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If you reduce STEM to its most fundamental trait in a child, it would be something like "the love of taking things apart and/or assembling things together." Obviously Lego is one activity that appeals to this trait however their are other less obvious ones such as taking apart Barbie clothes and reassembling them - sometimes exchanging various limbs and heads. Also deconstructing food dishes to their component ingredients before reassembling a better recipe in the Easy Bake oven. Are these not STEM traits that are somewhat gender biased but still cultivates the necessary curiosity to excel in STEM later in life? Needless to say my daughter is this child and yet shares nothing of her brother's passion for Legos, Mindstorm robotics, programming games, etc. Yet as a parent I'm not concerned because as long as this desire to deconstruct/reconstruct is present, STEM is always an option.
Indeed, I was also contemplating some kind of dismissive reply then I remembered I am reading an excellent book about the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday (which I am old enough to just remember happening) and decided not to make that kind of comment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281972%29

[Yes, it was a long time ago, but I don't think anything about our society here in the UK has changed to such an extent that would make this fundamentally impossible.]
A few years ago a shop owner I know was burglarized.

He asked me to help him get the surveillance tapes into a format he could present in court, so I did so. Reviewing the tapes while transferring was interesting. It was a simple burglary. A guy came in through the roof. He appeared to be high on crack or crystal meth and weighed probably 100 pounds. He tripped the alarm, panicked, ran about the store, couldn't get out and eventually exited back through the roof. This was about 3 in the morning. 15 or 20 minutes later 2 officers arrived with my friend in his pajamas looking sleepy. He let them in and they crept about the store pistols drawn. No one was there. One of the officers pointed to the drop ceiling (good call... there was a gaping hole there) and they eventually exited the store. 3 or 4 hours later the swat team arrived. They stood behind shields and put in some sort of gas bomb. The tapes filled with smoke and you couldn't see anything for a period. Then, a number of officers entered with gas masks and examined inside the drop ceiling with a camera. No one was there of course. There were probably not less than 15 of them and they stayed around until noon or so wandering about and poking stuff. At one point one of the officers noticed the surveillance camera and turned it so they couldn't be filmed further. No one was brutalized but it appeared to be extreme over reaction. The store reeked of tear gas for weeks. I have to wonder exactly what the cost was to taxpayers. This certainly isn't an extreme case but it was an eye opener. Lots of these guys just want to play GI Joe and don't care what they damage nor how much money they waste. It is time for some reform.
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Great run-through!

Although his slides were based on publicly traded companies (some enterprise sales-based), his examples were more focused on consumer-facing as-a-service businesses. I wish that he delved more into examples with enterprise sales-based businesses, but all-in-all it was a great talk!

Thank you for sharing!
Wow, that website has not changed its style in over 14 years.[1]

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815074639/http://www.openssl...
I see where he is coming from though. When I look at github repos and they have more random config files in their home directory then actual source files it starts to scare me.
> You do realize you're comparing the present day United States law enforcement with Rwandean tribes, Mexican narco-terrorists and the middle ages?

Yes, they are all members of the same species. "Humanity" is a thin veneer over the top of a very selfish, very violent animal.
> You seem to want to pick a fight, based on something I didn't even actually say or imply (which you carried over from another comment).

Pick a fight? You're refering to that whole 'care to enlighten me'? Would you have preferred a bit less sarcasm to go with that question? It seems to me that the aggression started with you, implying that I didn't understand the importance of the petroleum industry. Even though it was the only thing I was discussing in that post that you replied to.

All I said was that the combination of petroleum and the management of it has been important. Clearly, if you take petroleum out of the equation, management doesn't really help much, now does it? So I took it for granted that readers could see that petroleum was a crucial part of the equation.

