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No, he’s not. I like him, but there are in fact more “tech savvy” Congress critters.

Four members of the House have computer science degrees (at least they were House members back in 2016):

Democrat Ted Lieu of California and Republicans Will Hurd of Texas; Bill Johnson of Ohio; and Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
> just as it can be a vicious cycle downwards, it can also be a virtuous cycle upwards.

Hrm. I see how the two are _options_, but they aren't in equal proportion.

Did Wells Fargo take the fees earned from the millions of accounts they created during their sales-quota scandal and use it to subsidize other poor account holders? More likely than not, they simply used it to pay into their capital reserves and redistribute to shareholders.

I have the strong suspicion that there are mental blocks that prevent people from addressing their low balance (in addition to not being flush with cash). My father kept getting a very noticeable "overdraft fee" postcard in the mail. I offered to help him keep a floating balance just to keep him from paying the $25-50 per overdraft. He declined and continued to get a few per month. It was simply mentally taxing for him to move his money from one checking account to another in time for his checks and other payments to clear.

I hope all of the {Facebook, Twitter, *gram, etc.} A/B testing programmers retire from "growth hacking" social media websites and start putting those psychology-manipulating skills to non-profits that help people train themselves to lose less money. I suspect one of the reasons many people are poor is because they simply haven't learned to "life hack" the small things that prevent you from losing money (as opposed to making more).
As a layman, I’ve always wondered about something but I’m not sure how exactly to ask/frame the question:

How did biological “software” “evolve?”

As in, the basic features that are common to many macroscopic lifeforms, like knowing one’s position within 3D space, as well as the related-but-distinct sense of proprioception [0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
Hawaii "button pusher" refusing to cooperate with FCC, internal investigators
A collectivist society doesn't necessarily mean a supportive community. Part of being part of a collective means trying not to cause problems for the whole, even if it means some self-sacrifice on your part.

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. Burdens also get left behind.
Hdl-js: Hardware description language (HDL) parser, and Hardware simulator
If only we had modern phone infrastructure that could actually transfer useful info to the appropriate person... Instead we have terrible phone support that requires me to repeat the same info 3 times.

That info should be unlocked the millisecond I am connected with a rep . It's not a moonshot
I agree with you. I worked at a BlueCross and when debugging front-end apps, and I'd often dig through the database to check to see what is in each table and what could be throwing an error. I'd often bright up a debugging tool called TeaLeaf that let me watch the entire web session (this was back in 2009; so the full DOM tracking we complain about now has been available for quite some time).

Technically, we couldn't see any Group44 information (BlueCross employees) without special permissions. But we had to build that logic into all the debugging tools, and if I wanted to, I could query the database directly.

We were all covered by HIPPA, so we could face serious fines over leaked personal medical information. And honestly, the security and audit team were actually pretty good; often identifying Group44 issues and they'd have SSH and su log scanners to constantly check for unauthorized access on servers.

It's all about trade-offs. Lyft is still a growing company and they probably just need to implement some more automated auditing. And to be fair, these aren't medical records. It's going to become an issue if a customer service rep gives anything to the police without a warrant though.
He says that an industry representative came in after months of work and was allowed to rewrite stuff to benefit the telecom industry. The model state rules let ISPs sue cities that set up their own broadband network.

Staying could be construed as consent. This is the Mayor of San Jose, California, he wants it very clear that he's not on board.
Exactly, it could have gone the other way and the value could’ve crashed. As long as you got a fair price you should never look back at what could’ve been.

Back in the dot com days I had a friend who sold his options early. He made enough to pay off his house cash. The price kept going up and he could’ve been a millionaire. But then as we all know the bottom fell out and his company crashed hard, almost overnight. He was happy he sold out. Had he waited he may have gotten nothing. He may not have cashed out st the peak but he definitely got a good deal for his options. And every time some tells him he should’ve waited to get millions he tried to remind them he probably wouldn’t gotten zero if he waited. Most people still don’t get that, they just focus on what the highest value could’ve been, even if that’s the least likely price he would’ve gotten in reality.
Is this a homework assignment?
in college my buddy made a defer function in C that is a little simpler (but only works with clang)

https://github.com/asubiotto/cdefer/blob/master/defer.h
Storing and retrieving data has never been all that hard. The challenge is having user-interactive performance on complex queries against the data. Comparing and correlating and deriving and integrating and ... (lots of other analysis). For many "scaled" systems, 100M records/minute isn't uncommon... and while that's very likely possible with your design the question of economic feasibility enters. Solving these problems at scale with good economics is the playground of TSDB vendors today.
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Hi,
would like to get some feedback on a new Fitness site I've created (first one). I would like input on the overall experience and look of the website.

