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good points, but yeah the reason i lump them together (even though I agree that C preprocessors vs. css vs. js vs. jvm abstraction are obviously very different technologies) is that in the context of this discussion, i see them as a layer of abstraction that basically mangles the ability for code analysis (whether it be static or in debugging) to happen in a way that feels comprehensive

for some technologies this is being alleviated with source maps, but it still feels like over-complication when there are library alternatives available (Underscore, as you point out). Because when it comes down to it you will need to debug & understand some language paradigms/quirks of the language you are transcompiling to, so it would behoove the developer to be as fluent in the target language as possible (& of course, coding natively in it to begin with promotes fluency...)

as the tools become stronger the danger disappears, yet the base language has simultaneously matured to the point where this extra technology may be nearing obsolescence... i understand in js there is some lag with web standards boards etc., but taking Java as an example, annotations and other language functions were added while simultaneously the libraries/containers (web frameworks, Spring, EE) got more powerful. It is a pretty strong & mature toolset probably mainly due to the language evolution always being forced back toward the core.

From the limited amount I know, the other JVM languages are implemented against the JVM spec which is matured in a similar way, thus facilitating easier implementation of language features & interoperability.
From AnandTech's coverage (http://anandtech.com/show/8814/intel-releases-broadwell-u-ne...):

Support for HEVC is also present in terms of a combined (hybrid) hardware and software solution, just as it was on Core-M. Intel stated that as parts of the H.264 algorithm are near if not identical to those of the H.265, with a small tweak to the hardware it can be used for both. This is still not an all-encompassing hardware acceleration, but it does aim at some parts of the codec. I would speculate that if a full section of the silicon could be made for complete hardware acceleration, it might eat into certain power budgets.
Well, with MB Air holding charge for 8-11 hours you don't really need to have it connected to power all the time.

And even if you run out of juice, you can probably recharge it within 30-60 minutes. So it would only mean this long without a usb drive.

Finally, who knows - perhaps Apple will turn the power brick into a usb hub.
> to things like Magsafe on the MacBooks

Unfortunately, the owner of patents on magsafe is unlikely to allow that to happen.
This service is ancient. Not designed for the phones of today I guess.
> I would guess it was at least $40, else why pay $40 for a flashcart?

I will concede that this is reasonable for a lower boundary.

However, it's not that simple. Human psychology being what it is, if he couldn't buy the $40 flashcart it's not certain that he would buy say, two $20 games that he ended up putting on that flash cart. Maybe instead he orders pizza. Being blocked from the flashcart alters decision paths that don't always lead back to video games or even entertainment in general. But with that said, again, I'll accept $40 as a rough lower boundary.

> People who buy 3DS flash carts never buy a game again (in my experience),

Anecdotal, of course, but this seems reasonable. I don't dispute it.

In my own personal experience, people who start downloading movies never buy DVDs again. So not only do I agree, I think we can generalize it either to most entertainment, or all entertainment.

> Also because they 'paid for piracy' (unlike on PC), they (I believe) feel happier not paying for games in future.

Morally, they bought physical goods that employed other people and let those people earn a living. Additionally, those claiming to have been wronged here still earned millions and billions in profit.

Who can fault them for feeling as if no bad outcomes occurred?
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I can't remember the company-name, but wasn't there a story about how their sales/marketing folks hyped the improvements in upcoming Product 2.0 so much that all their long-term-focused customers decided to skip buying Product 1.0, and they went out of business?
I read a lot of watch blogs, they do sweepstakes and brand reviews that I love to read. http://www.ablogtowatch.com/watch-giveaway-tudor-heritage-ch...
Recently discovered this; super useful.
But that's different than problems created by the doctor.

Edit: granted, this still can happens when self-medicating. The general case of doctors fixing the mistakes of doctors is different than what the parent suggests.
Why do you think creating interest from real life is going to make them not "want to learn math"? That makes no sense.

Teaching is all about benevolent dishonesty. The first thing a teacher does is dumb themselves down to their students' level.
first some questions. Do you have savings, can you work in Asia at a full time or part time position an work on your project on the side? You mentioned you can't contact your existing network? Something going on there that you need to avoid these people?
If this were epidemiology, we would talk about "total morbidity." If I develop a flu vaccine that 100% stops flu deaths but kills 10% of patients via heart attacks, I have not improved the situation. A troll or person otherwise committed to a narrative that my flu vaccine should be foist on everyone might say "a flu death is a flu death" but it's not what matters.

About half of American households have access to a gun while about half of suicides are done via gun. The US is within 10% of most other first world countries in terms of suicide rate. The real world evidence is that if you got rid of guns in an attempt to stop suicides, the strong majority of those who want to commit suicide would find another method.
Middle-click-to-instacopypaste-highlighted-text is a well-established standard on Unix/Linux and people are highly resistant to losing it.

