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Agreed; the article covers regulation meant to foster competition but ignore regulation needed to cover user privacy "rights" over the data collected.

Generally speaking, this article seems to gloss over the fact that this data is generated by actual human beings; examine for instance this section on ownership:

"And it adds to the confusion about who owns data (in the case of an autonomous car, it could be the carmaker, the supplier of the sensors, the passenger and, in time, if self-driving cars become self-owning ones, the vehicle itself)."

So the person from whence the data was generated doesn't own the data, despite owning the vehicle on which it was generated? Isn't that kind of crazy? edit: Ah I do see the passenger in there now, I'll leave this up because the point still stands that "the passenger" is a very passive way to describe the human being involved.
I don't think Amazon wants to remind people it is omnipresent like that.

For example, I got an Amazon Tap because I liked having a physical button to enable the mic. They then released a setting in the Alexa app that allowed it to always listen when toggled on (yes, I realize if I truly cared about privacy that a button like that is just an illusion and they can record whenever they want).

That was fine, I tried it out in situations where I didn't have a free hand (doing dishes for example). It had red notification lights that came on when it was always listening which reminded me the setting was on. This is also important because of the way the battery drains when it is on.

Recently I went to switch it on, and no red lights. There was no visible indicator my Tap was listening or not.

Why would they decide to remove that?
VxWorks, eCos, ITRON, RTEMS, RTX... There are a plethora of players emphasizing specific features. Outside realtime, various BSDs and then some RT Linux and even still wince.

Free software plays a huge role in this field of course, dating back to the Cygnus days.
>> forcing someone to sell something they own

> this is of course a regulatory burden

One person's mere "regulatory burden" might be another's "theft at gunpoint."
Not really. Moving people sounds good in theory, but sparse communities are much more expensive to maintain. Roads, utilities, services, and the grand daddy of rural poverty: access to health care. Turns out freshly minted M.D.s with six figure student debt prefer not to sacrifice their income by working in rural America.

Also, once you move enough people, real estate costs go up again and the problem isn't really solved.
It's definitely not simple, but I'm confident that it can be done. For something like birth, you'd have a baseline, then extras for various contingencies.

Why should an insurance company that signed up 10 customers get the same price as one that signed up 100,000? Because health care is fundamentally incompatible with free market capitalism (information asymmetry is extreme, demand curves are whacked, and there's often no competition due to time constraints) so allowing this sort of thing just leads to monopolies.

To put it another way, they should receive the same discount because if they don't, the smaller insurance company will go out of business and we'll ultimately be left with a few gigantic ones who use their market position to simultaneously squeeze hospitals and customers.

Aren't there single-payer systems where medical care is still private, and the government pays them for services? I doubt those systems would put up with "we'll tell you how much you have to pay when we're done" so I'm sure there are examples to follow.
"I think the onus is on the claimant to demonstrate that politics are in fact involved."

When has there ever been a technical decision made on the technical merits?

It's always politics. Scratch that. It's only politics.

Pieter Hintjens' telling of how RedHat spiked the process around AMQP shows that RedHat is no different from any other player. http://hintjens.com/blog:125#toc15

I had a brief flirtation with a standardization effort. Standards bodies are just another battlefield for belligerents. And I have no problem with that.
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Let's not forget their huge cash on hand. Apple could purchase its way into any market and technology at this point.
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Indeed. I had just about hit the Buy button on a pair of Nucleus devices when I heard the Echo Show was coming. Now I don't need them.
I wonder if you happened to inherit an IP address from someone who was up to something less than savory.
You raise some interesting points about issues with the method.

I had used the approach in your second paragraph above.

I agree that it can have the issue you mention. But is this not more or less the same as the issue that even test code can have bugs in it? But we still use test code. For that matter, even human testers doing manual testing can make mistakes. But we still do manual testing.
> Meanwhile, significant incremental engineering benefits in JDK9 were being held back by this sweeping change; so now maybe we can just get a better JVM without breaking the world.

I think that was Jigsaw's biggest mistake: trying to build a strict module system that will allow modularizing the JVM and expecting that module system to be useful to Java developers, who are already using powerful userland module systems.

I frankly hope that the next iteration of Jigsaw just modularizes the JVM without exposing anything to userland.
>bailed out the banks

In the 1930s, the bank stockholders were wiped out (equity set to zero), and they started over. In the 2008 crisis, bank stockholders were "bailed out". The value of their shares did not go to zero. The people who owned the bank before still owned it after. That is the difference between 401(k) accounts taking a 30% haircut and the bank stockholders retaining ownership of insolvent banks.

