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This is, I believe, the correct analysis.

I am personally/professionally qualified to keep my data extremely safe and distributed. It's one of the things I do at work, at scale. But it's not easy. It is, after all, work. I don't have to worry about that using Google and other online services.

And, in order to mitigate against the extremely unlikely event of Google going haywire and perma-deactiviating my account, I run takeouts twice a month. These large data dumps don't need to be heavily redundant, since it's exceedingly unlikely I'll need them at all.

Granted, going from a takeout backup back to 80% functionality would be a ton of work, but I'd lose very little, and I could indeed become functional again in relatively short order.

I wonder if people who decide to ditch most things Google/cloud for no other reason than concern about the risk of said cloud providers terminating their access have truly considered the risk/reward. Bad news, like specific cases of 'unjust/surprising' account termination percolates up to wide visibility quickly and easily, and stays with the people who read such things a long time. The hundreds of millions of accounts that have no such problems escape our attention.

I don't know the odds of my Google account getting terminated, but I'm pretty certain that it's in the same magnitude as the number of people winning the lottery per year.

Having said that, there are a lot of other good reasons to think about ditching cloud providers.
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The human waste metaphor raises an interesting question - what do you think the role of elected officials in a representative democracy is?

I would also add that the media-portrayal of conservative perspectives if in multiple instances further to the right than that of the electorate. I'm happy to go into examples if you care (one example would be people wanting healthcare before the ACA became associated with the 'evil' Democrats).
What do they do with their data? Make a list?
Not yet - but it does run Xamarin Forms apps, and I'd be _very_ surprised if the syntax for Xamarin Forms and UWP isn't integrated at some point soon... They're both XAML based.
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...or be branded as "brain-washed" dupes of lame-stream media by right wing ideologues with a meme-generator.

everyone's shouting past each other.
It just goes to show that before we worry about self driving cars we have huge improvements that can be made in driver skill! It's an easy win if only this country had the will to do it.
Even many of the CVTs have fake gears because people didn't like the sound and feeling of a straight up linear CVT, so they might be more comparable to automatics.
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Actually I'm paid to do this: http://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/November2016/mode...

Writing code is just the only way to do the above since all attempts at making it less text file driven have failed so far.
I think they're trying to be flippant. Not worth indulging
Automatic transmissions back then were quite the hydraulic maze, as they operated entirely on hydraulics. These days, they're electronically controlled. I don't think the failure rate has changed.

In a manual, you can of course clutch out as long as your clutch cable (or hose for hydraulic clutched cars) doesn't fail, which is not an option you have for automatics. These kinds of failures do occur today, though. See the famous Toyota "unintentional acceleration" scandal, where a software error read "0% throttle" as "100% THROTTLE GO GO GO GO", causing death in a few cases. There's also a case of a person that was stuck in a car that could not stop, driving at constantly increasing speed on the highways of France, IIRC. He couldn't turn the car off or get it out of gear. You can disengage a manual if you're quick with an intact clutch cable, but you're a bit lost in an automatic, especially if it's too powerful to hold on the brake.

Up here, manuals are normal (with automatics slowly getting more and more popular), mostly because everyone knows just fine how to drive them, and automatics are much more expensive. I, personally, can't decide which I prefer. I'd much rather drive fully manual than a "retrofitted" automatic like the one in a Lupo 3L, and I still have to try a dual clutch transmission, for which I might end up having similar opinions. They always seem to change wrong, the changes are rough and slow, and the clutch engagement is very binary, leading to odd engage/disengage.

I like conventional automatics in cars that haul heavy loads (pushing a 4 metric tonne trailer over a curb in reverse at low speeds without the possibility of gaining some speed first make you worry a lot about your clutch in a manual), and our busses and trucks are generally fully automatic, with more gears than you would bother counting.
So you would ban post-menopausal women from getting married. Understood.
Contacting Google support, unless you're an Apps customer which I wasn't, is a complete waste of time. Unless you can, to quote a colleague, piss through the eye of a needle, when it comes to the security questions and details then you can't even get over the first hurdle.
James May only goes 30 miles. On a closed track... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFX9vrwJf8
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I'm not sure my motivation is clear. As above, rather than rehearse it, I'll link a prior comment in which I did so at length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457439
Isn't everyone hard to recruit? The difference in perception of coders might be that the evidence for a bad recruit is obvious in the code they produce. There could be many bad recruits in all other areas but are less obvious.

I generally like the idea of clearer quantification of a persons output but it should be done very delicately. As in, if you are going to measure everything someone produces, maybe that data should only be available to that person and it's up to them how they share it.

