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I don't have the resources to go looking, which is part of the problem.

On one side you have multiple publicly funded organizations attempting to get warrants (police, local da, federal da, fbi, etc) and on the other side you have individual defense attorneys plus generally woefully underfunded public defenders. You can get some notion of what one side would do without oversight -- ie the fisa court, which essentially never turns down a warrant. Relying on individual attorneys, who are after all advocating for their clients, not for what is best for the legal system or people as a whole, to set case law opposing warrants means they will basically be outmatched.

We can also get some sense, again, of how little you can trust any of these people by remembering that the fbi is supposed to be tracking officer involved shootings.

In 1994, Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.
Among its provisions was the order that “the Attorney General shall, through
appropriate means, acquire data about the use of excessive force by law
enforcement officers.” The Justice Department was also required to publish
an annual report on the data collected.

And…that’s pretty much the last anyone heard of that. The work of collecting
the data was shuffled off to the International Association for Chiefs of
Police, which made a few efforts at collecting data and put together a
report in 2001, but has produced nothing since. [1:2]

I'm sure it's just an accident :rolleyes:. Meanwhile, the police fight every inch of the way even the attempt to collect statistics on how many people they killed. And for more news in the quality of self-regulation, after the fbi decided to murder someone connected to the boston bombing under very suspicion circumstances, they discovered that shooting -- like all 150-odd fbi shootings -- was justified [3]! A stunning turn of affairs.

[1] http://www.popehat.com/2014/08/25/government-priorities-comp...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140822/07034228290/feder...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/us/in-150-shootings-the-fb...
Agreed. Everyone forgets that my phone has to be protected from everyone in the world.
We use Duo at work and it is awesome. Bravo.
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I fear the truth is worse, that some of us have gotten fairly large raises (or you might even say exited the middle class) and the rest are taking a pay cut relative to decades past.
The core problem is that the article is shitty and has a linkbait title. The headline causes discussion to naturally go to the idea that they're going to "shut down" the service rather than transition the service and its existing customers into the iTunes umbrella, which is certainly not what people think of when they hear the phrase "shutting down". It's of course a matter of semantics, but if an article claimed they were shutting down Beats headphones and then in one of the final paragraphs mentions "oh and maybe that really just means they're rebranding them with Apple logos", it'd similarly lead to bad discussion.

Edit: Also, see the direct refutation from Apple. So now we've got one actual person on the record, a spokesperson from the company, versus five unnamed sources in a garbage article with glaring errors from a known-questionable source.
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I like & use Pixelmator too, but it's really a Photoshop Elements competitor.
Photoshop is for editing photos, not for drawing "assets". Unless you are trying to tell me that digital cameras will produce a vector drawing of scenes, I don't see bitmap editing software going away anytime soon, or ever.
> I haven't opened iTunes in years other than to update software, and I would imagine most people are in the same boat.

I would hold my horses there, unless you have numbers.

> I used to take every penny I earned and dump it into the iTunes store. Now I just pay $10/month to Spotify now and listen to whatever I want.

Except quite a few important catalogs that Spotify doesn't have. Also, I've hit quite a few instances of "this song was there yesterday!".

I went back to buying music.
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I agree, and I must say I'm pretty curious after reading more and more about these substances. But I'm really not in a situation that allows experimenting. I'd loose the trust of people I depend on that are less open minded. As said, Maybe in another phase of life.

Actually I do know people that messed up their life pretty bad on xtc and weed (ok, perhaps 16 is to young to experiment). Alcohol also messed up the life of someone dear. To be really fair perhaps he just needed more and more to maintain normal social functioning and his anxieties and a lurking depression were probably the real cause.
There is a serious amount of heavy lifting in the visualization department done here for us. I imagine forking this repo and adding a simple model to govern the neuron and axon behavior would be doable. Writing this off as "pretty pictures" is a little over-the-top. Seems like a significant amount of work went into producing these real-time visualizations.
> Plenty of socially questionable legal strategies in HF land. Big one is stock buybacks - rational responses to Federal Reserve interest policies. If debt is priced too cheaply, HF will push companies to lever up to buyback stock. This is a socially useless form of activity, which increases business risk based on capital structure theory. Short term payoff, the debt will never go away.

If it's useless then why does it make them money? Capitalism is a bit like a genetic algorithm - it will find a badly specified reward function faster than it will find the solution you were looking for - but if our tax policies encourage businesses to take on dangerous levels of debt, maybe we should, like, change our tax policies?

