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Sourcegraph CTO here. We're incredibly excited to announce Sourcegraph 3.0. This is a big release for us, with new language support, more extension APIs, significant performance improvements, and contributions from almost two dozen folks in open source.

Many thanks to our users, customers, and contributors. If you have any questions, we'll do our best to answer them here!
It's not really independent. It's a major fork of OpenSSL, but at the end of the day, it's a fork of OpenSSL.
I respect the need to abide by an NDA, and I assumed something along those lines would be the case. Thanks for the tidbits nonetheless! The intersection between finance and tech at the highest levels like that has always intrigued me.
The syntax was explicitly thrown away and reworked to look like Java, so, I’d say they’re related.
The point is to communicate clearly and unambiguously, rather than satisfying some sort of pedantic aversion to harmless redundancy. Redundancy in communication can be very valuable.
Thank you! My understanding was out of date.
I Rented a Friend to See If I Could Cure My Loneliness
The moment it requests the user to authenticate by taking a minute or so to display their behaviors because of a false negative, it'll probably be canned
More than 7000 refrigerators found online with default user/password
I reuse them until it becomes mildly discomforting at which time I know the lancet has dulled. Of course AccuChek prefers that you use it once;)
$0.25 is very, very high.

I don't know who was supposed to pay the $0.25, but gizmos like external hard drives is a commodity market with razor thin gross margins.

Whoever decided that $0.25 was reasonable for that kind of market (Apple?) essentially killed the protocol right there.

Edit: here's the story: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/the-rise-and-fall-of...

Steve Jobs changed royalty model from a flat licensing fee to a $1 fee per port (insane!), Intel walked away and cancelled all FireWire development, Jobs lowered it then to $0.25 but Intel didn't come back.
I second Zinsser, great book.

Mainly: write, then edit, re-edit etc. Keep going until nothing can be improved. In Clean Code it says, no-one can write clean code - you write dirty code then clean it. Every first draft of a novel sucks. Writers do 50 drafts and it starts looking OK. Every word carefully weighed dozens of times. No-one can write perfect prose in the first draft. Write a terrible first draft, of a chapter or part, then you have raw material to edit. Don't judge the first draft for quality - it's supposed to be bad.

Also, I've found that you often learn as much about the subject while doing that as you knew before! It's a great way to learn. Questions arise as you're doing it - make a temporary list of them at the end, most will answer themselves or can be answered in minutes or hours. If any are left, leave as Exercises for the reader :-)

p.s. Some people say it's way better doing it on paper. When "cut and paste" was with scissors and glue, you could cut everything up and move the parts around before starting to paste, as many great writers have done - on a computer screen you can only move one section at a time. Cut, paste, cut paste.
But they are less than readable.
I was trying to remember what influences Joe Armstrong et al have indicated. Although Smalltalk clearly shares some high-level concepts I’m not sure it’s fair to consider it a parent/child relationship.
That's a good point. The domain is 'newsoveraudio' though.
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> GDP growth per capita over the long term is more rapid than inflation

At this point, we're down to conjecture. It will doubtless require higher taxes, which will quite possibly counter or outweigh any benefit of more money to spend. It's a big risk to take with the entire country.

> migration for benefits is a problem.

You don't have to have immigration controls, just establish residency requirements with a certain amount of time, holding down a job for however long, etc.

> Means testing is additional bureaucratic cost

Still doesn't make sense to send money to Jeff Bezos.
I did like the Timeline book as well, but I read it at around 13.

It did really change a lot of images I had of the period though. One thing that sticks out in my memory was a comment on how much distance the average serf could cover in a day from walking since it was their only mode of transportation.

The movie, though, is just completely middling. It's not bad enough to be fun but not good enough to be exciting. I watched it on a plane, which adds two points to any score I would give a movie, but if I was at home I would have probably turned it off after 45 minutes.
As AI and Robots Become Commonplace, More Are Identifying as 'Digisexuals'
Matz has said he was influenced by Smalltalk and Perl when creating ruby, I don't think he's ever mentioned lisp(s).

On the other hand, Alan Kay was definitely influenced by Lisp when creating Smalltalk. (http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/). So...

As the author in the OP notes, there's no way to get this perfect, even aside from just making mistakes and missing documented information, a new programming language can be "infuenced" by anything in the mind of it's creator(s).

But, hey, the chart gives us something to talk about!
Which applies to residential properties in NY, not industrial/commercial properties, which have a "comparable use" method most similar to what I originally said.
Amiga: A Discourse on Possible Futures
I figure low-rent areas will have rents go up as well. It may take longer, but it will ripple through the whole economy.
> One interesting side note relates to the person driving these attacks, or at the least the author of the Facebook landing page - they linked it to their actual Facebook account, which is where the victim will land should they fall for the scam.

