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I've been trying to change all of my Luigi pipeline tasks from using Pandas to Dask, so that I can push a lot more data through. Seems like an easy process so far, and I like the easy implementation of parallel computing.
Well, objects in Java are only accessible via references. So the result is behavior identical to Python and JS (primitives are passed by value, objects are passed by reference)
Could they try to go with the truecrypt method?

Instead of removing the password data off the device, replace it with "junk" data.

"Low security" accounts that you wouldn't mind the "adversaries" having, sacrificial accounts, or even just a randomly generated selection of fake passwords for a selection of accounts, etc...

It still won't fully protect you (obviously a "targeted" adversary would know that you have an account at "X" with "Y" username and the password in your vault doesn't work
for that so tie him up!), but being able to hand over something when being questioned might be better than nothing for some.
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> Can ElasticSearch do that?

yes. the required infrastructure will look different though, and obviously elasticsearch doesn't speak sql (not without some crazy 3rd party plugin anyway)
I thought these had been in use for quite a while - Plumpy'nut [1] being the variety I'd seen mentioned most commonly. I see that there's some patent nastiness[2], which could explain some things.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut#Patent_issues
I thought that, according to the NDAA Obama signed, that the military can detain Americans indefinitely without reason.
One could argue not all laws are moral and that following immoral laws is emphasising your own interests over those of humanity.

If abiding by the law was people's only priority, there would be no widespread usage of public key cryptography (it was extremely illegal in the early 1990s, and only gained legal acceptance after cypherpunks pushed back against the laws and proliferated its use), which would have prevented trillions of dollars worth of ecommerce from being realized.

There would also be no ride sharing apps, no home sharing, and no Bitcoin or Ethereum. Also worth noting that Amazon didn't charge a sales tax for a long time.
I suppose that would work, but a one-time big laptop purchase that is then owned by the studio is easier to justify than buying a machine abroad(not to mention you can test that the laptop works several times before going, a brand new desktop might/might not work and people usually arrive a day or two before a conference so it's not like there's loads of time to debug problems before the big show).
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"My personal view is that computers should have to play candidate matches as well to get to a championship match"

Important point is that this was not a championship match, it was just a regular exhibition match. The world champions play a lot of players in such tournaments and matches outside of the championship circuit. I doubt a computer will ever be allowed in the championship circuit .
What other mental models have such a clear-cut impact in an individuals capabilities?
Right - west-coast tech companies have a dress code as strict as old fashioned companies - it just has different things on the list.

In reality, no work place or social event has no dress code. We've just made it even harder by not having names for any of it.

When I worked in a very traditional industry the dress code was always clear - semi-formal, informal, planter's, etc all had clear specific meanings and you could not make a mistake. When I go to a Google office, or a fashionable wedding they say 'wear whatever you are comfortable in' but if I wore a suit to Google or jeans to the wedding I'd be doing it wrong, so it's not honest.
According to your link, since 2011 1 in 20 people has stopped reading altogether. That seems fairly dramatic to me.
Oh please. Virtue signalling is a useful topic, but it gets really tiresome to see people who just discovered the concept run around and excitedly apply it to everything, like a child with a new toy.

The downside of higher quality clothing (money) is obvious: it's the upside that needs explaining. Fashion is the prototypical example of signaling, and quality as held separate from fashion has a couple minor advantages like being long-lasting and marginally more comfortable that many people feel aren't worth the price.

I dress moderately well, but that's largely against my preferences. I do it because I'm aware that people treat you differently based on how you look and how you dress, and I've decided that the cost and annoyance of putting together a good wardrobe is worth the benefits. To be clear, I've got a pretty low opinion of those who judge others based on their attire, but I'm realistic (and cynical) enough to get that that's the world I live in.

I've worked with a lot of incredibly smart engineers at places like Google, and the people I know pretty much ran the gamut of caring about the quality of their clothing. The only difference is that they tended to have their work performance judged on productivity instead of fashion so, relative to others, their calculus for how to dress included one less variable in favor of dressing up.
Well keep in mind that most places had some kind of live musical venue.

I seem to recall that when the early recording studios were opened, musicians were not interested. This because they considered themselves entertainers, not assembly line workers.

And frankly i find that the best musicians are those that focus on the stage first and foremost even today. Those that gets remembered most fondly are those that can get up on stage and actually adapt to and interact with the audience rather than just go through a routine and bow out.

Never mind that early on the equipment was sensitive and fiddly. The Edison design involved either paper or solid cylinders wrapped around a rotating shaft. And the output was a mechanically driven membrane attached to a bullhorn.

