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The project has suffered from repeated changes in direction that have hurt morale and led to hundreds of departures from its peak of more than 1,000 members two years ago, five former Apple employees said. ...

Instead, Apple has signed a deal with Volkswagen to turn some of the carmaker’s new T6 Transporter vans into Apple’s self-driving shuttles for employees — a project that is behind schedule and consuming nearly all of the Apple car team’s attention, said three people familiar with the project.

This is more like "we give up, but will do a symbolic project so we don't look too stupid."

This is harder to do than the web/mobile crowd thought. This is hard real time high-reliability, like avionics. Google/Waymo gets this. Most of the others don't. So far, Tesla, Uber, Volvo, and Apple have failed. Not sure about Cruise yet, but I saw one of their vehicles get stuck behind a double-parked car in SF and the human had to take over.
1. Yes, I meant the Beauty and the Beast ad. They describe how "it invites our partners to be our guest and shares their tales." That's their actual explanation: this product is how Google invites THEIR guests into YOUR home. If that's honestly what you want, by all means. But not in my house.

2. Right, Home was found to be recording thousands of times a day. Google quickly shipped a software update to disable it: that's the right damage control, and they deserve credit for that response.

But the point is that Google will happily "spy on everything I said" and not notice. Why should a random reporter have to dig through Google codenames to discover this spying? Shouldn't Google have safeguards in place? And see their pathetic response [1] that doesn't acknowledge the true problem at all.

Google could own these mistakes. But instead they deny their ads are ads, and characterize constant eavesdropping as "touch controls behaving incorrectly." They haven't learned a thing, and until they do, this stuff is going to happen again and again with their products.

[1] https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7550221
That's not very relevant. It's a constant factor, and the actual problem is that conventional financial systems is something of O(n log n) with respect to energy usage, and desperately tries to minimize it (as not minimizing it means bleeding money), while cryptocurrencies are incentivizing everyone to maximize their energy usage.
Right? I don’t want to be a dick, but I don’t know what exactly the author was thinking. He seems upset that he didn’t get much developer productivity out of people he didn’t pay; well, what did you expect?

I don’t even know what he added to the project. He sounds like one of those ‘idea guys’ who think the hard part of a startup is thinking of features. No, the hard part is executing.
It is a good thing we don't need all of it then. A tiny fraction will suffice. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/map-shows-solar-panels-to...

I think you may be missing my point and sarcasm.
I can see two explanations. One being the irrationality driving the amount of demand for it being unchanged by mere facts until reality gets in their face in some way like a recession forcing enough to withdraw.

The second and more disturbing possibility being it is still good for money laundering cycles even if the actual suckers have cashed out. If money launders say maintain storefronts that give out digital goods of some sort the costs to themselves are minimal so they don't particularly care if someone gets a few megs downloaded for now invalid bitcoin.
I had to lookup what exactly Paradex was and it seems the platform is based on 0x. Given that decentralized exchanges have issues like front running, open arbitrage etc[0], I think this might not be a wise move.

[0]: http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/08/13/cost-of-decent/
I consider awk to be the most useful and underused language in the UNIX ecosystem. I use it daily to analyze, transform, and assemble data, and it always blows my mind that so few people really know how to use it at a decent level. This is an excellent book to give a real idea of what awk is capable of.
It wouldn't.

But it turns out that the new system is significantly worse than the old one, for little to no practical benefit. That's why people are comparing and complaining.
I looked through the comments, and a lot of interesting ideas are presented, but I have to speculate about two additional issues:

1. A lot of people are tied down by responsibilities to others, such as parents and relatives who need care.

2. If a young person from a rural town has acquired a portable skill such as programming, it's quite likely to be because they already left that town -- to attend college.
The whole point of big data is finding patterns in large amounts of seemingly random information.
I am in India (very limited service e.g. we don't have Spotify or Youtube music.) and own both, however, I (and all my family members) find Home Mini not able to wake with even loudest "Ok, Google", "Hey, Google" from a distance when it is already playing something which Echo Dot flawlessly does. Also I am not able to play any station from TuneIn in Google Home Mini (Support has no clue)
Are you sure your router has PCP or NAT-PMP disabled, which _could_ expose ports on your external IPv4 IP without any interaction? Do you expect the average computer user to configure PCP securely on their router?

Various NAT traversal options are already pretty widespread. Having only a firewall keeps things much simpler.
Building a high-end one-off car is not a huge job. I know people from small teams who've done it. Building a large number of cars at a competitive price is hard, as Tesla found out the hard way.
“Will the last person leaving Seattle turns out the lights?” billboard went up after the founding of Microsoft.
> no risk to be taken

I can't believe the parent means that literally.

