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I agree. I had some VMs that I wanted to turn into containers. With LXC it was a breeze, and the result is very much like a "lightweight VM". Docker seems more like putting a single application process in a container, which is a very different thing. And if I want to do that, I'll seriously consider running the application in a unikernel (e.g. OSv) instead.
Oh! Yes you're right. My mistake. That makes a lot more sense too, it would be weird if a letter was more bits than a byte, hm? :-)
Location: Germany (traveling)

Remote: Yes (I'm only considering remote positions)

Willing to relocate: Occasional travel to HQ to company retreat

Technologies: Rails, Python, Node.js, PostgresSQL, Browsers, React, Ember.js, Vue, Frontend, Cryptography, Blockchain, Docker, AWS

Resume/CV: http://david.bengoarocandio.com/cv/

Email: david@bengoarocandio.com

I have tons of experience in everything web and not web related, I would like to tackle hard problems in blockchain, novel uses of EC cryptography, robotics, or hard scalability problems.

I have had a lot of side projects over the years so I have experience in a wide variety of things, like browser hacking , embedded devices (Esp. STM32), cryptocurrency and web scraping.
So, on the high end, the US is fine, and thus is does fairly well on mean speeds (top 10 on some metrics). However, if your internet in the US is bad, it's often really, _really_ bad. In areas without competition, providers still sometimes use ADSL1! (Max 8 down, <1 up, if you're lucky).

In general, the tendency in most European countries has been to force wholesaling and/or LLU, and set minimum standards for both; this has generally at least wiped out ADSL1. The FCC is somewhat lighter touch.
What are some things that a travel blogger should avoid posting on his website?
>The top three safest cars ever tested by the NHTSA are all Electric

Because the people making electric cars know the buyer demographics and know those people have enough money to justify paying a premium for that thereby making it a marketable feature.

Nobody is wasting the money putting tree-trunk A-pillars and foot thick doors in a Chevy Aveo competitor because protection against something that's less than a once in a lifetime event for most people let alone the vehicle is not high on the priority list of those buyers.
Instead of TextCrawler, I use grepWin:
https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html

Edit:
Forgot to mention TinyTask, a macro recorder in 30kb or so:
https://www.tinytask.net
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Yeah also expecting everyone to have a mobile phone is a bit elitist. Mobile phones aren't a public service and as such should not be required of user.
I stayed in London with no phone number for 4 month after moving in (call it a social experiment or procrastination, it's probably a bit of both). Life is hard. The number of services that require a phone number of you, sometime for no reason, sometime for 2FA is staggering. You have to fight the system so much.

On top of that, your phone might not have battery, forgotten somewhere, died etc.

I think a simple password + fingerprinting measures (recognising the user based on his browser, IP, machine, behaviour etc.) to enable further checks (2FA with either mail, phone, device, security questions), and further messages in the future in case the attacker had access to that creates a better user experience / risk factor.
That does seem unlikely. The whole point of basically all the violence in ME is that MbS and his silent partners hate Iran.

Then again, what sort of investment would one suggest for a hated enemy? Maybe Softbank?
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Clearly not good enough yet? :-)
yeh we pay them like $15/month for Hub/Cloud/Private Image Storage/whatever it's called this week.

It actually seems quite cheap...we have something like 2TB of tags up there, and they don't charge for network I/O. I did feel slightly bad when a hidden crash looping pod set to always download lay undiscovered for a month...that's a LOT of I/O.
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I meant copyright as a vehicle of capitalism contrary to this behaviour where something that works, is bluntly copied without caring for the individual. You know: "for the greater good" of the system.
While it may be that Apple has an unfair advantage regarding the App Store ecosystem, this particular example seems ridiculous IMO. Period tracking doesn't seem like something new, and it's quite a stretch to suggest that Apple copied the idea.
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The paper is talking about a closely related, but rather different topic than the video (relying on your summary, I did not watch it).

The paper is mostly concerned with model misspecification, in the sense that your model is not actually capable of describing reality (no matter what parameters you set it to). The first example uses the OLS model, e.g.

Y = βX + ε

where the implicit assumption is that your observations (Y) are purely a linear function of your input(s) (X) plus a independent, equal variance, normally distributed error.

Let's say your data really does fit a straight line, but the later data points you get are really high variance. Intuitively, including the later data points will make your estimated parameters more noisy than if we had simply thrown them out.

So in this sense, 'more data is worse', because your model assumes all the data points are the same, but the later points you collected are actually worse (noisier).

