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>> Codebases should not be using extensions, and Linux is wrong to do so.

Why? If you can improve the performance/security/stability of Linux by re-writing functionality without extensions, by all means do so(and send in a patch). Why is Linux "wrong" for this?
For homes, you need to have lived in the house as your primary residence for 2 of the past 5 years in order to qualify for long-term capital gains.
It was actually more the case that the B battery was the "main" battery, and the A and C batteries being there just for the tubes. The A battery was for the cathode heater/filament - it was the one that needed to be big, since its job was to create a lot of heat - and the C, if present, was for grid bias. The main positive rail would be called B+ in a schematic, even for mains-powered equipment, the same way that Vcc is used in transistor circuits.
I wouldn't expect to see this on passenger aircraft anytime soon. They even had to build light weight high voltage converters. There's also a lot of safety things involved when you're dealing with tens of kV (which in a big craft we're talking at lease MV). BUT these things could be used for silent drones. Think more spy type drones, not predator type drones.
The Expanse has engine/gun/explosion noise on most exterior shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sax5tURLTrw
Not aware of any AAA game titles being developed in Rust, but I'd gladly have my eyes opened.
LinuxBrew what for?
One man's delusion is another's deliverance. Some may snicker of Darwin Awards and all that, but this man died in a misguided and naive attempt to do good, not to exploit or harm anyone.

I'm sure his family and friends feel terribly bad about this tragedy.
Nobody's willing to shell out for it.
Medical research on non-life-threatening things is still creating value for people with less-than-fatal problems.

Physicists working on physics research might be a problem if those physicists could just divert money elsewhere in the economy into their own research programs. As it is, there's a complex system of controls so that public research money is generally used for some reasonably good purpose.
CLOC tells me there's 28391 lines of C and 426525 lines of Lisp in there. Also remember that Lisp has, on average, higher code density than C thanks to advanced macro usage.

Pointing to C code in that repository and saying SBCL is implemented in C is like pointing to https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/binary-distribution... and saying that SBCL is implemented in Bash.
Fair point, but Go or PHP hardly sound more exciting.
For me, SML was the gateway drug that lead me to OCaml.
As a casual cyclist 50 psi already feels like "this is amazing I just hope my tires aren't gonna burst". So it seems "higher is better" is solid advice for most people, who aren't gonna go over 90 psi anyway.
Its basically one of the most selfish things a religious person can do. They spend their time trying to get people top believe in their god, so that they benefit personally because it makes god happy with them. They don't help people just to help them, there is an underlying reason which is the personal benefit of the preacher. This guy was no different.
I wonder if this young man also had to touch the red hot stove after being warned that it would burn him. Just another fine recipient of the "Darwin Award"...

> The fishermen said that tribesmen had shot arrows at him and that he had retreated. He apparently tried several more times to reach the island over the next two days, the police say, offering gifts such as a small soccer ball, fishing line and scissors. But on the morning of Nov. 17, the fishermen said they saw the islanders with his body.
see https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/atc10/tech/full_papers/..., https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa11/tech/full_papers/..., and https://patents.google.com/patent/US8589947

I'd argue that docker copied this in a degenerate way, but that those papers implemented what you asked for.
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“Jesus had bestowed him with the strength to go to the most forbidden places on Earth”

To go, yes. To survive, evidently not.
They do? I didn't think they'd be holding workshops and answering SDK questions at other conferences. Certainly Apple devs attend conferences like any other engineer.
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Death by misadventure. (if we want to be polite about it)
Even if you want to quibble about theoretic versus practical democracy, this side of the US Civil Rights Movement, this side of the US Women's Rights Movement, from where I sit the practical US version of democracy that works the best, more times than not, is one with universal suffrage. Gerrymandering and the remains of suffrage-denying compromises that have far surpassed their usefulness such as the Electoral college are in very point of fact, antithetical to "modern" views of democracy in the US, in my view. I do see it as a core tenet of modern "practical", even representative, democracy today that the only government that people should consent to is one with universal suffrage because "representation without suffrage" is meaningless in democracy and has historically been shown to be such. (Who did the 3/5ths compromise benefit? The slaveholders, not the slaves, never the slaves. There is more than enough retrospective evidence to indict the US founding fathers on that compromise as a non-democratic mistake.)

Yes, I realize mine is not the only viewpoint on the subject, because politics is still debating this, but you aren't going to convince me that a "democracy" without universal suffrage is in any practical fact a "democracy" in name or belief. It does sound like the two of us may have evolved very different definitions of democracy in 2018, and we may not come to an agreement on it, sorry.
Just xor bit by bit against real random noise,embed it in a massive stream of other pure random, remember the offset, if it's really that important..
I guess the point is that the other languages are based on C. From your list CPython, CRuby and the GNU assembler are written in C. Not sure about Java.

