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Seems like splitting hairs.

Maybe the scooters can accelerate a little faster with less effort, but I don't think it's really that big of a difference. As for average commuting speed, I've ridden them on a bike path and I pass some slower bikes and some faster bikes pass me. Feels like it's right in the middle of the pack on speed. And there's a lot of variance in the scooters from one unit to the next, as the battery gets below 50% and as the alignment of the wheels starts to need adjusting they definitely slow down.

You also obviously don't have to ride the scooter at top speed all the time, any more than you have to ride your bike at top speed or drive your car at 80mph on every road you drive on. And scooters are a little lighter at least than a casual bike (probably about the same or maybe a little heavier than a good road bike?), and they have a slightly smaller footprint.

Overall I don't see any argument that these things will require a brand new kind of road infrastructure we haven't conceived of yet. They should just be allowed anywhere a bike is allowed, and any of the efforts that are already underway to expand protected bike lanes will benefit these scooters as well.
If you're reading YouTube comments, you're already a lost cause.
> The LCD screens being made by Foxconn require benzene, chromium, cadmium, mercury, zinc, and copper ... The Walker administration had also exempted Foxconn from the state’s usual environmental rules, allowing it to discharge materials into wetlands...

WTF? Wisconsin is a beautiful state with rich wetlands and farmland. Letting a Taiwanese* company fuck that up for 13,000 jobs that will never pay back the incentives makes no sense, other than a small tick on Walker's re-election campaign resume which he is now shying away from anyway. This project needs to be cleaned up or killed before it starts to literally kill people in Wisconsin.
In a few months, drug companies will change their pricing to be based on the citizenship of the patient, rather than the country of sale.

Suddenly giving up US citizenship to get cheap Mexican drugs seems a lot less tempting.
The existence of fox news does not negate the value of identifying other, possibly more subversive methods of manipulation. If anything if we were satisfied with calling out only fox news then it has does it's job.
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So frustrating to see politicians on the "conservative" side of things in the US who should be opposed to this on a fundamental level, jump into handing over taxpayer money, the environment, and such for what appears to be less and less.

Also what is with Foxcon's constantly changing plans with all this? It doesn't seem like they have a coherent plan on what they wanted to do / want other than gather up taxpayer dollars...

If Foxcon has no coherent plan, the deal should be off.
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Are not there some messenger bot which could do this?
> I've never played WoW nor do I know anyone who still does, so I'm out of touch. At what point (if any) were users forced to pay extra (a paid for update and/or increased subs) to continue to play the game? Can those without the expansions still play? That certainly seems to be a fair place to draw a line.

It doesn't quite work out the way you're imagining. A WoW expansion does one thing that require you to buy the expansion: the level cap goes up (e.g. in Cataclysm the level cap was 80 if you were paid up through Wrath of the Lich King, but 85 if you had bought Cataclysm). An expansion may or may not also prevent accounts that haven't bought it from entering new zones.

But it also makes a bunch of other changes that you get whether you want them or not. Content may be removed from the game, like original Naxxramas. Game mechanics will shift around. Every raid below the level cap goes out of support -- it isn't possible to play supported raids without being at the most recent level cap, and it also isn't possible to play old raids the way they were when they were current, as mechanics changes are not evaluated for impact on unsupported raids.

There were so many conceptual problems with having multiple different expansions that weren't current that Blizzard has moved to the model of "you've either bought the current expansion, or you haven't" -- when one expansion releases, the previous one is now automatically rolled into everyone's account.
I really wish the Rust belt would give up their dream of recapturing a large manufacturing base and focus on educating their populace for the 21st century. Imagine if that subsidy money was used in education. It's pretty clear that mass manufacturing is a race to the bottom (China is now facing competition from Vietnam), and high tech manufacturing (Germany) will not provide the amount of jobs needed to offset the ones lost over the past 40 years. While manufacturing should always be a component of any mixed economy, many of those jobs are not coming back and we need to retool our workforce.

A highly educated workforce is the best way out.
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Maybe, but this seems far more likely to only amplify the majority voice. Especially on a platform like Twitter, this would inevitably be used to suppress a dissenting minority more than it is used to encourage thoughtful explanations. Not trying to shoot down suggestions; moderation is hard.
The problem with vector is that it always heap-allocates. The ideal approach is the one where small allocations are on the stack, and large ones are on the heap, without the API user having to do anything about it.

