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Intel Launches Core I7-6700K and I5-6600K Unlocked Skylake CPUs on 5th August
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Create, Edit and Convert Excel Spreadsheets Using Aspose Cloud SDK for Android
Philosophers have always been good about asking the interesting questions. They've also been bad at finding the answers. So what if certain things were done just because philosophers just didn't want to consider themselves meat puppets? They still came up with substantive things in the process.
Yeah so one of the weird things is that you can't yell when you're drowning. It's not something I'd expect if I didn't know better, I'd expect to at least be able to get some shouts and screams off but it's not actually like that.

In fact I was once swimming with the son of my dad's best friend in his teens, we'd only seen each other once before as our parents lived in different countries after they married. And somehow he went deep into the sea, and at some point I looked back and saw him flapping about. I must've been 15 or so at the time but somehow even though he didn't yell or scream, and even though we'd been pretty far from the beach for like a solid 5-10 minutes (giving me the impression he had no problem swimming), I got the impression he was drowning. I'm glad I responded, but looking back it felt awkward and it wasn't a clear cut situation where you feel this heroic impulse. I didn't know him very well, he was 2-3 years older than me and bigger, and he didn't indicate to me he had issues swimming, maybe he was just playing around (just like my gf likes to lay in pools face down for like a minute at a time, which looks way more suspicious of drowning!), I really didn't want to go up to him and hold him and find out he was totally fine, it'd just be really embarrassing, as if some kid a few years younger has to rescue him at sea. Either way despite him not yelling or anything, I did swim over and grabbed him and he started pushing me down violently as if I was a floatation device, so from there it was pretty clear, and we slowly made it back to the beach and he kept thanking me for years after everytime I see him. I tried to use the rescue techniques I'd learned as a child, to have someone float on your chest basically but that totally failed in the moment and I couldn't create a moment of control to calm him down and instruct him, I just did my best to swim up and to the beach. He basically pushed me down every other second, and then I'd swim up and catch a breather as best as possible, and somehow we made it back like that. Totally exhausted and out of breath right after, can't imagine how he must've felt.
Refer to "The Halting Problem"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
How fast can you replace one of those servers when they go down? More info:

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html
Dylann Roof Is Not a “Terrorist” – But Animal Rights Activists Are
That is the one.
The Turbot War off the southeast coast of Canada (Newfoundland) is a good example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbot_War

Canada almost went to war with Spain over it and German and Spanish military ships were patrolling off the Canadian coast.

The Spanish fleet were scooping up whatever they wanted and the smug hypocritical EU claimed it was superior to Canada regarding the environment.
Scientists, tech gurus fear artificial intelligence-fuelled arms race
First they say

> A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent...

then they say

> ...their work expanded the number of known types — or phyla — of bacteria by nearly 50 percent...

This is a huge difference, since phylum is one of the highest levels of biological taxonomy. I wish they could avoid glaring errors detectable by laymen. Quanta magazine is usually a lot better than this.
Check out Startup -- https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
'IMPOSSIBLE' EM PROPULSION ENGINE CONFIRMED BY SCIENTISTS
On the other hand, the plane could fly faster by burning the air out of the way.

;-)
"His argument doesn't need a definition of conscience. He argues that if A arises from certain traits of B, then you must accept that A also arises from C, since it contains the same traits."

My reading is that he's actually debunking this argument!
What do you mean by 'deep' questions? The existence of mystery is wholly dependent upon ignorance. So I'm curious why you think there's anything deeper than ignorance at work there.
Yea our network has put a lot of work into what actually runs in the browser for this exact reason.

However most networks go for the volume game so it just isn't that important to focus on JS performance. When you can spend time on jamming more expanding units and video into an ad that for the most part still works, that's better ROI than trying to optimize. Things are finally changing now with adblock and mobile usage but there are lots of long-tail shady networks who aren't legit with business practices in the first place (let alone dev) and the big companies just don't care because they're already big and engineering is a committee based process. Part of it is also the fact that there's no accountability in the industry, especially with tech.

I've been pushing for a technical certification process for ad networks (along with data/privacy handling) but it's a long road and won't happen anytime soon.
It's un-economical. It is theoretically possible to build unhackable, bug-free software. The amount of testing, formal verification, and specification needed to do this means that in most domains, the company will be bankrupt before the software enters service.
The new test was at slightly lower power but within an order of magnitude of the original test: 700 W versus 2.5 kW. The measured effect, on the other hand, has decreased by more than four orders of magnitude.

I haven't studied the theory behind the device, but it's hardly a distortion to characterize such a disproportionate drop as a declining effect size in the face of additional testing.

