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Cavium are actually pretty good out of all the ARM server vendors of, you know, selling the hardware. (For some reason other vendors found that really hard.) The ThunderX2 has not been generally released yet, but I'm expecting it'll turn up on the same sites selling the old ThunderX, eg. https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/arm-servers.html
It's a little more than just that. Every light in my house is controlled with Alexa which is a very nice and hard to explain until you have tried it. Also my home theater system is all controllable via Alexa as well. This kind of thinking makes no sense to me.

> People are voluntarily paying for their houses to be tapped for the convenience of being able to shout: play me some song.
> I’m so out of touch with this world it’s scary.

I could just as easily say "People are voluntarily paying for their locations to be tracked for the convenience of being able to get live maps on the go" (ie. cell phones, which also are listening to everything you say unless you disable it)
My experience is totally anecdotal and I'm not even an Alexa owner, but I had a Skype conversation with a client that had one them set up in his office and it was constantly triggering, even when the word wasn't used.

So if it though it heard "Alexa, send this message to John: {conversation of ten minutes}" it just did what it thought it was supposed to do. But it's weird they didn't hear any audible confirmation or anything.
Suggesting another language implies that language is essentially just a variant of C and can be used in any situation as C. The OP was asking why there is no (mainstream?) variant of C with built-in memory safety. Suggesting Go implies Go is a direct replacement for C in most cases, which it is not.

Regarding plugins, yes that is the package I am referring to. The idea of dynamic loading is completely ignored in the Go programming language but it is used in many, many other languages (i.e. Java, Python, Lua). Go's support for this feature is lacking and should be fixed for it to interact with other languages.
It depends, if you are in a minimum wage job then absolutely try and raise your income and improving skills is the obvious way to do it.

On the other hand if you are already progressing through a career I suspect it's easier to trim spending than work further up the ladder.

The Starbucks thing is a red herring, most people overspend on cars, housing and food.
>Shouldn’t the decrease in available labor as a result of decreased immigration lead to wage increases?

It works this way if you consider a terrible work environment to be negative wage.

For jobs that hover around minimum wage because of low margins labor shortages mean better working conditions.

For example, if you toss a "must be able to piss clean" requirement on any job that doesn't require the employee to have the sunk cost of years of training and it adds about 50% to the effective hourly wage.

Another example would be university wages. Many departments can only afford work-study student workers. When you need work-study student workers with more than just a pulse you have to treat them better because most students would rather work for dining services and do an equally terrible job with free food.

The problem is that at a state/national level there's so much feedback delay, immigration is not evenly distributed, etc, etc that you can't extrapolate
> The low efficiency is mainly since air heats up during compression. This waste heat, which holds a large share of the energy input, is dumped into the atmosphere.

Wait... wait... I'm... not sure I believe the extend of this statement. If this isn't wrong it's certainly awkwardly worded.
yes. if you want that, you can only buy from a company that does it. if enough people agree, they'll all do it or fail. i don't abide by the 'its such a good idea, everyone must be forced to do it' mentality
Sounds like a promosing solution for averaging out daily fluctuations though.
Architectural Implications of Autonomous Driving: Constraints and Acceleration
BART getting closer to providing Wi-Fi service
To somewhat answer my own question, snips has a pretty active community which should hopefully be a good entree into the ecosystem of privacy-friendly hardware projects
(discord, twitter, and https://github.com/snipsco/awesome-snips#community-projects)
I received one of these messages just a week ago. Alexa sent me a message of my friend and his girlfriend having a private conversation. I immediately texted him to ask if he intended to do that and he did not- so weird.
Aggressive random braking is also a safety issue.
nice. I was not aware, she had a TED talk.
Mostly the message is that regulators shouldn't be investing their resources in checking if the car breaks too often (from false positive in obstacle detection) because the car company has strong incentive to reduce unnessary breaking or driving would be unpleasant and slow for a large portion of the drivers.

The regulators should only test for false negatives, where the car should have stopped, but did not detect the obstacle (false negative), because there, it is a clear threat to safety, and the car company's incentive, while definitely still present, is less pure, as the amount of false negatives is a direct trade off with the quantity of false positives (because it is a treshold: a minimum confidence level from which you decide that there is indeed something in front of the car and you need to break), which make driving more awkward for 99% of drivers
It's right in Google's list:

> We collect information about your activity in our services, which we use to do things like recommend a YouTube video you might like. The activity information we collect may include:

And within that list is:

> People with whom you communicate or share content

I think this one little bullet point is way more vague than Apples and less limiting.
You're allowed to cover your face in France, just not in such a way that it signals religious affiliation. The point of the French law is to prevent anyone from being able to identify, through observation in a public place, what a stranger's religion is (under the theory that you can't commit hate crimes if you can't identify your outgroup; and that a generation that grew up not seeing any hate crimes committed—even if there were people who wanted to commit them, but just found it impractical—might grow up to be less hateful.)

