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Microsoft is closing all old bug reports they couldn't fix
That's a letter I received today:

This notification was generated for feedback item: <...> which you submitted at the Microsoft Connect (http://connect.microsoft.com) site.

Thank you for taking the time to report this problem. This problem was reported two years ago. In an effort to focus our resources on the most impactful problems, we are closing old Connect issues. If this problem is still important to you, please go to https://community.visualstudio.com and follow the instructions there to file a new report.
The title is link bait and does reflect the arguments put fourth by the author.
Right, this isn't ambiguous to people. But you know that CTA and Green Line are related concepts. We don't yet have a way to model all of that huge amount of common sense knowledge that people have and use to figure out what a sentence means.

It's the curse of NLP, really. All the easy things are hard. (And the hard things are nigh impossible.)
and post Tesla acquisition of SpaceX,

Master Plan: Part Tres

Solar powered flying cars that will take you to Mars and beyond.
Calling it a logical fallacy that a premium car takes longer to build because it is premium.
Technically, it's 0, because Tesla does not use LIDAR at all.
that or enable fast most like gold and silver version had, that skipped all that jazz, which in turn should also save battery life by not rendering / downloading any of that stuff.
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> Premature scalability is one of the worst siren songs for young engineers and we're seeing it in spades right now.

This. What happened to "make it work then make it scale" ?
What the? I don't think they ever guided to that number for 2016. That's ridiculous. They're right where they should be and on target.
Tons of round trip calls potentially in most RPC-style systems are one start, which Cap'n Proto addresses with its unique style of avoiding round-trips for many network transactions which can drastically reduce network chatter. Security is addressed simultaneously (but not necessarily sufficiently for many people or regulatory bodies) in Cap'n Proto at least via use of capabilities instead of building it into transport layers.
I think there's a general misconception that Julia is a DS/scientific programming focused language. It just so happens that these are areas where its advantages are most apparent, and give the biggest early wins. Given enough time, though, I think the paradigms that Julia is exploring will make it a killer general-purpose language.

As for Julia 2.0, it was decided to put off implementation of traits and interfaces until then. That said, some of the ideas that were being bounced around during the post-con Hack day in these areas are really exciting. In short: Julia may be the first language to pull off behavioral typing in a practically usable way.
Check out Wordsmith by automatedinsights.com - it does NLG for Yahoo! Fantasy Football, among other places.
>Gaining money with a housing investment is great and all, but stoping the stream of money that goes into the void from rent is also a gain.

You're just trading the stream of money that goes into rent for the stream of money that goes into taxes and interest on your loan.

You can't say "owning is better than renting" or vice versa without crunching the numbers for your particular situation.

When I bought my first house I was paying out more every month (by quite a bit) than I did as a renter. Then I rented for awhile and bought my current place, in which I come out ahead vs renting.
Can't civilians exercise their right to seize anyone's cash?
Is it like https://dokan-dev.github.io/ ?

If not, how does it differ?
Mini Militia on PC with keyboard without bluestacks
Obscured under " Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning "
is the cold hard truth that that learning will be paid for in lives - mostly of Tesla drivers possibly of others.

The rates of accidents in manual vs current version of autopilot may work out to be favorable - (and that is still under debate) - but there certainly will be people who will die (and have died) due to a premature roll-out of Autopilot and their trust of it. This is some bloody cold calculation
:%s/Julia/[your favourite challenger language]/g

This is sample selection bias. Cavorting with converts at their conference is always going to lead to a temporary afterglow of bullishness and says nothing about adoption rates.
Cleaning up bird corpses near human habitation habitat isn't necessary? You have curious ideas of what's necessary.
> Worldwide, fully-autonomous vehicles will be a public health victory on the scale of vaccines or antibiotics.

While autonomy is great and will definitely save many lives, it is absolutely not on the scale of vaccines or antibiotics. Not even close.

You're comparing the deaths of millions to thousands.
Twist of the wrist 2, a movie on how to lean on a motorcycle, explains it really well https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JWuTcJcqAng
The name regular expression seems meant to evoke regular languages, whose significance is that they can be recognized in a very straightforward way (by finite state automata) without pathological gotcha cases like this.

Perhaps we ought to call them irregular expressions - this kind of behavior is the literal antithesis of what regular means in automata/parsing theory.
The link to Mormonism is incredibly tenuous here. It seems that Hall's plans look vaguely like a grid, and so did Joseph Smith's. That's about the limit of the connection.
Pokemon Go Map visualization- Near your area
What is new in NativeScript 2.1
Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent all miss out on Fortune's Global 500 list
I'm currently developing a system along those lines. Not publicly available quite yet, but should be soon. Bug fixing at the moment.
Where x can be any combination of letters of any length?
The type of germs that kids share with each other are different to what you can pick up from the dirt. I suspect (though I would love to find evidence) that upper respiratory infections are far more common today than they were in the past. We now have dense cities, global travel, compulsory schooling, and a large global population for colds and flus to diversify in.