I like the Windows convention that the middle-mouse is entirely for navigating the viewpane, so I'd prefer if it was just ctrl+command+click or something for the "selection-paste" operation, but that kind of UI change is a hard sell.
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It's a security patch in the sense that the only way to get the security patches is to install the new version.

But thanks for the info. That seems like a pretty bad practice when it comes to a lib such as OpenSSL. Having to do changes to the build process to integrate an urgent security fix seems less than optimal.
On non flagship devices, you feel the difference between dalvik and ART. The latter having less overhead and reaching lower latency, but it comes in spikes which is a regression in terms of UX (I prefer less fast but predictable).
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If you're already on Haswell, or even IVB, Broadwell isn't worth it. I'd wait for Skylake.
From mini to micro they moved the stress and failure points from the port to the connector. I'd rather replace a cable than a port, so imo it was a significant improvement.
Out of curiosity: can anyone w/ the relevant experience explain why older consoles like the NES and the GB have "mirrors" in their memory map? I haven't programmed embedded systems so I really don't understand what the advantage might be.

I thought the Gameboy was odd enough with it's 'echo' of WRAM. (Which isn't even a complete mirror; it stops partway through WRAM#1.)

Reading the NES memory map though it gets quite silly! There's a mirror ($2008-$3FFF) that repeats a set of 8 registers ($2000-2007) _every 8 bytes._

Was this simply a matter of having more address space than physical memory? Or were these mirrors actually useful when programming these consoles?

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I thought it might have to do w/ different addressing modes; perhaps you could save some bytes by just storing offsets or something. But that makes no sense in the context of the Gameboy. Many of the z80's extended instructions are gone; the only "interesting" addressing mode is a handful of instructions which treat an 8-bit address as an offset from $FF00.
Just learn the language for the project based on requirements and tooling.

For example, SQL when required to use databases, Objective-C when coding for iOS, Java on Android, JavaScript on the browser, C on UNIX, ...

Alternatively, take a CS degree in a good university and enjoy up to 5 years of multiple languages, usually one per CS area/paradigm.

On my university we had to program in Pascal, C, C++, Caml Light, Prolog, Java, Smalltalk, Algol, depending on the assignment.
If smartguns run Linux, maybe we could make that article!
I'd consider selling it. I'm sure there's a 100lb GIS gorilla that would snap you up. Have you tried waving it at them. I'm afraid the only one I know is MapInfo who I'm sure got bought out by Pitney Bowes back around 2005?
The US does openly employ people to do this. One article about it: http://www.wired.com/2012/07/counterterrorism-trolls/all/
I agree. I love concepts that focus on making things as fast as possible (being kind of a performance nerd myself). But it's also possible to keep things much more pleasing in aesthetical terms.
Seems like INRIA is starting to do some formal checking of OpenSSL. Here's their page: http://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/

Here's another OpenSSL flaw that was found with Coq, a formal prover: http://ccsinjection.lepidum.co.jp/blog/2014-06-05/CCS-Inject...
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These types of creations always make me feel embarrassed about the things I've built in Minecraft.

Then again, I don't really have the free time outside of family and work to dedicated to building things on that scale.
Which is pretty poor, it's like the iPhone 5 (released slightly before the N4) not being able to run iOS 8. I mean it's a different price range, sure, but you'd expect to install software updates 2 years later without it breaking a core feature like making a phone call.
The existence and decline of FiOS is the perfect example of unintended regulatory consequences. FiOS never would have happened if fibre hadn't been excluded from unbundled access requirements. Line-sharing was eliminated around the same time, bringing on the decline of alternative DSL providers. So Verizon spends a few years doing FiOS build outs instead of improving their copper networks, the DSL competition dies off, and now they've stopped investing in their whole wireline business in favor of wireless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-great-veriz...

I don't know what Title II means for ISPs. I see nothing wrong with companies paying for a "fast lane", if we define the fast lane as paying for a level of service to my devices in excess of what I'm buying (ie: If I'm paying for 6Mbps of service, Netflix can buy me an extra 10Mbps to guarantee a better streaming experience). I do have a problem with ISPs purposefully allowing their peering connections to become overloaded in order to extract payment from content companies. I'm not paying Comcast for 100Mbps of bandwidth to their speedtest servers; I'm paying for 100Mbps of bandwidth to the content companies' networks!
I sell doodads.

You've never bought one from me.

Can I claim that you've hurt me? After all, you've never bought any. (I can show you my bank account balance, I really am hurting).

The sticking point, the part that will make it feel to you as if my statement above is non-sensical, is somehow you've managed to attach the idea that they're selling something to the idea that other people have a (very) similar something but haven't paid. So to you that feels like "theft". But it wasn't always this way.

