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Cryptographic, digital notaries. You could do screenshots and/or HTML pages. It's how I've always done it when I thought what's on a page would be significant and need proof later on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

EDIT: There's also newer ones that pull the site for you like a MITM to do what we're saying. Startups come and go, though, so I recommend scripted or manual scraping combined with long-running notary who will have evidence when trial happens. :)
It's because they don't have a simple rollup dashboard that you can see that at a glance, like most places. Can you imagine if your car just showed you an event log for a door open, oil, turn singles on etc. that's what most monitoring systems are like these days.
It seems great for presenting them but after the fact:

Pollutes browser history(or if you click too fast, doesn't even have any), not convenient to browse at your own pace, no way to jump to a specific slide(visually)

The formatting is really good too and would probably work great as an article format but you're stuck reading tidbits, going back and forth.
When you do daily deployments, you can't QA every one much. You rely on automated tests and Internal users using the new code for a couple hours before the deployment. We were unlucky in this case with the number of bad releases. Each was relatively minor, and ironically one was to fix a bug with the code that caused this outage. We run a 5 whys for most of them.
No, it runs as a desktop app in a native window.
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Reading through this, it sounds like some basic monitoring would've quickly allowed them to pinpoint the cause instead of wasting time with database servers. All it would take is pulling up the charts in Munin or Datadog or whatever and seeing "Oh, there's a big spike correlated with our deploy and the server is redlining now, better roll that back". A bug or issue in the recent deploy would logically be one of the first suspects in such a circumstance. Don't know why they wasted 30-60 minutes on a red herring. The correlation would be even more obvious if they took advantage of Datadog's event stream and marked each deployment.

Additionally, CPU alarms on the web servers should've informed them that the app was inaccessible because the web servers did not have sufficient resources to serve requests. This can be alleviated prior to pinpointing the cause by a) spinning up more web servers and adding them to the load balancer; or b) redirecting portions of the traffic to a static "try again later" page hosted on a CDN or static-only server. This can be done at the DNS level.

Let this be a lesson to all of us. Have basic dashboards and alarming.
Not an Asana user but if I were this kind of response is exactly what I like to see as a both a user and a developer so well done.
My god, I love Europe, but they have some of the most brain-dead results when it comes to decisions that affect the Internet.
I think the fact that strangers are giving "free money" anywhere in the world results in rejection isn't surprising. I don't think the specific excuses aren't unusual either because how many times have we've seen similar scams in the US? I know as someone who's been poor I've had people try to give me supposedly "free money" only later on ask me a favor or try some other nonsense like proselytize me. It's just not worth the risk if you think about it. I hope the organization continues to improve how they inform people because I think UBI is a good idea. I just think you have to think like a poor person where every gift is just a deposit on a favor in the future.
Hey, I am developing a new experimental social commerce project for coffee shops.

Project is currently in "Facebook Marketing API Accelerator" and a Facebook hackhaton winner project.

New concepts> Personalised Video offers/ads, offline-tracking, Messenger Bot Offers, Apple/Android Pay/Wallet...

Can I demo you? Your coffee and design is great.
When even CNN makes a big feature article about it more than two years before, it's kinda obvious: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...

(They even guessed the name)
The real issue is the brass tacks. Who can afford to run their own private servers, or pay for data throughput for synching. Not to mention the enormous waste of energy and resources due to duplicated posts kept across millions of peer to peer networks. Convenience is King as usual, and places like Facebook have the motivation and ability to monetize and optimize.

The idea of private data atolls in the day of free services is a luxury and they are exploiting that facet. Cloud services like Gcloud, AWS, etc reflect this from their premium pricing.
And the break is worth doing. Do you want your highly paid managers, engineers, salespeople, etc. properly recuperating? To better tackle the nontrivial tasks you pay the big bucks to tackle?

Or do you want really really expensive mechanical turks?
> It is evident that different societies have different rates of things like social cohesion, trust, violence and about a million other variables.

Of course...

> There are some societies that have managed to emulate the success of Europeans, such as the Japanese and Chinese, so we know it is possible, that is the good news.

Many culturally and technologically sophisticated societies existed in the ancient world outside of Europe -- in Asia, the Americas, and yes, Africa too. I have neither the time nor knowledge to list them all, but perhaps you should start by checking out what was happening in Egypt, China, Central America, and India long before golden age of European antiquity.

