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Undoubtedly this will lead to Space Pirates of the Mark Watney (The Martian) kind:

“I’ve been thinking about laws on Mars. There’s an international treaty saying that no country can lay claim to anything that’s not on Earth. By another treaty if you’re not in any country’s territory, maritime law aplies. So Mars is international waters. Now, NASA is an American non-military organization, it owns the Hab. But the second I walk outside I’m in international waters. So Here’s the cool part. I’m about to leave for the Schiaparelli Crater where I’m going to commandeer the Ares IV lander. Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can’t until on board the Ares IV. So I’m going to be taking a craft over in international waters without permission, which by definition… makes me a pirate. Mark Watney: Space Pirate.”
Doesn't mvn show license information?
> you'd prefer the US president be allowed to lie?

Of course I'd prefer a completely trustworthy person as president, but such people don't exist. I think law enforcement can find a reason to investigate anyone, including any candidate or President; once an investigation starts, it can be used as a fishing expedition and lead anywhere, for the reasons I described above. That's a risk to our democracy; law enforcement could have a veto, to a degree, over the American people's choices.

By the way, let's tone it down. By your demands, one might think I'm the one being deposed.
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Just incase you needed a reminder
If the cost of integrating the service is higher than the cost of building it, then sure, don't buy the service.

But if you find this to be a frequent occurrence, you're almost certainly evaluating costs incorrectly.
Yup, sadly that's something you lose in GC'd languages.
Why would a larger utility library would have been better?
Replacing a big dependency is much more difficult. If the reason is "because now a lot of dependencies could dissappear/change" then that's an argument against the npm inmutable history issue and not modularity.
Very nice, thanks for sharing! Definitely puts things in perspective. Even at its size though, its a preventable leak, and any intervention is going to look small compared to our overall output.
http://www.brainstormpro.com is also another good resource when you need fresh words.
Until somebody manages to set up a long term camp on the Moon. It's the nature of humanity.
No. I've never bought a new car because I'm fundamentally unhappy with paying for the early depreciation. It also seems better environmentally to me to buy used and drive it into the ground, although the actual calculus is beyond me.

I buy a few years used and drive it until it's either not dependable, maintenance is too expensive, or parts availability is a problem.
I inferred some equivocation which led me to believe that you find the institution of CF acceptable, despite the abundance of abuse. That the good outweighs the bad, or that seizures themselves are generally acceptable, and not an outright insult to the zombie corpse of the long dead 4A.

I'll admit though that this is my issue, not yours (perceiving your intent negatively). This has been a good discussion, and I should abstain from inference and address you on content alone. For that, I apologize.

As far as how we should proceed institutionally with altering CF to be more in line with the spirit of the rule of law - I'm a cynic, and a pragmatist.

If we're extremely lucky, we'll get a federal redress of CF and how it can be applied.

Clamoring for it to be thrown out is an outright fantasy.

I don't think we'll get either.
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It's not like other top programs aren't as rigorous as MIT (they are).

Sorry for my lack of clarity.

I said nothing good about MIT's CS program per se (quite to the contrary...), it's MIT and CalTech that remain by far the most rigorous major undergraduate universities in the US (I'm not counting the tiny humanities colleges that rigorously do things like the Great Books, and maybe I'm missing some). Something its CS graduates indirectly benefit from, but it's not inherent to the CS program, which in its post dot.com crash I have little respect for.

No others even come close in subjects required of all students; as I mentioned in a message downstream, as of the '80s the math requirement for Harvard was proving you could do algebra. On the other hand, they have the world's "best" first year undergraduate math course (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55), Harvard has been very strong in math for a very long time. But serious math (and science) is not required of all students.

So, yeah, you want to measure the dicks of us CalTech and MIT alumni as a population, go right ahead, you just won't be happy with the result if you think your school as a whole is better, with the noted exceptions that still retain rigor in the humanities.

None of which says that a graduate of another school isn't every bit as good, it just wasn't required of them.
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They could bring it back but with a catch: "between 1 April 2016 and (today) we have not received any NSLs, etc." But if you're gonna do that, you could do: "Yesterday, (date), we did not revive any NSLs, etc."
Yes, that's another reason why a municipal grid would be useful: city-wide storage could work better than each house having a small battery (but the roofs are still useful for panels, of course). But it may not need to be a utility in the traditional sense (unless the US meaning of that word is different from what I understand it to be). Just some local company with a contract. Or a few of them.
https://xkcd.com/1627/

I think you added an "H"
Our mac loving c# developers use parallels, perhaps that's an option for you
You're right, next time you want to send your credit card data, do me a favor and email it to the company and let them know want you'd like to buy. As for warrants, forget email, possible your local police are already listening to your calls with a warrants. I'd go on, but don't see the point. I mean, for someone with nothing to hide, unclear why your don't list your full name and zip code; or for that matter, any affiliation you might have to the topics being commented on.
Not unless the planet itself reproduces somehow.
Agreed, Caddy is great.
Got the same thing a week after I started using DO, very reasonable for them to do this but now I'll be transferring my domains and servers over to AWS.
It was only natural. I propose a POSIX extension with a new signal type: SIGLPAD. You know, for on demand left-padding by the user. Because user choice is important
Cassandra, MongoDB and ElasticSearch all have SparkSQL DataSource drivers with predicate pushdown support. Most of the limitations in that support is from the database itself and not from the driver.

