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> Additionally, full-blown Visual Studio is totally free now.

Not exactly. Anyone inside an "enterprise organization" (according to Microsoft's arbitrary definition) is even worse off than before, because Microsoft won't be releasing the Express editions any more.

From http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community...

Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:

- Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:

- An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

- For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
> There is definitely a mainstream view supporting the media companies

Supporting companies against excessive regulations in general and supporting monopolies (i.e. preventing antitrust restrictions and supporting aticompetitive market capture) is not the same thing. The first should serve freeing the market. The second serves only reducing its freedom, nothing else.

Also, consider that exactly the same companies who are against enforcing Net neutrality are perfectly fine with the politicians which write for them state laws which ban competition. I.e. blatant excessive regulation, and very unhealthy one with that. Those are the same companies and politicians which at the same time scream about how bad regulation will be if Net neutrality will be enforced. Hypocrisy much? Or may be they simply are against regulation which weakens their monopoly and pro regulation which strengthens it?

As you can see it has nothing to do with partisan or "mainstream" views on regulation in general. It's about greedy monopolists and their bought corrupted bureaucrats. Who in their normal mind would voluntarily support such a thing?
Steep changes in the slope can introduce visual distortions when you compare the gap between two series. If you download and plot the difference, I think you'll see less of a change.
The IOU of iOS
The trouble is that an editor shouldn't require a 2010+ MacBook Air in order to be blazing fast. As I recall, we were running syntax-highlighting editors on ~166 MHz Pentium machines in the mid 90s. Hell, maybe I even ran one on my old 80486 laptop.
I've got this lawn I need mowed. I keep shooting at it with my handgun, but it doesn't seem to be working. Does anyone know of any higher caliber rifles I could use to cut this grass? Greatly appreciate it.
Pump and dump doesn't require that the stock be traded on an exchange -- the idea is to manipulate perception and, thereby, demand to improve the price you can sell at, which applies no matter what mechanism you are using to sell.
I must say, having switched from Google OpenID 2.0 to Google OAuth2.0 for authentication on our site I raised an eyebrow when I belatedly read on Homakov's 2013 blog[1] that OAuth2.0 was never intended for authentication, only authorization for certain discrete resources. At least with Stack Exchange doing it I'm in good company, but - if Egor is correct - it raises the question what's really a good choice for authentication nowadays.

[1] http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/03/oauth1-oauth2-oauth.html
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Inertia in it's client base mainly. As drag forces continue to slow it down those profits will disappear.
Ah, that may be true. However, there was a push within my division to standardize all of our tools with VS (there used to be a separate editor for X++ but now it's all VS), and I've heard other things about other divisions.
Simpsons Pixels
SQL Server Express is pretty useful on it's own. The only limit is the database size be under 10GB. That's a pretty high limit for a lot of applications.
> None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed

Even the local news gives this disclaimer almost every time they mention the unemployment rate. Maybe it's not that nobody tells you, but that the author just didn't notice it.
When your debugging code, being able to see all of the code in the stack trace is valuable alone.
They needed the decryption key to be available to the web application because they had modified it to silently decrypt the data coming back from the db so that no one would catch on to their ruse until they'd encrypted enough data to be damaging.
Yep.

And, just to be clear, that's what Uber does. Not in as simple and straightforward a way as you're suggesting, but at least large fractions of the time, it pays its drivers more than its passengers pay it (for example: it's constantly giving me $10 coupons. It has sign-up bonuses and income guarantees for drivers. Etc.) Of course, it's spending investment money, not money from its other non-existent businesses.

So if you and your fiancee want to try this business, you can do it right now with Uber. Or Lyft. I suspect you will find that despite the fact that there is theoretically a fair amount of money on the table here, they've made it obnoxious enough to get that you won't bother with it.
Thank you for appreciating it. :)
This is actively being worked on by core developers. See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Preview-of-Meteor-on-W... if you want to try the pre-release.
I'm not sure I can think of any editor that's as laggy as atom.

In all fairness though: I wouldn't notice 99% of the time, and I can well imagine that this problem will disappear with time.
Sublime seems to be back on track. In the last week it received two updates :)
That may be the case. Pricing for this service is still something I'm figuring out.
You can't screw up.

No matter what you do, it'll feel like the right thing in retrospect.

