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California doesn't have party primaries.

There's a June election and the top two vote winners go on to November, even if from the same party. That's why California has a chance to prevent a second Feinstein in Kamala Harris. It will be two Democrats in November: drug prosecutor Harris and grassroots liberal Loretta Sanchez.
I'm looking to transition from Rails to something more performant. Phoenix is at the top of my list, but these benchmarks worry me:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

In both Phoenix has very high error rates, and in the first it seems really slow. Here is their Phoenix test app:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...

So what is going on there? Is it less of a perf win than I've heard? Is there something bad with their code?
The whole point of Jack taking over is that what made Twitter unique was not good enough for Wall Street.
I don't have a link specifically to his real estate deals, but here is an article from a very liberal newspaper in 2010 discussing her husband and corruption
https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/billion-dollar-baby/co...
Academic philosophy is more preoccupied with forwarding a career, and is tied to too much peer-group-think, paper-publishing rituals and formalities to be as potent as independent philosophy. It's not really the province of the independent thinker -- which, historically, is what most major philosophers have been.

For science, this scheme works, because science is a collaborative effort (so more working on the same thing, the better), and it also has practical results which are pursued and compensated because they can be worth millions and billions.

Whereas a philosophical grant can be given equally well to a great pioneering work or to some tired derivative mumbling, and it's even more convenient to give grants to the latter, as those who write those works don't make waves and keep everybody happy.

>* While enumerating those times when philosophy has been out of favor, the execution of Socrates comes to mind, as do the events that forced Aristotle to flee Athens.*

I'd say that those were rather philosophers that went out of favor (as opposed to philosophy, which the polis valued still).

That is, it wasn't some widespread disinterest in philosophy, nor a widespread persecution of philosophers -- numerous others carried over at the same time Socrates was executed, including Socrates own student, Plato (and Xenophon), and later Plato's students, including Aristotle.
You can't pass socket fds over TCP, nor should you want to. That particular unixism only works for AF_UNIX sockets.
I work at one of those major tech companies and we've been out-bid by Uber pretty frequently. Uber pays well above market here in SF.
Sounds like a hack waiting to happen...
Then nobody covers your field of view and you can see those pedestrians immediately and directly?
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As someone who has been fired and given 90 days to cough up a few grand to exercise, it sucks. Unplanned change of employment is a turbulent financial event and the last thing you can wrap your head around is whether the lottery ticket is worth it. Add in the feeling of distrust that often follows getting fired and it's really hard to objectively evaluate the company and its position.

I ended up not exercising. Still not sure if it was the right call.
I'm guessing his point is that "4 GB" is a big problem on a phone.
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I think the solution to all of this starts with the creating alternative computer networks to the internet. You should be able to ping your neighbor without paying Comcast for the privilege. Once communities own our own local networks, and once our neighboring communities are linked, private networks will blossom and this nonsense will fade away.

I don't think the layman associates computer network traffic with speech. But if you make private networks associated with localities, I think they'll righly start to see federal regulation as overbearing.

(Aside: if you're in favor of federally mandated net neutrality, I think you owe it to yourself to think about what kind of effect it could have on that type of local network development.)
I'm 45.

I spent most of my life learning to draw and tell stories.

My current project is a TV cartoon pitch. In my wildest dreams, it is the seed for a long-running SF franchise like Star Trek or Star Wars, that will affect and inspire people in ways I can't even begin to imagine. In less wild dreams, where it simply makes it to the screen for a season or three without me having to compromise the values I'm slipping into it, and it slides a bunch of my liberal humanist queer values under the radar of a bunch of kids who just want some cool space adventure.

So yeah. I'm hunting for a certain kind of immortality here.
Major technological revolutions are not all that common. Fire, agriculture and metallurgy is pretty much all there was until Newton. Then in the 18th century you got chemistry and thermodynamics, which led to the industrial revolution. In the 19th century you got Darwin and Pasteur which led to major advances in biology and medicine. In the 20th century you got quantum mechanics and relativity, which led to electronics and nuclear power, and then since WW2 or so you have computers. That's basically it. Everything in the last few decades and currently on the horizon is really just slicing-and-dicing those half dozen or so fundamental developments in different ways. Advances of that magnitude are rare, and it is not at all clear when the next one will come.
I guess I can see why many researchers are not inclined to publish their code. I've worked as a research assistant in the institute of microelectronics of my university for a year and the code quality was somewhere between mediocre and downright terrible. And that's not to mention the absence of sane software engineering standards like bug tracking or code reviews.
Yes! I hate that!!

