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Because those people you mentioned are being paid to do their jobs - they are and they should be recorded while doing it, so we, taxpayers, can verify it they are doing their job properly. No one is proposing recording policemen or judges in their private time, just like us, citizens, should not be recorded in our private time.

At the end of the day, your employer probably already records your activity at work, and that's perfectly fine because they want to verify you are doing what you are being paid for.
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She showed me how to think well. She is amazing at writing in a clear, precise way that demonstrates the thinking process of a rational person.

She taught me to face reality and deal with it rationally, instead of flinching away from it and trying to ignore/rationalize things. To solve problems by thinking about things deeply, determining the best course of action, and then pursuing it. To think for myself, from the first principles, to rely on my own judgement, to have the courage to believe in what makes sense to me. To take responsibility for my life(for my choices and their results).

She taught me about determining my values and optimizing for them, choosing a purpose and pursuing it, stepping on a path to mastery and striving to become an expert at what I do.

She inspired my interest in engineering, science, entrepreneurship, rationality.

Her heroes(Dagny, Hank Rearden) gave me a vision for the kind of person I want to be.

The massive impact Atlas Shrugged had on my life, and the amazing quality of her writing, made me want to become a good writer.
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Joe: "This algebra you've made it's a Prolog program you just move a few brackets". And I went "oh my god". From that moment on I was not interested in Smalltalk anymore.
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Meanwhile, that same new energy strategy announced by the government also effectively halts wind power construction until an "inpartial", "objective", "thorough", etc. study investigating why wind power causes people to become sick is done. Also, bats. Yes. One of the parties in the current government is a "conservative populist" party where party representatives have been claiming that wind power causes bats to explode. Yes, really.

EDIT: Slightly less inflammatory..
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The US is probably the nicest and most responsible super power ever.

A super power like the Roman empire would have won the Afghanistan war for sure. But in a different way.
NO! I am NOT talking here (and elsewhere) about US citizens!

I am talking about US oligarchy.

US people (on a personal level) are just like other people of the world: Most of them are good, some less that. And they themselves suffer from many problems the US oligarchy (through imperial means) causes outside of the US.

Daughters and sons who go to US military, they are patriots who want to serve their country and its people. But then they are sent to wars for resources, pipeline routes, geostrategic interests. And they come back in body bags, maimed, or suffer some physical or psychical ailment. Only to find out that their father has lost his job, or that their mother's insurance won't cover the costs for her treatment, or that no one cares for her/him (the former soldier).

Where ever I go in the world, I remind people that we all are in the same boat.
This is... very, very much unlike Google. Almost the opposite; Google puts a lot of work into figuring out how to keep its employees happy. And, if anything, it has the opposite problem than "working on a legacy monstrosity" - there's enough internal mobility that it's hard to convince people to work on something lame. (Obvious bias: I work there a day per week still.)
I signed it, though I'm pretty sure that the government e-petitions are a well crafted wind for people to piss into.

At least I become a +1 in the count of people who object.
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I wasn't expecting the political tilt of this article. But perhaps many crises are avoided because we start doing something to prevent them. For example the ozone hole. Or the fear of mass terrorism after 9/11.
Did the process put me off? Absolutely. So much so that I don't want to apply again.

Before even starting the interview process, I took weeks to reviews algorithms, chopped through interviewcake/hackerrank/leetcode challenges, did numerous test-interviews on pramp and made sure Google was the last of my interviews to get as much experience in as possible. In the end, it didn't matter.

The phone call was almost not understandable. My interviewer had a horrible accent and extreme background noise, almost like he was in a public space with a really bad microphone. I had to ask 5 times to repeat his question or clarify what he meant which definitely irritated him as well.

When asked before the interview in what language I would like to do it, I said python. My interviewer gave me a C++ question (+ C++ class) with streams (I think that's what it was? I'm not a C++ guy). When mentioning that I said I want to do it in python he said "oh uhm... well, just implement your solution in python then", which was a little weird because python doesn't support streams.

I asked numerous times during the interview if I understood his question correctly, he said yes. I went ahead with implementing it that way and then later he asked me why I did it this way and that he wanted something else.

It was a disaster. I didn't pass the interview (they were 50:50 on me) and do not plan to apply again. I am at a great startup now and probably forgot most of that algorithm and data structure knowledge again.
But differences between states are quite significant. New Hampshire is at 0.9 some years. Louisiana is 10-15 times that.

