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tl;dr - Google Maps has buildings and Areas of Interest (streets with more businesses) based on satellite & street view data.

"Google is creating data out of data ... It makes you wonder how long back Google was planning all of this—and what it’s planning next"

My guess is that they weren't planning it. Somebody decided to use their 20% time to learn TensorFlow and process the Street View imagery for fun, and that side project got promoted into Maps.

When I downloaded 10 years of church notice sheets, I was trying to get the lyrics of the songs in Chinese. I later realised that I could also find the most common song names, and then focus my Chinese-learning on those songs. Big data is all about gathering more data than you know what to do with, and figuring it all out as you go.
Was this during the 80s or 90s? Things have changed all over the place since then.
I think it's an organic reaction that makes a lot of sense. A distributed deflationary currency not run by any central authority is a dangerous concept. Another volatile store of value that might not be very liquid is a lot less dangerous. (Imagine cashing a 10th of the float, say) The forces of the status quo(or is it the invisible hand?) has responded to the threat, for now, by blowing this up to the stratosphere and making it impractical as a currency; it's even a better move than making it illegal. There will be more chapters to this, especially smart contracts. Interesting developments.
Ideally from historical sources, such as battlefield reports, diaries of her contemporaries, etc.
This happened to me twice on GDAX, had them clear it out for me within 24 hours via support. No explanation given.
My understanding is that it's to intentionally discourage trying to keep things out of tree, where they will inevitably break in worse ways. It also makes the GPL enthusiasts happy, but I doubt that was Linus's big goal.
This is why efforts based on exhaustive mapping make me nervous. Things change, sometimes rapidly. The vehicle should be using its maps as a general guide, not as some kind of ground truth.
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I suspect they have some fixing to do yet... common prices listed on indexes are ~$3,539.82 USD at the moment. Coinbase UI has the UI pegged at $8,499.03 .. with console errors, and ssl to be distrusted errors.
I accidentally used Apple Maps once as I was going to a (new) doctor's office. I realized I was using Apple maps halfway through my drive and I joked with myself that it wouldn't bring me to the right place. I was heading to a fairly large medical complex in Orange County (CA) and I sort-of had an idea of where I was going anyway, but boy, was I wrong.

According to Apple maps, the doctor's office was literally in the middle of a field. I missed it the first time around (drove past it for a few miles, following my GPSs instructions) and then soon realized that I was already going through residential areas.

Never again, Apple. For context, this was 3 months ago. This doesn't seem like a hard problem to solve. My guess is that Apple just gave up.
In the U.S., the Affordable Care Act (ACA -- "Obamacare") substantially enhanced Medicaid with the goal of providing treatment for these things.

I personally witnessed it help to turn around the life of a "binge" addict of 20+ years. If her recovery lasts, it may prevent the "cycle of addiction" from being passed on to her two kids.

Despite such successes, and the enormous need, the U.S. is at this moment on the course to reverse this improved treatment.

I guess there's more money to be had in prisons. (We continue to transfer and expand our incarcerations into private, for-profit prisons.)

As for Canada, I hope treatment is expanded. Pharmaceutical coverage. At least basic, health-based dental coverage (as opposed to cosmetic -- though for myself I've no objection to covering it, as well) . Both should be cost effective. A reliable supply of medicines means people don't unnecessarily worsen while going without. And every year, more studies demonstrate that dental health is a primary preventative measure against other, very expensive diseases, such as coronary artery disease.

As with Medicaid in the U.S., it's not just "additional expense". It's a lower-cost preventative measure against greater costs down the line. Cost that in both countries gets passed onto the public. It's just that here, in the U.S., we have hospitals perform "cost spreading" of uncovered emergency care across the populations that have insurance.

(There's been very little coverage of the dramatic decrease in hospitals' uncovered care/expenses since the ACA went into effect.)
Could be wrong but I don't think virtualization or container technology is the blocker. It's the software that keeps track of who's allowed to use it and who's currently using it that's the problem. With AWS it's easy, because you pay money for the privilege. It's harder for large orgs, when divisions and teams don't directly pay to access servers. 3rd party clouds solve the issue when teams are given budgets to use them.
It’s not perfect but we get access to lots that an American would go out of pocket for. The poor never even have a chance.
Like the Banksy in Park City that's protected by a sheet of plexiglass?
I would be interested to hear some examples of this. Not doubting you but this would be very enriching.

One obvious example from my own life: Due to <issues> I needed to understand medical research in <area>. There is a huge opportunity in medical research for people who actually have a deep understanding of statistics. Or even an elementary understanding. Protip: just because P>0.5 it does not prove "no effect".
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I do wonder how many of the (massive) number of plane crashes the Allied nations experienced were not due to manufacturing without much concern to safety, but instead the relative lack of training.
>Yeah, we already saw how that went on China [1].

