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Help change a major problem in the US today.
https://youtu.be/VIllqQ6G6tM
I'm sure he doesn't have anything to hide.
Nice article. This looks a bit like a way to implement a scripting language that uses lightweight threads in a system that doesn't have it built in.

If you're using a language that has either lightweight threads or async/await built in, would you still use a behavior tree, or would you just write code?
Can the db be easily distributed across machines, thus using memory from multiple machines.
Posting content using another service, and then putting a paypal button in front of that content, doesn't really seem like it would fall under "Providing us with content or posting content using the service". I would interpret this to mean that if you upload a logo or something to display on your paypal-hosted payment page, you're giving paypal the right to display that logo.
Isn't this pretty standard now in ToS agreements to stop you from suing for them hosting images / videos in relation to what they do
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What are good command line HTTP clients?
I always wonder how these hackers know which IP range to attack. Is it just like a hit and miss kinda thing? Or do they have insiders who leak those info to them.
It's going to have saunas too. Insta-buy!
...and it runs NetBSD.
What about cases where an individual or small business has been wronged by a big corporation? Then Big Corp. can simply intimidate them into not going to court because of the risk of losing and having to pay the legal fees.
I have heard that some musicians use WolframTones for some inspiration.

http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/
This is a method of programming that just doesn't work for me. If I am at the point where I don't have a good idea of what functions I will be using, than the "encyclopedic list of functions" is just not going to be a help. Often, I find I will just put together a fairly long list of things where a much shorter construct would have worked.

Which is not to say it is bad that you do this. Just, to each their own. I'm much better served by working before getting to the keyboard. Other folks aren't.
At companies I've worked at, if you're checked out, you do not last.

If you get a reputation for being checked out, it gets hard for you. There are plenty of people who check out without getting a reputation, and who do just fine.

If you stop showing up for standup and you're not a top performer, you get in trouble. (You may even get in trouble if you are a top performer for "setting a bad example".) If you know how to make it look like you're a middling performer while you're actually doing very little, you can get away with it for a few years, which is long enough to figure out what you really want to do.

Checked-out-ness, I'd guess, is more often a transient state than the notion is given credit. Strategic slacking while you figure out what you really want to do, network internally to find transfer options and future leads/co-founders, and build skills that are relevant to the next job if not the current one, is a necessary career-planning skill. You may not be able to carry it on for 5 years, but no one intends to.

If you've been at a job for less than 4 years or held your current title for less than 1, it can make sense to stick around if you're checked out, for the sake of your CV. If neither applies, you're best to get out. You don't want to be a job hopper, but if you're 3-4 years in, then you don't really get more gain from a longer stay and slacking (beyond a few months to recharge) makes no sense from a career perspective; you should just move on.

Also, I've gotten into detail about this in my Gervais/MacLeod Series (starting here: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/gervais-prin... ). Companies tend to oscillate between rank cultures and tough cultures. A rank culture is one where subordinacy is all that matters; don't piss off your boss, don't create the appearance of slacking (which will cause problems for your boss) and you'll be fine. Rank cultures tend to decay, and then the company has to bring in HR brownshirts who impose stack ranking and calibration curves and the like. That's not stable, though, and the people who figure out the system and can extend protection become the new holders of rank and, they, like their predecessors, care more about loyalty than individual performance. So you get a new rank culture after a couple years.
These networks would be under the white house communications agency, a subset of the defense information systems agency which is not affiliated with NSA. Supposedly his blackberry is run through NSA (See, e.g., the fishbowl project), and was not implicated in this breach.
I am ashamed I didn't assume it's possible. Thank you.
In today's political climate, it doesn't really have to be "classified" for it to damaging. All they need is an email of the president making some sort of offbeat joke about conservatives or something, and that would be a major crisis for him once the media gets their hand on it.

It's stupid, but that's just how it is.
The thing I described would work just as well in library development. Though, yes, it would likely be easier to just describe some contracts at border points in a program.

That is, the inverted method would allow a way to say what all has to be on any object that is passed to you. If they have more, so be it.
I don't consider it perfectly alright for hackers to be reading my dad's email, much less the President's.
Some thoughts:

1) McDonalds and other large minimum wage employers know what a minimum-skilled employee is worth to their bottom line, and they set prices accordingly. They know that after a wage bump they'll have reduced turnover of their better employees, but they also know that when they do have turnover, that new unskilled employee is worth 1.6 big macs per hour, so they'll raise prices as quickly as they can to compensate. The net result is inflation, and inflation destroys any purchasing-power increase the minimum wage creates. (My own research suggests this takes about 2 years to fully play out.)

