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>Note that pack3d runs until stopped, writing its output to disk whenever a new best is found.

I wish more software operated like this. It makes it convenient because your concrete constraint is usually time, instead of number of iterations, which is an abstract value.
> If users believe their router firmware may have been compromised, Linksys recommends that users download the latest available firmware from http://www.linksys.com/support/ and update your router.

Is there a hardware feature that makes the firmware boot secure in a way that prevents the firmware from interfering with the update? Such as croning itself to reinstall the compromise when you're not looking? Or lying that it updated?
I recently graduated from Kharkov radio-electronics university, and there, everywhere I had been, believe it or not, all computers had pirate versions of Windows XP and 7 with the updates turned off, though Microsoft generously allows to update even the pirate versions. And I'm sure in most governmental institutions the situation is the same. The most astonishing thing, is that officially these Windows versions are licensed, with proper appropriations from the budget.

Honestly speaking, I'm sure in Russia situation is very similar.
What are compile commands?
They could have customer service lookup the customer's order number and change the script accordingly. You can't have a front without a back.
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> .. the current Debugger tool which has a better interface

Respectfully, I disagree. The debugger tool's search in files is klunky with the bang prefix required to search all files and the search results shown in a scrollable popunder panel. Search should operate over all files/nodes in the current tab's category by default. And, it is bad UX for a tool that itself is (usually) a docked panel in the main browser window to have temporary panes appear that crowd out or obscure their neighbors. You've already got a file tree on the left, why not make that a twisty tree and categorize the search results under their parent files there - that is, if you feel your developers must have fancy clicky bits.

For those interested, here's some related bugs to look at:

Can't search in multiple sources in the Style Editor
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=889571 (4 years old)

Firebug gaps
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991806 (3 years old)

The comments in that Firebug gaps ticket hurt me to read. Firebug got shanked by you guys like over a year ago and Developer Tools aren't close to feature parity.

Dear Firefox product owners: developer tools have to be great for the boring use cases -AND- the sexy HTML5 debugging use cases. Please put more resources into the Firebug gaps ticket and knock that one out.
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Has been done between Mexico and California already. Aside from that, many of the drivers aren't really given a choice, so the risk is irrelevant.
It certainly would be interesting but I doubt any government has the taste for this.
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It should be a pref switch in the next nightly on 64 bit linux and windows, fwiw.
thats a good distinction, and i suppose its defensible. but imagine you are a trumpet player, and a pianist walks by and says "i hate that non-instrument trumpet" unprovoked. no one is wrong to hate the trumpet. but saying it to a trumpet player, and then saying they aren't even a musician (implied by "non-language"), is going to catch heat.

and its undeniably true that javascript has got loads of warts. i mean, look no further than "javascript: the good parts" as perhaps the most recommended book. (i guess you already know this, but for the maybe 1 other person reading this...) but despite that, i enjoy the hell out of writing good js, and love that people can use what you make by going to web page. and w/r/t the warts, i feel that if they were corrected, my js life woulnd't change much at all. so when people point to the warts as evidence that its a bad language, all i can say is that while they are obviously bad, they dont end up mattering to me. thats clearly not true of everyone, but id bet its true alot. because of this, i find it pretty easy to spot people who are excited to hate js because they are pretty sure its a safe thing to hate and it will make them look in the know. i mean, i was guilty of this when i was younger with mysql and php.

and yes, people being "forced" to use js is surely contributing to the hate, probably the same way people hate having to use css. they look at them as afterthoughts, but its funny because in a lot of cases, its like the main thing that needs work. i just wonder why people cling to the idea that "real programming" has a certain look, when being good at js and css is super helpful and important to good web projects.

i suppose we are arguing for the same thing- basically open-mindedness and willingness to learn.
Decent internet that would allow me to stream every so often, reasonable variety of food/things to do, milder weather, LGBT friendliness, and cheapness (in relation to living in, say a large city in the American West coast). Also safety to some extent.

I could hop to/explore the EU, where I would feel completely comfortable and I could absolutely do with some minor bureaucratic hassle but I would be concerned about being able to working with a US job if I have that marked a difference in time zone (I don't know if that's actually a reasonable concern).
What you fail to grasp is that your rights end where others begin, and there's more people in the world who aren't you than who are you. Grow up.

