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That was Ada and a bunch of Wirth languages which both got regular updates going back decades. Most developers ignored all of them. Rust is a new one going mainstream. As usual, mainstream acts like everything else ever happened. An exception is other one, Go, which intentionally copies Wirth's languages in design. Usually stuff is ignored, though.
This is not about replacing cars with bikes, but making biking a viable alternative, such that it is actually possible to get from point A to point B by bike without taking a substantial risk of being killed by substantially faster car traffic.

No one actually expects to replace all cars with bikes. But replacing 20% of them would substantially cut down on congestion and emissions; and avoiding further growth in automotive traffic is likewise important.

And yes, I do see parents taking their kids to school by bike; in fact, my father used to do it with my younger brother some 25 years ago, and just yesterday I passed one of my neighbors heading up our very steep hill with her child on the back of her cargo bike.

There isn't a zero-sum game to be played between cars and bikes. Improving bike infrastructure can lead to reduced congestion for cars, fewer bad interactions between drivers and cyclists, etc.
Aerial Timelapse taken by drone
So I finally watched that talk to the end (had only watched the beginning). I generally like Rosling, but that talk seems a bit low on details. Your interpretation seems wrong - washing machine people only use 2 units of energy, the rich use 6 units. So there seems to be a lot of potential to save right there. While more people will move up to washing machine level, at the same time things could get more efficient and more green energy could become available (it's not clear where Rosling gets his projections from...).

Rosling seems to be angry at some economics students who he claims wanted to deny the world washing machines. You adopted his anger and now you think everybody who says "save energy" wants to deny people washing machines. There is simply no basis for that (and I wonder if those selfish economic students actually exist - Rosling is a cool guy, but also a show man, perhaps he invented them for a good story).

Washing machines are actually not that sophisticated, by the way. I think the first ones even operated without electricity. It's basically a drum spinning in a bowl of water, with some fancy chemicals added to the mix. Perhaps somebody should invent a "3rd world washing machine" to help all those women out.
And at that time, it was really hard to foresee how cheap and ubiquitous computers would be. Computers were still multi-user shared resources. A "personal computer" was still a dream.
Capturing common config with an SBT parent plugin
It's probably a terrible idea for me to do this as I am completely unqualified, I don't have all the required numbers, and I don't have much time to double check or even think this through properly, but it seems that on the back of an envolpe, everything goes!

The average diesel passenger car emitted about 8kg of NOx in 2008 and a third less in 2015 according to [1] and [2], so on average that's 6.6kg per car per year. If VW emitted 20 times that much since 2009, as alleged, that's 6.6 * 20 * 6 years = 792kg. An average diesel engine would have emitted 40kg, so that's 752kg extra for VW.

Multiply by 500,000 cars = 376,000 tons of extra emissions. [2] claims that cutting emissions by 187,000 tons saves 4000 lives. Hence, 376,000 tons should cause about 8000 deaths. That's assuming NOx levels and deaths have a linear relationship, which is highly doubtful.

So it appears that my feeling/belief that 500,000 cars could not have caused 100,000 deaths is correct. But if all 11 million VW cars of that type worldwide have that same "defect", then of course the number of premature deaths rises to 176,000.

All of this is most likely complete bullshit, but you are right, it makes sense to at least try to run some numbers ;-)

[1] http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/consumer/420f08024.pdf

[2] http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/ordiesel/documents/OFRDDIESELhe...

[Edit] I already found a mistake in my estimate. The NOx numbers in [1] don't seem to be for diesel or not only for diesel engines. But other sources give similar averages for diesel engines (after the catalytic converter does its job of course)
I also can't imagine how you wouldn't go buy a hundred VWs and meticulously take them apart and understand them after getting brutalized in the diesel market.

This is exactly how the auto industry works, contrary to the uninformed person(s) who modded you down. People should refrain from moderating posts from users who actually know what they're talking about.

For example, the first thing GM did when they began work on the current-generation Corvette was buy a Porsche 911 (from Volkswagen, no less) and study it in detail. This is an objective fact by GM's own admission (http://www.edmunds.com/porsche/911/2013/comparison-test.html). Competitive analysis is a key engineering strategy, no less important than any other.

It's inconceivable that other manufacturers weren't aware of exactly how VW's seemingly-impossible engineering worked. The only question is why they didn't rat them out to the EPA.
In this thread: people in denial about damage from alcohol.
You're wrong about Berlin. The vast majority of bike lanes are part of the sidewalk.

They're really haphazard and frequently blocked (Amsterdam is probably the ideal, IMO), but cars are parked between them and the road.
synthetic events' handlers can publish events to a bus, and you can create observables on the events on the bus.

