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Homebrew is opt-out post-install by setting a flag as well (no option or warning pre-install). But they do remind you afterwards that they are tracking and give you a link to learn how to disable it.
As long as no data is sent until first use (giving you a buffer to opt-out), I don't have an issue with this.
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You are right.

The Visitor Pattern doesn't provide multiple dispatch.

The Visitor Pattern relies on multiple dispatch, and so it provides a form of it to itself.

The Visitor Pattern doesn't go away in a language with multiple dispatch; its boiler plate code is just reduced.

What the Visitor Pattern is about is to bring together the benefits that arise from a cluster of ideas: first class functions, and generic functions.

In the Common Lisp object system, OOP functions are "generic functions" which stand alone and are not tied to classes. If we have a "frobosity" method and a list of objects, we can map that list easily to get every object's frobosity: (mapcar 'frobosity objlist). That is to say, we have visited each object in objlist. Each object has effectively "accepted" a "visit" from the frobosity function.

Now what we might want is instead of using generic function, to use a "funcallable object". let's use mapc instead of mapcar, since we don't need to collect the results into a list. The visitor-object itself can do something useful along those lines:

(mapc visitor-object objlist)

This object carries state and can do useful things, like inquire each object about its frobosity and add them together.

since we don't have funcallable objects standard Lisp we can borrow the dispatch kernel of the Visitor Pattern:

(mapc (lambda (list-obj) (accept visitor-object list-obj)) objlist)

I.e. we use a method called accept and then curry it with a lambda to simulate visitor-object being funcallable. This lambda is just using double dispatch, just like the Visitor Pattern uses its two-dispatch simulation of double dispatch.

If we have that real double dispatch, it's just more convenient to write the rest of this cruft. It's just a simple, linear bunch of definitions like:

(defmethod accept ((visitor this-class) (obj that-class))
;; handle this-class + that-class combination
)

The double dispatch itself isn't the point of the pattern. The point is to use an object as a function which is mapped over some other objects, and that object does something useful: accumulates some information, pretty-prints, translates the structure to something else, etc.
It's it also supposed to get the too-high-emissions vehicles off the road? It seems like letting people drive them around for two more years is counter productive to that goal.
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Regular stops for them. You'd have them frequently enough. Everyone else can use those or get off between stops.
I see a future where as the "rise of the machines" takes hold in things like News Items, Stories, Poetry, Paintings, Movies etc, there will be a commensurate rise in Detection software.
The detection software would flag things as human-generated vs machine-generated.

Pretty soon anything created by Humans will be intrinsically more valuable just because it was human-created and hence somehow better than "machine-generated".

We live in interesting times...
That sounds illegal as fuck.
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Only $15B?
Why start with cities? How about towns that have growth potential? It seems like more the startup way to do it.
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You're probably better off buying an HDMI-in/out device like [1]. It's a "splitter", but you can just plug the HDMI-in in one side and one HDMI-out in the other, and since it doesn't enforce HDCP on the output, it works as a stripper.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-Powered-Splitter-1080P-Model/d...
But there's nothing about this tactic that prevents future action against AT&T. If anything, gp now has more advantageous legal standing as a customer and denied them the added revenue which was the point of the monopoly in the first place - especially if they still have to pay off the landlord.
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They’d still be legal under the 2008 emissions regulations, just not under the newer ones.

There are plenty more cars on the road from even older times, with far worse emissions.
It seems odd to me that most of the financial windfall here goes to Volkswagen owners. (2/3 anyway). Wasn't the "damage" done almost exclusively environmental, which affects everyone?

Wouldn't it make more sense to use these large amounts of money to combat the actual damage that was done? (e.g. environmental cleanup initiatives?)
I'm pretty sure you'll be regretting that vote. Edit: If Trump has attacked an American-born judge of Mexican heritage then I'm sure you're next.
> just a cash transfer to people who got lucky and bought cars from an unethical manufacturer.

They didn't "get lucky". They were lied to by the company and sold a car under false pretenses.

Edit: I had the fuel economy bit wrong, my mistake. I've removed that portion. Thanks @mikestew, @gnoway, and @GavinMcG for the correction.
>They've replaced everything else because their massively profitable to produce.

That's the most ridiculous justification I've heard for anything. A thousand dollar piece of toilet paper is also massively profitable to produce, but nobody would buy it. People buy cars because they are useful.

If you think most people don't enjoy the freedom they get from owning a car, you are living in a bubble. I work with people that could take the caltrain and get to work faster, but they still choose their car because of the flexibility in schedule and destinations it gives them.

