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I don't think you're right about breaking into people's houses. Breaking a locked window and opening an unlocked window probably doesn't net you a different charge at all.
Come on man up. Rentiers is peppered across - you never heard of it. If that's the case you haven't read enough to have an informed opinion.

Read some Henry George and get over my side of the fence :-)
I once tried to identify a piece of instrumental music and tried AudioTag, but it couldn't find anything. It would be useful to have a huge global music database with some recognition algorithms for that. Is there anything like that around?
Plus, there's not a lot of difference between the interest rates of savings and checking accounts these days in general, so there's not a lot of difference between the two.
See the part of the comment I quoted.
Upstart doesn't have a formal dependency system, instead it orders things based on named preconditions and postconditions called events. Though these can be used to fulfill ordering requirements, I'd wager the information wasn't granular enough for parallelization to be efficient.

Actually the main problem is that a lot of modern systems do not make their dependency graphs well observable, but instead treat them as in-memory ephemera that are constantly recalculated and cannot e.g. be written to persistent storage as known-good checkpoints.

This is one area where s6-rc gets it right. You have to compile a manifest of your service dependencies and consistently boot from that well-known state, so for any changes it must be regenerated.

serel was an earlier example of a service dependency system and parallel launcher which directly had you specify the nodes and edges of a directed graph as an RDF manifest. Clever.
The only break I ever got from one of these programs (I work at Microsoft) was that of the various payments required on move-in (fee, refundable deposit, first month's rent) I was exempted from the refundable deposit. I didn't really get why that was the case, because I was still liable for damages, but I'm surprised that there are more aggressive versions of this and I'd agree that even the break I got wasn't really deserved.
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Thanks for your reply. I misread "Having just been to trial" as "Having just been in a trial".
That's another great point, the more expensive house might not be because of size, but because of the strengthening bind between where you live and what that means for your chances at upward mobility.
OP + a voice recognition wrapper

probably wouldn't be too hard, depending on what's available for voice recognition libs in Python; I haven't actually looked. Anyone know?
So much for quality assurance!

He was also known as a micromanger, I just don't see how he didn't somehow figure out that his entire clean diesel strategy was bullshit.
Thank you for the explanation, and distinction regarding your approach. The release of the Paul Thomas Anderson film (and getting publicity) definitely tracks with what you state herein. My hunch is your strategy really did avoid "putting the cart before the horse" by way of prioritizing. I sincerely wish you well in pursuit of audience and content licensing in the most effective ways possible.
No thanks, the police are too far away and I value my life more than one of a criminal.

If I need guns, I'll use the one on my hip.

You know, the one that the Supreme Court of the United States of America asserted that I have a right to keep.
Volkswagen just ensured software developers would avoid them like the plague.

Why write code for a company that won't protect you from the mistakes of upper management?
Exactly as Banksy has done in London
Because it's not morphine. Where hydrocodone is a synthetic equivalent to the natural opiate codeine, oxycodone is a synthetic opiate roughly as strong as the natural opiate morphine. There are many different synthetic opiates of various strengths but oxycodone is not "heroin" or "morphine."

edit: remove spurious iPhone capitalizations..
I wasn't aware it was in question a more complicated system is more difficult to throughly audit, and therefore more likely to have bugs, security bugs being a subclass of bug?

Unless the systemd devs are immune to the same problems that plague literally every other software developer
Did you try: https://documentcloud.github.io/visualsearch/ ?
You chose your advisor in the first place. That's the moment when you chose more or less what to work on. That freedom was total.
That covers pretty succinctly a big chunk of a very complex problem. Thanks for that.
It is body armor for the poor man. Just tape one or three under your shirt before you open the door at night.
I know Uber has the dominate market share, but I really enjoy life. I notice that I get better, friendlier service from the drivers and I like having the option to tip. They have rolled out a lot of impressive features and programs recently. I hope, at the very least, their actions will pressure Uber into some similar moves
> And by the way, he's not getting rich off selling a couple handmade prints he makes in his own shop.

If he was, would that make him "one of them"? Making good money suddenly bars you from being a valued member of the community?

> only to find it in the process of being colonized by moneyed interests and neighborhood tourists

Can you explain what you mean by this?
Do we think VW are the only car manufacturer doing this? I very much doubt it. They're just the first to get caught.

Where rules stand in the way of profit, they get bent or broken. Banking, automotive industry... which next? Oil? Housing? Pfff ... come on, we all know they're rotten, it's just a question of how rotten and whether it comes out.

