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Netflix fails to offer many titles with the full high bitrate DTS-MA audio track that is available via popcorntime. Even for discs (not streaming), popcorntime wins on quality.

Netflix claims they are just using the product made available to them since the content publishers issue "rental-only" discs with inferior quality product. Apparently Netflix lacks the buying power to influence the quality of product they can make available to their customers.
And Stockholm Syndrome victims just get kidnapped by people who turn out to be right after all.
What Salesforce Has Up Its Sleeve
Engine.IO and Socket.IO for Haskell
Typo in this sentence: However, it is also possible - in contrast to generators - to iterate over those multiple times if needed, it is aonly not so efficient.
There are backups and there are backups.

For some people, like yourself, archiving backup is the one true backup, while others make do with rolling hourly/daily/weekly backups or even something as rudimentary as copy-pasting folders by hand. Ideally, yes, everyone should be doing versioned backups to a zfs storage cluster. In practice, no, lots of people have just enough motivation to get an external drive and start making copies onto it.

That said, I am planning to add versioning and I am looking at adopting git's packfiles for that purpose. The idea basically is to use an open format for storing archived versions, so not to lock in the users. This is in its early stages, so it may or may not work out.
I agree - the whole 'natural food' thing is a confused mess. Nothing natural about the foods we eat - and a good thing too! Nature doesn't care about our health. Organisms have been competing for millennia for advantages. If a tree's seed sprouted better from your warm dead body, then that tree would happily poison you.

In fact foods we eat in nature can be regarded as those that kill us too slowly to notice - we avoid the others.

And cultivated crops are those we've bred to have less and less of the undesirable parts. We've inserted ourselves into the plants' genetic path for mutual benefit - we plant millions of them, and they feed us.

To eat truly 'natural' you'd have to eat things like crab-apples (grainy and bad ph - eat more than one and get a stomach ache) or tiny barely-sweet melons etc. Melons a thousand years ago were barely larger than an orange, with a couple of tablespoons' worth of edible parts. Thank the Arabs for breeding the mutant freaks we enjoy today!
Glitch: A Live Programming Model
Israel's Iron Dome intercepts rockets fired from Gaza
Sorry, I just find your argument without any merit. Contrary to your claim, Tesla does compete directly with BMW, for the same sales dollars, in the same part of the market, providing a solution to the same audience, and even segment, and in the same problem space. If we can't agree on even the definition of "compete", it's unlikely that we can further each other's understanding.

Also, the idea that 'if they succeed' (not a quote) then " this will only diminish returns in the industry as whole so will be anyway bad investment" (your comment) is just contrary to the experience of any other startup that succeeds.

It's just bad economics. I would question whether you've ever seen a successful startup - there is no shame in saying you haven't. But if you want to contribute meaningfully, then IMHO I would look into some.

Sorry if I'm blunt.
Yes. But in that case, GitHub would likely fight an obviously fraudulent copyright claim, as it would wreck their business.

They're not hurt at all by popcorntime going down.
That's a straw man. He's been interviewed, has he made any claims of being brainwashed? No in fact he continues to pursue the limelight.
They won the battle, but they will never win the war!
When we get our fuel from trees, we've created space for new trees to grow. In contrast, when our fuel is coal, gas or oil, eventually we run of of places to plant trees (or we run out of the whatever is the scarcest nutrient for the trees).

This is the basis for the claim that burning trees is friendlier to the environment than burning fossil fuels is.

I am NOT pushing the claim, just pointing out that you have not yet successfully refuted the claim.
Once had a job interview at a software consulting company. They had a number of finished projects for high profile customers and they claimed that they use AOP for their projects. Turned down the offer though because I didn't like the people too much. ;)
Well yeah, if they were to buy made-in-russia processors. Which is very unlikely.
> Lastly, county governments (which are the most substantial government players in South Florida) will begin to experience issues because their expensive properties closest to the water are the biggest contributors to the tax base. As those low lying areas are flooded more frequently, there is a very real possibility that the value of all the mansions lining the streets and canals drop.

This can't be overstated. There is no state income tax in Florida. Property tax and tourism-related taxes are major sources of income for municipal organizations in FL. As these go, so goes the funding for public entities.
Sure, and Weeks is totally correct regarding tree vs. flat representations, but I think identifying CPS with the former and SSA with the latter is misleading. The scoping discipline (respectively, dominator tree) is part of the language whether you represent it as subtrees or leave it implicit.

It would be more accurate to say that SSA is a particularly efficient data structure for representing a subset of CPS terms.
Of course, muscle requires more food to maintain than fat does. I think you missed the point.

