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I tried to do this with EC2 once and it proves to be far too slow to use over RDP. How are they handling that? Does anyone know? The OP called it "pretty snappy" which I assume referred to response time.
I try to act normal when police officers are around. I never know when I'm going to see the same police officer again. That would extend to packing up my stuff and taking it with me. Also what if the police officers left while I was gone?
I'd like to know that too! Probably anywhere between 1-3 years?
>If there is tracking software installed on the stolen device(s) then of course that's the best avenue for getting it back.

Reminds me of http://preyproject.com/. Pretty handy for people who have laptops or phones which leave a dent in your wallet.
Technically in Perl, a "use" statement is asking for those manipulations, though. If you want to just load the library but not ask for any of those things, you would require the library, either in or not in a BEGIN block depending on your desires. If, however, merely "require"ing the library performed any of those manipulations, that would be a violation of what I'd expect. (Of course, if the sole purpose of your module is to perform those manipulations, "require" may not do anything useful, but I'd still expect it not to do anything to my local namespace, either.)
My argument was that uniformity of behaviour can have different consequences simultaneously.
A positive one can be trust (lack of street crime). A negative consequence of uniformity of behaviour can be lack of disruption.
I'll settle for reciprocal distortion if more people would switch to the metric system.
I actually never read that quote before, thanks. I'm a 1st year M. Sc. student in a theoretical chemistry group. Although most members in the group do DFT, I don't. My knowledge of the literature extends to some Perdew, Yang, HK and KS.
> this beauty of maths was missing from schools and yet amazing things could be shown with even primary school mathematical ability

This.

Most people think that math is about arithmetic and memorization, which couldn't be further from the truth. But can you blame them since the only math teaching they received as kids was about arithmetic and memorization?

It would be interesting how much science will move forward if we had one generation of kids who grow up learning about the more "beautiful" aspects of math and end up interested in it...
I'm 35 years old and can never remember the world being different that 'if you leave something out, it will get stolen'.

But still, somehow, there is a subset of commentators in this thread that aren't aware that it only takes ONE dishonest person to jack your shit.

In a coffee shop with 20 people that is 5% of the population. Almost 3% of this country's population is under correctional supervision at any given time. The odds are not in your favor. Carry a backpack for your stuff and take it with you to the bathroom. If you lose your seat it is a small price to pay for something that doesn't belong to you anyway.
No, finally is always executed. The catch handler only executes when there's an exception.
It's not that I'm denying the article's premise, it's that they're using misleading information to back up their claims.
If you want some young people to succeed spectacularly, then you also have to allow some (a lot) of young people to fail spectacularly.

How does the second statement follow logically from the first? How does putting a floor under the bottom of humanity automatically put a ceiling over the top?
eh, Engelbart > Kay > Bret Victor
You can, with unsafePerformIO. Unlike many instances where we can just wave away unsafePerformIO and declare it's an exception that you'll probably never encounter unless you ask for it, this is one instance you may encounter "in the wild" that may not be entirely safe, or may introduce a global scope where you weren't necessarily expecting one. In particular, this usually takes the form of creating a Reference of some kind at initialization time (IORef, STM TVar, etc).
This is a wonderful presentation! Having fun with those references now, thanks!
I was raised in the south with the understanding that dinner refers to the largest meal of the day. Typically coinciding with supper, except on Sunday when we ate dinner at lunch time.

Never had dinner at breakfast, but we did occasionally have breakfast for supper.

Culture is weird,
That sort of power through USB is unrealistic.

The other bit, motion detecting, would rely on closing the lid not sleeping the computer (as a thief will generally close the lid before taking the item)... Most people have that, but it can be disabled.

It would probably make more sense and be more feasible to have the USB stick be the alarm, and have it sound if the computer is closed while it's in.

However, that sort of thing is so easy to fool that it would have to rely on not getting big enough that thieves learn to work around it.
This is true in China even if that doesn't seem intuitive: go to the bathroom, just leave your stuff at your table and you'll probably be fine. Depends on the traffic though.

You'll also hardly have a problem in the states barring some high crime areas.
Among many issues:
* contrary to the narrator's statement, the two males are not dressed similarly
* they speak differently
* there is no black female control

And of course, being a TV show, there is no systematic statistical analysis.

Now, TBH even with more rigorous protocol I suspect the conclusions drawn would be similar, but as it stands, this "experiment" is not altogether useful.
Is a stranger's laptop worth getting your face smashed for? Or stabbed? It doesn't sound like anybody's physical well being was threatened, so why risk your own?
I was just going over these the other day. Thank you!
I live in a small country town where a few decades ago people didn't lock their doors. I pack up my laptop when I go to the bathroom.

