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The pools would be bigger if there were 32 entries for the "wins the world cup" event, which any mature parimutuel implementation would have. Instead, there are 32 separate events, with two entries per. I'm not complaining about the exotics like "wins group A", although those also should have four entries rather than two.
Head to head collisions are relatively rare. You could play an entire career without getting one. Heading the ball isn't that bad, actually, and certainly doesn't happen often. Players can go through a season without ever doing it.

Either you don't watch much Football, or you don't watch much American Football. One only needs to watch a few games of each to see how violent they are. American Football has dozens of people smashing into each other (often head-first) every minute of the game.
What makes you think that judges, at the apex of their careers, appointed by the President of the United States, and with guaranteed life tenure would, instead of attempting to do their jobs in good faith, think to themselves "hurr, screw my professional reputation, let's help some other lawyers make a bunch of money?" Isn't it more likely that they just have a different view than you do on a very complicated legal topic?

Sure, they have been on a bit of a losing streak at the Supreme Court, but care to wager what percentage of the Federal Circuit's docket actually gets reversed? Hint: it is less than 0.2%. There may also be other factors at play: the federal circuit, being a specialized court, tends to be used as highly persuasive authority on IP issues in circuits throughout the country. Given this structure, there is rarely any need for the Supreme Court to resolve a split between the circuits in an IP issue, which is one of the reasons that they commonly review lower-court decisions. Given this fact, why would the Supreme Court bother to hear a correct decision of the Federal Circuit? Might it not be the case that the Supreme Court usually has little reason to review Federal Circuit decisions unless they are wrong?
Argument by analogy[1] (e.g Maven is like <insert thing that is disagreeable here>) is a lazy rhetoric style anyway. We should ban it completely. People should construct their arguments from first principals Elon Musk style. I'm only sort of kidding...

[1] : http://www.unc.edu/~theis/phil32/argsbyanalogy.html
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The issue might be that the benchmarks shown during the presentation were for iOS, and the author here might have built for OS X. The other possibility may be that the we may need to tweak the compiler settings.

I certainly don't think that Apple was outright lying in their benchmarks. Those sort of shenanigans are a PR nightmare, and nobody thinks its worth it anymore.
And this is why C++ can still be fast, even when the common STL implementations are a steaming pile performance-wise. The naturally developed style has been one-reference-only, so a lot of this never has to get done. With Objective-C, anything that isn't C is on the heap and reference counted. Even Java can allocate objects on the stack in tight loops (though this is done by the JIT, not by a change in how variables are declared).
I respectfully disagree. You can't downplay the massive indie game libraries or even AA games out there. They're not breaking records, but they make a large amount of sales.

There are several massive communities that use Monogame (even still use XNA) and Unity. It's huge in the indie community, and is basically how the XB1, PS4, and Vita expect you to make games for their systems. The Vita Tool Chain is mostly C#.

Sure, no one is writing AAA games that require maximum graphical capabilities in C#, those teams use C++ exclusively (often with a scripting language on top). At that point that is really the only language AAA games use if they are made from scratch, otherwise they are using an engine already made in C++.

Bastion, Magika, A.R.E.S., Dust, Fez, Rogue Legacy, Reus, and Terraria are just a few made in XNA/Mono. And looking at total sales amounts, some of those games definitely had revenues over a million dollars.

That's not including unity games like: Shadowrun Returns, Rust, Wasteland 2, and Hearth Stone. These games made very good amounts of money, again, not 100% AAA, but still industry veterans.
I'm thinking that this could be the perfect live in incubator.
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As someone has commented in the article most REPL environments are not sandboxed so I wouldn't consider this a requirement.

But yes, don't download and blindly run random Swift scripts...
> If I'm incorrect about my assumptions of the rules I'm happy to be corrected.

Nope. Spot on.
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I really wouldn't go so far as saying teach whatever you want (I teach CS in high school), but in Australia as well I get industry PD sessions where we get fed totally unrealistic expectations for the level most teenagers are operating at.
Why I'm not excited about Swift
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Every time some one does a study they find they're under reported in every sport. They might be more underreported in football but its also under more scrutiny so its hard to say who knows how the reporting rates compare.
> the latter of which are neutered now

Only if you're talking about Rugby League.
All the vowels in Navajo can have a hook under them (indicated nasal tone) and an acute accent above them (indicating higher pitch). The "ł" is not pronounced as in Polish. It is a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative. Try to pronounce l and s at the same time and you'll be in the right ball park. Navajo vowels also come in long and short duration; a doubled vowel means long. (I know all of this because I designed a font for Navajo in the early 90s, while working on the Navajo reservation. I don't know if it ever got much use, though I once saw a children's book typeset in it. Most of my friends who spoke Navajo did not read the language, probably because there wasn't enough written in Navajo to make it worth while for those who had learned to speak it growing up to learn to read it as well.)