(Anyone who wonders why France is unique in having such a law should remember that France changed hands between Protestant and Catholic monarchs roughly two dozen times, and each time there was a mini-crusade, with citizens of the religion-in-power urged to "coerce" citizens of the religion-out-of-power to converting with whatever means necessary. That died down enough that there was never a law made to stop it at the time, but France saw the potential for such cyclical violence to begin again when it joined the EU and began getting increasing levels of immigration from non-Christian cultures, and so figured that such a law was long past due.)
That isn't exactly a memory issue to be fair. It is deadlock.
Trying to stream video over tor is a terrible experience, even if you stay within tor onion sites and don't rely on the too-few-and-too-overloaded exit nodes
Or they don't really care about addressing the exploits at all.

Electroneum raised 10's of millions in ICO for a handful of "devs" and a former Herbalife salesman. I wonder what the real incentive to do the hard work is now? Sure they could dump a few more coins if they could pump price but maybe a lot of money they had to do almost no work for is worth more than a little they do.

In this case those pesky hackers taking down their network oh well shit happens may be ok from their perspective. I can't imagine they wouldn't take the basic steps they didn't if it wasn't.
True but the microphone is always on (otherwise how would the device be able to listen for voice commands). Thus what you're describing would effectively just be a power LED rather than a recording LED.
Yeah, that is true, is much harder to implement
Failed Futures of Music
Can be fixed
Of all the routers world wide, this has to be a pretty small percentage, right? How many does it take to create an effective DDoS?
> shouldComponentUpdate is hard-coded to `true`

As in you can't override it? `shouldComponentUpdate` resolving to true in the absence of a custom method or PureComponent usage is standard React behavior:
https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/7350358374036c0834ea6...
>So is a flour mill explosion

Having witnesses a corn silo explosion, I was unprepared for the ferocity of that ignition.

>So is a wind turbine explosion

Off to YouTube...
The utility flywheel installations I'm aware of are underground. More cost, but safer.
Read the article they go into this in detail.
For cache-tuning, there is polyhedral optimization, available in LLVM via Polly and in GCC via Graphite. Of course they don't fix everything, but they are great at automating loop nesting decisions with the goal of matching data locality to cache size(s), and, potentially, even SSD/HDD storage (think compiling the software so that it makes good use of the 1GB ram/core you can give it, and not be awfully inefficient with it's swapping.
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I'm probably wrong, but I think Stored Procedures are being introduced in 11.

From the announcement:
"SQL Stored Procedures

PostgreSQL 11 introduces SQL stored procedures that allow users to use embedded transactions (i.e. BEGIN, COMMIT/ROLLBACK) within a procedure. Procedures can be created using the CREATE PROCEDURE command and executed using the CALL command."

It doesn't make sense to teach people how to create procedures if they already have them before. The docs[0] also don't have a section for CREATE PROCEDURE before 11[1].

It is a great tool anyway, better late than never.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-commands.html

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/sql-commands.html
How the Internet gets inside us
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Ok, so the AI is too panicky and will brake for no apparent reason so they have to disable that bit while they work on it. Fine.

But why the hell wouldn't you have the thing beep to alert the driver that the AI thinks there is a problem and they need to pay extra attention? In fact it seems like this would be helpful when trying to fine tune the system.
I've seen utility installations done like this. More expensive but safer.
It enables the creators to Get Rich Quick selling worthless internet tokens to rubes who buy into the hype.

Once you realize that every one of these blockchain projects is driven by greed and the desire to Get Rich Quick, it all kinda makes sense.
How to critically dissect a success story
Software development positions, no -- but I'm not limiting myself to that. People (on both sides of the table) are way too locked into the mindset that people can only do what they've done in the past. I'm good at lots of kinds of jobs.

If someone wants to hire me but their software development position happens to be in an environment that we know I'll do poorly in, then let's talk about what else is available.

Learning new technologies quickly, being able to pick up details from context, dealing with imprecise or conflicting requests, working backwards from a problem to find the root cause, designing future-proof systems, working in a fast-paced environment? I can segue these skills into almost anything.

I don't want to be shoehorned into "$(lang) developer", or even "developer", especially if it means I have to work in an open floor plan. Nobody should want to hire me for that, either, because it's the worst environment for me to do that work.
Cost versus variation in memory access latency.
I wonder if one day we'll see a story like: The coder was drunk or high when he created the software that killed someone... I'm pretty sure we will, the way surveillance is increasing.
Today’s state of the art facial recogition systems work with close to +/- 90 degrees of head pan and tilt. It’s really quite impressive.
There was an article a couple months ago about how fox/cbs/nbc/abc had committed to reducing the amount of commercials during regular programming. It was not an insignificant amount.
I'm still a bit ignorant on all things GDPR, which part of it says they must provide a plaintext site?

