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What? You mean between Northern Ireland and Ireland? That's the only land border the UK has, and it's one hell of a trek from London, and on the wrong side of the Irish Sea.

Sorry, I'm wrong, just thought of the other land border - Gibraltar and Spain. Still, he's going to do well to sneak across either of those... and sneaking around Europe, into Gibraltar, only then to sneak across the amazingly heavily guarded border there... is probably the worst escape plan I could think of.

Further edit: OK, Cyprus and Akrotiri, too, which is even further afield.
Sorry that phrasing was overly terse. In many regions of the UK the police won't come out to petty car or property crime, let alone conduct an investigation. They will issue a crime number by telephone.

If the stolen goods are identifiable and turn up in some way, you may get some progress. Or similarly if the pattern of crime suggests it is worth their time trying to catch a prolific offender. Or if the crime is more severe than quotidian offences. But typically the crime number allows you to make your insurance claim, it gets logged in the police crime database, and that's all that happens.

My evidence is the experience of myself, friends and family.
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>> "If the copyright holder is an individual, the minimum copyright term would extend to the lifetime of the creator plus 70 years after her death."

I'm quite a big supporter of copyright but that's absolutely ridiculous. I think the lifetime of the creator is very reasonable. I can even understand throwing in a decade after that so that the family of a creator who dies young/suddenly are supported for a while. 70 years is 3 or 4 generations of family.
I'm not really sure changing the behavior of fundamental operations really counts as metaprogramming, but in many ways I think it's very in-line with some conceptual constructs JS already has in place. Considering that you can access an object's properties by addressing an array, the ability to call a function by accessing a property isn't very alien. Considering the flexibility of JS, I'd be curious to see how crazy you could get.

At the same time, I'm also very scared to see what kind of crazy code this will lead to that I'd have to look at. I think lots of people will probably implement overly complex or obtuse ideas because they are interesting.
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>I would not even be impressed by 95%, i'd just call that 'normal'
probably, if you don't develop UI stuff.
Because the UK government is acting as proxy for the USA government!

(As if you didn't know that already :-P )
I was playing around on hackerrank the other day as practice for a job interview using it. I haven't used Perl for 4 year, since I moved to Python, but all the problems i looked at seemed like they would be easier to do in Perl. Autovivificvation, and features built into the syntax just made certain things way easier. It was all doable in python, but you needed to do more checking.
Indeed. It was one thing to release a prototype to people interested in experimenting and playing around. It was another to push it through a retail channel alongside designer frames.

Certainly the time they released it to the UK market Google would have known that they were selling an evolutionary dead end as if it were a product.

I would assume this was more an act of internal political cowardness at recognizing reality rather than grubbing for money.
Those are great links. Thank you very much.
Combine it with the sublime text plugin (https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter-shellcheck) and you got real time static analysis while without your shell scripts !
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I can say from my experience that in the UK property and car crime is seldom investigated. Police just issue a crime number for insurance.
You don't think Iceland wants to know why, or ensure that the action is lawful? Ordinarily speaking a democratic state doesn't have blanket powers to do as it pleases - the Icelandic authorities are bound by their own and EU laws, and other treaties.

I'm not suggesting they'd treat a request adversarially, I'm suggesting that they'd need to get evidence to apply to a court for a warrant (or whatever the local procedures are) under local laws or they'd need to ensure the operation met the requirements if the request was under CoE Convention say.

Perhaps I have too high an opinion of law enforcement agencies and the idea[l] of rule of law is just a charade?

Iceland are signatories to the ECHR for example which extends property and privacy rights.
Not working for me. In Ireland.
I want to turn your idea into a demo
I'm going to compete in the LAUNCH Hackathon at the end of the month, and want to present a demo that wows the judges.

I'm doing this because I work with a talented team, and we've decided to show rather than tell what we're capable of.

So what are some ideas you'd love to see a demo of? If you submit through https://launch.appoutloud.com and I pick your idea, then you'll have full ownership of the demo.
> For example, it would be difficult to make an instruction like fyl2x or fadd cause a privilege level change. The reason is that floating point instructions are executed on a separate unit (the FPU), with a separate decoder.

This is not true. On modern Intel CPUs, FP instructions are decoded by the same decoders as all other instructions. As for the rest of the pipeline, the whole point of picking a microcoded instruction is that microcode can emit any ops.

> It would make more sense to encode the backdoor on an illegal opcode, i.e. an opcode that under normal conditions would generate a UD# exception, but with the correct values in the registers it would trigger some undocumented behavior.

This would only be exploitable through native code, and if suspicions arose, it would be detectable and it would be possible to extract the magic instruction from it.

