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Explain to me how "QA" prevents a malicious package from transitively including another one and taking advantage of typo squatting.
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It depends what you're optimizing for I guess. If you want to reduce the length of the sequence then "Give me balls the the the the the" is silly but if the point is to reduce the vocabulary then it makes sense.

After all most machines currently communicate by exchanging sequences of exactly two symbols, 0 and 1, not some complex phonology. Maybe when bandwidth is not as constrained as human speech it's actually more efficient to reduce the vocabulary and increase the symbol rate.

IIRC there's something similar going on with real human languages too. For instance Chinese usually takes fewer phonemes than Spanish to express the same information. However Spanish speakers tend to speak significantly faster than the Chinese to "make up" for it. The fact that Spanish uses more sound to carry the same amount of informations makes it more resilient to "data loss" and allows a faster speech rate.
The `left-pad` debacle a year ago[0] should've served as a wake up call to people writing projects with hundreds of dependencies.

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How is this a perfect free market reaction? It's explicitly a reaction not by market participants, but by the relatively minor players who make up part of the rules of the game.

The "free market reaction" is that if these capital structures suck, active investors don't buy them or short them, and the stock price goes down. That is, if shareholder control was actually valuable, it'd command enough of a premium to discourage SNAP's behavior.
doesn't the Willamette and Columbia river run along mountain range for a long while?
But why?

It's a browser. All it should do (and do well) is display content.

I don't want a bunch of extra garbage tossed in because it sounds good on some marketing slide.

Chrome has been and continues to eat FF's marketshare alive because it has been both faster and lighter. More junk is not going to help FF beat them.
This link shows Vega significantly faster than the 1080. Minimum FPS is 65% higher. A low minimum FPS indicates performance bottlenecks in the 1080.
There are remarkably few dependency management systems not vulnerable to some variant of this attack.
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Thinking about hardware is definitely the move when writing C.

This is the major struggle with abstraction. We want to remove the burden of knowing the ins and outs of the target architecture. Inevitably, we create trouble and fall on our faces when it turns out that the hardware is still in fact there and doesn't like when we ignore it.

It's really an impossible problem. One can't account for every architecture when designing a language. Likewise, one can't feasibly remember the details of every architecture while programming. Honestly I'd be interested to see some tools that approach the problem from a direction other than maximum portability. Not that I think they'd be popular or "good".
(I assume you mean BTC not BCT)

I would expect the total value to decline if there's not one clear winner, since the value somewhat depends on network effects (e.g. Metcalf's Law)
We saw the same layman rhetoric with GMO crops in the late 90's to early 00's. Slippery-slope nightmare scenarios, accusations of playing god, corporate greed run unchecked, etc. It seems to be a recurrent theme for new technology.

Typically, reasonable people don't buy into most of these scare tactics, even if the tactics are being used as clickbait.
I wish they'd stop focusing on the flavor-of-the-week technology gimmick bullshit and focus on making Firefox the better performing browser. Chrome outperforms it in nearly every way by margins that grow with every release. My reasons for sticking with FF grow fewer every day.
And in fact S&P had to change its methodology for the S&P 500 a few years ago to allow for the two publicly traded Google share classes (A and C) to be included in the index.
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I wonder how many processors there are in use these days that don't use 2s complement. I don't think I've ever seen one.
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This misses a key distinction: A passive fund has a mandate to buy stocks in proportion to the stock's market cap.

Do you rank a company's market cap by the market cap of each class of shares? If not, you can essentially trick passive investors into buying a large proportion of worse stock.
I remember reading somewhere that these results would make it easier to determine when the next iPhone was launching. I wonder what the outcome is there.
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He's been active on Reddit and IRC. He claims to be storing it in GSuite after ripping it with Google Compute Engine.

Since incoming traffic is free and outgoing traffic to other Google services is free, bandwidth costs would be minimal (just the size of the requests, not the responses).
The TLDR; of the results is that they beat their Q3 estimates. Others have a good summary of their earnings report (or see https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AAPL/news ) .
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The iPad Pro 10.5 appears to be a solid upgrade and has many users upgrading. Not a repeatable bump though AFAICT.

If you were on the call did they break out the cost of building/moving-into the new HQ? I was trying to guess the chance of a 'down' year when they didn't refresh enough hardware.
Owning Surface just got easier with the new Surface Plus Program
I was VERY surprised to read about the linguistic traits of [B]CPL .. C was a pragmatic regression in that regard.
What politicians do not understand:
- if we are forced to chat unencrypted, terrorists will communicate in "code": "the eagle will fly today" means "attack now!"
- terrorists did successful attacks before the internet and before smartphones and do not need encryption
- terrorists do harm because they are harmed. Stop harming them and they will leave you alone.
They actually did, the recent switch to multiprocessing made a massive difference. I've been happily using Vivaldi for a few months now, but I'm tempted to go back to FF as the speed gap has been wiped out of late - only cold startups are a bit slower, actual pageload is absolutely on par or better. This on Mac, at least, but I expect it will have been similar on other platforms.
This would probably be an RLS thing.

