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Rust's improvements over C don't just consist of memory safety. It also provides an excellent type system and the ability to statically check for concurrency bugs at a higher level than just memory safety, for instance.

None of these things (except maybe some of the concurrency stuff) are quite new to Rust. It's just that C is such an old language that stuff that other languages have been doing well for decades were not available to systems software.
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However, "it's clear that it thinks it owns your system and that its manifest destiny is to contain all software that exists" is not one of those well-thought-through reasons :P
For anyone into metal looking for a way to discover new stuff they haven't heard before, I recently discovered that there's a pretty great selection available on Bandcamp if you're willing to sift through the various metal-related tags and/or find some good users to follow. There's a lot of stuff on there that easily rivals mainstream "big label" metal. All the music there is available as DRM-free mp3/ogg/lossless often with a name-your-own-price tag.
Well, at least here in Canada, it works for those who follow the laws. It definetly lowered the amount of calls I get everyday day. The one that go through are either legitimate businesse I have relations with or scammers. The latter case you can just confidently hang up.
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The frustrating thing about all of this is the blatant misuse of terminology by the media.

London resident. 7/7 killed 50 people and injured 700. Ten years have passed. The Troubles were worse.

'Terror' isn't a thing. It doesn't exist. 'Terrorism', does not exist. The real terrorists are the media companies and politicians that attempt to instill terror in the populace.

They try to craft this image of a world to be feared, with danger lying around every corner. Look around you. It's more dangerous for me to eat a Mars bar than it is for me to ride the London Underground, for fuck's sake.
> Woah, it's an inch thick!

It's thick, but not quite that thick: "The new CAT S60 measures in at just slightly thicker than half an inch"
There are better options on the tooling. Eclipse rather than IDEA, Maven rather than SBT. Not perfect by any means, and the compiler is slow, but good enough to work with day-to-day.

The library ecosystem is growing every day, and the community is starting to recognize the importance of good documentation. See e.g. the Cats project, with a big emphasis on that.

Code readability in general, rough edges, and things that are difficult for newcomers to read incrementally are precisely why I'm so worried about the syntax being frozen.
It sounds like big news but I'm pretty sure that US intelligence is laughing at this kind of software... Germany is very bad on spying on its own citizens (this is by design, e.g. the privacy laws) in comparison to the USA which I think is even better on spying German citizens than their own government ;)
Cool article, but if I may say, rainbow graphs are hard for me (and many other people) to parse.

http://betterfigures.org/2014/11/18/end-of-the-rainbow/

https://eagereyes.org/basics/rainbow-color-map

Not that it makes the article significantly weaker though, but yeah.
Then it's even less understandable why should he muddle the waters with an ill conceived analogy like the "ribbon around a hard drive" one.
I feel like there's potential for a "How to stop being a smartass" rebuttal article here.
“Crowd Judgement” for the first time in the world
The debate has been ongoing since the Snowden leak, and even before that among people who were aware of the disclosures by William Binney, Thomas Drake, et al. Unfortunately, the general public has shown that they really don't care at all.

Tech and government people tend to have strong opinions one way or the other, but the "debate" has mostly failed since the broader public couldn't care less, except maybe defaults to "(do|don't) trust your President," depending on whether their chosen political tribe is currently in office.
Actually, the FCC has several ways for you to report spoofing: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/2026543...
The mainstream do try do do metal, but its ends up crap, like Nickelback.
Source please?

Anecdotally speaking, FB & TW are doing an awful job of complying with Merkel's "supposed orders" as I see people dissing her and her policies esp. immigration whether for or against all the time and in German too.
Your first example is actually procedural. Needs more lambdas.
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Do you have any information written up on how you render so many points via the google maps API? I have built a similar tool[1] and struggled with performance and had to limit the amount of data points displayed at any one time.

Also, have you looked at Freebase[2]? This is what I used as the data source for mountains.io. They appear to have a decent amount of data for battles[3].

[1] https://www.mountains.io/

[2] https://www.freebase.com

[3] http://tinyurl.com/gr62x4u
I will always remember that days when german businesses requested servers in their offices because AWS was under NSA...
"Debate" = just let the government have what it wants.
Actually, you haven't. You are allowed to pick either group A or group B. Both groups are idiotic in their own ways.

On the spectrum from hardcore libertarianism to hardcore conservatism, the two political parties are huddled closely together in the middle of it.

You don't get a choice. But you get to be branded for the rest of your life as one of those two groups.

