skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so I gave an (incomplete) list of my USB-A devices which will almost all still be working in 2 years, and most of them in 5

If I'm not mistaken, save from the flash drives and non-bluetooth dongles, all of those can be converted with a simple cable switch. Wired KB+mice may unfortunately be cabled into the device but it's still practical enough to just keep an adapter on the end or there's some soldering for a cable swap to be done. Unless you plan to change all of your gear at once, you're in for such a transition anyway, one way or the other.

I have to agree with melling here, such a pricey device that I'd plan to keep for at least 5 years should have the new port.
Because:

Technology is a means to and end for me - to get stuff done and to remain marketable.

I have never seen a job listing that wants someone who can do a web backend with F#.
They actually do get fined huge sums, and they do pay up. To them it is just the cost of doing business.

Facebook getting fined for privacy violations:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39958630
It's not news to me. But it does seem like most people don't care. Or don't care enough. However, what could they do, even if they cared enough?
Comparing to whole Europe, yes.
Which are good practices for archiving encrypted files?
I am thinking about writing a program that archives data in a long-lasting storage (which can be both an online storage, or a local offline one). I want to encrypt the data, but I am not expert in practical cryptography. Are there lists of good practices about what to do and what to avoid?

* By "archiving" I mean "storing data for a long time, adding some new data every now and then, and retrieving some old data every now and then". Probably the usage pattern is close to that of a backup, although the data does not need to be a backup.

* Data will be organized on a key/value format. Ideally the user wanting to access some data would provide a password that unlocks some key/value pairs, which contain an index of the stored data and possibly the cryptographic keys further required to decrypt actual data.

* Both cases of online storage (on AWS, Google Drive, ...) and offline storage (external disk in my house) are interesting to me.

* I am asking for best practices on the encryption level, not on other parts of the system. So, for example, which cypher algorithms are better suited for long-lasting archival (opposed to short-lived TLS connections, for example) and whether and how to handle different encryption keys for different kinds of key/value pairs (see for example the distinction index vs data above).

* I would code this in Python, in case it is relevant.
Well, four years is what Wikipedia states.

I don't think there was anything as prominent as Docker on cgroups that was as
old as ten years, since cgroups are that old. LXC was started eight years ago,
and then Docker hijacked the subsystem and nomenclature.

But maybe you were thinking about some predecessor, like Virtuozzo/OpenVZ or
Linux VServer? Those were never as popular in general public as Docker, but
they had their mindshare, especially in some circles.
Excellent summary. One addition: The Kurdish vs. ISIS conflicts are, or at least were, mostly in northern Iraq, where ISIS started back when Syria was still a stable Dicktatorship, but the Iraqi government was (and still is) weak and hated.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltaprogramma
Would not it be easier to make a law forbidding transferring personal information without a person's consent? Not opt-out, but rather opt-in scheme. Companies like Google just exploit a lack of regulation.
I alread thought about this (the first part) and I like that Idea, I also like the idea of having my own gym. Most gyms I visited are targeted at the "mainstream" fitness or some reha stuff. Thats not bad but I am missing something thats really targeted at athletes who wanna improve.
This, and the sort solution is also incredibly bad. The third unique step does unnecessary moving of all the remaining values. Multiple times. You just need to iterate over the sorted array and skip i++ when the value is the same as the previous.
http://www.barefooters.org/barefoot-faq/
If a company is worth $100m, you could buy it for something in the region of $100m - though that may go up of course if people get wind of it, it would generally still be in the same region.

Crypto "market cap" doesn't work like that - cryptos, including Bitcoin, are so thinly traded that the price is exquisitely sensitive to trades many magnitudes smaller than the total number of units. There's 15 million bitcoins, but trades on the order of 100 BTC can cause flash crashes. e.g. http://www.coindesk.com/high-seas-bitcoin-trading-whales-sti... Apple has 5 billion shares outstanding, but you couldn't flash-crash it selling 20,000 of them - the volume is ~20m/day.
This is why you'd use something like Impala; SQL is your cut, sort, uniq etc. That's why they don't exist; put the Parquet file into HDFS, turn on shortcut access, and use Impala to query it. I see throughput of about 250M records/sec on a 12-CPU box [1]. If your data doesn't fit in memory (FS cache), I/O will probably be your bottleneck.

[1] Technically, 6 2-core guests on a single hypervisor; using guests to test deployment and scaling more easily.
Do you really trust cloud password storage services?
Too late to edit my original comment, but here's some more info on "Improving transparency in land ownership in Scotland: a consultation on controlling interests in land":

https://beta.gov.scot/publications/improving-transparency-la...

