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Absolutely.

Developers often gloss over how truly difficult it is to make good API choices. And when the wrong choices are made, it goes wrong quickly.

Microservices probably amplify this effect, but it's hard to say.
> Today, memory bandwidth is the bottleneck, caches are essentially mandatory for reasonable performance

I'm sure you meant latency there.
I second this. I was on zoloft for IBS. Getting off of it was terrible. I had to taper down 25% each step and each step lasted weeks. Overall, it took the same time to taper off of it as when I needed it.

I quit taking it because my IBS was not really IBS, it was a defective gallbladder. It was removed and my symptoms went away.
This has nothing to do with self driving cars. What is likely gking go happen in the future though is fines will be substantially higher.
It's called the resolver cache, and Linux does it too. Most commonly with nscd (use "nscd -i hosts" to clear it, keep in mind this is not specific to DNS requests). In the specific situation of a web browser it's more complicated and you'll find that the web browser caches these things too. If you run Chrome check out chrome://net-internals to get a glimpse of what's going on there.
I do. Nurse midwives, and other mid-level providers are often subject to similar hours and work schedules.
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20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
That's exactly the same Goldman analysis I linked to. They revised prices by $2.

This is not the OPEC who could move prices by 50% or credibly threaten to cut off supply.
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Electronic freedom is under attack everywhere including america and europe.

Censorship under the guise of "fake news".
Filters under the guise of protecting children.
"let me be very clear: we have great desktops in our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that"

Sounds like that meeting with Mr. Trump included some lessons in communicating with the public.
Like minimum wage laws. Right.
Over the last 30-40 years, particularly post 2008, many people with college degrees can't find meaningful work in their chosen field--say biology, chemistry, business etc. In other words, they may have made a very reasonable decision on the loan as an investment and it just didn't work, it happens. Normally you can file for bankruptcy, but you can't with student loans which is rather odd and points to a more sinister collusion between business and government.

My issue with your line of thinking is that I rarely hear the same outrage towards the government doing massive subsidization of private business at tax payer expense (billions of dollars of bail outs for Wallstreet, tax payer funded research with private profit etc).

The school of thought that individuals must suffer bad investment decisions without legal protection, but an LLC can with normal government help reeks of an injustice.
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It's of varying importance depending on what field of security you're talking about, but generally it's the chasm that separates entry-level security folks from the rest.

Using systems administration as an analog, there exists a class of sysadmins who can't write even basic scripts. Their ability to troubleshoot or problem solve are limited to using predefined tools. Whole categories of tasks will be infeasible for them to accomplish (mostly because of the amount of time it would take to do them manually, not necessarily because they are technically impossible).

Lacking the ability to do any programming limits their job prospects to the bottom of the sysadmin barrel. That being said, programming isn't necessarily a prerequisite for their job, it's just a ceiling.

Going back to security, most tasks benefit from the ability to automate some part of them. I come from application security, where that frequently manifests in having to quickly piece together tools for interfacing with a specific protocol or API. Application consulting exacerbates that even more, because you'll usually have to do all of this in a very short amount of time, so that you can spend the allotted assessment time actually doing the assessment, and not trying to get your tools to work with the environment.
That's partly what the article is about.

In a pure mark/sweep GC, as the heap size goes up, the work needed to complete a GC cycle and free some memory goes up too. Thus the more memory you use the more cores you need.

In more complicated collectors that isn't necessarily the case: collection is incremental and done only as much as needed to keep up with the creation of garbage.

As I say in the article, there are reports of people running JVM/G1 on terabyte sized heaps. The problem they have is that if they experience a concurrent mode failure (which G1 is not designed to optimise because in a properly tuned system it's meant to never happen) you're looking at, like, a 5-10 minute pause time whilst the entire heap is mark/sweep and cleaned out as much as possible. So with such huge heaps you'd better make sure the collector doesn't fall behind!
Yea, your list of materials / complexity is actually what we offer now in private (including turning, mill-turning) - public release coming in January. Certs for aerospace, etc. are coming in 2017.

From our price studies, we're on par with other fast turn shops and faster than all of them with big high mix orders. You can get cheaper parts slowly, but we focus on people with more money than time.

Ha, funding isn't a vanity metric when your company needs financing. If you're doing a really big project in a high-growth competitive market, you'll very often need to go the VC route. Bootstrapping doesn't work for this.

If you've ever done it, you know that raising angel/VC money is hard work. I respect people who are able to raise funding, and far more I respect when they turn that into great products that help a lot of people.

