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and that they are omnipresent on every network.

From the disclosures we got from Snowden, as well as previous revelations about the NSA, the evidence points to a situation pretty damn close to that. They are grabbing data from all sorts of social networks, we know they scarf up email, we know at least they grab most - if not all - phone metadata, and we know they're tapping underseas fiber-optic cables that represent backbone Internet links between countries. We know carriers like AT&T graciously make data off their networks available to the NSA, and we know they do these smokey back-room deals with the other Five Eyes countries, and now Germany as well. I see no reason to think they aren't doing similar deals with most other "friendly" countries.

And let's not get into the backdooring routers and commercial software, and attempts to weaken encryption standards.

To say that we aren't already "in a world remotely like 1984" strikes me either disingenuous (Hello, NSA employee?) or uninformed. Would you care to say what else the NSA would have to do (or what we'd have to find out they're doing) before you say we are "remotely close to 1984"?
I think that's unnecessarily harsh. If a retail investor had set a stop-loss on a stock like the RSP ETF [0] that got triggered at -50% because the price diverged hugely from the NAV, I think they have cause to feel hard done by.
It doesn't matter, he got called out on having sensitive data, admitted it, and then tried to blackmail the company with it.

The computer forensics part is pretty much a moot point after that.
i punch it at full throttle to 65mph every time i use an on-ramp. i bought a performance car to use it as advertised.

perfectly legal, and appropriate, when traffic permits.

in fact, if you don't, you're probably a shitty driver and need to learn how to merge. when you're merging into a river of steel doing 80mph and you're doing 45 because you're watching the consumption meter on your hybrid, you're an asshole.
One thing that I don't see in these kinds of articles, and what I think is most important: MySQL speed. When I was researching technology, I compared simple pages that read some data from a MySQL database and display it on an html5 page. I did this in Go, Node, Silk, and PHP. PHP blew everyone else away. Now, this was two years ago, and perhaps their MySQL client implementations have gotten better, but this test was the reason my startup is built using PHP. It's the fastest thing available that isn't Java or C++ based. Supported here: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...
Article content aside, the slide out side menu that covers the scroll bar is incredibly annoying. Is that Blogger? Whatever it is needs to stop. Now.
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I can certainly see why someone would find the entire story disgusting, and the point isn't to imply fights are fun tests of machoness. The point is not to escalate a fight if you're going to lose it anyway. To continue your example, if someone had chosen to threaten lethal force, they would have been escalating it yet again, and may have just as well ended up getting killed themselves. (For example, if the other person had an armed group of friends nearby.) The entire hypothetical thing is an example of how things can get out of hand really fast.

The main reason I brought it up was that a lot of people think of eye gouges and groin shots as a "get out of jail free" card in a fight, and doing so has a good chance of getting them seriously hurt against someone who will not be stopped by it.

That aside, I certainly agree with this part:

>This is why you avoid fights in civilized society, and disengage as quickly as possible if you cannot.
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See later in the thread:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-Aug...
I can confirm the increase in difficulty of writing FF extensions these days. There is no ONE go-to source for information.
Her direct manager and the one above him, as well as HR, unsurprisingly, aren't taking her side or being supportive. Of course, as soon as she mentioned to HR that she believed that her pregnancy had something to do with the sudden need for performance improvement, they gave a scripted BS answer that they would never terminate based on pregnancy. They also, at no point, gave her a chance to provide input. Simply one day, her manager and his boss just sat down with her and gave her a 'choice'.

She's in a group that's supposedly not doing very well in Google so this could be why. Still, she's a talented and very well educated individual (she was literally loved in all her previous jobs, even in the jobs she didn't like).

The poor Google experience may be exceptional, but we have 2 friends who recently joined Google and have a really bad time.
I don't think anyone explicitly marketed Go as a replacement for Python; instead, Go was instead marketed as, for some use-cases (low-level-ish software) what you should have been using in the first place—places where you should have been using C++/Java, not Python, but where Python was used anyway because the alternatives were too unwieldy.
So I'm repeating what somebody said rather than my own claim, but I think it was that Haskell monads didn't have to be... one of left- or right-associative. But they had to be the other.

Wish I knew of a good way to search HN; it was in a comment here maybe 6 months or a year ago...
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Well, that depends.

Are you counting the sum of all of the time you spend waiting for the car to recharge/refill? If so, and if you're a typical driver, then the Tesla wins. In an average month, you might spend a total of 15 minutes gassing up your car, and zero minutes charging your Tesla (because it's charging while you sleep).

On road trips, it will depend on how well charging stops coincide with bathroom/meal/coffee stops. A supercharger stop is both longer and more frequent than a gas stop, no dispute there, but if you time it to coincide with a break that outlasts the charging stop (easy to do) then the time penalty is zero. It's not practical to overlap gas filling with other stuff, so you can even lose out there.

