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But there is no such thing as a country. We just make this stuff up. It's a convention.

I'll go you one further - people don't ACTUALLY have values. They make that stuff up too.

This being said, to the extent that they do exist, nation-states have interests, not values. When they try to have "values", things tend to go badly.
I wonder how true that is. There seems to be a whole lot of people in recent years who've been ordered, by a judge, not to talk about something a three letter agency is doing.

In theory that judge is supposed to make sure the law is being followed. My impression, though, is that some judges have a much more expansive view of government power than I think is warranted.
Yes but can't the caller ID be spoofed? At that point, you'll be relying on a system to give you a "sugar score" for a call since you are providing emergency services. But I do agree that a low sugar score combined with a particular type of request should raise some flags.
They do lobby as hard as they can.

The result shows that you actually can not buy legislation that easy.
The other day I was thinking about what would be required to preserve all scientific knowledge. There are a great deal of papers that have been made available by hackers, but the filesize is quite large. Many of them are scanned documents.

Raw text itself is pretty compressible, but pdfs record everything about the layout and typesetting, font choice, small smudges on the page, etc. You could maybe run OCR on them and get the text (if the OCR is reliable enough.) But then you lose equations, figures, unusual symbols, and other important info.
Wrong, Uber and Lyft will be the operators. You think Google really wants to get into fleet management?
We needed this recently when doing some custom filesystem work, ended up patching our kernel with something we found in a discussion from lkml.
I agree, the ui needs more work!
yes, in fact I believe that everyone who is giving a speech at an institution like that to know everything he talked about if not not more.

he didn't mention anything that you can't find on the first page of a cliffs notes on quantum physics
For Linux, but it's not portable across all Unixes. fsync is allowed to do nothing (1) and does not need to work on directories (2). On Mac OSX, fsync will not flush the disk cache, which can lead to data loss (3).

(1) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fs...

(2) http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=672

(3) https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
A crime has been committed. When someone assaults you, you don't create some mediation session. You involve the police, you prosecute. And there's no way you give the victim to the person who did the assault, that's just insane.
Similar to XorNot, I don't really see the mechanism by which high acceleration could substantially reduce long-term reliability of the solid state electronics without breaking them completely.
It's not a nitpicky interpretation. Apartheid was a specific system in South Africa where different groups were not allowed to live in the same areas or sleep under the same roof or marry among many other restrictions. I don't think you realise how badly it comes off to someone who lived through apartheid to see the term being applied so casually to something very different due to vague similarities. Just because it's a horrible situation doesn't mean it's apartheid. Apartheid died in the 90's and was actually named 'apartheid'. When I mention apartheid to someone the response shouldn't be 'which one?'
yes, App store login is separate from Messages login.

Also, if someone WOULD log in with your account in iMessage (or FaceTime), you would know this because you get a notification like this on EVERY device: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...
1) That's at least 3-4 years from now before it will be practical in most situations, which is a lot of revenue for Uber and Lyft.

2) Uber is already investing heavily in its own self-driving cars and has stated plans to buy as many self-driving cars as it can if someone else beats them to the punch. So really the choice will be between owning your own car (very high upfront cost and maintenance costs) and using a self-driving car service. I think many people will opt for the latter.
the discovery problem is a big deal for open source code. Not claiming this solves that, but like many great ideas, they can often look silly at first. And who knows, it could be the beginning of a cooler idea!
Oddly, Apple's Core Data framework achieves pretty much all the goals WinFS set out to achieve—but does so sitting (for no good reason, really) on top of a regular filesystem. It'd actually be pretty easy to flip things around: give Core Data a raw block device persistence backend, and then write a filesystem driver on top of it.

One of my recently-planned hobby projects was to write a FUSE filesystem for OSX that would take all the shell-level glop (LaunchServices UTI-associated verbs, NSFileManager attributes, Spotlight metadata, etc.) and stick it onto the files themselves as plain xattrs, so POSIX tools could effectively be made to work with shell-namespace "Documents" (including treating directory-packages as files, and traversing archive files and container-file-formats as if they were directory-packages.) It'd be quite interesting to combine the two experiments, actually; it'd result in something very much like a POSIX compatibility layer on top of a WinFS-like filesystem.
By more stable you mean it doesn't oxidize right?
I don't know what they're talking about, I speed-read that article in 20 minutes and my comprehension was great!
Some playgrounds to explore CIFilters on OS X
How do you hail that car? Using an app? What price should you pay? Which Tesla should come to you? These are all problems the middle man is solving.
They mention Lincos, there's another project inspired by it that attempts to transmit Scheme called CosmicOS: https://cosmicos.github.io/
Development of an onboard application in Clojure for the Boeing 737 Max [video]
Any ideas why this would be happening now? Just an excuse for the Saudis to sell their treasuries and fix their deficit?
Being knighted means you're part of the establishment, as one famous 'sir' notes here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/it-was-a-relief-whe...

