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Wait, what?

You said;

What privacy advocates do is reduce freedom of knowledge. They're the kind of person that create PIPA/SOPA and kill the internet.

And I said privacy advocates are the exact kind of people to oppose such laws as PIPA/SOPA.

You seem to be making contradictort statements born of confusion over what privacy and civil liberties advocates are actually in support of.
Be careful: They did not say that C is not Turing complete. They say that the C Standard does not define a language which is Turing complete. There is a subtle distinction between these two statements, but an important one. The larger point that the paper is making is that the C Standard is full of holes. Thus as a programmer you cannot rely on any compiler that implements this "standard" to do anything (even trivial things like allocate enough memory on the stack). Yes, it probably will work most of the time, but will it work always? No, well, then it's not much of a standard, more of a set of loose guidelines. If you want to write secure, performant portable code: you need an actual standard. I think this is the point that the paper is making. Better still, it is highlighting the places where the standard is poorly defined so that it could be fixed.
Though, the instant you do you are flagged.

Just as although paying cash is fine, but actually paying with cash is highly suspicious - why would you ever want to do that if you have nothing to hide?

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A $10 DO box should run GitLab fine for a couple of people. Many of the speed concerns are about GitLab.com which are not due to ruby but the file server (we just moved to SSD and are working on decentralized storage). To make GitLab faster we're using Go were it makes sense, see the part about workhorse in the release announcement. We're very happy with using Ruby and Rails for the complex business logic. It allows us to ship many new features every month.

We had CI as a separate application but it ended up being better to integrate it.
I want to read the story of those non-released prisoners who were rearrested.
I'm beginning to think we should entirely abolish the punishment motivation in the criminal justice system.

It negatively affects recidivism rates, creates a huge societal cost, and really serves no purpose other than vengeance for the victim.

There are many excellent aspects of United States (and other British common law descendants) law, but they were created without the psychological understanding we now have of the factors that lead to crime. The current tripartite understanding of the reasons for prison sentences (punishment, deterrence, and removal from society) is simply not an accurate reflection of the reality of how to reduce criminal activity.

Sure, there are some people that we need to just remove from society. However, these individuals who have truly incurably pathological tendencies toward illegal actions are relatively rare.

The true purpose of the prison system needs to be reform. We need an evidence-based approach to crime prevention, not one based on human instinct, or the haphazard trial and error algorithm that developed our current legal system. Criminals need to be treated for mental illness, withdrawn from substance abuse, and most importantly given the socioeconomic tools they need to cope as law abiding citizens. Anything else is a waste of resources.
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What do they do to you if you "admit" to using triggers?
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Please don't. Just make the damn web fast on mobile. Guess what will happen
then? It will turn out fast on desktops, too, even on the (gasp!)
five-year-old ones!
And it is much closer to plain English than all that too nested languages. And most of the code must be like English, not like arithmetic expressions.
Unfortunately, it's the same public scrutiny that makes public procurement not work in the first place. It prevents corrupt people choosing based on personal interest, but it also prevents people who know their stuff from cutting through marketing bullshit and buying a solution that works, instead of the cheapest one. I don't see a good solution.
As a non-AI programmer who's currently slogging through the material, you really need to get your math up to speed. Linear algebra, statistics, probability theory, and multivariate calculus. There are courses on these on Khan Academy and other MOOCs (or you can do what I'm doing and go back to uni).

It's really hard to get a sense of why you're doing this-and-that without those fundamentals.
Odd, I've never experienced anything like that with the NHS, nor heard of our from anyone I know. There will be a full record of your treatment so this sounds like a very risky thing on the part of the practice.

I thought it might be that many practices are both NHS and private and you can have some things covered but get some private work done at the same time.

I can't comment on the taxis much but all will be regulated with the local council so that would be a point to start a complaint. My only note is that some cities like Liverpool or Manchester can have major congestion which needs avoiding, as well as (particularly on Liverpool) seemingly insane one way systems.

Uber and some other local versions send you a receipt with a map of the route taken which you could complain with.

Consumer protection laws are pretty strong here. I can dig out mode specifics if it'd help.
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You're no really trying to make a case by linking to Mercola's site?

What's up next? Chemtrails?

Edit to add : Mr Mercola and his ilk is one of the most aggressive and virulent antivaxers.
Maximising developer income != maximising utility.
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Why can't you use GitLab.com with CI? You can bring your own runners if you want.
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A record of the work done will be on file, have you taken this to the CQC or regulatory body?
Absolutely agreed.

