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I work for a big firm doing data science - or risk, fraud, response etc. prediction specifically. It's easy money. The problem that you can run into is this.

The systems are archaic. By that I mean both the implementation platform, and the people who you will sell your solution to. To most of the senior stuff this is new and mysterious - they would rather "play safe", and may ask you instead to use traditional methods, put "intuitive" variables, and keep the solution "simple" (simple being anything that they already know of, from their past 10-20 years of experience).

But things are changing. In my farm too. And if you interview now as a data scientist, you will probably be given the right respect - and put into a team where the leaders may want people like you.

And you will be one of very few in the company who knows what this stuff is, rather than myriads who know how to model using the company's already setup platform - which you will prove to be inferior. You may have to push the boundaries of the company for it, and you will pave the way. But you will also be welcome - as the realization now dawns upon corporates that there may be better ways of doing what they have been doing.

Also you will not be alone. You will find some smart people in the company you join soon. They will challenge you, be your friends. You will learn and think about things that you have not before... as will you intrigue others to think of things that they haven't before.

So go for it. Try it out. It's easy money.
> Walmart, Nike, PepsiCo’s Frito-­Lay division—but they are not paid by them; instead they work for temp ­agencies

large companies hire (generally second-rate) computer programmers the same way. except instead of temps they're called 'contractors'.
I very briefly worked a job like this when I was in college. I would work the concession stands at a huge football stadium with around 1,000 temporary workers on a given game day.

The wage and hours were terrible, but it was the absolute dehumanization that stuck with me. No body knew your name or particularly cared. You would walk in during the morning, flash your badge and get assigned to a particular stand. Every day it was brand new people who you've never met before with a brand new manager. There was obviously no room to move up, because you never had a chance to build a track record with anyone. There was also just plain disrespect on the part of the company towards its workers. We would spend 2-3 hours after the game just waiting for permission to go home. I can't imagine spending much of my life in a job like that, it was just horrible. But clearly there were enough people who had to do it, because there were many 40 year olds I worked with.

People who've never worked these jobs tend to read this article and assume that these articles have a hidden agenda: raising the minimum wage or some kind of socialist initiative. I read it differently, as a reminder of the depressing underside of the US economy.
If I'm to take this self-description as an indicator that he spends a lot of time playing F.A.T.A.L., then it actually makes quite a bit of sense.
I consider that the Guardian performed a great public service in relation to the phone hacking investigation. Without it, the illegal activity at NI and associated corruption in the police and prison service would not have been revealed. Multiple people are in prison right now because of this. The prime minister's former press secretary and the former ceo of nI in the UK are about to stand trial. This is a big deal and good journalism.

The Guardian retracted the claim about NI deleting the messages because it could not be proved, not because it was shown to be false. The police's opinion as given in the Leveson Inquiry report was that "It is not possible to state with any certainty whether Milly's voicemails were or were not deleted," [1][2]. The Guardian team originally believed, based on police sources, that messages had been deleted. When it couldn't be proved they retracted the claim. How is this not "moral"? Did it really shock you so much?

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/09/milly-dowler-deleti...

[2] http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/...
Oh I don't think they'd overtly kill him. Torture, imprison, exile, leave him marooned, break him economically, sure, any of those things, and I'm sure they have black bag people to 'accidentally' take care of him if needed.

At this point you have to remember that there are only two criteria: A) He can't ever be allowed to look like he 'won', like Ellsberg did and B) it has to be public, so that anyone else considering an ethical stand will know that their life is irrevocably ruined if they do.
I wish this were more readable, the "grey on light grey" is nice but it seems that each day the foreground grey gets lighter and lighter...
Is there any PXE boot support with Packer ? How does Packer compare to Cobbler + Koan ?
You'll need to drop a library into your project and add a few lines of code. I'll send the details over to you shortly. We're still wrapping up the API and the documentation.

Thanks for the feedback about the landing page. We're trying to make the documentation and API as simple and clear. Thank you for your comment.
Extend and extinguish is not a business model I appreciate.
How about curl http://domain.com/attemptlogin?username=[aaaaa-zzzzz]&passwo..., followed by curl http://domain.com/admin/wipeeverything?username=x&password=y ?
It's amazing how so much engineering and time/money can go into these rockets over a span of years, and then everything can wrong in just a few seconds :(
One thing that drives me nuts in Xcode as opposed to VS is that the autocomplete only completes when you hit tab. I want it to compete when I hit a period or a space too like it does in VS! Considering you find them both basically equal, have you found a workaround for this or is it just not frustrating to you?
Regardless of how many products they have, they still have one less after shutting down Reader. I'd say the argument still stands.
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You make a good point, but subjective standards are harder to enforce than objective standards (laws). We subjectively decide what should and shouldn't be done, and then we objectively codify that in law to make prosecution straightforward and fair. The law is a tool.

