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> Ron Miller is enterprise reporter at TechCrunch. He has been a Freelance Technology Journalist since 1998

> Ron is currently corporate blogger for Intronis where he writes once weekly on issues related to the cloud, and a weekly feature called The Cloud 5 where he aggregates five links related to the cloud computing

Might we perhaps have expected a slightly better understanding of the nature of the cloud? Of 'free' services? Of standard backup practice? Of password managers? Of password security? (Guy apparently used passwords simple enough that he could carry them in his head). It probably makes me a smug, uncaring bunghole, but my compassion doesn't really kick into gear over this.

I have had the pleasure of working with the user database of a certain media company. Passwords in plaintext, of course. Plenty of journalist users. Half of whom had gmail adresses for usernames, and 90% of whom had passwords along the lines of [birthday], [name], or kitty74.

Yes, there were tech people too.
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E-beam litho is...uh...not cheap. The system in the shared fab I use (WNF) costs around $450/hr with various discounts applied. Also, you're not going to get much done in just an hour. Now, maskless laser lithography is reasonably cheap...

However, you can get reasonable quality masks for $150ish, and if you don't care about wafer yield, you can fit all of the layers on one mask. It's 1970s tech - 1:1 contact exposure, but you can hit a few microns.
OkCupid is arguably a product from the desktop-laptop era of the Internet. Its long, verbose profiles aren't as easy to read or write on a smartphone.

It is designed for an era when going on the Internet was an activity. You were in front of your computer or you were not, and you had screen names that were not your real name.

I'm betting all of that is alien to the current generation of single people, and for the young women who are the bread and butter of any dating site, seeing men with in-joke names is off-putting in ways it wasn't a decade ago.
original article: http://www.shaunutter.com/coding/random-google-maps/ loads only a couple now..

See these for snapshots:

* https://imgur.com/a/JVvzb

* https://twitter.com/googlemaps/status/637346435520827392
I think most people would be in shock to find out how much time is spent banging the proverbial head against the wall, without interruption to blow off steam, get a drink, go see a movie, etc. most people don't have the will power to maintain that focus for the months and years it takes to make those breakthroughs.
Headline sounds worse than it is(edit: by this I mean that it makes it sound like something Amazon the corporate entity did, not a random employee). Rogue Amazon employee used customer data to send him an ominous email advertising books about death. They've since been fired. Amazon offered the customer a 50 GBP gift card as a goodwill gesture.
A succint description.

I'd add that some people also have a hard time raising the 10-20% capital for downpayment even while they can afford the monthly mortgage payments, and so they are stuck in the renter's cycle.
Interesting that they’re calling out the call center operator as Indian. I may be biased because I’ve got a friends who work at the Amazon call centres, but this seems very culturally at odds with what an Indian would do. Death threats, if made, are usually heat of the moment and very passionate - this kind of subtle passive aggressiveness is something I’ve almost never seen here.
I once went with a group of 20 that was registered in advance and nobody from our group was called (but I think we were guaranteed seats and didn't have to wait in line). I think the 20+ group thing is an urban legend, the producers can really choose whoever they want. However the way the show is done, if a person has a big cheering section that is good for the show, so I imagine if you come in a group your chance of getting selected is a lot higher than if you come alone.

If memory serves correctly they interviewed us in groups of 5, and for the group I was in the whole "interview" lasted about 3 seconds. They lined us up, looked us over, then passed us on. Still quite a fun experience, and though I didn't get called I was still terrified the whole time I might get called so the adrenaline was running.
It's that same feeling you get when you go to the internet on a computer without adblock. How do people stand it?
Funny,

I also have an account where I can't remember the password and I've given google three factors of identification and they still won't verify my account to reset the password.

I have no PR friends that work with Google, so I'm shit out of luck.
This doesn't seem right: celery has 20g of fiber per 200 calories? Google estimates a 40g stalk of celery as having 6 calories, so we are talking about 1.333kg to get 20g of fiber. That means it is only 1.5% fiber by weight. Anyone think that is off?
Not in my experience. IMO folks there tend to be more culturally ok with passive aggressive behaviors
Version number 3 of this project with a new name and new organization of info based on a clearer conceptualization. I am fairly pleased with this take on it:

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10 years ago. The market is very saturated now and hard to survive, even with over a decade of experience.
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Please. Hand someone a bag of money and say, "this came from a slot machine". Done.
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Except that's not true anymore. The new tax plan will tax crypto-to-crypto transactions.
> mentions DI frameworks and more code

This seems to me like pushing the the dependency problem somewhere else rather than solving it.
I guess so? I believe the comment I was responding to claimed the positive/negative effect of antipyretic medications was nebulous; I at least found something that showed that was not the case
You know, I saw something like this in Boston just yesterday. They are tearing down a condemned parking garage near my office; I saw a room they had started demolishing that was packed chock-full with what looks like winter clothes. Like, they had been stuffed in it as insulation or something. Some had fallen out onto the rubble below. Very strange.
Very cool, thank you. I had no idea there was a project named that.
So many quotables in this thread. I thank experience and brown liquor.
Note that with pstate /proc/cpuinfo is not reflective (not suggested here but, in the past, the MHz used to change to reflect the scaling speed). You could also look at 'powertop'
There was a discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15853477
The game design. I meant user experience design constraints.