The vacuum tube, and thus the amplifier, didn't show up for another 30 years.
Someone please change the title to "15-question python programming quiz". Or python and js? I stopped at the 2nd python "trick" question.

Also, remove the "generalist" reference. Generalist those questions aren't.
Ironically I just did this using Go and a 32 core machine processing ~50 compressed gigs per day [1]

[1] https://thinkfaster.co/2017/05/big-data-with-golang-instead-...
counter example.

I had to take my MacBook in three times durnig its life, for the same issue (wifi/bt issues because of aircard connection to VM)

Every single time I was told to make an appointment. Which take about 3 days to get. They took the laptop and spend a week fixing it (every time!) My experience at Multiple Apple stores in Southren Ontario.
Millions of women and minorities are working hard every day to solve this problem? What are they doing? Who is paying them for their work?

Your theory doesn't account why certain classes of immigrants(specifically Indian and Chinese), often marginalized in society, seem to do so well in silicon valley. Do they get lumped in with "white men" too?
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It's kind of like BMI. There are some outliers who are incorrectly classified as overweight due to being unusually muscular, but if the whole population's average BMI goes up, it's almost certainly because of people being fat.
It'd be really nice to see one in go or something else I could ship around easily w/o needing NPM and node, etc.

I'll give PPT a swing. I haven't used it before. Thanks!
That's basically the definition of spoliation of evidence, if things were to ever escalate to civil or criminal proceedings.
How? How does one report on 1.43 billion events stored in ES in 16 seconds?

And can it do this on a vm with 4G of ram?
IR near the visible range is associated with night vision because we use active night vision goggles that use an infrared spotlight at 850 or 940 nm wavelengths (700 nm is red). This is not particularly useful without an illuminator, you're basically just getting visible light amplification then.

Passive thermal vision that might pick out a warm object in the dark require sensing of ~10,000 nm/10 um infrared, a very different problem! And one that wouldn't​ be easy to solve biologically, as it basically requires being colder than the object you are sensing. Edit: but not impossible! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_sensing_in_snakes
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Tell that to someone who'd buy a pair of Vetements pants for $1200[1]. And it's standard Levi's denim! But hey, the fly goes all the way around...

In other words, the fashion aspect does matter to people, oftentimes more than any practical aspect. (I think sometimes people take it to a silly degree...)

1: http://www.barneys.com/product/vetements-zip-around-straight...
Well different people need different amount of time to prepare for interviews, but if preparing for one month gets you a much better job offer, that sounds like a good investment to me.
Define intelligence.
I think using it would be tampering with evidence in the USA. So probably a bad idea.
At FAZ I would follow the author Johannes Leithäuser. A few other suggestions would be the publictions of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik, IPG Journal, the newsletter Sicherheitspolitische Presseschau, and the blog Augen Geradaus. But all those are pretty specialized. Unfortunately I don't know any mainstream source where one would have noticed this story. There are also some interesting political science journals but I don't follow any.

If I could only add one thing to my daily reading list it would be that mentioned newsletter. And of course I would read the Bundeswehr Weißbuch.
My first Uber was at RubyConf in San Diego a few years ago. We (a couple of devs that I met) were downtown at a meetup the day before, and we were going back to our hotel, a couple miles away downtown - nothing out of the ordinary. Our Uber driver had trouble communicating, and was asking us for directions. He revealed he had only been in town a couple of days. I was in the front seat, with two other devs in the back - he was chatting with me in front seat about all the sexual stuff he wanted to find on Craigslist that was illegal in his country.

Yeah, definitely worse than any taxi I've ever taken.
I have now! Hopefully you're accusing me only of saying 'micro-oscillations' when I ought to have said "shrinks and swells slightly at regular intervals."
Just do an internet search for "fingerprint liveness detection". Google Scholar has enough reading for a night or two.
Demanding web logins rather than local logins for anything is a step beyond the fuzzy legal authority currently given to the TSA.
In OS X it is vim.
I've a cheap Geiger that can detect alpha, beta, and gamma. Bananas do nothing that my detector can measure.
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Is this locked to install apps from Windows Store only?
Yeah the net didn't really boom until we could use the web to shop, effectively turning it into a more accessible mail order catalog.

These days it seems to have turned into something akin to TV shop, with the addition of an interactive link on top of the video stream.
> Shareholders didn’t just call out Mr. Fields. Some 35 percent of them also voted to abandon the dual-class share structure that gives the descendants of Henry Ford two-fifths of the vote with less than 2 percent of the stock. Stripping out the family’s votes meant that at least 58.5 percent of investors favored moving to one share, one vote — an act of open rebellion.

