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The original codebase suffered from reinventing the wheel - badly. By composing together well tested high level abstractions, most of the tricky, broken parts could be removed from the responsibility of the application codebase, leaving only appication specific concerns. It could have been done without Go, but Go provides a good set of tools for the task. In C++ land, on the other hand, there isn't such a clear Right Way to do such things (though there are plenty of options).
Smoking is obviously bad, I think we all get that. I for one welcome "social pressure" as an effective mechanism for getting all of us to quit; its quite useful to limit the places that one can smoke, and to make it uncool when hanging out with a certain crowd, or even continuous admonishment from non-smokers. I would also be happy if cigarettes completely disappeared or were incredibly expensive; less temptation for me.

Smoking is not a personal problem, it is a societal one. Barring effective personal solutions, societal solutions will be more effective. Maybe they won't get you to stop smoking, but your kids probably won't smoke, and in a few generations it will be gone.

Consider that I never started smoking until I moved to a country at around 35 yro where smoking was common, welcomed everywhere but Starbucks, and cigarettes are incredibly cheap ($1.25/pack). It started out as a social habit at bars, and eventually turned into an addiction that I depended on for creativity. Now that I've associated it with that, and have been...more effective (coincidental or not)...its hard to just blow off the habit. Health or a successful career?

Oh and no, I never wear seat belts because they are always hidden in the taxis I take.
As someone wiser than me once said, true wealth is how long you can maintain your preferred lifestyle without working.

By that definition, I've only met a handful of people who are wealthy.

Some people who I've thought are relatively wealthy have alimony, child-support, large mortgages on 2nd homes in nice coastal areas.

Even consultants I've met who have charged $10k/day (healthcare), they can't sit around and play golf - they go nuts.

The best passive income is selling something that improves people's lives in a small way (whether it be an entertaining iPhone game that connects friends for a game or a healthy meal planner that brings a family together for dinner).
I'm very surprised that nowhere in the article does the author advise someone in this position to get a lawyer. If I were being sued by a patent troll (or anyone else), the very first thing I'd do is hire competent legal counsel and let them communicate on my behalf. Not being a lawyer myself, I don't know how to figure out whether the troll's suit is frivolous or not, and I don't know whether some offhand remark I might make to their lawyer could get me in trouble. It's also possible that once the troll sees that I have a lawyer, they might just drop their suit and go after easier prey.

"He then told us we had until the end of the day to settle the case or face criminal charges for harassment. We immediately notified the FBI of his extortion attempt."

That seems to indicate that the troll's lawyer was fairly incompetent; I don't think a competent lawyer would have made such a baseless and self-incriminating threat. A competent lawyer might have been much harder to beat if he didn't have a lawyer of his own.
"The value we are trading away, under the surveillance
programs as presently constituted, are quality of
governance. This is not a debate about privacy. It is a
debate about corruption."

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/4435.html

Orwell himself could not have said it better.
I think that's a good analogy to express the idea that we do need privacy (even when all our actions are legal). Well expressed!
Because of the last time a 3d printed cracker bot tried to hack my phone, I now use Android's text password option instead of a pin. Combined with the Swype keyboard, it's actually much easier to unlock my phone than before. You get the ease of the pattern unlock with many more possible permutations.
Oops, yes. I was speaking about the Inception reference.
I call it "what the hell do I do now" syndrome. If you make money so you can work on what you want, you're immune. If you work so that you can make money, you might one day be stricken.
As a smoker. Whatever the boost you get, you do not need it. In fact, when trying to quit you can get more productive just by trying to substitute chemical boost by intellectual boost (e.g. reading.) I smoke and appreciate the satisfaction of nicotine, but let's not rationalize out irrational behaviour.

On the other hand, it is annoying when people insist that we quit or want to imply it is an indicator of irrationality in general. If it is not illegal, let us do it. Whatever additional health cost for society, we are bearing it. Either directly, via increased insurance rates or indirectly via the exorbitant taxes we are paying. So why do you care? We do not need no nannies.
The Tor project is already dealing with these issues using obfsproxy in places like China where VPNs are blocked.
Not a lawyer, but FWIW: if it's employment-related, tread very carefullyYou could specify that a potential employee must be 'in touch with what's new and hip' but it's risky to say that you won't hire anyone over 30 (as well as maybe unwise). If you're looking to hand out scholarships or somesuch, it's probably much less of an issue. If you want to make Logansrun.com* where everyone has to be under 30 to join up and waste time on your social network, you're probably safe, as old and middle-aged people are not a protected class that I'm aware of.

