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I have personally watched Uber drivers (Not in the USA) do exactly this - lots of them in a Whatsapp group all agreeing when to disconnect their apps and turn them back on again.

In front of me. During the ride.

They definitely do this and it happens all the time. I sent my complaint about it to Uber, to only get ignored. The drivers are gaming the system and the customers get hurt. Right now, Uber is still better than taxis where I am, but I tell you the absolute second there is a decent competitor I am switching. I absolutely despise Uber.

It would be so easy to stop this. Prevent someone who turned off their phone prior to a surge, from participating in the surge price for a time window before and after.
Sad the world we live in. We need the world to reach for Western standards of openness, freedom, and dignity and put people before profits. Instead, I see us altering our way of life to the least common denominator of state coercion.
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At first there was the AMD Mantel API and the game engine devs of EA Dice (Frostbite), from their experience Vulcan and the slightly different DirectX12 branched off. At the moment it seems Vulcan has more support than DirectX12. (OpenGL and DirectX up to v11 were older higher level APIs.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_(API)
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>their color choices were more garish than we would use today.

Maybe that was just an artistic choice.

The reason I am pushing on this is that there is a widespread idea, especially in academia, that people in different cultures see the world completely differently than we modern Westerners do. But that is simply not true. On most basic things, like the fact that human beings live in space, have to eat, and so on, different cultures agree.
As someone with a genetic disease that involves my spine disintegrating and my heart basically being a time bomb, I have a really hard time seeing a problem with this.

Limit it to diseases and genetic anomalies so it doesn't become a race thing and voila. Why would getting rid of things like my disease be a bad thing?
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Wait, yanks are worried about a trade deficit with China? Take a seat, i have some news...

Really this post is what is already happening. Nothing to do with genetic engineering, everything to do with neoliberalism.
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... I am one of their parents - and I can assure you the happiness anyone gets from associating with my children or the happiness they get from experiencing their life is independent of their capacity to become a scientist or an athlete. I'm not talking about not preventing diseases. Gene therapy as announced in the article? Sounds good. Eugenics beyond that? I think we need to have a big discussion about what we're actually trying to achieve as a society, because beyond actual lethal diseases there's a lot of big costs to society that come with it.
I wonder. Are you aware that such talk fuels those people?
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I think it's unethical for us to not pursue gene editing. Why bring children into this world with greater susceptibilities to disease? Also, if people want to go a step further and alter traits like appearance and athletic ability that should be their choice. It is their genetic material.
In addition to all that has been said, if you really want to understand what Logo is, what it teaches, why, etc - then you need to read about it from the man who invented it:

http://www.papert.org/

Want to know why Lego Mindstorms exists? Well...

https://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerfu...

That's the work you need to read - but really, learn about the man, learn about Logo. As others have noted, it's more than just turtle graphics - so much more. Unfortunately, educators still have not grasped his ideas fully, and if you look closely, what is often touted out there for teaching children and others programming - is essentially his ideas, reimplemented poorly.

He has written more on the subject than that one book; and his thoughts and ideas (and Logo itself) aren't really about teaching children programming, but teaching children how to think computationally, algorithmically. He saw how and where things were heading long before many others, and he worked to try to get people prepared. Sadly, all people grasped was turtle graphics, but not the larger picture.

I often wonder where we'd be today had more people truly understood and implemented his (and, to be honest, his "muse" / "mentor" / "inspiration", if you will, in Piaget) methods and thoughts on teaching. Most likely in a much better position as a society...
Richard, amazing idea and appreciate the candor from your personal experience. HN is a great community to spread the word of your launch, so thanks. Let me know how I can help
I would add a third purpose:

3. Show what is novel in your work. Novelty is important in many academic situations.
Yes. There's no bargaining with communists, there is only wiping them from the earth.
> Does the Canadian copyright lobby have friends in very high places?

Yes, to the degree that a certain percentage of Radio and TV content must be of Canadian origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
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How is that? It seems reasonable to believe, all else being equal, that someone that's been convicted of a crime has committed more crimes than someone that hasn't been convicted.
Maybe if they have patents which become extremely relevant.
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Now imagine when we can "cure" things like autism, nonstandard genders, race, etc.

A lot of tolerance is predicated on things being out of our hands, practically. That goes away if we can change them.
There's a lot I don't understand about Uber.

What's the Uber business case?

Is there enough profit in taxi services around the world to justify their valuation and financial losses?

Do they hope to recoup through a future monopoly? Tracking Data? Self-driving vehicle fleets?
You definitely cannot freeze cooked barbecue brisket and bring it back to life at adequate commercial quality. You can freeze raw brisket, but that doesn't solve the core problem of serving barbecue brisket, which is that it takes so long to cook that you have to either be really good at predicting your turnover or close up early when you run out.

