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This is why Python 2 isn't optional yet:

http://py3readiness.org/

Of the top 360 libraries, only 332 of them support Python 3 (but almost all of them still support Python 2).

This analysis was done in March and expected even support for Python 3 and 2 around now:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/03/0...

So maybe next year it will be optional, but not yet.
> Which part?

Sorry, I should have clarified. I meant both. (Fortunately, you answered both...)

Re your answer on the first part: I could have an interpreter for a non-Turing-complete language. An interpreter for that would not necessarily have to be Turing-complete, would it?

Second point: Um, could you ELI5 what the difference between a total language and a Turing-complete language is?
Private parties trying to influence research in a way that it benefits them ? I am not surprised at all.

I think the worse trend is when government authorities do this. Then it becomes witch-hunt.

"Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker used Greenpeace list to target climate change skeptics"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/4/virgin-island...
It's definitely a hassle to have to look through the various services to find which one actually has a bit of content, find the login for that service, and make sure that a bunch of separate accounts are maintained. This complexity removes one of the biggest advantages streaming is supposed to have over piracy: ease of use and effortlessness.

In contrast, TV comes with a built in meta-discovery system. You can effortlessly switch between channels and even quickly summon up an overall display of which channels have which.

It seems like there might be a hole opening in the market for a streaming aggregator which will provide a unified interface for managing your various subscriptions and switching between them (including to paid sources). It's too bad that every company would likely oppose such a service and thereby make it technically and legally impractical to maintain.
Definitely agree that it's not apples to apples to compare the two poll results. It would also be interesting to see what Native Americans say about whether they would like the name to be changed.

But the legal question at issue is perhaps more closely aligned with the poll question that was asked. That is, the USPTO doesn't strictly care whether people want the name changed—they only care about whether it is offensive to people. Either way, of course, this is a very fuzzy test, and likely to leave someone upset at the end of the day
Its interesting how much hatred there is for visual basic these days. I understand, its the bane of my existence right now replacing thousands of things written with it. But I never stop being amazed at how successful it was. People who had no business programming were able to get stuff done with it. Imagine if MS didn't corner itself and ultimately kill the language by implementing only for windows?
Demonstrates the error of the "long tail" fad some years back. Dazzled by the prospect of everything being available online, pundits failed to grasp the value of content and the ensuing turf wars. Netflix was the prime example, hoping to carry every movie for a trivial flat fee; didn't work out that way. Closest we've got is the likes of iTunes, with a broad spectrum available $1-7 rental (vs the unfulfilled promise of Netflix, $8/month).
Like I said: lexical syntax. Case sensitivity and whether you use "End" or "}" are, to me, down somewhere around tabs vs. spaces in terms of what matters for the usability of a programming language.
At least until these brands have the tech stack to vertically integrate and do it on their own, or until they get preferential treatment on another digital supplier, or better terms (like vevo).
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> IMO, this man should be recognized for his accomplishments.

He went to school while working.

Tons of people do that. Just because this is a nice feel good story doesn't make it more impressive.
Interesting. Bundles do appear even if games are sold through competitors. For instance, while Humble Bundle were probably the pioneer of it, you can now often see bundles of discounted games sold on GOG, usually either from some single publisher, or themed in certain way (those games already should exist in their catalog, but that bundle offering is usually a special sale event). Most of the time those same games are also available through Steam, so there is no exclusivity involved.

Regarding TV channels - I think they are slowly declining and eventually will die out completely, because they aren't really a flexible method, that's why you don't see anything similar in games which is a newer industry and has less legacy baggage to deal with.
Vb6 was before my time, but I think autohotkey has filled the vacuum pretty well. There are a bunch of alternatives still around, like autoit, quick macros...
This was a great read. More than him getting fired, I was more upset about the below:

Even though I helped move a company’s valuation almost two billion dollars, I haven’t made a dime from the company outside of making a pretty below-to-average salary. That’s after six years.

I guess the thing was, I was reading the whole article with a 'Shit happens to millionaires' mindset. That totally changed everything in my head.
Well wrong certainly. I agree with most folks that licensing is a much bigger cost than storage.
Thanks, that's useful to know.
There seems to be other theories similar to this, saying that our immune systems are subjected to too few pathogens in general, not just worms - due to the cleanliness of 'modern' life.

There might even be some correlation to increased rates of allergy in countries that raised the living standard and less allergies among farmers (supposedly because they roll around in pigs shit? The reasoning is a bit unclear.)

But I can't shake the feeling that there is something wrong with that theory. If you disregard large cities, 150 years ago, most people met very few people. Travelling was complicated and slow. Diseases was spreading of course, but decidedly in a slower pace than today - in most parts of the world.

