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I anticipated that your argument would go in this direction. It's a common line of argument for modern Communists. It's why I touched on what has happened when attempts are made.

Again, a state of affairs that cannot be achieved by acceptable means is not an experiment worth repeating. There is no reason to think that a future attempt will have different results from past attempts. Given the costs, why would you think this a reasonable thing to try? Have you seriously considered the possibility that what you want is untestable, because to get to that state requires some intermediate stages we consider unacceptable?

Put another way: if a friend tells you that they have invented a way to solve all energy problems forever, they just need to start with a perpetual motion machine, how seriously would you take them?
Its a good way to start and actually make things happen. But it's also important to get beyond that to become a strong developer.

Some do, some don't.

jQuery is a common way to learn to do front end programming. It saves a lot of time when used well. But it is important to extend the knowledge to core javascript and be able to write code when jQuery is not available (like when writing scripts to embed on different sites).
Individual applications (not browsers) can of course hardcode pins that aren't overridden. Those applications will simply stop working in Kazakhstan.
We run all our tests nightly (as well on a per commit basis) as a matter of policy. It is incredibly useful when something like this pops up - and with a somewhat obtuse code base like ours, it does a bit too often.
Response from Chrome engineers I've heard is that they won't try to fight this, because anything intentionally overridden locally is already a game over.

If they block custom certificates, then malware will patch the process to disable the checks.

And in this case the Kazakh government could say "For your safety, the Chrome doesn't work with our Internet. Please use our Khrome instead".
You have it backwards. The GPU fan bug is in the stable driver, and the fix is in the beta driver.

While a lot of teams are moving to a more frequent release schedule like Chrome, AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year. The 2016 big stable release is the one with the horrible bug.
There are people claiming all sorts of things here without much proof. The amount of actual sleep can be as low as 3-4 hours for 8-9 hours spent in bed, and there is no way of knowing how much you sleep without some sort of investigation using a reliable device.

To really know what's happening with your sleep, you need polysomnography. An actual sleep study.

The second best option are some of the consumer-grade ballistocardiography devices - the "under mattress" alternative to wearables.

I have been tracking my sleep and fixing problems with it using the Beddit device. As a gadget and product, I rate it 2 or 3 out of 5 - I'd love it to be more polished. But considering its potentially life changing value and its technical merits, a highly recommended purchase.

Even just the resting heart rate reading and HRV data are worth the price.

My 2 months of data are so far fairly inconclusive and pending deeper statistical analysis. There are many variables at play, so recognizing and documenting them takes time and effort and is error prone. The most confident recommendations are not drinking alcohol, earplugs (fairly noisy environment), and melatonin. Even with these, I have been unable to consistently get more than an average of 5 hours (±1) of actual total sleep during 7-9 hours of time spent in bed. The time spent awake isn't something I experience or remember. This hasn't been noticeable to me despite long days and an active athletic lifestyle including goal-oriented recreational endurance and strength training.
But traditional/non-SV companies can and do change the world with products all the time. IBM was a massive company when they created the PC. VW invented the beetle (and reinvented it). Vanguard changed the world of investing.

None of these were SV startups with all the stereotypes that accrue to them. It's true that it's harder for big companies to innovate, but you can't say, "Only SV startups build products that change the world, ergo SV startups change world culture"
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You need to tell us more about this. It sounds like an extraordinary story!
Part of me hopes you are right, because I don't like seeing Chrome/Google throw it's muscle around.

Part of me hopes you are wrong, because I think encryption and security don't need to be opposing forces and MITM isn't required for strong security (though maybe for good GRC and audit).
Oh, wow, this is exactly what I've been working on with a project called "fleet", though they've gotten a lot further than I did. I guess I'll have to consider ditching my code and using theirs instead.
I attended a talk [1] in which the made a case for the a British manned space programme as another angle on investigating ageing [2]. Radiation, boneloss, and a number of aspects.
Ironically my memory of the talk is fading...

[1] http://www.bis-space.com/2014/03/04/12501/uk-space-life-and-...

[2] http://www.ukspacelabs.co.uk/about/5-strategy-r-d-themes
When he went on Omeglehe was not expecting this
came here to see sheep, was not disappointed.
Anecdotal? Perception bias? Okay, let's go by hard data. 1.4 Billion active users. Billion of advertising dollar flowing through the platform because users are engaged. How many billions of family pictures shared and enjoyed? You think people are suffering through the experience and being forced to use facebook? Think again. And that stubborn family member with the tin foil hat (edge case), he can surely pick up the phone and give me a call.
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Especially one that will relaunch the app when it's done.

