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Don't most of the advocates of Universal Basic Income agree with the premise of "cannibilizing other important programs"? I tend to associate UBI with "what you get if you challenge a Libertarian to provide welfare", as it is a single primitive that for some level of squinting replaces large numbers of more specific programs.
For an interested Lua programmer, there's a kind-of workable approach --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...
I used to keep young seedlings covered, but anything big they ignored but happily hunted all day. On an allotment I would suspect you would need to pen your allotment using a flexible electric fence IF people objected to chickens invading their allotment.
Sounds to me like they weren't willing to really commit to the idea of basic income. For a country the size of America, you can't have any meaningful basic income just by taxing a few specific activities. If you really believe in the idea, you have to go whole-hog and fund it with taxes on the top 1%, 10% and 25%.

There are numerous policies which we've pursued in the past few decades which have paid enormous dividends for the top 1% and 10%, policies such as free trade, immigration and the transition away from manufacturing and towards specialized services. These policies have certainly boosted aggregate GDP and average incomes, but most of the benefits have not trickled down to the median/lower-middle-class Americans.

Unless we take more forceful action soon, reactionary populists like Trump are only going to keep getting more power, and before long, we're going to see a clampdown on free-trade, immigration and technological innovation. We desperately need a program like basic income, that taxes the winners in the economy and provides for those being left behind, so that everyone has a reason to cheer for and participate in national GDP growth. Yes, this means more taxes on people like you and me, but it's well worth it to prevent a populist revolt.
If using docker you can mount a volume to your let’s encrypt certs on all your frontend servers.
I suspect it's there for backwards compatibility only. OpenSSH on this OS version is compiled against LibreSSL, for example.
Yes but him alone does not a difference make.
I don't like testing for NaN's using == and != either, but the only values that compare the same while having a different bit patterns are ±0 and all the NaN's, so as long as you get those right, the plain equality is fine. Also, I think your test has a corner case with 0x7ff8000000000000 and 0xfff8000000000000, because NaN's can have sign bits too, while the intention in the post is to treat any NaN as matching any NaN. So the test for equality could be something like "isnan(a) == isnan(b) && (isnan(a) || (a == b && signbit(a) == signbit(b)))" without any bitwise manipulation.
"I have never seen a union that could actually compete with non-union shops unless there was a legal force preventing the competition."

You say "compete", but I'll bet these people would say "earn a living wage."
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I find myself using != in skype chats with coworkers.
I was able to get this to work in the command line (after gcloud components update). This is an exciting feature!

Thanks for the support! And thanks for all the good work on AppEngine!

And thanks to other commenters too!
This is a flippant response.

Progressive taxation works primarily because those with broad shoulders contribute the most. Individuals contributing more to government income at the individual level does not have the same results, primarily because the benefits of higher taxation can only be realised if the policy is universally applied.
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Google forked WebKit and called it Blink, which Chrome uses. It might be partly this but I guess also that Google prioritized implementing a multi-process architecture.
There is no actual evidence that the extraction price of precious metals will increase with the amount extracted at a fixed time. This is entirely speculative, and it seems more likely that extraction prices will decline as extraction technology improves faster than demand increases.
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Keep in mind those two solutions are on opposite sides of the world. I found this [1], which gives the projected Snowy Mountain 2.0 proposal in Australia at $250/kWh (AUD, presumably).

Regardless, I don't disagree that pumped hydro can still a viable choice in some places when it comes to large scale, I think South Australia made the best choice going with battery storage, even if driven from mostly political reasons.

The SA govt needed to show the federal govt they were capable of holding their own on their renewable policy, against the federal line of the Snowy Mountain 2.0 pumped hydro. Having something up and going in ~100 days with very few unknown factors (pour concrete, install batteries, hook up to grid), opposed to waiting 5-10 years for a solution from the federal government that hasn't even finished a feasibility study yet, and has so much more risk (geological survey, environmental survey, new transmission lines [0] etc)

The other advantage of battery storage I see is that it is immensely flexible for a rapidly changing market. Underprovision? Just buy more. Overprovision? Truck them somewhere else, lease them to a business with peaky loads, plenty of other options.

[0] http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/4681519/snowy-hydro...
[1] https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/04/05/pumped-hydro-system-c...
A watch or bracelet could also work, of course. Even a neck pendant if that's your thing. The point is physical, on your person, and crypto based on near field.

The problem with longer ranges, even just a few cm, is the prospect for snooping or triggerring unintended authentications. My preference would be mm range.
The market is still growing rapidly, while Google and Facebook are increasing their share there's still plenty of money to go around.
You can do it with IFRAME and postMessage communication. (Have the internal IFRAME send out resize data, and that's all you need to handle from the host page.)

http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-postmessage/example...
I can believe it. I haven't owned a TV in many years, and while I do see an ad or two relatively regularly (my parents own a TV), even when I visit them I often never see it on.

