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The cynic in my thinks maybe Microsoft is fulfilling some three-letter agency wishlist items

Bingo. You nailed it. Windows 10 is the NSA's wet dream.
Interesting. In the US, I would almost never use a lawyer paid for by someone else. I'd always assume the lawyer's client is whoever is paying them.
They are being paid $300k in return for passing on the opportunity to buy a property at a below-market price. If they are still aiming to buy in the same market, this could be a bad decision -- if the market keeps going up, they might have to pay even more.
You should probably get rid of them ;-)
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In other words, don't start with a solution; start with a problem.
Apple not supporting Flash was a crucial part of it's demise, though. Without that, we might be running Flash on mobile today, even though it was terrible.
If I'd done what everyone keeps saying I should have done and just used $foo, then Sass would have gotten angry at me, because we'd be sharing syntax for different features. We already tweaked CSS a little to avoid that in another case (when specifying grid line names in Grid, you surround the names with []; it was originally (), but Sass asked us to change it because they use that for their list syntax).

We could only have used $foo if we hewed very close to Sass's functionality - global macros that operate at the stylesheet's lexical level. That wasn't what we wanted to do, though, either at the time (considering only the variables use-case) or looking forward (to the use of custom properties as the generic "inject info into your page via the CSS engine", a la data attributes for HTML).

By avoiding global macros, we also get context sensitivity - we can actually offer APIs for this stuff that are smarter than "here's the string you set". When we add custom pseudoclasses, custom media queries, etc they'll all get their own useful APIs. Sass is stuck with string manipulation, because you can use a Sass var anywhere, so it's impossible to infer anything about it.
Your argument about mangoes has a very big assumption involved and that is the supplier wants everyone to have mangoes and isn't in the market just for the profit. This is similar to what Reagan tried to argue with the Trickle-Down economics, he said if you tax the rich less they'll create more jobs and hence it'll benefit everyone. This didn't happen, 'cuz the rich found other better ways (investment funds etc) to use that extra money than create jobs. So, NEVER assume intrinsic goodness. If discriminatory policies are allowed people will misuse them.
buyer's money => seller => agents.

The buyer doesn't have any payment terms with the agents. The agents are paid by the seller. This may normally be with the buyer's money, but that's irrelevant.
Slide deck on Statistical Depenendency Parsing: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.225...
H. Simon was among the founders of artificial intelligence and a very important microeconomicist, and I have often thought that these disciplines are not fundamentally different. What problem does backpropagation solve? Credit assignment. What problem does the market solve? Credit assignment. How do they do it? Localization of computation.
Simple, distributed, fast. Pick any three. (GPL v3 VCS written in Rust)
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At least they didn't find that out by cutting it down!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(tree)
CoffeeScript? TypeScript? How about JavaScript?
Being terrible didn't stop them from putting it on Android. I'm sure Adobe would have loved to be on iOS if they'd been allowed into the browser.
I find that Java things like Ant or Maven bring tedium back to software, but not quite the same way that punch cards did.
> How much hubris do you need to think that you alone know how best to allocate not only the scarce resources of this planet but also the lives of every single human being on this planet, and to sit in judgment of what work is worthy and what isn't?

By looking at their merits? Giving a sandwich to a guy sleeping on the street does infinitely more for them than us reaching Mars.

Are video games worthy? Anything consumer for the sake of consumption is arrogance in its purest most refined form.

You must have grown up with a Mommy and Daddy that got along well and always provided for you, so you think space exploration is something noble, when in reality its a rich elitists nationalistic jerkoff game, where you engineers are the pawns fueled by childish and selfish ideals. Yes, you might discover something that helps elsewhere, but coincidence is hardly synonymous with intention.

Repeat to yourself how silly it is to look for aliens. "I am looking for aliens." Repeat that 1000 times to yourself until you realize how stupid of a goal that actually is.
One possibility is the unit "gauss" (which, like the person, is Gauß in German).

I was trying to figure out whether the spelling "Delikateßen" was ever standard (it would have been "-essen" even before the spelling reform, I think). I found some old books with a Google search that did use that form, but I don't know if it was ever standard or was a variant spelling.
He turned around and flipped it for $1M. That's fraud, not incompetence.
> This does nothing for people suffering from lack of fundamental necessities.

This is a basic philosophical question -- shall we give the poor a fish, or shall we teach them how to fish? The answer should seem obvious, and in the modern world, science is the fishing pole.

> I'd get it if we were all so smart we solved everything we needed to but we can't even solve our own planet.

The problem on Planet Earth is very simple -- there are far too many people. The problem is easy to state, but almost impossible to solve. How do you tell people to have fewer children without violating one of the most basic rights we have?

