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We haven't even seen a driver-less car floor it on a green to make a left before the opposing traffic moves

Of course, this isn't an issue in San Francisco, because the intersection is completely gridlocked. The only way you're going to make a left turn -- or even a right turn at many intersections at rush hour -- is by violating various traffic laws up to and including the Pauli exclusion principle.

I can't imagine how to build a self-driving car that can perform both safely and effectively in any major urban environment... and I'm not the type of person who says "I can't imagine" lightly. It would literally be easier to work on autonomous rockets at SpaceX. With self-driving cars, the engineering problems are largely social, not technical.
There's a difference between s#%*posting (frowned upon) and irony made with the potential to spawn thoughtful discussion. In this case, the joke is a sarcastic way of asking "does the thesis generalize to modern knowledge work?"

So please don't post comments pretending to know the intent of someone else's post.
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You have paid membership account, yes?
MS need to create a windows phone that runs Android + Windows apps + can be turned on a full Windows Desktop running on ARM when docked up.
The page says yes, it is included in the list of sensors.

Whether they can deliver what they promise (I imagine GPS will not be the stumbling block here) is not certain of course, so I can't say "Yes - it will have GPS" with certainty.
In these types of threads people always jump in and suggest their favorite books of the author. In my case, it's Remains of the Day and An Artist of the Floating World, the two novels they talk about in the article. I've been such a fan of Remains of the Day after reading it a couple years ago that I've bought it a couple times and shipped it to friends to make sure they read it. I read An Artist of the Floating World earlier this summer and that stuck with me as well. Fantastic fantastic. I've also read Never Let Me Go but it didn't quite do it for me, something felt off in a way that's difficult to express and not worthy of talking about here.

I'll say this though, make sure to read Remains of the Day and then move to Artist of the Floating World. Both about WWII and people's opinions and feelings from what happened in their world. Not the longest of novels, so reading them back to back is the way to go.
Seems a good phone for those that use Smartphones and have concerns about privacy issues.

In term of applications, is a phone focused in a particular ecosystem: Matrix for encrypted communications and HTML5 Apps. Maybe it will suffer from the same pain as Ubuntu Phone? No native Apps being developed by major Companies? Maybe is a tradeoff that users can live with.
Invoke second amendment rights?

If not now, when?

I know what I said here is extreme. But I'm genuinely curious. Where is the line? Or is there not one and it is never okay to truly challenge the status quo? Maybe you're supposed to write to your congressperson and then go back to your Netflix.
The less clear our predictions are, the more we should manage the risk.

If we've shifted planetary equilibrium far enough, we could be just "2 or 3 volcanic eruptions within a short window of time" away from accelerated feedback effects into a runaway catastrophe
There's a coordination problem at work. If Tokyo stops emitting entirely, it still gets flooded. Whereas the flood prevention actually stops the flood (for a couple of decades anyway). Even though it's not a great solution, it turns out that flood prevention is the only solution Tokyo can actually implement on its own.

I wish we had a global system of carbon taxes, and hope that we might make an effective solution. And I wish cities like Tokyo would push harder for national/international solutions. But I don't think they're wrong to prepare locally.
It's a shame, I had a win7 device and it had some great ideas, they had the groundwork laid for a solid platform... But from what I've heard, it didn't get better as it progressed.
I set up the Square POS app with their credit card reader for my kids' school uniform shop. It's got a grid of icons with the products.

Even the most utterly technophobic volunteer mum can operate it. So good.
One of the key issues for me purchasing on the Windows Store is that my purchases my disappear at any moment. I have had half of my purchased apps disappear.

And it is next to impossible to get a refund.

Last week I noticed that my purchased music on Groove has disappeared ahead of the end of year termination of service.
Win32 is in no way less horrible than the Web. Win32 doesn't have any device-independent layout, at all. Forget about handling HiDPI sensibly. RegisterClassEx/CreateWindowEx are incredibly verbose. WndProcs are a mess compared to individual event handlers. The mishmash of COM and inconsistently named C APIs is terrible. COM involves a monstrous amount of boilerplate. COM requires you to deal with apartment threading, legacy that exists primarily for compatibility with Visual Basic 6, which is of course no longer supported but still saddles the platform. Creating an OpenGL context with WGL, with the "false context" stuff, is a nightmare compared to WebGL. Memory management is a giant pain to deal with. The GDI APIs are archaic and slow. I could go on…
And that's why it irks me.

I'm usually fairly unflappable, but this is something worthy of my outrage. Torture is unacceptable, and is even less acceptable when done in my name.
It is annoying that they cannot be more committed to open hardware. (I'm not saying they should be).

