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A commercial product comes with a technical manual why is this even news?

Is The Intercept running out of stories that they need to turn "user guides" into news? Did anyone expected equipment and software that can cost millions of dollars not to be supported?

Heck commercial malware these days comes with online support, manuals, an SDK, and a development community w/ access to Jira.
I have mixed feelings about Manning. What did she release that made this country "better". Snowdon's leaks were controlled, and focused. The content has had a meaningful impact.
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Very accurate wrt the narcissism. So much of this attitude of "raising children to rule the world" (literally, the claim of the article, which I found ludicrous) is to flatter the parents and educators. Same for children who are good at sports. Does anyone stop to wonder what it does to a child to spend their whole lives training e.g. in a pool? How much pain does it cause to people who have to live up to such expectations, when all they can do, their entire lives, is fail?

I was one of those gifted children; both my parents are extraordinarily smart and I was years ahead of my peers in reading and maths. I'm happy no-one paid much attention and I was left to my own devices. Maybe I didn't become a billionaire, or go to Stanford at sixteen, yet I was mostly happy, most of my life, and every time I accomplished anything I was grateful and happily surprised. And I don't think it was a wasted life at all.

Leading society? What an arrogance. Let kids be, give them open access to knowledge and freedom to learn from others, and structure where they need it. Leave the "raising geniuses" to totalitarian regimes.
It may well be the strategy - I'm not convinced they actually expect people to stop worrying about death, buy and use the $999 box. They will certainly not ship large amounts of units by end of the year, and risk several accidents at this stage with effectively very alpha software/hardware combo.

I think they will get somewhere, if not in self driving cars then something else to do with machine learning.
Yes, I recall that line of reasoning very well - When Saddam is gone, that is, after bringing democracy to Iraq, the rest of the Middle East will become democratic and peaceful. Iraq was to be a beacon of for freedom and democracy.
That's Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs respectively for those who struggled to parse that.
The cost of research is far lower than claimed. Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development is heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. Their estimates of drug development costs are arguably inflated. Or at least, they don't question the industry's creative accounting methods. In reality, it's arguably promotion and advertising that take the biggest chunk from profits.
pure gold comment by Eduard Fischer (in Reader's pick section):

"Last week while traveling in the US, I witnessed a mother place a cola soft drink in front of a young child. The girl began to sip on the drink, the volume of which I estimated to be about twice the size of the girl’s head. I was tempted to make a remark, but remembered that I was in a foreign country where the citizens are famously well armed and roughly half the folks eligible to vote have lost their minds..."
Ideally more (or all) pharma research should be done by independent researchers and not by pharma sponsors.

You do realize that pharma might be paying for studies, but independent physicians are actually running them, right?
*.aspx is definitely ASP.NET, but Classic ASP also had runat=server silliness.
How was the recent attack in Dallas? Labor day weekend Atlanta went down for about 25 minutes until they squashed it. Then I saw dallas came under attack. How did it handle the DDOS this time?
The PR implications of this, particularly in Germany, will be interesting to follow.
Comeon, in Russia, you can sign thousand petition like this, it will be simple ignored, goverment didnt cares that their people sign. I sign a lot petitions and nobody threaten or fire from work
Amazon Echo to be released in the UK
Looks like the blog was hacked at some point, and what you are looking at is old SEO spam.
No need to hold off - now is actually the time to start learning Swift, as it's taking off. If you've written existing code, it will take you minor effort to translate the code (in most cases) and you can also use the code migrator tool.
The lack of accountability and oversight is really scary.
More than one historian (e.g. Dominic Sandbrook) has pointed out that the "winter of discontent" wasn't caused by socialism in the Attlee & Bevin sense but out and out naked self interest in a way that was closer to the "no such thing as society" of the Thatcher years.

I love Thatcher's description of Attlee:

"He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show."
Generally when numbers aren't released, it's an acquihire. Which means it probably went for less than the amount they raised.

It became obvious that Hipmunk was never going to be a 100x growth company, and the industry is not headed in a positive direction for small companies (access to accurate data is increasingly a roadblock), so I'm guessing the investors were happy to get out before the value of the company was zero.

I'm sure the employees were given optional retention packages, and the executives likely compensated very well, but I wouldn't expect anyone got rich here.
So are we! Currently at Boxfuse (https://boxfuse.com/) we create VMs around 40 MB in size for Java 8 and we very much look forward to Java 9 to reduce this even further!
If you think inheritance is central to OOP, then you are mistaken. The most important aspect of OOP is dynamic dispatch (e.g. objects accessed through Java interfaces), and that's closely related to the idea of messaging. Have a read of what other people are writing here.
Monkey X: cross platform programming language
Many of us don't think lobbying should be illegal or wrong, just that the law accept that the "free speech" of a corporation and special interest groups will always overpower that of individuals.
Upon reflection, it's just that you probably wouldn't get adequately treated. And if you managed to get adequately treated, you'd probably go bankrupt.
> A big difference is that China often doesn't have a sense of tact when it comes to not sounding dystopian, and happiliy uses phrases like "citizen score", "criminal elements" and "reeducation".