On the other hand we have less exposure to the bacteria and parasites that live in the dirt and on animals. They trigger (and modulate) a different part of the immune system associated with allergies.
I don't completely buy into the idea it was intentional, but I think there's a really good possibility. Especially at the beginning, people questioned if electric cars were better for the environment or just shifting the source of the pollution. His response was that electric is a flexible energy source that can be generated from many different processes, many of which are very environmentally friendly including solar.

I think SolarCity is part 2, now that cars are running on electricity, it's time to make the electricity clean.
Let me spell out the argument more:

Instead of 100 people owning 100 cars they drive 5% of the time, they could own 10 summonable cars that drive them around 50% of the time.

The first scenario requires 95 parking spots. The second only 5. There is still as much traffic on the roads, and as much transport work being done, but most of the space now needed for parking can be put to other use.
The tessellate polygon algorithm
But Tesla won't sell them to him, man. Why would they, when Elon's just said he's going to create their own autonomous fleet? Why would they hand it over to Uber? Of course they're competing! Elon's just said they're going to make a fleet of autonomous electric taxis!

Travis wasn't being literal; he knows there aren't going to be 500,000 available for a single company to buy for many years. And even if it weren't redirecting profits, Tesla still wouldn't allow a single entity to buy up the entire output of their factories, preventing nearly all consumers from getting any. That would be crazy. And Travis knows that. He was more just expressing Uber's enthusiasm about the idea of autonomous electric cars. If he could, he would, but he knows he can't.
If it wasn't for car2go I might have been a vehicle owner 3-4 years earlier. Once they stopped operations at my city I was so accustomed to get to my destinations by car though, that going back to public transit wasn't an option (given that I could afford a car by then).
I'm from Salt Lake City and a former Mormon. I want to emphasize former because I'm in no way affiliated with the church and have a bit of lifelong bitterness toward it (used to be much worse, mostly over it now) and while I think a lot of things about Mormonism are completely stupid, they sure know how to build cities and be settlers and pioneers.

I think that mentality has passed through generations and it's really exciting to see this kind of advanced utopian dream come to life, even if it pisses off neighbors and if it ultimately fails.

I'm obsessed with cities and I would love to see this turn into the vision that Joseph smith had in mind, even if all his other visions are laughable loads of whatever.
Even though I'm not a Mormon, I kind of wish him luck. The plan is crazy, but I want to see what happens when its implemented.
Ok why hasn't Chris Rock been harassed?
Living the future of technical writing (2014)
Or at the very least, trim whitespace on save :)
Get ripped like toke on a heady amount of high quality weed?
Your local development machine takes one second or more to reload a static html page? Oh wow.
Regarding the reliance on Emacs, might not be the case anymore. When I was new to Clojure, I immediately used an IntelliJ plugin called Cursive. It was/is great, same experience as writing Java in IntelliJ. (https://cursive-ide.com/)
Google has a handful of their engineers driving around in weird-looking minicars.

Tesla has thousands of regular consumers driving all over the world in sleek sedans.

Let's see which bet pays off better in five years' time.
You're misreading the regex. \u200c is a single whitespace character. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200c/index.htm
Humans aren't meant to do anything
There are houses that last for hundreds of years. You can make them last if you're willing to keep repairing things.
> have very toxic-to-mine, manufacture, and dispose-of batteries.

This is absolutely false. Lithium is not toxic to mine at all. It isn't even "mined".

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/12/lithium-mining-vs-oil-sa...

> Electric cars cause pollution

They cause zero pollution when you have solar panels on your roof and the car is properly scrapped after you're done with it.

> The way to "save the planet" is to not drive.

This is silly and impractical.
Do you mean DTC or something else?
Similar questions here. It's unclear to me how I can integrate this into my system and how to go about it. I'd hate to have to blow away my zpool to do this.

My zpool isn't very full. Maybe I can make a new dataset that's encrypted and move everything from the unencrypted dataset to the encrypted dataset. Of course, being able to encrypt in place would be most ideal, but I'll settle for it being a painless operation that doesn't require blowing away a zpool.
"He wasn't voted in; the other party was voted out"

He won the 2013 federal election as the leader of the Liberals, that's fairly conclusive.

"The leadership here isn't dire"

We disagree.