If you think juggling your laptop and trying to keep a seat is a hassle, imagine having 3 young kids including a baby in a pram, being half way through a meal and one needs to go to the bathroom and needs help and you have a laptop and ipads and the bathroom is down some stairs. And when you get back the table has been cleared! BTW my takeaway from that is that adults or children need to go to the toilet in advance when it is most convenient, not when their bladder is bursting. Saves a lot of drama.
This blonde girls has my MacBook Air (Please help find this thief in SF)
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I think I am unique in being one of the only people whose first reaction to seeing that equation was to think that it was a mistake (in fact, my first reaction to seeing it is still to think it is a mistake, even knowing that it is not). To me, it feels like the plus sign should be a minus sign, to give the (incorrect) equation `e^pi * i-1=0`. Years after I saw the equation, when I learned how it actually made sense to talk about complex exponents, I realized that the problem is that pi is a stupid constant, but that is another discussion. Returning to the `e^pi * i+1=0` point, I still don't get why people find that beautiful before they have any sense of what taking a complex exponent means (in terms of how to naturally extend the definition of exponent, obviously the geometric result essentially follows from this result).

More to the point, that equation is just a special case of Euler's formula, `e^xi=cos(x) + i * sin(x)`, which is what contains the real beautiful insight.

EDIT: fixed * formatting
Which one do you think will happen first: This guy goes to jail, or this guy gets a job offer?
The mail was just the CSRF attack vector, anyway. Could've just sent him a random short link over IM..
I accept that caution about an angry mob. My belief and concern is that the term can too easily be used to delegitimize opposition. Boycotts often start when people are too angry to leave things as they are. Someone who doesn't agree with the logic behind the boycott can claim that the boycotters are motivated by anger and not thinking rationally, thus recasting a legitimate boycott as only the actions of an angry irrational mob.

In this instance, I used your clarification and I see a protest. There was an single idea; Eich should not be CEO of Mozilla, for reasons we all know. Some core Mozilla people did talk to others, by posting why they did not want to be associated with a Mozilla with Eich as CEO. Organizations like OKCupid also posted their reasons for calling for a boycott.

In your previous postings you expressed an optimism of how people should resolve issues. Here too you continue, when you mention that "more noble sentiments are at play" in a protest.

My observation is that many protests are not based on compassion and respect. Rather, given that there are both pro-immigration protests and anti-immigration protests, and pro-gun and anti-gun protests, it's rather murky to figure out where the nobility is in each one. A classic example of the tension in the right to assemble is when the Nazis wanted the right to have a protest march in Skokie. I don't want to say there was nobility there, so I don't really want to use "nobility" as a guide to determine if something is actually a protest. If someone says they are protesting, then that's enough for me.

I also observe that there is a wide diversity in most protests. The core organizers often have to struggle to keep focus. The many interviews of participants in the early Occupy movement make that pretty clear. So while the core might be promoting a single idea, other perhaps less considered views also get into the mix. I've seen that a common opposition tactic is to do street interviews with the non-core supporters to show how ignorant/ill-informed/angry those people are, and paint the rest of the protesters with the same brush.

I think you see now why I struggle when I read people use terms like "mob", "bully", or "witch hunt"; I can't see what it's true, and have begun to believe it's mostly a rhetorical tactic to delegitimize opposition viewpoints - in your terms, to justify not reaching out. I do not believe you are using it that way.

Thank you for your followup and patience.
For the intern page, all I see are full time positions. Should I apply regardless and specify my intent to be an intern?
You should use a factory pattern, like this: [...] You can't use it at module level though (because there isn't an application context setup by that time), so this doesn't work: [...] Instead, hook up views inside your app factory: [...]

That’s basically what I did on my second iteration. It is an improvement in some respects, particularly breaking the circular dependencies caused by using the decorators on the global application singleton. On the other hand, now you need some variation of God Object that not only imports all your modules that used to have decorators but also knows enough about their internal implementation to set up the routes and things like pre- and post-request logic directly on the application object you get back from the factory.

The next logical step after that then seemed to be having each module/package that contains views or similar logic provide some sort of initialization function that is declared when you import the module and takes an application object as a parameter. Then we can use app.add_url_rule and friends to wire up the various handlers within each package/module but decoupled from any sort of global application object that needs the circular import. This is the tidiest style I’ve found so far, and all my Flask projects in recent years have used something broadly like it. It does only require one import followed by one initialization call for each package/module, which logically seems to be as good as we can get, given that our starting point is a desire to avoid including any initialization implicitly within the import itself and to avoid depending on global singletons.

