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This incident highlights dangers of centralized information distribution brought to us by social networks - being a single point of control they present attractive target for pressure by censors of all kinds, be it dictator regimes, powerful corporations in the west, etc. It's not unlike Napster - there is a lot of benefit to everyone being in one place, but far too easy to subvert. The solution to Facebook censorship will likely take a similar path - gradual decentralization.
Which begs the question: What was it that put GMAC into bankruptcy, financing and insuring* its own vehicles, or its unrelated operations.

* Which would have the fortunate side-effect of encouraging its parent to develop safer cars
> God, I want to short my codebase so hard.

Invest in your competitor.
This is a pretty poor write up.

"The government's argument is that, as the site's alleged administrator, Dread Pirate Roberts, anything that occurred there is his fault."

The government's argument is that Ulbricht, as the alleged administrator of the site who was not only fully aware of what was happening, but was designing and tailoring the site to facilitate illegal behavior, courting dealers/criminals to the site, and profiting from the illegal activity he facilitated, so he was engaged in a criminal conspiracy. "Anything that occurred there is his fault" is a ludicrous misrepresentation of what an accusation of criminal conspiracy means.

Also with that pile of evidence, esp. finding him logged in as the admin. while arresting him, it's looking completely unlikely that Ulbricht would not be found guilty, esp. with the completely inept/absurd responses by the defense team.
I wish you would have just stuck to the subject instead of picking on grammar.

You have a good comment regarding the technology, but wrapping it in with the comment about grammar just added a bunch of noise. Try not doing that next time and see what happens. I guarantee you that the conversation as a whole will be much better.
"The latest in the pile of studies to show as much found that over 95 percent of corporate networks were hacked between last October and March..."

The single cited study was done by FireEye, which sells security products and services. They have an incentive to exaggerate the problem, since their business depends on the existence of threats.

"...which contrasts with the precisely zero times one of industry’s top three providers reported a major breach since Amazon started the club in 2006."

The lack of reporting doesn't imply a lack of incidents. Since reporting breaches would result in negative publicity for both the cloud providers and their customers, we'd expect them to keep quiet.
While Gilead is already fairly close to recouping their buyout money, they are charging even more for Harvoni.

What do you mean? They paid $11B for PharmAsset. Then they had to spend more money to get Sovaldi through phase 3 clinical trials, then they had to spend money to get ready to launch the drug, etc, etc.

Right now they've made ~$10B on Sovaldi. That's gross, not net. Take out all the costs of those sales and it's like around 30-50%. So they've made $3-5B in profit, but spent $15B-$20B to get the drug to market.

They aren't even close to breaking even yet.
And the response was a great illustration of your point. Nice self-documenting experiment :)
Ehhh, the analogy doesn't hold totally because you might not have to pay it back. In that case you're ahead. FTA:

Call options are a better model than debt for cruddy code (without tests) because they capture the unpredictability of what we do. If I slap in an a feature without cleaning up then I get the benefit immediately, I collect the premium. If I never see that code again, then I’m ahead and, in retrospect, it would have been foolish to have spent time cleaning it up.
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Hmmm...
It probably needs to be updated to avoid this recursion:

http://nt.gd/bwsdk
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http://www.ptc.com/product/creo/elements

largely written in a few million lines of Lisp...
Except, from what I hear, Facebook itself blocked it for all the users registered in Russia, so TOR can't help you.
Your point is of course correct within the confines of the current market system. Is the current system moral though? I would argue it isn't. The system is designed to bolster the rich's coffers (countries) and getting rich people healthy, whilst poor countries are unable to pay.

These countries can't afford to pay for such investment. The capital imbalance is just huge.

Here's my take on this: any drug that is developed by country A has to sell that drug at a rate related to countries B's GDP ratio to A, or allow an open generic license to country B. Thus, should a firm decide to charge $1000 a pill in the US, they have to charge a proportionate and fairer amount to a country like Bangladesh.

Whether better access to health services and drugs, many of these third world countries would start to move out of the more that they are currently in. Of course there a huge numbers of variables but I as a share holder would prefer not to see children dying of diseases that could be prevented if it wasn't expensive.

Naturally firms like Gilead are going to use market economics to determine the correct price for each country anyway. Something is better than nothing right? Generics are more a solution for long running patents, which I'm personally against when it comes to drug development.
"one of the largest" is surely hanseatic understatement.

It is the largest.
It may be a more accurate analogy, but its a less useful metaphor for most audiences. Most people have a useful intuition about debt that the "technical debt" metaphor leverages.

Comparatively very few people have a useful intuition about "unhedged call options" that using it as a metaphor for poor code quality would leverage.