The biggest problems with SparkSQL is simply in its limited support for ANSI SQL. It's getting better with every release but not nearly quick enough.
Hmm, can you elaborate? Do you mean having multiple smaller instances talk to a single GPU instance?
Are you nuts? It doesn't matter if it's reasonable or not, as an issue of national security I would imagine treason would be on the table due to the "aiding enemies" clause in the law.

Treason is _minimum_ 5 years, capital punishment at worst.
Politicians are allowed to lie. Police are allowed to lie.

Only the little people are not allowed to lie.
> That's orthogonal to whether the prospective user of the package has an actual choice or not (besides using as GPL it or going without).

You've just outlined the choice that the person has. Admittedly, I wouldn't use the GPL for libraries, I've started using the MPLv2 for stuff like that. I don't really agree with the common reading of the combined work clause in the GPL wrt libraries (a work that uses a library's API shouldn't be bound by the copyleft of the GPL IMO -- but as Oracle has proven, APIs appear to be copyrightable).

> WHATEVER THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS' REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE GPL (sic), it doesn't change the situation that one might not be happy for a project they want to use being in GPL -- including people who don't intend to make it proprietary, but who prefer BSD licenses nevertheless.

BSD licenses allow distributors of the software to make it proprietary. That was clearly a more important problem to the author and community of the software than allowing GPL-incompatible projects to use the code. It's a fundamentally ethical decision, which you may disagree with if you follow the open source (as opposed to free software) philosophy.
A big part of the whole security clearance process is determining the competency of the individual in recognizing incorrectly classified material. Saying that the designated markings were missing is no longer an excuse once you get the clearance. Over two thousand emails were determined to contain classified material, that is over two thousand opportunities to recognize how badly you've screwed up in using a private server for official government business. Twenty of those where classified top-secret, which is really difficult to mistake for uncontrolled information. I'm pretty sure that the issue of competency will be front and center during these interviews.
Another unicorn dying.

It must be a bubble.

Let's wait for HN resident economists to tell us about it.
None of that has been established, as there are plenty of purportedly classified emails that have not been released. It would be highly irresponsible to claim that they were either classified after-the-fact or classified from birth, without knowing one way or the other.

One would assume that that would be one of the outcomes of this investigation. B
They can at least stop posting about carrots. If they haven't posted anything personally identifiable that could link their 'carrotlover314' account to their real identity, then they can discard that account. At worst, if it is indeed a case of past lewd carrot-related acts being punishable by death, they'd have a head start to get out of the country before the Carrotstasi get there.

It's not much but it's something.
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> GPLv3 has a lot of provisions concerning how companies may/may not litigate patients. Apple's legal strategies don't allow them to comply with those requirements.

In regards to the particular piece of software being licensed. The patent provisions are akin to a copyleft Apache 2. Since companies are very happy to use the Apache 2 to avoid lawsuits I'm (not) surprised that they don't want to extend the same protections to their users with the GPLv3.
"liquid natural gas[1] (mainly propane and butane)

That doesn't make sense to me. Either it's natural gas, or propane-butane. Where I live at least, there are requirements for what natural gas is supposed to be. There can be some amout of impurities in it but it's still supposed to be mostly methane.

Maybe they meant that the propane and butane impurities stayed low while methane escaped?
Middle out padding. It just might work
Your former employer expects you to sleep in your car in a Walmart parking lot (for all they care.)

Welcome to America!
Nothing to do with contract law -- the CFAA makes unauthorized access a felony, and 'unauthorized access' has been taken to mean 'violations of the terms of service'.

If the court rules to enforce the NSL, fine, but there's now a new precedent that de-claws the CFAA; a solid win.

