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What is 'Crony capitalism', and what evidence is there for it? This "It's not capitalism, it's crony capitalism" is Capitalism by a different name. You need someone to defend your private property, which usually entails a state or state-like institution (and of course the class system inherent in capitalism).

Rather than linking you to a particular source of information, there are plenty of good sources here on this 'cronyism': https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/search?q=crony&restrict_s...

Also, capitalism without government intervention is still as flawed because it is capitalism.

And either way, wealth accumulation is a feature of capitalism, 'crony' or not. So is wage labour, the two-class society of the proletariat and bourgeois, maximising exchange value over use value and the biggest teller of them all, private ownership of the means of production.

Recommended reading is Marx's 'Wage Labour and Capital', and I'm making my way through 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell if you want to get to the nitty gritty of what Capitalism was like and how it still persists in its exploitative global form.
I doubt it would cost nearly that much. I could build something similar in a couple of days, and I'm not even a developer by trade.

Just use something like pHash (e.g. https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash), screen cap the centre of the screen (say, a quarter of the screen in total) every minute, hash and then send the 8 byte hex string back to home base.
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Interviewers especially at the startup (where they think they would money by selling product) ask the questions like we developers need to use them daily by hand. These freaky people do not understand there is a difference between a DEVELOPER n a Dijkstra kind of developer. If I am a Dijkstra kind of developer i won't be working at your startup for some peanuts (either I will be at google/mfst or some other big company). Its not like you shouldn't know it there isn't any use of this. Illustrate a simple example through your career (<1% of all developers) where you have to innovate a SORTING/SEARCHING algo. This works happens in PHD where your sole goal/aim is to find/do something.

So interviewers rather then asking this bogus questions ask architectural questions, framework questions, coding things because this is what makes your product. For Sorting/Searching you will always use a library. Believe me, I hate being asked such questions during interview which can be found in a book. So please interviewers do ask relevant questions, we are there to develop your product not algo otherwise, if we are so talented, that definitely we wont' work for you.. :)
Probably adderall, assuming you can get it prescribed.

Otherwise, I've heard good things about caffeine with L-Theanine (though I haven't tried this combo yet myself). Apparently L-Theanine takes the jitters out of caffeine and lets you focus more.
The main thing that caught my eye in this article was that it using dailymail.co.uk as it's source. It's rather common to see an article originate on dailymail, then get repeated by a hundred other news-like sites. They all use that first article as their only source, and no follow up.
And Android & iOS? How's the web clipper?
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I'm assuming in the web dev world "legacy codebase" is used very loosely here.

In my company, "legacy codebase" is referring to C code from the 70s that is still ticking today.
you definitely know some advanced 7 yr olds.
It's more than 12% smaller than A4 size. (13.3 vs 14.32 diagonally)
This joke is well-known in Germany (http://www.bankmitarbeiter.de/html/bankerwitze.html at the bottom) - you have to know that in Germany jokes about the politicians (in particular the Federal Government, but increasingly commonly also the EU) are what jokes about lawyers are in the US:

> [E]ine ältere Dame in einer Bank [will] ein Sparbuch eröffnen und 1.000,- EUR einzahlen. Dame: "Ist mein Geld bei ihnen auch sicher ? Banker: "Klar doch !" Dame: "Und was ist, wenn Sie Pleite machen ?" Banker: "Dann kommt die Landeszentralbank auf !" Dame: "Und was, wenn die Pleite macht ?" Banker: "Dann kommt die Bundesbank auf !" Dame: "Und wenn auch die Pleite macht ?" Banker: "Dann tritt die Bundesregierung zurück, und das sollte Ihnen nun wirklich die 1.000,- EUR wert sein.

My rough not word-for-word translation:

An old lady goes to a bank to open a savings book in which she wants to deposit EUR 1,000. Lay: "My money is really safe at you". Banker: "Of course!". Lady: "And what if you go bust?". Banker: "Then the Federal State Central Bank accounts for it!". Lady: "And what if the Federal State Central Bank goes bust?". Banker: "Then the German Central Bank accounts for it.". Lady: "And when it goes bust, too?". Banker: "Then the Federal Government has to recede - and this is surely worth EUR 1,000.".

Nowadays there also exists a variant of the joke where Angela Merkel is explicitly mentioned in the final line. :-)

Also note in the German version the word "Banker" is used (pronounced the same as in English) - in opposite to its English analogue in German this word has a derogatory connotation (though not as much as in former days). The polite (though a little outdated) German word for "banker" is "Bankier" (though spelled rather similarly as "Banker", it is pronounced differently). I could say that there are reasons why it has become a little uncommon (making it a little outdated) to use the polite German word "Bankier" anymore. ;-)
> Well, since there are no 'Christian rituals' in the New Testament, because Christianity did not exist at the time

At the time of the stories relayed in the Gospels, sure. The rest of the NT, from Acts on—but excluding Revelation—is either narrative about or discussion within the early Christian community.