It doesn't even remember the setting, you have to hit the three dots for menu before you search, choose "Route Options", then tick "Avoid tolls", then hit OK. EVERY TIME.

And if you forget to go through this and start navigation, there's no way to change it, you have to hit back, then do the above. Why not have a way to change route options from the navigation screen??
That's simply untrue. First of all, you can run any program on top of Linux without licensing issues. Sure, Linux is GPL and so it much of the user land (all of GNU being a prime example). But if your program doesn't use any of those things outside of the "common use" of those components, the license is irrelevant. However, BSD-style licenses (excluding the now-unused 4 clause BSD) allow for sublicensing, so you can also include that code inside GPL projects (sublicensed under the GPL).
> Great news for Etruscan scholars.

Doesn't sound like a huge group.
Maybe if you read my post, you'd see that I specifically mention "variable names of proper length that reflect their semantics (not necessarily long)," so I don't really appreciate being called a "long variable fanatic." I'm asking what the advantage is outside of loop variables which is everyone's favorite example because they can't find any better. Also, outside of geometry or other mathematics fields as most apps are not in that field. I find variable names that are actual, non-abbreviated words easier to read. What are you going to tell me next, that I don't know what's easier for me to read? Oh wait, you just did. Thank you for your condescending manner.
Hoverboard Actually Flies and It Just Set a World Record
Yes it is, but his number was an exaggeration in the first place.

There are hundreds of millions of phones running Java today, what does that tell you?
Another way to help discover how SSH works is to compile your own openssh server, instrumenting it with your own printfs, and see exactly what it's doing. I did this at one point, and it helped immensely to write a (horrifyingly insecure) homegrown SSH client. It was at least a good learning experience.
>Please, please, stop perpetuating the use of the non-word "performant."

Seriously it makes me cringe every time someone says it.
Except you can not use GoConvey and still write a quality test suite.

Plus GoConvey wisely separated the UI visualizer from the BDD, we use the former and not the latter.
> Is this going to increase the barrier of entry for developers? Is the developer pool going to shrink?

I don't think we are going to see that. Most use cases are not performance constrained (ex: a simple app or website). What you're talking about applies to cutting edge graphics, machine learning, OS and compiler design and a few other computationally intensive domains. Our computers are going to be at least as fast as those of today, so they will be able to run even the sloppy software of today with no problem other than (maybe) excessive power usage.

I think we are going to see an even greater shift towards asynchronous and parallel programming and design of specialized hardware for speed and low power. Also, we're going to have a much more complete AI toolbox than today, containing ready made image, video, audio, text, dialogue and behavior modules. For example, there is no need to reinvent the wheel when we already have a neural net that can distinguish tens of thousands of objects. Once it's trained in one place, it can be easily copied and run everywhere else, like an app.
State funding has been falling dramatically. The actual researchers are hurting for money. Grad students are paid a pittance, so rather understandably, most grad students want to graduate ASAP. Making your code nice and publishing it does not help you graduate early. It also does not help you get grants or funding.

You could pressure universities / departments to make reproducibility a requirement for graduation, but I don't see why they would follow along, because this is not going to help the university get more funding or publish more papers (prestige).

Now, if organizations and companies were willing to put money behind software reproducibility (maybe some sort of fellowships or million-dollar research grants to labs), then the incentives would be aligned.
The only people you aren't alienating with this kind of rhetoric are the ones that already sling it, themselves.
I hope you don't have a stroke:

https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/jsrc/cip.c

...just one of the many source files that make the interpreter for the J language.
One can accept that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate military targets while questioning whether the scale and nature of the attacks were morally justifiable, or ultimately necessary.
Logic is taught exactly in mathematics and computer science programs as a mandatory topic. Philosophy programs place far less emphasis, often providing it only as an elective.
Blockchains allow transfer of value even between parties without contracts or deals or even trust, by exchange of a rare token. For eg Cars from different companies may negotiate among themselves using bitcoin, this was never possible earlier because for cars to exchange tokens theyd have to be under some central authority or some contract. Bitcoin provides the ability for signing contracts on the fly.. Another eg would be a car stuck somewhere opens a rescue request on a website. An automated crane bids and goes and rescues the car and goes away taking the bitcoins. For this to exist today some deal is needed beforehand.
I just wondered about one thing. Why when the US asked (forced ?) the EU to negotiate in secret didn't the EU answer with a f.u. ? Also who are these people that agree to do this in secret ?
"As a practical matter, the (lawful) production of secure software in the United States becomes the exclusive domain of corporate entities large and rich enough to support (and at least attempt to secure) some kind of key-escrow and law enforcement compliance infrastructure."

