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I reduced the need for escaping further by having a backslash escape a whole series of backslashes rather than just the very next character.

How do you write the string with characters '\' and ']'? It seems like the natural way to write it, [\\\]], would end up being lexed as [\\\] (a string with two backslashes) followed by an unmatched string end character ']'.
Spring Boot.

I have been writing Java for 10 years now. I've used many different frameworks and libraries. But now all my new projects are Spring Boot projects.
The Fed and the central banks of other major economies use mechanisms to implement monetary policy that are more or less similar at a high level but which differ in the details. Giving a meaningful answer to your question requires looking at some of those details.

First, the Fed doesn't directly control the rates at which banks borrow and lend among themselves. Nominally, the Fed does offer funding to commercial banks, through it's so-called discount window, but it discourages banks from borrowing from it directly by offering those funds at a rate (called the discount rate) that is higher than prevailing market rates. As a result, no one uses the discount window unless they must, which further reinforces banks' avoidance of it—everybody knows that something has gone terribly wrong if a bank must borrow from the discount window.

Ordinarily commercial banks in the United States instead borrow and lend among themselves at a market rate (called the federal funds rate) that the Fed influences by buying and selling treasuries, making less or more cash available for lending in the commercial banking sector.

More precisely, the Fed establishes a target federal funds rate—which is now actually a range, not a single number—and then undertakes asset purchases and sales to coax the actual rate into that target range. But the actual rate at which banks borrow and lends among themselves, which is typically called the effective federal funds rate to distinguish it from the target rate, varies from day to day [0]. The difference between the target and effective rates says something about liquidity in the commercial banking sector as well as something about the effectiveness of the Fed's implementation of its monetary policy.

In Britain, the Bank of England implements its monetary policy somewhat differently, through a scheme that involves targeting a rate it calls Bank Rate (and which others typically call official bank rate or the base rate) and then paying that rate on the reserves of commercial banks that it holds on deposit, or charging them a penalty rate if they deposit too much [1]. Commercial banks manage their day-to-day reserve levels by borrowing and lending among themselves, and that's what sterling LIBOR purports to measure.

Dollar LIBOR purports to measure the rates at which off-shore banks borrow and lend dollars among themselves. Since the substantial dollar holdings of banks outside of US jurisdiction are typically subject to minimal regulation, and in particular are not subject to the Fed's reserve requirements, this rate is somewhat different from the effective federal funds rate.

0. See this page for recent daily effective rates versus the target range: https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/fed%20funds#Ch...

1. See this page for an overview, and the linked "Red Book" for details: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/markets/Pages/sterlingoperati...
Mankind is absurdly resilient. We are like rats or cockroaches but a hundred times more adaptable. Billions of people could die. We might lose 99% of species. But human extinction is out of the question.

We could live in bubbles of air under the ocean huddled around nuclear reactors if we needed to. Roaches couldn't do that (without our help).
The Republicans now control the Presidency and both houses of Congress. They will almost certainly wind up controlling the Supreme Court for at least a generation, maybe two. They control 33 state governorships compared to 16 Dems and one Independent. They control 32 state legislatures, 17 with a veto-proof majority. The Dems control 13, 5 of which are veto-proof.

It's not just Trump, and it's not just a single election.
> The "problem" being that instead of being a proof of actual work, shortcuts in the work were found.

Nope, the problem is that covert ASICBoost mining has created a strong, valuable incentive for miners to oppose protocol upgrades while supporting much more destructive ones like the recent extblocks, which is susceptible to instantaneous, irreversible full transaction invalidation on a reorg.

ASICBoost in its other forms is completely compatible with SegWit.
I would think the entire computing industry across nearly the entire spectrum would be very pleased if IOT-everything became some sort of a mania. Regardless of whether it makes sense, a sale is a sale!
This does seem to be the trend the industry is taking. And for good reason.

After using Spring Boot for 2 years now, I'll never go back to EE.
I saw a bleaching event in Thailand last year, it really is depressing to see. This year, the same sites have seemingly recovered and I'm really happy about that. But seeing the pictures of completely bleached white corals in the article and knowing that's probably the future for a lot of these reefs breaks my heart. Coral reefs are magical places and we're destroying them for future generations, maybe even the current one.
The Great Strengths and Important Limitations of Google's Machine Learning Chip
That corroborates my reference a bit where author says they made changes to filesystem during the clone of VMS. There would be similarities between the two filesystems if this were true.
Hahaha thank you for this satire. Haven't laughed this hard

Somebody apparently enjoyed the posting. The rest of us shall never know why, for it is gone now.
Google's epic legal battle with Uber over self-driving technology, explained
> That same treacherous developer can scoop up talent from a GPLed project too, such as the examples I gave.

