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>Their defenses aren't free to them either, you know, so there has got to be some kind of business reason for cloudflare to spend the money on them.

The business reason exists, the point is, to think about what the reasoning behind it was, and whether it is valid. For e.g. it could be for pure marketing reasons, or the result of not understanding the consequences, or because they were copying some other business' decision, or because they got the wrong advice from a security consultant, or about a million other explanations as to how/why businesses make decisions - other than some ideal that all business decisions are the result of pure rational thought.

Oil changes are not free, and yet people continue to think they need to do them every 3000 miles.
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In England the government say (when they want to expand laws to make it easier for them to get metadata) that it doesn't contain any content, it's just about who you call or who calls you and for how long. They never say that individuals cannot be identified from this - information about identified individuals is the point of gathering the data.

So they seem clear about the difference between content and meta, and that metadata will identify people.

They're less clear about the further de-anonymisation aspects of "just" metadata, and it's hard to know if that's because they don't know or don't care.
Well, to be fair the UK is more like the 51st state than part of the EU.
Might be my lack of knowledge in the subject, but I've never heard of electing judges. Isn't it just a study and a background check or so, at least in western Europe?
Same people involved in both Useless Press and the hackathon
Seems interesting! I really enjoyed reading a previous article about NTM's. Looking forward to future technical articles! Especially one about Homomorphic Encryption.
I am reminded of an interesting observation by the mathematician Terence Tao about how our anonymity on the Internet and in a connected world is so fragile [1]. Basically, because there are only 3 billion internet users, every person can be uniquely identified by a 31 bit number. The uncovering of each bit gets one closer to the identity of the person. Seen in this light, one would expect metadata to uncover quite a few of the 31 bits!

[1] https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27/posts/8vmpA9fgRMq?iem=...
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That's the thing, the government and private companies already have access to your location data so it should be a no-brainer to extend that access to emergency response - a use of location data that would actually benefit the owner of the data, unlike gov't and private use of location data, which has a high benefit for gov't/private sector and marginal if any benefit for the data owner.
Though I haven't found a way to change the Google search bar default app. There's a menu button "Open in Firefox" after you follow a link, but in Android M you'd get Firefox already by default.

Also can't replace the Google bar with Firefox bar. Well I could change the launcher I suppose, but a bit inconvenient still.
I think a lower hanging fruit would be to push for the adoption of Rust, Ada, or similar languages that close or mitigate all too common errors.
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The viral Australian "Dumb Ways to Die" video from a couple of years back by Metro Trains Melbourne included a snippet about "doing your own electrical work" which seemed rather incongruous to me as a fairly typical American with a house who doesn't think twice about swapping light switches and such. (Especially given the popular image of self-reliant Australians and all that--however atypical sheep and cattle stations may be of the average resident.)

When I commented about this previously though, I was told it reflected strong union etc. rules in Australia.

In practice, in the US, lots of people do some amount of their home repairs including electrical. I'm sure, in many cases, that work is theoretically supposed to be done by a licensed electrician, plumber, etc.
Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules
Zombie crypto still rules smart grids: OSGP vendors need to kill RC4
> In a condo building though, I don't know how you can get around an HOA.

Condos pretty much have to have an association to manage them. You typically own the interior of the unit. The association owns the exterior and the land.
> Or let's do it like a bunch of other countries: children have the reaponsability of taking good care of the books and pass them to the next generation at the end of their class. It's a great way of teaching respect for the public good.

This already happens in most primary schools because buying new copies every year is prohibitively expensive.
The good thing about any narrative, it resonates with different people on different levels.

The blog post is in deed titled "10,000 times faster Swift".
I though it will be a catchy title even though 6 seconds to 0.35 ms is not factor of 10,000.

I thought about renaming the title to 500 times faster Swift, which would be rathe more accurate insight of current findings, but than what the hack. It's a blog post. I didn't published a scientific paper. I just reflected on my resent work.

The main points of the Blog posts wehere anyways about how it is possible to make low level optimisations to make Swift programs faster. And as a matter of fact the Loop-invariant code motion was a valid technique to get the same result. Result being sum of payload content. The compiler was smarter than me. It gave me the same result doing 250times less work. I find it impressive.

I must be honest I am not fluent in assembly this is why I could not figure it out by myself.

Was I suspicious? Absolutely!!!
But the facts were in my face.

Shouldn't I publish an article, where I am not sure why I got what I got?
If I wouldn't publish the article, I would not figured out the truth and wouldn't learned form this experience.