I suspect it's the tip of the iceberg for the auto industry. Whether we give a damn, and whether we can or will do anything about it remains to be seen.
No the more, more, more is from the rentier. They set the rent not at the cost to deliver but at the cost the market will bear. Which is the money left over after food/fuel which puts everyone living hand to mouth with no money in their savings accounts.

God he does p2p lending also. Yuk.

However let's get this straight, there are plenty worse than him out there but I do hate to see his holier-than-tho "be frugal" when in fact he's a rentier who can be "frugal" because he's a rentier.
And stararch resetup incab lubator?
With all due respect,i disagree with you.I have a master degree in computer science from a university in Chicago and i can tell you that most of these courses can be learned by yourself.You just need to be self-disciplined and self-motivated.And constantly ready to learn.This field is all about continuous learning.Nobody teaches me Chef,Docker,Ansible,AWS in the university.
Infact, American tech industry moves faster than most computer science departments in terms of new technology.
When i look at the course outline of online Master in Computer science from Georgia Tech last week,i laughed.You know what,you can learn it by yourself.Please see http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/courses/

I am a big fan of college education.But computer science is just not one of them.That is my experience.YMMV.My CTO has a degree in Visual Communication.He taught himself all what he knows.You know what,we both earn six figures,i can tell you that you wont know that he does not have any degree in computer science.
Any chance you have a single-spaced copy?
This is pretty disturbing. I'm not sure I'd want to go to a church -- or any institution, really -- where this kind of Orwellian behavior is acceptable. Yikes.
But stocks are risky. Murphy's Law strikes and your stocks are all down 10% when you need the money the most. That doesn't sound like the way to go for an emergency fund.
all true -- scores are quantitative metrics though. And yes, rather imprecise and subjective, and a lot of information is lost at all stages. Is there a better way to compare things like a quality of life though? Hmm, perhaps something could be inferred from pairwise comparisons? There are many people out there who have experienced multiple lifestyles; alleviating biases would be really tricky though...
So I assume that Flash will still internally use NPAPI?
I also dealt with them when I was agency-side. Their offerings for YP.com were the most archaic garbage I'd ever seen. They had some crazy point system where you had to buy various "add-ons" to your listing to increase its point value. These add-ons were things like "red bold" which literally made your listing red and bold. The part that really got me was that these weren't just cosmetic--the total points you paid contributed to your actual placement on the page (ie. position). So in one case I did the math and figured out that even though we didn't have any video creative, if we bought the video add-on, the boost to our placement made it worth our while to just buy the add-on. If they had just let me buy points outright in an auction, I imagine it would be much smoother.

This horribly hilarious animation[1] of Yellow Pages sales reps is fairly accurate IMHO.

The frustrating part is they were able to drive volume for national businesses with local presence. The sneaky part is that they were fairly incestuous with other IYP's (Internet Yellow Pages sites...ie. directory sites) like SuperPages, etc. which we also used, but that traffic was obfuscated to make it look like it was YP.com driving it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ZY1XMUpxI
This might be an off topic question, but how do the results change (if at all) when accounting for the age of the people involved?

That is, how do politicians do at predicting the opinions of people +/- 5 years of their own age (which may be different than the total for the district)?

I've always been curious if politicians are just "behind the times" (due to an average age higher than the average age of constituents), leading to systemically conservative views.
This is hindsight bias. The markets could have easily went the other way. Market timing is notoriously futile. If you want to play "what if?" and pick arbitrary dates then he could have as easily put his cash position into equities lets say beginning of October 2008? Then his advice would seem very wise indeed.
What benefit is there to employers to have people languishing with green cards for years on end? H1B -> permanent resident can be a long process, but it is rarely the longest part of the process. Once they reach the permanent resident stage they are more or less equivalent to a citizen with respect to employment.
If you have a 401k you could potentially borrow against it if absolutely necessary. My plan allows 4% loans in which I pay myself the interest and a very small fee goes to the plan holder. I'm assuming the 6 months of living expenses is an extreme situation.
Having an option to tip enforces customers to tip, I would prefer using a service that does not force me to tip by providing that option. I am against tips in general for drivers.
Sure.

[Unit]
Description=Blah app

[Service]
ExecStart=/var/www/blah/bin/www
Restart=always
User=nobody
Group=nobody
Environment=PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/blah

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Maybe that's how it would be framed if private corporations are allowed to purchase exclusive licenses to NASA patents. But if that patents are free, than anyone can use them.
Have an enjoyable read of this document:

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q589.htm

> The only fully legal self defence product at the moment is a rape alarm.

