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> But we don't know if he was criminal.

You're reading selectively. I also mentioned abusers and unethical behavior. You overlooked that because it doesn't fit into your "justice system" narrative.

> But it's not OK to call out some community because it doesn't do extra punishment to people who we consider morally bad.

Yes, it absolutely is. The problem here is you're worried about punishment when you should be worried about the community. Shunning someone is partly about punishment but it's also largely about protecting the community. It is perfectly right to say "hey, you have predators in your midst and it's hurting some of your community members while you look the other way." The Catholic church issue is extremely relevant because it is the same scenario at a higher level of severity. Predators preying on the weak should be called out, and if the community doesn't do it, they should fully expect those outside the community to do so.

Your concerns here are especially nonsensical, though, because it's actually community members calling this guy out.
Is this really still a debate?

If using tool helps, use the damn tool.

Each project is different, there isn't a golden rule for this shit arghhh.

You might not need to use a debugger often, but number of times I have seen a young dev too cool (or lazy to learn/configure) for a debugger waste time poking about making random guesses, when a simple break point would of told them the problem in a couple of seconds. Literally seen them waste hours inventing all sorts of improbable reasons why it doesn't work.

I don't use a debugger very often, but I have been programming a long time and hit my head on so many bugs I can make very good predictions where an issue might be. That takes time, tying to emulate very experienced people when your not is foolhardy.
I worked at a Fortune-5 that was heavily invested in Oracle.

Oracle has a nasty licensing model where they charge you per core regardless of if that core is a physical one or not (hyper-threading). While I was there, it suites told all the engineering managers that Oracle was out and the going forward solution was Microsoft SQL which, as I understand, has more relaxed licensing model.

Another thing I'm wondering about is I would figure Netflix to be big enough to have SAN storage. Just about every large company I worked at always used SAN replication technologies instead of open source stuff. And it's not a debate about open source solution vs. commercial. It's more about support. Large companies want a throat to grab when things break bad.
yeah its a lot easier for tsla to get financing for the whole thing.
Ideas: (1) Richest foraging environment may be out in the open on the shoreline. If any other predators are present, or even if there is simply harsh environmental exposure (sun/wind) then a smaller physical size to take advantage of shelter may be advantageous. (2) Mountainous interiors. I believe it is well documented that short people have better luck climbing and descending steep slopes due to a lower center of gravity. (3) Low dietary variation or reliance on foraged protein rather than large land mammals. (4) Safety from predators may lead to a younger age of reproduction, accelerating change.
Will humans keep getting taller?
The courts can lock you up or kill you, so it's appropriate if they have somewhat stringent standards for guilt. Private organizations can only show you the door, and the standards for that are quite a bit less exacting. The media episodes you mention are not relevant to the internal operation of private organizations.
And if masters had invented it, no one would be using it.
Put a dummy plug in there and seal with tape?
It's an all-equity deal from the letter
I'm more curious how that built in LiOn battery would stay charged while parked outside for a full work day on a super cold day in winter, when decent sunlight is scarce. Has it been tested in a place where temperatures can dip to -20C / -40C with wind chill?
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One pound of beef requires 1,847 gallons of water. Cattle produce a huge amount of methane. Ranchers use antibiotics profligately. Cows require a terrific amount of energy to grow, relative to plants, meaning lots of the corn we grow in the US goes to meat, which is far less energy efficient.
But a good, reputable name can help the business.
The prevailing strategy if FOIA requests now seems to be sprinkle some 'personal' information in with the rest and then you get to pick and choose what to release. So it's kind of the reverse of this.
What kind of weird dream is that? Do people also have dreams about mainstream odontology or mainstream plumbing?
WTF is wrong with the programmes that they want to turn entire population into lookalikies?
Out of the blue comments like this without any context or information are worse than useless. Many, if not most people have no idea about SolarCity's business model, so all this does is negatively bias people against them for no reason other than an anonymous stranger's bare opinion. You may be right, but until you give some supporting facts, you are only hurting the discussion.
It doesn't "screw" the homeowner per se, but its not as financially beneficial to them as them financing the system themselves (which, admittedly, can be difficult for a lot of homeowners). If Solar City can still be profitable financing installs instead of doing PPAs, and sales can be turned around using the Tesla model, its a win.

