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From the thread, I got the impression that it is not trivial to backport packages from the nightly tree to the stable tree--people are talking about when packages will land in stable, but I'd expect that to all be automated by test infra, and too trivial for developers to work around to warrant a forum thread.

Anyway, it sounds like I stepped on a FUD landmine. Sorry.

It sounds like you work in this space. From my perspective, debian successfully unified the developer and end-user centric package manager in the '90s, and it supports many languages, some of which don't seem to have popular language-specific package managers.

What's missing? Is it just cross-platform support? I can't imagine anything I'd want beyond apt-get build-dep and apt-get source.
Hopefully. With the legacy codebases or preferences, that means hiring people that really know C or C++, training them for Rust, and maintaining two codebases in one. It becomes trickier. Hopefully the incremental option works well for Rust but it didn't with most languages & platforms.
There is a whole book defining the quote above. It's a very enjoyable read, and reasonably well-cited.
Thank you - I was not aware of firejail.

It appears that this does the things I am looking for - however, I am suspicious - why do we need a new project like this rather than a simple recipe for the existing jail or chroot system calls ?

What is it that makes something like firejail necessary ?
It should be illegal to ride any vehicle w/ engine >250W capable of >12 mph speeds on the sidewalk.
FWIW, the article incorrectly attributes the original idea for the compact dictionary to the PyPy team. That team implemented it based on my research, proposal, and proof-of-concept (see
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1... and https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff... ). At one point, they used to refer to the implementation as the RaymondDict and I rather liked that :-)
...they might be a bit concerned a loose cannon like Trump might be a little more curious than normal candidates what sorts of interesting things they get up to, and where they spend their significant budgets?

It is perhaps significant that the "further analysis" leakfest started after Trump had already disappointed the spooks by bagging their special briefings, rather than back when all of the actual underlying facts were publicized well before election day. They always think they've got a thick enough profile of the incoming executive to bend him as far as they want. For example, Obama never closed their favorite EST Caribbean vacation-and-torture resort, even though doing so was a major campaign plank the first time around. Who knows what incriminating documents proved so persuasive? Maybe this time we've somehow elected someone who won't be in their pocket from Day One?
Fascinating stuff, thank you for sharing.
I'd say Californian law is spot on.
In addition to the factors kleinsch mentioned, consultants aren't necessarily charging double the hourly rate of employees.

Most of the consultants charging >$150/hr are people who could readily get a job in Big Tech paying >$250k/yr.
Basically, yeah. As a general rule, the bigger the change you want to make to existing practice, the better your model for that domain needs to be. (I call that the "if it ain't broke" heuristic.)

Changing the composition of an entire nation's schoolchildren's food supply ... should require something like skyscraper-failure-prediction accuracy.

It's no defense that "science learns and revises". If the learning and revising is still that big, you don't have a basis for telling others to do it your way.

(IMHO, this is, at root, the same mentality as "fake it till you make it" / "all self doubt must be Impostor Syndrome and never an accurate assessment".)
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Yes, been living in one for a few years now. Desired house size has gone up quite a bit in many parts of the country. Unlike the Bay Area where there simply isn't room for it, and the tear down rate is not fast enough.
WebWorkers are not a new "feature". The last browser to support it was (on desktop) IE in v10 (4 years ago) and on mobile Android 4.4 (3 years ago). Though that doesn't really matter since you can polyfill it, which obviously does not give you multithreading in those older browsers but it still forces you to think async.

Regarding other APIs, a great number has been available since many years, and any newly introduced API since at least 5 years is either non-blocking or async.
It's a big subject and I don't want to to drag too far off topic. So I'll just say prescription rates in 1990 were when the condition was barely recognised and hugely under-diagnosed. Most doctors still believed you grew out of it.

Research seeems to indicate a global prevalence of around 5-10%, settling around 7.8%. So those areas, and there are some, diagnosing >10% are overdoing it. Until we have blood or genetic tests it's too reliant on self-reporting. Even so, many still struggle to get diagnosed or are suspected of just seeking recreational amphetamines.

If it does turn out to be 7%, that's over 22.5m in the US, 4.5m in the UK. It's doubtful all would need or want prescription as not everyone is affected similarly.

I wouldn't have hesitated to push for diganosis if I'd recognised it in my own children (It's strongly determined by heredity).
Marriage is a legal agreement, the fact that you "signed some paperwork at City Hall" is not at all a minor thing. The records are of course made available to credit reporting agencies.