I appreciate that they probably can't commit to it at this stage, but the fact that their laptops are not does not inspire confidence that the noises they make about trying will come to fruition.
Background Modes – Higher Resolutions – Super Nintendo Entertainment System
A super innovative, restaurant-centric startup in this space: https://www.tocktix.com. Tock turns around the weird power imbalance by booking tables as tickets like you might in a theater. Instantly the no-show problem vanishes, and the customers you get are the kinds of customers you want. Clever.
Windows Phone had a good use interface, many people (including me) prefer it to the horror that is Android UI. Lack of an app ecosystem was probably Windows Phone's biggest problem. I think a possible solution to that for Purism (I was an early backer of this campaign) is to focus on web apps. I know I'm not alone in being thoroughly sick of everything about apps and app stores.
I don't think we have to address rationality / irrationality in action.

If I'm following your point you're saying that some people make choices against constraints and that we should understand their constraints before we impugn their actions.

And you're absolutely right. I don't begrudge anyone for driving a truck who uses a truck, and much of the debate about 'what you need' seems to follow this thinking - if you're using your truck in such a way that a sedan is a viable alternative, how costly is it really to put that person in a sedan? And that's a very valid point (personally, I think we have to many trucks and SUVs on the road because fuel is unreasonably cheap and trucks / suv owners don't bear the full costs of crashing / insuring them).

But we can ask that people do the things they expect of others - or at least it's defensible to ask someone to be the change they want to see in the world.

The person who lives in the sticks might have an opportunity to grow their own food, and depending on their views about the environment it's an avenue to explore.

And there's also a point about 'harm reduction' - driving a car to get groceries is more defensible than driving an SUV to get a candy bar and leaving it running while you shop to keep the A/C pumping.

If someone has to drive a car, they need to understand that not all cars pollute alike. A 2016 Prius pollutes orders of magnitude less than a 1959 Chevrolet 2 ton truck and the person should consider ways they can reduce their harm to the environment if they want others to do the same.
Now that's pretty funny. Someone spent a lot of time on that.
I'm curious what the percentage of npm publishers that have this toggled on is, and I wish that was available data. First, in terms of all packages, and then of top 1000 packages. I'll wildly guess <0.5% of all packages, and <1% of top 1000. You don't get 2FA without the beta client right now anyway.

It's of no surprise to anyone that follows Node.js security at this stage that the third party dependency chain is really its biggest weak link. Jordan Wright did some good research a couple of months ago on Node dependency trees and malicious packages that's worth a read:

https://duo.com/blog/hunting-malicious-npm-packages
Well, you do you.
> I’m actively seeking ways to block those sites, precisely in order to take responsibility.

Umm - don't go to them?

Or - if you need to get rid of the app (and you can't because provider-ware) - root the phone, and then delete it. If your phone is close-to-near impossible to root, get a different phone. Get a phone for phone use only, and drop everything else.

Seriously - the only thing holding you back is you. I don't say this to be flippant; I think we all struggle with it in some manner or another. I know I do now, and have in the past. For instance, I used to be very addicted to /. and Fark - eventually, I stopped going to them, and haven't been back. TBH, Hacker News will probably end up in the same bin sooner or later, as I see things going this route; I try to head it off beforehand. I don't blame anyone but myself.

So just do whatever you have to do to drop it - cold turkey, as it could be called...
I was (pleasantly) surprised by the fairly sudden jump too. I was an early backer and have been following the progress of the campaign and it looked like they were just going to make it last I checked, didn't expect to see it fully funded so early.
all major browsers have a setting to block all requests, I wish the same thing existed to block requests to sign up for newsletters
Well, I thought this would be the perfect Christmas gift for my 10 year old daughter, but $99 is just too much (at least for my budget). This does seem to be a great idea. Maybe they'll come out with a cheaper version at some point.
> According to the dates[0] I found online says Windows was the first to have a feature that would automatically connect to your cellular connection if the Wifi didn't work.

This is the most infuriating feature ever. Google implemented it in 2014 in Android, and you couldn't properly disable it. Not even today.

I frequently need to connect to intranets where Google services are blocked for security reasons, and it's infuriating to fight hundreds of times with the settings so you can get the WiFi to work.
Well, as for the excessive spending, there is also the fact that healthcare is basically a parallel to the military industrial complex (doctors, hospitals, insurers, drug companies) especially conducive to oligarchy/monopoly-like behavior.

Paradoxically enough (but not so much if you think about it a while), a review of patient mortality rates during doctor's strikes found that mortality decreased when doctors were on strike.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849101
Encryption is only not on by default because it is still in (late) beta. Obviously by the time the Librem5 ships this will be on by default.

You’re right that metadata isn’t protected serverside: so use servers you trust. In future the plan is to move to a hybrid p2p approach to fix this, but usability and features are more important given you can pick the servers to trust. https://matrix.org/~matthew/2016-12-22%20Matrix%20Balancing%... has more details on the tradeoff.