I'm pretty sure the big win is giving Solar City access to Tesla's financing facilities.
There are a lot of lakes, but constructing a new canal that's big enough for these sorts of ships is an expensive endeavour, that can only be done in few select places in the first place.
The fundraising page is depressing. They're only asking for US$200,000 and they only have 19% at half way through the year. In other news... Instagram hits half a billion monthly active users... but not on Django's fundraising page.

I'm not knowledgeable about open-source issues, pros/cons, etc., but man... only 19% of $200K. Doesn't seem right given Python is one of the major languages and I believe Django is the most popular web framework in Python.
What do you mean because of labor costs? Do you think they're going to hire 12 year olds?

If anything this will increase labor costs because now they need Geniuses to cover these classes (as well as costs for possible damage to the iPads used) in addition to normal Apple store staffing.
With the recent Game Center APIs for live streaming, you can apparently do live streaming of Swift Playgrounds on services like Twitch as well.

Might be nothing, but opens up a lot of possibilities for people just getting started.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm always amazed to see how many people don't understand the ramification of pushing gigawatts through air. People who are worried about birds getting killed by wind turbines? You have no idea what this much energy will do...
From what I've read, that if you plan to stay in your house more than 10 or 15 years, then it makes more sense to buy panels and other hardware yourself, but if your horizon is lower then you should lease them.

That said, purchasing the hardware costs as much as a car, so maybe can't do that.

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384958332/the-great-solar-pane...
It loses a phenomenal amount of money and before this afternoon appeared to be heading towards bankruptcy. Elon owns something like 20% of SolarCity which definitely makes you think that he wanted to save his stake with Tesla's money. IMO this is actually very troubling for Tesla.
I wrote an Emacs mode that interfaced to V8's debugger so I could single-step through the Lisp (Parenscript) programs we were writing that compiled to JS. In the end I only used it a handful of times over three years. That was a lot of work for something one doesn't end up using! (Though it was still a good learning exercise.) Writing your own debugger and then never using it turns out to be pretty strong evidence that you don't need one.
What's a better solution? Giving refunds to anybody who wants one, regardless of whether they cared about the "Other OS" functionality at all, would be totally unreasonable. Who wouldn't sign up to get their $500 back for a 10 year old system?
Oh...of course. This makes a lot of sense.
I think that their approach is to define "upper middle class" as "double the median household income". The problem is that they defined the median household income nationally, not locally.
I highly recommend Peter Norvig's example Lisp interpreters. He has Python and Java implementations and they are both very accessible, so you can digest them in a few hours' time. "Production" language interpreters tend to have so much complexity that it can be hard even for an expert to find the essence of the interpreter.
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But that's not where the microphone is (think about it, a microphone stuck down a port wouldn't work well at all).
Yeah, because the guy who consistently works the hardest at getting famous should get some dough? He kind of seems like an immature prick, to be honest.
Why do you want to expose kids to the horrible mess called JavaScript?
And you can teach functional programming with Swift, thank you very much.
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It seems like you've misunderstood what I'm trying to say. I'm saying your statement

>But it would be nontrivial (difficult but still possible) to brute-force code a program for many narrow household robot tasks.

is very wrong. It is not really possible comparing atari games to even the same class of difficulty as household chores. You've just agreed with my point and said that I'm speculating.

>Atari game agents are trivial if you hard-code / do traditional brute-force search AI because there is no noise in observation and no noise in control, and the control is very simple (usually just up down left right, no torques or anything physically complex)

I never said that they are trivial. Although the point I'm making, again, is that you can't say that we can brute force even narrow household chores. It has a level of complexity - friction (which is a huge problem), elasticity and even air flow can mess up the actions, and they lack the computing power to account for everything. Whereas we have something called intuition (which I may add everyone interested in AGI to properly read up on, starting with Brain Games - S4:Intuition which is on netflix)

And it seems like you don't consider brute-forced solutions as proper solutions. I agree with that, as will any one who has common sense and read a couple of wikipedia articles. But RL is not exactly the brute forcing as we think of it, although it might look like it. We all employ brute force learning in our own lives, to whatever extent it might be, although our feedback and thought processes are much more complex so we feel we are acting out of pure intelligent deductions we make in our brain. We still need a couple of 'brute force' attempts, although with the number of iterations we need, you can't call them that.

I suggest you read some literature too, and please point out where I'm speculating.

1. DeepMind's reinforcement learning paper : http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/nature14236?shared_...
It seems like Guccifer2 could easily craft whatever narrative he wants by selectively releasing documents. For example, he could release pro-Hillary material and withhold similar material for other candidates. Or, even without any malcontent on his part, the documents he nabbed may not be fairly representative.
As of yesterday, SCTY had a mean target price of $30.18/share across 17 Wall Street analysts.