I don't really see how this is comparable. Google has had a subset of things available in China forever (translate, as a clear example), and interacts with China for certain things (AlphaGo). That doesn't change the fact that none of its "moneymaker" consumer products have operated there for years.
> For this purpose, I’ve deposited all my personal savings – 50,000 rubles – to the National Bank in order to build a tank. I kindly ask to name the tank ‘Fighting Girlfriend’ and to send me to the frontline as a driver of said tank.

Not that I have any idea how close 50,000 rubles would get you to a tank back then, but it seems she at least contributed to the cost of building it.
These building footprints, complete with height detail, are algorithmically created by taking aerial imagery and using computer vision techniques to render the building shapes.

I could have guessed that before the punchline. And it's not that difficult to add for a company with tens of billions in cash. What are you doing, Apple? Fix your OS and Maps!
Sounds like a blockchain solution in the making... /s
There will only ever be 21 million BTC. I mean, it's right there in the code for Bitcoin. Yes you can fork or create new cryptocurrencies, but they don't have the mining power of BTC, and they are inherently NOT BTC. So Bitcoin is rare, cryptocurrencies are not.
Must be fun to do testing for api failure modes with this...
These knots are census records.

> Urton says he and other researchers in the field have always had a general sense of what the khipus represented. Many, they could tell, had to do with census data. Others appeared to be registers of goods or calendar systems.

They've known for a while that many kinds of data were recorded with khipus, but (it sounds like) they couldn't read anything but the raw numbers, which were meaningless without context. Medrano has basically discovered a Rosetta Stone, the same data in both a known and unknown language, and it could very well lead to cracking the full language of the khipus.

And don't underestimate census records alone. There's a lot of tremendously valuable information to researchers there.
The thing about innocent-by-default is that false accusations are also a serious crime with serious penalties (for good reason), and if you believe that the accused is affirmatively innocent, you have to believe that the accused is guilty.

The reason that courts, specifically, do not have this paradox is that "innocent" simply means "we do not have the evidence to justify using the extraordinary punishment powers reserved to the government alone against this person". Yes, there's such a thing as getting a court to declare you affirmatively innocent, but usually they say "not guilty," which is an important philosophical distinction. So a court can very well decide that a person has not been proven guilty of their crime, and that their accuser has not been proven guilty of malice, either.

But humans don't work like that. When we think "innocent," we don't think "I have insufficient data," we think "they didn't do it". It is arguably a flaw in human thinking, but it's a flaw we have to live with and work with. And a world in which all who accuse people of sexual harassment are effectively guilty-until-proven-innocent in the court of public opinion isn't a great world, either.
I don't disagree, but then how do we trust it? I suppose (thinking out loud) that we could have everyone on your credit report sign it, but then encrypt it to your public key? That way only you can let others see it, but it's still tamper-proof.
Why not? How do you define "killer app"? Maps is one of my very highest used apps, alongside chat/text/email. I'd say it's more revolutionary than all of those, because chat/text/email were just mobile versions of apps perfected on desktop, but a mobile map app shows you exactly where you are, which changes everything. I've traveled internationally both in the pre- and post- smartphone era, and let me tell you, travel is way easier now.
The problem here isn’t that iOS throttles the CPU when your battery can no longer properly power the phone.

(This is a really nice feature, compared to, e.g., sudden shutdown when voltage drops too low to run the CPU at normal speed.)

The problem is that iOS doesn’t alert you about what’s happening. If it said something like, “Your battery needs to be replaced. Until it is, your phone will run with reduced speed.” Then you would have the information you need to make an intelligent choice.

You have to suspect Apple doesn’t do this because if you don’t know what’s going on you’re likely to assume your phone is just old and needs to be replaced.
Well given the fact that pretty much all major news organizations blatantly pick a political side, putting "journalists" in quotes and being skeptical of any single source isn't too crazy to me.

If news sites prioritize view counts over maintaining an unbiased viewpoint, Roy Moore is what results. Republicans did not trust liberal news organizations to tell the truth.
Well, love them or hate them but tailing them is not Net Neutrality ;)
I use Apple Maps when walking because of the nice turn by turn integration with the Apple Watch.
Why was this banned from the front page?
> You aren't one of those filthy alt-righters who voted for Trump are you?

Yeah, nice try.

