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> The C++/Java/C# problem of exceptions being more expensive than you'd like for common error situations.

Exceptions should not be used for common error situations! This is the prime mistake of Java which pretty much required exceptions when it should (and checked exceptions to boot).

> .NET has sprouted alternatives like `bool tryParse(String, out int)` as a workaround

I don't consider that a workaround. There is a deep semantic difference between TryParse and Parse. If you see TryParse then you know the data is expected to be invalid. If you see Parse than you know it's expected to be always valid. A good C# program should have very very few try/catch blocks (ideally just one).
It depends on the specific product and its absolute cost and such. It is the "price elasticity of demand".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand

If people buy something in about the same volume when its price fluctuates wildly, the price elasticity is low and vice versa.
I was looking at this, though I admittedly know little about purchasing used aircraft: https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Single+...
It doesn't say Apple.com in Vivaldi :)
Only if there's an immediate feedback-loop. (As in a AI-run dictatorship.) In practise this kind of feedback can take up to a decade to cause actual implementation in most democracies, I would guess.
Tell the CRTC what it's like
Could you explain why garbage collection in your use case is a bad thing? The GC vs non-GC always fascinates me, and I have no strong opinion either way.

Also, doesn't C# have the ability to limit (or pretty much disable) GC?
Here is a good breakdown of that $4.9bn number https://electrek.co/2015/06/02/complete-breakdown-of-the-4-9... Incentives for creating jobs & tax credits.

Not bad compared to the $12 billion cost for the GM bailout and $4 billion+/yr for oil & gas subsidies.
ah, David Boies the champion of illegal, deceptive and awful business's.
By that definition, there are many government-run highways that must be excluded from the definition. Further, privately owned does not mean publicly inaccessible.

If your assertion is that you're referring to all forms of tax revenue, then your original post should probably not refer to tax rates. Otherwise, if you're just arguing in favor of all taxes, then it seems overly broad for a discussion on income tax revenue.

Either way, we've had public ways that existed without having been funded by any forms of taxation. Unless you're specifically attempting to pick the only definition of the word that bolsters your argument, while ignoring all other definitions, then it remains a truism that highways themselves do not exclusively originate from tax revenues, and are in fact capable of existing without taxes altogether... and it remains true whether or not one considers taxes to be universally good, bad, or anywhere in between.
Turkey banned human cloning
1. That looks like an interesting book. Have you read it?

2. I think you are focusing too much on the use of the word "nerd" here. Harvey chose the use of that word, not MIT.
A liquid-hydrocarbon fueled turbogenerator would appear to meet your criteria. You can use synthetic or biofuels if you're worried about the environmental impact. Of course the aircraft will be more efficient if you omit the generator and mechanically couple the turbine to the props.
I remember being really intrigued when I ran into Fortran programs that used negative array indices. It's pretty handy in a lot of situations.
The following isn't legal advice and I'm not your attorney. Keep looking for someone with related but not direct experience. Many of the details of patent prosecution are procedural and legal, not exactly technical. Anyone who has done patent prosecution is better than a technical expert.

Even if you get a patent passed the examiner, you might have gotten claims that were too broad or too narrow. You might have made statements during prosecution that make asserting the application difficult. You might have written the claims in a way that is difficult to enforce.
Are monads an /advance/, or are they just a language feature that might be nice in some cases, pointless or harmful in others -- like any other feature?
I've read articles in the past which claimed 2-2.5x, historically.
Actually Lustre gives good "out of the box" performance... I've used a few HPC clusters and have almost never felt the need to issue commands to configure striping, etc.
It's extremely common to get the tense wrong. "This is what our product does" instead of "this is what our product will do." (They hope, if all goes well.) This is not (just) grammar nit-picking, it's often the difference between a promise and a lie.

For public companies, this is what results in "forward-looking statements" boilerplate. But it happens all the time in technical presentations.

I try to call people on it, but sometimes it's a losing battle.
Yes, what motivates somebody like musk after they earned 100m? Money? Or doing something relevant, challenging, satisfying? Real innovators aren't homo economicus, they don't do everything just to maximise future earnings...
From that essay:

> 100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another.

To me it suggests that having high valuations may be the cause of having the .com domain. A more useful analysis would be when companies that are now successful got their domains.
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>Do we know any reason for C# not to adopt this as well?

Because delegates are a much easier way of dealing with things? Especially with lambda functions.
Unless you're talking about the java pattern of passing an entire anonymous class for, let's say, a formatter or something. The reason for C# not to adopt that seems to be that:

- It's so terribly awful, who in his right mind is happy to implement yet another anonymous class?
- API design is different and .NET manages to avoid the need of those quite gracefully.
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These Juicero guys are missing the true business model. I would buy the packets alone just to make my daily fresh juice by squeezing it with my hands. Screw the machine.

