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IMO, anytime the programmer has to micro-manage anything it's basically assembly (Forth forces you to micro-manage the stack).

I dislike syntax which uses the <> symbols, but I'm all for RPN and postfix (in theory anyway).
Yes - we're definitely winning :-)

Did you mean "ad-blocker-blocker", or maybe "ad-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker" ?
Or perhaps an advantage. Data stored on US soil is subject to more legal protections. Data stored in other countries is fair game for American intelligence agencies, the most sophisticated in the world by far, to hack and steal. This case was just about whether the US government could compel Microsoft to hand it over with a warrant.
Only the first one is a pronoun, and it's one generally reserved for nonhumans.

I'm sure there are people out there happy to be called 'it' (or even prefer 'it' over other pronouns) but not very many. 'They' seems much more neutral to me.
I would add to that that for me, my attention is a finite resource. If I can stop your ads from taking it up, I will.
Most layer 7 blocking mechanisms look for the SNI header in a TLS datagram or the host header. It's not complicated and trivial to do. Only looking at the host header would be quite amateurish. I'm not a security expert, and even I know this.

CF could use some sort of IPSec or SSL tunnel back to another datacenter to make the origin request. It would add a lot of latency, but it would ensure that local authorities don't mess with the traffic. This was a popular way for CDN's to get around China for a while. I believe one CDN provider billed it as "Secure origin routing." I doubt that they still offer it, as everyone wants to play ball and make money in the end.
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>I doubt that anyone in Congress would have the courage to do what Australia did.

I doubt anyone in Congress has such disrespect for the values many Americans hold in regard to firearms, and the validity many Americans still find in the 2nd amendment.
As a Santa Monica resident, I would love that.

When I got married my (large, greek) family visited for 2 weeks. I lived in an apartment at the time, and it was wonderful that could all rent a large house to stay in. Even today that would be useful for when groups visit over the holidays & what not, but it's imply not an option.

One concern residents have is they don't want to suddenly find there's a "party house" in the neighborhood. In their defense, this was happening. (Google [House of Rock LLC] if you're curious.) However banning AirBnB isn't the right way to address that, nor does it really solve that problem.

Unfortunately, I don't ever see the law changing. There's two unlikely segments coming together to support the law:

1) The hotels. An "normal" hotel here charges ~$400/night. High end easily goes for over $600/night. And don't even ask about rates in peak season.

2) The anti-development crowd. There's a very vocal segment that wants no new development & low, affordable rents. (If you're thinking "uh, supply & demand", that gets dismissed in discussions as a Republican trick.) They also tend to not like people new to the city. They saw AirBnB taking the limited rental stock off the market (which was happening). OP's proposal would address that, but at this point, you're not going to change this group's mindset.
I think it is kinda like the handicap principle in biology. The fact that they can afford to waste money on advertising shows that they are 'fit'. I am not saying it is a perfect mechanism, but it does show SOMETHING.
Agreed its written a little distanced on wikipedia. I cant really find english media reporting about it tho.

http://www.neopresse.com/politik/dach/bertelsmann-facebook-h...

Maybe this one, but they make it sound rather reasonable

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-springs-...

Still facebook is not required to do this, they complied to censor after will of a private(?) germany agency.
Impressive work, Daniel! Do I understand correctly that any image prediction for which the deltas are smaller in absolute value than the full JPEG/DCT coefficients would offer continued compression benefits? As in, if you could "name that tune" to predict the rest of the entire image from the first few pixels, the rest of the image would be stored for close to free (and if not, it essentially falls back to regular JPEG encoding).

If that's the case, then not only could we rely on the results of everything we've decompressed so far to use for prediction (which is like one-sided image in-painting), but we also could store a few bits of semantic information (e.g. from an image-net-based CNN, from face detection) about the content of the original image before re-compression, and use that semantic information for prediction as well via some generative model. All of this would obviously be trading computation for storage/bandwidth, but it this seems like an exciting direction to me. Again, nice work.
Thanks for the question – this is Ben (subject of OP).

I listed some causes I think are valuable in the interview, but in general I think GiveWell and ACE are good evaluators:

* http://www.givewell.org/
* http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/

For each charity they recommend, they have estimates of number of lives saved per dollar.
they just assume you haven't been living under a rock for the past two years
Just wanted to say: This is an excellent way to present this talk. The videos and slides synchronized on the screen, the transcript (looks like a slightly edited one, or perhaps the "shooting script", but still...) with links that jump in the video to the correct time.

Really, really well done.