There are other more obvious ways this happen - for example, if you assume that wealth is normally distributed, then try to estimate the distribution's parameters, then any small sample + any billionaire will get you nonsense — your model will be very intolerant of sampling noise compared to a better model.

The video's observation only deals with data: you might prefer quality over quantity.

E.g. compare a wider cone centered at zero (the true average) vs. a narrow cone that's centered away from zero - depending on what we care about, we may prefer some (hopefully uncorrelated) noise in our model rather than learning some systematic untruth.

So these are two different ways more data can be counterproductive: either your model is biased in a way that more data can be hurtful, or your sampling procedure for larger sets is increasingly biased.

Note that older stats/econometric techniques are more vulnerable to model misspecification because they have many fewer parameters than, say, a DNN; conversely, more modern ML techniques are able to closely replicate input data. This helps explain the difference in focus.
I wonder at what point most gas (petrol) stations start to be become uneconomical to run? As they start to close down, maybe range anxiety will start to become an issue for ICE vehicles. Is Norway getting close to this threshold already?
Macy's quality has plummeted over the last decade. It makes sense that Nordstrom would try to attract their customers - should be an easy group to sway.
Most likely they already do that if its on the same computer. Details aren't out yet, but I would guess the backups came from other computers.
Probably that there is a lot to learn and it feels like a full time role, so looking after a small cluster say 2 hours/month I feel like I’m hacking to solve problems and not getting the deep understanding a full time sysadmin person would. Using a cloud provided solution and terraform and CI helps a lot though. I have a clone test cluster to play around with before I deploy to production.

I went from never have run docker build to maintaining docker k8s VMs running the modes, terraforms cloud load balancer so quite a learning curve. Took me ages to realise that to configure nginx ingress I needed to work with the docker image and not try to set it up via the terraform k8s config. That was a painful lesson. Not having those mental models! Doing a free online course on k8s helped a lot, after that I reached critical mass of knowledge and it got a bit easier.
I think having a bright line that says that "we won't accept money from largely unrepentant and underpunished rich pedophiles" is a pretty solid principle. Doors should have slammed shut around Epstein everywhere. Agreed that he should have been put away in '08, but failing that, he should have been kept away from anything that might lend him credibility.

This is how we make it clear to the next abuser that you don't get to keep all the toys even if you get a nifty legal deal.
> They didn't say no.

Most likely they don't know english and only have pre-written formats to talk to the victim.
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Good practice. I'm just playing around, devil's advocate.
Thanks for pointing this out, looks like the lecturer put a screenshot of the paper in the slides because the title is clickbaity, to liven things up, not because it was relevant to the subject at hand.
Also very important with 64 bit there is a lot more room to play with. Also there is address layout randomization which at last on 64bit every program _should_ be compiled with.

Also on 64 bit isn't the last memory page like the first unmappable (I think at last on linux it is).

Lastly isn't there a region of unmapable virtual address space on 64 bit in the middle of the virtual address space due to the chips which are doing mmap not handling full 64bit of virtual address space?? I sadly can't find any info about this but I remember having read about it before? Maybe I mixed something up.
How was your experience the last time you bought clothes online?
How was your experience the last time you bought clothes online? and What did you buy?

Do share your stories to help us build a better online experience for clothing! :)
The media lab is a self indulgent stain on an otherwise perfect institution, and secondly, take the money. This morality contest has got to stop.
Gasoline is already something of a loss leader...they're really convenience stores with attached pumps. Though without the captive audience, and without the space and infrastructure to replace the pumps with electric chargers, I doubt that the convenience stores will have the same level of traffic.
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The process does not encourage experience but mainly the ability to remember recent academic programming puzzles. The first comment is correct even though they do have many existing experienced developers that would be in a position to provide architectural advice.
The reason these scams seem so crude and obvious, as I learnt from Daniel Dennett, is that they're designed that way. They filter out the vast majority of the population. The scammers can then focus on trying to reel in potential victims, in a series of verbal/written exchanges, from the tiny pool that remains.
I'd recommend Angular instead
So they offered $400,000 for restoring what was most likely a week of lost work for 158 employees. That works out to $2,531.65 per employee for that week. Is the average salary of the compromised employee $131,645.57 ($2,531.65*52)? It sounds like the town was just willing to throw a lump of cash at the attacker based on what other victims had paid with no regard to what the lost work was actually worth. I know the attacker did not accept and it allowed them to strengthen their security and etc., but it bothers me that the attacker could have just gotten a $400,000 payout. It’s almost as if the moral of the story is “even if a town government had backup system in place, you can still pull in a few years of income with a ransomware attack!”
I’ve been doing it for about a year and a half, just skipping breakfast each day and lunch one or two workdays a week.

