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> up 23 days
> Right there, I can see that okay, the box hasn't been rebooted recently

Is the implication of "recently" that it should have been rebooted every couple of weeks or something?

My desktop is at 54 days (since I moved desk, I think) and picking a random Hadoop node:

> 10:26:47 up 303 days, 11:56, 1 user, load average: 44.12, 50.56, 47.48

It's private, so kernel updates aren't a security issue.

(Keeeping this on-topic, "history" tells me the most frequent thing I do on this node is "sudo iftop"; we've been doubting the accuracy of our monitoring system's network utilization graphs.)
The first time I felt (relatively) old was when I realized portn stars were younger then me.

Now I feel even older...
There is a process to be followed. If you have the response from the DPO and a reasonable suspicion based on evidence, you can absolutely to to the DPA. If your evidence is strong, that may proceed on that. If not but there are many other similar complaints, they can formally ask the company to 'clarify' issues....which is a very dangerous thing if you are a company that is evasive.
There was a person at the wheel.

That person wasn't paying full attention to the road. From the video of the crash, it looks like the woman at the wheel was looking at their phone.

Why is no one acknowledging that this woman was responsible for taking over the wheel if necessary for any reason. When I have cruise control on, I take my feet off of the pedals and rest them on the floor. But if, say, a homeless person with a bicycle walks out into the middle of the road at night with a black sweatshirt on in front of my car, then I step on the brakes.

And why is no one acknowledging that a homeless person walked out into the middle of the street at night in a black sweatshirt. I definitely don't know whether I, even if I wasn't on my phone like the car operator was, would've seen the person in the road with enough time to slam on the brakes. I might've killed that person walking across the road by mistake, too.

Like millions of other people on the road every single day, the car operator was on their smartphone while they were at the wheel. And like 3-5 million other people a year, the homeless person walking across the street was killed in a car accident.

The woman walking across the street and the woman at the wheel of the car broke the law. Uber didn't break any laws as far as I can tell. They were as responsible as any other company building self-driving cars as far as I can tell, too. I don't think it's fair to put the fault on Uber here.
One problem with these comparisons is the misinterpretation of statistical data. For general policy making statistics are useful, but for personal decisions you need to take them with a grain of salt and switch on your brain.

Human traffic accident statistics include the totality of reckless drivers, street racers, and drunken idiots. Would you readily be a passenger when they drive? I wouldn't. At the same time, the statistics also include the calmest, best, and most reasonable drivers you've ever met in your life.

I think it's reasonable to expect self-driving cars to always drive better than your average drunk college student with 1 year of driving experience and instead perform more like the best drivers you've ever met. So yes, self-driving cars should perform above the human average.
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> doesn’t count as proving its value over 40 years

The Go designers used CSP over the course of many decades via Newsqueak, Alef, Limbo and Plan 9 C's libthread.
What parties that are buying data from Facebook do, Google themself can do the same. Manipulate search, Youtube suggested video, using data for their own benefit. May be they did not do anything. But, that does not mean they can't do that in future.

Saying it's fine for Google have so much power just because they are not working like Facebook, is stupid. History repeats, but we never learn our lesson.
There is only 24 hours in a day, and the Go team has limited resources. They focused on other issues in the last few years. Dependency management is the current focus now.
AFAICT, based on my visits and the people I know there, it's a pretty different lifestyle, people seem much more frugal. People eat out less frequently. Owning a car is much less common, and those that people own are usually much less luxurious (many more very compact cars). Housing is generally much more modest (this is almost universally true), Europeans seem a bit flabbergasted at the gigantic houses we live in when they visit. A lot of things like transit and healthcare are heavily subsidized, so low earners can still get around and get medical attention. The top tax rates are fairly high, but I believe not that much higher than the cumulative tax rates for a high earner living in CA or NY, once you consider fed income+state income+sales tax+payroll tax.

Basically, Europeans on average have much lower incomes than Americans, and they seem much more frugal.
IIRC YBCO can't be feasibly made into wires. However new cuprates have been discovered which are less brittle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_strontium_calcium_coppe...
In Holland we just had a referendum on indiscriminant wiretapping, where the government was introducing legislation to allow more freedom for intelligence agencies to tap and store and share internet history.

The results were that the people rejected the proposal by a narrow margin, with older people voting in favor or the proposal, and younger demographics voting against. (Similarly, lower educated people were in favor, higher educated people against.)

So Privacy is not an 'old people issue' over here.
Absolutely right.

Doing otherwise shows a worrying lack of systems engineering expertise.

