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> At a recent Cupertino city council meeting, some residents protested about a lack of funding for public projects, Chang said – even crumpling up meeting agendas and throwing them. “They ball up the paper and throw it, and they say ‘You’re making all the wrong decisions’,” Chang said. “In the meantime Apple is not willing to pay a dime. They’re making profit, and they should share the responsibility for our city, but they won’t. They abuse us.”

Is it just me, or does this Mr. Chang just sound incompetent?

His citizens are saying he's making the wrong decisions. He's walking onto Apple's property and being forced out. He's asking for special taxes against Apple without saying why Apple deserves these taxes.

How about Chang makes the right decisions that pleases his citizens? Has anyone actually been to a Town Hall meeting? People don't just crumple-up the agendas because your budget sucks. They crumple-up agendas because the meeting was a waste of everybody's time.

I think this Mayor can't run a Town Hall, doesn't have much support of the citizens, and his only "big idea" is to increase taxes against Apple (and maybe some moonshot projects no one gives a care about)

A REAL Mayor would have said something along the lines of "The highway leading to Apple Headquarters is full of potholes, and I don't have the budget to fix it!". Or maybe "Teachers deserve a higher salary in this town" (or something... connected to reality, you know?). This guy just seems jealous of Apple's cash.
>What's his logic for this special Tax on Apple

"You’re helping create the problems, so you have to help solve the problem" - Chang
When you stream music/buy from iTunes you have to deal with drm, latency, shitty software that can't easily be customized, stream drops, data charges, needing to be on the internet.

When you pirate music it's the same as searching spotify, except you click download instead of play and you get files that work forever on any device. Storage smaller than your fingernail fits a straight month worth of music for $20 and works just as well if you're in the mountains as when you're on the train to work.

It's a faaaaar nicer user experience.
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"Now that I have polarized you into my foil -insert Inigo Montoya quote-"
Could you use the Google Drive program and then sync that folder to your local machine?
That is a basic tenet of the computer career personality.

They've been rewarded for how smart they are their entire lives, so they think they can understand things completely by reading a few paragraphs about it. Even worse if they have one life experience that somehow totally justifies their view of an entire field that varies _dramatically_ from provider to provider.

It is the same reason every software person living around SF thinks they are economic geniuses because they got rich by being lucky.

The anecdote about a motorcyclist bringing up a medical error causing a fellow motorcyclist to die -- as if this somehow makes riding a motorcycle safer? What the actual fuck.

Spend a few days observing a large trauma ICU and they will rethink their story about motorcycles. People have no fucking idea.
Apple has killed off support for WebObjects
As I said, in some countries, you can't treat an on duty public/government "servant" like that.
> It's free.

Even that, by itself, is not one reason. Look at https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/free. Meanings [1-4,6] are very common reasons to pirate stuff. [5] is kinda minor, depending on how much money you have.
At most, he is assuming that there is no rational explanation in this particular case of mass slaughter. FWIW, I am going to assign that a high confidence score until I see actual evidence to the contrary.

Saying "maybe there's an explanation" for every case does not advance the discussion. Saying "maybe there's an explanation" for every datum that does not fit your prior assumptions pretty much rules out statistical thinking, even if you otherwise have the capability.
The latter sentence was the first empty thing that came to my mind, so any meaning is accidental. Even though it superficially means something, there's no "who, what, how" in that sentence: who should advocate for the dialogue, what that dialogue should consist of, or how it would help the people.
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Math isn't the only class that gives homework.

Should Spanish class-time be spent memorizing vocabulary and conjugations, or practicing communicating in the language?

Should History class-time be spent reading from the book so you know what happened, or discussing those topics and their implications?

Should English class-time be spent doing silent reading, or talking about the books/authors/time periods that you read about?
Maybe, but it is highly influenced by your self confidence in understanding complicated discourse, which is in turn often tied to your cultural and educational level. It would take little changes to those sentences to totally fool me while still being bs.

A biologist, a theoretical physicist and such could easily bs the crap out of me, unless I had reasons not to trust them in the first place.
Airlines are good at safety not because liability charges are astronomical, they are good at safety because of an enormous set of not too unreasonable regulations.

Liability is a very bad substitute for regulation when risks are comprised of high damage at low incidence. That's why you have speed limits instead of responsible self-determination and potentially rich surviving dependents.
Why MHealth Data Is Not Enough
Maybe if he described what these problems were, he's get my support.

But considering that he can't even get the support of his own citizens at Town Hall meetings, nor the support of his fellow council members, methinks he's simply incompetent.

