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I think it's mainly because these days, it's much harder for an 18 year old to make an indipendent living than it was back in the day. Today, most people don't even begin their careers until after college, which is usually around 23 at the earliest. When my Dad was growing up, it was not unusual for 16 year olds to begin working full time to support themselves. By 25, most people were already well on their way to marriage. This is not the case today. Today, people who are 18 are usually still dependent on their parents.

It's not the children's fault, either. It's just a fact of the times. More schooling is required than before, and continuous schooling shelters people from having to make many real world decisions. It's easy to live a "don't care" lifestyle during college, only to be hit with reality hard once you graduate. I've personally experienced this.

There is a major difference in meltalities of someone who's been in school their entire life and someone who's been in the "real world" for a few years.

I'm not sure of your age, nor am I suggesting that it would have any negative impact on your perception here, but we seem to have different perceptions of the youth of today. I am 25 years old and I can only speak on my experiences.

And my experience shows that there's not much of a difference in maturity between an 18 year old senior in High School and a 22 year old Junior in college.

However, there's a huge difference between a 22 year old Junior in college and a 24 year old who's been working for a year.
The sad part is that already in the mid-60's and 70's, in computers much less powerful than the PDP-11, bounds checking wasn't a problem as such.

In the few cases where it was a real problem for the application being written, it could be selectively disabled. Which according to C.A.Hoare in his 1981 speech, most people didn't want to do anyway.

It only became a problem in the industry thanks to C.
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I use Big Bang Theory to try to convince my daughters that, despite what their schools are telling them, society values science so little that they can look forward to being in their 40's and still having to share an apartment with a roommate unlike the irregularly employed actress across the hall.
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I'm using ts-loader, have you tried both and found awesome-typescript-loader to be better? I'm trying to decide if I should switch to it..
Making it illegal to write code without bounds checking is an interesting and fun concept to imagine.
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Well, perhaps you can see the problem from the other way: From now on is up to the government and ultimately to the society to make sure nobody is hungry.

I mean, the production means are far more than enough to accomplish that and in the western world, only a society where wealth distribution is deeply unbalanced can have people going hungry, so that's the problem we need to address.
Yeah. It's slow, and just plain badly designed in places - crucial interactions hidden behind icon-only menus etc. I really hope they sort it out one day.
Mr. Robot was so damn good, I was amazed USA could hit like that. I don't think I've met a single person whose seen it and didn't like it.

It doesn't surprise me that Netflix is already crushing it in terms of creating their own series; the data that the big studios operate on is collected via ancient means and there's only a market for it because they agree to all pretend it's still relevant.
You seem to be in search of an argument. I will not provide you with one.

Yes, the math is plain wrong. No, it does not change the point. I am not writing an essay or presenting a white paper on UBI. Heck, I'm not even supporting UBI except in terms of "let's experiment"

So that was a wonderful tear down of my math, which I expected, but it doesn't change my thesis any: whatever amount of money you would like to provide for good causes, a good case can be made to eliminate the middleman and provide that money directly to everybody -- no qualifying, no overhead, no gaming the system, no complex system of administration.

I'm not in favor of massive tax hikes. I'm also not in favor of bandying around the slogan "UBI". As I said, until there's some real policy there, it looks attractive on the surface. I outlined the reasons why it looks attractive. That's about all we can say about it right now.
Do you give him the salary and benefits of a 40th percentile programmer and pay all of his expenses in addition to that? Do you pay him as much as the billable rate of a 40th percentile programmer?

I doubt either one. To compare a full-time employee's hourly wage to an hourly billable rate you will generally want to multiply the hourly wage by about 2.
Forget about money - that's a red herring which is confusing you.

Humans are needed to actually invent those innovative things. But in the BI world, we have fewer humans actually devoting their time to this. (See simple arithmetic above.)
Having written several of these systems, there is nothing special about this software (NP databases). They maintain records of where a phone number is homed, nothing else. There is more information in the white pages.

In fact, NP databases typically won't have access to all phone numbers anyways, only those for customers who have changed providers. Everything else would be covered by the default routing rules.

