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I think one of the issues is that most sellers of "new" programming paradigms try to sell theirs as "the one". As Floyd pointed out, there's tons, and putting on my conservative hat, there is probably a reason, at least partially good, that the currently dominant paradigm became dominant.

In fact, if I only had one paradigm to play with, I'd probably also want the current one, despite its limitations.

So what we then do is take the current paradigm and try to conservatively extend it. That also doesn't seem to work because you can't just bolt paradigms on top of each other. So putting on my revolutionary hat, we have to blow it all up.

I think the solution is generalization ("refactor to abstract superclass"): do something more general, then reproduce the dominant as well as other paradigms from within that generalization.
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OCSP Stapling in Apache and Nginx are broken
This is a pretty tame example, but Google is definitely active in delivering maps based on the viewers location in some more tumultuous parts of the world, for example the disputed borders of China/India/Pakistan in the kashmir region.

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.gislounge.com/the-politics-o...
Microsoft disables Windows Spectre fix in an update
>So you think an electron IS a mathematical expression, not that a mathematical expression describes its behavior?

No, I think that a mathematical expression describes the behavior of something real as close as possible to our knowledge -- it's not just a picture of how it looks.

In other words, in contrast with the map analogy, the equations for electrons etc can be used for a simulation.

>Suppose we develop a unified theory in physics which supersedes current formulations of quantum theory. Then would the old quantum theory still BE the territory at that point? Or would it be just a less accurate description than the new one we came up with?

Why assume one can describe the territory in just a single (perfect) level of representation? For some things not even the full precision we can muster today is even needed (e.g. I don't need Relativity to know where a baseball will land).
If it's predictable and obvious it'll be so boring, I won't even want to read it. A good program needs conflict and moral ambiguity!
I had the Touch Bar 13" MacBook Pro and this actually is a f*cking piece of shit. The battery life is laughably low, the Mac itself is slow. The Touch Bar is a failure. Even the form factor is horrible (to me) and the USB-C ecosystem is close to inexistant.

I gave it to an new employee bought a refurb 2015 MacBook Pro and I am so delighted now.
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Ugh, is this the cause of the weird bugchecks I've been having this week? Just gave myself 64gb page file and enabled full memory dumps so I could track it down in WinDbg. I always forget something on fresh installs...
We started off with DynamoDB, but recently moved to Postgres on RDS.

We were having to jump through too many hoops to get DynamoDB to work well with our structure.

We looked at Aurora, but it is behind a few versions on support and we couldn't use json as a datatype.
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Well one of mine was tilted 90°, it had to be cut into pieces first and then cut from the bone. The others were quite OK though, not just a wiggle but no crazy stuff involved.
You conclusion isn't in agreement with the section you quoted, so are you saying that Intel will be punished by the market in the mid to distant future (after 2018)?
Bizarre.

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What a horrible post. If the author loves Floyd so much, then why ruin his quotes with empty words that just distract and annoy the reader?

Opened the post expecting to learn about paradigms of programming, all I got was a very annoying collection of quotes that were hard to read because of the way they were presented.
You don't even need that, there's been a bunch of fraud in hardware wallets from people simply pre-setting the seed and shipping them with a "this is your seed, don't forget it" slip. Not everyone will use that seed, but some do, and then they lose their money.

Basically, unless you're 100% vigilant literally all of the time, you're in trouble. This is just one reason why we invented banks, to centralize risk and mitigation.
ah sorry about that, the cookie warning was folded over the subtitle and missed that line; wrongly assumed it was an operating system.
Clifford the Red Dog is a perfectly acceptable level of clever for a batch script that extracts audio from mp4 files and saves it to mp3.

Not sure what level of clever Salman Rushdie is acceptable for?
The Talos is interesting but $3700 as an entry point is pretty painful.
Which is funny when you think that teaching martial arts or zen from the japanese culture is done by using very vague metaphores and general directions instead of detailed technical instructions.

You are supposed to 'get it' or 'feel it'. How you manage to get your foot or your mind to perform as instructed is an exercice left to the student.
All steering after ~15mph is countersteering. There's loads of very cool techniques involved in motorcycle racing, well outlined in Keith Code's book Twist of the Wrist 2, although some appear to be less useful nowadays, such as the speed of reaching lean angle versus the actual angle...
As a student, ratemyprofessor was the best resource for selecting courses available to me.

There are some really bad professor that don't care much about lecturing because they have tenure.

I had no choice with the courses of my major because they were required, but when it came to electives, it was amazing. It really made the difference.

There are plenty of bad professors out there.
Mobile App Strategy to Develop a Software
I spent every waking hour tinkering with my C64, and made a career from that.