* Of course being able to reference Logan's Run dates me as over 40.
e-cigarettes don't really work well because its not about the nicotine. They do give you something to hold and put in your mouth, but the experience is extremely unsatisfying to a smoker. If you go the e-cigarette route, I suggest quitting cold turkey for a couple of weeks or even a month then trying the e-cigs with the idea being that you would have forgotten some of feeling of real cigarettes. It is also incredibly easy to quit for short periods of time, e-cigs can help you avoid relapses.

Exercise is quite useful, especially in eliminating white spaces in your routine; i.e. avoid walking and bike instead. It is almost impossible to hold a cigarette and so you won't think about it while biking. Also, smoking is not very effective after exercise, your white space is used for muscle healing and the addiction pangs are muted.

The rest of your advice is not as useful: they are simply other bad habits that you should probably quit anyways and not related to smoking. If you have limited willpower, focus on killing one bad habit at a time. There is a reason people often get fatter while quitting smoking; they try to fill the gap with other bad ones.

But to each their own. Not-ever-smokers obviously can't give good advice about stopping because they don't understand the habit anyways; while smokers and ex-smokers are a bit diverse in what works for them.
No, they don't. One of the canons of statutory construction is a presumption against extraterritorial application of laws. Congress has to intend for a law to apply beyond US borders, and it's assumed they don't without evidence to the contrary.

In some cases they have done this, such as in the PROTECT Act of 2003 which contains a prohibition on child sex tourism. But there is no general assumption that US law applies everywhere.
Well, I hope you're not involved with hiring at all because you might have just opened yourself up to discrimination lawsuits.
I was saying several things: people who have both iOS and PCs would have pushed to buy it on iOS, and people who have both PCs and Androids would have been pushed to buy it on PC.

And of course, the total revenue on iOS has had longer to accumulate.
That's what I came to post. Step 6 seems to be "have a million dollars".
> of whom there are more than a few, it's quite a thing now

lol
Have an end in sight. If there's not a natural exogenous deadline (such as an industry event), fake one (this has to be the Solstice release because reasons)

This is big. If you tell a team of developers "Project Frozgibbit has to be done by Sept. 13th" and they ask why, the answer better not be:

"Because marketing told a bunch of industry analysts we were shipping on Sept. 13th".

Why not? Because, consciously or subconsciously, the developers are going to be thinking "How is it my problem that marketing is staffed with idiots and announced the date before we knew when it would be ready?" They're going to wonder why marketing doesn't understand agile development and an iterative, empirical, feedback based approach to software delivery, and doesn't base their announcements on realistic data, OR, accept that it's OK to change an announced release date. In other words, from the developers' standpoint "Poor planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part".

Now, IF the answer to the original question is "Because we just found out that EvilCorp, Inc. has announced that they will be shipping Glizbrikkit 3.0 in September, and we need to be able to demo Frozgibbit to analysts, press and customers at the SuperGrommit Conference (which is on Sept 17th) in order to counter their momentum" then most developers will (if somewhat grudgingly) accept that and willingly knuckle down and put in the extra effort. In fact, the more competitive team members may get really psyched up for a little head to head competition...

It's GoodCorp vs. EvilCorp, dude... this is Rocky Balboa vs. Clubber Lang, the Karate Kid vs. Johnny Lawrence, Cru Jones vs. Bart Taylor, good vs. evil. Cultivate a little bit of that spirit and people will run through walls.
> How is he supposed to know in advance that they will not try to kill him if that legal option

Well, in most countries it's illegal to deport someone if there's a risk of a death sentence, which is why US often cannot extradite people. Hence US has to convince the "host" country first, which I guess counts for something. That's what US is currently trying to do with Russia:

> "The charges he faces do not carry that possibility, and the United States would not seek the death penalty even if Mr. Snowden were charged with additional death penalty-eligible crimes," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Russian Minister of Justice Vladimirovich Konovalov.
Hungry termites nibbling at Oracle's foundation
Good idea. It might also be good to track the names of the lawyers involved (and not just the names of the shell companies they're hiding behind). Most know the laws may eventually change to make patent trolling harder and that their industry may not last forever. Many probably plan on working in tech if this happens. If these lawyers knew their reputation could be sullied by working for patent trolls and that tech companies may hot hire them for this, it would provide a deterrent to working for such companies in the first place.
I looked into reverse engineering of silicon recently, so here are some resources drawn from my comments in a thread about Linux and Intel's PRNG:

* Degate, a somewhat automated "aid in reverse engineering of digital logic in integrated circuits" - http://www.degate.org/

* Silicon Zoo offers a tutorial / background info on this - http://siliconzoo.org/tutorial.html - and it mentions that Pentium I-era chips were "easily viewable" [1], probably with optical microscopes.

