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I'm well underway on a large React app using Reflux for my flux implementation and I'm loving it. It removes just enough boilerplate and adds just enough sugar to keep your flux app sane. The string based event comparison in Flux's dispatcher just didn't feel right to me. Reflux actions act as their own dispatchers and works out great.
Unless you happen to have a child named Alexa.....
Yes but the way mozilla has chosen to implement this is to send the code over the wire based on the clients UA. So if a method doesn't exist that should exist the client will never receive it.

It would be cool if they allowed you to disable this feature, and just use feature detection and always load the code for the requested item.
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I think you are seriously underestimating the modern electrical grid. This is a control room that controls high voltage lines in the Midwest:

http://www.chronicletimes.com/photos/17/86/19/1786193-H.jpg

Ok you don't have to worry about torrents but people expect pretty much 100% uptime on electrical service and you are dealing with transmitting an insane amount of energy which is technically non-trivial and can be extremely dangerous. You have to worry about power plant failure, maintenance, load balancing renewable and fossil fuels, meeting peak demands(rather than just slowing down everyone) and so on.
It's part of a greater collection of evidence. Evidence doesn't have to be mathematical proof.

A common theme (from what I can tell in law) is that something can never be proven to the rigor of a mathematician, so what happens is you build up piles of "coincidences" until a reasonable person would be hard-pressed to believe they are only coincidence.
Hi all! I changed the return field's name to 'generated_text' for clarity! I can't edit the original post, sorry for the confusion.
Yes, transmission is triggered on-chip

That's irrelevant. That's merely one of the possibly ways that triggers transmission, but not necessarily the only way. Do we know that remote triggering over the network (perhaps implemented for testing) isn't possible?
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Here is a video explaining some developments in the area of community rights by the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmJS6sjBbHg
...or to post a basis for reasonable suspicion on their social media accounts.
The difference though is 'seizing the website' versus 'seizing the person running the website'. What surprises me is that US citizens, knowing they live in an undeclared police state, take the risk of starting up high profile web businesses. It would be like Kim Dotcom moving to Florida to run Mega.
I don't how much different the echo is compared to a cell phone microphone, which has been around for quite a while, have been designed for hands free conversations and have had modes to activate the microphone when not in a call for quite a while.

The echo has a better mic and is guaranteed to not be in a pocket, but that isn't the multiple order of magnitude difference that the cell phone has brought to dragnet surveillance.
Let’s Call the Amazon Echo What It Is
It's quite common to go to open houses without an agent or to ask the sellers agent to show you around.

What that sellers agent was telling you sounds illegal, and I'd be very surprised if they wouldn't show you the house if you insisted on not having another agent there. They have a fiduciary duty to get offers and show all of them to the seller they are representing.
Children generally don't enunciate as clearly as adults. Their speech is more difficult for a computer (or a human who doesn't know the language well!) to understand.
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When did IaaS/PaaS/SaaS products become part of the "stack?"
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Precisely. Recruiters ask to ensure that there is at least a "ballpark" match up before proceeding -- it would be a waste of your and the hiring team's time to interview you if your salary requirements are outside of their budget.

I can understand how some may be hesitant to offer this info up since it is considered sensitive in many cultures, but I have no problem doing so. I understand that there is no malicious or malevolent intent in their request for this info (at least, there rarely is...).
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If you're paying $90/month for just the 50mbps (no TV) then I recommend you call and be utterly furious. When they attempted to bump me to that price it took a phone call and insisting on escalations through 4 people but here I am- back at $40/month where I started a few years ago.

The first several people you get on the phone will tell you there's nothing you can do, just ask to be elevated to "somebody useful". It's rude but it's the game they force you to play, so go in swinging.
How is it different from installing a random program on your computer? That would also have microphone access and could in theory spy on you.
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I wrote a really long ass post about how naive your line of thinking is, but I decided against posting it.

Do yourself a huge favor and pick a god damn book. I suggest 1984 by George Orwell.
We prefer to say please don't. :)
Google doesnt: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%F0%9F%8D%85
I tried to add list comprehension to Ruby. You won't believe what happened next
Doesn't mean the NSA or Chinese equivalent won't figure out how to hack Echo to plant a little piece of stealthware on it that records all conversations of suspects in "terrorism related" investigations. Such stealthware might get detected once or twice (though not often-- it won't be ubiquitous), but such detections will easily covered up by forcing Amazon to announce a rare and obscure firmware bug backstory. Actually, come to think of it, with proper contextual targeting, such stealthware wouldn't even need to send full conversations. Just wait for detection of "the meeting" or "the rally" and boom spend off all the info you need to effectively disrupt pro-democracy rallies in Hong Kong.
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A bunch of people who infiltrated the mob are now infitrating groups of nerds in basements. It's frustratingly hilarious.

