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Murdering ex-spies on the streets of Salisbury with chemical weapons certainly seems like the appropriate response, yes.

Its not appropriate response, that is way everyone is skeptical. Why use a missile when you can kill the bird with a slingshot ?
> I am not interesting enough that anyone will come for me specifically anyways.

No single raindrop believes it's responsible for the storm.

They don't care about you specifically, if you can profile people accurately they have a much easier time of adjusting perspectives for your own aims. You've likely already seen the results of this with the latest American election.

It's gone far beyond getting you to buy more music and they're just warming up.
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> It will be a setup where one jvm instance on the host basically serves the role of "master" in terms of class data and shared object loading while each container instance uses its memory allotment only for running computations specific to the application in that container while sharing memory objects with other containers as much as possible.

Eclipse OpenJ9 does something like this.

> A seamless solution to this would basically make the jvm an out of the box poor man's polyglot PaaS platform.

Trying to recreate OS resource-allocation guarantees without the the OS has been a bit of a fool's errand, historically. The OS has privileged access to hardware -- it has a view of activity and an ability to enforce guarantees that processes lack.

Add to that the amount of time and effort that has gone into operating systems to cover allocation of so many different kinds of resource under so many different conditions. It is really expensive to re-engineer that capability.

I've seen a lot of attempts at trying to share ostensibly multiuser systems above the OS level and they have mostly been unhappy once there is heavy usage. Databases, queues, the JVM, everything eventually needs to be isolated from unrelated workloads at some point. Containers and VMs are much better at providing that capability.
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> The acting of tipping is a personal acknowledgement that the person has placed your actions so far above the norm that they consider it appropriate to honour you in some way.

That is not really what tipping means in the United States.

> I have worked for lots of different companies over many years. My own attitude is that if the employer is not worth working for, then you don't work for them. If they pay rubbish wages for serious work, you don't deal with them. If they are tardy paying you, then you finish up with them and move on.

Yeah, I don't think your experiences as a computer programmer are necessarily applicable to someone who works as a waiter at a greasy spoon or as a pizza delivery driver. I'm gonna guess you've never been in a position where you had to do low-wage work. It's not a negotiating kind of a situation; it's a "take it or leave it" kind of situation.
Firefox add-on that fakes the referrer when accessing the WSJ and the FT in order to remove the paywall. Five lines of code.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/
The most notable fork before then was likely Lucid Emacs and the Emacs Schism of 1993. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsSchism :

> LucidEmacs forked quite publicly from the FreeSoftwareFoundation’s implementation of Emacs in 1993. This was one of the more notorious code forks in the history of free software, probably because it was early and public.

I'm not sure it was seen as a "disaster", but it was certainly controversial, and negatively by many, so close enough.

I do think for Lucid it was seen as a feature, that is, they could fork and ship to customers.
> I can't imagine how much more explicit this could be.

Ah yes, and what exactly are they doing with this information? I can't imagine
how much less explicit this could be.
...hosted on a platform that is increasingly becoming a walled garden (yes, I mean Medium). #ironic
So, zero details about what made the judge deem the promotion as discriminatory. Great press-work.
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Lots of confounds due to non-uniform hardware, etc, but more importantly these are very artificial micro-benchmarks; systems are (ideally) tuned for performance on the sorts of loads that they will actually be running under, not artificial tests like "create 65k files of 32B each".

In artificial tests like these, you frequently get the best performance by flushing data out as fast as possible, while in most "real-world" scenarios you have some temporal locality that makes keeping data around a win. Optimizing for these sorts of benchmarks can actually harm performance.

Still, fun.
There are TV spots and billboards, I’m not sure where you’re getting that from.

TV spots: https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+uk+party+political+b...

Billboards: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=david+cameron+billb...
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edit: This is not much of an article, it's more of a video. From the description:

> For this video, The Wall Street Journal met 31-year-old Daigo, who dedicates most of his time—and financial resources—to “Fate/Grand Order.”

> The gamer, who declined to give his last name, says he has already spent more than $70,000 collecting rare “FGO” characters... and has no regrets.
I’d say for your email that yes, you’re being overly cautious. For Troy’s recently launched https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords I probably wouldn’t use that myself, but he makes a reasonable case for why it’s secure.
Er, wouldn’t you do all the updates in a single transaction? If one fails then it rolls back all the changes.
you should generally use some concurrency control approach like optimistic or pesimistic locking (UPDATE state = new WHERE state = old/SELECT FOR UPDATE - but the latter isn't a good idea for UI).
Its not appropriate response, that is way everyone is skeptical.