This is the sad state that the UK is in at the moment.
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Greenlight has widely been seen as a failure in the gaming community though. Steam users have been sold on hype and greenlit games only to get unfinished buggy messes all too often.
I found it interesting that this program is starting in Vegas given the trouble Uber has had there [1]. I don't hear about Lyft nearly as much as Uber, but I haven't heard any stories about Lyft running into issues with taxi regulations (which seem to show up here weekly for Uber). Do taxi companies find Lyft more palatable for some reason? Or has Uber just been the figurehead taking most of the heat in the news for all of the other ridesharing companies running into issues with taxi regulations?

[1] http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/john-l-smith/mask...
MS/Windows/Office has always been a workhorse for me, but i might be in the process of becoming a MS fanboy :)
The model year 2005 Camry in question from the trial would have been made available in 2004, and the electronic throttle control system was designed prior to 2004 (IIRC, the ETC design was carried forward from the previous model). How does it makes sense to apply MISRA-C:2004 in this case, especially when the Toyota ETC in question was admittedly not designed under MISRA-C:2004 nor prior MISRA-C revisions?

It is inaccurate to claim Michael Barr determined the cause of Toyota's unintended acceleration: he proposed a possible failure mode that was persuasive to a lay jury. His proposed failure mode didn't leave a DTC, so there's no way to actually know if his proposed failure mode actually happened in this case (or in any other).
Funny how this coming down to software vs "hardware" departments.

Except not so funny as scapegoats will lose their jobs and benefits.

No way software people did this in a bubble.
It does no such thing. Have you taken a Lyft? There's no obligation or even implication that you should tip.
When you play in the browser, you are playing on youtube. when you download, you can play wherever you want. This is similar to saying I'll go record a movie from a cinema hall and watch it later at home since I paid for it.
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This seems very dangerously like W2 employees using employer provided equipment to do a task, even if it's rented by a rental company. (IANAL)
I'd think the people who actually destroyed perfectly good systems would be the ones doing the interfering.

If it wasn't clear (as you're calling me a "script-kiddie"), I'm talking about people physically going to these computers, viewing the voyeurs' precious trove, and then attesting "I read this on this machine" to the university administration. This sure seems like a direct action protest to me.

As for [marching] protests - yeah I went to one of those once. It doesn't make much sense to merely volunteer to be kicking fodder for police horses.

(edit: apparently people really don't understand that "denial of service" is a generically applicable term. sheesh)
I agree that many assets are now correlated stocks and bonds for example.

But for a bond to go to absoulte 0, would take a lot.

Also I'm not sure that small increases in the interest rates would that much of a disaster. We've been in situations with low interest rates before, and increments in the interest rate didn't harm stocks in the long term.

In many ways it's a positive indicator, that goverments see a positive future.

When the fed announced that the interest rates were on hold. Stocks went down.

There is a lot of lose money in the system though from low interest rates.
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How do you see yourself stacking up against Rollbar https://rollbar.com which has a free tier and unlimited users for paid plans? What makes your product more valuable?
Wow, what a nice hack!

My testing env : Windows 8.1, MSYS2, Python 3. It's working flawlessly even with some obscur foreign/french lyrics/song/group.

I'm impressed. :)
The best quote of the paper (pg 23):

>Interestingly, the reason we uncover such striking misperceptions does not appear to be that politicians are reluctant to admit a belief that public opinion is not on their side – many do. Rather, it seems that the reality of where the public stands on these issues has such a weak influence on politicians’ perceptions of public opinion that two candidates coming to judgments about the same constituents largely fail to have much more in common than would two candidates picked entirely at random

Basically, it is not that politicians intentionally mis-believe what their constituents support (willful ignorance, etc), the problem is that politicians are a poor representation of their constituents in general.

I've long maintained congress would be much more representative if eligible citizens were randomly selected for 1 congressional term, like jurors are in juries.
When it's come to the Federal appellate courts and concealed carry, only the 7th (Illinois) has (ordering shall issue, which Illinois acquiesced to without drama (!)), with the 9th looking to reverse the positive Peruta v. San Diego County district court decision (which would also hit Hawaii). It's still in progress for D.C., and the 1st-4th did not, and the Supremes denied cert.