No platform is banning people "who voted for Trump"

They're banning people who are openly trying to recreate Nazism, the KKK, and other such violently prejudicial entities
I see, thanks. I'd be curious as to why he feels it would "inevitably break in worse ways", seeing as how that's not really the case on other platforms.
Look at the price!
This was pretty surprising. I assumed Samsung just added bloat for the sake of branding, but it seems like much of what they do on top of Android is actually a big value add. Really made me rethink Samsung phones.
In Australia, my bank charges $10.50 for a domestic RTGS (Real-time gross settlement) transfer. That system is only for payments over $100,000 and usually clears within 120 minutes. Not sure what it would cost for an international transfer - the SWIFT fee seems to be a flat $30 - it doesn't specify any maximums but I'm not sure if that still applies when you're talking tens of millions of dollars...
that would make an awesome movie.
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So a monoculture hiring Chinese employees catering to Chinese consumers. Why should we even care then? Google and Facebook employ more Burmese employees in SV than China does in all of its tech companies, guess what companies are dominating the emerging internet sector in Myanmar, a country literally in china’s own backyard? China’s Silicon Valley is an internal concern that has nothing to do with the rest of the world.
Let’s keep in mind that software running in a browser is sandboxed, using standardized APIs, and isn’t nearly as privileged as software running directly on your desktop.
This is great. In some ways it reminds me of the recent "Software 2.0" posts around here -- make the code and architecting so easy that we begin teaching machines by creating data rather than writing code.
>as the market is informed there will be a decline in BTC's spot price and once this falls below the cost of OPEX for miners, the hardware goes offline and the network will cease to function.

I don't think the network would cease to function. If that happened, the difficulty for the network would drop drastically, and GPU miners would come back online, similar to the early days of BTC
It does do that.. it tells you your battery needs servicing.
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Basically symptoms of the same problem; everything was being done in a huge rush. You’d expect both, really.
I wouldn't worry about noncompetes and IP issues. Most likely your company won't care and if you are wildly successful you can buy out their interest.
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> - Sam Altman

… whose company's forum makes unpopular opinions literally fade away to nothing. Actions speak louder than words.
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Don't forget the price of carbon. There's billions of $ of profitable business done in these areas recently.
So do many of the Silicon Valley executives who are pushing their privacy invading products on schools. That's why they send their own children to private "tech-free" schools to prevent them from being exposed to the same products that pay their parents' bills.
I think the reticence of victims of sexual assault being identified has more to do with the taboos around sex that still exist, at least in this country. The cult-of-virginity and inequitable attitudes toward sex that come largely from the Abrahamic religions. I think we'll eventually outgrow that.
Experience home made dining, authentic cuisines and cuisine culures from people around you. Not from the people who act like knows it but from the people who practice it.
I completely disagree. Apple chose to have the phone continue to work all day. That will keep it useful more than being fast.

A better option is a larger battery, but without that, I think they make more customers happy than I'd they did the alternative.
Early bitcoiners met with a lot of people with the means to invest. Almost all of them passed. Committing to investing and sticking with it through the ups and downs takes good judgement, courage, and healthy dose of luck.

It's no different from startups. A lot of investors were pitched by AirBnB and almost all of them passed. Fred Wilson from USV even had PaulG badgering him with emails telling him to invest and he still passed.
> One of the awkward failures of capitalism, I guess.

No, it's actually a feature: competition. With a single product in every category it would be impossible to have diversity of ideas being tested and competing.

It is the same with evolution.
I don't think that matters at all. Many countries have their own debit card system and for what it's worth, I think EC cards are great debit cards. They can, however, not replace credit cards.

All the benefits from credit cards really come from the fact that you're paying with credit:
- Travel a lot? They sure accept Visa.
- Want to pay some street vendor? Square is only possible because they don't need to dial your bank directly.

Also the fee per transaction might be cheaper on debit cards, but the cost to acquire a debit card reader from your bank is still high. That's why virtually all larger vendors do accept debit cards in Germany, only smaller businesses are cash only (from my perspective).
Yeah, but the exact timing was not announced, and it was known to some insiders. Knowledge of that timing would be worth a very large amount of money.
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It's mentioned at the end of this blog post: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2009/11/1080p-hd-comes-to-you...
Is this strictly for founders/owners or for ordinary employees too?

Does the category (e.g. Engineer vs Computer Systems Analyst) matter?
FTFA:

Coinbase maintains a strict trading policy and internal guidelines for employees. Coinbase employees have been prohibited from trading in Bitcoin Cash for several weeks.

Now, how would Coinbase know if an employee traded BCH on another exchange?
I would like to use it for these reasons, and also that the Apple Maps UI just feels a little nicer to me than the Google Maps app on iOS. There's also the unfortunate fact that Apple doesn't allow users to select a default maps application, so Apple maps integrates better with Messages and other 3rd party apps.

But even with all of these reasons, Google's data and search capabilities are so much better than Apple's that they make Apple Maps feel unusable by comparison.
Why not let anyone use any toilet regardless of identity?

