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The core underlying problem is traditional society benefits have been pushed onto employers in the US. This is absurd and hurts everyone. Employers don't have the same societal incentives, are less efficient at delivering them, it isn't part of their business anyway, and puts them in a position of power. Workers have a choice of not much of a safety net, or having to pick the least worst employers. If those benefits were moved back to being provided by society then it would raise the bar for all employers.

For example if paternity/maternity leave and income were society provided, then an employer could only be more generous. Even if they do nothing and fire the employees, at least those employees would get the leave and some income certainty. The same principle applies to healthcare, wages (compete with minimum wages/basic incomes etc) etc.

I think that instead of making more and more laws (each of which has more and more unintended consequences, loopholes, expenditures etc), go ahead and simplify. Treat everyone in society well, and make that treatment come from society, and not some idiotic stick poking at employers who have completely different incentives and competencies.
No, they're not. At least, children in general don't enjoy the full rights of a legal adult person. Traditionally children were viewed as property of the parents, and in many senses that's still true. Read 'adult chimpanzees' if you must.
I'd like to point out that how many calories they consume does not necessarily affect the number of calories they burn (excusing starvation mechanics since I have no idea how that works).
Nice! I think that simplification works nicely and gets the point across well.
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That's your opinion. I think it's a mind bogglingly bizarre one, but sure. But what isn't an opinion is the "resource constraints" idea. That's just wrong and unrelated. There would need be no resource constraints. In fact, without a workforce that gets old and dies, certain resources would be even more plentiful. Certainly labor. Economies would have to adapt somewhat.

It is many people's (and my) opinion that death is one of the most tragic facts of life we currently face. All that knowledge and personality and life that makes up a person just disappears? What an idiotic process. If we can put an end to it we should.
IIRC, much like the PATRIOT Act, Bill C-51 was around before the attack itself. The attack is just used as an excuse to muster the political backing to push it through.
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> builds on Ubuntu’s LXC project, which also forms the basis of Docker and its container technology.

Erm. LXC is userspace interfaces to kernel features.

Libcontainer is also userspace interfaces to kernel features.

The docker guys are the primary libcontainer developers. Docker no longer uses LXC by default.

I wouldn't consider it accurate to say LXC forms the basis of Docker's container technology, because you will never touch LXC if you use modern versions of docker.
I'm curious if there's any effort underway to refine Ubuntu's desktop UI. It's a great distro for my needs, but am always underwhelmed by the UI and how large all the buttons and elements are, plus it's use of earth tone color schemes. I feel it could do a much better job using a screen's real estate.

Doesn't even have to like Windows or OS X. Perhaps something like Material Design would be a good starting point.

Dare I say that a refined, well-polished UI for Linux would provide a great face and mainstream credibility to adopting Open Source computing.
>Washington Metro has 6 lines, 118km. No trams (under construction?).

DC is building a streetcar system. The H Street line is basically done and the streetcars are running, but there are issues to work out before it can officially open. Poor project management made it take forever and ended up having neighboring jurisdictions (Arlington) cancel their streetcar plans.

>The difference in this case is quite easily explained by density of population - Washington is much smaller than Berlin, with 700k vs 3.5 million.
DC is not less dense than Berlin is. DC is about the same density, actually. What DC is is small: DC is ~69 square miles vs 344 square miles for Berlin. The Metro actually travels relatively far into the suburbs covering far more than just DC itself (DC again being really tiny).

What is much less dense is the surrounding area. Arlington and Alexandria (both part of DC at one point, but now part of VA) are also relatively dense by US standards (especially where the Metro goes; many people do not own cars or own one car per family) but outside of those and a few other pockets of density most of the region is significantly less dense and thus the number of trips is lower.

Also, the DC area does have two commuter rails systems: MARC and VRE, run by Maryland and Virginia respectively. MARC reaches all the way to West Virginia. Based on a cursory browsing of Wikipedia (so it must be true) this seems to be what the S-Bahn is. Not sure how comparable they are though.

> However, this doesn't explain why other US cities have such poor public transit.

Many parts of the US experienced growth after cars came on the scene, and the infrastructure was designed with them in mind. This has since been shown to be a bad thing, but at the time it seemed like the way cities of the future should be built.

From then on, local governments basically mandated suburban living. Places like New York, DC, San Francisco, Chicago, etc. grew up before the car and so weren't ruined. Their suburbs may have been, but the cities themselves weren't. We are now trying to undo the damage.
read the articles - post Flash Crash they changed the rules to explicitly bar the practice, but this case alleges that spoofing was also illegal under a different rule.

The PDF was linked from: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-man-arrested-on-charges-tied...

