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It's certainly annoyance - and a good amount of it - but cool doesn't come into it. What I'm really railing against is people who talk a good game but seem to be incapable of delivering anything but bad software (regardless of whether what it does is supposed to be "cool", whatever that might mean when taken in context), and includes unreliable.

I have to admit that it may not be entirely they're fault: organisational culture shapes you whether you want it to or not. So perhaps what I'm really railing against is a culture of software development that tends to exist in larger organisations.

Clearly this isn't universal though - just common. There are notable examples where very large organisations have been able to avoid these problems, at least for a while, even at scale: Google, BBC, parts of Microsoft (I can personally attest to this one), facebook (although hearing from a friend t sounds like they're getting sucked into it).

I do find it frustrating that guys like this style themselves as thought-leaders - and often succeed - whilst unfailingly focussing on the wrong points, and making themselves a complete pain in the ass to everyone they work with.

The other point is that as I've got older it's become starkly obvious to me that I only have so much time left. Obviously that's always been true but when I was younger I suppose I just didn't take it that seriously, and that's sort of a gentle regret. And that's really for everyone: you don't have all the time in the world so if there's something you want to do then get on and do it - sometimes you have to do things just to make ends meet but, as far as is possible, don't subject yourself to anyone who's going to hinder you on that journey.
What do you use them for?
> You can't even really pretend to measure the effectiveness of campaigns there.

I disagree - for something at the scale of P&G, you can bet that they're doing a LOT of measuring for every campaign they run.

The article reads to me as if they're applying the same metrics to their online ads that they use already for traditional campaigns, and finding little impact.
"This problem is well studied - there are ways to make a neural net explain what parts of the input most influenced the decision."

Would you mind providing some reference here? I am interested and not familiar with any such way.
Because this is running on the customer's browser, CPU efficiency doesn't matter at all. They can do all sorts of stupid things, like grab the DOM from the browser, lay it out in a JS rendering engine and see if their div ends up being visible.

I haven't had the time to look through the ad javascripts on your typical fat webpage, but when there's tens of megabytes of code and it pegs my CPU at 100%, I know it's doing more than just displaying a .png in an iframe.
Yes. That is mentioned in the article.
665 kg unbraked

That works out to 1466 pounds. The guy was towing 2500 pounds with a Honda Fit that (unless it's a hybrid) weighs less than 2400 lbs for the car itself.

Do you think the Fit's brakes are designed to safely stop 2x the design weight? Plus the stability just wouldn't be there. Plus any appreciable "tongue weight" behind the back wheels will make the front end light. Bad for control. Wikipedia touches on the issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towing#Towing_safety

Here's another counterexample. The Porsche Cayenne can tow 7716 pounds (3500 kilos) braked, but only 1653 pounds (750 kilos) unbraked. And it's a vehicle that weighs twice as much as the subcompact Fit: http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/cayenne/cayenne-models/cay...
I was struck how sad the interior of the Tesla S looks compared to a mid-priced Audi.

I understand how people can be excited about the driving experience and the fossile-fuel-vision of a Tesla. But interior wise they are not anything special.
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I kind of suspect adblocking is doomed to die rather quickly if it ever seriously threatens the ad industry. As anti-adblock has shown even fairly trivial measures can be effective; and if you control the platform in more depth you can be a lot trickier about it, e.g. by doing minification-esque transforms to the complete dom tree.
The editorial board of the Washington Post is independent. Bezos doesn't exert any editorial control. If you have any evidence to the contrary, I'd be interested to see it.
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Neat job, keep up the great work! There is also OVH as competitor. Their panel and documentation is not the best but once you integrate, it works like a charm and I guess they are the cheapest object storage service out there in the market: https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/
We use 20+ iPod Touch 6 with Infinea X barcode scanners and their free WebHub app to run a web-based warehouse/inventory system. A decade ago it was a pain to deal with Symbol/Motorola scanners and native app deployments. Now it's as easy as JS thanks to iPod Touch and WebHub.

[1] https://ipcmobile.com/products/ios-peripherals/infinea-x/
[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webhub-ipc-browser/id1015159...
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Unfortunately, no one can really articulate the full set of human values yet, especially since they are often in conflict in real-world situations. Which value(s) should be prioritized over others? How about differing values between cultures and human groups within each culture?

You might have heard of the Trolley Problem. There are many and more complicated variations of that.