Ah, I see. You're derailing the conversation. You've tried to change it to "because murdering an ex-spy with a chemical weapon on the streets of Salisbury is not an appropriate response to the West's actions in the middle east, it can't have been Russia who did it."

You've been rumbled. Jog on.
A mechanism for calculating your trust of an individual
This is an idea that's been on my mind for a couple of years.

Something reminiscent of PageRank, but for individuals, as in propagating trust. I trust B, and B trusts C, and as such, C is trustworthy to some extent.

There are several aspects of trust, I guess. Like accountability, correctness of memory, moral character (could be deterred by some forms of law violations?) ... dunno if that is relevant, though. Maybe only the intuitive meaning of "trust" is enough.

There is no universal trust, all goes back to you trusting "seed individuals", that in turn trust other people.

Maybe a scale of 0-11 will determine your trust of an individual, so that you can get "circles" of trusted individuals. Maybe you need negative trust, or maybe that is what 0 is for, effectively shutting down that individual in your trust graph.

But, other individuals may not trust the one who is zero-ing that individual, and may trust him.

If implemented as an app, to verify that you are a trusted individual in whatever context (maybe when starting a company), you bring up your app, and it shows a QR-code.

You scan it with your app and your trust of that individual is calculated.

Maybe this whole concept is defeated by counterfeiting? Just screenshotting that QR-code makes you copy that individual ... But then again, copying someones ID is just as problematic.

Any thoughts?
Spring Boot is, by design, eager to load everything it sense you might need. Most of the memory usage is not Spring itself, it's the libraries it's pulling in on your behalf.

In Spring Boot 2 I'm told you can can use functional beans to cut down on RAM usage. Not sure how it works.

But really, it comes down to deciding if you need a dependency or not.

As is normal for questions about Spring Boot performance, Dave Syer has done a lot of investigating: https://github.com/dsyer/spring-boot-memory-blog
The Dutch Vote in Referendum on Mass Surveillance Law
This reminds me of Popcorn time so much.

Rightholders do not fear torrents as long as they are unusable for the general population.

The second they see something usable — they go berserk.

Gonna need some popcorn to watch this one.
Those out of work for the decade(s) while the economy retools wont see it as short-term. And the 'freeing' of labour in one place drives down the cost/wages elsewhere. The more useful thing in the short term will be things that previously nobody ever wanted/needed to do.
> Java8 won't be supported after January 2019, Java11 (LTS) will be release in September this year.

Are they dropping support for the latest LTS just four month after releasing a new LTS? That sounds a bit harsh.
I didn't read the article (it's a video of a 31-year-old spending $70K), but $70K, even in a year, is not the craziest extreme compared to what whales have reportedly spent over the decade, right?

For example, from this 2014 Recode article:

https://www.recode.net/2014/2/26/11623998/a-long-tail-of-wha...

> At a conference I attended last year, a representative of a gaming company — who declined to be named or interviewed for a story — claimed that his firm had worked with a Japanese game company with one player who spent about $10,000 per month on in-app purchases. The company, he said, had assigned an employee to cater just to that whale, to ensure that she was always satisfied with the game and therefore likely to keep coming back.

Of course, there's also the money spent on PC games, such as Star Citizen. Looks like the biggest spender is $30,000 (though the game hasn't been released yet):

https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/7/9687934/someone-has-spent-...
If your personal info is sold though there’s nothing really actionable you can do about it, the damage is done. Not like changing a password.
There are a few areas where automation made the workers life easier without replacing them. Aircraft autopilots reduced workload without eliminating pilots. Same too for many hand tools that a made carpenter's life less painful without any concept of replacing them.
Not in GDPR land.
The leadership of Russia might be worried that the same techniques used by Western NGOs to depose the leadership of the Ukraine in 2014 will be used to depose them. The endgame might be that they remain in control of the government of Russia.
My wife had HSCT treatment for MS a year ago. She was deteriorating fast. Since the treatment the progression has stopped and some symptoms have gone away.

HSCT is real and it works. It stops disease progression. Usually there is lasting damage which means that even when the disease is stopped there is remaining disability. This is why the word Cure is contentious as many symptoms persist. But my wife can live with a certain level of disability. The most important thing is that her decline has stopped. Now she has a future.
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Or just look at how other countries do it - in UK your payments for the student loan are taken automatically from your salary each month(10% of anything above 20k/year - so if you make less than 20k/year you don't pay anything), but if there is any outstanding balance after 20 years it's automatically forgiven. No need to declare bankrupcy since if you can't pay it back there is simply nothing to pay. If you have a job it's paid back automatically without the employee having to do anything. If it's paid off in 20 years = great. If not = no big deal, you just get a letter saying that your outstanding balance is now zero.