Like you, I don't claim to have any idea whether this ultimately pans out. As I said, the ultimate test is to put one in space and see what it does. Until that (or at least a more promising lab test) happens, all we have is speculation. But my point is that more skepticism is warranted than was implied by the Wired headline and by some of the comments in this thread.
I'm sure it's a typo.
I don't think its a good choice if security is a main concern. I wouldn't put multi-tenant apps on it either.
I personally am a bit apprehensive about this. This is introducing yet more low cost labor in an industry which is already heavily populated by low cost IT workers from China, India etc.
> > My own preference for the answer is Uncle Bob's description, which is this: technical debt is any production code that does not have (good) tests.

> That's certainly an example of technical debt.

Agreed, it is not the only example, but perhaps it is a good one, as that is a particularly important form of debt that makes the code harder to safely change. I.e. it is a form of technical debt that makes it more expensive to pay off other kinds of technical debt.

Curiously, Michael Feathers has a similar definition of legacy code [1]:

> To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131177052
I'm on Cloudinary and looking to migrate out. How difficult was it to switch?

I'm at the Enterprise level at Cloudinary
Oh, ok I didn't see that from the link provided.
This makes me cringe. I had similar with my child. Was chatting in a pool and they were only under water right behind my back. I fortunately turned round right after they were going under. It would have been so easy to be talking/distracted for a minute and have a more tragic event. There was no noise, you had to actually see it. Everyone should teach their kids to swim as early as possible.
Also, the US nuclear power industry was bragging about how Iran was developing as a nuclear power in the 1970s ( https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2674080998749170/ ).

You could say the US thinks the current Iranian leadership is too religiously zealous. But the US (and UK) overthrew Iran's secular parliament in 1953 and installed a dictator by bankrolling the ayatollahs, such as Mohammad Behbahani ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... ).

We here talk of a danger to Israel...what about a danger to the Iranians, who have lived there for a long time and now have to contend with millions of Jews who moved into the region in the past decades from Russia and Brooklyn, displacing Palestinians. Who are nuclear armed themselves - but bringing that into the discussions of a peace plan is off the table apparently - Jews from Brooklyn new to the Middle East can have the bomb, Iranians who have been there for thousands of years are restricted even in having nuclear power. Podhoretz is right about one thing - the situation will not hold forever. When it changes, it will probably not be in a manner he will be happy with.
My last vacation I took a tablet instead of a laptop. I'm an android developer and didn't expect to do any coding while away. A few days in was struck with a great idea and had to try it out so used AIDE (app) I already use for browsing github projects. To my surprise it was actually not a bad development environment!

Admittedly it was a small test project but it certainly changed my opinion that tablets won't be used for real development in a few years.
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Aaron is right. It's Nejatian. Hi Aaron!
Understandability is an important metric for good code (within reason).
It just isn't practical once there were millions of websites that you would negotiate media buys with them individually and send them some image assets or text ads that they would then have to host as a 1st party.

You also have to factor in all the things ad servers are designed to do like control the number of impressions shown, track views, clicks, and interactions, as well as allow advertisers to rotate new creative in on-the-fly.
To be clear, the Chinese test used 2500 watts, and this latest test used 700 watts. That is a decrease, but it's within a factor of 4.

On the other hand, the decrease in effect size is closer to a factor of 40,000.
I would think it should be common sense to not go to the deep end without a life saving device if I don't know how to swim.

Sometimes I get cramps(? Not sure if right word?) In my legs that hamper my ability to swim. It scares me to think what I'd do if I had to swim in anything other than a small pond. I'm not a good swimmer to begin with.
OK, thanks. And is that because of a large architectural difference starting around v39, compared to earlier versions?
Anyone tried to use the HTML5 File API manually? It's a cluster fuck unlike any of good old javascript.

> Navigation Transitions

Seriously? It's like Frontpage 99 again.
In Aus, Menu Log and Delivery Hero are the main two with similar functions. They actually work with restaurants to integrate their existing online ordering systems into an integrated mobile app.
In short, Alan Turning proved these problems are "undecidable" for the general case (under our model/definition of computing, now know as the Turning Machine).
You're incorrect, 20 μN was measured in the Dresden test at 700W.
The only Uber of anything is Uber
Any chance you've got a github for it? Would love to take a look.
Thus we cannot build general purpose tools to tell us if our program is correct as there is no general rigourus mathematical proof that we can apply.

Any attempt would require heuristics which are not guaranteed to work.
Const is mildly useful but doesn't do a whole lot. It's as much of a reminder to the programmer as anything.