Let's get rid of doctor licensing then? The free market will separate the good ones from the ones who will kill you! Pyramid schemes? You have the right to invest in one, so why outlaw it? Toxic waste dump? Go for it! Don't let the evil law stop you! Seriously, you're incredibly dull if you cannot grasp the consequences of your words. Each and every one of these hated laws came about as a result of something bad happening, and people were like "yeah, let's prevent that from happening again." Then everything is good, and idiots like you come by and scream about the big gubmint keepin you down! The horrors! Well go back in time then you moron, to the time when slavery existed (there's a law against that) or kids worked in coal mines (there's a law against that) without safety equipment (nor laws) or taxi drivers didn't carry insurance (dreaded regulations that Uner flaunted).
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> If the free market doesn't support cheaper labor costs, you need to use some other method to reduce labor costs.

What if you can't? Do we just do without strawberries, then?
I'm of course fine with CEOs getting lower pay, but is that a realistic outcome?
I read the whole thing with great anticipation. I thought they did some magic math with EM waves in a vacuum.

Then I saw this is actually some fancy material that's required for it to happen. Okay then, nevermind.
its just a kind of hipster thing to do, to hate things. i did it with mysql and php. its like a way to show that you are cool.
You're just describing mega-malls they have in SE Asia. Singapore and Thailand have some of the biggest ones.
ok i dont think snob has anything to do with upbringing, but yes- i dont really care for the tons of articles about new dumb frameworks etc, that would only be more annoying if i didnt use js. you are also allowed hate js. just kind of weird to parade around the internet proudly proclaiming it (not you, op)
Right, but you wouldn't split it equally. You'd split it proportionally based on what each employee actually makes, so the $30k/yr employee would get less than a $3k raise.
Gambling may be the one vice I am morally against and will not partake in.

I won't even buy raffle tickets for charity, I'd rather just give them money.
What do you mean, "if this is true?" I linked my sources (Akamai and OECD)--you can see for yourself.

As far as that perception goes, my suspicion is that it has to do with the tech press/readership skewing young and urban. The U.S. is highly unusual in making the actual building of wires largely a state/local issue, and also in treating cities as ghettos instead of national priorities. Maryland, where I live, is a microcosm: if it were a country, it'd be just below Finland for broadband speeds. But it's only major city (Baltimore) is impoverished, and doesn't have fiber even though all the counties around it do. My neck of the state is pretty rural--large parts of it don't even have public water/sewer. But it's had fiber for a decade. Meanwhile, New York and Boston are just now getting fiber, and San Francisco still mostly doesn't have it.
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The proposed framework is self-serving, flawed and behind the state of art. I say this as someone who really loves Google's products and uses them heavily. To summarize US citizens, as a right, have and must continue to have their due process rights adjudicated by US Courts in accordance with the Constitution.

1. Requests under Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) take a long time because the Courts don't move quickly. If Google, or a requesting country finds the US judicial process too slow welcome to reality. Lobby for more Court resources, advocate for decriminalization of minor offenses, etc., etc.

2. Assertions of Extraterritorial jurisdiction (EJT) are a business risk, just like customs regulations, tariffs and privacy regulations. If Google finds them inconvenient then adjust the business model.

3. "We are also seeing various proposals to require companies to store data within local borders as a means to gain easier access. There are a host of problems with this: small, one-off data centers are easier targets for attackers and jeopardize data security and privacy. Further, requiring businesses to build these data-centers will raise the costs for cloud services, erecting significant barriers for smaller companies."

...Not credible, at all. Smaller companies don't build data centers. Data flows like currency to centers where trade-offs among speed, security, cost, privacy and other considerations is optimal. The market can resolve these issues on its own in response to host country data privacy and criminal law.

4. And, finally, assurances of adherence to baseline due process, human rights, and privacy standards are largely meaningless to anyone paying attention to the rampant corporate and political espionage states routinely and sometimes/often appropriately engage in. The last thing US businesses need is the long arm of foreign government's attitudes toward encryption, by way of example, reaching into their data.

Again, I believe Google's contributions across all its offerings and policies is a big net positive. Their position on this issue is horribly misguided in my opinion.
This really hasn't been true on consumer devices for a while now. Sure, you can add RAM to a server for cheap, but no one really runs a browser there. In many cases now, adding more memory to a device means buying a completely new device. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter much if the component is cheap if there's no way to actually install it.
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Ironically, your code looks much more like Python than the author's. "Simple is better than complex" at play, I suppose. If I were to sit down and start writing Go, the idea to use equality would come long before I bothered with pointer notation, especially for such a simple task.
That's because they have a different team to do burials.
> countries that honor baseline principles of privacy, human rights, and due process

I actually thought that was the most interesting clause in the whole thing. This would basically give corporations a way to make rulings on the behavior of nations, truly an ambitious move.
As far as I know you don't have any input into how a margin call is executed. The exchange confiscates the loaned assets and sells them as a market order. I could be misinformed but I spent several years building FX order books and this is how margin calls were handled on those systems.
The difference is the others are hating on a technology, not a person. You are insulting a person.

