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> Fun fact, perhaps related, perhaps not, according to IP lawyer relatives cartographers had to traditionally add at least some non-factual content to make it not pure fact, which is not copyrightable.

Sounds like an urban myth.

Rather, it functions like a watermark.

> Perhaps, and I am terrified to suggest this, this industry will come up with their own answer to that. Haha.

Not really. We know copyright infringement is happening. The current problems the industry has with copyright protection lie in enforcing them.
7 fucking lessons for designers
What about those footprints they embed in a video to prevent re-uploads? Not saying that is a form of copyright... hmm, I should probably read the article.
Why Darwin Needs ET
I think the fact that HSBC laundered $700B and got away with a slap on the wrist, while the government wants to crack down on $600 in Bitcoin, is an extremely important and telling factoid.
"just physics", "stretches back infinitely"
I feel like You could say this about, well, anything. Afaik, you could take any event and trace its causes all the way back to the Big Bang. But that seems a bit... impractical? Why would we do this with a quantum computer?
Am I missing/misunderstanding something?
This would be nice, but actually getting those services set up is currently opaque. I have a service request in asking how to actually tie one of these instances to a load balancer and it is just sitting there unanswered.
BMW HoloActive Touch system with its free-floating display to be shown at CES
All companies eventually need a generic BI stack and Microsoft has one of the best around, all built on top of SQL Server & co.
That was a massive earthquake and it's unbelievable luck that there are no reports of casualties (probably because it hit a rural area).

But, please, can the title be corrected? The magnitude of the quake was 7.9 on the (logarithmic) Richter scale. That's considerably different to 8.0 scale (by a few million gigajoules at that).

Edit: Thanks for the correction. To give an idea of the difference in magnitude:

8.0 Richter in joules: 63,095,730,000,000,000.00
7.9 Ricther in joules: 44,668,360,000,000,000.00

(According to: http://www.convertalot.com/earthquake_power__calculator.html)
I look at the skillset between when I was 25 and now (30)
and it's astounding. I can't imagine what the difference
between 50 and 25 will be.

While it's true that there's some new tech/tools coming out, stuff doesn't necessarily change that much...I started working as a programmer at 18 (I'm 33 years old now) when the popular new thing was java.

In between I used many different languages and tools (c, c++, python, matlab, js, haxe, as3, in no particular order & probably some that I've forgotten) but now I'm using c# which very in-vogue in my line of work (game development, due to the popularity of unity) and it was a virtually seamless transition from java (I actually started using c#/.net in 2009 as a tools programmer independent of unity).

EDIT: nevermind, I realize now you meant you improved drastically in 5 years, not that the tech field has changed drastically.
Bungie Build Massive Team for 'Destiny 2' Dev, This Is Game Dev at Its Extreme
You should consider by how much bitcoin or some similar crypto could strengthen the Hawala system. It's a marriage made in heaven.
Amazing what webgl can do, my computer is still an absolute piece of crap I was only able to capture like 7 frames in the span of a few minutes trying to get something to happen.
There should really be a [2012] in the title.

They eventually reached a 'stipulated judgement' that Liuxia Wong had not infringed any copyrights [1] so the case didn't have the chance to remove pornography's copyright protection.

[1] https://dietrolldie.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/stip_judgeme...
This is as good a time as any to bring along my favourite mathematics professor of all time, Tom Lehrer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs

His 'Smut' was written more than 50 years ago, but still resonate with the current debate. :)
> Because nuclear energy is also considered 'green' these days.

The Greens party, Greenpeace and other organizations certainly disagree in Germany and as a consequence nuclear power is considered one of the dirtiest forms of energy. The geographical proximity to Chernobyl certainly helps.

Economic liberals certainly have criticised the increased push for abandoning nuclear power after Fukushima but in the mainstream narrative coal and gas is cleaner than nuclear.
Awesome, then just bridge it with Google Cardboard, I don't know when VR will be the next must-have appliance like a TV or Computer.
This bug bounty program was limited to MRuby and paid by Shopify. Does anyone know where they use MRuby in their stack?
>The whole reason people switch to Linux in the first place is for uncommon use cases.

