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> Beginning on February 28th, all users who have specified China as their country/region will have their iCloud data transferred to the GCBD cloud services operator in Guizhou, China.
So living, most likely yes. Visiting then presumably no. But who really knows?
Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers (2016)
The History of the Service Mesh – The New Stack
Fairings are an extremely tricky thing to design, and the B330 is not made out of materials that can survive a launch.
I can't count the amount of times I experienced an eclipse[1] in Eclipse.

IntelliJ is snappy, has a far better search function, makes better use of screen space, lets me keep working while it compiles, and has yet to corrupt one of my projects. I've used both, personally, and for work, for a couple of years. I will take IntelliJ every time.

[1] All the menus fading out, and becoming uninteractible, as it starts recompiling.
If you like chocolate, too, there is a charming company called Chocosphere: http://chocophere.com that sells a pretty wide variety of bars and also has subscription options. Their website is a bit 2005, but the product is good.
Tinder Lack of Encryption Raises Privacy Concerns
only 1 in 50 users is actually paying? thats not good
Blackmail is already a crime, why would we need an extra rent-seeking organization to ban it?
Preview is the unsung hero of macOS. It does so much that Adobe Reader charges for: signatures, annotations, page rearrangement, plus it has the added bonus of being able to open obj and stl files.
(this is self-evident: physical access to device is Game Over)

This is just totally not true.

I'd wager a fair sum that passwords stored on an iPhone, behind a decent layer of security, are entirely better protected from physical access than on any general-purpose computer.
From the S-1, looks like they will be excluded from the S&P500:

In addition, in July 2017, FTSE Russell and Standard & Poor’s announced that they would cease to allow most newly public companies utilizing dual or multi-class capital structures to be included in their indices. Affected indices include the Russell 2000 and the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, and S&P SmallCap 600, which together make up the S&P Composite 1500. Under the announced policies, our multi-class capital structure would make us ineligible for inclusion in any of these indices, and as a result, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other investment vehicles that attempt to passively track these indices will not be investing in our stock. These policies are very new and it is as of yet unclear what effect, if any, they will have on the valuations of publicly traded companies excluded from the indices, but it is possible that they may depress these valuations compared to those of other similar companies that are included.
We're a mostly java shop at work and I'm one of the last few hold outs still on eclipse. I'm used to it and it mostly does what I need. I use the excellent vrapper (http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/), but even that has ceased development it seems. Last I tried intellij the vi plugin was unusable for me. I periodically think it's time to give it a try again. It is too bad the eclipse seems to be falling behind and losing mindshare.
Plus cognitive biases. Those are already well understood and used in a variety of ways.
Hah, yea I was just going with Catholics since they've been burned into the collective conscious as anti-birth control. Seems most of them don't actually listen to the Pope much these days.
I used this paper for building a scalable bloom filter for use in an ad-tech stack. The performance was better than DJB's CDB.

https://github.com/opencoff/portable-lib

The bloom filter code is in src/bloom.c; the Header file is in inc/utils/bloom.h

I implemented a serialization/deserialization of the bloom filters as well (src/bloom_marshal.c).

The tests are in test/t_bloom.c.
My PE experiences ruined me for years. I came away from them thinking that exercise and sports were pretty much evil and for bad people. This was through multiple classes, years, and "coaches."

I think the core thing is that PE should require more individualized attention than most classes. Different people's bodies are made for different things. Forcing kids into team sports that they're not built for just to make them suffer and "build character" just teaches them to hate physical activity.
Mind-blowing work/live space on Dolores Park being sold for BTC/ETH
> it seems they have limit of free articles/month

My recollection is that count is stored in a cookie. And articles accessed via google (news?) may just work?

As a long-time reader, I wonder if the NYTimes might have a higher conversion rate if their banner ad theme, instead of being "Truth" and "The journalism you deserve", was more like "we often get things wrong, and we're coming from the Town and City chattering groupthink bubble, but at least we're trying". :)
I like netbeans but was absolutely unusable on my brand new iMac; the lag.
Selling showels to gold diggers is the best business model during the gold rush
Amazed by the R&D expense of $380.3M especially because I'm not aware of substantive innovations that they're bringing to market. How has / will that investment translate into new technology or a technically superior product?
Per the CHP, there is no concept of a "fast lane" or a "passing lane" on a freeway. While it is customary and polite for slower cars to drive on the right, they're not required to do so.
Haven't used SourceTree. That may be true, but I prefer having all my tools in one place, and eGit is quite good. Besides, eGit has Eclipse Mylyn integration, which is another killer feature Idea doesn't have.
In the US, though, TouchID and FaceID are liabilities because the police can compel you to provide your fingerprint and face.
Those companies at at the top all still have competition who need to buy the same supplies, so they aren't monopsonies, but they're close enough that this is an opportunity to use the word 'monopsony'.
Try Taste of the Wild, may be what you are looking for.
NanoGUI Minimalistic GUI Library for OpenGL
It's the same with almost any product. Take cars for example: you have to pay thousands of dollars more to get a higher trim, which only has a different design and 1-2 options that are really useful.
Article and podcast about using bumblebees for pollinating crops: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/au...
I suspect the same, that this kind of attack won't work on capnets. Note that "test on capnets" is on the list of not-yet-complete milestones.
> if it were true, we would see all sorts of genetic correlations where one good trait systematically boosts a bad trait. This is almost never true