Clintons "basket of deplorables" is a reminder that this sense of tact could change after the election.
How iOS 10 engulfed a corporate wifi network
It also completely makes sense. The decision for or against a drug should be guided by scientific evidence. So the only form of "marketing" that should be allowed are high quality scientific studies. And they shouldn't be delivered to the doctors or patients via marketing brochures, but via scientific articles and recommendations from independent organizations reviewing scientific articles.

You realize that the FDA closely regulates what pharma marketing can say about drugs, right? Unless it's supported by clinical trial data, the drug company can't say it.
> These press releases are terrible. It took me quite a while to find the original paper:

Was about to post the same-thing, how do these articles get past the editor? At any-rate it may be worth switching to the ACM publication link, the mit-news page is totally uninformative.

[Optimizing Cache Performance for Graph Analytics](https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01362) also looks to be relevant (same ,authors Aug 2016).
The story is not "this is a manual", but "here's this manual which the manufacturers have tried really hard to keep secret".
In that situation the name-brand was the same in both countries! I had put the procing effect down to the fact that insurance companies get involved as soon as 'prescription' is mentioned, so prices can rise very high.

That was just my guess anyway.
And yet another global industry is now so concentrated that free market forces are fully contained ...

What we eat will be decided in Germany and China now. Guten Appetit!
If you fear signing this, _and don't_, you really don't understand long risk mitigation and are just preparing yourself to be scared even more in the long run.

Just like privacy doesn't exist without others, signing this will at least help by giving strength, and privacy, in numbers.

Leaving this resistance alone, as if they were some heroes you respect but won't stand by, is really a cowardly way of being anti society and skipping your citizen duty.

First they came for them, etc... You know how it ends.
Your son lives in the now because that is all he can do. It's not a preference. If everybody were to live in the now, we wouldn't even have agriculture. Of course it's good to relax, but this line of thinking seems pernicious. It's great that adults are constantly harried by life's demands.
Callbacks, synchronous and asynchronous (2011)
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence (1998)
In fact, not being on any list is a reason for being on a watchlist all by itself. What is that person trying so hard to hide?
> 3.Book directly at airline. God idea, especially considering the problems laid out at #2. Not. Never book a ticket in a 3rd world country directly at the airline. I learned it the hard way!

Unless it's a global airline (British Airways, Air France, KLM, Emirates, etc.) always book with an airline in your native country via codeshare. At least that way, you have some recourse via normal consumer protection measures in the event things go wrong.
Appeals to the "market" are baseless. There is no competitive "market" for drugs anywhere. In Europe, drug prices are artificially suppressed by central governments exercising buyer-side market power.
Publishers May Get Paid for Web News as EU Swipes at Google
The problem is that the US Supreme Court said that money is free speech, so covered by the 1st amendment. So much corruption has flowed from that decision that it's almost unbelievable.
Maybe because the people with means and influence don't really worry about this problem: they pay someone to do menial tasks like cleaning for them. I know in the country I live manual labour is so cheap I have a maid and a gardener that do that for me. It's so cheap I probably wouldn't bother automating it even if I could. The furthest I go is packing a dishwasher. Just because I don't like dirty dishes standing around on the days that the maid isn't there.
The employees are probably (mostly) getting to keep their jobs.
"My ask is that you not make a hire until you look at two incredibly qualified women in your candidate pool."

In many cases for a start-up that is freaking impossible. I've forked for giant companies and 9/10 tech resumes are male. Attempting to wait for two highly qualified women given our current hiring pool would take far too long, or force stretching what you mean by qualified (accepting alternative qualifications, etc.). Companies shouldn't make hiring choices based on gender. That is wrong, and likely illegal. Use statistical sampling to ensure the process isn't biased given the applicant pool, but otherwise hire the best, and look beyond skin tone and sex organs for diversity.
Not sure this warrants an answer, but my observation was a) tongue-in-cheek, but also b) somewhat pertinent to a discussion on prudish censorship (as many if not most Wikipedia pages have illustrations, but not this one).
Note that they may not even be a "rate" to disclose in that the airline may be inventing ticket prices using algorithms in real-time. In that case to build a ticket search engine you need to either reproduce those algorithms or have the airline perform part of your search.
> To get back to being a kid, one can decondition all that

I think that's what LSD does.
Oooh, another Orlowsk's "report" against Google, I'm shocked
That is not correct.

