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> It's good in your head, socially awkward in practice.

I find it interesting (honest) that children can just hang out, initially as strangers, without it being awkward. As adults, this is much harder. Why? Do we think too much as adults, such that it causes these situations to become awkward?
I'm moving to the bay area to take a job at Facebook in 2 weeks. When comparing all my offers, my wife and I made a budget for each offer to understand the salary differences and their cost of living. We know exactly what we can afford. I don't understand why everyone doesn't do this before taking a job somewhere.
This doesn't sound like the full explanation about the security problems of Java applets. It sounds more like a JIT bug. One can fix the JIT to check for out of bounds errors.

What's the real reason Java applets were insecure?
This being the top post is bad news at many levels. As a Volt owner, I am more than satisfied by that car, and passionately recommend it to people. The BoltEV is perhaps unsexy, but its dimensions are practical and the reviews are overall good.

Its the only long distance practical EV for at least couple of years for all markets in US, until Model 3 and Leaf Gen 2 come out.

edit: here is the review of the car, http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2017-chevrolet-bolt-ev-f...
> He doesn't try to protest his innocence.

No, but neither does he seem to have any real recognition that he did wrong.

Indeed, reading his article I get the sense that he's a narcissist.
The problem with an A380/jumbojet is that it's hard to fill up with passengers. Any jumbo flight has to be between two major end destinations or between two transit points. Since direct flights are replacing flights via transit points the market for A380s is shrinking.
People got social by agreeing on a common enemy. To declare social biotope where social skills such as ally building, intrigues and "friendships" exist, the threat of such a common alienation must exist. The hatred and fear where there first.
If socialism isn't authoritarian, that means that people can opt out of social benefits, own their own property and things, and not have to pay taxes to cover others' social benefits, right? Without going to jail, right?

If not, then I guess we're talking about some form of authoritarianism.

To talk about "socialism" in a sense that doesn't break the non-aggression principle (necessary for non-authoritarianism), you need to think of volunteer communes. IOW, use pooled money (just think of it as a necessary evil) to buy 1,000 acres, build a master-planned community, and offer residency to people who pitched in to buy it, and then use socialism as the guiding ideology within that commune. If it doesn't work and people want to leave, they can leave.

That's a non-authoritarianism version of socialism. If you think there are others that exist in practice, I implore you to look into every true socialist country in history, including the currently failing state of Venezuela, wherefrom there is a mass exodus underway.
Well, without promotion and advertising, they arguably would not have very much profit. But "take the biggest chunk from profits" wasn't clear. What I meant is that promotion and advertising comprise a substantially larger share of revenue than research and development do.
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Perhaps. However, I'm in AZ, and the 'tailored search results' are usually the midwest or silicon valley.

I think it depends entirely on what your ISP is handing over for location data. Mine clearly doesn't hand over anything useful.
Spending 40% of your annual income on a car while supporting an entire family on that income is grossly irresponsible, regardless of the geography.
This is the only way i can see Uber can survive in the future.

Its business model was sacrificing someone's income in the middle to be cheaper than ordinary taxis. But with self driving cars, they can minimize the costs without hurting anyone.

Really really smart and huge move at the same time. Whoever pushed this idea in the company deserves a huge credit.
Smoother/quieter than the 787? I haven't been on either but thought that the bleedless engines and everything-electrical would make for a quieter ride.
$ dig +short www.dropbox.com @8.8.8.8

www.g1.dropbox.com.

162.125.64.1
Exactly. What this article misses is that part of Tesla's stated goal is to force the hands of established manufacturers into doing precisely this. As much as the author wants to paint this as a win for GM and an upset for Tesla, the Bolt is a win for both.
Bob Lutz (GM Vice Chairman Global Product Development - Retired) credits Tesla with the existence of the Volt Plugin Hybrid. I don't know if he's made the same comments about the Bolt EV, but I think he would if asked.

Personally, I think competition is great. Now that the Bolt EV is entering the market and the EPA range has been announced, you can be dang sure the Tesla Model 3 will beat it.

