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> Also, this is the only time I've ever gone faster than 1,250 Km/h groundspeed in a regular jet

Wow! How fast was the air flying? I.e., how close were you to supersonic airspeed?
It's really not. By that logic he was also saying men were biologically unfit for tech jobs. His point was that the distribution of personality traits is different in men and women, which accounts for the skewed gender distribution in the tech industry.

Further, he was arguing that this could be at least partly mitigated by changing certain cultural and institutional aspects of the tech industry, to better leverage different personality types and actually improve the performance of Google.

So no, it wasn't part of his underlying thesis and I question how you could think so if you actually read it. Perhaps you're just repeating what the commentariat told you he said?
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Having worked on movies shot on video, color film, and B+W film, the lighting and design choices are very different. Colorizing BW movies makes some sense for historical footage where that was the only available option, like newsreels or very ear;y films, but for anything with aesthetic choices involved (German expressionism onwards), it's no more appropriate than trying to figure out what Picasso's models 'really' looked like. Artists are not that concerned with fidelity, but with pushing the salient characteristics of their available or chosen medium in support of a particular artistic vision. We are not merely recording; as soon as there is more than one option available (whether that's paint on canvas or different kinds of film stock) we start playing with the possibilities. When you begin colorizing you risk compromising that.
Theres a lot of speculation about TWA Flight 800 so thats pretty interesting. I some how stumbled on CPAN one night and the guy that wrote TWA 800 Crash Cover Up Conspiracy was giving a talk. Listening to the commenters afterwards, all were either engineers, pilots, or former air force and seemed to be in agreement with the author. Theres a TWA Flight 800 documentary as well.

book: https://www.amazon.com/TWA-800-Crash-Cover-Up-Conspiracy/dp/...

movie: https://flight800doc.com
> I wonder how this kind of cash parking affects property values?

Go look at housing prices in every city on the west coast.
Unfortunately, it does.[1] See the Supreme Court decision in Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless v. Hatch. [2] FCC-regulated entities are not subject to state consumer protection laws.

[1] https://www.wileyrein.com/practices-federal-preemption.html
[2] http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11-...
It’s not a problem for the 4 people who do that.

It becomes a problem when you pump lots of email into a good sized provider, and your open rates are poor. Google knows more about what mail you read than you do.
Similarly, you can also create a HTML document containing a single <table>, and Excel will open it with the right extension/mime type.
Well AOT even in OpenJDK is not necessarily about resource savings, just startup time. Native code is much larger than the equivalent bytecode, so compiling lots of cold code that's rarely used AOT to native can make things more bloated and slower, rather than tighter and faster.

I suspect we'll see the same thing for value types: it's not going to be quite the easy win it seems. Even in C++, it's easy to create accidental footprint explosions with templates and lose performance to excessive copying with value types. And C++ allows mutable values, which are out of fashion now so Java won't allow them ...

I was curious if the article would mention memory chips that knew how to do bulk memmoves by themselves. Does anyone know if memory subsystems can already do that? If you issue a memmove() for, say, 3kb of memory, does the CPU still have to read it all into the cache and then immediately write it out again, or is there some way the CPU can signal to the DRAM chips that they should do the copy themselves? Fast copying of memory would be useful for GCs.
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Ouch. Is this at a legal or community level?
There are, of course, Boeing 747 freighters. [1]

[1] http://www.boeing.com/commercial/freighters/
I can confirm. The PowerPC variant used in the 360 (and PS3) only supports 4 byte instructions and throws an exception if you try to force it to execute instructions not 4 byte aligned.

Both the PS3 and 360 are in a unique position where they both have strict W^X, OS enforced code signing, and an arch that doesn't let assembly programmers do weird things. This means they are both extremely viable targets for static recompilation. The programmers have zero ablity to do funky business.

Also on the PS3 (I'm not sure about the 360) the ABI requires the complier to generate and ship with a list of every single function entry point. Which basically means you are static recompiling with easy mode on.

However, you are correct about basically every other console, static recompilation is not easy. (Though it's my theory that static recompilation might be easier on the Atari 2600, because the limited ram makes it really hard for self modifying code to exist.
> Examples include the central management of security keys and operating system updates; the scanning of content, like your e-mails, for advertising purposes;

Now that Google, an advertising company, has given up scanning the contents of emails for advertising purposes:
https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
the necessity/reasonableness of this practice is highly questionable, but I suppose "for spam-filtering purposes" would be a clever alternative argument there. (Even with encrypted emails, though, there might be enough unencrypted metadata for accurate spam detection).

