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Can't talk about Tizen as I've never played with that but I was quite involved with webOS and Firefox OS. Firefox OS was quite different from webOS, in webOS you had an application layer based on Web technologies and you could also develop native stuff if you wanted. You had many services such as database and stuff running locally through "palm://" requests.

Firefox OS used Web technologies more extensively than webOS. It was not only the app runtime, it was a lot of the OS parts too as you see on this chapter from the "Gaia from above book":

https://leanpub.com/gaiafromabove/read#leanpub-auto-chapter-...

The native layer in Firefox OS was quite thin and a lot was delegated to web code running in the b2g process. WebOS took a different path.

Mozilla approach helped advance the notion that the web platform could do things that people didn't realize it could such as internal OS stuff. Still, this had the side-effect of adding a ton of APIs to Gecko making it harder for the team working on the desktop browser to maintain it. With the end of Firefox OS and the inevitable "purge of those APIs" from the source code we've reached a point where we can't recreate Firefox OS using a recent Gecko. While webOS could (with a lot of work from LG) be moved into recent Chromium due to its usage of the web runtime as just a runtime.

Had Mozilla approached a similar architecture, we could potentially still have Firefox OS going on. Unfortunately, even picking webOS and trying to replace Chromium with Gecko is quite hard as Gecko doesn't have a good embedability history.

I love this release by LG, it could lead to some really interesting appliances and maybe even a new Linux desktop experiment. I don't see it on phones anytime soon, LuneCE has more chance of shipping on phones than this release but I can see this replacing digital signage, POS stuff and even thin clients on desktop/laptop form factor.
Indeed, at £1k (€1136, $1403) one might as well run an internal application. At a very basic level, it can be achieved with three lines of bash:

while echo -en "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n..." | nc -l $IP $PORT; do
cat $MESSAGE | sendmail -i -t
done

More complex configurations could still be worked out in <50 lines of Python.
We're not talking actual rails, right? Just some kind of marker / beacon with information (like a RFID for the roads).
"But if the merchant could accept oil certificates and convert it to an alternative certificate at checkout, any in-demand certificate could be money."

This is true and, in fact, used to be the case in the US with how the banking system was originally set up. In the old days each individual bank would issue certificates ("notes") as claims against their own deposits. Currently all our notes are Federal Reserve Notes which are from the central banking authority. But back then, every bank issued their own notes.
Uber halts self-driving cars after first pedestrian fatality
Given I've seen (just last year) an Uber self driving car run a red light in SF, nealy hitting several people - this is not at all supprising.

I do think Uber should be charged if the car is found at fault. Not a civil case, criminal. We know machine learning algorithms fail all the time (like this). It shouldn't be alright to just ignore this.
There are roughly 3e8 cars in the US, they kill 3e4 people a year => each car kills 1e-4 person
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I'm not in the Midwest, but am in a place that culturally is, and I'd say the big reason is we just don't talk about it. If I drive five minutes in any direction I'll run across tens of thousands of immigrants (not exaggerating). Mexican, Vietnamese, Indian, etc.

Virtue signaling is a dirty term, but we just don't virtue signal about it the same way. We accept immigrants and they accept us and we get on with life. Anyone is welcome to come build here and they do. Not that racism and such isn't a problem, but I'd guess it's as much an issue in almost every major US city, certain places are obsessed with showing how enlightened they are.

For the record, I work with minorities and immigrants in multiple companies and they are all great at what they do. They want to be respected not tokenized. I've observed many SV companies are good about saying the right things about minorities but don't actually act in ways that support them, nor are they especially racially diverse.
I really don't want you to get your wish. We have no need to invest in flashy self-driving car stuntmen, building a car that can get you from A to B safely and in a reasonable time frame is all that we should be aiming for.

That sort of drifting parallel park might work most or nearly all of the time, but if the road conditions are poor and the car loses handling then it will be a lot more risky.
You mean, besides the CEO, Jeffrey Skilling?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-enron-skilling/former-enr...