Disclaimer, I work for GM, but not on this program. Any opinions are solely my own.
The level of bias in this article makes the "journalist" look like a complete idiot. Yes, Tesla is building the largest battery factory in the world, alongside the largest battery manufacturers in the world for uses far beyond it's electric cars. I'm also a bit curious if this guy is an idiot or just misinformed, because those "scrappy startups" he touts GM as just crushing are actually the reason GM is still competing. Maybe it's not well known but everything from Electric car technology to self driving car technology inside GM are often being developed by multiple scrappy startups that are getting funding from GM. The author might as well have made a full disclosure statement of "GM paid me to write an amazing review of its new car as well as to bash Tesla, so I figured I'd do it all in one piece."
Too bad. Being in Columbus, 3 hours from Pittsburgh, I'd love to road trip there just to try a self-driving Uber. But not sure I would if you have no way of dependably hailing one.
Definitely not with their current sensor suite, but I don't see how anyone is gonna get there any sooner than Tesla.
Not the OP, but the central idea is 'Information is Power'. It has existed for a long time in the books of all the powerful people and is essential to the very fabric of our universe (not hyperbole; information, entropy, debates about conservation/loss of information instead of mass inside blackholes [0] and such).

Once you have all the relevant information about someone or some system, then you essentially control them. If I know everything about you, how can you ever hope to have an even footing with me?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
That's exactly why I chose not to work in the Bay Area. Perhaps I have chosen the less challenginger or rewarding path (I don't know), but my first job as a programmer paid me peanuts(40k) and I lived in a pretty nice place with a roommate; a year later I got another job that paid 84k and got to rent a small house, live on my own, and not have to worry about how much I spend. Entry level pay, even in SoCal, can mean decent living. Entry level in the Bay seems to mean constantly struggling to make ends meet while living with several people. Granted, I know people who get a thrill out of that, and that's perfectly fine, but that's just not for me. Living both in San Francisco and the East Bay taught me that. Was fun, but I like not being a workhorse and having excess cash to spend on my various projects.

Then again, it sounds like tat guy's spending was way out of line. Like many people, he probably blew his money on expensive toys(and a penis car) to gain a feeling of status.
Same here. I was pleasantly surprised how comfortable that A380 was, both in economy and business. I was a big fan of Boeing 777s before. I hope Emirates continues to fly it. I highly recommend the business class experience on A380s, it is amazing when you are on a long haul flight.
That's false. Module loading and execution are separate stages. The dependent modules would load before this await is ever reached.
If I get what you're saying...

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On 4chan, starting a line with ">" makes the text green, hence the name. It is often used to write stories in the present tense, as in:

>be me

>be bored at work

>go on HN

>lol new* can't even greentext.

>told him to delete system32
Fishing for Hackers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7705443
Bank of America analysts think there's 50 per cent chance we live in the Matrix
I've got a list of some interesting apps built with React+Redux at https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma... .
The pressure has been reduced somewhat since the bailouts, but the car industry does enforce a perceptible hierarchy to keep lower-end models from poaching sales from high-margin vehicles/brands. It's frustrating to see the practice extended to EV vs. combustion though.
I don't think self driving cars will solve congestion. If anything, they will increase congestion by making driving less inconvenient.
Tesla have stated that they are open to other manufacturers using the Superchargers, so I think they'd at least entertain it. Who knows what the price negotiations would be like, though.
That's false. It wraps each individual module within an async function. They can each proceed concurrently. (And all of them proceed after any `import`ed modules load.)
Yeah, the land is not free, but, outside of metro areas, the land can be dirt cheap. You certainly don't have to toil for years to buy a piece of it. Plus, in places like Siberia or Northern Canada perhaps, you can live for decades in a public forest without anyone noticing.
Killing millions of people is horrible, but taking away the privacy of billions is terrifying as well.

And while obviously murder is worse than stalking, we don't really know where things will end up. We are in uncharted territory with the new information collection society we live in.
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When you support an entire family on a single income, spending 30% or 40% of your annual pay on a car is irresponsible.

No "ifs," "ands," or "buts." That's just bad financial planning. It's a totally unnecessary luxury that holds the potential to burden the entire family.

Additionally, your definition of "middle class" is quite peculiar. The median wage in the United States is less than $30k. The median household income is less than $60k. Do you really think "middle class" families are buying cars that cost as much as one of their salaries?
Which country would you suggest is the most free today? Not trolling, just wondering if I was going to move somewhere else, where would I go?
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One concern is that it is a cleave plane between the haves and the have-nots---in this case, the haves are "Those with nothing to hide."

In a future where these technologies are ubiquitous, the person who has to go off the grid for perfectly sane reasons---domestic abuse, witness protection, leaving behind a past that makes one a pariah---will find it that much more difficult. Not only will they no longer have access to the convenience of services that have tuned around their interests and desires---address books that know their work and home, voice recognition that knows what they sound like, personal assistants that can pull useful / valuable information out of the soup of the Internet and surface it to their benefit, etc.---the lack of these technologies in someone's presence will mark them as someone "with a past."