It's a game I refuse to play.
Notable updates since the paper was published [0]:

- switched from GCC to LLVM/Clang-based toolchain

- switched from EASTL to LLVM’s libc++

- read-only FAT file system

- exceptions implemented

- working TCP

[0] http://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/22/includeos/#comment-6419
> Misleading renders given the sensor is a Lepton. It has a resolution of 80x60 pixels.

The render might be demonstrating the hybrid mode?

"since [the 13 megapixel rear camera] sits right next to the smartphone’s thermal imaging Lepton sensor, the two can work together to create an enhanced hybrid image by merging live feeds from both cameras together. That was one of the most important innovations that FLIR introduced on the FLIR ONE, and it allowed those who weren’t familiar with thermal imaging to be able to easily decipher what they were looking at."

I'm not sure how the hybrid imaging works, though.
Anybody know if Godot has a business model behind it or is it co-ordinated purely by volunteers? Perhaps it's enough that improving the game engine via open source could help Okam Studio produce games more quickly?
>I don't get this reasoning that ... they are resolved of any blame ... annoying me ... causing hassle

Yes, I agree that annoyance is being made and hassle is being caused but I assign the "they" part more to the owners of the businesses rather than the low-level employees working the phones. Those workers are just cogs in a wheel. Therefore, I don't derive any satisfaction of justice by making employees suffer the games of an AI Turing Test. On the other hand, I am happy when business owners pay $100,000 fines for ignoring the Do-Not-Call list.

The workers vs owners distinction is the same for fast-food cashiers asking "do you want to Super Size that?", or Radio Shack employee requesting my phone number for their database, or a retail employee trying to sell me an "extended warranty". For each of those situations, I'm annoyed but it's not necessary for me to socially shame the low-level workers with rants about obesity and high-fat consumption, the dangers of privacy invasion and identity theft, and the financial foolishness of 3rd-party warranties. All those employees are just cogs in a wheel and they are required to follow a script and upsell those things. Otherwise, they are fired. I see most telemarketing employees in equivalent situations++. Waging war with those low-level employees seems like fighting the wrong layer. Instead, just don't spend money with the business or utilize technical tricks (e.g. phone TeleZapper).

++To level set, I'm not talking about criminal activities such as scammers making calls to trick senior citizens into wiring their life savings. I'm talking about the single mother or starving college student who sees a job ad for "$8/hour tele-sales" and hopes to get money for diapers or ramen noodles. The telemarketing I was thinking of was newspaper subscriptions, church donations, burglar alarms monitoring, etc.
My irony bias makes me think that attributing problems to confirmation bias should be classified as a type of confirmation bias.
Axe is a tool ...
Many years ago I tried LSD, and for whatever reason, I never seemed to experience visual hallucinations.
However, in recent years, cars have started having LED tail lights, which really bother my eyes.
Several times I have asked my friends, "Aren't those terrible!?" to which they might reply, "They are pretty bright."
Bright! They aren't just too bright, they are intensely STROBING! Can normal people not see that? Is this the flashback I was promised?
It's a bit of both.
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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/angela-merkel-caught-on-hot-m...

On the sidelines of a United Nations luncheon on Saturday, Merkel was caught on a hot mic pressing Zuckerberg about social media posts about the wave of Syrian refugees entering Germany, the publication reported.

The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that "we need to do some work" on curtailing anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. "Are you working on this?" Merkel asked in English, to which Zuckerberg replied in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.
It's interesting that you're not the only person here who's approached toki pona from a NLP perspective.

toki pona is about the worst case for an NLP language, I would think. It puts all the communication burden on the semantics and pragmatics of the language. It doesn't make human expression, feelings, interests, creativity or community simpler, just the language.

There are other conlangs designed to be unambiguous. toki pona was designed to be the opposite: maximally general.

On the specific point of having to learn a compound lexicon - that is true a little, but not as much as you'd think. Sure there are conventional compounds for saying certain things, but you are very welcome (and aesthetically encouraged) to find other ways of expressing the same thing. You might find 'ilo nanpa' defined as a computer in a compound lexicon, and I use that sometimes, but my 'ilo nanpa' is also my 'ilo musi' and my 'ilo pali' (and sometimes my 'ilo pakala'). The key insight is that the language doesn't have to describe what a thing is, but what it means to you. That changes, it cannot be properly documented, and is almost impossible to parse. I take that as a feature, not a bug. Part of the pleasure of toki pona is the endless poetry of it: the joy of finding curious and evocative ways of expressing yourself.
Apparently this submission is flagged and sinking. In addition to being bureaucrats, the OO hordes are apparently without humor, too. Or perhaps one goes with the other.
Thanks for the links. You should really update the website. No need for long fancy writeups, just add a section "for the curious what's under the hood" with a bunch of links, somewhere at the bottom.
Your design lacks a `Factory` I think. You don't use design patterns enough.
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Correct. Or more.

