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I didn't sign up for Twitter because I thought it would open up professional opportunities for me. Not sure who this is aimed at to be honest.

OP thinks social media is bad for you and doesn't need it for professional reasons so he doesn't use it. So why should I take his advice on what I should or shouldn't do on social media?

His argument boils down to there are more productive uses of your time. Brb, gotta delete Netflix too! Sorry to my family as well, since I need to move to a shack in the woods to be free of distractions for my important work.

If OP is worried about the "seductive" nature of promoting yourself on social media maybe he shouldn't write humblebrag articles to post in NYT.
Right? Maybe I'm not explaining very well. I feel like we're agreeing.

Checking a bit and discarding at collection time is the easiest. You need to ensure data collection is aware of this setting, and anything that manipulates this data doesn't need to care whether or not some data is "hidden" or not.

> That doesn't sound foolproof at all.

Right - If you go the route of collecting all data and hiding it later then all tools that interoperate with customer data need to make sure they don't accidentally expose "paused" data back to the customer.

Given two choices of throwing away data at collection time, or forever in the future trying to hide data from the customer, it seems simpler to throw away data at collection time.
Great idea, and hilarious, BUT: you're going to end up spamming the crap out of your REAL friends with all the nonsense you post, so I think step one would be to block or de-friend anyone you care about in your social graph, first.
Anyone interested in setting up their own VPN should check out Algo: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
I had a passenger (circa 2015) who was gung-ho about driving for Uber. He'd driven for the taxi company for a few shifts, but couldn't make money. He'd ordered a taxi to take his family to the airport because they had luggage. He couldn't risk getting a miniature uber that wouldn't be big enough. He'd bought the cheapest black BMW he could find so that he could get Uber Black fares too, and was going through the state's procedures to become a vehicle-for-hire. He whined about how much commercial insurance was going to cost him...

Governor Ducey threw us taxi drivers under the bus as soon as he took office in January 2015. (edit2: the NFL's Superbowl was in Glendale, AZ that month.) Arizona has very minimal regulations for taxis and vehicles for hire -- basically a vehicle inspections, background checks for drivers and commercial insurance. Anyone who wants to become a taxi company is welcome, no medallion required. Taxi companies are trusted to take care of the regulations for themselves. Essentially Ducey said he was going to stop enforcement of the state's existing minimal laws pertaining to private transportation until the legislators came up with replacements.

Ducey's predecessor, Jan Brewer, vetoed a bill that gave personal vehicles transporting passengers for "ride sharing" an exemption from having commercial insurance - at the time Uber's insurance was "trust us, you're covered". The company I drove for spent a ton of money on their lobbyists to get that bill vetoed, and for a bill that was somewhat-fair for everyone.

> Arizona was not always a friendly state for Uber. In April 2014, then-governor Jan Brewer vetoed legislation that would have exempted taxi-hailing companies from insurance regulations imposed on traditional taxis.

(I believe this is a typo - the veto'd bill exempted personal vehicles used for "ride share" from the insurance regulations for taxis).

The taxi company I drove for is doing fine. They've adapted, and now lease unbranded vehicles that drivers can use with any of the app-based services. Their contracts pay better than the apps' non-surge fares. One of my driver-friends said the scene on the ground is okay - fare volume is down, but quality is up (calls are from people people who really want a ride).

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Biggest Stadiums in every US State
Saw this two weeks ago. Amazing exhibit.
We need more static page generation like Jekyll. It doesn't make sense that an entire blog needs to be dynamically generated all the time. Dynamic contents can be fetched using ajax, but the rest should be static HTML.
I’ve only played around with mycroft a bit, but I’m pretty sure the language processing occurs via cloud (home.mycroft.ai). As it’s open source, you can plug it into a local STT if you want to. The Snips.ai platform seems like it was designed for keeping everything local out-of-the-box, which is why I’m going to try it out this afternoon! After all, I really only want it to understand a handful of commands, mainly around audio and lights.
And employees who took their government’s and their employer’s word (and contract) for it are somehow he ones to blame?

It’s no small thing to suggest that people should view the legal obligations of their governments with skepticism. That we should anticipate, and account for the risk of, government default in our employment plans.

Politicians who didn’t want to raise taxes (to increase pay, to attract workers) made promises of deferred compensation (which have to be higher to offset now vs. future). Voters bought it, -hook, line, and sinker-, and the entire state bought public services on credit.

