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FBI's Comey (crypto backdoor promoter) has just visited Romania calling for data retention laws after several such recent laws were declared unconstitutional. The FBI basically gave an ultimatum saying that if such laws aren't passed, then it could hurt the US-Romanian relationship. So the US is actively threatening/bullying other countries into adopting mass surveillance laws right now - or else!.

The ultimatum is also BS, because the US needs Romania more than ever in the Russian-Ukranian conflict (Romania is also one of the countries that has a missile shield against Russia, installed by the US). But I guess that's the level of diplomacy US enforces with most weaker countries (bullying).

The Romanian NSA sees the US NSA as some sort of mentor and tries to do whatever it gets told to strengthen that relationship. It's also very likely the NSA subsidizes/gives away its spying tech to countries such as Romania to make spying on its own citizens easier. Surveillance oversight is even weaker than in the US/UK.

Both Romania and Poland were accused of holding secret CIA prisons as well about a decade ago (likely true).
By "silicon valley based journalist" did you mean "Altos Ventures...an investor in several DIFM companies including Bench, OutboundEngine and Whitehat Security"?
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And yet, popups seem to work just fine without this missing "basic and fundamental" feature. There are numerous ways to handle the problem that is legitimate and valid.
Clearly, they've got the budgeting upside down...
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I'm not saying that you need to spend less time developing and more time selling. Your goals are your concern and your priority. I completely understand wanting to work on code and not put any effort into selling and let whomever show up that will. That has been my default state for the last 15 years.

But, while you said "I'm not trying to gain users", you also said "The people I want to attract are...". Those two statements aren't compatible. Developers (like me) are a type of user.

Whatever you want to call them--developers, users, minions, whatever--when your audience has several choices available to them for how they spend their time, marketing is just the means by which we try to convince people to take our option over some other option.

Personally, I'm getting a little tired of being on my own for all of my projects, so I am making myself learn more about marketing. I had just hoped to share.
> 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.

Google fairly overtly bought it for the patent portfolio and had the plan to resell most of the rest from day one. The thing Google was buying was the patents, the rest of Motorola Mobility was packaging.

Contrast with Android, YouTube, or anything else where Google wasn't buying patents or doing an acquihire, but actually buying a company for a product.

(Google probably looks worse in some respect for products because it has the kind of reserves that let it spend money for big acquisitions when all it wants is an acquihire or some resource like Motorola's patent portfolio and doesn't have any plan or concern for the main product, but I think that's an indication that it is bad when it actually is buying for product.)
It seems like that is the default case for acquisitions with just about any company, and ones where more interesting stuff happens with the acquired company are not the norm.
I get then through a email support button.

I respond to every request with a personal and habd written that amounts to "Thank you for the idea, it has been added to our to-do list."
I don't think that this is a photo:

http://peek.space/art/peek-space-img-24/
We have a poorly written Java client app that has a large number of resources it has to pull down from S3 at startup time. As a small side project I built up a large subset of it from scratch with clojure, mostly to get my feet wet in it. By compartmentalizing everything, I realized how I could simply swap out some of my map statements for pmap, add some async, and I was able to have my new implementation starting up in 1s as opposed to 30s (our problem was more latency than actual bandwidth).

I decided to take a look at Java 8's streams, and porting that speed over turned out to be pretty straightforward. The first step was to swap out our iterative, awful thread management download code with parallelStream. When I say awful, I mean it was increasing and decreasing a non-thread-safe static counter and busy waiting for it to hit 0, among other confusing constructs. I also took the time to refactor out several if statements and other code with filter and map statements.

Java 8 lambdas also worked well in that a lambda can be passed in where any Functional Interface is required (the interface has one function), so long as the lambda has the same arity. I was able to use this to have a list of Runnables (basically function/method pointers) that I ran in parallelStreams where previously it was iterative. It looked more verbose than but still comparable to my clojure code.

Finally, I had some tasks that took a long time but were not required at startup since you only needed the resources for specific functions in the app long after you loaded a project. I swapped those out with CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(), as well as took in a callback function for when it completed. If you did manage to need that resource before it finished loading, you would get a loading message until the callback was called.

Granted, a lot of what the app was doing beforehand could have been done much better, such as with ThreadPoolExecutor (and I did see some complaints about efficiency with parallelStream). However, the java8 way came out pretty clean as far as java goes, and I was able to add more/better functionality while still having less code overall. While there is still a lot of improvement that could be done to the streams, they worked out pretty well for my use case.
Or carnivorous plant! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbwqej_david-naccache-quel-... (sorry it is in French).
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There are incredible technologies to predict crime now. The problem is that they require the government to collect huge amounts of information on people to inform the predictions.