When the media talks about "too big to fail", they mean "too big to have stockholders wiped out and have the government recapitalize them". Supposedly it sounds too much like socialism. It is really regulatory capture at its finest.
> Every time I see something like this I get nauseated because people are willing to hand over all their personal data for some shiny new technology that really doesn't do anything really amazing at all.

It isn't clear to me if you are directing that towards my comment, or if you meant it as a general criticism. My question was intended to understand more about the concerns that the previous comment raised and if they were only critical of Amazon's implementation or if they were more broadly concerned with privacy wrt all communication tools of this type. It was not to advocate for a "who cares, it's not important" position by any means.
The point is, that kind of free is marketing speak. More accurately, you can purchase Garageband as part of a package including Apple hardware. Or you could say Apple hardware is free with the purchase of Garageband.
I'm starting to evolve my work with SICM to cover "Functional Differential Geometry" [0], mostly because I hope to learn about relativity (special & general) while doing so. Your book evaluations will certainly help and I will have to compare notes with GRtensor (when/if I come to understand enough of the basics, not guaranteed :)

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
That seems to be their MO for a lot of things. Mine product sales data to release their own Amazon version and take that extra margin. They do it here as well.
For whatever reason, Apple prefers to make a single keyboard for their laptops, regardless of the size. Even the 17" had the same keyboard.
Is your cabin in a city with a population of 1.3m? While it sounds very cool, it doesn't sound like the idea would scale, either.

> There is more than enough land for everyone to have a small chunk. With technology it is easy to be connected and employed anywhere.

Anywhere there are utilities. Also, who decides how those chunks are allocated? Who gets a chunk in Monaco and who gets one in the New Mexico desert?
FYI - I just released this:

Dynamic, Responsive Layout for Universal and Orientation-Aware React Native Apps (works in Expo, XCode et al): Flexbox-based layout library that makes building Universal layouts in React Native more fun and much easier than using Flexbox and JS directly.

Repo: https://github.com/idibidiart/react-native-responsive-grid

aspectRatio demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nghqc5QFln8

breakPoints demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1uxWEVAuQ
Okay, I'll bite - what kinds of things do I not "understand is actually happening" in terms of what companies like Google and Facebook do with my data? I'm a reasonably technical person and I honestly believe the "tradeoffs" I'm making with companies like that are firmly in my favor.

It's not the first time I've asked people who seemed convinced that I was in some sort of abusive Stockholm-syndrome relationship with Google/FB/etc to explain what exactly is so bad about the metadata packages they're selling. The only convincing arguments I've ever heard have centered around insurance companies denying me coverage based on risk factors I'm revealing, but I'm pretty sure nobody is actually doing that. Everything else basically just boils down to "they get to show you better ads" which honestly seems like a win-win to me.
> ...there's enough to attempt to bring charges, that's all that matters.

Considering he'd still be in office, and any later attempt to impeach would likely fall on its face due to the embarrassing failure, no, charges aren't all that matters.

Attempting to remove Trump with the 25th Amendment is a ridiculous pipe dream that will never happen. Thinking that doesn't mean I somehow don't take the Constitution seriously, but thanks for the super reasonable interpretation of my comment.
And yet it works. I know because I've done it and lost a TON of weight simply by not eating.
I find myself having to just imagine the narrative that goes along with most presentation decks you find on the internet. Videos of conference talks take too long to watch. I finally had enough of this situation and worked out how to dump out Keynote presentations along with their embedded presenter notes. This script emits HTML that looks a lot like how @idlewords shares his decks, and it also makes a nicely formatted PDF.

Example output: http://pushtrain.club
The comment above wasn't specifically about Thunderbird, but any native non-webmail client.
Practical video calling has been around for a decade, and instant messaging for two or three decades. How long is it supposed to take?
Yes, I can't shake the terror of everything I say or do being recorded and analyzed.
Sounds you figured out the formula early. Did you get guidance or just saw it yourself?
> unambiguously

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Nifty! I must not be keeping up with the latest developments. Apparently this is possible as of about a year and a half ago.
My gosh, yes. Alexa's ability to understand me far outclasses Siri in almost every manner.
Seconding this recommendation. The more electronic- or instrumental-oriented songwriters on the show tend to get more into the nitty-gritty details of production, layering sounds, etc. (the first two episodes with The Postal Service and The Album Leaf, for instance) while rock and singer-songwriter types tend more towards the songwriting aspect (the Long Winters is a personal favorite).

