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I don't know, I'd be getting nervous about state backed pension schemes (assuming that's what you're in).
I do oppose at will employment. I also oppose abuse of the WARN act by so many corporations doing mass reductions in force. I thirdly oppose unethical business practices, even if it means not maximizing "shareholder value". There have been so many small pharmas snatched up by the big guys the past few years, all in the name of buying drug patents to maximize shareholder value because conducting original research is "too expensive". Those small pharmas are made of people, good people, doing good, valuable work (often original research, ironically). To me, the way the pharmaceutical industry has been behaving over the past decade -- between this and the ubiquitous inversion mergers to move HQs to Ireland -- is unacceptable.
Adobe has figured out a way to track people as they switch between devices
Hopefully this doesn't end up as another call to "be united". I've seen how the governments in question abuse that. If they get all the support they need, then they start doing awful things, even illegal things against European laws and whatnot. But because the countries are "united", nobody says anything anymore.

What we need is to think this through, which also means challenging conventional wisdom, not just be "be united in following whatever said government wants to do".
Can you cancel your credit card at any moment if you know you are going into a tight spot soon ? So you don't enter the vicious circle.
That use case is only for dictionaries/looking up words, where you never need to type anything of any length at a time, thus high speed typing is not needed, which is exactly what is being discussed.
We havent seen a group of 50 militants take over a city and reck havoc because our surveillance systems can detect such levels of organization. As horrible as this sounds, anyone with an IQ above 60 can plot and kill 30 people because there's not enough signal in the vast noise our communication networks generate to pick up on it. If we can prevent terrorist attacks that kill thousands of individuals we've won.
Nice!
What are the benefits over TitanDB, Apache Spark/GraphX, GraphLab, Giraph, Neo4j, openCypher Tinkerpop etc?
That's exactly what more police will do. Make people feel safer, not actually be more safe. It's security theater. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
Nothing? I don't say that the surveillance is a total solution to anything, but certainly the surveillance has helped police to prevent attacks.

Just before Christmas last year:

French police have foiled an attack targeting police and army personnel in the central city of Orléans, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday. Two men have been arrested.

...

Cazeneuve said 10 attacks had been prevented this year in France, which suffered its worst atrocity for decades last month when Islamist militants killed 130 people in Paris.

http://www.france24.com/en/20151222-france-terror-plot-foile...
The A9 chip is at the core of this smaller iPhone, which gives it the same power as iPhone 6s. It brings impressive responsiveness and speed with its 64-bit desktop-class architecture.

iPhone SE has clearly merged the best of both worlds by merging the features of iPhone 6s and the beloved design of iPhone 5s, that too at a lot cheaper price.
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Yeah I don't think this is easily mitigated short of increasing throughput through check in / security so that you never have large groups of people standing around.
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I don't think the point was to for it to be useful, it was something fun to do.
While I do work for 2ndQuadrant and think that David did a very fine job on this great patch, it'd be a bit unfair not to mention this patch stands on parallel infrastructure built by EDB (and Robert Haas & Amit Kapila in particular) and others.

Kudos to them.
That's really easy to say about any capital city, but not what the parent means at all.
When they think it's all puppies and rainbows, yeah
If you aren't using it now, and thus don't know how fast or slow it would be on your data and queries, why would you care about percentage speed ups?

It could be a 1% speed up from insanely fast to slightly more insanely fast, or a 100% speed up from unbearably slow to just extremely annoyingly slow.

I gather that people considering migrating who want some reassurance before investing time in testing should be more interested in such things things as benchmarks that show whether PostgreSQL can saturate your hardware for various query types, benchmarks that compare its query planner against that of competitors, and benchmarks that show how well it works under load.
It's expensive. It has some effect on civil liberties.

Does it work? The cost and human rights interferences are easier to take if more police works, but there's no evidence that it would.
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Could a fine for private prisons every time an ex-offender is convicted help to rebalance their priorities?

Are prisoners put to tender like school meals are [in the UK]?
Indeed, you cannot protect any place when more than a few people gather.

You have to stop the issues at their source: why did people who were born and raised in Europe radicalize in just one or two years? And why did the community they lived in not see or report that this was happening?
Oversimplification of complex subjects neither leads to useful action nor helps to understand the issue.

It is better to stay humble, as the parent comment was.
And of course not just in airports. Train stations, buses, markets, theatres, concerts (Balaclan), anything you have in city life where people gather together.

