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I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the boy when he was five. I wanted to make sure he would have a sound case for blaming me for all his adult problems later should he choose to.

On the other hand, we were in a clear majority for holding off on Star Wars [in which a whole planet of people are killed in passing] with great effort until he was six. Then we got an XBox 360 and he was shooting up things hisself anyways.

He seems to be turning out better than we deserve despite this. I suspect your best judgement will be fine.

Good luck.
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It's worth expanding that this is a very broad spectrum of software.

No one's worried about assembly code for Intel chips, but the next generation could be locked down.

No one's worried about writing C++ for Windows, but technically you're using their APIs and hooks that could be dropped in the next release.

There's iOS, where you're also subject to review and approval.

There's well-known web joints like Google, where this can happen.

Then there's the fly-by-night shops that could just dissolve tomorrow.

The safest thing is to build your own computer from silicon, write your own OS, your own compilers, your own languages, your own software, and your own APIs. Of course, by the time you do that, we'll all be dead. So it's a balancing act. But it's worth illustrating that you're taking for granted that things will remain the same forever, when in reality there's a sliding scale of risk.
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India used to have subsidies on retail gas prices. Now it doesn't since complete price deregulation and so whenever global crude price changes those was supposed to reflect on retail prices. As expected prices increase whenever crude price increases, but whenever crude prices decreases central govt is increasing taxes. Current govt has raised taxes on gas/diesel almost every two weeks and yet again last week.

I wrote a script to calculate what the prices should be, factoring in the exchange rate and crude price prevailing at the time and these are the results I got.

Month/Year [retail_price vs would_be_price(if taxes were not increased) ]

June 2014 (Rs 71.51 vs Rs 71.51) - taxes when he got into power

June 2015 (Rs 66.93 vs Rs 39.89)

Jan 11, 2016 (Rs 64 vs 36.27)

Also the tax on gas prices are really complicated.
Oil marketing companies refines and their selling price includes their markup. On that selling price there are a couple of central govt taxes. Now on that price(including the central govt taxes), there are couple of state taxes. Current cost of petrol/gasoline including markup of refineries is around Rs.25 Rest are taxes.
One would assume long term the snow plows would be automated as well, and therefore be clearing in a way automated cars would make best use of.

I'm curious how they'll handle whiteout conditions, however.
The comparison to make is not with yourself, it's with the worst drivers that are already legally allowed to drive. Getting them replaced with a superior autonomous system makes you safer regardless of how your skill level compares to the system.

(The only crash I've been in involved someone else losing control of their vehicle and crossing the center line on a major highway, which probably informs this perspective a little bit)
An individual data point maybe not, but even something like "there is a road between X1,Y1 and X2,Y2" you can't just extract from Google Maps and put in OSM, at least not multiple times. There are surprisingly few generally usable data sources (some government datasets that have been put under open licenses, Microsofts permits to use Bing's aerial photography as a basis for OSM, ...)
Interesting.

Never worked on mainframes myself, but have on Unix (and Linux) a lot. Had read some years ago that mainframes had some powerful features that were often not available on Unixes. One such feature that was available, could be HP's PRM (Process Resource Manager), which, IIRC (from my time at a HP joint venture), could ensure allocation of a guaranteed minimum percentage of system resources (such as RAM and CPU time) to a specific process (say a payroll job running at the end of the month). I remember being impressed by the concept at the time.

There was also HP MC/Service Guard, but didn't have a good idea what it did, just remember the name.

P.S. Had also tried out rtprio and prioc(n)tl on some Unix boxes, maybe one was an HP one, the other a SVR4. They allowed assigning (quite) higher priorities to specified processes, IIRC.

P.P.S. Both those product names could have been changed by now, or been merged into bigger products, as sometimes happens.

Edited to say that HP's PRM _was_ an example of a mainframe-like feature.
I've found a pretty good balance to be giving answers that have 3 parts:

1. a short answer (about 1-2 sentences)
2. what section of what manual to read for fuller information
3. other resources; possible "gotcha"s

Then, if they come back and still don't understand, don't just take the time to help them, but also update the manual with whatever you tell them!
This article about UXKit is a good summary of why this is a bad idea.

http://inessential.com/2015/02/05/uxkit_skepticism

(Found this by Googling UXKit, after reading about it for the first time in this discussion.)
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In what way is this an FBI debacle? The F35 is a debacle as is the TSA. But the program the FBI was running to deanonymize TOR users? Not even close.
Random failures will still occur, even if the vehicle is properly maintained and through no inherent flaw in the vehicle. No system is perfect.
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I dunno...I find the selection to easily surpass what I'd find available on basic cable on any given day. If it cost $30-50/mo (or whatever they charge for a pretty basic cable package these days) I'd reconsider but for under $10/mo I find it to fill that gap of "something to flick through and find something I wouldn't mind watching" quite nicely.
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Or the system for determining fault could be flawed.

