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When I'm not on the road I live in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Some years I see them every single night walking home from work, often strong enough to make me actually stop and gape. Many times I have had to pull over while driving to watch the spectacle.

They're different each and every time they come out, and simply breathtaking.

Come up to the Yukon or Alaska in late September through into October. There won't quite be snow on the ground yet, and if you stay a few weeks I'll virtually guarantee you'll see them a good deal

http://theroadchoseme.com/northern-lights-1

There were taken about 10 minutes from town:

http://theroadchoseme.com/northern-lights-2
The BBC is without a doubt more trustworthy than the average story that goes viral on Facebook. Since the former is a product established by that government (with some indirection to remove it at least from day-to-day political influence), it seems not to be quite as impossible to judge the quality of a publishing operation as you make it out to be.

Yes, people will invariably point to some instances of the BBC receiving flak for errors in judgement (edit: see below for examples). But if we collectively can no longer agree that there is a difference between the BBC and, say, infowars, then we have lost anyway, and all that’s left is to gleefully watch civilization circling the drain.
I use apple pay inside Uber do we think that counts?
Serious question: What exactly is the advantage of Microsoft Flow compared to a scripted solution (using python or - to stay within the Microsoft ecosystem - PowerShell)?

What particular use-cases can it solve? E.g. is it easy to template Word/Excel document generation with it?

Is it just that you don't have to write any code to use Flow?
This title feels very misleading. It seems to center around a "harassment policy" rather than encouraging employees to contribute to open source or paying them to do so.
It's nothing to do with Linux. It's because desktops use standardised discoverable hardware with mostly documented peripheral interfaces. ARM phones do not.
Why you get a Pixel. Got updated so does not have vulnerability.
It's not just Apple and India. As an European it is incredibly annoying to spend money at US "startups" (loosely using this terms, this included businesses that had been in operation for 10+ years); I cannot use Giropay, Sofort or SEPA Debit, I have to use a Credit Card. And I can't even use a safe prepaid credit card, I have to use a "real" credit card or else my account gets banned (mailgun did that to me, there was no warning prior and I had to go through support to find out and get unbanned).

It really makes one notice how many startups never ever spend a singular thought on overseas markets, or if they did, only about the scary regulations, not the payment systems.
You are not alone. I think it is a powerful environment but the learning wall to get in is steep.

I found this just now http://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-progra...

And that page in particular is a good example of how not to write documentation for a language/environment.

Table[x^2, {x, 10}]

The page before introduced lists. And there was no mention of lists being able to do magic things like spanning values. I think that line up there makes a table and somehow that magic list goes from 1 to 10 ...

There is just too much hidden there. It is a poor introduction.

I have read this guide before ... and each time I shake my head and wonder why anyone would bother trying to get through the opaque/hidden syntax when there are way better choices of languages.
> primarily social/cultural ones, that will halt the relative development of those countries, sooner or later.

Hans addresses this in the book, actually.

What you said has no basis in fact, and makes no sense. Do you think people said exactly the same thing about Sweden a generation ago? Why / why not?

We in the West have this completely-made-up assumption that "they" can't develop like "we" did, with absolutely no grounding in fact.
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> Not a perfect one, but if enough people want something, they have the tools to make it happen.

Not if they live in heavily gerrymandered districts or in deep-blue/red states, or if they are affected by voter disenfranchisement, or if they cannot afford leave their job to go to vote.
Well, its already occurring. We can certainly still aim to reduce the actual continued worsening of climate change, as well as mitigating its effects.

If cheap, easy commercially viable fusion power was unveiled tomorrow I'd have hope that we could stop climate change in 10 years.
A real, cheap commercial way to remove carbon from the atmosphere in massive amounts could also stop it. I can't say that this company feels like they have that.
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Mentioned here

> You see, Rust provides safe abstractions that let you do useful stuff without having to deal with the complexities of memory layouts and other low-level arcana. But dealing with those things is necessary to run code on modern hardware, so something has to deal with it. In memory-safe languages like Python or Go this is usually handled by the language runtime — and Rust is no exception.

> In Rust, the nutty-gritty of hazardous memory accesses is handled by the standard library. It implements the basic building blocks such as vectors that expose a safe interface to the outside, but perform potentially unsafe operations internally.
> I thought it's really poorly argued

That's interesting, because the book does not contain any arguments.

It contains facts. Hard numbers gathered over generations.

It's not a discussion or an argument, it's simply facts about the state of the world.
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You're a whale! I'm not saying that in a disparaging way, just that your nickname is probably pinned to quite a few Silicon Valley whiteboards.