At this point, most days it’s not even hard. When I’m hungry I just realize that the hunger is temporary, and it’s honestly unrelated to the degree to which I need food. And tbh nowadays I can tell when my body actually feels weak and needs food, and when it’s just whining.

I think of it like getting sleepy. Just because I feel sleepy doesn’t mean I should just take a nap right there and then.
A great guide. Maybe it is out of scope but I would have liked to see what they do BEFORE they start writing code.

The reason is because by the time to get to a code review may be too late. The comment that you should give is "this is not how it should be implemented. You need to rewrite it from scratch." But most of the time you do not.
Ah, but you can also speak English. There's something about speaking any number of languages but not English which predisposes one to crime.
I really like the idea of building AD directly into the language and compiler infrastructure itself, but the challenge of upstreaming it in a language built for very specific tasks makes me concerned. Is Latner just going to end up making a GSwift? Will it just be forked?
If you like WinDirStat, try WizTree sometime. Not open source but free from antibody-software. Many times faster in operation that WinDirStat.

For file renaming lately ReNamer Lite by den4b has been great. It seems to have all the power of other rename tools with a GUI that makes it very easy to accomplish what you are trying to do.
Why not?

Just schedule a single health check with a loop that tries to health-check N times in a loop, with a delay in between. If the check succeeds at any point, return 'healthy' early.

Or schedule N health checks at different times, if any check succeeds cancel all others, etc. etc.
Any French bank with a single exception: Only digits, maximum 6-8 characters. Can not copy paste or even type in the field, must use a stupid on screen keyboard with randomized sequence of buttons.

Allegedly this protects against key loggers.
Damn, Russians don’t do things halfway
This announcement reminds me of thw neo900 project. I hope for a better outcome, but this announcement sounds eerily familliar. Purism seems better positioned to ship, eventually. Seeing as Q3 is almost expired, I expect a similar announcement from the Pine64 group,too.

Edit: Pine 64 will ship

https://www.pine64.org/2019/09/05/september-update-the-pinep...
Hasn't this always been a risk for third-party developers - that the platform owner might incorporate popular third-party features to the main platform? I vaguely remember Microsoft Word used to have a third-party addon for a spell checker, then made it built-in - and got sued by the third-party developer. I think they lost though...
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Sounds like his app bypassed one of the "features" of YouTube Red, and they were giving him a chance to be bought out instead of just shut down. Better PR and a nicer way to go about it, if you're going to play that way. But he declined and so they used their position as owner of the app store to shut him down instead.
I feel as though leaving 100 comments only addresses the code but not the coder.

Telling someone that the changes they made are too much for a commit would probably go a lot farther.

Identifying common architectural problems would also reduce what you need to connunicate. Maybe they made a lot of mistakes but I would find it difficult to believe there were 100 unique mistakes.
I doubt you would be able to restrict personal transport again. Anyone with relatives outside the immediate vicinity probably wouldn't want to rely on public transportation. And even if so, let's be honest, having your own vehicle gives you many opportunities and public transport is often inconvenient.
Worth noting it took two decades from Leonov's complaint to introduction of this handgun.
> The way I see that is people in those places don't have automotive needs that are that different[1] than elsewhere.

They live in a huge, built-up, tech-heavy area that's urban for miles around, with sealed roads and a regular grid structure. Their automotive needs are completely different to someone living in an isolated rural location.
> The popular sites earn more from repeat customers than from single-time customers.

> What would it take to build a sustainable dating platform?

Between "earning more" and "sustainable" there's is a broad spectrum of possibilities. I know from past experience that it's absolutely possible to skip many deliberate ways of "earning more" and still be sustainable (even highly profitable). Perhaps you won't conquer the market without shady tactics nowadays when competition is fierce, but you certainly don't have to screw your customers to be highly successful.
This is why people defaulted to Snapchat shortly after. Having temporary messages/pictures was ideal when after seeing evidence of failed relationships, people wanted the evidence of early flirting to be gone from the record.
He's been trying to beat his own name his whole life, it seems. It's like he's always felt he had something to prove due to his name. Complete speculation on my part, of course.
This desperately needs a text search feature!

The first thing I thought of was 'oooh, maybe put a pic on the landing page of this website I help out with' but I can't search for e.g. 'chess' or whatever theme I want.

The whole point of the site is to annotate the photos, but then to not make them searchable by annotation? Shame!
Excellent guide. It would be fantastic for Google to adopt these practices.
>Of course Apple copies features—Camera+'s volume button shutter was initially blocked from the App Store then wound up in the first-party Camera app.

