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> people with direct knowledge of actual insider trading have a strong incentive to report it

We're talking theoretically: Your point is one factor. Another is the profit from insider trading may far exceed the reward. Also, people who report it must become 'rats'; they risk sending their coworkers (and possibly friends) to jail, never working again on Wall Street, being completely ostracized socially and in the industry, and having the reputation of a traitor.

But again, that's theoretical. I don't believe I know how it works in practice without some good inside sources.
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That's cool it's being opened sourced versus simply dying. Though it's odd that, even though the repo says they're shutting down, their website shows zero sign of that at all and is still encouraging users to sign up.

Also, was this the Homejoy v2 attempt? Seems like contractor scheduling services don't provide enough value to the contractors and customers to keep them from dealing without them once the contact is made. Curious if there are any successful companies that provide the same services, with actual revenue, and what they did differently. It's gotta be something to make the customer and contractor stick to the platform.
Actually, that quote was the one sentence I didn't understand. Who's spilling the wine? And why does that buy tranquility? If you could help me that would be great :)
If the employer uses an MDM as a precondition for email access, it might.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. But people still do it somehow; it can't be that effective a solution.

> If you want hard data, in 2016 the SEC handed out $4B in fines

Possibly a sign that it's still widespread; and the SEC can't catch everyone, so more must be going on.
It seems that, due to the Cloudflare's confusing disclosure, it's still not clear what and how is leaked. What I personally observed, just by following the discussion and the links to some examples:

- there is a smaller number of sites that used some of the special features of Cloudflare that allowed leakage for some months, according to what Cloudflare said.

- it seems the number of the sites was much bigger for some days, according to what Cloudflare said.

- the data leaked are the data passed through the Cloudflare TLS man-in-the-middle servers -- specifically not only the data from the companies, but the data from the users, and not only the data related to the sites through which the leak happened, but also other sites that just happened to pass through these servers. Again, also the visitor's data, both directions are leaked. From the visitors, their location data, their login data etc. As an example: if you imagine the bank which used Cloudflare TLS, in the caches could be both the reports of the money in the accounts (sent from the bank to the customers) and the login data of the customers (sent by the customers to the bank), even if the bank site hasn't had the "special features" turned on. That's what I was able to see myself in the caches (not for any bank, at least, but the equivalent traffic).
Curious, she's using both Shopify and Squarespace? I believe the latter offers Ecommerce as well.
Mem Fox has previously visited the US 116 times and now the author said she was unlikely to visit the United States again despite the friendliness of ordinary Americans.

She said the treatment of others in the airport holding room, including Iranians, Taiwanese and a Scandinavian parent with a small child, was just as poor, and all appeared to eventually have been released.
This is perfectly fine if the amount of respect due is sufficiently low.
I don't know about cows and turkeys. If vat-grown meat becomes cheaper than field grown meat then I expect the food chain companies will switch production en-masse and while its likely that some will remain, they would be minority products and possibly different (some of the animals grown these days have been bred for such specific extreme traits that basically they are not suitable for wild living)

https://gizmodo.com/the-future-will-be-full-of-lab-grown-meat-1720874704
You're incredibly wrong about the amateur part.
> I've seen many immigrants who have absolutely no interest in the culture or society of the country they immigrated to

The U.S. culture is whatever the people make it. Italian immigrants brought Italalian food; Mexican immigrants brought Mexican food.

Regardless, the parent claim is made for all first generation immigrants, historically; you can read it over and over in history books: They keep to themselves, speak their own language, etc. The research I saw (long ago) said the second generation are part of the 'American' culture; the third generation intermarries at a rate of about 80% (based on vague recollection, but the number was of that order).

EDIT: It makes sense: I would say almost anyone in their 30s or older or even in their 20s, if they moved to a country with a different culture and language (e.g., U.S. to Russia or Japan), would continue to speak English at home, eat American food, read English books and watch English movies, and hang around other immigrants. Their kids would be Russian/Japanese, however.
Nice effort to open source your code - kudos to you.

I remember checking out Staffjoy last year sometime, out of curiosity. Seemed to be a nicely designed system that fitted a niche.

I too wonder why it never took off - having consulted in the small business area for 3 decades now, rostering and checking staff availability is a major pain point for business owners, especially those running cafes or security services, catering etc.

Heck, even my wife is on an automated rostering SMS system for her part time job, and it works well and seems to alleviate a lot of stress for her boss. I am surprised that $9/mth wasn't an automatic "Shut up and take my money" for a lot of businesses. I know there is a lot of competition, but surely there is plenty of pie for a few players to be in the same market.

