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>Public tools and stolen private tools are worse than useless for attribution because they are specifically used to avoid attribution or to cause false attribution.

Not necessarily. Given enough public tools, combinations of usage can be unique.
This. In Florida US grid zero crossings randomly bounce around +/- 20nS over a few seconds. Viewing the waveform on a scope can be enlightening (or inflammatory and shocking if one's not properly isolated)
The policy described in the article and those set in place in the past 5 years have created the worst traffic we've seen. Watch any movie filmed in LA before 2000 and look at the traffic compared to now. There were ten plus million residents then too. Essentially, we have terrible City managers now that favor ideology over flow algorithms and have made the city avg speed 9 mph
If a VC or an angel investor would just give me $10,000 a year as salary, I would work on any idea full time for them, 90 hours a week, fighting fires, everything.

The issue is that the labor demand in this country (VCs, corporations, angels, basically anyone with money) would much rather prefer to spend $120,000 on one "really good" programmer than say $30,000 total on a team of 3 young and hungry programmers.

Something something, "adding programmers = adding delays and complexity to a project". And maybe it's true.

But the result is that the one amazing programmer lives lavishly, and the other 3 starve.

And what is worse, there's no guarantee the project will succeed, no matter who you hire.
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Genital mutalation of a child is fine (assuming here it wasn‘t a medical necessity. Maybe it was in this case, hence why I didn‘t downvote), but taking a completely non-sexual photograph of a healing wound is considered weird. Sums up modern America pretty well.
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Usually the antenna is parallel to the board - and the board is positioned in the largest dimension, which tends to be also parallel with the display.
The entire parent folder is a serious treasure trove of good programming books:

http://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/media/pdf/book/

I spent probably $100 between C Programming and Elements of Programming w/ Kernighan. Had I only known they were in good shape here. ;) (I kid, I'm actually a bit of a bibliophile so I prefer the hard copies anyway...)

But seriously. It's worth browsing!
Thinking that providing additional context for commits is a waste of time is short-sighted. Yes, it requires more time and effort in the short-term (i.e. for creating the commit), but if it's a complex, long-lived project, then that extra effort will save a lot of time in the long run.

Sometimes the extra time and effort is already made up for in the review process, which without proper context could drag out and cause a lot of back and forth. Sometimes it might save somebody hours and days of investigation time. This is not to mention the benefits that both the author and the readers of the commit get by better understanding both the problem and the solution.
I would say watch C++ primer
I use SCC (System Configuration Collector) to document our servers. Everything else is just a collection of grep-able text files on our management server.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sysconfcollect/
> Given that these people are not trained law enforcement, are typically low paid, and there is no chain of custody of the equipment whatsoever there is an incentive and real opportunity here to make crime in order to cash in.

Even you're only looking at one aspect of things. Even if all the Geek squad employees are completely honest, now this gives an actual child pornographer's lawyer a way to cause enough reasonable doubt to get his client off.
United States has largely been responsible for building the current world order post-WW2, based on democracy,and global trade. It's not easy being at the top.
pascal is a great language. too bad its not popular
I truly believe the learning/memorizing process is different for each person. For example I've been driving my car for more than a year and I still can't remember right away in which side of the car the gas tank is located at. What I do remember is that in every car, there is an arrow on the side of the gauge which indicates where the gas tank is at.
It should cost Best Buy a $100 processing fee to report child porn. That's a small price to pay to catch a criminal but too high to go actively snooping through hard drives.
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(Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of Narmi which provides online banking, mobile banking, and banking APIs to banks and credit unions in the United States)

For anyone interested, Associated Bank (mentioned in the article) is using Fiserv's Corillian [1] product.

The U.S. financial ecosystem is quite different than others around the world. Despite the asset base being consolidated heavily with a handful of institutions, there are still over 11,000 banks and credit unions around the country. Of those 11,000, I would estimate that less than 5% have any significant in house engineering teams (and that is a generous estimate). The rest rely entirely on third parties to run the technology and software that makes a bank a bank. The market is dominated by Fiserv, FIS and Jack Henry & Associates as the article mentions, but there is also a long tail of providers.

Very few bank and credit union executives understand the basics of cybersecurity. The vast majority of CEOs come from some type of lending centric leadership position since that has been the main source of revenue traditionally.

Unabashed plug: If you know a credit union or bank that is need of a better digital banking experience, I would greatly appreciate the plug/intro for Narmi.