Actually - the industry that really knows how to do this sort of thing is the defense industry.
Smart cities are more about people, tech is a means to an end
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Ye, it is not as smooth in scrolling as GMaps, though more feature rich.
If this bothers you, there is an app called Maps.Me. it is minimalistic, has smooth scrolling like Gmaps but not as feature rich as OSMand and has a non-free (as in freedom) map data service behind it.

But if performance of osmand bothers you, this is the place to go.
Orgy porgy is the new Orange. It was just a question of time that the news' focus on the most recent, the most dabbling and the most infuriating will have it basically eradicate itself.

I once read a book where a certain Japanese man could swallow his nose. A different page in the book refuted that it was the Japanese man and stated it was instead his brother who could actually do this nose swallowing. Yet another page retold the initial story again, refuting the story around it being his brother. This is just like reading the news or opening the bible on whatever page.
Well anyone who was using Linux in the late 90s is probably used to ignoring OEM brochures and instead picking hardware based on compatibility.

I've had good success with Zuk and Snapdragon-based and Elephone Mediatek-based phones
So I am not the only one to have a slow eployment because re-building AMI and re-provisioning everything takes quite some times.

I also had a difficult time to explain that a prod deploy of 30min (image creation, deploy with blue green) is normal for this kind of inf... Did you face the same thing?
I find the 80 chars too short but, and this is highly objective, I notice I am more relaxed and usually having more fun when working with shorter lines. The best theory a I have as to why is just that most lines in code are short so long lines require making my eyes deviate from the code structure. If there is a long line, it will probably be out of place. So, my personal rule is to avoid that one or two lines that juts out beyond the lines above and below it. If all lines in a block are long, they are often similar commands/expressions which makes them orderly, and not so discomforting.
Deterministic in what context?
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Directly, by wasting people's time and trying to manipulate them into buying a good or service they don't need. Quite often, those goods or services are subpar and a bad fit for the buyer (but a better sale for the seller). For each one of us who knows how to run an ad blocker, there's someone else who will get convinced by the ads and will sign up to a bad deal, possibly leading to a scam or a payday loan.

Indirectly, through erosion of privacy and pretty much constructing a global high-tech surveillance apparatus, ready to be taken over by any evil government in the future. Basically, what this talk was about.

Indirectly, through criminals who exploit marketers' data, as it inevitably leaks in data breaches.

Indirectly, through enabling even more waste of precious resources in a stupid zero-sum game of customer acquisition.
This won't work too because there's a joke about communist taking over the government this winter(It's a similar to the "Year of the Linux Desktop" joke).

:)
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> Why posit noumena at all if all that is knowable are phenomena?

You don't need it for typical interactions with the world, but when you start examining how the sensory apparatus and the mind experience the world, you need the distinction.
Why is this 2010 video getting so much attention now?
Because of the recent FB "scandals"?

Just assume that every online platform you are on is selling you and tour loved ones
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Quoting ECMA-262 First Edition (June 1997), Chapter 11, Section 11 (Binary logical operators)[1]:

The production LogicalANDExpression : LogicalANDExpression && BitwiseORExpression is evaluated as follows:

1. Evaluate LogicalANDExpression.
2. Call GetValue(Result(1)).
3. Call ToBoolean(Result(2)).
4. If Result(3) is false, return Result(2).
5. Evaluate BitwiseORExpression.
6. Call GetValue((Result(5)).
7. Return Result(6).

That is, the behavior has always been "If the first expression is false-ish, return the first expression, otherwise return the second expression" ("BitwiseORExpression" is a class of expressions that include a lot of things, including equality operators).

JavaScript does not have any operators that is not explicitly listed in a version of ECMA-262. It would be correct to refer to the construct as a "guard", but incorrect to refer to it as a "guard operator". Calling it "guard operator" also does not promote an understanding of the underlying construct.

1: https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S...
There's a reason Mark Zuckerberg himself came out and said he's "actually not sure we shouldn't be regulated" and it's not because he has genuine concerns about his users privacy.

It's because regulation increases the barrier to entry. It means less chance of some college students starting an app that can dethrone Facebook.
Cruise control is different because you still have your hands on the wheel.
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while theoretically possible there are enough people monitoring Google's JavaScript to make sure that they will never use fingerprinting on you. Or do they?
Why AI will be an inevitable part of your video surveillance solution
I like how when you click on the headline, the article actually says "$70B". But then again, what's $30B nowadays.
AI algos are very easy to implement. But no one can think and know its consequence.

