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> This reduces the possibility of false possibilities which carry a real chance of death if the police turn up to your house with guns

In 2012, German police shot at people a grand total of 36 times. 35 of those 36 incidents were pure self defense situations ("life threatening situation"), resulting in 8 people killed. One incident was a shot at a fleeing subject, resulting in injury.

There were 54 warning shots and 14 shots on physical objects (tires, doors).

2012 was not an exceptional year, the trend is generally downwards (656 cases with 109 fatalities since 1998) Oh, and unlike England police in Germany are generally armed. They just don't use those firearms except as a last, last resort.

So the "real chance of you death" because of police showing up at your door is zero. I still don't like fingerprints in my passport.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/gebrau...
Because I'm bad at writing! (I meant right-option)

You have no idea what I am doing with the esc, capslock, and control keys on the left side of my keyboard, but none of them are default.

On the right however I'm just trying to make sure I get a forward delete somewhere. In fact using Karabiner or Seil, the right shift is now shift if pressed as a modifier, but forward delete if pressed alone.
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Nothing, I was sharing another abused misquote. It seemed in the spirit.
I'll have to look it up, because I'm pretty sure they didn't find you could. They overturned the actual suppressing draft opposition.

You definitely don't have the right to directly endanger lives via "speech" - i.e. you can't claim free speech as protection for spreading false or misleading information that results in death, at least knowingly (which is more often the crux of such an argument).
The whole "single concern" analogy fell apart there. "View output: a Virtual DOM rendering of the model, and raw user input events" - it's the only component that does two things. Moreover, if this is just the virtual, unrendered DOM, where do the events come from?
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What? Sorry, still don't get it. Are you saying that using a branded Apple phone which you know they can completely control remotely is all good as long as they don't push music you don't want to it? If so, this is probably the last inch in the mile they are taking. There are lots of issues with how mobile phones operate and even specifically how Apple does them, but if we are doing the whole fight for our freedom thing, this is probably not the best place to start.
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I like the idea behind this because I am also very sensitive to that type of things. Probably over-sensitive but I just worry that if you let one thing go, it becomes a slippery slope and you then have a mess of a repo.

That being said, if you care about these things, I wonder if these checks are best left to a pre-commit hook. It removes noise from the commit history and the PRs and forces people to think about it right away, rather than being corrected after the fact.

I guess having that done on a server has the benefit of not having to worry about keeping the linters' version up-to-date/homogenous over all the devs' machines.

At work, we have JSCS (https://github.com/jscs-dev/node-jscs) and SCSS-lint (https://github.com/causes/scss-lint) as part of our pre-commit hook (on top of editor plugins) and that has been great honestly. It decreased the PR noise a lot and I feel it has been good for new hires since it avoids having the first PR comments being about style issues.

I wrote a post about how I added JSCS in the pre-commit hook by the way: http://tech.adroll.com/blog/web/2014/03/05/adding-jscs-to-yo... It should be easily extendable to other linters.
Also, people leave their fingerprints everywhere anyway.
Yes, same with DNA.
We should stop saying seize. It's "steal". It is outright theft.

Even if by some chance the people they were taking it from were doing something wrong, it is still theft because it is done as them being judge, jury and executioner.
Can I really do it?
it's something about Algorithms and problems solving.
I've just graduated from computer science, crafted some CRMs and websites with microsoft stack, the problem is, although I've programmed in C# and some other languages, most of my things were just for business, I never dealt with any algorithms, actually since August I've quieted microsoft things and started to learn C,
I love C really, but the problem is the Exercises, it takes too much to be solved, I am so weak in problem solving, and this is the main thing in this career.
I don't know where to go from here, I got some books, but the books aint teach me how to solve things,books like introduction to algorithms for example.
If i want to make it thorough these obstacles, how in your opinion should i proceed?
and should I really proceed ?
at this point i can't just leave this thing, my passion to it, drives me even if I can't be a real programmer.

* sorry for any typos
You are right about bootcamps. I think that the entry point to programming has lowered. Most everyone who goes to a decent CS program understands pointers, recursion and object oriented programming at least to some degree. (I have to admit that I needed to relearn pointers a few times) Folks who didn't start from CS programs came from Physics or Math, and picked up on the theory quickly. It's very hard to learn this stuff after college.

Today there are a lot of people "learning to code" from other backgrounds. There are Marketing majors who follow the HTML -> CSS -> JS -> Ruby path that you mention. Good for them to start the path. Picking up recursion is an advanced topic for them - and good for them. It's all relative to the starting point. And I hope many of these folks stick it out to get good, because Stanford and MIT aren't churning out enough people to satisfy the demand.
use evil or viper?
First, the line is essentially accurate. Second, when you're storing so many potentially sensitive pictures, etc you have to be at the absolute top of your game with respect to keeping private things private. Not even remotely libel.
Sorry, still clearly an artist first. Perhaps even philanthropist would be higher than "hardcore businessman".