That may not affect your abiity to write a tune, but if you're chairing a committe investigating errors leading to the UK entering the Iraq War or talking about medical evidence that supports current government's war on drugs (while other government appointed scientists get sacked for talking frankly about the reality of drug policy) then it makes you suspect in my eyes.
This is same as the one in the link.
Section 8 is todo. Putting on arxiv is not exactly publishing, I meant publishing at a conference.
> Upgrading from Vista is hard because Microsoft doesn't support Vista going to 10. You'd have to get a Windows 7 upgrade DVD and then update it to the point it gives you an option to upgrade to Windows 10.

This is scary at so many levels. I'd have no problem doing this with home machines but doing that to stable Vista machines used to develop product every day is just unthinkable.

Also, remember that part of the goal is to also migrate to new hardware. New drives, memory, motherboard, etc.

I want the OS to provide services to my apps. The model should be that of providing services to clients. The services stay the same as the OS deals with version and hardware transitions.

There's no justifiable reason to have to reinstall the vast majority of apps today. Simple examples are apps such as Notepad++ or Java based stuff like JetBrains. You should be able to move all of that over instantly with licensing managed in some sensible way.

My vision of that future is that I carry my apps and data in a small 1 TB solid state memory drive with a suitable high speed interface and any machine fast enough and with the right hardware should provide OS services to run my apps. Maybe the vision is "OS as an appliance". I should be able to come to your office and run my apps on any of your qualifying machines inside of a second. When it comes to my own machines, the apps could reside on internal storage yet be easily movable to new hardware as needed.

The OS holding me hostage to my hardware simply makes no sense at this stage. These are solvable problems.
One nice thing about this approach is that it also protects GET requests, which in many cases are impossible to protect with CSRF tokens. CSRF protection for GET requests is considered less crucial, because correctly designed GETs can not change state of resources, so can not perform any sensitive action. But GETs can leak sensitive information, like for example the fact that the user is logged into certain services. With same-site attribute this problem should be solved.
I guess my point is that the OS should get out of the way and let me own my apps and hardware. There's no good reason to impose such restrictions. These problems can be solved and, if they are, they would reinvigorate the industry and push computing forward in many ways. Now your apps can be on your key-chain and you can run them on any machine by just plugging in.
They didn't do pure CSS parallax? I guess in this case it's for the best, but generally that's Doing It Wrong.
why not, if it's a profitable activity?
How would it be different than the filesystem API?

There was a great lightning talk a few years ago that I can't seem to find where the author described an API for storing blobs in a hierarchical namespace. Of course, halfway through, it became clear that it's just the POSIX API: you can "open" handles to objects, "rename" them, remove them, and so on. You'd end a transaction with "fsync()". (Okay, that one's a little more complicated, but I don't think it's as hard as the OP claims, at least for single files. Multiple files are more complicated, but that problem is intrinsically more complicated.)
...and that's why I like to shoot film. It seems improbable that JPG or TIFF will go obsolete any time soon, but—someday—they will. The RAW files from my digital cameras are far less likely to be readable ten years from now.

But a negative or a positive image? Not a problem. Never gonna be unreadable. There's a time and place for both formats, just like there is a time and a place for both a Kindle book and a real paper book, and it's important that we make a point of thinking carefully about which the circumstances dictate: convenience or long-term survival.
> remove all limits

Really? Like let builders cut down all trees in Central Park, NY, and build some more skyscrapers?
> A notable quote: SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().

So if I need to create a file with a timestamp, you are suggesting creating a SQLite database, a table, and inserting my timestamp there?

It's nonsensical to "fix" a Unix low-level syscall issue by using SQLite.
It's weird because in a way they should be the same company because they share the driver pool. But the experience is different I think it's a positive feedback loop because drivers expect a happier and more engaging customer with Lyft. And Lyft offers in app tips.
"I don't read words allowed or to myself in my head."

