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I agree. One commentor suggested that they could have voluntarily removed it for some other unrelated reason, but then they would have no reason to not say exactly that - which they aren't. Seems to leave only one reason why they did.
And Android, all of the ad stack, analytics (it gives google a lot of data), chrome, maps, docs, drive (in some form), calendar, app engine, hangouts (part of gmail). There are tons of products that are both successful, and are tied to core things google wants to be good at.
My understanding is that what happens is that the money is civil-forfeitured immediately after arrest in a separate proceeding from, in your example, the alleged drug dealer being charged.

That said, the fact is that your example's archetype accounts for a vanishingly small amount of civil forfeitures.
While this was going on, there was another smaller methane gas leak just north of Porter Ranch.

Whats interesting about this one, is the intentional effort to conceal it.

An airplane pilot using an infrared camera to record methane levels of the main leak noticed the second leak. Employees of The Termo Company snaked a 2.5-inch pipe away from oil pumping equipment to hide its opening under a tree.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/03/18/58697/during-porter-ranc...
Not that it would ever happen, but would love to tune into cspan for this
I'm not sure that's the case. In the greater Seattle area, roads have deteriorated to the point where it can be difficult to spot road markings even as an experience driver, and it's not unheard of for the markings to be completely worn away. I'm not sure about the rest of the country, but roads are painfully underfunded here.
Driving in LA I often have trouble finding the lane. Either there are no markings or there are several markings of different fadedness. In rain it's even worse. You just take your best guess :-)
For those who aren't familiar, a NSL Canary is like a Warrant Canary, but for National Security Letters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Australia just outlawed warrant canaries. Scary times.
From reading the introduction, it sounds like the author is covering similar ground as the book The Master Algorithm[1] by Pedro Domingos[2]. If you find this interesting, you may find his book interesting as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Algorithm

[2]: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/
I have noticed a few of these things, like sections, or the whole left pane. But it was still the best product my team tried out. What examples are you talking about particularly?
Here is a good explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_y...
>Why not just use Linux?

I would LOVE to ditch OS X and run Linux on it, only problem is NO DISTRO supports latest hardware. There are always things that don't work and it gets tiring.

I tried to run Ubuntu on my old Dell Laptop... there would always be some issues related to graphics card, wifi or some shit, overheating, battery drain... or something not working. At the end, had to go for Windows with Ubuntu on vagrant boxes and Desktop Ubuntu in Virtualbox.

Then on my new Macbook Pro, I wanted to run Ubuntu 14.04... but of course, so many things don't work... like right clicking on the touch pad, WiFi or such simplest of features you'd expect to be supported in such widely available and pretty standard hardware... but NOPE. So, it's vagrant and Virtualbox running mostly Ubuntu on OS X again. I am actually considering installing Windows and running Linux on a VM inside it.
Edinburgh University's AI dept's legendary founder Donald Michie ( & close wartime friend of Turing) built a computer out of matchboxes that learns to play Tic Tac Toe.

http://makezine.com/2009/11/02/mechanical-tic-tac-toe-comput...

Michie is arguably the grandfather of reinforcement learning.
Really wishing you were correct. :/

MS have been pushing Win10 onto Win7/8(.1) end users for what seems like a few months now, continually escalating how forceful they're being.

eg recent IT media about it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/17/microsoft_windows_10_upgrade_gwx_vs_humanity/

As you mention, it seems like straight out PR suicide.

Personally, it would be useful to know what their end game is justifying all of this bad karma. It'd have to be fantastic. Either that, or someone inside MS is seriously out of control. :(
I see a lot of scammy/Grey UI patterns here which remind me a lot of the early successful design patterns I saw in India in 2010-14.

In that situation, after "growth hacking" their way via scam UI and associated revenue in VAS services, carriers had to endure massive losses when a backlash forced government regulation.

I feel like the same thing is likely here, and a massive culling of the scammiest mobile UI trends will occur.
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Thanks for the update!
I second Python!
Unstoppable Gas Leaks in Texas Even Worse than California’s, Media Silent:
http://theantimedia.org/unstoppable-gas-leaks-texas-even-wor...
Thanks Mtinie. The site's definitely very much still a WIP, and agreed the slideshow style override of normal scrolling behavior is likely gonna have to go. Any other thoughts on the content/core premise?
The IPCC AR5 admits it--and then tries to argue that it doesn't matter, because their conclusions aren't based on the models, they're based on "expert judgment" or something like that.
So I loaded up Google Maps to get a visual of the neighborhood, and found that someone has conveniently tagged the leak location as a "tourist attraction".

