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Microsoft and various Linux distributions do at least offer a stable version for enterprise customers and others that don't want the bleeding edge.
I understand the purity of this statement. I even wish it could be true. But without a standard library shipping with the language itself (today's approach to things) then who is going to implement this standardized IO addon that a whole lot of us need?

The truth is that it just wouldn't otherwise get done. Maybe twenty years from now there will be committees working on separate modules and we'll download those if desired.
There is dino: https://github.com/dino/dino

It's still very early in the development but it looks pretty good.
> "“Investors are seeing the problems with a lot of these tech companies. And at some point, tech companies have to cut jobs.”"

This.
>railroads, which having been eating the lunch of trucking for awhile now

Right. Which means that a lot of trucking isn't especially long haul already which in turn means that taking people out of only the highway portion isn't necessarily the big win that a lot of people assume it could be. If you still need truckers around the endpoints, it doesn't necessarily make sense to take them out of the middle (given other advantages to having a human operator). Of course, good assistive systems can still be used to improve safety.
I read "The Fire Next Time" in 11th grade, which was pretty much the perfect time to have the rug pulled out from under me.

I am very grateful to the people who did the rug-pulling.

In the past year or so, I've kept re-remembering the lyric "God gave Noah the rainbow-sign...".
-Wparentheses is the one that prevents if (password_ok = true) { ...
I think it's wrong on a few levels to use terms like sociopath in general, and especially about someone you've never met.

When you use that word you're talking about another person's mental state, which is opaque to you. No one knows what anyone else thinks and feels.

What you should really be concerned with is that person's actions, not what they feel about their actions. For example, you can be a murderer and not be a sociopath, as long as you feel bad about it. But it's really the murdering itself that's the problem. Does it really matter how the murderer feels about it? Some people think so, but the problem has to be dealt with either way.

I'm not saying you shouldn't criticize his actions, but I'd try to avoid criticizing his mental state or making assumptions about how he perceives reality.
They Adopted Refugee Families for 12 Months. Then Came Month 13
>perhaps with one or two exceptions like '/' and \0

Aren't colons (:) an issue with MacOS as well? I think Finder and other userspace apps convert them to slashes. I suppose though, there's a case for the filesystem not caring about that.
Rent prices actually are stagnant or falling: http://www.sfgate.com/rentals/article/Bay-Area-2017-rents-ar...
it means you can ignore some the complexity .. until you want it, or need it

That's true if you work alone. If you work in a team, it's almost guaranteed that someone will love using advanced features just for the sake of using advanced features, creating insanely verbose and abstracted behemoths which are bad both for the human developers and the machines to read.

I suppose it's good for job security...
Imagine a situation in which Uber cars are better than human drivers, but not by a lot. Then imagine some hastily thrown-together patch being pushed fleet-wide that ends up causing crashes in some unanticipated situations. You could imagine quite a lot of carnage happening out there until they're all yanked off the roads and rolled back.

Statistics doesn't tell the whole story because it's backwards-looking, not future-looking, and the Uber crashes aren't going to be independent events.
I've wondered how people in past civilizations could do things like slavery and child sacrifice and think that they were righteous, then I got a look at modern leftism. They celebrate murdering children, exploit people through taxes (saying it's "for their own good" identical to the modern slavery defense), they are extremely intolerant and bigoted (see any of the modern university protests), and they seem to be willingly ignorant that history, reality, and mathematics has proved that socialism doesn't work. I can guarantee that leftists will be so emotional that they will down-vote this to oblivion, proving my point. Hopefully we will evolve beyond the barbarism of extreme leftism. The right has become a watered down version of the left, so they are terrible too.
Statistics says that it will take many, many millions of miles driven by autonomous vehicles autonomously before we can know how safe they are compared to humans [1].

And we may never even know for sure.

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[1] http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/R...

See pg. 4 for a summary graph with nice colours.
How I Got an Army Medal for Programming in VBA
> ...thus its ills can safely be attributed to capitalism.

I don't think Graeber is trying to say that. The word "capitalism" shows up exactly once:

> In capitalism, this is exactly what is not supposed to happen. [...] Still, somehow, it happens.

He isn't saying that bullshit jobs are created because of capitalisms, but despite it. The title says something different, and IIRC the original title when it appeared on "Strike!" was just "Bullshit Jobs".