I honestly don't care about nicer switch-statements when are a big classes of problems that cannot be solved because of the lack of reflection.
Forget smoothsort, it loses out to insertion sort even. Divide-and-conquer n*lg n algorithms tend to switch to insertion sort when the size of the partition goes below a certain value because of how fast insertion sort is.
Main problems lies in different versions of english. Sometimes we try to understand client same things that he want us :)
Trafodion is Apache Trafodion (incubating), providing a fully distributed transactional ANSI SQL on top of HBase for OLTP and operational workloads. The link is incorrect as well. Instead use the Apache link: http://trafodion.apache.org .
Yeah, people do tend to forget that most media consumption startups essentially got bootstrapped with a huge amount of copyright infringement. YouTube, Spotify, ...

The difference is of course that those startups end up making their content legal. But I don't see how what MU did is not okay, but what YouTube and Spotify did is fine.
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Not a "movie pirate", someone who watched a pirated movie.

He ran a business and made 8 figures selling other peoples content without permission.
OK, but: As a (Mac) OS X developer, in 2003 I implemented a custom NSTextView subclass to fix two specific bugs that were impossible to work around otherwise. That subclass was used in everything we shipped for years and years... on OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7.

(After that I lost track, but I think one or both bugs were finally fixed.)

I feel like maybe this change will make Apple frameworks more stable in the long run, but that will take a tech eternity (10+ years).

In the meantime, the overall user experience will be degraded by system framework bugs that can no longer be worked around. It just sounds more aspirational than realistic.

"Let's make it impossible for developers to work around our bugs -- that will force us to write perfect software!"
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A friend/ex-coworker of mine recently got a job at an AI company with no previous AI history as a software engineer. AI researchers need tools, systems, etc, that a programmer with little specific AI experience can contribute. Aside from also learning the topics etc in your spare time it seems like a good way to get into a relevant company early and work to a more AI-involved position from there.
That's one way too look at it. The other way is that he made content available when the producers wouldn't. How long do you have to wait to get TV shows in the EU while the US merrily fills the internet with spoiler?

His motivation weren't noble; but as far as thieves go, I'll take Kim Dotcom over the MPAA or the RIAA.
There's no ignorance. It's willful, deliberate, and capital-financed dirt-digging.
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Ho ho, but you forget that some prisoners continue to commit crime while in prison.

The US doesn't bother to collect accurate statistics on that - they've only just last year started gathering data on rape inside prison.
I'm also not a huge fan of them moving the menu to the left as opposed to leaving at the top, like github has now. I just find it more natural at the top.
i have heard that half covering a cell means that the current flowing through the shaded part has more resistance and can heat up and become damaged.
I can definitely confirm that somewhere around the 8.0 release (I forgot when exactly) GitLab got a lot faster in general. Previously with the 7.x line it took about a couple seconds at least to load a page but now I barely get over a second until "onload", with response times of about 400ms.

In general I wouldn't consider performance with GitLab an issue and denote it as a selling point for Gogs anymore - it would just be nice if it no longer felt like a Ruby on Rails website...

A optimized site of mine with similiar complexity and database setup has a response time of 16ms and an "onload" event after about 400ms (using PHP-FPM 7 & MariaDB). ;)
Without any parametric polymorphism, this kind of utility functions are hardly composable at all.

At best these are copy-pastable patterns.
Would you care to point out some US companies that have hosted servers and hired employees in Saudi Arabia where those servers and employees were flaunting Saudi law?

Further, New Zealand made their own choice to extradite him. They could have refused, they instead chose to. The alternative might have been an international incident, but they decided to aid the US and turn him over. The US is not so all-powerful that it can compel governments to act against their own best interest, only powerful enough to align interests, by hook or crook.
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> welcome to a world of people with millions of "addresses"

... in the same /64 range for the most part, so as easy to block/filter/limit as one IPv4 address.

You risk inconveniencing people who are assigned just a few addresses because you potentially end up blocking many of them due to the actions of a few on the same subnet, but you can't be held responsible for hosts/ISPs doing IPv6 wrong.
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You can't solve a traditional DDOS attack at the destination. No matter what you do with the incoming flood, the fact is, your bandwidth is full of the attack requests, leaving no room for legitimate traffic. Do what you like to the attack requests, but the pipe is still full.