For example:

- Most people will lose after fewer than half the questions have been asked and have little reason to stick around.

- The chance of having a meaningful "win" is so low as to be nearly pointless. I won a round that, like, 100-ish people out of 50,000 won. That's too low. Games can also have multiple flavors of winning.

- Money is not a useful incentiviser. In fact, it can ruin the experience. Again, I won a round (along with about 100-ish people). Won about $15. Which after all of the hooting about $5k or $10k in prizes felt pathetic. (Also I can't withdraw until I get $20, which felt sort of insulting or borderline scammy and tainted the experience.) Good games create their value without extrinsic prizes -- or, at least, the extrinsic prizes have to be valuable enough to add significant drama to the game.

- Straight multiple-choice trivia is the unflavored ice cream of game design.

I could probably come up with a few more things, but it's late and I've got this third glass of half egg nog/half whiskey blend that I need to finish before bed. (Not a Christmas thing, just my year-round nighttime ritual.)
I asked Amazon Customer why their “2 day” shipping method is called such when it uses UPS Ground, a 4-7 day shipping service. The response was that they can only guarantee delivery times once the package leaves the Amazon warehouse.
One possibility would be to keep up and coming competitor currencies from gaining a foothold. The big ASIC mining farms bitcoin has won't work with some of the smaller currencies. The organizations running them have a lot of money, and don't necessarily want to see competition from less centralized mining. Destroying trust in a currency by executing a double spend attack on it could be one way to prevent that.
- chroot

- Zones (Solaris)

- Jails (FreeBSD)

- OpenVZ (Linux)

- LXC (Linux)

- VServer (Linux)

- lmctfy (Linux)

- WPARs (AIX)

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Are you in North Virginia by chance? Or is that SSID a common joke?
I was thinking the same thing. This is crazy old news. Even nmr quantum computing is miles beyond this.
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I usually go for long old shows I love and start them from S1E1
I keep seeing CSS Grid mentioned, now I have something to get up to speed on it, thanks!

I'm not really a fan of frontend but I did always like CSS (probably due to its declarative nature) more than JS.
What do you mean, in reference to layers on kubernetes, mesos, etc?
That was powerful to watch. I'm going to go out now.
- It is the complete solution: the image format is easy to understand and well agreed upon, they also offer an image registry (they host it or you can host yourself)

- Great UX: Docker Inc is probably one of the small companies that provide great developer experience. They have a natural skill for it. Another one would be HashiCorp tools. These companies understand developers well. When a tool naturally speak the same language as you, you fall in love with it.

- They have a great development story: lxc, jails, zones, ... you can't get them to work on Windows or Mac. But Docker for [Mac|Windows] offers a complete development story (you don't have to be on Linux to develop Linux containers).

- Solid image ecosystem: They paid external parties to keep the official images on Docker Hub (like mysql, nginx) solid i.e. up-to-date, free of critical security vulnerabilities. I don't know of any solid base-image ecosystems in other containerization ecosystems.

- Big companies got behind it: This is a bit backwards, but since docker got popular, companies like Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, Google started to contribute to it early on. This brought in a lot of mind share and publicity to project (and disagreements).

- They got a solid PR machine: They do great community management. Docker Captains program is a solid one. They had many DockerCons they're all pretty good (although one would argue past few ones got kind of corporate/enterprise-y maybe even boring). But they had a few good ones.

- The tech has merit: "docker run", "docker ps", "docker rm" the whole docker CLI is very intuitive overall. This is a bit of an supporting argument to UX, but it hides a lot of the details of how the docker-engine works.
In future, blockchain will do everything we do today, but less efficient and more expensive. And people will rejoice, and say "How did we ever do without this?"
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This appears to have been linked to Dr. Catherine Yan's faculty page. She is a faculty member for the math department at Texas A&M. I was fortunate to take Discrete Math from her and I learned a lot. I also worked with her husband, Hua, and learned a lot from him as well. Very nice people.

This may seem a bit off-topic, so I apologize if I'm stealing bits from anyone.

Reading the blackboard technique item gave me a good laugh. Dr. Yan is, on her tiptoes, maybe 5' tall. And that's generous. She used the whiteboard prolifically while she lectured, and the bottom half would be covered as she provided examples for her lesson.

