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Facebook began being a ripped off idea that two twin came up with. You know that whole idea that execution is more important than ideas? Well, this is what happens at the extremity. If you have 100 creativity and 0 execution, you're not going to get far. If you have 100 execution and 0 creativity, you're not going to get very far. If someone with higher execution (and perhaps lack of morals is a necessary aspect) then copies someone with creativity, then that execution will only go as far as ideas that are obvious - or they become a copy machine. The problem then is that the resources that should be feeding the creative environment instead feeds the mercenaries. Facebook is and will slowly fill whatever verticals that others have proven - it's happening heavily with messaging, I wonder what areas will be next.
I like the idea. I don't have any tech resources, but from a regulatory front, look up "Regulation Z." https://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/regzcg.htm

It's pretty comprehensive, and dense. But don't let it discourage you
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I do believe that it is very unusual for an HR investigation to be a fair process. HR is primarily tasked with protecting the company from legal liability first, and with resolving employee disputes second, and with finding out the truth as a distant third (so distant as to be not-on-the-map).

I'm not an absolutist but I do have a high standard of ethics when it comes to disciplinary action that can affect a person's livelihood and reputation (and thus future employment prospects).

There is an unfortunate trend in our society right now for the justice of the mob. The loudest and most aggrieved mob tends to exert its "authority" (as such, it's illegitimate but is authority none the less) against those who stand accused of a moral transgression. This has created the atmosphere of a moral panic which leads to numerous false accusations. It's a troubling circumstance.

Given the troubling circumstances we find ourselves in I find it important to advocate for higher standards of discourse, ethics, and institutional conduct because the natural tendency otherwise becomes a race to the bottom combined with CYA behavior.

I don't think my advocacy for high standards of ethics in institutional authority is untenable though. I think we have reached a place where we need new solutions because HR isn't cutting it because it is not intended to nor should its mandate be expanded to cover this kind of stuff.

If workplace harassment is as pervasive and problematic as it seems to be (at some companies) then a separate function for handling those issues fairly would be my preference. I'm also, however, deeply concerned that we are seeing a slip into a transgressions-driven-dialogue and the moral panics and kneejerk reactions we see all over social media, and particularly on college campuses, is beginning to become normalized in the workplace as well. That would be a tragic outcome.
Clojure's not dying, but it's also not thriving[1].

I think it will continue on as a solid niche language for the foreseeable future, but it's highly unlikely that the language will grow by leaps and bounds barring some must-have innovation in the Clojure language and/or ecosystem that gets the tech world to take it more seriously.

There are so many options these days that it's tough to stand out from the crowd. Clojurescript, while interesting, is a dime-a-dozen with Elm, Purescript, Scala.js, Typescript, etc. all on offer, and with static types to boot. Also, Lisp itself is a tough sell, mainstream adoption isn't in the cards without a major paradigm shift.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0_lcrx4,%2...
Perhaps because significant white space (e.g. Python) has quite a lot of detractors of its own.
It feels like QA is an antiquated notion these days. Why is a prod-like test environment too much to ask for? As a developer, if you call me in the middle of the night and tell me we are in crisis mode, my first thought might be "Did anyone test this thing with any kind of rigor at all?"
He also believed in faeries.
Interesting that this is something of interest and research since anyone who does active development in Open Source could have given the answer without it.

The majority of PRs tend to not affect the build status.

The rare cases (4-5%) where it does, is a complex architectural reason, or the tests are variable. Which doesn't even factor into this research... Such as tests that rely on timestamps/external requests/etc that randomly fail, yet are still a part of the test suite (pretty common).

The places where people are afraid to contribute generally tend to have overly complex contribution guidelines, rules, and acceptance criterion where you must sign a waiver, agree to their code of conduct, submit some form of a RFC... rather than the CI.
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...and it gets worse. Try being poor, toiling through a demeaning job, going hungry to feed others yet still manage to live without hurting anybody. There's a million unsung heroes out there. Winning the startup lottery doesn't make you one.
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Then you have consumers that want to buy SUVs, so there is no way you are going to meet your quota of zero-emission-vehicles.