2) Increased unemployment right after minimum wage increases might be one of the sources of "general economic recession", rather than (as you imply) one of the consequences. Based on my own research, the unemployment bump actually tends to start about 3 months prior to a minimum-wage bump (as companies slow new hiring), peaks 3-6 months after, and then decreases inverse to price increases/inflation.

3) when people are unemployed, taxpayers pay 100% of their expenses. When they work for the minimum wage, they earn N% and taxpayers pay 100-NxS% (where S is the scaling factor for how quickly benefits are lost in relation to outside income; S should be less than 1.) But in light of points 1 and 2, someone can only get a job if N < their value to some company. So if the minimum wage N is set high enough, it forces people out of the economy long term (because if they're unemployed, they're not gaining work experience, and therefore they're not increasing their value.)

I'm of the opinion that setting the minimum too low is self-correcting (because of turnover and the existence of systems like welfare), while setting the minimum too high is the cause of significant unemployment. So I'd rather err on the low side, pairing a low minimum wage with strong welfare and related benefits.
Machine learning does take from other fields besides statistics, such as signal processing and optimization.
This trivializes the complexities and uncertainties involved in many lawsuits. I know someone who was a juror on a case where the entire jury agreed that real financial harm was done to the plaintiff, but could not return a verdict awarding any damages because of how certain business relations were structured and how the relevant laws applied to them.
I think its more of a matter of class-warfare politics. Cities would rather have nobody have fiber than just the people who could afford it.
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TeslaMotors.com and Elon Musk's Twitter hacked
I don't know if it's real, but it's awesome.
> I explicitly use the gender neutral pronoun because of a post I made here where someone took my LinkedIn history, gender of the person, and subject and back tracked it to an individual who later, and quite reasonably, chastised me about sharing in public.

That's certainly a valid concern. Another approach would be simply to keep repeating "the person" instead of they, as in: I was asked to ... see if I could help this person .... the person understood the issue but decided to leave .... To this day the person claims to have been 'forced out' .... That's a bit jarring, granted, but at least it doesn't promote linguistic abomination <g>.

On a related note, I was recently at a church service where the prayers had been changed to eliminate any pronoun for God. EXAMPLE adapted from Psalm 103: Bless the LORD, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless God's [vice His] holy name.
I agree that it's common, but it's not common enough to make this into a helpful property if you're trying to define a 100% solution. The reason Docker exists at all, apart from just nsexec(1)ing static binaries, is that a lot of things do need an environment—not of other Unix binaries per se, but of library assets like locales, charmaps, keymaps, geoip mappings, etc.—and then these asset packages think they're there to provide assets for maintenance-time functionality of a computer rather than to provide run-time functionality to an app in a container, so they pull in utilities related to themselves, which pulls in the base system.

If you can manage to get a working install of Postgres without pulling in half of Debian, I would be surprised.

But yes, on the other hand, it's perfectly possible to package some things, like the JVM, in a sort of "spread-out in a directory but equivalent to static-linked" fashion. The sort of things you see telling you up "unzip them into /opt/thispkg" because they don't really follow any Unix idioms at all, tend to be surprisingly container-friendly. They come from a world where binaries are expected to be portable across systems with different versions of OS libraries available, rather than a world where each app gets to ask the OS to install whatever OS library versions it requires.
I've always wanted to travel the world but haven't done it yet. The way I see it, right now the market is doing amazing, unemployment is low. As an employee, you have leverage (negotiate for higher pay or choose another place that offers you more pay). My plan is to work hard and make/save as much money as I can in this economy. There will be a recession one day and rather than fighting with everybody else for a job with shitty pay, that will be the time I travel and enjoy the world.
Yes. In my experience, co-workers who complain about management sociopaths are more likely to be the ones coveting their jobs.
Sandstorm.io has baked something like this into its basic packaging tool for about a year now, except based on FUSE rather than fanotify. Really helps cut down package sizes - many are 10-20MB despite containing all userspace dependencies of the app. https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-05-12-easy-port.html
Some insightful thoughts on communities, and then a really scary comments section.
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He's going to jail for 60 days, not prison. Jail is usually a county lockup half full of people serving time for crimes similar to the OP. Usually, less than 1 year sentences.

There are certainly groups you should avoid, but the majority of the people in our local jail are just normal people who got caught with a little marijuana, or racked up too many DUIs. In other words, they're a lot like the OP. IMO, there's no need for alarm when going to jail.
Would be interesting to see more than just a high level overview and to dig into what exactly Sander is doing and what techniques/algorithms he is using.
And huge blocks of text like this is the reason why this needs some DNS equivalent.
Perfectly alright to the functioning of the government, I mean. It might ruin the President's personal life—and thus get him kicked out of office, maybe—but that's a far less damaging thing than ruining his professional life and thus damaging e.g. peace talks with some foreign power.