There's a separate tool called rustfix in development that can apply the suggestions given by the compiler, so it could theoretically prompt for these.
SoundCloud could easily exist just by asking artists that want to host more than 5 songs a fee, or for some extra features on their profile. Just small stuff. If they would be dealing just with sound instead of sound-that-is-music.

Serving a service like SoundCloud isn't technically challenging or expensive. It's dealing with all of the legal stuff of people uploading music that's under license, people uploading songs that have uncleared samples in them and all that bullshit.

It's proabably ran by 5 engineers working on the service itself, 25 maintaining the DMCA platform and 270 lawyers.
It's next to impossible for the average team to avoid hundreds of dependencies as their project grows though. You could write your own everything, but then what's the benefit of the node ecosystem?

Edit: spelling
I think it's probably as simple as two things:

(1) Video content engages a wider audience and commands more focus than audio content

(2) Video advertisements dropped into video content are more effective than audio advertisements.

But that's a guess with no empirical base.
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Java byte code is generally much smaller than equivalent machine code. If you use something like Multi-OS engine which statically compiles Java bytecode to native code for iOS it's fairly typical to see an order of magnitude difference in binary size.

This actually affects Android 5+ too (Multi-OS engine uses Android's AOT compiler) but since it happens on the device it doesn't affect download sizes.
The low probability of machine failure, combined with error correction means that by 4 layers of error correction, the chances of a failure (4 successive failures) are essentially nihil.
Apple continues to struggle in China as revenue drops 10%
Do you know if this has been accounted for with ADHD anxiety and or depression? It has always seemed to me like they represent symptoms rather than the actual cause, especially now that we know serotonin deficiency doesn't cause depression
White House staff should be able to sign e-mails (S/MIME) for nonrepudiation without issue.
That's bad, Btrfs has really grown on me, especially the ability to mix drives of different sizes in a RAID configuration.

XFS is just not flexible enough, I don't like to be unable to shrink a partition once created.

It looks like I'll be back to ext4 and various kludges then.
Certainly not general CPUs, but there are probably domain specific processors out there that use something else. Why would you want to design a domain specific processor and still use C? Beats me.
Why exactly should Coinbase support every new altcoin? I seriously can not understand your point.
The agency's existence is politically feasible because people see it as protecting them from terrorists and foreign governments. Peforming spy-work to marginally improve the bottom line of American companies doesn't really stack up on that scale; even if you beleive the beggar-thy-neighbour economics that it implies.

And even if we naively assume some economic gain to the US, isn't that outweighed by the cost of their own war on encryption and instence on backdoors and other meddling in the ordinary functiong of the US tech industry?
Anyone is free to create a fork though, only the company you own shares in can make changes to the shares. If I create a fork of BCC called BCC Plus are you going to lose it when your favorite exchange doesn't give you what's yours?
Looks like all the packages by this guy post to hacktask.net - a Chinese site.

Google autocomplete also suggests xss.hacktask.net

Looks like this guy is up to all kinds of no good.
The great thing about D3 is that Mike Bostock is a prolific writer of tutorials and examples. For map-making, I taught myself a lot of D3 with his Let's Make a Map article (https://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/), which is now a bit outdated with the update to D3 4.x so there's a new tutorial series here: https://medium.com/@mbostock/command-line-cartography-part-1....
Geometric interpretation of quaternions
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Indices have been handling e.g. Berkshire Hathaway's two classes of listed stock for decades.

Some buy proportionately (i.e. if Berkshire Hathaway is 10% of a market and 15% of its value is in Class B and 85% in Class A--making up numbers for illustrative purposes--then the index puts 1.5% into B and 8.5% into A) and others defer to a single class based on judgement and rules (e.g. 10% into A). But it's a trivial problem of index construction.
I think you're underestimating some of the ad products. Video ads are very lucrative. Facebook auto play's ads and their measurement is usually how long it actually plays. Facebook's native advertising, is very effective when targeted properly. Most people don't realize its an ad.

For google Impression based advertising is still huge, and growing especially on mobile apps/games. Youtube's and mobile video ads again, like facebook is very lucrative. Most of the time these video ads can't even be skipped. Also context based search is still huge. Most people will click on the first link of a search regardless if its an ad or not.

So its really less to do with click and more about views.
here's a presentation about measuring x-ray radiation from lightning strikes and how it challenges the traditional models as well https://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/ais/publicDocs/presentat...