It was the emissions restrictions that pushed so many consumers to SUVs in the first place.
Nice perspective. Also an ape guy (love reminding telling people we are just silly monkeys), and I think there is probably a lot of truth to looking at it this way.
I do wonder how much the purchase of Sun (Java) by Oracle and/or the slow down in Java advancement has affected those languages that a primarily hosted on the JVM.
I actually did apply to a pretty popular company in Canada, and they said Visa sponsorship for jr. roles is almost impossible.
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Similar - you can bet that most therapists have read that and incorporate it into their practice. My wife and I are fortunate enough to share the same primary love language, but like with most couples, there are a bunch of little things where we differ. This is why they say communication is key in a relationship - if you're not communicating, you never learn that the other person might come into the relationship with subtly different values or experiences, and then when they do things that make you feel ignored or hurt, you attribute it to malice rather than ignorance.
Looks like someone has:
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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6844831/
Not sure. A lot of writers hate editors. But I would say "good editors know why they are bad writers."
> Oh the stomping on the accelerator indicates an emergency so we go with maximum performance rather than emission compliance

FWIW, that's common on gas engines so there is some precedent. It's called power enrichment and can be adjusted in GM computers. When it kicks in depends on the car/truck it's installed in. But it uses a combination of manifold pressure and throttle position and rpm to decide whether or not to command extra fuel. You can see the params HP Tuners uses to configure the PE circuit here: https://www.hptuners.com/help/vcm_editor_parameters_gm_eng_f...
What makes you doubt it?

We know these companies have people working to exploit psychological quirks/flaws to increase engagement. We also know that ethical concerns are somewhere below the bottom of the list of considerations when creating/implementing new "features".

Given the things we know, I'd be more surprised if this wasn't true.
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On top of all that, the raw numbers of diesel passenger vehicles sold in the US is so small that their emissions are basically irrelevant.

Americans for the most part do not like diesel cars. It's really not even worth testing them.

Trucks are another matter, but they have different emissions standards.
Sorry, didn't mention.

I'm from India, but can converse in both English and German, if that helps.
In our experience, React is not necessarily 'slow' by default. Re-constructing parts of the element tree each time can be a bit wasteful, but it is only as slow as your render() methods, and that is outside of React's control.

We have survived over 3 years with a massive application (over 2000 modules) and tons of wasteful re-rendering, but have only now started to notice any sluggishness. That makes React pretty fast in my mind.

Having said all that, we are experimenting with an 'all PureComponents' approach to potentially make React, but whether that turns out to be a good idea is yet to be seen (object comparisons in sCU are not free).
Right, I just used `props.bar` in that example, you're right - it would be a bad idea to do so unless it was some kind of initializing prop (common with state-based stuff).

> The interface is the same.

Huh? foo(event) is different from foo(bar, event) and if your function is only ever going to be called with the former (ie - any dom event handler) and you want the latter... it's absolutely useful.
This is a much more approachable syntax, reads much like a mix of Ruby and Python
Even before the IBM PC there was the Altair. Ed Roberts mentioned in http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/mits0011.asp that “We should have copyrighted the name or patented the bus”.
EVs also don't make driving "effectively free." We don't really have a good handle on the long-term maintenance costs associated with EVs but even the electricity itself (at residential power rates) is about 1/3 to 1/2 of gasoline costs in the US. A substantial savings but not free.
Based on my readings, 'incomprehensible method + novel idea + good story' seems to work pretty well too.
Practical and legal concerns make such an operation a necessity. Of course it's not guaranteed to work, it relies on trust, but you can't make a system intended for real-world use where you can't at least attempt to delete things.

Additionally, though the technology can't force other instances to delete things, other concerns perhaps can. Consider the potential legal implications of deliberately ignoring delete requests.
It's not, alas, a flip-a-switch upgrade, given how many CPEs and other equipment have shoddy or non-existent IPv6 support.

Forward-thinking network operators (like Verizon Wireless or Comcast or T-Mobile USA) have taken advantage of the LTE and DOCSIS 3 transitions (which inherently involve installing and provisioning new hardware on a massive scale) to properly provision and deploy IPv6 to their customers.

There's plenty of large eyeball networks (https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/about/our-thinking/state-of-the... , click on "Networks" to sort by traffic volume, the second column is the percentage of requests from that network via IPv6) that have working IPv6 deployed and used to a significant percentage of their subscribers -- some around 80%.
I should also mention highway guardrails, where incompatiblity can harm people: http://kdvr.com/2016/11/22/colorado-inspecting-every-guardra...
There are other sites that served similar functions for ancient peoples over long periods of time. I recently learned about one of them in the Blue Hills just south of Boston; it was a quarry used by native people for thousands of years to make stone tools such as spears and axes:

Wampatuk hill, one of the many that make up the ridges of the Blue Hills, is made entirely out of a material called rhyolite. Essentially this hill represents a portion of the lava column located within the volcano that solidified so quickly that it’s silica (or glass)- rich magma turned into a crystalline fine grained blue rock with tiny flecks of quartz. It is the natural blue color of the stones of the Blue Hills that gave the area its name, and it is this one particular type of blue stone that brought Native people from the surrounding area to Wampatuk to mine and work its natural stone. The entire area surrounding the hill consists of massive boulders and outcrops of blue hills rhyolite, each one slightly different, and each one a type of stone that I have found turned into tools that we excavate on archaeological sites throughout the area. These range from the deep blue-black stones east and south of Wampatuk to the oddly speckled material you find on Wampatuk itself. This hill was a Mecca of stone tool production.

