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> In the world of programming being a one-trick-pony is not an option

> Lifetime careers no longer exist. I knew a bunch of people that were charging $200 per hour to do HTML in the early 90’s. Frontpage ate their lunch.

Ha! I know plenty of SAP people who are making $200+/hr because they are one-trick ponies. So the real question is - who's anecdote is stronger, mine or jacques's?
It's worked pretty well though, just sayin'.
Hm. I think the most important lesson here is that we need to treat "communication data"[0] more like we treat financial or medical data. If there isn't already there should be a rule in security that says that anything that's actively being used can't also be secure. They had year and year of data just lying around that people had mentally filed under "communication". It's kind of like web security where you lock down all your servers and then some developer leaks all the credentials on pastebin.

[0] There's probably a better word for this. A basically mean volatile data i.e. e-mail, working documents, logs etc.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the CIA is now an Amazon customer. Hopefully they don't also become Amazon's employees.
I see, thanks.

So there _is_ extra¹ care taken over the protection of the keys vs the protection of disks to significantly raise the barrier.

¹not saying that they just leave their data centers open to the public, but you know what I mean :)
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Hi, are you an expert or at least well established in the community? Because that usually helps a lot to sell. Thanks!
The NYPD actually has an entirely separate arm that handles parking tickets & traffic enforcement. They don't have guns and can't arrest you. They also drive around in silly 3 wheel cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_the_New_York_Ci...
I think most Americans just realise that relying on social capital (aka cronyism, handouts, blackmail and bribes) is a very shitty way to run business. I've just finished reading Jim Spilsbury's Accidental Airline, and the amount of cronyism back in the 50s in Canada was astounding. These days things are a lot better.

I guess Russia still has a long way to go, given that they only started using capitalism a couple of decades ago.
I'm surprised the author didn't buy a cheap Chromebook or Windows Netbook and have the MacBook taken as evidence.
I've never seen a UNIX system that changes the system clock due to DST. You change the local time zone.
And plenty of people still make a nice living with Fortran.

The "one" trick is apparently finding the right pony...
Oh, indeed. I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't consider the need for normalization and the potential negative output :P
For those who don't know:

Ping makes a ping sound on linux.

You can choose ping on success or ping on timeout (or silent.) Fantastic for live work.
Funnily enough, my starting point to get into A/B testing was research on multiarmed bandits.

Update: I should add I think the issues are more complex than simply using, say, Thompson sampling.
It looks great but it appears the smallest encrypted RDS is medium. I would love to see it for the micro or small instances (my level :-) ).
This is based under the assumption that this is the correct people and OP's witchhunt hasn't turned a wrong corner. Doxxing is often discouraged by civil communities because the chance of collateral damage is too high.
You need to post this question to Stackoverflow (www.stackoverflow.com).
"Actually in many states fortifying your home is already a crime."

In what way? Plenty of people have steel security doors. What exactly do you mean by fortifying and what law?
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think there's a lot of room for profitability in the social capital space if you were a relatively morality-unencumbered startup.
This whole story is whiny white girl first world problem
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I don't know why people down voted this to death. Whether true or not (no one knows for sure), it's a view held by many.

If the enforcement is down 90%, there will always be some consequences / impacts down the road. It will not be immediate because it takes some time for criminals to test the new boundaries of what they can get away with.

And for those who think this will hurt the police budget, ticket revenue only accounts for 10% of NYPD budget. It will not lead to layoff.
I agree. This article from the NYT seems very premature. I think this is part of the current media backlash which is trying to shame the cops for pointing the finger at DeBlasio. "See! You end stop and frisk and crime didn't go up. It is wrong to demonize the administration."

Reducing patrols and arrests isn't going to spike crime immediately, but if this condition persists for another three months, we might be able to comment. The theory is, people have to notice that enforcement is down/stays down, and therefore it is "safe" to try and commit crimes again.

Interesting side note - the drop in parking tickets etc - is a way for the police to starve the city government of revenue. Apparently $550 million or so per year, so there's that element to consider as well. The city could respond with more cameras / automated tickets, so maybe that winds up backfiring. We'll see.
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The world is in such a primitive state still its saddening, sickening. thousands of years of civilization and this is what is happening?

The French intelligence units are actually pretty good at what they do as well as their Special Operation Teams.

As the old saying goes, "You can run but you can't hide". They will be hunted down to the most remote corners of the earth.

If they had the brains they could built a space ship and leave , otherwise they are all dead men walking.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there's actually a fight inside Google over this.
Violent crime fell across Europe and America during that period.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-s...