He didn't insult javascript developers or people who like it he simply said he doesn't like it, which for some reason got you personally insulted.

Hate is a word used in the modern world pejoratively to mean strongly dislike especially I've noticed those with English as a second language.
Very little necessarily separates gambling from video games. After all, another name for casinos is the "gaming industry".

The main practical differences to me are that the gambling industry is more nakedly exploitative, more reliably engineered for addiction, and more frequently destructive to people's lives.

But I think parts of the video game industry are headed in that direction.

When I watch my brother and my nephew playing, say Battlefield 1, they are visibly having fun. They bought the game once and are getting many hours of enjoyment out of it, a few at a time. It seems a reasonably healthy pastime to me.

But then I'll watch people playing Zynga-ish games. They don't look like they're having fun. They look like people playing slots: low affect, compulsive, grinding away at something that never really satisfies.

So personally, it's not that I don't like gambling specifically. A friend's low-ante poker night can be a good time. It's that I hate profitable exploitation of people's weaknesses in a way that leaves them worse off. Industrial-scale gambling and shitty, addictive games are both in that bucket for me.
The Onion, almost 20 years ago: http://www.theonion.com/article/high-definition-television-p...
I'm a fan of probability... conjoined, disjointed, conditional, decision trees.. the void can be fun, really!
Download from non-TLS site, yeah, what could go wrong.
Yea, but still, there is a bubble inside a bubble.
I think it was Gradient Decision Boosting Trees to combine different models.
So ... the latest available firmware for mine is from jan 2016. Clearly there would be no fix in that firmware. So the idea is that I'm installing a known/assumed/hoped "good" firmware, to replace the potentially bad firmware. Yes?

(And the latest available is newer than what's on my router now, so might as well.)
> his position and the name of the university he was associated with

Whats wrong with that. Thats all you need.
This is absolutely false.
For credentials, I have worked for several years in the industry testing slot machine software.
One of the things we test for is ensuring the game always pays out at the correct payback rate, which is always skewed so that the house wins. In most jurisdictions, the laws are written such that it is illegal to have a slot machine that pays back in the players favor over time (doing this would reduce the governments taxes).

In a sufficiently large population, over a finite period of time, there can be a small set of people that look like they are winners. This is called survivorship bias. Given enough time, these people will eventually lose.

However, anyone saying they know how to win on slot machines is probably just lying.

The house always wins in the end. The only way to win as a player is to cheat.
Nothing in life is "guaranteed". However, we often manage to form reasonable expectations about how things work. And when such reasonable expectations are broken, there are ramifications.

In this case, I would guess that unexpected political spam devalues Tinder and makes people less likely to use it. Imagine if large numbers of organizations started using Tinder to spread a message or support their cause. It would make finding a date on the app significantly more frustrating.
Ok, then most people won't become software engineers without going to school or attending a bootcamp.

It doesn't have to be a thing that everyone does to be possible.
Fundamental limitations reach expiry near the ten thousand year mark, after the civilization, language, and science used to define the limitation have all disappeared into the forgotten past.
I know it is novel to talk about blue collar workers working alongside phd grads who are specialists in this field... but surely any good system which needs to deliver a quality outcome needs to be built with domain expertise, in this case driving trucks. I just don't see why this is that exciting. I'd be bloody worried if developers writing vehicle AI weren't doing this.
> I can't decide if that's a good thing?

It is. I found it a refreshing stylistic quirk
Need something with a TPM, like an Onhub/Google Wifi.
Any rough idea when you might have C# support?
I also know a WSOP final table player, and what you say is true of tournament play.

Think of that more like the lottery for professional poker players. The celebrities do that a couple times a year, and the grinders hope to make enough for buy-in and "make it big". It's the least mathematically interesting way to "make a living" playing poker there is.

Where you grind out your living is the daily cash games. Yes, if you are making a living off of Poker it's basically a job. That means boring play for little hourly money most days of your life. After a few months, I imagine this feels more or less identical to an actual job.

I've watched "pros" grind out their day to day life, and it really doesn't seem that compelling. Better than working fast food, but on average seems to pay about the same and be roughly the same intellectual stimulation. 4 screens with 6 tables on each playing video poker every day doesn't sound that great to me.
Does he have an Etsy shop?
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Georgism brings up some really fantastic points along this line.

If you want to be technically pedantic, exclude the value of improvements on the property. You don't really want to tax the act of replacing an empty lot with a $10MM factory. You do want to tax the right to use land within the catchment of the various services the state provides. Land isn't produced, so you can't disincentivize producing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
That conversion path hurts to even read :(.
At some point you guys have to start putting this into a mathematical model or it devolves into wordplay.

