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The idea that a bill "sponsored" by corporations whose sole purpose is selling as many cars as possible will "reduce congestion" is probably the most ridiculous idea this turn of the century.

What's next? McDonalds innovation on nutrition facts labels to reduce junk fat consumption and improve health outcomes?
> Sheesh! the ECHR's phrasing is awful. ..The protection of morals?

That's there to allow a ban on porn. Which the US has as well, despite not having a similar clause.

Article 10 is comparatively well drafted. It's Article 8's nebulous "family life" that's the problem, with all sorts of surprising implications. It's as bad a drafting mistake as the US's 2nd amendment.
> Where I live, I have to go out of my way to meet up with native speakers--that's the point the parent poster was making.

The point would still be wrong. Plenty of people learn a foreign language without the ability to have much contact with native speakers. Eastern Europeans have been keen on picking up Latin American Spanish, but it’s mostly watching telenovelas or falling in love with music from there, not actually going to Latin America. People learn all kinds of foreign languages from all the way across Europe, with the only actual interaction with native speakers being maybe a holiday once a year or less. A lot of language learning plays out through exposure to media, and with the internet, Americans have no less access to media than Europeans (or, as another person here notes, East Asians).
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But barring states from regulating this in their own borders is about as much of a sweetheart bill for business as you can get, it ensures they only have to spend their lobbying money on one legislative body.

But it also means that they only need to meet one standard, not 50. Which sounds like the right thing to do when it comes to regulating something mobile that will operate in all 50 states.
I've just seen this infographic showing that 5G connectivity is also about "car to car communication" (among other things):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJCxYZ1XoAAm_CL.jpg:large

I really hope that's just wishful thinking from companies like Qualcomm and wireless operators and not something car makers are actually considering.

Making the cars' critical systems (such as the self-driving systems, which would respond based on other cars' actions in car to car communication) be accessible from the internet sounds like a terrible idea. This is why I hope this type of law is not rushed, as car makers and companies like Uber and Google/Waymo hope it will be.
TL;DNR: It means white racists got really upset when they found out this fact that they were part African per their DNA. I laughed a lot when this made the news.
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I don't either, but I'm also wondering what the point was? There's ways that can be expanded that prey on stereotypes, and ways it can be expanded that don't, and the latter might have been an interesting discussion (e.g. India's growing population of software developers trained on Java, and whether that should garner them more influence of Java, and how that might affect it going forward as just on possible example).
Is Uber really comparable? With Uber each vehicle is trying to be in the busiest place to get a fare operating only in its own self-interest. With an autonomous fleet they will be where they need to be and will get out of the way on their own.
I agree with you, that the expectation is reasonable, however in the real world this is not always the case. I totally agree that the systems should be tested for this, and if not they shouldn't be in a live environment.

However I draw the line when an unauthorized actor accesses a live system to prove a point, rather than going through proper procedures with absolutely no knowledge of the potential outcomes of his or her actions. This isn't white hat by any stretch of the imagination, and is incredibly reckless.
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Interesting... so there no security concern with using HTTPS on a public Wifi? I thought there was some way the connection could be hijacked. Thanks for the response.
> As a software developer, yeah right! In 20 minutes, I've barely even gotten a problem into my head, and a five minute break would mean starting over.

Being able to work in small chunks of time and being able to recover from short breaks in concentration are skills that one can develop much like other programming skills. Needing a long time to "get back into the zone" is a fix-able weakness, not some intractable law of nature.

Try having kids! You'll quickly learn to divide your productive time up into dozens of short 15-minute sessions rather than hours-long stretches in the zone. Infants don't care that you're concentrating.
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"With the log as the source of truth, there is no longer any need for a single database that all systems have to use. Instead, every system can create its own data store (database) – its own materialized view – representing only the data it needs, in the form that is the most useful for that system. This massively simplifies the role of databases in an architecture, and makes them more suited to the need of each application."
> The biggest problem with CSS
Everything in CSS is global. Because of that, styles intended for one bit of markup often end up affecting another. Because of that, developers often resort to wild namespacing conventions (not 'rules', since they're very difficult to enforce) that mostly just increase your risk of RSI.

Hmm, I don't find namespace issues a problem to be honest. Generally I use a framework (e.g. Bootstrap) where I don't reuse any of its names, I have some global styling (e.g. buttons, forms, typography), each major screen/component gets it's own file with its own class identifier (e.g. page-home for the homepage) then in SASS/SCSS I make sure everything everything in each file is nested under the screen/component identifier (e.g. so everything to do with the homepage is nested under .page-home). It's going to be very obvious if you get a naming conflict and they're not hard to resolve.

