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Can you please share details of what caused you to walk out? There is a lot of curiosity around USL and the toolchain she and her team have built, but my Google-fu has failed to come up with descriptions of practical experience with them. I'm struggling to decipher how different it is from UML, or what it is solving that functional approaches are not already working to address.
Amazon weaseled their way around the terms of service, Google tightened the terms in response.

It's shitty on both parts. For one thing it highlights how we're at the mercy of Google's whims. Their terms aren't a bi-lateral contract. Apple's App Store tantrums regularly make the news, but it's clear Google has exactly the same power.

For another thing, it was a pretty stupid thing to try to do for Amazon, and can be interpreted to show how desperate they are.
its a film company most of that goes on paying the talent and the subcontractors
I've been reading the Economist for 20+ years now and it never ceases to amaze me that while there is some excellent journalism, they really don't get the United States. Statements like "If America did not have 300m guns in circulation, much of this would change." show their bias, rather than having anything to do with the way the US turns everything - drugs, immigration, poverty - into a policing issue infused with violence. Does the Economist really believe that American gun ownership is a good excuse for why (in my case) rural police departments feel it necessary to be buying mine resistant vehicles? The whole situation is out of control, but like so many issues in American life, the Economist really misses the cultural and social picture.
Grand juries don't seem to correct the most egregious errors in either direction. Consider the famous assertion that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. On the other hand, consider the recent non-indictment of Darren Wilson.

How often do grand juries defy the prosecutor's wishes?

I certainly agree that a check on prosecutorial discretion is badly needed. But the grand jury system doesn't seem to be providing it.
I go shopping for a compass, then my Sonos decides it needs one too
You can buy single cigarettes in many bars. (Don't know if it's legal though.)
There's a few reasons people should use their store:

1) devs can set apps as free and there's almost always some decent stuff available for free / completely free, this is something google actively prevents by forcing free to be a permanent price change

2) you can buy 'coins' to spend on/in apps + games implementing amazon's services also give you coins back when you purchase which can give you a 20 - 30% discount all the time, this is especially great for all the expensive little kids games I get for my daughter

3) as a developer we've done over $70k in sales this year on the amazon store

The only thing it sucks at is being the only store on amazon's devices.
I assume this is an unironic post? Did you not realize you did the exact thing the article criticizes (for the good of society).
There is not much choice, either the closed Apple ecosystem or the open Google ecosystem which aggregates your data. Everything else is unpopular. Personally I use a Jolla phone but this doesn't help an app developer who needs to make money for rent and bread.
You can have my thoughts for free. They're far more useful and valuable than anything else I have.
It turned out "ever present" was the most important UX aspect.
That figure does not even place law enforcement in the top ten most dangerous professions.
sounds like more direct key lookups. I can definitely believe mongo is suited for that particular use case, but I'm super sceptical about it being used as a general data store.
No. What I'm suggesting is that in cases of alleged homicide and other grave matters, the case go directly to trial regardless of what the prosecutor wants. In other words, if a case were to go to a grand jury, that's skipped and it goes directly to trial. Thus, all the police homicide cases of recent would be in or be going to trial. If the prosecutor doesn't want to try it, bring in an outside prosecutor whose buddies aren't the cops who killed the victim.
In the US, you need to shoot to kill, because living men talk and sue you.

I had a cousin who retired as an NYPD Patrol Sergeant. He was proud that he had never fired and rarely pulled his pistol over the course of a 40 year career. But he sure as hell cracked his share of bones with a baton.
The actual title of this article is "America's Police on Trial" so I don't think this editorial is trying to apply itself to every area of US law.

They qualify the above statement in the prior paragraph: "One reason why so many American police shoot first is that so many American civilians are armed."
Here's the article, entitled "Your Guide To Good-Enough Compliance":

http://www.cio.com/article/2439324/risk-management/your-guid...

where he basically advocates cutting corners and doing the bare minimum. It shouldn't be the security executive's job to save a buck and brag about it, yet this is probably the precise mentality that allowed him to move up the ladder.

How'd that work out for you, Sony?
Needing to present a cogent argument for whatever point you've chosen to make, sure. Being told to rip apart someone else's argument just for the purpose of disagreeing? Never.
And this is why I did not give my phone number to facebook and why I use a different email for everything.

It's unfortunate that keeping one's privacy requires a lot of knowledge and work.
On the topic of negative comments, this article prompts me to leave what the author assuredly would consider one. Frankly, if our society fails in education it's that students make it through without acquiring critical thinking skills.

The idea that we are critical because "it’s so much easier to challenge other people’s thinking than our own" is hard to take. If anything, this speaks to a failure to be self-critical more than a surplus of outward negativity.