[1] https://www.fiserv.com/customer-channel-management/online-ba...
>>Another is all consumption achieved by moving your consumption to somewhere else with low or no VAT.

I didn't. Investments are not consumption. At some point you are going to buy something you can use like a car, a house, food or w/e and there will be VAT there. If you never spend it on consumption then you are in effect providing a free service to everyone (accepting money but never buying anything). If you live in a country with VAT then buying abroad won't help you as you have to pay VAT on imports from non VAT countries.

>>I've done the math for my own expenditure from back when I didn't earn much to now, and the difference is stark.

Do you have any savings/investments now in comparison to there? What do you think will happen once you want to by something with those savings?
Isn't it inherently scandalous for intelligence agencies to misplace this sort of information?
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Since I've been getting support so much lately with a few institutions, I've been asking them questions like that as well. They all serve up that same answer.

For me, and I'd guess a lot of other people, I don't care if the money can _eventually_ be returned, I'm concerned for the day that my life savings goes missing and I have to spend days or weeks stressed to shit about when or if I'll get it back, meanwhile not sure if I can pay rent.
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> (when in doubt about any particular UI solution, check how it has been done in a certain proprietary app that is very popular among OSHW folks and do exactly opposite).

This is currently listed on the CERN roadmap for KiCad. Given all the complaints about the UX here I thought it might be relevant.
I did mob programming every day for 5 months
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Putting Lego blocks together is engineering now?

Edit: NPM has engineering challenges, and Node as well...but I would be extremely hesitant to call a library of ~ten LoC "engineering."
By the way, I'm one of those people whose grants you turned down (well, I don't know if it was your study section). After several attempts at getting R01s with smart new ideas and receiving no feedback and no scores, and seeing the same proposals being funded a few years later for more experienced applicants, I reasoned that I could get more done in industry.

I left for Google, and got more done in 20% time (research-wise) than I ever did using 100% time in academia.

When I did sit on study sections, I worked hard to help NIH understsand why the older groups asking for closet clusters on a cloud grant weren't helping. But NIH is very slow to move- it took at least 7 years to get to the point where people could even apply for cloud credits instead of closet clusters.
>if you want to get the kit and test your DNA out of fun, at least make sure your identity is not obvious.

DNA can be used to identify the person it came from!!!

If you send off your DNA with a different name, there are many ways that they can use to determine that a different name was used. Traits estimated by the DNA could, at least in theory, be used to figure out who you might be. And if your relative is already in the system, your identity may be trivial to uncover.
>All alive tissues are subject to osmotic regulation. Is a basic mechanism to protect the cell integrity.

>Not in your veins, in your gut.

>...drinking big amounts of distilled water causes diarrhea.

Stating that distilled water caused cells to explode in your stomach and give you diarrhoea are some extraordinary claims that I have never come across before, and I think they require some sources to back up.

Edit: Some googling and I am mostly finding support for distilled water, and nothing as dramatic as what you are claiming about exploding cells in your stomach.

Even the doctors that seem to oppose distilled water support its use for detoxing. I think the idea of distilled water being bad is an old myth that is still hanging around.

Edit2: I just found out that all the navy ships and submarines provide distilled water as the only drinking source for their sailors. Considering that they are at sea for months at a time, I think this completely debunks the myth that distilled water "explodes cells" and causes diarrhoea.
I'm not assuming anything, I'm not participating in this discussion (and I agree with you). I'm just sharing an interesting information for the GP because it's not well known. You're right that it's not really usable in production; but it's nice for some simple home automation.
A good lawyer can bring this up; that there is no chain of custody .. but you need to afford a lawyer. If someone in a low paid job is incentivised to find this evidence, they could occasionally just plant it, get their few extra $$ a few times a year, and some other low paid worker could get screwed over because they can't afford anything other than a public defender.

They then get a sex offense charge, can't get a job, are looked down upon by all their friends/family no matter how much they claim innocence and get even poorer.

