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> topped $15 million last summer. UC’s, paid by Caribou, have passed $5 million.

So a $20 million boon for lawyers and who knows how many hours the researchers lost being distracted by legal issues. One wonders how we could rework our legal system so that that kind of funds and that kind of time don't get wasted like this and instead reward both the researchers and the implementers that get it into practically usable form.
For that you'd really want something like Dafny https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dafny-a-lan...

where your program doesn't even compile if you don't give it the right invariant.
To answer your question, they do. I got a physics PhD in the United States. After being disappointed by the poor prospects offered the, I moved to the UK, where I now hold a prestigious permanent position. No more post-doc hopping for me!
From the press release:

"Version 5 incorporates improvements in many areas: better data compression, separation of debugging data from executable files, improved description of macros and source files, faster searching for symbols, improved debugging of optimized code, as well as numerous improvements in functionality and performance."

Detailed summary of the changes: http://www.dwarfstd.org/Dwarf5Std.php
When they finally support it the same way as VB and C#, including the GUI tools, UWP, and some of the MSDN documentation about .NET, and above all when the F# community stops doing presentations about type providers as the single killer feature, then it will be a general purpose, functionally oriented language.

Currently I cannot use F# on UWP until .NET Core 2.0 gets released, cannot use the same workflows with Blend and Visual Studio as I do for C#, and while type providers are cool, I have zero uses for them.
Except that is not true.
We know from texts that if anything old "geniuses" were not autistic, but they were on the bipolar spectrum, or more generally on the affect spectrum ( mood disturbance ). Winston Churchill for example is famously bipolar. Many texts refer to feeling an overbearing sudden sadness, as in bipolar depression spectrum.

Autism and schizophrenia are so horrible because they are not on the affect spectrum. So in a historic view autism is indeed a new and a modern madness.

I would recommend the book "The Master and His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist.
Even if that were the case, many enterprises would still want to perform testing before deployment or require updates to be part change management.
Ok I'll grant that this is true, but it's completely irrelevant to this discussion. What platform vendor prioritises cross-platform development options over their native offering? Exactly.

The reason Apple developed Swift rather than adopting another existing language is that they needed something that was a compatible and interoperable as possible with Obj-C. No other existing language had that to anywhere near the level Swift does. So really existing languages weren't a viable option given that goal.

Meanwhile Apple doesn't aggressively try to prevent cross platform development offerings from working fine on their platform. You can write Apps for iOS in pretty much any language you choose, even C#. Sure you lose some platform specific features, but that's due to the nature of cross platform lowest common denominator dynamics, not because Apple has 'aggressively' tried to block anything.

Finally, the fact that Swift was developed from scratch specifically in order to be as compatible with Obj-C argues strong against the premise of the article. If they'd adopted e.g. Dart or Go or something the article might make some sense, but Swift's Obj-C underpinnings are as clear a statement as Apple could possibly make that they're planning on supporting their existing Obj-C code base for the long haul.
You may also be interested in this blog post: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
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My oldest son has adhd+autism. It is difficult to explain how hard it has been for him and for us as parents. The social and school situations is always a problem, it is one day at a time and we all try not to break. He looks like any other boy, but emotional(anger, nightmares, .. ) it is a roller coster and even his special teachers has a hard time.

So with that, I wish future parents will have it better and maybe some autism detection will help with early diagnostics. I can list so many things that my son cant do, that other children can. But at the same time, he sees things very uniquely and any groundbreaking invention will come from a boy like my son and not from my other "normal" children. Autism can be terrible , I wish that I could spare him all his troubles, but in some way the Autism is also a gift.

I cant help but wonder if some of our brightest minds all had some diagnose and was just strong enough to survive the "normal" life.

Best wishes to any person with autism and even parents struggling out on the interwebs.
Yeah this is the reason I went ahead and wrote the template engine I mentioned in the parent comment. It compiles down to go templates. I inject generic math functions [1] and convert an expression like 4 + 5 * 3 to go template function calls. It's ugly but the compiler generates it so whatever :)

[1] https://github.com/eknkc/amber/blob/master/runtime.go
Imagine you didn't have to worry about security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software. Would you still not see any benefit to having your fridge (or coffee pot, or oven, or ...) connected to the network? You might not; but if you do, then that obviously says there are beneficial reasons to have those things be connected.