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2015+Methane+gas+leak,+Cal...

The Walmart shopping center is here:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walmart+Supercenter,+19821...
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From http://introvertspring.com/thing-introverts-do-that-piss-off...

> I don’t think constantly adapting our behavior to please extroverts is the answer. Helping people understand introversion is a far better approach.

And by "helping to understand introversion" I would suggest to first check your own MBTI personality type and - if possible - let your social partners do the test as well. But as I know Extraverts, they don't give a shit about "deeper" stuff. So the interaction stays superficial and I just stopped caring how they interpret my behaviour.

You can make the test here: https://www.16personalities.com
Druid is quickly becoming the leading open source solution for building highly scalable analytics. We evaluated it for getstream.io. Unfortunately the setup and maintenance is still very labour intensive. For startups that's a concern. Many larger companies we spoke to were extremely happy about running Druid in production though.
"Shabby roadways"? If there was ever a case of "first world problems", this is it.

Frankly, US roadways are really good. I was amazed by the amount of signage present, not to mention the pavement itself.

Yes there are imperfections. But when was the last time you tore apart your car's axle due to inability to avoid the 20th gaping hole you ran across in just one way of your commute?

You want shabby roads? Go to third world countries. That's the real test for self-driving cars.
I get what they were trying to do but this isn't an issue with Webkit/browsers. It's simply an iOS process (swcd) responsible for the deep-linking running out of memory processing a bad huge file stored on the website.
Thanks fndjdg. Fully aware and agreed. Lots of mobile design & debugging to do. Any thoughts on the core premise?
That's what typeclasses are for.
I'm sure Clinton pushed to have this happen ASAP. She can't have this hanging over her when she gets to the general election.
Stick it on a keyserver, and then ask gpg to fetch it from that keyserver with the full fingerprint. Assuming that your instructions that include the fingerprint are secure (which they have to be, else the instructions could root your box anyway), then that should be reasonable.

This does assume that gpg verifies that the key retrieved matches the ID requested, which I assume it does. Otherwise that'd be quite a serious bug.
> Work on your reading comprehension.

Please don't be personally rude in HN comments, even when someone else is breaking the rules and being provocative. That just makes the thread still worse.
Does this include Moonlight project ?

I would love to try to hack on that to try to get a cross platform GUI toolkit that's similar to WPF.

Silverlight was a great peace of tech with a ton of stuff developed for it (widgets, testing tools, libraries, etc.) having that as a cross platform GUI framework that works on windows/linux/mac and ios/android/wp would be amazing and is doable - for simplicity you could strip out the codec parts, DRM and stuff like that, implement rendering on top of OpenGL ES and do platform specific input handling.

LGPL kind of makes phones a no-go so I would like to see if it's also covered in this switch before spending time on it.
Atlassian are the right fit there but I doubt Jetbrains want to sell. They don't get to where they are hoping for an exit.
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Yeah, it's that time of the year again. Called bull from the headline.
I = 22%, N = 88%, F = 12%, J = 33%

I am attempting to inform via my blog post; I am not changing me just taking responsability for me.

And thank you for responding!
Here's a tweet I sent to the City of San Carlos about 4 weeks ago. Fortunately they've since remedied it. This is Holly (Redwood Shores Parkway) looking west towards an overpass over 101.

If it's not clear, 2 lanes come over the overpass towards where I shot the photo from. An offramp from 101 North terminates where the white pickup is.

This has always been a terrible merge. 2 lanes come across the freeway, and the offramp is a new 'added' lane, but the striping/bott's dotts between the #1 and #2 lane coming down from the overpass are virtually nonexistent. There are cracks in the road (the dark marks) where the lane markings should be.

It was always a big risk because cars in the right lane coming over the overpass used to just drift over into the offramp's new lane, and half the cars coming down the offramp didn't know they had a new lane, so they'd just STOP at the end of the ramp.

THEN the City, in its infinite wisdom, decided to fix none of these problems, but instead add a striped bike lane that cuts across the offramp. Absent lane markings to follow, drivers in the right lane would just follow the dashed bike lane and force themselves into the offramp's new lane. I witnessed at least 5 near collisions in the several minutes I was there taking photos.

They've since SOMEWHAT improved the markings between #1 and #2 lanes, but the bike lane markings are much more substantial and people still tend to follow them. Also, it still tends to confuse people using the offramp.

