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I wasn't confused at all. Technically there is a difference between a language, an API and a platform.

That's all true in the case of NodeJS and the like, but not true for web browsers. There the language the API and the platform come as one.

The result is, remote websites can execute code on a users computer. With no control except for simple technical measures.
When I'm in a large SUV or pickup I'm worried about the far greater chance of killing someone else than when I'm in a smaller vehicle.

This concern, however, doesn't seem to bother many of the people in said vehicles.
He got amazing access to Obama for this article. I haven't read it all, but the question about when intervention is justified and correct is one I find interesting because it creates strange bedfellows. When an old-fashioned liberal like Obama can be an admirer of the cautious Bush I and Brent Scowcroft, it's interesting.

As another example, reading George Kennan's reflections (http://www.amazon.com/Around-Cragged-Hill-Political-Philosop...), one is struck by how cautious Kennan is, and how he needs to see how something affects American interests before intervening. It's not realpolitik a la Kissenger, it's just a modest understanding of our limits.
It appears to be more about being allowed to communicate, than being allowed to do so privately.
A $120k median salary definitely isn't "middle class."

And there's been nothing like an influx of medical workers that would any way be comparable to the tech influx since the start of the century.

EDIT: Also, medical workers, though larger as a force head-count wise, appear to have decidedly lower median salaries ($67k) than to tech workers. Based on some quick searches, my guesstimate above appears to have been a bit off, but not by much -- and only when we include the non-engineering component of "tech" workers (i.e. marketing and regular admin types).

In any case there definitely appears to be a significant gap between the two industries, in terms of median salary.
I agree. Viewed it on a chromebook and the site performance was fine.
Why not focus on the specific properties you want? Something like "auditable source", which also implies a reproducible build.
As someone who frequently goes skiing, the recent deployment of RFID scanners at larger resorts is nothing short of amazing:

You can reload the passes online, the lift attendants can check everyone's pass just by waving a scanner across a crowd (no more having to precisely line up a barcode), you get online stats and achievements at the end of the day, and if you have photos taken on the hill they automatically show up in your online account.

So ya, definitely some really cool stuff you can do with them. :)
Sure, but I don't consider most of those life altering events.

The new safety features on my current car, like collision detection and dynamic cruise control, have certainly changed the way I drive and so altered my life in a small way.
But isn't the article trying to appeal to people?

And here's the bigger problem I (well, I stated it over and over again: This was kinda introduced to me rather recently) have: As a non-native speaker of English 'to kill' is neutral. A fox kills a hen. 'killer' is immediately associated with ethical and moral values, feels much closer to murderer.

Actually .. I have trouble translating 'killer' back to my native language, German. 'Mörder' would be murderer, 'Jäger' is hunter - it might be that I'm just tired, but I cannot come up with something that might match 'killer' without either making the animal sound human and vicious (murderer) or diluting the whole term (hunter).

Native English speakers: Is 'killer' something you read and understand as 'predator in nature'? Do you feel that this name comes with emotional baggage?
I'm pretty sure that they updated her to ignore those. At least, mine doesn't seem to respond to them anymore. She lights up blue to listen, but then goes back to sleep without action. Could be a mere coincidence though, but she still responds to other things on the TV (like Alexi's name from House of Cards). It was like a dad joke: funny at first, but annoying after a while.
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I could see a hotel system that turns off the lights at some predetermined time if the room is not rented, in case they were accidentally left on. That might save them some electricity, but it's hard to see it saving enough to pay for the system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#New_Year.27s_Day_i...

> On January 1, 1965, miffed at having to work on the holiday, Sales ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents' bedrooms and remove those "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" from their pants and pocketbooks. "Put them in an envelope and mail them to me", Soupy instructed the children. "And I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!"
And fruit. It leaves fruit also. Fruit is produced to be consumed and doesn't take life in consumption.
> I think the reason these systems haven't been challenged yet is lack of knowledge

As a software engineer that works in this space, I disagree. The thing that keeps us using things like MODBUS and CAN are because the problems we are solving are themselves are very simple. So we tend to use simple solutions to address them. The latest dynamic languages and protocols (XML, JSON, YAML, etc) don't solve our existing problems any better.

Quite frankly, the extreme level of complexity in deploying something like Android to control a basic IoT device is beyond appalling. 640k may not be enough for everyone, but it is more than plenty to control IoT devices.
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Why is the Democratic Party and President Obama taking heat for this? It is his call. He could stop it if so desired. After all, it is an election year.
Blackfish provoked me, but not in the expected manner.

