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> Basically I think what you're describing about Java is a mixture of mid-strength static typing and relatively strong dynamic typing. At least, that's how I'd describe it.

For me, the real payoff of using a static type system is enforcing the invariants I care about. In other words, a type system is a tool that partially relieves me of my proof obligation as a programmer. A “type system” that doesn't do this is just annoying ceremony. So, if we insist on calling type systems “strong” and “weak”, this is still a binary question: a type system is either capable (“strong”) or incapable (“weak”) of expressing what I want to express in a crisp, elegant, crystal clear way. From this point of view, Java is just as unacceptable as C, perhaps even more so, because C at least has the decency not to pretend it has much of a type system.

OTOH, it seems that, to you, and perhaps most programmers, a type system is merely a tool for preventing catastrophic errors. If that's your only goal, then turning catastrophic errors (say, memory corruption) into less catastrophic ones (say, raising exceptions everywhere) is a perfectly valid approach, and of course Java is “more strongly typed” than C. This can be useful or harmful, depending on what kind of program you're writing, but I refuse to call it a type system.
>Even Microsoft with all it's market power, tools and software businesses and mind share wasn't able to crack back into the mobile market once iOS and Android had got established.

That's not quite accurate. The original smartphone and PDA (remember those?) market leader was Palm's PalmOS. Microsoft did manage to overcome Palm to become the market leader around the time of Windows Mobile 5.0, just before being blindsided by the iPhone and iPod.
I just recently had the pleasure of visiting Seoul, but was sad to see JSA tours booked about 3 weeks in advance so I did not get to do the DMZ tour.

My grandfather was in the CIA during the Korean War and has quite an interesting perspective. Apparently it wasn't until Eisenhower was elected that North Korea finally was more willing to sign an armstice because, unlike Truman, Eisenhower was happy to drop hints that he was OK with using the atomic bomb to end the war.

Gives an interesting dimension as to why North Korea is so gung-ho about obtaining one. They did not like being bullied with one.
Ensemble methods have been around for decades because they are a good idea. Watson -- the Jeopardy bot, not the marketing brand -- was an ensemble method.

My impression is that people avoid ensembles because they are fighting to give the impression that their work is the only work that matters. It's "not invented here" syndrome. I'm glad I'm not trying to get tenure.
Possibly somebody realized that search ought to be a premium feature. Chances are that would be working on a new "plan" that one'd need to subscribe to in order to use operators in search.
They wouldn't give me a bug bounty for the chrome plugin bug I found.

Remote JavaScript could trigger the export all passwords feature...
At first glance I thought this was referring to the TLS master key certs.
I think you are largely mistaken.

I work for a Not-for-Profit in Health Care / Aged Care and we have bought Samsung VR headsets to take into the Aged Care Homes and the elderly people there have absolutely love the experiences they had.
Yeah that's a proper example.

I don't think we need to pick one way exclusivity. My specific use-case is making PRs for packages to work in kernelspace / in unikernels. The library night initially be packaged the easy way but then I'd use this. I don't want the PR recipient to also worry they might get out of sync with the platform as a side effect.
> 2. They do not try to detect bad data (the way they certainly try to detect bad code)

It was actually the sanitization function regex that became unresponsive. So they killed the page by trying to stop bad data coming in.

Agreed on your other points though.
Elon seems to understands economies of scale and the value of owning or controlling a larger percentage of an ecosystem. It could certainly be in their timeline to become experts in batteries, or it is possible the costs by partnering with a third-party is better - at least for a time.
People avoid ensembles, unless they're trying to squeeze out higher performance on a benchmark (or they're doing research on the technique of ensembling in of itself). I would have thought this would be obvious to you, since you're a researcher.
Selling Past the Close
I waffle about with this metric. If it's cheap to buy a server with some feature, it's obviously cheap for an attacker to buy the same. Widespread SHA2 hardware means that SHA2 cracking hardware is also available to even the poorest of crackers. I think there's a sliding scale, where the ratio changes for some attackers but not for all.
Plus, for all the talk of "innovation" and all thrown around, has any other PC or smartphone vendor really done anything industry changing the last 15 years?

I mean except putting out similar devices to ones Apple popularized (and notice how I didn't say invented)...

I've seen Glass that went nowhere, Surface being an attempt at iPad (and capped at 1M unit sales or so), some smart watches that all together sold only 1/10th what the Apple Watch did (and are nothing to write home about anyway), anything else?

(In software and services of course, Google and others have frequently produced new stuff that spawned imitators).

I can only think of Amazon Echo -- but has than really sold that well, or is mostly a media thing?
One of the more accurate descriptions of America that I've seen. It's truly a country of contradictions.
I don't think you have read the case [1].