It would certainly be a legal problem for the manufacturer, but it doesn't necessarily point to a fault in the autonomous driving system.

I sort of expect that licensing for autonomous systems will in fact be fuzzy and require operators to cover liability, not require manufacturers to make flawless systems (whatever that would mean).
Don't know about Kindle, but you can root the Nook SimpleTouch and put ConnectBot on it.
Also a couple of my favorites:

- Remote job information: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

- Liberland constitution: https://github.com/liberland/constitution
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The blog is referring to source- and binary-API compatibility guarantees that Spark provides.

IIRC, in order for DataFrames and Datasets to share a common parent class certain common methods' return types would need to change in a binary-incompatible way that would break DataFrame code which was compiled against older Spark versions.

Due to Spark's API compatibility and versioning policies, this type of compatibility break can only occur in major releases, so it can only be done in Spark 2.0.0 and not Spark 1.6.
Turning the profiles and prejudices of police into an explicit metric, whose code can be examined and debated, seems like an idea that might have not have legs in a free society.

However, surprisingly unmentioned here is the inevitability, so long as the client is the state, that these metrics include political dissent as a threat model. Has anyone asked Beware for comment on this?
FWIW, I've seen several Canadian shows.

One in particular IIRC is The Transporter series. I don't know how much more there is, but there's definitely more. I think Flashpoint is also on there, which IIRC is produced by a Canadian studio.
You'd hope, but many area's "snow plowing" means the locals get together and hire someone with a road grating tractor to come and plow. AND if they have the extra budget toss some dirt on there.

:-) Obviously this doesn't apply to country or greater highways.
Well, if Microsoft applies their secure programming guidelines also to Windows Defender that might be the best (and default) choice if you're worrying about attacks like these.
I just did some digging on their Github, for every captured HTTP request there is one Redis/Bolt op and for every replay there is one get Redis/Bolt op.

You should be able to pipeline the recording, but likely not the get operations.
Robocop too, right?
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I don't think this is a weird idea. In fact, I really like this idea. It seems like a rating agency could be given a "score" based on the historical accuracy of their measurements, since although ongoing books are business secrets I would imagine you could get SOME proxy at least for examining the veracity of the ratings in hindsight. It could be done with very little overhead, and would be a first step in some small sort of accountability, at least, if only an accountability to the data.

Could anyone with an actual familiarity with this domain say if something like this exists, or if there's sufficient audit data for it to exist?
To be able to know that it's doing something wrong or mis-reading things would require some deeper understanding of what it's doing (or at least a confidence score or similar). This is why it'd likely be important for s human to be overseeing it 100% of the time, to step in and swiftly make a manual override when the autonomy doesn't realize it's about to do something stupid.
If you haven't yet check out the single for that song. It goes really deep into the aesthetics and experiements with Trent Reznor's sensibilities. It's like Reznor shacked up in a cabin for the weekend to bang out some remixes. Warning, they get dark and noisy fast.
>When I criticize today's mainstream it's that this quality isn't there anymore.

No, it's because you don't like it and can't feel superior any longer if you were to enjoy it. It's just incredibly elitist to assume the music you don't like doesn't have any quality.

One of the best "mainstream" albums in recent times was Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. A record with such masterful production, songwriting and depth that is absolutely high quality.

In 40 years people will look back on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy much in the same way we look back on Ziggy Stardust now. Likewise it will be remembered for it's fearlessness, creativity and influence.
Oh wow, they probably just gave equifax a truly horrible idea.

I wonder if this is even legal since it creates prejudice, probably is through some loophole.

Did you ever protest a war? Ah you have a terrible threat score.

Next they open it up to employers.
It is not outdated, but _prescient_. Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time.

You may choose to depend on a vendor to an extent, but structure your application in a way that a sudden change in the rules would not be the end of you; e.g., there is more than one cloud provider on which one can use the same Docker images to deploy an application. And you may choose a business where there are no options _other_ than to depend on a third party; e.g., you wish to sell a native iOS application to iPhone users.

