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Web sites can put a robots.txt that prohibits crawlers. Are violations of the robots.txt a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act, which would knowing operating a bit in violatoin a felony?

The content and images posted could also be copyrighted or such that they are only for viewing in a browser and any other purpose would be a copyright violation or at a minimum a violation of the terms and conditions of using the site.

Companies don't like their content being made available elsewhere, and would probably fight vigorously.

How much bandwidth would polling and copying the site take? Wouldn't the companies notice it? Wouldn't they stop it?

Wouldn't most of these sites would want to work with the police to ensure that there were no underage people offering sex for money or anybody of any age being forced to work? Wouldn't most of these sites have an alert link for each posting? People can probably ignore consensual adults making an illegal business transaction, but probably not underage or forced prostitution.

If the software can recognize under age workers or people being forced to work, wouldn't the sites welcome the software alerting them of such listing? Would they be willing to pay for it?
> People (and bankers) did not somehow become more greedy, more evil and more shortsighted in the lead up to the crisis.

Actually, by most accounts, they did.

The problem was that when 90+% of your financial colleagues are betting that the market will go a certain way, it doesn't pay to fight that. That self-reinforces and things get worse and worse.

Look at the game theory:

1) I'm right about the economy going bust and the economy is about to collapse. Well, I can protect myself (a bit), but my company is going to collapse if the economy goes off a cliff and I'm out a job.

2) I'm wrong about the economy going bust and the economy is not about to collapse. Well, I'm still out a job.

3) I'm wrong about the economy going gangbusters and it goes haywire, I'm laid off along with everybody else.

4) I'm right about the economy going gangbusters and it goes gangbusters, "Yay! We're all rich. Where's the hookers and blow?"

I only have one good outcome--drink the Kool-Aid and pray I can get out before it all goes bust.
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Devil's advocate: But then if an OEM wants to install themselves as a root, they cannot. That's anti competitive. Why should MS be especially trusted over the OEM?

Slowly and way too late, MS has been learning that their "partners" mostly suck and hold a lot of responsibility for MS being so far behind today. MS shipped tablet PC how long before Apple? But they figured "yeah HP and Dell will handle our customer experience well, sure".

Also, how is Chrome gonna determine a legitimate deployment? Cause then the dev just needs to convince Chrome it's in a corp environment.

Or... Just ship a patched version of Chrome/FF/whatever that doesn't do cert validation.
Probably because "ista" comes from Spanish, and many of the populist uprisings during the Cold War era happened in Spanish-speaking countries.
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Yes, but "money laundering" is a loaded term. There is nothing dishonorable about foiling meddlers and thieves.
> Perhaps the biggest sin is showing me stuff I have already watched

This please, if someone from Netflix is reading, please remove movies already watched from all but the "watch again" category. Also please put back "random picks" category: I found great hidden treasures thanks to it.
Its different in that America pitches itself as a land of freedom, equality, liberty. This is no longer true at all - you cannot have liberty, egality, freedom, if you cannot trust your own lines of communication - and because of the heinous apparatus constructed by the Five-Eyes nations (its not just the US, its also its disgusting partners) you no longer have true freedom, liberty, egality. These repressive dictators have granted themselves the only freedom to communicate safely, they have granted themselves full liberty over the right to alter others' communication, and they are well and truly on their way to creating an imbalance of power guaranteed to enslave us all.

You simply cannot trust your own communications any more. What you write, may not be what others read. If you're a journalist or a rising author, or perhaps just a leader of opinion in a broad public base, you can no longer trust that your communications will not be tampered with, altered, intercepted, interfered with. Of course this has always been the case, except that in the last 2 decades of Internet ascendency, we've all been relatively hopeful that the world is changing because our lines of communication are open wider. Alas, this is no longer the case. All hope has been dashed by the Five-Eyes oppression designed to reign in their own citizens - not find terrorists, but rather give these heinous organs of repression the ability to interfere in any industry they choose, with any person they sight, for any reason whatsoever. What was once a dream of hope is now an incredible nightmare, and America - loudest of all the arrogant Western nations claiming moral high ground, proud proclaimer of its own exceptionalism, can no longer do so. The fact is: there IS no difference, any more, between the oppression felt by the Chinese, or that now enacted on any member of the Five-Eyes state.

The door has been slammed shut on freedom, equality, liberty.
This lists seems focused on culture, not on survival or technology.

