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I work almost exclusively with people learning Swarm, and companies deploying Swarm. In Sacramento, CA today at MuraCon conference listening to stories of teams I've never met, taking Docker Swarm CE into production. Most I see start out deploying it for web services, web sites, worker jobs, then maybe dipping into persistent data containers with something like REX-Ray for shared storage. 18.03 is the latest Docker CE release and solid afaik. The dev-to-prod workflow is pretty great woth docker-compose to Swarm Mode. See my DockerCon talk https://dockercon.docker.com/watch/WdAeLaLuSCNQwEp61YVXUt and my YouTube Channel on stuff I just started doing https://www.youtube.com/c/BretFisherITPro and I also have articles and courses at https://bretfisher.com
I'm a manager on Stripe support. I'm incredibly sorry that happened. Can you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can look into this further?
https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003401/http://www.namesy...

Hans Reiser had some good ideas.

And by the way there is a good analogy with www - originally we had just the addresses (somehow hierarchical), then we had hierarchical catalogue of Yahoo, and then quickly it became too much for that and we now rely on search.
The silence is deafening. I’ll answer for Patrick; here is ProfitWell’s privacy policy:

https://www.profitwell.com/privacy-policy

The short answer to your question is, “Yes.” The long answer is:

> INFORMATION SHARING

1. With Third Parties:

We may share your information with third-party business partners...

...

2. With Service Providers:

We may share your information with third parties who provide services on our behalf...to which these services may include:

Payment processing

Providing customer service

Sending marketing communications

Conducting research and analysis

Providing cloud computing infrastructure

...which also means, “Yes.” In particular, “research and analysis” is not clarified (nor would a clarification outside the formal ToS be legally binding). As long as there is a defensible interpretation of these clauses, they can freely sell all of your information. This also might be of interest to you:

> We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. In certain circumstances we may be required by law to retain your personal information, or may need to retain your personal information in order to continue providing a service.

There is a legitimate reading of this clause which allows ProfitWell to retain your data indefinitely because they’re providing a service to someone.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/banking-and-bankers

Or you can search for literally any source. The extreme success of the Jewish communities throughout time is extremely well documented. This success, paired with insularity, was often one of the big motivations for their oppression throughout history. Expulsions would generally involve direct or indirect confiscation of material possessions. Between the 13th and 16th century Jews were expelled some 15+ times, in some cases multiple times from the same places (such as France) where they would be expelled, invited as their absence proved problematic, expelled again, and so on.

The reason Jews have distinctive features is because today about 75% of Jews are Ashkenazi - a very distinctive group with a variety of distinct features, both physical and nonphysical. For instance Ahskenazi individuals show an average IQ average nearly a standard deviation above the mean. The reason for the genetic relationship is that historically Judaism was far more insular than it is even today. For instance interfaith marriages is an extremely new phenomena. Pair a religion that makes it extremely difficult to join (and was only more difficult in the past) with extreme restrictions on things like marriage, and you end up with strong genetic similarity. It's not dissimilar, in effect, from geographic isolation which yielded most distinctive traits of various groups today.
> the argument that Clojure isn’t a lisp because it’s not literally compatible with prior lisps seems petty to me

Fair enough: C# is a Java, which, in turn, is a C dialect. Wee!

I just cribbed the following from a page about Javascript:

for (i = 0; i < cars.length; i++) {
text += cars[i] + "<br>";
}

it would be trivial to make it work in C++ code and carry out the same intent.

Thus Javascript is just a C++, unless you're petty.

Clojure is less compatible with Lisp than this Javascript-C++ relationship, though; yet, why split hairs.
> If you work for a small company and you don't have all these processes set up, you don't have legal counsel I really feel bad for you this isn't something that you can just wing it.

But that is exactly the point. If a smaller company does not have the resources (both costs and competence) for something like this, then they should not be handling personal data at all. How would the same excuse sound if they don't have the resource to even secure personal data? Being too small is simply not a valid excuse.
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"The service" is the DNS service. If you send random garbage to random IP addresses I think you waive the right to privacy.
The article specifies that messages older than 2014 were deleted. I read once (can't find the resource now) that Microsoft deletes all chat and email messages older than a certain date.

