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My understanding is they buy the unaged rye then "flavor" it by aging it in what ever wood casks they decide. So, if you lined up all the various MGPI derived brands, they would all taste different. Similar to Vodka. At the "magic of vodka" moment they are all the same. Add pure ethyl alcohol (which at this point whether it's potato or grain based is meaningless) to water and get slightly less vodka. Then add a unique flavor to make your brand. I like Bulleit rye, personally. Sure it's MGPI derived but it tastes decent and at $20+ a bottle it's a good day to day rye...
One of the nicest men I've ever met was my father's estate lawyer.

He could certainly be hard and firm when he needed to be, but perhaps because he was so nice when he didn't, he really didn't have to leverage much more than a flat tone when that hardness was needed.
Perhaps lazy, perhaps working 20 other cases, or just lacking technical sophistication. If it was me it would be much simpler to issue a subpoena then engage in some sort of sting operation where things could go wrong.
This has not been my experience at all (source: I was burglarized in Salt Lake City, Utah). While looking for my stolen goods at pawn shops, a homeless woman came in with a large backpack. The person working the desk clearly knew her. He asked her? "Who's bag is that marge?", to which she replied "It's yours now".

A pawn shops in Salt Lake City are filled with power tools from construction sites and car radios. Their entire business is heavily subsidized by crime.

My advice to readers is to write down the serial numbers of all your expensive goods. Pawn shops in Utah do have to check serial numbers against an online database of stolen goods.
Just an FYI for those cases when you need to download something that isn't available anywhere other than SourceForge: there's a small, plain-text "direct download" link under the big download button.

They tend to move this around a bit to make it harder to spot, but it's always been there since the malware-infested download manager was introduced. The malware & crapware is entirely limited to SF's download manager. The application binaries themselves are totally clean.
I figured. Even in spite of my checking, there was a kernel of panic in my stomach when I read your statement, so I had to double check. ;)

I'd imagine anyone quickly perusing the comments might've had a similar thought!

You're absolutely right, though. It really doesn't matter: The DMCA protects content owners to the detriment of innocent parties.
Every police officer takes an oath. It generally goes like this:

"On my honor, I will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character or the public trust. I will always have the courage to hold myself and others accountable for our actions. I will always uphold the Constitution, my community, and the agency I serve."

I'm missing the part where there is an "if my mayor coddles my feelings the right way" line in there.
There are a number of reasons for the decrease in crime in the 1990s, including a decrease in the use of crack cocaine and, famously, lead removal (http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...). Causation/correlation, etc.
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this doesn't make sense to me. Police know it's stolen so why didn't they seize it to protect the evidence like they do with other crimes? In a murder, they tape off the scene and have strict protocols for entering. I have to imagine for things like laptops, cell phones, tablets, etc... they would be treated the same way to protect the evidence. Some laptops have software that will take silent pictures if you remotely activate that it was stolen.
Specialized in the sense of a more restricted type. From your answer, it seems like "no" - though my Scala is superficial and rusty.

The Haskell equivalent is join :: Monad m => m (m a) -> m a

We also have the equivalent specialized to lists: concat :: [[a]] -> [a]

And as you say, join = bind id = (>>= id).

Incidentally, in math that function is the "eta" in the triple representing a monad.
I faced the same problem. This is a total mess and I could not believe that a most reputed web program like Filezilla hosted at Sourceforge is a malicious software. The best thing should be that Filezilla should be available for download from https://filezilla-project.org firsthand.
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It gets better

http://awib.googlecode.com/svn/builds/awib-0.4.b

Awib is a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck. It is also polyglot in bash, Tcl and C

For instance, using gcc, the following
will build an executable file called awib from awib-0.2.b.

$ cp awib-0.2.b awib-0.2.c
$ gcc awib-0.2.c -o awib.tmp
$ ./awib.tmp < awib-0.2.b > awib-0.2.c
$ gcc -O2 awib-0.2.c -o awib

Using bash works fine, but is very very very slow:

$ (echo "@386_linux"; cat awib.b) | bash awib.b > awib
$ chmod +x awib

And tcl:

$ (echo "@386_linux"; cat awib.b) | tclsh awib.b > awib
$ chmod +x awib
The keys used by KMS are stored in an AWS-managed hardware security module (HSM) on-site and never go outside that data center. This means that even if the person had physical access to the data center, they should not be able to extract the decryption keys because HSMs are specifically designed to prevent that. If it was an Amazon employee that had super-user privileges over that HSM for management purposes...who knows.
The problem with the analogy is that while the mayor is the leader of the employees of the city, he is also functionally the leader of the people of the city. Acknowledging to his constituents that the friction with the police may be partially the fault of the police is not 'external'.
Really good read, and great tips on how to run an internal hackathon. 100% agree on having a theme open to interpretation, prize categories, and kinds of prizes you are giving. :)

Are you guys running it quarterly already? How much time have you guys waited in between hackathons? Also, you say "every engineer who was present was expected to participate". Were the other departments allowed/expected to participate as well? This is something really positive for improving internal relations.
Yeah sadly, it's the latter.

