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Whatever you think of pointer events (and Chrome's decision not to implement them), this article contains an extremely misleading pair of graphs and associated text.

In this basic example test page, developed by Rick Byers on the Chrome team, with touch events in IE we can see the first frame of panning doesn’t render until after the touch contact has moved for 1020ms and travelled 4.8cm, which is clearly perceivable by the user. Simply replacing Touch Event handlers with Pointer Event handlers reduces this latency to just 31ms and 0.3cm—a greater than 32x improvement.

Well, yeah, if you take a test page which /spins in a while loop until 1000ms has passed/, then you can get a 32x improvement by making it asynchronous. In real life cases, I'd expect the factor to be rather different.
I feel your pain. Engineering Physics (or Chemistry or Math for that matter) in India destroys your love of the subjects that brought you in there in the first place.
Except this is over simplifying. The tip of the slice won't bend down, but it quite easily folds up, contrary to the claim that it must remain flat.
Even if true it could be a parallel construction.
Heres the rule that defines how much time the pitcher has to throw the pitch.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/pitcher_...

8.04
When the bases are unoccupied, the pitcher shall deliver the ball to the batter within 12 seconds after he receives the ball. Each time the pitcher delays the game by violating this rule, the umpire shall call Ball. The 12-second timing starts when the pitcher is in possession of the ball and the batter is in the box, alert to the pitcher. The timing stops when the pitcher releases the ball.
The intent of this rule is to avoid unnecessary delays. The umpire shall insist that the catcher return the ball promptly to the pitcher, and that the pitcher take his position on the rubber promptly. Obvious delay by the pitcher should instantly be penalized by the umpire.
If there is an external server that is vulnerable to a brute force attack, it is trivial to exploit it anonymously.

People who get caught trying to brute force servers (do people even get caught for this???) are the lowest hanging fruit and are the ones least harmful to society.

My point is precedent doesn't really matter, because realistically, you won't have anyone to actually prosecute except for the 13 year old "hacker" who had no idea what they were doing.
because radio is unreliable many times

up until recently there was an issue with transmission quality/bandwidth (I'm sure even now when you are doing remote/trans-oceanic flights)

hardened hardware is way more reliable

I would say a good middle ground would be broadcast telemetry on some side band or bursts with traditional hardware as a backup.
Thanks for your reply.

Apple, and even Google, don't seem nearly as similar to Amazon in the question I asked. While they both invest heavily in R&D and other capex's areas, they also store a lot more cash (at least apple) and seem to report a lot more of a "profit" than Amazon. Do they re-invest _all_ profits or just a portion like most companies?

People don't talk about Apple, Google, or Microsoft as companies that failed to become "profitable" in nearly the same way people talk about Amazon, at least from what I see. AMZN still seems like such an outlier...
After reading that blog post from Microsoft, I believe even stronger now that Google is approaching this carelessly. Microsoft announced this almost a year ago and yet the blog post reads that they are giving until January 1st 2017 until they will stop accepting SHA-1 certs. Google announced this today and starting in 22 days they will be showing a Yellow Lock on my certificate just because the cert is set to expire AFTER January 1st, 2017. That is very different approaches!
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Yeah, maybe he should call it Paulicy.
How does this phone compare to other primarily Asian market phones like the Xiaomi Redmi?
To make matters worse, while Shrem was CEO he was simultaneously BitInstant’s compliance officer, responsible for ensuring that his company followed the law.

Impressive amount of hubris there.
You can have a function that wrapps memset with zero argument this wrapper should be in a different shared library, this way the compiler will not follow it; wait, that's exactly what memset_s is,
For one, a lot more people have powerful mobile devices than they have powerful desktops/laptops.

Second, price-wise, you can sell the VR device a lot cheaper if you rely on the user's existing phone to power it, making it more affordable.

So it looks that it's going to be the other-way around: get a more basic mobile version first that will finance the more more tech-savvy (and more demanding) desktop audience.
Electric Engineering is certainly a good option. Another is Mechanical Engineering, if you're more interested in the motion, industrial aspects and the construction of robots. And a bit of Computer Science is another option, if you're interested in software aspects, firmware development, machine learning to understand where the robot is, etc.
The web server probably wasn't visible on the public internet, but apparently the machine itself was.
That's not how assets on a balance sheet are valued and represented in a market cap.

In fact it's the Alibaba, Yahoo Japan, and cash positions that are discounted down from their face value. Not the business of Yahoo (which receives a multiple).

Cash is ultimately what the Alibaba position represents. Cash is always discounted, sometimes heavily, on a balance sheet. It would be extremely rare to see a public company receive a $1 to $1 ratio on cash to market cap.

Let me give you a simple example of this premise as it would apply to Yahoo.