VDom lets you express UI as a function of the state

Observables let you express state as a function of user interactions
Some of those "unicorns" are going to die. Way too many minor companies now have "billion dollar valuations". There's some company with a single-signon service with a "billion dollar" valuation. Uber had $470 million in operating losses on $415 million in revenue, according to figures in a bond prospectus reported by Bloomberg in June.[1]

[] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-30/uber-bonds...
I did something similar, but on a few legs spent the extra money for a sleeper.

For those who are interested: http://lianza.org/blog/2015/05/15/on-traveling-cross-country...
A lot of it is the anonymous culture, the idea that discussions can be based soley on the contents of message not the poster's history. This creates good content and interesting discussion. Its just learning to adjust your signal to noise filters.
Yes, C++ is that (almost). But that attribute of C++ is not the source of the problems that we're talking about here.

I mean, yes, in a sense it is, in that C had shallow copy of structs (IIRC), but... let's review, shall we?

pjmlp whined about operator overloading, about how it made code difficult to understand. Gankro specifically singled out copy and assignment overloading as being unnecessary and confusing. jawilson2 raised the question of deep vs. shallow copying (implying that you need to overload copy and assignment in order to easily do deep copy). Gankro replied that you shouldn't want to do deep copy on assignment. I pointed out the problem with his/her view, namely, possible memory corruption. Gankro relied, blaming this on backward compatibility with C. I explained that it's not backward compatibility per se that creates the problem, it's the ability to have pointers. My point was that C++ was deliberately going to have pointers - it wasn't just because of backward compatibility. You argue that C++ is in fact backward compatible. In the context of the conversation, so what? We're not questioning whether C++ is C-compatible. It is, but that's not the point.

The point is, even if C++ were deliberately not C-compatible, if it let you play with pointers (and given the intent of C++, it would) it would still have the issue of shallow vs. deep copy, and overloading assignment and copy would still be the solution.
(This is James from OpenSignal)

I agree time coverage needs to be carefully interpreted - particularly when an deployment is focussed just in a city, a high time coverage percentage shouldn't be taken as meaning there is a strong nationwide deployment. But it does show the experience of the users who do have LTE.

For markets that have had LTE for longer, and with high LTE penetration (i.e. large percentage of subscribers using LTE), time coverage does show how effective the rollout as been.

Two more notes on why we've chosen to do this:

- Firstly geographical coverage is a little shaky - there are questions over how to factor in indoors/outdoors/under a bridge, cell breathing and other temporal fluctuations should be taken into account. The time coverage we use is unambiguous: we look at the proportion of time users have access to the LTE metric.

- Secondly: our crowdsourced methodology is focussed on measurement, not modelling. There are often very sparsely readings where we simply don't have LTE readings, we can't conclude unequivocally that there is no LTE there, or just no users. There are some ways we can get round this we can look into on (extrapolating from our cell maps), but for the moment we're much more confident in the time coverage (though caveats are required!)
So a class A would cost $16M /year to hold? I think folks should just move to V6 in all its silliness and be done with it.
How does that parse? I thought static was only a storage class.
I was more thinking of compromising. Making deals is, at least to some extent, what business is about and I don't see the differences as insurmountable. Maybe Google don't play nice with others, but there's firms that do that too in exchange for money.
Evolution can be nigh-impossible to understand sometimes, but this one seems straightforward- as you mentioned, it was originally two discs, which gained bumps- bugs that had better bumps were more likely to survive, and thus the bumps probably became more defined and streamlined, forming ridges, and later "gears"- and if there's one thing the body likes to do, it's symmetry.
I'll start right out by saying that NOx production is very sensitive to engine tuning, as VW has shown. If you run lean you increase your mileage, but you run hot which can increase your NOx output by two-digit factors.

I scanned the literature real quick, and it's pretty mixed. I think stuff before the ULSD switchover pretty clearly favored the biodiesel, because No.1/No.2 were nasty. After the switchover, with a properly tuned engine, it seems to be pretty close with the ULSD having perhaps a slight edge. Without retuning the ULSD seems to be somewhat better. However all of this varies pretty broadly - some people found improved NOx levels just from switching biodiesel. I didn't find a good, modern paper that quantifies the increase, a few looked promising but were paywalled.

http://umexpert.um.edu.my/file/publication/00003184_92278.pd...

I thought this was a good summary of the effects of biodiesel and tuning strategies on various engines. Like ethanol vs gasoline, biodiesel contains more oxygen than its fossil counterpart. It's also not as fully saturated. As such it just tends to run leaner and hotter, and that's why there's a change in average levels. There seems to be a huge variance in the data. Some possible explanations: every manufacturer tunes their engine a little differently, air conditions like humidity and altitude may play a part, and the composition of the biodiesel may not be constant (eg percentage of fossil mixed in, level of saturation in the feedstock, different additive mixtures, etc).

