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A sizeable minority of officers are indeed bullies. But while I can't speak for other police agencies, even the bullies are pretty well reined in by the policies in Los Angeles. I can elaborate if you like.
An MVP is a totally different think when you're talking about electromechanical equipment that needs to attach to the grid. You need to work so hard just to get something out of the door, you might as well make it good.

Luckily, the market is decently easy to figure out by discussions and logic.
JUnit4 kind of helps with ExpectedExceptions. try-catch doesn't usually have a good reason to exist in unit tests.
The Ideal Intelligence
An extension like Stylish makes it much easier to install a custom stylesheet than the standard "user stylesheet" feature. Not harder.
An activity tracker for seniors
A quote: " ... international policymakers must pay serious attention to the reality of species-obliterating risks."

Are these people all completely ignorant of evolution and science? No matter what happens in the future, one or another species-obliterating risk is a certainty. Here's why:

1. Our species has existed for about 200,000 years.

2. On that basis, and given our present knowledge of biology and evolution by natural selection, it's reasonable to assume that, within another 200,000 years, we will have been replaced by another species who either successfully competed with us, or into whom we simply evolved over time.

3. Human beings are a note, perhaps a measure, in a natural symphony. We're not the symphony, and we're certainly not the reason the music exists.

4. Based on the above estimate, there will be 10,000 more human generations, after which our successors will no longer resemble modern humans, in the same way that our ancestors from 200,000 years ago did not resemble us.

5. We need to get over ourselves -- our lives are a gift, not a mandate.

6. I plan to enjoy my gift, and not take myself too seriously. How about you?
Awesome, thank you for this.
I'm glad I work in a language where this is

assertRaises(FooBarException, thisShouldThrowFooBarException)

Impossible to mistype, and states exactly what should happen.
Uh, who said that legislation would mean that every game would first go to a govt dept to verify genre? I thought the whole point of such legislation is to be a deterrent. So that WHEN someone violates it and is deceptive in their marketing, you can take them to court for it.

Yes, I also first read reviews to know if the game requires regular payments etc, and it is reasonable to expect this from consumers. But the law should be there to protect those who do not.

"If you don't want to be mugged, don't go down dark alleys" is sound advice, but that doesn't mean that mugging doesn't need to be labelled "illegal"
People are increasingly streaming music and movies over their mobile device. Wow. Big news.
Alleged Mt.Gox code leaked on IRC node by Russian Hacker
I used to work in a couple other industries where it was pretty standard practice so it doesn't make me terribly uncomfortable, as long as I know who to sue if my SSN ends up on pastebin.

Quantity of bureaucracy is my heuristic for how normal it is to ask this question, though this can vary.
"Sorcery" has been legalized in Colorado
The correct answer was "Hipster beard", then.

> In the nearly six hours I spent in court on two separate dates, I saw around a hundred people plead guilty and pay fines for a variety of different petty offenses

This is plea-bargaining in action, and related to:

Q: “How many citations have you written since you saw my client?”
A: “Maybe 40 or 50. We’re required to write 10 citations a month.”

They're "manufacturing prisoners". One reason for that is the prison-industrial complex with the for-profit prisoners demanding "customers" and bought politicians delivering them. Another might have something to do with the burgeoning police state in the US.
I didn't, I signed up to an account and stopped at this point because unlike a financial institution they are not governed by laws that require this or would ensure the security of such data.

But I totally understand why people did supply it.

They supplied it because:

1) They've been trained to

2) For a while MtGox was actually the most well-known (and therefore trusted) of the exchanges

On #1, every financial institution in the world goes through some form of KYC (Know Your Customer) anti-laundering process that involves identity verification. And people are so used to doing this when signing up to financial accounts that they failed to comprehend that MtGox (and other exchanges) is not a financial institution being regulated by the same safeguards for their data.

On #2, even if you accepted that they were not a financial institution almost all of the bitcoin exchanges are asking for verification. And the larger more well-known exchanges are viewed as "least risky". It's a herd-like mentality, if these thousands of others did it, it must be safe.

I never supplied the info, to this or other exchanges, but I totally see why excited people who feared missing out as the price rose were willing to do so.
I feel for you bud. I'm a UMD grad (SSN) who shopped at Target in December (CC).
Will DIY cloud computing platforms beat openstack
> At what point will our descendants feel that they are different enough from us through natural or guided (by science) evolution?

