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It's your phone. Of course software you installed should be allowed to do anything you want.

The fact that Android has recently made it impossible to MITM apps is really making me consider switching. I don't think I will, because in many other ways Android is still more open, but the analysis is no longer as lopsidedly in Android's favour.
So reading this article [0], it seems as though both parties are evaluated for their actions and blame is assigned proportionally. So while the women jaywalking would probably get the bulk of the blame for jaywalking, the driver/uber might also get some due to software error/driver inattention.

My guess for why the cops are not really going after uber is because the women was reportedly homeless so she does not have any family to fight for her case.

[0]: http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/auto-accident/pedestrian...
That is what Tesla’s auto pilot does. It periodically starts flashing that you need wiggle the steering wheel to ensure you are there.
The article quotes "people familiar with the matter". For all we know, this could be a controlled leak, and the "people familiar with the matter" could be CXOs and Facebook's core management team. :)

Funny to see the alleged data abuse giant unravelling with all the hustle and bustle of upper management panic.
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> How exactly is the Go GC easier to "triage" than that of the JVM?

Well, firstly the language has value semantics, so in many cases you can read the source code knowing nothing about escape analysis and make inferences about where data lives. With Java, you're at the mercy of escape analysis. Further, Go's escape analysis seems simpler; I've been programming in Java on and off for a decade and I depend on profiling to hunt down allocations (except in very simple cases). This isn't the case in Go despite working with it for only a few years recreationally.

> This goes away eventually

I keep hearing that, but I'm 4 years into Rust and I'm still not able to be reasonably productive. I'm sure it's possible to get there, but I doubt I will ever be as productive in Rust as I am in Go for the class of applications I write.
> An inattentive driver killing a pedestrian isn't typically treated as criminal, as far as I know.

It's usually, though exact standards vary, vehicular homicide if there is criminal negligence, which can include inattention while driving especially if it results in a citable (on its own, before considering the fatality) violation of a traffic mandate that causes then fatality.
How many (hundreds or even thousands?) donations over how many hours... and nothing else is causing the server to fall over. That's one incredibly slow server.
Yeah I think festival support should be added to my backlog. I love listening to festival lineups even when I’m not going.
I've got some Google Home Minis and I didn't realize how much I use them until I decided to make note of it: I use it to control my TV every night (Play bob's burgers, next episode, pause) and in the morning I ask for the weather and while drinking we ask it random questions we happen to be discussing. At night I say "bedtime" and it turns off the TV and lights and my dog knows that means it's time to go to bed and gets up as well. All stuff we used to do on our phones but now ask verbally - I guess I'm saying I find it more convenient now than bringing out my phone and having to type stuff. It becomes way less weird after like a week.
Sigh. I want every large marine vessel to have one of these installed:

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.ht...

Well, OK, not precisely one of these because it doesn't work yet. But something similar.
With some exceptions, Federal powers increased because we couldn't agree that human beings are not property, among other basic rights issues. The touchstone moments were not simple disagreements on policy, it was the pot boiling over into extreme violence. Even the Federal model requires some basic level setting for it to function. There's either a rebalancing or the whole thing falls apart.

Regardless, GP's points are notable just a local level. States have different weights assigned to executive and legislative. It appears that Arizona leans heavily towards a strong executive branch although I have to wonder if any laws were broken here. People expect corruption in US politics at this point but this incident has some staying power in the news.
Another http://uigradients.com/, but with some very, um, brogrammer-y naming decisions. I'm somewhat confused as to why this is on the front page.
Speculation:

A digital TV signal is a lot more repeatable than an analog one. A digital signal doesn't have the "TV static" effect of an analog signal that may introduce different entropy between two devices pulling the same signal in different locations
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Has anyone asked how many hours or miles that self-driving car drove autonomously before the fatality? It could very well be that the accident proves that, while horrible, self-driving cars are much less susceptible to fatal accidents. To date, I have not seen this data anywhere...
I believe it's a single gear. There are differentials for the axles, but no mention of gearing for the motor itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Powertrain
+ what do they collect when you are not logged in.
Looked into this. SongKicks licensing is really restrictive once I start using their API. Do you have a site you use for upcoming shows in Tel Aviv?
Looked into these; very interesting.

Do you have to attend a church (and prove it)?

Does it support same-sex marriages?

How does/did your prescription costs compare (if you had any)? I assume a generic co-pay for tiered drugs for your traditional plan; not sure what Health Sharing's different prescription discount plans provide.