"The case is part of a crackdown by criminal and regulatory authorities on manipulative tactics used by high-speed traders, including spoofing, which was specifically outlawed in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law.

That law was enacted after the flash crash; the CFTC is alleging that Mr. Sarao violated the Commodities Exchange Act, which also prohibits manipulative trading. It is also alleging that he violated the anti-spoofing law for trading he engaged in beginning in 2011."
I built my children out of whatever my wife was eating + a bit of material on my part.

How something came into existence shouldn't determine if its intelligence deserves protecting. Creating intelligent machines and torturing them, for instance, should definitely be a criminal act.

And if brain scanning/emulation catches up enough, then what? It's OK to torture a non-human intelligence if the source wasn't a brain scan? What if we start building our own out of composites or scratch?

Intelligence/capacity for suffering should be the deciding factor here. (And hopefully they'll breed more stupid animals for meat, until it's feasible to grow meat directly.)
Good point. I've been using IAM roles to bake the AMIs with Packer, where the key is fetched during the bake process; perhaps I'll investigate sneaker if there's time tonight.

Thanks for rubber duckying this with me!
> Sadly, I bet the way we'll end up equalizing this will be that somebody will eventually bomb a TGV

Already happened, back in '82 Carlos the Jackal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal) bombed a TGV killing 5 and injuring 50.

Nothing since, it's not really worth it, you can bomb fixed locations and get more bang for your terror bucks.
How do you define "participate in society", though, and why does it have to be human society?

I'm not deeply invested into these topics (legal or otherwise), but as your typical 30-year old engineer who grew up on Star Trek, I guess I've always wondered if it's justified to not treat intelligent animals as persons just because they're dumber than us and/or not interested in negotiation. When certain criteria are met (e.g. just from the top of my head, the ability to be sufficiently self-aware to be aware of incarceration and not like it) it seems hard not to. Ultimately it just comes down to competing for living space and picking sides, perhaps.
I 'll add my experience with asyncio and twisted:

1) debugging is way better in asyncio, with ipdb you can step in co-routine. In twisted, you will end up somewhere in internals.

2) asyncio is end of unhanded error in deferred :) (or you need to remember to add addErrback everywhere, even after addColbecks and addBoth)

3) with trial testing is frustrating, sometimes error raised in wrong test because of global event loop (for instance you forgot to mock external call). In asyncio world loop passed explicitly and this is good for testing.
We’ve all been there — you’ve searched under your car seat, tossed around the sofa cushions and you still can’t find your phone. If you know where your computer is, you can now ask Google to find your Android phone from your desktop. If the pesky phone is hiding nearby, Google can ring it for you — or you can see it on the map if you, say, forgot it at the bar. Just make sure you’ve got the latest version of the Google app installed on your device!
Wow scrolled to about minute 11 and saw this great image:

http://i.imgur.com/m3M0pZD.png

I love seeing them make an attempt of what modern technology would look like.

No matter what they do, it still screams 1960's style.

The "household monitor screen" was spot on. This is definitely happening as well as the "central bank computer." Wow, really impressive.
It gives our spy agencies additional powers to spy on Canadians. Think various sections of the USAPATRIOT Act.
Google famously ran on commodity hardware. They likely still do (although today's commodity is different than 15-20 years ago). If a piece fails, you just swap in a new piece.

Of course, there are lots of pieces, many interconnections, and many different failure modes. Some may be repairable, but you won't be repairing a HDD platter (if you're even using them), you'll just replace it with a functional piece and (hopefully) recycle the bad piece.
thanks for the response

I've noticed a weird trend where amazon created various slices of instance types a long time ago, and people have mentally gotten used to using larger ones far slower than moores law adds cores. So people will refer to something with 2 cores as "middle-of-the-road" and 32 as "extremely high-end" when in my brain thats "a cell phone" and "a 2 year old server".
Makefiles are great. But if you follow the principle "using the right tool for the right job", you'll most certainly in the end choose the building system of your infrastructure.

It would be the same if you suggest Java codebase to switch from maven to make. Yes ... it would be far difficult to do that.
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Oooo, I haven't seem that, that's pretty neat. If our current method doesn't end up working out (been doing well for over a month now) and/or I get the time to address the initial 30 sec build then I will look into this. My only concern is our sourcemaps which have been.... finicky... at best. They work fine now that I've got them working but I had a hard time getting them to correctly spit everything out. Adding YAML to the files the yanking it out may have adverse effects on our sourcemaps but the only way to know is to try it out! Thanks for the suggestion, I've got it bookmarked now!
You would think a high powered corporation in the business of entertaining humans would have a better handle on public relations. I'm flabbergasted by how badly they've handled this entire story, from the hack to the damage control.