Estonia even decreased their prison population during that period and their crime still fell massively. Whatever is going on, it didn't just happen in New York, so it is not to do with the policies of Giuliani.

edit - Guiliani was a thug who commented about the NYPD's "degree of restraint which is virtually unmatched in the country.", during a Civil Rights Commission hearing about a suspect being sodomised with a broomstick.
Does anyone happen to know whether the quad-core atom mentioned would be sufficiently powerful to handle being a Plex client or Steam streaming client machine? This would make a remarkably cheap living room client PC.
... and a lot of this change can be attributed to changes in demographics, wealth, improved car alarms, the decline of cash, and dozens of other variables. Policing has, I'm sure, some impact, but no research I've seen suggests it is the primary (or even a significant) driving force in the declining crime-rate.
"HTTP/2.0 could have done away with cookies, replacing them instead with a client controlled session identifier."

It doesn't make much sense to get rid of cookies alone, not when there are multiple ways of storing stuff in a user's browser, let alone for fingerprinting - http://samy.pl/evercookie/

Getting rid of cookies doesn't really help with privacy at this point and just wait until IPv6 becomes more widespread. Speaking of which, that EU requirement is totally stupid.

The author also makes the mistake of thinking that we need privacy protections only from the NSA or other global threats. That's not true, we also need privacy protections against local threats, such as your friendly local Internet provider, that can snoop in on your traffic and even inject their own content into the web pages served. I've seen this practice several times, especially on open wifi networks. TLS/SSL isn't relevant only for authentication security, but also for ensuring that the content you receive is the content that you asked for. It's also useful for preventing middle-men from seeing your traffic, such as your friendly network admin at the company you're working for.

For example if I open this web page with plain HTTP, a middle-man can see that I'm reading a rant on HTTP/2.0, instead of seeing just a connection to queue.acm.org. From this it can immediately build a useful profile for me, because only somebody with software engineering skills would know about HTTP, let alone read a rant on IETF's handling of version 2.0. It could also inject content, such as ads or a piece of Javascript that tracks my movement or whatever. So what's that line about "many HTTP applications have no need for [SSL]" doing in a rant lamenting on privacy?

HTTP/2.0 probably has flaws, but this article is a rant about privacy and I feel that it gets it wrong, as requiring encrypted connections is the thing that I personally like about HTTP/2.0 or SPDY. Having TLS/SSL everywhere would also make it more costly for the likes of NSA to do mass surveillance of user's traffic, so it would have benefits against global threats as well.
I'd pick fairly boring work with a nice team over interesting work with assholes every single time. Some people also prefer boring as in "uneventful" since they have kids, family, other obligations and value having a 9-5 job over interesting. There's a lot of reasons to pick boring. I can have exciting hobbies after work.
I would but the question is vague and has no code so will only be closed and downvoted.
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I was just sharing what I read about what people have said about police tactics. I lack the expertise to evaluate the factually of them. I thought the comment about the mere presence of riot control can escalate the situation was pretty damning.

I do believe that there mostly isn't enough cost benefit analysis going on, just more stuff is better.
> In the UK: threatening behaviour, and if any physical contact with counter staff of any kind, a push, a shove or (not sure about this) even twisting the laptop out of their hand, assault.

> Not a good idea.

Nobody, except you, has suggesting doing any of that. So that's a rather big leap.

I said leave. I didn't say attack the staff.
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The NY Post has been crowing about what a disaster this is and how it's de Blasio's fault. In my opinion, they're missing a tremendous opportunity.

If you're an economic conservative, public unions should be your enemy #1. They have tremendous leverage in local politics, and the fat pensions they've voted for themselves are the top economic problem facing states and municipalities.

Supporting de Blasio against the police union would strike a major blow. The union would find itself facing opposition from both liberals and conservatives (for different reasons), which would create major leverage in the ongoing negotiations between the union and the city.
But the OP did as he turned it on and was looking at if it was wiped before they paid. Per the article.
Could someone here make a description of what obvious gains one could have by moving a linux-based server (let's say ubuntu) hosting a regular web service & db to illumos ?

Would i gain performance ? Would it let me backup my server more easily ? Make the stack easier to shard ? Be less prone to security issues ? Etc.
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One reason is probably because residential leases are generally one year while commercial leases are multiple years, and it takes a lot of time and effort to move an office compared to an apartment. Companies are somewhat more locked into where they are currently.
Willett is good but as it was pointed out to me upthread I had my signals crossed with Weller. :)

Regarding Templeton, here's a decent reported source:

http://chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2014/10/templeton-tale-gets...
What always strikes me (I also wrote a bf parser a while back) is the pay-off in how simple it is to implement vs how hard it is to write in it. This seems a very obvious and simple thing to notice: the less tokens/rules your language uses the easier it is to write a parser for it, but the harder it is to write a program in that language.

