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> It's more about the spam for already-fixed features than the love of keeping users secure.

I realize this is the reason presented in the comment, but after I dug into his statements elsewhere, I developed a different picture. Anyway, there's no law that says a comment must present every argument why the code exists.

To step back a minute, I seem to be seeing the same facts very differently. Where some see an immature attempt to annoy users, I see a demonstration that Debian is unable to spot a bug when it has a 50-line comment above it complaining that Debian doesn't fix bugs.

To me, the very existence of this situation itself is a powerful argument against Debian stable as a working concept. Most of the time a bug is introduced it does not announce itself with a preamble. How the hell did this make it all the way to stable?
Subresource Integrity is the standard for that https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
Can there be a minimum average speed past the first lap? Something to preserve the appearance of a race? :)
> and investment companies need operating capital even in (particularly in) down markets.

Do they though?

As far as I know, the premise of the public stock market is that there are companies that feel they have an idea/opportunity to make money, but it needs more capital than they have available to get going.

Going even further back to basics - it's like saying, "We all need to eat, and by myself I can't take down this big animal I've spotted to kill, but if we get together as a pack, I think we CAN do it together, and we'll all benefit (i.e. eat.)"

Given that view of the market, clearly some of the companies that wish to raise money from the public will succeed, and others will fail. In theoretical simpler times, we could evaluate companies based on the merits of their ideas (their prospectus), and decide whether or not to invest. Perhaps this "lightbulb" concept, or "horseless carriage", "telegram", or "Facebook" concept makes sense to us, and we choose to back the idea with our money.

Things are clearly more complicated in this day and age. Because of this complexity, we have a new breed of companies - meta-companies, if you will - that promise to do the evaluation of other companies for us, and tell us which ones to put our money into. The product of these companies is not the actual product itself - the lightbulb, car, or social network - but instead, the return on investment itself.

For traditional companies - when the product flops, we stop investing, and the company eventually ceases to exist. Sometimes you get General Electric or Ford, and other times you get Pets.com.

To me, one of these meta-companies whose products is returns, that fails to produce said returns - should stop receiving capital. It seems to me that actively managed funds that continually fail to beat the market should not continue to collect people's money in the form or fees - and therein lies the madness of the current situation.

(Note - I realize that investments do not provide returns immediately or overnight, and therefore timeframes should be attached to any sort of promises an investment company might offer. If they don't believe they are able to do so, even with a reasonably sized window of time - then I fail to see how they are any better than a roulette table.)
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You should read up on the people behind this and the company before making this kind of accusation.
Mostly OT: A friend of mine posted this article from his local newspaper as an example of how slow news is in his town:

http://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/local_news/what-is-a-gif/...

> What is a GIF?

> OTTUMWA — Chances are if you have been on the Internet lately, you have encountered a GIF...In honor of National Teen Tech Week, the Ottumwa Public Library offered a session on GIF making for local teens Saturday afternoon.

OK, not a traditional article topic for a newspaper, but the library described seems to be very much on the ball, teaching teens how to use youtube-dl to download movies:

> He walked each of the teens through the steps required for making GIFs by using movie trailers found on YouTube. He then had the kids copy the web address and use the program youtube-dl to download the video. OPL also provided flash drives for each person so they could access the program at home.
I got out of the JS ratrace but if I had to I would read the helicopter view of the top JS frameworks and then talk to people at a meetup about facts on the ground of using those tools. For a small amount of work you can gain enough knowledge to know when to delve deeper and when to not bother.
I like this command to extract audio from youtube videos:

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <url>
Does anybody know why this doesn't get merged? The Firefox related PRs are from january.
Some of the things that make this the 'ultimate':

- Supports hundreds of services, not just youtube [0]

- Allows you to extract audio in multiple formats

- Download entire playlists (and general batch support)

- Configure video/audio quality

- Extract/build metadata

- Cross platform

[0] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
Do you have any plans for integrating other sensors, such as many HRV capable bluetooth smart HR straps on the market?