They're probably selling the machine at a loss just to sell the packages.

I hope these guys wake up an see the true business model.
Who cares? Once batteries can get as much, or more energy density than fuel, those types of machines will appear naturally.

I'm not really impressed by this project to be honest, I'm more interested by cost and energy density of batteries. Can't wait to see how the giga factory impacts the price of batteries.
5-10 minute charge time is just as good as swap out without the overhead. It's difficult with current tech, but is indeed possible.
Reshaping JSON with jq (2016)
It also just happens that the MS C# compiler always emits the `callvirt` instruction for instance methods, because the language spec requires that a NullReferenceException be thrown any time a method is called on a null instance, even if none of the instance fields are used in the method.

Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericgu/2008/07/02/why-does-...
I prefer "breadth-first" to "depth-first" for learning, which is why I think Python is a better language for learning.
Not OP, but my guess would be that such a number would have come from pricing out equivalent services as those being provided. That is, providing discounted housing is not handing out money. But you could take the average discounted rent, and the average non-discounted rent, and come to an approximate cash-equivalent "value" of that discount.

Also, I find the direction of the article in your link interesting. That is, given this:

> Under TANF, states can spend welfare money on virtually any program aimed at one of four broad purposes: (1) assistance to needy families with children; (2) promoting job preparation and work; (3) preventing out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and (4) encouraging the formation of two-parent families.

I'm a little surprised to see this a couple paragraphs down:

> In 1998, nearly 60 percent of welfare spending was on cash benefits, categorized as “basic assistance.” By 2014, it was only about one-quarter of TANF spending. That shift has happened despite a burgeoning economics literature suggesting that direct cash transfers are in many cases the most efficient tool to fight poverty.

I don't see "fighting poverty" on the list of four things, so I'm not surprised that it got disincentivized.
Making poor purchasing decisions and being willing to spend more for something you could get for less are two different things though. The fact that most people buy flights based on price and time of the flight over the quality of the airline demonstrates this to an extent.

The grocery store chain Aldi's entire value proposition is that they cut out every modern convenience that costs money and pass that savings on to consumers. For example, you have to pay 0.25 if you want a cart, but you get it back if you return your cart, thus drastically reducing the need to have extra workers to go get carts and bring them back in from the parking lot. Also, they don't have bags for your groceries, rather they have empty cardboard boxes you can use if you want (similar to Costco or Sam's Club). You'd think that that would turn people off, but actually people are very easily swayed at the prospect of saving a few bucks.
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Does this violate any current US law?
> Coincidentally, many of them receive substantial campaign donations from tax prep industry.

So an industry that would essentially be wiped out, and an entire academic field invalidated (or left with few options for work, one of them being the IRS themselves), so they organize and lobby politicians to ensure their industry's survival?

Color me shocked.
Yup. WalMart was doing big data analytics, mixed in with a lot of real-time processing, many years before those became a thing in the rest of the industry.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of position are you looking at in the UK next week?
I'll echo that, we had a project that at one time, even with a couple experienced Ceph admins, suffered meltdown after meltdown on Ceph until we just took the time to move the project and workload over to HDFS. Our admins learned to setup and administer HDFS from scratch and have had far fewer issues.
It's just like Pied Piper on Silicon Valley!
Surely one acquisition and 9 years later this isn't still an open vulnerability… right? It'd be nice if the author discussed that.
Agreement on the mismanagement, I grew up in NOLA. High school taught me that pretty much 50% of Louisiana's land comes from the Mississippi jumping its banks and dumping silt into a new area for a while. Once you have cities lining a river's banks there's a strong economic pressure to try and keep the river where it is, despite the slow loss of land to erosion.

I don't think it's an either-or, though. The delta's generally pretty close to sea level (NOLA averages about 5ft below IIRC) as is, and when the seas rise, that means more Gulf and less Louisiana Delta. It'll just vanish quicker because we haven't been letting the river refresh the land for a few centuries.

Ultimately it becomes a question of how much money anyone is willing to dump into this; I wouldn't be that surprised to see the city I was born and raised in become either New Atlantis or New Venice in my lifetime.
It sounds like you need HackerOne Disclosure Assistance https://support.hackerone.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001936043...

This was introduced 3 days ago https://twitter.com/martenmickos/status/854321634404061185

HackerOne will work with friendly hackers on a best effort basis to verify the legitimacy of a vulnerability, reach out to and verify the identity of an individual at the affected organization, then share the vulnerability with the organization so it can be resolved.