Now, if you're the sort who drives five hours at a time without stopping then the gas car can win big on charging time. But even if you do that, unless you take those trips pretty frequently, the Tesla can still win on total time spent filling up.
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They probably could, but it's more likely that the demand isn't enough to justify building out the required infrastructure and services to make things work properly in a shared hosting environment.
These are not apps. And none of these are meant to run on a server like Wordpress. If you run less or babel compiler on production servers to serve CSS or JS well , you're not a serious developer.

Cloud9 I guess would be a good example of a killer app ,but that's no CMS.

The reason why there is no serious CMS with node is that nodejs development is extremely hard, because async programming is hard. No matter how much layers one puts on top of it (promises,generators...) you can't abstract async programming in nodejs.

Look at Go, Go routines can be totally abstracted. IF I write that code:

result := Object.DoNonBlocking()

As a client of Object I don't have to know whether it is run concurrently, or not , or blocking or not. In node I have to know whether I returns a promise or a value , IE hump into the event loop or not.

PHP has its share of problems though,just like Go, but their concurrency model(or lack of) make things way more easy.

I can't imagine writing something such as Magento or Drupal in nodejs (with the exact same features). It would be just insane. A great challenge though.
The proof starts with two of the "string-art" lines, a line L1 (line Q'R' in the video) with parameter s and a line L2 (line QR in the video) with parameter t, and computes the intersection point P of these two lines. Keeping line L2 fixed, one gets a series of intersection points P as one varies the parameter s. One then notices that the point of intersection of line L2 and the parabola (the "touching point") is the limit of these intersection points P as s tends toward the value t. The proof finishes by showing that this limit point is just what it was hypothesised to be, namely the point along line L2 that divides it in the same proportions as its endpoints divide the control lines.

I agree that some students will not recognise the crux of the proof, but will simply see something ends up being equal to something else in some identity without understanding how that relates to what was being proved.

Euclid's Elements (an ancient Greek textbook on Geometry) is a good model in this regard. He first states what he is to prove. He then starts from the assumptions and finishes with what he was to prove. Each step in between is justified.
The REYES algorithm is an algorithm that can very quickly produce batches of shading points (with the required information to shade them such as the viewing direction). It's not really a hack and you can still use path tracing (with BSDFs) to correctly shade these points. In fact this is what Pixar did for Monster's University; they used the REYES algorithm to determine shading points visible from the camera and then shaded those using BSDFs and path tracing. The problem with this is that you basically have to store the scene twice: once for rasterization and once for ray tracing.
I'm not saying it is the best. I've done BJJ, judo, karate, sambo and krav maga. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses.

English is not my mother language and my comments weren't intended as marketing. I don't care about what is the best martial art.
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I lost interest half way through. It seems strange to me to hold on to a domain name when someone is offering almost 1mil for it.
Note that it remembers which setting you used last, so in the common case where you're always adjusting e.g. temperature, you just scroll the wheel up or down.

I won't argue that the setup is less convenient than it could be. On the other hand, I always found reaching over to some center console to fiddle with buttons and knobs to be extremely cumbersome even if I learned to find them all by feel.
> in just about every other way

I might not be able to buy a Porsche any time soon, but which ways are you suggesting?
I believe it was a 2014. It was last year, in Germany and Austria. For a rental, it didn't have that many miles on it, which is why I'm assuming it couldn't have been very old.
The problem with the independent invention defense is, how can you ever prove you had not seen the patent? One could read a patent, then change terms, rearrange parts, etc. until it was not at all clear that one's own expression of the idea actually came from the patent. I realize an independent invention defense seems natural to us as engineers, since we independently (re-)invent things all the time, but I don't see how it would work as a matter of law.

And people wouldn't necessarily have to have read the actual patent in order to abuse such a defense -- they might just have seen the product that incorporates the invention.

As for how one would present evidence of non-obviousness, if you follow the link I gave, you'll see three kinds of evidence which can support such a claim, according to the Supreme Court: commercial success; long-felt but unsolved needs; and failure of others. I think what these all have in common is clear: you need to show that others have had an incentive to try to solve the same problem, but haven't done so. That would constitute evidence that the solution wasn't obvious.

> It[']s a bit easier to prove that something was obvious at the time of invention. One sure sign is if there are many cases of independent invention.

How would this work? If the independent inventions occurred before the patent application, they're already prior art; if they occur after, then once again, we can't know they were truly independent.

I already knew the examiners were pretty bad, though maybe I didn't realize quite how bad.

