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Trenton is considered part of the NYC metro area.

> I can get to Manhattan within 15 minutes from Hoboken or Jersey City.

As a figure of speech most people won't consider either of those NYC. Somebody visiting Jersey City went to "New Jersey" colloquially.

Actually, I take it back, people who don't know NYC well "know" that Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx are "places in NYC" even if they aren't quite sure what they are, I'm not sure Queens registers for most people, and Staten Island, even though it's geographically one of the largest parts of the city, may as well not even exist. People picture Manhattan in their heads though and that's about all they ever visit. Some people might confuse the name Yonkers as part of NYC because it's kind of a funny name like Brooklyn or Bronx and they've probably heard it on NYC area TV shows and movies. But nobody outside of the NYC area will visit White Plains, Paterson or Newark and claim "I went to New York City".

Meanwhile, people who visit Palo Alto definitely say "I visited San Francisco". But I do agree with other comments that people don't usually conflate San Jose or Oakland with San Francisco.

It's the colloquial semantics of place names that I'm referring to. It's a little bit like how "Asian" means either East Asian, or East Asian + South Asian depending on your dialect of English, but nobody who ever visited Aermenia or Cyprus ever claimed they "visited Asia". Or people who visit Egypt visited "the middle East" when really they visited Africa.

Part of it is name recognition. If I'm not from the Bay Area, "Belmont" or "Millbrae" doesn't mean anything to me or to the people I'm talking to, even if they're clearly distinct places well outside of SF. The identity of SF has subsumed those other areas, at least in the geographic knowledge base that people from outside the area walk around with.

Most people know Jersey City is obviously not NYC. But most people from outside of the D.C. area couldn't pick out Annandale nor does it have any meaning to them. So people just say "I went to D.C."

This has some embarrassing and sometimes hilarious side-effects for out of towners. Like for example, somebody visiting San Francisco proper, knows that they have a buddy that lives near there (because in a past conversation his buddy said "I live in SF" because it was easier than saying "I live in Emerald Hills" and doesn't understand why it's not immediately convenient for them or their buddy to just hop on a street car and meet up for a quick Coffee.

Or I know a company from the West Coast that set up shop in "D.C." expecting it to be convenient to their Government customers, only to find out that none of their customers would come to their office since it was a 2 hour drive in traffic from the actual customer locations out in the larger Metropolitan area.
Primer on Deep Learning
> I'm sure the NSA is capable of wording their employee contracts in such a way that they would have a legal right to snoop on the communications of those in their employ.

If it were that simple then the NSA would simply have provided that documentation to Levison, no?

Or, as I already said, simply scooped up his data going to/from Lavabit's servers anyways, if they felt they had the legal authority.

> Regular employers do this with impunity, for sure the NSA can do likewise.

Regular employers do this on their own systems, sure, just like every U.S. government IT system warns about the various (but not total) authorities they have to monitor your usage of government computers in many settings. But do regular employers subpoena a third-party email provider under the same IT use agreement expecting that email information to be turned over?

> You have to be aware of the use of the service first

The USG was obviously aware, otherwise they wouldn't have issued a specific subpoena to the operator of the Lavabit email service.

> people a lot smarter than me suspect that that key was so important was in order to be able to decrypt past communications using the same service on captured traffic.

Then maybe Levison should have complied with the first batch of specific warrants, where the topic of the SSL key didn't come up at all?

I mean, I can also give a self-deprecating comment but I don't think anyone has to be very smart to figure out that the SSL key wasn't even asked for until Levison made it impossible for the USG to perform their "good old fashioned police work" in any other way.
Mine is God's official temple, like Solomon's. I don't see why it will not be massively significant.
> Under your definition groups like "The Yes Men" would not be considered parody. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men

With a few exceptions, The Yes Men do not do parody. Hoaxes and parody are quite different things.
Given the facts that functional programming has been all the rage lately, and that advocates of functional programming tend to emphasize its mathematical roots, I would find it interesting to get Donald Knuth's take on the subject. Web search came up empty for me. Does anybody know of any statements he's made on functional programming?
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> Not being able to tell somebody you need a lawyer is very different from not having court records published until later. It is disingenuous to imply they are the same.

Where in any of those gag orders was Levison forbidden from obtaining an attorney, or telling people he was retaining an attorney?
I'm with you. When the first Pro came out, I thought "awesome idea, but I want to wait for them to iron out the inevitable kinks". The Pro 2 looked great as well, and I thought, "just one more iteration".