OTOH, I think it is correct that it doesn't describe Christian ritual to any significant degree.
> I have a hard time believing that the House would make this such an early part of its business without there being some exigent need

I'd like to picture it as if someone suddenly realized that giving the government too much power is a bad idea in case the wrong kind of person (Trump) gets put in charge. I like that thought.

You're probably right though...
> Is regurgitating an algorithm actually a useful way to interview?

I interview developers. It depends a lot of how you ask the question. Asking "please write a quicksort on the whiteboard" is a pretty bad way of interviewing, you should not expect your candidates to memorize every algorithm invented.

However, if you explain how an algorithm works, and then ask them to write the code for it, you can check if the candidate is able to translate a description to code, which is an essential ability of any programmer.

For example: "In a quicksort, you take a random element of the list (pivot). Then you put all the elements greater than the pivot on the right part, and all the smaller or equal on the left part. Then you repeat the process on each part (left and right) of the list until you can't split anymore." Then based on this description write a simple quicksort in your favorite language, of course you can ask any clarifying questions about how the algorithm works.

I expect a competent programmer to be able to translate the description of the algorithm to code. Yes, it's true that in real world you never have to code a quicksort. But working with simple algorithm makes things easier at the earlier stages of interviewing at large companies, when you usually only have a few minutes to check if the candidate can write some code. Better, more real-world questions are asked at a later stage, when you have more time, typically on a face-to-face interview.
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Man, the tittle of this post is "CIA Declassified Coldwar Rusian jokes".

We can joke about the Americans any other day.

Personally, I don't understand yet why this was classified material by de CIA. I mean, if it was by the KGB that would make some sense.
It's a little bit more nuanced than that. The Act places an obligation on data controllers to register and to comply with the various obligations under the Act. This excludes data processors (with controllers then making sure they place relevant obligations on controllers contractually). Potentially a service provider might argue they're a data processor although if they're taking decisions over how the data is used they could easily fall within the data controller category. Under current law, it's the data controller who would be liable for any loss of data (although they would normally look to cover off liability contractually with the processor).

In any event, liability really depends on who is taking the decisions over the use of the data. If the third party just takes a feed of the data from the bank then takes various decisions over its use, they could well be a data controller. If on the other hand a bank contracts with a third party to provide an account aggregation service to its customers and they are passing data for this very specific purpose then the service provider could well just be a processor.

The above is also going to change with the new General Data Protection Regulation coming into force next year...
Because using a CA to issue a cert for you improperly is a good way to burn your CA. So it'll probably be used very carefully and in very limited scope because it's detectable and leaves undisputable proof.

For SMTP it's different since people aren't watching as closely. -- but then the CA angle is irrelevant because there's no verification. Though I'd be surprised if Google doesn't have some sort of program to look at these things and try to detect MITM or just gather info in general.

Didn't they just add a little security indicator to Gmail? Google could probably single handedly force TLS verification on email by saying it'll increase deliverabiliy.
your argument is valid but your tone is missing the point PP made. To reword what he said "there is no way this is criminal law, this needs to be argued as perhaps contract law with 'breach of contract' as the upper limit if it rises to that level"

you proceeded to argue the case the way he said it should be argued, but by quoting PP and challenging, you seem to be arguing with him, when in fact you are agreeing with him.

if you edit your comment, I could even delete mine :)
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Did you ever have someone parse a joke so completely that stripped all comedy from it?
Why? Parallel construction proves that law enforcement does not.
For sure, but then there are mainstream static languages like Java/Scala which still lack that kind of support (e.g. ensime and friends, which work unpredictably, if at all).
I am late to the party here, but I've recently rolled perl6 into my analytics stack project: nlytiq ( https://github.com/joelandman/nyltiq-base ). Very early stages, I am trying to build an up-to-date tool chain of very powerful tools for data munging, analytics, etc. for my own projects. Born of a frustration with the badly out of date tools in most distros.

I pulled Perl6 in after seeing some of what it was capable of last year. Generally I like tools that make hard things easier, and easy things trivial. I don't like tools that require huge amounts of boilerplate code to even start using them productively.

Perl6 is definitely in the category of making hard things easier. It is not Perl5, and doesn't pretend to be. Perl5 is immensely powerful on its own, definitely one of my go-to tools.

