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I was debating if I should mention it in my original comment but...

I have ADHD and I've been on almost all stimulant options available, most often Adderall and lately Vyvanse. Those are Schedule II drugs in the US, where you can't get refills on a prescription and there's a whole huge thing about auditing and verifying that you can't abuse it.

I feel like your doctor's office is a little ridiculously strict if that's the case for you too as none of my psychiatrists have ever required that kind of sign-off on picking up prescriptions, but in my experience, yeah... it sucks. I've been treated like a criminal at the pharmacy, many times. Also ask me how many times I've had insurance/pharmacy deny a prescription because I am picking it up literally a day too early. Requiring ID is ridiculous too. I just recently changed my name, but the name change for my insurance hasn't been going anywhere, so I'm surprised I haven't triggered any kind of problem when signing off on picking up these drugs. I don't know what I'd do if I lost a prescription (doctors can write up to 3 separate ones dated appropriately) or if I lost a bottle. :(
Ah those were the days.

That reminds me of Wizadore, possibly the best game ever made for pure addictiveness and longevity!
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In the enterprise XAML based UIs are quite loved.

We even get to have the "J2EE" version of .NET with all those model view patterns.
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As mentioned in the article, the current (and consistent across existing rulings) legal theory is that the 5th amendment doesn't apply if it's already been "proven" that you know the passcode, since the self-incrimination is divulging the fact that you know the passcode to incriminating files (therefore, by implication you're responsible for the existence of said files)

And since you're not proving this to a jury, but rather a judge, the standard of proof is going to be pretty low for a smartphone. Orin Kerr thinks possession of a phone at time of arrest will be enough to prove to a judge that you know the passcode, and given how low-level judges operate in the real world I'm inclined to agree (in practice, not legal theory or what's just.)

Anyway, iCloud backups are still fair game, so it's not like LEOs can't typically get the information they want anyway even without the passcode.
Thanks for posting the link to your book--it's interesting reading.

There seems to be a fairly common error within:

> One 1992 telephone survey estimated that American civilians use guns in self-defense up to 2.5 million times every year – that is, about 1% of American adults have defended themselves with firearms.

We cannot simply divide the event count by the population count, because a single person may have used a gun more than once in a year. In fact, someone who has used a gun during the year is more likely to use one later in the year than someone who has not yet used one, because some people live in dangerous areas, are themselves belligerent, or both.
My experience with Ruboto has not been good. Gave it a try during a sojourn away from Xamarin (which I use for the game I'm making, but Ruboto was for something else) and its perf was really unfortunate on a Nexus 4, not much better on a Nexus 5. You'll end up writing anything nontrivial in Java anyway, making a lot of it moot.
I'd say take the 90th percentile lifetime of the hardware, double it, that's how long an operating system should be supported. The doubling to account for people that aren't buying on day one.

So around the 10 year number. Depends on the kind of computer.
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Why? Security? Something else?

I have 2+ side projects or submodules under development at any given time. I've been storing them in Dropbox for the last 3 years. I've been working on them actively from 3 different machines (two Ubuntu desktops and one OS X laptop), and they're turned off -- so not syncing -- when I'm not using them.

All that said, I haven't had one single problem. So empirically speaking, I don't see any problem with the mechanics of .git folders in Dropbox.

(Note that my key files, API keys, etc. are not synced to Dropbox.)
Is there any evidence of MDMA making users better people, other than self reports?

For each individual who says psychedelics have made them a better person, there are hundreds who make the same claim about religion. And I think we can all agree that the risk of biological side effects is much lower with religion.

If I were going to follow your advice and try MDMA, shouldn't I follow my father's advice and try religion first?
the world is much simpler than that, my friend.

Apple left the canary there to not alarm their customers. As far as we know, they could have received millions of warrants and never removed it for market reasons, or they could have received warrants that told them to not change that page as to not harm ongoing investigations.

Anyway, it is very conveniently timed with the release of ios8, and their month old marketing plan of announcing that new 'super secure feature' that "we can't comply to warrants even if we wanted BS". I'd have to be a huge fool to not thing that this is a pure marketing ploy to force me to move to IOS8, and nothing more.

Also, you probably can still access iCloud pictures that the phone uploads automatically by just guessing random urls or something or another.
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> I don't agree with Orin Kerr on this, but I'm willing to accept that he's likely seen things about the day-to-day business of law enforcement that I just don't understand.

