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I think it's more naive to believe that large companies always make the right decisions. We see Microsoft make mistake after mistake (look at windows 8, windows vista). The only time they fix their mistakes is when they're made public.

So there is no reason to fix their mistake of a code base.
That's my point: the way figure out if the author is biased is to first answer the somewhat easier question: are the cracks a serious issue or not? I'd much rather have that discussion than the other one. That's also why the ad hominem further up was unjustified.

P.S. hit piece is not exactly neutral on your part either. Bias works both ways, you know.
This "cyclone bomb" is terrifying https://www.ventusky.com/?p=49.1;-27.3;3&l=pressure&t=201702...

Is it even possible?
Another example from my space is product catalog data. There is large amount of data that is common and those are normalized properly. There is also a large amount of per product type variability that needs to be captured. One way to capture that is using JSON to store that specific data. Being able to index and query using the JSON structured data is a huge boon there.
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Of course, a lot of small companies use accountants anyway, but I've heard of fees in the £100's, not 1000's.
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Seems like a lot of these historical incidents are being brought up recently. They are certainly interesting and perhaps show that humanity as a whole tend to repeat the same actions.

But is it also the goal to attempt to justify the current immigration ban by citing history? Conway brought up the Obama's tightening of the Iraqi immigration during his term. Does that somehow justify Trump's immigration ban?

I guess you can say she is just pointing out the media hypocrisy in being less judgmental with Obama than with Trump and that may be fair. But ultimately it is just a distraction in some sense. I fear Trump's camp is sticking to the "the media is hypocritical" campaign as a distraction. I guess it's a clever way to use the free bad press.
For the problem of large files I think Git LFS has largely won out over git annex, mostly because it's natively supported by GitHub and GitLab and requires no workflow changes to use.
I think the price / performance / capacity of battery for now and the next 5 - 10 years roadmap are already very decent. What i want to know though, if there are any possible improvement to Weight / Energy ratio?

The current battery are way too heavy.
Varnish.
With all due respect for your comment, that is not how I see it. I adjusted my "workflow" to what was available for the past decades: HTTP/1.1 pipelining. It has worked for me with no problems. And I am sharing this experience with others.
I found the service significantly decreased when LP was purchased by Logmein, and I expect nothing good to come from Citrix now owning LP. I have had an enterprise subscription for many years, but will now look at an alternative. Any suggestions?
My understanding is that yes you can create an index using this JSON data. You just have to create an index from an expression.
http://sqlite.org/expridx.html
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misleading headline.

Logmein, the owner of Lastpass, is acquiring a subsidiary of Citrix called GetGo (GoTo... products) that was spun out.

The new company is called Logmein, and has legally less to do with Citrix than even before!

Wonder why the poster chose that particular phrasing (acquired) because it was Logmein (parent of Lastpass) that was doing the buying:

https://www.logmeininc.com/about-us/faq

What are the financial details of the transaction?

As part of the merger agreement, Citrix spun off its wholly owned subsidiary, GetGo, which then merged with a subsidiary of LogMeIn. LogMeIn issued an estimated 27.3 million shares of LogMeIn common stock to Citrix equity holders in connection with the merger. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.8 billion based on shares to be issued and LogMeIn’s closing price of $65.31 as of July 25, 2016, the date on which the merger was first announced.

What's the name of the merged company?

The name of the new combined company is LogMeIn, Inc.
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> 1 in 2.5 fatalities per flight?

No. How did you reach this number?

> 14 fatalities in 135 launches?

Yes. Though I think it makes more sense to read this as 2 losses in 135 flights (98.5% safety rating), or 14 fatalities among 817 passengers (98.2% safety rating).

(The per-passenger safety rating is slightly less because the only losses carried 7-passenger crews, while about half the flights carried 5 or 6 passenger crews. I didn't include the non-orbital test flights carrying crews of 2, which were arguably more dangerous than orbital flights, and I tried to handle Mir transfers and ISS crew exchanges sensibly.)

Historically, failures in spaceflight result in a loss of all crew (or a loss of no crew, if they have abort capabilities). This suggests an easy way to artificially improve the launches-per-fatality metric would be to reduce the number of crew per flight, so I'd prefer to use numbers for failures-per-launch or fatalities-per-passenger.
"not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP"... lol
Note that registering a company in another country doesn't necessarily stop your local government from taxing it. Especially if the owners and employees stay in your country.
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True Snap are technically distro-agnostic but still Snap is surrounded by a "brought to you by Canonical™" feeling.