I see it as almost axiomatically true, but I think the difference is you are taking a narrow definition of what constitutes a "bad" trait. Examples:

- Immune system: protects us from microbes but contributes to atherosclerosis, autoimmunity, and age-associated chronic inflammation

- Mitochondria: Generates ATP but also oxidative stress

- Infant brain size: makes humans as smart as we are but increases maternal mortality

- Body mass/volume: gives greater protection against predation but increases energy requirements

- Intelligence & brain volume: improves on-the-fly adaptability but costs a lot of energy to run

In the most general case, any gain-of-function adaptation which adds a new protein/organelle/limb/etc has a built-in bad trait which is that it costs resources to produce, DNA to maintain, and also adds another potential point of failure. The equilibrium point between benefit and costs is where evolution will land.

So I would argue that the reason we have X IQ points or Y neurons is exactly the same reason we have Z mitochondria: any more and the costs would have exceeded the benefits in the ancestral environment. The fact that we can seemingly get more benefits than costs from increased intelligence now merely reflects the fact that our environment has changed.

Also, JBS Haldane wrote an anti-eugenics book many years ago which used exactly this sort of argument.
By that same logic I assume you don't believe in gun bans, right?
I like that analogy: “setting a lottery number” - that feels more accurate than the typical way the lay media explains mining, usually a variation of “solving lots of puzzles”.

“Puzzle” implies some cognition is required to come to a solution - not that effort is being wasted by brute-forcing something.
Ecosystem does not mean maker/thinkerer mindshare in this case. It means hardware, I/O, software, firmware and available knowledge from the board perspective, and active distro integration from a software perspective. There are enough people and there is enough momentum to build and maintain multiple software distributions for the Pi (and it's BCM SoC), as well as upstream patches and maintain those. Even in the commercial space you will not find such well supported boards.

This does not mean that other boards won't work or won't have a place, but are highly unlikely to cover the same global space the Pi does.
You underestimate the amount of engineering effort required to simply run a fast-growing highload service.
$2 billion, not 10.
Why not create a coin awarded for proof of AI-modeling and open-up the network to researchers? Seems like it would be a lot more productive if all that processing power went to neural networks.
So I read the book, and discovered the author was full of SSSS. You have to stretch the definitions of criminal acts beyond their breaking points just to establish (local) infractions, and even violating federal regulations (which aren't criminal statutes) is something people rarely do--maybe 1x or 2x a year, usually with regards to their tax return).

Harvey Silverglate's claims are like the Hot Coffee case. It makes for a good sound byte but when you actually look into the details the truth is the exact opposite of what was claimed.
I don't think a doc about how they operated two years ago is still applicable is it? Especially since this is a recent "decision" by Apple. The article put it best:

> they should say explicitly and unambiguously what they’ve done

Why would they choose to be guarded and opaque? I think the silence speaks volumes...otherwise, I can't understand why it's pervasive.
Can't they just be clear and transparent and answer the question we all have here and move on?
The Las Vegas airport is one of the most depressing places in the world.

A few years ago I looked on as a mother in a zombie trance dumped a bucket of quarters into a slot machine one by one while her young child sobbed and tried to drag her away to no response. They were presumably waiting to get on a plane home after a weekend of losing bigger money gambling.
Unfortunately, Google's fork (Android Studio) is not open source. Previous versions of Android Studio (based on Eclipse) were.

Clearest example I've seen in a long time of why copyleft licenses are important.

EDIT: I was wrong about this, see below thread.
"Hated in the Nation" was written in 2016.
R&D is probably almost all going to be salaries for engineering talent. It takes a lot of people to run your own end to end solution for 500m users. Remember, they are doing everything from software development to running data centers.
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Same here. I don't see a big need to switch off Eclipse. It has all the features I need to be productive in Java.
I think it was a little bit more directed than that - a way to conduct advanced ballistic missile research, and to show off how good your ballistic missiles were, without looking too warlike.

Before the invention of the Minuteman, the space program was using the same rockets as the ICBMs, I think.
That also suprised me- I know that they spend a great deal on optimizations to reduce backend cost, improve uptime / reliability, etc., but I don't see much on the customer side myself...
Windows without WSL or WSU is not Posix-compliant.
Most of what you described aren't laws...they're regulations. I know that's nitpicking, but if you're going to make a claim about precision you should be precise about what is really happening.
What did you think they meant when they said "national security"? Obviously it was something like, "we are the nation and we need to secure ourselves from all enemies foreign and domestic".