What I was saying was that merely building muscle doesn't do much in terms of cutting down body fat. Muscle burns calories, but people with more muscle also tend to eat more calories. This is even true of people who have extraordinary quantities of muscle.

Cardio, on the other hand, only works that way up to a point. People who do a bit of running also tend to compensate by eating more. However, after a certain level of volume, cardio starts to suppress the appetite to about what's needed to maintain the workload. This is probably why I've never seen anyone, including myself, manage to keep the weight on after getting over about 70 miles/week (about the level of an ambitious high school cross-country runner).
You're missing the point. They aren't doing it for commercial success. You don't have to compete with Qualcomm or Intel or anyone. You just have to be able to produce processors that can handle the government issue about not trusting US made processors.
I'm new to this site, are there private messages?
Diary: Burning Man
Ok, continue the chase through cause and effect. That stove consumes many precious and rare components (thermocouples, conductors, computer chips!) Its manufacture totally blows any comforting thoughts about carbon footprint savings.

"Green" arguments like this product are marketing and 1st-world-consumer foolishness. Build a campfire and cook in an iron pot - that might save some carbon. This thing? No.
I am pretty sure there is a much larger vision behind all these seemingly disjoint acquistions and ventures. One day when the final piece is put together, we mere mortals will realize what is happening behind the scenes right now. But it might be too late by then.
perdis.co (Perdisco is latin for learning or mastering something)

Couldn't think of a .com one but .co gives a pretty cool start-up vibe anyway.
So they should just accept dominance of the US in this industry and not even try to advance their own technology? Is this your suggestion?

Why should they do that? So that they can be pressured by possible sanctions in the future? (which wont work at the moment, since Russia is a strategic partner of China - but it might change in the next decade)
I'd be really hesitant to use it for work. There is such a small community and they are so accepting of things being broken that it seems like a disaster waiting to happen. You can't even boot the ISO images right now without them spewing errors at you (which you are supposed to ignore but have no way to know that). Installing doesn't work, often many major packages are broken, etc. I really wish there was something like alpine but that took quality control seriously.
> .NET maybe, but Windows Phone? Last place in phone sales. How does that lock anybody into anything?

Wanting to use something as a lock-in tool doesn't make it one. I'm pretty sure Microsoft would prefer Windows phone to be at place 1.
Also, unless things have changed significantly in the past year or so (since I've last really used Rust), there are significant differences between Rust traits and Haskell type classes. You can have collections of heterogeneous types that all share the same trait, which is not true with type classes. Most descriptions I've seen say that they are more of a hybrid of Java interfaces and Haskell type classes.
..."But by the end, Lex Luther spent his final years fighting off increasing government regulation and a growing mass of lawsuits while trying to keep his company from succumbing to bureaucratic rot and his employees innovative. The good employees kept jumping ship while the mediocre ones were proving impossible to dislodge. He eventually died in a bizarre yacht accident involving a prostitute, several chickens and some ketamine, having failed to maintain his dominance of the world. He was replaced by a guy with an MBA from Stanford who had very straight teeth and that said all the right things at the right time and who slowly ran the company into the ground by selling off divisions one after the other in order to meet annual bonus growth profit targets."
Can't find any reference to c++ in these lists - even COBOL gets a mention...
Developer recruitment site; so apparently calling it "what it is" isn't as easy as that...
I've not seen any phone with a baseband on the same chip (or at least, that shared any of the resources of the primary cpu. FCC rules makes that, as the GP mentioned, extremely tricky if possible at all.
What phones have you seen that do have a integrated baseband?
I was using crashing into a pole because it's something where you can see where you could plausibly have a huge disparity in sentencing outcomes in relative terms (there are always going to be thorny issues when you kill someone because even if you weren't driving drunk they're going to be picking apart all the different fault and negligence aspects anyway). For killing a pedestrian, you'd presumably make it so that killing someone while driving under the influence is presumptively negligent homicide as opposed to something like vehicular manslaughter.

Additionally, it's disingenuous to say there's a "near 100% chance of endangering people around you". That's saying that there's a 100% chance that you've increased the risk by some amount. There's nothing even close to a 100% chance that you will actually do any damage to people around you, or crash. According to [1] there are 112 million self-reported episodes of impaired driving, and 1.4 million arrests, but 10,000 deaths. Obviously these are not hard numbers, but my guess is that driving under the influence likely triples or quadruples an existing (small) risk that you would kill or harm someone. That's not a trivial thing, but it would still mean that in the vast majority of cases, if you drive under the influence, everyone gets home safe.