Quote:

Asked specifically if he felt like he had exhausted all other avenues before deciding to leak classified information to the public, Snowden responded:

Yes. I had reported these clearly problematic programs to more than ten distinct officials, none of whom took any action to address them.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/07...
What's even more hilarious is when you watch these "documentaries" syndicated in Germany. Our usual ad format is one 7-minute ad break every 30 minutes instead of 2 minutes every few minutes. But you still have the artificial dramatic buildups before the missing ad slot, that you can see resolve into nothingness immediately.
Honestly the price of an SWA flight is usually more expensive than another airline plus bag fees. Plus most airlines will waive the bag fees if you sign up for their credit card (you don't even have to use it).
>>2. The very foundations of religion are generally about questions that we with the human condition are by design not very likely to answer conclusively. How will you ever show that there is no God if technological progress is likely to enable us the construction of artifical realities in the future?

I am afraid there is a confusion in the above statement about deeper philosophical considerations (like whether there is god(s) or not?) with the extremely lowly ramblings found in religious scriptures (e.g. there is no other god but allah and that muhammad is his (and not her) last messenger, or that the earth is flat and is at the center of the universe) and that these lowly ramblings are claimed to have been written by omniscient god(s).

Yes, I do agree that there may be some discussion about some deep philosophical questions to be found in the heap of ramblings present in the religious texts. But the philosophical issues are hardly of foundational nature in most mainstream religions including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We can easily see that their foundations are rather lowly claims like there is no other god but allah and that muhammad is his (and not her) last messenger, or that the earth is flat and is at the center of the universe.

So the very foundations I am talking about, are the almost foolish and childish claims made in religious scriptures and a foundational issue that these foolish/flimsy claims are made by god(s). A religious society will not allow any public information that it considers as having the potential to shake the foundations of their religion to be available to the public for consideration/discussion.

I have no problem with a rational discussion about whether there is god or not or a single god or multiple gods etc.

>>Maybe we could life in a better world if we aimed to disregarded world views from politics ...

Yes, I do agree.
What's the PR angle for Monsanto and Bayer in Germany? In the UK, Monsanto is 'the big evil American company' and Bayer is 'the big evil German company' (of course we have own own).
Chelsea Manning Told She Can Have Gender Reassignment Surgery, Lawyer Says
"But it is unclear if firms’ profits need be so high to sustain research."

It's very clear, and they don't. Profits are enormous. Profits are also calculated after the cost of R&D. So no, profits don't need to be astronomical for companies to still be profitable after the cost of R&D.
>A half-hour a day -- that's five hours a week.

A lot of this stuff is kind of... exaggerated. There's no real metrics except for these "small piece of day" x "five days a week" to make it seem dramatic. Not much value in this post.
Pixelating and blurring images has long been known to be insufficient in completely obscuring information [1]. In fact, in a lot of computer vision work, the image resolution is reduced to ignore noise and facilitate the workload for algorithms anyway. Completely destroying information through blacking out is preferable.

[1] https://dheera.net/projects/blur
Airlines typically don't allow that (unless you buy one-way segments between those nodes).
s3cmd and s4cmd already have a "du" command. Does this do something extra?
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> The chat history is a convenient record of what happened during the event and serves as the official record of the incident.

We have a similar process for triage, recovery, and review, mainly utilizing Slack for our chatops. We use Slack, GitHub and Trello as our three main teamwork tools.

But I have _not_ found chat history to a convenient record of what happened. How do you go back to _just_ show a specific event in history? Also, when there is serious downtime, the channel gets flooded with engineer chatter, and it's difficult to quickly comprehend the root issue, decipher what has been attempted, and know how to help.

In addition to our synchronous chatter in Slack during an event, we open a GitHub issue where we post periodic updates about specific things that have been attempted to fix the problem, graphs from server activity during the event, etc. We'll use checklists to keep track of things that still need to be investigated and what has been done. Sometimes, yes, you need to post in both the GitHub issue and the Slack channel, but it provides a much more digestible, high-level view of an outage.

Additionally, the GitHub issue serves as an ongoing record where you can post the content of the blameless post-mortem, reference follow-on work that was done to harden the infrastructure, etc.

Finally, since the GitHub issue is labelled as "Downtime", it's _actually_ convenient to scan through open and past issues and learn from past mistakes and see what can still be improved.
Reminds me of the dialogue is Yes, Prime Minister:

- Education in this country is a disaster. We're supposed to prepare children for work.
Most of the time they're bored stiff.
- I should've thought that being bored stiff was an excellent preparation for work.
- The school leaving age was raised to 16, but they're learning less.
- We didn't raise it so they'd learn more! We raised it to keep teenagers off the job market
and hold down unemployment figures.