The way you feel has been cultivated, just in the last few decades. And though they've cultivated it for music and movies and video games, I haven't (bothered, been able to, had enough influence) to cultivate the idea that if you haven't bought doodads from me that you've stolen from me.
he de facto open source WAMP router, crossbar.io, is written with Twisted, Python. For now it's Python 2.7 only, but Autobahn Python, the Python client, works with Twisted or asyncio (Python 3)

The cool thing is that it's an open standard registered at IANA (https://www.iana.org/assignments/websocket/websocket.xml), and you can talk WAMP with clients in C++/Java/C#/PHP/JS.

It's pretty nice for the IoT and real time apps.
I understand that the chips mentioned in the article are for the ultrabook market. But Intel will roll out the 14nm architecture to its entire line.

The comment I was responding to expressed a desire for no die space dedicated to graphics and perhaps a doubling of the cores. That is the recipe for a Xeon. The highest end i7s omit an iGPU as well, and go up to 8 cores currently, so I should have mentioned those as well, but a Xeon will go up to 18 (based on a quick check of their server CPU specs - I could have missed a larger one)[1].

[1]http://ark.intel.com/products/family/78583/Intel-Xeon-Proces...
When I started building computers in '04, I remember the old Newcastle AMDs were 130nm, and the new Hotness was Venice/San Diego 90nm. Now we have 32nm in Haswell, 14nm in Broadwell.
> Wouldn't a smart individual from a US site have detected this and shared, or a whistleblower have disclosed it?

Eventually, but eventually can be a long time. Didn't Project Mockingbird fly (hah) under the radar for 14 years?
Stay away from cheap USB adapters made by mystery manufacturers:

http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and...
Virtual reality is almost commercially viable, for real this time
Japan is an excellent example, even the police don't often carry guns if I remember correctly.
This is spectacular.

Redstone circuitry is an excellent exercise in the operation of digital circuits. I learned a ton about digital logic by trying to recreate stuff like this (albeit much more modest incarnations).

Building sophistication yourself out of base elements is the ultimate educational experience.
I'm not surprised, but that story doesn't ring any particular bells. Marketing always has to be reigned in; they'll promise whatever they need to to sell and leave us in a world of shit to actually deliver it.
Another practical reason where pro-gun vs. anti-gun traditionally do not see eye-to-eye is proximity/availability of police forces.

In the city, where most people are anti-gun, the police are often very close by, and rhetoric often talks about how guns are not needed because of the police.

In the country, where most people are pro-gun, the police can easily be very far away. I have co-workers who live at least an hour from the closest police station. Naturally, rhetoric covers the fact that the police very likely cannot help you.
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Wow that's so radical! /s
Don't assume everyone on here is an "armchair biologist".

There are several problems with IV antibiotics, some of which have been outlined in other comments:

1. It involves an IV. This means a hospital - that's both expensive for all involved, and the presence of an IV is in and of itself a risk for bacterial infection. Not all antibiotics kill all bacteria.

2. "The vast majority" = / = the ones experiencing resistance that are of clinical concern. C. difficile lives in your gut. MRSA on the other hand can live on your skin, and colonize your nasal passages. Both, additionally, cheerfully live on surfaces for quite some time (really quite some time for C. difficile).

3. IV antibiotics can reach your gut - some are excreted into the intestines. Metronidazole is, vancomycin isn't for example. And beyond that, much of the concern is with active infections, which are very likely not in your gut for many diseases, in contrast to just the background of your intestinal flora.

4. You're asserting that antibiotics reaching your gut from an IV would arrive in low doses. That's a good thing for promoting the development of resistance, not a bad thing, from the bacteria's perspective.
As long as "retina" means "high pixel density" and not necessarily an Apple product, how about the new Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/hands-on-new-lenovo-t...
I do have savings, I'm not in a burning position. I did get a job, but it's not in softdev; I'd prefer working in engineering.

I don't exactly _have_ to avoid my old network, but I wouldn't to explain them what kind of situation I am in.
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> Even so, the simplest biology dwarfs the largest IT systems in complexity.

Well said.
Thanks for the experience. I thought about that but wasn't sure it is a productive effort. A successful anecdote is extremely helpful.
Access to guns is very restrictive in Japan, extremely restrictive in fact, yet they have a higher suicide rate than the United States. http://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
I think you read too much into my words. I felt terrible for the victims too, but I didn't feel that mentioning this would have much value.

I completely agree with you, and as I might have mentioned in another comment, my experiences living among muslims has definitely not left me with only positive impressions. Reality is not so simple.

