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At what point do you make those rational arguments flesh? Rights[1] would seem, at their core, to be reified rational arguments. As in: over a long period of time, a rational argument as to how a certain group should be treated/not mistreated (prisoners should not be tortured, say, or women should have the same opportunities as men) is made many times. Eventually its rationality may be accepted, and eventually reification may occur. Relying simply on rational arguments seems a. heavily constrained by bounded knowledge, b. extremely susceptible to interference and c. produce much more fragile legal structures than rights infer.

In respect to the OP, setting down the rights of Orangutans surely is making a rational argument, then allowing that argument to be applied in all similar cases, rather than making the same argument repeatedly?

[1] as fought for cross-culture/worldwide/etc (eg human rights) and positive, not culture-specific & negative (eg rights of one tribal group over all others in a country).
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Only for those that inside in using only the OpenJDK.

There are JVMs with JIT caches and AOT compilers.

Even the reference JDK can start in a few ms using tiered compilation.
@liuliu, can libccv be used to make your own classifiers, like in Caffe, you can use a pre existing model and fine tune it to a new dataset? Can I use libccv to train a classifier of clouds vs birds, or can it only be used for the 1000 standard category recognition from ImageNet?
I've spent a huge portion of my life learning how humans learn languages and how to teach them better. I spent my early adulthood in Taiwan where I became fluent speaker and pretty comfortable reader, too. The approach this site uses is far superior to the flashcard vocab word-driven approach taken by duolingo, memrise and so many others.

In my experience, at the beginner level the most important thing is getting a good grasp on phonics and learning some vocabulary. But once a student is even lower intermediate it's a way better to spend time doing Extensive Reading instead of vocab drills. Extensive Reading—reading that is easy enough no dictionary is needed—is still great for building vocabulary, and it teaches colocations, grammar and the target language's culture, too. As ER builds up vocabulary, more and more radio and podcasts become comprehensible. In the long run, lots and lots of input (both reading and listening) and opportunities to use the language extemporaneously in real life is pretty much assured to lead to full bilingual proficiency.

The interesting thing about this app, is it just might allow students to transition from more formal study and into Extensive Reading at an earlier point than they otherwise would. The risk is that students would continue choosing books with a lot of words they don't understand and rob themselves of actually "reading" in its natural sense.
>>>This network was designed to camouflage all communications... using RSA 128-bit encryption

So it used RSA that I can break on my TI-83? Is this a typo?
Weak typing is fine, and even beneficial for small scripts - what javascript was originally meant for. It does not scale though. It leads to large projects becoming unpredictable, unwieldy and mired in technical debt.
>I recently updated from Mavericks to Yosemite on my 2012 rMBP. Even with no transparency on my battery life was down from 6+ hours to less than 3.5 hours! And everything is so annoyingly slow.

Actually your memory usage should go down with Yosemite -- they have new technologies just for that. Same for battery file, it should go up.

Since this is HN, do people do basic investigation, or assume that anything that doesn't seem to work is a lost cause and just switch OSs, re-install, or complain?

Your experience for example seems more like some rogue app with extensive CPU/memory usage driving the battery down. Have you checked Activity Monitor to try to spot if that was the case?
Disagree. If it were Chinese government hackers, the connections to the control servers would bear a similarity to the Aurora hack. Instead, the ROK and Sony hacks' control signatures look similar to each other and not to other known state-backed hacks. Additionally, the Korean locale would make no sense for a Russian hacker.

There's no smoking gun revealed publicly, but the preponderance of available evidence points to the DPRK.
I blame my own personal loss of time partially on long commutes. Previously, I lived about ~8 minutes away from where I worked. Now I live about ~40 minutes (which is only about 12 miles) from work. So, that works out to ~5.3 extra hours a week I lose sitting in my car. Or about 6.5 work weeks of time a year. With that time, I could be teaching the kids something, learning a new skill, exercising, working on my own projects, or just relaxing.

Think about how much work you can get done in 6 weeks at work. That is what is being lost because I live in a state/city that puts infrastructure projects near the bottom of the priority list.
If you're going to say "powerful," a Lenovo Thinkpad T440p with quad-core CPU.

If that's not light enough, then...a Thinkpad T440s. Or a Dell Latitude E7440. Wait, I mean, a Panasonic Let's Note LX3.
I absolutely hate it. It only takes one or two PDFs that crash or freeze Firefox to install a completely separate viewer that is much better. It depends on how often it happens to you, but I probably had three crash or freeze type issues before I switched. I did have dozens of documents with invisible text (wrong styling in pdf.js) that messed it up for me, though.
I noticed the same in IntelliJ 12. Tried 14 and still had issues. I noticed the flickering goes away once I've turned off Flux (or, at least it doesn't flicker as often).