Instead: http://rebuildingcivilization.com/
His opponents usually take issue with his methods, and believe that his actions speak louder than words. They see his methods as anti-government rather than pro-Constitution.
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However the European monetary union isn't a union like you see in the US or other huge countries. In the US we have probably 100-200 billion a year in transfer payments. Automatic stabilizers like social security and unemployment insurance, etc. And then we have a true central banking system Bank in Florida goes under, it's not Florida's problem it's the Federal Reserves problem.

If a state isn't able to use currency exchange rates to control in flow and out flow of money then you need these types of things to keep the system stable. Europe doesn't.

So you are indeed right about not being able to pick and choose. You can't take control of a counties currency away from them without guaranteeing that the central bank and government will have their back economically.
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Leverage the power of Accelerometer, Magnetometer and Gyroscope in just a two or a few lines of code. A very nice wrapper built around CoreMotion, written entirely in Swift with Objective-C compatibility.
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Corporate controlled most desktops. The web allowed you to access and run stuff even when IT told you not to. Installing a program simply did not happen without an act of God.

Individuals control most phones. The goal of the developers is to intrude on your device and you have permission to allow it.

The issues here are same as "web toolbars". Developers want to intrude on your mindspace and the web doesn't allow that easily. Consequently, they have no incentive to build good web apps.
Ubuntu wasn't MITM your connections, it's hardly the same. They had ads, not a massive security hole.
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No Das Kapital?
As an Australian, I remember when guns were not something to be feared, but rather used if you need to .. my grandmothers 410 was used to dispatch snakes (dangerous) and rabbits (vermin) on a regular basis, and I remember fondly the bush trips with my uncles and cousins to eradicate invasive swine in the region.

Fortunately, Australia is yet to be invaded (unless you count our own ancestors heinous actions against the native owners of the land), or you would perhaps have a different perspective on just how foreign gun ownership can impact your life .. the time may well come, in our lifetimes or shortly thereafter, when Australians are even more subservient to a foreign power than they currently are ..
In the same world where the US' own military junta was installed (Bush) with ease, under the cover of 'democracy'.
i'm not saying web dev isn't easier to deploy for multiple platforms. I'm saying native is much better to use from a user side.
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ETFs, like mutual funds, have an 'expense ratio'. Basically they skim a certain amount of the fund's assets off the top to cover expenses & profit.
> the February 21st deal to keep Yanukovych in power... was reneged

It wasn't. The annexation of Crimea started before the deal was signed (Feb. 20) and Yanukovich decided to close shop and flee soon afterwards[1].

> and a world where US policy makers suggest covert arming of the Ukraine

With Ukraine undergoing a not-so-covert invasion, and Russian leadership having already laid a claim to half of Ukraine, no less[2], defensive weapons to help stop the aggression are hardly too much to ask.

> and a near NATO deal with the Ukraine caused the original crisis

European association agreement is hardly a "near NATO deal" and Ukraine had laws that precluded it from becoming a NATO member - so that wasn't even in the plans. The people took to the streets when Yanukovich abruptly reneged on his promise to sign the association agreement after visiting Moscow.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/world/europe/ukraine-leade...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya
Staffing costs and salaries are why I'd think long and hard about starting up in San Fran with my CTO hat on.

I am a long-term open-source and commercial dev, former serial CTO, with an additional specialization in recruitment software, but I also work as a recruiter. Recruitment in SF sounds like a nightmare for everyone involved. Agency fees are relatively low (10%ish, compared with 15-20% in the UK), but the service the candidate gets (incessant LinkedIn spam for inappropriate roles) is poor, the service the employer gets (scatter-gun approach, loads of shitty CVs, very little value-add from the recruiter, other than they'll spam LinkedIn for you) ...

I'm guessing it's a combination of the generally slightly immature state of the US agency recruitment market (compared to Europe; not meant as a judgement, just a fact), insane competition for candidates, very small take-up of and limited competition in job-boards/channels, and the big competition with corporate recruiters against FB, Google, and so on.

Every so often I wonder about trying to break in to the SF market (rather than London, which is where I put 90% of my time), but I wonder if the effort would be worth it, given what feels like the dire state of the market.

All the recruitment startups I can see are trying to build a better ATS to remove the agency recruiter (Lever.co, Greenhouse.io, SmartRecruiters.com, TheResumator.com, and even ZipRecruiter (an ATS disguised as a multi-poster)), yet no-one seems to be trying to fix agency recruitment.

Sorry for the slightly rambling post - happy to give free advice to anyone trying to recruit (see my profile), but it sounds like a real uphill battle in the Bay Area...
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The Q4 peak hardware purchase graphs Amazon retail present. Different stacks.

Have you ever seen an AWS outage line up with an Amazon retail outage?