Its just biases and weight. What if we miss something or we can not able to predict cases like this or as we do not know how algo will behave. Than we are creating our own destroy ship.
For those not getting the reference and downvoting:

https://www.discogs.com/Atari-Teenage-Riot-Delete-Yourself/r...
What kind of ridiculous project structure do you have? I have never in my ~5 or so years of using Android Studio have had to do something as drastic as that.

I have occasionally have had issues with updating, but this has required a tweak in the gradle file and an update of build tools, at most.
Not socializing so much is also valid.
I used to think that too - as an "old person" think "it's just me being old". Then I showed The Circle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(2017_film) ) to my two teenagers (11 and 13 at the time) and was surprised how angry they got about it and I mean _really angry_. For them the idea being permanently watchable (premise of the Circle is there are cameras everywhere watching everything) was really terrifying.

Now these are typical modern kids. Probably spending too much time with YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat et al. And I've told them many times about the data that's being collected on them and the reaction was always "whatever". But The Circle really got to them.

I assume it's actually me as their father they're ultimately afraid of as teenagers - that I could see what they're up to at all times and impose rules / punish transgressions. But underneath that seems to be a basic human need for privacy that's essential to personal development.

TLDR: show The Circle to your kids
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I'm from Brazil, live in the Netherlands. Whastapp is ubiquitous in both places. Not using it today is akin to not having a mobile phone years ago.
You can't really test the control part of the algorithm, but you could test the detection and object recognition parts.
"uniform distribution of request types" - okay, it makes sense in that context. Although if that assumption breaks down, your thread limits may become under or over provisioned.

I'm wondering though - how do you pick the right alpha and beta values? It seems like you need to do testing/validation to ensure you use the right values, right?

Sorry if I'm sounding critical by the way. I think this is a really cool project - thanks for open sourcing it!
Always pxeboot, then "re-imaging" is a matter of "turn it off and on again".

If you have a hardware failure how would you rebuild?

Of course this all takes time to implement and manage -- it's a tradeoff.
Not to mention that while configuration management "magic" has taken over (Puppet/Chef - or even something higher level) you still need to set up those and you still need to know where to look when things go wrong.
The same is true for hacker news which imo produces lots of fmo leading to stress without providing real insight most of the times.
It's still very much a thing here. Curbing that habit is one of the things these bloggers talk a lot about, since doing that helps you save much more.
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>Why would you build a startup to only be capable to NOT work in EU.

Because adopting the lowest common denominator (GDPR etc.) won't let you grow as quickly, and you might not need the EU market to reach your personal and business goals, or your point of exit.

It might make more sense to split into a EU division once you can really afford it and are established in your main market. I think that this will happen, many will see the EU market just as feature and option to scale an already established business, even companies within the EU. They might start in the US first, and block EU access.
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what are some alternative investments beside stocks, index, real estate..
should be mainly passive (like peer2peer lending) or semi-passive, like building a mining rig.
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You don't have to "pull sources from GitHub". You can host your code as a .zip file on any static web server. Look at under "Download Protocol" in this article: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-module

About vendoring, I think Russ Cox is aware of the issue. Look at this discussion on his website: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-module#comment-3771676619
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Me: Hey, have you heard about X? X is super awesome! It's the leading $FOO on the market [[in fact, I'm lying here, but you'd have to compare X to alternatives to discover that]]!.

Me: Oh, have you heard about X? Really, X.

[[We sit in front of TV to watch a game.]]

Me: Oh, before we watch, you have to listen to this. X. X is the thing. It's super awesome...

[[Halfway through the game.]]

Me: Let's take a break now, and talk about why you really should look into X right now!

[[Some time later]]

You: By the way, why do you think I need this X thing?

Me: Oh, it's simple. I've been peeking through your windows for the past few days, and I see that both you and your wife regularly look for A, B and C, which are related to $FOO. Also, I've seen your recent purchase receipts in your thrash can, and it again confirms you're on the market for a $FOO. And X is the leading $FOO on the market!...
Monitoring and logging are best separated. Prometheus is great even on a small scale. For log aggregation there is the relatively new oklog.

I have been running oklog for a customer successfully. You ought to deploy it like a regular (non-cloud-native) service though: When a server crashes, restore the oklog instance from backups, not spinning a new one.
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You're leaving your firm incredible vulnerable to the "checkyoursudo gets hit by a bus" scenario aren't you? At least let the rest of your firm know you have servers and give some credentials (for another account with sudo permissions) to e.g. a managing partner or similar (with instructions to never use them unless you die).
>A lot of digital ink has been spilled over how slow and supposedly prone to disruption by hip and agile software companies this approach is, yet it becomes ever more evident that it was the correct choice.