I realize a Geek Squad member isn't quite as low income as you can go, but it's still low income people incentivied to hurt other low income people. .. Mortys killing mortys.
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This idea has a lot of legs if you examine it. One of the more interesting points I've heard from Jordan Peterson in one of his criticisms of postmodernism is this: Postmodernism observes that after centuries of trying, we don't seem to have an objective standard for ethics or philosophy (or at least one that we can all agree on). Postmodernism, to the extent that one can refer to the whole movement in a short sentence, then tends to assume that therefore there are no distinctions between moral frames or perspectives, and from there proceeds to go in a different direction and analyzes everything simply in terms of power, because they decided that's the only thing that matters since moralities and philosophies otherwise have no meaning.

Don't get too tied up in the details of that summary; I'm well aware of just how brutal that summary is. But the details of the summary aren't what's important; what's important is the observation that there are absorbent barriers in philosophy and especially morality. You can't pursue a morality that results in your death, especially if it results in a quick death. There's some others too, but that's biggest and the most obvious. Civilizational death is another one; more abstract, but also a rich vein of observations.

For example, there's a lot more people living people advocating for humanity to be killed off for the planet than dead people advocating for humanity to be killed off for the planet's sake. It is impossible for the living to observe any other outcome.

This does not lead us via simple, universally-agreeable philosophical steps to a universally-agreed upon morality. But it does create distinctions between different moralities and philosophies, and once you admit that into the world, it once again becomes valid to study different philosophies and moralities again without having to accept the postmodernistic "throw your hands in the air and give up ever being able to determine anything, and then go study something else instead". It's still nowhere near a mathematically rigorous world by any means, but it's no longer hopeless.

(Bonus observation 1: No, this is not simply utilitarianism. Consider utilitarianism as a spectrum of "how concerned am I about 'utility'". Utilitarianism is the idea that we should be very far to the side of considering that, if not considering it solely; on a spectrum from 0 to 1, utilitarianism is that we should be close to or on 1. This observation is the complementary observation that we can not be close to or on 0. But we might still be on, say, 0.5, which is not "utilitarianism" but may be enough to create philosophies that still keep us alive. This observation also does not depend on "valuing" life over death, because it is on a far more primal and brutal level than that. It is the factual observation that if you hit one of these absorbing barriers you are no longer a participant in philosophy, not a normative statement about whether that is or is not a good thing.)

(Bonus observation 2: This is the beginning of the path, not the end.)
> I suppose they could do something like, if one person keeps "finding" the same images, then maybe look into it.

You're still missing an important implication of this, now a real child pornographer's lawyer can get him off by creating enough doubt in Jury's mind that Geek Squad's employees planted the evidence, especially since they are getting paid for it.

In other words, not only there is a risk of innocent people getting arrested and possibly going to jail, there is a risk of guilty people going free.
I use One Note.

But I also use the o365 Suite.

Mediawiki is also good, but can be a bore to run another service for that.

But in the end a textfile via notepad/nano is all you need, really.
I may be naive here, but is there anything preventing running regular OCR over a page, and then feeding whatever it couldn't deal with into this? Sure, the plumbing for this is probably missing, but it sounds more like a matter of picking up the shovel rather than inventing something.
Tying the ticketing system and the repository together is a good idea and definitely worth implementing, but there's a fine balance in deciding what context should be kept in the ticket and what in the code repository. If you put too much into to the ticket and too little into the commits, then git blame loses it's value, for example.
Agreed. The news here is that they can't stop hemorrhaging information about their activities.
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That is post facto association. We only think that because the song became associated with LSD, if you heard the song in 1967 when it just came out, you wouldn’t have made the connection because the association didn’t exist yet.
Yup, that’s the trick! I don’t know either.
I just don't think it matters much that the rest of the world doesn't have massive, unicorn tech companies. I don't believe they are the unwavering innovators we make them out to be. They are amazing in their space, sure, but most tech companies aren't actually that big economically speaking.

Silicon Valley has been a playground for venture capitalists and their beneficiaries but I would wager that their influence, while wildly public and social, is only important inside it's bubble, and much of that influence has been frivolous, bought or self inflated. Does anyone really need Facebook or Twitter, or Hootsuite or Gmail? They have only existed for circa ten years each.

So I don't believe it's the beacon of social benefit or industrial power. It is certainly a beacon of wild capitalism, excitement and glamour. Whether that's a good thing or not is hotly debated, but a world without SV unicorns would move on just fine.
The labeling of environmental impact for clothes is an exceptional idea.