I have a hard time pinning that on the guy doing largely unskilled work for the last 30 years of his life. He may be left holding the bag, but I’m not going to leave him with the blame.
I read the whole thing and all I came away with is that basically no one has a fucking clue if it applies, if it does apply technically does it even matter, and if it does matter how it’s supposed to work without fucking up the site.

Yay GDPR!
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Mostly Reddit and (sigh) Facebook. Recently I've been experimenting both Mastodon and micro.blog [^0]. Different approaches to federation/decentralization, both quite interesting.

[^0]: https://micro.blog/
This. I am ok with the state paving roads. I am not ok in the state paving roads in gold brick. I am ok with the state buying cop cars and work trucks. I am not ok with the state subsidizing top of the line pursuit models for departments that don't have highway to patrol and spec'ing out top trim trucks for the DOT.

The same goes for employee benefits. Something is ok. Luxury is not.

If there is a reasonably comparison between employee pensions and private industry "executive compensation" should be a massive red flag. Being a civil servant should not be about the money.
You know what happens at 100x? You burn out 100x faster. But you aren't paid 100x more.
Would that be the difference between "something possibly reasonable" and "what we have now" coming from the pension fund?
If no insurance company will take the deal, that's a good sign to the constituents that it's all a lie anyway.

I think there are laws requiring the insurance company to have enough assets or reinsurance to pay the claims if they come due.
Yup, and they are willing to bet you will take a 3% yearly raise rather than look for another job.
Subreddits: AskHistorians, SpaceX, NeutralPolitics, and a number of others.

Twitter: I follow a number of intellectuals I respect and hope to be linked to interesting articles and papers.

Facebook: I check for event invites as part of my daily routine but avoid reading my feed.

Newsblur: Following lots of blogs and some Tumblrs.

Blog: I don't post enough.
Is there a nice summary of how to do this available? Or, if not, would you mind posting a few pointers?
I could be wrong but I thought California has the same mess, but most likely more massive.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-wor...
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That might be the easiest way for a novice to do it, but would it be the fastest for someone who has experience?
I'd have to disagree; or at least counter that irreligion does not immorality breed. The least religious nations tend also to be the most peaceful, have the best treatment of women and children, and lowest rates of teen pregnancy, STDs etc...:

https://pitweb.pitzer.edu/academics/wp-content/uploads/sites...
What's the advantage of this over OpenVPN?
Does it require to install a certificate or what is the mechanism for enabling the VPN on iOS?
Agreed. I think that the advantage of a good tech lead is that they:

1) Make sure that the people working for them are happy and challenged

and

2) Remove any roadblocks required for developers to solve the problems that they are working on (I would say "write code", but I don't think that the ultimate measure of developer productivity is how much code they write).

I think that good tech leads should help to keep productivity growing mostly (almost?) linearly as the engineering team grows.
I've seen lots of pros who prefer Final Cut Pro and Sketch
A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees
You can set the node count to 1 when you create the cluster in GitLab
"We had to kill the pedestrians in order to save them..."
Sanity Solutions Saving Customers Millions by Switching from AWS to Hybrid Cloud
I totally agree but the issue is how even smart people shout for more regulation totally ignoring the disaster we get ourself into when we allow central authorities to filter our information.

IMO the issue is the people who use this information overload to build perceptions.

People could simply not have a opinion if they don't have the time to build it, but that doesn't fit our voting mentality where 'every vote counts' even the most stupid ones.

People also could use traditional media as their main information source instead of biased republished trash sources on Facebook.

Hence our school system should teach kids how to parse information.
I had a similar issue when I had to work in Emacs too. Evil is, on the whole a good emulation, but I kept tripping over ^W not doing what I expected. And then if I messed up the undoing, I got to screw around with Emacs' redo functionality being... idiosyncratic.
I've also thought this exact thing, the reality is (to me at least) everyone processes information and forms opinions differently. The climate of political discourse, in my opinion, has a large majority in a defensive mindset. What people express as an opinion or 'thought' on social media is currently from the same place I believe. We are so used to being 'sold' a message on these platforms, that we forget the real 'purpose'. Which I believe is, social validation from peers. Not to think the same, but to be reinforced that it's okay to have a opinion and that I can recognize as my own, separate from others. Individuality can be chaotic but there's a good side to it...
Is it expected that libaom will be the de facto standard open source enoder, like x264 is for h.264?
Due to some sort of scarcity, I assume. Software seems to become less scarce as time goes by.
Full Disclosure: I work for Red Hat in the Container and PaaS Practice in Consulting.