How do we know there are too many people? Science. How do we know that's a nearly impossible problem to solve? Science.

> Your casual philandering with space exploration doesn't put anything on anyone's table but your own ...

Christopher Columbus heard this argument too, as did every pioneer throughout human history. Your analysis overlooks the fact that space exploration is so valuable that it's in the verge of becoming a profitable enterprise and have no more need for public funding. How will you complain about it then?

> ... much like how lots of minds are wasted crunching pointless numbers for data startups.

A "data startup" succeeds or fails based on private funding by people who understand and accept the risks, so it can't be part of your argument about global poverty.
It’s not in Norway, it’s a Norway Spruce that’s in Sweden.
Hah missed that. In that case, thanks are due to Chrome+Firefox+Safari!
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In my current project I use both. Direct coded lexer and a vm using gnu-c &&label.
Let's see when Facebook converts. For some reason they love to serve Flash based SOLELY on user agent. So you have a chrome fork without flash? Here, watch this flash. Oh, and this gif is now flash as well.

I can't quite figure out why.. but I would vote for incompetence. Can't see any business motivation for doing that.
The article (intentionally?) confuses seller's agent and buyer's agent. The seller's agent gets the best deal they can get for the original seller. After that the seller's agent is pretty much in the dark for the rest of the process, the way I understand it.

The buyer's agent, taking advantage of the assignment clause and delayed close, can now shop the property (probably without possibility of showings) and if somehow they can find a better offer, pass along to their buyer the chance to flip it for some quick cash.

I don't see anything remotely illegal, unethical, or even unfair.
Please, tell us more about how JavaScript is worse than Flash.
DataGravity axes key staff as flash storage competition heats up
Flash wasn't even supported on iOS. I'd argue that was huge in killing off Flash, since anybody who wanted to make their site work on mobile could no longer use Flash.
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I worked at a place once that had a not only non-compete, but barred me from buying anything from a supplier the company used (including Walmart). I objected and crossed it out before signing. Never came up again. A lot of these agreements are legally useless but often put in just in case it might be useful later.
Yeah, CSSNext here is basically the intersection of CSS variables and Sass variables - you can only use them in property values (like CSS), and you can only declare them at top-level (like Sass).

It's nice if you really want to utilize the current syntax, but it's less powerful than either option it's derived from.
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It was really the US politics of these times to present the atom bomb and the tests as "a good thing" in general:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/07/wish_y...

Also, the "bikini" famously got its name from the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll

"Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater.[4]"

"Building on this attention, in 1946, French engineer Louis Réard named his new swimsuit design the bikini, in hopes that its revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the 1946 nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll.[5][6][7][8][9]"

The press loved it.

I also remember reading about some US leaflets containing something like "if somebody comes to you showing the reading of a Geiger counter, don't trust him, he's doing the foreign propaganda and just tries to make our citizens feel less secure." Maybe somebody remembers that better?
That's really good advice but also hard to do because most OEMs stopped providing a reinstall option which doesn't reinstall their bundled software as well.

Here's the ArsTechnica guide for doing a clean install of Windows 8.1 – imagine walking the average home user through this process, even before you factor in discouragements such as the likelihood of tech support blaming any problem more subtle than catching fire on your reinstall:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/save-yourself-from-yo...

This, in a nutshell, is a major source of Apple selling so many iOS devices – I regularly hear people say that it's easier to have a good, secure computing experience that way and they're not wrong.
Cited story: https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2016/02...
Ask HN: Why is Tesla stock down so much?
Yes, the broad market is suffering these days and there are a lot of macro reasons for this. Anyhow, the stock is now down almost 50% from recent heights. I know it was priced veeery forward looking but thats a valuation of only 17B at 147$ which is less then what Facebook paid for Whatsapp. Has anything changed fundamentally or is this just Mr. Market?
They probably just have a whitelist of user agents that they have verified HTML5 video to work well on... If it's anything they don't recognize they serve flash.
Very sad.
I recently gave my 3 page (really 2.5 pages) client services contract to a client and they came back with their own 9 page "standard contract" for contractors. (I'm a developer.)

I couldn't believe how overreaching their contract was. The most egregious paragraph stated that if I introduced a bug I would be liable for not just what they paid me - I would be liable for their estimated loss of profits !!!

I quoted that part of the contract and wrote back:

"Nice try but yeah, no."

I had my lawyer go over it and take out all the stupid stuff and we came to an agreement.

Lesson: Read the contract. If you find that the contract is unduly unfair, ask if you can cross out the parts you don't like. If they say yes, turn it over to your lawyer.

Lesson: There is no "standard contract".

Lesson: If they say "It's a formality that we'll never enforce." Cross it out. ("Then you won't mind if I cross it out.")

