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> seems disingenuous at best coming from such an "independent thinker"

But he wouldn't be an independent thinker if he just reiterated and nodded to everything every other media outlet prints or shows? I am not sure on the "disingenuous" part, do you think he is somehow has an ulterior motive to ignore it despite the evidence?

> It bothers me because, from my armchair view, Russia had the motives and means to do exactly what they are being accused of

They have a motive and means, I agree. But so does any advanced country. Anyone affected and influenced by the power structure in Washington would be interested in affecting that structure somehow. Why isn't anyone talking much about China hacking, or Iran or any other advanced enough country? Why focus on Russia so much. That's what bothering me. Compare how much coverage there was about Russian hacking vs the OPM hack. OPM is probably the most significant intelligence failure in history.

What Greenwald is saying, and I in large agree, is for the amount of time and money spent talking about it, there would have to be a lot more evidence that any of the stuff the Russians did made any difference.

> To dismiss that as "just the DNC looking for excuses"

I see them having a motive to look for excuses. Their excuse for losing is "Russians hacked us". I don't really believe that. I think there wasn't enough introspecting and self analysis on why they failed. And as such, I think they'll fail again, precisely because they put all their eggs into one, not very sturdy, basket.

Anyway, thanks for the reply and sorry for getting carried away with the prose a bit.
No video as far as I know, but he did post the slides with some backup materials on his GitHub:

https://github.com/gregkh/presentation-spectre

One note from his talk though, his slides say that Foreshadow was fixed in April -- but it's clearly supposed to be August. He mentioned he was fixing the updates even on the flight out to OSSNA.
I think a lot of that stems from the ever shrinking seat pitch and width. Like United's 3-4-3 seating on the 777 - it is super cramped, even in Economy Plus (which gives a few inches of leg room but no more width). I'll never fly on that seat configuration again unless I fly first or business class.
What makes TPUs fine-tuned for deep learning
How frequently do they release LTS releases?

The six months security patch limit would be a DISASTER in Java world if releases still happened every 2 to 3 years like they used to. Everyone would be stuck with large periods were no security patches were available without paying.

But that’s not happening here. Yes you’re limited to six months of free security patches, but a new version comes out every six months. So you can stick with Oracle and never paid a dime is long as you stay reasonably up to date.
That’s called by-right and lots of cities (maybe all? Not sure if it’s a local/state/federal thing) have that. That doesn’t stop NIMBYism (all you have to do is downzone), but for areas that are reasonably densely zoned, you don’t need any variances for projects that conform to zoning ordinances.

The real issue with NIMBYs is how restrictive zoning is. Sure, you can build anything you want if it conforms, but good luck getting it to conform. For example, single-family home neighborhoods are pretty much stuck that way. Want a nice, compact apartment building? Or maybe even a fourplex? Good luck. In my reasonably-sized college town, upzoning happens once PER DECADE.

This is the affordable housing crisis at its core, and it’s remarkably procedural and boring. People are unable to afford homes and apartments because of simple tedium that takes place in beige board rooms at 11:00 PM on a Monday (i.e. local politics).
I can understand this point of view, and I don't own a house so I'm not really "defending" anything here. I'd love for housing to be cheaper and for more people to build in SF.

However, think about how you'd feel if you bought a house and spent most of your life savings on it (like most are forced to), only to find that it drops in value dramatically putting you underwater on the payments. It's not just about their "view". They paid for amenities which (whether we like it or not) include the view and environment.

I don't even have a solution - but it's not so simple as "give up your view so more people can live near their jobs".
Maybe, but why do that when you can compromise webcams and display cables?
I disagree. There is a network effect here, people will use the brand that already is installed on their phone PLUS the one that has the most scooters. This is what can occur here.
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Baudrillard was right.
After I knew what they meant it made sense, initially I wondered if it was a version of that old programmer joke of a shell variable. Like $DIETY.
Used PowerShell to code a small script and simply making md5 of a string is enough to make you feel nuts.

The UNIX style.

echo -n 'string' | md5

Compared to that obvious command, this is utter madness. You can't write a single thing without googling.

$string = "string"
$md5 = new-object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
$utf8 = new-object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding
$hash = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($md5.ComputeHash($utf8.GetBytes($string)))
$hash = $hash.ToLower() -replace '-', ''

No shit the Bash on Windows is a godsend.
In the JavaScript world people use those holiday chocolate calendar things to count the days until a new version of their favorite compiler will come out and can't sleep the night before because they want to be sure they can update at the very instant the release is dropped (and then proceed to complain that their favorite framework didn't update for the quirks of the new compiler in a timely manner).

