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>Using the language in idiomatic ways and knowing the most useful libraries and frameworks does take more significant ramp-up time.

Yeah. As in years. This stuff also changes all the time so requires perpetual learning.

>But languages? It's a mere tool, and you need more than one in your toolbox.

It's not a mere tool and languages are more than just trivially learned syntax. They are the umbrella under which a panoply of tools, approaches, ideas, priorities and culture aggregate.

Sure, you specialization isn't necessarily always the optimal approach and sure there are benefits to the cross fertilization of ideas across community lines. However, being a jack of all programming languages, master of none probably means you'll suck more than a specialist at a lot of stuff.

Moreover, some ecosystems plain suck and avoidance is the sign of a good programmer. Statistically, you're probably a worse programmer if you've used a lot of PHP and better if you've learned rust/F#.
>Agrello is a legal technology start-up that builds legally-binding, self-aware agreements on blockchain.

Big, if true.
That would be even better because then Twitter can easily distinguish Russian state interference (everything from Russia that isn’t blocked) and handle it as they wish.
I have a friend who is a private investigator. He mostly films people committing insurance fraud. His stories are amazing. My favorite was a guy who was supposedly not able to walk, but my friend had stalked the guys facebook, and saw that he was planning on attending this festival with thousands of people. Probably lots of walking. The trick was finding the guy. So he went to the parking lot and quickly tracked down the guy's car (before he was a PI, he repossessed cars, he's a pro at finding cars). After that, he went to the info desk and told them the guys car's lights were on. They made a quick announcement, and he went back to the parking lot to watch. Dutifully his target came back, looked, shrugged his shoulders, and then went back. My friend spent the rest of the night filming the guy walking, jumping, having a good time.

He tells me the low tech ways are the most effective :\
Probably already happening, but the parties doing it don't advertise with it too much because that would be creepy. Like how e.g. Google doesn't advertise too much with services like location history to not spook you.
Why not advertise it? Possible reasons:

1. Maybe wanted criminals would change their appearance or hide their faces. Even that outcome might be a significant deterrent to committing crimes, going forward.

2. Public discontent about the system. This is unlikely to be much of a problem in China.

They have a lot more to gain (deterrence) than they do to lose.
I bet they just connect (or rather, emulate) a physical keyboard connected via Lightning/USB, and use it as an input device.
Your argument about enterprise code cannot be verified since we can't have access to it. Also, the sample of enterprise code you have access to is probably limited and thus most likely biased. Doesn't seem like a very good general argument, but maybe it is a good one for your own individual situation, if we are to believe your word.
Interestingly, I read a while back about polarized light being visible to a portion of the naked eye.

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1811/2015...

I found that I was able to see Haidinger's brush infrequently. One experiment (which I sadly cannot remember a citation for) suggested that lines in the sky would point north/south.
Privacy Shield now facing questions via legal challenge to Facebook data flows
Then Google needs to close its Canadian offices, and stop providing services to Canadians.
Ah, Florida Man, the hero we deserve but not the one we need.
I don't (in the US) get a link to decline the offer.
We carry phones that track our every move, and could probably stop them with little faraday bags. Credit card bags are popular, phone bags are not, so I think most people don't care sadly.
Well, yeah, fine. But that analogy is so generic, that every product is a shovel. BMW sells shovels, Apple sells shovels, IKEA sells shovels.

In your worldview all of life is just a gold rush. I'm not sure if I find that analogy useful.
I don't know if this is the main reason, but I read an article saying that Chinese companies were starting to export this tech to other countries. So that would be one way to "advertise" its effectiveness.

Also, the more China gets other countries to enable the same kind of censorship and surveillance it does, too, the more it won't stand-out as a sore thumb and the less it will be called out by "principled" leaders in the future.
"The surveillance economy should die."

This is the key point. We don't need a perfect fix. We "just" need to change incentives enough that, say, 95% of engineers who work on surveillance and psychological profiling of individuals move on to something else.
> The bigger question is why are China advertising this

Striking fear into citizens; literally state terrorism.
This only works if there are no better treatments or cures. If a competing treatment works better, or might be a better cure, it must be kept out of the market. Sums up the massive web of red tape that we call healthcare.
I didn't say it was impossible.
Isn't all of this true for a lot of jobs?
Janitor, picking up fruits, garbage man and so on and so on.
These are all jobs, these are people working, of course in this day and age everyone should make a decent living wage.
Uber drivers are no more contractors than factory workers, they're not ride-sharing anything, they are (exploited) taxi drivers.
This contractor/temp bullshit thing reeks of dark age mentality -- mistress vs wife, bastard vs legal heir.
>it's mostly used by the small middle class, people working in tech and business.