Long story short: freezing brisket, not a great plan.
Didn't he famously deny paternity for his first daughter until she was around 9 years old?
It's not moral standards we have, it is ridiculously parochial notions of purity and natural-is-better attitudes. If we fail to free our children from stupidity and ill health, we are the moral imbeciles. If Asian nations increase health, IQ, and happiness through genetic selection and engineering, this will speak of higher moral sophistication. We have right-wing religious conservatives on one side and on the left a sort of Lysenkoism that pertains to all mental traits. I fear this will prevent us from implementing this technology.
Mmmhhh... I believe that I am starting to understand your point. If I understand correctly, you regret that WebAssembly does not offer a set of opcodes that would let it trivially (or at least simply) compile JavaScript, right?

If so, let's reset the discussion, because we were actually talking past each other.

Yes, such opcodes might essentially solve the issues that the binary AST is attempting to solve, albeit probably at the cost of losing the source code of JavaScript.

I have not been part of the debates on Wasm, but I believe that I can extrapolate some of the reasons why this wasn't done:

1. Coming up with a decent target for statically compiled languages whose compilation is basically well-known is much easier than coming up (and maintaining) a decent target for a dynamic compiled language whose specifications are amended roughly once per year.

2. Each browser vendor has its own JS-specific bytecode format. Transpiling a neutral bytecode to a vendor-specific bytecode isn't particularly easy.

3. If a vendor decides to expose their own bytecode format and let third-parties ship to this format, they suddenly get a low-level compatibility burden that will be extremely damaging to their own work on the JS VM.

4. If the JS opcodes are high-level, suddenly, Ecma needs to maintain two different specifications for the semantics of the same language: specifications by interpretation and specifications by compilation. On the other hand, if the JS opcodes are low-level, there is a pretty large burden for developers on maintaining a JS-to-bytecode compiler and making sure that it has the exact same semantics as JavaScript. In the latter case, there is also a pretty good chance (and some early experiments) that the compiled files will be much larger and much slower to parse.

In comparison with these issues, coming up with a simple Binary AST format is rather simple, hence has much higher chances of achieving success and consensus. Additionally, we have encouraging numbers that indicate that Binary AST can speed up things a lot. Finally, the Binary AST has several interesting side-benefits, including the fact that it maintains source code readability.
That's incredible! Thanks for the insight.

Any recommendations for detecting/correcting bitrot with RHEL 7.4 at the filesystem or lower levels?
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Each version works a little less. It's great! God forbid I can find the chatbox, I might use it!
Is globalization an engine of economic development?
Or maybe those countries will fuck up their population's genetic makeups in unforeseen ways, and we can be fortunate for having dodged that bullet.

Do you honestly believe there is a single "intelligence" gene we can edit to turn up intelligence like a knob, without impacting anything else about the person? Do you want your baby to be the first one its tried out on?
It happened to me as well - I also saved some pages.
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BASIC was my first language too, but LOGO was the first language I attempted to make an interpretor for (also, incidentally, LOGO was the first language I took a class for, just for fun - something Radio Shack offered for the Color Computer, which was the machine I owned).
Heh. Home laundry was how I used to describe processor pipelines.

"So you put the load from the washer into the dryer, but if you have a second load you don't wait for the first load to finish drying before you put the second load in the washer, do you?"

Probably doesn't work as well in countries where people mostly buy the all-in-one units.
Its a listing that excludes candidates with felonies on a job board specifically for candidates with felonies.
I know someone who drives for Uber due to the lead generation but also does jitney service on her own for people that she already knows. That way, no one else gets a cut of the revenue for leads that she had produced herself.

It's my understanding that a lot of people operate in a similar manner.
Just consider:
- China issues a bad cert for npm
- Slurps up all passwords from Chinese maintainers en masse

Now we can't trust any package published from China.

This is a bigger deal than a targeted evil maid. Distributed trust is better than centralized trust.
If the brexit debate taught us anything it's that people can see BS in arguments from a mile away

What about the Brexit debate could possibly make you think that?
I'm on iOS, so checking the sizes in Storage.
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1) Banks can not do whatever they want...

2) Months ago? Oh, you mean a couple of days before the fork when Coinbase announced they wouldn't support Bitcoin Cash?
> In all sincerity: does Theranos have anything left?

As I understand it, Holmes controls an outright majority of the voting rights, so the question is does Holmes have anything left to gain from Theranos operating.
I don't agree with a lot of the censorship for copyright eihter (nintendo and lets play videos is one such example).

