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> Seems like most systems evolve to where they are impossible for a human understand. See tax code, social security, Obamacare, etc.

That's because the US is characterized by a Republican party with wholly obstructionist goals which make the worst possible consessions for those who do wish for an effective social safety net to be in place, effectively being able to say "I told you so" when the watered-down systems inevitably fail.

In countries where those systems are not points of contention they end up working quite well. See the German education system, NHS, and a long list of other programs around the world.
Timthumb is how Wordfence came about because my own site was hacked via the vulnerability when it was an 0day and that's how I got involved in WP security.

http://markmaunder.com/2011/08/02/technical-details-and-scri...

Props to Ben. When I worked with him to fix timthumb I don't recall him mentioning that it was someone else who wrote the bug.

There have been plenty of vulnerabilities just as bad or worse since - and it keeps our site cleaning team busy. Besides Timthumb, the other top WP vulnerabilities/exploits are Revolution slider, Mailpoet and Gravity Forms.

You rarely see a site hacked via an old timthumb these days but it still shows up. Most hacked sites are from the other three newer remote code exec vulns I mentioned.
Well, "he started it" by not releasing tax returns, not relinquishing his control of his businesses nor disclosing his international business deals. Its fair game, then, to interpret subsequent actions as part of a pattern.
I understand that they are PAID by the federal government. What I'm saying is that they operate INDEPENDENT of the government. They don't have any role in governance, they don't draft or pontificate on legislation, and they don't manage or participate in the daily administration of government affairs.

The ONLY thing Federal about them is their funding.
I remember my 1 year old birthday party and plenty of stuff before that. I remember finding an unprotected outlet and putting a butter knife in it. It made me involuntarily fling the knife across the room. My mom came in and got mad at me for crying for "no reason".
The problem here is that because student loans are so protected this means they don't have to ask what degree the loan is for. To the banks there is little risk here. This is one of the many factors going into it, but that's why banks will hand out so much money and for whatever degree a young person that definitely knows what they want to do and has their whole future planned out.

No risk to lenders.
> We're disagreeing about the meanings of style vs. standards here. I'm using style in the commonly accepted sense, e.g. "hair stylist", "stylish", "all style and no substance."

Indeed we are. I'm considering "style guide" as a noun phrase to include many things that you would call standards, and comes from the definition of style "a manner of doing something."
You seem confused by how conservation works, and intent on misunderstanding it.

All I can say is that momentum conservation is Lorentz invariant in my system, and hence cannot depend on choice of reference frame. The conserved quantity is not invariant, and conserved quantities do not need to be Lorentz invariant, and fact almost always are not. If this confuses you, sorry, but I cannot follow your reasoning anymore.
Ah, neat. A version of static_assert for C. What kinds of expressions can it actually evaluate, though?
They were effectively "Free" in 2003, about 3%, IIRC. In fact, my (subsidized) loans from 2003-2005 currently have interest rates below 2% due to on time payments and auto withdraw.
This might be considered along the same lines of "unintended use of code".

When I was around 13 I wrote a bash script that would automatically backup your browser data to an FTP server of your choosing. This included your the passwords database, and I made it work with just about every browser possible.

I released the script on some IT forum (I forget which) and it was a big hit for some reason, but then someone re-released it on hackforums and told people to hardcode the server credentials instead of using a settings file.
Tricking someone to download a tiff, exe, whatever would upload their password databases from all their browsers in a matter of seconds.

It got quite a bit of attention (many thousands of views) and I've always felt bad about the amount of credentials that were possibly stolen.
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Fowler's Modern English Usage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Modern_English...
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The Port of Portland (Oregon) lost container service due in no small part to this exact type of fracas between unions. There was a work slowdown over who is allowed to plug and unplug refrigerated units. This slowdown eventually led to large container ships no longer calling the port. The economic impact that this has had on the local economy is huge. Now small businesses and farms need to truck or train their goods to Seattle/Tacoma, which is a large cost for low margin goods (such as hay).

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/02/what_th...

These are real people hurting due to the so-called fabled union demonizations.
I have a synology box with a pair of drives in RAID 1. That's not bad, but if something happens to that or my places goes on fire, well, I'll lose it all.

So I need a remote backup solution for it. I haven't found anything cheap and satisfactory yet...
Tuition is very expensive in the U.S.. People take loans
because they are banking on the future. They think that
Even with debt they will come out ahead.

I'm new on this site, but I assume that most people
on this site are computer programmers or are tech savvy
enough to get a job that pays a decent wage.