Let's say they have $35 billion in Alibaba, and a $39b market cap. And let's say they have $1.3b in earnings. They liquidate the Alibaba holdings, and disperse all that cash to shareholders. So the $1.3 billion in earnings is now receiving a market capitalization of $4 billion (3 times earnings)? Nope, they would probably trade for 15 to 30 times earnings still (depending).

It's the value of the Alibaba holdings that is discounted.

There are a lot of easy demonstrations of this in action. Apple is an ideal one. Their cash exploded like a rocket up to $150 billion, their market cap and multiple compressed such that cash was 40% of their market cap (but that's not what actually happened, the cash was heavily discounted).
oh ok, two separate issue then I guess.
An okay story. But it seems like it's just some douche upon whom the government blew 10 million dollars (give or take) to put in a cage. I'm pretty sure those Indians can keep snowmobiling across the border with their bales of marijuana. I'm pretty sure there are still Hell's Angels who have trucking jobs.

If weed is fully legalized, maybe they'll invent some more interesting Al Capone-types to romanticize the era.
Many uses for hashing algorithms don't care about collision resistance (HMAC/passwords). Signatures/Certificates are not one of those things.
15% of farms are using their service. That is incredible.
Education should be useful though a lifetime, and the classics seem to become more important as we get older. Perhaps there should be more time devoted overall to English, so that it can all be covered- both practical English, as well as literature. I'm not sure how many hours of English American students take, but when I was in high school, we had time for Shakespeare, poetry and novels. We also did lots of speeches, debating, plays, formal writing and language (grammar). The school I attended in the 90's was quite average for its time (but by modern abysmal South African education standards, it would probably have been considered excellent).

Until I turned 30 I never understood the point of learning poetry in school. My mother got ill, and I recalled the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas, and it helped me make sense of my feelings. When politicians equivocate, I am reminded of a core theme in Macbeth. I have never discussed Macbeth at dinner, but it helped me understand an important aspect of the world. My English teachers helped give me a framework for understanding as an adult, though their analysis of the literature we studied. I taught myself computers at home, and studied CS at university, but I am glad that we did an intensive study of the English language in high school. School is the last opportunity for many people, particularly those who are technically inclined, like me, to be exposed to the humanities, and without it, we are at risk of being stunted as adult citizens. (Incidentally, it has been pointed out that many modern terrorists have engineering backgrounds- perhaps it is even more important for us to be exposed to the classics to help make sense of the world.)
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Well warrants let them bypass physical security why would digital security be exempt?
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2.5yrs ago I started working for this startup. Not my first so I am cognizant about the risks and what it takes out of you. Few months after I started a licensing deal fell through so I volunteered to take a pay cut with the understanding we were going to go all out until profitability. We went all out, but the founders(Fs) didn't do any sales or marketing for 9 months, so yeah. Then they promised things were changing and they would really step it up in. 6 months later, we are growing pitifully & the story is the same. After seeing Fs make the same mistakes every 6 months, I decided to leave. As a core dev is hard to replace in 2 weeks, I gave them 4 months of notice. They didn't hire anyone. So, I gave them 4 more months. Yup. But I really wanted to do right by them :( During this, I was validating startup ideas. I moved forward with one and, when pressed about my plans, told Fs. A week later, in a 4 hour meeting, they tried to convince me to build it for them saying they can sell and market it. I refused. A week later, they offered cofounder role. I declined. Now, they want to pursue it and claim it was their idea the whole time, that "the lawyers would have to decide" whether non-compete would apply. I'm not worried about competition. Rather, I feel extremely betrayed. After trusting them & sweating blood for them, they pull this shit. And, the prospect of a possible lawsuit isn't great. I don't want to rage quit this week as a) I told them Dec, b) savings: additional money is nice, not a requirement. But, I am not sure I can stick it till Dec and if that would just strengthen their non-compete argument.

1. Airing dirty laundry is not good, but the idea Fs are going scot-free with such despicable behavior gnaws at me. Should I name and shame them? FWIW other employees are willing to back me up.

2. Should I quit asap and not honor what I told them? Would that be stooping to their level or just what they deserve?

3. Why must people be dicks?
Not exactly. There's no reason memset_s can't be understood by the compiler, inlined, and optimized, so long as those bits still get zeroed. That's not the case for any of the other approaches.
Assuming the FBI had a warrant, they had a right to do whatever they wanted to SR's server, no?

I think weev's sentence was utter bullshit, but you can't equate the two things. SR was a drug marketplace, AT&T is not. This is like arguing police shouldn't be able to pick the lock of your drug safehouse door because you aren't allowed to pick other people's locks.
Also incredibly similar to Apple's Mac Pro.

