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Brave Launches User Trials for Opt-In Ads That Reward Viewers
Of note, this is the first security vulnerability that Heroku has ever decided to explicitly target via config https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1437
Bad headline. Here's the important paragraph:

> Taubes says the fundraising trip to Zurich went well, though he won’t share specifics. It could just be the jet lag, or it could be the mental burden of having to sing for his supper, but Taubes sounds tired. “I say this to my wife all the time: ‘Maybe I’m a quack.’ All quacks are sure they’re right. Isn’t that the defining characteristic of a quack? But the fact is that we funded four studies and the three randomized trials were highly successful operationally. One of these has been published in a top journal with interesting results and I remain hopeful that we will soon see if the last two studies will move some needles. Our convictions have gotten us this far, and despite some disappointments these questions still seem vitally important to test.”

The article basically says the team fell apart and the original donations got closed down because of this. Doesn't actually talk much about the studies themselves.
Nope. While TFTI as a word may be common in your community, TFTI is not used by everyone.

I'll assume that you meant it sarcastically, though :) Kind of like when you don't get the invite and say TFTI.
Looking at comments above, I find it extremely disheartening about how bitter Americans have become. Why are people celebrating the downfall of Apple - the company that comprises 3.94% of S&P 500, and is probably the single biggest holding of 401K retirement accounts. No American benefits if Apple falls.
I'm the opposite of OP. I hate it when people choose an arbitrary axis. Let me rotate the ball however I want.
To change trade policy between the competing governments. Whether it's an effective policy we will have to wait and see.
Not that I don't believe you, but I'd love to see a source for this. What banks do this and where do they disclose it?
Providing US companies with an even greater financial incentive to move their final assembly in China seems like a rather counter-productive retaliation.

What am I missing?
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This isn't a new thing though. When the SNES Classic came out I picked one up because it had Secret of Mana on it. I completely forgot about not being able to just turn off the game when I want to stop since the only way you can save is by staying at an inn. I honestly haven't played a single player game that came out in the past 5 years (other than Secret of Mana remake) that would prohibit me from stopping whenever I want.

My big issue is multiplayer games (namely FIFA and Rocket League). If I just stop mid-game I lose rank, which means I may be stuck in a match longer than I would like to be.
> Huh? The status quo is a free for all? You are not describing the world we live in at all.

I'm specifically talking about the current development of self-driving cars. I'm not sure why you thought I was generalizing to all activity among all industries.

> This is just so egregiously unrelated to reality that I do not have the time resources to even start to reply. My mouth is agape that someone would think this.

What's weird about it? Again, we're not talking about solving some hypothetical future problem, in which case I would agree with you about being hyper-cautious and safe. Tens of thousands of people die every year right now. Where is your mouth-agape-level concern for those people?

When a disease like Ebola breaks out, sometimes an experimental drug is used, earlier than would normally happen. This is not because we are collectively giving in to greedy companies wanting to destroy all government regulation, it's because we recognize that the dire need for a solution sometimes outstrips the need for caution. Here is a recent example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05205-x

Do you disagree with this kind of response for serious disease breakouts, or does 40,000 deaths a year just not count as sufficiently dire? Would 100,000 breach that threshold? 500,000?

If the choice is between getting self-driving cars more quickly with minimal regulation -- which is what's happening right now -- versus much more regulation that will slow their development and introduction, it seems straightforwardly obvious that more people are likely to die in the status quo environment in the latter scenario than people die from testing in the former scenario. Companies would really have to go full Mad Max to kill even close to as many people as our current infrastructure and design kill.

> it logically and obviously extends to self-driving cars without any need for some onerous debate.

That's what I'm challenging, and I'm doing so on the basis that right now, things seem to be going fairly well. One person has died, which is very regrettable, but compared to the absolute mountain of corpses our usage of cars has created in general? It's obvious to me what's more important.
Volvo has the right approach. If the fault is on their car when it is in autonomous mode they will take full responsibility. They have said so multiple times publicly. Then again they don’t trust their system enough to give it to actual customers yet.
New Node.js attribute based access control library
PolicyLine is a new library for Node.js that implements Attribute Based Access Control. If someone is not familiar with this concept, you can watch a 3-minute video by the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the beginning of the readme file.

https://github.com/YLuchaninov/PolicyLine

Goal: Business is not something static. Over time, business rules become obsolete, so you have to rewrite server code and keep a support team to alter it. This library was written to solve this problem by separating software development and setup of business rules in the application. As a result, the client can independently change access rules and customize business logic of their application without changing its server code, which eliminates the need for DevOps and regression testing whenever the rules are changed.

