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Exactly, good questions, that's what I was wondering as well!

After looking around, I think this is complete bullshit. I mean, it's a normal website with a normal HTTP download. The only difference is that the payment method is Ether.

So I think calling this "blockchain-based" is sensationalist.
Strange but we made website on same idea at HackZurich :)
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While the leaked data is probably not cool and shows internal information which a client should never see, the alarmist tone - HACKED! NO SSL! - is not approbriate here… I think this is "just" a dumped HTTP GET request between the SSL termination and the ultimative server (and not, as the article assumes, some data from some client).
People think all banks have the highest level of secure coding practices. Having worked at a financial company with a bank I know its not remotely true.
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Hey, author here. I am happy for all questions or every kind of feedback.
Me too. Native advertising is plain evil, in a way even the worst drive-by malware flash popups aren't. They're ads designed with the sole purpose of tricking readers into thinking they're viewing a real article, and they abuse the trust readers have towards the news source. I think John Olliver covered the topic well enough[0], so let me just say that I only hope that Upvoted will label the ads clearly so that it's obvious for everyone they're reading paid content (imagine advertisers letting them do that, though...).

> It could be a piece on Tesla

Wait, since when Tesla does native ads? Do they do ads at all?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc
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Why something have to be the worst for someone to be fed up with it?
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When you lookup "surface code" the first thing that comes up is "toric code". Off hand there's the toric code, the 3d toric code, welded toric code, color codes, and the surface code itself (which is a lattice of "measure qubits" next to a lattice of "data qubits"). The basic idea on all of them is the same as Kitaev's original insight of topologically protected data. IMO its completely fair to lump these together as "surface codes".

If you disagree with my choice of words then I'm happy to concede and rephrase. If something else I said doesn't sound kosher please by all means lmk.
Here's a statement from the creator: http://dinakelberman.com/imgoogle/imgoogle.html

The relevant bit:

>Firstly, lots of people ask if it's an algorithm or something. It's not! Just me searchin google.

>Secondly, a lot of people assume this blog is therefore made predominantly by using the "visually similar" function on Google Image Search, which is a totally reasonable thing to assume. While I definitely employ that function in my attempts to search thoroughly (and love it for it's own beautiful results), surprisingly little of the piece is actually constructed using it! Visually Similar appears to employ a logarithm based mainly on color percentages in an image, and as I'm Google is based more often in conceptual similarities than color-wash similarities, my searching is almost entirely relient on keywords rather than searching by image. Of course, there are times when Visually Similar has helped with a transition or section here or there, but overall, it's not the way I work.
Price is dropping fast.

http://nycitycab.com/business/taximedallionlist.aspx.

Current owners are putting it up for sale for less than $600,000.

I guess it's uber effect.
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EU banks also have special rules for US persons. There are special courses on how to properly determine whether someone counts as US person or not. Nobody cares about other countries.
I think we should be aiming for major positive scenario.

We don't have much choice, otherwise genetic malfunctions will get us sooner or later. The way we're having children now (few, low child mortality) is a way to breed genetic defects.
I hope you are not agreeing with the "SJW" monicker.
If Google deep dream was the visualizations you might see on LSD, Google chains is like following a conversation of people on LSD =D
And this: https://adactio.com/journal/1331
I think some of these points are gross exaggerations.

> You immediately increase the things your servers have to do tenfold.

Really? It's ten times as much work to implement microservices?

> Personally, I’ve seen slowdowns on the order of 1000% when moving to microservices (yes, ten times slower).

Then you implemented your microservices wrong.

I think that the author's understanding of the goals and purposes of microservices is maybe a bit misguided. Microservices are about front-loading scaling problems, not about having a clean architecture or smaller codebase. If you never need to scale, you don't need microservices (but you're probably wrong).

The flowchart at the end of the post really underscores for me that this author's argument is not genuine. He holds up this shibboleth of a "monolithic" architecture, something that doesn't really exist in 2015.
Micro service architecture is good to evolve a monolith project who need to scale when dealing with a huge amount of calls. It's great to be able to experiment with different implementations and technologies, do A/B testing. It enforces to have single responsibility modules at architecture level avoiding bad practices if you are dealing with different/remote dev teams.

You have challenges, though. One of them is when implementing micro services you need a cultural change in your business to be able to adapt to the change. You need to deal with more complex architecture, you need to implement your own solution to deal with the architecture, spend time defining a dev ops culture if there is none, ...

