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C-51 is not predicated on evidence. It's predicated on fear, and that fear is based on media and political coverage, not silly things like numbers and facts. For C-51 they really strongly played up a "terrorist" attack on the Canadian Parliament that resulted in a single military casualty and a subsequent shootout. This single incident has been played up almost like some kind of Canadian 9/11 attack - but the reality of it is a lot less interesting - just some disillusioned youth with a gun that got up close to an unarmed solider, then got stopped by trained security forces.
I've done a lot of lead gen in my career. Mostly it was of the one-to-many kind where I'm managing scaleable marketing programs, vs. the one-to-one kind where I'm dialing for dollars. There was a very brief stint doing the latter which occurred when a sales guy was promoted to run sales and marketing and thought that would be more effective--I quickly had some data to prove him wrong.

In any event, marketing is in fact about a lot more than lead gen, but lead gen is a very measurable piece, and also the one that sales reps have the most visibility into and are thus most vocal about.

Some sales people will be expected to prospect, but often the person who is great at hunting (ie. prospecting) is not necessarily the best at closing. Very different skill sets. Also, you want your closer focused on closing, not worrying about filling his pipeline.

Doing one-to-many lead gen at scale requires vastly different skills that many (most?) salespeople simply do not have. For example, managing an AdWords campaign, or setting up analytics.
This is kind of how I got my girlfriend interested in programming. She was killing herself at work doing stuff manually with QGIS that could be automated with python.
I've lived in Detroit my whole life, in both the suburbs and the city. If you take the time to read the stories and literature of Detroit from 1915-Today, you'd find that Detroit was the original Silicon Valley at the turn of the 20th century - we owned mechanical engineering and industrial operation engineering/mass production.

Today, in summary - Detroit has a long way to go to be considered at the same level as a Chicago or Boston, from a domestic/international reputation standpoint. And that's ok! Those cities have their own problems, and we have the opportunity here to re-build a city using 21st century urban planning and engineering knowledge. But Gilbert and Ilitch can only take it so far.

Would be nice to see some Fortune 500 companies relocating to Detroit. It's all about having a downtown where the 20-somethings meet their spouse and have families. SF/LA/SEA/CHI/NYC/BOS/DC have that down pretty well. Is there room for Detroit? Maybe. There's still 4+ million people here in Metro Detroit, so there's a blank entertainment canvas that the two billionaires have been constructing.

Cool to see Rocket Fiber deploying FTTH Downtown, Midtown, and Woodbridge/Eastern Market.

One little dirty secret - the levels of arsenic and heavy metals in the soil on ground they've torn down buildings is like nothing you've ever seen (75-100 years ago they didn't quite grasp that some chemicals shouldn't be used in building materials). It's toxic. Kim Worthy (city prosecutor) has a small project looking at the crime rates and lead exposure.

The old Fisher Body Plant had cyanide (yes, cyanide) baths for metal plating. Yeah.
Mayer and company are talking about the earning right now:
http://finance.yahoo.com/topics/yahoo-q1-2015-earnings/
Ebooks are expensive (no used market) and inferior (to varying degrees) for most types of books other than light fiction. Physical books are sticking around because they still do the whole book thing better than ebooks do, for the most part, and there's no sign that'll change any time soon.
This articulation that the tolerable extent of a stop (or any other investigation) 'is limited to the [personal] seizure's mission' is an excellent articulation of principle that might have a bearing on many other cases.

See for example this one - I have no idea whether this is appeallable procedurally (given the time that has elapsed since the conviction and so on) but the principle has troubled me ever since I read about it 5 years ago: http://www.alternet.org/story/146064/loud_sex_enough_for_cop...

Here a police officer who reasonably suspected a rape or some similarly violent crime based on reports of loud screaming visited a home. Defendant explained that the screaming took place in the course of enthusiastic sexual activity and Defendant's girlfriend corroborated this explanation. The police officer nevertheless requested permission to search, which was granted. During the search, marijuana was discovered and defendant was arrested for that.

To my mind the admissibility of evidence found during a search should have been limited to the original purpose; while it would not be entirely unreasonable to confiscate contraband found during a search, but it's not reasonable to prosecute the guy on that basis.