And after all, this post is about performance pitfalls in Swift language. The comparison with C was almost accidental. I would compare it with C++ if I would have a Windows machine, as the benchmark for C++ project has Windows specific code. I also consulted with the author of flatcc, who is much more relaxed about my blog post than you are :)

This blog post is about learning something. I learned something before I wrote this post I shared it and now I learned even more.

You should try it yourself.

Maybe not as satisfying as criticising, but it also has it's moments.
Ive been running the underlying nonprofit (infino.me) for about 3 years with this ambition to study gene-exercise-nutrition interactions, with very little interest in making any money at it. But this thought of having a paid service for people who don't want to go through the asspain of logging .... this does have me intrigued. Everyone tells me they want an effortless meal logging app ... and photo snaps might be the closest we can get short of having something like google glass persistently monitor intake.
> It's great if you are a white person

I'm not white

> To declare the city or an area wholly on the up-and-up or "largely positive" is certainly a sheltered perspective though.

Ironically, your perspective strikes me as a bit sheltered. Have you ever lived in or spent any time around a highrise project? Anywhere? They fucking suck, are incredibly difficult to police & govern, and almost invariably become hotbeds of shit. Tearing them down and distributing its residents to saner public housing is most definitely defensible as compared to just letting a bad situation fester uncontrollably.
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"Courts, generally, aren't like computers, where a little technicality will override common sense completely in a literalistic following of instructions."

True, and in rare cases where something like that does happen, it's probably going to be a lot more amenable to sensational reporting, so more likely to be widely reported.
Because we have the 5th amendment.

nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself

As I understand it, Miranda established that the 5th amendment applies to all interactions with law enforcement, not just answering questions in court. So they can search the hard drive all they want, but the constitution protects us from being required to disclose what's in our heads which, in this case, should include the password.
If someone breaks Ethereum most of the money is destroyed. Once people realize that it's happened no one will trade anything for ether.
I think haircuts are a buyer beware situation.

I trust the average person to give safe haircuts 100/100 times.

If the hairdresser is noticeably disturbed or drugged, I'll be moving on. I can leave at any point in the process if I feel I am in danger.

Out of curiosity, I searched for haircut related deaths and they were all customers killing the hairdresser because they were upset about how they looked. Based on the actual danger, I would suggest licensing someone to receive a haircut may be the more effective method of increasing haircut safety.
> I assume that includes software engineers who approve software that has to be approved by regulators.

Not that I know of.
They control 5 billion. So 20 million is a lot but in those terms, a small misstep.
Not only do some states have elections, but they have partisan elections, which is just obviously a dumb idea. I have no idea how it works in other countries, but in most US states judges are either elected by the legislature or appointed by the governor.
Yep. The WHATWG recommends just using the term URL instead of URI.

> Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. In practice a single algorithm is used for both so keeping them distinct is not helping anyone. URL also easily wins the search result popularity contest.

https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#goals
From personal experience in my youth, I can definitely say that psychedelics (mushrooms in particular) can help you think in different ways that make your problems seem trivial and imminently solvable. Those changed patterns of thought seem like a revelation at the time -- like the clouds opened and an answer came down from the sky. So I'm not at all surprised with this.

That said, this study had only 12 participants with no control group -- so it's hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. But as a canary study, it says that there might be something here, so further, more rigorous studies are warranted.
> High speed rail, such as Eurostar, would be around 10,000 passengers/hour.

How is that remotely true? There is one Eurostar approximately every 30 minutes (looking at the departures from London [0], it seems that there are 32 Eurostar leaving London every day), and I seriously doubt one train can carry 5000 passengers (I would say about 500 passengers), so your approximation is completely off (even taking into account the fact that Eurostar can go from London, Paris and Brussels) and 1500 passengers/hour is comparable to the number of passengers the Eurostar carries in an hour.

[0] http://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/travel-information/service-inf...
Who'd have though that the first vendor to build in support for ES6 modules was going to be Microsoft?

Of course it will be at least 10 years before people can safely require Edge and another 5 years before that version of Edge current enough to support modules.

Remember: IE11 will be supported with Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 until at least 2020 and the enterprise version of Windows 10 never gets feature updates and thus never an updated Edge.
It also doesn't matter on all other architectures. The slow path is dominated by OS operations like yielding, which already execute the strongest barriers possible.
Bitcoin-ransoming Romney tax 'hacker' faces 25 years inside
The Post Office Almost Delivered Your First E-Mail
You know, its funny. being a former fat guy, Im not entirely familiar with all of my vegetables. I took this app to a farmers market recently and it was actually helping me identify a few things ...