edit: and other platforms, such as android
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For me amazon just seems like a bad deal compensation wise compared to other BigCos like facebook, google, apple, msft . Back loaded stock grants, lower pay, etc. Then add a high pressure big-company culture on top of that. I'll be pleasantly surprised if I'm wrong!
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New secrecy rights for business? No Thanks
Is there a way to start Signal directly without starting Chrome/Chromium beforehand? I have Chrome/Chromium installed, but do not use it. I want to use only the Signal desktop webapp.
So going back to the last dip in 2008, that would be roughly equivalent to average inflation, no?
I've done that before to get in to the server room during an outage in the middle of the night. For some reason my keycard wasn't working. Servers were on battery backup but the door locks weren't. Killed power via the master switch to the building long enough to get in the door, fix the outage and get out.
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At all times up until present - constantly fluctuating, but generally trending upwards with the ascent of the evolution of life and of human beings. And perhaps it will continue for a long time yet. However, the majority of humans long to end it or at least to set it back.
Quasar has preemptive scheduling for fibers/actors on the JVM.
I got prime pretty much for the new Top Gear, everything else is just gravy. And now that I know I can return stuff I'm probably going to start buying clothes through prime.
>> I am a pretty average developer

I don't have much advice to offer with your main question, after all I'm only a few years out of uni so I'm barely a step or two ahead of you on the same road. But I have this to say: you're not "pretty average"; you're just starting out. You'll get a lot better and then things will get a lot better for you.

I also valued myself pretty low when I started out so I ended up with jerks for bosses a couple of times, but eventually I built up the skills to have a bit more choice on the teams I was working for. At that point I found a team with a senior engineer who became a true mentor to me and taught me a metric ton of shit I'll be using to the end of my working days.

I think folks in this industry make the mistake of valuing innate talent above hard work. It's true there's people who have that sort of magical talent and godspeed to them. The vast majority of us though have to slog it out, and learn as much as we can on the job and as we go. What "pretty average engineer" really means is "bursting at the seams with potential to be a great engineer with strong skills" a few years down the line.

Also: good luck out there. It gets better :)
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I'm curious why I cannot get hi res scans of old masterpieces I can use as wallpaper on my monitor. Doing image searches only turns up low res versions.
I don't think any of this concerns desktops anyway.
Know what kind of position you are interviewing for. There is no magic guide and checklist that you can use on the fly. But there is a way to make something of a checklist. You have to do your research and from that you will build a set of expectations of the type of questions you will receive.

There are questions you want to receive to prove that you are a fit and that the group is what you expect. You can build this into a start of a checklist. If you feel you can, delve into the differences of what they are showing vs your expectations.

One sure example that may appear ironic is if the questions are too simple or easy vs what you expected. It is almost certainly a trap. One of my co-workers, we will call them B, fell into this trap and was thrown into a very toxic group of queers. B eventually recovered I _think_ but I haven't heard from B for a while. From what I heard though, B has problem using the bathrooms alone now. So be careful out there.

Maybe this is too dark, but you need to understand how serious you need to take your jobs and how you choose your groups ( as well as what kinds of fucked up people are out there that may be interviewing you, etc...).
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Good point, although banks are very conservative (with this kind of stuff). My guess is they'll want some kind of assurance from some fed commission to say this is ok or not ok, or some kind of CYA framework to follow.
Blah blah blah blah...
I wouldn't read into it too much. Amazon has adopted every stupid management fad and religion under the sun from six sigma to kaizen to lean to 5s to agile, etc. The idea being that if you are an expert on something totally made up you must deserve that big fat raise and promotion. I feel sorry for all the people who are going to have to go through Bezos method decision making training (black belt omega critical OT level VIII version).
(1) Where are people going to go to learn how obtain GDs, or is the plan to have other adapters reify GD first and then have it move on to others?

(2) I can't imagine some of the poor in, say, Harvard Square maintaining their GD wallets, be they physical, hardware or otherwise. This isn't the problem you're trying to solve, but just a thought.
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$ youtube-dl -U
It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.

TIL: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
I'd be interested in a scaled-down version of this, like autonomous RC without the R or the C.

YouTube delivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoHfJ6LEKVo
Personally I would rather have no income tax or property tax - just very high sales tax. IMO, sales tax has a much larger tax base than any of the others - as income tax requires you to have a job/be a citizen; and property tax requires you to... own property.

But that's not the reality we live in.

Property taxes fluctuate too much in California - you might be paying everything you can toward your mortgage to decrease the interest you owe, but still effectively pay the same with rising property taxes. A fixed property tax is really, really necessary.

It's just abused too heavily by corporations...
How is this illegal?
Is this new then? It only started recently.
I used this years ago to create a Youtube2MP3 site. This tool is great. Nice to see that it's still alive and maintained
Note that mpv integrates well with youtube-dl. With an "open with" like addon it's relly handy especially on sites that are still stuck on flash.
I would love to work in an area where I could play a quick game at lunch or thrash out an idea while playing Tabletop Football. You may not like that, and that's fine.
If you use mac, it's available on homebrew. even easier.
Intrinsics aren't the same as Assembly.

Intrinsics semantics can be validated by the compiler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems#ESPOL_...

