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It's sad one needs to reinforce the teaching of concepts rather tricks.

Even worse is when you have all the proof based and concept oriented course and are tested on trickeries on exams.
Here you go: https://netdevconf.org/1.2/papers/ktls.pdf
There are a lot of ways of configuring tax, democracy and economy.

What you are writing here is an assertion, not an argument. You don't present evidence, or hint at why what you propose would be a good idea.

Can you explain what good effects the system you are proposing would have?
Yes sorry the top comment was irrelevant in retrospect and I responded to it. It was interesting in its own right but not relevant to what the original article is about and what you're doing.
That sounds like the definition of a bribe, which is a crime. I would advise you to not make this information public or at least public under an account that can be traced back to you.
>anonymously

With enough effort, I'm certain someone could out me. I'm not protecting my connection or device ID in any way.

>dirty laundry

All of the things I've cited about Oracle are public knowledge. If an employee of Monsanto says that RoundUp causes cancer, is that dirty laundry, or stating a scientifically proven fact?
Its not exactly like macOS has been a pinnacle of stability lately. The number of issues I have with the various macOS devices I interact with has been about the same as for the Windows devices I interact with. That might seem ok, but its a massive failure if you consider the reputation macOS and Windows had just a few years ago.

When people complain about Windows 10 its because of things it does really well (spying on you, forcing updates); its failures are product failures, not technical failures.

Apple's hardware still seems to be much more reliable than Microsoft's hardware of late, but that is its own can of worms.
> currently the biggest use of Bitcoin in Venezuela is to evade currency controls

False, it's actually to mine bitcoin using some of the world's cheapest electricity, thanks to local subsidies.
States have killed many more people than markets have.
4.1.4? Yummy, my favorite! Is it running on real hardware or in a VM? If the former, what software do I need and how can I get an image please?
Empirically, bitcoin hasn't reached anything close to mainstream adoption in Venezuela. Why do you think this is?
Scott McNealy blamed SUN's misfortune on moving to a former psychiatric ward in Santa Clara - it coincides with SUN's loss of luck (and some directors really believed the building was cursed). Also, business-wide there is a known "headquarters curse", when a company feels it needs to have a more representative HQ. Let's see what it does to Apple.
Well "sad" is, of course, entirely subjective.

I personally don't give a shit about Java or MySQL, so I wouldn't have been sad if those products died, but I know lots of people who would be.

For me, it was ZFS that I was really excited about. Back then, I thought I might have ZFS (or some ZFS-derived or -inspired equivalent bitrot-resistant checksumming filesystem) on all my computers and phones by, say, 2017.

But I don't. My Linux box can finally have ZFS (with some caveats), but my Macs and phones can't and won't; it was another sad day (for me) when we learned Apple's "modern" new filesystem, APFS, does not do checksumming for user data[1][2].

[1]: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/19/apfs-part5/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14129601
There are always theoreticians who don't really know what they're talking about, but do offer their utterly worthless advice. I'm not talking about you, or anybody else on this thread in particular. Without sufficient pushback, sooner or later these people screw things up for everybody, including themselves, and the poor are hit the hardest by the fallout 100% of the time. When it becomes obvious that they screwed things up, you get people like me telling you just how fucked things can get if you head in that direction, de facto, because we've been there. When you don't have people like me, you head in that direction, because let's face it, most people think that if we just take all the wealth and spread it evenly everyone will be better off. That's not how the world works, however, but it takes decades to go through these cycles to find out for yourself. Greed is good, inequality in outcomes is good. What's bad is inequality in opportunity, and there's less of that here than in most other countries. If you were just born here, you already have the golden ticket. The trick is to not wipe your butt with it.
Larry has so much money and so many lawyers, this is his way of reassuring himself that his legal team isn't just lazing around.

"get out there and dig in the dumpster for gold nuggets!"
I think you mean analytically in the same sense as the comment I replied to, of having a closed form you can write down by hand, but that's not right. But that's not the really important thing from a mathematical point of view: you really want to know useful properties about what you get out of integration, and integration gives you nice mathematical objects with good properties, very much unlike differentiation. It's wrong to think of getting a closed form as the goal, that's nice, but not as important as the other stuff. The numerical consequences just follow from the mathematics, so they can illustrate the difference.
no mention of the alto either :0

From Masters of Doom, Carmack programmed Doom on a NeXT machine would like to get my hands on one
>Planned economies such as the USSR clearly impinge on human liberty, tend to be undemocratic, and are usually very inefficient

I disagree that they impinge on human freedom, at least I don't think they do compared to capitalist economy. I see no reason why they should be undemocratic. And you'll find nobody in favour of a 5 year plan as the USSR had; there have been massive advances in economic planning methods, as elaborated by Cockshott et al.

