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Ad blockers don't just block third party things though. Or even necessarily sane things. Our site is a classified ad aggregator. At the time at least, we learned that Adblock Plus would just blithely delete any element with 'ad' as part of its class. (A major section of our results page had the class 'ad block' (ironically) and was blocked.)

Yes, these things can be worked around, but not every site maintainer will bother. (Especially since those adblock users likely don't earn them any direct revenue.)
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This is one of those stories where I initially go "wait, quirky failed?" and then I think of the Quirky Eggminder that I purchased and realize, "yea, that product really did make me a sad and angry customer."

For those who don't know, the eggminder was a wifi enabled egg carton paired with a smartphone app that tells you how many eggs you currently have, how old each egg is, and notifies you when you need more eggs. For a guy who eats eggs two-to-three days a week and isn't quite sure how many are left in the carton when he's at the grocery store, it was pretty nice.

Unfortunately, if you've ever put batteries in the refrigerator (think of that NYTimes review of the Model S), you would know they don't function very well at low temperatures. The egg minder runs out of batteries within a week, at which point it becomes a glorified and overpriced egg carton.

One glaring flaw made the product useless. Today I've learned that was true of most of their products.
Hence the feedback loop between Ad arbitrage/spammers and social networks will collaspe in on itself while sucking investors down the death spiral. Just a matter of time.
Yet all the people their lofty ambitions convinced to invest, be on the board and advise also missed this problem with the fundamental goals.
Swift is a language designed from its core to build apps that work well for Apple hardware. I understand why developers gag at its quirky paradigms, but at the end of the day, if you play by the rules, you end up with an extremely valuable product. The positives outweigh the negatives, open source or not.
As a user, I dont really care about it being an App or Mobile Web. It needs two things,

1. An Icon on my Springbroad, so i can easily view it whenever I want to.

2. It should be butter smooth and dont warm my pants after reading. ( i.e lots of CPU cycle. )

Native Apps does better in both department. And whenever users gets a choice most would likely prefer the App version. HTML5 or Web has definitely improve, and it could or will do better then the web if we dont have the Ads constantly loading in the background. ( Ad blocker is another topic )

I guess atavist already have their group of loyal customers it makes sense for them to change.

Personally I see the article mostly complain about the Distribution and Discovery Problem. And some App Store Approval process.
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Ah. We're moving the goalposts from "a quarter of the earth's surface" back down to "the country of New Zealand". Gotcha. And if length of time spent is the deciding factor, why isn't a Maori design used, given that the Maori have been there since the 13th century? Given that the Maori managed to fight the world's superpower to a standstill over that land, I'd count that as 'enthusiastic' as well.

I'm not shitting on the UK and it's age of empire. I'm saying that the Union Jack is no longer relevant for (most of) the countries that have it in their canton. The argument of "Hey, the UK used to own a lot of places a long time ago, NZ included!" is a pretty weak reason to keep the jack on the flag. Kiwis should have a flag that represents them - all of them - without a section that refers to an obsolete political structure from the literal other side of the planet.
Lol. http://i.imgur.com/DKOTl3I.png
Good to see likeminded people here on that subject. I used to push RAM drives, etc in late 90's to early 2000's for critical stuff. People said it was crazy but performance and security benefits were great. Being re-discovered in past 5 years or so in cloud industry in form of "RAM sleds," etc. As if RAM making stuff faster was a new thing. ;)

Another benefit of tons of RAM is in special-purpose systems using memory-safe runtime and GC. The copying GC's were relatively simple to implement for me a while ago. When RAM expanded, I had one design that just used it for GC instead of more storage. Lots of space not utilized in normal case but imagine a whole app/service GC'd while running on tiny kernel w/ good exception handling. Never crashed. Imagine a desktop where similarly all the system services were memory safe and GC'd with a dedicated piece of hardware doing pauseless, concurrent GC. So, a crashless, fast desktop with critical stuff stored in RAM. I'll take it.

Note: Oberon Systems (eg A2 Bluebottle) use a GC language and run very fast. That with modern features, HW acceleration, and user-mode drivers.
You forgot about the cyber military!
They also don't give a damn about the old flag at all, which really is the problem. My parents had a flagpole and they never once flew the NZ flag on it. I think a little patriotism is deserved: NZ is a pretty good place to live. We don't need to go overboard but we're one of the few places on earth that struggles to work up enthusiasm in the first place so we're in no danger of being a little America.

Which makes the current selection of silver ferns and red peak the most tragic thing of all about this. It has just enough veneer of democracy to mislead people into making it a left/right war and the end result is that we'll have to wait another 20-30 years to do something that gets support from across the board, regardless of our two previous PMs being in favor of changing our defaced ensign.
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It was an insubstantial reply to an insubstantial comment.