This Harvard session on Justice (The Moral Side of Murder) is edifying and surprisingly fun to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY

The problem with AGI is more acute than most other technologies because it is software-based, which makes it nigh impossible to regulate effectively, especially globally.
They're Facebook, I'm sure if they actually bothered they would be able to design things so that deleted data could also be removed from backups and expired out of CDN's.

I mean hell, at my company we are putting in tools and methods that will allow us to very easily remove data with a single command from our systems should a customer/partner request their data deleted.
So each time you launch emacs you have to point it to your init file?
This is the very interesting part. By offering such great shipping terms on nearly everything (or close variants of), they're essentially setting the bar higher for any e-commerce store which carries similar items. This means businesses will need to both get with the times as well as find new moats and defining features to set them apart.
I see.

Re: SNI I meant the ACME challenge mode to issue the LE cert: given that it only listens on :443 i assumed it must use the tls-sni based challenge, rather than the http based challenge?
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> Do you think a diagonal saccade is worse than a vertical one for some reason?

Yes, definitely. You don't?

Vertical movement is much easier, just try it. It's also easier to focus since one eye isn't farther away or blocked by your nose.
> you probably don't want to be spending your time figuring out why "the time between ticks increased to 20-30 ms and then it dropped again.

When I was in mobile games (3D) we saw a direct correlation between framerate and revenue. We released a patch that (accidentally) slashed the frame rate and our revenue tanked. We released a patch that did nothing but fix the performance and our revenue went back up to previous amounts.
The images reminded me of Jacob Cheung's Cageman (1992) [0]. Additionally, this video [1] is a decent supplementary material to the article.

[0] https://letterboxd.com/film/cageman/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le6nE6yAwFM
It is very easy to spoof an email address[1], so it could be that it is someone from outside of FedEx.

https://superuser.com/questions/505503/how-can-you-fake-an-e...
> the reason IPCC models run hot is because the scientists in charge are acting un-scientifically by discarding the data that doesn't agree with the "impending anthropogenic global warming doom" narrative

Any source for this claim?

> So again, goes both ways, except I haven't heard of any falsifications at the hands the non-alarmist camp to prove their position this way

There was no falsification, you have to research better and not read what Lamar Smith says.

By the way, even Dr. Bates says that the data is accurate

> “The issue here is not an issue of tampering with data, but rather really of timing of a release of a paper that had not properly disclosed everything it was,”

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/how-culture-clash-noa...

So, any proof of data falsification?
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Voting brigades aside, Coinbase is the corporate greed most Bitcoiners are running from. Nobody that respects Bitcoin could respect Coinbase.

Sure their voice has weight - they own a lot of the coin. They'll likely use their BCC to crash the show, add their fiat.

This all helps their business because the Lightning Network can benefit hugely from their centralised and trusted position. IOW: SegWit and small blocks gives them business.

I'll be happy to see Coinbase spend huge money on ruining BCC, while Bitcoiners reap the profits from trading against them, only to have Coinbase end up poor and injust.

Also: stealing from your customers is not a classy move. But then, Coinbase was never classy, was it?
Well there is the built in tutorial for that. And it'll leave you at a point where you can frustratingly do text editing and feel a bit confused about what all the hype is and then after a few weeks/months you'll drift back to a more traditional/"modern" text editor.

At least that was my experience... twice..

The only way to stick with emacs is to see how extensible and useful it is - which is really all about learning org and how to add packages.

Org is really the gateway drug b/c of how useful it is for everyone - even non developers. For developers the other "killer-app" is magit. For a long time I used emacs just for magit. Only a couple of windows git GUI editors come close in usefulness
He was talking about editorial independence.
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More like their 90% use case was subsumed by the new steamvr lobbies...
Caps lock as control still caused pinky strain for me. I use xah lee's Ctrl palming method and it is amazing. I recommend anyone try it for at least an hour to get used to it, you'll never switch back.

Unfortunately it only works with physical keyboards. Still use caps lock on my laptop.
Both Google and Facebook work on "tech that directly impacts lives and how a person's day flows". So far producing more value than Uber has, but Uber provides a valuable service too. And while Google & Facebook's revenue is primarily from their ad business, they're not ad companies, like, say, Rubicon Project.
You're making an incorrect comparison, there's a logic failure there.

$59,500 as shown, then you use that to compare to the base Model S at $68,000, referencing a "real-world" price difference of 13%.

