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He doesn't actually clarify his line of thinking. As someone who is also not much a fan of capitalism, my thought at getting those emails might be "this company cut corners trying to turn a quick profit making a crap product, and now some poor shmucks at the bottom are getting fired. capitalism sucks"

Soviet-style five year plans are also not the only alternative to hobbesian capitalism, that is a false dichotomy.
>in the future, we'll become more strongly aware of the limitations semantics places on articulation.

Jesus Christ I would love to believe this to be true, but I gotta say that this prediction is extremely inaccurate.

Alfred Korzybski dedicated his entire life to making this exact point. In fact his entire body of work can be summed up by the sentence you just wrote — "semantics limits articulation." But his Herculean efforts to alert humankind to the limitations of language failed to catch on, to put it mildly.

Your hope that Korzybskian ideas will experience a resurgence in popularity is a noble one, but I vigorously disagree. These ideas had their chance to become popular, and they didn't. They were — and still are — obviously true, but your hope that the general populace will become aware of their truth is admirably optimistic but extremely naive.
Comedy option: 3rd amendment defense.

("No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.")
My feeling is that since PBS is largely funded by taxes and donations, all their content should be available freely just about anywhere. They really ought to publish directly to YouTube as well.
FBI doesn't need a warrant for non-US computers.
From the related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015388
"In today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can—and eventually will—be hacked."
=>
"In today's education world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that research information from countries which allow foreign students can—and eventually will—be stolen."
>The evidence against him was a good deal less sketchy than Serial made it sound

I disagree. I think Serial made the evidence seem stronger than it turned out to be.
Yeah old Story...uber-intelectual mathematical-master-race-guy bashing Java...boring
Climate-change deniers are unscientific and dangerous. So are GM crop opponents
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WTF? ok from the title of the article it looks to me that now i'm legitimate to spy/access other people's computers.... but reading the body of the article maybe the gudge only said that you cannot expect that your _location_ is keep secret.... which one is correct? what he actually ruled?
So I realize this is delayed to your post and likely to be buried, but this brought such a fascinating thought that I couldn't not mention it.

I'm going to assert something first; you may chose to disagree, but my statement requires this lemma: We are (as a society/science/etc) absolutely _shit_ at most things psychology. Next to "food science" it's the field I give some of the least credence to findings in unless they are so massively replicated and built in an unrealistically airtight way. The very nature of these fields, the number of convoluting variables and our inability to even observe outcomes accurately makes the process of study extremely difficult, and "p-hacking" (as another comment elsewhere referenced in a very appropriate noun choice) becomes very feasible and less detectable. (As a "data-engineer/scientist/whatever we're called these days" I see this effect daily; it's a common topic in my office that often the desire from management is not to find a result, but for us to find the result that says what they want, and that's in often FAR more measurable and empirical spaces)

From this, my core question; if it is illegal to hire based on gender ratios, what about the process of adjusting your hiring practice, adjusting which findings you chose to perscribe to, such that you achieve the end ratio you desire?

To illustrate this I'll give an absurd example to demonstrate "feasibility": Let's say I'm actively racist and don't want to hire white people. I start by putting my hiring centers around inner city low cost residences; I preferentially hire lower income candidates "as a social program", and I hire with a bias based on referrals of existing candidates. I argue that my motive is achieved through a layer of "legal" "massage-able" legitimate decisions.

So the questions I'd leave with:

First, when do these stop being "reasonable choices" in isolation and start becoming a discriminatory strategy

Second, and regardless of my above, can you see why I might find the cut and dry statement of "hiring based on a desired gender ratios is illegal" VERY hypocritical in the current environment of EXTREMELY STRONG DESIRE to hire based on gender ratio, even if it's a "rectification"? (To this topic, I'm also curious tangentially in how affirmative action fit into this framework in the past, I understand the purpose and don't want to turn this into an argument of it's merits, but it seems like a prime example where the courts pulled off making discrimination legal, so the black and white statement of "IS ILLEGAL" seems like it's been dealt with in the past)

Finally, do you see the parallels I'm trying to draw, or can you find a flaw in the correlation?
(1) It's obviously less ambiguous, because you can't do it accidentially; "\(" is an invalid escape, whereas "${1}" or "$a" is a valid string (i.e. you could write it without meaning to interpolate the variables).