Businesses are usually pretty different between others so you can not expect to have the same solution to deal with your problems (For example, using Netflix approach as a silver-bullet solution).

I've heard so many times the concept "micro services" as the goal as same as "big data" as the solution. Again, we should analyze what is our problem and what we want to solve before selling the new shiny thing and making things over complicated.
You can't just up wage offers and see results. HGV driving already pays good wages here - upwards of $750 p/w and it costs something like $1500 to get qualified.

Even if you only work for a year, you will recoup your investment so I don't think it can possibly be people thinking that "I'm not going to be an HGV driver because robots will take my job, I shall stay here in McDonald's on minimum wage"

So it can't be a purely wage issue that keeps millions of people in low pay / unemployment and not behind an HGV steering wheel.
I can't find where the about link is, but here's the about text i found on the source code:

I’m Google is an ongoing tumblr blog in which batches of images and videos that I cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. Both the searching and arranging processes are done manually. The batches move seamlessly from one subject to the next based on similarities in form, composition, color, and theme. This results visually in a colorful grid that slowly changes as the viewer scrolls through it. Images of houses being demolished transition into images of buildings on fire, to forest fires, to billowing smoke, to geysers, to bursting fire hydrants, to fire hoses, to spools of thread. The site is constantly updated week after week, batch by batch, sometimes in bursts, sometimes very slowly. <br><br>
The blog came out of my natural tendency to spend long hours obsessing over Google Image searches, collecting photos I found beautiful and storing them by theme. Often the images that interest me are of industrial or municipal materials or everyday photo snapshots. I do not select images or videos that appear to be intentionally artistic. Happily, the process of researching various themes in this way has lead to unintentionally learning about topics I might never have otherwise, including structural drying, bale feeders, B2P, VAWTs, screw turbines, the cleveland pack, and powder coating.

I feel that my experience wandering through Google Image Search and YouTube hunting for obscure information and encountering unexpected results is a very common one. My blog serves as a visual representation of this phenomenon. This ability to endlessly drift from one topic to the next is the inherently fascinating quality that makes the internet so amazing.

A NOTE ON THE PROCESS

Just wanted to add a note on how I make this blog, as I have seen people wonder the same couple things frequently.

Firstly, lots of people ask if it's a algorithm or something. It's not! Just me searchin google.

Secondly, a lot of people assume this blog is therefore made predominantly by using the "visually similar" function on Google Image Search, which is a totally reasonable thing to assume. While I definitely use that function in my attempts to search thoroughly (and love it for it's own beautiful results), surprisingly little of the piece is actually constructed using it. Visually Similar appears to employ an algorithm based mainly on color percentages in an image, and as I'm Google is based more often in conceptual similarities than color-wash similarities, my searching is almost entirely relient on keywords rather than searching by image. Of course, there are times when Visually Similar has helped with a transition or section here or there, but overall, it's not the way I work.

I hope you enjoyed my first FAQ

&ndash; Dina Kelberman
You're being downvoted because it's not "just fine" to verbally abuse and harass people. This has nothing to do with complaining for the sake of complaining, this is about not wanting to work in a hostile environment.
We made it here too. Do you have a url to share?
A network protocol is only a small component of a microservice in terms of affecting performance, by far the biggest difference is an in-process call vs network/IPC call. The latter is at least hundreds time slower due to how computers work [0].

I'm talking about a function call overhead only so if the actual processing takes more than a few milliseconds it stops being important.

[0] http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_laten...
If Oreo cookies give me money and I make videos about Oreos I need to include the word "advert" or similar in the name of the video.

You can link to that how you like. I can't, I need to make sure there's a difference between promoted content and my real content.
Can you please shed some light on what the genetic disease that your family is suffering from?
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You don't necessarily need to build the monolith - design it first, for sure, but then pick apart the design and see where the individual components lie.
The big difference between Jobs/Apple and the rest was that Jobs was able to think of products as interlocking markets and systems, with a fine design gloss.

Most companies and engineers think of products as functional units differentiated by technical specs.

The answer to "What does this do for the user?" is never "16GB of RAM and a quad-core processor."

Blackberry and Nokia half understood this, but never quite got it to work reliably as a product pipeline.

That creative ability to design markets rather than selling widgets is immensely valuable in business, and correspondingly hard to find.

