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Please keep in mind I may have completely misinterpreted your comment.

> Java? Lots of JEE/App server issues to consider

Why? Why not just package as an assembly, scp it up to a server, fire up Netty in a main-class and call it a day (this is basically all Play Framework does)?

It's going to be faster/simpler in every way than any Ruby/Nginx stack you can imagine. No need to fight with matching cores to processes per deployment, no unnecessary proxies or additional services to watch/manage.

Sure you can go crazy. Or maybe even need to for some use case, but even in that scenario you can bet your business on the fact that it'll still be a far simpler solution than the comparable dynamic stack.

Not that I'm advocating Java exactly. I just feel like if deployment/server-issues are an issue, compared to a dynamic stack with similar throughput, then you've done something horribly horribly nightmarishly wrong. ;-)
Very cool. Looks like it could be used in a movie scene on a hacker's computer.
Or people don't see the issue as black and white, where he either did nothing wrong or everything he did was wrong.
IIRC, that's why they were removed in ARMv8.
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>This is the type that refuses to tell you if they think, completely ballpark, whether something will take a day or a week or a month,

I don't mind giving people an estimate if they know what the word means.
Yeah, there's no governments predicated on petty vengeance..cough cough
> And this particular headline is pretty silly. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom

I guess this headline is because The National (Scotland) is a Scottish national newspaper that might ride any horse if they see it as helping Scottish independence from the UK.
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Enterprise has made a big investment in Java. Once you build out a significant code base in a language, you are less likely to throw it all out.

Also in the Enterprise space, Oracle is a dominant database, and they have made some strong features for Java when it comes to the Oracle database. Having these features and someone you can call for support is good business and good risk protection for larger companies.
Pilots are usually not required to file a flight plan for VFR (visual) flight. It's an extremely common occurrence.

(Yes, things get a little more complicated when crossing boarders... but I just wanted to point out that it's not such a crazy thing to do.)
Well, now I like the article more. :)
The comic you just thought of: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3105

The actual vegan response: http://ethicalvegan.net/read/will-animals-go-extinct-if-the-...

It comes down to "Stop thinking about extinctions when the factory ranching system is a bunch of concentration camps."; that is, they never deny that their policies would lead to extinctions, they just insist that ending the cruelty is a more important way to frame the debate.

Subsidiary question: Is it really extinction if the gene line is preserved, but never allowed to ramify into an actual organism?
That may very well be true. But in the absence of a publicly known flight plan, involving a plane that in the past has been used in a program that involved all kinds of human rights abuses, it seems worth assuming it is worth asking questions about.
In addition to SSL Labs, I also find this useful for things that are not exposed to the internet. (firewalled)

[1] https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh

It only depends on OpenSSL and bash. I find it very useful for reviewing our systems before they go live.
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You state this as if the answer was obvious... I recently switched back to front end development after months of developing a Bitcoin node from scratch as well as a custom BitTorrent server. I'd say among those three, modern front end is what I find most complex. The amount of technologies, protocols, tools and leaky abstractions to know about is just staggering and by the time you finally caught up, you are already behind.
Are there any published benchmarks around allocation times after many garbage collection events with the golang garbage collector?

I'm wondering how it holds up without compaction and in the face of fragmented heaps.
You could virtually punch someone with this tech. Transduce this!

Blind people can feel their way around a user interface, or perhaps a projected face from a 3D door camera.
Because cinnamon is a pathetic try to keep Gnome 2 alive while the future goes on ;) Any KDE/Gnome 3 distro and i agree.
I highly doubt this law will survive for long.

However, that it (and laws like it) was actually considered seriously enough to pass brings up big questions about the character of those lawmakers who voted for it.

Here's a link to the actual text of the bill: http://www.ncleg.net/Applications/BillLookUp/LoadBillDocumen...

Pay particular attention to section b paragraph 2.
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I imagine these laws eventually will be overturned by the Supreme Court as contrary to the First Amendment. It involves punishment of core political speech, so it should be a relatively open-and-shut case.

