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I must be getting old.

Kids, many years ago, even before jQuery, software would come with documentation that you could read and it would tell you how to use it effectively.

I know, crazy right? But to this day some of that old software, of which PostgreSQL is an example, still has this documentation that you can read, even before you use the software in a production system.

Yeah, yeah, I know Agile and Docker solved the problem of ever having to document anything, but this is the way things used to be and a few of us are stuck in our ways and still like it.
> Hearsay, from a convicted liar, retold by a biased individual with no apparent proof other than his own word.

This could also be posed as:

> statement from at-the-time President's chief domestic advisor to a journalist during an interview, in 1994

But yeah, he's dead, and the fact that the reporter took so long to make it public makes it suspicious and doubtable.

Your criticism is fair, but surely you can think of a few other examples if you dislike this one? MLK wiretapping, McCarthyism, etc?

If not, and you are up for a read, check out this 69 page document from the ACLU:

https://www.aclu.org/other/unleashed-and-unaccountable-fbis-...
Don't public places like shops have to have a sign saying there's CCTV? So customers know they're watched just like in the street.
Like anything that reaches popular adoption, the ideologues are always an extreme minority. The majority are always people who are in it for themselves, not out of some philosophical purpose. So when it hits the fan, the HODL types are not going to be able to hodl back the inevitable.

It's something I've considered in terms of all economic and political movements. If your movement requires ideological cohesiveness to survive, that's not going to be enough. There has to be an advantage to participation that goes beyond philosophical agreements and extends deeply into the material world. If that material benefit fails to (ahem) materialize, then ideology gives way to practicality.
I've only used Waze Carpool as a rider and mostly on 60 min+ long trips, but most of the drivers I had were just tired of the long commute and looking for someone to entertain them. They were tired of audiobooks and podcasts.

Even though I was going ~20 miles in the carpool lane most of the time, the 10 minutes they saved would be wiped out by the 15-20 minutes they had to go out of their way to pick me up and drop me off. Everyone told me I was the only one going that far, most of the carpools they could only use the carpool lane for 3-4 miles which didn't save any time.

Other than that, I had two drivers who wanted to do their part to save the earth by carpooling which were fine. I also had two drivers who were nice but just really wanted the gas money. Those drivers both had really old cars that were dirty with trash and seemed poorly maintained. While they were ok drivers, I really did question if the tires were bald or what would happen if we were in an accident.
Yeah, the linker offers a lot of magic waiting to be discovered.

A primary problem with linker magic is that it is usually very non-portable. Hacks you do with macros may be ugly but at least they work everywhere, unless you used a non-standard behavior.

Linker tricks tend to be platform specific, and even more so that other tricks (eg POSIX platforms share a lot of common behavior, but still tend to have quite different linkers).
Internet Freedoms in Palestine: Mapping of Digital Rights Violations and Threats [pdf]
Knife-threatening app banned by Google
Is this with Office 2016? Almost sounds like the 2011 version. I'd say it's a resource hog but it doesn't seem particularly buggy.
We tore our house apart somewhat about eight years ago and had all the pipe work replaced, amongst other things. We also (I did this bit because builder/plumbers generally take the path of least resistance) removed the last two lots of re-plumbing. The house was built in the '20s which is pretty modern hereabouts.

Brass is unlikely, copper is the material. The oldest pipe work I found was steel in our place - it was hard and weighed a fair bit. Copper is maleable, easy to bend and braze joints on to. It does corrode eventually but I think the thin layer of copper oxide that forms then seals in the pure copper, protecting it. The longevity of copper can be seen in the green roofs of some churches which must have looked absolutely stunning before oxidizing.
When the clerk at 7-11 is telling me to buy bitcoin it seems all too familiar...

I told him to cash out asap, hopefully he does. I know he won't.
You mentioned it: The price is completely disconnected form the utility gained from them. With penny stocks you actually had a share in the company. And with that comes rights. The tokens deployed grant none of these rights. So no, they are not the penny stocks of our time, they are worse.
There's a bit of pragmatism involved in the level of control.

If you add too much friction to the process of accessing information, then it can actually impede on actually handling user support. For example, having access to someone's ride history when trying to resolve a dispute seems relatively normal.

Of course in Lyfts case it seems pretty clear that there can be more programatic locks. And auditable logs are able very good idea in general.

But programatic locks are tricky. How do you transform and e-mail from a user confirming permission to history into an unlock code?
The other article they linked to is fascinating:

> UBI Blockchain didn’t do an IPO. Instead, in October 2016, it acquired a publicly traded shell company registered in Las Vegas, called “JA Energy.” It then changed the name and ticker symbol to what they’re now.

