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First, Antarctica is not "melting," and second it seems to have been happening for a long time.

Additionally, there has been no acceleration in sea level increases:

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.s...

Browse stations here: http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/mslUSTrendsTable.h...
Now we get to the technical debt debate. Sometimes, you have to make good decisions now instead of perfect decisions later. The market doesn't care how elegant your code is.
Operation staff will immediately start guarding the food bowl as resources become finite. Server provision waits start to seem like breadlines. Power is consolidated with Those Whom You Must Ask.

This is the worst part about moving out of the cloud, especially since cloud computing has moved a lot of ops and deployment responsibility to developers.
For a private repo with just yourself, why not use BitBucket? You don't need any of the social features of Github in that case.
The article (especially the headline) implies that the new Macbook is somehow more at risk because of its reliance on one USB port. But if the root of the problem is USB more generally, wouldn't the only "secure" design preclude the inclusion of any USB ports whatsoever? My issue with the article is that by singling out the Macbook (due to its single port) they are not actually contributing any useful information back to the consumer about its potential security. If I'm missing something, I would appreciate clarification.
This is written like it is a novel situation. Smart phones have had this problem almost since inception.

Would be nice to see a hardware switch to deactivate the pins that aren't needed for power.
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Had a quick look and I can't seem to find anything related to managing taxes. Even in the `entry_lines` I can't seem to find a way to store tax amounts.

Am I missing something?
The last few decades in the US have seen a shift from 1 parent working sufficing to support a family to 2 parents working beening needed for middle class living, and longer hours than before. And more kids have only 1 parent in the household. There simply isn't time for participating in the community-building activities that filled the gaps before. So we are more isolated, and people's lies are in a more fragile balance.
Twitter bots.

Imagine a bot whose only job is to squat a hashtag and intermittently harass people who mention it.

Now stop imagining, because we've already got those.

Imagine another bot that just looks for bug trackers and spams incomprehensible combinations of issues generated by mining previous issues. It can be hard, on a good day, to tell difference between frustrated and inarticulate user, and markov-chain spam.

Let your imagination run wild.
We don't really need to start writing traffic rules for flying cars.

This is a great metaphor and one I wish I would have thought up sooner.
Rules like this are draconian and obsolete. Expecting employees, who are in fact humans, to completely ignore their non-work lives during the majority of the day, every day, is ridiculous.
USB Type C does not support DMA as the article states. I think there might be some confusion on the attack vector here. BadUSB requires cooperation from the OS/BIOS/a driver.
The main site seems to be down. The only other one I can find is their docs site: http://docs.seldon.io/
Human minds don't run on statistics. Some can be explained by statistical modeling but we don't really understand how an organic brain works.
If there is a USB port and a power port a super parinoid person could never use the USB port, or even fill it with glue. Not an option here.

This is also talking about how combining them also allows for the potential of charger based attacks, a charger is something that absolutely has to be plugged in at some point.
This sucks, and what sucks more is that I assume it's true.

Also, what's the point of putting people on the no-fly list if they can take a private charter jet and get in anyways?
He is referencing a famous quote often attributed to W. Edwards Deming. He actually never said it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

I've seen it attributed to Peter Drucker as well.

I think the general notion that it is more difficult to improve things that you can't/don't measure is fairly accurate.
With Softlayer I get multiple locations (transparently routed 100% transparent backend connectivity), get 1-2 hrs provisioning speed, I do not need to worry about networking and hardware. Failed drives (when they fail, which happens rarely since the hardware they use is REALLY good) are replaced within an hour.

Colocation is a very different beast and I certainly would not encourage anybody to do that until a very large scale when rented hardware economics stop working for them.
nQuant is a quantizer in C#, Apache licensed

http://nquant.codeplex.com/
I think the big change with driverless cars will be more on demand "right size" vehicles. A two seat smart car or one seat scooter type vehicle makes much more sense for commuting (typically) than a larger vehicle.
This is a mostly useless article. Every computer with USB ports has this problem. If you want to use it as, you know, a computer, you're probably gonna need to plug some stuff into it at one time.

You could make the argument that now that it has one port, it's easier to secure because you only have to secure one side of the computer instead of two.
Questioning the official line, in any manner, is verboten.
They are both legitimate problems.
Definitely agreed, except for the DoD Manhattan project part - I would love to see that.
The real problem with "market efficiency" arguments is that nobody is arguing about market efficiency. What people really want to argue is that they are smarter than the markets, or that they are capable of guessing what the markets are going to do better than the markets. This means that they or their intellectual fellow-travelers should therefore be given power over the market which they can use to make it do the "right" things by virtue of their insight.