Sorry, it's more likely he's just vested in the current (not-privacy-respecting) system of governance. One which has major drawbacks for many folks who are pushing the envelope or who just happen to be on the wrong side of one of the many folks who have access to the government's powers.
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> I wish better drugs existed, but research in the field has been stifled.

There has been some promising research with psilocybin: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/07_11_06....
As graetzer said, I use GopherJS and WebGL bindings.

For a simple example, see https://github.com/shurcooL/play/commit/cd45204c1b2d89062255....
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Did you get a bill after the fact? You could call them up and negotiate. If you have two insurance plans, then it's mostly talking with a particular office/section that deals with coordination of benefits.

Until my family members and I individually ended up switching to insurance with nice low flat rates for services, I used to negotiate everything from office visits to ER bills. Before service if you can (especially for elective/outpatient type things), otherwise they really like cash in full. They tend to prefer working outside of insurance too, since it means more money for them even if they're halving your bill.

I'm sure there are services, and occasionally you'll find more tips on places like reddit (/r/frugal comes to mind). I have no immediate suggestions for how to do this in a time of crisis - it mostly depends on someone that knows you well giving enough of a shit, and when they'll try to bill you for services. :(

Why this is a thing is beyond me, but while it's the case...
The most advanced VM on earth is a Java one called Zing with a pauseless GC, able to handle quite a few GB and powering a few stock market exchanges.

EDIT: Should have mentioned Zing instead of Azul.
I can't speak for before I started using Dropbox with git, but for the past 3 years, conflicts are handled well (and not as you describe).

First of all, Dropbox will not overwrite data. If it finds a conflict, it will save a second file with "[machine name]'s Conflicted Copy" and the modification date at the end.

This hasn't happened to me with any git files yet, however, because my machines are always online. That means my working tree is always the same across devices and my .git folder is always identical.

The only way a conflict would be created is if I committed while working offline and then committed on another machine while working offline.

If that happens, I could just grep my Dropbox folder for files with "conflicted" in the name and remove them. Or, because I committed my files to a remote (often Github, but sometimes others), I could just delete the local copy and clone.
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For a similar problem, check out http://www.pathery.com/ - create the longest possible maze with X blocks.
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People are already using drones to photograph the new Star Wars movie outdoor sets.

The production company tried to get these devices but they are filming in another country and they are illegal for export.
https://uradura.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/43rrr-watch-chicago...
A day in the life of a professional hacker:
It's the same reason they can make helicopters only so quiet, moving that much air with sharp edges is loud.

They poured a fortune into making "stealth" or even just quieter helicopters without much success.
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That is my approach.

Xamarin requires anyway an UI implementation per device.

The time spent fighting integration bugs can be used in productive coding instead.
Looks nice! I have been thinking of extracting some code into a gem like this; now I might not have to.

Features I need, though:

- Creating tables where you know the desired column widths (number of characters or percentages) but you don't know the number of rows yet, because you'd like to stream the rows, not wait for all the data until rendering.

- Display progress on a single line and the ability to clean the current line when done. Typically this is stuff like percentage/bytes completed. Spinner would be nice.

- Display an incremental series of steps that get a checkmark and turn green when ok, or display an error symbol and turn red when not.

Will see if I have time to work this into your gem.

Your site is a little broken, by the way. The API link doesn't go to any API documentation, and on the Usage page, only the table links in the sidebar work.
good list of tools, thanks!
You only have to try MDMA once. Its acute effects will last around six hours. I've met many people who have attested to the profound effect it's had on their lives.

Religion is a bit more of a commitment. And, for it to have the desired effects, often requires you to change what you believe about the world.
What I found especially telling is that the author's defense (or lack thereof) of the idea that the 5th Amendment is not applicable here did not even involve any attempt to explain why it should not apply. Like you said, he just feebly pointed at carefully-selected case law.

I think that's because any reasonable person can see that in today's society, it's completely obvious that if you force someone to turn over everything in their smartphone, that's likely to be about as incriminating as everything else you could possibly force them to say or turn over, put together.

The idea that this is not the case doesn't pass the laugh test.
None of these appear to work in an intuitive fashion. Are there algorithms that better resemble biological strategies? If I create a large walled area, I expect an entity to explore in one direction with a preference with external walls, miss areas and completely fail sometimes.

Here's a cute and furry demonstration of biological pathfinding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRd5WYrnML4
Cause all the important research is already done.