As you walk the Sawcut Notch path along the northern boundary of the park, you will pass great dome and little dome. These two small hills are made out of Braintree slate and Massachusett hornfels. Keep an eye open for scoop-like marks in the stone where thousands of years before a Massachusett Native person was standing exactly where you are striking the slate to remove portions of it to turn into tools. Turn around and behind you will be small mounds of stone fragments.

These mounds are not natural deposits, but heaps of stone waste, each the result of stone striking stone working raw slate down to a spear preform or perhaps a stone adz. These are all viewable from the path and artifacts lie within the path itself. ...

... The natural hillside was not in fact natural, it was, and IS, a quarry of truly monumental proportions. The terraces I had walked were not simply erosional, but were in fact carved into the raw rock by Massachusett Native people quarrying stone from the hillside for thousands of years, and the mounds and pathways I had been climbing over were mountains of stone debris consisting of Millions upon millions of stone flakes each individually struck by human hands.

http://friendsofthebluehills.org/keynote/
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No. Using algorithmic analysis of legal contracts is an entirely different approach.

This startup has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies: http://beagle.ai/
I use AngelList to look out for jobs and couldn't find any startup that could sponsor a Visa. Is there any other job portal I should look at?
Did you use encryption directly, or a commercial software product to encrypt the image?

Many commercial software versions can easily be decrypted by the company, it's one of the services they often perform for special cases.
Theoretically, your position could be true.

Empirically, VW released patches for their cars to bring the non-test characteristics in line with their test-mode characteristics.

The outcome was that the diesel-engine vehicles had reduced fuel economy and acceleration. [1]

Most customers still enjoyed their cars after the patch was applied.

1. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/guide-to-the-volkswa...
The comments here seem pretty anti-build-your-own. I really hope people don't start legislating that you can't build your own car. I build personal electric vehicles now, and I have aspirations of building a car.

I hope legislators don't derail me.
> ... it may already be economically impossible to build a car that complies with the law.

I have no hard data, but my suspicion is that it is not economically impossible in any absolute sense. That is, it is possible to create cars that meet the standard, that can be sold to consumers at a price that allows them to be built. They may have lower power than customers desire, but what else are they going to do? Walk?

What is probably not possible is to do that when they have to compete against cars that only pretend to meet the standard. The cars that only pretend will cost less, or have more performance. If the buyer compares a car that meets the regulation and one that only pretends to, the one that only pretends to is a more desirable car, and will get the sale.

> Just because someone wrote a regulation somewhere doesn't mean it's good, or possible, or economical.

Yup. That's true of regulations on more than just cars, too.
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I absolutely cannot stand significant whitespace... it is a step back in almost every area of usability.
Can you elaborate? Surely you're not complaining about historical references, use of languages other than English, or indirect comparisons based on obviously jocular namespace collisions. Would you have complained if I had written "HR behaves in many ways like a secret police force"? Would you have chided me if I had referenced the Stasi instead of the Gestapo? Genuinely curious.
Maybe they arent enamored with personalized ads. What if its a bit of a white wash or generalized term. What if they knew enough about peoples personality and thoughts that they could guide that person to want their product. Like were in the beginning of a path that leads to someone being able to tell us how to think and where to go. All very distopian, but I agree I feel like we're quickly moving past personalized ads.
... and I learned you could readily control the trade-off between performance and emissions using software in the engine controller...

That is THE tradeoff everyone contends with. The regulations on emissions and fuel economy are directly at odds with each other. The things you do to get more efficient often result in incomplete combustion - strange as that sounds.
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I'm not saying that's not true but in my case, it was the need for an 8 passenger vehicle that was not a minivan. It was either a SUV or a commercial commuter van.
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Wouldn't the basic prisoner's dilemma suggest that they have to be colluding?
Are implementation details for this available? What's the stack?
Old people always complaining about stuff they don't understand!
+1 Hire Product Managers and groom them a bit to become Product Owners. I'd suggest doing it before the acquisition.
China doesn't import that much goods from the west. So crisis there shoudn't have big impact on US and Europe. Except real estate market. It seems that US, European land/houses are the only thing Chinese are interested in.
A lot of the points touched on in the original article and this thread are conducive to deeper, creative and more meaningful work in general. You should say no to meaningless distractions. I just finished reading this book about it, so, good timing... https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted-...
I would assume since they're violating the GPL that there is no source, and that's the issue.
I think that safety was the reason they did it. I think that at least some of their vehicles are right hand drive (to make getting out of the vehicle safer) as well which means that left turns are noticeably more dangerous than right turns.
> When using immutable data structures the comparison in `shouldComponentUpdate` is very cheap.

