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I'm still not get the go rant. I mean it's not bad, but it's not great either.
Programming in Java8 could be way easier than with go and has a better Concurrency model (CompletionStage), it sometimes could be overly verbose however that's not always a problem.

Go is just good for some things, not for all.
> Many of Rust's designers are experienced systems programmers. A _lot_ of effort goes into making it systems-ready.

That is promising. Thanks. I am certainly playing with it at home.
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Thanks. Where can I see the second edition draft?

edit: This one? https://github.com/rust-lang/book.git
Plenty of countries will ask if you've ever been refused entry to any country. And you're also generally automatically excluded from any Visa Waiver Programme from then on too. So it's a major issue.
As far as I know the W10 machine needs to be also joined to an AD domain for this to work (the telemetry is disabled via a group policy on the DC).
> Personally, if the OCaml multicore work ends up slowing down the core runtime appreciably, I'm going to be upset

That's what I meant in my original post about multicore seeming controversial. That's part of the reason that for me, a super-speedy single-core Ocaml coupled with an industrial strength OTP-style distributed computing framework, would be awesome. I'm actually not that excited about multicore. My use case is lots of streaming data coming in, needing to be parsed, lots of heavy lifting stats work done in real time, then distributed to clients. So it needs both very high performance on the single thread (currently using GPU-accelerated calls to Numpy), and then very efficiently be able to distribute heterogenous data to lots of endpoints. I really would love to be able to do it all in Ocaml.
If the encryption key didn't depend on the hardware this would work. Even the iPhone 5C that the recent court case is about relies on the hardware keeping a key secret and it doesn't contain the secure enclave. For an iPhone 5C, the encryption key is derived from the pin and a unique ID for the phone that the CPU itself can't read. The only thing that the application processor can do is perform some crypto instructions using the key, there isn't an operation that would just put the key into memory or a register that you can read from. Even if you have root and the phone in front of you with the password, there's nothing you can do short of decapping it to try to identify that key.
On the other hand, some astronauts could get significant money out of giving talks and writing books, etc. At least if they are the first to land on the Moon, or Mars, or similar.

However, I suppose most of those who enter training will never even enter space. It's a rock star earning model: very many try, very few succeed completely. But people do it also for other reasons than money.
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This sounds like a terrible idea for two reasons.

Firstly that in order to maintain an acceptable pass rate the requirement standards will be dumbed down.

Secondly that this will then diminish genuine qualifications and interest in the field of Computer Science itself.

We have seen this exact thing happen in the UK, which had an early lead in software thanks to a vibrant microcomputer scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The government made "I.T." a major part of the school curriculum, taught by teachers who had little more I.T. skills than any other member of the general population, and which ended up being all about how to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Nett Result: falling Computer Science Rolls in UK Universities - basically they succeeded in largely killing kids interests in computers.
Yep - my use case analyses the streaming incoming data using compute-intensive algorithms. I need very high performance single core, for which Erlang is unsuitable. Therefore I'm using calls to numpy. But then I need to distribute data widely in heterogenous, changeable ways, and for that, Erlang wins hands down.
Thanks for not making me read 10 pages of wall of text.
Angular is probably the bees knees if you are a Google employee but it makes little sense for anyone outside to bet the farm on it.
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Kids, it's called "speech recognition". Voice recognition also exists, but it's the task of identifying a user based on his/her voice, not the task of transcribing spoken input as text.
I like the idea, but I think most of Austin has limestone bedrock six feet below the surface, so that might be prohibitively expensive.
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> judging by the downvotes, there's a surprising number of Microsoft fanboys here.

Seriously, do we need to lower the content level of discussion here to "fanboy" camp accusations, it's not productive.

Also, please review the guidelines:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Austin has... something of an ego. It thinks of itself as the center of Texas - not completely unjustly, as it is the capital. Since Texas is obviously the best, greatest, most important, and all-around awesomeist place in the worst, it obviously follows that Austin is the best city in all of time and space.

It's got some hipster cultural cache and is a regional cultural and economic center... if your primary language is English.
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Great to hear you're helping to make that happen! So many medical devices (in clinical or research settings) are ridiculously outdated, expensive, and newer tech can often leapfrog the diagnostic capabilities. I've done research, mostly in soft tissue research, and it's crazy how much potential there is out there.
The title is strange: the article is actually about how Go solves problems for web developers, not about why.
Unless she's heard from 384+ people
No, except for the stt part using sphinx, which is tricky to set up for it to be accurate enough (seems the author of the op didn't go that far)
> It really would be amazing to be able to get voice recognition software that covers at least recognizing a small enough fraction of our language to be useful without having to reach the cloud.