Somehow, it still doesn’t quite feel right for some reason. I think it’s because even with that general design, I’ve still got a recurring pattern in each of how I create these modules and how I import and then initialize them. My instinct says we ought not to need that extra boilerplate in a highly dynamic language like Python, but I’ve yet to find any alternative that is neater in general. At least in the most simple cases this only adds a couple of extra lines (converting the decorators to an init function in each package/module, and then calling that function at the top level after importing the package/module), which is clearly better than the earlier, more highly connected designs.
> Fuel consumption is a better measure of a vehicles performance because it is a linear relationship with the fuel used, as opposed to fuel economy which has an inherent reciprocal distortion.

Fuel economy is a better measure of travel potential because it is a linear relationship with the distance you can go, as opposed to fuel consumption, which has an inherent reciprocal distortion.
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Ashe Dryden, along with other members of the Ada Initiative, launched a smear campaign against a man who was cleared of all charges in a domestic dispute.

One AI member, Leigh Honeywell, tweeted that she "want[s] anyone who googles [name] in the future to know he was arrested for DV" (she now tweets under "ennui as a service"). Several members of Ada, including Ashe, have signed a statement against him.

The Ada Initiative continues to host a page devoted to the charges which have been fully dropped against the man in question.

While I'm all for, and have encouraged, women in tech, and have worked with some very talented women (and men), a line is crossed when people move from advocacy to specific smear campaigns against specific individuals. There are courts and a justice system for a purpose, and while they may be imperfect, taking the law and justice into your own hands, publicly, in what is almost always a very, very messy situation, is crossing a line I cannot countenance.

I really can't stand by Ada, Ashe, or others associated with it.
Or if your laptop has a security slot then bring a portable kensington lock.
More in general, can't all social or political boycotts,...

Many of them are in fact attempts to suppress ideas they dislike. Not all.

For example, if I boycott Cuban goods, I'm boycotting the people currently in control of Cuba for their actions. If I boycott opponents of the embargo I'm attempting to suppress ideas.

I object far less to the former than the latter. But I admit, I don't fully understand this issue, which is why I'm asking questions to people who claim certainty.
I think this is the best advice. A lot of these projects will force you to learn new concepts, algorithms, and they will give you a new way of thinking about problems. Learning a new language won't necessarily do any of those things.
There are many categories of people behind a "business", but you can generally classify them into three:

1. Employees (incl. management)

2. Shareholders

3. Investors

In criminal law, if a group does something illegal outside of a corporate context, then the individuals doing that act (ie. a relevant subset of employees) are always guilty, the people who ordered them (ie. management) are guilty if they knew or should have known what was going on, and the people who financed them (ie. investors and customers) are guilty if they knew or should have known. I'm not a civil law expert, but I would expect something similar to exist there as well with regard to liability. Hence, applying this principle, it seems reasonable to hold management accountable as individuals for a corporation does, and then once we get to individuals and investors it all gets down to what standard we apply for "should have known". On the extreme side, if there is a business which is obviously set up with the mission of supporting terrorism, then investors and customers should be held responsible. On the other hand, if it's a scandal where management expertly hid the details from everyone else, then investors and customers would both be clear. Everywhere in the middle, it's a judgement call for the court.

I generally support making investors liable more often; the one thing that worries me is that people will find some way of investing by proxy via derivatives, where if one organization figures out how to base itself internationally so as to be immune from lawsuits then that organization will hold lots of shares and everyone will enter into a contract-for-difference with them. Would setting yourself up to have positive exposure to a corporation's stock price count as investment no matter how it's done? From an economic standpoint, it basically is, but it might be hard to unravel the knots there.
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actually it could be a combination of both. since amazon already have mechanical turk, it might make sense to fallback on manual interpretation.
PS: I'm not just trying to pick a fight here: I dislike political discourse where the challenges of being a young adult are attributed to imagined moral, emotional, or intellectual deficiencies of people under 30 / 40 / 50.

Similarly, one could argue that people accumulate debt 18-22 because their immature brains are too stupid to understand cause and effect, ignoring more salient facts like:
1) 18 year olds have not had time to establish specialized professional experience so their earning potential is low due to no fault of their own
2) Immigration and trade policies have deliberately and drastically reduced the earning potential of unskilled labor (which includes basically all 18 year olds, including future MD's and PhD's)
3) Housing costs and especially education costs have skyrocketed in the past 40 years
4) Education is increasingly financed through debt rather than loans.

