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> as far as I know not because they wanted it, but because the studios they license from demand DRM. Yet, they seem to have lost most of their "movie studio" catalogue and are now focusing on originals.

Many of Netflix's "original" productions are still subject to similar restrictions, and are still produced by those very same studios. All of their Marvel shows, for example, are produced by Disney and licensed to Netflix for digital distribution. Some of their "originals" are actually international co-productions, where they're still distributed traditionally via broadcast television in other countries, and DRM is a requirement of the license.
"Imagine how refreshing it'd be to see Lisp driving webapps, front and back-end."

Get web browsers to embed a Lisp in them, and this will happen.

Though even then, Lisp will never be nearly as popular as Javascript due to its unfamiliar syntax.
I take issue with that. What if it's graduation time and a whole group of graduates without experience decide en masse to apply somewhere. Or lets say a group of retirees are given an assignment to liven up their lives and apply at places they would not normally consider. There are reasonable expectations.
How is it okay that so many services don't come with a clear, configurable, default-low cost accrual cap?

Heck, Comcast is rolling out unlimited* potential liability if you go over without pre-purchasing a $50 insurance policy.

* Given bandwidth constraints, maybe it's only $6500/mo or so. Still.
It's really hard to believe that implementing a Scheme or Lisp would be slower than implementing JavaScript, so I would indeed be interested in your cite.

My recollection is that Eich's bosses wanted something that looked like CJava++.
In the model I am describing every tenant component would have an agent that was reporting the state of that tenant. If there was a shared component/pool that wouldn't be reporting separately, I'm really only describing the tenant databases/tenant-specific files. So if you had a tenant database, there should be an agent that just is reporting on that tenant database.

As for separation of the application frontend it really is a risk assessment and culture thing. If the team understands that making sure you never cross streams of customer data is a critical requirement which is one of the first viability questions in the design then sharing really isn't too bad. If your team struggles with this or has recurring issues to this end separate application servers make more sense. Generally if you have tenants with data exposing another customer's data is a quick way to have trust in a product evaporate, I know I have had this happen as a customer where I was able to show a bug where I was getting another customer's accounting information in a cloud app which caused me to terminate the contract.

If you guys are minding the soup of the application servers well enough there's nothing say you can't, there are many people that do it.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something...

duskwuff:

So, since I have to ask: What would we be stuck with if JS hadn't happened?

Brendan Eich:

Something like PHP only worse, which Netscape's VP Eng killed fast (in early July 1995, if memory serves; I did JS in early-mid-May) since it was "third" after Java and JS. Two new web programming languages were hard enough to justify...

also:

Ten days to implement the lexer, parser, bytecode emitter (which I folded into the parser; required some code buffering to reorder things like the for(;;) loop head parts and body), interpreter, built-in classes, and decompiler. I had help only for jsdate.c, from Ken Smith of Netscape (who, per our over-optimistic agreement, cloned java.util.Date -- Y2K bugs and all! Gosling...).

Sorry, not enough time for me to analyze tail position (using an attribute grammar approach: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:proper_tail_...). Ten days without much sleep to build JS from scratch, "make it look like Java" (I made it look like C), and smuggle in its saving graces: first class functions (closures came later but were part of the plan), Self-ish prototypes (one per instance, not many as in Self).

and:

Scheme was the ideal admired by the JS supporters at Netscape, and the trick used to recruit me. But (see above) the "look like Java" orders and the intense time pressure combined to take out a lot of good ideas from Scheme that would've taken longer (not much longer, sigh) to implement. One example: just the C-like syntax makes tail calls harder (or less likely: consider falling off the end of a function returns undefined, so the last expression-statement before such an implicit return is not in tail position).
>I think most people misunderstand the ASF.

That really my point. I don't think that any project has ever failed because it was adopted by Apache, but the foundation has adopted some hopeless cases and they seem to get most of the focus.
Trafficking of farm and construction workers is very real, too, and probably more prevalent.
> Doing things the legal way is basically impossible for many, many people.

But, many, many people, do immigrate to America legally each year. People from all over the globe immigrate to America. Since 1970 there has been a steady growth of immigrants from 9 million or less than 5% of the population to 43 million (legal) immigrants or about 14% of the population.

It might require years, but that what other people from other countries do.

Also, there are other countries besides the US. Many people immigrate to Canada for example.
mongodb folks are indeed aggressive.

I had one person really hounding me to pitch mongodb to my organization basically suggesting it as a huge boon to productivity and it would be trivial to rewrite all our rdbms based apps on top of mongodb.

