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version 1.0 of sbt should be released soon (latest stable is at 13.13 which has been out for several months, and 1.0 has been the parallel dev release).

we have noticed major improvements in stability, in the api, and in the community plugins from say 0.11 to now.

shortcomings aside, there are a few things sbt does much better than maven and gradle, and which we rely for our builds.

cross-compilation: One of them relates to binary-incompatability between major scala versions, hence the need to cross-compile. Sbt lets specify this direction in the build definition ('crossScalaVersions' is a built-in setting). The dependencies for each version automatically get picked up

quicker development cycles using sbt's interactive environment; compiling Scala source is time consuming; this latency can be pretty substantially reduced by working interactively, eg, one way to take advantage of this is to enter the sbt console mode and then preface tasks with a tilde '~' which will re-execte the task when the source)changes.
I'm hoping that's not the final dash. I much prefer a screen mounted in the dashboard. Otherwise, it looks aftermarket to me.
What an overly dramatic headline for an "admission" of "we designed ourselves into a thermal corner".

It's a slick piece of design and engineering.

It has limitations and limited commercial appeal.

Was thinking about a design for the new one. Blend Mac Mini and the pro together as a stackable design.

Stack two top end Minis, and a dual chip graphics box to get a Pro spec desktop.

Others have tried it to limited success. Apple could make it work.
The main benefit here will be realized in Shared Workers. Unfortunately Edge support is "not planned" and WebKit support is "removed" http://caniuse.com/#feat=sharedworkers

I guess it may come in handy for Electron apps.
Not exactly. Banks "create" money when they make loans, but are only required to keep a certain percentage of that loan in reserve.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100497710

You've hit the nail on the head with interest rates going up. More than that, many companies have been taking out debt to buy back shares of their company on the public market at recent prices. If the value of those purchased shares go down, that could also be trouble.
The US has been financing and training the "rebels" for years. Had the US sided with Assad from the start, the war would have been over in two weeks, and costed 500 times less victims.

The problem has never been the war, the problem is that "Assad must go". For the strategies and gains of the US and a number of its allies. Any excuse and any false flag will do, and any amount of victims is acceptable to this end.
Sounds a lot like Diaspora as well.
Snapchat had its IPO last month http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/snapchat-snap-open-trading-pr...
The question of what product to make that people would buy is already an incredibly hard one.

Now you are asking for the most efficient?

You wont find any useful responses.
Completely agree. It almost seems like there is a set of individuals in the US gov that have a personal grudge against Assad and have been trying for years under various administrations to take him out. They don't even seem to consider the possibility of Islamist involvement.
The trick is to make it a military action, not a war. The US hasn't been at war sine WW2.
Fair point:

@realDonaldTrump 30 Aug 2013: "The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!" [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/37358152840590540...
I'm not sure that the civil war in Syria comes from US intervention, or even from ISIS. ISIS tried to take advantage of an existing situation, which was triggered by Assad's brutality to (initially non-violent) protests of his regime.
How exactly would that work? He would just say in a year or two that he decided out of the blue to sell the remainder, and how are you going to prove otherwise?
I can't wait for somebody to start judging american presidents by the same standards.
Lots of places. Genomics Personalized Health in Santa Monica offers the service to individuals for $2500.[1] Includes cloud storage for the data. They have a list of medical consultants who can help interpret the data; they just give you the bits.

List of service providers.[2]

[1] https://genomicspersonalizedhealth.com/
[2] https://www.scienceexchange.com/services/whole-genome-seq
The problem was that Assad in power, not during war, turned out to not be free from victims.
Iraq --> Syria
I think I read that at Microsoft (when they had stack ranking), high performers would avoid being on the same team with other higher performers because someone always had to be ranked at the bottom - even in a team of exclusively high performers.
> the internals presented interesting technical challenges

Most jobs are not like that and a lot of them are about loyalty and tribal affiliation, especially jobs with auto companies. It's a relic of the previous generation, but for a number of people the company they work for becomes a large part of their identity.
Yeah, let's let Islamists take over Syria, that'll be so much better...
There are surely generals, including McMasters who are designed and approved this plan.
Major breakthrough in smart printed electronics
Debt is created ex nihilo from the banking sector, so no real savings (that is, foregone consumption) needs to match it. The only thing constraining debt in our system is the capacity of the economy to meet the ongoing payments. (If we had duration matched savings then debt would much more closely correspond to savings and there would be no danger of runs on the banking system.)

When rates double it will be an economic catastrophe.
They launched a subscription service which they call memberships last month. If you subscribe your profile gets that style badge.
But not really, Javascript has to be interpreted/JITed, so it will never be in the same level as C/C++. IMO it'd be way better to:

- Introduce real native types, not complex-named functions that are way more bothersome to work with than types.