Not saying it is Flux's fault but I'm curious if you're running Flux and get the same result when exiting.
A while ago I tried to buy one to play with it, they quoted me $3000 and it is well above my personal budget for playing with it. It is only attainable by a university or a company not mere persons.

I really wish I could get my hands on an SSD that I could program the firmware for to play with things. It would require more than one sample or at least the ability to replace the flash modules since it's likely I'll burn through them with the initial failed attempts. The OpenSSD I looked at did have replaceable flash modules.
It includes a training program (./bin/image-net.c), however, it requires a bit of work to get it started (you need to initialize a new convnet with the pre-trained parameters, and then fine-tuning the whole network). It is on my todo list to make a more friendly training program that for these simple tasks, you should be able to do with CPU easily.
Arch Linux too.
I've been seeing the term "web app" a lot lately. Not exactly sure why. Is a web app different from a website? I guess so probably maybe? I'm not really sure.
>Being that Obama is right of center...

Wow. It didn't even take a whole sentence for you lose credibility.

>...and that the GOP establishment has no "agenda" other than opposing Obama for the sake of it...

Based on what evidence? You don't think they have policy disagreements with the president? So what is their motive, anyway?

>Is it his continued support of the Military Industrial Complex? That seems to be in line with the conservative notion of "national defense is holy and must not be questioned".

That's a lefty straw man. Isn't true and never was.

>Is it his continued support of Wall Street and other big economic players? I thought you people liked that stuff?

Wall Street certainly bankrolls the party apparatus for both the Democrats and Republicans. Actual conservatives want to see an end to QE, but I doubt that will happen even if we take the presidency in 2016 (which is likely).

>Is it his disengagement with the War on Drugs? Well, good Americans don't do drugs so that can't be a problem. Being soft on crime is bad, m'kay?

Another straw man. The Republican party is split right down the middle on the question of drug policy. You know who wants to continue the drug war almost unanimously? Democrats.

>Maybe it's his weakness in backing down on torture as an intelligence tool. But he does at least carry on the tradition of letting the "intelligence community" do whatever the fuck they want with impunity. So there he's good with keeping with tradition, and we know how conservatives love tradition.

This is incoherent.

>I know, it must be his extending a Republican approved healthcare plan.

Eh... this is so far out in left field I have to assume you're drunk.
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I used to dislike Javascript generally as a webdev in the last decade, but after adopting Node pretty early on, I discovered that my brain seems to natively support asynchronous programming. So I use primarily Node.js at work everyday and for most of my side projects. Along with that, I like Redis for data because it's just so fast and "feels right" for me. I am absolutely head over heels for Docker, so most of the time it's that on commodity dedicated hardware. I have a fondness for AWS though, so I use that when I'm feeling lazy or when I want a particular feature they offer. I have been learning Go over the last couple of years, and having been raised on C in the 90s, it feels very comfortable for when I need to write system or network code. Nice idea for a post! I like hearing what individual people are into.
North Korea didn't do it. It is the easiest way out for all parties to blame the suspect which is the most easy to frame and the most unlikely to detest. Truth is they don't have a clue who did it and that is more frightening than the name-calling which is going on right now.
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>Are there actually more bugs in Yosemite/iOS8? And if so, can we identify potential factors?

No. There are some bugs and some glitches, like in every release.

Nothing to write home about, except from a small percentage of the population with a Mac from a faulty production run (but that's hardware, not the OS), or with some software that's hogging the cpu (but that's the software, not the OS).

I have this flashing in System Prefs -- it's a small annoyance, but nothing especially interesting or getting in the way. There are 2-3 more bugs. And some things introduced

I was there from OS X 10.2. People have complained for every single OS X release...
So there were promising projects before: gnash and lightspark. And even another javascript converter - smokescreen. So why are they dying? It's hard to believe that they all hit a brick wall / wrong path and have to be started from scratch rather than continued.
More background info about the incident: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de?sl=auto&sl=de&t...

Steel plants run for years without a shut down, so this was a large scale incident as the had to shut it down because of major damage.

Not related to the plant in Germany in any way, just to get you an idea how some other steel plants operate: C# WinForm based GUI control room app and Java based server app on Windows server. The server controls the various SPS. Several steel plants around the world were build with that software setup and it was not designed to be connected to the internet.
Dartlang isn't directly supported, and I'm not interested in digging through compiled javascript to debug. Yes, there are tools to ameliorate this, but it's not worth the technical debt of a new language with support from only a single vendor.

