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If you’re caught as a repeat offender you may get points or even loose your license. I’ve yet to hear of a case where a pedestrian lost his license yet, though. The line of reasoning, however, is that if you’re incapable of respecting the rules and regulations, you’re not fit to operate a vehicle. This argument has been tested in court and multiple people lost their drivers license for parking tickets, an offense in the same (price) category.
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Disagree. Experienced employees make mistakes, too.
You're not understanding the situation. The nature of all parties involved means that what we have now is the optimal compromise.

Given the inertia of cars, starting and stopping frequently takes tremendous energy. Cars having to avoid pedestrians would waste tremendous amount of energy.

Also when you're driving you're focused on what's in front of you. People darting to and fro on the street is almost impossible to keep track of when you're driving and focused on the road ahead.

This is not an opinion. This is fact. And so, taking these facts into account, we've decided a system that optimizes energy use and safety for everyone involved. Pedestrians have sidewalks, cars have streets.

Complaining about this system is just silly.
Call me naive but, as a dev, I don't see why this would be any better than using JS. The group of people that block JS is likely to do the same for this and, as mentioned by others, common sources of such mucking are blocked by a good ad blocker.

Then, there is the whole, "how could it be integrated into an existing site with minimal fuss" issue. With JS you can specify targets and the like for actions and observations, the only comparable thing would be to offer sass / less integration so that it works with clients that disable or block JS, which is arguably much more difficult.

While it is definitely clever, I just don't see a practical use for it. It would really only benefit those willing to put the work into using it and only work so long as their logging URL is available and not blocked. I just don't see the real value.
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Ah, but what makes it an invalid reference, apart from convention? You could just as easily say that a null pointer is an invalid pointer in a context where a non-null value is expected. After all, a reference is just a constant pointer which is automatically dereferenced. Any program which may contain a null pointer may also contain a null reference.

"This is also true of any other language which has both nullable and non-nullable references, and a way to convert the former to the latter without accounting for the null case, such as Rust."

Indeed, though in Rust (like most other safe-by-default languages) you do need that glaringly obvious "unsafe" keyword to perform the conversion, which is a hint that you should be checking for null at that point.
thanks this UCL is more interesting than the gizmodo
> slow down cars in urban areas

This is actually happening. Portland has recently fallen in line with other cities, like Seattle, and lowered thousands of miles of streets from 25 MPH to 20 MPH.

http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2018/01/portla...
People take busses and trams and trains with no issues. There aren't any steering wheels for all passengers to hold.
The problem in this particular case is that almost anything would be better. Probably the only thing to make this worse would be to also mislabel things.

Which is why there are plenty ideas for a better design.
This is a Galaxy S6. I'd probably get better performance if I didn't keep it in low-power mode, but I have no choice because the quest for thinner phones means the battery only lasts 2 hours in regular-power mode.
I used DO for over a year (starting from late 2015) for development and production servers and have no complaints about their services or infrastructure.

But is it really that much of an accomplishment to be offering more resources for the same money, given significant drops in hardware prices over the past couple of years?

And I still see the same problem of some resources scaling linearly with money while others do not. For example, going from $40 to $80 gets you twice as much RAM and SSD space, but only 50% more processing power (6 vCPUs vs. 4) and only 20% more transfer (6 TB vs. 5). Doesn't this just encourage people to work on "scaling out" rather than "scaling up"?

Edit: from my experience, I would still recommend anyone but the most budget-conscious go with DO over OVH.
That's only partially true. The real issue is that there is no official representation of race or heritage found in DNA. Modern genetic testing is a best-effort exercise for classification whose 'accuracy' varies by sample size, race coverage, and group(s) sponsoring testing/analysis.

Quite simply, one cannot look at a DNA sequence and say definitively it is one race or another—there is no official Rosetta Stone for translating DNA to race or heritage.
Do we know if the test button also includes a confirmation dialog? In that case, the two actions are pretty much indistinguishable.

Good UX would eliminate any mindless clicking, for example:
* significantly different workflow than the test workflow
* requiring multi-person confirmation
* showing the resulting action with (time-limited) undo
* and more...
I think it's this one: https://madebysidecar.com/journal/how-we-find-value-in-or-wh...
Achromatopsia affects one in ~33,000 people. By comparison, any form of colorblindness affects one in 8 men and one in 200 women.

I'm not sure "someone using this system might see everything as the same shade of grey" is a realistic concern at those levels of incidence.
You don't need an user account to use https://meet.jit.si/ .