And Bono made way less than $1.7b on Facebook. Probably well less than $100m. Possibly less than $10m.

Simple downvote.
Combine this sort of behavior with the fact that they now have unchecked surveillance powers and what do you get?
> Keep meaning to nip down to the Apple store

If you're due for an upgrade anyway, then I skip the Apple store. Instead, I'd simply order it and get that "OMG" moment when you unpack it :-)
This is an interesting categorization - somewhat like adding an axis to the political compass. Thanks.
Nock works perfectly, of course, but it's poorly optimized. The various "jets" (optimized implementations) in our runtime haven't been adequately tested and there are probably a few corner cases, errors, etc, where the behavior doesn't match. Even the new Nock runtime (I just rewrote more or less the whole interpreter) is probably a little too bound to Urbit specifically.

But the system has been self-hosting for quite some time, and there's certainly no doubt that the general approach works...
> Setup inetd on port 80 executing a small shell script /usr/local/bin/honeypot.sh

Just curious if this was vulnerable to shellshock?
I have no idea why people hate janitors so much. They do their job so you can do yours better. It's a very simple concept.
I don't think it's the same. I've also noticed that nearly all apartment complex, villa, or furniture mall advertisements feature a style that could be described as Baroque. There are markets for traditional Chinese style furnishings, but it's as if the default for new construction is European style. This is at least true in big cities. Historical ancient cities sometimes mandate all the buildings have the same traditional style. And older homes are more likely to contain more traditional Chinese art and furniture. But for young people decorating their first home it's cheaper and much more common to buy furniture that mimics Western design.
The problem with CS training is that it is too focused on algorithms and complexity analysis vs real world applications. Take the CS problem solving with a grain of salt and don't get discouraged. Knowing how to build sort algorithms or turning recursive algorithms into non-recursive ones, and backwards, hasn't been required in my 8+ year career so far, but they are good to know from a performance perspective and can help you when you're scaling things out.
States which are less likely to rob their citizens should see an influx of people and businesses. But then again, most people just assume it won't happen to them. The people that are actively managing to reduce this particular risk may not be the peeps you actually want moving in.

So I guess in a perverse way there's a disincentive to fix the problem in just certain jurisdictions.
I agree with you, but people readily throw out common sense for exact definition over the wider sense of a clause.

In this case I'm sure the word 'unreasonable' can be twisted to where-ever people gaining advantage through want should they continue to face limited resistance.
All I mean is that the cost of moving to the jurisdiction of another government is generally massive compared to the cost of switching business partners in most situations.
I wonder if this would have blown over more if iTunes had some sort of "hide album" feature from the get go? To achieve their distribution objective, I think it had to be automatically added to libraries vs being a free "download". Comparing to Taylor Swift's removing all her stuff from Spotify, this all seems rather minor.
Fair enough, I should have wrote "mainstream media".
Ah, that's what I meant by "erring on the side of keeping things simple". It is okay if you make decisions that are not optimal in the long run, but are simple since they can be torn apart.
Most console launches are supply-constrained and you can't buy one for months, so why do they charge the normal $400 price at launch when people can just buy them and resell them on Craigslist or eBay for hundreds more? If they launch at a higher price they can just ride the demand curve downhill over time by reducing the price and profit from the start.
at best, an EC2 instance is as easy to manage as anything else

If you use EC2 in a very basic way, yes. When you start to factor in things like CloudFormation, auto-scaling, elastic load balancing, route 53 DNS, IAM roles, there is a lot of just plain cool shit as part of the AWS ecosystem.
Just use Karabiner to configure Return to do double duty as Right Control.
Don't worry - the test of a system is what it can do. If we were ready to show you what it can do, we'd have released it intentionally instead of unintentionally.

It's very difficult for a language, good or bad, to compete on its own merits or even demerits. C is a better language than Pascal, but people didn't start programming in C because of that - they started programming in C because the native language of Unix was C, and they wanted to program in Unix. Why did they want to program in Unix? Because, relative to its competitors in the minicomputer OS market, Unix was a better way to solve their problems. This is the normal way that new languages achieve adoption - they ride on the back of a new platform, which rides on the back of new solutions to (typically) new problems.