I don't think I'll be able to resist this time, especially because I don't think there's a Macbook Pro 15" that feels like a true upgrade from 4 year old machine.
How is Linux support on the CF-53 ?
I was in a similar situation some years back, I ended up burning out big time and completely pivoted my whole career outlook.
It ended up turning out for the better and now diving back into a similar game but with some lessons learned.
Only advice is to tread cautiously, you don't want to be completely burned out.
Live in Hayward by the train. Problem solved.
Unfortunately, in the US judges are elected, and the usual platform is "tough on crime". They have a metric they are optimizing for, and it's a suboptimal one.
If Levison said "I don't know how to get that information and I don't even have it" then the DOJ might have bought it and it might have been over.

But once he established that he owned the information, then it was either get it out himself, or let the DOJ go through and get the information themselves.

IANAL.
Google rolled out a "spammy site" algo change this weekend.
'State of fitness' makes me think of cardio, treadmills, etc which for most non-fat people is non-optimal. Kenyan marathoners are fit but a strong wind will blow them over.

The optimal view is 'state of strength' since strength is the most important physical attribute, and certainly gains even more importance the older we get. Strength allows the body to operate optimally. People who partake in resistance training have less instances of death across any reason; accidents, illness, disease, even violence (you have a better chance of surviving a gunshot, for example, if you are strong which makes sense), etc.

I'm 54, and I do 2-3 workouts a week on the compound lifts like squats (always do your squats), overhead presses, deadlifts. I also do prowler and farmer walks for HIT. I also play basketball and tennis once a week. I have never felt better.
iOS is great for certain tasks but comparing it to OSX or Windows for productivity is silly. I have 3 iOS devices in my household, we love them. None of us use it for work though, they're leisure devices. No one at my company uses iOS for work, they use Windows and OSX. Also, your link is showing smart phones and tablets used at work, which certainly favor iOS. What does this have to do with the Microsoft Surface?
You need to pick up pen and paper and create diagrams and flowcharts, if you can't chart it out, it probably doesn't make any sense. If you get confused, grab your senior developer and explain to him one on one what you are trying to achieve. It doesn't matter that you are a non-tech founder, your working with developers, you need to adapt your processes to how developers think and work.

Bullet-points work great and provide easy references to things like intended file-names, and also provide an easy way to break down a conditional statement.

You need to look into psuedo-code, because in a way, that's what you're looking to provide. Otherwise, you might as well just give the developers and the client a one on one and get out of the way. You have to be providing something that makes the developers life easier then handling all the interaction themselves and that something provided has to be something other than just time.

We need to understand the purpose of the system, how it works into the overall program, how it should look, how it should feel, intended program flow, intended results, we need to know a lot of everything not a little of everything.

You also need to be almost constantly available to answer a quick question. There are just too many issues that may crop up while working on a program, case in point I was working on a project earlier today which featured two different types of an overall master type inside a record of a database. I made a (highly educated) assumption of which type I was using based on context but I could have been wrong. Knowing which sub-type to use was something that wasn't available to me immediately with the information I had on hand and didn't appear to be an issue during our requirements meeting, it only popped up when I was re-checking program flow, specifically error catching. These little things can happen all the time, and the only real way to beat them is communication.
The main effect was that I thought "why is this ML-style language not using type inference!". :) But now that you have explained why you've annotated the examples, I can see that it would be educational to see the types when the reader wouldn't have seen the library before.
Actually it's exactly Apple's strategy to have their glowing logo shown around everywhere when people are using them. If you have a Mac and use it in this way you are basically acting as a promoter for the brand whether you like it or not.
file, err := os.Open("file1")
// complains if you don't check err
file2, err := os.Open("file2")
// no problem, no need to check err.
Robots Are Strong: The Sci-Fi Myth Of Robotic Competence
I dunno if anything is officially organized, but remember the city pays its cops $14 an hour and they have to transport dead bodies in their cars. That's from my friend who is a cop.

The cops seem friendly and supportive. The city doesn't have the luxury of shutting down something that is positive.
I think these types of emails would be fairly easy for a spam filter to catch. They likely use many of the same words.
LA's public transit system (subway, light rail, express buses) has actually improved significantly in the past 10 years (since 2004 - not that long ago), and will be significantly improving in the next 10 years.

for example, the exposition line is now halfway open and will fully connect downtown SM (the beach) to downtown LA in 2015.

this is actually kind of a big deal. lots of people are looking forward to it, especially sports fans (all of LA's teams play downtown).

and, if they manage to extend the purple line to the west (this is the 10 year horizon), the situation will be very different in LA. it will have basically 50% of a train system built. nowhere near complete, but totally useable especially with services like Uber and Lyft.

http://media.metro.net/projects_studies/westside/images/proj...
Netflix Eventually Wants To Read Your Mind
The fees are absolutely ridiculous.

My wife got a ticket a few weeks ago for having a brake light out.

County has a standing order that allows routine citations like that be paid outside of court for $15 and showing a receipt for repair (or new bulbs in this case).