On the server, that's not true. People use Linux for the most commonplace use cases (e.g. the LAMP stack) as well.

On the desktop, that's what needs to change, and has been promised to change since 1999 ("next year will be the year of the Linux desktop" which has been endlessly repeated was not about some outliers using it for "uncommon" use cases, but about mass adoption).

But the whole critique is wrong too. When I said about "improving common uses cases" to the detriment of "uncommon uses cases" the former wasn't referring to features different people use. The people who use those "uncommon use cases" ALSO suffered from the crappy implementations and shortcomings of the common use cases like everybody else.
I own an Amazon Echo and an Echo Dot, I still don't know what they're good for
Yea, Berlin was different in 1981 during the cold war where it was, for all intents and purposes, completely landlocked within East Germany and was economically stagnant.

The DB, while not my favorite train system in the world, runs extremely well.
Building the African Software Engineering Ecosystem
You're missing the point- the hosts are already there, powered but sitting idle. They are the reserve computing capacity. They must be there for when load increases.

This is why AWS exists, because Amazon needed to have 4X capacity on cyber Monday, but not the rest of the year.

I'm not saying there is any benefit to google cracking VPNs, but simply that they could, that they are an organization with enough hardware to do it.
"One quarter the price" ... "One quarter the power usage" ...

The first is very unrealistic because this is a market and ARM chip makers aren't Santa Clause, the second seems very, very unrealistic, because Intel already has the most efficient "big iron"-ish CPUs (just compare SAP benchmarks vs. power usage of Intel-based vs. POWER-based systems, for instance), and have been under continuous pressure for more than a decade to make things more efficient (because energy use and costs following from it are a major cost factor for all of Intel's biggest server customers). That alone doesn't mean that it's not possible to be better, of course, but it's a strong hint that if no one else managed to get close to Intel there that it maybe is a hard thing to pull off. In any case I think a four-fold efficiency increase is expecting way too much.

10 % better power efficiency at the same performance level per unit would already signal a huge win for ARM.
we expect most vulnerabilities will no longer be exploitable without additional bugs in the kernel or seccomp itself, and so we are lowering the payout amounts for our program to 10% of previous levels.

I don't quite follow this logic. If bugs are now going to be more difficult to find, one would think they would be more valuable, not less.. and that by lowering the bounties they are lowering the incentive for people to search for them.
What among desktop icons, proper working clipboard, fractional HiDPI scaling and video playback exactly sounds like a luxury, unsupported hack, or uncommon needs to you?

Perhaps you are just an administrator spending 24/7 on the command line, but I assure none of those are uncommon...
Hi Rob - Thanks for posting this. I took a peek at the wordfreq project -- looks interesting. Are you decomposing to a unicode normal form, such as NFKD [0] or storing words as UTF-32 (that's what Python uses internally [1]), combining multi-character code points into the 32-bit code unit [2] represented by UTF-32?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence#Normalizat...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32#Use

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding#Terminology
Keep in mind that SQL Server has had a role in driving certain windows features which I'm not sure exist natively in the Linux kernel.

IIRC fibers were added to the NT kernel specifically for SQLS.
OS X does. So the rest of the question is moot.
I suppose because the vulnerabilities would actually be vulnerabilities in someone else's code they don't feel it should come under their umbrella?
I took a numerical methods in APL class way back. Nothing we did took more than half a line, ever.
I bought an original Pebble and wore it 24/7 for a while, tracking my sleep. What I found amusing was that I didn't find the sleep tracking all that useful, nor the notifications and apps - but having a very small LED torch on my wrist which lit up with a wrist-flick was incredibly useful when quietly navigating a dark apartment at night!

If I were building my own smartwatch, I'd give it a bright gesture-activated LED light aimed at my fingers.