I'm Canadian, but you should also look at the bright side
Of US education. There is no Canadian Caltech. If you
step out and start a business in America, it is
Considered entrepreneurial and a good thing.
That is already part of their job as managers. So what's next? Getting a bonus for showing up at work? Or maybe getting a bonus for playing less golf? Or perhaps a bonus for interrupt people who do real work with more useless meetings? Actually the last one isn't needed. They already do that. A lot.
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Because the Federal Reseve printed trillions of dollars out of thin air.
This was used by Flipboard for their Duplo algorithm which creates plausible layouts for web content. They used Perlin Noise to create variations between pages to create an 'organic' sense to the algorithmically generated layouts.

http://engineering.flipboard.com/2014/03/web-layouts/
It's better for society if the few university spots in art school are allocated based on aptitude rather than wealth of one's parent.
And this is why I hated learning C. You went through a 500 pages C programming book, did all the exercises, had a good grasp of the language but you were still useless because you didn't know anything about those weird macros, Makefiles, automake, gcc flags, etc.
In 2006-2007, just before iPhone was released, we tried to pitch Nokia to adopt Python as the main language for mobile application development. We even wrote a book about it:

https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Python-prototyping-application...

Python for Symbian (S60) was amazing - arguably the best way to develop smartphone apps at the time. It made you orders of magnitude more productive than native, convoluted version of C++. It came with bindings to camera, accelerometer etc. The underlying vision was to enable large masses of people to develop mobile apps quickly and thus unlock Nokia's capable hardware that was buried under a clunky OS.

A Python-based user-driven app ecosystem might not have killed iPhone but it might have filled some of the vacuum that gave rise to Android. Nokia was way ahead of its time with many ideas.
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I have found a large LinkedIn network to be useful for finding customer interviews for startup ideas. There are a lot of people that I am connected to enough that an intro from them beats a cold email. I often will find a company that seems like a good fit for a problem or idea I am working on, see if I have any second-degree connections there, and ask for an intro.

I really enjoyed Brad Feld's post[1] on choosing how to use each social network you sign up for. On LinkedIn, I've decided to be a public, promiscuous consumer. On Twitter, I am public, selective, and a mix of consumer/producer. Facebook is one that I probably need to cut even more than I do, since I don't have a strategy and get little value from it.

Social networks can be tools, and if they are not providing value, it may mean you need to use the tool differently or get rid of it if it doesn't solve a problem you have.

[1] http://www.feld.com/archives/2012/02/happy-birthday-im-unfri...
If you understood the difference the choice is clear. Those aren't just two different words (country |company), but two entirely different ways of looking at and living life.
It appears many don't understand the difference between protecting and amplifying either. Alas.
How about giving back the diploma itself?
Really? A casual two sentence slur on two Republican presidents?

You neglected to mention Marc Rich, poster boy for a "bought and paid for pardon". His crimes:

In 1983 Rich and partner Pincus Green were indicted on 65 criminal counts, including income tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and trading with Iran during the oil embargo (at a time when Iranian revolutionaries were still holding American citizens hostage).

Who pardoned him? None other than Democrat Bill Clinton. As Wikipedia summarizes it:

On January 20, 2001, hours before leaving office, U.S. President Bill Clinton granted Rich a highly controversial presidential pardon. Several of Clinton's strongest supporters distanced themselves from the decision. Former President Jimmy Carter, a fellow Democrat, said, "I don't think there is any doubt that some of the factors in his pardon were attributable to his large gifts. In my opinion, that was disgraceful." Clinton himself later expressed regret for issuing the pardon, saying that "it wasn't worth the damage to my reputation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich#U.S._indictment_and_...
Debt expansion is no way to run a money supply.
Yep. Whoops.
A bit of both. Count me as an employed procrastinating philosopher.
My wife and I applied for the Canadian Express Entry program. We started the process in September, once we realized that a Trump win was more likely than it seemed.

We are minorities, and immigrants. We are also highly educated, earn a combined total of 250k+, and were planning to buy a house this year. We've been in the US for 7 years, are well integrated, and liked living here.

Now, we are planning to leave the US as soon as we can. We have enough points that we should be invited soon, and we'll be out of here.

We are not alone. Many (6, as of yesterday) friends of mine with similar backgrounds have asked me about the process, and are starting it themselves.

Anecdata, I know, but six month ago my wife and I were looking at real estate listings. Now, we are looking at international moving companies. Our jobs are secure, nothing else has changed. We just don't want to live in a country where the president routinely insults people who don't look like him. And people in our state have started noticing a rise in insults and discrimination that simply didn't exist before.
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You may want to read up on Kanban, it sounds like you're well on your way to starting to invent the Kanban process for yourself
That's what I was saying about the last mile transport network; I mean, companies today still try; see what several parties keep trying to do with streaming. but they lose over and over.