At Red Hat, we define an HA OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster as 3x3xN (3 masters, 3 infra nodes, 3 or more app nodes) [0] which means the API, etcd, the hosted local Container Registry, the Routers, and the App Nodes all provide (N-1)/2 fault tolerance.

Not to brag, since we're well practiced at this, but I can get a 3x3x3 cluster in a few hours, I've lead customer to a basic 3x3x3 install (no hands on keyboard) in less than 2 days, and our consultants are able to install a cluster in 3-5 working days about 90% of the time, even with impediments like corporate proxies, wonky DNS or AD/LDAP, not so Enterprise Load Balancers, and disconnected installs. Making a cluster read for production is about right-sizing and doing good testing.

[0] http://v1.uncontained.io/playbooks/installation/#cluster-des...
Yes, but in many private companies you are paying the bill as well. Anyone that does work for the government you are paying for, whether it be food service for government employees, insurance for government employees, etc. Also, any time you buy just about anything from a corporation you are facilitating this with your money as a portion of what you are paying for is going to pay those executives.

Its just that pensions are more direct and easy to see.
Did you apply for a social media marketing position?
Open source sabbatical = awesome
You can run Google Kubernetes Engine with a single node, just set the size to 1. It will complain about the high availability, etc. but it works just fine if you don't need that.
What we learned from auditing the top 20 ERC20 token contracts
This is probably a dumb question but is there a way to train snips.ai to recognize my home music server’s collection of artists/albums/songs/playlists?

I like Spotify but I’d also like to be able play my local music with voice commands.
Capitalism's inherent problem in one series of images. I wonder how much carbon is sitting in that pile.
Fairly significant, apparently - you have to put up a scaffold alongside the wall for SAM to work. (And presumably, you need firm, open ground to put the thing on.) And they can't do corners or complex features, so when you hit those you need to either stop the machine or move it to a different part of the project. Headlines say they're 6x faster than normal masons, but that's during a given span of operation; over the course of a day, with overhead, it's apparently more like 3x.

That said, the machines are in field use, since masons are scarce and expensive. You're right about the big jobs, too; they're apparently pretty much limited to sites like universities and hospitals which have lots of big, featureless walls. The Tech Review article about it is much more informative than the NYT one here. [1]

I think this sort of automation worry seriously over-generalizes from factory robots. Robots are spectacular at doing repetitive tasks with nicely-arranged inputs and fixed workspaces. Hence, Amazon warehouses and Ford factory floors. But (as the SAM people admit) outdoor, new-worksite tasks are going to involve way more mixed human/robot tasks.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/540916/robots-lay-three-t...
There is a slight irony in them being an infrastructure company.
"Companies aren't going to ignore "free information available at your fingertips" about the candidates they hire."

I do. I often interview candidates in my role as a software developer at my company. Finding them on social media would be trivial. But I don't look for them there. I don't care.

I don't even want to know their politics before giving my recommendation and I'm deeply suspicious of anybody who thinks they would want to know that information.
Social Media in Sales
I've actually quit all mainstream social media (FB, twitter, reddit, etc...) years ago. You could assume I'm much more productive but the truth is I still spent a lot of time on HN and browsing the web.
I don't disagree that commercially available REUs were fair game, but a vanishingly small number of C64 owners had them, while a very large number of C64 owners had either datasettes or 1541s.

This doesn't take away from the demo, but if say, EA, Epyx, or Activision were going to ship a game that played music like this, they would have had to fix it in 64k. So it's even more impressive when I see stuff that a typical home computer could have seen in 1983.

I remember the first few times I heard digi-mods on the C64, like Rob Hubbard's Skate or Die game intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqRXxPl6bXA) and it absolutely blew me away. Full screen video + audio like that Onslaught Demo would have given me a heart attack.
What countries is brick still popular for primary construction? Japan is wood, China and much of Asia is majorly concrete. Europe?
Oh Christ. I thought they were fast, only last week they said they have a few bugs still left to be fixed. ( And only last month they said they were still listening to hardware makers on suggestions and changes to improve decoding speed )

Thanks for pointing this out.

One reason why I dont like / trust the folks at On2 / VP8, it is nice AOMedia now has folks like you to keep them honest and humble.

Have a nice day.
I've been working on this: https://www.laidbackvj.com/ code here: https://github.com/khaliqgant/laid-back-vj. Happy to work with others!
When I want to reply to posts like that, I ponder until I can think of something to say that is short, simple, and kind. My goal is not to correct them but rather to build a relationship of trust. If they learn to trust me, they are far more likely to join my side on important matters.