The vibe I get from the article itself is that bullshit jobs happens because of the intervention of law makers. (At least to me, law makers are the same sort of self serving scum everywhere, whether they carry a socialist, capaitalist or any other flag.) The real question is whether it happened by malice or by incompetence. Or maybe through tax law compounded by incompetence.
> They need 1.4% of readers to subscribe

Or they could start charging a reasonable yearly fee for custom domains. Our tech blog is hosted on medium, we have a custom domain (https://smarketshq.com/) and I'm pretty sure we wouldn't mind a couple of hundred a year for the reasonably good user experience.

Writing with their tools is not bad (although I would like the feature to automatically readjust paragraphs when pasting short plaintext lines), and submitting to a publication is easy. Turning low-friction workflow into a business case shouldn't be that much of an outlier.
>I find this an annoying meta-argument because it's so common nowadays, especially on the right. It's really convenient that you don't have to make your actual argument, but can elevate it to the status of desirable secret knowledge by pretending that it would be censored.

It's common on the right because it accurately describes the state of political discourse today. One small example is immigration policy. I've found it impossible to have a frank and honest discussion, based on facts and logic and opinions, with anyone on the political left. Typically, within two minutes, they'll get angry and call me a racist.
If I were allowed one more distinction I would definitely add utf-8 only.
Can Chivalry Be Anything Other Than Chauvinism in 2017?
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It's not perfect, but no MBP has ever been perfect. One thing about the Touch Bar annoys me from time to time. Otherwise, I love the computer and I'm both happy and feel thankful for having one.

It is clear that other people don't like it. I hope they are able to find machines that works better for them. I posted my original comment just to give a counterpoint from the perspective of somebody thrilled with the purchase.
Sometimes compilers have bugs or are not fully-compliant. For example MSVC two or three versions ago didn't understand =delete. Standard library also might have errors. Moreover, we use third-part libs that are not always up to date (for various reasons), we have some legacy parts, and so on and so forth. I wish switching compiler required only setting another CXX. :)
... is the time where if you don't have unique skills, it is time to find some.
More importantly, those tweets purport that the other car (driven by a human) failed to yield at the intersection and hit Uber's car. If this proves to be true, the only question is whether a human driver in the Uber car's position would have noticed and braked to avoid entering the intersection.

There's mention of a third car ... we'll see what the traffic cameras say!
With anti-Romeo squad, eve-teasers in Lucknow on police radar
Stipulate (gingerly) that an individual or group of friends going to an escort bar isn't sexist. The problem is doing it as a company group function. If you reread the story, you'll see that we know about this because there was a woman executive from Uber in the group, and she was upset at being dragged along.

This has come up at a number of other companies (usual context: strip clubs). Stipulate that going to a strip club isn't sexist, but it's clear (to me at least, and, if I need to add this: to the lawyers) that it's sexist to generate social and professional pressure for women employees either to go to a strip club or to miss out on professional functions because attending a strip club is untenable.
Thinner, lighter phones are easier to hold and get used more. Thin phones won because anyone who wants more grip or battery can always add a case.

Thicker, bigger battery phones fail because no case can make them lighter. They only address a niche while thin addresses everyone's needs.

And sealed batteries won because they can fit more capacity. Few people prefer carrying (and charging) two 8 hour batteries to a 10 hour sealed battery.
Yes, probably because, unlike Medium, the stated goal of those magazines isn't to create a space for non ad-supported content.
C# is really easy to learn. Coming from PHP, Java, and Python, I picked it up in about 1 day. Having hinting, linting, and autocomplete from Visual Studio + ReSharper was very helpful.
Not when you're inside a text editor, just hitting j or k would replace the selected number with j or k.

Of course you can use command/option or some such, maybe with arrows, but still the problem is that it's incredibly cumbersome compared to scrubbing using a slider. Much greater range and finer control when you have visual feedback.

I do think that the common use of the TouchBar as a set of function keys is not particularly useful.
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cargo check

It's significantly faster than before for type checking etc during development, which is I assume the point at which most people complain about compile speeds.
Again: normal people do go to strip clubs (not so sure about "escort bars"). But normal companies don't have what are effectively company outings to strip clubs, and plenty of companies have gotten in trouble for doing that.
I downvoted you because you called for it, nothing more.
Hey cool project OP - how do you feel about the inclusion of Vue. Just curious about your general thoughts because I'm thinking of incorporating either React or Vue into my own website
Both Mercedes and BMW (DriveNow as a co-venture with Sixt) run car sharing businesses. In terms of cities served Uber beats them hands down. Mercedes has 14.000 and BMW 4000 cars on the streets (wikipedia). That is a fraction of what Uber can mobilize. For Uber to be taken on they would need to scale up a magnitude or even two. At that scale it would affect their existing business and their now increasing engagement is an indication how serious the companies are taking this shift.