The implications seem more subtle and are more interesting. The very simple phenomenon implies that application development time later can be saved by compiler development time now. If so then what is the most optimal language/compiler? What is the best distribution of time? Is it perhaps so that there exists a language that is trivial to implement, yet also super powerful and expressive to program in (don't say lisp here, though it does almost satisfy the second constraint imo).
I was specifically referring to city-owned housing.

The point is, there are extremes, and neither is the correct answer. I recall living in late 1980's Queens where getting a response from the police for anything short of a murder was an exercise in frustration. That wasn't the the case 10 years later.
You can't replace the union and NYPD has some serious voting power. So have fun with that.
As far as I remember blended Scotch still makes up the majority of the Scotch market. So in principle I don't see them as being that different. What I do see is that you can buy good aged rum from good distillers at cheaper than the equivalent Scotch.

Now it's all a matter of taste but when it comes down to it, would you rather have a cheaper good quality rum or an average/poor scotch for the same price?

Scotch distillers are increasingly putting out non age statement bottlings of younger Scotch for prices that they once charged for 10 or 12 year matured Scotch, I think if they continue to do that those who've developed a taste for good spirit will look elsewhere and find Rum which is a very handy replacement.
Police patrol != enforcement. Having relaxed police in the vicinity makes me feel safer, having police nearby that is just looking for minor infractions makes me feel less secure - and I'm privileged white.
There are three angles on cooking that I don't find in standard recipe books:

1. The structure of cooking. A lot of recipes share common patterns, but in recipe books they are presented as individual recipes rather than as modular building blocks and techniques.

2. A scientific approach to cooking. By this I do not mean a description of the chemistry, but rather a more experimental approach and a focus on verifying claims based on taste testing and boiling down recipes to their essentials. There is a lot of stuff around food that to me sound implausible or unnecessary. For example the idea that expensive wine tastes significantly better, or that kosher salt tastes differently, or that searing a steak seals in the juices are as far as I know all myths. There are tons of smaller examples, like recipes that call for adding tomato paste, canned tomatoes, and water, or recipes that call for adding the same spice at several different points in the process. If that is experimentally shown to make a difference, then sure, but otherwise keep it simple. On the other hand there are some things that do clearly work in my experience. Increasing the PH of the cooking water keeps vegetables, potatoes, rice more firm, lowering the PH of cooking water turns them into mush. Grinding spices fresh and combining tastes much better than a pre mixed garam masala. Some herbs are ok dried (e.g. thyme, mint), but some are worthless when dried (e.g. basil, parsley). There is a lot of knowledge like that which you could learn by running your own experiments or from a lot of experience, but that takes far too much time for the average person. It would be great if somebody ran the experiments, and for each recipe tried several different ways of cooking it, and determined the best way to cook it with a taste test panel.

3. Quality over quantity & originality. Many recipe books contain a lot of recipes around a specific cuisine or even sub part of a cuisine (e.g. french soups). Many books try to have original recipes rather than classics. I don't care about any of that. Given that I have a limited lifetime, I don't want a book with 50 moderate French soups and 2 great French soups, or a book with 50 moderate Indian curries with an original twist by the author and 3 great Indian curries. Given that I can easily access millions of recipes, the value of a book is not in the recipes which it contains but in the recipes which it does not contain. Please only include the truly great recipes. This also ties in to point #1. This page for example: http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/recipe/easy-homemade-curr... It lists 5 curry pastes as 5 different recipes, but 90% of the ingredients are the same. So give a basic recipe, and list the variations. Secondly, it suggests toasting the spices, which in my experience does enhance the flavor of some of the spices, but it destroys the flavor of others. This ties into point #2. Run an experiment: toast each spice individually, then for each spice dissolve the toasted and untoasted version separately in water and in oil, and then taste the difference. I could run that experiment myself, but it would be handy if I didn't have to.
Your comment implies that the American surveillance apparatus hasn't already infiltrated Amazon... but do you really think that is possible?
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The new towers aren't where the old towers were, so I don't buy the "graveyard" argument. But I would not feel comfortable working there mostly because the old WTC was targeted for attack multiple times, and the new one almost surely will be as well.
Given that a number of the typical "asshole" traits fall under various psychiatric diagnoses like Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Histrionic Personality Disorder, I'm kind of surprised that we don't see more lawsuits over firing people like that.

