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> If I jump in front of someone shooting a gun at target practice, are you going to support charging them with manslaughter?

Manslaughter: unintentional killing that results from recklessness or criminal negligence.

Last time I checked, we didn't charge that little girl who shot the gun instructor in the head with an Uzi. Your understanding of the criminal system is poor, please read up on it before continuing this conversation.
Regarding A, are you sure about that? Autopilot is supposed to be essentially finished by this summer, but it's not even close to full self-driving capabilities. The Model S currently doesn't have the necessary sensor suite for full self-driving, and the software side is still deeply unsolved.
Yeah, whatever. In other parts of the US you can get scoffed at just for having a "yankee" accent.
This isn't a zero tolerance problem. The charging was under the discretion of the cops, which means discretion was applied and abused.
Professional support services is quite important. I don't know if HAProxy provides it but I know nginx does.
I'd use it if it supported $near ...
I couldn't figure out why the cops never came and shut them down.

At one Dutch internet marketplace, you still see people selling Garmin maps (topos) which are clearly copies. They even have the gut to say 'one topo for 25 Euro, two topos for 40 Euro'. Nobody seems to care.

As someone who buys them legally, I am quite appalled these businesses (since the people who purchase them legally are paying higher prices to compensate the profits of these crooks).
Inside the Elegant, Mesmerizing Subculture of Card Juggling
> When I started this project in January, gdb failed on every program I tried it on. delve didn’t work on OS X, and print-statement-debugging was too slow and limited. What's a developer to do? Make my own debugger, of course.

It seems like he tried to use delve and it wasn't portable at the time. Sure he could have worked on making delve portable instead, but he probably learned a lot more poking around the internals himself.
"If the schools, libraries, and other filtered access points own the client machines they can install their own CA into those machines and have the proxy software intercept and generate certificates." (From the comments.)

That's the first time I've seen a man-in-the-middle attack described as a technique for improving security.
We just bought a 3d printer and noticed this. There were so many negative comments about makerbot
Startup lessons from my mother
It says something about the state of the art, that an issue so simple and essential as this generates such a wealth of commentary. We're a long way from home yet.
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J5cH6Ct...
Translation: Less tech focus and more customer experience focus. But given that, what would prevent Google from leveraging what they learned with Glass with different kinds of wearables?
Well, considering Google would have done the Model S release with 500 units (as part of an "EV explorers" program), then stopped updating the software, waited 9 months with no news whole competitors built competitive products, then wrote it off as a loss and announced that they're deprecating the product in favor of their new line of RC cars, I think it's good that they haven't sold.

TL;DR name one company Google acquired where they didn't kill that company's awesome product within a couple years, regardless of how awesome / market-leading / profitable it was.
I think the point is that this is now in the open source version.
When I was in Australia, I refused to give the information and insisted on calling them back. Never caused any trouble.
The struggle to “get” Snapchat
Echoing Kelsey's sentiment, I also grew up in Atlanta, lived in Home Park, and while I wouldn't say that I felt unsafe while I lived there, I now live in an actually safe place. It's unbelievably different. People actual walk around. I see women walking alone. I don't see sketchy people, I don't have to lock my doors (my house in Home Park actually had two deadbolted doors before you could get inside). The red line prior to five points is well known to be the safest line, but people still harass you on it. I don't know when you lived in Atlanta, and I was only taking Marta the last three or four years that I lived there, but it's definitely not good/safe public transit.
Seconded for Tuft and Needle. Its such a great mattress, I'm giving them away as big gifts now, and family members who get them love them. +1
They know about Tor. Five years ago it was magic to most cops and all prosecutors. Today they have been educated, to some extent by people like me. They acknowledge that the exit node is a proxy. In years past they would have tried sending cops to the door to seize the server, or at least make some allegations.

That's why I do not think that they expect any results here. They expect nothing. They need nothing. They need a non-response to take things to the next step. That step is probably political. They want the bullet point about why criminals are getting away due to VPNs, Tor and other online nasties.
The foreign money was a problem in NYC too. Lots of new buildings with empty apartments owned by international buyers. I like to view myself as a capitalist, but this seems like a break-down of the system. I'm not sure if the problem is regulatory overhead making low-cost housing impossible to build, or what, but it does cause resentment.
Yes, it's similar to issuing a supeona to a VPN to find out which customer was using x ip at this time.
In the future we will recognize the concept of gentrification as a white-guilt fueled racist sentiment and people will stop using it.

I'm so excited for that day.
Getting Started Building Chrome Extensions
Like I said, I've implemented both. CSS 2.1 was much easier than tables. Almost everything I implemented in CSS 2.1 made sense (with some notable exceptions, such as the hypothetical box, margin collapse, and border collapse). Tables were nonstop backwards compatibility hacks.
What next? Everyone who operates an IP router on the internet starts getting subpoenas?
The results are so vastly apart than I don't think there's enough salt that you can add to make MongoDB look good here.