To mitigate a DDOS, you need to go upstream to your network providers and filter out the traffic before it reaches you.
Not really a problem I'm having myself right now but I know that many European eCommerce companies (startups and established players alike) struggle with offering their products in other EU member countries.

This is only partially a language problem. Differences in culture and regulations, tax laws etc. play a large role as well, which really is a shame because that's what the EU to a large part is about: Removing regulatory barriers in order to allow for a single European market.

So unfortunately, it's not as easy as just getting i18n right, although that's still not an exactly easy-to-solve problem in its own right.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/02/pr...
Yup, I reported the same issue a year ago (http://blog.httrack.com/blog/2014/08/31/i-found-a-bug-in-str...)
I personally gained an interest in assembly programming when I started trying out The Legend of Random's reverse engineering tutorials [0]

It's not really a tutorial on asm, but he assumes you don't know much about it and it was a great starting point for me, with lots of practical applications, which helped motivate me to continue and learn more.

[0] http://thelegendofrandom.com/blog/sample-page
It is worth keeping in mind that the US has a considerably higher proportion of her population behind bars than others. Mandatory sentencing rules have lead to escalating prison terms.

Neither do mechanical sentencing rules make a country safe nor does double counting of good time make a country unsafe.
Crime which costs U.S. companies directly leads to a variety of issues. But basically, it means America has less wealth, and the government has less tax revenue. It makes plenty of sense for them to enforce copyright laws. It's a net positive for the economy not to allow people to profit off of IP theft.
Hah, I didn't even get "green bubbles" reference until I came back here just now :-) (I'm not an iOS user.)

Some of the downside about text is that it often shows unpredictable behavior, especially when it involves going over carrier's gateway to other networks, or involving some non-ordinary systems like Google Voice. Though, it seems to be improving now, but I used to see anything from garbled messages to complete silence, and it often exhibited different behavior between combinations of different sender and receiver. (For instance A, and B in same network might have worked OK, but A to some user in another network being able to receive, or sometimes being able to receive one way, but corrupts for the other way around, etc.)

Google Voice until recently (maybe a year ago?) or so, couldn't do any group MMS at all, and would simply get ignored. One blamed would be one who deviates from standards, but my most pet peeve of SMS/MMS is that it offers very little to no error indications when something goes wrong.

I actually manage a volunteer team of 30 or so with varying types of devices, where one to many communication is highly needed, and I find messaging solution very complicated problem to solve. (And yes, I'm likely resort to having like 2 to 3 apps to get it done...)
Most prisons are privitized in the US

I know this sounds true from the rhetoric around them, but they actually only house 6% and 16% of state and federal prisoners, respectively.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization...
1) "Not over explain it" -- that's really good advice. You don't want to take the "aha" moment away from someone.

2) Thanks for the link! Definitely looking forward to your blog post/postmortem (don't let BetterExplained die!). Have you found learning to be less enjoyable by writing about it, or do you end up discovering a dozen other tidbits of math magic you want to share with everyone?

Two more questions if you don't mind :)

3) What are your thoughts on word problems?

For example, in most linear algebra textbooks, you are given matrix and are asked you to process it. Rarely are you given a word problem and are asked to think through the entire process (data and operations matrices setup --> processing --> meaningful end result).

4) For inspiration, what are you experiences explaining concepts in a cross-disciplinary manner?

When I was a student, I never understood why a concept is important. Homework problems were abstracted out of all real-world context to train for mechanical problem solving. Only now, after exploring data and writing algorithms in health, journalism and finance, have I finally been able to answer the question I always had as a kid: "why is this stuff useful?"
Nice! Get a hold of me if you want one-click PowerPoint integration via https://www.liveslides.com/developers/slide/.
They aren't are they? Cached method calls are fairly fast from what i've read.

[1] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-co...
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URL is truncated, yielding -404. Correct one is:

https://hbr.org/2016/01/algorithms-need-managers-too
Clearly an ad. Are you all blind? Click on the domain name to see the history of postings.
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Except we have no idea how to "reform" people. Even various pre-K programs return dismal results when tried at any significant scale. And these are impressionable kids, not hardened criminals.