And in any case, I'm not in favor of people driving under the influence. Similarly I don't think people should drive while tired (it's a similar rate of impairment), but the simple fact is that these crimes by themselves don't have victims, they are just occasionally the cause of actions which do have victims. You can certainly make the case that drunk driving should be against the law for any number of reasons, but that's a separate issue as to whether that crime actually has a victim.

1. http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Impaired_Driving/impai...
This is a funny story to report for a web site (wccftech) that has 85 tracking widgets on that one page. Thanks for blocking all of those Ghostery!
How do you work?
mmh. watching the first and parts of the second video.
Isn't he a bit slow i.e. to detailed ?
Does anybody know the background of the audience in the room ?
LibreSSL portable 2.0.1 released (compiler fixes, signed releases)
British rocket scientist says he's designed a better saucepan
According to the video he is going to switch soon.
Another photo sharing app? Really?
I actually don't even play any blizzard games, but I thought I remembered them being sued over warden overstepping its bounds back in the day. I tried to search for it though and cannot find any evidence, so I guess I must have been wrong.

Edit: I did find mention of it on the Wikipedia article about Warden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software)

On 23 June 2010 Blizzard updated the Warden Anti-Cheat Platform to version 2 - named Warden 2.0 - with World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.5.

Warden now scans Warcraft II and III game memory space only, with exception of a few tools.

Obviously it's a Wikipedia article, and no source listed for that claim, so who knows if it's accurate.
Don't trivialize those 10,000 deaths. That's one in 11,000 drunk-driving episodes. Deaths, not some euphemistic small risk. Easily worth trying to mitigate. Absolutely makes it worth classifying out of the 'victimless crime' category.
Shouldn't it be "backvp"?
To some extent popcorntime is self defeating. Once it become much better than netflix in every way,maybe people won't pay for content ?
Not having safe harbor would mean that if anybody posted content to GitHub that did violate copyright, GitHub would be liable and would end up having to fight in court. Even if they won, they would be expending massive amounts of money and effort fighting copyright battles.

These battles wouldn't even be fought "on behalf of their users", because the entities taking them to court would also be taking the end users to court.
I look forward to their next DMCA notice to GitHub, to take down their takedown notice, since it contains copyrighted images.

I don't understand how playing an unlicensed torrent makes the source code to the software infringe on the DMCA. Shouldn't they also send pictures of the computers which are running Popcorntime to the computer manufacturers and tell them that they are infringing for enabling Popcorntime? And pictures of the running software to GNU for creating the compilers that compiled the code?
The social network for sex toys.
>This article emphasizes the wrong things. Larry Page isn't some super villain building robot armies to take over the world.

The article doesn't say that. The author just lays out the facts, then concludes by stating that he is not saying that Page will abuse his power, but simply that he could.

>I highly doubt that building robotic armies is on anyone's mind.

On what basis do you doubt this? Because it's unpleasant to imagine? Hard to believe?

Regardless, the point of the article (and indeed, the very title) is that we have placed a lot of power into one man's hands. Perhaps we should consider the potential consequences (intended or not), and whether simply "doubting" that this power will be abused is sufficient.
Yes, you're right, they could. But I suspect the decision is made of things like:

- If it proves to be actually good, they might actually sell some of those chips, too (it's developing their local high-tech sector. Even a tiny piece of the market is better than none at all, especially if their own agencies kickstart it).

- It highers the cost for foreign intelligence to write software for that platform: their arsenal of viruses and trojans are completely useless. Unless you acquire detailed specifications of the platform, find some test chips, develop new software and finally infect your target... Takes time and money.

- They get some (positive, for once) international press.

- They can parade how awesome mother Russia is to their own nationalist ego.
Raspberry Pi Model B+ with 4 USB ports on the way
> Система программирования платформы поддерживает языки С, С++, Java, Фортран-77, Фортран-90.

its interesting they called out support for fortan 77 and fortran 90
I like how this thought experiment leads to questioning the current security orthodoxy. The "security community" is made to serve at least two masters: If security works, forensics can't work. If forensics works well enough to have standard tools, that implies longstanding unresolved security problems. Yet many security consultants work both sides of the fence.
No. But sometimes you can message somebody privately by clicking at their name and viewing their e-mail, Twitter, etc.

Also, if you want others to contact you, make sure you include the information in the 'about' section' since the e-mail field isn't shown publicly.
LibreSSL 2.0.1 Released
Allan Ahlberg turns down Amazon-sponsored award
A simple way to recruit users to validate startup ideas
Its a question of opportunity cost. Make a CPU to sell to Syria - you might make a few bucks (though I doubt it); could you have done better? Surely.