And terrorists. That use-case doesn't disappear.
Not going out in public. Disabling surveillance cameras is considered vandalism and / or destruction of public property. And I'm sure the FCC and co won't like it much if you were to have a jammer to disrupt signals in the air either.
It's the same in France, 10 years for structural issues and 1 year for the basic stuff.
The USA is not "slightly south" of Russia
Or misrepresent everyone more equally.

Currently they just misrepresent people without checkbooks.
well I am curious what the break time on longer passwords is? They made claims against four and six character passcodes but my employer already requires longer if we are to receive corporate mail.
Seems like a very biased article.

In general you can't really follow these as it all depends on your context and what tasks you have to perform.
The same thing happened in Sydney - Parramatta was a separate town until (I'm guessing here) the 1850s or so, Camden was until recently a separate town, but it's being swallowed up by the outwards expansion of Sydney.
I think the US already has big private networks of number plate recognition cameras that sell feeds to cops, bounty hunters, advertisers, and traffic alert companies. It wouldn't be much of a hop.
Controversial and likely to be downvoted but what's the problem here? Surely it's good that a law breaker has been caught? If you're in China, you play by their rules, no?
> I also have a another plastic brush to clean my shotguns of all things (I do a lot of clay pigeon shooting) -- the construction is identical to a toothbrush, just perhaps a tad bigger.

Is it, though? Are the bristles made of the same material, for example? I'm guessing that bristles tough enough to scrub metal would not be the best things to use on your teeth and gums.
It’s a deterrent and a positive press hit.

State DMVs in the US get press hits all of the time when they upgrade facial recognition systems and catch people with multiple driver licenses.
So encrypting my private data effectively is authoritarian now?
Amazon is going to rush in with its own delivery service, Amazon Flex: https://flex.amazon.com/
In the UK they are pretty tough to get a hold of and not very discreet or quiet! Although certainly a viable solution!
Tyranny of the majority much? Elected officials don't exist to simply determine what 50%+1 of the voting population wants. They're not supposed to act as a popularity sieve.

You should be voting for people because they generally share your views, yes, but more importantly because they're willing and able to become experts in the things you need to be an expert in in order to be an effective lawmaker.
That is nonsense. The right to be forgotten is EU law, enacted by the EU parliament, enforceable by EU court. Article 17 of the GDPR.

There is no "right to make money" or "right to remember" in this sense at all. You can argue that there is a public interest in allowing people to make money, and a public interest in remembering, but the place where these interests are weighed is in parliament. Not in courts.
This is only true for a single company in isolation. Any company making their products worse (whether it's healthcare or something else) will soon be replaced by someone doing it better. As such, any company not producing or selling viable cures for diseases will quickly lose a lot of money to a new company that sells those cures.

In practice, this works more or less well depending on which country on earth you are in. But your statement that the health industry has no reason to cure patients is wrong basically everywhere and idiotic at best.
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"Capable devices increased 31% from 2016 to 8.4 billion in 2017.[4] Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of about 30 billion objects by 2020."

What is driving this growth? I want to know what other devices people are using with IoT that would lead to the projected explosion of 30 billion devices by 2020?
They already have their own delivery service here: https://flex.amazon.com/
Here is your's 15 rubles!
This is where traditional Chinese medicine got it right : they have a culture of trying to keep people healthy. You are supposed to go to the doctor to not become sick.

It's maintenance. Not that I think it's better, but economically, you suddenly have the same goal as your clients. And that more sane.
FYI this is an article from a SATIRE column. All the articles in that column are in jest.

Though how great would it be if bezos’ Comments from the article were true!
It has been an exceptionally shitty week for Trump. Most notably, the FBI raided his personal lawyer’s office, residence and hotel rooms. Then it was revealed that said lawyer had a habit of recording his own conversations so now Trump is freaking the fuck out. And he is doing what he always does when he is mad, which is lash out.
Thank you for the thoughtful response.

I was hoping for a good book of the "here be dragons" kind.

Often books on an architecture gloss over the rough bits and then you find them yourself when you already committed to it.

I've become incredibly conservative when it comes to application architecture the older I get.
What do you mean by buyback in terms of revenue?

* For every $X we will spend $0.0001 buying back tokens?

* For every $X we will buy back Y coins?

* For every $X we will buy back Y coins at a set value?

I guess it's got to be the first or third since the second would imply that the cost of buying back the coins could be greater than the revenue of the company (let's saying I buy all the coins and refuse to sell them, whachagonado?)

Basically what you're describing is selling a royalty interest with a fixed buyback value.