Nice shirt, too. :)
It says foreign - which I think means under other sovereignty ...

Basically the case was - there was no way MS to comply with US laws without breaking Ireland's ones.

Also independent island could be turned into very dependent extremely fast by a team or two of Navy SEALs
I don't think h.264/5 is bit-for-bit retrievable is it? Neuronexmachina might be wanting to be able to get back the 1:1 version maybe?
Ah ok I see https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel is now https, but https://www.bbc.com still redirects me to the http version, I thought when they mentioned their "domestic" website they were talking about www.bbc.com or www.bbc.co.uk ... funny even their blog post that informs us about their https support can only be accessed through http ;)
I for one would like more individuals running their own news website. It would need only relatively few subscribers to keep the lights on in a one-man shop that only pays for the own salary and maybe a press agency subscription.
Interesting that they are using VP8 to compress the JPEGs. This is one degree of separation away from Google's WebP [1]. It would be interesting to see how they stack up (WebP has a lossy and lossless mode).

[1]. https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/
Google's arrogance again. The message they send to us is: don't use our products, we keep ruining them. How can an opt-in feature be confusing?! It's confusing, because Google still sucks at UX! Make it not confusing - it's your job, and if you can't do it, hire somebody smart!
There is still a massive, massive amount of enterprise software (see: everything at Apple) that has millions of lines of code in Objective-C. That code will never be rewritten. If you have millions of dollars riding on a framework/app in Objective-C the business needs outweigh any perceived language niceties you get in swift.

This aside - I also disagree with you, Swift is a worse language in a lot of ways, not to mention the extreme compile times and purely unfinished concepts, as well as bugs related to seemingly foundational things like auto-created initializers for structs not getting picked up properly by sourcekit.
Thank you for the links to guidelines. This helps.
There are several I don't go to anymore because they lock up their content behind "we noticed you're using adblock" walls. Plus, when using an adblocker it's often difficult to tell what it's blocking. Websites just don't have ads for me.
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Do you know of any addons to have tabs be in a context menu [0]? I've only found Fire Gestures has a mouse gesture to enable it. It is easily the best way to switch tabs, especially when combined with Tab Groups (Ctrl+Shift+E; removed from FF in 44 or 45 I believe?). However Fire Gestures is a lot of bloat to add when I'm only interested in their context menu tabs.

I can hold right click anywhere on a page and then use my mouse wheel to bring up the menu.

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It sounds like you're okay with all of the author's actual actions, but are upset that she used the word "activism."
And they also come with some unpleasant side-effects: a much higher incidence of skin cancer and all the risks that come with being immunosuppressed. (Plus the disadvantages - if you like soft cheese and deli meats, being on an anti-TNF drug will suck.)

They're also very, very expensive.
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Why not punish those sites economically by draining their resources while providing no new ad revenue? That might actually incentivise them to come up with a better model going forward rather than letting the web slowly degrade into a malicious cesspool that no one reads.
I thought this was an excellent discussion (and yes I told the page that it could not send me notifications :-)) I particularly liked that they asked some proactive questions about whether or not people would pay for content. I'm on record as saying that I think this Ad/Adblock war ends with the destruction of free content on the web. Basically the only "free/ad supported" stuff will be stuff that was cribbed by a wage slave in a mechanical turk like situation from other (nominally "pirated" sources). And there will be the 'pay' web which will have some way of distributing money to the decent journalism. I like the Blendle approach so far I hope it can hold up.

I also think the ads the survive are going to be product placement (for brand awareness) that will be ads intermingled with the content, whether it is a billboard being photoshopped into a music video or all the characters in the content using microsoft products, but basically blended into the story. And the other ads will switch to pay per action (CPA) rather than simply clicking.

Could be totally wrong too, we could just end up in click-counter-click hell but I just can't see that as sustainable.
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Skyscanner has flight happiness ratings, but I'm not sure from whom the indicators come from

Primarily predictable things like red eye flights have lower satisfaction scores, in the form of a frowning red face, in contrast to a smiling green face.
I don't think they're intentionally gamed, it's just part of human nature. If you don't have to defend your assertions (because more assertions is presumed better, as per the rules), then people are liable to err on the side of putting more in that they need to.

With the exception of assert(ptr != NULL) assertions, I think most of the ones I've hit have actually been completely duff, and with some thought could just be removed. I dread to think what would happen if I grepped the commit histories of all the projects I've worked on for "removed duff assert".
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Customers that want to deploy on-prem and/or across multiple clouds (think a Google Container Engine deployment + an AWS deployment) now can do so without worrying about having the apps discover each other, or handling load balancers one at a time - it's all built in!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
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You'd need to force everyone to do & then the city would still have to consolidate all the data. Otherwise I could rent my home half the year on AirBnB & the other half on VRBO.

