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> the EU parliament is a fairly powerless institution.

Nope. The EU Parliament (elected), the Commission (periodically nominated by national governments) and the Council (meeting of national governments) are the three "heads" of the EU political system, and they are locked in a constant struggle to determine the exact boundaries of their powers. The Parliament is the youngest institution, hence the historical disregard of entrenched interests; at the same time, it's the institution most hungry for power, because it's the only one with a clear democratic mandate.

As others mentioned, software patents were a battlefield for such struggle: the Commission repeatedly recommended their introduction (IIRC, at the behest of a certain Microsoft-friendly Irish commissioner), and the Parliament repeatedly sent them packing. You will find several other instances of this happening: the democratic mandate of the EU Parliament in most cases will eventually trump backroom agreements in the Commission, as long as the topic becomes mainstream enough to invoke such mandate.

In future, the institution that is destined to become more and more powerless is one between the Council and the Commission, since their scope overlaps now that the Parliament has taken over the "legislative" process earlier left to the Commission.
I wouldn't use the word exposing for something that was already in a book and known by enough people to be an annoyance.

I also wouldn't use the phrase private details for "she talked with some guy one night, nothing ever came of it".
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> similar to what is required for FDA medical devices

Given how often we hear about gaping security holes in all sorts of medical devices, that doesn't seem like a particularly high standard.

Does anyone know whether Boeing and Airbus have higher standards for software quality?
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This Face? http://moreinoananze.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-is-britney-spears-making-this-face.html
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Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End deals with the occurrence of an AI singularity (among other things).
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Another example of where more brains doesn't necessarily mean evolutionary advantage is modern humans. It can be seen all over the world that the less intelligent procreate more.

The intro to Idiocracy makes the point well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1-340ODCM

It's kind of a joke, but also really not. It's frightening.
I used a different title because "Ripping Off Rizia" feels clickbaity.
I'm in Australia - also relatively free, but there are worrying signs of it developing here. There's already a backlash against it though, so there is hope.
This meme bugs me because it is possible to heed the advice while still speaking to the police. I find that the only people who parrot it are those who have never been on the other end of the table. I've seen random people run over and advise a witness to "not talk to the police" while they were describing what happened to an officer at the scene of an accident. You can't package deeper context with something simple like "don't talk to the cops" and expect people to understand it. I think this general advice does more harm than good because of the way it's delivered.

The correct conclusion to come away with from the advice is to be vigilant when interacting with those who have the power to prosecute you, and often that means invoking your right to remain silent -- but not always. You should also know when you need a lawyer -- again, not always. If the cops knock on your door because they're looking for a lost kid, calm down and get over yourself, they're not looking for you.

Sadly, you and me get that, but others take the advice to the extreme and I've seen both of my examples firsthand.
Well, X-rays of course. There's a pretty strong case to be made that exposure to uv increases skin cancer rates.

I'm sure you mean the lower frequency stuff though, and yeah, that's probably pretty safe.
But that relies on smart people having figured stuff out to the point where it is no longer an advantage. If human intelligence declined to the point where we lost that kind of knowledge, then being smarter could probably become a benefit that's selected for. Rinse, repeat?
I'm a victorian (UniMelb) who has moved to Sydney fairly recently. What are the good meetups in Sydney for recent CompSci graduates?
Lovely article highlighting the difficulties in Japan. The guy is still in a very small minority.
Why do I not do everything in bash?

Because the syntax for if statements and while loops is godawful. I've taught it to myself at least 30 times.

Also, there is no debugger, so I can't step through my code like I can with pub.

Also, the tooling around automated testing is worse.
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Yea, it would be better to specifically refer to SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0.
Your way still works. Syslog can ship over the network since forever.

It's a security pattern to have the logs shipped to another host in production anyway.
Really motivating, thanks!
Also makes me miss the layout practices circa 2008 — a simple ~800px centered container, plain & simple. No responsive Bootstrap-style voodoo, no fancy & bloated javascript extras.
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I'm not sure openly publishing salaries is collusion, which usually is a (secret) attempt by a few players to set prices for everyone. Like in the law firm example, all this affects only the top companies. Also, different structures can create economics outcomes that vary by 2-3x, no market failure needed. Take a look at a small example like Hired.com - firms openly bidding on engineers has resulted in salaries that seem to be 50-100% higher than those achieved absent such a structure.
Ok, you've got me with IBM VM :-) But, I understand what they are getting at. In fact, the GNU/Linux love I am, I actually subscribe to Jaron Lanier's view that we are too attached to our long-held ideas of what computers and operating systems need to be...
I would be interested in seeing any of these quantified. And I'm not asking for people to educate me, but rather for people to take a more careful look at which claims can be directly justified by the science, vs which claims are assertions made based on extrapolating from very different data.