Outside of visiting them, I can't even think of any situations where I'd encounter one. We've got TVs in work but they only show static screens with schedules and notifications. No channels. None of my friends own one and I do actively avoid sports bars.

I'm probably in a minority but I don't think I'm extremely unusual. Definitely a fast growing minority at least.
There's too much cargo cult information getting repeated in this thread and going unquestioned. Apple doesn't care about the patent grant parts of GPLv3. The Apple Public Source License was an early pioneer in granting patent rights. Most modern commentary FOSS licenses are modeled after the grant from the APSL, starting with Apache 2.0, and including MPL2 and GPLv3. There's nothing in the GPLv3 for Apple to quibble about wrt patents; it has everything to do with the GPL's Tivoization stance.
Thanks, we really appreciate the support. This is only the beginning of us adding support for Prometheus standards. Can't wait to show off some PromQL support :)
It's due to the lack of wall painting robots and it would seem that the market is soon to provide a solution.

The future will hasten the demise of human labor, it's economic inevitability.
By your definition, how can a REST API be idempotent? Say that GET(user) = john so, what I'm interpreting is that: GET( GET(user) ) = GET(john) = john. That doesn't seem valid to me.
Difficult to arrange by a phishing email, website, or trojan.

Possible to countermeasure as well.
Building and launching the number of rockets necessary for large scale asteroid mining would also cause severe environmental damage. It's not clear whether this would be a net win or not.
Aren't the site in the iframe uses its own cookie? (So it doesn't count as 3rd party, no?)
And what about all the things that C++ has that no other language in the world has?
I wonder how much money Zuckerberg made off of Jew hate.
China has demonstrated one way to do this
> low wages are not an externality

The social cost of poverty is surely an externality. If you don't pay people enough to cover their healthcare, to give them the ability to provide a stable family environment or have a reasonable housing situation then the cost will have to be paid somewhere else in the system. And it probably will cost the economy more the further down the line it finally bubble up.

> The point of letting the market modulate supply and demand is that it encourages an economically optimal allocation of resources.

Only assuming a perfect market. Which is about as plausible a concept as a socialist paradise. The real world is messy and imperfect. People aren't rational actors. Laws are imperfect. Regulators are corrupt. Information doesn't flow everywhere equally. Monopolies and cartels exist.
It's really easy, you take your relatively enormous salary and donate $30 a month to help organisations build infrastructure they need. Imagine if everyone did this?

Oxfam would be a good place to start https://www.oxfam.org.au/
If they measure "coffee consumed in the United States" by dollars than it could mean each cup of craft coffee counts for ~4x cups of McDonald's coffee.
You don't see the difference between physically keeping you captive and offering you a job for 20 hours per day?
Somewhat on this topic, does anyone know if Magic (the 4GL-ish software) is still used, and how it is these days? I had first heard of it when I got to know that a previous company that I worked at, were using it, commercially, for their clients. It was a somewhat unusual (AFAIK) software in that it was supposed to be table/menu-driven, and had maybe (in that early version) only something like 14 operations, using which, the manufacturers claimed, one could build pretty much any common business application. I found that interesting but never got a chance to work on it or try it out.

The company behind Magic was an Israeli one, Magic Enterprises, IIRC.

Update: I googled, this is their site:

magicsoftware.com

and they do have a free/trial version. Will check it out a bit later.
Your linked article does not support your assertions that they are "stealing" water.

By the way, the 36 million gallons mentioned in the article is about 110 acre feet, or the same amount of water used to irrigate a 25-50 acre almond orchard (depending on location). It's nothing, and it's being used as drinking water, not to wash cars, water lawns, fill swimming pools or any of the other more wasteful ways people use water.
I'm well aware of external storage limitations.

Google/Nexus devices have no damned onboard storage. That's a fail. I don't do cloud.

The lack of usable / findable docs on this stuff is another PITA.
>So how does the Internet transition to constitutional monarchy and democracy?

What does this mean? How you envision this happening?
Didn't Aryabhatta, the one who invented zero, live in an era much earlier than the 3rd or 4th century ?
Pascal won on memory.
I'm not sure I understand your point --

For instance, if an algorithm failed only when exactly all three inputs were 0, then it would fail only in 1 per (2^32)^3, despite not being exactly 0 at its failure rate. So exhaustive testing only works if you have a single input, since 2^96 is somewhat harder to exhaustively search, and statistical testing may not be enough, since 1/2^96 << 1/2^32.

We can imagine a situation where it fails with each of the values being a number besides 0, making this nontrivial to check for. (For example, if the inputs are normalized somehow before being processed.)
One of the worst offenders is probably the binary-trees benchmark.

