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> It doesn't mention they'll be requesting passwords, only "handles, aliases

> I mean, everything is already accessible on the internet (to the extent I want it to be), and accessible by merely a Google search of my name (which is written on my passport), so anyone (not just Homeland Security) could easily collect this info anyways

The notion that only the info you want accessible under your name is actually accessible under your name seems a bit naive, also you may need to disclose 'aliases' as well, which means account on which you on purpose don't use your real name, probably because you want to express your opinions a bit more freely.

> I think this is a bit overblown.

DHS agents cherry-picking people's social media posts to deny them entry does not seem overblown to me.

I think the only effective solution to this is for the EU to impose similarly annoying travel restrictions on American citizens and for companies to stop going to conferences etc. in the U.S.since they'll notice once big business complains.
SQL has all of the benefits mentioned in the article, but a few small changes to the ANSI standard - mostly taking design cues from C#'s LINQ - would make it much more usable and modern as a query language.

https://www.linqpad.net/WhyLINQBeatsSQL.aspx

Also, it's such a small thing, but why not place the SELECT clause after the FROM clause? This would allow for easier auto-completion help from the query editor.
Alternatives to top and htop. TL;DR = glances and nmon
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I've been trying out the nightly versions of 57 and it's really fast. Would recommend people try out the Beta.
TBF I think it all depends on how much people in the city generally obey rules of the road. I don't think I've ever seen a New Yorker walk more than 2 blocks without jay-walking.
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This is why I love the legislative petri dish over there in the EU.
Actually, if you want to limit it to workers, it's around 95%, based on our last good data on this.
News report on this for TL;DR http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41397742: 'A man in France has regained some degree of consciousness after being in a vegetative state for 15 years. Doctors treated the 35-year-old, injured in a car accident, with an experimental therapy that involved implanting a nerve stimulator into his chest... '
These days, I revisit the ideas in books by rereading them or by reading other books which contain related ideas. I didn't always do that, but I realized I enjoy reading and don't really enjoy taking notes, and anyway a thought provoking book changes the way I think and so the notes I take while reading will probably not reflect the way I think after I read. Besides, books that aren't changing the way I see the world tend to feel boring and probably won't get read.

Now I am not saying that this is the most efficient way to cram for a test. But I don't think I have any tests of the kind that can be crammed for coming up soon so I don't let the methods that are good for test cramming shape the way I read...but it took me some time to get to this point.

Good luck.
It's a struggle sometimes as a biker on a daily commute when you get to really know your route. There are a bunch of lights and stop signs on my route that very rarely have pedestrians and cars so I'll take it slow through them (about the same speed as a car not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign), but usually not stop. I'm very thankful that 90% of my commute has bike lanes, but would definitely love for them to be more protected and maybe even get some lights devoted to the bike lane like NYC has down a few of its avenues.
The thing is, unless you are auditing the code it's hard to know which cryptos are competent and which are just BS.

On the other hand, since the code is open source, then you can audit the code.

A crypto hedge fund that spends a lot of money actually auditing code might have great returns.
I've had mixed results. I report errors to Apple fairly regularly, and while some are fixed quickly, some are seemingly ignored forever.

Even in the US, there are a lot of missing POI on Apple Maps. Parks in particular are woefully underrepresented.
I think lot is the process to raise money:

How many minimum wage people are you trying to raise money for your company? the amounts to small, it would be harder to sell them on it because $10 is more valuable to them than $5000 is to a millionaire, and its harder to reach them(transaction costs are much, much higher)

also, even if they had a 10x return they only made $100.

So, if the best opportunities to make money off your own money are only available to the rich than you do the math...
It's $10 in Florida.
Being from the Netherlands I am not at all surprised by this. It is very well known here that bikes get you places quicker than cars do. Especially within cities you can go to the city center without having to worry about finding a parking spot and paying a huge amount of money when you do.

I have lived in New York and have driven a car there and based on that experience I wouldn't really find driving a bike there problematic. I have also lived in Brussels (Belgium) and used citi bikes there and was generally happy about the experience, even though the Belgian roads are a lot more dangerous due to the fact that Belgians don't have the slightest clue about anything that has to do with driving or traffic: they can't drive cars, they can't plan roads properly, they can't maintain them, etc. New York is grid based so traffic situations are easier to oversee.
I'd rather they be treated as many American's are when they have their first encounter with police who believe they committed a crime...that is rarely aligned with a presumption of innocence.