Where it gets tricky is prioritizing the things you prosecute. To see why, turn it around - suppose the police officer knocked on the door to investigate an allegation of drug possession or trafficking, but in the course of the investigation discovered the perpetration of a rape or murder. We would not want the perpetrator of such a crime to get away with it just because the police officer was unaware of it during an initial legitimate investigation and stumbled across the evidence by accident.
and I have no issues with inner city travel in Atlanta or Chicago. The issue at hand based on the original article is transport between cities. Hence the point I made is valid, the trope that Europe is some bastion of passenger transport by train simply isn't true, unless you count a few percentage points as an amazing number.
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Chris Metcalf here, Developer Evangelist from Socrata (http://dev.socrata.com), the company that provides the platform that hosts the catalog and some of the open data APIs they're providing. I'm glad to answer whatever questions I can here.
I have some casual plans for some of these, but I'm definitely open to trades/offers. I'm more attached to some than others. At the very least, a trade/offer will let move on from some of these ideas that I'd probably never work on anyways.

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> The down the road implications are not simple

The down the road implications for improving anything in our world are not simple.

That's a very poor reason to improve nothing.
For more information about the background of this effort, see

http://www.nonhumanrightsproject.org/ (Steven Wise's campaign group)

http://www.projetogap.org.br/en/ (GAP project in Brazil)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_personhood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ape_Project

I thought there was also a great ape rights campaign called GRASP, but it looks like they lost their domain name (it's now registered by a Christian group with a nearly opposite view on the connection between species and legal personhood).
The obvious answer here that I'm shocked to not see, is basic income.

As automation and artificial intelligence become more prevalent, why would we use humans to fill 'real jobs'?
Nope. There is no evidence that people are actually hearing the hum described in the paper. In fact it's highly unlikely. Is there any evidence at all that the human ear can detect 0.1Hz?
I'm sure someone's emailed about it, but the button says 'comfirm' instead of 'confirm' for (at least) the sms and mms options.
I have had spreaducation.com (and .info, .net, .org) for about 8 years now. I had an idea back in 2007 for an adaptive learning platform creator. Basically a WordPress for MOOCs that would let you tag content like html, videos, audio, text, etc and then the system would selectively present content to students based on their performance on quizzes and tests.
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> If there is profit in giving people what they ask for, someone will generally do it.

Ideally, yes, but: 1) Much that is valuable to poeple or to society does not maximize profit and is not provided by the marketplace [1] 2) the market isn't really free; for example, companies use their power (politically and in the market) and collude (explicitly and implicitly) to protect their profits and marketshare, and 3) consumers can't be educated about everything they buy; there simply isn't enough time or available resources; therefore vendors, staffed with industry experts, can easily take advantage of them.

> Do we really want to force companies to give the option ...

I don't mean to play down this concern, which is a serious one for me too.

[1] As examples: The technology you are using to read this posting, from protocols to your possibly FOSS browser; almost all knowledge generated at academic institutions, from the theory of relativity to vaccinations to knowledge of society; the security provided by soldiers; our political system, etc.
>So you are saying to solve the problem of rich individuals and large corporations from using tax loopholes, we need to implement more laws ?

Not just implement, but pursue and regulate aggressively.

>Every time you try to "fix" the problem by introducing more laws you make it easier for rich ppl to find new loopholes.

Not if you do it right. I don't know about the US, but the problem in the UK is that the same big accountancy firms that advise high net worth individuals about tax evasion also advise the UK government about tax laws.

Obviously they have a limited interest in producing strong laws that are actually effective - which is not a surprise when so many MPs, party funders, and Lords benefit from their services.

The real problem is that you can't make this work in a plutocracy.

It's a political issue caused by a deficit of real democracy and representation, not a legal issue caused by poor law making.

I'd guess Wall St works a little differently. But it sill seems as if there isn't as much oversight as there might be.
Having used 3rd party analytics tools including GameAnalytics for Unity, I can attest to this. Many analytics platforms horde your data and won't give you database access, and you're restricted to their (usually incomplete) tool set. Much better to have the raw data yourself so you're never restricted.
I think the problem is that the great majority of people are convinced that everything sold door-to-doors is bad (and these operations reinforce that). Thus any sales operation needs to profit greatly, unconscionably, from each successful sale - as well as avoiding overhead by ruthlessly exploiting it's employees. The old saying is "bad business drives out good".

(no idea why the parent was down voted, I upvoted it, I might not agree with him but it's a coherent, well-argued point)
If you are familiar with Theano, you can check out the LSTM unit implementation here: https://github.com/fchollet/keras/blob/master/keras/layers/r...

Each input is propagated through the unit (all timesteps) before the gradient is computed. No RTRL. It works well in practice.
Good; now we need to extend this to TSA overreach. They are (ostensibly) there to prevent weapons from making it onto airplanes, not to investigate large sums of cash or bust people for narcotics possession: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/rules-change...
Thanks. Just for your example, do they only get their commission after the client has paid?

