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Actually, Clojure improves the "Java experience" by quite a bit. As an example, leiningen as a build tool is quite usable, and it doesn't take much work to get a working (yes, also from the command line) application.

As for the JVM "just breaking", I can't agree with that. The JVM is an impressive piece of engineering and I'm very glad I can make use of it in Clojure, rather than deal with half-baked attempts at building yet another VM (reference counting, anyone?).
What are some good examples of a vendor implementation that has divergent behavior that affects users negatively?
I thought research was funded through grants and sports was self funding?
Meanwhile, Coursera has 677 courses available for free, many of them excellent. You don't get the diploma, but if the diploma is backed by lower-quality classes and grade inflation, that's going to matter less and less.
Have been meaning to read that, and just borrowed it from the library on your suggestion. Thanks!
Wouldn't this not effect anything if you fly over 500ft AGL?
Pretty cool. There's been a push to make HTML run everywhere, but this proves you can make X run on HTML.

Maybe someday we'll code apps in Objective-C/Java that run in the browser, all inside a canvas.
What exactly does this do? Does it crawl my social networks for pictures, videos, and links? Please add more information, a demo, or a video to the landing page. Also, the background is straining my eyes.
New open-source router firmware opens your Wi-Fi network to strangers
And Numpy! And ctypes (for Matplotlib)!

Although I must say, numpypy is quite usable already!
Penultimate sentence:

But we’ll also be more able to import changes from LibreSSL and they are welcome to take changes from us. We have already relicensed some of our prior contributions to OpenSSL under an ISC license at their request and completely new code that we write will also be so licensed.
I found that pretty startling, so I googled and found this article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-14/small-u-s-colleges-...
I agree that the company owns the laptop, but also that they own any inventions ever mentioned, worked on, or accessed from it. If you're working on your own projects, make sure you offer a list of inventions dating the creation of any intellectual property you don't want your company to claim rights to.
Excellent. I've been waiting for this for a long time.
Pluto's basic algorithm was implemented in ISL, and can be used by graphite. There are patches to do it. The optimizer i last remember in graphite was very basic. So you'd see much much larger speedups if you used pluto

Graphite in GCC is, AFAIK, semi-abandoned. The research and future work was moved to Polly and LLVM (at least, most of the developers were hired and put to work on it). I don't know who still develops graphite for GCC, if anyone.

In Polly, Polly supports both the ISL version of the algorithm and actually, linking to Pluto, but i don't have any performance numbers handy.

"With that out of the way, "can be" is a very weak statement. Almost anything "can be", what matters more is "does it now".
"

IMHO, not really. Sure, in the sense that it's not useful if nobody ever does it. But if this was the performance problem a lot of people were having, it'd be fixed. So in that sense, it matters a lot more what can be.
AFAIK Bors doesn't use any github integration, it behaves as a user (and I'm pretty sure its messages are too complex to go through the statuses API and result in anything other than unreadable garbage)
I agree on principle. Many of us still have emotional baggage from the days of 95% IE market share, where the web really, REALLY sucked.

But nowadays, I see it as, multiple companies have a vested financial interest (including MS with their new leadership) to ensure that browsers are very powerful.

Even Apple, with iOS 8 has enabled 3rd party devs to have a full speed browser now with a JIT'd JS engine. They are simply not doing this from a position of weakness. There are no market forces. There's nobody out there saying "I won't use iOS because it only has Safari." Yet they still did it.

Your mobile platform won't succeed today unless it has a powerful browser built in, apps or not.
We're closer than you think!

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8eo4RlPw4
"I strongly suspect what you saw in this paper was Samsung's[1] auto-trim "

Yes, that was the reason for picking that drive (the research budget for the project was a mere $500!), since I was pretty confident the effect might show up from it.

However, it was a lucky guess that it would show up in the presence of a write blocker and in the time frame of a forensic investigation (normally the first thing that happens is they quickly copy the disk), since those are unusual constraints.

I think I prefer to call the technology the same as the manufacturer's name: idle garbage collection - since TRIM has a clear meaning in this context, and the drive is not automatically generating TRIM commands and it doesn't behave exactly as though the O/S had issued them either (e.g. most but not all gets wiped). Hope we can agree to disagree on that one!

Thanks for your comment
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There are some JSConf US 2014 videos online.
Meritt,
ignore DCF's - they are utterly useless in the tech / venture world, especially at the stage you're at. Look at it more as "what value are you providing to the firm" - everyone and their grandmother will claim that its strategic (ergo, justifying high valuations with non basis in financial reality), but very few can pull that off. Failing that is if you can show how valuable you can be to that firm - ie, to use a simple example, if using your approach can provide them with a 5% uplift on their typical sale). Otherwise, its an opportunity cost thing for you - what is your logical upside at a more mature stage, and what is your self-perceived probability of getting there? You don't have to sell, which makes it very powerful.
Is poaching really an issue in USA? Honest question. Doesn't seem too common https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e... More plants and trees than animals.
That would be a sad day.
Layers upon layers of complexity, abstraction, technologies, etc.