That's a trade-off that a lot of people are uncomfortable with, because sometimes the technology gets it wrong. And innocent people end up on the no-fly list, arrested, tracked, etc. Or worse, the system confuses political activism with actual criminality, and ends up protecting the status quo instead of just enforcing the law.

I haven't seen Minority Report for a while, but I remember that being a big theme in that movie as well. Wasn't that the dilemma faced by Cruise's character? Go to jail to protect the system, or stand up and admit it is flawed.
Is that still an ongoing trend?
If The Scene interests you then you may want to check out http://www.welcometothescene.com/

It's an internet-TV show the follows a group (not a documentary, it's all staged) that releases movies. The first "season" was very good and I highly recommend it. The second has yet to really interest me. I watched a few episodes but it's different from the first.
can this loadbalance redis and memcache?
Where at, location-wise?
Yeah, building a great graph engine is hard!

I like a lot about:

-- Cola (flexible constraint-based): http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/webcola/

-- Vivagraph (big graphs in webgl) doesn't get enough love: http://www.yasiv.com/graphs#Bai/rw496

Getting the best of both is hard, hence our real-time GPU clusters. It'll be longer before we can usefully open that up that layer =/
> Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially responsible for the harm that befell them.

Teacher had his computer improperly accessed by a student. The student did the wrong (granted, it is a minor wrong), and yet you are blaming the teachers.

You are victim blaming. Period.
Okay, reading the subpoena linked in the original article, it appears that Cook County, Illinois is trying to subpoena a company in Romania. IANAL, but I didn't think an entity in one country could compel anything of another entity in another country without getting the governments of both involved.

So, what was the point of this subpoena? Did a clerk somewhere fail to realize that Romania isn't even on the same continent, much less in the same country? Or is there legal mechanisms involved that I'm not aware of?
> they have no relevant ... interests

I don't know how big a deal the self-driving cars thing is at Google, but a giant car/battery company sounds pretty complementary to that.
That's pretty cool. It makes me want to take a look at Canadian regulations to see if it's possible and if I could pull it off...
This is exactly why I wont register any domain that do not allow whois guard. I would suggest using whois guard, NameCheap has one of the cheapest ones. Alternatively, you can have separate disposable email address on your whois info.
Nope. I try not to victim blame.
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They probably don't require your Social Security Number. I've avoided giving mine out by paying a deposit to my cable internet company, my electric company, and I use prepaid (which is cheaper than post-paid for the same service) to avoid giving it to a phone company. I also leave it blank on my doctor's forms and other forms. No one has ever hassled me about it.
Seems semantic to me. What would you suggest instead?
In theory if you got a good original OS download the package managers would be doing all this verification automatically.

Maybe that's acctually a good idea to consider as some sort of specification. Large file download via HTTP with some HTTPS checksum available via a single click.
Aw man, that's going to be offices? That's a bummer :(
That aspect seems to be state-dependent in the US, according to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_and_Entering#United_St...

In New York, the intent is not required. However, ironically with regard to this case, it is that way in Florida.
You say "It adds nothing to my description to call my projects incomplete", but "incomplete" isn't really what's at stake. I agree with you that software is basically never complete. But some software is "production-ready" in some sense that I consider meaningful. And I think that

> Sortix is a small self-hosting Unix-like operating system developed since 2011 aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation.

makes it clear (or at least strongly hints) that Sortix is not production-ready, while

> Sortix is a clean and modern POSIX implementation.

pretends that Sortix is production-ready, and I consider that to be disrespectful.
Because SQL query compilers generally don't execute the parameters. They do not just concatenate the given parameter strings into the query template and then run that. Instead, parameters are always treated as parameters, the query template is compiled and the parameters are passed into that compiled representation of the query where they are simply regarded as variables, not eval'd.
Like flexbox, this looks like a definite improvement over what we have now, but it looks quite complicated with less than ideal syntax. I imagine that's mostly to do with playing well with existing CSS (syntax and semantics) but its rather unfortunate. I looked at a bunch of the examples and found them quite difficult to figure out, but when I started with QML, I saw one snippet of sample code and immediately was able to create complex layouts myself.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad CSS is getting better and will look forward to the day when I can use this (but lets be realistic, it'll be a while yet before enough browsers support this to be usable), but I can't help but feel that its cruft built on top of cruft and that it won't ever be as slick and simple as something like QML.
Its NGINX+, not the open source version.
Given the NSA's invasion of everyone's privacy, everyone there would probably have been in a better legal situation :P
Charging a kid with a felony has absolutely no effect on the kid's permanent record. That is a fact.

