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may be now is the time we stop discussing about google canning different projects

google has already developed a reputation for abruptly stopping services

google reader
google plus
allo
google talk
hangouts

here is a list of projects google abandoned
https://gcemetery.co/

it's a shame they do build products half-heartedly
Ok but what happens when the date overflows? Will they still know Monday is Monday or will they start thinking Monday is Sunday?
Only if I had GPS enabled... Do people actually have their GPS enabled 24/7? I use it for maps... then disable it. Plus it saves battery. Pro-tip
That doesn't mean that the zero calorie soda was a culprit.

They biggest determining factor in obesity isn't what food are available to the person, it's what foods the person chooses to eat.
Bird's lawyer's name is 'Kwak'.
Passport number along with cryptographic authentication similar to Estonia’s ID card. I believe this satisfies the need for authentication of all citizens at a global scope.
What they are really fighting about is who gets to reference colloquial notions of causality when discussing their work. I don't think it's fair to say that Pearl treats the rest of stats as trash, but he is saying that they are misleading folks by describing their inference as evidence of cause and effect - which is about as bad for most academics and especially for the Rubin crew who have often policed integrity of other inference regimes (like less rigorous ML).

Debating who gets to use which words is a great way to make sure your debate only matters to other academics. I'd love to see the causality camp make their point by unlocking some great new applied results instead!
What is your definition of humanely grown meat?

And secondly how do you ensure it meets your criteria and where do you get it?
Lets get real. Most of such if not all things will fail and have to be replaced before then. Modern engineering ensures a death date agreeable with the financial department.
Even for all the hours I poured into the MP part of Q2/4 and Q3 I could just not get into the theme/mood/lore of those games. Q1 on the other hand... played the original and extensions back to back many times, and creatively tinkering with the editor to the limits of the engine, as well a hacking terrible things in QuakeC. Although more limited, QuakeC was so much more approachable than the later "real" C++ stuff, and incredible fun to tinker with!
It's a leak of location information, which is what this sub-thread is about. The location information was only inside of Google, and now the advertiser has it.

It's also not "one in 6,000 people" if it's someone who signs up for some service via the ad. That particular someone might not realize that the service knows their location.
Why not just use GODOT

https://godotengine.org/

* Use OpenGL 3.x or OpenGL 4.x

* SDL2

* OpenAL

* Client-Server

* 8 player offline LAN support

* Split screen coop

* 8 player coop online vs bots
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

-Ben Franklin
Do you work at my company? :)

I don't know how to solve it, but it's insane. Especially for teams with high churning (typical in Silicon Valley where everybody constantly leaves for better opportunities), the code review culture changes from month to month depending on who's the latest "super picky specialist" on the team, with terrible dips in productivity.

The managers are not too involved with the code review process themselves and they pat themselves in the back just for seeing "very active and healthy code reviews", as measured in terms of review comments.

The problem is that code that 100% functionally works, with proper tests and good readability, gets blocked for weeks by __completely__ unproductive people who don't do anything other than driving a personal agenda of demanding abstract levels of refactorings. Everyone in software should have learned at this point that your fancy abstractions don't provide any benefit, since they won't solve your future problems anyway. Just make sure you refactor where you would otherwise be facing physical duplication of code/logic, and you'll be 100% good.

I've been victim of this myself lately: I'm known for writing code that is as simple as it can be, while maintaining functionality, scalability and correct handling of corner cases: I don't do abstract interfaces for the sake of it, I couldn't care less about factories, ...

Sadly, it's forcing me to likely look for opportunities out of my current company.
I totally agree, but that's because I've read more details about this idea elsewhere. Could you (or someone else) please post citations to more explanations?
Does that clock still tick with the government shutdown?
> The legal argument of course is that Bird has intentionally abandoned their scooters in the public way, and this is the general consensus of my many friends in the local DA offices. (Translation: they don't think it's a crime and they won't prosecute any such cases even if for some reason someone is ticketed or arrested for it.)

They clearly haven't abandoned them as that applies generally to property; if you are in fact charging rental fees, you haven't intentionally relinquished the right to control something, as you are exercising that right by charging others for the right to temporarily exercise some portion of it.

There may be rules regarding public rights of way which impact this, though the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has already rejected the claim that property left unattended on a public sidewalk is therefore abandoned and subject to deprivation when the City of Los Angeles used that as an excuse to take the goods belonging to the homeless without due process, so I think what is really going on in those DAs offices is people have made the decision “we don't like what Bird is doing so we aren't going to enforce the law when people commit crimes against them.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1611251.html
Wasn't there a link between the MMR vaccine and autism in African-American boys that the researchers suppressed in the initial findings?