Unfortunately, "the market is irrational" doesn't imply "you can name the ways in which it is irrational" nor does it imply even that there exists any single entity that is capable of correctly naming the way in which it is irrational. It is perfectly capable of having, and indeed almost certainly has, a chaotic, highly-information-packed, very fast-moving irrationality that is beyond any human or human institution's ability to understand, quantify, express, predict, control, harness, or "fix". I do not mean that figuratively or metaphorically... there's no reason to believe the market's irrationality is even remotely comprehensible.

So the argument shouldn't be phrased in terms of whether the market is efficient or not... everybody knows it isn't. So let's cut to the chase... why do you (for generalized values of "you") think you know better, and if you do know better, why aren't you using it to make a killing, or, alternatively, how about you write down some interesting predictions about what's going to happen in three or four years and demonstrate the rightness of your theories? Say something interesting and verifiable, and let's see how you do.

In the meantime, merely making the tedious observation that the market isn't "really" rational gets you no points, and I perceive no obligation on my part to change any of my political beliefs merely because "the market isn't rational". On the other hand, make correct predictions years in advance, especially if you can do so reliably, and I will sit up and take notice, I promise you. But, be warned, I'm very familiar with the process of bending a prediction to fit the data and that's not going to cut it... I demand that you be right, full stop. If you can't do that... welcome to the group of people who know the economy is irrational but can do nothing meaningful about it, population: entire rest of humanity.
using swagger and quite satisfied with it .

will be good if the OP points out some unique features that I am missing by not using ReadMe ?

Use case : Private / Internal API with less than 10 Devs .
I don't mean to speak for RMS, but his stance seems pretty clear. He values freedom over convenience. When given a choice between the two, I think he will always choose freedom. I agree with his principles and I admire the fact that he seems to actually live by them. I think his stance only seems extreme because most of us aren't willing to give up our conveniences for our principles.
Huge use of space. Waste is an opinion.
Cpu also generally sucks due to cache thrashing on non-trivial datasets
I've had great luck with the Asus Zenbook Prime series.
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All models are wrong. Some models are useful.

Problems occur when people expect the model to correspond 100% to reality, which it was never intended to do. It is confusing the map for the territory. Unfortunately most journalists have this tendency.
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I guess the paranoid user can use an usb condom if so.
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Apigee just uses Drupal for their developer hub with some loose integrations into their api management (users, authentication keys, etc).
Tangent: back in the mid-80's I was in college, working in a co-op job for a major vendor of radar systems to the military.

This was back when Hunt for Red October came out, and it seems that the book was so factually accurate that some of the radar engineers actually kept a copy on their desks for technically reference.
Freeness in of itself is not a goal. Dirt is free. Air is free.

I can put a "hello world" app out there and release it under GPL, but is it useful? Does it actually solve any problems?
A couple of days late, but I didn't see any other article on it
They really should have seen that coming...
Simply personal preference. I'd like to use the same supporting tools, UI, zero context switching between products, etc. Funny enough, I use some of the social features (issues/milestones/wiki) for project management, even for my own projects.
Chat works for me, could you provide a screenshot?
Finally sane take on Cloud BS :)
I've had the odd problem with hanging/stalling instances before I learned to design for the cloud. Now those instances automatically get replaced with new ones and nobody would even notice if I didn't pipe the notice through to Slack.

Of course, this only works if whatever you use it for allows for this.

However, in most cases not using EC2 as a stateless throwaway computing resources is simply a matter of bad infrastructure design.
Actually, they built AWS as a business on its own right from the start and only later moved Amazon.com onto AWS.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/...
Well, the main difference is that even just to charge your laptop you'll need to plug in a USB plug - and people share laptop chargers a lot.

Agree that the article is largely a fuss over nothing, though.
That switch sounds like a tech' support nightmare. Even WiFi switches are a massive PITA that are almost more trouble than they're worth.

I'd suggest that if people want safe USB that they just buy a USB "condom" (i.e. an adapter that goes between the power and port, and disconnects the data wires).

Although does USB-C use any of the data pins to determine if it is safe to transmit power? I just ask because Apple's USB implementation sends different amount of power based on how the device responds across several non-power related pins.
My personal experience within the last 7 years:
* Softlayer – the best option in terms of quality of service, quality of hardware, quality and size of the infrastructure (geo distribution, etc).
* Rackspace – nice, until you grow enough to get relatively locked in and then your prices start to go up, provisioning time suffers and their service turns into shit.
* Steadfast – provisioning times up to a week, basically a joke in today's world.
* Some German/EU providers like Hetzner – dirt cheap option with desktop-like hardware, failing quickly. Service is nowhere near SL level.