Even if you look at the terms used : https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/store :

"The main way of distributing snaps to snapd systems is through the Ubuntu Store"

So indeed there is the "other store" section which mention you can host your own store but it's clearly not emphasized.

Even the term of Snap "store" vs Flatpack "repo" seems to indicates a more decentralized/agnostic direction of Flatpack.

On flatpak.org/apps.html you can see LibreOffice hosted by documentfoundation.org and MonoDevelop hosted by mono-project.com. They're not all hosted by their respective foundation/website, but still it kinda seems like it is the direction flatpack is pushing for.

So "technically" they all are distro-agnostic, but in terms of distribution system one is pushing for a centralized Canonical-hosted store while the other seems to be going towards a "each foundation will host their app"
Göring [1]: "the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring
It also provides more specific control flow functions that are bug-prone to roll your own with promises. I've learned a lot by looking at the source!
just because you can do something does not mean that you should do it.
There was heavy discrimination of Germans as well during both World Wars

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5of8na/if_th...
To be fair about my original point, what you're talking about is when the author tried to use it as a sales tool. Maybe I'm just being pedantic? Anyway, it's lousy for that too.
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That sounds like the headline is less misleading, and just plain incorrect.
Depends on the type of pain. The pain afterwards I can manage, the pain during is of a completely different magnitude.

But even if they could guarantee it would be 100% painless, I would opt for GA every time. The problem is being operated upon while fully aware of what is happening. We don't even treat animals that badly. If you bring your dog to the vet to have tooth fixed they put him under, but a human has to suffer through the experience ?
AFAIR you can suggest a name for the file in response headers of HTTP request, so I'd suggest cURLing the image and looking at the response headers.
While I don't like the recent executive order from Trump, this situation seems unrelated to it, instead revolving around the earlier H.R.158 [0] bill that passed at the tail end of 2015 (the article does mention this in passing), which disqualifies any non-citizen from entering the US under the visa waiver program if they have traveled to one of the seven countries since march 1st, 2011 (amongst other things). Trump's recent EO explicitly makes exceptions for diplomatic passports, and I worry that conflating these documents will only undermine the rhetorical grounds for repealing them.

I just want to underscore the law at fault instead of fueling partisanship.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158
I feel worse for the wrestlers: ”On Friday, Iran took retaliatory action by banning US wrestlers from participating in the Freestyle World Cup, one of the most prestigious competitions in international wrestling.”
Citrix has spun out the Goto* products, and that's what has merged with LogMeIn.

Citrix hasn't bought LastPass
Citrix hasn't merged directly with LogMeIn, it's still a separate company.
While that may be true, the odds that something that hasn't happened in eight years could happen in 90 days are pretty small. Most of what agitated people was the order's execution, which involved some fallout that may have been avoidable.
Node 8 has not been released.
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To me it sounds like these numbers are from a migration-in-progress. So they are trying, but instead of giving up and saying "not the right tool for us" they are trying to improve the tool.
That is only looking at the physical part though. It doesn't take into account the psychological damage that is done. I'm pretty sure I've got a form of PTSD as a result of my childhood dentist experience and I suspect my anxiety issues are at least somewhat related to it.
Build the wall along the Mexican border. Then build one along the Canadian border. Soon enough the world will chip in for a roof and we'll all be happier! :)
I was not trying to tell you how you should experience dental treatment.

I did feel it was useful to respond to It was such a huge difference with the 'regular' experience that I simply can't understand why dentists insist on letting people experience the torture. I think they are all secretly sadists that get off on hurting people. with my contrasting experience.
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That's something very different: this is for searching your own photos, not all those on the web. It's fairly easy to find dog photos on the web, since the web contains lots of websites with text saying something like "dog photos" and then lots of dog photos. But to find it in user-taken photos with no annotations is a relatively recent success (and is clearly not entirely there).
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Also Jeff Sessions as attorney general. He is not as vocal as Pence, but his voting and speaking record on gay rights is not very good.
This highlights why math generally trumps philosophy. Take any math that is similarly well known to Kant. You don't get two educated people having diverging opinions on a solution if they start with the same assumptions. Usually someone concedes; e.g. because the other side shows that the losing position implies something that everyone accepts is impossible.