Holy Crap!
It's quite common, and known as "plagiarism". It will usually get people discredited quite thoroughly.
Many EU countries have protections stronger than this. Eg after 2 years you might have a right to compensation proportional to expected product life.
I'd agree with this but I also do 1:1s with the rest of the engineers on at least a monthly basis. They use it as a sounding board, career advice, or general design meetings. The don't often happen but it gets them in the practice of talking to you over issues and other things. It also gets you a lot of insight into their thought processes and general issues of the team. I find this works better than just reviewing every single commit and commenting on them, it lets you get into the meta more. And it gets you there before the code is written so it removes the "but it's real close can't I just push" drive most devs have.
They already ask for social media account logins.
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Are you referring to sensing body heat of other animals? That's a long wave IR emission, ~8000 nm and up. Some animals do indeed sense that and it is quite useful at night. This laser, and the paper I linked to, are operating with much shorter IR wavelengths (~800 to 1550 nm). This spectral region overwhelmingly comes from sunlight under natural conditions, and its intensity drops sharply at night like the ordinary visible range.
> some Uber drivers couldn't realistically become taxi drivers

See my response to parent comment. I've taken some Ubers that were undoubtedly driven by drivers who were unqualified to carry passengers.
Is travelling with confidential data really necessary? Wouldn't it make more sense for me to have a 'empty' notebook and store my data out of harm's way (but accessible via a VPN).
I think this would have happened irrespective of NSA's policies.
I'm ignorant on this topic...

Why so many columns? I would expect there would be some way to break the data down or transpose it somehow to make it more manageable. At that point are you even really dealing with a database as most people use the term?
Just out of curiosity, how's the treatment at the border in Canada?
>Microsoft's version has apparently been selling like hotcakes

I was going to ask you for more on this, but found an Ars Technica article with a bit more info: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/micro...
So?

How else do you get people places?
The motivation is (usually) different, so how you might try and stop it would be different as well. And, I'm honestly just curious.
Security for software is typically defined to include things that protect you from loss of access risks. Think the latest ransomware that went out.

Specifically, the axes of security are integrity, authentication, and availability. Backups give the illusion of helping both integrity and availability. However, without practiced and verified recovery plans, they do neither.
Uber, with its history of fraud, will get huge bills in near future. While the company was acting as not caring about anyone, will get bitten by governments and unions soon for it. You cannot disturb the whole world like that. You need to obey laws and try to change/lobby them, rather than break them.
What are your "against" fun arguments?
Do you never sweat? Are the jeans antimicrobial or something?
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Planning to buy a Surface Pro after using a Macbook Pro for a few years. I did own a SP2. The only reason I shifted was for unix tools in a solid brick.

Is BFW good enough? Or VM/Dual-boot the way to go still? Or should I wait for Surface Book refresh?

What problems have you faced in dual-booting Linux in Surface Pro.
Timing attacks like this still work over a network, you just have to make an LOT of duplicate requests, and average the times. The lucky thirteen attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Thirteen_attack) is a real example.

Good point about the accidental answers. I'll look at that.
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Unescaped variables in HTML and SQL.

<p>Hello, <?= $username ?>.</p>

and

$sql = "update tbl set x = '{$_POST['x']}' where id = {$_POST['id']}";

For HTML, use htmlspecialchars, better yet a shorter wrapper function like h(), better yet a template language like Handlebars.

For SQL, use parametric queries. (Most people call them parameterized queries, but with so many suffixes in English, why not choose the more musical one?)
Uber did the world a favor by breaking the back of the taxi monopoly. But now they need to either clean up their act or go away.
Any sql database is a bit vague.

sqlite is a sql database.
Yes. The big company i work for has a new popular mailing list where anonymous happenings related to sexism/racism are sent, and weekly summaries are sent out. Frequently you see something like "I (female) was asked by my manager to not work on anything that he wasn't aware of"

It's really hard to imagine that this is an instance of sexism, or that men aren't sometimes treated similalrly. Yes , we don't see equivalent "I (male)" statements, but maybe because men generally don't want to complain, or think that it is a personal issue and they don't generalize it to a gender issue
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Lycra in the workplace needs to stop.
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Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference in the UK style keyboard vs the US style keyboard? Is the 4/$ replaced with the 4/£ key? Wouldn't this be problematic when programming (for example variable substitution on the shell etc.)?
> For graphics, I understand - but then you're definitely not working on a surface pro or on the go at all really.