I could go on and on about those, but other options were even more painful.
If you build more parking space then you bring new more cars onto the street.

Here in London new residential buildings are built with zero parking spaces (just a small a shared drop-off/deliveries area). There are already too many cars in the city, and public transport is good enough for most people (of course there are people who for good reasons need cars, but they're the exception rather than the rule).
The market cares about uptime, and cost relative to return.

Perfect should never be the enemy of the good.
It sounds like it was paid for by the Swedish government:

> Sweden paid for a private jet to fly him to Portland five years after he left.

I'd assume the "no fly list" isn't going to apply to requests from other governments to transport US citizens. I don't think the US is worried about friendly European governments shipping terrorists into the US on private planes.
Since people are sharing their experiences in this thread, has anyone tried using Direct Connect to get cheaper bandwidth?
Anyone can handle the bottom 90% of snow storms that they see. I am fine with Boston having trouble this year just like I am not surprised when things close for a few days in North Carolina for 6" of snow. Even mighty Watertown NY had trouble a few times when I lived there, and those people are good at dealing with it.
If I implement the mutex as you suggest -- by using the native semaphore directly, with no separate counter -- the running time of "testBenaphore" increases from 375 ms to 3 seconds on my Windows PC.

As mentioned in the article, most mutex implementations already use this trick. So you can just use std::mutex, and things are fine.

In the past, though, runtime environments weren't so well-developed, so there definitely [was a point](http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue1-26.h...).
Wu v2 is probably the best hands-off quantizer that I have seen. It's not the fastest and probably too resource intensive for embedded apps, but it is remarkably good. I would recommend it (or anything based on it) without hesitation.

I'm actually in the process of porting it to js using typed arrays and possibly WebGL/GLSL. You can compile it pretty easily to asm.js for max pure-js perf via Emscripten, but I don't know how clean its API/interface will be and if it will leak globals based on how the code is structured [1]

[1] http://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~xwu/cq.c
NYT isn't credible.
> Also, what's the point of putting people on the no-fly list if they can take a private charter jet and get in anyways?

To intimidate citizens. What do you think?
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> Perfect should never be the enemy of the good.

Only in a world where resources are infinite does this work.
Time to make usb-c syncsyop
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Are you kidding?
It means that if you go to a coffes hop and plug your laptop, you can become compromised. Sure, random people in a starbucks won't, but it's a boon for industrial espionage!
I would assume that includes sidewalks?
AFAIK Softlayer has hourly-based rental for real hardware as well. Never tried that, so could not comment on it though.
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you do realize the OS itself is probably not built with C# right?
The article also ignores that many of these USB issues are actually solvable in software (both uEFI and in the OS).

The only USB issue which REALLY isn't solvable is the fact that USB devices can simulate a USB hub and then attach fictional human interface devices (i.e. keyboards and mice) which they can then use to take over the computer and or otherwise cause problems.
Yeah, I agree that reinforcement learning is probably a bad approach to FAI. Most of our toy models involve utility functions encoded directly into the AI, not reinforcement.

That said, it's indeed very hard to directly specify a utility function involving paperclips. If our universe were a Game of Life universe and we knew exactly which configuration corresponds to a paperclip, I'd be able to do that right now. But since we don't know the true laws of physics, the "hard way" involves encoding some kind of Solomonoff prior over all possible physical universes, and a rule for recognizing paperclips in each of them. That's kind of a tall order.

There's a shortcut that involves encoding a precise mathematical description of a human mind into an AI, and passing the buck by saying "the AI must maximize whatever function the human mind would output, given enough time to think". That would actually be straightforward to implement, if we had a description of a human mind that we were willing to trust. Unfortunately, the naive form of that approach immediately fails due to acausal blackmail. There's no obvious fix, but some folks are trying to devise non-obvious fixes, and I suppose it can be made to work in the long run.

Of course, after you can formulate a utility function in terms of a precise description of a human mind, the next step is reformulating it in terms of the outputs of an actually existing person, say some webcam videos and written instructions. You instruct the AI to infer the simplest program that would generate these outputs (using something like the Solomonoff prior again), and then proceed as in the previous step. That part has its own problems, but I expect that it can also be made to work.

