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Hi all, my name's Stefan Donnelly and I am the Committee Chair of UK Chagos Support Association. Firstly, thanks for the donations for those who have chipped in!

To answer some of the questions raised about our group, we are not a registered charity. We did attempt to register but were told our aims were too overtly political to qualify as a charity. So yes we are a non-profit, entirely voluntary I should add, we have no paid staff and committee members get nothing for their work.

On where the money goes, its pretty evenly split between supporting Chagossian community projects (including training classes and Chagos Islands football team), supporting impoverished Chagossians in times of hardship and campaigning for Chagossian right to return.

Over the past year we have done a lot on the latter as the previous Government committed to 'resolving the issue,' though then did not do so. This is everything from paying for transport to protests and printing materials to promoted posts of Facebook.

For reasons of scale we haven't in the past arranged to be audited or published full accounts as it just wouldn't have been worth it for the small amount of money and limited donor base we had. As we look to fundraise more online, however, I appreciate it is reassuring to have that bit of extra detail and I think our next AGM will publish much more substantial reports on our income and spending, which we'll be happy to make public.

The point has been made before to me that the Gmail address looks at bit dodgy and transferring it over to the @chagossuport address (which we do actually hold) is certainly on the to-do list.

Hope that's answered some of the, very legitimate, concerns raised. If anyone has any further questions, on this or anything else about the campaign, feel free to ask
There is the rather delicate issue of copyright here. If you google for something and the answer is on another page, lifting it from that page is (a) making a copy and (b) potentially depriving the linked page of revenue.

There is also the question of using the threat to ban people from your search results (which is calamitous for most businesses) to resolve your disputes with them.
>I think it's safe to say they sprung up in response to a market need

The politics of shaming and diversity guidelines are not market factors. This is like saying that the market wants us to have brainless middle managers. These things are all market inefficiencies that we should strive to eliminate or minimize.

I can't imagine tech pioneers from the 80s and 90s being under scrutiny like groups today are. Would we have Linux if Linus worried that his largely white male contributors weren't diverse enough? Would we have Apple is Jobs felt like he needed to "white knight" the women at his company?

Probably not.
Yes. And that doesn't detract from the validity of the claims against Google.
Thanks. This is really helpful advice, and the ORM-related comments you made resonate with me, because the use of abstracted data backing services is sort of the meat and potatoes in just about any web app I can think of, and this was a real pain point in my initial research of Go. All of the ORM-ish things I've found are mediocre, at best, IMHO.

I ROFL at "Like a savage.", btw.
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I think they're referring to the philosopher Karl Popper's notion of 'falsifiability', the idea that a claim must be possible to proven false to be admissible in a scientific theory.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
> What would be a viable way for Google to fix this that doesn't hurt users?

Its hard to even evaluate the accuracy of the objections, much less propose something that would resolve them, without the actual text of the Statement of Objections rather than news articles and even the original EU press release [0] and fact sheet [1] on the SO.

But, in any case, but for their anticompetitive effect, actions which violate competition laws often benefit users in terms of interaction with the product. The whole point of competition laws is to prevent that short-term benefit from being the source of monopolization which leads both to stagnation and monopoly rents, which harm consumers over the long term.

[0] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4780_en.htm

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4781_en.htm
Judging from the (limited) SO responses, coupled with what i was told by the guy i am working for, the degradation of the cables makes the idea cost ineffective. Also, and i cannot stress this enough, in Maine you do not fluck with the Lobstermen. You don't even do anything that could be construed as tampering with their routines. Dudes are the hells angels of the small boat world. The thought of trying to explain why i look like i am cooking their profits before they can haul them up gives me the willies...
So where does the obvious gender bias in the industry come from

It's not at all obvious that it exists: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/14....

More men may work in tech because on average men are more interested in the subject.

The key word in the preceding sentence is "may." "Bias" is complex and hard to prove and in the case of the tech industry there may be bias or there may not be. Even the phrase "tech industry" is odd. Does that include academic scientists? Where does tech end and other industries start? See also e.g. http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science.
This! It would be nice if the places recommended were aggregated from the typical go-tos for travel (Yelp, TripAdvisor) - rather than starting yet-another place for reviews/opinion content. Also potential integration or partnership with Rome2Rio and/or Uber transport suggestions.

Currently I am doing all this manually in various apps, and entering the data into TripIt (which is also sort of ugly).
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Their entry page lists three women and one man (same one as the Git repo commits): https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/asteroidascent/
In my limited experience with hackathons it's usually the most polished looking entry that wins - technical merit has little to do with it. If they built a cool site without a line of code then who the hell cares! Were there rules or a theme for this hackathon that were overlooked for this specific entry? Article seems overly critical to me.
It was actually pretty trivially easy to install Netscape.