"In fact, all unsafe constructs are rejected by the NEWP compiler unless a block is specifically marked to allow those instructions. Such marking of blocks provide a multi-level protection mechanism."

"NEWP programs that contain unsafe constructs are initially non-executable. The security administrator of a system is able to "bless" such programs and make them executable, but normal users are not able to do this."

"NEWP has a number of facilities to enable large-scale software projects, such as the operating system, including named interfaces (functions and data), groups of interfaces, modules, and super-modules. Modules group data and functions together, allowing easy access to the data as global within the module. Interfaces allow a module to import and export functions and data. Super-modules allow modules to be grouped."

Sounds familiar? Rust like safety in 1961, but lets praise C instead.
I left AWS after 7 months full time and 3-4 months internship. Almost everyone I worked with (~30 people) either stayed put, or left the team but stayed within Amazon.
Not illegal perhaps but violates the TOS
Well, I did for a year and a half.
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I think there is a fair bit of misunderstanding about Jeff's letter on this thread. For those who have not read all of his shareholder letters from the past 20 years, I would really recommend you to do so. What Jeff is saying in this years letter is nothing new. He's literally been saying the same things for 20 years now.
> I see a demonstration that Debian is unable to spot a bug when it has a 50-line comment above it

That's also an unfair characterisation, especially since the original report starts out recognising that exact comment.

Debian stable is there for a reason - not everyone is in a position where they can have the latest'n'greatest rolling distro. Security is not the only thing that's of interest to users; stability is of interest as well. I see people using rolling distros that get caught up by this bug or that bug, and they can fix it because they're technically-minded, but not everyone can do that.

This xscreensaver issue is an edge case that gets caught in the cracks. I'm sure jwz is also well aware of why debian stable does what it does, but as the recipient of the bugspam, he can probably be forgiven for being less than charitable about deb-stable.
I didn't bother waiting for my signing bonus. I paid them to get out of there.
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My guess: AlienBlue was developed with power users in mind and this new app was developed with showing people ads in mind.

A major re-design gives them the excuse to remove and never re-add many features and tune the app for a different type of user and a different type of interaction.
Or you could use -x, which would only download the audio (because there's seperate audio and video streams on youtube).
Hey, I followed the same strategy. I got hired too. And now I work on mainframes :X
I believe so. The Dutch Delta Works were instituted as a result of the 1953 North Sea Storm, which resulted in a storm surge of (I think?) 20 feet. I'd imagine they built in some excess capacity in the surge protection system as well.
Reddit Sync does this very well, it's accessible from the left sidebar.

http://i.imgur.com/GK5xBcA.png
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I used it to write a small program for my Raspi. Send a playlist link (Youtube or other) via WhatsApp or Email. Download, copy to according folder. Have it available on my Multimedia System and OwnCloud for my friends.
Don't knock gif, it's still used a lot on image boards[1] and most likely Facebook etc, too. Knowing how to make them can be quite useful for today's teens.

[1] E.g. 4chan, which even has its own boards just for animated gifs: /gif/ (NSFW) and /wsg/ (SFW)
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I know it doesn't have an impact in healthy people, but what about people with hypercholesterolemia?

I don't know if it is the case, but it sounds plausible that the drugs that regulate endogenous production like statins would only be effective in the absence of an external supply (since they don't affect the way cholesterolemia is regulated).
I think the whole situation is nuts too, but for a different reason: JWZ expects bug reports as emails. It's easy enough to install Bugzilla, Trac, or whatever on his own server. If he doesn't want to make the effort, so many public repo hosts have integrated bug tracking tools. Some of these can mandate entering the version number. People can also check if their bug has been reported already. He could automate replies for bugs reported against older releases. There are so many advantages that it would be tiresome to list them all out here.

Instead, JWZ requires users to send him emails, and he makes his email id prominent. At this point, I'd be OK with stripping off his notice, because he's not making life easier for anyone else either. Not that I'm affected by what Debian does; I run Arch and have the latest software already.
If you still believe in the core concept of a state, but just believe the US is a particularly bad one, invest in other governments with opposing, or non-aligned geopolitical / economic interests. Iran, Russia, Brazil, India, China (and/or corporate entities therein) are good places to start.

If you believe the entire model is intrinsically flawed and doomed to eventual failure, cryptocurrencies if you're technologically optimistic, or precious metals if you're not.
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Maybe I don't use Facebook enough but I find it really inconvenient to watch any videos I'm not directly linked to.

If they show up among my friends' postings they're always pre-muted, so I miss the first couple seconds as they autoplay and have to run it back after unmuting.