I love the irony of saying it is "inefficient" especially when we compare it to how currently under capitalism firms compete by doing the same research, repeating the same mistakes, often extremely inefficiently, in the name of profit. This is one of the most inefficient things I have heard of.

The USSR planning model isn't a good alternative. But I think that some economic planning model, whatever it may be, should not be ruled out, especially as it can feature as part of lower-stage Communism.
Some researcher who paid $40 to 100 people over the course of a year is going to go back and contact all of those same people again, to sign a release form, and they all have to use pencils... and nobody is going to call him out on it and ask why is it important that I sign this form with a pencil?

The fact that I actually agree with you, and think this might work in fact inside of any hospital in the US, says more about the byzantine complexity and scary state of our medical system than anything else.

Because I could totally see 100 people being told they have to sign a thing, while in a hospital, with absolutely no good reason given, ... and all 100 just signing it after some variable x*N amount of huffing, then get on with their day.
This reminds me of a passage in a web serial I read the other day [0]:

“Because, if you’re honest with yourself, if you step away and look at what this world is and what it’s becoming… we’re really not far from a reality where everyone is condemned to the pits. Everyone is lost. Maybe not this generation. Maybe not the next. But surely, somehow, if you cherish anyone, anything, any legacy at all, you can’t let them win, destroy it all, and erect some… mockery in its place. Rewritten history, modified, subjugated, and broken people.”

[0] https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/crown-of-thorns-...
> [5 Random Blocks] [Z and S in any order] [Z and S in any order] [5 Random Blocks]

Any dab hands at regex out there? I think this is the regex to match, but something feels wrong about it

(([^sz]){5}[sz]{2})([sz]{2}([^sz]){5})
Of course, if they bought Be and not NeXT (which is consistently mis-capitalized), they wouldn't have gotten Jobs back. Apple very nearly went under before Jobs brought it back from the brink; had BeOS become the next MacOS, there may not have been a next MacOS.
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> why the hell it so easy to watch six seasons of Game of Thrones in two weeks but I can’t even get myself to write one fucking page of a book

Wow. Literally read this while watching an episode of Game of Thrones, and I just started two weeks ago, and I'm in the middle of the sixth season.
In addition, Svetlana Blackburn was literally fired for refusing her managers' orders to cook the books on Oracle's cloud revenue.

Management orders her to cook the books, at a public company!!

She's fired, she sues.

Oracle counter sues.

How is this ethical?
By the time Microsoft drops support for Windows 7, I plan on finally making the jump to Linux full time. I see no compelling reason to use Windows 10, considering the complete lack of privacy and annoying features like forced updates and uninstallable apps.
I can't find the link. But they did histogram of how men and women were ranked by who they were interested in.

Women by in large had an average at 6/10. Men had an average around 2.5/10.
This wouldn't be the first time I've heard of some AT&T-specific vulnerabilities on a router: https://www.soldierx.com/bbs/201704/voip-router-hacking
I really wouldn't underestimate the investment on the Oracle yacht. I've known several executives to speak highly Oracle based on being avid sailors.
But why would you need a custom modem for it to work? Can't you use a different modem and just get them to give you xDSL credentials? Login and password, enter VPI/VCI and plug it into the telephone line..? What is the "802.1X auth"?
or Andrew Carnegie, long before Gates or Musk... he gave away more than 70 billions in today's dollars...
> Wouldn't that only be the case if there is a huge disparity in wealth and income between spouses?

IDK about "huge", but that is often that case, one way or the other.
Yes, Shannon explicitly stated in Mathematical Theory of Communication that the general form was the same as that in statistical mechanics:

"The form of H will be recognized as that of entropy as defined in certain formulations of statistical mechanics where p_i is the probability of a system being in cell i of its phase space. H is then, for example, the H in Boltzmann’s famous H theorem."

where the general form was H = -K\sum p_i * log(p_i)

IIRC, this form is the only kind with the following two properties:

- chain rule -- H(X,Y) = H(X) + H(Y|X)

- maximized for the uniform distribution.
I have AT&T Gigapower with a Pace 5268AC, so not one of the modems discussed here.

I don't use its wifi and I have it configured for pass-thru mode. When I got service early this year, I briefly investigated bypassing it entirely. It turns out you need the modem to periodically respond to authentication packets from the AT&T network. But with some ingenuity, you can hang the router off an extra port on your own router and use it only for authentication purposes:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29903721-AT-T-Residential-G...

I eventually decided not to do this because it's somewhat brittle and I didn't otherwise have any issues with the Pace. It's performance is fine.