(2) It's only consistent if you always know what your pointers are pointing at, and whether your pointers are the last reference to it... but then you can just use delete, right?
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I'd like to think so, too. Even as attempted humor, though, I just didn't see any way that was going to end up in a conversation worth having.
Amazing job :) I'd love to see it with deephouse or techno sounds. It's so tempting to fork the repo.

Here's my madness:
http://djen.co/#share/opYJd9
Blast off with the MagPi 47 Astro Pi special
If you're going to learn another language, learn something from a different programming paradigm, or one which is lower level.

Learning Ruby would be an absolute waste of time.

This isn't a hip or cool answer, but I'd suggest learning Java. It's one of the most popular languages by a large margin, and knowing it will help you speak the object-oriented lingua franca. If you only write Python, you're probably mostly writing procedural code. Learning OO is a good idea.
it's not intern, but inter, which does not mean internal at all but "between"
"There's also the cautionary lesson of bt-Corn and its impact on Monarch butterflies."

What is/was the solution to that ?

If it is indeed a "cautionary tale" there is some response that we should be involved in, which, as far as I can tell is simply the anti GMO sentiment that (100 nobels) decry.

What other response has there been ?
I see a lot happening in Lausanne in Switzerland. Lots of medical devices, biosciences companies doing some pretty cool things. Look it up
This is also happening in Canada.
dont put DNA in my foods!!1
> No, not "by hand". By automation provided by distribution.

My understanding is that the _configuration_ is usually written by hand, and then the automation takes care of the actual build.

> And you know what it takes for this automation to be able to build a DEB out of the source tree?

(a) is already covered, as is (b). That said, we're still working on making it easier.
Actually, I agree, to a point.

It is one thing to have a total surveillance program for the purposes of national security. Every reason exists to do so.

However, I believe that one must either commit to being despicable and brazenly stealing industry secrets to benefit one's own nation's, or to keep those secrets within the confines of intelligence agencies.

Now - and this is where ethics get a bit fuzzy - one could very easily argue that economic advantages allow one nation to enrich itself at the impoverishment of others, and so it is a long-term matter of national security to ensure that national economies are "topped off" with secrets that help them compete against foreign corporations.

But to follow that line of thinking, industrial espionage is an act of war.
Wonder if that would work with AirBnb also? Not that I'm going to try it. Just thinking you rent the home for the weekend run some CL ads then collect what you can.
Are decrypted messages/assets stored in plaintext in the local device cache, or subject to local device backups? Can the local device cache be manually flushed, made subject to OS-level data protection policy, or eliminated entirely?
No thats very common. Almost all campus police officers are deputized agents of their host city.
Google collects metadata from Android phones
When I was adding for each style loops to my language, plastic [1], I just opted for 'you can iterate over any expression that produces a coroutine'. It shouldn't cause any problems a tracing jit can't fix and it's super convenient.

[1] https://github.com/DanielWaterworth/plastic
Sure, there are many, many nuances surrounding the whole GMO debate. It turns out that while bt-Corn could pose a threat to Monarchs, in practice (in the wild) the risk is negligible. (One might also ponder how to weigh protection of an insect species against providing food for humans.) And, as you point out, the whole pesticide/GMO equation is not as simple as it might seem.

Nuance, moderation, and caution are the orders of the day, but these values seem to be increasingly scarce in a world of self-selecting echo chambers...
Non-American here: glad to hear they can. Will they, in cases like this, do that by themselves? Or should someone (EFF) appeal this ruling? Or can only the suspect/criminal in this specific case appeal?
So what's your suggestion? Roll over and let it happen?
Frankfurt has some smaller outpost cities, which are extremely rich like Königsberg and Bad Homburg (this is why Frankfurt is not Munich-expensive and nowhere near London-expensive) and there are a few major cities from which you can easily commute like Darmstadt, Offenbach, Wiesbaden and Mainz plus people from villages all over Hesse work in Frankfurt.

Still Frankfurt itself is a small village with an airport and a few towers. The city itself calls it "the biggest village in Hesse" [0].