You'll either slog it out and be proud of your endurance and the safe bet, or you'll cut your losses and strike out on your own, and be proud of your bravery and unwillingness to put up with unsavory conditions.
San Francisco and Madrid, yes. Oakland? No, it's not that widely known, to that level.
> a fine school reading list book

I'm pretty sure a book can't get on those lists any more without a theme of oppression or alienation. I'm not joking. Almost everything they make kids read any more is somehow about injustice or bigotry.

Apropos Southern Gothic lit, I'm chuckling at the thought of a typical 9th grade english teacher trying to tackle a much better book like Flannery Oconnor's "The Violent Bear it Away." Doesn't quite fit the essay templates they raise the kids on.
This looks really interesting - especially since I am wondering where I want to take my career. I have studied CS and worked as a SAP CRM consultant for approximately ten years now, but always hang around sites like this one... and am getting more and more frustrated with the environment in which most stuff in my line of work happens (mid sized businesses in risk-averse sectors which see IT as a boring tool to sell whatever they produce). I had already wondered how I can polish my CV with more modern technologies, and this just seems to fit really well :)
Never heard of openssl_seal() until now -from my brief read am I right in thinking it's a similar workflow to PGP?
One reasoning I read was that the board does not want a CEO transition during this time. It would adversely affect the stock price further. And at this point what corporate leader with enough positive recognition to advance the stock price would want the job.
Testing the effects of a 3rd party CDN forcing HTTPS via a redirect
To my knowledge C#/.NET has far superior language tooling included in the box with Roslyn. They also mention some sort of Omnisharp support.
This would mean sales tax in all 50 states for amazon purchases.
Her. In a "history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes" example, she's the wife of the previous President.
Double Bacon with side of Bacon
Not to mention make an impressive and accessible demo-space for their increasing stake in devices and media (try Amazon Prime Video! try Kindle Fire!).

It'd be a hell of a lot better than the neglected "demo" devices glued to a display in Best Buy they have right now.
I'm pretty sure that Amazon will use the best positioned stores as forward stocking locations. They experimented with a similar concept at WebVan i believe. I also think they now realize that what Postmates and Instacart are doing today (using the city as a warehouse) is actually working and can be attractive to customers.
Those using U3 to promote a positive narrative all know that the general public mistakenly believes "5% unemployment" = "95% of people who want to work full time are working full time."

That's what's misleading.
No worries. Honestly, usually it's best just to use the article's original title, whatever it was.
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This is probably a bad idea and I would bet (and probably win) that less aggressive unrolling would be better in pretty much all cases except a micro-benchmark.

This kind of trick worked well on CPUs in the 1980s (as jvoorhis points out in another comment). It works wonder for micro-benchmarks. It is a net loss for any CPU and workload where instruction cache miss rate can severely impact performance. That is to say, pretty much everything made after 1990s and doing more than just shuffling memory around.

The problems are: 1) this is a large fraction of I-Cache size, 2) unrolling doesn't actually save much (or sometimes anything) on out-of-order multi-issue cores.

First off: extremely aggressive unrolling results in increasing I-cache thrashing. This is usually not apparent in micro-benchmarks, because the entire working code set fits in the I-cache. It becomes apparent if the unrolling is stupid enough to be larger than I-cache (or usually just close enough to it), because then you're spending just as much (usually more) time re-fetching instructions from memory as you are moving data around. That's why picking the best result from a micro-benchmark is misleading. In real use cases, you find that functions like this one tend to cause a "global slow down", with no specific function accounting for it, because they're greatly reducing the effectiveness of the I-cache.

Also, unrolling doesn't really do much these days. You can do better than REP MOVSD and friends - go read Intel's documentation for their recommended sequences (which has a nasty habit of changing every damn CPU generation). Modern out-of-order, multi-issue cores can very easily saturate their load/store units, while also executing all those pesky loop counters and branches. In fact, that's the whole point of being out-of-order and multi-issue: keeping units busy.

So, please can everybody stop using Duff's device, unless: 1) you're targeting a CPU which has no I-cache (e.g tightly coupled ROM/RAMs), 2) you really do have a working set where this fits well enough to be better, 3) you're trying to cheat on benchmarks, or 4) you're trying to obfuscate your binaries against reverse engineering.
> When the Government successfully killed the US Citizen, using a military drone strike, in a Country the US was not authorized to use the Use of Force (under International Law)

Which international law address US use of force in Yemen?
It's also my question. A working design must also be cheap. The "A liter of light" project is a great example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Fpsw_yYPg

The prototypes shown are far from achieving cost effectiveness it seems.
I'm implementing a brand-new GUI application in Win32 right now, for three reasons:

1) It's going to be used in conjunction with other legacy applications that only run on Windows PCs anyway.