I'm fairly sure that an average person 150 years ago came in contact with less people in a year than I pass by on my daily commute. Heck, the building I work in has 3500 people in it, my kids go to three different schools with a couple of hundred other kids in each and their parents most likely works in other large workplaces, and I eat at restaurants that serves hundreds of meals every day.

Is it not possible that an average person today are subjected to many -more- strains and variants of pathogens than ever. Maybe it is the increased load of _different_ pathogens that stresses the immune system?

I mean, even if I moved in into the pigsty for good, it's just me and the pig there... The only way to catch a new disease would be from birds and rats, or a random mutation.
College football, although it feeds the NFL, still has some rules in place that reduce some of the bad behavior. Of course, there's plenty of problems there, too, but these days I feel much less guilty cheering for a university team than for a pro team.
>demand either an 83b

What you actually need to ask for in this case is RSUs (vs options). The 83b election is something you independently file with the IRS. (you may need a letter from the company for proof, but they'll have drafts of those already that they've used for the founders -- speaking from experience as the person who set this up for our company)

However, RSUs only make sense in the seed stage. Past A round, the 10 year exercise window or an early exercise clause of ISOs into RSUs might make sense depending on the numbers, but likely not.
The NFL is trying it's damned hardest to become as corrupt as FIFA
Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
That's just the public report. It is perfectly consistent for a company to publicly say nothing wrong occurred, while quietly firing some of the few individuals involved. Personally, the sudden-ness and lack of reasons for firing lead me to suspect it was a reason.

I realize this is unsubstantiated speculation on my part, so take this all with a grain of salt.
That part caught me, too. First, I wonder how they were getting it backed by gold and seemlessly. Second, they said the gold investments are safe if they collapse. So... somehow the original source will know for sure that it's yours and easily convert it back to cash? Have any idea what they're using on gold side to do that?

It was harder a long time ago when I looked into gold investments as the digital ones were shady enough that I was concerned with money laundering investigation. Getting caught in theirs, that is.
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Homoiconic means that the code structure is similar to the actual AST. In Lisps, this is easy to see, because a nested list of symbols is pretty much the definition of an AST. In truth, real homoiconicity is hard to achieve in any language that doesn't represent code as trees/S-expressions.

In Julia, they built a data structure that can represent code, and can be accessed via reflection, but it's no more homoiconic than most languages (note that "homoiconic" is nowhere on the page you linked to). In Lisps, the code is just nested lists, like other list data, and can be manipulated using the all of the standard list-processing functions. Whereas, if you look at the examples in Julia, you'll see that using macros vs functions involves special syntax all over the place.

A good page for this is http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HomoiconicLanguages
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pron makes no claim that neural nets are on the extreme end of ad hoc.
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> People who had no business programming were able to get stuff done with it.

True, and that was good. But it became bad when businesses made that "stuff" part of business-critical processes.
This looks great, but I always get nervous about inviting someone into a repository. A simple mistype and a complete random has access to the repo. I would feel happier if the autocomplete list prioritised people you'd invited previously or already share repos with.
> increased expressive power at the cost of delayed verification.

I don't see where the increased expressive power comes from. Dynamic checks are equally doable in a typed and an untyped setting.

But let's say it gives you more expressive power. It does so at the cost of no verification. Validation is a very poor substitute.

> Because the real answer is probably "it's too hard to do".

It's common usage of GADTs and DataKinds nowadays. Granted, strictly speaking not Haskell, but GHC Haskell.

> By the way, you probably want linear types in order to encode state machines in the type system in a natural way

You only need linear types if you need to enforce that (some) values will have a single logical future.
Iced coffee = 110 (with 2%, not whole milk or cream)

http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/iced-coff...

Notwithstanding the fact most people do not use half-milk, I think you can look at the fact the starbucks drinks are >200 calories at a rate of 5:1 as indicative of the market demands.

Just look at their list of best beverages[1]:

1. 540 cal/16oz
2. 470 cal/16oz
3. 250 cal/16oz
4. 360 cal/16oz
5. 190 cal/16oz
6. 440 cal/16oz
7. 250 cal/16oz
8. 380 cal/16oz
9. 440 cal/16oz
10. 35 cal (1.5oz)

[1]http://www.starbucksdrinks.com/best-starbucks-drinks-list
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> the greatest thing about making music all in the box (or majority of it) is being able to mix on the go.

That's no different to working out-of-the box. I have a 32 channel analogue mixing desk, many analogue synths and drum machines, outboard effects units (Lexicon reverb, 3x Eventides), outboard compressors (2x 1176s, SSL G buss, 8 x SSL 9K channel comps, DBX 1066), etc.

