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How does this compare to feature-wise to jupyter (other than being a native app)?

Theoretically, it can guide operators to course-correct during a call to win over an angry customer

It's more like I feel like I have to get heated during every customer service call I might make now-a-days (at least when it comes to big companies) since calmly and rationally explaining your problem seems to give much worse results and waste much more of your own time.

This, the lauding of the engineering and business efforts involved mentioned in other comments on this article pales in comparison to the continued oppression of human rights in China and government censored access to information. Let's stop praising technology that doesn't do anything positive for the world.

The need for a deep sense of caution when working on a new frontier struck me as more rational than a stance that basically boiled down to "let's assume we haven't overlooked any potential risks".

It's an economically profitable assumption for the particular businesses which happen to operate with it. Especially when they are able to lobby congress to encourage this point of view.

Why not just wrap all your SSH packets as HTTPS?

Esser has his reasons - "Short reminder: Europeans are not allowed to disclose vulns privately to a foreign company like Apple without registering dual-use export"

I don't think of this as strictly career advancement. I think he is making an important legal and political point. If there were never serious issues while we operate under said laws, then they would never be changed or subject to question either.

There is a small number of VPS providers that accept Bitcoin (and require no identifying information) - probably this is your best bet.

The citizens here are to blame. The police are just giving the public what it wants. It's a county full of McMansions and extreme paranoia

Your comment makes it sound like the fear and paranoia are a natural consequence of the environment and the US citizens are responsible for this kind of police force.

Fear and paranoia exist in the US primarily due to the media portrayal of certain events and the fact that political parties and certain corporate interests have a lot to gain from cultivating this mentality in the population.

[1] It's notable that this story takes place just across the Potomac from where those parents got in trouble with the police for letting their kids walk home less than a mile from school.

Yes, for example the safety of children in the US - I have not seen any statistically significant evidence to support the statement that they are less safe today than they would have been 50 years ago. This is a very likely case of media and culturally induced paranoia.

Yes, but the last 25 years, for what? Unlike North Korea or China (our major economic partner) Cuba has neither a greater record of human rights abuses nor Nuclear weapons.

Edit: I'm not arguing Castro is not bad, but as far as dictators goes he is probably a lesser evil; as it stands US Foreign policy has done nothing to displace Castro* but a great deal to oppress the Cuban populace.

*(although we did displace a number of democratically elected governments in other Latin American nations) -

Suppressing the middle class,

This is the modern narrative for revolutions in Latin/South America? "Middle Class", really? Because well fed people providing for their families decided to take up arms? Or because the well-fed were a tiny minority, and the rest lived in poverty under the economic oppression of former colonialists?

The US didn't ruin Cuba's economy. Cuba did it to itself

This is almost entirely fiction, although I'm sure this is the common political narrative. Cuba is a small island in the middle of the Caribbean cut-off from it's biggest and most developed trading partner, which would have been what 70-90%+ of the economy?

But yes of - course the arch-villain fidel castro and those damn commies.

Yeah except the US basically ruined Cuba's economy with sanctions for what 50+ years? And another ~25 after there was no more soviet threat - just to stick it to the damn unrepentant commies. Because forcing the rest (majority) of the populace to experience economic hardship for dozens of years is really an admirable foreign policy.

but I hope none of pythonistas will use it and one day it will be removed from the language.

This behaviour for map with None is no longer present in python3 and raises a TypeError.

Why did this get knocked of the main-page? Is stackoverflow a penalized url now ?

PowerShell returns objects, not strings. Which means they can have as much information as you like without being overly verbose :-)

How does the user know exactly which output he is going to get? The formatting program cannot know anything about default expected output - so it either must be specified explicitly, or objects must distinguish between default_for_formatter_to_output fields and more_verbose_hidden_fields - I'm really not a fan of the amount of man <command_name> using Unix involves, - but is the alternative really much better?

I'm not familiar with PowerShell, but wouldn't following through with this principle mean that the default program has to give maximally verbose output to the piped formatter, since the formatter can only filter rather than extend the original command.

I imagine to achieve the default functionality your command must be significantly more verbose, if this philosophy is followed through 100%, or you have a lot of per-configured default formatters (and you have to remember what to pipe to which). Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, it's very neat in principle though.

That's a narrow way of looking at it. More likely rule by government will simply be replaced with rule by cooperations (e.g. Gibson's trilogy) - it's not an unexpected movement since the role of governments has weakened significantly since the time when a large standing army in Europe gave dominance to a nation.

Will it be worse for the average person/family? Probably, yet I tend towards seeing it as a natural historical movement rather than some kind of craftily-perpetrated evil. For example Spengler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler) writes about the dominance of money and commercial interest as being the primary value at the aged point of a civilizations development (cf. the last couple centuries of ancient Rome).