Also, I think predictable ongoing support cost is a big result of poor code quality in production systems, so that aspect of the debt metaphor isn't completely off-base (there are also unpredictable potential costs in the future, as well, so its not a perfect analogy.)
Up until recently, Cisco was pretty well in bed with the Chinese government.

They're pretty much the reason Huawei et al are taken seriously in the networking hardware demographic -- a massive personnel, training, and IP transfer (legitimate or otherwise).
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Exactly! Which means the embargo isn't doing anything but enriching the cut-out countries.
A lot of really interesting things happened at Bletchley park, like breaking the Lorenz SZ, and building the Colossus Mark I & II.

I think you could really take any one of those stories and make them entertaining.
This is all you need to know:

After federal agents put Ulbricht in handcuffs, they say they had his machine still logged into Silk Road’s backend. He was working on user support tickets when it happened.

And this little ditty:

Being allegedly signed into Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts, signed into the Pidgin instant messenger app as Dread Pirate Roberts, and chatting with Cirrus (there’s that name again) will all be important as the prosecution attempts to solidify the links between Ulbricht and Dread Pirate Roberts.

GAME. SET. MATCH - government. Any hacker knows the last thing you want to have happen is having the feds nab you while you're still logged into a session. No encryption, no quick nuke command. This is the worst possible scenario and the Feds caught him with his pants down.
Nice, and the negative space is good use of symbolism.

I know of nothing like that in the US. The only references I found (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion and http://crookedtimber.org/2013/05/27/memorial-day-2/ ) were for Germany and Austria.

A-ha! I found one; "a statue commemorating American draft dodgers and the Canadians who took them in." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/war-resisters... . The image link is broken, but archive.org has it as https://web.archive.org/web/20060113173812/http://vancouver.... . I can't make much sense of the image though.

Many groups in the US opposed the statue.
Hold on there. Right now, the maximum you can pay out of pocket for health insurance (co-pays, co-insurance) is ~$6500 for an individual. Insurance (even the Obamacare plans) are required to cover everything above that.

So in your example, Harvoni would cost $31,500 for the first month. At 50% co-insurance, you'd be responsible for $15,750, but only up to the cap of $6500. After that the insurance company pays everything.

Also, Gilead have benefits for the "underinsured". It's usually an income-based calculation. I would argue that no patient who truly need Sovaldi/Harvoni would not have some mechanism to get the drug via patient support programs.
If you try to break rules in NK, you're dead. Hacking culture and exploration doesn't fit in under a communist regime. No place to practice = no way to become a pro.
Only a small number of authorized persons and high ranking government officers have access to the Internet in North Korea, so I guess it is that small.

The common people have access to the Kwangmyong, which is an IP network not physically connected to the Internet.
I love Heathkit stuff. I have an awesome guitar amp from the 60s someone built and a high voltage power supply.
What's the tiniest arduino camera not mounted on a board?
This smallest camera, the CMOS, is no longer manufactured. anyone find a replacement not mounted on a huge board? tia.

http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/2px3u3/what_is_the_tiniest_camera_i_can_use_with_an/
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I keep bumping into the notion of options in software development - there are (and I will try to hunt them down) a couple of well known papers on option pricing different features. It is interesting because if applied it would spread through the whole organisation using it - once one part uses options as it's decision making mechanism, all parts have to respond.

But anyway, I agree - naked call options is a much more accurate term. But it is a difficult term for folks to get their heads around (incurring debt is something the post Marx Brothers world has gotten used to. Outside specialised areas of finance, not so much with Options)
Agreed. It’s more of a what-if machine than an attempt to make the most accurate prediction.

Incorporating Elo ratings into the simulator is actually easy: the difference between the two ratings tells you the probability of one team winning. We may do this in the future, but at least for now we opted for a simpler model whose main goal is to let you explore what’s possible.

For example, if you pick an outcome on one game that goes greatly against the ratings (e.g., the Seahawks lose to the Rams), maybe you have some reason to disagree with the ratings and you don’t want them to influence the simulated outcomes of other games.
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I have a hard time reconciling the idea that we need more STEM graduates with the difficulty that actual STEM graduates have finding work in their fields.

Even if it's part time work while pursuing a PhD, if there was anything resembling a real shortage, these things wouldn't happen. And it's not a rare story.
Anyone running an online business will tell you that words are valuable. Text is the primary way we communicate with our customers. Carefully chosen words can have a massive impact on revenue. The author possesses a valuable skill but is not fairly compensated for it. What's going on?

