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>Uber is way behind Google and even Apple when it comes to calculating the best routes from place to place..

If that's really the issue they can pay Google or Apple. But I really doubt it's that much far behind considering they just bought bing maps tech
Masters of the Small Canvas
This case isn't the future of monetization, it's just the present of marketing. Dollars to doughnuts that Apple paid for this, directly or indirectly.
Plan a baby shower or kid's birthday? Jungle theme is perfect for you
If your vehicle can't be safe without annoying everyone within a quarter mile radius, it's too unsafe to be on the road.
Apparently made illegal at least by 2007 regualtions (maybe adopted later, not expert in EU law)

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320...
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See "Don't call them Whales"[1] presentation by the CEO of Kongregate, a large online/flash games site.

~75% of revenue from ~2% of users, broken down in all sorts of interesting ways.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/dont-call-them-whales-...
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It's only included for browsers that support it. That's Chrome>45 and Firefox>43.
I must confess I am tired of all these guidelines. I mean I have learned C++ once, gone through the ordeal of learning all the best practices, memorizing all the gotchas etc. And now the language just got bigger. New features arrived along with new unexpected gotchas. Scott Meyers has written a new book and all is well. Except that the more C++ I write the more I yearn for something simpler with less arbitrary rules to memorize.
"Dozens" is not hyperbole at all, my account is an accurate and truthful statement of the traffic conditions in my area and the consequences of those bad actors.

Cars looking to merge should do so as the traffic comes to a stop. A car already on the highway they are looking to merge onto need only stop sooner than they otherwise would, allowing them to pull out into traffic that is already at a standstill.
I think the point may have been to call a function in one library with the arguments of types from the other library, so that you need to write less glueing code. But in that case, you don't actually know that the point types are compatible (they might be), especially since their internal details can change. I don't think this is about name collision.
Yeah, I can see nothing bad coming from walking around in a poor foreign country giving $100 bills to random people.
That's the question I had. I had a very good experience with roundabouts driving around France for two weeks, but as a resident of Manhattan I wondered how they would fare under extremely congested conditions with many aggressive drivers. (I imagine they have those conditions in Paris -- but in Paris we took the Metro.)
Right. To riff on Clay Christensen, Uber is well-aware that self-driving cars will disrupt them, and want to be the ones to bring that disruption to market such that they have the opportunity to survive it and profit from it as opposed to being Polaroided, or Kodaked.
I think Amazon does this. Regardless of whether the payment goes through or not, you'll always reach an 'order confirmed' page. Looks like they've adopted the same technique for curbing fraudulent purchases.
One some larger roundabouts in the UK (and no doubt other European countries), they have traffic lights on the roundabout, between exits (I'm not talking about the entry lights). If one exit is totally blocked, these lights can allow traffic to continue out of other exits.
Here's a fascinating 10-min audio interview with BBC Outlook's Jo Fidgen a month back:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02z7xl6
> what seems to have solved the author's problem is getting back "into the flow", by finding an area of research she was keenly interested in?

The clue is in the final paragraph:

"I had found my salvation in the sheer endless curiosity of the human mind—and the sheer endless variety of human experience."

After work, love, children - the author found a new purpose that is now worth living for. It seems life becomes worthwhile when there is some purpose to strive towards.

But wouldn't life be easier if we didn't rely on such purpose-driven mental states? Is it not possible to simply enjoy doing everyday things -- taking shower, eating, working, walking -- without contingent goals?
How Nature Does TDD (Eigen's Paradox)
Those are great. I wish PHP had borrowed eq and ne. It does have . for strings, which makes things a little easier.

Since JS doesn't have any of those string operators, you end up with the fun example that was posted in the article. It will default to using + to concatenate the strings, but - is not defined to strings, so it converts them to numbers first and then applies the operator. Easy to remember once you know what's going on, but still irrational.
I wonder how differently people react to online advertisements as opposed to the same advertisement but on the street.

Anyway to get access to the study without buying it?
Small roundabouts do not work. Here in San Francisco the small ones (out in the burbs) jam up with few cars and are littered with minor car debris.
But that's just the point. Traffic density should never be high in Idaho Falls. If you can break the grid to the point where people are in gridlock in Idaho Falls, you've done something wrong.
Because "Agile" (or at least some forms of it) claim to have solved this problem? Something I'm not aware of any other methodology (family) doing.
What value does this provide? It looks like nothing more than a security vulnerability with a new non-standard and crippled interface. Tar is available on all the target platforms, for example.
I don't see many valid reasons why you wouldn't want to use RAII patterns for any sort of resource management. I would go as far as saying that if you aren't doing so, you're probably doing it wrong. Having said that, I'd be genuinely interested to hear some resource managment sceanrios where you're better off not using RAII.
The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping
See the first video of BlackBerry’s Android phone in action
"If you've never wept and want to, have a child." - David Foster Wallace