Also, walking is not the lowest common denominator if you have a job far away, have small children, or have a disability.
I get "502 Bad Gateway" after a long wait. An AppEngine issue?
Where's the jailtime?

As an individual, you make one wrong statement to the FBI, and you are hauled off to jail. The company lied over 500,000 times to the government, and gets off by paying a paltry fine. No wonder companies continue to do this: there is no consequence to the employees who do this shit.
Do you mind if I ask what region? I only ask because I had never heard it spending my entire life in a couple different parts of California
None of that justifies valuing them at zero. Even if those reasons were valid, those reasons would maybe justify taking the official private valuation and cutting it by 75%.
One would think so, but then one would also think that nobody would ever design a boot recovery procedure such that it has an error case where it deletes all (several hundreds) executable files on the disk, completely hosing the system. But Microsoft still managed to do the latter. It's likely not that nobody thought about it, but maybe not the right person, and in big companies that can matter a lot.
Sorry, wasn't trying to bash Texas. Maybe I should have said "Dallas oil dynasty". I haven't seen, read or viewed anything from or with Marc after he left Netscape, so I can't comment on what he's doing these days. All I know is that he's part of a VC.
Kansas State University isn't far from Wilson Lake, and it hasn't happened there. I'm hoping that rail technology will keep improving until the Great Plains as they actually exist will be in the "sweet spot". It wouldn't have to be as fast as air travel, but if travelling from KC to Denver were 3 hours rather than over 8, we'd live in a different country.

I'm not suggesting that TSA should just get worse and worse until air travel takes as long as train travel.
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This wasn't exactly a fuel economy issue, it was more of an emissions cheat. I get great economy out of my Golf - higher than advertised. I agree that if they'd done the right thing w/ emissions that economy might have been worse and the car not as attractive.
Did they have extra fuel expenses? My understanding is that VW bypassed emissions controls in order to maintain a high level of efficiency and performance. The environmental cost of that was externalized onto all of us.
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Video games are already adaptively paced based on user input.
I like to think that a classic Rube Goldberg machine or even just a Hot Wheels track is similar to the idea of a program. You have the main loop, which is the track or route of the car/ball, and then if certain factors come into play, they may change what happens to the car/ball or what happens to something else.
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I'm just glad that most current browsers support all of ES2015, as it allows for much smaller bundles for them... I'm probably still going to need webpack+babel for a bit though, as I've been using async/await for a while. Though at least regenerator isn't needed in most places.

Beyond this, read this morning about F#'s pipe forward/backward operators, and that combined with the the F# composition operators would be a really nice addition to ES.
i don't think that's quite right. when i was at intel the chief of staff role was the "technical assistant" or TA (as opposed to the administrative assistant or AA/EA); some TAs were business types but many had advanced engineering degrees, even PhDs. a well-aligned TA seems like a massive multiplier for execs. the main peril with a chief of staff who is less technical than the exec is that they are gatekeeping (filtering meetings and proposals) based on a pattern-matching level of understanding about technology, as opposed to actual understanding, and that's sort of asking for leadership to drift off in their own filter bubbles.
> Seems like VCs would do well to buy some housing.

Incubators yes. But exchanging a place to stay for equity (as OP alluded to) is mostly in the realm of the show although it has happened a few times in real life as well...

Example: http://fusion.net/story/134163/silicon-valleys-startup-castl...
> The settlement does not address lawsuits from investors or a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.

It's seems that a criminal investigation may be ongoing.
It's not counter productive, its just not super productive.

But I think the concerns are less about getting these specific cars off the road immediately, and more so ensuring that other manufacturers are scared away from trying to pull this shit again.
A client of mine in NYC was getting gouged for Internet service in their office building, by the incumbent building-wide ISP which seemed to be operated by the landlord. When it became necessary to upgrade to a higher tier of service, their only upgrade options from the incumbent provider were $1000+ per month above market rate. When we brought in service from a competing provider, we learned that we would have to pay the building's ISP a rental fee for use of the "risers"- they owned the rights to the conduit from the basement to my clients' suite, and charged us rent at what I considered an unfair rate on our use of it.

I think many landlords around here signed away rights on telecom services without knowing better, or set up exclusive agreements like this and those mentioned in the article, but this was the worst offender I've ever encountered.
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I can't believe this is still how they operate. How has the company that shipped Windows Vista not figured it out yet?
And my point was that one shouldn't split such hairs in public statements. Kodi knows that some people will take this as permission to file complaints. If those complaints hits legitimate distributors, Kodi might have to backtack, as did Lady GaGa.
> interfacing through the object/relational impedance mismatch

Do we really need the regular code with it's traditional OOP and fat application server to convert result set to JSON and spit it out - that most of the time is all that code is doing actually? I suppose these typical tasks might be pretty much covered not only by PostgREST [1], but with just a sweet combination of two PostgreSQL functions - array_to_json() and array_agg().