I think the reason is legal. If ever subpoenaed, providing too much chat info could be potentially damaging. I feel like the insinuation is that something specifically nefarious is going on. They can delete private messages in their own chat program for their executives as much as they want to. I also don't understand why this is considered bad behavior or why people somehow think something nefarious had to occur for them to want to do so. It may just be standard practice at many giant corporations.
It's not horrible, but it just takes too long to learn as an auxiliary language. Just as the most powerful software usually loses market share to the easiest.
There was a special South Park episode for that, Zuckerberg shouting "you can't block me" to everyone.
DNS traffic, no. Random garbage traffic misdirected to 1.1.1.1, APNIC is studying.
Its main advantage is that you can use the same writing system with different languages, but it’s not like it’s ever going to be used with English or Spanish, so that’s not something that benefits it much as a world language.

The cons of the written language far outweigh the pros. It can’t be denied that it takes far longer to learn than anything else.
Old instructional videos so much more informative than today’s. They’re so simple. Clear narration, simple animations, music is appropriate and minimal. They don’t overload our senses in the way modern videography does. It seems to me that everything today is optimized for the highest cognitive load - sort of similar to the “loudness war” in music, but for videos. Popular videos on YT are optimized for clicks and likes and subscribes.

For example, compare Mythbusters first season vs the last. Another example is “The secret life of Machines”; amazing BBC series on how things work.

I love old videography so much. I could watch highly technical instructional videos like this all day without fatigue. Such a great pleasure. Thank for sharing this!
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Oh this is what I figured it was, it's the only thing left! I just have never come acros the teminology of a WAL "frame" before, so I wasn't completley sure. since it's a log I would have expected it to be called a record.

Loud and clear on the failure modes, the README was pretty clear about it
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Dunno what's up with the name (being silly I think) but anyway these are well done! Just watched the Malloc From Scratch one:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/mallo...
Will people die if the potholes aren't handled in a few minutes? Do potholes spread to nearby homes?

No, you get a lot of potholes. That's annoying, but nobody will die if the fixers take a few days to fix them.
Using O_APPEND does not imply, that kernel needs to purge the pages from cache ASAP, does it? Removing pages from cache may be expensive operation by itself, so I presume, that it is avoided by default.

More importantly, if the disk can not catch up, the log data is going to end up waiting in page cache anyway (typical case of bufferbloat). Linux kernel does not have telepathic abilities to balance needs of crazy logger and other applications in system, so without resolving underlying issue (bufferbloat), those writes would take up too much cache, potentially bringing down disk performance of other applications.

fadvise() may schedule quicker eviction, effectively acting as syscall version of vm.dirty_ratio. Of cause, that does not resolve the problem, — just moves it to different layer. The real solution is either

1) blocking the apps until their logs are fully written (for example, by using O_DIRECT)

2) showing those apps middle finger and throwing away some of their logs (AFAIK, this is occasionally done by syslog).
I can only imagine how much work is put into modern 3D animated movies and that it's far from being easy or quick to produce.

On the other side, if I look at the creation process of hand-drawn animation movies and the involved physical man labour, which is so vastly different from labour in front of a computer, that makes it so much more worthy as a memory than any modern animation movie. Or is this simple nostalgia tricking me ?

Regarding that MultiPlane Camera. I never though about the parallax effect in those old movies and just dismissed it with "well they just draw it frame by frame". Watching this was a real eye-opener.
This is a big one. For EU customers, we are using a different payment gateway which can collect vat on our behalf.
You're right, but I'm not sure you read what I said.

>Two, there is no perfect system.

Yeah you are agreeing with me here.

I was debating whether to spell out that what I had in mind was the technical and mathematical parts of the system, but even that is impossible to get perfect. Adding in people, it is still impossible. Not more impossible. Still impossible. But we need to stop talking about how the technical part will be flawed. Yes it will be. But that's not the worst problem. The people part is the worst problem.

Talking about the technical flaws is the wrong argument to make. Naive people will just think "well, let's have our smart nerds work hard on it, and they will figure it out" and therefore the argument makes no headway. And naive people elect congress people. And presidents. Who appoint judges. Etc.

What the EFF needs imho is an argument that even the naive masses will understand. Not one that is vulnerable to bullshit talking points like "well if we can go to the moon, we can do this."

On the being diplomatic point, yes probably that's the case. I just think they could choose more of a realistic stance somewhere between the position of this paper, which is fairy tales pretending everything is OK as long as it's inside the US borders, and the rather extreme opposite position that you articulated with "law enforcement are scumbags and thugs..."

They could easily describe the more nuanced middle ground reality which if seen clearly, should be devastating to the whole idea. Even the US president is not trustworthy, for starters.
Send your old comms with Zuckerberg to the FTC for safekeeping.

The three sources asked to remain anonymous for fear of "angering Zuckerberg".

But they still wanted to share their story with TC.
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It would help if you released more details about your methodology. So you are not working on a sample of the millions of apps? You are working on all of them? Your "SDK identification engine" can detect in what technology each and single one of million apps in both stores is created with? Really? How?