Is this based on any evidence or just an assumption? It seems to me that the 'actual Facebook account' could just as readily be either a random or intentional framing of someone else by the one(s) doing the phishing attack or the page designer, in which case it would appear that it worked perfectly in that it apparently convinced Akamai.
For anyone not in the know, this is a line from Starship Troopers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKk4Cq56d1Y
I agree. I have never used an audio programmer and don't really know what it's for. Even after reading the README and looking at a video on Twitter, I still don't know what this program does.
> If I were king, all ads would have to be black text on white background, containing ONLY the name of the product/service, its description and advertised merits. The description would have to consist of well-defined and falsifiable statements only.

Sorry, but for a lot of products this approach is simply ridiculous. I want to know what I'm buying looks like before I buy it in many cases. E.g., clothes, sportswear, footwear, furniture, electric guitars - even food.
Elon Musk says SpaceX's new engine passed key milestone
> The original premise of social security was pay in money as you work, get it out when you're old.

No, the premise was always “pay taxes when working, receive benefits based on a formula driven by qualified earnings, with both pre- and post-retirement adjustment factors.” It has never been an investment vehicle with individual accounts, you aren't paying in and getting your money out with investment returns or matching or whatever.

(That said, because it's not a traditional means tested benefit but time-delayed inverse means tested one, it doesn't really make sense to replace it with UBI.)
Is there anything wrong with just using Date.now() to get a UNIX timestamp to store and then converting it for presentation on the client?
That's simply wrong. In order to make an educated purchase, you need to know the weaknesses as well as the strengths. Reading 1- or 2-star reviews is unlikely to uncover all of the strengths of a product. Comparing products solely based weaknesses is just dumb.
Do X or I will do Y to hurt you and your company is blackmail and extortion, regardless of what Y is.

Digging up some past quote to somehow justify extortion is not very genuine.
Haven't read it. It's been sitting on a pile somewhere. Time to reprioritize!
I know the article itself is actually called Gamifying the Ocean, but I still feel that title does a disservice. It's a slapped-on headline that grabs attention, but the article is really just using "The Ocean Cleanup" as a launchpad for discussing something much more interesting and important: shifting responsibility for sustainability from consumers to producers.

We should be talking more about circular economies, and the futility of downcycling.
UK exports in 2017 were ~£617bn [0] meaning £9bn in arms exports represented about 1% of exports and about 0.5% of the UK economy. Personally I would not describe 0.5% as "a large part" of anything, I would describe it as "a small part", but if you think otherwise we can agree to disagree

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpay... m
Yeah... that’s a good point. Candy is probably out, but with the number of supplements and pills people take, that’s probably easier. Then of course you have the challenge of accessing them at some point, but no one said that attempting an assassination like this would be easy. More of a problem would be that if it didn’t work, and was discovered, it would be very clear that a government or similarly powerful organization was involved.

So good for secrecy, bad for deniability. All told, strangling someone and making it look like a suicide, or “helping” someone make a jump is probably still simpler and safer.
The Future of Car Sharing, and Carmakers Should Be Terrified
Sorry if I missed your point, but I fail to understand the irony here. As far as I can tell, their concern is reasonable if you take in account that a new influx o high paid employees might drive real state prices up (which in fact could benefit some people) making rents skyrocket.
The solution is to build so much real estate that we tip the balance, and make real estate unattractive to speculative investors.

The market can stay irrational for a long time. China has spent hundreds of billions on empty housing in planned cities the past few years, and they're still going due to speculative investor demand.

Let's face it: the evidence shows that the easiest and most cost effective way to deal with this problem is market-informed regulation.
It was interesting however that it showed how centralized things have gotten. It shouldn't be so hard to disconnect from a mere 5 companies!

Edit: AWS in particular was interesting because it shows how much infrastructure has come under such centralized control.
As a software developer and new father, even though I'm lucky to work in a very intellectully rewarding field, I'm starting to feel a net negative feeling about computers. I think back to the excitement of 8-year-old me with a BBC Micro and a BASIC prompt and wonder what I can help my (still very young) child to discover in a few years. Looking at the majority of software experiences available I feel some amount of dispair. Is he going to find satisfaction in a blank screen when contemporary computers are jostling for attention and employing all kinds of dark patterns to subvert mental space? Will be be as excited about putting a pixel on a screen or writing a byte on a disc when there's AR and VR, and who knows what's around the corner?

And then something like this comes along. This is something I can see us exploring together, that rewards creativity and doesn't try to impose anything. I'm so glad there are people making esoteric software with depth. Thank you, hundredrabbits.

