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His post was very self-righteous, as if Grab had some level of moral superiority over Uber. Once he awakens to the fact that Grab is just as "immoral" as Uber, I hope he writes another post eating humble pie. All the ridesharing companies behave exactly the same, especially the ones in Asia that can escape from the biased views of American reporters.
Mt. Gox crashes Bitcoin a second time, and there’s more to come
I thought Facebook considered the Friends list to be public? They removed the ability to hide the list years ago.
>America refers to The United States of America.

Well, that might be true for people living in the US but, and I might be going out on a limb here, it might not be so true for others.
So instead you're moralizing about what a terrible person the author is for suggesting there's also some complacency involved? Because they said search alternatives exist, which you make about GMail, even then are not able to claim that you yourself were at some point outright forced to use it, instead of kicking up a lot of dust about generalities, and imaginary people who have 5 seconds but not 1 minute for some magical vital search query?

Is this what the robot blitzkrieg is going to ride in on, sophistry and double think, and people in the star destroyer bickering about who gets seconds every time and who never gets seconds, as well as about who has the biggest echo chamber on board, which in their colonized minds is having none? Just how... small... will all this get, I wonder?

> Surely we can pass along to the next generation a world freer than that. Surely we must. What if we don’t?

> What will they say when they realize that we lived at the end of a thousand years of struggling for freedom of thought. At the end, when we had almost everything, we gave it away, for convenience, for social networking. Because Mr. Zuckerberg asked us to. Because we couldn’t find a better way to talk to our friends. Because we loved the beautiful pretty things that felt so warm in the hand. Because we didn’t really care about the future of freedom of thought, because we considered that to be someone else’s business. Because we thought it was over. Because we believed we were free. Because we didn’t think there was any struggling left to do. That’s why we gave it all away.

> Is that what we're gonna tell them?

-- Eben Moglen ( http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t... )
I don't get it. Protonmail still doesn't support PGP, yet they're working on open source libraries for other people to implement PGP? I don't understand these priorities.
Have any tips on finding good recruiters to work with? Most of the people that reach out to me are clearly not giving a level of care to their search that I'd be comfortable working with (for instance, I was a PHP dev with some JS for a while and would frequently get requests about Java positions). I'd love to work with a recruiter that cares specifically about placing me somewhere good, but I've never met a recruiter like that.
> Coops are very politically connected and many time implied in corruption cases.

I don't see how this is any different from non-cooperative companies.
Thanks; the closest a quick search threw up was 22987/7923 = 2.9013000126 which confirms the bogosity - I was just interested to know how the bogosity was being justified.
Video Game Developer Says He Won't Send Takedown of a Bad Review, Does So Anyway
I'm sure you have heard about sublime messages in Kubrick's movies. Stuff like a poster of a native American in Hue, the "we worship Satan" message on the water tower, the picture of a black man on the advertising billboard of a brand named "black buzzard batteries" [1] etc... which sure doesn't make much sense in an SE Asia country's setting. BTW, there is actually a brand named "buzzard batteries" now, but the "black" one I think is made up.

My parents, who are Vietnamese and don't know about Kubrick, exclaimed in the middle of the movie that none of the fighting scenes in Full Metal Jacket were representative of Hue/Vietnam at all. I think Kubrick probably knew that. My interpretation is the same as Apocalypse Now, the point of it wasn't that the movie is about a specific war. It is about the symbolic nightmare that any unnecessary war brings. To me, that's quite different from how movies about World War II were portrayed -- those often tried to be realistic.

1: https://beersonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Full-Meta...

PS: I agree with you that 2001 was long and drawn out, and I consider that to be among Kubrick's less favorite movies of mine.
That font alone takes me back!
Id read this article, it has pretty excellent coverage of what you’ll need to know.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lessons-from-my-first-year-o...

The things that I’ve settled into when streaming that I tack onto that wisdom:
-stream for at least 2-3 hours per session

-always double check your mic, I forget to unmute.

-downmix your mic to ensure you’re heard evenly

-noise gate and noise suppression are a must

-run obs on your pc but stream all of the code itself from vms. This solves most privacy problems and spares a lot of the common obs-on-screen issues you’ll see during streams. Also makes it easier to transition

-MAKE YOUR FONT BIGGER

-pay attention to chat! I’ve got 1440p monitors, so I keep my 1080p vm on the main screen and my chat / todo list stays on that as well

-set up notifications with stream labs (they’re fun and make people follow in cascades)

-pick reasonable stream titles. I’ve lost pretty much all of my viewers one stream due to a bad title

-consistency is king

-if you’re expecting undesirables, aggressively configure nightbot. Defaults and twitches built in mods will not be sufficient and white Supremecists will get around those settings easily.

I haven’t chosen to do a webcam but I know streamers can pull high enough views without them, so it’s just up to you and how consistent you want to be. I can share more of my experience if you like.

