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> Google created the OS. In fact, OEMs are forbidden from forking Android, and therefore, cannot "roll their own OS" from Android, without violating their agreement with Google. Yes, they sprinkle some of their own apps and drivers in, but this is a design flaw in Android: Google needs to be updating their own software independently of manufacturer-specific components.

Forbidden from forking Android? Every OEM version of Android is a fork. What Google does not allow is for an OEM to distribute a version of Android that does not pass the Android Compatibility Test Suite.

>therefore, cannot "roll their own OS" from Android

Do you know how OEM's "roll their own OS"? They take the AOSP source code that Google drops and then they add all of their source code and then build and distribute their own version of Android that only they can update.

>Yes, they sprinkle some of their own apps and drivers

I'm not sure you really understand all of the changes OEM's make to Android if all you think they do is "sprinkle some of their own apps and drivers in"

>this is a design flaw in Android: Google needs to be updating their own software independently of manufacturer-specific components.

No it's not. Google does not build Android for the OEM's. They create their own version of Android and therefore are ultimately responsible for updating it. Once again, Google cannot update an OS they did not build.

>Google barely even does tablets anymore anyways.

Android is still the marketshare leader in tablets.
Those people will just buy another Toyota. They aren't spending 35k+ on a Tesla.
What is a good LG G5 screen replacement cost?
Road miles driven has utility, but there feedback effects which make it a poor long term measure. Duranton and Turner have a biased view of the situation as which does not map to economic, social, or even environmental utility.
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In an open marketplace, "People associate X with Y" is very much the same as "Y is responsible for X." This explains a lot of the legacy code in pre-Windows Vista Windows; if new versions of the OS broke someone's favorite app, they blame Windows, even if the reason the app broke is it didn't adhere to (or even actively tried to circumvent) published API (Adobe was notorious for trying to squeeze a few extra cycles of performance out of Photoshop, for example, by hand-rolling their own C++ data structure instances by building a binary-compatible pattern in memory instead of calling the documented constructor in the WinAPI).
The Readability of Scientific Texts Is Decreasing Over Time
http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/2/15155572/tesla-q1-productio...
Yup. A capital-A Atheist by definition has a point to make that isn't befitting of any candidate for US public office. I don't suppose that counts as an automatic disqualification by everyone's lights, but it most certainly does by mine.
Noble – an open source license in the spirit of MIT
MailHog is pretty great. In response to your concern, by default it runs on a non-standard port, so you need to configure your apps to point at it (port 1025 by default). Even then, you can configure it to act as a MITM, where the webmail interface lets you "release" messages you actually want to send out: https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/blob/master/docs/CONFIG.m...
Saying "I don't know depth first search" is fine,

No, it most definitely is not "fine". Even momentarily hesitating on question like "Would you use BFS or DFS in this case?" is more than enough to merit a quick transition to the "Do you have any questions for me?" phase, in many a modern, "As hire As, Bs hire Cs, you know" interview session, these days.
The lost generation: ‘I’m 30-something and still depressed and broke’
IIRC, here in sand-land (AZ) you can drive solo in our OHV lanes with a vehicle that has less than four wheels (mainly motorcycles - but if you have the cash for one of those nice 3-wheeled "cars", you're still good).
Normalizing neocon policies and forgetting various failures of the GWB era actually feels less dangerous than normalizing transparent and blatant lying and demagoguery and the precedent for handing the country over to whatever reality TV personality blames immigrants the loudest.
> There is no expectation that the servicer will act in the interest of the consumer... Navient says its public statements encouraging borrowers to contact the company didn’t mean it would act in their best interest.

So, pardon in advance for the vulgar language, but why the fuck is this OK? From any company?

I'm getting real damn sick and tired of "what the big print gives, the spidery print takes away" and how we're all just supposed to be OK with this, as if this is how the world works or some crap.

If your public advertising--especially, but not limited to, when administering a service on behalf of the government--explicitly says "call us and we will help you," your company should not then be able to turn around and say "well, caveat emptor for calling us, sucker." Meanwhile, the handful of agencies devoted to trying to help the individual get any kind of a fair shake from the company "provider" that massively outguns any one individual customer, are all under attack from all sides as being "too heavy handed." (I love the CFPB, in case you can't tell.)

Oh, and this whole "consumer" crap? I'm not a "consumer," I'm a customer. I'm not consuming anything from a financial services provider, I'm using their services. Stop with the idea that all of us are just mindless drones, eating our Pac Man-like dots on the way to a swift end, and maybe get back to the idea that real people are on the other end of those faceless account numbers.

(FWIW, this applies to every company with mandatory, binding arbitration clauses, including the oh-so-enlightened participants in Y Combinator. Don't restrict my ability to hold you to your side of the agreement while reserving all rights to pound me into the sand at your leisure.)
Windows Time Service is sending out wrong times and that’s a big problem
Bingo! We tested BK trees and found them to break down on lots of data sets. The search speedup never overcame the additional cost of building the trees (although these were one-off sets, a search heavy workload could definitely benefit from them).
Yup, I totally agree. My father had a colleague whose name was (unfortunately) Kim Jong Il, the former, deceased dictator of North Korea.

