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Let's say that's true; the folks at Uber are smart and they'll figure out self driving cars. Why does anyone think Uber will be able to maintain an advantage with that? What's to stop anyone from buying some self driving cars and opening their own service? How does the whole industry not become a race to the bottom? Hell, given the price wars going on now, I'd argue it already has.

Uber is in a low-margin business where the only way to really increase profit is to screw your customers or employees or both. If self driving cars are supposed to be the company's savior, good luck being the only organization on the planet that can use them. Having lived through Webvan, Groupon, Zynga, and countless others, I see disturbingly similar patterns in Uber.
I'd like to see how one of the oldest package managers, Perl's CPAN, stacks up.
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But then the students might as well just read the textbook. I had in high school, physics PhDs for physics and math and it was the best experience of my educational life. The much deeper level of understanding they brought to bear allowed them convey the material more clearly and also draw our attention to deeper connections with more advanced topics.
Didn't John Oliver say the same thing few months ago in his episode on scientific studies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
With Angular you get all you need out of the box. Easy to get going with ng-cli (creating an app, generating components etc.). Typescript is default, so you get type safety if you want it. I like a lot of what I see.

Conceptually, React and Angular are quite close. In both you build an app with components nested in a three structure. Angular let's you do two-way binding if you want — convenient, but makes state changes less explicit.

React is closer to bare bones JS and HTML. Templating in HTML only consists of a simple way to embed JS code and a few reserved keywords. In Angular, templating is much more elaborate, and therefore more complex and takes a longer time to learn.

React — both by design and community — favours FP priciples, while Angular is mor OOP oriented, though neither is strictly one or the other.

Personally I like both. React for its simplicity, Angular for its all-batteries-included approach and support for static typing as default.
I would imagine that Uber would be investing in self driving cars. I don't think there's as much money in taxiing people around as Uber and others initially thought. Even with the taxi market being artificially constrained the number of taxi driver millionaires seems to be a little low.

At least in some countries and cities getting a taxi at the right times have been a hassle, and somewhat expensive. So even if, like Uber, you can expand the marked and steal customer from traditional taxies, how much money is there really to be made? Getting the profit that currently falls to the drivers seems like a logical next step, if they want to increase their own profit.
>As soon as there's strong evidence (from multiple credible sources) that self-driving tech reduces accidents and fatalities, the government conversation will switch from, "How shall we regulate this?" to "Oh! These are like seat belts. How shall we encourage them?"

Only 34 states have a primary seat belt law and that took decades of legislature to push through. Legislation takes time, if you think it would be 10 years before we have enough data on autopilot you are fooling yourself, and going from autopilot to driverless will not happen overnight.
If we take the US then again it's unlikely that the federal government would get involved on any reasonable time table, this means that the driverless car makers would have to lobby each state individually.
Until the big car makers would have a foolproof driverless car Apple and Tesla can do whatever they want they will not match the power of the auto industry lobby just look at how much problems Tesla is having over dealerships.

It doesn't matter who's making the driverless car, Uber has the user base and the platform saying that Tesla is making a driverless car is meaningless unless you would want to make the same argument that Uber should only onboard drivers that drive a Honda or a Ford today because they their cars come in blue.

If Uber survives until driverless cars really pick up (and BTW the 10-20 year window isn't only my opinion, I don't think even Tesla thinks that their car would become driverless road ready or road legal before 2025) and is not torn apart but anti-Uber legislation and sentiment then the driverless car would be the thing to save it not kill it.
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This seems to be built on top of WebRTC, using data channels ? I believe at least Safari doesn't support that, but their github readme does seem to imply support on Safari. Also, since it's based on WebRTC, who's responsible for setting up the STUN/TURN server?
The roman empire Lasted 600+ years so I have trouble using it as a comparison.
Yes.

Mind you, I couldn't care less if she used Outlook over Apple Mail. Doesn't matter.

However, her use of _Pine_ indicates many things:

* Non-negligible tech expertise. She is comfortable with a terminal and confortable with an old (albeit powerful) email client WHICH DOES NOT DO HTML MAIL.

* Background: could be anything, but Pine usage is correlated with engineering and university backgrounds.

I could go on. The point is: she is no normal clueless CEO having secretaries printing out emails. And that's depressingly rare these days, even in SV.
I wonder what the biggest ordinance in the ground is. Armorning some giant bulldozers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_D575A) presumably would not do the trick, or they'd be doing it already.
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There are places in the United States that are no-go areas because of unexploded ordinances from military training.
Most of the landmines in Cambodia were put there by the Khmer Rouge, not the Americans.

When I was in Cambodia, I saw the results of what landmines did, they're fucking horrific. They aren't designed to kill someone, but to only blow their foot off and maim them.