More generally, I'm frustrated by what I see as an increasing tendency of people to parse the world into "positive" and "negative". This by itself speaks to a lack of truly critical thinking.

Further, I believe that the idea that critically taking apart other ideas is somehow a fundamentally distinct activity from developing one's own ideas is incorrect. In mathematics you develop ideas precisely by searching for what might be unsatisfying in the arguments and theories of others. And most successful start-ups seem to have some roots in looking at how what others are doing is sub-optimal.
Is that visible via NoScript?
"mainly due to licensing fees."

I did that a bit more than decade ago with misterhouse using linux on my basement fileserver and X10 devices. Now I'd use insteon because its transport protocol is more reliable. AFAIK there are no license fees.

The expense is in labor. Set up and aiming IR sensors takes more time than writing the "program" for misterhouse. The inevitable labor expense of troubleshooting and fine tuning is huge. This is the main limiter for my own home automation. In the long run controlling my tropical fish tank and the security sensor lights that light the walk from my garage to the house pays off. My hallway to the bathroom doesn't pay off for labor. I hooked up the basement door sensor and got it to work and still haven't hooked up or automated the basement stairs light yet. Its a labor cost thing.

There are also severe depreciation/lifespan issues... a lot of non-automated hardware is designed, built, installed and paid for on the assumption of a 20-30 year working life. Most of the "new wave" of home automation is built to last till the runway runs out or the aquihire, maybe a year lets say. In the long run that is not going to help the entire market.
When people fixate on the untaxed ciagarettes thing, what's often going on is an implicit assumption that once someone has an interaction with the police, it's just inevitable that the police will summarily execute them.

That's stupid. We can debate the laws too, but you should be demanding police that enforce the laws with due process and respond to threats proportionally. If you're thinking, "well, once the police suspect someone of violating regulations, of course they're going to kill him" then we're never going to get anywhere.
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You're right, my explanation was technically inaccurate. However, the terminal velocity of a bullet due to gravity is still easily enough to kill someone (and does kill every year from people "celebrating" this way), so my point still stands.
I would love to see such regulation appear. The recent chip and pin law also states that the one liable is the one with the least security. I also think that's a brilliant way to do it. Don't want to be liable? Then you better have the more modern security system.

I also like the idea of outsourcing the security/storing of data. Then we'd have companies that become real experts at that, and all the "idiots" would default to using those companies, instead of doing it themselves, poorly.
You postal code, name and the expiration date on your card is enough to positively ID you in many consumer databases, and by giving it to the retailer you're implicitly granting consent for its use for this purpose.
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> how involved are cantons in telecom regulation, access issues (back haul) etc.?

They aren't. I also wouldn't compare a Swiss canton to a US state - Switzerland in total is about as large and about as populated as an average US state - which is true for most
many European contries. So IMO it's a better comparison to just look at Europe as a whole and you'll probably find much more regulatory grind for the carriers. And yes, of the three Swiss carriers only one is domestic only, so the others deal with this vast landscape of regulations just fine.

So to conclude I don't see how regulations are the problem - the US with a more centralistic system than Europe as a whole should do better there. My suspicion is that because the US regulations can be influenced at the federal level, it's just much easier for Big Corp. to pour lots of money into lobbying to get their way. In European countries you (a) don't get as much ROI and (b) the political system doesn't lend itself as much to it because there is a more diverse party landscape in almost all European nations, so you would have to deal with more people to get a majority. This is why I think that the US needs two things politically:

1) a switch to a more proportional election system in order to break gerrymandering and the two-party system.

2) decentralisation for industry regulations.

Both these would lead to more difficult lobbying and it has better political representation as a nice 'side effect'.
Yes, people who find themselves in poor health through their own repeated deleterious actions should have their treatment prioritized below that of those whose conditions result from chance or circumstances outside their control.

Further, your uninformed opinion excludes people like myself who are thin but diabetic (type 2). It also excludes people who have LADA 1.5.

The parent comment specifically stated that only the majority, not the entirety, of people with such conditions have them because of voluntary actions. Stop lying.
My uncle's friend was an engineering sales type decades back.. I think worked for IBM. Had something to do with laying cables in Berkeley. He recommended I do a similar thing after a while because of the reasons you listed.
"I personally don't want to carry my smartphone around all the time though"

There is an interesting cultural phenomena where a significant fraction of the population agrees with us, and another significant fraction thinks we're completely crazy, and the two groups do not believe the opposite party exists.
I don't see how this sort of thing can be realistically prevented with today's software. I just don't. Yes, the damage can be limited through better IT practices, but at some point everyone needs to have access to their relatively recent email and access to their files germane to their projects, and that need won't go away. And as long as our laughably porous networks and operating systems and application software can be penetrated at will by a targeted attack, those emails and files will be vulnerable.