[1] http://postgrest.com/
> "It is obvious that the vote had nothing to do with opinions on the EU to a huge number of voters."

I'd recommend thinking twice when it comes to blanket statements like that. The only thing I'd be willing to make a blanket statement on is that the mainstream news media has been very manipulative when it comes to pushing their own agendas, and this applies both to the Remain camp and the Leave camp. With that in mind, I couldn't honestly put my finger on what mattered most to the 30,000,000+ voters, though I'd suspect the reasons for Remain and Leave were a lot more diverse than the mainstream media wanted to suggest.
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Does anybody remember when Volkswagen blamed the scandal on "the engineer culture" or something like that? like those engineers at Volkswagen called the shot and not the management ... ridiculous , like these engineers weren't asked to cheat ... I can't wait for the criminal investigation.
I'd say mostly not. The middle-class mostly were for remain. They're not so keen on kick the immigrants out stuff. A lot of them work for big business, corporations, and large government. The effect on income inequality remains to be seen. Here's the treasury projection of the effects:

>The Treasury has now followed up with a report on the short-term consequences of a vote to leave. In summarising the results, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, has stated that the UK would suffer a “do-it-yourself” recession if it decided to leave. One might better call it a “do-it-himself” recession. For it was the government’s decision to take this risk.

>The new report’s main scenario predicts that GDP would be 3.6 per cent lower after two years than if the UK voted to remain, unemployment would be 520,000 higher and the pound would be 12 per cent lower. Under a worse scenario, GDP could be 6 per cent lower, unemployment 820,000 higher and sterling 15 per cent lower.

Doesn't sound like a prescription for lower inequality in the short term at any rate.
"Earnings in a casino can reach more than $X per day".

How informative is such statement? Is the $25,000 based on the maximum fee that any speaker has earned? Is it the average fee? Is it the highest fee that Snowden or someone representing him has said he have earned?
No. And that was added back in Windows 10.
I just wanted to say I liked your comment, in particular the criticism about "blank slate" redesign being historically difficult, the need for study of problems and solutions in existing cities (and study of existing studies of cities), and the dangers of "success", especially given the pernicious reliance on metrics in the tech world today. That said, I can see why it was flagged: the jabs at YC and the tech industry in general are basically flame bait and aren't necessary to make your argument.
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Not sure why this is significant. Git existed before GitHub, he just pushed an existing repo?
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Because the VW owners were the ones who paid their own money for a product that was falsely advertised.

Its not like these cars caused direct damage to the environment that can be cleaned up, they're still relatively low in emissions compared to a lot of other cars on the road.
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This is really cool. I want to build a system like this that works on VR\AR platforms, to get around limitations of programming in VR like text input being a pain, hard to read text, etc. It's also possible to get around some of the limitations of actual physical hardware like costs, being able to code abstractions (a complex function can shrink to a single block, you could build custom interfaces and types without making new custom hardware, etc). Does anyone know of any other good tangible\physical programming resources out there?
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These don't have to have anything to do with school.

> anything taught in school becomes mundane, dry and boring at somepoint.

I disagree. My better English classes interested me in literature that I wouldn't have touched otherwise and got me in the habit of analyzing whatever I'm reading. History was amazing every time it illuminated why things are the way that they are now, or gave an insight into the ways that people used to live. Geometry was great: it introduced me to a lot of thought patterns that are similar to programming, and it was always a fun challenge to use rules to justify the claim made in the problem. School was also my first serious introduction to programming. That QBASIC programming class was the thing that made me decide that's it's what I wanted to do professionally.

> did anyone ever become a history fan because history was taught in school.

Yes, although mostly in contrast to how it's taught in most classes.
Which MacBook can code 8 hours without charging?
iOS dev, in Xcode all day. Looking for a laptop that can code all day without plugging in.

Just bought the 12", shows only 5 hrs? Upgraded from 2012 15" retina which only for me 3.6hrs.

Maybe I should try 13" retina?
This settlement doesn't actually count all the fines, the EPA will get their cash for violations of the Clean Air Act at a later date. This is the initial fix to get the vehicles into compliance or off the street and refunding customers who purchased fraudulent vehicles.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but it's great to be able to make a SaaS app because you're a developer. But how can I non-dev do it?