You might appreciate that, after explaining how management of natural resources like this plays a significant part in how well it works to a nation's advantage, someone comes in and reduces it back to "oil, that's it", I might get a bit irritated? And if the point was not to reduce it to that, why would one even reply with a one-liner like that, as it doesn't really say anything novel on the topic?
Once the Nest API gets more mature, watch power companies give these out with the ability to remotely turn your A/C up if the power grid starts to sag (that whole "rush hour" concept they're pushing).
I live in the US and have never had to deal with this and live a normal life. I am by no means defending this, in fact I think it's disgusting and awful, but it's not happening on every single street in the county. Yet.
Yes, but only in the comments. That doesn't count. I'm saying it's never on the front page of HN because, duh, HN is a technology website. Why would HN care about nursing? Except as a strawman in the comments of course..
You can see police intimidation everywhere. Even in Slovenia and other EU countries, I believe. But there is a difference between "go home, you're drunk" (even though you have a legal right to be there) and "BANG! BANG!".
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We've already completed that transition when ISPs started blocking ports from their customers.

Putting everybody in IPv6 will make things better, and odds are that it will create an entire new crop of descentralized services. But current http and smtp servers gain very little from supporting IPv6 just now.
You're missing the social context here. First, this is never about using it's about dealing. Police enforcement efforts are almost entirely preoccupied with trafficking. Second, dealers are, by and large, bad people for other reasons. Your suburban pot dealer isn't the target of no-knock raids. The targets are guys with long rap sheets of felony convictions, often for violent crimes.

Drugs are a proxy in a war between police and gangs. Atlanta had 81 murders in 2013, versus 82 for London, which has 20x the population. To an extent the drug trade causes some of this violence, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. Atlanta is in a former slave-holding state and was segregated as recently as the 1970's. It's a city where 27% of residents, and 31% of children, are below the poverty line. Poverty is highly correlated with race: 33% of blacks and hispanics versus only 8% of whites. It's a city where 76% of poor families are led by women with no husband present.

Between the history of oppression and the massive racial disparity in the incidence of poverty, there is zero trust between the black majority and the white minority (which holds a majority of the economic and political power). This lack of trust is at the root of much of the conflict. Black and hispanic communities are unhappy with the crime, but also, arguably for good reasons, don't help the police shut down the gangs. At the same time, wealthier whites support the aggressive enforcement because they are scared and the negative side-effects don't happen in their neighborhoods.

This is not to justify no-knock raids for drug enforcement, but to help illuminate the mindset of the officers involved and how they justify their actions. I am in favor of deescalating the drug war, but that's just the first step in normalizing our cities, which see violence that is without comparison in the developed world.
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I'm curious as to what kinds of actions could be misinterpreted like that. Care to give an example?
Profits are irrelevant. What matters are the benefits, which include the consumer surplus as well as the producer surplus. So long as coal and oil are the cheapest most reliable source of energy, using them makes the economy more efficient than not using them and an efficient, functioning economy buys us more safety margin for just about any conceivable future threats, not just climate-related ones. Whereas a crippled economy where we use less energy automatically makes us more vulnerable to many other conceivable future threats, even ones we didn't explicitly prepare for. (Getting hit by an asteroid, disease epidemics, global cooling...)

Switching to less CO2-intensive technologies will happen anyway regardless but if you want to push it along, how about removing some of the roadblocks to nuclear power? (Including recycling/reprocessing waste into more fuel, which has been illegal in the US since the 1970s)
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Maybe you do live in a different country. In my decades-long residence in Washington State, my upbringing in Vermont, my considerable time in Sacramento, my years in Eastern Mass, and my trips around the US and Canada, I've never been somewhere where people "did these things constantly". If they did, every block would have a cut flower shop. These are a relative rarity, you'd usually have to look them up if you wanted one.

Average people I've known in the places I've lived most definitely did not frequent flower shops or cafes. And by "average", I include Target employees and Walmart employees and the clerical employees of most companies large and small. That is to say, most people in the US.

Apart from the financial issue, my point was that there's a cultural phenomenon going on. In Germany my feeling was that the residents had a joie de vivre that is largely missing in the US, something which is probably both a cause and effect of the cult of overwork.
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It's kind of sad to realize that modern day police are comparable (at least in terms of inhumanity) to middle age torture.
Also in general the severity of the charge is directly proportional to the quantity of drugs. So if the quantity is instantly flushable, how serious of a charge can it have been, and thus how much accidental damage is acceptable in the arrest?
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Yes. A non-swat approach is pretty simple:

Observe the location in an unmarked police car and wait for the suspect to leave, then enter to acquire the evidence.

No confrontation required.