Are there any academic groups working on this topic, and do they have prototype implementations?
There is something really off about these numbers. unless i'm totally off about how many entry level employees are in the area vs mid/senior level employees. Since this data is collected by people reporting their salaries, I think that people that are more junior are more likely using and submitting their salary info to the site. This will skew salary data toward entry level employees.

I also see Glassdoor is accounting for stocks now, though that's not factored into avg salary, but total comp. Looking at some companies this raise compensation by ~$50k.
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I have that on Firefox, it works with Chrome.
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http://shapecatcher.com/ does the same for unicode symbols.
I think it's enough that we have more "known knowns" now than 200 years ago. We have an insane amount of knowledge that wasn't available then.

We have neurology, neurochemistry, neuropsychology, etc. to help us understand human motivations and behaviors.

We have evolution to explain human origins, and evolutionary psychology, while very much in its early stages, to identify the origins of behaviors.

We have physics, materialism, and philosophy to suggest the lack of dualistic free will, which completely alters the way we should view crime and punishment.

And for the unknown unknowns, we have modern understandings of statistics and risk analysis coupled with the scientific method. Bayes' theorem was developed before the founding of the USA[0], and yet still, 250 years later, is not well incorporated into law and political strategy.

So maybe what really drives people hasn't changed, but our understanding thereof really, really has. A lot.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem#History
The pdf is discussing vehicles, specifically aircraft, that would utilize LENR assuming it works.

Here is an excerpt from the pdf: This report does not explore the feasibility of LENR.
Instead, it assumes that a working system is available.

Your statement: there are folks at NASA and SPAWAR that think LENR (not fusion per se) is real., is incorrect, they assume it works for the purposes of the discussion about aircraft.

You are either scamming or are being scammed. In the latter case (and I'm trying to help you here), please make an effort with some serious research and re-evalaute your opinions.
I'd counter that by stating that I work on a .NET codebase that dates back to 2003, it still builds just fine in Visual Studio 2015 and runs without issue on .NET 4.6/IIS8.5.
Promises are coming to core: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5020
Kerckhoff's principle should be adhered to if truly secure encryption is desired; alas, then all sorts of hard obstacles pop up (UX becomes a SPOF, most commonly - a secret always needs to be stored somewhere, if only in the user's head).

OTOH, the practical purpose of encryption is to remain unbroken for long enough, not to be completely unbreakable. As seen here, security-through-obscurity is practical enough in cases where user-obtained key material is too weak to provide enough protection using strong publicized crypto. In other words, it's a two-part key: one is in user's wetware, the other in phone's hardware (as per obXKCD, it's usually easier to attack the former).
I started a diary article here.

Link: https://medium.com/@ChakibBenz/making-a-home-made-mini-cloud...
I would say that counts, provided it's actual stock and not options. If it's actual stock, it's liquid, which makes it almost as good as cash for most purposes.
Gopher is still my ideal when making web pages. I don't do web development professionally, of course, but for all my personal projects I try to limit the main page to under 15kb.

For simple pages you can make it "responsive" by default, much like the "mothefuckingwebsite".
> If for whatever reason you are experiencing a deliverability problem, you can always reach out to us and we'll help you with any issues you have.

As a Mailgun user, I can confirm that first hand.
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As with all design, it's not about making it look nice.
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Silverlight was competition to Flash. Once the standards were far enough along that it was clear plugins weren't going to be necessary, there was no reason to keep it alive. Honestly, you should be happy that Microsoft killed off theirs and decided to use open standards instead.
Last time I looked into the MiLight devices, it seemed like the protocol didn't support RGB but instead converted it into a more constrained space - is that accurate?
To only know webdesign is a very limited focus.
Quite the opposite: your keychain is stored as part of your iCloud data.
For comparison after this shitty move by MailChimp, Mandrill will be $60 for 50,000 emails (2 x 25k blocks @ $20 + $20 minimum plan on mailchimp).

50,001 will then cost you $80 (another block)

also interesting that their pricing page[0] still doesn't reflect the new pricing...

[0] http://mandrill.com/pricing/
Awesome collection! One thing that strikes me is that there are quite a few CEOs who try to blame others for the failure. You read things like:

* "my competitor ... is infamous for its anti-competitive behaviour",
* "every time we have any meaningful growth, it's coupled with the immediate attention of the record labels"

Taking responsibility should be the first thing for any CEO to be good at.
> What will be THE tool to develop for/on Linux?