The car industry had 130 years to become the conservative, anti-agile, careful industry it is. They are in the business of costing human lives a lot longer.

The problem is "move fast and break things" works really extraordinarily well for software which is for entertainment and information purposes. Not for something serious.
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No mention of Wittgenstein, and the argument for the impossibility of a private language. All that material in Philosophical Investigations on how natural language is game like, and an essentially social practice, is highly relevant.
there's also the memory-optimization variant of this, from the land of game dev. see "the programming anti-hero": https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_t...

most of the other game dev dirty trick on gamasutra are good value -- the "(s)elf-exploitation" one from Jonathan Garrett, Insomniac Games is particularly awfully clever:

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/194772/dirty_game_dev...
Hyperion is the best of the books in my opinion. One of my favorite books of all time. The Endymion books are a different story set in the same universe, and can be skipped if you want.
> with tabs you can configure your editor to your preferences

Except that you can't because people using tabs will invariably start mixing tabs and spaces because they can't separate indentation from layout. So the code will be messed up unless you configure your editor to someone else's preferences. Also, I'm sure there is some obscure git setting to de-uglify tab users' diffs, but I'd rather not find out.
> please, go and read pep8

OK. What am I looking for?
> Is there any proof for this?

It is not a question of proof, it is a question of language. The input to our senses is real by definition if this input allows us to navigate and survive in the world. Any metaphysical hypothesis which posits this input is somehow not "real" (but the actual "real world" is unavailable to our senses) is simply useless and can be discarded by Occam's razor.

Any hypothesis about the world which cannot be confirmed or falsified through observation is meaningless. Neither right nor wrong, just useless.
HFS+ sparse images, sorry (not quite the same as sparse files, but here DfM uses sparse files are used to create a raw image, so I wanted to lift some possible confusion, and tripped on)
Although this is a risk, it has been somewhat accounted for in GDPR:

(from ico.org.uk - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...)

"Can I charge a fee for dealing with a subject access request?

You must provide a copy of the information free of charge. However, you can charge a 'reasonable fee' when a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, particularly if it is repetitive.

You may also charge a reasonable fee to comply with requests for further copies of the same information. This does not mean that you can charge for all subsequent access requests."
I just have a server dedicated to syslog and have rsyslog running on everything else.
We non-US people will never understand this, sorry. Instead of staying in a single cross-platform system US people prolonged for other ~5 years the use of SMS that was non existing here for a long time, also paying the highest costs in the world per SMS more or less (AFAIK you used to pay even for receiving), and now are picking OS-specific platforms.
Isn't that the case in the US? In the EU, you can be fined for driving too close to the car in front of you.

I think that driving close to the car in front of you is the number 1 cause of accidents. Much more dangerous than driving fast.
You're right, nothing in the spec prohibits "vendoring" the .zip modules in a directory in your project. It's purely an implementation issue. vgo already provides GOPROXY, but a built-in "vendoring" mechanism would be easier for most people. Here is one I commented on Russ' blog: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-module#comment-3772245118
My though exactly! For the company of checkyoursudo, he's what is called a Key Person Risk.

But in my examples, I never use the "hit-by-a-bus". Sysadmins tend to frown upon that comment.

I use the "win-the-lottery-go-to-Fiji-and-never-look-back". It always makes them smile :)
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> If you want to impress me, set up a system at your company that will reimage a box within 48 hours of someone logging in as root and/or doing something privileged with sudo (or its local equivalent). If you can do that and make it stick, it will keep randos from leaving experiments on boxes which persist for months (or years...) and make things unnecessarily interesting for others down the road.

Ferrari does this. They do a lot of experimentation on their most expensive internal test equipment, and every now and then the whole box is re-imaged automatically, even if it's completely locked down from outside. It's their internal staff who is corrupting/improving the system. Only if it's a really good and well-tested improvement they will make it stick.
Not to mention the other side was and is doing the exact same thing.
Why does "liberal" mean something essentially unrelated to "liberal" in American politics? How did that come about?
The Shoreline Amphitheater (yes, the idiots who ran Mtn. View back then couldn't tell an amphitheater from a theater) was built over the dump.

The first few events revealed the danger when people sitting on the lawn portion actually set the lawn afire with their lighters, due to methane seeping through the soil.
People do need to be taught this. I inherited a script from a co-worker who had left. My team leader had gone over it and commented it for me.

# open file
with open(my_file, "rb") as binary_file:
binary_file.seek(8)

No mention of what was at byte 8, or what the hell it was doing, but he commented the only obvious part of the code.