OTOH, would allowing home schooling really solve suicides by schoolchildren? Seems like if a parent is worried enough about their kid's mental health to home school them, they'd do so even if they have to move country (especially nowadays, when you can live and work in different EU countries easily). Isn't it more a matter of the adults around not perceiving the problem?
Shit slinging during an election is hardly new. And talking shit about the other side is hardly an indicator of some massive policy change.
That's true, but it's important to figure out how to increase competition without destroying expensive innovation and risk. It's arguably the most important question in any industry when regulation is discussed.
The reality is that most IoT products are really just 'How do I get you to pay a subscription for something you never paid a subscription for'. The solutions, thus far, have been lackluster. They're like the infomercial products from the 90s.
Because it's a discovery rather than an invention. Though the mere concept of patents is already a fraud, as is clear when you start to look closely the arguments. See http://hintjens.com/blog:31.
Truth, beauty and annihilation: my quest for chess mastery
That's guten 食欲.
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Alternative Finance in Europe Reaches €5.4b with 92% Growth
For us it worked quite fine for macOS but not for iOS targets. It also changed the function names for a lot @IBAction functions but did not update the connection in the interface builder. So now I have to a lot of testing to make sure all buttons work.

Still I have to admit it shows quite courage (get it?) to change so many things but naming is important and I see it positively. Only if Apple would use version numbers for Swift that would fit to the state, if you have that kind of fast update cycle and that many breaking changes a version number below 1.0 would have been better for Swift 1 and 2.
How can the competition authority allow this to happen?
Fantastic. We should find a way to place these learning environments at random locations on a world map and interact with them via the popular VR devices :-)
We had a few seconds of latency tacked onto our normal response time for about 40 mins but everything stayed up. Here is a graph from our monitoring tool (grafana with WorldPing) http://tomschlick-screenshots.s3.amazonaws.com/RKRIJQ9Q
Riot Police Begin Mass-Arrests at Dakota Access Pipeline, FB Censors Video
In practice any countries that tried going the socialist route were immediately sabotaged and undermined by capitalist countries, notably the United States. When you are threatened from outside, authoritarianism becomes easy to take hold.

There were plenty of authoritarian capitalist countries, even those deemed "successful", e.g. modern Singapore or South Korea, Argentina, and others during periods of 20th century.

And on the other hand, there are democratic non-authoritarian socialist countries like Bolivia or even Venezuela.
This is a natural result of the fact that:

1) Printing presses are expensive and always have been.

2) It is possible to be more effective at things in general by working in a group, especially one with division of labor. Can you imagine a world in which a disorganized mass of individuals without training was more effective at advocacy than the EFF?
This guy is a different breed. He had a chance to work for Tesla, but he wanted to do it himself. I hope I'm not just in the fog on this, but I want to believe that he is a true disruptor.
Andrew is the reason I stopped reading The Register, about ten years ago, due to his incessant rambling about Wikipedia. Shocked to see he's found a new corp to hate.
Another agriculture merger was announced last week, albeit smaller, between Potash and Agrium.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/potash-agrium-merger-1.37579...
I disagree, I think fundamentally, package management (w.r.t source) is about controlling what versions of which packages are built into your binary.

Ultimately its basically a set of external dependencies that you want to version-control and occasionally update.

I see no fundamental difference to what version-control is, its just not a feature built into most/any.
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The phenomenon described in the article predates some anti-Hillary nonprofit trying to publish a movie attacking her.

Btw, If you want to advance policy around this, I would recommend reading the arguments around it. They are all laid out for the public: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/08-205P.ZX
Satnav errors bring Israeli soldiers to Palestine for third time this year
Source: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/09/09/webvr-in-deve...
> What the FCC did this year, with little fanfare, was cripple telecoms companies and wireless networks from doing what Google and Facebook do. That’s a very odd decision. If behavioural advertising is so bad consumers need an opt-out, how come you can opt out of your ISP's profiling, but not Google’s. How could that be?

Because you have a choice to use an Android phone, Google mail, and Facebook. Many people do not have a choice which ISP to use, especially for broadband. Android/Facebook are opt-in services.

Call me a fanboy, but since I've switched to Apple devices I have no desire to switch back. Yes they're missing a lot of nice things that Androids have, like customization and SD slots and what have you, but the app ecosystem is much better and the entire OS doesn't creep on everything I do (at least not in any way I can tell), and every app is a deluge of advertising. I've gone to pretty great lengths now to remove Google from as much of my life as I can. Still stuck in Chrome though, just because there doesn't seem to be anything better.
Bayer is "they're crooks, but they're our crooks", basically, while Monsanto is Satan Inc.
It actually is my full-time work and has been for 3-4 years now.

No idea what my domain being in the yellow means. Can you elaborate?
I think signing that petition is the least of your worries, the amount of data already collected about you including this comment here will be used to profile you for years to come.