Alternative instance: https://framatalk.org/
If someone wants to play soccer in front of the bus or tram, what do you do? Just shut down the public transit system that day? Tell all the commuters to turn around and go home? The city is cancelled today because streets aren’t for transportation?
Absolutely, I agree with you. The speculation around gold pushes significantly higher extrinsic value onto it. I'm just making a point that it has a floor of intrinsic value as well, even if that's smaller than the speculative activity.
I normally use "code health" or "scout's rule", but it's more about the implementation than the design.

"Hygiene" is a great word overall, for both cases.
You need transport encryption no matter what, not just for REST APIs. I'm just addressing the app design concerns.
I'm confused, do you need to hold a steering wheel when you take the bus?
oops, yeah, Crew Resource Management is what I meant — things like making sure a junior officer can question a senior officer when she sees a problem.

Crew Relationship Management is probably something else ;-)
Apparently we're already seeing block size increases give disproportionate advantage to large miners on Ethereum, which allows miner voting on block size similar to Bitcoin Unlimited's proposal and is processing the most transactions out of all the major coins, at much smaller transaction rates than that: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7pfshh/why_is_8m_... (Ethereum probably isn't as highly optimized as Bitcoin though.)
Very much agree with the redesign of the page. Simple, much better.

The confirmation box however might be dangerous:

If employee panics they might easily fail to get that right resulting in a failure to warn in time.
> People now talk cryptocurrency, read more about the underlying technology and accept that it will positively affect the industry in the upcoming future.

Do they really though? I don't hear anyone outside of people who have actively bought into the cryptocurrency hype saying that it is going to have a positive affect on the industry. I hear a lot of people saying things like "it's a bubble" or that "the rules these currencies are designed to circumvent are there for a reason", etc.
The most effective way to handle this is via federal laws.
That doesn't change anything. The focus of this discussion is whether bitcoin is like gold (i.e. does it have properties like gold).

Bitcoins price is not based on how many cryptocurrency mines you can open. If that was the case bitcoins price would have gone down not up.

And no one is claiming that crypto coins are substituting gold. No need for strawmen.
Per second billing coming is the more interesting thing IMO. Seems like most non-gcp/aws are per hour minimums.
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Signed requests were also invented when the transport connection was in the clear: if the request were not signed then it could be modified in transit by an attacker. These days all sessions are encrypted (SSL/TLS) and so this concern doesn't exist (or doesn't exist if you trust the transport).
Trees can help with carbon, but we are talking about small particles here. I guess they could trap them or something, but not on the scale of a typical polluted day in say Beijing. Anyways, in northern china, this wouldn’t be very workable as the pollution season corresponds to leafless tree season (and the trees turn a dreary brownish grey due to dust).
How does it give them more time? Shouldn't the goal of seizure is to remove access to something to someone and remove him the capacity to alter evidence?

If he refuses to comply or try to alter the evidence while complying, sure, they are guilty and I'm pretty sure there's a legal process for this situation, but at this point right now if they seized the data, they can no longer alter it.
Somehow we've landed in a world where death threats, swatting, etc don't generally have any real consequences, and that makes me very sad.
yep, you're not the first to recommend it. I was hoping there were a few others in the same vein
Because that's literally the law:

> TERRORISTIC THREAT
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> (a) A person commits an offense if he threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person or property with intent to:
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> 2. place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury;
UI crudeness is one thing.

What I wonder about is whether those links generate HTTP GET-requests. Links do so by default.

If so, just need internal web spider or overzealous web browser prefetcher, and one day Hawaii might have a lot of false alerts going on...

GET-requests are not supposed to have side effects, like alerting a whole state.

When you have side effects, HTTP verb should be something else, like POST.

Of course, it's possible there's Javascript handler behind those links that generates a HTTP POST request. Overall appearance of the page does suggest otherwise.

I wonder how the confirmation page (if any) behaves and looks like...
The author states:

>"From time to time, I run across (yet another) article about why Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is so bad, and how it needs to be replaced. This one, for instance, is a recent example."

Yet if you read that linked article this author references in the last sentence, that article does not suggest replacing BGP at all. That referenced post even states:

>"How do we fix this? Well, aside from making sure that anyone touching BGP knows exactly what they’re doing? Not much."

And then the referenced article goes on to mention RPKI and the MANRS frameworks which are not routing protocols nor are they meant to replace BGP.
Right and the GameCube sold ~20 million units, which is abysmal for Nintendo. Far fewer than any other Nintendo console up until that point, only the WiiU has sold worse. But the Wii sold ~100 million units and was an unqualified success.