- Use WASM or something similar to provide for a low level variant.
Maybe peek at H2? http://h2database.org
Agreeed. As a non-ML developer, I think this is the paragraph that sells the work, even if it may be an oversimplification:

We were very surprised that our model learned an interpretable feature, and that simply predicting the next character in Amazon reviews resulted in discovering the concept of sentiment. We believe the phenomenon is not specific to our model, but is instead a general property of certain large neural networks that are trained to predict the next step or dimension in their inputs

I think it says something very interesting about human language and information processing in general.
Personal or geopolitical? They probably see removing Assad as removing Russia.
Does the all run on autopilot? It's like this stuff was on the timeline no matter who got elected. They've been deploying all over the South China Sea and Eastern Europe and it all went along smoothly on autopilot right through the election and transition.
It was Assad's brutal suppression of protests that started the civil war; ISIS (formerly al-Qaida in Iraq, formerly Tawhid wa-Jihad) moved into the east once it was under way.
You think Russia wasn't propping up the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War?
Well then if the Trump administration is searching for "Foreign actors posing as federal employees", shouldn't it first look into a mirror instead of twitter first?
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This is fascinating, and makes a lot of sense. There aren't too many companies in the world that could pull something like this off.. amazing work.

Counterpoint: perhaps they don't need your data if they already have the model that describes you!

If the data is like oil, but the algorithm is like gold.. then they still extract the gold without extracting the oil. You're still giving it away in exchange for the use of their service.

For that matter, run the model in reverse, and while you might not get the exact data... we've seen that machine learning has the ability to generate something that simulates the original input...
Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the State of Apple’s Pro Macs
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Sincere question: how did you find such professions credible given how frequently and baldly Trump lied about basically everything? In other words, how can anyone be surprised by this or any other lie he tells?
They're both directly involved in this one, there is no proxy.
I would not be surprised if the specific contents of what you wrote was not accessible but I would expect that the general theme would be captured. The weights that are updated would correspond to neurons that would then correspond to specific themes/subjects.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056254
World's first boot camp to become a digital nomad
Android Firebase Crash Reporting Part 2
Few worthwhile efforts are ever successful on the first attempt. Failure is just another useful metric. It has nothing to do with guilt.
We could always give it all to the Kurds -- which is what's going to happen anyways, at the rate things are currently going. (The PKK has secured their home territory, and is now conquering their neighbors to create facts on the ground and get more out of the peace settlement.) Alternatively, I could envision partitioning the country along its existing ethnic lines, to avoid a situation where Alawites, Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities end up in a majority-Sunni country. There are plenty of alternatives other than control by one or another pack of exceptionally ugly monsters. (I say "exceptionally ugly" because even the Kurds have committed some atrocities. Not without provocation, but still.)
I still think the best explanation of HyperLogLog is the one done by antirez (Redis Developer) here: http://antirez.com/news/75
So Gofundme is our new healthcare system?
Who knows how the war would have gone without isis in the picture?
For anyone looking into this, the first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Utah#Religion literally says "A majority of the state's residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)."

The lowball estimates of 41% come from things like the following: "Professor Tim Heaton, who studies LDS demographics for church-owned Brigham Young University, says the county numbers probably come from church membership rolls, and that between half and one-third of those people are not active in the faith. If that's true, then, at most, 41.6 percent of Utahns are church-going Mormons." (2005 source http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/ci_2886596 ) It's at least slightly nontrivial to decide on the right definition, but I think church membership is a perfectly fine measurement.

As such, almost every other publication and measurement supports the "obvious" claim that Utah has a Mormon majority of (60+some)% and even Salt Lake County may have a (50+epsilon)% Mormon majority.

Exampe source from 2014: http://www.sltrib.com/news/1842825-155/mormon-populace-picks...
And more importantly - can anything at all be done about it?

It seems that certain interests will carry through no matter what.
Those at the top play games, those at the bottom die for it. It's all a way to strengthen the loyalty of voters.
There is also the reality that recovery from addiction doesn't always take on the first try.
Taking him out would remove an easy political scapegoat. Better to keep him as an enemy to sabor rattle against.