> people whose forefathers built the country

You don't get credit for what some ancestor did; you get credit for what you do. I'd say that trying to lean on your ancestors is 'un-American'; earn your own way.

Also, the U.S. has been 'built' continuously and it continues today. The work and progress didn't stop in 1776 or 1930 or whatever date the parent is assuming. The question is, what are you going to leave for the next generation?

> How much risk is an immigrant really taking on, when there is a safety net in terms of social services available to them, that pays multiples of their yearly earnings back in "the old country"?

This comment ignores the great burden of most immigrants: Leaving your home, moving to a foreign culture where you don't speak the language, where you have no contacts or network, and bringing few resources. I'd like to see most Americans pick up and move to a non-English speaking, completely foreign culture, with no money and no contacts.

It also assumes a decent quality of life in the U.S. 'social safety net', which is pretty awful, especially compared to other first world nations. No health care and terrible education, for one thing. Even people with jobs have a tough time, and need several of them just to get by.
Anything with a decent tempo (except for Dance Music - too much thoomp thoomp) that is decent but that I don't know the words to. The important part is not knowing the words. If you know the words it can pull you out of the zone without you realizing. As for type I have no specific type, I'm all over the place, just as long as it follows the above criteria.
That's worse. "Adaptive" in web-level tech speak is related to features for disabled people.

Just leaving the word out would improve that sentence.
The observation that there's a music player resource tax just makes me less inclined to combine it with the Electron tax.
What online service is giving you 480mbps or better?
I think my hiccup is that it seems like good awk programmers are expected to be able to pass the full bloody program in as a simple string argument in a bash one-liner. Which is clearly not tenable.

There are a few things I have done which felt more difficult than they should. However, the vast majority of dealing with structured data using awk really has been a pleasant surprise.
Hahahaha! Oldest just turned 4. Do you have a four year old?
CMS...You don't need it
For the past 15 years I have earned a living coding and designing and like many developers, I welcomed the introduction of CMSs about 10 years ago.

When CMSs were introduced they correctly labeled themselves as blog platforms, news media software and generally targeted larger sites handling enormous amount of content with multiple users in a collaborative effort. CMSs where (and are) an indispensable tool in those circumstances. Yet today, the majority of CMSs are powering sites that are 20 pages or less. This is madness, and here is why!...

A typical self-hosted CMS stack looks something like this:

PHP + Extensions (1500 files - 15 to 20MB)

MySQL (4MB)

UI for MySQL ie: PhpMyAdmin (2900 files - 42MB)

Core CMS files (1200-3000 files - 20MB)

Plugins: caching, security, other++ (200 to 4000 files - 5 to 40MB)

Templates: (50 to 1500 files - 500KB to 5MB)

So, what does it take to produce a single HTML page?

A CMS requires on average 6000 files to dynamically produce a single HTML page.

A multiple page STATIC HTML site requires 5 files to produce a single HTML page.

A single page STATIC HTML site requires 1 file... Itself.

Crazy, right?

So now what? Well I am a coder so I built a small app called SNAC. SNAC is a static hosting platform where you can learn, build and launch an HTML site. SNAC is completely free and you can use yourdomain.com. But no worries, if you don't have a domain SNAC automatically builds a workspace URL which you can immediately access and start learning.

SNAC is at:
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You can download amazing and free HTML templates at HTML5up:
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Happy coding.

Thank you for reading,
Roger Remacle
What if you could have that convenience without trading information? Weather, stock prices, recipes, music, traffic, timers, shopping lists, etc. don't require sharing any of your personal information.
I printed this book and went through it and imho just skimming through all of it is worth it: just understanding how it works beyond the basic '{print $2}' is immensely worth it, and being exposed to some 'advanced' techniques gives you a set of techniques that you can reuse in your daily chores (in particular if you're a sysadmin).
I came from the dirt. I worked hard to make it sure, but so did so many of my child hood friends. They didn't make it. It's sad. We can't all be top 10%, by definition.
Web search "Alexa laughing randomly", it was widely reported.
A few links in from this article are one about the problem with cutaway drawings of the drill[1] and a more detailed article about developing the fix[2] which includes a video[3].

[1] http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2017/0906-cu...

[2] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7070

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTiv_XWHnOZqsp7on1ErHOTw...
I'd guess it sorta depends on whether people spend more time on Confluence or Stack Overflow. If questions are already getting answered and used, Stack Overflow for Teams isn't likely to do better at this stage in its development. On the other hand, if questions aren't getting answered or if people forget they exist, it might be worth trying out the Stack Overflow product since developers are likely to end up there regularly.