I merely wanted to emphasize my fear that this situation is a lot of fuel on the fire in those who oversimplify against muslims, and I felt that this was worth mentioning.
Here's how I took it: if you're just losing sensitivity at a particular frequency then you may only hear sounds in the 40-100dB range, below it's too quiet to register and above it's painful. That's a lot of information to lose but you can smash the 1-100dB range into the 40-100dB range. If you choose to you could even smash the 1-60dB range into the 40-60dB range (or pick whatever numbers) and leave everything above that relatively untouched. This is a fairly common sound engineering technique to fill out a sound without destroying its dynamics.

So if you picture a scale next to the bear picture from 1-100, then the bottom part of the bear is what's beneath the (effective) noise floor for that frequency. To extend the analogy to multiband compression you'd have maybe 10 bears next to each other, each missing different amounts and each needing a slightly different smashing to lift the bottom of the picture into the visible range.

edit: I think people are assuming that the frequency content of the bear picture corresponds to the frequency content of sound (they're all signals, right?) but to me it's a much more basic analogy. To do it that way you'd have to be turning up the soft reds or something to that effect, but rods and cones being what they are we don't lose vision in a comparable way to how we lose hearing so I don't think there's a good, intuitive visual analog in that sense.
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Yes, Osborne Computers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
> "Look at the nearby discussion: Instead of asking why Carmen Ortiz, who's been in her current job for nearly six years, is still there, we're debating the terms of use of the petition site. Instead of wondering why a law originally designed to protect NORAD was used to drive Aaron Swartz to suicide -- despite his JSTOR "victim" never asking for a criminal prosecution -- we're reminiscing about other, equally useless, petitions in the past."

As an interesting aside, I was reading the article about the internal communications of the Chinese communist party's propaganda machine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856218) and one of the internet commenters on the payroll for the Party had this to say:

> “When transferring the attention of netizens and blurring the public focus, going off the topic is very effective.”

I find the USG response to this petition laughably transparent in the same way, but it will still be effective in general.

> "The White House's non-response on the two-year anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death shows why these petitions are not only flawed, but should be avoided by people who actually care about political or policy change."

This has always been true; it's not just in this specific case or with respect to whitehouse.gov. A petition is a slightly more sophisticated form of the "like" button, invented in a pre-internet time. Intelligent, directed actions sustained over a period of time cause changes; a boolean expression of opinion without the threat of some undesirable (by those perpetuating the status quo) action behind it is just a way of venting.
I'm concerned about QoS. Will it be legal to throttle HTTP for voice traffic?
Why is no-ssl3 a non-standard build? Debian uses it:
CONFARGS = --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/usr/lib/ssl --libdir=lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-zlib enable-tlsext no-ssl2 no-ssl3
From the article

Zhanggong district is Ganzhou’s administrative center and home to about 460,000 people.

“There are at least 5,000 districts this size or bigger,” said Qiang Xiao

Am I missing something here? Do districts in China overlap? The population in China is currently standing at around 1.357 billion [0] according to World Bank, United States Census Bureau. Quick math puts 5,000 * 460,000 at 2.3 billion.

The list of districts in China [1] is quite long. And when sorting for 2010 population there are quite a lot above 500,000 but it certainly can't be 5,000. Must be a misquote.

[0] - https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_in_China
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Not knowing all of the details, I'm not sure how reasonable this would be, but another possibility is to keep ownership of it, and pay someone else to fix bugs. The key question there is how much that would cost (in both your dollars and your time) vs. how much you are making on the application.
Isn't Alaska on the list of soon-to-be legal recreational states?
It might be an unpopular opinion, but "I am not Charlie".

Even as atheist, some of those Mohammed caricatures are not funny or satire, they are simply over the line. Not just juvenile, silly or stupid.
In most other countries they would be forbidden. E.g. this one from 2010, who caused the stir and death threat. http://torstenh.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CH8.jpg
France has a different liberal, explicit anti-clerical and anti-censorship tradition. The US and scandanavian countries also. But elsewhere it would be illegal.

Compare them to similar Jesus caricatures, e.g. http://www.zensur-archiv.de/index.php?title=Satire

It's a fine line and in some cases german Titanic covers were allowed. "Ein Strafverfahren wurde von der Frankfurter Staatsanwaltschaft mit dem Verweis auf die "Satire" und deren Mittel der "Verzerrung" und Übertreibung" abgelehnt. (Sdt. 24./25.4.2010)"

The legal situation in Germany and Austria:
§ 5 explicitly states to respect the religious beliefs of the population. In addition to the insults of religious faiths (§ 166 para. 1 of the Criminal Code).

Anybody who explicitly agrees with Charlie Hebdo and posts images will probably fall under these paragraphs in those countries.
From your link:

> Within the State Department, a Silicon Valley veteran has quietly launched an improbable new initiative to annoy, frustrate and humiliate denizens of online extremist forums.

Not exactly the comment section of BBC, is it?