I was actually impressed that over 4 decades of orca captivity, they could only identify a small number of violent incidents, and while it's sad that these incidents occurred, it seems like a known occupational hazard whenever dealing with large animals. They tried to make it out like the small group of trainers that had been injured or killed over the years had no way of knowing that their job was potentially dangerous, which is, of course, patently ridiculous.

I didn't see any substantive argument in Blackfish. I don't think they made the case that orcas are a special, elevated form of animal intelligence that is too sensitive to be kept in captivity; they mostly just recounted a list of some bad things that have happened over the history of orca captivity, but I don't see how that's supposed to be representative. All serious endeavors will have mishaps.

I believe Blackfish's producers are trying to lay the baseline for a larger anti-animal-captivity platform in general, and I can't get on board with that. I think that animal captivity is a net good; it allows us to learn about the animals, increases the passion humans have for nature (meaning they'll be less likely to destroy it recklessly), and provides the basic components needed for many important scientific studies.

I think most zoologists keep animals because they genuinely care about them and care about educating the public on how to live peacefully and cooperatively with them. Hiding something away in a corner is not an effective way to engender wonder or interest in it, and that means it's far too easy for some uncharitable business interest to destroy in the name of profit.

Really in some sense SeaWorld is a victim of its own success. They successfully took the daunting specter of the killer whale and made him so cuddly and kid-friendly that this is the animal people are most receptive to believing is actually so super special, caring, smart, and sweet that it doesn't deserve to live in a container.
listening to XM radio, they frequently have station identification announcements.

"Siri us xm..."

with the iphone plugged in to charge while driving to work hilarity ensues as it cuts out the audio to speak of whatever it thinks was asked.
A lot of the ad network and exchange companies were bought by Yahoo and Google for $100+ million basically for the team and not the technology.

Although the "technology" more or less worked, it was discarded and re-written or substantially changed.

In the case of Google, I'm thinking of AdMob.

In the case of Yahoo, I'm thinking of the 2-sided ad exchange network they bought and then ripped out the 2-sided features.
Why not simply edit the HTML5 appcache manifest? (i.e. add a commented-out timestamp)
It's amazing, really. A few years ago I was brought in to feature-enhance (80%) / bug-fix (20%) some mil-spec hardware that interfaced with some custom Delphi front-end which was acting as a controller. I was amazed at the functionality:LOC ratio along with the correctness[0] with purely pre&post Asserts[1]. The hotel industry still largely runs on one popular Delphi app that's still chugging away. Other than MS Lightswitch which is dead[2], nothing even came close re: great RAD.

(Hey, MS employees reading this - now VS Community is free-for-commercial-use, if you want to capture the 5<=revenue<=50 MM market, replicate the Delphi + VCL ecosystem for RAD apps with Azure as the backing technology. Lightswitch already let me target WPF and HTML5, with Xamarin you now have native mobile. You pushed for an "integrated" desktop + surface/tablet + cell-phone a few years too early, but Xamarin as the presentation layer and Azure as your data-store and you've got the feature set that most businesses need. You'd put me out of business, but absolutely take over that mid-market share.)

[0] Pedants, I'm one of you. No Coq was not used in this project ;)
[1] http://blog.matthewskelton.net/2012/01/29/assert-based-error... Similar to this
[2] http://janvanderhaegen.com/2015/01/14/its-2015-and-lightswit...
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You can debate that all you want.

But an article which attempts to explain the SF housing situation by listing just two factors (ignoring several other very obvious factors of equal or greater weight) -- just doesn't seem to explain very much.
Wow, this really sucks. I had the exact same concept in mind for my next game. Like, during the trailer when he shows the crashed ship, my jaw dropped. Almost every aspect of the game is the same as what I had in mind. I had the exact same idea and I was really excited about it. Oh well.
It doesn't override anything, if vendors must lock down their firmware, then they cannot use GPLv3'd software.
The butt-chip. It's like the punchline of a joke. Still... Put a reader in your chair so that when you sit down somewhere, things turn on and log in? Butt-thentication, if you will.

Might be cool in a car.

...maybe that's how the batmobile works.
I think you are right. And I feel like if I'd read something like this about any other platform I'd feel the same as you.

However, when I think about it, If I was moved enough to write something about the pain points of Go I would probably do it like the author did here. Not because I think the tone is correct in general but because I've seen that constructive criticism got thrown out by the Go community (I mean the people in decision making, not the entirety of users) over and over. I'd just be following their lead on the tone.

