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The literal death penalty also discourages "les autres", but most people also recognize it as woefully excessive for most crimes (if not all), and would recognize the system as fundamentally broken if that system also failed to punish 99% of murderers at all, as the civil justice system fails to punish 99+% of invasions of privacy.
Liberals cheers for this, and get angry when Brazil blocks Whatsapp or Facebook. Logic. None.
Citing the ACLU, if Hulk Hogan’s sex tape was somehow newsworthy, then distributing it on the internet would come under the protections of the First Amendment, and Gawker would have a right to publish it. But the jury found that this case was not about the Hulk as a public figure and that the video had no news value. The Hulk, therefore, enjoys the same rights to privacy as everyone else.
> As for all her investors: they deserve what they've got coming.

Why is that?
No worries, I've been that young punk more than once myself.
Our government and arms businesses are happy for the guns to leave the UK, though.
If they hadn't published the Hogan video, the lawyers funded by Thiel would have found someone else who's been wronged by Gawker and the outcome would be similar. The moral really is don't anger the rich and powerful.
Here is someone who understands how to work the media to his advantage.
Ha, I thought about RLS on system catalogs, but it's not supported. Here is a long thread about it: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Multi-tenancy-with-RLS-td586211...

It is also possible to revoke privileges on pg_namespace, but that breaks too many things for my taste (\dt e.g.).

I think I worked around the deadlock issue by detecting the failure in application code and trying again. It was for background workers in a side-project SaaS I abandoned after a few months, so a sloppy fix was very tolerable. I like your SELECT FOR UPDATE idea though!
Oh yeah. When you installed the CurrentC app it requested permissions for your phone log, text log, and even your health data! Just outright 'data mining'.
No, they clearly wanted to see you write code. They didn't want to see how well you could download a library. That's why they gave you the test in the first place.
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Lots of people here get riled up because Gawker wasn't drinking the kool-aid. I personally like having a muckraker who keeps everyone's egos in check.
No negative tone intended. I genuinely wish I had understood this about Academia so I could've maybe made different decisions.
The rules are in place because of the deeply-ingrained xenophobia gripping the UK. Trying to find logical reason behind the rules won't get you anywhere!
True, but this was so long ago that they didn't even bother. Nobody cared about the potential ethics issues at the time, because patents were still largely weapons wielded between corporate superpowers.
Thanks for the info, very useful. I'll definitely investigate.
Apparently posting a sex tape is though.
This is a great article on how /not/ to talk to immigration officials, anywhere. I don't defend any heavy-handed attitude of the officers. It's just useful to understand the purpose behind the process.

> the young immigrations officer at LHR was very inquisitive about this old friend I was going to meet while I was in London for a conference: Who was he? Where did he live? What was our relationship? My awkward answers and copious fear sweating must have been unsatisfactory,...

The officer is trying to determine whether she is coming for a brief visit, or secretly planning to stay for a long time. That's their primary purpose in life. Expect these questions, and give the answers matter-of-factly.

> I just wanted to tell him what he wanted. But somehow that wasn’t enough. He tried to play games to prove something, but I didn’t seem to play along the way he hoped

It's an interrogation. Which is exactly like a game. It's their job. The secret trick is to tell the truth.

> I told him point blank: there is nothing I can tell you to make you happy. I have to be very careful what information I volunteer, because if I talk too much, you get angry. And now if I don’t talk enough, you get angry.

Translation, "I have something to hide and I just want to manipulate you". He doesn't want to hear what makes him happy, he wants to hear the facts. After this they really had no choice but to send her back, even if they were leaning the other way.
>This fixed supply makes pricing tickets a delicate process: charge too much, and you won't sell out; charge too little, and demand goes off the charts. Scalpers are good at spotting when the balance isn't right, which is often; when popular artists sell tickets for accessible prices, demand will almost always outstrip supply.

Some of this logic doesn't pan out at a certain level though - I read an interview with Q-Prime, big-time managers in the music business - who had a different take:

>It’s been said that the only artist who has really been able to beat this is the Rolling Stones, and that's because they charge so much for tickets that the market won't really bear higher prices.

CB: The other thing you can do -- and Peter and I talk about this a lot -- is, in general, successful artists, and this has been true for many years, don't want to see any empty seats. So if you want to price your tickets high enough, like the Stones, you're gonna end up with empty seats or the possibility of empty seats. If you price your tickets lower than the market will bear, you won't have any empty seats. So it really comes from the artist deciding, “I don't mind if I don't sell the last thousand or 2,000 tickets, it's still a great day. Everybody who wants a ticket will get a ticket.”

