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Payroll projects are always disasters.

Any vendor will do exactly what is asked, no matter what. IBM, Dell, Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, etc. There is no reason why a customer should allow a contractor like this to run roughshod over them -- thats incompetence and bad governance.

I've run big projects with vendors like this. You write good RFPs and hold feet to the fire and they will deliver.
AbCellera wins $30M Darpa contract to develop rapid responses to viral pandemics
I was surprised at how popular VS Code was in comparison to Atom: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-m...

Is it really that much better than Atom? I quite like Atom, but I started to use VS Code for Flutter development.
True. But my general ISP dhcp'ed ip address doesn't change much AND when it does I have decent odds someone (who would do illegal uploads) wouldn't be dumb enough to do it over a non-VPNed line.
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So... time to dig through the terrible ideas of 20 years ago, and see which ones are now good ideas when adding "... on the internet"?

And I'm only being partially sarcastic. Their implementation looks neat, but having seen ugly Excel "apps" in the past, the idea of "spreadsheets programmed by anybody" makes me cringe.

IMO, if they're smart they'll have some kind of easy migration to "real" applications.
I have and there was always IT-related disaster plans and policies. But admittedly I have not worked in most states in this capacity and definitely not in CA so my experiences are limited.
I just played with Airtable a little, but I was a bit disappointed about the performance. If I copy+paste 250 rows, it takes 10 seconds.
So privacy aware users?
how far of a distance before the line is drawn? by that logic chimps are also " a group of humans that genetically differ to an unexpected degree from modern humans."
Huh? Nobody denies that your ancestry shows up in your genes. 23andMe has built a billion dollar business on that premise.

I'm more interested in finding the genes responsible for racism. Racism being such a giant human flaw that can lead to the collapse of societies it would be great if we could identify individuals prone to racism early.
That's a good question.
Looking at this: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/65957/1/WHO_DIL_LAB... for EDTA (a very common anticoagulant "preservative") it is 1.2 to 2.0 mg/mL, so a decent range. But, this is one source and it will also depend on what the test is looking for.
As an aside, what was your background before doing the self-driving nanodegree?
I bet every developer that has used sheets in a business setting has come to realize that there was a need for an intuitive web database with relations and forms. I was thinking about doing something like this the other day, also saw it Pg's startup list.
RStudio is by far my favorite IDE. I would write much more Python if there was something as good for it. Anticipating more Python support, which I believe is part of the plan
Indeed. Let's not forget that some allies have evidence that Russian subs have been prowling around undersea cables.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/internet-net-...
> lobbying is free speech and an essential part of the democratic process.

It is, but then by your own argument it isn't a way to gauge industry expertise. Because anyone can lobby (so expertise isn't a factor -- and the politician isn't in a position to assess the expertise of a particular lobbyist), and those with more time and money can lobby more than anyone else. This is part of what makes it a problem, and makes people connect it with corruption -- because the only people who can effectively engage in corruption are the same people who can effectively engage in lobbying (those with large troves of cash).
>A non-mining node has no role in securing the network, except for SPV wallets (lite wallets).

I just noticed this snippet, and it's wrong enough that I feel I should address it separately. Safe to say you don't understand blockchain verification very well.

https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/features/validation

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/54697/transactio...

Why would any non-mining node choose to assume that the mining nodes are non-malicious when they could just check? That's pretty much the whole point of the distributed ledger concept: not having to trust anyone else on the network, yet still being able to transact.
Have you never had the experience of only really getting a deep understanding of something that you are learning, when you take the time to try and teach it to someone else?
ProtonMail team here. Here is our assessment about how ProtonMail compares to Gmail from the security/privacy perspective: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-vs-gmail-security/
First time I agree with somebody in internet without saying the same things

It’s easy to bypass the block, even for non savvy users. They just need some help.
Without division you cannot have dissent. This sanctimonious BS is exactly the kind of thing ordinary people scoff at. Cutting down on online bullying, stalking, and harassment is great. Figuring out what news to believe because you presume people are too stupid to figure it out for themselves is just degrading.
Is w3 Schools that bad? I use it as a quick hit to remind me about syntax or whatever. It's not my only source but it's useful.
And how do you sign these requests? How do you get browsers to trust the signature? Oh, well, we already have a similar solution that also protects the entire connection from spying... it's called HTTPS.
As much as I love the anime reference (I see it on the TV on your homepage!), I would also be concerned about search result placement. It's unlikely that "Piccolo, home automation gadget," would ever be as popular as "Piccolo, DBZ character."