The strongest argument in favor of the Constitutionality of these laws is that they are outlawing speech that could not have been made but for the violation of another law (i.e. common trespass and/or contract breach), but I'd be very surprised if the laws survived on those grounds. Newsgathering is often performed by trespassing, even newsgathering that's been previously upheld by the Court (e.g. Pentagon Papers, in which the author had unlawful access to classified materials).
He is suggesting that there's less and less reason to presume that US law enforcement intend to act lawfully.
That would be having it both ways: Tptacek claims this isn't kidnapping because the plane is a DoJ asset, at least nominally. So it would not need DoD secrecy.
Look for cables made by Volutz. I had never heard of the company before I tried them, but their cables are incredibly durable. They're also 24/20 AWG and I've never seen USB cables that thick sold by anyone else.
I had no idea who these clowns were before. I'd wager that they make some really powerful partnerships in the near future enabled by the publicity
It's kind of stunning that the legislature overrode the governor's veto.

People yell and scream about campaign finance being a problem in the US, I'm starting to think the bigger problem is that parties have set themselves up to have advantages getting people on ballots.

In Michigan (where I live), party backed candidates have a substantially easier time getting on ballots (they only need 1/2 the signatures on the relevant petitions) and there are term limits on state representatives, so party leaders and "Lansing bureaucrats" end up having a lot of influence on what happens at the state level.

Say some district had an independent rep that they really liked. By state law, they can only send them to do their business for a couple of terms, then the parties get their chance to stand up a patsy (<--I'm a little cynical I guess).
>I've only experienced Agile lengthening delivery cycles

Where agile is defined as what?
Lots of people have been creating threads about The Fine Bros, but I think we need to be angry at YouTube too. YouTube makes it exceptionally easy to file takedowns, no proof of validity required.

It's literally a web form, and your videos are taken down regardless of who requests it or why - until you prove otherwise. The process can take weeks to months for a YouTube representative to allow you to appeal your case, and in some situations you can't even appeal it (if you have appealed recently, etc.)

In my experience, I had a number of videos taken down by a teenager because he wanted his (similar videos) to rank above mine in search. It took three months to get my videos back online, the guy trolled me over email and after YouTube put them back online (fyi, they don't compensate your revenues) - they let the other guy who falsified his claims just keep making videos like he was previously.

YouTube is not an open, or fair platform like it used to strive to be. It is now very much a revenue stream where creators (who bring traffic to the site) are often disregarded and/or considered disposable.
I wonder why this process is not automated? I mean, it should be fairly easy to create an algorithm which would adjust letter spacing based on the actual printed letter. Another milestone for AI, now that Go is conquered? ;)
Ah, yes, but 'jet' in the singular - Obama had said 'jets' in the plural!
Does this prevent someone from blowing the whistle anonymously? Isn't there some risk in forcing people to be anonymous? e.g. I know I can't go to the government for help, so I have to post something on WikiLeaks instead?
In a start-up? Absolutely not true. This is the first version. I would suspect, as many go that route, that the "website in a frame" is replaced by native. That's typically the direction everyone goes in until they're already an expert at a specific platform and want to start on one instead of multiple.

Stuff gets rewritten all the time when it makes sense to do so. That's rarely a big enough issue that you decide you'll never do it.
Can you help me understand what it is about a specific piece of equipment having in the past been used for human rights abuse that makes it unsuitable for any future use? It would be one thing if the CIA had operated the flight, but this plane is known to have been transferred to the DOJ long before the flight to extradite Snowden.
Choosing Scotland over the more usual U.K. or British, is peculiar. It's like saying a Russian aircraft violated Alaskan airspace rather than US airspace. This choice is possibly indicative of other subsurface politics.
Snowden has been far more independently active since his asylum. He even maintains a twitter account. It's not like his entire life is filtered through the media.
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I MUCH prefer ElementaryOS to other alternatives when it comes to a Linux desktop.
As Tim Cook said to me, if you make something that doesn't change behavior, it's a gimmick, and it won't last.

If motion sensors have an application - perhaps for people with disabilities - by all means go for it. But innovation for its own sake can be a waste of time.
Thanks for that summary. I have been thinking about this.
I wonder if part of the problem is that mass culture has largely displaced other means of cultural transmission (extended family, traditions, churches) with the vacuous culture we see. Short of a real eternal perspective and its aspirations (I'm a Mormon fwiw, aka member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), I wonder if in some scenarios this could be addressed by replacing the vacuous money-driven consumer culture with a better kind of humanism, based on 1) very high expectation of honesty, 2) the Golden Rule, and 3) a plan for balanced personal growth/learning/service/mentoring as a substitute for extreme narrow pursuits (fitness or pleasure above all, for instance), as I briefly discuss at http://www.onemodel.org (under "About OM", then "Future...", then "Maturity ...".
I think I'm saying it isn't kidnapping because there is no evidence at all of an attempt to kidnap Snowden.
I appreciate your attention to overall aesthetics. The video I watched was informative and reasonably well organized.