Yea, I think making manufacturing better is a big deal, and there is much work to do. Thanks for all of your feedback!
Sounds a little like startup culture. If you don't work 80 hours per week you are not a real startup.
If you're talking about the one in the first diagram, it indeed doesn't help. One could argue that the diagram is just before the tower is shifted, as described in the iterative algorithm.
Good reason why Government should stay out of both social security and student loans.
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I'm not going to claim they're really cost-competitive with PC equivalents, just that they're fast enough machines to make good workstations, and the price is within the range of what our IT considers a reasonable office workstation purchase price.

At least where I work, desktop machines aren't kept for five years anyway, so I don't think this distinguishes it from any other supplier. Our standard depreciation/replacement cycle for workstations is 3 years, whether it's coming from Apple or Dell. Obviously for home use the economics are different, but then a lot of things are different there, e.g. I build PCs from parts, and there's no way work wants people to be DIY building their own office workstations. And yeah, you can spec out a comparable Dell that's cheaper (though don't forget to add in a high-quality 27" monitor!), but not by enough to really make a dent in the IT budget one way or the other.
But of course which methodologically careful research has been done of late is extremely agenda-driven and politicized, too!

You can't launder your biases away by putting them behind the abstraction barrier of what the government or what drug companies are willing to fund. That's how you end up with p-hacking. Better to acknowledge that the reason people do science is to do things with science, not because they find sound research intrinsically fulfilling, and that everyone and every funding agency brings their biases, their hopes and dreams for society, with them.
Herewith the part of the Weights And Measures Act (1985) (as amended) that tells you the only two remaining things (as of almost 17 years ago) that can be sold in pints:

* http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/72/section/8
I genuinely hope someone at their HQ has an explanation. This doesn't make sense on any level at all from my PoV, but i'm not valued at 50bn$.

I would love to see some super smart twist on this, incompetence and hubris becomes boring to watch fast.
My fellow voters and I just approved a half-cent sales tax to fund a transit plan, so that's not true.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/electio...
I can count at least one imac, one macbook air and one iphone directly attributable to me. That's to my parents and a frugal friend who normally doesn't buy expensive things.

In my parents' case I simply couldn't provide them tech support since I switched to mac. So they switched over.

And then indirectly lots of clients and people in cafes have seen me using a mac, an iphone or an ipad. I'm sure that's contributed. And I doubt that's an unusual amount for the typical pro user.
Unless Apple's going to start paying to keep the roads, energy infrastructure and primary education that keeps their business and staff going they better start paying up.
> Everyone seems to think of the government as this black box that has a mind of its own and inflict laws and rules upon us.

This 1000x.

This or something like it has been called the "paranoid style in american politics" as early as 50 years ago:
http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-ame...
That's a good analogy for it - and, like the banks, these people should have to pay the costs of their bad behaviour. But it seems our society is trending more towards rights and less towards responsibility. Big business gets away with it, now individual feel they should be absolved of responsibility too.
I worked at a pre IPO company a few years ago and it was an exception to find people who understood how things worked. Hell, even I missed some details back then, and it was only after I put in hours of research that I developed a decent grasp of the tradeoffs and deadlines. I still don't really know how to do AMT though.

There are a couple of startups that make it a point to early through what their equity means with new hires. But this puts power into the hands of employers since some will be well meaning and some will mislead.

It's unfortunate that we don't have a "yo-yo" knowledge with a easy to remember URL we can point to. Plenty of great articles out there, including by prominent VCs. But it requires a lot of digging.
Easier said than done, but you if there's any likelihood at all of success, you should make damn sure you have cash on hand to exercise.

Otherwise, you are literally losing a winning lottery ticket for want of pocket change.
I really haven't seen much evidence that media professionals expressing shock at, for example, Brexit and Trump's election are engaged in some strong form of deception. There's a reasonable set of critiques about media incentives and behavior here, but I think this is a case where cynicism of this kind can obscure observable reality: The majority of people really didn't expect these outcomes.
Thank you for admitting it and knowing your limitations. The world could be saved a lot of time and money if more people followed your example.

However, as with any challenging skill in life, you have to be shitty at C++ before you can hope to be good at it. We need some brave souls to attempt to become good programmers otherwise we won't have any. The biggest problem with software today is all the shitty programmers out there who are employed as if they were good at it. C++ helps weed those programmers out because it's very difficult to be at all productive in that language of you're shitty.
An expense must be ordinary and necessary and you have to be able to make the argument that the expense had a reasonable intent to make profit down the road.
I often read that it's pointless to widen/improve the capacity of roads because increased traffic will swallow the wins (in individual transit times).