Which whilst technically achievable seems like a strange thing to do. Since when you're starting a company it's very difficult to calculate your margin. The result would be that you could very well end up finding that the royalty makes your company unprofitable.
I've used a lot of quill in the past couple of years. It has some tricky bits, but seems similar in a lot of ways to ProseMirror - separate internal representation of data that gets rendered into HTML, delta-based state changes, etc. At this point, I use quill out of momentum - it was the only game in town when I started working with rich text, and now I know how it works. I also like it enough that I've never felt the need to go find something else; it's always done what I want.

I think to fully experience all three of those editors, you should build the following: something that generates a rich text input using the editor, updates a data store (can be just in-memory if you want), and then re-presents the rich text in a read-only format.

With Quill in particular, there's two ways to approach the second part - you could dump the data into another instance of the quill editor, but one flagged as read-only, and let quill handle rendering out all the elements. I don't do that, myself, as it's a bit heavy and relies on the DOM to be present to create the end result (meaning rendering rich text into emails on the server side can be tricky). Instead I use a library (that I wrote) that converts the quill representation into an HTML string that can be later injected into whatever place it needs to go.

In general, I think that's where the one of the important pain points is for any major modern text editor exist - converting the internal data representation into a canonicalized HTML string. This gets further complicated by your framework - it's easy enough to inject an HTML string, and angular 1 lets you even compile that so you can have custom elements there, but angular 2 has no such facility (compiling; you can still inject). So rendering custom elements into angular 2 is feasible but quite tricky.

You'll need to figure out how to handle custom elements too, like at-mentions and so on; those are really domain-specific. How I handle at-mentions in quill (with a pop-up autocomplete) depends on the structure of the overall system as well as the framework I'm in - angular 1, 2 and react all suggest different approaches for this.

Anyway, this is all a long response that means "it depends". Each editor has its own strengths and weaknesses that are exposed by the specific data and presentation needs of your project and the other frameworks in play. But building an atmention or other custom element and converting from the internal data structure to HTML is a good test of functions for all of those.
[Elephant Walk](https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-elephant-walk-boston-2), one of the best restaurants in Boston, is French Cambodian.
Great. New ammunition for homeland security departments around the world and even better news for contractors.

On a side note:
Now I had to research who Jacky Cheung (the artist in said concert) is and was not disappointed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrfp1DKyhKw

Three hours of Broadway style pop concert. Fascinating.
> If the USPS is cheaper than these global shippers for the last-mile deliver, it might be a sign that they're not charging enough.

Conversely, it could be an indication of leveraging efficiency of scale.

USPS sends a mail carrier to my house specifically most days of the week. And on the days they don't, there's still a mail carrier coming to my street at minimum.

Meanwhile, UPS or Fedex may not even send a truck to my neighborhood on any given day. If they throw a package on a USPS truck for last mile delivery, they don't have to incur the cost of sending a truck out of its way.

USPS is essentially selling excess capacity. It can be both cheaper and appropriately priced at the same time.
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The industry is being defined too narrow. The full industry includes insurers. Insurers have every reason to cure patients. Cured patients live longer. The longer you live the more years you pay premiums. The more premiums the higher your profits. So insurance is incenivized to put the money in the hands of those who cure rather than those who require insurance to fork up a fixed amount on an ongoing basis.
Contact lists and related metadata. Some of it is crucial, like geolocation.
"Bentham described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example". Elsewhere, in a letter, he described the Panopticon prison as "a mill for grinding rogues honest"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
May I ask, what's the company (and the particular team)?
I hope everyone will start wearing masks soon :( these news are really unsettling
You dont seem to be aware that public universities are already heavily involved in drug development. Looking at the facts is helpful before building a narrative.
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Lol, most of the workers support flag burning of their on country because of muh justice. Silicon Valley is a cesspool and the world would be a better place without this shthole.
Some of the extra money does go to R&D (though that's somewhat misleading: a lot of "R&D" spending is unnecessary duplication of safety trials because the FDA doesn't recognise any foreign medical safety standards, not even e.g. the EU). But a substantial chunk of it is wasteful inefficiencies due to multiple layers of middlemen (there are typically 5 layers between the insurance company that's paying and the company that makes the drug/device) with opaque pricing structures (there are hidden rebates in both directions at every one of those layers). National healthcare systems still have bureaucratic inefficiencies but they do avoid having intermediaries with a direct incentive to bamboozle each other.
Interesting story and his method is effective. However it is not efficient, he can only track one guy a day, possibly a week.
I'm not a fan of Telegram the app due to the fact that it doesn't enable end-to-end encryption by default, but this is an interesting post by Durov, from today:

> The power that local governments have over IT corporations is based on money. At any given moment, a government can crash their stocks by threatening to block revenue streams from its markets and thus force these companies to do strange things (remember how last year Apple moved iCloud servers to China).

