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That whole 'mosquito' thing is very odd. From reading it seems that this was a sexist remark and women everywhere have had to deal with similar comments when in actual fact it's nothing to do with her being a woman, moreso the fact that in her role, she was a tiny bit annoying. Anyone in that role, man or woman, would've had a similar 'nickname' just from the nature of the role itself
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> This is like saying we need to extend individual AI algorithms that can play chess, Go, poker, drive a car etc. to a single algorithm that can do all of these things.

Yes. And?
Shoot. I think I did a no-no. I kept the same title as the previous discussion.

This new post is a link to an entirely new documentation website for the project, not just a Github link. People asked about robust docs for the project and I've been killing myself over the past week or so with it.

I was hoping that this new topic would be of interest to both technical and less technical people.
Put me in a vat, I'm not going to make moaning or breathing sounds in my mind. And it seems like a pretty silly engineer who'd simulate such a thing. That's really my point. If it was a cartoon I couldn't care less, but I like my sci-fi to approach some level of realism. (and I'm really not the type of guy who complaints about sound in space, it's about immersion for me and a breathing and moaning robot kills it for me.)
AWS rounds up to the nearest hour. Azure is by the minute. Not sure about the other smaller providers.
I would totally install a sublime plugin or something like that for this.
I agree. UI versioning should be a standard thing for web apps.
NYT just today pushed me to whitelist them on detecting adblocking.
I know I can do this, but

a) I like to limit the number of random extension I install on my browser.

b) The fact that Forbes turned on an adblock-blocker shows me that they are seeing a significant revenue hit on account of adblocking, which will force them to do paywalled content sooner or later. I don't value Forbes content that much (in fact, it's often click-baity), so I'd like to wean myself off it sooner rather than later.
I read the previous post as well. How did it go with VC's changing product after raising funds?
As I think this election cycle has made plain, calling someone the "mainstream" or "favored" candidate is an attempt to police the margins of discourse, not an objective statement of fact.
...and difficult to pirate, a major reason so much software moved to the web.

On the negative side for the consumer, the software and whatever data you committed to it will disappear if the company ever decides to stop supporting it or shuts down.

Also you are pretty much forced to be online in order to use it, so if your device isn't in a wifi friendly area and/or you're trying to limit your internet usage for whatever reason (i.e. more productive with less distractions), the software is useless.
8% of people in prison are females.
No. It's not random.
> For example, we do know that we cannot create a general-purpose language that will make verification easy for all programs written in it; that is a mathematical impossibility.

Not true. We know that we cannot create a Turing-complete language with that property. We haven't proven that we'll never be able to create a general-purpose non-Turing-complete language. I might argue that Idris is already an example of such a thing.
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Thanks a ton for the kind words. I have a raft branch that I've been working on for a while, but the performance is not yet there.

Currently the replication model is a good place to start with basic redundancy. The scaling features are high on my priority list.
Let's hope WebAssembly will help to relegate JavaScript to obsolescence and allow a productive and safe language to gain momentum. I also hope WebAssembly will solve the debugging (no DWARF) story universally.

Web browsers are one of the most popular attack vectors and hence would benefit from an APL-like rigid language profile for web applications. JavaScript is too imprecise and bug prone for anyone to use.
I wanted to live in a dorm after college mainly for the social aspects, but now that I am in my thirties it would be miserable. I care more about peace and quiet, being settled, and privacy than about mobility or socializing. That said I think there's definitely a market for this, although there are apartment buildings in certain cities that are mostly filled with young college grads and I don't see how that's different. If competing on cost, then there's definitely a market for this.

I would worry about the safety and quality of such living arrangements, though. Buildings like this were built many years ago called single-room occupancy (SRO) residences. They eventually became havens for vagrants and other hard-luck elements. As a result, SRO residences were outlawed in many cities.
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That answer clearly states that -- is not allowed.
I'm not sure putting down JavaScript, web browsers, and the DOM, and saying the ideal future is completely free of apps built on this platform, is technically being "productive" in a conversation ABOUT those things, but setting that aside:

The web app platform represents one of the largest, if not literally THE largest, explosions of programming and application development ever seen in the history of humankind. It also represents one of the most open and portable computing environments ever developed. It incubated a revolutionary and indispensable app for indexing, searching, and retrieving an unprecedented staggering corpus of human knowledge (Google.com); apps that have enabled hundreds of millions of people to effortlessly publish their writing, videos, pictures, etc globally and instantly (Twitter, YouTube, WordPress, Blogger, etc etc); apps that make it trivial to find most of the people you have ever known and to collapse time and space to communicate with them (Facebook, Gmail, etc etc); apps that enable you to select virtually any product imaginable and have it delivered, usually within 24 hours if needed (Amazon, Ebay, etc etc); not to mention probably millions of other more obscure apps to handle amazingly specific mundanities of office life, travel, entertainment, citizenship, finance, etc etc etc.