PM: Some of our artists go for big indoor productions, right? And they sit there with their business manager and they go, “We're spending this many millions on a stage show but we're not even getting half out of that.” And you have to tell them, fine, let's go to $125 a ticket instead of $75 -- and guess what? You'll make more money but you won't, as Cliff says, fill all the seats. So make a decision: Either go out with just a stage and we'll make plenty of money at $60-75, or go out with all this staging and you're gonna have to charge more money.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7290324/q-prime-cliff...
A lot of times the corral of shame contains old helpless people too, who seem to have been deliberately put there for the pleasure of the corral ranchers.

I and my family were traveling back home to Boston. Coincidentally, the Indian grandparents of close friends of ours were on the same flight to visit said friends. Like most old Indian ladies, the grandma was wearing traditional clothes (nothing fancy). They didn't speak much English.

They were detained at Logan. Fortunately, my mother (a US citizen) was allowed to be with them as a translator. They had them sit in this room for a long time, after which they asked arbitrary and silly questions.

That room was full of other old, non-white people wearing non-American clothing or "religious symbols" (e.g.a turban). Many didn't speak the language. Most were scared and confused. It was pretty clear that the officers just wanted to harass people.

If my mother hadn't been there the grandparents would have had a much more gruelling experience and would have probably been stuck there for a while.
> I wish there were support for SQL:2011's bitemporal stuff.

While there isn't direct support, PostgreSQL's support for range types seems to provide a more-general solution where much of what SQL:2011 temporal support does is a fairly direct application of the more general features (it would be nice to have standards-compliant syntax, though.)
As a general rule, that seems like it would cripple commerce. In some specialized sense, say patents near the end of their lives, which meet a host of other conditions that make them likely fodder only for trolling... maybe. Who would reliably make those regulatory calls though, and what would be the blowback?
I agree, according to the article, the front end of "email authorization" takes the most time to do. For an MVP a login system really just has to work, and then you can personalize it more as you go. Most of the time for an MVP should be dedicated to the main features of app. (In this case uploading pictures, news feed, etc).

For my app we used Auth0 to quickly get login working before we had to present it. It took about total 5 hours to set up and test. Since then we have built our own login system and made sleek looking create/login screens; which in total took about ~15 hours.
This seems excessively harsh. I didn't see the author say anything about expecting special treatment or rejecting the value of a standardized work visa system. As far as I can tell, she made a number of reasonable assumptions that someone not familiar with the details of UK travel law might make.

Secondly, her intent was to do something beneficial in the country. Whatever your views on on web animation, she was part of an event that brought visitors, economic activity, and tax revenues to the country. Conceivably, the border control agency could have satisfied their rules and not denied their country the benefits of her visit -- by simply charging her a fee for last-minute changes to her visa terms. That would serve as a lesson and deterrent, without subjecting a person who didn't have any malicious intent to a long detention.

And don't kid yourself about lying. Lying here doesn't mean "would a fair court judge your statements as true", it means "did the particular agent who interviewed you think you might be lying". There is tremendous discretion for the officers involved, and they get it wrong sometimes. If you think that never happens, you'll support naive systems that have pretty high rates of injustice.
But where does the ethical issue arise?
The other side to that argument is, people who are wronged by Gawker need at least a billionaire to be able to get their day in court.

It should concern you that it took money from an outside source to get an alledged wrong by a massive company to litigated in front of a jury. That should be very concerning.

As for Thiel and Gawker, they're both bullies, and bullies beating the shit out of each other is just fine by me.
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> Gawker may have been terrible, but we should all be a bit concerned at the precedent this sets.

That you have to have serious cash to hold a news site accountable? We are not talking about a charity, Gawker is a multi-million dollar business.

I am glad Thiel did this and I hope it has a chilling effect on the media in the US. They weren't printing news, they were going for titillation that just happened embarrass someone they didn't like. Corruption in political figures, fine, but not this crud.
Actually, it could be construed as evidence of real emotional damage. That is, they'd rather see Gawker go under than get more money, because one would make them feel a lot better than the other.
Ignoring for a moment that the script makes zero sense... I expected the writing to feel more sci-fi-esque: space, aliens, computers, physics, etc.

Maybe the conclusion to draw is that sci-fi writing is 99% like any other storytelling in terms of how characters think, behave, and talk.
Not just any media, either; this is the Washington Post, owned by Bezos, who runs what will probably become SpaceX's fiercest competitor in the launch market (if they ever get customers and deliver payloads to orbit, which they will). Another quick note on Bezos and Blue Origin: Bezos wants to move all manufacturing and mining off-Earth, to take place on asteroids, comets, etc. He envisions the Earth as a green and clean place to live. I believe him like I do Musk: Blue Origin will succeed too.
Ah yes, society should recognize the positive impacts of investigative journalism. I can hardly see a between the Pentagon Papers and a sex tape!
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We are lacking context here. What do you do?
Thiel was already out of the closet: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/gawker-...

