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Hm, rsync does MD5 checking automatically. Which doesn't do much against bitrot [0], but it should help with the full circle thing. (And maybe it'll be SHA256+ in newer versions? Though there's not even a ticket in their bugzilla about this. And maybe MD5 is truly enough against random in-transit corruption.)

Yeah, crypto is something that doesn't play well with dedupe, especially if you don't trust the target backup server.

Uh, BREACH was a beast (he-he). I'm a bit still uneasy after thinking about how long these bugs were lurking in OpenSSL. Thankfully the splendid work of Intel engineers quickly diverted the nexus of our bad feels away from such high level matters :|

[0] That's something that the btrfs/ZFS/Ceph should/could fix. (And btrfs supports incremental mode for send+receive.)
Who assisted Kare that this article fails to mention?
Here's another example of drama generated by André Arko:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15084792
The wikipedia diagram at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_correlation_inequalit... helps gain an intuition for the Gaussian correlation inequality. The diagram shows a circle and a rectangle centered on the origin.

The number of random dart throws in the intersection of the shapes is greater than or equal to the number in either individual shape.

Well, sort of. The wikipedia page says "the proportion of the darts landing in the intersection of both shapes is no less than the product of the proportions of the darts landing in each shape."
Some small community banks maybe? Some banks keep at least a portion of their loans in house. In some cases they may still have that clause in case they decide to sell it later, even if they plan to keep it in house.
The fact that this conspiracy was likely real lends importance to Hamilton's self-sacrifice in the famous duel. There were two possible outcomes of the fight. 1) Hamilton kills Burr, eliminating him, or 2) Burr (the sitting Vice President!) kills him, thereby discrediting himself as a political figure. Killing a man, even in 1804, and especially as Vice President, would not simply blow over. Hamilton knew this. He won the duel in spirit before it began.

Hamilton's career was essentially over due to the Reynolds Affair, but facing Burr was his final act to serve his country. A fascinating bit of history indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr%E2%80%93Hamilton_duel
Fossil is chauvinist if it's asserting that everything I save locally "is part for the project history" and must be pushed. Don't tell me what's important for me to push.

Git preserves history as it happened on the remote, which is what matters for collaboration. Why foul up the canonical history up with what amounts to scratch paper? Typically, people only amend local history if they feel it would easier to follow later. Why take that option out of their hands?

The way I do work and the way I submit it are two separate problems with overlap. I use git for both and it works beautifully. Even for personal non-code projects I never intend to collaborate with others, I still use git because it promotes a workflow I'm comfortable with.

On the team I'm in, the convention is to include code changes in the same commit as any test changes. There are advantages and disadvantages, but it's the convention, and it's best we follow it or else it might lead to CI problems. But, in my personal workflow, I tend to try to change the tests, commit, code changes, commit, and then iterate. With git, this is as simple as doing it however which way I want, and then squashing the commits together before pushing. What do I do with Fossil?

I'm trying to figure out what problem it's trying to solve with this, and it just comes off as hollowly idealistic.
My parents took us as kids on several long train trips. The trips are among my most cherished memories from childhood. We usually would train out and fly back. A few of the lines wind their way through the Rockies - the scenery is really beautiful.
This claim just seems ... unlikely and counter to economics. Prices dropping isn't about business owners deciding they feel nice, it is about the fact that consumers reward cheap producers. If the producers refuse to drop prices when thy can, then the first person to break into the market doing something different will get crazy profits.

I would liken the situation to 2007 in Australia. Sending instant messages was basically free from the telco's perspectives - but they charged 20c or something to the sender. Insane margins.

The first company that I remember challenging that was Apple, who bypassed the whole business and enabled essentially free text messages with iMessage. 10 years later, the markup on using text messages seems to have been completely wiped out. Apple also happened to be the most profitable company in the world through that period.

Sure, iMessage isn't linked directly to the profits, yet somehow the invisible hand seems to have been working.
I don't know the numbers, but I'd be shocked if air and bus lost as much money per trip as trains. Part of what makes the train appealing for the longer rides is that if you're taking coach half of the car is empty and you know you won't have to sit next to anyone.
This doesn't sound substantially representative of my experience of being presented with this earlier today.

As far as I can recall, I was presented with two options: enable facial recognition; and reviewing my other options (which I clicked), which were something like confirming my decision to decline, and downloading my data and closing my account. It was a fairly brief process, so my memory isn't precise. I do recall that I wasn't automatically enrolled into facial recognition, though - I had to make a conscious choice either way, and although it was obvious that Facebook were encouraging me to opt in, it didn't feel like I was being tricked or coerced (perhaps save for the example of safeguarding my identity).

