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> And that solution is buses.

At once the singularly most politically and practically incorrect assessment of LA traffic issues. How did this get top comment?

I'll agree with you in one key way: it's less ridiculous than Elon Musk's obsession with tunnels. It's a lot less ridiculous than Nolan Bushnell's obsession with self driving cars. Both fundamentally don't get how far away those solutions are from meaningful implementation. More busses, critically, could be added tomorrow, if we wanted to.

Yet others have already pointed out that buses have a bad reputation. It's only partly because of poor performance like you say. I'll put it more plainly: Los Angeles is a deeply racially segregated city, in ways that the bourgeois in California rarely admit. It's a travesty but it's also reality.

And some people characterize bus reputation as a chicken and egg problem: good riders improve the reputation, but they won't get on board when the reputation is bad. Those commenters don't understand how deeply entrenched racial segregation is in Los Angeles and how naive they sound. They're comparing Los Angeles to cities like London and New York, with huge metro systems, repeating popular whataboutist memes. They don't realize that London and New York have merely had more time to develop segregation underground.

Busses have fundamental inefficiencies, like slow patrons, that are basically uncorrelated with the number of busses on the road. And like any transport, capacity tends to get filled. And then we've all seen simulations of how bus transport falls apart due to one vehicle on a line getting behind—called bunching up[1].

I wrote to LA Dept. of Transportation years ago[2], and they characterized the problem then (and now) as fundamentally political: "Such issues require legislation." California and Los Angeles have voting systems that are good for solving many kinds of issues, but transportation is not one of them.

In my opinion, increasing licensing requirements, like disqualifying many current drivers from using freeways or vehicles entirely, would at least reduce deaths on the road. [3, 4, 5] Fewer accidents, as a side effect, could reduce congestion.

[1] E.g. http://setosa.io/bus/
[2] https://gist.github.com/doctorpangloss/a71db50d371e914a5d4f5...
[3] http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/1/56.short
[4] http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/198945
[5] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022437502...
Before we ask about methods...has any American city ever fixed a traffic problem?

No, I'm serious: has any city in the US ever had traffic at some (bad) level, implemented some set of new policies, then had traffic drop substantially while maintaining the same population density (i.e. I won't count the abandonment of Detroit.) I certainly don't know of any, which makes me doubtful about anyone's proposals to fix traffic.
Here's hoping that NY, LA, and other major US cities adopt "Old Parisian" urban planning methods. Wishful thinking.
Wrt. noise: decibels (dB, "perceived loudness") are logarithmic in sound energy, so going from e.g. a single GTX 1080 at 47 dB to 8x GTX 1080 only increases the noise to 56 dB, which is noticeable but not really annoying, and very far from requiring ear protection. Recommendations for office spaces is that noise be kept < 60 dB IIRC.

Wrt. cases: I think a regular E-ATX compatible case should be enough, but it all depends on the motherboard, and those don't exist yet. Existing 8x GPU servers have been 4U rack mount dual socket affairs; you can also already get 7x GPU dual socket "EEB" motherboards and workstation style cases, but none that will do full 16x for all the GPUs.
When the "majority of revenue" comes from Google or Yahoo, what purpose does this serve?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Mozilla_Cor...

I don't see how going from Google to Google-by-proxy is going to "take back the web."
> So far there's zero evidence these things being used illegally domestically.

There is evidence that NSA employees or contractors have used domestic surveillance to spy on exes. There is evidence that Marines have shared clandestinely obtained nudie pics of female Marines. Why would the people working at the CIA be any different?

If you take a large human organization, and give them the tools to spy on their fellow citizens, it is likely that those tools will be misused by some people in that organization.
It starts with picking the right language. Some languages help you to clarify your thoughts and some seem to do their best to obscure whatever meaning there was.

Then, after you've picked your language it's up to you, the programmer. And 'good code' to me translates into 'whatever is on the screen is enough to understand the code'.

If you have to page back-and-forth all the time between different parts of a function or between different functions or even different files then your code will be hard to maintain, hard to read and probably buggy.

So work hard on reducing scope as much as you can.
I feel the 'parent context' too. I have kids old enough to be thinking more seriously about what they want to do when they group up (i.e. early teens) and it's difficult to know what to tell them. I suspect that many of the hopefully lucrative paths you mentioned will be things that gets more and more 'sealed' and routinized (i.e. robot repair == "remove broken assembly, put in new assembly, send broken assembly to factory in low-cost geo for salvage/repair").

