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Did you read the thing whose link you are responding to? The design has indeed been altered:

> We have taken action to ensure that Riseup never again has access to a user’s stored email in plaintext. Starting today, all new Riseup email accounts will feature personally encrypted storage on our servers, only accessible by you.

I'm not thrilled with the action that was taken, complying with the sealed warrant. I suspect Riseup isn't either. But I also think it would be ridiculous to expect Riseup admins to go to jail to protect people using their service to extort others. I definitely wouldn't have been willing to either if I were in their place.
The judge can impose sanctions for discovery violations up to and including entering judgment in favor of the other side. That’s pretty extreme but an issue sanction wouldn’t be unusual or (from what this article says) unwarranted.
So are you saying that the 2017 air (2015 model with clock speed bump) is not worth it, since apple did not come up with anything as good as the 2012 air?
LGPL is for libraries, not GPL.
The difference is that we've always known (or at least assumed) that Mozilla is anti-censorship, but can't assume it's anti-capitalist. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is oppressive, but anyway, that's a technical discussion.

They haven't stated "Mozilla is against capitalism because it's oppressive blah blah blah".

From the principles that they've declared one can infer that they would help people in totalitarian regimes (any decent organization would).
The only really valid point there is the culture one, which is actually our problem and the reason we're not already using socialized medicine country wide. It would work fine, everyone would be better off, but half the country would object based on their values regardless of it helping them.
> I don't know if the bond is working. My Indian Classmates at NTU wanted to go straight to Silicon Valley, but got stuck at (what they called) the IBM and Amazon sweatshops. They're not happy about it.

If they were planning to go straight to SV, perhaps they should have given more thought before accepting the tuition grant offered by Singapore?
Has anyone else noticed the odd "coincidence" that depression is associated with -depressive- states such as

- sitting around and not exercising
- keeping to oneself and not socializing and helping others
- repeating negative talk outloud
- aimlessness and laziness to formulating a meaningful life purpose

Could it be that this "depression" is really a diagnosis of:

- sitting around and not doing something for others and the world?

We act like there's an abstract or canonical "depression"... but really it is our interpretation of a person's outward expression, action, and contribution.
Sometimes, legally the two are indistinguishable.
I just looked and it's an SL510. Still going strong, albeit a bit slow. Gotta give it to the build quality though!
You're probably thinking of the so-called "glymphatic system" that was in the news a few years back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glymphatic_system
To summarize - current politics became a sophisticated brainwashing scheme, that uses science and technology to achieve if not mind control, then something on the way towards it. Disgusting and rather scary, but not surprising.
Well there is a mix, the majority of companies shouldn’t waste their developers time on writing an inventory management system or writing an accounting system. Instead they should focus their efforts where they can build a major competitive advantage.
Most employees would have been oblivious unless some SJW hadn't gone digging and publicized it. They'd happily worked under the man for 6 years after the donation and before he was forced out.

The separation is necessary is there to protect people from being fired for having unpopular opinions because it's not an argument we want to follow to it's logical conclusion. If I wanted to donate to an anti-circumcision campaign am I unfit to be CEO because I might alienate circumcised people and religious people? If I want to donate to an atheist cause am I unfit because I will alienate religious people? If I donate to a feminist campaign am I unfit because I might alienate MRA's?

How balkanized do work places have to become?
In Japan it's effectively illegal to be fat. That probably has a greater impact on average lifespans than anything in the healthcare system.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2009-11-10/fat-japan-youre-break...
wow, you're low empathy in two directions
> That's already true, it's just ignored and not enforced.

That should make it easier to start punishing people for doing it then.

Even if the penalty was only a $100 fine, multiply that by 320 million counts and it turns into real money.
The microsoft bluetooth mobile keyboard 6000 is about the most awesome keyboard I've found for overlaying a laptop's default keyboard (if you can find one). I still use it to this day at home. I got tired of carrying a lot around, which is why the swapped keys on the ThinkPad would annoy me still.
> being one of the reasons we need sleep

Jellyfish have no brain, but also sleep. So that can't be the reason. (It might happen then anyway, but it's not the fundamental reason.)
That's just Horseshit. I have worked on both sides of the table and incompetence is equally widespread. However, vendors are not as bad as they seems to appear and employees are not as good as they seems to appear.

Most of the contracts nowadays have a penalty clause and a stated Service Level Agreements (SLA) around performing the vulnerability scan and closing the GAP within a stipulated time frame. Outsourcing companies might not be innovative but they don't like to lose money on failing SLAs.

