to the point during code review that I have to be sure the shitty devs aren't coping the bad answers from stackoverflow... I hope they don't find this.
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The XIV amendment says:

"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Which sounds like all people should have the same protection from unlawful searches ... as I'm a conditional law novice can someone briefly outline why this doesn't stand, what removed the protections for "all people" (note the preceding section refers to citizens, so all people is clearly a distinct class).

Is it that the federal nature of the FBI means they are above state law?
I don't drive a car, I cycle. I reject the risk of driving, but drivers put that risk on me anyway. Even more so than they do to themselves, because I'm more vulnerable than a person sitting in a moving steel cage, and because many drivers seem eager to put risk on me.

In my life time, I'm much more likely to be murdered by a driver than a terrorist.
> ideologies are very difficult to destroy and take a long time to fully extinguish

I like that you used "extinguish" here.

I'm not sure if you intended it, but I think the behavioural psychology definition of "extinguish" is especially relevant.

In other words, to get rid of the ideology, we'd have to not reinforce it: i.e. to neither reward it or punish it.

And yes extinction[1] takes a long time.

Also see "extinction burst".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_(psychology)
Why are we not showing proportionally even more outrage of drunk driving deaths?
I swear there's a good scifi TV show in that short paragraph.
I think you would come back to it when you're having a critical issue impacting lots of users and to fix it, you finally need to understand that code.
Counterpoint: if you want to sue everyone in the Unites States for pirating your porn, ask for $50 in settlement for dropping charges, and drop charges for anyone who shows up in court with legal representation, should the judge be sympathetic to you? Isn't a frivolous lawsuit a frivolous lawsuit anymore?
If you like PowerShell, try using jq in your Unix shell pipelines. Ingesting data into json is still a bit finicky, but once you know the patterns you need to use with cut and a csv-to-json tool things become much faster.
I traveled through Baku airport in Azerbaijan last summer which had body and luggage scanners at the entrance to the terminal. I wonder how long before this becomes the norm?
Even so, the connection isn't in any way made clear. Your assumption that if people saw that Andy Grove died they would immediately identify the black bar as a sign of mourning is kind of, I dunno, culturally normative?
Eh? It looks like they turned it on for the Ankara blasts[0].

Anyway, the whole thing reminds me of the NPR bit about "The Cost of Free"[1]. People's expectations rapidly change once you offer some of them something. While the main lesson in that story is about charging after offering something for free for many years, there's the second lesson: the reason it was made free was that the Brits were upset that the Americans got free doughnuts.

Afterwards, no one got free doughnuts. It's funny. Something that seems clearly like a Pareto improvement ends up not being one because of people's opinions of perceived privilege.

0: https://www.facebook.com/sheryl/posts/10156585333855177

1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-c...
A million people worldwide die every year in collisions with cars, half of them pedestrians and cyclists. Millions more are injured.

Compared with traffic regulation and enforcement, the response to terrorist events like this are vastly out of proportion, and well into the range of irrational response that the terrorists know is the only way to really damage a large powerful nation - by making it turn on its own people and put them in a security-state panopticon.
Thank you for pointing this out, never heard of them before.
Here's a weird idea. What about cutting benefits and forcing people to get jobs? Would it prevent terrorism? If everyone is too busy working??
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Most of our partners have a somewhat abbreviated interview for our candidates, but everyone (as far as I know) still techs our candidates out.

I'm actually fine with that! We make no pretense of having designed a screening process that is appropriate for every job. What I'm less fine with is the fact that the norm, even for abbreviated tech-outs, is 7-8 hours of on-site whiteboard interview.
Is this indicative of what's going on in the JS world today, with all the churn of packages and libs? Does it boil down to being sucky and not useful if it isn't written in ES6/TypeScript/Whatever and not invented by your team? Why do the other things suck because they're not this?

EDIT: I've said it on other threads- I like the creativity and exuberance in the JS community. I'm not putting it down. There's just a lot of churn/NIHS.

(I didn't seem to be getting downvoted, but I also want to be clear that I'm not putting the community down)

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I think it's a cool excercise. Why would I ever want to use this in the way it is saying it should be used? Why would I ever use this period?
I'm not quite sure what to make of this article. Especially the end quote where he is sort of suggesting going this "dangerous" route, but sort of not.