Please make it easier. More simple.
Yeah, I linked to Neverwet in the post. The video demos are amazing although in practice I hear that the coating fades pretty quickly. But it's cool to see commercial applications of superhydrophobic surfaces.
Most SMW ROM hacks are built with the assumption that the user will use save states, which dramatically offsets the execution difficulty.
Did you just decide to blatantly ignore the first 6 words of your quote?
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It begs the question "where the hell is my tuition going?"

I was taking at a private "degree mill" part time classes at $180 per credit hour. The school required 7 students to teach a 4 credit class during normal hours. So at the minimum number of students the school was just making enough money for overhead... Most clases were 10-15 students. It was a private school, so tuition covered almost all their bills, no state funding.

Now ask where sutdents in State Funded Colleges money is going when there are 50 students (and more!) in a class? Where the hell is the undergrad tuition money going if the school only pays "minimum wage" for adjunct or grad school staff?? Where is State and Federal dinging going if Undergrads are paying more than their share of the university bills? It's not gping to TEACHING... And it's not going to "student contact" professors either, and its not "healthcare" or "retirement"... There's a giant money hole in the system.
Not exactly true:

http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Ar...
Amazon should learn one or two things with the FED (Federal Reserve Bank). Printing so many Amazon Coins and giving them for free means diluting the value of the apps on their own store from day one. Good one Amazon.
I get the complaints about noise and potential danger. Some of these drones are potentially lethal! When I'm flying my drone, I am always very careful to look for areas without unaware bystanders and where I won't be a nuisance. For the more advanced drones being built and bought today, they typically use an autopilot with a GPS and barometric sensor to assist hovering and positioning. If any part of the system fails, it can very easily come crashing down or even worse, become a "fly-away" and land who-knows-where.

Given these issues, I do understand the reasoning behind the ban. At the same time, I cringe because it will likely be years before one will be able to get a permit to fly in a national park again, and given some of the footage I've shot so far from my drone, I would have loved the opportunity to shoot locations to which I couldn't walk or hike.

If you want to see an example of what one of them looks like and what they can do, take a look here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDF3-35aekk
This doesn't invalidate the OP's message in a meaningful way, but if you're interested in the opening anecdote, a reporter from Slate delved deep into the circumstances of Ms. Vojtko and found a more complex story than one just of woe: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/education/20...
Sweet. Hi! This is an odd place to bump into you. :)

I agree with your thoughts that this could be a consequence of coating the top surface in the waxy needles. However, I think it's actually somewhat unusual for a leaf to be superhydrophobic on the top and bottom, so I was wondering if there was some specific advantage to this leaf. Also, the needles on the under-side seemed far more dense than those on top, which was interesting.
They'd have to support it on the PC as well. I suppose it's more of an attack surface.
It's funny how you think you know what this person needs or "owes" himself.
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In 2010, Faber Novel did a study on marketing your app to get into the app store. So much of it seemed to revolve around timing of launch:http://www.slideshare.net/misteroo/how-to-market-your-app.

I also summarized it in a quick article: http://readwrite.com/2010/02/17/iphone-appstore-ranking-algo...

Newer answers welcome. Sorry, I haven't kept up with this as much as I should.
I can't recommend Redline13 (https://www.redline13.com) highly enough. They act as a service that coordinates load testing using instances within your own AWS account.

Really easy to use, and I can run tests that used to cost upwards of $5,000 for under $5. I don't know how they aren't better known amongst DevOps types.
"Transatomic Power has greatly improved the molten salt concept, while retaining its significant safety benefits. The main technical change we make is to change the moderator and fuel salt used in previous molten salt reactors to a zirconium hydride moderator, with
a LiF - based fuel salt. During operation the fuel in the salt is primarily uranium. Together, these components generate a neutron spectrum that allows the reactor to run using fresh uranium fuel with enrichment levels as low as 1.8% U-235, or using the entire actinide component of spent nuclear fuel (SNF). Previous molten salt reactors such as the ORNL Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE)
relied on high-enriched uranium, with 33% U-235 [1]. Enrichments that high would raise proliferation concerns if used in commercial nuclear power plants."