Today you see a lot of apps like Buffer and Slack, which are very successful in terms of userbase and even revenue. From a certain perspective, the value these apps are adding is very minimal - Buffer is... what, cron? And yet, there is a considerable distance between an AWS box in the cloud and a Buffer instance. A lot of value actually is being added.

Most of the code in a product of this type is actually the (usually somewhat) general framework that sits between the Linux ABI and the application logic/UI. Essentially there's a type of Greenspun's Law in play. If you build a layer like this, but as a true operating environment rather than an internal framework, the result is a VM in which the distance from a virgin instance to many of these kinds of apps is much smaller. In a familiar Valley pattern, they then become commoditized and have more trouble extracting rents.

If it's possible to provide this kind of value, which we certainly haven't yet demonstrated, I can assure you quite confidently that a flashcard or two is not an obstacle. I'm in my 40s, so I know how hard it is for a middle-aged dog to learn new tricks. But it's not that hard.
Using FB to personalize news for me is probably going to yield some pretty bad results.
+1 - I can't emphasize this too strongly.
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Seems to me Jack Rimland should be prosecuted and disbarred.

And I guess it's too late to re-arrest Anthony Porter, who presumably really did do it.
Do tech's most powerful people actually get along?
I initially liked that concept, but the soon as someone started being a jerk and picked a 503(c) that represented something distasteful, the police would have political ammunition to use.

The trick is that choice must somehow be removed from the equation. I'm starting to like the federal reserve concept more since they initiate the circulation of money in the first place, they would be the most neutral party and it would be economically neutral at the national level (though it would suck money out of local economies... hmmm...).
Great post. Inspiring.
I am not a lawyer. The directors can share "inside" information with specific investors and other parties. Those parties then become "insiders" themselves and may not buy or sell shares.
Declining prices in tech are a feature, not a bug.

As I point out occasionally, storage, virtual machines, and hosting are now so cheap that the annoyance of ads may be too high a price to pay.
problem solving skill comes with experience dealing with real world problems. sometimes school alone is only part of the equation. your problem solving skills overlap with computer science knowledge, but they are also different things.

passion is more important, because if you have passion then your passion can take you from where you are now, to where you want to get to.

it takes time to become very skilled, even if you did excellent in cs. nothing is as good as experience.

so if you are passionate about it, keep at it. you won't get there tomorrow, but you'll know more than you did today. always try to re-evaluate what your doing and if most of the time it lines up with your passion, your doing better than a lot of people!
No matter how silly, there's always an apologist. Paid? Unpaid? Who cares, just note nothing is so bad there won't be one and move on.

7 words trawled from all of your combined words of everything you published and no doubt a bunch of stuff you thought was private. You just used that word too, kirsebaer and you did it because you are guilty.
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I've been looking into this line of thinking a lot for the past year. Beautiful stuff truly.
Thanks. Does your app have any server-side content (apart from user-generated content)?
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I keep reading about people saying AWS is cheap. Do these people actually use AWS? Even with price drops, it will never be as cheap as buying a machine and sticking it in a co-lo and self managing it. The problem is that's a pain in the ass.

The real reason why people use AWS is because it's convenient.
And you think the analyst who took the results of a regression analysis on 7 words has a deep theoretical and practical understanding of the statistical models used and their weaknesses. Ok. It's possible.

Would you bet your life on it? How about other people's lives on it? It's an easier bet to make but be careful that the stakes are as limited as you think they are, huh?
IRV has a problem with nonmonotonicity: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
It seems a lot of America's 'justice' takes place in the absence of a judge or jury: in the presence of a prosecutor with a plea bargain offer. At least in third world countries, the coercion and bias is in plain view.
That I was keeping my p - never mind.

It's amazing how quickly words you know lose their meanings, or rather acquire new and distinct ones, in a functional context. When the iPad was released, I remember distinctly the number of people who thought the name was funny, because it reminded them of a female hygiene product. It reminded me of a female hygiene product. But it doesn't anymore...
rtpg a lot like rpg. Clearly a terrorist. At least that's how the reasoning could go. FFS.
I'm from Romania, so it isn't just in the US. Maybe the app has problems in the UK that need to be fixed, as your zip codes are nonnumerical and you're driving on the wrong side of the road :-)

They had an update in September, so it's alive. You could contact them at support@skobbler.com … BTW, I care about them because the company may have been German but the developers were Romanians :)
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I just realized this comment is irrelevant. This is the most important bit about this article:

> We know now that the explanation was that Simon was snared in a trap set by people who wanted to end the death penalty, no matter what the cost.
They do - but arguably being forced to define the distinction between direct hierarchical references, and symbolic links, helps constrain your data model and make it more rigorous.