I'm wondering if I will start seeing more of these in the future.
i'm sure cumulative energy use across all regulable devices is not insignificant. thats how government policy works.
Facebook abused their position against developers. Kind of like if Apple gave developers full access to all details of every iPhone owner to convince them to develop iPhone apps, then when they get developers onboard they start cutting access randomly to devs, and offer some devs lowball offers to sell with the implied threat of “or we’ll cut you off entirely”.
Crypto/Fiat transactions are much more expensive than Crpyto/Crypto transactions. Why impact your bottom line if you don't need to?
You make it sound as if they can just redirect 100 programmers for a few months and it'll instantly be better. The link you originally shared in that top-level comment goes on to show why Google's maps are so much better than Apples and it's not just a matter of UX design.
Thanks for this. I was looking for a thorough comparison with Elm. If you had to start a brand new project, which would you choose? Do you believe that struggling through the <JS, Reason, Bucklescript, and OCaml> learning curve is worth it?
I know many people in London who get by on
the minimum wage (~16K).

What sort of rent are they paying?
> Due to watchword detection, the microphone amp would always be on.

I don't think that would be a bad thing; especially if there's a switch to disable the mic. When you turn it off, you'll get reliable feedback to know it's actually off.

I think it's important that these kinds of devices have simple feedback and control mechanisms that can be independently verified and reasoned about. Software is too opaque and too untrustworthy.
Yes.

https://snips.ai
I would think what if that was not the only time this happened, what if something else was sent to someone else but that person did not did nothing about it, what if the data was sent to some server and logged, what if all it hears is transcoded to text and stored on some dev box logs now.
I think this tech is just in it's infancy, calling it inherently dangerous or saying it should be banned is silly. I think it will be done properly some time in the future, it's most likely going to be similar to the Windows vs. Linux vs. MacOS battle.
> "they do not require rare or toxic materials"

This benefit alone would make me hope for compressed air energy batteries to receive tons of funding, and become cost-competitive with other forms of batteries.

Also, consider that there are three important elements in a battery "economics":

1) Weight / energy density - how much energy can you store, per weight of the battery? Important for cars.

2) Volume / energy density - how much energy can you store, per volume of the battery? Important for cars as well.

3) Cost / energy stored - how much does it cost to store a unit of energy? This can also be divided into two elements: setup (e.g. the cost of producing the battery and deploying it) vs maintenance (how much does it cost to keep the battery alive, over the years?)

There are also other minor factors, such as reaction to environmental changes (e.g. temperatures, etc).
Clojurescript has very easy JS interopt (clj->js), (js->clj) plus easy ways to export external js library functions. There's been nothing I can't do in CLJS.
I seem to remember implementations like this already being in formation.
Jay Freeman (aka saurik) is working on one called Orchid with a handful of other big names IIRC. I think I read about it here on YC.
Comcast is more or less limited to customers where it currently has cables in the ground - which is a subset of the US population. To grow its customer base, it has to lay more cable, or enter into agreements with existing cable operators.

Netflix is present in around 200 countries around the world, some of them with significantly higher population than the US, and is available to anyone with an internet connection of some description. It's very possible that the valuation is in large part because of this potential.
I don't really understand how a country can ask a website to comply with its laws if the content is not hosted in that country. I guess it could be asked to comply under threat of being blocked in response to non-compliance.

It's such a weird area.
That may be a result of decreased immigration. I’m only pointing out that if illegal immigration were wiped out then wages would increase.
> Why isn't there a better source for this than "four people"?

The same reason that (except for actual indictments and subsequent court filings, and the extraordinary fact of the appointment of a special prosecutor) we get most—often later confirmed as accurate—info on the Mueller probe through similar sources outside DoJ: the DoJ doesn't leak much but a criminal investigation naturally touches people outside the DoJ that are less prone to avoiding leaking. Those can be people in the agency giving a criminal referral, which this reporting suggests would likely have come from the CFTC, or they can be people connected with witnesses (including, but not limited to, those who have been given notice indicating that they are subjects or targets of the investigation.)
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I never thought that voice control would be that useful until I had my daughter... being able to turn on the white noise, turn off the tv, play her music, etc while having my hands full of toddler is very useful.
Of course it's possible.

Then all that's left to figure out is...

1. Make it work really well across a vast array of voices, accents, and background noise.

2. Make is easy to add new features to, in order to keep up with the competition.

3. Mass produce it at a price people will pay.

4. Have a viable business model.

Do these simple things and you'll be a very, very rich person.
This is one of the many things that should not be processed in the cloud...
I have this weird hunch that those two companies' self-driving car divisions may not be huge fans of each other these days.
What actually happened: Alexa misinterpreted some voice commands and activated a "call" skill. The people involved and local news got very excited and escalated this into a conspiracy story.