I hope to perhaps one day hear a more detailed post mortem about the business, rather than technical, challenges faced by the founders of Staffjoy.
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Type annotations are also helpful without mypy. PyCharm uses them to provide hints and warnings during development.

At first I was reluctant of the syntax, after a while I got used to it. Function definitions look a lot like Rust ones and do not require the endless docstrings just to document the type of the expected parameters anymore.
Not sure if you'll see this, but I've noticed that the cache links have been removed on literally all hits for these queries.

And yet, I occasionally see working cache links on relevant unaffected pages.

Really, really awesome to see this kind of response. It's an obvious course of action (also considering corporate liability that you're publicly holding/offering this data) but it's really cool to see everyone work to fix this en masse so quickly.

I think a lot of people would enjoy hearing campfire battle stories of the past ~week once this is all over.
> Bringing people to a foreign land does not really help them that much

What is this claim based on? It's very hard to believe that Somalis or Syrians, for example, or any of the hungry, tired and poor who emigrate to the U.S. aren't far better off.

It helped my ancestors immensely; our family is immeasurably better off than those left behind, who probably are wiped out and almost certainly not up to our standard of living.
Although I haven't tested this yet, these utilities tend to fail when fed a table with empty cells.
It sounds like your system might be a candidate for https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Secure_Open_Source.

There's a form listed under "How to apply", and an email address nearby.

It appears that projects are only documented once audited, FWIW.
Great idea! We're working on the public API right now, after that native apps would be awesome!

Feel free to create a feature request at https://discuss.bitrise.io/c/feature-request with your notes about what you'd like to see in the apps! ;)
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Some trees are cut down to get a precursor chemical used for MDMA.

They don't care who owns the land.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rjdoming/
Where did you end up sourcing your mahogany?

I believe Fiji currently has the world's largest mature mahogany plantation.
> The decision is very easy

It's very easy to decide to give up citizenship in your native land and move to strange new place? I don't see that as true.
When this happened to me on my mobile; I had to dig up the password from my password manager. Then it asked me to NFC/tap my physical security key (YubiKey). Then the screen disappeared and all was well.

I never seen that flow before with the security key usually it's the SMS/GAuthenticator.

Still haven't fixed my email clients on my Mac, lol.
How about doing some php or ruby side projects. These could be inspired by your travels. Load up the laptop with docs so you can get help without internet access.
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"Mypy allows you to add type annotations and enforce them prior to running your program"

Yes, and if I wanted type annotations to stop my program from working I wouldn't be using Python

Enforcing types is exactly what Python IS NOT about. Because of Duck Typing and everything else

So this is not "postmodern error handling" this is "let's code Java in something else and pat ourselves in the back"

Do you want to check errors in "compile time"? Use Pylint. It does the right thing
There have definitely been incidents where CDNs mixed up content (of the same type) between customers. Not exactly like this, but close.
I don't find it too hard to accept the concept of "the universe as a well meaning entity". The only premise you need to accept in order to come to this conclusion is to not view your consciousness as a unique snowflake.

Imagine that a white blood cell in your body has a consciousness of its own, where it, in its own way does its job when needed, hangs out with its "co-workers", other white-blood-cells, and red-blood-cells etc. You are the "universe as a well meaning entity" for this cell in your body.

Extending on this hypothesis, its not too hard to conclude that you can be a small part of a bigger, well meaning consciousness.
The USPS is something right out of a dystopian hellhole. I bristle every time I have to deal with some awful error of theirs.
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Moved to Fastmail from Google last month, love it!
This seems to be Uber's modus operandi every single time they're in trouble and it almost always seems to backfire on them, PR wise.

I'm curious though, what tipped her off? While I've worked at tech start-ups before and can believe all the behavior she outlined (because I've seen similar things myself, it's very believable) it still bothers me to continue to take someone's word at face value. I mean I do, I would trust what she says over Uber any day, but I wish more of this type of information was verifiable.
Fruit linguistic is specially fun because names imply discovery dates and politics. Old fruit have all regional names, say, strawberries, but new discoveries thend to use the discoverer name, like ananas, except when they hate each other, like bananas which is the name used everywhere except where they went platanos in spite.
FBA is Amazon's way of populating their store shelves with someone else's working capital. It's only going to go up, not down because every dollar sold by the seller means a dollar if cash freed up from working capital requirements for Amazon.

Amazon's competitive advantage is the marketplace which gets an unrivalled number of eyeballs and their warehousing amd logistics operations. They're perfectly happy to rent these out to other sellers rather than lock in money into inventory - unless profits are outrageously high.
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The way I see it, it's not "chances that this individual is compromised are too low to worry about", it's "chances are this individual is compromised because even though everybody wasn't compromised, anybody was, and we don't know who or to what extent.

