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No offense, but I found the writing for these stories to be pretty horrible. The idea and concept is great, but horrible execution. There is also some very poor grammar in there as well.
>15 years ago he put his hand on a woman's knee?

It seems like he has a history of groping women. I'm not sure why anyone should put energy into defending that behavior.
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I remember when The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists came out and was a fairly big deal, as far as those things go. All I could think was, didn't Feynman write about this 20 years ago?
No, Roy Moore will win (if he does) because of political tribalism; to the extent the flood of accusations against others is relevant, the “lots of allegations but who could know the underlying reality” thing will be part of how people voting for Moore rationalize their vote more than a key factor in the actual decision.
The very fact that you are using the phrase "rape culture" in this case shows you are totally unbalanced, sorry! Touching somebody's knee isn't even remotely the same as rape! It's insulting to people who have actually been raped to even make the comparison at all.
I didn't say it's not a legitimate school of economics. I have 'The Road to Serfdom' sitting on my bookshelf among other works by members of the school.

However I did claim that the thought that EM spectrum should be privatized is not a mainstream one.

I imagine the more general idea that all public spaces and goods should be private is even less mainstream in the US, given the popularity of public roads, schools, parks etc.
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Suicide up next folks. Tinnitus for decades hasn’t been fun.
Fiction was inspired by fact for a change. ;) IRL 30 years ago, I remember getting loaned a warez copy of something from another kid at school containing the Michelangelo DOS bootsector virus. No more trading with that fool. That was back in the day when McAfee and Norton were the only usable DOS CLI/TUI virus scanners.
My painting (imho) is better than most professionals. I am not time or quality constrained, as I'm not running a business.

I can buy good paint, brushes, and tape. I can take my time, I can let paint dry over multiple days, do touchups, keep properly mixed cans (mixing two cans of the same color into one).

There are two aspects to being a "professional" tradesman.

1) Do it _better_ than others

2) Do it profitably

#1 is something you as an individual can overcome with practice, #2 is generally a hard constraint which sometimes compromises the goals of #1.
I still haven't read it, but I really need to. I was in the Studio Tools group in the late 90s and thought that group functioned pretty well. I also never heard anything about John behaving badly, although it was generally acknowledged that he was a big kid and had to be tutored on things like good female characters. Reading this news about John has made me very sad. I wonder now if any of my female former coworkers were the subjects of unwanted attention from John. Sigh...
> We are witnessing cultural norms shift right before our eyes.

I wonder how long until we see folks like Mick Jagger getting forced to resign their jobs due to using their status as rockstars to pick up women. Especially since most rockstars are also producers or executive producers, i.e. the same job that Harvey Weinstein or VCs have.
At the very least, it'd be worth contacting the noshows and finding out the reasons, encouraging them to be honest. Work out what it might be -

- got another job but forgot to tell you
- changed my mind
- just too tired or busy
- didn't think I had a real chance, so I didn't bother
- too nervous about the interview
A Calculated Decision: Why John Urschel Chose Math Over Football
Presumably the stolen coins have not been spent yet.

> The attacker is holding funds in the following address: 16tg2RJuEPtZooy18Wxn2me2RhUdC94N7r.
"I'm making a point that innocent until proven guilty does not hold true anymore."

I'm not seeing anyone thrown in jail just because of these accusations.
You misunderstand. The reasons you mention were the reasons I posted those links.

FedRAMP has multiple levels. Don't conflate the FedRAMP authorizations solely with marketing terms.
Twitter gives extremists a deadline to quit hate groups or risk being barred
Just get one of those cases that block GPS signal, or even the one that blocks all signals (but you won't be able to receive calls). They are only a few bucks.
Are you seriously asking why should users have access to run their device in the way that they want?
Language Server Protocol Preview Release for Visual Studio
Ice Apocalypse
Appears like a trade dispute.

Protectionism has many guises.

Google ensures US dominance of news reports.
First time, no comments. Just an observation.
SPA seems like the only way. Use push state to update history and URL
Interesting. Public transport in America seems to be considered primarily just for poor people outside of a couple of east coast cities, where in most of Western Europe it’s a way of life.

I was also going to point to a much bigger hangover from class divide in Anglo-Saxon countries, but actually that doesn’t hold true in the UK — coach services in the UK tend to be pretty good for shorter journeys, perhaps because of strong competition? The Oxford London coach route is exceptional, with free food being given out in the mornings at one point, free WiFi, comfortable buses, and generally just a nice way to travel.
Iranian charged with Game of Thrones hack
> I'm making a point that innocent until proven guilty does not hold true anymore. Once the media or social media writes a story, in the eyes of the "general" public... You're done.

That's been true forever. Innocent until proven guilty has only ever been a legal standard.
Could be integral part of their CodeStar / Cloud IDE push. Components with AWS specific functionality can then be developed and sold through a marketplace.