Coming back to the issue of incompetence. I have often seen so called innovator of the just taking the credit for the work done by Vendor.

The way typical scenario rolls out is this. Senior management of of the company will throw a challenge to the senior management of Vendor. After a few discussions middle management of will assign the responsibility to their lowest level employees. After a lot of hard work when solution is in sight, all communication channels will be closed.

A few weeks later solution will be presented to their own management while keeping the vendor completely out of loop as if vendor was completely useless and they did all the hard work. Vendor will be presented as mindless robot who can just execute the instruction. Hell I have seen employees not even having the courtesy even the reword our solutions.

Incentives of employees are aligned with making the vendor look less effective or they themselves will be replaced at some point by their own higher management. I think its not their fault. It is just the environment where painting the vendor in positive color will be detrimental to employee's own job.
>>But when hospitals competed, they did so by buying new technology, offering expensive services, paying more for doctors, decreasing services to lower-class wards, and focusing more on A-class wards. This led to increased spending.

>>In other words, Singapore discovered that, as we’ve seen many times before, the market sometimes fails in health care.

Why is increased spending on buying new technology deemed a failure? Maybe the optimal healthcare spending level is far higher than what's spent now.
The stories are somewhat similar to SG in UK, France, Can, Aus, and NZ. I wouldn't tar the rest of the western world with the US's experience.

David Sedaris talked nearly two decades ago of having a treatment at a French hospital, and finding it hard to get someone to even accept payment. Mind you, he also liked that he could smoke in the hospital.
I mean this entirely seriously: perhaps its time we be less reasonable people.
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> There is far too much "empathy" in the US.

> But I don't want to pay for an obese persons knee surgery.

This is Poe's Law writ large.
I hope this will lead to new targets for neurodegenerative proteinopathies.
Well, yea there are scenarios where encryption alone doesn't help, but again it's one of the cornerstones of data safety.
Other security measures like restricting data access to a limited set of source ips, masking of the data returned to the browser etc are typically put in place when dealing with sensitive info in addition to encryption of data at rest.

Also, that's not what happened at Equifax, at least based on the "struts vulnerability" narrative that Equifax has been pushing.
Why can't he, or I, diminishing the legitimacy of economics?

If someone had made up a fake Nobel prize in psychology I would diminishing the legitimacy of that too.

The field of economics is far, far less rigorous than any of the hard sciences for which Nobel prizes are awarded. The fake Nobel prize for economics is strongly disputed by much of the Nobel family, Keynes, and it makes economists act more blowhard, self-congratulatory and self-important than they already do.

I say this as someone spends a fair chunk of my time reading economics books and blogs.
Note that sci-hub's "legal defense" is "don't subject themselves to American jurisdiction"... The part about winning a default judgment at the top literally means sci hub didn't show up to court.

Not to say you shouldn't contribute to them, or that your money won't be useful in working around this. But it's probably not going to be used for a traditional legal defense.
USDS is not subordinate to Jared Kushner. We work with the Office of American Innovation on projects that align with our values, but ultimately we decide what projects to engage on. Which is pretty unique within the government.
No idea why your comment has been downvoted. The individual US states do indeed have little independence in the crafting of their healthcare system, given the heavy involvement of the federal government in healthcare. And the federal government is a massively complex beast that is subject to intense special interest lobbying and is far less accountable to its constituents than Singapore's government. There's no comparison between a fractured government presiding over 300 million people and a single party government of 6 million.
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When making this statement:

> "That the most important witness in the case [Levandowski], somehow his own files got overlooked. That's very suspicious."

I think the judge was specifically referring to this fact:

> Uber also said, just this weekend, that it found that Levandowski's e-mails from his startup, Otto Trucking, hadn't been properly migrated to Uber and weren't produced.

So I read it as he's raising the Vulcan eyebrow at Uber for that.
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Right. So what hypothetical encryption was cody8295 referring to?
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I'd bet if you're an adult and regularly eating processed, ready-to-eat food out of a bag or a box the chances that you're already obese is probably many times more than the overall population.
I think the problem is that you have an incomplete understanding of what it means to be productive.

Your programming course seems to be discussing an extreme and possibly excessive version of TDD. I have written a lot of code, and I like TDD, but in moderation. I certainly do not test every single function using TDD. I do not work out my functions in advance. However, I do take care to design and document major interfaces between components. I will write tests against those interfaces. For non-trivial parts of my code, I will write tests for smaller components. I do not take it all the way down to every function, that's nuts.

