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The SimCity4 soundtrack is really awesome for just hacking away at things. I think that the Red Alert soundtrack is one of the best "get shit done" albums I've had in my box for a while, even with the amazingly cheesy synths and 90s style. The Descent and System Shock 2 soundtracks were very much in this vein (SS1 was procedurally generated, so it's hit or miss).

I think the big trick is that game music is meant to get you thinking and active, but not distract you.
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From the New Zealand police statement:

“Despite our staff clearly identifying themselves Mr Dotcom retreated into the house and activated a number of electronic locking mechanisms. While Police neutralised these locks he then further barricaded himself into a safe room within the house which officers had to cut their way into. Once they gained entry into this room they found Mr Dotcom near a firearm which had the appearance of a shortened shotgun.”

http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/30638.html
I support PRISM but thing Snowden committed a crime, specifically unauthorized disclosure of classified information, which falls under the umbrella colloquially known as "treason."

The latter is a matter of definition IMHO. But I applaud you for speaking out. It seems like the groupthink reigns on this one, and nobody seems to realize that they may have had a damn good reason for doing what they did. For example, if monitoring the Internet can avoid actual ground conflicts by early intervention, saving lives on both sides of the conflict -- is that really a bad thing?
I think the author's good intentions are taken a little bit too far here. As I understand it, it is claimed that the gender is "correct with 67% confidence", which I assume means "67% of all educated gender guesses are correct", with 50% standing for pure guesswork.

As is the case with any statistical data, a single value holds only very little information. The article does not do any analysis on how good these 67% are: could it be that changing the parameters changes it to 50%? There's a pretty large configuration space in question, and therefore I think giving out a simple number is very misleading.

What I also don't agree with is the conclusion, "Most importantly, if that's what I can do with a limited set of my own data, imagine what the NSA can do with the datasets it has access to." In the light of the previous paragraph, this draws the conclusion that the NSA can do pretty big things, but it's based on the wrong premise that the analysis of the "own data" has any statistical significance.

Note that I don't want to argue about the conclusion - data mining is very powerful, and so is statistics - but this kind of approach is very easily abused, be it intentionally or unintentionally.

So, in short: be careful trusting statistics, even when you really really like the result.
If you like goa and whatnot, these folks have some good free tracks scattered across different electronic genres:

http://www.ektoplazm.com/
And how many users you guys got after this post?
why? in clojure strings can be multiline already. so there is no point in triple quotes.
If company does that, I'll sue them. Except, most probably it would be me setting up the system anyway.
I'm a white male, us citizen, registered republican, southern baptist.

I pretty much say what I want. :)
I don't exactly agree with the author, but I will say that he might have something.

Having the ability and constantly programming I have noticed that I have trouble understanding why people do the things that they do. I LOVE the feeling of making a dot move across the screen, or changing the font, or really anything that manipulates something on the screen. I love the feeling of achievement the ability to construct something out of nothing.

Most businessmen, politicians, managers, their world is built around getting other people to do their work for them by any means necessary. I don't disagree with them that its a good idea, but their goal is to get the job done, half the time they don't even know nor care if it is done "right."

The point is that people who get to build, manipulate, the movers of a society, they usually don't deal with politics, manager, or try to explore. They just want to keep building, they enjoy it, they (including me) love to build and wouldn't sacrifice it to manage someone else.

All of that being said, yes programmers (including me) in general don't like a centralized government/management because in their eyes it is something that takes away from their ability to achieve. Perhaps I am speaking to generally, but from the people I have met they seem to rather live by building than by trying to manipulate the builders. So to me (and others I have met) it is disgusting to be watched and manipulated, we all want to be free to build and taking that away (or threatening to take that way via surveillance or manipulation by the government) is a sin.
I saw pictures on Facebook and Twitter, shared by some folks from Turkey, and indeed there were canisters labeled 'Made in USA'.
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It depends on what those forms do.

I think we both can agree that something like Gmail is much more complex than what was presented in the article.
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roughly 2000 were in the beta
"Notation is for the most part boring."

Unless, of course, when your work involves using the notation a lot.... then people get really picky about it.
Did you read the page you linked to? Guns are only carried by specialized units. While said units will be called in if the circumstances seem to merit it, that's an unusual occurrence; the normal case, even on a raid, is that noone is carrying firearms.
I was pretty sad about the 0 clicks stat, but then I realized I'm also not seeing any mention/follow/unfollow data in the graph, so perhaps it doesn't start displaying those details until you login to ads.twitter.com for the first time.
I think it depends on the type of music you listen to. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uCL1_YcRwk is always able to get me to stop thinking about other things and concentrate on the task at hand. I notice I do much, much better on exams when I listen to music (esp. jazz) while I'm studying; perhaps it blocks out all other thoughts, focusing my attention on the core material that is really required for maximum productivity and retention.
What a bunch of egocentric, self-aggrandizing tripe.