I meant it in .NET context.
They're not zaibatsu, but the point stands.
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But then you need to addon wifi for another $100
Ive been considering doing remote work so have read a few threads on this.

There is a general trend to off shore this sort of role, but there is also a need to keep these roles inland to allow companies to keep compliance, occasional visits to site without visa issues and to protect against loss of IP. This creates opportunities for OP's friend
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The thing is that anybody who is able to initiate queries has access to that data. No need to do inference attacks over there :-) So, an adversary cannot query data based on particular distribution b/c it cannot initiate meaningful queries.

If an active server-side adversary can trick the client into doing certain queries is another question though.
Hey Jes, would be glad to get your insights on echopen.org 's project still =)

Electronics wise, we are using a single element, mechanically translated (similar to the atl access pv10 probe) - then with a single element you can cut on the price (so far our prototype parts costs 250$/300$) while still giving a basic image for the user, who doesn't all the time need all the feature of a high-end ultrasound scanner =)

What do you think?
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Yes it is, the deb package (provided by microsoft) having been created for an older version of debian (6 or 7) but being the only available one for debian 8... dependencies don't match.
The point about generalists no longer having a place in the market is something that's becoming more and more apparent every day.

The web was crafted by generalists. People who could think about both technology and design at the same time were hugely valuable builders, and leveraged to rapidly build up the content and tools of web from nothing.

Looking back, it was the wild west. We generalists were the rough and tumble pioneers that swung an axe and moved boulders, dug for gold, founded towns from dirt.

But now, it's built. There's no more frontier left to explore. The roads are cleared, railroads built, the land claims are well established, the towns have paved streets and public services.

10 years ago we web generalists were calling ourselves designers or developers but now we're engineers, product consultants. There's no longer a mad scramble to get a vision onto the screen with a designer, develop a new product from nothing. It's all about engineering to remove the flaws of the rough work done by pioneers, carefully looking at what's been established and tuning it so that it lasts.

I think some of us chronic generalists need to find a new frontier. This is just no longer our place..
That blog post doesn't really say anything. You have to click through a couple of links to find the real paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... which has some interesting ideas, although it's a bit too brief for the subject, I think.
Because the current way patents in the US are viewed, is as ammunition to attack competitors (and potential competitors). :(
Should be interesting to see what they come up with.

Somehow I don't think they will find things better than multi-million dollar research like HAMR for write-once read-many, but we'll see I guess.

I wonder if there will be 100TB spinning read/write drives by 2020, an exponential leap instead of incremental

Is there any reason for them to stay with 5.25 or 3.5 inch design for a datacenter?

Why not go back to 8 inch for massive surface area? Or is that too much mass to spin.
I still use teletext pretty much daily. NOS (Netherlands) have a pretty good web interface as well.

http://nos.nl/teletekst
I see a distinct difference between habits like smoking, a choice which doesn't make a person bad or good but affects their life in practical ways, and habits like charitable giving, which do have repercussions in terms of that person's moral character. There is a spectrum of morality that we each inhabit, our place on it not necessarily affecting our effectiveness in life. At the extreme ends, like being a psychopathic killer on the bad end, or being a person who surrenders the entirety of their surplus time and resources toward charitable causes at the good end, does have a major practical effect on an individual's effectiveness in life. This moral spectrum is a bell curve, with most of us falling toward the middle, wherein morality plays almost no significant part in our life. A person can live their whole life without ever flirting with the edges of this curve, and still be a well-adjusted member of Western society.

The crux here is that in a rationally-minded, secular culture, those moral habits become idiosyncratic choices, pursued by each individual within the context of their community. When a person steps up into a cosmopolitan, world-citizen mindset, relative morality suddenly seems like a massive failure on humanity's part. Some then don the drapery of the moral absolutist, either searching for or consciously choosing a moral lens with which to view the world.

If my comments above mean to convey anything at all, it's mainly that the planet is slowly becoming one community. Habits like being punctual, following traffic laws, eating a healthy diet, don't necessarily need to have a moral aspect. They simply need to help the individual fulfill a functional role in this interconnected world. That individual may also coincidentally discover another dimension to their behavior, the moral axis, but that plane is much more open to interpretation and less easily measured(tracking being an overarching fetish in the self-help world). I can tell you how punctual you are by looking at your timesheet, but I can't objectively tell you how good you are by measuring how many thank-you notes you wrote this year. I think it is disingenuous to expect the self-help industry to tackle the moral aspect of behavior and expect it to succeed in any meaningful way. I would love to see that book written, in a non-alienating, non-judgemental tone, but I suspect it an impossible deed, an idealistic fool's errand even.
Blue Yeti is good (and not too expensive), but isn't it a bit overkill for voice typing?

