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Let's assume life insurance would cost half of my salary, and pay merely 5 years of my current salary in the case of my untimely demise. I feel healthy enough and confident enough to find a cheaper plan an put the difference in government bonds, so that my family is not 100% unprotected but have my future self - who will probably be still alive - collect most of the benefits in a decade or so.

Colonizing the Artic/Antartic is way cheaper than Mars, and would help us pick most of the low hanging fruit research for a fraction of the cost. We can always do Mars later if that is the way history turned out.

Not to mention that there are much more dire and certain risks today, which will likely cause huge loss of life and property (like climate change, or resource depletion, or geopolitical instability). But because those are not extinction level events, people do not freak out about them and little mitigation is being done.
Still no good reason for counterparties not even taking a minor haircut on CDS.
Actually, I do. There's a fallacy that displaying information before requesting consent necessarily leads to informed consent. Many users have insufficient background to understand what they're consenting to, particularly since such info-dumps tend to not mention what the consequences of various choices would be. With no context for their decision other than "Accept makes things work," all you're doing is training users to sign away their rights without knowing that they are
when i replied more than 30min ago there was already 11 replies and the one i replied to was on the bottom in grey color..

and now they down vote me.. lol whatever guys go crazy!
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Probably, also the screen doesn't have any port.
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Yes, in a way: JIRA Software includes JIRA Agile's functionality and some other goodies. It runs on top of JIRA Core, which is now available as a standalone offering for non-software teams in an organization that don't want the extra complexity that Software features introduce.

source: I'm a developer at Atlassian
This is really cool. Very intuitive. Very well executed in my opinion. I had trouble drawing walls though. Couldn't get it to work at all.
The headphone jack position is a deal-breaker.
People generally aren't carefully clearing passwords from memory after use, and ideally GC runs aren't happening all that often. "Exactly the right moment" could easily extend out to many minutes.
they were, but the hardware was the same was it not?
Superb! The next awesome addition would be GearVR support (or Oculus Rift or HTC Vive) for entering the spaces.
Developer who took on Linus Torvalds over abuse quits 'toxic' kernel community
it looks like a copy of macbook, and I love microsoft for that, actually might buy this because of that fact.

the tablet laptop thing is a must if you spend a lot of time in front of a computer. Unfortunately, sometimes you need a keyboard to answer emails and get stuff done.
Why? The SP4 does replace a laptop, but there's still a trade off there. It depends just how productive you want to be on the go.

The type cover is amazing for its size and weight. But it is still a thin and relatively small keyboard. The Surface Book has a more robust keyboard but is thicker and weighs more.

I feel like the SP4 is a laptop replacement. But the Surface Book can be also while also acting like a laptop in some situations. They're both interesting, just boils down to the user's needs.

I'd likely buy a SP4, but can understand why others would be a SB.
Not really the point. Sure I can stick Linux in a VM but what if I want to run something other than Windows on hardware that I own?
The only way that could happen is if you are blocking 1 of the 3 meats for that week. Otherwise, you will always be able to get 3 meat dishes every week.
Exactly. MBP is so lightweight and robust that you can take it anywhere where you would take a tablet. Since I got my MBP I completely stopped using the Nexus 10 tablet (which I used a lot before that). The battery lasts as long for similar workloads, it's quiet, and having trackpad means that your screen doesn't get greasy. Having keyboard at hand is a plus. I really cannot think of a situation where a developer would prefer tablet-with-a-touch-screen type of interface.
If this doesn't convince musicians and DJs to more seriously consider the Microsoft Surface line of products, I don't know if it's possible. Personally I love the look of this, and in time, will have it earmarked as a replacement for my Lenovo X class ultrabook. I'm impressed.
The Lunar Module is the only real space-ship we've ever built. Everything else has been essentially designed around getting into or out of Earth's gravity and atmosphere.
I'm mocking the idea of an Internet (though I rather suspect VikingCoder meant HTTP) Blackout for Europe by pointing out European HTTP services.
Yeah, Amazon's naming conventions are insane. I feel like it's a good reflection of the industry's apparent love of producing jargon.

At least with this one they kept it to a name that is already reasonably well used?
Yes, it's good great quality hardware -- for a Unix laptop. That was one of the biggest reason why a lot of developers who used to work with Unices on servers switched to PowerBook. Back then, Linux really lagged behind in that regard, even on ThinkPads.

The next big boost was a GUI and market situation that made it possible to create some neat productivity tools (and profit from them).

The early Ruby on Rails community probably was the epitome of that setup: TextMate as a uniquely OS X editor, easy development on your laptop, then deployment to a Linux server. I think Keynote came out right at that time, too, which was really neat for a rather weirdly conference-driven community.