1. It features an atypically high allocation rate compared to real-world programs.

2. As a synthetic micro benchmark that only ever allocates objects of one size, it makes pool allocators look disproportionately good. But in real-world applications with varying object sizes, overuse of pool allocators creates a serious risk for fragmentation.

3. The rules allow programs that use manual memory management to use pretty much any pool allocator library that they can get their hands on, but forbid garbage-collected languages from adjusting their GC parameters (last I checked, you could easily improve the performance of OCaml and Dart for that benchmark by a factor of 2-3 simply by adjusting GC settings, especially the size of the minor heap).
Who said anything about a 1 size fits all solution? Why do you insist that's how it has to be?

The Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and the Writers Guild don't work like that. Pro athlete unions don't work like that. Why would you think that tech would have to?
Interesting, Do you know how to grab a copy?
I think about that a lot. If I applied the same work ethic that I have now to school, I would probably be way smarter. Perseverance is hard to learn. At the education company I worked for we proved that there is enough time to study 3 hours outside of class per credit hour and still work and have free time. It just takes time management and a daily calendar to find that balance.
That's in SV. And the vast, vast majority aren't making that.
No idea, sorry. But according to this interview[0] a guy named MelonSpeedruns "did the basic program that would allow sending bytes from each emulator to a server". Sadly I can't find any blogpost, video or any kind of forum, where he talks about this project. His github account shows nothing related to this either. Maybe there are further details in one of Kaze's videos[1], or you could try asking MelonSpeedruns directly on github[2] or reddit[3].

[0]https://www.redbull.com/sg-en/mario-64-online-interview

[1]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvSqzfO_LV_QzHdmEj84SQ

[2]https://github.com/MelonSpeedruns

[3]https://www.reddit.com/user/MelonSpeedruns/
I do use syncthing, but like you say there are hardly any apps which can use it.

There's OwnCloud (or *DAV servers) but I think it's a bit silly requiring a server to host data which I'm only going to sync over 5 devices tops.
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Minor point: the engineers at big telecoms aren't union members. They're "management."
Kenneth Williams used it when a popular comic and nobody straight had the first idea of the gay subtext.
Perhaps, but "your" mistake might impede the popularity of the language. A wide range of well-designed community libraries are a major reason to choose Python.

Take a look at the design rationale for the new __matmul__ magic method. It's not for the standard library, it's for the community.
Wouldn't the fact that it's using a 22nm processor mean that 8 years is at least a couple years too far?
This only applies to companies that compete in a competitive marketplace. It doesn't apply to monopolies who have enormous margins: for example: google, facebook, etc.
There is money in "creative communications", money in semi-captive audiences. (Every time you want to read an article that has a hundred ads around it.)

There will be people exploiting that.

AdBlock works pretty well though.

The real problem is that people don't have the intrinsic need of blocking those fucking ads, because they are dumb as fuck :(

But we have YouTube and a lot of sites that live off ad revenue. (That search engine thing too, you might have heard about it.)
I often encounter a lot of confusion about push vs. pull and whether you should pick Prometheus or Influx.

Prometheus comes along every so often and scrapes metrics your program exposes via a very simple API. This has the advantage that your code doesn't need to know about some endpoint of some cluster, it just needs to buffer up and expose some info it knows about itself from the recent past.

You don't need to maintain a cluster of Prometheus either, you can just run more than one for redundancy (kind of like an active-active) - it is meant for relatively ephemeral information, it is efficient, and one big Prometheus node will probably do you fine.

Where to store compacted historical metrics (less coarse resolution, still interesting data that you might not want to throw away) and how has been an open question. Sinking it into influx could be a good answer, so this is welcome news.
What do you mean "based" there?
Highly recommend "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" [1] if you're interested in learning more about the number zero.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Charles-Seif...
The end result for the customer is that the ad industry will switch to cross-device tracking for everyone.

Right now, you had an option to opt-out, by setting cookies to block. You were relatively safe.

Now the default will become a net of machine learning algorithms which can track you cross-device without requiring cookies. It is not possible to safeguard against that, unless you completely randomize your online browsing behavior.
It seems like you are entirely ignorant of the facts.

Sitting in the same old-repo, a GForth binary-trees program from 2005 --

https://alioth.debian.org/scm/viewvc.php/shootout/bench/bina...

edit Now it seems little remains but for you to lift-that-shade and tell-everyone how amazing it is that someone took the trouble to archive those obscure old programs.
I guess he was talking about actual data leaks, iCloud has a pretty bad track record on that front...
I wouldn't want to write the test that way because it seems very complex. The other way I'd be tempted to write it would be to compare the bit patterns and treat mismatched bit patterns as a failure unless both numbers are NaN.

To some extent it comes down to personal taste and how much knowledge of FP you want embedded in the test.
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I find this hard to believe unless your use is limited to "dir this" and "ping that".

