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At any size, there is no such thing as "completely non-elastic", but at those sizes, pretending that some things are completely non-elastic is no longer a tolerable approximation.
I love the (military, not Zombieland) "double tap" nomenclature for follow-up phishing emails that pretend to be warnings about recent phishing emails. It's a pattern in social engineering that I've seen used a bunch, particularly in "vishing" phone calls [1], but never had a good buzzword for until now.

[1] https://youtu.be/h8kWcggio5A
The wider assumption is that the UK will actually leave. The referendum was in no way binding.
Yes, that's the joke. "nobody's talking about it". It's dramatic. Glad someone got it, though I didn't expect the need to have it explained.
This is silly. By allowing trade, you are sustaining a market for it. Furthermore, a legal market would be a cover for the illegal market.
My understanding (as a frontend engineer, so I'm not as intimately familiar with the problems as some others are) is that the biggest bottleneck at this point is with the file system.

We're working on switching to CephFS which looks very promising. See the relevant issue for more info: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1

I can get someone from the backend performance team to comment too if you'd like :)
Agreed. We can't say that packing is universally good or bad. You can have a dense tangle or distilled elegance.
In situations like this mood is extremely relevant. Its what separates the disciplined professional from people who whine and second guess things.

What many people don't understand is that a wrong decision is better than no decision at all. The world isn't going to wait for you to call an assembly and have a cordial discussion about how to delicately make a possibly-suicidal suspect feel happy. It sure as hell isn't going to wait for to conduct an online survey to discover what makes people less sad. People are dying. The suspect is threatening to have explosives and claims to want to kill more people. The first order of business is to eliminate the threat. This is an active shooter incident. Once negotiations failed the only right decision is how to terminate the suspect. This is operational doctrine.

Stalling and feeling it out is a horribly bad decision to make and indicates a lack of professionalism for active shooter scenarios.
There is way too much variation in the size, wealth, environment, political priorities, etc. of police departments to believe it is useful to make generalizations about police culture without identifying the department you're talking about. Even precincts vary wildly.
> her court-appointed defense attorney

Poor defendants don't often get convictions vacated. The judge knew there was very little risk that the proceedings would go beyond the plea.

If she had a private attorney, this charge might have been dismissed.
I'm struggling to find the reason for the battery backup / UPS. It has to be charged occasionally by the system, so doesn't make it's consumption zero standby... Why not drive the circuit directly from the A/C via a DC transformer? Is it to keep the memory of the last cycle to not over cycle the compressor?
I wonder how statistically accurate USADA drug tests are. What are the odds of a false positive?
It's worth noting that the original publication doesn't claim that it is the trees that have the effect. That is a layer of confusion generated by the New Yorker author. Berman's original work compares "natural" vs urban environments.

[1]http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/The-Cognitive...
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That first link 404's btw, removing /en/ seems to fix it.
I was probably being a bit defensive about claims that this is just a ploy, having sat next to the team working on this for the past year and seen what they had to fight for and push back against just to get this out the door and into people's hands.

As far as risking the lives of other people, I think that in our world we tend to assume that being able to eastablish secure channels is not incredibly difficult. We know where to go and what tools to use. 99.99% of the planet lacks this knowledge, and if secure communication is not built in to the tools they use then they will not even know what they are missing.

Facebook (and Messenger) is used in places where the wrong word can get you "dissappeared", and is used to organize events and movements that can have global consequences. Having a tool that enables you to easily establish a secure channel to someone else and know that if you destroy your device then no one, not even Facebook itself, can get the contents of your messages is a powerful thing. Even rubber-hose cryptography can't compromise you or the person you are communicating with.

A useful and easy to use tool like Messenger with this new capability can have profound effects, and knowing that they are using something like the OWS libs to make it all work rather than rolling their own or just giving up and saying that security and mass-market tools cannot co-exist is something I think should be encouraged rather than dismissed.
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> What if the string isn't actually made of matter but is made up of some hypothetical substance that doesn't follow any laws of physics?

If it doesn't follow any laws of physics, then there is no predictable relationship between any input and its action (since if there was such a predictable relationship, it would be a law of physics that the string was obeying.)
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> how the wild life suffers in those same African countries that already banned poaching

Which specific countries are you talking about?
You didn't explain how mood should inform operational doctrine.