Then the pretty great Unibody systems came out, combining the aircraft destroyer feel of olden Thinkpads with a more sleek design, and the first of the ultrabooks, the Air…
And, of course, you basically have to use a Mac system when doing iOS dev work.

But in the recent years, I feel that Apple lost it a bit. OS X is stagnating (what's the last feature that could compete with e.g. Expose? And still no decent 1st-party package manager). Third party development/productivity software doesn't matter that much these days (it's either webapps or mobile apps; no really shiny single-platform editor anymore).
Some of the Linuxens are pretty good with supported laptop hardware, so that's an option for the Unix hardcore.

And as this article is showing, Windows itself is getting more of an option even if you're not buying into the MS stack: RAM and hard drives are big enough to support virtual machines for your development environment (esp. w/ docker/vagrant/etc.) -- if you even need that, as high-speed internet is ubiquitous enough so that you can do remote development throughout.

So, yeah, while I personally still think that OS X is a more developer/hacker-friendly environment than Windows, the incentives don't appear as big anymore. So if they lose their edge in hardware quality, style and solid driver support, they'll lose a few developers more.
The Google Nexus never seemed to pull the rug under anyone, they weren't a best selling device in most circumstances.

The Nexus devices were often also available straight from their vendor at the time in the same form or a slightly different model.

And most importantly the Nexuses were always sourced from on of their partners, here MSFT is directly competing against their partners.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the pros and cons of this over the Oculus rift for scientific visualization? It seems that it might be easier to deal with user interaction for the Hololens, but without playing with one, it would be hard for me to say.
Looks like an Apple Commercial.
The difference is whether the policy the person is supporting may also be furthering the person's own economic interests. The Koch brothers certainly have avowed ideological motivations as well as possible economic motivations, but it's the latter that most people are worrying about when they talk about the influence of money in politics.
If the community isn't hosted on your site, it can't drive ad revenue as people involved in discussion reload the site to see new comments. People want to own the community because it brings traffic, and they're not interested in driving that traffic to someone else's website. It's a sort of cargo cult.
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I like this combo of feature set and price - it addresses the short comings of its competatitors and (hopefully) will provide us with the kind of robust, flexible platform we need.

Now we gotta get us some of these puppies.

Can you say "distributed networked enviornment?"
I found compiling on Windows always a bit of a PITA.

On Linux I just install build-essentials and everything works fine.
On Windows I had to install a specific version of VS and fiddle around with the path to get things running. But maybe there is something like the build-essentials package in chocolatey?

The terminal command history also feels strange. But I like cls more than clear, haha :D
Good point, but not ideal for everyone. Especially with IOMMU and an SSD, performance isn't so bad when it works. I haven't liked the overhead with this in the past though, plus no full disk encryption, (although I guess you could do it in the guest), and Windows security in general, and bad 3D drivers for the guest (compositing please), and anything that wants low level hardware access is out. So if you don't actually want to _use_ Windows it makes a pretty crummy hardware abstraction layer.
It is irrelevant this year. Next year it'll ship on tens of millions of PC's. It's certainly not a deal breaker but it would have been a nice to have this year on a small form factor device.

It also doubles the throughput of the older standard.
It's a $1500 device so people who buy it will probably be using it in 4-5 years. I'd rather spend $20 on an adapter cable now and be able to support the better standard next year.
Three.js is a great library. I used it for BrainBrowser, the neurology project I mentioned in the post. But I disagree with the attitude that because a great library exists to do something, you shouldn't learn how to do that thing yourself. It's like saying that because jQuery exists, web devs shouldn't learn how to manipulate the DOM directly. Part of my reasoning is that I think using these libraries effectively for anything non-trivial requires an understanding of how they work. The other part is that the more people understand how an open-source library works, the more they can contribute and make it better.
It's just 12 hours of video playback that they actually cite when selling the thing (wifi locked to a network and autobrightness off, all else default). That's nice and similar to other high-end devices like a MBP, but it's so powerful that if you actually do the things on it that you'd want to buy a high-powered device for (e.g. editing video, gaming, 3d modelling) you won't last anywhere near that.

In short, if you use it like a tablet, you get typical tablet battery. If you have it docked to the stand to use the dedicated GPU etc, I assume you're going to get more typical windows laptop battery life. But that's not much different from my MBP either, I usually get about 5-6 hours of battery life rather than 10-12 because I use it a lot for the things I actually needed to buy a MBP for, which isn't just watching video and checking my mail.
Sigh. I didn't know that was a thing. How obnoxious.