I second the Thinkpad. I've been using a X1 Carbon w/ Archlinux and it's great, almost everything works straight out of the box - and the archwiki for Lenovo products is quite comprehensive (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Lenovo).

The one thing to be wary off is some alterations they made to the keyboard/trackpad in a few of the models (I think they may have reversed the changes most recently, but make sure you are getting the classic one).

So logically, being one of the few places which allow transfer of gift card balances

One of their first concerns should be is any facet of this affected by race conditions? It's not that complicated of a problem really..

Either way enough relatives of deceased drug abusers testified at sentencing, and enough heartless chat logs of DPR's were introduced as evidence, to rather eviscerate the idea that Silk Road was completely "victimless".

By that logic relatives of deceased drunk-driving victims should be testifying against bars and liquor store proprietors as well.

I think while most expected this kind of outcome, the comments coming out in support are really a round-about kind of way of expressing various posters underlying opinion about U.S. drug laws and policies as ridiculous, draconian, counter-productive and harmful.

I have a mild bias against altcoins, and have heard bad things about Namecoin in particular: that the anti-spam incentives aren't good, leading to illegal files stored in the blockchain itself, and that there's no compact representation (like Bitcoin's Simplified Payment Verification) for determining whether a claimed name is valid without consulting a full history.

Security-wise Namecoin is a weaker Blockchain, but I think in this case it's not that important. -- Are not the anti-spam measures hurting users as much as spammers in this case? Since you end up with higher-costs for what is otherwise practically free with a centralized service.

From the looks of it there is no reason that Bitcoin's Simplified Payment Verification wouldn't be usable with Namecoin either.

edit: Also this may be interesting to take a look at https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/vandenhooff-ver...

Yes, it appears I was wrong lumping Norway into there, http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=36499.

You couldn't actually not work in former socialist countries though. At least in the Soviet Union this was actively persecuted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_%28social_offense%2...)

But I do think think that countries which offer a great deal of socialized benefits (such as Finland, Sweden etc.) have a significant problem with a unemployment in the youngest generation of the labor force.

If you'd actually bothered to read the article you'd see that in the pilot project productivity went up.

Unemployment dropped as well, from 60% to 45%, and there was a 29% increase in average earned income, excluding the basic income grant.

Also from the wiki link posted by OP:

As published in a recent report, "All those dollars low-wage workers spend create an economic ripple effec. Every extra dollar going into the pockets of low-wage workers, standard economic multiplier models tell us, adds about $1.21 to the national economy. Every extra dollar going into the pockets of a high-income American, by contrast, only adds about 39 cents to the GDP."

There could be statistics that support the argument that you are making as well but I don't think that:

"I'd have to imagine..."

without any references to support your statement contribute anything meaningful to the discussion.

Walking is a method of operation.

That's not the way most people are using the term, if you are going to use it differently from everyone else, you should clarify the meaning of your usage of the term.

The concept of a function...is different than the description...

I would say that's either not true or entirely non-obvious, because to establish that the concept is what is being described in the later case is you had to provide some form of description in the previous case, in this case:

  > a function with the name cupcake that takes an integer and returns an   integer

  > int cupcake(int x)

The interoperability aspect is a red herring--there is no right to interoperate.

Not a lawyer, but I was under the impression that the Supreme court indeed has and at times does consider the effect on the common good from a particular interpretation of a law in their decision making.

There is nothing contradictory about it: as you say, the API is not the method of operation, it's one of many possible descriptions of the method of operation. I don't think anyone is confused by what an API is--its a simple concept.

Then what exactly is an API, if it's so clear and simple to define in your opinion?

Depending on how one stretches it, everything that is not assembly is an API. I don't know the details of the particular legal argument involved but it's going to get very murky if you claim certain levels of abstraction are copy-rightable and others are not.

No, I only got to this part: Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge or configuration by the user

And the part where I couldn't manually manipulate what was being blocked. Since apparently multiple pop-up adds on-click were not violating the user principle of consent...

I tried Privacybadger for about 5 minutes: it was awful (significantly worse than ABP), - it's shameful that the EFF wasted donation money to finance a crap project like that, rather than support e.g. https://github.com/gorhill

Can't we just get Namecoin or another blockchain based service supported in major browsers, so ICANN is no longer a sole monopolist?

It would be nice if flagging had a generic selection as in stackexchange reasons for flagging, and users could vote to remove flags.

While there are certainly highly up-voted topics that deserve to go to the bottom for other reasons - I don't think this is one of them.