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That link was quite the fascinating read. Here's an open question, but do others experience some form of anxiety when thinking about future developments such as this?

It's not out of fear. To me, I want to truly experience the advances, not just perish and be forgotten in time. Science is so blissfully fascinating; there's so much yet to learn.

Perhaps a better way of putting it is a realization of your own mortality?
I notice a lot of people are concerned that these GM microbes will evolve and escape.

Could anyone comment on the probability of that compared to the probability of an equally severe microbe surfacing in the wild?
Also, it's much easier to start work in the morning if you have an unfinished task to complete. It's easier to get into the flow if you can dive right into something rather than having to start a new task from scratch. Even though it feels nice to have things wrapped up nicely before going home, that's often counter productive.
> Note that having a compressed energy ready for rapid release is exactly equal to handling an explosive in your laptop :)

Animals can store a lot of energy, but they don't tend to explode with that energy when damaged. Are there techniques that could be learned from cells that could be used to make safer electrical batteries?
You are definitely not crazy nor alone with watching these PR tactics. I dislike that so many MSFT employees/puppets/bots/fanboys frequent HN since Build conference 2015. I would prefer the HN of pre-Spring-2015 with news about venture capitalists, startups and software that matters to startups - and not corporate PR about software that doesn't make sense for startups. See how MySpace lost, look what software stack they used and how it burned through cash because of very expensive license fees, compare it to Facebook. Everyone who got burned by the Seattle guys once usually learn and avoid getting burned again.
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I'm not surprised. Amazon treats its customers like shit. They sell a lot of shit products from China especially that break immediately and they don't care. They do NOT have a refund policy like the one you claim other people violate, but they will shut down accounts randomly with messages about violating said NONEXISTENT policy, even accounts that haven't had returns. Their algorithms are shit, in other words. You should sue them, seriously, in small claims.
You mean horrific levels of entitlement?
Agreed. We should be paid much more for building these apps that transfer so much wealth to investors. As far as I can tell the folks who do the actual work of making software companies money receive far too small a share of the proceeds.
> (except the obvious `:Vec<_>` type that is not required)

It is required, otherwise, `collect()` doesn't know what type of collection to collect into.

> It may be possible to implement `.zipped` on tuples though.

This is impossible without varargs, no?
Did these technical criteria skew towards mid-level or senior? I've observed this as well, but I've observed a more even balance of junior candidates.

If so, this could be a manifestation of the high attrition rates for experienced female engineers.
What was everyone's TTC[1]? I had about 4 seconds.

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This article presents the reflections of Game Theorist, Ariel Rubenstien, about the practical uses of his discipline.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/game-theory-h...

It's worth reading the whole article, but he cautious about the predictive power of many of Game-theory's most elegant models:

"In my view, game theory is a collection of fables and proverbs. Implementing a model from game theory is just as likely as implementing a fable. A good fable enables us to see a situation in life from a new angle and perhaps influence our action or judgment one day. But it would be absurd to say that “The Emperor’s New Clothes” predicts the path of Berlusconi"

To give some context, he is one the 100 most cited economists in the world, coauthor of the most popular graduate Game Theory textbook and has a reasonable chance of winning a Nobel over the next couple of decades for his work on game-theoretic bargaining models.
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Interesting perspective, and unfortunately I do not even remotely share the "scope" of the effects being claimed, which is why I time and again argue for effective reform. You've framed this as an incredible societal harm, which I simply don't see from a practical standpoint. I'd feel a lot better about your perspective if you would agree that "effective reform" can be possible in this instance without over-arching slavery and murder insinuations. Equivocating DRM with murder is ludicrous to me, it just is from a rhetorical standpoint.
I want to occasionally visit the cities, but work remotely from home.
They are people that work at company's that have the option of buying Microsoft products that will discourage coworkers from buying Microsoft products...
This article is response to Dave Aitel's piece, which references an earlier post by the EFF.

I'm curious, where do you fall on this point Aitel makes:

> the EFF recently posted a blog stating,“The problem is that if a vulnerability has been discovered, it is likely that other actors will also find out about it, meaning the same vulnerability may be exploited by malicious third parties, ranging from nation-state adversaries to simple thieves.” This is a fundamental misstatement of how 0days work in the real world—in reality, the vulnerabilities used by the US government are almost never discovered or used by anyone else—and these falsehoods further confuse the conversation about 0day policy solutions.
> cloud files almost directly equivalent to Dropbox

And when your electronics get trashed by water damage or the stray lightning strike? Cloud computing involves redundancy and fault tolerance and a box in your closet is neither. That goes particularly for "almost directly equivalent to Dropbox"; even setting aside sharing, "not having everything go up in smoke because my house burns down" is kind of a killer-app feature.