Ideally, you'd want a system-level daemon that downloads and preps updates in the background, and either waits until the system is idle (I think Apple has some tech like this already for running Time Machine backups), with pending updates optionally installed on system shutdown (am I shutting down to save on battery, to restart, or because I'm about to leave the office and I don't care how long it takes for the system to shut down).
Few consumers spend their discretionary income on Android and iOS phones for reasons related to intrinsic advantages of the platform themselves. They buy Android and iOS phones because those are the two platforms that propagated for what they actually seek: mobile devices. It could just as well have been Symbian and QNX, if competitive forces played out differently. But the whole point is that these goods are completely substitutable. People only rationalize them post facto.
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Should the example code use ContiguousArray instead of Array?
I would think that ContiguousArray would be safer since (according to http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/array.html) there is no guarantee that Array uses contiguous memory.
BTW I REALLY enjoyed the talk. First I've heard about strideOf()
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Thanks! I've submitted a review request, looks like they haven't crawled the domain recently. (We started the company 6 months ago)
Yeah, I agree.

In the winter, I'm more inclined to go to bed early, be up for a bit in the middle of the night, and then sleep until dawn. So my sleep isn't continuous, but neither is it disrupted externally.

I suspect the original experiment was reasonable if you're looking to measure the effects of extreme disruption. But the WSJ article suggesting it applies to other sorts of non-continuous sleep strikes me as bunk. Up until the invention of the electric light, non-continuous sleep was the norm. But anxiety sells papers, and people are certainly inclined to be anxious about sleep lately.
Its a conceptual continuity issue. Like claiming the Mona Lisa would have been a better painting if the painter abstracted the girl out so Bob Ross could paint the trees in the background.
Sounds like it's not a great place for a permanent long-term settlement.
> If the citizens demand access to those services, or find it offensive that their privacy and security is being violated and circumvented, they will take action.

Hah, right. They'll just file a complaint to their ombudsman and the Congress will take care of it.

No, this is Kazakhstan, not California. If citizens band up and demand something that the government is against, the police will crack down on their homes, arrest 15,000 people at random out of which only 10,000 or so will return to their homes (not necessarily alive), and the remaining 5,000 will rot in jail for high treason. And if they keep getting wise ideas, they'll send in the army.
The first step is to decide if you're really interested in selling the land, since that's the closest thing to "exclusive rights" for 25 years that most people have as a point of reference. Then decide if you're better off selling the land, which you might be since a lessee can leave behind a toxic pit of hurt and your recourse will be squeezing blood from a stone while paying for compliance.

The next step is rudimentary due diligence. Ask for a list of portfolio projects that demonstrate a track record of success with similar development projects. The thing to know is that you don't want to deal with amateur developers or professional grifters (or amateur grifters for that matter).

Lastly (relative to before the beginning). If you decide you want to "sell", talk to a real estate attorney...or rather your real estate attorney. Putting "solar development" on your land may not even be legal (though it might) and the terms offered by a "solar developer" may not be very good (though there's a slim chance they are).

To put it another way, real estate development is about floating ideas and seeing what sticks and then it's often a matter of being overly optimistic when spending other people's money. To a first approximation, most real-estate development deals don't happen.

Good luck.
It's a few steps above Preview.app (Apple's built-in PDF viewer), but without all the bloat and the high price of Acrobat.

And it probably doesn't have anywhere near as many security vulnerabilities as Acrobat.
Should I accept these Google's new terms of service?
If we could rebuild the internet from scratch knowing that someone would try to do this, what measures could be put in place to make it impossible to MITM traffic (in other words, make it so the only option is to install monitoring software directly on the user's machine)? Is this something which even can be defeated with current cryptographic theory?
Pedantricly, wouldn't that rather be space-harvesting? They did fall from the sky.
Microsoft teases Xbox One streaming to the HoloLens in new First-person videos
How exactly do you think buoyancy works? It's not like its anti-gravity anymore than the chair I'm sitting in is.
Completely agree. If these companies were impacting the culture as much as their products, entrepreneurship would be the career path dujour, but entrepreneurship rates are actually in decline.
I'm sure someone else can explain it better than me, but they want all of their citizens to install a certificate on all of their internet capable devices that will route all their traffic through the government so they can see all of it. It's a man in the middle attack on the entire population.
Note: Android only.
Edit: In the sense that it only works with the Android version of the app.
What effect will this have on Wordrpess?
I'm wondering about the same thing:

Apple is being very helpful these days, and they want developers to succeed. That is why you really should keep in touch with App Store Business Management and keep them updated on what you’re building and when you’re getting ready for a launch.