That's the theory. We're fucked when the govt turns around and subjectively interprets objective law to do whatever the fuck they want.
> unlike the US, its southernmost parts are not the nicest ones

Wait, what?
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i am using github pages: pages.github.com
It is free and it is easy to setup
This doesn't even mention the most awesome feature of PTVS 2.0: mixed-mode debugging, which provides an integrated experience for debugging mixed Python/C processes. See https://pytools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Mixed-mode%20deb... for details.

Disclaimer: I used to work on IronPython.
"It should always be perfectly legal to access a remote computer system via a publicly accessible interface.", no it shouldn't, no more than it should be legal for me to walk into your house if you've not locked the door.

The system worked exactly as AT&T intended, in circumstances they'd clearly not planned for. If they'd bothered doing a risk assessment they'd have spotted it, they took the lazy option and it didn't work.
You have to understand that people are tuning into CNN all day because they want entertainment and company. People sitting at home during the day with nothing else to do but watch cable news aren't looking for hard-hitting analysis and dry reporting of facts. They want to feel like a friend is talking to them. They want to be entertained and occupied. That's what emotional reporting, tragedy porn, focus on human stories (i.e. on Snowden's escape rather than the NSA leaks), and sensationalist criminal trials is all about. Sorry to say it, but the people who actually appreciate quality journalism aren't sitting at home during a weekday afternoon watching CNN. They have other things to do, and they get their news online.

It's a business and the average viewer just wants to be entertained at home. They are on 24/7. You can't compare CNN to BBC or Al-Jazeera because both are subsidized. If they lived or died by their Nielsen score, it'd be another story.

Edit: I'm not condoning CNN's execution as of late. They've taken a decided turn for the worst since former NBC head Jeff Zucker took over. He ruined NBC and somehow got the CNN gig and he's rapidly destroyed what little quality remained at CNN. I really wonder how the corporate world works sometimes.
> Have you been following what's going on? It's becoming clear that Russia wants nothing to do with him.

Citation needed!
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Depending on which list you are talking about, there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of Americans on "The List." You might be one.
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Thanks josephpmay. I agree that we've not put in much work with respect to the site. There is room for improvement. I'll pass your comments on to our designer. We'll redesign the site sometime in the future and we'll take your inputs when we come up with a new one.

Thank you for writing.
Nixon looks like a saint compared to people willing to shrug at the routine surveillance of everyone.

Remember that there hasn't been a president since well before Carter that went through office without personal blood on his hands - the ordering of covert missions with intent to kill has been endemic.
Apologies for crossing threads, but aren't you pretty upset that the NSA simply has Verizon phone records, despite a lack of evidence they're planning on doing anything nefarious with them?

Anyway, as I understand it, weev did speculate about selling the information. And would you be so sanguine if this were health records or private photographs? I'm not seeing a plausible guiding principle here.
I havent touched photoshop for interactive design in 5+ years.. First I switched to Illustrator, because photoshop is for photography not graphics.. and then 2 years ago I switched to pure CSS/JS built on top of HTML. I will do nice sketches of wireframes/ideas and then dive straight into the code. It's much faster production time.

I have been trying to get fellow creatives to make this switch, but it falls on dead ears, most of them cant write code and so they dont want to switch process's..

Which makes me wonder, if they cant write HTML at a minimum, why are they designing interactive?
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That's not what I meant. It's not organized by Marvel or DC at all. What I was referring to was that, for the most part, the chart only focuses on one particular ability of each character regardless of whether a character has more than one ability.

In some cases the choices are quite strange. It would be as if someone said the iPhone is awesome solely because it has volume buttons.
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Are you making an either or proposition? People either need to be well treated slaves or oppressed free people?

I have to hope there's a third way in there somewhere. An economy where wealth is distributed not equally or fairly (noting that the two are not the same), but humanely. That everyone has the dignity we all want, regardless of their social position or job.
This is a remarkably prescient article that gets a lot right about an alpha product, a company that was only three months old, and the Web itself.
It's not completely worthless - it's the difference between the targeted attacker having your data through the backdoor in your devices OS, and that attacker PLUS anyone on the unsecured wifi in the coffee shop having your data. Yes, it's a difference of degree, not kind; but it's still relevant.
Also, both SSH and HTTP have defined authentication mechanisms built into the protocol.

