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I have tiers of trust based on levels of perceived risk, and that's multiplied with the frequency of use.
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This seems like a non-issue to me. If you're using an IaaS provider you should be treating the network as volatile from the get-go. This is the reason AWS has things like auto-scaling groups. You should be designing for failure in "the cloud"
According to Swedish law, yes. Not necessarily according to the law in other countries. That's why it was called out that he may have committed Sweden's definition of rape.
> Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before it can be used.

A hyperlink is just an address of some kind that client software interprets in a certain way allowing users to easily send network packets to it. Whatever response comes back to a request directed at that address is entirely determined by whoever controls the address, and outside the control of the publisher of the hyperlink.

So if one published, say, a phone book, with all of the addresses and phone numbers of consenting residents in a city, when a reader dials one of those numbers, or sends a letter to one of those addresses, it's entirely possible that a reply could come back containing copyrighted material. Should the publisher be required to check every address and phone number for such copyright-violating replies before publishing the phone book?

The response that the controller of an address sends (if any) to requests sent to it may change from request to request, for any reason at all. Would it be illegal to publish a hyperlink to an HTTP URL that has a 50% probability of responding with copyrighted material? 10% probability? 1%?
Trademarks that are only for the name are actually handled differently? If that's the case it would explain it I suppose. First time I hear of this being a special case.

Yeah, Drupal has the wordmark branding and the community branding as separate things. I just brought up these examples because all of them have Debian packages that apparently have no issues being named after the project but there are of course numerous others.
"Perfect information" is an assumption used in static Paretian general equilibrium models, but it does not reflect any existing dynamic reality, and it is not at all a necessary prerequisite for free markets. Market power is vulnerable. "Interchangeable goods and services" - I honestly have no idea how you could come up with such a delusional prerequisite.

You seem to have confused neoclassical models for an attainable ideal compatible with empirical reality. But our world is one of disequilibrium, dispersed knowledge, plan coordination - ones most apt for a market and a free one at that. You are completely out of vogue.
I love this idea. Do it in nyc sometime, please.
I'm not sure what you're advocating for - pure capitalism with no government oversight and regulation?
It's not a matter of smart enough. It's a matter of experience, institutional knowledge, workers skilled in the necessary tasks. The Chinese are plenty smart, despite your strawman.

Look how they're pursuing a carrier fleet. Are they trying to build a CVN immediately? Nope, they're taking incremental steps with a secondhand refurbished conventional carrier. Iterating towards a long term goal, because they know war isn't Starcraft.

It's why when they wanted to develop a modern 4th gen fighter, they partnered with the Israelis to leverage the Lavi designs that became the J10.

You can be snide and set up strawmen, or you can back up your statements with facts, not ill-informed opinions.
fsyncs happen on every write. They're durable. This release may be 100x faster than our previous release, but it's also a competitor with other solutions.

We haven't run any comparisons vs. other solutions, but we will do that soon and I expect that we'll be competitive and better in some cases.
There are still pensions and they are also tied to the stock market. Pension funds also have greater influence over CEOs and they need growth every quarter because they are so underfunded (i.e. most pension funds are capitalized based on extremely unreasonable expectations of stock market growth).

So, the reality is that pension funds exert a much greater pressure on CEOs to create short term gains than individual investors who -- incongruously -- take a longer view.
..and the second due to a flood of people from HN.

Server seems down :-/
If only Docker was working on orchestration... oh hey Swarm/Compose, I didn't see you over there.
I wouldn't be so sure about the 'lost cause'. rkt seems to be more modular than Docker which may have huge effect on the community-build tools and ecosystem around it. Ease of porting Dockerfiles to rkt format is also important. Plus, better security is a good selling point for the corporate world, I guess.
This is mostly true until you need new data that is not a .mat or image, or to deploy to a server for production (licensing Matlab for multi-core servers is pretty rough), or deal with strings, or send stuff over the network, or one of the other thousand things the Python ecosystem does better. For algorithmic experiments, Matlab has an edge but the "with batteries" / overall utility approach has always been the primary strength of Python for science.
Actually, they haven't.
At least, as far as i can tell (they each have tens of actions on them and i can't read every decision :P).

They have been found "likely to have serious questions of validity".

This is basically the standard you must meet to get a review.
That's why they were found that way.

Next, an actual trial will occur.
But they are not "provisionally invalid" or anything like that.

There is literally no decision yet from PTAB, and in fact, the only reigning decision on validity is the appeals court.
> I'd say rather that things need to be simplified and features removed in order to improve quality.

I'd say they need to fix the features they've implemented, and only release new features when they're fully cooked.

