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I hear you. C has performance because it doesn't have to do any sanity checks and because 20 years of serious effort has gone towards optimizing everything possible.

The very motivation behind creating Swift, has been to have performance, and none of the undefined behaviour (cause of innumerable security breaches and unintentional complexity in compiler design and everyday programming) [0]

To me, grand-central-dispatch feels one small step above semaphores/locks/monitors.

There has been a lot of research in distributed computing and concurrency - I'd like to see libraries, language constructs and runtimes based on research fresher than before I was born :)

[0] http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
We really should work on making defensive publication easier and more recognized.
Wow apparently i’m underpaid. I make $63k as a full stack .NET web developer in Knoxville, Tennessee. I have always dreamed of moving to Seattle and joining a startup. How can I make that dream a reality? I’ve tried applying to a bunch of places and got nothing but rejections.
What's interesting to me is that no amount of bad news appears to affect the price of BTC. I'm not a professional or amateur trader (I've got no position on BTC at all) but the price fluctuations really seem dominated by sentiment over any sort of fundamentals.
Yes! This McKinsey report is the best I've seen in terms of tracking where the dollars go vs. other countries.[1]

In summary, it's mostly going to outpatient care. The US spends only a small percentage more on in-patient care. In fact, the US spends less on durables and long-term care than most other countries.

[1]http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-se...
Energy Restructuring: Distributed Generation (Virginia Tech)
>We have always been modifying the environment to suit our needs, every species does this.

Humans have only been farming for the past 11,500ish years, while Homo sapiens have been around for more than 200,000 years. Humans modifying the environment to a significant extent is rather new in our timeline.
I agree, there's area for improvement for the compiler here and hopefully in the future we won't have to worry about those issues. For now those are constraints we have to deal with to make our software more efficient unfortunately.
startups generally do not use .NET
Quilt (YC S17) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in Data Engineering
I can't tell if you're just joking, but assuming you're serious, the rules (US tax rules, essentially) state that you have to have at least one other "real" (i.e., non-family) employee.
Tank man wasn't crushed, FYI.
Legal prostitution destroys the profit making potential of sex trafficking. When you already can go to prison for pimping willing adult women, you have little disincentive to not expand into using violence to procure unwilling and underage victims too.
He might have never been charged, and being released without charge is rarely reported.
Serious question: how are capital controls vs money laundering different from the perspective of the one with the money?
LINQ and the async/await pattern are my two all-time favorite things about C#.
It's cheaper to fly to India, stay in an upscale hotel, meet personable doctors, get treatment, relax and come back.

Not saying this is practical for everything but people really should start considering alternate countries for healthcare.

The US is a mess.
Radio silence. As in the founders/management avoiding communication. Huge red flag.
I made this thingie based on Google News and the design of Newsmap: http://news.bradezone.com/

It's one of my few side projects I use every day.
I think it's a great time to jump into .NET Core if you've been on the sidelines. There was a lot of version pain early on, but it's way better now. Being able to write C# code on my Windows box that runs natively on my MacBook Pro feels awesome.
People have been using python for server side applications for years, and not only it had no concurrency primitives (until very recently), but it has a GIL that makes multi-threaded programs impossible.

According to the documentation at perfect.org, it supports asynchronous request handling.

I've tested it locally a while ago and IIRC it could utilize multi-cores just fine.
Thanks for reading it!
But only on policies issued through ACA marketplaces, no? Most health insurance in the US comes through employers.
First, it is completely sufficient. How is it not? I think the author is taking an idea that is already embedded in evolutionary theory and presenting it as a novel idea that doesnt fall under the scope of 'survival of the fittest'

Anything that increases an organism's odds of passing on their genes compared to another conspecific can be considered 'fitness'. Survival is not taken to mean within a single generation, survival refers to the genes; attracting a sexual partner is a central component of being evolutionarily fit.

Lastly, even within a single generation, I'm not so sure you can claim survival is a low bar - when you are in the food chain.
Parsers for invalid HTML are trivially easy to write: you literally just implement the spec, and that's not hard, and then you implement every major browser.
That StackOverflow runs on .NET is one of my favorite little-known facts.
I would replace "many" with "some". The problem we have is that there are many types of environmentalists, each with their own agenda. Just because a faction of environmentalists consider the desert solar array bad, doesn't mean that all do. In fact I would wager a guess that most think that it's worth it, considering how much pollution it's saving.
Two problems:

1) Typically shares are treated as ordinary income when they vest, so you owe tax on that no matter what you do (but the vest price becomes your cost basis).