But a C64 is a very different beast from a ipad or even a rpi. I think the percentage of owners back then tinkered with them as well as just loading up games was much higher.

I haven't heard of a single kid in my son's classes who has tried programming. The thing is just a TV/mobile game console.

Thank god they haven't hit facebook yet, at least the ones I know.
You are delusional if you claim you have evidence for everything you believe. You believe facts from sources you trust. And no human today has the capacity to independently verify what it believes to be True.

You live your live by faith, just like everybody else.
Microsoft Stores tend to have the surface books for demo. You could boot from USB to try xfce. You can also just buy one from a store with a lenient return policy.
I suspect that LISP has the same problem that Smalltalk-72 had: creating DSLs is "too easy" and unconstrained. Language design is tricky and very abstract and nobody is a good language designer in the heat of the moment.

Oh, and while very unconstrained in some sense, the syntax also strongly "suggests" some sort of applicative model, so call/return again.

So maybe too constrained where it shouldn't be, and too unconstrained where it would need to be more constrained.
I've been following this account closely, and while some things are a bit ludicrous (attributing the bullrun to USDT only without mentioning the hardfork, for one) the majority of their points are spot on. I know I have my exit strategy in place.
The humanoid form is just for show. You need a handful of actuators to work the control and a way to power them. Throttle is already servo-actuated on the stock bike. The robot will have the advantage in mass and mass distribution.

What I do think the bots will have a hard time doing is replicating the intuition that people like Rossi and Marquez have. Understanding what parts of the track have the most grip, braking/accelerating/cornering on the ragged edge of traction. And that's only half of what's happening in race conditions -- you have to contend with a grid full of other riders taking offensive lines and passing only inches away.

A robot motorcycle might be able to take on GP-level riders at Thunder Hill in a time trial in a few years, but it's hard to imagine the same thing happening at, say, the Isle of Man TT, or anything approaching race conditions.
I came here to ask the same thing. How did these folks squander six months?
The usual fallacy of "I don't experience it, so how come others do?"
You're going to be really sad one day when you finally try one and realize what you've been missing.
That's what I'm expecting to see. An initial run up in crypto value, followed by exchanges collapsing because they relied on USDT in place of fiat.
There's a lot more to racing than simply being able to go fast around a track solo, but this was a fabulous piece of work from Yamaha. This was last summer, I think, so it's a bit late for the Beeb to be reporting on it.

Soon, I imagine that the bike will also start to be tailored to the robot in the way that it's tailored to a human (two humans, actually, Rossi and Viñales).
I’ve no direct experience with CB2, but my experience with furniture in that price range is that the quality usually is worse than IKEA. They might use mor expensive materials, but QA is usually bad.
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I'm just glad it is based on revenue instead of profits. I think corporate taxes should be the same way.

I imagine the four percent had to be large enough to motivate compliance without scaring people away and further fueling anti-EU sentiment? I'm just speculating.
Yeah but then they should be livid at the idea of the government prosecuting people period.
What you say is true, except as long as there is no evidence for collapse and it's designed to be undetectable, accepting it in a theory is nonsense.

You might as well postulate there are magical pink unicorns dancing on every particle. By your logic that theory also can't be ruled out.
I lived across the street from one of those abandoned orchards at the time. One 150' hose later, and the few trees I was able to rescue kept me, my friends, and my family in avocados for several seasons. Still miss living in that place.
I think the big problem in us being that slow is that you can't properly test changes. The initial programs get written under immense time pressure to put it productive and what after that? Do you want to touch your productive system and refactor it and risk causing hundreds of thousands in damages for production loss? You pretty much need to nail your initial design and can't afford to do the usual "we will take care of our technical debt later".

I hear you saying "but you have debuggers/simulators!", for anyone actually having worked in the field you will know they are pretty much useless for big changes in machines that speak to hundreds of other systems, sensors, motors, etc. At least that's what my experience was and nobody has a backup factory to test changes on. In the tight schedules we had during production stops (Sunday nights, mainly) we were busy enough maintaining everything else than having fun on a PLC.

I completely agree that this is all a big mess and people don't tend to write maintainable programs, they just want their machines running and this is where everyone needs to be trained and improve.
No, it needs lyrical beauty!
Reflections on selling my business
Ask HN: UK Tech conferences
I get a deluge of spam about tech conferences, but often miss good ones. What are the best conferences in the UK and how do you find out about them?
This could be one of the "Falsehoods programmers believe about" series. Imagine how this complicates maps, geography data etc. Obviously, unless you ignore the reality.
I brought that up to isolate the moral ambiguity of war, not to imply something about gamification. The reason I did that was because, without that comment, I think you would have to be a sick and twisted person to consider shooting at and killing other people to be "fun", even if it were thrilling and challenging and engaging and whatever else you find "fun".

