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The scraper is 100% authorized to access the data. It's the rehosting that is the problem.
I work for Canonical on snapd, so can provide some background here.

You're probably describing Ubuntu Core instead of classic Ubuntu. The UX there is oriented for devices, and it was cooked to avoid default passwords in an environment in which the device often will have no display. So once you boot, the device is in a running state, and the brand (manufacturer) that cooked the image has the choice of allowing individuals to login or not. In addition to a store account, the brand can also offer a "system-user" assertion, that is a signed document that you can present devices to get a system user in. That assertion may detail remote login, SSH keys, and also a hashed password for independent logins. That only works once on the device, though, for obvious reasons.

For generic Ubuntu Core devices the "brand" is Canonical, and for those devices you can get an assertion signed and with it log into any number of devices you want. That procedure may be done over USB storage, for example. Just insert a USB key into the device and your user credentials will be setup, even if it's completely offline. Again, that only works once on the device. If you lose the keys the device will need to be factory-reset.
Or alternatively the controversy increases Elshamy's profile. Given that the account is either controlled by her, or her agent, I'd say that's the more likely explanation.
Part of an undertaking this big is securing funding and political/social support. Being a bit "trendy" helps with those.
How do you prove the absence of some competing claim?

Between tax and debt liens, fuzzy property boundaries, overlapping property addresses (there are two different pieces of property that use my address, only one of which I own) there are all sorts of weirdnesses that can result in uncertainty.

(Disclaimer: not in real estate at all, so I'd imagine I'm just scraping the surface of oddities.)
GDPR also requires that you can't keep customer data indefinitely.
I'm sorry, but you are so naive in your thinkings with what are basically neo-colonial views.

Maybe these countries of 'savages' would do better with a white civilizing colonial power running the country
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I would suggest looking into buying a small piece of land on the edge of town and request a title search (get a list of previous owners). There you will see the mess that currently exists. We can create the most efficient process in the world with great technology, but it will take a long time before we can have confidence that all of the past records are recorded. If your title company fails to notice a deed from 1912...

That's what the insurance is for. Even with the technology the insurance would still exist because it's silly not to buy the insurance. You are protected if the title company screws up with title insurance. In the future insurance would protect you from the "title chain" having bad data.
Trust me, he's an intelligent guy, he did not mean "perfect" as you're implying it.

He is fully aware that he has not solved parallelism.
> I paid for my own education in the US, and I worked while studying. It wasn't easy, but I recognized the value of money.

A single anecdote holds no value for broad policy decisions.

> I'm not even sure what your argument is for. Do you want us to pitch in for his bad financial decisions? Why don't you pay him from your checking account, show us how it's done?

I financially support candidates who support discharging student loan debt. It's a drag on the US economy, and would provide more financial stimulus than tax cuts for the wealthy.
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In practice, I find reference-count related issues with this pattern to be minor.

Most of the situations where I care enough about memory and/or pickling overhead fall into the "take a giant block of binary/string data and process ranges of it in parallel" family, in which case there aren't too many references until the subprocesses get to work. If I had more complex structures of data I'd probably get a little less performance bang for my buck, but even then I suspect it would be much faster than multiprocessing's strategy: pickling and sending data between processes via pipes is many times slower than moving the equivalent amount of data by dirty-writing pages into a forked child.

That's not meant to discount anything y'all are saying, though: refcounts are definitely a very important thing to be mindful of in this situation. A child comment suggests gc.freeze, which can help, but can't entirely save you from thinking about this stuff.

It's also very important to be mindful of what happens with your program at shutdown: if you have a big set of references shared via fork(), and all your children shut down around the same time, your memory usage can shoot up as each child tries to de-refcount all objects in scope. This applies even if each child was only operating on a subset of the references shared to it. If you're processing, say, 1GB of data from the parent in 8 children on a 4 core system (doing M>N(cpu) because e.g. children spend some time writing results out to the FS/network), a near-simultaneous shutdown could allocate 9GB of memory in the very worst case, which can cause OOM or unexpected swapping behavior. Throttled shutdowns using a semaphore or equivalent are the way to go in that case.
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I take issue with some of Rich Hickey's technical opinions, but Datomic seems pretty cool. I knew Datalog has been around for a while, but had never looked into it further.
Now you're just trolling.

Do yourself a favour and learn your craft instead of trotting out obviously wrong statements to people who know better. Thats not a way to make a good impression.