I also think that outing a wealthy, powerful man like Thiel is beneficial to society. It hopefully increases acceptance of homosexuality.

Of all people who are hurt by being outed in a major publication, Thiel is probably near the end of the list, since he was already out among his associates and extremely wealthy.
If I was a public figure (as most billionaires are classified, by the courts), and posted a picture of me on a public profile page, then I would be entirely disingenuous to say "you have no right to know this!".

Just like in Gawker's case, decisions have consequences. Don't claim your sex life is private and no-one's business (and I have zero interest) whilst posting pictures of yourself on gay cruises.

"Like" it doesn't come into it. I don't have a right to stop people doing what I don't "like".
Thank you! i'm so glad someone did a post like this, maybe finally we can stop having people say things like 'oh i can build an MVP of Twitter / Instagram in a weekend, its just a photo sharing app'. No. There are a LOT of little features that need to be considered and they all add up (authentication / settings / notifications / mentioning etc etc).
You know you have major problems when the status page itself fails to load.

Is there a meta-status page?
Most definitely, yes. I have plenty of projects where there's enough JS interacting with the DOM to use jQuery, but too little to justify adding the entire React package. Furthermore, a number of my projects 1) might have to be taken over someday by developers who don't know React, 2) might eventually have jQuery added anyways for a quick plugin (slideshow, etc.), or 3) have jQuery included already because the client insists on the use of a particular CMS.
I'm not sure why you think reporting that Hogan was cheating is what Gawker was sued for. Plenty of people have done that, with no repercussions.
I expect [1] to be overturned. Courts have pushed back against [2] every time it comes up.
How can you justify that position? There are consequences to our choices, but they don't always follow a moral principle. If I have two job offers and choose the company that ends up going bankrupt, I'm not being punished. If I'm a farmer and plant according to weather predictions which prove false, losing crops and revenue, that might be bad luck or bad judgement, but its not punishment.
Something relatively minor I've noticed coming from MySQL, you can't change the column order of a table without recreating it.
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I live in NJ and the property taxes here are among the highest in the nation. My parents house is currently at 8k per year and that is considered "good".

Even in neighborhoods with shit schools taxes are ludicrous, an acquaintance of my family is paying 14k taxes for a small single family home in a town with a high school ranked 294 out of about 400 in the state. She wants to sell the house but due to high taxes and shit school buyers are hard to find.

Property taxes almost doubled in the past 10 years in my area, I am not looking forward to buying a house and then the property taxes doubling in another 10 years.

Proposition 13 sounds great to someone from New Jersey.
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I'm not so sure. Maybe "don't be a trash publication that skirts the law, and then defies orders to take things down when told by a judge".
They also do it on cards that pass the higher-end binning process fine and sell them downmarket anyway when there is more demand there.
You can do that without releasing the tape
Well, it's not always so bad, at least not during the warmer seasons, just the crabbing seasons. Deadliest Catch - Wild Pacific Salmon wouldn't be anywhere near as deadly or engaging for television. I don't imagine it'd be much more entertaining or risk involved than Wicked Tuna.
So respond to that job spec with a resume which clearly highlights the 3-4 things you actually did master, with multiple specific project examples and real roles/jobs.

You may be pleasantly surprised.

Speaking for myself, I will gleefully hop over piles of candidates with a 1/4 page of alphabet soup on their CV trying to talk with the candidate who hammers Python, PHP,
Javascript (etc) across a 5+ years of different projects. Even if I'm hiring for a slightly different technology, because I can be confident they actually know the trade.

Multiple skill-sets do add value if they are related and easily combined to deliver a larger solution. Eg. HTML + CSS + Javascript = Front End Web Dev + Python + SQL = Full Stack Web Developer. So I can staff that person in a larger role.

The spew of semi-related and adjacent buzzwords doesn't really help me feel comfortable with a candidate. And if I start asking you about them and learn all you did was read about them online (or used it once for a class), the rest of your resume goes into the danger zone real quick.

"I mastered X, Y, and Z and used them together to build <pure awesomeness>" will get you further than you think. Even if the job doesn't require X, Y, and Z....
I just got back from a 2-week Asia trip where the only Internet I had was on my phone, on high-latency 3G. I completely agree with you. My online experience was simply atrocious. Most sites I visit on a daily basis were simply unusable.
All our mobile stuff is thin web-layers that consume our core APIs, so it's all js. I started looking at WebSharper and FunScript for a more strongly-typed and robust web-development experience, but they're all a bit too 'awkward'.

I keep meaning to look into Elm as it appears to be a more thoughtful approach to functional programming on the client.
There is a name for weaponization of the legal system, it is called 'lawfare', and it has been going on a long time. This was a legitimate case, not some strange and arcane proceeding based on a hitherto unknown statute; it may be the case that Thiel was 'woken up' by the post about him, and has since been keeping a lookout to stop Denton's greed from harming more people. Denton isn't running a charity.