Santa Monica is also a big travel destination. I could probably rent my home out on AirBnB for the 3 summer months & cover my mortgage for the year. So arguably, it could still see a reduction in inventory.
But is the type of gaming that would be associated with line a fad in totality? And are stickers just a fad as well? Will people be buying them 10 years from now?
It doesn't even appear that this ruling took Ireland's laws into consideration. If this summary is accurate, then the appeals court merely ruled that a domestic warrant could not be used to retrieve foreign materials.

The proper procedure here is to work through the State Department to get a warrant in Irish court. Presumably they didn't do that because they knew it would be futile, in light of Ireland's data protection laws.
Hi there fellow picker, I'm in about the same range of time with a guitar in my hands. Extensive bouts of hours upon hours in the woodshed. Bought & sold my fair share of different types. Just love playing more than anything.

I'm actually second generation and my Dad worked in a music shop & as a guitar teacher back in the 65-70 period of time. He routinely commented to me that some instruments were just horrible quality to deal with. Low tech and low standards of production. He could understand the "rarity" or "scarcity" value (though hated the inflated prices non-playing collectors did to guitars) but told me time and again that better construction techniques of today are worth appreciating.

And, honest to goodness, I've got a similar voodoo-like relationship regarding one particular guitar of his. It's a 1981 Fender Strat Elite, an un-loved high-end thing he picked up and just kept around. It's got this weird triangular 'V' cut to the neck, a hard ebony fretboard, and when the garbage floating trem is locked down, it plays like nothing else. I've written more riffs, ideas, and can do so again and again without fail every time I touch it. The strangest thing, and while I don't care to put a technical description on why it's magic (I do like the Washburn Dime Custom Shop necks, which also had a pronounced 'V'), I can't deny there's just something to the relationship. Cool to see it's not just me.
That makes me smiling over memories of running X client in 1997 over ssh to X server on some uni host.

That was remote VM, some of the younger ones think are invented 20 years later ;)
That would destroy Nascar as we know it.

It would look like empty track with the sound of cars going by.
This is great news (for consumers world-wide and for American companies). Bad for European companies which could have used this as a competitive advantage.

As someone else said in this thread, it restores some sanity to US extraterritorial jurisdiction.
I don't think you know much about emscripten. /trololol
I love the "understand how it works before you use it" angle; this is how I was taught in school and it's how I practice. I had to build (simulated) CPUs and RAM out of transistors, an assembler and eventually compiler to run programs on my simulated computer. I have great respect for the machine (and also a deep hatred) but mentioning Von Neumann to a junior engineer these days will get you written up by HR (hostile work environment).

Unfortunately, today's new developers are die-hard black boxers. They were taught that software is built by integrating Twilio with Mailchimp and deploying to Heroku. Furthermore today's new managers are black boxers as well; both towards the software their teams produce as well as the teams themselves.
One perspective is that these Southerners died defending their home against a foreign invasion. Despite being vastly outmanned and outgunned, they withstood five bitter years. Some view honor in that.
So given that the mammalian diving reflex also stimulates the vagus nerve, is anybody researching its effects on inflammation? Seems like it might be preferable to suggest swimming therapy rather than immediately jumping to surgical implants. (plus the exercise probably can't hurt) Or does the surgical implant provide stimulation in a different amount/manner than the diving reflex would?
If you already have millions of lines of code, "how to write a framework" is not very relevant in your case. You've already written one, obviously you won't rewrite it. The subject is new frameworks, if you're already using Swift in your app (and thus have paid the bundled frameworks price), why limit yourself to Objective-C because some other developers aren't using it yet?
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This paper covers mixing different types: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b97053/paper/Rendle2010FM.pdf (this paper covers a related but different technique). See figure 1 for an example of mixing ratings, indicator variables, and time into a single matrix.
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Yes but as the article points out the distribution is highly skewed: "About 5 percent of the population — those most frail or ill — accounts for nearly half the spending in a given year, according to a separate government study. Meanwhile, half the population has little or no health care costs, accounting for 3 percent of spending."
One small nit: Apple really doesn't want people using two-letter prefixes for their components. I know that's a pretty sore subject for a lot of iOS devs, but the example WFOAuth2 (where WF is the "Workflow" prefix) would be frowned upon.