The way I see it, the comment received a warning because it was contentless and offensive without reason. Does there need to be more context?
Yes we want you to upload the 2 gig. We are a Dropbox for books with the added benefit of a single application to read multiple formats.

Our apps work both offline and online. You have the option to sync all books or only the top X most recently read.

Are you IOS or Android ?
I still swear by LiteIDE. If you write go, you should try it, you will not be disappointed.
We read all formats that Calibre support. We support natively EPUB and PDF. All other formats are converted to EPUB.

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Awesome! Thank you.

It's a daunting thing, at first, to open up a proprietary security blanket.

May the market treat you well!
Ther internet is a looong way from winning.

When I turn on my cable TV, there is always something playing - instantly. When I change the channel, whatever is on the other channel is now playing - instantly. My TV always works - it never buffers, shows glitchy video, or requires a page refresh (or god forbid a reboot).

I've been watching TV on the internet for 5+ years, and it still hasn't overcome these basic quality issues. Until it does, there's no way that it will put a real dent in cable/satellite usage.
This is outstanding. I want to order one of those lasers now. Not only because I like the product, but also because I want to support companies going this way.

I'm sure this will also help them attract talent. Amidst this patents/walled gardens/copyrights debate, someone saying: "If you buy it, it’s yours – you should be able to do what you want with it." is someone you might want to work with. Privacy advocates feeling scared to be tracked using their laser cutter will also welcome the news favorably.
It's perfectly reasonable to approximate a+b=a+b(1-a) when combining rare events without announcing it to everybody. Likewise with n repetitions of that.
Have it your way.

In that case you're giving an example of buying a newspaper, which is now yours and you choose to modify it any way you want, to show ad blockers are morally justified, despite the fact the vast majority of ad-blocked ads (probably easily 99%+) are on content that you didn't buy and received on the expectation (whether this condition is explicitly stated in the TOS or implied, it's expected) that ads aren't removed which you ignore, thereby taking content for free and making sure the content creator isn't rewarded.

It's a silly comparison to when you actually buy a newspaper, pay for it, reward a content creator and then decide to modify it any way you want.

You're comparing one situation where you reward a content creator to one where you don't, and then say they're moral equivalents, it's ridiculous.

You're clearly aware of the discrepancy in publishers getting rewarded as you later talk about how Google will be crushed and publishers will switch to charging money.

What would be desirable is really hard to say... I guess perhaps it's to have an ad-driven web with pay-2-block everywhere. I use an ad blocker currently (which I don't think is morally justified but do anyway out of convenience and egotism), but I'd be happy to pay content creators to simply block ads, without immediately having to tie into their ecosystem, register for their website, start a relationship with every little website I happen upon, fill in payment details and subscribe for an entire year or pay a ridiculous 1-day or 1-article premium etc. While at the same time for many years, mostly during my childhood, I've been served hundreds of thousands of ads for which I never could've paid, either due to lack of money or lack of payment options. I love the notion anyone can jump on the web and access the world's information, whether you're a poor kid in the US or Nigeria or Vietnam, or an 80 year old who just wants to visit the nyt to read the news without having to set up an account. These people are still valuable, perhaps less so, but that value is found on a dynamic market of advertisers rather than expressed in a subscription pricing scheme that makes no sense for them.
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Apple open sourcing Swift is not magically goingto make your skills transportable.

The only person who can make your skills transportable is yourself.
I couldn't have said it better myself.

I do wonder what the point is of spending lots of energy making alternate universes if we end up replicating thing we’re doing now. In a world where we can only walk, we'd like to be able to fly. In a world where we can only fly, we'd like to teleport. But then we’d probably make the environment bigger to ‘keep it fun’ so what’s the point? Do we all just want to be floating points of light?

Maybe the only real benefit of VR is having the undo button.

All in all, maybe it's not so bad that we haven't had much choice in the design of our species and world so far. Super tangentially related: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34151049
I wasn't aware of those two liners, impressive btw.
Plus, you shed weight as you burn the former.
> The legitimate concern I see is verifiability of code custody from the developer to the end user

Why is this a legitimate concern? I've never heard this even suggested as a remote possibility of a concern before. If you're already so paranoid as to suspect Apple of inserting malicious code into your application, it's a very tiny step to believing that they'd still serve you the original app and only serve the modified copy to certain targets, thus making any binary verification you can do meaningless.

