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To where? What government on the planet doesn't have this kind of power over its country's citizens? Of the governments you can list, how many of those countries actually have civilization where a non-native wouldn't have to fear for their lives?
this.

an immediate family member is a prosecutor. as a software engineer who loves hard problems and agree that few professions rival the mental strain of holding that problem in memory, but i can attest as to just how strong the parallels are between trial prep and architecting complex technical solutions. I can't speak for doctors, but the mental models required for non-trivial jury trails could rival those i've encountered during my career as a software engineer. one could probably even argue the analogy the lead prosecutor is a backed developer building system of arguments for logic meeting definition of law, ensuring redundancy and failover in event of error condition (new evidence, evidence struck, motions, etc), all while playing role of pm+designer creating the interface delivering accessible content in a way meaningful to the user (jury). again, i can't comment on other professions, but capital cases were the closest thing i've seen to hours/stress/effort of early stage start ups--with the difference being failure meant you live knowing a murder/rapist walked free, instead of a shitty exit or returning to a "boring" enterprise job.

and then there's the imprint left once the project/trial is over. over the years, i've noticed that interesting/hard problems (the ones we dream about) tend to leave an imprint on my thought process on how i view complexity (e.g. the world). except for us developers/engineers, we just carry some vignette of organizing complexity, instead of being haunted by nauseatingly detailed accounts of how some asshole murdered his wife and children, or other sickening acts that prosecutors, cops, journalists, etc are required to become immersed into the details of.

now that i think about this, it's almost funny how easy we engineers/developers/designers have it.
Trying to actually get good at photography is slowly teaching me to see- I see animals I didn't before, I see pretty compositions that didn't register before.
Yes. Am I misreading this case? It seems like evidence was furnished, and that the complaint here is that the original sealed warrant wasn't. The defense objects because the original FISA warrant could have been flawed, and if it was, the evidence deployed in the trial could have been excluded.
>but the Federal Government is completely sitting on it.
Arguably in a democracy we Americans should all be blaming ourselves for that. Because of the whole voting/paying attention/holding elected officials accountable thing. The Federal Government is representative of our collective ability to do that well, plus our historic ability to do that well I suppose.
Well, I could do it, change it to a more neutral example, then take a screenshot of your post and merge it to the repo. This would take maybe 2 hours (but I am familiar with git).

Fixing it would go very far to prove that you are sincere about the problem and isn't a hell of a lot of work. Going that far to fix it is more likely to convince him that it actually matters than anything else you could do.
The government has explained how it obtained the evidence. That's not the basis of the defense's complaint.
So, you'd rather have weapons yourself than an accountable government? That explains a lot, I feel.
There is a difference between a sealed proceeding and a secret proceeding.

With a sealed event, the judge is the barrier. With a secret event, you need to be in the priesthood of people cleared to know secrets to even ask about the matter.

Secrecy in effect makes information contraband. That's a problem in a criminal trial where the accused is presumed innocent.
Well I will not apologize for my sarcastic comment - customers nowadays are carpet bombed with a different kind of marketing strategists that somehow need to make us feel better about the "cat in the bag" of a product we buy, and there is point you have to say it is enough. If anything to protect any next naive customer, who is willing to try new gadget.
It is worth mentioning, that I tried contacting the seller about all the issues I was experiencing but I haven't got any response.

So, if you are trying to sell me something in dishonest way, trying to beautify the product (old, dirty, smelly cat) saying something that does not represent, sarcasm is justified response.

Ubuntu has potential, maybe one day it will be a good platform if people put some effort into it, but now, and especially 500 days ago, was not that day.
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Currently we have about 8.2k respondents. Hoping to get to 20k by the time we release the dataset next week. For more back story: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/we-just-launched-the-biggest...
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Fair point - it was a "clever" and shallow comment on my part for which I paid.

I am not particularly a Windows fan either and have been using Linux since the early 90s - the Linux desktop has always been quite adequate for my needs so it is personally hard for me to see why it is difficult for people to adopt Linux on the desktop. The only reasons I can see are sub-optimal driver support, some Windows application that keeps them locked (for me it is OneNote and its support for handwriting), or general fear.
This article reminds me of this picture:

http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10...
Pedo or not, the govt is guilty scum
Like I said.. There isn't a 'lack' of water.. there is a lack of energy for purification in rural places.. In these places you should be figuring out purification via chemical and physical methods.

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And it doesn’t help Android <5 devices to get support for TLS.
That is the key bit of the whole story. I can only imagine how many more cases have been handled like this, with drug crimes or tax evasion charges used instead of pornography.
Being from Europe, I was also weirded out that almost all discussions of class in the US was about money. To me, the separation of economic class and social class is clearer than to the average American.

