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There was a case on YouTube where a (sort of) satirical YouTuber Reactor (a fake over the top reaction channel) used a cut up footage of GradeAUnderA hating reaction channels as an ad on GradeAUnderA's own videos to direct people to Reactor channel as part of a scheme to bait GradeAUnderA (a 2-3 million subscribed channel) into attacking his small channel (1-2 thousand subs post these antics, much more later after the scheme came to light) to "expose" him for being a bully, starting fights (despite saying how he hates them and how they ruin YouTube and attacking people who are having them) and so on.

What a quagmire, I know.

Good video summarizing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_6UCkxu_U
It's important to note here that this will only work in densely populated areas. Otherwise FB will make you expand your radius / criteria to fit a large enough population potentially rendering the ad useless.
This is a giant overgeneralization. If you are using Redux, for example, you _can_ easily tell most of the time what functions get called and in what context, because data flow is unidirectional and easy to reason about. If you're using an old massive tangle of spaghetti code, it is much more difficult, yes.
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The real question being: How hard is it to bypass/cheat the identification requirement? Especially considering the US doesn't even have something like an official ID card.

They also changed this in Germany. Now you have to fill out a form to activate your SIM, but afaik nobody ever checks if the information in the form is actually yours.
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I know this sounds like a cliche at this point, but volume 3 of Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" goes into more depth on the theory that underpins these algorithms than anything else I've ever seen/read/heard of (in fairness, I haven't read OP's suggestion yet, though).
Yes, the feeling you get from pure silence is hard to put into words.
There's a high chance that he's on LinkedIn with his current company. And if he got laid off, using the header of the old company is definitely not ok.
Dutch art dealer discovers first 'new' Rembrandt in 44 years
The difference is that mineral oil cools by convection and my solution cools by nucleate boiling. With my solution, and a flow or iirc about 20m/s, you could cool a delidded AMD EPYC 32 core at 600W. I.e. you are not limited by cooling, you are limited by how much current the LGA pins can handle before they loose stiffness (due to resistive heating in the pin and at the contact area) and then spiral out of control due to the weak contact pressure increasing resistance and leading to the ping disconnecting. This easily goes over to the others, there are documents from iirc Intel about how this happens/works, and how to prevent it.

I considered soldering the LGA pins to the CPU, but due to the craziness of this idea I haven't researched it further.

The thing is, that a dual-socket 32 core/socket EPYC clocked/overvolted for full stability and an overvolting-induced lifespan of 5 years, which does not have problems with power delivery on the way between the interposer (the thing the dies are mounted to and that connects them to each other and provides LGA pads) and the wall socket, would probably be the most affordable (TCO, i.e. including electricity and maintenance) system for non-distributed compiling of reasonably parallelizable software.
It would be 'the' ultimate workstation in the sub-$15k range, this would be the full system including the single-quantity amount of, in this case, Flourinert (which is not toxic; there was even research to fill the lungs with it for high-G environments, as it prevents lung collapse. There were issues circulating the liquid fast enough due to the much higher viscosity compared to air, so they dropped it.) and a custom-manufactured (from a local metal shop) containment case for the system and work from a plumber to provide suitable piping. The only non-included thing is the manufacturing and mounting of the nozzle that provides the required flow rate across the CPU to keep up with the heat.

Short answer: mineral oil does not provide suitable cooling for high-TDP processors.
> "But switching off location will probably do it too."

Wrong. Phones can be triangulated by the carriers regardless.
Sure, you get what you give.

I'm honest out of the gate. But once they've lied to me, all bets are off.

I'm sure you've never lied as well, except to yourself which is abundantly clear.
If the issue is IDEs you can do all that with WebStorm.

As a matter of fact, you can even use IntelliJ for checking function usages and refactoring in JavaScript.
s/open-source/external/g

And maybe patch that notion about "doing it for free". Commercial doesn't mean "free from vulnerabilities", especially when using outdated versions (e.g. because management decides all those support contracts are becoming too expensive).
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Not everyone can have that, esp. people with a history of stalkers or abusive friends/family.
>Qualcomm IZat location services

did a quick check, it's not on my phone (SD 820 SoC).

>other location-based trustzone applets remain running even on custom ROMs.

