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What about cities and counties funding newspapers? The author thinks that there's at least some good DC reporting from national papers and non-profit media, but that what suffers are the local papers.

Funding at the local level could be provided by ballot initiatives that pull money directly from taxes instead of the general budget. That way local politicians can't influence the news too much.

People are pretty passionate about funding libraries. I could see the same people accepting newspaper taxes.
Wow, now you're a boss I'd like to work for.
A stray alpha particle from the packaging won't turn the RAM die radioactive, but it will flip bits which is the problem Gosling is describing.
Which I understand from a nationalist perspective, but it also harms deployment because manufacturing costs are probably higher in France than Japan or Korea
> He's going to spend a lot more time and energy installing and dealing with FreeBSD than he ever spent telling OS X to leave him alone.

It's not about spending time. It's about spending attention, and especially
not controlling when you spend it. It's much more frustrating in the long run
than having to put effort in configuring one's workspace.
Agreed. As long as private money does the nominating of our political candidates, then the piper (loopholes) will need to be paid. If we were to switch to government funded elections, then there would be no pressure on the legislature to return the favour once they are elected. The only snag I see with publically funded campaigns is determining who qualifies for the public funding.
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I too travel all around the country for business, and I find Yelp to be less than helpful. I agree with you that reading the reviews for context is critical. In fact, that's the only way to really get a read on a place. But with hundreds of restaurants to choose from, and hundreds of reviews each (if there are only a handful of reviews, you can't rely on them at all), it's incredibly time consuming to go through them. I find that the star ratings are pretty much worthless. They get dragged down by people who ding fine dining restaurants for not having Olive Garden prices, and others who mark down local greasy spoons for not having French Laundry service. I don't care how the diner compares to the French Laundry. I care how it compares to other diners. A single rating scale across all types of restaurants is probably counterproductive, but the problem is greatly magnified by throngs of clueless reviewers who have bogus expectations and are rating places based on them.
But yes, I remember reading in science journals regarding the natural rhythm of averagely around 10-11 o'clock in the morning. As the person mentioned before it was naturally for him to wake up later, or it was harder for him to wake up, until he god used to the unnatural rhythm.

But there was also some evidence regarding the era before modern technology and electricity about the time when people go to sleep naturally. which is actually surprisingly due to instead of spending time on screens they spent it socially or with other activities and still ended up in bed quite a bit later
Blimey! Who's paying 1200 for Java CRUD? I get plenty of agent calls for London banking gigs, and 700 is the top end I tend to hear.
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Pair programming is not a silver bullet. It's a tool that's appropriate sometimes and not others. Rigid adherence to pair programming as a practice lacks appreciable agility...if you get my drift. If the act of pair programming produces worse results, then not being able to pair program is not limiting their potential. Trying to pair program is.

I worry that framing the relationship from the outset in terms of "I've got" suggests a particular mindset in regard to the distribution of power. Ideally leaders work for their team rather than owning it. The developer isn't the necessarily the place to "start fixing things."

Good luck.
> I think it's a hoax to drive cusomers mad/against Deutsche Telekom.

You don't need a hoax for that. Everybody in the industry is already pissed at DTAG.

> - It's not possible to announce a specific (premium) routing for just a single IP address.

Wrong. Google source based routing. You'll get asymmetric routing, but that's rarely an issue for content providers.

> - Current DTAG->Hetzner traffic uses AS33891

That's exactly what the article states.
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That probably indicates it's a festering problem which needs to be solved.
Given how freaked out a lot of people are by the baboons at the Singapore Zoo that are apparently completely healthy (according to all the signs that attempt to reassure visitors, but I remain dubious), but have what look like pretty scary tumors on their buttocks, I can imagine how poorly they would react to actual injuries.
I find Yelp very useful in the following way: good places will exist and have lots of reviews on Yelp. Sort by number of reviews, and ignore the star rating.
If you could build a giant battery the size of a large warehouse, on the cheap..... even people in Texas would be buying, as then all that wind could be used.
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I just received an email from a company:

- that is a multi-billion dollar company
- with whom I spend thousands of dollars a year as a customer

that contained my password in plain text.

As a customer, of this specific company, what should I do?

As a customer, generally in the current era, with ~50 "important" online accounts, how can I protect against incompetent technology practices and avoid headaches? What're best practices for a tech-savvy consumer?

Thanks!
> Your data being accessible as part of a breach does not entitle you to damages if nothing actually happens to you.

