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What? He also predicted how and why it would fail. Sun was a big enough player then that it could have survived plenty of other ways. Apple of today looks nothing like the company in 2000, but Sun got caught out more or less exactly as described and never adapted.
It is. And it's explicitly forbidden by our Constitution.

Efforts to pretend otherwise, but only for suspected drug dealers, lost that qualifier a decade or so ago when fiscal conservatives started to doom state governments to persistent budget shortfalls. Police departments lacking funding found themselves a status as highwaymen that the federal government (since Reagan) would tolerate, robbing out-of-state vehicles under cover of federal law and judicial precedent.

These people swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. There is no wiggle room on this subject in the Bill of Rights for people to have their possessions stripped from their person absent a criminal conviction. Practitioners of 'civil asset forfeiture' are traitors to that oath and to their country, in addition to being guilty of the common crime of armed robbery.

Why hasn't it been changed yet?

* It's rare. This is not an everyday thing.

* It often targets people on long-haul car journeys through what wealthy people (the sort who can afford lawyers) term 'the flyover states'. Most people do not want to battle this in court at least a days' drive from their home, on disadvantaged terms with a lawyer who will cost more than the goods in question.

* Most wealthy people (the sort who can afford lawyers) no longer carry large amounts of cash.

* State & local police departments have become reliant on it. Law enforcement agencies are extremely averse to going up against each other. Politicians with the power to shape law respond to the opinion of the people in the place they live and to local campaign donations by wealthy people, not to out-of-state victims.
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This is interesting.

Test 1: on Comcast but connected to company's VPN: 48Mb/s

Test 2: on Comcast but not on the VPN: 11Mb/s
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Wait, what serviceable 30 day whiskey are you referring to? What's the service model?
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> Since when do programmers give a shit if people's precious fee-fees contradict what is technically correct?

Programmers at least the ones I've seen in my life are not from Vulcan :). In other words, we humans, are all driven by our emotions like it or not. The problem is that some people chose to believe that they are pure rational beings, therefore they are always right.
Please release the arc code. There are people who care about arc out there . . .
I'm pretty sure people still buy those things because they see the value in investing money in quality products, not to signal something. Signaling is a consequence here, not a purpose.

Different whisky products have different markets. There are special limited edition releases of Chivas that are only sold in Asia, for example. Same for Johnny Walker, and many other popular brands. India is crazy for Scotch, but most of its whisky is made of 90% blended neutral spirits and 10% malt whisky. It was only in the past 10 years that they produced their own, completely Indian, single malt whiskys, which are pretty good by the way.

All sorts of whisky brands have been switching to No Age Specified labels for years. Eventually almost all of them will be, partly to avoid shortages, and partly to help consumers try more products from the same brand, and to fight the idea that older = better. And "as good" scotch is relative; they have always blended spirits to get the right flavor profile regardless of age statement, and they continue to do so.
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The lack of transparency thing is a huge red-flag.
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I tasted the A'bunadh at the distillery alongside the 16, and while the no-age-statement stuff is fine, it doesn't really compare to the sherry cask stuff. I'm suspicious of no-age whiskey.
My math isn't off... it's for 3 hours a day and I state that in my post (perhaps not clearly enough). Your number is for 24. The point was if you're not full utilization it could make sense.
I don't know if it's a thing in the US, but those biscuits you have with tea/coffee called "Nice" would be a good name I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_biscuit
Earlier post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722329

Seems 550 dyno hours are for ALL, not per app :(
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You're comparing their mature businesses to their nascent cloud business. Their market share in the latter is still a fraction of the leaders'. It's very possible that Google may "lose the cloud".
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I use a $50 android phone from Alcatel. I seems to do all the Android stuff I need.

I don't know how a feature phone that isn't Android could be worth much.

The one thing one I don't have is a good camera. But I'm pretty sure decent cameras require "real" money to create.
That's ok. Most of them are interchangeable MGP whiskeys anyways, and will always have some lower-priced lesser-known entirely-equivalent cousins.
Wonder if the formula just calculates based on the public IP that hits fast.com rather than the client to fast.com

I have yet to see a speed test I believe, I am not getting 33mb down.
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At risk of being pedantic, that's actually shorter. It also doesn't work, at least on the version of OCaml I'm familiar with. In order to invoke that particular bit of "language magic", you'd have to declare it external and explicitly give its type:

external (|>) : 'a -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b = "%revapply"

Also, `%apply` is usually the `@@` operator. For `|>`, one would expect `%revapply`.
I don't really think so. Who nowadays would want to buy a feature phone when smartphones are so cheap.