Just general curiosity as I am technical and I have no idea how their models work. The three things that I am familiar with are:

1) I give you a small discount of my dayrate in exchange for a slice of equity (low single digit percentages)

2) You are an employee and take a paycut to participate in their vesting schedule with CAP table (the same as 1) really)

3) You are a cofounder and get a solid stake in the company but instead of providing capital as a technical person you are more likely to build an MVP for not much money in exchange for solid double digit percantages or equals pequals in the company.

Whereas their model is completely different and more comparable to real estate agents or similar.
Sure, completely agreed. I didn't mean 'wrong' in terms of being ethically wrong. I think the article itself contains a more insightful question: "Is genetic diversity linked to linguistic diversity?"
nit: "heavier" refers to weight, not mass. The man will actually be lighter at the top of the stairs due to decreased gravity. (R_earth / (3.3m+R_earth))² ≈ -0.0001 %

Someone else can calculate the decreased buoyancy in thinner air ;)
Yeah I noticed that too.
I want this in a smartwatch.
At which point they move to the suburbs. My wife and I live in downtown Baltimore. At one point we seriously considered renting a house and moving her mom and teenage brother from the west coast. But the school/safety situation was just a deal-breaker. We've got a nice little bubble for a few blocks in each direction from where we live, but beyond that it's just miles of abysmal schools and gang violence. Twenty-somethings will put up with that. Parents will not.
What is interesting is the conflict of interest that can lead to. A sales leader who is responsible for both sales and marketing might have a vested interest in tossing marketing under the bus if they can't get traction or close.

It also makes it hard to get projects off the ground that can have a long-term payoff since Sales tends to be very focused on the short-term tangibles, even if the former are critical to healthy growth in the big picture (think SEO, branding, laying the infrastructure for automation, etc.).

Having marketing as a distinct group can help make sure there is a healthy conversation between the various priorities, and also make sure there's a voice that is empowered to say "look, we mutually agreed on these lead scoring criteria, and fact of the matter is you're not following up on all leads within 24hrs, that's not marketing's fault."

I actually had that conversation once before when the sales lead also owned marketing. This was also an individual who ignored my need to have all sales conversations logged and categorized correctly in our CRM, so there were other issues.
People downvote this, but there's a couple good reasons it shouldn't be in Java.

This doesn't need to be a complicated service. You could write an alternative to Keywhiz in bash in a weekend. This is a tremendous win over Java because 1) it's interpreted, so modification is trivial and fast, 2) it's a commonly known language by nearly everyone on *NIX platforms, 3) it's simple to troubleshoot, 4) highly extensible and 5) fast to develop with.

In terms of how to do this securely, you could of course still write it in bash and use FUSE to distribute your secrets, but why? Personally i'm more of a fan of push services when it comes to opening up what is literally all the keys to your kingdom. Design a host-and-user-and-service-specific trigger that can request the key server push the proper credentials to the machine and you avoid opening up your server to attacks on open services.

If you want to keep your secrets from getting on disk (and honestly, this isn't a concern for most servers as 99% of them are on all the time and will more readily leak secrets from memory than from disk), just push the secret to a tmpfs mount. The only annoyance is when your machine reboots each service's init script needs to request the secret be pushed, but I can't imagine that takes any more time than doing the same thing through Keywhiz.

I know the draw of writing everything imaginable in your favorite language. I used to write all my tools in Perl, but it turns out that's annoying for people who have to admin my services later that don't write Perl. For really simple admin tools like this, Bash is really the best thing for you. (Though i'll admit, some web app language more secure than Bash to handle the client->server requests would be handy)
Glad to see the change in methodology! I loved the concept then and still do, but freaked out at the thought of my MAC address being logged everywhere I go.
> Does anyone here support both the granting of habeus corpus to chimpanzees as well as the legalized killing of unborn humans in the womb?

The granting of habeas corpus to chimpanzees in this case is a method of allowing a legal argument as to their status to be heard and decided; it isn't a grant of personhood so much as a granting someone the right to make an argument on their behalf that they are entitled to such a grant.