As for trade stats: the US SHOE industry is an order of magnitude larger than that - $20 billion annually {http://statisticbrain.com/footwear-industry-statistics/}. 1.1 billion seems like a big number until you consider: a chip manufacturing plant costs more than that.
Short question with regard to their marketing. How did they start? How do they do marketing? I am just wondering how they did that good job in such competitive landscape. Thanks. Best regards.
You can have the same thing in Haskell using existential types.
Prove that Steam collects data about your system, except for hardware statistics that it asks you want to send. Being the first platform for gaming, I think that Steam gets audited by a lot of people quite often; despite that, I have heard nothing about Steam spying on its users.

The only "invasion of privacy" found was in VAC, which uses security through obscurity to deceive cheaters. When somebody got concerned about that, Gabe Newell immediately explained publicly the security mechanism, letting everybody with basic IT knowledge deduce that Valve has thought this quite thoroughly for privacy.
If it's wildly inferior than the stunted US version, it must be pretty much useless. These days, I watch shows on http://ororo.tv/, but doubt it's very legal.
And Netflix doesn't work as well in 720p or 1080p.
Here's me hitting it 4 times:

[/tmp]$ cp bigfile bigfile2
load: 1.78 cmd: gcp 93420 running 0.00u 0.04s
load: 1.78 cmd: gcp 93420 running 0.00u 0.10s
load: 1.80 cmd: gcp 93420 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.16s
load: 1.80 cmd: gcp 93420 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.26s
[/tmp]$
Then maybe the MPAA will wake up and let Netflix improve, rather than keeping them as content-light as possible.
I'm sure there's plenty of awesomeness to be found in these lists, but I almost gave up after seeing the node.js platform as the first "programming language" link on the first list.
That's a perfectly rational argument, however there is a long history of pesticides turning out to be more harmful than originally thought. There are even commonly used pesticides that are known to be harmful to people that are still in common use with the assumption that the residue is not harmful.

Unfortunately, that's vary hard to test as the population for a study is much smaller than the population effected by any given pesticide. When you include environmental effects the argument generally becomes one of acceptable harm. As there is also a ridiculous oversupply of food there also clearly over used.
I used a Marmitek X10 for the exact same purpose. I can SSH from my phone to a small linux box running on an old eee PC, which switches the coffee machine on or off. I used a dedicated public-key for on or off, so I can do so with a single click from my Android phone without having to login or run any further command.

Works a treat! So many times I'm on my way back home and want to make sure the machine is ready and warmed-up.
Don't forget that he's also trying to "beat death". http://time.com/574/google-vs-death/

This could expand his control beyond the world, and as far as the universe! Or perhaps even, The Multiverse!!
I'm currently on the Appalachian Trail and have seen a few of these... They're neat, but dont work very well. Maybe for a weekend trip. Not for serious distance hikers.
> The author just lays out the facts, then concludes by stating that he is not saying that Page will abuse his power, but simply that he could.

Right, and I think emphasizing nutty conspiracy theories distracts from the more important systemic and gradual, but perhaps less exciting, impact that Google actually has (e.g. on privacy.)

You don't need to resort to conspiracy in order to isolate real ways in which Google has having large -- arguably negative -- impacts on our everyday lives.

> On what basis do you doubt this?

Mostly motive. Google doesn't particularly stand to benefit from building a private army. But also, I used all my tin foil heating up potatoes.
I'd prefer a charger than can run overnight or in cloudy weather.
For one thing I'm not trivializing them, I'm saying that saying that "100% of the time you are endangering people" is disingenuous considering there's only a 0.01% that anyone actually dies if you drive under the influence. There's not a whole lot to offer in the "benefits" column of drunk driving, so it's probably not reasonable even for fairly small increases of risk anyway.

And no, it does not make it worth classifying "out of the victimless crime" category, because victimless is not a matter of degree, it's a question of whether or not there is an aggrieved party. Any time there's an accident as a result of drunk driving, then it's got a victim. Otherwise there are only "potential" victims.

Again, I think it's a behavior that needs to be discouraged, because it forces people not capturing any of the benefit (the drinking, the convenience of being able to take your own car afterwards) to assume some of the risk (the chance that a drunk driver will harm them or their property). I'm just saying that driving drunk by itself doesn't inherently have a victim.
It might be useful, from a language-evangelism point of view, to show how much of this Go doesn't do. This isn't to criticize Go--but I have gotten the impression (perhaps wrongly) that these languages are competitors.
It probably just means they ported gcc, but if it is supposed to mean more its probably just 'HPC is on our radar'
Yeah, the Koch Brothers are evil. That George Soros, though, he's totally a force for good. The reality is that left and right all have their rich supporters, and only the truly blinkered would say one side is "evil" and the other is "good".

The Koch brothers donated hundreds of millions of dollars for cancer research. Have you given as much?