I do work in graphics/rendering, I work on laptops often and plan to get a surface pro, 16 GBs is the most painful part of working on a laptop for sure. It is the primary reason I spend most of my day on the 128GB ram desktop whenever I'm close. But even 32GB would go a long way for me.
Yeah, that's why I said "not as many"... I think there's a reduction, but it's not anywhere near a collapse. But more importantly, between Amazon, other online sellers (like Powell's), and e-books, this has lead to a big consolidation in brick-and-mortar bookstores, so there's only one national chain left (Barnes & Noble), plus some notable ones in certain localities (such as Strand in NYC, Powell's in Portland, etc.).

But it's not like music where no one buys music at a local record store any more, except perhaps for some secondhand CD shops that may have survived near colleges. Or worse, software, where they just don't sell it in boxes any more AFAICT and everything is sold online.
Do you truly believe that being really good at CS will magically make you a skilled programmer?

Isn't the problem more often that lacking awareness of theoretical CS issues can limit your potential as a programmer? For example, someone with that awareness would immediately recognise some of the later questions as standard graph theory problems and could then solve them appropriately. Without that context, maybe a good programmer could still figure out a working solution from first principles, but it would surely take them longer. And while I don't suppose many of us will be working on intergalactic transport infrastructure any time soon, similar recognition scenarios do come up in plenty of day-to-day programming jobs.
My instinct is that if you have anything stored on your device, you're at risk crossing borders. So in my case, I would likely remove both the Dropbox app and KeePass, and then reinstall them on arrival. I suppose that would leave detectable traces, which could argue for using a burner phone, and then installing those two on arrival on it.
At, say, the US/Canadian border? No, not accurate nor realistic at all.
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I'm curious -- what kind of interesting results should we be on the lookout for?
I'm not too worried about that kind, because, while it is wasteful, it is also self-defeating in the long term - it's the kind of capital that is only capital through collective make-believe of our society. Take that away, and it turns into a bunch of useless and meaningless papers overnight. Not so with automation - it represents real capital, the kind that produces surplus value because it can supply the things for which any living being has a demand of.
Ask a lot of poor black people if they would swap and they would say no too. Fairly sure this doesn't prove anything.
"The other areas listed are largely dominated by moderate rebel factions or Islamist groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front." [1]

Right. They aren't bad dudes like ISIS, they are just, ah, al-Qaeda's Syrian arm. They are totally on the level.

> This is tiresome, just because US govt allies with Muslims that Russia calls terrorists doesn't make them so.

That's true. Just because Russia says they are terrorists doesn't make them terrorists. And, perhaps, using car bombs, suicide attacks, assassinations, and forced conscription of child soldiers doesn't make them terrorists either.

Strangely enough, all of this seems to be sufficient for the the United States to also designate them to be an islamic terrorist organization. [2] (And then issue diplomatic protests when Russia bombs them.)

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-seeks-parliaments-approva...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front
The problem is that Uber has extended that disruptive thinking into all aspects of their being. Ignoring the industry and regulations is one thing, but time and time again it seems they are ignoring human decency.
A bit harsh to make a generalist judgement if you quit after two questions. I don't know any python and still did pretty well.
I understand, but your initial attitude should be "let's try to work within society's boundaries to achieve our goal", not "what can I break". There are certainly cases where laws are outdated or wrong, and breaking them is the most efficient and harmless way to get them changed.

I'm just saying "move fast and break things" is not the only way to succeed, should not be a goal in and of itself, and Uber could have been just as successful without being so shitty to people.
No. That's only a good idea if the criminal sentence for destruction of evidence is less than the criminal sentence you'd receive for possessing whatever data it is you just destroyed.
You've completely missed the point. If you need to do this every time you change jobs, then throughout your career you're spending years! of your life on interview prep. Getting into Google for the first time, sure, it's worth it then. But what about the next job? Or the job after that?
I can't quite understand why Elcomsoft are still going.

1. They're being stiffed by Google and Apple upping their security game, hence the amount of complaints on this blog in the comments

2. Their users all seem dodgy as fuck, it's not even funny.

3. Passwords and 2fa are making their brute force methods completely outdated

Why haven't they shut down yet?
This is exactly the way I've gone - I have a "projects" folder full of shit that just solves a problem for me in the quickest and mentally easiest way possible. I go learn new technologies only when they improve my ability to do that.
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That's true. I suppose my next argument is that seeing matrix.append(row) on its own line signals strongly that this is not a functional language.