Perhaps the real lesson for us here is the danger of centrally managed operating system updates. The fact that Rosenstein is already aware of this attack vector, and thinks so highly of it, suggests it could be a priority to address this. One technology that would be helpful here is Binary Transparency:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency
so a user can at least be sure that they are being given the same updates as everyone else; and if researchers can audit the updates they can hopefully find "if userId = 123456" payloads. You'd have to trust the OS to not support "secret updates" which happen without your consent, but ideally this too would be addressed by an initial audit, or a TOFU policy.
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Unfortunately, the relevance of the Fourth Amendment to informational privacy within cyberspace has been significantly diminished due to piecemeal legislation that has not been internally consistent and a fundamental misinterpreting of what constitutes private information. As it stands, informational privacy in the U.S. is severely lacking in constitutional protections. States do attempt to fill these holes with statutes but even then their conceptual frameworks are based on an understanding of privacy that isn't directly applicable to the digital world.
20,000 lines of your code is one thing. 20,000 lines of someone else's code is another thing entirely. 20,000 lines of many other people's code can be insane.
Do folks have practical examples that would make development of alternative computational models worth it?

The GPU is the only recent example where I've seen people really willing to rethink how they work to get (very large) performance gains. But I'm not seeing that here. For the examples I can think of, it seems like it would be easier to install more servers with modest amounts of RAM, rather than having a smaller number of servers with lots more RAM and in-memory processing.

Of course, maybe I'm just not thinking of the right examples.
That's not how words work.

"I don't know everyone who is Japanese" does not mean every person who exists is Japanese.
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A search through linked environment objects corresponding to nested lexical scopes is a valid, correct implementation of lexical scoping.

It could be that R somehow gets some aspect of it wrong but you haven't so far presented evidence of that. (Maybe it's something you know a lot about and so it's obvious to you.)
I bought a sofa online and it is, frustratingly, one inch too short.

I find the Campaign Living concept: https://www.campaignliving.com/products/the-sofa?variant=416... to be an interesting one, however.
> Nix uses different languages for the host-side and build-side.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Nix packages are Nix expressions.
I don't agree with the premises of the parent comment:

If a news publication lied about him then Damore does indeed have legal recourse. People, including public figures, sue news publications all the time, and some win.

Examples: One reason the Harvey Weinstein story didn't get published for so long, despite the fact that he's clearly a public figure and many journalists investigated it over the years, is that there wasn't sufficient basis for the story to win in court if Weisenstein sued. You'll also recall that Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel actually put Gawker out of business.

In journalism trade publications,[0] you can read that lawsuits are a big concern and considered a threat to the free press. I recently read that small news organizations can't publish investigations of wealthy people and organizations because, true or false, they cannot afford a legal defense. That is a threat to democracy.

So Damore could sue if there was defamation (or slander or libel; I'm not sure of the distinction); why didn't he? Every target of an investigation tries to attack the media now; it's standard operating procedure, and Damore does nothing to distinguish himself. Why should I believe Damore? (This part of the discussion needs facts to back up claims.)

Also, I'd be very careful about bringing down the news media when it takes down people we like; it's an essential institution that we need. If the rich and powerful can silence them, it would cripple democracy and liberty.

> I can't imagine a more malicious and intentional misrepresentation

It would be great to avoid hyperbole; it helps an intelligent discussion
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There have been proposals. Here's the Lockheed Spanloader concept.[1] Never built. The idea comes around again every once in a while.[2]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=jWlaIWwcsiwC&pg=PA112
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=C0gUyoYewhoC&pg=PT183
That's pretty cool. Is the technique for this documented somewhere, or do I have to read the Squeak or Pharo source?
Daniel J. Bernstein did that for all of his projects (qmail, daemontools, etc) and I don't see him getting a ton of flack over doing that.
> But changing this is a matter of 1 LOC.

And how difficult is it for a new user to find that line?
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> Entirely thanks to the West.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dynasty

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate

Imho, the West shouldn't feel bad for the actions of historical Westerns.

But it should absolutely feel bad for the (not insignificant) portion of its prosperity that was a result of that history.

To put it another way, say I run an illegal sweatshop in Africa, bury my profits, leave a note to my daughter telling her where to find the money, then die.

She doesn't get to ethically say "My dad was a terrible person and wrong" AND keep that money.

Even if she didn't know where the money came from, started a business with it, became successful through her hard work, and only finds out later, she still bears guilt.

