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> The guy's own post [1] said it was "pending" (e.g. downloaded and ready for an automatic update), not installed.

This is correct. It was an attempted downgrade. He stopped it.

> it's much more likely that it was "somebody in engineering decided to cancel a bad update" than his paranoid claims.

This is unlikely. He wasn't being downgraded to the version prior to the current one. He was being downgraded to a much older version that did not contain any of the secret info. And nobody else was experiencing the downgrade. If there is a critical flaw that requires a rollback, you do it for everyone and it's big news. He also made it clear that he found a ton of other stuff and was not disclosing that (yet).

It looks like somebody at Tesla pushed code to production that shouldn't have been pushed since it isn't relevant to any production vehicles. Once the leak happened, there was a bit of a panic and to stop anymore leaks, they tried to downgrade ... which was silly, because if you know how to root the car, you probably know how to make a backup and stop remote access.
The "veil of ignorance" is John Rawls's term, not John Locke's. Please don't go using the one for the other. From your comment, what I can see is that you're using Rawls's philosophy far more than Locke's. It is not accurate to say that Locke supported this "veil of ignorance" idea. Locke was arguing about the nature of human beings. Rawls is doing something very different.
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Google is hardly the only company to do in-person all day interviews. I've had several in my career, none of them with Google. IIRC, they were with Shopzilla and Grant Street Group, and Livetext (not exactly Google-famous companies). I wasn't thrilled about flying out for 6 hours of interviews, but at the time I thought it was reasonable for them to ask for this. I'm not sure I'd do it again unless I was incredibly excited about the position in question, but I'm older and more jaded now.

As to how much we pay ... Our pay is very good, and all but one of the positions for which we've had the homework requirement have been telecommuting as well. It's actually a pretty desirable place to work if you like good pay, telecommuting, working at a small company, a low pressure environment (we've been profitable for many years), and various other perks (training budget, flexible hours, blah blah blah).
To do that, all they'd really need to do is have a mechanism to build native apps in C, after which various language communities would be able to write simple wrappers that would allow them to use said C API.

To an extent, that partially exists in the form of Android NDK, but that's not really a full solution. If and when Google makes it possible to easily create your entire app natively (with a clean C API), then you ought to see a surge of libraries/toolkits/frameworks coming out that will enable you to write Android apps in most common languages (Rust likely included).
Yes. Hopefully when/if we doe VSCode/R it'll be fully open source.
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So freaking awesome, this just rules!

My faves are 1- Zeus, and 2- Teiresias

Those two look like they took the most work, and are most technically challenging. The Man-Eagle-Bull-Snake morph especially.

Halfway random tangent, and halfway related, but I'm really super looking forward to wider adoption of SVG 1.2 precisely because it adds absolute unit constraints in addition to the relative constraints, so you can do some of the same kind of stuff in an SVG image, and have authoring tools to support it. Not the pixel art side of it, and nowhere near as crazy as this project, but it will still be really useful.
"You are clearly too mouse-bound."

Funny, I always thought personal computing not being about strict protocol but more like freestyle guitar playing where individual styles are not as important as the results of the techniques.
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The FBI and DEA (at least) already use drones.

Personally, from a law enforcement perspective I don't see the big difference between drones and manned aircraft. What really matters is what kind of sensors are on the aircraft and what they do with the data.
If you have enough access to tamper with the firmware, you don't need a more exploitable version.
Very interesting stuff.

I remember during the San Bernardino shooting online tracking showed 2+ LEO aircraft

Edit: it's showing two Hawker Hunters over CA right now...
It is. Value and policy networks are nonlinear approximators for value and policy functions.

You're making the mistake of assuming anything about how the human brain learns.
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Any language they add support for in the short term will have to be a JVM language so they don't have to rewrite the SDK.
This comment is beautiful.
Very true. We live in Sacramento area, and I rather like it here. It's a pretty diverse area and the cost of living to salary ratio is a lot better than in the Bay Area.

We're considering having to move somewhere else that's less allergenic because of the allergy situation. I start sneezing and blowing my nose a lot in April or May, but it's manageable. My wife and kids have much more severe allergy and asthma issues. My wife pretty much has to remain indoors all the time between March and October because her allergies to various pollens have become so severe and Sacramento has a lot of pollen in the air. She doesn't really like that and wants to live somewhere else where she can go outside without having breathing issues.

I sure love the nice Delta breezes we get in the evenings. It cools everything down and summer evenings are very pleasant. Unfortunately, we're unable to open the house up because of the breathing issues it causes among my family members. Very frustrating.