Now these tests do take time to write. And if you measure productivity by lines of code written per unit of time, well your number will go down. But that's the wrong measure. TDD increases my confidence that the tricky bits of my code are correct. It definitely catches bugs early, which is a huge productivity benefit. (And when I encounter a bug not caught by TDD, that I catch later, I will always write a new unit test to reproduce the problem.)

TDD also frees me up to clean up and refactor my code, and add new functionality. Since I have code that passes a lot of tests, I can change code with confidence because I know that the tests will pick up nearly all breakage caused by my change.

I will say that TDD has its limits. I find that TDD has been a dismal failure when the thing I'm testing has a dependency on some complex external thing, e.g. a service or a database. If you try to "mock" that external thing, you end up wasting tons of time debugging your mock database (for example). Also, external things with state (like services and databases) don't really fit TDD which depends on fast setup and teardown. Once you have these external dependencies, you are better off writing system tests.
The pay is definitely below Bay Area standards, though it's quite good for government. Ultimately though the main draw is not the pay, it's the chance to use your tech skills to make a truly meaningful real-world impact on a large scale.
I'm hesitant to point it out too often or too loudly, but if 4chan ever really got the notion they could very likely permanently financially murder someone like Parks through identity theft on an unprecedented scale. But oh the anarchy once that power was known.
To summarize what is actually going on (and pretty much what has been repeatedly said in here): a lone employee's error did cause this, and that lone employee is the CEO himself.
Painful but honest at least.
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> 65 isn't so near EOL

Granted, that's the 33 percentile for age of diagnosis. In the UK at least, median age at death is more like 75 [1].

But...for breast cancer median age of death is also about 75. [2]

AFAIK there isn't a dramatic age difference.

[1] http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s...

[2] http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s...
I'm sad about pears search, the IRC channel is dead and there's been no meaningful activity in the repo for a while.
Yes that, and Alsup seized the opportunity be an asshole right back to Uber's counsel for all their douchebaggery in this case. I'll bet they were laughing it up at Judge Happy Hour this evening
We have shared libraries and maven plugins setup. This is a situation where I really wish we used a monorepo and I could just do one commit across 100 microservices using grep and other tools to update pom.xml files. I have read whitepapers from google on how they support this kind of operation, but I need it for many git repos.
If you had to point at something in the fast food category, my money would be on the insanely portioned sugary drinks.

Maybe fries too, because people buy combo meals and then scarf everything down without stopping to see whether or not they actually feel full.

If you go to a fast food restaurant and get just a burger and water, I don't think it would actually be that bad for you, even if you ate like this more often than you should.
Is it self-reinforcing/learning, by any chance?
I really don't want to rehash this discussion, but there is one important inaccuracy in your presentation of what happened that keeps being propagated. As far as I could tell at the time, the people who Brendan would have had "authority and influence" over by and large didn't seem to feel that he should go. Some of them were fairly conflicted about the whole thing, but in the end felt that the things Mozilla works on should be important across the "traditional" left/right spectrum. And please don't forget that pretty much everyone who worked with Brendan was already aware of the donation, since it had been gone over in the press in 2008. So it's not like there was important new information coming to light for the people who he would have "authority and influence" over.

There were some comments on twitter calling on him to resign from some people at the Mozilla _Foundation_ (not to be confused with the _Corporation_), starting with one of the then-interns, iirc. The irony is that those particular people wouldn't have had any interaction with Brendan anyway...

Of course the reporting on the whole thing blew everything completely out of proportion, like the media usually does.

Oh, one other inaccuracy: I'd guess something like 1/3 of Mozilla's employees are in the SF bay area. Others are in other places, with a variety of cultural and political outlooks. So assuming that "Mozilla" is well-represented by "young, well-educated people in San Francisco" is not a great idea.
That was awesome thanks for sharing. For the first minute I wasn't expecting much, but the reflections part was so cool! Plus, this connects directly to the cyclic curves in the complex plane, e.g., https://mathlesstraveled.com/2015/06/04/random-cyclic-curves... The curves formed by the envelope of intersecting lines in the circular multiplication table are a slice of cyclic curve space. I animated this after reading the above blog post: https://youtu.be/myGXoLCnx-A You can see some of the curves in the lower left corner are the same ones from Mathologer.
Clearly only Equifax has the level of competence sorely needed by government sponsored work.