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Thanking you kindly - in advance

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> And bigger purchases (>$100) are planned so they can be actually paid for.

Totally, like when you blow a tire on the freeway? Or get into medical trouble, without sufficient insurance?

It's easy to fall down the hole without even realizing it.
The anti-pattern to avoid here is assuming code written by senior engineers is inherently "better" in some way than that by a junior. Yes, it typically is, but the code should speak for itself. Ad hominem assumptions add little value.

Similar to blind testing in musical auditions.
http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impact...
I had a minor epiphany a few months ago where I realized the linker can be seen as sort of doing dependency injection for a bunch of object files. In theory, you could have a program that depends on some set of symbols, two object files that each include the symbols, and a linker script that at load time checks some configuration parameter before determining which subsystem to link with. You could even get really fancy and dynamically generate another object file with those symbols that acts as a proxy. And from there you could basically implement Spring for C, which obviously is what everyone wants to do ;)
Legumes are automatically fermented by the bacteria in your gut, that's why they make you gassy. There's a ton of science on short chain fatty production by gut biota having beneficial health effects. I'd go so far as to say high fermentable fiber intake is the most important aspect of a healthy diet.

Greek yogurt is marginally better than non-strained yogurt, but you can make regular yogurt at home for a few dollars a gallon while greek yogurt is pricey.

You demonize sugar, but it is only a problem for sedentary people who overeat. The problem is that monosaccharides are reactive molecules, and they can participate in harmful chemical reactions if floating free in the blood. If (liver) glycogen is depleted then those monosaccharides are polymerized into glycogen before they can enter circulation, and they are essentially harmless. If you're active don't eat too much moderate amounts of sugar are fine.

As for your "no" comment regarding my training advice, I'm 220lbs and ripped at 6ft. tall. I've deadlifted 600lbs for reps at nearly 40 years old. All of this without drugs. What have you accomplished?
The trouble is, if you're at this level of engineering, you're probably going to be writing the isolation layer. So you already have access to the raw data and you're just going to either make things harder for yourself or only be designing for downstream security.

You can and should restrict customer service reps (only allow them to access routes/users/drivers who they have active tickets on), but at some point you're going to need to trust your developers since they can usually just query the database directly.
Yeah. https://github.com/John-K/qxlGraphics was last updated 3 years ago :(
This is a common misconception. Companies often raise capital by selling more stock, and by buying stock you increase the amount they are able to charge.
at least bitcoin has some utility (you can buy drugs with it) over the shitcoins
Vulnerable industrial controls directly connected to Internet? Why not?
Yea, you could possibly keep everything under control troll. Until you get a single unexpected expense like a major car repair, and then you are stuck in a vicious cycle of trying to keep up.with overdraft payments and interest payments.

If you lived uner 1000 a month and had to problems, then all evidence points to your situation being the outlier
Try IRONdb... Relatively fast restarts, linear cluster scalability and no downtime when a single node is malfunctioning.
It's a big change - but neither fundamental or a paradigm shift.

I replace one set of complimented parts from specialized suppliers, with another set, we've had flat panned cars before, both rear engined, and front wheel drive, both the Corvair and the Beetle had a frunk, and the Prius has a big heavy battery under the floor, changing the center or gravity.

I'm not downplaying the significance of the technology, but its a evolutionary development, of early electric cars, rather than a sea change.
There are CMOS sensors with in-array edge detection. More flexibly, all optical mice have integrated sensors that do motion processing in the same package if not the same die.
good call. unsay those rocket words. on the up side his roof tile PV thing is a clean slate (hah) which has a huge market out there, irrespective of the supply chain dynamic questions behind EV. And his batteries are going gangbusters attached to solar and wind farms so there are sound, large business models behind tesla. But.. making them add up to the same net worth as GM which has factories and dealerships and side deals in ship engines, energy, military, worldwide... I am still adrift. Tesla is talking about gigafactory sites outside of the USA. GM owns factory sites worldwide.
If you have a Facebook account, you can use [1].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/search/str/The+Programmer+at+the+Ce...
At least that is what they tell everyone.
The problem is, the poor live at close to $0. If unexpected circumstances happen (and they will), they are at risk of going negative, at which point a bunch of fees and expenses kick in. If a "wealthy" person has unexpected expanses, they go to slightly less positive then they planned, but nothing actually happens as a result.

Not to mention all the normal ways being poor is expensive (eg. you cannot afford to buy the long-term cheap, bulk/durable items, so you buy the more long-term expansive items because they are cheaper upfront).