I think that's the wrong way to look at it: I argue that the increased traffic throughput allows for economic growth in the region:

Individuals are of course likely to only think about latency/transit time (which hasn't improved, because of the increased traffic.). The society and the local economy cares about the throughput though.
Looks cool. Instrumenting at the network layer is certainly a promising approach. Are you recording latency distributions, and not just averages? The screenshots only show mean and median latency, which isn't enough to spot many anomalies.
So a one-line comment that's nothing but cherry-picking/diversion is OK, but calling you on it - and also continuing the actual discussion with facts and stuff - is a mortal sin? Look at all the responses in this thread. It's pretty clear that I did a pretty good job spurring an intelligent conversation, and you didn't, so I contend that your criteria/priorities are way out of whack.
> The issue here is that a small hardware startup competing with Apple cannot use shady tax-dodging techniques. Thus they are at a disadvantage.

This is true of 'personal' taxes in the US as well. Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary because when you're rich, you can afford a lot more tricks to bring your effective tax rate down, and you can afford a lot more things that can make you money.

Another similar effect: the mayor in my town bought a house in an expensive part of town, which he could afford to do because he had hundreds of thousands of dollars for the down payment. Real estate prices in this city are out of control, growing by leaps and bounds, so after a year, he sold the house he'd bought at a profit of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I can't afford to buy that place. If I could, I could have made that same profit. If I came across a million dollars tomorrow and had to give it back in two years I could make a lot of money - maybe even double it, if I made the right real estate investments. Two years from now I could give back the new million and keep my own million.

But as it is, without that million dollars I can't make the down payment to afford a place, which means I can't ride the wave, which means instead of getting less profits I get zero profits.

This isn't a dig at the mayor, btw; he and city council are making a lot of moves to help affordability in this city, but being a successful businessman before becoming mayor he has those opportunities that most people don't and can't.
Same as the sibling comment by lorenzhs, I've never had a problem with AliExpress other than the long shipping times (up to 3 months to Uruguay).

I've never bought electronics though, mostly stuff for my GF. And prices are incredibly low. Yes, quality is sometimes subpar, but very often I've been pleasantly surprised. It definitely beats Amazon for that use case (if you don't mind waiting), mainly because of the subsidized shipping.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13220265
Did you require online (not cached) revocation check? That would require buying more HSMs.
You are describing the failure of an idea of corporate income tax. I mean, it should be completely obvious that tax doesn't work by considering this example:

Two companies A and B work in the same market, produce the same thing of the same quality and have the same labor/material costs and revenue. Both companies make 100M in the market. The difference is that A is a local company and pay corporate tax on that 100M and B is buys "brand" or "marketing strategy" from a company located somewhere else (maybe on some island in the middle of Caribbean Sea or something). The rights to use the brand cost 100M/year. Company B pays 0 income tax in the country it operates.

This is an obvious failure of the tax system. The solution is quite simple: get rid of corporate income tax, focus on consumption taxes. Then you won't need to chase anyone around trying to prove they overpayed or "hid" income. You just don't care at all about those things. You also invite other corporations to come to your country and pay salaries and then you get consumption/real estate/land taxes on that salaries as well (and maybe personal income taxes as well if you are into that). I mean it seems so obvious for anyone who ever did any business on any scale where international sales are involved and who has seen how easy it is to avoid paying income taxes and how it really is a tax on honesty and on how ethical you want to be.
The genie lamp configuration shown seems to have the top two bricks in a position that would have them trivially topple. It leaves me wondering which results in the article and mentioned paper are actually correct.
I tried a few examples I know, the data is not accurate.
> Look at this code from urllib3 (requests bundles this code): https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/blob/master/urllib3/contri....

This only underscores/validates wbond's critique though. Apparently the advise on how to figure this stuff out isn't even through "RTFM", docs or an easy to use library, it's "go look at the dependency of this other library which uses that other dependency that you want to use on how it is done". And then copy-paste that and hopefully not get anything wrong along the way.
Well, when you increase the supply of a valuable good, and price it at $0, an increase in consumption is pretty much what you would expect.
No, there aren't. Don't use /dev/random.
Some employers don't help either. My wife just received an offer from a pretty well funded company (Series B >$20M) and all they would tell her about the options package was number of shares and vesting schedule. When she asked to how many shares are in the company (to calculate her potential ownership %) she wasn't given an answer. When she asked for a rough estimate of the current value of those shares if vested, they basically just said "trust us, this is a good package." That experience reinforced my belief that you should assume the equity is worth $0 and not factor in the stock grant when evaluating an offer (unless you are at the company super early).
I block all ads, tracking, beacons, etc. because they are now the single largest vector for malware.