Do you download each binary and examine its content? Even paid ones? Large ones? Obfuscated?

What is the error margin of your methodology? Or you are 100% precise? Sorry I am honestly interested in the details, and I didnt find error margin anywhere for this study or details about methodology.
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My parents' generation never used French to the same degree that we use English today, though. Its marketing machines (such as Hollywood) are tremendous.
Do note that most RL methods including DQN were designed to be very general. While this contest doesn't really require generality. You could design a model specialized to the characteristics of the game. This is what the top winners of the Vizdoom challenge did.
+1 for Austria and yes, we (lingohub) want to be in the early beta.
Yep, great list. This kind of thing is what I wish the EFF would get out there.
The problem with retained mode UIs is that they lose the ability to continuously translate data with functions. Immediate mode UIs don’t have that problem (since you are just drawing to the screen on each frame), but suffer from efficiency problems (not to mention you have to do your own layout). Databinding (e.g. as in WPF) allowed some of these transformation to occur declaratively, but were too inexpressive in general.

React is a nice new point in the space, and is much more pragmatic than FRP or Rx.
> The Economist is under estimating Musk and they should give him a little more credit given his track record. Telsa is not a slam dunk but it's also nowhere near as fragile as they make out. Musk also has a bit of equity in SpaceX he could lean on if the markets demur at the end of 2019.

https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2018/3/1/37229846-15...

Tesla is going to run into issues in 2019 if they are unable to ramp up the Model 3. Tesla lost $1.6 Billion last year, and they only have $3 millionish in cash. Furthermore, Tesla has debt that is due in 2018 (~$300 million or so) and early 2019 (~$900 million).

Over the next year, Tesla needs to pay off $1.2 Billion in debt, AND needs to increase revenue by ~$1.6 Billion or so to stay even. They're not exactly in a good situation.

I'm relatively confident that Mr. Musk can raise another $3 billion in capital through stock offerings or rolling over their debt in the short term, but those options have some risks involved. Furthermore, people will not want to lend money to Tesla if they think that the company is sinking.

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All the while, Tesla has bought SolarCity and also inherited all of its debt and issues. Tesla was having enough issues ramping up Model 3, but now they ALSO have to make the solar company profitable too. It was a bad time to buy SolarCity.
Agreed. I think they've pretty much used up their plausible deniability quota for the year, or decade...
It is already absurd. I'm not sure why we, as a society, allowed cars to take over our "pedestrianways". I suppose it was gradual — only a few cars at first, traveling relatively slowly back then.
The biggest problem English has in my opinion is that you can't guess what a word is pronounced like..
Exactly. There are rules for the rulers, and different rules for the serfs.
yes, last week. no regrets.
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My exposure to Chinese people is heavily biased towards (1) highly educated youth who (2) feel like talking with foreigners. Despite that, it's very clear that this extremely selected population displays the full range of English ability, from native-level proficiency through near-total inability to speak or understand.

Drop down to students at a merely second-tier university, or people a little older, or top-tier students who don't bother to approach foreigners because they know there's no hope, and you'll find people with even less English than that.
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> You can use science to verify ethical statements

No, you can't. (And not just in the sense that science falsifies rather than verifies.)

Ethical/moral statements always have a value component that is empirically unfalsifiable. They sometimes also have a falsifiable factual premise that, along with a set of value premises, supports a conclusion. Science can falsify the fact component, and sufficient failute to falsify can justify belief in the false component, but cannot falsify or (by failing to falsify) justify the value component, and therefore cannot justify the statement as a whole.
for one thing it's very economical spatially, something you'll quickly appreciate if you ever do any work (e.g. concept-mapping) where it's nice to be able to see and keep track of like 200 items on the screen at the same time. (a more homespun example is if you'd like to put a large number of meaningful words into one row (like your browser's bookmark bar))

also, it can be read horizontally AND vertically without needing to disassemble the graphemes or rotating your head 90 degrees. good luck doing that with english!
I don't think that would help. Chinese is very heavy on homophones and the characters allow meaning differentiation. In spoken Chinese you have to rely on context. Written and spoken Chinese seem tightly coupled.
> they try to automate all manufacturing instead of doing what everyone else is doing

I like how this whole argument hinges on the idea that companies like Toyota don't know how to Automate.

Not like they are the world standard in manufacturing efficiency or anything.
We also used to accept that negative reinforcement was part of this learning process, but now it's called victim blaming.
Accident is basically the opposite of intentional. Accident doesn't imply anything about it being avoidable. An accident can happen due to negligence. An accident just means the incident was unintentiona, not unavoidable.
> smaller and lighter motors mean more interior space and better performance

Except you need a whole lot fo heavy battery. The model S is not a light car.