In general though, I liked the Pebble, but didn't find it useful. I gave it to my partner, who's a horticulturist and spends a lot of time up to his wrists in soil - he loved it because it let him figure out which notifications were important enough to clean off his hands and pull out his phone, and which could be ignored.
I did specify that it's a tradeoff. If you are more worried about someone having a cache of exploits on all the popular crypto than you are worried about someone taking the time to break your home crypto, then perhaps you should roll your own.

But understand that the amount of effort required to break home grown crypto in the first place is usually orders of magnitude lower than to break standard crypto in the first place.
Your customers may need to speak with their banks if they haven't requested activation of their cards for international transactions, since the transactions may be flagged otherwise. This is a simple call; shouldn't take them more than 5-8 min depending on the bank.

In addition, 2-factor authentication (2FA; Verified by VISA; Mastercard Securecode) is mandatory for debit card based transactions. I don't think that's the case for credit cards, but I wouldn't be surprised if, in either case, banks decline to approve transactions from payment processors who don't support 2FA --> so perhaps this is something you could check with your payment processor?

paypal: Many banks in India don't allow transactions with Paypal (perhaps because of concerns of paypal's compliance with Indian banking guidelines), so Paypal is hit or miss.
Whatever the mechanism, it does have it and it IS fractional scaling on non-integral multiple of the screen DPI.
And in the U.K. A a last moment train form London to say Newcastle can cost you 400£ w/ a return ticket.

For 100£ an hour we don't get a happy ending either.
I concur. It's not the most powerful in all aspects or for all applications but, most of the time, if you want an enterprise grade RDBMS (and you're happy to pay) it's the one to go for simply because by comparison with the others it's so easy to work with.

The ease of use also makes it suitable for smaller shops as well. At the lowest level you install it, and it just works, and it's back by a great tooling ecosystem, and excellent documentation. It really does stand in absolutely stark contrast to, for example, Oracle.

I wouldn't call it idiot-proof, but it's certainly friendlier than most RDBMS. (That's not to say there aren't issues and annoyances with it, mind, but that's true of any product.)

Beyond this, if you need a relational store and you really, really don't want to have to give a monkey's about it, I'd say SQL Azure is probably the way to go.

(Saying all of this I recognise that lots of people will be able to tell war stories about the torrid time they had with SQL Server, or for any other data store. My experience has largely been it's a winner though.)
>User space software stack is not aware of it, the frameworks know only of scale 1, 2 and 3 (on iOS). Nothing between it. That's why it is integer scaling.

It doesn't matter whether they know it or not, since they work transparently great with the scaling factor. In fact it's even better than having the software stack aware of it (simpler, less room for errors).

The end result is that fractional scaling resolutions works on OS X and not on Wayland (from what I read, haven't checked Wayland myself recently).
Is there a benchmark which tests boring real world usage? The web is littered with people complaining about the performance of dynamically adding rows to tables, especially in IE.

The good news is that the next version of Edge 15 has some really good DOM performance improvements.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
From [1]:

>> The Script Editor app lets you create scripts that are run each time a customer adds items to their cart. Shopify Scripts can have many uses, from discounting products with specific tags to running promotions such as "buy 2, get 1 free". Shopify Scripts are written with a Ruby API that allows a great deal of control and flexibility.

The description on the bug bounty page says those 'Shopify Scripts' are executed in an MRuby environment, which they are trying to keep sandboxed.

[1] https://help.shopify.com/api/tutorials/shopify-scripts
Something is nagging me for quite some time. DJB invented curve25519, which is advertised to offer 128 bits security. On the other hand, DJB also said 128 bits are not enough for symmetric crypto. https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/bruteforce-20050425.pdf

This makes me a bit uneasy: would a parallel brute force search would be much more difficult for elliptic curves than it would for symmetric cyphers? Why? By the way, a similar problem arises with poly1305. I'm missing something.
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Additionally you can use git.io to shorten any github.io or github.com link. It's not available on the website but their API also allows you to choose your own pronounceable name. Most names you could want are still available.
Really! I had no idea. I barely ever see a reference to Bonn in anything I read about Germany these days; I'd formed the impression that everyone had moved in the 90s.
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No to mention the SQLS execution planner will beat the pants off both MySQL's and Postgres' when it comes to non-trivial queries.