I don't understand what this sentence means? Do you mean they take the developers and stop them from working on the original GPL version? In this context I'm referring to the most common case which is a GPL project that has more than one copyright holder.

In _that_ context is is not possible for a developer to take the existing work of the developers, make a proprietary fork, and convince the developers (in a moment of weakness) to switch and start working on the proprietary code. They can create a new project, but that's always true and not possible to restrict (nor would anyone want to).

> That lock-in effect of the GPL means that your software package can't be used by the larger free software community.

And this is the whole point of the "or any later version" clause. Every complaint you're bringing up has already been resolved by how the GPL is used and has worked for >20 years. Of course the GPL does have its downsides (the whole MPLv1/CDDL thing is a real shame) but "lock-in" is not one of them (unless you explicitly decide to lock yourself in, which is your own fault).
2MB HF + segwit (2MB average) adds up to 4 MB total. 4MB forever is better than 2Mb forever.

If this whole debate really is because of soft fork is hardfork, that is easy to solve.

You can scale by soft forking using extension blocks, OR just by changing the segwit discount parameter that segwit does.

If segwit can do it, then so can 4MB segwit.
No, instead of came with a 4MB softfork, which is a strictly superior alternative, since for all the reasons they support extblocks, SegWit is completely superior.
> If you add an ethernet port to your coffee maker and it doesn't increase any sales, are these reports counting it as a growth in the IoT market and loss in the older market?

Actually I think that's kind of the root. It's not that the number of coffee makers will change much, Mr. Coffee will just start adding "smart"s to more down range machines. And why not? Its another feature to add to the list to sound fancy which in commodity market has a lot of value, the cost to do such is pretty negligible and there are no rules for support.
Yes, because it would be magnitudes worse. So do you give the assignment to? You have several hundred applicants, do all of them get the 2 week assignment? Who watches over them and answers their questions? After spending that much money, is the answer you get any better than a set of interviews
On the other hand, assume I am in a job and want to change positions, for any number of reasons... How many two week jobs do I have to take? Or should I quit my job first?
It entirely depends on what project you work on. When I interned, I had to deal with a lot of custom datastructures, but since I started full time, I haven't (although my next project might?)
> Bitcoin's independence from the state requires the world superpowers are not able to control a majority of the hashrate.

Too late. :-)
Show HN: LuaGB – A Gameboy emulator written in pure Lua
One day when I was really bored in modded Minecraft, I thought it would be a neat idea to see how far I could get writing a Gameboy emulator in ComputerCraft. That idea fell apart shortly after I had a somewhat working z80 chip and realized that the graphics display wasn't possible, but I kept working on the emulator over the course of a year, and this is the result.

It's not the fastest thing in the world, but my own machine manages to play many games full speed, and it supports almost the full feature set of the platform. I'm sure there are bugs, but I'm pretty happy with it overall. Critique and especially bug reports are quite welcome! My own growing Gameboy library is still quite small and I won't test games I don't own for legal reasons.
> Honestly, we're not sure why everyone is still talking about it.

It's like telling a compulsive gambler their favourite “system” won't predict luck. They just don't want to hear that.
Nobody is saying we have to close off ASICBoost. Just the covert method of it which is incentive-incompatible with important protocol upgrades.
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Personally I have chose Semantic UI as my go-to css framework over bootstrap. While bootstrap performs better on mobile, SUI is way nicer/cleaner it therefore eliminates the need to customize anything which I think is one of the reasons that someone would use a css framework in the first place.
Let's also not forget about the traditional finance companies (Chase, BAML, Citi, Wells Fargo, Amex, etc.). They sell your data and are a large source of the random credit card offers you receive. And you can't opt out.
Without a massive population of worker bees, can we maintain the level of technological sophistication we've reached?

I suppose governments probably have that fairly well doomsday planned.
Tomita's music is fantastic. I love his version of Holst's The Planets. I haven't listened to his music in years though, so I just now found out he passed away last year!
Correct! And yet nobody is seriously (i.e. with code in a PR) wanting to completely disable all forms of ASICBoost. Just the covert kind which is incompatible with a bunch of important protocol upgrades and interesting ideas that make Bitcoin stronger.
Ehsan marketing of the action will be for a long time
Everyone is happy
LastPass plans for Android O: better autofill
No doubt smug and for little reason. Then again now days you're not cool less you NoOps your pants.
You can purchase someone's IoT guesstimates for $4,200!

The article references this:

http://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/944711-internet-of-th...

Which is this:

http://wintergreenresearch.com/internet-of-things

Here's a handy PDF summary:

http://wintergreenresearch.com/reports/Internet%20of%20Thing...