Perl6 brings in many of the things that I've been using in other languages for a while, with some aspect of "perl-ness" about it, which, to me, makes it more comfortable. Its ability to connect with/call anything positively blows me away. Perl5 has Platypus::FFI which can do some of this, but Perl6 is a compiled language (to an underlying VM). This has been one of my major concerns with P5 for a while (and still a concern in Python and others ... yeah, I know of PyPy, but I want a compiler built into Python 3.x).
"He encouraged anti-corruption protests."
This executive order was talked about with ECHR and Italy had a similar project this has nothing to do with corruption.
source:

http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Speech_20170127_Raimondi_J...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-drugs-law-idUSBREA1B...

"they won't give another executive order in the middle of the night when no one is looking ?"

It has become self evident to me that we need a Donald Trump so maybe our fellow Romanians get back into reality.

EDIT:
P.S. The echr source talks about the problem but discussion have taken place. Also i it find a bit alarming that the case creation rate has increased so unpredictably. I quote "Firstly, with regard to Hungary and Romania, for which the number of cases increased by
95% and 108% respectively in 2016". What does this suggest? I remaind you that 2016 was a year in which Iohannis's technocratic government ruled
> match a search query on a nefarious keyword.

Sorry this is not true. You are referring to an email chain involving FI maybe, and within that USPI would be minimized so that the analyst cannot see who the US one is. They would need to specifically override and would need a good reason to get USPI as that is taken seriously.

> "Full take" sounds incredible-- it entails recording and retaining EVERYTHING passing through the internet.

This is also not true. It sounded nice during the leaks and everyone loved to hear it, but this is simply not true, not plausible, and would be a huge waste of money because they would wind up with too much USPI (totally useless). The collection systems are mostly going to be getting traffic from MENA area, although the leaked information was vague regarding specifics, for obvious reasons.

(No argument with regards to ethics of bulk SIGINT collection, many opinions out there on that, just commenting as it is very unfortunate to see falsehoods repeated due to reporters poorly understanding the source material)
We should always focus on the end goal, which is to make the universe better.

Should we care about Earth? Of course, it's what keeps us alive.
Yah but Trump's going to get rid of the FTC and regulations that get in the way of business, such as spying on you and selling your watching habits and personal info to a bunch of other companies.
I have a grandfathered 'unlimited' data plan with tmobile. I get 75mbit down and 40-70mbit up where I live and the places I spend 99% of my time. I often use a vpn(to hide user agent) and tether to get those speeds on my laptop when I'm not at home. Haven't had a problem with data caps yet, often use 50ish gigs of data, and have tethered over 20gb recently with no issue.
Edit: Nexus 6p on LTE 700mhz
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If JSX is embedded in a codebase, what is the value of that? Let me clarify a bit. What is the value in creating a limited tool optimized for neophytes that will be used extensively by experienced professionals, who would be better served by flexibility?
Perceptual hashing could have been the technique used. For example, see: https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash

I use this for deduplicating my, er, 'home movies' collection.

EDIT: Here's a good explanation of one specific technique that should give you the general idea: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/?/archives/432-Looks-Like-I...
Hey what city in Michigan uses DKAN for their open data portal? We use it in Louisville.
Device is a MacBook Pro running Papers [1] to organize and read references. Works well with over 18,000 references and their pdfs in my database.

[1] http://papersapp.com/mac/
A counterpoint to this claim at the hoity-toity mashable.com: http://mashable.com/2017/02/05/noaa-global-warming-hiatus-st...

It misses a most important point: when people talk about a "global warming hiatus" from 1998 to 20XX, they are always full of shit.

1998 was an abnormally warm year. When people say things like "The last N years were N of the N+1 warmest on record", 1998 is always that +1. The trend-line for global warming only just now started to creep above 1998; it was like 2 or 3 standard deviations above the average.

If you start your trend lines at 1998, they always look flat, because you are starting at an outlier. If you take a trend line over a different period - for instance, 1990 to 2010 - the "global warming hiatus" goes away and the data looks like a normal noisy data series conforming reasonably to a linear trend.

If you see someone talking about climate data over a period of time starting at 1998, they are full of shit. They are using one of the most obvious and well-known lies-told-with-statistics you'll ever come across.
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Yeah, right... The government passes an emergency ordinance quietly during the night, aimed at saving the party's leader, and you blame the president. IOW, people shouldn't think for themselves because there are leaders elected to do just that. What I'm really ashamed of is that there are still many Romanian citizens who think that leaders are allowed to steal as long as they give a little bit in return (for those who were old enough in December '89, any similarities to "give them another hundred lei..."?).
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Sanity!
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C2308, C2338, C2350, C2358, C2508, C2518, C2530, C2538, C2550, C2558, C2718, C2730, C2738, C2750, and C2758.