Key differences from similar libraries:
* The rules are based not on roles, but rather on the attributes of four objects: user, environment, action, and resource. Therefore, unlike RBAC, it is much more flexible and allows to implement any business rules.
* json-based rules that allow changing access rules without overwriting the source code of the application.
* Unlike other access libraries, the rules include conditions that, depending on the result of the calculation, can be compiled into a query to the database.
Your first two lines are indistinguishable from parody.

"A good trade deal doesn’t require 5,600 pages."

A Trump talking point, like every one of your posts. But you're surely no Trump fan...

Yes, of course trade agreements are voluminous. Saying that it's suspicious because it's big is the sort of nonsensical claim that sells to idiots.

TPP was very unpopular, humorously because of sections added by the United States. Corporate rights, right to sue sovereigns, etc, were all at the behest of the US of A. Sections on extending copyrights and IP rights -- US of A. TPP was viewed as some new world order with some superseding power, and all of that was the work of the US.

>The number alone is meaningless without context.

Just as trade imbalances are meaningless because [waves hand], until they're what you want to argue.

When the US, with a large trade surplus, complains about a tariff in dairy, where the US has a large trade surplus, in an industry where the US has enormous subsidies ($22B USD per year in direct and indirect subsidies), the whole conversations turns to just farce. It is patter to sell to imbeciles.
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Microsoft employees pissed over company's connection to ICE
> ...Apple - the company that comprises 3.94% of S&P 500, and is probably the single biggest holding of 401K retirement accounts...No American benefits if Apple falls.

Is it too big to fall?
I'm curious what YouTube's real numbers are for YouTube profitability. Are these channels at such high subscriber rates that they're cutting into YouTube's ability to sustain themselves?

They recently demonetized all of the Salad Fingers videos, causing David Firth to remove all those videos from YouTube and only allowing them to Patreon subscribers via Vimeo.

I hope this pushes towards more independent, distributed toob sites. YouTube is simply too big a monolith.
> Why do people care which framework "blows" the other one away?

I suppose two factors:

- The scale/"startups = growth" tenet of Silicon Valley/Wall Street trickling down to micro business decisions — pick as many of (whatever is most popular | comes from Massively Scaled Company | used by companies trying to Massively Scale | growing in popularity fast) as possible

- Feedback loop of bosses/managers who make technical decisions based on hirability/availability of paid long-term technical support/brand name (In 2018, nobody ever gets fired for choosing whatever is the equivalent of IBM now)
You don't need babel if you don't use jsx (which for vue is the default). I've personally only used vue the way you would use jquery. Adding a full webpack/babel/npm stack with a build step and all would be too much work; I barely understand what webpack is in the first place.
How does where you live change what fraction of the US economy is based on the country's military might?

I suppose, though, that your claim might be true of the fraction of the US economy that happens where you are...
I'm a motorcyclist. I've had the misfortune of flying through the air because someone didn't bother looking before making a left hand turn. The literal mantra of riding a motorcycle in highway traffic is "assume you're completely invisible and that everyone is trying to kill you."

The baseline here really isn't that high. How many miles have you driven, and how how many accidents have you been in?
Same here. I have developed a few dissectors for Wireshark and monitoring tools on top of libpcap and find it immensely useful. I did a writeup of "Troubleshooting TCP Throughput" that involves Wireshark here: http://www.thedrews.net/troubleshoot_tcp_throughput.pdf
Not really big fan of articles like this. Why the need to compare and say this one has more stars, or is more used, etc.

I am thankful that we have these frameworks / libraries / modules that have greatly helped in our software development process.

At the end of the day, what matters is developer productivity, their happiness and satisfaction (regardless of the toolkit they use), and the overall value that their product brings to their intended target (outcomes).

P.S.
I use Vue, React, Angular, whichever suits the need of the client the most.
I don’t think the Chinese government cares much about that, there are literally 10s of millions of migrant worker factory jobs like that, and Apple’s assembly business is probably seen negligible to the Chinese government.

But in the other hand the Chinese government really really cares about keeping the middle class happy.
Losing 30% of their money I'm the last month is an AMAZING deal for venzuelens.

The Venezuelan dollar would have lost much more in value during that time period.

Volatility doesn't matter when your nation's currency is way way worse.

A mere 30% loss in a single month is an amazing deal, compared to what they have to deal with.
It's 644 lines long because a lot of your post-install configuration is stored in there.

