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Only Five eye countries are close allies to US. France and Germany act more independently and sometimes against US interests. They are watched with suspicion.

US and France have been spying each other for ages.

U.S. Intelligence and the French
Nuclear Weapons Program – Documents Show U.S. Intelligence Targeted French Nuclear Program as Early as 1946 http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB184/

Former head of France’s counter-espionage understands what is the name of the game:

http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarc...

>“The French intelligence services know full well that all countries, whether or not they are allies in the fight against terrorism, spy on each other all the time,” he said.
“The Americans spy on French commercial and industrial interests, and we do the same to them because it’s in the national interest to protect our companies.”
“There was nothing of any real surprise in this report,” he added. “No one is fooled.”
"Chancellor Merkel is important. If the NSA was not surveying her communications, it was only because it was unable to do so,"
"How could the NSA not want to listen in on the person rated by Forbes as the second most powerful person in the world after President Obama?”
Of course there is; so they can make a killing on the peripherals market.
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I think it's more useful to think of innovation as a continuous process instead of something static. Following that line of thinking, even if your competitor is be able to fully replicate your product, he will still be unable to follow your pace of innovation. In addition, the services and expertise around a given product are usually as important as the product itself, and harder to replicate than the product.
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There's feedback and then there's feedback.

If a manager makes a decision having weighed the factors, and some team members disagree, but it's an arguable thing (corporate strategy for instance) and the difference is mostly one of opinion, sure, I agree. Constant criticism of that will get tuned out.

There's also cases where something is just clearly dysfunctional. For instance, if the CEO is constantly talking about how the firm needs to move fast and innovate, but installing a new piece of software on your workstation takes six months and involves three forms, it's fair to say that isn't a difference of opinion (all parties want to move faster and innovate more), that's a failure of execution. Someone, somewhere, clearly feels that this bureaucracy is worth it, but they probably can't defend that given the firm's priorities.

You can phrase that as "this process is great, but we could make it even better" if you want to be as well-loved as possible. My experience has been that this usually leads to an answer of the form "thanks, we're glad you love our service, unfortunately we have many other things we're doing right now kthxbye" - i.e. when nothing is bad and everything is merely a proposed improvement, improvements that might be even slightly threatening to anyone just get ignored entirely. And you can't complain because everything is peachy, right?
> Quantum Insert requires the NSA and GCHQ to have fast-acting servers relatively near a target’s machine that are capable of intercepting browser traffic swiftly in order to deliver a malicious web page to the target’s machine before the legitimate web page can arrive.

It looks like they reply to a request instead of a legitimate server (poisoning DNS, or routing tables, maybe by jus adding a server to an anycast service) to infect the target machines. Once the target machine is infected, ssl, passwords, etc... No longer matter.
What I actually need is "learning math in a short time",

With a few, minimal yet illustrative examples (ala katas), plenty diagrams/illustrations and other mental aids, an no rigour - not a single bit of set-theory!

The proofs and rigor can come later...

Incidentally, I'm a dev in finance, looking to move into quant dev. I have a math degree (completed 2007) and I'm doing a "CQF" to catch up with the relevant quant knowledge. I think cyptography, and stats/data analytics might also be a good area for mathy-dev.
They'll all be using Tesla batteries.
Oh yeah, telesur, that bastion of objective journalism.
Fire indeed hot!
This is scary because the direct implication of this event is a creep of power for intelligence agencies, which is not very good to have in a democratic system (because lack of oversight, accountability, significant means to alter democratic process, etc).
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One of the more "fun" things they use to justify what they do internally: the outer space theory. You have to know that the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is (simplified) only allowed to operate outside Germany. Now they have antennas in Germany to monitor communication passively relayed on a satellite. As we all know, the satellite is located outside Germany, so they pretend this is legal.

In a similiar argument, internet exchange points in Frankfurt are declared "effectively outside Germany" and therefore fair game.

If you find that interesting, at last year's 32C3 they had a fun renenactment of some abstruse scenes full of such things[0] from the parliamentary investigation committee on the NSA and its cooperation with the BND (which itself is not filmed publicly). English interpretation is available. https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7225-grundrechte_gelten_nicht_im...

To anyone German-speaking[1] in Berlin I can recommend visiting a session of the committee. It's really illuminating to see those intelligence agents trying to save their face firsthand. https://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/ausschuesse18/ua/1untersu...

[0]: Did you know that US intelligence interrogated refugees in Germany on "the bread supply situation" in their home countries and used Google Maps for that?

