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It's been more than 10 years since I read Atlas Shrugged, but what is often interpreted as disdain or arrogance in the characters, I took to be Arete. That is, the characters sought excellence in themselves and appreciated it in others, while holding those who were leeches on their achievements with disdain. I didn't read Atlas Shrugged as disdainful toward the common man (IE: those of us somewhere beneath excellence) but rather a kind of call to pursue perfection and greatness in whatever you might do.
Google uses it for ChromeOS, because nothing comes close to it's customizability. you should probably send that link over to those guys. they might not know it isn't cool to use Gentoo.
Renaming a column in 5.6 as described works with concurrent read and write access: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-...

The only thing about implicit full-table locking in the alter-table docs you linked says:

The exception referred to earlier is that ALTER TABLE blocks reads (not just writes) at the point where it is ready to install a new version of the table .frm file, discard the old file, and clear outdated table structures from the table and table definition caches. At this point, it must acquire an exclusive lock. To do so, it waits for current readers to finish, and blocks new reads (and writes).

There are no strategies to work around this using just the database. Even if you were to manually create a new table with the new format, migrate all the data manually, and then manually rename, the final rename operation would require a short-duration lock to perform its work. You could, of course, modify your application code to work with two tables during a manual migration.
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Here is another article on the history of Soviet computing:

http://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/85
Inside Deep Learning: Computer Vision with Convolutional Neural Networks
Sounds very much like the original concept for the F-111: a large aircraft with long range and large payload, which can do both air-to-ground, and beyond-visual-range air combat. Maybe the time is finally ripe.

Back then this was proposed top-down (by McNamara), and both the Air Force and the Navy hated the idea. I wonder what they will think this time around.
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

Edit: added quotes.
This is all Objective-C. In Smalltalk sending messages to nil results in a #doesNotUnderstand: runtime exception.
Utility Sales May Drop by Half as Homes Make Their Own Power
Can one be said to sell something if one still maintains possession after the sale?
> I'm not sure I can muster any indignation that hunters can't hunt as much

Why not?
View – Enjoy for 30s – Next – Repeat (No Going Back)
Hey guys, that pretty much describes the app that my friend and I've been working on for a while.

We call it "FlipFeed", because you flip through a continuous feed of ephemeral photos and messages. You get 30s to enjoy, and then the moment disappears, and you move on.

The idea actually came from what one of my friends always did on Instagram. Check out a photo, like, and move on. And that's what humans do, right? We are interested more in what's coming up next than what we've already seen - and this is exactly what FlipFeed wants to target.

Any FlipFeed user (FlipFeeder?) can upload photos and messages (status, rant, general info, love note, quotes, or anything you like), and all these photos and messages submitted to FlipFeed are lined up and shown in a sequence. There's no filtering! So, it doesn't matter if you upload from New York or California, or from somewhere in China, everything shows up in the same sequence/order.

You can directly private-reply to anyone on the app. So, let's say if you're viewing my photo, you just tap the "Reply" button to send me a direct private-reply. This is a great way to start conversation with anyone, and make new relationships. Also check out the Easter egg in the "Write a message" screen.

We've kept the app pretty simple, because we want the content to be in the spotlight. It's very different from other apps. If you think about it, seeing photos and messages one-by-one submitted by totally different people is pretty exciting, because, as mentioned, you don't know what you're going to see next, and from whom. So, there's always that excitement of what's the next photo or message? People want to see interesting things, and with FlipFeed, we want people to share and check out interesting things - 30s at a time.

Check out http://flipfeed.co to get iOS app or to add yourself in the Android wait-list.

Thank you guys. Feedback is welcome.
FlipFeed team.
Yeah, this is scandalous. I've heard enough things about Yosemite bugs that I held off upgrading, especially as I want to avoid software compatibility issues.

I hate Apple's new yearly release cycle. There's not enough time to stabilize and improve OS's.

This update just rolled out, but it indicates the admin fixes are only for Yosemite:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204659

How worried should I be about not having updated? There's still a risk I may lose some program compatibility by updating.
Would it help if someone pointed out that wild animals will eventually die in pain whether hunters shoot them or not? There are no vets in the wild to give them morphine to put them down when they get too old to survive. They will either get sick, starve, or get eaten.
Yes, there was Maeda, and there was a bunch of other stuff (Merikan fights, shooto, etc). However, Vale Tudo was created by the Gracies, who eventually went on to create a very similar thing with the UFC, which then caught on and today MMA is pretty much what the UFC is.