In philosophy you get this all the time because people refuse to agree on definitions like truth, consciousness, goodness, evidence etc. So debates generally involve people talking past each other until someone gets bored. If we're lucky spectators will judge by popular acclamation which side won or lost. Participants rarely concede their position.
Obviously nuts, but quite interesting in that it appears the content has been reused since 2015:

http://www.lovingenergies.net/pt/WIKILEAKS-DOCUMENTS-REVEAL-...

I wonder how this blog network works, how well it pays.
>But is it also the goal to attempt to justify the current immigration ban by citing history?

I find it interesting how we see this kind of "news" (reports?) in opposite ways.

I see it as a message of "We've done this before - and it was wrong then too! We often talked about how bad and stupid it was we did it at all, yet we're coming full circle."

Because I see the media as being largely left-biased, I see these reports as an attempt to remind or educate people on our history. Not supportive of the actions but critical of them. Meanwhile, I see right-leaning media as being more supportive of the actions and less critical (because they largely are...)
Why is that so hard to believe? America is run by Donald Trump.

The problems with these companies is that developers aren't making technical decisions, it's executives who know nothing about computer science. That's why Windows 10 is such a mess with spyware and adware.

Now they have some FOSS advocate who doesn't really know anything about software or VCS but saw that an internal problem they were trying to solve was making their code base work with git. So he decided it would be really cool for Microsofts image to develop an open source extension of git, instead of actually solving the underlying problems (because he didn't recognize them). Now he's probably got a promotion at Microsoft for "fixing" their problem with git.
Good to know! I have an app running on it but haven't touched it in a while.
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You pay personal taxes on your personal income (the salary the company may give you). That is completely distinct to the type of the company discussed in the link, a GmbH/UG. A company construct like that is its own legal person and it pays its own taxes (which usually works different to your 'personal taxes'). Where it has to pay them is a question for your tax accountant, I think (ignoring loopholes) a company producing income in Germany has to pay taxes on that in Germany, regardless where the company is registered. Though especially with IT it is sometimes hard to specify the 'where' :-) But trust me, the tax authorities will know :-)

What you can gain by filing your company in Estonia is less bureaucracy. The talk is that Estonia is a lot in e-government, so I suppose that means you can do a lot of filing stuff very conveniently on the Internet. Or if you employ people in Estonia, the employment laws may be less strict than in a country like Germany.

If you plan to operate out of Germany, I don't think you'll gain much by registering a company in Estonia. If you want to move to and operate in Estonia, it may be well worth a consideration.

As mentioned, in the past people filed companies in the UK to avoid the 25000 Euro investment required for a GmbH. But that's gone with the UG.
Yeah, why should we help clean up any of the mess that we've been causing? /sarcasm
I would guess it's a standard propagating structure.
For other readers: winds at 80km/h rotating with a diameter of ~2000km.
Pressure drops at 935hpa in the center

edit: at 10m above the ground. at higher altitudes, it's quite faster and with a different shape
Yes, but the following sentence is:

“It should be enough when they found that I have a diplomatic passport, [that I’m a] former prime minister. That should be enough for them to understand that I don’t represent any problem or threat to this country and [to] let me go immediately, but they didn’t.”

And:

“I was surprised, and I was provoked,” he said. “What will the reputation of the US be if this happens not only to me, but also to other international leaders?”

So he doesn't really care about the "brown person" paranoia, all he cares about is "diplomats shouldn't be treated like Arabs", which I personally find distasteful.
The latest thinking from our fine universities is that only white males can get ahead in a meritocracy. Everyone else lives life at a disadvantage so they can't truly compete in such a system. Or something like that.
>But he said he had never had a problem visiting the US before.

Has he visited the US between that law passing and before Trumps ban without any issues?
The idea is that everything comes with an opportunity cost - do you build a garden, or do you build more apartments?

The traffic comes from the fact that every family not living in the city, but living near it, ends up commuting there anyway.
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This only accounts for hardware cost.

What about the cost of writing the software services that you could pay Google Cloud to use?

How much would it cost to write your own Compute Engine, or Datastore, or Pubsub, or Bigquery?
Delta Chat is a messaging app compatible with email infrastructure
Yeah it's interesting that both Atari and Commodore dropped the ball on the BASIC options for their 16-bit machines introduced at the same time. ST BASIC was also crappy, and it wasn't until later that better third party options became available (GFA BASIC was really good, as was HiSoft BASIC, but both came later).

In large part the C64 and Apple II had their success because it was easy for owners to make the transition from hobbyist to programmer by starting with the built-in BASIC and just working up. BASIC was right there in front of you, always accessible, and you basically _had_ to learn it to use the machine. So it created a ready supply of new content producers.