Easily answered: our species has existed for about 200,000 years. Based on that, and barring any speed-up in the rate of evolution by selection (natural or unnatural), we will have been replaced by another species in another 200,000 years. This will happen no matter what else happens -- assuming we're not subject to any global catastrophe, but simply evolve as a species into something we cannot presently imagine.
MtGox confirms figures of Bitcoin losses in new announcement
I'm not a lawyer but, reading through the brief, the decision doesn't seem so bad or consequential as it may seem.

The crux of the matter seems to be that Youssef, the director, did not make Garcia sign any form of written contract before filming her scenes.

A standard work for hire contract would have relinquished Garcia's copyright claims to the work and none of this mess would have happened which is exactly why every professional organization insists on contracts being signed.

Absent a contract, the court is forced to determine what the implied contract is. Now, if Youssef had hired Garcia to work on "Innocence of Muslims", the court may have determined that for a 5 second appearance, a work for hire was implied and Garcia's copyright claim does not outweigh Youssef's.

But that's not what happened, Youssef hired Garcia to work on "Desert Warrior", a film that was described as materially different from "Innocence of Muslims". Given that, it becomes tricky to determine whether the implied contract was broad and general or towards a specific piece of work. The lower court interpreted it as general, the appeal disagreed. I can see both sides of the argument but, given that no contract was signed, it seems correct to me to give the maximum latitude towards Garcia.

The court decision though, is that only the 5 seconds that Garcia appeared on film could be copyrighted by her. Youssef is still perfectly free to produce a cut in which her 5 seconds is excised or replaced and re-upload it to Youtube and Garcia would have no more claim to attempt a takedown.

So, in summary, this case only creates a precedent if:

* No work for hire contract is signed

* You materially misrepresent or misappropriate the nature of work to be performed

* The person later files a copyright claim

* The work can't easily be altered to excise the copyrighted parts.

Again, I'm not a lawyer so I may be reading and interpreting the case wrong but it seems largely reasonable.
Mt. Gox has posted a new update
Interesting. Does this precedent (if it stands) give the EU concept of Moral Rights legs in the US, or was it just that the producers forgot to get the actress to waive her rights to the film?
But the human lineage doesn't need to split into branches for us to be replaced by another species -- we might instead simply evolve away from our present form sufficiently that present-day people would not be able to (a) recognize our own descendants as kindred spirits or (b) be able to breed with them (assuming an imaginary biological test in which one of us is propelled 200,000 years into the future).

Modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years. Therefore, natural selection being what it is, chances are in another 200,000 years we will no longer exist in our present form, but be replaced by a new species, one we cannot imagine.
Conversion Speed of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Rocketed by 50% in Major Update
Digiarty Software announced a 50% overall conversion speed surge in WinX DVD Ripper Platinum, one of the fastest DVD ripper in the market, with a major update release of V7.5.0. Besides, it now supports forced subtitle and 2CH encoding.
Just a few years back I thought my biggest security risk was myself. In retrospect, this seems horrifically naive: The services I use outnumber me so vastly that the 10 or so breaches that I'm aware of, merely counting the services that I use, seems astoundingly low.
Thanks but I'll assert my rights from the safety of my home. No need to go on asserting rights to a cop with an itchy trigger finger. Or go do down the rabbit hole of asserting your rights and be degraded even more for asserting your rights. [1]

I'd like to believe the world works the way you think it does, experience has taught me otherwise.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/david-eckert-enema-...
Screenshots for both twitter's downtime page and ellen's tweet: http://snipek.com/web/aebfd1b7-41eb-401e-8ea3-c873c449127b
There are additional comments about this call in this reddit thread...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zepgt/mark_apparen...
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I used to be a Rails developer but I want to become a Meteor.js developer. I haven’t work on a big project with Meteor yet. I wouldn’t mind working for free at first to prove my skills. I would then expect to be paid in Bitcoin.

Keep in mind that any code I write for you will be open sourced on GitHub and released under the Unlicense (public domain). Also, I expect any content you provide me with to be released under the Creative Commons CC0 license (public domain).

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Our planet needs to create at least one offspring with a good chance of sprouting a fresh batch of DNA based life on another planet before we send ourselves back into the stone age. If we don't, there are only so many shots left for us to become a space faring civilization again. If our species can't get off this planet. We may die as surly as an ant colony in the middle of the desert. DNA based life on this planet will halt, without anyone to carry on the carnival somewhere else in the universe.

