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> For a lot of people who take religion seriously, I feel like this could be a major upset.

I doubt it.

If the last few years have taught me anything, it's that no amount of evidence can dissuade someone from believing something they want to believe in.
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What a great difference between him and Ballmer. I'd not be surprised if they eat Amazon's lunch on cloud computing in the next few years.
> I have a feeling that such ethics will not be brought to these situations by DHS.

I'm picturing the president hosting a daytime talk show "who's the father" episode.
Lying about a war for corrupt reasons surely qualifies.
I agree with this. An ad that is relevant and doesn't track, harass, or deceive users is reasonable in my opinion.

There's no reason that most ads couldn't fit this model, but due to greed and laziness they mostly don't.
Not necessarily if they can get on the jury and use jury nullification. Or make this concept more well known to people who may be on the jury.
read the comment you replied to again.

hint: it won't be effective at that.
Looking at Tesla's valuation, it isn't valued like a 'normal' car company though. Its valued like a growth stock.

Whether it works? I don't know, the stock rose on the news which would suggest some people are convinced.
> This it as tangential to a discussion of nuclear safety compared to the safety of any other power source.

No, it is not. No other power source comes even close in the amount of time that has to be covered by insurances.

A dam breaks, a gas plant explodes, that's a couple billions of dollars of damage plus a couple billions in payments for the relatives of the dead. For corporations making billions of years in profits, that's pocket change. (Which coincidentally explains why disasters regarding open "seas" of toxic mining slurry occur so regularly)

For Fukushima? That land is inhabitable for decades. Assume the Isar 1 AKW blows up? This is only 100km away from Munich. Can you imagine how much it costs to move an area with over 3M people?

And that doesn't even touch the question: where to put the nuclear trash? Germany doesn't have a permanent waste facility and many other countries don't have one either.

Note that I'm not against nuclear in general: Inherently safe designs such as MSRs? Perfectly fine. But not the often shoddily maintained stuff that is in use today!
The article seems to focus heavily on China and Russia, which makes for kind of an odd notion of exactly who the "you" is in the title. Most of their readership is not in those two countries. (It also seems to have an extremely America-centric view of the state of the Internet in those two countries, which does not strike me as especially well informed. Its view of China's "social credit" system reflects Fox News version of it and has little to do with reality.)

The main argument it makes that actually affects its readers is that the social media giants are cracking down on what they consider antisocial behavior. It doesn't seem possible to me to make you "less free" by banning you from doing something that was impossible before the Internet. Alex Jones may not be able to post to YouTube any more, but he's no less free than he was in 2005.

It's vacuously true that Facebook and YouTube are less "free" than they were before they began the crackdown; it needs no article to tell you that. But the Internet is still "free": Jones is welcome to support his own infrastructure.

As far as I can tell, this is little more than yet another person demanding access to other people's resources. Which strikes me as inconsistent with its obvious conservative, libertarian leanings.
FTA: "The information collected in the DNA test will not be stored or shared, the ICE official said."

Now, whether or not this is true...
One of LFortran authors here. You raised a good point. I would say for numerical computing, if performance is an issue, the best candidates are C++, Julia, Chapel and Fortran. Each has pros and cons, I am going to post a blog post about that, I didn't want to get into language comparison details in the announcement.
I don't see the same sharp divide as you.

Studying, practicing, and improving your skills are just as much "doing the job" as actually writing code. It's all an essential part of production in the end.
Soo the real life tesseract!
Not OP, but I wouldn't currently be able to build much of use, so I'll probably be busy learning.
> Sweden didn't produce a single evidence of the crime

This seems to be false. There was a hearing, and a judge believed there was probable cause. From the Wikipedia page, under "Review of detention order":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...

> On 16 July 2014, the Stockholm District Court reviewed the detention order on request by Assange. During the course of the proceedings, Assange's defence lawyers said that the prosecutors have a "duty" to advance the case, and that they had shown "passivity" in refusing to go to London to interview Assange. After hearing evidence, the district court concluded that there was probable cause to suspect Assange of committing the alleged crimes, and that the detention order should remain in place.
I'd say his thinking was that he was safer out of custody in the UK than in custody in Sweden.
Do you think that actually happens.
The UK has substantially better extradition laws for the government. His choice to flee Sweden to go to the UK is certainly an odd one if his concern was avoiding extradition to the US.
Just out of curiosity, a flat tire is a warranty item? Was it something wrong with the wheel or the tire? Never realized you could claim a flat tire as a warranty item, I would have just gone to a tire shop.
Not necessarily. Climate change is arguably destroying the U.S. through droughts, hurricanes, floods, etc. But you don't see the U.S. react so swiftly.