Flight simulators do not have the same moral quandary, so we don't have to worry about it there: we can ask the question "is flying fun"... and you seem to have ignored my premise which is that the answer is apparently "yes": people who own planes report that flying is fun.

However, most people can't fly, as it requires you to have a ton of disposable income to own the plane and contract the hanger and pay for the fuel. The people I know who own planes hardly ever get to fly them, and when you do get to fly you are often almost "forced to" in order to keep your training up to date.

Regardless, it is worth noting that you have now slipped into the territory of having defined a simulation as something inherently not fun, so we should ask if a flight simulator even qualifies for your circular definition, and it turns out it doesn't :/.

So, the reason why a true combat simulator (with the caveat that the enemy is "sufficiently evil") would be "not fun" is that most of combat is "hurry up and wait", maintaining your equipment, and doing training exercises. What makes a first person shooter fun is that you get to do only the parts that are thrilling, challenging, and engaging: even your gun is maintained by other people.

A flight simulator is thereby not really a simulator, as if it were 99% of your time would be spent making money to buy fuel. You would only get to fly a couple times a month at most, and your plane would even be in the shop a lot. You would be managing your flight certification credits more than your air traffic control, and you would have a pretty limited set of destinations.

In Flight Simulator, you can fly any plane, from anywhere to anywhere, the plane always works (unless you ask for it to not work), you get to decide how bad (aka, "exciting") the weather is, and the fuel is effectively free. You get to spend all of your time doing the parts that are thrilling, challenging, and engaging.

The closest you can get to this experience in the real world is flying commercially, whether for a large airline (in which case you do get to fly large aircraft--which is both interesting and boring--but mostly in good weather on someone else's schedule) or you start your own small business flying people around (in which case we would expect a bunch of sales and accounting hours).
Agreed. Human racers hang off the bike while cornering, so the bike itself doesn't need to lean so far. This keeps the suspension geometry within a more reasonable range, and keeps a larger contact patch between the tyres and the track. I doubt it's possible to get close to the best human riders unless you can move the centre of mass around laterally.
I've found some fascinating stuff snuck into old books over the years. To wit:

A serviceman's military records, discharge papers, tickets for transport etc. from the Boer war, in a volume of Pope's letters.

A family tree in a 17th c. Bible, behind a pasted over frontispiece, going back hundreds of years, complete with a baby's handprint from the late 18th century.

War cabinet correspondence with an editor at the Times from WWI inside a BBC archives bound copy of the times from the quarter surrounding the outbreak of the war.

A £5 note - one of the old white fivers the size of a dinner-napkin, inside Dulac's Arabian Nights (one of my favourite purchases - £1 from a charity shop, first edition, gorgeous book).

A land deed for a farm in Wales from the 1680s, although this was in a Victorian desk-tidy, under the lining paper, and half eaten by woodworm.

All in all, about 5% of the books and objects I buy end up coming with some sort of history bonus.

On a larger sort of scale, my mother bought a house in southern France in the late 80's, and while doing renovation discovered a walled up loft containing a hoarde of art up to the early 1960's - we did eventually track down the rightful heir, who in gratitude for our discovery allowed us our pick of anything we wanted within reason. It had long been thought that his grandmother's husband had done a runner with the lot - turns out granny was just bitter and disinheriting his children after he ran off without the art.

Funny old world. Funny old humans.

Edit: just remembered another hoarde of mementos I found: under the floorboards of a Georgian building in Bath while laying network cable in our office. Found a Radio Times poster advertising Dame Nelly Melba on 2LO, the BBC's first station, tiny bottles of Victorian pharmaceuticals (the only one still full was Oleum Lavandin, which smelt as good as new), a wages book from a hairdresser in the 30's, and a whole stack of newspapers from the late 19th - early 20th century. And soot. So much soot.
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Well another reason most Pros chooses Apple is because of its Hardware quality. Not just paper Spec, but the actual quality of hardware, from power supply, USB plugs, keyboard, trackpad, Screen and many others.

Apple used to have many best in the Notebook segments. The problem is ( no idea why ) HP and Dell which dont used to compete on quality now has fairly decent Notebooks.

And since Apple has stepped back in a few areas, all of a sudden the price becomes a little hard to swallow. Arguably Windows has gotten better as well, while the macOS seems to be, having more and more unnecessary issues.