I’d be shocked if your friends and coworkers aren’t accessible via Matrix, given bridges through to Gitter, IRC, Slack etc. And if you want them to be native Matrix users, just invite them :)

In terms of “not decentralised enough”... the only bits which aren’t decentralised are the node which hosts your account, and (currently) the mapping DB of email/msisdn to matrix IDs. The latter is being fixed by the community currently; the former is harder but due to be worked on next year (hopefully solved by the time the Librem5 ships).

In terms of briar: it’s a great project, and perhaps it will surpass Matrix in time. But right now the battery and bandwidth requirements of running a full p2p stack on the client - as well as all the missing features you list, are a showstopper. It’s also not really set up as an open protocol/specification; just a library and app.

So, Matrix is probably the best bet for now. And we’re counting on evolving at the current rate or faster over the next year in the lead up to the Librem5 shipping.
My first thought is nothing changes.

In the recent PBS Vietnam War documentary they show film footage of the US military tiger teams waterboarding an elderly Vietnamese villager (episode 8/9?). And on the other side the North Vietnamese tortured all the American POW's, and we heard from Hal Kushner directly and learned about what they did to McCain and others who survived to bear witness. But we expect more from our side, we don't expect to be the "baddies".

When we call it a war (on terror), we expand the limits on what some will justify. Having a war on an idea means there's essentially no end in sight.
> It's a shame it's tied to the Android platform, honestly.

It's not, it also supports Java, C++/C/ObjC, Go, Python, PHP, JS, and many more. Find the other Jetbrains IDEs at https://www.jetbrains.com/
Interestingly, the official website doesn't mention climate change at all, as far as I can see [1].

Instead, it claims that the purpose of the tunnels is to protect the areas surrounding some smaller rivers upstream of Tokyo, which are on flood plains and regularly used to get flooded (no climate change required, just regular rain season/typhoon does this). Now due to urban sprawl more people want to live there, exacerbating the problem and creating the need for this system.

I do not doubt that climate change is happening. I just don't like articles with such a clear agenda in the background, especially when the official sources contradict the statements.

[1] http://www.ktr.mlit.go.jp/edogawa/gaikaku/intro/01intro/inde...

(Please correct me if I'm wrong or I missed something.)
A recent video on this concept by BigThink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jrrY2otrJk
One I forgot is to work with either algorithms or datasets created by other researchers. Once I send an email asking for access to a certain dataset, describing the idea I had for it, and had a very famous researcher reply that they'd be interested in a cooperation.

The other side of this advice is to create a dataset that is interesting to other researchers.
"streetcar" density suburbs can and do function well with only cars. We just need to start building them again. Just sprinkle in a few multi-story parking lots behind street-level retail and they are great places to live.
Drug-resistant roundworms prompt search for new treatments
It’s “Stasi” (with s) for “Staatssicherheit” (Ministry for State Security).
This reminds me of the whole "take shorter showers" thing. The amount of water consumed taking showers is minuscule compared to how much water is used for industrial agriculture. It's not going to make a difference to take a 5 minute shower vs. 10 minutes. So it overall feels very defeating as an individual to try to make a change.
Do we want the kinds of kids that are sticklers for the rules really getting involved in this field? ;)
I can't believe an company so vested in the enterprise market can do such a terrible job of allowing companies to deploy enterprise software. Click once isn't supported in VS anymore, and was always horrible when it came to things like CI servers anyway. Windows 10 store requires running on azure which make it a no go, doesn't allow push updates anyway. The best options have always been third party ones like chocolatey or NSIS, but they are limited as well, chocolatey does not allow push based and NSIS is pretty weird.

19 years after the first release of apt-get and I'm still waiting for MS to give me something half as good.
It should be noted that that sinkhole re-occurred shortly afterwards.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38129691
Maybe a fallback, not that you need one yet, when/if discarding is an issue, make a ring that has less functionality but isn't as obtrusive. The cool kids keep their Jewelbots in their bag but a ring lets them know of some activity.
"Step 2 To begin coding your Jewelbot, you will need to download the Arduino IDE."
The function call overhead for an SVD-based matrix inverse should be tiny. Maybe if they are inverting 4x4 matrices, it's measurable. Inlining can give huge speedups but it should not be applied to every function without thought.
By 98% success rate I assume you mean for the "guilty ones."

But how many others were tortured in the same way that had no relevant information to give, because they were innocent?

The issue with torture is not that it doesn't work on the guilty ones. I'm sure it does on the vast majority of them. The issue is you will torture 9 out of 10 in order to finally land upon the 1 out of 10 that is guilty.
Sideloading is a thing on Android too, but it really doesn't attract a lot of devs or users. Most users stick to the stores, cause they don't want to go chase down and give their payment info to infinity different sites.
Between drug resistant parasites, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and global warming, I feel like humanity is in for a real treat.
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Instantly signed up. Love it. Would love to contribute some variety of rejections if you're interested
Thanks, yes, that corresponds to my recollection of the story.

