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What would be the point in doing anything? Anything you could build, program, or discover, could be done ten times better by an AI. It could probably even design entertainment, like movies, games, music, etc, far better than human artists.

A version of myself with vastly increased intelligence sounds interesting, but I'm not even sure it would be me. If you make enough modifications to your brain you become a completely different being. Different personality and thought process and little resemblance to who I am now. Which is disturbing to me at least. Along the thought of living inside of a computer doesn't exactly sound pleasant.

Even society itself might not exist anymore. Why would people interact with each other if there is nothing left to talk about that can't be instantly communicated? Why would people even spend time with each other if there are virtual realities to live in that are far more "fun". Spending eternity in a fantasy world sounds awful.

Yes I want to cure diseases and make everyone rich, but if you keep going, make a machine that solves every last minor problem and does everything there is to do, then there is nothing left for us.

And that's assuming that friendly AI is even possible, which I doubt it is, and I doubt will be discovered before AGI anyways. But either way the world we know will be utterly destroyed.
Makes sense.

What would the ideal behavior be if your customer updates their default card? Should the recurring billing continue chugging along with the card it was created with, or use the new card instead?
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How about "This patch has the following problems...." which would be much more conducive to getting the person to fix them, rather than provoking a flame war.

I've been online since the 80s, and I have seen this attitude over and over, that somehow, SHOUTING and INSULTS are "just part of the process" of engineering culture, and if "you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"

It's really an excuse for people, in many cases with ego problems, to justify behavior that most people find distasteful. It's no wonder many people are turned off from STEM fields where this kind of "alpha male" behavior is wide spread.

We need more Vulcan and less Klingon, especially in fields where people consider themselves intellectually superior, more educated, and supposedly, more rational.
What about maintenance? I can't believe the 10% admin fee covers that.
Sorry to he a hater but that landing page looks like balls and the book cover looks like balls. Looks like a high schoolers HTML project. Also, 'Who you are and what you have done and what makes you qualified' should be higher up and more noticable. I would find someone who has done something similar in the past and base your sales pitch/designs from that.
He's attacked noobs before (I specifically recall one case on the git mailing lists) but I've never seen him attack a noob who wasn't trolling and already flinging mud themselves.
(I deleted my comment above before I saw your reply)

Society has norms for determining right and wrong social behaviour. We teach children not to behave this way at a very early age. I'm sure these societal values aren't completely consistent across cultures and ages, but I'd be surprised if most people you ask don't characterize his language as hostile and abusive.

Of course, everyone has a right to be an asshole.
Great group of people! I can't make it to this meetup, but, if you're in San Diego, you should check it out.
Cloning. The end-game is cloning.
What about dropping Syria from our current agenda with Russia?
The electric swatters are the bee's knees! They work great. Popular in Puerto Rico.
I've been a long time Logic Pro user. Since the updates to Logic slowed to a trickle I've also been using Ableton Live a fair bit. I've always appreciated Logic's clean, well laid out interface (as opposed to say, Cubase) and its general sense of respect for the intelligence of its users.

Unfortunately it seems Apple has gone in the direction of Garageband-ifiyng Logic; pushing it towards amateurs who want to easily piece together their musical ideas from other people's sounds. The interface is dominated by the flashy new features such as the 'Drummer' and 'Drum Kit Designer' which effectively let you combine a limited set of preset drum sounds with a limited set of preset drumming styles. The result is a similar 'toy' feel to that of Garageband.

Professional tools for creativity afford the user the ability to manipulate, combine and repurpose them in as much depth and complexity as user can manage, so that they may seek out new forms, rather than just creating pastiche rehashes of existing ideas. It is apparent from the direction Logic has taken that it is no longer aimed at the professional market, but rather more to the 'Prosumer' category, who aspire to be 'Pro', but who still need a lot of hand-holding.

The most displeasing change I've noticed so far is that the 'bypass' button on each instrument and effect, which neatly fitted in with Logic's formerly clean and understated visual style, has now been replaced with a large glowing on/off 'light'. It is succinctly represents all of the changes across the application which discard neat and elegant design for absolute naive ease of use.

I have a feeling I'll be using Ableton more from now on.
The only problem with this perspective is that Linus is kind of the only show in town where it regards the Linux kernel. You can't just leave and have your own party without the host because the host has a monopoly on this particular party.

Sure, you can fork the kernel, but good luck with that!
You don't get clarity on an emotional level when being cursed and yelled at. You get into fight or flight mode. You get into danger mode.

"Please, don't loosen that bolt until you jack up the rest." is perfectly fine.*

You really are demonstrating and promoting the "yell on my employee to make them work better" attitude that just don't work on the long-term.