Arbitrary numbers but if your cops are 50% corrupt and you suddenly have twice as many total cops you still then double the number of non-corrupt cops. Obviously that's wasteful but...
Fixing deep-routed cultural corruption is obviously extremely difficult.

So yeah, at this point I (and a lot of others who live here) would say we just need more cops because violent crime is increasing and the number of street cops out there is decreasing and that's just a bad combination.

So many lesser of two evils at play here :(
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Why doesn't it work in the other direction - where the pawn shops check the serial number in a police database of stolen items before they purchase it, and then contact the police silently if it turns out to be stolen?
Here in Vancouver, police appear to be fairly hands-off (of course this is coming from a white male perspective, and I don't know enough black people here to have an idea of how different their experience is).

And while we have a lot of drug activity, homelessness, streetwalking, etc. I believe there is a lower rate of violent/organized crime than NYC.

Of course, Canadians have a much different attitude towards gun ownership than Americans...
Apple and Microsoft have provided source code reviews to customers of a large enough size. The federal government, for example, reviewed sections of Windows source code before installing it on things like Navy ships, NSA computers, etc. Of course, this does not do us regular schmoes much good.

That said, this problem is a much better problem to manage than the one declan is talking about. Imagine if you wanted to use open source encryption to secure your information but were legally prohibited from doing so. That's what law enforcement is talking about now (and as declan points out: again).
NYC in the 70s was poor. Both the city, and the people in it.
...so, like, were you the kid in class who always reminded the teachers when they forgot to assign homework?

After all, what this is really all about, is an attack aimed to reduce all the funds that those delicious, orange parking tickets generate. All the petty nuisance tickets, and summonses, and violations that harvest money from non-violent citizens, rather than produce burdens by incurring imprisonment costs.

You do realize this, right?
Only a couple of decades ago, Manhattan has many shitty areas before the ramp up the police force. The real effect of this "protest" won't really show that quickly. Stopping hassling the "usual" targets may not be the only thing they do.

I don't think we should just sit back and let the situation fold out on its own. Whatever the intention is, if the police force is putting public safety in risk, it's critical to not let that happen.
Web design/business fail: The page is lacking a "Register to get updates" form. I find this to be a common frustration point for industrial product companies. Their websites typically have different degrees of sucking.

Hardware design fail: A male HDMI connector on something this big is a bad idea. You don't want to hang this kind of weight (imagine USB other cables connected to it) off an HDMI connector on a TV or monitor. The female connectors are not designed as load-bearing devices. It'd be far better to put a female HDMI connector on the stick and let people use a proper HDMI cable.
My business partner is originally from the Templeton, IA area. Apparently there are still private citizens making "real" Templeton rye illegally in their barns. He had some over the holidays and reported it to be spicier than the TR brand whisky.

TR is a bit disingenuous, but not evil. It's a decent tasting product run by a small company in the middle of nowhere; certainly it was damn near impossible to get rye a few years ago and TR's marketing helped to change that. But like most whiskies, take the marketing with a demijohn of salt.

+1 to Willett.
Interesting. I would have thought that "the culture needs to change" is in direct opposition to Lockhart's thesis. My reading of his essay is that people are rightly justified in hating the "mathematics" that was forced upon them.

I wonder if this difference in reading is some sort of confirmation bias, reading into an essay what we each want to hear? On a more meta-level, I wonder if that quality improves or detracts from an essay. Or maybe that quality isn't a part of the essay as much is it is attached to the subject or the reader? Something I'll have to ponder some more.
In most places you could possibly do this (also eg car towing extortionists), you don't get physical possession until well after you've paid.
"Isn't that what the pawnshop did, by submitting the serial numbers to the cops?"

Yes, after they shelled out $225 to a thief.
...you mean like the democratic way we all voted for the current system? The one where we all get to vote, without being turned away at the voting booth because we "registered in the wrong precint", or don't have valid ID?

Don't kid yourself.
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In the UK: threatening behaviour, and if any physical contact with counter staff of any kind, a push, a shove or (not sure about this) even twisting the laptop out of their hand, assault.