Lesson for contracts [my lawyer taught me this]: If you put something egregiously one sided in your contracts you will break trust with the other party. In my case it triggered a "Whoa, where else are they trying to screw me?" response which triggers the "this is job for my lawyer" response.

If the contract is for your enemies, do whatever you want. If it is designed for parties that you want to work with, it's sending the message that you can't be trusted is not a good way to start the relationship.
What type of efficiency are you talking about? For kWh/$ efficiency, non-concentrated flat-panel solar is the most efficient.

Concentrated solar power in practice is usually thermally based, heating up something and then generating electricity from that. It's more expensive, but also is a form of storage, so depending on the use case it may be cheaper over all, but that's highly dependent on the situation.
> creation of content is still just as difficult.

True and exactly! The same difficulty which is "not that difficult".

And I'm 80% against expansion of Copyright and patent, only a small portion against TM et al. Traditional patents are great (i.e. not look and feel, business process or software patents). Hell, original copyright was great. Those help with things you mention.
Yes, I still use Paper too. Unfortunately it seems like Facebook has given up on it: there hasn't been an update in quite awhile, it's missing some features of the web site (nested replies are the most obvious in my experience), and they've started removing some of the news categories. Hope they come back to it, though considering the main reasons I use it are a) no ads and b) don't have to install separate Messenger app, the app's existence probably goes against all corporate policy, so it's probably being left for dead.
I wished this was available on iOS.
I don't see how signed overflow is hard: whenever you see a signed arithmetic operation you just emit, e.g., `add_i32(a, b)` instead of `a + b`, and then include definitions of those functions for each signed integer type (all 4 of them) which are 1-4 lines long.

Strict aliasing and pointer rules, on the other hand, definitely are hard if you want to produce truly standard C code: you have to completely bypass C's type system, using `char *` or `uintptr_t` for everything, and while this can be done, the resulting code is likely to look pretty ugly. However, a reasonable alternative is to depend on nonstandard annotations to disable TBAA: `__attribute__((may_alias))` for every popular compiler other than MSVC, which I believe doesn't do TBAA at all. (If MSVC ever adds it, the generated C code would need updating, but that's not the end of the world.)

As for MIR - while I said AST, I suspect it would be fine to do it on MIR, at the cost of having to reconstruct some control flow. The biggest problem with doing it on LLVM IR is the simplified type info, while the full info is still there for MIR, right? Not an expert. Anyway, it's just an idea.
Microsoft certainly seems to be trying to combat the OEMs on this front, in so much as they can without angering their third-party partners or bulldozing the PC desktop/laptop markets.

Those of us with technical inclination need to be sure to point our family and friends with less technical inclinations to the Microsoft Stores and "Signature Edition" [1] PCs, Microsoft's latest marketing term for unbloated Windows installs out of the box. Some of our friends and families may feel they have a special relationship with an existing OEM, so give them the "Signature Edition" website and have them at least bug their OEM to ship them one.

[1] http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/category...
They both have detection rates in the high 90s, which is considered excellent, in general, and certainly so for a no-cost product. MSE only just edged out Avast.

The comment you listed cites nothing, not sure why its so authoritative to you. All software has vulnerabilities, but where's the big attack on AV? What CVEs are we seeing in the wild, if any?
I would expect skilled technologists to still be in demand. Perhaps there will be a decline in new full-time hires, but that would likely be offset by increased demand for contract positions. I don't, personally, anticipate significant removal of existing full time positions. If you're more comfortable with an employment arrangement, it might be worth locking one in soon.

Overall, though, the American economy is continuing to improve. Greater world events are rattling the markets, and tech has taken a hit, but it doesn't seem out of the ordinary.
Unless any of the libraries are natively built with node-gyp.
I...don't know where you get the idea that libertarianism is about knocking everyone else down.

Perhaps if you focus entirely on removing welfare, it looks like that. And then, I (and other libertarians) believe that a Basic Income Guarantee would be extrenely useful, and a BIG would cover more people than current welfare systems.

Or perhaps you think that deregulating business will lead to massive monopolies, ignoring that the regulations you defend make it harder for new companies to enter a market (thus making it easier to hold a monopoly).
"Anyone has a right to block any content on their private property."

A lot of people would argue that broadband infrastructure shouldn't be considered plain old private property. It's an essential component of a well-functioning society, so it should be among the few things that are collectively managed and supported - like water, fire departments, and the criminal justice system.

I don't think anyone knows whether or not allowing telecom companies more freedom to set prices and provide services however they want would ultimately be better for society than the kind of compromise a lot of places have now. I think it could be worth some experiments.