Enron's founder, Kenneth Lay, was also convicted and faced as much as life in prison. However, he died before sentencing: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/business/05cnd-lay.html
Obviously if there's room and time to swerve and avoid the pedestrian, you should, but swerving into an oncoming car? That sounds extreme. There's no way I'd risk killing myself and anyone in the oncoming vehicle to save one person who made a poor decision. In any situation where there's other traffic and off-street foot traffic, swerving might just cause more harm than good. Everything is situational, and I'm sure there are bound to be cases where there is no sensible option for avoiding a fatality because of exceedingly bad timing on the pedestrian's part.
CSS Grid really helped me understand/wrangle z-index and stacking contexts. For example, within a grid you can use grid-row/grid-column to position an overlay over a grid item. The z-index will be scoped to that stacking context.

Modular CSS I think is a huge step forward - I totally agree that global scope is killer. As much as people love to hate on CSS-in-JS, I enjoy using styled-components a lot. I've noticed since using it I've been composing CSS instead of inheriting or overriding styles.
Don't mistake my form of emphasis as overly-emotional behavior, or my statements as any indication that I see myself as significantly more rational than the average person.

There are steps you can take to make yourself less susceptible to propaganda, and it starts with disengaging from the Huxleyan, social media, dopamine machine. Until you do that it's near impossible to get a real sense of your own cognitive biases.
Users don't understand how data works and what can be done with it, so it isn't reasonable to expect that users will know how to protect themselves. The entire system is designed to hide what is being done to users from the users.
Here in The Netherlands we use bikes. They're great; so much faster than driving for short distances. It helps that housing is for the vast majority of people within 10-15 mins cycle and the land being flat.
Very Relevant video on what the discussions about 'the ethics of self driving cars' miss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozcaLnTuidU

Summary: We spend too much time talking about what decision the car should make in these situations, not enough on how allowing a corporation to make those life and death decisions changes our society.
Cambridge Analytica Modelling Challenge
What about 2D games? It seems GameMaker may have the advantage there. I've completed six game jam games and am looking into moving towards a slightly larger project and am currently considering Phaser and GameMaker, but if the 2D has come along in Unity maybe it is worth trying.
No, iOS doesn’t pretend you can choose the default browser.
There are roughly 3e8 cars in the US, they kill 3e4 people a year => each car kills 1e-4 person a year. If we have say 100 AV right now in US, each car kills 1e-2 person a year. So that's 100 times more dangerous than humans...
I really don't understand the need to put a self driving car around pedestrians or other human drivers. As with any machine learning/control system, wild instabilities can and will crop up. Why don't we simplify the problem domain and keep well suited, designated infrastructure just for self driving vehicles, and solve the last mile problem with a slow 15mph creep to the ultimate destination. I mean, it's impressive that cars can drive themselves through a busy intersection alongside other human drivers, but it is by no means necessary, especially when adding humans into the mix adds a degree of uncertainty that is very difficult to account for...
Is it? Or has it always been that the VCs preferred it that way, and so that's how it went?
You're not wrong, but it is more complicated than that. Lidar gives you an array of 3D points and intensity, corresponding to where the lasers bounced back, and how strong the reflection was. Roughly speaking, from there you have to decide 1) which sets of points belong to the same object, 2) what those objects are, and 3) what those objects intend to do in the future.

So yes, a lidar-equipped AV completely not sensing a pedestrian would be surprising, but you can see how it might have incorrectly classified the pedestrian, or misunderstood the pedestrian's intent.
The headline is clickbaity. The point isn't that Silicon Valley isn't a major force in tech or that other parts of the US will "beat" it. Rather, it's that you can build valuable tech companies outside of it, and that the Midwest in particular is ripe for more tech companies. I know first hand, I'm building my VC-backed (including coastal $) startup in Madison, and we've stayed put. I realized the pressures we felt to move early on were our own insecurities and the bias of tech/investor media (which I've noticed has changed recently, we're not seen as so crazy!)

