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How will you make money off non corporate accounts?

Why should an employer pay to set up an account when the employee can do it for free? Generally speaking, the employee is better off anyway because they're in full control. It's not like a 401k where the account custodian is holding the assets.

Are cash balances in the non investment funds interest bearing? What are the rates?
Ha! I totally used ToneLoc. Found all sorts of interesting systems in my small town. But the most memorable was my science teacher asking me why I called her at 3AM (I had disabled caller id blocking to save a bit of time that night).

Whoops.

Probably still have a floppy with it in storage somewhere. :D Thanks for making that!
You know, I think it would be a shorter list if the systemd guys were to enumerate the things they didn't want to control on a Linux system.
The logic is based on the needs of any society. Every society needs a set of rules which everyone agrees to follow. History shows that the smaller the set of rules, the better, but you need to at least prevent people from infringing the life and liberty of others.

The simple reason for retribution is deterrence: there should be a negative incentive to committing crimes. The deeper reason is to make the kind of world people can live in. When everyone sees that criminals are punished, it tells would-be criminals to think twice, and it tells law-abiding citizens that someone is looking out for them.

I don't think punishment should be excessively cruel, prison is probably sufficient, and excessive solitary confinement is probably unjustified. But many people on this thread seem to think punishment in general is always unjust.

I think the underlying this is the modern belief that no-one is responsible for their actions, and that criminals are the product of social forces who need compassion and understanding. The argument against that is the standard argument against any form of determinism - if people are determined by outside forces, so are judges and prison guards, who similarly cannot help themselves from punishing criminals, and so should not face moral judgement. It's contradictory to judge judges but forgive criminals.
and also how we drove vehicles powered by explosions? :)
I'm not talking about Bitcoin. I'm talking about the government issuing digital money.

To make it clear, I don't think it's an entirely good thing, but it would be a much easier path to the kind of surveillance they want to create.
In case people want to check it out (I am not involved in the project or use):

https://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WEB/Home
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I've heard that one of the contributing factors is that the domestic academic publication industry is big and strong enough that careers can be supported while never publishing internationally. Many countries' academics have no choice but to publish internationally.

Analogous to how a strong domestic economy has impeded a need for better English education and international business skills.
The last two sentences that you complain about are on a two-page spread: "As a policy writer, I would say that a dog has permission to eat dog_chow food and a cat has permission to eat cat_chow food. In SELinux we would write this rule in policy, as shown below."
I'm struggling to understand how that's sexism.

Can you explain your criteria for sexism? (I'm asking in good faith.)
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Came here to mention The Manhattan Project, too (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091472/). I liked Matthew Broderick in later movies, but WarGames and The Manhattan Project are the roles I remember him best in.
>this is a textbook case of someone playing the system, including overstaying on a tourist visa several times

Sure, but what civilized nation requires someone with a spouse and children who are citizens to get a visa in the first place? Surely that should automatically qualify one for at least permanent resident status.
There's an important point here that's often overlooked. Drugs themselves can serve as currency, but just like salt in Rome, such currencies are consumer goods as well as fungible commodities. Their consumability as well as their growth/collection time form a natural barrier against inflation.

Of course such currencies are economically inefficient. But I think too much monetary efficiency is bad, because it encourages financialization and excess risk. for generations now we have been borrowing from our descendants to pay for things in the present, seeming to come out ahead on paper but more often than not running up a hideous and poorly-accounted-for environmental bill while establishing a consumption-based economy that promotes waste. I've long wondered if we shouldn't treat oil as a de facto currency rather than only as a commodity.
I really like someone stepping up and making a high quality linux laptop. After the thread yesterday about System76 (who I thought was doing that) this makes me really happy. It's also somewhat a threat to Apple. If you aren't doing any iOS development you will now get a really nice alternative to a Macbook Pro.
Juan Browne has a good series of video blogs about what is/has been going on at the Oroville dam.

In this video from 1st March he visits the site and surrounding areas and talks with some of the engineers working on the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilkU_ivYTqQ
I probably phrased that badly/didn't fully expound upon what I meant there by just trying to hit a few main points that bother me. I'm not going to try and tackle anything complicated here, but merely state that once someone has decided to follow Jesus, assuming they continue to do so, their various sins from being a flawed being aren't going to take going to Heaven away from them, which is the entire point of grace. (and yes, I'm aware of "blaspheming the Holy Spirit", which to my knowledge nobody actually knows what that means or how you do that, and I'm deliberately leaving that out of my above statement to leave it simple)
What's the solution? Public repos with opt-in lists? Or just using private repos for everything?
I prefer htop.
At first I thought the coloured keyboard on most of their systems was useless, but I wonder if I could rig it up to switch colour based on vim mode. That might be fun. Is it controllable from software?
No way. Too close to the base of the dam itself. If anything, it might be rerouted northwest, away from the dam.
It's unrelated to currying.