A much better vector is a microcoded slow operation with lots of input bits, and that gets emitted by javascript jits.

> Another question is how to hide this backdoor in the microcode. Presumably, at some point someone might stumble upon the backdoor and ask around about it. If the backdoor depends on some "magic values", it would be relatively easy to spot just by looking at the microcode.

Microcode for modern CPUs is signed and encoded in some manner (encrypted?). So long as the bad guys get between the team that designs the microcode and whatever process that encodes it, no-one will ever be even able to see the evil ucode.

> There's also the point that the author mentioned of "fixing" the processor at some point during the production process. I don't think that the author understands the way mass production of microchips works. It's very much not possible to do something like this while keeping the production price on the same level (or someone noticing this extra step in the production process).

It doesn't take extra steps, it takes small modifications in the masks of a few metal layers. If someone could make their few modifications into the files before the masks are written, this would be damn near impossible to spot.
The Javascript example kind of confuses the solution with the problem. The convoluted syntax of the 'callback-hell' is the problem. Monads does not solve this problem, rather the use of monads leads to that kind of syntax. The solution proposed for the syntactic mess is Haskells do-notation. Do-notation is not monads, rather it is syntactic sugar to make the use of monads bearable. Something like lisp macros would be a more general solution to the same problem.
http://calacanis.com/2015/01/27/why-hackathons-are-important... is great for inspiration.
To my knowledge Snowden isn't wanted for questioning over an alleged rape...

Edit : Why the downvotes?
Edit 2 : Changed from "To my knowledge Snowden hasn't raped anyone..."
That's rendition which Sweden has recently resisted wrt the US. Extradition is merely treaties and regulation, not strictly law. And it's full of nuances - e.g. exceptions for political crimes which is probably highly relevant in this case. I see no reason why a team of lawyers paid the same amount of cash reference in the article wouldn't be able to sort this out to the mutual satisfaction of the two (three if you include the UK) parties involved.
That is no excuse for bad writing. I couldn't imagine a clearer repudiation of the absurd hyperbole of the original article:

always been useless for
applications such as aircraft.

The Soviet Union built 1,186 of this "useless" aircraft, and it went on to have a multi-decade operational history.[1]

For its time the MiG-25 will undoubtedly turn out to be a much finer engineering achievement than today's F-35.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Operat...
From the article: UK police watchdog: burglary and car crime "on verge of being decriminalised."
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The US & EU have signed treaties requiring that the death penalty not be imposed (or carried out) if there's an extradition.

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_secur...

Why someone would flee Sweden to go to the UK when they are afraid of US extradition is beyond me. The UK has a much closer relationship with the US.
This will have a huge effect on the materials cost of laying fibre, no need to run electricity and/or lasers to boost / reframe the signal on long undersea cables. This means the cable itself will be much cheaper to manufacture, and it will be a smaller diameter meaning somewhat cheaper to lay.
I've had two motorcycles stolen in the UK. The police gave me a crime reference number and sent out a victim support letter; that was the sum total of their apparent effort.
tldr

Marketing and sales came in and fucked it over, as usual. Nothing new.
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And I can counter it by saying that, in the UK, I'm aware of cases in which property theft has been followed up by an investigation in which the perpetrators were caught. The original comment insinuated that we're living in some kind of free-for-all anarchy where you can get away with petty theft without any consequences, which is certainly not the case. (You can get away with non-petty theft without any consequences, but that's a whole other issue ...)
Same thing happens in the US. Called in a smash and grab on my car and was told that it happens all the time and that they don't come out or even take a report over the phone unless something was left in the car (rock or brick or tool used to smash the windows). Go fill out a form on the website. The crimes are on their radar, but investigating them individually would be hopeless.
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Thank you for the idea. I'm going to pass some regulation for my Wordpress sites so they'll never get hacked again.
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Assange is wanted for crimes that are unconnected with his political activism is. Everyone is human, incl Assange, everyone can make mistakes. Don't think your heros are perfect, they might not be.
> They're also getting beaten in the enterprise space. Most non-tech workers want everything through their phone.

No they don't. Most enterprise workers spend all day in front of a desktop Windows PC.
> This is where the beauty/simplicity of some programming languages

Simplicity? Yes, probably (at least as long as I am writing the code and not debugging it). But definitely not beauty. I find this particular behaviour the ugliest part of interpreted languages. I may make a small typo, incorrectly capitalize variable name or forget a quote and nothing will tell me that my code is wrong or where exactly it is wrong - it will silently skip the error and happily show me wrong results.
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I am fully with you on a capital tax. It would ensure a system of constant high utilisation.

