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I've actually been quite pleased with the events concept. I found albums annoying and manually tedious but that pics automatically get grouped has made it easy for me to go back through old photos and find the ones I'm looking for. You're right about the annoying single-photo events but then I just dump them all together into the 'photostream' event for that month.
I did not expect any state to have /software developer/ as the most common job.
I was legitimately surprised when the FBI actually stood behind their NK assertion with the Sony hack. Normally when the US randomly points their finger at some government, when they're challenged they back down or when you dig into it it is an unnamed source in US state/intelligence.

So maybe in the Sony hack case it was NK, however I'd love to see the US's evidence. If they have two dozen proxies, one of which happened to come from NK thus that "proves" it was NK, then sorry, but no. However if they can prove that one connection was not proxied somehow and originated from NK then fair call.

I doubt they'll ever release technical information however.
> Charging users for more than 5gigs of storage in 2015 seems pretty miserly

5GB of storage for every Apple user comes to hundreds if not thousands of petabytes of storage that Apple are providing for free. Calling that "miserly" seems awfully entitled to me – you're essentially complaining that Apple aren't giving you enough stuff for free.
Get it while it's hot! It's available in the UK on BBC's iPlayer. I think they've released it for a short time on YouTube officially.
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> The entire idea behind the basic income is to stop trying to make distinctions between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor and to get rid of the entire gate-keeping infrastructure

Bingo. Well, it's not the entire idea, but it's definitely a very compelling idea.
It's a political decision. The Court made up its mind that indefinite, unlimited, retroactive extensions of copyright to any finite term (heat death of the universe inclusive) limited only by the will of Congress are within the ambit of the copyright clause and probably good public policy as far as the Court was concerned. Lessig has beat himself up over the loss and perhaps he should have, but I don't think anyone would have won on any argument with that court.

I don't see the precedent changing or a constitutional amendment happening, so really the only way forward is to get enough of a copyright reform caucus in Congress to stop the madness, forestall future extensions, and let works start finally start falling into the public domain again. I also don't see a direct path forward to unwinding the ratchet and shortening copyright terms or requiring renewals. What we really need to do next, in the USA at least, is fight future extensions and do something about orphan works.
qui tenet teneat, qui dolet doleat: "he who holds may go on holding, and he who complains may go on complaining".

"possession is nine tenths of the law" as is currently said."
That is a good argument. However, I suspect that their is a subtler form of the gold bugs' argument that has more validity but they're not phrasing (or haven't even thought about): the $500 has real, serious value, but it doesn't clearly have $500 value.

What's the value of the shirt? That depends on a lot of things that aren't known to you, and might not be known to them: how long will it last? how versatile is it? what would it cost to find an equivalent shirt, or to resell it? etc. These things are also ambiguous at a clothing store, although less so. But what is clear to both you and the goldbug is that it's clearly and obviously worth much less than $500: you're willing to estimate a rough value, even though neither of you can't put an exact number on it.

The goldbug ought to be complaining that everyone looks at a five-hundred-dollar bill and thinks that it's clearly and obviously worth exactly $500.00. That is tied into a lot of things, including, like the shirt, how long it will last and what it can be exchanged for, and neither of you know these things for sure.

With our worldview and assumptions, you and I might conclude that the bill is definitely worth at least $495: the chance of government collapse or a run on the banks, even over the next several years, is much less than one percent, and we can expect to use the bill before inflation devalues it by one percent. The goldbug, with their worldview and assumptions, might conclude that the value is fuzzier and possibly as low as $400: maybe there's a 20% chance of a run on the banks in the next few years. That still makes it worth obviously more than the shirt.

So the goldbug shouldn't be arguing that the money is unbacked and valueless, and you're right that things (including bills) are worth what people think they're worth. The goldbug should be arguing that we as a culture are overvaluing the bill. (And normal people do make these calculations: ask anyone who travels frequently between two countries with different currencies whether they prefer to keep cash in one currency or the other. Even over such a small value, there's a good chance they'll have an opinion.)

Reading between the lines of this article, there's an argument to be made that the world's large banks are not 100% trustworthy, as we'd hope. Maybe they're 95% trustworthy, but we should be skeptical of the claim that they're "beyond reproach", and simple human error, let alone malice, can cause gold to be misaccounted. And if they're misaccounting mere bars of gold, what else are they misaccounting?
Does it do Pandora-style recommendations like Jinni [1]? I only see popular and new titles.