[1] http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
Out of curiosity do you need then all build? Could you tumbnail as they are requested? So the first request is slow but you cache fir the future?
That thread doesn't exactly inspire confidence in choosing Scala as a platform, to be honest. With quotes such as "There's still plenty of very basic stuff in the compiler which doesn't work," I'm honestly not sure how anyone could look forward to a dive.

Don't get me wrong. I know that it isn't necessarily the case that "basic" represents "affects plenty of people." But, especially when it was used in a "hits more people than a vocal group that is complaining about a plugin that needs attention," one does get a sense that you will be hit by these things sooner than later.
Honestly, I'm not so sure about (4). I feel like when I read about criminals that were captured, they all made avoidable mistakes. I have to wonder if there are, in fact, many criminals that are never captured because they are simply better at it.
He started on his own standard library a while ago:

https://github.com/paulp/psp-std
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I don' quiet buy your assertion that z/os is an emulation layer over AIX. When I used to while away the days poking around on a z/os machine, it was not that cut and dry. I couldn't just access a dataset from the shell, and the mainframe permissions model was pretty effective at locking down what I could get too. Do you have any references to back that ie an IBM red book?
"And when they entered that IP address directly into a browser, the Silk Road’s CAPTCHA prompt appeared, the garbled-letter image designed to prevent spam bots from entering the site."
The big distinction is that Ponzi schemes have no end-game: they inevitably burst. Amazon has a well defined end-game (start to turn a profit), and there is good reason the believe that they will eventually do so. Assuming this eventuality remains reasonable, the stock will have some inherit value because someone will be willing to buy it today for the expected payout of dividends later.
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The article makes some convincing cases why an experienced RPS player should be able to beat someone who has never considered the competitive aspects of the game: things like poor randomization and physical clues. But I'm not convinced that the skill ceiling is high enough for there to be an interesting competitive scene.

I could be wrong, but it seems like tic tac toe. The slightly experienced player can beat the noob, but no one can reliably beat the slightly experienced player. Surely if you can eliminate your physical signals and memorize a randomly generated sequence, no one should be able to reliably beat you. Perhaps eliminating the physical signals is just extremely difficult?
Details on that: http://www.brightsideofnews.com/2011/02/21/why-nvidiae28099s...

For historical perspective, Core 2 Duos are from 2006/7. And T7200 is a laptop version, slower than desktop equivalents of the same era.

Desktop CPUs are still much, much faster than phone CPUs. Here's a table with lots of numbers:

http://www.computingcompendium.com/p/arm-vs-intel-benchmarks...

The iPhone 5s, with the "desktop class" A7 chip, has about 15% of the computing power of an i7 4770k, by this benchmark.

Personally, I don't use mobile devices - neither phones nor laptops - for compute-heavy operations. Everything from compilation to video transcoding takes way longer than on a decent desktop. Phones are not close to threatening that yet, not by a long shot.

Trivial work, like text editing, light photo manipulation, sure. Anything that could be done on a PC 15 years ago, sure. But they're nowhere near one another.
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I got imprinted with WordStar back in the early 80s. So much so, that when I program today I use those same text-editing command-codes. So I can jump seamlessly from programming on CP/M, Linux or even MSDOS. Frightening, isn't it? <grin>
With two's complement wraparound being defined behaviour, you have easy ways of checking for wraparound - checking the signs of inputs vs outputs.

In any case, I'm bored of discussing this with people who haven't studied the problem.
It should be "Denizen", not "Citizen".
Sure, but it only takes one avoidable mistake to bring it all crashing down. Want to bet the rest of your life on being perfect? In any case, it was a (half) joke.

But yes, it reminds me of the hilarity of FBI's characterization of PLA Unit 61398 as some super-scary 'master hackers': real 'master hackers' don't get caught.
That's not what the data says. Did you read the article?
This bot can reliably beat me, until I start using a randomly-generated sequence. Presumably, even in the absence of physical signals, if you could compute this algorithm, you could beat a human who isn't also using such an algorithm.

http://www.essentially.net/rsp/play.jsp
Common Core actually does not stipulate any particular implementation in terms of curriculum or testing. It is simply a set of standards for educational achievement that the states have agreed upon. So for example it would say that a high school graduate should be capable of solving a particular equation. It is up to each state (or district) to figure out how to teach that knowledge, and how to measure it.

Most states have not even really started to do that yet. What we have now are a few commercial companies who are rushing shit products out the door with a "Common Core" sticker slapped on them, and the world is judging the entire concept based on these crappy products. See for example:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/03/318228023/the-common-...

> An increased emphasis on tests sadly tends to lead to teaching to the test.

This is not a dependent relationship; it is a choice. It is up to administrators and teachers to decide how curricula are designed and teachers teach.

