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> When developers get our information, and that of the acquaintances in our contacts list, it’s theirs to use and move around unseen by Apple. It can be sold to data brokers, shared with political campaigns, or posted on the internet. The new rule forbids that, but Apple does nothing to make it technically difficult for developers to harvest the information.

The article seems to really be trying hard to gloss over a lot of details to make a relatively minor complaint (really? The notes field in your contacts is your big concern?).

It's perfectly clear when you try to use an app that wants to access your contacts, and Apple makes it very easy to prevent. And unlike other platforms, apps are required to still work even if you deny such access.
For starters, NYC cycling infrastructure (especially, say, in Brooklyn, which I'm more familiar with) is a joke to the extent where bike lanes hardly matter, and probably should be avoided altogether because of dooring.

Really, the advice to cyclists is to stay out of bike lanes[1].

Then, congestion and cars blocking the bike lanes are not directly correlated. It's not like drivers could take the bike lane to avoid traffic.

But anyway, I just don't see the situation for cyclists change in any way due to traffic in NYC. City politics regarding bike paths play a way larger role.

[1]https://www.bike.nyc/advice/riding-tips/bike-lanes/
thats ultimately the intent, to build a Yubikey-like security key, with everything open down through the firmare to the details of the soc
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> They also use Reed-Solomon and split data into multiple pieces to store on multiple servers. So they need all those "load balancing"-like nodes anyway

Yes. We definitely do "load balancing" or more accurately "disk space loading balancing" but we do it all in software. The net outcome is the same, but the cost is lower.

> probably no new hardware or infrastructure is necessary to conform to S3 API

No, it would require additional hardware we do not purchase at all right now. Backblaze's philosophy is to shave off cost at all layers if it doesn't actually contribute to uptime or durability. Put differently, if there is a lower cost way to achieve the same uptime or durability with some intelligent software or possibly an extra network round trip, we do it that way instead of purchasing extra hardware.
Interesting. I (like others here, apparently) assumed that the time saved number was based on various tracking scripts that weren't downloaded, but if this is the relevant code, looks like it's just tracking parallel requests.
Not for most companies, but Github's scalability requirements are pretty extensive, and really cry out for something more sophisticated than the technologies you mention.

This stuff isn't exactly new; it's essentially the Maglev system described by Google in a 2016 paper. Other companies are now catching up to Google (which is of course 2+ years ahead).
Are there any schematics / plans for your project? I honestly don't trust Phoenix's sensor data (many times it says things are OK - AQI is green - but just looking around you can tell its not).
How can I show you that we are 100% LGBT friendly, even if we don't have any LGBT employee yet?
I have this one and it works quite well: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071RF6B2Y

I compared it with a friends much more expensive device, and the results were within 5% of each other.
307 & 308 specifically say to follow the redirect with the same method and body.
It's fascinating to see the problem being addressed. But it all seems to be about "raw pointers", which are mostly for talking to non-Rust code and probably ought to be on the way out as more low-level libraries are implemented in Rust.

The expressive problems with the ownership model mostly involve backpointers. It's hard to create doubly-linked lists or trees with backpointers in safe Rust, short of going to reference counts and weak pointers. This proposal doesn't seem to address that. Backlinks imply a consistency constraint between forward and back pointers, and Rust lacks the expressive power to talk about that.

The other big expressive issue involves partially initialized arrays. The underlying machinery for a vector involves getting uninitialized memory and initializing it one entry at a time as more of the vector's space is used. You can't talk about that within Rust. It's the sort of thing for which a simple inductive proof is needed, once you're able to say things like "Only elements 0..N of this array are valid".

These are places where you need unsafe Rust because you can't say what you mean in safe Rust. That's the first problem, insufficient expressive power. The second problem is proving that what you said is correct. That's a technical compiler/verifier issue.
It'd be pretty neat to give a bank your public PGP key and then they could send you encrypted emails with more details.
In many, not all but many, parts of the country, mortgages are about the same as or cheaper than rent. And, usually they don't go up every year, and they come with pretty large tax breaks.
would it be difficult/possible to use this as a smart card with the proper code?
>I'm not defending the quality of the article, it's bad. And I think if the reasons you just listed were in your original comment, I would have upvoted it instead of viewing it as overly dismissive.

That's fair. I should have written a fuller comment off the bat, but everyone can read my reasoning now.

>For sure, the bar is low because the stakes are low. But a shitty writer and a need to inflate word count for the editor yields articles like this as well, no need for a PR conspiracy. I guess it depends a lot on how you feel about Hanlon's razor.