I don't have much of anything against Christianity, but I think there's a market for Agnostic Health Sharing programs; for those who may be affected by these first two requirements, of which may be non-qualifying for some organizations/individuals.

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From their guidelines:

9. Unwed mothers
There are times even in the Christian community that unwed
women become pregnant. Christian Healthcare Ministries members
have agreed not to share medical bills for pregnancies of unwed
mothers. Instead, CHM recognizes that in such circumstances
the assistance needed goes far beyond financial aid...

I saw that coming from a mile away...
What's so funny about "bit"? The Urban Dictionary provides "short for bitch" - is that it? (Non native speaker here.)
About 6 years ago I read this terrific book, "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" [1]...
Highly recommended!

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0055PGUYU/
I have a friend who teaches woodworking to kids; for their first project, he teaches them how to build a wooden mallet.
I really hope the hand is just an impressive high school project and that the father also has access to a state of the art prosthetic from the VA. He should.
It also has to be noted that everyone testing the "prototype" coinhive code knew that he was mining and had to manually start the miner. Coinhive also stops the payouts to all websites that get reported for the illegal use of it.
Interesting, I won’t do that because I find targeted ads harder to ignore.
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Some info about the CM-1 and 2 here:

http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
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> Donating to cancer research is a direct response to that: it shows that Pr0gramm users are at least not only bad--they also do things generally considered altruistic, like donating to cancer research.

I don't know any particulars of this specific situation, but I would caution folks against accepting this sort of claim at face value. The GamerGate "movement" sprinkled donations to charity in with telling women that they wanted to rape and kill them. There are gradations here.
Thank you for that detailed response.

What are one's options if you don't have decent healthcare through your employer?

Any idea about the schools?

Also, is the 'it's always cold', true for that region?
Hi, Rich, blog author here again.

Your feedback is super fair. That is how it comes across in the blog.

In the talk that came before the blog post, I go into a lot more detail here. I have some slides where I explain that these are "our" standard technologies, and are not intended to be "the" standard technologies that everyone should use.

I gave some other examples of perfectly good sets of "standard" technologies which other companies could choose for lots of good reasons.

The main point that I/we were advocating for was that, in our opinion (just an opinion, not dogma, not definitely right or wrong), there are some strong benefits to making deliberate decisions about what technologies you consider standard, safe, easy and fast to use, versus those that are not.

Some of those benefits we see include:
1. speed of technical decision making
2. incentivizing engineers to develop deep technical expertise in specific technologies
3. incentivizing managers to fund training in specific technologies
4. creating fungibility within your engineering team to make it easier for engineers to transfer between teams and come up to speed quickly
5. minimizing ongoing operational overhead as there's fewer technologies that need to be battle-hardened with operational tooling
Have we seen similar levels of damage in other cars that carry large battery packs and have been in head-on-collisions?

I dont really have any commentary one way or another about autopilot or the safety of batteries, I'm just thinking there are probably other accidents that have happened in the industry in similar conditions to this.

For example, the Prius and Volt have been on the road for quite some time, and both cars carry relatively large batteries (though certainly not as large as that on a Model X). When involved in head-on collisions do they see such drastic damage/fires?

Just curious. I don't know that its even fair to compare those types of vehicles given the difference in the size of battery.
CPUs certainly will be produced on Earth for a while due to the very low mass (which makes transport costs negligible even over interplanetary distances). But Mars certainly will want to produce the vast majority of their own stuff due to very high transport costs.

And as far as Mars being cut off, certainly Mars will want to trade with Earth for as long as possible. Self-sustaining will hopefully remain theoretical. That doesn't mean they won't have the capability to do so if necessary.
An aside to this story which I find interesting:

I definitely think that mining cryptocurrency on other people's machines without their consent is malicious, and I am glad that the security industry is treating this as an exploit. This shares similarities with ads in webpages, which run without my consent.

However, unlike ads, mining scripts don't grab my attention without my consent, they only use my processing power, which is something I would be willing to negotiate for the right website. I'd be happy to click a button which says "Allow nytimes.com to mine cryptocurrency on your browser while you browse their website", for example. There would need to be secure systems in place around this sort of mechanism--I'd rather have this implemented by the browser than as a JS script--but this might provide an alternative to pay models which sites seem unwilling to try, and ad models which I am unwilling to agree to.
That's 200ms that could be used loading more tracking scripts.
I've had the privilege of working alongside some other groups making cheaper, better prostetics:

http://www.psyonic.co/technology/

It's amazing how much there is to improve, and how small adjustments or really people who care can make a massive difference. It's not supprising at all that this guy's soon built him a better arm than many of the standard stuff out there (which is expensive and breaks).
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I think everyone is in agreement about what "vegetarian" means apart from you.