I guess that system is possible because all loans are provided by the Student Loans Company which is ran by the government - and tuition is capped at 10k/year, so it doesn't matter what or where you study - the cost is exactly the same.
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To the point..

The guy mentions "I did stocks and futures". If the guy is a (retail) trader, and he's half good at it then he could be making $5k per day, and in that lense, 70k is peanuts.

There are so many things we don't know about this story, that's a WSJ clickbait :)
No one is forcing anyone to upgrade. What worked on Java 8 3 years ago, will work on Java 8 in 17 years. If your team have extra requirements (audit, certification etc.), it seems it sells enterprise software. All those things cost money, but I assume you also charge money. So, what's exactly the problem? It is a bit naive to expect to get ultra stability for free from your suppliers, but charge top dollar from your customers...
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> You would need to prove that they _could not have seen_ the testimony they provided.

A problem with this is that people giving false eyewitness testimony often believe they genuinely did see the thing they could not have seen and are telling the truth. So, a system like this would have the potential to punish as "liars" people who simply fell victim to what seem to be built-in foibles of the human memory system.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-...

https://agora.stanford.edu/sjls/Issue%20One/fisher&tversky.h...

(Note I'm not doubting that some witnesses really are consciously lying. The problem would be the potential to sweep up the innocent with the guilty, if the standard used is "what they said they saw is impossible, therefore they are lying." Additional factors showing they were consciously lying would be needed.)
The problem is that the number of jobs that a completely unskilled person can do better than a robot are rapidly diminishing, and there already aren't enough to go around. To achieve this utopia, we need to invest in much better education for everyone, and we need to do it 30 years ago at least. An unskilled labourer made unemployed at 40 or 50 has nowhere to go.
Many of the severest problems in the criminal justice system are those encouraged by perverse incentives in the legal system and the laws themselves. If someone is seriously interested in justice reform, the last thing they should do is introduce layers of profit motive and competitive business strategy to their reform project. Personally, I'd use stronger terms than garbage to describe the issues inherent in bringing private industry into this area of society.
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This is all subject to change, but so far it looks like it

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
Like the outcome of Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin?
> the article was edited to remove an unflattering reference to Sheryl Sandberg _after a phone call from Facebook PR_

Can you prove this?
That is pretty much industry standard in any EULA.
Same with companies not owing you anything.
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I don't think the GDPR applies to underground Syrian hospitals.
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I believe (but of course cannot prove) you underestimate Putin. Real political threats get neutered (Alexei Navalny et al), tame opposition parties get induldged. The West is by no means sweetness and light in their attitude towards and dealings with Russia, but foment a revolution in Russia through the use of NGOs? Fantasyland.
That only works on your local network. You always need something on the device if you want to take it anywhere.
It's not a question of miles, it's a question of scenarios. A car that takes on the entire interstate highways system but suffers no "close-calls" is practically untested, IMO.
Also, that car never "experienced" rush hour in crazy places like downtown Cairo or the old&narrow streets of older Italy.
This may be okay for you individually. But Facebook will treat someone with bipolar or serious impulse control issues just the same way... Assuming some level of accuracy, an algorithm could predict when someone is having a manic episode, susceptible. Its predatory and dangerous. The vast majority of people are not aware of how to protect themselves from out-of-hand tech giants and their customers. Getting ahead is becoming about how well you can unplug so that you are not being puppeteered. We all need some counter-intelligence know-how.

I suggest, use rational means to work out for yourself what products are best for you and your budget, or on the other hand what political affiliations actualy represent your interests. Figuring out what's real in the world is a big task and only the most vigilant will be okay, or blow the whistle so the average person might be.
Anyone from Austria have insight about the equal-employment/anti-discrimination laws?
Because fighting with several enemies at once is the sure way to lose a war?
Question: suppose Google had code running on their servers that was licensed under AGPL. AFAIK that means they have to release the code running on their server(s) , but because Google's code is proprietary and closed what would happen? A whistle blower notices and exposes them?

Seems that unless someone is dumb enough to use AGPL, commercialize it and open source their code they would never be caught. Same with most licenses, really.
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> Is google next?

I think Facebook has nothing on Google. One trip to the MyActivity console on Google is enough to creep anyone out.
For comparison, Apache's "Category X": https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved#category-x
That 'list of friends' meant 'oh, and all of these for all of your friends as well, and by accepting this, you tell us they know about this and they accepted it as well' - in which case, your friends, of course, are not even aware of this.
"Contract won't or shouldn't change" seems unrealistically idealistic to me. Java migration - or any platform for that matter - is not just migrating its language features but also its ecosystem - runtime, VM, GC, frameworks.