C++ has had a proposal for std::dynarray floated for a while, which would basically have semantics allowing stack allocation, but wouldn't mandate it, leaving it as a quality of implementation issue (so it would be legal to implement it on top of vector, but it was assumed that compilers would go for optimizations given the opportunity). It didn't pass, unfortunately.
Eau Claire is a nice place to raise a family, but that's not a selling point to recent college grads. Engineers in Wisconsin live in the Chippewa Valley, the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee, and Madison. That's about it.
Too long to read is there actual breakdown of tax incentives vs actual $ state has to spend?
It was the notifications that were the last straw for me. If I can't figure out how to 100% disable your notifications in 5 minutes, your app is gone. I'm sure it's possible but apparently as a software engineer I'm not smart enough.
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Perhaps a better way of saying is is that hidden data is a characteristic of abstraction. Which is certainly fair, and fits the analogy to algebra quite well.

But in any case, parent's comment that "OOP has no special claim" to hidden state/data (or abstraction) is sound; after all, ADTs already do that.
"What is Google going to do about it?"

Absolutely nothing, unless diverting attention counts. A few product announcements, something something net neutrality, a little more "juice" for every possible news item with an anti-Facebook or anti-Twitter vibe, and voila! Nobody's talking about YouTube any more. They're in the attention business, after all. They know that letting attention dissipate is their best strategy in this case.

In a better world, they'd be using some of those vast resources and ML expertise to detect the kinds of vote/comment clustering that signal both commercial and political manipulation. Others have done it already. The fact that the self-styled "best and the brightest" are way behind on this says that they don't have the interest.
They are just going from FB to Instagram:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/teens-abandoning-facebook-st...

FB can shift its model to becoming like priceline. Just try to buy up all the social networks. For example most travel site you probably use are owned by priceline. The same way Facebook could maybe buy up other social networks.
No. Code size is based on a thing called optimization. If your application is too big, and it's because you think that there's too many engineers because there's too much code because the final application is three times as large as it has any right to be, then you have a problem of too many cooks in the kitchen.

If you're ignoring optimization in favour of hiring more people, you, as a software company, have your priorities so out of whack I'm not sure how to even offer a suggestion onto how to move forward.

I'll repeat: the application needs to have value. If I had Facebook installed, it would be by at least 100MB the largest application on my iPhone, next to GarageBand.

tl;dr: if optimization is not part of your development process, your development process is not good. This isn't something that can be argued.
So you don't reboot, but do you stop X, right?
Sounds like it's time for Trillian to have a reboot just like Winamp did recently :-)
> Code review was never about catching bugs. Not primarily, anyway.

That's incorrect. Code review originated as a technique specifically to find defects, under the name Fagan Inspection. That we've found peripheral benefits is great, but the central justification is defect reduction.

> Code is written for humans to read (and modify), and a reviewer's job is to make sure the code can adequately fulfill that purpose.

I quite like that formulation, but it doesn't undercut the point that we only seem to be able to cope by having a second (third, fourth) pair of eyeballs inspecting every single line of code after it's been written, rather than working on systems to get it right first time.

> false dichotomy

It's not, though. There is a real difference. If you find a defect in the code, you've definitely prevented a bug from reaching production today. If you find a style problem in the code, you've maybe prevented next month's work from slowing down. If the project stopped tomorrow, none of the style issues would matter, and the code would continue working just fine.
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With mpc you can support macros, adding better macro definitions at compile-time, not just primitive cpp-style replacements. This would be definitely a game changer.
well, you effectively said, "I don't know how this can be a surprise to anyone based on my single data point".
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The subsidy ratio here is incredible. Alabama has used subsidies to lure automakers and other factories, but our incentives are peanuts compared to this.

For example, we are getting a $1.7 billion Toyota-Mazda plant for $350 million in incentives, creating about 4k jobs. The state has a 4-5% income tax and 9-10% sales taxes, so I'd bet that, even if the 4k number is exaggerated, then the state and local govts will earn much of that money back within a few years (provided it doesn't create some pollution disaster).
This was all discussed before. The TL;DR conclusion was: yes, you can get very fast javascript, but only if you are a V8 expert and know how to avoid the performance cliffs. If you want reliable performance, WASM is a better bet.
I have seen this first hand. At one point, I think I had figured this out because I the Facebook app had access to "Siri results", and "Siri results" is just about anything you do on your phone. We turned off Siri results, but we would still be discussing something out loud like "maybe we should go to Bali some day" and lo and behold, my wife would see ads for Bali in her Facebook stream within 1-2 hours.
A maximum of 13k jobs. They still get billions and carte blanc environmental waivers even if only a tenth of those materialize.