The uncertainty principle likely applies to people too. Hard to measure people without influencing them. Trick is to do it in a positive way. Managers measuring people for the purpose of firing them would be perceived, and have a negative effect on morale, than measuring people to identify opportunities for education, training or skills development.
Right, my protocol would have been: fully homogenize the mushroom, treat it with an antibody known to disable all the toxins, then cook and eat. I wasn't really proposing anybody does this.
Cheaper airlines and short-hops don't bother with food any more. I flew recently with a European budget airline that nickle-and-dimed for everything including water.

Not really relevant but that was definitely the worst flight I've ever been on. Half-way through one of the flight attendants appeared to have a breakdown and burst into tears. A little later she was in the curtained area, and when someone opened it she screamed at the top of her lungs (not comforting). Furthermore, as the plane was coming in to land, the flight attendants were sitting in their seats sharing jokes about YouTube videos they'd recently watched of accidents when the landing gear gets stuck. They also made rude comments about bad passengers they'd had in the past (including stuff like "I'd have thrown the fat bitch out of the door").

Won't be flying with them again.
This is why I take the bus or train, even in towns where most people drive(when possible).

I used to commute from Downtown Hartford to the Airport. 20 minute drive, 40 minute bus ride. I showed up happy and refreshed and having had time to read, my coworkers showed up stressed out and miserable. I mean, I guess you save 20 minutes, but....
FGM is illegal, but there has been zero prosecutions, and estimated a few thousand girls mutilated since the laws were passed.

One of the reasons FGM goes on in the UK is precisely that people don't want to be seen as judging a culture, even for something which is statistically more likely to happen in a culture: ie, the problem could be addressed with medical inspections in schools but this won't happen for fear of being called Islamophobic (oddly enough I learnt most of this from reading Bridget Christie's book, and she's pretty damn left). A similar situation occurred in the systemic rape cases in Rotherham.

And yes, of course people can voluntarily submit to something, it doesn't change that others are forced.
The problem is actually "how do we make bike share users safer?"

I'd suggest more effort is put into making the infrastructure better, since a flimsy helmet (made of cardboard or polystyrene) is not a solution to any problem other than sales figures.
> The engine will be turning over at ~1000rpm instead of 2000rpm in my diesel.

Right, but when you're coasting you're burning fuel to turn over, unless you have a perpetual motion engine. Whereas engine braking (on a car with an ECU i.e. one made since 1996 or so) you could be doing 2000rpm but burning no fuel (gravity is turning the wheels which are turning the engine).
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It can't be much wear since I have driven several manual cars hundreds of thousands of miles and never changed a clutch once.
That's correct. in fact, we were the largest (in terms of total simulation seconds produced) provider of resources to Folding@Home and worked with Vijay Pande closely on this effort.
Governments standards change slower than technology. Automatics used to be slush boxes that robbed power while shifting at inappropriate times. Now they aren't.

I love manuals, but I have to acknowledge modern automatic transmissions are very well executed.
You have to exhibit the ability to drive at speeds that are expected of you. That means around 110–130 on the Autobahn, otherwise the examiner might consider you to be too scared to drive up to the speed limit. I did my driving test in a place where the next Autobahn is about 15–20 minutes away and the speed limit on the roads I had to take was at most 120 km/h. It's definitely not a requirement to drive up to 160 km/h, but going 80 on the Autobahn, or 60 on regional roads (without traffic dictating so) will raise an eyebrow behind you.

On the other hand, your instructor may very well encourage you to try out driving fast once, because having done that is much easier with someone next to you who can help or recover from dangerous situations.
This article sums it up perfectly: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...
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is this sarcasm again?
These can be pretty inaccurate in my experience. It's annecdata, but my brother's Corolla is rated at 6.7 L/100km on highway for the manual, but he had no problem getting 5.6 L/100km in reality. 16% less than claimed on a 10 hour drive.

I think they may be vastly underestimating manual drivers ability to optimize this.

EDIT: Actually on the US site the Auto is rated for 6.9 L/100km, 7.1 L/100km on the manual. The Canadian NRCAN rated it 6.7 L/100km.
I suggest handling TCP packet retransmission yourself as well. Nothing beats having precise control over reliable data delivery.