I think elsonrodriguez's point was this. Nintendo has released consoles with enough power to best all or some competition previously, in the form of the N64 and the GameCube. That power didn't translate into sales. The N64 sold 1/3 as many units as the PSOne. The GameCube sold ~1/8th as many units as the PS2. But the Wii sold more units than the Xbox360 or the PS3.

>Unfortunately, Nintendo thought it was a good idea to barely increase GPU performance between generations and with the Wii we basically got a Gamecube V2 instead of a console that actually competed with the new generation on a hardware level.

Given the Wii's success it seems clear that they didn't need to compete on the hardware level to be successful. And seeing how competing on hardware hasn't worked out for them (terribly well) in the past it's arguably not a good strategy for them to continue.

It certainly seems like Nintendo's biggest success stories don't center around unparalleled technical specs. Rather, low cost hardware that's used really well.
99% Invisible did an episode on this a while back that’s a pretty good listen.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern...
The appearance of control might be a better solution for that problem, as the many of the efficiencies gained with self driving cars are not just accidents avoidance.
That seems to be happening, at least in some European cities. Paris for instance is (very) slowly chasing cars outside of the city. London has the congestion tax. The problem of course is that you need the infrastructure to replace all the cars and public transportation in Paris is close to saturated. Still, it's probably a move in the right direction IMO.
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It seems very likely to me this situation is exactly what it appears to be: a false alarm triggered by an old, underfunded, patch-upon-patch alert system. Initially very scary, then very embarrassing, everyone involved is trying to cover their asses, so you see a lot of spin.

The lack of an actual ballistic missile or missile defense response should really settle the question, IMO.
The downside to allowing multiple tokens is that in the real world, people will create new tokens for new deployment environments, but never delete the old ones, which will inevitably end up on Github somehow.
Maybe from cars hitting people - but how about death from obesity and environmental degradation of suburban auto-oriented lifestyle as compared to urban walkable/transit oriented lifestyle.
IANAL and all that - but a key issue here is that she was in the room when he was talking to his lawyer. If so, it might be harder for Levandowski to assert that the conversation was protected under attorney-client privilege. This could open the door to a much bigger can of worms. I’d expect Levandowski has every incentive to settle with her to keep her quiet. Smart nanny.
What was stopping them from sending the "This is a drill" message?
It'll be much better when/if the third world poor countries enact similar pollution policies as the Western developed world has. Have faith.
And if they don't recover their expenses?

It's like transit systems. Ostensibly the user (fare-payers) are funding the system. But the true costs far exceed the amount collected, so in reality they are subsidized by the taxpayers.
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I cannot imagine mandatory tracking devices, anonymous or not, ever being mandatory in the United States. That would never fly.
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You also don't get internet access, in case a bright bulb tries to go "curl ...".

Though in many of these cases I'd just advise leaving the premises unless the salary is stellar (or there are other considerations such as family, etc).
In the UK a lot of residential areas have introduced 20mph limits (down from 30mph), close to no-one (except learner drivers) obey this new limit! :(
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The AWS API runs over TLS, and uses signed requests.
It is blue and rectangular, which means it shows positive information ("this may be done").

The picture is an adult and child playing on the street. This street is for adults and children to play in.

In practise, in countries where it's less common it will have a text description, and you'd then recognize it abroad even when you don't understand the text: http://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/uploads/3/2/9/2/3292309/publi...

Circular blue must be done. Pedestrians must use this path: https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/footway-sign-picture-id...

Red-bordered circles forbid something: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/no-pedestrians-road-sign-253...

And red-bordered triangels warn of something: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Singapor...

You should now understand all the road signs used outside the USA and Australia :-)
OK, let's rephrase: some percentage of people will still be ready to pay extra to be able to control the car to some extent.
What would you recommend instead?
I hope the technology matures beyond 'blockchain' and marketing drops the 'coin' moniker and the gold rush dies down.

Cryptographically verified distributed log files should have negligible hype value and be hidden part of the infrastructure. I predict that 10 years from now normal relational databases have infrastructure for shared, authenticated and verified rows and columns and we laugh at the ICO era.
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Definitely not. Car dominance is heavily subsidized at all levels of government.
> There are no better alternatives.

Sure there are, cities in the US are starting to build better alternatives already.

> The article makes it seem like the only reason the rules exist as they do now is because some industry players forced us into this situation.

True, the article does make it seem like that. Because that's what happened, it's a fact that US auto industry propaganda led to the establishment of jaywalking laws.

> Sure the car industry backed these ideas, but people accepted them because they made sense.