[0]: http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=2942&_ffmpar[_i...
You recall incorrectly.
Patenting plant strains is a bit older than GMOs.
Your free to down load code now, many of the interrperters come with build in support for version control now.
There is some excellent advice in this thread about how to identify and correct supposedly 'toxic' behavior. What's concerning though, is that if you are unclear on what this means, it indicates that the performance reviewer did not do a good job giving the review.
Conventional management training (e.g. in Big 4 organizations where I come from), as a manager one is trained to give specific examples and suggestions for alternate ways to handle situations, when pointing out weaknesses or cause for comments.
Either your reviewer is a poor performance reviewer, or they did this intentionally, as a means to vaguely officially document your problems with a pointer to fix, i.e. 'to halt', so there could be official grounds for dismissal.
'Toxic' is also quite a strong word, in comparison to say, 'insensitive' or 'abrasive', to give out to someone in a performance review without giving specific examples.

If you have a mentor, or supervisor, you are close to, and can trust, you can ask their thoughts on how you display toxic behavior.

It seems you care about your responsibilities and product, so would hate to have you blindsided of what could come next.
In any case, good luck, but keep your eyes, ears, and most importantly, options open!
Shenzhen is an anomaly, the ecosystem is a product of the nexus of manufacturing, their supporting supply chains, geography and government incentives.

There is nothing like it on the horizon, though if you're in the states take a look at the revival of manufacturing in the old rust belt cities
What is your legal status after triggering Article 50 ?

Are you still considered a full member of the EU, meaning you retain all your rights including voting ?

Lots of things are illegal for member state, basically everything that the UK needs to do in the 2 years period is illegal for a member state. Remain have been bad at campaigning but forgetting to say that -actually- they won't be able to initiate any trade negotiation until basically the day all their deals expire seems like a major blunder. If that's indeed the case, the UK will have no choice but not trigger Article 50.
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That's a fair point but on the other hand I think operator overloading is a must to be able to program math formulas in a language. Do you plan to have something like `const` as well? If so, how about allowing operators, but only if they don't modify the object (though, that rules out stuff like+=).
They've had a ton of PBS content for a long time. I actually just lost 5 seasons of Wild Kratts today.
You know about Ranger-R, right?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-s...
> Unfortunately, we are both just guessing.

Except I am not guessing. That's the point of math.

The autopilot plus a human, only did slightly better than a human alone. That means the autopilot did nothing, since slightly better is well within the range of normal for a human alone.

> So please keep your math out of this.

What a strange reply. Why keep math out of this?

Are you hoping that this will be real if you ignore all evidence to the contrary?

Right now the evidence is in: Computer assisted cars don't do anything helpful to the accident rate. This bodes poorly for self driving cars, and since the error rate they have to hit is so low, it's really not looking good.

I personally don't expect self driving cars to ever be used on regular streets. Only on computer-exclusive roads, specially marked for them.
I garden organically , and I use no pesticides. What "organic" pesticides are you thinking of?

Edit: changed farm to garden
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12000854
An experiment not finding a statistically significant difference can mean something very different depending on what the power of the experiment was.
the "if only for convenience" point is an interesting one.

I really care about convenience in programming tools, I'm the end user they should be convenient for me.

It's programming not masochism.
Hopefully before the end of the current parliament.
> Generally speaking, cops won't bother you for jaywalking in the Northeast as long as you don't obstruct traffic.

Again, the point of TFA was that minor ordinances are selectively applied ("generally"). What you say is true only in some neighborhoods. But in neighborhoods where the police are looking for a pretext to stop someone, jaywalking ordinances are a handy tool.

Selective enforcement of the law has been written about quite frequently, and is a well-studied phenomenon. As such, I won't try to rehash the body of work, but here's an example from NYC I found in a few seconds:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/the-nypd-enforces-jaywalkin...

"A look at the precincts that report comparatively significant numbers of jaywalking citations over the past few years reveals a pattern: the South Bronx, Harlem, north Brooklyn."

(TL;DR; those areas were not selected due to particularly high accident fatality rates.)
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You're absolutely right! My mistake.
> Of course, a large part of the Green Revolution was the usage of new fertilizers and pesticides, which we now understand have significant impact on the environment. GMOs provide a way to continue to realize the benefits of the Green Revolution without all of the chemical-related downsides.

Yes, but there very well may be other downsides. A lot of the utopian ideas for GMOs basically involve creating invasive species. We here about the potential of making species that can easily grow in areas where they couldn't grow at all before. But doing so could well pose an environmental risk (if these end up growing so well in areas that they end up disrupting the ecosystem).