"Besides, if you use 'dire' for something as beige as Turnbull, what have you got left for something like Erdogan's latest activities in Turkey?"

Criminal? The question is whataboutery.
For the specific example, this is how I dealt with a situation in one service I wrote that takes an arbitrary user-controlled regex (for search).

The program was written in python, and as it turns out the GIL prevents a thread from being able to interrupt another thread that's doing a re.match() call - the entire regex engine is in C so the GIL is held for the entire call.

My solution was to use SIGALRM to set a timer before calling, and have the signal handler raise an exception. This causes the regex call to raise that exception, which I then catch and display an appropriate error.
In my experience it's not cheaper.

I remember I got a credit for $30 the last time I used it and spent about $20 to get to downtown Austin from about 3 miles away and had to keep circling around to find a spot to park it in which I was paying for.

I haven't used it since then. It's far easier to just take the bus and walk from the bus station.
At some point, simply keeping track of these things is more overhead than it is worth. I don't work anywhere near the scale of Microsoft, but at some point, you just have to say, alright, we're not fixing this; it works completely different in version N+1 that you should have upgraded to years ago, and btw, we're actually on N+3 now, so we are not going to fix old, janky code that we already fixed.
There is no connection to actual Mormonism here. If there was, Hall would certainly not be encountering serious opposition in Provo, of all places.

Hall's practices are immediately suspect because he's advertising his affiliation with the Mormon Church as a major part of this endeavor. It's extremely common for scammers to try to exploit religious people by falsely claiming some sort of sanction or approval from religious bodies.

I also wish Hall luck in building a sustainable, walkable, high-end development, and in reading other articles about his clashes with neighbors in Provo I was even kind of rooting for him, but I'm really put off by the insinuation that either the Mormon Church or Mormon doctrine has anything to do with it.
The Firekylin Operating System
Oh? Don't you think buyers of premium cars expect more in the way of difficult-to-manufacture details?
Any service taking requests from a client generates a UUID and passes it through to any additional services it calls. Most microservice frameworks have this functionality built in.

You log to a central store such as an ELK stack or any of the great third party offerings. When you need to see the entire stack trace you search by the id.
A voting record is the only way to determine that?
I am curious what goes through the mind of a mod as he wades through these comments. Many unpleasant comments stayed in the positive. Do you see their vote totals?

BTW, I flagged a bunch. Hope that helps.
Honest question: if that's really what you believe (that he's fundamentally unpredictable), why would you vote for him?
The disincentive to start the next pirate website is the fact that the owners/operators of said website are subject to arrest and jail time. If actions like the ones in linked article didn't occur, you would find a large array of piracy websites pop up and operate with impunity. Under such a scenario, each website would individually earn less.

Yes, piracy websites will always exist, but the purpose of these shutdowns is to minimize the net profitability of operating piracy websites and to deter would-be operators. However, the constant shutdowns of piracy websites does create a perverse incentive in which those that succeed do so at a massive scale.
This is pretty stunning and should make a lot of knowledge workers terrified. I'm sure Google has a bunch of really smart guys working on figuring out how to reduce energy costs. To have a computer come in and get those kinds of results on the first attempt is pretty mindblowing.
Even if you don't consider the accidents, autonomous cars would relieve millions of people from the daily frustration of a commute on congested roads.
Software engineering is a relatively high yielding field with regards to work put in and amounts paid out. If I get six figures doing minimal amount of work - lets face it, most dev jobs (including my own) are very easy and involve logic of the snapping-together-lego variety - then I'm able to use that money for good once my basic needs are covered. I run a small press, I buy the art my friends make, I hold performances and book bands. If being able to rent out a diner to host a night of creativity and aesthetic exploration means that I need to sit in front of a monitor for a few hours hungover the next day that's a fair trade-off in my mind.

Generally speaking I wish more software engineers put their money to these sorts of endeavors rather than the expensive luxury hobbies many indulge in. Not to say you can't buy the latest gadget, sail, whatever, but many engineers make so much money and it's amazing how little you need to spend to make the world a better, more interesting place to live in.
>Without need for parking, commercial districts could get denser and denser, and people could have nice large homes far away for cheaper than ever.

If people are living farther away from their jobs, you're likely to get more congestion, not less.
> it works completely different in version N+1 that you should have upgraded to years ago, and btw, we're actually on N+3 now, so we are not going to fix old

That's not the case. The bugreport that they closed is still actual in the latest version.
The grains on the tape ultimately determine how high of a frequency it can record. And how close together the tracks can be.
Reichstag is a good example, by the way: while it was not staged by the Nazis, as has been alleged multiple times (the arsonist was a madman), they were quick to seize the opportunity.