Just so... dumb.
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Thingiverse does this: http://www.thingiverse.com/search/page:1?q=puppy&sa=

Notice that when you scroll, the page value changes, and when you scroll back up, the browser re-fetches the content.
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Good idea! Agreed SSL is a good feature I should get in there quickly. Thanks for checking out the project!
>It Gets Converted to Energy (So wrong. Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions)

This is not true. There is energy in chemical bonds, and that energy is released when the bonds break. When you burn gasoline, the mass of the resulting molecules adds up to less than the mass of the original gasoline. A tiny, tiny fraction less, but still less. Because there was energy in those bonds, and energy has mass.

It's wrong in another way, too, because even in nuclear reactions mass isn't converted into energy. Mass is mass, but energy also has mass. No mass is lost in a nuclear (or chemical) reaction, it just goes somewhere else. There is no "conversion" going on.
C-51 is a proposed anti-terror law that gives "secret police" powers (the ability for intelligence organizations to detain a suspect without charge for up to a week) and broad eavesdropping and surveillance powers without oversight (the traditional oversight body was dismantled a year ago).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera is something you might find an interesting watch.
Comcast's trump card in TWC merger case is bullcrap
I would be willing to exempt humans because we know that most humans are able to do such and we do not know what advances medicine might make. You can argue that this is speciesist, but so is killing mosquitoes for biting you (you wouldn't kill a human for the same offense, hopefully).

Conversely, many tables have 'appeared' in film, circuses, etc. so I would suggest that's too low a bar.

My personal philosophy is only to entertain the question of personhood with entities that are or most likely will become able to pose that question. So yes, if they eventually find a way to 'uplift' chimps or something like that, I'll be happy to welcome them. Conversely, it makes no sense to entertain the notion of personhood unless and until the chimps have done so themselves.
thanks! Happy that you enjoyed using Lini :)
Good. Current laws and views are very specie-ist. It's awkward for current society but some primates and dolphins are obviously sentient and should have protection. Of course they can't just fit in easily, so I suppose they have to be treated in some ways like a very retarded child.

Another issue: It's OK if a human engages in sexual activity with another human, but if a non-human does it, all of a sudden it's a terrible crime? Dolphins apparently rape for fun, so we can assume they are consenting if they go initiate or respond well to human contact.

I don't actually care about animals from an empathetic level, I just dislike the inelegance that happens from special-casing laws.
Only when talking about the entire system. In which case, yes I fully advocate for more global reasoning. Above and beyond any considerations of purity, evidently. :)
The article touches on that a bit and the point they make is that speeding and changing emissions settings are already illegal and we already have enforcement agencies in place. So additional copyright-based restrictions don't make a lot of sense here.

I'd also point out that driving on public roads is a licensed privilege (at least in the USA) - so it is conceivable that a car owner could loose the rights to drive their vehicle on public roads (potentially putting others at risk) with out loosing the rights to modify their vehicle.
As someone who have never had to deal with the question of mortality. this is really disturbing !

The frustrating part is if people throw enough money at the problem it can be solved ! its not like the problem of time-travel or anti-gravity. Ageing in just a computation problem that can be solved with enough data !

I wished my fellow humans spent a large part of the economy trying to solve it.
Hmm. All right, contrary to the law, but wouldn't the damages be zero if you don't distribute? That is, while technically illegal, wouldn't there be no penalty?

[Note well: still not legal advice.]
Nice! Endless learning tools & games to come out of this one
> But that sort of utility wouldn't support a robust nationwide network of passenger rail.

You don't need nationwide, you need regional. The East Coast and parts of the Midwest would do well with a decent train network. Sure, Chicago to Denver is never going to be reasonable, but Chicago to Indianapolis or St. Louis? That could be a train trip.

As American re-urbanizes, these sorts of trips become more and more reasonable to make by train as cars become less necessary.
akhatri_aus's post has been incorrectly flagged as a dupe. If a mod is reading they may wish to look into that.
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The automatic home cooking is ordering prepackaged (heat and serve) food off of Amazon.com or delivery.

Turns out that mass manufactured food is just as bland as mass market anything else
I feel like they butchered the character by making him 'angsty', and I personally hated the way the 3rd season ended. It exemplified everything I disliked about the 3rd season.

The opening scene for the season 1 had me hooked. They defined that character so well with that opening scene and I was immediately interested to see what this character was willing to do.

Then season 3 happened and I find he's turned into every other character in every other modern show.

I wish they had taken the approach of just making him ruthless towards the other nations in achieving the US's goals instead of the direction they went in.
Such garbage.

Another person asserting that Python 3 is going nowhere, based on their opinion and nothing more, no science, no facts, no figures.