> So - to deliver middling average returns, the hedge fund industry will charge 4x to 20x the cost of an index fund.

Shouldn't we be happy about that? They take a load of rich people's money, provide liquidity to the market and do other price discovery things, and give those rich people a middling average return. What's not to like?

> Much of the money for the funds comes from public pension funds.

Maybe those pension funds should stop investing in hedge funds, like calpers just did.
Kerr forgets that the internet is global. This device has super large threat models. There should be little concession for any specific government with regard to encryption.
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is there an rss on this site like on tumblr for example : https://www.tumblr.com/blog/yang3870
thanks
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I agree, a really cool project which I would imagine could be extended to a "real" model without a ton of work. I imagine the amount of work to fork a javascript library which integrated a network of H-H model neurons to make it output this type of visualization would be far more work than adding the H-H piece to this code. I could be wrong but at first blush, that's how I see it.
FYI, this is completely against the Twitch ToS (for non-gaming content) if it was actually implemented.
Sure, and winnings by people who are in the business of gambling (either professional poker players who are gambling on themselves, or casinos who are implicitly gambling against their customers) should be taxed, because at that point it isn't merely random shuffling.
> But I think that we miss the point doing that. A transducer should be able to lead to a new reducer which use a different type to accumulate inputs.

So, instead of

type Transducer a b = (Reducer a r s) -> (Reducer b r s)

you have:

type Transducer a b r r' = (Reducer a r s) -> (Reducer b r' s)

Or, most generally (adding in the ability to change not only the type of the accumulator but also the type of the final result):

type Transducer a b r r' s s' = (Reducer a r s) -> (Reducer b r' s')
For anyone reading this who is prescribed an antidepressants (SSRIs especially, given that they're mentioned by other commenters), please remember that taking them is just the first step in a process you have to be open about with your doctor. Finding the right medication and the proper dosage for you isn't necessarily going to happen at once--there's often a process of trial and error at work. Some can start having an effect within a few days, others might take weeks. And others (SNRIs like Effexor/venlafaxine, for example) are entirely dose-dependent, where the mechanism of action differs radically.

A good doctor will help you manage this, but it's less about finding the perfect medication and more about finding the best balance between benefits and potential side effects. Just don't let yourself get caught up in the notion that the grass is always greener on the other side.
Except for all the employees that don't receive health insurance through their employers...
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A crime which is entirely inevident save for the ability to decrypt a file, is, ipso facto, a thought crime, and therefore IMO not a crime at all. The state needs to find its evidence somewhere which doesn't require the accused to testify against themselves.

This concept Kerr puts forward that criminals will become unstoppable given too powerful crypto is so laughable to anyone who understands cryptography as to be a complete waste of time. For a government built on balance of power and a long history of pushing the limits of that balance, the need for strong crypto is inherently obvious.

You can't issue a warrant for someone's private thoughts, no more than you can issue a warrant for my encrypted diary. It's not actually a 4th amendment issue, it's really an issue for the 5th.

What Apple has done, is take themselves out of the legal loop, where they shouldn't have been in the loop in the first place. Proper crypto is a win-win where I don't have to trust Apple, and Apple doesn't have to trust me. I doubt Apple is actually 100% there, but maybe close enough to stop the government from co-opting them into their investigatory responsibility.

It's perfectly obvious and reasonable that the manufacturer of a diary, e.g. Moleskin, should not be on-the-hook to reveal to authorities everything you write using their product. Similarly, before the Internet and cloud-era, it was perfectly reasonable that the manufacturer of a computer was not on-the-hook to reveal everything produced with that machine.

It's just a quirk of technology that these systems are easier to implement in a 'centralized clear-text' manor, exposing the data to 3rd parties, and therefore government warrants against those 3rd party copies. They never used to be centrally accessible, we've seen the damage a clear-text central store inflicts, and if we've learned anything from it, we won't ever return to this broken model again. Over time crypto will enable many of the 'easier to do centrally' type of services, performed over ciphertext, and without compromising individual privacy.