Dogfooding is a myth - Amazon retail's not betting its business on AWS.
That's dated. "Hedge funds" once did that, but now they're just unregulated funds for "sophisticated investors", which includes pension funds.
Indeed: [1] does not say and does not mean college graduates. What it appears to mean is that those admitted to Department of Teacher Education in Finnish universities come from the top 10 % of high school graduates. The teachers all take a master's degree.
I tried rust, I tried honestly, but it's just enraging when you can't just write:

let x = ys.filter(|y| self.p(y));
self.z = x;
> They aren’t really Europeans, and there is no way German, Finnish or Belgian voters will accept yearly handouts counted in billions of euro to Spain, Portugal and Greece. Even as a Brit I feel the pain of my European partners. We have paid a shedload of cash into Europe to be disbursed before the Euro.

I don't disagree that some of the levers of monetary policy are removed by the common currency. If the German chairmakers were so good, would you devalue until the exchange rate was 0dm for 1ps?
I only whitelist scripts per site (I use ScriptBlock when I'm on Chrome, and NoScript in Firefox). It's not as annoying as you'd think, and makes most websites significantly better in ways you might never have imagined possible.

Scrolljacking is mostly not an issue, timed advertisements simply don't pop up in front of you, you don't get those annoying survey popovers. Also, if you use it correctly, you can avoid the need for an ad blocker(in conjunction with a /etc/hosts file which excludes advertising domains, such as the one provided at http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/), which means that you don't have all of that adblock overhead, which is tens of megabytes per tab in chrome, in addition to a pile of CSS rules which make layout also slower.

I use these two on my Acer C720P and it really helps the web not suck as much, enjoy.
1. you can do much more with interfaces and processing power in native mobile. Even simple apps like piazza or quora, I can't see being implemented nearly as nicely in the web. People think it is all about animations, but it isn't. A small example is how the entire web page has to be loaded each time you click a link on the hacker news mobile site or hit the back button or anything. A mobile app on the other hand would load all the links when you first open the app and when you hit the back button from looking at a link, you'd be met with zero latency.(not to mention persistent settings)

2. With my iPhone at least, I enjoy the predictable user interface that comes with doing stuff inside IOS.

3. I'll be honest. I don't like typing in URLS on my phone, and typing in passwords. It is a real pain when alternatively I could just click an app.

4. I really hate the mobile sites for some companies. The mobile site for my school is awful and always redirects you to some ugly main menus from the page you actually wanted. I would much rather just have the regular website.
It is still possible that they use flash as default audio source and fallback to HTML audio if flash is unavailable. Although of course it would be better if they could get rid of the flash altogether.
Depending on the tax it can be complicated and time consuming. If you do not put in the effort then you might overpay or pay more than your fellow tax payer. You face stiff penalties if you make a mistake in the complicated forms. Give the government everything and the national debt still goes up.
Devil's advocate on your devil's advocate: what legitimate reason could an OEM have for installing a root certificate?
Also they informed useres about Amazon integration and afaik provide a way to disable it.
How about MS's continued use of winsock?
Sorry, I'm low on tinfoil. You'll have to go to the store and pick up your own.
That's actually a really salient point. I've never considered it as 'research,' my mind just never made that connection for whatever reason. I'll keep it in mind from now on - thanks!
What's wrong with puns? It's not in bad taste. And the rest of the stuff is pretty funny as well ("At this stage in its life cycle, it's unlikely to be particularly robust. You'll find that its error support is fantastic, if you need help making errors."). At the same time, the humour doesn't get too distracting. Much nicer to read than some four-letter-words punctuated piece full of hyperbole.
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> Why do most Americans hate paying their taxes and go to such extreme measures to minimize the amount of tax they pay?

Hmm, it seems hard to know for certain, but I don't think it's true that "most" Americans "hate" paying taxes and go to "extreme" measures to minimize them.

I think it's closer to the truth to say that many Americans have a general feeling that at a significant fraction of the money they spend in taxes goes toward projects that don't benefit them, or maybe even toward projects they oppose.

I think many, if not most, Americans feel as if they have no meaningful way to influence the federal government.

I think there's also a feeling that in general, it would be better for government to be smaller, closer, and more direct.
I don't know where you got the idea that this got discovered accidentally by this one tech dude. Actually quite a bunch of people have been complaining online about this for months, then for some reason it blew up when the matter got the attention of the tech and sec communities.

see those for example: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Persona...
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3013039
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Lenovo-...
Your going to get hellbanned if you keep talking like that. We love our corporate masters here.
Sure, where's the clean media and the license for that?