The top half, the half she couldn't reach, was utterly spotless.
«too expensive to transact»

Proved wrong by 300k transactions per day willing to pay a median fee of $30+.

«too volatile to be a store of value»

Proved wrong on the long term; has shown to be a fantastic store of value over 7 years: http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/

«too technical»

Only gets easier over time.

«too fragile since it gets hacked »

Hardware wallets have pretty much solved hacking (plus can be backed up on paper in case they are lost, etc)
The term "merge node" appears at least five times in the page. Please fix it if that is not what you meant.

How does it "determine the winner"? This is the hard part of CRDTs, and you still have not provided any actual details.
That is a great idea. For many people that would be quicker and a nicer work flow.
So basically he’s saying that there is no legitimate way to apply a value to bitcoin so the price could be worth 100 or a million a bitcoin.

Which is correct since the value of it is mostly driven by speculation right now. There’s no telling how much it will swing.
Thanks. Will try to do so in the future. Forgot to this time.
What if you compare prescription painkillers to heroin and fentanyl? Apples to apples, as opposed to apples to weed?
Pretty much.

This is just political maneuvering.
Docker is easy enough that I can get the designers up and running with the app. Now my coworkers are excited for more projects to be set up this way.

Other container solutions don't allow me to work as effectively with the team.
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People harass trans people for having 'fake names' all the time. Trust me, it's not something I'm making up.
IMHO, It's only conflict free if you grow it yourself unfortunately. I don't smoke myself but I plan to summer in Colorado in 2018 and grow a crop to give to oncology patients and the like.
How likely is someone to do the $2, though? My guess is they would be really confused by the $1 bid then just bid as they would normally.
Yep, it's still like that now, too! I was on The Price is Right a few months ago, and I got called to "come on down" to be a contestant.

Before the show, producer Stan Blits greets every member of the audience while they're waiting in line. He chats with each audience member (for about 20 seconds) to gauge their liveliness & enthusiasm. As he's chatting with each person, he gives a subtle hand signal to an intern who is standing behind him with a notepad. For each audience member who he thinks might make a good contestant, the intern writes down the person's name on the notepad.

After the audience is seated, he continues to refine the list by standing on the side of the stage and observing the potential contestants in their seats. He checks to see which ones are still energetic and cheering while they're sitting in the audience too.
risky and illegal? I don't see them in jail.. or in any sort of legal trouble.

As of getting attention, I'm sure if they got all this attention and no legal recourse, I bet any businessman in town would love to do business with both of them!

You are poor.
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> because they want to pad their CV in order to get a job completely unrelated to free software.

I don't consider that to be a bad reason to be involved in open-source. People do similar things in other fields all the time. Serving as office-bearers in social clubs, on museum and non-profit boards, are all the currency of networking and business contacts. Why such a stigma around doing open-source to advance your career?
What, "thanks for playing"? It's a sparkling bright opportunity for that joke, not a put-down.
Chargeback plus time machine you mean?
Man, that's scary! My email account is so central to everything.... better make some changes
Am i experiencing a Mandela Effect? I thought it was horse blinders.
Pretty much. And there are some pretty important apps built with react.

I think this is more intended to remove the plethora of cookie cutter apps.
Been using pgcli for a while. Fantastic tool. Thanks for the numerous hours working on this!
The best way to guarantee that an agency or business won’t have your ideas or opinions affecting it is to leave.

I know being disheartened is difficult but you don’t enact change by going home with your ball everytime you hit a bump.
> "So your explanation for his reasons for putting in place the 1 MB limit are not consistent"

Actually the reason I stated is consistent with what satoshi said:

"In 2010, a block size limit of 1 MB was introduced into Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto. He added it hidden in two commits[1] in secret, when challenged publicly he said it is a safety measure to prevent miners from creating large spam blocks." [1]

[1] top of: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy
It's my belief that if you enable 2FA it's a lot harder to be casually dissociated from your account. This is because you have to do more work to establish a chain of authority over the account to enable it, and because you precreate account recovery tokens you can save offline.
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The question I am stuck with. How do you get a valuation that means anything. Even with the 100,000 gold bitcoins those guys premined. They are “worth 27 mil” only if you assume they can find enough suckers willing to trade at the current price and that the price wouldn’t collapse upon the sale of that many tokens.
One way I've found to isolate this is to turn off turbo boost and underclock the cpu, while making sure the avx offset is set to 100%. While you would never want to run a production system like this, it does help to eliminate any issues with cpu throttling. If the avx-512 version of the program still runs slower then something else is interfering besides cpu throttling.
Since OKCupid isn’t going to be asking people for their drivers license or birth certificate anytime soon to validate the names. All this means is that instead of hotstud799898. You can be Hughe G Dickerson.