[1] http://www.jinni.com/
We had to explain this repeatedly to several vendors the last time we were buying a small-ish (30 TB) file server. They seemed very skeptical of this concept that we were storing lots of data in compressed binary formats.
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yeah, I found that one, but I couldn't deal with the sound and I felt that the videos were more about getting the general idea of Elixir and understanding some of the things you could do with it in an infotainment way.

I know were you're coming from though, its a really good preso with surprisingly bad recordings.
I find it interesting that to get music they are looking for "DJ or Producer". Whatever happened to musician?
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Yup. Infiniband + RDMA is pretty cool, but RDMA is also rather scary. I mean, writing remotely to another systems (physical) memory. In the same time I do wonder why this is not being used more nowadays.
I have the same concerns, even though today I use OneDrive. My ideal solution would be a NAS that replicates my (encrypted) data across a peer to peer network of similar NAS'es, and so you would only be able to store personal data on a certain portion of the hard disk, and the other part would be used to replicate data from other NAS'es on the network.

My data would be pretty safe: if the drive crashes I can just insert a new hard drive and the NAS starts reconstructing my data from the network again given the encryption key. Also, this NAS would be accessible from outside of my home network, so it's like my own cloud backed up on a peer to peer network.

I would actually like to build this at one point.
The hardware is pretty easy, take a Banana Pro board + a SATA drive and you have a wifi connected NAS. Building the software for the peer to peer network would be a bit trickier to make it work well. Anyone knows if a peer to peer network like this already exists?
This might make you more comfortable with cloud storage of high value personal photos: I have my android phone automatically back up each picture I take on Google+ pictures and Microsoft OneDrive. Also, every once in a while, I burn a DVD-R. Eggs in multiple baskets.
I don't understand how you have a discussion about this without discussing the total benefits an employee receives.

i.e. if may salary remains constant at $30k a year but the employer portion of my health care coverage is $6k/year and growing at 15% - I do not have stagnant wages (i just didn't have a say in how they were spent)
Is it made of....GOLD?
You know what would be interesting? If the site also had a filter for streaming/digital rental and digital buying. It'd be a pretty concrete example of how terrible the digital media buying landscape is as you'd see the list of titles shrink to basically nothing (since DRM-laden purchases obviously shouldn't count - that's just renting with an undefined rental period, not actual buying).

While you're at it, you could also add a country filter to have yet another way to reduce the list to nothing, showing yet another great feature of the legitimate digital media landscape - region locking!
Quality photos are aspirational. No one will want to see someone's poorly composed and boring photos in promotional material.

And 'white people'? The hero couple in Utah look black and latino to me. If anything, Apple's marketing is generally as interracial as typical office stock photography.
I expect a note in the margin of one of his journals, discovered posthumously, "What a simple and elegant anode, the margin is too small to contain it."

I get that he is angry, but I worry that his anger may rob us of what he could do.
And we all know that "mainstream economists" are a good source for unbiased opinions.
Yes, but not of our universe.

Amazing book, by the way. I would also highly recommend the whole Baroque cycle.
We need a Godwin's law analog for the phrase "conspiracy theory."

Kooky conspiracy theories are things like the queen of England is a shape shifting reptile or commercial airliners are spraying us with "chemtrails." But more commonly the phrase is used as a guilt-by-association tactic to tar anyone who does not take every single official pronouncement or mainstream media story at absolute face value. Any attempt to dig deeper into realms like ideology, long-term political agendas, intelligence activities (ours or others), corruption, or financial "old boy networks" is instantly dismissed: "ooh you're a conspiracy theorist!"

I'd say that the first one to use this phrase in a debate to refer to anything that is not obviously nutty/illucid or totally implausible loses the debate.

It is in no way kooky to suggest that some public officials may be corrupt, that shady deals happen behind closed doors, or that governments lie. All of those things are established historical fact not to mention obvious manifestations of human nature. Conspiracies are a completely normal part of life.

Hell this site is full of tech startup people... every single early stage startup with any kind of secret technology, strategy, or long-term agenda is a conspiracy, as is every private equity transaction. What do you do when you close a round folks? You meet in secret with deep pocketed people and discuss secret plans and then sign confidential documents. You expect me to believe that such meetings never take place at the scale of international relations, finance, military/intelligence activities, etc.?
Sure. Just like "mainstream climate scientists", or "mainstream doctors", amirite?
Didn't miss the point at all. Lamenting lack of reliable laptops. Well, at least with reliable memory. You can buy a laptop with ECC RAM in the display adapter, but not as main memory! Sigh.