Also consider that most people don't have your writing skills and will get frustrated when they try to engage in a debate with you in writing. Most people are more comfortable when speaking (especially face to face) rather than writing. That's why most of the real political discussion continues to happen offline, even today.
> Do you think the DNC had a right to keep private their Hillary favoritism and primary rigging?

Yes? As a general rule, private organizations should generally be free to keep their private emails sent about privately held preferences and gatherings in private hands.

The DNC is not a government agency or body. They're not subject to FOIL. They didn't "rig" the primaries unless you enormously stretch the definition of "rigging".

If we have a right to see the DNC's emails, we have a similar right to see the RNC's. Doesn't take much wondering to tell if they expressed private feelings about Trump there - they were publicly telling Trump to drop out.
Nice to see it will still support standalone licenses without needing a subscription.
https://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=56824?sh...

. It would take approximately 40 years of full contribution to get about 50 % of salary upon retirement in the Swedish pension system( is the rough estimate correct)?

Compare to, e.g., the city of SF, where you only need to work 23 years, and can retire before 60.
True. You could also have an unskilled laborer grab two bricks at once and place it on the machine at a rate of 1 brick every 2 seconds or so.
Because America is 400m people not 10m people like Sweden, not a homogenous population, etc.

Its more accurate to compare America to the EU than to one wealthy EU member state (Sweden)
When you see at brick buildings built 100 years ago, it's works of art. It's apparent that amount of attention to detail is just not within range of most brick layers today. Especially when you consider price point.

I'm talking stuff like this: http://www.etovidel.net/appended_files/big/4ea52a818bc08.jpg

BUT, robots can change all that. You can render a wall on PC, with all mosaics and tiles and all kind of super precise stuff, it will produce a complete program for a brick-laying robot, which will then be executed up to a millimetre.
And it will also account for ventilation shafts, drainage, internal structures within the wall to decrease weight, increase toughness, heat- and soundproof.
Google releases SRE APM tools for production apps – Debugger, Profiler and trace
Luck, but definition, is something outside of your control. Any time you have influence over your luck, it's no longer luck, it's ability. Maybe this school teaches people to recognize the opportunities in their life (still a privileged position), but luck by its definition is success or failure outside of one's control.

The idea that one chooses to be lucky or remain unlucky is about as sensible as theology.
Deeper still it comes from the de-facto two-party political system in the USA which forces the whole political discourse into an us/them discussion.
"Unsafe at any feed"
> Yes, but if you could get it for free that would be even better. It's a fantastic business model to charge premium for something that cost almost nothing.

Cost almost nothing? How much do you think was invested in research and development?

But hey, feel free to open a company, invest billions of your own money in research and then give everything away for free with no revenue whatsoever. Sounds like a great business model!
Or reconsider the need for a VPN at all. By using a VPN you cut yourself off from participating as an equal citizen on the net. If it's just for browsing the web, irc, or the like it's much easier and better just to use a socks 5 proxy to a cheap VPS. I like shadowsocks-libev.

But then again I don't use popular browsers that cram in fancy new features every week to expose new leaks and attack surfaces.
So you build a jig to apply mortar. You scoop in an excess of mortar, pack it, press it, and what's left is just the right amount. Apply it into the space you want to lay the brick. Remove jig, maybe using a trowel to help if the mortar sticks a bit. Another jig holds the brick and fits it into place at the right position and placement with the right pressure.
Only comments here discussing the shittiness of '100x' engineer, despite the first paragraph of the article specifically stating that a good Lead is a force multiplier of a team.

Read the article.
I don't know about intercepting iOS apps, but I definitely do this exact thing for web app development targeting iPads using Charles for the desktop.

Be sure that your default proxy port doesn't conflict with the default WSS port.

Edit: for reference I'm on Charles 4.2.1
Lets step away from the "company" aspect of it, because docker is also a project.

If this post were by someone named Linus, or Guido, (or Jobs) or any number of other names I can think of - people would be freaking out.

Yet the reaction so far is one thatI can only describe as "meh" - there wasn't a scandal (uber) there isn't a failure (intel) and people mostly (with exception) like the product.

I wonder what the future holds for docker after this change.

Also that art at the end, looks great but all I could think of was "fail whale" when looking at it (and not docker).
They're already in field use, and are apparently fine at it. They just do big, straight wall stretches for things like hospitals. The "would lose to master masons who have to put up corners in a speed contest" metric is a bit silly - on non-corner work they're operating 3x as fast as the masons they're alongside. No real risk they're replacing humans, but they do work.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/540916/robots-lay-three-t...