However, the site hits one of my hot buttons: harvesting email addresses. As a live person, all that really matters to me is a username and password. My experience suggests the long term potential cost of providing a working email isn't worth it just to try the site out on the off chance that it turns out to be a community worth joining.

I understand that it is a way of trying to handle spam on your end. Not providing an email address is a way of handling spam on my end. Offloading your problem onto the user, is the inverse of a useful business proposition. How does Hacker News manage to work without it?

Anyway, that's my issue not yours. Again, nice work.

I'm curious regarding how you see the site evolving. Will it be a platform for other authors too?
Like anything, it depends. If you don't like being a cog in a large machine, look to smaller shops. I hate working in large firms precisely because I'm bad at shutting up and being a cog.

And you know what? In big shops, painting outside of your lines actually can cause problems. Questioning decisions on things going on outside of one's domain causes slowdown (at the very least, wasted time in meetings where people explain why that stupid idea actually has to be that way, etc.) and frequently, conflict, because when the norm is "stay in your (metaphorical) cube", questioning decisions can all too easily look like an accusation of incompetence or as a power play.

Go where your other skills have value.
That is a definition of requirement that is different than what most of the industry uses. Most of the industry sees requirements as "how the software should behave". Even with your new definition, I've seen little evidence that we have mature processes around collecting requirements.

As for surveys, KPIs, A/B testing etc. Those are neither standardized, proven to be valuable in a rigorous way, nor widely used. All signs of an immature industry. Further, they can only be used in software development processes that allow for iterative deployment.
I wouldn't conflate tech-savviness with being a Snowden-supporter.

And I wouldn't suggest people suddenly align themselves one way or the other based on the premise of tech-savviness, education-level, political-savviness, etc.
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Pigs would likely become pets that are smarter than [most] dogs and more sociable than [most] cats.

It wouldn't take many generations to breed them to be friendly and docile rather than fast growers. Maybe a few more to better adapt them for housebreaking or litter training.

They would also continue to be used in medical research and truffle hunting, of course.
I would say "yes", based on this project: https://github.com/thinkofdeath/steven

It's a voxel game based on OpenGL. It implements much of vanilla minecraft. Annecdotally, I'd say it performs much better for me than minecraft itself does, at longer view distances, and with essentially no observable GC pauses (of which minecraft suffers quite visibly). Also, a stabler heap size, etc.

The capabilities are definitely there.

I'm spending some of my weekend moments playing around with more GL stuff based on what I've learned from reading this project, and it's quite fun. Build times are right up there where you'd expect, too -- seconds or less! (The first build takes a few moments for running gcc for the c bindings to GL, but after that, those cache nicely.) A 1-second turnaround for recompiling a whole game is an incredible breath of fresh air.

And of course, I shipped my demo game to a friend on a mac the same day I started writing. I'm on a linux. Not bad.
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that's the same by saying your kids are successful just because they were born.
I agree with you about the example of police. I was just pointing out that under stress it is difficult to shoot accurately. I won't talk trash about the police because I don't know enough police to talk it. However, in the military I have seen how hard it is to move, shoot, and hit your target. And we get tons of training.

I can't really tell from your reply if your are arguing for pistols or rifles being better. I think it comes down to using whatever you are good at. If you train with a rifle then use a rifle if you use a pistol use a pistol. I actually think retaining a rifle is easier then a pistol. Maybe because I train that way. For the pistol I mostly just keep the pistol away from the bad guy. If the bad guy can get his hands on the pistol he would have more leverage then if he got his hands on my rifle.

Back to the original argument. For the militia type individuals that like to play like they are in the military. It is all fun and games until you get shot at.
Since Youtube does not seem to give a damn about it, why not doing it in reverse ? If enough people start abusing this shit, Youtube will have to do something about it.
Apple notes (in iOS 9 and El Capitan) is also a secure, encrypted Evernote alternative: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
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I understand that (believe me; get RT'd by him sometime and see what happens to your mentions). But add up everything he's said publicly and you still don't have a complete picture of what he had, who he gave it to, and who got what.

I'm not suggesting that anything nefarious happened. I do not think Snowden is an FSB operative. I think he grabbed a giant tranche of documents, few of which he actually read, and handed them off to a small set of reporters he believed to be trustworthy.

But the USG has an interest (a) in confirming that and (b) containing the damage.