The process I went through in my desktop browser was not the same as the one I've seen for screenshots of the mobile process.
Excellent points. Often those at the top have gotten where they are because they are good at making others appear less competent and themselves appear superior, regardless of the actual truth. The last thing you want such a person to think is that you are on a level where you might one day be in competition with them. You have to hide your power level or these people will campaign against you by creating the perception that you are inept or difficult. The best strategy in these situations is to follow their directions exactly as instructed and privately broadcast your abilities to others in the organization in such a way as to avoid detection by the inept manager.
Neat stuff! Any plans for StatefulSet or DaemonSet support?
That text (here and in magazines, newspapers) isn't for you. It's for the casual browser who isn't reading the article yet. It's trying to suck you in and/or give you teensy bite of info even if you don't read the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote

Of course this article format is kinda pushing the limits I agree.
If you're reading this, FFmpeg developers, please accept my thanks for your work. You have become a "Category Killer"[1] in command-line video tomfoolery.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-baza...
I've almost managed to avoid Amazon over the past 12 months or so. There are plenty of alternatives, and I've found the alternatives much more reliable, and delivery times and communication much better.

In addition, the alternatives are often far cheaper; books, especially.

I kind of regard Amazon as a hostile business these days. If I have to buy something from them, I feel like I need to wear gloves and wash my hands after.
This article was written by someone given the diagnosis of "personality disorder" (antisocial personality disorder).

This is a group of people who experience significant, life-limiting, levels of stigma. This is often (but not always) after they've already been harmed by abuse in childhood.

This person is currently detained in a "medium secure unit". This is a specialist type of mental health hospital in England. This means he's a patient, not a prison, but that there may be a criminal justice involvement in his care.

Here's a document that describes what a medium secure forensic unit is, and the routes into one:

http://www.nhsconfed.org/-/media/Confederation/Files/Publica...
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I am the state.
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I love this British take on the American accent (and also culture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ&t=9s

Linguistics has always fascinated me. It's almost like a living, breathing, evolving entity that uses the need to exchange information as its "body" rather than taking on some physical form. I'm sure there are other things that take esoteric forms like this, but language is a very visible one.
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am I the only one who is cynical enough to think that they might be doing the face recognition already for a while. its that with GDPR they may have to disclose it so they are making a pretext that we just enabled it please feel free to opt out now that we have trained our models anyways.
Agreed. I rely mostly on my credit union for financial matters and eschew large banks whenever possible. The service I get at my credit union and a local bank (that I won't name for obvious reasons) is light-years ahead of what I have received in the past from larger institutions.
Serious question: what's the point? Is there anything in the realm of interactive data analysis-type programming that isn't already better with Python and instead needs to be done in Go? I might be missing something. If so, what?
"codes of conduct" are a net negative and a blight on open source repos. If you maintain a repo, please don't fall to that scam. Not surprised he behaved that way.
I have traveled Amtrak quite a lot - across the country on the Empire Builder, Southwest Chief, and California Zephyr. And many other routes.

I think the food is usually decent - the veggie burger is reliably edible.

What I can say is terrible - and what has caused me to cease using Amtrak - is the presence of the DEA.

In case you haven't experienced this, the DEA sometimes raids specific sleeper cars at a station, demanding money, guns, or drugs. I had no idea about this until it happened to me.

It was absolutely, positively terrifying. I (and my partner) were repeatedly threatened with violence if we didn't allow our bags to be searched (which of course we didn't). Our 2.5 year old was screaming in terror the entire time.

They refused to tell of their names or let us see the numbers on their badges - they only flashed their badges for 250ms at us.

We recorded them on both of our phones and a camera. At one point, a DEA agent physically tried to swat my phone out of my hands.

They told us that we had been selected "randomly", but I found out soon after that a colleague of mine, seven cars back, had also been "randomly" selected. I later found out from an Amtrak employee that we were the only ones on the train who had been raided and that it was never random - they research people in advance and select who to raid. Apparently being involved in any way in crypto-blockchain tech is enough to trigger such an event (indeed their primary questioning to my colleague was about his hardware wallet, which they took the majority of their time with him to inspect and photograph).

The Amtrak employee further told me that she and others are terrified of these agents - that there had been times when they themselves had been subject to their antics and also to unwanted advances at their departing stations. She said that they have learned to just leave the train and stay out of the way and also encouraged me to complain to Amtrak or file a lawsuit, saying that if we were able to get the DEA off Amtrak we'd be doing Amtrak employees a big favor.