The HTTP spec has a response code, 403, for indicating that a request (potentially without authentication information) is unauthorized. SSH has a similar defined response.

If there's _no authentication around it_, I would argue that it's published to the public web, regardless of the protocol in use to deliver it.
Many smart people, or at least HN types, prefer not to watch the news.

(And FWIW as much as we love to complain about the newspapers I find TV news, even on the BBC, is the worst form of news reporting out there)
Yep! And here is a blog post on how Github uses Unicorns: https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
37 Signals also skip Photoshop in their process: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1061-why-we-skip-photoshop (2008) so the NoPSD movement is not new really.

It depends on the skillset, if you only have a designer they will probably end up with Photoshop and Illustrator comps, if you have a UX/UI person they can probably work faster and make a better/real-world comp in html5/css3 etc that is also truer to the medium. Everything looks so good in PSD/AI and then the conversion leads to problems, better to comp in the final format nowadays.
> The wage and hours were terrible, but it was the absolute dehumanization that stuck with me. No body knew your name or particularly cared. You would walk in during the morning, flash your badge and get assigned to a particular stand. Every day it was brand new people who you've never met before with a brand new manager.

It's worth remembering that when CEOs talk about flexibility, this is what they are talking about: interchangeable workers, who can be swapped in and out (and thrown in the bin) like interchangeable parts.
R.I.P., Jim Nayder:(
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The question is after hearing AT&T prosecute Spitler for discovering such a simple security hole (it could have been a lot more complex) would you feel safe disclosing any security hole even with the best intentions?

The answer is obviously no and if you can't make it public without risking being sent to prison the only option is selling it to some shady spammers.

Which would you prefer happened? From my point of view what they are doing is basically pushing the hackers to the "dark side".
If we disclose it we get arrested if we sell it we might get caught and arrested or make a lot of money. I'll take option 2.
I know the PSLVs have a reputation of being very reliable. Do you happen to know how much it costs, compared to the Protons or SpaceX's new design?

Also, it's very cool that India:s launching its own GPS alternatives. The article mentions that it uses the same L5 and S bands as GPS and Galileo: isn't there any potential of interference, and will existing receivers work as-is?
I also was in Caracas in 2006. I remember seeing graffiti "Vota Por Chavez" and the next day "Vota Por Chavez Jodete", the last part added overnight. It all depends on where you were (this was near parque del este, a more middle-class pro-opposition area).

I went in expecting a dictatorship and left feeling that it was a democracy. Or at least much more than a hopeless dictatorship as all the articles I read made it sound. There did exist fear about expressing anti-Chavez sentiment in and around the barrios[1], but this was mainly due to fear of the people in these areas being dangerous and potentially lashing out. And in fact, many people were just scared of the barrios period.

[1] Poorer, temporary-turned permament housing throughout the city, if anyone isn't familiar.
It's a cute and noble idea but pretty sure that more than just the US would be against it. Because wait for it. Most countries spy. And most countries don't appreciate rogue contractors jet-setting around the world revealing secrets about the nature of the spying.
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I personally believe this is almost impossible.

I think that some people out there, will always strong arm stuff out of others, there is not way to guarantee that stuff.

As a certain philosopher wrote once, in the end, our rights extend as far the circle of our own sword.
Well maybe we bloody well do.

What have we got now?
You make a good point. I do want to point out that typically Google gives plenty of notice, and gives users the option of downloading and backing up whatever data they had stored on their service before pulling the plug. Even now, you can still head to Reader and download your personal data and whatnot, up to 15 days after they turn it off.

I don't like it either, but it's not the same as them just deleting your data suddenly, which you seem to be alluding to.
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I've been designing and prototyping this way for a few years now.

I still keep Photoshop and Illustrator around to prototype look and feel or specific design elements that can't be more readily achieved with CSS. Colors and type can at times be faster to experiment with in one of those tools. But I haven't sliced a PSD in years (except when developing another designer's work).

The other benefit is that your design can be readily kept in source control, in branches if need be, and if you have a good process in place and are thoughtful in your markup conventions, can be swapped between almost seamlessly.