Still, I understand the divide is more between urban core/suburban+rural that between different states.
Right, and dply's is black. So, I'm curious why "blue" is being mentioned at all. Because dply has some blue (not the same blue) on the page?
I have friends in the local Google office, and once long ago I interned there. A few years ago I decided to stop telling off the recruiters and give it a go.

I had 4 interviews where I needed to be exceedingly clever very quickly. I was for two of them, and wasn't for two of them, and so I was a no-hire. Given a few days to think through the problems again, I was able to solve them all in my head- just not in 45 minutes. None of the interviews asked about my ability to design systems, how to test or manage large-scale applications, how to gather requirements and work with customers.

My conclusion is that Google is primarily looking for people who either have every algorithm and problem memorized and ready to regurgitate, or exceedingly clever people who can solve tricky problems on the spot. I guess this works for them, as they're a very valuable company. On the other hand, I sometimes wonder if it works despite this process they have.
Whoever downvoted you, it's their right. I upvoted you.

I actually find your comment funny.

But, please, don't compare me with Chomsky.
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No, those are not comparable. Next time someone says they have nothing to hide, ask them to send their bank account details and PIN, or naked photographs of themselves, to their countries law enforcement or intelligent services. The question is not do i have anything to hide from some random stranger or the general public, the question is should law enforcement and intelligence services have these rights.
Totally agree. Political action is the only thing that helps here. To all the people in the UK who not agree with that new law: there are many people all over Europe on your side. And if it comes to the need of action in our own countries, we will not hesitate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036663

I answered here. I linked the paper by McCarthy at the end.
Cap rates don't take into account a property's appreciation, does it? If I own a building and the property value doubles but I don't increase my rents, my cap rate stays the same even though my wealth has increased a lot, right?
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I mean it's worth the down votes to try to crack the echo chamber of pro globalism ideology spouted by people like you.
Yes, nearly! But not quite.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nchomsky
Don't worry. If the petition does not help, there is a lot more in the political toolbox. Next maybe a public demonstration.
I had a similar experience. Terrible phone call quality. They asked me loads of questions about testing which wasn't what I had applied to.
Related article regarding China's investment in Srilanka.

http://thediplomat.com/2016/11/china-and-sri-lanka-between-a...
Can cryptography be regulated? I mean - can software development be regulated? Can open source be regulated? Can state prevent developer from working on something and then sharing with the internet?

When I think about it cryptography is based on availability of good quality random source, so if only they (state) can make hardware manufacturers to ensure there are no such sources they are half way through to achieve what they want...

I wonder when will we be banned from using knives to cut our bread...
That makes them just like - essentially every company ever.

If someone with enough clout wants a hire to happen, red tape magically dissappears
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This is amazing, thank you so much.

Am I right to understand that currently there are only 4 works available to explore?

The JS viewer is amazing. From the description:

>you can switch between high-resolution visible, infrared photography, and infrared reflectography images

Can someone explain why infrared and reflectography scans would be interesting?
This would be a more sympathetic response if Cassandra did less to tempt devs not intimately familiar with it into doing things which will hose them later on. I've worked with it very successfully in the past and contributed to one of its client libraries, but I hesitate to recommend it because that trait makes it unnecessarily dangerous to use.
I see this pattern in more Microsoft products.
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This is nearly how I think of it, but for me I do one column of the second matrix at a time. I think it is clearer that way. This way makes it look like there is some kind of staircase thing going on which there isn't really.
"Another traditional US ally re-aligning itself between the two major spheres of influence. The balance will tip further in China's favor as the USA recedes further from global development."

China wants just an ally in the back of India. This is understandable from a Chinese perspective. But Pakistan is a moslems country and China has enough problems with its own moslems. If you have been in Xinjiang province: The level of security is astonishing. I wonder about the costs of maintaining this and long term stability.
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When you make an ssl connection you're sending the domain name in the clear. They don't need to match on dns.
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My friend was hired last week and somewhere near the end of the process the headhunters asked him for referrals. When he asked me if I'd be interested I said "Nope. Not wasting my time on the interviews" almost instinctively.
std::unordered_map isn't particularly good. Its strength is that it can handle nearly all workloads without having abysmal performance. The price paid for that is that it's never actually all that good. If you know your workload, a "specialised" hash table can easily be 2x faster (e.g. Google's dense_hash_map).