It's really when the interests of those in power that are affected, that the "state acts so quickly."
>"The phenomenon that even random data will produce clusters."

You don't really mean "random", you mean i.i.d. You can have a statistical model where the probability of something happens is random, but not independent of the past values (eg, the next step a markov chain).
>A well-intentioned intern can make a programming decision in an afternoon that might take a team of senior SWEs months or more to clean up later once the code or data is being used for something important.

And a new maintenance tech with the wrong grease gun can cause millions of dollars of downtime. This kind of risk exists in all industries.
Cool teardown, but I'd be interested to see a disassembly of a known-bad key to compare and see what looks different.
Will they also untrain the machine learning model that they've fed all of this data into to predict exactly what kind of ads are most likely to get you to spend money? How about slurping up data for users who don't have an account but send a ping to google on every goddamn page on the internet?
> Austin is the perfect combination of low COL and available talent in my opinion.

Some evidence for that: half the game studios I know of have programmers in Texas, or occasionally elsewhere in the southeast (e.g. North Carolina). If you want a dense talent pool around your office, but don't have the margin/capital to pay coastal cost of living, there aren't many other options to rival those.
It was September 2012 when a friend of mine and I pledged some money. I was backer number ~ 2000. My friend jokingly said "We will have children by the time it comes out". Guess what.

They could have avoided the expensive actors, changing engine half-way, and they still should come out and say - we promised 1000 things. We can do 50 to get the ball rolling and we will do the following 950 in due time.

I really do hope that they put together at least the single player. We've spent money on the same sport simulators since '97. What's $50-$60?

I am rooting for them.
look at the text version of the email, it contains the actual URL.

based on your post i checked if i got the bundle that included world of goo, and it turns out i did. it contained the key url as http://www.humblebundle.com/?key=... and that url is still working. as someone stated elsewhere in this discussion, the humble bundle version is not updated. it's downloading version 1.30 right now...
Most nations don't take too kindly to people that assist in the illegal acquisition and publishing of their classified documents.

If you did a similar thing to China or Russia, they would probably do everything in their power to secretly execute/assassinate you.

Even if you did it to a highly progressive European nation like UK, the government probably wouldn't celebrate you as a hero but would rather do everything in their power to put you behind bars regardless of if it were "conscienscious whistleblowing" or not.
People looking for asylum are not crossing the border illegally.
It’s like the mirror image of gambling. You get a little money constantly and if you are (un)lucky, you lose a lot. I’m not really interested in playing someone’s rigged financial game for chump change.
The stuff propping up Microsoft now (Office 365, Azure, Windows 10) were all started under Ballmer, weren't they?
Well, the general implication was that a $35k Model3 would be profitable for the company.

My issue is mostly with the financial situation of the company. Its clear that the $35k M3 has been relegated as a "loss leader", and there's no work on actually making the car profitable at that price.

Again, perhaps its impossible to make a M3 profitable at $35k, and I would rather have the company make money than lose money. Its just that the years of $35k price anchoring really weakens Tesla's ability to set prices from here on out.
We can't say we didn't know... Still, human forgetfulness is probably even more enshrined in society than it was 80 years ago.
> Any border crossing checkpoint is necessarily not at the actual border (which is mathematically impossible).

Sure. To the degree that we still want borders (and I think it's a decreasing degree as time moves forward), this will remain true.

> And it’s absolutely incorrect to claim that historically we only patrolled the border to prevent smuggling.

Yeah? My understanding of the history of the US Customs Service is that it was a revenue generating agency and not a law enforcement arm.

Did it conduct widespread police-style patrols like those we have today? I feel reasonably confident that the answer is "no", but this is not my primary area of historical study.

> The border patrol was established in 1924.

But again, compare it to CBP today. It was what, a few hundred men on horseback in the desert? At least that's my understanding. Around WW2 it ramped up to a couple thousand, but it still wasn't an established, militarized police force comparable to today's CBP.

> Exercise of the authority of the US to expel aliens for national security purposes dates to the founding era.

But the Alien and Sedition Act (for example) is nearly universally regarded as a shameful period in the early history of the country. It's certainly not something to point to as a precedent of this being done well.
My earlier comment was unclear. Assange revealed serious crimes by US officials.
Swedish policy has changed since 2001. I wonder if there are any more recent examples. But that was on par for the course for Sweden. Back during the Cold War, Sweden sent a lot of Latvians and Lithuanians back on request by the USSR.