Edit: I didn't comment on ń. According to "An Introduction to the Sound System of Navajo," by Ken Hale and Lorraine Honie (MIT unpublished ms), "the sequences /ní/ and /ni/, when occurring before consonants, are often pronounced without the vowel; instead, the nasal becomes syllabic and carries the tone originally carried by the vowel. When this happens, the tone mark is transferred to the nasal -- thus /ní/ is written [ń]; in the case of low-toned /ni/, a special tone mark [`] is used for the syllabic nasal..." I was excited to find all of this unpublished material from the late Ken Hale here: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/nla/halearch/halea...
The power source is immaterial. Industrial-scale smelting produces CO2 at the point of production.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall-H%C3%A9roult_process
Photos of the keys? Bad idea.
I once saw a detailed analysis of skeuomorphic credit card input, and it turns out the general population is less likely to fail on a non-moving credit card input box, largely because of difficulties with entering the CVC code. This combines both the skeuomorphic nature of Skeuocard by Ken Keiter (http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/) with the simplicity of creditcardJS (creditcardjs.com). I love it!
The county’s request for interest in Wapato Jail – the latest development in the years-long search for ways to unload the never-used 168,420-square-foot facility – went up May 2 and closes at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Why do news outlets never report these things until the time period has almost expired? Not that I had any ideas I wanted to submit, but it seems like the media has a deliberate policy of holding back news stories until a deadline has almost arrived in order to manufacture a sense of urgency about the story.l I see this all the time with requests for comment on public policy and suchlike - mainstream news outlets don't bother to mention it to the public until the time is almost expired, creating the impression that bureaucrats were trying it sneak it past the public.
Though, it'll need a paint job.
These tests are meaningless without comparing the produced assembly (maybe the obj-c compiler is very well optimized since they've been doing that for quite a while now) and even then these microscopic tests don't really tell you much about performance in real scenarios. Swift has the advantage, as far as performance goes, that methods are not dispatched dynamically. In obj-c, every single time you call a method, you call objc_msgSend which executes at least 12 (IIRC) additional instructions (or more, depending on the situation). Plus as far as I know, not all objects are heap allocated which will also make things faster.
One could argue that the large difference in sample sizes (more than fivefold) justifies scale manipulation to bring the variances into line, but it doesn't appear to me that the author normalized on variance at all (the axis should be something like 800-2000).
or c) the presenter slipped it in at the last minute on his own accord.
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* Looks Good
* Complains a Lot
* Demands My Attention
* Interrupts Me When I'm Working
* Doesn't Play Well With My Other Friends
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Agreed. We got a long way to go. Remember Rome, the Empire, lived on for some 500 years. And that's not counting the Eastern Empire after the first sack. And Rome was sacked a few times.

When you see local gangs taking control of areas of the country (in some cases printing their own money) we've arrived.
>>Also, you can use the standard trick of decreasing the maximum single-register size and using the extra bits to identify indirect objects.

That's given, you still pay the price (like mask/shift), though. That was the part the "languages like C/C#/Java have it easier" about. The point is mostly that even if built-in support (interrupts) exist in the hardware, bignums still need quite a lot of extra code in-place, plus a good optimizing/inilining compiler.

Personally I am happy with constrained integer types - else the entire stack (incl. storage) must support bignums and often (like almost always) going out of range would be a bug actually.
NASA should do something worthwhile with the budget they have.

Not start on grand projects just to see that they can't be finished.

Asteroids are extremely interesting and varied and they tie to a huge amount of open ended strategies because of the low gravity wells.

NASA should concentrate on its core value additive capabilities, and use commercial services for things that are available.

Human space operations is one of these core competencies.
I made similar tests with optimization and saw similar numbers. Without optimization it was significantly worse.
What you seem to want is a Software Engineering degree. They exist. Hire people with those degrees if that's what you're looking for.

My CS degree was about 50/50 CS and programming. I felt is was a good balance, but there was still tons I needed to learn on the job. I'd never done web dev outside of that one weekend I checked out codecademy. I'd never set up a web server or pulled a repo from github or any of the other things you'd want me to be able to do in industry, because they weren't a part of my education. I did write a tcp/ip server from scratch, make Roombas write things, and the like, because those were part of my education, but none of that has come in handy in my current job.

There's a real divide between what education is and what industry leaders think it should be. It has never been and likely will never be about churning out job-ready young adults with all the skills industry wants. That's vocational school, not university. Don't confuse the two.
Thank you for re-explaining the concept, this was much clearer! :)
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We might be missing something here and I think ultimately Swift will be faster than Obj-C but it does highlight it's probably not wise to just start blindly converting all your code to Swift just yet until we get a better feel for what it's good (and not) good at.