Anyway, mostly it is construction and semi trucks I see blowing black smoke. Usually they are really rusted out anyway, hence the lack of maintenance comment.
And cost how much more? More than 1000x more? It's probably economically worth it to just send probes. Better yet, swarms of mini-probes: http://news.mit.edu/2006/microbots
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The real problem is that even if the US passes a law that EU citizen data is out of reach for the NSA the "backdoor" known as GCHQ still exists.

Any form of true protection of EU citizen data requires throwing out the Brits. I personally hope that we won't have to kick them out because they will exit the EU out on their own for good.
It doesn't seem surprising that Zillow is pump-and-dumping in an already extremely bubbly market.
That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software.

Let's hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.
Just barely. I hit mute when they come on. I'd rather miss the next song than listen to an ad.
wow you found a typo. what will happen next
If true, it's unlikely to persist for long. We know from paleoclimate data that both Greenland and Antarctica will significantly melt out w/ CO2 as high as it already is, much less any realistic peak level we could achieve.
Available with 16g RAM. Interesting. The upcoming XPS 13 refresh supposedly offers 16g, too, but the current version doesn't. I wonder how well a Microsoft laptop is going to support Linux.
> ...the above is actually somewhat problematic, because to hold a reference to the C struct, you have to then manually free it later, losing some of the benefits of a language with automatic memory management.

I usually frame the data as clientData passed to a managing command (i.e. custom built first-class command), with appropriate allocation/deallocation. As often as not, I'm creating two commands: an anonymous reference template, and a command-creating-command that will instantiate instances of the "anonymous reference template". Then I can create an arbitrary number of arbitrarily named commands that pack and process their data, including freeing on destruction.

To the uninitiated, this sounds like object-oriented programming, which is arguably true, but doesn't automatically come with subclassing, inheritance, etc, etc. Tcl does have first class objects, but what I'm describing here isn't them.
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I wish AWS would stop launching new services, and spend some time improving the usability and features of their existing services. So many of their products feel half finished, and could be so much better if they invested more time in improving them rather than trying to compete with every cloud service out there.
I think this is really interesting as the gap between casual browsing and more intense stuff like running my unit test suite on the software I'm developing has such noticeable effects on battery life.

With all the low power states and stuff, when you're actually using the CPU for a while, the battery life easily cuts in half.
Although you can have succinctness, most commands have shortcuts for them.

Get-Content = gc or cat

for example
Huh.

I think the term would make more sense if it meant what I said, but I guess it means however people use it to mean.

Shouldn't it have a word that means "after the fact/event" instead of like "affecting something that happened before"?

Or like, "(age *4 +3)rd trimester"?

Oh well, the way slang meanings arise is strange and inscrutable. Or not really inscrutable, but not understood by me personally.
It's not a patch on the excellent Clickhole http://www.clickhole.com/. I hope it's profitable for The Onion
Also, the (pre)order page is here[0]

But without full specs ):

[0]http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Microsof...
> only to find out that it has less ram, gpu and/or cpu than the final product?

That doesn't sound like a problem. Now if it turns out it is less powerful than the final product, that would be a serious issue.
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Perhaps. AFAIK click-through EULA's are not valid in most (all?) EU/European jurisdictions. Not sure about the presumably free blog -- but at least for things like eg: collecting personal data in an application/operating system (like Windows 10) -- you can't just pretend your users are at fault for clicking through a wall of legalese.
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Looks like one request to 'controls.account.microsoft-int.com/me?partner=surface&market=en-us' makes whole page very slow, at least for me it waits for 20 seconds and only after it fails page continues loading.
The people who think going to Mars is a good idea will go to Mars, procreate, and slowly fill the galaxy. They will out-compete the Earth-bounders. Darwinian evolution.
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Why is being nice to others a moral imperative? In fact - why should any decision be based off morals?

The continuation and survival of the human race is the top priority among a large population of people. Some contribute by researching new medicines (Why do this?), others improve quality of life for others (Why do this?), others have children (Why do this?), and others look for a way to get us away from a potentially doomed planet in case of disaster scenarios. They all have the same reasoning - just different methods.

Morals are subjective to a population. The majority population of humanity has decided that continuation of "us" is a "good thing".

Of course, one could argue things would be better off if humanity went extinct. But that isn't in humanities' best interests (read: survival), so people generally wouldn't agree with you.
You're right, which is why I use all three platforms regularly.
I used to use that too before I adopted a password manager.

Pwdhash uses md5, which is relatively fast. According to the below, even a strong master password could be derived in less than about 30 days.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/52355/how-secur...