I don't know why you think this would be a creepy thing, social security and credit scores are stongly connected to the legal and taxation system. Its only obvious that the information gets connected. If tomorrow you were to divorce and claim alimony/child support the wages and tax return of your spouse would be garnished, How would that be possible without linking SSN.
The burden of proof is put on the one making claims. There is no other rational way to do things.
Thank you for that source. It was indeed my impression that dietary cholesterol had been "exonerated." I actually changed my diet recently because of those misleading news (started eating whole eggs and bacon again and even cooking with lard).
I don't see that it adds anything to contradict the idea that rigging is only something "unbalanced" and not connoting deceit. "Fix in advance" is an example of fraud. I have no issue with including it in my comment, and have updated it to do so.

I'm not sure why you would think otherwise, though if you're implying that the example of extra, specialized training you provided above is an example of "fix in advance", I disagree. To "fix in advance" would mean that the outcome is predetermined, such as by bribes. This sense of fix is here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fix

7b. to influence the actions, outcome, or effect of by improper or illegal methods <the race had been fixed>

If you have some other meaning implied by your comment, please explain. I find I'm a terrible mind reader.
That's completely backwards, Python bills itself as the "scripting" language, whereas Java has a reputation for enterprise, and also has... more static typing and more general verbosity.
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Agreed that the basic "store to 8 locations" API would need tweaking to allow locking.

Re: adding a counter into the read set, I think the new generalized API here will support that out of the box: https://github.com/scivey/xact/blob/master/docs/api/generali...

Thoughts?
Those are nice too but don't hurt as much.
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I am working on an app that will be used mostly by developers. In app I have to deal with JSON data (mostly key-value but some time deeply nested).
I wanted to have opinion that what is the best way to represent this JSON to developers. Does something like http://codebeautify.org/jsonviewer will make sense or does anyone has better idea.
In the app user can interact with this data, edit it change its structure etc.
Sure. I was trying to understand how hard it is for economists to make progress fast. I would imagine an economic model takes months to years to validate. I'm used to getting instant feedback from a computer when writing a program.

Do you see the way economic models are built and tested improving or happening faster? Or is the main barrier not lack of diverse data points, but needing enough time to pass to stress the model.
>> I mean apart from the fact that Kinesis is a hosted service and Kafka would most likely require you setting up a cluster.

AFAIK that's the only we use Kinesis over something like Kafka or Spark (much to the chagrin of of our data team). We are planning on moving to Kafka I believe but in the meantime while the Data folks sort all that out we are using Kinesis.
Please explain the downvotes. Parent talked about "Chrome Packaged Apps" which are vendor-specific. Instead, I pointed to the cross-browser solution that is recommended by Google and works today.
Yes you are right. I believe it was a different paper by the same research group... http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kadav/zfs/zfsrel.pdf
I stopped using it on a blog because load times skyrocketed.
It was a loooong time ago. Cannot remember when exactly.

If you are thinking about coding something similar to cross promote content and media streams think careful about how do wou affect page load times and page layout flexibility.

Also, I didn't have data about how good was for me to put that embed code in the site. It was great for twitter, who got traction, but nowadays I won put anything from a third party that doesn't give me information about the benefits I will get.

Hope this helps
Reminds me of the xckd comic Bobby drop tables https://xkcd.com/327/
> Is this really the level of competency in the people that are currently organizing the government ?

Garrett Graff
... Hillary seems to actually be a very persnickety technology user. She is
not very comfortable with most technology, only liked to use a BlackBerry and,
more specifically, only liked to use a specific type of increasingly older and
more out-of-date BlackBerry.

She doesn't know how to use a desktop computer. She--

Sean Cole
Wait, wait, wait. Back up. Back up. She doesn't know how to use a
desktop computer.

Garrett Graff
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016,
does not know how to use a desktop computer, according to multiple sources
interviewed by the FBI.

Sean Cole
How is that possible?

Garrett Graff
The short answer is, I don't know...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/601/...
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May have just been the text book I had, but I always had an easier time understanding dynamic programming implemented with memoization rather than tabulation.

Given a well-implemented hash-table, the performance differences generally seemed negligible as well. I didn't understand why it wasn't taught this way to begin with.

This stackoverflow answer only gives vague statements about how tabulation may be more performant than memoization, recursion overhead can generally be avoided with an iterative implementation (not always easy). Does anyone have concrete examples of when tabulation would be preferred?
The results are inaccessible from that link. So I can't tell how hard it is to compensate by reducing greenhouse emissions elsewhere. Also, it's a study about plants vs. animals, mostly focusing on protein. That's not the same thing as an analysis of the cost of a mixed protein/fat diet, sourced from either plant or animal.
How big was the cavity? Did you actually have that checked by a dentist?