Where it gets shouted down is from old people that have lived in their homes for 50 years and seen their property prices rise to make them millionaires on paper but with no real income. They claim its unfair to force someone from their home.

Having studied Alzheimer's disease, it's easier on the mind to live in one place for the majority of your life. Being forced to move later in life can be traumatic.

Once you start taxing capitol you'll end up with no more overpriced valuations, conservative banking will be back in vogue.
> (not that the evidence is terribly substantive...)

What evidence do you want/expect to see? Genuinely intrigued as so what burden of proof is deemed necessary in this situation.
I was thinking of NI border. If he can get out of the embassy and London, why not sneak to Scotland, boat across, and sneak over?
> With perfect use, condoms still yield a pregnancy rate of 2% per year.

Change your brand of condoms ;-)
More seriously, it's considered a good idea to use BOTH condoms and the pill.

> With Christianity, the founder was a man who shunned violence.

Except when he expelled the vendors from the temple apparently..

As for children education.. As an atheist I would teach my children about all the religions the many dead religions, the living religions, the cults, the non-religious opinions (atheism, agnosticism), somehow I doubt that most religious people do that..
Yes, you just wish to valiantly defend the right to berate someone in a public place, to the extent of dithering over which forms of base harassment you consider perfectly within rights apparently.[1]

This is the "freeze peach" argument all over again, and does nothing to dispute my point; it rather demonstrates it quite effectively.

So I ask again, since you're so fond of leading questions: why should the internet be 'special' as regards the consequences of being a twat to other people, be it in public or in private?

Twitter is under no moral, ethical, or legal obligation to allow you to call someone a "despicable whore" on their website.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9002479
You're correct about the carrot but the stick is that companies will pay another politician, who'll get funds to be elected instead of the one who refused to be bribed.
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"5 years, for another £30m"

Why is the cost suddenly going to treble?
The need for `set` has to do with syntax. In shells the first word of a statement is always considered to be the command, so "x = 5" will not work - it reads "execute command 'x' with arguments '=' and '5'". The traditional solution is to treat the command as an assignment when it contains '=', so you write "x=5" and you are prohibited from adding any spaces, which I find aesthetically very unpleasant.

I was not aware of the CoffeeScript approach towards shadowing before. I will look into it, but it seems to be a very controversial design choice of CoffeeScript.
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Your manager asked for ideas and you had one but didn't submit it. If you look at your manager's words (as you have described them), you can see one thing that he wanted, but your method doesn't provide: Assessment. Figure out how to add a way for them to know that you know Laravel and I am sure that they will approve it.

Read "Peopleware" and "Mythical Man Month", as they are the seminal works on programming as it relates to the people doing the work, and a lot of what was written after will assume you know about them already.

Joel Spolsky has written tons on tech management, for example: http://avc.com/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-j...

But you can find a lot of gems on his site.
And to my knowledge neither has Assange. He has been accused of rape, which isn't the same thing as being found guilty of rape. I accuse you of being a pederast - therefore you should report yourself to the police? No? No. It doesn't work that way.
They positioned it as an up-market, exclusive, fashion device. If you drive a BMW, you've automatically classified as an asshole. Not at all surprising that people wearing glass were labelled that way.
What is a defensive weapon?
One can only imagine the fun she would have had with a main character based on Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos!
> No one is paying for C# and Java directly

No one you know.

Suppose some large and wealthy entity has trouble running some money-making legacy application that happens to be running atop the JVM. Who do you think will they call to fix their issues asap?

.. Which is why there's a lot of interest in having the people working on the JVM on your payroll ..
They've a typo right smack on the first part of their page: "The Seige of Julian Assange is ...."

Trying to alert the owner of the site by following the 'contact' link, and I get an Undelivered (554) back from their mailservers.

<admin@govwaste.co.uk>: host mx1.privateemail.com[192.64.116.221] said: 554
5.7.1 <admin@govwaste.co.uk>: Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO
command)

Very shoddy impression.
From [1]:

"The next step in the Swedish proceedings is to conduct a second interview with him before making a decision whether to formally charge him. The prosecutor is presently disposed to charge him, unless any new evidence emerges that might change her mind. If a decision is taken to formally charge him, Assange would face trial within two weeks of that decision being made. It is difficult to see how this could happen if the final interview takes place in the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge. Even if he were interviewed in the embassy, if a decision was then taken to formally charge him, it is somewhat difficult to believe that Assange would suddenly renounce his claim to asylum in Ecuador."

[1] https://storify.com/anyapalmer/why-doesn-t-sweden-interview-...
He talked at length about his goals in a couple of Forbes articles.

His goal was anarchy, nothing more. In particular he explicitly did NOT want the war on drugs to end, because he feared if it did people would lose interest in fighting the state.