It's not all doom and gloom, of course, and I think it's important to maintain a positive outlook esp. in front of one's kids when talking about this stuff. And of course, the growing helplessness and screen addiction of many of their peers suggests that in competitive terms, finding and holding a good job might be easier and easier (which isn't very encouraging overall, but appeals to the "amoral familism" streak I occasionally get).
So "it's happening regardless of any evidence it's happening." No one believes that.
Nice, Can your service be used to test Chrome extensions (like extension Popup)?
> There is clear motive right now for undermining the CIA.

I think this is irrelevant and distracts from the issue. You are trying to change the narrative.

If this is true, this is incredibly bad, and the CIA should be discredited.
Is there sound accompanying the video? I watched several but didn't hear anything.
I think you might have me backwards. I'm arguing that there is no inherent immorality to breaking the law, and that deliberately breaking a law and paying the resulting fines is a reasonable thing to do.
Facts, stats and even graphs can all be used to push a narrative. Context is pretty key.

To my eyes, Wikileaks seems to be cherrypicking and giving passes to others. The timing of the leaks has been nothing short of convenient, which makes me suspicious. That's my opinion, though. I have nothing to back it up and I wouldn't even try to prove it.

But, hey, we're speculating here.
I too was rather appalled at what passed for 'history' in the US school system about Africa. The continent is huge and arguably the birthplace of humans.

And yet before my wife and I started homeschooling the children, their understanding of Africa was basically a ginormous jungle with some backwards cities along the coasts that existed by hunting animals to extinction and selling their body parts to foreigners.

It is really depressing. I'd love to see at least a semester of 'history' for each of the 7 continents.
Nothing will stop them from using their tools anywhere, which is my point. When the agencies themselves are fundamentally untrustworthy, as they have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be, the distinction between surveillance domestically and abroad isn't meaningful. Especially with the data sharing rules Obama pushed through at the end of his presidency.

I don't think it's possible to value open and free societies while spying on the entire world for the purposes of asserting your geopolitical dominance. Freedom for me but not for thee.
They set a max price on those lanes because otherwise poor people would get stuck in even worse traffic while rich people would be able to move quickly. That's already true but they are trying to minimize the disparity between rich and poor.
It is very well known that the actually speech processing happens on the cloud. To deploy a whole cloud voice recognition system if you have distributed network with TTS capability on the device would be quite a lot of redundant work to go through.

However, with that said, unless they do certificate pinning on their device the answer to that is to MITM the device and snoop on the traffic.

If they do certificate pinning the answer is:

1. Pre-record an Alexa commend

2. Play back the recording

3. Wait a minute

4. Replay the command

5. Measure the size of the packets going across the network

6. Wait a week while playing something that sounds like natural conversation - say an audio book

7. Replay the command audio file

8. Measure the amount size of data sent between the end of the second command and the end of the last

It should be slightly more than the second command was to account for things like checking for updates. But if it includes the TTS (which is essentially an audio book transcribed at this point) than it would be quite a bit larger even with text compression.
Can someone comment on how well buses work in Seoul? It struck me that it's a major form of transit there with a ton of buses passing by the stops.
Justifiable from their perspective. Most border disputes would fall under this, at various points in time both sides have controlled an area and believe that it is rightfully theirs.
how does constant_tsc interact with VMs being silently migrated from one physical machine to another?
What? How hard is it to boil an egg?
Everytime I read news like this it just furthers the impression in my mind that Congress's SLS (and that rocket program is truly owned by Congress, not NASA) is an incredible waste of money that makes your average military recruitment contract red-faced with embarrassment.

The US needs to create a heavy lift variant of the commercial orbital transportation services contract (COTS) [1] and/or the Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev) [2] and scrap the SLS program or at least release it from it's stupid congressional requirement to use grandfathered space shuttle contractors.

Estimates for the true cost of each space shuttle launch, which NASA and Congress were always cagey about, range from 700 million to over one billion dollars ( $196B/133 flights [3] ). The cost of the entire COTS program that created "two new U.S. medium-class launch vehicles and two automated cargo spacecraft"[4] as a replacement for the shuttle's cargo services was $800 million, less than or equal to the cost of a single shuttle flight.

In light of that it's always frustrating that I see the US dinking around with the $10+ billion dollar Orion program [5] or talk about throwing good money after bad by adding astronauts to the EM-1 mission. I mean, come on! How tied to corporate kickback interests and tiny amounts of local jobs can you get? Can Congress really not see the big picture here and the idea that we could have more people and mass in space (and probably job on the ground too) for a fraction of the current program costs?