"How can we get more users like Kiro?"
"How can we get Kiro to spend even more in 2019?"
The new "reddit premium" feature is a downgrade, though. The original "gold" model is a lot smoother - there is a single token of reward, the gold coin. If you want to increase your visible appreciation for the post/comment, just pay more and award them more gold. Yes, the new "premium" model is more palatable to investors, but it's still very clearly giving up a nice, win-win innovation.
I've had similar problems with editing photos on an iPad using iPhoto and loosing all the edits when it tried syncing back up when I got connectivity again. I wonder if it's more of a quirk in the iPad APIs or something?
(current) AI is not smart it's a method to have a reasonable predictable outcome from a wide range of inputs. But it is still a linear program.

Let say we program a self driving car to estimate the impact effect of a collision with an object. Then we 'learn' it that a crash with a soft object will be better for the human in the car.

So we think the car is smart because it can detect soft and hard objects. But in case of an unavoidable crash it steers into a group of people instead of a parked car...

The Pentagon (DARPA) is now investing in AI that learns from previous experiences (without feeding it a dataset over and over again). I guess other companies are working on this as well. That will create scary AI because then the program will be altered all the time making it 'smart'.
Technically, it is not code-free - it is declarative programming in YML. You still have to specify your input_features, output_features, and training architecture/specification. This is not a drag-and-drop UI (although, you could probably layer one on top of this).

This should work well with a Feature Store, where features are already pre-processed and ready for input to model training. With a feature store, this could be like the Tableau/Qlik/PowerBI tool for Data Science.
Sure, it's not the first time Israel was attacked either.
Yeah, I was more than a little surprised they'd seen them in Minnesota. But I see that might not have been as clear as I intended...
I tend to agree with you. I joined Reddit back before the time they allowed sub-reddits to be created at well. My view of the site was more or less entirely /r/programming, which had a post celebrating 65,536 users. This was also around the time they switched from using Lisp to Python: https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/

Then at some point, the site opened up sub-reddit creation and a vast new world popped up around 'me' that I was completely oblivious to. (And /r/programming is now at 1,700,000 users...) The site's changed a lot over the years, and not necessarily in ways that are immediately obvious. (But that lisp post is almost 15 years old, so maybe that shouldn't be a surprise.)
I'm trying to understand the 'neutral principles' line of thinking here. Obviously, the situation with this app seems straightforward on the surface (the app is immoral, it violates human rights), but articulating the reality of the situation is complex and requires nuance. Say I don't want to argue from 'neutral principles' but I still want to give other people's value systems a fair trial? Then I would consider things like the intentions and outcomes, right? Maybe there's a good reason that women in Saudi Arabia have legal guardians?
That is a useless definition, since all languages are constantly getting extinct that way.
You're not allowed to sell software in the US that acknowledges the existence of Iran and Cuba? That does not sound believable.
Even plain-old `Vec` requires "The dark arts of advanced and unsafe Rust programming".

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/vec.html
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Google and Facebook are news publishers and should be treated as such.
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Nope, it's just centralized newsgroups IMHO.
Regardless of any country's history, it is not reasonable to ban people from selling software that acknowledges the existence of a country. Even if that country does not exist.

Even if you don't take a stand on whether Taiwan is a real country or not, it is wrong to ban people from selling software that purports that Taiwan is a real country. How is this not obvious?
No, your comment was pretty clear. I was just surprised at the original comment when you pointed out that it was 49 degrees.
>You do realize that phone is only available for preorder?

Yes, it is only for preorder, but the devkit already exists [0].

> They may not even be around in 3 or 5 years.

If they manage to make the final version of the phone (which is quite likely), it won't matter anymore, since the OS is just GNU/Linux. Correspondingly, the updates do not so much depend on the phone manufacturers.

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/how-we-designed-the-librem-5-dev-kit-w...
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The revenue from Twitter and Snapchat is actually more fascinating.