Volatile's behavior is not really defined by the standard and is rarely useful in any case. I'm pretty sure that you can ignore it and remain a fully compliant C compiler.
Same here. My instructor was very clear that I, as the PIC, was responsible for maintaining clearance from other airplanes at all times regardless of what ATC says. Even if I am operating in controlled airspace, ultimately, the authority over what happens to me and my airplane is my responsibility alone.

While traffic callouts are nice to have and I really appreciate ATC giving me heads up when I'm flying, I still spend the majority of my flying time looking out the windows for other airplanes. Especially before making any turn or other maneuver where I might have limited view, always dip the wings to check the area first.

Unfortunately, I know some pilots who fly as if they've never seen a radio. Used to do a lot of flying out of a semi-uncontrolled field (it's untowered, but right under the 2,000ft shelf of a nearby class C). I would be doing pattern work, turning base and some yahoo would do a straight-in without a single call on the radio. If I hadn't seen him it and turned early it might have ended badly.
That was by far my proudest merit badge. I felt like such a badass when I passed.
The video presentation mentioned "resistive". I'm not a memory nerd. Does that fact from their disclosure help at all narrow what this type of memory can be best categorized as?

https://intel-micron-webcast.intel.com/webcast
Obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/1266/
Hey Kaz - fixed!
having an image server with apis solves 80% of the problem.

having a client counterpart lib to ease you in solves the other 80% https://github.com/choonkeat/attache_rails

being able to host it yourself solves the last 20% https://github.com/choonkeat/attache
You're right. I read that as RT. My bad.
Are Websites Undervalued? The Rise of the Digital Asset Class
Meet Windows 10, a Throwback with Some Upgrades
I love Go, I love Rich Hickey and I love clojure. I don't understand the confusion.
Yeah, it was just a suggestion.

Remote work at 6 figures is still worth it and widens the pool alot.
Why not to trust them
Found it. Apparently I'm blind. That sounds great, hopefully those predictions actually happen.

I've heard of Saltwater batteries before, hopefully they live up to the promise. My grandmother lived off-grid for several years with a wind/solar/battery/diesel-for-emergencies/wood-for-heating/propane-for-cooking system. It's amazing how easy it is to generate your own electricity, the up-front cost is just a little expensive.
The thing that is very frustrating in the "There was never time to change decisions..." bit is that there often is time.

If you are curious about what I mean, I invite you to try a little experiment. For a few weeks (2-4 should be sufficient) tell people, "If you see something wrong with the design, refactor it as soon as you see it. If you need some extra time on your story to compensate for that work, just bring it up at standup and we will modify the sprint commitment".

If your experience is like mine, you will find that the vast majority of people will not refactor the design at all. About 10% of the people will try to refactor something, and will end up trying to rewrite the entire app. They will do more damage than good and will probably give up half way through. If you are lucky, maybe 5% will actually refactor something and be successful.

Because I have tried this many times, I've interviewed people and asked them why they do what they do. For the people who don't refactor, the reason they usually give is: "There is no time to refactor". Which is really odd because they have explicitly been given time. What I have come to realize, though, is that people do not want time; they want absolution of responsibility. If you ask them to make the judgement call, they do the math in their head (unconsciously) and determine that they will be rewarded more and criticised less if they do feature work without refactoring. This forces the decision up to the PM/PGM/BM/BA/Whatever, for whom refactoring has no direct benefit. The result is that refactoring is rarely done, and if it is done it is the result of a large political process.

For the people who try to rewrite everything, training seems to be the overwhelming issue. They pull on a thread and the whole sweater comes apart. For some people in this category, though, giving them carte blanche to decide what to do means that they feel they can finally "do it right". Doing it right in this context means that they can replace all the code that they didn't personally write and therefore don't like. Since everyone on the team only writes a small portion of the code, it means that rewriting everybody else's portion is basically rewriting the app. Again, training seems to help because even if a person's goal is to replace everything, if they learn how to do it piece by piece they can be successful. Also if they do that, they will be required to have many coversations and may eventually learn how to work with others.

Finally, you may get one or two people who naturally know how to refactor well. It is useful to find out who these people are and to encourage them. Unfortunately, this often enrages the "my way or the highway" people. The people who are good at refactoring, if encouraged, will naturally dominate the design of the application. Often these people are suppressed by political means because they are so effective at driving the design. In order to enable these people you will need to make some tough decisions on the business end of things.
Distributing content
Looking back at it, I may have misread. <3
>> Can a player using Windows 10 Minecraft play along with a person using regular Minecraft? Are the two cross-compatible?