Don't know how it compares to Oracle as I've never used it.
The 'idea' is not new, it recalls me Polish trains: old and slow but so cheap that everybody can afford them. Few years ago you could travel 500km for 15€. Despite that, there were still massive discounts (50%) for students and elders. Who cares if the trains are the fast/most comfortable if you can't afford to use them regularly.
Sure, there might be only one person on the universe, and all of us are in his dream, and we do arbitrary things, plus he changes the past. That will be difficult to refute to prove something. Or magic exists (which we can't prove it doesn't) and changed the facts of a cases -- e.g. it was X that stabbed Y, but a magician transformed as X.

That said, why would you want to prove something beyond "reasonably"?
Well we don't really know so far whether BQP is bigger than P.
You're only quoting part of the statement.

> without the active physical control or monitoring of a natural person...

Its the physical control OR monitoring of a human. Ubers cars may not require [human] active physical control, but it does require monitoring of a human and so this doesn't apply to Ubers cars.
> Venezuela was blocked from access to the financial market by an US-american Hedgefond together with a private court in the aftermatch of the 2008 crash.

Citation?
>I usually do the same thing with it for hours at a time. Under those conditions, the estimate was both accurate and useful.

Why, in the world, would this matter, in a world where people do all kinds of different things with their computers?

In what world does it makes sense to keep a display only for people who "usually do the same thing with it for hours at a time"?
The really troubling property from a secret service point of view of this whole system is, that there is no interest in Islamic banking. Thus, you can not derive from the nature of transfers, whether they are business related.

Business related deposits would usually aggregate where the most interest can be gained. Thus unmoving fortunes become "suspicious".

In addition, this system partially prevents the usual corrupt bankers, letting unguarded illegitimate or frozen "fortunes" vanish. There are no courts for dictator money lost during a government upheaval. Of course this is idealizing the thrust-persons.
Which afaik is based on the publication of Simon Tatham:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

Who directly references good old duffs device.
The title seems to acknowledge the existence of said article, but I didn't find any reference.
I think Pebble's CEO simply screwed the moment of selling. He should have sold to Citizen for almost 10x the value a year before. He did not. He burned his cash in the process of making another product.

It was a textbook CEO mistake.
IANAP, but I think part of the problem with MWI is that popularizers of it wanted to sound cool by calling it the Many-Worlds Interpretation in the first place.

The idea was originally known as the Theory of the Universal Wave Function, which makes a lot more sense as long as you're unafraid of mathematics.

There is no "splitting off" of universes; I agree with you that that wouldn't make much sense. Instead, the observer simply becomes entangled with the observed physical system during the measurement process. This entanglement is a gradual process, though it certainly happens very quickly.

This basically pushes all the weirdness out of quantum mechanics and into the fact that we just don't understand consciousness very well. Why don't we perceive the full linear combination of quantum states? And can we somehow map our subjective experience of probability and statistics to what happens in the Universal Wave Function? It's much easier to ignore that weirdness, since we're used to ignoring it in our daily lives anyway. It's also a more parsimonious interpretation than the others, because it doesn't postulate anything special about us (the "observers").

(This does not mean that consciousness is a quantum or even meta-physical phenomenon. Quite the opposite, actually: I find that the mystery lies more in why consciousness is unable to perceive quantum states despite existing in a universe that has quantum physics.)
>That's probably what I dislike most about losing this UI tidbit, actually. Number of hours to empty is good, but knowing that my energy usage has silently gone through the roof is really handy.

There's a really handy Activity Monitor window then, with energy usage details over time.
"It looks like your JavaScript is disabled. To use Hacker One, enable JavaScript in your browser and refresh this page."