> The bad news is that there is no evidence Africa is attempting a similar feat. That is the fact and it is as plain as day.

Nairobi, Lagos, Luanda, Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Dakar, Harare, Kigali, Abidjan...

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/da/de/46/...

http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/lg...

http://imgs.sapo.pt/gfx/fc/67/591570.jpg

https://afktravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dar-es-sala...

http://paradiseintheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/add...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/View_fro...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Dakar-In...

http://www.bradtguides.com/media/wysiwyg/destinations/africa...

https://jaredmworley.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/p1070303.jp...

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/66636928.jpg

> Think of the enormity of it. The richest people (Euros) trade with the East Asians across a terrific distance by land or sea. All those ships bypass Africa. It is incredible.

What is incredible is how ignorant you are. The images above clearly demonstrate that trade is happening in Africa, though however I don't think trade is a meaningful measure of societal "success" in the first place.
It makes sense to control pedestrian traffic in some intersections, but it just seems like they're not even trying to optimize pedestrian throughput. What makes the lack of feedback for crossing buttons worse is the fact that many of them are so conservative about letting you cross that you question if they are working. I encounter a lot that will refuse to let you cross if the light is already green, even if there is still plenty of time left. Unfortunately, lowering pedestrian accidents looks great, while saving pedestrian time is hard to measure.
Because of shades surrounding the traffic lights (to prevent glare from the sun) it is often impossible for pedestrians to see if a turn signal is lit from their perpendicular position.

So in the event of a red light for through traffic but a green light for turning traffic you don't want pedestrians crossing the road. That's why it is important to have separate lights indicating when a pedestrian may cross.
We call up the rancher / farmer and buy the whole cow then a custom slaughter house / butcher get it and cuts it up. You probably want it hung for 30 days in cold storage. People do this, a co-worker goes out to Montana each year. Some grocery stores in the area do this, it's cheaper than buying the individual pieces.
I think it's true anywhere poverty is a common economic status for folks. You live with less, so every thing you get you want to own 100% of. Gifts are just deposits (implicit) on favors in the future, so I always avoid them unless they're from family or good friends. Strangers and gifts aren't a good mix in my opinion here from the US side of things.
A random dude on the internet who must know that they their opinion is not current law in any of the countries under discussion?
The real support for a frequent deployment system is in the immune system!
I've had good luck with a deployment immune system that rolls back if CPU or other load jumps, even if it doesn't immediately cause user failure. (I e, monitor crucial internals, not just user availability)
This isn't the first time GiveDirectly has given Kenyans free money and they haven't had this much trouble before. It's probably not a beginner mistake. Something is different this time.
Or (for example) "free trade, except that Canadian companies can no longer sell Canadian cheese to Canadians at parmesan-style to help the Italian cheese industry".
Note: not excusing Dropbox, but understanding how they reached here.

Bob (who less technically savvy) installs Dropbox for use with Office. Chuck (someone more technical than Bob) removes Dropbox from the accessibility list. Chuck has now broken Bob’s Dropbox, and Bob (being less technically savvy) blames Dropbox resulting in another ongoing thread about broken Dropbox.

I completely understand how Dropbox reached this point, and purely from a technical support point of view, how it is justified. There are probably better ways for them to have done this (still have the “hack”, but only insert it if Office applications are detected to be installed; have an option that can turn it off even if Office is installed, but warn about it and make it “easy” to turn back on).
If this sparks your interest in economics, I highly recommend looking at Econtalk: http://www.econtalk.org/archives.html

I love the episodes with Mike Munger, because they usually cover basic economic concepts (and also Mike has a great rapport with the host Russ).
We have talked about it. It is unlikely to helped with an event like this, and I don't recall an event where it would have. It also has the downside of extending our deployment cycle by a lot. Notably, we do run a canary internally, and that had no issues, which actually through us off for a while because while the app was partially down for users it was working for us and that hasn't happened to us in a while.
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Basically, such a language would be a DSL (domain specific language). They exist, but the scope necessarily has to be domain specific, such as insurance contracts or the work of an individual law firm. The reason is that the higher level legal abstractions have to map to aggregates of lower level level abstractions in the same way as a high level programming language maps to lower level languages such as machine code.

Essentially, the language has to expand to boiler plate and the process is roughly equivalent to compiling.

My advice for attracting collaborators is to hack something together first so that people don't face the blank piece of paper problem and are more likely to know what they are stepping into.