That $15 turned into ~$60 after everything else that was tacked on, and of course had to be paid in person, etc.

Thankfully not a huge deal for us, more for time than cost. But there are a lot of people in our county that an unexpected $60 and having to miss work to pay it would ruin their month and possibly get them fired.
I don't understand. What's the secret? You were able to read the 4th Circuit opinion, weren't you? That has nothing to do with Snowden, that's just normal court procedure.
It's not the monopoly that's the problem, it's the 'i don't give a damn' attitude that's prevailing. Most public transports around the world are either monopolies (MTR Hong Kong) or pseudo-monopolies (e.g. SMRT/SBS Singapore) or just in the public hand (German U-Bahns). Still they are on time. Still they are being expanded. Still they're usually clean. Still they are being modernized (some faster than others).

The difference is wether the objective is to do a public good (get our people from A to B as efficiently as we can) or to maximize profit (let's make sure the system works somehow but god for bid let's not dump good money into it).
I've started using ddg instead of consistently skipping it by using g! since the new design came out. I didn't really grok how much the design played into my trust of its results until now.

Big improvement imo.
Levinson's system did work because it had a fail-safe which was to self-destruct when faced with certain legal threats. And as a bonus it acted as a canary letting the whole world know about the government's secret activity. I think it was very well designed. I would trust my private communication with him again.
In most of my work environments, I've worked with a lot of females and I have to admit that some of the work behaviours outlined are behaviours that annoy me and actually drive me to move companies (citing it as a part of 'work culture'). HOWEVER I don't attribute this to a single sex because I can also see it in the males. Same goes regardless of race and age.

However I do believe that your gender does play a role in the workplace, whether you would like it or not. The only thing is that personality trumps gender stereotypes.
Both rent and home prices are driven by supply and demand, that is, what the market can bear.

In both cases supply is the same, but for ownership, the market is global. You can live on the moon and own property in Vancouver. The price of Vancouver property is constrained only by the limits of how much foreign capital is available to be safely parked in Canadian real estate, not by the population of Vancouver. As you can imagine there is considered more of the former than the latter.

However, the market for rentals is constrained by the number and salaries of people who actually live in Vancouver. Nobody rents an apartment in a city in which they don't actually reside. You can't charge $3,000/month for an apartment in Vancouver because no one will be able to afford it. In Vancouver a junior engineer earns $60,000/year.

Vancouver salaries aren't higher than anywhere else in Canada (in fact they're lower than Calgary and Toronto, both of which have cheaper housing, and about on par with Montreal which has MUCH cheaper housing), so despite the crazy property market this keeps rents down.

SF's crazy rents are driven by the tech industry salaries that are much higher than anywhere else in the country (or in the world for that matter).
Humans as a model organism
Do you have some family or some sort of support network you could lean on? It sounds like you're in an at-risk environment. Even spending an hour or two at the library rather than being around those influences might be helpful to your state of mind. Not to mention having plenty of books and Internet access to help you launch your small business idea.
You need some mechanism of getting money into everyone's hands, since everyone needs to spend money on food/housing/etc. The market has demonstrated it isn't up to the task. Either 1) we let poor people starve, 2) we give them money, or 3) we make work for them. I like #2 (basic income). The people I meet outside of the tech bubble tend to like #1 or #3. Which camp are you in?
I live in St. Louis.

We have a growing tech scene. Some of my friends refer to St. Louis's tech as the "Silicon Ghetto" as it's not quite as expansive as SF. More businesses are moving and starting up here because of Arch Grants and one of the co-founders of Square has a startup accelerator here as well.

Granted, I don't work for a company in St. Louis. I actually work remotely for a company based out of San Fran.
There are a ton of perfectly OO languages with little to no language-enforced encapsulation. You're sort of proving my point... if you're going to insist that if you don't have that you don't have OO, you've got an awful lot of language communities to go explain to them that their language isn't OO... hopefully you've got some explanation of what it actually is, too, that makes some sort of sense.
This is exactly what I do, just using Trusted Builds.

Right now one of my biggest curiosities, is doing mass deploys and unified logs. I've not tried to so it hasn't mattered yet, but it could be fun.
Assuming you actually represent google, can you link to the bug, or paste bin if your bug tracker isn't publicly accessible?

I'm curious to know what was the basis of this configuration decision. It seems like someone went out of their way to hamstring your encryption. Possibly someone benchmarked every combination and disabled all but the fastest. Wouldn't something like this go through a security review before hitting prod?
Something I've noticed in some large cross-platform (Windows, Linux) C++ projects I've been involved in is that the developers, given the choice, will just as often choose to work in Windows. Visual Studio is an incredibly powerful IDE.
Yes, it is too much to ask for, for the reasons I laid out. Expecting authors to spoon-feed basic facts to you every time they go to make an unrelated point, is expecting too much.