To program the ST effectively you really needed a C compiler, but of course back in those days that was not cheap at all or even readily available (or very fun on a machine with no hard drive, which was the common situation.)

I can't help but wonder if those platforms could have had better success if they'd just shipped out of the box with a decent BASIC, an assembler, and maybe even a C compiler. Or at least had that available on launch day for a price accessible to hobbyists.
They "proved" nothing of the sort. Further, you never "prove" anything in biology, you just find models that fit the data and sustain attempts at falsification.

Anyway, computer scientists should stay out of biology unless they are willing to learn all the necessary underyling biology. Otherwise, they've continue to come to ludicrous conclusions and promote their ideas at the expense of legitimate biologists.
I noticed this a few months ago with Perforce's p4merge (Qt-based) application and filed a Radar (28890473).

At least in that instance, the bottleneck was rgba64_image_mark_rgb32(). A perfectly fine little bit of assembly byte shuffling, but not fast enough to handle gracefully the billions of pixels/second being thrown at it.
Justin here - cofounder of Serotiny. I'd be happy to field questions and take criticism and I am otherwise curious what you all think.

Our goal is to make the design of powerful genetic tool as straightforward as possible. And to get those tools into the hands of researchers as quickly, cheaply, and without mistake. We hope Pinecone allows those without an expertise in genetics and cloning to engage with the state-of-the-art genetic tools.

I want to give a huge word of thanks to the Go and Ember communities for enabling us.
Right now I am working as some kind of developer/marketing/communication 5 legged unicorn and Facebook-based PR is the go-to strategy for everything and anything. I also hear some organisations thinking out loud about completely ditching their websites in favour of Facebook/Twitter presence. (tourism sector)
Let people enjoy your site even while you’re doing maintenance
It sure would be nice to live in a meritocracy but we're not even close: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

> The amount of discrimination is uniform across occupations and industries. Federal contractors and employers who list Equal Opportunity Employer' in their ad discriminate as much as other employers. We find little evidence that our results are driven by employers inferring something other than race, such as social class, from the names. These results suggest that racial discrimination is still a prominent feature of the labor market.
I treat everything I do on Facebook as public and permanent information. With that mindset the experience is rather pleasant.
Does anyone know Microsoft's open source policy works internally? I'm thinking from a governance perspective, as I'm involved in a similar effort at $WORK.
Yes, same far from defending Trump. But in theory, if DHS would have followed the Obama bill, he should have denied him entry as he can't use VWP anymore.
Yes, the combined "completely ignorant" intelligence services of every western nation in the world should turn to ycombinator, where you'll enlighten us all to how it really works. Of course, I once again see a complete lack of citation, so I guess I'll just take your word for it.
I don't see why promoting inclusiveness and frictionless contribution shouldn't be seen as meritorious activity - I'm not saying that's what you're suggesting, but "meritocracy" in the context of a software project like this is often taken to mean "can be socially dysfunctional so long as it is technically functional", as if the two requirements are in opposition to each other. I don't believe they are, and I think there are more examples of friendly and socially functional projects (that happen to be meritorious) than not.
yep indeed, so to me (but I don't know if I'm interpreting all this correctly) Flatpack seems to push towards a PPA like system for distribution but with a SandBoxed App over one or multiple Runtime for execution
>The Git community strongly suggests and prefers developers have more and smaller repositories. A Git-clone operation requires copying all content to one's local machine, a procedure incompatible with a large repository.

They aren't copying all the files like you do with Git. They have a custom set up that sounds like it lets you checkout just the parts you need. I don't have time to read the whole thing, but it sounds like it works by breaking down a "super repo" into small "sub repos". This actually makes sense.

There is no way working with a 300gb git repo is fun or efficient, and they've probably been doing that for years at Microsoft.
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As someone unfamiliar with Whonix, I wanted to understand the project in a little more detail than what's on the front page.

This link was really helpful and thorough:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others#General
> But is it also the goal to attempt to justify the current immigration ban by citing history?

No, none of the articles I've read describe the past historical incidents in a positive light. They're attempting to compare modern actions (discriminating against Muslims) with past actions (discriminating against Italians, or Japanese, or women, or African-Americans). Similar comparisons are made between the Prohibition (of alcohol) and the War on Drugs.

The historical incidents are widely and easily recognized to be wrong because we're emotionally distant from them. People should be able to learn from history and realize that analogous actions today are similarly wrong.