The Bay Area would be better for allergies, but it's so astronomically expensive that I want to stay far away. Sure I'd probably double my salary, but my cost of living would probably go up by 4x or 5x. No thank you.

My wife loves Seattle because she can breathe so much better there so maybe we'll end up there someday.
It is too early for that, but the first thing that came to my mind was the JIT PGO support introduced in .NET 4.5 and how IBM J9 does caching of compiled code.

Just what I can think of as similar, still need to dig deeper into what it actually means for Android.
That was as true ten years ago, is it still? Have there been any recent benchmarks?
With all due respect, there's not a lot of there there.
As a adjunct to this great read, you find out more about this field through the historical documentary, "The century of the Self" by Adam Curtis and the BBC. It is the 'red pill' for understanding consumerism.
https://vimeo.com/10245146
Even without the neural net system, AI is able to beat most amateurs, and predict moves experts would make.
This article felt much like reading a pitch for a MLM scheme.
You may just be working with a poor definition of value if you consider giving people what they want to be at odds with it.
They could. There was a different set of tricks that didn't work as well (greedy pretraining).
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Thanks for the hint, I was just trying to dig up Golly to test it :)
This really resonates with me. We looked into React at my previous company approx 2 years back, and I hopped on the React bandwagon last fall. A lot changed in that time.

I would add that experimenting with new tools, languages etc. is also an important part of the process. Sitting down and applying something new and shiny to a problem you've already tackled with your "outdated dinosaur skills" should give you a good feel where this new toy is on the adoption curve. Estimating where it is on the curve is a lot harder.

Edit: typos
They should call it XENIX. :)
Unfortunately our blog is not mobile optimized. Maybe my LinkedIn post is easier to read on mobile?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/black-engineers-take-why-dive...
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Skimming through the thread, I realized I had no idea of the type of community that exists surrounding Conway's game. I think it's awesome.
I like how you can save the image as png! Pretty awesome stuff!
Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are all illegal, yet they are things that otherwise law-abiding people are going to do anyway. Hence, no matter how punitive the punishments, people do it anyway, and it spawns massive criminal industries to supply those desires.

Heck, you can get drugs even in prison. If the government can't stop that, how can they possibly stop it in the rest of society?
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Personally speaking I would love for that to happen. There is room for both an XL IDE and a XS IDE imho.
This is something the carriers have known was coming for a while and I wouldn't expect it to hurt their bottom line much (and it might end up being a benefit). When you cater to dominant customers like Amazon, you end up operating around their peaks and valleys. Amazon buys so much that if the carriers wanted to keep up with Amazon's demands, they would probably suffer utilization hits whenever Amazon is not peaking.

If Amazon assumes the risks of volume variation, they gain a lot of scheduling flexibility (flying later at night, etc.), and they can better level load their volumes across their carriers and themselves. This is a win for both Amazon and their carriers.
Except that in this case it doesn't matter. The real forwarding is done in the ASIC's of the switches.
That's a beautifully concise numbering system for sharing being used there.

Now if only we had descriptions of chemistry that were this terse. Imagine if this kind of problem solving, collaboration, simulation, and instant verification were the norm for synthetic chem. One of the comments -- "[Let's] use gencols to rub the ship against gliders and *WSSs to see whether there is a useful collision to maybe build a puffer" -- just blew me away. If this were chemistry, that commentator would have been suggesting automatic nanomachine factory discovery.

(InChI appears to be close. But vast amounts of data are locked up in obtuse formats are either Assigned-Names-And-Numbers style formats which are useless to indexing and similarity searches, or formats that embed non-relative coordinates in 3d space, etc, in such a way that computing a deterministic ID for sharing is practically a nonstarter.)
The paranoia has even trickled down to beginners too - paralysis by analysis of what they "should be learning" instead of spending time finishing projects. You see it in question threads everywhere - "Ruby vs Python?" "Node vs Rails?". Don't worry about learning languages/frameworks, pick a tool, and USE it to create something.
The thing is you are essentially making an unfalsifiable argument, invoking the existence of something that is merely imaginary.
Because if you withdraw your demand for predictable reasons, other market actors say "Oh a predictably underpriced asset" and bid it back up to almost exactly the same price as before.
This seems an almost inveitable consequence of interfaces based on asynchronous message passing. Collaboration scenarios emerge which become impossible to trace.
"If this secret handshake is done that way among these three processes, then such and such a use case is satisfied."

One problem with message passing as such is that messages are like function calls, but you can't put a breakpoint into the system and see a call stack!