My point, though, is that people really do like the walled garden idea, even if none of the transport providers alone could have pulled it off.
I've read that GWB was a first-class student. Do you have sources that say otherwise, beyond what you want to believe because you disagree with his politics?
I was on a Cathay Pacific flight a few years ago and was looking at all the games they had in the in flight entertainment system. This was an older plane with really bad games, one of which was a number guessing game. I was bored and so wondered what would happen if I entered a negative number as my guess. The entire in flight entertainment system on the plane was down for a couple of hours until the crew figured out how to restart the system properly.
What I found horrible was kind of an opposite experience with a bug. There was a developer who built a really powerful project on an aging framework. You could do amazing things with this software; the results were always impressive, but the underlying framework and its tools made the experience a bit less than "slick" on modern computer systems.

So the very nice community that had risen around this software kept shrinking due to competing projects drawing people away. Eventually, things got really stagnant, but the developer just didn't seem to notice or care and kept shipping code, slowly as usual. Finally he pushed some big changes to the software, made an announcement, and members of the community _really_ woke up. "Finally, the features I've been waiting for!" "Wow, thanks for squashing all these bugs!" These people had been subscribed to the mailing lists for over a decade and thought it polite to reply and express appreciation and admiration at this recent--and huge--development.

Six months later, the developer posted to the general list. His message was brief and to the point. There had been a showstopper bug, he said, and today he was providing an updated release with the fix.

Looking closer at the announcement, I realized that the bug meant the latest version of the software _could not perform its intended function_. At all. Completely broken.

So: No one--not a single person (self included)--except the main developer had even given his big release a try. And _he_ hadn't even tried it for ~6 months!

This made me feel really awful for the developer. Fortunately, today people still use the software and have since shared their results & appreciation. But I will always wonder if the developer felt that experience as hard as I did, or even worse.
>When I was a manufacturing engineer, I used to have a short list of long term projects, a fair list of medium term projects, and a long list of tasks. A rolling todo list was the only way to stay on top of things.

I'm in a similar situation. This is what works for me. I use a spreadsheet to keep track of what I'm working on currently and my progress so far. I don't update it all the time - probably something like every 3 to 4 days. sometimes it's as simple as adding a line to say "Emailed Phil with my recommendations, waiting to hear back from him - call him if no word by 23rd".

I'm constantly having to jump between various projects. This is the only way I've found to keep track of status of various things. Sometimes I'll be out on plant dealing with an issue all day or supervising a trial or tied up with meetings etc. Before I adopted this system it was a nightmare picking things up again after a few days away from my desk.
More like a DOS attack given the one server nature of it.
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How about podcasts that aren't directly relevant to your work? There's a lot of other interesting stuff out there.
The cost was not low -- rates dipped below 1% because the Fed printed money. But printing money is not free. The common person pays for it by earning less on savings and in the form of inflation, especially retirees who diligently saved through their lives hoping to earn and live off interest in their old age. Every person purchasing a house pays more for low rates because housing prices go up, so do all the associated fees which are on the Notional value (e.g., title insurance.) Pension funds "pay" for it because they cannot easily make money via bonds any longer.
When you request account access, there's a scope parameter to specify which aspects you want. They had inadvertently set that to "all" instead of "user info". Those oauth tokens would have been keys to the kingdom.
This idea moves it to the metaphysical territory where axioms about the nature of existence will collide. But in case yours are right, I doubt that going to such extent to evade death can keep anyone in peace with life.
This is total bullshit, the best crooks all look like bank managers for a good reason
+1 for Mesos/Azure. We mainly run big data workloads.

Disclaimer: I deploy dc/os for customers on prem alongside our paid product.
Cloud is not coming, it has arrived
2017:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Pl...
There's nothing particularly weird about this macro, and it has nothing to do with makefiles, automake, gcc flags, etc.
I think you mean Cathay Pacific?

Edit: Glad to help! I was going to delete after you corrected, but it looks like I can't :/ Interesting note: Google doesn't even give me the "Did you mean" option when I tested "cafe pacific". Must be a pretty common mistake.

I've always wanted to fly Cathay Pacific, as I've heard the service is fantastic. Never had the opportunity yet, though.
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TARP is just one of many bailout facilities. There are others by the Fed, for example Quantitative Easing. Another is allowing banks to essentially print money by allowing them to borrow from the discount window and immediately then park the cash into higher-yielding assets.
I think that most of the people that are on facebook now were not "on the internet" at all ten years ago. Maybe as consumers, but not as content producers.

One could of course argue the value added by a typical facebook post, but let's not pretend that tens of millions of people were setting up blogs to keep their grandparents updated with pictures of their grandchildren.