2) Wash sale rules apply to grant vesting events, so if your grants vest monthly every sale is a wash sale.
Blocking IP addresses/blocks doesnt matter if your ISP has been hacked and attacks from pseudo ip locations are being injected into the communication, easily done with a switch.

This way any attack can be made to look like its come from some other part of the world, but as its packet data intended for your server's you are none the wiser. One advantage of this for the attacker is they can use your own systems to block you from genuine locations you want to visit.

"However, configuration is sadly not complete, unfortunately SSH servers do not usually listen on port 2220 and you may have noticed that when you are connected to the Honey Pot you are unable to do anything with the internet, try a ping to a website."

So if the hacker's ping one of their other botnet's to check its genuine, this honeypot is identified straight away as no ping ever gets out.

People have to consider everything online is hostile and you cant trust anything if your ISP has been hacked, this is one of the things Snowden highlighted the 5Eyes has been able to do with ISP's like the main Belgium telecoms company.
WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US
Kind of makes sense if you're trying to make your search query match a stackoverflow question...

Though AFAIK Google ignores those common words anyway.
I think it's more meant as a mutually assured destruction strategy.
Software patents can only be used defensively when you are claiming your source code implements a patient.

In that light, the owner (or even expiration) does not matter. You can claim to implement an expired patent as a defense of a patent lawsuit. You can claim to implement/steal somebody else's patent (but that is unwise at times). This principle is how RISC-V and J-Core have survived. They pointed to expired patents and saying, "we do that, not your thing." (They really did too)

Privately owned patent rights, without rights granted to other entities can only be used offensively. Anyone saying otherwise is wittingly or unwitting supporting the patent system and arguing company line.
I think by outsourcing to China or entering the Chinese market, those companies are making a conscious decision to accept the risk, which is that what is perfectly legal and fine today can suddenly be illegal and hated tomorrow. Also, you can't expect any fair fight in China. Quanxi and lobbying the established politicians and tycoons is just part of any business.
> 50% hash power means not only the ability to double spend, but also to censor txs. If someone else mines a block they don't like they can just ignore that block and eventually get the longer chain.

This is not true if you just have 50%. You'd have to consistently win the next block for double spending to be reliable, and users would just be wary to wait for more confirmations before accepting payment.

Besides, if China takes over all bitcoin exchanges and mining in China, that changes the "bad news" to huge positive news and basically a Bitcoin endorsement by a major world power. Once that happens the value of bitcoin would likely increase at a rate such that maintaining even a 50% hold on hash power would be difficult for a single player.
More like 2000 years of totalitarian.
As a new swift'er working on an app with my 12 year old son, I reasonate with your comment. We were near the end of our first app and hit a need in swift 3 to figure out locale/language settings so needed to manipulate strings. I was shocked at how unobvious it seemed. Fortunately, I found a swift playground cheat sheet and left it to my son to explore. A couple hours later he had it worked out ;)
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Machine Learning Is Making Video Game Characters Smarter
Which from an outsider perspective could have been companies recouping on bets made (discounts offered) in 2016 to grow their brand recognition, etc. It's hard to draw too strong a conclusion from data for for so few years, where costs change so much, and the outlier is the most recent year (which is also incomplete). It's also possible that the actual business costs from year-over-year operation are finally becoming well known, and the installation costs are finally reflecting items that weren't correctly priced in earlier (botched installation fixed, warranty repairs, etc).
You probably haven't driven one. A discount electric is an amazingly zen drive if you can work with the range.

A sports car will have better handling, for sure, but it's really satisfying to (silently) out accelerate BMWs easily 2x the cost effortlessly when desired.
No. the universe isn't math. The universe is matter. Math is a part of the universe. Therefore math is simply material. Nothing more, nothing less.
You said it way better than I did!
Depends if you obtained your funds legally or illegally? With former you are betting against Chinese economy with latter you are looking to leave less traces of activities that got you those funds.
Automotive makers like FCA is still sticking with QNX and Harman made headunits hardware for many years. Having programmed on them, it was a pain with so many constraints while we have watches 100x more powerful than them. While the UI/UX and performance of headunit telematics apps are not the forte of automotive manufacturers, they need to change with times. Headunits are still marketed as an add-on with which the manufacturers can up the price by several thousands. While too much of an entertainment system on a car is a distraction even though they have speed lockouts, a little bit of improvement will be a welcome change. Its not that they should have APIs for CAN Bus access, but can piggy back on CarPlay for a good music & nav system.
So the PBOC is taking further steps to plug the leak. Not unexpected.