Luckily networking is getting so good that remote desktops feel almost like local most of the time.
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Seems one could make a collage entirely from pics on their computer. So not exactly as "Facebook only" as you make it out to be.
> So now, gold prices have been weak for a few years, so they have to come up with a new narrative

Not sure about the narrative you describe, but it's a clear fact that it's harder and harder to buy gold anonymously, without declaring to the State where you stash it. Makes it practical the day they come to get it back and give you worthless paper instead.
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They also use a different company to do payments for them. That is likely why they said what they said.
His 3 part series 'The Power Of Nightmares' is also very good.
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I can't believe they have the nerve to call this professional writing.
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We decided to do all of our prototyping and short runs in the valley. You're risking your company's failure if you wait around for months dealing with logistics in China for each design iteration.
But that would then imply that the five-hundred-dollar bill has value, because it can be exchanged reliably and easily for value.

The goldbugs, as far as I know, don't favor gold because it's shiny; they favor it because it's physical and it's historically been popular in so many cultures as a medium of exchange for things of real, inherent value (food, labor, housing, etc.). I think a definition of "value" that roots gold as having value because it's gold would be so self-referential as to be useless.
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TBH, I would imagine that the reason that there is no requirement to renew copyright is because Big Content knows people are lazy and that the more content from the past stays copyrighted by default (even if the author doesn't care to assert that right) means there will be less free content to compete for attention in the future.

Not requiring formal registration and renewal is a clear attempt to reduce the commons, not merely protect the copyrights owned by Big Content.
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>> I am just saying that it seems like Saudi Arabian national's punched the US in the face while Pakistan distracted, and the US then turned around and beat up Afghanistan in "revenge."

Umm, no ... that is not how it happened with Afghanistan.

Rather than argue here or be an armchair analyst, all I will do is point to a couple of books by Ahmed Rashid - "Taliban" and "Descent into Chaos" that include a pretty good historical commentary on the US action in Afghanistan.
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I know copyright law pretty well, and a 'useful article' is just what it sounds like - something with a utilitarian function. http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl103.html

I think that querying the utilitarian aspect of a toy shark is an entirely reasonable question, unless his original comment (which has since disappeared) was meant to be humorous.
>Which brings us to BlueLight: Our app allows a user to move the map in order to fine-tune their reported location. That’s fine, but what if someone took this to an extreme? What if a user in Texas pointed their map to UC Berkeley and made a call reporting a bogus location inside the campus? Because Murphy’s Law dictates that if something can materialize it will materialize, we decided to be proactive. So we introduced a hard limit on how far one can move the map before they are considered “Out of Area” and emergency calling is disabled. Minor corrections are cool. Location spoofing for prank calls? Not cool. There will be no “swating” with BlueLight if we can help it!

>If conditions permit (cellular data or WiFi is available)

Disable cell radio, spoof GPS location and we're done?
In 10 years time, the NSA will be able to decrypt anything that is encrypted with 2015 encryption. And that's assuming they can't decrypt it now.

Privacy is important, but let's be honest, you basically can't hide from the NSA.
The offsite copy involves trustworthy people, and unlike with data, there's no client-side encryption for gold.

If you do believe that the NY Fed, the Bank of England, and the Bank of France are "above reproach," then your argument is absolutely correct. But if you can't be sure of that—and this article is definitely attempting to cast doubt on that—then there's the usual argument about self-hosting. Amazon's probably a better sysadmin than most people are, but you're the only sysadmin that you have meaningful control over the competence of.
I, on the other hand, love lower wages, higher real debts, and problems with planning.
Not alone and I suspect there are more and more people becoming uneasy with 'the cloud' for myriad different reasons. Obvious reasons include privacy and security but there's also the ephemeral nature of such services (they can get bought/shutdown on a whim -- Apple is no stranger to cutting things that don't work for them).

Also, it's not hypocritical at all to raise a concern even if you're a big user of such services. Right now, it's not like you have many alternatives.

In my view, we need to move towards a system where everyone can control their own piece of the 'cloud', without the burden of being a sysadmin. There are varying approaches to this (cf Sandstorm and OwnCloud), but I believe we need to work on the fundamental infrastructure if we want properly decentralised systems. I'm working on this, based on the idea of unikernels - http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/
So far they said they want to. Whether they'll actually repeal those laws - time will tell.
Whoever downvoted this care to explain? :|
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I learned programming independently, but I've done a Master's in physics.

I really think that you want the curriculum to go in this order: (1) teach a high-schooler to program via games; (2) leverage that programming knowledge to build up some abstract mathematics and love of patterns; (3) start into Newton's equations with a programming background.

Haskell is actually a pretty good choice for this process because it is functional. I wouldn't tell the student that it's a "functional language" but rather that it is "based on a simpler model of computation". You start with the idea of "expressions reduce", the naming of things, and backslash-function literals. Once you understand that, then there are data structures and pattern matching -- you expand slowly outwards this way.