Removing features is terrible: it is not an improvement to me when my stuff breaks or when I'm forced into a dumbed-down, lowest-common-denominator use-case.
most of the rentier class knows what its like to "start with nothing and work hard"?
Have you considered developing an accounting or bookkeeping app, since that's obviously your domain?
What do search engines like Google think of this proposal, e.g. would web search be less useful because of lost PageRank signals, or would web search be more in demand because there would be no other way to find web pages? For that matter, how would search engines discover new web pages if people are reluctant to link to new pages?
Apple is losing market share to Android. The gravy train may not go on forever. Apple today is in the position of GM in GM's glory days, the wonderful days of powerful V8 engines, HydraMatic transmissions, tailfins, and the "longer, lower, wider" wide-track Pontiac. GM didn't think they needed massive improvement in quality. They were wrong.

Watch this commercial for the 1967 Pontiac GTO.[1] Looks a little like one of Apple's teaser ads from the Jobs era, doesn't it?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzF_CdKLTP0
That's true for larger companies like Facebook and Google that grant stock and other forms of comp. But for most companies you're primarily compensated through a salary.
Apple's R&D budget seems to be mostly focused on hardware. It's hard to say definitively, given how secretive they are.

Microsoft invests a massive amount of money into MSR, and creates tools out of the most useful results. The Static Driver Verifier depends on Z3, an SMT solver developed at MSR. Other verification tooling like SAL (C/C++ annotations to assert contracts for functions) has a similar history.
People watch Top Gun too much and think everyone is zooming around the sky on their own, pulling dumbass maneuvers. Or they think that reading a Tom Clancy novel means they know how the military functions.
Pensions weren't/aren't invested in the market similarly to 401k's?
Isn't it essential an alternate implementation of the same underlying spec? (appc).

I don't think they need to "beat" docker to have a viable product.
Wow.

> somehow a mindset has developed there which is at odds with most other patent cases in the US.

Different courts form slightly different interpretations. There's a reason that the 2nd Circuit is the most liberal court. This court happens to be the most pro-plaintiff patent court you can find. It's not surprising the plaintiffs file there.

> This is a part of the country which has very little

Have you ever been there?

> so big corporations fighting patent cases bring a lot of money into the area and prestige to a court which otherwise would be in a backwater.

Do you think Apple fighting a court case floods money down the street like a river?

> the jury is so biased

Make whatever claims you want about the court, but if as you claim this area is a backwater with nothing going for it, how exactly is the local populace educated enough about the finer points of patent litigation to be biased?

This is a stupid decision but the mental gymnastics you're going through to try to make it fault of the area is impressive.
My experience is that owning is cheaper than renting in the long run. It makes sense in the broad context because when you rent you still have to cover all of the costs, but they just get hidden in your monthly rent, and additionally you need to pay the landlord--an expense you don't have with ownership. There is a modest benefit in spreading out the risk as well, if you have a major maintenance expense you won't be responsible for the cost up front, however homeowners can purchase insurance that does the same thing (but are usually a pretty bad deal IMHO).

There are some efficiencies to renting. The maintenance can be done by dedicated staff at negotiated rates instead of having to hire outside work. But the efficiencies don't really appear until you're living in a massive complex with lots of other customers to spread the cost around.

When I bought my first house my $1700/month rent for a 800 square foot apartment became a $1000/month mortgage for a 1400 square foot townhouse in a better part of town. And unlike renting I would eventually run out of mortgage after 30 years and have a big asset in my name, one that is likely to appreciate in value over the long term.

In the long term renting is a pretty bad deal for everybody but the landlord.
Where's that internet permanence when you need it?
You can run Ubuntu on your Macs. I use this at work every day. Kubuntu, specifically.
Honestly, the easiest way for me is to just use a "dumb" phone. I switched to an old Nokia and love it. I also use the SMS search engine Text Engine (http://www.textengine.info/) if I ever need to look up an address or directions. I definitely feel more productive, and most importantly present in my daily life.

Curious to hear if others have had success with other methods or if anyone else has tried going back to a non-smartphone.

Great question.
Very tasteful way to handle the parent comment :)

Does Todd Persen talk about durability testing in the video or is more about performance benchmarking? I haven't watched yet.

https://vimeo.com/153802549
I've been using React to make a 60fps music game, and this article covers basically all of the issues I ran into:

- Originally, the game was rendered with SVG elements, so it was very important to use the shouldComponentUpdate hook to ensure elements weren't rendering unnecessarily (and using CSS transformations to position them where possible, as that's way faster than updating SVG coordinates!)

- I had something similar to the function.bind problem since some of my components had a map of hotkey handlers that I was (naively) returning from a `getHotKeyHandlers` function, meaning the handlers were redefined every render.