For what it is worth, my only experience with the issues you list also arose from having too much money. I had split money across multiple accounts, and tried to transfer money into account A in order to fund a large payment from account A. Overdraft, because I did not wait for the transfer to clear.
I wouldn't want a 3 because it isn't a hatchback. Hatchbacks are just so wonderful for transporting large items and even for sleeping the occasional night!
Except putting barriers can cause even worse problems. If I can’t look up someone’s allergies because the system doesn’t think I should, fuck them right?
I have my own channel on YouTube for programming videos but I have to give credit to MPJ for being the excellent inspiration for me to start posting.
His videos are both informative and entertaining.
Gerrymander: Rig the Election
Requirements for the Successor to the X11 Protocol – “X12”
Sometimes it can just be that you’re tired and want to try something else.

Think of a job, Say after 10-20 years of very hard work. You probably either want a promotion or have changed companies. Just done something different. Sometimes for an owner the only way to do something different is to sell.

Another common reason is to get some skin out of the game. As an analogy do you invest all your stocks into one company? As an owner often all your finances are directly tied to the company’s success. It can be wise to diversify from just your company.

There are a number of reasons but these are just two common ones unrelated to how the company is doing, good or bad.
You're presuming critics of these rights have long ago won any moral and legal battle over the righteousness of thesr rights in absolute terms.

However, this is not true.
To give an example， even as we enter an age of extreme political correctness and government authority--interepreted as intended to protect people from mean words--you can still find in mainstream media people arguing for the opposite.

Unfortunately, the sad reality of our civilization is that free speech's importance is only apparent when a cultural adversary infringes on it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/16/free-s...

In other words, unbreakable crypto may be a worthy goal to aim for, even if we know just as with other human rights that there will be slip ups and set backs.

I wouldn't say that the right to avoid cruel and unusual punishment be thrown out just because the military set up Guantanamo and other black sites around the world. It means we need to fight even harder, not give up on our ideals.
Thanks so much for the mention!
- Steve Griffith
Sounds like a business opportunity.

While unlikely to be profitable. I'm sure you could get some donations to offer better financial services to the bottom percentages.
Doomsday Clock Is Set at 2 Minutes to Midnight, Closest Since 1950s
The Force is strong with this Malaysianised ‘Star Wars’ tribute
I know right? I can't believe this article was approved with that analogy.
PDF Incremental Updates Feature and PDF Text Extraction Error Reporting Using Java
It's really difficult to audit all this stuff. I was at a health insurance company where someone used su to go to a different user on a box they had root on and it did get picked up by the security team, but only a few weeks after it happened.

I was offered a security job at one shop and turned it down, keeping my development role. They had 3 security people for the company (total IT size was 500) and it involved a ton of log parsing, DDoS work, and they were starting to develop an internal white listing application tool. They wanted to bring me on because the desperately needed a developer to add some automation parsing the important from the chaff. (A younger me would have probably done this back when I wanted to be a Pen-tester. I only got interviewed/offered the position because I made the mistake about talking about going to Defcon on a company Slack channel and the security guy insisted I interview).
Time is a finite resource. At some point it's no longer worth the opportunity cost to stay in for a minimal change in the outcome. I'm sure a mayor has more important things to do.

You're also neglecting the possibility that publicly quitting and explaining why will have a bigger effect than staying in and trying to influence a rigged outcome.
Mazda Skyactiv-X compression ignition engine technology explained
I'd be interested in what the breakdown in costs is. Searching a little, it looks like the higher estimates may be based on dividing the total costs keeping the lights on in the bank by the number of checking accounts: https://sandbox.bankrate.com/financing/banking/what-do-you-r...

I'd guess that the costs of administering accounts probably scales with account activity. I'd also assume that to some extent, increased account activity correlates with increased fees. Do you have any more details on the breakdown of costs? While they might not be able to target just customers they want to keep, I have trouble believing that they are continuing to offer services that lose them money.
Which gave the biggest performance boost? I’d wager #3. 20 seconds sounds pretty absurd unless you’re being really inefficient on your server or are moving around lots of data.
I am not sure it completely accurate to compare Tesla with GM or Ford. Tesla is not a car company (they removed the word "Motors" from the original "Tesla Motors", like Apple removed "Computers" earlier). They do sell some vehicles (electric ones), but they also sell batteries, and solar panels. And they sell those just to show what their main product can do. Tesla main product is the Gigafactory. The factory is the product. Tesla is in the business of building factories, new generation of factories.
Now, is it business worth ~$56B ? And what could it be worth in one year, 5 or 10 years ?
From implementation standpoint it wouldn’t be ideal to expose the age of the candidates as there are anti discrimination laws.

I am wondering what other criteria could hint to to you that someone is a match?

Maybe experience? Measured in certain ways?
How does it make sense that Tesla could be worth several Fords, or General Motors in ten years?