Those at the top play games, those at the bottom die for it. It's all a way to strengthen the loyalty of voters.
Even with reserve banking though, banks do increase the money supply but a banks assets are still always equal to its liabilities. Someone still needs to loan the money to these more indebted companies. Who is doing the additional lending?
How do you know it is up to date? The only thing you can assume is it isn't.
> ... ~native~ language (like C, C++, Java)

One of those is not like the others.
I'm confused how this is so much more controversial or scary than the drone strikes that have occurred over the last number of years by the US that violated the sovereignty of other countries and resulted in unfortunate death of civilians. For the record, I'm not trying to compare Obama to Trump but rather the fact that the US has a long history of exerting its will in a methodical way, so I'm unclear why this is more... serious? Is it because of potential ramifications from Russia? I can't quite imagine that they really want to be involved in a hot war with the US and it's allies.
At risk of being shadowbanned, the whole Trump-Russia ordeal is starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to this SMBC comic:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-05-09
unfortunately, i just keep looking at news aggregators while staying on the google news dripfeed. lets face it, if it's not on google, it doesn't exist.
You are right... that makes more sense in its stupidity - maybe some Cold War leftover that just hates the Russians beyond all measure and reason
We notified the Russians ahead of the strike. No Russian hardware was harmed in the making of this missile strike.
I don't think it would've been very different. There would have probably been an Islamist insurgency in that region anyways (Sunnis in arms, especially against secular rulers, tend to be Islamist these days), and it would've probably been about equal to ISIS in ability: less of ISIS' evil "star power", but more military ability since they wouldn't have everyone on the planet bombing them.
What you're describing isn't unique to Stripe. Pretty much every payment processor works this way. I've looked into a lot of them have yet to find a mainstream one that will deposit USD to a USD account in Europe, HK, SG, etc. (If Adyen does specifically that without big fees then great, but it's news to me.)

What Stripe support is really telling you is that you need a US bank account to avoid the exchange fees. This is more or less correct. As you say, though, they're misguided is in pushing Atlas. It's probably the simplest way for you to get a US bank account, but in many ways it's the worst long-term option. That's because Stripe Atlas creates a C-Corp, which is liable for US corporation taxes and has to file them every year.

You have two other options:
1) Get a US Bank account for your foreign company directly. This is not easy, many banks won't do it, but some will. E.g. I have a SVB account for a foreign corporation (with an EIN) so I can use Stripe in the US for my subscription app.

2) Form a US LLC that's fully owned by your EU corp. A single member LLC can elect to be tax transparent in the US. That means you don't have to pay US corporate taxes as long as you don't have business operations (employees, basically) in the US. With a US LLC it's relatively easy to open a US bank account, though you may need to travel to the US. If you want some expert tax advice for the US component of this setup here's a good guy to ask: http://ustax.bz/

Once you have a US bank account sorted you may need to migrate your Stripe subscriptions. This is not something that Stripe officially supports or will do for you, but after lots of digging with their support I was told that it's possible to do without requiring any re-opt-in from your subscribers. It's just that you need to do the migration yourself by transferring the subscription data. (Details escape me. Please confirm this with them yourself.)

What's the benefit of all this, other than adding a few percent to your gross profits? Well, the market for online business buyers is much stronger in the US than anywhere else. I'm betting on the fact that it'll be significantly easier to sell a business with a US Stripe account than a business with a German / Irish / Hong Kong / Singapore / whatever stripe account.

Of course we're talking a few percent here and a few percent here. Before diving into this rabbit hole I would ask yourself if marketing & sales for a few percent increase might not be less effort than all of the above.

Right, that was a bit long-winded. I don't monitor my replies here much, but feel free to ping me if you have questions.

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Probably not - Lineage can only patch issues that are present in the open source code. Since this issue exists in the firmware, it's up to device manufacturers to release an update including the fixed firmware, which Lineage can then incorporate.
Human rights more than anything else; Assad's response to the Arab Spring was a pretty ugly one, especially by the standards of people who weren't overthrown. (The other issue is that Russia really likes that naval base. Wouldn't it have saved time to just give them the city and get them to stop interfering with the rest of this?)
Sometimes I wonder if we're looking at another 1929 event.

Lets posit 1929 - in 1929 by most accounts the economy was booming, drive by easy credit and new inventions, a new consumer oriented society was driving buying on credit and speculation in the stock market. But the economy at its core was weak, specifically in the agricultural sector.

Lets Posit today - Uneven recovery from last economic crisis, most of the economy has weak growth, boom of growth in certain markets, weak agricultural commodity pricing.

I see parallels, enough parallels to be concerned really, but not enough to go hide in a hole until its all better. I'm concerned the current administration may not respond full-throatedly enough in the event of a real crisis however.
More than the deep state, there must have been very powerful actors behind the scenes pushing the US for intervention in Syria for all these years. After all, US's direct interest in the Middle East is limited. These are wars made on behalf of someone else, someone in the region.
Well they aren't dictators, but they aren't always secularists or modernizers.
Its funny what crosses Americas red line, US forces killing over 200 civs in Mosul the other day didnt warrant much outrage.
I guess I'm not really contributing, but I have to mention that both Rand Paul and Bashar al-Assad are ophthalmologists.
Do you even know what neoliberal means?
The economy's "balance sheet" isn't accounted for the same as the balance sheet of a company or personal finance. Fractional reserve allows a bank to lend out N times more than what it has in saving deposit. With re-deposit of the lent out money, the bank can lend out more, with (N-1)/N times, and so on.