By the estimation of literally everyone involved, Snowden took documents whose publication isn't in the public interest. Snowden and his informal team of assistants have charged themselves with protecting intelligence secrets. It's not crazy to think that the USG might want to relieve Snowden of that role.
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This is pretty sweet but the UI does leave some to be desired. It would be awesome to have a UI similarish to onenote or a few others where on the left side you have a list of your boards, then either on the left or right side (users pick) you have a list of items in the board, then the rest of the screen is whatever the item is.
It is a really nice start and has a lot of potential but without a web version it just wont replace anything I use right now since you dont seem to support any of the BSDs and I do a lot of switching between Windows Linux and OpenBSD
The imaginary eWii would trigger electroshocks on collisions, causing short muscle spasms.
Well, I've been sold on that idea since the US started concealing the existence of the Roswell aliens.
A lot of people do abuse it. YouTube is just so massive it would have to be a huge amount of people.

Here's the form: https://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

Click "copyright infringement" and "infringing on me", add the target video's URL and it will be taken down automatically. It won't be restored until the appeal process is finished (usually several months).
And this could actually increase the meat content of Taco Bell's taco filling. (It's supposedly 88% beef.)
Scotland is the UK. Scotland's airspace is managed by the UK central government. This is like saying "flying over Maine, rather than over the more typical USA, is suggestive of subsurface politics".
You don't have to be an infosec master.

According to Snowden, he didn't take the files with him to Russia in the first place. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took...
Not to be paranoid and cynical, but we don't actually know that Edward Snowden, personally, is still maintaining that account, even though the account was verified.
Everything I said was true, from a certain point of view.
Even then I'd say there's not a lot of difference - you naturally adjust your defect rate to what you're working on (even within a single codebase). I mean sure, when doing something like CPU design it's easy to feel like you're not using your full intellectual capacity the way you would in web frontend development, but you just need to step it up a level - the safety requirements justify putting a fair amount of time and effort into techniques like automatically generated testcases, maybe even formal methods.

One thing that can be harder to overcome is being trapped by processes that you're not allowed to change (and the kind of institutions that make CPUs are particularly prone to that kind of failure, IME). But even then, it just becomes a case of adding as much value as you can within those restrictions, and that can be fulfilling in its own way. But yeah, some organizations (in any industry) are really badly managed and if you can't live with that then your only recourse is to leave.
Originally I was going to say "democratic republic" but then it becomes a game of minutia. Not knowing that Amazon is controlled by a board of directors (elected by shareholders, the owners) is just like not realizing the president is elected and we don't have King Obama.
Thats not what gyardley is saying though. He's talking about developers who refuse to estimate how long a chunk of work will take.
Maybe this law could protect lawyers, like those exposed on 60 minutes this week, from further sting operations on their money laundering business.
A cable with a mains plug at one end and USB on the other is obviously wrong, though.

Mains power is legitimately difficult to deal with. Power that's five volts out of spec is not.
Because he can still talk and express himself about surveillance issues, and they know he has a following (now even on Twitter).
Germany has spent the most on solar subsidies of any country. Don't make this an exclusive situation. They can do both.
My previous position I got through a recruiter. Demanded my resume in a Word, which ended up being a butchered and ugly version of my beautiful LaTeX-generated PDF. I understood that he was going to make a few edits, but about a year later I was going through some documents and managed to find the copy of the Word resume that he had made changes to. DRASTIC changes.

He had completely re-written huge chunks of my previous experience, changed the order of things to make me look like I had experience in areas that I definitely did not, and countless other minor changes. I couldn't believe it. His native language was definitely not English, so all of his changes had horrible spelling and grammar mistakes peppered in.

In the end I got the job, but only one other person had applied besides myself and the government agency the job was for desperately needed a body to fill a seat so I was kind of hired by default. Ended up being a crazy mess of a programming shop that I brought a bit of order to before leaving.
But invested money is not really something that creates an income, unless it is really really much, right? Income in the sense of money that you can freely dispose.
The Idaho law was struck down already. It was a "knee-jerk reaction" bill that the governor pushed thru as quickly as possible (when the video of Bettencourt's place came out, he was getting death threats). But everyone knew the law wouldn't last long.
That's what I remembered it as, but it's been a while.
> Go has one of the best TLS stacks in the world,

Go suffers a bit from weak random numbers though (crypto/rand Read() output), says dieharder at least: http://nopaste.narf.at/show/31060/

I'm not sure how severe that is...
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