If we call a function f on object a, which calls b.g(), a breakpoint in b.g() tells us that something called a.f() which then called b.g(). If we send a message f to a, which then sends a message g to b, a breakpoint in b on the receipt of message g tells us diddly squat! The g message came in for some reason, evidently from a. Well, why did a do that? Who knows; a has gone off and is doing something else.
The LSH wikipedia page is a fun read and relevant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

Here's a real-world use case http://blog.livefyre.com/architecting-sidenotes/
Agreed. I was probably a bit too general.
Nothing about libertarianism requires people to not help those in need of support.
There is a near infinite number of such spaces.
Or, like when I interviewed once at a very large broadcasting org, they put you in a meeting room with a laptop (windows 7 which I never used before, bad keyboard, bad editor, no internet or reference), give you some half arsed questions and piss off for 30 minutes without you being able to ask what they actually want. Then 10 minutes later someone else comes in and asks you what the hell you're doing in that meeting room, you have no way to contact your interview partner, no idea where he went, they hassle you for about 10 minutes about it, and when your interviewer comes back you haven't been able to even get into the task, let alone write some code ...

Waste of time also, especially if you factor in a 2 hour commute each way.
Hey Michael!

I tried to hit on this point in #5 at the end when talking about setting up attribution parameters. We tell most people early stage to go with 1 day click or 7 day click (depending on the business).

If you get the chance to check out Interstate and compare it to GA's attribution tools for static attribution modeling I think you'll be impressed. We have a very generous free plan now (http://interstateanalytics.com/pricing). We should have algorithmic attribution as a premium feature in Q3.

Based on early testing the amount of data required to make algorithmic work is quite high. I'm still not convinced its actually a better solution for companies spending less than maybe $5m/yr. Would love your thoughts on that.
No, not if you have a strong prior belief that coins in general are fair.

By your logic, you can predict the failure of AGI predictions by past failures of (every) AGI prediction.
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People should be more concerned with fundamental skills IMHO. I don't think there are Ruby and Javascript programmers. You're either a programmer or you're not. What language/framework is just a means to an end.
I'm afraid you don't understand what the EMH says. It's not praising markets for being nice or useful or fair or good for the larger economy. EMH just says there are no publicly predictable price movements. "Efficient" is a technical term.
I always thought that Microsoft was blocked from getting into Linux by the terms of their sale of Xenix.
Or, since we're talking about adding tooling for better efficiency - just update the source code, and let the tooling build and deploy! :)

Automatic (and safe, obviously) production cutover is still kind of a holy grail, but it's definitely doable, and being done as we speak by a number of pretty neat companies.
Scientists use stem cells to grow 'living lens' in eye and cure cataracts
In the short term, this is probably true. However, can you see a future where Amazon increases their own fleet to the point where it hurts other carriers? I certainly do.
Some things are already available, see this: https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-plugin/blob/master/REA...
I've seen this claim before, but I've also seen the counterclaim that Linux network stacks have since caught up and even surpassed the BSDs on throughput and latency.

Whether one or the other is truly better though might be irrelevant...either is such a monumental improvement over the windows networking stack that there are bound to be large benefits.
This looks stunning. Anyone know how it compares to RStudio? I might virtualize Windows to use this.
Good point - curious what do you exactly mean by this though, and how did you compare Spinnaker with it. Can you elaborate a bit more?
A likely related buglet, if you resize down to a single horizontal pixel line the pic gets stuck at one line.
Beat me to it.

Also recommended to read Bernays' works themselves, particularly "Crystallizing Public Opinion" and "Propaganda."

Its like reading an engineer's manual for social control.
Not all of those board states are "novel." The true "dimensionality" of "novel patterns" in Go is much smaller.
Just a suggestion because it is often missed by general practitioners: If you've not tried it already, talk to your dentist. Headaches and migraines are often related to teeth or the jaws. Particularly grinding and clenching. Often it can be reduced significantly or go away entirely with a simple night time biteguard.
> No malice be involved, just prudent reaction.

It's not malice, it's panic and it's profoundly stupid.

Only those with root access to the car can access the secret info.

There are a handful of people out there who rooted their cars. They are individuals of extraordinary technical ability.

You think they don't know how to make a backup? Or how to stop remote access?