* Anecdote: My grand-father decided to take evening studies after the war to get out of this blue collar mentality of cursing and not getting much more done. He rose from one social ladder to the next and always made it clear the senseless profanity, bravado and fake expertise (the fuck do you need an expert to lift haystack or push wagon in the mines as he did in his 20's was his conclusion) was what he was fleeing from. And the fact they could be pretty good at back-stabbing too.

There is no respect in insulting someone else when trying to convene information.

Are we going to have that bro-grammer fad all over again ?
Does DragonDictate still work if you switch users? If so, you could encrypt your home directory, add a second user, and set OSX to auto-login to that user (and auto-launch DragonDictate).

If not, I think your best bet is a Bluetooth solution or some hardware token. For instance, an Arduino or Teensy ($20) programmed with your login/master password, and with a small microphone connected would be able to respond to certain voice commands and act as a regular USB keyboard, typing in your pass phrase.

You could also have some software on the Mac to automatically lock the screen or shutdown the computer if the Arduino is removed.
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And the pro-RKBA org, Calguns, is very legitimate. The other two are an association of California Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders, that covers everyone in the business from gun stores on up, and a gun customization company, you could score them as a manufacturer or gunsmith, and they would hold an FFL.

We're all in this together.
I wonder how they weighted a repo. If I have a toy project up on GitHub that I never really intended to do anything with or have anyone use, is that really the same thing as putting up a useful library that I made and simply didn't license?
Given the work you have to do now, it wasn't for "free".
Enlighten me, what is the herd mindset? Was Mr Spock on Star Trek or Data "part of a herd mindset", because they didn't engage in verbal insults on the crew when they disagreed?
Well technically it's not bribery (note that the people who define the technicalities are the ones being not-bribed), but effectively yes. While many organizations put out proposals and recommendations, lobbyists are the ones who get face-time with an elected official to try and convince them to enact their proposal. This access is usually obtained through a combination of political influence and not-bribery (campaign donations and indirect campaign support--look up "soft money").
There are bluetooth screen lock utilities that allow one to auto-lock and unlock the machine based on the signal strength of whatever Bluetooth device you pair it with. I would look into the hands-free Bluetooth speakers (meant for auto use) with a Wheelchair power to USB convertor (most likely the easiest would be via an auto 12V DC adapter). That way you can have a mic/speaker mounted on the wheel chair to control the machine as well (if you don’t have a wireless mic already). Any Bluetooth device capable of being paired will work though. This will prevent someone going through your laptop while you are away. I actually have one I use on occasion at coffee shops called Bluetooth Screen Lock available on the App Store, but there are other free and low cost apps that do the same thing available. The on I use allows me to set the sensitivity so that it will lock after being about 6 feet or more away, and unlock when I am within that distance. I can also set it to lock at the maximum BT signal range as well.
What about "Fuck you, you piece of shit!" ;)
> Lobbyists make more money, because they lobby on behalf of clients for the money, while think tanks do it for the ideology.

Think tanks often do it for the money, too; the difference is that lobbyists directly and overtly represent clients to policy makers in seeking change, while think tanks tend both to minimize their direct link to funders and direct their output to the public (in theory), though it often ends up as material that allied lobbyists present to policy makers.

If the interests backing them were sovereign states, then (in terms of their role in promoting policy) lobbyists would be ambassadors, and think tanks would be "public diplomacy" operations.
The point is to avoid writing to disk entirely by compressing RAM that may otherwise be swapped to disk when remaining RAM is low.

See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/91969
Access to data isn't the same as having enormous databases of it, there are whole categories of abusive use for which moderately costly individual access is harmless but a big database is terrible.
For a while there, it seemed like people had reached the consensus that flat vs. skeumorphic is a false dichotomy. After iOS 7 was unveiled, all of a sudden they are opposed again.
iOS is destined to be a hardcore gaming platform
And for those wondering about Reaper, it's from Winamp creator Justin Frankel. Dude makes some awesome software.
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Reducing the Roots of Some Evil
Say I've got a retail arm that sells consumer products and does consumer research on possible improvements, new products, etc.

If I send all that data out to an R&D arm to develop and improve my products, an arm run by the same parent corporation(s), and the R&D arm's only gig is supplying those new and improved products back to my retail arm that really doesn't sell anything else, how useful is it to point to the legal distinction between the two outfits whenever someone conversationally implies they're the same thing?
It can't be that hard to let a machine find out that these two links are basically the same. I'm not talking about programming a artificial general intelligence (AGI) solution here:

(a) http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/16/estimote-creator-talks-abou...