Surely, if anything goes wrong---it will at least be the things the government wants to go wrong.
That quote sounds good, but I don't think it's necessarily applicable to this situation. The author seems to be talking about complex systems that are designed and operated to be robust against failure, like the space shuttle. Saying that Challenger blew up because of an O-ring is technically correct but also horribly wrong, as an example. Equifax IT does not appear to be operating at a level to prevent a single failure from causing terrible damage all on its own.

That aside, it's hardly true that one person can bear all the blame for not patching their systems, even if they did successfully prevent patches from happening. For one thing, how the hell did they keep their job after doing that? Unless it was the CEO (well, now that they have a new CEO maybe they'd like to put all the blame on him), there was someone up the chain who could insist that the patch get applied. I think you definitely could apply root cause analysis techniques here, and I strongly suspect that such analysis would uncover numerous serious deficiencies in Equifax's IT operations. Of course, guessing that a large boring corporation has terrible IT practices is similar to guessing that a given duck quacks and has wings, so there's that.
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How about the chip in any recent model iPad or iPhone?
The desktop is not that powerful. The only decent thing inside is a gtx 950, which let me play Witcher 3 in medium-high and I was contend with that. The cpu is a 6th gen i3 with 8gigs of RAM and an SSD. Works well for what I need to do. The main reason for me to assemble a PC was that if some component fails, I can just replace that. Having to discard my student laptop because of an Nvidia chipset failure left a bad taste in my mouth.
I had the pleasure of working with the pcANYWHERE guys on interfacing their product with a product I was working on. They really loved their product and it really showed in the quality of their work. Little details like how you could hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on the remote to reboot the host. So they got fuck you money from Symantec, which I'm sure they enjoyed. But Symantec did not love the product like they did. They could have been a formidable competitor to Citrix, and look how their product line has proliferated.
Good work guys, sounds like good progress!

I'm struggling to see what this is giving me that I didn't have with RTDB though

The queries seem to be doing what orderByChild equalTo startAt endAt limitToFirst and limitToLast were already allowing.

Is there mostly a performance gain, or am I missing something that I can do now that I couldn't do before?

Cheers
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The scary turning point in history is when political science became an actual science, with predictive models and falsifiable theories. Once the political scientists had that, the electorate no longer owned their government.
Apart from one guy using a cheap student laptop and another guy running archlinux on god knows what, the overwhelming majority works on a Mac. But we deploy on Ubuntu. Also, there's no point in buying a Mac and solving problems that were not there in the first place while using Linux ;)
A teacher lost ~60lbs on a McDonalds-only diet.(1)

As the article states, the reasons for obesity are "complex," and 'involve blaming society, and everyone else' for individual choices.

The most interesting thing about this topic is why does if fit entirely into the "can't blame them category," when there are still so many examples--albeit on a diminishing list--of other personal choices that one may be acceptably villified for--many of which don't even involve environmental destruction and animal rights abuses?

Yes culture, wealth, consumer products, job opportunities, and corn subsidies all participate; but perhaps the biggest problem is one of personal responsibility.

By contrast, in Japan obesity wins you an automatic trip to counseling(2).

1-https://www.today.com/health/man-loses-56-pounds-after-eatin...

2-https://www.bu.edu/themovement/2011/05/29/the-fats-on-fire/
late2part was saying that your chain of thought mirrors the conspiracy sites that you mention.
> I say this as someone spends a fair chunk of my time reading economics books and blogs.

Them credentials!
It's weird to think of Singapore - a country with 4 official languages - as being homogeneous.
On multiple occasions, Mr. Smith referred to an “individual” in Equifax’s technology department who had failed to heed security warnings and did not ensure the implementation of software fixes that would have prevented the breach.

If an employee isn't heeding a significant warnings (plural!) then it sounds like a management problem too.
Because the functions of government bids are supposed to be clear and transparent. Large bidders over time build increasingly customized software for the government until there is lock-in.

The greater problem here is the theory of competition when it comes to government, since it is often the case that there is little or no competition, and entrenched monopoly providers of government services and services to the government (separate things).

Obvious to me that certain functions and competencies must remain inside the government and outside the profit motive. The inevitable outcome of niche provision of government services tends to be a parasitic relationship between government and corporate provider, and this ultimately costs citizens more in the long run - and not just taxes!
The post office isn't a web site. Many web sites do stop delivering mail, I know because I've checked, and because I run one. The post office does stop delivering your mail if it's returned to sender multiple times. The post office will also respect your first cancellation request, and they don't send you letters or text you every day reminding you to use the post office more because they noticed you haven't sent a letter today. So I don't buy your analogy.
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