Edit: not necessarily agreeing, there must be some languages that do not rely on C.
for those that can't read WSJ

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-46288510
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Why Erlang is among the few true computer languages
>>>but this man died in a misguided and naive attempt to do good, not to exploit or harm anyone.

May be he wasn't doing anything good from islanders' perspective.
Point me to a compiler or interpreter, any of them, that isn't either written in C or written in something that was written in C. And of course, whatever you play with, it's running on an operating system written in C.

If programming is turtles all the way down, C is the bottom turtle, standing on the solid ground of Von Neumann architecture.

The point is, C is utterly pervasive. Everything that we think is different from C is made from C.
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The runtime is written in C. That's the important bit. Just because the compiler, standard library, etc, isn't - doesn't mean it's not based on C. You cannot use SBCL without a C compiler.
Finally an automated ARM-target testing cloud service!
I think the point that he is making is that most popular modern implementations of assemblers, Java compilers/JVM's, Ruby and Python interpreters are written in C, or in a language which itself was bootstrapped from C, eg. C++.
Wow. That's incredible. I would say this is completely against what I would assume the expected behavior would be.
>the author uses the term "tech bro" at least a dozen times -- really?

Something about the Jewish Writers Association.
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I never suggested skipping the H1B. I was actually laying down the sequence of steps needed in this program. Join Program on H1B -> Wait till GC approval -> Then start working for your startup.
I don't know about "company tokens" -- that reminds me of "company towns" of the early industrial revolution era where workers weren't paid in fungible currency, but in company vouchers.

That said, I think most of the commenters here don't recognize how many of the gamification mechanics[1] have long been built into office work. "Employee of the month" plaque = leaderboard. Sales team progress bars. Perks like corner offices with great views for the most valuable employees.

[1] https://www.gamified.uk/user-types/gamification-mechanics-el...
At least one of them deserves to get sick, they did kill someone after all. You could argue that it's not wrong to kill if you don't have any treaties between your respective states but then it wouldn't be wrong to spread disease either.
Solo, an open source security key: https://github.com/soloKeysSec/solo/

In terms of dev/sw, the most exciting things are 1) adding support for openpgp/ssh in addition to FIDO, 2) rewriting the firmware in rust, 3) porting the firmware to other architectures.
It's compiled in byte code, yes, but on-demand, so it's JIT.
Did yer hear about the Wooden Engine?

It wouldn't go.
> not to exploit or harm anyone

Isolated tribes often do not have the same built up immunities to common diseases. It may not have been intentional, but he could very well have killed them all, regardless of his motives.
It's not "their" numbers. Apple never provided unit sale guidance. Why is it their problem if analysts were bad at unit number forecasting? They beat EPS and Revenue projections 4 out of 4 quarters.
I wonder if your generosity in interpretation extends to modern cultures and their borders.
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At another big company we had a code freeze as well, but we found a bug in a new feature that we released.
We were not allowed to fix the bug, so we were reverting binaries of the data processing pipeline. The problem is that the data was already created and not backwards compatible, so we just created new problems... strict code freeze together with a huge feature push is always a nightmare.
~idleword's cynically-dismissive style is something that eats even more smart people.
That's what made it so misguided and naive.
you need both. One of them pnly supplies a UI, while the other only supplies the binary. I personally recommend running aria2c via termux and using ziahamza.github.io/webui-aria2
> attempt to do good, not to exploit or harm anyone

Well, he wanted to instill in them a belief system based upon irrational faith. One could argue that attempting to change the contents of their minds/belief systems for no good reason is "harm", and especially so when the new belief system is so flawed.
Lets be honest: lunch exists to waste time. Nothing productive gets done at lunch and best thing you can take out from them is to socialize with like-minded people.
I believe the word 'regions' would be more appropriate.
Turn it around; be at peace because even in this world where doing wrong is natural, you choose to do right.
"The plural of anecdote is not data"

Wonderful, Is that yours?
A lot more of those will be running between now and 2020.

We should have more good data once we see elected people perform in Congress.

The big question is whether they can maintain agency longer term.
I'm fascinated by these people. They must have one heck of a culture to immediately resort to killing any stranger that lands on their shore. I wonder what religious beliefs they have and what kind of society creates what seems to be extreme and violent xenophobia to us.

As fascinated as I am I would double check that I have something to row with if I take a motorboat out to see the island from afar. No way in hell I'd want to step foot on that island or be at bow and arrow distance.
In the same sense that all book fairs are forestry expos.
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This is not worth reading.