Twitch coding is the best and it prepares you for pair programming and whiteboard interviews where you have to talk while thinking through a problem.
Please do an AMA?

How long did it take to learn those skills? Do you use a tool to understand the code? What is your advice for coming up to speed on a domain you are unfamiliar with?
Where I work, yes, the security teams don't know how applications work. we have a dedicated security team - they run nessus scans for compliance and network scans and hand them to managers and executives who hand them to us. they explicitly don't touch the code - a senior guy has declared that he's not responsible on that level, that he's 'no coder' in response to a shell injection vulnerability. so he knows 'about' salting passwords but he probably couldn't verify if they are salted or not.

To me it's left the impressions that 1) security is mostly theater and 2) 'security engineer' is a meaningless title - it can mean anything from 'runs scans' to 'network administrator' to 'penetration tester' to 'good engineer'. unfortunately my default attitude towards the title has been "i'm probably dealing with a charlatan"
> I certainly never gave them permissions to have it, and I would like to revoke their permission to have this information.

You probably agreed to it when you agreed to your bank’s TOS
+1. If ever there was a place for a not-for-profit federal organization, this is it. Edit: Like others have pointed out, it's just beyond believe what information these CRAs hold on us.
I was in Manila last month, and mostly took Uber; the experience was exactly like using it in the US.

I took one Grab ride, and the experience couldn't have been more different. I booked the ride on Grab, and saw the car coming towards me on the map. Just as it arrived, the driver waved to me out of his car, and then canceled the ride in the app. The car & licence plate were completely different to the one shown in the app.

Next to the driver was sat his friend, who talked to me throughout the 10 minute ride, and gave me his cards in case I needed to book a hotel or ride on my next visit.

When we arrived, I gave cash to the driver (the amount that the app had priced it at originally) and bolted. I couldn't leave any feedback in the app, because the canceled ride had disappeared.

It's hard to tell if this is a one-off weird experience, or a typical Grab ride. Either way, it made me unlikely to want to use it again, and I was planning to go back to Uber on my next trip to SE Asia.
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For more on the Andromeda/Milky Way collision: http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/astronomy/archive/2018/02/08/t...
Central Logging in Multi-Account Environments – AWS Architecture Blog
Considering color accessibility as part of our design process
I had great results with this company http://www.bincsearch.com/
Chromecast should have no problems rendering text as text
Especially given that the funnelling other money to cover the losses happened after some investors and the SEC were already on to the fraud.
Co-Founder of Gusto: Here’s the Advice I Give Every Startup Founder
> I will eventually out compete people who fail to adapt to the new method.

This doesn’t really work for government contractors because the government isn’t even remotely a rational buyer. The government doesn’t generally have the latitude to pick the best value - they are constrained by procedural rules. For example, in the US, 5% of federal small contractor spending must go to minority-owned businesses, regardless of their relative quality. Generally there is a fixed bidding procedure that doesn’t allow for judgements about the quality of the final product. Where the government isn’t constrained by procedural rules, politics will come before rational spending. This argument only really works for privately owned and operated roads that have rational incentives.
It seems they did not run a full experiment, which would have included also attempting to turn what they call "liberals" into "conservatives".
What do you mean "ProtonMail still doesn't support PGP"? You mean sending PGP encrypted e-mails to non-protonmail addresses?
I know Samsung tried to use 2001 as proof of art for the Apple infringement lawsuit re: the iPad. But didn't they also cite the pads in ST:TNG as well?
> Also, not to be that guy,

You know, if you feel the need to write this, it's a good sign that you should not write whatever it would come with. Because it's guaranteed that if you do, you will, in fact, be that guy.
I keep hearing that it is because 'humans are social animals' and all that but is it really for people with antisocial behaviour?
Isolation from society, yes. But that's to protect society, its purpose is not punishment.

Basically, I like the Norwegian approach.
Interesting! From your [0] link:

"The Second Circuit repeatedly has held that “loss in
fraud cases includes the amount of property taken, even if all
or part has been returned.”"

"(Rejecting the defendant’s argument that the value of his fraud victim’s equity in his partnership should be subtracted from the loss amount, and holding that “[t]he ‘loss’ was the money that the investors were fraudulently induced to invest ...irrespective of the value of the [property].”)"

"The Sentencing Guidelines provide for specific “Credits Against Loss,” whereby loss calculations may be reduced by, inter alia, “[t]he money returned . . . by the defendant to the victim before the offense was detected.” The Guidelines define “time of detection” for purposes of credit against loss as “the earlier of (I) the time the offense was discovered by a victim or government agency; or (II) the time the defendant knew or reasonably should have known that the offense was detected or about to be detected by a victim or government agency."
Making of “Murdlok”, the new old adventure game for the C64
> So we've lost an hour of evening sun for an our of super-early morning. Sounds like a bad deal to me, but what am I missing?