Basically an easier to read name.
It was at $10.5K this morning. It bounced back to after yesterday's global dip. Don't think it's dipping to $8K.
But a Google account is not just email. It's also drive, calendar, and so on. There's a lot of time spent becoming familiar with those services, and to up and switch that entire suite would take a massive amount of relearning. Under the same circumstances as the author, I think I'd be back to Google. Remember, other services have their own issues as well.
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An actual DC motor uses a commutator and brushes, which is a serious maintenance and safety issue. The motors can have permanent magnets or field windings. A common old school speed control for electric golf carts was to control the current in the field windings via a variable or tapped resistor

Thing with multiphase AC motors is there are a number of ways to skin the cat. They each have slight advantages and disadvantages. I think an AC induction motor is generally efficient over a wide range and has a higher output per pound then a permanent magnet brushless DC motor.

Far as I know there isn't much difference in power inverter. Note high voltage power inverters are hella efficient because your losses are due to a fixed voltage drop through the power transistors X current. For a high voltage inverter the current is low, voltage high[1]. Means the percent loss is low[2].

[1] Opposite is low voltage switching power supplies where the output voltage is low and currents are high. You see people use active diodes to avoid voltage drops despite the expense. Even then 90-95% efficiency is common.

[2] Imagine a 75kw inverter running at 300VDC. 75kw/300 = 250 amps. If the voltage drop in the power transistors is 6 volts then the power loss is, 6V X 250A = 1500W. 1.5kw/75kw = 0.02. So the inverter is 98% efficient.
It's because that's the intersection of value that an employer is willing to pay for and people are willing to work for. If everyone was paid exactly the same, then there probably wouldn't be any doctors because they'd never break even on their medical school payments, etc. Higher wages is society/capitalism's way of incentivizing more people to go into that area. there's greater need there. By paying more, more people are willing to join that occupation.

It seems weird to take the fruits of someone's labor. I mean, if you can make your bed twice as fast as I can, I don't demand that you come over and make 1/3 of my bed.

And if you grow your crops, but do it much better, yielding more fruit, it would be wrong of me to take a 1/3 of your crops.
Unfortunately, it appears not. https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/working-with-connect/#...

I will clarify in the README.
That sounds incredibly frightening to me
Old trick among big-money managers ... the other fun piece about giving yourself a questionably-recourse (or questionably-to-ever-actually-be-collected) loan is that it's not taxable until it's forgiven. But it's still plenty spendable before that!
that landing page is pretty sparse on information, and the only next page is a sign up page. Spend the holidays organising your landing page(s)
So someone sends book recommendations and now it's considered death threats.

That's just sad.
Good time to buy if it drops to that price. EOY 2018 Bitcoin could be worth 10x that.
There's approximately one per floor, and they often sit idle.
I think they're more calling out the operator as Indian as saying "he's 3k miles away, you were always safe."

That being said, like another commentator, many Asian cultures are very attuned to passive aggressive threats and use those as ways to threaten other people.

EDIT: Also, Amazon is not saying he's an Indian. They just said the employee was in India. I too was guilty, but inferring ethnicity from no facts at all does not help matters.
This is great to hear! Also, the video linked in the article [1] provided a nice overview of the work that will be supported by the grant.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowHwlpGb34
What's surprising about that? It's the easiest way to deal with a system where you need to log in occasionally.
Why don't they just offer some kind of emergency support with a hefty pricetag for these cases?
Eg pay 200$ to have an actual human verify your identity? I don't think that would cost them anything and most people in this situation would likely pay any price to regain access..
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I've worked with a lot of indian guys in IT. Mostly they are good dudes, but there are definitely assholes too.
Headline sounds worse than it is?! I would love to have you as a customer! :)
Conflict-free?

I never understood that. Is Sugar considered conflict-free?
Set up an ETH node. Maybe write a smart contract. Research mining altcoins, see if it would be profitable.
They should have really done it by fiber per weight. It would hard for anyone to eat >1kg of celery. Practically speaking, I hink the berries are the best in this regard.
My assumption is that most recreational drug users are choosing caffeine, alcohol, marijuana, perecription painkillers, perscription amphetamines, probably in that order.

I know heroin use exists, but I've never personally met a regular heroin user in my life. So my comparison is the regulated vs unregulated market broadly speaking and representative of what's commonly being consumed.

If you watched the Kurz Gesagt video, there is a point to be made that extreme disassociative addiction is rooted in unhappy life circumstance, not in the drugs themselves.

Personally I could be in favor of some regulations around heroin, but the ones we have now create more problems than they solve.
I guess what I meant was that the headline makes it sound like this was something that Amazon the corporate entity did, not a random employee. It could have happened at any company that stores personal customer data.