Also, this article does not have the same tone as the infamous PHP article (https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/) as in mocking it. It feels more like someone passionate about Go getting angry because they can't use it in it's full potential. It's good to have people like that.

Not the best way to do it though. You are right. But as I said, this has been the way Go people have been treating criticism.
By that logic, computers are alive. They let you know when they are 'sick' (they crash), scream when being overworked (loud fans), and talk amongst each other (the internet).

Failing to draw a line between two things doesn't mean that they are the same. Plants do not possess a nervous system capable of metacognition. Killing and eating a plant is not the same thing as killing and eating a mammal, bird, or fish.
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Sure. So the question then becomes did they a) fail to include the required written offer with one of those cars or b) not honour that offer for any third party? And the answer to both of those is no.
Ah, but you got the timing wrong. The EULA reference is about the terms and conditions under which you are viewing the website - and therefore the advertising and all associated tracking mechanisms -, this happens prior to you viewing the ad and once you are on the page you are somehow magically bound by these terms but all the bad stuff has already happened.
There is widespread, often reasonable disagreement about what middle class means, either in terms of salary or total assets. Or cultural practice.

It's true, people do under-acknowledge other industries - law, finance, medicine.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tech-isn-t-biggest-S-...

Average SF health-related salary in 2014 - 67k.

"The industry employs 20 percent of the city’s workers, with nearly 122,000 jobs. The average annual wage across all jobs in the sector — from pharmacists to surgeons to genetic counselors — was $67,410."

When does health stop and tech being? Often it's a fuzzy line.
How would you feel if the moment you were born someone else had already planned the day of your execution?
No mention of SystemJS/JSPM?
If you are doing it yourself, it isn't captivity.
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No one is "meant" to be tortured and abused. I find you reply to be morally abhorrent and absolutely disgusting.

Right now, at this very moment, on American highways, there are no less than 5,000 concentration camp trucks. Trucks that we’ve constructed. Inside these trucks there are living, terrified, innocent beings (such as) cows, pigs and chickens. These trucks are being driven to concentration camp slaughterhouses that we’ve carefully constructed all across America. When the trucks arrive, the animals are so frightened they won’t even get off the truck. They’re not stupid. They know what’s next. So people go on the trucks with electric prods and force them to walk down the chutes to their own death. Or if the animals are small enough to manhandle, like chickens, we’ll just grab them off the trucks and toss them inside. Inside, these innocent, living beings are hanged upside down, fully conscious. In other words, they go in alive against their will and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces. I think this type of behavior is inexcusable and unbecoming of a species that claims to understand right from wrong. The animals have not done one single thing to us to deserve the wrath and the cruelty that we hurl on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt4lweBJTQs
tech worker's middle-class wages

Tech workers salaries in SF are anything but middle class. If you're single and making more than $72k per year, you're in the upper class.

"The three highest-paying positions in San Francisco, as self-reported by Glassdoor members, are all in tech. The average salary in San Francisco for a data scientist is $127,000 a year; software engineers make $103,000 a year; and database administrators earn $77,000."[0]

[0] - http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/09/are-you-in-t...

[1] - http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/average-s...
The legal implementation is that the offer must be valid for any third party, yes. But the intent is that the offer is for people who received it under 3c, and I have no problem with BMW only doing the bare legal minimum for anyone else.
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> read the keys right out of EEPROM

Usually keys are stored in a part that is not accessible directly, think of SIM and bank cards. Actually lots of LoRaWan use SIM cards.
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I think they are not workarounds so much as compromises made with a deference to the language as a whole, which fall at a different optimization point than what a lot of programmers are used to. Succinctly, features in Go are chosen so that they compose well with (i.e. are orthogonal to) all other features. The bar for new features is thus very high. They must be backwards compatible, and they must interact cleanly with the language as it exists. To focus on any individual missing feature in Go as evidence of anything is to miss the point. Quite literally to miss the forest for the trees.

That said, I think the authors and the community learned a lot since 2009. I think a Go 2, correcting the mistakes of the initial implementation, and adding important missing features like parameterized types and native functional transforms, would be very compelling. But to do it without sacrificing any of the other good things about Go, like the compilation speed, or the easily parseable source, or the concurrency story, or interfaces... well, I'd love to see the (concrete, specific) proposal, because I don't know if it's feasible.
ETL as in extract transform load, or extract Train load ? :)
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I just wish the tech industry had taken root somewhere less NIMBYish that actually wanted growth and I'm hoping that SF gets what it wants and the tech industry just leaves.
>Wow, this is a new DDOS attack vector. Get an ad on broadcast radio saying stuff like "alexa, order more milk", or "okay google, send a text to xxxxx".
reply

You can change the default from alexa to something else.
Obama tells tech community to solve encryption problem now or pay later
Can you enumerate the number of games that start with a crashing ship?
Well played Croteam! Seriously!
>Having few of them where humans could watch them is a good thing.

