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I don't think that autonomous cars are anywhere near a situation where a large scale deployment is feasible. In particular, I think that there needs to be a cross-vendor car-to-car or car-to-road communication protocol. Until then, autonomous cars will only work as long as there are relatively few of them or they run in controlled conditions like major highways.

When I'm in traffic, I notice myself communicating with other people a lot. Most commonly it's just brief eye contact ("I have seen you"), but it enables smooth and safe traffic for everyone.

Just blindly following rules and reacting to your immediate surroundings won't work in large scale. There are plenty of situations where that would end up in a deadlock traffic jam (e.g. 4 way intersection with no right of way).

This is by no means an impossible task, I just have not heard of an effort trying to solve it yet.
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Google actually deprecated this over four years..
I think your info is a bit outdated (and some incorrect).
Buy a mac (or ignore the Eula and run OS X in a VM), install the dev tools (free), install the app on your iPad (free).
If you want to publish, there's a fee (per year).
> A lot of people thought that by voting Leave they were voting for an extra £350M/week that would go to the NHS.

If anyone of voting age believes that, they are undoubtedly an idiot.
Edinburgh is a similar size to Zurich - a city regarded as one of the world's most important financial centres.
The car should still have started emergency braking at some close distance before the obstacle (when the radar data got very clear about that not being an overhead sign). Braking in case of an inevitable crash is useful to reduce severity of the crash. And it's a bad idea to release brakes after the crash either. So it still seems like wrong behavior to me.
They don't forbid interpreters. But they forbid downloading code into these interpreters.

Ie running what the user types is OK.

(At least as far as I remember.)
They don't need to take the Euro. They could create their own currency. Not all EU countries use Euro.

I don't see why will end up like Greece. Not all countries using the Euro end up like Greece.
Great review, but I'm more excited about the fact that this runs on an ESP8266, presumably controlling a simple relay. This means that I can just open it up, hook it up to my computer and flash my own firmware that will be exactly as secure as I need, all for a rather low price.

Hell, maybe they left the FOTA port open and I can give people a small script with a firmware so they can just run that and flash the plug over the wifi network!
I don't believe the proper narrative about how the decline of the Roman empire was due to decadence. I believe it was a victim of its own success. Roman ideas, organization, and commerce spread out to the surrounding kingdoms, eventually each region developed a polity progressively capable of challenging Rome. It didn't happen all at once, and if you look at it in the micro, it does look like a decline, but in the macro, the so-called decline of the Roman empire was a story of progress.

You can generalize this. Isolate the idea that the organization was built on, then see what happened to it. Usually, you'll see that the 'killer app' that gave them the ability to rise to the top created a new world in which everyone has that ability to exercise it. If you don't come up with a new one, you'll eventually lose your privileged position.

There's nothing wrong with this at all. We just are wired to want success so we go looking for personal failures rather than thinking bigger.
> I'm not an iPad user, but hasn't Apple had a long-running policy of forbidding any app which includes an interpreter?

That policy was rescinded almost 6 years ago: http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/app_store_guidelines and had been instituted only a few months earlier: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_...

IIRC there's a policy against running downloaded code (at least automatically downloaded code) in anything but the bundled JS runtime, but bundling an interpreter in an application and running user-provided code is not an issue. You can run a Python app on iOS (e.g. via Kivy) and there are Python interpreters in the appstore.

> buy the Apple developer tools ("Xcode"?)

That's free (with a mac and OSX obviously): https://itunes.apple.com/app/xcode/id497799835

> and pay a $99 subscription fee in order to transfer your own app to your own iPad.

The developer account is only necessary to publish in the store, since Xcode7 and iOS9 you can sideload applications with a regular appleid: http://www.howtogeek.com/230225/how-to-sideload-apps-onto-an...
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Reader user base wasn't really growing (in terms that Google is used to).

But more importantly, the technology was creaking, and nobody at Google wanted to maintain it.

(Disclaimer: I ended up working for the team that shut down Reader.)
Yes you can.

Swift Playground has full access to the iOS APIs.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/408/

I applaud Apple for this, as it makes the developer experience closer to the Xerox PARC ideas.

EDIT: typo have => has.
It's not involved, but it's also not obvious to many users.
PS Thanks for the video!
Foreign exchanges giving worse exchange rate is better than the situation I've had many times in england, were I was simply unable to pay with or exchange northern irish or scottish pounds.

Someone told me that, by law, they have to accept those notes, but I still have ~40 NI pounds that I took to london on a trip a couple of years ago and had to take back with me.
> the schools in America will jack up the tuition for foreign students.

