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The release notes for Julia 1.0 are rather empty at the moment. However, one may refer to the release notes of Julia 0.7 (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.7/NEWS.md) which was released earlier today. Julia 1.0 is basically the same as 0.7, except that all deprecated syntax/features have been removed.
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Eh. Without proof that seems like a method of easy dismissal instead of arguing why it's wrong.

And if it is PR, it's a weird tactic. The article seems to be using FB as benchmark for "worst offender".
Is "Not Secure" a false label? Plaintext HTTP is literally not secure against either a passive or active MITM.
Sorry - when you said it altered your financial trajectory I assumed that to mean it represented a majority of your net assets. I'm in the process of diversifying a very concentrated portfolio (a year ago >95% of my net worth was in Uber stock) and may have projected my own concerns onto your situation.
I guess that's the target for anonymous cryptocurrencies like Monero and ZCash?
Conversely, a lot of the incentives on these teams are perverse -- like the conversation in another thread about not being able to sell to stakeholders the idea of "remove junk" but being able to sell them the idea of "add AMP".

So even if you are the sort of software developer to consider the lifecycle and long-term utility of the products you produce -- good luck with that.
I think the amount stolen here probably precludes prosecution in most jurisdictions. But I have trouble believing that if it was a larger amount he'd be able to just say: "I was mistaken, I thought their money was my money." I'm not a lawyer but that seems like far too abusable of a defense.
Yes it does improve the situation and maybe if scott was less absent minded he would have snapped out of it and realized wtf was happening. However at the end of the day you have scott misunderstanding this as demanding a tip and the employee then misunderstanding this as brazen petty theft. Both reach these rather hostile assumptions quite quickly which causes escalation of a rather ridiculously silly situation.
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Yeah. The real trick (at least in the US) is to get your music on the radio (see https://qz.com/1094963/radio-survived-the-tape-cd-and-ipod-i... for an example). People still seem to look for new music on the radio here, and a publisher can make that happen much easier than Spotify can.
It wasn't already?
yes, search history is juicy personal data. i'm willing to trust duckduckgo with that info for now. laserlike doesn't have a track record yet, so it's on the wait-and-see list.

if anyone's made an affordable personal search appliance yet, let me know. =)
Uber made NYC significantly worse. So, for anyone that drives they are a huge downgrade to life in the city.

Core problem an Uber driving from A to pick someone up at B then dropping them off at C is much worse than that person driving from B to C. On top of that they tend to drive around without passengers to get to better locations.

Taxi are also a problem but the limited number of medallions limited their impact.

PS: On top of this lowering the cost of using a car adds even more trips.
Hi, is this for free?
I don't see it in such a bad light; a correctly targeted quiz that effectively targets one unique concept, is asking you to use that concept, and for that you need to remember it. It is testing another dimension of how you learnt that concept. Although I agree it is not the most efficient way of learning to program, it sure seems like a good way of not forgetting corner cases of the language...
This one? https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/288
> If you want to gain access to APIs, you need to become an “AISP”

It's more complicated than that.

Banks can give unregulated entities access to their APIs, but they don't because IMO providing API access is directly opposed to their interests. If you want to be statutorily entitled to API access you need to be a registered AISP or PISP.

Unfortunately what an AIS is is very specific, i.e. showing the account owner aggregated information, before or after processing, about one or more payment accounts. If your product doesn't do this, e.g. credit scoring using the user's bank transactions instead of credit bureaux, then you're not performing a regulated activity, therefore the regulator has nothing to authorise, and you can't enjoy the resulting entitlement of API access.

This means there are whole classes of (unregulated) applications that won't be allowed to exist by banks if they adopt the position of granting access only to regulated entities.

> this requires a certification and a load of other nonsense akin to PCI-DSS

AIS and PIS have become regulated activities as a result of PSD2. This is not the same as PCI-DSS. Becoming a (P|A)ISP means becoming supervised by the local regulator as an authorised financial institution. This involves a lot of paperwork, a £1,500 application fee, insurance, fees for any professional services you needed to complete the application (lawyer), and 3 months (longer if your application is incomplete or has other issues).

> for “write” access including the ability to edit payees or make payments you need to become a “PISP” which I assume requires even more paperwork.

And €50,000 own capital requirements.

> I also said APIs because the regulation does not mandate any kind of API format, so every bank has their own with different capabilities as far as what data is returned and in which format. Some of them are truly awful.