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a500/incarnations...
Not in with the in crowd – concerns about NYC #CS4All
No fines should be punitive so they dont do it again. It is not about clean up with particulates, it is about their medical effects, which you cant be specific about.
Shar has done this for a long time.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/shar
One more problem is pedestrian crossings. With a traditional intersection, only cars changing direction cross the path of the pedestrian. On a roundabout, when you cross one of the exit arms, your path is constantly crossed by drivers going straight through, doing a right turn, doing a left turn and doing a U-turn. They are all driving at full speed too, rather than just starting from a stop. It is a delicate game where you gently put your foot forward to signal your intent, wait for the incoming traffic to stop for a moment, then dash to the other side. This is generally my experience, but maybe in other places drivers treat pedestrians on zebras differently.
He might have had the quite reasonable expectation that this would end up like desktop adblockers; that is, something which the average person doesn't even know exists. It ending up on the front of the App Store, though, is showing it to a lot of people who'd never previously have considered an ad blocker. That's more pressure.

Of course, someone else will be there instead, but I can see the desire not to be the person who causes an abrupt shift in how content monetisation happens on mobile.

To be honest, I was surprised when he released it; from his podcast my impression was that was in the "pro Adblock, but cautious" camp. He was possibly a bit naive about how big it'd get.
XcodeGhost iOS Malware Can Phish iCloud Passwords, Open URLs
Scientists build tiny invisibility cloak
I'm guessing that the rules prohibit using some of the pedal power to charge a battery during the initial part of the run, and then using that stored energy to provide an additional speed boost :D
Kind of a fun article, but I felt the premise of, "I track down illicit foods" was diluted somewhat when most of the foods turn out not to be illicit.
There are plenty of them in Maryland. They work great.
I think people are fine losing money to competition but this isn't losing to competition. An ad blocker actually destroys potential value because sites that used to generate money no longer do. These sites aren't losing money to other sites making more money, the money just isn't made at all.

Ad-blockers don't set their users' money on fire. Of course someone will make that money.
Has anyone seen open source user space for this? I find the kernel really interesting.

I'm a fan of the way they put device drivers in user space, for example. But I'm curious if anyone has actually written a NIC driver for it. I'd like to take it for a spin and write some sample code, but I'm not sure if I can boot this thing with a network stack for my experiments to use.
Wow, jumped the gun on giving VW the benefit of the doubt before reading the actual complaint. Thanks for the link.
I don't really agree with that.

The people who truly want zero ads are, I think, in the minority. If I'm reading a blog about Django and it's got an ad with a discount code for DjangoCon, I actually want to see that ad -- and not just because it supports the blog.

The other day I put an item in my cart on an ecommerce site and forgot about it until I saw a "retargeted" ad reminding me to complete my purchase. I wanted to complete the purchase, I just forgot. I want that ad.

For some non-tech examples: consider how many people would opt for an ad-free Superbowl or an ad-free fashion magazine. Some would, but certainly not everyone. Many people like those ads.

I think people hate ads that are not relevant to them. Third party tracking cookies have many problems, but they're one way to help make ads more relevant.

(Disclaimer: I'm cofounder of an ad-supported B2B news organization)
https://xkcd.com/1124/
Almost all supersport bikes coming into the US utilize both of these strategies. :)

I own a Ducati 999 that was lemonlawed because it would stall at stop lights. Super common and happened because of how lean the bikes had to run to pass US emissions.
> "force white to move the rook to block"

A better move would be to just move your king out of check and to go protect your rook.
That's the best example of out-of-the-box thinking I've ever seen in chess.
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Ad blocking as a general thing is coming, there's no doubt, and I believe that it being possible on iOS will accelerate that coming; there's something about an app in the App Store that's more acceptable to an average user than a browser extension. I can understand not wanting being the person who brings the abrupt revolution, though.
This might be cool once IoT becomes really mainstream, you know to protect all that data collected.
Before switching to a standard password manager I used to use the algorithmic equivalent of this: I used supergenpass which took the domain name and a master password and hashed them (probably HMAC'd) so that I could have the password be strong but not stored.

Ultimately though what got in the way were obscure password requirements of some websites (especially banks). Some banks required a "special character" that wasn't in the hash's output, other sites thought 16 characters was too long for a password, other sites didn't like some of the non alphanumeric characters (no joke).

As the exceptions started piling up I started having to do lots of password resets on these usual suspects before giving up this scheme and moving to a traditional password manager (1password).