Without any reasonable justification for this opinion then I call this complete FUD and to be entirely disregarded.
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The newspaper article (not the journal one) got essentially everything wrong...the journal article does not talk about this hum people claim to hear at all.

The paper describes a model for seismic noise generated at periods between 3 and 300 seconds (not Hz!) and I strongly doubt any human can hear that (frequency AND amplitude wise).

Seismometers did indeed record the noise for quite a while but it was mostly considered an annoyance. Now in the last decade or so we learned that we can extract useful information from the noise and this caused all kinds of new studies, some (like this one here) focused on determining the regions and mechanisms of the origin of the noise in the seismic wavefield.
I did notice some companies asking for just the github id. Good idea.
I've thought about and implemented this a number of times, and I've noticed along the way that the hate against infinite scrolling often boils down to "I just want to do things the way I've always done them, get off my lawn", or "this particular boneheaded implementation of infinite scrolling will be the case I use to damn the entire concept"

- Infinite scrolling is best used for browsing content, especially ephemeral content. It's an anti-pattern for content that needs to be managed in a granular way.

- A common argument is "I want to save this link" and return to it at a later time. Unfortunately, unless you're looking at completely static content, even e-commerce inventories change over time and page 10 isn't going to be the same content the next time you return. This is what detail views are for.

- Memory bloat is commonly cited, and yes, it's painful to implement a good scrollview, but at the same time, it's pretty much a solved problem at this point. The Mashables of the world are just too lazy to fix it. There are a number of active open-source widgets that will solve this for you. Well-thought out libraries like Angular's Ionic will deal with this transparently.

- The old "disappearing footer" is, IMO, a "dark pattern", and one that just happens to be empowered by infinite scroll. It's a business decision to make it difficult for you to get to that footer. It would take about 10 minutes of CSS to solve that problem.

I'll admit that for conversion/sales focused browsing, it's an anti-pattern. When new content keeps popping up, people are more likely to continue browsing than jump into a detail view and make a purchase. For newsfeed browsing, the hate is, for the most part, misguided.
Shirow's vision of a post-digital society is extremely forward looking for 1990. Many of the themes he was interested in 25 years ago are only starting to come into focus now, which is pretty legit for a pop scifi author.
Yeah, the "BD vs Sales" thing is exactly what I was trying to get at. My experience is that companies hiring salespeople for the first time often don't have much of a sales pipeline yet, but do have a backlog of not-very-similar bizdev and partnership conversations going on. Salespeople who jump in on the bizdev "opportunities" -- which are not what a sales lead would actually call "opportunities" -- can spend a lot of time spinning their wheels. If, on the other hand, you've got a real pipeline and existing dealflow, by all means route that to your new sales reps.
Movement, CO2 and urine.
Anyone else bothered by the fact that the format is being placed above the content? If I were cynical I would say that google has given up on trying to find good content and have retreated to optimizing over things they can measure. Sure, if there are two identical data sources then give me the pretty one, but if some horribly ugly website has exactly the knowledge I'm looking for it had bettered show up first.
Yes, but can you name another? Or shall I start listing off server software they've tried to make their own special version of and failed?
The analogy works fine. A chimp is like a baby in the sense that neither can participate in society. Babies, however, are still treated as having rights. The analogy had nothing to do with who can crush skulls.
Ah, that's fair enough; I was thinking at a more conceptual (or even just CSS rather than JS) level.
I was using their standard, not my own. Personally, I only entertain the notion of personhood with entities which are known to be capable of asserting it themselves.

So if Data shows up someday, I'm happy to welcome him. But I'm not going to go into contortions over how intelligent something is or might be unless they're able to pose these questions themselves.

I've never been impressed by the 'speciesist' argument, either. I have yet to find a person who has not killed a mosquito, or who is against wiping out deadly diseases and I find the very construction of the word designed to be emotionally manipulative.
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To be fair it is not specific to Canada, USA and Australia does the same, also at some extent New Zealand started to walk to the wrong direction. I suspect some influence from US friends.
> But a lot easier (and faster) to skip the hamburger.

I wish I found it as easy as that.
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Lets hope that a big company with the resource to pay for my Visa will have a python and data related opening where they cannot find the experienced person and decide to settle with me.
How is Canadian job market?
If we're being pedantic, you're correct. But to a pretty good approximation you can refer to the kernel features of cgroups, namespaces, etc, as LXC, and people have been doing so for a very long time. It's only recent that there were other interfaces to this such as libcontainer, and don't forget that Docker originally used LXC and still supports an LXC driver.
And next thing you know, some AI will want it's say in court, and it will likely have a very convincing argument.
> Where do you think all the water mass in a tree comes from?

Still, we don't normally assume that water is the primary component of "soil". The key realization is that a tree is not made of the dirt around it.