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I've also seen bad pattern replication, and had a difficult time explaining to other teams why it was a problem.

I used to write a lot of app-wide Javascript at a previous job that would get consumed by multiple teams. If I didn't encapsulate something well enough or if I left a private open, I'd later find a code review with someone exploiting it.

The worst offender was a team that once used the prototype of a shared class as a mixin, duplicated/mocked just enough of my implementation logic to get three or four methods working, and then left it at that. Of course, the next time I changed any of my code, even in the constructor, their page broke.

My experience has been that when other teams see these patterns, they see a single page or feature that's working at the moment and assume "this must be fine." They don't see the three or four frantic show-stopping bugs that got logged last month.

When I would confront teams about this, often the response that I would get was "Well, if it's good enough as a quick fix for them, why can't we do the same thing? Why are we the only team that has to fix this?"

Of course, when teams don't want to be the first one to break from a bad pattern, the end result is that nobody changes anything.
I came to the comments to look for a link to the source. I'm a systems programmer but don't have much knowledge of how you guys do things in Win32. A ~70kb executable with nice graphs was enticing and I was really interested to see the source. But as it is, I can't afford to download closed freeware that can't be audited just for some nice graphs.
Oh please. Things involving more than one human invariably involve politics. Academics are just as susceptible as anything else, probably more so.

Cooking, if there is more than one person involved in preparing and eating the food, will involve politics.
I thought the ending wasn't that good, but the first 2/3 or so was very good.
I don't have as much sympathy for this person as I probably should. So someone decided being a waiter sucked and they wanted one of those cushy tech jobs. Without much self awareness as to why they exist or which jobs are valuable. Later in the article they almost figure it out:

> One of the more apparent lessons I've learned during all this is that when working in tech, anyone is dispensable, from the C-suite to the sales floor. (Actually, IT is untouchable, and rightfully so.)

This former waiter then proceeds to land not one but three tech jobs. Based on what qualifications? Apparently just good networking skills. Wow, what a rough industry. Oh I almost forgot they turned down a fourth job because that would have meant relocation.

It sounds like "tech" was willing to give a go-getter chance after chance and either due to their performance or the company's performance it just didn't stick. Maybe despite many people being willing to give the author a chance, he/she just wasn't qualified to do the job?
Interesting, on page 19 of this paper[0] it says "The fishing industry is responsible for the largest input (50–90%) of total plastic marine debris to the oceans". Granted, [0] is from 2012, whereas the paper from Schmidt et al is newer. Nonetheless, you would think Schmidt et al would cite this older paper.

[0] http://plastics.earthmind.net/files/ART_Hammer_2012.pdf

EDIT: It appears the 2017 paper is looking at microplastics.
More importantly, Fuchsia is not GPL.
This is a disappointing response from Tesla. I understand why they are trying to limit liability but they fucked up. They need to take responsibility. The autopilot actively veered towards the barrier. That's very different from autopilot failing to avoid a danger.
My understanding is that the main radioactive waste from rare earth mining is Thorium - a pretty easy to handle material (the US just buries it in landfills, which is enough to contain it) with the potential to be a valuable resource in itself once LFTRs get off the ground again, which China and India are working pretty hard on.
https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Raspberry+Pi+Bring-...

that's the closest you're going to get right now, unless you jump in and help out.
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> Tesla is extremely clear that these are only driver assistance features

Promoting the system with the name 'Autopilot' is, to my mind, quite a bit less than extremely clear communication. This name provides Tesla's critics with a constant line of attack, which will continue right up until they reach level 5. I consider myself a hardcore Tesla fan but I think they've botched their messaging, and this latest statement isn't helping.

> ... but people keep getting confused about it, so they keep doubling down on their message.

Well, that's exactly the problem, isn't it: people keep getting confused. If your message isn't getting through, instead of just yelling it louder you could try eliminating all ambiguity, for instance by changing the name. If this were marketed as simply 'adaptive cruise control with steering', nobody could claim they were misled.
I don't know if that would make a good movie, but it is a really interesting idea...
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Yeah, trusting developers to use their time wisely given a high-level alignment on the big goals can be very powerful. One of our struggles on the individual level is the uncertainty of "is this the little feature that will take the champion from good to great?" that leads to slow and steady feature creep. It's tough to weigh those against tech debt cleanup even though we have the autonomy to work on "mysterious code concerns" when we choose to.
I don't know why they down-voted you. The pitch, if any, for fuchia, wouldn't stand muster outside Google. Clearly, some folks benefit from "burning through a lot of cash", "spearheading the effort", and "padding their resume(s)"
If you want to quote stats about anti-depressants, please do so for other competing places as well. I do not have those stats, but stats about suicide rate[1] show that other supposedly better places with free healthcare, social bonds and no guns (Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Japan) have higher suicide rates than the US.