There are many examples of migration problems for any platform - just have to google it. When information that can challenge our assumptions is just a google search away, I don't see why one should hold on to blind faith in idealistic assumptions. Here's one writeup of a system whose performance suffered simply by migrating to Java 8 without involving any code changes [1].

[1]: http://engineering.indeedblog.com/blog/2016/09/job-search-we...
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This is, of course, true but it's not clear why investors should have any grounds to sue over it. This wasn't actually a PR problem for Facebook until relatively recently - for instance, the 2012 Obama campaign harvested data about the Facebook friends of people who volunteered access to their accounts, those friends obviously didn't consent, and this mostly just lead to glowing articles about how clever this was and how commercial companies could copy it.

What it took for this to be a problem for Facebook was Trump running for and winning the presidency, the press needing someone to blame other than themselves, and them being willing to bury minor details like the campaign probably not actually using the data in question in any form. That doesn't seem like something which could reasonably be predicted in advance.
You've been rumbled. Jog on

My argument was two pronged.

1) UK lied in several cases or most of the cases and now UK==lier so Once a lier always a lier

2) Its not me or Russian who rumbled , but instead it is and it was West( France in case of Libya, UK in case of Iraq, US in case of Syria) has be rumbled.
I think you prove the point you're denying. You say you don't need fancy algos, but companies are wasting advertising on your gf by using basic indicators (age, sex) when in the Target case the advertising was, well, targeted.

If advertisers know what will get you to push the buy button then they can use that against you. Advertising pregnancy pants to those who aren't pregnant will almost always fail, and from the advertisers perspective it wastes an opportunity to push a product that you might buy.
I have a hard time believing anything would happen at all.
Throwing my qnd solution to this problem in here.

id | name | at | date_modified
1 | foo | 1 | 2018-03-21 12:00
2 | bar | 2 | 2018-03-21 12:01
3 | baz | 3 | 2018-03-21 12:02

Updating the ordering is a matter of updating a single row with it's new intended position and triggering a date_modified update.

-- Move last item to top
UPDATE ordered_set SET at = 1, date_modified = NOW() WHERE id = 3;

Retrieving can easily be done using a multicolumn order by;

SELECT * FROM ordered_set ORDER BY at ASC, date_modified DESC;

id | name | at | date_modified
3 | baz | 1 | 2018-03-21 12:10
1 | foo | 1 | 2018-03-21 12:00
2 | bar | 2 | 2018-03-21 12:01

If you want to explicitly get the current ordering as a sequence number some databases have
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY <same as above>)
as a potential solution.

That said, this seems like a pretty trivial non-issue. You wouldn't want to do this on very large datasets, and updating many rows for small sets performs just fine in my experience.
Just browsing through the "fake news" section that hosts file is ridiculous. There's a tremendous number of completely legitimate news sources that are blocked and many that, while lurid, are not in any sense "fake news." The list includes both liberal and conservative legitimate news sites.
> ...they would never be caught

Well I think most companies need stronger guarantees than "[probably] never be caught".
This makes no sense to me as well.

Where I attended, they relocated whole buildings to different locations on the campus. One was a historic Women's Studies building. They spent a week putting a truck bed under it, then moved it uphill on a Friday morning as I walked to class. A month later they were building another building where it originally stood.

The next summer they completely demolished and rebuilt half of the student dorms - 4 buildings.

In the past 10 years, while tuition has doubled twice and their sports teams won championships, they also rebuilt half of the campus. It doesn't look like the place I attended.
Is there any proof that it was Russia? Anything, even a shred of evidence? I see only a weasel expression "believed to" - not explaining by who and why.
Android has had a "fused location provider" which does this for a long time...
Specifically this project: https://invisible.institute/police-data/

Data here: https://github.com/invinst/chicago-police-data
You want the short or the long answer?
We still have major components using java 1.4.2.
"Why is there AGPL coming out of your servers, Google?" — "That isn't AGPL, that's uh.. MIT, MIT from the MIT'ed open source we're using".

On a slightly more serious note: that's what legal is for; engineers don't get to do it, and if they do, they'll take the fall for it, not Google.
This is my reasoning as well. Also I am currently returning Optionals from any method that can result in a null.
Yeah, I think it was an episode of The Daily Show where they bought a whole tranche of medical debt and forgave it.
For 1., on android you can have third party location providers I believe, and then any app could use it.