They did try to entice with him with bullshit stolen credit cards. If you read carefully the first two pages, nothing was technically illegal, other than the fishy part where the defendant said he would "think about it" when offered to be paid with stolen credit cards. Had he said "No way Jose", it would have been a perfectly clean transaction, that could have happened to anyone on HN.

Still, he allegedly didn't accept the credit cards, and the detective tried to proceed with counterfeit money. In the end the defendant was charged with money laundering simply because he was selling bitcoins, which is utterly absurd. The judge was spot on to throw the case out.

I have no sympathy for crooks using bitcoins to cover their illicit actions, but I have equally no sympathy for law enforcement burning taxpayer dollars to chase ghosts.

[1] http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article91701087.ece/B...(.PDF)
How exactly are you "locked"?

By DRM-free music files? By the Photos app that you can export anytime you want? By the iCloud storage which you can trivially replace with Google Drive or Dropbox? By the Contacts app that makes it trivial to export all your contacts?

What exactly will be the lock there? At worst you'd have bought some Mac/iOS apps from the App Stores that you'd need to rebuy. But that's always the case (App Store or not) for any platform transition since one platform's apps would not run at the other platform.

And for the big apps (MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite etc), their subscriptions allow you to migrate to one or the other platform...
Here's an official explanation of conversion tracking with FB:
https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/conversion-...
Consider hiring a Security Engineer for future issues. As for the current issue, are you a target for any known reason. Is their anything of value on the server?

If not, it's highly possible someone in your group who already has access could be involved.

Otherwise, maybe the Security Engineer serendipitously found you.
A Question of Character (of APL)
Yes. But that's not the _point_ of the locks. The point is to keep the 'honest' baggage handlers honest by putting a small hurdle between them and freely rifling through one's bag looking for something of value to snag.
I don't think we're necessarily disagreeing here. Certainly we agree that there is plenty of room for more secure execution environments than traditional open desktop OSes and the APIs that go with them.

That doesn't nullify the concerns that started this whole discussion, though: Microsoft could be pushing people towards UWP for less benevolent reasons, and surely has the technical and commercial capabilities to try to make Sweeney's hypothetical scenario the new reality.

Maybe this is just a mistaken perception, but I suspect Microsoft may have burned a lot more bridges with their recent actions than they have realised so far, particularly among enthusiast and "professional geek" communities that have remained generally positive about MS and its products for longer than most. Viewing anything they do with suspicion is a natural consequence of the way they've been treating their customers lately, and I don't see anything they do that has any hint of lock-in getting an easy ride from here on out.
OpenContrail uses XMPP for communicating between the control plane and vRouters. It has a modest userbase in the SDN/NFV areas.
Not surprisingly, the hospital photo looks eerily like a set from MASH. I even squinted and saw Henry Blake in the back. I grew up watching the show and it was my earliest exposure to art that was explicitly (and powerfully) anti-war.

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/07/remembering-the-kor...
Combine this with my stdlib deps RFC[1], and I think we could shrink the nunber standard library crates versioned with the language! The standard library metapackage would pull crates from crates.io as needed.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1133
If you enjoyed the Joel interview, a bunch of his Q&A's during college tours are on YouTube, and they can be quite funny and insightful.

Check out this one about 'Uptown Girl' (yes, I know, but there's interesting and funny stuff in there, from Beethoven to model-dating):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UqhaLFpBM4

Another one, on 'James' (somewhat about the song, but more about the songwriting process, for him and the Rolling Stones, he throws an impersonation in there too):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrYWXFynnQs
SHA512 eats data 512 bits at a time, while SHA256 eats it 256 bits at time. Both internally use 8 "registers", which are either 64 or 32 bits wide. Assuming you have the hardware registers to match, this would make SHA512 about twice as fast. But internally, it mixes data using 80 rounds, vs 64 for SHA256, so the speedup isn't quite 2x.
Don't get in the way of a good story.
My one line summary: domain specific notations are tools of thoughts.
>Even in this thread, commenters are having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find uses for their old iPhones.

And why should they? Do you keep old VHS drives and mid-2000s PDAs around?

Tons of people change cars every 5-6 years or so -- and we're talking about buying a new phone every 2-3 years as if its bad, in a field where progress (from 1995 to 2016) has been astronomical compared to the pace of car progress?
Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton’s Missing Emails
Oh great, thanks for pointing that out; I missed that distinction and jumped to a conclusion after seeing the old story and new story reference the same GitHub repo.

I guess this is the relevant commit: https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys/commi...
I can't say I know its exact manufacturing origins, but I can say without a doubt my TV is a Vizio.
Around the World in 18 Months Using Only Bitcoins
What's missing is a Concrete Example of the "status report that's enjoyable to read because important information laid out in a digestible format." Sure, she lists down the format, but would be great if she can put some samples.
Housing looks like a bad investment overall, but housing is local. I have no doubt you can make good money off of a house in a "up and coming" city.