I have no doubt some proprietary blobs still remain on custom ROMs, but do those actually send back location data to the OEM?
Prostitution works both ways in 21st century. Given how women sex tourism is rising, I wonder wether men or women have less against prostitution these days...
I'd expect any company to get my consent before requesting references from current or past employers. First of all because I can direct them to relevant people but most importantly because it's not public information. I had cases in the past where I asked them to hold off with checks until I have signed a contract and quit the other job (under the condition that the contract would be void if the check fails). That way they could confirm that my story was correct without telling my employer that I plan to quit.
Just a heads up: Twilio now offers a metric fuckton of services geared towards SIM-enabled IoT. You can order SIM cards by the pile and then bind them to a Twilio number by activating it in the UI (or via API). So now instead of (or in addition to) simply forwarding traffic from garbage numbers to your real number, you can get Twilio numbers that are registered on T-Mobile's network via an actual SIM card, making it much easier to send from your Twilio number than it used to be without it bound to a SIM card. Fairly good price, too. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what happened to Twilio's API as it's now as opaque and awkward as any AWS API (almost as though someone on Twilio's engineering team made the decision to model their API after the way AWS builds their APIs), but the services they offer are as compelling as they always were. I'd give Twilio a solid D for what the API has turned into, but A+ for service innovation.
Former Head of Microsoft's Startup Outreach Program Is Now a Free Agent
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Or asking the candidate? You can still check if the position of the other person is relevant but it makes sense to not randomly ask people at former employers if there are only 1-2 who can really describe the work they did.
Even if all aspects of two groups were equal -- sociability and preference to hire from one's own social circles -- you can still have a rich-get-richer effect. Group A has many more people in hiring authority positions for historical reasons, so continues to preferentially hire from their social group, which is also mostly group A. Meanwhile Group B is doing the exact same thing, but has fewer people in power so things don't equalize out.
'Node breaks things too frequently' - Python 2.7 -> 3.0.

Yes, you need to get the right version of Node, just like you need the right version of Python. I've had both largely just work with directions of "Version Y.X", where Y is defined. I've also had the occasion where it still broke with a specific version where both Y and X were defined.

In general, if I have the right version of Node (and I agree, I'd prefer package.json to also indicate the version of Node that was used to initialize it), things work when installing from package.json. Things also generally just work with Python if I have the right major version of Python, and an environment file. My issue is more that the 'simple' steps a lot of people do when creating Python projects -don't- use an environment. They just use whatever is installed globally on their computer, and they pip install any dependencies, then write a readme to pip install things with, rather than lock it down with a virtual environment.
Isn't this how teralytics.net gets the data it sells?
The only way to get rid of lobstermen is the drill.
For those who want to try out LocationSmart, you can use it here: https://www.locationsmart.com/try/

They were about two blocks off, and located me by cell tower. Apparently they don't have (or at least don't admit to having) A-GPS level data for me.
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Pinsight is a big one.

But there are too many to name. In 2018, you should assume that any free service (Unroll.me), web/mobile SDK (Slice), email client (Airmail), personal finance tracker (Mint), integration API (Plaid), geolocator (Foursquare), etc is monetized by selling your data en masse for market research.

It's not just location data. Dig into the TOS of free services you use. It's your receipts, your transactions, your subscriptions...all are "anonymized" to varying degrees of success. Even Meraki, the network router/switch company, sells location data.[1]

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1. https://meraki.cisco.com/technologies/location-analytics
Yes.

Smallest ammount of TIM spread all over. NO "PEA" METHOD! All over!

The Cool Laboratory Liquid Metal stuff is the best but hard to work with.
what can you cherry pick from javascript to make it look good?
What are you even talking about? His opinion is not remotely controversial. Every populist hivemind drone on this site contends some form of this argument. Not a single person is (at least, getting upvoted) DEFENDING high or reasonable hiring bars - that is a controversial opinion.
White House dumps 'cyber czar' advisory position
Yeah, I kinda think the Haskell branch ought to have its own term, because of the number of things that are involved that don't relate to "functions" per se, but it's not my call. "Pure functional" sort of works, but I would mean something more like "Pure and functional", that is, two separate adjectives, not one where "pure" is modifying "functional". A pure, non-functional language is certainly possible. "Pure imperative" is a bit hard to conceive (Rust probably as close as you can get), but an SQL database set to a high transaction isolation level can be seen as a pure non-functional language. (And I say "can" because it can also be argued against. But it's at least debatable.)
When was that time, precisely? I don't recall there being a debate about this. Will we just blow through the "time for debates" on every new technology?
The problems listed were with the interaction model. There's nothing I've seen in GitLab's UX that would indicate it's any better.
Advan, Reveal Mobile, QuestMobile, Pinsight, Streetlight Data, RootMetrics, OpenSignal, SafeGraph are a few of the companies selling various forms of mobile user location data.
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I can confirm this is happening, I designed some of the analysis systems used. Contrary to what many people assume, this is not just a US thing. It is done throughout the industrialized world to varying degrees, including countries where most people believe privacy protections disallow such activity. Governments tacitly support it because they've found these capabilities immensely useful for their own purposes.
Until recently I worked for a molecular neurobiology research group that, among other things, used Single-molecule RNA Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (smFISH) to measure gene expression in tissue[0].