And that the problems he describes are made up in his imagination. I can't imagine it to be too difficult to come up with a budget that says "We have to pay for X Million Dollars in the next year to fix the bridges and roads... or to upgrade our water pipes, or to deploy municipal gigabit-fiber. So here's a special +5% tax on all corporations in this Town"

And if the fellow citizens and council members think the plan is worth the tax, then they'll probably agree with him. On the other hand, if citizens are balling up his agendas and throwing them out during meetings... there's clearly a problem here. And it isn't with Apple. Its with the Mayor.
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Your idea is mostly right. Instead of a robot waiting in queue though you should receive the call with the information you already entered presented to the agent. Some companies do this.
It's no wonder that Apple is becoming increasingly pushy about updates on iOS. I've noticed in the last few months that the new pop-up options are to either "remind me later" (and it absolutely will) or "update now."

I think a huge part of it is trying to stay ahead of this security curve.

Exploits are going to continue to be found in older versions of iOS (and every other piece of software, for that matter). It's kind of disheartening to think that if the authorities just hold your phone long enough, they'll eventually have an exploit to unlock it with.
Yes, that is absolutely possible. In fact, it is the default option, you explicitly need to enable both "iCloud Photo Library" (which activates your photos being stored on iCloud) and "Optimize Mac Storage" (which deletes the full-resolution photos from your Mac).

This is exactly how it should be, and how apparently it is not for Apple Music. At least this is true for today, who knows whether what is optional today might become the only option tomorrow...
Former EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes Joins Uber
You can choose whether to backup converted photos or originals.
>burn time plugging things into (-b +- sqrt (b2-4ac)) / 2a

I swear to god, I had so much of that to do, I got tired of it and learned enough python in one night, at 15, to get the computer to do my homework for me.
>People love to feel smart and be part of an exclusive group so they quote Adams' simple analysis as amazing insight.

Well, if they haven't seen the same simple analysis elsewhere (much less any more advanced analysis), then they're right to consider it amazing insight.
Al Gore could probably have beaten GW Bush, but a bunch of people decided they'd rather be right than elect a president, and gave their votes to Nader. As for 2004, incumbency is powerful.
The Dropbox app has a camera roll auto-upload feature. It's reliable, full-resolution image file backup and works for iOS and Android.

iCloud Photos is the worst: Last time I tried to download all my iCloud Photos/Videos (~1000) from the website it turned out to be impossible: You can download a few, but after 200 or so you just get server errors. And it always chokes on videos, stopping before having finished downloading the full file. There is no bulk export option like with Google Takeout.

Now I hear that this is not a problem if you have the Photos app on you Mac (it syncs), but I don't have a Mac.
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That'd only happen if you ceded zoning regulations over to Apple though.
How is the Trump quote "threatening" or "sexist"?

The rest of the comment is a content-free ad-hominem. Adams might very well be a "genius weasel", but not describing this quote as non-threatening, if that's what's implied here.
I'm surprised that it's not the re-encoding of the victim's compositions that grab this headline.

Could I copyright a piece of unpublished music, then use the converted copy to show a case against Apple for copyright infringement ?
They use nacl cryptobox primitive.

This means that you are right. Alas, the decryption key (they symmetric key used to encrypt this particular message) is derived deterministically from the private key and nonce. The nonce they use is the hash of the chunk. Thus, the same chunk will always be encrypted with the same symmetric key.
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As an unschooler who went to school and did "homework" or any kind of "schoolwork" for the first time when I was 12, it took me about a month to catch up to my peers in terms of abilities to do the coursework, and about a year to catch up to my peers in resentment and disengagement.

Except I got to spend seven years hanging out with my brothers doing fun stuff and my friends had to spend it training to be slaves. There is no reason for the strange masochism that is mass schooling. It is not productive, does not produce smarter or more learned people.
What does 4 hours of email support mean?
What is a software architecture?(2006)
Didn't mean to imply that bullshit excludes lying, just that bullshit instead erodes the concept of truth in people's minds. Thankfully there are laws and records that are less easily eroded...
I can right click my Google Photos folder and download the whole thing as a zip, just tested it and it works fine.
OneDrive is horrible for backup because it doesn't keep any history of your files. Get a Ransomware on your computer, then watch in horror how your files are gone and how totally useless OneDrive can be.

This is why I prefer Dropbox. They keep 30-days worth of history so you can revert any file changes during that period. And I prefer to pay extra for the Extended History add-on, giving me 1 year worth of history. They aren't alone in doing this. SpiderOak also keeps the history of all changes from what I understand and they also do encryption. And Google Drive keeps history for 30 days, but they don't have an add-on. Note though that Google Photos can be downloaded by means of Google Drive ;-)

I did try OneDrive with a trial Office365 subscription, but I think at this point OneDrive is the worst option out of the mainstream ones. Besides the lack of version history, it also lacks a Linux client. One thing I do is to have a home machine that I keep turned on for having an extra backup, being synchronized with Dropbox. It also serves as a media box, but it's a Linux box, because Linux is the best option for servers, including home ones.