If Amtrak can't protect me against armed thugs coming into my sleeper car and terrorizing my family, they are simply not a viable solution for transportation IMO.

I encourage you to reconsider Amtrak - if you ride often enough, this will happen to you.

A quick google search will show you that this is a common, if largely unknown practice. Here are some links:

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/08/10/dea-travel-re...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/the-per...

* https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/dea-bribed-a...

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/05/12/...
You're probably right. The California Zephyr or the Empire Builder are on my "should do once when the stars align" list but they probably won't be an option forever. I should probably consider doing one of them at some point when the stars get at reasonably in the vicinity.
Implicits are a massive pain in the ass.
The article seems one-sided and, from the outside, I don't know what I don't know. Can someone comment on other substantive points of view? And was BICEP2 really as reckless/dishonest as is portrayed?

EDIT: Some other perspectives in the comments:

> ... part of what gets overlooked in some of this is that BICEP2 had done lovely work — they had great data at far higher sensitivity than any previous polarisation experiment, if I am recalling things correctly; the analysis was flawed but the data was good.

> PRL referees saved the BICEP2 people from themselves by getting them to remove the worst of their mistakes. If the referees had quickly let the paper through, likely the paper would have had to have been formally retracted.

> I did some searching around for examples of any apology from the BICEP2 people or negative effects on any of their careers, could find nothing. A quite remarkable fact is that Kovac’s Wikipedia entry still has the following as description of his career: / “He is the principal investigator of the BICEP2 telescope, which is part of the BICEP and Keck Array series of experiments.[3][4][5] Measurements announced on 17 March 2014 from the BICEP2 telescope give support to the idea of cosmic inflation, by reporting the first evidence for a primordial B-Mode pattern in the polarization of the CMB.[6][7][8] If confirmed, this measurement provides a direct image of primordial gravitational waves and the quantization of gravity.”

> If Keating is complaining about how a single prize determines research (ehm… does it really?) then he’d better complain about tycoons determining research by handing out money to people from failed experiments.

...

The latter is a troubling sign to me. It was predictable (I predicted it, at least) that as governments cut taxes and cut funding to universities and science, more power would concentrate in the hands of a wealthy few (private and corporate) and research would become far more dependent on pleasing them. What value is research without independence? Arguably it does more harm than good, by creating disinformation and undermining legitimate research.

EDIT2: Added a key comma in the first sentence
> With this red flag emblazoned on it, the proof continued to be ignored. Finally, in December 2015, the Polish mathematician Rafał Latała and his student Dariusz Matlak put out a paper advertising Royen’s proof, reorganizing it in a way some people found easier to follow.

I studied Probability Theory under prof. dr hab. Rafał Latała. He is a great researcher and amazing teacher.
Also on Fi - I use hangouts for everything. On desktop hangouts has my SMS and Fi phone number available for voice calls. On the run, hangouts is on my phone for SMS, and I can use my phone as normal for calling people. It's far and away the best experience I've had with a Google product outside of search/gmail. They really need to look at what the Fi folks are doing, because it is truly excellent.
And the one most rarely asking in my experience too
> I also think you would be surprised

Unless you have some sort of evidence supporting your claim, I guess we'll never know how surprised I would be by the reality you're describing.
A community without drama is probably a low movement community.

It all boils down to the type of drama that is important.

Drama over technical choices is probably a good healthy conversation to have in a community.

Drama of someone potentially abusing power given to them by the community is bad.

I can't recall any other instances of this type of drama in the ruby community, but maybe someone else can remember?
The pay in Seattle for software developers is 100% more than in Toronto. Even second-tier US cities pay 50% more. If you're working in Toronto when you could be working in a US tech centre, I hope you have a good reason.

Market Average Annual Tech Wage Software Engineer (USD)

Vancouver, BC — $60,107
Toronto, ON — $62,365
Atlanta, GA — $92,380
Boston, MA — $103,979
Washington, DC — $108,330
New York, NY — $108,878
Seattle, WA — $113,906

Source: http://www.vancouvereconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/...
Exactly. Or CPU/GPU/any chip cooling in general.
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> If you don't like them, why don't you add "Use of implicits forbidden" to your coding style guidelines, and check in code-reviews, and add a "grep implicit" check to your CI setup that refuses to commit Scala code with implicits?

Because Scala libraries that do useful stuff are infested with them. Akka loves the things.

> main complaint

They obscure complexity, pretending that complex stuff is simple. It makes simple stuff trivial but complex stuff harder.
Quite amazing how backwards US is in this manner.

