When a language is small, every additional feature is viscerally felt as a significant percentage increase in the size of the language. For a small language, a new feature’s general costs in added complexity are also still visible to everyone. I believe that EcmaScript-2015 is in that middle territory where unrestrained growth is not yet inevitable, but only if we all restrain each other with high standards for any proposed new feature.

We had a screening of “Beale Street” in Washington, D.C., at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and a fire broke out. So, irony of ironies, we had to go across the street to the Air and Space Museum, where there’s an Imax theater. To see Regina King as a black mom trying to save her family on that larger-than-life screen, in the Air and Space Museum — where, when you walk out, all you see are images of white men going into space — I thought, “O.K., this is what it was like when people sat in a movie chair and thought a train was coming toward them.”

Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets

While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars in store parking lots to gauge how sales were going. That’s led to a consistently profitable strategy for hedge funds at the expense of individual investors, Patatoukas says: In particular, investors with access to satellite imagery data can get ahead of the rest of the market and target retailers with bad news for the quarter. In that regard, Patatoukas says, the dissemination of the working paper itself will impact the market for satellite parking lot data in the short term, since it provides the first independent analysis showing whether—and how—trading from outer space works.

Late last year, the China-based processor designer Zhaoxin Semiconductor (jointly owned by the Shangai government and VIA Technologies, another semiconductor corporation) promised its upcoming octa-core CPUs based on the 16nm node from TSMC would be able to match Intel’s quad-core i5 processors, and today is that day: the newly-announced KX-6000 CPUs are said to deliver performance on par with the Core i5-7400, yet supposedly pull off the feat at a mere 3 GHz. Companies like VIA and Zhaoxin are eager to compete with Intel, AMD, IBM, and others because China wants its own processors, not only to compete within its own borders but also to compete abroad and reduce the country’s exposure to outside influence. Intel’s traditional rival AMD and the more server- and specialist-focused IBM are Intel’s only real competition; it would certainly shake up the dynamic if Zhaoxin could field competitive processors for the x86 market.

Cloudflare’s time service will allow users to connect to our Network Time Protocol (NTP) server that supports Network Time Security (NTS), enabling users to obtain time in an authenticated manner. Anyone with a client supporting NTS can obtain secure time by pointing their client to time.cloudflare.com:1234. Reach out to [email protected] to join our mailing list for updates on our NTS client implementation.

In a week of Web surfing on my desktop, I discovered 11,189 requests for tracker “cookies” that Chrome would have ushered right onto my computer but were automatically blocked by Firefox. Google’s product managers told me in an interview that Chrome prioritizes privacy choices and controls, and they’re working on new ones for cookies. The Firefox Web browser, seen here on a Mac, gives users the option to sign in to sync bookmarks and login information, but doesn’t send browsing data to maker Mozilla.

Cancers were lumped into categories based on their anatomical site of origin (breast cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, leukemia), and chemotherapy treatment, often a combination of toxic drugs, was dictated by those anatomical classifications. I memorized the abbreviated names of combination chemo — the first letter of each drug — for my board exams, and I spouted them back to my patients during my clinic hours. Michael Lerner, a writer who worked with cancer patients, once likened the experience of being diagnosed with cancer to being parachuted out of a plane without a map or compass; now it is the oncologist who feels parachuted onto a strange landscape, with no idea which way to go.

Apple is recalling some older-generation 15-inch MacBook Pros over batteries that could catch fire, the company announced Thursday. In the announcement, Apple says that the computers “contain a battery that may overheat and pose a safety risk,” adding that it is “asking customers to stop using affected 15-inch MacBook Pro units.” In March, Apple announced that it once again had revamped the butterfly switch keyboard on new MacBook Pros to fix these issues — which included complaints of sticky keys, letters typing in duplicate or letters not typing at all — and would offer free replacements for those who were experiencing problems with their keyboards.

The anki deck covers the rust book. So even if I step away from rust at some future point I will remember the syntax, and now that you’ve also got the deck so will you! Sign up below and I’ll send you an email.

My dev team has switched to a workflow using merge requests and code reviews (mostly by commenting the merge request). I needed to embed a visually impaired co-worker in my team but I face some difficulties:

– Gitlab accessibility seems to be really bad and my co-worker is unable to use the interface to create Merge Request (he uses accessibility tools, of course). Furthermore, it’s very difficult for my co-worker to handle all the remarks in one session for any Merge Request with a significant amount of code.