Seems like it address most of the problems of educating the organization so they don't threaten you.
While it may be true that in this particular instance the FBI might act benevolently, the idea was that it would be nice if there was an organization you could go to with any zero day bug. Even if the FBI is not mismanaged and always tries to protect Americans, you could easily imagine a scenario where someone reports an exploit to an OS where anyone can remotely install a key logger. The FBI wouldn't be a good organization to report this to because they may want to use this to track down criminals which, they would no doubt feel, would greatly outweigh the cost to Americans that the zero day represents.

The EFF seems like a good choice. In general you would need to pick an organization that does not have a vested interest in using exploits.
I've done mechanical and chemical engineering, I've worked in software. Software guys are particularly oblivious and particularly defensive in my experience.

Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash put it really well:

> It was, of course, nothing more than sexism,the especially virulent type espoused bymale techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.
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I felt ignorant first when reading it as well. But looking at the "FAQ" at the bottom, it says:

"But this only affects people that are logged in, right? Yes ..."

So I suppose what happens is, that the user is already logged into the service and thus has a cookie for the service in his browser.

If the user then somehow executes a request to the URL in the article with the same browser (eg viewing a malicous email with the IMG tag in a webmail client), the browser will enclose the cookie in the header of the request. This makes the request automatically authenticated.
The United States used to have over a 90% income tax, and many other countries even now have much higher tax rates than the current US rate. 44% is not harsh at all.
Apples to oranges comparison. One is talking about the US. The other is talking about the world.

I wonder how much of the world's burden those 1% actually are paying? Why do you think they would still need to pay more?
You have to go into some parts of the Rockies for what wilderness remains in the lower 48. I've fished some alpine lakes that likely hadn't seen any human in a year, if even.

The road rule is actually part of why certain groups push to build roads on public lands, because it reduces the land's environmental status and access to protections from exploitation.
It's the proliferation of programs, most of which don't write checks to the individuals but do provide generous coverage & subsidies. EBT (aka "food stamps"), health insurance, "Section 8 housing" ("right" to rent in upscale neighborhoods with capped cost), etc all add up. Details are out there, often reported. https://downtrend.com/robertgehl/welfare-payouts-top-20-per-... http://nypost.com/2013/08/19/when-welfare-pays-better-than-w... The totality of details is too much for a brief casual blog comment, and it may not be exactly so in all cases, but point is there is a substantial drop in welfare benefits above a certain income threshold for given jurisdictions, enough that between about $12-20/hr the decrease in benefits is more than the increase in wages - to wit: the more you earn, the lower your revenue at an economic strata where decreased income is extremely difficult to bridge. ...and that economic barrier to social mobility is an artificial construct instituted by a well-meaning, but deeply misguided, sociopolitical philosophy.
> ... consistent with her longstanding, personal commitment to doing the right thing for the Theranos shareholder base...

Uh huh. That's why the offer comes with a "you agree not to sue us" clause, I'm sure.
LustreFS (intel enterprise lustre) using 10gbps networking.
> Is there even a criminal investigation here?

Seems like there sure should be.
Hopefully, he closed his account in that time, so he wouldn't know.
It's not really that innocuous. It'll cause the program to crash as soon as it's discovered that there wasn't a value where you were expecting one.

In languages with exceptions, the program will crash as soon as you try to use that value (rather than when you try to unwrap it), e.g. the infamous null pointer exception. Copying bad sample code in this case might result in code that is difficult to debug because a null value might be handed off several times before something tries to dereference it.

In languages that expect but do not enforce that you check the validity of the value (like C) you'll just get undefined behaviour that will hopefully cause your program to segfault when you try to use the value, but who knows what will actually happen? Copying bad sample code in this case will cause a security vulnerability.

Copying "bad" sample rust code (using unwrap) will cause a safe crash with maximum locality, for simpler debugging.
I actually say I am going to Google something when in reality I use DuckDuckGo...
One thing I liked about it was how he dove into how the incentives and limits on federal authority combine to make it very hard to get the power industries more tightly regulated wrt security/resilience
Elon Musk Just Outlined How He’ll Merge the Human Brain and AI
tell that to all of the friends i've made here. it is very different from twitter somehow. you really do connect with people.
Tech part was "good enough" for last 20+ years - it's why most companies call their tech teams "IT department".

There is however something about that last 5-10% where moving a few bits around the right way gives you business advantage, over places like Disney.

That said, it does seem like some of this Netflix stuff is overbuilt, although I don't need to run tens of 1000's of ec2, so maybe it's worth it.
Strange, IE refuses to load that url, "check spelling and try again".
Video Shows Palantir CEO Ridiculing Trump and Slamming His Immigration Rhetoric
WikiLeaks published the user guide for the CIA WeepingAngel tool
> I'd add that checked exceptions don't play nicely with general functional/stream operations like "map" which is why Java went with unchecked exceptions for their streams api in Java 8. Rust on the other hand can handle interior failures in such functions nicely, promoting them to a single overall failure easily via collect(), using the blanket FromIterator<Result<A, E>> implementation for Result<V, E>.

