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> Are you fucking kidding me? Does anyone really honestly think that there's a high percentage of women out there wanting to give birth 10 to 20 times? Is that theoretically possible?

Religious extremists.

In the early days of the State of Israel, the largest secular party needed the support of the parties of religious extremists, in order to form a majority in parliament and create a government. Those parties set a price: they would support the government, but only if the government exempted their young men from military service, and pay them a living stipend, so that they could spend their days engrossed in religious studies. All told, about 400 men would be granted such an exemption and stipend.

At the time, the secular party's leader thought that religiosity in Israel was going the way of the dodo anyway. He didn't have a problem with setting up a kind of living museum for religious study, so he accepted.

The official birthrate for those religious-extremist families is around eight, but it is not uncommon to find families with a dozen or even more children. Because of how Israeli parliamentary politics works, the religious extremist parties often served as kingmakers for parties which sought to form governments, and they kept that price as the price for support. Today there are more than 10,000 such people receiving such exemptions and stipends, and more than 25% of all children in Israeli elementary schools come from ultra-religious families, in spite of such measures being almost universally unpopular outside that sector and continually struck down by the Israeli Supreme Court every few years.

To finally answer your question: it's not just theoretically possible, it's a guarantee. And demography is one hell of a time bomb.
This is really insightful. Thank you for the thoughtful reply.

A lot of my perspective comes from living in a post-GA world. I can see there being value for companies who are reliant on GA and Adwords data for their day-to-day operations - and to be honest, that's probably a lot of people. For someone who isn't as reliant on GA data or already has it in a data warehouse, I can't quite see the justification to use this specific tool. I'll definitely keep an eye on it.
The computer programming field is plagued by a tendency that needs a name. What do you call it when the blogosphere pressures you to reject all these time-honored, perfectly good techniques, because of some edge case in a niche field that you will never have to deal with? Like the programmer ensconced in some corporation writing a business app that will only ever be used by 100 people. He rejects using just one server, because that couldn't possibly be enough, you must at least separate your web server from your database. He uses NoSQL instead of SQL because SQL doesn't scale. He uses React and a single-page application, because old-fashioned HTML and jQuery will get way out of hand --- even though he's just printing some tables and maybe some graphs, based on choices made in a form. And so his solution is worse than all of the problems he's trying to avoid combined. And none of them were going to come to pass anyway. Okay, this was an extreme example.

However, I see the same tendency at work in the demonization of poor old LIMIT and OFFSET. Let me talk about OFFSET first. This article talks about its inefficiency. Well, it may be inefficient, but every page I've generated with OFFSET still comes back in a split second. So coding around it seems to me like a premature optimization. Now let's talk about LIMIT. It's limited in reliability, because what if someone inserts while you're paging along? The item at the end of page 3 is now at the top of page 4! More insidiously, what if someone deletes? Then the top result on page 4 becomes the last result on page 3, and you never see it.

That scenario troubles my perfectionistic mindset, but I have to say in all my apps it is not the end of the world. I run into this all the time anyway on other people's websites, major and minor: whether I'm paging through search results on Google and Amazon or the latest posts on some web forum and even Hacker News. It's no big deal. At least, for my purposes it doesn't seem worth doing one of the other methods I read about here.

Now if you are programming a self-driving car or automating the mixture of medicines, maybe be careful where you use LIMIT and OFFSET.
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>Google is not going to shut something like this down that enhances their revenue

Right now this product is losing substantial amounts of money, we're talking on the order of tens of millions USD per year. If the net present cost of support exceeds the net present value of the product revenue stream Google has every right to cull it. It's their prerogative as a business.

My prerogative as a business consumer (when I am in that position) makes me wary of being reliant on the whims of a multi-billion dollar company whose primary revenues are generated from ads for my analytics needs.

It's quite possible Google Data Studio is going to be the next big thing for the company, it's just as possible it doesn't get the desired traction and ends up culled from their offerings.
Yeah, remember what they did to lavabit.
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That looks kind of card-intensive. Is there a version more amenable to playing with pencil and blank paper in the back of a bus?
Business are groups of people. They may collectively feel they can work together to advance society in a positive direction; not every business wants to be amoral and purely capitalist. As long as they’re not breaking the law, that seems to me to be a good thing.
This is the blog post I wrote in 2009 after the Station Fire down in LA almost burned our house down:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/living-through-brush-fire...