In the US, the central database is not involved in call control (I've never seen a design that was). Since phone companies are very risk averse, they don't generally allow software they don't control into the middle of their interactions with the customer. Phone companies will have their own mirrors of the database and purchase (typically bespoke, typically outsourced) systems to perform the in-call lookups.

Reading up how the US works, it's an exception based system, with records only for ported numbers [1]. A typical record will look like:

(408) 555 1212 -> (715) 555 1212

The destination number is not a phone number, and has the granularity of a single switch. No names, or anything else.

I'm guessing this isn't about information leakage, because there's no information to leak. This isn't about DOS because the national database isn't involved in call control. This isn't about serving warrants either, it's operated locally.

I can only imagine that this is a trade barrier masquerading as security, since switch software is produced offshore, and that's riskier.

[1]https://www.npac.com/number-portability/how-lnp-works
It was considered so unlikely. If you look at all the English press it's the main story.

You have to remember the English Premier League isn't nearly as balanced as the NFL/most American sports is because of the salary cap.

Next season I'm sure the odds will be reduced for all teams.
If the convoluted hilarious title didn't give it away then the 1991 quote (given by Churchill) here attributed to Albert Einstein (who died in 1955) should do it.
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> Oddly attractive.

Pretty much sums up all british jet aircraft from the 40's to the 60's.
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I'm not sure whether you are sarcastic or not, but to me the seemingly endless amount of this kind of bug in high profile projects like OpenSSL is pretty good proof that nobody can write secure C.
Quite a bizzarre article. First it starts out trying to discuss change in 'mission' from traditional advertising to relationship engagements and CRM across multiple devices - okay that makes sense...then 6 paragraphs about how there will be fewer employees? Automation to reduce administrative overhead? Where is this going?

>"No longer is advertising necessarily the best manifestation of creativity," he said. "Now, [marketers] are looking toward the lens of innovation and effectiveness in terms of brand-experience creation, and these new entrants who are becoming very formidable very swiftly."

Oh, jibberish. Right. Oh well, to each their own.
> A job that can be outsourced or automated is not valuable.

Garbage disposal is at this point a lot closer to automation than software development.
Yes you can, but you cannot corrupt memory in them and that is already helpful.
>When they do, it'll cause rent to drop in San Fran, NYC, DC and Seattle.

No it won't, no more than today.

>With basic income you no longer have to live where the jobs are and can move around freely.

Poor people are already "free" to not live in places they can't afford, and instead live in places with poor access to education and healthcare and jobs, and as such have reduced life expectancy. Your plan to use UBI to re-locate and segregate poor is no improvement compared to the current situation.
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I have been doing them for a while. Yes they suck to start but then they start getting meditative.

As winter ended in New England I wanted to up the stakes a bit. Where my wife and I live there is a lovely little waterfall where we go swimming in the summer. Decided to start swimming in Mid March while taking the dog on a walk next to it while she was gone on a trip. Max time in the water at first was maybe 90 seconds but doing it almost everyday since (combined with the changing of the seasons) means now I can stay in as long as I want without discomfort: on the order of 5 minutes.[1]

Side bonus: it has reset my internal thermometer for what is "cold". Most cold snaps are now, by comparison, "ehh this isn't so bad."

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As a college kid who used to dress rough in NYC, I've certainly been escorted out immediately for just walking into expensive stores there. What's legal isn't what happens in all cases.
Risk will not go up, because vending machines will not be smashed, because they would go to jail for even longer than for just stealing food.

I don't think you've thought through these extra cases you're worried about. They all involve extra crimes, which they would be convicted for, because the decision in this case was very specific. Judges do actually think about these things before they make decisions.
And the most expensive way possible to feed someone too.
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I was/am developing a web application to create beautiful flashcards, using LaTex.

I coded a very basic MVP that basically let you create a deck of cards and export it to PDF for print and cut.

I showed it to some university friends but none of them showed real interest.

I still run it on a dokku instance on Digital Ocean, because I use it myself from time to time.

If anyone is interested, the stack was golang + gin framework + postgresql + texlive + javascript + bootstrap + mathjax.