2) GUIs designed for both phones and PCs don't work well on either, it seems to me.

3) In fancy high-level frameworks you often eventually end up calling a bunch of Win32 functions, so I might as well learn it. :)
The last time I with Drew a large sum from the bank, he did run it through accounting machine and most of those have OCR abilities.

Businesses I've been involved with write down the serial numbers of high denomination bills when cash drawers are filled. I wouldn't be surprised if banks were aware of which serials were in their cash drawers for inventory purposes basically.

It's true that the only real tracking that goes on with serial numbers currently to catch criminals is recorded cereals in bank robberies and black market transactions. However, the capability is there to construct some small amount of conclusions about regular people based on where bills go. I wasn't saying it's widely in use for everyday surveillance.
Don't worry about it, because you too can go volunteer for the Whitehouse and make America a better place one tech at a time.
Why you should be using ImmutableJS
Things like this are great for data-processing pipelines with an enumerated set of common operations, most of which input and output the same data type. For instance, any data that can be redefined as a matrix, since a lot of matrix operations result in another matrix (or a vector, which is just a restricted matrix).

However, I can't help but feel that applying it any more generally is a hammer->nail issue. Or, at least, completely invalidates the idea of "massively reusable components". To make components more reusable, they have to make fewer assumptions about their input. To make fewer assumptions, they will typically need to do less. The reductio ad absurdum argument is that you end up with a bunch of components that each correspond to what would have been a line of code in a text editor, and all you've gained is a pretty picture.
Except Delaware. No sales tax there.
Yep absolutely, have been wondering about the C1, my only concern is that getting OpenCV and some of the supporting libraries to build on the Pi was a big challenge but doable because there's such a large community to help out. The same was true with WiFi and Camera drivers.

So the C1 and related boards look great but I'm cautious of building around something with a smaller community just because of the potential for it taking far longer to troubleshoot the underlying stuff I need setup to work on the actual project. That said I'm pretty sure I'll succumb to a c1 in the next couple of months!
What drew me to this article is the general trend of the marginal, but loved, businesses being forced out of business. It's amazing how many small businesses that allow folks to do what they love, provide part-time work for people needing the experience, and contribute to the general "happiness / uniqueness" of an area are basically one storm away from disappearing.

I'm sure they'll be replaced by a Starbucks or other big company place that knows the tax system and can bring their scale to bear. Might even employee more people, or maybe one of those companies doing some automation since the cost of the worker is higher than the profit they generate.

Regardless, your cool area looks more and more like a strip mall. The strange and unique mostly lives at the margins.
Extensive discussion from a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8979820
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Who cares? Is going to be slow an unusable non the less.
Would the fixed fulcrum handle un-even loads the same way? I understand you can distribute weight on each side but seems like it would be more difficult to load vs a non-fixed fulcrum.
LG only sells it's latest HBS900 headset at AT&T stores and when I visited, their only model was tied down to the table - no way for me to pick it up much less wear it before I was supposed to buy it.
Ants and their colonies are so fascinating to me that I'm constantly saddened by Maxis's decision to not remake SimAnt. I'd be happy with a SimBee, too.
Which is exactly why she got the raise/bonus. It was probably agreed too before she ever took the job.

She'll do the dirty work, get paid VERY WELL for it, so the firm itself can save face. She'll leave next year with a few mill in her pocket. AND IBM will blame their woes on "her" plan.
I'm sure Amazon is eying every struggling retailer the exact same way.
They currently collect sales tax in 24 states[1,2], and I'm guessing the writing is on the wall in the other 26. I don't know if there's any truth to this Radio Shack rumor, but I'd expect that avoiding tax nexus status probably isn't as big a deal for them as it used to be, because they're going to be forced to do soon, one way or another.

[1] http://ilsr.org/rule/states-amazon-sales-tax-map/

[2] http://blog.taxjar.com/michigan-sales-tax-nexus-law/
Based on what the article states, the sudden bad reviews are particularly evil for many older employees. In order to bypass previous layoffs, many agreed to a specific retirement date and reduced pay/hours until that date.