Why? Generally speaking, crime is crime, whether or not you wear a trenchcoat & fedora.

There is perhaps some humor in operatives who went up against the mob now going after small fish which must seem like easy pickings to them, but it's the "frustrating" part that I don't follow.
You don't hear of Amazon but you hear of their customers. Dropbox is on AWS for example.
That's not how english works. That's not a double negative.
https://www.feedsapi.org/

It's an all-in-one realtime monitoring and curation SaaS. Here are some of the cool things you can do with it:

* Turn shortened RSS feeds to Full Text RSS Feeds

* Curate feeds based on Keywords and ReGex

* Convert RSS to JSON on the fly and via an API

* Push RSS News alerts to any emaik inbox in real-time and a couple of other cool things.
Oh, neat. This will save me ~5 minutes of recon time if I ever need to do a pen-test for any of the companies that are submitted here. ;)
Ha, you should be a screenwriter.
there's a button on top to turn the listening feature off
Those are great news!
the government's paranoia a fear of alleged domestic and foreign threats to our safety, well-being, way of life, etc.

Ostensibly. In real life these powers have been used for all sorts of activities outside this sort of apparently existential threat - for example spying on lawyers in civil rights cases. It's not clear they are useful against well-organised terror, that terror is actually the existential threat you seem to think it is, or that any usefulness outweighs their dramatic effect on our civil society.

Your fear of the extremely unlikely event of you being killed in a terror attack is being used to blind you to the other consequences of surveillance.

while the people's paranoia is that the NSA knows what I ate for breakfast.

False. The people's paranoia is that these powers will be used to spy on innocents who are rightly or wrongly suspected of any sort of wrongdoing, collect their communications with their politicians, lawyers, and accountants, and undermine the very democracy and open society spy agencies claim to be defending.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/intelligence-ag...

You don't have a choice about this, it's already happening, with or without your consent, because our spy agencies are determined to dominate every aspect of your digital life.
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Interesting idea. This is kind of like Quirky (https://www.quirky.com), but instead of collaborative production of consumer products, it's creating software.

I read through the "Our Story" page, but I still couldn't figure out whether Assembly is organized as a true cooperative (100% member-owned). I see a "Shared Ownership" bullet point, but there's nothing explicit about it being a co-op.
Following through to a forum post with more info reveals Winamp has indeed been sold on:

> As you all surely know by now, Winamp & SHOUTcast have recently changed ownership (from AOL to Radionomy).

The winamp.com website is currently undergoing heavy work and an almost-completely new redesign.
As a result, many features will be unavailable, including some in-client services.

The Winamp downloads and Winamp Pro purchases will also be temporarily unavailable
whilst code licensed to/by the previous owner is removed/replaced.

We hope to have everything restored and back in working order as soon as possible,
and we apologize for any inconvenience caused in the meantime.

Watch this thread for any further updates.
>>Law enforcement absolutely includes an element of making examples, and deterring crime.

It is very sad that you believe that... Sad indeed.

>>Not quite sure what this has to do with democracy.

It has everything to do with "democracy" which is mob rule, the FBI is the attack dog of the mob (aka the people) which has deemed running an unapproved website results in a life time of sadistic treatment in a human filled zoo where humans are locked in a small cages and emotionally tortured, we call them "prisons"
> That so many communities failed to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems still amazes me.

What? NetBSD most certainly didn't fail to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems. These boards lacked SMP support because SMP support is a lot of work, every chip is different (unlike x64), very few people know how to work on this, there are very few people working on the NetBSD kernel, and most chips don't have open documentation.

You make it sound like these people were like "SMP... shit, who needs this?".
It was a minor work: building a wall, over two or three days, in an individual's house. It was considered basic hospitality to offer some beverage to workers (sherry or beer) on top of the negotiated pay.

As the king you should know local customs, shouldn't you? ;-)

I wouldn't recommend including this kind of perk in the official builders guild code. But honestly, at that rate of physical activity with sudoration and deep breath, alcohol had little noticeable effect and for a very short time.

Also I was doing pawn work (not sure how to translate to English) that's very simple and not dangerous.