My claim is that it should not.
I'm using Gitlab right now, and honestly I wish I'd chosen GitHub instead. Self-hosted Gitlab requires maintenance (Sidekiq randomly dies, needs manual restart), upgrading is a pain, and (for me) when I tried exporting my projects from self-hosted Gitlab to Gitlab.com tbe import failed with a "unable to decompress" error on Gitlab.com! I'm too tied to Gitlab now with all the wiki pages, issues, etc. but I'm left disappointed with these problems I've had.
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>If he issued an order for all police to put down all weapons tomorrow, the safety of the street would actually increase.

US police losing all firearms instantly without changing civilian gun controls laws would be a very dangerous situation. Much more dangerous than the current one.
That's all fine, but why isn't there a setting somewhere, where I can just knowingly choose "always use end-to-end encryption" at least?

The way it's implemented now still makes it a pain/inconvenient thing to do when you want private conversations. So let's face it. Facebook just wants to get away with the minimum necessary to convey that it cares about privacy, while knowing that only 0.1% of the conversations will ever be encrypted this way.
It's a bit broader than discussing the site, if you accept what they have announced. The subreddit (and twitter feed, etc.) will be "open to all to discuss the contents of the website, and more broadly how to make Haskell as welcoming a language, community, and ecosystem as can be managed." That second part implies a wider mandate.
My suggestion, branch out and learn some of the other tools, even if you have to do it in a non-professional environment. For building sites, you're competing with things like Site Slinger or various similar services. To be competitive in that kind of a market you'll need to have a different kind of value add (i.e. look like something more than a developer) to make your resume look more interesting. Some of it also depends on where you're looking for work and if you're looking for local or remote work. I had to jump cities to get a foot in the door (East Texas to Austin).

YMV and good luck!
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Good read, thanks, it is about conversations on social media, Gary Vaynerchuk comes to mind. Also, the way to make money with affiliate marking is to sell high ticket items because you are correct the smaller percent items only work with lots of traffic.
I'm saying that the reason warrant canaries haven't gotten companies in trouble yet is because they're so vague as to be practically useless and that revealing to a person that they were the target of an NSL, through either action or inaction, would probably be over the line legally.

At the very least it'd be a massively expensive test case and the companies that have the money to pay for that have too much to lose on a case that isn't solid. It'll come down to the very technical legal question of action vs inaction that would probably wind up in the supreme court.
You are correct, but displaying a little message in millions of user-devices which says that it is end-to-end-encrypted, that makes them correcter.
It's more my lack of depth with any of those aside from maybe Laravel that I would feel dishonest calling myself senior. I've made CRUD apps until my eyes bleed, but not a whole lot else. I don't have a lot of experience writing tests. I don't really have any open source code to show employers, only past projects that I've made as a side project or for an employer. It's rare that I have to write anything original that isn't already covered by the existing conventions of whatever framework I'm using.

It just feels like a few years experience isn't "senior" when you look at the candidate market in general. I am probably well below the average numbers of years experience.
There have been periods with and without bans. Elephant population decreased faster when there were no bans.

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/opinion/controversial-call-fo...

"About half the continental population was lost in the decade before the Appendix I listing in 1989, and a dramatic spike occurred again after a “one-off” ivory sale in 2008 to China and Japan."

"Cites [Appendix I] saved African elephants from certain extinction 27 years ago by listing them on Appendix I.
It ended the poaching crisis and elephant populations began to recover, until their protection under Cites was weakened, causing poaching to escalate again."
Ugh, really wish that weren't a GNU license in there.
It seems that the Europeans are concerned about the black market. The same reason why the War on Drugs is so ineffective. Banning the market without effectively controlling supply is a disaster.
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duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12054778
also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12052605 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053548

tl;dr this is a bogus article.
Can you tell me what is the issue with SetDeadline()?
I was going to downvote you for a snarky response (I felt the reply explaining that Rust also has iron/oxidation references was a better response)...

... but that's a really good link that you provided. I've never read that before & it's a great resource for thinking about how to behave socially as a programmer. While I don't agree with all of it, I love their "don't pile-on" and "don't bring negativity from outside" approach. (Plus I'm guilty of the 'feigning surprise' rule.)

+1 for the really excellent link.
> I agree with you that they have lost that battle.

Considering the group which has taken the responsibility for this attack[1], is a militia organization, I'd say that 2nd amendment is already being exercised by a minority which feels that they are being targeted systematically by the same group of people who are sworn to protect them.

The only difference is that they don't tout second amendment, but founding fathers envisioned precisely these scenarios when they advocated for 2A.

> Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes.< - James Madison, Federalist Papers 46[2]

1. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dallas-police-shooti...

2. http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm
Yes, the only reason why child pornography is still around is we haven't bothered to make it completely illegal yet.
> I'm beginning to wonder if at any point they will pack their bags, return what's left to investors and close up shop...

They may do so if forced by legal action; otherwise, its unlikely. If management can continue to spend other people's money pretending to try to run a viable business and paying themselves and their associates until there's nothing left to pay with, they'd probably rather do that that hand money back to investors.
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There isn't a black market for everything. E.g. how big is the black market for Kinder Surprise eggs in the US? How big is the market for leaded gasoline?
Following this approach is very effective for getting R&D credits in Canada. Documenting your process in a lightweight manner like this helps tremendously.
The point being that the malware either has to horn in on a legitimate request (and I'm not sure if that's possible or not given how PKI), or issue its own request, which the user has to authorize with password, ideally out of band using a hardware pinpad.
Dupe of several posts of this today:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Security%20flaw%20in%20OS%20X%...

This seems to be the canonical post where all the discussion is happening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12054778
If this is exemplar of the quality of governance in the EU I would not like to be part of it.
Ill try Facebook messenger on emulated android without a google account. Not a chance that I share all my phone contacts and everything else in permissions, simply so I can talk privately with my friends that are stuck in Facebook.
> And for those unhappy in the present day, virtual reality might provide an escape into an immersive other world that "allows them to forget their chronic pain, anxiety, the fact that they are alone," Kim says.

Maybe I should get a Vive after all!
Only if you are talking about iron corrosion. If you own an aluminum Macbook, for instance, it was oxidized (or corroded) during manufacturing, on purpose. This protects the metal from further corrosion.

You could say it's what this project does.
I replied above, but there are few communication tools with such a wide userbase that have forward-secrecy and similar strong E2E crypto built in and available. People die because of what they post to Facebook or what they send in Messenger, I know this for a fact. With E2E security locked to devices it means that in the few seconds it takes me to wipe my phone while someone is knocking on the door with a gun then the other party to the conversation is not going to be compromised. Is that sufficient?
Do you have a source? I'm extremely skeptical and you didn't make an argument for it.
Footnote 1 is very interesting (and so is the rest of the post):

> You know, it’s interesting that before I became the CEO of a startup, the only time I thought about “conversion rates” of emails in my career was when I was involved in phishing campaigns.

Edit: It's interesting to me that phishers are evil bad etc., and yet more interested in responding well to the rhetorical situation than people with careers.
I don't think so. As I understood, their core value proposition was that they could deliver detailed, accurate blood test results with just a few drops of blood and their proprietary analysis technology. In reality, they used traditional venous draws (way more than a few drops), and competitors' systems to deliver test results of lower accuracy than their competitors. If they were really 'doing it by hand,' they would have still delivered on their core value prop of detailed results with only a few drops of blood.
But the market sustains based primarily on demand, not legality.
It doesn't really require any sophistication on the bee's part so much as a conscientious or unconscious understanding on the beekeeper's part of the bee's algorithms and their limitations.

Bees don't really have a good rule for "giant, landscape-sized creature carefully disassembling hive -> sting that asshole". It's just not something a bee needs to have a rule for. They do essentially have a rule for "giant animal destroying the hive -> sting that asshole", but that's because smashing a hive also smashes some bees, and they do have a rule for "smell a smashed bee -> go freakin' nuts". So the rules for barefoot beekeeping boil down to "be extremely careful and don't squish any bees".

Most of the bees' defenses are actually focused on other insects, especially other bees. Robbing by other bees is a much bigger threat than robbing by the landscape. A bee's sting is only fatal to the bee when it stings something like a human, and its stinger gets stuck in our skin. When a bee stings another bee or other insect, it can sting as many times as it likes. So it's more of a surprise to the bee when stinging us proves fatal, than some sort of altruistic suicide mission for the greater good of the hive.
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Right when Java was taking off, there were a bunch of research proposals for better over-the-wire executable formats (mostly funded by microsoft). Designs where you could convert the bytecodes to machine code as fast as L1 could take it with sane 1st-level-JIT code quality. And also have safety, and enough type info the use a 2nd-level JIT for really hot code.
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There's already a strong black market poaching and ivory trade. When Colorado legalized weed, it was grown legally in controlled environments. Legalized ivory trade doesn't magically make the killing of elephants disappear...
Thank you. Maybe you don't know but you have given very apt description of Java land frameworks.
More like it would take some power / authority away from some technocrats in EU.
The current poaching crisis is generally attributed to the lifting of CITES restrictions in 2008 which let some African countries sell their ivory stockpiles to China and Japan. As a result, the consumption has skyrocketed.
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Tear gas obscures visibility. Given how little we know about the layout, it may be that that would've been far too much risk.
I just use this chrome extension which does it automatically:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bypass/ekfnpmbmfml...
Really glad there's a license that protects my freedom to use the software in there.
Couldn't the police admit only unarmed people to the Dallas event, and have a word with anyone who looked like a sniper in an elevated position?
Hearing back on 0/10 isn't great but it also isn't so far outside my experience when I was applying to my first few jobs.