Also while I agree that the best is not to get the cavity in the first place, what do you do once you have it? What is the latest technology in filler material and treatment?
Who are you fooling? I'm well aware of the author's history with Rust. Sorry if I confused you. Do you support his "experienced" view that all of the C or C++ programmers who don't put a particularly high value on safety are either ignorant or negligent? Now's your chance - take a stand and support your team mate!

> Can you give me an example of a comment in this thread that you find to be from a pretentious beginner?

No great examples in this thread. Does that mean I'm wrong?
I came here to make this exact same non-answer.
I can understand the reasons not to remove fiber.

But I'm pretty sure my body doesn't care what color something is.
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Trust me, every C and Lisp programmer in the world is upset that both languages use "macro" to mean such wildly different things. :)
Except it doesn't... developers skip the urban infill for the burbs because the gross costs (entitlement fees) are way higher. Sure, it cost less per lot for urban infill when you only consider lot costs for sewer, water, etc (in-tract) but older municipalities are so fucked with decaying tax bases and overhead that they try to extract it all in taxes and fees (mellow-roos and in-lieus) that they make single family development cost-prohibitive anywhere but the outermost rural areas. To compare condo to single-family cost is just stupid: the cost of building multiple units is - only - justifiable when the prices are sufficiently high: in urban areas that are already built up. First world problems.
> If you're really committed to a super-healthy diet, you should probably eat lots of carbs, but the right carbs--complex and mixed with fiber

Then you should stop referring to them as carbs and just refer specifically to fiber. Way less confusion.
You need to be able to find clients without spending a fortune on marketing. Networking is good for this; there are a ton of blog posts about how to build up a professional network. Low-cost "thought leader" content marketing might work too, like blogging, an email newsletter, social media presence.

You also need to understand what problems your potential clients are facing. This takes experience, which can come from working as an employee in that industry.

You need to convince your potential clients that you will reliably solve their problem--not only the technical skills, but the ability to apply them on time, on budget, and do what you say you can do. Case studies and client referrals are key here.

Working at X company for Y years is a good way to learn all about the problems that companies like X face, and to develop some stories about how you have solved those problems professionally. It can also be a good way to build a network.

GitHub is useful if it demonstrates skill and perseverance. If it is filled with half-done hobby projects, it will be useless or even a detriment. It is less important than a good track record on actual paying projects.

Finally, to be a profitable consultant, you need to know how to run the business--to estimate your expenses and set rates that are competitive but still make enough money.

EDIT: the blog at http://www.kalzumeus.com is chock full of detailed content on how to start your own software business, including consulting.
All of which are odd things to be mad at Russia about.
Saying to eat a "balanced" diet is a tautology. Saying "do whatever, but mostly plants" is not.
Do all probability distributions have known processes that generate them? Like how you can make a normal distribution with a Galton box? Is there something like that with power law distributions? It seems like the deal with power laws is that the events aren't independent (an event becomes more likely the more it occurs, or the rich get richer).
Your assertion does not persuade me.
Looking forward to 1.0, and cant wait to see an implementation of Ruby in Crystal, going full circle.

It will still be CRuby, but the "C" is Crystal.
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Eat some fiber and drink some water. Being a little hungry isn't the worst thing in the world as long you maintain an objectively healthy weight.
> There's a cultural bias going on. Fight that, not the parents.

Fight that how? Isn't saying "this culture is not what I want for my kids" exactly that fight? Isn't it also exactly what you're saying makes one come off as a liberal hipster?

I don't have kids yet, so I'm curious and worried about this. Do parents need to make sure their kids are socially popular? Is it simply not possible to instill positive values and encourage friendships with other kids with similar values?

I feel like I know plenty of well adjusted adults who were "weird" kids. I think that's a-ok. Am I a hipster?
Wow! Do Trump's exes also live in Trump Tower? That has the potential to really ruin an elevator ride...
That'd be a legal hot-mess for Facebook.
Yes, it’s possible to do this. You may be surprised to hear that the USA is one of only two countries on the entire planet which it’s even legal to advertise drugs. All others outlaw it completely.
That report presents no evidence, comes from political appointees, and generally only says that it might be consistent with something Russia would like to do without explaining why.

Also, not sure how the agency count helps anything. Exactly what did agencies like the NRO and Coast Guard contribute here?
No, the standard library doesn't contain many of the things that Haskell's does because it's not Haskell, and people haven't really been asking for them like they have a variety of other things. And the reason people don't use them widely is that there's often better designs than passing around closures - lifetimes make useful mutation of closures' environments difficult, Rust largely revolves around mutation, so it's more common to invert the control flow (have functions return a command and interpret it, possibly in a loop, rather than have them take a closure) except in certain self-contained situations. That doesn't change the existence of HOFs.
Thanks for this great comment thread, Huon. :) I didn't know we had fastmath stuff now!
Remember when you did not have a cell phone and instead you loaded games on your TI86 calculator? All those games were free!
tl;dr: they just used spearfishing, a poor man's facility to get someone to click on a link in a fake email you sent them.