Grin. But seriously, at some point, it simply becomes a question of low level control vs improved high level functioning. I love manuals, and drive one, but the writing is clearly on the wall for good reasons. Fortunately, buying a hybrid forces the issue anyway, as others have noted.
Wheeler passed net neutrality, Trump's replacement will most likely do everything they can to get rid of it. I hope you plan on expressing your outrage. But they probably won't care.
Isn't the goal exactly getting thrown out of every department?
Am I the only one who feels airline food is fine, and at some times delicious?

I've flown in countless airlines and I honestly don't remember a single meal where it was actually less than "I could eat food of this quality every day." (of course, the same meal every day regardless of quality will be pretty bad)
Outside of fields with direct penalties for invalid science (think aviation, nuclear reactors, sinking boats, collapsing bridges), we're just relying on the integrity and honor of researchers. On an individual level it's much more effective to cut corners and publish trendy research than it is to make valid science.

The situation is only made worse by the fact that universities reward this; because they too are rewarded more for high-profile research than they are for scientific validity.

My guess is that most studies in softer sciences are simply erroneous. Many social sciences have already been shown to be unreliable by the replication crisis.

My personal experience comes from reviewing hundreds of published studies that evaluated the applied effectiveness of machine learning models. Half had significant statistical errors.
I'm pretty sure you should read 24/24 as a fraction instead of a tuple. But I guess your neural network is more trained on the other case.
It has to be per story without party bias. It's a really hard problem to solve.
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Hilary's problem was that she was a warmonger allied with the banks.
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>Liberals care about someone who has to work 12 hours a day for minimum wage, has no meaningful time with their children, has to go to work even when sick or risk being fired, is possibly just a broken bone away from homelessness, and is preyed on by the financial industry with fraudulent credits etc. Oh – and when they get home, there's Mit Romney on FOX saying poor people are lazy.

Ridiculous. I can't tell you how many times I've heard those sentiments expressed when they're tapping away on their iPhones. Liberals care about whatever they currently feel the most strongly about. And they see no issues with using the fruits of Chinese laborers working in slave-like conditions while simultaneously agitating for the increase of minimum wages.
Again: no. I'm not sure what value you find in attempting to mischaracterize my argument by assuming results which do not follow from anything I have actually said.
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As an ex-sysadmin turned coder, "sysadmins aren't paid to install apache" could be as true as statement as "programmers aren't paid to write code". The meat of the value of a good sysadmin is problem solving, learning, and communication abilities (perhaps a "duh" but the same qualities I look for in a programmer.) While there's certainly something to be said for a senior experienced sysadmin being expected to have an insane knowledge of their systems, at least for more entry roles, I've seen many of the same problems in sysop interviews as dev interviews, and having a hackerrank section for it may only exacerbate that. I'm simply not convinced that no matter what you guys ask from a programmatic angle you can solve the deep problems of interviewing that these soft skills are much harder to poll for, resulting in an uneven reliance on less effective signaling of tangential talent through e.g. hackerrank score.

Anecdotally, this sort of "filtering" would have precluded both my own hiring early on in my career (so I'm naturally sensitive to this), and that of probably two of the three best junior sysadmins I've had the pleasure to working with having come out of entirely non-technical fields, while allowed in both of the "disaster cases" that come to my mind.

Don't let this ramble be a "it's impossible stop trying;" but perhaps a "more of the same won't solve the problems we can already see endemic across our field", as the great-grandfather post brought up. I simply worry that the availability of "traditional hackerrank brute-force-evaluation" will simply result in more people leaning on it than trying to think more critically about their interview process.
> In the UK at least, all our payments in store above £20 require a PIN to be used...

Not true (notwithstanding that it increased to £30). Some people (myself included) have opted for a chip-and-signature card instead of chip-and-pin, because it is harder for the bank to push the cost of fraud onto me that way.

It's been only seven years (I think?) since chip-and-pin was introduced. It's amazing how quickly all the checkout staff have forgotten what to do when their till tells them to check the card signature. Also almost none of them actually have a pen to hand.
But if you drive in the mountains, wouldn't gear simulation in a CVT help to save brakes while going downhill?
What would prevent Camlistore from the same model? I guess if you're gone, the server might not be running properly, and they wouldn't know how to start it and etc. Ya?

That's fair. I wonder if it would be worth it to write some type of camlistore extraction tool. Eg, plug in a USB, autoruns a script which mounts a blob store as a fuse FS.

Hell, the blob store could be packed with the USB.. a sort of way to backup Camlistore that your family can always access. I actually like that idea. Fuse may not be a good access model (it's tied to unix of course), but maybe just a couple binaries that will auto run and display the stored camlistore blobstore.