Also worth noting that the average salaries required to get those subsidies have dropped substantially since the beginning of this process; we've gone from "lots of skilled jobs" to "mostly $15/hr factory labor". Totally predictable to those of us who know the difference between "iPhone factory" and "Apple HQ", but this was a huge source of confusion among my non-tech blue collar Wisconsin friends. They [1] really did think there would be six figure tech jobs available to anyone with a CC degree.

[1] edit: here "they" refers to 10-15 specific people, and isn't intended to generalize to "all Wisconsites", although I do believe there's a demographic that's being intentionally deceived and who would change their opinions on Foxconn if someone sat them down and explained that "working in an LCD factory" is not a "tech job" in the sense of six figure salary with good benefits, and that if those "tech jobs" do come to Wisconsin via Foxconn it's going to be a relatively small number of them and most certainly won't go to people who are straight out of high school after 6 months in a fast-tracked community college program.
Hello. After I created scripts to turn my own travel blog into a book I decided that the results were good enough that it would be useful to other people.

It supports wordpress, blogger and squarespace which covers a large percentage of personal blogs (but a much smaller percentage of technical blogs).

This is my first real web development effort so all and any feedback is gratefully received!
The “AI 8K+5G” buzzword bonanza is marvelous. I'm surprised they haven't thrown cryptocurrencies and IoT in there for good measure. I'm also surprised to read that:

>The Walker administration had also exempted Foxconn from the state’s usual environmental rules, allowing it to discharge materials into wetlands and reroute streams during construction and operation. The state also exempted the company from doing an Environmental Impact Statement.

How is that even a legal possibility? The state's administration can just decide to suspend these rules on a case-by-case basis without any kind of supervision or accountability?
There's no reason why VLAs have to be allocated uniformly on the stack. The C standard doesn't say that "auto" = stack. It just says that it has to be automatically deallocated when it's out of scope.

But even as implemented today, in practice, it all works fine if you're not working with really large arrays. In a lot of scenarios, you do not. This isn't really any different than using recursion when you reasonably assume that recursion depth is not going to be large. Sometimes it's just easier and clearer all around.
One single page of vileness. No 'likes' to his posts, so not very popular. Notable is the anti-Trump sentiment. Not enough to confirm that this profile actually belonged to Robert Brower since names and profile pictures can be misappropriated.

Meanwhile, Gab was able to provide a complete profile of this individual and confirmation of his identity to the authorities.
How does this compare against https://developer.apple.com/documentation/createml/creating_...

You should be able to easily take a TF model and use it, many developer tools: https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/build-run-model...
This seems like an instance where visualization confuses more than clarifies. The paragraph at the bottom of the page presented as a table would be more comprehensible.
I deleted Facebook and got Messenger Lite, which gives me 99% of the functionality with 0% of the distraction and bloat.
> Is it disturbing that when I read "coffee cup", I thought of those paper disposable things with no handle?

No, because the usual term for the ceramic thing with the handle is a coffee mug.
I want to add one more thing. The ads weren't just for a travel destination. It would be something totally out of character for us like "Let's build a tree house and rent in out on AirBnb" and there would be ads for renting out tree houses.
I don't think this title conveys enough information about the paper.
>TransitMatters has gone big, with an ambitious, high-cost proposal to speed up and electrify the T’s diesel-chugging commuter rail system.

Make the damn thing run on time and nobody will care if it burns whale oil and exhausts powdered asbestos

The schedule change for conductors was last week and we've already discussed with the new conductor what kind of pizza we should order when we have our multi-hour "the switches are frozen and nothing can leave north station" delays this winter.

>Ofsevit steps off an MBTA commuter-rail train onto a platform, then turns and looks behind him. His train car has already emptied, but the rear cars haven’t. Instead of stepping quickly onto platforms, riders are stepping slowly and gingerly from the train to footstools, then to the ground.

This is pure BS. There are no footstools or anything like that at Waltham. If they wanted people to get off the train fast they'd let people exit at doors where there isn't a conductor or they'd use more conductors to staff more doors. This would also reduce conductor workload and let them eliminate all the ticket checkers at the stations.

>high-level platforms for every train car in each station to speed up entry and exit,

This requirement does not allow for partial implementation. Many towns are stuck maintaining grandfathered in stations because they don't have the money to do a full length, full height platform. If you want to save time open more doors for people to use. Of course a bunch of transit budget planners in Boston would rather tell the towns to build platforms rather than hire more bodies to open more doors because the towns are the ones who have to pay for the platforms.
"Others have done it already."