Why not? This seems like an incredibly unnecessary and near impossible burden on me if anything actually did happen. Let's say five years down the line my identity is stolen and somehow, magically, we know it is because someone had access to my SSN. If my SSN was exposed in two or three different breaches, how do I prove anything?
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So, you say they did a KCC-like thing in a theorem prover that could do more than KCC. Then, that it's just NIH syndrome against KCC? Seems contradictory. If anything, one would just have to tweak it on a per compiler basis to get it more toward how each implements that behavior. Then it becomes closer to what CompCert did but more flexible.

That's where I'd go. Extending KCC to do what a theorem prover could seems more challenging.
In order to deliver traffic to DTAG, you don't need to announce anything. This is about traffic from Hetzner to DTAG, not the other way around, Hetzner will accept traffic destined to it whereever it is delivered without asking for payment.
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I think a lot of those people, at least initially, were employed by Sun. They came up with verbose Java naming, class libraries and other idioms. Also, they were the one who wrote J2EE specs and such. So it would be reasonable to say that Core Java developers set the tone of Java community at large.
This is a great book on this subject : http://www.amazon.com/A-History-World-6-Glasses/dp/080271552...

It's a pretty fun read, I recommend it.
Well, given that you have just described the vast majority of my household expenses, I would say a lot of labor goes into providing that.

Also, you forgot healthcare.
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here's the github profile of the guy who made the commit to change the text. https://github.com/martinthomson. nice avatar.
And it might also be one of the best measures of aggregate economic activity for a large region, which could also be considered a good measure of............?
Even the documentation mentions the issue and calls the name "unfortunate." So, it's a valid critique even if we should ignore it in discussions just to be productive. :)
Well, it is a 40 foot walk from our bedroom to my home office. During my commute I stop to play with our pet parrot for a few minutes and get some coffee.

I used to have long commutes when I lived in California and when I travelled by train or in a van provided by my company I considered the travel time to be work time, bringing whatever materials I needed with me. Listening to music or fun reading seemed like a waste of time. When driving to work I would organize my work day, as much as possible.
I hear you about abusing overloading, but given how succinct it can make the syntax, I would not want to give it up. Its mix of a pragmatic and philosophical question. Just because some people may abuse it, do you make those suffer who can use it properly. Things get muddy when the set of people who can use it properly is really small. As far as C++ operator overloading is concerned I don't think that is the case. Some enlightened newbies go overboard but most handle it fine enough.

Something about D I like quite a bit is that they lean towards making these confusing things errors rather than have special case rules. C++ is full of complicated special case rules. Just consider template specialization and function overloading. The tie breaking rule is just insane. D community usually prefers making them errors rather blessing one of those ties to be kosher, till the community manages to come up with a compelling easy to remember rule.
Hans Passant is godlike for Win32 C++ issues...
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My gut reaction would be to control for wealth or income, which they do not.

I am not very familiar with Indian demographics, but I would assume monolingual people represent the poorest of the population?
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Yahoo's problems may be intractable. Another CEO is going to have the same issues to deal with. Yahoo needs to be dismantled, liquidated and its valuable pieces bought by others.
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As so often with Dali - /not sure if serious or trolling
I've thought about this one a bit, and taken as one story what you say is true, but I think there is no such thing as a standalone story. Links to previous stories either by type or area, links to stats (e.g. CDC ranking of mortality), etc. could provide some valuable context as opposed to sensational headlines.
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What Fedex does in my neighborhood I haven't seen prior.. they recently brought a gas-powered golf cart and the driver uses his truck as the "warehouse" and makes rounds all day.
Barbara Oakley talks about this in her talk at Google, "Learning How to Learn".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd2dtkMINIw&feature=youtu.be...

She says Edison did the same thing too, but had a handful of ball bearings instead of a key.
Both solutions although nice and helpful pretty much illustrate why I ended up writing a filter capable version.
With Rust I'd still be worried about compiler stability and destructor/allocation pauses. There's a reason that most avionics software written is on top of an RTOS & compiled with multiple different compiler vendor's software.

Not saying it couldn't in the future, but it pays to look backwards for safety critical systems.
I'd guess they'll be elated. Delivering packages in the far reaches of suburbia (and beyond) is probably costing them money, as it takes a lot of truck&driver time to deliver a single package. If we assume they maintain their hold on urban deliveries and let amazon take care of the suburbia ones; their margin will go up.

Also, I'll point out that in my area of suburbia, UPS/Fedex sometimes deliver to USPS and let USPS do the last mile. it's not hard to imagine they'd deliver to an amazon base station where robots & drones would take over.
I drive my car, two hours per day :-/
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> - It's not possible to announce a specific (premium) routing for just a single IP address.

As someone else stated, its technically possible.

Similarly, they could require you to add an IP that is part of the block they've setup solely for customers that pick this option.