But, the same rules of "invisibility" apply where I'm from. Whenever I've talked to my upper-middle class friends about what social class they belong to, they are completely clueless. They don't know they belong to it, they don't know others don't, and they completely subscribe to the "we're all just regular middle class" mentality. The friends I have from other classes, or who have also made class journeys, are much more in tune, they have no problems seeing class and classism.

One thing that was very illuminating to me in this article was the notion of class as culture, and class as performance.

> It is a common misconception that the primary obstacle to being in a much higher class is money to afford the things by which one performs that class. The limiting factor is not money, it is this: it is impossible to join a culture the ways of which you know nothing. You may come by money, but the ignorance of how to use it to perform that higher class will keep you out as adamantly as if there were a wall built around it.

Holy crap. Yes. A thousand times yes.
Sure, that's an argument that I'm sure crosses the threshold sometimes. However, with the amount of money we're paying AWS, we could've easily brought on several new full-time, dedicated guys to handle datacenter, hardware, colo, and sysadmin stuff and still come out ahead.

AWS is very expensive. People underestimate how expensive it is. I don't preclude the possibility that it's cost-effective for someone out there, but I seriously doubt that's the case for most of its users.
This is how democracies die. We must eliminate the secret court systems and reintroduce the use of warrants from the publicly accessible courts. There is no other alternative.
Author must've missed the entire Ars article and the entire past 3 days of Microsoft Build.

1) You have to develop on a system before you can deploy your app to a container. How else are you going to do your inner loop (code/debug/code/debug)? Not sure the author has ever done any real development before.

2) Microsoft announced release of its Cloud Functions last week as well.

3) It's in developer mode preview because... well it's still in Beta. In fact it's not even available for Beta users yet.

4) Running Linux through a VM isn't the same experience that OS X gives (a Unix-y integrated desktop). The point is nobody wants to start up a VM with 8GB of RAM just to run some console commands. That's a much worse workflow than hitting Win+R and typing "bash" to open a bash prompt and have one contiguous file system without all of the overhead. No native OS can do good snapshotting without using a VM. Not sure why the author even brings this point up. If you absolutely need snapshotting, use a VM by all means! But, in any case WSL will provide a way for you to "clean" your environment. But who the hell wants to run an entire VM just to be able host nginx if they don't have to?

5) Not everything can run on Cloud Functions. It's good for very simple apps to resize images or API endpoints to return you the time of day, but it's very limited. You're not going to write the next social network or eCommerce site using only Cloud Functions. Real developers are writing real enterprise-grade web apps on Linux. This wasn't about catering to the Wordpress crowd who are writing 15 line of NodeJS for AWS Lambda. This was about creating full cross-platform Apps using .NET Core and being able to run/test it on Linux and also use some new Linux tools (Redis for example) without having to go to VMs or resort to buying a Mac. If you really need Cloud Functions, well now it's available through Azure!

6) Author misses the entire point. This was about competing against OS X both at a software and hardware level. They can sell more Windows licenses now to OEM vendors because folks like Dell/HP are going to move more products. Before, a developer had one choice if they wanted a good OS "that just works" and a Unix-y development environment. Now those Dell XPS13 "Developer Edition" laptops look very competitive against a Macbook Pro. I can still have Visual Studio but still use all the hipster tools like Redis, NodeJS, NGINX, HAProxy, Ruby, Python, RabbitMQ, without having to use their half-assed Windows ports that are several years behind the master repo.
What's next? Tell bad developers to stop writing code?
Who on the team is responsible for microservices and containers?
Which of your apps need security testing? ALL of them
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Come back in 15 years and say that nobody cares. Unless it is fixed before that time, you'll care then. Spend a couple of decades building, and leading teams to build, great software that creates $millions in value (sales or savings for your co), and get so you really know your way around both the tech and business side of things. Then, when you are really ready to sink your teeth into a new challenge, start to look around ... and discover that because one glance at the experience on your resume reveals that you are fourty-something, you can't even get an interview.

Your attitude about "the right ratio" is actually a great example of the discriminatory attitude. I've seen young developers right out of college that are more tired and cynical than any oldster, and I've seen old that care more than some junior and are building the new tech. I've seen up close a company make dozens of hires -mostly friends- and make less progress over the following years than the team of <10 had made in the previous two, and then the funds run out. I'm sure if you thought about it, you'd also find fine counter-examples to your own text.

