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I am doing research and potentially considering writing about innovation at legacy companies. For example, a company such as Coke-Cola and what they do to stay innovative.
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It's hard to answer because using TLA+ in general is far from common. But among users, I would say that most cases are where they have an existing system. That was certainly how I first used TLA+ (when I realized there could be deep design issues with a system I worked on; TLA+ showed me that there indeed were two serious problems, and it also verified that my fix was correct).
Eh, I think it's kind of pretentious to demand using a special title when referring to people like this. It's just a degree. I don't demand people refer to me by using my work title in front of my name and I've been doing this for a lot longer than 5-7 years. The people I've met who correct you on how to address them by their title invariably come off as (and usually are) arrogant assholes.

Titles in general seem quaint and obsolete to me (and to many others). Seems like a relic from centuries ago, like from monarchies. I don't see why not participating in this is a "problem" or a "damn shame".
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I just think they are going about it in a pushy yet guarded way. I'd prefer good architects over good architecture as it breeds creativity/variety
What does the fact that he was white NOT have to do with it?
Except there are other kernels, and the world is better for it.
Glad to see the attempt to split the contract up by appealing for a multi-platform approach failed.

A multi-platform approach destroys most of the cloud's value proposition in the name of avoiding vendor lock-in. At that point you're essentially only using the provider as a glorified data center manager, and I'm pretty sure the DOD has more than enough money to run their own data centers.
web version of a PowerPoint

It felt more GeoCities to me. But yeah, this isn't the Times' best moment.

Some of the paper's interactive pieces are really well done, and innovative. This... wasn't.

Maybe that's because it came from the Opinion section, not one of the news sections.

Maybe that's why when I get the paper the first section that goes in the recycling bin is Opinion.
All that plus the ivory tower politics the people of the wealthy parts of the Boston ares push at the state (I have no problem with them sinking their own ship) is why I don't like it. The greater Boston area in general thinks the world revolves around it and they're a) wrong and b) entitled jerks for thinking that in the first place.
Great design, Bad UX. I felt like playing tomb rider... looking for creative ways to get to the next page
I was looking into local hackerspaces the other day, and was surprised to see that one of the best-looking ones communicates this concern about "Presence": https://wiki.artisansasylum.com/index.php/Membership_Agreeme...
To help visualize the anecdote.
I missed that, thanks, makes sense now!
Well, looks like they need to make the whole page clickable. And not just invisible sidebars. Or make the sidebars visible.
Whydocatsanddogs: A visual exploration of cat and dog lovers
There's many things that are good things. However, you need to balance them against the cost (money, space, time, whatever) required to achieve them. For some smaller roads, the cost might not be worth the benefit.
Augmenting Agile with Formal Methods: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/augmenting-agile/
I don't think the article does a disservice to readers by not postulating any kind of way out or solution. I believe that there isn't a solid solution to be posted right now because first we need to get the majority of people to care.

Laypeople are not concerned about all of this at all. All they care is that they can, like the article stated, do things like watch their dog from afar, or share funny videos with their relatives.

Companies provide their "free" service in exchange for your data. Right now we need to do exactly this: scream and inform everyone that this exists.

As long as the population keeps still, there's nothing left to lose for them and much to gain: behavioral insights, health data, trends, ....
Single party nature of the state? The governor is Republican
> Next time this happens I won't waste my empathy.

Are you actually humanly capable of watching 3000 non-combatants die suddenly without feeling any empathy? Think about what you're saying - about your own humanity.

Non-combatants, whether they are Iraqi, Afghani, American or any nationality, should not be targeted by military forces. I hope this is something most people can agree on!

Whether it is a wedding the US drops bombs on to target one person, or a suicide attack like 9/11, it's wrong when any side does it.

Don't let the politicians win. They try to divide us into groups, and then make us hate each other. Even though we've never met. The reality is we are all human beings who deserve peaceful lives, but those at the top play their power games and we all suffer because of it.

The real divide is normal people vs the powerful, not country-vs-country.

Don't fall into their hands and give up your humanity out of spite.
I don’t believe there is pain. All the studies in the US have shown that improving biking infrastructure immediately improves retail sales (it’s obvious why...you throw bikes in the mix, and walking is also a lot safer, and everyone who enters a retail store eventually needs to walk, so a nicer walking environment makes it better for all their customers).

The complaints are likely a combination of general aversion to change, the fact that most retailers are likely drivers and identify as such and look at bike improvements as an attack on their group, and media reporting that focuses on those who lie on the extremes.
As a biker in Cambridge, I have mixed feelings about this. Biking in Cambridge is subpar, I lived in Berkeley, CA 4 years and biking was MUCH more comfortable there. I'm worried this will hinder the progress and slow down constructing new bike lanes. I want more protection BUT I also want bike lanes every where. If they're not gonna construct more bike lanes because now it has more regulation, this is a negative development. If this will not happen, this is a positive development. Time will show. I'm hopeful but skeptical.
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It should be pointed out this is a balance against increased diameter which is needed to see anything at all.
That’s why I said “modern browsers”. You linked to a page with compatibility equivalents for unsupported versions of a discontinued web browser.
Their market cap was already over $30 billion in August 2014, before the first version of Autopilot was announced.
And here I thought it was a reference to the Eliza chatterbot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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I don’t think it is surprising, but it is hypocritical. I think such hypocrisy is worth pointing out, even if it is routine at this point.
I imagine this would be used for Immediacy solutions. Amazon Prime Now being a great example of which.