Oh yes, regarding Erlang, trust me, I'm aware of 'let-it-fail' and have implemented it production on large distributed systems and trust me... that does not justify writing embedded s/w in a dynamically-typed language.
Unfortunately, the underlying issue here is that the federal government has stolen $10 billion from the American people ... mostly of the people of the future ... against their will, and now people who have no vested interest in how to dispense with other people's money to any degree that is commensurate to the level of responsibility and with virtually zero real accountability or consequences, to offer that money that belongs to other people to monopolistic tech companies that are utterly tyrannical in their spirit as they take over the internet and the whole economy and government and society
Yes, it would be, and that's what they have everywhere else.

Basically because the relevant governments are too incompetent to organize that, and/or are lobbied by title insurance companies to perpetuate the status quo.
It sort of did... The DVD portion of Netflix is now at dvd.com.
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I've been on both sides of the table here.

I worked for a company called Corel early in my career and we were taken private by a private equity firm. We had about $95 million in the bank and they bought us for around $130, so they used our own money to buy them. When the takeover was done the money was taken to pay back the banks for the short term loans.

The company changed and I left. I thought Vector was the worst PE firm ever. Now to be fair they don't have a great reputation at all due to their buy, strip, merge and flip tactics have caught up to them.

On the other side of the coin we've published short reports on companies and had that set off a wave of harassing phone calls about how we were the worst people on earth and why did we want to ruin everyone's life.

And this was a case where we were right, the company finally did admit that the items we highlighted in our short report were correct.

If you come out on the "I don't like these types of funds and their tactics" side, then ask your self what is the appropriate measure when you find a company that is under performing, or is down right corrupt with its books, or is just coasting.

What should the correct response be?

1) Build up a position in the firm so the fund has skin in the game?

2) Then ask for changes to be made?

3) Then ask for the management who was responsible for the under performance to leave so this doesn't happen again?

To me that all seems very reasonable and is the typical playbook of a firm like Elliot.

The very reason passive investing works is that there are firms out there in the market buying the good stocks and shorting the bad ones.

It seems a bit much to on one hand claim people should be passive investors which requires active investors to price the market and on the other hand get mad when an active investor points out flaws in a company and correspondingly asks a company to fix those flaws.

TL/DR

It's shitty when someone comes along and points out your flaws. It's often the low level employees, who aren't really at fault, who pay the highest price. On the other hand you can't just expect to become CEO and be able to run a company into the ground without someone complaining.
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So wait for them to praise you, then immediately use it to ask for a raise.

If you want a real raise, and not some bullshit 2% adjustment, change your job.

It's strange that a tech lead would even ask a question like this. Which country are you in and how much do they pay you now?
Ha ha! That's a great read. I hadn't seen it before. Thanks. One of the things I've heard about the fabled C3 project was that before Kent Beck was brought in, the team was incredibly unhappy. He introduced XP and it changed the attitude of the team. (BTW, I've talked with a few people who were on the team and they have verified this).
I've had one phenomenal success with XP -- the first one I worked on, and it was a similar situation. We removed a manager that was keeping the developers under his thumb and let the programmers write code.

Since then, I've had successes and failures with approximately XP shaped teams, but I've never even come close to that initial success (85 KLOC of code in a completely new coding environment, with between 3-6 developers over a 5 month period with exactly 12 bugs at the end. Won an award at Comdex and the core technology developed brought in hundreds of millions to the company). The team was rocking when we delivered, but big companies being big companies, they split us up ;-).

Many times I've thought back on that time and wondered, "What exactly is the difference between then and now?" Many times I've come to the conclusion, "The team was ready to work together. They had suffered so badly before and they were so happy to have their shackles removed, that they couldn't help but succeed".

Don't get me wrong. I still feel that XP can work extremely well -- after all, it did. And when I look at problem after problem after problem in other situations, I can point to exactly what is going wrong. But the reality is that some people just aren't going to do it the way they need to do it. That's a people problem, not a technical problem.

I often say when I go into a job, "I know exactly 1 way to succeed dramatically. That doesn't mean that there aren't other ways to do it. It just means that I don't know what they are". Inevitably people ask me to succeed in ways I don't know (in advance) how to succeed in. That's life, isn't it ;-)

Pivotal Labs sounds like fun :-) I hope it keeps going like that for you.
We do, that’s what a title is, chain of ownership.

