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From a technical/operations perspective:

That the police used her phone to delete it via vanilla facebook app is 100% plausible, but what's far more implausible is whatever mechanism was used to restore it.

What are the options?

Facebook allows you to undelete a video an hour later? Not to my knowledge.

Is there another automated/normal way for a video to undelete an hour later, especially with a modified content setting?

Is there an option that means something other than "someone on facebook staff saw that it was deleted and explicitly restored it without instruction from the user"?
As someone who's never used ipython before, but used the standard python interactive terminal a lot, I'm very impressed!

The best feature I've discovered so far, is that when I want to change a function, I can simply 'up arrow', and I get the whole thing! Not a single line of the function, as in the normal python terminal. And if I write a syntax error while typing the function, it tells me immediately!

Does anybody have other examples of great features in ipython over the standard python terminal?
Civil War will be possible only if low boiling. Lots and lots of domestic terrorism.

There are no groups even united that could stand up to the Federal government. And the USG is strong enough to subdue any two groups that decide to war with each other.
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Note that "snipers" doesn't mean people with a sniper rifle like in the movies. Apparently one of the shooters walked around with an assault rifle, but nobody said/did/could do anything because Texas is an open carry state.
One thing worked for me is compartmentalizing
Yes google services are too good to be replaceable .
Have multiple profiles (one hardened privacy aware other is your existing profile )for browsers,OS,Computers , phones ,mails,messenger apps.Each profile disconnected from other (use different internet pipes)so that ads will target you make a profile of you but both are not interlinked .
Its a bit of taxing for initial setup once its there then things will be smooth .
I have what I call "privacy traps" like sharing random emails/phone number to a service and see how/where it follows you.This will help you to profile what are the query terms,PII info for these services to build a profile of yours etc ..
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I know police made an early mistake.

Police initially suspected someone who was walking around with a rifle, but he turned himself in and was later released.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-36743033

Was one of the killers walking around with a rifle?
Here are some basic facts:

Half of people killed by police are white. Blacks are 25%.

Blacks are also disproportionally represented amongst violent offenders.

One more interesting trivia - black and hispanic cops are more likely to shoot a black suspect than white cops.

Black people are 13% of US population, yet black men (6% of US population) commit 50% of homicides in the US.

Thus your assumptions are incorrect and thus your conclusions may also be incorrect. It appears that white people are more afraid of being called racist than being assaulted by a person of color.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-kno...
http://www.amren.com/news/2015/07/new-doj-statistics-on-race...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/28/5-devasta...
Indeed. What does it tell you if you add a "return" statement right at the beginning of your main function? Yes, your program now contains a bug (or a million of bugs, depending on your view). But with this return statement in place, you will not be able to find any other bugs!
two autopilot deaths? afaik autopilot failed to react properly to already dangerous situation where it is in no way certain that human would have succeeded. do you know of an event where autopilot deliberately chose to drive into a tree and killed the passengers?
"Four Dallas Police officers and one Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer were killed by “snipers” perched atop “elevated positions,” officials said."
I'm not sure about Berlin but I heard that Bavaria is frequently called Polizei Staat with a lot of policemen in civil clothing on Munich streets, care to comment on how it compares to Berlin?
The sand-based system is based on Dr. McMurtry's aquaponics research at NC State University. Here are a list of publications about it: http://iavs.info/publications/

* In general, course sand is a great substrate for plants. Both research and my own experience show no problems with aeration or anaerobic zones forming.

* The sand is the biofilter. This does form a tight coupling of the system, but does not prevent regular maintenance. For intensive maintenance, you would need to take the fish out of the fish tanks anyway.

* No clogging has occurred so far because of the mesh.

* What length of time is one season? What will happen after one season that won't happen after X days/weeks/months?

* The water begins draining from the veggie beds seconds after the flooding cycle starts, so the water level in the fish tank only varies by ~10-15%.