PS, please make this gesture an easter egg: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3671587cdc2afad44da412...
This is like the comment on the Dropbox thread when it launched. "Why would I pay for this when I can [insert 5-step process here that is not at all easy for the vast majority of population]?"
Was that meant with a tongue in cheek?
Well do you go by the American definition of race, do you go by the Brazilian color scale, or something else? In the US you are considered black if you have at least one black ancestor. Why not the other way around? Race in terms of biological definition is not consistent or coherent. There is also a lot of genetic variation within socially classified races.
Because most of the cryptocoin projects are designed as way to scam other users.

Why doesn't Nano Raiblocks allow more users to generate new Nano/Raiblocks? Would that hurt your investment if every user had equal access to the production of the supply?

Why are you so emotionally invested in trying to sell these beanie babies to other people? Is it because you need to profit off other buying into your scam?

Still no list of businesses accepting Nano/Raiblocks?
Locktimes are about 3 days, they would have to ddos you for the whole time in order to steal anything. If at any point during those 3 days you are able to broadcast your transaction in any way, you get all the money in the channel from both participants.
Until and unless they actually test their "reverse-engineered" device with live subjects under similar conditions to what has been reported in Cuba, how valid is that claim?

Edit: this is, of course, a rhetorical question. The "reverse-engineered weapon" claim is clearly false.
Interesting but football is such a terrible sport to predict statistically outside of a few teams (the outliers) in each league. Kind of hope there would me tools out there to mess with play patterns and tendencies more than the actual result, I think that it would be actually useful plus such a resource paired with a decent analyst would net a way better prediction rate. But betting.jpg
Theranos and Silicon Valley's 'Fake It Till You Make It' Culture
> When you take in account non-linearity of utility curves, lotteries make sense, for example, since for most people the utility of $1 is far less than 1 millionth of the utility of a million dollars.

Can you expand on that? My intuition is telling me that $1 has exactly 1 millionth the utility of a million dollars. I must not understand.
The difference here is apparently they're deleting OP's videos, while only removing a portion of your revenue. I wonder if OP is monetizing the videos too, or if practices have changed in the intervening years.
I don't see why anyone would use that.
I will, grzm, thanks.
The sad state of PE parsing
Does it? This graph looks sub-linear to me https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ There's also bandwidth and CPU costs. If any of those don't keep pace with transaction growth that's a centralizing force.

Gavin Andresen actually has a decent summary of some of different "O(n^2)" arguments on his blog http://gavinandresen.ninja/are-bigger-blocks-dangerous though I disagree with most of his conclusions.

Regarding all of these, they may not be literally O(n^2) but they are certainly more than O(n) and they compound each other.

His argument I disagree with most is the Metcalfe's Law one:

> I’ve transacted with probably under 100 other people or companies in the five years I’ve been using Bitcoin; the demand for transactions scales up linearly with the number of people using it.

As more people use Bitcoin then Gavin's personal demand for transactions would increase roughly linearly, but because there are more users the overall demand would increase quadratically.

Or is he saying his transaction volume wouldn't increase even as more people accepted Bitcoin? I don't believe that.
Not only that, but there's no indication that use of Palantir would have been illegal in any way in the case, only that if analysis leading to the conviction was obtained with Palantir, then it was withheld from the defendant. Conversely, they argue, if Palantir held no such analytical evidence, then its absence is proof of innocence. That later part if very much a stretch though, as it implies a level of sophistication, if not omniscience, that is not in reality possible.
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The other attack they described ("DolphinAttack") is intriguing. I've yet to read the paper (but plan to), but the idea of Voice control being ever more present and likely extending to control of more parts of our lives (Banking, Vehicle Controls, Home Security...) could make this a pretty effective attack vector.
Anyone used this for inventory tracking and management?
in some circles it is considered "cool" to be admixed or foreign. there's also a fair amount of virtue signaling attached to that as well.
Lawyers and law makers need to remember technology will continually outpace them. Both in execution of ideas and in value creation.
Actually, I am not sure if it wise to circumvent that block. I mean its probably as easy as typing

echo "8.8.8.8" > /etc/hosts

to a root shell, but since we know that in the past people have been send to prison, just because some app on their phone requested an URL from the wrong domain, I suspect that something similarly can happen to the people who try to use Proton mail.

On the other hand, if everybody stops using those services, the surveillance tyrants have won...
Par of the counter transaction system that LN has means that if someone tries to screw you over and you catch it, you get ALL of the money in the channel combined.