How about you worry more about scientific consensus and less about 'controversy' that exists only on talk shows and in the drug-addled brain of Jenny McCarthy. If you want to know more about autism and vaccines, you can do the research on your own time. We have this thing called the Internet which should be of some use to you in this.

In the meantime expect to be called out as a concern troll, for that is what you are.
They can't, if you're a Judge and you cross the prosecutor too many times they will stop bringing cases to your court and you will find yourself judge of traffic court instead of criminal court. Prosecutor essentially get to pick the judges this way.
Birth of a Programmer: Why Programming, Why Now?
Here's a bit of historical trivia that may or may not be relevant in connection with Iran as a potential new exciting market for VCs. I do believe it's something that every hacker should know. I quote from the Wikipedia article on the 9th century Persian Mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī:

Some words reflect the importance of al-Khwarizmi's contributions to mathematics. "Algebra" is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations he used to solve quadratic equations. Algorism and algorithm stem from Algoritmi, the Latin form of his name. His name is also the origin of (Spanish) guarismo and of (Portuguese) algarismo, both meaning digit.
Non-technical but some great concepts which can be adapted to programming:
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
The Checklist Manifesto by Athul Gawande
Summary:

There are no conclusions or new research in this article.

Talks about some theories of the scientist interviewed about what aging is (Spoiler: He doesn't know and all current theories have flaws), wastes some time on human interest fluff, gives an interesting picture of girls with Syndrome X (that prevents them from developing, in a way that might be a lack of aging - if you've already heard about it there is nothing new here, if not this is a reasonable introduction), but has no conclusions or new information.

They are doing genetic testing of the girls involved, results are not in yet, this article should have waited for the results.
Consider this a response to both your comment and tptacek's (rather rude) comment.

>>How would they do this, assuming they wanted to? If they built their tools correctly

If they built their tools correctly. I think that's a big assumption. We know for a fact that the NSA has infiltrated and/or influenced various organizations to knowingly implement vulnerabilities in commonly used protocols so that systems that use those protocols can be exploited later. This was all over the news. Some experts even speculate that this may be how the Heartbleed bug originated. Considering the fact that OpenSSL has been around for a long time and no one discovered the vulnerability until very recently seriously brings to question how much faith can be placed in systems like GnuPG and OTR.

Again, consider who you are up against: the NSA has the capability to tap underwater cables, intercept shipments of routers to plant bugs on them, to force airplanes of foreign presidents to land on allied territory so they can be searched for a fugitive, and who knows what else. And that is the "who knows what else" part that should worry you. We are against an enemy of unknown power and influence, and it is silly to expect technology -- any technology -- to provide sufficient protection. Suggesting that "[GnuPG and OTR] don't end up in the news because they work" is asinine.
How do you figure? I spend pretty much all of my time in vim, the terminal, of the browser. And having been at this since the early days of the web, I'm pretty sure I've got the wrong and right of it figured out. I'm primarily a bash user, but it's merely a matter of preference.
No one I know in NYC considers Jersey City to be "part of the city" any more than people consider Oakland to be part of SF. Hell, I know people living in Brooklyn who only consider Manhattan "the city".
A Personal View of Computer Science at Berkeley – Richard Karp
Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service
People say "not in my backyard" everywhere. What makes Californian special is that we empower individuals to obstruct their neighbors too easily. Here, the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.
Thanks. That is sort of like going to war with knives amongst machine guns, but what do I know.
Hope you find in Brooklyn what you need/desire. It's become a place for young, single people, not families. We left NYC last year after 16+ years (the last 12 spent in BK) and crossed the water.

I resisted a move for many years because of the energy you cite, which I considered my lifeblood, but I've never felt better now that I'm surrounded by trees again. NYC (BK) really sucked the life out of me (and my wallet) and I didn't notice until I made my escape.

BK real estate has become unaffordable and the buying process is atrocious (expect to fall in love with an apt. multiple times only to be outbid by cash offers). BK rents are going through the roof. Despite what my friends who still live there assume, I don't miss it at all.
I'm not familiar with quora and not sure I want to log in to the site to read this article.
For all those looking for an encrypted email service, take a look at https://protonmail.ch/
PBS Frontline is running a ~3 hour documentary, released in two parts, the second installment was released today, of the entire post 9/11 NSA surveillance episode, up to and including the Snowden leaks @ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-sec...

Well worth a watch.
Of course it's not, but the method is the same, you append a different picture to the end and modify the original image header to point to it. The encoding or encryption is not relevant.
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Frontline: United States of Secrets (Part Two) [video]