Some companies take a long time to get back to you (IIRC for Amazon I was offered an interview 2-3 months after applying)

And many companies are just rude (don't even acknowledge receiving your application, don't follow up after interviews).

However something that struck me about your story: most of my cover letters have consisted of a simple 3-4 sentence email. It mentioned the job, where I found it, expressed my enthusiasm for the position and highlighted some skills I have that match the job description.

I'm curious to hear other opinions, but you might be trying too hard on the cover letters.
If they're getting hundreds of applicants they should be using a software system to manage them. They all can reject people quite easily...
I would like to see some evidence on either side of this argument.

I can see that there is logic to both cases. Saying one side is "simply not true" doesn't make your case. Is there any firm evidence either way.
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Go has had some surprising success in command line tools, probably because it's one of the easier languages to deploy static binaries in. Windows/Linux GUI is more-or-less a no-go, and "embedded", well, it depends on how you feel about 3MB+ executables as the minimum size. If "embedded" here means "cell phone" level of capabilities, that may not bother you. If embedded means "I'm counting the kilobytes" then it's also a no-go.
There will always be a market for it, regardless if it is "allowed" or not. It needs to be regulated to prevent more ivory from entering the market, and maybe we can tax the hell out of the rich assholes buying it and use that tax money to fund anti-poaching measures.

As well, part of the draw of ivory is that it is illegal. "I have something you can't even legally buy! 3 people died getting me this!". There is something about the illegality of it that draws people to it, it's a "forbidden fruit". By legalizing the trade, you remove this "benefit" of ivory ownership. Now the ivory owner has no cool stories to tell about his purchase, he's just a rich prick who bought it from some dealer, like you might buy a car.
I think if companies were fully transparent with what they're doing with the data and made sure almost all of their users knew exactly what they're doing with it (meaning, it shouldn't just be in a privacy policy no one ever reads, but it should be actively "promoted" somehow within the service, everytime the data is collected and used) people would be a lot more careful about what data they share through these services.

This is exactly why these companies don't want to be more transparent unless they absolutely have to (like what the EU is doing to Google), but it really should be more regulated by governments, because I think it's a very "fair" thing to do - sharing everything you're doing with someone's info. It's not about restricting the data collection through regulation, just being transparent about it. That might lead to less useful information for the data collectors, but people should be informed and it should trump everything else.
I was an early Java adopter. And as much as I'm convinced that Larry Ellison hunts humans for sport, the fact of the matter is that Sun got dazzled by bullshit long before Oracle got their mits
on it.

The truth is, J2EE 1.0 was not designed by grown ups. It was designed by college kids and academics who ironically enough wouldn't know the 8 fallacies of network computing if it but them on the ass.

Because it DID bite them on the ass and we have nearly 5 years of vendors flaunting and then polluting the spec to prove it.

Then we have Josh Bloch, who everyone but me thinks is great, who introduced Duck Typing to the JDK (MethodNotImplementedException) and only later confessed that he couldn't understand variance. People defend their bad code by pointing to similar code in the JDK, and Bloch stunted the growth of an entire generation of developers. Then repeated the exact same mistakes at Google.

Me, I'm waiting for a language that Bloch had nothing to do with, and I want to get back to working in limited resource environments. My eye is on Rust right now, and I have my fingers crossed.
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I mean, yeah, you will never get completely rid of anything. Yet I think that child pornography is less common in society than illegal ivory (ever been to China town in SF and NYC?)
This looks really cool. A minor suggestion though. You might want to avoid a screenshot of the GH page on the site. This quickly becomes outdated. For example, the repo already has 4x more stars than the image shows :)