Basically: design viruses with fluorescent molecules attached to them such that they attach to specific sections of RNA in the cell that are associated with particular genes. Soak tissue in viruses. Look at tissue through a microscope and count individual fluorescent dots, each of which represents one RNA molecule (I find this absolutely mind-blowing). Wash off the viruses with a specific type of chemical, and repeat with a new one for a different gene.

You can only use a few colours at a time because otherwise the microscope cannot discern them. But that would severely limit the throughput - there are a lot of genes we want to check, but the tissue will also degenerate after repeated washing. So, what can we do? Well, as I've understood, scientists using smFISH and similar techniques now use multiplexing and with Hamming codes to get around that.

So yeah, linear algebra is definitely so, so hot right now.

[0] http://linnarssonlab.org/osmFISH/
Yep, can confirm from the other side. (Someone doing crypto equivalent of “HFT”.) It’s nowhere near real HFT level.
Javascript is the Chauncey Gardiner of programming languages.

It was there.
Yeah, and don't confuse O'Caml "functors" with Haskell functors or you're in for several very confusing hours. Hooray terminology!
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> personal commitment to integrity

Psychology seems to be way more complex than "once a liar always a liar". Some citation of psychological research would help.
They have to know your location if you want to receive a call.
There some more distinctive in my opinion, e.g. Lagavulin. Depends on what do you search for, of course.
Maybe the recruiter did that after the candidate told them that he can't provide one? Recruiters usually get paid after the contract is signed.. I would've definitely called the candidate.
“Somebody should build a service for this.“

Noooooo.... please don’t ruin this... Let’s keep it for us nerds, okay?
Not only is there a "homeowners" category in the "Demographics" targeting section, but there are specific sub-categories like "Home value" $50,000-$99,999", "Home type: Condo", etc. IIRC, they get it from a data broker like Experian.
I think by "compiler", they really mean "typechecker", which is much more important for maintainability than code transformations.

JavaScript does has two good typecheckers, TypeScript and Flow.
What if they were simply held to a higher standard and not allowed to operate with practical impunity?
This is even more disconcerting - just out of curiousirty what does this cost?
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Yeah, V8 in particular has possibly the best debugger tool available in any language ever; an easy to use UI, but still absolutely chock full of just about every useful feature you could imagine.
Well having played for a short while, my only significant point to complain is that the music is too short and repetitive, especially the combat music I found annoying, if not for that I would have played longer; I feel.
> did a quick check

How? Thanks.
Clemahieu ( nano project ) eschews technical questions
Yeah they know where you are at any given moment, but they don't have to record it. And they especially don't have to sell it to third parties. That's what we mean by "tracking".
Hmm, sounds like the kind of thing that is hard to get right then. Maybe it's for the best that it isn't in the standard library until the design and implementation stabilises then.

Sucks for early adopters though!
A friend of mine just got back from NYC and then received a fake call from an NYC area code. I get several every day from random area codes, and we had to wonder whether it was coincidence or not.
I just realized I had 80% of these subscribed already, then I looked at how many channels I subscribed too (700+)

I like tinkering with things so I have some mechanical / electrical engineering / makers on my list as well.

I listed my favorites of that list here

* Tom Scott - Lots of interesting unique topics related to engineering, programming, and history

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A

* Colin Furze - Lots of crazy welding projects

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A

* Mark rober - ex-nasa engineer, similar to SmarterEveryDay

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg

* Hacksmith - just interesting project build videos normally related to marvel comics

https://www.youtube.com/user/MstrJames

* Live overflow - web / binary hacking with great case studies

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

* Wendover productions - Great documenatires on things like Airplane and shippping logistics

https://www.youtube.com/wendoverproductions

* Strange parts - ex-programmer who sources components and parts overseas

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw
How does one determine which tower to route an incoming call through, in your model? How could roaming work?

