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No. Thiamethoxam is already known to be 'acutely toxic for bees', quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamethoxam .

As the NYT piece says, this isn't about killing the insects:

> “Most of the studies in the past have focused on direct effects on the bees, both the adults and the larvae,” said Robbin Thorp, professor emeritus and bee expert at the University of California Davis, who was not involved in this paper. These can include effects on bee mortality or reproduction.

> “This study now clearly demonstrates that in addition to effects on the bees, both direct effects and sublethal indirect effects, that these effects are influencing their ability to pollinate plants,” Thorp said. “And they used apple as an example of this, as an important crop.”
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>> ..., and extreme abstraction capabilities in high level languages like Common Lisp, ...

> Go has everything you mention in both of your lists of desirable attributes (depending perhaps on what you mean by "extreme abstraction")

"perhaps"? By whose definition would it ever even come close to "extreme abstraction"? All of us assembly programmers, maybe?

Don't get me wrong, I use Go where it makes sense. It has pros and cons. I'm literally programming Go right now. But "extreme abstraction"... you need more than "perhaps" to qualify that.

Or was that his point and did I just completely miss the joke? Actually, that's probably it.
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Facebook messenger, since privacy wasn't in your list of requirements. At least then you won't have the illusion.
That is a concern if the game forces you to play a lot of sides. In Yomi you can pick your side, so most people play just one or two, and the people who play a ton of sides also play the game a lot. In Terra Mystica you need a minimum of 5 to get pack the side-picking part of the game I guess. Shadow Hunters would have a worse version of this problem, since your side is assigned at random out of 20 possible sides.
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I'm not entirely convinced 'strong legs' are the causative factor in healthier brains. It is possible the researchers measured an artifact of people that do running cardio.
Which, bigoted and misguided though it may be, offers a much better ROI than shiny rocks for a child.
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Wifi does not use magnetic resonant coupling.

To expand on that, the difference is (in laymans terms) 'radio waves' versus 'magnetic fields'.

The difference being that in WiFi the magnetic field component is not relevant and in NFC technologies such as RFID it is the main component (the hint is whether the main active component is a coil or an antenna).

There is a close relationship between the two fields governed by Maxwells equations.
If you say "synthetic diamond" to most people (I suspect) they would imagine you mean cubic zirconia or something similar.

A "synthetic" diamond is 100% a genuine diamond, made from the same stuff as mined diamonds.
That depends completely on how you define "strong". I think legs that can carry a 50 pound pack to the top of a mountain are "stronger" than a guy who can lift twice as much as me, but can't even run a 5K.
Wont the efficiency be ridiculously low -- wifi signals are not really targeted.
All of the metadata problems he complaind about also apply to Signal.
No idea. I just googled a bit and pulled some numbers from a few different bulk suppliers I found (all in China). Perhaps competition from china has had a dramatic effect on prices?
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Its about what corporate taxes are many places. Why would it be different there?
We cover bomb attacks in Beirut too but you show less interest
Still doesn't compile with default LUA due to broken Headers within the include path. They probably just forgot it again, but it's still bad practice and low standard for a very common tool like nmap.
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Phil Zimmermann has developed a new protocol, which Silent Phone uses, which makes it impossible (or very hard) for the server to know the contacts on your phone while doing discovery.

I'm going to write up the protocol and publish a reference server I wrote in Go in a few days. I'll post it here and send it to Open Whisper Systems as well, they may want to integrate it.
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I am a serious layman when it comes to this type of stuff, but I swear I remember reading about similar wireless power years ago. I even remember seeing a video of a lightbulb being illuminated without being attached to anything. What makes it this year's game-changing tech? Is it the WiFi aspect?
Also, finding new pants that fit. That's been a big time sink for me.
Nope, it was in the afternoon, between popular kids shows.
You missed what Donovan said, which answered the question. Obviously PL-enthusiasts (give me all the shiny! all the time!) wont like the answer though.
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> That's how it used to work right?

When?
>The point is having a generic solution that can be applied with some success when you don't have the time or the resources to find those "smart heuristics". And there might be cases where we are just not smart enough to find them.

Indeed, the same could be said of any "smart heuristics" too:

> Exact solutions beat these smart heuristics all the time.

;)
> What I really would like to see is a counter example. Some GUI that just can not be done in Elm.

