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I appreciate you're playing devil's advocate, so I'm holding back.

"There's a security problem in Europe at the moment". What are you talking about? The number of people harmed in terrorism-related events in Europe in any given year is dwarfed by the number of people who harm themselves by accident or stupidity in those same countries. And dwarfed to an even greater extent by the number of people killed by police in the USA, or killed in mass shootings that don't get attributed to terrorism in the USA. It is the media attention given to the situation, not the situation itself, that is terrifying. Europe is extremely safe and does not have a security problem.

The entire western world has a problem with xenophobia. It can't control its own politicians who lead military assaults on middle eastern or north african nations for purportedly moralistic reasons. Assaults that are guaranteed to alienate entire generations of people and incite preditable retaliatory violence.

Nothing about the proposed privacy intrusions helps protect people from 'terrorism'. It feeds a cycle of ineffectual security theatre and provocation of western-produced radical activism that makes us all less safe. With one hand we create and promote terrorism, and with the other we strip ourselves of our freedoms and march toward technological totalitarianism.
Or you could use tries.
Decentralization is inherently inefficient because redundancy is inefficient. Sometimes inefficient is not really a problem because you have bigger priorities, like genetic diversity and avoiding a single point of failure.
Fair enough, but that's still "projected to generate" not "can generate".
Articles like this and frankly even the statistics on the safety of autonomous vehicles are a red herring distracting us from where the focus needs to be on the development of this technology. Consider that if the same life saving autopilot technology Elon Musk is pushing was rolled out as a backup, rather than a primary control and turned on by default on every Tesla, far, far more lives would be saved beyond just allowing full-time autopilot or a full-time human in control.

That's right, keep the driver engaged because we know the outcome of the EULA whereby people swear they'll pay attention when autopilot is enabled, they won't, they can't, it's not how the human brain works. Rather, autopilot should function as a backup to the human driver in the near term as the technology is developed. If it senses a pending collision, kick in. Simple, simple. A computer won't disengage because it's not in control, it will always be vigilant as a backup to the human, but a human will never be a backup to a computer, we aren't built that way.

But you might say: "Oh, Mr. Smarty Pants, if the driver knows there's an autopilot backup wouldn't the driver just let it take over?" Well, there's an easy solution to that. Just like a computer can be taught to drive a car, it can also be taught to sense when the driver isn't paying attention. It can kick off the radio, turn off the AC, sound an alarm, or even just pull the car safely to the side of the road.
The little experiment we are currently playing with everyone's lives must be better managed. As a security researcher who's uncovered thousands of bugs over the course of the last two decades, without question, the code that Tesla or anyone else in this space is producing is not of sufficient quality for a life critical system. Where are the independent lab certifications? Where's the university research? It's not there, it's too early in the game and that's why people need to set their ego's aside and do the right thing. Computers at this stage of the game are for backup, not primary.
What's wrong with just having a relatively high property tax and using the resulting revenue to provide city services? That should disincentivize warehousing empty residential units.

There are some disadvantages versus an income tax -- the proverbial pensioners with a house whose value exploded under them but can't reasonably tap that value because of not much income to secure a mortgage against is one. But judiciously targeted tax rebates can help there.
No. I always wanted to say that to the title of this paper ;)

The complaint of van neumann programming langauges, as the paper describes, is that it can only be extended as a framework. Todays imperative languages are much more powerful, either they are untyped (implicitly generic), or they include generics, or at least have objects with polymorphism.

The paper puts forward applicative (functional) programming, as a start, because it can be extended much better. The main point, functions can be put together, because you don't have to name, and thus not give types to, the arguments.

To make the system complete (useful), he adds a applicative state transition system, or mutable state. Think IO monad.

I have a different take. You want systems where everything can be abstracted over. That is, put inside of a function (abstraction). And whatever the system does is truly hidden, unobservable to the outside. That might sound like fp, but it has problems when you want to hide state, or when the abstraction is about input/output. Example:

function downloadAndVerify(url):
data = http.get(url)
hash = http.get(url + ".md5")
return data, md5(data) == hash

In my opinion, the above expresses what I want. If I need async, my callers need async. If I need IO monad, my callers need IO monad. Neither can hide that. If it blocks, it can be solved the same way as CPU intensive operations, do it in the background. So processes need to be easy.

You want a language where any async api can be converted into a blocking api, and any blocking api into an async api. (Using processes, most likely.)
California's list of known carcinogens includes just about anything, even if the dose needed to cause cancer is far larger than the dose needed to kill you in some other way.

With reference to other stuff that gets sprayed on crops glyphosate is amazingly safe. (Herbicide is a significant cause of death by suicide world wide, and glyphosate reduces that because it's safer than others). If you're spraying it on crops you want to be careful.

