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It feels like everyone just wants to log back into the internet of 1999. That ship has sailed though. But if you look at Web 3.0 and social networks like Peepeth, I see hope – on a site that puts everything irreversibly and forever on the blockchain and you actually need to perform, albeit micro, payments to act on this network, I expect spammers and troll farms to be unable to manage their evil operations economically. But who knows where we end up...
Potentially, but there'd probably be loopholes, like paying individuals to promote a corporation's viewpoint. Even if, hypothetically, there were a way to 100% stop corporations from influencing legislation, wealthy individuals could still probably profit from using lawyers to create complicated laws that end up making them even wealthier.
> https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/type-safe-builders.htm....
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> It's more designed to build DSLs or similar, so you'll find more documentaion/examples in that area of the docs.

Thanks for the link. However, I feel like that still doesn't give a lot of detail. Can you have multiple receivers? Can receivers be generic? Can receiver resolution be controlled by other arguments?

> It's just a closure with a compiler-added paremeter. It can be nullable if you want and exceptions work the same as any other closure. If you want async/await you'd use coroutines. I think coroutines and receivers mix just fine, you'd just make the type a suspending lambda with receiver, but I've never tried

Sorry I didn't mean to imply that Kotlin was incapable expressing all of these things together. I meant it would be desirable to express all of these things with the same tools. It seems like the you would have to express these with several different paradigms and be aware of how they interact. That also means you would need more boilerplate because you have to abstract each of these things separately.
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It's also not real intelligence but rather a certain appearance of intelligence. Not saying "y'all" and things like that.
Yep, and you have no one to blame but yourself for all of it. That's the lesson.
The NSA could just give you access to theirs.
> On a highway, an emergency stop is not safe.

That depends, there could simply be no traffic behind you, which an experienced driver and hopefully and automated one would be monitoring.

Besides, there are many situations on the highway where an E-stop is far safer than any of the alternatives even if there is traffic behind you. Driving as though nothing has changed in the presence of an E-stop worthy situation is definitely not the right decision.
$280 is more than a week's worth of take home pay for a minimum wage worker.
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Somewhat unrelated, just reduced my internet speed from gigabit to 250Mbps; upload down from 35Mbps to 10Mbps and it's $96.95 'before taxes' .. hopefully, at least, I won't have that $8 broadcast fee, but I'm pretty mixed about this whole thing. I only got gigabit because I could, but I might miss that upload, just a little bit. And it's only $40 per month that I'm saving. Maybe $45 tops. Still, interested to see how it pans out. And finally I get to return the damn cable box they won't let me return as long as I have TV service. And -1 subscriber count, almost worth it for me just for that alone. They tried to throw a 2 year $99 gigabit offer at me, but I keep hoping SOME day I'll get FTTH.. I know, don't hold your breath.
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Yes. And the switch from "Will they sit through all the ads?" to "Will they watch the whole story arc and give a thumbs up?" is the best thing that could happen to the medium.
Everyone that works with F# and OCAML can confirm the trend I guess..
> According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are
not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle
behavior. The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action. The system is not designed to
alert the operator.

Wow. So the vehicle and these tests were run knowing full well that an accident like this would not be preventable. This isn't manslaughter, this is murder. Uber was letting its car drive without any safety systems, without even an alert driver behind the wheel because her job was to monitor the panel. Fuck me. Wow. They should never be allowed to operate another autonomous vehicle again. The ceo should go to fucking jail. Fucking murderers.
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Docker Swarm was announced ~6 mos. after Kubernetes was announced. Similarly, Kubernetes 1.0 release was 6 mos. before Swarm's 1.0 release.

Personally, Docker's big mistake was killing off dotCloud so quickly instead of gradually migrating it to Docker.
Creating new apps has just become more effort, while monetization options have become more difficult.
I'm not sure why your comment seems to be grey-ed out. Here's the relevant section from the report:

"As the vehicle and pedestrian paths converged, the self-driving system software classified
the pedestrian
as an unknown object, as
a vehicle,
and then as
a bicycle
with varying expectations of future
travel path."

1. It seems like the classifier flipped state between pedestrian/unknown object/vehicle/bicycle; this seems like one of the well-known issues with machine learning. (I'm assuming the classifier is using ML simply because I have never heard of any other (semi-?) successful work on that problem.)

I suggest that the problem is that the rest of the driving system went from 100% certainty of A to 100% certainty of B, etc., with a resulting complete recalculation of what do to about the current classification. I make this hypothesis on the basis of the 4+ seconds when the car did nothing, while a response to any of the individual possibilities would possibly have averted the accident.