You'd want to compare a fresh install VSCode vs fresh install self build.
Sure they do, these massive global tax evading tech conglomerates only benefit the most wealthy in America. PS only 32% of Americans have 401ks

If Apple actually paid taxes on the money they made? If they didn't go over to china to pay cheaper labor and avoid enviromental regulations? Maybe you'd have a point. As is, they're just another parasite extracting as much wealth as they can in the name of creating the first quadrillionaire in history.
How to run containers without managing clusters using OpenStack Zun
I think that Vue.js is on the ascendance. I mentioned this earlier. It is on track to exceed React.js if things continue in this fashion. Github stars are a reflection of interest.

I do worry that Vue.js is mostly one guy, you like to at least have a higher bus factor than one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
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The Chinese government could restrict iPhones, but they'd only be partially successful. Instead, they can make iPhones just a blingy platform on which to run WeChat and extort Apple into giving them user's data. The Chinese government wins.
Perhaps it's bad if Apple fails but not for the reasons you list. Your comment is the epitome of 'too big to fail.' What, once a company gets big enough to get in some 401k accounts we're obligated to keep it going? I reject that.

Apple is largely a widget company which produces expensive but nice technological baubles. If it fails we'll be fine.
If this is true, why is it so easy to name genuinely good products that failed because of lack of visibility? How do you differentiate your product from that of competitors? How do you get seen in the first place unless you own a very good domain/have a massive sales force?
Thank you for responding! Too few people have the courage to actually evaluate what would make them change their minds. Kudos to you for doing so.

I agree for the most part. And to be clear I’m not a British citizen so I don’t have a strong stake in this, but I am a EU skeptic and it bugs me when people assert that the Brexit position must be mentally deranged or some such. That’s a rhetorical cheap shot that speaks to the base instead of contributing to conversation.

With my Brexit hat on, I think we agree in spirit. I think the Leave movement DOES feel that the EU is and has been for some time moving against the long term interests of the UK. I even agree with this view myself.

However I think the thresholds you set for moving on it are too high and too optimistic. Politicians didn’t want Brexit, and those same politicians would be the ones responsible for creating such a plan. It’s not like you or I can negotiate with the EU terms for Brexit without the UK government’s participation. And that wasn’t going to happen. You clearly have your own cynicism, I just think you need to extend it to both sides of an issue. And that’s being realistic, not cynical :)

The mistake that was made, I feel, was in letting this be decided by a simple majority. They should have used a 3/5 or 2/3 threshold instead.
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Both in terms of content and technology of the site, I've been consistently disappointed with Business Insider. Given its large reach, I consider it one of the worst outlets on the internet. Do others share this opinion?
If approaching a choice of tech stack in a bubble; it can be a useful datapoint to know which is more widely used. Waaaay back when, maybe I would have chosen jQuery instead of MooTools if I had better metrics, both did everything I wanted.

Though to be fair; by the time it would have mattered I had moved on.
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By this logic, we better start regulating sports and exercise too! After all, it's an addiction!!!
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_addiction

I would equate trying to regulate against "sustained gameplay" to trying to regulate/force timeouts in all basketball games, tennis games, etc. It's absurd.

I think vice laws aim to accomplish good but needlessly limit freedom. More importantly, I think comparing gaming to addictive substances seems very naive.
...and usage != "better".
10 days ago, I finished the first book and now I can't wait to get in my hands this second book about compilers!

I'm currently reading "Compiler Design in C" by Allen I. Holub, https://holub.com/compiler/, and so far I like it.

But to use Go in place of C would be a nice alternative as well!

I can't wait to read the new book.
I get that it is convenient but it just seems like the syntax is prone to unexpected behavior from typos.
Apple pays plenty of US taxes. They also pay Chinese taxes on money they make in China.
The word is "cue".

> In the theatre or in a musical performance, a performer's cue is something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
Just a side note, magical thinking doesn't quite mean what you're using it for. It's not synonymous with poor reasoning.

"A self driving car could kill me or others at any moment, and whether that happens is completely outside my control" is a reasonable fear. People may over-weight it compared to more familiar dangers that are in fact greater, but that's not magical thinking.

Magical thinking is more about believing in a causal relationship between unrelated events. Astrology is an example, but also things like "if I don't shave my beard my hockey team will win" or "I thought something bad about my kid and then they got hurt, I'm a terrible parent".
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> “But we would find them not only among the Latinx youth but also among many of the white youth as well. It seems like these variants—because Liberal is now a Latinx-majority community—are just becoming the way this community sounds.”