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/commercial-orbital-transportation-servi...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-crew-program-the-ess...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program

[4] https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-releases-cots-final-report

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)
Tolls do little suppress traffic. They do a lot to divert it as people seek to avoid the toll, as Sydney discovered stupidly when it tried to use road closures to force traffic through privately built inefficient roads (public-private partnerships might as well have been rewritten as "legal corruption").
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"an ISO image is incomplete, often outdated, and potentially insecure" is simply not true. If we use the --layout option to download the package for offline installation, the packages can also be "incomplete, often outdated, and potentially insecure" after a while.Worse yet, because it's just a folder, people can add/remove file from the offline installation folder.
The problem with PPM is that it's slow. Zstd is targeting a certain general-purpose use case. There are other compressors that target different time-space trade-offs, if you need extreme performance or extreme compression efficiency.
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I just got one of these a week ago and I've used it for brown rice, steel cut oats, rolled oats, and black beans. It did a great job on all these. It is especially nice on making a really quick oatmeal with dates and nuts thrown in. It does brown rice really well without burning it. You throw it in and start if. If you forget to come back to it, it just keeps the food warm without noticeably overcooking it.

I like the fact that the innards in contact with food are stainless steel and silicone instead of some non-stick or aluminum surface. I like the build quality. It is enameled steel inside, with a big heat sink that presumably smooths out the temperature changes as the heater cycles. It feels like it actually cost something to build as opposed to the flimsy feel of other rice cookers.

I have not tried anything too challenging yet... am curious about odder things to cook in a pressure cooker (cheesecake, really?)

My only complaint so far is that the user interface is a little bit opaque. Why does it play a jaunty little tune when you seal it up, but not when it is done cooking? Why does it just say "ON" while pre-heating? I'd like it more if it would more clearly differentiate between the various modes and states. It seems like the UX could be a little better. But I do like the fact that if you do the same thing over and over, it would be extremely quick to do that, just push one button, it recalls the last cooking time, and starts automatically.
I haven't gone through all the documents but the summary does say verbatim:

> dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows

The only presumption on my part is that they are remotely exploitable, which is practically a requirement for mobile device exploits to be useful because physical access is hard to obtain. I do plan on going further through these, they look fun.

Of course encrypted communication is better for the user than unencrypted, but this is not the place for that, which is why I ignored it. This was supposed to be a discussion about massive government overreach, not petty squabbles between apps. With unfettered access to these phones there are all manner of hypothetical attacks that could go after any of these app providers and not just snoop on the communications of the users. With root access to a large number of phones and little oversight their capacity for harm is frightening, this seems more worthy of discussion.
Hmmm ... given the current state of the government in Brazil https://www.ft.com/content/17bd7ffa-3944-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8...), I wonder how much longer the government can sustain a mass transit system that runs that frequently?
Same here. Console shows syntax error after loading a stream.
Is there a good, cross-platform UI framework for F#?
Yes. It's supposed to have audio. Could you submit an issue at https://github.com/scrimba/community with details about your browser/environment?
Why have only one option that caters to those that can memorize algorithms? Have multiple types of interviews instead of forcing everyone to take the same type.
Heh I've been applying to some gigs recently and those job application pages! They can be infuriatinggggg.

Oh, upload the resume that you just spent 2 hours tweaking and feel great about? Simple enough you think. No, a parser tries to extract all of the relevant information from the PDF and place it in the appropriate fields with about a -50% success rate. Now it looks like you've had 5 jobs in the past 5 years.

Want to upload a cover letter? Not an option, but you can use this text box widget thing with some basic functionality. Of course, you just can't copy and paste the pre-written cover letter, because the widget completely screws up the formatting and now it's a jumbled mess with no structure between paragraphs. Easy to fix, but still.

I guess the worst part is, there is nothing to indicate that your perfectly formatted resume that you uploaded will ever been seen by someone.

My mistake, that's the second worst part. The worst part is having to create a new account for each of these career "portals".
> One thing is to keep supporting something that costs hundreds of dollars (like an iPhone), but there is very little sense IMHO to spend a lot of effort and—potentially—make everyone's experience worse just because some users won't bother downloading a 50MB free update.

My browsing experience has been made significantly worse than it was 5 years ago by websites abusing new browser features. I have had to start running uMatrix to disable JavaScript except on whitelisted websites, and have had to start using youtube-dl to download videos instead of viewing them in the browser. Firefox Reader View is a must because of bad CSS everywhere. I use Firefox for most browsing but keep Chrome around just to view problem websites.

Most websites serve up text, the only reason they "need" new features is for serving intrusive ads. I also regularly use Lynx and think it continues to be a good browsing experience. Most websites can be (and historically are/have been) very usable and quick to navigate in text browsers. I continue to design personal webpages to work in text browsers.
Linear types (ownership) are used in another ML-inspired functional programming language, ATS.
theverge.com's clickbait title drops "new" ("a new iPhone") from the quote.