We need to start over. From the kernel on up. Until then, all we can hope for is band-aids like Qubes. And after we get there, we'll mostly have the hardware to fear. Not sure how addressable that part is, but it would be better than where we are now.
Half of All Kids Are Traumatized – The Atlantic
I think this issue has many aspects, some of which are very political and polarizing, as well as your mundane issues.

First, police often act with worst case scenarios in mind. That is err on the side of the suspect inflicting immediate harm. Why? Because oftentimes proven offenders actually had arms. Now, the UK, Japan, the police may not be any nicer but they have the privilege of correctly presuming suspects are unarmed.

As Americans i don't think we'll get to a place where arms are well regulated, so I think other options will be necessary. Training in defusing confrontations, perhaps sending in officers in exoskeletons and armor. Something which allows for the suspect to actually intend harm but unable to execute on the officer. That way police don't feel they have to err on the side of safety given the propensity of arms in The US.

The police are trained to neutralize a suspect rather than "wing" them. I think it has to do with how "baddies" can have actual firearms whereas in many other countries firearms are heavily regulated for the general pop.

In any event, the police and the general pop need to be able to feel more at ease with each other otherwise we'll be on our way to judge dredd and that's not a good path.
>I'd like to know why you are stuck

Education is holding me back, I started working at a newspaper when I turned 20 as a Graphic Designer, moved to IT, then to the Web Department. Fast forward 9 years, now my position is mash up of all of these. Everything I have learned has been self taught, I feel like a Jack of all traits master of none. I feel I lack a solid foundation on the fundamentals.

>How do you think you can get out of it.

Honestly I don't know if I can get out of it without putting my life on hold. Which, I can't since I'm pretty much paycheck to paycheck and about to get married. I'm currently trying to teach my self Java to add to my tool chain. (html, css, javascript, php). I'm hoping I can collect enough skills that if I do apply for another job my lack of education will not hurt my chances so much.

>What keeps you there?

The steady income.

>Benefits?

We have them, but definitely not here for them.

>Pay?

Awful, I'm a couple of dollars over an In-N-Out burger flipper.
I'm on the Central Coast in California, not many tech jobs around)

>The job is easy?

After 9 years it better be. :-)
Am I wrong, or does this contradict all the recent research about fat actually not causing obesity.
http://www.businessinsider.com/experts-eat-more-fat-2014-10
Running to the Press
Also because companies try to remove all liability of their own when you sign the contract with them. Didn't both Sony and Microsoft update their EULAs so that you can't sue them - like at all? Sure, stuff like this may not hold in Court. But it may. Or at least it makes it extremely difficult to have someone sue them.
That's why its "corporate karma".
Film critics almost never do what online pseudonymous posters do; invariably, in every thread on HN, the top comment shits on the article. Film critics love film- they try to get others to go watch the films they love (or at least read their articles). The HN top comment just functions to show how smart the poster is.
This inspired me to build a similar tool which runs javascript instead.

https://github.com/aynik/sx
I'm getting to the point where I can't stand local law enforcement. Combined with local governments, courts, and other entities, it just seems like a big racket to keep money flowing.

Yesterday, I was pulled over for not buckling my seatbelt until 2 blocks after pulling out of a parking spot. Turns out I had an unresolved fix-it ticket from 2013 which caused my license to be suspended (had no idea). CHP officer accused me of lying to him (I wasn't) and immediately impounded my car. Getting my car back took visits from 4 places (court, dmv, CHP office, tow yard) with fees at every turn.

I can't imagine how bad it is for people living in larger cities.
New Bill Allows Spying on Citizens, Data Sharing WithLaw Enforcement
Today the House passed, by voice vote (no record kept) a intelligence reauthorization bill which contains a provision (inserted late last night) that statutorily authorizes spying on U.S. citizens without legal process. The bill also allows the intelligence agencies to pass information to law enforcement agencies without a court order.

So now all communications (and possibly actions) are open to the surveillance and scrutiny of _both_ the federal government and to law enforcement.

https://www.facebook.com/repjustinamash/posts/812569822115759?_fb_noscript=1
> The other option is to leave decisions to charge somebody up to the prosecutors themselves.

The decision to charge essentially is up to the prosecutor; the grand jury process for felonies essentially plays an analogous role to the preliminary hearing for misdemeanors, in that it establishes probable cause and allows the case to continue. The difference is that, while felonies are notionally more serious crimes with more at risk, defendants actually have the right to be represented at present evidence at preliminary hearings, while they are entitled to neither for grand jury proceedings. (And that preliminary hearings are before a judge, rather than a grand jury.)