Perhaps not coincidentally, we also have a rather poor track record of helping mental patients. You could attribute some of it to mistreatment and maltreatment but largely we just don't know what to do.
In fact, at one point the article states "Because restaurants from Oregon to New York served contaminated food, the problem most likely originated with one of Chipotle’s big suppliers, not one of the local farms."
The print is too small and the document cannot be scaled, only pixellated. This makes it quite unusable for me. Too bad, math deserves better.
Glad to hear performance got better in 8.x. What can we improve to make it feel better?
We have this in MOAI (a competing framework) already, by way of the emscripten tool .. which is awesome .. so it means that with MOAI you can write apps that run on iOS/OSX/Windows/Linux/Android .. and HTML5 hosts. Pretty amazing times ..

(And we're about to do a new release of MOAI soon too..)
Simple and cool. Definitely simplifies the youtube production process, or at least mine (i am an amateur though)

Are there any similar tools around?
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> "_Currently_ there is no theory that explains how to do fusion without massive amounts of heat, ergo cold fusion IS (currently) theoretically impossible."

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/11/25/cold-fusi...

"Unfortunately, their results were hugely flawed, and their experiments were not reproducible, and cold fusion is now synonymous with ideas like perpetual motion machines: very appealing promises of virtually limitless energy, but that are unfortunately physically impossible."

"Now, that’s not necessarily fair. While perpetual motion machines would violate known physical phenomena — like the conservation of energy — cold fusion is, in principle possible. If we go back to the Sun, where nuclear fusion definitely occurs, it isn’t like the temperatures there are sufficient to cause the individual nuclei to overcome their mutual electric repulsion and fuse together. Instead, something else remarkable happens to the two nuclei that are about to fuse."

"Remember that instead of being solid particles, these nuclei are quantum mechanical objects, meaning they act both as particles and waves. The quantum mechanical wavefunctions of these nuclei — in the Sun, at any rate — wind up overlapping, so that there’s a small but finite (and important) probability that two of them will find themselves in a more energetically favorable state! When that happens, they can tunnel into that energetically favorable state, and fusion can occur!"

"Now, this has never been observed at cold temperatures, but from a theoretical physics standpoint, it may be possible."
I linked to three studies cited by more than 50 other studies, each. How about taking a look at them? If their information matches with Mercola's account and you support these studies approaches, the researchers, or both, then you can kindly take back your self-proven, inaccurate attack... Those who attack messengers, receive only messages they like, if any.
Nice!

Some feedback:

> New V.S. Returning:

"V.S." => "vs."

> Mobile Vs. Desktop:

could/should show a versus view - piechart or stacked bar chart so I can actually see how mobile and desktop compare to each other. (also "vs." instead of "Vs." I believe)

CapiTaliZATION of all the headline could use a makeover to make it consistent.

(Default timezone for "Send emails at:" was strange, I think you can get that from the Analytics account)

Some questions:

* Is there a way to get reports for "older" weeks?

* What are the "Set of PRO Stats" and "In-depth insights" I could pay for?

* What is the competition to you product?
GMOs aren't totally the answer either. There are no proper FDA guidelines on cross-kingdom gene transfers (ie, corn with squid genes in it).

Accelerated breeding programs to, for example, use genes from one Nightshade in another, and then use a standard hybridization process to further select desirable traits without harming the viability of the plant (which, for futher example, many tomato and pepper breeds are simply shitty plants that require a lot of trellising and other tender loving care to produce a useful yield) is the better solution.

Also, another very useful solution that small time farmers deploy is using predator species (bugs, nematodes, other things that eat or otherwise stop harmful bugs), or planting companion crops, such as basil and onions and garlic alongside tomatoes and peppers to deter common pests.
Absolutely. But the goal needs to be reform. We have some idea of how to approach it (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mandatory real time drug and alcohol monitoring, psychotropics such as antipsychotics, employable skillsets, stable housing, stable income, anger management, etc.)

We don't entirely know what to do yet, but I bet we could get a lot better at reform if that's where we focused our efforts, rather than attributing all crime to moral failing.
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>If an OS upgrade breaks lots of programs or even one heavily used program, chances are users will blame Apple, not the developers of said apps.

The user just knows said program doesn't work. And it's not necessary that an OS upgrade will break lots of programs that a user has, it can break this or that program in subtle ways, or classes of programs (e.g. those using the X api) of which a typical user will have only few installed.

E.g. if it breaks third-party camera apps, users might not normally have 5 of those, to see that they all break at the same time, but just 1 additional on top of Apple's (if that).