And some stats from Google:

Scotland area - 80,077 km2,
Glasgow - 149.9 km2,
Edinburgh - 264 km2,
i.e. 0.5% (413.9km2) of area is Glasgow or Edinburgh.

Scotland population: 5,295,000,
Glasgow: 598,830,
Edinburgh: 495,360,
i.e. 20% (1,094,190) live in either Glasgow or Edinburgh.

That is reflected in property prices too - you can buy a farm with 452 acres of land (1.8 km2) in the north of Scotland (e.g. http://search.savills.com/list#/r/detail/gbedruedr140125) for a similar price to a 300 m2 flat in central Edinburgh (e.g. http://search.savills.com/list#/r/detail/gbedscedt160229 ).
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How exactly would developers 'force a new version' without consensus?
I don't understand the medical treatment thing. Why is it so that everything has to be treated? What do you define as ideal? People have different types of personalities and it is necessary in the system. In my opinion it is better to give time to people so that they overcome. We really tend to underestimate the coping capabilities of humans.
> Not bringing something with you is inherently different from hiding it.

But you don't have access to your notebook once in the country. The 1Password travel mode is not for while you're in the country, but specifically just for the border crossing.
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Indeed, Bitcoin can be anonymous if there is enough critical mass. But that requires far more involment than the average person is willing to do. Cash is easy and simple.
The point made by the site is that because it costs £3 to look at each title document, it's not practical to see it at any scale. Sure you can find an individual property's ownership, but you can't search this in any way except by location, and you can't answer questions such as "who is the largest landowner in this area" or "what are the holdings of landowner x" without spending thousands on laboriously finding and buying each title. You can't even see the boundaries of each title unless you have bought the individual maps. You can just see a list of titles within a radius of a point, and then buy those titles to find out their extent. A secret doesn't need to be impossible to find to be closely-guarded, it can just be impractical.
I think it does. I'm guessing most of the people who take the single outfit approach do so based on what they've heard about decision fatigue. Not because they want to save the 30 seconds they spend picking out a shirt every morning, but because that decision supposedly impacts their decision making for the rest of the day.
I have a suspicion that moderation is at least partly responsible for the current state.
Devil's advocate: there are APK extractors (which work without root), so it's definitively possible for an AV to scan those files and report if there's something weird.
Since you mentioned using a trackball due to carpal tunnel when using a mouse I thought I should share my setup. I don't really suffer from these issues (with the exception of scrolling) but it pays to prevent them.

I only use a mouse when I use many monitors (3+) and the desktop surface area is significant. In all other cases I prefer to use a very customized touchpad setup. I use a business laptop because it has buttons for the touchpad both below and above the touchpad(the buttons for the trackpoint. And I configured it so that all the buttons below are the normal click and a button above is the secondary click. And I disabled tapping because tapping gives you no feedback and prevent you from resting your hand on the touchpad.
The main reason I switched is because I find scrolling on a touchpad (either 2 finger scrolling for short distances or circular scrolling for longer distances) a lot more comfortable than the scroll wheel. Scrolling a lot using a scroll wheel makes my middle finger hurt and middle click auto-scrolling doesn't work everywhere.

This means I can mouse around using either hand in the same way. Most touch pads are configured with buttons (reals or virtual) in the bottom left and right sides for left and right click. This means using the touchpad is different for the left hand than it is for the right hand.

The only other touchpad I found as usable was the Apple trackpad when it still had a button. I clicked with the button and the difference between primary and secondary click was whether I had two fingers on the trackpad.
The only suit I've ever bought was for a funeral - and I question the logic in that (a rant for another day). Ive had about a dozen interviews over the years from small to very well known companies and I've always just put on jeans and a t-shirt, sometimes a jumper if cold. The only time I did not get a job offer was for a large travel firm in deeside, north wales. They interviewer asked why I thought it was appropriate to turn up to the interview in a t-shirt, my answer was kind of long and opinionated, as the two numpties sat there suited and booted talking about how awesome their company was. Needless to say that was one job I didnt get an offer for, however given that the interviewers were asking questions they didn't understand (e.g. how strings are managed in the CLR) I didn't lose any sleep. I later found out from others it was a shit place to work anyway.
Then put that you don't want to support this in the README and allow others to support themselves if they wish via issues.
Privacy and freedom are very intricately related, but rather than saying privacy is a "type" of freedom, I would say that privacy is a requirement for freedom. Perhaps our most basic freedom (more than travel or speech), is the freedom to think. This is possible solely because our thoughts are private.
I'm kind of wondering how this all works in general when getting to the US.