2. If the classifier was flipping state, I assume the system interrupted the Decide-Act phases of an OODA loop, resulting in the car continuing its given path rather than executing any actions. This seems like a reasonable thing to do, if the system contains no moment-to-moment state. Which would be strange; it seems like the planning system should have some case for having obstacles A, B, C, and D rapidly and successively appearing in the same area of its path.

3. Assuming the classifier wasn't flipping state, but presenting multiple options with probabilities, I can see no reason why the car wouldn't have taken some action in the 4+ seconds. (I note that the trajectory of the vehicle seems to move towards the right of its lane, which is a rather inadequate response and likely the wrong thing to do for several of the classification options.)

"According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are
not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to
reduce the potential for erratic
vehicle
behavior."

That's just idiotic and would be nigh-criminally unprofessional in most engineering situations.
Did they rewrite it using the old language too, as a control? :)
I bought the original Surface Pro the week it came out. I actually really like the interface and thought that it was great. I didn't really understand why so many people hated Windows 8 until I tried to use in on a desktop. Even with a touchscreen it's pretty annoying.

I'd been using Linux as my primary OS for years at that point, so I think I'm pretty critical of Microsoft in general, however they did a good job building a touchscreen interface.

The state of touchscreen support in Linux was pretty bad the last time I checked though.
My most embarrassing moment included myself, an extreme amount of alcohol, and me running backwards up a one way street with my pants down resulting in me mooning a cop driving up the street toward me.... so yea like others said, you gotta get out more.
The law can't come down hard enough on scum like this.
"Somebody" has created plenty of new apps, they just happen to get acquired as you say. If you want one that will last forever, you need to code it yourself and keep it as a personal tool.
A cave with a fire and a dead pig satisfy that. I'm pretty sure that's not what you're really advocating for a baseline lifestyle.
It's not just an aesthetic. It can cause a host of other electrical problems which can affect its basic use. Circuit boards aren't designed to be ductile.
I thought the response was pretty disturbing. They have logs of everything you say to Alexa? I guess I assumed the private conversations were not kept beyond some sort of metadata. No thanks.
If I'm using a dragnet to grab every conversation and filter it for things I personally care about, your conversation could make you someone I want to specifically target.

As a random example: let's say that I want to kill someone who lives in your neighborhood. I could analyze your conversations, comings and goings to figure out when and how to kill that person, and blame it on you. I could on a continual basis run numbers on everyone emitting data in your neighborhood, until someone had arrived at a point where their friends would testify against them on the basis of conversations with the potential patsy, that patsy had no alibi, and tailor the murder on the basis of the means that the patsy had available to them at the time.

I could also just be trying to figure out if you were a homosexual, or muslim.
The new context API can probably help with that. Pass an object through context that contains the reducer state of a root level component (or a getState() or whatever), plus a dispatch function. Blam, Redux-equivalent without a separate library.
>Flood insurance is out of whack

Yup. National flood insurance causes malinvestment.
Why do police officers shoot someone who was never a threat ? Kids will be kids, there will always be kids who do things that are completely irresponsible, by design. The fact that the person who pulled the trigger is not responsible at all for all this is beyond me.
You'd be amazed at my dad's ability to butt dial people with an iPhone.
It's possible. Like multiple times per week possible.
Just as nobody but the primary user(s) triggered the failure in this case!
That misses the point. The idea is that a human being is machine running on couple hundred Watts, twenty of which are spent on compute and sensing. There's no reason why a man-made device couldn't replicate the feat.
I'm pretty excited about the potential benefits of flow batteries. Hopefully they can get the tech to work economically for grid storage.
Reporting an approximate number of people is not a trivial task, even with a real camera. Depending on what exactly you mean with "approximate", of course.
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> "I felt invaded," she said. "A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, 'I'm never plugging that device in again, because I can't trust it.'"

Let this lady's reaction be a lesson to all of those who say "people don't care about privacy." She wired her home with Alexa devices, and yet when she found out how her privacy could practically be invaded through such devices, she seems like couldn't get rid of them fast enough.

People care deeply about their privacy. They just don't understand the true implications of even a device that's supposed to "listen to you" and the possibilities of what someone else could do to their internet-connected devices.

This is why governments must intervene with laws such as GDPR or even much stronger ones in the future to protect people's privacy, because the companies themselves have no incentive to "self-regulate" other than a negligible amount.