As far as autism was concerned research showed a correlation between autism and African American boys and the parents of those boys noticed that it began soon after the boys were adminstered the vaccine, and that was way before the researchers themselves admitted that there was a correlation.

As far as I am concerned vaccines cause autism in some cases.

Just because the actual mechanism has not been discovered doesn't mean they are not the cause, for the simple reason that you cannot simply vaccinate human beings with the intention of finding the causal link between vaccines and autism, which assumes that the neurological basis of autism is clearly defined.

https://www.ageofautism.com/2014/08/whistleblower-says-cdc-k...

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2017/05/african-americans-vac...

On the other side are numerous horror stories involving vaccinated children like that of Harvard-educated attorney George Fatheree, who was pressured by a pediatrician to resume vaccination despite seizures his infant, Clayton, experienced after a previous round of vaccines. That night, Clayton’s seizures returned and he stopped speaking for three years. He grew into a severely disabled teen, suffering dozens of seizures a day. Because of similar vaccine-related injuries and deaths, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program—a fund under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up to shield vaccine manufacturers from liability—has paid out over $3.6 billion in compensation to affected families.

If the blogger wants to give an example of false notions propagated at Internet speed, they can do a lot better than using the link between autism and vaccinations as an example.
This is why you use virtual cards, such as provided by privacy.com. If it gets blacklisted or compromised or otherwise becomes more hassle than it's worth, just throw it away and create another one.
I tried to do the same during a bout of extended international travel. I popped out the fi sim once to try a super cheap local unlimited data sim (some countries are great for this), only to find out afterwards that it killed the fi pairing, and that re-pairing is not possible while abroad (tried VPNs etc., no dice). Your only method to get paired again is to either fly to the states (Hawaii), or to ship the phone to someone in the states and have them ship it back. Ended up having to go months without my main cell service, although months later it did somehow pair again while I was in Japan.

Keep in mind that you'd be just as out of luck if you wanted to switch phones while traveling, like if your primary was lost or stolen. For that reason, I canceled fi immediately upon returning to the states and strongly caution anyone I know against fi for extended travel.
> As for open sourcing, I'd approach it in a different way: I'd release reusable components under a permissive license (e.g. MIT, BSD, ISC, zlib, etc.) and keep any creative work product code/source files private.

I don't know how much the author has control here; it is derivative of id's Q2 engine which was open sourced as GPL.
I don't care who owns the vehicle, I care about who uses it and how much in my way it is.

The car might be a rental too, doesn't really make a difference.
Blizzard was not bought. It was owned for more than decade by Vivendi, and it merged with Activision.
On top of the subscription, you also have to buy the WoW expansion for $40 to stay on the cutting edgr with the content. Essentially WoW is having their cake and eating it too.

I feel bad for Destiny. They're asking $70-80 per year to stay caught up on content and people are complaining it is too expensive, yet WoW can ask for $220. The visual fidelity of their content is top tier, if not THE best, right next to God of War. That is incredibly expensive to produce and games at this level of visual fidelity are usually produced on a 4 to 5 year cycle, not actively maintained MMOs with seasonal content.

So they command about 1/3 the annual price of WoW, yet they are expected to deliver the content quantity of an MMO with the visual fidelity of God of War. This is the world's most expensive content treadmill.
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/

Quote Investigator is as authoritative as the internet gets on these things.
WTF has this quake engine REMOVED OpenGL , thats not like 1997, that IS more like 2007
Do they really do this more than other companies? Does the average successful company make a habit of keeping unsuccessful products around?
> The American Conservative

> We want a federal government that restrains itself from intrusive forays into the lives and businesses

> Unfortunately, these well-intentioned dragons at the thresholds of the City of London have been unable to guard against the onslaught of hubristic architects and developers

Wow, that's hard to conciliate! A limited-government conservative who is also a NIMBY and in favor a strong-government urban planning.
I think I expected the book to better live up to its billing. Here is an excerpt from the in-sleeve summary:

"Beginning with simple scenarios, like whether it was rain or a lawn sprinkler that got a sidewalk wet, the authors show how causal thinking solves some of today's hardest problems, including: whether a drug cured an illness; whether an employer has discriminated against some applicants; and whether we can blame a heat wave on global warming."

In all of these "hard problems", it is the model itself that is the most contentious piece, and the most ideological. Some people have a mental model where CO2 produced by humans is causing climate change (which I agree with), and others believe that the changes can be explained by natural fluctuation. These beliefs are undoubtedly influenced by a person's biases. It's not very useful to say "once you have accepted a causal model, you can draw lots of useful inferences." Because the main point of contention is over what is causing what.