I don't think that report is worth 4.2 cents.
You just need an agent. Agents have not been "eaten by software" yet so they have no way to take clients making less that 6 figures of revenue. When that software comes the long tail of contractors will get access to agent services and we'll go from 80/20 salary/contractor to 20/80.
> Coral bleaches when the water it’s in is too warm for too long. The coral polyps gets stressed and spit out the algae that live in inside them. Without the colourful algae, the coral flesh becomes transparent, revealing the stark white skeleton beneath.
I couldn't possibly comment. This would be close to me breaking NDA ground here, so sorry about that. I know that the legal department took software licensing very seriously and we had a narrow range of licenses we could use.
I agree but the monitoring and cleaning is still something you have to do if you want to follow the situation.
You cannot just say 'we will ban X, problem solved'
In the .NET world, ServiceStack ORMLite has custom Postgres type attributes to use the jsonb and other fields automatically.

http://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v4.5.6#postgresql-data...

There is also Marten which is an ORM that offers a full document database interface all backed by Postgres JSON columns.

http://jasperfx.github.io/marten/documentation/documents/
If all you want is more static checking, it doesn't much matter if the graphics API consumes GLSL or SPIR-V. SPIR-V is mostly about factoring out part of the optimization phase from the driver to the compilation process. This speeds up the process of loading a shader, and more importantly lets developers control aspects of optimization they couldn't before.
Software be eating up the world. :)
Next iteration: smart nano-agents capable of healing virus infected networks without need for traditional human programming.
Many people do not want to buy things as a service, they want to buy and own something that was built correctly the first time, and if not, is supported for the reasonable lifetime of the product for the cost stated upfront, and can be supported by people outside the company out of their pocket after that.

This as a service model is not inherent to the complexity, it's usually a cash grab.
Your car is full of things only an expert could reasonably be expected to tinker with because it is somewhat open a wide range of such people are available to fix it. If they screw it up your massive chunk of rolling death may roll over someones baby.

The circumstances are in no way new and don't merit new rules or expectations. What is actually new is increasing legal and technical roadblocks to self repair that enable manufacturers to design hardware that is worse for nearly everyone and better for their bottom line.

These markets are full of entrenched players who all have an financial incentive to make anti consumer choices so expecting a free market fix is probably laughable. The only real solution is the hated "regulation" where we seek individuals who are subject matter experts without financial incentives to dictate that people must do what is best for everyone rather than their bonus.
But it remains a single country and a single election period ("election" almost always includes electing multiple people but it is still a single election process) . The dems had control only a few months ago and could have it back in a few years. SCOTUS's impact is purely local. It means little to the rest of the world in the long run. In many places (canada) US politics seems to have an opposite effect. America has shown liberals of the world how not to do things.
Sad I am considering to use picnicss in my next project. What you would recommend besides Semantic UI?
LAPD to begin using the world's first 'pursuit-rated' hybrid patrol car
Well, I am not affiliated with bleve, but actively use it in my project where the data are in BoltDb but index is stored separately in bleve. It's really awesome package.
Can't not use promises because they're littered all over NPM now.

Not sure what's wrong with what I said about async? it's a new keyword in ES2017. It's a difficult to use control structure that doesn't do anything you couldn't do with callbacks. What part of "modern programming" do you need Async for?

I don't think I'm brilliant for being able to think through basic functional programming concepts. Actually the opposite... I think you need to be very smart to understand and debug promises, that's why they are bad. I like callbacks because they don't require me to be smart.

Maybe I'm smart for knowing I'm shooting my future self in the foot when I write code that requires smarts, but that's a little convoluted. The reason I care is because the ES6 community sold out beginners by adding all of this syntactic sugar. Javascript used to be a good beginner language.
Paranoia surrounding potential IP theft and leaks.
>If this were true, Google would have crashed and burned a long time ago.

How many of their projects succeed simply because they are google? Some major ones (like android) come to mind.
Do iot company want to pay for that? A better question for someone in the know, what problems are they having that they would pay to have solved? Updates? Security? Plain old execution and delivery time of a new iot device?
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> Is the US the only state whose federal bank (the Fed) controls the inter-bank lending rate

The Fed does not control the US inter-bank lending rate. It sets a target, and engages in open market operations to try and force the rate to stay close to the target. But it doesn't control the rate.
I had an S6 and never noticed any flickering. Nor on my Apple Watch, which uses an LG OLED if memory serves. Is it really an issue in practice?
You are arguing for accepting lockdowns on tractors so that john deere can screw their customers harder based on the safety of systems that don't exist yet. Drivers who cause accidents will end up liable just as they are now.
I would contend that this kind of work is a lot more possible in a car than coding.
Oh god, no.