I think a lot of people who say "What's even the point?" in this context don't really mean that in the end, they just don't think it's worth it given the current security / privacy / obsolescence issues involved with IoT devices. And of course those are all real issues that can absolutely weigh against any benefits. But just imagine if smartphones and tablets today were in the same poor state the IoT ecosystem is currently in. There would be a non-trivial amount (more) people wondering if they were worth the trouble.

tl;dr: Potential benefits of IoT, while they certainly have to be weighed against the potential issues that currently exist, are still potential benefits.
"There is good evidence that large amounts of aluminum are harmful to humans."

But that's applicable to every substance in the universe!!! From serpent venom and uranium to oxygen and water. Seriously, you can die if you drink too much water and it's not pleasant.

Your argument proves too much, we can't ban everything that is harmful to humans in some doses. We can and do ban certain doses of certain substances, and that amount of aluminum is well bellow the damage threshold for humans.
The usual result is that no creative applications of the new technology are legal until both patents run out in 20 years.

Or that a foreign nation that didn't accept the patents becomes the only center of innovation and the nation that paid for it becomes a backwater.

One or both of those happened with steam engines, sewing machines, and aeroplanes. Humanity was not better off.

It was narrowly averted in photography, automobiles, and computer software by governments invalidating the pioneer patents in the field for the benefit of mankind.
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But Samsung said that it only happens when you issue a vocal command, not that the TV is always listening. I have a Samsung smart TV and you have to press a button to use a voice command so it may not always listen to you as is stated in the article. And they share the information to a third part not to sell it but for the voice recognition task.
A very one sided argument and a good example of using statistics for evil.

I came to the US in 2007 for my Undergrad from Dubai (Indian by Birth). I lived on a dorm floor with 40 people and only another Indian and I didn't actually talk to that guy much. Most of my friends are Americans including some of my closest - To be honest, the few Indian friends I have are people from work.

End of the day it comes down to your comfort zone. People who come to another country to get an "American degree" will stick to their comfort zone. For those of us who come to explore and understand the local culture, we're going to assimilate into the local culture (my kickball team calls me a coconut: Brown on the outside and white on the inside).

Do you want to stay a tourist or become a local?
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Only more likely now. Scientists don't like being bossed by ignorant bureaucrats.
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Only the copyright holder can turn a FOSS project non-FOSS. This is true even for the strictest of copyleft licenses (and in fact has happened before).
Because the PC is an open platform, people can modify it in all kind of ways. A patch can for example fail if the user has for one reason or another removed or disabled a system component that is needed to validate or processes that patch.

I think the cumulative patches work fairly well, they install much faster than the old ones. I am however troubled by the amount of security fixes Microsoft has to do every month. This shows that security is mostly an afterthought at Redmond.
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> Is there some simple reason to avoid doing this

50"+ computer monitors are rare (at least where I live).
Culture can change. But more importantly you're missing supply and demand. As automation grows we are going to need more engineers. STEM grads are not increasing at a rate that'll keep pace. That might drive the free market in the right direction.
I think I quoted the wrong line. They're not maintained, but they still work because Windows and FreeBSD have stable driver ABIs.
> I want all the cars, all the roads, no traffic, no police, only driving.

Then you don't want to play ETS2.

> It's amazing to see a game with the roads of half continent

As someone else noted, the road network is only an approximation of the highways. Each city is essentially the same layout with slightly different buildings to make it look like the namesake city (outside the drivable world, basically a 3D skybox).

The AI vehicles are quite stupid. I've had them suddenly brake in front of me, or merge into the trailer from behind. Oh, and you get penalised for this (ticket & damage repair costs).

Apart from the PS of trucks, there's virtually no difference between them. Want a basic Volvo? It'll haul trailers. Want the top of the line Volvo Globetrotter with sleeping cabin? It'll haul trailers. Oh, and you still need to stop at the designated rest areas to sleep, even though you have a bloody sleeping compartment in the Globetrotter!

You have to follow all the laws, all the time. Speeding? That's a ticket. Running a red light? Ticket. Bumping another car? Ticket!

I wish they would include an arcade or "god mode" so you could actually have fun.

/rant

Can anyone comment on how this is actually obtaining the video output from ETS2?

Is there some way you can feed the output of an OpenGL application into this? Or is it just capturing the desktop area where ETS2 is running?
Python Community Conference in Slovakia PyCon SK (10-12. March 2017): https://www.pycon.sk/2017/

Three days conference with a mix of (Czech) Slovak and English talks and workshops. Part of the speakers line up is published (rest will follow soon).

There is a really good connection for all of the Europe to Vienna (which is really close), or cheap Ryan-air flight directly to Bratislava.