To which I would add, to be more responsive to the question: don't try to save anything that can be easily replaced. So: your laptop or a hard drive with a copy of your data, photos, original art work, out-of-print books that you're particularly attached to. Your passport. Maybe a few changes of clothes. That's it. Everything else is just stuff.

If there is actually a fire nearby, don't waste time, especially if it's windy. If the wind is calm then you might have some time, but if it's blowing, just get as far away as fast as you possibly can. A wind-drive fire is not to be fucked with.

If you're interested, here are the live-blog entries I wrote during the fire:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/going-to-be-interesting-n...

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/dodged-bullet.html

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/turn-for-worse.html

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/evacuated.html

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/out-of-frying-pan.html

And the denouement:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/reflections-on-fire.html

Here's the TL;DR quote:

"I think if you're going to live anywhere near the mountains in SoCal you have to make your peace with the fact that your house might burn down some day and there will be nothing you can do about it. Accordingly, the best thing you can do is to figure out well in advance what stuff in the house really matters to you, and have a plan for getting that stuff out of the house, storing it somewhere safe for a while, and then putting it back, either in the same house or a new one that you build after the old one has burned down. Making that inventory was not part of our advance preparation, and that was a huge mistake. We found ourselves trying to decide under pressure what we wanted to save. And it turned out that some of those things -- mainly artwork -- wouldn't fit in our cars."

Good luck to you. We were thinking of moving up to Santa Rosa ourselves last year and decided against it. Never dreamed this could happen there.
Have you people not heard of Malthusian traps? Either we limit the world population artificially, or we continue having poor people. It really is one or the other.
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Is there even one request denied for a court oder?
The firmware includes calibration algorithms for a 6-DOF gyroscope sensor. Might be useful for robotics.

[1]: https://github.com/facebookarchive/RiftDK2/blob/master/Heads...

[2]: https://github.com/facebookarchive/RiftDK2/blob/master/Heads...
> (or larger companies) in this space

That's what I'm responding to.

Of course startups can be far worse. Goes without saying.
> Kaspersky himself used to work for Soviet military intelligence

This is straight up not true.
He studied at an institute that was administered by the KGB.
Seems like it would be difficult to scale down our brain and retain intelligence.
The access latencies are quite different, though, are they not?
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for example The Equation Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group), which wouldn't be an organic part of the function or activities of a normal civilian cyber-security company.

While your basic point might be correct, this part is absolutely false. All major security groups actively research all APT groups, no matter where they are from.

For example, here's a 2015 report from (US Company) FireEye[1]. Page 11 talks about the Equation Group (as well as the UK-based Regin group).

It is worth acknowledging that Kaspersky was the first company to identify and name the Equation Group. However, this is likely to be because of the geographical overlap of activities: Kaspersky provides defensive support in Russia and the Middle East where the Equation Group is most active.

This is exactly the same as how Mandiant/Fireeye identified ATP-1 and Cozy Bear/Fancy Bear: they get called in to investigate breaches in the US where those state-supported groups are most active.

[1] https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/company/even...
> What does this app do on phones? On tablets? On laptops?

The same thing, by default. Scale pictures and text automatically. <img src="some-image.svg" style="width:0.1cm;height:0.1cm"> for universal compatibility without those godawful hdpi mdpx xxhdpi qxfhdpi directories and whatnot. Use something like CSS3 selectors or code if you want different layout on phones/laptops/tablets. The default should be to just display the same thing. Different layouts usually happens several months into an app's development cycle, and that's only if they actually gain traction. For most apps, targeting only phones is plenty good.

> Where is the header bar (the original has one, yours doesn't).

There isn't one. If you want one, add it:

<header-bar style="background:#ff00000;color:#ffffff">
Hello World
<hamburger id="mHamburger" style="float:right;"/>
</header-bar>

> What color is it?