Considering my usual work contracts, complying with letting border control look into my fully encrypted work laptop would actually be a breach of my work contract.

How do you guys handle this?
I've had this idea for so many years now: your gmail account has - let's call it - a master password and a throwaway password. Say you need to print something from a public PC, you just use that password that works only once, even if somebody key-logs it, you're safe.
Something you need to bear in mind is that distributed joins are very expensive; you have a better time designing your schema such that related data can be placed logically close together, whether it's arrays / maps inside rows (for one to many), or very wide rows (denormalizing what might be a star schema).

(I know, in a column store having related data in another column isn't actually close together; but it can be stepped through at the same time, it doesn't need a join to be correlated, it's correlated naturally.)
I should also add, another thing we do very wrong here - devs with admin access to production servers. Not only is there a vector for direct attack by compromising a large number of accounts, but if devs can (and do) change settings on production machines without Infrastructure knowing about it, you've got potential for silently breaking secure systems.
> There is a large amount of different coins you have to sorth through and they all look similar to me.

Only a problem for non-Eurozone visitors really.
> what are the forces that are here to balance the powers.

Well there's no chance of a David vs Goliath so the only one I can think of is governments. Yeah...
The Scottish government has been very vocal about land reform (eg https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/scotland-blog/2016/mar/1...) and even passed an Act last year (although the most significant amendments didn't pass).
Insofar as a house with lots of land attached will probably have a higher value, then yes. But not directly, and only for land that is within the curtilage of the residential property.
The problem is that people should learn to accept that there are differences in the personalities and it cannot be homogeneous. They should be encouraged to cope or help them in coping.
I'm surprised this is even a thing. Do folks get asked for passwords at airports? What is the reason for this feature?

Hope this comment didn't come across as negative. I'm a big 1password fan.
IIRC, until relatively recently, it was more or less trivial for large estates to avoid most inheritance tax - put the property in a trust, and pass on the interest in the profit generated rather than the property per se.

I think the recent changes have made it more difficult to completely avoid inheritance tax, but a proper trust setup will drastically reduce it.
"Why did you FedEx your SSD to the destination? Do you have something to hide? You're gonna have to follow us."
I listened to the first earnings call when Lampert took the helm at Sears, and he said to think of Sears as a real estate company. In other words, I don't think he thought a lot about Sears potential as a retailer.
I've heard that this is not a very big business for Visa/Mastercard. That's because the credit card processors don't get many details on the purchase, they just know the amount, the user, and the bank they are sending the money to.
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At least in those - and I'm sure this still happens - you could bribe the officials.

Actually is that possible in the US or do the border officials still have a stick up their arse? I mean if you work for a big multinational IT company, surely they can provide a few hundred bucks to bribe someone to skip security. Bribing the police is normal in a lot of countries.
As a side-note: if you are selling premium devices with these mark ups and charging extra for essential accessories (a keyboard) you better have premium physical stores where I can try them out. I'm in the UK and PC World does not count: they will most likely not know the difference between this and a Surface Pro 4.
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Don't you think that comments like this one reinforce the subjectively perceived feeling of powerlessness?

Who are you benefiting by posting this? (I'm not saying this is the case here, but there are those people who want us to actually feel powerless, because it then translates into actual powerlessness.)

I'm sure you can think of more constructive ways of commenting.
But aren't they stuck in abyss now? If that's the choice, maybe it wasn't a good plan after all.
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Some pointers:

- danluu.com (user luu) on testing in the hardware world (e.g. https://danluu.com/tests-v-reason/) and at Google

- in general, mature high-quality engineering organizations like Google and modern Microsoft

- e.g. Praxis (Google "Tokeneer report") and Galois practice semi-formal and formal methods to produce useful software

- e.g. TrustInSoft and seL4 go to full formal verification
Another possible solution is to go through all of Google's privacy settings and opt-out of all their tracking. They're better than most about being upfront and giving you opt-out options.
The last issue of National Geographic (for the UK Amazon Prime subscriber available for free in Prime Reading) had a map of public land ownership in Scotland, and some NatGeo style impact reporting on it. Deer stalking, people, families, etc.
Worth a read!
2FA is basically an ever changing 2nd password used 1 time. I use it everywhere it is supported. More info: https://www.google.com/landing/2step/
Refuse to go to the US unless provided with a safe / separate laptop that contains nothing that would cause a breach.

I'd make it your employer's responsibility. If you have to go to the US on business, it's your employer's responsibility to help. Or to not send you to the US.
This is clearer and a lot more comprehensive than the Slate piece.