> I actually think it would be better if Xcode did both encryption and code-signing at the developer side

Apple doesn't serve the same encrypted binary to everyone. Each user has an independent set of FairPlay keys and Apple serves up content encrypted for that particular user. That's kind of the whole point of FairPlay. If Apple served the same encrypted blob to everyone, then the encryption would be completely useless as everyone could decrypt it.
If Apple was looking for excuses to force people on 5 to upgrade, they'd simply not support iOS 9 on that device at all...
How can this have been a thing? First, eggs don't need to be refrigerated; they keep at least a week at room temperature. Second, they can be bought in lots of 6, 12, 18, and 36 in most supermarkets; choose based on your rate of consumption. Third, they're dirt cheap, typically less than 25 cents apiece. We're talking Vessyl levels of pointlessness here.
Nothing prescribes a successful outcome, in a sense anything that looks too perfect on paper tends to implode because of the unrealistic expectations by all the stakeholders, see: Color.
If you eat eggs regularly then you needn't keep them in the fridge.
Might want to consider Affero GPL. Without that, there's a possibility some competitor comes along, improves the software, puts it behind a cloud-only service, and never publishes the code.
NASA to announce Mars mystery solved
True, but you also shed a lot of weight by ditching the large jet engines, and you can distribute it more efficiently as well.
And where some of your footprint is fossil-based, industrial-scale scrubbers are a lot easier to install on the ground than loft into the air.
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> It massively expands the attack surface, since Apple is running untrusted IR input through LLVM, server-side.

Apple already runs your binary through a bunch of binary analysis tools, I'm not sure why LLVM is significantly different. A remote exploit is a remote exploit, and LLVM doesn't need escalated permissions to compile things. Besides, it's probably safe to assume Apple sandboxes all of this stuff.

> Apple's shipping a binary that the developer can't trivially verify by comparing against their local build

Who actually does that? I've never heard of anyone even trying to do this before. Besides, if you are that concerned about Apple tampering with your binary, it's a very small step to believing that Apple would still serve you the original binary and only send the tampered version to a limited audience, thus making any such verification meaningless.
the generation of americans that were in their earning prime years during the late 70s and the 80s were the lucky ones...and their kids are lucky, too. Those earners in that time frame were able to stash their earnings into nearly risk-free certificates, which over the years increased and doubled and doubled again. And now their children are inheriting that money.

We may never see the like of that financial boon again, at least not here in america.

Economic growth here in america now depends on population growth. And since americans are not having many children, the establishment is looking to bring in people from outside in order to obtain growth. However, some americans don't want this. It is the establishment vs the american majority on whether america will return to growth via population importation or whether we will go the way of japan. This is the new war.
Here's something to ponder: security implications of new CPU micro architecture even running the exact same code. From generation to generation, various x86 instructions have varied in latency. Register renaming gets better. Incorrect hazards get eliminated. No reason to believe it can't happen to arm.

There's no guarantee an ARMv99 will run even identical code at a rate directly proportional to an ARMv7.
TIL... Thanks for this. I've been using SQLA for about 2 years for various side projects and one-offs, and I've never run across this. I've usually implemented things like this in python, which sometimes involves tedious looping and mapping and extraneous queries.

Thanks!
Are you European? The reason I ask is because the US and the EU take opposite approaches to the issue of egg safety. In the EU eggs are not allowed to be washed before sale, that means the eggs retain their natural anti-bacterial coating from when they are laid, so they are naturally microbe resistant and that's why European eggs are not refrigerated in the store. In the US they mandate that eggs must be washed before sale, but the egg shell is a semi-permeable membrane, and washing off the natural coating renders the egg vulnerable to spoilage, therefore it must be refrigerated or the eggs will tend to go bad.
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Because Apple explicitly wants to be able to regenerate binaries from the bitcode, which means that any locally-generated binary is meaningless. The claimed reason for this is to take advantage of new optimizations added to LLVM (which is a perfectly sensible thing to take advantage of), but probably the more useful reason is to take advantage of new microarchitectures that Apple introduces in new devices.
I think they should keep doing what they're doing - don't raise rates or reduce the monetary base (the $ trillions they keep on the books since the crisis) until real inflation is clearly setting in. Asset prices can keep inching up so long as they're not into bubble territory (which arguably they're not yet).

The economy is in a much better position but it's still underperforming and the labor participation rate is still historically down as so many exited the labor force during the 2008 crisis and ensuing layoffs. Once some inflation sets in, it's a sign the world is returning to "normal" (after 8 years!), but .. no guarantees given instability in Europe, Middle East, Oil Glut, etc.

Usual disclaimers: I am not an economist, but minored in it & follow it; the economics profession has a wide diversity of opinions, though I think my views aren't particularly radical.