Polymer is ridiculously slow in my tests.
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Frameworks aren't specific to Javascript. Almost every mainstream language I know of has a framework of some sort - If you're using a language on its own then I guarantee you'll end up writing (and testing/maintaining) similar code to everyone else. After a few years, you'll have built up a "utilities library" that you copy from project to project. This will need maintaining, and new starters will also have to learn your library.
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LOL, most people on twitter don't agree. Twitter is a cesspool of commentards, the epitome of a peanut gallery.

LOL, just because SPE is chicken, suddenly the whole USA is chicken? Please.

LOL, asking for more evidence and you don't believe NK did it. So, finger a perpetrator or STFU. With data.

LOL, hysterical children are the loudest screamers on the internet. Most of us think and use common sense. Try to figure things out.
What if that capital disappeared as soon as you went to grab it?
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I feel the author does not have enough development experience, or maturity to make such an statement. The reason for such frameworks is to clean up the mess and the void left with years of neglect on the web as a platform. To possibly blossom ideas, on how to improve the web, clearly not many people can agree on standards
That neither fglrx nor the proprietary Nvidia drivers works well with the rest of Linux is hardly a secret. The fact that there is a special tainting mechanism so you won't get support for that configuration should be regarded a big warning sign.

Linux, just like MacOS or Windows, needs supported hardware to run. Since the past 8 years or so, that has meant Intel. It can be confusing that Linux "supports" every hardware under the sun, which can sometimes be true of only select versions.

Run a supported configuration and it'll "just work". My bog standard Thinkpad has suspended many times a day for the past five years and I haven't even once had a problem with it.
I haven't seen software-based DRAM refresh in a long time. Well done!
Cool, I'd love to help out with adding that tutorial to libccv, do you and the libccv team use a communication tool like trello or skype to communicate? Or email?
LOL, nice commentary.
Why does it have to be someone with a solid motive?

The companies attacked always go on about how skilled and unstoppable their attackers are, but for all we know their software was terrible and a bored 13-year-old shut down their factory because 13-year-olds do terrible things for no reason because the parts of their brains that let them tell good ideas from bad ideas haven't grown in yet.

The guy responsible for the shit software isn't going to tell the CTO his software is shit, the CTO isn't going to tell the CEO his department is incompetent and needs a good house cleaning, starting from the top, and the CEO isn't going to admit culpability to the insurance companies and shareholders who are ultimately on the hook for the damages.
Gnash died off but Lightspark is still around and making progress. I guess Mozilla just started their own project to suite their needs.
The courts are no better... they've yanked works out of the public domain and back into copyright captivity.
I've just quit a job that is 40mins driving for one which is 10mins drive or 20mins cycle. I'm going to cycle.
Was a fast setup; already in place. I'm seeing live mode transactions with a "Test" banner in upper right corner, but some tests with an online hosted wallet show these transactions to be real and live, not test-mode. Is this a bug in the Stripe console?
> However, was dumbfounded by the lack of information on delay before check.

Yes, I was wondering about this too. I examined the source code in the GitHub repository and found that all the follow-up operations are immediate. No consideration of or measurement of latency.

> I wonder if the experiment normalizes for the client origin.

Unfortunately it does not. As you imply, a high round trip time, or just high latency of the storage operations in general, could easily affect the apparent consistency with the current experiment design.

In an enhanced version of this experiment I think it would be helpful to have latency measurements, such as total time from beginning of write until end of read (average and percentiles); and as you suggested round trip time measurements. Luckily the code is available, so I suppose it's on us to reproduce the results and extend them! Fortunately the code is also pretty short, since a lot of the storage system specific logic is encapsulated within the Apache JClouds library.

(To clarify, I don't question the accuracy of the results they are about what I'd expect. I'm mostly being pedantic in drilling into these concerns, and wondering what more information we might be able to extract from the experiment.)
I helped Andrew ran the S3 tests. For us-standard bucket, we used an m3.medium instance in the us-east region, and for us-west bucket, we used a t2.micro instance in the us-west-2 (Oregon) region.

It is also possible that S3 somehow tries to pin requests from the same client to the same storage nodes. A better test setup would coordinate writing and reading across multiple clients, but is beyond the scope of this experiment. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259541556_Eventual_C... describes such a system and their results.
Wish I could upvote more.

I wanted to say something like it, plus that most home routers do their DHCP serving with ancient versions of dnsmasq.
If you look at credit cards and foreign currency is that not something 'hackable' too? If say the Ruble appreciated and then depreciated wildly you could get a refund and redo the payment if it was against you.
Generally, there is huge gap in Distributed Systems courses (I've encountered) between the theory/books they follow and the practical lab projects...