But if you're just eating the crops: you're not going to get cancer from glyphosate.
I don't think so.

The attacker is executing script through the RemoveExtraSpaces function that gets run on every chat message, not by executing it with either player's chat console.
These sort of bills always make me wonder if we'll ever see a moral stance taken by tech companies.

obligatory: http://aaisp.co.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html. One of the reasons I'm a customer.
Of course, whether fancy hotels actually end up delivering said quality and service levels, I dunno.

They don't, my experience says your WiFi will be more crappy at a Hilton/Westin/whatever than a Best Western or even a Motel 6.

No, the reason you pay more is because odds are you aren't paying for it, your company is. Motel 6 could never get away with it because that money comes out of my pocket. But when you're putting it on the corporate Amex...
>> Working from those insights, we built our first physical model in a single weekend using plastic panels from the hobby shop, hot glue, and an off-the-shelf paper-cone speaker.

Who needs a 3D printer?
You clearly didn't live in the '70s or early '80s Europe. I was born in '79 but the signs of political violence from those decades were all around me while growing up in Italy. That menace was somehow controllable through intelligence and surveillance, because it was mostly coherent; this wave is completely different. Intelligence will never catch bullied 18-year-olds and disenfranchised taxi-driver lunatics before they do something stupid. What you need is a stronger society where people are willing to talk to "differents" as much as to their own little tribes.
Shiffman also has a "Coding Rainbow" series on YouTube that is pretty great. He has a good personality for goofy YouTube programming teacher.

https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
Its the classic "I'm not opposed to the tech, just opposed to the management".

Likewise I'm pretty chill with nuclear power. From a tech side its a total win.

Nuclear power plants managed by mega corporations, oh not so happy about that idea.

But nuke plants in general, without American style management, sure, they're cool.
Why are you.. outraged? Clearly allowing this attack was a mistake. Overriding functions is a language feature, so you'd have to think of the risk to think to block it.
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The problem with the "teetering" moment is these things have a way of sneaking up on you. Exponential growth in GMO crops would push this from an "in fifty years" thing to "in ten years" which is basically tomorrow.

I also doubt Monsanto and other big GMO organizations are going to give away anything ever unless they're forced to. Their answer to everything is "sue me" because they know they'll bury you.
I can't imagine there's much commission to be made selling a Raspberry Pi :)
I was never comparing motorcycles to bicycles. Of course bicycles are more energy efficient. But compared to cars motorcycles are far more efficient - especially electric motorcycles which are starting to hit the mainstream now.
You will be horrified to learn that there is a push to write stack ranking for all public employees into the constitution of Greece.
Ah but my mind is very good at stripping down artificially constrained environments - just artificial. The lazy part of me will always seek for the comfort zone.

That's another wild horse to get in control of I guess.
This is a great post! I tried implementing my own GLMs [1] a short while ago. But I ran into a lot of trouble with numerical instability and had a hard time tracking down ways to solve these edge cases.

Hopefully with this as a resource I'll be able to make some more progress on it!

[1]: https://github.com/AtheMathmo/rusty-machine/blob/master/src/...
Users shouldn't be able to alias anything to RunScript. Much less alias RunScript to RemoveExtraSpaces or other functions which are called by the core. This is a big big big security fail.

Yes, this bug involve some social engineering but the bug itself is big. This is not a bug but a really bad oversight. If someone made it so that the field of a website's form called eval() directly we would all be pointing fingers right now. This bug is the exact same thing.
> Terrorism on the other hand is a real world problem with easy to see consequences.

No, it's not. Just as the risks of loss of privacy are much higher than generally perceived, the risks of terrorism are much lower than generally perceived. Terrorism is perceived as a problem, but it really isn't, in most parts of Europe. Car crashes are a real world problem. Terrorism isn't.

(Now, I am obviously not saying that governments should simply blindly ignore terrorism risks--but overall, it really isn't a big problem, and there almost certainly are risks where most of the money would be better spent trying to reduce fatalities.)
Why not? The user interface being modable is awesome.
I certainly don't trust someone like Hillary Clinton to make good decisions around things like recommending courses of action to the Justice Department for say, enforcement of the CFAA or DMCA. Ditto for stances on incoming legislation regarding digital rights and privacy.

I would feel better if she had a good group of advisors who knew about technology and would explain the implications to her, but the people who have her ear do not seem to have the best interests of the average user in mind.
If the history of both tech and biotech is any indication, GMOs will be massively distributed on timescales much shorter than 10,000 years. Patents last for 17 years, and if drugs like penicillin or acetaminophen are any indication, generic competition springs up almost as soon as the patent is expired.