I sort of wish there were more technical details as a rule, but it's understandable given the relatively short format that they can only cover so much ground. I'd prefer longer episodes personally, but I suppose not everyone might, and there's tradeoffs in producing more content. I guess I'm just glad that the show caught on and is still going strong.
How does an SO survey change the view of the comment? If they use Linux and know three other developers two that use a Mac and one on Windows isn't the comment still true? From what they see more folks use non-Windows. Also, not every developer in the world filled out the SO survey. The comment was lamenting that it was Windows Only, I think that's still relevant.
I'm not sure how Google dropedp the ball? I see your argument that Apple was also well situated to create this, but other than starting a bit late, what has Google done wrong?

They are catching up very quickly, since like Apple, they are in a much better position to create this technology as they have most of the ingredients already. Google Home has managed to mostly catch up in 6 months to a product that's been out for over 2 years. 3rd party support is growing very fast, the new SDK opens many doors, the IFTTT/Actions support allows tinkerers to hack up cool new features, and when it comes to conversational AI, most agree that Google is far ahead.

That being said, the competition is still fierce and I'm loving the innovations each side brings.
It's not the 1800's, I'm not sure if anyone is going to line up for a square plot of land with no services in an undeveloped area.
I don't think freshly minted M.Ds are hardly representative of America. Even if they were, there's a middle ground between sparse rural areas and hyper dense Tokyo's.
this is the opposite of what we should do. Spread out living situations contribute hugely to global climate change. We should instead focus on building so much housing in dense urban areas that there will be no scarcity to provide value, and we should also institute a land tax to ensure that land is used for its most efficient purpose. That will drive prices down and allow people to live a sustainable lifestyle.
> Two months ago I was illegally searched during a jaywalking stop and lost everything I owned, including my much-loved remote webdev job, all my tech and clothes, and pretty much all of my societal self-worth.

How does that happen? How does a search during jaywalking stop lead to loss of those things?
Data point: Costco outside my work has gas for $2.61. Across the street is a gas station selling for $2.98. In my experience I save about $4-5 per tank buying at Costco. I fill up about every two weeks, so I save about $100 per year on gas.

If you are new to Costco you will typically save nearly the full membership cost on your first trip, stocking up on basic house supplies.
Probably because the overwhelming majority of people don't really care.

Those that care about a forward delete key are in the minority. They're also the type most likely to have some kind of highly personalized keyboard with very particular Cherry switches and keycaps.
True/false: Can Amazon technically enable it to record without the user's knowledge?

What if a government compelled them to activate this to spy on someone?
Hm, good point. Thanks!
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I've been freelance Rails developer for 8 years and have never wanted for work. Over the past six months, however, things seemed to have dried up. And it's not just me. I've spoken with devs in other languages, designers, devops, and writers and everyone's saying the same thing: work's slowing down.

A couple people think it's because companies are more optimistic and are therefore hiring full-time workers instead of contractors.

What do you think? Are you seeing the same downturn?
I don't know the history of this, but it's entirely reasonable that this was a case of mismanaged expectations, a phenomenon that happens a lot in this industry.

In other words, maybe they thought Jigsaw will evolve into an OSGi replacement and it didn't, while introducing migration challenges. It's reasonable because the current implementation is an evolution of the original plan and maybe it evolved in a direction that Red Hat eventually disagreed with.

Of course, maybe this version was scaled back in order for it to be actually released, but note that the main complaint of the others voting No is that there's a lack of consensus on the open issues.

The "fragmentation of Java's community" will happen regardless, upgrades to Java 9 and Jigsaw will be slow, much slower than to Java 8. Consider that there are companies still on Java 6 and 7 and both have reached end of life. Along with an ecosystem of libraries that still maintain backwards compatibility.

If you're going to go through this migration pain, the benefit / cost ratio has to be worth it. Jigsaw has to solve big problems that Java developers face, to convince the community it's worth it, because projects and libraries have to be changed to support it, risking a very unhealthy fragmentation in that process.
People here are really missing the point... This isn't another ipad it's a different way of interacting. It's not just video message either, it's a new human interface for interacting with software. You can communicate with someone and get suggestions at the same time. Think conversing with a friend and having Alexa aid in the discussion.

Friend 1: Where do you want to go to the movies tonight? ..
Friend 2: I dunno Alexa have any good suggestions?
Alexa: Star Trek is playing x:00 at X theatre. Things of this nature.
Why do you feel the current Julia module system does not support modular application building?
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I would take the opportunity to work on some open source projects or throwaway learning projects in this time.

This is a perfect opportunity. Get your work done but invest your energy in something else so you don't get "bored-out".
Great stuff, lines up a lot with what I'd care about as an ex-gamedev and spending a bit of time with Rust. One minor point:

> First class code hot-loading support would be a huge boon for game developers. The majority of game code is not particularly amenable to automated testing, and lots of iteration is done by playing the game itself to observe changes. I’ve got something hacked up with dylib reloading, but it requires plenty of per-project boilerplate and some additional shenanigans to disable it in production builds.