However, mistakes or fraud can happen. Surveys can be wrong and not noticed. Someone can steal someone’s identity.
so are there really just magic pills you can take that stop panic attacks? this guys carries them around but doesn't say if he's had to use them.
>My throat closed up, my back ached and I couldn't shout, or call for help. Suddenly I couldn't breathe at all. I didn't know it was panic; I thought maybe I'd broken my back or something. Which of course made the panic worse.

I had that happen once on my home's stairs -- hurt my back, and then opened my mouth but couldn't speak, breath, etc for a couple or minutes (or so it seemed).

But it's not a panic attack itself. Had 2 of those quite young (at 15 and like 22 or something like that) and never had them again since, but they're different experience (and quite scary), like people here described it.
Agreed. One solution could be restricted access. Government of Maynmar not allowed to access this. Same of Houthi and Yemen or Syrian rebels/Assad etc. Idea 2: it could potentially help hold these government's more accountable if everyone in the world has access to a record and thus proof of what they are doing.
> Why do you think that paper ballots cannot be faked? Why do you think counting paper votes is better?

Faking paper ballots is easy; getting any substantial number of fake paper ballots into the count in a system with the kind of controls associated with paper ballots virgin hg in the US, OTOH, is not.

> Just because we can query some info about ourselves, doesn't mean anyone else can.

Yes, it does. That is, it means that the information is permanently more to your identity. It means it's subject to vote buying/retaliation, because people can choose you into proving your vote and can reward or punish you for it.

> That is clear malicious intent.

That doesn't mean it can't be done.
Both can happen during a panic attack. Or both can feel like are happening.
"Misrepresenting the product" means to fabricate a result that misleads potential customers to think that they will get a similar result when using the product. If (for the sake of argument) a DSLR and phone camera produced identical results, they would not be misrepresenting the product because customers will happily get the results they saw on TV. The implication or direct statement that the result is actually produced from the phone is a lie, but it's harmless to the customer. It is harmful if the result is vastly different than the normal circumstances of operating a phone camera because of lighting, photographer's skill, and hours of editing. What I am claiming is that DSLRs and phone cameras are in fact very identical, so this (in itself) is not misrepresenting the product.
“Immutable record” doesn’t really work with “birth”, “death”, or “accidentally incorrect details”.

Allowing mutability to any of those things doesn’t work well with preventing hostile forces with far more resources from corrupting your records — even a bug free implementation should, on topics like this, presume the hostile attackers can mount a 51% attack.

(I’d go further and assume hostile actors could mount a 99.99% attack when it’s homeless stateless refugees fleeing hundreds of thousands of armed malitia).
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As always, your mileage may vary. My small companies may be very different from yours (I get the sense there's more variation in small companies than in large companies).

Small companies:

* Less bureaucracy (for better and worse. The lack of sexual harassment training? Definitely worse).
* Typically less politics. This can definitely vary by company though. I've seen cases where someone was basically not fireable because he/she was a family friend of the CEO.
* Smaller companies can suffer from a lack of good project management. Beware when this happens, because what you typically get is a very meeting heavy culture that's not effective and/or firefighting.
* Freedom to make decisions
* Fewer meetings (although you can easily spend half your week or more in meetings if you're not careful). These meetings are more often working group meetings where you're working on a project and less status quo meetings where you're there because it's a standard meeting.
> I would actually go a step further than this and say that current is actually properly defined as the source of magnetic field.

That's actually (still, and somewhat) how the Ampere is defined. There are ongoing efforts to change this though.

I... prefer to avoid discussions like this one, but I thought you might appreciate this part :-).
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I'm serious.

The "let it fail" strategy is quite useful
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I have an iOS glitch camera app making around $500/mo most months https://itunes.apple.com/app/defqt/id817026377 - app is featured in some China photography lists and Apple recently requested promo assets for a feature, although they have not featured it yet. The only marketing is on IG, just posting images from the app and from other Defqt users. Been in the app store since 2014. My main income is as a freelance iOS and Android app developer. It's really a niche app so unless we get featured by Apple it will stay small. Ranking in the app store is a nightmare and outside of spending your way into rankings, you are left with the coveted Gold Standard of getting Editor's Pick from the Cupertino gang.
Thanks for the input!

> Internal Wikis, paper checklists, cloning JIRA issues, Confluence templates

I hope in the future we can replace all of these things with Active Checklist :)

> How're the costs of this project being covered?

Right now we just want to see whether other people also receive value from using the product. Once we see that the product is producing enough value, we will add a monthly subscription for pro users.

As we're using the product ourselves, we do not plan to shut down it down anytime soon.
Like really dumb infants maybe.