From their white paper here: http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf
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Good point on how the pay problem for adjunct faculty is intertwined with the "everyone gets a trophy" problem for students:

> “I knew the instructor was an adjunct, and that she taught at several places to cobble together a living. I told the students that she was an adjunct, and that the class was easy because she was afraid of losing her job.” Adjuncts are often evaluated solely based on student evaluations. As Rebecca Schuman put it in her Slate article “Confessions of a Grade Inflator,” “popularity is the only thing keeping them employed.”
We have special hardware that syncs our servers to an atomic clock in Colorado. It's about +/- microseconds off. Not sure about sub microsecond tho. Another problem with this is you will run into clock drift and NTP time adjustment bugs. Honestly I stopped reading once he mentioned that time was going to be his secret sauce. There are just too many subtle issues with using that as your globally unique identifier.
It is very difficult to take seriously an article that can't distinguish between "space shuttles" and "rockets".
More importantly, even if a compiler does optimize that, you can't rely on that: next version of the compiler could have slightly different conditions that trigger the optimization and your code could run 5x slower for no obvious reason.
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The problem is that "software" and "mathematical algorithm" are two terms for the same thing.

No they're not, at all. Software, as the name implies, is a commodity, which typically includes textual and graphical elements for human interaction and which interacts with multiple different mechanical and electronic subsystems. You might as well argue that mechanisms involving gears are not patentable because their behavior is expressible as a set of mathematical ratios. I'm certainly not in favor of all software patents or even software patents in general, but this notion that program = mathematical algorithm needs to die off.

Some hackers are always going on about how the judiciary fails to understand software, while assuming erroneously that they themselves have a perfect understanding of law.
> but you'd have to serve at least the HTML as well as every piece of JavaScript (not just the crypto

You are right.

> which doesn't leave too much room for other stuff.

Well... HTML and JS can be light and static. Backend stuff is what might require multiple servers, databases and lots of people involved.

> And why not just do the crypto server-side on that smaller, more protected server then?

Because you'd have to pass all of the data that you wan't to secure through it. Besides server-side crypto is surely more complicated and would need more people involved especialy with large volume of data than just serving static files.
Launch is scheduled for 15:08 PDT. (18:08 EDT)

EDIT: Launch has been pushed back an hour, to 16:01 PDT. (19:01 EDT)
It's very clear where it's going. The number of administrative staff at colleges and universities have skyrocketed in the past 30 years.

Just like in the corporate world, corruption and the proliferation of unnecessary management have sucked revenue to the top.

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/08/colleges_are_full_of_it_behi...
Play targets this exact pain point in Java. The "I want to script stuff easily in a text editor not an IDE and by invoking from the command line and/or by loading a web page without a compilation and deployment step" case.

Here's the manual page for calling an HTTPS service [1]. You just call WS.url("https://example.com").get(). And if it's a self-signed certificate then it's more or less one line in a config file to add it. That's about as easy as it gets short of deliberately making HTTPS insecure.

My experience: I very quickly evolved beyond this case and prefer the robustness of standard Java with the convenience of a bundle like Dropwizard [2]. Dropwizard packages up and glues together various best-of-breed libraries for building services. That was the real pain point for me, not so much having to use an IDE.

[1] http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.3.x/WSQuickStar...

[2] http://dropwizard.io
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Sorry I wasn't clear, I just measured the scan time, after loading and sorting the arrays.
>“The caseworker paused and asked with incredulity, ‘She was a professor?’ I said yes. The caseworker was shocked; this was not the usual type of person for whom she was called in to help.”

So it is unusual now, but it is going to become more common in the future?

> So adjuncting is decidedly not a middle-class job. But it does sound like one, probably because, before the adjunct bubble, it was.

..."Professor" sounds like a middle-class job. I'm not in academia, but when I was in college in the 90's, adjunct sounded like a grad student on a stipend.
> she isn't even actually saying

Why not go with "they aren't even actually saying" rather than the faux-affirmative-action sexism of using "she" there? This really grates with me, even more so when used with traditionally male-dominated roles, such as physicists or system administrators. Yes, you're freaking out the squares with your right-on craziness, but it's really rather childish. If you (100% rightly) want to be non-sexist, use a gender-neutral phrase, such as in my example above.
At my computer science university (private university with HQ based in France) in downtown San Francisco, teachers were paid between 100$ and 300$ / hr, which I find decent.