In other words, because you want you and your kids to have more daylight at the end of the day, you like having your schedule moved up an hour every year in spring, and moved back in the fall when there are fewer hours of daylight.

What you're missing is that I don't want to move my schedule to accommodate yours, but the government has determined that I must do so.

There is no daylight "saved." It's just a massive schedule change for everyone.

If all the parents with school-aged children want their kids to have more daylight in the afternoon, great! Convince the school to change their schedule twice a year! If you want more daylight at the end of the day, great! Start work an hour earlier!

But why do I and everyone else have to change our schedules so you can have your way?

As for having DST year-round (mentioned by others), the starting point for marking time has generally been noon, when the sun is highest in the sky. (Some cultures start counting at sunrise.) Ignoring the question of "local noon" vs. "Time Zone noon" for the sake of this argument, DST just moves noon to 1:00 p.m. Really, this is even dumber than changing twice a year. Just start your day an hour earlier year-round.

If only we really could legislate the natural order of things caused by the rotation of the earth on its axis, then maybe we could also change the natural order of things caused by the orbit of the earth around the sun.

I propose that we have Summer Savings Time! We should start Spring three weeks earlier, on March 1 of each year, and end Summer three weeks later, on October 15 of each year. We can then eliminate six weeks of Winter, ending December on the 15th of that month and skipping straight to February 1. Think of all the bad weather we will avoid!!

This will also obliterate six weeks of unproductive holiday time, silly resolutions, bad music, and untoward self-reflection. It will reduce any rancor that might be caused by people celebrating Christmas and also eliminate New Year's parties and the associated debauchery. People who are suicidally depressed will experience far less social pressure, since families will only have to contend with Thanksgiving (in the U.S.).

I'm going to write to my congressman right now, in fact.
I never suggested the judges decision was off the cuff, you just made that up. I simply stated that he is doing 7 years for a $10.4M hypothetical loss that never happened.
Watching live coding can be almost as fun as live coding itself.

I view every livestream I watch as a one sided code review and refactoring session, and spend most of the time watching reasoning through how they are coding and if there are things that could be clearer. I learn lots from that... including new idioms that I like or despise.

I’ll also watch streams where the coder needs help, so I’ll pitch in over chat to help with problems. I’ve taught several people suprising amounts through twitch chat and despite twitch delay.

Just try watching a stream or two! Check the creative communities on twitch and select programming or game development!
Raising More Than Capital: Successful Women in Technology – The Linux Foundation
A third Sherlock Holmes is definitely in the works, says Robert Downey Jr
I would agree if the person was only working on the exact same project each time. However I would also find that hard to believe. I bet if we replaced career with team, we could then all agree its relevant.
> But nearly no bankers responsible for the 2008 financial crisis ever went to jail

That is a myth. Dozens of bankers were arrested and put in prison over crimes related to the 2008 financial crisis. That includes a number of bankers at large enterprises. It excludes the very top tier bankers, at the systemically important financial firms, who all managed to skate.

It's not illegal, generally speaking, to make dumb investment decisions, and or to take a lot of risk, and lose money. The responsibility for the 2008 financial crisis is spread across both the public and private sector, from Congress & multiple Presidents to the Federal Reserve to hundreds of banks, thousands of bankers, and tens of thousands of mortgage brokers and realtors. Spurred on by low interest rates, it was collective financial insanity that millions of people willfully, cheerfully, participated in.

"The idea that no bankers went to prison for crimes related to the financial crisis is a myth, according to the watchdog overseeing the federal government's bailout fund. There have been 35 bankers sentenced to prison, said Christy Goldsmith Romero, the special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (SIGTARP), in a report to Congress released Thursday."

"There have been 59 bankers convicted of crimes, including two executives at NOVA Bank in Philadelphia who were convicted on Wednesday of fraud conspiracy related to TARP funds. An additional 19 bankers have been charged with crimes, with many awaiting trials."

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/news/companies/bankers-priso...
Pretty sure that such a root cert would be fairly quickly yanked if they got caught using it for MITM attacks. That would cause a lot of trouble for the primary users of such certs. Such attacks are best done with some relatively obscure and unimportant compromised certificate authority.
Research Blog: Open Sourcing the Hunt for Exoplanets
> That's basically what this comes down to.

The judge didn't create the law regarding securities fraud, nor did she instigate the charges of fraud, nor did she even have a voice when it came to deciding to convict (it was a jury trial). So how does this all boil down to a judge's feelings being hurt?

All crimes will be inconsistently enforced until we've built a policing apparatus that operates like the equivalent of red-light cameras but for every crime [0]. Hopefully we never get to that point, which means enforcement will continue to be resource-limited and inconsistent, so are you arguing for no enforcement at all?