Most kids are able to correctly identify thing in their environment by age 1-ish since they're using words to describe those things around that age. Specially trained AIs are about at that level. Based on the difficulty of captcha tasks I think it's safe to say 1yo could identify cars, signs and store fronts about as well as Google's AI (were it actually in the situation, the 1yo probably couldn't conceptualize that some of the pictures in a grid of them on-screen represent cars or whatever). That's the level we're at and that's with AI that's specially trained to recognize those things.
this won't work in this case. The site is being specifically targetted. A custom captcha will be trivial to bypass. The reason it worked for you would be your site was just bulk scraped and no patterns could be found in your captcha to match it to a solving solution so the spammer moved on to the next.

When your site is specifically targetted, captchas will not work
Agree 100%. If you don't have explicit state transitions in a UI, you're asking for trouble. I think some people don't realize how much harder they make it on themselves by not setting clear boundaries; they see the up front cost and balk, when it saves a non-trivial amount of headache in the future, not to mention reducing mental overhead when you've got the structure hashed out.
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Is it fraud to sell property below it’s market price? Honest question.

I had a family member sell me property for $1 (it was a gift). That alone isn’t fraud.

And in terms of taxes, usually far below market prices and taxed at an appraised value so the govt still gets their dollars.
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Are these Ray Tracing Extensions and Hardware going to be exclusive to Nvidia, at least for the time being? Assuming AMD didn't know about it until now and had to work and implement it, it would be at least 3 years before a Ray Tracing hardware are included in their GPU.

And in terms of efficiency, how much better is this Hybrid Ray Tracing (HRT) compared to current Shadow Maps and reflection? I assume the latter needs a lot of fine tuning but are faster while HRT is a lot simpler and slower?

I think right now the "highest" graphics quality isn't bottleneck or most important part at all, ( Whether majority of gamers were able to go to the highest graphics quality is a different question ) we sort of reach that stage some time after Crysis. It is how to reduce the time needed for designer and developers to reach that fidelity. I assume HRT will help designer to get what they want quicker?

Because somewhere along the line, most game developers only wants to give me the best graphics looking gaming possible, and the fun and storyline part seems to have faded. Apart from Nintendo.

P.S To those calling this expensive, the $999 RTX 1080ti gets you a silicon Die Size of 775mm2, along with very fast GDDR6 memory. Even your top of the line CPU don't come close to this die size, let alone the inclusion of memory.
They didn't imply vegetarianism beliefs were widespread to the masses for this to matter.

They reference what historical figures of literature and philosophy thought and suggested to others about the subject.
I assume "discharging student loan debt" is the euphemism for "let the taxpayer pay for that undesirable pile of shit that he chose to study".

That will only worsen the situation - more young people will study shit that's not in demand.
didn't watch, but the Russian xrumer forum spammer has been at the forefront of captcha solving for the last decade or more.
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I think I disagree about the red flag part. Why should you not be allowed to like it and feel valued while not being a stakeholder. How do you know that there is no way for him to become a stakeholder at some point in the future? Ever heard of bonus and commission payments?

What's more I don't see how this comment answers op's question? Your general advice seems to be "just do not do it"?
No, your right. It is just one of the biggest targets for hackers, and has a litany of vulnerabilities that grows daily.

If playing an endless game of whack-a-mole trying to keep up with the a constant stream of vulnerabilities seems fun, then sure.

Personally I wouldn't touch WordPress with a 10-foot pole. I would consider something like Ghost instead.

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Unfortunately coal is what he knows, and maybe he was sold the snake oil himself.

You are right about the infrastructure being in place, but for wind it's probably on the wrong side of the Strzelecki range. The prevailing winds that you get in the South West where they are constructing a lot of the wind farms may still blow as strong across Wilson's Prom. but "Windy" Warrnambool is a good place for them.
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It's ok, if I didn't have a Master's in the field I would probably have similarly down voted you.

The problem is mainly that the criticism you are making is not great for pedagogy. What is being called “charge” is probably something like “disposition to accumulate charge” or so, in the same way that force is not actually mass times acceleration, but it's mass times a disposition to accelerate, so that you can do things like measure my weight-force even though I’m not falling through the floor.

The dispositional truth of the matter is fundamentally more cognitively complex to teach than the simple rule that you get when you say that everything does what it's disposed to do, and so everybody has memorized the version of the definitions that has no dispositions, and gets very confused when you point out that aspect of those definitions.