You aren't wrong in a theoretical sense, but I am all for equality before the law as a precursor to due process. Due process without equitable treatment means very little except to those at the top.
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I've been told by multiple sources that freezing with one agency is enough - other agencies automatically pick up that freeze.
If it helps as motivation, it is quite common to cycle on Swiss cities, and the Alps aren't properly flat.

A light bike with a good set of gears helps a lot.
It says he was a judicial clerk through 2013. And I assume both he and his father would be aware of the potential issues with optics.

Edit: Optics meaning the appearance of bias, nepotism, etc. I don't dispute the judge is supporting patent trolls. There is, though, no evidence it's for personal financial gain, and I suspect there's been significant digging. It is perhaps just ego driven.
That's a weird and ugly dichotomy, between organizing and ordering the mass killing of thousands of innocent children, and "working perfectly in practice". How many children before it stops being an oopsie-daisy?
I believe UK keyboards?

I say this because when installing a new OS and it defaults to en-UK locale, some of my buttons on the right side of the keyboard do unexpected things (US here), and I always have to look up where exactly the single-quote button is. I believe sometimes that angle pops up.
It doesn't make sense to penalize bikes the same way as cars. A car is deadly, a bike isn't. It would be like assigning the same penalty to throwing a punch and a gun shot.
that's even without the regulations around unaccredited investors.
I had to Google the missile thing. Bit of a shocker: "Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China." (http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-chinese-microchips-weapo...)
Sacrifice billions a year from Google to spend billions a year trying to compete, for zero additional revenue? That's a tough sales pitch.
I just wish they would have filled in more missing APIs before mandating web extensions.

For example there is no way to do a gestures extension that doesn't rely on buggy DOM injection.
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Philly here as well.

There are practical reasons for bikes going through red lights and stop signs.

1. We want to clear the intersection and get to the other side ahead of the traffic. Car-bike accidents occur most often at intersections rather than mid-block. Getting through the intersection before the light turns green is a way to relieve worry about getting right hooked or sideswiped by a car. Cross traffic, if any, is visible and avoidable. Cyclists choose to "risk it" because the real risk at intersections comes from oncoming and in-flow traffic.

2. It takes a lot of energy to start up again from a dead stop. Average speed will drop A LOT from stopping unnecessarily, moreover, it is far more tiring to get back up to speed. It means more sweat and discomfort.

Some people feel, especially on forums such as this, that all traffic laws need to be observed "to the letter" by every vehicle including bicycles. That's overly strict and impractical. It is why cops almost never "pull over" cyclists who run stop-signs. There is no good reason to do so unless the cyclist was deliberately precipitating emergency evasive maneuvers from motorists.
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It really should be, anything on the internet is public. If you think it's private, it just means someone hasn't found it yet.
Ok, so let's simply stipulate that whatever adversity Kissinger faces, so too should Ahmadinejad, who is also loathsome.
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As someone who procrastinates and is interested in how people learn to code, I was looking forward to reading this. But there is no substance here about how she stopped procrastinating or how she learned to code. There's a reference to a coding school that she dropped out of, but we don't know why she dropped out, what she learned, or whether she'd recommend others to do the same. As for procrastination tips, the word "procrastinate" appears only in the title.

Looking forward to reading the sequel: How I stopped procrastinating, learned to write, and launched my content marketing blog.
Please note, DSDontWriteNetworkStores only prevents finder from writing metadata files to network filesystems, as the configuration key name suggests. It does not prevent it from writing metadata on your local filesystems, you will either need to use something like DeathToDSStore (requires disabling SIP), or remove them regularly post-creation.
Their security head was a music major, with little or no experience in the field.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/equifax-executives...
I think for one thing, the expansion of cell phones has starved the market for better technology for landlines and VoIP.
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Or for the permanent citizens. Isn't the so-called "vetting" supposed to happen before they arrive to the U.S.?

If they do post-arrival vetting, for how long will they be allowed to do it? 1 year? 5? 20?

It's just another BS excuse to use mass surveillance against as many people as they can. They start with immigrants, then they invent some other reason for some other category of Americans, and so on.

This is the "problem" with surveillance technology getting ever cheaper. It gives them an irresistible desire to apply it more and more, even where it's not absolutely necessary, as the cost is no longer an impediment, so "might as well."