Blogs are still here, I follow many of them and RSS is alive and kicking. Most people that had blogs before and produced long-form content are still there. The only problem is that the advertising well might go dry.
I agree that C is complicated, but this one has nothing to do with macros, flags or anything external. All you need to know to understand it is in the language itself.

(Similar misunderstanding to the "down to operator" --> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-name...)
It's just as likely for some very literate future humans to build a city on top of it and have it seep into their ground water. Or maybe even a volcano or earthquake knocks it all out into our oceans.

It's not about other people being too stupid to handle it. It's that we're too stupid to handle it right now, so any way we handle it is liable to be a huge mistake in both unforeseen and easy-to-predict ways.
Agreed. (Or should I say, I'll think about it?)
It's not an argument for anything.
As my old minister said, "We can have all the morals we can afford"
Not true at all. Satoshi released his paper publicly in Oct. 31st 2008 and the first Bitcoin block was mined Jan. 3rd 2009. The first Bitcoin related submission that I could find on HN was Feb. 2009. [0]

I actually remember seeing a post about it here in 2009 and initially dismissing it because I didn't think it would gain enough traction and didn't take the time to understand how it was different than previous digital cash schemes.

Bitcoin price didn't even hit $1 USD until the spring of 2011. It's true that Satoshi has a lot of Bitcoin but so does anyone who was there in Jan 2009 and had the vision to realize that Bitcoin was something fundamentally different and put effort into mining it.

Compared to the way a lot of these other blockchains are being launch Bitcoin was by far the most egalitarian in the way coins were/are distributed. Most other coins retain a huge share of coins for the founding organizations through pre-mining schemes and other shenanigans.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793
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@maxerickson has a valid response, but there is a larger story here. Consider hidden bailouts and also consider the unfairness of such hidden bailout. I would argue that the bailout was indeed much larger. For example, the Fed started buying distressed mortgage bonds via Quantitative Easing, QE2, and POMO. Should the Fed purchase an asset that is trading at 27 cents on the dollar for 60 cents? That seems unfair...it was a hidden bailout.

Imagine you buy a house for $500,000, the value goes down to $150,000. The government, instead of paying $155,000 pays you $450,000. That sounds like an "open market transaction" but it is a gift, a bailout just by another name. Unfortunately they didn't do that with homes, they did it with mortgage bonds and CDOs, which meant that most of the gifts went to a small sector of society in lower Manhattan and around Greenwich Connecticut.
Bitcoin didn't succeed due to luck; it has two major innovations that previous systems didn't: consensus without trusted third parties and a built-in boom-bust cycle. Bitcoin still has some flaws so it's possible that a new cryptocurrency that solves them could be successful.
I also use Crashplan. For the price it can't be beat. Plus the upload speeds are very fast when compared to someone like iDrive.

However be warned, their client is a Java application and the more files and terabytes you want to backup, the more ram it takes.

For example, I backup about 3 terabytes on a server and it takes 3+ GB of constant ram usage to do this.

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Troubleshooting/Adjus...
I use OTG for a MicroSD card reader, and occasionally a mouse and usb keyboard.

Also sometimes for a USB Serial UART connected to an Arduino.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
Any constant expression. In the kernel it's mostly non-zero flags, sizes of things, etc. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=BU...

There's also a fun compile time check for arrays: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/1001354ca34179f3db924...
You can initially distribute a currency any way you want, like an auction.
No. NASA and DARPA are managed, funded, directed, controlled, cleared and authorized by the Federal government. There's nothing not Federal about them. And they do not operate independent of the Federal government.
I do indeed :)
There is nothing in this universe that is distinguishable from physics.
Thanks, we removed the anchor from the link.
Note that C11 has a more friendly static assertion feature:

_Static_assert(condition, "error message if condition evaluates to false");

(You can also use "static_assert" as an alias for the ugly keyword after including <assert.h>.)
> the official narrative across the media industry - much of it literally state propaganda - has been consistently proving hallow and unreliable.

> The "fake news" surge is a grasp by establish monopolistic forms of misinformation distribution to maintain their domination and credibility as sole sources.

This is exactly it. The following google trends graph makes this obvious: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=fake%20news
And yet - no matter what they're paying, you're still stuck working for a megacorp, with all the process overhead, repetitive drudgery, and narrowly siloed lack of opportunity that implies. Megacorps simply don't offer the kind of creative freedom you get for free at a startup - not unless you're willing and able put in a few years "proving yourself" all over again after you've been hired. Even then, your odds are not good.

Been there, done that, three times now - never again.
Why do you want to switch from Crashplan to Backblaze?