I wish I was completely joking.
I think a lot of companies do this, but it ends up being weird stuff that doesn't happen in the real world like bit shift operators in Java.

It would be excellent if it was all relevant stuff. I took one for a job, about 30 questions. I was really surprised that I got about 93% on it, purely guessing. The person who made the test later told me that if you have enough experience, you'd probably know things like "findViewById" instead of "findViewByID", because it's muscle memory.
I am not aware of even a single example of a FooBarCoin that can't be traded either directly to either Bitcoin or Ether.
Its a big difference, basically the same as being at Lake Tahoe vs. Mammoth Lakes (if you happen to have been to these mountain places in California).
What a useless reply. Your parent is IMO accurate. The consumer is not actually valuing price above everything else; the consumer does not have all the information on how comfortable this or that flight is, and we all know markets only work optimally when the buyer has all the information.

Basically the market for airline flights is not a well functioning transparent market, so you cannot say "aha, the consumer preference is obviously the cheapest ticket at all costs".

Personally I would happily pay a little more for more legroom, but have found no good reliable way to find those tickets.
> "due to rampant interference in the operation of the free market"

But maybe in another sense, San Francisco is a product, and the feature it's selling includes rampant overregulation.

If that's not a good business model, another city can step up and offer better incentives. And people can move there. There are many nice cities and towns in the US. If you insist on living on the dirty tip of a tiny overcrowded peninsula, that's a choice.

You're trying to regulate San Francisco's right to regulate.
Whats your target length(in hrs of effort) for a work sample?

And secondly how do you deal with someone farming out the work to someone else?
I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Here in London, most of the time when I see someone using an Ofo bike it’s some kids who clearly aren’t paying for them, but have found a way to unlock them.
They're British.
It wasn’t 1-2 days, it was several weeks. And I’m not saying that this is a 100% certain situation. I’m saying, there is a decent probability it’s going to get worse over time due to climate change.
Rosanne was worse.
The mafia was taken down in Chicago because it was providing something that was desired by the people, people who should be in control of their own lives and will ultimately be responsible for the decisions that they make, freedom. Unfortunately, the powers that be did not see it that way, you can argue that Al Capone was taken down for tax evasion, I don't care, this is how he was convicted,one has nothing to do with the other.

Al Capone was taken down because he had more power than that of the government. These companies are being shut down because they are not willing to pay the shakedown money by the city mafia.

We need to take this country back and until you people do not understand this, you will remain slaves. I almost believe that this is what you want..

I do not. This is NOT what this country was built upon and changing this, being OK with this will eventually lead to the destruction of our country, which, before that happens, will be a civil war.
I remember running into an issue sort of like that with Struts (IIRC). I could use Java 8 anywhere in the codebase except on JSP files because Struts would choke on the new bytecodes it didn’t know were now valid.
I'm not sure about that. It's a comedy. I think people do consider context and can take that into account --even today, even if they would be your run-of-the-mill Trumper. On the other hand, Roseanne[1], whom I do not blame, did a lame physical joke about imitating ballplayers adjusting their jockstraps[3] after a horrendous rendition of the Natl Anthem and got dragged over coals for it[2]. It was BEFORE the Gulf War.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1YVhcLD2c

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSIFG_SceA

[3]http://www.cbs8.com/clip/14386580/roseanne-barrs-cringe-wort...
Same happened at the first company I worked full time at... Woman came in for her interview, 7 months pregnant, and was hired. She was a great hire for the company, and stayed about as long as I did (6 or 7 years)... We definitely would have been worse off if we were short-sighted enough to not hire her just because of that.
That’s the other thing: real estate is not a guaranteed investment. If you invest money in a house and its value goes down, I’m sorry, but that’s the risk you take. A home is not a guaranteed investment vehicle, despite that being the outcome when NIMBYs vote and craft policy to make it so.

Also, I don’t think people’s home values drop all that dramatically when new housing is built. We’ve been putting this off for decades, but we’ve also been artificially inflating housing prices. Maybe your tiny bungalow ISN’T actually worth $500,000. Maybe decades of bad local policy have ballooned the price of your house at the expense of others.

And even so, even if building housing makes your house decrease in value, that’s still not a good reason to prevent development. I care much more they cities are healthy and plentiful housing than I do about some Boomers who got lucky with when they bought into the real estate market.

The solution is actually remarkably simple: build more housing. We did it before; plenty of other countries with more sensible zoning laws do it. There aren’t enough places for people to live. We can either start killing people, or we can put up some walls. Personally, I’m a fan of buildings.

Edit: typos (phone)
https://react-etc.net/entry/oracle-to-stop-providing-a-free-...