I worked with Bengio for a couple of years, and he's a classic example of a not-particularly-talented mid-level prof who's been elevated by the bubble of hype in his field, attracted some talented students who publish papers on which he ends up as a coauthor... and now thinks he is a voice of authority in AI (and many other fields).

Those who disagree with me -- can you name a single important contribution to the field he has made, that wasn't in fact done by one of his students?

Hinton did backprop, leCun did convnets, Schmidhuber did LSTMs, and Bengio did ... ?
Refugees disastrous for German welfare state as almost 50% are illiterate
I certainly wouldn’t shoot them with an arrow but when religious door knockers come to spread the word they are chased off my property pretty rapidly.

They’re not good people. They are brainwashed people selling conversion to an ideology which needs to die, sometimes even under duress from superiors and nothing more.

This entire notion and behaviour is not appreciated!
I read in one article that there was a recent change in law involving the Sentinelese that might have encouraged Chau to go there. Can anyone corroborate?
For people who are prepared to die for what they believe in, Mr. Chau seems to be among them.
> Before I add a third party service, I want to be reasonably sure it will stick around for a while.

Not entirely sure what you mean about 'add a third party service'

That said, (aside from thank you for the first bit :) ), the rest does pose a very interesting point. Not something I'd massviely considered.. spam is one thing (which rate limiting sort of solves). But not threats and such. As it stands, there are no logs, apart from those that you'd normally expect from a web server, so that probably isn't great from a legal aspect.

I guess possibly rejecting emails based on content, bad word list or similar. I _did_ implement a policy that banned IP addresses when a notification was unsubscribed from (since it was intended for the user to email themselves), but this obviously doesn't stop the initial email from being sent.

I will certainly think about this and try get something knocked up asap to try and counter this.

Thank you for your comment!
Java runs on the JVM, which is probably written in C++ (which is C, when you start digging). The widely-used Eclipse J9 JVM is written in C++.
A more accurate title: "American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow for Illegally Invading Remote Indian Island"
It’s crufty.
What do you mean? Can you elaborate?
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I'm really interested in noted inconsitencies in physics since historically major progress was achieved by refusal of some to ignore an inconsistency, because that is often the last thing people talk about (as opposed to open questions). I know a couple that occupy my mind, but I am always looking for more such inconsistencies. It's in such a state of mind that I would like to know which problem you refer to in your last sentence, and not in the state of mind of bashing the perceived outsider.
Maybe they should build a wall? Funny how leftists come out of the woodwork to justify murder while screaming open borders.
It's a bad habit, I really should stop because I gain nothing from it.
My first business gave my competition more sales, and I was too dumb to see it
If I had stayed the full four years I would have vested between $600-$800k; I only vested around half that.

The only people who hit low seven figures are very early employees, maybe #1-3. The exceptions are the really unique unicorns like Google or FaceBook, which print so much money everyone gets rich.
Tittered the European, dripping with blood from every corner of the map.
I read news, sparingly and often not to intensely, simply because everyone else does and social interaction is required to survive in society.

Some people react to current news, or let it affect their judgement, and it helps me sometimes predict or understand people's behavior. This is especially true of local or political news. It's always good to keep an ear on the grapevine even if most of it is garbage simply to know where many people's mind will be.

Other people like to talk about news, bringing it up for small talk, and therefore having some semblance of knowledge of current headlines lets me feel and give the impression of not being an outcast.

Oftentimes for me, if a headline catches my interest, I'll read the story, and then try to find out what really happened myself. This is rare.
Is there a link to this interview?
Google Assistant iOS update lets you say ‘Hey Siri, OK Google’
> leaving 1 extra USB slot free

You would also get that with an extra USB slot instead of the PS/2.
Or just cycle faster on a better/lighter bike.
I would argue that perhaps with the exception of regex, the examples you mentioned are excellent ideas that are awsome despite their suboptimal DSLs, and they would have been even better if their DSLs had been implemented as extensions in a Lisp-like language.
> engineers blocked many attempts to increase security, specifically filtering git commits for keys, PII and other expensive mistakes.

I am struggling really hard to find a good reason why anyone would be against this change. Committing keys is a very easy mistake to make, especially for a junior dev. Github is littered with secret keys committed by college students trying to figure out web development for the first time.