Metros and mass transit are generally the most lucrative target, as we see here, and as we saw in London 10 years ago.
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What he's getting at is "pathological altruism". You'll notice a pattern where people act on their empathy (declaring said action objectively good) and failing to appropriately reflect on it's consequences. Such is the case with many government programs like war or welfare programs. If you define a program as empathetic and virtuous, you have no null hypothesis with which to disprove it, no metrics with which to calibrate it. In such respects, empathy can do a lot of harm to yourself and others.
Most of the demo sites don't appear to have mobile sites and none of them I've seen actually has an app. Are there any actual demos?
I just finished re-reading "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman". It's a remarkable book and for me as a student, Richard Feynman is a great inspiration to learn and hack on new things everyday.
Of course it's not "they hate our way of life". Unless "our way of life" is letting our governments run amok destroying their homelands, installing brutal dictators and kleptocracies, and selling all their resources to multinational corporations; then when they flee their countries, "we" separate them off into banlieues and exclude them from social and economic participation.

Everyone loves the material wealth neoliberalism gives them, but acts completely oblivious when confronted with the pure violence of its operation outside of the western bubble.
Not religion in the sense of theological belief, but religion in the sense of loyalty and belonging.

Christianity fractured in 1517 over the question of the extent of Papal authority and corruption. This led to centuries of power struggle as to who was superior: papal authority or civil authority? The UK eventually decided for civil authority in 1688 by installing a Parliament-respecting Protestant monarch rather than a Pope-respecting absolutist Catholic monarch. The ensuing fighting was ended at the Boyne in 1690. But it's still a battle the commemoration of which leads to fighting in the street in NI.

This led to a position of Catholic oppression by Protestants for centuries. Is this really a religious issue, or a self-perpetuating cycle of violence?
I'm pretty sure someone who wants attention so much that they are willing to murder people to get it isn't going to tolerate being ignored.
Dismissal of analysis neither leads to useful action nor helps to understand the issue. Think about it. You owe that to yourself.
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A third bomb exploded just now.
Sometimes they do sort of have a gun to their head. A lot of times these acquisitions are via hostile takeovers approved by a board of directors/shareholders against the will of senior leadership (much less the rank & file).

Who cares what Valeant does after the acquisition? People care. When Pfizer purchased King Pharmaceuticals (you've probably never heard of King, but they patented the Epi-Pen epinephrine auto-injector), they got rid of about 450 of 550 employees, keeping only a few compliance & research folks along with the sales team. When Valeant purchased Salix (patent holder for Xifaxin, which is one of Valeant's only winners right now), they laid off about 800 of 1100 staff (again, keeping primarily the sales team). Valeant used about $11b in debt + Valeant stock (no cash) to purchase Salix. The debt has been downgraded to junk status and the stock has lost 90% of its value. Tell me this was good for anyone (even the Valeant side!).
> The risks are tremendous. Deaths from heroin overdose in the United States rose 500 percent from 2001 to 2014, a staggering increase, and deaths from prescription drugs — which are already legal and regulated — shot up almost 300 percent, proving that where opioids are concerned, we seem to be inept not only when we prohibit but also when we regulate.

For heroin, the major risk is variation in potency. Heroin is highly cut at consumer level, for the most part. But occasionally, some relatively pure shit hits the street. And then there's the risk of boosting by Fentanyl and other high-potency opiates.

Also, it's pretty clear that the increasing popularity of heroin has been driven by decreasing availability of prescription opiates. New heroin users tend to be clueless about risk management. So they tend to overdose.

I'm curious about increasing deaths from prescription drugs. I wonder how much of that is driven by acetaminophen toxicity, as oxycodone etc have become harder to get than mixtures of acetaminophen with codeine and hydrocodone. I'm also wondering whether these figures include deaths for prescription drugs obtained informally.
Maybe it was a poorly chosen example, I though it was mainly a fight for independence. ETA (Basque) vs. Spain would probably be a better example.
Do they think of themselves as local?
A malicious person will always be able to find a public space with lots of people. A public square, schoolyard, mall, busy street, library or whatever.

Besides, to defend against suicide bombings, the dogs would have to encounter everyone before they enter the airport checkin area, otherwise the bomber could just detonate once the dog start barking (or whatever they do to mark that they've found something).
Well, in theory, yes they could see what you watching (no great stretch, as Britain only had a few channels to choose from at the time), via TEMPEST techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
> Putting the specific issue of immigration aside

Why?

https://twitter.com/caitlinmoran/status/712254657662418944

> Always good, on days like this, to remind everyone that the guys blowing up Brussels are THE PEOPLE THE REFUGEES ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM
Tuition is a red herring - it's a made up number. A better metric would be what is the school's operating budget? In Yale's case it's $3.2 billion...I'm not saying free tuition isn't an option for a couple of schools with mega endowments, but you're analysis misses the mark.

http://finance.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2014-2015%20Annu...
What I find reassuring in the midst of this tragic mayhem however, is how little actual damage the terrorists could do.