Did they copy this particular thing though?

It's quite obvious to me that Apple would have tried that functionality (volume as camera shutter) on its own even back when the camera app was being developed, along with tons of other ideas, which would gradually incorporate into the product...

Whenever we see the old research behind a product implementation at Apple, we see that they had tons of ideas and tried several alternative ways of doing things, some which resurfaced later (e.g. when deemed premature, or when there was no time to add everything), some which were just rejected.
I think there was, but I’m not sure if I think it was any real consolation. I mean, what’s worse? Being listened to or them having so much data on us that they can somewhat accurately predict our behaviour before we’ve even decided for ourselves?
They've been able to do it up until now, with >50% CAGR per year since 2010-ish. The question is whether you can naively extrapolate this mathematical growth when approaching established manufacturers in volume.

Tesla has up until now been an excellent example that a billion-dollar revenue business can be built much faster than 100 years ago.
Although there is perceived demand, COBOL jobs pay very poorly. Like $50K.

Exception of course for consultants with a following, and customers that believe you have 'unicorn' skills.

One advantage is the software stack is mature and not subject to fads and fashion.
Tangerine still does this. I’m honestly surprised I don’t hear stories about account compromises with them. Likely a ticking timebomb though.
That's the first thing in my todo list. Thanks for clarifying.
- Get https://able.bio off the ground and go full-time on it.

- Use Able influence to set up training and work facilities for programming in rural communities across South Africa (my home country). Enable them to export code to bring income to their communities.

- 2 kids and at least 1 dog.

- Buy and convert a barn in southern Sweden.

- Learn about C++, compilers and networking protocols.
Is there anyway to read more about the technical bits regarding how this is done, i.e. how are the annotations made?
(Not OP) I'm running a single node kubernetes cluster because it provides much needed isolation between services as well as, and that's the biggest part, a aingle and simple way to have everything in one place.

I can duplicate a service I'm running 1:1 with a new version for testing in 2 minutes, I can tear it down in 2 seconds. I can roll back changes in one command, I can wipe the server and reinstall everything from scratch in 25 minutes.

The environment is completely reproducible, and I can with a single command see every config that applies to a service.

All the usual deployment trouble is gone, no more weird setups and config situations. All the weirdness is nicely encapsulated.
>"Sorry buddy, I wasn't really using the thing, I just added everyone, but thanks for letting me know you like me!"

Just say you were doing the same thing. Can atleast deny it to leave some doubt, can't really question why you added everyone to Secret Crush when they also apparently did it.
If you’re doing this argument, you should go the full HN and blame zoning.

Poor Amazon wouldn’t need drivers if only zoning rules allowed them to place warehouses anywhere. If silly regulations didn’t forbid Amazon from putting a container full of stuff in every driveway, rent free, countless lives would be saved.
> For me containerization was always about deterministic environments and ease of deployment instead of performance and clustering. But even with these advantages I am currently not using any solution for that.

You can get 99% of the way using a stable distribution and a configuration management system (ansible, chef and the like). It's much much simpler than running an orchestration service. I feel most people don't need containers and orchestration, just config management running redundant system designs.
most people dont know too much about imageboards or how they work so I guess its just like you said, its easier to write the imageboards name and demonize that then to confuse readers. Either way its pretty disconcerting. I hate /pol/ too but generalization is a great way to distort the facts
In my team I like to have a "technical kickoff meeting".

But before that, the person that will implement the story will goes through a checklist that I started and we improved during retros. The engineer sits down with another engineer and they go over again together. If they did their homework it is usually pretty quick.

Sample for web dev:

-Does this feature heavily relay on or modify code that someone else wrote? Should we talk with her? Should we HAVE THEM in this MEETING? In particular for BE work who should we talk?

- What names are we going to use for Components, Pages, Folders, etc?

- Is the visual design/flow clear and complete?
- Do we have every assets from design? Do we need to ask for more?
- Do we have dependencies on other work being done now on a branch or in the near future ?
- Do we have overlap with other pieces of code (possible conflicts)?

- Will we reuse some other components or any other relevant utility functions?

- What code can be reused?

- Do we want to make some of the code for this feature reusable?

- (Redux) What reducers will we use (if any)? In particular do we need new ones?

- What are the most important tests to write ?

- Are we going to phase the feature?

- Do we have to compromise and create some tech debt? If yes, what, why and when do we plan to pay it?

I found that this meeting makes most of the code reviews fast as well.