How exactly is $59,500 defined as the official "real-world" price, such that it gets pegged as the key comparison point to use vs the base S? That's a wholly subjective premise you crafted.
Well, this is the thing that needed to be said.

I worked in online ads for bigger part of my career, I certify that fraud is that industry's second nature. But the type of fraud they engage in is the one for which they can't be prosecuted (disclaiming, audits, etc)
Better yet: seller that delivers to your local supermarket so you don't have to stay home and wait for them. In NL it's pretty much the preferred option for carryable items
Which is why I got rid of Windows, it has nothing to offer that I need or want, so why bother with it?
I owned maybe the first or second model of the Touch, in the early days of the iPhone-era smartphones.

At the time an iPhone did cost some 600€+ in Europe, while a Touch was 200€ or so.

Considering that at the time mobile apps were much less "connected" and advanced than today, it allowed to have most of the functionality of a smartphone (playing games, music player, video player) at a much lower price.

I agree that today makes much less sense, since smartphones have been getting "smarter", cheaper (aside from flagship models), and the apps more reliant on a data connection (which in turn has been getting cheaper and faster).
Oh they care about the packaging, they care very much. They're doing price discrimination in stages:

The fancy toothpaste with the beautiful box comes from the same conglomerate as the cheaper one does. If you consider yourself hot stuff, you pick the fancy brand with the shiniest box. The middle class, humble folk pick the same product sans color whirl and foil insets on the box, but it's still Colgate brand shaving cream. None of that Value-By-Walmart crap for our house, no sir.

The in-store, value-add generic products look even cheaper and less attractive. My rational mind knows that Safeway doesn't own any shampoo factories, and Safeway Compliments brand shampoo comes from the same vats as the more expensive stuff on the higher shelves.

It's not like fancier graphics take more money to print. Rather, P&G, Tesco et al pay the designer to make the boxes look "cheap" or "expensive", so us suckers would opt for the more expensive option - and bring more revenue.

We are all suckers. I learned this like 10 years ago prepping for my economics admittance exam. Our house is still filled with brand-name items, because monkey be dumb.
Has anyone tried to use visual studio Open Folder feature [1] along the WSL to work in that IDE with big C++ cmake built projects targeting linux?

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/04/12/ope...
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I'm very curious to see how Tesla scales repair shops and parts, especially given that Model 3's will be owned largely by those from the middle class.

Will they start selling parts to independent mechanics? (Will we have to eventually force them to?)
In what world is a sub 6s 0-60 sporty? The WRX gets 4.6, and I'd consider that the edge of sporty (also cheaper than the 3).
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Sadly, we would just end up with more sponsored content.
You can filter by category.
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What do you use to debug then?
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Can't speak for the OP, but as a (maybe possibly somewhat arrogant) man, the most I have ever mustered towards unwanted people bothering me was cold, superficial politeness, just barely enough that they can't say I'm wronging them. Not sure if that counts as being "nice" under intimidation.

> I sometimes meet people, most (all?) of them women, who were not nice to one idiot groping them and woke up in the hospital.

In Europe? I suppose it's possible in some pathological neighborhoods but I would be surprised to hear it's a common occurrence. But then, I guess, once per lifetime is dangerous enough, as you say.
By proxy, do you mean https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy-protocol.txt ? this looks very new... (I thought you were talking about X-Forwarded-For)

Yes, it's using the TLS-SNI challenge (through golang's autocert)
Similar boat here. I usually avoid java like a rabbid dog with a gun, but IDEA Ultimate is worth the jvm weight. Nothing else seems to come close in terms of language support and features, especially once you factor in the things supported via plugins.
The Tesla Model 3 has the most minimalistic interior I've ever seen

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-minimalistic-in...
This kind of resource misuse is one more reason people run adblockers.

That and the security risks of running other people's code on your system.
As an European, I also think that European cities are depressingly similar :|
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The article does not state what happened.
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For subgoals, there have been a lot of research results on that, mostly in the symbolic AI tradition.

Even if an AI does not determine its own ultimate goal(s), it could still cause us a lot harm by creating subgoals that do not align with human values, which no one can articulate in full yet.