(Disclaimer: I have 0 experience with Confluence and I'm a Stack Overflow employee.)
Similarly, what's so great about being bored? The knowledge of the history world is on my phone.
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Sounds like you should have your own PI space if you have multiple uplinks, and have that PI space advertised out across all four links. Then you can route packets however/wherever you want using whatever policy you'd like.
If you admit living paycheck to paycheck to certain people you will be shunned and eventually pushed out. I've seen it happen so many times.
It's a perfect place to argue about it, because it only shows that pissing away all that electricity still doesn't help, because someone else can piss away more of it to take your money.
In my case, I want to fail over from VDSL to 4G within a couple seconds of VDSL going down. Will short leases cover that?

I also like to load balance traffic on another site with two VDSL links and a 4G backup. I can’t do that without NAT.
That sounds like a perfect trade. But doing something like that will paint a target on hacker/s back. So, slowly leaching is a much better idea than getting it in one shot.
Great point about the complexity of the real world. I would add that people who favor simple explanations are more likely to be centrist (supports status quo) because they are less likely to question the simple explanations handed to them.

George W Bush in so many words said "We must invade Iraq or they will nuke us." Compared to that, any arguement against the war would have seemed like a lot of logical jumps, but the simple argument was a lie.
Having written most of a Gameboy emulator I can acknowledge how fun/tedious they are to write. I now feel motivated to go finish it. :)
> it always blows my mind that so few people really know how to use it at a decent level

Not nearly as surprising as it is to me that now that most developers have forgotten perl, they're turning to awk as an inspiring example of a bygone era.

Seriously: perl basically replaced awk in the mid-90's. It absorbed all the great lessons and added two or three dozen innovations. But it had scary syntax, so everyone used python (which did not replace awk very effectively) and forgot perl. So now we're back at awk. And the scary syntax is all in the Rust world.
> it's unfair that native-born Americans are forced to compete with people from all over the world who are highly motivated

Why is it unfair? Are Americans incapable and need protection? I thought America was built on opportunity, and free, fair competition.
Video games for example.
Multi-homed doesn’t help when you have two links to two different ISPs that you want to load balance. You need NAT for that. Also, I haven’t looked at multi-homing costs but I assume they are not free (let me know if I’m wrong). Plus in a small office or retail location, you don’t need a consistent public IP when you aren’t hosting servers (or they are only via VPN).
So why would they attack some poor chap in China?
Go-Jek spending $500m for regional expansion
They don't care. I'm going to destroy them and laugh. And then help them rebuild their lives because I'm a nice person. But sorry, they need to suffer, even just a little.

To clarify I'm only going to destroy them because they coast. You can't coast when you're working for that milk money. God having milk is so good.
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What I like about AWK is that it is described by a few pages of the POSIX standard. If Perl was that ubiquitous and simple, I would prefer it over AWK.
Right, what if?

Someone needs to make it happen.
I live in Belgium, so your assumptions really couldn’t fly farther from the mark.
LC_ALL=C sort --field-separator=',' -k2 -n
Maybe because there is no need to evolve there?

I mean, you can see clearly why we came from jQuery, to AngularJs, then Angular/React/Vue, there was a need.
I don't think I'm being hypocritical for defending a good policy in a bad bill.
Unfortunately VW doesn't seem to be desperate for sales. They're selling more than ever before.
We also use confluence, but its irritating as hell having no easy way to see how recent subsections of each page are.

Is this info good or bad? The page was updated yesterday, but this part was written two years ago.

Worse, its down to arbitrary decisions by individuals what goes where, and search for answers and you get... surprise! Old pages no one wants to delete 'just in case'.

I think the real value here is that old answers are still important, but maybe they're not the right answer any more.

Confluence (and the wiki format in general) just fails time and time again at offering relevant timely information.

I get it, its like source control; just delete that stuff and update the page, its still in the history... but people just dont.
Thank you!

I'm not well versed in the block chain tech but it is surprising that there is an inherent big ass monopoly type manipulation you can run ... inherent to the system.

That seems very much not what Bitcoin would "intend" and yet there it is, very available.
I don’t know why these ‘you don’t have big data’ type articles bother me so much, but they really do. I know it isn’t saying NO ONE has big data, but I feel defensive anyway. Some of us DO work for companies that need to process millions of log lines a second. I know the article is not for me, but it still feels like a dismissal of our real, actual, big data problem.
This one walks you through writing an emulator for the classic Space Invaders game: http://emulator101.com/

But really, if you've had a computer architectures class (or do equivalent research on your own), it's doable to just start looking up info about a specific system, and digging down as necessary.
This puzzles me. Although a miner with enough hash power can do a double spend, it's obvious from the blockchain that they did so. To bring this off, you have to have huge hash power and be anonymous. That limits the number of possible attackers.