This is serious business. If we don't fill the entire universe with efficient replicators to speed up the consumption of all energy to equilibrium. Then the reason the universe was created will have been for nothing. The stars must not be allowed to run down without our first harvesting them for our multitude of shenanigans.
From the brief:

"Youssef didn’t obtain a written agreement, and Garcia
simply doesn’t qualify as a traditional employee on this
record."
Ok, some good news. It might be untrue about them having passport scans. Reason I say that, is the following:

We know from the leaked mtgox crisis plan doc that they have 550,000 verified accounts.

Each user who wanted to be verified had to scan at least 2 documents- a passport+license and a electric bill of sorts.

Assuming both documents alone were only 100KB combined (and its likely way more than that since scans are usually 500KB+ per document) than we can estimate the file size:

550,000 x 100KB = 52.45GB

Thats more than double the claimed 20GB.

In fact, even if we believe that every persons doc is in the DB; and assuming nothing else but passports is in there- you are only allowing for 20KB per document
When Bostrom and others talk about humanity, they usually mean humanity and its extremely advanced descendants. They expect some value drift. Robin Hanson puts it rather succinctly in http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/12/steps-up-the-ladder.ht...:

Of course we should also wonder what we may become as we rise. We are no longer the foragers who began this climb, nor the farmers who climbed just a few floors below, and those ancestors would probably not be pleased with everything we have become. We’ll probably also have misgivings about what our descendants become. But hopefully we will on net be proud of them, just as our ancestors would probably be proud of us.
Anyone notice how prominently the game satirizes Twitter? What's up with that?
Most economics grad schools prefer you have a math degree, actually.
> If you think they are doing something good in this case, I recommend not complaining in discussions about this case.

I don't think they're doing anything good. If they were actually good, they wouldn't be eagerly shitting all over our privacy and constantly devising new ways to do so.

This is just a PR/Distraction-stunt.
I'm still getting almost daily phishing/malware from the Mt Gox leak in 2011, and I never even signed up for anything more than to see what it's interface was like. Can't imagine how that will be with people having copies of passports (supposedly).
Watch out for this Netflix “tech support” scam
Hubris. We're closer to chimps than chimps are to gorillas; we are apes.
Rather than 13/8 I would say it was alternating 9/8 (three triplet beats, 123123123) and 4/8 (2/4? same thing right? 1212) measures. I guess that's just a matter of notation, but I'm used to seeing it like that in heavy metal that will throw in a 2/4 once in a while where needed.
Like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RateMyCop.com
Ellen's tweet broke Twitter around 7:10pm Sunday PST
> Consider how we feel about our ancestors from as recently as 50,000 years ago.

Or a few thousand years ago for that matter.

I think the social landscape with look and feel a lot different in the next 100 years.
That's a bit beyond linear algebra -- it's only soluble (no pun intended) using linear alegbra's methods for any arbitrary instant of time. The full evolution of the system over time requires classical analysis and differential equations having nonlinear properties.

My point is that the linked article uses linear algebra as part of a problem statement that requires more than linear algebra for its analysis.
The big problem with Interface Builder is that, most of the time, its layout view bears no resemblance to what your UI actually looks like within the app. Deciphering the meaning of overlapping grey boxes in IB is often just as difficult as reading code. "WYSIWYG" it ain't...

I'm working on a design tool that aims to fix this:
http://neonto.com

Neonto Studio is a completely visual environment with support for vector drawing, video, smart guides, multi-device layout with full previews, and so on... There's no coding involved -- this is an app for designers.

The tool generates readable iOS and Android code, and there's no special runtime involved, so it's ridiculously easy to take a few screens designed in Neonto Studio and drop them into a larger app.

It's currently in alpha testing. I'm hoping to release a full beta in the next few months. If you're interested in trying out the alpha today, I'd love to have your help -- just drop me an email at pauli <at> neonto dot com!
Idea: social network for investors
Investors look to each other for ideas about cool startups to invest in. It seems inefficient to do it via email and get togethers and stuff. It seems more efficient if there was a social network for investors, where you could post cool investment opportunities, and only people who you’re friends with would see them.
So, AngelList? https://angel.co/
That is a rather charitable way of looking at this situation. Which is to be commended, I wish I was still capable of thinking that way.
Point out something that I said that consensus does not say it true and factual...
Are you aware of any documentation on this? I'm not sure how state tax works for businesses -- surely they're not paying percentages of revenue? If that revenue is already exported through tax loop-holes out of the country, how can they pay taxes on it in-state?