It's pretty unlikely that the original development of agriculture was decentralized. In fact, we have pretty good evidence that it was intensely centralized in a few places, and that tribes that had this technology then outcompeted, conquered, and killed all the hunter/gatherer bands that resisted using it.
Sorry, I don't buy any of this.
I don't know of any CLI clients (that would be perfect with a Bash alias) but I just store the initial 'seed' passcode in my password manager. When setting up a new device, I manually enter that instead of scanning a QR code and it works perfectly.
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Did Ballmer and Coligan really believe what they said? Or were they just trying to put up a brave face? I'm inclined to think it is the latter. Obviously they can't say "oh we know Apple will do very well and kick our butt", right?
Apple could sell a lot simply by offering a superior car buying experience. While others have tried/done this, the median car buying experience is still as garbage as it's ever been.
This is a pretty sanctimonious article, again attempting to push the agenda that all new technology is good technology, and all resistors are luddites.

Be cautious of this standpoint, technology suffers from a confirmation bias, we tend not to remember the technology that fails, the technology that lowers quality of life, or the technology that kills people.

Here are some counter-cases for you all:
1. 1920's era radiation craze. Water energizers, xray shoe fitting etc.
2. Communism
3. Airships

There's nothing wrong with scrutiny, and nothing wrong with taking your time exploring an idea, dealing with it's repercussions at a manageable rate. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something.

For example, we're only just now starting to see countries start to bring the hammer down on companies that push their employees to be contactable 24/7 without paying them to be on call. Mobile phones have been around for how long? The legislative system has inertia, and sometimes it's worth giving it time to catch up.
We also have a happy habit of over-embracing the new. Radium cures, lead in petrol, Heroin, Thalidomide, electropathy (being buzzed by high voltages for the "health" benefits), arsenic pills to increase libido.

It's only some years later we realise whether it was a great idea, a really stupid one or a straight up con. So a little reluctance and wariness, especially in a world where everything is marketed as being a brilliant idea, is probably a very good thing.

Self driving cars are definitely in the don't know yet category for instance.

A firmly one-sided article promoting a new book.
Make a credible threat to add enough supply to contain housing prices enough to not make it such a great investment?
Yea a proof of concept would definitely help. We're trying to architect the system at a high level though for the purposes of this project, which is why I thought I'd ask around here for any insights.

Thanks!
There have been reports of malware found within leaked mails hosted by WikiLeaks - so that might be one reason for the blocking.
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emacs runs instantly when using emacsclient to connect to emacs daemond
I have a feeling Apple might be working on a completely autonomous design; one that would not be legal to be tested on public roads due to current laws requiring human UI elements such as steering wheels and pedals.
I think you are probably better off being a top performer in a very common field. There is more opportunity that way. If you are lucky you can also be an early adopter in a growing field and ride the wave.

For example, Erlang and Haskell are cool languages and probably a technically better choice but I am not sure being an Erlang developer is a good choice for career development. There are not too many options for working in that field.
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If the past is any indication Apple will most likely improve on what is already out there
Mp3 player, Cell phone, buying music over internet, GUI, ... were all around before Apple made them big.

Tesla is probably their target this time.
I never understand the point of these posted quotes. Every time someone posts a reasonable doubt about Apple's new ventures, there's always the classic "iPhone rebuttal." Yes, Apple did iPhone, and during that time, some of their competitors laughed at them. What does it prove now? Apple is going to solve every single problem on earth just because they have iPhone? Companies create amazing products, same companies also create horrible products. Just because they had created an amazing product does not mean every single product they will create subsequently will be amazing and vice-versa. Why is it so hard for some people to understand?
Because it's lazy and insecure?
There used to be such a thing as radioactive toothpaste. On purpose.

And we used to think we can build roads and buildings faster by using atomic bombs to make digging quicker. That didn't work out that well either.

And we used to make cold syrup with morphine, cannabis, and other fun things.

Once upon a time, Freud was convinced that cocaine is a viable drug for treating mental ailments. That didn't go far.

For every long-term successful idea or product, there are dozens dumb products and ideas that never went anywhere. There's value in waiting for a product to prove itself before you adopt its use.
No, I think you're taking it too far. We only need to conclude that the minimal benefits from the proposal (i.e., few attackes would actually be averted) are vastly outweighed by the extreme cost to our civil liberties.

There do exist more reasonable compromises. For example, we as a society have already said that you can search someone's property if you get a court order. That's a smaller cost, because the authorities are forced to go through a supervised process before anyone's privacy is in jeopardy, and it's still sufficient to find the evidence in a huge proportion of cases.

But the proposal on the table is extreme. It affects everyone's privacy, before there's even a notion that a crime has been considered.
All the discussion and research in the thread you responded to is about genetics, not race. So you're either not following carefully or you're trying to create a politically charged tangent. Either way I think it's worth responding because your argument is very common and misinformed.