The default, unless the developer styles it otherwise.

> What font?

The default, unless the developer styles it otherwise.

> What placement?

Left, unless the developer styles it otherwise.

> What about users who don't read English?

Don't worry about it and just display the text. When I have enough traction in my initial market, be that English or Japanese or French, I'll consider internationalizing later. Until then, everyone gets the same thing. In a lot of apps, until the content being offered for consumption is internationalized, it makes very little sense to waste time internationalizing the UI. And even if your app doesn't offer any content it probably still makes more sense to build and ship quickly (read: make building easy!) and worry about internationalizing later.

> What about users who's languages don't fit in ASCII.

Just default to UTF-8 already for all source files. End of story.

> Some poor souls at Google waste a lot of time making sure developers get a large library of useful layouts and controls that all mostly-just-work mostly-consistently across a huge spectrum of devices and API releases.

Great! I appreciate all that. But they should live on the system. An full-blown HTML5 app can be a few tens of kilobytes and support RTL languages and everything you mentioned. Chrome takes care of all that consistency stuff. Android should do the same for native. I shouldn't have to go through hell just to draw a button on the screen.
Of course, this works just as well for causes you disagree with as causes you agree with.

Given that and the distribution of people with a will to get aggressive about politics in the US, would you rather that this method existed or didn't exist?
At first I thought, "Oh lord, this is going to be a terrifying surprise and/or new and horrific way to die, melt, and explode (not in that order)."

Colour me surprised!
> Can you even name me 5 big products they've ended which had a huge impact.

- Analog Efex Pro

- Color Efex Pro

- Silver Efex Pro

- Viveza

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If you download such a file, the default setting of the protected mode should cover this.

https://i.imgur.com/49x2IZN.png
Same here, rapid growing startup, Hibernate introduced many perfomance problems, replaced with JDBCTemplate which was much easier to reason about. Also Hibernate upgrades were a pain.

Also

http://codemonkeyism.com/beware-magical-code/ (2010)
Though I second this, "hacker pricing" could encourage a few small early adopters who may provide critical feedback in the early days of the product.
Just decompile your built JAR files and go through the source code yourself if you're worried.

http://www.benf.org/other/cfr/

Also JetBrains is based in Czech Republic not Russia.
Trustrank: τι είναι πως να το αυξήσετε για να ανεβείτε στη Google;
As I recall, someone had built a machine that turned the pages and took pictures of the pages. I think they were refining it, as it just snapped both facing pages at once, and were going to market it.

I never did find out what happened to that project. The work was being shared in one of the alt.bin. newsgroups and they had written a few blurbs about their machine.

This predates the popularity of crowdfunding, I don't know if that would have helped. I do seem to recall them mentioning some interest from libraries or archival services but I have no idea what happened.

Maybe someone here knows the rest of the story?

I do have some older manuscripts, including some old mathematics works. I should see if there is a project to digitize them. I'd be happy with digital copies as I don't have a material attachment to the books themselves - I don't think. (I may, I've never really been faced with sending them out to someone.) So, I'd be not too incensed if the process was destructive or if the books weren't returned.
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Agree with you @NumberCruncher
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Please read x86 considered harmful by the security researcher Joanna rutkowska. It highlights the x86 flaws.
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
Colour me nothing because of the paywall
Israel is listed as an "observer" in the Five Eyes alliance.

So yes it's quite likely that the US et al have shared assets with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I think it was related to the "with or without SSL". Obviously the data you send can be intercepted without SSL but no other data (and with SSL not even that).
As an Arab Muslim, the idea that the US is any better is laughable.
> What if the input is the right type, but doesn't have the right count for the expression?

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

> object orientation is a great way to have a good enough type system.

It means different things to different people. The type systems the various kinds of OO provide are subsets of the existing type system, which will soon be extended to support dependent typing.

> In a vertex-edge model, there needs to be a connection between the variable declaration and anywhere the variable is used.

There are no variables in my language.

