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I do think that we will see a growing number of users caring. The thing is that user tracking is something completely opaque to average users. And as with anything that's opaque, users will generally listen to what smarter people say.

Now ask in any privacy-focused community whether you should block Google Analytics and you'll almost certainly be laughed out for even considering that you should not.

Add to that that there is already an industry emerging around privacy. Many anti-virus programs already today ship with anti-tracking features. This industry is very much interested in telling their users about user tracking. And they won't give the fluff-explanation of "Yes, you are being tracked, but it's for your own good." like Google and friends are trying to establish.
Citing Breitbart pretty much outs you. Looking at some of your other posts shows me that you are a dogwhistler who is careful to not say anything overtly racist.
Visual programming works for DSLs ( yahoo pipes , sound synthesis , gui ... ) . It doesn't really work for general purpose programming.
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Why is it mind-boggling? The guilty will always want to cover their tracks.
> On the other hand US is on of a few modern republics that hasn't produced a tyranny yet.

What about most european countries?
its not that thin. brilliance holds up to basic scrutiny. delusion doesn't.
Thank you. I like to verify as much as I like to implement :-)
> "PSNI are routinely armed"

I think another important point is despite being armed the PSNI rarely use their weapons. I honestly can't remember the last time someone was killed by a PSNI officer.
The law of sample sizes? If I ask one person who they are going to vote for I can't tell you who is going to win the election.
There are laws against buying and owning body armor in some areas of the US.
Those feeds are a chronological account of every place we've been and how we got there, every person we met and every conversation we shared. Our every breathing moment, recorded. But only the important parts, please.

A dossier in an authoritarian society, we call Facebook and the phone company.

By wanting— needing— the latter, we enable the former.

Of course, our societies aren’t oppressive. Probably. Mostly. Assuming we’re not a minority.

But the infrastructure has been laid. Willingly. For advertising. For keeping up with our friends and family. For convenience.
I found the use of a simple binary protocol rather unexpected but pleasant; it is reminiscent of I2C. Given what the software industry is like today, I was actually expecting some ridiculous combination of HTTP, JSON, SOAP, XML, or a similar level of bloat... for once, it's good to see some down-to-earth sanity here.
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WiFi chips are a fair bit cheaper, and don't need to integrate with the mains voltage side.
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Interesting read.

> So better than many options, but not great. And sadly the usage is connected to my land line, thus allowing those controlling the server to associate it to my home and person.

I wonder how often you need to enter that verification code provided by the robot-voice via the phone number used as identifier. Might one be able to bootstrap Signal with a public telephone? Of course that would tie your Signal identity to that specific phone number, but it's a step up from associating it with a phone number registered to your real-world identity.

Still pretty useless if you care about keeping your (on-line) identities separate. It seems like most major services on the internet today desperately want that neatly unique key that is my phone number in their databases. The amount of nag-screens asking for it is absurd (Twitter, Steam, anything Google, etc.).
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Nothing in social will ever be 99.999%, so what?

60-80% is enough for the network effect to overcome everything else, and for the phone/IMEI to become the de-facto standard. Just like TCP/IP/Ethernet/Wifi became the networking de-facto standard despite other networking protocols existing (and being superior in some dimensions like ATM).
The remaining 20-40% will adapt. Some of them will not have their needs met. The world moves on.

The interesting question is: what does the new fungibility of social software mean for the lock-in-based business model of the likes of Twitter/Facebook etc? How will they regain lock-in? Will they be able to add non-fungible features, like e.g. WeChat, or will they whither?
Getting rid of the guns is not a realistic option. The U.S. is too big, and too diverse for blanket intrusive policies to work well. A firearms policy that makes sense in Baltimore is complete overkill in Montana.
A couple of answers :
1) anything that is not just a PoC with limited amount of people connecting to it. For 10 clients connected at all, sure use the thing you know well. It will be easier to use and write, and your time to market will be better. Otherwise, use the real tool.