> Over the six trading days starting on December 11, 2017, its shares soared over 1,100%, from $7.20 to $87 on December 18, as the word “blockchain” in its name and sufficient hype and speculator-idiocy took hold. By December 21, shares had plunged 67% to $29. They closed on Wednesday at $38.50. At this price, it still has a ludicrous market cap of $3.64 billion.

https://wolfstreet.com/2017/12/28/im-in-awe-of-how-far-the-s...

SEC froze their stock temporarily and it's down to $9 now.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=OTCMKTS:UBIA&tbm=fin&gws_rd=s...

^ Viewing their stock price graph by "1 year" is quite interesting.

Oh and the CEO + 5 other individuals were trying to sell a ton of stock without investing anything back into the company, not sure if they managed to or not...
Note that this does not work if you make use of __COUNTER__ anywhere else in the file (directly or indirectly).
You can save a copy of your old boot drive at least, and boot from that to access your projects. FWIW keeping an old machine around is not that outlandish of an idea.

A computer is a universal machine, and it comes with trade offs. If you want something that doesn’t change, don’t change it.
Adventures? Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
Dang chao monkeys again.
Not sure why Kotlin would be picking this fight - Python and to some extent R already dominate in data science with a little bit of Scala added in Spark - where does author see an opening for Kotlin? For high performance libraries nobody would pick Python or any JVM-based language either, and that's what most of the wrappers end up calling anyway (C++, CUDA, Fortran, OpenCL).
>Why can’t they break encryption in a good way while they’re at it?

Thoughts like these always remind me of this[0]:

>On two occasions I have been asked,'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

[0] I know that wasn't a direct quote from Mr. Wray, but it is in keeping with his thoughts.
Better than 50% discounts for reasonable FPGA volume, true. Still expensive when compared to a V100.

Microsoft is seeing ~90Tops for their MS-FP8 datatypes: https://www.top500.org/news/microsoft-takes-fpga-powered-dee...

It is certainly hard to compete against an NVidia V100 with its tensor ops.

It can get interesting though. There are quite a few graphs that tensorflow cannot place on a GPU, especially with RNNs. An FPGA does give you more flexibility in architecture which was, and would remain one of the motivations for MS to choose them as a platform.
This seemed pretty harmless. I mean, no curse words, nothing sexual, just talk of a knife. I mean bugs bunny cartoons have worse.
I don't know what makes mysql more "bog standard" than postgres, but pg_dumpall takes `-F format`, one of which is standard SQL statements.

But that's not what they're dealing with. They're dealing with CSV, presumably from some external source. It'd also be faster if they were dealing with pre-formed database files that they could just rsync. But they're not.
Very positive. Works great and fast. Very simple to configure, like Nginx. Nginx also needs a paid license for server push, while H20 does it with a free license.
Instead of taking that quote out of context, here's the rest.

"Our new agreements with the song owners now enable CCLI to make its resources available to churches in every country. We are currently developing our website to accommodate servicing churches everywhere. And, we anticipate having CCLI Service Centers in India and China over the next several years."

What it means is "in every country [where CCLI operates]".

There is no CCLI in India or China yet, and no plans for Taiwan (Taiwan is not China! But that's another debate.)
Net neutrality just kicked in yo
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> I can think of more than one well-regarded unicorn where everyone still has access to basically everything

Hard to be sure, but GitHub support signed up for a friends-only beta of one of my products before I had told anyone outside my immediate circle about it.
Free Palestine
That has nothing to do with what I quoted from the article. It would benefit you to suppress your religious fervor for a few minutes and examine the facts for yourself.
gasp! humans??!
AI-Powered Drone Mimics Cars and Bikes to Navigate Through City Streets
No, not really. If someone goes out for drinks, then dinner, then a show and the night is going really well maybe the parents want to call and check in. They want to see how the nights going for the babysitter and kid. Are the kids asleep? Is the babysitter content to make some more money for a few extra hours? I think that's all entirely reasonable. It really has little to do with the matter at hand but having to wait in a line to submit or retrieve your phone, be sequestered to a penned in area to use your phone, and then to have to wait in line again to put your phone back into that "prison" system again seems like overkill. I know that's the only way we've been able to identify that works but I don't think there is any surefire method that will not only please the artists / performers and keep the viewers / fans / people in attendance happy.
You made this? Awesome I ran into it a while back and thought it was really interesting. Does this mean you're tapped into the synthetic biology networks? Would love to chat about that, as its something I want to get into more due to my biology + programming background.
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Uh, no. If anything, they are switching more workloads to Flatbuffers. Google does a lot of fleet-wide profiling and the encoding and decoding of protocol buffers, which were meant to be efficient, is NOT lost in the noise. Groups like the toolchain teams have a good idea of how many orders of magnitudes in cores are spent doing just that every second. Something like JSON would require probably tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in additional machines for no gain (slightly educated, but still wild guess).
That might be how we deal with children who can't handle responsibility, but the absence of technical controls for every nuance of life is why ethics and code of law exists for adults.