With quadcopters being so cheap, I assume a lot more people are going to be experimenting.
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Gardens. With gardeners. And walls.
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Not SEC regulations, but Delaware corporate law rules. I don't remember all the details because law school was too long ago. Something to do with the Revlon doctrine, probably.
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Do you mean dissolution due to bankruptcy (i.e. value = the sum value of all assets, like hardware, real estate, etc.) or sale (value = the sale price)?

I know very little about finance, but surely it must be important to distinguish the type of dissolution when using it to calculate the present value of a stock. There needs to be some consideration of probability of bankruptcy versus probability of sale (versus probability of no dissolution at all), right?
Now if I could just get Dick's to quit spamming me.

Maybe if I use this list ...
Good point, because the chances of arriving to profitability are not much higher than the chances of non-voting shares being granted voting rights.
Haha no I did not want to make a statement. I drive it purely for my enjoyment.

It's really nice inside, fun to drive and the outer design grows on you in time. Not so much though. I know it's ugly I just don't care much anymore.

I think BMW is using this as a beta test to see their research in real world, collect data, complaints etc until they go all in with their mainstream models. I bet they can't scale the production, not yet anyway. And they'd not want to anger the dealer network with a low maintenance vehicle selling in high volumes. So it's ugly. Looks like a hobby to ensure that it only sells to the people who either wants to make a statement or goes "fuck it I want an EV", which would be me.
For a 2011 product I guess we're arriving in the 6/7 year zone :)
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Folks like us voicing this stuff may make them rethink things and they retroactively make it right for the people who didn't bother to be proactive. Which would then just add insult to injury for us! Well at least I got some good experience out of it...
> when something goes wrong, it goes REALLY wrong. That makes more of an emotional reaction

The reaction can be completely rational. It depends on your estimate of the probability of a nuclear accident worse than Chernobyl. Officially it's around 10^-9 per reactor-year, but it's clearly an underestimate, if only because of the unknown unknowns.

Get a more realistic probability estimate, multiply by cost of all real estate in a large metro area, and you can get a pretty large expected loss.

> How do you build a storage facility that keeps it contained for that long?

This is a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
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Do people get double money from the split? So if I had 100 bitcoins do I also get 100 bit coin cashes?
You could try to do some automated trading with Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. Odds are just as good you would lose $10, of course.
Is that or s similar script somewhere public? I'd like to do the same.
I think the point is more, in what way does google have any power to stop other browsers from implementing this API?
No more than a world where college-educated professional programmers communicate using memes and emojis.
Sorry for not being specific. As for leftpad I just meant the concept of using libraries when you really don't need to. Not the size.
Are there any existing, good, self-hosted platforms for music?

Personally I've been working slowly on an self-hosted Tumblr clone, but that doesn't have the concept of albums.
QA prevents someone from adding a typo to the repository.
> You can almost build a yacc grammar that will read C and emit assembly.

I have looked at a lot of C parsers and compilers and have written a C to Lisp transpiler and this statement is ludicrously wrong. You cannot even parse C code with yacc because of typedefs. The grammar of C is context-sensitive. And this is after the C code has been preprocessed, something that also cannot be done with yacc.

C compilers are easy to port to different machines, but that is because C is a very poor language in terms of features and control flow constructs. For the limited amount of things that C gives you as a language it also comes with a huge amount of complicated baggage when it comes to implementation and corner cases.
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I was talking about how scam artists flocked to the internet with pyramid schemes, chain emails, get rich quick schemes, etc. All that stuff is still here, but it's drowned out by people doing actual normal business now.
Basically, Bitcoin cash is another kind of cryptocurrency as Bitcoin. The naming is somewhat confusing. If you owned Bitcoin at the start of Bitcoin cash, you get free Bitcoin cash.

There are technical differences that may make one or the other succeed.
So do you agree that US military videos should be taken off of Youtube as well? The real effect is that some people do indeed die after joining.
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Are Mozilla paying for people to do these experiments or is it people sending patches? I don't know but I'd imagine a lot of it is the latter.

Have you tried a recent Nightly? Firefox is getting faster: http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-hu... [1]. As Mozilla continues to pull in code from Servo and implement e10s, Fiefox will perform better and crash less.

[1] discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848836
Does it come with python3 installed by default, like recent Fedora?
TBH not many people consider SVG format worth the effort unless the graphic is made from scratch. 1) an organization rarely rationalizes having a UI dev spend 6 something hours either transforming an existing PNG to an SVG, or spending 12 hours compleitly replicate an existing design in photoshop only for it to be exportable as an SVG. I could be far fe5ching things but sometimes business or upper management get short sighted on the small things. Probably there is no rationalizarion in spending extra effort in having these graphics all svg format, thus improving your application's load and bandwidth utilization, vs pumping more funds towards other easier quicker solutions.
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