(For example, I could easily say that versatility is selected for rather than diversity. But who cares? We're not saying anything scientific if it doesn't have a formal definition.
I've maintained restrained excitement about Atom for years. A super hackable editor (what more could a tool-obsessed coder want)... but frustratingly laggy. This release finally feels snappy enough that I may switch.

Large files, slowish startup, and the like are all special case problems that I can use Sublime for, but until now, the almost subliminal typing sluggishness always drove me away.

Bravo Atom team for making it fast enough. I look forward to continued improvements in this space.
This. If anything, developers do way better in their mid 20s than almost any other profession. If you ask older people about their early jobs, most will tell you they sucked and paid very little.
This is true of work generally, though. Employeers always have the incentive of automation, because they don't pay wages from the goodness of their hearts. You can't feel bad for encouraging automation, and it's a problem we're going to have to deal with as a society at some point.
I am astonished. This is not a complicated issue. This is sensationalism. Before any of you "vote" on anything, consider exactly what it is that you're criticising. As it is, I'll bet almost all of you have never turned a wrench, let alone crawled into some ungrateful asshole's filthy attic or appalling, sewage filled crawlspace to replace a corroded cable fitting so said customer could spank his monkey at 3am to shitty cable porn, or worse, play farmville, and made < $15/hour doing it.

We are talking about a very delicate electrical system that cannot function effectively outside of a specific radio bandwidth before being completely overtaken by the numerous sources of RF which exist in the world. Remember radios? Well, they got their name because they were the receivers of "radiated" "waves" in the air. As were TV's. Guess what? That coax line in your house? That's the modern version of an antenna. CATV literally means "community antenna television". It's an antenna that you share with everyone on the same "node" of your cable system. It's shielded so the RF no longer has to go through the air. In effect, if there is a breach in the shielding around that cable (a long antenna), you're going to get noise, and crappy service. Additionally, your precious internet rides on the highest frequencies carried by this sole, frail copper wire. Those high frequencies, as any EE student can tell you, are especially highly susceptible to interference. A single dB can make all the difference for your highly calibrated, sensitive cable modem that you don't fully appreciate. Some of these networks are huge. If one of your neighbors got high and plugged a blender in, anywhere in his home, and he has frayed cable jacketing, anywhere in his home, or a bad fitting, anywhere in his home, it can easily take an entire block down. There are hubs, of course, but don't count on one being nearby, if you're tasked with repairing someone's internet. I get it, "fuck Comcast, they're the devil because I have to give them money", but let's be adults here. Comcast is people. Every company is people.
I was surprised the other day when someone told me the fios technician intentionally clipped the comcast line at their house during an install

Probably an extremely common practice by any big company in areas where people have a choice.
Aww. The bad beats are what stand out! Even better when you're the villain, pulling that last deuce on the river.
Well, it would be much better if the article wasn't written by those who organized the efforts. They are likley to be heavily biased towards interpreting the outcome positively, especially in a public write up. They could have somewhat alleviated this concern with hard data, but unfortunately they did not do so.

For me, it's pretty simple. I don't like it for the same reason that I don't like door-to-door solicitors or activists.
I think you have been watching too much ocean's eleven. This would be trivial to fix with a sensor on the bottom.

> Ok, but what if the refugees were lowered by a helicop...

Sensor on the roof. Sensor on the side. Sensor everywhere.
While I have never been in a similar situation, I'm sorry for your loss.
In addition to that, Telecom Cable also accused Comcast of systematically cutting the lines leading to every single one of their customers. They argue that if the damage were accidental it would not have been as comprehensive.
Why are you reading a 444 page book on jQuery in 2017?
I see there's a playground [1], and a pres video from this year's curry on conf [2] available.

[1] http://playground.ponylang.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGDSnOZaU7Y

EDIT: Oh, and got awesome help filling out its details in our crowd-sourced favorite statically compiled languages list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BAiJR026ih1U8HoRw__n...
I don't see this as a good thing. I would say that I declare (my admittedly insignificant) vote of no confidence in both any government and in corporations. When I look at the legislation passed in my lifetime, it's enraging. Laws are passed specifically to entrench a surveillance based police state.

While it does appear that some legislation is outdated, I would rather it stay, since I can only foresee it being replaced with a bill porkbarreled to the point of bursting with surveillance measures, anti-consumer, anti-encryption, anti-privacy clauses. The governments of today are cartels, plain and simple. Enhanced cooperation between thugs with lots of money is not exactly comforting.

The Alliance of Conservative Dinosaurs (read: the GOP) seems dead set on rescinding my liberties. I'd rather they be frustrated by antiquated legislation than surrender more freedoms under the false flag of security.