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No. 1200 people said they might (it isn't binding) but only if the conditions of the pledge are violated. The pledge is written in such a way that almost anything could be deemed as not violating it, if the signer wanted that.

This is the direct equivalent of "I'll move to Canada if Foo gets elected". Move-to-Canada declarations are actually much tighter than this pledge as they tend to be triggered by simple, undeniable conditions. But how many people who publicly proclaimed they'd do it actually do?

The solution to "the administration wants to build a database of Muslims" is not to sign worthless pledges. It's to enter politics and put the argument to conservative voters that they're wrong and should change their mind.
You don't have to vote.
As they've stated, the authors of SQL are not opposed to generics. They just haven't found an idiomatic way of incorporating them into the language that doesn't also impact prepare times. ;-)
i was not aware of what's going on with Liquid Haskell! This dissertation[0] just came out and looks like to be exactly what i had in mind!

[0] http://goto.ucsd.edu/~nvazou/thesis/main.pdf
I believe if you want to avoid state actors, android and smartphones are not for you. This is sad reality. I don't know the alternative.

With this model at least you're not part of botnet for sale, so that's a good thing.

If you want to avoid state actors you have to live the lifestyle of Stalman or something similar.
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It is a little different from Threadis since, in my understanding, threadis is more a redis fork. While rediSQL is a redis module.

Using a redis module get you A LOT of thing from free and you really stand on the shoulder of giants.
I remember them having some impressive demos of Telepresence and something called Cisco Spark (which probably is an acquesisiton like you said). You join a meeting on your phone, just like Lync(Skype) but if you walk into a meetingroom with video conference equipment it transfers to that.
I work on implementing languages and I often need new parsers. Either for full languages or little embedded languages or expression syntaxes of various kinds.

I often think 'right, this time I'm going to write a really nice little Antlr grammar and do it properly'. But every single time I regret it because there's always some complexity that means things don't fit into the Antlr model, and making things work the way Antlr works means more complexity than just writing a simple lexer and parser by hand.

My most recent example is that Ruby strings can't always be safely converted into Java strings, but Antlr wants to parse Java strings only and not a byte[]. So I had to copy my Ruby byte[] into a Java string a character at a time and just use the character as numbers pretending that they had no encoding.

That's just one example. It's always some other new problem that means it's more ceremony to use Antlr than the tool saves me later one.

Despite lexing and parsing being an entire sub-field of computer science, to be honest I'm not sure that in practice lexing and parsing are really problems that are so complex in the first place that a tool is ever needed.
The change is a bit mind-blowing, but in the end I really think it could work. Consider this:

"The first year of the third millennium begins at 2001/01/01 00:00:00"

Wouldn't this make much more sense:

"The zeroth year of the second millennium begins at 2000/00/00 00:00:00"
can you use it in a few very typical sentences, that aren't odd at all in your world?
Exactly. Also it reduces portability risk. Consider if you implement SQS and SES using their native APIs then Amazon shaft you, where do you go? The answer is rewriting everything as AMQP and basic SMTP services, which until you're done, you're down.
IIRC one of the big ideas behind ARES is to make money by supplying peak power for consumption and possibly even by taking peak power production off the grid.

Basically a grid scale AC capacitor equivalent.

I only have education in electronics and no other experience with High Voltage or big grids so I might be very wrong.
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i wonder how Linus would have responded, and if linux were to be born today, considering's Linus' abrasive tongue, would survive.

some of these people have a point - their small minority though is pretty rabid and off point. i've never seen "RESPECT ME!" ever not backfire, on any scale and for any group.

it'll be interesting how we will resolve this kind of emergent social angst - before too much of our future falls victim to it.

there was a code of conduct that people working together adhered to back in the day, and as long as it was kept minimal and professional things are just fine - but it's always over applied, and it always contributes to the fall of its parent. PC and SJWs fall into that catigory these days. they should revise their tactic, i think it does them more harm and causes them to lose credibility, rather than gain any. they might win a few battles, but we'd all lose the war.

i belong to a majority that gets shit due to what a minority does - in my head, i think the way to change that is by serving as an example for the good - and fight the bad together with everyone willing.

the Opal folk should have just apologized, said they'll talk to their dev about his actions and closed the issue, then moved on. instead, that thread's curator u/meh just fanned the flames because of his own spartan approach to community health that overshadowed project health, and ended up causing more damage than it set out to avoid.

here's hoping github survives this.
from the abstract:

