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Telegram is way ahead on several fronts - UX, feature rollout speed, message delivery speed, multi-platform support, multi-device message sync, etc. Signal is still improving slowly and is nowhere close to Telegram (in my experience) in any of these areas. Of the three apps I use for messaging, my current position is that Telegram > Wire > Signal.
Define "we". I think there is definitely some applications doing this.

Last I checked, using default GCC settings you can drastically change the performance of the resulting app by passing different flags. This obviously depends a lot on the app, but I recall a simple raytracing program I wrote in C++ in University being sped up quite a bit when I passed it flags to optimize for Pentium4+, because it leveraged certain SSE instructions.

MSVC++ with optimizations turned on actually bundles multiple copies of the binary in the resulting .exe file, and is able to pick the optimal one (based on the ISA extensions your CPU supported) at runtime. I'm sure you can do something comparable with binaries produced by GCC and CLang.

Now.. do I think this improperly optimized binaries are a problem plaguing us? No. Because the large native applications that would really benefit (such as Chrome/V8) have already dealt with this. The smaller apps (think a small GTK app like gedit) won't see a noticeable performance benefit. And most newer, consumer applications (Spotify, Slack, Skype) are written in something like Node anyways.
Daughter of Democrat Senator and Clinton Foundation Donor raises EpiPen prices

Hillary Clinton causes fuss, price comes down

Amazing

http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/24/company-gouging-price-of-e...
This was roughly the same time the ANSI committee was trying to standardize ASCII. IBM was a proponent of ASCII, but they had shipping deadlines, and kept with their own character set rather than delay while they created ASCII peripherals. The 360 became popular and a lot of code was written for it which assumed the EBCDIC character set (or was it still BCDIC?) was being used, so future mainframes stayed EBCDIC to grandfather in all the code.

That shipping deadline and the insane fallout from it has done more to keep me employed in my career than anything else.
Consider the next time there is a serious vulnerability in Chrome. Maybe it's a TLS problem and network requests cannot be authenticated. Maybe it's a buffer overflow in something that renders data from a remote source. Chrome needs to be updated to a newer version immediately.

Is every app author going to push out an update that includes the latest Chrome with the relevant security fixes? Or are they going to irresponsibly leave the vulnerability unpatched until their app is updated to support the new version of Chrome?

The very idea of using old versions of Chrome (via Electron) - which is the stated reason for bundling Chrome with each app - tautologically means at least some apps will be using vulnerable versions of Chrome.

> At their own pace

That's the point; browser bugs don't happen at the app author's pace.
I wonder how long it will take until you can buy a house on Amazon.
How about Denmark? :-)
"And watch your friendships grow stale, lose touch with your family members, opt out of knowing about upcoming events..."

And how exactly do you think these things worked before Facebook?

"Friends" who don't want to make the effort to stay in touch outside of a dead-simple social app aren't friends, anyway.
If you need something this elaborate, you really shouldn't be writing it in Bash in the first place.

Anytime I find myself wishing I had arrays, or real data types, or real functions, I stop using shell languages immediately. Shell scripts are really only suitable for the exact same sorts of things I would type myself at a Unix prompt...and since those sorts of things are rarely more than a few lines long, shell scripts shouldn't be longer than that either.
Crawl-delay is not in the standard robots.txt protocol, and according to Wikipedia, some bots have different interpretations for this value. That's why maybe many websites don't even bother defining the rate limits in robots.txt.
I wanted to discuss an expansion of this idea, I am so glad you brought it up.
Less than 100 years ago we as humanity largely believed that we were fated with the brains and capacity we were born with. Today, we know this isn't true. In fact, cases like Phineas Gage make one wonder.[1]
Now to respond to you comment. There is no reason that we couldn't develop methodologies for utilizing our sensory input to train our brains in mechanisms we've not even considered or dreamed of today. Maybe we can achieve a hyper-reality where reality speed is 5x but after a small period our brains can adjust and then we can learn at 5x.

Our brains are limitless. Our ability to directly interface to them with electronics seems tenable today (but that may or may not always be true).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
Nope, that's what everything thinks. Some people even think it's over-hyped.
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So many 5 star reviews.
The problem with constructs like this one is that it looks nice at first glance, but adds a cognitive load to an ecosystem that already has about "20 ways to do it" for every single problem.

Python is beginning to rival C++ in that respect.
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As consumers we don't face very good choices right now.

When you buy an iPhone, you don't own it. You are a sharecropper on Apple's OS license.

If you buy an Android with an unlockable bootloader, you own it. But if attacked, the adversary owns the device.