To your point, shareholders might balk at TSLA's offer.
It's all stock, so the only "cost" is a devaluation of Tesla stock. That does matter somewhat for Tesla what with how frequently they raise new money.

I guess the losses of SolarCity will be an ongoing cash flow issue. I'm curious where SolarCity went wrong, their business was basically a bank investing solely in solar projects.
Personally I anticipate that won't be a long wait for the patient investor.
I thought that was a given. The DNC basically laundered money for Clinton to get around campaign finance laws[0].

[0] http://www.npr.org/2015/12/23/460762853/how-hillary-clinton-...
The SNES was actually supposed to play NES games as well, but that ended up getting dropped.
I don't get this. If someone gets unauthorized access to your computer's camera, all this prevents is them seeing your face staring into your computer. This doesn't solve the underlying problem of someone getting unauthorized access to your computer. It just solves the problem of someone seeing your face, which is not such a terrible problem to have, at least if you're as handsome as I am.

Just covering up the camera is like putting a bandaid on a small cut when you have internal bleeding.
> A locker wouldn't have that problem, as there is nothing to break.

There is also no need for collateral or a smart contract in this scenario.

> Public bikes in many big cities don't have that problem either (i.e. there's no assessment of the returned bike).

How does a smart contract improve over the current system?

> A smart car doesn't have to have it either (sensors in the car could detect crashes, for example, and interiors could be built to be tough, like many public cars already - see Paris' AutoLib)

How does a smart contract help?

In all of your examples a smart contract doesn't add anything to the equation because the merchant (or the merchant's automated centralized systems) already have the authority and capability to relinquish deposited funds.
Nice work.

You may want to take a look at Bison/Flex. While they don't suit the tastes of everyone, it's good to know how to work with them. For example, BASH parser is written using those tools.
Pontificating that a name change will really turbo charge SolarCity isn't exactly contributing to the discussion either. SolarCity is an awful business because it loses a huge amount of money. Go look at their financials, it's beyond ugly.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ASCTY&fstype=ii&ei=...
Netflix doesn't have SAN because it doesn't run anything outside of AWS. AWS provides the throat to hold in your analogy.
There's always an alternative to the government demanding something: lawyer up and take it to the courts.

There are very real pragmatic problems regarding the expense and distraction to an organization that may be struggling on the margin of survival anyway, and additional principle-agent problems when this organization is not personally hurt by complying with the FBI's request but is instead acting on a customer's behalf, who will probably never know that the request was made in the first place. But those are the problems that the article is proposing to solve, probably through an organization that serves as a clearinghouse of information and legal assistance to small companies that need to handle customer data but don't necessarily have the resources to fight such a battle themselves.
In addition to the comment above, I'd view this as an update to zoning laws and renter's rights.
As we become increasingly a nation of renters instead of owners, these sort of issues need to be addressed.
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Sorry .. I disagree and upvoted the parent. If you keep up with the news, you'll see many articles on SolarCity's challenges:

http://watchdog.org/225430/solarcity/
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Wow, CPU is the limiting factor? I've never been CPU bound in a Web app, only I/O bound. Am I doing something wrong?

Granted, I don't use python anymore for Web dev. I'm using languages that can handle 10x the traffic per box that Django used to be able to handle. This isn't a knick against python. I love python. Just such a different perspective.
I don't disagree...such an evolution would be too drastic and unnecessary given the desktop and iPad Pro ecosystem...but to presume that Apple might someday make macOS and iOS intertwined doesn't require a drastic reading between the lines:

- the top feature in the Apple macOS preview is the porting of an exclusive iOS feature (Siri)

- there weren't any huge new features in Yosemite, though the top billed feature is split screen, which was subsequently introduced to iOS9. You can notch that as a victory for the Desktop-worldview...but the other big feature I remember in Yosemite was bringing over Metal, which was introduced in iOS 8.

- for Mavericks, which had many more changes, the two top What's New features are iBooks and Maps...two iOS apps that do not particularly change up the Desktop experience.

- Other developers might disagree with me, but while I've been mostly happy as a developer on OSX, I can't recall the last time Apple added something that hugely changed my experience as a developer...Bash on 10.11.5 is still the same Bash as on 2007...almost a decade ago. The freeing of the Office apps was very nice, though I don't use them so can't say how well they've been maintained. I do know that iTunes and iPhoto continue to be a disruptive shitshow, and nearly every app that I use on a daily basis, from Chrome, to Dropbox, to Google Chrome, to Steam and Atom...are third-party.