You usually can't install (non-OEM) Windows with the serial present on the sticker attached to the computer
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Thanks. I very much appreciate your response. :)
Are you trolling? With a subject like Latin, the actual situation is that all the students are really good by the time you have only 20 students left in the whole country. The exam is probably not easy at all, and someone who didn't prepare well would get a much worse score.

You are assuming that it makes sense to make grading to a curve with a sample that is highly selective. It does not.

(I did not study Latin. Just as an item of curiosity, my country's public radio service YLE broadcasts regular radio news in Latin. You can listen and also read some of the stuff here: http://ohjelmaopas.yle.fi/1-1931339 )
AFAICT we don't disagree on any points. Regarding support for Yunukovych, the deal was signed and not followed up on. It's true his authority was fading fast - these things are not mutually exclusive. The Feb 21 deal was struck to resolve the standoff discussed in your linked NYT article - can you point to where it says that annexation began before Feb 21st (the earliest I can find it mention is March)?

Similarly with covert armaments - the discussion of 'too much to ask' or 'right or wrong' is orthagonal to whether the West takes covert action in the Baltic to achieve policy objectives. My claim is merely that it is done - not that it is wrong.

And similarly wrt the association agreement - it has to do with the context of EU and NATO encroachment and Western action in the Baltic (I would have to admit that it was EU membership, not NATO, in this case).

The grandparent may have anti-European or -NATO sentiments. I don't. But I will defend the idea that the West, having heavily polled Ukraine and called for its own elections, and having discussed options for replacing the leadership, and training and funding groups in the Ukraine, and having controlled the election process in Kiev (calling afoul when Russia performed the same in the Crimea) absolutely is not above influencing its own support. Again I am not calling this bad.
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If that is the downside, perhaps we should stop catering towards the absolute lowest common denominator.
What was your company, may i get url?
I wonder, what is going to happen when there is a 10x/100x revenue opportunity in providing LE in US and other countries with data on other criminals, including sex workers? Illegal aliens, drug users, vandalism? Will they become fair game for Rescue Forensics? It is a for-profit company after all.
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see also: the present Australian economy.

Our future is not bright...
>We only redact copyrighted material, such as company logos or other intellectual property.

>Yes, so, you've got protection for companies

No, this protection is in the other direction - of their own lower back _from_ the companies. They don't care about smaller fish which can't bite.

Anyway, all this bro-hah-hah piled upon them is pointless. They are just one of many Palantir wannabes. There is no way they or others can be stopped. You can't stop the wave. A new kind of society is upon us where everybody would be able to know everything about everybody and thus information assymmetry power (be it of corporations, governments or whomever) will be no more.
For performance, I agree with many here, it's not the number one priority. The critical parts missing are:

(1) a way to install web apps that hasn't to be learned, like Mozilla's Intall API, and unlike the bookmark to homescreen UI

(2) offline APIs: ServiceWorkers seem great but, Safari support could come as late as fall 2016 I guess, and be botched up for a year or two like they did with the history API and IndexedDB; in the meantime, offline web apps are screwed

(3) full screen API: not having the ugly address bar all the time which reminds users this app is unlike others and may be substandard; and being able to lock screen orientation

(4) notification API: the users expect anything important your app displays, they can be notified about, otherwise, your app seems unreliable

Except, the notification API, both iOS and Android had all of those from the start. Only then should we worry about performance, sensors, frameworks, layouts, ...

Regarding image decoding, why can't browser vendors do it today off the main thread? Is a change in web standards required? It seems no one has implemented it, so if it was a low-hanging fruit material to performance, it would be done already. In my experience, image decoding is only an issue for infinite scrolling, when javascript inserts images too late for the browser to have smooth scrolling. Infinite scrolling is nice sometimes but not all lists have to be infinite, have they?
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There are many legitimate reasons to MITM web traffic. We don't need to disallow the practice, we need to build a framework that contemplates this need and provides a robust, stable architecture for it which makes it easy to distinguish between good listeners and bad listeners.
IBM, Apple, Google, Telsa, Microsoft, SpaceX, Intel, BAE Systems, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Governments (a la ITER) and others, are pouring money in to R&D.

The lack of capital for small hardware innovators (if this concept even is true) is rational because there's little profit to be made there. The age of small hardware innovators has come and gone. To bring non-trivial innovative hardware to market is a huge undertaking and requires a lot of capital.

There's nothing unfair about this.
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actually they are limited by battery supply...hence they want to build their own. also use scale to drive down the battery cost