For those making single-purpose, ad-revenue backed projects. Quite possible there is more to gain in selling say a dating app interface, than the app itself ;)

AWS re:invent conference starts next week so expect details then. As well as a Kubernetes engine. Golang support for Lambda Functions. And much more...
its possible and even likely that this happened post hack.
This company completely turns human into tradable goods
> Why did IBM even go to Redmond, WA in the first place?

That's not a mystery: it went to license Microsoft Basic, which was the most widely recognized Basic of its day. It dated back to the MITS Altair.

So IBM would have gone to Redmond regardless of Mary Gates.

However, it probably helped with the DOS deal, whereby Microsoft offered to save IBM's operating system bacon. Basic was a known quantity but MS-DOS didn't even exist.
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It might be your last nice hot shower for a while, though find it more remarkable that the FBI agents acceded to the request.
Whether or not everyone did it in order to enhance DRM, it is still the case that that is one of the end results. Another is that Firefox no longer supports general purpose computing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
Every single time this story is posted I take a moment to read it. Truly a bad-ass story in the purest, most distilled essence of the phrase.
This is actually a fantastic idea. Please make it materialize!
"A little butt slap here or innuendo laced comment there was tolerated and sometimes even expected, but those days suddenly ended when even the powerful and influential Harvey Weinstein could fall."

That's the thing - 'what is it'?

A 'slap on the butt' is point blank harassment and never really accepted in any culture. You could 'get away with it' but it was not ever considered perfectly ok.

'Sexual innuendo' - that is normal in many places in the world,

'Commenting on a woman's appearance' is a positive trait in many places in the world.

'Showing up at your door in a bathrobe' - is not unethical behaviour. There has to be a lot added onto that to make it inappropriate.

And there are huge levels of inappropriate.

What if you are out drinking with a co-worker, then back at your place drinking, you're both flirting - and then you go in for the kiss?

A sales lady jumped in the pool naked at a hotel where we were staying. Nobody cared, we were drinking, it was funny. But if it's a dude - it's wrong?

Putting drugs in a girls drink and then raping her ... well that's beyond immoral and very illegal.

The problem I think - is that a lot of this stuff is getting lumped together.

A lot of this behaviour is really only 'no acceptable' wherein there are very high bars for behaviour.

You don't put your hand on a woman's knee at the office.
You can put your hand on a woman's knee if you're out on a date with her.

What if you are co-workers? What if one works for the other.

...

This is all complex and nuanced stuff, I don't think we can just lump it all together.

FYI - it was 'progressives' in the 1960's pushing for sexual liberation - and 'consent' is in the vast majority of even positive cases, not exactly given verbally.

So there is a 'new set of norms' but a lot of it is based in fear.

Have you seen the 3 second video of Gigi Hadid who received a 'buddha doll' (possibly not buddha, just a fat man), it's really cute. She makes a face, puts the doll next to her, and smiles like the doll. It's just fun, I don't think racist at all - and yet the Chinese government got involved.

The smallest mis-step - one person - in one place - can say something - and it blows up.

The 'new order' will not be a 'moral order' - it will be a 'sanitized order' - wherein every word - every action - every thought - will be scrutinized so intensely that I'm weary we're giving up a lot for this.

So yes - the 'new norm' of 'don't harass your interns and grab their asses' is really good - but I fear it won't just create a 'safe place' for people, it may ultimately create a hostile place where we can't just be human.

I stayed at a friends house in SF recently, she came out of the kitchen naked, and went into her bedroom - just as I was falling asleep on the couch. She was giggling. She was not flirting with me - just kidding. And I laughed because it was funny. We work in the same industry. Should I charge her with sexual assault?

Anyhow - it's complicated. A few steps forward a few steps back.
If all those sci-fi movies have thought me anything, that's a spacecraft masquerading as a rock. You can't fool all of us aliens!!!
For amazon you can use IAM roles tied to specific EC2 instances, then no credentials are ever stored, you simply make S3 API calls in your code and as long as the machine you're making them from has access to the bucket you can get to the data.
It's entirely avoidable. Just don't commit secrets to source control. Ever.
Explain how Citizens United vs FEC [1] represents "democracy working as intended". Yes, everyone can vote, but anyone can spend arbitrary amounts of money to prop up any candidate they like, or suppress any candidate they dislike. Thus, money translates pretty directly to advertising/information control, which in turn translates to power. Democracy has been broken for almost a decade now, and the only way it could be fixed is by a super-majority, so even a small minority interest (either out of self interest or manipulation) can enforce the status quo.

America is an oligarchy controlled by the wealthy, and those who desire to change it cannot hope to speak loud enough to be heard over the full torrent of "free speech" from financial interests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
So, to you, unwanted touching from a superior is not a problem?
"Privacy from who? Security from what?"