Overall, the controversy is worth it because the force for progress is strong enough that another AI winter is highly unlikely if useful applications continue to be developed. Without the warnings, research on Provably Safe AI might not have sufficient resources especially talented people working on it.
nonsense. buy yourself a ticket, check all those tier-1/2/3 cities, check the lights of all those apartment blocks at 8pm.
More like GNU/Linux/Microsoft/NT.
Windows is more of a distro name such as Ubuntu.
No proposer of legalization ever thought of it as "a darwin award". If anything, it's the opposite: treating addiction as a health issue usually ensures people will survive - both users, who get "clean" drugs in predictable quantities; and dealers, who can come out of the underworld and not risk their lives running from the police or from other gangs.

The current criminalization is extremely darwinistic: only the most violent thugs survive in the supply chain, and only the smartest users.

I don't think legalizing will increase usage of heroin, because its health problems are huge and extremely well-known. Like putting ferrets up your bum, people are not going to do it simply "because it's legal".
I disagree. SteamVR home only lets you invite a few friends over to your personal space while AltspaceVR was more about all kinds of events in public spaces. Even more importantly it's only available on the PC while Altspace was one of the few options also available on mobile VR which has a significantly larger userbase than PC-based VR right now.
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Won't fly in Europe. They will have to open up all their diagnostics and special tools.
If you use the LogDog app, your online accounts are continously monitored for suspicious access. It sends an alert to your phone and prompts you to review the issue and change your password if necessary. We're trying to make it as understandable and as easy to operate as possible, so even technically-unsavvy people could benefit.

That being said, there's no getting around education. It's key to prevent a person from being scammed out of their passwords or oauth-access in the first place.
It looks quite nice.

An alternative solution, which requires a modified compiler but avoids the need for a context and errors channel, are the channels used by Clive:

https://lsub.org/export/golsub.html

I'd really like these channels (or some modified version of them) made it into Go2.
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Yes that's what I meant by PROXY protocol support.

Introduced 7 years ago is "very new"?
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> This problem is well studied - there are ways to make a neural net explain what parts of the input most influenced the decision.

That's a new area of research, actually.
There isn't and there doesn't need to be, because newspapers should be read as evidence rather than as authority.

Like any publication, the WP is what it is. It has particular staff, history, reputaiton etc, all of which make it strong in some ways but weak in others, including bias. Bezos' ownership of the paper is yet one more layer on all that.

There is, and never was, any alternative to reading stuff with your bullshit detector turned on.
No. My .emacs has a code snippet that points Emacs to another directory for my own configs. I softlink both .emacs and the config directory.
Renault Espace (among others) has had this for quite a while and it works fairly well. I'd even say it keeps your peripheral vision on the road more than the traditional clocks (if done right).
I have to admit that at a deeper lever I'd love if advertisers get the fuck off of the web. I don't have a problem with advertising per se but the way it's used today hurts the medium in so many ways. Sites are bloated with ads, journalism is riffled with native advertising articles, malware is mainly spread through infected ads and on top of that we have a legion of companies out there which are collecting every kind of personal information imaginable without permission or any kind of regulation. Enough is enough.
Population growth has been slowing since 1989 and the population in total is predicted to peak between the mid and late 21st century[1]. In many western countries this has already happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
I think other companies might come to the same conclusion and also reduce their ad spending.

We're in an advertising bubble just like the dot com bubble except this time it's not stock prices that are frothy, it's the advertising revenue itself.
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I'm Norwegian, not Swedish, but there is this lutheran/protestant culture that's very deeply embedded in the Scandinavian/Nordic countries that have one hand contributed to the success of things like criminal reform and welfare,
because those areas happened to unite a lot of Christians and a lot of liberals and left wing people around a shared belief of how to treat people with decency and compassion, but which at the same time can be very paternalistic when applied to other areas.

You see this in terms of policies on things like alcohol and drugs in particular, but also areas like prostitution, where the attitude is often that the people involved are sinners who both need help and punishment, and where there is an attitude of "we know best" about legislation and treatment options.

The Nordic countries often looks liberal on the surface, but while they have secularised rapidly there is still an undercurrent of Christian moralistic ideas that have had a very firm grip in many areas, aided by the long lasting state churches (e.g. the Norwegian Lutheran church was a state church with the government appointing key people until 2012).
see also this (54 comments, 6 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13444360
I'm curious about the risk of the center detached tablet becoming a loose, dangerous projectile in the event of a crash. I haven't seen anything so far on how they've attached it to ensure that's not a problem in hard collisions.