> Did anyone verify the information? I think it's a hoax to drive cusomers mad/against Deutsche Telekom.

It isn't a "hoax", DTAG does charge for private peering and their public peering is subpar.

> - Hetzner has no DTAG Transit anymore. none. Not even for specific customers. See AS24940

Its via Core-Backbone as they stated.

> This option costs € 4.20 a month for all of our servers. With this add-on, we will connect an uplink to DTAG via Core-Backbone

Core-Backbone sells private peering to DTAG. Given its an experimental setup, its not surprising Hetzner isn't committing to a contract with DTAG and going through what is essentially a reseller.
I must be especially dense this morning because while I get that low altitude solves the latency problem of satellites, I don't see how these work - won't the wind just blow them away?

I suppose you could tie them down but a 90,000 tether is going to weigh quite a bit and how do you stop planes from flying into it?

Am I missing something obvious?
One great advantage by staying up late rather than waking early is the amount of people active. More people are outside, or want to communicate with you, traffic is louder and so on. In the night after 12-01 those things calm down
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Except when they work for shills for private enterprise: http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/rex-murphy-paid-oil-sands-...

The news serves the interests of whomever pays for it. Public broadcasters should be kept in check by private ones (which arguably is what Jesse Brown does).
IMO, the star rating is useless as 4 stars can often be worse than 2.5 stars, but some random reviews can be helpful.

So, if your willing to spend a while going over them it's better than nothing. However, actual restaurant reviews are more accurate, take less time to use, and your less likely to read 10 reviews and learn nothing. IMO, Yelp way over hyped for how little value it's actually providing.
A practical issue: how many paths should basename accept on stdin? If more than 1, how should they be delimited?
These are all absurdly idealized models of actual population genetics. No trait is truly neutral.

At the very least, this experimentation is likely to show some interesting real-world population genetics that we can measure.
It's easy to find designs that are bad ideas for web pages. The most obvious culprit is a design that's excellent for a magazine layout. Such designs typically don't take into account the document flow nor the idea that different people open their browsers to different resolutions and browser window sizes. Heck, some won't even take into account different browsers with different capabilities. I think I understand where you're going with the "what is a web page?" bit, but it doesn't necessarily apply. Especially since a web page can be whatever anyone wants within the limitations of a browser, but that doesn't mean a design works based on some person's idea of what they think a web page is. In most cases a design is limited by the browser, not necessarily by the code of the page.

I have no idea what you mean by your second sentence.

And then, are you referring to my mindset or some other mindset? Because I fail to see how you can know my mindset on the matter. If it's the other, I would agree. Except I would say that "fixing" something in terms of making it do something it wasn't intended in the first place may possibly create more problems than we are attempting to fix. I would suggest attempting new things to see if they work, which there are some doing just that. I would point out that flexbox is an example of this.

I'm excited with flexbox and have started pushing to make use of it more often, when warranted. It's hard to switch current code to it, but I think it's worth it. But, in the end, someone will eventually start complaining about its limitations and that it needs to be "fixed". Then we'll be back where we started, it's inevitable.
Isn't "remembering use cases" something that should be done with comments or documentation ?
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He says the packaging was radioactive, but (I assume) it would have been discarded at the factory during assembly.

So where did the particles come from at runtime?
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Very very true! We will do that. Thanks!
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Out of curiosity, is the MDN a Corp or a Foundation thing? I couldn't tell from the homepage, and I'm always stunned at how good a resource that is.
This isn't unusual in software. There are still ambiguities around edge-cases in surprisingly important specifications. For instance, apparently, even after 20 years of HTTP we still can't be sure we've nailed down a correct grammar[0]. I'm also in possession of a DNS zone file (a format that was very loosely specified going on 30 years ago) that is parsed 3 different ways by 3 different vendors.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7230&eid=41...
Not only does it make people targets, it's highly conducive to money laundering - an oft forgotten, but EXTREMELY important purpose, that seems to be too often forgotten in the fintech community.
All sounds warm and fuzzy to me. The Foundation should try to be more concrete in explaining what they do, and are currently accomplishing. Maybe this is already explained somewhere but I have no idea, and I'm a regular reader of HN, for example. Most people will spend even less time looking into it. The Mozilla Foundation/Corporation thing will only confuse people. Anyway, I'm donating kharma by explaining all of this. I'm done for now.
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I'm not usually one to complain about this… but wow, this site is incredibly hard to read on mobile, at least on an iPhone. Zooming out is disabled, too.
Good find, and pretty shocking! What's the legal status of something like this? I think in the UK it would be counted as bypassing authentication and technically you could be prosecuted under the CMA (happy to be corrected on that...)
Chiefly, just using fewer pointers. That is, turn

struct foo {
struct bar *bar;
struct baz *baz;
}

into

struct foo {
struct bar bar;
struct baz baz;
}

Of course, this is not always possible - but a C program written naively/for encapsulation/flexibly tends to have a lot of places where you can perform such an optimization.