>> Hey there! I work at Microsoft on the Minecraft team. Is there any chance you could let me know on twitter what your location is so that we can look into the error? My twitter is @chupacaubrey. :) Thanks!

>> Minecraft Java PC version and the Windows 10 Edition are not cross-compatible. They are built on two totally different codebases, so you can't take your worlds from Java and then use them on the Windows 10 Edition. Sorry!
-https://www.reddit.com/user/chupacaubrey

>> Different code bases isn't the reason they aren't cross compatible though. If they aren't cross compatible it's because the new one was made to be incompatible.
-https://www.reddit.com/user/Suppafly
Teespring and Facebook work together very closely. The majority of teespring traffic comes from facebook and they want to make sure they don't run into any issues with facebook.
I took a development job once, where I learned on the first day:

1. No backups. Emergency plan = several older copies of the product's source spread among hard drives of various former employees' systems.

2. No source/revision control. Current version of the product's source code was literally whatever was on the lead developer's hard drive at the moment.

3. No deployment process. When a release had to happen, above mentioned developer would build an EXE out of whatever he had (if it built) and directly deploy it to customers.

4. No dependency management. What versions of vendor-provided libraries do we use? Whatever is on the guy's hard drive. Oh, and they're all binaries because we either lost or can't build the source anymore.

5. No bug tracker. The list of stuff that needed to get worked on was whatever the CEO complained about last. There was no concept of a backlog of existing bugs or technical debt.

6. No documentation. But are you surprised at this point?

7. Setting up an environment to build the code was a manual process that relied on searching through past E-mails for lost tribal knowledge, which basically amounted to: Try different include and library paths until there are no errors. Once built I was greeted with 2500+ compiler warnings... (out of 200 or so C++ files).

Oh, and this software ran in airplanes.
What's more, when your data is in a TypedArray, you can upload the whole thing to a texture with a single call to WebGLRenderingContext#texImage2D.
That's great! Happy you're finding it useful.
It's pretty clear that SQL won, although ideas from “NoSQL” have been assimilated, i.e., storing and querying semi-structured or unstructured data in an otherwise relational data model.
This is actually part of why the United States Air Force skips over a lot of 'important' general aviation training. The Air Force goal is to quickly train people for very specific and demanding roles and the tools to be say a great glider pilot are considered relatively unimportant.

Unfortunately, AF pilots often confuse the ability to excel in specific very demanding roles as far more general aviation experience.
Expensify Launches Venture Arm with Part of $17M New Round
Thanks! Not the worse though! I go by Kaz because when I was in Junior High, the basketball coach spelled my name as Kazday Nejootsian. So you know. Improvement over time!
The imgix sandbox is meant as a tool to experiment and try things out.

Behind the scenes it uses imgix's production infrastructure via the published API. We think it's really helpful to be able to quickly iterate over ideas, and we plan to use it ourselves within our API documentation.

The imgix API is documented over at https://www.imgix.com/docs/reference

Client libraries are at https://www.imgix.com/docs/libraries

(also, I think your percentages may overflow)
Yeah, and then the picture they show at top makes it seem like a new kingdom was discovered on top of it. Not honest journalism
I didn't miss your point at all, only tried to add to it. The effectiveness of torture absolutely should be questioned, and happily the real answer aligns with the answer we would like, and contributes to the argument against torture, rather than the one for it. And even if it were effective, most of the time we would still rule it out for the reasons you already mentioned, however its effectiveness could no longer be used as an argument against it.

Not asking that question, and mentioning the answer, is just going to make your argument weaker either way: if it is effective you'll be ignoring a strength in your opponent's position, and if it isn't effective you'll be ignoring one of your own strengths.
When I try to find the Standard Treasury homepage to get a better idea of what it's trying to accomplish (by following the link from OP's blog), all I see is an empty blog site. Is this because they are trying to keep a low web profile? It seems a little odd to me.
There is an entire family of memory elements who's resistance is modified in order to store data. RRAM/ReRAM, CBRAM, PCM, MRAM, as well as many others.
Speaking only for myself, I have not read about this specific research before, so I thought that the article was fascinating. It is unfortunate that you though that this article about a proposed mechanism for the origin of life on Earth was spectacularly unoriginal.
> That's why philosophy is in a crisis right now, because it's in fundamental dissonance with scientific observation.

This may or may not be true, but it looks like an off-topic response to the comment, because there doesn't seem to be anything dissonant in Leibniz' statement and scientific observation.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9964230