2) db is rarely your problem. Interpretation can be, and tons of other things. Also erlang schedules things far better and use all the core of the machine, so it will block far less, etc It also means that the thourgput and latency will stay stable despite the amount of users growing. (up to a limit, but it will far higher)

3) Store it in memory. And link other node to yours. Tadaaa

4) Where data live depends of your use case but why use a db if you do not need it anyway?

The thing in general is that web framework tend to use db to hide concurrency.

Also why no cache : because cache is complex, cost you another dependency and another program, make debugging harder, make your app less deterministic, etc.
If you need cache use it. But caching is a really hard thing.
Car purchases are about more than the product: durability, warranty and availability matter. The same goes for clothes. Restaurants are about the experience and health reputation.

While I may purchase a lesser shirt from a known brand when a superior one was at the same price from a street shop, I may be justified in that choice because I cannot know in advance that the better shirt is as durable. I may even purchase an Arduino when a cheaper Chinese replica has the same specs, in order to contribute to their R&D.

Of course, there will be some to knowingly spend on lesser products for fame's sake. But I'm not convinced this is the case here. Firstly, the owner may have been told he could make a fortune, and spent more than he could afford hoping to make that money back tenfold. Secondly, some markets act as implicit international currencies, such as gold, and tangible art. This is similar to owning a forged €500 bill.
Isn’t even accessing her phone without a search warrant illegal? Surely it had nothing to do with the crime being committed (obviously, since the only crime that took place is the murder of an innocent man by the police)
To handle the huge amount of media it handles, Facebook has a content distribution network that stores many copies of the media in many places. When you upload it goes to an initial storage location, and when you view it the server you're talking to will fetch a copy if it doesn't already have it. (I don't work at Facebook, but this is a typical large-scale caching system.)

When you delete a posting, nothing actually gets deleted, at least not right away. A flag is set which tells the system not to display the post anymore. The caches of the media files eventually expire and they get deleted. The initial storage location will probably stay until the posting is really deleted. That could be forever, not for any nefarious reasons but because of cross-referencing between database records.

Your posting has a unique id, and when someone likes it, or adds a comment to it, or shares it, the id is used to cross-reference their action/content with yours. If your post is deleted there would be dangling cross-refefences, and database systems usually don't like that. It's often better to leave the record in the database but flag it as "deleted" so it won't be displayed to anyone (except maybe admins and you.)
We would need more context/information about your specific objectives.

- document conversion (pdftotext, pdfbox, apache tabula, etc.)

- OCR (tesseract, pypdfocr, etc.)

- Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) i.e. finding and recognizing entities in text (DBPedia Spotlight, stanford NER via NLTK, spacy)

- coreference resolution, dependency parsing (spacy, syntaxnet)
Could you describe what kind of epiphanies the book gave you?
Do you mean by extrapolating from executed instructions? It would be very much dependent on the architecture then. It would be nice to read some independent studies and experiments, after the recent events I take any manufacturer claim on consumption with a pinch of salt.
The title reminded me of Slick Henry from 'Mona Lisa Overdrive'.
I agree and I'm not advocating to take back information. That is not possible anyway.

I just think that most people, for whatever reasons, do not have the capacity for "relaxed empathy" in stressful situations.
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Single data point: I was slightly shocked to see in Gloucester, a Policeman in Tesco supermarket with a pistol in a holster on his belt. Wonder if this was a one off - I hope so.
The history of Europe I learned is littered with tyrannical regimes throughout Europe.
You can still get tab to complete with the standard Python interpreter.

python3 -ic "import readline; import rlcompleter; readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')"

Admittedly, IPython's is better.
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I guess people signing up for a database course should expect triggers to feature at some point
It principle yes, but in practice? You see a trend with interpreted, then JITed languages eventually getting an AOT compiler, but I can't recall any natively compiled language getting a JIT for performance reasons (LLVM was supposed to allow that, but the JIT hasn't seen much love)
I think this is the wrong way to think about visual vs. textual programming.

Textual programming exceeds at plugging into your mind, you can associate words with ideas, imagine what the program will do very efficiently.