Corporate hierarchies typically select against it, which is why so many large corps can only hold onto customers by bullying them, browbeating them with ad spend or sales visits, trying to lock them in technically, or cultivating middle management spending decision inertia.
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I think hounding and insulting Linus does comes at least a bit from self protection. I can just assume the amount of wacky ideas he might get on daily basis, that would have little or no value in the product. Being aggressive about low quality ideas is to limit the input that is wasting his time. And to end the discussion and not to waste more time on explaining why he doesn't want to consider that any longer than he already has.

Just trying to understand why he behaves as he does.
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Because you can't control other people, but you can control how you react internally to what they say.

Thinking about what they are saying in an appropriate way will lead to an appropriate emotional response.

If you can't do that, and you are feeling inappropriate emotions, the only other option you have is to just quit. Which is what she did.

It isn't even a male vs. female thing. Men are constantly assholes to other men.
I think that's more a result of the kind of person that adopts a cargo cult mentality.
You are causing cognitive dissonance in people that have bought into "diversity/inclusiveness/feeling safe is the best thing in the world" ideology and language by showing them that they are optional and not that important. They feel discomforted, so express their frustration by downvoting you.

Edit: Got a downvote brigade that trawled my old posts. Thank you people.
Those subreddits are huge. What's your definition of a mainstream subreddit?
It doesn't have to be either-or. There is room to support entrepreneurship programs and direct cash aid to the poorest and antimalarial nets and civil society programs. The one lesson the past century of international development efforts should have taught us is that there is no single silver bullet. A complex web of measures, not all of them spectacularly successful, may not fit in a blog post or a TED talk, but neither does the world and its complexities.
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Isn't screening sperm donors for inheritable diseases already eugenics?
> but wouldn't it be nice if it worked better?

Yes, so simply prove that having an official code of conduct and that enforcing it wouldn't cause more harm than good.

Show me a big-corp that's more agile and effective and gets things done better than a startup and I'll totally believe in the power of a fully staffed HR slash police department in promoting effective work. I don't think that happens very often (if at all) but being able to point out that it works for dozens or hundreds of big companies would be pretty convincing. I'd love to be wrong about this actually!

The other problem is that it's a volunteer "organization" and as such there's not much you can do to kick people out. They're mostly hired by outside companies and those companies would have to choose to fire them for failing to adhere to a standard that they themselves don't set, so they'd be outsourcing the management of their own people to a certain extent. I suspect they wouldn't be keen to agree to this.

> Do you really think that widespread open nastiness means there are no politics now?

I would venture to guess that at least the nastiness now means that the politics are mostly out in the open and that it's easier to navigate.

It's possible to eke out tremendous performance gains making small changes inside hot loops with computers these days because processors don't expose their characteristics very well. The CPU is happy to execute some kind of awful loop that causes it to wait hundreds or thousands of cycles per iteration because you're column indexing instead of row indexing.

This might be in some ways analogous to what happens when everyone has to be polite; nobody can tell you what you did wrong lest they get yelled at by the be-nice-police and things slow way down as people have to hint and guess as to what the problems are.

I don't think there is anything such as a free lunch; unintended consequences are rife in the world. Suggesting that the linux kernel could work better, free of unintended consequences seems to be a bold claim. But the great thing about hackers, geeks and nerds is that solid evidence trumps politics and preference.
That makes Ayn Rand and her followers sad. I for one think it's great if all that is reported is true. Some places in the world need that extra nudge to help them on the right economic track.
Do you think you can do microservices without devops? I see the correlation you're making but I think a more traditional organizational structure can work fine.
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Well, Linus succeeds in keeping off crap code because he is not afraid calling crap crap.

Might be it appears hostile, but it forces people to submit quality code.
I don't have much experience with the Linux community, but it seems there should be a difference between telling someone their idea or implementation is terrible and telling them that they are terrible.

It is possible to give honest, direct feedback without personally attacking someone, and I don't see why it would be necessary or desirable to include personal attacks in a technical discussion.

If an idea is technically bad, it should be sufficient to point out the technical flaws without defaming the character of the contributor.
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I'm surprised that the detection rate was so low for the prices/taxes/totals since there's such a limited character set. Was the number placement so different from receipt to receipt that you couldn't train the parser to expect numbers in a certain area?
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Funnily enough, I cited my use of INTERSECT and EXCEPT as examples of my SQL expertise in an annual review a few years ago. It's not that they're complicated--they're piss easy--but they are little-known tools that can make you look like a wizard compared to other SQL "experts" who only use two types of JOINs.
Although unfortunate, your experience doesn't seem to be directly related to the community that Sharp is experiencing problems with. She is talking about working with Linux-the-kernel, not a particular distribution of GNU/Linux. What I mean to say is that "the Linux community" in this case refers to kernel hackers, not to Debian, Ubuntu, or whatever other distro maintainers. There are different attitudes and factions within those larger communities.