It's a highly rarefied group of developers who have a contact in App Store management that would be interested in hearing about an upcoming launch.
How do greenhouse gas emissions compare in cities around the world?
Of course you owe me nothing, and of course I'm not entitled to interaction from you, on any terms. I've said twice, and now I say a third time, that you can stop interacting with me any time you like.

But while you choose to interact with me, I am free to point out when you're violating conventions of discourse.

I am not entitled to your words, and you are not entitled to my silence.
To see all current postings: https://archive.org/about/jobs.php
I've got "writing an open access PHP 7 online book to hopefully serve as a new, best-practices tutorial" next on my to do list.
You never know, a little mascara and rouge can make those Browser Plugins look really nice.
Assuming I'm on the same, erm, wavelength, one could extrapolate the passage of time as a function of cosmic radiation since any observation into deep space is also an observation of time (a planet one light-year away looks to us today as it did one year ago).

I think it's a fascinating premise. We don't really know what time is, and if we never figure it out and how to control it, all of existence will vanish when entropy gets the last laugh. That is, if human conflicts don't do us in first...
Somewhere in Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves writes that the regulars regarded the Christmas truce in no particularly sentimental light, but as a commonplace exchange of courtesies between enemies. I don't think that Graves was then in France; however, at that point in the war, the British forces would have had a higher proportion of regulars and mobilized reservists than later.

Grant in his memoirs tells of inspecting the lines in Chattanooga:

'When I came to the camp of the picket guard of our side, I heard the
call, "Turn out the guard for the commanding general." I replied, "Never mind the guard," and they were dismissed and went back to their tents. Just back of these, and about equally distant from the creek, were the guards of the Confederate pickets. The sentinel on their post called out in like manner, "Turn out the guard for the commanding general," and, I believe, added, "General Grant." Their line in a moment front-faced to the north, facing me, and gave a salute, which I
returned.'
> I committed code and within a few minutes get notified that my code caused a failure in this test

Forgive me as I'm coming from a .NET background where everything is tightly integration into Visual Studio, but are you not able to run your tests before committing? We are strongly encouraged to run the full test suite prior to committing any code for exactly this reason.
As the norm, my comments were read too literally. The topic for this thread was the future of fiction, not the exact location where most technology was developed. "SV" in this case is just a plug-in. If it makes you feel any better, substitute Austin, or Redmond, or whatnot. The exact location is not important.

"Westerns" aren't all about things that happen in the western U.S. Star Trek was a western.
but the discussion with all the other, more interesting, bugs makes up for it
Watch some lets-play videos perhaps?
Comment is now dead but I'd significantly refactor this code where I wouldn't be using nulls or empty strings as program flow control. At the very least I'd have an enum that was very explicit of what action I should be taking ie TEXT, PHOTO, VIDEO, etc.

The logic is too mixed up and this method does too many things. Off the top of my head you might refactor it so that inspection, classification, validation, preparation, etc all happen separately, right now this method does them all and then some.
Regrettably still not working. Getting this popup whenever I try to load whoishiring.io:

"This page was unable to display a Google Maps element. The provided Google API key is invalid or this site is not authorized to use it. Error Code: InvalidKeyOrUnauthorizedURLMapError"
Key pinning you can't override locally is DRM.
This story is the most I've ever heard about DF. I'm suddenly incredibly curious about what this game is all about. Thanks for sharing.
Seems as viable as relocating them all to Greenland once it's done with its transition to lush tropical forest.
None of this explains why a small change in ocean water volume would be distributed unevenly across the planet.
Perhaps this is pointing out the obvious, but railroad history is in turn influenced by natural/geological history. I took the train across the country and much of the track and all of the major stations are built along rivers and other major bodies of water.
Please read the article before posting. The author specifically discusses the fact that astronauts show signs of aging more rapidly despite the fact that small doses of radiation can be good for your health.
Or someone just forks Chromium and releases Chromium For Enterprise.
so you equate to internet monolopy as impactful as curing diseases?? So the dude is doing something else you find objectionable, but it doesn't come close to good stuff he is trying to accomplish.
>I agree with you that the current sea level is about where it was 23 years ago.

So you'd agree that it is, um, how should I phrase this... unchanged??

Why then did you explicitly call me out, and call me a crackpot, for not defending that claim? If you agree with it?
Huh? They aren't long lived... that's the concern!
Thanks...just goes to show how brilliant some of our pre-digital forbears were. I still give more props to old school television engineers to present day ones. The laws of physics are far more unforgiving than the laws of a compiler.
Drivers are definitely a big deal on desktops, but for servers?...
Has anyone been having trouble with Skype today?
At work today someone made a group chat, and Skype is stuck on a continuous loop creating duplicates of it. The person who they're originating from closed the program, and it continues to happen. Skype's customer service has not been able to help. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Steganography needs vast quantities of cover data.