Is there anything wrong with the above approach? You'd need something different if you were designing your own framework or general components across a huge website but for SPA and typical websites I don't see the need to make it more complex than this.
It's just as bad or worse downtown. I rent in Liberty Village (paying a blessed 300 dollars a month below market and crossing my fingers it stays that way for now), and around here studio units can start in the mid 500's. The larger units easily run upwards of 2 - 4 million dollars if you go for the trendier, older buildings like the old Irwin Toy factory.

Rents are feeling it as well. I think the numbers just came out yesterday or today and an average 1 bed is about $1950. I've seen one bedrooms rent in this neighbourhood for upwards of $4000 a month -- again for the trendier buildings. And this is by no means the upper limit.

I remember approximately 2 years ago, when the average attached houses in the downtown were ~600k (usually 2 or 3 bed, kitchen, living, dining, basement, yard, garage). They hardly exist for anything less than 950k

Back then the average 1 bed rented for 1200 - 1500 a month. That's a long lost dream now.
Big NOT fan of algorithmic question that can be summed up in one sentence taking a full page of text description.

In most of these coding test the algorithm is easy, but figuring out the catch in the description is harder than actual implementation (unless you're insanely limited and have to reimplement basics from scratch)
To say, “it is absolutely selection bias,” infers the professors and curriculum of the school had no effect on the ability of students to become successful, venture-backed entrepreneurs. Which you cannot conclude given the data.

What you have experienced is confirmation-bias. Whereby, you have interpreted evidence to reaffirm your own beliefs. In this case, your belief is, “Olin College cannot be better than MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and the like because those schools are the best.”

When you allow yourself to succumb to confirmation bias, you close yourself off to the possibility there is a school which prepares students for an entrepreneurial life. Please do not close others off to the same possibility.
Antitrust strategy for the Internet era: a "copy-and-split" of the target into 2 companies:
1) these companies jointly own and can freely use all of the data accumulated and all of the tech developed to date (but as they jointly own it, they cannot sell/license it without the other's permission)
2) each company must choose a new name and cannot operate under the existing name
3) a few months of transitions are granted for each company to decide what their strategy will be
4) all physical assets get split evenly
5) each company get to pick 1 employee turn by turn until each has half of the workforce

And may they live a long, customer friendly life.
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Reducing congestion? Self-driving is going to make congestion much, much worse. Self-driving makes driving cheaper, safer, easier & more accessible. Anytime you do that for anything, usage increases dramatically, often in ways that are difficult to fore see. But it's not hard to predict a few:

- cheap delivery will be used for everything
- people will send and summon vehicles from everywhere. I might drive to work, send my vehicle home so somebody else can use it, summon it at the end of day, and drive home.
- et cetera
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Exactly this. The more you learn about the faking, the more suspect legit owners become and then it becomes a hassle.

I find it mildly annoying to see dogs in restaurants and grocery stores, even more so in the work place, but I've heard of a lot of people abusing these laws here in LA to be able to get into apartment buildings that don't allow pets.

As a neighbor, if you're animal isn't well-trained, I don't want to live near it in an apartment building. Were I someone allergic to pet dander, I wouldn't want to unknowingly live somewhere that a dog/cat had lived for years no matter how well you cleaned it. Especially at the expense we have to pay for rent in this city.

I think taejo has it right in her/his comment about how US owners act about this stuff:

"I don't think this would fly in the US, where cultural attitudes tend to be less "we've all got to do our bit to make society pleasant for everyone" and more "it's a free country and this is my dog, I'll train it if I want to"."
The thing you're talking about exists, they're called clinical trials: https://clinicaltrials.gov/

You don't even have to be terminally ill to sign up, there are clinical trials for treatments for non-terminal conditions too.
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"Average sales price is down 20%" is an entirely different statement from "prices are down 20%, on average".

Think about that.
Note that the benefits of scoped CSS are completely independent from single-file components.

The key idea is that with CSS and DOM scoping you write simpler, easier to understand, stylesheets and templates, which massively improves maintainability.

In Polymer elements, because of Shadow DOM, selectors are considerably simpler and shorter, often just using a tag name or id. Templates for a single component often fit in one screen, so you can more easily see if a selector is used.