The whole approach is kind of a long shot, but I hope that I've given a sense that the problem could be solvable by careful human effort on the scale of years. There are other approaches as well.
One of the suggested alternate modes in the specification is a PCIe bus. This would most likely support bus mastering, and thus a full DMA engine.

This certainly requires some host cooperation, but I imagine that the fear is that these drivers start to be distributed in the OS by default.

One of the BadUSB vectors is a USB keyboard, which is a fairly well expected driver to be included with the OS.
Hi, thanks for the comment! Taxes have not been added in yet, but will probably be a percentage value in the accounts object. This will then be used to automatically generate sales tax reports.

Friends/potential customers haven't asked for taxes yet so not all (crucial) features have been added in just yet. That's what this post is here to expose :) Are there any other glaring omissions you see?
> On the bright side they didn't ask for sexual orientation, marital status, religious beliefs, or demand an interpretive dance portraying the quick sort algorithm, although who knows what goes on at the interview.

Hah, well-put. Anyone know what the apology and the tweet before it was? Both links are dead now.
So... bring your own charger? Does your coffee shop normally provide you a laptop charger?
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That is not the case. Flights that don't even intend to land in the US can't enter the airspace of the US if they have someone on board that is a member of the no-fly list.

My theory is that someone in a diplomatic role in Sweden called in a couple favors to handle this. Since his request for asylum in Sweden was denied his visa there was likely to expire soon.
Not strange if you consider that the no-fly status was really an intimidation tactic.
I'd rather keep any personal journal/diary offline.

Even if Web technology was trustworthy in itself, I'd have to learn about exactly what is safe to do in a browser, if I trust the website itself and if I trust the person/entity/company behind the website. That is a lot of things to learn and be wary of for just being able to write a diary online.

A personal diary is the most private and uncensored thing that I could write. I would never consider adding any more complexity to the question of "is this really for my eyes only?".

It might be fine for something like a technical journal though.
If you've reached the point where HR is actively trying to find a way to fire you, that probably means you royally pissed off someone in a position of power, and your use of company equipment for personal emails is the least of your problems. If you didn't do that they would certainly find something else to fire you for.
Your argument is faulty. You rent a hotel room for a short term stay just like the car. You have an expectation of privacy in a hotel room just like in a car. If you disagree then you should be the last to complain when a private moment at a hotel room of you is leaked on the internet.
My argument would be your freedom is the most important thing you have, and you shouldn't throw it away for the convenience of github.
I've been thinking about this recently, wondering whether or not it's another reason to move out of California.

There are still a lot of different ways this could play out. We could have another moderately difficult Summer followed by one of the wettest and coldest Winters in recent history, and everything will keep limping along. Or, we could have a season of dry thunderstorms that cause one of the worst wildfire seasons in recent history, complete with thick smoke and the health effects that causes. Or, conflicts over water rights could add fuel to the State of Jefferson movement and turn that into years of political wrangling that drains the energy from a state government no longer being led by Brown. Or, California agriculture could suddenly take huge steps towards better water management, either due to rising water costs or public outcry as municipal water rates skyrocket and rationing is imposed. Or, agriculture might fail to adapt and there will be economic ripple effects felt in food costs and a hit to the state GDP.

Usually, things like this sort of muddle along for years and nobody really notices an acute impact. Sometimes the conditions are right for a disaster and you get something like 2008. The conditions are right now for things to get pretty awful over the next couple of years, but there are still a lot of people involved that can have some impact over how it all turns out. I hope those people get started soon.

If things do take a turn towards the worst, there really is less and less reason for most people to stay in this state. It's a nice state, but there are lots of other really nice places too, and there's been a tech diaspora over the last decade that's bearing fruit in a lot of different places around the country.
OTOH, I pushed a new version of http://libraries.io/rubygems/manticore on Sunday and it's found it. Maybe different repos have different update feeds or something?
Cheap is really cheap, like a poverty vote, but the work, the freedom and the goal is enough compensation to work at a research lab. I don't agree with this compromises that are required to enter the academy but if you want to get into this type of work there isn't much else to do.

As someone in the comments said, it depends on the grant that the institution that you want to join has or if the lab has some kind of assistant position to fill.
I have a similar concern with charging my phone using USB ports in public places. Got a reminder last week while returning from an international trip. The plane had both power outlet and USB port for charging (Really glad they had them there). To charge my phone, first I connected to USB port (since I had the cable handy)and surprisingly got a message about authorizing the computer etc. I had the power adapter as well so pulled it out and charged using it instead.

We need a way to give us assurance that port is in just power mode.