My understanding was out of state and international students have the same full tuition price. The difference is only in instate and out of state. Lots of wealthy people in the us pay full price at private schools. Colleges can't just increase tuition too much for international students, because there is no artificial cap on number of college seats. The college market will expand to handle more students.
You see, there is a problem calling website pages "content", unless I know what that articles contains there is no way for me to know if it is of any value or not. Serving malicious ads and slowing down my internet speed just adds insult to the injury. I don't think it's okay to block adblockers, this is equivalent to discrimination IRL (e.g not letting someone into the restaurant because of their religion or skin color etc). If they want to get payed by the readers, there's always subscription model (lock it behind the paywall), don't discriminate me because of the software I'm using.
the case was in 2015 before whatsupp implemented encryption.

+ they failed to even reply.

I hope they go much further if they continue to not obey other countries' laws.
Maybe people in Poland use mass transportation a lot. That would reduce the death rate for traffic accidents regardless of the speed limits.
No. We have a continuum of examples connecting almost all distinction we draw. The existence of continuums is not evidence against the supreme usefulness of identifying extremely bimodal distributions. Ring species do not negate the meaningfulness of species. "Number of parts replaced" interpolates between restorations and original, but it doesn't invalidate the distinction. Hypothetical time-traveling vikings does not invalidate the distinction between "original", as the word is commonly understood, and "original", as you've insisted it should be used.
No, because JavaScript is not allowed to contact multiple hosts other than the one where the page was downloaded from or Cross-origin resource sharing is enabled.
As someone who took part in the initial Ether offering I was curious about the DAO hype and thankfully saw right through the bubble of naive idealism and saw the fact that slockit was behind it as being very dubious. I used the hype to sell some ether in the run to the DAO. The benefits while cool sounding were wishful thinking and the perception that DAO tokens were risk free yet built on a very risky first generation of an open language led to stupid amounts of money going into it, making it probably one of the best targets for a hack in a while.
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That's interesting why some of functions (_.repeat, _.findIndex) were marked as "Not supported" in Opera but all of them are supported in Chromium-based browsers. Did the author only consider Presto-powered Opera?
The database log is append only (with GC aterwards) so a one byte change on a large document re-writes the entire document.

From https://rethinkdb.com/docs/data-modeling/:

Disadvantages of using embedded arrays:
Deleting, adding or updating a post requires loading the entire posts array, modifying it, and writing the entire document back to disk.
Because of the previous limitation, it’s best to keep the size of the posts array to no more than a few hundred documents.
I agree. We need a shift away from the whole SaaS idea. It plays nicely with ultra-short-term market thinking, so people buy into that, but it is bad long-term. Any service you use is giving away control to a third party. It's true in life as well. Some services are easily replaceable - if the barber shop next to you closes down, there's always another few streets away. But some services are not so easily replaceable, and it's the case of most of them on-line due to the very bad state of software-software integration (i.e. having people to write complicated translation layers). If you depend on such services for your business and they decide to shut down, you're screwed.

If we want to move computing forward, we need more products and less services. More software that one can download and host themselves.
I can imagine that we do not just perceive someone's gender by the sound of their voice, but the way in which they present their opinions and what they say in general.

So lets assume we have a biased recruiter who secretly, perhaps unknowingly, prefers to hire men. The recruiter subconsciously hears a women (man with modulated voice) say things in a way that men would, he might actually prefer this candidate over a 'real' woman. Another candidate, who sounds like a man, but is a woman then says things that the recruiter's subconscious picks up as female might then not be considered at all.

So what does this say? Nothing much I think.
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I know, but not all software is written and maintained such that this is enough to adapt. Whether that's good or bad is a different question.
You bring up a very good point. I like reading reviews before I buy things, but with all reviewers basically living off the free stuff they get, I do worry that there is a conflict of interest. I don't imagine they get a lot of email like "you gave our thing a positive review while the rest of the Internet appears to hate it. Your reviews are not very thorough so we're not sending you review units anymore."

I bet if you do write a lot of negative reviews, the UPS guy doesn't visit your office as often as the author who writes a lot of positive reviews.

Pure speculation of course.
I have same experience. I was assigned to account - big oil company, where one mistake like typo in port or source/dest. IP had a huge impact. Even mistake has been fixed within minutes.