Wading into social indicators is a tricky business without the full context of a place, so I will speak only about SV - great climate, progressive policies like enthusiastic adoption of Obamacare, unemployment benefits, good employers provide health/401k/parental leave benefits, non-racist environment (though certainly classist) etc.

Finally, my point was about "a software engineer in SV working at MAFANG or unicorns", who should not have to constantly uproot. A new job should be across the street for such a person.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
Explain how pulling friend data through one individual into a 'shadow profile' that they themselves didn't give you access to isn't a 'shadow profile'?

What is YOUR definition of a 'shadow profile'? If it is the same as the guy above we are talking about the same thing just from a more dev/api perspective.

Yes Facebook ALSO developed user profiles who had never joined Facebook but those are ALSO 'shadow profiles' and not the majority of the data groups like CA used. They used more 'shadow profiles' like I mentioned. They connected users across many apps via their global facebook id and harvested users friend data as well.
I would argue that average mainstream comic, book or movie have much better plot, characters etc then mainstream game. They however completely sux if judged by standards we normally judge games. (By which I want to say that games are not inferior all things considered, just that plot is not their strong part.)
I haven't heard of vulture investors before. Is this just someone who aims to profit from an eventual asset sale (somehow)?
Henry Kissinger was on Theranos board. I don't think she is worse.
There is no comparison between the two. Martha Stewart was running a real business and made the mistake of talking to police without a lawyer -- that's very different from running a giant sham operation that defrauded many.
Wasn't UnityScript just Unity-flavoured JS, like ActionScript was for Flash?
Well, Renault doesn't have self driving technology that they're touting as "autonomous†".

†While the driver continues to pay attention and basically does everything they need to do while driving, without actually performing any actions
Isn't the simple way to get around GDPR is to send the email marketing from a foreign email company (in a non GDPR jusisdiction) asking if you are interested in being referred to a type of product or service?
Is trump melting down?
Actually, both Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean are inspired by the same attraction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Island_(series)
Before you tear down a fence, learn why it was built in the first place. The real question is, why were approvals processed in serial? It's very possible that the input for some reviews requires the output from others, for example. Think of an analogy: If someone said 'we'll speed up X software by running it concurrently', you'd have a lot of questions before you believed it.

I've seen this mistake before. For example, when the F-35 was being planned people had lots of similarly 'obvious' cost-saving and time-saving ideas: Instead of all these different services and countries buying different planes, why not all buy a common plane and get enormous economy of scale in production, maintenance, training, etc.? Instead of doing the waterfall method and locking in all the specs and developing all the tech before production, why not do it more iteratively, save time and get other benefits? We learned the answers: 1. It's hard enough to meet the demanding (existential) requirements and bleeding edge tech development needs of one service; building one solution to please 3 services and a dozen countries is impossible. 2. That works for software, not $100 million hardware.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea; I'm saying that we don't know and that the reason for the fence is the interesting, valuable information.
> Some of those like span are more of a library or jit features than language things.

Sure, C++ also has got its span and string_view as library.

> There is still a lot to be done to match C++, in the meantime syntax is getting uglier and uglier ...

Actually I find the opposite regarding syntax.

Don't forget C# has roots on the Pascal/Algol family of languages, even if it the syntax is C like.

For example Modula-3 also has the same REF and READONLY, just in caps. :)

Type classes, well kind of nice, not really into them, given interfaces.

Generics specialization is more a matter of improving the compilers (JIT/AOT).

Here .NET Native might be interesting given that it uses the same backend as Visual C++.

As for the rest, I never felt it was that slow and even with the current language semantics, Unity is quite confident that their new AOT compiler is able to take advantage of the HPC# subset (which still is 100% valid C#) to start moving C++ engine parts into C#.
No.

The same processes that were run in serial will be run in parallel.
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How can one cite one's professional experience? But okay: bugzilla.redhat.com. Take a look at priority 1 bugs for epic breakage.
To me the big epiphany was how little thought almost anybody gives to me (or anybody else), like or dislike. I reached it when I realized how little time _I_ spent thinking about other people.
> Facebook provides OpenGraph APIs that app developers can access personal data that is granted by a user. Previously to OpenGraph v2 you could access all friend data and pull down the whole social graph for any friend level shared data through one initial person, those were shadow profiles.