The claim was that the population size of Tristan da Cunha is problematic. I still haven't seen any direct evidence presented of this fact.
That's why it is important to always refuse to talk, refuse to let enter, refuse consent to searches. Do it as a matter of habit so that you don't end up lying.
I have found `xmlstarlet` to be really useful for working with XML. You can achieve a lot with some basic XPath expressions. No need to learn XSLT. (I should actually update my book Data Science at the Command Line to include this tool.)
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No. No one tried to the best of my knowledge. I personally know to whom I may address your potential enquiry, but I doubt the existing process of decision making in Belarus will produce any fast answers. The best way is to go there and talk if you are really interested.
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"Your VPN provider's IP address is public information. A quick subpoena is all it would take to reveal your identity. Seems like a risky way to watch Game of Thrones. At least on Usenet a download is just a download."

A subpoena can only work if the VPN services keeps logs of its user's transactions. Some do and some don't. Without logs there is nothing to subpoena. When evaluating a VPN it is very important to find out whether or not they do. As of now U.S. VPN's cannot be forced to keep logs.

A well regarded resource for such evaluation is:

https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/

A non-logging VPN with end to end encryption is absolutely required for safety using anything that transfers copyrighted material without permission. That includes both versions of Popcorn Time. Not taking this precaution is very, very expensive.
You just justified the existence of OP's API with your explanation.
I often stop reading long articles because, as you mention, there is simply too much fluff. I have better things to do than reading 10 pages of what could have been said with 4.

But this, this I read until the very end, and I liked it. I liked how the author reflected upon himself. It was good.
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I tried Jykell, Hugo, Octopress and similar ones, and they work great unless you come to the part when you can't ( or not as easy ) to blog on the go, and you should use your laptop for that purpose.
Thanks! That's a good one. These peons are using very light version, probably 6 kilos or such. The original Kolesov's planting sword is very heavy. But mind the Darth Vader style of breating in that video. This is very true.
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I do not believe spread spectrum transmission allows for lower transmit or receive power. This would mean that you would just be submitted to more radiation instead of less.
Broadcasting the exact usage of Tor exit nodes would be a net loss for privacy. While everyone should be using HTTPS over Tor and treating the exit node as they would a massive public open WiFi spot, not everyone does so. Putting such users at risk publicly exposing accidental usages of HTTP doesn't help.

Furthermore, releasing the previous-hop starts to degrade the privacy of Tor, a little bit. That's not a good thing.

LE can figure out how to go after "pedophiles and terrorists" using other gumshoe techniques, instead of trying to downgrade everyone's opsec.

Not to mention this idea of vigilantism is... a terribly bad idea (to put it politely)? You're actually advocating that people go lynch/kill others based on Internet traffic logs. Nothing's stopping all sorts of sites from embedding links to "bad" content and framing people. Or, exit nodes can just fake the log information if they wanted to.
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Daniel Wolpert has a TED talk where he makes this point [1]. And I think he's basically got it right. Certainly there are organisms that can move without a nervous system (single celled amoebas, venus fly traps, etc) but by and large you need an (electrical) brain if you are going to react to something on a fast timescale.

1. http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_wolpert_the_real_reason_for_...
I guess you are the author of linked paper. Well done.

I wonder if you have any opinions on how useful higher-kinded types (HKTs), one of the most requested features for Rust, would have been in implementing this OS. For example the absence of HKTs means that Rust can't have smooth and general handling of monads that is comparable to Haskell's. Would Haskell-style monads or Arrows have been helpful?
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It was the revalation that what he, and evidently you, think is innocent, is not de facto true. It was not innocent to them, and he realized that he was warned of this but didn't respect it.

It illustrates a great point about freedom of speech: You are free to say what you want, but that does not mean it's without consequences.
It is the best book, but i do hate that he uses his own wrappers, that kills the code samples in my use cases
Good grief you guys. How many films do you think make that kind of money? Billion dollar film franchises happen about as often as billion dollar startups - often enough to be something you might get lucky with, but the odds of that happening for you are staggeringly low. And even then, those films have as much or more spent on advertising as on the production, which is part of why it's such a high-risk business and major studio offerings are so conservative in terms of storytelling, casting etc..