* A blog about IC reverse engineering - http://uvicrec.blogspot.com/ (from the owner of http://siliconpr0n.org/ , which is also relevant)
...or allow them to exfiltrate planted information.
I find the quest for passive income comes from a laziness - it's like wanting an easy way out. Those folks rarely do well in the long term.
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I would agree if it were for some more obscure yet useful feature, but this is one of the basics, that's clearly documented. This should not be useful for anyone who's ever read the man page, and anyone who's used ssh should have read the man page at least once. That so many people apparently haven't, in what's supposed to be highly technical community, is a very disappointing sign of intellectual indolence.
If what we believe to be true is in-fact true regarding data collection - isn't every future President compromised? Somewhere, in the massive archive of phone calls and emails and financial transactions that make-up the digital profile of their path from birth to the door of the White House is a lie, or a half-truth, or something that doesn't quite mesh with the public persona they represented in order to attain elected office. Somewhere in that archive is something in their past that could be used against them in a way that would render their Presidency impotent at the very least. Wouldn't those with access to this information use that for their own gain? To show the newly elected President what they know, and leverage him or her to make things happen in a manner that benefits their objectives.

Now step down the ladder of power and authority. Couldn't the same methods be used against Senators? Congressmen and women? Or maybe judges, mayors, police chiefs? Stock Markets? Banks? CEOs? College admissions boards? The potential targets are endless and infinite.

A brilliant quote from Sneakers:

"There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!"

The world where these things are possible scares the hell out of me - because I fear that the amassing of this information will inevitably lead to its abuse.
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Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language
That's interesting, do you have a background in hardware? I find it much easier to build a mental model from text, but I guess its because I'm not very familiar with graphical tools.

I try to stay away from closed source development tools as a general rule, are there any open source graphical tools you would recommend?
"Box Sync 3.4.20 got confused and deleted [thousands of files]"
This is partially to vent, but also to seek advice. "Box Sync 3.4.20 got confused and deleted [thousands of files]" is a quote from Box Support after we lost thousands of files. It's caused tremendous cost to the business. Am I right to believe this is unacceptable and indicates Box should be replaced. Is DropBox any better?
> c'mon, it is minutiae details

It's not just "details". Distortion and misleading details are attributes I'd always pinned on 'the others', but I won't accept it from here just because we both disagree with torture.
Sometimes; it depends on the class.
Scientists Trace Memories of Things That Never Happened
> Socialization. For whatever reason, it's easy to meet new people while smoking.

It's really only a good way to meet other smokers. You probably actually decrease your chances of meeting non-smokers. And in terms of relationships, many non-smokers will flat out refuse to date smokers.
Only if everyone ended up having a million dollars :)

Jobs like that are supposed to be transitional, for students, etc, and they tend to be automated away. There isn't a real need for every human on earth to work, so it's feasible that everyone could focus at least part-time on what they really want. That's what tends to happen in advanced societies (more time spent on voluntary activities vs employment).
I don't disagree absolutely with what this post is saying, but as someone who has run multiple successful ventures that I'd consider "passive" income, I have to say its not a fantasy. But maybe my concept of "passive" is different from yours. Here we go.

My first passive income business was in high school. I sold video game cheats I made through the internet. I made around $400 a month (a fortune for a high schooler). I considered it "passive." Sure, I'd make some cheats per month, but not because I had to, but because I wanted to. It took me maybe a handful of hours per week to do this. No support.

My next passive income venture was in college. I built a service for students that I scaled up to almost $100,000 a year. I would work on this around 8 hours _every 3 months_. I considered that passive. I also had a full time job. So I was basically raking it in. PayPal transfers every night, a few thousand would show up per week. Passive.

My current passive income venture is a SaaS. It almost pays my rent every month. It takes up about 1 hour a month of my time for support.

At the same time, I'm starting a real, very not passive company that is unrelated to anything above.

So each and every passive income venture shared the following traits for me:

* I built it to solve my own problem, then charged for it because I figured other people would have that problem as well.

* I didn't expect to get "rich" from it, but if the income to hours spent ratio breaks down well, I'm happy. i.e. I'm paying rent on an hour or two of work a month right now. That is pretty good.

* I never had a "team" of more than 2 people. This was not a _business_. It is just a thing that makes money. Legally it is a business, it is taxed like a business, but from a managerial perspective, it just runs itself. The "employees" (all two of them) run themselves.

* When I felt like I didn't need it anymore, I let it go. So far, I'm 2/2 at selling my ventures. The first I sold for a few thousand dollars, the second I sold for much much more. The third I have no intention or plans on selling, but if I feel like I'm not giving it the time it deserves, maybe I will (but don't plan to anytime soon). And if I don't sell it? I'll keep running it, because it is easy.

