skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's got a high profile and is smart, sure, but the lobbying world is completely different than the campaign world. Seems like an odd choice to me.

Unless he'll be handling more of a grassroots approach than an inside-game strategy? Stuff like: http://go.uber.org/california/ maybe?
I'm seeing 5-10k installs on the Play store. Still not much for something that has caught this level of media attention.
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Hmm .. interesting ; thanks for you reply :) So, if the city bought these in mass , who programmed them for you ? I suppose these were then given to third party companies to program

1.Like Enter the header for the printed out tickets

2.Relay back information about total number of tickets issued etc., etc., ? Did all of the information on these devices automatically roll over to centralized servers ? Or did you have to manually plug it into a computer and sync data ? Did the third party companies ever write such software for you ? or were they predominantly standalone terminals involved paperwork later on ? for example : you have to input the parking ticket number again in a computer later on ?
ah you are right. I just came up with a rough figure. that's an excellent point.
Seems like the first time this happens it can be easily challenged on free speech grounds, right?
BTW - I always thought of CASIO as a watch company. I had one of those vintage electronic watches with a ton of little buttons on them as a child. Never knew of their remaining product line ! Thanks again :)
That's not the ONLY reason bitcoin is less stable. The dollar is actively managed to be very stable over the short term.

Gold is pretty volatile compared to the dollar as well, and it's hugely traded.
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It's a joke (I think).

In the old days Doctors used to bleed a patient who was ill to let out the poison "I bled him but unfortunately he died".

That or he is implying that he did nothing but suck the blood for 30 years while others did the actual important work.
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I'm hoping the target audience is 50 year old millionare shareholders and not us peasant folks.
Hi all; original author of this blog post, happy to see it getting so much feedback. I think it's important to highlight the risks in and out of state:

The bill says that police CAN use this mandatory kill switch, but must comply with Public Utility Code Section 7908 in doing so; that law generally requires police to get a warrant before shutting down cell service, but has an "emergency" exception where court approval is not required. I worry police could abuse this, using risk of violence as a pretense to shut down a protest as CA police did during the BART subway shutdown in 2011.

A more broad risk is that because CA is such a large market, manufacturers/providers will likely deploy this mandatory kill switch nationally, so it could end up being used in other states (such as during protests in Ferguson, Missouri)that may have absolutely no restrictions on government use of a kill switch.

Unfortunately the bill is very far along so there is not much left that can be done, but I would recommend discussing the issue on social media, and, as @javajosh suggests, contacting Governor Brown's office to express concerns and recommend a veto. The bill was passed on August 12 so he must sign or veto it by August 24.
In New York we already have a kill switch. It's called AT&T.
> When did preventing stolen phones become such a hot button issue?

When phones started being $600+ and carried by nearly everyone. I'm just as much against the kill switches as you are, but I've heard so many cops and high ranking police officers complain about smart-phone theft that I think that they truly believe this would be a major weapon against criminals.

And why wouldn't it be: every phone theft is hundreds of dollars, and there's a lot of phone thefts happening worldwide.
Boldness aside, this sentence struck me:

> I have confidence in our approach of mobile-first, cloud-
> first, and in our primary innovation emphasis on platforms
> and productivity and the building of capability in devices
> and services as core business drivers.

That's a lot to have confidence in. Is this tangled web of nested lists Microsoft's idea of "focus"? cf. Apple, Google, and Amazon's mission statements.
I am not a big fan of Microsoft. But how many companies do I know which have grown revenue year after year for FORTY* years? Must give this man (and Bill) credit, for that is a near impossible task.

* Except a couple of near misses.
This may interest you: https://github.com/mirage/irmin
This article is FUD.

From the actual bill:

"This bill would require that any advanced mobile communications device, as defined, that is sold in California on or after January 1, 2015, include a technological solution, which may consist of software, hardware, or both software and hardware, that can render inoperable the essential features of the device, as defined, when the device is not in the possession of the rightful owner. The bill would require that the technological solution be able to withstand a hard reset, as defined. The bill would prohibit the sale of an advanced mobile communications device in California without the technological solution being enabled, but would authorize the rightful owner to affirmatively elect to disable the technological solution after sale."
Are you the Internet police or something? Why don't you take a look at your own comment history, asshole :)

Are you evangelizing every time you disagree with an article?
Surrounding ourselves with devices we cannot trust can be detrimental to us, especially if they are being backdoored, contain malware or are used against us. I'm starting to realize the only solution is open source hardware + software. There might be no other way. How else could we trust a device if we cannot inspect it?
My point is that it's too easy to create backdoor on smart phones. There're many ways to track and disable your phones, no matter whether it's a smart phone or not. For example, your carrier operator can do a lot of bad things on your phone. The difference with smart phone is that it can be hacked without accountability from the operator side.