If you generally feel like having a better microphone would help in other cases as well (Skype, vlog, what-have-you), then I'd agree with the above post.
Owning a US company is exactly the kind of "relation to US" (the phrasing banks use here, not "US person") that will trigger the consequences described by other commenters.
No, we don't use any techniques from CryptDB at all. We thought about doing server-side set intersections using some ideas from CryptDB but we decided to not do that.

In brief, we don't compute on encrypted data, we search for encrypted data using encrypted indexes (which are operated from the client, even though are located remotely).
That's what a last will is for: "...and the passphrase for my inheritable private stuff is 12345; it's the file named Blah.xyzzy.foo on my desktop, decryptable using BazBarFoo (installed)."
We're just talking about entry-level salary, right? I've heard really high numbers for first year total compensation.
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Wrong, Xamarin has continuous/live coding. If you're doing the code -> compile -> deploy -> watch dance then you're doing it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH90fVkXQx8
There's a difference between a news site full of nerds being interested in something shiny, and a company dropping an old product for something shiny.
Hi,

I don't think there is any way to extend smartphone battery life like memory. Battery are coming pre fixed life..Its just a myth.
Uhh. No. This tool just explains some of the security benefits of certain registration settings. This doesn't mean what the OP thinks it means. Yes, someone could point ycombinator.com to some other server if they gain access to the account at the registrar.
Xamarin has continuous/live coding. If you're doing the code -> compile -> deploy -> watch dance then you're doing it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH90fVkXQx8
At least for me - yes. Currently I'm using dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 7. But when Win7 expires, no more Windows on my machine(s). There's no way I'm letting malware, called Windows 10, near my data.
There is project Sirius which does it, take a look

http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/category/watch/
I've been dabbling with speech recognition for 20 years now, and this is nothing new, but what's been a long time coming is the recognition accuracy. In the old days, you'd get about 85% accuracy, now we're looking at what, 95%? That 10% is a game changer.. 85% accuracy was simply too frustrating to be practical.
Exactly! Many of the things mentioned in the post aren't really helpful in building a web app from scratch. In fact, Go simply presents way too much overhead for building a webapp from scratch.

I see Go as an optimization tool when concurrency is needed, the same way I would consider using it to break some part of the app when it gets way too big. It works very well for those purposes. But I would never consider Go for building a web app from scratch.
They wanted $600 to ultrasound me when I had gallstones, it's a racket.

Had to skip on that and just ate more fiber instead which thankfully solved that (pain was unbelievable).
He probably had some influence in making .NET "Open Source"...
I pay for both services currently so moving from free isn't necessarily a problem. But I am struggling to figure out what the pricing will be after these changes. I am surprised at the lack of clarity.
Why would developers buy source code?
You forgot jumping on the hype bandwagon and getting a piece of the hype-rush.

Seriously though, Go is a really good language. Its a simple yet solid & powerful language, but why would people feel the need to present it as the silver bullet for everything?
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starting pay in cities is usually around $40-45k. it goes up the longer you're there. i had middle/high school teacher that's been doing it for 20yrs making 100k+.
Yes, but that number goes up when you're getting shot at. Your point about contractors stands, though.
Pretty neat.

It won't accept curse words though like the f-bomb and the s-word.
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That's what I thought at the first sight too.
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One problem with made up word like "esquivalience" is that many people loves new nice words appearing in dictionary. Maybe, dictionnary.com has not commit a copyright violation, but just followed a hype.
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I attach link explaining what is Shutter Count and why it would be easy to detect if it has been changed. (Which is not)

http://www.howtogeek.com/218244/how-to-check-a-dslrs-shutter...
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RSUs and other post ipo options should definitely count cause you can sell it right after they vest, basically treating it like cash.

What I'm saying is that Glassdoor does not count it towards their avg salary number. If you click a salary for a role at a certain company it'll give you a different breakdown showing Avg Salary, and one showing Total Comp that includes salary + bonus + stock
Hi,

Its a great news ...
From my feedly:

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http://githubengineering.com/

http://blog.serverfault.com/

https://engineering.quora.com/

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Can you please email me the results of this? lucas [at] agencyrevolution.com - I am considering Mailgun but am hesitant after seeing this.