The marketing parasite. I know in the US it has taken over the host so I guess its up to Brussels.
> And that would be just fine under the new regulations.

But would it be good for business? A lot of what is already legal is not good for business, even though it might appear to be in the short term. Raising your prices by 100% is perfectly legal. Why aren't we trying to prevent that hypothetical?
Clearly I'm not in the target audience, had to close the page at the point he said text in waves made his content interesting. Any annoyed me sufficiently to type out a comment.

I'm all for succinct, but this is just putting a dress on vacuous unreadable nonsense.
Not to de-rail the thread, but man, FB's slide here has been fast. Just about 1 year ago we were talking about 'fake news' as a threat separate from FB. FB was still considered 'neutral' at worst, if not a 'good' thing.

Now? It seems like everyone hates them. Not that they are doing themselves favors at all, but them and Uber are downright villains now.
There is no social explanation though, because this phenomenon is true for all cultures and even all species. That's why they produce those articles again and again trying to find this elusive sociological explanation which doesn't exist and even if it did is not provable by standard scientific methods. Also, spare me the name calling.
If they are/were using GHE, I would expect (hope?) that they require some sort of VPN to get access to it, so my guess would be this was stored on github.com.
So again, you're of the opinion that unwanted physical contact from your superior is not a problem?
> Currently those governments and crimals almost always get away with it.

> but eventually we have to start putting pressure on the criminals

Hmm. On the one hand you are certainly right - but on the other hand I'm sick of the consequences of decades of US interventions in foreign countries. To make stuff worse, China, Russia and Eastern Europe is, basically, one block. If the US were to intervene in ANY of the countries, and if only with economic sanctions, I can easily see either a hot war or more stealthy "counter interventions" like the Russian support for Trump on the horizon.

Pressure and (military?) intervention only really works against tiny/poor-ish countries in Africa and Southern America. The rest can do whatever they want and are accountable to no one.
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> I don't know if they were using GHE. If they were, at the time it did not come with a good way for them to enforce 2FA for users.

Well, sort of - at the application level, that's true, but GHE is typically run behind a VPN. Certainly that should be the case for a company the size of Uber.

Even before GHE added 2FA, it shouldn't have been possible for a leaked set of login credentials to be used to access GHE, without some other sort of compromise (VPN cert, physical compromise of hardware, etc.).
I did a recent survey on twitter, and in a private facebook group I have full of cyberpunk people who do whitehat hacking.

I asked the simple question of "What % of Fortune 500 companies are paying hacker ransoms?"

The overwhelming majority thought that it was above 50%, which to me, was mind blowing.
This type of response is called Ignoratio elenchi[1], and is a classic technique of twitter trolls and t_d reddit trolls. It is typically used to defend the person of interest in a discussion by dredging the entirety of history for an example of an individual even tangentially related to a group that is in opposition to the person of interest, doing something "bad," with the "bad" being inflated using doublespeak or falsehoods if necessary.

So in this case, we were discussing how Republican voters are unafraid to vote for a pedophile because of his political affiliation, bearing in mind that this is the topical issue at hand because voters have been quoted saying they'd "rather vote for a pedophile than a democrat" (unprovided but assumed common knowledge in the context).

The poster then found a single state law (unrelated to federal election context) regarding disease transmission (unrelated to pedophilia or federal election context) being passed by state legislators of the democratic party (impossible moral comparison - passing a law about disease transmission versus being personally accused of pedophilia). The poster sums it up by declaring because of this one action of a state government thus equalizes all parties and is also applicable in this case merely because of the letter next to their names.

The end result is muddied waters, successful redirection, and further division. Are we talking about pedophilia and republican voter stubborness, or are we arguing the pros and cons of changing California state law re: disease control? God only knows.

I'm doing my best to define, recognize, and combat these kinds of troll techniques, and am open to feedback and suggestions. I get it, "never argue with a troll, they will drag you to their level and beat you with experience," and also, there are probably better things I can do with my time than argue on the internet, but I usually just do it in 5-10 minutes spurts while coding anyway, not much else I can do as a quick break.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi
IIRC you can't remove all payment methods from the app, so just deleting the app will leave your credit card information in their hands. Also all your previous ride data will still be on their servers. Both of these things could be lost in a data breach, and presumably account deletion deletes this data.
The number of bugs found reflects the number of users and the range of equipment they are using.