And Swift has a `rethrows` marker to transitively do whatever a callback does, it's equivalent to "throws" if the callback throws, and to nothing if it does not. So e.g. `map(_ fn: (A) throws -> B) rethrows` will throw if the callback it is provided throws, and not throw if the callback doesn't throw.
I agree that is a line of thinking, with one exception. Japan is not building up its military because of N Korea but because of China.

Japan's recent military buildup didn't begin until China's really took flight. Japan always has faced little threat from N Korea (besides the nuclear weapons); NK would have to cross a significant body of water to reach Japan, and lacks the capability, and Japan has more than enough conventional power to easily defeat NK. To deal with NK, Japan needs only anti-missile and anti-air capabilities to protect against nuclear weapons.

S Korea obviously is much more exposed to NK, but AFAIK their risk is not defeat to NK but losing very large numbers of civilians in Seoul, which the North holds hostage with massive, dug-in artillery batteries. That has been the North's deterrent against an SK invasion. I'm not sure if SK's military is growing.
We also run crawlers on our home laptops, on university servers, on every cheapo hosting service we can find (especially if they offer decent or "unlimited" bandwidth), and so on. Tools like wget and wpull can randomize the timing between requests, use regex to avoid pitfalls, change the user-agent string, work in tandem with phantomjs and/or youtube-dl to grab embedded video content...

Good luck playing whack-a-mole against the crawlers. I admit to being very curious what you're openly hosting online that you really don't want to get saved for posterity?
Prince mourned a year after his death
I have showdead on, which is why I was able to see the comment.

There's advocating genocide, and shooting people on sight in an older comment.

I understand you're not the person that killed the comment, but could the commenter have expressed either of those points of view in a way that wouldn't have resulted in them being removed? If not, I think that's unfortunate. We're adults here and should be able to handle genuine conversation on sensitive topics, I would hope.
Doctor Who-inspired proxy transmogrifies politically sensitive web
Yeah but dead sticking is less effective during take off and landing as well.
The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks
I'd be very interested in how much "some performance" is :) I'm assuming good old nfsv3? No encrypted transport etc?
Just that they have a name that will immediately be without any trust at any non -tech company. Basically mentioning "hacking" will make any non-technical CEO shiver and call the lawyers.
People who are used to software success stories, not medical tech success stories. An undergraduate having an idea that changes the world is possible in the relatively unconstrained space of software (which the bubble is used to), less so in the long, dull slog of primary scientific research.
Cool. I'm going to be trying this out and comparing to ConceptNet Numberbatch [1] (the current state-of-the-art multilingual vectors). I'd like to see how they compare on existing evaluations of word similarity.

EDIT: never mind the comparison, I just got the part where the monolingual performance should be the same as fastText's. Which I don't think is a great thing. The precomputed fastText vectors aren't very good in most languages because most Wikipedias are small. Even the Japanese fastText vectors perform only slightly better than chance on Sakaizawa's evaluation of Japanese word similarity [2].

I would expect that, having data from both Wikipedia and Google Translate, you should be able to make a system that's monolingually much better than fastText on Wikipedia alone. That's what I was hoping to compare to. Don't limit yourself to the performance of fastText's data.

I also observe that the data files could be made much, much smaller. Every value is written out as a double-precision number in decimal. Most of these digits convey no information, and they're effectively random, limiting the effectiveness of compression. These could all be rounded to about 4 digits after the decimal point with no loss of performance.

[1] https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet-numberbatch

[2] https://github.com/tmu-nlp/JapaneseWordSimilarityDataset
How many people do you really think are making and/or watching fansubbed Dutch content?
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Java compiles to bytecode and most implementations JIT, just like .NET. JVMs are more advanced than the CLR at optimization.
I've done that. I hold the trademarks ANIMATS (supplemental register), SITETRUTH, and DOWNSIDE. I have the domains "animats.com", "sitetruth.com", and "downside.com". Those were all obtained simply by filing directly with the USPTO. Unless you're in a crowded area of the namespace, trademarks aren't hard.

Owning a trademark gives you strong rights in domain name disputes. This is effective even if there's someone else who's a big name in a different business area. See ICANN's UDRP.
Then they weren't really protesting anything. Just living normally.

Also, for me the sacrifice would not be low consumption living but rather riding around in an RV singing folk songs. Sounds like torture. As you say, to each their own. I actually really enjoy what I do for a living.