It's also hard to explain, but if you're used to Haskell, working with an eager-by-default language such as OCaml or ML is mildly annoying. You can adapt, of course, but it does seem as if gluing stuff together is trickier with eager evaluation.

There are downsides to lazy-by-default, of course.
I'm not sure that is something that could be "fixed" in 16.04 unless you can convince the Ubuntu kernel maintainers to backport patches for PCI-E hotplug / thunderbolt support.
All of those things she lists are not really sexism. The only one that even comes close is the lady telling her not to wear a tank top. Honestly, I agree too. I think tank tops are not appropriate office attire. This girl just needs to grow up and learn that her appearance does matter. I feel like her manager was actually giving her some good life advice and being real with her.
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TI/4A didn't have it or an equivalent. so every time I came across it in a program I was screwed. Which pretty much meant anything cool.
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Horrible. What's happening to github!
While this isn't realistic it's self, it does give a good approximation to normal people about how far the computer has progressed through the address space; think of it more like a progress bar which happens to have letters than an actual representation.

Yes, I say progress bar because I know that if it were actually progressing through an address space we'd see it 'counting' much differently and not locking in until the end.
> In my time there, I saw malicious fights for power, interns repeatedly putting in over 100 hours a week but only getting paid for 40

Let's repeat one more time, don't do 100 hours week, you'll never get paid for it.
A failure of the emergency spillway could compromise the west side of the entire structure, no? What prevents that outcome?
And so many great quotes:

Could someone tell me please who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex?

Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!

He wasn't very old. No, he was pretty old. He was 41.
Oh yeah? Oh, that's old.

Goddammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!

Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.

This film came out when I was a Sr. in college. My friends and I watched it several times. Access to the ARPAnet through the AMES TIP made it all so visceral.
Very curious of the results of this, where will I be able to find them?
You can check ebay, where they are being sold for spare change. That's where I've bought mine.
I had no idea this existed. Thank you.
"Applications are always up to date" is a bug, not a feature. Updates sometimes break things, and the inevitable UI changes require adaptation. The last thing I want is an automatic update that changes my tools and breaks my workflow right in the middle of some important project. I'll update manually, when I feel like it and have the time to deal with it.
These are possibly fair gripes, but they're not at all uncommon in the rest of the world, even outside of tech.

'My manager doesn't respect me'. Well ... my bet is that 20% of the entire world feels this way.

'Banned from other offices'?

Most companies have many offices and they usually expect people to work primarily from their own workspace.

I worked in a fortune 50 with many offices and I was not allowed to work remotely or from some other building, unless meetings etc. That said, maybe the rule is applied unfairly? But it's conceivably entirely within the managers authority to do that.

As for the 'tank top' ... that one's tricky. But no female in my F50 work experience ever wore a tank top. There was no dress code, they just didn't do it. There are many places wherein it definitely would not be allowed. That's a tricky one ... I think it would have mostly to do with what was 'the norm' a the company, and what role is being played, in what context. But yeah, it's tricky.
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Hope that does not replace Medicare!
> 3. Can’t have or be eligible to use a general purpose Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

Maybe this was it. My employer plan offers an FSA, so since I don't like throwing money away I guess I'm out of luck.
They have a massive untapped reserve workforce in women that they're completely inept at incentivizing and mobilizing.
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The UK used to allow inexpensive replicas. e.g.

https://iconicinteriors.com/

As seen in 10 Downing Street:

http://www.redonline.co.uk/red-women/blogs/samcam-s-italian-...

(Forgive me for the Daily Heil link):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2926668/A-real-pow...

A law change is coming into effect now so all the UK retailers of this kind of stuff need to dump stock and go out of business. Otherwise, you can get them in the US but shipping will be eye watering.
I haven't tried it yet, but I am looking forward to it.
I would suggest just removing it. Debian/Linux have a system wide update mechanism for everything - the OS & apps - and it's very strongly preferred that you just use that.

The UX of asking stuff during install is also pretty bad - and goes against the grain; it's vanishingly rare that Linux install packages ask questions. Even if you make it a startup/in-app/config option, it would also be a strange question to ask on Linux:

Would you like auto-updates? Of course, everything on linux auto-updates, why do you ask? No - I mean would you like me to force-update just fman everyday? What? No!