Kinda ironic that a site that is supposedly for hackers wants you to expose yourself to zillion browser vulnerabilities before you can see its content.
> Windows may be worth getting rid of, SQL Server isn't (except perhaps on grounds of licensing cost)

I second that. I am not a big fan of Windows, but SQL Server has not given me the slightest trouble so far, except in cases where I was kind of asking for it.
I'm going to say something about js benchmarks.

Every time you say "Firefox sucks because it's slow" someone will come and say "that is false, look at these js benchmarks! We're in line with other browsers!". But then those benchmarks omit the stuff that actually matters, stuff that Firefox simply sucks at, like DOM manipulation..
Shopify seems to basically have given up on application-level sandboxing, and now relies on process-level sandboxing (e.g. seccomp).

This is probably wise; the track record of in-language sandboxing is pretty bad (see also: Java applets.)
S/he is probably talking about the large ecosystem of companies that provide SQL Server tooling on top of the basics Microsoft provides. (Disclaimer: I used to work for one of them.)

That being the case then, yes, the tooling is light-years ahead of anything else.

MS have a long history of encouraging third party developers to create tooling around their platforms to help sell those platforms, and keep people using them.
> I'd like to know which sustainably sourced green electricity.

They use dirty energy and buy some sort of "certificates" that are supposed to guarantee that somewhere, sometime, some sort of green electricity has been produced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Energy_Certificate_(...

It's the same in Germany and many believe it to be a scam.
As far as I can tell Nix doesn't do dependency resolution at all [1]. Hard linking every dependency is a solution but is undecireable for most systems. I don't want to specify versions for sub-dependencies so I want them to be automatic and we have the NP-problem again. It might be a smaller set of possibilities if most versions are pinned but it's still NP.
[1]: https://medium.com/@charlesstrahan/as-a-nix-nixpkgs-nixos-co...
Taking one hour longer on 5 hours trip (for the DB) does not equal "half as fast."

As to "half as good" — that's debatable, isn't it? For some, they may be nearly as good.
I think really this is leading into much more philosophical discussions. The practical viewpoint is I think 'anything that cannot interact with me can safely be ignored as irrelevant'.

But to push into a few thought experiments:

If I go into a room and it is sealed up so that nothing at all may escape and the room may never be opened, do I cease to exist? Or do you? Do we now have two realities? Is it possible to construct a setup where discrete realities no longer explain the true nature? Can I construct a system where two agents will disagree on where the boundaries are between these realities? Since we can create things where two parties cannot agree on the ordering of events, perhaps this could be extended to identify a setup and point in time where two parties would disagree on whether or not something exists (I'm really not sure on this, I feel the answer is no but then I think that about other things that smarter people than me can construct).

Do you consider only current technology or must we also consider things we don't yet know? When humanity was in its early stages, did one tribe not exist to the other? Did some countries not exist?

Do things "exist" if they don't currently interact, and may never interact, but possibly could?

The practical conclusion is perhaps that the term "exist" isn't very helpful.
It's really funny that something as simple is impossible to predict over longer times, because you would need perfect information. Yet climate science is 'settled'.
Clickable: http://evercloud.co/
Reminds me of those old times when Norton Anti Virus automatically quarantined the binaries of empty Borland Delphi GUI projects. Eventually I just got rid of my antivirus altogether because it kept having false positives.
(For anyone who doesn't recognise this from the title - this is a talk by one of the designers of the Keyhole 9 spy satellite.)

22-23 minutes in he talks about resolution of the KH9 spy satellite photos, and says (to paraphrase) "The declassified resolution is 2-3ft... The resolution is much better - I can't tell you what though"

Anyone have a better estimate of resolution - and how this might compare to the current generation up at the moment?
The part about optimizing for the Mandreel-test by skipping some initialization has gone full circle, as this is now exploited by developers. https://github.com/nolanlawson/optimize-js