This is because the standard makes some very specific complexity guarantees on operations and iterator validity. This practically forces standard-compliant implementations to use hashing with chaining, and not in the most efficient way. That's why it's universally bad and not just a bad implementation in any particular standard library. I don't remember the exact details, though.
Most of us are IT professionals. We are most probably already on intelligence agencies radar, and no, I'm not being paranoid.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extre...
I like the idea, but my brain is wired differently.

Usually, when I do matrix multiplications, the rows on the left side transition to the columns on the right side. In the example, the 1 goes to 2, 2 to 6, 1 to 1.

The animation completely confused me, because it looks like being reversed, but the result is the same.

Maybe, make this a visualization option?
The problem is: this is placing hypothetical on hypothetical.

First, the threat imposed by privacy invasion is hypothetical to most people.

And now you're asking them to hypothetically send their pictures to the government?

Come on, if we want to raise awareness, we need better arguments, and especially better formulations to convince people.
I imagine it would get REALLY annoying if every command line program started doing that, every time you logged into a new machine.

Of course, that suggests we should introduce some kind of standard, then bash (or whatever shell you use) could prompt you once, and every other program could use that setting.
It's amusing to watch a co-worker develop in the latest version of VS while still having ReSharper installed. There are so many intelligent hover-over tips, sidebar icons, and such. I can't imaging how they can read the code with all that. Plus, their IDE is slow.
Citizens are ok with it. There is huge public support for this: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/01/18/more-surveillance-pleas...

Don't rely on that one, google for yourself any poll in the last 10 years. In fact, think about just about any issue that you care about but is not current government policy, and google an opinion poll on it. You'll begin to see that democracy functions very effectively indeed. There are exceptions, such as the death penalty in the UK, but mostly legislation follows the opinion of the public (the voting public actually) quite closely, as we see with gay marriage and drug decriminalisation.
While these devices are turing complete machines under the hood, the interface to them is incredibly strict.

Using them from code is like using a remote API, you can't execute code, you can only make requests and receive responses, and a lot of thought it put into the interface to ensure it's as secure as possible.

As far as the physical interface, they are more like an appliance than a server, in that you don't get the normal ports you would on any other machine, the actual casing is typically alarmed so that keys are wiped when the device is opened, important circuitry is embedded in epoxy so that it's essentially impossible to attach debugging instruments without destroying it, etc.

I can't really emphasise enough how these machines are designed for security.
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Agreed. If Writes >> Reads and TPS > 1M Maybe Cassandra :-)
Jetbrains does still have a very nice decompiler, memory and performance profiler to go along with ReSharper. And then of course all of their other IntelliJ-based IDEs for other languages. It still makes a lot of sense for me to pay for my license, since it's less than a dollar a workday.

I'm kind of curious what they'll do with their C# IDE, Rider, and how much they can share between that and ReSharper. With Visual Studio itself starting to go cross-platform, I'm not sure how long that niche will stay open.
Human memory is short. Currently hoping I'm not watching a slide into fascism around the world.
In warmer climates, yes. Not in Finland, however. Here's a graph of power use and generation in 2015:

http://www.fingrid.fi/EN/ELECTRICITY-MARKET/LOAD-AND-GENERAT...
Governments are nothing without people on their side. If enough people demands to repeal a bad law, they have no choice but to repeal it. If they don't people will know its not their government anymore. At least that is one good thing about democracy or any form of government that will listen to their people.
Do you live in Poland? I live in Prague, and here, I'm surprised at how little people care about the foreign investment aspect of the privatization process. Even though almost everyone complains that it is corrupt, people here are mostly pro-west. The economy is strong here, and people don't see a big problem. Sure, we were among the richest countries in Europe pre WWII, but that was a long time ago, and people are now used to being relatively poor. But outside of Prague, especially on the Moravian side of the country I think opinions are very different, and many people actively say that "communism was better" and that the west has robbed the country. It is true, that heavy industry, like the car maker škoda auto (Now owned by VW), and the slevarny (metal making firms that are owned by the west), and the coal mines(owned by the Swiss) are all outside of Prague... Do Pols realise the extent that they were robbed?
It's not possible to detect whether the user wants CP. You can assume they want CP, but the entire point of Cassandra is that it doesn't make that assumption.