The issue here is partially semantic (the worst kind of argument), but you're on the other side of most scientists for very good reason. The way race is defined in the West is a terrible proxy for genetics, which to me is enough to declare it a social construct. Compare the pygmy Mbenga people of Cameroon with the Dinka people of South Sudan, and you'll find two "black" populations with a two foot height difference and totally different genetics. You could define race in a more principled manner, but then you'd end up with 1000s of races with arbitrary distinctions between them.
It's just a film but the counter-argument to this is well put forward by: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frank_2014/
You could be grinding your teeth while you're sleeping.
Well then you could try perspective-el for emacs
I'm all for value investing (it's the only legitimate reason for stock to exist) but in evolutionary terms, this is hoping to be large and healthy enough to ignore parasites rather than resist them dogging your every step.
> Seems like you're confusing Couchbase Mobile and Couchbase Server.

Probably. But is that really my fault?

There is CouchDB, CouchIO, CouchOne, Couchbase, Couchbase Server, Couchbase Mobile, Couchbase Lite, CouchApps, BigCouch, Touchbase, Membase, Memcached, MemcacheDB... all different and yet related in a way not at all obvious from the names alone.

First there was CouchDB, a database created by Damien Katz, a former IBM developer. Its official name was changed to Apache CouchDB after it became an Apache project.

A company named CouchIO was founded to work on Apache CouchDB and later changed its name to CouchOne (by "its name" I mean the company name - not the database name).

CouchOne (formerly CouchIO) merged with Membase (formerly NorthScale) to form a new company called Couchbase. Membase (the company) developed Membase (a product of the same name). Membase was created by several leaders of the Memcached project and it used the Memcached protocol. After the merger of CouchOne and Membase, Couchbase continued the development of the Membase software and later changed its name to Couchbase Server.

Today I think most people believe that Couchbase Server is a new version of CouchDB but it is in fact a new version of Membase. It still uses the Memcached protocol and not the RESTful API of CouchDB. Meanwhile CouchDB is still CouchDB, actively maintained and enhanced as an Apache project.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/512324
There isn't really a good way to prevent reassignment of first-class functions to new names in Lua.
But wouldn't it only have to be loud at the microphone? So a quiet but very close white noise source (e.g. something taped directly over the microphone) could mask a louder but more distant source?
There is people that oppose GMOs business model.

"...Monsanto originally sold the soybeans to farmers under a limited use license that prohibited the farmer-buyer from using the seeds for more than a single season or from saving any seed produced from the crop for replanting..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.

Global farming should not depend on patented seeds that can be made scarce as an economic strategy. It is, at least, extremely risky from an economic point of view. But it gets worse from a legal point of view.

I'm all for developing new ways of farming. But if patents are so bad for software, they can be worse if we allow to patent gens.
it is also the reason I think this one is appropriate --> Science advances one funeral at a time. (I think this is Max Planck)

Considering how much things changed in the 20th century, I doubt the quote.

How many scientific revolutions did Einstein live through? Two?
Inertia, mostly. All the common tools are built around C, all the existing code is written in C, all the jobs to maintain and extend that code are all in C.

Like most "Why does everyone only ever use language X to do Y" questions, considerations of actual technical merit / best technical fit are a very minor factor in the equation.
Meh.

FB : "Don't read this, Mr. X"
PW : leaves the room, puts on a different hat
PW : "Can I read this?"
FB : "Sure!"
I've had malware show up in Google searches too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to block Google.

Any site that is big enough and hosts user content is eventually going to have malware in it somewhere.
Took me a while to see where the article was going, and was plenty surprised to see...that thing...the conference room speakerphone that was, in my experience, somewhere between barely functional and purposefully infuriating. I do not have a high opinion of the product after using it. Much like Bose. Hooray for making a lot of money, Monster Cables & Beats headphones style though.
But the current headline is "What Musical Notes Can Look Like", emphasis on the "Can". Your suggestion is basically just a condescending way to rephrase that.
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Dreams are an idiolect. It is a symbol for you with a particular meaning. It might help you to read about how the back porch of the house I grew up in took on a particular dream meaning for me:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/05/dreams-are-i...
I simply cannot upvote your comment enough. Very consise and to the point IMHO.
I'm basically proposing a principle that could be cast into law. Plant a crop with IP attached to it, then you better clean up after yourself. Monsanto would probably lobby against such a law, but so what, screw them and pass it anyway.

I'm pretty sanguine about the teetering. Among other things, companies like Monsanto (and thus their competitors) like to do things like maintain big seed banks. So do academics and hobbyists.