Even if I wanted to watch videos, they're interspersed among all this social crap - I'm not in the mood when I'm really only looking to get an idea of what others are doing. Wish it were easy to filter content if you don't want to see everything.

Anyway, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy - but this seems like an obvious feature one would add, regardless of content sharing 'decline'.
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I had one surprising answer to a question I asked. We were at the end of the interview and I asked the interviewer what he liked about the job. He responded that he really liked the amount of money he got paid. The company was known for making competitive offers, but it was still an unexpected answer.
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I'll second that Android Studio has absurdly slow builds times. It's not pretty common to have 2+ minute build times, and I'm using a MBPr mid 2015. I actually asked an Android frameworks engineer about this, and it seems like this is not an uncommon problem.

The instant run in AS2 helps a lot, but without it, build times are unbearable.
Zuckerberg just did something similar, with his home AI project.
It blew my mind that his example of helping a single mom of EIGHT was her getting trained as a long haul truck driver. Who's taking care of that many kids while she's gone? Truck driving is not that well-paid, and the length of absences is right there in the job title.
In the "Extensions Overview -> Details" you can create a desktop shortcut. If you start that, there is only the Signal window w/o a Chrome window.

edit: spelling
It happened in Southern California. In the area where I grew up the cities allowed developers to build hundreds of homes at a time - it's probably four times as dense as it was when I lived there.

Orange groves and strawberry fields and outdoor movie theaters and old military bases were all leveled and turned into housing tracts. But housing didn't get any cheaper - the state added 20 million people from 1970 to 2010, because there were jobs and it had the reputation of being a nice place to live.
I think you make a good point that logs should be transformed closer to the source. I work, primarily, with applications provided by a vendor, with very unstructured log data. Transforming (Grok) these logs is an absolute must, we couldn't look at something that didn't allow transformation. That said, maybe we should be looking at something closer to the source before handing it off to a central location. Are you aware of agent-like daemons that do transformation before handoff?
http://bitbot.cc - A random instance generator loading a pseudo random picture and a pseudo random comment. It's basically my learning project for when learning new programming languages.
Umm fuck San Francisco. The error is the concentration of focus, and not necessarily the talent.
> While people are sharing plenty of news, they’re posting less photos and status updates about their own lives.

Facebook seems to have become this battleground for status. People post to Facebook when they :

a) are travelling to some exotic or foreign locations

b) got admissions to prestigious schools or got amazing jobs

c) had a pretty picture of themselves taken

d) are outraged by some social injustice

etc

When I meet past friends who are going through a slump in their life I am reminded how little I know what is happening to them. They would have stopped posting to Facebook a long time ago. The site offers less human connection these days.
The legality of recording a video stream you can watch on your PC is very dependent of your country. I think it should be legal as long as you keep your recording for your personal usage.
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It's very effective sleight of hand. The cherry on top is 2-day delivery being prepaid. I wouldn't have paid for 2-day otherwise. They "fixed" that for me.

The whole thing makes going to a brick and mortar store feel like going to the DMV.
Admittedly, Haskell is less preemptive than Erlang, but definitely not at the same level as Go.
A mutating variable is not what you commonly use in Haskell, so the idiomatic equivalent of your code would have memory accesses anyway, and it would be possible to interrupt it.
I was gifted Prime and it surprised me how awesome it was. Say I want to buy a few pairs of SmartWool Socks, but since I'm buying them over the internet don't get a chance to try them on. Do I buy 7 pairs and risk it? No, I just buy 1 pair and get it in 2 days with no shipping fee.

In fact I buy all kinds of things now on Amazon because I can get them in 2 days with no shipping fee.

I get that I'm paying upfront for shipping, of course, which really only incentivizes me to shop more on Amazon. After a certain number of orders I'm beating the system, and that's fun.

Plus you get a lot of freebies, like movies.
Yes it is. Always was.

For freedom loving countries at least.
This project really kind of blew up into a megolith.
"To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."
I downloaded the app, logged in with Facebook, and then went to mRhythmStudy.org only to find out that signing up for the study wants an email/password login. I don't have that since I used Facebook. And if I Sign Up for a new account, I don't see any way in the app to log out and back in with the new email/password account.
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I honestly don't have the slightest clue how yahoo stays in business. And I don't mean that as rhetoric, either. Other than Bloomberg I don't get where the money comes from. I hope it's not organized crime...

I'd probably read a biography of the company out of curiosity.
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The version shipped in Debian doesn’t, AFAIK.
I dont do GUIs, but if i would, i would use http://electron.atom.io/