Also, don't forget to update this page while you're at it: https://fman.io/docs/obtaining-updates
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Whereas I get annoyed by it and lose track of how much I'm spending when I use it!
C'mon, the Egyptians had arbitrary precision numbers.
If you can offer Vanguard funds with no crazy fees, you will be extremely popular on bogleheads.org. There isn't a clear leader for HSAs for people who just want to invest their HSA money in Vanguard funds. There are some options, but they all have fees that seem unreasonable to me. Hopefully Vanguard will eventually just offer HSA accounts directly.
I get roughly 2% back on every credit card transaction. For me, worth the hassle of occasional identity theft I'm not liable for.
Finder is absolutely boggling to me. I've considered switching to Mac as a mobile development platform a few times, but every time I sit down to actually USE one I realize I'd rather just put Ubuntu on a windows laptop or something.

>I don't know why people seem to think Apple is some sort of UI god when they can't even make a usable file manager.

I know! I ask myself how this is possible every time.
> I really don't see a way out for Japan that's not immigration.

That's a pretty small-minded and dogmatic statement; it basically amounts to "copy US policy, it's the only way." At some point, someone in the world is going to actually have to solve the problem of stagnant or declining populations, without copping out and just importing new populations from elsewhere.
Yes. Razer Synapse is quite thorough.
A VHS filter for VLC would be a lot of fun for just this kind of thing!
The elephant in the valley
> No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts

Fedora/Gnome here. I never use this sort of stuff, and modern power users really don't have to. That's why I categorically state that practically no-one in the real world "uses Unix", even though most OS-es incl mainstream mobile ones derive directly or indirectly from it, save for Windows and esoteric ones.

Do I enjoy modern Linux? Heck yeah. Do I want to use Unix? Piping and grepping and cat'ing and touch'ing and so forth? It's not rocket science but it's also a doggerel not smooth UX for me, and "not smooth" means not productive.

If I need to compose functionality for "shell"-based task automation, I whip up a small Go program. Portable across OSes should I ever move, bin dir is in PATH, compiles fast enough to not need script interpreter for iterating the "script" (tool) at hand, and the syntax and semantics are saner to me than sh scripts, aka no impedance mismatch vs other coding tasks.

(Sure enough though, for one-offs "search these for that" while already in the bash/etc, the built-in old-school tools still come in handy occasionally)
By the 3rd paragraph it's already problematic:

> We were surprised when many women in Afghanistan didn’t take them off after being “liberated,” seeing as they had become such symbols of oppression in the West. But we were confusing veiling with a lack of agency.

Agency doesn't mean "the will of the majority", it means individual ability. The Taliban imposing veiling removed agency. Now it's given back. Even if no more than a single woman in Afghanistan willingly removed the veil, it's still a good thing. If 10 years from now 100% of the women there decide they don't want to wear it anymore, they'll (hopefully) be able. Not under the Taliban.

> many women saw it as a liberating invention because it enabled them to move out of segregated living spaces while still observing the requirements of separating and protecting women from unrelated men.

I see how it can be liberating in that way for a woman whose religious beliefs make separation and protection a moral mandate. The difference, of course, is that religious beliefs shouldn't be imposed, and the Taliban did impose them.

> If we think that U.S. women live in a world of choice regarding clothing, we need to look no further than our own codes of dress and the often constricting tyrannies of fashion.

This is the most ridiculous argument. Of the many many women of the free countries that purposely dress against the norm, none are sent to jail, stoned to death, or whatever.

Is the whole essay like this?
Foveated rendering is going to be the most significant step towards making mobile VR viable, so this is very good news.

I'm curious as to how they will handle eye tracking. I hope it uses capacitive lenses that can track your pupil bulges instead of unweildly and power hungry internal cameras + CV processing.

This is what contrast-preserving foveated rendering looks like in VR: https://youtu.be/lNX0wCdD2LA?t=63
I am with you. The manager may not be nicest person around, but I don't think they did anything wrong really. Tank tops are inappropriate office attire IMHMO and this girl does not want to accept that.
The big limitation is you can only contribute $3350 per year (per person).
"that "Tina" has an insecure personality that feels threatened by the people on her team, and thus is marginalizing everyone on it who sticks out in an attempt to establish dominance."

Maybe 'Tina' is a bad boss, but to take one employees gripes and accept a face value that she has they behavioural awareness to know her boss is 'insecure' is a stretch too far.

Sometimes, people look at bold and arrogant people and say 'oh, they must be insecure', when maybe they're just plain old jerkoffs.

I see a story of a generally crappy boss, but that's not entirely uncommon in the world. In fact, it's common.

The issue I think would relate to how it's either systematic or not at Uber.
completely different animals. I've never worked at a tech startup but I've started a small business before.

HR -> you. Desktop support -> you. Sales/Marketing -> you etc.