Interest rate acts as a lever to limit the amount of loans people are willing to take. Higher interest rates will force companies to not take on more debt; however, the long term debt they got before with a lower rate is cheaper now compared to new debt so they would keep those.
It's not that cut and dry for me. I do see objective differences in the Microsoft of today.

* Visual Studio Community is now free.

* Visual Studio Code is free and surprisingly awesome, IMO. It's now my default text editor, having replaced Sublime Text.

* I think what they're doing with .NET Core, VS Code etc. is great, they've realised after completely missing the boat on mobile that they can't control all the platforms anymore, they've been forced to think cross-platform. They've been forced to think beyond Windows for the first time in their history really, and that's a good thing.

* Their traditional allergic reaction to anything open source seems to have been given a strong dose of antihistamines. They've open sourced a bunch of their own stuff and they're now #1 for open source contributions on GitHub.

* I like Azure, I like that they're making their own hardware - I used a Surface Pro 4 as my main machine for a while and it was pretty good, "devices and services" as Nadella has said.

Bear in mind that I hated Microsoft back in the day. I only ever begrudgingly used Windows, I stayed well away from any of their development tools, preferring open source languages and frameworks even when working on top of Windows. If I needed to run a server, it was Debian (this is still more or less the case for me today). I used to run Debian as my main desktop OS for a few years. Today a Mac is still my main machine. I say this because I want it to be clear that I'm coming at this topic from a place well outside the world of Microsoft. I am well acquainted with the alternatives.

Besides Ballmer, there has been a generational change at Microsoft. Is the publicity around this change somewhat marketing driven? is there still plenty of room for improvement? Sure, no doubt. But I think it's a bit disingenuous and overly cynical to 100% attribute it all to marketing/PR spin.
Yup, there it is, life experience. Just think how much more you will have in 10 years. Another thing you want to decide for yourself is...do i want the senior dev title, the senior dev position or the senior dev money and why. The answer to that could set you free.
Ubuntu has always been focused on the GNOME platform - they started with the GNOME environment and Unity itself is an alternate shell for GNOME desktop. GNOME is going to be much more familiar to their developers and users - users will use the exact same applications they'd use in Unity and they will look good and make sense. KDE is really an alternate universe, and one I enjoy and prefer for now but I don't thing this would make sense for Ubuntu. If you want a KDE-focused distribution based on Ubuntu, KDE Neon looks awesome.
There are many factions in the Syrian civil war, not just Assad and ISIS. I'm sure many an ISIS fighter would just join another faction, e.g. Al Qaeda affiliates, had ISIS not arisen.
Because when refugees are interviewed in Germany they say their parents sent them to collect 'all that free money' that they hear about from their neighbors and friends who came before. If it was just rule of law you don't have to walk across 10 other nations that all have rule of law but a less generous welfare system.
You say there would have been an insurgency anyway, but daesh was precisely the insurgency that formed from the conditions that made it favorable for such an insurgency to form. These ideologies always exist in a latent form, but they take socioeconomic upheaval to turn into a self sustaining rupture in the political order. The United States both in the short term and the long term has incubated these movements with its ill planned policies and wars.

Like, coordinating coups and dropping bombs over and over again tends to have that effect.
QEdit FTW! Thank you! It was my go to editor for ages. Used it to write all my AutoCAD shareware.

It took me forever to unlearn the Wordstar key bindings.

I'll have to look it up.
It's the Russian ramifications -- not least because of the Russians' "firehose of falsehood" media (http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html). Russia's initial response here suggests that Putin won't dare to start a nuclear war, if it comes down to that (in Lithuania, for example); but talk is cheap, and he and his minions certainly know how to talk a good game.
In other news, Twitter has been banning trump-supporting accounts left and right, without much uproar.
The red line is chemical weapons used by an unfriendly regime.
Beware of war propaganda. A quick reminder about the first Iraq war and how they lied about Saddam killing babies and used a PR firm in Congressional hearing [0] to build public outrage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos#1991_Gulf_War
There have been many right-wing accounts banned that were much better behaved than Milo. Twitter definitely censors based on progressive American sensitivities:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/silence-frogs-why-twitter-censoring...
Cute. So, while Unix is not an acceptable Unix, maybe Windows now is.
If it turns out not to have been an Assad attack then all those in the US government/military who pushed for escalation should walk the plank.