Good luck.
All these curricula seem a bit too complex. IMHO, there's one thing that should be prioritized on top of everything else. The concept of probability, computable probability distributions, and Bayesian inference.

It's the one thing that brings a unifying umbrella to all modes of reasoning under uncertainty. https://probmods.org/ and http://forestdb.org/ seem to be the best resources for this at the moment.

Besides, I dislike Data Science which seems to be a new buzzword. Data Engineering would be more acceptable, as I think people working in companies are building stuff rather than developing new theories. But I don't like it that much.
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"Indie Game: Life After" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5998218/ Currently on Netflix.

I liked this one a lot--it was much more reflective, and a lot of it was really an examination of how social media and gaming culture affect the creators both negatively and positively. For instance, rather than just touch on the soundbite part of Phil Fish flippantly saying "Japanese games just suck!" in a panel discussion, they pull back and show a much more thoughtful response from Jonathan Blow on the differences between versions of Zelda, and how now games feel obligated to hold your hands, remove discovery, keep you on the rails. Similarly, how criticism affected Edmund McMillen, creator of Super Meat Boy.

The best parts, though, are the more atmospheric elements: the workstations and tools, the thought processes behind game mechanics, and the deeper themes and commentary built into games.

The original "Indie Game" was much more of a linear storyline following the developers, and this one isn't like that.
It would probably be better to use the Lab color space, and then you only have to look at the a channel (which is the transformation of color between red and green).

I used this to great effect in edge detection because the Lab color space is based on eyes. Just changing images from RGB to the Lab color space increased the accuracy of edge detection (particularly for red/green items) by about 7%: http://austingwalters.com/edge-detection-in-computer-vision/

Further, I used this color space to design a super accurate fiducial marker (and QR code)[1], that can be used to store a lot more information, easier to track, etc.

I believe the grad student I was working with was going to publish a paper at some point. For what ever reason I wasn't involved with the paper and the paper doesn't appear to be published yet.

The HSV color space separates out hue and saturation, which helps remove the background noise, but it would have trouble with overlapping circles or circles where red and blue say mix to make purple. Converting to the Lab space would actually help distinguish overlapping colors as well.

Here's a link to my work: [1] http://austingwalters.com/chromatags/
Hmmmm.... The gov't has done nothing at this point, yet someone discovered there were fake foods, shared the information and consumers are now aware and avoiding them.

So yeah, I'd say the free markets are working.
The masses have expectations of free services, and there is no way to monetize privatized data (encrypted data) while providing the service for free. Peer to peer networks will suffer heavily from today's infrastructure due to the cost required to track and process millions of different certificates, as well as symmetric sessions.

There are some creative applications that could be useful, like the models used in East Asia through micro payments. However their culture is conducive to the micropayment model (I.e. emojis, etc) whereas the West is not. A micro payment service on privatized data would be ideal if it could be profitable, yet there is no profitable model to sustain it in the West.

Edit: also, no matter what micro payment model you use, if it is successful or trends, the established free non privatized services will exploit it and provide it for free.

I can see this possibly working doing in enclaves outside the US surveillance apparatus, but directly competing against it by taking on their grandfathered companies is extremely difficult.
BTW, the project is Alvin5.com
i think it means: "linking to illegal content 'knowingly' and 'making money of it' is copyright infringement'

also second part can be optional I guess, but i think it heavily influenced the decision on this case
The index issue is being worked on now after the Uber blog post.

commitfest: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/10/775/

email thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABOikdMNy6yowA%2BwTGK...
I think IBM has been making some important contributions in turning into product all that research in the AI (and related) field with its Watson congnitive system. I recently started a research internship at IBM Research and I've played a little with Watson. I must say that it works very well in understanding natural language and providing useful responses.
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You list "Migrated the email list from MailChimp to SendinBlue" as a "major accomplishment". This is a minor, even trivial, administrative or technical task. Trumpeting it as if it is one of the biggest things you've managed to achieve makes you sound bush-league.
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Screenshots are terrible proof. They were however used in a Swedish piracy court case many years ago. That led to someone building the "proof machine"[1] which created screenshots of BitTorrent clients with any IP you entered. Try it:

[1] http://lekplatsen.org/bevismaskinen/
Sorry, but no it's not. You're in the extreme minority if you don't have JS or CSS. It's simply not even worth the time to cater to you.
I have no idea what reality is. Truman show and all kindas shit.