* How rapidly will the algae form? Two months later, I don't really see algae forming in the fish tank. There is algae growing in the furrows, but that's a good thing, since algae forms a natural nutrient battery. In any case, the fish tank placement is not optimal in my prototype, and can be improved in subsequent installations.
its great that we are getting access to so many tiny sweet tiny boards.
just in case - pi zero:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/

i was thinking more feature set than threat model.
Namely
Secure at rest storage and password generator for secure comms. i believe the pi has a hwrnd which is probably the most essential thing for such devices.
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There was no need to shoot the guy either.
Iran is an amazing experience, sadly it has bad rep due to politics and western media focusing on worst things happening there. it's getting slightly better, which will mean more tourists and the unique atmosphere will slowly vanish. visit as soon as possible!
We just moved from a 4300sqft house on the east coast to a 1700sqft house on the west coast, and I've been mentally berating myself for ever believing I needed such a giant place. We had 3 different offices spaces, a big "bonus" room, a mud room, and sun room, and three porches, not to mention a 300sqft kitchen. ... Well, I do miss the large kitchen and 10' ceilings, but that's about it.
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My point was less about what they are like, but more alluding to the fact that they are their own nations.
> the vast majority of violent policing is associated to a relatively small percentage of officers

Isn't the vast majority of crime associated with small areas? People rag on Chicago for having lots of murders, but if you look at http://www.heyjackass.com, you end up finding that most of the shootings occur in only a few neighborhoods.

Similarly, most police officers are not patrolling in a war zone.

Where I would love to see the data is a comparison of officers with their peers. If you're an officer with Chicago's Finest, you probably have a group of peers who patrol the same neighborhoods as you. If you're grabbing your gun five times as often as the other guys on your squad, it's difficult to make the argument that random shit is only happening to you.
Brexit is just as much, if not more, the responsibility of the newspapers which have spent so long writing misleading articles about the EU and inflammatory articles about "migrants".
Oracle backpedaled from that pretty quickly.
Don't know how you write code, but I typically fix all visible bugs before moving on.

If I want to complete a project, I make sure to scope a minimal set of features.
For one, you can just paste in a bunch of code. Try doing that in the standard terminal!

Another feature I end up using constantly is the documentation support. Say you want to read the docstring for an object, just prefix or append a '?' to the object, e.g. 'subprocess?'.

If you want to examine the source code for the object, just prefix or append '??', e.g. 'subprocess.call??'.
I'm waiting for when it will be a requirement to wear a bullet proof vest if you're a regular citizens that happens to be black and you are driving anywhere.

Us policies and laws are getting more and more ridiculous every year and enforcement non existent if you're the police so would anybody be surprised if the victim gets blamed for getting shot?
Oddly enough, to this day most programming languages encourage a graph or hierarchical model.

Taking Codd serious suggests using relations inside programs as well.

See eg http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf
>Now the death, misery, violence and unfairness that happens so regularly in our world is just a fingertip away.

>Resulting in fear and anger.

or it could result in increased awareness about the issues and empathy toward the victims of "the death, misery, violence and unfairness". Such awareness and empathy can be very constructive and a force for progress and thus "good for dealing with complex rules in a globalised society."

History of progress is a history of wider and faster spread of fuller information. Police was brutalizing and murdering black people long before cell phone cameras. With cell phone recordings of such events now available, the society can't anymore just dismiss it and has finally to deal with it.
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What amazes me, is all this cool stuff but a Rust process still can't return an exit code [0] without using a workaround.

I actually use Rust in production, and have generally found it very good - compared to the well discussed difficulties with CPP. I will continue to do so, but I think that the edges really need covering off properly before it'll be treated as a serious competitor to CPP (and equally often, Go).

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1176
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Parent post is not saying that benzos caused the death, but that the benzo + alcohol mix made worse the mental state that caused the death.
But there were market makers, and they charged a lot more for the same service.
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Sorry (happy :) to hear that you're running out. Might actually be in a situation soon where it will make more sense to hold a workshop and build a good handful of the things.

Agreed on the "accidentally secure" part. Then again, if you could drench a full x86 pc in epoxy, it might be possible to make "reasonably secure" blob if all you left open was a serial port. Might.
Yes, if you shoot sports in near darkness with a slow lens, you need 1M ISO.
> You need some road rash to understand how to do things

This is assuming there is a guaranteed way to become a successful company.

What the road rash will teach you is probably that starting an IT company right now is more like being a golddigger. It is all gambling, and the VCs are laughing their way to the bank because they know this, and they wisely spread their money.
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Well, it was a rant rather than information. And I disagree with it from the beginning:

> You should not close apps because you may interfere with tracking your location and other data collection.