We are all familiar with "better safe than sorry", but another no-brainer when it comes to security is "remove all uncertainties".

Not only do Cloudflare's CEO and CTO not seem to operate by these golden rules, but they are spreading misinformation to others about the importance of respecting these basic tenants of security. That shows that they place their profit margin over the customers who give them that margin in the first place.

They do not consider routine corporate security, potential legal backlash to their customers, or the safety of their customers' customers to be the most important thing and that is unacceptable for a company that is basically trying to MITM the internet.
Remember that the article says a lawyer from Canada had trouble doing it.
Time. Or lack of it.

I can enjoy video games only when I can get really good at them. And I simply can't get really good at something if I'm doing it only for a few hours on the weekend.
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There are cases where you could justify writing "except Exception as e" and having it return a value, like if you're the author of Flask or Raven or something that includes handling arbitrary errors in other people's code in its job description.

But within your own code, you would not want to represent "an unforeseen error occurred" with a value, no matter how much you like enums.

If you were parsing JSON and you got an unexpected error that isn't about parsing JSON, logging the error and continuing is not the right option. There is probably nothing reasonable your program can do. Raise the error so your broken code stops running.
Yeah, this move is just stupid. It's 2017 California, there are umpteen connectivity options.

It's literally an admission that what is written on Blind is actually true and leadership is in panic mode. The right response was to dismiss it all as gossip and act nonchalant; moving from the "laugh at you" step to the "fight you" step means they're on their way to defeat.
+1 for both the suggestions
Duck typing is not the solution to every problem.

Pylint has nothing to do with catching type errors. It catches problems with code style.

I don't find the code in this blog post convincing, but there are reasons to write type-safe code.
I guess the key here is that this list is based on principles and not just a list of activities I would consider advantageous to have done in some sense or another.

Those principles ought to be chosen as to align with my convictions and expectations from life. So you could say that I know that this list is the intersection of things I consider worthy doing (and immediately have a well-formed reason for their worthiness at the back of my mind) and recreation.

When a moment for recreation has come, there is nothing that makes me question whether I should do something from the list or not because I am reassured that I have thought of this sufficiently in advance to determine the best for me.
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DNS only customers were totally unaffected by this web proxy bug.
I read it as "instead of getting angry for losing a 20$ note, consider it the price you pay for tranquility".

Which maybe works for yourself, but most of my significant others of the past would just start complaining that I lost a 20$ bill.
> but they are building a platform that would make it easy and more affordable for manufacturers to sell directly to customers

Manufacturers really don't want to be sellers in most categories. As a manufacturer, you want to be paid just as soon as you produce the product because you want to reduce your working capital. So you sell to retailers and distributors on say 15 days or 30 days terms and get paid with certainity. In fact for a manufacturer, the "customer" is a distributor or retailer - end users aee called "consumer".

Retailers and distributors take on the risk of locking in their money into inventory until the product gets sold to final customers.
>> Of course; they buy it from ISPs, and now you have the same problem again.

> What problem?

The message I originally replied to said "End customers don't buy the dumb pipe directly." And once an ISP starts trying to provide value above and beyond the pipe, all the same questions about neutrality come up again.

> If you got serious content demand, do a private interconnect and get the content for the price of a crossconnect.

> The content providers will send you a CDN node to you, for free.

What happened to "dumb pipe"? Both of these, especially the former, seem to contradict that.

> You obviously never bought wholesale bandwidth. Wholesale IP transit is 20 cents or less per Mbps. IX peering is cheaper than that. Private interconnects, again cheaper.

I have, in fact, looked into both wholesale bandwidth and IX peering (though not in the last year or two). Both of which, at least in the areas and exchanges I've looked in, were several times higher than the cost you're quoting. It's entirely possible that you have access to better information/markets, or that ISPs can get much lower pricing; I based the comment I made on the information I had.

All the numbers I've seen suggested that raw bandwidth costs significantly more than ISPs charge for it, because consumer ISPs rarely expect 24/7 utilization of the full bandwidth, and likely also because they can provide some of the larger sources of content for free out of their own datacenter.
Quick feature requests:

1) Foreign keys to users (for e.g. "assigned to", "team members")

2) Better programmability - right now, anything moderately complex requires a bunch of intermediate column (that then have to be hidden from all views). Objective spreadsheets (MIT SAIL) seems like something to aim for.

3) Programmatic (API) access to row history - at least read, for reports
We should just assume that all entities with both the resources and motivation to discover and exploit massive security vulnerabilities now have a database of every object in their NGNIX modules' memory since the leak sprung roughly 4 months ago.