I'm on the Elm/FRP fence myself but your comment here reeks of turing tarpit:

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."
Something interesting about this project: It showcases what has so far been a mostly below-the-radar effort to overhaul and modernize WPF.

WPF has an incredibly broad and powerful API, tied to a fairly inefficient and poky rendering stack, which can be mitigated through great care. MS has nearly abandoned it, and is instead pushing the comparatively limited and immature UWP. I think the revitalizing .NET OSS community still prefers the power and compatibility of WPF, and is going its own way. This project uses Mahapps.Metro and XAML Material Design. Together, these two make it easy to build visually sophisticated Windows desktop apps without using HTML or reinventing a whole GUI stack.

This could put MS into a strange position where the great Windows apps are written in a technology that it's written off, and that aren't compatible with the Windows store.
That's endurance, which is objectively different from strength.
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Telegram is private enough (unless you are in a list somewhere)

FB Messenger works fine but of course is not private w.r.t. FB

Seems a good enough reason to use something different
The author knows that it's useful. See http://effbot.org/zone/xml-scanner.htm where the author uses the scanner:

> The 2.0 engine provides another (undocumented) feature that can be used to optimize this even further. The scanner method is used to create a scanner object and attach it to a string.

See http://bugs.python.org/issue5337 where the Python developers wondered if it should be documented.

There's a 10 year old notice at https://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2006-November/0210... saying that the code would crash if the scanner was called from multiple threads.

There's no doubt much more information about this - the above was all I cared to find out.
I've been the new guy on teams that did not use the ide for debugging (insanity in the Java world, right?) and was perceived to be a super star because of my ability to trouble shoot and drill straight down to root causes. Learn and use your tools people!
Agreed. You really hit the nail on the head when you said "aggressive." This strategy seems like it would create an artificially competitive zero-sum game within the company where employees who should be working together are competing to be the golden volunteer for the boss.

I think it would be better to always have fewer tasks than people (not more tasks, like the author seems to suggest), but establish high-level goals for the team as a whole. You'll quickly see who is best at understanding the goals, turning them into work, and recruiting other people to help do that work, which is real leadership (not just jumping to do extra tasks).
I'm not really disagreeing. Setting expectation is always a good thing.

However, speaking as a manager...if one of my team members is always stepping up and getting things done in a reliable way without me having to constantly direct them....that person is going to be first in line for promotion and raises.

On the flip side, the team members whom I have to micro manage because they are unable to think for themselves will be the first to be culled.
I thought it was just syntax highlighting. Any link documenting VSCode's Go suppport?
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Because it is value extracted, not value added, and because the receivers of the majority of that value are in a position to extract that value by virtue of having historically exploited Botswana. So the larger part of the value will be removed from the country rather than that it will become part of the local economy it will become part of our economy.
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I applaud this.

My opinion is that the vast majority of the issues are caused by people who buy a drone off the shelf and take it up as high as it can go on their first flight.

This move will help stop general folks who have no idea about the rules and regulations from flying where they should not.

It's not going to stop the folks that (arguably) should know better, but it's an exellent start.
Also big monoculture offers no environment to most beneficial insects to live on, I guess that's why some people are moving beehives across the states every year to pollinate trees
Or they're bullshit suppliers advertising ridiculous prices and wares, like the company advertising kilograms of stuff only made on milligram-scales since it was discovered (don't remember where I saw that, probably the comments of a "things I won't work with" entry)
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Just for fun I wondered what a missed $10k/yr was over time.

http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calcu...

values of 0; 10,000; 20; 4; results in nearly 310k of missed gains.

Increasing that 4% to 8% increases it to nearly a half a million!

At my estimated retirement income requirements, that basically means I could quit working 10 years earlier if I don't settle for being underpaid.
Monsanto doesn't sell neonicotinoid pesticides as far as I can tell.
I agree with the other commenters. Don't try to interview him, unless that is why this was setup. I have to imagine it was setup with some intent because either you have a passion for physics or something where your friend felt it wouldn't be a waste of Mr Witten's time.

Seriously, after reading his wiki page, he obviously seems like one hell of an intelligent person. But something else struck me, he's been married since 1979 to the same person who is also a professor of physics, plus they have kids that all appear to have done quite well. I'd be more curious to see how they balanced their life and were successful in raising kids that have passion and are doing well, at least from their basic bios.