Inequality is increasing in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United...) and many other countries. Technology is giving capital an increasing advantage over labour. A job as, say, a doctor, lawyer, or University professor, which used to guarantee you a position at the top of the social hierarchy, no longer does. Inequality is generally regarded as a bad thing, both socially and economically (see, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality) Addressing inequality at a macro scale is beyond my knowledge, but I do know how to address it at the micro scale: own your work.

Technology contributes to inequality by allowing successful businesses to scale further with fewer employees. However, you can use the same infrastructure to scale out your microbusiness. Within our community, patio11, Amy Hoy, Brennan Dunn, Nathan Barry, and others have show how to do this. It is noticeable that many of the above have made a substantial chunk of change from publishing a book. (E.g. http://nathanbarry.com/2014-review/ ~$260K from book sales.) The OP is in a great position to replicate this -- they have all the skills, namely command over the written word, to produce great content and great copy to sell it.

On a wider scale, I think we can use technology to redress some of the growth in inequality. Presently it mostly allows relatively few businesses to concentrate wealth. If more people retake ownership over their work, which technology in many cases enables, then perhaps we can do something to address inequality. It's not the whole solution but it might be part of it.
It's making it more expensive for the embargoed to get goods.
That was my first thought when I read the title. The article itself is more nuanced:

> But otherwise, soldiers on both sides were likely to think that the more formidable Them was the rats and lice, the mold in the food, the cold or the comfortable officer at headquarters who seemed, in the words of one soldier, an “abstract tactician who from far away disposes of us.”

> But in studying diaries and letters, Mr. Ashworth observed surprisingly little hostility toward the enemy expressed by trench soldiers; the further from the front, the more hostility. In the words of one front-line soldier, “At home one abuses the enemy, and draws insulting caricatures. How tired I am of grotesque Kaisers. Out here, one can respect a brave, skillful, and resourceful enemy. They have people they love at home, they too have to endure mud, rain and steel.”

I believe a goal of the essay is to have the reader start from the idea that the soldiers were "bitter foes", only to show, through evidence, that that wasn't the case, and that there are good reasons for what happened.
NK does not have computers.
That's over $160,000 in college tuition. If it doesn't pay for itself, it's not a very effective use of capital, regardless if her parents paid for college.
While I agree with the overall message in this article, "unhedged call option" is not a phrase most people will get. "technical debt" is much easier to understand. "technical gambling" might be better, though i realize not as accurate as "call option".

the term "technical debt" is fairly clear; "technical credit" or 'technical lending" is fuzzier but also more descriptive. Maybe the compromise is "technical debt with interest"

actually, "technical trading" might be a good contender too. You might make out in the long run, or crash and burn. It's all about trade-offs anyway; not writing tests now means future you will have to write them. Sometimes this is fine, sometimes this is a truly horrible idea, and sometimes it could go either way.
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I went through the M.S. Information Security program at Georgia Tech and and glad that I did it. Though at this point in my life I work mostly on building out web applications with Ruby on Rails for startups. Security is a tough sell in most of the industry. Bolting it on after the fact is almost always impossible, which is why I have had to learn so much about startups, their lifecycle, business model development, the customer discovery process, etc, in order to be able to attempt to build more secure software for startups before its too late in the process and bandaids are the only options remaining.

Point is, no matter what you do, there is a tremendous amount of learning to do outside of the university curriculum of your choice.
It may have been outsourced. However, they didn't contract a very talented team since they didn't hop any boxes to hide their identity better. More likely, someone unrelated to NK hacked a box inside NK and started an attack from there.
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I thought the argument for increasing the number of H-1B visas is that we need more technology people? The current limit is 65,000 people every year, and the claim is that's too low.
I'd agree, but the people we have to justify spending refactoring time to are often in finance.
I've stopped using yasnippet because I find it too resource-intensive. It's especially noticeable on emacs-startup, even of good machines, and I've found myself not using it very often. So I decided that it wasn't worth the time.

Just as a FYI to people on weaker hardware.
There is a new phrasal verb “be a thing” which lets us conveniently talk about such constructions. That is, “now and then” is a thing—an idiom, with a specific meaning outside the wording—but “then and now” is not a thing.

You will note that all of the semantic constraints they propose place the item with a “positive” aspect first—I wrote a blog post about this[1].

There is also a related notion of “stormy petrel”[2] which I wrote a poem about[3] back when I had lots of hair.

[1]: http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2014/08/adjective-valenc...