The ENTIRE POINT of not discriminating is to focus on building a team that actually gets work done, not on creating some ephemeral "culture" -- the point is to discover the ACTUAL characteristics of each INDIVIDUAL that you hire, rather than making ASSUMPTIONS about characteristics based on a generic, immutable, and un-predictive characteristic.

Culture is an emergent phenomenon. It is not a primary capability to be deliberately managed at the cost of primary capabilities (sure, if culture-related items can be managed to measurably benefit primary capabilities, then definitely do it, but don't have the tail wag the dog).

But, if you're just there to grab a bunch of VC money to squander on an extended frat party and do favors for all your bros, and the VCs are stupid enough to toss the funds your way and also think 'culture' is more important than skills, then by all means, party on!
Sounds like they're not too different from us Californians after all.
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I watched the video and skimmed a bit if text and I don't get it. Is this video conferencing?
I had to write a business plan for a buddy and it was a china based biz, sort of Stripe Atlas for China.

this article is light on details, amd I am no expert as all I know was the 48 straight hours spent researching & writing the goddamn thing. interesting stuff;

* china started the 13th 5 year plan.

* it will agressively invest in itself. as indicated the vc/r&d investment in China by the gov is massive compared to other years.

* teaming up to invest innother countries infrastructure with other developed nations. synical part of me sees this as joint imperialism now China has the tech & influenxe to not be on receiving end.

* total switch to service economy & startup boom gor b2c.

* repeatedly using term o2o (online to offline)

interestingly the idea of a factory was from china keeping foreigners in districts in the late 1600s, these outposts became factories. there were 13 "factories" including one by the east india trading company.

the policy now seems to be similar to the silk road initiative & 13 factory model.

huge changes taking place, China is really adapting quick relative to its size, structure & pop
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>that country without the most basic of human rights

Compared to where?
It's not enough to build housing. You also need infrastructure (roads, pipes, electricity, etc). You can't scale an already-built city like SF, also very prone to earthquakes, at this speed. Your proposal has no realistic basis.
https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/counting-votes

> If a candidate receives more than half of all the first choice votes they are elected immediately

There is far more choice on the centre and left than there is on the right. The two leaders in the polls are neck and neck.

If you are centre-left, you may wish to be defensive and put your vote for the most likely to win, and your second on the one you believe in.

It still sucks.
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Bot A finds bot B via (marketplace search, keyword search, published functionality search or manual settings?) This is very difficult to do accurately especially when there are 100 other bots that provide same functionality as Bot B.

Let's assume user selected Bot B to be added as friend for Bot A.

Bot A asks Bot B for a list of commands > This is essentially making an API call or Bot A sending a chat message to Bot B "Please send me all your public commands" (which is a simplified NLP API call)

However Bot B might not want to expose all its NLP command keywords (that is after all their Intellectual property) or it is too complex to send all commands because of myriad of ways an NLP query can be structured.

I like your idea of a conversational API. Maybe there is a better way to do that and definitely something worth thinking about.

Regarding the future of chat, the problem is these chat apps are trying to become task help apps. What is the purpose of chat/group chat? Communication, discussion, planning, sharing between "friends/contacts" (not between me and a bot)
Communication with a friend or contact does not require a bot.
Discussion with a friend, group of friends or contacts does not require a bot
Sharing content with a friend, group of friends or contacts does not require a bot.

The only thing that requires a bot is planning an outing, trip, dinner, etc. with a friend or group of friends or contacts. For that I think it is better to have a general purpose bot. Here's how I envision that use case with a bot called JEEVES.

ME: Hey have you guys watched Zootopia yet?

FRIEND 1: Nah I want to but didn't have the time. I'm free tonight if you want to go.

FRIEND 2: Yeah count me in too

ME: JEEVES find us a movie theater close to us that's playing Zootopia tonight.

JEEVES: There are 3 theaters close to all of you that's playing Zootopia tonight. Theater 1 at (map)Location 1 is playing it at 9PM, Theater 2 at (map)Location 2 is playing it at 8:30PM, Theater 3 at (map)Location 3 is playing it at 10:PM

ME: you guys wanna get dinner before the movie?

FRIEND 1: Sure

FRIEND 2: Nah having dinner with GF's parents today.

ME: JEEVES find us some chinese restaurants near Theater 3.

so on and so on.

JEEVES can then book tickets, make a reservation, put the event on calendars, send restaurant location to just the 2 people who agreed to have dinner, etc.
If you want to know more about the Norse accounts of America and how their presence in Newfoundland was originally discovered, I recommend listening to my podcast - the Born Yesterday podcast - about it. It's one of my best episodes, I think: http://bornyesterdaypodcast.com/#episode5
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"Evidence" isn't just "the parts of the evidence the prosecution wanted to use".