For example, I use a VoIP tool quite often (almost daily). There are a lot of backends that can be used, like Twilio. The only thing is the front-end (ofcourse, it's not all front-end but you know what I mean)

I've been burning up knowing that if I were to have such a SaaS app, it will really do great.

Any suggestions on how I could start that up?
>The settlement, to be announced on Tuesday in Washington, includes $10.03 billion to offer buybacks to owners of about 475,000 polluting vehicles

They'll buy back my diesel so that I can get another one that pollutes less, thus getting my cheater car off the road, thus addressing the environmental damage going forward.

They're not just paying me money as a "we're sorry" factor.
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In roughly descending order of frequency (of the ones I've noticed), in public statements, comments, and actions this campaign season (I may be forgetting some): Hispanics/Latinos (especially Mexicans), Muslims, Women, African-Americans, and Jewish people.
I'm of the opinion that there should be a corporate death penalty (though I oppose the death penalty in criminal cases). There's some situations that are so ethically indefensible, wherein a corporation can cause incredible harm over a long period of time, that the only just outcome is for the company to be destroyed. The people responsible are shielded from any real consequence (how many people at VW knew about this, and how many are going to jail over it?). This is not a minor squabble over regulations; this is a conscious decision, involving many executives within the company, to willfully cause environmental destruction that directly costs human lives and health.

This is one of those cases where the corporate death penalty is the only just outcome I can think of.

$15 billion looks like a large sum; and maybe it's even enough to deter car companies from doing something similar in the future. Maybe. VW is worth $73 billion, and they generated a lot of money on the strength of their diesel campaigns. Amortized over the many years that they were shipping out these cars, it begins to look like a cost of doing business, rather than a massively punitive expense.
sounds like yet another scam from someone who actually makes money by selling a guide on how to retire before 40. yada yada
I would like to see a US company pay 15B for not following the rules. If it were a US company, the fine with be in the millions.

Biggest fines against US companies. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-of-the-biggest-corporate-...

So yeah this would be in the top 3 or 4 of the biggest ever fines paid by US companies.
Compare with http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/29/vw-excess-emissions-linked-to....

VWs actions left around 60 estimated dead. Around 120,000 days of people not being able to function normally. At a direct cost to the economy of around $450 million. And a cost to our quality of life that most would consider even higher.

All of which is bad. But no matter how you do the math, most of this fine is punitive dissuasion for others who might be tempted to also cheat.

(Note that most of the fine moves money from the left hand to the right without destroying it, so we are theoretically collectively left better off as a result. Plus we prevent about as much more damage as we had already.)
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The VW owners get their money refunded as part of the settlement. So, they are no longer stuck with a lemon (And get to pocket depreciation.)

The extra $5,000/car could have been put towards planting trees, cleaning up an ex-industrial site, shingling San Francisco's city hall with solid gold...
so wrong... when you live in non-english speaking country, you will be quite isolated from the rest of the world, even if your freinds speak english. it's just they won't speak english all the time...
The reason the cars got better fuel economy than competitors is because VW cheated on emissions. IOW, the deception wasn't in the economy numbers, but in how VW managed to pull that off.
You sound like you are justifying your own choices with a strawman argument about what it's like to own a car.

My annual maintenance costs + insurance + licensing on my 15 year old car are about the same cost as renting a car for two days.

I think you vastly overestimate the cost of owning an older car.

Im also not sure you understand the term flexibility in the way most people do. Right now (as in within 10 minutes), I can be on my way up to Lake Tahoe or off to Yosemite. There is no other form of transportation that can work that quickly. Even with an amazing rail and bus network, you are beholden to the schedule and the overhead of local transit to the long distance station. With public transportation your life is dictated by the schedule of the transit, with a car you just leave whenever you feel like it.
> In 2013, $10,000 was considered a lower limit for speakers brokered by speakers bureaus, $40,000 a regular fee for well-known authors, and famous politicians were reported to charge about $100,000 and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_fee
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They have some incentives to be speedy and individual states may move things along even quicker (denying registration for unfixed vehicles):

> The settlement includes $2.7 billion in funds to offset excess diesel emissions and $2 billion for green energy and zero emission vehicle efforts, the source said. The diesel offset fund could rise if VW has not fixed or bought back 85 percent of the vehicles by mid-2019, the first source said.

But they are still facing stiff penalties under the Clean Air Act which could more than double the damage. There are also 80,000 larger engine vehicles they still need to deal with (which I am quite curious about since I have one!).