OP is incorrect; no tristimulus based (RGB or CMY) combination can reproduce the spectral locus without resorting to imaginary colour primaries. Imaginary primaries cannot be reproduced in reality, and as such, “all the colours we see” is “all the colours we may see from the printer.”
Don't miss these sessions/recaps from Mobile World Congress 2016
Telemarketing is annoying but generally not illegal.
Countly 16.02 released with open source web analytics, tvOS and WatchOS 2 support
Doesn't Windows 10 just add better scaling for multiple screens with different pixel densities? Normal high-dpi support was IMHO quite sufficient since Vista (of course, oftentimes depending on the application).
Yes, LKL uses unmodified Linux so you live with the dependencies and way the functionality is implemented. In exchange you get working code right now.

Also Linux is GPL, while includeOS is Apache licensed. As a library, the syscall exception may well not apply with using Linux as a unikernel.
It never lasts long enough to get complex, it appears in a virtual functional/anti-functional pair and then they annihilate each other.

Only in the presence of a powerful gravitational force, like the edge of a corporate programming style guide, will one of the pair be sucked into the maw, leaving the other to accumulate cruft.

For example, the second can incorporate two-way binding as noted, logging, synchronization via Operational Transforms, and so much more...
I doubt they have capable programmers working for them. A few years ago the Chaos Computer Club discovered the 'predecessor' version of this State-Trojan ("Bundestrojaner"). This version was a perfect example what happens when you _want_ to have such a software but your programmers _suck_ at even most basic things (like establishing a working traffic-encryption).

Here's the video (in German): https://youtu.be/zAV-hTpperU

We shouldn't fear their 'capabilities' but rather their lack of knowledge that'll ultimately lead to 'open systems' which can later be exploited by other criminals.

In fact, our State (I'm from Germany) supports criminal activities by using a crappy software that'll crack the basic security measures of Windows.

I doubt they have any professional Linux programmers working for them. Working for the State also means earning only a fraction of what you can earn in the free market.

I do not fear the State but criminals who'll sooner or later exploit holes created by our "security agencies".
The only thing that bothers me more than the homebrew crypto is their claims of security. False sense of security is worse than no security.
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1. Did not know this service existed. How long had this been going on and why did it not show up, even accidentally, in the Google matrix drop down to give me a shot.

2. Oh, does not work in my state... Okay, no need to worry about this service then. Google, you are Google, get everyone on board for the domestic region before launching a service like this.
My impression is not that people don't understand or care, but are afraid and feel powerless to do anything.
Not without its dangers.

Doublethink:

"The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies[..]"

1984, George Orwell
It’s factories all the way down.
I got rid of my land-line. Now I just get spammed on my cell. Can't win.

I'm in the US. We have a do-not-call registry. Spammers don't seem to care and hide their numbers, so I can't report them.
SketchUp is probably the only software product they've sold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp
If one is being surveilled, does one care about the cultural history of that surveillance? I wonder.
Some of the dates are incorrectly interpreted.

For example "Armada of 1779" is interpreted as a battle in October 2011.

Especially when you look at battles between 2000 and 2015 you'll see some which actually happened a few hundred years ago.
You're not forced to pick from either, as you seem not to have. If you decide to publicly pick one, you will be judged for that.

Exactly what better criteria would you use to judge people if not their choices and actions?
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"Terror data"? Hail newspeak.
I have had rainbow halos around street and car headlights since my early twenties. I first noticed it whilst tripping and have yet to determine whether the cause is physical or mental. Looks pretty though.
What is your one-size-fits-all-possible-use-cases scripting language they should all use instead?

Lua? Counterpoint: https://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011/why-not-lua

Any scripting language will have issues. It is far easier to reason about and deal with issues created by your own DSL than some other 3rd party language that you have minimal or no control over.
Being a Christian myself, yes, I do find it refreshing specifically because he's another Christian programmer. It's very rare that someone is both, let alone an adult convert to Christianity.
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Wasn't even aware of them. My favourite is probably Chton, though their work after Chtonian Lifecode has been spotty at best.
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She is not asking to remove content critical of her policies, she is asking to remove content promoting violence or racial hatred. You can criticize her policies as much as you want.
This is not an uncommon request... actually a lot of German companies (especially the bigger ones) will never trust public cloud infrastructures especially when they are based in another country.
> A DNS service built with IncludeOS results in a 158K disk image (for comparison, the MirageOS DNS server image came in at 200K).