The Workflow app itself, however, is spectacular, and I use it all the time. I use it to log arbitrary stuff to HealthKit (like when I drink a caffeinated beverage, for example).
Cutting to the chase: use Haskell or Scala or F# if you need to do some scripting or build a web application that requires lots of different tasks (being a web server, rendering templates, connecting to a database, etc.). Haskell and Scala have great libraries and polymorphism that allows you to express things succinctly. Dunno much about F# except .NET.

Use OCaml if you want easily native binaries, predictable performance and need very little in the way of well-documented, high-quality third-party libraries.

Use Standard ML if you want to learn OCaml/Haskell/F#/Scala. Why? Ultimately it comes down to usability. First off, operators (not named functions) are to programming languages as icon-only buttons are to web pages; they are completely unusable. The only reason Standard ML avoided the plague of the operators is because it's a simpler language that was used less. Second, since it's a simpler language, you get a much cleaner introduction to things like monads and modules. It makes it very simple to jump into more complex languages like Haskell or OCaml or Scala.

I work on Ponyo [0] because I want to allow people (myself) to program at a high-level in Standard ML. Furthermore, I want to promote quality and usability. Basically, every function's type is annotated and we avoid abusing operators. The current state is such that you can parse CLI args, parse/marshal JSON, serve web pages, make http requests, browse file trees, and many other ideas in the works. But the most important part about Ponyo is that it is a large, (hopefully) well-documented project that others can study to learn Standard ML (and Haskell and Scala and OCaml and F#) better.

Scala, Haskell, F#, OCaml have their place and do their jobs well. If you don't know their place or just want to get exposure to the history behind these modern languages, I recommend giving Standard ML a shot. You can get started by reading the /r/sml wiki [1] or joining #sml on Freenode.

[0] https://github.com/eatonphil/ponyo

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sml/wiki/index
Where I work we merge with the no fast forward option - this keeps an accurate git feature topology where merges are represented as their own commit. We've found it gives us the best of best worlds: adding clarity/readability to the history while avoiding problematic rebases.

I haven't personally really noticed any downsides with that approach, can anyone else think of any?
Someone told me something 20 years ago, "adapt or get left behind" and I think that applies here.

You need to adapt to the changing technologies, even if they aren't as awesome to you personally. Why pigeon-hole yourself? I'd rather hire someone that is adaptable without stubbornness for technology (and usually an ego).

PHP used to be royal crap, but it has a ton of good stuff in it now-a-days, at least feature and performance-wise.

Being adaptable and open to learning more about programming languages will be much better for a career. Are you a programmer or not? Do you love programming or do you love a specific language only? Overcoming challenges and implementing business needs is one of the best things ever!
> I don't think they're compressing this and decompressing it client side.

The speed quotes made it sound like client-side was a concern. Why would you go to all the effort of devising a new image compression format saving 20%+ storage and on the wire, and not have it decompressed client-side, especially when you control the client?
Well, I don't see any end to this, you can keep breaking it up to the point we're dividing based on eye shade. But I guess that's your point?
Yeah, but I'd certainly know which brand I was drinking after a sip, and likely before, hence the confusion. That doesn't seem "blind", aside from in the most literal sense. How can there be a big reveal of "you chose Pepsi!" and the surprised reaction when they'd (I thought—this thread is making me reconsider) have to be entirely unfamiliar with mainstream sodas or have suffered some kind of nerve/brain damage not to be able to tell which they were drinking from taste and smell alone. I don't find the differences between the two to be subtle, but maybe it's just me after all.

[edit] typo
Anecdotally, I've been applying to a ton of jobs over the past 2 years. PHP compensation is much lower than Ruby by my observations. However, having multiple languages opens you to a wider market. I'll see "senior PHP developer" jobs that are trying to pay $40k-60k. Where those senior roles in a Ruby/RoR shop are almost always six figures.
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> There's no conceivable empirical test that could refute it, even in principal.

Of course there is. Communication from the afterlife conferring information that could not otherwise have been acquired. Greater efficacy of prayer to one deity versus a different deity. The Second Coming.

> secular materialism is the belief that that method is the exclusive method for justifying knowledge.

Then you are using the term "secular materialism" to mean something different than what the dictionary says. I refer you to the following passage from Tom Stoppard:

http://web9.uits.uconn.edu/lundquis/Travesties.html
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I've used Nitrous and Cloud9 both quite a bit... I tend to prefer C9 for Web Dev and Nitrous for full stack Ruby dev.

Nice to see these products taking off from a pure cost perspective, I can buy a chromebook and do development as long as I have an internet connection.