Not that I'm advocating that _every_single_person_ fall into a protected class, but I do believe that most people's personalities are inherent. I certainly don't know of any reformed assholes...
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I'm curious how one could implement dual control of keys on Amazon, or if auditing would have ot be a compensating control for it.
Stopping the aggressive pursuit of people selling individual cigarettes would be a good place to start. If cigarette taxes are too damn high, people will find a cheaper way to smoke. Quit picking on poor people that smoke. Note: I don't smoke or drink.
Yes, cut the SWAT teams in.. NYC. Send armored division tanks to.. Ukraine.

They should hire you to run NYPD.
Speaking as a longtime JP expat, this might be a matter of nuance and phrasing. If you have a business-type salaryman in your sphere of friends, it might be worth getting them to vet your form letter to make sure it conveys the right impression (that this isn't speculative, your business is established, based on response you might purchase again, etc.).
The "broken windows" theory of police enforcement doesn't stand up when compared to other Western cities. A big part of the "broken windows" theory is that small crimes, such as graffiti, created an atmosphere that allowed worse crimes to happen. And yet, if you visit Berlin, you will see a city with a shocking amount of graffiti, but very little crime. If you visit parts of London you'll see run down industrial districts, but very little crime.

Even if you confine your analysis to the USA, the "broken windows" theory of crime does not explain the relative shift in crime towards the suburbs, nor does it explain the increasing epidemic of drugs in rural areas. There is a lot that it does not explain, so it should be treated with suspicion. A theory that only explains one data point is not a theory at all.

Most Western nations have seen decreases in crime during since the late 1980s. The USA had the most crime, and the USA has seen the biggest decrease. No one knows why. New York City has seen the biggest decrease of all the big cities, but figuring out why, given the extremely multi-variate nature of the problem, will be extremely difficult to do. Even those theories that attempt to explain the decline of crime in the USA (aging of the population, Roe vs Wade, unleaded gasoline, change in police tactics) fail to explain why New York City should see the largest decrease in crime, since one can find other cities, for any of those variables, that saw larger changes than New York City.
Easier said than done. I routinely pull up emails from a year and a half ago for reference, and it'd be a giant pain if I had to request access to some sort of secure archive for them.

Maybe it's necessary to move in that direction (and maybe emails stick around only if you've specifically flagged them?), but you're going to have to drag people kicking and screaming into that kind of system. Gmail search has spoiled us.
Somebody said the main reason to PayPal's success was their ability to limit fraud. Maybe that is true. Strict policies lead to this kind of problems. And when dealing with thin margins and small customers personal service is bad for profit.
I imagine that this would prevent casual attackers, but probably wouldn't seriously deter someone who's specifically looking to attack you.
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Can you elaborate on those mistakes? :)
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The idea of tough, aggressive policing in New York has a lot of cultural momentum that will be hard to reverse. Despite the impression that Internet media subcultures try to create, New York is not united against police harassment. This is why de Blasio & co are being extremely careful to not politicize that incident where two policemen were randomly executed; and why the police union is doing its best to do the opposite. They are fighting for the "support the police" crowd.

The reason for this cultural momentum is because it wasn't too long ago that Manhattan was overrun with open drug use, open solicitation of prostitution, three-card-monte scammers, squeegee men, and so on. Central Park was dangerous after dark (and somewhat so even during the day). This is a particular sort of crime that we can imagine is solved by tough policing--and in the judgment of many people, this is exactly what happened.
You and the parent are not in disagreement. The point was merely that individuals who are subordinate (children, employees) can be monitored with or without TLS, and the original article's objection was irrelevant (and to my eyes, very strange).
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The NSA almost certainly has staff posing as Amazon Web Services employees. They would be negligent not to have infiltrated the company.
We also expect the GDP of over half of our society from corporations - the balance from government and non profits.

My point was that everyone has self interest, if one that's influential and has resources comes up with a proposal that is reasonably transparent and beneficial, it seems self-destructive to reject it out of distrust.
A silly Brainfuck interpreter I wrote one evening converts BF to JavaScript and runs eval() on it. The result was that I got for free all of the compiler optimizations and JIT capabilities in the Javascript engines for a trivial amount of effort. I found the resulting execution faster than the various hand rolled C interpreters I found online. The best part was that I spent probably less than an hour implementing and testing my "interpreter".
In terms of 'trained', it seems like their attitude towards crowd control was to out-macho the crowd, which can only really escalate the situation. Look at that picture of the dude on top of the APC brandishing the mounted gun. He's completely exposed, he's not in a combat position, he's in an intimidation position.
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