Risk is still risk: a potential pitfall or peril. Sometimes the risk is great enough, compared with the potential return, that the only way to win is not to play. Regardless, this article discusses a set of risks which exist now more then ever; to enumerate and understand these risks is not outdated thinking, it's just good business.
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Where else would the microcode update happen? After the OS boots?
> Why don't you ask Serena, (the heavy View user mentioned in the article), any of her friends, your mom, a niece or nephew, anyone going to school, or any other random sampling of the population who would know about the app.

And yet, you believe cigarettes are immoral. Why doesn't the same "some of their users like them" argument apply there?

Consequentialism is hardly the only ethical theory out there.
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Maybe Netflix is claiming Trailer Park Boys now. That is totally Canadian. It's not a rocket appliance.
They care about money. And that's it.
When I write Clojure I tend not to worry too much about this. Most of my variable names will be declared with `let` and will have a very limited scope. I can go ahead and clash some builtin function name and not worry about it unless I happen to need that builtin function within the `let` block. It usually is the case that I don't need to.
>Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said officers are often working on scant or even inaccurate information when they respond to calls, so Beware and the Real Time Crime Center give them a sense of what may be behind the next door.

This assumes that the information present on the Internet is accurate, a scary thought. How difficult would it be for someone to make a profile with your first and last name on any or all of the major social networks, painting you as a gun nut, a recovering drug addict, or worse?

Allowing this system to inform police work without the least bit of public oversight is irresponsible. But that won't become a concern, I suspect, until something unfortunate happens. For now, the only stories we have about this technology's use point to the 'bad guys' being caught.
Does it "feel" natural to use it with spring boot instead of jpa and hibernate?
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> Surveillance sliding into dictatorship is one of the most common ways that democracies fall.

What? Give me one example where surveillance was the _reason_ and main tool for ascending dictator.
That's a pretty poor analogy. Writing grammar correctly is an objective measure, whereas food and musical taste is purely subjective.
My genuine stock certificates look like someone printed them out in MS Publisher, so don't assume the production values invalidate them. But as others have said, talk to your lawyer.
They do have plenty of canadian content. I was just surprised not to see any acknowledgement in their list of categories.

If you want to cover everything filmed in canada, that is a very very long list. X-Files, X-men, twilight, the latest godzilla ... it will take a while. But if you expand to to all "canadian content" then be ready for a shock. The first season of the new Doctor Who was a partial CBC production.
Yeah eBay had that problem too. People would save up all their vacation, add it to their sabbatical and then use the time to job search.

I think they changed their rules so that you couldn't add your vacation time to it and you had to pay them back if you left within in X months.
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It's a little hard to compare fully as they're not a bank yet (the current card is a prepaid one which you top up via the app). Everything is a lot more simple than my traditional bank (Lloyds), they've clearly put a lot of effort into the app UX which I value. They're very responsive, both via support channels, and on the discourse forum we're all in.

There are a few issues. One is a tradeoff which can't really be fixed - all transactions are "online", allowing them to do push notifications and live fraud checks. For some card machines, particularly when using contactless, this can substantially increase the time it takes for the card machine to process the payment.

Most of the issues though seem be caused by their card issuer - rather than interfacing with the card networks directly, they currently go via a company called "GPS" (pretty sure it's http://www.globalprocessing.ae). This seems to add notable latency to some transactions, as well as causing a couple of limitations on how you start using the card. I expect all of these problems will be resolved once they issue cards directly.

I haven't used the card physically outside the UK, but I have done a number of non-GBP transactions online and they all worked fine - with good conversion rates. A number of people on the discourse forum have used it outside the UK and it looks as though they didn't have any problems.

Support is good - generally very quick responses in-app (they use Intercom), and they're very active when it comes to the extended discussion in the discourse forum. A few of the blog posts came about as a result of those discussions.

One cool thing is that almost every single screen of the app allows you to give feedback in various ways - flagging merchant details as incorrect, providing suggestions, and letting them know how urgent upcoming features are.

Having good APIs is pretty important to me also - although I haven't used them yet. The app keeps detailed logs of the internal APIs which I like to regularly dump onto my laptop for reference too!
Death of a Rock God is tragic.

Losing a glove is unfortunate.
Ah yes, more propaganda supporting a surveillance state. What makes these sorts of things difficult to argue about is all a matter of how they get framed.

"It's good for a more peaceful society. You aren't violent? Right? You have nothing to worry about then! This technology will help keep you safe. You want to be safe? Right?"

I'm glad to see many citizens are at least sharing their voice against this. But it reads all to much like Fresno took "big strides too fast" and if they had taken baby-steps there would have been less outrage. You have to whittle down people's liberties - not try and take them all at once! If you do it slowly enough, they don't even notice.