Sweden was desperately defending its status as a neutral country, and did not want to appear to take any sides. But the previous Swedish government decided to recognise Palestine as a state, which strongly suggest they are done with that now.

All that besides, the US did not request his extradition until Trump became President. So he could have gone to Sweden, done his interview in the case, probably been let off with a fine, and then go on his merry way.
This is such a smart move.

I was one of the first two simul-hire remotes at Mapbox (when the company was ~12 people) and, until I left in 2017, the longest-term remote there at seven years. I've been fully remote for thirteen years. At Mapbox, I unofficially took on the role of internal advocate for remote culture. It wasn't always easy to be remote, but as the company grew, Eric, the CEO, was fond of saying that "everyone is remote" since more and more physical hubs for work sprang up across many timezones. It was a tough balance, particularly as increasingly more work and customer opportunities centered around the Bay Area, and the spiritual heart of the company switched coasts from the official HQ in DC to the larger and faster growing office in SF.

Personally, I can't overstate how much being a remote employee and even freelancer has impacted my quality of life and my opportunities. For the most part, I was able to focus on my work and hook in to the rest of my teammates as needed. The best times of this were when the company engineering culture was very asynchronous and allowed for it. Slack and always-on expectations, as well as much more complex software in later years, made this more difficult, but still manageable.

It wasn't without struggle, though. Often it was lonely, isolating, I felt out of the loop on some decisions, I didn't get some in-jokes and nicknames, I missed the non-holiday parties and happy hours, etc. Even with that stuff aside, it takes a real commitment from the leadership to fully integrate remote team members. Kudos to Stripe for putting themselves out there and holding themselves accountable to the goal with a public statement and metrics.

The key snippet from the Stripe announcement is this:

> improve our ability to tap the 99.74% of talented engineers living outside the metro areas of our first four hubs

The future of much of the technical work that needs to happen is remote, and I'm glad to see Stripe embrace that.
Some notes:

- This hearing is simply an early opportunity for Assange to volunteer to surrender to America. Which of course he didn't.

- It won't be until June that a substantial extradition hearing will start.

- He's still got his sentence to serve in the UK.

- The maximum US sentence for the alleged crimes is five years.
Part of the peace movement is also opposed to nuclear power because the waste products are suitable for building nukes, with claims that certain aspects of the nuclear power industry mainly exist for that reason.

Incidentally the US raises the same objection over Iran's nuclear power program.
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Not to mention questions about how reliable this quick fix DNA testing is. False negatives will happen and destroy families in the process.
I'm not sure that's completely fair. A lot of people--perhaps especially those earlier in their careers--genuinely enjoy the social aspects of an office as well as the ability to grab a room and whiteboarding something with colleagues, etc.

Sure, the latter can be replaced with other forms of communications, but it's not a 1:1 replacement and I totally get why a lot of people wouldn't want to work remotely, at least not full-time.
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2014...

after that they did go to London to interview him and did DNA testing and found nothing too.
I can comfortably talk to senior management and present in meetings to complete strangers adjusting content to a level they care about.

Not remotely a technical skill but it's served me extremely well over the years.

It's definitely a skill I had to learn, by nature I was and still am an introvert but I worked in sales for a few years and by the end I could convincingly fake it in all settings.
go read the US indictment against him at yourself [0]. The US was smart and did not charge him with anything that he could argue first amendment for.

From WSJ:

> In the U.S. indictment, prosecutors alleged that in March 2010 Mr. Assange conspired to help former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning break into a U.S. Defense Department computer system by trying to help her crack a password.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/11/18306045/julian-assange-w...
The motivation probably also the normalization of prosecuting a journalist the United States sees as a threat/enemy. Assange is very flawed (to say the least), but if he's successfully prosecuted then it opens the door to prosecuting other journalists as well.
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Good point regarding UI changes - exactly this problem wanted also to solve and worked hard to make it robust and adjust to UI changes automatically (with some heuristics and ML).
In other news, every (developed) country is tracking cellphone usage, car location, and electricity usage in every city.
I guess those Solitaire Premium subscriptions are really bringing in the cash.
I think this is something that will improve in the future. Cities everywhere are optimized for the very specific 9-5 living lifestyle and commute, and people heavily rely on work for social functions. But as more and more people are working remotely / without an office, i think we 'll see a shift. This will probably involve a lot of online communiction/coordination.
Uhm, "Remote in North America only" though?
Many security people will discount everything that someone says once they see that person misapply marketing-phrases to describe security technology.

2FA does not become 3FA when adding a new passphrase to a system that already had a knowledge based entry.