How to tell what CPU your Synology NAS has:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Ge...

My 3-month old 1815+ is on the list...
Yes, it's absurd - "terms of service" are not practically any different to the rules of any other establishment or service provider. Breaking the house rules is not breaking the law. It should get you kicked out, not arrested.

To be honest I think all of this stems largely from gross incompetence/ignorance among the people responsible for this sort of legislation.
Even when thinking of software you sometimes need special hardware or software, lots of recent machine learning tools need a GPU to run well, so that's another $500+
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<3 ruby -- I hope they add a `.fizzbuzz` method to the enumerable module in the next release.
Welcome to the business world. I'll tell you something, if people see you can work for free they'll never pay you, they will work you to the bone, and then dump you like a piece of crap when you are useless to them. If someone promises you something then ask him to write down that promise somewhere you can keep. You might need it when you want to sue.
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Search query referers were dropped due to adoption of HTTPS/TLS. When a url is visited from an HTTPS site the browser does not sends reffer url only the host.

Its still possible to get "aggregate" information about keywords via Google Webmaster tools.

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/03/upcoming-changes-i...
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There is no evidence indicating that anyone can break encryption for mail servers using STARTTLS.
Okay, the, why they collected them?
How many US infrastructure jokes would you expect in a Russian joke PDF?
PR bluff.

I find the Renaissance Technologies story more compelling and worthy than a press release drafted by the VCs funding/cheering Sentient (Kleiner Perkins, Tata, Horizon, etc.)
Here you go:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMBY3FpH8VA
A Prague citizen came to local police station in fall 1968. At the desk he claimed "Officer, a Swiss soldier stole my Russian watch". Officer looked puzzled and responded "I guess you mean that a Russian soldier stole your Swiss watch." The man replied "It might be so, but remember that you said that. Not me."
Yeah, exactly. It's amazing that so many developers use GitHub, which has excellent performance, but don't take any of its lessons with them.
lol. Difficult to take the original Mail article seriously. A look at the temperature rise graph [1] tells you a lot. Bizarrely they've started the y-axis at a value lower than the '97 baseline meaning the slope of a line through the data looks shallower than it is.

Secondly their interpretation of the graph is messed up. The Met Office data tracks the NOAA data, but looks to be lower by a constant. This means you'd expect that the slope of a regression line through each of the two data sets would be very similar.

Why did they choose 1997 as a baseline (why does anyone choose the baselines they do)? '1997' doesn't appear in the article. '2000' appears in the article. Oh look, the temperature was lower in 2000 meaning the slope would appear greater if the graph matched the discussion. [I don't know who is pulling a fast one here]

[1] http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/04/23/3CD7C57C0000057...
I really don't understand the complaint in the article.

> He claimed to have developed a way to raise sea-temperature readings that had been collected by buoys: He would adjust them by using higher temperature readings of sea water collected by ships.

So actually it's due to ships being used before, that the data needs to be corrected. And they're using comparison between the buoys and the ships running at the same time. This is the same story as the sensors which were running in the cities and needed to be moved into the remote countryside in the US to account for city heat. I get that he doesn't like that the bouys readings were raised rather than ships, but relatively, why would it matter?

The linked article says:

> Now, some of those same authors have produced the pending, revised new version of the sea dataset – ERSSTv5. A draft of a document that explains the methods used to generate version 5, and which has been seen by this newspaper, indicates the new version will reverse the flaws in version 4, changing the buoy adjustments and including some satellite data and measurements from a special high-tech floating buoy network known as Argo.

Soooo.... basically exactly what he wanted?
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Turtl would be great if not for the reliance on a server. I think they do some caching (their settings page has "erase local data") but since it relies on a login anyway it still requires an "always on" connection.

I agree completely on Laverna, but I think it's the closest to what you (and I) are looking for. I wish I wasn't so lazy/busy and got the motivation to fork it and implement the changes I want (I don't care for the double panel and the white space everywhere).
NightwatchJS is a Node wrapper for Selenium and seems to be pretty human friendly in terms of syntax. I found it to be pretty fast in my use cases with it.
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I was such a nervous wreck during my first technical interview that I couldn't remember how to write a loop. Seriously.

"I need to repeat this sequence of operations an indeterminate number of times... if only there were some programming construct that could help me out here..."

So I reached back to my Apple II BASIC days and whipped out the trusty GOTO. The look on the interviewer's face was priceless.
But that's just the thing -- most people referring to themselves as ninjas are designers aspiring to be devs, and they are usually cute chubby smiling guys who tend to stumble on their own feet. Hardly something to be afraid of!

<giggles>
fwiw http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-...
Grow a spine. For the sake of us all.
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What physical beauty has to do with it?