Amazon takes customer privacy EXTREMELY seriously. There's no way a team would get the "ok" to build a skill that randomly records private conversations then sends them to a random contact. It also doesn't make any logical sense to build such a skill.

Yes, I might sound biased because I am an engineer at Amazon. This statement is my own and unrelated to Amazon's opinion.
I think the key difference is the fail fast policy that was being referred to. Waymo has taken a much slower approach than Uber.
illegal? what a joke. if you don't want to take that risk, don't buy one.
What would be the point of #2? Humans have bad reaction time at emergencies most the time.
40% is not accurate.
I'm just guessing, but GDPR does require that if a person says "no" to tracking (or rather, if they do not explicitly opt-in), that the service cannot be degraded. So I'm wondering if NPR is just serving completely script-less, ad-less text to provide the same thing to this audience?
It would be easy to make the Tor browser also a tor node. This would unfortunately however have negative effects for users depending on secrecy, I think.
Being interviewed in the course of an investigation means you are a potential witness, not necessarily a target or even subject of the investigation.
Interesting... we covered ELM a few weeks ago: https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/elm-javascript-reinvente...
Note, the ReasonML rewrite refers to the Web version of Messenger only (at the time of this blog post):

https://reasonml.github.io/blog/2017/09/08/messenger-50-reas...
I think Netflix is overvalued, but I have a hard time seeing Disney as a stock that grows significantly from here.
The strange thing about this is that there is no visible effect on the price of BTG. It is going down true - but most crypto go down now - and when you look at the chart you would not guess that there was such a dramatic event: https://cryptowat.ch/markets/bitfinex/btg/usd
Is this going to be the new trend? This is worse than Facebook with Onavo.
The only way to be truly happy is to be ignorant of all the ills we are inflicting on the world and each other.

Once you attain this awareness as part of growing up, the only way to drown out the awareness of this deplorable state of the human existence, is to numb the mind with drugs or to damage the brain to such a degree that it stops mattering to you.
Any evidence or press release is enough?
I'm skeptical of the "wake word" idea now.

As nerds, it makes sense to us to do local wake recognition and only upload a request phrase after that. But in reality, this not the first time[1] we've learned that continuous speech was getting uploaded.

Charitably, it could be a mistake, maybe the previous request never terminated and it just kept streaming. But again, not the first time.

More likely, my opinion, is there's a mountain of cash on the table in the form of private conversation, and AMZ would be foolish to walk away from it. After you talk about "hardwood floors" in your house, you could expect targeted ads, consumer profiling, variable pricing, and third party sales. Why woudln't they do this? Why else are they pushing home devices so hard? They're front and center on the front AMZ page every time you visit, aren't they? Oh and GOOG too, they just haven't been caught yet.

1. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/murder-case-tests-alexas-devot...
Not having to use light switches or a remote does not seem comparable to mobile internet connectivity.
Android is thoroughly insecure, and proprietary apps do not generally work without Google services. Google has successfully convinced, for example, nearly all apps using location, to use Play Location Services instead of Android Location API. Apps tend to just crash out without Play Services.

Even Microsoft, which is Google's direct competitor for all of these services, hilariously depends on Play Services for nearly all of their Android apps. Office, Skype, etc. all will not run on an Android phone without Google.

I have a Windows Mobile phone these days, and for all the jokes about it being dead: I actually have a wider app selection than AOSP users. Android is a proprietary OS, and almost none of it's apps today are compatible with the open source version.
Ooof. I have to respectfully disagree that perl deprecates awk. If I'm writing awk, it's usually because what I want to do is precisely what awk does by default: read a line, match it against a condition, and perform some action.

I could do all that in perl, but it's more stuff I'd need to dig up every time I wanted to do something awk-like. People who code perl regularly already have it, for sure. It's a barrier for those of us who don't, and one that awk doesn't have.

Awk isn't perfect, for sure, but I've transitioned from writing simple text processing in perl to doing it in awk because awk provides the basic framework that I'd end up doing ad-hoc and non-idiomatically in perl every time.

Again, all this with that caveat that I'm not a perl programmer. I used it for a couple of semesters in college, which was enough to be dangerous, but not truly proficient.
Can we skip this ritualistic pantomime? For the record, the other side of the issue is that the term has serious meaning and that the alt-right likes to undermine any allegations against it (of course), even by arguing that the term itself is meaningless and that they don't even exist; it's all a fantasy. A great way of disrupting any discussion or criticism. You can read the alt-right's position in the parent and other comment. With everything said, let's stop here!