I'm not sure how well they're doing, but some less knowledgeable than I might have taken the bait.
If Immigrants Don't Compete with Working-Class Americans, Robots Will
Probabilities are always real (by definition). QM uses complex numbers for amplitudes, not probabilities. The probability is the square of the absolute value of the amplitude. Why nature should choose such a weird rule is the Big Mystery. The best discussion of this that I know of is this one:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
What do you think this is?

Weird to imply such a strict delineation between photography and art.
Only comes off as generous based on their statistic that 99% of their users won't exceed it. If they started with something 'less generous' it would be met with more backlash. However, this is just preparing customers to be used to a data cap.
I worked sysadmin contract at an IBM global services subsidiary in the summer of 1997. I had a task that needed a Unix machine and I installed Linux on it. One of the senior mgmt type people threw up a big fuss about it being Linux and Linux being bad, m'kay, bad stuff, and insisted that the machine should be running a licensed SCO Unix. He ended up getting outvoted but I remember even in 1997 being like "what year is it?"

The next year or the year after IBM announced their big Linux pivot where they went all-in on Linux on everything as a big strategy.
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It is impossible to prove, and yet the title claims it to be true.
And "figure out how to make fake accounts" is pretty easy. This absolutely doesn't need coordination at all.

Once worked somewhere that management measured you by number of checkins. Engineers didn't need to talk with each other at all to get those numbers going way up. And they did, you betcha. Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure that you're correct that a data scientist is a statistician who can write distributed systems. Problems have been solved for decades by people with quantitative training, from well before distributed systems (or computers) existed. Very roughly, a data scientist is a person with a combination of quantitative training and some programming skills, who is able to effectively analyze (and explain) different kinds of data, be they audio, text, census information, or whatever it might be. What we call data scientists today are the engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians of yesterday.
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I wrote pivot table functionality in XSLT and XML for IE6. Pretty much 10 years ago. It's not that you couldn't do it, it was that it wasn't worth it.

Your whole multiplatform thing is disingenuous because back then there really was only 1 platform. Windows. So you've conveniently forgotten about the lotus suite, etc.

I also think you're vastly overestimating how far we've come in that timespan. Like v8 was pretty much 95% of the improvements, simply because you could do more than 1000 loops in JavaScript without killing the browser.

And yet today it is still harder to make a decent web app than it was in VB6 15 years ago.
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Incidentally, last year had the worst weather in many, many years. Frequent sandstorms and freezing temperatures at night.
I told my friend they should use a secure setup like this, and I was laughed at. It might sound like satire, but those are baseline procedures for working with the web now. As soon as you connect a computer to the Public Internet it instantly becomes a target, and needs to be hardened as such.
I think I can explain the mystery to you: You have a skewed view of the scientific evidence.

The evidence for mindfulness and meditation is questionable at best. There's a lot of bad science, undeclared conflicts of interest and weak studies in that space.

> For example, I was just reading one about how meditation can reduce pain perception by 40% and that measurement was backed up by MRI imaging of reduced brain activity in pain centers.

This is a completely meaningless statement. What kind of study is that based on? An RCT or observational data? How many participants? A single study or a metaanalysis? Has it been replicated? Was it preregistered? All of that matters to decide whether that's just "a study" or reliable science.

There are plenty of studies showing that brain games work, too. They're just of low quality.
I would suggest that focus and self-control are not the core of meditation. It can profoundly influence the way you see the world, way beyond what you describe.
The article quotes the paper, which says “… learning things that are likely to improve your performance at school (e.g., reading; developing knowledge and skills in math, science, or the arts), on the job (e.g., updating your knowledge of content and standards in your profession), or in activities that are other-wise enjoyable.”

Using an app to learn a new language, extend your vocabulary, or learning new arithmetic tricks would seem to fall into this category. If the Elevate app actually does any of these, then I'd call it "learning" instead of "brain training".
I have similar gripes with Go. I really love programming with CSP techniques and Go does a good job of implementing a lot of this at a lower-level. Clojure also draws from CSP and from Go's implementation of CSP, but lacks some of the nice things Go has going on here at lower-levels, however I end preferring Clojure for so many other reasons. I still would not shy away from Go, but it's far from a perfect language and doesn't really improve on a lot of things that similar languages don't do well.