[1]: Sometimes they have English-speaking witnesses. This week it's people from the ACLU but they also had an US drone pilot and a Verizon executive in the past.
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> If a man gets a woman pregnant (possibly anonymously), there's much lower cost and stress.

It's exactly the other way around.

If I get a woman pregnant by accident and she wants it and I don't, I lose $1000+ a month for the next 18 years.

If it's the other way around, she can get an abortion and be back to normal in a couple of months. Not that this is easy on her, but it's easier than earning $200k...
You not cheating will not lead to the powerful being less corrupt. It will actually reward them for being corrupt. In a prisoners' dilemma, they are constantly defecting without cost, and you are refusing to defect on principle. That makes you a sucker.

The way to eliminate corruption is to overthrow those who are corrupt.
Also, Barbier confirmed at the same conference that France had hacked Canada's house, which was denied by the French government. So yeah, the US are clearly not the only ones to do that.
There was a FreeBSD bug in mosh, which led to high CPU usage which prevented me from trying it twice in the past.
This is definitely the best charting library I've worked with so far, mostly because of its flexibility.

However, being afraid that I'm not aware of some other, maybe more powerful, libraries out there, I'm asking here are there good alternatives?

Also, there were some rumors lately regarding the layoffs in Palantir, which makes me worry about the future of the project.
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Are these refurbished HP laptops?
I would disagree here. If you look at this solely from the perspective of someone screwing around in the public dollar sure, it's easy to say screw that. If however you instead look at it like: "This person tried this, really didn't like it, is not good at it, and probably shouldn't do it", why should we then force them into a field they can't generate value in -or- damn them to a lifetime of wage slavery to pay for the schooling they can't use?

In my mind, college exists to prepare a pupil for a given field and if said pupil for any number of reasons cannot do that upon exiting that institution, why should they pay for it?
Partly. I want:

A) A car no larger than a 3 series BMW
B) A full EV car with >250 mile battery range

Basically the first reputable company that can deliver that has me as a customer!

I wouldn't buy an a8 or 7 series because they dont come with kool-aid. Seriously!
Do we? I would say that the obligation of the US government is to follow the goals set in the Constitution as much as possible, until such time as the Constitution is amended or replaced. As much as spying does "provide for the common defence", it is defensible. When the spying alienates allies, it is too much. When the spying forces foreign-held companies to pull out, can it really be said to "promote the general Welfare"?

Why would there be such an obligation for unlimited spying?
That page says the Planck time is the time it takes for light in a vacuum to travel one Planck length. That doesn't imply it's the smallest interval, does it?
Their explanation was that someone could send them a command line and it might could get executed (like a SQL injection), so they disallowed them pretty early in their processing to prevent it from happening.

Is this likely? I'm sure someone has tried it at some point. And an excess of caution is something that I sort of want in a card processor.
So how are they handling the fact that their business is violating Apples OSX terms and can be taken down at any time ?
Also wondering how the $329 price works, as this seems to be based on HPs Elitebook which are more expensive.
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The FAQ says:

What's the actual laptop being used for HacBook Elite?
It's a like-new refurbished HP EliteBook, the business class version of the HP ProBook.
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The Science of Ultra podcast. Run by Shawn Bearden, a runner and professor of physiology, he has scientists on to talk about high altitude physiology, hydration, effective calorie absorption, and a host of other fascinating subjects.

I am not an ultra runner or even a marathoner, I'm a wannabe alpinist. But the podcast is incredibly informative for anyone who is going to be under movement for more than 4 hours. I have learned more that has helped me in training and on hikes and climbs from this podcast than any other single resource.

http://www.scienceofultra.com
Can a company do much business selling hackintoshes? In general isn't Apple pretty aggressive about this sort of thing?
The Tesla is quicker, and can drive itself better. Sure, the Merc wins a lot of the other categories. I think it is reasonable to compare them.
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I disagree. These are not fairy tales. These are what we shall tend for, even if we live in an imperfect world.

Stating that the constitution is bogus does not imply that we shall throw it out, but that we shall fix it. the NSA should not violate the law to make its job. Maybe the law shall be fixed, maybe behavior of the NSA shall change, probably both.
What a great service!
Probably because they use a web application firewall that's full of strange rules to try to protect any random crappy application behind it.
An aside: I like writing the log message in logfmt: https://brandur.org/logfmt
As I said in my previous comment, I don't think that China can't. It's a launch capable country and I think it's safe to assume that if they're launching rockets and and putting stuff into orbit, tunnel boring machines are well within their adjacent possible.