There is no real urgency that justifies a raid when no one is in any danger of violent harm.
They already have automated Haskell packages from cabal, it shouldn't be hard to integrate cargo with nix once it's more stable.

You wouldn't even require upstream NixOS packages, just place built cargo packages in the nix store, using it like a cache.
Then upstream NixOS channels could start accumulating cargo packages, making cargo dependency "builds" faster.
> It was kind of embarrassing.

I would be cringing at this scene, mostly at you.
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It always surprises me to see these sorts of projects NOT based on Racket. I guess that is the danger of Scheme, it's so easy to reimplement the base language that everyone is doomed to spending lifetimes reimplementing the standard libraries.
While others used their country code, he might have simply differed in his interpretation of "location". Seems pretty ignorable. Or he's a separatist in which case, meh, whatever. Might as well have some outlet for it, given its increasing irrelevance.
Your stakeholder analysis is not complete.

Cops profit. Lawyers profit. DAs profit. Tough-on-crime politicians profit. Religions profit. Government profits. Political parties profit.

Basically, the whole establishment profits from maintaining status quo in the drug war.
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1. This happened in rural Georgia, far away from Atlanta.

2. The suspect was later arrested for dealing meth. This isn't a little dime bag situation as the clearly biased writer would have you believe.

3. This isn't the suspect's first arrest, he was arrested before for distribution. Police found an AK-47 in his house.

Here are things that could have been done to prevent this situation.
1. The homeowner could have not dealt meth.
2. The parents could have not moved in with their AK-47 owning, meth dealing nephew.

Here are some likely other outcomes even if the SWAT raid didn't occur:
1. One of homeowner's guns could have accidentally discharged and killed the child.
2. Criminals could have robbed the house (a higher likelihood when you are running a drug ring out of your house) and killed the child.

That poor child's situation is a direct product of irresponsible parenting. There was a reason the police were at this house. Their tactics and the damage they did would have not been remotely possible if this guy wasn't armed with illegal weaponry and dealing drugs.

This isn't reddit. America is not out to get you. Don't be a criminal and don't associate with criminals and this doesn't happen to you.
It might help (I didn't downvote, just suggesting) to put an intro to these arguments in the post, instead of just links.
Police departments profit as well. They are able to confiscate all kinds of "evidence" like the car a dealer uses when they're selling drugs and then auction those items off. It's an extremely perverse incentive which must be eliminated.

More info: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-america...

Well, here's the most relevant quote, anyways:

"""

Because of a legal quirk, SWAT raids can be profitable. Rules on civil asset-forfeiture allow the police to seize anything which they can plausibly claim was the proceeds of a crime. Crucially, the property-owner need not be convicted of that crime. If the police find drugs in his house, they can take his cash and possibly the house, too. He must sue to get them back.

Many police departments now depend on forfeiture for a fat chunk of their budgets. In 1986, its first year of operation, the federal Asset Forfeiture Fund held $93.7m. By 2012, that and the related Seized Asset Deposit Fund held nearly $6 billion.

Mr Balko contends that these forfeiture laws are “unfair on a very basic level”. They “disproportionately affect low-income people” and provide a perverse incentive for police to focus on drug-related crimes, which “come with a potential kickback to the police department”, rather than rape and murder investigations, which do not. They also provide an incentive to arrest suspected drug-dealers inside their houses, which can be seized, and to bust stash houses after most of their drugs have been sold, when police can seize the cash.

"""
I have too much on my hands right now, but will definitely try to create an executable, but don't you think it'd make sense to provide binary releases? I mean, there might be others like me.

I'll also try the encrypted version. Will let you know if it works (or it doesn't) :)
This is exactly why Google' "Made with Code" campaign is so good: https://www.madewithcode.com/

Look at the message, it is about how computers are fun and empowering. Even with this general message, they still market to girls by simply showing how women and girls are involved with coding. The target of the campaign is girls, but the message is universal that girls don't feel like outsiders and even boys can tag along.
Yes, and I think the author is mistaken to make that conflation. To me it represents a willful blindness to your second issue. Yes, it would be great if our society was more gender-neutral, but it's not, and it never has been (in a historically relative sense, we've come quite a long way). I don't think we can just say "hey let's market toys to boys and girls equally and everything will just work itself out." Again, it's like sticking your fingers in your ears because you don't want to face the murkier, less tractable issues of human nature. The issue is real and it goes a lot deeper than gender norms promulgated by contemporary society.
I don't think that's it. The differences in percentages between men and women in STEM are just too big to attribute them to "early conditioning" anymore, esp. after so many years of campaining [1]. Either men are masochists and choose jobs that are "not fun", or men find STEM more fun than women. I believe, at least in Europe, there is no lack of exposure to STEM subjects.

