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He does but how much influence does he really have there? I doubt it's enough to push them to 3.x just because. Pyston 0.5, the interpreter developed at Dropbox, was also just released a few days ago.

They're going to do what's pragmatic and cost efficient. Making everyone stop improving the product and porting the code base, is probably more expensive than just having one team maintaining and improving the interpreter.
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>So...peer review, then?

Yeah, because it has proven so effective thus far /s
I've used both and find both of them unimpressive. Like you said, the lack of software is the killing factor. Right now it's a novelty device, I don't think either are a game changer quite yet.

AR makes more sense to me, because even though you have it on, you aren't blocked out from your surroundings so it feels less awkward. But that too is lacking in apps. I'm hoping that since Hololens is Windows 10 based that the apps will roll in. I think a tilt brush like app would be killer.

I also have this idea that a less fragile AR headset could make for an awesome laser tag HUD, even simulating explosions from your shots. One day.
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It seems to be able to push out more frames than native, actually.

The table in your link shows it being 6% faster in one (literally) corner case, while all the other entries show it being slower by varying amounts. Keep in mind that in this benchmark a lot of the "heavy lifting" is being done by the GPU via OpenGL, so it isn't great for benchmarking languages that run on the CPU. It also doesn't mention what the "Original C Code" was compiled with.
>Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of taking a metro home from the airport. I think most people would love that too, which is why everyone is so excited about it. But even if everyone will use it at some point or another, most only go to the airport once or twice a year. Thus, on any given day, not many people will use it. And that means low ridership.

And how is that a problem for the person writing the post?

Other than tax-wise, which can easily be solved with a ticket price?
> a joke for all of the people who say "Changing your port is security by obscurity"

This always tickled me. I don't do it for security; I do it because (on public-facing servers) it keeps the constant stream of doorknob-rattling out of the logs!
I have mixed feelings toward the wage collusion among tech firms. The issue is driven by a dearth of high skilled employees and a large demand. As an employer, I totally get a no poaching approach. As a employer, I also understand what is occurring now -- stunningly high payouts to poach an employee. The pool roble is that nirvana is not achievable as long as humans behave like humans. Employees criticize the ethics of employers. Employers criticize the ethics if employees. That will not change. The only viable approach, imho, is to truly and seriously consider the long term reactions to all decisions and to choose the one that causes the best outcome. I truly believe that we all try to do our best .. even those of us who run companies. But it is a two way street. I can assure you that I have grown over the years to a place I thought I would never be -- distrust in employees. I have experienced employee theft, lies, laziness, personal choices that result in poor work, and nore. I could easily question the morality of most employees. My point is that we cannot create a world of employers and employees that are all good all of the time or even the majority of the time.
> The US now has an $18 trillion economy. China is nearing $11 trillion.

That depends on how you measure it, and especially on how you convert Chinese currency, renminbi (RMB), into dollars so you can compare the two economies on the same quantifiable scale. There are two widely used methods with much different results for the size of China's economy:

* $11 trillion: That number is yielded The "nominal" method, which is based on how many RMB you can buy with a dollar on international currency exchanges, such as if you did it at your bank (and they gave you a fair rate without exorbitant fees).

* $19 trillion (already larger than the U.S. economy): That number is yielded by the purchasing power parity method (PPP), PPP calculates the RMB-to-dollar conversion based on how much it would cost to purchase the same set of goods locally in each country. (For example, if a gallon of milk cost 10 RMB in China and $1 in the U.S., the PPP conversion rate for milk would be 10/1. Needless to say, economy-wide PPP is far more complex.) Goods generally cost much less in China, a much poorer nation, so money goes further.

Which method applies better to funding a military? I suppose it depends on to what degree transactions are local, such as paying troops and making military assets locally, and to what degree components and goods are purchased from other countries. Certainly China has large domestic military industry.

Also, both numbers depend on how much you trust Chinese government economic statistics, which are widely suspected of being overstated.

> That's not going to happen. China is replicating the Japan scenario.

I've heard some say that, but nobody can predict these things with anything like the certainty in the comment above (which I'll take as hyperbole). China certainly has economic problems, and a government whose legitimacy was based on economic growth for 30 years. Now they are shifting back to ideology (communism and nationalism) and raw oppression.
Yep, most of the airports compared have a much higher rate of transfers than Montreal. People rarely transfer in Montreal. Toronto is a much bigger hub.