Given than you are aware of such risks and still has the need to communicate, your next best options is to encrypt your conversations through non-smart phones, and that's where my project, JackPair, can be helpful.

And yes, I'm trying to promote the awareness of my project JackPair, and the technologies behind it. In fact, I'm running a kickstarter campaign now for JackPair (http://bit.ly/jkpair). I think its relevant here because people need to be more aware that they don't really own their smart phone these days.
TechCrunch, Venturebeat, BBC, AlJazeera...but I also get an embarrassing amount of my information from Twitter [hides in shame].
You can even take the derivative of a grammar to get a parser!

http://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf
This is one reason I have a ham radio license and a couple of radios. You can't stop those. If they decide to shut down to interfere with local repeater stations, go peer to peer. If they interfere with a frequency range, just change to another one or another band entirely. If you don't want open voice being transmitted, switch to a digital mode.

It's mainly useful as a hobby or for emergency communications but there are other perks.
I am quite certain there was a mix of both, but I honestly cannot remember the details of the timeline. Basically, if your bottleneck is moving lots of DOM elements around, then clustering is a good next step (depending on your use case). If not, then canvas tiles have worked very well for us.
Same problem, also working with react. Setting react to work with this libraries result in more effort than writing it manually.
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Sorry, should have been clearer; I don't think anyone has ever managed a huge speculative valuation. Lockheed Martin has a normal big-company P/E (~16, about the same as Apple or Microsoft, or half of Google's); their price is justified by earnings. Now, if they had a Facebook-like (88) or Amazon-like (880) P/E, that'd be different.
What they mean is that in the face of criticism exactly such as yours, that Microsoft will not revert to server-closet, workstation first in order to keep the easy flow of cash coming. Think AOL at the start of the broadband era. Microsoft doesn't want to become a mindless machine with ever dwindling returns.
For those who don't speak corporate:
"
Under your leadership, we created an incredible foundation that we continue to build on — and Microsoft will thrive in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
"
= your plan failed and here is what we are going to do now instead
Ask for the same trust & security of consumer devices as we ask of our servers -- with absolute certainty a reasonable expectation to all but an authoritarian state.

Edit: it is also worth pointing out that companies which fail to do this will eventually see them locked out of selling those products in certain countries.
What we’re aiming to provide professional-level humanitarian actors is an opportunity to separate their appeals from the mishmash of different 'charitable' campaigns out there and a platform they can own, improve and use as a developmental test-bed.

Crowdfunding is capable of reshaping the fundraising landscape impacting humanitarian operations. But there’s no incentive for popular platforms like Indiegogo to stake out and work with humanitarian actors to innovate humanitarian operational financing.

For example the humanitarian development community uses OECD CRS purpose codes to classify giving. It wouldn't take Indiegogo anything to bring standardized reporting in use across the humanitarian community down to the crowdfunding level but there's no incentive to even learn what these codes are or how they're useful.
The standard way of generalizing the derivative is to require it to be linear and to satisfy a version of the product rule. See, for instance, derivations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation_(differential_algebr...

In the case of this article, the proposed definition is not linear, so it is indeed a bizarre candidate for a derivative.
While I don't care about this time ordering stuff (never noticed anything is missing from my enjoyment, thank you very much), who says ebooks couldn't help with that? It would be easy to include all sorts of fancy progress trackers.

And not only progression of time. I sometimes have trouble following all the characters in complex novels. ebooks could provide handy help pages visualizing the entanglement of the actors as the story progresses.

And who knows what more. I suppose current readers are not really equipped for it, but the next generation might be. I see no technical reason not to have that kind of stuff.
This isn't jamming a radio signal, it's disabling a device which has a radio in it. There's no FCC issue here.
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Fifteen years ago people were stealing mock-ups and pretending they had cell phones. I'm not sure those that commit felonies subscribe to the same value chain that you do.

Besides, assuming the device doesn't self-destruct Mission Impossible style, at worst it'll still be worth parts to someone. So there will be many more parts available--and possibly more victims to make up the difference (assuming muggers are working for something).
Yeah, it read like a BBQ sauce commercial.

Sweet Baby Rays - big bold taste.
This is a rather irresponsible article. The bill as passed by the CA legislature [1] addresses this possibility. In section 2, Section 22761(e) of the code limits the scope of law enforcement use in accordance with section 7908 of the Public Utilities Code [2], which prohibits interruption of communication by law enforcement in anything other than a hostage or barricade situation, ie an ongoing standoff between police and criminals or another situation involving immediate danger of death or great harm (but requiring court submissions within 6 hours). Any other situation, including one where public safety is concerned (such as a protest) requires a warrant to be obtained in advance, subject to quite stringent conditions designed to limit the scope of the communications interruption. You should read it in full to understand all provisions, rather than relying on this summary.