Spoiler: I don’t think doing what you are describing is feasible.
If you’re a nerd, you’ll find some
other way to differentiate instead of simply gatekeeping knowledge.
Exactly this. You have to be very naive and sheltered to not recognize this as being the case.
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In 20+ years I have never had a manager with a plan for me
How did Facebook’s Fake Account Problem become so big?
What a nightmare, though.
I definitely remember rumblings about "Branch prediction runs code outside normal execution? There's got to be a security hole there somewhere." That sentiment was common enough that it's certainly not hard to imagine someone sketching the shape of an actual attack with it before the detailed proof came down the line.
Yeah i think Julius Ceasar global leadening was a conspriacy by China /s
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And somehow people trust those bribing companies more than the politicians?
Yanny or Laurel? Sound 'illusion' sets off ear-splitting arguments
Isn’t carrier IQ been always doing that?
I read that paper. Next iteration or TRR could have cascaded adders with dividers for X neighbor rows. But first we need JEDEC to grab current industry players by the throat and force their colluding asses to at least start doing something by adopting TRR in desktop/server products :(
Hasn't Foursquare been doing this and nothing but this for ten years now?
Relevant recent post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047736
Stupid C++ namespace tricks
What specific data about the person is traded alongside their location history in the... schemes that you describe? (name? Some govt ID number? Phone number? Address? ....)
> I’m asking because contractors usually have no benefits here, including holidays/vacation/sick days, insurance, company-paid parental leave and all other perks so it has a huge impact on effective salary.

I'm Canadian and have worked as a contractor. The absolute best advice I can give you is that, if this statement is true, it is because you severely fucked up.

When you're a contractor, those benefits come from you. It means extra administrative work on your end and, depending on your income levels, it might make sense to incorporate, which means significantly more administrative work. But, that's why contractors generally charge at least 2-3x the normal salary a company would pay them.
A question about keyboards in general - don't you find that keyboards with numeric keypads are so wide, that the mouse has to sit at such a distance laterally, that it strains your wrist to use the mouse?
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You have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820? Oh yes, IZat is definitively there, along with other interesting trustzone applets :)

It is running under QSEE (Qualcomm) and/or MobiCore (Trustonic) OS, which is separate from your Android OS. It is left untouched by custom ROMs.
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I've never read the act but such a hole would be so gaping that it would even embarrass congress and telecoms lobbyists. I can't possibly imagine that they didn't close it.

EDIT: Maybe I was too optimistic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17082213
If the laws didn't apply to them, they would just ignore them. The fact that they haven't proves otherwise.

The GDPR has been discussed for well over 2 years. It came out in 2012. Before then, it was being discussed publicly. Its predecessor, the Data Protection Directive, has been around for a long time.

You really have no justification for calling it horribly thought through. Laws like this don't appear overnight and without wide consultation. In any case, if the requirement was to apply the law out every scenario before implementing it, pretty much no law would ever be implemented.

The aim of the GDPR is to make organisations treat personal information properly, not to penalise them for every little infringement. I very much doubt there will be enough capacity to deal with every minor offence; it's more likely that large companies or those with many complaints against them will be the first targets.

Ultimately, if you're not sure about something, you most likely aren't the only one. Things will become clearer as regulations and guidelines appear, and the first complaints are dealt with. If you believe you're behaving fairly, you're probably fine or at least that's something you can argue.
10 years??

You will have to refactor everything and entirely change your toolchain every two years. If you had the misfortune of using some framework, it will no longer be supported by then.

No JS application has that kind of longevity, because the entire ecosystem is extremely volatile.
And the data broker, in turn, compiles that information from public records.

LexisNexis is actually the big one who resells that information, you can request a copy of your report from their site for free to see what they got on you. Mine listed my house, I believe the day I bought it, and the source of that information (in my case my town hall).
Currently they're saying:

> The policy will be re-applied to the Web Audio API in Chrome 70 (October). Developers should update their code based on the recommendations at: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

This is wrong and really needs to be reconsidered. Nearly all of the examples of broken webpages on that thread are write-and-forget games, which will never be updated; this plan would break them permanently, just to save a little engineering effort in Chrome.

The solution is simple: display a permissions request, like there currently is for camera, location and microphone. That's how it should've worked in the first place.
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