I had to read that allowed to know what you were saying.
I do not agree, there is still lot of controversy with regard to paying toll in Boston especially around Airport.. Try getting Lyft near Airport, you will know that there are issues regarding how Lyft treats its drivers..
Somehow my brain turned off for the logo & the authors and I just started reading the main text. So somewhere in section 5, I started thinking, "Wow, this is great, it's like several talks I've heard from Alan Kay. ... ... Wait a minute..." Yep, he's the coauthor.
Yeah, the comment section on that article is pretty sad. The number of people whose argument against building more housing is a fear that it will make the city "ugly" is astounding. It's mind-numbingly selfish and greedy to think that a family should barely be able to make ends meet, and children should spend less time with their long-commuting parents, just so that SF can meet your personal aesthetic sensibilities. Look, I love architecture and design, and I love beautiful cities, and I would love to remake all of North America according to my personal taste. But I'm not so entitled as to think that my occaisional aesthetic pleasure is more important than someone else's basic livelihood. Also, not to mention, the whole argument that density has to be ugly and "unliveable" is utterly ridiculous and false - there are lots of dense cities that are widely considered beautiful - Paris and Barcelona come to mind.

/rant

As the article says, it's easy to get worked up about this stuff. I suspect the "but it will be ugly" commenters are actually well-intentioned.
Lobbying: Where rich people have free speech while in an office (or on a golf course) with their Congressman. And poor people have free speech in the comfort of their home.
You say resigned, so sounds like you're not sure. I do think that some people are happier without the complexity that a relationship adds to life. If you feel that way I don't think that's anything to feel bad about.
Well, and cities need to balance housing/job growth with other things, like schools and traffic growth. I.e. higher level strategic planning.
Unambiguous? As in megabyte?
The problem is that when people get told to cut a board to 1 meter and we get handed a .5 meter board we say "fuck you" the program on the other hand needs to be explicitly told how/when to say fuck you, and it needs that for basically every single possible source of error.

That doesn't fit into either of your categories really but it's where so much of the actual complexity comes from.
Well absolutely. And one commenter there (or here) mentioned the negative externalities of someone else's development driving down your property values or making your schools overcrowded or whatever.

All of these things are deserving of sympathy and consideration, but.. well, currently they're getting too much of it.
I wish there were some way to get a benchmark of these different machines.

Look at how each CPU performs in different settings.
And worsen the traffic/transit "crisis". Or begin a crisis of overcrowded schools. It's a balancing act.
There's one area where Lyft is ahead of Uber, the whole "we are nicer" thing discounted: investment from an auto company (Lyft took money from GM).

If you take a truly long-term view, the marketplace for on-demand drivers will become obsolete once autonomous driving becomes good enough to be adopted everywhere. At that point, Uber's biggest edge -financing and supply-side field logistics- will erode very quickly against companies that own vehicle production (auto giants) and AI (autonomous driving)

Uber knows this, and that's why they have been investing a lot of money on robotics and AI around their partnership with CMU. However, they still do not get the kind of data Google can get from their Maps and Waze (It's interesting to note that Lyft and Waze partnered) to enable their AI researchers.

Uber is still going to be a very successful company in the next few years: For technical and legal reasons, self-driving, on-demand vehicle services will be at least a decade out. But I'm not as sure about Uber's survival in, say, 20 years.
It's not a tautology. As an employee, taking a job somewhere that is not a tech hub means that when it's time for the next job, you probably have to move. Moving cross country with the frequency that SV engineers hop between startups is a horrible way to live.

If, as an employer, you move somewhere that is not a tech hub, people who can get what they need from San Francisco won't follow you.

You could in principle have a tech hub somewhere else, but there's a major synchronization problem there, and more pressingly anywhere you put a large number of high income earners is going to see rents rise sharply, at least in the short term, and people who live there don't want that. So it's not necessarily going to be any better than SF.
This is a great step in the right direction!

I did a request for Chicago's $100M ticketing system's code - written by IBM - and they're acting very, very slowly to further respond. More so than usual. Hopefully this sort of work helps out :). I feel like I should probably contact EFF after seeing this..
That's still missing the point. Say you're writing a program that stores a log of transactions. People are trading resources and you log those transactions so you can find out who owns which resources. User A just gave 100 units to user B; you need to store this information and tell both users that the transaction is complete. How do you do that? Your program will do something like "write(t_log_fd, t_entry, t_bytes);". Can you now tell the users that the transaction is complete?
You're going to be right on that guess. It will take some time though.
Your first link includes this description: "He would later describe that night as the drunkest he's ever been, and a neighbor from down the hall would describe his level of intoxication as a "shitshow." He was "slurring his words, stumbling over the others when he got up." That kind of drunk."

The girl involved was, by independant reports, about the same level. Both had vomited repeatedly(!) as a result of their level of intoxication.

This is far away from the bizarrely popular notion that any sexual activity after a couple of beers is considered rape.