Can anyone recommend some good DS course oriented for working engineers with hands-on projects which the course (theory/book) itself follows closely?
Donated to Mozilla using Bitcoin. Feels good, man.
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Unbelievable proof of concept. It is just genius that this guy made this. But what do you think that we can get out of this? Are there any practical reasons to run Linux on Micro-controller?
If you want to go that way, you really should think of some compensation for being over targeted. It shouldnt be free for a society to over target an individual for being part of a minority.
Corporations do not own these works. They lease them.

Think about it. If you have the right to use land for 95 years, after which it reverts to my possession... you do not own that land. You're just leasing it from me.

No copyright holder owns any of this. They have a long-term lease to be sure, but it's not theirs. And they're bad tenants. They're ruining the property apparently out of spite, that is, when they're not trying to bribe politicians to steal it away from us forever.
>acting like someone's choice of operating system is a moral stance

It certainly is when you pick a free software/open source OS over a proprietary one.
Why doesn't “cd” work in a bash shell script?
The God'sApstls "extortion email" is just a poorly translated threat of monetary damage if their request isn't met. They aren't actually asking for money. All subsequent communications are about Sony threatening the peace and about how the hackers are guardians of peace.

The script-kiddie nature of the attack doesn't seem like a good argument against DPRK attribution. Only a select few are even allowed on the internet in that technological backwater, so I wouldn't expect mind-blowing 0-days.
I did have many of the issues commented here but recent beta releases fixed many of them for me. Wifi seems stable, I can answer phone calls if the phone is nearby, it certainly become faster over time.

I'm on a previous generation rMBP 13".
You should see what you have to do to get SMS Continuity working if you have a phone provider that hasn't been "verified" by Apple as supporting iMessage: http://www.theonlinemac.com/windhelp
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I think that a large majority believe that it is to guarantee that their descendants receive royalties for all eternity.
I'm happy enough with PDF.js that I went out of my way to install it in Chrome (which is my primary browser for reasons).
Go to "System Preferences - Accessibility" and enable "Differentiate without Color" and "Reduce Transparency". Made a world of a difference to me, and I no longer think about Mountain Lion.
ucLinux gets you around the MMU problem... Was Linux ever built on 16-bit? The PDP-11 (the origin of Unix) was 16..
A controversial YouTube video could create a crazy new form of copyright
Then let me be one of the first. I like pdf.js and Australis.
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In the US, wealth inequality correlates strongly with median age over time. In a regression, raising median age can explain 89% of the raise in wealth inequality of the top 10% (my own calculation, using Picketty data, not online yet). The hypothesis behind this is that inequality tends to grow with age. Among 20 year olds, there is much less inequality than among 60 year olds. In fact, the richest even grow in wealth after retirement thanks to capital gains, widening the gap even more.

Maybe the system did not get less fair over the years, just the people older? I would guess that inequality within age groups did not change much over the past 50 years. But those age groups with lots of inequality grew larger.
In my understanding, a webapp is essentially a "desktop-like" application for the browser, i.e. something like gmail or an online paint program, something that is interaction driven, will probably use websockets for giving a realtime feeling, etc. A website is the traditional static content, like a blog or a news site. Obviously, these are just relative and its a scale so there cross-over and sometimes its hard to define in exactly which category an app/site falls.
Away from Free Software™, yes. Away from open-source software? Not at all. The MIT/BSD-licenced parts of OSX get updated all the time.
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quite different--
Web app, think Google Docs/Sheets.

Web site, think blog, information landing page, or even web store product page(s).

Web app is highly interactive (may or may not be an SPA single page app), relying heavily on javascript for UI events, saving/fetching application state, remote datasets, and sometimes making use of modern HTML5 browser features.

Web site is displaying information and is just augmented with some javascript mostly for improving the UX or attaching analytics/social plugins etc.
Came here to say exactly that. They both look a lot clearer and less lossy than Daala.
Keep in mind that bitcoin transactions are not reversible, so any refund would require the merchant's approval.
MIT's distributed systems class is also taught in Go - http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/schedule.html
While I'm (we're) critical of the regressions when it comes to UI performance, switching to linux means giving up an entire ecosystem of apps, completely changing workflows, and in some cases depending on the kind of development that one does, making our jobs impossible.
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>That analysis is based on the assumption that the copyright term from the first US copyright act from 1790 somehow got it right for all time

If anything it should be shorter. So if you're open to re-negotiating this duration, I move that we reduce it to 3 years, all-inclusive.

Furthermore, I move that DRM-ed works be made ineligible for all copyright protection. You either get DRM or copyright, but not both.

Finally, I move that corporations can be sued to have their copyright privileges revoked for a period of no less than 50 years if they are caught destroying or interfering with works that should eventually enter the public domain. No more dumping film reels in the river because the warehouse costs are inconvenient.

But, if you don't want to put this on the table to be negotiated, then perhaps we can live with 14 years. Up to you.