An entry-level smartphone can do all the same things a feature phone can and even more. Why would you want to limit yourself in this day and age?
That's one conversation I'm hoping to get launched soon. The sample 'make your own digital currency' code from Ethereum has no such provisions right now.

To my mind, it's a little like K&R C showing you how to walk through a string in the 1980s -- adversarial data was not a big concern at the time.
If I turn on my company VPN, the result is 4x faster than if I have it off. That's a large difference.
So ridiculous, since everybody knows what the person is saying anyway -- the screwing around just draws attention to it. In Australia you can put the word "fuck" on the front page of the newspaper without frightening the horses.
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Downvote? Is it not reliant on Google services?
The Cloud Machine Learning service is one that I'm highly anticipating. Setting up arbitrary cloud machines for training models is a mess right now. I think if Google sets it up correctly, it could be a game changer for ML research for the rest of us. Especially if they can undercut AWS's GPU instances on cost per unit of performance through specialized hardware. I don't think the coinciding releases/announcements of TensorFlow, Cloud ML, and now this are an accident. There is something brewing and I think it's going to be big.
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That wasn't really my point - I'm simply noting that Urs is one of the last people I'd think to hop on the wimpy crazy train. His published articles suggest that he's got a very good grasp of the tradeoffs involved in "real" TCO -- i.e., taking a fairly global view of both the human, capital, and operating expenses involved in a technology decision such as using wimpies (no) or fabricating a custom ASIC for machine learning (yes).

That doesn't mean a TPU is faster or slower than anything in particular, it just means that quite likely that it's good for some machine learning tasks that Google cares enough about to spend the whatever dollars it cost to make the thing.

The WSJ article has a few more quotes from Norm Jouppi, btw.: http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-isnt-playing-games-with-n...
(Sorry if that gets paywalled. Googling "wall street journal google tensor processing unit" got me there.)
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Yes and no. While there is likely a claim if the company is now unviable there may not be any money to claim. Blood from a stone and all that.
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As long as HIPAA rules are followed I don't see an issue. Further more I would argue that the doctors in this case have a moral imperative to inform the public just how harmful these faulty test results have been. It is becoming clear that Theranos has harmed patients and public knowledge of this is crucial to discover more cases and inform those whom may have had medical decisions made on faulty testing.
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Using ES5 features? Because arrow functions would make it smaller.

Also using an if/else instead of continue saves 4 bytes.

Using arrow functions shaves off another 2 bytes.

(Gzipped that's 489 bytes.)[0]

[0] - https://closure-compiler.appspot.com/code/jscde34e44897623a8...
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This is obviously a bitter rant, and devolves into uncomfortably ageist territory about halfway through.

I do agree that we should be moving away from C and C++, though. It's pretty simple, really: C was a pretty good language in 1978. We didn't know a lot of things in 1978 that we do now in 2016. It now makes sense to revisit those decisions in light of nearly 40 years of practice. The so-called "PL Renaissance" has given us a whole host of new languages which have steadily chipped away at the dominance of C and C++, and I think this is a healthy trend that ought to continue.
how would she have done this? most ceos just get a salary and equity; if the equity goes to zero, which is increasingly looking likely, then all she got was a salary for all the years that she ran the company. i dont think that qualifies as diverting a "good chunk of her investors' money."
I assumed they called in Daydream because they already had a trademark for that name. Like how Microsoft re-appropriated the Surface trademark.
Can't you make the claim that type of bodies differ because of gender, and thus just like sports teams, student groups can decide who joins because of type of body. It's not sports, it is social meetings and debates and all of that. Sort of a loophole in your argument.
"I think there's a serious market for good feature phones"

No, because a really good feature phone would be a premium product. Custom form factor and parts (not manufactured in as large a volume), custom operating system with custom apps, no app store to make money off etc. Cheap Chinese smart phones are the new feature phone.
When I was a kid there was no security. My Mom and Dad would make us put on a tie to go get somebody at the airport.

And if you could afford it, they called you part of "the jet set." I bet this - where more people can use air travel - is better. It's just not special any more. UX is a secondary consideration.
That page is so simple, yet even Google devs are "powering" these simple pages with multiple JS files. Why? Is it laziness? Or just some belief that Angular is required now for even "hello world"?

When viewing source I initially thought 'great, a nice clean HTML page'... after all, it's just 3 images fading between each other and a simple form.