Edit: I did work for months delivering beer to bars and little shops with a truck. That was also very continuous work: you were either downloading beer cases or barrels from the truck, very physical work or driving or filling the invoices... to complete the route on time, you could stop very little. Of course nothing that could be called slacking and no alcohol. But mostly everybody got wasted Friday afternoons after work.
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Bitnami launchpad for Google Cloud
Evidence is all about correlation. You won't ever find direct causation in a court case.

That's what a jury is for.
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It's insane that conservative Christian marketing and lobbying has made human trafficking synonymous with sex trafficking, which accounts for a miniscule portion of it.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-...

The cartels completely control passage over the southern border, which I'm pretty sure is more lucrative than all of US prostitution combined (although I'd be happy to be corrected.)
There's no way this thing has the power to do adequate voice recognition on device for arbitray speakers and queries, even given a limited domain. It's sending everything to Amazon for processing. The only thing it probably recognizes by itself is "Alexa."
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I'm not saying a desire for privacy is paranoid, but the assumption that the government will engage in passive monitoring and archival of everything that can be captured through the microphone and use it as leverage later, even if it doesn't involve criminal liability, eg 'assist us without nefarious purpose or we will use something we recorded to cause you acute embarrassment with devastating social consequences.' I'm not saying this won't happen, but that it won't happen enough for most people to care.

But to address the gist of what you say, I think you assume an understanding of data security that is far beyond most end users.

I don't think I do. I've met plenty of non-technical people who worry about the possibility that their phone could record them when its swtiched off or suchlike - you don't need to understand how something functions in order to understand its potential as an instrumentality. But unless you have a fundamentally antagonist view of government (which most people in the US don't) then there's little overlap between the set of 'stuff the government could do me' and that of 'stuff that would advance the government's purpose' for the average person. This is what I mean when I say most people don't feel culpable enough; there isn't anything sufficiently illegal going on in their lives that they perceive a significant government interest in intruding upon them in the first place.

When I talk about paranoia I mean the idea that government is going to fuck with you no matter how blameless of a life you lead, and that the more blameless you are the less leverage you will have to push back against the inevitable intrusion. In other words, they overestimate the probability of oppression just as optimistic or authoritarian people may underestimate it, depending on context. While that possibility certainly exists, I think something like this Amazon product only marginally increases it because anyone who buys this probably already has a smartphone and keeps it close by at all times already.
I can totally see some CFO getting fired over this. For being NOT on the list.
UFO OVER IRAN,? SPYING?
Someone needs to film this.
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Exactly. Casual conversation won't be sent up; only commands.
This all reminds me of "AutoPC" from Clarion in the late 90's[1]. A friend of mine had it in his truck, it truly was amazing at the time -- he could make phone calls, play music, render maps on his display, you name it, all hands free on a tiny little SH-3 processor running windows CE (yes, remember that?!) under his seat.

It's sad it really hasn't progressed very far -- Essentially, we've moved on to cloud-hosted audio analytics to handle better speech recognition, but the usage of the thing really hasn't changed.

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/Clarion-to-build-AutoPC-using-MS-softwa...
Marketplaces work much better at scale. And entrepreneurs do better the more they are connected with their markets. So from the government perspective, 100 kittens is way better than 1 lion.

The government doesn't have to make these disappear. They just have to increase the perceived risk and decrease their effectiveness until they're no better than buying on well-known corners or getting the phone number of that one friend's friend's friend.

That's mainly because drug practical prohibition activity is about suppression, not elimination. But I think it's worth noting that cops get paid to fight crime, not defeat it. As a general rule, I expect long-lived organizations to act in ways that self-sustain.
Now let's cancel out the double negative ("not", and "not") in what you said:

> That's how english works. That's a double negative.

Exactly!
That's what makes prohibition so ugly. It's like YCombinator for psychopaths.

Combine that with the psychological acclimatization that it offers and it gets even uglier. It creates this on-boarding process for hell. Dealing drugs really isn't wrong in most cases -- it's a voluntary activity. It only gets morally questionable when you start "pushing" and doing so with addictive substances. But it is illegal, and doing it lands you in a world of people who flout the law and commit other crimes as well. Once you're in that world you're apt to pick up a taste for other kinds of illegal activity that really does involve hurting people, especially if you are at all psychologically prone to amoral behavior. In some cases this can take people all the way to unspeakable evils like trafficking children for sex slavery or contract murder.

Prohibition is an unambiguous social evil. Anyone who still argues for it is either corrupt, ignorant, delusional, or simply hasn't thought about it very much.
Disabling a critical part of a website breaks said website. How about that.