The syntax is surprisingly simple if you explain it top-down, but is often "lighter" than Lisp's parentheses. Curried functions and operator sections let you easily speak about high-level functions really early on without a mess of syntax. Haskell guards and pattern matching really embodies the SICP value that "every good program starts with a case dispatch." And, you can still do SICP's trick of implementing a Scheme dialect in Haskell pretty easily (in the context of games this allows them to be "scriptable").

The value that you get is that in the mathematics courses, you are sneakily starting a student off in a proof-centric environment; you can start calculus with the discrete calculus

delta list@(x : xs) = x : zipWith (-) xs list
sigma = scanl1 (+)

...and you swiftly get an inductive proof that sigma and delta are inverse functions.

Because computers are stupid, you really break every idea down to the lowest common denominator, which makes it really easy to incrementally learn.
In the original article they say they cold-roll, recrystallize, then strain harden. So definitely no casting, because the recrystallization is where the magic happens. Rolling and casting should be fine though. They say that the alloy is mostly compatible with current steel processing infrastructure, so it looks promising.
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The Baroque cycle? Only if you thought Cryptonomicon was regretfully short, and the final chapter was the crowning achievement of Stephensons writing.

Otherwise, I'd read pre-Cryptonomicon Stephenson.
Very interesting.. Do tell. What kind of misconceptions are there and how have they changed?

I still labour under the assumption that NREs make doing anything like that _extremely_ expensive.
I haven't signed up but from what I can see the website looks really well designed. Nice work!
Ok, I misread the post to read that Milton was the author, but apparently he was not relevant. Still, unless David had reserved rights to the piece it doesn't really change his position much. The DMCA has no application and this distortion of its so-called "safe harbor" provision needs to die.
It's always good to think about what you'd do if your belief was falsified. Suppose that Ron Paul himself goes through every book, every record and every nook and cranny of Fort Knox personally with an electron microscope and announces he found only evidence that the Federal Reserve is and has been above-board with respect to the United States' gold holdings.

What would you do then? Would you actually say "Well, I guess my belief was wrong and I was misled by the people who promoted it to me", or would you find a way to move the goalpost and say that you'll continue believing until some other complex and politically-hard-to-manage thing happens? And then another, and then another?
Firefox is kinda special because they get a lot money from whoever pays them to be the default search engine, doesn't matter if it's Google or Microsoft or Yahoo. There's only so much software that can get away with that, GPG certainly can't.

All of the Debian developers are volunteers, am I wrong? Slackware can barely support one employee, the founder. OpenSSH falls under OpenBSD, which also supports just the founder, everyone else volunteers, and they DO volunteer some serious time and do important things. They also had problems raising funds, there were discussions on HN about that here, and I'm sure there will be more in a year or two.

From: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2014.html :
* If $10 were given for every installation of OpenBSD in the last year from the master site (ignoring the mirrors) we would be at our goal.
* If $2 were given for every download of the OpenSSH source code in the last year from the master site (ignoring the mirrors) we would be at our goal.
* If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be at our goal.

This is kinda depressing.

Is there someone from the Debian project here? I'm wondering if they could afford to run their own mirrors around the world if they had to. Could they cover hardware, colo and bandwidth costs, if they had to? I'm just curious.
I think the selections are mostly regional or smaller now. In northern & southern California, Fry's electronics.
After reading http://influxdb.com/blog/2014/12/08/clustering_tags_and_enha..., I'm not completely clear on what "tags" mean. Are they single-word names, or are they conceptually key=value pairs like labels in Prometheus or tags in OpenTSDB?

EDIT: found https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/1059. Ok, does seem like tags mean key=value pairs.
The goal is now exceeded! The progress bar is even overflowing the box.
5,000 acres is common? Are there family farms that are that large, or are those corporate farms. I've never heard of a family farm that was 8 sections large - so presumably these are corporate farms?
Not affiliated but Synology does exactly that, replicate to friends' synologies.
A social security number (SSN) is the same idea. The difference is that not every citizen has one.

The problem with this number is that, similar to Sweden, it can be used as an identity number and as a password. This is a terrible thing to do. In your small country of homogenous socially protected people, you may not have a widespread problem of theft. In the US, however, there is an entire industry of stealing these numbers in order to take out new lines of credit, buy items at stores, and then not pay them off.
At the same time, he knows the power of copious notes proving the origination of the idea, so hopefully it won't be that bad.
Proving that something does exist is much more straightforward than proving it doesn't.
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