* During all my passive income ventures, I've had a real job. I think passive income works best when supplementing your natural income. I've had steady passive income for the past 8 years of my life. This can really change your quality of life or your ability to save for retirement or that "next big thing" (car, house, etc.).

My point is: Don't try to build a life on passive income. Just let it happen if its going to happen. You can't force it. You shouldn't force it.

Just do what you like to do. And if you make money doing it, that is pretty darn cool. But if not, you're still doing what you like to do, so smile.
I just changed employers. Found the new desk does not come with a phone, and may never come with a phone. We communicate via email, or hipchat, or just walking over and saying 'hi'.

I might miss it .. but so far, so good.
A pack for $5! I guess while you in the States started the war against smokers, you are left behind. C.f. plain packaging and $18 packs in Australia :-)
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I don't think that's the OP's mindset, on the contrary: look for a way to do something you really want instead of taking a mindless job.
I also suspect that "Designed by Apple in California" puts their name between two words that have positive associations around the world. (I'm assuming here that "California" is held in higher regard than "America" or "United States".)
I would argue that collaboration is the basis for human civilization. Political cliques, on the other hand, surely are the basis for war.
Your last sentence suggests that 1) not finding real meaning to your life is a tragedy and 2) work is the only way to ever achieve that. I'm the one feeling sorry for you now.

Or how about we stop feeling sorry for people who obviously place value in different things than us?
They show Jobs and Woz with the caption "It only takes one person..." Nice :-\
Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing what secret order he gave to carve out exceptions to that order. Such is the cost of running a government in secret.
The study was scientific in measuring subject preference. That doesn't say much obviously. Many people prefer hamburgers to salads, and eye candy is often preferred even when it reduces efficiency.
Cool - but what's the main reason for this?
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Why not apply ML techniques and get rid of the listener all together?

It's great work, but it just seems like an intermediary step.

p.s. I have no experience in analyzing EEGs, I am sure they are much more nuanced than I know, but could anyone explain the reasons preventing such a thing?
I'd love to learn more about the SaaS business and student service business you ran - can you reveal a bit more about what these are / were?
> Or more realistically, someone from the justice department will write a memo saying that whatever torture he underwent wasn't torture

I don't think 'ex post facto' works like that, but then IANAL.

Certainly it's hard to hold his trial here in America while he's being tortured overseas, and it's fairly tinfoily anyways; why didn't they send Thomas Drake overseas to torture him? Or Ellsberg today? Surely they could think up something to charge him with, if all they needed was some DoJ lackey to write a memo...
... says the blogger who makes money pennies at a time on page views from people wanting to read about passive income.
Not exactly a fair bundle; unlike investment bankers, musicians and artists create real value.
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Better yet, just get a job at one of those labs :)
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My guess is that the bans on e-cigarettes are due to their effectiveness in helping smokers quit, combined with their tax-free status. The governments of the world pull in billions on tobacco tax revenues.
And "driverless cycles" probably also.
The difference between Cleveland and Tufte is that the former is "empirical" (he discusses lots of results from psychological studies on comprehension of graphics) rather than one man's opinion. Also, Cleveland actually has accomplished something other than scolding and praising.

Personally, I liked Cleveland's "Elements of Graphing Data" (http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Graphing-Data-William-Clevela...) better than "Visualizing Data", though they overlap a lot.
There are so many more direct and higher order effects of drug prohibition, just in regards to crime.

1: It gives easy revenue for criminals.

2: It puts many people into the "criminal" category, making them much less willing to interact with law enforcement and making it more likely that they will be willing to consort with true criminals.

3: It takes away resources from the criminal justice system, and further perverts it as well. It breeds the sort of police officer who is unskilled at forming a bond with the community they serve and with basic policework and instead focuses on making drug busts. It also breeds the sort of "assumed guilty" plea bargain dominated prosecutor model.

4: As a consequence of 1 and 2, the cognitive dissonance of the law banning victimless drug use causes many police officers to lose their respect for the law as well. And because of the wealth of criminal drug dealing enterprises there becomes a natural synergy which promotes police corruption.

5: Similarly, due to drug forfeiture laws it becomes possible for the way that police undertake law enforcement activities to dramatically affect their own budgets and resources. Naturally police organizations tend to be drawn to the activities which provide the most revenue, drug busts, to the detriment of other policing.

6: Because of the drug/criminal connection combined with rampant police crack downs due to the above factors drug busts can often be dangerous, which pushes police officers even farther away from a healthy relationship with their communities and increasingly toward a militarized relationship which spills over into every citizen/police interaction and further poisons the relationship.