Either way it will be a fun appeals process.
I honestly don't know how to answer that. Are you suggesting that you know how to parallelise an arbitrary expensive algorithm? Because if you've beaten Amdahl's law, a lot of people would like to make you very, very rich.
GPL doesn't hinder sharing. GPL hinders proprietary software. Now, if you don't believe in the morals behind the free software movement, then you might decide that hindering proprietary software is hindering "sharing with companies". It's a very odd kind of sharing to give something to a company and they make it proprietary so they don't give anything back and end up also mistreating their users.
Interesting, but it seems to ignore that there is quite a stiff competitor in Android, yet Apple users are not exactly jealous of their Android toting friends. No killer apps taking advantage of next generation html5 APIs. That's the real problem in my opinion. When that changes, then Apple will follow suit.
I'm wondering if this will be good enough to make a NIST FIPS-140-2 certified "soft" HSM.

It's supposedly available on some skylake SKUs now: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9687/software-guard-extensions...
Its happened a times IIRC. The government always drops the NSL, then throws the book at the person.
Actually this is an opportunity for left-pad.io. Previously they had to maintain custom code, but now they can interface through to the kernel which is much faster and allows them to scale.

Many people are on older kernels and might not be able to upgrade, or for convenience or other reasons simply prefer to use an api for their critical business logic.
This is awesome - great job! : )
We released an C/C++ extension for VS Code today as well. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/cc-extens...
I don't understand why they call Flask a "micro framework" as illustrated on that page it requires all that other stuff to work.
Thanks for your feedback! Let me try to add a forward and backward button so you can navigate through the slide instead of waiting it to come back.
Sounds like an ambiguous question. Most algorithms are "arbitrarily expensive". It generally depends on some measure of the data you're putting in. But in case you mean "an arbitrary algorithm", then no, nobody knows how to do that. But it appears that the most useful things people actually want to do lie somewhere in the middle: not trivial to parallelize but also not exactly impossible.
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The goodwill was a huge part of why I continue to pay the membership despite hardly ever going. Finding out my dues were embezzled have certainly soured my opinion. I think transparency is more important than formalization.
Until June 4th (FYI)
I withdraw any opinion I have on this matter, it was uninformed and those on the ground obviously know more - I misinterpreted the article.
In addition to the ones mentioned here Wells Fargo has a card with 5% back at grocery stores for the first 6 months and the Chase Ink+ gets 5x at office supply stores and a few others.
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> It is still my first choice when I want to choose a technology that will run for the next 20 years with minimal amount of code maintenance.

So it is basically the next COBOL ;-)
Exactly, I was thinking that something like the XKCD What-If notes would be easier on the reader and the writer.
This is pretty simple to do outside of die-hard "continuous integration" shops -- most of the time I can just do
git rebase -i HEAD~4
(where '4' is the number of little dumb commits I made) and squash them all into the first commit.

But if I made a few commits, then pulled in someone's changes, then made a few more... well... http://xkcd.com/1597/
Yep, certainly not dead! Recently retired, which is maybe the source of confusion...
The show was very good.

Long ago I was an occasional reader of the Skeptical Inquirer. It always gave me mixed feelings. It was great at times, but sour and reductionist at others.

Penn and Teller have a show called Bullshit! (on Amazon Prime) which has similar material.
Sounds like Dumas is a Highly Sensitive Person

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

I am one myself, to a considerable degree. I need to have quiet time after social occasions, and spend a lot of time processing what happened.
Merge conflicts never end when I think they will.
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Singapore might not be corrupt at the ground level (police, low-level bureaucrats, etc) but any country where the Prime Minister's wife is in charge of the main government investment company should not be considered clean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temasek_Holdings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Ching

The former Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) was in power for 31 years. His son is in power now. People don't hold on to power for that long by playing fair.

Singapore is also known as the Switzerland of the East, not least for the fact that their banks are among the favourite destinations in the region for the proceeds of corruption.
Except the problems is many projects I ended up building would recommend and claim support only for Oracle downloaded JDK packages. Some explicitly claimed they do not supposed OpenJDK, claiming stuff would crash or be slow in that case.
I had to deal with a joe-job problem once, but it was over a decade ago. I was getting over 20,000 email bounces an hour. I looked at the spam emails, and put considerable work into hassling the hosting providers that were hosting the spam targets. I had the advantage that I owned the domain name as a registered trademark, and could go after the hosting site as assisting in trademark infringement.

Once I discovered that the spammer was doing credit card fraud, and paying for their hosting with stolen credit cards, my conversations with hosting companies became even more effective, and the target sites were shut down within hours. Finally, the spammer retreated to an ISP in St. Petersburgh, Russia. It took a while, but it turned out that the CEO was an American expat, and we had some mutual friends. We had a nice chat. He told me the problem would be taken care of. The spam stopped shortly thereafter and never resumed.