You can, of course, build a "private cloud". (I've done it for clients before!) But it will cost you.
I would argue that it is more ethical to purchase a physical copy of the book you would like, then download a DRM-free copy from alternate sources. You have covered yourself ethically (and maybe even legally?) by purchasing a copy/license, without supporting the DRM-crippled offering. If more customers started to affect sales in this way, publishers might take a hint, and drop DRM.
Were you replying to me? I actually upvoted you, if it's meant to be a contradiction than I don't see it. I only just realized you may have been answering me since you used my words, but other than that I have no idea if that's true.

In any case, I should have read more carefully, because

> reality is a subset of what's mathematically possible

does not mean anything. It's a grammatically correct sentence, sure, and that's all. The number of (grammatically) correct sentences is definitely larger than the number of useful ones though :)
I wish them the best of luck.

It's easy to become resigned to finance being an insiders game. But the efficient allocation of capital is to important to leave to "the professionals."
Why is it we're not all using Oberon again? :) Ah, I remember having meetings about things like that... now that was inertia.

SFAIK, ( meaning I don't really ) the various "Mikro" probably do the same thing that the native toolsets for , say PIC, do and simply add default, built-in symbols for bits in control registers and things like turning interrupts off/on. That keeps the amount of assembly further down.

I feel confident in saying that because they'd want to make defection from the default say, AVR compiler chain as painless as possible.

And of course, Linux drivers/ioctl() help a lot with bringing kernel mode things into user space. Using assembler in a driver is just one of those things we find acceptance with.
Sounds a bit complicated, but it's true. It's all about negotiation.

I negotiated lower hours a month ago. After almost 3 years on a project, asked to go down to 20hrs/week. As I see it, I have proved I'm trustworthy and that I can contribute significant value to the project even with lower hours.

In addition, my position of power was that I had some cash and other options, in case the other party refuses.

This is actually something that keeps happening to me. I show my value and that I'm trustworthy, and get anything I want, be it working from home, lower hours, or both.
They are likely not sleeping enough at night to begin with; I know I'm not. A solid 8-9 hours(or whatever you need) will easily get you more hours of productivity than a lot of the comments here think are possible..
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Indeed!

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/werner-herzog-teaches-fi...

There's also his "Rogue Film School", but no news so far as to 2017 dates:

http://www.roguefilmschool.com
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There isn't one thing you can say about centralisation that is going to usefully apply across the diverse cooperative situations people face.
It sounds like it's basically an award for taking on complex, risky work that resulted in something positive for the public. Perhaps he's trying to set a precedent/example to entice other lawyers to consider pressing these kinds of cases.

To me, reminiscent of performance awards within a company.

"X & Y took on risky/ailing project Z that everyone else wrote off, and hit it out of the park. Bravo"
For being so smart why does every comment and article on this site lack proper English grammar?
Not really for me. Maybe I have a good bullshit detector. And the method I describe above is the only good thing about recruiting.

I also like to look at code samples and commit messages if possible.

They have to be good communicators.
An infinitely more interesting question is who owns Capital Group Companies
It can also automatically sync whatever you want to any of dozens of archiving services... encrypted or not. Including Amazon Cloud Drive boasting unlimited space for $60/year, BackBlaze B2, S3, Glacier, Dropbox, Google Drive etc.

It can keep a redundant NAS in sync too but not sure how seamless that would be in practice if you wanted redundancy for the software running on it.

However what really makes me optimistic about this stuff is the aligned interests:

- a great software experience for their hardware leveraging open source solutions (I think it's brtfs for the versioning/restoring, transmission for torrents etc)

vs

- Dropbox selling a blob of space for $10/month and trying to solve the "problem" of you not paying more by lying in their advertisements
Cue the sudden influx of resume submissions.
Why only your teenage years? It can still be a guilty pleasure today!
Why?

https://www.google.com/search?q=judges+drunk+on+bench&ie=utf...

It's not an uncommon issue.
For inspiration, look at how the syslog api works. You want to make each log message a 3-tuple (timestamp, sender, message-text) and log that somewhere. Be it a csv-file, database table, stderr or whatever. If you are thinking about complicating it more, e.g by introducing additional fields to the 3-tuple, then remember that the logs doesn't have to be 100% perfect. As long as they are consistent enough for the user who is grepping them.

Logging error codes is not a good idea since they add a layer of indirection. The text "file not found" is always clearer than "error code: 412".