That's exactly what happened. He blocked them and then deleted the pending downgrade.
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This is great news and just another nail in the coffin of what Wired calls the Fucked By Cloud vendors: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/meet-walking-dead-hp-cisco-dell...
I'd apply for that job, 172s are all I have hours on
This is an OS for the control plane for hardware switches, so its throughput is not that important. Hardware does most of the heavy lifting.
AppConfig aims to revolutionize enterprise app development
I got the impression that the APIs were fine - but consistent device support was lacking.
It's interesting that the more limited your knowledge is, the more things happen 'with no apparent cause'.

In middle ages, millions dies of plague 'with no apparent cause'. I guess humankind just said 'ah, these things happen, let's not investigate further'. </irony>
Had mediocre network performance and increased load with freebsd on VMs (kvm), while at the same time a linux one would saturate a whole link.
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This is getting granular, but any GitHub user - whether free or paid - is bound by the Terms of Service. Yes, that makes them a customer, and they accordingly have to adhere to the conditions of using the product.

The one that CP's usage most likely confronts is G.12 - found here: (https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/)

> If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by GitHub) of other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
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My priority is to maintain the level of engineering in mobile development [I'm currently a lead mobile engineer in nyc].

If you phrase it that way, then I guess things are pretty simple: your highest priority is your career, not your relationship. Which is of course, perfectly fine -- I know many quite happy, well-adjusted people who, when a romantic partner gets a job offer (or needs to finish grad school, etc -- I have no idea what's drawing her to live in Chicago for 6 months), just kind of shrug and say "Well, we had a good run. But you know, your life's work is your life's work."

Then again, if you were to phrase it like this:

My SO is the best thing that ever could have happened to me. She's literally given me her all -- mentally, physically, and spiritually. And she proves it to me all the way, each and every night. Everytime I look at her, I feel like I've won the lottery... Zuckerberg, Brin, Page, Musk might as well all just be beggars. I couldn't even imagine letting her go.

Then things would be pretty simple, also. One's life work is important and all -- but when you think about, jobs come and go, don't they, and money always comes around, doesn't? But the love of someone (who truly loves you back) can't be weight against any amount money, recognition or praise by strangers. Especially not recognition and praise by some "hot" company that can easily turn around in the space of those same 6 months, pull out everything from beneath you, and basically leave you twisting in the wind.

If so, then I know what I'd chose, in your shoes.

"If you are truly wild at heart, you'll fight for your dreams... Don't turn away from love, Sailor... Don't turn away from love... Don't turn away from love."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_at_Heart_(film)
Yes, a lot more needs to be done for this sector. But as you observed, a part of it does require a lot of input, in terms of capital and time.
"evil corp"
If you live long enough you eventually die of something, right?

Now, if 85% of those heart disease deaths were in the 15-28 year old cohort, that might be something quite stunning.

I agree declaring 'war' on addiction is a ridiculous concept, because it's more than likely a statistical constant (with a range) within the human species. A certain amount of people will get addicted, be it drugs, food, or the internet. It's just kinda sorta what we do, and I'd be a big fan if as a society and culture we looked toward methods to save ourselves constructively, rather than use the authority of the state to lock people away, generally speaking.
Nvidia’s latest driver update was so bad that the firm replaced it with a beta
Childhood cataracts repaired using stem cells
Do you own your car? Just the metal, but not the software that's required to actually make it do anything useful.
I said exactly what I said. Calling out "moving the goalposts" does not refute the assertion that this does not get us nontrivially closer to AGI.

Whenever AI beats a milestone, there are a bunch of over-optimists that come out and make predictions about AGI. They have been wrong over and over again over the course of half a century. It's classic hindsight bias.
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A car that has an app, a car that can be remotely updated, and a car that has all communication running through the same BUS, may be susceptible to remote break in without requiring any sort of physical access. Now the firmware may require signature verification to be patched, however in this case all we need is to corrupt the existing firmware or atleast make it seem like we had access to it in order to trigger an auto-downgrade.

Regardless, even under your logic an auto-downgrade without a user's input is completely unwarranted for.
I think in the long term you can expect to see Amazon directly competing with other carriers in retail parcel delivery, so yes.

However, the carriers have a very difficult job, and contrary to popular belief, they are phenomenally cost efficient given the constraints placed on them. Amazon may try to undercut on price, but given the cash flows and margins of large carriers, any significant pricing discount would introduce negative cash flows that could cripple even a behemoth like Amazon. And by significant, I mean anything more than 2-3% off of the rates that UPS or FedEx charges.

Given the constraints and inherent difficulty of the business, I would imagine the impact would be no different than if DHL tried to re-enter the US market.
Hmm, the old search-and-click-article-through-Google-News trick isn't working.

How about a summary, OP?