How did you get started in this kind of consulting?
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What I don't get is how this jives with debasing the Yuan. Won't selling Treasuries create demand for Yuan and drive up the Yuan price? Maybe They are selling Treasuries for another currency?
the funniest thing about tesla is it turned a bunch of non-car people into car people - they're arguing over cars on the internet now, completely unconsciously. let me say that again - arguing over cars on the internet like a bunch of car guys. isn't that hilarious? i think it is.

there isn't much difference between a tesla fanboy/fangirl and ... say, for example, a GT-R fanboy/girl.
All screens in cars are abominations and I will never buy one.
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PHP pretty much killed Perl if you ask me. Perl is nowhere near where it was in the 90's.
True, and in the abundance of "charging" stations.

But it is the _only_ advantage left (see disclaimer at the end).

- Reliability should be much higher with Tesla, as the engine is much simpler.

- Ride quality. The 7 is a boat, does not have the agility of smaller, sportier BMW models.

- Looks. Obviously subjective, but 7's styling is very conservative and has not changed much.

Disclaimer: These two cars are targeted at two quite different (though equally affluent) types of buyers. Some people prefer conservative, some sporty.
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The author awards some arbitrary points to C even though his implementation of the solution is broken. His similarly poor Go implementation receives zero of these arbitrary points.

Why does this deserve the attention of everyone here? The author did not compare languages, he compared his aptitude with these languages, and considered broken implementations to somehow be comparable.

A more meaningful comparison would be to implement simple, efficient, working solutions to these problems and comparing them. This, as it stands, does not lead to any useful discussion.
server-side as in... shell scripts/daemons?

or server-side as in... cgi/fastcgi serving to a client?

because I would say 'yes' to cgi/fastcgi, but 'no' to shell scripts/daemons.

There are a handful of really cool newish Perl frameworks, but unfortunately I think Perl 5's stigma is so far out there it will never gain any real traction. It seems that Perl 6 has a lot of the same stigma attached to it. I almost wish they would name it something other than Perl so that a fresh perspective could be used, it seems like it's going to be quite nice!
Thanks, I missed in the original article that it mentioned 10 year notes. I assumed they were short term notes.

My understanding is long term interest rates = expected short term interest rate over the long term + premium for locking up money for a long time.
(if not then arbitrage would occur)

Assuming the premium for locking up money remains constant. The FFR over the next 10 years determines the 10 year interest rate. In this case the selling of Chinese long term debt shouldn't have much of an effect on long term interest rates except through the channel of changing the future expected FFR.

Yellen said
“The Federal Reserve’s control over longer-term interest rates is more indirect and more limited than its influence over the level of the federal funds rate.”

She is talking about how the Fed still has control over long term rates through the expectations channel mentioned above. Imagine Janet Yellen came out today and said they would not raise rates from 0% for 5 years no matter the economic conditions. Long term rate would fall as people would expect a lower FFR going forward.
But we still need to factor in X and Y sometimes because there will always be areas where that X or Y advantage will cause disparity. Are we going to draw a hard line and say the military should be exactly 50/50 representation of men and women? That nursing, teaching, and other female-dominated fields should be 50/50 male/female and that engineering, computing should be 50/50 male/female? That doesn't sound like equality. That sounds like the type of compromise reached between parties that would other engage in violence against each other, not the sexes that are mutually necessary for human existence.
Great summary.
I was just experiencing the same issues. Some accounts are not even showing the normal headers followers, following, favorites, tweets and replies.
So you've provided a more thorough version of the "No matter what you say about big-picture statistics, you'd still be safer wearing a helmet" argument.

I don't have any problem with you choosing to wear a helmet because you want to avoid TBI, but unless you're also wearing a helmet every time you get in a car, you're behaving irrationally.

Also, here's another study and some choice quotes:

"Use of a helmet was only associated with a 10% decreased risk of severe injury, a difference which was not statistically significant."

"Patients with neck injuries were much more likely to be severly injured (OR=4.09) and hospitalized (OR=2.56) than were patients without neck injuries. They were also 15 times more likely to die than those without neck injuries [...] There was no association of neck injury with helmet use, either in the entire group of patients with neck injury (OR=0.9, 95% CI 0.6 to 1.4, adjusted for age)"

"Males were 2.4 times more likely, those hit by motor vehicles 14.1 times more likely, and those traveling at self reported speeds > 15 mph, 2.6 times more likely to be killed."

1. http://bmj-injuryprev.highwire.org/content/3/2/110.full.pdf

The point is that when you're cycling or doing any activity, you expose yourself to a combination of risks. I've never argued that helmet use isn't a valid way to decrease certain risks (I wear mine daily when commuting in traffic, and sometimes when hitting the bike path out of the city I leave it at home), but it's detrimental that we focus on that as the only cause of risk, because it causes people to ignore everything else.