Just thought I'd share my experience with this sort of thing.
I didn't click it myself until it got a lot of votes, and now I'm glad I did. It's not hard to figure out why it would be relevant to the audience here. Applying the lesson in a different context might be difficult though.
UK scientists seek permission to edit the genes of human embryos
AD replacement: oauth2 backed by a directory server (Azure AD / Google apps accounts)

Clients: anything really. The OS almost doesn't matter now.
Divide Google revenues by Internet penetration to get a rough guideline, perhaps? I doubt it has changed that much.
The trick here would be convincing the right people that letting "us" have more power and self-organize would provide them with more money and power.

In my experience, a lot of it comes down to the issue of control (which I'll admit I'm predisposed to see). I've seen more than a few people who'd rather have their projects fail, lose their jobs, or even kill their company than lose their perception of control over "us".
Yes, but the TÜV should have noticed such faking, too.
Not even the iPhone 5 is supported on all three (now 2 given Marco removing PEACE) ad-blockers. This is why even though I have an iPhone, I prefer my Android device. UPDATE: just found out about WeBlock. Works on iOS devices with iOS6+
The most straightforward designs of roundabouts don't have a good safety record for cyclists. This post gives some hints based on the Dutch experience http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2014/05/the-best-rounda...
Except when you're in my blind spot, and your pipes are pointing backwards, I still won't hear you until you're in front of me and I've already seen you. Cars are incredibly quiet inside these days.
You might find it pretty useless in japan, other than at 7/11 ATMs. They have some kind of weird specific payment system as well.
Somebody gave me the argument in NASA that the US didn't switch metric because the cost would be too high because they are so big. Ireland and UK have gone metric in our lifetimes.

I mean, there are lazy people throwing out platitudes to justify doing nothing wherever you go.
I worked in mobile gaming and left it, so I'm hoping to give a nuanced response here.

Obviously virtual slot machines aren't good for players, for the gaming ecosystem or the software ecosystem. Virtual slot machines are proof positive that they exploit people psychologically, since there's absolutely no rational reason to play a zero-payout gambling game. More importantly, these apps make up 1/11th of the top 200 grossing on the App Store, sucking money and talent out of riskier and more rewarding pursuits.

It's unfair though to look at what the producer describes and say free to play gaming is this huge existential crisis of conscious. Anything near the end (i.e., end user) of the value chain is going to be dealing with people's demographics, their wants and needs, etc. Of course game developers are interested in their player's features, no more differently than stores use loyalty cards, magazines survey their readership, etc.

There's a consequence to what you're saying: The only honest work doesn't deal with the end user. Maybe if you're building database testing tools you're doing a total social positive. Well, we can't all work for infrastructure companies messing around with Haskell libraries all day.

Who do you think is using all those elegant hierarchies, those pickaxes in the app goldrush? The producer says they integrate forty SDKs! That's forty different tech startups, some of them with billion dollar valuations.

What created AWS? The intensive, pathological tracking of people's preferences in book buying. What created all of Google's server infrastructure? The intensive tracking of people's searches. I'm not saying forfeit your values or principals. But the alternatives to free to play gaming are just less obviously exploitative.
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Obviously it will vary, but my experience in the suburbs of Minneapolis/St Paul (and driving in Europe and Australasia) has been the total opposite. Instead of stop sign hell every block causing gridlock during busy times traffic actually flows. "Minor car debris" likely comes from drivers who don't understand driving etiquette (use your bloody turn signal!) rather than road design.
If you asked farmers what they wanted in 1900, they would have said they wanted a horse that ate half as much and did twice as much work.

What they ended up with was a tractor.
The Concorde is one of those early implementations that is just big enough to barely work, yet never really succeeds, while also sucking all the air out of the room for any other ideas. The aviation fan side of me would love to see the Concorde fly again but my gut says that trying to resurrect the Concorde will only delay any chance of regular supersonic flights in the future.
I thought the tides question was a bit flawed/ambiguous, despite knowing which of the answers they were really looking for.

"Which of these is the main way that ocean tides are created?"

Are 'tides' defined as the tidal bulge caused by the moon, or the harmonic rising and falling of water levels caused by earth's rotation relative to that bulge?

Would we (laypeople) even recognise there were ocean tides if earth's rotation was somehow slow enough for the moon to be geostationary? The bulge would still be there, but without the earth's relative rotation to the moon the sea level doesn't go up and down any more (ignoring the smaller tides from the sun).
It always seemed to me that it should be relatively not difficult to write some kind of language that limited you to the "right" way of doing things and that compiled down to C++

You could:

- prevent people from using deprecated features

- immediately remove TONS of boilerplate

- automatically generate header files from the cpp's

- have high level keywords that would generate design patterns for you (no more having to re-implement a Visitor for the first time that year and having to spend a day debugging it)

At the same time you could still leverage C++ libraries and when you do need to write an allocator or do some fancy diamond inheritance friend method templating magic shenanigans you could always drop back down to C++

EDIT: What I find kind of amusing is that with time you can do more and more of these things through Visual Studio's magical "wizards" and checkboxes (maybe it's the same for the other IDEs.. not sure), but ofcourse it's rather silly, clunky and slow to use. In the latest version you can finally make matching declarations/definitions with a couple of clicks - saves a lot of the mildly frustrating copy/past'ing!
For a really good problem, with legal moves, feast on this:

http://gameknot.com/analyze-board.pl?bd=0&fen=8/3P3k/n2K3p/2...
Example of "cult doctrine" he would be very aware of: in Vietnam, the Air Force was using WWII fighter formations, which granted them 1/4th the power the Navy's modern, jet adapted ones had.