And it's not as cost effective as you'd think. If you look at Office alternatives and considering the OneDrive features you get, it's quite overpriced.
But it's extremely rare for a presidential candidate to ever make a truly profound statement.

One exception is Mike Gravel's performance art piece [1], and his after-the-fact explanation of it that he gave later [2].

"I figured out that this is a metaphor. That one is focusing on one life. And then you turn around, throw a rock. That creates ripples. And then you go off to your demise. And lo and behold, the drop in the water becomes our logo."

[1] Mike Gravel - Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8

[2] Mike Gravel Explains The Rock Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX_zu3EHJAY
In fact, passengers are "all dead" in far fewer plane accidents than people tend to think (even if there are fatalities or injuries).

However, it looks like families are more eager to sue than actual victims...
This sounds like something Paul Graham would say. It's only missing the words "it turns out that".
Radiohead's Burn the Witch may be critique of refugee crisis, says animator
Show HN: A Chrome extension to show GitHub projects activity
> paying gets you less, rarely more.

I think you are generalizing "paying" to "subscribing to a streaming service" here, which I don't think is entirely fair.

You can still pay for your music the old-fashioned way, by buying songs on Amazon MP3, iTunes, etc., which will yield you DRM-free, plain MP3 / AAC files that you can use where and how you want to (unless, apparently, you entrust them to iTunes and enable iTunes Music...).

And while the book industry unfortunately hasn't quite followed the same path, there are still many great sources for books around that also provide you with DRM-free, high quality files (e.g. OReilly, Packt, lots of smaller publishers).
I was frustrated that there's no way to see how active a GitHub project is from its main page, so I decided to scratch my own itch!

This way you don't need to go through Graphs -> Commits every time to see what's going on.

Source (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/MasterScrat/GithubActivityChecker
This is funny and all but I fear their accepting articles like this damages the cause for PLoS long term. OA journals already have enough trouble with reputation and prestige, which is the main reason Elsevier et al are still in business, and articles like this (and there are too many examples IMO) don't really help.
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But it didn't sound any easier than calling the pizza shop, which is something I hated doing before the internet solved that problem for me. The unpleasant experience was caused by the cognitive load of having an unpredictable real-time interaction with something that wasn't laid out in front of me, not by the fact that the thing I was conversing with was human
When I was failing classes for not doing homework, I was enjoying the company of other nerds from all over the world on IRC and learning to code by writing (awful) mIRC scripts instead. Pretty sure there's room for some middle ground in there. ;)
Apple iPhone 7 can Beat Samsung Galaxy S7, Only if it follows this
In the UK we have the concept of "Section 106" payments which allow a development through planning by the developer paying the local government some amount of money to redress the cost of dealing with congestion, public relam, affordable housing, etc. For large skyscraper developments in London, this can be many many millions of pounds.

Does something similar exist in CA?
I agree with the article but no mobile app could overtake a web application. Mobile app is just a trend and users would prefer to use a mobile search engine via Google.
Wait. I assume even OneDrive doesn't have free unlimited storage right? After a certain limit, you've to pay. Similarly, if you pay, you can store all the photos in their original size (not the smaller max 16MP versions of them - which are free & unlimited) in Google Photos as well, and download when you want.

I store my photographs in external Hard Disk as well as Google Photos - because of the amazing search and categorization features built into it.
This is not a study of political leanings of people. It's a study of the correlation between a characteristic of a person and their political leaning.

If you take 200 college undergraduates, let's say 80% of them are lefties. That means you will have 160 lefties and 40 righties. Then of the 160 lefties 50 believe in BS (31%) and of the 40 righties 16 (40%) believe in BS, you can take those numbers to your statistician and ask him whether that spread is significant.

Just the idea that the correlation is there for these college students, where you might not expect it would be there for college students is a hint that maybe this could hold up for the population in general. At the least it could warrant for a larger investigation.
Yes, Mexico is in NAFTA. The agreement needed much public consultation when first proposed, partly because Canadians wanted legal assurances they would be allowed (by the U.S.) to keep their culture, but when Mexico was added it pretty much few under the radar.

I think other nations have been added as a "done deal" without advance public notice.
If he'd been a police officer investigating a crime, or a fire marshall, that wouldn't fly. Doing it to the mayor is just rude.
(From near the end of the article) They (Apple) are already funding 18% of the city. I would argue that's dangerously undiversified already, and they want to increase the percentage?