A password for a private key is _never_ considered what you are. You are severely misusing security terms and will mislead people to believe that a proposed solution has greater strength than it really possesses.
They're going to say espionage and then make everything classified and so he will have no defense and we will never be given proof.

The funny thing is that he's currently being held for not being able to justify bail jumping but now that he's being extradited it justifies his bail jumping... Its absolutely crazy to watch how the law is basically completely fake at a certain level.
If it could have been published in Science, then it wouldn't have been submitted to Science Translational Medicine, a completely different journal with much less visibility (and a much lower impact factor). For some of these Nobel guys you could argue they want to avoid supporting the flashy magazines and don't care about getting into the high impact journals because they are already established, but in this case he actually submitted to a Science-family journal, so he's very unlikely to be making some principled stand.
This is welcomed, but they might do better to remove the requirement to have the Web/Location/App history enabled for apparently unrelated features.

E.g. I cant store my home location in Google Maps without turning on Web & App activity history. Why? I cant share my current location (not historic, just my latest location - they only need to store one) with my partner unless I turn on Web and Location history. Why?

I am sure a lot of people will now pipe-up and say "Ah well they want your data! That is why!". Kthx bai for that - I get it.

It strikes me as this being a "nudge" more than anything, or perhaps just a cut-corner to get a feature enabled rather than support something custom (e.g. in the case of my current location vs location history, it was probably easier for them to build something that just picks the most-recent record off of the top of your location history rather than create something new for only storing the most recent ping independently from location history along with all the privacy controls, legal reviews, documentation, and UI fiddly bits that go along with supporting something new)
>because you still have all those coal, gas, and nuclear plants providing baseload power...

That's right. So why would you not decommission all of that incredibly expensive nuclear, and draw down your use of the coal plants to fill in the gaps? That's how most dispatch stacks work. It's just common sense. Consumers want to save money. Utilities want to make enough money.

There's just no way you use nuclear in any scenario you can come up with, unless the government is paying for it. Then you don't care, because you're not paying the costs.
Walls throughout history have overwhelmingly been fools errands. It's hard to maintain an exhaustive wall. They can work in the short term (the battle of sadr city) but they never hold out in the long term.
Births don't even have a paper trail in much of the world.
We permit people to live in Denver or some towns with elevated radium in their water. Heck you can have basements in New Jersey. Are you sure we're drawing a consistent line on radiation exposure?
> Democrats aren’t in favor of open borders

Citation needed. Cutting the enforcement budget for border patrol to zero (as Julian Castro proposes) is open borders in all but name.

> It’s dishonest and in bad faith

... To pretend that some Democrats aren't for open borders.
Folks will argue how much and when, but the US state is still a democracy and people elected people who oppose action on climate change... it makes sense.
This is what I do. Instead of committing /docs, I build into the root of the repo under the gh-pages branch. I use this package to help: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages
> users needing to think about recompiling things is definitely not the experience they want

I think the intended OSS experience would be for users to get everything from their distro’s repository, whose packages get recompiled by the distro maintainer.

I agree this doesn’t work in practice, but there’s a reason Debian tells people to only ever use packages from their official repos.
How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang, China
cool. hopefully we will have a transcript somewhere?
> US government operating a real UFO

Or some other nation. By far the most likely explanation to me is that this is some classified military tech.
Google Maps Billing API Down, Breaking Website Relying on Their API
Sigh. Looks like when Google's internal API-billing is broken, they'd rather break apps that rely on the API than allow them to continue using the API while they fix their billing problem.

Poor design choice by Google IMO.

Maps suddenly missing from one of our web apps, Chrome developer console says "You have exceeded your request quota for this API." Log into the account to make sure card on file is OK, and am greeted with the message "The server has timed out while trying to process your request" and the API console won't display billing history.
Related: How China turned a city into a prison

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xi...

“Children are interrogated. Neighbors become informants. Mosques are monitored”
Speaking as someone who lives in Manhattan and owns my apartment, I can say from my example at least that my mortgage payment (plus property taxes), tax-adjusted, is less than what the same apartment would cost me to rent.

Now buying something to rent it out is a different story and I just don't see those numbers making sense from an investment POV if that's your point.
Nothing in that post mentioned monetary returns.

Still, you can get more value out than you put in depending on how you value the output. Many kickstarter’s are not items that you can buy but rather art projects. How valuable is it for something to exist in this world even if you don’t own it?

Now, that’s less true if games or flashlights. But, even if that specific item does not get created simply proving a market for it exists can provide value.

Consider, if 10$ helps creat a great restaurant near you. Simply being able to eat at it would provide value even without getting a discount.