In part, this wasn't seen as a problem by the flight leaders, who would tended to be senior officers, since they got all the action while the other 3 had to mostly concentrate on staying in formation....
I'm on my phone hence it's a little tricky for me to search for outside references and copy/paste links, but this quote, or the idea behind it (as far as I can tell), reminds me of Heraclitus, and of Aristotle's critique of him as a guy who believes that both black and white are the same (this was not the comparison provided by neither of them, but that was the idea).

Now, I do think that had we not followed Aristotle and his basic logic principles we wouldn't have had science, nor reached the Moon, nor built smart-phones, but deep down we kind of all know that both Heraclitus and Hume are correct in their suggestion. I like to think that Einstein's laugh (apocriphical or not) was caused by this realization.

Also, to respond to the grand-parent post, I think there's still a lot of mistery in this world. I for myself have become an umanist once I stopped believing in religion or anything similar, meaning the human race never ceases to surprise me and to make me ask "how come we're doing the things we're doing". How come we're altruistic? How come we feel empathy for other people? How come we kill other people in wars? How come we create art? How come we're sometime mesmerized by it? How come we're nostalgic? How come Vronski got tired of Anna Karenina and wanted other things from life, even though she had given everything for him (a marriage, her kid)? How come we still wish Paris hadn't brought Helen back to Troy with him? etc etc
Yes, block all product placement. All advertising is a curse not a blessing. Look at the state of its progeny: TV and radio. Hopeless.

The little bit of good content on TV is... only from sources without ads (HBO, PBS, Netflix).

The advertising model of content underwriting should be dead. Let ad blockers be the stake through its vampire heart.
"your path is constantly crossed by drivers going straight through, doing a right turn"

It's only crossed by the same amount of drivers than a regular intersection: those going on the same street as you.

"They are all driving at full speed"

Actually no, the curve of the roundabout (for properly designed roundabouts) slows them down. In fact a traditional intersection causes them to drive even faster since many drivers go in a straight line.

"It is a delicate game"

The nice thing about roundabouts is that you only have to check for cars coming from ONE direction, as opposed to a traditional intersection where cars can come from behind you, from your side, or from in front of you. So crossing a roundabout requires less cognitive bandwidth.
I agree. I was reluctant to post it myself due to the origin but I figured that linking to quality is the best way to encourage more to be produced.
$18b would mean they’d still make profit out of this.

And it’s not like only VW did this, every carmaker currently does this. It’s not going to change soon either.
"You have to expand your mind at some point and accept there is mystery."

I don't follow. The skeptical viewpoint that Hume takes is one that says we can't know. How does that not increase "mystery"? Having answers to questions is the very thing that tends to take mystery away.
Here's some of my 'must listen' list.

Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt; I'm a Co Executive Producer (Patreon)
Security Now with Steve Gibson
Freakonomics Radio
I'm surprised there's no mention of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center. IIRC this is exactly why they made it.
I'm told you should look here: http://genode.org/
This is a fantastic read, beautifully written (apparently the author is the older sister of Adam Gropnik, writer extraordinaire for The New Yorker).

I'm in the middle of it; but this statement is inaccurate:

> For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that the Jesuits were retrograde enforcers of orthodoxy.

I don't know what time or wisdom the author is talking about, but the whole jesuit problem has always been that they were "avant garde", not retrograde; they were the hippies of the Catholic church, or maybe more accurately the hipsters.

Not only in matters of science, as the rest of the paragraph makes clear, but in matters of faith and dogma. They were on the opposite side to tradition. That's a very well and thoroughly documented fact.
I don't see why not. The initial run is essentially the storing up of momentum. From that, running up a flywheel inside the bike is just storing the same energy in a different place.
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Yup, quite possibly thinking about bailing on the car sooner rather than later. I have no idea if this kind of thing significantly affects resale value, but I'm not sure I want to wait around to find out.
I tried "list" twice, always gave an error back.
I mean if they are just going to pay someone for the mapping and they are going to buy their cars from tesla, what do they bring to the table? just an app?
There's this keyboard selection thing in the Ubuntu installation that asks you to type in a few keys, like "Type any of AZ123...". Perhaps this could be useful here?