I have no idea how Snapchat is making money. I know they have ads, I just don't know where, I've never seen one.
I’m all for adblockers, but why would you be allowed to advertise if you use one? Do you have some reasoning for why other people should potentially see your ad while you don’t see those of others? Does your adblocker whitelist some things? Genuinely curious.
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The right tab is full of ads, no?
It's a profound irony that one of the companies whose web strategy is now badly affected by Microsoft's early-2000s monopolisation incompatibility efforts is .. Microsoft. It's as if Fairchild hadn't been able to move their HQ off their Superfund site and were stuck there complaining about the cost of employee gas masks.
So wait. when would you use that?
> it seems not to be quite as impossible to judge the quality of a publishing operation as you make it out to be

I agree the BBC is more trustworthy than other sources. But if we're talking legislation how do we write a rule for that? Do we literally legislate 'the BBC, the Telegraph, ... are trustworthy'? Or do we write a qualitative test? But then what is the test? As I said the best idea at the moment seems to be literally 'you know it when you see it'. Which doesn't work.
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Looks cool! Is there any particular Ludwig the name is referring to?
The problem with reddit is that I assume their team is so useless they simply can't extract value from the users. As soon as they start hiring competent people, things will change.
My first inclination is to think this is a good thing. That it's a sign of a better customer experience. It's the cynic in me that worries this will be seen by some as an opportunity to increase RPU and screw up the site. (And the new UI supports that cynical take, at least somewhat.)

I 'grew up' in the era of USENET, which had a couple benefits over the forums and then social media sites that sprang up to replace it. It wasn't perfect, but it did offer more individual control over user experience and less dependency on a single corporate entity. It would be nice to find a way to get back to some of that.
It is an important technology, but it will not really help right now.

It will always be cheaper to prevent creation of CO2 (burning fossil fuels) than to catch CO2 back from the atmosphere.

So, the first thing we need to do is to move to completely carbon emission free technology of energy production. Then we can perhaps produce more than we need (e.g. in the peaks) and can start thinking about catching some CO2 back from the atmosphere to reverse the climate changes.

Unfortunately, there is not even global consensus on getting to zero emissions. In this situation, I can't imagine how there can be a consensus on doing something (like utilizing this technology) on the mass scale that helps to save the environment for free.
Python 4 will not "break everything again", it will be equivalent to a point release. It has been already explicitly mentioned.
>> Hauling back on the stick and just keeping it there would never have been the right decision under any circumstances.

From the BEA report [0]:

"The horizontal bar then indicated a slight nose-up order compared with the aeroplane symbol."

and

"Nevertheless, the PF was also confronted with the stall warning, which conflicted with his impression of an overspeed. The transient activations of the warning after
the autopilot disconnection may have caused the crew to doubt its credibility.

Furthermore, the fact that the flight director was advising a nose-up attitude may have confirmed the PF’s belief that the stall warning was not relevant"

(my highlight)

[0] https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp09060...
Yeah I wonder if free models may make a platform more open to propaganda.
I think it's be interesting if someone (or a few people) ran an experiment. If they lost their years in their website what would happen if the did something like:

Consulting: $150/hr
Contracting: $200/hr
Freelancing: $250/hr

It'd be interesting to see if people would start referring to you as a consultant instead of a freelancer. After all, if they refer to you as a freelancer then you might charge them a higher rate!
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Juul doesn't really create enough vapor to have a distinct flavor. If you do sub-ohm or use better quality devices that create more vapor you get amazing flavor as well. This can very well approximate the flavors of most candy and dessert products, along with satisfying that hand to mouth urge (Freud would say I have an oral fixation).
I switched from traditional fags to e-cigs a decade ago and there are quite a few diabetics on the ecig forums who use ecigs, instead of for nic replacement as a sugary dessert replacement with success.
Exactly. (But just the alt hierarchy... I don't think Reddit has anything like the old voting process used to create groups in other hierarchies.)
Irrational isn't merely wrong. You can be rational, and still wrong, beucase you didn't have all the necessary information. Irrational is wronger than wrong - it means making a wrong decision despite having adequate information, or making a wronger decision than what the information you had should allow.
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I think they’re doing pretty well:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddit-val...

Now that doesn’t mean they’ve found a good long term model yet. But if I had to choose between Reddit’s and Facebook’s app (not that the comparison would make a lot of sense) then I’d choose Reddit on all days of the week.
My point was its pointless and borderline disrespectful to project modern standards of ethics and concepts of "greed" onto people of the past that had different norms and extreme hardships to contend with. By all means we should discuss what to do about our present predicament and plan for a better future, but we can do that without denigrating those that came before us for failing against an impossible modern standard.
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TLDR: presumably 2 y/o (10 Jul '15) segfault bug in stdlib was discovered, fixed and merged into master on the same day on 27 Sept '17. Next release was 12 Okt '17, 15 days later. OP argues the bug should have been filed into the CVE [0] so that people who run old versions of Rust know about it and can act accordingly.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_E...