This is not as much fun as "kids today are so stupid!", but IMO a far more accurate explanation for why a current college student will incur more debt than a Boomer who could earn enough each summer hauling hay or working in a unionized factory to pay a year's tuition at State U.
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I keep wondering if they'll try a Linux-based desktop for certain use cases. It could be offered for a cheaper price, perhaps.

Hard to say if it would happen, but it would fit in with Amazon's previous AWS offerings. Definitely good to start with Windows, however.
>The other bit, motion detecting, would rely on closing the lid not sleeping the computer (as a thief will generally close the lid before taking the item)... Most people have that, but it can be disabled.

the alarm program wouldn't let computer go to sleep (until battery is at whatever "low" threshold). That is one of the reasons why it is a "program" not a daemon - it would be expected to be started by user explicitly when needed.

Battery detachment has always been a way to attack the anti-theft in cars. With laptops it is an issue too. Not with phones though.
I am a lawyer.

I have hired freelancers to build websites.

The first rule of deals like this is to not over-engineer stuff.

If this contract is for under $1,000, create some arbitrary project milestones. Get some money up front whether you quote a fixed price or hourly. (Hint. Don't quote hourly.). Get another payment midway through. Leave about 20% at the back end when you deliver.

You get cash up front because it is a psychological test of your customer. The way your customer responds when you say "Give me $100x now" is the way you will be treated forever. If there is negotiation, delay, etc. that is what you will experience forever. You have been warned. You will ignore the warnings. You will experience pain. You will learn. :-)

Make the milestones things that you control. Do not tie it to customer approval or decision. Sometimes people procrastinate. That delays your payment.

The contract can be simple. Bullet points. Signed by both sides because you're not going to sue if they stop paying you. And if they stop paying you then you are going to stop work.

The value of WIP should be something you can walk away from in order to fire a bad customer. This is your psychological threshold. Start playing with the idea that you only put forward enough work so they owe you $1,500. It will hurt to walk away but you won't die. And if you walk away from someone in this circumstance you are avoiding far worse results. The best decisions are sometimes the jobs you didn't take on. But we make mistakes so the second-best decisions are the assholes we fired quickly.

Welcome to owning your own life. :-)

EDIT: I guess I should mention that I follow this philosophy in my business with six-figure jobs. It isn't for small jobs only.
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I'm generally quite careful with my belongings when I'm out in public. I'd never leave my stuff out unattended and never with a stranger.

But when I was in London, I was being constantly nudged by people to move my belongings, secure them better, etc. I remember being in a pub and my bag (which contained my laptop) was just resting right next to my chair on the floor. A woman who where there came up and said, "You'd best move that unless you want it to get nicked." This was in Soho, so it's not like I was out in the boonies, either.

I've lived in SF and Chicago, but I'd never be that careful here.

So, perhaps London has more petty thefts than the typical American is used to? I dunno, but everyone around me — friends and strangers alike — seemed to be orders of magnitude more conscious about it than I was, and I consider myself pretty conscious.
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The idea is not just that I'm only out $200 if it gets stolen; it's that, since it has negligible resale value, the thieves won't bother with it - not worth the risk. Also, I have a half dozen of these at home (on the home ThinkPadNet), so I just have to pick up another one, pull from one of my personal git repositories, and keep working. Also, before getting up to go to the bathroom I unmount the ecryptfs volume that holds anything sensitive.
I am in the bay area (east bay, not SF) and frequent a couple of local coffee shops to do some work. Thankfully, the places I go don't have quite the turnover a busy area like SF does, and there are a lot of regulars. People kind of keep an eye out for each other and their stuff when they leave to use the restroom. In 2 years I haven't seen or heard of anyone having anything other than a bicycle stolen.

Of course I know that doesn't mean someone won't drop in, swipe something and run out, so I still occasionally will take my laptop with me and leave my (otherwise worthless) backpack on the chair and coffee on the table. But if I see a few familiar faces nearby I don't feel too bad about leaving the laptop on the table for a couple of minutes. Of course, I'm rocking a 4 year old off-brand PC... not exactly a desirable item. A high-end machine or anything Apple and I might handle it differently just because of the value.

The cell phone is another matter, as I feel like those are a much easier and somewhat more desirable item for thieves. I don't even leave that on the table while I'm sitting there, it stays in my pocket at all times unless I'm talking.
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