Right now they'll be querying for political blackmail and insider material, then they will turn to Joe Schmoe who only gets his news from the television, where no doubt this will never be discussed. They will effortlessly and listlessly categorize the data largely as an automated process.

If we expect anything less, it's possible we are underestimating our adversaries. Better to overestimate them and feel embarrassed later when you later find out you were just being paranoid.
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As if Windows would be the only alternative to GNU/Linux in what means to be a software developer.
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> I have found it difficult to really, deeply, accept things as out of my control

Really? The laws of physics, evolution etc. are all out of our control.

Positive outlook? Yes, I suppose. The universe is 15 billion years old and nothing we do will have a big impact on it. But we can still make the best of the time we have in it and try to make things better for others.
Another Stoic tip:

Most people are annoying: educate them or just put up with them, there is no third option. Also, always remember you are equally annoying to at least some of them.
Likely an ex-colleague she kept in touch with, who tipped her that s/he had been tapped. I know I would react that way, if anyone started asking pointed questions about a friend.
Don't cry over spilled milk (or oil). If someone steals your wine, get over it and continue with your life.
The old layout editor is indeed awful .. I don't think anybody has tried to use it for more than 5 minutes. You just forget about it and write xml instead. Since Intellij is great at assisting you in auto-writing the cruft in xml, this is very efficient.

The New Visual Editor is pretty good, as well as the new emulator. The layout editor has been rewritten from scratch and it really shows.

There is definitely room for improvement, but "gruesome embarrassment" is ridiculous.

Especially with all my cross platform colleagues hoping that they could use Intellij instead of xcode on iOS.
Clicking the "Sign Up" button on the home page goes to the blog post explaining that they've shut down.
HomeJoy and StaffJoy are made by different people, afaik.
>A decade after the “Save the Rainforest” movement forced changes that dramatically slowed deforestation across the Amazon basin .... That resurgence, driven by the world’s growing appetite for soy and other agricultural crops

The article doesn't get into it, but what is driving this growing appetite? Is it a natural effect of population growth?
"I hope to perhaps one day hear a more detailed post mortem about the business" ->
https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoy-is-shutting-down-39f7b5d6...
It's two fold: 1) I agree the President shouldn't suppress journalism so long as it's respectful as that could set a "dangerous" precedent. 2) CNN has been one of the major proponents of the Trump is Hitler/bigot/racist/xenophobe/x_____ist/phobe AND the bullshit, racist, anti-white people narrative started under Obama's watch and they have set a dangerous precedent of abusing their size and power to lead half the country into civil unrest and make them believe that Trump is to blame for all of their problems.
I'm on the Microsoft Blind forum as a former FTE as they don't (yet) revalidate accounts.

MS was amongst the first, or perhaps the first, Blind forum. It started off as a successor to MiniMSFT so people used it to compare comp (salaries, raises, bonuses, stock awards) since then it's massively expanded into other companies all with their own private forums, there are also forums visible to everyone.

The most popular thread in the shared Tech industry forum is "What is your age and base salary?" and it makes for some soul-crushing reading (e.g. late-20s kids at Uber SF with $200k base, $400k stock).

Back on the MS forum, it's usually layoff rumours (one regular poster who comments on layoff rumour threads claims to be in HR), people asking how to get VSA severance, and people complaining about why Skype, OneDrive and SharePoint are so terrible.
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Windows is not the only alternative to UNIX, there are plenty of OS out there full of developers.

UNIX, is also full black box monolithic apps with GUI, there is a UNIX world out there beyond GNU/Linux and *BSD FOSS culture.
Seems like a medium-term problem. If we cannot manage lab-grown meat within a few generations, enough went wrong that such questions are functionally meaningless.
It's certainly not legal loopholes that keep Snowden away from being handed over but a decision of one man. Russian constitution also has a lot of great things in it, like freedom of speech, freedom of association, two terms limit on presidency, immutability of borders and priority of international treaties - all of which were stomped when it became politically expedient.
> video game development is in C/C++

So what? It surely isn't done in GNU/Linux or UNIX.
It does not seem like the author of the article has spent a lot of time with AS either.
What's funny is he kinda just stumbled upon this bug accidentally while making queries.

If I were just casually googling two weeks ago and came across a leaked cloudflare session in the middle of my search results I think I would have vomited all over my desk immediately. Dude must have been sweating bullets and trembling as he reached out on twitter for a contact, not knowing yet how bad this was or for just how long it's been going on.
My question is this: What happened to all the duck-typing evangelism? "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck", "static typing only catches trivial errors", and so on.
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