So if your channel was just $50 from both parties, you could broadcast your counter transaction with up to $50 in fees and still break even, since you are basically spending the fraudsters money.
Read the book wikinomics. This is just a cheap way to outsource R&D. I'm a professional scientist and I think the whole prize-based way of doing research is stupid. My personal opinion.
We planted milkweed at our home, 9 years ago in Colorado, but never saw any visiting Monarch.
True, but despite all the chances they have had they haven't started a new world war since nuclear weapons proliferated. Why would they now?
it is by no means foolproof and won't get around a deep packet inspection/flow analysis system, but this is why obfsproxy exists:

https://www.google.com/search?q=obfsproxy+tor&ie=utf-8&oe=ut...
Writing papers is always real work, but I’ve never wasted more time than when collaborating with a word processing document...
You are correct, if you think about it as a payment channel between you and your landlord, and a separate channel between you and your employer, I believe. However, the way it's more likely to end up shaking out is as an interlocking network of trusted intermediaries, much like Visa/Mastercard are now.

Your employer will pay you, and then you will pay your landlord. But the only channel you'll have open is one to this 'visa' like entity that sits in the middle, and so will your employer and your landlord. So that trusted intermediary will ensure you don't double-spend to other parties in their channel, but who are the only parties you could double spend to. At least, that is my understanding of how the model works - I haven't read all 59 pages either, though.
> Who doesn’t think race is biological?

People that observe that “race” is a highly malleable concept (there isn't even a broad agreement on how many races there are) that evolves with social, demographic, and economic shifts in the culture whose views of race are examined.
Good monthly print magazine(s) that publishes content on web development?
I'm aware of net magazine and would like to know if there are any others you would recommend?
>Is it still correct / accurate to equate intelligence with IQ?

IQ is simply a way to quantify intelligence.

>I was under the impression that the IQ test has a number of biases (e.g., cultural) that leave it flawed.

There is actually no standardized way to measure IQ. You've heard criticisms of a certain test, but that is just one of many. There are tests that do no use any sort of cultural knowledge at all, such as Raven's Progressive Matrices. Theoretically, a cave man and a Harvard professor could reach the same score, assuming all other factors are the same. It only measures visual pattern recognition, but it is generally assumed that that is highly correlated with overall intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices

There are also g factor tests that attempt to measure overall intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

>or emotional intelligence

Pretty much pseudoscience
Because anti-vaxing is bullshit, but the science of heritability is vastly more subtle and complex.

As is the psychology of intelligence. And the relationship between g and being a good developer.

All of this is called doing science - because it's currently a work in progress - not denying it.
> AFAIK the fact of TOR usage is rater easy to detect.

That's why I said: "Then use meek-amazon as a pluggable transport which should work." meek-amazon makes your traffic look like you're talking to:

> url=https://d2cly7j4zqgua7.cloudfront.net/ front=a0.awsstatic.com

With the snowflake pluggable transport (only available with Linux and Mac alphas for now) the traffic looks like WebRTC.

You can read more about them here:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake
I guess they just like crashing companies while making a ton of money.

If you look at their list of previous acquisitions ( https://www.baincapitalprivateequity.com/portfolio ) there aren't a lot of survivors in 2018.
Ok, so you're giving a business reason to not collect smaller samples. Which is fine and totally valid. Theranos was under the impression that there was an untapped opportunity for smaller samples.

But, the wording of the parent comment was saying that it was supposedly clearly technically impossible because of the small sample size. The OP said "I just never, ever understood how the sampling rate could ever work" and "and this should've been screamingly obvious to everyone since the beginning." That seems very different from "this is a very hard problem due to X, Y, and Z", especially since commercial machines that everyone here gets blood results from are already only taking small samples from the collected vials so the biggest challenge just seems to be in the collection and transport.

I agree that everything is easier with a bigger collection size, however "hard" is different from impossible.
I'm pretty sure that's an unwise assumption to make (for either party - but especially when at least one is ruled by a despot).
I use Atom for Rails development, because it has better Ruby on Rails support than VS Code.

However, I am sick to death of its excessive memory consumption. This morning it was using 1.5 GB of memory.

It's a text editor for God's sake!
How developers pay digital tribute to loved ones in their games
The segmentation occurs on most of the West Coast, people will either go to their local Kroger brand (Fred Meyer, QFC), Target or the local supermarket chain, considering Walmart as a last ditch store to get the item they want.

Another oddity is Texas, where HEB and Lowes Foods controls the majority of the grocery market, with Walmart, Kroger and Safeway (branded as Randall's) being higher priced also rans.
Theorem: All great Mac software is re-created as web-based apps.