If Denton had published the tape 'for the public', he wouldn't have included the sex bit; we all know that this was classic Gawker clickbait. Denton obviously only cares about 'disclosure' when it gives him ammunition to use against his opponents, especially when he can profit off of it.
Filemaker is in the same bin as Lotus Notes/Domino and Access. They sure do a lot, and some of it is good, but most of it is not good.
Nobody was trying to stop Gawker from breaking important news, or any other kind of news. That's a false narrative driven by journalists who want to be able to do anything without oversight.

The issue wasn't that Gawker published that Hogan wasn't having an affair.

Again: the story wasn't the issue. The story didn't go to trial. The jury was not deciding whether Gawker had a right to publish the story.

The issue was Gawker publishing a sex tape to go with the story.
I guess daniel-levin meant to say "invertible matrix with integer coefficients whose inverse also has invertible coefficients". The fact isn't too hard to see:

* If M has integer coefficients, then det(M) is an integer.
* det(inv(M)) = 1/det(M)
* Since M has integer coefficients, det(M) is an integer
* Since inv(M) has integer coefficients, det(inv(M)) is an integer
* So det(M) and 1/det(M) are both integers, so det(M) is either 1 or -1
I'm American and I've only heard a muckraker described as number 2.
The thoughts of a politician running for office ARE in the public interest because that person is campaigning to be elected to be a decision maker in the country.

Video of people having sex may be something the public is interested in, but it is not in the public interest. It's none of the public's business and the public should find more interesting things to be interested in.
I meant that the Americans were Average Joes. Not that the jury selection process was representative of America.
What do you think of the idea of the ACLU being able to bankrupt a news site that they don't like?
From "import this"

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Key words are preferably and obviously. Of course there are going to be multiple ways to do everything, but it'd be nice if the best practice is pretty obvious.

> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
But what incentives will exactly cause developers to continue to develop web pages wherever possible instead of bundling everything into apps? Website owners also like the power that they can get from executing full-blown programs on each client's machine, rather than serving dumb unidirectional data. The Internet has evolved in many ways just like the outside world has evolved, IMO. The "correct" or the "elegant" is rarely what actually seems to happen. Instead it's a wild struggle for survival in which boundaries are pushed and abused, which leads to wonderful innovations, but the downside is there's nothing "ethical" about it.
Can you show us where Thiel posted a picture of himself?
Wow, it really is a small world, I can't believe you replied to my comment. You're one of the only aliases I still recognize from those days as I was about 12 at the time. SCAR and the other scriptable clients were a huge spark for my interest in programming as a kid. Seeing something that could automate actions in a game I played all day blew my mind and I had to learn how it worked. Cheers to you for that!
What if a conservative politician lobbies for adultery being illegal, and then a sex tape emerges of him cheating on his wife? That's important journalism.

What if the CEO of a company intimidates an employee into having sex with him and secretly films it, and that gets released? That's also important journalism.

There are lots of other ways sex tapes could be newsworthy: a famous person makes racist comments in it (the Hogan tape!), a Hollywood director asks for sex in exchange for a role, etc. etc.
they didn't say anything bad about Thiel, the reason he went after them is because they outted him as gay.
Do you have a source on that? I understood that the film was stolen in addition to being taken without the knowledge or consent of Hogan.

FWIW, unless there's some real public interest beyond the prurient, I don't see why people should be able to publish anyone's private sex tapes without their consent. I would tend to say that the right to privacy should win in such cases.
Yeah. He had Asperger syndrome and sensory-integration disorder.

Last time I checked, my friend's brother with Aspergers wasn't shooting up people. To blame the shooting on the mental illness of the Sandy hook shooter is a harmful slur against the many peaceful people who struggle with various mental health issues.

What I'm saying is: mental illness seems to occur in these violent shootings about as often as they occur in average people. The mental illness does NOT seem to be a contributor to whether or not someone starts shooting people randomly.

Radicalization theory offers a stronger basis of argument. And the Sandy Hook shooter matches the basis of radicalization far stronger than his mental illness. As all of the other Radicalized people: Lanza cut off ties with his brother and father, and also stopped discussing things with his mother.

Social isolation is a major pattern seen by radicalized individuals. Perhaps this social isolation was self-inflicted, or maybe there was a family issue that occurred at some point of the guy's life.

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To blame shootings on mental illness is 1: an unnecessary slur to the community of disabled. 2: Ignores that the root problem is completely separate from mental issues.
Do we know that 99% of people don't have a problem with 99% of the web? Or do they not know how to express their displeasure with it or whom to express it to? I hear complaints all the time from normal users about top sites. They don't sound happy to me at all, they just sound like they're frustrated and don't think anyone is listening.
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