I'm glad we stayed put, especially as we've started to focus on real revenue and scaling, and less on trying to be hot for the purposes of raising a big early round. I feel like the market for engineers around here is becoming an advantage for us, and we're not having to fight the same talent wars as those on the coasts. That matters.
The speed limit for this particular stretch was 45 mph. (sounds high to me, considering there is a bike lane)
My team and me.
Most people don't live in a dense enough city to justify rails.
It would be easier to put a small transmitter in the middle of each lane run on solar power. This would keep the cars centered in the lane except for when they are executing some action.
Times change. The "SV values" of 40 years ago are noticeably different than the ones of today. Heck there's been a pretty noticeable shift even in the past 5 years. If SV did have the right values for success 20 years ago, I'd at least put out the suggestion that that opens the possibility that it doesn't have the success values today.
The leader of Cambridge Analytica bragged about breaking US and UK law by reporters posing as prospective clients.
I guess that could be faked ala deepfakes or whatever but it looks pretty definitive.
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
It might also mean that the hard work of the people creating interesting things has not yet been outweighed by other negative factors in its environment. The old school hacker culture is very contrarian to the current dominant SV viewpoint due it’s nerdiness and focus on what you can create above all other values.
That myth probably a part of Apples success.
> The hype was that [the internet] made location irrelevant. And it did for a lot of things. But somehow VC-backed web and companies were immune to that, even though money and software are both digital.

montrose did a good job of summarizing a recent Wall Street Journal article ("Why Cities Boom While Towns Struggle", March 13, 2018) about this very phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611042

To summarize his summary:

> [R]emote exchanges of ideas are no substitute for the elemental human process of face-to-face communication. Innovators don’t do their work in isolation; they stimulate one another. -- Enrico Moretti

edit: Here's a link to a non-paywalled interview with Mr. Moretti about his book, "The New Geography of Jobs" (2012):
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/enrico-moretti-geograp...
There's a lot of truth to what you say, but you are preaching to the wrong audience.
The law is that pedestrians always have right of way. Jaywalking is a fine, but not a jail sentence. Not coming to a full stop for jaywalking pedestrians, however, is how I failed my first driver's test.
Pretty funny for a Github issue comments section. Also (2017)
Compilers 107 – Optimizer Loop Unrolling
Pretty fleshed-out, pretty feature-rich, pretty long developed - but not pretty good. If it was pretty good we would be talking about the fort construction mode in PUBG now.
He didn't claim it wasn't affiliated with Trump, he said they didn't rely on it that much. And the appeal to 'whataboutism' is a complete non-sequitur, as there is no whataboutism in the parent comment.
> I wouldn't be surprised if from facebook's point of view they'd rather collect 1/100th of your data as long as it's current data vs just a bunch of irrelevant old data. Pull the plug.

I would be surprised. Most data and preferences change very slowly or never (race, political affiliation, religion, sexual preferences, musical preferences, food preferences). And much of the data that does change frequently, like location and employer, can be sourced from other sources (linkedin, voter registration, donations, your bank and phone company who gladly divulge a lot of info -- did you read the fine print?).

Your old flame, your old classmates, your parents, brothers and sisters, the name of your first pet (used for password challenges) -- these things do not change.
Roads aren’t free! With the technology available today, I bet a rail based solution could be more economical.
So why DX12 and not Vulkan? It's time for MS to start helping the industry instead of proliferating lock-in and complicating things for engine developers.
Trump is banning Venezuela's Crypto currency in US
Listening to Facebook is starting to feel like listening to an arms dealer who wants to sound remorseful.