For fucks sake, one of the small things that would bring me daily happiness is a built in version of flux. But not only did Apple steal flux's thunder by blocking the iOS flux app and then adding Night Shift, they still haven't added it to OS X, which is where flux originated...and I don't see it as part of macOS.

- And then there's the hardware. I don't pay enough attention to PCs to know whether Appple is still outpacing them, but the rate and quality of new first-party peripheral does not feel like Apple is pushing hard on this front. I love the trackpads (a feature that has followed innovation on iOS), but I want a mouse, and the Apple first-party mice are terrible. I do love my several-years old aluminum keyboard...but the new one didn't seem to be a worthwhile improvement for the price jump.

- and of course, there's the Apple Display situation. No other Apple product would more greatly improve my computing experience and I am more than happy to pay the premium...the amount of time and money I've wasted in researching and buying third-party monitors that for whatever reason, aren't as seamless as the 5 year old Thunderbolt display, had more than exceeded the Apple premium sticker price.

- the iOS App Store has its problems...but the Mac App Store does not feel like an ecosystem that Apple has put nearly as much effort in helping out developers (or consumers)

- the iPad Pro is marketed as "your next computer"

Oops, meant that to be a simple list and not a rant. But typing it out on my iPad was slow enough that I kept thinking of other signs of non-desktop-enthusiasm for Apple :)...you can argue that Apple isn't overtly hampering the desktop...but it's hard to argue that Apple sees as much potential from desktop, based on its recent product releases.
All sorts of people do all sorts of things in their bedrooms that have nothing to do with their face staring into their computers. There have been quite a few instances of livestreamers forgetting to turn off their streams, and accidentally broadcasting themselves naked, or having sex with their partners.

I personally don't have any cameras in my room for this reason, but the risk of capturing something sensitive is quite real.
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If you read the fellow's comments, he seems to be basing his judgement solely off the fact that they're losing money.

Yet by that standard, Tesla as well as Amazon are "awful businesses" too. He's not looking to the future, or closely examining why they're losing money.
I find I never need them in Functional Languages, but still use them in procedural languages, like C#.
Much higher revenue with much lower costs will help the business. Having Tesla shareholders bail out Elon's side project (his cousin started it, Elon is the chairman and he owns a giant stake) looks really awful.
PayPal is basically a pass-through wallet, meaning most people don't actually hold funds in their wallet but get they transactions funded one-on-one by a different source. For PayPal this is usually a credit card or direct debit from a bank account.

In most circumstances it's a lot cheaper to accept the credit card or do the direct debits directly (via a payment service provider). If you're operating internationally, find a PSP that offers many local payment options. For example, in many European countries, very few people have a credit card. If you offer your customers local payment options like Giropay and Sofort you won't need to bother with PayPal in my opinion.
> the more popular they are, the more dangerous it is to think of them as extreme. Especially if you turn out to be wrong.

I don't think this is true at all. The closest thing I can thing of to this that would be true is "The more popular they are, the more dangerous it is for you to call them extreme. Especially if you are right."

There's is generally little danger in thinking of a moderate politician with moderate followers as extreme, or even of overtly calling them that, no matter how popular they are.

OTOH, there's plenty of danger in calling an extreme politician with a demonstrated history of encouraging violent reprisals against dissenters extreme, especially if they are popular (and, especially if the people with whom they are popular are also extreme.)
Is it common to make the offer letter public before the deal is made?
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I suppose. The underlying problem is still greater, though, than someone seeing you having sex. Someone getting unauthorized access to your webcam, I'd imagine, has the ability and skill to do much worse than look at you naked (which, on the other hand, would be problematic to me because my body is flabby and unattractive).

Wouldn't a better solution be software-based, or some more advanced hardware (like added network security)?

But this picture is taken at an office, where presumably sex isn't happening, and anything confidential will likely not be in large font on a sheet of paper held up in front of a camera that is presumed inactive.
Nest is pushing further into the energy business with SolarCity partnership
No one has a problem with releasing hemoglobin producing yeast? No one? That sounds terrifying in that many _other_ industries rely on wild yeast.

This goes beyond the general case for GMO (where wild growth is generally crippled) and involves actively modifying the wider environment. This is a serious problem.
Can you link to such an implementation?