At this point I think Kerr is just trolling for the page views, since he doesn't seem to have learned anything from the extensive and thoughtful comments his first post elicited.
Ah yeah, I don't know why I said Illustrator. I might have been thinking of the Flash Professional program, which has improved but Flash itself is on its way out.
Cool! I'm glad to see RFID and localization being merged together like this. I think this really shows that RFID is a much more suitable technology for this type of application than a computation-heavy CV algorithm.
Apple bought Beats because they sell audio hardware at a markup and in volumes that even Apple was jealous of, to a very "juicy" demographic group (folks under 25). It's practically free money as long as the brand retains strength. The streaming service is a sideshow in comparison. The main reason so many people thought that Apple bought beats for the streaming service is that they didn't want to believe that Apple could be so crude as to simply buy a lucrative "fashion" brand so they invented some convoluted high-level strategy idea, but that's fantasy.
And that's what people find offensive these day? Interesting.
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If the soda started dissolving the aluminum, I doubt it would stop until it had dissolved a hole straight through the can.
Honestly I expected this to happen 2+ years ago. Glad to hear the Aviary team held on, since I never heard of anyone paying/using for their amazing tools (which were cutting edge back when they launched).
Most popular press analysis of hedge funds that I've seen lumps them all together and assumes they're all primarily aiming to provide greater expected total returns than any of the major equity indexes. However, judged by this metric, the S&P 400 midcap index has historically outperformed the S&P 500 index, which has in turn historically had higher total returns than a balanced portfolio of index funds and bonds. Be careful about any analysis that when applied to these investment options would conclude that someone in their 50s should hold all of their money in an S&P 400 index fund instead of having a better diversified portfolio.

Many hedge funds aim to have better risk-adjusted returns by some metric (say, Sortino ratio or Sharpe ratio) than the major stock indexes or other asset class benchmarks, or the traditional advice of a balanced portfolio of equity index funds and bonds. They often consciously sacrifice some expected returns in exchange for reduced downside volatility.

Some hedge funds try to provide as good returns as possible while having as low correlation as possible to the major asset classes available outside the fund (equities, bonds, commodities, real estate, etc.). These sorts of funds expect their investors to have major holdings in equities, bonds, commodities, real estate, etc. outside the fund. These sorts of funds view themselves as an extra option for diversification for individuals who are already well diversified in the major asset classes.

Some funds (mostly short-only funds) aim to be anti-correlated to some asset class (typically equities) as cheaply as possible, so that holdings in the asset class combined with holdings in the fund result in better risk-adjusted returns (say, Sortino ratio or Sharpe ratio) than just holding major index funds along with some out-of-the-money long-dated puts on those indexes. Many of these sorts of funds expect to have several years of small losses, punctuated by large gains in years when their investors' other holdings have major losses.

In short, I'm sure there are plenty of just plain poor funds out there. However, depending on the investor's utility function and holdings outside of the hedge fund, it may be rational for the investor to have holdings in a hedge fund even if that fund consistently under-performs the S&P 500 and MSCI World Index.
I have mild depression, and one of the best treatments I have found is martial arts. Physical activity in general is helpful, but martial arts in particular has a very calming effect. Most people assume it has something to do with pounding the crap out of a punching bag, but it is more than that. There is a big emphasis on overcoming your limits, and this has a very positive effect on self-esteem.

It also teaches you how to look inward at your own flaws. In martial arts, if you can't do a technique, there are no teammates to blame. It's on you to persevere and keep trying until you get it right. But you don't want to hurt your training partner, so you have to stay calm and focused no matter how frustrating it gets. And when you do get it, it feels amazing. That confidence and calmness carries over into other areas of your life, and you feel like a million bucks.

A few other students in my class told me that it had a similar effect on them. To be clear, it won't replace proper medical treatment, especially for severe depression. But I highly recommend it as an additional form of treatment.
IMHO, that would be incredibly foolish. Business 101 here. You don't throw away a billion dollar brand. What you call "tired", I call 90%+ brand awareness.

(Found a 2008 study with iTunes at 82% awareness).
This has been my experience as well; Spotify is great for pop music and more mainstream things.

If one day you want a song that isn't on spotify, but it is on a free bandcamp download, the whole house of cards crumbles (for me anyway).

If I have to keep iTunes around for random songs, I start to just buy albums through that, and then I end up rarely using spotify.

Spotify has a huge selection, to be sure, and for most people it's more than enough, but there will always be someone who isn't quite covered by the catalog and they will generally just go back to using itunes / foobar / whatever.
I'm seeing continuous reload of the site with cookies disabled. At least a 'cookies required' error page would help.
Photoshop is not used primarily for editing photos in the software industry from my experience. In a world with responsive design needs vector based just gives you more versions of assets at different resolutions for less effort than any other approach.