Vegetarians don't eat the flesh of animals, and it's always been like that. Eggs and milk are animal products, not the flesh of animals - so vegetarians can still eat them. Vegans don't eat animal products at all, which rules out eggs and milk. Pescatarians eat fish, but they aren't vegetarians.

So if N is the number of distinct foods you can eat, N(pescatarians) > N(vegetarians) > N(vegans).

Is there anything in particular about this that you find difficult to understand? I can model it as an ontology for you, perhaps?
Yes, it does jump every 1.28 seconds :)
Oh, you reinvented installpkg!
the next step is to create all the various pkgtools and the rest of the slackware :D
I feel a disclaimer that The Guardian uses Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager on the site to track you and help Google further track you should probably be added to a scaremongering article about Google tracking the user.

I feel most technical people are aware of the level of tracking going on. The more privacy concerned do what they can to mitigate it.
I would disagree on this point.

Although I am not very experienced in exercising, from time to time I start to jog or go to the gym for a couple of months and the only reason I do this is to get into shape; losing the weight was always a part of it. After all, there is a reason why thousands and thousands of people go to the gym only to lose weight. I'm not saying that exercising is only for this and of course it brings lots of health benefits, but I cannot neglect the fact that after 3-4 months of gym I get in a perfect shape and lose 8 lbs minimum.
My google activity history, youtube search/watch history, and location history are all completely empty because I've disabled all of it. I would recommend going through the privacy checkup[0] to control what does and doesn't get saved.

[0] https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup
"The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents" What does this even mean?
Tinfoil hats, back in style.
The real special sauce for Forth is that it's small and it's knowable. Anyone who wants to learn about how elegant a computer system can be should take a look at jonesforth[0], a Forth implemented in x86 assembly language. It really is possible for a programmer to easily understand everything a Forth does, which is wonderful when writing a bootloader or low-level OS.

In a lot of ways, it's a more-structured assembly language.

TCL could be cool for a low-level system too, as could be a Lisp (also: how can anyone hate Lisp with a passion‽‽‽), as of course could be Forth. Perl & Python are too big and not minimal enough.

0: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
> The police reported that the pedestrian, wearing black, entered the roadway randomly and unexpectedly, directly in front of a moving vehicle, and concluded that a human driver would not have reacted in time either.

That police report is at best sloppy and unwilling to do anything other than take limited evidence at face value and at worst an active attempt at spreading misinformation.

The pedestrian was crossing from the median across two lanes of traffic, and was struck on the right side of the right-hand lane of traffic (at least 75% of the way through crossing the road). Even the video in question (which, as many have noted, is far worse quality than anything a driver would be seeing) shows the pedestrian a good second before impact, which is enough time to at least initiate emergency braking even for a human--and the car shows no sign of having done this.
I think those statistics are difficult to get a complete picture on.

In california at least the manufacturers have to log miles driven in autonomous mode and the number of disengagement events over those miles.

That can be misleading though, since a car could log thousands of miles on a nice smooth stretch of interstate over and over, then spend significant amount of time disengaged in areas with pedestrians, cross walks, and stop signs.

The same pinch of salt should be applied to stats that someone like Uber themselves makes claims on, about how many miles they have driven autonomously with no incidents.

We could probably draw conclusions about safety per mile travelled on highways but probably not in trickier surface street scenarios without a lot more detail from the manufacturers.
I’m with you 100% except you’re not taking into account what I said about this being in public and Alice not being a part of the project. Internally assigning blame isn’t the issue, it’s about the “team” facade being shattered when dealing with the outside. If you’ve accepted Charlie into the organization then from without it isn’t about Charlie or Bob, the answer should be “yes, we’re aware; a recent commit broke that functionality and we’re working on fixing it.” I’m not even talking about a dev mailing list or GitHub PR discussion, I’m taking about the specific case of badmouthing a developer to an enduser.

Imagine if Apple came out and said “yeah, that blank root password bug, it was all because of John Smith and his crap patch that caused this.”

Outsiders don’t have the same perspective as insiders. If Charlie’s commit message read “implementing the really difficult thing we talked about,” the team might be aware of mitigating factors that Alice won’t. But even without those mitigating factors, all you’ve done is badmouth your own devs to the public. Additionally, you are not considering whether Charlie is an otherwise stellar developer that has never had a bad patch before. Alice may incorrectly presume that the only reason he’s being called out is because this is a habit of his, perhaps.
If your laptop doesn't connect to anything, it has no idea where you are.