Not a good idea. Just either pay or go through the case and get it released after evidence use. Depends on value to you of laptop back now I suppose.
Drastic reduction in regulations outside of "actual harm" and objective "social order" issues. Criminalize and prosecute robbery, murder, theft, etc (actual harm), along with parking violations, traffic control, etc (organizing a lot of people functioning in a compact space, things get very ugly in a hurry if you don't), but stop the aggressive pursuit of "victimless" crimes like selling individual cigarettes without a license, stopping/interviewing anyone carrying something heavy in a pocket (to wit: potential handgun), petty drug possession, etc.

It's interesting watching such things over several decades: urban rush away from conservative/libertarian principles to highly regulated progressivism subsequently leading to a backlash which, for many/most practical purposes, amounts to a return to conservative/libertarian values.
That's the broken window theory that every programmer should be familiar with.
My point was that the book you cite is apparently a terrible resource on the issue. Which is material when you frame your statements so directly from it: even if the average American is in fact committing three felonies a day.
> You make a valid point, but that relies on systems asking for all records on an RR.

Um, no? If a DNS client asks a DNS server for an SRV record, and the DNS server has the A (and AAAA) records for the domain names contained within that SRV record, the DNS server will send those A (and AAAA) records along in the reply in the “ADDITIONAL” section; i.e. not in the “ANSWER” section as a reply to the actual SRV query, but still contained within the same DNS response. So the tiny performance issue for this minor case can be solved for those who need to solve it.

> […] a load balancer [can also be used for] intelligent routing.

Well, yes, SRV records can’t be all things to all people. This is, however, nothing which will affect, I guess, at least 90% of those even today using load balancers. Those needing this extra functionality can perfectly well keep their load balancers or (to call them for what they actually would be) HTTP routers.

These are, however, both minor quibbles (the first of them even has a solution) and should not affect the decision to specify SRV usage in HTTP/2.

(Also, being overly ironic does not help discourse, either.)
Interesting. Everquest? Asheron's Call? Bots were pretty big in AC, but I recall them being rather simple and using them could get you banned.
> that the police (in Ferguson) seemed ill trained to use this fancy gear

I do realize you put the disclaimer "seemed", but I don't see any evidence that the police in Ferguson (or anywhere) were ill trained to drive an APC or use riot gear (gas masks included). APC's have been used by police departments for a long long time, just only they were purchasing them back then and now the military is giving them their old ones (as apposed to just scrapping them since they were bought and paid for with tax payer's money).

Ferguson was special, there were "riots" going on for a while (stores being raided, projectiles rockets and fireworks fired at police, even guns being shot). There were both peaceful protests happening simultaneously with full on riots.
I've been looking for a board like this that has HDMI in and out for real time image processing. It seems nobody makes such an animal.
You actually don't need police to collect parking tickets. Other countries have specialized kinds of law enforcement forces to handle traffic.
How much if this problem is solved when you have only accept Linux and Apple workstations in your network?

Years ago, Google discovered some kind of intruders inside their network, and mandated everyone to leave Windows and accept only Mac or Linux desktops. This has a cost of course, but I think something to think about.

I'm not telling that Linux or Macs has no malware/security problems, but is a very small problem compared with Windows today.
If you have ever been to NYC you would know that if the parking regulations were not enforced so zealously the city would be a mess. The only reason why $40 parking garages are full is that you know if you park illegally on the streets of Manhattan, your car is getting ticketed, and likely towed. Surely it makes NYC a ton of revenue but it is the only way to make things work. I agree with you on the other points.
I think this is a useful policy but one danger to watch for is definition creep. Any policy of exclusion can be unconsciously used to discriminate. And that gets to the second challenge, is that the folks most likely to get along are the ones with the most common set of life experiences and that can lead to a lack of diversity as well.
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respect is earned not demanded.

Furthermore, the duty of "respect" is for public servants to the duly elected representative of the people they serve, not the other way around.
Frontline has a great 2-part documentary on the NSA mass-surveillance program called "United States of Secrets" [1]. (It is available on Netflix)

One of the striking things I took away from that documentary was the rhetoric used to disuade would-be leakers, whistle-blowers, and media outlets that had learned about "the program". In almost every case they would be brought into the White House and briefed in an effort to convince them to keep their silence. The common refrain that was related by all the different parties was the White House (both administrations) would consistently tell the leakers: If you do this the blood will be on your hands for the next terrorist attack.

Sadly this sort of rhetoric really work(ed/s) on people.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-sec...
The responses to this thread remind me of nothing so much as this comic: http://amultiverse.com/comic/2015/01/05/its-about-ethics/
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Sad we can never go there.
The ruling

"[t]he duty to provide public services is owed to the public at large, and, absent a special relationship between the police and an individual, no specific legal duty exists."