100$ was mostly for teachers with not much experience, mostly students that graduated last year and were helping out as teachers.
I've used them for years. Compared with all the other ISPs they are awesome
There was a free channel/game thing on the Wii where they'd give you a theme ("Pilgrim", "Mean boss", etc) and you submitted a Mii that fit that theme. It was pretty neat to see what people came up with.
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Mozilla's Firefox OS Chromecast equivalent
Not if you're tired of OpenBSD's "fund us to make it work for other platforms" screed.
The new homepage still has a grid, it's just that the four main elements now have one full width column. I'm glad you wrote this post because it encourages people to think before arbitrarily breaking things up into a grid.
Using the APIs, it gives you ability to search and discover photos, videos, and audio from your social networks authenticated with the site. Users can then hand pick their favorite media and organize it collections.

Functionally it's similar to pinterest but with a broader range content.

Thank you for the feedback!
Right, you don't need the script as long as it's an executable jar, it will run fine with:

java -jar Product.jar

If there are any native libraries then they need to be built into the jar, you could do one jar or one for each platform.
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I thought that the main point of the article was about memory locality. If that is so, then the kind of pointer (auto vs. shared) is a distraction, isn't it? (My experiment was intended to be about locality only.)
OTOH, he had the power to make them play nice.

From Isaacson's book: he closely controlled all of his teams and pushed them to work as one cohesive and flexible company, with one profit-and-loss bottom line. “We don’t have ‘divisions’ with their own P&L,” said Tim Cook. “We run one P&L for the company.”
Then again, there are countless websites which fail to outperform a comparable desktop app written in C++ 15 years ago, on today's powerful computers, which is sad.
I read an interview recently where Ray Bradbury said Fahrenheit 451 was never a story about censorship or McCarthyism. It was about television not being a substitute for literature. It fills us with useless information and could be used as channel for state sponsored indoctrination. Come to think of it, I think he also talked about it creating a society where everyone is a minority and political correctness reaches the point of absurdity. Books must be burned because they will always offend someone. Replace “television” with “Internet” and it becomes frighteningly prophetic.

While you were describing how the Internet effects context, I couldn’t help but keep wondering how this is any different than anything ever written down throughout history. Anytime someone puts pen to paper, or now types a key, are they not giving up a bit of that ability to control context? That has weighed heavily in my mind and kept me from clicking enter on at least half of the posts or comments I have begun to write online.

Whose job is it to convey context? I wish we could rely on the media or journalists to inject that proper context you speak of. I find myself dwelling far too often on whether or not there should be some kind of journalistic standards or oversight for the news. We have it for medicine and other public services or things that could harm our well-being. Should people be held accountable for the information they put out in the world, especially if they are claiming to be delivering news? But that borders far to closely to censorship for my taste, and I back away from the thought.

I think the only way to maintain proper context is for people to develop stronger critical thinking skills. People must have a properly maintained sense of skepticism. We need to be able to read something and understand that there is history, context and complexities to it. I’m honestly not sure most people even understand the concept of context. The answer laid in front of us, whatever is the easiest explanation, usually seems to win. It’s easier to assume Edward Snowden is a traitor who took refuge in Russia because, of course. Who cares why he actually ended up in Russia, he is there now so that’s the story.

I put it with what you said about wisdom, it’s important to be able to understand and accept that there are countless points of view. Ultimately, I think the responsibility falls on the recipient, because you should never assume someone is setting the context properly for you. Far too often the media seems to not want to deliver any proper context, and they actively work to misrepresent the author. And I couldn’t agree more that this is likely a predictable consequence of capitalism.
Good luck with the sponsorship, the Kickstarter is a good way to 'Kick Start' the sponsorship conversation if you are able to get people ponying up.

It must also be possible to do an event in a cycling arena and sell tickets. Manchester in the UK springs to mind.

One thing about forums is that people are honest about their feelings, really useful feedback comes when things are not varnished. People might not be right, initial feelings might need to be re-adjusted. Initially I did not feel the project belonged on Kickstarter, now I think it does!!!
I thought Fur Fighters did this quite well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_Fighters
I figured this, and I'm less impressed with the particular run than I am with the design of the level. Everything fits together in just oh-so-perfect ways that make it deviously hard.
A few thoughts

1) even if a basic income disproportionately helps the otherwise low-income part of society, it seems more "fair". Instead of calling it welfare or charity, with the implication that those who receive it are living off the backs of others, and are themselves lazy, it's just something everyone receives.

2) If the hypothetical couple's total expenses are $15k/month, and they can't gear down their lifestyle to $5k/month before running out of savings, I'd propose they weren't really living responsibly. $5k/month is enough to subsist, albiet not luxuriously, in pretty much any part of the U.S.

The alternative is going from $15k/mo. to $0/mo. That extra $5k could either keep a family solvent.

3) even if it merely delays the inevitable, that might be good enough. If expenses are absolutely fixed, but if a basic income allows a person 12 months to find/create a new job in a rough economy, instead of 6, or 3 or none, that's likely to be a success.