I'm not disputing the claim, I've just never seen any discussion on state tax (except for Amazon trying(?) to dodge it).
Bitcoin has theory and history on its side
Wow. Someone creates something and open sources it as it might be useful for others as well.

And instead of keeping our mouths shut, or better yet, say thanks, we go on about this being a bad idea. Talk of ungrateful.

Open source projects don't need a higher, mightier directive. He/she has put his work out there. Show some respect.
Why can't a bad recruiter become a good one?
especially since they required passport scans in color and high resolution (at least 200 dpi).
> Are these people all completely ignorant of evolution and science?

Mostly. Talk to your local mayor, deputy, senator, etc and you will see that these people live in worlds very different from ours.
Well that's tough titties, because they have told you who you can't rob or murder on your private property.... anyone and everyone.

If your license plate was protected, it wouldn't be stuck on the outside of your car in high contrast letters made specifically to be captured by automated means. At least that's how it seems to me.
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As the dissent argues, it is debatable at best that an actor maintains a copyright over their part in a movie, even without an explicit grant of rights. Absent a clear precedent there, and considering the length of the performance, prior restraint should not even be considered. The Supreme Court has been very clear about this.

In fact, their only consideration of public interest is the statement which the EFF also found so objectionable: "But the First Amendment doesn’t protect copyright infringement".

> Youssef is still perfectly free to produce a cut in which her 5 seconds is excised or replaced and re-upload it to Youtube

I see no reference to this in the decision. On the contrary, I see:

> Concurrent with this opinion, we have issued an order directing Google to take down all copies of “Innocence of Muslims” from YouTube and any other platforms within its control and to take all reasonable steps to prevent further uploads.
Original post: http://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2014/02/netflix-phis...
With Junit, just write

@Test(expected = FooBarException.class)
void testFooBarException() {
thisShouldThrowFooBarException()
}
The Biggest Cyber Attack Ever Was Just Detected – 1.25 BILLION Emails Hacked
It is possible for them to extract the MRZ data of the passport (the Machine Readable Zone), it contains the passport ID, issuer state, DOB and DOE.

I don't know if the regulatory requirements state that you must keep a photocopy, but in case you do not it would be foolish to store more data than you need.
Really good read, scrolled up to see the author, 'Michael Lewis', the author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, et al
comScore data on "time spent accessing the internet" - I'm not saying this isn't true or part of a trend, but let's not treat this week as some watershed moment in internet history. There are a lot, a lot of factors here and the terms - "time," "spent," "mobile," "pc," "accessing," and "internet" are not exactly well defined here.

Is it time spent if my phone spends 20 seconds downloading a new version of the app in the background? Does the internet include app stores, or P2P? Is it access when I didn't initiate the connection, didn't notice it happening, and didn't care when it finished, like a Chrome update?

Is it "mobile" if it's a phone or tablet — even if it's on home wifi? What about laptops using cell dongles? What about embedded, always-on devices?

Not that you can't make good statements on this stuff or make a good case based on this and that data, but this little nugget, apps overtake pc internet usage, just seems... meaningless.
This Menlo Park police officer makes $133K in base salary, i.e. before overtime:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22382095/menlo-park-police-off...

That is significantly higher than the per-capita income in Menlo Park:
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0646870.html
I wish they could just put themselves back online with the ~60% of users' bitcoins that they still have and just let us all withdraw them. Let us fight in court over the remaining 40%, right?
no shit, magic the gathering exchange is not coded like paypal.
How do you generalists out there divide your time?
Although there's a lot to be said for specialization - of skills, careers, and interests - the historical figures I've always found most inspiring were generalists (polymaths, at the extreme). There's some debate around the topic, but I, and probably others, would love to hear from people who manage several different interests.

I'm not a real hacker, or programmer, or anything really, yet. But I've always thought of myself as more of a generalist than a specialist. Maybe that's why I'm not (or don't feel like) a "real" anything so far.

If anyone has any concrete experiences to share on this, I'm sure it'd be greatly appreciated. (E.g., to-do lists, schedules, mind maps, other organizational tools, etc.; but also ways of thinking and organizing your thoughts)
This is the most retweeted post ever
No real new information here but they now clearly claim that the 750 000 bitcoins owned by users have been lost due to the malleability issue, but that an investigation is under way.
Thanks, zoba.

Here is the link you added to the IRC transcript:

http://pastebin.com/N7B5DC4d

"Nanashi" (japanese: Anonymous) claims to be in Serbia, but posting on behalf of a Russian group.