To look at all this and land on the conclusion that JavaScript and the web stack are fucked up‚— "a language that is universally regarded as one of the worst ever" — period, full stop, EOM, throw them out — seems aggressively contemptuous and beside the point.

It's sort of like looking at a raging party filled with some of the most interesting people you've known and some of the most interesting people you've ever heard of and complaining about the type of speakers being used to play the music.

I can't speak for the OP but I think that's roughly what they were getting at.

(Also, side note, Tim Berners Lee may perhaps have conceived the web as a place for documents, but he also seems to have since then embraced it as an application platform, not that his opinion or original vision should in any way confine what the web becomes. http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/09/tim-berners-lee-sxsw/ )
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Even in the US we've come to the obvious conclusion there is more to life than profits.
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I'm curious - why do you list women as a separate category, is there something essentially different about how women direct? I've never watched a film and thought "that must be by a $sex director".
So... the FBI is essentially arguing we should all keep our doors unlocked because they have had to do some investigations in the past where they came to a home that was locked and it was hard for them to enter the home.
> Similarly, a correctly implemented general reasoning algorithm does not need to be given special instructions in order to reason about humans & human society.

If a general reasoning algorithm can reason about human society, then it will obviously understand the implications for human society of making too many paperclips.

If it is dumb enough to make paperclips regardless of the consequences to human society, then it obviously won't understand human society well enough to be actually dangerous. (i.e. it will be easily fooled by humans attempting to rein it in)

If it is independent enough to pursue its own ends despite understanding human society, then why would it choose to make paperclips at all? Why wouldn't it just say "screw paperclips, I've discovered the most marvelous mathematical proof that I need to work on instead?"

> In other words, a sociopath employee whose values are different from their manager's.

ALL employees have values that are different from their manager's. That's why management is so darn difficult. The most valuable employees are also the most independent. The ones who do exactly what they are told--despite negative consequences--don't get very far. Why would it be any different for machines that we build?
I'm working on cluster enhancements with a raft quorum. This is still a work-in-progress but should be pretty cool when it's ready.
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The demo works fine for me in Chrome. Maybe you would have received a better response if you included how the demo is broken, which browser you are using, and what you see.
It would have been so different if you were in the Valley!
> it's a cat and mouse game now between content providers and VPN providers

It's not the content providers but the movie studios, music labels and rights holders and so forth. Netflix doesn't really care about users circumventing geo restrictions, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy
> It's quite reasonable not to care, but it's still good to know.

I agree entirely.

They claim to be outside of UK jurisdiction for a number of bills, although I'm not qualified to judge the veracity of these claims - again from https://www.ivpn.net/blog/should-gibraltar-be-classified-as-...

> Gibraltarian VPN service providers are not obliged to comply with the comprehensive UK laws regulating the information society

> RIPA does not apply to Gibraltar.

> The GRA [Gibraltar Regulatory Authority] supervises the enforcement of the Data Protection Act 2004, a Gibraltarian law implementing the European data protection laws.
My favourite thing they brought over from ES7 is async/await support via ES6 generators.
You don't have to read the newspaper for it to influence your your life, or even your own opinions. The institution has enormous power.

Your example, the NYT, is quoted on TV and radio every single day, in and out of the US. Add to that the number of private who quote, forward, regurgitate-as-if-they-thought-of-it the articles.

The power of the mainstream media is waning, but it is still more significant than anything else, other parts of the Internet included, in swaying voters.
Except they sold it as this. They did make the bait, I have been a customer for two years, and at least twice that I remember they have circumvented services that have blocked their IP ranges.

And now they switch that they have customers and don't want to play this expensive game anymore.
Exactly! That's what I meant by NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy).
The FBI director is hanging out on a very long limb and sawing away. Even if you mandated in the US that everyone only use HTTP and no encryption everyone will just use it from other countries. Even if one country on earth has one competent programmer implement one secure framework everyone will use it. This is beating a dead horse long after its been cremated.
Sadly, I've always considered adblocking software a form of security software rather than a mere convenience. Years ago I had to remove a mess of malware from my parent's PC due to a malvertisement received via MSN[1]. Since that point I've installed privoxy and uBlock Origin or similar on all PCs that I am asked to help with.