So you're saying if someone uploaded their phone's contact list to Facebook, you used to be able to access that data (about their contacts) from Facebook's API?

Just to be clear, the person with a "shadow profile" doesn't necessarily even have Facebook account.

I still think you're mistaken and trying to map "shadow profiles" to the profile scraping that was done by Kogan and Cambridge Analytica.
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This is true. Any competent business is looking at hedging its risks and diversifying its offerings. I was just disagreeing with the hypothesis that this was cooked up in the wake of the most recent crash. The turnaround on that would be way too fast.
The documentary "Steely Dan : The Making of Aja" (available on YouTube[0]; some assembly required) has fascinating segments on how the performances were assembled.

Quoting from the Wikipedia page on the title cut[1]:

"According to (Historian) Sweet, Gadd's playing was so visually appealing to watch that some of the other players became distracted and had to rerecord portions of their parts later."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steely+dan+aja+... (also has one of Gadd explaining/demonstrating his performance)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aja_(song)
Yawn, wake me up when UberSPACEHOPPER comes out.
Only licensed aviators know the difference... Also in that
In 1947 a US Air Force C-54 made a transatlantic flight, including takeoff and landing, completely under the control of an autopilot.
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The driver is not responsible for defects in the vehicle
Now compare this with Tesla's PR statement which makes it sound as though they have proof that the guy who was fatally steered into a barrier by their Autopilot had taken his hands off the wheel. They resort to this kind of sleazy, dishonest misrepresentation every time their software screws up.
I think what the parent was pointing out was the infrastructure China built in Sri Lanka eventually led to SL deeding over some territory to China to cover the debt.

I guess the implication is that they'll get Marshall Islands indebted to them, force them to sign over their claim to Wake Island to settle the debt and then China would somehow militarily press that claim.
That's definitely interesting, from the quick demo I just saw, doesn't it only use colors to detect? If so, you'll definitely need something more powerful.

Depending on how accurate you need your model to be, (and what platform you're looking to build on), you could use tfjs-yolo-tiny if it's a browser-based environment. Otherwise I'd recommend doing processing in the cloud using the full YOLO model which is more accurate than Tiny YOLO but slower (https://modeldepot.io/mikeshi/yolov2/overview) or FSSD which is more accurate than YOLO but slower (https://modeldepot.io/lzx1413/fssd/overview)

Oh and if you might be doing something self-driving car related, a segmentation network might be useful as well (ex. https://modeldepot.io/hellochick/pspnet/overview)
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> There needs to be some reason to do it. Some idea that the source material does that hasn't already been done to death in film.

Or some capability of the new format.

Pulling standalone creative works forward into modernity is interesting. Some of my favorite movies are adapted from plays written before film. The timeline is shorter with video games <> movies, but AAA games are already cinematic and VR is basically here (needs lower hardware cost).

How would your favorite composer have used a synthesizer?
> Anyone who knows what an autopilot [1] is [...]

I strongly suspect that is a small minority of buyers.
"We are defending the Republic of the Marshall Islands at the behest of the government thereof."
The former if you can afford it and there is potential. The latter if not.
It's almost like there is more to success whether or not someone sleeps on a tempurpedic mattress with a cooling pad, earplugs and eye mask... or whether they write lists on paper... or whether they have that unfortunate characteristic where they only work on stuff they don't like (you know, a job)
> Tesla is extremely clear

Oct'16 video on https://www.tesla.com/autopilot says Driver is only there for legal reasons

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823632597284691969 "
Yes, safety should improve significantly due to autonomy features, even if regs disallow no driver present
23 Jan 2017"
Or something like that. The Chinese are currently playing a much longer game than any other nation on earth.
The way it works is technically very straightforward. I might have have your number in my contacts list, and I give my contacts list to FB to find my friends. They store that number and if you ever sign up they recommend you follow me as we know each other.

What's complicated about it is the ethics of what's happening. Should FB require permission from you to store data about you even though I gave it to them? Do I have permission to share your number with other people? Why isn't the contact information in my phone my data? This is an interesting problem.
Exactly - they should have always discarded any data about non-members.
> It'd be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns to lay people) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg.

I'd love to see him try to field some questions from the EFF or ACLU.
Stopping in the middle of the road is dangerous (people will crash into you) and it would also be hard to make something have a feature to pull them off the road. If the computer reads it wrong you'll be in a ditch from the car trying to pull you off the road into something with no shoulder. The shoulder of a road is also dangerous as well even if there is a proper one because people often do not stay exactly in their lane. This is why officers often come around to the passenger side.
>Doesn't your statement admit that Tesla is at least partially at fault? Something their lawyers would probably never allow.

