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its all politics. Democrats hate wikileaks when it hurts them. Republicans hate wikileaks when it hurts them
> trying to look serious while actually being BS

I think you missed the point entirely of the films you mentioned
Ah yes, using a typedef would work too, nice.

It for sure not quite the same as C++ templates, but if you can tolerate crazy things you can do a lot with the preprocessor. See http://www.boost.org/libs/preprocessor/ (supports both C++ and C).

If you have foo_template.h:

#define FOO_T CONCAT(CONCAT(foo_,X),_t)
struct FOO_T { /* ... */ };

and bar_template.h:

#define X Y/2
#include "foo_template.h"

#define BAT_T CONCAT(CONCAT(bar_,Y),_t)
struct BAR_T {
FOO_T foo;
};

It might almost work, but you'd need to pull out some more tricks I'm sure. Maybe BOOST_PP_DIV(Y,2) would help. In practice I'd prefer something sane. :)
If you cannot convincingly argue the opposing side, then you have not thought hard enough about it. If you have no room for doubt, then there is no point discussing it. You have reduced science to zealotry. Don't waste my time.
It's editable. There's a lot of stuff in there I had to remove. I still want Store functionality because I like the look and feel of the apps on there, especially the Twitter client.
"...Hillary Clinton lost because she was a lackluster candidate who didn't address blue collar issues properly, thinking that anti-poverty and welfare programs would be equivalent."

This is mostly correct.

HRC didn't win enough. Democratic candidates have to also overcome structural flaws in our system.

HRC didn't inspire like Obama and Bernie did. IMHO, her biggest mistake was getting into the gutter with Trump with all the negative attacks. Obama didn't do that. Voters are sick of it, so those Obama voters simply stayed home.

But she's a Clinton. The War Room & triangulation strategies that worked so well before failed her in 2008 primary and 2016 general.

Too bad she didn't learn from Obama's campaign successes.
Nice haven't tried that. I use Shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Thank you, that was an amazing video. I literally hit the "Subscribe" button 2 minutes in!
Thanks for the info. It seems virtually every country on the continent has issues around elections, and should be avoided. DRC, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, etc. all have recently been not-good places to be due to elections
> I personally think both sides of any argument deserve an airing

This is a subject where you just have to take sides.

Because ultimately we're talking about a choice between:

- a future society invented by idealistic tech visionaries (1)

or

- a future society maintained by secret police people (2)

Both of these can be dystopian, but we know exactly that (2) can lead to a lot of human suffering.

I believe that humanity's only way forward is by 'innovating' itself out of the environmental, social and geopolitical hole that it currently lies in.

If we lose that chance, then (2) will come with their own solutions - and we really don't want to see them..
NextBus is an old system that uses 2G cellular links. It doesn't need much data, so that's fine. Now 2G service is being discontinued by
AT&T in SF, and Muni has to switch. Or switch to T-Mobile, which is offering 2G service for another year.

This was an early "Internet of Things" project. I met the inventor once at the Hacker Conference. This is a general problem with "Internet of Things" products - you're dependent on infrastructure which might go away.
I wish you could do that with eBay, but sadly it seems to be, log out manually every time, or have absolutely no confirmation to order things. Which should be illegal.
Linus Torvalds is using Fedora Linux, like many other major Linux developers.
> what is so off-putting about these types of mistakes?

Basically when I see something like this I involuntary
start thinking: "Is it really a typo? Or is it the writer doesn't understand what he is writing about, because he cannot explain it to me in a clear and precise way?". Maybe this "BS filter" I have is a bad thing for me :(

About writing articles - I think one shouldn't worry about audience knowing more about a subject - it's inevitable, and it's what discussions in comments are for. So, errors due to not knowing something are ok, I think. Other errors can easily be corrected by proof reading (by a friend or by oneself after a day). That what I would do if I actually decided to start a blog :)
speak only for yourself, please. I live in EC, but in a less developed country. After monthly expenses, I have 200-300 euros left for gadgets, travel and unexpected expenses.
This was a fantastic read. Thank you so much for (re)submitting this.
I started in music, section lead and then later concertmaster in some local orchestras and symphonies, nothing big. But I learned a ton about how to manage people, synchronize work, meet deadlines at high quality and pull together different skillsets to achieve goals. I also learned how to take highly complex subjects and atomize them, learn them from the bottom up and then put them back together. I was pretty sure I'd end up with an art degree, but I also grew up very poor and we simply never had the money.

As a hobby I also participated in the demoscene and saw how very advanced technical approaches and art intersected and found a deep interest in software and technology.

Mix and stir over a couple years, add some time in school studying computer science and management and bada bing bada boom.