I believe that they're one of the most barbaric weapons of war. It's a damn shame that the USA, China, and Russia won't ratify the Ottawa Convention.
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It's extreme to say Uber is effed, but it would be reasonable to suggest that Uber is not a ~$60 billion business and that most of its long-term value will be as a dispatch service with an established customer base that gets acquired by a GM/Google self-driving fleet operator for less than its current value.
It's fine as a timestamp implementation, and great for many uses. But I think a big problem with the documentation. They start off by saying it's "at nanosecond resolution in UTC Epoch time", and then they go on to explain how it uses a completely different encoding that is neither compatible with UTC nor with TAI (atomic time which ignores leap seconds). And then they jump ahead to sample code which again pretends that the timestamp is UTC.

No matter whether you like "google time" or not, this is horrible documentation. They are glossing over an issue which should be marked with big red letters.
Thank you, I will try Authy, maybe this will make sync problem better (I now have about 10 2FA accounts there and if one of my devices dies and has to be replaced it'd be so annoying).
That doesn't follow at all, and it isn't the consequence of my line of thinking. The arbiter can be time itself. An entity which makes a bad decision can see its bad decision played out over time by various measures. A failing economy, an increase in crime rates, an increase in poverty rates, an increase in some categories of diseases or diseases becoming pandemic or endemic that should be containable and treatable. A good decision, with measurably positive indicators, can similarly be discerned.

Of course, the vast majority of nation-level decisions will result in more of a mixed bag of positive and negative indicators. Take, for instance, tax cuts. They aren't uniformly good or bad. To a certain level, they free up capital for people to spend (a form of democratic decision making, I don't believe markets are magical like some, but they are generally efficient and effective). Beyond that level, though, they remove capital for the government to spend on things the people (or someone depending on the type of government) has decided it needs to be spent on and drives up national debt, or curtails national spending which may have other negative consequences (reduced average level of education of the populace, reduced access to essentials like medical care, poor preparation for emergencies, etc.).

What I actually want is what we (in the US) ostensibly have. A democratic (the -ic is important) republic with a form of representative democracy. Our votes determine who represents us. Those individuals are tasked with making decisions based on various calculi (risk analysis, economic models, legal constraints and obligations, etc.). I do not want anyone to lose their vote, nor does my comment imply that. Universal suffrage is a good thing, giving everyone an opportunity, ignorant or informed, to have a voice. [EDIT: What I do not want is mob rule. There's a reason the legislature in the US was divided into the Senate and the House. The House offered a risk of mob rule, but the great opportunity for the people's voices to be heard. The Senate balanced this by giving unbalanced-by-population representation to each state. This acts as a measure of restraint against mob rule.]

[Sidenote: Can we abandon "s/he" and similar constructs? If the intention is to be more gender-equitable, switch to truly gender neutral terms like the singular-they, or one. S/he remains constrained to the binary system that, presently, is becoming outmoded. Not only that, but it's an awkward construct that is not easily voiced. An article posted here, I think, earlier in the week had attempted another sort of gender-balanced approach by alternating he and she in each paragraph while speaking about theoretical persons. The problem was this: the post was about a singular, theoretical person and it appeared as if the person was swapping genders each paragraph. What's more, the story didn't make sense because it was technically about two different people when it was intended to be about one.]
I read it. My point is you can make the same class of argument - pick one or two trivial achievements and a fuckup for almost any CEO or indeed professional and make it sound like their job is easy.
> money launder your bias

I like this phrase. I'm stealing it :-)
So if I understand correctly, most the people arrested (teachers, journalists, police, etc) were Gulen activists or supporters ? Not just neutral or opposing the current governement ?

> allow it to happen

Yeah passively playing the victim seems to be more efficient.
I have only one question - when NG2 will be released? Because now it is not possible build real applications, many libraries are not stable, and still in beta or rc... Four month I'm trying to do real application and I must say that it was my big mistake when I decided use Ng2., with every new release I always have troubles with some dependencies or with new API, and there are no many stable components which I can use without pain. Ng2 has good promotion however we need wait official release., and then make some conclusions about it.
We can never reach absolute certainty. Improving existing approximations of the truth is the best we can hope to achieve. If you only accept absolute unquestionable truth then I recommend you have a look at the history of science. Lots of what was the state of research in the past is now known not to have been entirely correct, sometimes even outright false. But we need to make incremental progress towards the goal of understanding the world, even if we sometimes get it wrong. That is the moly thing that opens the path for new discoveries. Following your reasoning, these surpassed results are worthless and were no good even when they were found. But in the grand scheme of things they are what enabled later researchers to uncover better and more accurate results.