I think manufacturers probably tune their engines primarily for fossil, and to improve mileage they tend to run them as lean as emissions standards will let them get away with. So they may be fairly sensitive to small changes. It would probably be best to add biodiesel to the emissions tests as well, to get them to pay some attention to tuning for it. Maybe there's a happy medium that will work acceptably with both. If not - flex-fuel ethanol vehicles are capable of automatically detecting the level of ethanol and adjusting their tuning to match, we should have something like that for biodiesel. Perhaps a property like acidity or density, levels of particulates, or presence of a taggant in the fuel.

Anyway, hadn't looked at that stuff since before ULSD was out and didn't realize it had changed the picture a little bit. I don't mean to minimize the problem, acid rain sucks and we should absolutely do what we can to address it. But there's no zero-harm solution, if the increase can be mitigated or kept minor with proper tuning there are some compelling benefits to biodiesel over fossil diesel.
I agree it's uneven and not as good as Mozart's other celebrated works. But I think all the great composers have lots of uneven pieces as it is without resorting to (often speculative) excuses as to why, they just are.

As for Beethoven, actually his famous reply to learning of the authorship issue was 'If Mozart did not write the music, then the man who wrote it was a Mozart.'
A total switch to bikes, away from private motor vehicles by all, is a very different scenario than current copenhagen.

And it's also a scenario that no one is proposing.
It is after all the Post-American would with the rise of the rest.

The USA has had an advantage after WW2 for not having anything destroyed in the war, and being able to out produce everyone else. There came many innovations in technology. The other nations buy that technology and now make that technology because the labor is cheaper over there.

The USA had a good economy in the 1990s during the startup bubble rising before it burst in 1999-2000. Good enough to build a military superiority. Sun/Oracle had government contracts to make military systems using their software. I worked as a federal contractor in 1996-1997 to help migration systems from ATCOM to MICOM to save money and move the aviation databases and systems down to the missile command base to save money and combine them so they could work on the drone program.

The drone is remote controlled and not AI based, it is very effective. No risk of our pilots in using them.

But the tech in other nations has caught up to match our military technology. We lost the superiority.

The same with NASA, lost the advantage there due to mismanagement and mistakes. No planned replacement for the space shuttle, have to hitch a ride to the ISS with the Russians. Still using rockets to put things into space.

Many one of the commercial space companies will also make a better fighter jet or something, who knows?
Yes, lots of people talking is another one or, to be more exact, when there are multiple sources of noise.
> This is important because with a history, you open yourself up to attacks.

Which is why I set up a script a few months ago to delete my account history every month. The amount of doxing I saw on reddit made me nervous.
The nginx config language already is a half-assed DSL with all sorts of unintuitive limitations (chiefly caused by its insane mix of declarative and procedural elements, and arbitrary precedence of declarative directives). The last thing nginx needs is a new DSL (that everyone has to learn from scratch) with a new set of unintuitive limitations and a new set of differences from common general purpose languages.

There are plenty of good minimal languages, from embedded scheme varieties to luajit to io. If that's what you mean by a DSL (embedded minimalist scheme with some nginx-specific functions and variables, for instance) then I agree, but they chose the javascript path for a good reason: it has a healthy community and ecosystem, and while the performance won't be top notch, I don't think it'll matter.
Shark looks promising... I haven't tried it yet so I don't have much of an opinion. Contributions seem a bit sparse: it's not in heavy development. Maybe that will change over time.
As someone who procrastinates, I've yet to come across a true "cure" for the habit. "Forgive yourself" is such a vague and abstract mantra that I don't even know how to actualize the advice.

I think the worst explanation for procrastination I've come across is that it's caused by not truly enjoying the activity that is being procrastinated upon. But if that were really the case, then the remainder of my life would be spent sitting in a chair reading useless articles online.

Other questionable explanations I've stumbled across include: being unable to bond empathetically with your future self, that the procrastinator's brain has a [insert neurotransmitter of choice] deficit, that fear of failure keeps one from starting, that too much is tackled at once, and so on.

When I try to recall what has given me the greatest sense of fulfillment in life, everything I can think of is something I worked really hard to achieve. That which contents me momentarily does not seem to coincide with that which provides overall life contentment. I don't necessarily seek happiness — I would rather have demanding work that positively impacts the world over some job that allows me to surf online all day.

What's funny is that I procrastinate only with regard to intellectual activities — not physical ones. Getting myself to exercise is no trouble at all. But prodding myself to finish a VPTree implementation... that's much more difficult. My hypothesis is that I procrastinate on those things that I was naturally good at during childhood. Academically, I was decently above average (well, at least up until college), so I never had to study. I always completed homework at the last second before it was due, and I crammed most of my test studying into the night before the exam and then promptly forgot the material as soon as I walked out of the classroom (as I'm sure many of you have noticed, this "strategy" doesn't work nearly as well in college, and it fails dramatically in grad school).