Bend over for your ritual digital pat-down. Good citizen.
Great work Kevin, and everyone else involved in Long Now!

For those who aren't familiar, Long Now is a non-profit dedicated to long term thinking (on 10,000+ year timescales).
A better analogy would be stimulating an individual receptor on the retina, in an eye with only 32^2 such receptors. When we see these pictures, we've got a much larger set of inputs to work with.
I mean I don't know what's come out in the last months, that's just the famous one because it's such a large group but you can go poke around Wikipedia all the smaller studies seem to go back and forth though so if there is a negative effect it's probably a weak correlation or a weak effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Body_mass_index&i...
“ASIC-resistance” just means “needs lots of RAM”. Eventually someone will figure out how to make oodles of RAM sufficient for a many-core custom processor. Heck, modern SSDs (e.g. Intel Optane) might be fast enough to replace DRAM for these kinds of applications.

Another kind of ASIC-resistance might be using dynamically-generated algorithms employing self-modifying code. You’d have to own a Xeon Phi to get good figures for that, methinks.

It’s a shame PoW is based on arbitrary hashing instead of, say, “Proof-of-Folding@Home” - that would do some good at least, methinks.
Now if they could get to repairing the solar system model at The Interval ;)

I've been stopping by at midnight for the past year or two in hopes that I'll be able to see the system in action, but alas it appears the system is so complex that repairs are costly. For those of you intrigued with The Long Now and are based in SF - definitely visit The Interval, it's one of the more interesting "themed" bars out there with books and a collection of mini exhibits dedicated to science, art, and music.
I forget which report it was in but the average tech-focused startup spends 10-15% of revenue on infrastructure. Mature businesses spend ~5%.
Ha ha I love theonion.com !

Wait, what?
Translation: Unilever’s threat woke them up to the reality that they’re on the way to being held accountable for the content they host, and they’re scrambling. Infowars is bad news in every sense of the phrase, but it’s just the tip of a vast iceberg of awful Youtube is going to have to address.
Note that Bigelow can choose any length they want. If they want to launch on ULA, their current plan is fine.
Having a multilingual assistant is gonna be so useful, happy to see that feature coming this year.

The only thing I still miss to use the assistant all day long is offline routines. I put my phone on flight mode before going to bed and having the possibility to say "OK Google, wake up" to enable Wi-Fi and have the Google assistant telling me about the emails I've received during the night would be great.
> Stitch Fix makes it a major brand point that computers are an important part of the process

(which even if you disregard everything else is a really good line to take if you're after recruiting good machine learning engineers!)
I think there's opportunity for a new, more modern IDE. Something better then Eclipse and IntelliJ, but that's not built on top of JavaScript. Doubt there's the funding for it though, but there's definitely the need (of devs hungry for it, but not willing to pay anything for it either).
It's a shame this didn't take off as it's a constant problem for me. I feel like I could do a lot more if I had a proper system for this. It all ends up as random tweets, notes in Evernote, podcasts, emails, etc. and I have no real approach to doing it other than trying to keep it in my brain (which fails).
I use a Thinkpad X220 too.

There's an entire community around getting your Thinkpad the way you want.

One time I had to replace the wireless card and instead of going to a technician or Best Buy I asked in the IRC channel (##ibmthinkpad on Freenode); the people in there gave me instructions and the exact Amazon links for what I needed. It saved me time and money.

- http://x220.mcdonnelltech.com/ubuntu/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4lwc01/challenge_...

Edit: added some links and IRC channel.
I'm the OP.

I agree NYC should be better but a number of problems are present there:

1. Cultural. I haven't been there for two years, but people use the subway, not the bike lanes. And I remember as recent at 2010 taxis were very prevalent, although slightly less so last time I was there. Though that could be Uber. The walkability of a city isn't just its density, it's its zoning, the width of its streets, the expected work hours. NYC is fast food, finance, media. Though they're still better off than the average American, they are no Amsterdam.

2. They have many of the problems that most American cities have: Dirt cheap unhealthy food and sugar consumption rates that are unhealthily high.

3. Many people come to NYC to make it. If they're coming from the rest of America they're coming in overweight.
That sort of "luxury" ice was refined and distilled down to a throwaway gag in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt".

Kimmy asks a rich boyfriend to bring ice for a party, and he arrives carrying a hinged, dovetail-jointed wooden box, lined with velvet, containing ornate ice tongs and six perfect ice cubes. The only way it could possibly be funnier is if they were all perfect ice spheres.
Agree with you on the value of good manager, however concern is around bad or inexperienced managers which are out there by plenty. Typically the manager becomes a dumping ground for things which should be done by Business/IT Analyst, Product manager, Project Manager and Technical Operations/Support Manager. Once these are addressed properly then what you have got is essentially a Sr Engineer/Tech lead who is entrenched in the code and also knows who is best for the right task with in the team. Some of the other things like larger roadmap and talking to HR can be done by director or Senior managers, so yes I do see some need for managers, my whole point is that there is no need for Junior or Mid level managers for most cases.