A prepay model is what we have now. The largest 6 studios have the resources to open a film globally if they really want to (eg this will probably happen with the new Star Wars movie, and most likely the new Avengers one coming out in a few days), but generally international distributors sign contracts to buy a film in advance at a certain price and those are used as collateral in obtaining financing, but this model is falling apart under pressures from piracy, Netflix, and other factors.

If you mean prepay as in Kickstarter, that model doesn't work for features. Well, I should qualify a little - it can work for feature documentaries, because there is an existing community for many interests and people are very interested in seeing their pet interest/issue treated in movie form, without being too picky on quality. And of course it works well if you have a book or a comic or an unfashionable old TV show or something that has a small number of very dedicated fans, eg the Veronica Mars project last year, or fans of a particular actor. I call these 'fanservice' films - they're basically franchise properties, but franchises too small for Hollywood to care about. You can also get some mileage out of community fanservice, eg if your story appeals to people of an under-represented demographic like people from a particular country, LGBT people, or similar.

But if you just want to make an ordinary narrative film pitched at a broad audience - a drama, thriller, whatever - it doesn't work well at all. Dig through the major (and some minor) crowdfunding sites, and you see hardly any feature projects meet their funding targets. This should (I hope) change a bit later this year or early next, when the SEC finally opens up the possibility of crowdfunding equity under title III of the JOBS act, because while the risk is high at least there's an incentive to invest, whereas under existing crowdfunding models you have to come up with a mix of merchandising swag (which is not free to provide) and weird high-ticket rewards like getting a hot air balloon trip with the lead actor or something to land a couple of big donations.
Use an online editor like cloud9 and github - see https://docs.c9.io/v1.0/docs/jekyll .
Why being poor or living outside western culture means less intelligent?
I think it's more than that other message queues are "another piece of infrastructure." In fact, many other message queues are several pieces of software, and while I can appreciate the modular-nature / separation of concerns, it can be very overwhelming to introduce, for example, JVM, Zookeeper, another DB, and the queuing software to handle the above. I'd much rather have a single, small, and yet still powerful piece of software like Redis, and if Disque can be that without the performance issues introduced by mapping a message queue over Redis, that seems to be a huge gain.

This is different enough from Redis that I don't see how they directly compete. Of course, if you already have a system setup and no performance constraints with what you have, of course you shouldn't change.
And on Node.js, whatever thing you run probably gets put into a bog-standard thread pool. So all that's really happening is that your IO requests are getting sent to a limited number of long-running threads. Run enough operations at the same time and you can tie up the thread pool, which most people don't even know exists. In some ways, it's the worst of both worlds: it has the limitations of a thread pool with the API complexity of a callback system.
Unfortunately my experience. If you want to learn how to code professionally, don't work at a startup (except as a lesson on how not to do it).
I had a few hypotheses on this:

- There is more to the story, and the public part was enough for islanders to deduce the full story given what they knew. E.g. she had a child to the sailor who was raised by someone else, or she had an abortion.

- Extra marital sex was so taboo in their culture than a story that even implied it might have happened would be a scandal.

- The husband simply found the story offensive, and had enough influence in the community to get the journalist banned.
As a guy that had his name run for bench warrants while being a witness to a traffic accident, you can speak for yourself. In some cases nothing good comes about speaking to police, especially in minority/poor communities.
First, I never said anything about western culture. (Note that the example is inside America.) Second, the poor generally don't have the same access to good education so in general it is true. Third, I edited my comment because I know they're not equal and it was a mistake.
Came here to say Rich. I attribute a large percentage of my programming skill solely to his talks.

Honorable mentions:

- Nathan Stott (worked with me early in my career and taught me to love Javascript)

- Michael Lopp (aka Rands in Repose)

- Gary Bernhardt

- José Valim

- Joe Armstrong

- Yehuda Katz

- My dad (who taught me patience and the value of hard work)

- Harvey Specter

- Thomas Ptacek (whose consulting wisdom I cannot appreciate enough)
Google Hollow Earth. There are many conspiracy theory sites handling it, but I think it is a quite interesting concept nontheless.
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Adding Shipping Costs to Germany bumps the price to about 22 USD (currently, 21EUR is what the receipt says). Considering the number of pages in this book in relation to its price, it is slightly expensive compared to your average "normal" book.

When comparing to other education text books though I'd not be able to complain. Neither am I, as I still think it was worth it, if just to support the author and to have an addition to the bookshelf.
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> I was under the impression that all traffic was encrypted.

Welllll....

IIRC, traffic entering the Tor network and traffic between Tor nodes is encrypted with TLS. This means that the only place an adversary that doesn't have a compromised entry node can read your traffic is when the exit node makes any non-encrypted requests on your behalf.