The challenge is, how do you identify an "up and coming" city? Is it the same way you identify and "up and coming" stock? It's all just attempting to time the market.
Seriously? Where are you getting this information? You are incorrect.
H.264 is worse, but at least it's available with pretty straightforward license terms (just pay).

VP.9's license might actually violate antitrust laws.
WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Audio of US Democratic Party Voicemails
Funny that you deleted your original comment and typo :) I wonder why...
Put your luggage in a Pelican-case and use some relatively hard to pick, but easy to cut locks. Should they want to open it they will just cut the locks. Alternatively you can use a TSA approved lock and some zip ties as a simple tamper evident seal.
My company, Luminoso, uses Conceptnet Numberbatch as one component for interpreting the meaning of text. When the benchmarks went up, the understandability of its results did too. You get better search results, better topics, clearer visualizations.

I'm not just trying to squeeze out extra performance, I'm trying to make computers understand text better. The benchmarks are the evidence that it's better. I do consider myself a researcher despite leaving academia, and having some respect for evidence is part of that identity.

When academia decides to disregard evidence because evidence is for stupid Kagglers (I don't use Kaggle but I respect a good result when I see one), that's how they end up lagging behind open source software.

I understand that it's not worthwhile to chase every evaluation. For example, some evaluations are unrepresentative. Some evaluations, like parsing according to the Penn Treebank, were once useful but have been squeezed dry in a way that doesn't reflect real-world performance. And some tasks chase these unhelpful evaluations.

But I would credit Kaggle with making academics realize, slowly, that they should use random forests as a baseline when evaluating a classification method. People were content to publish classifiers that were worse than random forests until Kaggle presented overwhelming evidence that random forests worked better than many techniques.

In text understanding, the fact that seems not to have taken hold -- one that I think should be obvious, even -- is "computers understand text better when they know more facts about words". This is what ConceptNet (not the whole ensemble, but ConceptNet itself) is about.
"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
Donald Trump to Russia: hack and publish Hillary Clinton's 'missing' emails
Just about any scenario I can think of where the attacker could get to "what you have", by which I assume you mean the unencrypted password database (i.e. what you have after you entered something you know, since the whole point of a password manager is to have one strong password that you need to remember, instead of tens or hundreds probably-not-so-strong individual passwords), would also be a game-over scenario if you keep all your passwords in your head, since the attacker could just run a keylogger and take the passwords as you type them during regular use instead of getting your unencrypted password database after you unlock it.
These photos bring up a lot of family history for me. Thanks for sharing them.

My mother's family lived in Seoul when the war broken out. During my mother's first birthday party, her aunt and her children came through the door looking half dead. My aunt lived further north and made the few days trek with her children and only the clothes on her back. Her husband was an engineer on a power plant, when the communist party took over. He was taken away by soldiers never to be seen again. My mother's family eventually had to flee as well, losing all their possessions and farmland.

Though my mother was too young for a first hand account of the war, we still have a single photograph of my mother's first birthday party. You can see her sitting in front of all the celebratory food. What you can't see in the picture is my aunt and her children on the other side of the room on the verge of death.
One of our presidential candidates just told Russia to cyber attack us?
>If they were really so concerned about the environment, they wouldn't push for new models year after year, but instead focus more on better software. Also they wouldn't hype their new models as "must haves" like they do now.

They're more concerned about profits and selling units instead of "the stuff you've got is good enough".

News at 11!
Stack Overflow employee here. This is just my view, but: I wouldn't want to work for Google r Facebook over Stack Overflow. Happiness is part of the compensation and is has real value in choosing where to work.

Would I make more dollars working for Google? Sure. But I couldn't work remote. And I can't make an impact like I can here. Right now I can rapidly push out changes to help millions of people and interact with them directly, every day. That's a really rare thing and something that you just can't do or do on the same level once you're part of a much more massive machine.

Does Google make an impact? Of course, you'd be crazy to argue they don't make a massive one. But I'd argue employees 1-50 were able to do a lot more to change the world with their hours in a week than employees 60,000-60,050 are able to. I want to improve people's lives, every day. I just can't do that or be as close to the result if I did it working somewhere like Google or Microsoft. There's value in these things, to me.
If a language is to play the long game, they must be conservative on what they
add. Even a minimal runtime like Node is still wounded by the addition of a few
broken interfaces into the core platform (even emitters, streams, domains to
name a few). These cannot be stripped out of the platform because they're
"blessed" and now everyone will forever have a bad time. I suggest we don't
do that for Rust.

For a language to remain relevant in the long term, a system must be capable of
evolving. Going out there and blessing potentially conceptually incorrect
packages such as Mio is therefore not a good idea. The notion of "platforms"
best resides in userland, where collections can compete and evolve.