It might seem strange to think that too many edible plants could cause a problem, but it wouldn't be the first time (Kudzu is a good example). We're also not nearly at that point yet with current GMOs, but it seems to be what a lot of people are advocating. It'd be nice if we thought of the environmental downsides ahead of time, so that we don't keep saying "we now understand the environmental downsides of the tech we were using 30 years ago; but this new tech should be just fine" every few years.
That's one way of looking at it, of course. I think another is to say that the concept of stock as compensation (especially in a private company) is to give the company maximum flexibility. They (presumably) don't have cash, so they give stock as a proxy for that. However, if they hit hard times, they can issue as many new shares as the BoD will allow to any new investors they want.

This includes new classes of shares. It's not "standard" practice, but it's also not uncommon--to get rid of people they want to get rid of, they can dilute them out (issuing new shares and everyone except X gets new shares), issue new classes of shares with preference, etc.

I'm sure there are laws around this, but it's also a private company so it can be tricky there. Stock in a private company is much more difficult to hold, since there are many, many ways for the company to manipulate it to the company's advantage.
"THE SOLUTION

1. Cut the middlemen out

We operate online. And we love it. There are no middlemen between us and our customers.

No ivory structures, no additional costs related. At Eve, world-class designers and seasoned manufacturing folk have come together, aspiring to deliver pure hardware experiences.

2. Eve.Community

We operate online. And we love it. There are no middlemen between us and our customers.

No ivory structures, no additional costs related. At Eve, world-class designers and seasoned manufacturing folk have come together, aspiring to deliver pure hardware experiences."

That does not inspire confidence.
That's what the judge said.
We had a similar situation to this in Minnesota with a company called FirstTech (they were actually Apple's first reseller!)

http://www.twincities.com/2014/03/18/minneapolis-firsttech-a...
The USDA has a good page on this: https://www.ars.usda.gov/sites/monarch/

The "cautionary tale" is that releasing GMO crops before their full impact has been studied and assessed only adds fuel to the GMO/anti-GMO fire. When it was found that bt-Corn could pose a risk to Monarchs, those in the anti-GMO camp had all the ammunition they needed to start shouting about GMOs being unsafe. When it was later found that the risk was negligible in practice, the GMO camp had all the reason they needed to continue turning a deaf ear to the anti-GMO camp.
I wish the article included an image of this desk : )

"While procrastinating on writing my MFA thesis, I found an ancient wooden desk on the street, pulled it into my apartment, and started shellacking it with hard-earned rejection slips. It became my writing desk."
> Why is it imperative for consumers to know the types of poisons to which a plant was given resistance?

Because this is the specific case in which the economical incentives of producers are massively unaligned with the health interest of the consumers: as a producer, once I start using a crop engineered for resistance to a chemical, then I will be motivated to increase the dosage of that chemical until I get to the best yield.

And realistically, I will do this regardless of the fact that the chemical is at some point proven to "increase by 30% the chances for group X to get cancer of type Y" or other such risk.

We don't live in an ideal world: if a producer knows that 0.01 mg of chemical X pe 100g of product is the maximum he's allowed to have in a product, he will 99% of the time still accept it to 0.1 mg (10x!) if he knows that nobody ever checks for quantity and that in the rare case this happens, he will most likely be able to blame it to some technical manufacturing error and just pay a fine and re-tweak the process...

Laws and regulations should be about practically guarding against what happens when you combine human greed+stupidity with advances in science and technology, not about what's technically and theoretically correct!

And about:

> why isn't the method of genetic modification something you consider important

If we later discover that such technical details can have harmful effects with a propensity to be amplified by misaligned economical incentives, then YES, we should legally mandate that all packaging contains this information too, because this is the only way to re-align the incentives (because this way some of the producers will, for example, be able to exploit through marketing campaings the fact that they use "EP corn" or "ENP corn" instead of "ETF corn", and get a rightful economic advantage over the other ones whose incentives have become misaligned with the ones of the consumer).

Market economies need regulatory adjustment to keep the interests aligned, "market forces" will do this in theory, but with a delay of decades and a cost measured in lost human lives. Full market freedom is cool, but if we can engineer systems with faster response times I think it's worth the cost of some "lost efficiency" in the short term and on narrow niches.