That's bullshit reason - you'd write a background service, not try to stop users from closing the app. For any single application I'm using I'm happy for it to be cached rather than restarting every time. This is just arguing against a cache layer, because <made up reason>.
Fantastic point, I'd never thought to put this into the context of NI before.

To emphasise what you've said, the root and brach reform that has happened in the RUC/policing in NI over the last decade (or more) can't be underestimated. Among the biggest factors, as I perceive them are both top down and bottom up:

* Engaging the civilian leadership of the effected Catholic/Republican communities in leadership and accountability positions (e.g. Sin Fein/Stormont)

* Making on the ground community relationships with the effected communities a huge priority, through: targeted engagement; community relations and frankly, demonstrating the RUC's value through active/effective community policing and crime reduction.

* The confrontation and acknowledgement of the previous injustices. Truth and reconciliation is key.

It's been a LONG and painful journey interlinked that isn't finished, but it really could serve as a great lesson to improving minority/police relationships in the US.
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Nope, because I have passion for things outside of work. Hiking, lifting, spending time with my girlfriend, programming, playing Kerbal Space Program, etc.

For me, work is something that I neither dread nor enjoy. It simply is.
This comment is a hostage to fortune as we currently have no information about the alleged shooters (which in itself is making me suspicious), but at this stage I'd say it was 50/50 that the shooters were white supremacists trying to escalate the situation.

I'm not aware of anyone since the Black Panthers trying armed politically organised retaliation against police violence. But I could be very wrong.

Edit: well, this turned out to be wrong.
> Now the death, misery, violence and unfairness that happens so regularly in our world is just a fingertip away.

And since they're always a kind of "emergency", an overriding situation for our brains to which we instinctively pay attention, that's the ultimate topic for news. Now with unlimited supply - if there's nothing bad happening in your city, local media will borrow something from elsewhere in the country. And if the whole nation had just a peaceful and happy week, they'll borrow something from abroad.

I do believe that as a society we need to reconsider the "freedom of press" in mainstream media. To be clear - the idea is based on the most honorable of principles. But with few decades of instant electronic communication behind us, we know few relevant things to be experimentally confirmed as facts:

- publishers have every reason to pick up most extreme examples for anything, and with lightspeed access to global information, they'll happily do this every day

- media plays havoc with our brains; in particular, with availability heuristic[0] - that makes us instinctively feel that everyone around us is rich hand happy (since our real neighbors, in terms of what we know about them, are media celebrities) and the world is a dangerous and brutal place (since we keep hearing about some crime or attack every single day - and the distance doesn't matter for availability heuristic)

- most people seem to be unaware that brains are not well adapted to our current technological environment, and in particular that if you don't constantly downplay or ignore most of the news, you're being lead to believe extremely wrong things - by the very virtue of availability heuristic

- those people vote

Something needs to be done about at least some of those points there. Trying to just educate people is too slow and too unreliable. I'm not saying "censor press" or something - but we need to somehow take into the account the standard failure mode media triggers in majority of population.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
Breitbart is as far away from facts as you can possibly get. "American Renaissance" with its "race realism" doesn't sound much more reliable.
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Social networks aren't the problem here. American police being useless and corrupt is.

If anything, social networks can be part of the solution, because they provide evidence in cases where otherwise there'd be none.

Now it's up to politicians and courts to actually punish corrupt cops.
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I think the difference is that Musk basically wanted to make a mass produced electric car.

While it is difficult I would say much of this is due to the infrastructure and capital requirements to get to this point. No one doubted that an electric supercar could be made, rather that it would be very difficult to achieve scale.

Had Theranos opted for a mass produced microfluidics chip and instrument based on existing chemistries people would have said it would be difficult to compete with the large industry players (Bio-Rad, Roche, Thermo Fisher etc). This would be deemed difficult or "ridiculous" for reasons relating to capital, infrastructure and potential market share rather than the actual science and functionality of the system.

This is where Theranos differs from Tesla, not only trying to achieve scale but do so with a unproven scientific method.

