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An old story (from 2010)

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

https://www.wired.com/2010/09/google-spy/

I'm sure if you dug around you could find more. I'm certain it doesn't happen often. I'm not sure how accurate the "source" in those articles is but ...

> "We dismissed David Barksdale for breaking Google's

> strict internal privacy policies. We carefully control

> the number of employees who have access to our systems,

> and we regularly upgrade our security controls–for

> example, we are significantly increasing the amount of

> time we spend auditing our logs to ensure those controls

> are effective. That said, a limited number of people will

> always need to access these systems if we are to operate

> them properly–which is why we take any breach so seriously."

> — Bill Coughran, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Google

You jest, but google "can a company sue itself". You'll see a list of articles about banks suing themselves over foreclosures.

Do you have any examples of this? I'm genuinely curious.

Another one, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...).

> after which turnover declined to $5.36bn in 2001

I'm sure the dotcom bubble played a role in this (i.e. Job's leadership however effective or ineffective it was, wasn't solely to blame).

*For those (like me) who didn't know, turnover is the net sales generated by a business,

How about have one dolphin watch a group solve it then add that dolphin to a second group and see if the second group consistently solves it faster.

Do you mean like Jupyter notebooks?

http://jupyter.org/

In addition the US Navy isn't just the biggest navy in the world, it's the biggest by a landslide. Any way you measure it whether by supercarriers[1] or water displacement it's larger than the worlds other navies combined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercarrier

It was a joke, magnet links are base64 encoded hashes of the content iirc.

> The first research project Bell labs did was a test to see how much latency they could get telephone users to tolerate.

Do you have a source for that? I genuinely enjoy reading about things like this.

That yellow when you hover over medicine/office contrasts very poorly w/ the white background.

A friend and I made this for fun. It is a joke and only here for entertainment value, don't put it in production. https://github.com/JonZudell/Genetic_Expression

Support the change, retire from government, get a cushy job on the board of some defense contractor.

Edit:

To support what I say check out Raytheon's board of directors[1], maybe a third of them retired from the military, worked from the DoD, and one guy was the principal White House foreign policy advisor to President George W. Bush.

[1]http://investor.raytheon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84193&p=irol-go...

Nope, the guy cut contact w/ my friend and all the mutual people with whom they played. Most of those people were my friends real life friends.

One of my friend's online acquaintances that was a Japanese girl living in Canada. Then one day she forgot to turn her voice modulator on, turns out the her was a him. My friend had known this person for several years.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -- H.P. Lovecraft

Is there any reason Verizon wouldn't start up an ad department? They have a nice advantage with the internal opt out...

Geosynchronous satellites don't have to be over the equator. Geosynchronous satellites that are over the equator are called geostationary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_satellite#Defin...

> no person is in this position

The A6...?

A couple of things on the "lawyers" and "management" points.

The "DoD's clarifying guidance" he's talking about is almost certainly this[1]. It's got some good information about open source in general, even if it is a little dry.

If you can prove that there is support and training available for a piece of software and you can get it approved by your local information assurance officer then you can put it on the Air Force network. As far as getting it approved by your local IAO; let's say you want Python on your computer and the IAO says no then you can point to your local Redhat server (which comes already built with Python) and point out that you have already accepted any risks associated with Python by using Redhat. Another good resource for getting management to buy off on any risk is the EPL[2]. If the software is on that list then someone else in the Air Force is already using it, and the software has already gone through an approval process.

Edit: I just realized my second link might be CAC only ... hopefully it will be useful for any contractors/military folks that browse HN.

[1] http://dodcio.defense.gov/OpenSourceSoftwareFAQ.aspx [2] https://cs3.eis.af.mil/sites/afao/Lists/COTSGOTS%20Software/...

Postgres in favor of Oracle is another big one.

Sure, what I think Oracle does better is it provides a lot more flexibility with how you can refresh your materialized views. Oracle has 3 ways that I know of to refresh materialized views; complete, fast, and partition change tracking, furthermore Oracle allows you to refresh on commit instead of have to manually do it or schedule a job to do it.

Although it has nothing to do with materialized views Oracle also has a built in scheduler, which can be used to do periodic refreshes (hourly, nightly, etc). You can achieve something similar with postgres by croning a SQL script.

To my knowledge postgres doesn't really have these things (other than in 9.5? you can do refreshes without getting an exclusive lock like in 9.4), although I could be wrong. I just wish Oracle wasn't so expensive.

This is only tangentially related... are there any open source databases that implement materialized views as well as Oracle? Postgres is getting close but they're not there yet...

Can you explain? Did Somalia rework their tax code or something?

Google tells me the average human walks 3.1 miles per hour. So I'm guessing it would take at least 55 minutes, no less.

@CyberDildonics, yes. The license plates column is not anonymized.

I think the data would be very useful considering a vast majority of users won't be using it in this way, also consider that people who query for things will learn the limitations of the system providing the information and adapt their queries accordingly. If you have a system capable of providing meaningful results to highly complex queries then you can start bridging the gap between how people interact with machines vs how they interact with humans.

Head of Engineering

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/658608552328626176

What's the practical use for this...? Input validation?

When I first heard of statmuse I had your same question, best I could come up with is "Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases"[1]. If anyone knows more about this I'd be curious to hear about it.

[1]http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p73-li.pdf

Edit:

Since this got brought up again I've been searching around a little more and found c-phrase, which looks similar.

https://code.google.com/p/c-phrase/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWio8bHq4wQ