Had never seen a beet before un-cut. Ashamed of my ignorance ;)
But what about an ABET-accredited Computer Science degree? Does that make me a Develogineer?
Never fear, the Daily Mail will surely make a call to oust the Monarchy on this basis..

You'd think ICANN would have a .monarchy TLD by now

mailto:liz@british.monarchy
You don't have to be arrogant to feel superior to this bug. There's no way that this is some inadvertent emergent effect of complex mechanisms reacting to each other. Somebody wrote code that in some context searches username strings for the substring "user." Even worse, under many circumstances when it finds one, it just shits itself probably looking to check that user against something it can't find, then looks for again, but can't find, then looks for again...

The fact that it's obsessing you to figure out what kind of thought process could originate code that produces an interaction that expresses itself in this way IMO means that you'll probably never write code like this. Magic words, magic numbers...
A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent and created a pricing model
It isn't sponsored content. I posted it here not to promote Textbroker but because some of the ideas generalize. There are plenty of freelancers here.

FYI: Downvoting applies to comments only, not to posts.
That was no bug...
i'm sure the cost for trying (bit of cash) is greatly outweighed by the benefits of successfully being awarded the patent
I remember buying that special for $5, and it was by far the easiest thing I have bought on the internet. It probably did help that his name was already a household brand in the comedy world.
Independent claim #1 does not mention neural networks at all. So its an application to patent more broadly than the title suggests.
> Utah's cosmetology/barbering licensing scheme is so disconnected from the practice of African hairbraiding, much less from whatever minimal threats to public health and safety are connected to braiding, that to premise Jestina's right to earn a living by braiding hair on that scheme is wholly irrational and a violation of her constitutionally protected rights.

So part of the ruling negating the requirement took into consideration that braiding had none of the associated threats to public health and safety. This sounds like things working as they should with regards to overreaching. It's a shame she had to shut down and sue, but the right call was made by the judge.
Nice! Combine this with license plate recognition, and you have the start of an open platform for traffic safety that is both awesome and deeply creepy.

I've thought about a platform that collects speeds of vehicles and then publishes a database of speeds matched to license plates as an open data set. Police would likely not touch it, but a large enough database might be a tantalizing prize for automobile insurance companies. And then my desire for more disincentives for speeding runs afoul of my feelings about dragnet surveillance, and so I abandon it.

In terms of having the potential to effect direct action against speeders, I don't know how effective simply monitoring speeds would be. That said, some cities (such as Seattle) will lend speed profiling equipment to community groups in order to establish whether or not a given segment of road might be a candidate for traffic calming: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ntcp_calming.htm
It worked for me in my 20's, but I think if I tried it again in my late 30's, it might make things worse. Mushrooms don't let you hide problems from yourself.
Ok, so I was a skeptic. However, some of the results here are shocking. There is no good reason for it at all.

Blatant sexism.. which appears to be the only explanation.

(I am a white dude that believes that the workplace should be based on a meritocracy.. though this is rare thing)
Yes, this is what I was referring to when I said "they no longer receive revenue from Google." He seemed to be basing the entire claim of the two companies being in bed together on Mozilla's use of Google's safe browsing data. I was asking if there was anything else now that the monetary agreement has ceased.
Another angle is post-consumption. Ive always wondered if precisely monitoring body temperature might tell you something about consumption, since there is this 'thermic effect of food'. Would be hard to get right though ...

In the lab, we can use doubly-labelled water to precisely measure calorie intake and burn, but its so damned expensive. If only it were commercially viable.
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It's okay for them to have been involved, but it certainly wasn't okay for them to use violence in this situation. A taser is a potentially deadly weapon; it should only be used in response to deadly force not simply because someone is suspected of theft.
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> Neither of these things are controversial.

I'll give plenty of controversy, because your point is fundamental to the runaway problem of licensing and certification in the US and elsewhere. You think it is just one (well, you list two) licenses, but then you find out you also need commercial permits for the building, you need permits for the imports of most of the ingredients, you need certification to serve certain kinds of foods (especially in many states alcohol), and by the end you do not have just two licenses you need to get, you can have dozens of them.

And there is no established canonical way to find out which you need, because they vary not only by state but by municipality. And even if you somehow "ask" your regional better business bureau for all the licenses and certifications you need, if they get them wrong, you are still liable and at fault for not knowing.

Food safety is incredibly important. If every distributor of food needs a license, the barrier to entry by its nature either must be insanely low or a huge amount of potential productivity lost to the licensing process. If the barrier to entry is low, violating such a license is painless and easy. It is a meme now that restaurants will only clean up the cockroaches the week of food and safety inspections in New York, and that applies everywhere.