At Telegram, we have the luxury of not caring about revenue streams or ad sales. Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

http://t.me/durov/76

Remember Telegram recently raised a whopping $1.7 billion from a coin offering. It's also the reason I've been begging Signal to do something similar for over a year now. Cryptocurrencies can provide the liquidity open source projects need, and it can also help them stand against oppressive governments.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-30/telegram-...
"If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear."
Optical Illusion is not similar to not being able to see an object behind an opaque object. And when you say "brain can be cheated", it means an optical illusion.

That is the only thing I was responding in the start of this discussion. Essentially the person was saying human brain can be cheated just like a computer.

I am saying, No. Not just like a computer. Human brains does not get cheated so easily like a computer. Claiming that is outrageous and shows you have no idea of what you are talking about...
Just as easy maybe, but fundamentally incorrect. Its mechanism of action is killing people -- choosing to believe the claim that killing those people will save lives alters neither the purpose nor MO of the tool.
Wrong. Look at the list of optimizations it does.
Arithmetic optimizations are only done with constants and type hints.
But inlining and SSA var tracking is impressive.
Do insurance companies really have this incentive? You can (and probably will) shop around and find a new insurer within a few years.
"crime"
> He tells me the low tech ways are the most effective :\

> He tells me he’s most familiar with the low tech ways

FTFY. Interesting story though, always neat to see how people like that operate.
Perhaps the time is right to start a business that sells facial plastic surgery on a subscription model.
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But the important point: you can only use that information for that purpose. No "oh well, now that we can keep it, let's use it for marketing and such".
Yeah but aside from the legal aspect, what are my technical options?
This is wishful thinking because you never know ahead of time what is going to work and certainly not the pharmacodynamics of your drug. Plus your reasonning is false, even with current chronic conditions like RA many companies are exploring different dosages of bio treatments to drive remission instead of lifetime treatment.
> "He tells me the low tech ways are the most effective :\ "

But they don't scale up with numbers or across geographically. The scary thing about automated processes of facial recognition is precisely the ability to scale to everyone and everywhere.
I don't know if you could have an EMP device focused enough to fry a camera without wrecking all the smartphones in the area. Maybe a powerful laser could be used to blind the sensor instead? Seems more practical to me. I wouldn't advise trying any of that though, I doubt you'll achieve much and in the current climate I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up with terrorism charges or something.
A "shit candidate" who received several million more votes than her opponent. :)
Personally, I wonder if it's had the opposite effect to some degree. Namely, because it's so easy to find people with views you find reprehensible, you think those views are more common than they actually are and that everything's getting worse as a result. Groups and individuals who'd never usually encounter each other are now seeing their enemies more than ever...
Wish someone recreate Orkut :'(
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> "Liu made himself a 1.5-meter-wide, 2-meter-high, "portable room" weighing about 60 kg (132 lb), to carry with him as he walked an average of 20 km everyday."

I want to see a picture of this guy because I imagine he's quite fit. That's one hell of a daily routine.
Exactly. The legal framework and precedent is not based on pervasive electronic surveillance.
You talk like inertia and apathy are a root cause, but to me they are symptoms.
Isn't it obvious the solution is to ban cross-referencing from data collected via different products (even inside one company)? I think targeted ad, including micro-targeting, is the future as long as vast majority not willing to pay for services.

of course we then need to proper define 'product'.
Why is that ok if a private actor can do it better and cheaper? Most cases for public services are not really based on any good justification. On the contrary accepting that they lose money from the get go will drive soviet style inflation of resources and bankruptcy in the long run. Its been tried.
How does it handle child porn and terrorist beheading? I don't really want my kids watching it. Let alone kids gaming videos that cuss too much. To me youtube doesn't do enough to manage it's content.
That a private company works better at some locations does not imply logically that a public institution is a disaster waiting to happen, which was the original claim.

Let's make it a bit more ridiculous and extreme. Would it be a good idea to privatize US nukes? What would profit incentive provide there?

Remember, we are discussing the claim "creating public institutions without a profit incentive is a disaster waiting to happen".
Or, you know, 4) the project works very well, and they want to advertise it and instill some fear in people...
paywall bypass: http://archive.is/dVqGI
the bbc publishing an article with "China man" in it's title, meant to identify someone of Chinese origin just made my day. Stay classy, bcc and thanks for the grin
>except for the recent trade relations fiasco

Assuming it was a fiasco, which is not very clearly the case (if you speak about the tarrifs thing).
Are we sure that is not satire?
Appearantly, makeup and hairstyle is sufficient... for now.

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That hasn't happened in the United Kingdom with the NHS
Russia to block Telegram app over encryption