Now if they _actually_ put the felony on his record, that would have been going over the line. But simply using the felony as a scare tactic against this kid is IMO within the bounds of reason. A bit strict yes, as it forces the kid's family to pay for a lawyer to fight it. But overall, its not really that big of a deal.
Developers must be working on razor thin margins if they're legitimately arguing that material costs are a problem for them (material costs are around $25-35K for a $200K home). Permits too are a drop in the bucket ($2.5K for permits is considered high).

Most of the problems are going to be labour, land, and the cost of being up to "code." I fully support building codes, they keep homes safe, and give people the "basics" we have come to expect. But it is a legitimate cost in building a home (i.e. a basic log cabin with wood fireplace is illegal in most cities).

$200K homes definitely still exist, but typical in areas where land is cheap, which tells you where the lion's share of the problem really comes from (e.g. you're not getting a 200K home on a 150K plot).
Is this the beginning of the end of the bubble?
The tools for FPGAs are horribly clunky and extremely difficult to script since most are Windows GUI based.

Glad to see people working to rectify this.
On a very tangentially related note: we've recently open-sourced our .NET port of StatsD/Graphite and it's available under MIT license at https://bitbucket.org/aeroclub-it/statsify
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Your definition of "bad guy" strangely seems to exclude disgruntled former employees.
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> The police should not be using threats and intimidation to teach kids a lesson.

Those are the only tools the Police have. Ideally, the school shouldn't have stuck the police on the job. This is a failure of the school system as they outsource their disciplinary actions to the Police. (Something I see all too often in schools...)

But as far as police actions are concerned, I'd say this is fair game and rather merciful in the great scheme of things. As noted, the sheriff's detective wasn't expecting the charges to go through pre-trial.
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Personally, I don't find it very attractive. It IS beautifully functional, though. So I guess that, to a large extent, is an embodiment of NASA; which will work out well for them.
I have warning that a hurricane is coming, and can easily get my ass out of town when it gets there. I have no warning whatsoever (maybe 10 seconds if the early warning system bulks up) that "the big one" is coming, and my chances of dying in that are far greater.
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The teacher is responsible for picking a secure password, just as they're responsible for a number of other things.

They failed in their responsibility. They are not 100% to blame here, but they are not a "victim" like you paint them to be.
It's not so much that they threw the book at him that troubles me, but that the book exists in the first place.

A felony charge used to be a big deal - now it's a catch-all charge used to intimidate defendants into pleading out instead of risking a jury trial.
I'm not a gamer myself but I have come across several of these types on hacks... I am always impressed with the dedication of gamers to understand the execution to this extent. Really is a cool aspect to video games.

There's a cool story of a guy who beat Mario 64 without ever jumping... http://kotaku.com/the-man-who-does-the-impossible-in-super-m...
It's kind of interesting to see Android, Chrome, and FirefoxOS all rushing towards the same point, though from different directions.

Chrome is trying to "nativify" the browser, and making the browser a more seamless part of navigating Android[0].

With FirefoxOS, the webapp is already native, and the goal is to browserify the native OS (in other words, to make the operating system itself inside the browser).

[0] I say Android specifically because this integration already goes much deeper on Android than on iOS, simply because it can.
66.5k, remote from the south (company in the north), web development.

I had ~ one year of professional experience when I took this job.

I'm self taught with about 10 years of hobbyist development prior.
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That entry has a link to http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml#Exceptions

“The U.S. government may assert copyright outside of the United States for U.S. government works.”

Too bad :/
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Both have the goal of to make it easy to get newer software, or software from other sources, within the same management interface, and without breaking all the other packages of the distro. But transactional packaging systems does get to those goals, while PPAs just maybe get there, for a time, but always turn-out breaking something.

But if you are using PPAs to create different lists of released software, so you can keep you stable software while everybody else wants to move to something newer, transactional packaging does not have that goal. Although it makes the job of maintaining such PPA much easier.
If this is the free equivalent of an auto mechanic's apprenticeship for coders, I'm all for it. Although many folks look down at that type of work, there's an enormous quality and productivity difference in people who sort of know what they're doing, and people who have put in the hours to get good.
> They failed in their responsibility. They are not 100% to blame here, but they are not a "victim" like you paint them to be.