The automotive market is stable, something on the order of 80 million cars a year, and I don't see Tesla vanquishing one of the incumbents either.

I guess my argument is that an Electric Car is not a whole new category of vehicle (like a flying autonomous car might), anymore than diesel cars are looked as a separate market than gasoline ones. Whereas Google created an entirely new category of advertising, that didn't even really exist before they arrived and the market grew by two or three orders of magnitude.
The greater point here is that if you are poor you are one unexpected expense away from financial and/or personal ruin. The kinds of compromises this entails are either basic necessities or simple luxuries (so perhaps a necessity for one's mental health). They are compromises that accrue material, physiological, or psychological debt and snowball into further compromises. It's the "poverty trap", and the best case for many people is just a constant state of maintenance as they don't have the surplus capital, time, or mental energy to invest in a better future. You were able to build on your limited resources and improve your life, but hopefully you can appreciate that there are many others who don't realistically have this opportunity.
Where I work, "working from home" is code for "checking email a few times during the day so it appears I'm at least somewhat engaged, while really doing very little at all yet not using a PTO day."

Too hard to get anything done when others you need to collaborate with are not there.
Not really. Uber created the Hell Map, Greyball, and had the two harassment memos. This just seems to be a failure to actively monitor their audits and do permissions correctly .. something that Uber got hit with and fixed too.

Lyft just needs to deal with this issue now that it's public, not it's not specific to Lyft. It's really difficult to effectively scan for abuse, even when you audit everything. I've seen similar issues at many companies.

This Lyft situation might be more oversight where Uber seems to be more malice.
>"Have you tried it?"

Yes I've stayed at people's houses whom I didn't know very well. I don't think paying for the experience would have made me feel any more "at home."

>"When you're coming back to a hotel after a dinner or a night drinking it just doesn't have this feeling."

Exactly but it has the feeling of "wow someone came in and cleaned, there's fresh towels, toiletries, water and the bed is made." And I don't have worry about playing games with reviewing people or being reviewed.

Lots of people just go home when they want to feel at home.
That would be a more compelling argument if US-defined crypto --- for better and often much worse --- didn't practically define commercial cryptography.
"Okay, stay on the line. My manager went to the bathroom 15 minutes ago, he should be back any minute, and then we can proceed with..."

After-the-fact accounting for all 'sensitive' actions would probably be more practical for most business needs.

I'd put a wizard in front of the thing that grants the access token to figure out the purpose and scope of the token needed.

Information request: "Rider History"

User: current caller

Scope: Between 9 AM and 11AM today

Reason: Lost an item this morning, need to lookup driver

If you were fancy you might even be able to convert the wizard's contained information into a request against the backend. Select trip.driver, trip.time from trips where user_id={caller_user_id} and time={9:00-11:00 today}
The necessary result is that you are no longer judged on your crimes, but on your genes.

Why ? Because crimes aren't committed by all groups equally ... so you wouldn't expect the risk to be equal.

Even for completely practical reasons there are differences. For obvious reasons a 1.4 meter individual is limited risk for armed robbery, to give an extreme example. But there's hundreds to thousands of things like that, that all randomly affect the distribution. The result is that when all put together, things are seriously out of whack.

Also I fear the reverse effect. Communities work, to some extent, because of lack of crime. Doing this will necessarily make those neighborhoods with the "victim" genes more violent, more criminal. The result will be improvement of those neighborhoods ? I have to say, I'm VERY skeptical.
Any investigator is going to be on a headhunt.

The smart move is to stfu, call your union representative, and don’t talk to the police until your lawyer makes the appropriate arrangements.
The same could be said about operating systems and many other complex software projects. Advanced video and picture creation and manipulation, for example, and yet we have Kdenlive and GIMP. And we also have Debian and GCC and then some. None of them decided to take the route Mozilla has taken to fuel financial needs.

Also, I advocate for not supporting "the web" on purpose. I want to easily share and access information, not "have experiences" in my browser. That makes the goal relatively easy to achieve.
I signed up for stellar when it was first announced and have about $1000 of stellar. Despite a whole bunch of emails, I'm still unable to access my account.

Anyone know who else I could contact?
What do you use as the API Proxy?
There are two main schools for investing/stock trading. "Value investing" which is trying to buy company stocks that are undervalued and generally seeks to hold these stocks for a long time, and "technical analysis" which is focused more on predicting future stock price moves based on reading charts and is focused more on short time frame. Value investing is a more well-respected style but people have made enormous amounts of money from both. If you're interested in value investing I would just read everything warren buffett and charlie munger have ever created. For technical analysis I would just google it and explore and watch out for BS. Investopedia is a great beginner's resource for both.