There's the potential that people will look at you a little funny in the future if you have a smartphone with voice recognition disabled, or you're always typing in addresses by hand to a self-driving car because it doesn't just know where you want to go today based on past habits.
One of the problems I see with this is that Snowden probably is an asset/agent of the Russian FSB at the moment. Quite possibly he already was one at the time of his defection.
It's hard to come up with examples without choosing people with wealth, since people who excel at time management become wealthy. It starts with good time management techniques, which leads to wealth, which leads to the ability to delegate the low and no-value parts of your life.

Let's say someone with bad time management goes to the grocery store every day, and the nearest one is a 10 minute drive away. They spend at minimum 45 minutes going to and from the grocery store, choosing food, waiting in checkout lines etc every day. That's over 5 hours per week! Musk spends 0 hours. But it's not all or nothing. Instead, a 30 minute investment of planning out a general meal schedule and grocery list for it on Sunday, and one trip to the grocery store might take an hour and a half. That's 3.5 hours of savings per week!

Repeat this for cooking, cleaning around the house, etc, and I guarantee you can find significant time savings in systemizing routines. If you save even 2 hours every week, that's an entire 8 hour work day per month. If you make, let's say, $300 daily as a software engineer that's quite a bit of savings! Even... maybe enough to hire a house cleaner and someone to do grocery shopping for you.
Yes, I flew 787 on BA, the experience was similar to 777. But A380 because of its sheer size the take off and landing is very comfortable, sometimes you don't feel a thing.
This is great. So Point can identify up and coming areas of the country, make a few investments and then have a lobbying arm to do everything they can to ensure the property values increase. So instead of NIMBY we'll also have NIMIBY, Not In My Investments Back Yard.
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I have 25+ keybase invites to give away. Leave me a link on this thread to the best tech article or open source repo you like, will invite you if I like it too (preferably security related).

Will follow up!

Cheers,
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Can't you just increase the required passenger-mile per gram of CO2 to fix the pollution?
Yes, but that is not what is meant by "state aid".
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The fact that your opinion differs from his doesn't give you the moral high ground to smugly down vote him.
Easy. With adults come the questions, is this platonic, is it sexual, is there an angle, what do they want from me, when is the ask coming, what are you selling, is that spinach between their teeth?

In essence, innocence does not exist for adults, there have been too many formative experiences so that they are no longer a blankish slate.
Part of the discussion for the downside of centralization on GitHub is that it is also the issue tracker and wiki. Does GitLab offer mirroring for these services too?

If I understand OP's question, it seems syncing would involve more than just `git push` from the local gitlab server to remote.
The number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy is about as the same as the number of galaxies - 1e11 to 1e12: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/How... .

Double-checking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way says 2.5e11 ±1.5e11 stars in the Milky Way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy says about 1.25e11 galaxies in the observable universe.

That's nearly a mole of stars in total.
> Top-level async would make asynchronous IO no different from synchronous IO! It's the worst of both worlds.

That's false. You could still do plenty of things while this asynchronous I/O is happening (including allowing the user to interact with the page, or load other modules in the background).

> By contrast, imperative loading has to happen sequentially.

Yes, but notably, declarative loads are not blocked on imperative loads.
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On craigslist, I find 2-bedroom houses in Santa Clara for $2300 [1]. That would give you a very decent commute to Facebook (much better than living in the East Bay). That's $28K/year. His net salary should be around $65K. You should be able to go out more than once a month with the money.

[1] http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/apa/5780924443.html
Its simply too expensive compared to the latest gen aircraft (A350/787) because of their lower fuel burn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
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> We need to start holding the overweight and the fat accountable for their expensive lifestyle choices.

Accountable to whom?

Here's a suggestion: Mind your own business. Don't concern yourself with things that don't concern you.
Oh, I see, I didn't realize that the page continues below "read more" on to another story. I suppose that makes sense, though it would be nice if a link to the story was enough to signal that you actually want to go to the story.
Well, I guess one of the most interesting things hidden in then Q&A section:

> Comes with 90 day warranty vs first gen had 1 year

> Optional 1-year, 2-year, and 3-year extended warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately.
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Do you have any favorite sayings or quotes that you live by?

My father use to say "You do not always have to know the answer, just understand the question"

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - Blade Runner
Oh yeah. I interpreted commenting as complaining or defending oneself.
I have seen many people ask why they got down-voted and, invariably, I see at least one polite explanation. (I've been paying attention because about a third of the time, I wonder myself why someone else got down-voted).
I can't understand why this is downvoted. A product that can only be manufactured by one company due to patents does not have a free market.