Visual programming done poorly is just textual programming with lines and boxes, the visual queues sometimes help but often just get in the way of our mental simulation of the program in our head. However, if done with much more direct manipulation of the executing program, it can bring much of the simulation we are doing in our head into the computer, boosting our ability to think, reason about, and solve problems.

Most of our examples of visual programming are done poorly (e.g. diagram-based languages), but there are also some good examples that show off its real potential (Forms/3, AgentSheets, Pygmalion, ARK).
There are several hadiths (at least in the Sunni tradition) explicitly forbidden the making of "images".
Well, now we are doing it (talking about meat, here and in the Washington Post).
I can’t but disagree with this article. What did author intend by the words about meatarians? I’m not a slaughterer, but I think that this process is natural. I despise hunting and fur wearing. But I can’t imagine my life without meat. This fact doesn’t disturb me to worry about environment.
How does that prove anything?

Snapchat is starting from a base of 0. So of course it has increased as people have even found out about it. They didn't have any desktop users to transition to mobile.

You're being totally irrational.
I agree. Read the comment 3 times and can't tell if it describes something positive or negative.
Multiline support - my prayers have been answered! Copying/pasting code and modifying multiline commands from your history was easily the most annoying thing about ipython.
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In 1996 Australia bought back more than a million firearms from people and destroyed them subsequently.

Brazil did the same.
> There is no proof that the military way produces good citizens, and every other method ever tried introduces barriers, which usually leads to minorities being excluded

This set me thinking. The big problem with a mechanism for selecting voters is that the people doing the selecting get to manipulate the contents of the voter pool. In this case, army recruiters. Now not only are you selecting candidates who'l make good soldiers, you're selecting candidates who will vote the way you want them to. Combine that with the power to train and condition those people as you choose during their military service, and expel soldiers that don't tow the line, and you've got the makings of a pretty effective one party state system run for the benefit of the party (the military in this case) and not the citizens.
Well i think it will look a bit different in modern times, more like a peer to peer structure, without one point of failure
Like you see with terrorist groups, small autonomous groups. A war that you cannot win as a government (irak, afganistan etc..)because there is no single fronline, the war is all over the place.
This is what happened when Australia introduced tight gun controls
I would say at the very least, the construction of the Model S and the supercharger network are hugely innovative.
>I find these type of articles fascinating, ... I frankly can't even comprehend, on a personal level, not having lots stuff, because it's crucial to my job and my hobbies

Are you reacting to the title of the article instead of its actual content? It specifically addresses your situation of "having lots of crucial stuff":

"She is often mistaken for someone who thinks you shouldn’t own anything, but that’s wrong. Rather, she thinks you can own as much or as little as you like, as long as every possession brings you true joy."

She has also reiterated this point when discussing her book/philosophy in interviews (Google Author Talks, etc).

So yes, if you're a serious hobby photographer, you may have 20+ fixed focal length lenses. A weekend woodworker my have 100+ different clamps and all sorts of power tools and various gadgets. All that gear is compatible with her decluttering advice.

Instead, she's talking about all that other stuff that doesn't bring you joy: clothes you don't wear, the trinkets accumulating in the kitchen's "junk" drawer, the inappropriate wedding gifts that's been taking up space in the top shelf of the closet, etc.
> [...] no allowed margin for error.

Or rather, make sure that any human error doesn't impact people.

But that's easier implemented in a technology company, with automated tests etc, than in the police. Yet still, eg putting a GoPro on every officer would help make mistakes in eg investigating allegations of police brutality less likely.
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Usually animals that have faster metabolic rate have shorter lifespans. It's theorized that this might be because mitochondria get damaged as they provide energy for the cells. Eventually they start leaking free radicals and destroying the cell.

Flying creatures are exception. For flight animal needs extreme amounts of energy so in theory bats should have livespan shorter than mice but that's not the case. Somehow bats manage to pass huge amounts of energy during their lifetime and still have pretty decent livespan. Evolution can figure out workarounds for even most fundamental problems if there's proper motivation. Some people think that aging and cancer are just result of evolution sloppiness cause by the lack of need for cancer-free, living longer than necessary individuals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-of-living_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion#Possible_relatio...