Also with the fact that Apple says they will be breaking code as time goes on I'll also be on the Swift sideline for now.

Edit: Why are people finding this comment so offensive ?
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Potential mergers and acquisitions take up a lot of time and resources on both sides -- gathering information, legal fees, meetings, etc. Plus, due diligence is a huge distraction from the normal course of business. The breakup fee protects T-Mobile in case the deal falls through. Smart move.
Method dispatch tends to not be a major factor in ObjC performance.
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Atlassian developer apologizes to "all getting offended" by his sexist joke
Actually it was mid-00s. And they were right.

(You might be conflating the startup community with the open source community of the late nineties, members of which did say that Linux was to "soon" overtake Windows in the desktop).
Ok so I won't be writing engine code necessarily in Swift. Or servers. But I'm not sure that's what it's for in the first place.

How about user facing apps? Haven't we been through this a billion times on language of choice for job. Java, python, php etc. Each has a use. For a lot of what Swift will probably and should be used for I don't see this being an issue that hasn't already been beaten to death.
And they'll still throttle his data speed after the first 2 gigabytes.
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I've heard this argument before. But Bush really was different. Nixon resigned. Clinton was impeached (and eventually apologized) for lying about Lewinski. Kennedy never had a chance to answer for Vietnam, nor FDR for internment.

I don't know about Hoover, but my sense was that the presidents under which he worked could not have removed him even if they wanted to.

Bush was innovative not because he lied, or cheated, or did vile things as President, but because he chose to believe that he was right, no matter what anyone said, or the reasons they gave, or the arguments they made. He simply refused to accept facts that interfered with his own viewpoint, and incredibly this worked. He hacked a system that relies on powerful wrong-doers to cooperate with the prosecution to be effective. It's a kind of extra-legal 5th amendment right reserved for captains of industry and state.

As for Obama, I'd argue that as our first black President he's been swept up by the momentum of his predecessor, and has had to take very careful steps lest he lose the support of the Bush-era bureaucrats. Is James Clapper above executing an American coup? Clearly not, and Obama knows it. In essence, Bush created a 21st century, high-tech, distributed Hoover that's impossible to kill or even moderate, especially by a weak president.

Heaven help us all.
I think more than anything, research like this proves that if a particular type of Object, no matter how bizarre-sounding, is not ruled out by theory, then it will be eventually found in the Universe somewhere.

The Interstellar drives cannot get here fast enough! What else is out there?
Well, you need only need 1 camera for lateral tracking, but I believe you need at least 2 cameras for depth tracking. Possibly a third for eye tracking and a fourth for Skype.
Hah, I knew who the author was going to be before I even clicked the article. (Hi, binarybits!) Allow me to rebut some points:

1. If anything is to be blamed for the "explosion of patent litigation in recent years" (for certain values of "recent"), it's the following:

a) the recent AIA "joinder" rules regarding how many defendants you can sue together, forcing trolls to file multiple suits where they would have filed one giant suit; and

b) Genentech v Medimmune [1], which made it possible for potential licensees to file a pre-emptive "Declaratory Judgement" lawsuit if someone even approached them to discuss a license, which forced licensors to take sue-first-ask-questions-later attitude to avoid ending up in a defensive position.

2. As this patentlyo post [2] points out, the CAFC is not a single-minded group of judges. Most of the decisions that were reverted by the Supreme Court had CAFC judges with dissenting opinions. (As many as 5, as in the Limelight case.) And if you need data as opposed to examples, well, there's a study [3] finding that this court had the "second highest percentage of dissents amongst the circuits studied".

Further, since Bilski, the SC has agreed with the CAFC 7 out of 13 times [2], which is not too bad. But there's more: the TFA uses this link [4] to show that the Supreme Court reversed the CAFC 10 times. Somehow TFA does not mention that there were a total of 40 cases since the CAFC was formed, which indicates that the Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Circuit decision 75% of the time!

3. The Supreme Court is not infallible, especially when it comes to patents, because I'm guessing it is a relatively esoteric part of law. This patentlyo post [5] points out one potential error in the Limelight case. The Prometheus decision was another example where they actually conflated patent eligibility with patentability [6, 7, 8]. This is such a basic mistake that even a non-lawyers like us can understand it.

4. Recent empirical evidence indicates that the Federal Circuit is no more "patent friendly" than district courts [9]. In fact, if you look at the chart 2, the rate of invalidating patents has been increasing steadily since 2000. (To be fair, they theorize it's because of Supreme Court pressure.) But if you look at chart 4, the CAFC has consistently been affirming the district courts findings of invalidity the vast majority of the time. So no only does the Supreme Court agree with the CAFC more often than not, so do the district courts.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedImmune,_Inc._v._Genentech,_I....