They also were quite generous by comparing load using non-durable write for CouchDB, HBase and MongoDB against Cassandra's durable write.

From my personal experience many scaling problems that you have with MongoDB once you switch even to a relational database that can't scale out are laughable.
Does Delve only allow you set breakpoints while running the program in Delve?
To be fair, this does increase runtime size and decrease performance, but that's a necessary cost that comes with the debugging capability
Right but I don't think it follows traditional curves because this isn't an incremental change in automobiles this is a much broader change with bigger social benefits (Billions saved in lost and injured lives/faster delivery times/better quality of life)
Solving Sudoku – How a College CS Student Inspired and Taught 3 Kids to Code
>I want to pave the way for FPGAs to be usable in everything from laptop/desktop computers to phones (if the static power consumption gets better). I have some very interesting ideas of what an average user could do with in system FPGAs that can be reconfigured at runtime.

What are these ideas?
> but it's not breaking and entering

It's called an analogy. "Breaking & Entering" is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a situation where the act of someone gaining access to something is itself a crime. In this case, the student is being charged with "hacking" which according to the Federal law is gaining "unauthorized access" to a computer system.

What would be the crime committed in breaking into the teacher's briefcase? Theft during the duration of time that the student gain 'possession' of the briefcase to open it?
Yes, you'll own the copyright but usually sign away almost all rights that go along with that. There is only one small thing that they can't do: Change your article substantially and still put your name on.
I work on a rather large system: it is not uncommon that when when a couple of people are talking (out loud, not digitally) about a problem, another co-worker, who wrote or otherwise has much more experience with the module we are discussing, joins the discussion and adds insight.
> First understand the existing code.

I think it is a chronic weakness of even good developers to write too early. First read!

My first year programming a project manager remarked, "I've never heard a programmer praise another's code. It's always, 'This is crap!'". That really stuck with me, and I've tried hard to be charitable and to really understand things before making changes. It's served me well now that I consult and freelance, but it also makes me less patient with programmers who dive in to existing codebases and immediately start making changes. In marriages they say "Seek more to understand than to be understood." There is something like that in software too.
Who knows. Sounds like some idiot logged into https://apps.cookcountyil.gov/oe/ (same IP) and attempted to do something bad.

These poor guys from this county are probably pretty distressed and using whatever means they have to find out whodunnit.
i don't think most people use grammar to impress, but rather to accurately convey their thoughts.

if a sentence is confusing to read, then the reader can be distracted from the concept and pushed into trying to decipher what they are trying to say.

i'd say certain mistakes are worse than others, if the two words are pronounced the same, then the reader can easily read over the error.

I think more distracting mistakes like "than" instead of "then" where, not only are they pronounced different, but can be used in the same place in a sentence, but with drastically different effect:

> this is great news for Snapchat as you are mobile first and mobile only and if the user base on mobile is bigger than desktop (which I think it is by a magnitude or more) than you will be valued more favorably than before in absolute terms and long term at scale you will be more value than desktop companies at scale

he uses than 3 times, one of which (the middle "than") should be a "then", just makes this harder to parse.

TL;DR: if your job is communicating, then grammar is not for impressing, it's for doing your job.
Startup Dream Team
cringing at the use of "Pwned", what is this 2005?
Once again, Google thinks my Denver IP is in Hungary. A year so it was France, but then they went back to Denver. Whatever system they use is obviously flawed. A simple ping would reveal it's incorrect, even. Every other source from Microsoft to Netflix to random geo IP lookups get it right.

This wouldn't be that bad, except Google is aggressively anti-user when it comes to this stuff, overriding both your headers and OS settings. (And alt text on things like Google Doodles always show up in the "geo" language, regardless of any overrides. Fortunately I bounce all my Google queries via disconnect, so this doesn't impact my search experience, just other Google sites usage.
That depends on her perspective. Perhaps she too is at the end of her rope with a troublesome child and perhaps this is her way of saying enough is enough. You've been warned, suspended and now the police are involved. If you're big boy enough to think you can keep breaking the rules despite our best efforts to keep you safe and protect you from the consequences of your actions, then you're big boy enough to deal with the real world consequences of your actions. Please Mr. Reporter, feel free to use our names in the hope that seeing his name in print finally gets through to my kid and he learns the error of his ways - because the next step is juvenile hall and I'd prefer to keep him out of there if possible.