Personally I'd say running old versions of software already means you don't have all bug fixes. I'm sympathetic to the Rust team's argument that if they'd have to test every bug for security vulnerabilities in order to know if they need to submit it to the CVE they wouldn't get much other work done. It's better to offer smooth upgrade paths and advise users to run the latest versions.
thanks for posting this!
I'd love to see something similar for Twitter. Perhaps with better moderation support as one of the perks.

"Gold" systems that actually pay the content creator, patreon-style, are an interesting idea too. But they have considerable potential downsides.
And without all the things that made Usenet good, like client side filtering.
Sidenote, there is a punctuation mark called an "interrobang": ‽

It combines both the exclamation mark and question mark. It is included in Google's Android keyboard by long-pressing the question mark.

Eg) Are you crazy‽
In Go you can write unsafe code in libraries. You can even write raw assembly if you want.

We had an encoding library written in a very c-ish style for maximum performance, and sure enough, it had an off-by-one error on the last byte that could've been exploited.

It's funny that in severely limiting the area we could use unsafe we still somehow managed to write it improperly.

If anything it serves as a reminder of why memory safety is so critical and Rust was right to focus on it from the beginning... But developers always think they're the exception to the rule. I wonder how often 3rd party libraries end up using unsafe unnecessarily.
Well that feel is because certain ones are.

They are managed by PACs. With nice little email lists providing members which stories to vote up/down and even to the point of who to report. More than a few are moderated by PAC assigned people because it isn't hard to work yourself into that position.

there are many good forums on reddit but those tend to be ones where advice on how to/what is types or those openly declared as non political; hence avoid the science reddit.

the long term threat is, does reddit bow to the wishes of investors. there are many many reddits which are guaranteed to offend people of any belief. while some of the openly bigot oriented reddits got shut down others merely skirt the rules. the fetish reddits are likely next on the list for policing.

overall it is an interesting place to be but treat it as any other public forum, always, and I mean always, assume your alias is nothing more than alias and your identity is known
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Then you don’t sell in China. Simple!
There's poor people living in wealthy countries like the US, too, and especially in the case of the United States its lack of public transport infrastructure basically means that you need to have a car even if you're poor, otherwise you can't get to your job, plain and simple.

I'd say a similar phenomenon has started happening in Western Europe, too, see the recent "gilets jaunes" movement. The French Government wrongly presumed that increasing the cost of gas by a few euro-cents won't matter, because, like you said, they thought that "if you can afford a car, you are not poor" so that a few euro-cents per liter won't matter, but the reality bit them in the posterior as lots and lots of poor French people have had to move out to the suburbs even exurbs because the downtown areas of cities like Paris or Bordeaux are expesneive af so that those poorer masses had to go wherever the real-estate was cheaper. And when you live 30 to 50 km outside of Paris you do need a car.
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Can we just go ahead and recognize Taiwan as an independent, sovereign nation? This childish game of China's has gone on long enough.
This is not my experience at all. Refreshes have been much, much larger than initial grant (almost 10x)
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Honestly, as a fellow European I never heard of those. Not even in passing.

But I did try to pay with a card in the Netherlands at the biggest local supermarket:
- Visa not accepted
- Mastercard not accepted
- Amex not accepted

They only accepted payment using a local card that I've never heard of.

Obviously had no problems with those cards anywhere else in the developed world. Except for Europe.

So yeah, Europe needs to get their shit together and start accepting and issuing the same card as the ROW.

And then all problems go away.
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To be fair Pinker wrote that in a private mail. When you criticize this, then also let's not forget what on the other hand Hinkel wrote in his article published in the Guardian newspaper:

> It is madness – and no amount of mansplaining from billionaires will be adequate to justify it.

We can certainly discuss about the data and how to interpret it, but using such phrases in a newspaper-article isn't really helpful either.
The foreshadowing was obvious when they called out the square windows in the first few paragraphs. Everyone who's ever slept through an engineering class knows corners cause stress risers.
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> Using our influence over Apple and Google to project power against Saudi Arabia and try to force them to agree to different moral norms is in stark contrast to the idea of sovereignty and signals to everyone else that that kind of behaviour is ok.

On the other hand, not using our influence over Apple and Google to project power against Saudi Arabia and try to force them to agree to different moral norms signals that their norms (and the behaviour they cause and justify) are ok. And that's how you get millions of women horribly mistreated.

Sovereignty may be a great concept, but not when you use it to justify and normalize abuse. I feel like that should be condemned and not tolerated under any circumstances.