It most certainly could affect Amazon. And I would be okay with that.
The sentence you quote is referring to antitrust. The laws about using a dominant position to compete unfairly are antitrust laws.

And it is pretty weird. It's really not very analogous to the old Microsoft/IE cases.

(Edit: Obviously, it's an EU case, brought under different laws entirely. There's no particular reason it would or should be analogous, but it does look very odd to US eyes, just because the legal principles are so different.)
Yes, unticking that checkbox works for me instantly.
For me, I expect Esrap to end up within a factor of 2-4 of a hand-tuned recursive decent parser on sbcl.
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Cool, thanks. Are there any slides? I saw @diogomonica mention there have been several presentations, but I couldn't find any.
Politically correct thoughtcrime / dissent = Downvote, I like it.
Going from working for a company to freelancing has definitely increased my number of daily work hours.

However, in between contracts I have the ability to take long breaks to work on my own projects or travel. Overall, the benefits have outweighed the risks for me, but then again, I'm just one data point.
There was a logical flaw there perhaps, but I stand by my point.

Per a Guardian article linked side-thread, the sandwich was invented by our good Earl for a easily portable and hand-eatable food. One would not call an open-faced nightmare that.
We updated the title to hopefully be less misleading.
Wiping the SD card using standard disk tools would not affect the SD card's firmware. SD cards are not dumb storage devices; they have built-in CPUs that handle DRM, protocol interfacing, and wear leveling, possibly among other things. That CPU has its own firmware, which might be reprogrammable by an attacker that knows the right commands to send.
Android.

I don't think Google should be allowed to dictate clauses like this one from their developer agreement:

4.5 Non-Compete.
You may not use the Market to distribute or make available any
Product whose primary purpose is to facilitate the distribution
of software applications and games for use on Android devices
outside of the Market.

See: https://play.google.com/intl/ALL_us/about/developer-distribu....
But since Finnegans Wake is structured as a loop, you wouldn't want to extend it from the end.
Unfortunately this is what's considered "equality" today.
Automatic withholding is also really important for taxpayers, as few people are fiscally responsible enough to save up the money throughout the year on their own. People end up living paycheck to paycheck regardless as to whether they're earning 20k/yr, 50k/yr, or 100k/yr, so sudden expense of several thousand dollars, even one they knew was coming, would be seriously damaging to their financial stability.

I've tried telling people to save even just $50/mo. until they've built up a three month cushion, and they insist they can't afford that. You wanna try convincing them to also set aside a few hundred bucks a month for taxes?
Absolutely. I'm just a bit surprised that such charges have never been brought against Apple.
Actually, the difference is that US antitrust law won't go after companies who are friends of half the White House staff and pay off a decent chunk of Congress, whereas the EU doesn't care how big you are, they'll take you down.
Going to the about page: https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/about/ the word "hackathon" is not mentioned once. Instead it introduces itself as:

"an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world"

a Wix site and a sample curriculum certainly doesn't sound like an unfair entry here.
Of course it's possible. It may not be likely.

>...the tax authority's automated systems simply pre-fill the declaration with what they know,

That's the minimum that they ought to do, disclose what they know, and guarantee that they haven't provided you with incorrect information.
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That's more than likely because Apple has never really held market dominance for a substantial period of time.
Thanks :) I was pretty excited about that one as well.
Plenty of examples to think about, but I suppose it depends on your definitions of really big:

1. Atlassian became very large before raising money, Github too
2. Litmus is a pretty large company, but not Billion dollar club (which is the typical "really big" moniker
3. Dyn was pretty huge $50M/year+ before they raised money
> deep links, formatted differently

Strictly speaking, you are only allowed to connect to a remote computer if you agree with their Terms of Service. I guess there are legitimate round corners, like you need to fetch the ToS first. It's not applicable as-is for the WWW, but you need to accept the websites have a say in how their results should be displayed.

Btw, is Robots.txt legally enforceable? http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/legal.html
It's not obvious, I've heard similar remarks from people who genuinely believe it.
You have considerably less trouble checking all 20-character passwords if you get to introspect on the program doing the checking though! (To see what character lets it advance to the following loop or otherwise changes its state; this is similar to a timing attack.)