Also EuroPython will be in early summer (9-16. July 2017) in Rimini, Italy: http://ep2017.europython.eu/
For Java/JVM/DevOps and more Javazone in Oslo is great https://2017.javazone.no/
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wow, that was really fascinating!
> For some reason, I end up choosing coffee when I'm stressed, and it worsens matters. I go for matcha when I'm well-rested and want to be productive, and it always leads to a good work session.

The starting point may have a larger effect than your choice of stimulant; any stimulant is likely to make stress worse, and being well-rested and energized is probably going to result in a good work session regardless.
Such a Digital Geneva Convention will be utterly useless, and perhaps even counter-productive, until we have solved the attribution problem.[1]

Until that is solved, we risk misuse of a Digital Geneva Convention to impose sanctions against innocent players.

Like with the real Geneva Convention, prevention is harder and not that sexy, but leads to much better long-term results: Invest in improving software security, run bug bounties, enforce accountability at least for non-free software. And, of course, resolve the conflict of interests within the state, e.g. by making clear that police and intelligence are going too far when they buy zerodays[2] and spread malware[3].

[1] Right now, attributing attacks to their origin is idle speculation. Every larger attack is initially attributed to the currently popular scapegoats, with "evidence" that is essentially based on coffee grounds reading.

[2] Buying zerodays creates an incentive for people to keep the volunerabilities they found secret, instead of publishing and fixing them. Moreover, these create an incentive to insert such "bugs" (backdoors) in the first place.

[3] ... or force other to build backdoors into their software, which is in effect almost the same as spreading malware.
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This is a somewhat unpleasant semi-misconception. You can, indeed, update everything but the kernel without rebooting. In fact, I suspect you could even replace the kernel image and the modules while they're running (but this will certainly break any attempt to load modules at a later point without rebooting first). (Edit: most distributions choose to keep the old image along in case the new one breaks. It's relatively unfrequent now, but back in 2003...)

Generally, however, processes don't get restarted after updates and libraries don't get reloaded, so without rebooting, you're still running the unpatched versions.

I don't know if RHEL has a clever way to figure out what needs to be restarted (it's not entirely impossible, thanks to systemd), but pretty much everyone under "et al." has this problem.

See Peter Larsen's comment here: https://lwn.net/Articles/702664/ for a more authoritative take on this, I deserted to BSD land long ago...

tl;dr Rolling out the updates without restarting is one thing, and it's done, and Microsoft could do it too, they just take the easy route. Applying them without restarting is a very different and far murkier story.
Right, you might say that our models predict the sun will rise tomorrow with a high level of confidence but you would have to give a slightly lower level of confidence for the sun rising the day after tomorrow and still lower one million years from now. All models have diminishing predictive power.
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I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups

Click-bait title in my opinion. It's not because you don't need VCs to satisfy your customers that VCs are bad. They are good when you need them to satisfy your customers. Now distrokid-competitors' problem is not that they have VCs money, it's that they "hired" bad ones. Now, I grant you, good VCs for startups, those who gonna understand whats good and not for your customers may be rare... But look at google and facebook, they did right by taking VCs' money don't you think.
Literally never.
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It's easy to form an argument based on justice and individual liberty. Allow entry to people with low chance of staying illegally. Visa waiver enhances liberty for people that meet that probability in a bureaucratically implementable way.

Also, let's suppose our immigration system limits permanent residence intake to N people per year. Because all people are equal, why is it any better to accept N people from all nations instead of N people from fewer nations? Either way you're still depriving the same number of people the ability to live here. Unless you think people from country X are more worthy than country Y, you should regard substituting a Y person with an X as a morally neutral act. It makes practical sense to invite people we like the most, which for example might mean people that are not interested in enslaving humanity or who associate with that crowd.
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By Pixar, no less. Looks very interesting, thanks!
As a german I can only think "Gah, why isn't it driving on the right lane?"
There certainly used to be some effort to achieve this in Outerra's Anteworld- a full earth simulation. I don't know if it ever got anywhere. There was a Google Maps overlay you could use to painstakingly add roads in their real locations. I never attempted anything elaborate, but I certainly enjoyed placing my own (non realistic) racing loops around random Scottish Lochs or Tibetan mountains and driving on them at my leisure: http://www.outerra.com
Am I reading that right: on average it's 10x faster to use a float literal?
That's right. There is one, but apparently only in Dutch. I'll probably try it out anyway, not sure if for normal activity the language actually matters.
Not really. It was in the bad old days, pre-XP SP1. Nowadays it's part of the design process for everything.