Also creating a per team manager role creates more politics and overall bad working environment for good Engineers. I would not have argued this 10 yrs back, but considering the advancements in tools, processes and changes in work culture and attitudes, don't you think its viable to have a great degree of tooling for atleast the first level managers?
This is an incorrect notion: There are hundreds and hundreds of gates at the ISP level. From a realistic standpoint, ISPs do not and cannot control information. They may be able to get involved in a limited geographic area, in some fashions, but they're already far more heavily regulated than the nearly free reign Google has, and it's far easier to circumvent their control.

Almost all information travels through and is monitored, filtered, and censored by Google. At multiple levels, including the browser, the operating system, email services, search/discovery, and more. And as Google moves into pushing companies to migrate their data about you to Google, you no longer even have the choice to look for alternatives. For example, RCS messaging is moving text messaging systems over to Google servers, and there's nothing you can do about it, because it's a carrier-level decision.

Google has recently bragged to advertisers it gets 70% of all credit and debit card transaction data in the US. Even if you don't do business with Google or use any Google services, everything ends up feeding back to them through one way or another.

Meanwhile, apart from areas which aren't very profitable to be an ISP, most people have at least some options for ISPs, even if they aren't good options, and most ISP conduct can either be opted out of or circumvented with ease.

If you are worried about censorship, privacy, and fairness on the Internet, and you're worried about ISPs, you're being sorely misled. And guess who's been paying for all the marketing about how bad the ISPs are? https://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency.html
The cost of this is actually paid for by Cloudflare as they've donated CDN services to aggressively cache the API response, of which there is only 1 million possible responses.

Plus in the comments they say it was only implemented this way to save time (it was done within 27 hours of Troy's service being announced) and Troy has publically supported this use.
Not quite apples to apples, but Equifax lost over 145 _million_ people's records. There are over 1.4 _billion_ Chinese. I'm not aware of the Chinese government loosing its list of people...
Their press statements about this "recent decision" have always reiterated that there are no backdoors.

>Why would they choose to be guarded and opaque?

I mean isn't the answer to this obvious? Sure, Apple could come out and spell this out for everyone, but this is extremely political and Apple is not going to be better served by loudly touting how they are in a privileged position relative to others because they have their own cards to play with the CPC.
For tax purposes, an LLC is either a corporation or a partnership; it's not merely similar to one or the other. LPs, LLPs, and LLLPs are taxed like partnerships, unless they are foreign registered, in which case they are taxed like corporations.

An LLC treated as as partnership for tax purposes is required to disclose it's partners all the way up the chain.

Legally, an LLC is organized like a partnership (member managed) or like a corporation (manager managed). I should have been more precise there. I was using shorthand because I was assuming the tax context and should have acknowledged that the tax treatment differs from the legal treatment.
>Now imagine a financial system where all the wealthy have to do simply own money... to get more money.

You mean the current system?
"Kubernetes" can also be considered silly. The industry as a whole tends to not be good at naming.
Intel hid CPU bugs info from govt 'until public disclosure'
This is really interesting, but points out a key importance in training neural nets, which is to design your dataset and training to maximize generalization. For example, in the case of training a neural network for something that is highly safety critical, like an autonomous vehicle, it's important for vehicle and pedestrian detection to be as generalized as possible. In order to achieve high confidence in all sorts of lighting, weather, and angle conditions, the training data is augmented, which means it is manipulated randomly with color, saturation, contrast, blurring, shifting, mirroring, adding noise, etc. So adding random pixels, to potentially protect against dead pixels is also a great idea.
Isn’t this pretty common in SaaS business filings?
US warns Australia against Huawei 5G involvement: report
It really just depends on who exactly the "public" is that is inhabiting the "public spaces". I'm sure this Khosla fellow wouldn't mind his property being used by beautiful surfer girls in bikinis who don't leave litter behind. Maybe he just wants trashy people to stay away from his property.
I've worked in fashion before and I'm a machine learning pratictoner now.

I never tried myself but it seems quite feasible to build a decent profile of someones taste in fashion from a bit of data.

Fast fashion gave us the logistics (no more 9mo from concept to store). But Zara and friends still supply only the major trends. We're still missing for someone to reliably market the "long tail".
Study: Lead and other toxic metals found in e-cigarette 'vapors'
The story is Drew applied to YC solo, but pg strongly encouraged him to find a co-founder. Arash joined as the co-founder before YC started: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/18/paul-grah...
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