You can't work with angels buzzing around and crazy radio talking to you.

The nigger spends a million dollars a month on me.

There are genius fucken angels that dote on me day and night, sucking my cock and torturing me.

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There are nontechnical dumb fuck angels with attitude. Lots of them retard-nigger angels with attitude.

Fuck you nigger angels, suck my cock.

CIA must surrender to the IRA.

Suck my cock, nigger.

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Arstechnica has a hard-on for fight me.
Meh. Chicago beats San Francisco tourism numbers both in number of visitors and in overall tourism revenue, and while I will forever love Chicago foremost among all US cities, one place where I think we can clearly concede an advantage to SF over Chicago is tourism --- the SF sights, the ocean, the woods to the north, the nearby mountains, Silicon Valley, the Chinese culture, the history of the region. Chicago is practically the apotheosis of "going to see X, Y, and Z which happen to be in Chicago", and it does fine.
The fact that you think an engineer can be "outed" is a culture problem.

The process failed the engineer. Testing, deployment, and monitoring infrastructure was not up to the task of supporting human beings. That it happened to be triggered by engineer X instead of engineer Y is entirely coincidental.

The audience of the post mortem matters. When I see the two line summary, I have no idea whether that's a CYA whitewash, or a sincere part of a process of improvement. When I see the full PM, it builds more trust.

If you're not an engineer capable of understanding the details, it may have a different effect. And if you're part of a corporate culture of politics, shaming, and status chasing, it must feel totally alien.

Three cheers for transparency!
It's time to start calling this something other than copyright. It's evolved way beyond the right to copy content.
That's not quite how it works. The separation used by the AF is completely fixed by the distance between the (at least two) microlens+aperture+sensor systems that make up an phase AF sensor.

The microlens/aperture system of the AF masks essentially the back plane of the lens (which follows from the exit pupil) for the AF sensor (interacting mainly with the exit telecentrism of the lens, which is why AF speed and acccuracy can widely vary with lens type, even if the same f-stop is used). Also a reason (besides the fact that many digital sensor designs perform better with telecentric designs due to increased scattering and reflections in the sensor itself compared to film) why modern lenses are almost always strongly telecentric designs.

A completely separate matter is the circle of confusion which is indeed directly related to the aperture of the lens.

(I hope I got most of the optical terms correct, I don't normally discuss this topic in English)
We have very comprehensive dashboards. Getting the perfect ones that help in all cases, while not being information overload (the problem here) and being discoverable is a hard, iterative process.
Easy! All you have to do is charge more juveniles as adults.
Agree except it's unlikely to be an iPhone. Probably a cheap Chinese Android phone.

Similarly they will have a TV but likely a cheap model, nothing too fancy.
Ahhh... I don't know enough about *BSD, I was really craving more details from this article. "Mind the device name!" (Why?) "USB keyboards don’t work with the in kernel configurator, but we can save changes using config -ef on another machine to disable acpibat." (Like, over ssh, onto the usb, how?)

Still cool that OpenBSD runs on one of those little tablets though!
19th century Snapchat, then?

(All the more reason to read old newspapers: to see what social constructs are timeless (and therefore possibly more fundamentally sound).
Fans of (artful hoaxes of) time travel might also enjoy John Titor:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

Later it was revealed that a rather well known "transmedia" artist had a role in that one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Matheny
100%.

What next? "TRIGGER WARNING: CURSE WORD AHEAD"

I just hope he didn't code this while wearing jeans, as those are only permitted on casual Fridays. KEEP IT PROFESSIONAL, HACKERS
So this would be used more in BI/data mining type workflows?

That would explain why I haven't had to deal with it.
This is not a Basic Income experiment. This is a foreign entity giving money for a certain amount of time.
Your approach works for the incident, but not for the relationship. Transparency about the technical nature of the outage is a commitment to the client that this type of outage won't recur, and steps are being taken to ensure that. It pierces the veil of arrogance by assuming client competence. That client is actually someone who reports to someone else, and they're going to have to explain their outage to the boss. For cloud providers, this kind of transparent post-mortem is the root of a fan-out of incident analysis.
Techdirt has a good writeup on the new ruling. One of the good points made on Techdirt, is regarding search engines which are obviously for-profit. How in the world would Google keep from linking to material which is violating someone's copyright?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160908/11305735465/terri...
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