Anyway, Obama himself made a similar statement, only more broad in scope (give up cable TV and/or cellphone in general):

To quote Obama: "Knowing you can offer your family the security of health care -- that’s priceless. Now you can do it for the cost of your cable bill. Probably less than your cellphone bill. (Laughter and applause.)"[1]

[1] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/0...
Problem is, in LA at least, the bus and the car are about the same amount of time. Maybe a smidge longer for the bus. So most people that can afford to will take a car to avoid the cranksters, shockingly rude bus patrons, and the chance of a 'piss bus' on their way home.
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Not that I'm doubting you (I simply don't know) but how do we know that was/is the case?
Adding their proxy/reverse shell/network tool to the firewall whitelist, most likely.
VST/3/AU/DX, and it supports scripting your own in JS as well. Unless they're upset about not having LADSPA or Nyquist, I can't imagine what else they'd be referring to that isn't proprietary AVID garbage.
> As someone else mentioned, they could of course record constantly, then compress and transmit in batches, and that would probably go unnoticed.

Possibly, but it can be fingerprinted by using known audio samples and intentionally producing very large amounts of data. See my other reply.
"And so we fear that offering an ISO will just creating more disappointment." - well, no, what we want is not a "ISO" file, but a single file can be downloaded easily. Look at Xcode please, that's how IDE update should be done. You don't need to innovate, just do exactly what Xcode does.
K is the new l, yo
When the system is used mainly by society's outliers, this is what you see. When most everyone uses the bus/train/library, this problem - while still existing - is greatly reduced by having a very much lower outlier ratio.
Just having one of those in a workstation get me all warm and fuzzy.
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This is a video that drilled into me the importantance of SEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUwNgxwN_pE

Obviously it depends on the type of business you are starting but even on mobile people use search so SEO can be a huge source of traffic
> an important tenet of liberalism is that you put some trust in your government

When did this become a tenet of liberalism? I've read a lot of liberal philosophy, from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill, and much more often the opposite is espoused: that the burden of proof of all claims of state authority is on the government to make.

> I'm willing to trust that our intelligence agencies aren't some nightmare Orwellian monster hellbent on subjugating the populace.

This sounds to me like a very privileged, safe point of view. After what these people did to Thomas Drake (and many others like him), I think it's long past time to take away their toys and send them to their room.
Journalism classes in Romania a few decades ago included exercises like: "Take this footage of snow in Bucharest and use it to tell a variety of different stories, e.g. 'Bucharest is paralysed by snow' or 'Bucharest enjoys fresh snowfall' or 'Bucharest efficiently deals with snow storm', etc".

If we think that just because something is factually true no one is trying to fool us, we're quite the fools.
Wow, thank you for this.

What a shame it wasn't built.
It may be cheeper to build, though that is questionable. It is cheeper only because it takes advantage of existing roadway, but if you factor in the root cost of all of the existing infrastructure it uses than there's not much of a difference in cost between steel+gravel and concrete is there?

In any case, over time the price of the busses goes up steeply. You need to replace a bus after 20 years, where-as trams last 50-60 years. Prague is replacing their Tatra T3 [1] trams from the 60s, not because they are worn out (they still run like new) but because they are more dangerous in accidents for the driver (they have no crumple zone and worse brakes) and because they don't have wheel chair access. Other, poorer cities have even older trams that still run fine. When they upgrade, those old machines aren't scrapped, but are sold to more eastern ex-soviet contries as working vehicles and actually put into service there. When was the last time you road in a 50 year old bus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T3
Jailbreak teams publish widely and open source (mostly) they are actually the CIA's opponents burning zero days which they would much rather keep to themselves. The CIA would undoubtedly be customers of companies like Vupen and Zerodium though.
> easy... just do this thing I have no idea about nor any clue how it would implemented

lol.
We "prefer" to call that a "TV License" because if we called it "tax" it would have negative connotations. It is also paid separately to "tax".
I definitely understand reluctance to trust new data formats. I will say though that we have been using Zstandard in production at Facebook since well before 1.0 and trust it completely for both data at rest and data in flight. Since 1.0, we've widened that even further to many different parts of the company.

To that end, every release (and pretty much every commit) undergoes significant testing. We also fuzz test heavily and have significant regression tests in place constantly looking at corner cases and verifying known prior bugs stay fixed. It's impossible to prove there are no issues, but so far we've put a lot of effort into being as reliable as possible and seen that play out well in our production environments. We trust it.