They had explosives, weapons, the resolve to sacrifice themselves and tried their best to do as much damage as possible. And they managed to to kill less than 30 people (provisional count).

Of course every death that brought on by this fanatic mob is too much, but we should keep our perspective.

A bus accident in Spain last week left 11 exchange students dead, in the US alone every day more than 50 people die in road accidents.

Of course we should root out the people that try to bomb our freedom away. But don't let us be terrorized by something that doesn't make a statistically recognizable dent in our probability for survival.
> What bothers me the most is honestly the low status facts have in the politics of nations today

100% agree....when you can sit and watch a debate or discussion on TV, and one side or the other, or both, are using arguments that are known to be factually incorrect, it's bound to not turn out well.

I think if we are going to accept immigration from anywhere, we should first figure out how to assimilate all cultures to prevent as you correctly note ghettofication, social segregation and religious extremism. The things we're seeing today might be small potatoes compared to what could happen if there's a mass uprising.
It's displayed as a sign of respect following the passing of important tech luminaries.

In this case Andy Grove - one of the fathers of Silicon Valley.

May he rest in peace.
How can technology help prevent such attacks without infringing on the basic right to privacy?

Perhaps some sort of real time image recognition of video streams from major public areas (like airports), which can detect things like guns and unattended packages and alert authorities automatically? Of course, that doesn't help detect the suicide bomber scenario.

Automatic facial recognition of known criminals? That would be hugely open to abuse.
Islam, and radical Islam specifically, are not the sole ingredient transforming random people into murderers or suicide murderers.

It is an ingredient. Eric Hoffer's _The True Believer_ is a good sketch of the phenomenon. Among the disaffected, some will latch onto any available dogmatic belief system. As long as radical Islam is in the news, and is accessible, some among the disaffected will choose that path.

Not all dogmas result in blowing yourself up in crowds, or setting off bombs or gunning down people in theaters. Doesn't it make sense to preferentially attack those dogmas that bring out, at present, the worst characteristics in their adherents?

It would be great if our foreign policy in the past 1.5 (or 3, or 5, or 7) decades hadn't been a disaster and promoted unrest in the region, because that undoubtedly increased the seriousness of our current situation. We (by that I mean our leaders who make foreign policy and military decisions) should try to learn from history and not repeat the same mistakes, although they all (no matter their politics) seem to do a very poor job of that. But the question of why radical Islam is such a problem now is irrelevant to the question of whether we should fight radical Islam. It's not a very reasonable thing to conclude that because we're partly responsible for the rise of radical Islam, we should do nothing and let it conquer the world if it wants.
why is it too late? it can still save many lives even if there is a 5 min notice
My first visceral reaction was "Fuck it, just kill them all and bomb them back to stone age". I know I'm not alone on this -- the recent rise of nationalism, isolationism, Euro-scepticism and hostility towards refugees all over Europe is painful evidence for this sentiment.

But it's important to understand that these feelings are what such attacks are intended to invoke. They're intended to harden the gap between "us" and "them", to make Westerners despise anyone who looks conveniently foreign enough to be suspicious of belonging to "them" and to use them as scapegoats for the perpetrators who have often already escaped justice through death.

These atrocities weren't committed by "Muslims" just like the atrocities in the UK during the Troubles were not committed by "Christians". The perpetrators were individuals -- even if they belonged to a group that group wasn't "Muslims", it most likely wasn't even "ISIS"; just a small group of like-minded dangerous individuals who were convinced they would aid mankind by committing atrocities like these.

In so far as certain ideologies led to these convictions it is important to understand that you can't kill ideas with weapons. Yes, where there are armies fighting for dangerous ideologies they need to be stopped, but where you can't even clearly distinguish the soldiers from the civilians you need to destroy the ideology, not the people.

But unlike people, ideologies are very difficult to destroy and take a long time to fully extinguish. And in times like these it's far too easy to fall prey to politicians promising fast satisfaction rather than a long-term strategy towards a shift in ideologies.