And it is not a unique event, perhaps just the most widely known. To my mind (having grown up in the Soviet Union), immediate historical references are the murder of Kirov, the murder of Uritsky, both followed by powerful persecution of the "unwanted elements" of the society. (I am sure everyone will recall something similar, either from the history of their nation, or from a textbook or a classical reference).
Awesome. Thanks for the response, love your work Nick.
From a sustainable community aspect it is fascinating.

However, look at what he's proposing. Edit: lots of people moving to a state of 600,000 people, with the first locations built up around areas with strong connections to Joseph Smith.

It probably won't work. However, should he get only 60,000 people and the majority of them Mormons, yeah, Vermont changes completely. Mormons tend to vote along church lines, they outbreed everyone else, as you said, they know how to colonize.

I don't want to cast a wet blanket over all Mormons, but you can see why this would make people unhappy. Vermont with its socialist senator could became East Utah in a generation.
I love this ranking because while all rankings have flaws, this at least is very transparent on how it works, it's parsimonious, it is entirely numerical, easily reproducible, and it gives us at least a small amount of cross validation via two (mostly) orthogonal variables. Now all we need to do is to animate the plot over time.....
Maybe he should apply to YC New Cities. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987032
I'm very interested in exactly what actions the machine learning algorithms recommended Google take.
I do. It just doesn't mean it's true or necessarily a requirement. Nor does it mean the car is better.

A better locksmith takes less time to open a door.
Aren't file-hashes derived works?
Your point #3 sounds a like lot homeowners, before AirBnb figured out a way to address most of their concerns.
Sure, Just like "Citizen's arrest" is a thing, I'm positive "Citizen's civil forfeiture" is too.
I'm sure someone said the same thing when AWS was created but it has only always resulted in an explosion of new needed skills.
Although it's stretching far outside this immediate generational discussion, he premise that employers should profit by always paying employees less than the value they generate is itself the very definition of capitalist exploitation. There's absolutely no reason this type of profit-driven employment relationship is the only way to structure a successful economy for a society.

Anyway, to the exact topic at hand: The consolidation of power by corporations and capital basically means a different power structure. We can accept the profit premise and still recognize that the employees' pay goes up and down in relation to their power in the relationship. Before unions, employers were happy to pay poverty wages and profit handsomely. Yes, there's a point where no profit or actual loss means they can't keep the employee, but there's a huge margin between the cheapest dirt pay you can get a desperate immigrant to accept and the pay you can manage to pay an organized, powerful union employee while still profiting. The power balance between employees and employers has changed over the last couple generations with the rise of unions and public works and minimum wage and worker protection laws and then today's conglomerations of oligarchies and the undermining of unions and of laws that protect workers' interests.
One exmaple: implement a text editor like GitHub's gist naively.

You can try to be clever and encode the incoming data to reduce whitespace, but the business requirement is whatever user entered is what user expects to get back. Otherwise, your best bet is save the entire text.
The irony is that Vermont is already basically its own utopian community, where the culture is that development never gets approved unless it's being done by a resident of the state. Oh and you're not considered a resident unless you've been there at least generations. If Hall moves there now, maybe they'll let his great grandkids start building it. (If they can get the ski mountains to sell them any water rights, which isn't likely.)
Musk 'master plan' expands Tesla into trucks, buses and car sharing
Well, that and "Utah-based foundation" and "all of the land was either adjacent or close to the birthplace and memorial of Joseph Smith" and it's based on "Plat of the City of Zion."

Also, if you're a Mormon, you probably see some other very Mormon things come through in the description of Mr. Hall. The endeavor itself seems pretty characteristic not only of Mormonism but a whole variety of faith, social, and industrial experiments from the 19th century. California entrepreneurs aren't the first hackers/disrupters. :)

And I think that's the point of the article, really. This isn't a "those crazy/weird Mormons" thing. This is an "Ambitious Guy is Ambitious" and "Humans Be Utopian-ing" thing.

And also a reminder that San Francisco isn't the only place where people are resistant to having the character of the community they live in changed.
Regex was not the main issue.
The main issues were:

1. Rendering a page fails/does not terminate if some non essential subtask (rendering a single code block) fails/does not terminate.

2. They do not try to detect bad data (the way they certainly try to detect bad code)

3. Load balancing based on the rendering time of a single page

Code bugs triggered by bad data will happen again, with or without regular expressions.
He's a Mormon and the idea is inspired by Smith's writings though.

Seems like a fairly strong case of resurrecting and updating some of old plans just like if someone wanted to build a Greek city based on some old writings.

(Not a Mormon and don't have any horses in this race, just find the push to distance these plans from Mormonism odd.)