I did the same thing when I was fresh out of college and new to both git and using web apis. Luckily it was just a Spotify key and not one for my Dropbox or email.
I don't know why anyone would visit a country with such insane laws, it's just too dangerous. Sure they seem to have a lot of interesting stuff going on and to see, but a big fat NOPE after you read anything about their rules and how they treat people!
Embedded software, firmware, low-level OS components like drivers and kernels, game engines, key-value stores, databases, and the compilers/interpreters for a lot of other languages.
> But yeah nobody writes code at conferences

steveklabnik in another comment: "A ton of open source project work gets done at conferences".
The few contacts that the North Sentinelese have had with the outside world have often resulted in kidnappings, death and disease being bought into the island. Given the few data points they have, it seems reasonable for them to want to avoid any further foreign contact.
My main issues are that if you're using the serving functionality, the containers it builds take a long time to start because the environment/dependencies are loaded at runtime instead of being baked into the image.
Also, it doesn't have the ability to use a db or remote file store to save experiment info, so you need to use EBS volumes or something for persistence.
"Ignorant" is another descriptor that should be applied to his actions.
And you know someone is gonna come along and explain that LISP books are written only on tinfoil, so you're completely wrong.
Only if you sell. Option buyers have a loss floor built-in.
There is a possible middle-ground between central and local AI: federated learning. Its goal is to provide the best of both worlds. Here's a recent paper: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collabo...
The Amazon store I ran when I worked for a VAR was the best lead generation tool the company I worked for had ever found. I sold a part that if you bought indicated to us that your annual IT spend was minimum 150K a year, and I sold dozens of these parts a week. Most companies have a customer acquisition cost, we got paid to get new customers.

It's super against Amazon's TOS for resellers to contact customers outside of Amazon controlled channels, but I never lost a lot of sleep over it, and dont think people were buying much 3PAR storage off amazon anyway.
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"The 27-year-old American, identified as John Allen Chau, came to India on a tourist visa but came to the Andaman and Nicobar islands in October with the express purpose of proselytizing, Dependra Pathak, Director General of Police of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, told CNN.
"We refuse to call him a tourist. Yes, he came on a tourist visa but he came with a specific purpose to preach on a prohibited island," Pathak said.
Chau did not inform the police of his intentions to travel to the island to attempt to convert its inhabitants."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/asia/andaman-nicobar-us-missi...
I appreciate the comment, but that coffee shop is not zero sum in two important ways.

One, if you're selling coffee every day to people, then you are creating value for all the people who say, "Hey, this was a good purchase. I'll come back tomorrow." So it's definitely not zero sum in the main economic sense. Value is created with every cup.

Two, if you open up next near another coffee shop, that's still not zero sum. More people will get coffee. Your better coffee means that people will get more for their money. Maybe your competition will force neighboring businesses to up their game. And even if another business ends up closing and exactly no new customers get served, that's still not zero sum, in that you're providing a better product.

I agree big financial firms are a mix of productive and rent-seeking behavior, although a lot of their nominally productive behavior is just helping other rent-seekers, so I think the truly positive-sum service is pretty small. I also disagree that rent-seeking is ethical. That some in the industry consider it "mandatory" is pure self-justification, a way of passing the moral buck.
Exactly. C programmers don't define themselves as C programmers mainly. They are firmware developers, game developers or something else. That's where their real interest is.
By "modern" I'll interpret that to mean "a nation generally participating in the global community":

I'd say, they have every right to defend their borders from invaders. But they also have knowledge that these islanders don't have. They have an understanding that outsiders are not all belligerent and to be feared or non-entities to be killed (though some will act counter to that knowledge, see the stoked fear in the US about the migrant caravan, or the way North Korea treats many outsiders). So it's easier to cast judgment on "modern" nations and cultures who kill on sight, because they really should know better and be better able to discern true threats from mere nuisances.
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I once made a 14 days Vipassana silent retreat. Nothing but meditation, eating, and sleeping. Obviously no phones or anything that could distract you from the purpose was allowed (books, conversations, etc).

I'm the biggest information junkie, and I had no troubles letting go. When I came back into the real world the habit grew progressively again.

TL;DR: No withdrawal symptoms.
Doesn’t make sense really, the UK military does regular exercises with the UAE, anything they wanted to know about defence they could just go see
They have to protect themselves from disease. If the wrong microbe makes contact, it could result in genocide.
It seems that I can unsubscribe everyone like this:

curl "https://www.curlmail.co/unsubscribe/EMAIL"

This may or may not be considered as an attack vector. If I know that someone is using the service, I can “troll” them by unsubscribing their email and they will stop receiving the alerts. A solution to this would be to include a verification code in the “unsubscribe” link that you are sending with the alert. Unsubscribe only if the verification code exists and matches the one associated with the email.
It feels like at last half of the local papers in the US are doing this, including my hometown paper, the Temple Daily Telegram (http://www.tdtnews.com - https redirects to http, of all things...)
GDPR has definitely caused companies to reconsider privacy and how they handle user data - which is a very good thing. The problems will arise when a giant bureaucratic organization begins passing very explicit laws and legal judgements on something as fast moving and dynamic as the internet. The unintended consequences will be massive and will almost certainly harm the entities GDPR is trying to protect in the first place.