> are the first army in human history to be less concerned with the acquisition of power and control and more about giving that empowerment to the individuals we fight for.

Everyone who calls to arms thinks that. Most radicals end up being more oppressive than the regimes they replaced. Forward progress has, much more often, come incrementally, from the U.S.'s very conservative revolutionary ideals to the U.K.'s bloodless internal revolutions.

> many of us were forced to develop of our code of ethics; many times in complete isolation from one another.

That makes no sense when you're talking about a bunch of people who are the least isolated group in history, being connected by the internet.

> A select few had the worlds biggest glass up against the world's biggest door; and most of us chose (choose) to honor that responsibility by respecting the privacy of one another.

Oh yes, great respect! As an industry, you only chose to sell their information to the highest bidder to Big Advertising.

> We developed our own morality in a vacuum where historically

What? No.
Wrong. Genes could be easily compared with non-human homologs, and thus many possible drug target genes were found by similarity to other species.

Medical knowledge thus also benefitted from non-human sequencing projects.
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For better or worse, in 2013, the government is also a privileged actor that can _prevent_ harmful things. One of the ideas of government is that we trust them to protect us.

Thousands of years ago, you lived in your village with your sheep in pigs, and the local warlord would be responsible for watching the edge of the woods and defending you against invading Barbarian hordes. In return, you paid the warlord taxes.

If you believe you can protect yourself adequately from the global threats of nuclear war, extremism and terrorism, Chinese hackers and the rest, then anarchy is a form of government that might suit you well! And best yet, no taxes!
If Apple can successfully use tens of shell companies to declare income outside of the US and thereby avoid taxes, I wonder if Mozilla and others could create shell companies outside the US to avoid surveillance.
In the US I think noone even blinks an eye at $150 million anymore
That will update once the author of flask updates its pypi entry.
Aren't the search lines supposed to be private data?
Not compatible with FOSS licensing? Sure that may be true for AGPL but BSD is the framework that grants patent rights under FOSS and is precisely the thing to mitigate copyright shortfalls. This is just the EU not being helpful. Again...
So you don't have to escape internal quotes.
This is what we do, but we can also do his rollout example in production by putting both new and old into production side by side and then targeting percentages of new users.
Your current gen numbers are a bit old. PS3 is now in second place (barely, 77.6 million units vs 77.5M for Xbox 360).
Someone should make a screensaver out of this.
I have always thought that being a Microsoft partner is already a corporate suicide note. They are ruthless when trying to earn more money from existing business lines.

Here we were customers of some company who sold Exchange hosting, now we login into outlook.com.

And all this without having into account the discontinued products because of internal politics. Think XNA Game Studio.
Thanks, I guess I ll explore the option that you described above. Also there is one more thing I am curious about, so heroku does gives a free SSL certificate but that only works for their domain meaning something like truffleapp.herokuapp.com, it doesn't work for the custom domain. Do you know any way where I can save money on buying SSL certificate and rather use heroku's certificate. All the certificates put atleast a 1000$ hole in the pocket but eventually in a week or so if I can't figure out how to use heroku SLL, I have to spend that money
"The only way to get around this is to open up the NSA to an independent team of international cyber experts from the UN."

The UN is a powerless organization. Nations will always act in their own self-interests, and the power-players of the UN will ignore any efforts to intrude upon that authority if they can argue that it weakens national security.
tbh , was not aware of creating private ssl certificates for this purpose .. Thanks
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Tangentially relevant, but I was thinking of the European / American context switch happening somewhere about constitutional rights and specifically the right to bear arms. (I am an European, Turkish specifically) The idea behind the second amendment seems to be to stop the Government from turning against its own constituents. Nowhere in Europe such a reasoning exists, including Turkey. On one hand, it prevents this conflict—no, police attacking civilians—from escalating as people are not armed, but on the other hand as I see police violence like this [1][2] I'm starting to think we need an equivalent law that allows people to protect themselves.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/rwRPV

[2] http://sublunarorb.it/post/52144010490/liveblog-of-the-turki...
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I think its more accurate to say Libertarianism → Feudalism than Libertarianism = Feudalism.