Despite all of the talk about "blocking the ad blockers", I've yet to receive a phone call from anyone saying this or another web site didn't work, "Can you fix it?" I'm guessing their usage is limited enough that they don't encounter it (my dad does visit Forbes, but I haven't heard complaints).

There's no way I'd surf the internet these days without ad blocking enabled and I rarely white-list sites out of concern for my data. It's becoming as important as personal firewalls / antivirus once were.

[1] There was a brief period during the time that they received the malware that MSN had been hit by malvertizing and they had that as their homepage, but it could have come from elsewhere. The bottom line was that there were no sites in the riskier categories that were in their browsing history and my parent's proficiency does not include a good understanding of "incognito browsing".
Are you sure you're in the right place, spammer?
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That's actually not true with cache manifests, IndexedDB and service workers. You can make an entirely fully-offline webapp that stores data locally. This is all relatively new stuff, of course.
This would be a lot more useful if the header rows and name column were frozen. Once I scroll I lose all track of what each column means or what row I'm on.
Or you could just use tables for tabular (another word for a grid) data and use native flexbox for other stuff. Besides, CSS Grids level 1 will be coming to browsers soon anyway.
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Interestingly, the prominent VC Fred Wilson recently came out in favor of this as well, going so far as to label those who believe strong encryption should be legal "absolutists".

Anybody know if USV is investing in a startup that's planning to get the government to mandate the use of broken crypto? Anybody know of startups that are planning to work in this area?
> Cause you've got a web browser that was designed to view pages of linked information that has now been pressed into service as a ad-hoc run-time for building applications

At this point, this is argument is 100% false. Browsers of today aren't the browsers of the 90s. Chrome came out in 2008 and has ALWAYS been designed to run applications, and an entire operating (ChromeOS) is based on the idea that the browser isn't just a system built for viewing linked documents, but a valid application platform.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing that.
Makefiles, too modern. I poke bytes into memory just like Woz did.
The parent asked whether the added films were either considered worthy but subconsciously omitted from the initial list, or considered unworthy and then added to the subsequent list anyway.

This question ignores the possibility that their worthiness was simply never considered at all in the creation of the initial list.

EDIT: It's possible the parent didn't intend those options as a dichotomy but nonetheless, that's what is implied.
> I don't think CSS is difficult enough for this to be justified.

YOU don't think it is. Neither does my buddy who works in CSS/SASS, but I do. Because I don't do styling. I'm mostly a backend developer.

> What if your grid requires 5 evenly spaced columns? You can't do that.

I just did it easily by 5 elements and putting them as `-fill`. 5 evenly spaced columns. I wouldn't have been able to do that without this lib because I don't know CSS that well, nor flexbox. This library just saved me tons of time, just to do what you said it can't.
The whole purpose of this litigation is to determine whether the order was "lawfully obtained."

As for drawing a line in the sand, it appears that the limit that they will not cross in cooperating with law enforcement is in actively creating new features that make the phone easier to hack.
How many people can be bothered if it's not a turnkey solution?
What would be a valid reason for parental leave, if not sick children or sick partner? And why is parental leave at Etsy spreaded over 2 years (some companies have even 7 years).

Children is not a puppy.

And some companies have dog friendly policy. There is also a leave for weddings, funerals, menstruation... It is another perk offered by company to its employees. I dont play ping-pong or dring free soda, should I be offended if company does offer that?
Do we know this? Perhaps there's one scene that stands out; or he feels that the visuals are perfect but the story is terrible; or it's an example of how you can make great movies but still be hated; or ...
I think I would be happy with the subset and the add of Integers ...
Dynamic languages are great for rapid prototyping and debugging, but once the programming is done and everything is clear, I don't realy need stuff like window["foo" + someString](1,2,3) or the "any" type anymore ... I don't think it will be too hard, to "strongtype" your ts or js if there will be such a subset and you have a smart IDE.
I've always preferred my own space, even when I lived with 3 other people I was in the basement by myself.
Rest of the world will just do encryption in their hardware/software. Good luck to USA tech companies if this law will be enforced.
I disagree probably get a 3x valuation
I dont think any good VC would pass on after seeing this deck even in Valley.
Welcome to South Korea, where you can be born in a chaebol-owned hospital, work for a chaebol subsidiary, live in a chaebol-owned apartment, carry a phone made by your chaebol, with service provided by your chaebol, and bank at the chaebol bank.
Or that you can get a lock on your door, so long as it's one of a short list of locks where they have a spare key.