I have the same opinion on killer drones or killer robots for that matter. The cheaper they will become to use, the more they will be used. Eventually they'll run out of "real targets" and start sending them after less important targets, too. Killer drones are not "the same as an airstrike", as I've seen many say on various forums, for this very reason, just like mass surveillance done today is not the same as the targeted surveillance done decades ago against real targets, as some were implying immediately after Snowden released his documents.
Why do you use the Java tools you use?
Codd's paper itself says:

"Closeness to Natural Language - Clearly, the majority of users
should not have to learn either the relational calculus or algebra
in order to interact with data bases. However, requesting data by
its properties is far more natural than devising a particular algorithm
or sequence of operations for its retrieval. Thus, a
calculus-oriented language provides a good target language for a
more user-oriented source language."
The imgur albums won't show what's posted directly to Reddit's image hosting though, will they?

I'm at work and know Reddit's temperament for images, so I don't feel comfortable comparing the output between the two services.
Tell us more about the app.
So if I design a car with a faulty steering mechanism that fails under unusual circumstances but, when it does, can cause a possibly fatal accident, I have a huge liability problem. Product liability as a whole is a pretty big deal. And that can be in spite of countless hours of testing where there is no evidence of malfeasance, negligence or even incompetence.

Why haven't product liability laws caught up with information services? The Equifax breach here was caused by, at the very least, reckless negligence in that they failed to patch a published vulnerability for MONTHS after it was disclosed.

Now I'm not talking about the BS class actions you get where the class gets nothing (except for the named plaintiffs who, for some reason, make out like bandits) and the lawyers make a ton of money.

What I'm talking about is having the same expectations, requirements and civil and criminal punishments that product liability would have with a physical product, at least when it comes to willful negligence of this sort.

The VW emissions scandal (rightly) is resulting in criminal prosecutions for fraud.

But the makers of routers, IoT light bulbs and the like seem to suffer no consequences for (and thus have no incentive to improve) the security of their products.

I just don't get it.
As a cyclist yourself, I'm sure you're familiar with intersections where the sensors controlling the lights do not sense bikes. I think the best way forward is for more states to adopt Idaho's policy: cyclists can treat stop signs like yield signs, and treat red lights like stop signs. [1]

If I'm riding toward a stop sign at a clearly deserted intersection, I would very much like to roll through at 10~15 MPH without risking a ticket. If I'm stopped at a red light and there are no cars making use of the green, I'd rather not dismount, walk over to press a pedestrian crossing button, walk back into the road, and wait. Or stay in the road, wait, and hope that I'll get a green light from a timer instead of a sensor.

It's possible to implement these changes and still be safe on a bike (it has worked for nearly 30 years in Idaho). I think we agree that flagrant violations, especially those that put pedestrians at risk, deserve fines.

[1] https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title49/T...
There are pretty huge barriers to open sourcing work in certain large companies.
This is really the strongest argument I've seen of any of this being a problem. Coming to any country as an immigrant is a privilege, and it the immigrants prerogative whether or not they feel the terms are acceptable. It is, however, completely unacceptable to put a special burden on their citizenship like this. Once they're a citizen, they should be a citizen, period. If there's not confidence that they're acceptable, they shouldn't become a citizen in the first place, otherwise they should be treated with full rights.

I'm not clear on how dual-citizenship works when you naturalize to the US, but are there not situations where they have to give up citizenship to their country of origin? Does that mean these people are permanently left in a degraded legal state with no home country, where they would have full legal rights, to return to should the DHS decide they've over stepped their bounds on Facebook?
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Because Google search results for your name may vary. E.g. I have a friend who has the misfortune of sharing the same name with a convicted pedophile.
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Looks amazing. I hope I will finally be able to ditch Chrome!
I hope that customer paid you enough for you trouble. But obviously it wasn't as much as it would have cost them to fix their crappy cron script.
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I'm always a little baffled as to why people just don't dump the data into a database, and then use SQL for further data manipulation and analysis.

I recently moved some data processing from Python/pandas into a database, and with SQL, the processing time went from several minutes to a couple seconds, (and that on a tiny VM).

I understand that not everyone is familiar with databases and SQL, and so default to the toolset they know. But, the performance gains can make learning databases and SQL highly worthwhile. (And, much can be learned in a just few days, especially for those already familiar with working with data.)
Thanks for the tip, I've been waiting for the free Equifax credit monitoring (I haven't been able to log in, though they keep telling me I have a account). A free freeze is good enough. Here's the link for everyone else: https://www.freeze.equifax.com/
No, that's the 90 day fraud report.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...

> How do I place a freeze on my credit reports? Contact each of the nationwide credit reporting companies.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0275-place-fraud-alert

> Ask 1 of the 3 credit reporting companies to put a fraud alert on your credit report. They must tell the other 2 companies.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/pf/what-is-a-credit-freeze/i...