The status of fetuses and the limits on the power of states to grant them rights that would interfere with a woman's right to choose vis-à-vis abortion has been litigated fairly exhaustively to the highest courts.
My proofreading sucks. Thanks for catching that.
Nice proposal for living documents, but how do you suggest measuring importance? Journals are a low bar -- it's too easy to publish crap and yet many of the most important papers were rejected by the prestigious journals they were first submitted to. In my opinion, decoupling dissemination (what arXiv provides) from endorsement is desirable. Endorsements should be revokable and non-exclusive.
We're happy with the change too. Simplified things. Any sensor trying to mass measure foot traffic across a city needs to be accurate, real time, anonymous, and cheap.
Looks great! Was pretty bummed when I saw the April 25th release.
As supportive as I am of this plan, how would the Obama administration (or the feds in general) benefit from this? It seems to favor Detroit by requiring that immigrants live in the city for five years while affecting the immigration policy of the nation. More cynically, Michigan isn't exactly a swing state for presidential elections, so I don't really see the angle here?
Also coincidentally, this was just released today -- Credstash: a utility for managing secrets using AWS KMS and DynamoDB. Written in Python. https://github.com/LuminalOSS/credstash
Here are some good criticisms on the bill as of the 2nd reading, from a prof at U of Ottawa:
https://vimeo.com/120103590
I don't think it would come in thru your ear. Maybe resonating inside your body cavity?
But cmp is so backwards and non-intuitive. Key is a vastly better api, and more performant too, because you can generate keys once and then do comparisons using native types.

Again, with the encoding the api is different, but it's still really simple.

These feel like walls for walls sake.
Same point as ChrisLTD, but less nice. I don't like your position:fixed top header and will likely avoid your site because of it.
What sort of analysis are you suggesting? Because common analysis of supply and demand for instance is very much affected by a spoofed orders. If an exchange says that 10000 people want to sell at X and 2 want to sell at X-Y that is a pretty good mechanism for price discovery (something we want the markets to enable). That means nothing in the face of rampant spoofing. You might as well get rid of public price feeds at that point.

I think that there is an argument that spoofing should be legal, but we would need to de-anonymize the trades so that you could develop some digital analog for reputation. That way if I see an order from a known spoofer, I can discount it.
Seems to me you could just use mousetrap.js and get the added bonus of a solid key capture library.

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I take issue with this "real job" thing.

A "real job" is something you do to get reliable income. More often than not, it implies working for someone else. "Real job" don't have to be interesting, fulfilling, or even productive. If yours is, great, but that is not their main function. Their main function is to get you to pay the bills.

Hence my issue with the qualifier: "real". "Real" implies something inherently good, or at least better than the alternative. It also implies the alternative isn't "real", meaning it has less or no value. Add enough confusion, and you get a moral imperative to work your ass off for a boss that doesn't care about you, instead of creating pieces of art.

This way of thinking would lead to a bleak world. We should say "real job" less often —if at all.
> The problem is that businesses want to both not pay direct benefits for their workers and not pay taxes to fund government controlled benefits.

That's not necessarily a problem. One could cut the corporate tax rate and fund benefits through income/dividend/capital-gains/sales/VAT taxes.
I believe that the best thing to do is to think deeply about it and explore those feelings. Because it's inevitable, we need to accept and embrace it.

Picture any time before you were born. If it's not scary or sad to think about that, then thinking about a time after you die shouldn't be any different.

If you're worried about the actual moment of transition, it's probably going to be either too abrupt for you to really react to it (accident or violence), or you'll be super tired/unconscious and it'll basically be a relief, like sleep. This isn't a guarantee, but it's pretty likely.

As far as I'm concerned, as long as I can avoid a slow, painful death, it's all good. This is why torturous murders/executions and outlawing euthanasia are the most horrible things that people can inflict on each other-- you're ruining a person's only shot at a good death.
I have craftasticvoyage.com that I would be willing to part with! The wife wanted to sell her crafts but never seems to get around to doing anything with it.
This is great news, because other than DUI check points or being stopped by an officer with a dog in their patrol-car (which is just bad luck), I don't see that the police have a way around this one. I don't have any data, but I read in The New Jim Crow (good book, fyi) that this procedure accounts for an incredible amount of drug arrests. Good on ya, SCOTUS.
Null pointers comparing equal to null pointers is kind of important though.
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I would already consider it an improvement if we could just comment publicly on papers. I'm surprised Google scholar isn't offering something like this already.
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Layering does not have to be done with huge orders, lots of little orders work fine as well, as long as you can cancel them quickly (in some ways that is better because on some exchanges you get fills before public feeds).

Other than that I completely agree with you. Some people used quote stuffing to mean a DDoS style attack with orders (which if it ever happened was never wide spread and is trivial to prevent on the exchange side). Others do use the term for spoofing or layering.
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