> No matter how much your journey f*cks up your life or how difficult it will be, enjoy the ride and keep following your passion. As Tony Gaskin puts it perfectly:
“If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.”
Gary Webb, Oliver North, "Freeway" Rick Ross, Oscar Danilo Blandón. Don't read into these names unless you've got your tin foil at the ready.
They seek fear, not the maximum number of deaths. Victims are not the goal but a way.
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This appears to be a thinly veiled marketing exercise.
You grow up in a place where people ceremoniously raise and lower flags as symbolic tributes. Here, we just see a black bar.

So you're okay with these threads every time there's a black bar?
Harvard doesn't have to pay tax but Harvard and MIT have made tens of millions of dollars in "voluntary" contributions to the municipalities they reside in over the last decade. The situation is weird but Harvard and MIT give enough money to make property tax in Cambridge dirt cheap. I'm only paying ~0.375% for example.
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The query examples looked like Clojure code; is that correct?

The technology of Facebook and Google (where I worked as a contractor) impresses! That said, I like a simpler Internet with smaller scale services like Gnu Social, and simply using email to stay in touch with family and friends. I have this preference both for privacy reasons and also prefer more one on one communication.
There's the 'capable of repetition, yet evading review' exception to the mootness doctrine. But I agree this particular case is probably DoA. Maybe Apple can move for sanctions ...
So a guy working as a highly paid consultant that does not have time to spend any of his money runs out of it in less than a year... And his top "warning" for the whole thing is social pressure. Is this a joke?
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If entering a major airport strapped with explosives undetected and blowing up twice killing tens of people isn't a spectacular security failure, I don't know what is. I agree that it's nearly impossible to detect/prevent random shootings/stabbings (like in Paris attacks), but this is not such case.
More people die in the average week from car accidents in Europe than from terrorism in the whole of last year (which was mostly the Paris attacks). I'm not saying we should ban driving, but drastic times etc. Most of the terrorists speak French. I'm not saying we should deport all Francophones, but drastic times..
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So perhaps the security lines need to be outside the check-in area? See what I did there?
Please take a look at a map of what countries border Israel and what borders Belgium. This a highly misinformed comment.
My old university town of Aberystwyth has a club called Pier Pressure which, rather pleasingly, is on a pier.
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Accidents, which everybody strives to avoid, and intelligent agents actively seeking to kill you are two different classes of danger and people react differently.

With accidents, you can kinda hope they won't be happening too often because nobody benefits from them. Not so much with violent conflicts, though.
The site is in English, is based in the US and contains mostly news from certain regions of the world, of course it's going to be culturally biased

I agree an association would be helpful (is it for Andy Grove or for Belgium, for example)

But it is not hard to find the association
You are 100% right, Facebook Safety Check was in fact deployed during both Ankara explosions this year, and for an attack in Nigeria late 2015. I take back my (unnecessarily snarky) comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Safety_Check#Other_de...
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"They could be fined hundreds of thousands daily for refusing to act. We recently found out this happened to Yahoo in 2008 [1] via the FISA court. Apple shareholders wouldn't like that."

How does that work if say someone resigned some months before the events of the terrorist attack from Apple? And they still refuse to work for Apple? There's no legal obligation for me to work for Apple or anybody in the US Constitution. All I got to do is pay taxes where applicable. Taxes don't include writing software for a random agency.
That is very true in my experience.
Being able to search and use online code examples is a key skill in software development. The web has become the collective knowledge base for all of us.
https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ lets you e-file for free with much less stringent limitations: you have to stick to the forms listed at https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/#/fd/forms.availabilit...

One caveat is that it will not do as much automatic propagation of numbers as it _could_, so you end up having to do some manual work that could be automated away. But it will certainly let you e-file.

The second caveat is that this is basically a private organization funded by a consortium of tax-preparation companies, which means that (1) you have to trust them with your tax data (unlike the under-$62k thing that's run directly by the IRS as far as I can tell) and (2) there is zero incentive for this thing to become as good as the for-pay tax preparation software (hence the stupid things that could be automated but aren't).
It's not just a separate shell. Each command can be enabled globally. It just might not be desirable for everyone who wants to use these.
I just assumed it was a glitch somewhere. Never would have occurred to me it was meaningful - but then maybe it doesnt need to be? In the end this is about HN displaying something for themselves, I don't think my response matters.
> they just don't know how to make things happen

I don't think that's fair either.
The title is incredibly annoying. Leaving your corporate job for your dream has a very high chance of fucking up your life for a myriad of very obvious reasons.