Risk-adjusted outcomes were calculated after adjusting for population factors, co-morbidities, and health system factors. Even after risk-adjustment, there exists large geographical variation in outcomes
I'm pretty sure I don't want to go down that road for an application that's meant to go into production (some day). It's possible to use Polymer elements in react. There's even a npm package[1] for it, but merely by looking at the activity of the package I'd already choose not to use this for a production application other than my own. Furthermore: I've tried Polymer and it offers its own data-binding implementation. I don't want to have multiple UI layers and two ways of data-binding. That's just asking for trouble.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-polymer
Indeed. In smaller countries there are numerous providers from shared to dedicated hosting and people are using them. The whole Amazon lock in is a thing of Silicon Valley and the largest companies.
The Flintstones model of energy storage.
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"Viewability" is an ad industry metric of "did your ad actually appear on screen, or was it below the fold?"

It's actually pretty hard to detect except through indirect means, one of which was to use a flash object to monitor for framerate changes. On-screen objects would render with a higher framerate. Google seems to have built out an API so that you can just explicitly check.

For marketers, this is actually a big thing because it means a key success metric (did people actually see your ad?) can be measured more reliably.

You can disdain advertising or marketing in general and you'd have a point, but what you quoted is actually describing a well thought out solution to a common industry problem.
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WW2 non-nuclear devastation was larger than 100 hiroshima sized bombs, with explicit firebombing burning so many cities to the ground - we have seen the effect of enormous fires, and it doesn't come close to what is described.
It's a red herring anyway. The valid question is, would you prefer to remain alive today? You're free to answer in the negative at any time, but it would be nice not to have the decision taken from you by mere biochemistry.
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Deepomatic just released four specialized image detection APIs: fashion items, furniture and decoration, street scene and weapon.

https://vimeo.com/194022746 to see in action
Google is not running on AWS, and they are pretty much 40% of the whole internet.
Agree here. I recently implemented a small query language DSL uaing Antlr and I regret not writing my own lexer and parser. It's difficult to bend a framework like Antlr into a useable state if you hit an edge case or require unusual look ahead semantics.

Next time, I'll start with a simple recursive descent parser.
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Honest question - have you read this entire article ?

...

I'm sure it's written by a smart and talented journalist - but it's just too long. I cannot possibly allocate so much of my time to read a single news article!

I know it's kind of my problem, but I'm sure lots of others are just like me - it's just the nature of our tech-provoked ADD.

I skimmed through it all right, but I didn't get too much out of that. If I need to go deep, I grab a book!

Good journalism doesn't get through, because it asks too much attention of its (busy) readers.

A TLDR version of good articles is a must. That's a good problem for AI isn't it ? For the moment, though - I'm sure the authors themselves could make a nice summary readable in maybe 3-5 minutes.
Apache OpenOffice is on life support (at least, was in September, I wonder if the situation has evolved since):

https://lwn.net/Articles/699047/
Can rqlite [1] be helpful here?

[1] http://www.philipotoole.com/replicating-sqlite-using-raft-co...
Does a tool like Power BI Desktop not meet your needs? This video gives a quick overview of putting together a report and publishing it to a PowerBI reporting portal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgam9M8I0xA
It still drives me crazy that ISP's tell you not to run a server - the whole damn point of the internet is that it's two way. Opening port 80 and hosting a website on a raspberry pi that my buddy around the world could see may not be how the next unicorn operates, but it just feels good in principle.
At GitLab we're completely remote, all our processes and documentation on this is open, here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
The further you build your renewable energy grid over peak consumption, the less storage you need, because if, let's say, an input of 50% electricity of installed capacity is 100% of peak consumption, the days where you actually need to draw from the storage will be less and the days where you can fill the storage will be more, in simple terms. There are studies on this.
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i am really happy that the "green" energy production is in such a price war. It's Solar vs. Wind not Solar vs. Coal. I don't care what's cheaper as long as it's not Coal!
I agree; Bitbucket Server is a smash hit in big banks who are now moving away from SVN to GIT to stay relevant. It simply makes more sense to use BitBucket Server offering by Altassian given that most organizations already use Confluence for hosting their wiki.
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To the extent that you can assign arbitrarily specific meaning to any word as long as others know to decode it, you could in theory find and replace "creative" with "stuff" in our language and records.

But otherwise "stuff" is an ambiguous term and "creative" is industry jargon.
The x86 instruction set wasn't designed with hardware virtualisation in mind. Some of its instructions are defined to leak state from higher privileged levels into lower privileged levels. As hypervisor Xen must preserve these semantics. One way to achieve this is to trap all possible leaks and emulate the leak in the hypervisor. This is what Xen tried and failed to implement correctly.