I think it's not just Google, but the cult of Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, etc. I appreciate their work on so many things, so I don't mean any ill-will. I was a user of ACME editor and Plan9, but just like those projects, Go has so many polish issues in critical areas. The package management alone is ridiculous. The common theme in all these projects is for every good idea, there is an order of magnitude more critical mistakes or divisive ideas that cripple the end result in some way.

Go is alright, but it's not really that interesting to me or a monumental leap. There are a few ideas that others could cherry-pick and put into much better designed languages to take it all a step further in my opinion.
Yes, and perhaps I'm shirking my duty as a developer by wanting to avoid some ugly gnarly code. I will say this, I would be more likely to want to contribute to projects like these if they incorporated Rust as an alternative to C or C++ for their development.
Then replace selling fruit with backbreaking manual labor: coal mining, digging ditches, whatever. Something that causes real and permanent damage to one's body over time. Is selling your labor in such a way morally wrong?
As an operations employee, I'm shocked you've run thousands of servers in some kind of service while talking yourself out of any operations employees. An operations hire is not a prerequisite to moving past dedicated; even with nothing but 200 dedicated servers you are way past the point of needing at least minimal operations. Contract this out if you have to.

We are not a direct cost center that can be discussed in those terms. Our insight will reduce capital and operational expenditure beyond our salary, because that operations hire would have told you how insane of an idea paying $22,000/mo for four cabinets of gear is and why a capital tradeoff with depreciation is a fiduciary responsibility to your investors and shareholders. You can buy at least a dozen U for that each month and then pay for nothing but where it lives with a dash of break-fix to taste.

I can put four cabinets of gear in a colocation for a quarter or less than that if you'd swing a little capital. You are wasting money on poor operations architecture and design and you don't have anybody to really tell you.

Even beyond that operations is a skill, much like marketing. I know a lot of people think they can fake it for a while (and they usually can), but after a point it's time to act like a grown up company and bring someone who does nothing but think about this shit on board. Security, performance, remediation, all the system level grunt work you shouldn't be concerning yourself with as engineers. Or you can keep throwing multiple operations salaries at your four cabinet OVH deal and keep getting ripped off.
I have the need to produce internal webinars for a reasonably sized organisation. It will be interesting to see if they add live streaming, the ability to have real-time text chat and screensharing.

Its slightly odd that a product called Stream doesn't actually 'stream' - though I understand that they are using th eterm in a different way here.

For the moment, I'll stick with Youtube Live.
You can use functions in R because R is a crazy language that lets functions access the expressions which are passed as parameters and not just the values of the arguments.
This desperately needs the functionality of Slidepresenter[1], then it would be amazing. Without the option to more easily add more information to the videos, put them next to more context, this could fizzle into a dump for low quality "memos".

[1]http://www.slidepresenter.com/en/
You are right, these are indeed complex problems, however this is no directed effort against this type of activity.

If anything, having a common platform would make it easier to focus on such things, and I suspect platform owners would gladly cooperate (as they probably would on weeding out underage ads, etc.) -- but in practice, the alternative we see is either going for low-hanging fruit (which these relatively complex operations aren't), or just a blanket effort, like in this case.

All of these hurt legitimate workers far more than the operations you describe.
Wait, what? You honestly went with Godwin's law on this?

There are people in the sex industry who enjoy their industry. There were no people on the receiving end of the holocaust who enjoyed that.

If you can't grasp the difference you should not try to discuss anything.
My unverified impression masquerading as understanding is that your liability scales with the level of editorial oversight you provide: that the laws implement something resembling "if you moderate comments about drugs and movie downloads, but never seem to notice prostitution adverts, then you're probably doing that on purpose".
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When the threshold is to prove in court beyond a reasonable standard of doubt, it's going to be hard to prove that some horrible scheme that was never going to generate money (open a bunch of accounts customers don't know about and won't use, aside from some small amount of fees that will annoy customers) was undertaken deliberately, especially when it would only be a small part of the enterprise.
I doubt that a scientific study would find that strength training leads to improved problem solving skill

Here are some that do.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691814...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26456233

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22155655
turn down for what?

because you're 38 and reminiscing about how unappealing burning is compared to when you were 25
>some of the people ignorant of the shifting nature of prostitution are actually prostitutes and prostitutors themselves

Sounds awful paternalistic. Have you considered the possibility that people who make choices you disagree with have agency?
We would be ok with granting amnesty to lower level FARC scientists, but the Hitlers, Eichmanns, Goebbelses, Goerings, Heydrichs, Himmlers, Hoesses and Mengeles of the FARC must see some jail time.
a yuppie has an expensive car and house, a hipster has a bike and roommates, and a millennial borrows their parent's car and lives at home
> It's all Javascript nowadays, with about 5-8 frameworks dominating this sad landscape.