That said, net neutrality is a known system that more or less works. It's reasonable to be very cautious about any massive change to the current internet ecosystem.

Fire departments in many cities in the US used to be private companies that offered subscription services. They maintained their own infrastructure and sought profits and growth. Eventually cities decided that the fire service market was special in a number of ways that made it better treated as a public good. People were pretty happy about municipal fire departments. [1]

[1] I read about this a while back in a book on the history of New York. I do t have time to look up the details now. Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.
That doesn't explain why they continued to detonate bombs within the continental US around farm land. I agree that they cannot roll back what had already occurred, but that ignores that this took place halfway through the most intense bomb testing.
You can't as easily block adverts based on it.
Not to downplay the advancement of humans, but the squirrels on our block created a "Superhighway" between garages, fences and garbage cans. Every garbage receptacle on our block has a hole in it, created by squirrels. We regularly watch them eat lunch on top of our garbage can.
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Honestly, I started www.snow.ventures back in October to be an answer to this question.

You have to seek diversification, one way to do it is to short the system so that people can feel safe in their particular idiosyncratic exposure.

That's what we do.
No. Solar consumption does peak midday but that is trivial because electricity is nearly always used when it is produced. Electricity demand, which is basically the same thing as consumption, peaks midday (as do prices). And solar production peaks midday. The fact that solar production matches demand is a nice feature of solar that I think militates in favor of net-metering policies.
That's exactly what you can do. var() is replaced at computed-value time, so calling gCS().color will return "red" or whatever.

If you use an API that gives you the value at an earlier time, like el.style.color (which is "specified value"), you'll see the var().
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Well, yes.

I'd argue that fingerprints for security are just silly to begin with.
Only fools deal in absolutes.

I can't parse a coherent position out of the rest of this, or find any real relation to what I said. I'll be charitable and assume you pasted in a response in the wrong place...
Here's the referenced paper: http://www.rle.mit.edu/eems/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/eyeri...

The GPU ecosystem is going to be tough to beat (IMHO). Even if not GPUs are optimal for convolutional nets (CNN), there's a lot of wood behind that ecosystem arrow.
Thanks for the link. Looks neat, but sadly doesn't seem to be working in Firefox for Linux. Don't have time to dig into why right now (missing MSE? some codec I don't have?)
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Hey, as someone who used to work for an energy utility looking at setting up a solar market place, there's some info you're missing:

- The wholesale price is the cost of generating electricity. The retail price includes the cost of serving the customer, i.e. billing. Sure, there are less transmission costs, but in New Zealand they only play about 20% of the retail cost.

- Also, just because midday rates of electricity are high, those high rates tend to subsidise the cost of running the network when rates are low (i.e. other times). Power Stations don't come for free. People want security of supply, but then to be able to poach from the most profitable parts of the day?
Yep, I build my own jarvis with kinect and it works great.
Only slightly related but even Amazon isn't on HTTPS, which I find to be a much bigger issue since they deal with credit cards
I dunno about checking in the build directory. Having a working version of the build in the repo isn't necessary when your dependency versions are locked in shinkwrap.json. Therefore your build is completely reproducible. As for eliminating extensive tooling on your prod server, I believe a common practice is to build on your dev laptop and rsync the build directory to the server.

Do you ever run into merge conflicts in the build directory?
> With Windows 7/8 you can opt to not install telemetry updates.

For now, yes. In the future that may change, just as it did when the Windows 10 update changed from "optional" to "recommended" and the installation began without user interaction.

When you combine that with Microsoft's truncated support life cycle for 7 and 8.1, you end up feeling forced to move to 10 one way or another. I'm not saying that Windows 10 is a bad OS (indeed, I enjoy it on my gaming PC and my Stream 7 tablet, and it has been a huge performance boost to my wife's PC and laptop). I'm just saying that any pretense of "Microsoft would never say one thing and do another" is null and void at this point.
"high information density"?

This is why 99% of programmers shouldn't be involved in design.
Generally the AV engine will be the same, but the management tools are more corporate-friendly (remote management and group policies, etc.)
Electricity consumption peaks mid-day, solar or not. Solar production happens to also peak mid-day, which is great because it coincides with the peak consumption period, which makes it more valuable.
What's happening is that the house is not being resold. The sale isn't complete until the property is transferred to the new owner, who assumes the title. I explained this elsewhere [0]. If I were selling my place, I'd be happy to have you assign as many times as you want, whether it's to assign it to your holding company or to another seller if you're unable to complete on the deal. However, I would insist on receiving the completed sale price since that is the time at which the sale and transfer of the property happens; because I still own the property, it is still my concern. Upon taking ownership of the property, if you then wish to re-list the property on the market and try and get a better price that is no longer my concern.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11059602