I had an account with exactly this functionality ~18 years ago (sic!) in Poland already. All three bank accounts I have in Poland right now offer that - and I think it's the standard in the mainstream ones.
I can’t finish reading the article, it asks me to install an app.
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About this:

"As far as I can tell, the BICEP2 scientists haven’t suffered much professionally from the fiasco. When David Spergel talked here at Columbia about the subject, he noted that this hadn’t stopped the PI, John Kovac, from getting tenure at Harvard. In the book, Keating mentions some “embarrassment and guilt”, but no negative professional consequences"

In the long run, it is good for society if researchers can make mistakes and keep their careers.

In the long run, it is good for society if journalists are sometimes embarrassed by reporting on a story when they don't have access to the data behind the story.

So in the long run, it is probably for the best that these researchers suffered no adverse effects. If anyone changes their behavior, I'd rather it be the journalists. They should not give too much publicity to teams making big announcements while hiding their data.
Professor Roberto Unger (Harvard) often talks about the current restlessness of the masses in his political philosophy of the paradigm of Progressive Politics courses. Something that through listening to his lecturers over the last few years I strongly agree with. Mainly that people at this moment in time are yearning for a reimagining of what the human experience is, and the solution is a progressive political campaign reimagining our entire institutions.

We see the same restlessness in the national Primary Education teacher strikes. Is it possible that the academics are the beginning of a more substantial wave of worker rights and protections as we enter the new Knowledge Economy?

Edited to add website: http://www.robertounger.com/en/
Thanks for the reply. My goal isn't about being the next big thing in public ledger options. It's about trying to help people realize they can help others and help themselves without needing to understand all the technical background.

I guess it stems from realizing that I spend $12 each day on coffee and I could just spend $6 and make someone else happy with the other $6.
> Are you suggesting the pressure to succeed in the UK, where there exists a fairly comprehensive safety net in the form of welfare handouts, is the same as the pressure to succeed in India

I think pressure and poverty are not as highly coupled as you suggest.

Many of the students in this article who are committing suicide come from well off families.

On the other hand the majority of Indians are not facing such high levels of pressure despite facing far higher levels of poverty.
Very true, I recently bought the book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007191/), and my at-home productivity is all time low. I crack up every time remembering -- "I Invented Burrell" (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...).
>Why do you think a programming one would?

Because it doesn’t exist yet, and my hypothetical is just as good as yours.
Title company? Title insurance?!? A third-party for-profit company handles some aspect of the transfer of property, instead of, you know, government? And in case this third party fucks up, you need to pay for insurance?!?

Jesus.
Customer support engineers can be a really skilled job - you have to get highly skilled engineers who know the product well and can explain it and answer technical questions, but that also have really good social skills and are good at sales. A pretty rare combo in my experience.

Maybe that's not what he did but I wouldn't write of "customer support" so easily - it could mean a wide range of things.
Somebody get this man a plastic spoon!
I'm trying hard to follow what is happening on that twitter thread.

Can you put your joke here? I don't see any jokes or mention of race anywhere on your Twitter.
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FFmpeg has been an amazing tool. I don't know if this is helpful, but using static linked builds has been a big time saver for me. Patent issues can make it tough to get a feature complete install. The ones below have worked amazingly well.

https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
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Hopefully this means the imminent packaging of mpv 0.28 with Vulkan support.
That's just about the distance that I prefer to take Amtrak over driving or flying (mostly I travel SF <-> Fresno). I can get work done, unlike when driving, and I don't have to deal with all the pains of getting to the airport early and going through security.
This is just basic dependency injection.

I agree it is mildly amusing to watch Javascript devs excitedly discover these principles but it does show that these principles are universal. Virtually everything in this talk applies to building very large Java and C++ applications. (And here I don't mean 10mb... rather global systems made up of dozens of services and hundreds of components.) All of this is about modularity -- of configuration, of state, of logic, and of concerns.
The bailouts certainly would have been easier if retail and investment banking had been separate. With the current state the investment bankers can hold everyone hostage because they may also blow up regular bank accounts.
Well, I wouldn't even try to have a source code written in two different languages in the same component. But I've seen this problem in someone else's real code, which was probably caused by a not really well-thought migration of Java code to Scala. Basically, a developer replaced one Map with another, fixed all the places where API was different on source code level and a number of tests. However, interoperability issues like this one may be hard to catch in general (even with good test coverage and regular code reviews) and they show the complexity of the problem, that requires certain level of development skills and discipline to do it right.