I actually don't think this is anything particularly nefarious or underhanded. It's all in the game, as Omar would say. In fact I'm amused by how transparently bad it is. She brings up some good points (the permissions should be more granular) but the framing of the story is clearly working in service of Facebook's agenda. The actual solution that needs to happen isn't technical at all. It requires new legislation establishing equivalents to Data Protection Commissioners in the EU and creating a comprehensive, omnibus policy for them to enforce.
> what are the equivalent numbers for Uber's side of the battle?

The bulk of Uber's ~$2 million/year of political spending in New York goes towards ad campaigns [1]. The taxi lobby bought the mayor and City Council; Uber created a grassroots backlash. This was the balance. Then Uber burned off its teflon coating.

Since Lyft never bothered with politics and Juno/Gett is so young, the balance broke and we got this mess.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/uber-spent-1-2m-lob...
> It's a rare case of a system its main customer does want to be able to break.

Many people would be happy to break ATMs or banking software.
It's pretty weird, I'd assume it was a mistaken tagging except that the commit [1] is very clear in its intent. I still don't think they'd suddenly have decided to rush through it all and release 1.0 like this, so I'm still assuming there's a mistake or misunderstanding here.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/5d4eaca0c9fa3d555c...
I used OFX for quite a while. Had a home-grown pile of scripts that did my budgeting/record keeping, and even reverse-engineered their payment submission system, and had nearly everything semi-automated to my personal satisfaction for a while.

And then they revamped everything, sprinkled security (and "security") pixie-dust around, and I gave up after locking myself out repeatedly trying to jump through the new hoops.
I live in NYC too, and I want fewer vehicles on the street full stop. I don't particularly care what kind of vehicle they are though; if I'm not in it, a private vehicle is taking exactly the same space on the road as an Uber or a taxi is, and has exactly the same utility to me: none.

This is a good argument for treating all vehicles equally and reducing congestion with a tax, not by arbitrarily targeting Ubers but not single occupancy private cars. If you only target Ubers then a lot of that reduction will just be made up with more private cars being driven around to take up the slack in the congestion.
And you can see that the RFC only talks in terms of should and may. It's beyond basic HTTP functionality, the RFC is basically moot at this stage and you're dealing in implementation specific details.

You will have to work individually on every client you plan to support, both browsers and libraries. It can be done but it's not necessarily a good idea.
Well, it's not exactly everything, is it?
OK, let's have the discussion then too!
I'm skeptical of any tender that is rendered worthless by something as simple and common as an electrical outage.
Your company was on its way to export your job to China next, you know, to reach another profit record.
What parts of RStudio do you prefer over Jupyter?
There is no difference, other than that Apple tried to chase Google's and Facebook's ad-based business model wit iAds but failed miserably. The result was a shift towards privacy to try to drain the profits of those two companies.

But make no mistake, Apple won't think twice before handing over data to the government or any other party if it makes business sense, as they did in China.
How would you know you don't have a LGBT employee..!?
In my company we have plenty of LGBT employees and nobody seems to care. They are people like everyone else. I think that's as friendly as it can get. I bet there are lots of companies like that.
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You're underestimating how severely restricted the parking supply here is via simple physics. It's not just driving from A to B, it's driving from A to B and then circling around for 15 or more minutes trying to find a parking spot.

In many places, parking at your destination is more restricted than road space along the way to your destination.
With all due respect, if you (think) you don't yet have an LGBT employee, then you can't know if you're friendly. And hence you're a risk.

Take a seat, cis.
also great for espionage
Cap Hill (or maybe downtown) is the most expensive neighborhood in the city. It is not representative.
"I've had ride shares cancel on me once the driver's gotten close enough to see that the destination is an airport."

I'm not understanding this. If you're using the app correctly then the driver knows the destination before they even accept the ride. If you're setting an address near an airport in an attempt to be duplicitous I would be equally discouraged as a driver.
I find the use of paperless voting machines extremely suspect. In the best case supporters of paperless are naive or have had their palms greased by the machines' suppliers. In the worst case they're actively being used to tamper with election results.

The longer officials hem and haw over replacing them the more I fear the worst.
Yeah, a real tear-jerker. So, let's fix this. How do you propose to write a law that defines exactly when responsibility for suicide attaches?

In this case, Mr. Ochisor's customers were so desperate for an alternative to his three-decade-old business that they turned to a startup company that works by (literally) dodging taxi regulators. Is that really Uber's fault? The regulators'? The customers? Just how far do we want to take this whole idea of being reponsible for our competitors' mental health, or that of our vendors?
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Are there any demos of Julia for scientific computing? I found the Documentation for Julia but are there any tutorial style demos?
Yeah I’d be happy to link to some newer data if you have it available.
> But when a student needs a loan to pay for their education

When a student needs money to pay for their education, why are we extending loans rather than need-based grants?
Do you intent to mate at work?
How else is it relevant? Serious question, I mean is the sexual preferation not something very irrelevant in any professional company today? (military and sports excluded)
Same question as I posed in the other post. At what point in the course of business competition do I become responsible for your suicide?