Some of your other points are valid, but I was already aware of them. Development isn't easy, or I'd have finished it by now.
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Could we have a less clickbaity title?
Who will pay for that and how are you going to force manufacturers to participate in such scheme? Most people "have nothing to hide" and don't care about privacy, so they won't be happy as manufacturers pass cost of this to them. More realistic way (though not easy too) is to install a firewall on a proxy all traffic is run through and filter suspicious/unknown connections.
I can look at a Git commit and tell you exactly which of my coworkers wrote it without looking at %cn. Code has style, like spoken language has accents.

One could argue that e.g. German spy tools copy the American style so that those decompiling it will think it is American. I argue that is a lot harder that it sounds. Code style is much deeper than whether or not to use braces around lone if clauses. The whole way of thinking, layout of data structures, use of getters/setters or properties, breakdown of what goes where and into which classes, breakup of large methods, etc etc etc. These signatures and many more give one a feel for the software's origin. Not proof, but a very solid foundation for suspicion.
This is true. A friends parents house burned to the ground. At their advanced age, the only thing they complained about were all the sentimental items they lost. You can always buy a new camera, but man, those wedding pictures and ornaments aren't quite as replaceable.
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Israel is not unaffiliated with the NSA.

They are a trusted ally of the USA and an observer in the Five Eyes alliance.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

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This article and its hypothesis are both just so incredibly, horribly bad. I don't even know where to begin, and I feel ill equipped to comment in a way that isn't some scathing, scoffing violation of HN guidelines. Geez.
What is in-memory computing?
It's been an interesting one to say the least.

I started drinking coffee in college when I started smoking. I was dual-majoring and working and tried to have a life too, so burning the candle at 3-ends.

I switched to just black at my first internship where I had to get up at 4:30am

For 6 or so years I was reliant on it, at least two cups and usually 3 a day. When I was burning out I would be at 5 or 6. It would get to the point where I needed it to just function and I didn't know who I was without it.

But for the last month and a half I haven't had a full cup.

I quit coffee (and a few other additive things) really just to exercise my discipline and to not need anything.

The first day I went to a single cup. Then I switched to half a cup for the first week. It was really tough as I went through withdrawals: eye and lip twitches, real bad irritability, and having to have a steel will as it's all I could think about.

Now, I can have it as I please and not miss it if I don't have it. The smell is still wonderful but I don't want to go back.
What would happen if you invested $10,000 in cryptocurrencies?
Lavabit.
Say if the massive amounts of magma actually required to trigger these explosions were injected tonight what would the response be? Would we at least know this is happening?
And now they have come for all your data.
...Does it not rain on your house?
+ You can buy all kind of cloths later. But take the ones that have special meaning to you. The one a guy gave you one time on your sabbatical trip, the jacket of your wedding suit.

+ Make pictures of everything. Sync to the cloud. You might lose your phone later in the hassle.
coming from someone whose house has burned down twice, take photos of everything. You will need it for the insurance.
Coffee and me have been getting together three or four times a week here lately. We are seriously dating and considering getting engaged.
Heh. I almost hope that they make a ton of money out of this. It's so bad its almost pretty good. Would it qualify as a satirical fundraiser?
Google easily makes the money back over time. A PC is used for many years over which Google shows those consumers tens of thousands of ads, easily worth more than the unit cost of a default browser deal.
We saw a similar situation with the Russian rocket and nuclear scientists who lost their jobs after START I. Many of them started providing knowledge to rogue states and in at least one incident, to a private 'organization'.

One would hope that we are more careful with removing Kaspersky and his brilliant employees' legitimate professions this time.
... that's not absolutely right. There is way more than simply "don't let go."
In this article and the nyt one they are actually saying US is doing it and it's not even a secret. Here is a quote:

"The N.S.A. bans its analysts from using Kaspersky antivirus at the agency, in large part because the agency has exploited antivirus software for its own foreign hacking operations and knows the same technique is used by its adversaries."
In fine, that NSA is not that super agency filed with very talented n math/crypto/cs people like the majority depict in their mind. They are employing average folks who use average tools and get caught by average issues. The only difference might be that they are educated and trained to be very efficient at doing one very specific job and that's all.
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