But then at the bottom we see Angular, Angular Animate, Angular Scroll, and a fourth Main JS file. Way to set an example Google.
It's the price of the shell, you still need the phone to put in it.
The IC3 research group at Cornell, and especially Elaine Shi's group, has been thinking about this recently. They are (I think) working on some kind of program analysis framework using deep PL techniques to formally verify smart contracts.
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Can you elaborate on the redefinition of "hate-speech"? How was it previously defined and how has that definition changed? Who changed it?

As an American this is especially interesting to me because we place such value on our freedom of speech but also pay a high price in the hate speech that is viewed as a necessary evil. It seems that the EU has made an attempt to manage this hateful speech but I'm not familiar with the specifics.
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Nice, but a lot of apartment managers would freak out over those kinds of installations being visible, at least for any halfway decent apartments.
Given that he has a nice graph with hundreds of data points, I'm guessing he got the ping results from the ping command, not by running the speedtest.net test(which would actually select the lowest ping server)
Absolutely. The tech has a limited scope and typically doesn't have the ability to escalate engineering issues. You need to keep complaining and Twittering until you get a senior guy.

In my case, the TWC guys replaced every piece of coax and splitter from my cable modem and TVs to the pole.

Turned out the issue was the changed out the cabling on the big avenue near my house and used the wrong grade of cable.

I called the TWC state lobbyist and told him I represented 150 homeowners who were filing a complaint with the regulator and the city council just head of their franchise agreement renewal. Trucks were replacing those lines the next morning.
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I have mixed feelings about this, but I cannot disagree with it.

a. I haven't written a program in C in over 10 years. I wrote software 5 days a week for those 10 years.

b. I wouldn't want to write a program in C now.

c. The first "high level" programming language I learned was C, from a book (not K&R C), while travelling in Asia, without a computer. It taught me well, but I immediately went on to other languages.

e. I can't shake the idea that there is some value to knowing that low level stuff, even though I don't use it much myself.

Maybe linux kernel hackers will keep it alive. I know game programmers use it a lot as well. But for the majority of us, it's kind of an arcane skill now.
Well, never missed a payment until the bankruptcy filing, at which point Comvest can line up at the courthouse with everyone else.
Maybe this made Zed feel better, but communicates almost nothing to any outside reader.

Not a single actual quote from any of his detractors, for the reader to judge for him or her self if their criticisms have any validity.

The categorical declaration of "I cannot help old programmers," without providing the evidence he has for this claim. Lots of name calling, though.

No link to the original content, to determine for ourselves whether or not it was fair to K&R's work.

I suppose Zed just meant this to be personally cathartic, and didn't realize he posted it on a public web site where other people can read it?
I completely agree. I thought Samsung/Oculus had gotten it right with the GearVR, but the performance improvements from a native, full-stack integration of VR functionality is giving me goosebumps. They even have a new spec which multiple vendors can get behind.

I'm going to start researching this platform now and will invest my time as a developer in it as soon as possible. I predict that this will be a good platform to get behind. Perhaps I'm being naive, but in a space with as much market potential as VR, this vision has me incredibly excited.

edit: One more thought: The hardware that they showed in the demo appears to be a step ahead of GearVR in usability as well. The headstrap isn't painfully assembled (my GearVR unit falls apart half the time I put it on) and it comes with input controllers. GearVR is woefully lacking in input options out of the box.
If you're happy learning with an certification of uncertain or zero(1) value then I can strongly recommend many Coursera(2) courses.

1. zero value to others

2. Udacity and others may be good too, I only have experience with Coursera
She may have sold some of her equity in the company.
The browsers were so bad on those devices no one used them.
Dave Zuckerman has been doing theoretical CS research for about twenty-five years. Are you saying you think it's likely that either (a) he was an NSA double agent this whole time, or (b) he recently started doing clandestine work for the NSA inserting backdoors into abstract theoretical results about Ramsey graphs and two-source extractors?
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That's a good suggestion but it looks like the minifier removes "continue" automatically:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muicss/loadjs/master/dist/...

Arrow functions would be great but then we'd have to drop support for browsers that don't support ES6.
No, that's about the overprovisioning. But here's something about the peering: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/after-...
It's remarkable, though, that it's taken 40 years to make much head way in replacing C.