If you mod me down and send me into an emotional crisis, are you responsible for what I do as a result? No? Why not?
If it's a large company, the HRC corporate ratings should list how LGBT-friendly it is:

https://www.hrc.org/campaigns/corporate-equality-index

Good luck in your job search.
relax, the commenter's bio indicates that they're currently starting a business; they probably know their employees pretty well if they even have any.
This is literally the best thing I have ever read. For the first time ever, I feel like I know what position I am in as a founder.
The OP roadblock (turning the particle system).
the commenter's bio indicates that they're currently starting a business; they probably know their employees pretty well if they even have any.
> the more one drives inside NYC city limits, the richer one is.

Why would you say that? A rich person would not spend hours every day commuting though rush hour traffic, or spend most of their day inside their work vehicle. They would buy or rent a central home, possibly near the central office building where they work. City driving in itself makes for a very low quality of life and most rational people would minimize it, given the option.

So I would expect there's either no driving-income correlation, or it's inverse. So reducing congestion would make life easier for rich people, who don't care about the money and only care about the time - by pricing out people who are, by definition, poorer and can't afford to buy that convenience. You could say that the resulting post-tax distribution is progressive, the rich paying and driving more; but that's just a way of distorting the initial argument, that introducing a flat congestion tax is strongly recessive - to the point of completely pricing out poorer people.
>This post is full of schlock. I live in brooklyn and commute to manhattan via subway everyday. It's reliable and good.

Did you read the part where I said that most of the subway tracks in Brooklyn are going into Manhattan? Surprise, going to Manhattan is a breeze!

Now, have fun going from Kings Hwy to Bay Ridge (small challenge), or to Queens (ever tried getting to LGA by train? The Q line only started going to Astoria a few years ago!).
That's quite a big assumption from one usecase without much evidence backing it up. I'm not saying the author is lying but I'd need more data before saying this is a repeatable scenario...

Even the author couldn't narrow down what exactly was the cause other than maybe:

a) the domain name being different

b) the addition of chrome w/ a link to Google support + a notification "You're now logged in as [user]@gmail.com"

c) minor CSS changes as a result of minimizing static assets

None of these screams an obvious problem, especially given the other benefits this process has given in return (which of course could be accomplished without AMP).
Last time I tried to move all my stuff to Julia I ran into issues with the data frame equivalent package. It seemed the devs and community were in debate as to whether Julia and the dataframe should be more pure numerical focused a la matlab or python/pandas and appropriate for data analysis. As such null values were handled weird or not supported, which made it practically useless for all of my use cases.

I’d love to know if that was still the case though, because I’d so much rather use Julia than Python for my analysis and stuff.
The speed of computers has scaled / is scaling so quickly. IMO avoiding JS completely is ridiculous.
Median is a good place to start. You might also try to factor in how relative income affects relative rental spend choices. I.e., (on average) someone making $50k and someone making $100k in the same town are looking at different parts of the rental market. If there's a rental market floor at $2800/mo, that's extremely relevant but the average rental price definitely doesn't capture that.
I don't think you read my rant at all. Times like that suck, and you have to work hard. Stating "I have to work hard!" is just a tautology in that situation. "Managing their situation" is even in the little baby steps, not some silver bullet to turn it into a cakewalk.

I don't know what exactly you're projecting on me (or how I'm somehow different than "them", giving "them" more of a voice), but I was certainly talking about being in the miserable times, with no available money or time, not casting down edicts from an ivory tower of disconnected comfort.
> Julia REALLY tries to be easy for Matlab users

Not so much currently:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecate...
They should be voted out of office immediately! Oh, wait...
https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/5.11/src/widgets/kernel/qw... is the largest no-nonsense C++ file I've ever seen
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/master/src/borg/arch... ditto for Python

Personally files this large become just very annoying overall. Code review tools tend to become slow on them (e.g. Gerrit is super-slow with files that are quite a bit smaller than qwidget.cpp), navigation is only possible via symbols, the import / include area becomes a huge mess (which also tends to generate constant merge conflicts, because imports are a common hot area for writes) etc.
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> If something like Magic Leap or hololens was only 2x more than that and could get even "1080p equivalent" resolution compared to my screens, i'd happily drop the extra cash right now.