You seriously can't see the rather important moral difference between "take down this site selling copies of my stuff as their own" vs "take down this criticism of the government massacring citizens"?
I think the problem is, then constructs such as yield (the behavior of which depends on the current function scope), would no longer work correctly.
It might seem like that now, but in hindsight the opportunities will be obvious. There were multiple search engines when Google came out and many social networking sites when Facebook came out. There are always opportunities, things just get harder. A lot of businesses seemed indestructible have collapsed, every major car manufacturer and wall st bank would have failed if they hadn't been bailed out in 2008. The same thing can happen to tech companies.

In the SEO world you used to be able to put a keyword on a page 1000 times and then make the text white with CSS and rank #1 and make bank, now that gets you penalized. Spamming backlinks used to work, now it gets your site de-indexed.

You have to have an edge that separates you from the competition if you want to succeed
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The thing is the dispatch system for those security guards may well be running on AWS or other cloud - once they become uberized, even more likely.
Experiment on who, exactly? How do you get consent from an embryo for the life it will have to live as a result of what you're about to do to it?

"I detest the precautionary principle."

Sometimes, a little bit of caution is what keeps someone alive long enough to reproduce. Plenty of Darwin Award winners could have used a little more caution.
The Stack Overflow poll this year definitely showed a skew towards more experienced devs getting the remote work. Which would imply the competition for remote work is above average in ability.
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How about draw the line at a dollar value. Say ten dollars per coin. It's actually a pretty simple issue to solve.
"it's getting harder and harder for new devs to get enough userbase that way."

The problem isn't that it's harder. Harder just means it takes longer. The problem is that most founders and investors are just copying the same strategies that worked ten years ago for Facebook and Twitter. So most funded startups are just shutting down after 12 - 18 months with the investors losing all their money.
Give dnscrypt a try. Someone will still know that your IP made those requests, but it will be much harder to tie your identity to the IP.
I believe you, but at the same time it's an issue every time I go to use it. I want to use this crate, it has a feature flag and now I'm on nightly.

Now, I'm willing to use the bleeding edge, since I'm just just learning the language, but it still just bugs me in that way that code smells always do.
GovCloud has stuff that would be bad if it goes down, but most institutions that use it have a DR plan.
Okay let's bring this metaphor back around. This is the iPad division quitting and issuing 'iPad' stock to all current owners of Apple stock. But your broker, who is holding your Apple stock on your behalf, is preventing you from collecting your new iPad stock.
Wow, that is surreal. It is hard to believe this, from Marky Mark / Smooth Vibrations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9909uexu8
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> It's unfortunate that so many people don't know what the word means

Perhaps you can cite a history of the word, then maybe I'll trust your definition over some other.

You asked for clarification to avoid future misunderstanding and then proceed to reject our clarifications as if there's some nerd-word central authority that we're not aware of. We can't even agree on one 'x' or two.
True, but the OpenDOTA API does give access to estimated MMR stats for many games, which are pretty accurate. So you could use those if you wanted to.

That would limit the available match pool, granted. It depends on how many thousand games you need to make predictions, I suppose. I was able to pull some interesting data a while back from the 2k pool but I wasn't trying to solve as hard a problem as a global hero picker.
Clearly worth investigation, but when I hear arguments about soy being a serious endocrine disruptor, I can't help but wonder about the hundreds of millions of people throughout Asia eating it daily...
Systems where the person pleading guilty does not have to offer evidence of what they are saying are not very popular in democracies.
The scanner feature is definitely nifty
...or team up with rehabilitation organizations. Unfortunately there's no shortage of ex-prisonners in USA: About one third of the people in age of working.
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Do we not compete in sports? Or win Nobel prizes? Aren't we free to do what we want? Every one isn't a sports person or what have you.

Unchecked genetic engineering is what will bring about mono-cultures, fads, and me-too traits. Does any parent want to put their child through something like that through their entire life? Is it better to build a hab on Mars and breath air, or to genetically engineer yourself to possibly breath what is in the martian atmosphere/ground? What genetic trait trade-offs are you going to make when you can't have certain traits and are at the limits of biology? What trade-offs is the population going to make? I think the answer to all of these questions leads to less freedom for the individual, and a worse society. The parent doesn't have the right to take away or add traits, however benign or meaningful they seem, unless fixing a genetic disease.
I'm using Mesos in production. TL;DR - if you have less than 1000 machines, don't even think about Mesos. They don't care about you (you don't give them enough money, which they are really short of), and their system uses strategies that are effective only when you have a large number of machines.
That still ranks lower than "sewage treatment gone". Maslow's pyramid still applies.

The sewage plant hits both physiological needs and safety needs (it's a pretty dire health threat quickly). AWS has weak tendrils to financial safety, but mostly affects layers above that.
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