At the end of this all, it was a nice exercise in building something useful with Go and I now have a nice tool in my toolbox.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out!
I think The Office was a huge success without any the characteristics you point out. I don't think it's about the setting per se, but whether the material connects with the viewer in a particular way.
> I have two friends who inhereted $20,000+ sums of money from relatives when they were in their late teens, and both of them pissed it away in under a year. Looking back, both of them seem to regret it.

Would they have learned that lesson without making that mistake? Are you even sure they really wouldn't do the same again?

To quote Time, "About 70 percent of people who suddenly receive a windfall of cash will lose it within a few years, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education."

Just to make the anecdotes match the statistics, I inherented roughly 30k. It remained in my education fund until I finished undergrad. At 22, I opened an investment account. It's been paying dividends for the better part of a decade now.
That's nice, but irrelevant. The quote I was replying to said, "These are all errors that would be impossible in a language with, oh, bounds checking."

Them: All X is Y.

Me: But here's an X that isn't Y.

That's my point. Blanket statements about the superiority/inferiority of programming languages aren't useful here.
Just because a projcet is high profile doesn't mean it's well managed or well written.
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One solution to the site restrictions regarding symbols would be that you generate a non-symbol password, and a symbol substring. You add the symbol substring when you know that the site requires symbols (or if the non-symbol password fails).
There are numerous RFCs, yes.
Why is it okay for a foreign company to work on the project, but not foreign nationals?
React is eating Angulars lunch when you look at the amount of large enterprises that choose react over Angular.

Part of the problem with Angular that no one seems to care about is that Angular 2 was such a big change from Angular 1 it forced companies that depended on Angular 1 to do a complete re-write.

I was an Angular 1 dev and Angular 2 caused me to abandon Angular altogether.

Angular also adds more abstractions on top of JS which is unnecessary and can cause unexpected behavior when transpiled.
C.A.R. Hoare was the author of the Quicksort algorithm in 1959.
>>> As the saying goes, "This is why we can't have nice things."

Nah, it's just basic human nature. Would be really naive to expect something different.
There's an even smaller engine: the journal Science published a paper a couple weeks ago [1] about a single-atom heat engine. It uses a laser-cooling beam for the cold reservoir and electric field noise for the hot reservoir, and powers an oscillator.

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6283/325
which one of those problems we don't have now, again?
I should add...14 years experience on the .NET platform.
Poster is crazy to think liberals will EVER support a hugely regressive tax scheme. Consumption taxes destroy the middle class by acting as vehicle to transport wealth from the middle to the ultrawealthy, which makes it surprising that people continue to suggest it.

Now perhaps a consumption tax combined with a large capital gains tax and inheritance tax -- to keep taxes going in the oligarchs economy AND the regular economy, and prevent capital from being tied up between generations in the least productive way possible, then you might get some of them on board.
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I don't have an agenda, that's my point. I'm saying it's time for certain people to stop pushing theirs.

OK, I have an anti-agenda agenda.
The SSL spec (if you can call it that) and everything it depends on is spread over about a dozen or so RFCs. Good luck.
Beggars ask for help in the streets, but I personally can't help each and every one of them. You may be sympathetic, but how is the homeless man supposed to find you when he needs your help?
What about https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium then?

Very high profile, no CVEs found to date.

EDIT: Can't respond to lambda below.

I was responding to THIS assertion, not proposing libsodium as a general purpose openssl replacement: "nobody can write secure C."

To which I said, here's a project that's written in C that's apparently secure.
Sooo, what if he was stealing from a soup kitchen? Or if the prosecutor could prove that there was food available through charity? Or that the man had money, but didn't want to spend it on food? Seems like an awfully broad precedent (assuming Italian courts work the same way as US courts).
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> how did he manage to fool Gavin Andresen and Jon Matonis?

Neither from them claims to be in possession of any digital proof, which would be a trivial and the only reasonable way to show that somebody actually has an access to any of Satoshi's keys.