They still have the duty, but it does not necessarily apply on an individual basis.
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Hi, I see you're new here, so you might not know yet, but ad hominem attacks like your opening sentence are not welcome on Hacker News.
Now peg it against http://mazonka.com/brainf/, the bff4lnr version :)
New York tech is already pretty heavily ensconced in the mixed-use neighborhoods around Union Square— a lot of tech seems to be moving to the Financial District because big players have leased out a lot of the spaces in the area & prices have jumped. Google, Facebook, and Twitter all used to be in Midtown but moved to the Union Square neighborhood in the last couple years.

If you want to live near most tech employers, they're already all 'downtown'. Just not all the way downtown in the Financial District.
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While your link is not exactly pertinent to the above conversation, it does highlight how vulnerable people can be to violent action, regardless of police presence, and it serves as a reminder that personal security is in the hands of the individual, not the state.
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I think the app store has become much more about marketing now when you are entering with a new app. Most of the built in discovery tools are focused on apps with an existing reputation. Given the volume of apps this makes sense, and helps ensure that users are shown quality apps, however it also places a barrier to entry to newcomers until they can build a reputation that allows this virtuous cycle to take hold.

I would be interested in hearing from any app developers who have managed to break through this cycle recently and the marketing techniques they used.
> You're right to say that the PKI doesn't work if you just want to trust any site that shows a padlock in the address bar, but it's useful if you do a little work.

Not it isn't. It still suffers from not respecting name constraints. You can't setup trust for only a list of domains. If i run my own CA for some list of domains, there is no way i can prevent my CA from being able to sign for google.com. Instead people use wildcard certs so they can be delegated responsibility for a subdomain.
If you go to Islay, it might be worth going to Jura that has it's own distillery, interesting scenery (if you like fantastically rough coastlines and raised beaches), the house where Orwell wrote 1984 and at the north end between Jura and Scarba the infamous Gulf of Corryvreckan with its whirlpool:

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1) society is not falling apart.

2) the average American does not commit 3 felonies a day.

We have found that small rewards for not speeding reduces speeding - so yes, driving behavior can be modified by externalities.

http://www.rooneylawfirm.com/Articles/Monetary-Rewards-May-S...

If private parking in Manhattan is $30 and driving up on the sidewalk to park is free, the latter will happen. There is too many cars in New York for it NOT to happen. I've seen the latter happen in another country...
I quite like the Ron Zacapa but someone coming from the whiskey world should know that the 23 refers to the oldest rum in the blend and not the youngest like you find in most whiskey. They are quite upfront about this on their labelling, but it did take away some of the "how did this price descrepency happen?" for me.
I have no legal training, but doesn't the ruling say police officers still have a duty to the public, just not to the individual?
When an article about technical problems with a protocol starts whining about how the protocol will increase CO2 pollution I know it's BS. WTH was the ACM thinking by wasting out time with this crap?
I know that fighting against language change is usually a losing battle, and I know that a generation has grown up believing that "wiki" means "Wikipedia article".

And I'm going to complain about it anyway, because it's overloading a useful term that doesn't have a good replacement, as far as I know. It would be nice if we could hold on to the definition of "wiki" as "editable website" for a little longer.

I'd expect a "wiki of the day" to perhaps be Wiktionary one day, c2 another day, Wookiepedia on a third day... Can I suggest "Wikipedia of the Day", or if you need to be searchable as "wiki", at least "Wiki Article of the Day"?
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The second line took a little over 3 hours on my 5 year old MacBook Pro.
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If you see this coming down the road, the way to stop it is through political grassroots action.

And before the cynics chime with all the reasons that can't work, consider that it DID work when this exact same issue came before Congress in the late 1990s.

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Manhattan is pretty safe. People walk in the central park pretty late in the night (9-11pm) because there are (were) police patrol in it.
Hi, what is a javascript programmer ? For exemple in my case i am a C/C++/Obj C programmer mainly, but i run a french seo agency ( https://www.sitepenalise.fr - shameless plug ) and i use javascript once in a while to help customers with problems on their websites, does that make me a javascript programmer ? Note that javascript can also be used on non internet things, such as the unity game engine... so it's very well spread..
All this back-turning, slowdown, etc. have more to do with the NYPD contract renewal coming up. I hate to say this, but it looks to me that the unions are politicizing the death of the two officers to gain leverage in the contract negotiations.
Seriously are there no job openings for C/C++ programmers ?

Things like games(or game engines), trading, embedded systems, operating systems should still be running mostly on that...
So, they don't actually have the duty in any meaningful implementation sense, is what you're saying.