I also think the government should be ready to invest in our crumbling infrastructure for the next downturn/crisis. The 2009 stimulus helped but was not well allocated and was too small. That said it's unlikely congress will pass any such thing for many years due to current politics.
No content, just an announcement of an announcement.
Quantitative comparisons to ublock origin would be better than comparisons to adblock plus. ABP is well known to be slow.
A world class lack of focus could easily compete with all of those.
This is the EXACT problem I had when trying to make a "fridge temperature puck" - batteries work less well in very cold situations, probably due to low temperature decreasing molecular reactions. I was planning on having an Arduino collect stats and then display them as a webpage over Wifi.

There are basically 2 solutions, and I feel both are inelegant:

1. Use part of the battery voltage in a heater that warms the battery enough for it to continue reacting and producing voltage.

2. Locate the battery outside of the fridge somehow, with a long wire to the rest of the device.
Or generate your fuel at each airport (algae), convert to biodiesel, and then dump into your tanks as usual.

Batteries may rule on the ground now, but we're a long way off from liquid fuel getting tossed aside in the sky.
I struggle with this every day. The amount of juggling priorities and helping a dozen different people that a technical manager has to do is completely at odds with the focus required to write non-trivial code.
Yeah, battery technology really needs to improve. In fact, there needs to be some revolutionary discovery in order for electric planes (and a lot of other awesome things) to be feasible...
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Um, no. I just spent the last eight years of my life building a streaming service and fighting against DRM, and the last two years negotiating terms with several major studios and finally having to capitulate to DRM. They are most definitely not "just reusing old contracts" and you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
I'm a 'Merkin, actually, and I've never had problems leaving eggs out for a week, then eating them hard-boiled, scrambled, or over-easy. Then again, I sometimes find it hard to understand the Purell Nation in which I live.
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I had the same reaction when I read that passage. By the end of the piece, though, I thought it was pretty clear that the author is trying to make the point that the "right characteristics" aren't what matters; what matters is knowing your customers and running a learning organization that, week after week, gets better and better at serving their needs. From later in the article:

>"Quirky never iterated on its products ... instead Quirky re-focused its energy on coffee makers and pet feeders and 50 other things. Lack of product focus had a nasty side-effect. When you look across the Quirky product line, you’re left with one fundamental feeling: confusion."

>"Many things can go right for a company but at the end of the day you must do one thing really well: sell a product that delights your customers."

With that said, I think he could have set up the "nailed nearly everything" passage to make it clearer that he was in on the joke, saving his readers a few groans in the process.
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It's clear that he issued an executive order, which may or may not be utterly meaningless.

And Gitmo was just an example, not necessarily saying it would even be at the top of my list. Of course sending the detainees to other prisons is not the answer. These people need to be freed, now. Same deal with the multitude of other US military prisons and CIA black sites.
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I read that. But they said "it's not real life". It is, and not just in SF/Oakland. Plenty of weird experiences to be had in New York or Toronto, for example.
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The OrangePi omits the on-board flash and the wireless chipset, which represent a substantial proportion of the CHIP's BOM cost. The HDMI and Ethernet jacks add less than $1 to the OrangePi's BOM cost. The OrangePi team are based in Shenzhen, which is a big deal when you're trying to squeeze your suppliers.

The $6 difference in price is highly significant - a 66% increase is far from trivial. I can see how the OrangePi can be made at a small profit, assuming they're getting a decent price on the Allwinner H3 SoC. The CHIP simply doesn't add up at $9, even as a breakeven proposition.
How about solar-powered planes? I would assume not having to carry an energy source (except for emergency use) is a huge efficiency win. And it's always sunny in the stratosphere (well, not at night).
Not hating, long time fan, real long time... But have you noticed a downward drop in quality from the Escape Pod family of casts? I mean it's free, so I'm not complaining, but it makes it hard to listen to.
Oh, certainly! But I still see little chance of proof assistants being used in the industry for anything but the most exotic niches. They're just too hard and time-consuming to use. Academics might certainly use them to prove algorithms as they prove algorithms now (although, at present, I also don't see too much realistic chance of algorithms requiring proof-assistants for their proof being implemented in the industry; as it is, even informally-proven algorithms that are complex enough and hard-enough to implement are avoided, and very few niches can afford translation validation for their implementation[1])

But, "this implementation of serializable database transactions protects the data integrity invariants of any relational database schema" can very well be verified by model checker on a finite model for some schemas (there's little reason to believe that serializability would be affected too much by schema, other than by the graph of foreign keys), and that may be enough to gain the necessary amount of confidence in the algorithm. I can certainly see distributed-database designers using model checkers for that.

[1]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mom22/pldi13.pdf