Firebug/CDT are great for quickly tweaking a design...I imagine (hope?) the next wave of web design software would be much like those, except with an easier way to edit markup, work directly on files and integrate with source control. I suppose you can get some analogous with a browser reload plugin hooked to your text editor or filesystem.
One of the biggest problems with full design first (i.e., PSD, Fireworks, etc.) is that you don't really have content. How many of you here have experienced the, "I like that little side bar they have - let's do something like that.", or, "I really like how they have a menu here and a top on there." syndrome, followed by shoveling content into that side bar or stuffing random links into that top menu when the concept is actually coded, because content was an afterthought.

It's very exciting to see this being addressed in a formal way. The movement toward code-based design has been growing in strength since (I'd say) about 2010, and is now stronger than ever, thanks to Bootstrap, Foundation, et al.
Please stop with the physical analogies. Locks and doors and physical space have well defined ways of indicating "authorized" and "unauthorized". We also have a social contract about entering spaces of others, even if there are no locks at all.

The social contract of the web is that "you can send a request to any webserver on the internet without permission". That's how the web _works_.

It's up to that server, and nothing else, to be the final arbiter of authorized/unauthorized. You don't get to move the goalposts after the fact, saying "oh, well we didn't INTEND for you to use it that way".

That's putting the burden to avoid jail on to the requester, who is now responsible for making assumptions and inferring the intent of programmers/admins they've never met or communicated with. It's lunacy.
I agree with you, but there is another side to the temp economy:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/temp-hides-fun-fulfilling-l...

I realize that's a joke, but it's a joke I and many people I know have lived. It's a cultural notion that we need to get a bunch of fulfillment from our jobs. Though I now have a fulfilling job, I was probably the happiest when I just had a job to make a few bucks and didn't take home the worries of knowledge work. Temp work was a good option because there was no responsibility and if I didn't want to go to work, I didn't.

I'm not saying that treating workers as animals is OK or that all temp workers are living a life of bliss – this article show most aren’t -- but there is certainly another side to the story.
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He technically become one the minute he started revealing the nature of US spying activities against China et al.
I wonder why in the Venezuelan government's eyes it's OK for them to constantly monitor and record every call, email,etc made by their political opponents.

I wonder what would happen to an officer of the SEBIN (venezuelan inteligence agency)if they came out with details about how they record every political opponent movement. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up being just another statistic in the homicide rates.

They even had a late night TV show (La Hojilla) where a guy would play back cell phone recordings and emails of the opposition politicians.Live. On TV. He had carte blanche to insult,record anyone he wanted live on TV. Chavez would often call in to the show to congratulate him.

They even had a Congress session where they played recordings of the cell phone calls of the most prominent opposition members and their family. And that was live on TV again!

Hipocrysy at it's best.
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Well... how about that :) Never even thought about the phrase before. No edits, I'll leave my error for fun and learning.
Are you seriously implying that the USA is some sort of evil "secret police?" Please.
How about: Reddit? Lobsters? Designer News? Doing a Meetup Talk? Blog.yourapp.subdomain with an innovative way to use your tool? Emailing or twittering people in the design world with an invite?
Try PyCharm. It works on Mac and Windows and is miles ahead of XCode for Python.
So if a bank accidentally deposits $1bn in your account, that becomes yours? You're looking for a simple answer to a nuanced issue where one just doesn't exist.
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IOW, worse is better in every domain.
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Unfortunately no, just have to deal. Some use "CTRL + SPACE" or ESC or "CTRL + ," but it still doesn't do it very smart. VS autocomplete is still smarter and quicker it seems. I do like the greying auto complete of XCode as you type as sometimes the drop down gets in the way.
Hacking as a crime is almost entirely an economic crime. So it is pretty easy to distinguish hacking that deserves to be a felony from hacking that, at worst, should be a low-grade misdemeanor, by requiring actual profit for the criminal or actual loss from loss of data or exploitation of data acquired by hacking (not what it costs to fix incompetent security).
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Thanks for the Project Euler link. I've been learning JavaScript and these problems (at least the few I've had a look through) could be interesting to complete programmatically.
Do you sketch on paper or in a wireframing tool?
33K seriously? with 33k let me show you what it can buy you as far as web development training.
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Java training at oracle is around 2k take a few courses there and become a Java pro, Make amazing web sites or Android phones.
Sign up for a subscription at teamtreehouse which covers PHP, Ruby on Rails and all things web development I have one myself, It's awesome. Another one is Codeschool which is also awesome. Udacity and Coursera are both free

So you're looking at a total of maybe $8k to become a Java pro, Python, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Satisfied?

You can take another bootcamp training which is maybe $8k or $12k which teaches Javascript, or Ruby on Rails or even Python.

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Are you keeping your product team focused and data driven?