I use Firefox largely because it's the most hackable browser. I tweak Firefox to do and not do several things:

- I don't allow sites to see my history
- I don't allow peerconnect
- I don't allow WebRTC (shows private address schemas)
- I don't allow much JS
- I don't allow fingerprinting beyond pure basics
- I don't allow HTTP/S referrer

I do block everything not associated with the pure content of the page. This is getting more difficult, but the tools to help are keeping pace.
Note that advanced collectors like G1 auto-adjust the young gen size as the program runs. This means pause times can take a little while to settle, but after the GC warms up you should find it's more or less like the ROC:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/06/18/part-1-tun...

(note: that article is about a rather old version but the graphs illustrate the concept)

This may not help you if you can't tolerate warmup latency spikes. In that case you need to do some GC tuning to tell the collector enough that it can get it right from the start.
It's tempting to believe telecom has got their act together, but I've found the public Internet NTP infrastructure to be more stable than CDMA/GSM refclocks. YMMV.
Oh yea, for sure, I do the same. I especially modify the DOM to get around "lol, no copying into this form field." That's not really the point I'm trying to make though, 99.9% of users don't have the know-how to do this. You pretty much have to be a web developer to be able to use the browser this way.
Ask HN: Should I try building weather prediction models using machine learning?
Is it realistic for a developer new to machine learning to attempt building weather prediction models with "off the shelf" open source tools? What about hardware? Is it possible to get decent results with modest hardware? (for example, a small cluster of AWS instances).
It's a bit old, of course, but TeX: The Program is still a fascinating read because of the exceptional attention that Knuth has paid to exposition, especially for a program that size. Besides, TeX is still being used after almost 40 years, so it's inarguable that Knuth did some things right.

https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Typesetting-B-TeX-Program/d...
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Well, it does Encrypt() and Decrypt(), which is what was asked. And it's not particularly difficult to pick 128 bit block size (after all, bigger is better).

The problem is, it's not nearly enough to just do Encrypt() and Decrypt(). Only when you see that, the benefits of a real crypto library NaCL become apparent.
I'm not involved with Mozilla anymore, but last I heard, there are things you have to use Developer Edition for that can't be done with vanilla releases (like working on add-ons).
Breaking shit is important, so is understanding how to fix them, unless you'll work solely with penetration test. I tell you this because many hiring process for sec engs are around CTF games. From my experience as a security engineer, it's tough to find vulnerabilities, but it's as hard to fix them. Few security guys know how to code to the point of talking to developers or knowing devops to talk to system administrators. Btw, that's I'll write a blog post about this later.
Thanks for the answer! :D
> The part that confused me is when they claim to have obtained MethBot source code, but never mention how.

>

On page 19 in the The Methbot Operation report they state that ‘White Ops detection technology was able to use a JavaScript language feature called “reflection” to gather extensive, detailed information about its inner workings.’

I have personally never heard about JavaScript reflection before, but it appear to be a debug method for one object to dump information or data about another object.

Maybe the White Ops software loaded some JavaScript that was able to dump much of its environment and send it back to White Ops?
> After I realised this was what had happened I got placed in an isolation room, with no explanation as to why, and there I sat quietly rotting for the next 5.5 hours. In other words, I got no care, had my rights stripped and was treated like a criminal because after a sustained period of incredible stress I had a breakdown

That sounds like enough to _cause_ a breakdown!
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If you replaced "unfortunate" with "fortunate", then I would agree with your statement.
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Those are some great points and it probably should be more readily available. But I still have some issues with Suboxone and the way it is being used. It seems to be pushed as a lifetime substitution for illegal opiates, rather than a tool for tapering off opiate dependence. When I was involved with someone in this situation, I couldn't even find anything official about how to go off the Suboxone, just anecdotes from people who had done it themselves. The doctors seemed perfectly happy to prescribe whatever dose you wanted, as long as they got their fees. And the smallest dose available was 2mg, which is apparently too much to drop off from, meaning that to taper you have to manually cut doses into small fragments. All together, it just seemed extremely sketchy to me.
I feel like this would be better if it didn't click every ad, but had some sort of method (even if it was random) to pick ads.
D has optional GC. However in hindsight it is perhaps not so smart. The problem is that it fractures the ecosystem: some libraries require GC and others don't. If you don't want to use it you have to rely only on non-GC libraries.
For historical kicks, it's hard to beat Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions'_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_...