How is the defense supposed to cross-examine the person who gathered the evidence when they can't investigate the circumstances under which it was gathered? How are they supposed to make a cogent argument that it was not a properly issued warrant unless they can see it? How are they supposed to argue that even if the the warrant was proper, the evidence gathered was not under the scope of the warrant? How are they supposed to get access to other exculpatory evidence that would have been collected under the warrant, that the prosecution declined to use?
As everything is being digitized slowly, we truly are moving to an information economy.

Programming is the ability to manipulate that information for a purpose.
You can be a programmer and make money if you combine that ability with specialized domain knowledge.

But the ability to program alone makes you interchangeable in the business. Just look at the hundreds of gigantic (5000+ employees) consulting firms selling expertise. The only people who make big bucks are the ones with domain knowledge.

I do think that programmers are at the forefront of the future of employment. Every other sector is afraid of automation, concerned about their algorithmic skills and routine tasks being done by machine and uncertain about how they will fit in a future where their skills are useless.

Programmers feel like that every few years (or months if you're a JS programmer ;-)) or on every new major project in a different domain.

But we get distracted by the fact that we spend so much time keeping up with the new tech that we confuse it for valuable knowledge.
The new framework/language/api/etc. is only a tool to extend our ability and without domain knowledge in a sector (finance, healthcare, retail etc.), we have as little value as a paralegal or a doctor who can diagnose and treat but cannot invent a cure.

Unlike any of those professions, they are not 100% digitized. Programmers are forced to accept the limits of their intelligence and their capacity to learn new domains very early on.
Nothing is preventing you from writing something truly amazing on your computer.

This community often gets it twisted. Let's face it, if you could innovate instead of repackage, you wouldn't need marketing or sales to communicate the value of your work.
However exponential improvements and radical innovation are difficult, everyone settles for incremental improvements and have to spend their time marketing to persuade people that their product is better. (most likely by only a small margin from the competition. a margin most people wouldn't give a fuck about if they really understood the product)
I guess I meant "information about how the evidence was obtained." I just think blurring the lines between two totally separate investigations like that is bad practice and brings into serious doubt the integrity of the government's authority, especially if the perp is innocent of the secret one.
> I wish I could see actual updates from people instead of being kept abreast as to what piece of third party content they've liked at some point in time, what third party content they're sharing, etc.

This nicely captures the problem. Facebook (and probably most social media systems - I'm looking at you LinkedIn) are primarily interested in keeping you up to date with Facebook via the medium that is your human relationships. So Facebook wants you to know what your friends did on Facebook today so that you might do that same Facebook thing. This increases Facebook interactions which in turn become more information to propagate to others on Facebook. In the limit there is no need for Facebook because all anyone is ever doing is Facebook.
You’re right. There are a lot of sources out there. It’s a ton of work for companies to build out their own pipelines and learn every new API. We want to save them from that burden so that they can focus on the analysis. We’ll be adding many more connections in the coming weeks and months, and also opening up the platform for cloud services to add themselves. Stay tuned!
If you're interested in this, the Cracked podcast discussed this article and related articles.

http://www.cracked.com/podcast/americas-secret-caste-system/
The techniques already exist[0] for some sophisticated trolling, though it may be hard to achieve in practice without direct access to the classifier being used.

[0] http://karpathy.github.io/2015/03/30/breaking-convnets/
Iceland has a very good record with human rights and properly functioning democratic representation.

Some of the Nordic states are trailing runners up.
Less than everybody else.
I don't really know anything about the cold performance of Teslas, but I agree with you.
Perhaps I'm an idiot, but it wasn't immediately clear to me that the examples were actually examples. They looked like images. I only discovered that they were interactive after I got frustrated that I couldn't find the 'examples' section. Here's the page I'm referring to: http://fezvrasta.github.io/popper.js/

Anway, looks like a great project :)
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Why? Tipping in the US is particularly bad because the culture is enshrined by the IRS which creates a category of labor which devolves into an exploitative system. It's also usually a one way street which creates a system of entitlement in the customer class.

But for Lyft: 1) because tips are in-app, they are tracked and the driver escapes the category (I had to explain this to service employees who were passengers insisting to tip in cash... I usually tip service industry in cash).

2) the entitlement factor is not there because the passenger driver churn is high and it's hard for drivers to remember who tips. Moreover quality ratings are a two way street because since drivers rate passengers, you're incentivise not to be a total entitled dick.
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