Seriously. Why do we assume the difficulty of making meaningful progress to be linear? It seems reasonable that each new discovery becomes harder then the previous one, at a rate equal to or faster then the rate at which we speed up science.
That does seem to be the case. This July I travelled to the Hubei and Jiangsu provinces. I couldn't get on Gmail or Dropbox without going through Tor.

But I had no problem opening the zh.wikipedia.org (the Wikipedia in Chinese), which has content that the Party decidedly would not like to see, such as the account of the Tiananmen events. And I could do that with HTTP or HTTPS, without VPN or Tor. I'm guessing they don't block Wikipedia because nobody in the population really cares anymore, and Baidu is not making enough money out of Baidu Baike (Baidu's online encyclopedia) for it to matter.
> Your position is circular. You are defining 'critical-ness' with the sole criteria being the approval rate. If we accept that as the only criteria, then sure the proposition stands, but then it loses meaning and becomes nothing more than a rhetorical device.

There is nothing circular about it. There is no requirement to exclude other evidence. Regardless of what other evidence exists, discovering that there is a very high approval rate makes it more likely that warrants are approved uncritically than it was before the approval rate was known.

> Assuming the standard isn't changing, we would expect an equilibrium to emerge where the parties involved would come to understand the standard, especially given that the warrant process is not adversarial. So there's no reason not to expect the approval rate to settle at close to 100%, with the few denials being law enforcement attempts to skirt the boundaries.

The fact that the process is not adversarial only makes it more likely that judges are approving warrants they shouldn't be. Moreover, prosecutors have every incentive to try to "skirt the boundaries" as often as possible, unless the boundaries are so broad they don't need to be skirted.

> Anything less than a very high rate would indicate that the standards are inconsistent or are being inconsistently applied.

Or that prosecutors are continually testing the fences as they have every incentive to do.
I still doubt anything has changed. I remember the hatchet jobs "60 Minutes" was infamous for 40 years ago.

"If it bleeds it leads" is a very old saying. So is "history is written by the victors". And it's normal for news to run hysterical stories, because those sell.

But there's a more general problem. There are some fields I know a great deal about. Whenever I see a news story about one of those fields, they're almost always pathetically wrong. This is because the journalists are reporting on something they have no understanding of. I've also seen them report on events I have personal knowledge of, again, they get it all wrong, usually because they're in a hurry to get the story "in the can" and simply don't care to fact check.

My father was a historian, and in our discussions we'd often wonder how much of conventionally accepted historical truth is utterly wrong.
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> Apple’s new policy seems to thumb its nose at that great tradition. It stops the government from being able to access the phone precisely when it has a lawful warrant signed by a judge.

When the government has a warrant, the person being called into question is being served the warrant. The way it works now, the Government just bypasses the person and forces the carrier/handset manufacturer to give up information. This step is just brining the law back in line with how it was traditionally instated and enforced. That's like the Government going to Audi for a backdoor key to unlock my car while I'm not there so they can search it.
In fact you could skip the ,0 part and just type LOAD "FILENAME",8 for BASIC applications.
As a purely electronic piece, it's predated by Silver Apples of the Moon, by Morton Subotnik [1], the first electronic album to be produced in the record industry.

I had the pleasure of taking a class by Mort at NYU and learned a lot from his philosophy of music. He provided the musical philosophy behind the design of Don Buchla's eponymous electronic sound platform [2]. Mort is responsible for the Buchla's lack of a familiar 12-key per octave keyboard. Mort felt that as long as they were synthesizing sound from scratch, there was no reason to box themselves into traditional scales, which result from the harmonic nature of sounds produced by resonant instruments (like winds and strings).

By contrast, Bob Moog created a synthesizer that is very much within the tradition of classical music. I imagine that this continuity, exemplified by Switched On Bach, is probably why the Moog is the far more famous instrument today. It's a much easier on ramp for musicians used to traditional instruments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Apples_of_the_Moon.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchla_Electronic_Musical_Inst...
I completely agree with your assessment of Kerr, and there is nothing wrong with purely legal analysis.

What got to me initially was the deliberate limiting of legal scope to warranted privacy violations, as though warrantless privacy violations are insignificant. He's welcome to do so, but he should be clearer about this and less rhetorically dedicated to his agenda.

EDIT: I see now that he reasons this technology only affects warranted privacy violations, since Apple has a policy of refusing unwarranted inquiries. He is overlooking the possibility that Apple may nonetheless be pressured, deceived, or compelled to violate users' privacy. He doesn't realize that Apple's claim of being invulnerable to warrants also protects the user from Apple's own vulnerabilities. It's not just USA law enforcement that targets users by exploiting Apple's access to protected data.