We do it for durable goods like a refrigerator or car, yet the clothes you use during the same period could have an impact that is orders of magnitude higher than, say the extra fuel impact of a certain car.
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That's the #1 reason that I don't currently consider it in the same class as React Native. Once Google showcases how they're using it in business critical apps, then I think I'll have the confidence it won't be another project that gets the axe.
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I don't think repeal of GINA is remotely likely, just look at the political discussion about pre-existing conditions on both sides of the aisle, there is no appetite for having companies accurately price insurance.

I think the fact that health insurance premiums are the #1 thing brought up in privacy discussions is basically evidence of the fact that we all know that insurance is a bad model for healthcare, but we can't bear to socialize it yet.
I don't know about the brain acting like a cache, but synaptic pathway weighting is thought to be modified by how often neurons on either side of it fire near the same time. This is called spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The seminal paper for this is: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/18/24/10464.long
I’m as baffled by your perspective on configuration as you are by mine. I’d spend half my time working to improve userspace if I could financially afford to. “You’re bad at Linux” is the worst way I can think of to win anyone over.
I don't think the timekeeping is the part to be concerned about.
Urgh.

They probably do store the unhashed pin/password rather than the quadratically-many 4 x N\choose 3 combinations.

Still, at least an account with known username is guarded with a secret from a space of size 10^3 x k^3, for k =~ 70 or so.

With AIB, that space has size 1000 and for a time, they were revealing a little account information when provided only with the user id: http://olivernash.org/2015/11/18/security-theatre-at-allied-...
This is a really clever idea, but as someone who's trying to stay as legal as I can with reporting my crypto transactions for taxes, this sounds like it could potentially be a nightmare to report (or possibly to pay taxes on), especially with the recent GOP addition to the tax reform law that made every cryptocurrency transaction, even a trade from currency to currency, a taxable event.

I really wish I could just freely use this as a tool for investment, but the laws seem pretty draconian right now, and not reflective of the open and experimental nature of this space.

Once you get this up and going, consider some reporting tools to help keep track of the transactions, so people can use it for both personal and legal purposes.
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A couple secret-recipe idiosyncrasies are legend among those handed down in my family. For example, wherever grandma's recipes say "a spoon of sugar", she was actually using a ladle.
For another (less business, more aesthetic) perspective on Spotify's impact on how we listen to and make music, check out: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly
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How about aluminum:

https://www.wsj.com/article_email/chinese-billionaire-linked...
> It also gives massive amounts of power to a non officer.

It actually doesn't, which is why this is an INCREDIBLY stupid move by the FBI.

Evidence submitted that was recovered by a private citizen of their own accord is admissible in court even if there was no search warrant issued or other illegal activity occurred to gain said evidence (breaking into somebodies house and finding CP on their computer doesn't give grounds for dismissal of the case, although the person who did the B&E could still be charged for said act). This is the private search doctrine, and it has well established case law.

However, just because you are not on government payroll you are not free from being considered a government agent. If a government employee actively encourages you or incentivizes you to perform a search you can (and likely will) be considered an agent of the government when evidence is submitted at trial - meaning the 4th amendment can be used to throw the case out since no search warrant was issued.

This case gives anybody who has been convicted and had evidence submitted by a Geek Squad employee grounds to appeal their case, or for active cases the charges dismissed. What was the FBI thinking?
Before being relegated to cheapest chinese stuff, elecromechanical timers were the norm.

There's probably thousands of electrical panels with old DIN rail timers that don't get replaced until they die.
Writing more code that no one understands the reason for is not better than writing explanations of why you wrote some code.
Also have a Pixel 2 XL. Have to say it is an excellent phone. Smooth as my iPhone.
I'm not primarily a Javascript developer, but I seem to remember that attaching event listeners to Object fields and modifying the DOM in event handlers is how Javascript development was done 5-10 years ago. Am I missing something? Are we going full circle?
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> As long as the reward is less than the cost of the bag, none.

A dime bag by definition retails for $10. $500 < $10. (The cost is reduced by buying in bulk, if you wanted to scale up this scheme.)
Why C++ over Rust? Rust is still in very early stages. The compiler, tools, ide and library support is world's away from where rust is at the moment. Language design is one part of many that helps with software creation.
There was a WordPerfect port, but at least the initial versions were slow and did not feel like they took advantage of the OS. In other words, it was a bit of a rush job.
Take a look at how the standard library does things, and particularly anything for which it is not clear to you how one might implement it, or the use of anything whose purpose you don't really understand.
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