In the end, the only safeguard against unethical business behavior is an informed consumer. And those do not come from annual state inspections where the inspector is often bought off in the first place. They come from consumers having communication channels to better inform themselves and others about what is or is not trustworthy. We would have significantly higher standards of food safety if instead of state agencies doing it restaurants sought certification from highly respected private firms that do such inspections, because then the reputation of both inspector and restaurant on the line, and consumers can dynamically create or trust any number of inspectors to meet demand. Compare that to how well trusted the state is for just about anything by anyone, and consider which would be better, aside from the lovely side effect of there being no outdated over-saturated government bureaucracy around food inspections.
Insurance companies look okay with that.

User themselves are, too: look at all these BSD-style "provided as-is, explicitly no guarantees" licenses that people take enthusiastically.

And for something aircraft-grade or medical-grade, you definitely meet with rather strict controls on a case-by-case basis (unlike the wholesale licensing).
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If a transportation system crosses more than one jurisdiction than it doesn't really matter if some localities are fantastic at investing in their own infrastructure. It is inherently a problem that can be solved optimally only at a different level. It might be possible to design a system such that metro areas are always a single jurisdiction, but given that such areas grow and shrink over time it wouldn't be easy.

I don't think that "corruption of the system" is a cause in and of itself of the high cost of infrastructure construction or repair. Whether or not the Constitution would need to be changed, that's an implementation detail. First we need to figure out if diffusion of responsibility is actually a major problem (as I suggest), then get widespread agreement that that is the case, only then should we start worrying about what legal barters may or may not be in the way of mitigation strategies.
> Are you advancing the argument that abuse of children is an economic response to demand, and not that the perpetrator wanted to do it in the first place?

There is abuse of children, then there's the act of making recordings of it for others to consume. The latter certainly functions on a demand curve, as it takes more work to produce something than it is to just do it.

> How does this argument explain the illegality of drawings depicting underage sex with none of the depictions being based on a real-life individual?

There probably isn't much rationality to it. Legislation is more of a political process than a rational one.

> I believe that it's more consistent to believe that society finds paedophilia to be disgusting and that due to their disgust that paedophiles should be jailed.

I would agree with that assessment. But there's also a shocking amount of truly, unbearably horrific content in the world. Disgust may not be the most rational basis to make something illegal on, but it's better than nothing. Laws are intended to be iterated on over time, a more nuanced view will eventually prevail, though it might take decades.

> It's a somewhat risky viewpoint to espouse that "paedophilia in and of itself should not be illegal, abuse of a victim should" given the fervor of the people against paedophilia, but I think it is more congruent with a living in a free society.

Paedophilia is not illegal. It's child abuse and possession of child pornography that's illegal. You can't convict someone of being a paedophile, there's no law against it.
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Bunk.

> But mounting evidence, including one study published in February

The article boldly cites a paper by Gilles-Eric Séralini for "evidence" of roundup causing cancer. Seralini is a known fraud who has had multiple papers retracted.

The only reason this paper they cited was published at all is because it is published in a predatory journal that will accept anything as long as you pay the fee.

>World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) declared glyphosate a probable human carcinogen

Their definition of "probable human carcinogen" is laughably broad.

>Meanwhile, in November the European Food Safety Authority issued a report concluding that the active ingredient in Roundup was “unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans.”

The EFSA is order of magnitude more reliable than a fraud like Seralini, so I am puzzled why it took so long for the article to mention this?

This position is mirrored by the EPA, Royal Society, and National Academy of Sciences.

The article then goes in depth to ride Seralini's dick and give attention to this quack. This is a shameful piece of "science" reporting, I expected better from The Intercept instead of this ignorant garbage.

Edit by request :

EFSA : http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4302

EPA [PDF] : https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/rere...

NAS : http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/national-academy-of-s...

Safety of POEA : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15862083
I'm not worried about sharp implements near my head, but I may be worried about a lot of chemicals in that area. I also want the person touch my hair to at least be aware of hygiene issues - no fun going in for a haircut and coming away with chemical burns and lice.
There's no rent to be extracted from things that just work.
> I assume this is to prevent someone from doing it wrong and burning down a 10 storey apartment building, but come on? Can't you trust people to use their own judgement as to whether they can do it sensibly or not?

You might enjoy the long-running series of photo galleries called "Home Inspection Nightmares" on the "This Old House" site: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/info/0,,20211283,00.html