Thanks for pointing to it!
No - I wouldn't find that offensive (I've been called far far worse things in a work context) - but I'd be very worried about potentially causing offense, more for the sake of politeness than the HR impact.
The article speculates about possible Phi/Nervana hybrids.
That's definitely true, and I would argue that "casual work attire" is even more ambiguous for women. One of the things I realized during my first internship is that "casual" and "casual work appropriate" aren't the same thing, even though every recruiter and manager I've spoken to has said to just wear what I'd wear casually on the weekends. There are some types of casual clothing that I wear--such as shorts, low-cut tops, crop tops, strapless anything, shorter dresses or skirts, etc--that are not work appropriate, even if this is not explicitly said or encoded in a company dress code. That being said, I would never sacrifice the luxury of wearing casual clothing to work in exchange for being able to make more straight-forward sartorial decisions.
They're not repeating the "peaceful protests" thing just like that:

The conflict in Syria is complex

It dates back to March 2011, when several teenagers
were arrested for painting anti-government graffiti
in the southern town of Daraa.

Public demonstrations calling for democratic reforms
spread across the country, meeting swift government
opposition. Peaceful uprisings gave way to violent
clashes, and ultimately a brutal civil war.
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I was thinking more of the mirrors. I've used galvo systems at work before, and the off the shelf ones couldn't come close to the sorts of speeds they're showing off. Especially not in a raster pattern. 3D LIDAR using galvos has been done before for space applications (one was used on the space shuttle, or at least a ground-based model), they used a lissajous scanning pattern which is much kinder on the motors because you can do continuous movements rather than making the mirror do a rapid turn at the end of each row. It's called TriDAR:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SPIE.6220E...7R
Yeah can't really argue against that logic, just arguing for someone to fulfil my needs to do my job.

Maybe it's time for a new "truck" company that focuses on the needs of the few and Apple can ditch computers and focus on the needs of the many.
Does it matter? Just say "yes", and your employer / the account manager should be the only one that should be able to disable it.
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for callback-hell, there's async/await

for theeads, there are ways too
i thought social media is the exact echo chambers you speak - where people post one liners, fake news, and no diversity of opinion. After all, if you don't like someone's feed because their views are so different or so contrary to your own, you'd just stop their posts from appearing!
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Have you kept the data off your phone specifically for the purpose of not letting them see it, intending to sync back up afterwards?
I don't feel powerless. Balmer is bankrolling transparency and Project Sunshine is trying to increase our ability to interact with the federal government.

Private industry has created databases like PolicyGuru dot net to help at the local level.

Things are going to improve even if it takes a generation to get out the swamp monsters.
Best to avoid the USA, basically.
Which is why I'm very worried about DeepMind's secret ethical board, if one even exists:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/26/google-de...

Why would it have to be secret if it's supposed to make people trust Google's AI more? And what are they hiding? Is President Duterte or a Saudi prince on that ethics panel? (serious question - we just don't know right now)
PCA can also help you study the relationships between variables.

I recently used it for a class project to explore the distribution of certain French cities in regards to socio-economic variables.

http://khalil.kacem.xyz:3838/#section-variables

You can see that Security and Economic Activity are opposite for example.
Maybe you implicitly agree to their ToS when you enter a partner store? It's a technical detail of creative lawyering. They must have covered the legal aspects and factored in the fines in case they get a slap on the wrist.

I guess it is the same thin line you have between tax evasion and tax optimization and Google has a nearly unlimited budget to try to move this line in their favor.
Have you set things up so the drugs will be available to you once you have gone through security?
Well I mean this, and it's just the info you find on wikipedia, there is more:

> Observers have questioned whether Bana understands the concepts that she tweets about. She is a seven-year-old child who does not speak English. A journalist for The New Yorker noted that her "video statements often have a scripted quality, as if she is being coached by her mother to communicate her thoughts in a language that she is only beginning to learn."

> In a now deleted tweet, Bana said it is "better to start 3rd world war instead of letting Russia & assad commit #HolocaustAleppo".

> In a separate incident, Bana appeared on Turkish television program Channel TV, where she was asked what her favorite food was, and she replied, "Save the children of Syria".

"Bana" is a media campaign.

>The problem in WtD was that it was intended to rouse nationalistic furore justifying a military intervention.

Yes
started as a demonstration
against the corrupt Assad

It's unlikely that this was spontaneous, and most likely the first public result of a planned and well-funded regime-change operation.
Yes, it's tiny steps but that's the only way it's ever going to get done. People are always going to claim that the tiniest bit of land reform will turn the country into Zimbabwe.

I can't really see it happening in England.
Thanks for answering.

I've always wanted to try breaking projects down into separate NPM packages, but I usually end up using git submodules. Path of least resistance and all.
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