This is only even a perception in the Silicon Valley echo chamber, and it's not even true there. I worked at a contracting firm that did apps last year and we never once wrote one in JS.
Maybe things aren't as bad as I imagine them to be, but my immediate reaction to this was that now instead of working we are all going to be required to spend time watching "enterprise" videos - as if countless hours being wasted in senseless meetings watching someone's latest PowerPoint creation is not enough. Way to go, coders, way to go...
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Right, I wouldn't call it "perilous," but hey, there's plenty of rhetoric on this site that I disagree with.
> So you're playing your own gatekeeper? If you wanted to go, just go, you might just learn a thing or two about coolness, yourself and other people.

I think it has more to do with the expected enjoyment value. I really didn't get into frat parties in college, and Burning Man seems to be the art scene version of a frat party. So, I think it would be interesting, but I really don't have the friends that would make the trip worthwhile.

> In any case, isn't being uncool the coolest thing nowadays?

Not if reality TV is to be believed.

> In my opinion, there's no substitute for authenticity, and anything that's considered cool or fashionable is merely an imitation of real authenticity (see e.g. late-stage hipsterism).

Looking around, that doesn't seem to be the majority view. I think authenticity is dead. The majority of the people want their opinion reinforced and not contradicted.
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The first definition of "pimping" they provide, "making money off of prostitutes", seems to encompass anything from a gas station allowing the corner whores to buy cigarettes to an NGO with a grant for "rescuing" them.
Almost 300 projects now:

https://projects.apache.org/

I wouldn't describe it as a "neighborhood full of foreclosures and zombie properties". Yes, theres been a bunch of drama around OpenOffice, but many projects are doing great.
Can Duolingo's chatbot teach you a foreign language?
My college's placement test used some kind of algorithmic essay grader. I found it strange. It checked for typos, vocabulary use, etc. probably.
Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr are full of escort ads, so is 'fetlife' which is basically a prositution social media site for people in that scene. Then there's all the porn sites with escorts uploading videos of themselves like XVideos and shilling their services. Nobody is going after Instagram's CEO for allowing #gfe or #(city)escort hashtags.

Backpages seemed like a good police tool in that they could entrap politically connected people with fake prostitution ads, and they could identify organized prositution more easily. For example here it was simple to find the gangster listings running microbrothels, these are condos rented by street gangs who import girls from Asia, seize their passports and pimp them out. These gangs were also well known to rob each other's micros, and there are plenty of stories on all those escort review forums of armed gangsters kicking down the door and jacking the place since police won't be called.

Selective law enforcement again happening here so the Backpages CEO guy must have made political statements advocating for legalization or was politically active in some other way. It's my main theory why Redbook was shutdown, because they entertained very loud activists in their forums calling for legalization who often called out city and state politicians directly. Reminder if you want to run an illegal business don't be politically active and you can operate under the radar like Fetlife with it's thousands of escort ads.
That's a great example of the 'third element': composition, exposure and opportunity.

Sometimes you can make opportunity "happen" through equipment with more reach or foreknolwedge. But sometimes things just happen and a mediocre shot is more powerful than none at all.
i wrote my thoughts here:
http://movingfulcrum.com/rethinkdb-failure-engineering-not-m...
I think people like to feel special about themselves. When you were part of a small group of people who liked some band, and went to see them at small local venues for $5 a show you are "in the know". You are a part of that local music scene, and not one of the masses who just listens to what's on the radio. On one hand, you have discovered music that is good and not everyone listens to. You might say it is all about the music, but I think a big part of it is knowing that you "know" something that others don't. This makes you feel special about yourself. You aren't just a boring, uncritical person who listens to whatever commercial music is presented to them.

Then that band becomes slowly more popular, you are happy for their success until a certain point is reached. Now kids who you thought were just random lame kids with no taste in music at school are listening to them. If you want to see their show you have to buy tickets on ticketmaster, pay much more, and worry about sold out shows.

From a practical standpoint, it is now more difficult to see your favorite band. But I think the part that really bothers people is losing that feeling of being special. Everyone likes them now, there is nothing special about you liking them.

This same process can be applied to video games, films, craft beer, clothing/fashion trends, and probably any thing where you get very passionate fans.
Because my personal data is very helpful with creating infertile mosquitoes.
I wonder what they're doing with their desalination outflow? The prine produced during desalination can be nasty, toxic stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Environmental