This is true at the moment for Europe but notionally incorrect for the 9 largest banks in the UK, which are subject to parallel domestic measures ordered by the Competition and Markets Authority. There is a spec, but there are many problems with the governance, implementation, etc.
I am one touch away from hacker news on my home button on the phone.. What I’m missing???
The part where regulation failed was when the engineers went before Congress and not a Grand Jury to testify.
>Or just a new proportional-to-income "driving tax" in addition to state, county, and city taxes?

The difference is that you can avoid the driving tax by not driving; unlike the city tax that can only be avoided by not getting born.

So it's less of a tax and more of paying for a public service.
> This is how it should be

Well, that depends. What if the effect is that Firefox's market share dwindles, it disappears, and everyone is forced to use e.g. Google's browser? All of a sudden your higher standards have resulting in only being able to choose lower standards...
The flipside is this may actually be good for NYC Uber drivers. Generally I feel like they have to sweat and toil to make a living, more so than Uber drivers in other cities. This may give them some relief as supply stays constant.
Yeah; the workaround I present is a shitty solution to a stupid problem, one that Uber does solve.
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Born and raised in Manhattan back when normal people could actually live there. I don't see how the NYC subway system could be other than a complete wreck given their insistence on running a 24/7 service. Shut down the system from midnight to 5am with a corresponding increase in bus service during that time.
I can't tell if you're sarcastic or not. Python 3 is pretty old now, definitely not cutting edge technology.
You early exercise, which means you pay for options that are not yet vested. If you quit you get refunded what you paid on un-vested shares.
The comments always look the same when Mozilla announces something like this. Perhaps the content team should have a specific checklist they run through when announcing third-party collaborations, answering questions like:

- is anyone making money off of this?

- what is the motivation for the third party to take part?

- is this the default, and if not, what extra demands would it have to fulfil to ever become default?

- what user actions, if any, can trigger interaction with this third party?
The images from the article distinctly show the roads and population centers which then shows the mountain ranges in "negative space."

(I agree with you, just pointing out another observation)
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Not true. The spec is loose, many fields are not mandatory, and the "conformance suite" only tests the security profile, not anything related to the schema. Even with that minimal level of scrutiny as of last month none of the CMA9 were compliant with the CS.
Well, car owners living in Manhattan, anyway. I doubt the same is true for FHV drivers coming in from further out.
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Driving a car from A to B is less miles driven than someone driving from X to A to pick you up before driving to B to drop you off them Y to wait for next ride. Thus Uber increases congestion.
Sure, but as other users like Rjevski have pointed out the PSD2 API is going to be nearly impossible for the common person to use. Unless you want to become pretty much PCI-DSS certified.
Not sure why the downvotes. One has to realize that sometimes "solutions" are an answer not to a problem but to address some constituency.
> If after generations of past policies the stats say 100% of people with red hair are bandits and the longstanding policy is that they are to be shot at on sight only redheads with plans to rob or kill you will approach within rifle range.

The only reason that happens it that you're using exactly 100%.

If it's 98% then the top 2% in that group get approved, which gives you new data on that group that tells you your old numbers are inaccurate and a lower percentage of the group defected than predicted, so in the next generation you approve the top 10% in that group and so on.

This is the exact opposite of a feedback loop. As time passes it amplifies the signal, not the noise.
Currently at JuliaCon2018 where the new package manager was demonstrated this morning, it looks absolutely wonderful.
It was not ruled either way - instead 'the Court held that penalizing the baker for this refusal to violate his religious convictions violated the principle that the government "cannot act in a manner that passes judgment upon or presupposes the illegitimacy of religious beliefs and practices." The Court emphasized the fact that the State of Colorado had permitted three other bakers to refuse to provide cakes that expressed sentiments opposed to same-sex marriage, condemning this disparity in treatment as demonstrating hostility to religious views.' [0]

0: https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/17/more-on-masterpiece-cak...
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> How are they monetizing the service?

How are they monetising Firefox bookmarks? How are they monetising the awesomebar? Which is to say: Mozilla doesn't necessarily add features to monetise them. (Although indirectly, most of their money does come through Firefox - and also their influence, in terms of being able to fulfil their mission. The motivation hence is most likely to be that they simply want more people to use Firefox. Another motivation might be that they want less people to be dependent on e.g. Facebook for the discovery of websites.)
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q2 2018
The idea that Uber, or any other company, is responsible for someone else committing suicide is both bizarre and offensive.
If eveyone’s doing it then there are no options and everyone is just the same level of bad.
We'll have a proper release blog post up in the morning.
That is positive. It just needs to become the norm.
Posts like this make me pretty excited to be a customer of a "tech-y" online bank. (In my case, Simple, not shilling, I just like them)

Theoretically, these banks with great mobile apps are one step away from giving you API access once it's needed/wanted by enough consumers. Technically, your phone is doing it under the hood already.