How much of the city services do they use? How much of the city expenses is their "fair" share?
We talk too much about people inequality but not about business inequality and the power to lobby and use loopholes. A similar problem happen in the startup world when well funded companies risk lifetime value of a customer against the total acquisition cost. This attitude predates startups or established businesses that can't afford this "game".
How Financial firms are driving results using Big Data?
I'm not sure how it works. Many private parking garages here are relatively automated, though——you pull your car into an elevator, get out, walk outside, type in a code, the doors close, and your car disappears up the lift until you need it again. I'm certain that they will eventually work out a system for charging them all, but today the adoption of EV cars is probably not sufficient to warrant it. People are generally pretty ridiculously considerate of others here, so I can see them scheduling charging time and sticking to it.
And no, Google is not doing something similar.
Yes, kidding. Goldwater was well outside the Republican mainstream in what was still then its base. White blue collar workers still leaned reliably Democratic. Johnson had the good will of a country still mourning Kennedy.
My phone has very limited local storage, so I can't keep photos on it. Fortunately, ownCloud implements this "good idea" basically right. I have "instant upload on WiFi" turned on for photos and videos. It uploads them to my ownCloud server, and then moves them from the system photos directory to its own directory if successful. It doesn't delete them from there, but I know that if something's in the ownCloud directory on my phone, it's backed up and available online, so I can clear it out periodically.
High-Severity OpenSSL Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Decrypt HTTPS Traffic
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Well, it does not really depend if you doing support by mail or phone, you still spend developer time. For most of the cases 4 hours is more then enough, but for example if you app require complex middleware, and you want me to help write it, it may take longer then 4 hours. If so I can provide additional support on hourly basis.
"I think this means building something on the internet, but not using AOL"
Given infinite time, the latter.
A much better paper came out last year that used tweets from Deepak Chopra and quotes from a random "new age wisdom" generator.

PDF: http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf

And there's some followups...

Dalton 2016 - http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923ac/jdm15923ac.pdf

Reply from Pennycook et al. - http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923ac/jdm15923acr.pdf
In what way is that sexist?

Sexist would be to say that she's a bad candidate BECAUSE she's a woman. What he said is that she's using being a woman to win over votes while not having much else to offer, policy wise -- which he could legitimately believe.

FWIW, I believe that the woman card is indeed something Clinton played. Not the first to use such tactics either: Obama played the race card. And I'm not saying these things as in any way republican. I'm a foreigner, and for me even Sanders or Kucinich look right wingers. Clinton (Bill) played the "40-something youthful" card, Bush played the "more patriotic but still plain folk like ya all" card, etc. And Trump has his own "mad-dog patriot tells them like they is" card.

>I had a haunch when I replied to your first comment. Shame on me for responding.

Shame indeed, but not for responding to the parent, but for belittling them and going for a personal attack.
I’m Sorry
More likely https://www.softwarecollections.org/
> Spotify - doesn't allow you to buy premium [..] if you have a non-US credit card

Huh? I assuredly have spotify premium on an Australian credit card, and I know people with it in other countries too. Spotify isn't even a US company.
> Only to the user they got the audio themselves.

How do you know that?

And it is irrelevant either way. That you are the sole owner of the rights of a piece of music does not grant Apple an automatic license to distribute it "just to you".
The home page of http://www.drcraigwright.net/ currently just displays this image. Linked straight to it so that it wouldn't get flagged as a duplicate submission.

edit: Here's a mirror of the image, in case it comes down: http://i.imgur.com/7lhU0mr.jpg

And here's the OCR'd text:
I'm Sorry.

I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me. But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot.

When the rumors began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations were proven false, new allegations have already begun. I know now that I am not strong enough for this.

I know that this weakness will cause great damage to those that have supported me, and particularly to Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. I can only hope that their honour and credibility is not irreparably tainted by my actions. They were not deceived, but I know that the world will never believe that now. I can only say I'm sorry.

And goodbye.
"It is not productive, does not produce smarter or more learned people."

I would like to disagree, but I don't have anything to back up my claim that mass schooling makes people smarter or more learned.

Like you, I just have anecdotes.

But one thing is for sure. I would never have gotten to where I am today. If I hadn't learned english at school. Having lived in two countries, neither of which had english as a native language, I would unlikely have learned english unless it had been taught at school
I read the whole thing and all I hear is waaaahhh I don't keep proper backups of data I care about, nor do I learn about the service functions before signing up... This is ABSOLUTELY NOT the way it works, it's not a shady practice, I use it daily and have lost nothing. Sorry you ran into a bug but the is just Stupid. I would be shocked if the phone agent he spoke to is a real person.
Apple has yet to provide me with food stamps or public housing, both of which saved me when I was a refugee. I can check with my spouse but I'm pretty sure the public hospital she works at was not an apple product.

The rest is just ridiculous. If you want an effective government, you have to take privatization out of it, not rely on it as we have.