Of course you would, that's like saying "if something like a Tesla could operate completely autonomously in all weather and road conditions I'd happily drop the extra cash right now!". Unfortunately, this is a "hard" problem and while I'm not saying it won't happen, we are nowhere near anything that can render 1080p VR monitors... 4k VR monitors are unlikely to be possible (in a consumer product) within the next 20 years, and you can definitely be sure that anything like that will not be wireless.
Link 3 -- removing coats? I thought it was hot in NYC.
If you're an existing AppEngine standard user/customer, it's pretty likely that that means you will not be able to take advantage of PostgreSQL, as the new runtime does NOT give you access to a ton of their existing services that you are probably already using (such as datastore.)
Sure, feel free to send it to me directly. stewartr at google.com.
Hong Kong and Japan has a directory too. The best way is to have LGBTQ colleagues say you are. Voices from trans, women, people of colour, and folks with disabilities will count for more.

Show actively that you have policies such as gender neutral washrooms or benefits for same sex partners.

And if you have no lgbtq colleagues and are a really open company, It should reflect in your language. The really inclusive companies are obvious to those who are looking, such as what terminology you use, how your recruitment team phrases hiring copy, what Twitter accounts share.
Is Julia a decent substitute for non numerically focused tasks?

I’ve been thinking about learning a new lang recently, and while Julia does seem to be a real alternative to python for analysis, I can’t see how ergonomic it would be for simple (or convoluted, why not?) scripts.

The reverse keeps me from investing more time in Go (and Rust), though
Apologies, I misread it as him complaining that small, one man startups will not be able to compete due to the necessary regulatory burden.
Does anyone have a sense of where the damage is done regarding PM? I live in SF and our apartment is a block away from a busy road and a gas station, both of which concern me.
Not to mention the wild fires of late depositing ash all over our yard.. Also, being a SF apartment, there isn't A/C so we leave the windows open on hot days.

Is there data around whether an active air filter running in a closed room before we go to sleep will help? Should it just run constantly? Is there any good method to actually lower the amount of PM I'm inhaling?
Why not use AMP? If you don't use the special caches, it's just another library.
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Oh.. I must have missed your rage comments against hololens that had a comparable influx of money, only internal in MS, for a much worse product.
Hololens is asking 3000$ for their product.
With a single focal plane instead of a double one like magic leap.
The vergence accommodation in magic leap apparently is so well done that even the most negative article against it, from the verge, couldn’t see any difference.
Honestly I would ask the “journalist” that wrote such a bad review if maybe was really that the objective???

For me if I can choose between looking at AR for less than one hour with a big headache because my eyes are playing pinball with my mind and looking for more than one hour to AR or mixed reality and “not notice anything because the resolution is too low” I would obviously choose the second option.
Not noticing anything means that magic leap reached their objective.
Your experience is seamless, you won’t even notice the different focal planes.
Are they really laughably premature? Is it really that much more work to start issuing RSUs vs options for new hires? From what I know, it's a board meeting and other kind of equity contract that is presented.
My personal experience has been that a large number of AMP pages never load. If I search the article title on Google and click the non AMP page, it loads fine. Even after doing that and going back to the AMP link, still won't load.

I am fairly sure the product is not working as expected... My experience is on an Android Pixel 2 - so it's not like I am not a target market.
Mozilla had a great LGBT culture when I worked there. I suspect it is still very much the same.
I would love a congestion tax. I take a bike to work, but there's no good cross-town protected bike lanes, so I hit so a lot of damn vehicle traffic that severely slows down my commute. I frequently have to go slow to wend my way through narrow gaps of parked cars and cars stuck in traffic, and sometimes get stuck completely with double parking or construction.

Make more protected bike lanes so that vehicle congestion doesn't impact bike travel, and add a congestion tax on all vehicles so that people only drive into the busiest areas if it's really necessary, and will otherwise consider alternative forms of transportation. I don't just want a cap on rideshares; a privately owned vehicle takes up just as much space on the road as an Uber, so why only target the latter? And what's to say that if you target Ubers you won't just get a corresponding increase in private drivers to pick up the slack, with the end result being the same amount of congestion?
Does this means, DJango can be supported natively ?
My level of confidence in my privacy is a matter of degree, and relative to a risk model. I don't personally pay someone to audit my hardware, because I don't see a significant risk from that direction.
I really appreciate that an honest answer to this question gets instantly hammered with -4 points and dropping.

Guess what? This space isn't friendly either, and it itself will erase all evidence of that.

Just like most companies.
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Ah, right, I forgot. Also: it rains all the time, San Francisco is barely any more expensive, etc etc.