The experience is much more like performing the studio, rather than tweaking something with a mouse one knob at a time. I find sounds, play something live with the track, get the levels right on the desk, EQ the channel on the desk, patch in compressors to shape the sound, and have 6 auxes always setup for reverbs, delays, etc. I can get to the sound I want much quicker than I ever could before in-the-box.

Obviously it's horses for courses. Whatever works for you, it's the end result that counts. But being able to mix whilst making the music isn't exclusive to in-the-box.
> Who they fuck would want to pay, to watch selective programming...with commercials?

People like me.
>we're in the data-collection and pattern-search phase. The scientific revolution is yet to happen.

Sure, and I would call that an age of exploration.

I just take issue with criticizing work in a field with no great explanatory theory, for a lack of theory. There are only two routes a researcher can take to address the criticism, abandon work in the field, or come up with the missing breakthrough theory.

It's sort of like saying no one should have bothered with biology until after Darwin figured out what was going on.
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> do you think them advertising exclusiveness is something people care about?

I absolutely do. Lucasfilm, Disney, Pixar, and Marvel are probably top of the list for studios with actual (and powerful) brand recognition. (By contrast, most movie goers probably couldn't tell you which specific movies Miramax or Universal or whatever make).

People see this and it translates as "if I want to stream The Avengers or Frozen or Star Wars or Iron Man or [etc], I better get Netflix". It's hard to think of a set of movies with better brand recognition.
The PDF won't open for me on a Nexus 5, doesn't show thru githubs mobile site either.

Edit: It worked when I requested the desktop version of github though.
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As of the latest Gitlab (8.8.1), my "this breaks Gitlab" commit of the Linux Kernel sources (https://gitlab.com/nrclark/dummy_project/commit/81ebdea5df2f...) still breaks Gitlab.

When I first submitted this as a bug in December, the act of clicking on the commit would cause a Gitlab worker crash and the UI would either hang or return a 503 error. Five releases later, my sample commit still takes 10-20 seconds to load. Once it does load, it grinds my browser to a painful javascript standstill, and I have to close the tab.

Can we get some smarter diff handling on the roadmap? Please? There was a fix deployed a couple of releases ago, but the behavior is still pretty broken. :(
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Can you explain why RSUs are better than ISOs that convert to NSOs on departure?
The "holographic" displays used by HoloLens and Magic Leap are supposedly immune from the depth perception problem, and should also be unaffected by the momentum problem, since they let you move around freely while wearing them (as does the Vive, to some extent; I also expect this to be true for future Daydream + Project Tango devices).
The article (http://www.dailydot.com/business/julie-ann-horvath-names-git...) says:

"complicit in the actions of both Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner and even admitted to plotting with Theresa Preston-Werner to get women at the company fired. He should be let go from GitHub and I regret being kind to him in previous interviews"

Again, unsubstantiated, but if for example he was just mean but not harassing, that could explain the firing (while Github claiming no harassment occurred).
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Sure. But in this case, it's highly relevant. She's not being hired _despite_ political activity that's irrelevant to the project, she's being hired _because_ of it.

That makes the hiring itself an endorsement of the behaviour.
But the middle track point button is just the right distance. When I relax my hand muscles and place it on the keyboard so that the tip of the index finger is on the track point, the thumb is on the track point buttons. Perfect distance. Using the space bar would be uncomfortable.
Can somebody help me understand why "Oriental" is considered so offensive? It seems about as offensive to me as calling Europe, etc. "the West". Perhaps it's just guilty by association with colonialism and outmoded racial attitudes?
The vast majority of science research doesn't affect public policy. It's toward some goal, like making a process work better. Those scientists still need to be honest, but nobody is throwing big money at them to sway their agenda. Then sometimes, suddenly, huge money depends on a question of science.

I assume concussion research was like this for a long time: they were just trying to find the best way to heal brains after damage, and it was fine to take money from whomever would fund it. Then suddenly there's a question relevant to policy: do football players suffer a lot of permanent brain damage?

In fact it's crazy that such research would be funded by an organization that would be destroyed if the answer turned out a certain way. One should expect no better than with cigarette companies funding lung cancer research.
So ... is my macbook or Dell server pre-pwned by Intel and re-pwned by the Chinese? What, exactly, am I supposed to be afraid of here?
>Who they fuck would want to pay, to watch selective programming...with commercials?

Most homes do that. The people that hate commericals are a small but growing minority. And Hulu just recently released a no-commerical plan for like 13 bucks a month.

>I am an HBO customer and I pirate HBO shows because they load faster and are in at least as good quality.