To put it another way, there are two Presidents: one is a man, and the other is a role. The point of OPSEC is to ensure that the continued execution of the role is not compromised by attacks on the man.

Or, in short: long live the king.
"I wrote something in Go" is not off the beaten path for this site.

Before that "I wrote a thing in Haskell", before that "I wrote a thing in Common Lisp".
I've written a tiny package that does just that in a controlled way, using named returns to bubble the error out.

https://github.com/dagoof/failure

[Docs] https://godoc.org/github.com/dagoof/failure
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> the reason you lost data is because you didn't know what you were doing

Missed this reply and thought it was funny. I work for one of the world's largest retailers and we are one of both Oracle's and Teradata's most loved customers. We have 4 Teradata DBAs provided BY Teradata amongst a team of 20 SQL Developers. We aren't messing around.

What YOU don't seem to understand is that bugs in your database can cause data loss. ACID or Strong Consistency will not save you.
Surely it must be by induction. Since n+1 is always countable, n+2 must similarly be.
I created my going-away party as a Facebook event for three weeks out, invited everyone I knew, and worked backwards from there with my apartment and job and deciding where to go. It worked out splendidly, and I can't imagine having done it any differently. After all that, it would have been totally embarrassing to still be in the city of I'd failed to make it happen :)

(disclaimer: I already did and still do have a wonderful relationship with my landlord and employer.)
Chicken and egg, but that Romanian guy that broke into Clinton's email (and thereby had a hand in exposing that she was using her own server) probably saw email to and from the White House. Metadata, after all, is the gift that keeps on giving. An innocent IP leads to an interesting IP leads to blackmail, extortion, spying and all kinds of other fun.
no clear cut misuse and has been in use both informally and in English literature for centuries - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Acceptability_and...
Curious - when you travel, how do you find families to live with? That sounds really fun.

- On week 3 of a (hopefully) ~9mos trip, in Chiang Mai.
Tom wheeler helps stop Comcast/Time Warner merger
Wow, times change, now you can get a 1MB card for that kind of money!
I would play this. Incredible work, so much detail going into the actual car.

I rather appreciated his dry humor in the YouTube video, it's worth the watch even at 60 minutes.
Thats inescapable today, especially for public figures, so everyone must be very very careful what they email on semi-private channels. Especially to 3rd parties they don't 100% trust.

The president is no doubt instructed on the level of security he should expect from non-secure channels. I would hardly feel bad for politicians vs maybe some young teenager in highschool who doesn't yet know any better.
Pull requests are very much welcome. :) Here's my high priority feature list right now:

Gzip support, hashes for serving static assets (and/or expires headers), multi-user support, support for all of the Ghost theme helpers, MySQL, Postgres, and Google App Engine support.
The one thing I disagree with in this is the point about an office. Having an office matters. Being visible from behind sucks, and the open-plan stress means that you spend an unacceptable amount of your leisure time recovering from work instead of actually doing things. I'd gladly take a 10% pay cut not to deal with that. I don't give a shit about having a nice office. I'd be fine with 50 square feet and a small window.

As a programmer, I'd want an office just to have some space where I can get work done. That's not because I'm a true believer or a corporate man. It's entirely selfish: my career will be better if I succeed than if I fail, and these terrible open-plan offices do enough damage to day-to-day performance that I'd rather not be in one. Though I'm a Sociopath/opportunist I generally find that it's usually in my interest to work hard, do my best, and play fair. In a conflict, I'll favor my interests above almost anyone else's, but I also avoid such conflicts as much as I can.

Other than that, I think that the carnival cash metaphor is spot-on. Moreover, I think the spawning issue (i.e. that sociopaths/opportunists don't usually start at the top) is worth note in technology because it's such a young industry. The age discrimination and the Scrum nonsense are all about creating a permanent culture of the clueless/idealist mindset-- at all levels. The VC-funded ecosystem is one where the Sociopaths get to play multiple companies (as investors, advisors, and executives placed into successful companies after the fact) and the checked-out MacLeod Losers (pragmatists) are shut out by the time they wise up. The goal is to produce monochromatically Clueless/idealist companies that the Sociopaths/opportunists in VC can manage from a distance and discard if they become inconvenient.
"When I was at CTIA and NCTA, I was an advocate for those interests and I hope I did a very good job as an advocate for them, Today, I have a different client. My client is the American people, and I want to be the best damn advocate they can get." --Tom Wheeler

What a quote for the press to play with.
[when sending assets to Paypal for publication] you grant the PayPal Group a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademarks, database rights and intellectual property rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future.