Now, this set of rules is not perfect and could conceivably be abused by police or some other entity. But the cdt.org story ignores these rules completely and leaves readers with impression that legislators wither haven't thought about it or don't care. In reality the law is designed to prevent exactly this kind of abuse.

1. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...

2. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=puc&gr...
There is still volatility risk in money transfer (in fact large treasury groups spend a lot of time/money on this problem).
I loved it when they started including non-profits, and I'm loving that they're including biotech/medical now. They (Gingko/Glowing Plant/Bikanta) sound insane and very risky, which is exactly the ideas the best incubator in the world should be funding.

Casual observation, none of the above describe themselves as "X for Y".
Now you have alternative to not use PDF (viewer)?
Also from the actual bill (which the post includes a link to in the first line):
"Any request by a government agency to interrupt communications service utilizing a technological solution required by this section is subject to Section 7908 of the Public Utilities Code."

The bill gives direct authorization for police to use this mandatory kill switch, so long as it complies with PUC Sec. 7908, which includes an emergency exception where police don't need court approval.
Those actually all return 4. Since f is virtual in the base class, it remains virtual in all derived classes, regardless of whether they say so explicitly.

The override keyword was added in C++11 to help prevent the sort of mistake you were trying to show. Any methods you mark with it will result in a compile error if they are not actually overriding anything.

For example, if B::g were marked as override, it would fail to compile because A::g is not virtual.
You know those extensions that replace 'cloud' with 'butt'? It might be worthwhile to replace the entire phrase 'mobile-first, cloud-first world' with 'butt':

>In the butt, software development is a key skill...

>Under your leadership, we created an incredible foundation that we continue to build on — and Microsoft will thrive in the butt.
Yeah. Keep in mind those phones are bricked forever. It is probably much easier to disable phone service in a certain region from the network side. I would imagine people suing the police for destroying their phones.
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I did. I noticed those discs because they took a lot longer.
No one implied people are expected to compile every compiler they want to use on every system they want to use it. Point was it's not hard. Maybe link to a message where you detailed your troubles?
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That's the intuition used to develop the concept, but it becomes increasingly difficult to apply that intuition to in more exotic locales.

Thus, it's important to eventually seek out more abstract ways of characterizing the derivative (and integral). In more advanced mathematics, you usually state that the derivative is any operation which follows two rules

1. Linearity, d(ax + by) = a d(x) + b d(y)
2. The Product Rule, d(xy) = x d(y) + d(x) y

and then try to squeeze things until that operation is defined uniquely.[0]

Likewise, it's often valuable to define integration as nothing more than the relationship such that

I(region, derivative(quantity))
= I(boundary(region), quantity)

which is known as the Generalized Stokes Rule. It basically is the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" on steroids and it gives a characterization of integration in terms of nothing more than it's algebraic/topological relationship with derivation... which is itself abstracted as mentioned above.

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Why do all this? Because you can squeeze most of Calculus so that it depends only upon this "abstract interface" and then apply things you learned from calculus all over the place.

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Finally, note that this is more like a "proposed" derivative than "the" derivative on natural numbers. The author notes that linearity fails, for instance. Thus, some intuition might "port over" but we shouldn't expect too much of it to do so.

Which echoes back to your original question—there's not really a notion of instantaneous change for us to be talking about... so how much sense does it make to talk about a derivative here?

Apparently, more than no sense at all, but less than you might want.

[0] Note that all we need to state this property of the derivative is a notion of multiplication and addition. This structure is, at its most abstract usually called a ring (but can be made even weaker if needed). An example "exotic" ring might be concurrent processes. If P and Q are two processes then P*Q is P "followed by" Q and P + Q is P and Q "together". Can we write a derivative here? Who knows? (As another comment in this thread suggests, this kind of formulation can be used to consider the "derivative of a grammar" to be a parser! It's also well-known that the derivative of an algebraic data type is its "zipper"!)
Did Microsoft declare that their mission statement or is it just a few things a very large organization considers important?
Those maps are good - yet they don't explain the Roman Empire.

It's actually tricky to explain the Empire. Over 7 centuries without _any_ significant technological progress. A political regime that is as archaic as its borders are vast - and it drove Europe's political agenda up until the 19th century.