That's assuming that anyone still wants to do business with them. Most companies will just wither and die because consumers and especially the enterprise will move on to their competitors outside the US. I really can't think of a better way to destroy the US technology sector than bills like this.
If a Python code base that's large carries no tests it can be a nightmare to walk through (I've walked through my own ones that I wrote before I had learnt testing too). Statically types languages are great but if they are also oop I find that unless someone really knows how to hold back on the "make things an interface" mentality you can end up with a large codebase that looks just as crazy as a dynamically typed one.

Point here being that everyone's mileage will vary with dynamic and statically typed languages. But over time as the code base grows, the helpfulness of the language type becomes less (to the point of irrelevance). Instead the value of how cleanly the code has been written and maintained matters much more. Code with good tests, classes that are divided logically, well named methods and variables, etc, should be able to tell you what you are looking for regardless of language type.
> Oh no! I need to buy a $5 piece of hardware to run this Java code? What kind of nonsense is that?

Funny. That's Microsoft line of thought with Vista.
Philosophy isn't just the accumulation of arguments and scholarship; it's a discipline, and by that measure, some folks are better or worse, absolutely.

I'd say philosophy is more than either an accumulation of argument or discipline. It something like a dialogue with history.

The rightness or wrongness of Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Popper or similar figures is still "in play" given that the development of our society is far from over.

One can say a given philosopher is a great exemplar of a given historical current (capitalism, socialism, Christianity, etc) but absolute greatness is going to depend on the fate of that current.
>Signs and Signifiers

Semiology is perhaps among the farthest removed from information theory, and computer science in general.
It would depend if "he" were gendered, or not. If it is, the relevance of the comment is in question, as the gender does not match.
Ramnode has a bunch of locations and is hands-down the best VPS provider I've ever used, and I've used literally hundreds over the last fifteen or so years. The vast majority are a flash in the pan, and very few actually don't suck. Ramnode has always been super solid for me, and very reasonably priced. Take every other recommendation with a grain of salt. VPS is one of those industries that attracts the scummiest human beings on the planet.
That is something to think on. Your mind immediately goes to the comedic styling of the dark underbelly of the internet when references are made to the content of an academic paper for the Center for Research on Women - written by one so well respected in the field. If 4chan is having to reach back to 1986 for material... well things are about to get very neon.
Having lived my development life so far removed from the actual physical CPU/memory, thinking about implementing this kind of low-level stuff into actual code is mind-boggling to me.
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It's not a small price and it's not made clear in the beginning when they promise shares for service. The absurdity of allowing management to make slaves of men is no small thing.
She must totally ignorant of the matter, or have hired poor technical staff around her, or pure as the driven snow, since this will only pave the way for more breaches and dissemination of government and governing persons data on the internet, not just private citizens. I don't understand how they think there is a way to meet their aims without knocking down the whole house of cards. Perhaps when her data is hacked, and all of her personal and financial dealings are made public? I can see this becoming an Anonymous headline soon.
>Philosophers interested in mind and cognition tend to take a great deal of interest in developments in CS and neuroscience.

And they tend to mangle it by inserting rigorous scientific results into a nonrigorous framework that often ends up being a game of word association played using misunderstandings of basic science.
that's not the unethical part. The unethical part is that exercising the options is a nontrivially confusing, in part, because of the legal and tax ramifications... And the startups don't complain too much because if the employee doesn't take part in the equity sharing scheme (often because of decision paralysis resulting) it is to their benefit.

The unethical part is that the startup uses the equity to lure the employee, but fails to adequately warn them about the trickiness coming down the pike when that time comes.
Among top CS programs (top 20), what I've heard is that it doesn't matter as long as you get a decent score. And if you need to do heavy studying to get a decent score, there's little chance your grades and/or research record is good enough to get admitted in the first place.
It's very odd to have to depend on a browser feature that is basically for accessibility in order to read a website because the colour choices are bad.
Australia blocks sale of Ireland-sized chunk of land to private Chinese company
Oh man with that kind of control of the game they could /certainly/ create some kind of sandbox mode.

The APIs that they have for testing alone are pretty incredible; I'd love to be able to play in a mode where you could change level on-demand, create dummy enemies, etc.
Just gave it a try and its fun. I had not realized this is a sort of community type of place. Anyhow, I like the goal driven GUI. It is really motivating and works. The title input is buggy in Firefox/OSX (text doesn't show up), and the main textarea does not scroll down as I type more than what the size will let. But those are silly bugs. This is fun. In fact, I think this could be turned into a product if you can package it as a stand alone application (not mobile app) for desktops. Leave out the public community aspect but keep the goals GUI.
I'm not sure others got this reference :o)

Where are their minds...?
I read the link.