Oh and if you weren't so focused on absolute truth, you might have noticed that natural sciences concern themselves with models of reality, because nature is freakishly complex and if one doesn't settle for some approximation of reality. Otherwise one wouldn't get anywhere trying to solve the simplest problem.
What whistleblows were there really? My problem with Chelsea was leaking a bunch of operational details which is not beneficial to most of us. The reasoning for leaking was being mad and fussy. Assange is also more of a show pony trying to be relevant. Yeah, Wikileaks does some amazing work, but I really don't think its about him as much as he acts.

Snowden on the other hand, did the right thing. I disagree with him fleeing to China/Russia, but finding a friendly country that wont extradite you is hard.
The main concern that the deterministic serialization isn't canonical is due to the unknown fields. As string and message type share the same wire type, when parsing an unknown string/message type, the parser has no idea whether to recursively canonicalize the unknown field.

The cross-language inconsistency is mainly due to the string fields comparison performance, i.e. java/objc uses utf16 encodings which has different orderings than utf8 strings due to surrogate pairs.

Feel free to start an issue on the github site asking for canonical serialization with your use case. We may change the deterministic serialization with stronger guarantee (e.g. cross language consistency) or add another API for canonical serialization.
Honestly, at this point I assume my email and phone number have been exposed to so many people's insecure methods of storing them (recruiters, friends, family, coworkers) that they are essentially public domain.

Not that I want them to be, but such is life. I don't answer unrecognized phone calls, and my spam filter does a decent job. And where these could be used as login I try to use random passwords.
Yes, interestingly Tk is the perfect Trojan horse. It is the simplest, most useful platform-independent toolkit ever written. But that simplicity is derived from its integration with Tcl, so Tcl needs to be installed everywhere Tk runs.
The LHC is somewhat of a special case, because repetition is extremely difficult for obvious reasons. That doesn't preclude making repetition an appropriate requirement in 99.9% of other scientific findings. In this particular case, we just have to make sure that the LHC guys conform to extremely stringent burdens of proof and high scientific accountability, which they already impose on themselves but which the 99.9% do not impose on themselves for a variety of reasons (an uncomfortable truth, but due to many things like pressure to publish and generally being less good, a truth nonetheless).
>> Besides, life in prison is a harsher punishment than death.

I'm sorry, WHAT?! You seem to have a gross misunderstanding about the permanency of death.
Death penalty would make it impossible to send illegal immigrants back to Turkey. Right now there is a deal with EU and Turkey has to accept them.
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Let me guess -- You support Drumpf and you call yourself a "race realist". Heh.
These international institutions are not visibly working for the vast majority of the electorate though. The British working class finally voted for their interests and of course they've been vilified from the top for it. All these institutions have allowed for is centralization of power under one ruler/representative instead of dozen smaller ones.
Sometimes they are flawed even beforehand. Notice how fast US manufacturing declined after Japan beat them. I think part of the problem in this case is arrogance.
There are machines designed to clear minefields. Maybe build something like that but a bit bigger to do the digging, and operate it from a distance?
I hope they stay open a few more years. Its my favorite stores. This company's eventual demise is one of the many things I hate about "living in the future".

We are going to run out of stores we can browse, see people, use their bathroom without dirty looks, and a friendly staff.

When I go in there, I think about how they could compete, and can't think of much. I like the stores so much I would consider spending my money on a monthly membership. Yes, like a gym membership. It would have to be reasonable, like $10/month, but I would gladly pay it for the honor of sitting at their tables.

I know I need to buy more books there. I don't understand the individuals who pull 15 books off the shelf, leaves them on the floor, and buys the one book they want on Amazon.(I understand the low income buyer, but not being disrespectful by not putting books back.)

They are putting a lot of toys in the stores. I guess that's a good idea. They have so much potential shelf space, I would like to see used books in their stores. Used technical books would be nice. So many customers would give them their old books.

I feel like I'm writing their obituary.
If you can invent a new programming language...

Perl's father Larry Wall do not have a degree in CS.

If you like research, do not have to go to university. you can publish in your blog. compiler research do not cost that much as biological science.
Thanks for the information; I was unaware that Turkey has compulsory voting.

Is there a credible opposition party to AKP, or a smattering of smaller parties?
Thanks for the info, learnt something. What kind of project did you do for skin segmentation ?
I tend to agree, actually. In some sense the real solution is take science off its pedestal, as it does not generally deserve to be up there. The 17th-19th centuries were in some sense a fluke of low-hanging fruit, and the science of most of the 20th and the 21st centuries do not deserve to be regarded with the same worshipful gaze, a word I choose carefully. By taking it off its pedestal and subjecting it to a lot more scrutiny, we'd all win, including science in general.