Short sighted? Perhaps... but some kids always tend to the wrong side of the rules. Perseverance is tough when your guidance and advice is ignored and scorned at every turn. Despite your best efforts your kid always thinks they know what's best and they can do what you want. You get to a point where they cross a line of acceptability and you have to let the kid fall and hope like hell you've instilled them with the ability to figure their own way out of it.
Don't know about most of this stuff but.

> Poland were accused of holding secret CIA prisons as well about a decade ago (likely true).

I think that this is true and a matter of public record with regards Poland.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/poland-breach-h...
i started a mongo client implementation in node.js, but it fell off my radar - the goal was to get it to work with mongoose, etc: https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike-client (it is not yet complete).

in the end, i just wrote my own database system, with a query language that could act as an intermediary from multiple sources (SQL, mongo, etc).

but, this stuff is mostly just for fun, my day job keeps me plenty busy.
succumb to the greed.
Diatonic mapping system of the guitar fretboard US20100122621
This needs to be an opt-in feature. It's great for companies that need to have an open line of private communication with their customers, but for individuals it opens the doors for other avenues of harassment and abuse, something already running rampant on Twitter and which they have done next to nothing to address.
A big reason why the fpga companies keep everything secret is to protect themselves against patent lawsuits (exactly as gpu companies). So once again we can see how the patent system is good for innovation....
Knee-jerk reaction: "Of all the other historical-prototypes or fictional-examples, he triumphantly highlights... a recent Call of Duty game? He must be pretty young."

Nothing wrong with that--we all were once--but I'm offering it as feedback since I'm probably not the only reader nursing a sudden rush of get-off-my-lawn-ness.

Perhaps more importantly, the gestalt behind "we're in the future now" is very different depending on how far in the past you first remember "the future" being predicted.
OK, but that's how representative democracy works isn't it. How do we overhaul that, main parties aren't going to move towards an issue based democratic process because that's ceding power to the demos.
In general, the police have the power to arrest people. Doing so with the notion that the person is an immediate danger to others or a participant in a crime is not intimidation. So this is a tool that they have that is not based on a threat or based on intimidation.

There is nothing merciful about exercising their power in a situation where it should not be exercised.
What happens in every state when you get caught with weed
I am OP

You are correct some of the information required to build a computer for these chips are 'internal' details. However they already have strict patents on most of it, and knowing the configuration bits of a chip and the the delay of various paths is not going to give away their fabrication technique. They could potentially release just enough details to satisfy compiler writers instead of making us do it ourselves so we try to rip every details out of it.
> Look at what happened with Motorola Mobility, for example. Google paid a ton of money for it, basically dicked around for a couple of years with it doing nothing of note, then vomited it back up again

Motorola went from phones I would advise everyone to avoid to phones I actually advised family members to purchase in that time. They're basically the low cost nexus at this point.
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It would have been nice if the article had statistics on how often GC hosted applications are offline due to infrastructure problems compared to competitors like Azure, AWS, etc.

BTW, if an app fits nicely into the AppEngine ecosystem, that is great. On the other hand, I have not seen any compelling advantages to Google's VPSs, etc. over competitors' offerings. All of them are good.
No, the relevant law is the one where a work is published. For this you don't need to spread law around the globe. There are known cases where a work was already in public domain in the country of creation but not in Germany and the heirs successfully sued in German court.

Yes, in this case the chance of getting sued is pretty small, but it's there. See for example the US government's own statement:

> Copyright laws differ internationally. While a U.S. government work is not protectable under U.S. copyright laws, the work may be protected under the copyright laws of other jurisdictions when used in these jurisdictions. The U.S. government may assert copyright outside of the United States for U.S. government works.

http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml#Exceptions

Many German blogs stopped using copyrighted photos (at least much less use such photos than blogs in other countries do) because you are actually at risk of being sued. Some people lost quite a lot of money for doing this.
Would this have been around 45th and Walnut or thereabouts?
Criminal charges should be a very serious undertaking. If they are planned to be dropped, it's a failure of the justice system to make them in the first place.
> except limits of time/skill

I won't mind to be a billionaire with superhuman abilities and unlimited lifespan, too! Unfortunately, we mere mortals often have to limit the scope of our endeavors somehow.
I'd probably use openoffice impress or keynote and then convert the slides to images or something.
Westerns visualized as a single sampled frame reveals the true color
That's probably the weakest compliment that I've heard for a set of headphones ever. I have something like 7 pairs of earbuds and I pine for the bass that I remember from my crummy Philips HS820 (foldable neckband) headphones.