The only problem is some governments will not intervene unless enough people go through similar situations such as this lady. In the US even that may not help much because the vast majority of politicians care most about continuing to receive (however modest) donations (also called bribe money elsewhere) from the industry.
Yup, that's 1gb alright
They tend to be far more religious than I would care for, but they often do make a lot of sense, and tend to be quite highly rated for accuracy; more so than pretty much any "progressive" media.
Sliders don't seem to be movable with Chrome for Android. Nicely done, though.
Because salience still matters. A show with few viewers who love it enough to want Netflix might get renewed. A show with few viewers all of whom think it's mediocre has no future in any commissioning system.
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
It doesn't. There are methods that do not require a person to be carrying a WiFi-enabled device for location tracking.
But then why not just discard them while they sleep at a hotel you own or AirBnb or something?
I played with PureScript a little. It has advanced type system that captures a lot of semantics of JS allowing easy interobility with JS ecosystem. But that comes with a huge price. With all those monads and monad transformers interacting with JS it is easy to end up with stateful mess. Surely, it will be typed and functional mess, but still it is hard to maintain with all state pieces spread through code hiding in lambdas.

With Elm the situation is very different. All your code is pure. The runtime hides the state management and the only way to interact with JS is via message passing. The end result is code that is extremely easy to follow, maintain and debug. Moreover, as Elm style and tooling discourages using lambda-style callbacks with opaque state, all state is very explicit and often just by looking at the state data structures, one often can grasp what the code is doing. It is almost like code follows from the data structures.
Well electric cars will help in the long term because we can localize the pollution control to the power plants. The UK/Europe really has a problem though with diesel ultra fine particulates and the NOx. You might covering your pram with a rain/wind cover that might help as recommended in:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/09/use-bugg...
In this case, the 'sword' is a strategy that originally tried to appeal to everyone, from the least competent user to professionals. Judging from some of the idiocy I see in app reviews, a part of what's happening is that the LCD users are bringing expectations down to their level.

What does one expect when you subject a deliberately thin electronic device to the full force of your body?
Because they've been falsely informed that there is such a threat. That doesn't make it right but it at least explains a part of what happened.
Because they were told he was a threat.

Also because of our highly militarized police tactics designed to reduce potential harm to officers at the cost of everything else.
Perhaps you are conflating the relationship between Sikhism and Hinduism with relationship between Vaishnavs and Shaivites. Sikhism categorically rejects Hinduism and I would respect their wishes. Vaishnavs, Shaivites, ISKON jostle/debate to be viewed as the true interpreters of the scriptures. They do not reject their relationship. And that makes them Hindus.
Trying to move that line is laudable. Just don't think we'll ever be done moving it, regardless of whether indeterminate progress is sustainable or not.
I'm glad they caught these assholes, but I remain frustrated that the cop who shot an unarmed, innocent man on nothing but someone's phoned-in say-so will escape unscathed.

http://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/swatting-fatal-charges-k...
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You make me sound like a crazy driver :). Just watch the traffic along a busy road with pedestrians on the side. Nobody slows down if they pedestrians behave the usual way. You also often have pedestrians walk into the road to just stop right before the zone where cars are. Nobody slows down because they see that the pedestrian is observing traffic.
These findings are consistent with another NYT article posted almost a year ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/29/climate/south...
That would violate the Prime Directive.
It is amazing to me that law enforcement's trigger for using deadly force so light that two teenagers arguing about a video game can get a third party killed across a state line.
>How it happened is only relevant to the engineers who build and maintain the thing. I, on the other hand, could not care less how it happened

I'm sorry, this is just stupid. If you cannot see the distinction between a feature that was intended to spontaneously record audio, and a bug caused by faulty voice-processing, then that's on you. The distinction is pretty critical
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I guess Hacker News is the "new Slashdot", but Slashdot really was much better in its peak years. It's not unreasonable to mark the downhill decline to beginning shortly after Roblimo's departure. I never met him, but I feel as if I've lost a compatriot. He will definitely be missed.
If you were going to make apps that didn't safeguard the users data, and this law deterred you from doing so, then the law is working as intended.
Yep. Doesn't work with touch events properly at the moment. Work in progress!
Don't even try to blame this on the law enforcement.
That doesn't work in a toilet stall.
Have you received genuine legal advice that recommended that you shut down business instead of continuing to work towards compliance?

The agencies that can enforce the GPDR want you to be compliant, not to fine you... If you're actually working towards compliance past evidence shows they won't fine you.
So how is an Echo different from your smartphone? It feels like you've failed to quantify that.

It's much easier to turn off voice-command activation on the Echo than your smartphone. The Echo is not constantly recording.

> I assume that Google isn't constantly recording everything in the vicinity of all Android phones

AHAHAHAHAHAHA, see for example: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline The vast majority of Android users I've met unknowingly had this enabled. It doesn't record your conversations, but it still records far more than an Echo.