My understanding is that warrantless privacy violations have grown tremendously since the Patriot Act, both in scope and quantity -- that we have many new laws or codes since then which reclassify previously warrantful privacy violations as now warrantless.

He asks "How is the public interest served by a policy that only thwarts lawful search warrants?"

This is a nasty rhetorical trick. Does Apple's policy change serve any other purpose than to thwart lawful search warrants? Kerr puts "no" in your head, but of course the answer is yes.

He then makes appeal to the "civil libertarian tradition" of protection from warrants, saying that Apple is thumbing its nose at "that great tradition". What a joke. Apple is selling a product with powerful capabilities, some of which can be used to break the law, all of which have legitimate lawful purposes. Are Ford, Boeing, Delta, Budweiser, Louisville Slugger, Smith & Wesson all playing dangerous games as well?

Lastly, this is about removing Apple's ability to unlock. Just like Colin Percival's tarsnap. Doing proper security via proper cryptography. Minimizing untrusted third parties. Apple is getting criticized by Kerr for doing the right thing for its users. There are no victims in this action. It should matter not a whit that this makes the government work harder to violate privacy. Apple has no general duty to offer permanent taps for the government's pleasure.

This is why focusing only on warrantful privacy violations is a travesty of justice.

Please watch this before re-reading Kerr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT2fQu50sMs
Thanks for the feedback. The chrome/firefox pages have user reviews but there aren't many of them.

I was sensitive to performance when I wrote it - in most cases detection rules are single selectors. It won't run anything on sites not in the db. No library dependencies.

There's a phantomjs test suite that flags false positives and negatives. Of course, I can't personally compile a list of every site with sponsored content, so if it's not on the list the addon won't display anything.

If you're interested, the code is open source at http://github.com/typpo/ad-detector.

Hard for me to say whether it can spot ads that you can't. Many people think they aren't susceptible to ads like these, and I'm one of them, but I built this for peace of mind. Sponsored content can be easy to miss. My favorite examples are this Yahoo news article on climate change (written by an oil company), and a Newsweek article on personal injury lawyers:

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-cooling-real-inconveni...
[2] http://www.newsweek.com/10-best-personal-injury-attorneys
While this is a pretty fun idea, it's pretty much dead:

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Hi <...>,

I'm glad that you find it amazing but we have Method on hold for now.
We are focusing on other projects we think will work better.

Thanks for your kind words,

Maria.

mariamunuera.com

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I got this response after I sent an email asking for any status updates sometime in April. Unfortunate.
Ok debug logging into a table is probably one of the best improvements to logging I've seen in a long time. I kinda want this in every programming language. There are so many useful things about it, especially the ability to then randomly sort it at will!
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..and his position that proper tail call elimination is an irrelevant detail did not help the F# cause on Mono. Some people just dont get how important tail call eliminations are in some languages, "just write loops" is not a substitute, not even close.
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The word "study" in the title implies that there's some science involved. There's no science involved -- it's an opinion piece dressed up as a "study".

The authors may be right, but there's no objective way to know. It's not science, it's a political tract masquerading as science.
Wasn't tumblr the one that pops up something in the lower right, asking you to sign up so you can follow new posts¹? At least they still have RSS, as opposed to Twitter which seems to have killed it (sometimes a bit strange ... when you assume that someone never posts anything any more, but instead just their RSS feed broke or changed to another URL).

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¹ Yep, they were: http://hypftier.de/temp/2014-09-22_083217.png
The article you link to doesn't really support your claim:

"Case reports of mental health problems following psychedelics are often comparable to case reports of mental health problems linked to intensive meditation, visiting holy sites, or viewing beautiful artwork and sublime natural scenes," they write."

Consider this: many of the world's most successful and effective individuals have taken LSD, MDMA, psilocybin, and more besides. This is not to say there's no risk, however ambitious mountaineering, riding a motorbike, and traveling by bus at night in a country with poor road infrastructure, all carry (I would wager) more risk of major harm or death. Yet all three are perfectly legal.
"Forbidden - Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site"

what the hell?
Thank you so much for reporting this. The black area is supposed to display a pattern. It is implemented with OpenGL and CVDisplayLink. Apparently, it doesn't work on some machines (the display is black), but I tried on several and could never replicate it. I do not know if the console messages are related. Could you try running the binary from terminal and see if it prints out an error message?