(b) http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/16/estimote-creator-talks-abou...
Why do you assume he pays the carers? For that matter, why do you assume he could afford to in the first place?
> I scored a non-stop Air Canada flight in Executive First, from Sydney to Vancouver for only $1,200

Excuse the french, but how the fuck did you do that?

If I could travel SYD-YVR first class for $1200 I'd probably go every couple of months if not more.
I wonder how much better this would be for an NSL receiver to publicly challenge it; at least they would have standing to contest the whole idea of a secret request.
As much as anything can be forked, the Linux kernel can be forked.

The only barrier to forking is the fact that most kernel developers are not bothered by Linus. Which raises the question of why we should want a fork if nobody wants a fork...
"Further, no intelligence service - not even our own - has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect. While it has not been reported in the media, one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep such information from being compromised even in the highest threat counter-intelligence environments (i.e. China).

You may rest easy knowing I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture."

I am very interested to hear some of his anti-intelligence efforts. I assume he's either talking about the Defense Intelligence Agency [1], or that this is a typo for CIA?

Also, everytime I hear from Snowden, I can't help but "fist pump" and cheer for the guy.

[1] http://www.dia.mil/
I've been looking for something like that too, but the problem with this is the fact that everyone that wants to participate has to be on the same page and that includes third party plugins and instruments. Of course you can't assume that the guy you're working with has the same plugins. How could that be handled?

A bounced audio track won't allow a lot of deeper editing. Midi only doesn't tell the recipient anything about the instrument you used in your original version.

Of course I'm describing the issues from a perspective of someone who tends to rather work with synthesized material than recorded audio, which doesn't apply to every artist, yet it remains a very difficult problem, a dropbox folder or simple file exchange won't make it work in my opinion.
I stopped at "daily standup". My least favorite part of agile, and in no way anarchistic to maintain it.
"Please, don't loosen that bolt until you jack up the rest." is NOT perfectly fine if it does not sufficiently drive the importance of that sentence home.

jlgreco's example of working on a farm is incredibly relevant because one tiny mistake on a farm can literally cost the lives of anyone or everyone in the family. If you're working on a tractor and you get something remotely wrong then suddenly you can't harvest this season, and everyone is broke and starving. Or the tractor falls and kills you and anyone else working under it.

One thing's for certain, if you get caught doing something wrong in that situation, you're going to get an earful and it will most certainly NOT happen again.
If they could convince people to regularly update their whole TVs they would make much more money.
You may have started two years ago but you only open sourced it for the community two hours ago.
The most interesting part of this is the following paragraphs from Snowden:

Further, no intelligence service - not even our own - has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect. While it has not been reported in the media, one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep such information from being compromised even in the highest threat counter-intelligence environments (i.e. China).

You may rest easy knowing I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture.

While he may be overconfident (it's easy to say you can resist torture, at least until you're tortured), this shoots down the unverified claims that the Chinese or Russians could easily already have copies of his data. Not unless he's willingly handed it over or he's much less competent than his data theft would suggest.
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I agree, it's a neat looking library.

Q.md5 - to one-way-encode passwords etc. in insecure websites before sending to the server

However, I'm not sure promoting unsalted MD5 as a password hashing algorithm and a replacement for https is a good idea.

There are a multitude of alternatives which would be more suitable.
Alternatively, don't promote the md5 module as being for passwords.
Apple is not reacting to bloggers. They are reacting to the fact that their share of their segment has gone from 90% to 25% in two years. So now they'll try anything.
Even if that was somehow relevant (it doesn't really matter what you called it internally if you didn't use the name publicly), the existing Q.js is older!

Here is the first public version, from 3 years ago: https://github.com/Gozala/q/tree/v0.1.0
So how does this explain that whenever I go grocery shopping and buy soda, my choice is almost always the generic store brand because it's the cheapest one?
To offer an opposing view:

I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture.

That is a huge claim. I do not imagine that his training involved being tortured to make sure. If he's wrong, there could be dire consequences for the US.

You might even say his ego is writing checks his body can't cash.
How does this compare to flat structure, e.g. at Valve or GitHub?
You're probably right to be skeptical, but the hope is that the hunger to power and greed will in part help us out here.

Very simplistically, the power of the judicial branch of government is diminished by the executive branch flaunting their control. Hopefully they will want to recover some of that power by reigning in the executive branch.

However, of course, if all the branches are benefiting too much from the military-industrial complex, then the system could easily fall apart.
> it's easy to say you can resist torture, at least until you're tortured

I interpret this as it's protected in such a way that any information he can give is not sufficient to access the documents.
Sure.