[2]: http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower/petrels.html

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRlpRFs2L30
I hate the best editor debate because I think it's distracting from what's more important — what both editors can learn from each other and what both need to do to improve. I used Emacs for years, switched to Vim because of RSI, then recently switched back to emacs+evil. Frankly, for what I do most (R, R+knitr, C++ with clang autocomplete), no single editor is great. First, there's too little ability to switch between modes within a single buffer in both Vim and Emacs. The feature's entirely lacking in Vim AFAIK, and poly-mode in R uses a high level hack that (1) doesn't play well with other modes (including evil) and (2) has so thoroughly destroyed my documents in the past I refuse to use it now (mostly because it uses many buffers behind the scenes, which destroys undo history).

In general, if you want flawless R support in certain blocks of text (as in a .Rnw file) in between LaTeX blocks that are fully connected to AucTeX, well... you're out of luck. And Vim... Vim-R-Plugin is useful, but it's sort of a painful hack to use tmux just to get R and Vim to talk (and I'm saying this even though I love Tmux).

Vim has YouCompleteMe, which is smooth as silk compared to Emac's options (which are painful and poorly integrated, especially with clang). But some lower-level issue in Vim causes this constant error message in Vim whenever YouCompleteMe uses clang — bloody annoying. So overall, both editors have huge issues that would require serious overhauls or tedious bug fixing in various modes. Sure, Emacs does AucTeX better, but until it does everything better (or Vim does everything better) it's a flawed editor. Both are flawed editors. But sadly everyone thinks the best course of action is to start fresh — which usually creates a feature-poor flawed editor on a new shiny foundation, that fails to attract developers because it's feature poor. (apologies for ranting -- jetlag).
It's very likely they run larger private ip space behind these IPs...
I enjoy Miyazaki films, a lot. My favourite is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind[1] but all of them are beatiful pieces of art. I also encourage people who do not know Miyazaki to see some of his works. Princess Mononoke is a good one to start with.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_...
It seems pretty clear that mortgages and derivative instruments built on top of them are what really did them in, just like so many other banks.

That said, AFAICT the lending models for cars were no more sophisticated than those for houses. Lots of concern over individual borrower risks, but not much at all for an economic downturn that would sour many many loans at once and depress the value of the collateral at the worst possible time.
There should be a hackathon/kickstarter to get these cams to a low enough price where every officer in the country is wearing one, with no redaction. Seriously, a beagle board black costs $45; a camera and associated housing, battery, and software should not run the price over $1500-$2000, as Taser et. al. are charging.
How does it ignore that?

It gave examples of how shelling didn't occur during wartime, and how latrines and food trains weren't targeted, because people wanted food, wanted to eat in peace, and need to take a crap - and if they did it then the other side would respond in kind.

I guess I'm confused about how "everybody wanted a break from it" isn't a pragmatic reason.

But the essay continues: "Initially, this was a purely instrumental impulse, self-serving cooperation to prevent retaliation." (I think that's your 'purely pragmatic'.) Followed by:

> With time, however, this sense of responsibility developed a moral tinge, tapping into the soldiers’ resistance to betraying those who dealt honorably with them. It occurred to them that: The other side didn’t want dinner disturbed any more than we do; they also don’t want to fight in rainstorms; they also have to deal with brass from headquarters who screw up everything. A creeping sense of camaraderie emerged.

I can't help but think that the essay takes on your point whole-heartedly, and doesn't ignore it.
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It has some. Back in 2011 or so when mtgox/bitinstant were big, none of them really knew what they were supposed to do. Nobody even knew if bitcoin was enough like "money" to qualify under money transmitter laws. The state and federal regulatory agencies didn't know what bitcoin was, and certainly didn't provide any guidance for the exchanges on what they were supposed to do to comply with the law.

Now, we have more regulatory guidance and the exchanges are, by and large, complying with it. The dominant companies are Bitstamp, Coinbase, and Circle, and they are all demanding identification info from their customers and notifying the regulatory bodies of any suspicious activities.
Being something like 25-30% of the way there this soon seemed fairly close to me, given the rate of revenue.
this is such a breakthrough in modern medicine.

this is a CURE of a longstanding disease, a disease which cuts off years of life expectancy of it victims.

there are more of them incoming, Hep C soon have a multitude of awesome drugs covering it. competition means drug prices will come down. the current massive price is a blip. at the very worst until the patent expires.

there is even more, cooler stuff in the pipelines right now. there is a leukemia drug that goes after a rare form of it - with survival rates in its patients now at 95+%. think about what this means.

after a glut, modern medicinal research has kicked into high gear. the FDA has a fast track program now. 10 years from now we'll be living in a very different world.
Heh, so maybe we can finally figure out if the "random" correlations in quantum mechanics are really random or if there's a cause.

(I'm joking of course, but has anyone ever actually rigorously analyzed quantum random data?)
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