I learned to have an opinion, to spot quality, how to make compromises, how to make short term goals that achieved long term goals, how to lead, how to manage and so on. All these skills have served me well and I happily work alongside people with very intense and deep technical backgrounds.
Okay. What is a decent model for concurrency that incorporates shared mutable memory (which, like it or not, is [1] a thing that exists on real machines and is impossible to avoid, and [2] is very much alive and well in Go) and isn't basically threads redux? I seriously have no clue what people mean when they say things like this.
Interesting. That's an impressive sounding implementation detail, but as a user of several months I literally did not notice.
Higher GDP allows an economic region to make more demands surrounding their sovereignty.
Harvard is always worth it. There are innumerable advantaged with that paticular school. Having that name on a resume keeps it near the top of most any pile. The old boys (and girls) network radiating from that school is beyond statistics. Harvard opens doors.
This story is me after I moved from near-unemployable nonprofit lifer to overpaid geek: http://thebaffler.com/blog/from-punk-house-to-penthouse-fros...

I was pushed into STEM hard at school, ‘cos I was fairly good at it! But I also suddenly gained an interest in music and pop culture and the analysis of it, which proceeded to occupy about 110% of my brain for much of my twenties. I struck out in tertiary education repeatedly attempting to get a STEMish qualification, and what actual paying work I got was music journalism (which to be honest I enjoyed even the tedious bits of), public servant or just plain office drone. I was a hot prospect for an underpaid overworked career as a paperpusher and/or bullshitter on the nonprofit/NGO circuit until I remembered I could work these computer things and got on the rather more lucrative career path.

Would I be happier as a severely insecure and underpaid humanities academic, writing probably much the same sort of stuff as I do now but more of it and showing more of my references? (the really good thing about music journalism is the freedom to be a primary source.) Well, I’d have a lot more fun with it. OTOH I eat vastly better on this path.
Open air will convect like crazy. ... and the area of the glass is much larger than the outside area of the building. So chances are things will cool down quite quickly once the sun goes down.
twitter is by nature public.
try gab.ai for more privacy.
No it doesn't. At least on Anniversary Update but is anyone else running an earlier version of Windows?

The NoLockScreen hack does not work in Anniversary Update. It's even described in the gist and the Anniversary workaround is commented out.
If you prefer a Batch script there's also Make Windows 10 Great Again: https://gist.github.com/IntergalacticApps/675339c2b805b4c9c6...
Many Secular Stagnations
Please don't create new accounts to violate the guidelines with. We ban them, but we also ban the main account if it continues.
The Perl Conference 2017 in DC – CFP
Known in a parallel universe as YAPC::NA 2017, we invite all to submit talks to the largest North American conference for Perl programmers. We expect about 400 attendees at this conference located inside the Washington DC beltway at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Topics will range well beyond Perl itself, as we welcome discussions of all the things a Perl dev cares about and at all levels of experience -- which is pretty much everything! I'd really love to get some cool biology talks for example.

This will include both Perl 5 and Perl 6 topics!

If in doubt -- submit the talk!
You may want to consider how well each distro supports different profiling / tracing tools, especially in userspace.

For example, I've recently started to play with Systemtap, and found it to be the perfect tool for some of my work.

But after some frustrating attempts to use it on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I discovered that it's broken and Canonical won't fix it. I tried to build my own, nonbroken version of Systemtap on this distro, but ran into nontrivial problems with library versions.

Even on Ubuntu 16.04 / 16.10, Ubuntu seems to build Perf Tools (which is part of the kernel's code base) without support for Python scripting. It was pretty easy for me to fix, but it did require downloading the kernel source, and rebuilding "perf". I don't know if they have a good reason for doing things this way, but it's irritating.

In contrast, Oracle Enterprise Linux has DTrace, which arguably is the (aging) gold standard for dynamic tracing on Linux. But OREL is a distro I never seriously considered using before needing this kind of tool.

* NOTE: I'm not trying to state which tracing / profiling tools work well on specific distros. I haven't done enough research for that. My point was only to bring attention to this category of feature.
As the article points out, their "smart fridge" costs more than a regular fridge plus all the electronics involved. This has been an ongoing problem with LG since they put a tablet in a refrigerator door and raised the price by about $1000.
I regard Taleb as a useful source of "possibilities to think about", generally presented in an entertaining way.

If you're reading it expecting evidence for said possibilities, then, yes, you'll be disappointed - but this tends to be true of pop sci style writing in general.
>It is a smaller fish compared to Facebook or Google, and the Russian citizens are not as dependent on it, so it is a good choice to set an example.

Not necessarily accurate. LinkedIn is a Microsoft company and I wouldn't exactly call them a small fish. This might just be the first of many protectionist measures Russia will be adopting.
I really really don't like this sentiment. "In real terms" meaning that you have to intentionally break the law. And only advanced users can get the benefit of worldwide internet services otherwise banned. Granted this is an easy opportunity for a whataboutist, hypocrisy point here concerning other countries, and I'd agree with those countries being incorrect too.