I also find a bit of a contradiction between you praising bluntness and honesty while at the same wishing for not being nasty to high school children. It is kind of impossible to have both. I would prefer if people were cautious, not blunt.
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Good. Hopefully this puts pressure on the USA to rein in its out of control security state.
The research: https://gist.github.com/Ayms/f2da9f860775ead2066e
this is kind of the problem, though. surely you can see there's a difference between bluntness or directness and meanness or cruelty? we can have the former without the latter.
That's somewhat disingenuous. Historically all software has been "monolith first" and has only adopted an SOA out of need. The microservice mindset is relatively new, and we're not really going to see it mature for another year or few.
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The program sounds great, but, in order to call it the most effective program, it would be nice if he compared it to other projects.

How much does building a well in a village give in return? How much did this program actually give in return? While it spawned more companies than not giving out money, do these additional companies produce more wealth, than was spent on the program?
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This is true but a lot of labour intensive processes can be done off-site in a more controlled environment.

For instance, partial pre-assembly of mechanical/electrical fittings through to modular kitchen/bathrooms with almost everything done before it gets to site.

Of course you'll always need people to put all of these elements together but the numbers needed becomes less and less.

The certified worker who signs everything off used to do almost everything himself, we are now moving to a situation where this is almost all he does.
> I wouldn't mind tuning a few bits and pieces

Your employer will be able to afford it before you can. I don't mean your boss, I mean corporate policy. People already tolerate all kinds of ridiculousness for "culture fit" and drug testing and semi-stealthy political tests. You can follow corporate's genetic fine tuning policy, or not work here, its not like we're forcing you to do anything...
> Would smart but non-open hardware be a disaster?
We can draw some inspiration from the automobile industry.
Over the previous 30 years, we lost the ability to fix our cars and tinker with them. People like to complain about the loss of that ability. Nobody remembers to complain about how much better modern cars perform when they are working as expected.

That's quite funny to read this while the VW 'software cheat' is unfolding..

More seriously, reading this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334579 in the same day makes for a quite interesting day.
We all see how well "feeling safe is the best thing in the world" turned out in the end.

Helicopter parents raising kids which go on whining to the cops for teachers giving bad grades instead of sitting on their asses and learning... kids which are not able to deal with frustration or roadblocks because they never learned to...

I'd just disagree with the "diversity/inclusiveness" part - for me, I don't care if you're straight, bi, homo, trans or whatever, the only thing I care about is the quality of your code. And I won't refrain from calling bullshit when I see bullshit - and I don't expect that people restrict themselves from judging my code based on my skin color or whatever.
This sounds like まとめサイト, "curation site" for 2ch.net .

Take interesting threads from the main site and edit comments to make it more palatable for the wider audience.

It generates quite a revenue from affiliate contracts, I hear.
Actually, the fundamental rule of data protection legislation is that an organisation can store data on its subscribers and can not except in limited legally prescribed instances (e.g. lawful intercept, insurance fraud) share it with another organisation.

The issue at the core of the Schrems case is that Facebook for example is not bound to respect this, or any other fundaments of EU data protection law.

However, if you register with a website that is clearly and overtly outside your data protection jurisdiction then it is "you" who is freely providing that data. Just as you might give personal information over a transatlantic phone call.

The EU has no jurisdiction where the company is not in the EU, and cannot prevent an individual from sending their private information outside the jurisdiction if they want to.

But various of these multinationals such as Facebook are in the EU for various operational reasons and as such the EU does have jurisdiction over them.
Thank you. Still it would have been helpful to note that the quote is from 2013.
I also hate the overuse of the word 'like' but didn't notice it here until you mentioned it. It was fine.
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Is Y Combinator turing into "The Daily Kos?" Blaming all the world's problems on the "Koch Brothers" and "The Super Rich?"

C'mon now, folks.
It's a false dichotomy. You can give honest reviews and tell people they're wasting their time without resorting to "Shut up, Mauro. And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously."

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Obviously, data protection laws don't have exceptions for other countries' national security.
I have a feeling even protobug is a lot slower than a monolith that can just pass data in memory. You're still opening network connections, probably to other servers, and allocating memory on the receiving end etc.