The catch was they had to maintain a yearly review rating that was better than 3. Once they get that bad review it appears all that goes out the window, no job, no severance, no retirement benefits.

If this is all true, and is consistent for thousands of people, then IBM may have a class action lawsuit against them for wrongful termination.
I don't think that this is meant to be sold to the poor demographic. I would rather think that this is just applying design principles and the design sprint as an exercise to an untouched piece of technology.

That being said, I could easily imagine some charity that either sells these designs at an extremely (or free) discounted rate to these workers in an effort to relieve back pain and the myriad of other physiological issues the traditional pole yields.
It doesn't, they just can afford to bleed cash all over the place do that thanks to their monopoly money, which is virtually an endless resource.
Google Ventures:  Unconscious bias at work
Too many colors and the text is tiny in boxes that are too big.
It sounds like you're conflating "terrorist" with "criminal". A criminal is, by definition, a person who breaks the law. A terrorist has a different definition--back in the day it meant something along the lines of committing acts of mass violence for a political/ideological motive. Unabomber, plane hijackers in the 70's and 80's, McVeigh, etc. Putting Ferguson looters in the same class as the Unabomber shows precisely how dangerous such a conflation can be. According to you, missing a payment on your cable bill--i.e. breaking the law--is an act of terrorism. What a terrifying world it is, the one you seem to live in.
OpenID Connect is an entirely separate protocol from OpenID 2.0. Essentially, it's an extension of OAuth2, which is difficult to implement correctly on your own. Libraries are available for most languages for it, though.
This scenario is one of the main reasons we are doing this. We would love to talk to you more and see where we can help. I would really appreciate it if you could email me at alif@zyring.com so we can talk more.
I think the user typically balances uneven loads with their hand slung over one side (ie, carrying the pole front-to-back rather than side-to-side). In this way the flexibility of the original design is useful.
Immutable Data and React [video]
Everyone knew everything about everything they do then AI would be easy.
Have you tried thrust? For a limited but very useful set of operations, it is nearly that painless, as long as you don't mind a generous helping of C++ template boilerplate.

http://thrust.github.io/

For single GPU stuff, I find myself writing the performance critical kernels in cuda, and using thrust for nearly all the easy stuff.
They can also walk on broken glass with bare feet.
Hard to say without knowing more - how big is your team currently, and what specific engineering positions are you hiring for?

Have you gotten any feedback on why engineers are passing?
This is an old project
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
but the idea is still sound. It's routing inspired by ant colonies, for anonymous file sharing.

See http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml for an explanation of the algorithm
Not to be confused with the 23mm cannon fired from Salyut 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_3#On-board_gun
Unity has been developing their own runtime for a while now to get away from the mono licensing costs of using a new version. I'll be interested to see how they react to Microsoft open-sourcing a lot of stuff they might have been able to use.
Meanwhile in Germany failed attempts to bring in a phone (and drugs) through drones were caught

(Link in German)
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/hamburg-drohne-mit-drogen-stu...
Sadly, the Thinkpad X230 seems to be replaced by the newer X240 now. Any idea if it's working just as well? I probably can still get a refurbished X230 somewhere, but the screen is a bit too bad :(.
My initial impression is that Radio Shack stores are too small to be used primarily for stocking.
I think their program has always been more militarized than ours. For instance, prior to 1980 they launched space stations with attached machine guns; later they developed a space launch system that visually looks much like the space shuttle and planned to launch a prototype Deathstar with a 1-megawatt laser.
So, AmAShack or Radiozon?

I'm not sure I see the logic/advantage of taking over existing RadioShack locations as opposed to just making real estate decisions based upon Amazon's own requirements.

A select subset of their stores might be quite select (and limited in number).
Not to mention it’s not really a “test” so much as a thought experiment. It’s far too loosely designed to be a real test.
Spiting myself? I'm sure I make more money in private sector.
> a shell emulator, like cygwin

Your joke is much better. Have an upvote ;-)
Should we expect more zero days against .net as a short term effect of the source code becoming available?
Perhaps Amazon is looking to use these locations as pickup-up-places for shipped packages?
So I'm still a little fuzzy as to what this means. Is this basically the same thing that Mono is trying to provide? Would it now be possible to have the F# front end link to the CoreCLR backend on Linux?