Everyone probably asks him physics questions, but chatting with him about the everyday things to me could be way more interesting, and wouldn't feel interviewee. But that may just be me. I would want to ask him what he feels is his best accomplishment professionally and personally. That is always interesting to hear.
There are fixes for the diamond dependency problem out there, it's not like this is how to build a warp drive. For instance UNIXes have had symbol versioning since forever, they have RTLD_DEEPBIND in glibc, etc. Java is currently noodling around this problem with Jigsaw (though there's already a solution in OSGi) and it looks like for now they'll punt on solving it themselves, but provide the APIs needed for a simple container to solve it instead.

It's fine to not ship a solution in version one. But to use it as a reason to not have version numbers at all seems like heading in the wrong direction (backwards).
Did you test more times to rule out throttling at the server end? Or does v7 have a longer default delay between probes?
nmap dev here.

Nmap is already asynchronous, as you described multiple requests are multiplexed (cf select(2), epoll(7), kqueue/kevent depending on your platform...)

The core difference between nmap and zmap is that the latter is stateless. Which allows a much higher throughput, but also prevents from applying some smart detection mechanisms. Thus, both tools are complementary, and no, there is no work being done to make nmap stateless.
I am sure these cats are up to something .. too much co-incidence .
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Absolutely agree with what he said, and I agree it answers the question. And I agree with what you said, it's not a great answer for everybody, but it's an answer.

Yet still, Kernighan said what he said.
As I've never bought them in the UK, I don't watch UK prices. I've bought most of mine from JC Penney in the Boulevard mall in Las Vegas, and they often have deals, or will do deals (20% off). I remember getting five black 501 shirts for under $150, though that was a few years ago now ;-)

I usually stock up because (a) you can't rely on companies to keep the style identical -- not even Levi's; and (b) the price is only going to go up. They do last, so I still have several shirts I've never worn.
%u, %h, %s, and whatnot changing their semantics will surprise a few. More people, though, will likely be caught by the new default maximum process limits applied to user login sessions; not least, if experience is any guide, because they'll look for the problem when they hit the symptoms and find the wrong answer (ulimit).
It's also trivial to "just ignore errors" in a language based on checked exceptions:

try {
ok = foo()
} catch (Exception e) {
// Do nothing
}

Checked exceptions don't save you from "this kind of sloppy programming".
So is this just an article saying people are still living in efficiencies?
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> Checked exceptions don't let you get away with this kind of sloppy programming.

They sure do. Just write your Java code without a try/catch block anywhere, or just have your catch do absolutely nothing. You can do it, trust me. Exceptions don't stop programmers from doing anything.
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I talked to two of my friends who wanted to do some research into this. They told me, that in the end, power over WiFi was too inefficient, so in practicality (since they were working with phones), the technology wouldn't actually charge phones up per se, but rather make them lose charge more slowly.
Half the 'examples' are selection. Clue: if the population is under stress and it affects reproduction, then simple selection can be the cause.
More like real estate. The amount of land is fixed, after all. And some are more valuable than others.

Even the materials used to build houses had gotten cheaper, presumably.

Skyscrappers and high density housing can increase supply but only if regulations and market conditions allow it.
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Sounds about right for mineral rights. Oil and gas leases for the US pay a 12.5% royalty.
I guess that is a taboo, although one we seem to have forgotten. Respect the tragedy, do not cheapen the suffering, the appropriate action is to stay silent for a moment, be solemn, accept that their might not be a solution, ask if the cure isn't worse than the disease. All this is ours, all this sustained us so far. So why do I feel like we have forgotten it?
I go to therapy to manage my depression. I don't have a severe case, but it's bad enough that it affects my productivity at times. Once a year or so I'll have a bout where I am almost completely unable to function.

The tools I use to manage depression are (wait for it) diet, exercise and prayer (or meditation, if you want to keep it secular).

Exercise is particularly useful. Depression affects the mind, so it's difficult to be self-aware about it. But I've found that when I start to have those thoughts of hopelessness, going out and running 1-3 miles at a pace that pushes my physical limits (I use a Nike Sportwatch for measurements) eradicates my depression.

On a semi-daily basis, 30 minutes of prayer, 30 minutes exercise and at least one meal with ~90g of raw spinach seems to do the trick for me.
The BBC article about this, mentions that the diamond industry has transformed Botswana into a 'middle-income' country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34867929
I only studied through an undergrad modern physics level. Is this talking about planck length or something else?
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> For consistency and precision, the following units are used throughout this article.