And we, the general public, even have an access to two examples of something that was supposed to be a digital proof but it surely isn't, and that something was presented in a way to make the chance for verification as small (or the process slow) as possible (first example: the fake "Satoshi" PGP message, second case: the Sartre blog post). We see that the author is quite capable of presenting something as something that it isn't.
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This is referring to Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages project[0] which is basically HTML extended with bits designed for mobile.

An interesting project, despite the sky-is-falling tone of this report. I do share the concerns raised about walled-garden news outlets, though.

* https://www.ampproject.org/docs/get_started/about-amp.html
> Also, the society is more conscious about not having someone to do stupid things for them like collecting their trays after they eat at the McDonadls, this is YOUR responsibility as a member of a society, to look for others as well.

To play devil's advocate, why? If my time is more valuable than a McDonald's worker's, why should I be wasting it on cleaning up trays?

Your argument could easily be extended to saying that restaurants are in general frivolous. Isn't feeding yourself a fundamental responsibility as a member of society? Except that destroying restaurants would actually be quite economically negative.
May be the true reason of ruling is too many people, such as refuges, preferring live in jail. All they have to do is commit a petty crime occasionally.
In real life, it will keep out smog and pollen. People with asthma and hay fever will love it.
Upvoted simply because -- notwithstanding all of the entirely valid complaints -- this is actually the short, sweet introduction to GL that I would've loved when I first picked it up.

All of these things took me some serious time to learn. Partly because of my sheer incredulity at the stringliness of it all. Finding good GL tutorials is hard, after all: "surely", I thought, "these are just bad examples, and I should keep looking for a better way".

A quick, frank throwdown of "this is the way it is" like this would've gotten me over that hump much faster. Even if it's crushing, I'm filing this link away for "must read" when someone asks me where to get started in GL programming.
I see, thanks for the clarification. Ouch for the downvotes!
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Of course I am being sarcastic, you just need to check my other posts. :)

The point being, that in spite of what everyone says, not even with the help of the best tools to detect memory corruption issues in C, developers write memory corruption free code in it.
Have we proven that password managers are safe? It's worth for black hats to spend as much money to break a password manager as the most expensive secret stored in it. If most of the secrets of the world are stored in there, ...
Good point. On a related note, I personally cannot imagine a world where any theft is justified. Personal property rights are key in maintaining a functioning free market economy. This ruling by the court flies in the face of those rights.
Precedence of people not cutting off other people's hands for stealing? lots.
Shannon is one of those names, like Riemann or Boltzmann, that I keep running across in quantum mechanics. This was a very interesting article to read.
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You draw a bit too many conclusions here.

Maybe he was drunk or slept during the food lines, or he just didn't give a fuck that day? Poor people can decide not to receive any help they are provided. It's not like we can throw them into a prison for being poor.
Am I missing some sarcasm here?

Legalising stealing is basically abolishing property rights.
I agree, CUDA took a step in the right direction by allowing annotated C++ source to be compiled for the device. As an HPC developer, I'm using the Kokkos C++ library https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos to switch between CUDA, OpenMP, or Serial modes from a single source code.
I too love C.

I'd almost go so far as to say you need to do a security review before you write one line of code. You need to evaluate if C is a requirement or a preference, and if the security of the project can withstand being written in C (e.g. edge code that may be attacked).

The argument that C (and C++) can be written well or flawlessly is tiresome. "Perfect code" is a fallacy that has been proven over and over again to be untrue and dangerously untrue. You should assume the code quality is less than optimal as your starting point.

I am not promoting any specific alternative (Rust, Java, Go, etc) I am just saying that C/C++ are insecure by design and should be avoided unless they're a project requirement.
> I am against the use of warrants when there is nothing to search...

End to end encrypting doesn't magically cause metadata to disappear. IP addresses, the times messages were sent and received are still useful to law enforcement. In this instance, the court want the IP address of the accused so they can follow up with the ISP.

I prefer warrants written out for specific individuals to dragnet surveillance.
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ASN.1 parsing in implementations of several different standards have had this class of issue for well over a decade. ip phone and software stack vulnerabilities in, for example in asterisk, specifically for ASN.1 handling have probably been used by our intelligence community for a long time. The safe implementations are probably ran in virtual machine languages.
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