- I wasn't caching/memoizing calculations done to the Redux state as well as I should have (Reselect is very useful for this!)

I ended up deciding SVG wasn't fast enough for my use case and rewriting the core game loop rendering to use Canvas, which was so much faster that I could be a lot lazier about optimizing things. Everything around the canvas is still rendered through React components (i.e. in game UI and menu screens), and the state is still handled through Redux. It's a very fun way to write a game :)
No one can be dumb enough to destroy the very basis of the entire web. Perhaps it will just be annoying like clicking on a link requires an alert telling the user that the destination may not be acceptable, like the cookie alert but more intrusive. I wonder how this applies to JSON or XML links?
That was exactly the question I wanted to ask about sandstorm's capabilities. Glad to read this :)
Agreed. Still on Python 2.7 but at some point last year I just decided I'd always:

from __future__ import print_function

When I needed to print and it's just habit now..
You are right, I've edited my answer as such.
No, the context is that you completely misrepresented a wikipedia article and historical events to exactly reverse the facts for ideological reason then apparently flagged the post that pointed it out.

And, by the way, thereby doubly proved the pejorative used previously was very much the right one.
I think you can pretty much reproduce their study from the percentages with the following table (they claim 26 of the 106 did not meet study eligibility criteria, but the total seems to be 79? but then the total isn't consistent between the two categories; I didn't read carefully enough to see if the discrepancy is explained)

categories abnormal semen (n=34) normal semen (n=45)
talk >1h 14 9
<=1h 20 36

while
chging?
yes 12 6
no 21 38

It's interesting to note that they actually collected more data than < 1h and >1h (they more finely categorized it as 0-30, 30-60, 60-120 and 120+). The freedom to choose the boundary there should count against the p-value.

Of course, it would be nice if they treated hours talking on phone as a continuous variable instead of a discrete <1h and >1h. With the freedom to set that boundary (if they had that), it would reduce the associated p-value.

Either way, it's very unlikely that the cause is RF radiation and not some confounding variable. Radiation damage is pretty much excluded, and I don't think there can be any effect on the impulses of the nervous system, which I think operates in the kHz, very far away from the 800 MHz+ from cell phones.

Talking while charging seems very unlikely to be related to any radiation, but might be associated with talking while driving or a sedentary lifestyle or something like that.
What?

Py2/3 shouldn't impact CV code at all. THe major issue should be installation, which is generally a solved problem. OpenCV, and the scipy stack fully support python3, and are some of the best documented libraries I've ever encountered (better than the bit of matlab I've used for robotics at least)

I'm curious as to what problems you encountered?
If you built a boat from SiC attached to enormous heat sinks radiating into empty space, it would float for longer.
Reminds me of the joke, that if you can't pay your $100,000 loan you have a problem, if you can't pay your $100,000,000 loan then the bank has a problem. But it captures the scale of things.

For literally decades people have suggested that China's economy (GDP) wasn't growing, it's money supply was. And as a result there would be a time when even with relaxed credit you could not justify adding any additional debt. At which point that particular path would be cut off and a more accurate picture of the economy would emerge. Which seems to be happening now.

What would be useful, but no doubt hard to get, would be a list of Chinese firms which are currently technically in default on their loans and so at risk of dissolution. And even more useful would be an understanding of how the Chinese government would treat them (would they bail them out like our government did for GM, or let them fail like Lehman Brothers?)
If that was the justification, then a lottery doesn't achieve that. Nothing short of completely open borders achieves that.
This is for entertainment purposes only type of question - what if they moved just the desktop to Linux instead of OS X and port Cocoa atop Wayland? Leave the mobile stuff on iOS, which it seems it's good for.

This is the kind of revolutionary thinking Jobs had when he went OS 9 -> OS X... could Linux set them free on the desktop by open sourcing the desktop OS X?

I know, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but there's bits of OS X I like...and bits of Linux I like, as far as technology, architecture, speed, GUI frameworks... like some combo of the two would be a killer OS for the ages and open source too.
Remember the blog posts during the early days of AWS? People didn't realize their new elastic cloud servers could go into thin air
Some of that is survivorship bias however. Crappy homes from the 1600s aren't around anymore. The longer an area has been built up the larger percentage of the houses are well built due to the poorly built houses constantly dying out by the well built houses sticking around.
Sometime in the 1970s or 1980s, companies started optimizing for maximum shareholder value; everything else be damned. HFT and offshoring manufacturing were deliberate effects of it.
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This will be controversial but I believe Linux will become the desktop of choice in the long run. Here's why. Tech like Docker is making it easier to deploy whole systems of software, not just in the cloud. Google has put most of the apps 99% of users use 99% of the time on the Web. Everyday users are moving away from the desktop anyway. And the whole litany of other typically quoted reasons to use Linux like security, package management, lack of viruses, performance, ect. Finally companies like Microsoft and Apple will find it too expensive to maintain their subpar OSes when they make all their money elsewhere anyway. E.g. iTunes, iPhone, enterprise software[1]. It probably still a long ways off though.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-google-microsoft-where-do...
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As dramatized at https://xkcd.com/882/
There a number of examples in the surrounding threads. I find most software getting worse these days on all platforms. See CADT: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
It's funny, I was just regretting the latest OSX update that I made. My MacBook Pro (work laptop) is 2 years old and was great when I first set up my dev environment. Now, I need to restart every couple of days.