(I've not actually tried Orca, but it looks very cool)
The most useful Postgres extension: pg_stat_statements
Apple and a lot of other major tech companies will pay for security exploits. This seams like a reasonable exchange. The kid gave Apple information about an exploit and Apple payed him for it.
Éric Lévénez has a pretty extensive family tree/genealogy of programming languages that he's maintained for a while: https://www.levenez.com/lang/

He also has a Unix history and Windows history timelines as well.
You're saying I should go live in the countryside, away from everyone? Yeah, teleconferencing is possible, but I don't know that most people would want to.

It's also impractical to build public transportation that far out (you have to build increasingly more for each mile you expand from the nearest city center; distance between angles grows as you move outward), meaning that people would be driving a LOT more (higher gas prices). Or, if you by some miracle built all that transportation, it would be expensive. And people still need to "go to town" for many supplies, so just staying there isn't practical (let alone realistic for most).
> We need u2f

U2F is not immune to phishing attacks, at least not if backup codes are being used: https://youtu.be/rPTI9e-9tBE?t=936
“Ray Tracing Gems” preprints available part by part this month
I'm having a hard time understanding the rationale of this being "Good."

It's not like forcing people to watch or listen to the ads will make them click the ads, or like the products sold in those ads. In fact, i'd suspect forcing someone who prefers not to see ads to see them anyway will most likely make them dislike the advertised products, or the service that runs those ads, so it'd be a net loss.

It that not the case? If it is, then what's point of doing this?

(Note: i pay for Spotify. I like the service, and i think providing "extra" features like being able to play exactly the songs you want, or download them is a better way of promoting the paid version than running annoying ads.)
Thank you. The entire reason we are subject to as many ads as we are is because people aren't willing to even pay $1 a month for a service that has become indispensable to their lifestyle.
Mine do no such thing. The only whitespace that gets stripped in /any/ editors I have are trailing whitespace and extra whitespace before the EOF, and that's only in certain IDEs where I have consciously enabled these options. They are disabled by default.

Removing trailing whitespace should never change the logic of a file in general, but as for YAML it certainly doesn't. And editors should never remove leading whitespace... who does that?

Can you name an offending editor as an example?
I wonder if this is a case where Facebook's past CFAA arguments will come back to bite them.

Somebody who uses an adblocker has not authorized the display of ads on their computer, and yet Facebook is bypassing the security measures the user has installed.
> Notably, it was never publicly revealed what sort of position he was offered at Google. Given Poole's natural inclination toward privacy, and in wake of the negative attention that 4chan brought to him in more recent years, it's likely that he's living contentedly as a Google employee and will be out of the public eye for good.

Chris Poole's LinkedIn says he's a PM in Google Maps: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-poole/
> Why don't rents consume all the economic growth without UBI?

They sort of do (at least in some cases; see San Francisco, New York, tons of other big cities).

> that is just as important to correct even if we don't adopt UBI. It's not, in any way, an argument against UBI.

The fact that the we need to address it doesn't mean we easily can. And doesn't mean that just blindly doing it is justified, just because there shouldn't be such a problem.
Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]
It’s a pun that falls flat. It’s about oats and soil (dirt).
I think there needs to be a specification and a framework for ID cards and how they get used with all the best practices dealt with, so that people don't have to roll their own and make mistakes in the process or overpay. These things might already exist.
Hey, just went on your site with firefox and the content was outside the screen. After digging into it a bit I found that you use "transform: scale(1.3)" on the body. It seems like firefox is positioning the element with its original dimensions and then scales the element. "transform-origin: 0 0" fixed it for me.
The page linked indicates neither that the market approach is used only for residential properties nor that a comparable use method is used for industrial/commercial properties (in fact, it explicitly says that a cost based approach is used for some industrial properties.)

The closest thing to a comparable use method listed on the page is a rental-based method, for which the example given is residential.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but your claim is certainly not supported by the only authority cited in the thread.
> 2. Nevod matches MULTIPLE patterns against document in ONE PASS. Patters/expressions are indexed by state machine and filtered effectively during matching.

This is a good idea. It's such a good idea that we did it in 2006, sold a company to Intel based around in in 2013 and open-sourced the resulting library (https://github.com/intel/hyperscan) in 2015.

All multi-pattern systems get a huge improvement over one-at-a-time regex. It would be embarrassing if they did not. Our rule of thumb for Hyperscan was that it should be about 5-10x faster than libpcre on single patterns and the gap should get progressively bigger.

I don't doubt that there is quite a bit of interesting work (entirely outside of regex - the word-based focus looks interesting) going on in this project, but the fact that you couldn't be bothered to Google around for a sensible baseline is not encouraging.