As we get into more declarative template formats and better static analysis, we'll be able to see if selectors are used even for dynamic classes and attributes.
Good luck. There will always be a copy somewhere. That's why I would never use a service like this.
I really hope all of you who got your DNA sequenced did not give your real names; insurance companies will eventually get a hold of this data and use it against you.
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Very interesting! What steps have you taken to optimize?
I can't speak for the situation at the NYT but the actual public site for online papers are often pretty simple things with most of the complexity being ad logic. The systems here almost entirely deal with writing and content retrieval pipelines for stuff that was written years ago in other systems that isn't tagged or stored in sympathetic ways, and there will also be the very old school print pipeline to have to deal with too.
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There's a lot of potential gain from car-to-car communication, but I also see a huge risk. I can be reasonably confident in my car's own sensors, but only God knows what my car is being told by other cars about the world; the opportunities for malicious activity there are huge.

It's hard to imagine a system that uses V2V that doesn't rely on some manner of trust, like a closed/encrypted system with car manufacturers having CA-like signing authority or something. And if I've ever learning anything, it's that car companies are not great at network security.
WRT the second point, since HTTP is stateless doesn't it make a new connection for every request via whatever network is available?
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I think CS education would be improved if these concepts didn't have mysterious names.

Respect to Bloom, but the programming median might be raised if Bloom filters were called something stupid obvious like Hash Array Filler-upper Tables. We might not even need to spend time making visualizations to explain them.
That wikipedia page is amazing.
I don't think I'm clear on what you mean by that?

For the issues I commonly have (wifi, audio, video), I don't see how throwing more power at them would really help anything
They still advertise it https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ :

> Amazon SimpleDB is designed to integrate easily with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and EC2, providing the infrastructure for creating web-scale applications.

If I hadn't heard your story, I wouldn't see anything there to steer me away from it.
Where are all the negotiation games?
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I can't tell if this is a joke or real.
One other downside is that, if you’re relying on Facebook open source, the license makes it hard to claim that Facebook is infringing your patents. Facebook could use your patented designs and processes and it’s understandable you’d want to hold them responsible in court. As part of the patent grant, you’d have to stop using Facebook open source upon claiming patent infringement.

This. This is the whole freaking problem.

The problem with software is that there's no real "moat" for most products. We've seen again and again that major software companies are happy to let small competitors test new solutions and products, then eat them if they're successful.

Don't want to sell? They just pop up a clone and use their market leverage to force you out.

This license just exacerbates the problem.

Facebook's license basically reads: "Hey, if you use our stuff, we'll reserve the right to eat your business if and when we like. Want to sue us for it? Well now your product doesn't exist anymore because you lost all the licenses."
>I wonder how much of this kind of stuff exists out of necessity and how much of it exists because very smart people are just bored and/or unsatisfied.

That's a ton of it. Like it or not, publishing a digital newspaper is not a hard or unsolved problem; it's one of the web's core competencies. If you hire people who want to build cool stuff to supervise a CMS, well, you get this kind of outcome.

The raw cost is understated because these experimental setups misinterpret the functionality of the new architectures/formats they're using. It doesn't truly rear its ugly head until there is a major data loss or corruption event. It's not that these never happen with RDBMS, it's just that RDBMS contemplates this possibility and tries to make it pretty hard to do that, whereas message queues just automatically delete stuff (by design, so they can serve as functional message queues!).

RDBMS have spoiled us and we take its featureset, 40+ years in the making, for granted. We need to be careful and not assume that `GROUP BY` is the only thing we leave on the table when we "adopt" (more accurately abuse) one of these new-wave solutions as a system of record.

Since no one is going to admit to their boss "this wouldn't have happened if we used Postgres", and since most bosses are not going to know what that means, most of these spectacular failures will never be accurately attributed to their true cause: developers putting their interest in trying new things above their duty to ensure their employer's systems are reliable, stable, and resilient.
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> if I was a carrier for a serious genetic disease, I definitely would want access to that information

I'd much rather get that information from an MD who is at least bound by HIPPA regulations, than by a VC funded internet startup.
You seem to be assuming that the only reason one can be overly-stressed at work is due to a toxic environment.

There are plenty of other reasons people become burnt out. They are listed in the article.
I haven't been able to find it. Can you post a link?
The purpose isn't to generate the ranking list. The purpose is to evaluate hands. The list is a one-time cost however you make it, but evaluating the randomly dealt cards would have the ongoing cost of sorting every time if not for the prime-factors trick.
There have been people with schizophrenia on both sides of my family; my dad was schizophrenic. I really wanted to know if I have any genes that indicate an increased risk of schizophrenia.