I found this statement of yours honestly more useful than anything I read in the book so far: "You can get no causality from data alone. You always need additional assumptions." The downside of this is that different people can make different assumptions, and so this implies that this kind of causal analysis can't mediate disagreements between different groups of people who see the world very differently.
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Apple discontinued ipod nano, what's the difference here? Consumer electronics come and go, just following the market trend.
a desktop that is already on most of the time or an upgraded router would work perfectly.
There's been a lot of effort to improve RDF ergonomics with JSON-LD, and ActivityPub is a widely used standard based on JSON-LD (though my experience with implementing it has been quite challenging).
I can't speak to other methodologies, but if you're interested in the lineage and philosophy of Crossfit, the old journal articles by Glassman et al. are a gold mine.

https://journal.crossfit.com/article/what-is-fitness <- 2002 piece (with updated pictures) that really sums everything up

http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/CFJ_2016_05_Pegboard-Wa... <- "Best of" index
It undermines your argument, is what it does.

You can talk about it all you want, but as long as you continue to participate in the very thing you rail against, you're going to struggle to be taken seriously.
My first job after grad school was writing code for Harris Semiconductors' RTX-2000 processor (native Forth execution) as an apps engineer. Showing people how to morph the compiler, and toggle between assembly & Forth on the fly, blew people's minds. Good times.
I don’t know. I’d assume no.
Get started at making games? I feel like there might be easier paths out there these days other than relying on 20 year old engine.
You're forgetting that everyone who came to the same conclusion as I did had already been where you are, we all walk more or less the same path.

I'm not saying everyone is the same, far from it; there wouldn't be any need to keep billions of us around if we were.

But life doesn't waste opportunities for evolution, and there's no point in having billions of people watching Netflix forever. It will find a way to get you out of your comfort zone, cooperating or kicking and screaming.
Bird clearly maintains the right to control the device because it unlocks the scooter to be used by customers and causes a light to blink so it can be found by "chargers" at the end of the day.

Regarding statutory violations, first of all Bird is probably not littering because the scooters are (arguably) not trash. Second, where the scooters are impounded by cities and other municipalities, it is for parking violations or other statutes against them. As a private citizen, you would have no more right to take their scooter than you would to take my car that was illegally parked.
Thanks, we've changed to that first link from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atiyah.
> I hate giving Elon credit

Why? Not only is he a genius (citation needed), but he's also highly invested in big-risk companies working toward a healthy future. I wish more people were like Elon.
Unfortunately they've tried and were denied.
Approximately 42% of the 17 million left hands are unaware that any other hands of any sort exist, much less any of the 23 million right hands.

About 71% of the 17 million right hands are not aware that any other hands exist, much less the 13 million gripping hands.

See the problem here?
You're being quite disingenuous in multiple threads about this. They're not left out for anyone to use. They let certain people use the scooters after getting explicit permission.
It’s a natural byproduct of always looking for the next big thing, no? You need to take chances and try new things, and not all of them work out.
Note that they found a correlation with the contamination of NO2, not just any contamination. [I guess NO2 is absorbed in the lungs and enters the blood stream.]

Also, a ~50% increase of the concentration of the NO2 increase the miscarriage rate in a 16%. I don't understand exactly how they compare it to the smoking risk. How many cigarettes should someone smoke in a day to increase the miscarriage rate a 16%?
Pour le piano is to me one of the greatest piano works.
Holy shit! So Google has turned into the Comcast of 2019.

Wow, it took just 19 years to go from the darling of the year 2000 ... DO NO EVIL ... to the WE DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT RUINING YOUR DIGITAL LIFE BECAUSE WE HAVE A POLICY AND PROCEDURE.

I guess it really is inevitable. You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
I wish HN would notify me of answers for my comment. Yes, I totally share that mindset with you.
I actually use pretty much the same thing when helping people starting their programming journey.

'There is so many things to learn I started with Python but there is this and this and that'

A language is just a language, the principles and your ability to translate problems to code is what is making you a programmer.
For me, something that really helped was mindfulness.

Sure, being aware of everything good in your life too (classic mindfulness). But more importantly, asking two simple questions:

"What actions can I take about this worry? And on what timescale?"

For a large number of my worries, if I was honest, there was either nothing I could do, nothing more I could do, or nothing more I could do at this time.