Others with the same number of accounts and daily visits? With the same flowrate of publications and comments?
Also, what seems to have provoked this tax in the UK specifically is the tendency for such companies to artificially lower their profits to more or less avoid UK corporation tax altogether by claiming that sales of UK clicks to UK companies handled by UK based account managers were in fact completed in Ireland...
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For that matter most of the rust belt states have very fertile soils and plenty of fresh water and historically were great temperate agriculture power houses before much of that agriculture moved to the year-round-climate cheap-labor zone of California.

Now picture the world 20 years from now when drought and depleted aquifers make California not as viable for intense food production as it is now.

Suddenly the east/northeast/midwest around the great lakes look pretty damn attractive.
Right, "hate" as in "opinions that differ from the progressive zeitgeist."
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I feel that, idiotically, as phone sizes increased, app creators seem to think it's okay to double, triple, or quadruple the size of their original applications. Without adding anything significant on top of what was there to start.

This is ludicrous. We are not gaining anything by having extra storage space if everything we had installed on our devices suddenly doubles or triples in size, because, hell, it can.

I miss the days when there was a 50MB-100MB limit on applications being downloaded over 3G/LTE/cellular. This was fantastic. Every company I worked for demanded I was able to trim the application size down to under 100MB so that there was a fair chance for everyone to be able to download it.

I'm not sure if that statistic changed, but it must have, because now not only do people not give a damn, it's like they actively see how much space their stupid service can take up on our phone before we get sick of it and save that room for more music, movies, or photos.
Serious WTF. Is this okay with people in Wisconsin?
You can if you use Opera Mini, for some reason.
The revenue graph is shocking, but I think MSFT overtook IBM in net income much earlier than catching up with revenue.
A good example of some of the problems of the debt-based economy is Sun/Oracle.
Exactly. I'm no fan of the current UK Government, but their hand has been forced. I'd rather all countries get together and ratify a standard for where profits can be realised. Hopefully this will open the dam for the others to get involved.
It seems like the state could have expected a much higher ROI by just picking 12,000 random Wisconsinites and writing each of them a check for $230,000.
Internal server error (HN hug of death?). Anyone got an alternate link in the meantime?
>> Well intentioned do-gooders telling them that their circumstances are hopeless and they are doomed, are not doing them any favors.

Of course it will do them favors. The problem is not the people, it's the system. Once people fully recognize that the system doesn't work, they might get the courage to change it. Right now nobody is trying to change the system because everyone blames themselves.
Do huge taxpayer giveaways to attract business ever actually work out? It seems like we see these kinds of stories over and over again.
I'll just say that while I realize that Wisconsin is extremely corrupt, in looking around the nation I've started to get the feeling that most of the other states are likely as corrupt as ourselves. The difference is that in Wisconsin we, at least, still have people that get mad about it, and occasionally we even have mass protests.

The main problem here, (and it's frustrating), but the main problem is that due to the way the system is structured, we can do nothing about all the corruption. I don't like always being on the national news because of the latest governmental thuggery, neither does anyone among my family and friends. (And I was born and raised in small town Wisconsin.) There's just so little the average person can do, so you just sit in Markesan, or Racine, or Independence, or LaCrosse or wherever and you just stew in your anger.

Then it even gets thrown in your face on Hacker News.
Exactly. And especially when you have CNN doing the same thing on the other side of the spectrum.
The "easier it is to play" part is seems quite true, from a psychological perspective. If one has built up a strong habit of carefully managing your finances and not spending too much, then that is what you are likely to keep doing (in general).

The "greater rewards part" looks to me like a reference to compounding results, which I don't think is very controversial. I don't know much about time diversification, but it looks interesting. I'll have to read more about it sometime.
> If the code is not formatted to the linter, it should not have been submitted for review and I will probably reject it.

Better yet, make a tool (CI) automatically reject it. That way it doesn't waste your time, and no one has to be the "bad guy".

Not until developers start disabling the linter with inline comments, anyways.
That it the main reason why so many CVEs are related to memory corruption in C code as cause, in practice things do not work fine.

Which was the main theme at Linux Kernel Security Summit 2018.

Just for info, if not wanting to bother watching Google's talk, 68% of Linux kernel exploits were caused by out of bounds errors, including those caused by VLAs misuse.
Stopped using antivirus around 2010, I'm just careful about what I download and haven't had an issue. Since Windows 10 ships with defender I've used that.
Vendor lock-in is most definitely a huge thing. And being on the side that wants to avoid it and build portable solutions is never a winning argument. You're always the guy who's setting the perfect up as the enemy of the "works now."

I seriously doubt that IBM can execute on this plan based on my limited experience with them. But if they could, it would be a winning move.
It doesn't have to do with funding. The codebase is just efficient so it doesn't need much to run very fast.
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"Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks." Truth.