An other possible solution to similar problems is to complicate the CPU even further and have it virtualise the corner cases in hardware or microcode.
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> Can't we do something to increase the competition in the "cloud" area

Yes, we have to change our mindset back from "Let's put everything (apps and data) into the cloud" to "Let's only use the cloud as _one_ of many ways for data storage and data synching. Everything else is done locally and on private servers".

This whole trend of web-apps is really bad for free software because it creates a dependency on 3rd party servers. Just imagine you could only use Emacs or Vim if you are connected to the internet...

We have to get rid of the idea that the default form of software is supposed to be a webpage. Make software local again and therefore reduce the influence of large cloud providers.
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FYI: We, GitLab, did not hire this person. I think you misread the parent comment.
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Yes, traditionally all stone/masonry buildings (particularly medieval buildings) had these "holes" (they are called "buche pontaie" in Italian, literally "scaffolding holes") to allow for both the scaffolding and lifting devices to be anchored to the walls while building them (and later for maintenance work):

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buca_pontaia

The English word for it is "putlog hole" AFAIK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putlog_hole
What's the talent pool like in Germany? I looked at moving to Germany for a while and it seemed pretty strong. I'm in Ireland now but the companies I've worked for have all had German representation in engineering.
My main fear around longevity treatments is that a panicked, conservative reaction will condemn me to an unnecessary death while arguments rage and people moralise endlessly.
See my comment below, we'd love this and look forward to everyone's ideas on this [0]

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
> There are so many confounding variables that even trying to measure outcomes 90 days out is difficult.

Very much this. Two patients, same doctor, same proceedure, with somewhat similar medical backgrounds. Nearly the same progression in the hospital, and released to go home, and possibly to doctors that don't interact with that hospital.

Perhaps one is poor and sometimes skips medication. Only one starts eating healthily and starts exercise. One has a stressful home life. Maybe one, when the recovery isn't going as quickly as possible, starts mixing in alternative medicines but doesn't tell his GP. Maybe they were both women, in the hospital to give birth - and one got pregnant again in the first year while the other didn't. These sorts of things greatly affect the outcomes, but none of them are under the hospital's controls.
Clever turn of phrase. My question stands -- what are the logistical reasons for serving a suburban area but not its urban counterpart? All of the other areas being served by AR are urban cores. Mind you, northern VA is not the only suburb of DC.

I should add that Amazon did this with Amazon locker as well. Northern VA got coverage well before DC. My suspicion is some kind of incentive that VA is providing to Amazon, the same one that attracted Amazon to build its huge us-east data center in VA.

I was going to suggest that No VA is more affluent than DC, but in that case they shouldn't be in Baltimore.
I hear you. I guess long form journalism has its place, but for me it's in the library next to the novels. When reading news I want to go straight to the point. In fact, I'd pay for an API that returns an array of news, and for each one the Five Ws (and 1H) [1] in a machine readable format, at most two sentences long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws
Not every problem a guy has with his girlfriend is necessarily caused by the capitalist mode of production.
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Offtopic:

[photo]

Me at Angelhack Mumbai 2016

That was fun. 40 people, only one Caucasian. It's like an edgy version of [2].

[1] https://developer.pebble.com/assets/images/blog/2016-12-14-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Three_Children_puzzle
That sounds at least as much like a reason to replace the (IMO unnecessarily overcomplicated) "cocktail" as it does a reason to replace the method.

I've never particularly understood why they use anything other than a large overdose of some strong opiate like morphine or fentanyl.
So it's not?
I think it GitHub who hired them, not Gitlab.
Did you really create this? - this is awesome. This is a no BS world radio tuner. I love it, you really get a grasp of what's happening on the radio waves live all around our little planet rather than feeling cocooned in your local area.
An extra feature I would love is if I could store favourite radio stations. Also I notice many stations are missing in certain countries especially S Asia.
BTW, you'll get a lot of interest from certain shady characters in the government who will ask you to block certain political talk radios to shield the public from alternative impartial news. As you know western media is also under heavy control and they don't like us listening to Radio Sputnik/RT/Press TV for example.
Please can you keep this a non biased station no matter what money they throw at you?
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After quickly reading this, it looks like fitbit is really keen into having the pebble not cut ties with their large and active community.

And apparently there is a whole team that " is responsible for a smooth and positive Pebble transition. "

Let'shope for the best, maybe the increase in fitbits brand value is worth the effort out into supporting a dead piece of hardware (no offense).
Juice:

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[2] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/bigquery-unde...

[4] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/in-memory-que...

[5] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/04/inside-capaci...