IANAL so take with a grain of salt. I once talked to a lawyer who used to work for a big hospital and handled the malpractice lawsuits against them. Three takeaways from the discussion:

1. Implying that a possibility exists that the hospital was at fault has no legal ramifications whatsoever.

2. The studies show an apology and admission has a significant impact on the amount paid to the patient if there is a settlement (in favor of the hospital).

3. Despite knowing 1 and 2, he and other lawyers advise their clients to deny wrongdoing all the way to the end.
Would Fortress Inv. get the patents if the loan is defaulted on? And in that case, wouldn't they be buying from them instead of outright from Theranos?
I do that for "CoCs" because I find that harmful. It is harmful for everyone and especially for the ones that are claimed to be helped.

My point of view is the one of Morgan Freeman (something like "stop talking about it you make it getting worse").
> STILL took his hands off the wheel

That's not clear. The car didn't detect his hands on the wheel, but that doesn't mean his hands weren't on it. Tesla's implementation of hand detection (like many of their other systems) is rather unreliable.
>perhaps something else should be done that will incentivize the driver to disengage Autopilot.

There's a very simple solution: Don't fucking include it in the car. Require the users to show up at the car dealership and sign a legal waiver to allow the activation of the new, insecure, and dangerous feature.

There are no cars on the road with airbags that sometimes work and sometimes cause 3rd degree burns. There are no seatbelts that only work if the road isn't shiny.

If you want to advertise the autopilot as a safety feature available to the general public, make sure it is one.
If it's not, and you advertise it as such, you're legally liable for all the deaths your lie will cause.

Personally, I'm technically knowledgable enough and I know enough about Tesla's history to be wary of their products and never trust them, but what if you're the average consumer?
You would rightly expect any car automation system that comes pre-installed in your car and actually drives your god damn car to be safe enough to be there in the first place!
Tesla is just taking advantage of the lack of legislation and standards on autonomous driving. They're selling a defective and dangerous product. They should be held liable for it.
WHY should everything be GPL-ed? Capitalism is an ethical, meritorious system rewarding hard-work and skill and GPL runs counter to everything capitalism stands for.

Not to mention that the fat profits capitalism bestows on Google FUNDS fuchsia
Why don't you go google "shadow profile" and clear this up? The term is not typically used to refer to what you seem to think it means.
Try telling that to Dennis Hopper.
There's no way to verify those transactions are actually real, or any indication that multiple people are participating or buying.

Many sting operations have targeted traders on localbitcoin as illegal money transmitters and money launderers.
That's really cool - but just like driverless cars, it's the exception to the rule for what an autopilot system does.
My wife is a reading instructor. I myself was a licensed teacher in a former life. Phonics is not the totality of reading education, but it's definitely core and dominant. The article you cite speaks to a political controversy, not a pedagogical debate backed by conflicting data.

Point me to the body of research on whole-language or some other approach as the dominant way to teach reading (basic reading to early primary grades, that is) and at least one school district that definitively promotes it as the dominant way, and I'll seriously reconsider that it hasn't been debunked.
Agreed - we've actually just started on these recently. Forum posts and events now have the rich embeds; we're planning on bringing them to the rest of the content soon.
'Shadow profiles' are anything that Facebook got without asking for direct permission to get.

It could come through a friend list on Facebook back when you could do that or through harvesting the contact lists on mobile. Both are shadow profiles and both weren't granted access but Facebook got to it (or app developers did) via a friend permission or from the native mobile apps contact list harvesting and tracking.

The most you could get about a user that wasn't part of Facebook was their email, name and anything in their contact list and they probably eventually tracked that user through various means, many companies still do this and other bigs did as well such as LinkedIn. Even on LinkedIn though, one initial user had to use their app or their import feature to get to the 'shadow profiles'. Most 'shadow profiles' came from initial granting by a 'friend' or associate.

They are both 'shadow profiles', anyone that got their data pulled without being directly asked is one. Facebook shut down the friend list and global user id tracking/correlation nearly 5 years ago. Most of the problems were back in 2007-2014 when app development on Facebook was bigger and games were huge there because of this.
Google would never let Veronica take over.
I did not know about that. Do you have a reliable, unbiased resource to recommend where I could learn more?
Thanks for the gratuitous condescension, but my point here is that I see the potential audience is quite possibly either too advanced to find the article useful or else not advanced enough to recognize its limitations.