By keeping platforms / package collections in userland we can get organic
collections of stuff that make sense to bundle together. Imagine a "server
platform", an "event loop platform", a "calculus platform", a "programming
language platform". It would be detrimental to creativity to have all these
collections live in the shadow of the "rust committee blessed platform".

But so yeah, I'm not opposed to the idea of platforms - I just don't think
blessing userland stuff from the top down is the right play in the long term.

Tl;Dr: package collections sound like a cool idea, but if you care about the
long term, imposing them from the top down is bad
It's not always dependent on your job. We work our ass off, travel around the world maintaining systems. However the company on a whole is hurting, because the oil and gas industry is hurting. I have nothing to do with that. Is that fair? Absolutely not. But it's not based on individual performance.
>I had to trash a perfectly fine and working iPhone 4 because I was left with no security updates.

And you needed security updates because? Are there any exploits that people actually exploit on them?
The money shot, as it were:

Trump, meanwhile, speaking at a press conference in Florida, raised the stakes again, as he urged Russia to hack into and release Clinton’s emails from the personal server she used while she was secretary of state.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” he said.

“I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That will be next.”

The Republican nominee added: “They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted ... I hope they do ... because you’d see some beauties there.”

Admiral James Stavridis, the former Nato commander who is due to speak at the Democratic national convention on Wednesday night, called Trump’s comments “shocking and dangerous”.
If you want to ensure no one can open your luggage, travel with a firearm. It doesn't have to be a real firearm, but if you declare the firearm you are required by the airlines to have a lock on your luggage that can't be opened by TSA.
They prevent casual theft and tampering, and do so well.

Everyone loves to bust on the TSA, but small controls can add up. If you live in a home without barred windows and a reinforced door and locks, anyone can enter your home in seconds. Yet we still lock our doors, and they are still effective.

The only purpose of the TSA key is to facilitate searches without damaging the lock or bag. That's it.
You don't really need a slider to operate a zipper it just saves time and reduces the risk of damaging the teeth.
Pokémon Go: My name is Jeff, and I’ve been monetized
And this is one that explains everything OP needs to understand the confusing sentence from their intro:

http://mccormickml.com/2016/04/19/word2vec-tutorial-the-skip...
Go isn't immune to the problem either. See the `flag` package, which is something that new users are encouraged to avoid in favor of e.g. https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags .
Basic colour meanings of red and green transcend many genres of human existence, from business (using a red pen, or being "in the red") to entire gamuts of electronics and engineering, red warning stickers, etc.

I agree that the octagon is arbitrary. But that's beside the point, because it's self-evidently arbitrary. Nobody assumes there must be a deeper meaning behind a basic shape. The iconography of a floppy disk is not a basic shape.
* latter
It would be amazing if they at least started looking at what types of ads they are running. Some, if not even most, are completely against local regulation. The rest are outright actual scams or some multi-level marketing schemes.
Years ago when I was on a school trip to the Virgin Islands, me and this other kid wrote rather inappropriate but humorous signs on cardboard (we got snowed in at the airport), I later stored them in my checked bag. When I arrived at my destination not only had the TSA guys left a sticker that said they were in there to the outside, but they had stuck stickers to the funniest couple of the signs as well. I understand peoples ire toward them but that single gesture makes it hard for me to hate them.
I grew up a few miles south of Roebling, NJ -- a company town created for the Roebling Steel Mill. Some nice pictures here: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/05/roebling_a_little...
Is there a penalty for declaring a "fake" firearm?
If it weren't for the US's gracious intervention, S. Korea would have been swallowed by N. Korea and China.
Unfortunately some pro-communism, pro-N. Korea activists hate the US. These people have forgotten the grace of the US.
Without US support, S. Korea would still be dirt poor, just like current South Eastern countries.
> If Google brings Android apps onto Chrome on Windows 10 or macOS, it's over, everyone else has lost.

Having tried BlueStacks repeatedly I wouldn't say that's game over. Unless Google pulls off the most seamless emulation ever.
Because Google is a company of unceasing virtue and "Don't be evil?"

Or perhaps because many people have been conditioned to dislike anything Microsoft does without actually analyzing it's impact or relevance. Certainly it seems like there aren't many rational facts to thia person's argument.

I very much agree that "non-standard behavior" in an open source product exists that could be directly replicated. One of the major benefits of open source licensing is to hedge against that behavior.
which is funny because I do not have peace of mind when I go to an airport 3 hours before my flight in hope that the TSA lines won't make me lose my flight.
R more then C#,PHP and JAVASCRIPT. Maybe i'm bit slow latest trend.
It's about thinking differently, not buying different stuff for the sake of buying different stuff.

Do you think that the original thinker's secret is that they bought ...unique typewriters or pens?

Those things are just the tools to help put their thoughts out, not what actually made them think different. Same with iPhones or whatever...