> In response to public outcry, Equifax announced that fees to freeze your credit will be waived for the next 30 days. But even that doesn't totally protect your information since your data isn't fully frozen until it is on ice at all three credit bureaus. The other bureaus have their own fees. It's also unclear whether Equifax would still charge you a fee to lift the freeze. The company did not immediately respond to request for comment.
> For example, lets say you need to store a bunch of contracts (as in your industry) in PDF/TIFF or whatever.

Contracts are not as unstructured as you would think. At least in my part of the insurance world, most of them are produced by a contract writing system of some kind. Think of it as assembling as a series of contract provisions, each having a valid set of choices to select. Use your auto policy as an example -

Liability - $100k
Comprehensive - $10k / $1000 Deductible
Collision - $50k / $1000 Deductible

Yes there are other attributes captured, but you see the pattern. It's provisions and boilerplate. The use cases needing the imaged executed contract where the attribute/provision soup is not sufficient is uncommon.

The operational terms of the contract exist in some other system (and database) where it's consumable in some structured way.
Isn't that how a corporation should work?

Not the big pile of money for leaving/getting fired, the accepting of consequences for legal actions taken while working for the corporation.
What I have found is there is a tiny minority of people who _hate_ bikers. They tend to pop up and make wild claims about how dangerous bikers are, or how much they dislike how bikers use the streets since streets are for cars, and bikes are for children. What I have found in actually talking to people is most people support and encourage bikes, and would love to bike, but don't feel safe. Bikes make everything about traffic better, and most bikers observe the traffic laws. The best response to people who protest is to continue biking just like you would normally. As bike use grows everyone is safer, and more people feel safe biking. That grows the bike community and helps make a safer place for biking for everyone
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It just dawned on me that Tinder is basically the new and improved version of Zuckerberg's original creation - Facesmash. Except Tinder can do so much more than that. And amusingly, Tinder is hailed as a great app while Facesmash was decried as a way of dehumanizing and objectifying people. My, how far we have come.
While I love that project I don't see how a tinder-like dating app would work on it.
FYI you can (theoretically) setup a "Fraud Alert" which is free, and lasts for 90 days. I set this up shortly after the news broke, however failed to enroll my wife as their (all 3) phone systems were f*cked.
That was true for DFS, but not ADFS.
Until the ‘90s it was a heavily militarized sea more or less controlled by the Soviets. Not the ideal environment for research by Western institutions, and Soviet ones had other priorities.
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Disagree somewhat that Citi bikers are scary. Yeah, they're slow and usually amateurish but they're also easy to spot. If you bump into one it's probably going to be a chuckle-worthy low speed collision.

Tail them for a bit, wait patiently for a safe opportunity to pass, and off you go! It's not like they're crashing into things left and right. Cars are typically more of a real threat, IMO.

There's two things that actually scare me as a biker: kids and dogs. Both are prone to completely unpredictable and sudden movement right into the bike path. If it's a kid holding a dog? FULL STOP.
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I'm a daily cyclist in Manhattan. I just took Citi Bike to work today, though usually I take my own bike. I have both because they're useful for different kinds of trips.

Biking in the city is great. We still need lots of infrastructure upgrades to make it safer, but progress is being made on a monthly basis. Just last month a particularly dangerous section of 5th Ave had its bike lane converted from, essentially, a standing/loading lane for vehicles into an actual protected bike lane (with parking separating it from vehicle traffic) that is safe for use. And they even painted it green!

For every one complaint others here have about cyclists, I have ten complaints about drivers and pedestrians. Every day on my commute I see dozens of infractions, the most common types being vehicles parking or driving in bike lanes, not yielding safely, pedestrians walking/standing in bike lanes, and pedestrians jaywalking through intersections. People who jaywalk at every light without thinking, and don't even yield to cyclists who have right of way while doing so, will then hypocritically turn around and criticize cyclists for doing things that are much less unsafe.

Just this morning I had to navigate through a veritable horde of people standing around in the bike lane at Union Square. I had the green light and they were all waiting to cross across me, except they were six feet too forward and were completely blocking the bike lane. This is a daily occurrence that you see while biking.
Yeah, I agree. And it's a shame, because it looks like these features are coming to web extensions (e.g. see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384515 which tracks the api needed for "tab groups"). It just won't be there for launch.
Running Safari 11 on High Sierra and got a 90 on the speedometer 2.0 test referenced. Why are they bragging about a 66?

For reference, ran the test with Firefox Quantum on the same machine and got a 68.