I have really good experience with HBO NOW (and before it GO). It'll stream in 1080p the second the show airs on tv. They had some fuck ups a could years ago during some premiers, but since they moved to being hosted on mlb.tv, it's been great.
Having done On-Prem in a past life, this article nails it on the head. It's a difficult problem to solve and the support costs are very real. You need a team (or teams) dedicated to OP if you're going to do it right. It can be lucrative and a huge differentiator for your product, but it is far from easy.
Just more evidence that modern CPU designs need to die, and that a libre alternative is required.
Isn't "takes effort" opposite "obvious"?
Well, it's distinguishable (entropy 5.026987) from a large sample of English text (entropy 4.851720), an executable (entropy 6.495817), and a string of all 1s (entropy 0.129234) by Didier Stevens' byte-stats.py [1].

[1] didierstevens.com/files/software/byte-stats_V0_0_2.zip
Sometime it is better to hire for culture, someone who is intelligent but also, and this is critical, can take a joke.
Ultimately, I'm afraid this is due to the difference in laws between owning a physical copy of a disk and having the rights to redistribute digital media. Once Netflix had a DVD of some old movie, it was effectively free for them to hold onto it forever, and older DVDs could be siphoned up from a zillion sources for pennies. Netflix would have to pay for new movies, but the maximum they could be charged would be retail price, and once they had the copies, they'd have them forever. Their catalog would only grow.

Digital redistribution, however, severely hampers them. They can't "buy" copies of movies anymore. Instead, they must pay for the right to stream a movie for a certain amount of time to a certain number of users.

It's an unfortunate outcome, and it's all but guaranteed by the way copyright law works. If there were a law change to allow the digital equivalent of "owning one copy" or, say, allowing the owner of a DVD to stream its contents to exactly 1 recipient over the Internet per DVD owned, I think Netflix's catalog would be an order of magnitude larger.
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Agreed.

I did that. I do that.

In fact, most everybody in all my classes at the local CC/TC and now at the four-year I'm at works and goes to school.

This is pretty common for people getting into tech, especially the IT/sysadmin side of things.
Thank you for the heads up! Should be fixed
It finally works on Nvidia, so I can try it :)
The coin flips I entered passed the site's tests for randomness. I generated them by first picking an arbitrary integer in [0,59]. I then (using simple mental arithmetic) used that integer to seed a PRNG by George Marsaglia [1] to generate a stream of pseudo-random decimal digits. For each digit, if it was in [0,7], then I took the 3-low order bits of its binary representation, in order from least significant to most significant bit (0=tails, 1=heads). If the digit was 8 or 9, I discarded it. Since each non-discarded digit gave me 3 bits, I needed 34 non-discarded digits to get 100 bits. Note that the PRNG I used has period 59, and only 20% of the output digits would have to be discarded. Therefore one could use this approach to generate up to 141 pseudo-random bits.

[1] Marsaglia, George. "How to generate random number sequences (in your head)" (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.math/6BIYd0cafQo/Ucipn_5...)
Thanks. (Unfortunately, we're not in Minnesota, but we'll look for something similar here...)
But they can be challenged. That's why you're reading an article about it. If you have a judge that is biased, it is probably harder to challenge his sentences than if you had an algorithm that you proved was biased.
I would argue that ingesting something that's super toxic is not a better solution, and is part of the reason why naturopathic remedies are not a good idea to self-appy.
I disagree. Not keeping up with Apple business news, I enjoyed the lengthy write-up which seemed balanced, well-researched and with surprisingly few grammar issues.
It can work. My current company uses a rule system to represent most of our business logic since it is so dynamic. The downside is that we have to rebuild the entire graph into memory (times the number of threads, times the number of app servers) every time anything changes (which is constant).

Facebook wrote about rebuilding a similar system in Haskell that only changes memory incrementally, so it's definitely possible to do better.
There have been a few recent cases of NFL players retiring early due to the long-term health concerns of concussions, but it's certainly not common.
One thing I would call out: don't do CI to these people. Eat the pain and cut honest-to-goodness versions. Ideally, cut them on the quarter, so that your customers can comfortably expect a New Version to be available at a specific time.

I used to be on the other side of this desk, so.... trust me. It makes it easier when we can all refer to a specific version. You can throw us specific patches or whatever. From the developer standpoint, you're not delivering a continuously delivered system, you're delivering a "server app" of a specific version.
It would be interesting to see the usage of 'Negro' and 'Oriental' etc in the Statutes at Large attributable to each political party over the years.
How is netflix any different. I don't care about Disney movies or all teh kids content they have. Should I get an a la carte netflix plan with only the content I want? Of course not.

Now how is that any different from cable?
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