Simple uses React for their web interface, so I imagine they have nice JSON APIs for all of the data already.

There was a site advertising developer managed bank accounts last year, https://root.co.za/, I think it's also a cool idea.
Which is why parents tend to steer their children away from becoming/dating a professional musician.
Now I have two problems: my app and a logging thing.
I've had a habit over the last 10 years of gifting (I've learned to never 'loan' books to people anymore) used hardback 1971 editions of The Psychology of Computer Programming (some bought as cheap as $0.13 + $3.99 S&H on Amazon). Probably given away away at least a dozen to friends & co-workers. For the handful who did more than skim it, it enriched their understanding about programming as a social activity. He left a great mark on the world, even if only a few of us truly appreciate it.
congrats! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZip_br_v3w
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"white officers appear to be no more likely to use lethal force against minorities than nonwhite officers"
Disclaimer: I am the author of the blog post and work at Backblaze.

> surprised that AWS, GCP, or Azure haven't acquired Backblaze by now

Sometimes press/customers/people ask us how many customers has Backblaze "converted over from" S3 to B2. To be honest, I think the answer is approximately zero. If a customer already has a Petabyte uploaded into S3, it is simply not practical or cost effective to download that from S3 and import it into B2. The S3 download costs are extremely expensive (9 cents per GByte to download out of S3, vs 1 cent per GByte to download out of B2).

Most of Backblaze's B2 customers fall into one of two camps:

1) New customers starting out that have just started to look at cloud storage and need to decide where to put their data. They look at S3, compare with B2, and make a decision and Backblaze B2 gets some of those customers. Realistically we don't even get half of these new customers either because B2 is missing a feature the potential customer needs, or because the customer has not even heard of Backblaze. So Backblaze is probably not causing Amazon too much lost revenue yet.

2) Multi-cloud customers. Any one "cloud provider" can have outages, including Backblaze and including Amazon. So if you store an entire copy of your data in Amazon S3, and also store an entire copy in Backblaze B2, you will (by definition) have both more durable data and higher availability data than a single copy in either one alone. By definition this doesn't actually cost Amazon S3 any sales, because you STILL need a complete copy in S3!! For multi-cloud, Backblaze B2 doesn't harm Amazon one bit.

> Seems like an obvious move (for Amazon to acquire Backblaze).

Amazon has never offered to buy Backblaze, but also we are not for sale. Or at very least not at the prices Amazon would probably want to spend (or could justify to their board). I don't know if this is common knowledge but Backblaze is employee owned. We never took any significant VC funding, so the only people with voting rights on the board of directors are the original 5 Backblaze founders (including myself). We like what we are doing and we COMPLETELY control our own destiny and work environment. Literally nobody (except customers) can tell us what to do, how to price our products, or what features to build. Backblaze is a fun company to work at, and we all make a good living. So it would be inordinately expensive to buy us out just to put us out of business and dissolve our tight-knit group here and ruin all our fun. Our plan is to stay independent forever.
Yup, they really are your privacy hero when comparing with competitors.
I consider this to be his conclusion:

"Again and again, I screwed up. Again and again, though, the airport personnel responded to my honest mistakes with a maximum of cold bureaucracy rather than commonsense discussion: the booting from the flight, the bomb squad, the handcuffs."
It might be opt-out, but it needn't necessarily send your data to a third party or even Mozilla if it ever does get baked in. They're also experimenting with finding ways to do machine learning client-side.
So, undecided then? The Masterpiece Cakeshop decision didn't really resolve the issue either way, just punted.
Here, the problem is we can't trust users to not try to break the system. When I buy a plane, I don't want the plane to crash. When I buy a voting machine, I'll do everything I can to break it so as to earn more votes than I deserve.

It's a rare case of a system its main customer does want to be able to break.

Now, of course we can make things that work. Airplanes and elevators are computing devices too, after all. But a working software is as expensive as a working airplane. People don't want their word processor to cost millions of dollars. OpenOffice is free, MS word is a few bucks, what do you expect?
> T is a dialect of Scheme and its implementation.
Experience is one thing, writing another. Things that are perfectly clear in a person's head can be hard to communicate to someone who lacks the same set of references and assumptions, and a good writer has to account for that.

Being a good writer takes practice and good communication skills.