If either of these people had ended up having sex with someone who was sober, then that person would clearly have been taking advantage of them in their compromised state. The only reason it's any kind of gray area is because both people appear to have been utterly out of it, and it seems the only reason that this particular case got picked up was because the college had a history of ignoring and downplaying sexual assults and rapes to such a degree they were getting sued over it.
And why aren't we working from home 2 or 3 days a week? I would live further out if I could commute less often.
when did Dropbox switch from options to RSUs? i imagine some of the most tenured employees will be screwed...
Move YCombinator out of Silicon Valley and the SF housing problem will go away. Too many startups in too small an area.

Livermore, perhaps.
Actually in Fremont, there is one school district with 5 high schools. The city is carved out into districts and generally based on proximity of home address, students assigned to the appropriate high school. The thing though is there is a huge ranking difference between the high schools. The top one is maybe in the 99% percentile in the state while the lower one is maybe 60% percentile. This makes for a huge pricing difference between houses maybe a few blocks apart to the degree of a 2x price difference. So the ones in the expensive houses will pay more property taxes but I believe the funding is equally divided among the high schools based on student population. In the end, probably the big difference is racial difference among different parts of the city and the affluence and education background of the parents that drive the difference in the school rankings.
PE and HF financing of film slates is one of the bigger trends to have reshaped the industry in the last several decades. Legendary is a particularly noteworthy example, but there are many others like it. Similarly, the big studios often turn to investment banks to finance film slates.

The highest levels of the movie business, like the highest levels of most corporate America these days, are virtually indistinguishable from the finance industry.
As a sidenote, I like the (A B | C | D) and $A ideas from it, it would be some nice syntactic sugar for an actual lisp that we use today.
There are few fruits that vary so much in size and shape as does the banana. Has anyone actually suggested using that as a standard for anything?
SQLite doesn't care about I/O re-ordering, but does care that the various fsync style calls work. SQLite uses a separate journal so it can rollback/forward changes.
You are so right about state power being the way to get influence. That is how groups like elec operate.
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Nice thing with open source, is you "just" open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/issues/139 , and it's fixed soon after. These are design issues we become blind to after working too long on the project, and we would love to have people helping us with that. It's just hard when user don't tell you !
I guess you'd feel that way if you came from a PC background. For console developers, Sony's SDK for the PS1 at the time was pretty good compared to the alternatives.
Or family offices, which are becoming increasingly popular sources of financing for startups who either don't want to go the VC route or don't feel they'd be a good fit at a given stage.
There are currently plans to build over 10,000 units in North Bayshore (the area around Google's campus):

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/03/03/council-oks-plans-fo...
Suppose there were no green space initiatives. Then the only green space you could be sure of having would be your own garden. How would this discourage sprawl?
The Air Force attitude to the venerable A-10 has always struck me as pure budget bloating. I love that flying pig.
"However, since finding the right point through this method is both error-prone and time-consuming (diskplorer can take ages to collect all points). Scylla (and Seastar) now ships with scylla_io_setup (a wrapper around Seastar’s iotune) tool, that helps users find out what the recommended threshold is and configure the I/O scheduler properly."

It's a sidenote in the article, but a fantastic idea. I wish every major infrastructure component came with something like this, because the sad state today is that given a piece of tech, everyone has to tune each installation themselves, and there's a bazillion blog posts about each, and all of them containing conflicting information. And everytime you move to a new setup somewhere you have to remember all of that crap. Again.
> It opened me up to a completely different style of programming.

What style would that be? JS is a dynamic language, but as dynamic languages go it isn't the first and it is certainly not the best. What is has going for it is near monopoly in browser space and a ton of optimization.
There's one area where Lyft is ahead of Uber, the whole "we are nicer" thing discounted

The way cultural currents are going, there's a lot of room for companies to make marketing headway through "we are nicer" and "we are not douchebags" public images. (Hopefully, fairly accurate public images.)

I mean, when it's been years since Apple has been parodied with a "We're mad with power" tagline, and when public shaming has become a way of life online, it's about time for nice.
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Yes, it is unambiguous. No one uses binary prefix notation for mass.
Many people are living with roommates because of the high cost of housing or they are living in smaller apartments than they otherwise would. Removing the politically caused scarcity in land use would ensure more construction as these people would move into new apartments.
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SQLite just (two month ago) got a new synchronous level EXTRA which fsyncs the directory after deleting the journal. The default is FULL (https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous ). So you still have to think about those problems.
Customer responsiveness by the parent company is a big factor too, IMO. I was a user of both Uber and Lyft with a mild preference for the former. One day, for some reason, their credit card system was declining my specified card and there was no way available to contact them to get this fixed. I fired up the Lyft app and was on my way shortly. I have used Lyft's Twitter channel when I have had issues and their response was swift, courteous, and effective.

Plus in the Central Texas area, all of the drivers that I have used who work for both TNCs indicate that Lyft treats them better than Uber.