Feudalism is the consequence of having civil society reduced solely to property rights.
The warped mind of Timothy McVeigh as well.
Very cool, and more importantly, a fun take on a dry subject! It might be nice to add a preview option though. Sure I can email it to myself, but lower the barrier of use as much as possible to drive adoption.

Edit: Just got the email sent to myself. Again, very cool. Some ideas for enhancement might be allowing me to upload a small logo for the PDF, letting me save my company info, and maybe putting the 'message' at the top of the email instead of the bottom. But otherwise, bravo!
how do they take out all the porn? i'm serious!
....after some heavy adult searches filtering....
So why do I use yhat? Won't this run quite well locally?
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> In respect to transparency, we need a set of global laws that protect the users of systems based in foreign countries. If Canada had strict privacy laws, I would hope that I would be protected by those laws even if I'm using a service based in the US.

Do you also think that Canada's laws relating to freedom of speech would allow you to defame the Muslim prophet Mohammad on a service hosted in Jordan? The King of Jordan would disagree with you.

You can't begrudge sovereign nations the right to form their own laws and system of government. I smoke cigarettes. When I go to Montreal, I can't smoke near doorways. I don't demand that because I'm American I should get to smoke near your doorways. Your doorways, your rules. Same goes with servers.

> Ultimately the US needs a sustainable system where the people elected to power aren't bound by financial need which in-turn forces them to pass and enforce laws that aren't good for the greater purpose of the people.

What exactly are you talking about? Politicians are basically scumbags everywhere, but I don't see this as an endemic problem affecting the policy in our country... simply because the financial interests of lawmakers are highly diversified, and they also have an incentive to serve their constituency faithfully (re-election)?
Indeed, and you also get a bunch of neat stuff when you subscribe to PS+ like free games and discounts. You also don't need it for all games, F2P games for example are exempted from it at the discretion of the publisher.
There is a lot of effort expended to find non-surgical alternatives to many health conditions. Insurance companies in effect tell surgeons "you should avoid operating on people for this condition unless these other approaches have been tried first" in their reimbursement guidelines.

As far as I can tell, not true in practice. For example see http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0710.brownlee... for some of the history of the attempts to bring sanity to back surgery.

As for insurance companies, they have some interesting perverse incentives going forward. Obama's health care plan says that they have to spend most of the money they bring in on medical care. This is intended to keep them from causing too much overhead. However the flip side is that the potential profit the company and top executives make is directly tied to how much medical care they get people to have, with the costs passed on to companies and consumers who are now legally required to buy insurance.

They will be very interested in making sure that the cost of medical care grows at a known rate. The growth being so that they can make more money. The known rate being so that they actually can make money. They will give public lip service to cost saving measures. But privately that isn't their incentive, and they are smart enough to know it.
>Robin Milner. A theory of type polymorphism in programming. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 17:348-375, August 1978

It is in the top 5 and yet none of the go developers will acknowledge that it exists.
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It would be interesting if that king of reporters started using actual return in their ROI numerator, not the investiment.

I'm quite tired of people claimming that building a bridge to nowhere incresed the economy just because the spending is added to the GDP. And the article uses exactly that kind of accounting.
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I can't miss them?

So, even if I wanted to I couldn't?
They might've realized when they saw the big shiny "D O T C O M" sculpture on the grounds. You can see part of it in the video.
At google? Thanks for the laugh, mate
The authors of the 12 factor app methodology seem to disagree:

"Another aspect of config management is grouping. Sometimes apps batch config into named groups (often called “environments”) named after specific deploys, such as the development, test, and production environments in Rails. This method does not scale cleanly: as more deploys of the app are created, new environment names are necessary, such as staging or qa. As the project grows further, developers may add their own special environments like joes-staging, resulting in a combinatorial explosion of config which makes managing deploys of the app very brittle." -http://www.12factor.net/config
The way to solve this problem that's been discussed before is to require authenticated identity in the protocol layer, so every packet can be traced to a real, live person.

But then that breeds new problems:

1) The NSA might like the ability to tie every packet to a person, but privacy and anonymity are generally good things.

2) Just because you have a reliable way to track/measure "real" reputation/authority/trust, will that stop people from abusing it? Did the offline version of this stop Paula Deen from building an empire on unhealthy eating only to later reveal her own diet gave her diabetes? No.

Human nature is driving a fair bit of this stuff, and has nothing to do with Google, the web, protocols, or spam. We always try to eliminate the "flawed human" from systems, and it never works.