China has exchange controls. Internal yuan cannot be easily converted to euros or dollars. There are limits on capital outflows. The controls are leaky; the classic leak is to send all your relatives to Hong Kong loaded up with the maximum allowed amount of yuan in cash. The current limit is about $50K/year/person. Small leaks are thus tolerated. Big leaks get plugged, eventually. Bitcoin has apparently been moved to the "big leak" category.

(The US does not have exchange controls. If you want to wire transfer a million dollars from the US to Switzerland and buy a house in Geneva, the US has no objection, provided that you report it for tax purposes. Some Bitcoin enthusiasts are unclear on this. Why China has tight exchange controls is beyond the scope of this discussion.)
> VOID DNS responses that are blocked by a lot of networks

For ages I've been meaning to [figure out how to] report this to the iodine dev, but I actually set up iodine specifically to get a working network while I knew I'd briefly be visiting a hospital.

I discovered to my amusement that the (public!) hospital's IT infra is really, really good; I was trying to SSH directly on top of the iodine tunnel, and while the first few DNS requests associated with the connection setup would work and I'd get as far as getting a shell prompt, but everything would rapidly screech to a halt and jam up pretty much instantly after that; maybe I'd get a single character typed, then it would completely die. I figured I was looking at a remarkably well-put-together leaky-bucket implementation.

So I tried hacking usleep()s into likely-looking spots in the code, but that didn't seem to slow it down enough. iodine is a rather interesting program internally, and a quick overview while distractedly sitting in a waiting area wasn't entirely sufficient to figure out why I didn't seem to be slowing it down enough to be a problem.

Before this "production" test, I previously verified that iodine was working by running the client on an AWS box. IIRC, ping ran over the link for quite some time (less than an hour; many minutes) without a single hitch.

On another note, I found that iodine seemed utterly incapable of setting up a correctly-configured tunnel on my Arch (receiving/server) box; I always had to ifconfig the tunnel (I forget exactly) to make it work. Problem with that was, my ifconfig-ing only routed one specific IP address, iodine wanted to give connections their own discrete IPs, and old sessions that locked up would take a while to time out. So I made a gigantic hack-script that would repeatedly kill iodine over and over every 1.5 minutes if it didn't see an authenicated SSH login. Would be nice for everything to just work properly...
I have a question. In the fuchsia/zircon thread some people (committers?) were saying that Rust was not suited and would be difficult. Redox is also a microkernel. So are there any limitations or not?
Ok but, in reply to that tweet, one point keccak.team make, which seems valid for non-classified cryptanalysis, is that researchers don't invest time in trying to analyse ARX because the propagation of addition makes it too complicated.

One thing I got from that is that ARX designs are less likely to be broken, not because they are necessarily more secure, but because ARX is often less analysed than designs which yield more concise mathematical representations.
Not to mention that many remote server environments may not even have X installed, or graphics cards, for that matter. I started using vi for much the same reason you did, having to troubleshoot via ssh (and telnet before that) in many variants of UNIX (tm) systems. When I got hold of Vim it was like Christmas for me.

I started learning emacs some time back, but the learning curve (and fighting against Vim muscle memory) vs. needing to get work done for money soon convinced me to try again another day.
Wouldn't this be a trivial endeavor for the insurance companies?
Links to:

“TL;DR Facebook’s GraphQL spec doesn’t grant a patent license. Therefore, for reasons as set forth below, most GraphQL users infringe Facebook’s patents.“

https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/using-graphql-why-facebook-n...
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I have to do web projects from time to time and every time, I reinvented this wheel. Finally got the time to put it together. Might come in handy for somebody else too.
How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen
what should I learn then?
Equatable and Hashable also have some "magic", currently only for enums without associated values. Recently this was generalized to enums where all associated values are themselves Equatable and Hashable, as well as structs where all fields are Equatable and Hashable. This is not implemented in Swift 4, but an implementation was recently added to the master branch. You can read the details here: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
It does seem to have some effect. Bitcoin "crashed" last week quite a few pecentage points (see https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#charts click 1M or 3M and see September 15th). Like stocks though, it is always hard to pinpoint why, because it's a market with lots of different opinions.
I wish I could find the source for this, but I remember reading that Gauss idolized Newton for his style. From what Gauss (and a tiny bit of Newton) I have read, it seems like he didn't like to provide any sorts of motivation or exposition. So, FWIW there's a second anecdote in support of this idea.
Offense is defense. If your competitor has enough patents that they'll find something they can reasonably argue that you infringe on, it's useful to present the same threat to them.

Companies that are serious about only using patents for this purpose can contribute them to open licensing schemes.

(And in the case of specifications that want to be standards, full patent grants should absolutely be included. You want people to use their stuff, make it safe for them to do so)
Do you have numbers?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/5/15719382/playstation-vr-so...