I bet if you disallow images the site renders poorly, too.

Maybe disallow the letter "e" and see what happens.
There's a very different dynamic going on in most tech markets. A customer's purchasing decision is binary (either buy this product or that product), there are few if any geographic or physical barriers to adoption, and most markets have only a handful of incumbents.

That means that when your product becomes appreciably better than the substitutes that are already out there, there are no throttles to growth other than what you put in place yourself. Customers switch en-masse from one product to another, as soon as they hear about it, and don't stop switching until the old product is dead and the new one is a giant company.

That's why it takes a lot of work to get to product/market fit (which is nothing more or less than your product being noticeably better than all existing substitutes in the market), but once you have it the company will take off like a rocketship, and investors are willing to pay valuations in the billions. Because all you need to do then is maintain your lead, which is a lot easier when you have billions in capital coming in. The growth doesn't stop until you've saturated the market, which is why the other number investors care about is Total Addressable Market.

This is also why companies like Google and Facebook spend thousands of engineer hours on incremental gains that seem trivial. They want to put as much distance between themselves and any potential competitors as possible, so that nobody bothers trying or they run out of money long before they get close.

Far from quality going out the window, these stratospheric growth rates are proxies for quality - at least as measured by the consumer. What an investor is looking for is whether your company is, in the eyes of many other people, producing enough value that they choose to use it.
Once everybody has it, it will be easy to pinpoint the few without one as the people with something to hide.
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I'm not sure if they did, "in this investigation".

I was commenting more on the general tone of US agencies, since the PATRIOT ACT, and their contradictions of what is breaking the law when it applies to them vs. whomever they are investigating.
"You are tied to a particular version of the LLVM API at compile time."

In what pretty terms these thoughts are put!
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> well, I can always unplug it.

And how long until this is the norm and we stop even talking about the privacy implications? How long after that point the notion of privacy stops existing?
Hah. After reading this, I really kind of want Amazon to release a version of this that looks like HAL. They should embrace their dark side.
What if we will start paying employees based on their skills?

What if some of the companies are already doing it but are bullied by organizations dealing with pay gaps? Should company increase pay to women and minorities just to fix their numbers? Wouldn't that be genderism and racism?
I would guess it's A9 http://a9.com/whatwedo/
Actually it's the other way around. We (as consumers) should have a word with them.
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Has anyone really thought iTune's UI design was ever good?
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Well it looks like Amazon just did the market research for anyone that's wanted to make an open source version of this.

Like these guys have:
http://jasperproject.github.io/

I've had this idea sitting in the back of my brain for years, worked up some simple prototypes (just using computer's mic), the technology is already there and surprisingly simple (made simple for the layman by brilliant people)...
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Any luck with those photos reboot? I'm building a desk myself and have found that a shorter desk than typical has been a game changer for rsi issues I had. Would be very interested in seeing what you've done.
While the roundabout trip would be a waste, it shouldn't be hard to just include a quick and simple feature detection before the polyfill is injected. I don't see any reason why one wouldn't do it.
You might be interested in https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/ng-token-auth and https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth, which together collect (what seem to be) best practices for both frontend and backend for token authentication. We're planning on using it for our startup.
I think we're saying that most modern polyfills do a feature check before installing the polyfill... thus if you use Chrome with an IE agent, the polyfill still checks before implementing -- it's just a little slower than not installing the polyfill to begin with. Anyway, given the percentage of people who do this, UA detection seems like an acceptable tradeoff.
I'm sure a few people thought the same about smart phones.
Right, so it sends the commands that you give it only after it recognizes a pre-programmed word. It will likely not send up casual conversation surrounding the command, as there would not be a non-nefarious reason to do that.
You certainly can if you knowingly target the drug market and make a commission off each sale.
E-Commerce Home Ordering?

This tube despite the music streaming features, is a novel vector for ordering products online. If it was water proof, I'd use it in the shower.
That's not the worst of it - the criminal complaint mentions that the server was registered to the email address blake@benthall.net. If that's not a giant "hey, feds, come and get me", I don't know what is.

It also mentions that most of the accounts (Bitcoin wallet and other) that he used were all under his real name.
works incredibly well. a fantastic idea.

you should sign your work! Drop at least a link to your twitter at the bottom, this is a great tool.
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So CoderWall is their first product and I did a little fishing and 1 guy is doing all the coding as I suspected ...

https://github.com/assemblymade/coderwall/pulse/monthly

And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would.

Too Little incentive for the kind of people you need in a startup.