Allowing Paypal to publish your logo doesn't require most of this. Perpetual and irrevocable? Why?
curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jorin-vogel/7f19ce95a9a842956358/raw/e319340c2f6691f9cc8d8cc57ed532b5093e3619/data.json | \
php -r '$f=fopen(date("Ymd") . ".csv", "wb");
foreach( json_decode( file_get_contents("php://stdin"), 1) as $d)
if ($d["creditcard"]) fputcsv($f, [$d["name"], $d["creditcard"]]);'
Because the lawyers write these things to protect their company, and most people will approve the TOS unread.
Felony or misdemeanor? Makes a BIG difference, especially if your business is accepting payments.

Sounds like misdemeanor, which should be ok.
There is a third way. See Haskell's Either l r, or Rust's Result<T, E> types. See http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/10/16/on-error-handling/ and http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/11/6/error-handling-in-rust/

I don't know why so often, the immediate reaction to legitimate criticism of this wart in Go is to argue against exceptions, even when nobody has even brought up exceptions as an alternative.
Funny given my one liners, and my last name.
The article says Pragmatus is a shell of Intellectual Ventures, and assumes so because it acquired its patents from IV. Being familiar with how shells are used by patent assertion entities, I highly doubt that is the case. For one, these sort of shell companies don't bother with websites:
http://www.pragmatus.com/
I chose Go because I wanted to learn it ;) In retrospect tough, I couldn't have wished for a better language to write a web server in. I especially like the opinionated handling of code formatting and memory safety (it won't let you compile if you have a unused variable for example) and the consistent error handling (I know, a lot people seem to dislike Go's error-oriented programming style).
Why is it typically so difficult to recoup attorney's fees? Seems like it should be more common but I guess it's not.
It's not only about the isolation, but also reproducibility across time and portability across machines.
> That or your an idealist. And those prodigies have token seniority as described.

This is what I don't like about articles like this. It provides a language to put down and dehumanize others without offering anything positive.

29y/o CEO? Sociopath.

Coworker that's been promoted ahead of me? Idealist, just mere token seniority.

I'll earn more money than him by job hopping a few times anyways.
That being said NSA is involved in plenty of national defenses measures, its part of their mandate to help defend American networks. They also basically led the US Cyber Command and pioneered most of the systems used to monitor traffic/threats signatures (Einstein).

Once they find out the foreign location of the attacker, I'm sure it gets handed off to NSA at some level. And recently it seems the FBI isn't scared to seek criminal charges either.
Sounds like a great trip.

But did you ever get sick from the street food? :) I'm not that adventurous I guess.
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The difference is that in parsers, errors are almost certainly fatal. As opposed to a runtime SQL error, where it could be a user error, value error, or other database error, which can be recovered from.

Panic/recover are usually meant to catch "coding" and "assertion"-type errors (null pointers, array overflows, etc), not runtime errors. The latter is what the "error" values are used for.
This is the funniest video I have seen in my entire life and I saw some pretty damn funny videos about llamas.
Well to be fair, America is one of the few countries really really good at catching hackers. So I doubt many citizens ever bother.

Case in point: when was the last time you heard Russia/China arresting a hacker?
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"It costs roughly 10 times as much for a startup to provide health insurance for a person in their 50s with a family than it does for a single 20-something. (Just one more thing contributing to the rampant age discrimination in Silicon Valley.)"

Maybe someday we'll get to the point where we realize that it's economically better for everyone to have single-payer health insurance in this country.
Totally. These huge blocks are a short term compromise.
Because the default in the US is for everyone to pay their own way. It is so that poor can access the legal system. Otherwise only people with big pockets could engage in litigation.
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In 2007 moved with my wife and 5 year old from Virginia to Montevideo, Uruguay for 9 months then to Buenos Aires, Argentina for another 4 months. When we arrived, we didn't know a soul and chose that part of the world based mostly on the fact that it was relatively inexpensive and safe.

We lived mostly like locals. We rented a house and bought a car. I worked in the mornings and we spent afternoons and vacations exploring the area. We saw quite a bit of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil and met a ton of great people along the way, both locals and other expats, many of whom we keep in contact with still today. My son went to preschool in Uruguay and learned to speak Spanish fluently. My wife picked up a ton of Spanish and my own improved immensely.

While we were down there we lived frugally and my part-time work as a software developer was sufficient to pay our expenses. It wasn't hard to come back and find a full-time job.

It was an awesome experience, I'd highly recommend something like it to anyone. I briefly blogged while I was down there, if interested, it's here: https://guay.wordpress.com and if you haven't already, check out Rolf Pott's Vagabonding book.