I think it's more due to the sheer surface.

And for comparison, I think Ubuntu updates almost as much. It just reboots less due to architectural differences.
Well exactly. Apple is opening a lot of stores in China with employees all speaking Chinese. Were all told 'China is the future'. Suppose Apple decided to standardise on one language for all their store. What would it be, English or Chinese? Equally daft.

If we take this perfectly sensible option, for which there is no obstacle to Apple pursuing it and which is Apple's stated intent off the table, which of these remaining bone headed options do you think Apple will choose? Er, who cares?
The satisfaction of not depending on anything else other than some Assembly.

The moment another language gets used, like C, there is this misunderstanding among compiler design illiterates that without the use of that programming language, writing the compiler wouldn't be possible at all.
An important part to me is that usual linux updates don't cause the next reboot to take longer, or require multiple reboots. You can install the update without rebooting; it only applies on the next reboot.
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Can you provide any evidence that "climate modeling from 10 years ago accurately predicted today's global temperatures with a margin of error of +/- 0.5%." I don't believe that statement. Perhaps you were saying wouldn't that be great proof if it were true.
Great work! I'd like to see more startups like this.
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I think there's an omission in your argument. The reasonableness of not forming a friendship given limited time constraints is based on time being a limited resource, e.g. it'd be better to spend time on other friendships. In your argument, you didn't analyze whether the time saved by not befriending You' was "better" spent reinforcing other friendships or whatever else. The company may have received less value from You', but the rest of the team may have increased their own value by forming stronger friendships. It's not necessary that this will be the case, but it's a non-trivial assumption to make that befriending "you" is the best allocation of resources. It all depends on the shape of the friendship-strengthening-to-company-value function.
That does sound like a fun project! Though it has to be said that most of the popular static-site creators will allow custom things to be done with plugins.

I wrote my own static-blog compiler, which reads a tree of markdown files, then spits out posts, archives, tags, etc. As an intermediary form it inserts all the posts into a local SQLite database (which can be trashed and rebuilt when required), which means I can efficiently output tags, etc.

Realistically my generator isn't so different from others, but it does integrate well for my personal use and supports comments - something a lot of static blogs miss. (I literally have a CGI script which writes out comments to flat-files, then these are picked up in the build-process, being fetched via rsync first).

Source:

https://github.com/skx/chronicle2/

Demo:

https://blog.steve.fi/
The obvious difference is that Apple had absolutely no control on Java's evolution as a language, that is clearly not the case with Swift.
Looks really interesting. Will there be an option to use the metric system? And how flexible are the meal plans, e.g. do they take into account my likes/ dislkies, allergies, seasonal food or dietary preferences ligh high fat/ low carb?
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> He's missing a crucial piece of evidence. Apple has done a lot of work to make sure that Swift and Objective-C can coexist in same project. You can call Swift code from Objective-C and Objective-C code from Swift with little fuss. This is completely unlike Microsoft's C++/.NET situation.

How come?!?

That is exactly what C++/CLI for .NET, and C++/CX for UWP applications are for.
I use voice search to find things on youtube. It's far faster than typing on a remote or on-screen keyboard, which have always been terrible.
You grossly overestimate Googles ability to support an OS on multiple platforms. Do you remember the why Samsung Galaxy Nexus was abandoned?

Apple supports iOS on two platforms (32-bit and 64-bit A-series). Microsoft who has been in the OS business much longer than than Google only have resources to support Windows 10 Mobile on a handful of carefully chosen Qualcomm chips.

So basically the only way this could work is if Google would create their own SoC and mandate Android vendors to only use that SoC. I don't think Samsung would like that too much.
This is right on point with our experience. Kubernetes is great tech but it could be smarter with respect to scheduling decisions.

Docker is always packed full of bugs; we had to increase redundancy everywhere in our stack. It's consistently been the source for me getting paged at night, and now it's the first thing I look at when there is a new issue. Some components I feel could fail more easily: our etcd and Consul clusters have been chugging along fore more than a year, even though they solve a problem much more complex than Docker does. Docker has been "production-ready" for years now, but I would not recommend it. The developers always fix that critical, production-affecting bug in the next release, but it's been disappointing for some time. I look forward to rkt + Kubernetes getting more mature.

> - once a pod has been scheduled onto a node, it never reschedules it anywhere else. The node may be experiencing problems, thus the pod is affected. k8s doesn't do anything to heal that -- it could simply delete the pod so it is rescheduled somewhere else.

IIRC, if a node goes from NodeReady to NodeNotReady, pods are drained from it.