2. http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/06/federal-circuit-really.h...

3. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1598419

4. http://writtendescription.blogspot.com/p/patents-scotus.html

5. http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/06/judicial-hypothetical-li...

6. http://inventivestep.net/2012/03/20/supreme-court-continues-...

7. http://www.boulwarevaloir.com/article-Mayo-Promethus-pub.pdf

8. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/03/31/missed-opportunities-fo...

9. http://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/Smyth_USPatentInvalidity_Sep...
Much more than other sports? No, I don't think so. Modern concussion tracking studies take baseline cognitive measurements and then periodically re-measure throughout the year, regardless of whether the player reports an injury.

Somebody ran a survey where they looked for replies that indicated "probable" concussions that were unreported, and they found

> The sports with the most unreported concussions were women’s soccer (24%), men’s football (21%), field hockey (13%), and cheerleading (10%).

http://www.sportsmedres.org/2014/02/unrecognized-concussion-...

I don't believe those numbers are normalized for the number of concussions, and in any case would indicate that women soccer players were slightly less likely than football players to report a concussion conditional on having one.

As for "unrecognized" concussions (i.e. the athlete gave a reply on the survey that sounded like maybe they had a concussion) they say

> The sports with highest potentially unrecognized concussions were football (55%), cheerleading (50%), and cross-country (28%).

which to me means you can't trust this survey at all. Whatever they're interpretting as an "unrecognized" concussion, it happens as often in cheerleading and over half as often in cross-country.

On the other hand, if you want a human interest piece, you can go read skierscott's link to the NYTimes blog post about how all those football players are toughing out brain damage....
> I would assume his talk must have been approved internally in some way or form (unless any employee was able to give any talk they wanted without any form of supervision, in which case there's a deeper problem here).

I would detest working at such a place; having to run my technical presentations through a filter would be constricting and off putting.

Unless given by a person in the marketing department, I would never assume a presentation made by an employee reflected the values aims or goals of the company as a whole.

> why wasn't this terrible "joke" cut out from the slides months ago? Why, when the guy was preparing his talk, presumably rehearsing it in front of his coworkers, sending the PDF of the slide to organizers of the event, etc., did no one speak up and say "Dude, that slide is sexist and doesn't add anything of value to your talk - just remove it"?

pfffft, I'm lucky if I've created my decks the day before the presentation.
It's not unusual to go to a conference/event and find half the speakers writing decks in the hours before.
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>Moving on to the Empire, you don't see soldiers assassinating the president (or members of Congress) because they want higher pay.

Perhaps because that's not how politics is played in the 21st century in a Western country.

That doesn't necessarily mean the decline is not there -- it could be just as big as Rome's but different. For one it wont have much to do with "babaric hordes".
The author seems to argue that these benchmarks disprove that Swift is fast. While I have no interest in Swift whatsoever, I'm unswayed by a few tight loop, simple benchmarks. It would be interesting to compare larger programs that are part of cpu-bound computations.
There is an HN style job board. Not sure if they're charging to be on it (yet).
It'd be interesting to see how Objective-C would compare to Swift with ARC enabled. For the majority of us, who use ARC in our projects, these benchmarks don't mean a whole lot.
Hmmm...he was talking about his girlfriend not women in general. Who are we to contest his relationship? Maybe she is pretty. Maybe she does complain a lot. That's his choice to be with her. I don't see the problem. Certainly not a sexist slide. If his girlfriend is pretty and complains then it's factual.
Wait, seriously?

First off; technicalities: he didn't say "Maven is all women". He said "My girlfriend". Presumably referring to a specific person. His girlfriend has the right to be pissed off, I suppose.

Second off, if mild gender stereotypes are worth so much hate you might as well cancel every sitcom on TV.
I met Mike Cannon-Brookes at an event that I attended some time ago and I happened to have a reasonably lengthy and interesting chat to him about - amongst other things - the culture at Atlassian. It happened to be the same week when GitHub had that PR disaster related to the apparently inappropriate treatment of one of their staff. I discussed this issue with Mike and asked if Atlassian had a similar view on the efficacy of the flat company structure that Valve, GitHub, et al espouse. He said that no, this was not the case at Atlassian because he felt that this kind of flat structure contributed to a poorer culture in the long run.

Obviously no one and no company is perfect and this story is a case in point, but I came away from that conversation with a much higher opinion of Atlassian than I had previously. It certainly seemed to me that Mike was serious about trying to cultivate a good culture at Atlassian and he also seemed like a genuine, no bullshit kind of guy.

I've also happened to have dealings of the professional networking/information exchange kind with one of the staff at Atlassian and was again impressed by how helpful that person was and the way they conducted themselves.

So in my anecdotal but first person experience, I would say that the culture at Atlassian is probably above par when compared to other similarly sized companies.