Well what did you think the very targeted things that you're selling to anyone would be used for?
I think in reality you will find that this is rather difficult to do, especially when it's one of the high-speed lines where the ICE can go 300 km/h - quite fun to watch the cars go by really rather quickly.
Agree with your general statement, but still a bad analogy. You tell your bank to release all your info to third party, then a fourth party learns all your balances.

The problem seems to be that people do not realize what it means to agree to information access for a third party, and the question remains weather Facebook is to blame for it being release to a fourth party.

So really the problem is that people are not aware of the scope of the information aggregate of their actions on social media and how it is or may be used or abused.
>with default setting (i.e. send tons of info to google) that you can't configure yourself

source? what is there to send? the only thing I can think of is third party cookies, but it's not like most people regularly clear cookies anyways.
Momentum. I'm part of an organization that uses FB to communicate things to members. Yeah, I could try and get them to change. It's not worth my time. I just go to FB when I need to do business with the group.
Sadistic power fantasies and a general glorification sterile, alienated bullshit always went hand in hand with gaming, in a way, I can't recall a time where crappy but expensive games, with the best bit about them being the box art and the lies printed on the back, wasn't the vast majority of things that were made.

But still, it's really gone places even with such lowly beginnings, and better and better tech is required to dress up the more and more rotten guts. If J.R.R Tolkien could see "Shadows of Mordor", he'd stab his eyes out I'd guess.

It's not just tech infecting otherwise innocent minds and distracting them from solid iterations or free imagining of new things with shiny bling. I remember when it was at least "the Mario series of games" and other such lighthearted notions, and not "franchises" that have "supporters" (the phrases "community" for two or more people doing any specific thing without ever talking to each other, and "supporting X" are the blight of gaming). There's greed at the heart of some of it, and with it other pathologies greed goes great with. I mean, just consider all the people who hunt for "achievements" and even form groups to minimize the sheer boredom of it, but they don't step back and realize it's just a number in a database. And of course, there's more wrong with being "mad" about them doing it, than with them doing it. People have to be trained to be foolish, this takes years and decades, they don't drop out of the womb this dumb.

Yes, I KNOW there's a lot of great stuff, too, and lot of tears and sweat put into it. Some people give their best to produce sublime experiences very few people even get to see, less appreciate, and nobody pays them enough for so that they can do it full time. Others create things they like and then others like them, too.
How the PR's are broken up is ultimately at the discretion of the developer.

You could make small PR's into a feature branch and have those reviewed. At the end, you can then tag the big PR for payout.
In some cases a link to a file is enough, which would implicate DHT, but due to the nature of the distribution would not compromise the whole network. Cf. Pirate Bay.
Uber ultimately backed down and applied for a California permit: http://fortune.com/2017/03/08/uber-permit-self-driving-cars-...
In case, like me, you're unfamiliar with the term "Upstart" in this context. I found a few vague definitions that boil down to:

Startups are entrepreneurial businesses that start with external funding.

Upstarts are businesses that start without significant external funding.
I think this is a great idea and a great use of a BTC/LTC wallet. Breach notification often doesn't happen in a timely manner, and building a solution like this let's me, the consumer, get notified even when the vendor with the secrets doesn't send the notification.

Check out https://medium.com/@grantm/obtaining-instant-breach-transpar... for some more info about how this might be possible.
“I wanted to share more information about the news around CA and Facebook.”
Is there a laymen's summary?
The third party handing the data over to Cambridge Analytica is a privacy breach.

Which is what is happening. The initial headline called it a breach and it isn't all that inaccurate to call it a breach, so it stuck.
The benefits of choosing e-learning to train and develop employees
I rely on a newsletter, JavaScript Weekly, to learn about new and cool libraries but these sorts of roundup announcements can highlight established libraries that I'd forgotten about.