For humans, maybe. How is it good for orcas? Isn't the issue here that we are denying agency from intelligent beings?
While I agree with you, if they don't have to release it, you'll never know unless you can successfully decompile the firmware.
I'm perfectly fine with that, and totally agree. These are the parts I don't like:

> The whole subthread is nasty

> regardless of how others are behaving.

If you disagree with any of the opinions in the thread, please comment. Labeling them as 'nasty', or implying bad behavior without pointing it out is something that should be defended.
Just got home from work and bought it. It definitely seems like the kind of game I could sink a ton of time into, so I agree, great value
Most animals are "sentient" to some degree or another, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. A perception of animal "sentience" doesn't automatically mean it's wrong for humans to employ, enjoy, and/or harvest them.
Define the word "word" without using any words.

Haha! You can't! Therefore, words don't exist.
> With more than 2,000 people in its Slack channel alone, I think Kotlin is a bit more than marketing hype (to compare, Java has about 500 and Scala 450).

So do you really think Kotlin is used 4x as much as Java? Or is it possible that this is a pretty poor measure of actual usage?

> As for your other point, tying Java interop with existential types is pretty absurd.

Only as absurd as Java. Java libraries contain methods that return existential types (e.g. List<?>) everywhere. If you can't represent that type in your type system (note that it's not the same type as List<Object>), you can't have full Java interop.
I wasn't aware of that thread or that subreddit! Thanks for the link
1) I'm surprised that meteorites would end up on the surface rather than embedded in the ground. I'd have thought that a hunk of metal or stone falling from the sky would penetrate rather than bounce. Is it a matter of the angle that it comes in at? Is the terminal velocity just that slow? Or do most of them bury themselves and it is only the ones that remain on the surface that are found?

2) There was an interesting story that came out a couple months ago about a new "trove" of meteorites being found in Antarctica. While quite a few have been found on the surface, there was a recent realization that more should have melted their way in after being heated by the sun: http://www.universetoday.com/127492/does-antarctica-have-a-h...
Oh please do! This really gets to the heart of the matter, creating a more defensible position for Apple (the court would be asked to destroy an entire class of speech) and risking a less worse precedent if they do lose.
How would you know to do that at all? The proposed issue is that the file handles are exhausted. Thus logging doesn't actually work, and thus you don't know anything about the problem except 'it's not working'. Your solution presupposed that you have figured out the issue, but the question is how do you find out about the problem at all. Without SSH/debugger/whatever, what is the process to inspect the system to find the problem?
Ask HN: Book for learning about the history of operating systems and software?
I'm 24, work as a software engineer, and have been programming for about half of my life. While I consider myself reasonably well acquainted with the current state of the operating systems and software, I want to learn about how we arrived at this point.

I'm specifically curious about the development of Unix, popular programming languages, the internet, and Linux. It seems like decisions made decades ago related to each of these still affect my day-to-day work, and I would like to know what these decisions are and how they were made.

Does anyone know of a book (or other resource) that I should read to learn more about these topics?
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There's an SNL skit from the 1970s with a (vaguely) similar premise. The short-order cook takes the order when the waitstaff yells out "cheeseburger". A patron doesn't want a cheeseburger as it's too early. The waitstaff says that it's not too early and everyone else has ordered a cheeseburger, and points to the other patrons exclaiming for each "cheeseburger". Which causes the cook to start making a large number of cheeseburgers.

Here's the skit: https://youtu.be/puJePACBoIo?t=215 .

These are all jokes based on in-band signalling failures.
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Define "intrinsic".

Gold doesn't have intrinsic value either, except for it's industrial value. Gold's value as a currency is also "only the value we give it in our minds as average of our greed and fear."
And somebody else posts the re-enable code the next day, or forks the repo and undoes that change. Or...
>Well, people who ride bikes like me detest larger vehicles, but your point is true.

Non-consumers' preferences don't count.

>let's not pretend that America being incredibly obese has nothing to do with it.

America's preference for larger vehicles long predates the rise of obesity.

As an aside, you're really not doing much for the "self-righteous cyclist" stereotype.
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