Also, which bit of your system do you think is novel enough to patent? You may find considerable prior art out there, which you don't really seem to be aware of based on how much emphasis you're placing on the not-entirely-novel idea of using a state machine.
FreeDOS 1.3 RC1
UpCodes is hiring engineers and ops to automate compliance in 3D building models
Helping Scaleups Nail a Growth-Ready Culture [Essay]
surely you guys are being overly critical.

the story is entertaining, that's all.
Apple to pay teenager who found FaceTime bug
In fact they do have the right to restrict how people use their service.

They're about to trivially prove that exact point by terminating accounts that use ad blockers.
The Document Foundation Announces LibreOffice 6.2
Raising the sales tax to 50% for non-residents wouldn't accomplish anything since the problem is that the non-residents aren't residing in NY.

Sales tax doesn't apply to real property sales, so presumably you meant to suggest a real estate tax that would only apply to non-residents...which could be trivially avoided by hiring a token caretaker to pay utility bills, turn on the lights, etc., to make the property look occupied (which is what Chinese investors have been doing since Vancouver introduced the vacant property tax.)
That is true.

However, you can pursue a culture of excellence without being rude and toxic. You can be kind and humble without coddling.

Edit - I should have added that if teenagers with computers have a good attitude, feel engaged and feel cared about, they can be extremely productive members of a team. And they have a tendency to grow into really amazing engineers (and fine people).
Not sure why anyone is in "terror". ZFS cannot be legally used with Linux. That's been clear almost from the start.

It's dead. At best it might have a few useful ideas to put into our live filesystems.
Yup. Some models of Roku apparently even shipped with the SoC used in the original Raspberry Pi.
Apple's Hardware Team Is Working on Modems That Will Likely Replace Intel
Woman here who’s frequently been in that situation.

Do you hesitate because you’ve gotten inappropriate comments when changing your appearance before? What do you expect to happen if you make such a change?
Ptr: Python Test Runner (from Facebook Open Source)
Ability != right
Accept: application/react+JSX? What prevents the web to support other mediatype?
I don't think that's how ads scale: people can spend their money only once; and the brain's working memory for stuff it sees in ads is also limited.

You can only throw so many ads to a person before conversion starts to saturate.
> Two key U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Tuesday asked Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook to answer questions about the bug, saying they were “deeply troubled” over how long it took Apple to address the security flaw.

honestly this just seems like a waste of time.
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Someone once argued to me that homeless women are much more likely to get assistance, in the form of organizations or from begging, than homeless men. Never verified but seems intuitively true
I would advocate for legal rights to use an adblocker! If we don’t, it’s going to be banned under CFAA in the future. Ads suck! Nobody has the right to force these on me!
Should OLAP databases be denormalized for read performance?
I bought a Kindle a few years ago. At the time I wasn't working regularly so didn't have much cash. As a result I didn't check the box and have ads on my Kindle.

The ads are almost entirely irrelevant but seem benign enough since they're always for other books (mostly self-published, I suspect) in the Kindle store. They're also limited to the lock screen so hardly intrusive.

It's only recently that I've occasionally considered paying the £10 (?) to get rid of them and the reason is pure vanity: I'm now (fortunate to be) in a fancy job with a fancy title and I don't want to look like a cheapskate.
I don't know if post-scarcity must mean perpetual motion machine. I'm not certain if you're familiar with the societal concept of systems collapse but it may be that attempting to do that would result in a maintenance burden that's untenable... Also I think a large chunk of NYC's value is in its people and I believe there's always going to be advantageous positioning from rarity, maybe this eventual society still has a government that has a capitol building and people congregate specifically around that... or perhaps it's more artificial - if the whole world was a city perhaps it'd get less significant and value would come from living at exactly 0' 0' or 3'14" 15'92" and so on.

I think there's a bit of innate petty jealousy in human beings so land value differentials will always exist.

But, that angle is pretty thin, so maybe I'm just stretching the argument at this point. Quite interesting to ponder!
Yeah, inheriting $50mm+ seems like more than enough to disincentivize risk and innovation.
I get that these posts are intentionally written to make it look like a 12 year old wrote them, to give you the idea that it's not too challenging to understand. But it's a bit of a false premise: children can often pick up new concepts faster than adults. In addition, you're not going to express the idea better by putting in exclamation marks, hearts and stars, but you might turn off people who aren't 12. I'm sure Julia is a wonderful engineer, but I just find this writing style grating and I give up reading them. (I have the same reaction to lots of memes splitting up posts)

That said, it's her blog, she should write them however she wants to.
This is true for math as well. Before I tried learning some trickier stats, the pages looked like arcane tablets. Now they don't. Particularly to a beginner, the difference between math you can figure out in 4 months, and math you maybe can figure out if you dedicate your next 20 years to it, often doesn't look too much different in terms of a naive person staring at symbols.
This talks about continuous authentication, which isn’t about accessing a system, but rather flagging unusual behavior for followup inspection.
Coordinate Free Vector Algebra in R2