As an aside... typo + how do they know their score? I thought only operators knew it? How does she know her threat level was elevated because she tweeted about "Rage"?

>Once council member referred to a local media report saying that a woman’s threat level was elevated because she was tweeting about a card game titled “Rage,” which could be a keyword in Beware’s assessment of social media.
After going through your timeblock app, I still don't know what exactly it is for, or why people would pay for that. I get that it is a sort of calendar with time tracking features. What makes it different from the thousands of other similar apps?
According to specs it'll reach 1600 m/s on atmospheric oxygen.

So, afterwards, it needs another 8000 m/s Δv on rocket engines to reach LEO.

Skylon is a neat trick, but it's not magical.
Dunning-Kruger is a very distinct possibility :) Your handle includes the word "security"; I don't claim any powers that way beyond "don't allow memory overwrites" and "airgapping good."

I doubt anybody is remotely interested in this - the problem domains are pretty boring and highly constrained. These tend to be realtime embedded ( both soft and hard realtime ). It seems wildly inappropriate for gaming, graphics or Web stuff. Perhaps I'm wrong there; not really all that clued in.

There is much less to this than you might imagine. The problem is that a book is a team effort, and I have no idea who to bother with it. Not asking for a volunteer here.

For an idea of the basic philosophy, it might be worth looking at Bruce Powell Douglass.
Doesn't this quotation strongly apply to software engineers? I find engineers have more trouble applying the same logic to software engineering, while applying it to artists, especially musicians, without much reflection.
It's developed by volunteers though. If you want to keep people interested in helping with the project, it had better not be extremely frustrating to work on.
You'd be surprised. It's just not an issue. Google has already done it for Mountain View. Yes, any additional city will need to have an equivalent map built for it. Ok. Great! So that's what they'll do. It's a solved problem. Throw some time and money at it and voila.
PNaCL is based on LLVM - if WebAssembly doesn't use that technology then what's the connection to PNaCL?
To make matters even more complex, Netsweeper appears to have received subsidies / grants from the federal government of Canada ( see http://www.giantgoat.com/blog/2010/03/guelph-partnership-for... )
As plausible as Minority Report. Even if possible it would not be implemented because of how the majority of people think of human free will.
Lane following tech is an area of active research for snow plows. I guess it frequently relies on installed roadside infrastructure though.

Edited to soften the first sentence, a quick search didn't find any active users, just research.
Common Lisp has a standard. The most recent major work on standards may be ISLisp.

http://www.islisp.info/

Creating a consensus language specificatoin is hard. It takes a community of people willing to work over a long period of time in very detailed ways. Throwing a proposal up on Github is unlikely to create a community and organization with the required commitments.
The built-in WebAssembly GC could just be the native JS GC, which is very, very good for most dynamic languages. There's really not that much difference between GCing JS, Lua, Python, and MyDynamicLanguageWithRubySyntaxAndLuaSemanticsAndNewFeatureX. I don't see why they'd need to do anything other than just expose the GC that's already there. Browser makers are smart enough to know "invent new GC that solves every conceivable language's memory problems" isn't going to work.

Since WebAsm is still Functional languages would still have the freedom to implement their own more efficient GC (avoid the write barrier in a lot of cases, scan only the young heap most of the time, etc).
That time when we strapped an extra engine on to a jumbo
Seems like a good startup opportunity -- z/OS as a service. Buy the $5000 license and then rent it out to users for $10 a month. Maybe the terms don't allow it? Fuck them. Disruption, baby!
Do you have a source for this?

My company has been looking into implementing something similar and I'd be interested in reading more. Thanks!
> as they included R&D and ongoing capital costs. See: upgrades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_main_engine

If your engines burn out after 5 instead of the planned 55 flights, I damn well hope you're going to invest into more R&D on them!

> Had a 54 day turnaround time which is not 'great' still.

And the pressure to keep up that break-neck pace directly led to the Challenger disaster.
Not to mention the transportation network that has built up around these areas. For instance, Midtown is fed by multiple train stations, a bus station, multiple tunnels, and an incredible nexus of subway stations. You couldn't add a new high-density area without adding it in an area that's well-served by transportation.

Reflexively, the most likely candidate for a new skyscraper patch (just weighed by transportation support) falls between the two peaks. 14th street is near Penn Station, has the usual grab-bag of uptown/downtown Manhattan subways, the PATH, is also near a tunnel, and has the L train. Not sure why this hasn't happened past zoning reasons.
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