Transportation as a service is clearly something. Car ownership is not always the best economic solution for an individual. The sharing demand exists but no one has established a large scale sustainable enterprise around it.

What is needed?

- Capital first and foremost as cars are not cheap. Two models so far:

-- Uber leveraging car owner capital. That area is really opaque but one can assume individuals capital cost is higher than manufacturers especially as Uber drivers likely have not the best credit ratings. The volume Uber can leverage here is - assuming 500.000 drivers with cars worth $20.000 then this is 10 Billion USD.

-- Car manufacturer and car rental companies (in the past often linked to manufacturers). There is some synergy in the vertical integration e.g. through manufacturing capacity management, tailored car features and marketing.

- Fleet servicing. Uber has managed to shift that to drivers.

- Driver. Uber has an individual driving. There may be autonomous vehicles. Then there is the person renting assuming driving license.

- Critical mass. There is a focus on serving cities. I suspect autonomous vehicles may be vital to serve the wider area.

- Insurance. Liability needs to be clarified and forms of insurance found if autonomous cars are allowed.
It's not artificial. I want pizza at night so I need someone to bring me pizza at night.
The SFMOMA had a Bruce Conner exhibition recently that displayed his artwork TOUCH/DO NOT TOUCH [1] which had to have a guard stationed out front full time whose sole job was telling patrons they couldn't touch the artwork that said "touch" on it.

1: https://www.moma.org/m/tours/55/tour_stops/687?locale=en
Sad, neither MongooseIM, nor ejabberd use proper Erlang/OTP SASL release system, so hot updates can be done with relup (http://erlang.org/doc/man/relup.html)

Smaller modules can be upgraded from Erlang shell, but it's seems to be impossible to update a server without shutting it down.
The article makes a good point that aside from enforcement issues, Amazon leaves the seller of the genuine item in a bad spot. Like one-star reviews of the product (due to fakes) staying for months. The whole product listing being taken down instead of just the seller with fakes being shut down. The lack of real communication with the seller of the genuine product, and so on.

Edit: Perhaps some additional manual effort to protect good sellers would stem the bad PR tide. The news stories all seem to start with a frustrated seller.
Every 2-3 years? Your 4s is almost 6 years old.
If we're comparing, my Galaxy Nexus is still serving my needs just fine, with all original parts, still running stock Android 4.3. It does all the phone stuff, plus Maps, car-share apps, games, Chrome, wifi tethering, music, etc. Chrome's a bit sluggish, though.

Maybe Lineage would speed up Maps/Chrome. Hmn.
>was the manufacturer negligent and was the owner negligent

Yes, but in the case of the toaster, it's pretty much the case of some sort of human error on the part of the owner (the cord was damaged, they jammed something in and it got stuck) or it's product liability on the part of the manufacturer.

It's an interesting aspect to these sorts of autonomous systems that you can expect to have accidents, even fatal ones, at some rate and that may have to be considered acceptable because "stuff happens" sometimes. There aren't a lot of examples where this is the norm in consumer-facing products. Pharmaceuticals probably come closest.
I think safety- and brand-conscious Volvo is going to deeply regret this partnership with Uber. (Where Uber provides the self-driving logic and Volvo provides the the vehicle itself.)

I can only imagine the internal struggles in Volvo right now. At the very least, if I were running Volvo Cars I'd ask Uber to replace the Volvo logos on those cars with Uber logos...

(Volvo has their own, quite advanced self-driving program, but they seem to be doing it the correct/cautious way.)
There's nothing in this comment that rebuts anything in "that site". Essentially, all you've managed to come up with is "it's wrong, because DNSSEC does what it does".

I agree: DNSSEC does do what it does do. The problem is that what it does do isn't meaningful and doesn't add real security. At the same time, DANE/TLSA does create a system in which we replace certificate authorities with an organization run by the US Government.
I understand, you can't be intellectually honest, even with yourself.
OK, maybe "terrible" is too strong adjective. What about "cumbersome"? :) C++11 allowed to get rid off many silly workarounds and introduced, among many others, threads and rvalues.
I purchased Quickbooks Pro 2017 (PC) on Amazon last week, said it was "sold by Intuit" so wasn't even supposed to be an FBA (fulfilled by Amazon). Figured if it costs no more I might as well get the physical disk.

What showed up was a DVD case with a very clearly photocopied cover for a Mac version with a Verbatim CDR inside and a hacked version of the software.