We should not be encouraging laws like this, and definitely not excusing them by saying that advanced users can circumvent them. If the Russian government really wanted to protect citizens, why not put laws in place on data protection requirements as opposed to data location requirements? (hint: it's because they don't want to protect the citizens)
(Re-phrasing.)

Right, but how exactly are they making a surgery/implant kind of thing safe and cost-effective in this area?
No that's the only caveat. I much prefer to use scripts, as these programs are a bit of a black box. But at least they're digitally signed and recommended by the wider Windows 'powertoy' community so you're allowed to trust them.
I salut your egalitarianism, but media doesn't work that way. To wit, the Fox News audience is more ignorant than those who don't watch news at all.
I agree with this 100%
Microsoft is responsible for destroying creative and better software than it produces itself
If you cannot see the obvious you are part of the problem
Automattic has other services that compliment Wordpress.
It's implied in the article that the opposite is true.

Certain elite schools cover tuition, room and board, and occasionally supplies for low-income students through merit-based scholarships [1] even for out-of-state students, while many state schools can only afford to grant fewer full-rides, and usually only covering the in-state price -- with out-of-state being significantly more expensive.

This doesn't mean that low-income students at elite schools still won't struggle with expenses [2] or fitting in [3]. But anecdotally, when I was a top-performing high school graduate from a well-ranked high school in the mid-2000s, this information was even harder to find, so I, and many of my peers opted for state schools instead, some with scholarships.

But much of this information asymmetry still exists today. This is what this effort is trying to rectify.

[1] https://www.collegeraptor.com/blog/affordable-colleges/these... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/for-the-poor-... [3] https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/04/09/what-like-po...
You're making the mistake of thinking that all programmers respond to the same forms of leadership.

You're also making the mistake of assuming that programmers are inherently different to other humans.
Glass will happily absorb infrared and reradiate it outside. In the dark it's just a single pane window ... a really big single pane window. Such things are known for being really good at transferring heat. The rule of thumb is a single R value per pane.
If tech gets political, the rest of the world will ban them far faster. The only reason american tech got so far was by not being political. Once the rest of the world found out the depth of nsa access, they freaked out.

Dont underestimate the desire for national sovereignty, the anti globalist reaction worldwide is strong proof.
I also vote for Arch Linux. Have been using it for a last few years and I like it. I started from pure Arch, but switched to the Manjaro about 6 months ago since I needed system to be more stable. I believe Manjaro provides a little more stability than pure Arch since Manjaro has a kind of release cycle (every week or two) - they do addition check that all core system components work well together before releasing updates for the users. I prefer Xfce Desktop over Gnome/KDE since it's simpler and therefore it potentially can cause less issues (I used Gnome/KDE/Lxde before, as well as Xubuntu/Lubuntu distros).

PS Manjaro in my case has been installed not using GUI installer since I needed to go with a kind of complex LUKS/dm-crypt encrypting scenario and GUI doesn't support a complex configurations.
This is a clickbait site that perpetuates thoughtless slander against modern art.
> There's been a lot more pushback on the scrolling decision than I had anticipated.

Even if tmux is in theory a better solution, it's not such a radically better solution that the benefits outweigh the switching cost. Terminals with scrollback have been around at least 30 years at this point [1], and scrollback is by far the majority use mode. You're asking 95%+ of your potential userbase to spend a bunch of time retraining themselves for little or no benefit.

You're also up against a variant of Jakob's law:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/end-of-web-design/

Scrolling down and back is a key part of the web user experience. Even if every terminal emulator got rid of scrollback, most of your users would still have scrolling back baked into their brains. When they want to see something that just scrolled past, they are going to do what they do in a web browser, which is to look for a scroll bar, hit a scrolling key, or perform a scrolling gesture.

That's not to say you shouldn't try radical things. But if you want user adoption, you have to make sure the benefits you offer are very much larger than the costs you impose. So radically different UI can't be about as good as the existing one; it has to be radically better.

[1] And of course terminals are made to emulate teletype machines, which had infinite scrollback to begin with.
If the TV spot they're referring to was an Xbox One advertisement with the phrase "Xbox on", yes, it was ill-conceived because it was a commercial for the voice-control system being advertised. It would be like an Amazon commercial triggering Alexa.

No, the phrase itself is not a problem, but when advertising your own product you should know better.
Running Ubuntu LTS on personal machine + cloud servers.

Pros:

- It's stable

- Easy to replicate same environment on home/cloud machines

- Handles millions of request daily, just fine

- Almost all popular s/w packages are easily available

Cons:

- Some advanced manufacturer specific laptop features/drivers don't work out of the box

- No real complaints. I'm getting great value for no money.
What is fundamentally broken about RAII? To me that is one of the killer features of C++ over C, which requires manual goto statements to achieve something approaching RAII.
I started App Academy two years ago. I had programmed in college and was generally code-literate, but had no portfolio, no confidence, and no idea how to build either convincingly. And I didn't actually have an idea of how code is written in a business context.