We're talking about a nation that had ships 450 feet long and 150 feet wide 600 years ago. If Noah was real, he was probably Chinese, lived in the 15th century, and the animal pairs he took with him were fast robotized arms from Germany.
Feel that the last sentence in the article was the main reason for writing it:

> I love my shitty Apple headphones that just plug in to anything.

Bluetooth is not ubiquitous _yet_
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like it's perfectly possible to be interested in something and yet still have a lot of experience in the subject matter. Lots of experts want to share their knowledge either to help the field move along a bit or to get more people interested in whatever their expertise is in.

The person on YouTube that makes tons of videos about the minute technical details of Super Mario 64 and talks about half button presses and parallel universes is obviously highly interested in the game and its mechanics and also has a lot of experience with it.

There are people whose main passion remains the same for 20+ years and who never get bored of learning more and more about the same subject till they retire or die.

And no, I don't think objectivity must be passionless or bore the reader. It's possible to present 'just the facts' in a way that's enjoyable to read and doesn't try and pass off any viewpoints as objective. A good nature documentary could still be interesting to watch after all.
This is the only valid reply to this false and misleading diatribe from Mike Rowe or any of the twits who keep crying about the "skills gap". Why would I break my back and use my expertise for the same amount of money you pay an employee at McDonald's (I am going by Canadian minimum wage)?
Why is it the job of the taxpayers to subsidize an 18 year olds passions/whims?

I get providing aid to colleges, especially for research and to ensure an adequate number of people go into engineering, science, math, etc. But I see no reason that we should subsidize someone getting a literature degree or just fucking around.
I see some hints too, but that's probably because my mind is wired to be programmer :) So it's probably just a sort of confirmation bias.

However seeing the quantum effects like a version of compression, dark matter and dark energy which could be an ugly hack to stabilize matter and galaxies, the fractal self similarity of the universe is just too amusing to ignore :)
This was posted last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384050
Well this will be interesting.
> I wonder if it's even possible.

From a practical perspective it definitely is. I've picked up a fair amount of graph theory and with nothing but extreme persistence have grokked and used some fairly advanced stuff[1][2] (2nd-year dropout). It was, however, work-related. Just don't ask me to proof anything.

> the few lucrative jobs that make use of maths are in finance

There is also competency on the table here. Graph theory crops up day-to-day with the business software work I'm doing (three separate deliverables). Calculus is used to a point of absurdity in game development - e.g. the Fresnel term. Machine learning? Calculus, linear algebra, tensors. Profiling? A basic understanding of statistics. Compilers? Category theory, graph theory. Physics engines? ODE.

It's extremely valuable to know this stuff.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s_strongly_connected_...
[2]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/352.pdf
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Of course it's possible. If everyone becomes an engineer, that just means the median engineer is less impressive.

Can there be too many people with 130+ IQs? Not sure about that.

Right now engineering degrees are valuable as intelligence proxies because the standards are less relaxed than other degrees. If everyone became an engineer this would no longer be the case.
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This is nearly the opposite of what I think most people would want. Apple makes amazing hardware, but it doesn't usually support non-OSX operating systems very well. The only reason I can think of for anyone wanting this is for iOS development.
When considering the axis of creating super bugs, cocktails would probably exacerbate the problem, since now you're applying several stressors in parallel. Unless you had like, 5 or so fundamentally different avenues of attack, then you could get, what, 30~ unique combos? Most people don't need anti-biotics more than 10 times in their life? If it they were equally valid in any case, doctors could just choose randomly from the set of cocktails they haven't used on a given patient before. I'm certain a cell biologist would tell me this is a dumb plan for some reason, though.
They are using a 4 year old model (it has a sandybridge processor in it).
IIRC there was anther company doing this a few years back. Think they got shutdown by apple, but I cant remember the name. I think the company name started with P and was based in South America.
Because of the circlejerk.
Missing from the FAQs:

How long before Apple gets you shut down?
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You're taking the concept of, "knowledge," and the concept of, "government" and mixing them together into a very swirly, confused, nihilistic statement. Are laws written down on paper simply that they will be broken by the government, but not by the people? While that may almost inevitably happen over the decades and centuries of a republic existence, that is certainly not the intent of laws, at least in a western republic such as Germany or the US. Governments breaking laws is not, "above the law," - it is actually, by definition, breaking the law, when the Government breaks the law, which is the opposite of what you're saying. You're saying that everyone knew when those laws were written, that they would actually be breakable by the government. That's not true. The lawyers who bring and win cases against the Government don't know that...in fact, they know the opposite to be true. Now, as to the question of the conduct of individual politicians who believe they can break the law, that is a third question - is it OK for politicians to break the law to achieve a certain end? Well...sometimes yes, sometimes no...you can't just make a blanket statement saying that 100% of the time every time a politician has broken a law that it has been morally corrupt. There is a such thing as bad laws. Overall, I think your heart is in the right place in terms of wanting better moral conduct, but you are very confused on what Governments are, and you should perhaps consider delving further into historical literature on the subject.
I'm pretty sure lack of politeness is one of the defining traits of a jerk, yes.
Which I'm quite aware of because as a lot of programmers I am something of a jerk.
Apple is usually very aggressive about shutting down people who do this.

As I discovered when I spent a bunch of time hunting around for someone competent to sell me a pre-assembled very high end Mac Pro type rig, which I can't seem to find.

I still think that would be a much better business if one wants to sell their hackintosh skills. I would gladly pay a couple grand or more for a genuine top of the line Mac Pro equivalent, since the official ones are not so outdated and overpriced.

And PS if anyone knows how to do that I am definitely interested.
> Even our sun going supernova "works".

Our sun can't go supernova.
Exactly.

Case in point: Psystar [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
Saying it's just "acceleration" is an oversimplification. It's hard to describe what it's like driving a good electric car. It's not just that it accelerates faster, but the acceleration starts exactly when you want it to. Everybody i've let drive my S has been skeptical, and then blown away.

Yeah, the interior is not as nice as a top end BMW or Mercedes. I don't care, driving the car is amazing. I drove a $150k Audi RS7 the other day. The whole time i wanted to be back in my S.
"Looks like a Mac. Feels like a Mac."

Ehhh, that is a bit too blatantly dishonest for my taste.
And I call BS when I see it. A nation state is morally responsible to it's citizens to uphold the law and order and protect it's citizens [from threats internal and external]. This is funded by the tax money collected by the state from it's subjects. Nation state may, willingly provide protections and other services reserved for it's citizens to others. But concept that it must or should is flawed at heart. World today remains a hostile place and the game for supremacy remains as strong as ever.
> what exactly is a nutritionist going to tell you that you can't read online?

Which things to read online?
>I've given a recipe for producing testable predictions, aka a "theory".

That's a hypothesis, not a theory.
Let me plug 'Leo', the programming editor here which brings literate programming to lots of other programming languages.
This is the second hackintosh ive seen for sale in as many days, the previous a high end workstation.
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"ships everything needed to start running the latest version of OS X"

So I guess it doesn't come with the actual OS, you'll have to download and install it separately.
Whatever, the same principle applies.
It's amazing how well mosh can keep connections alive through network outages. I have unbearably unreliable mobile network connection and plain old SSH connections drop regularly but Mosh just keeps on going.

And it doesn't require me to reconnect when I enable/disable my work VPN.
One of the things that I like about the 3.5mm jack is that it's ubiquitous. I unplug them from my PC, plug into my phone, then into a tablet...

I have no prior experience on wireless headsets. How well does pairing work when there are multiple devices? I haven't had a good experience with other gadgets in the past; I used to dualboot my PC, but pairing my Bluetooth mouse with one OS automatically unlinked it from the other OS.

I don't know if it's just a bugged device or if that's what is supposed to happen. If it's the latter case, I wouldn't see any advantages for wireless headphones over 3.5mm, at least in my case.

EDIT: Typos.
I'd be totally OK with Apple producing a slightly thicker phone that is 1) Easier to hold 2) Doesn't bend in your pocket 3) Has a headphone jack 4) Has more room inside for a larger battery 5) Has more room inside for a SD reader
Until you try it with a device that doesn't work.
> Duh? That's trivially true. Similarly, as a non-EU citizen outside the EU, the freedom to travel within the EU does not apply to me.

1. That's not a valid analogy. The EU has no control over how people travel in other countries and any restrictions they may face. The US government does have control about how it treats people outside US borders. They're not remotely analogous.

2. The US constitution could easily be interpreted as a way that the US government should treat human beings, which means the 4th amendment describes how they should approach search and seizure of any person's property, wherever the US government has influence. Given the internet, influence now extends to computers across borders.
Just use kerberos. You don't need LDAP to use Kerberos (although you probably should be using LDAP too). Kerberos without LDAP is trivial to set-up and administer, and it's very non-invasive, so you don't need to do any significant changes to your organization.