That's not a value judgement of the patent system, it's just stating the obvious. A patent is a legally enforced monopoly, so of course there will be no competition while the patent is in force.
I can't compare to the 787 (haven't flied it yet), but I second GP opinion and I think it's mostly due to the 380 size. In turbulence size matters and the 380 is noticeably smoother than other planes like 330/777 from my limited experience. It's also a bit quieter IMHO.
People skipping vaccines does affect you. http://www.vaccines.gov/basics/protection/
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This is basically the same old argument against `await` itself: that it allows developers to write bad code that should be parallelized more (by using Promise.all etc.).

It didn't stop await inside async functions, and it's not going to stop top-level await.

(The argument also seems to be predicated on some fundamental misunderstandings, in that it thinks everything would have to be sequentialized. See my other replies throughout this thread.)
No you're not. I'm fine with w/ever abstraction, but prefer callbacks and their composition (`async`, events, streams…) over others for simplicity and their behavior matching expectations.
I was expecting Big-Oh notation.
It's not so much about mass surveillance but rather things like the TSA and stupid immigration policies which are at play here.

Really, spotting your name on a petition isn't mass surveillance. It's not even a breach of privacy in any sense, because that's exactly what petitions are for.
Again, missing the point.

The narrative is that we are so well paid that we should be able to do that. But we obviously can't.

I'll concede that software engineers are overpaid and in such high demand when that is the case for the median case.

Just caught your edit. Middle class is relative to cost of living. Most of us work in cities where the CoL is much higher and so is the middle class income. It'd be better if we can both stick to comparing apples to apples and I think in this case sticking to cities is our best bet. SF median income is 100k [0]

[0] http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/california/san-francisco...
if thats the price for all of googles services, I'm down with it! the data collection, or rather the advertisment it enables, is what is paying for all that android development and searchengine servers etc.

That said it would be a cool idea to have a "google premium" where you pay a fee every month to keep all your data to yourself and don't recieve any ads
Python 3 did implement pretty significant library changes, though mostly organisational (namespace restructuring, merging of C accelerator modules, renamings, removal of deprecated modules, …): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/
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That's a choice for the individual to make but lets stop pretending that Ad Blocking is ethical. It's about as ethical as Napster was, but given the alternatives it's the obvious choice.

Additionally you can use things like Patreon or Google Contributor.
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sheeeeeeeeeeeit, i wouldn't be surprised if the price was less than the $100 copay, and the insurer pockets the difference on top of your premiums.

you're all idiots.
I think it's because children don't really have anything that they need to do, but there are often places they have to just be. So what else is there to do but socialize?

As an adult, there are many things I have to do. I need to go to work, I need to do laundry, dishes, child-care. But I am free to mostly do the things I want to do wherever I want to - I'm not trapped in school or camp or whatnot.

And when you, as an adult, do have free time, there aren't too many places an adult can go and just hang out, socially. The neighborhood bar is the only place I can think of where it's acceptable to just sit, do nothing, and socialize with whoever might be nearby.
Hmmm... sorta like Petraeus, then?
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It's amazing how many people speak about AGI as if it's even a theoretically plausible thing.

It's about as plausible and well substantiated as the Christian God. Which isn't to say it's impossible, but just that it's almost entirely an article of faith. There are a few anecdotes which maybe hint at its possibility. But nothing even approaching a rational explanation of how it might be built.

Also, the model of cognition you are describing (information processing or I/O) is very old, from the 1960s. It was inspired by the discovery of the computer. There are other models, like Ecological Psychology, Embodied Cognition, Distributed Cognition.

It is tempting to draw a box around the brain and posit that it's the most important interface and that all of the important information passes through it. But whenever you break down so-called "cognitive" phenomena, you find that often very little information passes through that barrier. The lions share of encodings remain outside the brain, and for any given animal task, quite a lot of information processing happens outside the brain.

In a weird way, the information processing model is a vestige of the notion of a soul. If you really accept "physical fundamentalism" as OP describes it, then the interface between the brain and the rest of the world is nothing at all. Just a ribbon of atoms with a name. No more interesting than the interface between your stomach lining and the bacteria inside, or between the vibrations in front of your mouth and all nearby ears.

The only reason to center the brain/environment interface is to try to separate what you consider to be the essential identity of a person from their physical grounding. I.e. to maintain a model which includes a soul.
One of us has a major misunderstanding of how this app works.
Yes. To note also, ETOPS is specific to airplanes with more powerful APU that somehow can help in the case of an engine loss, so they are more like 2.5 engines.