The idea of interwoving them sounds a little bit silly: a sci-fi text will bore a student who is literature-oriented in the same way that a mathematical model of romance will sound cheesy to a math nerd.

1. http://techpageone.dell.com/business/study-women-stem-career...
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Or we could, you know, use SSH (and sudo if we were so inclined). I don't think anyone uses a PHP shell willingly unless they're trying to do something they shouldn't.
"And yet if you suggest that police are anything less than complete heroes in every way your neighbors and relatives will shun you."

Not in my experience, but I have no trouble believing that has much to do with my social circles.
> Fortunately, social perceptions about geeks are changing, thanks to shows like Big Bang Theory

I'm not a huge fan of many new action movies, but I'm also quite happy seeing people who (in the past) claimed Tolkien or comic books are for nerds only, happily go to see the LotR and Marvel/DC movies now. Movies these days can be criticised for many things - but putting a strong female character in a sci-fi world from time to time is quite a welcome change. (yeah, I know it's not done properly every time, but the shift is visible)
you're all idiots. mandating sexism is not a solution to sexism.

the "ONLY" way??? "Boys too"??? well, i'm a "boy", and i got into STEM without this "way".

how about you start supporting STEM by not stipulating a logical statement that is easily provably false. logic is the core of STEM, and you're shitting on it.

did a woman write the article?
And they only exist because the product they distribute has been made illegal.
Statically typed i.e. without a inner loop dispatch penalty? Which others? I've considered an implementation in Fortran and OCaml as well. OCaml is attractive but doesn't cross compile to ARM officially. With C++ we can target x64, ARM and TI DSP with the same core processing module.
This will be pretty exciting for anyone learning operating systems. More source to read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family
> Surely, your emotional reaction depends on how long ago the DUI was. What if they had ONE DUI ten years ago?

Yeah, DUI should disqualify you from ever driving professionally IMO. Anecdotal, sure, but my experience is that people who actually have a DUI are the ones that finally got caught after years.

Then again, the well to do people I know (or ones with a well to do family) with a DUI actually got their charge reduced to reckless driving by fighting it in court, so maybe there are as many false negatives as positives.
Sad that none of this surprises me anymore.

I gave up hope after the same local cops who have long been notorious for shooting everybody [1](2001) got off scot-free for contriving a raid of a local mayor, intimidating his mother in-law, shooting his dogs and unapologetically quipping about it [2](2008).

1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/nation/investig...

"By any measure, Prince George's County police have shot and killed people at rates that exceed those of nearly any other large police force in the nation."

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor'...

"The event gained national and international media attention. While the Calvos were cleared of wrongdoing, the police were accused by the Calvos and civil rights groups of lacking a proper search warrant, excessive force, and failure to conduct a proper background investigation of the home being raided. Despite the criticisms, no action has been taken against the officers or their respective police departments. In August 2010, Sheriff Jackson stated that "we'd do it again. Tonight."[1]"
I have operated on 1099 as well; this will definitely cause some skewed numbers on 'employers'.

I believe my point stands, though. Being an employer does not implicitly mean you are part of the 1%; supporting policies that are pro-employer does not implicitly mean you are a neo-capitalist, anti-socialist 1%er.

Having been in a number of 'microfirms' myself, I intuitively think supporting them is wise policy (as a rule of thumb; as with most things, it's wise until it isn't). I may be biased, but I have seen many firms in the US that start this way and grow; low barriers for starting a business is one of the US's greatest assets, from my perspective. It is a foundation for social mobility, stands in contrast to much of the developed world, and is one of the primary motivators for people to chose the US when they 'vote with their feet'.