Plus, before, there were fighters pitting their style against other styles. In Brazil, besides the BJJ fighters, there were 'Vale Tudo' fighters, who trained in many styles and mixed, BJJ, wrestling and stand-up (Marco Ruas for example. His trained in everything, and when asked, he said his style was Vale Tudo). Which is what any MMA athlete is today.
I agree, we should be pushing for more dominant companies outside of the US, given how abhorrently hostile they are to "foreigners".

Citizenship of the internet does not entitle you to the same rights as a US citizen, and we should stop acting like the US government gives a solitary fuck about anybody who wasn't born in the US, and protesting with our wallets doesn't work so well when there is no usable alternative.

so yes, I applaud the idea of another country developing comparable silicon to Intel, and I applaud the idea of each country having it's own webmail provider.

and every time the US government does something which treads on those who are feeding it money, it makes me a little happy that one day they'll annoy everyone enough to not put up with it.. even if the services are better.
I've launched ScholarCheck a few days ago to help businesses verify students' emails.

If you're a startup looking to implement student discounts, run a student giveaway or you have another use for our ScholarCheck, get in touch with us and we can arrange a special launch discount.
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Not closing the hole in old versions of the OS isn't an oversight, however.
My brother and I have been doing business in SEA for about 15 years now (exporting), and have looked into what is required to set up shop in Thailand or Indonesia.

Limitations such as max 95% foreign ownership (Indo) end up with local lawyers or accountants owning 5% of the companies that are set up and are figureheads there to fulfill government requirements. Or in Thailand where many industries are only open to Thai nationals, which means the only way foreigners may access those industries is through marriage, though when those marriages dissolve so to does the foreign claim on business assets.

I don't blame them for making it difficult for foreign investment dollars to pour in and displace domestic ownership, or for not embracing western capitalism as fast and as hard as they can.
Not really, but if you want to do it all it takes is to replace the URLs to wget (i.e. you want to wget all the "Who's looking for work" pages instead of the "Who is hiring?").

You can easily build your local Sqlite database like that. I wrote some more instructions about it on the README.md on Github.
>The two cannot be compared.

They can be compared for the purpose of the argument. The argument that 'prohibition doesn't work' does not place any conditions as to what it can be applied to.

>"If banning whistleblowing is doomed to failure irrelevant of one's stance on its morality, then should not the same be true of war crimes?"

If the properties of whistleblowing that dooms to failure the ban on it are also found in war crimes, and if war crimes does not possess properties that are lacking from whistleblowing that would counteract those properties they both share, then banning war crimes is doomed to failure.

Why does banning drugs fail? Because there is a demand that will not go away and thus the potential for money to be made and there are those who are willing to do anything to make that money. Notice that the moral considerations of drugs do not factor into this.

>and have no victim aside from the users themselves.

Maybe for a college student smoking pot this is the case. There are plenty of third party victims to many other drugs, even some of the legal ones (take alcohol which factors into drunk driving injuries and sexual assaults). Also consider pregnant women who give birth to babies that are born addicted to drugs.
Cool concept, how do you scale the amount of content? Or is this more like packaged classes.
Null pointer dereferences do crash in Objective-C. Sending messages to nil is generally not nonsense in Objective-C, though. It has well-defined semantics and is useful in many cases. It isn't a "Don't crash when faced with nonsense" policy. I'm not sure the benefits are enough to justify its propensity to trip people up, but it's not like it's just some kind of crash prevention.
This is why pension funds should not be treated as "sophisticated investors", allowed to invest with unregulated hedge funds. The overall performance of the hedge fund industry is on a par with the results here. Most of the returns go to the fund managers. Why anybody invests with those clowns is unclear.

Pension funds, as a class, cannot beat the market. They are the market. They should be in index funds and bond funds with very low management fees.
It's not contempt. I feel that if you're going to cause pain to something that can feel pain, you should have a good reason. I don't consider "we've been doing this for generations" a good reason. Repeating something because it was done before is hardly ever a good justification. It may be there are good reasons to repeat earlier actions, and we just don't know enough to fully explain it, but that doesn't remove the responsibility people have to justify their actions.

That's not to say someone won't come up with a justification that I'll fully accept. I didn't say "oh, hunting is horrible, how could a person ever do that!", I said I didn't have much sympathy, and that's because I don't agree with the justifications I've heard to this point.

My personal point of view is that wildlife are both a natural resource and living animals., As a natural resource, the usage should come with some sort of associated cost, to account for the damage it's usage and/or removal causes to the environment (e.g. burning coal has negative externalities that are poorly accounted for to this point). As living animals that feel pain, I think there should be a reason to cause that pain, and or kill them. It needs to be justifiable, but for me the bar is not impossibly high. "I needed the food to survive" is fully capable as a justification in my eyes, while "It's fun" is not. obviously there's a fuzzy space in the middle, which I'm not sure the details of.
To exemplify, for instance, this vulnerability could be packed in a phishing mail executable giving the remote attacker root access if the user falls for the trap, no?
> As for an overpopulated animal, I imagine there must be a better way to deal with that than allowing people to shoot them.