On the other hand, the odds you'll be the victim of such a targeted attack are presumably pretty low. This at least gets you out of the category of "low-hanging fruit" for an attacker.
With WAMP you can get php and MySQL running quickly. Python and java also works very good on windows, both runtime and selection of dev environment.
Well, the photo with that caption is with the keyboard folded fully over backwards used as a pseudo-tablet. No keyboard use in that case, and probably no IO either.
And that makes a huge difference how? I have one and they are great, but this thing has graphics card and is very powerful, on top of which it can work for 12h.
Well, it works with the Surface Pen, so for people who prefer pen and paper for note taking/drawing (like me), it would be useful in a meeting.

I can't imagine mouse/trackpad are as good as a pen for free-form drawing diagrams, etc.
Well, it looks like it should sound like "cajita", as in "cajita feliz" ("happy meal"), but actually his name is pronounced [kadʒita], not [kaxita]; think "callita", like a small digging stick, but pronounced with a Rioplatense accent. Japanese transliteration is misleading in Spanish!

(You could kind of make the same complaint about pronouncing "tomato" as [tə'meɪɾoʊ], since the second vowel in the Nahuatl word is very clearly [a], but I think you can make a reasonable case that "tomato" is an English word with several centuries of history whose pronunciation has simply changed, while Kajita is not a Spanish word, but rather the name of a Japanese guy who's in fact not even dead yet. So if you pronounce it [kaxita], you're just mispronouncing it, that's all.)
It exists. Look at just the interface of the site itself. It's ugly and confusing, but if you say it's ugly and confusing, LOL @ U. Everyone knows you have to install RES+Hoverzoom for the real Reddit experience!

> According to Google Ad Planner's estimate, as of May 2013, the median Reddit user is male (59%), 18–29 years of age [0]

A lot of the reason Reddit skews young is the interface, which in turn results in a young-male echochamber.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#Demographics
It's weird this forwarded me to "en-au", when I've always lived in the US. I had opened a separate tab directly to the Surface Book that was on the "en-us" site, and when I saw the device pricing, not knowing I was on AU, I was surprised to see the HUGE difference in price for the Surface Book from what I'd saw on the other page/tab -- 2.3K vs 1.5K. Hopefully that's rare for them, or there are going to be a lot of people turned off to that price point -- 2.3K for the Surface Book is insane.
Yeah, not your point, but it's a question for me. If the machine has drivers for the windows kernel, and probably terrible drivers for linux, how thin can that shim get?
I think this is a brilliant move.

To all those saying whether or not current redditors will use it: that's not the point. This is Reddit attempting to use the content users generate on the platform for the 99% of people who don't use Reddit. Call it buzzfeed if you want, an absurd amount of people use buzzfeed.

So long as Reddit and Upvoted are separate, I think it makes a ton of sense.
I've done a lot of Tcl work; two successive companies I worked at used it as their embedded language. It has its charms, but I would have a hard time working at another company that in 2015 chose Tcl over Lua.

Issues I have with Tcl:

* The syntax is as idiosyncratic as a Lisp, but has few of the advantages that Lisps get for homoiconicity.

* uplevel/upvar is a janky way to get metaprogramming. Compare metaprogramming in Tcl to that of Japanese Tcl errr Ruby.

* The Tcl runtime is outmoded.

I could probably think of others.

There's also the fact that Tcl's vaunted integration with C code has pretty much become par for the course in high level languages. I didn't find writing Ruby extensions to be any more painful than writing Tcl extensions. Modern high level languages also expose full-featured FFIs, so you often don't even need bindings.

Tcl was ahead of its time! It was a good embedded high level language before virtually every large project recognized the need for embedded languages. And the event-based model that Tk forced on it turned out to be pretty useful for network servers. It was a great choice in the late 1990s.
Typos, poor loading times. I'm not impressed, Microsoft!
Unless they're almost entirely self sufficient very early on, that means an open ended spending commitment by whoever is running the programme. You can't cancel the programme because the colonists will die.
One of the best adice I received was 'Choose your boss not the company'. My first employment was not a big company, but the man I worked for would lose his sleep if I dont get paid that month. It tought me a lot. Hope this helps!
Hold on, you're telling me someone willing to launch a DDoS attack against a competitor might use illegally gained resources to do so?
LocalStorage is fast
Classy move to retweet it and attribute it to yourself.

https://twitter.com/Schaemelhout/status/651420894150152192
Fair question. I'd respond two ways:

1. You can still (as a user) avail yourself of user of AWS (aka "you") controlled encryption for most of the relevant data at rest.

2. There is still a legal hurdle for the US to provide a subpoena for data which doesn't reside in the US to be brought into the US and provided. I'm no legal expert, but I doubt that's going to be as simple as "because we said we want to look at it" as this is an issue of sovereignty of the counterpart nation, particularly given that the EU high court has just ruled that the export of this data is contrary to EU law.

Of the two, #1 has significant mathematical assurance.
Yep. In Coils it has a frontend database cache like MiniMongo