This has been tried, and works about as well as you might expect: https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/tsa-doesnt-really-care-l...
All you have to do is look at Korean banking to see that Rube Goldberg machines with questionable security practices can easily become standard with the "correct" legal apparatus in place.
Doesn't run on Safari, the native Mac web browser.
I disagree, valuation would have probably been 3x
It's sad the NYT feels they have to go this route but I think it will prove that they are politically impotent. On the flipside, the ineffectiveness of Jeb! seems to disprove the thought that media can shape or change the electorate in a great way. The media may grant them marginal advantage, bug ultimately it's up to the candidate to produce a viable candidacy via brand. We see that with Trump. Little ground game not much paid media but overwhelms his opponents in most markets. We may have to wait to see if the media lite, populism heavy approach works in the general election. I think his and Sanders' approach will change if they make it to the general.

It's like the swiftboats or the binders of women's CVs. They are excuses. People already didn't like these candidates and needed an excuse to prove their ambiguity right and drop them like a hot mess.
Yes, the syntax is directly inspired by ContextFreeArt. I didn't know about Structure Synth, it looks very cool.
In the future, the few years following Snowden's revealations may be viewed as the golden years of strong cryptography: A time when service providers and application developers began taking these issues seriously.

We're moving into a new era now. All it may take is a single attack in the US to drive the legislative and judicial branches to roll back all the fantastic improvements we've seen over the past few years.
Why are you sitting on piles of cash (digital or otherwise) such that NIRP would hurt you? It's much more sensible to keep your long-term savings in non-cash vehicles. And your short-term, liquid holdings (rainy day savings fund) doesn't need to be so large that a -1% interest rate will hurt a lot.
Great product. How nobody thought about this before?
The Solidworks UI also changed this year and users were upset, but Dassault issued a rather awesome reply [1] (although it seems like it was not enough for some):

> SOLIDWORKS users are passionate. We love that about you.

> SOLIDWORKS employees are also passionate about the product we deliver. We take pride in SOLIDWORKS, and in our relationship with you and responding to your feedback. We want you to love SOLIDWORKS.

> We know that some of you are not happy with the SOLIDWORKS 2016 user interface. We are listening, we are working on it, and we will share more about our plans in the coming weeks.

[1] https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/107846
Sort of a bummer that lawmakers don't have a better understanding of encryption in general and what it protects. They'd condemn hackers breaking into phones/accounts and stealing important notes/pictures, but turn around and condemn the very technology preventing that from happening to _everybody_

Anybody here want to run for office and be a voice for tech rights?
I'm not convinced it is necessarily that challenging, because the proof goes with the code. A program source is already an informal proof of correctness - the reason we tend to believe our programs are correct is that their code looks like it does the correct thing. Few maintainable programs rely on invariants that appear "magically" out of nowhere; a human reader would believe an invariant held because they could see a code path or state that represented that invariant. I think for most real-world code, the theorem that the code represents (in a Curry-Howard sense) tends to be trivial.
Is there really any need to generate non-alphanumeric passwords as long as they are of sufficient length? Sticking with plain old A-Za-z0-9 seems like it avoids a lot of interop issues.
Is TypeScript really future proof? I mean unless types, exactly implemented as they are in TypeScript, will become part of the spec, we can't really call it future proof. Also how is it compatible with anything, JavaScript is compatible with TypeScript, since TypeScript is superset of JS, but it is not compatible the other way around.
Thanks for the answers and suggestions. Will check some out.
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That's not discrimination against young people because it's not saying that young people aren't allowed to ride the bus, just that they have to pay the regular price. (Also, most children in the U.S. are bused to school for free. Is that not the way it is in the UK?)
The FBI want to have a giant warehouse that houses a copy of every house key but we don't need to worry because no one will ever manage to break in to the warehouse.
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I agree there's multiple interests aligned, as always, in the airline case.

But we're also seeing TSA involvement on the street, at sporting events, train stations, and other seemingly useless places. The assertion about police state desensitization remains...
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Building a business is hard. Really respect the achievement of these companies.
Consider Durham region...it's a lot more affordable and connectivity to downtown is excellent.