Porn? Perhaps the world's smut peddlers will become beacons of freedom and civil disobedience? (Sounds like a Neal Stephenson book.)
Which is funny considering they are using a MacBook (with Photoshopped screen) as a promotional image.
It is hard at this distance to see it otherwise than as a partially successful mass suicide of European culture. But it was very popular to start with in most of the major combatants, and it took until about 1917 for there to be mutinies and the disintegration of armies.
"We omit names and faces of the authors because we have no intention of exposing anyone. We just want to educate people so that in future they think about the consequences before posting racist comments,"

This is always the same thing, educating people, make them realize that comments have consequences, etc. But, at the end of the day, does it ever work? I mean if someone makes racist comments that's because they're racist, they're racist in a world where racism is daily condemned, how can a billboard change that?

All these campaigns against racism, domestic violence, etc. Do they ever yield any result?
SAP denies blame in costing DHL 345M Euros
I've done a complete 180 on this from when I first heard about block chain and settlement until now.

I originally saw the block-chain used for settlement as a form of "blub", we already have a settlement mechanism that just sort of works, why do we need a new form of trade settlement.

There are alot of what's known as "back office" functions that still work via email and phone call that the block-chain can help automate. To fully appreciate what they are trying to solve you need to understand that while the process of trading has been sped up by orders of magnitude over the years, the process of settlement is still very arcane.

Things like obtaining borrow for shares you want to short often still require picking up a phone. This leads to hedge funds executing their short first and then finding borrow for the short before they have to settle the trade. Since trades settle 3 days after the trade was executed this is normally a safe proposition.

Settlement, as mentioned, also takes 3 days for equities. Each fund that trades has their own "banker" called a prime broker. When hedge fund A trades 100 shares of MFST with hedge fund B. Those funds report the trade to their own prime brokers(pb). Then the PB's talk to each other to confirm the trade. They then have 3 days to transfer the shares and cash to each other and deposit them into the accounts of the hedge funds who traded.

Lots of things can go wrong in this, and it means human interaction is required to sort this out, which takes even more time. Also this accounting of trades happens at the end of the day in batch form, which means even things like people wanting to get home can delay settlement, you'd think I'm joking but....

If all trade able assets where secularized on a block-chain then settlement could happen almost instantaneously, limited by the number of transactions per block and how fast blocks are "mined".
I'm not sure what your point is here, because what I'm advocating is precisely to make it easier to use parameterized queries and more difficult not to.
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Nice article. On a completely unrelated subject, the guy in the video left the machine unlocked. Bad guy.
It would probably have to be the entire IP address space, since they could transparently source NAT on the MITM server to make it look like it's coming from the user's IP.
It's pretty trivial to detect if a browser trusts your CA with client side javascript. Such javascript could be injected into HTTP pages and throw up a div covering the page until the certificate is installed (instructions provided, of course).
And how do they achieve it? Where do they even start?

We have two apps that have had nearly 4 million downloads across both app stores. Here's been the growth of our Mac app, for example: http://qbix.com/calendar . Our average reviews are very close to 5 stars out of 5 after thousands of reviews.

It's all organic. People just found us in the store. We were never contacted by Apple to get featured, and we had no way of contacting them, that we knew of. So I'm curious. It's not just about numbers.
Thanks for all the feedback!

Make sure to check out this article where I talk in depth about a typical workflow and the rationale behind this project:

http://mrzool.cc/writing/typesetting-automation/
I believe you link to your phone, and that part is Android only.
I think Materialism is the Flat Earth model of our era. I think everyone intuitively knows that consciousness can't come from material things, but we convince ourselves otherwise. Even science (e.g. with the observer effects of quantum physics) demonstrates this, but we try to find other ways it can't be true.

An awesome book that does a great job logically explaining how consciousness may be fundamental is "Biocentrism" by Robert Lanza
Anyone watch that "Misaeng" kdrama? Is it any good?
I'm amazed at how lousy http-client support in languages continues to be. It's not like there's any secret that it's critical or how to do it right. Python still doesn't have a very good httplib, hence the popularity of Requests.

I wrote the original PayPal IPN sample code (sorry!) and it was maddening trying to figure out the best way to do simple HTTP POST in all the languages, except for cURL.
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I found myself thinking "WFT - this is Chrome, not desktop and with an Android dependency at that !" and then realizing that it may be time to question my assumptions about "desktop" meaning Linux/Windows/Macintosh
The first thing I do on any laptop is wipe the OS and reinstall Windows from scratch. I didn't know about Superfish at the time, but I've been burned enough by bundled crapware in the past that I always include the price of a fresh copy of Windows in the price of the laptop I'm buying.