To summarize: if you use TLS (or some other encrypted transport) over Tor, your communications will always be encrypted (obviously).

If you use an unencrypted transport over Tor, then the exit node[0] will be able to read your traffic, in exactly the same way that your ISP would be able to read that traffic if you chose to route it over your home Internet connection. :)

[0] But only the exit node!
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As a guy who spent four months in county pretrial detention on three felonies and a misdemeanor and no bail, I do speak for myself. I didn't speak to the police and lawyered up and I spent 119 days in jail. The next time, the FBI came; this time, I was suspicious but not actually involved, and I carefully spoke to the FBI without a lawyer and remained a free man. It's almost as if there's more to it than the Fifth Amendment.

And yeah, if you're riding a warrant, you probably shouldn't give your name to a law enforcement officer. That's called being stupid, and if you think it's shady to have your name run when a peace officer interacts with you and knows your name, you have some case law to read. That's their job. Witness details go in the same exact system.

I get the gist of the advice but I'm tired of seeing knobs on YouTube with their phone out recording an officer while shouting "I invoke my rights!" over and over again, and I think part of it is the way this advice is interpreted.
Minor mistake in stating the theorem about p^2 = 2 q^2.

As stated, p = q = 0 is a valid solution.
A bit more caution: if using a VPN's client application it is very important to ensure that they have a kill switch option which shuts down all internet traffic should the VPN connection drop. Many don't. Without that, your machine will continue to babble the copyrighted material in the unencrypted clear after a drop. Unless you are attending the transfer you may never know that is happening.

Alternatively, most all VPN services in addition to offering their own client app also provide URL's that you can plug into standard Windows VPN connections. Then you can use the VPNCheck application which provides a global kill switch that will stop all traffic if any Windows VPN disconnects. That's the route I choose.
I don't get the difficulty here. Contextual synonyms are similar. And different. Running concurrently with someone else is not the same as running parallel with them. Though, to go parallel with them, you likely were running concurrently. At least in most contexts.
Yeah, we did have a dark ages that lasted for a thousand years. Nothing says the same thing can't happen again.
Thank you. however, when it comes to upload and/or manage pictures (or other assets ) to github, it won't work. only text editing.
Except that Netflix has a really bad selection of movies and it's getting worse and worse as they seem to be focusing all their money and energy on producing their own content. I'm hoping someone can come along and do Netflix right now that Netflix has decided to go all HBO on us.
What will happen when photons reach the outer boundary of the universe? Where time and space starts to slow down ... Will the photon also slow down, and then take an elliptic path? Might explain why the universe seem to expand in all directions.
“Dark pattern” UI design – Google makes it awkward to remove all your history
I went to secondary school with some people who went there 10 years ago, did this style of course and now work on kernels for Apple, etc.
For the ultimate in "dark pattern" user interface design check out the unbelievably awkward interface for removing your history from Google.

http://history.google.com/

1. Initially the history page asks you just to stop your search browser history.
Most people would assume that this is all required but this doesnt delete your previous search history which has to be manually removed via a very clunky process by Google standards. This is all hidden away through several levels of menu.

2. There is no single click button to delete all your history

3. You have to individually remove your history from each of the following sections (hidden by default until you click on a button) -> Location history, Device state history, Voice search history, Video search history, Videos watched history.

4. You have to turn off history recording for all the sections individually and then manually remove the existing prior history on top of this (not obvious).

5. Even for each of the history sections, you cannot globally delete with one click, you have to delete one page at a item (20 items to a page).
This means to delete a couple of years retained data your looking at 50 actions or so.

Again how easy would it be to make a button that stops all recording and deletes all history?
> It's kind of a joke, but also really not. It's frightening.

It is a joke.

Idiocracy relies on the assumption that the "more intelligent" people are snobs and too busy and too perfectionist with their life to have children, while the "less intelligent" people are mostly having sex and are too lazy to apply contraception properly.

Essentially, the first half of the movie is a justification for elitism.

I'm less afraid of Idiocracy to become true, but more afraid of politicians acting as if they believed in this movie.

The second half of this movie is more interesting, though. It may be interpreted as an analogy of how the most gifted people (in the sense of "intellectual giftedness") may feel living in today's world. (by putting today's "normal" people into a dumb world) But even that is, of course, a funny hyperbole, and nothing to take too seriously.
In my country the only acceptable beggar would be a 18 years old who lost his both parents who were in debt, all of them having only the nationality of my country. I saw one guy in this situation... hell of a situation.
Every other beggar are just lazy parasites who prefer to live thanks to charity than work.