Without doing that, btw, I think you understate the difficulty of "calculating all possible 20 character passwords." It's not just that we 'still have trouble' doing it. If you just take lowercase a-z (and hell, even exclude Q,A,Z,M, and Y so that it's the same on all major keyboard layouts) you still get 20^20=100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations i.e. 10^26. Which at 1000 gigatries per second leaves you with 10^14 seconds, i.e. 3 years. Hey, it's not so bad :)

If you add in upper and lowercase, 0-9, and these 32 characters, https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=4073 you get 94^20 = 2e+39 possibilities.

That compares favorably with the number of grams in the whole solar system (something like 1.99E+33), including, obviously, the whole Earth, the sun, all the planets, etc. It's the number of grams in 1,000,000 of our solar systems. So don't expect us to start calculating all possible 20 character passwords anytime soon :)
They can't. Tinder is already owned by IAC (Match.com, College Humor, etc.)
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no, but cifs does; https://www.kernel.org/doc/readme/Documentation-filesystems-...
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6-8% of taxable expenditures, by definition, will equal less than the equivalent state income tax.

Even if you spend every dime you make, your expenditure will almost never be completely sales-taxable (in our current system).

The national, tax-everything sales tax doesn't tax idle money. People with money have lots of it and can spend it non-domestically.
Yup. Norquist deserves no trust.
That post was written by Aauron Turon, not me. Though I have been talking about scoped threads a lot lately :)
You still have the persistence problem, but you don't have the others, so it's less of a drag.
As someone who's been trying to find a way to not use Google, I absolutely think the EU should not just fine, but shatter Google for. Because even when I moved to Windows Phone, Google bought out my NFC payment app and shut it down, telling everyone to get Android and Google Wallet.

If Google can't crush a competitor in the marketplace, they'll just buy it out and kill it. Which is why rumors they might want to acquire Twitter isn't a shock: They've never succeeded at social.
I don't think so. This isn't like the AT&T case involving manipulation of a URLs query paramaters to discover other users details.

This is just analysis of data describing the current user (you) that your browser is already sending to a remote site. No manipulation of the traffic takes place. As I understand it, there is (can be) no law against using view-source: or the browser debug tools to see what other URLs are accessed when a page loads.
I'd recommend Frank Delaney's charming, paragraph-by-paragraph, bite-sized Re: Joyce podcast[1] and the excellent 1982 RTE dramatic radio broadcast[2] (also essentially unabridged).

Many of the more difficult fragments of Ulysses are made much more lucid when read aloud, and it's a good trick to use while reading the book as well.

[1] http://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/
[2] https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-Audiobook
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This is complete BS. I work in IFE and we specifically are certified by the FAA to not be connected to flight controls.
the water is a flat 40 F. average depth is 50' in the center. The Reach has an average flow (in/out) speed of 6 knots (underwater). The Reach moves about 1 trillion gallons of water every 6 hours between high and low (may sound hyperbolic; look up the Moosabec Reach). The tidal variation between high-to-low is ~14'. In a perfect world i would submerge a tidal generator in the deep point and power my island project AND Jonesport-Beals, but as i stated before Lobstermen do not like change, so i am pretty sure a giant underwater propeller is not on the menu... i digressed; the only swimmers are the seals, the sharks, and the daft.
I like how every time someone tries to defend the status quo of swallowing correlations pretty damn naively, they use smoking as an example; apparently the best example dates from ~70 years ago, and they completely ignore the continuous din of medical failures where correlative results failed to transfer to randomized trials (most prominently, anything to do with diet).
> Shouldn't this also apply to iOS?

Perhaps, but the set of entities behind the complaints that triggered the investigations directed at Google are specifically targeting Google.

If a similar group targets Apple, then maybe we'll see a similar investigation.
When someone already says they're torn about an intermediate position, they're not likely to be in favor of one taken to cartoonish extremes.
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Not entirely. Negotiations are begun and concluded with data, but people negotiate on how to interpret the data. As Lord Byron said there are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

Also- if you can influence more passive owners (controlling or otherwise) that the company is doing poorly you can try to gain board support. One of the key principles in negotiation is your best alternative. What if you can change the perception that the best alternative strategy is poor.
You do realize that a great deal of the Vatican museum collection is art sponsored (patronized) by churchmen, right? From money generally voluntarily donated to the Church?

So not quite so ill-gotten as you imagine?
Yeah. There's a reason I stick with OpenBSD.

I have absolutely no need for my authentication system to be "flexible".
Haha, oh wow. This is actually real?

The irony of it...holy shit it's painful. And listed supporters all having .io.

If people can't see the near-masterful irony here, you're already lost.

Has someone bought up thedarksideof.ly yet????
If hackathons are stupid and unfair, then stop going to them.