The idea that setting standards automatically results in worse performance would not make sense in any other context; yet it's taken as a given in education.
Actually that seems like a very insightful analogy to me.
Cruel and unusual. Being the organisms with the most intelligence, we sure do stupid things. Not an example we would want to set for when the smarter aliens come. Oh succulent human Eunuch meat...
The full docket of the USA v. Ulbricht case is available at:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/20nlzy0uz/new-york-southern...
It's a great idea except that for one person it's going to cost a lot more than buying an account on FastMail (disclaimer: I work there) or any of the other hosting sites (even before you start start thinking redundancy and backups - we have about 10Tb of disk for every 1Tb of pure email quota, by the time you count search indexes and RAID and 3x replication redundancy - two local one offsite)

For more than one person it can get cheaper, but you're going to be on call to fix it every time it breaks - because those other people aren't going to like waiting until you need it. Have fun with that (and I say this after being paged at 3:30am last night to fix a problem that was only affecting redundency for about 1% of our userbase - no user visible problems - most issues are solved without user visible outages)
I was a bit afraid to submit something with "rangefinder" in the title, so I will take it upon myself to explain it.

"Rangefinder" is commonly used as a short form of "rangefinder camera". Back in the early 1900s you would most likely focus a lens using "zone focusing", which is pretty much a fancy way of saying "guessing the distance to the subject" combined with some understanding of how depth-of-field works in relation to the lens aperture.

There were also external rangefinders [1], devices that measures distance using techniques such as parallax. From a practical standpoint, you get two overlapping images and you adjust the rangefinder until the subject becomes clear [2]. You can then read the distance to the subject from the external rangefinder and transfer it onto your lens and take the shot.

Since this is not particularly, well, fast or convenient someone came up with the idea of combining the two and the rangefinder camera was born. Up until the days of auto-focus, single-lens reflex (SLRs) also used this kind of technique for focusing. However, SLRs and point-and-shoots with auto-focus and zoom lenses now dominate the digital market and most people never see or touch a rangefinder. They are still somewhat popular among street photographers though since they are significantly smaller and also since they are arguably more discreet in appearance.

[1]: http://leicaphotography.org/leica/camera/if/fokos.jpg

[2]: http://reviewed-production.s3.amazonaws.com/attachment/2350f...
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After reading the documentation I can say that this is a very misterious thing for me.
A bunch of us got those commands imprinted on our brain by using Turbo Pascal, even though we didn't use WordStar.
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This is not a huge accomplishment, they've become a totally free app and are VC backed, so basically instead of having real paying customers, they are getting farmers onboard by not charging anything.

Basically, I'm guessing they are hoping that Monsanto or John Deere or some other giant AG company buys them for however many millions of dollars.

This might be a valid strategy, but it sucks for the farmer because they don't have an incentive to build a truly valuable product that people will pay for. There is a huge difference when you build something people pay for vs something they use because it's free.

When you build a free product, the end user is not a customer, they are the product. I wonder how many farmers like being the product and not the customer.
Interesting. What is the reason for discounting cash so heavily? Logically you'd think cash would be the last thing to be discounted.
Do you know what is Markdown? "standard/common" means the original Markdown is not perfect for the simple use of Markdown?

What's more important? Naming or specification? Just don't know why the intelligent people like the word "Markdown" too much to give the new spec a new name. Anyone can explain such great love (and love the new spec more than John Gruber)?
The claim is that they did this before getting a warrant.
When will the law stop violating the rights of free men?
They are used by _15%_ of farms. That is an incredible accomplishment. When was the last time you wrote software that was used by that many people?

Just because its free doesn't mean people will use it regularly...
The Web is a bigger pre-touch legacy monster than Windows.

If by "just work" you mean "have an acceptable-ish retrofit UX in a touch device" then yeah.
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> Does this mean it's being called Common Mark now?

Seems to be CommonMark (one word), not Common Mark.

> Seems like an odd choice for the domain if it's still called Common Markdown.

"CommonMark" is used pretty much everywhere, "Common Markdown" doesn't appear anywhere.
If it was "miscellaneous" input characters, it probably wasn't brute-forcing login attempts. Brute-forcing logins would use mostly alphanumeric input characters, not "miscellaneous" input characters.

The word "miscellaneous" to me implies things like quotes, backticks, and similar non-alphanumeric characters. "Fiddling" with them would be attempting to find somewhere that didn't quote an input value correctly: they were attempting to find something like an SQL injection.
I ordered one, even though I already have a Nexus 5 as a main phone, a spare Nexus 5 "just in case", a Moto G "just because", and a Moto E used as a music streamer.

I sent one of the first-gen Gs to my mother as an upgrade from her iPhone 3GS. Will be great to use as a standalone music/media player on camping trips, etc, with the SD card support.
I'm not sure how you could make an evaluation like this without knowing the scope of the patents they kept, which by all accounts was the reason for the acquisition in the first place.