My scenario is a web service, that calls other web services.

It throws an error and then has to return something meaningful to the callee, which is usually both a message that tells the developer calling the web service how to fix it (if it's something that they can fix) as well as the relevant response code.

The advantage from assigning the code at the earliest point the error is detected is that one avoids any later text parsing of the error message to figure out the right code to return. It also allows general switching on the error code range to see whether you really need to throw the error or whether there is some other branch of logic that could be done instead.
By astroturfing, methinks.
Well, AC Executive First is really business class, not first class. Still an excellent deal but it's not first.
How do you advertise and get credit for creating a diverse workplace?

You don't. That particular game is rigged. As soon as you mention race, gender or sexual orientation, you lose. I see this as a feature, not a bug. Why would I want to work someplace that would rather tell me about the demographics of their employees than the things their employees create?
I interpret this as it's protected in such a way that any information he can give is not sufficient to access the documents.

(copy pasted from my reply on another comment below)
C is reasonable. Maybe if DNA gathering robots become cheap enough, and the NSA starts scouring the world vacuuming up DNA for the database -- then B might be reasonable, but probably not. We are talking about broad programmatic collection, not anything targeted. A is wrong... Clearly they want whatever they can get their hands on (from washington post: http://bit.ly/11PFiH7).

The real argument is that the likelihood of this decision making a difference in the life of his kids is very small. But from an ideological standpoint he might not care. Maybe if that type of attitude became a wider trend, a difference could be made? Who knows. I respect his decision though.
Snowden is FULL of crap.
I've read the article twice, and the only "evidence" Apple is making a TV (as opposed to a set-top-box, which they already make), is the author's speculation that "Selling an AppleTV-like box with a fiddly, detachable sensor that has to be tacked onto an existing television doesn’t seem like the Apple way".

It seems like the "Apple way" could equally well be a set-top-box that doesn't require a "fiddly, detachable sensor that has to be tacked onto an existing television." There's nothing inherent about gesture recognition that requires the sensor to be in a specific position, it's just that that's the current state of the art for consumer devices, so that's what we're used to. I'm sure gesture recognition from an arbitrary position is a hard problem, but solving hard problems is the "Apple way."
Yep, absolutely. Thanks for the follow-up!
And if you can't afford to donate money, maybe you could donate some of your skills and time, or help spread the word about the good work they're doing.
Edward Snowden makes me proud of my country, and the people that fight for it. But he also makes me ashamed of my Government and the people that hide behind it.
I tried the alternatives and they were fundamentally unworkable. The cost here wasn't that great, mostly it was a matter of figuring out the least bad solution to the problem. Compared to the issues I ran into with java-based integrations, this really was of negligible cost.
I would expect to be able to list subscriptions and list what card is associated with each. I would show an "Update Card" button next to each subscription. That button would prompt the user to either choose from a list of stored cards or add a new one.

The concept of a "default" card would come up when creating a new subscription or charge, and would be presented as the default selected payment option. The user would be able to select another card or add a new one.

I'm thinking of something similar to Amazon's checkout credit card selection screen.
I read this to mean that he has taken steps to limit the specific data he knows. So even if he has or had access to documents, he hasnt tried to memorize anything that could be damaging. Meaning they cant force him to reveal information he "doesn't know"
I think he probably means he has a distress password that will destroy his encrypted data if he was put under duress to disclose anything. I don't believe he is saying he can withstand pain indefinitely.
I think he may be hinting that he does not hold the key to the information, perhaps multiple keys are required, or the nature of the key is such that it cannot be reproduced under duress, etc etc.
This is where you ask yourself "would I like if someone releases a product with the exact same name as my company's and moved us to the second page of Google?".
This would be believable if the situation in Europe wasn't a direct counter-example.

They do have local governments there too. Yet with regulations forcing the owners of the local loop to share their facilities, they broke the monopoly of the ex state-owned phone operators.
I'm out of my depth in more than one way here.

How about rigging a bite switch to the ubikey (either directly or via something like a raspberry pi / beagle bone). That's assuming that the only issue with the ubikey is you pressing the button.

Maybe (if it has an rpi) it needs a sequence. Bite. Pause. Bite bite. Pause. Bite. Etc.

I suspect you'd need someone to build it for you but I doubt there is a shortage of capable or willing people here. Sadly, my electronics skills are not up to it :(

I'm always impressed by people with accessibility issues using technology (or whatever is the correct term - sorry if that's at all offensive :( ). I've managed to make one of my apps a lot more useful to blind/partial sighted people after talking to a guy who can't see. It took me about 30 mins, and made the world of difference to him.