The equality check is always the same in pure components. Whether the data is immutable or not, pure components do a reference equality check. This will result in failing to update correctly with mutable data.

For simplicity, I guess you could go with PureComponent by default, and remove it as an optimization instead, which is what I've been doing with good results.
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clojure's killer app, datomic, is closed source

in my opinion, this is a key reason, why clojure is not thriving

i can't think of any (problem) domain, where clojure have a framework or library, than is significantly better than most other frameworks or libraries

if you are not number 1 at anything, it is hard to thrive
In a parallel post, I just agreed with you. But jerf's position may be closer to correct than you suspect, because fuel economy is also part of the regulations. Well, you can meet both if you make the car lighter. But collision resistance is also part of the regulations. And so on...

Did the patched cars also meet mileage standards? How close to the limit were they? (Or are there no mileage standards for diesels?)
they are all cheating and the punishments won't be equivalent (I assume you mean to the amount of damages and money they made during the cheating period on the cheating vehicles)

But you're right, we don't have proof right now. I think the logical proof, that other companies are selling similar vehicles at similar price points that are "passing" the emissions testing is proof but obviously not of the legal variety.
It hasn't caught on is because for all the talk about parens, they aren't really a decisive barrier, just an easy thing to latch on to, and because S-expressions are more clear (note that more algol-inspired M-expressions were the original proposed programming syntax for Lisp, with S-expressions as an behind-the-scenes representation, but programmers preferred using S-expressions directly.)
Parentheses exist because it is the easiest way to represent the raw AST in text form. S-Expressions were originally an intermediate form for a more algol-like syntax[0], but became the primary form of representing Lisp because allowing the programmer to manipulate the AST is extremely useful, arguably what makes Lisp Lisp. There are homoiconic languages like Prolog and Julia that have more familiar syntax styles, but S-Expression Lisps are unmatched in making homiconicity readily apparent.

Another reason Lisp programmers tolerate parentheses hell is that Lisp development has often paralleled that of emacs and emacs-like editors that make manipulating s-expressions extremely intuitive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression
As an aside--do you enjoy the oiling process? A little bit here or there could be a fun maintenance task. 500+? That just sounds tedious and not really fun for a hobby...
$700 per vehicle doesn't come close. Anecdata: buyback option on my 2011 jetta sportwagen tdi netted me a check north of $8000 -- after they paid off my loan balance. Maybe the $700 per car is the penalty per se, but the scandal cost a lot more than that!
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Then it is the regulations that need changing
This is the important bit:

> ... it is very easy to end up with regulations that
> when taken together are not feasible.

I had a discussion with a member of the "Bay Area Air Quality Management Board" (not a fan) about this very issue. I asked, "How do you know whether or not what you're trying to achieve is possible?" Their answer was "Well if it isn't possible someone will tell us."

It is a classic prisoner's dilemma problem. If everyone is honest, you make cars that are good for the environment but lack the performance, if one can "defect" while looking like they haven't (aka they cheat) they take all the money.
yep. it has become a weasel word where the speaker means to say "agreeable" but knows that "reason" has more social status than "agreement" in most contexts.
If Volkswagen couldn't figure out how to meet US emission standards for diesel without cheating

VW could meet the emissions standards, and went through the actual testing and passed. It had such an effect on either fuel economy or long term reliability however that they cheat on the road.

However it's notable that the only VW vehicles that fail are the ones that don't use diesel exhaust fluid (DEF). This is something that you refill periodically and it's sprayed into the exhaust to reduce a lot of the harmful exhaust. That system costs a couple of thousand dollars, so they eliminated it and claimed that they found a way around it.

The GM trucks, in contrast, have the DEF systems, just like all of the Mercedes and higher end VW diesel cars do.

Too many commentators are taking the word of a legal firm that got some easy prey and now hopes there's blood in the water.
It's hard to fully analyze your situation in this small paragraph.

1. Acceptance is the starting point or in the case acknowledgement of the problem
2. Talk Therapy / Counseling works. I would personally stay away from any pharma drugs, unless truly warranted.
3. I liked that you mentioned some weight training! Any regular exercise routine never hurt anybody. I have fought off depression with hitting the gym hard. It was what I needed at the time.
4. Can you smell what the Rock is cooking! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dwayne-johnson-the-rock-...
Other providers like Tropo have had this hosted scripting for years. Nice to see Twilio catching up.