And if the answer was nothing, then I decided to stop thinking about it. I was surprised how many worries fell into this category. Or how exercising this ability influenced how I deal with new worries. (Now, it seems much easier, and harder to just let fears run away with me)

For the optimizer, the way I backdoored into this was realizing "Worrying, in many situations, makes me less effective."
It's not the card that is blacklisted, it's your account. And depending on the platform, that might be your whole identity.
Also the Russians didn't win in a vacuum. The rest of the allies provided a huge amount of support in the form of lend-lease and supplies. The war of attrition would not have been winnable by Russia alone and came at an extreme cost of human life.
Are there actually rules and due process? I was under the impression that it's just a convention that the registrar won't seize your domain unless they really, really dislike you.

edit: I shouldn't be oblique in my comments. I'm of course referring to the whole Daily Stormer fiasco.
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That's amazing. With integers being objects it's even more object oriented than Java. That's great to hear. The book you linked does I assume no prior programming experience? If so, I would prefer not going over what I already know from Java since both are strongly object oriented. I also hear MHartl's tutorial is good. Would you recommend it fir learning Ruby?
"lying all over the sidewalks" is a different scenario than the typical encounter. Cones "all over the sidewalks" are an equal "hazard" but it happens infrequently and is not a reported problem. Where is this coming from?
Tying to a physical location actual serves an important function in that it introduces an asymmetry between you and a potential attacker / identity thief - it's much cheaper for you to physically show up at your local courthouse to contest something than it is for an attacker to fly in. Any suggestions for how to solve this?
I'm a bit concerned about all the people here that tell
they've been using Google services for decades and are afraid
to loose their pictures/documents/etc...
I mean how is giving such control over your data to one company
a good idea in the first place ?
I'm not saying that in patronizing way, but this should not be
considered as normal behavior.
I think that Google has already access to way much more data than
it should and I really wouldn't want to hand them my phone bill.
Even if you're not concerned about your privacy (and I really think you should), centralizing everything will only make problems worse if something happens with this one service, should it be Google, Apple or anyone else.
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I was using the generic you throughout - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you
Not everyone has passports let alone valid ones.

And getting one for people can be difficult as many people especially older ones don't have supporting documentation e.g. birth certificates and so can't prove identity.
On the one hand you have property rights, which some siblings of my current comment argue are inalienable concerning the scooter. "Don't touch my stuff!"

On the other hand you have the ground occupied by or encumbered by said property, which is also property, owned by somebody, often the public, and likely intended for some other purpose besides storing your property. "Don't make your stuff our problem!"

Different places balance the two interests in different ways. Most provide some legal framework or mechanism by which your private property rights can become subordinate to public property rights, i.e. your property is declared abandoned, or simply seized based on a nuisance or safety argument.
Just glanced, but does not seem to support the earlier assertion. Just that brain teasers aren't that useful.
Hello, you could say that. I love JK and I played the thing with the software renderer for years because my s3 virge card wouldn't render the game correctly.

My son teases me these days "Jedi Knight sucks, dad!" when he catches me working on the site (this is Brian from Massassi; it's sort of still around).
You nailed the issue for me, the problem is that these software approaches to customer service always assume that the service is 100% not the problem and that the customer is the one causing the problem.
Why does JP have to be the one to write the empirical papers? Why is that a prerequisite here?

Judea Pearl is attempting to develop (or has developed) and evangelize the approach for others to use it on empirical problems.

So it seems the response is to be in favor of anyone (not just JP) to use it for empirical work.

Do we expect every developer of a theory to put it into practice before it is found convincing? Shouldn't the reasoned explanation of a theory be sufficient for someone else to understand and attempt it?
I saw it in a Ted talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_z...
It is too bad that I can't pay $50 and/or go somewhere in person to try and solve serious problems. This would eliminate most scammers and give people a way to get something done when it is really serious. I would guess this is not done because the PR hit for charging to talk to a person would be bigger than just ignoring certain people's problems (or companies don't want to have divisions that make more money when the rest of the company screws up, but I doubt that).
> It's not very useful to say "once you have accepted a causal model, you can draw lots of useful inferences." Because the main point of contention is over what is causing what.

Well, accepting a causal model and drawing lots of useful inferences seems better than drawing lots of misleading inferences because no attention is paid to the model (or being unable to make any inference because it's not obvious how the data can be used).

Even if people may not agree on what is the right model at least this approach makes the model explicit. And in many cases there is no reason for disagreement, but if there is no careful analysis the wrong model may be used by mistake. For example, chapter 8 has an extense discussion of the potential outcomes approach in the context of salary as a function of education and experience.
What does it take to be a scientific superpower these days? China sent an astronaut up in 2016 a few years after the US gave up and had to rely on Soyuz