Let's compare the 1 million units sold for the PSVR, by far the best-selling headset (Samsung's Gear VR was given away for free with phones, so those numbers are effectively worthless) with the Xbox Kinect, which sold 8 million units within the first 60 days. And we all know how well that played out.

VR is not doing well.
Limitations of Rust or of microkernels?

Rust has not impacted development in any negative way. On the contrary, it has been incredibly helpful and has boosted development.
Are they putting off sex, or just dating?
easily available and much less social stigma
They're difficult because only a select few did understand what he was writing, and he had to hack and mangle his work into the form of the standard mathematics of his day.

Modern science and mathematics would be just as unapproachable if everything were required to be expressed in some standard-but-largely-inelegant framework in order to be taken seriously.
You're joking right? Sometimes it's hard to tell...
Yeah, I quoted the wrong line.
Ah right that makes sense.
Actually they keep this to remind themselves every day that one day they could be dust too. There are also a few other relics from the Sun era deliberately left over in the campus for the same reason.

Source: worked there
You can think of inout parameters in Swift as something analogous to a mutable borrow in Rust. Until Swift 4 we allowed overlapping inout access, for example:

var counter = 0
func foo(x: inout Int) {
x += 1
print(counter)
}
foo(x: &counter)

Note how 'counter' is read by 'foo(x:)' during an inout access of the same value. This is now prohibited by Swift 4, using a combination of static and dynamic checks.

This fixes some undefined behavior and will also enable more aggressive compiler optimizations to be added in the future.
For a totalitarian country, yes.
Governments can trace the money you win and lose at a casino.
Yup, that's right.
Are there examples of such a system working anywhere? It sounds plausible, but the fact that it didn't arise pre-Obamacare gives me pause. It seems like the demand for it might not be prevalent enough, or the savings too small.

I'm interested in new models, but I'm tired of the US thinking it has to be special with its healthcare system and wasting a trillion dollars a year.
Anecdotal but my son is afraid he'll hurt someone while he learns to drive. He's pretty empathetic. That and he doesn't have that much need to leave the house since he can talk to most of his friends more easily on the nets.
At least 202 people were killed on that day.

Dong Xiaojun, Lin Renfu, Wang Peiwen, Tian Daomin, are among those identified who have been crushed by tanks.

Older list: http://www.hrichina.org/en/list-155-victims-beijing-massacre
Why does Facebook not use something like an MIT license? I am honestly curious.
Over a decade ago, I set up a tarpit [1] (I worked at a small web hosting company) on an unused machine to catch network scans. I had the idea of using the information gleaned from that to block IP addresses at the router level, but never did get around to it.

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/07.1
They have a lot of debt building up as well as a huge real estate bubble that makes SF look tame. However, it hasn't crashed yet.
Same story if you control 1% of hash power. Anyone can ignore any block, but you can't completely block a transaction unless you prevent it from being included in ANY block. Even if 90% of the hash power is blocking your transactions it just means it takes 10x longer for your transaction to go through.
Mathematical Life in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by A. Grothendieck [pdf]
> If there's anything it is like to be a worm, THAT'S the hard problem.

I don't believe we can get to the root of this "hard problem" by first trying to agree on a definition of the word before we can say anything about it. We will also need to admit the possibility that the question "are we conscious?" may be as vacuous at the end as "is Pluto a planet?".
That's common knowledge, both for Bitcoin and elsewhere. How could any digital asset (Bitcoin, email account, social media account) guarantee a 1:1 mapping to humans?
> Why China has tight exchange controls is beyond the scope of this discussion.

What's a good resource on this?
Didn't poo-poo Vault - just saying that there's a very good system already built in that involves wiring up just 2 API calls and integrates perfectly into the existing IAM security roles.
If you understand the population distribution in the PRC, have spent time in a Tier 2 or Tier 3 city, and think deeply about economic growth, the idea that the Chinese economy could "crash" is laughable: there is a vast pool of emerging customers that will continue to fuel growth over the foreseeable future. The question is whether global trends, especially related to climate change driven instability, will interfere in the emergence of the socialist/communist market economy. If you find a contradiction in the conception of a socialist/communist market economy, check Dominic Losurdo's
"Has China Turned to Capitalism?—Reflections on the
Transition from Capitalism to Socialism" published in the March 2017 issue of International Critical Thought.
You fundamentally don't understand how this works. The fact that you repeated the "some bureaucrat decides who gets care" line proves it.

Your "market" approach fails the minute someone is born with preexisting conditions. Or if someone needs emergency care, but doesn't have the right plan.

Try again.