There's still a lot of C code out there, and a lot of new C code still being written.
Is it really? I'm thinking about the reverse case with a Software Engineer at a bulge bracket bank, which isn't seen as a resume boost at all.
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I'm getting 140 on Comcast (whom I'm paying for 100). On speedtest (hosted by Comcast!), I get 87 down.
There is actually already fledgling support for this in Solidity (the prevailing language that Ethereum developers use to write smart contracts).

https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/3779/formal-verificati...
IIRC this is why HHS and HIPAA regulations specify "all ages over 89" as protected health information for purposes of data deidentification – there just aren't that many people who have lived that long.
Conclusion: Comcast has shitty peering with Netflix compared to your work
I don't know about that. Ignoring the rest of the world for a moment and concentrating on industrialized nations, we seem to be the worst at providing socialized services.
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The thing is, I think you can simultaneously have all of these opinions: (a) K&R were/are top-notch computer scientists; (b) K&R was a fantastically written book; (c) C was a great language in 1978; (d) we should be moving away from C in 2016. The fact that we didn't know as much about programming languages in 1978 as we do now in no way diminishes the significance of the work.

I think that C should rapidly be moving toward obsolescence, and I hold K&R in great esteem.
I've tried his past recommendations and found some pretty good whiskies as a result. He's certainly guilty of a little misrepresentation. I wouldn't say he chooses the best whisky made in a given year so much as a good, usually possible to acquire (which is important) whisky from a region/producer that probably doesn't get enough recognition.
You can make some assumptions though. If the power consumption was equal, the performance is 10x.

The speed at which an ASIC will run is constrained by temperature (power dissipation) and and logic timing, which itself has a dependency on temperature.

So we could call that vertical scaling, to some power ceiling which may not take us all the way to 10x, but it's not impossible.

Then there is horizontal, which I assume is applicable to these problems... running more in parallel.

In both cases, I think it's safe to assume they are getting a performance increase in the instantaneous sense.
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Why do you need to buy a company to do this? This sounds like the kind of thing one person working alone could bring to the market, modulo sales.
I'm about to leave an ISP where many/most of the techs know what a peering agreement is and are happy to help troubleshoot tricky issues (e.g. did you know PJSIP doesn't do NAT rewriting?)

It's sad really, but I can now get similar quality of service for half the cost so I'd be silly to keep paying what I am.
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Say you have a test that determines, with some non-perfect level of accuracy, if a person is or has been president of the USA.

If that test is performed only on women, the false positive rate will be 100% regardless of accuracy. All positive results would be false positives.

If the test is preformed on any man leaving or entering the oval office, then the false positive rate will likely be significantly less then 100%, as there will be a president tested multiple times in that group, and when we test positive on him, it's not a false positive.

If we test the population at large, most positive results are going to be false positives, simply because we're unlikely to actually have a former president get tested. But in theory the false positive rate could be slightly less then 100% if we got lucky.

As the probability of an actual occurrence in the test group drops to zero, the rate of false positives approaches 100%, regardless of the accuracy of the testing method.
> Indeed, it sounds like the lender had a huge incentive: loan X, if default, gain 2X.

I don't know the terms of the deal, but I very much doubt they had an incentive to drive the company to bankruptcy. If the company were a prize, thet would have been picked up by someone else in bankruptcy. The fact that Comvest were 'undermining' other deals smells more to me like they were intent on preserving their place in the capital structure, and not having the value of any warrants they owned diluted.

My understanding is that following the bankruptcy Comvest provided debtor-in-possession financing, and at the auction there was only one bidder.
The Firebase JS SDK currently supports non-persistent offline. So long as you keep the tab open, Firebase works great offline!

However, if you go offline and then try to refresh the content, none of it will be persistently stored or accessible until you go back online.
To be perfectly blunt, C does not need Zed Shaw "saving" it. He can go ahead and ignore it or end his book or rewrite the chapter or spout his vitriol over how stupid C programmers are; nothing he does will make an impact.
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Forget your shiny laptop. Imagine you own a hotel. Copper can catch some guy hanging out in your lobby claiming he might have drugs then take your motel and delivery van.

Americans don't riot because they think "drug person lost his motel? who cares?".
Oddly enough, it turns out to be 836(!), which is definitely higher than I would have guessed.

http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/nebraska/demographi...
Once I heard it was an AA strategy for ex-alcoholics: just say you can't drink today. You'll suffer no pressure to do it.
> It's remarkable, though, that it's taken 40 years to make much head way in replacing C.

I don't agree: it's been a long process, but the trend is unmistakable. It's hard to remember now, but in the early '90s C and C++ were completely dominant. Nowadays they're much more specialized: you're as likely to build your company on Java or even Python/Ruby as you are to build it on C++. People talk about how it's hard to hire C++ engineers nowadays, while in the '90s "C++ engineer" was pretty much synonymous with "programmer". And so on.
Not sure what you mean by that? A'bunadh is 100% sherry aged.
How long before we find out the NSA has access to this and the Amazon Echo?