On the other hand, when it came to sports, it was pretty much a guarantee that (at least initially) I would naturally be the worst out of everyone participating. I was determined to improve though, so I developed training schedules and religiously followed them until I got the results I wanted. I think that habit has stuck with me, and I still have no trouble starting an exercise regimen.
That doesn't sound right. I mean, each artist also has a description of why their work is special, so I think 'artist' and 'winery' are the most direct analogies.

Galleries seem to play a different role. Is it filled by the sommelier? Famous sommeliers? Wine reviewers? Something else? How do people learn to identify the consensus determined expensive brand?
You can thank EU regulations for that.
Yes but a highly skilled professional who bills at $1000 a day (or in some cases per hour) is not the same sort of freelancer as zero hours shop assistant.
The pebble time round only has 2 days, and isn't waterproof.
oh get over yourself. I have had both a 2010 and 2013 TDI and don't feel one shred of guilt. Why would I? I did nothing wrong and guilt by association is so yesterday.

There is likely to be some loss of MPG but all that will mean is the cars will be closer to their EPA estimates. Yet EPA estimates don't take into account how many people drive and mileage conscious people tend to drive differently. I have had only one car in the last dozen years where I could not consistently beat the EPA (my current, a 2012 Z4 averages 32 and hit peaks of 40 on long interstate runs by far exceeding the EPA numbers of that four cylinder)

Now would I buy another one? Likely not a VW but a diesel isn't out of the question. Similar to how I really don't plan on buying any GM products because of their purposeful deceit with the ignition switches. I really would love to buy the upcoming Bolt but I don't see either company as honest and that is a requirement for me to do business.

But to feel guilt for something you have no possibility of knowing is just ridiculous. You bought their product in good faith, should people who buy Subway sandwiches feel dirty because the company spokesman got busted for kiddie porn?
Usually each library has it's own architecture. This architecture based on some default classes that implements core functionality for models. I already have a chance to check source code for the popular neural network libraries and I found that their architecture requires some basic classes that are related to the Backpropagation algorithm and it's variation. In neural networks there are a lot of algorithms that really hard to compare and generalize. To make your idea possible I see two ways for that. First one is to change architecture for the main models classes in popular library. In practice for the popular libraries it's a huge amount of work. Even if you found possibility to generalize core architecture with other network that you want implement, probably, you will broke a big part of library that works before. The second one is build a new folder inside of existing library that contains localized code that don't have relation to the core part. How it differs from the decision of a single repository for a different library? In practice its a good way to separate something without relation, because further attempts to combine all in a big library will lead to breakage and bugs that are difficult to debug and fix.
No, it totally ignores my world view. Marxism-Leninism was the biggest event in philosophy, since Aristotle and I think it deserves at least small chapter in "authoritative" encyclopedia :-)
I only buy physical books in "collector grade" hardcover form anymore, and those are very few and far between and mainly for display.

It's infinitely more convenient to do 99% of normal reading on an e-reader. The recent surge in ebook pricing from amazon/etc does nothing but drive me to other (cheaper) forms of entertainment/leisure. I'm not spending $25 on an ebook, I don't care if it's by a NY Times Bestselling Author.

$9.99 is comfortably within the "impulse purchase" range and still provides an enormous margin over cost of production/distribution. $20+ is well outside the "impulse purchase" range for an intangible product like an ebook.

Not to mention that a "free" copy is literally 20 seconds and a few clicks away.
> At the moment biking is dominated by young fit and generally healthy people.

This is because our infrastructure sucks, so only young and fit people feel confident enough to bike around. In cities with high biking rates, that's not the case. Biking around for leisure is actually a stereotypical 'old person thing' in the Netherlands.

> I see lots of young parents going to work by bike, but do they take their kids to school on bikes? Does grandma get to the doctor on a tricycle?

If you go to a place with better infrastructure like Denmark, this is, in fact, exactly what you see. I visited Copenhagen this last summer and pretty much everyone there got around on bikes. I saw something similar, albeit to a somewhat lesser extent, in Munich and Lübeck, which aren't as good at biking as Copenhagen but still have lots of protected bike lanes.

I already take my son to daycare on my bike in Sunnyvale, but I'm a relatively confident rider. Confident enough to continue doing so even after we got hit by a car yesterday morning.

Here's a comment about biking in the bay area from a Dutch guy on the somethingawful forums:

> I think the expectations thing is a big problem, especially combined with bikers being (having to be) more obnoxious in the US. When I just arrived, I was shocked with how much all the bikers broke the rules (skipped lights, biked on the curbs etc.) and just were general assholes in traffic. Two weeks later I was one of them.

People in the US think lots of things are impossible on a bike, when really they're only impossible when the infrastructure is bad. Which, to be fair, is true almost everywhere in the US. If we made it good instead, those things would become possible.