You don't get to rig the game in your favor, then even things out after you've collected winnings from crooked hands and say "Okay, everything's fair now."
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Essential C doesn't mention a standard but it says Copyright 1996-2003. I'm going guess it hasn't been updated for C11.

Modern C [1] covers C11 and was mentioned before. However, it weighs in at 300 pages rather than Essential C's 45.

[1] http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/img_auth.php/d/db/ModernC.pdf

Actually, reading through Essential C, it hasn't really been updated for C99 since it uses C89 declarations:

C takes the middle road -- variables may be declared
within the body of a function, but they must follow a
'{'. More modern languages like Java and C++ allow you
to declare variables on any line, which is handy.
Local like in "your city", to reduce latency.
Well that's precisely it. The political spectrum is quite well defined. One doesn't become left in the absence of an actual left. It's not a wholly relative measurement. Blue doesn't become green in the absence of green.
I think using democracy to determine "objective" correctness is not necessary to play the devil's advocate. To put it simply, if a democratic society decides that it doesn't want unbreakable encryption and that it wants all encryption subject to 4th Amendment procedures, why should that desire be overridden? That's actually why I find EFF's point about CALEA rather convincing.
Reddit's Trump community? So basically, you're talking about the top 0.001% of Trump voters in tech savviness, just by virtue of them being on reddit.
Another example of the truth that we are de-evolving. A piano in a plane. Peak of human beauty. It's AI, Skynet, mandatory VR goggles, and 27" legroom in the glorious future to come.
>You can go out and drink and never be legally drunk, much less not drive drunk.

That there is a legal threshold (In California anyway) for being drunk while driving is a common misconception. When you get a DUI, two charges are filed against you. One by the DMV and another reviewed by a criminal judge. If there is an accident, you are found at fault, and you have a ~. 06 BAC, the judge/DA will most likely charge you with a DUI and offer a plea where you get all the penalties of a DUI but may have it officially recorded as a wet reckless. The police also have latitude in what determines being intoxicated. Even if you are well under the legal limit, they can often say that you displayed symptoms of being under the influence of other drugs based on your behavior, your car reeked of marijuana, etc.

Not to sound like a PSA, but buzzed driving is impaired driving, and any level of impairment increases the likelihood of an accident for an activity that humans aren't great at performing even when completely sober.
The study claims that "After using ride-hailing, the average net change in transit use is a 6% reduction among
Americans in major cities." Where is the supporting data or facts to back those claims? Being located in Bay Area I know for a fact that BART ridership is down this year due to variety of reasons. May be Ride-sharing companies is one of the reason. But I don't see specific data from different cities mentioned in the study.
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/02/23/bart-ridership-contin...
The STOCK market wants a tighter fit in economy.

IE; the OWNERS.

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The way most people solve this is with a unique code attached to some tracking pixel that gets picked up when the HTML email is opened. We use an alternate of embedding the unique code in the links for the email so that even a text only email will trigger a click for that user if they copy/paste the link. You lose "open" tracking, but this isn't too bad unless you are selling ad impressions for your emails.
If you see anything that's less than clear, or missing from the docs, please let me know! These tools only have a modest number of users right now, so we appreciate all the feedback we can get.
The article is not convicing me that the language is obeying any poorly designed requirements.

The function f contains a free reference to a variable called a. This is satisfied in some sort of global environment.

Later, f is called from a function in which there is a local a bound to 100. Of course, this a which is local to that function is invisible to the free reference in f which continues to refers to the global a that contains 10.

It could be there is some problem in R, but whatever that is, this article isn't exposing it in a convincing way.

Same thing in Common Lisp (using CLISP):

[1]> (defun f (x) (* a x))
F
[2]> (setf a 10)
10
[3]> (f 3)
30
[4]> (defun g (y) (let ((a 100)) (f y)))
G
[5]> (g 3)
30

The surprise is supposed to be that `(g 3)` doesn't produce 100. Why should it?

(It could produce 100 if the symbol a were marked for binding as a special variable; but it isn't. Thus it's just a free variable in f resolved in the global environment, and a lexical binding in g).
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Well, anywhere that is popular enough to need parking (e.g. downtown commercial) is going to be more expensive than a standard house lot in SillyValley. A 5000sqft lot is easily $1M and probably more so you're going to need $200/sqft just for land. The minimum size for a compact parking space is 8x16 and area usage isn't better than 50% in a parking lot so you're at 256sqft before you start building anything... that's $5k.
Isn't it just a clone of classic Cookie Clicker?

http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
An interesting possibility to me is keeping the current high standard if you want monetary damages, but lowering the standard for extracting a (prominent) public apology. I'm less concerned with putting people out of business as I am with making them suffer reputational harm in exchange for the reputational harm they inflict on others. That would also weaken their ability to harm more people in the future.