Amazon processed the refund just fine but didn't seem particularly interested or concerned that they had just sold me pirated software. Not a big deal for Quickbooks, I can just buy the download version. I also want to buy a new Ipod Touch and, for the first time ever, don't feel like I can buy it on Amazon.

Long term Amazon customer since 1999, Prime since the first year, this counterfeit issue is a real problem that's going to cost them seriously if they don't get a handle on it.
> To give you some perspective, it's arguably easier to make statements about Abrahamic faiths as a whole (encompassing everything from Satmars to Salafists to Mormons) than it is to make statements about Hinduism as a whole.

I'm not disagreeing, just to be clear, but fascinated by this statement. Could you provide some evidence for it?
Get a battery case. The world has spoken bad rejected thicker heavier longer battery life phones. Thinner, lighter is easier to carry and use.
Amazon is a cluster all-around. They can't keep counterfeits off (I just recently got a 'samsung' battery that would only charge to 80%), and they can't police legit products correctly either. I've seen tons of horror stories from owners of FBA private labels who'v had their products pulled by Amazon for being 'counterfeit' because one of their competitors reported them in an attempt to reduce competition. Takes weeks or months to get your listing restored. And don't even get me started on their review system. I used to review certain subsets of items prolifically, without accepting freebies, but I gave it up. Amazon would regularly pull down my reviews for things they didn't like. For instance, I've had several battery reviews pulled for including a measured capacity (mAh) divided by cost 'value' graph because it implicitly includes pricing information. Give me a break. Know what replaced my well-thought out & researched review? A review from a 5-star shill that shot from 0 helpful to over +1000 overnight (to those of you that have never reviewed on Amazon ... that does NOT happen unless you're cheating).

Amazon's reviews are crap. Amazon's inventory control is crap. Amazon's seller support is crap. The only things they have going for them are good customer service and a near monopoly on online sales.

Walmart, however, also has great customer service, has brick-and-mortar stores that will help you deal with problems, and now has free 2-day shipping. I've been making a conscious effort to do more online shopping there lately, because Amazon needs to feel like they have a little competition.
You confuse capitalism as it has existed since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution with "free markets". When anarchists like Graeber talk about Capitalism, they mean "really existing Capitalism", just like when most people criticize Communism, they criticize "really existing communism" in the Socialist states of the 20th century, not the concept of a "classless, stateless society with the common ownership of the means of production".

If you spend even the smallest amount of time studying the history of Capitalism, it is quickly apparent that the state has been vital in its formation. Indeed to form "capitalist" markets, you need the state and its apparatus to divide up the world and apportion it out. For example, Enclosure[0] in England was the process of dividing up the land and handing it over to private interests in order to create markets, and it was absolutely vital to the development of Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution.

More recently, you have the dividing up of the ethereal with Intellectual "Property", the very idea of which must seem like a joke to most theorists of property. The very concept of non-exclusionary, indefensible property is a contradiction in terms. Yet, Capitalism in the 21st Century is deeply dependent on this legal fiction, from pharma-giants and agricultural companies like Pfizer and Monsanto, tech giants like Apple, Microsoft and Google, entertainment and media conglomerates like Time Warner and Disney, to restaurant franchises like McDonald's.

Then there is Graeber's central thesis in Debt, that taxes in themselves are vital to the very creation of money and markets.

Once you have divided up the world according to your concepts of "property", you still need to enforce it. And what better way to do that than use the state. So you use the state and its massive military strength to destroy labor movements[1][2], police international waters to make sure your oil tankers cargoships arrive at their destinations, and bully other nations into signing "free-trade" "agreements" to enforce your bullshit notions of property all around the world. And in the end, if all this still fails, you do it the old fashioned way and get the state to stage a coup[3][4].

[0]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_Mine_massacre
[3]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
[4]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
DNS TLDs are run by world governments. But the CA PKI is not. Restricting the ability to issue rogue certificates to world governments is not a win: in fact, it's a regression.
Currently the DNS roots are already effectively in charge. If an entity, government or otherwise, controls .LY, they can trivially get a trusted X.509 cert for .LY. DANE just makes it much harder for other attackers to do the same.

Having a CT-like feature for DNSSEC would be nice, though.
It's true, but there is an interesting mitigating effect here. If at some point you come across an old project that appears to be a product of herculean effort, note that these days its a matter of a few days effort.

The platform that JS is based upon moves incredibly fast.
The effect may be a real deal, but is the box still the size of a refrigerator?