Pick a project that takes longer than a weekend and do it.
You can get around it by using more recent databases; Rethink for instance might close the gap. But then you're using an idiosyncratic database for kind of a weird reason. Personally, I want to preserve a default of using Postgres, and I don't like that Golang pulls me away from that a little.

That said: I really like Golang a lot.

For Microcorruption, we did the overwhelming majority in Golang, exposing it as a JSON RPC endpoint, and then did the UI in a very small amount of Rails. It worked quite well.

One thing you can for sure say about Golang: it is fast. We deployed 3 app servers but if we had deployed only 1 it still wouldn't have broken a sweat.
I find it very funny that for such expensive cars there are no security considerations.

I hope to god those contactless credit cards can't be just cloned with a long range rfid reader or else this is gonna be a very funny few years
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Yeah, I just now looked up how much I was actually paying in withholding, because I seriously had no idea. I know how much I had to pay when I filed this year, and how much I've gotten in refunds in past years, but I couldn't have told you within a 100% margin of error what actual withholding was without checking.
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"Building the Star Trek computer" was always a funny marketing angle for Google, given that the Federation would frown on a greedy corporation controlling the flow of information.
Ok, it would require 30 seconds of 3rd grade level math. That's clearly unacceptable, and we need to instead pursue a solution that pushes wealth upwards. Because simplicity, right? No other agendas involved there? Let's talk about job creators.
So I'll be the one to trot out the infamous quote: "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant..."

I'm personally distrustful of people who are temperamentally hostile to criticism, and I would think that self-described hackers would want to celebrate practices that seek to explain art rather than to shroud it in mystery. And Joyce's Ulysses has inspired some criticism that is literature in its own right, some obvious examples being Richard Ellmann's biography and at least half of Hugh Kenner's books.
Not really a big fan of the conflation of womanhood with a vagina.
One of my favorite articles on the social custom of bragging about how busy you are
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-tra...

"Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day."
That makes sense, but as you say, the clean cut might not help the mapping problem. Even if you can somehow figure out which ones belong where that must be some very challenging microsurgery.

Maybe it would be possible to make a electronic, prosthetic section of spine that can be reconfigured on the fly, a bit like an FPGA, that might be useful for both injuries (where a damaged section needs to be replaced) and clean cuts with unknown mapping. Unfortunately these kinds of brain-computer interfaces seem prone to scarring, weakening the signal over time.
Android is very simple: Google needs to be banned from mandating OEMs install the whole Google Apps package. Leave it on OEMs to decide what browser, search, etc. apps to package on their devices. The market, and consumers, will decide what works.

The Open Handset Alliance is a blatant example of an illegal trust. A large group of supposed competitors agreeing not to compete.
Because curing smallpox and polio are specific, well constrained goals, while curing death is open ended and not even well understood on a fundamental level. It's like saying that because you can earn a paycheck above poverty level, you can be richer than Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and King Midas put together. In theory yes, but this reasoning fails to address important practical concerns.

Regarding immortality, you have to remember that every time a major death cause has been neutralized, the probability distribution reorganizes itself and other death causes raise to pick up the slack, even causes which used to be unknown/negligible a few decades ago. That's to say, every life that has been "saved" from smallpox, polio or whatever was not really saved - strictly speaking those people still died (or will eventually die) anyways of a different cause.

That's not to say that life expectancy cannot be extended, or that that is not a worthy goal in itself. But there is still the practical issue that the clock is ticking for every one of us. According to current data, I am expected to live another 40 years or so. During that time, the line can maybe pushed another 10 years, and combined with positive lifestyle changes, having won the genetic lottery in the form of my family having a track record of many long lived members, and a bit of luck too, I don't think it is unreasonable to think that I personally might make it to 100 years in a relatively dignified state. However, that's it, I will already be old and wasted by then, and the only hope I can think on how to extend that even further would be Deux ex Machina.

Now consider the scenario for a baby born today. Maybe those 100 years will give him plenty of time for science to progress and fix a lot of things during his own time... assuming no major threats raise caused by our increasingly industrialized lifestyles, which is doubtful. Maybe all the things considered he will live to see a time when 150 is the average, and he may be able to push it to 170 by being smart and having a lifestyle healthier than average... but that's it.

If I were extremely optimistic, which I find hard to be these days, I would say this trend will stagnate around the 300's due to the law of diminishing returns. So, our descendants might see a time when dying at mere 100 years old is a tragedy, but there is a world of difference from that and actual elf-style immortality (never age or die but by an act of violence that destroys your physical anchoring to this world).
Lobbying is how laws get made and unmade in the US. If you want laws changed, you had better have a lot of money or the right connections. Your voice might as well be non-existent if it's not accompanied by a campaign contribution.