It's a shitty situation but it's hard not to recommend iOS to most users.
That is a MUCH more detailed article. Thanks for sharing.
A decade is being generous. Early adopters maybe by then but they'll be sharing the road with human driven cars for a long time to come. It's not clear to me how Uber profits from this scenario. My sense is that driverless cars are the shiny dangly toy that Uber is using to distract investors. But maybe I'm being too pessimistic.
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They don't want students to have any spaces where they feel safe/accepted? That's weird.
The University also seeks to eliminate so-called 'spoiler warnings'.

54 percent of students said the climate on campus prevents some people from saying what they believe because they are fearful of looking like assholes.
This is a really hard topic to think about.

On the one hand, I worry that we're moving towards a mind-police driven society where we actively discourage people from saying anything that goes against the grain of society. Be it by activist groups, or algorithms optimizing for clicks and user retention.

On the other hand, it is important to be courteous to each other and not upset people needlessly. Discussions should give people the option to bud out and not participate, if they feel they cannot do so.

On the third hand, maybe we've always lived in a society where we actively discourage participation by anyone who is perceived as upsetting the group and nothing new is happening.

Then again, I think people should be actively encouraged to entertain stances and opinions other than their own. Being upset and offended can often be a good thing.
What I read is that they aren't looking for a multi-billion dollar profit. Which means that they don't have to work on a drug that they can sell to everyone. Which means that they can focus on neglected areas of medicine for which the existing treatments are non-existent or terrible.

It's the difference between "proving" that changing a button color at Amazon makes people buy 1% more stuff (worth billions, probably) and "proving" it at a start-up. The start-up won't care about 1% more, but if you can triple sales, awesome! Even though tripling sales at a start-up might only be worth $500k, not billions.

When you're making HUGE inroads on efficacy it's much, much easier to demonstrate and you don't need thousands or tens of thousands of patients in the trial in order to get a statistically significant result.
Soon we'll rent cars, like we rent books. :)
If anyone is curious exactly how the system he describes works, here's a list of Mint's patent's.

http://www.justanswer.com/intellectual-property-law/8u21f-pa...
Yeah, apple needs to fix this. They have been bumping the max app size for non-wifi downloads throughout the years from 10mb to 100mb, but they haven't kept up for the actual security updates.

For extra hilarity, if you have two iphones available, you can use the personal hotspot feature between them and install the updates even though it's all 3g/4g anyways.
> What I don't get about this is why trigger warnings and safe spaces always seem to get lumped together in discussions like this.

Because they are involve quite similar problems (safe for whom and from what? Warnings for which specific of the billions of potential PTSD triggers?) and are typically advocated for together, by the same people, as linked demands, to serve similar broad purposes.

> But trigger warnings are a really simple common courtesy.

No, they aren't. They are neither simple, nor are they, in fact, a common courtesy (whether or not you think they should be a common courtesy.)

> There was a popular meme spread around the Fourth of July to be considerate of veterans who may be distressed by the sound of fireworks.

There were actual several different ones, most of which were variations on combat veterans with signs at their homes asking for consideration and restraint.

> If you think this is a consideration worth extending to a veteran, it seems perfectly consistent that you'd want survivors of rape or abuse to know that a discussion of rape or abuse was coming up.

(1) Expecting people to, proactively and without knowledge of the particular trauma experienced by or triggers relevant to the audience, provide "trigger warnings" is exactly the reverse of the kind of specific and personal request for consideration at issue in the meme, and

(2) Triggering with PTSD is, in fact, quite complicated, but most often (AFAIK) involves sensory stimuli that are associated with the instance(s) of trauma producing the condition, such as sights, sounds, smells, etc. that were present during the trauma. Discussion of the class of event that relates to the trauma may be areas of strong emotional context and political sensitivity to many people (whether or not they are victims of that particular kind of trauma), but nothing I've read of actual PTSD and triggering suggests that they are particular likely to be triggers in the strict sense, even to victims of the trauma under discussion -- even to victims that do have PTSD and do have genuine, identifiable triggers.

(3) Proactive trigger warnings not based on the real known specific triggers applicable to a specific audience, if one isn't to give priority to certain type of traumas and certain presumed triggers associated with that trauma as "more deserving", quickly turn everything into a mass of warnings, most of which are irrelevant even to people who have PTSD originating in the type of trauma the warning is focused on.
Linkability at its best. Been saying for years that FB is trying to help establish the single-sign-on for all to access the internet. Thats why every major email and social outlet are demanding you input your phone number and secondary email alongside your existing account info. Eventually this will help the government know who is behind each IP address. No need to keep avoiding the phone number security prompt at the top of FB anymore, they already have it through their acquisiton of whatsApp, what a shame.
Openfire is actively developed. https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/
I can't decide whether or not I'm playing devil's advocate with this question. In any case, please don't take it too seriously, but I think it might be interesting.