I learned what they were teaching easily, but it didn't really teach me to code in any way different than I had for tiny self-contained projects in college. I was on the hunt for 10 months, got a job, and lost it a few months later. I still don't really know how code is written in a business context, and I'm probably heading back to academia now.

Overall, would not recommend.
> Circumstances under which wave function collapses is the greatest mystery of QM.

I agree with that.

Anyway, if you have an optical system, you can assume that coherence is present while the light hits mirrors, lens and similar optical equipment. (If the difference in the optical paths are smaller than the coherence length of your laser or light source.) But as soon as the light hits a white screen or a brick wall, all the further calculations must use only the intensity of the light at each spot in the screen, forgetting about the phase angle. And all the spots are not coherent.

It's not clear what cause the wave function collapse, but if you are using photons in the visible spectrum probably a mirror will not collapse it, and a brick wall will collapse it. [Or your preferred rewrite with the multiple word interpretation, or the abstract Hilbert space calculations.) I'm guessing decoherence is the correct explanation, there is a nice comment in a reply.

For other particles, the abstract calculation is equivalent, but it's necessary to choose another system to do the experiments.
Most of the plot of Westworld revolved around the complete absence of any rigorous release strategy - or at least Ford's privilege in thwarting it. That was
necessary to expose the development arc of the hosts.

The writers also appear to have used a variation on recursive plot, which is nice to see.
Chrome Extension: Steve Ballmer yells the word DEVELOPERS when you mouse over it
But that Linux kernel is usually compiled using gcc, still?

I remember there were some effort to port to first intel's compiler, then clang - but AFAIK the official stance of upstream Linux is "we use GCC, get over it"?
There's no excuse for this happening -- AT&T announced the end of life of 2G four years ago in 2012. Now Muni claims that the shutdown took them by surprise and they are scrambling to replace all of the old 2G equipment

https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/why-muni-arrival-time...

Simply put, the deactivation work that affects our vehicles started sooner than expected and outpaced our ongoing upgrade of all Muni vehicles to a new communications and monitoring system.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-08-03/at...

AT&T Friday [announced] that the shutdown of its second-generation, or "2G," wireless network will be complete by the end of 2016

At the time, I was managing some devices that used 2G to send telemetry -- our AT&T sales rep called us to warn us about the shutdown.
Compile with -fno-exceptions
How do these work forwarded over X11? Passibly or does the opengl kill permforance?
I don't know what happened really, but normally to get financial partners and raise the large amount of money needed for doing an animated movie you prepare a kind of trailer or short clips to show and convince them, usually way before the script is finished, and probably not for the general public. I guess that in this case that "trailer" was good enough for showing as a first public teaser trailer, even if it was not entirely faithful to the final script.
Paranoia:

suspicion and mistrust of people or their actions without evidence or justification.

I think he definitely fits that definition on occasion.
"Maybe" you concede on infowars... says all I need to know about where you are on the fake news psychosis continuum: glenn beckistan.
> Right, but how exactly are they making a surgery/implant kind of thing safe and cost-effective in this area?

Same way a vaccine becomes cost-effective, I'd imagine.

The article is paywalled, but from what I can tell, they're using Truvada, so the research is specifically for the method of delivery, not developing the drug itself, which cuts the overhead costs dramatically. Stents[0] aren't expensive per se; the expensive part is installing them. But if that only needs to be done every six months, and if it can be done by an RN or NP, then the cost of delivery starts to fall quickly as well.

The main question I have is why they're heading down a fairly different road (subdermal implant) as opposed to a vaccine, since as far as I know, Gilead is already developing the latter. There must be more to this story than what I can find on the WSJ stub and the Quartz article.

[0] This isn't actually a stent, but it looks like it'll be something similar
+1 for fedora here. Really very stable, "just works" experience.

I have had nothing but trouble with Debian and its derivatives on my machine. In a VM they're fine, but on bare hardware they are a pure nightmare of dysfunction. Fedora was the first linux OS I was able to get going on my PC out of the box.

Arch is good too - i hear a lot for that. I might look into that for a VM, but i'd lean more towards something like Fedora for the hardware, so you don't need to muck around to get the basics going.

YMMV though, hardware can make/break a distro.
> Good programmers are probably less likely to be randomly looking for work. They analyze company culture and career opportunities first before joining any organization.

Depends. Not all good programmers know how important this is, so you can find pearls hidden deep in the mud. For some time at least.
http://matt-harrison.com/moving-from-express-to-hapi-js/
https://youtu.be/Recv7vR8ZlA