What would you think about that?
More like a hastily made, watered down well drink.
Here is a good summary of the situation right now: https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/10/15/wpa2-broken-krack-now/
Email providers track "engagement", not just overall account activity. Plenty of "marketing" messages are sent to still active account and just go undread. Enough of this will cause messages to be routed to the bulk/spam folder.
For medical records - consider a secure reader tablet-like device. It has encrypted hardware which can be temporarily permissioned to have access to encrypted data based on blockchain timestamps. It is tamperproof - if you open it it has some self-destruct mechanism. Data is accessed in chunks, therefore the owner of the data can see whether data is being accessed in the way a human might use it, or if it is being downloaded en masse. The organisation with data access devices gets audited on an annual basis to see where all their access devices are and to ensure none of them are being tampered with.

Suddenly, we get to a situation where the security of the medical file begins to resemble that of the paper-based medical records department. If you want to copy records, you need to physically go to where they are, get access to each individual file, and go page-by-page photographing each.
Thanks for looking into it. Hmm, I recall that I was running the game on a Windows 95 (ver a or b most likely not OSR2) box with maybe 32MB of ram? Possibly 16MB

So on your machine, what sound card do you have installed? Are you able to select sound blaster 16 in the configuration?

Also, as a side note, I finally got to hear what it is supposed to sound like on archive.org :)
What have I misunderstood?
Right, but now with modern armies, navies, and air forces against... what... just masses of humanity? There won't be a question of the outcome, it will be wholesale slaughter.
I never understood that about BART. Why were its hours never extended? It seems like that'd be a sure thing to pass if it makes even a small impact on driving fatalities. I doubt that the taxi union had sway over this?
Even if there was a "right to track", then it would be the user who grants it.

Because it originates with the user, the user could refuse to grant it or revoke it.

The question for Mozilla is who are they accountable to?

These are not open source volunteers.

Mozilla can claim it is not a "for-profit" but its contributors are well-compensated, with salaries comparable to people working at the for-profit companies releasing web browsers. (Google Chrome was started by former Mozilla developers.)

"We are proudly non-profit, non-corporate and non-compromised."

https://donate.mozilla.org/

Question: What makes Mozilla any more trustworthy to users than the other companies releasing web browsers?

Question: Why should they care about users any more than those companies?

Annual salaries from 2015 (reportable compensation from IRS Form 990):

Mitchell Baker, Chair $977,382 + $45,530
Bob Lisborne, Director $92,000
Mark Surman, Exec. Dir./President $170,699 + $40,602
Jim Cook, Treasurer $934,526 + $45,530
Angela Plohman, Secretary/VP Operations $121,322 + $30,342
Christopher Lawrence, VP Learning $153,492 + $62,538
An-Me Chung, Dir. Partnerships 154,946 + $72,672
Daniel Sinker, Dir. Partnerships 123,630 + $64,215
Hiram Paul Johnson, Marketing Lead 126,605 + 54, 903
Andrea Wood, Online Organizing/Fundraising Lead $135,048 + $46,322
Samuel Dyson, Director Hive Chicago $114,860 + $63,549

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2015_Mozilla_Found...

Question: How much of this comes from donations and how much comes (indirectly) from sale of advertising (by "partners")?

They get about half of their total revenue ($12,429,238) from licensing royalties ($6,466,566) according to the 2015 filing.

Question: Are there really any incentives to serve users in ways that the companies releasing web browsers do not? Users want the tracking to stop. Would Mozilla have disincentives to help users in this regard?

There is no "corruption" being implied by the above. It is legal to pay high salaries and not pay taxes.
> But I can get Lyft door to door for just $1-2 more than a bus or train.

It'll be interesting to see how these prices change when they are no longer subsidized by venture capitalists, contractor drivers, and society at large.

And even more interesting once we have decent self-driving technology. That removes the constraint -- the driver -- that makes public transit and mass transit nearly synonymous. The Personal Rapid Transit crowd has been pushing toward that for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit

And if cities do it right, PRT will have a big advantage over Uber, et al: they can reshape cities to accommodate the early stages of self-driving vehicles. Special lanes, limited-access roads, designated stopping points. Functioning PRT could arrive years ahead of autonomous taxis.