Bitmain could do this to Bitcoin, but everybody knows where Bitmain is.
And MY point is that extrapolating too much from minimal data is unwise. If you’d like it put in historical terms, “...Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend...”
What if Apple replaced their maps with Mapbox, which uses OpenStreetMap data?

Apple does use OpenStreetMap data but they barely update it.
Even if the device has global unique address for accessing Internet, it doesn't mean that you would need to bind the services you're providing to that address. It's totally normal with IPv6 for any device to have multiple addresses, which have different scopes. If you're using privacy addressing you probably have already several addresses in use, then you got the local addresses and you might as well configure ULA for local communication as I've done for services which I don't want to be Internet accessible.
Hey, that's not very far from the last 300 years of Warsaw history.

source: I'm from Warsaw.
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I do think kids need less social exposure, if only for their own sanity. There is only so much water bottle flipping, fidget spinning, and faggot calling that some children (and adults) can put up with in one day.

Because that is the social environment within large middle schools and high schools, it detracts significantly from their education. Since it is not something that they will experience often as adults it seems like a waste to force them through that during their education, just sayin'
The holes were for (to paraphrase) “allowing sand to fall out of the wheels”. Very sneaky :)
This book is worth the read. Just to get in the mindset of the authors. I wish that more programming books could be as concise and useful at the same time.
Parking money in cash isn’t feasible, which is why much of the USD’s worth is in treasuries, the dollar is just incredibly liquid and easy to borrow/lend.

The Chinese government is not interested in filling this same role, even if now anemic Chinese consumption somehow picks up, they will probably still want to maintain absolute control over the exchange rate.
Great example, that's along the lines of the kind of weird rhetoric politics is known for. Iraq is an entire country! Thousands of villages, micro and macroeconomic activity, relationships with several dozen other countries! It's got everything every other country has: complexity.

Simple minded "let's get em" shit didn't work then and won't work now.
I agree with all of that except the definition of usefulness. As you eluded to with your use of regardless, rationality is not assured. It is expected (or more likely, hope) usefulness, aka speculation. Even funding the status quo is still speculation, because something could suddenly become not useful in the future. I suppose only time will tell what was actually useful, and I'm betting bitcoin is not among them. Maybe if proof of stake comes along, I'll consider that as more potentially useful.
I probably shouldn't engage but I'm sure there is no science to remote viewing.
Sure, they share a lot, like:

- Billing: One bills you before shipping, the other bills at the end of the month.

- Cart: One lets you add items to a cart, the other lets you use products via API.

- Delivery: One requires warehouses all over the world, the other requires data centers all over the world. Only warehouses and data centers are so specialized that they aren't interchangeable.

- 3rd parties: One is a platform for creating online storefronts where 3rd parties can sell. The other is a platform that runs any code you want.

- One has a mass market audience of consumers, the other has a highly specialized market of developers.

Hmm, on second thought, maybe they are not the same business.
I'm not super up to date but if you're willing to look at older games with active modding communities, the Elder scrolls, Fallout, and Stalker series' stand out as having very active modding communities.

ModDB is also a great resource (was, not sure if still the best), you can figure out where the crowds are at based on levels of submission and discussion activity there.

PS Minecraft modding is an interesting example of where those commercial revenue-focused practices have bled into the modding scene. Never have I seen so much adfly, patreon, and general money-making motivation within a modding community. I doubt it's the only one that suffers from the issue, but it's notable.
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> I think this thread overestimates how much people care.

I think you have it backwards. People are not naturally sociopathic; psychologically healthy people naturally care about other people. They may have limited resources to act, but that's a different issue.

As evidence of caring, people widely support social welfare programs. In most wealthy countries (and some others), everyone has healthcare on the taxpayer's dime, as well as other services such as housing. Even the U.S. spends vast amounts of money on these things. People also care about the rights and wellbeing of others worldwide; the trendy nationalism may try to argue against it, but Western democracies have been spending blood and treasure on others' freedom and prosperity for generations. (They spent those things on many sins too.)
You can't throw folders with subfolders at it to make a playlist out of them. The music files have to be in the same folder. Where's the unobtrusive in that if I have to create my playlist first?
This has been common for years now in the IoT sphere, and begins to infect everything in computing too.

To be honest, I just fucking hate it. When companies turn a product into a service, they can afford selling entry package at a loss, thus driving out competitors who sell products as products. Suddenly, you have yet another thing for which you need recurring payments (instead of one-time), and which will only work as long as the provider likes it. You lose freedom and control.
That's not what the article is about. Its about whole cities becoming unemployed as a result of factories moving overseas, and unfair trade deals signed in the early 1990's. The people in that figue moved because they found work somewhere else, not because their entire community was terminated overnight.