As a working DBA, it's breathless drivel.

Unless you're an academic trying to get a grant or tenure, of course.
Researcher here: I Use Gitlab because I get everything for no cost as a regular user. With Github I had to pay and get limited features.
Why would anyone visiting Japan not go there?

I have not met anyone who went that didn't?

If anything I'd say it's a cliché. There are a lot of bad things that have happened in the world that are ignored by euro centric thinking. This is not one of them.
People have made scare posts like this before. In reality this is not an issue, since the public keys in the key server are not the actual public key the user pushed. Due to random factors (cosmic rays, bad memory controllers) at some point in the many copy operations required to send packets to the Internet, the data was silently corrupted and the result was a weak PGP key. If you actually email the users, I guarantee they'll tell you that isn't their real public key.
I've always thought this. Limit all representatives, especially the president, to one term. That way they have no motivation to waste their time and our money on getting reelected. You don't even need to touch age then. If you then make it illegal for all representatives, especially the president, to accept donations and maybe give each candidate a set sum to spend we might actually bring democracy back. I'm certainly not holding my breath though. It's basically asking Congress and the president to commit permanent political suicide.
Really? Those are quite atrocious. Are you sure you ran it through their code in the right input format. It just looks like a sepia filter right now.
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Last time I was in berlin there was a fair amount of open space (Kreuzberg area)
It sounds like you haven't actually understood that argument. "The guy in the room" has always been a minor detail. Furthermore, machine translation has existed since before convolutional neural nets, so your whole point falls under the "not even wrong" category.
Exactly. I think the OP takes a wrong turn in thinking "meaning" arises in relationship to "society", and declaring that "meaning is a game." Society is a game. As people grow up and find their own individual meaning in their pursuits and relationships, they stop caring so much about society and may sign out of the game completely.

The majority of people over 40 are not out there "making meaning" (the author's terminology for "influencing pop culture"), and that's just fine.
I say fuck both of them. How long are we going to let companies being directed by people who want more money keep building software we can't stop using and causes us more suffering than the last version?

Wall Street, Jack and their like promise things like "connect with friends" but it's really "look at content that makes us money". The worst part? We helped them do it to ourselves.

It's time to think differently about infrastructure software, including social media sites. We can do better, and we can do it in a way that makes all our lives richer, not just the founders and investors.
This is new though.
California doesn't have party primaries any longer. All candidates run in a single primary, and the two highest vote-getters go on the ballot for November. When she's up for re-election, her opponent on the November ballot will almost certainly be a Democrat.
I've pretty much never heard the term "white knight" being used by anyone except men who are attempting to shame and bully other men who are being allies into not doing that.

EDIT: Downvoters, you're only making my point for me. How much of my karma do you think you'll have to burn before you've shown me how wrong I am?
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There are many cases where this could be useful. Random one: let's say you're on a motorway behind another selfdriving car. It can see something: not moving, on the road, in the distance. Your car can't because the view is blocked. If the car in front is starting to slow down, then you've got two options - slow down as well, or start overtaking.

Without the extra information, it's a completely reasonable decision to start overtaking. And then you slow down as well, after spotting the same information. So yes - V2V would help here.
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We might not need full trust. We could just add a secondary processor isolated from the system which can run encryption and store its keys inside, like the iPhone does, but one that we are sure is not corrupted. Maybe the security processor could also run a firewall to filter out which app can communicate what.
> That's the point of continuations, though. That's a feature, not a bug.

If that's what you're after, then by all means implement that. :) But I think most people would expect the Lua interpreter state to be self-contained, and not to affect the state of the surrounding C execution environment.
I'm interested in learning about reverse engineering and malware analysis. Is learning C the proper first step in getting my hands dirty? I used C++ in a few college courses, but I've been primarily a Java developer for the past two years.
None at all. Quantum weirdness is already indistinguishable from magic.
Complaining that ubiquitous jargon is a "non-word" makes you look... something.
Yep. I use a similar format/method as suggested to hold multiple accounts, track lead generation and what companies do with personal data.

E.g john.doe+competitionwebsitedotcom_20160502@gmail.com
I know, that's my code-style. And it's documented: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/code-style#commas :D
I'll ask again. Is it your belief that the claim in this article, that the FBI can defeat the LED indicator on every popular laptop camera, accurately describes reality?