Any ideas? I imagine the main causes of death for deer are predation (by humans, or other animals depending on location), and getting hit by cars. I imagine the latter is at least as painful as the former on average, and the latter also kills and injures a lot of humans.
Although it also would disrupt several startups, I have been saying for a long while now that the payment processors like Visa, MC, etc., really shouldn't exist. The government should have its own digital currency and its own payment processing network.

If the government doesn't get on that, it is under serious risk of losing it's primary purpose of governance, to which currency and financial systems belong.

There is talk about the end of the dollar as a physical currency sometimes, but government types should really start realizing that simply handing over currency and payment processing to private entities represents probably the biggest threat to the westphalian nation state that ever existed.

One of the primary powers that cause people to congregate around a nation state government is the control of currency. It may even represent another major crack that could result in the fracturing of the USA.
A x86 laptop with a retina screen and 8 hours battery life, in a package that weighs in at 920grams, I find that more exciting than the Apple watch. That is the kind of progress that made me fell in love with tech.

The keyboard seems to be good enough to do coding and other productive work. This MacBook might be the perfect little mobile machine to do some coding on the go.
This might be surprising but planned programs of the pesky corrupted nomenklatura sometimes used some science and computing as well. Look at this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich

He received Nobel prize and (horror!) Stalin prize for his work in mathematics and using mathematics for evil planning of economic programs.
That is how it works.

Public schools are a no go. There are some good private schools and a large number of homeschoolers. Don't know much about the colleges here but probably not good.

Puerto Rico is part of the united states, just not a state, which means no visa required, same currency, and etc.

Additional info on tax benefits: http://puertoricotaxincentives.com/act-20-export-services-ac...
Core-M/Broadwell-Y is a dud, just like all previous Y-series chips before it. Intel is trying too hard to get the ultra-low power. And because of that it ends up with chips that are less powerful than what is needed for mainstream tasks, as well as too expensive (even compared to a Core i5). You're much better off with a 15W Core i5 than a 5W Core-M, no matter the scenario - with one possible exception: if you really, really want a $1,000 slim "tablet". But you better not want it for something like Photoshop or anything heavy like that. Just for other mobile tasks that you could just as well use your $500 iPad for.
Sometimes these things are easier to explain if you look at it like an attacker:

If you're a regular user of an OSX system before 10.10.3, and you want to become root (admin user), you can use this exploit to become root.

If you're an author of malicious OSX software, and a user without admin permissions installs your malware, you can use this exploit to make your malware run as root.

Once you have root, you can do anything on a system.

If the system you're attacking is 10.10.3 or later, you won't be able to use this exploit because Apple has a fix in 10.10.3.

Apple will not make the fix available to anyone on 10.9 or earlier.
What I'm actually saying is a bit more subtle.

There are types of developers who are very limited in what they can do. They learn some basic "tricks" in the form of "If write this magic spell, I get this magic result".

These are the mediocre developers.

They tend to pick some popular tool and try to market themselves as "an X developer" where X is something that's popular right now.

Then there are developers who can create magic. They can build something almost from scratch without having to have a library that already does it for them. These developers can pick up X or Y or Z in a week or two and then they will become 20x more productive with it than the mediocre developers are.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to pick up a tool to market yourself as an "X developer". I'm just saying there's a lot more mediocre people in the pool of "X developer", and if that's what you go looking for, you'll get mostly mediocre people.
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This is why I detest all forms of social security/pensions. The government is not smarter than the individual. It's my money, not the government's. I don't need some elected or appointed official to be in charge of my investments. In the U.S., the government can't even balance a budget; something I do every month.
No wireless? It's got a wireless network card...
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In cases where the investment fund is actually funded, and not raided by the business to meet cash shortfalls in the business or enrich corporate acquirers, things can work out well.

For example, the NYS Employee Pension fund is typically 90+% funded during any given year. That's because the law requires (quite onerous) funding contributions that spike when markets underperform, and makes it difficult to take money out.

That doesn't mean that NYS is perfect (far from perfect -- a few years ago the sole trustee of the fund was convicted of corruption relating to investments). But it is in a much better position than a state like Illinois, which is only 40-50% funded for future obligations, or New Jersey, where the budget is balanced by "skipping" annual contributions.
Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, it's in the same league as Gilead. I highly recommend it.
"So there could literally be a microchip in my brain?!"

Fixed that for you.
Not for every reader but Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) is something between historical fiction and science fiction. Worth a try in your case.