But this is an endemic problem; I bike commute and often a bike lane switches sides of a car lane in the middle of an intersection. It's the traffic version of "Step 1: right lane. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!" Or "good luck, hope you come out on the other side of the intersection alive.

https://twitter.com/reidconti/status/705866795417075712
Better link with context: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_y...

edit: There appears to be a bug in the reddit context code, here's the original root comment that sparked the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_y...
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How the canary looked like in the 2014 report:

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2014#wiki_national_...

The 2015 report:

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2015
Interesting, but sadly most of us cannot afford to get on the free running sleep schedule this article advocates. However, I really agree with the practice of not trying to go to sleep until you know you'll be able to knock out within a few minutes.

Either way, you're not going to be getting your "scheduled" sleep so might as well spend the time on something other than lying around agonizing about it. And, the right kind of relaxing activity actually helps me get to sleep sooner than I otherwise would have.
How does this compare with eucalyptus, the open source AWS clone: https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus ?
That's a couple of really good questions. Another reason I feel bad complaining at all.
Yes, please stop trying to drive commerce. Let's just all sit in our mother's basement and code away on products that no one will ever hear about.

If you build it, they will come.
There are kinds of corruption and abuse. I believe that he's looking to gauge which kind happened here.

For example, if you have past convictions for drug possession and the corruption in this case was that the officer saw you, knew your history, just assumed you were guilty and refused to back down when he realized that you were clean. Alternately, you were driving along and (From your account name, I'm going to assume that you're brown) he sees a brown guy driving through a "bad area" and decides to make a bust, regardless of your guilt or innocence.

Both are misconduct. Both are wrong but I believe that the other poster was just trying to get a mental image.
> roads have deteriorated to the point where it can be difficult to spot road markings even as an experience driver

Yes, but apparently self-driving systems are doing a worse job than humans. But this only means the AI isn't quite there yet. I say AI, not sensors, because their vision is probably already better than human's.
more then double that, probably should have mentioned that haha
“Reddit had a national security warrant canary in 2015. It's gone now”
As an alternative, what about moving away from representative democracy (i.e. where you periodically elect someone to make decisions for you by proxy), to a system where you can optionally choose to cast your own vote for particular issues. If we had more lightweight mechanisms for performing trustworthy elections then maybe this would be feasible. I imagine by default though most people wouldn't be bothered to put in the effort to make knowledgeable decisions, and hence why you want to still have representatives.
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When clouds roll in, the solar panels still generate power, just less of it. A lot of things in the house could be automatically turned off during such brownouts - the refrigerator, the car charger, the HVAC, etc. - until the cloud passes.
It's a pity they can only use such a canary once.
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Unfortunately right now the only way to do WebVR is Firefox Nightly with about:config changes[1] or a special build of Chromium[1]. Hopefully this does support better HMDs once those are shipping, but if you do want to try WebVR now, there are a bunch of three.js demos that have already been ported over (for various values of "ported").

[1] http://mozvr.com/

[2] https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzudLt22BqGRbW9WTHMt...
Reddit's National Security Letter canary is activated
I like the section from Moxie in that article. Did anyone check if this is lawful to begin with? I mean, if you can't tell that you were asked for private data, can you 'tell' by now saying that you weren't asked for private data?

Just to be safe: Any NSL is crap. Braindead. I'm not trying to support that BS. This is among the worst possible ideas a government can come up with and belongs in the realm of (referring to recent posts) Turkey at the moment.

But IF they exist for some reason, is a canary really working? Isn't this just another 'The government cannot crack my password' argument, missing the lead pipe way..?
.NET proper has been OSS for a year and a half now (in the form of .NET Core), and .NET Micro Framework, which was specifically created to target resource-constrained devices, has been available under Apache 2.0 since 2009. Since parts of Mono have been available under MIT all along, even if Unity had some reason to favor Mono over the others, then they could have replaced the GPL/LGPL bits on their own.

It's likely that Unity hasn't done any of these things because they need support. This might help, but I'd be unsurprised if the Unity situation stayed the same as it has been for the last few years.
It's not about a crummy e-mail address, it's about privacy, trust and freedom, things which you get by default with libre software tools and things which Microsoft has not proven that they can deliver.

And that software is not really free, it comes with a nice lock-in in the form of .NET and C#, two technologies under Microsoft's control.
After MS has a track record of at least ten years of doing this open source stuff they will get a break.