Why did you not include a trigger warning about the discussion of rape in your comment?
more like "club room where people who aren't liked by the club aren't allowed in"
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I deleted my WhatsApp account the moment I learned it was acquired by Facebook. Unfortunately, I have to use Facebook for certain purposes to reach certain people. So Facebook very likely has more information (including my phone number) from other Facebook users and WhatsApp users who have me in their contact lists.
Hmm... yeah, I guess what you (and the other commenter) describe is fairer than what I wrote. Thanks!
Good question + 1.
If you dislike Slack, have you seen Skype for Business? Its text chat function disproves the existence of Cthulhu, since something so mind-bendingly horrible would surely have awoken Him, if He existed. Imagine sending your colleagues single-line Word documents and you're basically there.
Improving the speed of a 1000-year ship may only require improvements in propulsion or structure (lighter ships). There are nearby incentives to create better propulsion and structure. We do not necessarily have to launch a 1000-year ship to create a 500-year ship.
These blockchains shouldn't use mining at all; they should use algorithms like PBFT or SCP. Such algorithms require out-of-band agreement on who is and isn't running a node, but once that has been set up they are similarly secure as POW.
Oh, you're talking about them inferring that you must have scraped them because you used or published data that only they had.

Not every scraper has publishing or using data in a detectable way as their motive.

For instance, I sometimes scrape a website to make an archive of it for my own personal use. I never publish the results or use them in any way that the website owners would ever know about. So the only way they could know that they were scraped is if I left some kind of scraping signature while scraping (such as scraping from a single IP and doing it quick enough to pop on their radar or perhaps regularly enough -- ie. without random waits between request, etc).

What you're talking about is probably mostly a concern to people/companies who are somehow making money from scraping data on other people's websites.
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I don't really see the relevance of the article. It complains a lot about students being oversensitive to bad things, but it has barely anything to do with actual trigger warnings.

Trigger warnings aren't about bending to the every whim of everyone you encounter. They're about labeling material ahead of time so that people can make a more informed decision about when and how they expose themselves to it. Nothing about this requires changing educational material; it would just mean putting some notice in the class listings and syllabus about what potentially uncomfortable topics are going to be covered in detail.
This is what I was wondering. Thanks!
The prime example of what you can expect when EU politicians take on technology is the Cookie Law...
Should exploits like this be treated as munitions, with sale to foreign governments restricted? Or any sale at all restricted? Some thoughts:

* The only uses for the exploits are either illegal or by government security organizations

* I don't think you can just make an explosive and sell it to a foreign government; I think there are strict export controls (though I know very few details, I only read about companies applying, getting approval, etc.).

* In the 1990s, strong encryption was called a 'munition' and export was restricted. That turned out to be impractical (it was available in many countries and the Internet has no borders), morally questionable (restricting private citizen's privacy), and it fell apart.

While I believe in liberty and freedom-to-tinker, as I said, this stuff has no legitimate use.
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In Project Posada, my open source Mint alternative project, we handle it with an app on the user's phone that receives texts and, using regex, grabs the code of relevant sms messages then pushes the code back to the scraper, which then inputs the code and continues on.
I am of a different persuasion. Even if you are doing one thing, but it is indeed a thing, refactor it as a separate abstraction. You will end up with a better set of building blocks.
Redfin would do this first.

Since they have a fair number of listings, I'm waiting for them to offer something where the buyer gets a substantial discount for buying it directly from the Redfin agent, without using a buyer's agent. Next step would be to sell listings exclusively through Redfin and not through the MLS, though this would be riskier.
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No, because the statement expressly says "freedom of expression does not mean the freedom to harass or threaten others."
Ed is infinitely more user friendly, was in fact my first editor (punched cards or very limited environments like the one IBM provided for BASIC and PL/I prior to that), and it's what I drop back to, usually in its more user friendly ex form, when I don't or can't use a full fledged EMACS.

TECO is best described by the one liner, "A moment of convenience, a lifetime of regret", I'll see if I can look up the author of that, it was in the ITS fortune file.
I just gave this a try myself. It is frighteningly easy to do.
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You don't need a trigger warning policy, necessarily. Just a culture that promotes being aware of common triggers. This notice goes in the opposite direction.

>It's an impossible task to list out and educate people on everything that might possible trouble or offend. Once you open that door, there is no finite end to a list of triggers.