People actually use "Latinx"? Up until now I'd only seen that in discussions about it.
Yeah, I would have guessed the speaker was from SOCAL. Every region in the US has it's own variation subtle as it maybe: speed, intonation, word choice etc...
Huh, you're right. It appears there is no visual-studio-code in the base Gentoo portage tree. The version I have is from the jorgicio overlay. I wonder if the licensing is why it's not in the base Gentoo tree.
>Do humans do that?
do you have proof that with current software and hardware Tesla or Uber can make an AI better then a human?

Because it feels to me they are faking it to buy time until some new hardware is ready. They have the data but the hardware is to slow so they can't analyze it in real time so they ignore it, even if say they want to put a concrete related update it may be too intensive and it won't run in current hardware.
>we could just as easily go the other way: "It is completely unethical and immoral to delay technology that has the potential to save lives."

No, you couldn't "just as easily" go the other way. Those are not identical positions. My position promotes caution over over-confidence. Further more, the "potential to save lives" is not the exclusive domain of autonomous vehicles. So nobody is "delaying" saving peoples lives. Various methods that can be utilized to reduce causalities that do not rely on technology that has not been shown to work in a conclusive fashion. Planes were unproven tech at some point, and people rightfully refused to fly in them, and they aren't as unsafe now. Technology gets better, and we can hope that autonomous vehicles would get better too.
Yeah or simply raise licensing requirements. They are ridiculously lax in the US at least.
Only if we're separating empirical evidence from inferential evidence.

We can't demonstrate empirically, because there is far too little data at this point (and refusing to do the thing to collect the data because we don't have enough data is not a sound moral argument).

But we can infer a great deal. And I've already established grounds for inference...

- Better sensors. Sensors that can detect 360 degrees at all times, and see into infrared, not to mention LIDAR. The sensors can easily outperform human eyes attached to human heads.
- Better mechanics. Automation can be directly connected to steering and brakes, as opposed to modulating through human hands and feet and into other mechanical linkages.
- Better reflexes. Less lag from observation to action, compared to the eyes/brain/hands system.
- No distraction. Human minds wander.
- No intoxication.
- No sleeping! Falling asleep at the wheel causes many fatal accidents.
- No emotions, no anger, no aggression.

So emotionally and mechanically, autonomous systems are clearly superior to humans. The only real argument left is interpretation of the environment. Can they detect hazards more effectively than humans can? Let's look at some hazard categories...

Lane drift - easily solved.
Running red lights and stop signs - easily solved.
Speeding - easily solved.
Maintaining braking distance in traffic - easily solved.

I could go through more, but you get the idea. We're focusing on "What if a pedestrian steps out in front of it and it doesn't recognize them as a hazard?", and ignoring much more common categories of accident-causing situations, categories where machines easily outperform humans.

So "empirical base"? Sure, no basis. But inferentially, the argument for the superiority of autonomous driving systems is very strong.
If he's the one who was putting the work in to the software, he has a right to ask to be paid for it, even if he previously was nice enough to give it away
> "If the choice is between getting self-driving cars more quickly with minimal regulation -- which is what's happening right now -- versus much more regulation that will slow their development and introduction, it seems straightforwardly obvious that more people are likely to die in the status quo environment in the latter scenario than people die from testing in the former scenario. Companies would really have to go full Mad Max to kill even close to as many people as our current infrastructure and design kill."

I guess I am saying this seems to be straightforwardly false to me, to a huge huge degree, and it worries me that people would naively use the rate of auto deaths under current circumstances as a justification to allow self-driving technology development to proceed unregulated.

It seems we just believe very strongly in positions that are completely and diametrically opposite to each other, so we are unlikely to find productive communication on a message board about it.
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> NuSI wanted to see the data, and began providing extensive critiques once they had it.

That's good, but I'm supposed to be suspicious, right?
It seems that no American has benefited from their dominance either. They pay very little taxes and most of their manufacturing is offshore.
Americans have become extremely bitter and negative about pretty much everything.

New American car company trying to change the world (Tesla)? Nope, hope it fails.

Large American company that contributes massively to the enonomy doing well (Apple) Nope, they suck.

Someone wants to talk about Healthcare, or Education, or gun reform ? Nope, they suck.

Basically, in modern America, everything and everyone sucks. It's not a positive place to be.
In this case, the user runs the browser from a guest account - that the "attacker" controls. It would be prudent to start with a clean profile - so no "earlier" visits.
It is really a shame Apple has decieded to kill WebGL2.
Previous developer? Was there a change? Isn't it still developed by Allan Odgaard?

(I'd love to read the story of TextMate)