So, the alternative to grand juries doesn't give prosecutors more power, it gives them less. But it still doesn't reduce their ability to refrain prosecuting offenses. You can't do that unless you do something like allow court-appointed independent prosecutors on a citizen complaint with sufficient evidence where the public prosecutor declines to prosecute.
Take a look at TXR: http://www.nongnu.org/txr/

The link was posted on HN some time ago and was generally well received. I didn't have the time to use it much yet, but it looks very nice. Well, unless you hate lisp.
> What I'm suggesting is that in cases of alleged homicide and other grave matters, the case go directly to trial regardless of what the prosecutor wants.

How can you have a trial with no one prosecuting?
OCR could be very exciting...I'll be interested to see how that works. That said, I'm not quite sure what the value-add would be. Full-text search isn't super-handy. Searching by musical phrase would be nice, but very hard to make user-friendly. If it automatically parsed out the title and composer that'd also be cool (especially when I upload a 64-tune collection), but from a ML perspective that's not entirely easy.

I wish the website remembered my login.

For my taste the upload form is too cutesy. The faux iPad is a bit much (and makes the site seem very tablet-centric, when in fact it works fine in any browser), there's a lot of real estate devoted to each file and yet somehow they look cluttered, showing PDF in huge letters isn't really necessary when the file extension is shown (and the hover effect makes it seem clickable when it's not), and most importantly there's no obvious way to exit the form—it was a leap of faith to just go to a new page and assume everything had been uploaded correctly. Also, "Remove file" doesn't seem to work—files removed from the upload form (that had already been uploaded) still show up in my library. And then there's no way to delete them from the Web UI.

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I realize I have a specific use case, but the ideal for me would be to snap a picture of a tune I have in a music book, have your OCR magic autofill the title and composer, and let me slap some tags on it. Once that happens I'll become an active user up until I have a personal crisis regarding whether I want to pay $9/month for that or not. But as it stands right now, it really does just feel like an unpolished version of Dropbox
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Nor it should? I wouldn't want policemen to have the same death on the job as say loggers, if only because you don't want policemen to be reckless/desperate by nature.
Anyway, my observation was that ratio it isn't usually expose in pieces I read from other sources :)
Google releases Cardboard VR viewer specs and SDKs
I fell in love with Perl 3 over twenty years ago and loved how it took the best parts of both awk and sed and added extra features while making the overall syntax more consistent. Ironically, the consistency of Perl's syntax in those days (vs having to remember awk, sed, and other somewhat overlapping tools, each with its own awkward syntax) made it an amazingly convenient super-tool for stream processing. Perl 4 came along almost immediately, and I couldn't believe how powerful those little "Perl one-liners" could be.

With Perl 5, Perl essentially repositioned itself as a full-blown, general-purpose programming language, with all the power that entailed, but still stuck with a syntax based on essentially trying to be a more powerful and consistent superset of sed and awk.

These days, I think we could do a lot better with a stream processor with the stream-processing focus and one-liner power of Perl 4 but without the needless (these days) constraint of retaining the syntactic hash of ancient unix utilities.
For anyone with the ability to govern what they eat, obesity is always a choice. Trying my damnedest on the day of an exam and really wanting to pass is not the measure of whether I chose to pass the exam but, rather, how I prepared myself in the time preceding.
Considering the menu option wasn't there for a long time, and was trivially removed from the new app, I don't see how anyone could argue it was the primary purpose.
I was on a remote position for several years, maintaining code written by several other developers over the course of 10 years, poorly written and no spec in sight. I sincerely tried to move it forward to current standards, one bit at a time. It improved a bit for a while but from the distance it was a mess and I doubt some of the improvements will ever get deployed.

I went to a lot of stress during that period, but on the other hand it felt comfortable, sharing only a few hours of the day to touchbase gave me freedom to organize the time with the family, there were not many challenges other than managing a big ball of mud, and the hourly rate was much better than my colleagues did working on-site.

On the other hand, there was no prospect of new challenges, or technologies or salary, this was a small business. I did some side projects recently and it gave me confidence to move forward: there were many other companies willing to work remotely with newer technologies and with a better rate.
Do they not send you a letter or something when they suspend your licence? It seems strange that they would do it without you knowing.

For the future: belt up before turning on the ignition. Seat belts save lives.
“Comcast is committed to a free and open internet”
I prefer: "Aziz! Light!"
Automobile accidents, are by far the most lethal part of US life outside of disease. This is no different for police officers.
A rationalist's guide to psychoactive drugs (2011)
Can't say I blame the cop for any of that. 2 blocks is plenty long enough to get into an accident. And he has no other choice if you're driving on a suspended license.