It's not necessary to exhaust the full list. Analogously: it's impossible to list out and educate people on every form of negative externality, but we still have laws to address the big ones, and that helps.
With regard to veterans and fireworks, I think that would actually be an example of a "safe space", in that the vets in question are demanding that neighbors not celebrate America's independence within a given radius of their homes. They're not asking for a heads-up before people shoot off roman candles...they're saying, don't do it near my house, period.

FWIW, I don't think this is a consideration worth extending to veterans, and I am dismayed by the fact that many vets have embraced the culture of competitive victimhood that has infected much of American popular discourse.

With that said I do think that a professor giving a heads-up to students that they're going to discuss uncomfortable topics (e.g., rape) in class is probably the right thing to do, within reason (e.g., if it's going to be the central theme of that day's discussion).
And to extend your thought further, should US based VC's be backing this? NSO is backed by San Fransisco based Fransisco Partners [1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nsogroup-m-a-idUSKCN0SR2JF...
This is tough.

With the aspirations of "civility and mutual respect" along with "rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement", I would hope any truly egregious edge cases disappear.

In the middle, I think people have the right to remove themselves from discussions—civil or otherwise—that they don't want to listen to or engage. But that right doesn't limit others' ability to have those selfsame discussions in public or private venues, nor require others to give you advance warning about it.

And finally, U. Chicago has the right to set degree requirements. If you are unable or unwilling to meet those requirements (e.g., not participating in discussions), then you have no place at that institution. After all, the "real world" won't hold your hand.

So...

Trigger Warnings ("A trigger warning is advance notice about subject material that may be difficult for certain students to read, hear or see.") U. Chicago says they "don't support" them. I think actively discouraging them in every case seems extreme, but the institution simply can't be required to provide trigger warnings in every case for every individual. In other words, a lack of trigger warning doesn't mean you won't be triggered.

Safe Spaces ("A safe space is a place they can go to avoid those subjects or heal after confronting them.") U. Chicago doesn't condone the creation of safe spaces. Similarly, I think this stance is extreme. Safe spaces may be necessary for individuals. But U. Chicago is under no obligation to provide them for you or excuse you from other discussions as a result.

In other words, U. Chicago isn't a place for people who don't want to discuss issues that make them uncomfortable. Which, on its face, seems reasonable to me.
> Java bytecode is semantically a terrible language for a CPU to execute

As someone who's not a jvm or hw person: why's that?
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It's just not an equivalent analogy. Explosions sound and light are somewhat recreating a war time experience. The classroom equivalent for trigger warnings would be telling veterans that a discussion of a war in history class was coming.
Product looks great for less than a week. Is your development team in house?
To be fair, while it's common for western (US/Canada) taxis to bring you to somewhere based on address (or intersection), it's not common in much of the rest of the world and they rely on landmarks much more often. Any Latin American country and many Asian countries are the same, in that you tell them a landmark and go from there.

For example, did you know that it wasn't until sometime in the last couple years that South Korea implemented a standardized address system? You can't tell a taxi driver to go to an "address" cuz the address of your hotel didn't exist a couple years ago, even if the hotel did, so you have to tell them the closest landmark.
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I viewed some of the reviews. They appear to be spammers or testers. For example,

Five Stars

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I have bad memories of freenas (before the split/new version) many years ago when I had a disk and power failure... hdb went, so, c/d moved up a letter and it automatically screwed up raid...

... I was able to recover, but, I remember how many hours I spent on it.

Please tell me it is better now?
The limits are on the number of simultaneous failures. Data is safe provided that too many errors do not accumulate before they can be detected and corrected. This is fundamental fact: no real storage system can tolerate an unbounded number of simultaneous errors without an unbounded number of space for replicas. You can control the number of allowable simultaneous errors by tuning redundancy settings (the trade off is space efficiency vs. probability of data loss). It is straightforward to put in place an automated process to guarantee that errors are detected within some finite period of time.
And if an iPhone is attacked the attacker...doesn't own the device? I don't follow your reasoning.
> If you think this is a consideration worth extending to a veteran, it seems perfectly consistent that you'd want survivors of rape or abuse to know that a discussion of rape or abuse was coming up.

And at what point does it stop? Who decides what is a trigger warning?

If someone is afraid of wolves. Must I now stop wearing my wolf shirts?

When does it simply turn into censorship and shutting down topics and discussions you don't want to have?

If someone has a personal issue, what gives them the right to force their issues on others? Why must everyone adapt to them?
I'm curious to know more about the experience you had when you couldn't move your body and the thoughts leading up to the epiphany.

Was it the usual denial, anger, bargaining stuff or something different?
that is just the story. In reality powerful actors can tip the balancein their favor and even revoke and tamper with old transactions
What do you mean? In this attack, the attackers leveraged a root privilege escalation exploit. So iPhones are just as owned.
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