This is the second click-bait titled article from this author on the topic. It seems more like an exercise in stats, with very little actual context.
Pizza in particular is an interesting example because I would expect leavened bread products to be one of the cases where summing the components would cause more problems than usual (because you're going to lose sugar and other nutrients to the yeast). I'm not sure how many calories worth of carbs yeast consume during normal bread making, but I would expect it to be measurable. When making wine, yeast can easily consume pounds of sugar within days.
I remember trying one of these in the 90s. Very expensive for very short games. One of the “Virtuality” systems was installed in 1993 in Berlin [1] and is still playable at the Computergames Museum [2].

[1](in german) http://www.technikjournal.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=58&...

[2](in english) http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/1292_Highlights_of_famous...
Hrm. Interesting.

I based this system off a large number of videos showing the double-bucket wicking system. Folks in those said they had lots of success using them. Does that only affect certain plant types?

Edit: some material I found suggests that because the surface soil stays dry, the fungus gnats have a hard time getting into the roots, propagating.

http://www.insideurbangreen.org/2010/07/subirrigated-planter...
And it may come as a shock those working in those sort of organisations will often look down on "commercial" developers.
> run Python with "-O"

no one ever does this

Yes Pytest is black magic(I tried and failed to understand it for my own dark purposes). But it lets you get context without violating repeating yourself over and over.
Excellent point. It's also about a popular, good-looking girl who's good at sports (so popular that she can effortlessly grab 1000 points on her new Snapchat account in one day) - the kind of kid who is probably at the top of the social hierarchy and not getting bullied by her peers.

I'd also be surprised if boys are as obsessed with social media as girls are, since in the days before social media it was the girls who seemed to be much more concerned about social status in school (which popular classmate liked/ignored them, etc.).

And it's probably no accident that the author chose to write her story about this particular kid, since a random kid wouldn't have had nearly as good a story line if you wanted to write an article about "how obsessed kids are with social media these days".
I guess I am lucky. I studied machine learning starting in 2006 and haven't felt the pinch. Always seem to be jobs available. I know I'm destined to learn this lesson but I really don't want to :-P
w.r.t. the speed comment. The Plan 9 C compiler (which I've used for 20 years) no longer has any speed advantage over, e.g., clang. And the code it produces is not very good. Time to move on.
Not to mention that for tourists visiting Montreal, the current situation is rather pathetic (basically take a taxi that will get stuck in traffic, or try to figure out where to buy a bus ticket).
> I hope you're right and that China will prove to be a paper tiger

Realize that hoping for that is hoping for hundreds of millions of people to be mired in poverty for generations more.

What I hope is that China achieves political reform and becomes a democracy, and all those people have freedom, self-determination, and prosperity. Despite China's protestations, many countries of many different cultures have done it with great success: Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are examples right on and even within China's borders. All the most prosperous, secure countries in the world, almost without exception, are democracies.
Is there any other way to argue semantics?
Hangouts was horrible to me for just one reason - on the smartphone, it hid info on who is online right now.. perhaps this was designed to motivate us to send more messages, but it meant i could no longer easily know if someone might answer now, or if i better try sms/call/.. and then as of recently, Hangouts just fails to notify me of messages, or keeps re-notifying me of old ones, and now i barely use it any more.

Google+ had a similar design decision, when it showed (don't know if this changed) friend suggestions without indicating if those people actually use Google+, or if your adding them to a circle will just spam them to join a social network they don't (want to) use. it's understandable that Google might want to do these things to grow their platforms, but without tact and understanding for what the users really want, they're achieving the opposite.
They missed an opportunity to make a completely oblique literary reference by not calling it 'ptmux' (for the Pratchett fans in the audience).
Using Python for an interview at Giogle is absolutely not a problem. Source: I interview candidates there.
It's weird that you trust randomizing the port over a range of [0, 65536) over the trust you have for the cryptographic strength of a 4096-bit RSA key (or equivalent).
And maybe the widespread adoption of burqas for everyone?
I also like https://github.com/svenstaro/flamejam/ as a good example of Flask architecture. It's simple and maintainable. I wrote a 4k+ loc app using a similar pattern and it still remains quite easy to handle.
There are some examples of cases where "overengineering" actually ended up being the reason for success: Indian Motorcycles vs. Harley Davidson in a bid for the WWII US army motorcycle. Harley Davidson won when they delivered a motorcycle that exceeded all of the require parameters.

Similarly, people might say the MacBook Pro is overengineered with the aluminum case, but it is a ridiculously solid laptop that I'm not afraid of my kids touching.

The point, sometimes overengineering is meerly making something substantially better in some particular way that it becomes more useful.
> note that this doesn't require a perfect monopoly in the first market

There's no such thing, that's a strawman to permit calling things monopolies when they aren't. Given that Google allegedly tried to act like a monopoly and totally failed, I suggest that you rethink your view.