Cassandra is AP with opt-in CP. This is an explicit tradeoff. You're giving up the assumption (which enables error checking) that everything is CP in order to get AP performance. This tradeoff is one of the main use cases for which Cassandra exists.

The vast majority of the time, error checking is way more valuable than AP performance, so your approach to handling the error makes sense, but if that's your situation you shouldn't be using Cassandra. There are a wide variety of ACID-compliant relational databases that do what you want.

TL;DR: Using Cassandra and expecting CP error checking is like using a hammer and expecting screwdriver behavior.
First of all, the US didn't win the Second World War -- a coalition of the US, Britain, France, China, and, especially, Russia did.

Secondly, the US's biggest contribution to the war was manufacturing capacity. Period. Sure, some of the things built in America were designed elsewhere, but the US could outproduce everyone by an order of magnitude thanks to abundant natural resources, a large population, and a heavily industrialized manufacturing base. Not being bombed isn't really a factor in that equation.

Also, America produced its share of extraordinary weapons during (and before) the war -- the Thompson submachine gun, the Jeep, the 50 cal machine gun. American submarines were first rate along with aircraft like the P-51. American trucks were the backbone of both the Western and Eastern Allied supply lines.

It's pretty disengenuous to summarize Americas contribution to the war as you have above
You would still have to know where it was close.
Wind power isn't doing very well here in Finland though. It is 100% propped up by subsidies. The government will pay them 85,30 €/MWh for the electricity generated by wind power even though the market price is somewhere around 30 €/MWh so they basically get more from subsidies then from the electricity they actually sell. The current projection is that with the current subsidies wind power will have cost the tax payer around 3 billion euros by 2030.

Though the True Finns have a very wrong approach to this (trying to ban building wind power because it causes "harm" to people and other unscientific bullshit) instead of just dismantling the harmful subsidies (or at least lowering them to something sensible). Or the most sensible approach of taxing the things we don't want (polluting energy. coal etc.) and let the free markets sort the rest out.
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The one thing the article doesn't mention is that some of the projects under this plan passes through the Pok (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir), which creates a precarious situation between India, Pakistan and China over Kashmir.
Almost nobody in the Nordic countries has A/C. Facebook even built a data center in northern Sweden since a lot of the server cooling requirements can be handled by just pumping in cool outdoor air.
"For one week buy no food where you have to throw away packaging after."

What would that be? Where I live, you can't even buy lettuce without a package. The only things I can think of that goes without packaging are potatoes, onions and some fruits and that's only if you don't count plastic bags to put them into, because I doubt a cashier would be impressed if you put a handful of dirty potatoes on a conveyer. Potatoes with fruits only doesn't strike me as a healthy diet anyway.

"For most of human history, there was no food packaging"

Yes, but contrary to my ancestors, I can't go hunting and have a nice, juicy steak afterwards with fresh greens I picked on my way back. Our ancestors lived in a different world, you can't compare apples to oranges.
a way to implement highly repressive government too - just start monitoring people with different lifestyles or "way out" opinions.

Or even better start using it to monitor opponents and discover their weak points and alliances. If you wanted a recipe for tyranny when a vindictive leader comes to power, this is it.

This is really a legalisation of the law-breaking that has been going on for decades from GCHQ, and the expansion of their data out to a huge number of government departments. There will be abuse of this system at all levels.
Ask them to show you their full internet history. Ask them to give you a copy of their family's internet history, including parents, siblings and children. They aren't allowed to ask for permission.
There is a secondary risk, and that is that ISPs (who IME often don't have skills or decent budgets for this sort of thing) are storing your data. At some point an ISP is going to get hacked for this data. At least re-routing to a server somewhere bypasses that storage, even if it doesn't protect against overarching state snooping.
But it's useless to save the encrypted bytes so nobody will do it. It doesn't matter the connection is encrypted - you still get the following information:

Source IP, mapped to customer. Timestamp. Target domain (from SNI or the certificate). Passive system identification (os, browser).

The only thing they're additionally interested in is the link and that's the only thing that encryption hides. I'm not sure they even care about cookies and headers in ICR
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