So people who see Ulbricht through the prism of non-violent drug addiction (or whatever) ... need a reality check. That wasn't Ross.
It doesn't make sense to assume that the RMP (police in Iceland) failed to follow Icelandic law. Especially when the memorandum you linked says they followed local law and applied for a warrant (or so).

Subsequently, after obtaining the legal process required under Icelandic law to search the server, and after consulting with U.S. authorities concerning the timing of the search, the RMP covertly imaged the server and shared the results with the FBI on or about July 29, 2013.

It's certainly possible that the memo is full of misrepresentations or that the FBI mislead the RMP, but I don't think it is so likely that it should be assumed to be the case.
I think you're misreading the situation. Scala.js sits on top of Javascript, and leverages everything in the JS ecosystem. Interoperability is central to the Scala.js story.

For example, I'm building a product with a moderately complex front end. I'm using about 10-15 JS libraries, including JQuery and JQuery UI, as part of that. I just write a strongly-typed facade on top of each library, describing what it does (which takes just a few minutes), and I'm off to the races. Similarly, other folks are doing things like writing Scala.js adapters for React, Angular, and so on.

So Scala.js isn't in competition with the existing JS libraries. Far from it: I think of it as a much better way to use the Javascript resources that already exist...
The burden of proof is always on the prosecutor - they have to prove you guilty, not the other way around.
There are ways of effectively letting it go without having to admit it. I mean, the UK is the origin of Yes, Minister, which provides plenty of lessons in the area of pretending to do stuff without actually doing it (and vice-versa).
I agree. The most damning thing I heard on this was a story about the military planning in the US after 9/11. During the practice roleplaying in the state department, in advance of its diplomatic efforts, the staffer 'playing' the UK ambassador was told to say or do whatever he thought would ingratiate him the most to the US.

As insulting to the UK as that is, I can't actually think of an example which would suggest they were wrong.

However, on the last point, true it is a rounding error, but ten million here, ten million there, if you're not careful, after a while it will add up to real money.
I read that more as personal attachments and enthusiasms led Brin to over invest and over promote the project in a way that was harmful. Perhaps the author also saw this as further evidence demonstrating fecklessness.
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Will Apple hit the 1 trillion dollar mark?
What other languages call all-important features Python calls a module in the standard library :)
In the US, as I understand it you wouldn't be able to use capital gains on this kind of thing because you haven't held the Bitcoins for a year. It would be "short term capital gain" which would be the same as ordinary income.

The real risk here is that if you don't track all the transactions and report and pay taxes on the profit (at, likely, ordinary income tax rates), you'll get nailed for tax evasion.

I imagine (though I have no experience) that this must be similar to having a marijuana based business. If you want to be legit you have to open a bank account... but not a lot of banks want to touch a business like that.

You might think you could just lie on the bank account opening form where it asks about what the business will be doing, and say you're opening a coffee shop or food cart (something with cash sales), but then you could be nailed for lying on a form, and since (again in the US) most accounts are FDIC insured, that could be under the rubric of lying to the Federal government (not good).

I don't have direct experience with this, IANAL etc., but these are some loose concepts that come to mind.

Too bad, great idea, classic good example of arbitrage/exploiting market inefficiencies. I think it's even do-able legitimately, though it's slightly too far along the risk-reward curve for my taste ATM.
This (asynchronous execution) means we are forced to use cooperative multitasking, which is probably not good for reduced latency, and therefore bad for responsiveness (compare to the Windows 3.11 days where we were forced to use cooperative multitasking).

Yes, I know most JS programs today use asynchronous execution successfully in practice, but to use it as the basis of a language platform is not a good idea IMHO. Especially when it comes to UIs, which need the responsiveness.

EDIT: web-workers are not a solution, because you can't share large data-structures efficiently between web-workers.
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A car with a 2% failure rate would break down on average once every 50 years. How many cars from 1965 are still running today?
> Maybe we're wrong, and you and Tarver are right, but as long as this is a debatable point most if not nearly all of the value of re-licencing has been negated.

I agree with your point. I think it's BSD, you think it's modified BSD. Who is right or not, it's up to lawyers to decide, and this is the exact reason why people wanted standard license for Shen, to avoid the confusion.

However, it's closer to standard license than previous, and I'll take the risk to use it for my personal projects, but I won't bother using it at work for anything, since I know my employer will not pay the lawyers to review it.
If you care about the learning curve:

Take a look at https://github.com/sinelaw/inferno
It aims to add a type system to a subset of Javascript. It's not quite ready yet, but it already shows quite some promise.

There's also Flow and Google's Closure/et-al, but they are more lenient and accept more valid and invalid programs.