You wouldn't believe how poor IT processes are implemented over such critical infrastructure (oil rigs, infrastructure handling wall-street financial transaction etc) in outsourcing companies. I am not talking how big mess is in configuration and related documentation.
They need to make a Google Shuts Down ___ API. Every time you call it, something else gets shut down.
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And now Brazil is going to find out how little the rest of the internet cares about their sovereignty claims in this particular case. This is pure win for Whatsapp; Brazilian revenue is less for FB/WA than in most countries given the lingering zombie corpse of Orkut, so it does not cost as much to tell the Brazilian courts to piss off and gain street cred in markets they actually do care about.
because it works the same in Europe.
In both the title and in the passages you quote, we would have been better served by being told _how big_ the difference was.
It's all about risk. If the negotiation fall through and GB won't have access to the single market it makes sense to move the business. If you want to trade with a customer in France you may be legally required to have a business there or in EU.
Hmmm... The orbiter is about 10^3 kg, the comet about 10^13 kg, so 10 billion times heavier. We're gonna need to build up some speed somehow!
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> Something like a good steakhouse is not captured my Michelin

My hometown steakhouse, Alexander's, carries a Michelin star
Can you share this data?
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I meant both, actually. Keeping the API running == keeping its infrastructure running. And I can't imagine this costs them very much.
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There are some studies out there (too lazy now to go search for any) that mentions that money is related to hapiness up to a point that it can get you out of poverty and make you stop thinking about it.. Then, the relation is mostly none.

Seriously, what would you do with those 2 billion?
> These deals can take many years, it took Canada 7 years to negotiate the latest deal and that's still waiting on ratification by all member governments which is likely to take another couple of years.

You seem to be insinuating that is Canada's fault for taking 7 years (actually, 5.5) to negotiate a trade deal with 28 member states simultaneously.

Needless to say, CETA is more likely to be vetoed by either Czech Republic, Bulgaria or Romania, than ratified.
Wait, Brussels was not even on the list?
> there's 'women in tech' organisations that have been accused of framing technology leaders for sexual assault just to marginalize them

Just what kind of absurd anti-feminist conspiracy theories have you been reading? Are you honestly suggesting that this many of Applebaums colleagues are evil conspirators hell-bent on destroying an innocent man's life? I think you could do with some Occam's Razor and a moment to think about your attitude towards sexual assault and power.
If I start a news website, and I give you 2 options:

1. Pay $1 a month to view my content without ads

2. View ads

And you block ads without paying, i'm going to block you. You seem very pragmatic about what is best for you and your PC, well this is me being pragmatic about it as well.

If you block ads, and don't pay a subscription, you give me no value. It only costs me money to serve you content. So you aren't getting served content if you are going to be blocking ads.

It's not "discrimination" any more than a movie theater only letting people that pay in is.
Would it be possible to build an tool that scans your code for simple helpers you wrote yourself or that you include from dependencies and replace them with equivalent functions of lodash or native?
Looks like horrible choices in road surface for bikes with thin, hard wheels. (you slip on gravel and the stones will shake you through, while the cobblestone separating both lanes is plain dangerous when wet. For good measure they put some coarse gravel to the road side, so every now and than even the city bikes can jerk over some stones. I already see one of those on the track.)

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/30/intercity-cyc...
We can feed the world many times over with existing tech, we just can't distribute it. How is privatising/patenting seeds going to change that?

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/global-econ...
I think we need to make a SV Drinking Game.

You drink one whenever Google shuts down an API or a service.

You drink one whenever someone says we're in a bubble.

You drink one whenever Techcrunch writes another X is Uber/AirBnB for Y article.

You drink two whenever we get another unicorn.

etc.
What's the best way to social engineer in this situation. "I'm not talking to you" without agitating them? Just say, "wait until I get my lawyer and we'll talk?" What do you guys think?
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> And dispite all the talk of malware in ads, I've never seen it.

Here's the thing about malware: you don't necessary "see" it.
Looks very nice! The templating and server support makes Lily look like a nice "next step" for PHP developers/shops/projects. PHP's "installed everywhere" feature is pretty hard to beat, especially for host-it-yourself projects like Wordpress. I could see such a language catching on for custom, in-house development though; for example to implement microservices.

It's nice to see that there's a trend for such small, (relatively) simple languages to include nice features like first-class functions, convenient lambda notation, sum types, type inference, etc. A few years ago it seemed most new languages were just nitpicking over syntax, without bringing much to the table. I'm glad to see we're leaving the local minimum of "class-based OO with slight different static method mechanism"!
I expect most employers in the anglosaxon legal system have those terms in all employment contracts - as it goes back to the Master and Servant Acts (as amended)
Punch through CORS like it's a sheet of paper, for example.
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If Scotland was part of the EU, could it still have a separate Scotland-England-Wales trade-deal?