Even though he was clearly alive and well and way taller, he'd be pulled in for questioning every time he boarded an international flight.
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This is an old outdated and out of context video. I just drove 150 miles this weekend using AP2. It works pretty well.
It's almost certainly a fake. As the late Samuel Eliot Morrison described it, 'Scandanknavery'.
You're probably right there, they were released a year before PSX. PC-FX had no polygon processor and relied on prerendering, and had the same color support as PSX, and an older CPU. It was never released outside of Japan, though...
For what it's worth I'm a (European) tech-guy who would love to buy a Ford Focus RS, the only issue is that I don't have the financial means to do that. And I also love their Ranger line, both the new one and the one from the late '90s - early 2000s, whose models are cheaper than the Hilux and whose engines are just as reliable (the only issue seems to be rust, which inevitably sets in after 250-300,000km).

I will also avoid buying a car connected to the Internet/which has a tablet-like dashboard for as long as I could, and I say that as a guy who has done web-programming for the last 10+ years.
That's a different distinction, I think; capital-A Atheists don't seem to be particularly organized in any way I've been able to observe, so much as they are stridently antireligious in a way that would be no less likely to contravene the Establishment Clause than your least favorite televangelist would be.
I have tried a few times. But the community is small enough that it gets no upvotes :) We just released it. It's built with Ember & Go. I'd be happy to answer any questions about our technologies (biological or technical).
People tend to underestimate how far north Europe is. Europe's climate is a lot milder than North Americas, due to, mostly, Gulf Stream.
DXC Technology: Relevant Partner or the Sears of IT Services?
Walk around at 10pm. Just don't walk in the closed park.

Is it inconvenient to walk around the park? Sure it is. Should people plan for that, knowing about it? Probably. Do people do so? Usually not. Same thing with jaywalking. It isn't the same as "how dare people walk across a street".

They're free to walk across the street - just do so at the cross walk. Likewise, they're free to walk around after 10pm - just not in the park.
Industrial cities like Detroit and my beloved hometown of Pittsburgh have been beating Silicon Valley here pretty readily in the self-driving car space (one reason among many is that California's immaculate weather gives engineers a false sense of confidence when testing their vehicles on its perfectly-marked freeways, causing them to completely gloss over the majority of less-stellar American roads and weather-induced driving situations; indeed, the fatal Tesla autopilot crash took place on a Pennsylvania "turnpike" highway, and not a California freeway).

This happens the same day as Tesla's market cap surpasses Ford. Tesla's stock has been a real rollercoaster lately, and somehow, I just don't think the hype is justified. Remember, Tesla for a while used MobilEye (see anything geohot says about them!).
This was a couple years ago (and I apologize for not being able to find a source), but I heard an interview with a Ford exec about the limits of adaptive cruise control and collision avoidance and he basically said: "Our drivers don't want that. They want the control of their own vehicle."

And not that it's set in stone, and not that organizations can't change, but in general it sure seems like Ford and the other big automakers don't want self driving cars.

Partially, it's a concern that they'll see their existing model torn to shreds if self driving cars become the basis for much more efficient on demand or fractional ownership car usage.

And I think partially it's that the designers, engineers, exec's at Ford are "car people". They love driving cars, they see a romance to them ("the open road"), they have "daily drivers" and "my pride and joy" type of relationships with their cars.

If nothing else, it's abundantly clear that Tesla is coming at this from a whole different direction.
I don't really understand the opposition to using a national identification number. It's a (non-secret) code to uniquely identify people, exactly what would've been needed in the Lisa Davis case, and exactly what quite a few countries are using without problems.

Just don't use it for any kind of authentication, ever, because it's not a secret. Also, add a checksum to avoid typos.
My apologies. I have confused Endgame with another company.

My actual interaction with Endgame is weirder. In February, I received a rejection letter from Endgame despite never applying or ever authorizing a recruiter to apply for me. I know I didn't apply because the rejection was sent to a school email that I haven't used in years. I also don't know what sort of outdated resume this decision was based on, although I am tempted to apply now with my current resume out of some sort of competitive instinct.

I don't blame Endgame as this was probably caused by an unscrupulous recruiter who scrapped my out of date info from my school's website.
As much as I would love to have a self-driving car(and I would!) I honestly shake my head at anyone saying that we will have fully autonomous vehicles in the next 5-10 years. Unless the roads are fully standardised and beacons placed every few meters, this is literally the image recognition problem all over again. In the 60s scientists thought that with the power of computers they will "solve" image recognition completely within a few months. It's 2017 and our best of the best algorithms and neural networks are stupidly bad at things they haven't been specifically trained to recognise, and even then they make catastrophic mistakes. And then we want to put essentially this tech on a car, where our roads are bad, signs are faded or straight up wrong, where you can have any sort of weather conditions obscuring the view and/or lidar, plus the whole thing has to be so reliable that you can put it on a consumer product......within 10 years? If anything, we will get a better version of Tesla Autopilot within 10 years, but full autonomy? Try 50 years.
he's a right wing populist demagogue, of which there have been countless examples. almost none of them were hitler or anything comparable, and while i am not looking forward to the next 4-8 years, it's not like he published a manifesto on the proclivities of the jew or proposed annexing mexico. quite the opposite on both counts, in fact.
The whole of society loses in so many ways. Forcing a trial to occur ensures that prosecutions cost money, hopefully substantially more than they are able to collect in fines.