Note that relational databases don't have back pointers either. All references between tables are symbolic. Last century, people tried to make databases that were general pointer graphs (google "network database" or "object database") - broadly speaking, it was a disaster.
By "free" I think he means "in exchange for the right to look at your data and do profitable things with it (sell advertising, etc)"
Any reason why you went for 24% to 36% loan with friends rather than bank loan? with the turn around like that you could have also taken small business aid loan which are 12% at worst.

Also why would you pay US$ salary in India(assume)? There are lot of well funded small startup's that would staff augment you for US20$ an hour for decent programmer and you could have used remote college student for the programming after initial training.

Haven't done startup as thinking of doing in in our environment gives me jitters as I am not a very social person and gets really pissed of with govt officials. May the that was only way you had at the time.
It's incompatible, entirely, with the Constitution.

The keyword these days is extra-legal. That's half of what the government does now, and it does not care that you know it, because there is nobody powerful enough to stop such a menacing monster. The collar is off.
Looks like it was merged in on January 20th: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/13757
The first sentence above is completely false. Eliezer Yudkowsky has explicitly stated that he has nothing to do with the reactionaries, and the latest stats on the friendly AI community (as gathered at lesswrong.com) show about 2% of members are neoreactionaries. Further, with FHI at Oxford, FLI at MIT, CSER at Cambridge, the Superintelligence book being endorsed by everyone from Elon Musk, to Stephen Haking, to Morgan Freeman, calling MIRI/Friendly AI a branch of the reactionaries can't be anything else but a deliberate attempt to smear people's reputation.

I'm on the record as having several severe criticisms of EY/MIRI, but being neoreactionaries is not one of them.
You're right that the voting system implies a two-party system; it's a strong reason to consider changing the voting system to something like ranked ballot.
Some really cool points on getting started. Coding is hard and "coders" (like me) take getting started for granted. Worse, for new coders, it can sometimes feel like you need to jump to the top of the mountain rather than taking it one step at a time.

In the past, I found the best methods of picking up coding or new languages is to work on a small multi day/week project, and preferably with a friend that's just as lost as you are. It's great cause you'll have a support system in place and having two brains thinking about the same problems, which helps tremendously when treading carefully - or spontaneously (up to you :)
> I initially liked that concept, but the soon as someone started being a jerk and picked a 503(c) that represented something distasteful, the police would have political ammunition to use.

I don't really see how people choosing to donate the money to particular organizations should be any more controversial than allowing the organizations to be tax exempt in the first place.

And using the money for a governmental purpose generally is a bad idea because it causes the people responsible for making and enforcing the laws to be the ones who benefit from issuing unjustified penalties. Giving it to the federal reserve is no different; it will cause them to soak up more government paper which allows Congress to spend more money which Congress likes and thereby provides them with the perverse incentive to pass bad laws.

An interesting alternative would be to dedicate the money to something that would otherwise be chronically under-funded, like the public defender's office. Which you could then sell as criminals funding the cost of their own defense.
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I think I'm missing something. How does Apple Pay have enough info to generate the larger payload they're looking for if you add cards by typing in the number?
The answer to life the universe and everything !
aka cheaper?
First thought reading this was IP's involvement in the Adnan case (Serial). Had no idea IP was this big.
Government systems that become as large as those in the US, inevitably devolve into gangster tactics. Nothing can ever stop such an outcome, it occurs the same way throughout history. Once so many laws and regulations are on the books, all people become criminals by default; then with so much money floating around it just becomes a matter of stealing it for the people with the guns and free pass to use that force with little to no consequences.

The notion that you could give a government such extreme power, and inflate to such a vast size, and then not suffer these kinds of consequences, is worse than naive - and yet a huge number of Americans think the government needs to get larger and more powerful.
even for a single city ?
My (armchair) understanding is this isn't where you "can" and "cannot" fly - it should be viewed more as "where you don't need permission", and "where you do need permission".

The later does not mean permission cannot be obtained, only that it is required.
I worked with C, C++, and assembly -- and others -- before picking up web programming. They're just different, but people still insist on getting their egos involved anyway.

With OS and applications programming, you typically have to know a handful of concepts, but you have to know them really well. With web programming, you typically have to know a lot -- it can be an obnoxiously broad field of practice -- but you don't have to know it all perfectly well. CSS or JS or PHP or Python or Ruby or what-have-you generally immediately works or doesn't work, you generally don't encounter those annoying null ptr situations.

I doubt there are a lot of C programmers that could do web development (front and back end) very well. I doubt there are a lot of web developers that could do OS development very well.

But it's all just programming.

All of software development would be a hell of a lot better environment if people would quit waving their egos around.