Access controls are not a substitute for maturity.
Website for the project [1] with links to the code on github and the collision dataset.

[1] http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/dronet.html
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Because every straightforward way of running an external command on Unix involves fork(). So someone wrote that API not thinking much of it.

Then shock horror they realize running a throwaway command is fork()ing the main process. But now everyone is too angsty to change it because someone out there might rely on the environment copy functionality, even when they shouldn't.
There was one where you signed up with Facebook and got 5k too. I got quite a chunk of change by getting all my friends to log me in with their accounts.
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Which language has? Keep in mind market share, so don't say Go.
You sound competent and resourceful. Why not move to another company, with a raise / promotion and a better working environment, or strike out on your own?
Huh, that's an interesting point. Now that you mention it you're probably right that it was more common than I was aware of.
Of course it's not quite that simple. People using phones at a concert affects everyone's experience. This is a godsend for some of us. It absolutely detracts from my experience in theaters, concerts, shows, etc when everyone has a phone out.

My feeling is that this is a valid choice for artists to make, and if you disagree then avoid shows where this is the policy.
You absolutely need to trade on the same security intraday many times in order to generate a profit as a day trader.

Buying a security, then buying a different security, then selling a third security tomorrow -- that's not day trading, that is just the normal flow of equity investing.

Unless you have a lot of money so you can be invested into many different names, you won't be able to do this very many times before you run into the limit, at which point, the rational person will open an account at a different brokerage instead.

The utility of 'zero commission trades' rapidly declines as you have more capital. If you have >$25k to put into a brokerage, paying $1-2 commission per trade (e.g. Interactive Brokers commissions), or even $5-7 per trade (most other retail brokers) is definitely worth the flexibility of being able to change your mind and reversing that trade without the risk of being locked for 90 days.

As for the addendum, sales in cash accounts are settled over several business days and you can't trade on those funds, so again there is no day trading there unless you're very significantly overcapitalized.
That's also how C++ static constructor/destructor calls work --- a section contains entirely function pointers, which the init/uninit code in the RTL calls before and after main().

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb918180.aspx

Another interesting thing is that it relies on the linker ordering names in alphabetical order.
I think he means you lost it late selling. It was higher a few weeks ago.
Its how processors are designed. If you take a computer architecture class which I am pretty sure most compsci people have done you learn about most of this stuff. If you don't do caching, branch prediction, pre fetching, out of order execution your processor won't be as fast. Someone just figured a way to exploit the fact that processor are already loading data that it needs to process.

If you are doing a laundry cycle and you have to wait for the dryer to to finish before you load the washer its going to take lot longer to do the laundry.
For the recruitment, data management, and study coordination piece, sounds like a great area to optimize with software. I'm sure big pharma will also happily shell out for something to help them manage their own clinical trials. Academia PIs can then get the same stuff at a lower rate.

Edit: Heck, you can even lease top grade medical space in all major metro areas and offer it as part of the package in a WeWork style arrangement. I'm sure they are tons of nuances to rolling something like this out, but it sounds like it can cut costs substantially.
I believe some of the people in this thread are talking about tokens and some are talking about coins.
Personally I think it’s irresponsible to hire new employees before having a maintainable project.

Have you ever been in a situation where you think "Gee, this is a mess but we are swamped here! Let's hire more people to help fix this" and then the new hire(s) joins the team and proceeds to bad mouth everything instead of helping to make things better? I have and it wasn't lack of communication or openness.

It's an attitude I can't empathize with.
>I have no idea why someone would want to watch a performance from behind a screen.

Sometimes people like to film or take pictures of things that are really cool to remember them by or show their friends
It's just much more work to install and maintain Kafka, and it has issues with load balancing and recovery due to the design tying cluster ownership to partition data. With AOF persistence and a replica, Redis is durable enough for us and extremely fast with no maintenance.

If you absolutely need Kafka then it's still a good option, although I'd recommend looking at Apache Pulsar [1] for a better design. It separates storage and compute for better performance and scalability while giving you features like per-message acknowledgements.