Another thing to keep in mind is to make your log messages distinct. If a user reports the error "Connection reset by peer" and there are 28 places in your code which can cause that message, then that is harder to debug than if the error only can be logged from exactly one location.
I think it is clear progress if manufacturing becomes so much cheaper that the technology is actually available to more people.
My point is that it has nothing to do with "sympathy." If you think it's harmful, that's a whole other thing.
Did physicists discover a previously unknown fifth force of nature?
The biggest difference between Scala and Rust here is ".iter()", which is necessary mainly because you need to specify whether the iterator iterates over references (".iter()") or passes results by value (".into_iter()"). Because Java doesn't have value types and has no concept of move semantics, it has no need for the distinction, while Rust does.

In effect, the "elegance" of Scala here is really the product of its heavy GC dependence. So the comparison isn't as meaningful as it might seem.
> a graduate program where the eagerness to learn and sharing of profundity and boundless energy to crack the truths of pure logic buzz

Do such things exist? I chose not to continue my studies beyond high school graduation, but from my experience around academics and academia, the sort of program you describe seems at the very least well away from the norm.
The "Robocall Strike Force" also includes smartphone manufacturers such as Ericsson, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung so it would be misleading to think it's just 2 Silicon Valley technology companies and 31 telecoms.

From the article, it looks like intelligence about VOIP is part of the potential solution.

https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2016/08/us-carriers-join-a...
Just one more nugget of evidence that our government exists not to keep the citizenry safe, but to keep it in its place.

If the NSA really wanted to keep us safe, they would focus their efforts on patches instead of exploits.
I've only read the abstract. Does the paper address the possibility that people with more willpower might believe it's unlimited? Or that having more willpower in total allows some of tbat willpower to be allocated to the meta-allocation of willpower?

What is the direction of causation?
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> My cellphone can play hundreds of games well, I don't think that's an indicator of intelligence.

I don't think it is either. I'd want to see many more domains than is demonstrated in playing most games (e.g. conversation, object recognition, planning, maths)
Please, please make a tutorial and link it. I am highly interested in this. Especially the direct to cornea contact. Is it able to provide a complete vision override?
Dave's article's certainly worth reading, and he makes some good points. He's certainly closer to the intelligence agency and vulnerability market side of things than EFF is; but that's not the only aspect of the issue.

And as others have pointed out, closeness isn't always an advantage. Dave criticized the EFF post by saying

"This is a fundamental misstatement of how 0days work in the real world—in reality, the vulnerabilities used by the US government are almost never discovered or used by anyone else—and these falsehoods further confuse the conversation about 0day policy solutions."

Except of course that as the Shadow Brokers leak showed, quite a few of these vulnerabilities _have_ been discovered (and for all we know, used). The risk of something like this happens is something that EFF et al. always bring up, and the intelligence agencies and their supporters always dismiss it ... where's the "falsehood"?
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...Or how people learned to ignore online, what they long have been forced to ignore offline.
> This is impossible without varargs, no?

Nah, you'd just implement it as an impl over and over on tuples of reasonable size (up to 16 or so).

It wouldn't be elegant, but it'd work in practice.
I think the bigger issue would be when they're sucked in it just expands the /casual/ mobile game market and generate more poor games.

What's the point of me writing this? All I'm going to get is down voted or someone getting mad that I said casual.
Make a plan for the questions you will ask, problems to be solved, etc and then test your plan on one of your coworkers. Calibrating your interview plan with your co-workers will help you iron out any problems with the plan and get to know your co-workers skills. Make sure the conditions are similar.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist in the EU. That's black and white criminal (and immoral) behavior.

The PS team seems like it's doing its best, but you lose some degree of presumption of goodwill when you work for a criminal entity.

Ultimately, I don't think either side is right, but I also don't think either side is wrong.

MS made a choice not to cultivate goodwill in the OS community for years, and they profited from it. It's reasonable for that community to make them earn it back, and this is what it looks like (unfortunately for the individuals on the PS group).
> The thing that stands out most is that 95% of the commenters there are uninformed nutcases (and I mean this literally).

You mean, they are literally containers filled with "fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel"?

> Today is the first time ever that I've heard the claim that "thug" has the "n-word" connotation.

And you're accusing other people of being uninformed?
All of the traffic is HTTPS. The ISP doesn't get to see headers.
The best "full time" work environment I experienced was a 9-5 week with morning/afternoon 3-hour coding blocks (no interruptions tolerated) and an hour lunch. The other hour was spent in the standup, email, one-off conversations and blogging/community work. We were a highly production and creative team.
Now just imagine it was a nonclad representation of HRC popping up all over. The horror at the depths of chauvinism! The righteous pundits expressing their outrage! Darkness draping itself over our urban settings...
Yes but I think the better solution is to fix the alias problem and then work with Daniel to make it super simple for people on Windows to get his latest/greatest bits. I've reached out to him to start that conversation.