Hasn't and won't in the foreseeable future come up for 5-6th, 8th, and 10-11th circuits. So with the score currently 1-4 at the appellate level and 0-4 with the Supremes, I don't find the Federal legal situation at all encouraging, since there's no state that forbids all unloaded movements of guns, I don't see much wiggle room for your "in some capacity".
I wonder if there's any data on accidents/ traffic violations between the two companies. Tips are supposed to be for better service, and with driving the only way to provide better service is to be faster. My hypothesis would be that in attempts to be faster, drivers may be driving more dangerously, thus increasing accidents and/or traffic violations.
Have you written any blog posts/comments about your remote working situation and what led up to it? I'd be interested in hearing your perspective as I've recently faced a lot of difficulty getting companies to even reply to my applications. I'm curious if there's any tips or advice you have. I really, really do not want to move back to SF to get a good job.
I hear and empathize with this complaint, and I think it's a real problem. But what about the people on the other side of the fence? You work in software, some company pays you a lot to move out here, and you're in a position to choose where you want to live. Should you really not live in a particular area because it makes you part of a bigger problem?
I'd take systemd over sysv init, atd, crond, three or four watcher daemons, syslog, various other semi-maintained tools that replicate each other's functionality, and around 30x 50-line shell scripts.
Conservativism is born of ambiguity intolerance. One of the defining characteristics of ambiguity intolerance is a need for certainty.

As for why liberals expect to be ignored? I'd reckon that has more to do with history and a general sense of malaise and pessimism toward our intractable situation.
Picking a nit, but:

That isn't from a 'position of power'. That's avoiding transactions where the other party has a position of power. Two countries wishing to operate from a position of power may engage in a cold war or the like.

Not to say a social safety net to ensure life never hangs in the balance wouldn't prevent some unfair transactions from occurring...
The Youtube TOS basically says you can only stream content, and pretty much defines streaming as not downloading for offline or later consumption.

It's about as illegal as violating a TOS.
It's not just the ability to save, the return on savings, but also the ability to draw on credit that discourages savings.

The permissive rules that allow credit cards to bypass state regulations make it easier for them to encourage this kind of precarious situation.
Perhaps 'early' mover advantage might be a better choice of words.

> Major financial institutions invest significantly in technology...

That they may be, but that's no guarantee of success or domination. That's the whole point of the risk of startup. Also the reason for the explosion of interest.
I'm not suggesting that Gemini will win, but they are in the space, at the beginning, unencumbered by old tech (as the larger institutions are) and are making overtures to the established order. We don't know where that will lead.
Dimensionality is a common problem in many sciences but this article is really crazy! Maybe we won't know some of the answers to these questions until we make our own black holes?
"As a result, gravity, which is a pushover on everyday scales, catches up with the other forces and becomes their equal at a sub-sub-subatomic distance known as the Planck scale (around a few trillionths of a trillionth of a trillionth of a meter)."

What? How is that not completely wrong? Gravity is at its most important on large scales. Or are they just badly describing a (known-to-be-broken) quantum gravity model?
I'm really glad that option is there. I had an emergency involving a seizing dog and a round trip to the vets office. The driver was incredible and would have gotten a whole $9 if I couldn't tip.
>> It's fascinating what presidents could get away with pre-Lewinsky.

I've seen several documentaries that comment if people thought JFK was bad, LBJ was much, much worse when it came to women. There's a famous rumor about him getting caught in the oval office having sex with his secretary and afterwards, installing a buzzer so the secret service could warn him if he was wife was on her way to his office.

I can only imagine how the tabloid journalists would have a heyday with this nowadays.
Maybe I'm just not hip to the whole Uber/Lyft thing, but the idea of being chauffeured around by somebody in a Hertz rental car doesn't sound at all appealing.
I'm expecting SystemDos any month now.

Let's see he can take over cron and make it 10 times more complicated... what else is left...
There are many states with justifiable homicide statutes allowing a citizen to apprehend persons whom they've observed committing felonies (or even to stop the felony-in-progress from occurring.)

Have you ever tried to apprehend a violent felon? They'll typically attack you, resulting in a case for traditional self-defense.
At least when it's on, it needs time to switch from the processors in the keyboard to those in the tablet.
I like how Lyft is trying to make it easier for more people to drive for them. But, after Lyft's cut, tax and gas the hourly rate was very low. I drove for a couple months and they promised $25 - $35 during peak time, but I netted out to about $10/hr. Now to add on a Hertz rental fee, that is going to get very slim.

Obviously this is still a better job for some people then there alternative. Lyft will market to new drivers with the higher rates and ease of renting a Hertz vehicle.
Independently tested Peugeots also have urea injection, but delay injecting it for 10-20 minutes when on the road, and only do it in bursts.
Many of the best research universities in the world are in the US. 95%+ of the world's population is not. The best schools have access to the global talent pool, so if the system is working even fairly well to identify great students, you would expect most PhD candidates to be from elsewhere.
There we go with the false dichotomy that just won't die again.

It's pretty obvious you're not actually acquainted with the problem domain. Keep using whatever makes you feel comfortable, though.