3) The fact that reputation/authority/trust is unreliable might actually be a feature not a bug. For one thing, it allows some dude with no social capital to get a toehold and get his stuff in front of users. Generally Google allows this to happen, and if the content sucks, it falls away. I don't mind a bit of spam if it's the price for more diversity and opportunity for people outside the "lucky sperm club" to rise.

Overall, I don't buy this "destruction of the web" stuff. If anything, Google has made both the web AND search are way better today. It's possible that Google's anti-spam strategies will hit a point of diminishing marginal return, and the spammers will catch up and the balance will swing in their direction again, but so far that's not been the trend.

I think the equilibrium we're seeing is that Google allows a very small amount of spam tactics spam to work for a while, but they use other signals that keeps that stuff from getting major traffic (e.g. eHow). So gaming the system can get you in search rankings, but if you suck, you won't stay there.

But more importantly, I don't want to trade off privacy and anonymity to eliminate what amounts to a very small amount of spam.
>there are almost no limits on content size: videos can run up to 4 hours and 20 minute

>videos can run up to 4 hours and 20 minute
haha that's so adorable.
That wouldn't work, because the defense has the burden of arguing that the evidence is tainted. Case law merely states that the tainted evidence will get excluded and that the defense must be given the opportunity to argue that the evidence is tainted.

Also, let's be clear, and stop saying "the government". Let's say "the NSA" is doing the wiretap. Then we can talk about "state prosecutors" or "federal prosecutors", and talk about how those prosecutors ended up with evidence obtained by tainted means.
What would be interesting is their process for filtering out private search terms
Depending on how anal you are, and how complex your invoices are, one good reason to use a tool over a Word template is simply adding the numbers up properly.

I joined a small business that was doing them in Word. After reviewing the last 12 month of invoices (about 200), I found about 5% of them had simple math errors, i.e. the Total did not match the sum of the line items.

Sure, you can get it right by hand, but why bother when using software can eliminate the adding-up step entirely?
Another problem is he doesn't include any sort of meaningful baseline. Maybe 67% of the people he talks to are male. In which case, he's not predicting anything. Just guessing randomly biased by his own calling habits.

[EDIT: I had some other criticisms that were incorrect and overly harsh anyway. I've removed them.]
I think perhaps this would lead to having a Constitutional amendment banning the government from watching what the American public does. Oh wait...
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You're welcome.
Duely noted, but I don't think it ought to make a difference in the price tag unless the CMS was doing conversion and distribution.
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There are certainly people like you describe.
On the other hand in the early days of the net there were legions of script kiddies and others doing all kinds of shitty things.

Also don't forget that there are probably a lot of geeks working at the NSA; considering that, their leak rate is really pretty low.

People are fundamentally drawn to power. Having an open and censorship free internet gives people who understand technology the most power. Having a regulated internet accessed through "walled garden" devices gives that power back to governments and suits.
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This is not the first time a request like this has been made. In the Noriega case, the attorney for one of the co-accused pilots requested copies of telephone conversations intercepted by the NSA at their secret facility in Panama called "The Tunnel." The Government went ballistic and tried to have the defense attorney arrested--somehow he had obtained a copy of a map showing the existence and location of the facility. The Government merely denied that it had such records but quickly made a princely deal with the lawyer which ended up excluding the pilot from the case and giving him a sentence of less than a year.

The other issue that bothers me with respect to the defense lawyer's tactic here is that it does not appear he has complied with the Classified Information Procedures Act. Since the request was made in the middle of trial, perhaps the judge waived these, but failure to comply would be another way to get around the disclosure requirement.

Finally, line U.S. Attorneys really have no knowledge of these matters--Main Justice flies in CIPA specialists to assist whenever there is classified information.
If you are just using ssl on your admin site; you could roll your own.

openssl req -new -x509 -nodes \
-out /nuxeo/certs/server.crt \
-keyout /nuxeo/certs/server.key \
-batch

you will get a warning about the certificate being suspect; but at least the traffic will be encrypted
This is the best idea in this thread.
So I just tried out adioso on a desktop. It wasn't as responsive as I hoped.
Nice, is this the latest PRISM API mashup?
I'm running it on my 4S. It's a bit slow, somewhat choppy, and there are a lot of annoying glitches. The reminders app is currently stuck frozen, which sucks because I use it everyday. Also the mail app is intermittently freezing as of yesterday afternoon.

Don't forget that certain apps will not work. For example, neither the eBay app or MLB apps are working for me (and I use those everyday too).
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