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Wrestlers have been monetizing their skillset within MMA for years. They can literally walk into a cage and win matches early in their career because they have tons for formal training
The DoD writes up plans to attack 50+ countries every year. This is a useful exercise in part because doing so well take a long time and show where capability might be lacking. But, it's also simply a good way to train for the current war instead of falling into the trap of preparing to fight the last one.

PS: It's also not clear how serious this stuff is. The DoD does a lot of stuff simply because it's budget and manpower is insane. And nothing says people are not simply taking the plan written in 1983 changing the name of the aircraft and dating it 2016.
You can't apply that to infrastructure spending. Passenger and freight rail improves the overall efficiency of an economy, it's absolutely reasonable to attempt to determine the net benefit from it.
The 40 hour work week comes from Ford. It is optimized for factory workers. Data for creative/makers would be interesting to see.
>The only form of "DRM" I don't mind are the e-book stores that provide you with a personalised copy that includes my name/e-mail, but otherwise leaves the book unprotected.

And that also implies that you give up right of resale.

I can sell a physical book after I have it. I can choose to write my name in there... Or not. Having my name plastered as you indicate is OK, means giving up my own guaranteed rights of resale.
Oh right, I see now.
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences", campus activists are saying.
I posted this in a previous discussion about NPR getting rid of their comments. http://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2016/08/17/489516952/n...

This is an interesting move, and a topic I've been discussing with friends. I've stopped using sites like Reddit, because the comment sections are just toxic. I've gone as far as installing Chrome extensions that make comment sections disappear from popular sites like YouTube. It's too easy to get drawn into the negativity, and I'm completely over it. "Social Networking" has reached it's low point as far as I'm concerned. Hacker News is about the only civil place I'm capable of contributing to a discussion to at this point.
If you're wondering what IEX becoming a full blown exchange means to you, well it probably doesn't matter at all.

They have been operating for some time already as an ATS, today they are now part of the RegNMS protected quote, meaning that up until today, brokers did not have to route orders to them.

it also allows them to have companies "list" on their exchange, though I don't know of any companies that are planning on listing with IEX currently.

They bring 4 unique things to the market

- their built in delay of 350 micro seconds on each incoming and out going message, ie they delay order's coming in and they delay fill notifications going out.

- they have a patented dynamic peg algo that will allow a user to place an order that the exchange will dynamically price. This order type was a bit contentious as the exchange doesn't delay quote changes when updating these orders, ie these orders are blessed in the sense that they don't obey the 350 microsecond delay.

https://www.iextrading.com/trading/dpeg/

- they aren't currently allowing co-location

- they don't participate in the maker taker model. They charge, I think, 9 cents on dark orders and nothing for lit orders.

Maybe the most interesting thing that IEX has brought to the US market is that the NYSE is now filing to add their own discretionary PEG order.

https://www.nyse.com/network/article/nyse-order-types
Still recall people bringing duffel bags packed with CDRs to LAN parties.
More like $6 or $8 really. And at some point, I'd really just rather start reading instead of paying more and waiting two weeks.
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Because it was an off-topic, snarky one-liner.

If you're concerned about judicial inebriation, there are other ways to raise the subject.
How are engineers supposed to cope with evolution's god-like prowess?
Yep, but it's still an unfortunately big difference in expressiveness between the two languages, where one might think that they would be more or less on par, given the languages' similarities (both are more or less contemporary in their design, statically typed, with similarly powerful type systems, etc).

My question is then: is there something fundamentally preventing Rust from achieving similar levels of expressiveness to this Scala example without incurring in unnecessary runtime overhead? Given that both languages are statically typed, my inclination would be to say no: the information is there, the compiler should be able to figure it out. But, alas, i know very little about these things, hence my question :)

Update: pcwalton gave some nice insight on why Rust needs some of these constructs on an uncle comment.
Fun trivia from Flash Boys they originally were going to use the full name Investor's Exchange, but the url was unfortunate:

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Hence they use the short form IEX.
"Mr. Biederman holds 64,166 Domo shares that would be worth $540,919 at the $8.43-per-share price where Domo sold stock to investors last year."

Is there any reason to believe that these are the same series of shares? Isn't it more likely that the investors bought preferred shares that are worth a lot more than the common shares that he probably has?
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They should put a flag that's something like $clobber_posix with default state of off.
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OK, we're talking about slightly different things.

I'm talking about more "truck miles" being produced, while you're talking about the absolute number of trucks.

Now that we understand each other, there isn't much left to argue about :)
Looks like they did a great job of boiling the frog.

I'm just bummed I gave up my ancient unlimited data/tethering plan when I switched to my company's plan.

Does anyone offer solid data plans these days?