Not only that, but the idea that following your dream by creating a startup would provide you with more free-time is beyond basic logic.
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Lol, US is so slow, used in Ethiopia for ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKGeuAoGW_E
You take no responsibility for your situation. You talk like MIT just happened to you. You turned yourself into a mercenary by attending MIT and accumulating the debt with full knowledge that you would take high-paying jobs to pay it off-jobs that you could get thanks to your MIT credential.

Once your debt is paid off you will have one less excuse to go do whatever it is you claim you really want to do. The only question is whether you will actually take advantage of that or whether you continue to whine about the world of opportunities that were somehow foisted upon you when you willingly chose to attend MIT.
How does vat work in other countries? Is it one rate across the country? Do provinces and local government get any of this money? Are they banned from imposing an additional sales tax? I'd think you don't want additional sales tax if you have vat but then you'd lose some revenue for local government.
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That is a good article but it was on HN a few years ago.

A mistake I think people make is optimizing their lives for income rather than experiences and contentment. I have thoroughly enjoyed my career but I have kept my working hours to under an average of 25 hours a week for the last 30 years (not counting time writing, which is more of a simple pleasure in life than consulting).
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I liked Namecheap. I would double check some of the clauses in their TOS...

I am leaning toward rackspace, thanks for the input.
Isn't there some jet or jet like propulsion engine that was developed in the UK a couple years ago that may offer far more efficient and even harder thrust that could revive high speed air travel?

Is that what that boom.aero post was about? Sorry, I wasn't able to read into it.

Either way, when these things come up, I am always curious what happened to the realization that air travel is a multitude worse than any other type of air pollution because it essentially directly delivers harmful particles right into the highest strata of our atmosphere. Is that no longer a concern with the jet-setting, globe trotting liberals? Or is it too inconvenient to their lifestyle and therefore will simply be ignored? Or maybe scientists were totally wrong about fundamental research?
That's a strawman. Nobody intelligent is claiming that. The claim is that the ones that follow this jihad ideology and islamic supremacism are too many to reasonably expect to control without starting a civil war. They are a quite large contingent of muslims as a whole and a very large (certainly 20-30% but probably far more) of muslim youth.
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Even if they hate the society they live in, even if they do not accept the laws, even if they do not contribute anything but demand a lot, even if they do not speak the language, even if they raise their kids to become the same religious fags, even if they support people attacking the country where they are "locals"?
They seek a Bush type response.
So glad you brought this up as well, it's one of my pet peeves (thinking tuition and expenditures are linked)...this is also pretty scary http://www.bain.com/sustainable-university/interactive.asp
In Paris, there are security checks at entrances to malls and big stores now.
Nice. Hope to see it in FF soon. And in Internet Explorer 87.
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It was not an analysis. It might be qualified as the catchphrase for an analysis, at best.
> Acknowledging that this happens because of conscious policy decisions by many people is also good.

> We could bring this sort of event down to a number real close to 0.

Please, would you mind elaborating a bit on these two points?
What they really need is a way to rank github code by quality - so that a tool like this pulls in the good code (as opposed to code of lesser quality)
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If you have no free time and feel overworked in your current job then surely starting a start up won't fix that.
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Same, i've noticed it happening a few times before and i always just thought the CSS was broken by someone experimenting.
It's a bullshit marketing exercise by facebook to gather traffic as a result of a tragedy.

I mean... why don't they do this every day for folks on the daily commute? Getting into your car and driving to work is a far more likely cause of death than a terrorist attack.

I suppose they're only being reflective of the general hysteria that happens every time something like this happens.
Yup. We choose the "footgun" reason. Despite automation, despite best practices, the cost/benefit analysis of losing all traffic for months (more realistically, losing the use of a domain) because of a single mistake shows that the benefits of preventing against MITM is simply not worth it.

Were we bigger, the benefit might outweigh the costs. Of course if we were bigger, the cost would go up significantly as well. Can you imagine a world where Amazon had to completely re-build its order taking infrastructure around a new domain name due to a mistaken configuration file?
Most definitely. Self-confidence is much better than the opposite.
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Maybe it's consulting outside the U.S. (guy was a Senior Associate at Bain for 1 year), but the consulting intro doesn't ring true. Both personal experience and an extensive network into MBB: I don't know anyone at that (junior) level who a) is flying trans-Atlantic on a weekly basis (to the U.S. no less), b) doesn't know where they're going until last minute, and c) changes projects every week.

It doesn't happen. This isn't House of Lies.

Guy appears to be a professional blogger now, so this is very much a grain-of-salt perspective.