The performance win, on modern platforms, comes chiefly from reducing the number of (unpredictable/non-cached) pointer dereferences.
1. Broken by filenames that contain whitespace.

2. The shell will expand * and ? (maybe others) in the filenames
Feynman's version of messing with the censors:
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3. Learned people are consistently and dramatically underestimating the capacity of Earth's "limited" resources to support a growing population.
Actually it's based on our own engine, Goo Engine, also open source: https://github.com/GooTechnologies/goojs

But yeah, still essentially OpenGL in the browser :)
When Herr Harper cut a lot of their funding CBC changed into trying to emulate private media with these political clickbait pieces and celebrity gossip to boost income, haven't seen it since. When I grew up in 80s/90s they would have fascinating documentaries by real scientists most of those disappeared or became political too.
It's quite unstable politically.

Spain might be a better bet.

On the other hand, maybe one could just move people to Spain and avoid this whole electricity transportation mess.
Playing devils's advocate, when have people, in all history, carrying large amounts of cash not been strapped?

When I was in Nicaragua for awhile it was kind of known you don't fuck with the cash dealers. From my experience, especially in these lower-income countries where these services are targeted, you're either getting protection or you're providing it; if neither, you'll quickly find yourself needing one of the former.

I'm not sure how this would change with a Silicon Valley style startup, but given Uber drivers don't know each other or have any "loyalties" for lack of a better word, I'm inclined to think you'd be right. However, I can quickly seeing this leading to the "dealers" on this system organizing into a group for self protection. Or a gang, cartel, militia, party, or advocate group, whatever you want to call it. Dudes you don't want to fuck with. And that doesn't sound conducive to a banking revolution, although maybe in the sense that payments are a social system at their core could make this feasible.
> So Dutton and his staff anesthetized her to figure out what was going on. An exploratory surgery revealed a tumour in her uterus that had spread to the abdominal wall. It was terminal, Dutton said, so they euthanized her on the operating room table on Dec. 5, 2014.

> “You have to let their natural behaviour happen,” Franke said. “They have to sort it out. In the wild, a lot of times it’s to the death.”

Which makes me wonder how things would have played out had they not euthanized the current matriarch. Would she have lived long enough to allow her oldest daughter to mature? Would have there been other behaviors/rituals the baboons would have gone through because they would have seen the matriarch pass naturally?

Edit: grammar
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BS. Per person GDP did not grow 30+ fold.

A hunter gather lifestyle from 10,000 years ago takes ~0.5-5$/day in food assuming everything else [ed: produced 10,000 years ago] has zero value. US Per capita GDP = ~125$ / day. Actual growth per year is on the order of 0.04% / year

PS: Remember meat more than 1$/lb. For much of human history per capita GDP by todays measurements was actually dropping.
BTW, what is the justification for using dependent type rather than stating assumptions/theorems directly in predicate logic over set theory (as in TLA+)?

Lamport has this to say on the matter:

The main virtue of these type theories is precisely that they are constructive. A constructive proof that two arbitrary numbers always have a greatest common divisor provides an algorithm for computing it [Thompson 1991]. Researchers, using tools such as Coq and Nuprl are investigating whether this can lead to a practical method of synthesizing programs.

You can perform classical reasoning in a constructive type theory by adding P ∨ ¬P as an axiom. The resulting system will probably be strong enough to handle any specification problem likely to arise. However, it will be no stronger than ZF, and it will be much more cumbersome to use.

In the end, he opted for set theory because it is simpler, more familiar, and more flexible. Are there any advantages to using dependent types? Is the main advantage indeed synthesizing programs from proofs?
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Blackmail notwithstanding, what was the $300/month meant to be for? How do they rationalise it?

You read a LOT of Yelp blackmail stories (or I have). But it isn't clear what legitimate product they're actually selling to businesses, since they'd at least need a cover.

PS - I am surprised any business has less than five reviews. If I ran a small business, I would create fake reviews just to get the ball rolling, no matter how immoral that is. Just makes good business sense.
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They made a new version called Civilization IV: Colonization around 2008, but it wasn't as good. The independence clock ran out too fast for you to really get anything built before the endgame.
Ah, but now you've made the term "politics" meaningless, as what I had for breakfast falls under your new definition that encompasses everything.