This is not necessarily because we're worse people than them, but because the problem is now much much harder. It's always better to acknowledge that hard problems are hard, rather than trying to solve them by pretending they're easy.

As for the model I would propose, I believe all funding models are fundamentally flawed, and the best model is all of them at once, so hopefully the flaws at least sort of cancel out. At the moment, that generally means seeking a decrease of the current government funding strategy and breaking the peer review monopolies, not because either of them are necessarily especially bad, but because they are too powerful and their flaws are coming to define the flaws of science in general.

Some of this would just be a mindset change, to recognize that "research" isn't isomorphic to "producing peer-reviewed papers" and that there's nothing wrong with setting up some equivalents of Xerox Park in other disciplines. Potentially with government money, since my point is more about multiple models than the literal funding sources. If "science" as it is practiced today was less pedestalized, this would be a much less horrifying suggestion.
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After supporting a side project that had hundreds of users, I was actually relieved to go back to projects that had at most only a handful of users. Support requests and demands for bug fixes can get tiring if you don't have an apparatus to help control and triage them.
> Because, BTW, that's exactly what Big Pharma does

That's exactly what almost everyone in academia does. Money is not the only corrupting factor.
> And the "just vendor" stuff pushed by some Go pundits is stupid.

I see it as an excellent way to allow me to ensure that no matter what my project continues to build and work. And dont say "just pin a version" because there have been packages that lose or update their tags and break things, or the distribution channel (npmjs, github, w/e) go down and suddenly I am up a creek for a deploy/build.

When I vendor, I have what I need to build and deploy my code with a lot fewer points of failure.
There is no science without repetition.
Indeed. Obsolescence does occur with cars -- just like most consumer items -- but it's either:

- technical or functional obsolescence (eg. no rearview backup camera, carburetors replaced with fuel injection), or

- style obsolescence (eg. station wagons, quirky headlamps) because styling is a subjective fashion statement. While this is arguably a sub-type of planned obsolescence, it affects every single object that has visual presence, from clothes to smartphones to household appliances.

The kind of 'intentionally crippled engineering designed to fail after the warranty period' the author proposes does not exist, because new cars are perfectly capable of getting themselves sold on their merits, and not because all old cars have been intentionally crippled. In fact, selling secondhand cars is quite often profitable, while selling new cars, outside of the luxury/SUV segment, has notoriously low margins.
Crazy that, though this is so widely known, nothing has really changed in the last 100 years. Instead, wages stay stagnant, and cost of living rises. Hours needed to survive increase. It's all so illogical, it's crazy.
they just don't make these things like they used to, do they?
Firstly I do not think this is about secularism. Turkey is still a more or less a secular country happen to be ruled by a central right - somewhat religious party.

My personal view is that Gulen was involved with the coup, but possibly jocobin nationalist/kemalist fractions in the army was also in the mix.
Yep exactly ! Erdogan and Gulen were close allies until 3 years ago.

A stadium full of Gulen supporters cheering for Erdogan, just 4 years ago.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP7r0U8mfg

Erdogan's speech; "I wish Gulen was here with us today"
Disaster is a bit strong, but it has been mismanaged. This is an area where government oversight could have gone a long way to improving the customer experience, although I doubt it would have helped with the lengthy merchant approval process.

In effect nobody had the customer's interests in mind when developing the system so in the end the customer experience leaves a lot to be desired.

That said, complaints about not requiring a PIN don't seem all that strong. The amount of fraud from people literally stealing credit cards and then buying stuff with them is very small. The real security failure is that the cards still have numbers on them and nobody is even talking about transitioning online purchases over to the chip.
What we need is accountable statistics - something that cannot be manipulated.

One idea is to enforce storing or indemnifying a time-stamped data base of the raw data on the block chain
Isn't that just eugenics?
"Few applications require performance so little that they will tolerate a 50-100 times slowdown."

Applications and users had or still have to wait a lot more than 100 times access slowdown when it gets to trashing (excessive number of page faults), memory swapping, or simply normal waits for some slow actions.

"Even if they could, who's to say the right 0.1% ends up optimized?"

I haven't said it's about only 0.1%, and that it has to be dictated by some policy. For all I care, even if they all would be manually cache managed, I don't expect the result to be worse than the caching mechanism currently employed, which works without really knowing what's going on.

"This was all decided a long time ago, general purpose caches won and scratch memory lost."

A long time ago they had a different world. Their reasoning might have been true back then. We are creatures of reason, however, aren't we?

"Yes, that sounds like a [sell] idea. What is wrong with that?"

Salesmanship and the engineering of future tech have at their cores different objectives. At least in my book.