Lua is a great fit here and interops with Rust(and just about everything else) very well.
Isn't that what happens? Back when I owned a car, some event would be in the news that restricted oil supply and the next day the prices would have jumped up. On the inverse, when something like OPEC announcing they would increase production happened that increased the oil supply, prices would not drop for days or weeks. I'm sure that's a lot of anecdotal evidence without the full picture, but there iss no reason for them to drop the prices if the demand is still there. Its the same reason why software is more expensive in Australia when there is no increase in difficulty in distributing it there. The companies charge more because they can
I'm a classically trained pianist, and I basically agree with you. I read sheet music because that's what there is. As a young composer, I wrote in standard notation because I hadn't questioned it. As an old composer, I don't think there's anything great about it, and I have no need of it. I 'write' all my music on hardware or software synths. It's much easier. All I care about are the parameters. What note, when, how long, how loud, etc.
Code only gets read if it gets written in the first place, which it won't if your fresh new language makes it too hard to bootstrap an ecosystem and a community. One of the foundational premises of this year's ergonomics initiative is that Rust code is still too hard to write; a Rust-like language with linear types instead of destructors would be yet harder to write, and would only improve the ability to reason about code in a small minority of cases. I've been writing Rust code since before it was cool to claim you were doing things "before it was cool", and while I appreciate the cases where people have longed for linear types, I have never needed anything more than what destructors provide (which subverts the very premise of your comment, because, for my uses, enforcing linear types would be harder to both read and write). Nobody on the Rust team is pretending that there aren't tradeoffs.
That's certainly the standard left-wing perspective on it, yes. The problem with this is that just declaring something like healthcare a "right" doesn't give people it - you need vast numbers of doctors, hospitals, surgeons and medications and supplies, all of which have to be funded and organised somehow. You need some way of keeping the costs under control and the services operating effectively across something with hundreds of millions of customers. The American left has no more idea how to do this than the right, so they resort to emotional appeals instead.
If you put your money in something like crypto (I presume you mean Bitcoin?) instead, and if it performs like you expect, you can come out ahead easily. But if you put your money in Mt Gox...
I feel like there should be a programming languages analogue of this: http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/

Every time I see breaking changes in Julia (and the improvements they engender), I get excited! :P
I'm gonna assume OP had drugs on him and was subsequently arrested, but if not that, there's no reason jaywalking should lead to the loss of one's entire inventory of possessions and job...
I think the "market for lemons" analogy is needlessly complicating this because that's an incorrect analogy IMHO.

If it was the case that peaches can't be produced at prices a customer is willing to pay, then the market splits to high-end and low-end with two types of customers with different paying ability like in high end cars (think mercs and rolls royces).

A customer might have information asymmetry but isn't stupid (is this overtly harsh?).

To quote my own comment in a parallel thread here: "wouldn't a middle man who tests cars try and separate the lot and charge for his services?". The market for lemons seems model a static market which is not realistic IMHO
Is there really no cheaper housing options available to people like that? That sounds absurd.
Also from the Backchannel article:

"Several former Rothenberg Ventures and River Studios employees now say they didn’t understand why River Studios was green-lit. One former employee noted that River Studios also competed for clients and market share with at least two of Rothenberg Ventures’ portfolio companies that were already in VR film production, Triggar and vantage.tv. (Triggar didn’t respond to requests for comment, and vantage.tv’s CEO Juan Santillan wrote in an email, “I don’t agree with many of the things that were going on at RV…” but added, “RV[’s] extended team has been great to us.”)"
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The author tries too hard to avoid using the word "object".

"Must use" objects don't seem to be all that useful. More justification is needed. Is the author thinking of Javascript-like callback approaches, broken "promises", and such?
I didn't think I'd be a big user, nor did my wife. Since getting a Pixel phone, I find I use it quite a bit to conduct complex search queries as quickly as possible.

So much faster to speak it out now that their recognition is so damn accurate.

My wife fought me on it until I noticed she too was using Siri more, although the UX with Siri is not as great as Google's Assistant IMHO.
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Convenient for who? Apple's explained, over and over, that a removable battery is a no-go in modern laptops, the amount of material required to encapsulate it and dock it eats up tremendous amounts of space.

Most people would rather have a 14 hour battery that's not replaceable than a 6 hour one that is.

I've had a lot of laptops in the last fifteen years and the only time I'd ever removed my battery was to add memory or a hard drive simply because it was in the way. Maybe one in a hundred people actually care about having a replaceable battery.
Haha ... there's always that person that calls right before the end of the business day!