One way I dont buy the sales matrix argument, there are more people drawn into the Apple Mac ecosystem then ever, thanks to iPhone. Apple is now a luxury brand, and people will buy into the brand whether it is the best or good enough. And for certain older Apple users would remember:

It's a bar of excellence that merely good isn't good enough. It has to be great.

- Steve Jobs.
>How many times have you come across code that is modeled after the style of a child where it just says, "and then ___, and then ___, and then ___" at which point it stops and says its over?

Few times, alas. Most of the times it's some over-engineered monstrosity by architecture astronauts or people trying to be clever.
> “Why a motorbike?” ponders Hiroshi Saijou. “Because it is very difficult to do, and it had never been done before.”

I feel compelled to point out that it has in fact been done before. There was an autonomous motorcycle -- Ghostrider -- which was entered into the '04 and '05 DARPA Grand Challenge, and now rests in the Smithsonian. [1]

[1] http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah...
Linux 4.15 released with Meltdown/Spectre patches
I sincerely hope you're wrong. The only way to store ETH on a Trezor through integration with myetherwallet. Unless you're just referring to seed generation?

https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-integration-with-myetherwallet...
Pilot wave theory might be easy to visualise if you don't consider entanglement, but it suffers from the conceptual problem that it's just many worlds with extra undetectable structure.

The pilot wave is the entire uncollapsed wave-function, exactly like in many worlds. There is also a particle and instant, universe-wide collapse, neither of which are detectable even in theory. Nothing except the wave function affects the dynamics at all.
Herniated disc. During the worst weeks, I could hardly move inside the bed, let alone "work on it". Imagine you desperately need to pee but it takes you ten minutes to get out of bed.
It's much better now so I take smaller doeses, do physiotherapy and I can even use the bycicle to work again, but taking Ibuprofen is still necessary to be able to work on it in the first place. Plan is to be able to run again and Ibuprofen helps to get to that point.
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No evidence afaik. Plenty of scenarios involving unknowingly buying a "pre owned" wallet, hacked firmware updates etc ...
Interesting because I got the impression that someone on the Brown side didn't want to part with it because it might be valuable.

Having handed it down several generations, just a deed. Until the story of it became lost and it was accidentally donated with the book.

And then returned to its rightful family.

My imagination concocts all kinds of scenarios where the Appleyards were forced to leave england destitute because they could never prove ownership of the land.

Or perhaps the Browns just thought it was interesting and didn't know its significance.

The article never mentions which family the land was deeded to though.
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There are improvements on it :) https://voicecode.io/
> Well, I suppose in Germany they also have a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability to take off while feeling this pain and drinking tea.

No, we don't have "a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability". We have as many days or weeks as it takes. In many companies, you don't even need a doctor's notice for the first three days.
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Passing through GPUs is problematic, as it's a massive attack surface.
I'm sceptical about the article, too. They ramble about Intel still selling Meltdown-vulnerable processors. What else would they do - stop selling processors for the next 3 years?
Correct Answers Are Few and Far Between in Software Development
At a super high level, the central problem is higher-order functions.

If you have a programming language, you can think of differentiation as being a higher-order function that takes a function a and returns a new function as a result. If your language has support for higher-order functions, then (a) you have to extend the definition of the derivative to cope with differentiation at higher type, and (b) ideally you'd like differentiation to be an operator in your programming language.

In general this is hard, so you have to cut the problem somewhere.

Pearlmutter and Siskind's basic idea is to use Reynolds defunctionalization transformation to turn higher-order programs into first-order programs, and then apply automatic differentiation to the resulting first-order program.

The approach in this talk is inspired by "differential lambda calculus", which is a setting where you retain full first-class functions, but restrict how you can use them by imposing certain typing constraints upon them (basically to ensure smoothness/differentiability of definable functions).

There is a mysterious connection between these ideas, since defunctionalization is closely related to the "geometry of interaction" semantics of linear logic, and differential lambda calculus is closely related to the vector space semantics of linear logic.

In addition to these semantic issues, there's also the question of how you hook it up to the actual algorithms people use to do gradient descent -- eg you need to use the Riesz representation theorem to justify representing the gradient as a matrix -- and that constrains how things could work even further. This is simultaneously annoying (because it makes things harder) and helpful (at higher type we have too much freedom in how to define the derivative, and so additional requirements help constrain the solution space).

So you might ask: why do we care so much about higher-order functions? The answer is that "higher-order function" is how semanticists pronounce "linking" and "separate compilation". It would be super great if we could take a bunch of teeny-tiny separately-developed models together, stick them together, and have everything work no problem.
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Is this a permanent effect, or does T production return to normal after stopping the drug?