A 42K difference and OCaml buys you memory safety and the ability to embed an invariant in your type system; further restricting the allowable executions of your program.

That is the point of MirageOS. They chose a functional language because they wanted a trusted computing base (or something as practically close to trusted as one can get).

I don't think size is going to be the big determining factor for people choosing competing unikernel implementations.
“I hope that we have that debate so that the safeguards are built and so people do not opt — and this will be country by country — [to say] it is better that the government does not have access to any information,” he said.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3559f46e-d9c5-11e5-98fd-06d75973fe...
Wow, Bill Gates has an enormous financial incentive to diss on Apple over privacy in order to deflect privacy concerns away from Windows 10.

I found it disturbing that the corporate media covers this story with mentioning Gate's conflict of interest. We had General Electric (GE) News Network (also known as MSNBC) on all morning, they covered this story a lot, and never mentioned the conflict of interest.
Daily basis? I don't think I've ever said that; I have pretty useful desktop computers in places where I need them daily, this is just a fallback. Although the device is quite beefy enough to work like a netbook, it's only strong enough to work like a netbook (i.e. reasonably powerful for a phone but underpowered for a desktop computer).

I do use my smartphone on a daily basis, but not the same set of apps every day. This one is an app that comes handy every once in a while, but when it does, it's a tremendous help (desktop paradigm doesn't really translate well to Android, so "plug in and use your normal Android apps like it's a desktop computer" is not really an option for me).

That's the whole point - I don't need to lug another physical device around, only an app on the phone. This way, I have an e-book reader (Google Books+And Bible), a map (Locus Pro), a music player (VLC), a good-enough camera, a retro gaming console (DosBox), a sky chart (Google Sky Map), the whole of Wikipedia (Kiwix), a calculator (RealCalc), and a netbook as well; no network required for any of that, just electricity. Now that would be a pretty hefty backpack for things I might need - or a 6" device in my pocket.
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Or MS already has custom-made backdoors for governments, and forcing Apple to put them in too would take away Apple's superior positioning when it inevitably gets leaked that MS has been doing this for a long time.

No evidence for it, just another possibility
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Considering Windows 10 full disk encryption sends the keys to Microsoft, I am not surprised.

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-bought-a-window...
> I'd prefer not to waste the time of human employees on the phone because they're just minimum wage workers trying to earn a paycheck. My irritation is with the owners of the telemarketing company.

It is the reason to waste telemarketing company owners money. As a result, telemarketing would become less effective, and employees would lose their job, but it is a good thing.

The goal is not more workplaces. Artificial workplaces are worse than charity or basic income. When people do useless jobs, such as selling tickets, advertising over the phone or on streets etc. they are wasting their time. They can spend it looking for a more interesting job or learning some new skill.
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There's been 3 references posted already. All social media is monitored in germany for state-defined 'hate speech' ie, anti mass illegal immigration speech.
And an "idiot" like you could use a bike instead of siting on your fat arse on a bus.

I see your point, but you are not presenting it well.
That's their usual shtick. The same was used to legitimize blanket license plate scanning (now used for speeding tickets) and data retention laws (mainly used for drug trafficking).

"Life-threatening danger" my ass.
LEDs use pulse width modulation to dim, so if it's a subpar circuit with relatively large width duty cycle, that might be what you're picking up. Might want to check out persistence of vision displays. They rely on tricking your brain in similar ways.

Do florescent lights bother you too at all?

Also from what I've heard sometimes people will only see visuals after a second time taking LSD or by taking a more substantial sized dose.
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I applaud the effort.

Nothing much has changed beyond C and the FTP-zip-tar-configure-make landscape since, what, 1980? The distro package systems have improved things a little.

This will have a bigger impact on the language than a lot of the individual library incorporation that's been going on.
> They [trojans] are often used by hackers and thieves to gain access to somebody else's data.

What does this make the German government?

If you get something on a suspect, bring him/her into custody and start your investigation but bugging them and putting their digital life at risk for the lure and greed for information gathering is just detestable and unethical.
As were the Monkees and the Archees.
It's worth quoting because it is so weird:

"[...]Americans today are less friendly to people in the other political party than we are to people of a different race. The researchers conclude that 'Americans increasingly dislike people and groups on the other side of the political divide and face no social repercussions for the open expression of these attitudes.' As a result, today 'the level of partisan animus in the American public exceeds racial animus.' That’s saying something!"

Is this a bit of light humor about how virulently racist the US is, or is it a call for racial unity beyond politics? I have no idea.