I think that would make companies happy, and cynically I'd say it give them a new tool for obsoleting hardware as standards change. But most people I know are more scared IoT then excited by it's potential. Most the people I know with IoT stuff installed are more often copy writers or repairs.
Part of the problem is, you can go on Craigslist and find non-contract labor in that general area - starting at a wage of at least $10/hour. So $9.70 is simply not competitive at all.
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This is really neat to see in Lua. The first(?) issue on the project highlights this nicely: https://github.com/zeta0134/LuaGB/issues/1

I constantly underestimate the reach a project like this can have; in this case, the possibility to reuse this base for other easily-portable emulators.

I've been following this project since it began, good luck once you start tackling speed!
You must not know any farmers or ranchers. John Deere gets more love than Ford, Chevy, and Dodge combined. I haven't ever met someone who has sat in a tractor without a positive opinion of this company.

Agriculture is a very technical industry, so most of these people are quite well-educated, but that education doesn't usually include software. As soon as someone in this field wraps their head around DRM and its consequences, they are likely to fight it hard, but getting to that point takes a little more explanation than it does for you or me.

In the grand scheme of things, at least in the short term, advertising "no DRM" isn't likely to make a dent in John Deere's market share.
There's a retailer near me that sells office supplies. One day I needed a USB memory stick, and I needed it now, so I stopped by.

Everything in the store worth more than about $50 had to be ordered. "Should be here in a couple days". I get that on paper it does nice things for their cash flow, but what it's really doing is making sure people buy the $50+ items from Amazon, and then the office supply place gets the crumbs.

If you're going to be a retailer, be a retailer and make sure I'm walking out with my purchase. Otherwise that spot in the strip mall could be better utilized by a restaurant or something.
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Maybe it'd help if the cost of living was lower here.
I ran ski chairlifts for a few years when I was sick of sitting at a desk.

We were shown this video during our training, and our boss said with a very straight face that if she were ever on a chair that started rolling backwards, she would jump off.

The reason "rollback" can happen is because the weight of all the people is only on one side of the line, and that weight wants to come back downhill. The chair has a couple of different kinds of brakes that are supposed to prevent this, but you can see what happens when it fails / is engaged too late.

Two broken legs are better than that.

NOTE HOWEVER: Newer "Detachable" or "high-speed" chairs and gondolas are often designed to run in reverse, so don't immediately jump off one of those if it goes backwards.
I've been a Bootstrap user for years on all my web apps, but thinking that perhaps instead of re-learning things for v4, I look at expending a similar amount of time and effort to learn something new.

I came across Semantic-UI last year and remember being impressed by it, but for some reason it just slipped my mind until I saw this post today. I seems it could work for another small project that I am thinking of starting.

Just to clarify - No reliance on jQuery with this framework, right? Has anyone else worked with Semantic-UI using Umbrella.js and/or Intercooler.js ??
This assumes consumers actually rationally assess the value and don't value emotional brand attachments.
Also pretty spotty animations and such on Safari Tech Preview (#27) for me. Also, the "Intuitive Javascript" demo doesn't really work intuitively. It shows a scrollable box the size of one item—it doesn't drop down and you cannot see multiple items at once to select many in the "select multiple" example.
You have this backwards.
They don't ask for it and then go looking to see what's relevant, they figure out what relevant stuff it has and then ask for it.
If they believe and can show it has evidence relevant to a lawsuit, and you have no 5th amendment privilege to assert in it (IE it is not evidence of a crime, etc), then yes, you can generally be required to produce it.

You can certainly try to get it quashed, but if it really does have evidence relevant to the lawsuit, ...
yeah you are probably going to be forced to produce it.
Curious about this. Any clue why? Too much animation, heavy JS-use? Not familiar with how the framework does its stuff.
I do in this specific case. (Haven't read the article. Don't stand to profit.) Here's a simple argument for only one aspect of IoT:

Take all the electric equipment you use in your household, office, and so on. Lights, fixtures, fans, kitchen appliances, security systems, on, and on. What the size of that industry you think is at the moment? Just know that about 2/3rd of that industry would "die" and be replaced by exact equivalent devices that communicate wirelessly/remotely with your smart-phones and tablets.

Here's the slightly depressing news: likely majority of that market size would be retaken by giants like GE, Philips, etc, that are already the pre-IoT monopolies. But not too depressing because that still leaves quite a room for new players and acquisitions/aquihires.

But again, this is just one aspect of IoT. I haven't even mentioned new devices, appliances, because it's a little harder to quantify, much less the coming robotic revolution.
I ported a diff algorithm (a simple one at that) just a few months ago because the language I was working in didn't have one. I couldn't do it off the top of my head today, or probably the day after, it was transient knowledge that I didn't even try to remember.
What, specifically, is a threat to kill people in the software? I'm sorry but that just reads like a John Deere shill here to defend the cause. We got by for literally two hundred years without magical software in tractors, and we were just fine.