Corollary: coming soon to your browser, HyperCard.
Got a link to those studies?
I was also looking for the results of a human experiment. Math is great and all, but if there's no human symptoms that mimic the original reports, this thesis is just a science experiment.
This is a ridiculously impressive feat. ~1200 miles north, starting about 500 miles further north than the vast majority of people in Canada live. Not accounting for conditional differences, this is like canoeing from the Canadian border to Mexico.
I tried really hard to not switch to VS Code. Wasting huge piece of my RAM + randomly and REPEATEDLY crashes which ends up destroying entire settings, packages to newly installed state. I'm done with it. I'm cool with VS Code.

I really had hope when they introduced V8 Snapshots on 1.17, then I had exact same crash couple of days later. And memory management wasn't better. I was even thinking about to replace my mac, because I was running out of RAM just by having Atom + Firefox + iTerm with rails server and console running.

It's really annoying to have your editor, where you spend most of your day, your shortcuts, extensions, settings, theme, all got destroyed in a moment in the middle of the working day. And you have still have to keep working with fresh installation settings. Damn. Worse, although I'm aware of sync-settings, I keep forgetting syncing my settings as they are evolved with time and it still feels insecure to be in need of syncing stuff because you don't know when it will crash for the next time.

Looking at the issues, assuring that I did a good decision by moving away from it.

This one is still open:
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/12255

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/14909
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/14922
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/15443
I'll play devil's advocate here: I actually greatly prefer when people expose their biases early on rather than try to hide them through weaselly or bland language. I think immediate total aversion to nationally biased language is a specifically American trait (and left-coast American at that) - as the result of contemporary cultural conditioning and general lack of exposure to international identities. Europeans are more comfortable with it as it happens more there, there is much more international exchange, and as a result, people can be given the benefit of the doubt by default, in the sense that "oh, I know that when the author says Slovakian culture, he obviously doesn't mean every single individual Slovakian person, but rather his perception of the traits of their culture as a whole."
Why Google Sergey Brin was using a robot to put sutures in synthetic tissue
But be sure not to use the default bundled obfs4 bridges, they're known.
Https://pypi.org load testing underway
Any Windows experts about? I'm curious if it offers something better than fsync for this type of thing.

Or perhaps nothing in the OS can really deal with the variety of behavior in disk controllers?

It's kind of funny to me that we're this many years into databases and hardware and no solution has ever emerged.

I suspect mainframes, for example, don't have this issue. Easy to solve when you get to spec every piece of hardware.
The article suggests the opposite: The prosecutor contends that Palantir was a non-factor in the conviction, hence its lack of inclusion in material disclosed to the defense. The reason for the contract getting cancelled was also not confirmed or commented on by the city, the article only mentioned "some" that were "leery" of its use because it could be used to connect gang members to others. This is a very vague wording of any concerns about use of Palantir. The article was very light on content here, using words that indicate trepidation but not connected those loaded terms to any explanation.

From prior stories about Palantir's lack of efficacy outside of well-resources intelligence and military venue, my guess is that lack of efficacy was the cause for the contract going belly up.
Let's not kid ourselves; Russia would kick our asses in a shooting war. Actually they just did, in Syria. Our navy can't avoid running into cargo ships. Our air force can't buy a new plane. Our army is crippled when attacked with homemade explosives. Our intelligence agencies are employed mostly in spying on their own citizens.

Any armed conflict directly with Russia would be kicked off in the same shameful shambolic fashion we've gotten underway in the last three nations we've invaded. That is to say, we'd make some stupid claims about hacking, everyone else at the UN would chuckle nervously while voting against us, and then we'd ineffectively bomb the wrong targets. Then the world would witness what a bunch of hungry tough bastards with the right equipment can do. It would not be pretty. Eventually Putin and the oligarchs would figure out a really big number we could probably pay if we stopped all entitlement spending for a few generations, and the pain would stop.

Not even Canada would join us in such folly. Putin doesn't actually want a shooting war with USA; he just wants to keep his subjects thinking about Uncle Sam. Let's not fuck up our lives forever, just so a bunch of Washington assholes don't have to admit they've been very wrong for a very long time.
> Ten years from now we’ll have tests that come within a narrow margin of error of predicting IQ from spitting in a test tube. Modulo malnutrition and serious physical abuse but the first at least is not common in the developed world.

Malnutrition and serious physical abuse aren't the only environmental factors with a known significant impact on intelligence, and nutrition (particularly childhood nutrition) patterns with a serious adverse effect on IQ have been identified in research focussed on first world areas of study; they certainly aren't rate enough to be insignificant sources of variation in the first world.
The state is not that efficient in coordinating with a municipality.