You can make anything sound amazing is you ignore every drawback.
It was reworded enough times to make their promise vague and not well defined.
I have many relatives who type on their computers and phones exclusively in pinyin. You don't need to use Chinese characters at all.
Brings back memories of staring at a keyboard unsuccessfully looking for a "return" key to satisfy "Press return to continue..."
That is the exact opposite definition of accident. An accident implies the incident was unintentional.
More dark patterns: when I tried to delete my account, they claimed my password was incorrect. After trying and failing to delete my account for over a week, a tiny comment I saw on a YouTube video turned out to be gold: "if your password has upper and lower case characters, you must enter them all in lower-case or you will be told your password is incorrect."

That were correct.

(Account now deleted.)
Context is just as present in writing as it is in speech.
Is there a convention about in what direction you should put satellites ? I know the space is crazy big and it's unlikely you will front-collide with a satellite going the opposite direction. But it would also be crazy to collide with another object at 7,000 m/s
Super glad to see people taking on issues of holding institutions accountable to at least acknowledging the way their investments support immoral actors.
If you really believe what you're saying, I hope you don't eat fish, or own jewelry, or use coal or oil derived power, or watch sports that have a non-zero rate of player injury, or eat at restaurants that use grease friers or knives, or any number of other commodities that are directly or indirectly the product of human suffering.

I can't really empathize with someone who sees no value in suffering. Suffering is not the ultimate evil, and pleasure is not the ultimate good. Go read some Cicero. He tears Epicurus a new one in much better language than I can muster.
Sure, but they could also study DNS traffic if they wanted to. Or at least, with Cloudflare's cooperation.

If you want privacy, you never do DNS queries from an ISP-assigned IP address. Tor exits do DNS queries on behalf of clients. Decent VPN services also handle DNS queries for clients.
> There’s a strong libertarian ethos among tech folks...

This does not ring true in my experience with "tech folks" in recent times. It may have been true at one time, but I think libertarianism in tech has fallen out of vogue.

Also, I take issue with distrusting how government (or any powerful organization) makes use of technology puts someone into the libertarian political philosophy according to this article. A healthy distrust of how powerful groups use technology makes a lot of sense for anyone and is definitely not something exclusive to libertarians.
I wonder what they do at the “Zuckerberg General Hospital and Trauma Center” in San Francisco
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It's funny that memoization is some conceptual model for react but that's what compilers have been doing for ever and ever.
Do I interpret your comment correctly as saying there is some redundant system that is specifically looking for anomalies in sensor readings? Would a top of the line lidar system be able to "understand" that its current inputs were resulting in erroneous outputs?

I am reminded of one of the recent Japanese satellites that was effectively an infant mortality, because of some quirk in its redundant systems. I've forgotten the details, but more or less, there were cascading failures across a primary system, its secondary redundancy, and its tertiary redundancy. So the feedback loops designed by the engineers to be negative, and mitigating, ended up being positive, and therefore aggravating, in the cruel vacuum of space. It came down to some error in an orientation sensor, and somehow, the redundant system actually ended up relying on information from the primary system. The boosters designed to slow down the rotation relied on the notion of the satellite's actual rotation, according to the original sensor.

As the story goes "Does the machine ever give the right answer given the wrong inputs, Mr Babbage?" Nearly 200 years later, we may finally becoming around to seeing that the woman that asked the question had a point, and Charles simply dismissed it out of hand.
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It lives but it's not exactly thriving. OpenIndiana struggled, OmniOS gave up (and got picked up again) but still all that struggle makes me expect that Illumos will eventually fade out. At the latest when/if Joyent goes out of business. It's a shame because I like SmartOS a lot but it nowhere has the momentum Linux has. I don't see who will write all the device drivers for the next generation of hardware coming out.
I still have my Power MachTen CD. I used to love wasting time porting GNU/Linux source to that odd ball environment.
> Hyperloop

lol

doesn't Elon hate buses? hm.
Not considering Chinese who spend majority of his life outside of china, Ones overall competence correlates with the mastery of English. Bad English means: My parents neglected or could not pay for good education.
Sadly this is some-what true for this generation.
English language cultural exports are a large part of it, but so is the internet. I could speak/read/write English years before taking English classes in school. IRC and bulletin boards were largely to blame for that, much more so than movies/TV.

I suppose kids these days have access to online content in whatever their native language is, but when I was growing English was the only option.