A functional court system transfers money from society as a whole to fund the necessary punishment of individuals. Each action is a financial loss so its not incentivized to pursue them unless society as a whole benefits enough to justify the cost of the system.

A dysfunctional system derives monetary gain from persecuting individuals and thus is incentivized to do so even if society doesn't benefit and in fact even if they aren't guilty. This is exactly what you see in this story.

Further people faced with life destroying circumstances aren't rational actors they can be easy to manipulate into a plea with sufficient threats. Having a trial especially in serious matters ensures justice has at least a chance to be done.
Google has a engineering philosophy of constantly deprecating old stuff. They largely ignore backward compatibility and stop supporting stuff all the time. Their SOAP API for AdWords would break if it wasn't updated every 3 months and this is an API for paying Google money! They are trying to do this in the consumer space, but I don't think this is going to work for things like Nest where people don't want to have to upgrade their thermostat to the new model every year.
People always underestimate how much work it would be to properly compete with Office. They tend to start with the view that 95% of users don't use 95% of the features. They're right, but have completely missed the point: in an enterprise environment those 5% will completely block adoption. In a bank, the 5% are the traders and the corporate financiers. Here's some Excel features that I would consider essential for those people:

* Named Ranges
* Array Evaluation
* Running a calc on all cores (and don't make me laugh by having your engine in JS)
* Charting (Office's is honestly not that great, it's amazing how many alternatives are even worse)
* UI Automation (doesn't have to be VBA)
* Reuters/Bloomberg prices (this one is hard to achieve on your own, obviously)

And that's less than the minimum of what you'd need for the average bank to even _consider_ overcoming sunk costs, legacy implementations and sheer inertia. And I've only talked about one app in the office suite.

Being cheaper and easier to deploy frankly ain't going to cut it.
Civil rights and pollution have almost nothing in common, especially when we're talking about an oppressive autocracy that has huge incentives to keep civil rights down.

Worse, the EPA exists because of grassroots democratic action. What grassroots right do these Chinese people have? Much, much less than Americans in the 60s.
One day we'll have 2 available outgoing ports: 80 and 443 —the web. IPv6 won't be needed because nobody will have servers, and can all be served behind a NAT. Email will go through webmail interfaces, and there will be a couple dozen providers in the whole world. Anything else will instantly be rejected as spam —only spammers use small providers anyway.

We will see conspicuously interesting ads, thanks to ever more accurate, automated analysis of our communications and browsing patterns. Sometimes, such analysis will be performed to stop criminals (mainly terrorists, paedophiles, and intellectual thieves).

How about getting our shit together and starting to fight this nightmare?
This actually makes sense. If the company thinks you are really needed, they will pay more for you. The bidding may go high, but it will only go as high as how much it would cost to hire an American instead. This would be a win-win because the under-qualified get filtered and the good ones get paid on par.
On on side, Ford, and most other companies in the automobile industry, are big corporation. The bigger it gets, the more difficult it is to change. And all the sub-contracting done in the industry might lead to even more difficulties to move things around.

However changing from petrol to electricity doesn't seem to be a drastic change. An important part of car making is changed (engine and energy), but it's not a radical shift (the rest of the car is still the same).

Today, Tesla represents a very small fraction of the number of cars produced in the world. There are still quite expensive, even Model 3, and there are not as convenient as current gas cars (long recharge time and lower autonomy). EV are definitely interesting but they are still in their infancy.

It's still to early for big car markers to shift completely. But the shift will come in 5 to 10 years, then it will be an interesting moment, we will see which companies have prepared enough to jump in the good wagon, and which companies will die.

As a side note, cars, either gas or electric have always amazed me, and not in a good way, from an energy and ecology standpoint. A 1500Kg vehicle to move on average 1.5 persons or 120Kg seems a huge waste of energy.

I do see their usefulness in low density environments such as rural areas as it's a system that doesn't require a complex infrastructure. But in dense environments like cities, transports needs could be far more efficiently provided by public transport and coherent urban planning. I truly hope that cars will not be as common in the second half of the XXI century as there are today.
Well it required on the tiny city I was living in the early 90's, where getting OS/2 2.0 meant buying an actual IBM PC instead of a PC compatible.

OS/2 was offered as option instead of IBM PC DOS + Windows.

Actually you just made me search for the model I had as option, the IBM PS/2 Model 35 SLC.
Technically, yes. But they severely downplayed it to an extent that was hardly any better than outright denial.

Hence, the Babi Yar "garbage dump".
I think people would probably call an algorithm that is "Probably Correct, Probably Fast" Monte Carlo as well.
It's February, hardly outdated. Did you drive on residential streets, as in the video, or highway?

See, highway "autopilot" debuted in upper class Mercedes Benz some 10 years ago..