"This is as in many other projects, except it seems that releases of the LTS version, dubbed to be Oracle JDK, will no longer be free. This means that companies looking to stay on a specific version for more than six months would need to get updates from a commercial operator or apply patches from later free OpenJDK versions manually."
> I love mechs.

Your office neighbors do not.
Let this be a lesson to the next Uber. :)

And the current Uber too, actually. :D
Bellevue, WA has a very unique solution. Most of their east-west avenues channel traffic to Bellevue Collection's shopping squares.

But not all. One street in either direction of Bellevue is essentially bus/pedestrian/bicycle friendly - 6th Street and 108th Ave. At their intersection is Bellevue's bus hub. 6th Ave provides bus access to the freeway, and pedestrian-only access to the Bellevue Collection.

108th has a bicycle lane wedged between car parking and the driving lane on either side, and this is where almost all of the Lime Bikes congregate. There are special painted squares, almost like Zipcar parking slots, where the bikes can usually be found. The bikes are occasionally seen outside apartments and businesses, but never for long - none have been there long enough to become a real eyesore.
I’m always an early adopter for new language features on personal projects. I love playing with new things. But I use boring, reliable technology when somebody is paying me for it. As much as I like playing with shiny new things, I’m not going to bet my professional reputation on them.
Not sure that's relevant either. Within the target environments you're still looking at 5 to 10 years just for red hat: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013

Azul publishes this as well: https://www.azul.com/products/azul_support_roadmap/

Cursory google searching is all it takes to find these things.
The limit is not 10,000. There may be an official number where that starts happening but I have seen it happen (completely anecdotal) with amounts as low as $800.
I don't know about "people", but I know that the companies and organizations that I've worked for and with for stay reasonably close to the leading edge for security and feature reasons.

And if you have a reasonable testing environment, it's not rocket surgery to figure out how much of a problem a new version might be.
GP point, I believe, is not to ban them as long as the conform to zoning code. If zone code allows his neighbor to convert to a nightclub, good!
It's the same old story- Boy finds girl, boy loses girl. Girl finds boy, boy forgets girl. Boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
You're phrasing it as if it's "revenge" rather than the city looking out for its citizen's best interests. If this company has been willing to flaunt the rules, who's to say it won't again? That isn't "revenge," it seems more like using common sense.
I’m confused. My sense is that the approach here should have been to put forward a set of regulations and enforcement, and then open up the market. If one of the companies violates the rules, then obviously ban them.
I keep getting Lime confused with Limeade - the latter work to increase efficacy of corporate health plans, to make sure your employees get what you're paying the health insurance company for.

It's like "Pandora Nexus" all over again.
If by "didn't kiss the ring" you mean they flagrantly violated the law, then sure.
Probably kind of both. Kapton tape is extremely tough and useful for a lot of things. It's pretty common in space applications, they probably had it around for a variety of uses.
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RevenueCat (YC S18) is hiring our first SDK engineer
Blind trust in everything on the internet is equally as bad as assuming that everything from the greatest collection of human knowledge is a lie. Skepticism and critical evaluation are the skills that should be encouraged.
Thanks. Damn phone keyboards.
Except that back button doesn't function as expected.
> The equitable solution would be to compensate surrounding owners for their property losing value or them losing enjoyment when zoning changes...

So we should use public money to compensate private property owners for making a bad gamble, at the expense of people who need a place to live. I’m sorry, but why is owning property a guarantee of a return on your investment? Should we compensate people who hold stock in coal companies when we regulate the coal industry too?
Work contract. Find a business that expects 40 hour work weeks. Hunt for the work, don't use recruiters.
There aren't a lot of barriers to entry in the ride-hailing market. Want to ride with another service? It's just another app. Want to drive for one more service in addition to the rest? Again, just another app that sends notifications.

If Uber and/or Lyft get a monopoly and then jack up prices, they won't have a monopoly for long.
Right now I would expect that basically every company using Java is using the official Oracle version. They’ve never had to worry that they can’t get security patches for the version released 14 months ago.

Practically everyone can use OpenJDK as a drop in replacement. But right now we don’t know how long security patches will continue for each release.

I would hope most firms are on Java 8 now. It wouldn’t surprise me to see people who are still on six or seven.

Nine/ten had a compatibility break (by removing access to internal packages that no one was supposed to be using). Many companies haven’t upgraded because of that. Lots of very popular Java libraries weren’t ready or depended on other libraries that weren’t ready, so upgrading may have been difficult even if you wanted to.

That seems to be a one time thing though. At this point I don’t see why companies shouldn’t be able to upgrade relatively frequently to the latest major release.
Oh, you don't want the apps and services you use chosen by the San Francisco city government based on criteria they choose? Why not, they do such a good job with everything else right?
GopherCon liveblogger here. The room was jampacked for this talk and it did not disappoint. A very detailed tour of how memory allocation and GC works in Go. I learned a ton. Eben (https://twitter.com/_emfree_) has also posted his slides here: https://speakerdeck.com/emfree/allocator-wrestling.