But, given this disclosure, I'm going to revisit my decison. First, it seems like it's just a matter of time before the Pace has a similar security issue. Second, that kernel module for injecting HTTP advertisements. Just the idea of it bothers me.
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Given the gender pay gap, we should almost always expect there to be such a disparity in straight couples.

Women's representation in a field (like software engineering, at 16%) is an upper bound on the share of men in that field who could possibly marry female professional peers.
Why should he care? He didn't say he accepted the bribe, merely that it was offered.
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MySQL. Still more popular than Postgres.
> Based on your categorization Musk and Page's opinions aren't relevant in this manner either, neither of them is what one would classify an expert in AI

Bingo!
Honestly the fact that this can happen seems like a better reason to stay away from proprietary software than any other reason. Even software that is open source but owned by some company.

On a not completely unrelated note, there was something I read in the Kubernetes Steering Committee bootstrapping process that sounds really logical in the context of this news.

In Kubernetes Steering Committee, there will be no more than 33% membership from any given company. So if Docker, and CoreOS, and Weave, and Google, and Microsoft, and Amazon all come to the table and somehow get equal representation, which seems possible given how I understand the voting process, ... that's great, and no one company can "silent EOL" the product of Kubernetes.

And even if one of those companies is significantly over-represented within the list of members of standing that will vote for the Steering Committee members, and the second of those companies significantly eclipses any of the remaining nominees, the steering committee will still probably be in the hands of at least 4 companies.

I'm really quite miffed about a few well-liked community driven things, suddenly getting shut down by ownership lately. Not going to name any names, but in meetings to determine our organization's future direction in software, it's going to have to come to everyone's attention that in general overall momentum is a whole lot more important than corporate backing.
Well, they're held down as they are throttling up. They aren't at full throttle the whole time.
But it doesn't feel that old.
Yes, they will be doing at least one (and likely more than one) full-up static fire, as they have done for all their single core launches in the past.
z-cash. IMO zkSNARKS have legs.
> This surplus of women is not just “perceived” but very, very real.

Man, I must be a heaping turd then.
I'm fairly sure this is the 2010s equivalent of the shoeshine boy offering hot stock tips. Time to sell...

https://www.cnbc.com/2013/11/11/is-the-shoeshine-boy-indicat...
Safety is related to effacity. Have an oncology drug that makes you go deaf but extends life for melanoma patients by a lot? Great! Oh, it's for acne? Probably not going to pass muster.
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I mean that's the point. The difference between someone that ends up as a janitor and someone that ends up as a software engineer has a lot more to do with their parent's money and the color of their skin than any variation in intelligence. Pretending differently just leads you to the comforting arms of the "just world fallacy".
It's only dangerous in proportion to the degree that:

- the terms would be upheld in court,

- the terms are (financially) practical to enforce.
To make it even worse, this ICO is being run by that RadiumOne asshole who got jail time for extreme domestic violence: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/12/gurbaksh-...

Crypto gold rush is attracting all sorts of unsavory characters.
I think we experience it as a relative measure, because for most of us, it generally is.

However, take Monaco. There appears to be significant wealth and income disparity among residents of Monaco and yet nothing that we would reasonably identify as poverty.
Even if cryptocurrency does turn out of be a bubble, it will still change everything.

A cryptocurrency bubble would look very different from a typical economic bubble because cryptocurrencies are more than just financial instruments; they're a form of protest against the established financial order. If it were to collapse, the disillusionment and blame that would come out of it may be enough to start a revolution.

As more people start buying cryptos and start doing more research, they become increasingly sceptical about the existing financial system.
Passive entertainment is like eating sugar. I don't think it needs much explanation why it's easier to consume it than something else.
Interesting, I know he has been at a few places since then, wonder if his output has picked up? Getting into Java was my first taste of programming and I loved it, thought really highly of Gosling and still do. I just had a friend tell me this morning "heh Java is so dying." I swear I hear this every few months, but I fail to see it going anywhere. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough?
Just so you know, economic regression modelling (the main application econometrics) has existed since the late 1800's. ML has existed since the 1950's. So yes, economists, econometricians and mathematicians who have worked on applied economics would have inspired many aspects of ML, and vice versa.
> Why is NeXT written "NeXt" in this piece?

It's hard to remember this kind of weird random capitalization.

When I read "iPhone", I remember "i, phone, two words with only the second word capitalized".

When I read "mRNA", I remember "mrna, all caps except for the first letter".

When I read it I read "NeXT", I read, "next with random capitalization".

Now when I write back, the first 2 are deterministic; the third is probabilistic.
It's a situation similar to bankers and the financial crisis. That is, extremely difficult to jail someone for it.