Sounds like a nifty project and nifty way to backup camlistore for family/non-tech oriented. No servers needed, no understanding of the tech you use. As fool-proof as you can make it.

Thoughts on this related to your model?
There's a lot more out there than just technology. I'd love to hear from the creators of Meow Wolf, for instance.
> Freedom can include the freedom from harasment

I would argue that it can't. Freedom is the freedom to do things. "Freedom from x" is just another way of saying "you're not allowed to do x".
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Its not just that. I recently found out after years of using multilevel virtualization (e.g. Hyper-V on Windows in parallels) that an update removed the feature and I'd have to subscribe to the pro version to get it back.

I used to like parallels but the extreme user hostility, especially to pro users, has me wanting to move on.

Honestly now that windows has a decent bash shell I might just switch to using boot camp. Very frustrating.
I had a new developer decided to make their own charting library. It seemed like the best idea was to let him try and learn why that was a bad idea. Which looking back I think many other people had the same idea with me.

Honestly, I think programming is at the point where apprenticeships are a good idea. Thirty years ago the tools where changing to fast, and eventually we can codify the correct body of knowledge to have useful formal education. But, education seems to default to handing people a bunch of tools and getting them to learn it own their own.
Absolutely. This can be better. But it can't be much better.
You could take a look at the Speaker Recognition API from Microsoft Cognitive Services https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/speaker-r...
I would argue even being able to drive a manual doesn't make you know what is best either
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This is why I just don't bother reading most news articles because even when the news isn't from a fake site you still have many factual errors or context being removed from specific events/quotes/reports/etc that are discussed in any given article. This is an issue larger than just some kid putting up fake news on a site to generate clicks for ad revenue. It's an issue that includes what I would consider established news outlets like the major newspapers and magazines. It's just weird to see how often the news is so bad in terms of fact checking that often I just skip news altogether.
> But the likelihood of a randomly selected example rearing children is vastly higher than that for a randomly selected homosexual couple.

Okay, but why guess? We already register children and parents, so only issue marriage licenses when a couple has a child. That takes the guessing out of it.

> but to do so in practice not only massively increases the bureaucracy and cost involved and brings in creepy edge cases, but requires a panopticon state in order to work.

I don't see how, the state already knows who a child's parents are.
I'm not actually sure which comment I'd intended to reply to anymore (wrote it quickly on a lunch break!) - but, anyway: I'd agree the JVM is a bit faster than the CLR currently, but this is arguably because the CLR is more heavily tuned towards startup time (the reduction of), rather than throughput. They've invested more heavily into AOT compilation support (also in service of this goal) and compiler-as-a-service tech (Roslyn) rather than performance... perhaps this might change? Certainly the community additions to the CLR and the larger ecosystem eg ASP.NET Core have produced some notable performance improvements.

Also I'd say the CLR has more potential insofar as performance due to its design than the JVM does, but the JVM has received more attention in this area historically, so it's 'winning' currently despite this.
The monospaced font looks very old, I don't like the look of it.

The proportional one is ok but it can't be used for programming. In part because of the reasons you gave but especially because there is almost no gap between the two = characters in == and @ is almost superscripted, which looks wierd.

I'm going back to Sans Regular (whatever it is on Ubuntu). It has its own problems (I and l look the same) but it's still better.
> The real difficulty in recruiting in this space is finding and engaging these people, not testing them.

Tons of people in this space hang out on various places online, where you can simply advertise or do some PR and many do, is it really that difficult?
I've used the same. One thing that is odd is the "merge" window that shows the final result of the merge that sits below the left and right pane is set to 0 height by default. I've surprised several colleagues by moving my mouse to their bottom pane of FileMerge and dragging up showing them that 3rd pane.
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When you have a very low supply of high quality people, and at the same time a huge demand for those same people, it is a major problem. You claim to solve this problem, by making it even harder? How does that help?
It's Open Source. I don't need windows to run it.
Not really. An experienced manual driver can do it all with his/her eyes closed. It's just like the change from new driver to experienced driver.
I may not have liked him, but I thought he was a more viable candidate than Clinton or Sanders. Certainly less intrinsically offensive than Clinton, who was a truly awful candidate.
> where you really should check the URL and SSL certificate...

Yeah, we are really training people to be vulnerable to phishing scams, aren't we.

The advice I give is that if you didn't type the URL of the bank web site into the address bar yourself, it may not be your actual bank you are talking to.
Lol I read that line and thought to myself "sold where do I sign up"
My best guess after seeing the title was something related to MDMA...