It is a woman's responsibility to dress appropriately in public. She failed in her responsibility and therefore was sexually assaulted.

Dude, you're totally victim blaming. Victims of a crime, however minor, are NOT responsible for the actions of others.
Even though the kid probably won't get a felony it is absurd that the government can even use that bargaining chip in this scenario to gain leverage. This is the same kind of garbage they used against Swartz.
"Oh, and they’re [Casper mattresses] a fraction of the cost of traditional Serta, Stearns & Foster, Tempurpedic mattresses."

That's just not true. Their queen mattress costs $850, equal or above many of the listed competitors.
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But then people whine about no support for a six-year old browser.
Sounds like it could have been intentional - I see people in the banking industry constantly jumping jobs across all products and different sectors of the bank in order to gain experience and understanding of the company from all sorts of angles.
While attempting to view some of the full-sized images, I got an error message from Unicorn saying "No servers are available to service your request. Might I suggest using a static file host of some kind for the full sized images?
why must we incur additional fees to protect SPAM and telemarketers?

For the same reasons that if you had a sales team, you'd have them make cold calls.
I agree with this idea. Wordless shouts can get a lot of communication done on a football pitch when accompanied with some gesturing and a rich understanding of the immediate context.

Even among humans, with our highly codified and atomic language, there is a lot of research that hints at how important nonverbal cues are to communication.

Dolphins can seemingly identify themselves verbally, but does that mean it's part of language? It doesn't seem to be conceptually different the fact that big cats and dogs identify themselves to each other, although they do it with complex chemical markers instead of sound waves. But I don't think anyone expects to find a highly codified chemical language of "words" among cats.
Frustratingly, Donald Knuth still uses the bitmap versions; see any of the TAOCP fascicles. I don't mind the appearance that much, but OS X does a terrible job handling files with bitmap fonts.
In the context of self-driving cars, autopilot is in the category of "we're 90% done, only 90% to go!" Except much worse than that, because that implies you're about halfway there, and autopilot is maybe 10% of the way towards full self-driving.

Don't get me wrong, autopilot is super cool and really useful. The autopilot features that are currently enabled in my Model S are wonderful, and I can't wait until they're all there. But they won't be even close to full self-driving. All it will do is maintain speed intelligently based on the car in front of you, automatically stay in your lane, and switch lanes on command. It won't switch lanes on its own, it won't stop at stoplights, it won't make turns for you, or do any of the hundred other really difficult (for computers) things that are part of everyday driving.
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Poly (& the Ecoles) are a fantastic education. It's a stretch to call it well rounded since it's 100% math, science and engineering, but those programs produce a ton of grads. They can't take everyone, though. (Hyper-competitive. It's kind of like asking if Harvard produces the superstars, or are they superstars before entering) I'm a huge fan of the elite French schools, but 42 seems to fill out the rest of the pyramid. It's not a place for people in lieu of X, it's for everyone else.
Why not?

A charge that was planned to be dropped pretrial is not exactly that big of a deal.
>if San Francisco suddenly started allowing a lot of new high-rise residential developments to go up

San Francisco is allowing a lot of new high-rise residential developments to go up. Here's a list of 26 (albeit from 18 months ago):

http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/24/26_highrise_project...
Maybe the receiver of the subpoena could be charged with contempt of court if he/she ever enters the US? Not sure if that's possible under US law.
You're right, I didn't think about that.
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So if I write an article on assignment for a German newspaper, I own the copyright still?

Huh.
Multimethods, introspection and a good IDE can get you very far in this direction. For an example, see https://opendylan.org/history/apple-dylan/screenshots/browse... [There likely are older Lisp or Smalltalk implementations of this idea]
> PPAs are a thing of the past, I think. A much better way forward would be to implement a truly transactional and functional packaging system (a la nix/guix), where updates could be rolled back seamlessly.

Exactly, and this is what CoreOS does.

I see this as the role that containers fill. Systemd already supports what you describe, via systemd-nspawn, which allows native containerization, and with btrfs, which allows either persistent or ephemeral containers to be built off of a "template"[0].

Systemd is already able to run Docker images and even pull them directly from the Docker registry, so I'd rather see containers adopted as the new model of vendoring[1] rather than PPAs.

And since Debian already uses systemd now, this should be very easy to integrate.

[0] I put "template" in quotation marks because I'm using the term loosely here; nspawn uses the word template to refer to something different.

[1] Let's be frank: while PPAs can do more, 90% of the PPAs I was asked to add when I used Ubuntu were basically aimed at solving vendoring and/or versioning issues.