It's much harder now, because spammers use botnets. On the other hand, after the CAN-SPAM act, "legitimate" spamming almost disappeared. Nobody spams from their own site any more, because spam filters will blacklist them. If they spam with phony origination, they're a crook, and can be prosecuted, so nobody legit spams with a phony source. The stuff that's left is all criminal, and because the number of spammer crooks really isn't that large, the spam gets picked up by classifiers that can see the commonality across destinations. (That's Gmail's edge.)
> approx. $3-4.5K for both the station and installation

Your estimate seems high. I bought an EV charging station on Amazon for $550 (Tesla's branded wall charger is $750) and paid $125 for an electrician to put in the 240V outlet to plug it into.
That's an interesting question, but I expect many of the algorithms will stay the same. Think of a computer as having a multi-level cache: network -> disk -> ram -> L2 cache -> L1 cache -> register, each one smaller than the last. We're seeing a big change in disk latency, but that's only one part of the chain. For example, we're still going to be optimizing data structures to fit in L1 cache lines.
> although it might not be as fast as a hand-written CUDA program

If you're dealing with larger pieces of code at once (that is, if you have a bigger view of what the programmer wants to run, which you should have), one interesting thing you could do is "exploratory compiling". Try different compilation step sequences and transformations, if you have enough invariants in the code. Machine time is cheap and this could yield some interesting results. Of course, the more constrained the language model is, the more opportunities for this.

(There's been some interesting results in this area, like superoptimizers for local optimization, but larger scale compilation would probably use something like genetic algorithms, as you're unlikely to have the opportunity for exhaustive searches.)
> After getting it, can you be compelled to speak falsely?

Why not? Given that secret warrants arguably already circumvent your right to face your accuser, this seems like a very small stretch.
This is doesn't help all of the JavaScript developers on OS X.
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This doesn't change the affordability bit, but IDEA is working on a web hosted IDE. They are rolling it out as an online code review tool first, with nice features like goto definition, but eventually going to full run tests or edit code.
I believe that's incorrect, my understanding (from the board meeting notes) is that she was a full time salaried employee.
They can compile a unikernel with this single function, even.
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Whoops. I just added that to my profile.

We don't have any current plans for that. Feel free to file a feature request. https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script
There is a good thing to remember about buying laptops: the more powerful the CPU and GPU the less battery life.

If you want a good laptop, you can never go wrong with a thinkpad.
It's not illegal to answer "no" if asked whether you have received a national security letter, and neither is it illegal to answer "no comment" if asked whether you have received a national security letter. Nor, further, is it illegal to respond with silence.

Having once given a legal, true answer to the question "have you received a national security letter", a person can later give a different legal, true answer to the same question, or can later choose to respond with silence.

Otherwise, you are asserting that the feds may do more than merely forbid the recipient of an NSL from talking about it, and actually have the authority to force the recipient of an NSL to lie about it.

I sure hope that isn't true. If it is, I'm not sure any of this matters, because we're all fucked already. I cannot conceive of any legitimate justification for allowing any government to have such a power.
Hope no more, you can have it.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/cc-extens...
I work at a Fortune 100 and we use fairly well known warehousing database. I can tell you we spend a serious amount of money for our licenses, infrastructure, employee talent, staff-aug contractors and management overhead running this commercial solution. Much of the human resource I would classify as over compensated and non-productive.

We also use some of the previously mentioned visualization technologies and get generally poor results by all measures.

If AirBNB has a few engineers around who are part of solving a unique challenge AirBNB has, then they are probably getting a better deal than we are. I'd wager their productivity per resource is significantly better, not to mention licensing, infrastructure and control over product features. That said, not everyone is AirBNB and has the ability to attract and retain that type of talent.
We'll have more docs and guidelines on this coming out. Overall, its the same limitations as App Service, if you're familiar with that.

We don't have phatomjs working out of the box today, but it's something I'd like to see. Not sure where it will fall on our roadmap. Feel free to file and issue and we can track it there. https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script
I switched to Ally for checking & savings a year ago, and I absolutely love it. Best mobile & web UX I've seen from a bank, best interest rates out there, ATM fee reimbursements, and easy mobile check deposit.

Their finances seem relatively healthy: http://www.bankrate.com/rates/safe-sound/memorandums-memos.a...
Of course, many of us have stopped promoting new Google services because we've seen the fate of too many. Among other things, we don't want to have Google's increasingly bad reputation for this rub off on us.
So, a general purpose language.
I'd like to add that weed really doesn't have the same impact for someone who smokes all day everyday and casual users. Tolerance is a big factor in explaining the fact that pot heads can be functional.
Ah, yes, the web - the platform of tomorrow, but never today. I personally don't like the idea of running insecure/inefficient code, which is the current web situation. Web developers can change the code at any time without me knowing. Why must I agree to allow random code to run on my device?
anyone else viscerally bothered by the use of phylogenetic in the abstract?