There are probably more bugs in most non-Microsoft applications, it's just that they don't have enough users to find them....
It appears to be a server framework?
Exactly. I believe that, for most places in the US, it's 1 or 2, though I don't actually have any concrete data.
The Code of Hammurabi: The Best Rule to Manage Risk
What does the () mean after uptime on htop
Belgium says loot boxes are gambling, wants them banned in Europe
Eh, kind of wishing this was over and we could move on. People voted for the current administration to do this and they should get what they want. It's also up to people when they sign a contract with an ISP that then might limit their access in some way. I'm not buying the "but monopoly!" argument especially since mobile carriers have great coverage for 95% of the people and are rolling out gigabit LTE. There's also the satellite internet option that I personally use and am happy with.

Here's my realistic prediction - ISPs will offer a subsidized internet plan a la Kindle with ads. Your regular internet plan will keep getting faster while staying at the same price.

Edit: I'm also tired of open internet crusaders that cannot stand any trace of an opposing opinion. If you disagree with anything I said, please comment and tell me why instead of just downvoting my comment into obscurity.
charlie rose was awful at interviewing people. he constantly interrupted interesting thoughts. he just had to get a word in at a set rate.

yet somehow they consistently booked very interesting guests. i'll give you that, but that's what the show had going for it, not the eponymous interviewer.
There's a critical difference between using your status as a public celebrity to pick up partners (which is fairly noncontroversial) and using your power as someone who can open and shut career doors to pressure people to accede to or keep quiet about your sexual advances.

Someone like Jagger or Weinstein may have both kinds of status, but there is still a difference.
Be positive. You learned an important lesson about using very recently released system software without having backups. You're a better engineer for it. Apply the lesson elsewhere and it's probably significantly more valuable than the lost data.

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want."
Man this was hard to read. How ironic.
There was a meme a while back that the USA should act upon Data Piracy the same way it acted upon High Seas Piracy at the turn of the 20th Century - acting unilaterally to clean up the high seas, making trade safer cheaper and faster for all nations.

A similar approach might be the best tack to take here

* Have a public register of breaches, with auditor sign off of the details of the event so we can all learn

* publically registering the breach gives some degree of protection from liability / punishment, but there is expectation of competence and good practise (very much like accounting)

* Work with EU over Data Protection definitions and approaches - if both US and EU are singing off same hymn sheet it will become globally de facto

* probably the biggest area to push in that is that personally identifiable information should belong to the person identified - and treated like an asset held in trust by those who hold it...

* beef up whistleblower laws and roles of researchers

* have the NSA buy back some of the world's trust by identifying and hunting down cyber criminals the same way actual violent terrorists are
A rich framework for building applications and services

hapi enables developers to focus on writing reusable application logic instead of spending time building infrastructure.

a magical piece of technology whose purpose we’ll never be able to decipher without an about page
> Two wrongs don't make a right, after all.

That saying... doesn't even apply here.

Being consistent in all you do is hard. Doing 5 "bad" things instead of 10 "bad" things is certainly better.
Maybe, but it would be absolute folly to allow neutrality at layer 3 to be lost just to prove a point.
Some good advice here with some somewhat controversial advice. The writer has a unique style to their narrative that may be off putting to some, but more generally he offers some insights about rules that will make you a better writer if followed.

Related somewhat, I was browsing the infamous “Haribo sugar free gummi bears” Amazon reviews today and I somewhat bemusedly thought that a lot of the pieces, while a bit crass, were actually pretty rich in great metaphor. If certain people spent as much effort crafting compelling narratives of their presentations, social media posts, and emails at work as they did finding creative ways to describe their bowel movements, one might discover that they can craft much more of a compelling narrative than they thought they were previously capable of.
I have intermittent tinnitus from djing but I barely notice it 90% of the time, even when it’s quiet. Every once in a while something will trigger it and it’ll be overwhelming and I’ll have to find something to listen to to drown it out.
"A rich framework for building applications and services"

"hapi enables developers to focus on writing reusable application logic instead of spending time building infrastructure."

It's right there on the home page....
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There is a great book that translates Boyd's philosophy to business: https://www.amazon.com/Certain-Win-Strategy-Applied-Business...

I generally love reading about how other fields do what we call Agile. It allows you to set the principles behind the implementations.
What is private about a company laptop? Your own laptop shouldn’t be backdoored, but I think it’s irrational to expect the a laptop owned by the company won’t be managed by that company.
She’d presumably be running as a moderate Republican primary challenger, so... probably not that.
> everyone, including Microsoft, had been pushing OS/2 up until that point.

True up to a point. From at least the early 90s, Microsoft was trying like crazy to get companies to write Windows software instead ;-)
> female former coworkers

I didn't hear anything about this through the grapevine, but then again Tools was probably 95% male at the time.

> I was in the Studio Tools group in the late 90s

Pour one out for menv! That was fun software to work on.
>the only thing they've got to hold onto now is EV, and that's of diminishing value now as well.

Value in terms of cost, or in terms of utility? And if the latter, care to explain why? I know almost nothing on the business/political side of certificates.
True, I just wanted to shed some light into the current state of affairs in here.