We need to embrace our humanity and liberties. We have already had our period of enlightenment and we have overcome totalitarianism and theocracy. We must not allow ourselves to regress to the dark age, no matter how appealing it may seem in times like these -- neither here in Europe, nor oversees in the US.
its probably all those old Intel commercials where it shows alien looking robots creating the chips!
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Is that so? Why is it that terrorism goes hand in hand with religion then? Terrorism is about fulfilling an arguably skewed view of religion.
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I'm pretty sure desperate economic conditions, political instability and alienation have a lot more to do with it.
Do you really think that? I mean, what would you consider a fact that is not agreed upon?
FB has enabled safety check several other times, such as floods, earthquakes etc. in India & Nepal. There is nothing about selective outrage.
But why should checkin areas be more protected than any bakery, bus stop or supermarket, any place where people gather. One can't (and shouldn't) put policemen at every corner of every street.
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Only place I've seen some security checks was at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, where there was a mild security check when entering the airport.

This consisted of a small interview on what I've been doing in Israel, where I am going to, with whom and who packed my stuff. This all was before even entering the actual terminal building.
No, not at all. Motorola Mobility was bleeding cash for years (basically since the end of life for the original Razor -- they didn't have any profitable phones again until the X & G). Yes, Google wanted their patent portfolio, but it's not like MMI was making money before the acquisition ... which was why even prior to the Google purchase Motorola had split into MMI & MSI, which is absolutely profitable selling radio gear & services.
apparently they can now (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People_Meter)
Well you could hardly call it Shippy McShipface could you? (Try saying it 5 time fast)
The thing often missed is we have absolutely no idea what has been stopped, you don't know if they stopped 50 attacks and just one succeeded. In some instances the 'bomber' may have been identified and stopped in some way, they may have infiltrated the supply chain of parts or countless other things. They can't publicise how they found their intelligence, if it is know how they operate it's makes it easier to evade.
We just don't know, and that is a double edged sword especially when being critical of their powers. I fully appreciate all the arguments about how they operate and what they should and should not be able to do but there needs to be a balance and level of trust.
If you were empowered with gathering intelligence what tools would you want? You are not fighting an army with a different uniform on the other side of the field here.
I had the same question yesterday (saw it previously and thought it was a styling issue or maintenance mode etc). It would be nice to have a tooltip on hover to tell people what it's about. Good way to pay tribute.
They removed their warrant canary. That's a giant red flag if there ever was one. Cooperation w/ governments negates encryption, no matter how good.
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That's simply not true. A larger police force translates to more comprehensive law enforcement. If it doesn't, then there's a systemic failure in the way police are run (and we have plenty of examples of those too). Of course "more police" isn't the only way to increase the effectiveness of policing, but it does help.

The security theater was specifically about TSA and other untrained (or minimally trained) symbolic gestures. Actual policing is not theater.
Maybe we can improve the spreadsheet by adding columns for each category that you mentioned (on what is doable) so we can have a more objective view of the benefits.
hahah :) someday we will say "Computer make me a program" and it will make it from SO posts
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Even when they don't speak the local language like it sometimes happens?

Truth is, you can be so enclosed in a foreign culture that you will actually stay a foreigner trough all your life.

P.S.: I'm not saying that was the case here, I'm just answering your broader remark.
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It's not a contest.
If the NSA revelations are anything to go by, the only difference between "not enough data" and "too much data" is that the after-the-fact investigations are now a bit easier.

There doesn't seem to be a "Goldilocks" amount of data. Or if there is, intelligence services seem to have no interest in finding it if it means restraining themselves.
Except these times really aren't that drastic.

A moderately successful terrorist attack on occasion does not Armageddon make.
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There are a lot of details about this point...

Police have a bad habit of harassing populations (several riots in France were a result of policing practices such as asking everyone for an ID). It helps to contribute to send a message of unwelcomeness to people who are likely already disillusioned in the system.

It's unlikely that more police could stop attacks. Maybe deal with the aftermath/manhunts better. But it sounds like more precision operations (including human intelligence) will go a lot further.
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I'm also not sure if the OS would notice if you tied the flash NAND chip's write-enable pin to ground. The OS would almost certainly notice the failed writes, but might try to make a best effort at error recovery and allow you to keep trying PINs.
@hn, since it's not the first time this question pops up, for increased "discoverability", what about making the black bar a <a> that links to the associated news? This, or pushing it even forwards, adding text?
According to Gallup, 16% of white Americans disapproved of interracial marriage in 2013 [1], which is probably the closest you're going to get to a major poll asking about apartheid.

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Older IEs don't have Array.indexOf(). So you either have to extend the Array prototype or, you know, just implement it in a more compatible way.
Comparing terrorist attacks with traffic accidents is quite a display of originality.