I should spend some time partitioning the disk and installing Linux.
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I am aware of the reasoning they might have for this and was mostly asking about the parent's claim that Firefox is legally obligated to do this.

VLC is still gets packaged by Debian as VLC and even branding intact I believe. Chrome is a little different since you can't even build it so Debian's interest in including it instead of Chromium isn't probably all that high anyway.
There's a tradeoff between keeping legacy code working and deprecating old APIs that are holding the platform back. Keeping all extensions working without changes is essentially incompatible with the migration to a sandboxed, multiprocess browser. Keeping XUL is incompatible with any future migration to a next-generation layout engine. XUL also holds back Gecko development because Gecko essentially has to support two different rendering modes; time spent keeping XUL working is time not spent improving security and performance of the Web stack.

Even if you don't want those architectural improvements, a lot of people do, and I find it hard to blame Firefox for doing what's best for the needs of the majority of its users.
Thanks :). He talks about doing kill nines on the process while doing a bunch of writes, trying to corrupt the DB, and perf testing. In addition to a little bit of talk about what came before and some lessons learned.
People don't need to be religious for religion to be part of their identity. Many german atheists still identify with one of the two main churches even when they don't have the smallest trace of belief in them. After centuries of highly formalized coexistence, the lutheran and catholic churches have become subtle but deeply rooted parts of regional identities.
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Assange fled Sweden and was happy to walk around the UK, and cooperate with the UK authorities until he lost his appeal. Assange was happy to stay in the UK, even though the UK does whatever the USA wants.
> immigration is critical to the vitality of the US economy

How is that? I think it was hugely true in the previous century, which was built on manufacturing industries, plentiful labor was directly connected. Unskilled labor has less buying power now than ever, so there will be more burden if they are not employed. This will be more likely after giving away our manufacturing, what's left for them to do?
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I have a daily schedule/ritual to keep productive, after a week it just became the norm https://books.google.ca/books/about/Daily_Rituals.html?id=-t...
If this happened I would be unimaginably happy. Actually, one could argue that the move to open source Swift and invest resources into making it run on Linux could be keeping this option open.

And really, I don't think it's very ridiculous. As you've said, it's more or less exactly what Apple did with BSD/Mach and the OS 9 -> OS X transition.
Boss, died, Found Cryptic Message with neomailbox url
So, my boss suddenly and somewhat mysteriously died at the age of 41, he kept our software business running and without him we're struggling. I've been going through his notes trying to find important business info and I found a bizarre OneNote file. It had two seperate screenshots of the companies code of ethics (one cropped to perfection, the other containing a large amount of his screen) and a url containing the domain "neomailbox.net". It also contained the string "mmo.swtor", an obvious reference to the Massively Multiplayer Online game Star Wars: The Old Republic. So, my question(s) is/are... A) Am I reading too much into this? And before I go jumping to conclusions...WAS MY BOSS A HACKER? Cause that would be so freaking cool.
Because a lottery gives you the people for whom a small chance of getting in is worth going for. If someone's awesome enough to have lots of awesome opportunities in many places, then they wouldn't commit to a lottery-based opportunity. Thus you lose the top in addition to getting people who barely meet the criteria coming in.
I'm advocating for actually getting acquainted with economic literature and not repeating moronic talking points about "redistributive and regulatory role of governments" that are filled with theoretical and empirical problems, and in any event are not a radical new idea but how it has always been to begin with. Whether it was anti-vagrancy and poor laws or the modern welfare state. Whether it was mercantilism or the state-guided capitalism of today.
What about if I send a link via some sort of messaging app possibly to a friend in another country? (the Dutch/Australian issue mentioned)

That can be a standalone application and not a web page, so the initial assumption of "every hyperlink in a Web page" fails.
Esri's ArcPy module and ArcGIS Desktop's "built-in" python environment. :(

ArcGIS Pro is using 3.4, so the wrappers for ArcObjects are updated, but who knows if they will put that work back into ArcGIS Desktop...
Renting is like slavery, mortgages are like indentured servitude.
well to be sure not to get locked in then.