Also, it's hard to go wrong with the yearly Hugo Award winners and nominees. Sometimes they are middle entries in long running series, which is worth checking on Wikipedia if you like to start at Book 1. Usually it is just going to mean the whole series is great.

How about a few great authors who have all won?

Ursula K LeGuin
Lois McMaster Bujold
CJ Cherryh
Connie Willis
Jo Walton
Like they do now with prescription drugs of course. Seems like the solution would be to ban marketing of certain products to end consumers rather than ban the products themselves.
When I do "plug everything in" (some combination of 2-4 hard drives, DVD drive, charger, two Lightning cables) I'd like very much to have all that mostly-not-going-anywhere stuff attached to a single multi-port box so I can attach it all with just one plug. That's the reasoning: if you're part of a very large subset of mobile users, you're likely not bringing all that with you, and when you're at home-base desk you can plug it all in with just one cable.

Bonus: that USB-C port provides significant power. If I do want to run a bunch of stuff while mobile, I can drive a powered-ports mobile USB hub with it.
Useless when you want to hold your phone in the hand for a round of Real Racing or any other hq game, though.
Found this on housekeeping.com:

Front loading washing machines can hold as much as 18 lbs of clothing. So how many items are in a lb. of clothing? To find out how much your loads weigh, you can weigh yourself holding a load of dirty clothing, and subtract it from your weight without the dirty load. While weight varies with type of material, these are some general guidelines.
Twin Sized Quilt-3-5 lbs.
Complete Child Outfit-1-3 lbs.
Complete Adult Outfit-3-5 lbs.
I welcome the port situation (Apple has rarely been wrong on this front). But the battery life and performance sound like concerns.
Overheating. Intel is lying about what is necessary to keep Core-M at 5W TDP. The vast majority of Core-M devices out there will overheat because of that, which means they'll throttle and kill the battery faster, too.
But the reality is that this happens all the time, and people just fire the employee. He was trying to reconcile the "need" to fire the person for being compensated above their actual performance vs. wanting to simply renegotiate the compensation in light of their performance. And worth pointing out, every article highlights it only applied to UNVESTED stock... whatever they already vested was theirs.

My point is that it is nuanced. He was retroactive in the sense that he wanted to re-offer them their UNVESTED stock, but he never requested anything already vested. And there are lots of reasons why this would happen. Historically the choices have been "fire" or "suck it up" and he looked for a third. I just don't think it's as heinous as people have made it out to be.

It feels really insensitive and almost gordon gecko'esque, and maybe it was, I'm just pointing out there could be more considerate points of view that recognize the challenge of having an overpaid employee who isn't performing, but you don't quite want to fire. If you fire them, maybe they can't afford to exercise their options and are left with absolutely nothing. In that scenario, simply renegotiating unvested options and letting them continue to be employed so they aren't forced to exercise is SO MUCH BETTER for that employee.
No engine required https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
> An engineer or pro-sumer might be sad they can't have 3 items plugged in at once

It's obvious, but worth stating that Apple still offers two other lines of laptops that are more appropriate for people who need more ports. Not to mention that there's a USB-C breakout cable available (at a price).
The dress code. That is all. Vampire squids on both coasts.
I wish Bluetooth mice would become more common. Microsoft makes Bluetooth mice and they work just fine with my MacBook Pro.

I hate the idea that a single-purpose (or dual-purpose if you get a keyboard and mouse with one receiver) dongle is needed when my computer has perfectly good wireless technology already built in.
With wireless charging gaining in popularity, we could see fully-sealed portless phones soon.

My guess is the reason Apple hasn't got much into Bluetooth is the clumsy pairing process isn't apple-y. Sony has some fun stuff using NFC tags to make pairing smooth, so I could see Apple talking that approach prime-time.

I could imagine a nice matched phone and BT headset and a little inductive charging-plate for the both.
Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" has always stuck with me. I read it during my lunch break for about 6 months. The book animates the ideas that brought about the modern world.
I wonder sometimes what is left for banks to do that couldn't be fully automated (at least on the consumer side). Creating accounts, making deposits, withdrawals, transfers, paying bills can all be done online or through apps. Getting a loan or credit card seems to largely be a matter of 1) obtain credit score 2) calculate terms. Investments can be done through the likes of Vanguard/Wealthfront/Betterment. I feel like I must be missing something here, or maybe people really like talking with someone they know at the bank when getting a loan or mortgage.
> Actually Thai people can do exactly the same.

Not really. Thai people do not easily get a tourist visa for visiting Europe. There's a whole bunch of constraints to keep them out.
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Microsoft patents Multi-OS booting: Android on Windows Phones and so much more