Why would remotely enabling recording on your Android phone be more difficult than on an Echo?
Lithium batteries in a Tesla (and just about everything else consumer-grade) are designed to burn rather than explode - they can produce an impressive jet of flame, but this is contained and safely vented from the battery vessel. Just like gasoline-powered cars, they catch fire, but don't (usually) go boom. They are also capable of failing in a controlled manner - lithium-polymer cells are contained in sealed pouches which expand during failure as the gas pressure rises. So long as the pouch is not breached, the battery is a very low fire risk, and is akin to a leak in an air-powered system - a low-energy release that does not harm people around it.

Compressed air, however, does explode out of any weakness in its fittings, often with no warning. Catastrophic failure of a weak joint, coupled with a pressure difference of several atmospheres, can turn any ejected fittings into artillery shells. There's plenty of videos of air compressor explosions on YouTube. Yes, this is considerably rarer than a lithium battery fire, but don't forget that lithium batteries are relatively new to the scene. Compressed air has been in use for hundreds of years and the dangers, despite being understood, are still present. A lot of them stem from human overconfidence, and the attitude of 'eh, one more bar can't hurt, can it?' Even a small workshop compressor operating at less than 10 bars can cause life-changing injuries to anyone present should it fail. I'd argue cleanup from these types of failures are much, much messier than lithium fires.

The comparison to lithium batteries is pretty accurate because unlike gasoline, a spark is not necessary to start the fire. However, a lithium battery fire can generally be spotted by temperature rises before it becomes dangerous. Failure of a pressure vessel is much harder to predict. Just a tiny manufacturing defect in a square-centimetre of a pressure vessel can create a weak spot that'll be the first place to fail as it comes under operating pressure, or cycled repeatedly.

Don't get me wrong, I'm interested in off-the-grid living and had not considered compressed air as a power source until reading this, but I do feel the article skips over the safety aspect of compressed air. There's a reason many of the fittings are only sold to industries - used improperly by amateurs, the pressures they're discussing could be fatal if something goes wrong. My advice to anyone reading this article is to fully understand the dangers of compressed air before building something like this.
Does anyone else find these two quotes a bit hard to stomach?

> Although toxicological specimens were not collected from the vehicle operator, responding officers from the Tempe Police Department stated that the vehicle operator showed no signs of impairment at the time of the crash.

> Toxicology test results for the pedestrian were positive for methamphetamine and marijuana.

So they tested the victim for drugs but not the Uber employee in the car??

Other than that, Uber's so-called "self-driving" system sounds like crap and should never have been allowed to be used in that state.
I've been getting opt-out emails instead of opt-in? Isn't that exactly what GDPR said not to do?
author here.

Definitely legit to consider Heroku and we have used Heroku at some points. In particular since if you build it to work for Heroku it will generally speaking be easy to get to k8s or something else in the future if need be.

Overall the bigger you get the more compelling it gets. Kubernetes has an amazing ecosystem around it. Great deployment granularity. Intra cluster traffic introspection. A good multi-region story. The non-insignificant cost reduction of bin packing.

One thing I like about the service.yaml bit is that it actually doesn't pre-suppose kubernetes. You could use the same exact file and make a heroku deployer instead.

tl;dr though, if you don't know why you need kubernetes I would say you don't need it
Most everyone on this site needs to go through their purchase history and tally up the garbage/non-garbage and total up the amounts. (And if you can get through that smelling like a rose, good for you!)
I 100% think these people and anyone else who "SWAT"s should be severely punished, but at the same time worry they may be used as scapegoats to draw attention away from the excessive use of force of police.

I'm not worried in the sense that I think these idiots will be punished too severely (they SHOULD be punished severely), just in the sense that I don't want having them as scapegoats diminish asking questions about why police are so often killing innocent people (regardless of how the situation in which the killing was done happened to occur).
Running on 'i would be really surprised if', and 'aren't likely to be' aren't really how businesses work.
>investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun

Huh, so they're going after people who didn't make the call and ignoring the biggest culprit that is the police officers? What's the point of having "trained" professionals if they can't distinguish a real threat from a hoax?

This reminds me of binary classification algorithms that classify everything as 0 and end up with an accuracy of 90% because of dataset imbalance.
I'd love the law to come down on the people who murdered an innocent man without verifying claims.

Why do they approach assuming guilt? It shouldn't be this easy to get people murdered by making false claims.
Low burden of proof isn't it.
Sorry it appears to be the wrong one. I will need to track down the talk.
And none of the charged are cops, who shot an unarmed man just walking out of his house. Do not fire unless fired upon is common rule of engagement for military operating under much more adverse conditions. If police cannot respect the same, they should not be allowed to have guns. Right now they are not even trying.