You seem to be wanting to litigate the safety of mixing cars and pedestrians. Nobody here is arguing that walking in the street is safe. The article is the story of what happened, which isn't up for debate. We can argue about whether crossing the street should be legal, if you want, but there are many countries in the world where it's not illegal to cross the street. There are many people in the US who think it shouldn't be illegal, and also think crossing a busy street is a bad idea.
I've often seen that argument in articles about UBI, but the supporting examples are usually unconvincing. If "people suffer from lack of work, not lack of money," why are the examples offered e.g. communities full of impoverished people subsisting on disability, not luxury retirement communities? Surely the residents of the latter are deprived of weeding a field all day with hand tools, too. If not-having a boss directing you to perform tasks is what's ailing the unemployed, and money is secondary, then Jim Moneybags should be roughly as bad off as Joe Welfare, so long as neither Jim nor Joe go to work each weekday.
No. You need to be securely using TLS anyways. Signed requests are hard to get right (Google "canonicalization vulnerabilities"). That's not a good tradeoff.
When Linode upgraded its packages, I've done migrations to go back to the original specs at the lower price. Luckily they let you scale and rebuild pretty easily, but it usually entails migrating to get the upgrade, then migrating a second time to downgrade again.. :-D
Copenhagen isn’t McMansions on quarter acre lots, while most Americans panic at the suggestion of any density level higher than that. Permission to play in the street won’t fix low suburban density or the low effective density of high rise neighborhoods that are mostly vacant investment properties.
what incentive does a hub have to do that? it's easy to accuse a hub in doing that but it's trivial for a hub to prove they aren't. if it is ever proven that hub holds on to somebody's channel - the hub loses reputation and customers.
Caution signs are red-bordered triangles.

Warning of children in/near the road: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Ma...
Stokab ultimately achieved 90% coverage by building out in a demand-driven way (though it took 16 years, compared to the 3-5 year timeline typically imposed in the U.S.). Which is how everything else works: at first only rich people had smart phones, now everyone does.

Universal service is an admirable goal, but the implementation is economically nonsensical. It is, in essence, a tax on telecom service. In the case of the universal service fund, it's an explicit tax. In the case of build-out requirements, it's an implicit tax: instead of taxing an ISP in cash, you're compelling it to provide a service it would not otherwise provide.

But it makes no sense to impose industry-specific taxes on telecom service. It's not like gasoline or alcohol, which warrant taxation to discourage the negative externalities they create. You tax industries that you want to discourage, not ones you want to encourage.

The downside of this economic distortion is that it suppresses competition and entrenches incumbents. There is no "minimal viable product" if you're starting an ISP in Baltimore. There is no sniping away at an incumbents' highest-margin markets. You end up not being allowed to use the tactics that startups in other industries use to take on incumbents.

Contrast how Sweden approaches broadband deployment in rural areas. It simply gives rural residents a tax credit to subsidize construction of a fiber line. It's the same way we approach other forms of welfare. We don't require Whole Foods to build stores in poor neighborhoods. We give direct aid in the form of SNAP and WIC benefits.
That doesn't mean this is a journalism-wide problem

I've seen headlines like this on every major publication for the the last 5 years (since I started paying attention to topics I am knowledgeable about). Once you become a dedicated expert on a subject, you are enlightened to the journalistic spin of that subject. The topics you are unfamiliar with is where journalism exploits because you cannot dispute it.

EDIT: Reply below is constantly changing and being edited and I am shadow-banned from replying to it.
There are 123 additional deleted comments there too...
Good point: Credentials must not be logged. The easiest way to achieve this is to use HTTP basic auth for the token because web server infrastructure already knows not to log that, or a header OAuth2 style.
You're attacking a strawman.
It's not journalism, it's TechCrunch.

There is a difference between journalism and blogging. Unfortunately, it's a gap that gets wider each day.
So is this a "No true Scotsman" situation? "Journalist" is not currently a legally protected term. Anyone can be a journalist if they so choose.
I would disagree on the grounds that authentication is, generally speaking, a well-solved problem for the level most applications require. It's a better use of your time to use a library that's well-used and well-understood rather than rolling Yet Another (Probably Bad) Authentication Framework.

I will concede, however, that the most basic forms of authentication that I've used are so close to the metal that they're usually already built into whatever you're using to do communication.
I think the answer to pedestrians versus cars is the same as for cars versus trains: grade separation.

Turn the sidewalks into elevated walkways. Or use pedestrian tunnels underneath the road surface. Pedestrian crosswalks are a money-saving measure, ignoring one of the many externalities involved in automobile manufacture. Cars simply should not be driving on pedestrian walkways, and pedestrians should not be walking anywhere that does not have a significant physical barrier between them and the massive objects moving at high speed.