Personally, I love to write a bit of documentation, especially around tasks I had to figure out because they are done rarely.
> There is also a larger problem Uber solves (one of many) -- once you lose density (i.e., outside airport/centercity) it is hard to hail a cab, so you have to dial a cab. You dail, they invariably say "wait outside be there in 5 min" -- sometimes they show up in 5min, sometimes 10min, sometimes 30min, sometimes never. Variable pricing and GPS tracking solves this.

Variable pricing solves this for people with the ability to pay. Rationing scarce goods by wealth is not necessarily a better overall outcome then distributing scarce goods by lottery.

Also, if full-time night-shift cabbies are driven out of business by part-time rideshares, you may end up in a situation where the only night-time service available - ever - is at surge pricing. This is less of an issue in NYC, then it is in smaller towns.
(sigh) I fear you are correct.
Indeed, when Google claims they don't favor AMP pages, they're being disingenuous. Just like suggestions that you can't pay them for higher rankings: You absolutely can, because Google Ads go on top, and they're barely distinguishable from native results.
I'm really surprised B2 doesn't seem to charge for upload API requests. I have a project which uploads several billion small objects to Amazon S3. The vast, vast majority are written, stored with a 15 month TTL, and never touched again. Some small number are downloaded each month.

To illustrate this, here's a recent S3 bill:

$0.005 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests 289,727,754 Requests $1,448.64

$0.004 per 10,000 GET and all other requests 62,305 Requests $0.02

$0.023 per GB - first 50 TB / month of storage used 18,990.009 GB-Mo $436.77

As you can see, most of our spend on S3 is from the PUT requests, not the storage, or download. Probably there are some things we could do to reduce the number of PUT requests. We don't really care that much, because the total cost is not that large, but there is at least some incentive to reduce the number of PUT calls.

But if it was free? I would never change this system. Does Backblaze really want this sort of traffic profile?
Thanks for your understanding and fair discussion :-) On this point:

> This collecting user data to influence their behavior...

I think that's a really negative and cynical way to look at what we and other FOSS projects are doing. Here's an example of what we can do with some basic website analytics data: we can put a banner on the download page saying "Made by the community - you can be a part too!". The banner links to a "Get involved" page, encouraging people to join the project.

Then, with analytics tools, we can see how well that works. We can do A/B testing by having some download pages with the banner, some without, and see which ones help bring new people into our FOSS community. This is really useful and good for us all!

Now you could say this is about "influencing behavior", and in a super pedantic sense it is. But again, when people talk about websites "influencing behavior" the big topics at the moment are Russian troll farms, Cambridge Analytica etc. I don't think it's fair to use terms like that when we're not trying to play mind games with anyone!

> That slippery slope has Facebook-like mind manipulation at the end of it

Ah please, we're just a small non-profit entity organising a FOSS project and trying to make a website that encourages people to get involved. The "slipperly slope" argument doesn't work well. One thing doesn't inherently lead to another. With that argument, drinking beer leads to other substances which leads to X Y Z... Nah, I've been drinking beer for years and haven't touched anything else. Beer is great enough :-)

Really, if you have a genuine fear that some LibreOffice community members using Piwik to improve the site could lead to "Facebook-like mind manipulation at the end", please do join the website list, put forward your points and let's deal with it! But having been involved in FOSS projects for over 20 years, I don't think that's a concern. People are just trying to do the right thing :-)
The article starts out with a "correlation causes causation" argument, and the unsubstantiated claim that the biggest driver of inequality is banking regulation.
Then it implies that business financing matters to the 50-90 percentile of earners. Bullshit detected!
>supply stays constant.

Licenses for new drivers are stopped so the supply will dwindle, riders will get frustrated and stop heavy reliance on it.
Cherry switches sound and feel like they have sand in them. In fact if I put actual sand or dirt into my white Alps keyboard it will sound and feel like that. The only exception are blue MX which somehow manage to perfectly replicate the nerve twisting experience of nails scratching on a chalkboard.

I refuse to believe there’s anyone that actually prefers Cherry switches. Most people just don’t realize there are better options.
OP's point was that those are all techniques that you don't need AMP to implement. So their question is: if those are the reason for you to use AMP, why use AMP and not just implement them directly?
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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeTap
In Manhattan they're mostly running a 4-track system, so they can easily shut down half the tracks for maintenance while maintaining 24/7 service. I think they've got other problems.

For alternative examples: BART is not 24/7, and possibly sucks even more than MTA. CTA's 2 main lines are 24/7, but it's nearly 100% a 2-track system, and its biggest problem (IMO, anyway) is that the arrangement of seats inside the cars is so very desperately bonehaded.