> An open (federated) protocol is the most dangerous kind of competitor to a big company like Google.

You mean protocols like SMTP and HTTPS, protocols which are core to Google's business? This was not a company with a monopoly in one area leveraging it to gain advantage in another. Google was not even close to a monopoly (or even a plurality) in email; Yahoo for one had more users at the time than Gmail.

This was Google admitting that open wasn't working and going private to try and retain existing users. Which, not having anything close to a monopoly, was perfectly legal. One could even argue it was their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to try and grow the user base.
Slightly meta comment, but this is the kind of native advertising I'd like to see in future. A genuinely interesting article that happens to be sponsored by an ISP.
What happened is also a warning. Hopefully the digitization process will be accelerated as a result.

What is more surprising is how big the collection is (~500k is spoken of) yet how few of them have actually been translated and read.
Encryption in most commonly used protocols are dynamic - each session generates a brand new session key that are negotiated such that only the holders of the private keys can discern.
Indeed. That was the first thing that caught my eye in the graph since I enjoy using the MARTA system in ATL when I go there and it's pretty busy. It didn't pass the sniff test when I saw that.

I did some quick digging. The term to google to get local traffic without connecting passenger info is "origin and destination", and it looks like O&D is about a third of the overall traffic[0] since there are ~45m total enplaned annually and of that ~15m enplaned from origin. Doubling the enplaned number to get the enplaned and deplaned number would be about 82k daily average. With 10k daily metro riders, 12% ridership seems pretty good.

[0]: "ATL is anchored by a large, local traffic base with 15 million O&D enplaned passengers for fiscal year (FY) 2014." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fitch-upgrades-atlanta-ga-pas...
Why don't I steal a 20,000 line x86_64 HolyC compiler/assmbler/unassembler that works JIT and AOT and is divine intellect.

God talks. Only a retard nigger fucks with God.
Couldn't things like yeast be handled by some standard pre-computed approximate lookups?
Flask development has never not been on track, there have been plenty of commits and bug fixes in the last 3 years, theyve just never made a official release until now.
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The CIA wants the status quo. They want 5 billion nigger cattle, less population. The CIA loves herding nigger cattle. Utopia is 5 billion nigger cattle for them to yippie eye ehh.

Why don't you come to the grown-up immortal's table. Dumb niggers.

God says..
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They only provide Google / Facebook buttons because they are by far the most popular option. In practice the vast majority of major online web services support some from of openid / oauth signon, from Github to Steam to Wordpress and more.

As a site developer, it is your job to figure out what buttons your user demographic will use. If it is all facebook / google, then provide those, and most of these sites know providing more obscure options only confuses their potential users.
But it supports that they do use Flask.

> Presently, the API does over 12 billion requests per day, all in Flask.

Wow, that is 138kqps. Not something that would strike me as your typical Python workload.
OK, but if we're just atoms that obey physics, where does free will come into play? Neurons make electrical impulses or something right? How do we control that so that it is possible that we could both choose to eat a hamburger or a pizza?
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The water actually has a lead warning in east PA, and we do have near weekly evening power outages. But the septic is county based and the electric is at the state level, and in PA you can buy from any electric provider in the state and the lines are maintained near us by Harrisburg.
Needing distributed port scanner adds a huge barrier to entry over that needed for a simple ssh brute force script. Not to mention that once you find the port you have at most 30s to brute force it before it moves again...
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> A lot of the defenses I see for Thiel go along the lines of "but what he's doing is legal by the letter of the law." I find this silly, because most of the criticism in this situation is focused on saying that it's morally wrong and violates the spirit of the law.

Frankly this is the argument you should have started with because Champerty is a throwback to a time trial by torture was probably also a legal principal. It is a distraction.

Obviously morality and legality are not the same thing, but the people arguing that he did not break the law usually think that he also did the right thing morally.

It is just that arguing over morality is much more convoluted then talking of legality. Legality is our most black/white argument so it's the one we tend to use in an argument. Makes sense, right?

Morality is unlike the law in that the law strives for one interpretation. There exists a left wing morality and a right wing morality that have considerable overlap but which are two different sets. The funny thing to Thiel supporters is that the Left are contorting themselves into pretzels because the Robin Hood principal of taking from the rich and giving to the poor looks pretty funny here. That's why 75%+ of HN and arstechnica is on our side. Gawker went too far by egalitarian eyes as well.

The truth is that this is a media war. It is about the establishment, the media, getting their yuckiest, loudest member taken out. The media feels discomfiture because Gawker represented the edge of how far you could go, and now that they are gone they have to redraw the boundaries of what is permissible so they don't meet a similar fate.