> KB: 1,024 bytes, expressed as 2^10

Why not just use KiB? Unlike KB, it's unambiguously binary.
That could be, but for the jobs, transportation, development and taxes they pay, right? The benefit to Botswana is somewhat diminished by having the diamond shipped overseas. But lets be honest: there is no real industrial/commercial value to this diamond at all; it is simply a trophy.
Is it really "game-changing?" You can only use it for low power devices which could also be powered by a small lithium battery for a year. So preventing me from having to change a battery once a year is now game changing?
I agree with you. This is a very good question to ask. If this is from extremely intense workouts, then I would say very few would benefit.
Yeah, I noticed the article wouldn't mention how much power they actually captured.
See also: Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWfwNdmK2lA. (Warning: contains some rude words.)
Botswana is an upper-middle-income economy with a freer press and lower corruption than a number of European countries. Their level of corruption is slightly worse than that of France, and way better than most South or East European country (source: https://www.transparency.org/country/#BWA ; http://www.heritage.org/index/country/botswana).

Also, they are one of the largest producers of rough diamonds in the world, so a single stone may be a big deal for the company extracting it, but it means hardly anything to the country.

Africa has some insane level of corruption and poverty, but there are some exceptions (namely, Botswana and Mauritius).
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Can we ban anything that mentions "game-changing" already?

Please?
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Great, DRM on drones. This'll be fun to crack at least.

Out of curiosity, what does it do if GPS is unavailable? From what I've heard, jamming GPS is pretty easy.
Both A->B and B->A can be true without A<->B with complex relationships.

Dr John Ratey, M.D. covers the topic of exercise and those mental attributes in his seminal 2008 book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. I can't recommend this book strongly enough particularly if there are mental health issues in your life -- and who doesn't!

Dr Ratey references and describes a number of experiments and studies done in elementary schools where mental acuity improved across the population when exercise was added. One fascinating detail was the immediacy of the effect. I'd be very surprised if the most recent data is not consistent with the results described in Spark.
Corporate taxes are separate. 10% is the royalty the Botswanan government charges for precious stones. Any taxes are on top of that.
Rambling article about "the discovery of an extinct species called Homo naledi" that really has nothing to do with Facebook. Would have been better to credit Google Earth, if anything.
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This seems quite normal in companies. Obviously the size, age and (development) leadership in companies would determine exactly how "excellent" released code could be. My career has mostly been as web (application) developer at small companies that had a priority other than "highly skilled developers." The priority was usually "a complete web site that functioned." Whatever ugly, un-reviewed code that made it into that released product was fine, as long as it "functioned." None of these places included code-review as part of the release process, so there's zero chance of preventing code being released that wasn't written with full understanding.

Personally, I only came in contact with the term "closure" rather recently. Scope was something I intuitively understood since my early days as a coder, and read about. This is the good and bad of being completely self-taught in most respects. There was no linear escalation of education to hold my hand through each and every concept. I would try code that I felt would work. Usually it would. Was it elegant, self-contained, de-coupled? Nope, not at all. But it functioned.
You've never seen the Java "pattern" of

try {
foo();
} catch (Exception e) {
;
}

?
Maybe preventing you from having to pay for the manufacture of a small lithium battery is a step towards game changing?
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A single data point is hardly an argument.
In a world where you have 100s of such devices, absolutely.
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Radiolab has an episode that covers some of this. It's a pretty good listen: http://www.radiolab.org/story/169879-patient-zero/

As far as any circular reasoning, they're just reiterating the claim in a different way. It's saying "Based on X data, we deduce Y. Y would explain why X happened."

Direct download if you don't want the Flash audio player: http://50.31.154.42/radiolab/radiolab111411.mp3?downloadId=5...
Most of those items are fixed and can be powered more efficiently and reliably by wall power
Whilst it's probably impossible to write code without understanding anything about scope, you can actually get quite far without understanding lexical scope and closures.

For example, I've worked on a load of JS projects where every function is first-order, named and written at the top level, except for a few clearly redundant anonymous callbacks like `function(x) { return foo(x); }`. Obviously that code has been written without understanding first-class functions, lexical scope, closures, etc. but it worked.

I've also been in the reverse situation in code reviews: where I've made some use of lexical scope in my code, and had to explain what lexical scope and closures are to the other members of the team.
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