If your phone doesn't connect to anything and enable location services (GPS is costly in terms of battery though), it has no idea where you are. Of course, your phone -is- connected to the cell network most of the time, and so theoretically it could calculate where you are to within a mile or so, but that, 1. Takes battery, and 2. Isn't that accurate. So there's a good chance it wouldn't bother.
Now if a malicious actor gains access to your login credentials they also gain access to this rather unique data..
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This misses the wifi router data Google collects via android phones. Android is a sieve designed to enable a spyware economy like the rest of Google who are creepily stalking every human unfortunate enough to use their services.

But most here know about this, many are intimately involved in it and are happy to defend it. Outrage targetted at Facebook while making excuses for Google feels inauthentic.

Everyone wants an ethical society but when it comes to paying a price economics always wins out and we are left with the spectacle of the privileged hand wringing, blaming the system, blaming the victims and acting helpless. If you can't be ethical you can't expect ethical behavior from anyone else and you get the society you deserve.
I've generally felt the same way, but it seems that in the last couple of years the line has become blurred. For example, if I have a smartphone that is always connected to the internet via 4G, and I speak within range of the microphone, does that count as doing something "on the Internet"? Then devices like Alexa or Google Home enter the picture. As more of our lives become connected, the line between what is and is not online becomes much more difficult to discern.
Agreed. My point is that those tradeoffs are really, really good for a huge swath of applications.
This is nonsensical:

> The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents.
> Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents.
This link [Google Takeout] includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve taken on your phone, the businesses you’ve bought from, the products you’ve bought through Google …

Well duh, Google stores your gmail emails and Youtube videos and Drive documents and so on! This is the service they're providing you! Google Takeout doesn't give you a 5GB archive of advertising profile or covertly gathered info, it gives you a 5GB archive of the documents you deliberately uploaded to Google services - emails, docs, pics, videos, calendar appointments. The list of Android apps installed on your devices is there so that when you link a new device to your Google account, these apps will be automatically installed on it. And so on.

There's a single link on that list related to surveillance - namely, your Google Ads profile, which only shows very basic data, I'm sure they have vastly more complicated data stored on me.

There's enough genuine reasons to be upset with Google's surveillance, let's not promote this kind of silliness. Google knows which Google Groups you're subscribed to, really? 5GB could fill 3m Word docs - how many is that in Libraries of Congress?
That mode doesn't do what you think it does.
I think we can agree that donating to charity doesn't excuse bad behaviors.

The point which Pr0gramm users are making is that the Pr0gramm users donating to cancer research and the Pr0gramm users mining through Coinhive might be different people, and lumping them together because they all use Pr0gramm would be unfair (this is the argument they're making--I don't know whether it's true).
The section labeled "Google has information you deleted" is a bit misleading.

If files are in your "trash" they will be included in your takeout. If you clear your trash, they will not be included in your takeout (after a reasonable amount of time, if you "empty trash" then instantly go and make a new takeout bundle it might still be included). It's the same way with spam and email trash. It's given to you in your bundle until you manually fully delete it.

Implying they keep everything you ever deleted is wrong.

Edit: I don't want to get into hypothetical arguments about what Google could possibly be doing. I'm simply saying that the reason the author had "deleted" things in their takeout archive was because it was most likely in their "trash" and wasn't fully deleted in the UI. And that "things in your trash folder are included in your takeout bundle" isn't "proof" that they never delete anything.
I bought an entry level fountain pen, some ink, some lightly cotton blended paper and stamps.

Then I got hooked.

I learned how to fold paper into its own envelope. I bought supple wax and sent a design for a custom wax seal stamp, so now I can mail a letter that is wax sealed domestically or internationally.

My friends love getting letters in the mail that's not spam. And a few even write back. One made his whole envelope out of duct tape.

We still call and text, of course.

And now I am practicing calligraphy in order to craft my own book, binding and all. I got very inspired when I saw the Book of Kells and Chester Beatty collection in Dublin.

Practically this has cost me (the fountain pen setup plus forever stamps) $100 USD. But that's because I bought a nice ink. So I think if people have a little bit of disposable income, and have Netflix to cut out of their life, could pick up old fashioned writing to catch up on life's details in private.

Heck, could even skip the writing and just buy the envelope and stamps, and type up a letter to print and mail!