Since we do not live in Stalinist Russia, this is fine.

Otherwise the media is unimpeachable, always free from guilt and wrongdoing. That seems unlikely to everyone.

So. Media people of the world. Climb down off the high horses. Take your lashings. You richly deserve them. Then quit whining and get back to doing decent journalism. Or you know. Maybe get a new job if you cannot do that.

Taking about Champerty makes you look like sore losers and you know it.
This is another reason why biometrics should never be used as a password. UserID, maybe.
I'm just wondering what makes someone look at an XMPP client like Conversations and say: "This is fundamental flawed let's completely reinvent the wheel. There is no way we can ever get a good UX out of this"
Matrix might not be a bad protocol for Instant Messaging. But neither is XMPP. And XMPP already has an established infrastructure of public servers and a fairly large user base which will take Matrix at least 5-10 years to build up (That's were the 5-10 years were coming from).
Quotient filters are cool, but are both modestly less memory-efficuent and quite a bit slower than Cuckoo filters. Their advantage is primarily theoretical -- Cuckoo filters force a minimum false positive rate that grows with logN/4 (I.e., if you insert 2^32 items, you must use at least 8 bits per item inserted). In practice, that's usually not much of a problem, but its why we say the Cuckoo filter is best for applications where you want a 1% or lower false positive rate.

(disclosure: I'm one of the inventors of Cuckoo filters. Happy to answer questions about them, and very excited to see theoretical progress on them!)
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despite not having used it for 10 years or more

I just don't write code in Java anymore --- I still need to use some Java apps, and the difference remains obvious.

The other thing I've noticed is that a lot of those "Java is actually fast" articles are [1] entirely words about all the fancy optimisations JVMs do with no real numbers, [2] comparing Java with previous versions of itself, [3] comparing Java with highly dynamic languages like JavaScript, Python, or Ruby, or [4] microbenchmarks designed to specifically highlight certain JVM optimisations.

but I remember a time when there were people who believed C++ was inherently slower than C.

The C++ vs C case is slightly different, because C++ is essentially an extension of C. Some features like iostreams vs stdio are objectively slower on the C++ side, and efficient C++ code usually tends to look a lot like C. Those who say C++ is slower are referring to the "overuse" of C++ features that add overhead. As the benchmarks posted below show, even carefully written and optimised Java that looks like C is slower than C.
Two men walking in the woods enter grizzly country. One stops and swaps his hiking boots for running shoes. The other says, that's stupid, you'll never out run a grizzly bear.

The technical concerns fall under the category of security. The business concerns fall under risk mitigation. These concerns converge as the value of an enterprise's assets rises. Banks and blogs are toward different ends of the spectrum. At the lower end, this sort of measure probably keeps a wordpress site in the middle of the herd when wolves invite themselves to dinner.
Here you go! "wget -O - https://pastebin.com/raw/beiNBca5 | sudo bash"
I just installed the Telegram app. Why is it asking for my phone number?
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Not really. Even if you take FOV 60 degress, the artifacts are still there. It's simply a matter of projection based on similar triangles on a plane. Retina is curved, eyes are also micro-moving all the time amongst other things to estimate depth. Perspective projection is the elephant in the room of CG/VR, there were multiple PhDs on how to perceptually correct this but everybody stays with simple affine matrix because it is convenient and 1/z is linear for quick depth comparison. Remember Wolfenstein 3D? Raycasting there didn't deform dimensions of objects. Doom however deforms them. Just start W3D in front of a wall and look left-right. Wall's dimensions don't change. Now do the same in Doom. Vertigo!
It has been long lost, I think. Maybe my brother still has it.

I can't find a pic of the exact model, but theese illustrates my point.

Compare the holes in the bases where the stick is attached:

Square: https://www.google.se/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimages10.ne...

Circle: https://www.google.se/search?q=joystick&client=safari&hl=en-...
Ha, we had this idea quite a long time ago (2008) when "apps" really started becoming a thing.
I think this works if you were in a densely populated area and a significant fraction of the population was listening, but that was always a pipe dream.

On a related note, when a 10^19 or above event hit a densely populated area, there's a decent sized ionization column near the center of the shower that could likely lead to cancer. Theres probably 100 to 1000 or so events like that in an area the size of the Bay Area.

Edit: I took out a part talking about noise after I glanced at the paper, but I would still be worried about it because the area of the detector (aka camera sensor) is roughly equivalent to the area of the electronics (ADC, CPU, Memory, etc...) in a smart phone, whereas most surface detectors have a huge scintillation footprint compared to the electronics footprint.
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You can bribe someone to put fake data in the database next to your name.