It's a shame that Theranos has played out like this because a system that uses a small amount of blood is a great end goal but should have been a 10-15-20 year goal; just as Musk didn't intend to produce a $30,000 mass market car from the beginning. If Theranos built their own instrument based on existing qPCR research/design and used existing chemistry they could get "in the door" and begin really understanding the market. They would need to differentiate but could do so by attempting build a single benchtop automated unit that removed the need for manual sample preparation. While their solution may be a premium offering and a smaller market this would lead them towards their ultimate goal. Over time they could begin to look into chemistries, chip designs and instruments that would bring them closer to their ultimate goal of low cost and low blood requirement testing.
Or they knew exactly the potential but wanted to keep it to themselves.
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I don't know what assumptions you think are incorrect: that people are afraid of getting killed?

What I said was that situations involving guns tend to scare/alarm all involved parties.

And that getting rid of the guns is easier and will likely have a larger effect than curing people of their racism.
Since it doesn't follow any laws of physics: it actually moves the opposite way than the way you tugged it ;-)
Though, if you only have to deal with this every 2-3 months, like the article says, it might not be too much of a hassle.
Am I the only one disgusted with the HTML of that page? I tried to change the font/line-height to a readable one only to find <font> tags. Yuck.
If it was viral, maybe someone saved it before it was deleted and sent it to her to reupload?
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Thanks for posting OP, can someone comment on how this compares to mit 6.830 (hopefully someone who has taken both the courses :))
http://db.csail.mit.edu/6.830/sched.html
http://db.csail.mit.edu/6.830/notes.html

For folks interested there's another implementation specific db course https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs346/2015/ although the lectures are not on youtube
> ...abstrusely useless work arbitrarily attributed value by consensus

I can't recommend 'Modern Art' highly enough. It's a card game by Reiner Knizia in which the players bid up the value of art works by various fictional artists. It's a classic and a firm family favourite of ours.
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Shouldn't bigger demand lead to efficiencies of scale, and thus lower price---at least for manufactured goods like fridges?
I find this description weird. It's not like they provide a service. They act for their own profit and the fact that they make the spread smaller is a bit of a side effect. Why call that a service? You wouldn't pay them directly to do those trades.

Sure, you'd spend more on your buy orders otherwise. So what? It just makes the stock gambling a bit different.
Absolutely. The difference is that Musk actually operate companies that build real things that actually work.

If the product don't actually work in the first place, you can't call that innovation and it appears that Holmes failed to do her due diligence.
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I have mixed feelings about the topic.

Where I live, police are reasonable and populace is unarmed.

On the other hand US is on of a few modern republics that hasn't produced a tyranny yet. And perhaps 2nd amendment may have something to do with that. Along with rest of the constitution.
Some of the things she advocates are quite extreme. Like keeping no more than 30 books.
Yeah... if you use enough abstraction an apple is like an orange. I can't argue on that basis.
Exactly. The ETFs just make the liquidity issues public on the market. For the fund, you'd be paying some managers to buy and sell stuff whenever enough people/money leaves or enters the fund.
What you can do and Facebook engineers can do are unrelated.
All the articles cite official data.

I would love to link Huffpo, Salon or Atlantic, but they are just to dishonest to publish something like this.
At least for me, this "HSM" makes the right trade-offs. I don't need tamper self-destruction, for example. My adversaries are either: 1) thieves of opportunity, or 2) the "world conspiracy" / nation state intelligence agencies who suddenly might decide to spy on me if the world takes a dystopian turn.

For 1) tamper-proofness is total overkill. For 2), I doubt that any civilian technology would withstand a hardware attack e.g. by the NSA. If I just look at the equipment we have at our lowly, underfunded physics laboratory - probe stations, decapping facilities, wirebonders, an expert can already defeat many older hardware countermeasures with that. And I know there are much more sophisticated techniques out there, e.g. to image chips and extract secrets. Also, a variation of the "wrench" argument: Who says that the vendors of closed HSMs have not all been just forced to place backdoors?

The biggest realistic threat to me (by probability times possible damage) is by far that I might catch a Trojan. This device provides at least partial protection, in that it makes it hard for a remote attacker to sign messages or log on in my name.
You are describing fractional reserve banking. What do you want to say?

(And in practice, what you describe would apply only if we used eg gold as money. In a fiat currency system banks are even weirder.)
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What law of physics makes what Theranos attempted to achieve impossible? They were still drawing blood from the patient. Thus, it seems theoretically possible for technology to overcome the challenges the approach presents.