FYI, this was part of a technical liveblog that covered all the talks at GopherCon this year in a similar fashion. If you missed the conference or are looking to review material, you might find https://sourcegraph.com/gophercon helpful. (Disclosure: I'm CTO of Sourcegraph—we organized the liveblog and love Go!)
Basically nothing. If you can run Java 9 or newer (because you don’t have dependency issues) then you can continue to run the Oracle JDK and just upgrade for security patches.
> Have your recruiter keep a list of reasons why candidates said they wouldn't move forward

So companies want this kind of feedback, but won't provide it?
display cables can be shielded, webcams can be covered over removed or banned from office use...the whole tempest hacking thing was intended to be applied noninvasively from a suspicious icecream truck parked outside for the last 3 days...
Expectations can be very far apart. In Kuala Lumpur, the average salary for 5-10 years of experience is about $15,000 annual.

That's... way too low for me. 80% of interviewers will offer this range, but it takes several days of interviewing before they'll mention numbers. I really don't want to waste anyone's time on an offer I can't take, so it's good to filter that early on.
I'm honestly surprised more people aren't taking the battery packs off bicycles. I've heard there's effectively a cell phone inside (microphone, speaker, accelerometers, GPS, cell connection, etc), and announces that it's calling the police, when moved unexpectedly.

But cracking that case and pulling the batteries has to have some value. I'm honestly surprised we don't hear more news about that sort of criminal activity. Maybe if lithium were involved in the production of meth...
There’s no need to use Open JDK.

If that’s your preference or you have some other reason (like the fact it’s probably pre-installed in a Linux distribution) there’s nothing wrong with it.

But there’s absolutely no need for a developer to switch off of Oracle unless you absolutely cannot move to Java 9 or newer.
Not the only one. Work for yourself on short contracts with others.

I’m very suspicious of people who say they work more than 40 hours per week. I wonder about how many hours are high productivity and how many are wasted or low intensity.
I definitely work no more than 50 and average around 40. I’ve met quite a few who do 60 hours and still meet real obligations.

Life is not a rehearsal and is definitely not a sprint. I challenge people who work 80 hours per week to demonstrate full community/family participation. It’s ok to do it for a short time but don’t kid yourself and think it’s a good idea for long periods.

Another item: 6 weeks vacation is a requirement.

Spoiler: I work for myself. I’m not unique. Plenty of other people are doing this.
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It’s not a gamble, it’s ownership. It’s not a guaranteed return, it’s compensation for loss of value by an injuring party.

Them the breaks of real estate law and it’s English origins, and while I won’t dissuade you from action, know that it will take decades before you see meaningful change. Plan accordingly.
His exact words were "Why shouldn't land owners be able to build whatever they want on their own property?" Zoning also prevents this sort of absolute freedom.
That's where zoning comes in. Residential, commercial and so forth. NYC has dozens of zoning codes (eg., R6, R2, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/zoning/districts-tools/re... is just a link to R and there are links on the left to C and the rest), and re-zoning requires a complicated political process. There's no chance of a nightclub opening up next door, but there's plenty of chances a few blocks aware where light industrial is being rezoned.

It's more complicated than Sim City ever was.
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And that's how a city should operate. The citizens should regulate how the city regulates.
And you’re (Not you personally) free to do what like on your property barring negative outcomes for the entire community. Imposing restrictions on land you don’t own certainly falls in that category.

Hence the stalemate I guess.
My understanding is that Open JDK is where all Java language development takes place now.

It’s only some special enterprise features that aren’t part of the language itself that are restricted to the paid version of the Oracle JDK.
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The paragraph right after that explains how startups can get ahead. I work with a lot of startups just for the learning opportunity and career progression. Even with the high probability of startup deaths, you can hit real manager experience, at the age of 30 and move on to manager jobs with big corporations.
...if you work it for a while, you can image things in a radar like fashion. there was even a device that could be purchased that was a working television/camera, now obsolete...what you are suggesting requires physical compromise beforehand...
How frequently do they release LTS releases?

It’s in the link.
I'm skeptical. There are clear physical distinctions between different races. Africans clearly have blacker skin, a different facial structure, and different hair types compared to Nordics.

Unless one is going to argue that there are no genetic differences between individuals in the brain, it seems unlikely to me that different races don't have different brains in some fashion.
When Uber started, they were all black cars anyways. It was a couple of years (iirc) until "normal" cars were allowed to drive for Uber.