This thread is proof that for many getting stuff for free is enough to forget a long corporate history and throw their caution to the wind.
I'm practically in the exact same boat as you and also using Ionic. The only thing I can think of to make me consider migrating is performance. Cordova/Ionic can be slow to handle complicated screens, animations and transitions.

Getting native performance would be a big differentiator. Hopefully, Ionic/Angular 2.0 will go a long way to improving performance.
Not to mention that if this catches on those packaged vegetables would be the easiest thing to replicate.
> The claims you promote are without any scientific background, here's why

None of this addresses the actual issues I was raising.

> The concentration of 500 ppm now would make all ice on Earth disappear

According to the hypothesis given in the paper you link to. But it's a hypothesis, not a fact. One obvious omission in the paper is treatment of other forcings besides CO2 and solar. Also, all of the data is proxy data, and the solar forcing is not even based on data but on an assumed linear rate of increase in the solar constant.
Clint Curtis testified before congress that he did just this.

It remains an unproven allegation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKpvTBmdCI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Curtis
Google around for "blue light and sleep". Why apps like f.lux exist.
Is this the first warrant canary that we have a reasonably high degree of certainty was actually tripped? I remember a couple of other warrant canary cases that could be more parsimoniously attributed to user error but none this clearcut.

Any other warrant canaries trip before?
> Sports leagues are zero-sum games.
Sorry you're going to have to explain this. Otherwise I don't really know what this means. If Golden State "gains" a Curry, who "loses" a Curry here? When teams trade a player due to money factors rather than the player's skill factors, do they "lose" or "gain" against the other team?

The draft is a huge crapshoot IMO and no one has been able to consistently pick out winners year over year. And no one really knows for certain who will actually do well in the NBA until they actually step on the floor.

To say the Warriors knew anything about how Curry would mature would be false. Also considering the narrative for Curry at the time (undersized, can't handle the NBA's size, not really a point guard), I would say Curry was a "gamble" pick.
Are these fossils the origin of the unicorn myth? None of the articles I've stumbled across have an image of the actual fossil, I'm curious how similar it is to a horse skull. They were surely extinct well before the mythology, but their bones were around. The unicorn myth comes from the Indus Valley, which isn't too far away, relatively speaking.

Reminds me of the ancient Greeks turning elephant skulls on Crete into the cyclops.
AMEX requires 3 direct deposits of $500 or more.

Simple does not seem to have that condition.
I am an idiot. I believed it until the reveal. I even forwarded it to a friend before I finished reading.
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I think Discover and AmEx give the same cashback with Android Pay now. Chase is not on Android Pay yet.
Why is it free ? How do you pay the servers ?

>If your traffic is huge, you need your own account in CloudFront or somewhere else. My service is for small projects.

Can you define exactly what small is ?
It depends how many models but usually 1 app models == 1 file (taking the app structure from django) unless they are expected to grow.

For example you have a comment app that could contain several models: Comment, Thread, Report, etc those can be in the same file. To continue on the django example, I would personally prefer having a models folder in the comments app and one file per model as some can get really big.

I also do 1 file / model in Flask, minus some specific cases where it just makes sense to have them in the same file
This seems like one of those better to ask for forgiveness than permission kind of things. What NSLs thrive on the most is lack of attention. Anything that brings more high profile is something the NSA would prefer to avoid, lest case law gets more clarified around them.
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If you follow the source there's a section stating that according to EFF having a warrant canary should not be a problem:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/issues/...

What EFF wrote says more to me than Moxie saying 'every lawyer I've spoken to'. Which lawyers? In what context? What was said?
> "but why do all of these "back to nature food" things seem, upon closer inspection, to factor down being a way for rich people to once again give mother earth another good poke in the eye with a sharp, plastic, non-degradable stick?"

I had a similar impression when reading this article. It sounded dystopian to me -- a way to extract money from people with little sense, while not providing much benefit, and offsetting whatever benefit is provided with an oddly high-waste product. I'm sure there are people who see this as a positive value proposition, but it seems to me that it's worse than every alternative -- less convenient and more expensive than pre-bottled juice (even the probiotic stuff that tastes like yard waste), considerably more wasteful than frozen concentrate, lower-quality output than throwing veggies from your local stand into a blender. "Chi" and "life force" are poor substitutes.
I wonder if people who are into juicing really want to have vegetables cut way in advance as they're less nutritious that way. It's nice though that they show the farms the vegetables come from. But anyway I think smoothies are healthier.
Should Logger members of a class be declared as static?
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