This is quite low-tech.
Yes, your kid will go to school with other kids who may be given money to play Candy Crush without earning it. You still have a choice as to whether to play the game for your child and give them free money (helicopter), let them play free range without the money (they may deduce that it's boring or that you don't love them), or give them an allowance for doing chores (they learn to make tradeoffs)... lots of other choices too.

What's irrational is complaining about being given the choice of how to raise your child, and then deciding that you are raising them in a way you don't like, but doing it anyway. Maybe it's human to be self-defeating, but it's not like other people won't notice, if you write about it.
Not a Facebook employee, but I don't see any particular ethical problem with the company. There's nothing in the law or Facebook's terms of use that obligates the company to release data they buy from third-party sources.
That seems particularly absurd (which isn't to doubt you, but as much as I like the EU, they have some absurd policies). If you take a very narrow view of data as just bits on a hard drive somewhere, then this seems reasonable.

But if the ownership right to your data is centered on the information itself, and not the company part, that raises issues. I can't simply destroy the memory of reading the message you wrote - is someone to cudgel me until I do? If I write in my diary that I saw xyz person walking down the street and they had blue hair, could they demand that I destroy the entry? Would they have to know about the diary entry before they could make such demands, or could they simply say, "destroy all information regarding me"?

Further, as I understand it, municipal security cameras are in wide use, particularly in European cities. Could I demand that the city/town/council/etc delete all footage of me ever? Could I deny them permission to make those recordings?

And last but not least, how on earth would this stance on data ownership not ruin data retention? E.g. this would seem to open up a pretty big hole where I could commit fraud or launder money, and then demand that my bank destroy the evidence.

These are all awkward questions that come up when you try to protect very broad definitions of privacy. Privacy is a thoroughly unnatural concept; In the physical world, it takes a lot of work to do anything in private, and even then, you're just making it easier for people to avoid stumbling on what you're doing.
Something like "bubbles" tends to be popular with the younger kids. My kid also was a big fan of "Petting Zoo" (by fox and sheep GMBH) around that time. (It was briefly free in the app store - it's somewhat abstract and interactive with simple gestures.)

The "pat the bunny" app is also pretty accessible for a young kid.

Use "guided access" mode if you want to keep her from switching apps.

As he got older, he enjoyed stuff like the tiny hands sorting games, the Dr Panda apps, "little builders" and other fox and sheep apps, and the lego/duplo stuff. Around three he was also a fan of lara croft go and monument valley, parts of which he could do after watching me. He would build his own lara croft go (and hitman go) scenarios with his playmobil 1-2-3 and magna-tiles.

As far as screen time goes, we settled on weekend (and holiday) access to the device, but we're pretty much making this up as we go.
This looks extremely interesting, but I find many of the terms difficult to map to a mental concept. Does anyone know good background material (books, other papers, blogs)?
Please don't be snarky toward a fellow user.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13281887 and marked it off-topic.

Edit: the comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13282118. My mistake; undetached.
Let's keep the discussion to the technical aspects of the attack. The democrat vs republican antagonism doesn't belong on hacker news.
> Of the 92 brokers she identified that accepted opt-outs, 65 of them required her to submit a form of identification such as a driver's license. In the end, she could not remove her data from the majority of providers.

So what exactly was the problem? She doesn't have a driver's licence?
Phenomenal, very cool. Publicly announcing the arrival of everyone in Slack seems a little gross if for instance someone has special circumstances which require them to come in later that may not need to be public information. Or could potentially brood that weird competitive mindset of "I'm the best because I show up at 7:30 when everyone else comes in at 9-9:15, even though I may not be the most skilled". It is definitely fair to say that this stuff being a problem is indicative of something deeper in the office culture anyway, though.

Other than that I love this and 10/10 would pay for it on a monthly basis.
Why does it ask for your address? Just entering your zip code is sufficient to obtain a list. Are they harvesting the address data for some reason?
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Yes with a read primitive it could be done in theory. It will be just quite awkward to use however as every caller has to do all that: define a lock, pass it always in, make sure the check for "lock is free" is correct etc.

Your unit tests don't seem to do it right.

It would probably be easier to hide the lock in your library, and enforce all other access to follow the right protocol using some ADTs. But then you just have a simple hardware TM accelerated STM.

FWIW the sweet spots for nice to use TM APIs are currently either lock elision, or compiler assisted TM (like __transaction* in gcc), or higher level libraries.
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A zip code may span multiple counties, and the list includes local representatives. A zip code alone is not sufficient.