I signed up for 23andme on the first DNA Day sale and signed my parents up on the second or third one. They didn't have a lot about schizophrenia in their health data early on but added a few markers later. I don't have any of them (but my dad didn't either, so there's probably something missing from the picture). When my dad passed away a few years ago from pancreatic cancer, I wanted to know about that, too. Early detection is the only thing that can help with pancreatic cancer. Again, no markers for increased risk (and again, my dad didn't have any significant risk markers either, the science is still very new).

But, for me, part of the value lies in the original science they're doing. Even if they don't have useful answers for me today, I would do the questionnaires and such in hopes that it'd help somebody else later. Genetic prediction of diseases can be hugely valuable.

Sure, there's a lot of things that the standard advice works for. But, schizophrenia? Sometimes, by the time it is diagnosable the person is difficult to reach with treatment. Maybe knowing it's potentially looming will make them more likely to seek treatment at the first signs of trouble, rather than after the point where it is difficult to determine what's real. Likewise, pancreatic cancer...there are tests for it (not good ones, but if they know what they're looking for, they might catch it early), but they're not part of a normal checkup. But, if you know you've got family members who had it and have the genetic markers for it, maybe you pay for, and deal with the invasiveness, of the extra tests every year or two, in hopes that if you do get it you'll catch it early enough to have a hope of surviving more than a year.
> Someone always has to pay, and socialized healthcare just means that your neighbor has to pay for your poor lifestyle decisions.

The existing US system has the taxpayer paying as much as a share of GDP, and more per capita, than many developed countries that have fully socialized systems. It also has more than that in private costs, on top.
> Service dogs are already not cheap -- the linked article mentions $20k as typical.

That's the cost of proper training. If you don't care about proper training and just want a rubber stamp to put on a certificate then you can probably find someone to do it for $200.

> Presumably (hopefully!) this cost is covered by insurance, and a certification fee could likely also be covered... for people who actually need it.

"Don't worry about the cost of that because the insurance is paying for it" is the primary reason people can't afford health insurance.

> And insurance companies are pretty careful not to pay for things a patient doesn't actually need, so that should weed out the fakers.

In which case the burden you impose on people with a legitimate disability is the burden of proving it to the insurance company.

Moreover, if we want to err on the side of not denying coverage for legitimate claims, we make it easy for people to file illegitimate ones. Before the certification requirement there was little incentive to do that, but now we've expanded the problem from people claiming their pets are service animals to the problem of people claiming their pets are service animals and having their health insurance pay $20,000+ each to get the pets trained and certified.

The issue is this. We can either (a) let people get away with something, or (b) institute an expensive bureaucratic process to prevent them from getting away with it. Sometimes the burden of (b) is more than the burden of (a).
I doubt there are many cases of people starting to run at 25 and becoming Olympic sprinters either. And for the majority of us, that's ok. Learning when one is older is a quality of life issue. It's not about being the best at anything, but rather expanding one's horizons, keeping life fresh and interesting, finding something to challenge oneself and providing motivation and fulfillment. Those opportunities are available to almost anyone who is healthy regardless of age. Mastery is secondary, and it's a bit defeatist in my opinion to not start something new simply because it can't be mastered. Many activities can be enjoyed without achieving full proficiency.
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> but reducing congestion is not one of them. Quite the opposite, actually.

The premise of that is to increase vehicle usage efficiency, hence reduce the total amount of vehicles on road and reduce congestion.

Additional autonomous vehicles applied in public transits will further improve traffic flow (on demand vs. fixed scheduled services, reducing empty runs etc.)
Are they still using microarrays? Curious how far those can get you these days. Enough to detect common SNPs, but there's such a wide variety of other important genomic regulators that require whole genome sequencing to detect.

I guess they know what they are doing though, I was just curious if they have extended their technology. Good that the FDA at least prevented those pseudoscientific predictions and they focus on research now.
Not a huge surprise because Oracle is technology's Donald Trump. Depend on anything of theirs at your/your company's own peril.
The DMZ Plus mode doesn't really kill much bandwidth. I get pretty close to 1 Gbit through it. Maybe 960-980 Mbit. Good enough for me. The real problem with the DMZ Plus mode is that it basically sets up a NAT to your router and the state table of the modem is somewhat limited. I've never had any problems but supposedly it might choke if you have tons of open connections.
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Some drivers need a space fit for a semi truck in order to pull out into traffic.

Some drivers don't go at green lights because they're distracted.

Some drivers camp in the left lane.

It's highly possible that the cumulative benefit of widespread adoption of self driving cars could offset the negative aspects of people who suck at some subset of driving.
Yes, but the third sentence makes it sound inexpensive to take the planning, all-inclusive, to a reasonable expectation of security that is fully implemented. [
I do 960-980 easily in DMZ Plus mode.