[0] I'm being rhetorical of course. I don't mean to suggest at all that the enforcement of red-light violations, even when caught on camera, is anywhere near consistent: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ct-met-...
> In case anyone that doesn't follow the development of the library closely missed it, the main improvement in this version is the introduction of ECC support.

Wow...I'm sort of shocked that wasn't a v1.0 consideration.

> ECC tends to be able to provide equivalent levels of security as traditional "big prime" cryptography (like RSA) with less computationally intensive operations. This is especially important in a library like OpenPGPjs that is primarily meant for in browser based web usage because it should make things, like sending and receiving mail, faster when ECC is used over older PGP public key encryption systems. For people that use ProtonMail's web based crypto on mobile or tablet devices, a switch to ECC would result not just in similar performance improvements but also in lower battery usage.

In particular, elliptic curves have smaller parameters, which allow for smaller keys at the same bit security level. For example, to achieve 128-bit security, an RSA/DLP modulus must be 3072 bits. Elliptic curves achieve the same security level with only 256-bit parameters. They are also faster for most operations, but RSA is still technically faster for signature verification.

> Many cryptographers and organizations, including the US Government, have recommended for a long time that people migrate from older "big prime cryptography" based cryptosystems to ECC based cryptosystems for increased security.

True, but elliptic curve cryptography is just as vulnerable to quantum computers, however long off that problem may be.
Tesla adds jobs
These coops may be challenged by other, leaner coops. There is no indication that the problem is, by itself, the fact that these companies are run as coops, since traditional companies are plagued by the same issues you mentioned.
Intention matters. Your argument is purely utilitarian.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
So you do know who he is then?

You’re being downvoted since you are obviously trying to make a different point - that Yegge is overrated / overhyped / whatever - than what you led with, I.e. pretending to not know who he is and questioning why even mentioning him would be relevant.
And people keep acting like there's nothing left to really discover on earth.
In general trying to underpay any employee is a dumb strategy and I don't understand why it's so universal. If you pay any in-demand role under market, you're providing them with a strong incentive to move elsewhere right out of the gate.
Private sector markets can show all those negatives, and companies can compete not on inherent efficiency of capital operation, but on who can more cheaply acquire low waged employees. Especially today, we should not believe blindly that capitalism that will automatically be better for society.

The question isn't which abstract model is better, the question is how we build some sort of conventions that work better than what is happening now.
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Vinge did write a sequel to The Fire Upon the Deep. The title of the sequel is "The Children of the Sky".
Are you saying that the investors money was not actually taken under false pretenses? Because the legal rule, based on precedent, applied was that the value fradulently taken (whether or not later returned) is the “loss amount” for sentencing purposes.
Follow up: excellent Ted talk "Why bicycles do not fall: Arend Schwab at TEDxDelft": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y4mbT3ozcA
Even with libraries, DST creates headaches. Just having an hour of ambiguous time (Nov 4, 1:23am 2018 has two possible meanings in most places) means having to write test cases, parse log files differently and there are areas (e.g. database) where you can't use a library and if you're not able to structure your application to store UTC timestamps, you have to account for it yourself.

Libraries are great at abstracting away a lot of the pain, but some of the complexity will always leak through that abstraction.
The widget showed me the same price as the hotel. I was asked to click through in order to see if a lower rate was available.

So no, I cannot 'see lower direct hotel rates as I browse online travel agents'.

The marketing messaging is completely disjointed from what the product actually does.
He played a zero sum game where he profited by imposing an incremental tax on the buyers of health insurance, the common public.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for that announcement.
Well there's only so many ways a dog can point. I think it's more likely just an unfortunate coincidence.
I've been researching this a lot lately as I have a strong interest in learning Spanish, and came across this method: http://www.jonkenpo.net/method-listening-reading/

Basically you read a book in the language you want to learn, that also has your native language next to it (parallel texts) while _also_ listening to the audiobook in the target language.

The original thread it was documented in from an old forum looks to be written by a fairly...eclectic person but overall it seems like a powerful way to learn through mass exposure.

There's a site I found called diveintoespanol.com that enables this method, going to give it a shot this weekend.
I once attended a lecture where a law professor used chicken sexing as a metaphor for jurisprudence. It’s surprisingly apt.
> If you make it punishable by prison time to charge more than some unknowable fair amount of money to make drugs, then nobody will make drugs.

That's not true. First because price gouging laws already exist, so it's not entirely unknowable - especially if this rule became a law. Second, because once it's known, it's like any other existing limit. If you pay people lower than minimal legal wage, you're liable - that hasn't stopped everyone from hiring.
Somehow, I knew this was Phil Plait from the title. Love his stuff. And this reminded me that I forgot to migrate my RSS feeds with Phil Plait to his new blog location. Thanks!