1. https://pulsar.apache.org
Better to not expect anything from anyone, and you wont be disappointed.

What you do is simply restrict data to employees on a need to know basis. Not difficult to do.
A switcher is under consideration but we're focused on some other (what we believe are) more important aspects right now and wanted to get this part out the door quickly for people to start using.

I wouldn't consider a switcher implementation details as much as another user flow.

Since you bring it up I wonder how often users find that switcher and "do the right thing" in GitLab. I would expect that number is pretty low and instead users submit with the template they arrived on. As in I would assume the feature is likely useful for advanced users to more easily switch (certainly good there) but I'm skeptical that new users would look to use this. What do you think?
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Just after I read an article that a US Senator demonstrates that he understands the risks inherent in backdooring crypto, I read this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/25/uk_prime_minister_e... "Here we go again... UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors"

I was rather hoping our PM had quietly dropped that nonsense a while back but it seems not. sigh
You would need a linker script for that. Not very accessible for a "normal" project.
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Yeah, it's OK to not know about this, and get excited about discovering it, but to categorize it as "pioneering" is, as you say, audacious. This announcement would have been better as a minor bullet-point in the release notes. If and when someone publicly points out how much faster it is, the appropriate response would be, "heh, this is embarrassing, but we didn't know you should drop indexes before importing"
We previously allowed them access to private records with a system of due process involving judges granting warrants on a case by case basis. Instead of following the intent of the law, or even the letter of the law, they recorded everything using either robo-signed warrants or retroactive warrants when they actually needed to make legal use of the information. It was a framework of reasonable judicial oversight and what we got was totalitarian surveillance.

The problem is that law enforcement, spooks, and the judicial system are all on the same side and see themselves that way. You can want a system of due process, but you won't get it.

Fool me once...
What do you mean "not stated"? Every paragraph starts with the sentence "[Stock] down [percentage] from the peak", all in bold; and there are 12 matches for "from the peak" on that page.
It's a problem, agreed. It's not "the" problem. Police in other countries don't have the same problem with individuals they apprehend that are armed. So I'd argue the prevalence of firearms is problematic, but the militarization of our police forces is much more so.
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We did, brother & I. We're trying to make useful the abstraction layer above DNA. We think there's much benefit to thinking and placing complexity at the protein level, and back-calculating the DNA, completely offloading the complexity of actually manufacturing DNA.

I'd be happy to chat. Email is my first name at serotiny.bio

-Justin
I honestly hope every single concert goes this way. I go to a lot of concerts (~15 concerts and a big festival in a normal year). I have noticed that there is so little real connection between the musician and the audience anymore. Everyone is just talking to their friends (over the music) and waiting for the one big hit to come on so they can fill their Snapchat story.

A concert is a really special thing. Music is the only popular art form where we can really be there and connect to the artist. When you're at a show where the band and the crowd connect you can tell it's something special. Read any interview with a popular musician and they'll tell you the same.

So let's put our phones down and listen.

A side note: this is made much better when artists offer video/audio recordings of their shows after the fact. I honestly don't get why every single artist doesn't offer to sell soundboard recordings. Jam bands (notably Phish) have been making tons of money this way. You can give everyone who came to the show a free download and let those who couldn't be there oay for it. That removes one major need people have for their phones.
Having seen this at too many companies, we at fair.com decided to adopt stronger policies to prevent this, viz:

- all inbound API requests first go to our API proxy in the secure layer.

- the API proxy encrypts all PII using the encryption service in the secure layer

- then API proxy sends the request on to the appropriate service, having swapped all PII for tokens.

- all services in the general layer are not able to talk to the encryption service to decrypt data.

- thus all data that would normally be considered very sensitive (e.g. credit reports) can be stored or passed around the services because values like SSN and others are tokenized.

- our services with UI's like our CRM, wherein the customer service rep needs so see the data unencrypted, works perfectly bc the response from the API proxy outbound decrypts the data, but selectively so based on the person's permissions through our abstracted auth layer.

Thus in the Lyft example, the majority of employees could have access to "God view" but with all the PII encrypted (so they couldn't search their friend's account by email, for example) but they can still look at rides and transactions, while just those who need to see the decrypted PII could be given those permissions.

Of course, this assumes that the encrypted PII is sufficient for anonymization. If you can look for all rides within a block of an address in their God view, then you could quickly figure out which person was your friend by narrowing down to rides originating from his house and his work. But again that comes down to properly limiting certain search capabilities in the UI.

I don't get why more companies don't follow our approach. I've seen way too much personally sensitive data in plaintext in databases over the years.