There's another clue that mitochondria age and get worse as they work and and are very important. All of our mitochondria come from female reproductive cell. Mitochondria from male reproductive cells are discarded, possibly because they degraded when male reproductive cell traveled meet to female reproductive cell. Female reproductive cell is inert and created very early in life and stored throughout lifetime to provide untarnished mitochondria to offspring. Male reproductive cells are created throughout life of an individual, but they get gradually less mobile when they were made by older individual. It's possible that this loss of mobility is caused by damage that mitochondria sustained during male lifetime.

I can recommend https://www.amazon.com/Oxygen-Molecule-World-Popular-Science...

It's bit speculative towards the end but makes many very interesting points. Written by Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London

Another clue that mitochondria have costant damaging effect on cells probably increasing in intensity with aging http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306179.php
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Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Terrorist groups are not very effective.

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I know, and I don't want to sound naive, but weren't they supposed to protect us? (not an US citizen)
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ambiguity is an inescapable consequence of systems of communication based on social convention. That's really the fundamental reason why physicists have such a strong preference for mathematics. The convention there is of logic and notation rather than social preference and personal idiosyncrasy as with natural language.

but we don't have the means to use a rigorous system of communication when discussing consciousness. there is no calculus of mind. its not even clear that there could be, in principle.

so we need to re-calibrate our notion of rigor and precision to deal with the domain we're working in here. we shouldn't just wring our hands and lament that our communication tools fail us. we can still use them, we simply need to be more disciplined and avoid devolving into arguments about language semantics and conventions and try to focus on the actual content, ambiguous as it may seem.

here's a simple working definition of "existence" that may be ambiguous but should hopefully not be controversial. a thing exists if it is experienced by a conscious mind. this includes material things which are experienced via the conventional senses (sight, hearing, etc.). it also includes immaterial things, such as thoughts and ideas, which are experienced internally within a conscious mind.

this definition does not resolve the ambiguity regarding the point-of-origin of immaterial things, but that is not particularly relevant in my opinion. we don't need to answer that question in order to engage with the material, so let's just leave it unanswered.
Yes, but less so the modern republics. (But that borders on True Scotsman argument.)
Eyeballing: http://www.undertheraedar.com/2012/06/population-of-china.ht.... Tibet is part of that side with 6% of the population, but rainfall is a major issue limiting population over a much larger area.
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For me it's been libraries which we rely upon which don't support 3.
1. I'm not in CA, but from what I read it seems like raising tilapia in CA would be legally difficult. You do have other fish choices, such as catfish crappie, perch, and bluegill.

2. I haven't been able to find a lot of hard facts about PVC, other than the fact that it supposedly bad for fish you want to eat eventually. In any case, PEX piping and fittings are readily available online and in Home Depot and Lowes stores.
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> Tracking the memory here would slow you down.

Meh. A lot of systems use specialized memory pools for such use cases:
- allocate memory pages from OS
- allocate objects via this pool
- release the full pool when done (i.e. just unmap t page, which essentially has no cost at all)

If the task at hand is known to have an upper bound of same sized objects, this basically reduces management overhead to maintaining a single pointer (and you can work with guard pages to just catch the segfault when trying to access out-of-bound memory, which is not that far fetched because it is actually what some JIT'd Java code does to optimize out null checks [0]).

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> Now what societal changes could happen that would disrupt a race to the bottom of police brutality, like in USA?

Robot cops with open-source A.I., verifiable firmware, and a public log of all their decisions.

As long as humans are given any sort of power over other humans, shit will happen. No matter where it is, what era it is.
Peanuts, in comparison. There are more than 300 million firearms in circulation in the U.S.
Of course some a common enemy and a possible nuclear winter let you think twice about the next war, but Germany and France have shared interests with a lot of other countries, too, with whom pictures like this do not exist.

I think I found almost all my friends through common interests and in times of piece, for which we ourselves had done very little (while I do not share your point that this is only because 'murica). Does not mean that they are not my friends.