Some of these like Slick and Hammer.js have been around for quite a while, but it's nice to know it's still going strong.
Actually tax credits for staying local have been increasing, e.g. http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-amazon-sn... today
Its amazing how little of a splash this report made in the media. I guess it is because it doesn't fit much of a narrative. The biggest sources of lead exposure were leaded automotive gas and lead-based paint, both of which were phased out decades ago. There isn't any obvious current event to tie the reporting to. But the ongoing effect is HUGE as far as medical effects go; basically second only to smoking.
you cannot be fired for being a whistleblower, so if you 'all the sudden' had performance problems and got fired shortly after whistleblowing, i imagine courts would side with you.
Totally agree on your premise that we can rationalize humans killing humans - but we cannot do so with machines killing humans.

If self-driving cars really are safer in the long-run for drivers and pedestrians - maybe what people need is a better grasp on probability and statistics? And self-driving car companies need to show and publicize the data that backs this claim up to win the trust of the population.
How about autonomous on the highway, turnpikes, etc. And human-operated on streets where a car might ever need to yield to pedestrians or cyclists outside of red-lights.
I tend to write CSS for projects by hand without a pre-processor, borrowing from previous projects only when called for.

One of the things I've been doing recently that helps debugging a lot is to group the attributes within a css class into three, separated by a line.

1) Things that control where the item shows up.

2) Things that control the overall appearance of the item, like size and background.

3) Things that control appearance of things within the item, like font color.
Turkey is an embarrassment to NATO members and their will should never have influenced Facebook. Facebook is evil if they do not recognize Kurdistan.
Fitch's paradox of knowability
Yes, their CEO is still in prison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling .
I can't remember the source, but I seem to recall an interview where a major point for Thiel was just the simple potential for disruption.
They already are in NYC, but thankfully the train and subway alleviate that somewhat.

The interesting thing is that people are willing to put up with commutes that long. Or, they just suck it up and move their family into a one-bedroom.

Point is, if people aren't willing to do it, it won't ever change.
Good, because blockchain for elections is a TERRIBLE idea.

A large state can hack election results just by having millions of computers perform blockchain proof-of-work on false election data.
That's cool with me.
Yeah, I get the equine theme, but I don't think "pony stable" is a very good name. It's probably especially bad for non-native speakers, who may well not know that a stable is a building for keeping horses (and ponies!) in.
This is built on OpenEmbedded, which goes back to OpenZaurus, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZaurus

"In its original form, the project was a repackaging of the SharpROM, the Zaurus's factory supplied kernel and root filesystem image. In order to make the Zaurus's OS closer to the needs of the developer community, the SharpROM was altered through the use of bugfixes, software additions, and even removals in order to make the package more open.

The OpenZaurus project was revamped completely, becoming Debian-based built from source, from the ground up. Due to the change in direction, OpenZaurus became quite similar to other embedded Debian-based distributions, such as Familiar for the iPAQ. OpenZaurus, in its current form, facilitates an easy method for users to build their own custom images. The efforts of Openzaurus, along with other embedded Linux projects, were integrated into the OpenEmbedded Project, which now provides the common framework for these projects."
You can combine SSAO with (very coarse) global illumination probes to achieve a very convincing effect.

DOOM (2016) is a good example of this: http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2016/09/09/doom-2016-gra...

SSAO has been overused/applied poorly (just like the brown 'bloom'/color grading effect in mid-2000s games), which is why people often dislike it.
>Windows provides a knob, but it resets itself after a time

you can permanently disable this with a group policy setting

as for the rest of your issues, I never encountered them, but I think they can be chalked up to no ssd (not that it's excusable to require SSD for your computer to function smoothly), and not using LTSB.
Correct. I often walk down a road with a 20mph 'limit' where most cars are doing around 40 - and some appear to be doing more like 50. There's simply no economically viable way to enforce it, so it will continue like this until there have been a couple of fatalities.
for what it is worth, the indigenous Sierra Leone News site I follow has 0 references to "blockchain" and only one to "agora" (which doesn't seem to actually contain "agora")

http://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/?s=blockchain

http://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/?s=agora