I think there are more, but these are the ones I have on pinboard.
The negativity is really uncalled for. You could simply say "I don't understand, and haven't bothered to Google for 5 seconds what some of these confusing terms mean--can someone please clarify?"

This stuff is all geared at advertisers who want better tools for designing ads and landing pages, and publishers who want to create ad supported sites more easily. So they are using industry jargon that people in the space (like myself) will be familiar with. Yes it is "marketing to marketers" (not sure about the lesser remark), but that doesn't make it any less specific.

I'm not sure which specific page you are referencing, but this is all technical advertising jargon that means very specific things.

"Viewability" is a technical term referencing whether an impression is viewed by a user. As advertisers increasingly demand more transparency around ad inventory quality from publishers, viewability is a newer metric that the industry looks at.
Here's a good starting point from the IAB for how they classify it [1].

Determining whether an ad has been in view has some technical challenges which you might be familiar with if you know much about front-end stuff. At a quick glance of your quote, this references improving the way a pages viewability of ads is measured on mobile by removing the need for Flash for sites to signal "hey, this ad impression is viewable (and thus more valuable)!" Flash bad, this good.

Here's some further reading[2] on the technical challenges from a company that handles inventory where these metrics are a factor.

Look, we get it, you don't like marketing. And yeah, my industry can lay it on thick sometimes, but this is about as poor an example of that as it gets.

[1] https://www.iab.com/guidelines/state-of-viewability-transact...

[2] http://productblog.appnexus.com/evolution-of-viewability-mea...
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No, if you don't use AWS or GCloud specific services you usually can move your business from one bare metal provider to the next without problems.
Perhaps if you're a 19th Century tailor!?
I can think of a few pertinent cases. With every new generation you get fresh perspectives. Old practices die because generations die with them. Can you imagine slavery practices getting a "lifespan increase."

I bet the "cold war" mind set works the same way. You rarely see cold war brought up by much younger folks. It's always an old gen rehash.

What about a ruthless dictator like Kim Jong Un getting 12 extra years on earth?
An encouraging counter-argument is to watch the way that age cohorts have changed their attitudes to gay marriage in successive surveys. Society as a whole has become a lot more supportive, very fast, and all ages have been changing their attitudes. It's not just that young supportive people are aging upward into older cohorts, but also that old people who had negative attitudes have been softening their opposition, and many have crossed over from opposition to support.

The idea that the old have fixed bad ideas is mistaken. All ages of people can be persuaded.
> Even if you choose to categorize her as a "bully," it's very evident that "bullying" is a hobby of hers and not related to how well she does her job (programming).

If she got her job at github through bullying then she is a professional bully.
I'm sure it'll be cracked eventually, so you could just pay for it then get that.
We've had several people asking about adding an API, would an API to create and manage group email lists be useful to anyone?

I'd be interested to hear what you'd use it for.
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I wasn't actually aware of this, looks very nice! I should probably take it for a spin! Has anyone tried it?
> Now what are they supposed to say? container linux? it sounds like someone misspoke, what is it you're saying? you use containers and linux?

On the bright side, Docker has been trying to "own" the term container for quite a while, all to the point that people don't even know that other kinds of containers even exist.

This might open up people to the idea that a container is a concept, and that there are multiple implementations out there, and not just Docker.
The 17 count probably includes ODNI itself sitting atop the other 16.
We're working hard on making the UI and UX of GitLab better.
A good start is this meta-issue [0], but there are many others. We realise we have some ways to go, but this is a major priority for us and 2017 will bring improvements every single month.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/24304
MD is not a clean UI....
I have been hearing that about voat.co for couple of years.
It's worth noting that people getting much older (what the OP is saying) and the increase in life expectancy in the last century (what you mentioned) is quite different as the increase of life expectancy is due to a drastic decrease in child mortality not longer life for those who made it to adulthood. Once you make it to 20 or so, chances are you'll stick around for another 50-60 years even a century ago.
For someone who has a Pebble watch: are they so dependent on the external services that if they were to go down, the watch is essentially bricked?

If so, that's terrible, and it's a bad side-effect of everything being cloud-based. When you buy a piece of hardware, you don't really expect it to have an expiry date other than the if the device itself malfunctions, right?

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As others said, you can reuse cars (if a car does 100 1km journeys per charge interval the materials cost for cars and gravel become comparable) and a custom built car can be cheaper, too.

The volume may be another challenge though: 1.33*10^11 kg is roughly 0.1 km^3 of gravel/dirt. So we need to move a cube of dirt ~450m in size up and down 1km each day.

Not impossible, but presents bit challenges on its own imo.