This article explains it better: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/why-are...
Because: money

(Very, very large quantities of it)
> If one engine starts even a fraction of a second too late, it will suck up the exhaust from the other engines with predictably mission ending consequences.

It's even more precise than that. The engines will be started in pairs, a few dozen ms apart, in order to minimize the risk of sympathetic vibrations tearing the rocket apart.
I sorted domains by upvotes descending and got pages only consisting of i.redd.it and i.imgur.com entries. Don’t understand why results are not grouped by domain.
An anecdote from the article which really speaks volumes.

> Making his point about the "creepiness," not only with Ellison but with Oracle's power structure, Gosling said he sparked a notion to try to improve morale amongst the Sun faithful who endured the Oracle acquisition. He said the company decided to rent out the Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, Calif., and allow the Sun folks to have a day of fun. Scott McNealy and Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz signed off on the project that came in well under budget and all systems were go, Gosling said. Except a few days before the event was to occur, Oracle Co-President Safra Catz got wind of it and put the kibosh on the thing.

> "Safra found out and had a fit," Gosling said. "The word came down that Oracle does not do employee appreciation events. So she forced the thing to be cancelled. But they didn't save any money because the money had been spent - so we ended up giving the tickets to charities. We were forced to give it up because it wasn't the -Oracle Way.' On the other hand, Oracle sponsors this sailboat for about $200 million."
Itanium is dead and there are no plans to port HP-UX to x86. Only AIX is still alive.
My point is simply this -- adding protection mechanisms and inheritance to classes neccesitates adding more complexity to the structure used to represent them (such as a vtable) which does add performance overheads. If you dont need those features, you can go leaner and faster with a C structure that includes function pointers to give you the basic packaging of data and functions that an object has.
What impact?
So that developers can hold the entire state of the function in their head.

It doesn't seem to be the case here as it's mostly setting up callback methods according to my limited understanding of haskell.
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The underlying cause of this whole issue is the changes in tax policy instated in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, previously income was taxed at higher rates unless deductions were utilized which forced those earnings back into the economy creating jobs funding research, etc.

But isn't that just a reflection (and after-effect) of a more fundamental, underlying cause -- that is, the extent to which low- (and medium-) skill labor itself has become devalued, in recent decades -- along with, of course, the very class of persons taking those jobs? Along with a host of other changes in attitudes (sharply) favoring the welfare of the high-skilled -- and above all, of the rentiers -- over the welfare of those who actually do the bulk of the work that keeps our civilization actually running?

Which is presumably what motivated the actual votes on the particular pieces of legislation you (quite validly) cite.
To expose state. I haven't actually read the code, but since you asked a really good question, I thought I would answer it generically :-)

Extract method is probably one of the most abused refactoring patterns around. As you correctly point out, there is no benefit for extracting single use functions and then leaving the code like that. It's just trading one set of notation (function names) for another (comments), while at the same time allowing you to confusingly arrange the code out of execution order.

You want to extract functions in order to reason about execution. You do this by exposing state in the form of the return values from the functions you have created. Whether you write unit tests, or (in a language like Haskell) use it to enforce type contracts, the point is that you have a tool for detecting when the inputs and outputs aren't matching up. This allows you to much more quickly zero in on defects.

There are a couple of caveats with this. First, some people read code linearly no matter what they are doing. Especially programmers without much experience often play computer (with or without a debugger) instead of reasoning using larger abstractions. Quite frequently the benefit of factoring code is lost because of this. It's important to understand the techniques that your team uses before you stick the code in the proverbial food processor.

Secondly, the main benefit of this kind of access is when you are restructuring code. The idea is that (to paraphrase Micheal Feathers) you put some of the code in a kind of vice, while you move the other code around. By exposing state, you can detect when the code you put in the vice starts to slip around. Many, many, many teams do little or no refactoring/restructuring of code. Some teams even have rules for limiting edits, because they feel that this will reduce breakage. On such teams, the effort of exposing state will be worthless.
True. However, one would expect the copyeditors at Wired to have gotten this right.
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So now the anti-trust of 90 Microsoft and IE 6 counts for nothing it seems.
The unintended picture painted by the article is that this state of affairs only benefits attractive men. I'm not familiar with the platform but I somehow doubt that the majority of male Tinder users can get away with rude comments or a cavalier attitude and still womanize. On the contrary I keep hearing about men failing to garner a single match or sexual encounter independently of whether their behavior was crass or not.
I have read an article which claims LAMP stack has made MySQL preferred to Postgres.
Many people on MacOS use Postgres.app for their PostgreSQL needs.

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