If it's unjust to segregate public facilities on the basis of sex, it's certainly unjust to segregate said facilities on the basis of gender identity.
You're confusing coal plants as flywheels and coal plants generating power -- two different things, two different timescales.
Yes I am. RSS feeds are still the main way I get news from various sites. I'm using InoReader [1] as my RSS aggregator and pay for using it as I value the service highly.

[1] https://www.inoreader.com/
Adversarial perturbations are possible for object detectors (like yolo etc)
Tracking scripts should be blocked by default, not just delayed. If a user has some strange desire to be watched, give them the option to opt-in to their browser unblocking tracking scripts/domains.
That's good, but it's almost a year ahead (November 2018), and I wonder how many Snapchat users care about permissions at all.
You greatly underestimate how much work it is to negotiate licenses among major vendors, much less renegotiate an existing license.
> Both are in fixed quantity so none is more rare than other.

"BitCoin" is just a particular name for a bunch of numbers. If every single wallet in the world disappeared today, you could restart a new block chain tomorrow, and would get numbers just as good as the bitcoins were (And in fact, the # of Bitcoins doubles every time there is a fork). Any scarcity is purely by fiat and consensus.
“How can Bitcoin be a good store of value if its price is so volatile?”
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/12/can...
> But as a store of value, none of those arguments apply. It only has to compete with gold bars, which are crappy in their own ways.

There are lots of stores of value besides gold bars and Bitcoin; real estate, business equity, business and government debt instruments,...
You need aerial imagery from different angles.

Thats surprisingly hard to buy from imagery providers, because most of them only want to point their cameras directly downwards.
They could, in theory, have logical equivalence. If my ISP retains neutrality wrt transport between YouTube and my client [eg to comply with legislation] they can _in_theory_ pay Mozilla instead to throttle the connection at the UA for any user with an IP on the ISPs network, delay transfer, limit total data, etc. - the effect would surely be close to identical to ISP interference wrt the traffic carried between YT and my client browser.

Because of the possibility of such an equivalence it strikes me that the issues are not _separate_, though obviously not identical either. If Firefox blocked/throttled sites but allowed others [in the same category] for money, then Mozilla through my client would be enacting the same effects as net non-neutrality. They could charge for an add-on to remove all/some blocks, or charge the server endpoint company to remove the block just for them.

The point is that for a user the important endpoint is their sensory input, and that a browser manufacture can filter/throttle/block that consumption in the way that an ISP can.

Legislation could be written that would encompass preventing a browser manufacturer from covertly interfering in data transfer, whilst equally demanding ISPs carry data regardless of origin. Equally poorly drafted legislation targeting ISPs could impact browser makers ability to implement black-/grey-/white-listing of malware, etc..

Whilst we're focussing on such bias that can interfere in our web/internet consumption I think it's the perfect time to make sure we don't solve the problem in one place only to leave a gaping hole that allows the same corporations to enact the same controls.
If the terrorist is not posing an immediate threat, I would consider disarming the toddler first. This could more easily supply me with a weapon, which would improve my odds against the terrorist.

Not relevant to the discussion, I know, but an interesting thought exercise the more I over-think it.
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I consider myself an old tech geek but "Yahoo Go" rings absolutely no bells for me.

What was Google Maps for mobile in 2005? Those were flip phone days for me.
Maybe I've missed something. I'm not sure what's magical about someone shouting that their smartphone is a prison.

Do you see yourself using this as an alternative to your current computer/phone? For the things I use computers for, it seems that Dynamicland would not be applicable, so I'm having a hard time understanding why some are finding this so exciting.

(Don't get me wrong, I think it looks neat, and the problem it's addressing is important—but it does not appear to be an actual general-purpose alternative computing platform. And I've seen/read most everything put out related to the project if I'm not mistaken. Feel free to suggest me new things if someone thinks it has general-purpose computing capabilities.)
Nobody was claiming that WASM would replace JavaScript in general, magically or otherwise. I think there's reason to believe it will replace asm.js since it's already being integrated into Emscripten and the major browsers have already landed support in their stable releases.

I find comparing it to Flash or Java applets weird, given the fact that you clearly understand that it doesn't interact with the outside world using any WASM-specific APIs. Both Flash and Java applets could in theory interact with the outside world only via a JavaScript wrapper but that was never the use case they were aimed towards either in theory or practice. Flash and Java applets also used languages that map much better to JavaScript's execution and memory models than C/C++ do, so the APIs were a big part of what you were getting by going that route (especially in Flash's case, where you had to learn a totally different programming language just for Flash).

Unless you consider people who using things like Node.js or Electron to be "insecure about touching C/C++" I don't see where you get off saying that about people who want to use WASM. Sometimes you have existing code or expertise in a certain language, or it simply fits your problem better.
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