People like telling other people to wear helmets because it's an easy solution. But it only (kind of) solves one problem, and even worse, it's used as a scapegoat, a means to blame the victim. A woman gets flattened into 2 dimensions by a tractor trailer while riding her bike, but what's this? She wasn't wearing her helmet?? Come on people, wear your helmet!

It's as if we were to address the entire issue of auto safety with "wear a seatbelt!" and considered the matter closed even if a kid who's never driven before is going 100mph through a residential neighborhood with his eyes closed.
"Who is naturally better at lifting heavy objects -- men or women?"

Whichever one gets off their ass and stops stuffing their face with cheese doodles all day long.
It's easy, just install Node. I mean, what complications are you having that you can't get it to work correctly?

Edit:// Also Digita Ocean $5 VPS is cheap to play with Node on, or even use a Vagrant machine.
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How ridiculous would it be for a car company to give you a lifetime unlimited supply of gasoline along with the purchase of your car? Absolutely ridiculous. Guess what? That's exactly what Tesla does. http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

Unlike gas cars, you start off with 200 miles of range EVERY MORNING since you charge overnight. Most Americans also only drive an average of 40 miles a day. And for those long trips, you have Superchargers.
When a scientist measures the behaviour of particles in a carefully-defined system, they can replicate that behaviour such that they can say, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the particles always behave that way under those conditions.

Such replicability has not been demonstrated in systems as complex, chaotic, and essentially unmeasurable as the human brain, let alone a human society. A field of study is not a science without replicability.

Academic terminology, especially in the social "sciences," creates a scaffold of "theory" without any replicable data, and uses it to pass judgement on the behaviours of individuals without actually examining the individual's own motives for a behaviour. It's a dehumanizing assumption of determinism to believe that individuals are incapable of making decisions for themselves, or that conjectured Foucaultian structures (which could be said to exist only as linguistic sign for the speaker's own level of education) govern all human behaviour.

I'd even go so far as to say that if you believe that Power Structures determine all human behaviour, you're living in the worst sort of Bad Faith.

One either accepts that all study of human society (and all reexamination of values which occurs in its pursuit) is little more than observation, conjectures, and untestable hypotheses--or, one accepts that they do not understand what science is and how it is conducted and how it proceeds.

Calling the social sciences "science" is about as disingenuous and unscientific as calling Art History "Temporal Paint Physics."
> Now if China initiated a mass sell-off of all of its US treasuries, there would be huge ramifications. But in its current form, this seems to just be one more way for China to slowly unravel its position in US treasuries while playing with the value of the RMB.

Offloading foreign currency holdings in a mass sell-off is not something China would WANT to do -- it would end up destabilizing the Chinese economy more than the US economy. Not even as an economic warfare tactic: the global economy is dependent on cheap US money, and messing with that would set off a global recession that would hit an emerging superpower like China especially hard.

I think you're right and China is just looking to rebalance its currency by drawing the dollar down a bit. That's not the worst idea in the world (either for China or for the US) and they're doing it right around the time the Fed was planning to raise rates anyway. I think the market is already spooked enough by the troubles in China that it would probably welcome a rate increase (for the reasons you listed above).
My biggest problems with the article

a) He's talking about "PHP" and referring to old versions of plain vanilla PHP. He also talks about The Event Loop like it's a Node only thing: There exist such things as ReactPHP and Icicle which implement the concept.
Modern PHP also comes with constructs to help with an async design

b) Node doesn't include websockets support by default either, and the comparison is made against Ratchet when it could have been made agains hoa/websocket which is both more idiomatic and nicer. As a sidenote, check them out, they make nice things.

And finally, the author marks an advantage in sharing environments when talking about languages, not runtimes. Which in and by itself is more of a curiosity.

While it could be possible to inject a PHP runtime in the frontend (and some projects like the RippleSDK somehow did), it wouldn't make sense; they don't really have the same purpose or origin, one was born in the frontend and shoehorned into the backend, and the other was born in the backend and stood there.

The way I see it, it's ultimately a matter of added value.

Why doesn't anyone actually make an Icicle vs Koa comparison? Or maybe Symfony vs ROR?

There is very little to learn from putting a toolkit (or even just the amount of tooling) against a bare language, and when people do it over and over and over it becomes clear it's just a disingenuous attempt to make the X in "PHP vs X" look good.
Perhaps it's getting downvoted because it's irrelevant to JamesBarney's point. The Fed (normally) sets (very) short-term rates; the market sets longer rates. But the Fed also can to some degree set longer rates by QE. And, in fact, the Fed can print more money than China can sell dollar-denominated bonds, and therefore the Fed can win the battle - if they want to badly enough.