Powershell is like a gas station men's room in the middle of nowhere. It's better than nothing but nothing to celebrate.
> ones where I'm looking for German content.

I've found their handy country toggle switch at the top of the page works better and better for this sort of thing recently.

> Bing/OpenStreetMap

There's also wego.here.com but with the amount of wonderful work that goes into the OSM community, the quality of their data, and the polish of some of the modern SaaS options for devs like Mapbox and Mapzen, it really surprises me that the UX on openstreetmap.org itself remains so basic and... not very useful.

> Mobile situation ain't that great.

In case you're still looking, can't recommend Maps.me highly enough.
Well, if your users are in the east cost / London, you want to build something closer without spinning up one in Europe yet, us-east-1 is your choice. So.. YMV.
As someone who works partly in the ad ecosystem, all I can say is: YESSS!!!!
Yeah that's what I was thinking about too... I wonder if it was intentional. They do want you to pronounce the G in front.. .
While I'm sure that's partly sampling bias. The truth is, Powershell has a lot of flaws. Both in the program itself, as well a the language decisions.

And I _REALLY_ like the idea of an object-oriented piping system. I would love to have that built into Linux/bash/etc instead of every program having to have some sort of "human readable" mode and (if you're lucky) a "machine readable" mode. Except every machine readable mode is different and still requires a parsing pass to get it filtered into your program correctly. I find it fun and even relaxing to design parsing passes to bring say, smem, into a Python script. But that's because (Thank God) I don't have to do it for a living. [And the newest era of "some" programs supporting JSON or XML output but there's still no easy tools for filtering through it into the next program--requiring yet another translation layer.]

Now back to Powershell. It's fun to learn the first day. And then after that, it's just an 80 degree walk uphill after you learn one stupid idea after another. You want to do something insanely simple in concept and you're pouring through ours of documentation and examples for the exact use-case.

Personally, I've started using Python2/3 for scripts lately. Most systems I use already have Python, and Python is easily 10x-100x faster in many situations and that's not even using a compiled variant. And while I enjoy C variant programming, Python is still a huge step up from all those stupid Bash idiosyncrasies like string -eq non-string but wait, you added a space before the equals, so it explodes anyway. (I can't remember a great example off-the-top-of-my-head, but anyone who has used Bash has had those days of an obscure error being related to a single incorrect whitespace.)
> According to that, if Apple accidentally ships any GPLv3 on iOS then they'll have to release their root signing keys to the world, which would be disastrous (it would destroy the security model of the OS).

Stop spreading this FUD. They would not need to release their root singing keys in this case, just provide a mechanism to allow for other keys to be used (there are various ways to go about doing this without compromising security). The main requirement is that the compiled software can be run on the device.
A decently typed Forth with a touch of Perl
>kind of like SF vs. Dallas

Which would make the US no more homogenous than Germany at least.

> There are basically no places in Europe with a critical mass of early adopters for anything in tech

Finland pretty much invented the mobile business (and the US still lags Europe), and European startup culture is very strong in London, the Nordics, and Berlin, (with Paris and Amsterdam also starting to make a play). Where do you think Skype, Spotify, Soundcloud, and Angry Birds come from?
Yes! I'm the author of the article but, still, I hate it when old articles are posted without acknowledgment that they are old.

I mean, it's a timeless classic, but the fact that it's three years old is still worth acknowledging.
Google are too political to be trusted. Sad they couldn't take the high road that they pretend to take.
Funnily enough, some research into parapsychology (and similar)--being, the serious research that goes into stuff barely at the edge of pseudoscience, does exactly this. Preregistration is an important part to even begin having any experiments into "remote sensing" or "extrasensory perception" taken seriously by the community. The "serious" part of it, any way. There's a bunch of statisticians who love analysing this kind of thing, and there's parapsychology researchers that love drafting up experiments that challenge and skirt the edges of experimental science.

Not nearly enough of them of course.

But still, it's kind of funny how certain fields in pseudoscience actually drive progress in statistics and scientific methodology :)
Instead Hillary Clinton ran on a platform of "it's not realistic" in the primaries, and I don't even know what in the general. "I'm with her" is the most egocentric slogan anyone could have come up with...
Yes, that is one of the arguments put forth against UBI in the Intelligence Squared Debate on UBI [1].

Basically, the argument is that you'll never raise taxes in the USA, so if you want to help the poor, you have to target the poor, not give half that money to rich people. If you're unable to raise taxes, which you very likely won't be able to, then you just end up taking money away from the poor.

If you can raise taxes, you can rebalance the money given to the rich with a progressive tax making it essentially a Negative Income Tax AKA Mincome [2], but again it whether you'd be able to do it or not is a different question.

[1] https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/universal-basi...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/JbnFDo5.gifv