Sure photo editing is one use for it. But much of it is in creating icons, mockups, non photo realistic things, and more.
This is a pretty expected move on Apple's part. There typical MO is to assimilate the company entirely.

The only reason Beats headphone is still around, is because it is generating revenue and will offset the cost of the acquisition. As soon as they are ready to start producing new headphones in production, you will see Beats headphones shut down quietly.
Knowing how well his bankroll can stand up to the high variance would be nice.
I'm confused by you guys saying NN's today completely ignore time? If I have a network of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons and I integrate the equations, I'm integrating over time. I'm not sure how that is ignoring it? Disclaimer: it has been about 4 years since I've written any code to integrate H-H neurons, so I might be forgetting something really obvious. :) But I can't imagine EVERYONE is ignoring time when they simulate networks of neurons.
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If I understand their situation correctly, the statutes allowing for on-demand play by Spotify are too expensive, so they negotiate direct deals to furnish their catalog. Your tastes may not be worth negotiating for!
> Psychedelics kill noone. Their LD50 is usually too high.

Drugs can kill by mechanisms other than toxicity (and this includes killing people other than the user.)
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I think the negativity comes not from the fact that Adobe bought them, but that Aviary was the main, visible competition to Adobe.

Google and Apple get panned all the time for acquisitions, what are you talking about? Did you not see the thread when Apple announced they were buying Beats? Or every other Google-acquisition thread about users bemoaning the possible shuttering of the purchased service?

People aren't hating on this acquisition because they don't like Adobe (or Yahoo), they're hating on it because it means the end of competition for the time being.
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The bet was close to even odds. Also since this was a one time bet, with the downside of (probably) him never betting again, even if it payed out 10x the money he bet, you would still want to be pretty sure you were right -- and not just "making the right bet" since the downsides far outweigh the upsides. This isn't "on a long enough timeline" bet, it is a "I need to be correct this time" bet.
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There's always more than one reason to justify the acquisition price, but surely the desire to purchase in the first play is a bit more singular? Such as wanting to jump start their streaming service in this case, and the rest is just tangential benefits.
I'm from the UK now also living in the US. Honestly I didn't really notice it until I left. Gambling has been a big part of British culture for a long time and you can bet on just about everything. This seems to be in stark contrast to the U.S. where the opportunities to gamble are far more limited.

As an example, bets on whether it will snow on Christmas Day are popular. Unusual bets are often written about in the news, e.g., http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/...
Why don't you just download the song and import it into Spotify? Spotify plays it like any other song and will even sync it with your devices like normal songs.
Crypto is only finitely strong (even if very large).
True but they are very different to betting on sports, events etc. For the lottery you hand over some money, get some random numbers and you might win (same idea with scratch cards). If you bet on say, the result of a football game, you are given odds, you can look at the statistics of both teams, and you can get a better idea of the risk. You can actually use your brain a little. Also, I think while a lot of kids would be told that gambling is bad/dangerous, and they shouldn't do it, their parents likely play the lottery and let the kids pick the numbers.
Would they need to shut the service down to rebrand it?
I don't understand how this is the most important thing one can say about this article. No remotely reasonable person would take this as an endorsement of feeding honey (or royal jelly) to an infant.
These videos already make me inordinately happy, because everything about templeos is beautiful, and having it explained is so very nice. However the most beautiful take-away from these videos to me is that Terry has a bird. :)
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As an American living in London, I have to say the betting shops come off as much more unsavory than the pub culture. Generally the pub culture seems to be enjoyed in good fun by everyone across class and age boundaries, and yeah there is the ugly side of people passed out drunk on the pavement after 11pm or young women projectile vomiting into their friends handbags on a crowded tube platform, but given the number of people out drinking it seems like more a statistical rounding error of a few people just having a bit too much fun.

The betting shops on the other hand seem disproportionately full of deadbeat layabouts night and day. Just walking down the street the front of the William Hill is the most likely place you'll see someone who appears to belong to a Dickensian London.

Anyway, that's just my first impression as a puritanical yank.
Make sure to listen to the audio clip, the button kinda blends in. They discusses some things which aren't in the text.
And an ad blocker.
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Cool. It's like the RMS version of the web (he browses by sending an email with a url to a server, which emails him back the html).