Unix in many ways is the result of its development model, and the "scratch an itch" nature of it, by people capable of scratching those itches. VM/CMS seemed to follow in that same tradition, and as such, addressed (an admittedly technical) end-user community needs in ways that a "delivered" system, in the sense of the providers and users being generally distinct communities, doesn't.

I don't know that VM/CMS would have filled that niche, but it seems that it might have. Having used VMS and Unix, the former, though often compared to Unix, strikes me as far more a "delivered" product. There was a time in my life I could spell DCL (also JCL), and even write some basic utilities in both. That's long since passed.

The capabilities of a Unix shell are far more friendly to ad hoc development and needs -- I'll gin up new scripts or shell functions all the time in ways that just didn't flow from the other languages.

(Now, if I'd picked up, say, REXX, I might feel differently, though I'm really not sure.)
There are only so many hours in the day. And, given the choice between fixing bugs and adding features for the many users on Android & iOS, or taking a gamble on a much lower userbase on WP, I'd probably take the first one.
EPA to repeal landmark Obama climate rule
I have a pair of Sony's noise cancelling headphones and they seem to only cancel out constant or piercing loud noise like HVAC or a power saw. They let voices through clearly without muffling it like you would expect a regular pair of headphones to do.

I haven't tried them outside, the sound of an approaching car seems like something they would filter out but they might have some smarts to them.
> I'd argue that the actual solution to global warming will be more akin to "stepping out of the way": people will evacuate from major cities, major cities will be destroyed, and people will pick up the pieces of their lives elsewhere

Even this is optimistic. It seems more likely to me that cities like Houston will keep getting flooded and "bailed" out (ha ha) by federal relief funds and state bond issuances.
There is a different side to the cost benchmark that's not captured by the description here. If your use case needs a lot of stored data but not necessarily a matching degree of
peak CPU (even if your query load is otherwise pretty consistent), Redshift will become really expensive really fast and it will feel like a waste. BigQuery will meanwhile keep costs linear (almost) in your actual query usage with very low storage costs.

For example, you may need to provision a 20-node cluster only because you need the 10+ terabytes in storage across several datasets you need to keep "hot" for sporadic use throughout the day/week, but don't nearly need all that computational capacity around the clock. Unlike BigQuery, Redshift doesn't separate storage from querying. Redshift also doesn't offer a practically acceptable way to scale up/down; resizes at that scale take up to a day, deleting/restoring datasets would cause lots of administrative overhead and even capacity tuning between multiple users is a frequent concern.

Making matters worse, it is common for a small number of tables to be the large "source of truth" tables that you need to keep around to re-populate various intermediate tables even if they themselves don't get queries that often. In Redshift, you will provision a large cluster just to be able to keep them around even though 99% of your queries will hit one of the smaller tables.

That said, I haven't tried the relatively new "query data on S3" Redshift functionality. It doesn't seem quite the equivalent of what BigQuery does, but may perhaps alleviate this issue.

Sidenote: I have been a huge Redshift fan pretty much since its release under AWS. I do however think that it is starting to lose its edge and show its age among the recent advances in the space; I have been increasingly impressed with the ease of use (including intra team and even inter-team collaboration) in the BigQuery camp.
A blockchain adds trustless governance rules and a verifiable audit trail to using just PKI alone. These are hugely valuable features of an identity management systems.
Once I hacked together a similar program to log the terminal activity of fellow students on the university UNIX and Linux servers: https://github.com/andyn/actspy/blob/master/actspy.c

The main objective, however, was not to stalk innocent users but to catch an anonymous IRC troll who was using an identless shell server in order to hide their real account name. Every time the troll wrote to IRC, the activity logger program showed typing activity from a certain user. After a few message exchanges during quiet night hours I was able to reliably pinpoint them.
Sorry about that. It must have been a bug on our side.
Fount – Identify any web font you see
So am I correct in understanding that Moore's Law marches on? If we see 5nm in 2020 and TSMC is seeing 3nm in production in 2022, this is on track, correct?
To me, this sounds like “if you’re not down in steerage baling water out of the sinking Titanic, you’re not seriously concerned about it sinking.”

It won’t make any detectable difference if I go 100% solar and vegetarian, or if I spend all my disposable income on gasoline that I burn in amusing ways.

Collective action is the only thing that matters for this. If you go all-in on a low carbon lifestyle for yourself, and your friend nudges government policy towards something that reduces emissions, your friend has done far more to mitigate climate change than you have.
I have no idea what I'm looking at or how it relates to blockchain. Looks like just another news aggregator?
> A fully standards-based freedom-oriented system, based on Debian and many other upstream projects, has never been done before–we will be the first to seriously attempt this

What about OpenMoko?
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Interesting, but I’m sure there are significant efforts in anti-drone technology.
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