It's possibly the most successful and devastating face of the plutocracy. When the Empire faded away in the 4-7th century, contemporary archaelogy now thinks that people's life actually improved. The tax and ideological burden of the roman overhead was a toll on entire societies.
Tiling is a very common technique for online maps. Image tiles used to be the standard, but there has been a lot of progress made with vector tiles (what the new Google Maps uses), mainly due to the huge improvements in browser performance as well as greater support of WebGL . Take a look at Mapbox GL, a very cool vector tile renderer:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-js/
This is an awesome writeup!

I was playing with the demo linked elsewhere in this thread [demo], and noticed a bit of a hiccup when scrolling past multiple zoom levels. It seems like there'd be a bit of a pause as the tiles were rendered at each successive zoom level. It may be worthwhile to debounce the scroll event listeners with a small timeout, so you can catch multiple successive scroll events and zoom straight to the target zoom level without having to render each step along the way.

Quick video of the stuttering: http://gfycat.com/BrilliantActiveAfghanhound

[demo] https://seatgeek.com/senators-at-flyers-tickets/4-11-2015-ph...
It doesn't not anywhere. You bough the device, do as you please.
> timing of events in the story

Maybe because with the paper one you can associate how far you are along with the pages turned?
As a critic of the bill, I'll readily concede that smartphone theft is a major problem. It's one of the most prominant crimes in urban areas, costs billions of dollars a year, and has in several occassions caused violence.

Still, it doesn't justify a mandatory kill switch (there are a large number of free apps you can download), and it certainly doesn't justify letting police use kill switches that are installed.
I'll second Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. The frequency of his podcast is pretty long, but it's worth the wait.
> in the long term there is going to be a lot of possibly 'dead' coins which makes reasoning about the market difficult.

Why is it difficult?

No one "invalidates" US paper currency that hasn't traded for 10 years. A certain amount of US currency has been burned up in fires or lost to washing machines, yet no one seems concerned. Instead, they use surveys and other forms of statistical analysis to determine the amount in circulation, rather than relying on the US Mint's records of what was ever printed. The same would work for Bitcoin.
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Another good podcast on the subject is Lars Brownworth's 12 Byzantine Rulers (http://12byzantinerulers.com/), which starts with the Roman emperor Diocletian and proceeds through the founding of Constantinople, the fall of the western empire, and the evolution of the eastern empire over the 1,000 years that followed.
Middle managers are cannon fodder. They implement the dirty, unpopular things that upper management doesn't want to sully their hands with, and when they're not doing that, they bust out performance metrics to try to show that they're more than just hired goons.

When you hire someone like that, do you care what their interests are as long as they seem like they can handle the job?

Upper management, on the other hand, is very much expected to be involved in other things that you mentioned. They are the ones expected to be the rock stars of their field.
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Or "squirt". (Do MS still do that, or did it stop with the demise of Zune?)
Hank Green and friends produced a lovely set of videos that quickly and humorously go through the basics of the Roman Empire (among other things). It's part of a playlist on the Crash Course YouTube channel on World History.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPf27gAup9U&list=PLBDA2E52FB...
Yes, the bill has an emergency exception, but you omitted to mention that it still requires police to go to court afterwards (within 6 hours, or with additional submissions to justify the delay if that is not possible) to make a showing of why a communications interruption was necessary, and requires the court to balance police claims with First Amendment freedoms, strictly limiting the scope of acceptable reasons and requiring the purpose of the interruption be as narrowly tailored as possibly.

I don't understand why you left all this out of the original story.
Oh, and regarding server side software, a web server is enough if you named the tiles in a logic way. You'll have to provide a callback to OpenLayers to return the name of the tile, similar to this pseudo-code:

GetTileFileName(zoom, x, y) {

return "/MonaLisa/tiles/z" + zoom + "lon" + x + "lat" + y + ".png";

}
When Apple implemented locking your phone to your AppleID and iPhone theft rates dropped precipitously[1], including (typically) violent robberies, because the phones can't be moved so it's not worth stealing them.

[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/antitheft-technolog...
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There is such a metric - it's called national wealth [1] and it functions much like market cap on a national level. The mechanisms are different as countries can't be "valued" because they can't be bought and as such have no market price. Regardless, economic health is taken into account because the underlying asset values ARE calculated based on market price. National wealth is largely seen as an indicator of ability to pay off debt because it provides a tax base.

As an example, the national wealth of the US in 2014 was $81.8 trillion, while our GDP in 2013 was $15 trillion. So your intuition is correct; GDP is a horrible way to value a country. Though in practice, GDP tends not to vary a lot in mature economies (i.e. inflation tends to stay roughly the same year to year), so you can do a relatively simple NPV calculation on the GDP to approximate the national wealth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_wealth