Not sure if you've checked this out before but pretty interesting

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBji0k2qoPLoXyO8Tlgy...
(1) Not just looking at a library function of a well known library but digging in to read the code and understand how they were architecting software.

(2) Whenever I ran into some kind of bug/anomaly I would refuse to hack my way around it. Sometimes I would soend days getting to the bottom of something. Usually I was making wrong assumptions and this has helped calibrate my intuition and gives me a better sense of what ought to be going on under the hood.
Just because she's female doesn't mean her sex is the reason. With such a sample, there are probably many distinguishing features for every one of the group. What if she was the only Jainist in the group, would it be religious discrimination?

It's also possible "inappropriate" clothing depends on the person in question. E.g. if I'm overweight and wear really tight fitting clothing, that might be more distracting than someone in good condition.

It could also be jealousy, unrelated to sex.

Everyone's assumption might be right, given Uber's culture. But this story isn't really conclusive by itself. Now if there were many female engineers with a lot of diversity among them under this manager, and only female engineers were banned from some work environments, then that'd be stronger evidence of sexism.
I thought detergent was used as a standard barter chip because it's easier to steal detergent than it is to steal cash.
A number of civilized nations have encountered what they deemed to be problems stemming from automatic family visas. This is one way to respond.
Hellcow does understand the nuance you're raising.

Respectfully, I don't think this blog post would get play if it didn't have the female-on-female sexism angle.

The title's misleading: "Sexism at Uber from female management #UberStory"
Do you mean, within an existing legal framework? Then yeah, but clearly our existing legal frameworks are failing in important ways so start thinking about what rights you actually want rather than what you think you can get.
Is this what happens when a company gets too large too fast?

Not exactly. You need a few more magic ingredients -- like a heavy dose of the standard "Move fast, break things (and rules, and people)" + "Valuations über alles" SV ethos (topped off with, a well, cringingly bro-ish name like "Uber" to begin with) to get to the exquisite place where Uber has come to find itself, thus far.
Considering they kept using the spillway even though it was damaged (because they hadn't repaired it as they should have due to lack of funds), and they had to use the emergency spillway (which wasn't reinforced because they didn't do it 12 years ago when they should have). I vote more than expected rainfall (216% of normal by some accounts - though they might have also been storing more water than normal due to the drought) and lack of proper funding to keep the engineering tolerances where they were supposed to be.

But I'm more inclined to suspect the problem is larger. For example that anthropogenic climate change is increasing the amplitude of the El Nino effect.
I agree with the sentiment, though I'd argue they're getting better. For example the Nationwide FlexDirect current account[0] comes with a £1,200 overdraft limit that gets charged at 50p per day it's used. A vast improvement in my mind, I remember getting charged around £30 for going £2 overdrawn for less than 2 hours!

[0] http://www.nationwide.co.uk/products/current-accounts/our-cu...
What baffles me is that in the new Brexit UK it seems not to be enough to be married for 27 years to a British citizen to get a permanent visa or even the citizenship.
There is a caveat that applies for quite some of the audience here, I think: AWS credits.

If you are spending AWS credits all the billing reporting features break down, and it becomes quite hard to track down in which service you are burning your credits.
Its been about 18 months since I was at an AWS-heavy shop. We used Netflix Ice (open source) to do cost reporting. We also heavily leaned on resource tagging to be able to report on segmentation - what teams were using resources, if it was dev, test, or prod etc. Tagging was crucial to managing costs for medium/large organizations and we spent a lot of time ensuring everyone was tagging their resources properly. I also made a one-liner change to Ice so that it would group untagged resources together so we could do reporting on how well we were tagging resources.
A Sybil attack is unrelated to consensus, but otherwise what you said is accurate.

A Sybil attack can occur when a system designer mistakes a system identity to be exclusive with other ones. e.g. you could create a website that used a phone number as a user identifier and give every new user a $5 signup bonus. But if someone found a way to create valid phone numbers for less than $5 each, they could exploit your new user bonus system.

If it's free/cheap/easy to create new identities, you must be careful how much weight to give those identities. e.g. reddit has some problems related to how easy it is to manipulate voting. They have probably made changes to their algorithm over the years to deweight new/unverified users and likely other clever things to detect voting rings.
Mentorship
Security. Instead of one CVE for libpng, you now have thousands for all of the programs that statically linked to it.
The normal water exit from the dam is through the power plant. If either spillway is moving too much water, the level of the pool below rises, and the power plant turbines can't run because there's backpressure at their exit. That happened this time, which increased the load on the spillway.

Right now, the lake level has been dropped to 50 feet below the dam top, to provide some safety margin for later storms. The crisis is probably over, and there will be heavy construction this summer.