For some reason the only place to get good earbuds is from someone who is selling something else: Samsung's in-ear earbuds sold with Galaxy devices and Apple's earbuds are both somewhere between OK and pretty good.
I work near their Los Altos office and I see a lot of Box employees (How do I know? They wear the Box tees,shirts hoodies, caps etc.) roaming around the San Antonio shopping center and surrounding areas (Which begs to question what am I doing outside the office? Ha! I have a large floor to ceiling window overlooking El Camino and the SA shopping center). I know it's totally anecdotal, but it looks like their employees have given up too. Do they really need 1200 employees?
I am OP

Hmm, that is actually a good point. Might as well not draw any attention to yourself incase some ass hole has a patent on the concept of moving electrons down copper or something insane.
You live near Five Points and don't feel unsafe? Are you inside the Georgia State bubble, or on the courthouse side? I've been followed a number of times after coming out of Five Points MARTA. I've had four people follow me and call me a "Harry Potter looking motherfucker" who only left when I passed a cop. I mean I got used to the city and knew what to do/where not to go, but the paths I had to take and where not to go were usually only a block of difference.

And Five Points used to actually just have gangs hanging out on the sidewalk before they cracked down two years ago. I've been threatened, but never attacked, on MARTA, but I'm a big guy (6' 5" and 210 pounds while I was taking MARTA), and nearly all of my female friends had a "a couple of people tried to block my exit and stop me from getting to my car" stories. My fiancee had two guys wait outside of the station exit gates saying "Here, kitty kitty" at night -- and that was at Sandy Springs MARTA. The east/west line is way worse.
You're correct, my mistake. He said a few years. I misrecalled, so to speak.
The usa is realizing the sad pov that people are robots.

It is becoming the first, past-human society. There are "entities". Powerful entities. And some other things, we don't care about.

It is the first to realize in a social context, the halting problem. That imperfect rules imposed on an extremely huge social canvas, are not Turing complete. The limits of discreet rules. Which in a social canvas, has also to include in the description, "harsh", "absolute", "cold blooded", etc.

In societies where you still have humans running the show, you don't kill -9 kids.

Yes, "I" (for some values of "I"), am the most important thing in the world ever, "I" am the law, and "I" am a powerful entity, but show some "dignity", "humanity", "judgment", and "honesty" about what we have been in the past ourselves.
Android Wear Update: Gestures, WiFi, and Better UI
> I don't see other media companies making cars -- instead I see them trying to work out new business models in their core area of competence.

Google's core area of competence is not advertising, advertising is just the means which, so far, has been most efficient to monetize their core competence, but its also a means which has limited range for continued growth.

> In Googles's case they want their legacy to be more than ads, so they are throwing money at vanity projects. These projects generate good press, and satisfy their ego, but in the real world they have little chance of success, and little hope of returning much to the company. For example, Google Glass.

Viewed a different way, there is a limit to how much money Google can pour into its established lines of business with a good return, and one of the things they use the surplus for is high-risk, long-term, high-potential (but low-probability) return projects. Which it can afford to miss on virtually all of, because if it hits even a couple, it'll provide more return than more sedate uses of that money would, and it can afford to throw money at enough projects that it is likely to hit some winners.
Some very smart and pretty motivated folks at GNU/Hurd project struggled for years with a similar, but a bit less ambitious, approach. You never know how deep a puddle is.
Indeed, the suit will improve. Consider Hardiman [1]:

> Ralph Mosher, an engineer working for General Electric in the 1950s, developed a robotic exoskeleton called Hardiman. The mechanical suit, consisting of powered arms and legs, could give him superhuman strength. Mosher subsequently made a simpler version that permitted him to sit in his chair and pick up refrigerators.

All that was old is new again. They'll get up to 100kg eventually.

[1] http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/09/07/telepresence-robots-ne...
That would depend on your definition of "prime San Francisco". North Beach, Russian Hill, and Telegraph Hill are the most expensive per sq foot in the bay area. Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights are equivalent to any of the more expensive parts of the peninsula and valley...
Warmer than the west part of the city, but still nowhere near Miami-level "warm".
Ubuntu created upstart around the same time systemd was created, both meant to replace the classic init system. Debian voted to adopt systemd as their new init system instead of upstart, and so now ubuntu, because of it's debian dependencies, will be dropping upstart and moving to systemd as well.
Exactly. The actual subpoena is really short and reads like it was thrown together so that someone could tell their boss they tried.
No matter how many times I encounter this it never ceases to amaze me. Maybe it's because I played these games growing up, or maybe it's just my interest in low level bit twiddling like this, but probably a bit of both. The process he uses to figure it all out is just as impressive as the hack itself.
Some jurisdictions calculate based on what you should be able to make according to the judge who is likely not well informed of the market.

Also to note, putting a child's father in jail where they can neither see nor support the child is not in the best interest of the child, yet that is their war cry every time you question their reasoning.

Debtor prisons need to go.
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