IE could it grow fat being the middle man between the Leavers and the EU?
Just opened up the MacOS build. It is pretty impressive! But the autocomplete is just awful. Typing in "http://localhost:3000" at normal speed produced "http:///localhost:300000". Especially while it's in such a primitive developer-oriented state it would be much more useful to disable that silly autocomplete.

Edit: Additionally, it doesn't yet support native keybindings like Command left-right or Alt left-right.
Publishing on third-party platform, with content limited to what those platforms allow, with monetization limited to what those platforms allow, with constant exposure to random nonsense DMCA takedowns.

But I guess the primary culprits of limiting people's ability to be publishers are NATs.
Exactly this. In general they're great but when you have a problem it's a giant pain. One of our employees had a lot of trouble getting his spouse insured. It took them months to work it out.
It drives me crazy how the city is dominated by pedestrians, yet cars (moving and parked) still get the vast majority of space on streets. The city really needs to ban private cars and parking on streets.
I literally just got into this debate with a coworker yesterday. They didn't want lodash or immutable.js or any utility library in our new project at all, citing their size and the relative ease of doing it all natively. We use lodash or immutable or both in all our other projects but we always start out having these "purity" discussions until cooler heads prevail when we realize it's more important to optimize for convenience than it is to optimize for purity or even size. We're transpiling a future version of our language into an older version of our language just to get it to run, I think using lodash adding size is the least of our problems.
> Its population of 2.5 million could absorb a large influx of financial professionals.

Frankfurt is just growing over 700k people.
Interesting. Probably won't do a ton though for their bottom line.
By law they have to do no such thing.

It's a a very tender point with people because people get weirdly patriotic regarding Scottish Pound Notes. But they are a sort of bizzare currency.

Scottish notes are a legal currency, but not a legal tender. In fact there is no such thing as legal tender in Scotland. Even BoE notes are not legal tender in Scotland.

Legal tender only means you can legally pay down debts by court order in the given currency. BoE notes fulfill this job, but only in England & Wales.

"Someone told me that, by law, they have to accept those notes"

No, they don't even have to by law accept BoE notes in England. Only for paying down debts by law is that true.

Any shop or whatever can refuse or accept anything you give them.

However, to add further confusion, every single pound of Scottish notes is backed up by BoE pound sterling.

In the banks that print Scottish notes (Clydedale, RBS, Bank of Scotland) they have to keep an equal ammount of BoE Sterling.

They even created special notes so they could hold the currency in their vaults in Banks.

You can get £1,000,000 and £100,000,000 notes called Giants and Titans, which back up the Scottish and NI pound notes.

What you are legally entitled to do however (I think?) is go into any branch of Bank you have a Scottish note of and request the equal in BoE note.

So if you have £20 RBS Scottish note, you can go in to an RBS branch legally and claim your BoE note with a nice picture of Adam Smith on it :)
I love that there's a focus on low memory usage.
What I meant is that I doubt Edinburgh could handle an influx of additional bankers on a large scale. I don't think there would be many places for them to go in the actual city itself.
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Their existing options are also losing half their value.
>The Tesla Model S will now never be one of them

Which version? There is 60, 60D, 70, 70D, 75, 75D, 80, 80D, 85, 85D, 90 and 90D so which one are you talking about? Tesla calls their cars Model S the same way Apple calls their laptops Macbook.
> It costs very little to let old software run, especially in case of a Google-sized company.

The cost model is actually the reverse of what you may think. Because of security concerns, every existing service is a vector for attack waiting to happen; under-maintained services doubly so, as they won't have the passive eyes-on that minimize the chances of something slipping through the cracks.

At a company the size of Google, it's not just the passive cost of maintaining the API; it's the active cost of maintaining the API, maintaining the servers its implementation is running on, and doing the security concern analysis to make sure someone can't use the feeds API to crack into a user's GMail account, multiplied across all services Google runs, etc.
> a stationary bandit.

And a many-armed one, at that!
> The two year window post-A50 is specifically for such negotiations

Actually not, the two years is just for getting the divorce right. Most experts indicate that a new arrangement can only be found after the divorce is complete. Though all that probably depends on what kind of leverage rEU wants to keep in dealing with the UK.
It's a good advice, but not everyone needs to run away from something. Sometimes we just have to face ourselves and do a deep introspection on our lives.. I, for myself, find it really hard sometimes to know how I should run my life, or what are my goals. Maybe sometimes there isn't any need to have goals, or maybe my goal is to accomplish every goal so that I empty my goal bucket..

Whatever, I think each one of us are mostly giving bad advices to each other, and the truth is that almost no one knows with certainty what we're doing with our lifes. We just go with the tide, turning left or right when things seems to match what we think we want..