It would cost more, but per order it's probably cheaper than a guy on a bike given guy on said bike + insurance + overheads will take a bigger cut than the drone will.
I agree mostly, except that there needs to be a usable non-bicycle alternative to cars too. I love riding, but not everybody can do it all the time, for a large variety of reasons. Reducing in-city car usage is good, but just forcing it to be even more unpleasant is not going to solve anything.
Looking at the style guide, looks like the title may have been dropped because the length was already longer than 55 characters? I couldn't find a formal rule related to titles in headlines.

As long as the BBC is consistent (and not biased because of gender or other factors), I don't think it's a big deal.

From the BBC's style guide[1]:

Doctor

Use the title Dr (always abbreviated) for doctors of medicine, scientific doctors and church ministers who hold doctorates - but only when it is relevant. So it would be Mr Liam Fox. But do not use Dr for politicians who have a doctorate in politics, history etc. Surgeons should be referred to as Mr/Mrs/Ms.

headlines

Index-level headlines must be 30-39 characters long, including gaps - usually five to seven words. Story-level headlines can be up to 55 characters (a little longer as long as key words are within the 55) and should aim to include key terms to attract search engine referrals.

Avoid the US convention of using a comma in place of the word "and" (eg: "Crowe, Roberts in Oscar triumph").

If the attribution is clear, there is no need for quotation marks (eg: I’ve had enough, says Smith). Any quotation marks in a headline must be single.

Headlines might appear without an accompanying summary, so keep them simple. A cryptic headline, out of context, may be meaningless.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art201310101127407...
I've long been a big fan of APL, since I learned it many years ago. I started by studying on the classic book by Gilman and Rose and trying to use the scarce freeware/shareware implementations available at the time. At the time it was hard or impossible to get anything working for free on a Linux computer.

Nowadays there is a great, free, and actively maintained implementation: GNU APL. That, combined with the widespread use of Unicode and the APL support in Linux/XOrg keyboard definitions, make it so much easier to get started than in the past.

I have used APL mostly for fun, that is, for learning the language itself, solving mathematical puzzles, and taking part in "code golf" games. I find the language exquisite, especially its programming model based on multi-dimensional arrays, its graphical symbols, and its grammar. But it is somewhat "impractical" to use nowadays.

J is a great successor (designed by the same mastermind behind APL) but I found it harder to learn (and to read) due to its ASCII "line-noise" look and to the prevalence of point-free or tacit function definitions, which I find inferior in readability.

I'm only now learning NumPy and TensorFlow, and I bet their authors were inspired by APL.

Does anybody have any benchmarks of J's performance against NumPy?

As for K, I wouldn't recommend picking it up. It's closed-source and documentation-less, meaning good look if you run into any trouble; its error messages are notoriously infuriating; it overloads its operators with a ton of meanings, depending on context, even more so than APL and J; and its fundamental programming paradigm is not based on multi-dimensional arrays.

On the other hand, writing an APL-like frontend for TensorFlow looks like a nice project!
global variables are lvalues, for instance.
Curious if mufflers for electric motors have been invented? Does the noise come from the motor, or from the prop cutting thru the air?
Other SUVs accomplish that with regular doors.
Most nations are shifting or have shifted to a service based economy, which means that most of the exchange of money is for a service, not parts, materials, etc. Services are often meant to augment the lives of individuals and businesses in different ways.

A lot of folks complain that companies like Google have made so much money that they don't have anywhere to spend so they start to hoard it instead of 'helping the economy'. The reality is that for a company, it is better to wait instead of investing for the sake of investing without considering the returns. It is also worth noting that when a company makes so much money, they often shift a portion of their business into the 'Financial services' segment of the economy.

I find it difficult to sell the idea that banks, etc are not part of the market. For example, without a bank loan at X% interest, some industries wouldn't exist. Without insurance for X product, a lot of companies and technologies wouldn't exist since insurance impacts risk level, etc.
"As per the request of heirs of Gershwin's catalogue, only Afro-American singers are allowed to perform the piece, and maybe this was due to a mistake, but the fact is that the Hungarian Opera was offered a contract last year that did not have the famous "all-black cast" clause, which they ended up going for."

The requirement of allowing only Afro-American singers seems unreasonably restrictive if you want it to be performed outside the US. And having an all-black cast is not the same thing. Not all black people are American. Not all black people trace their ancestry to Africa (except in the way all humans eventually do, of course). And not all Africans are black.

So mixing up black and Afro-American may usually end up being the same thing when you're in the US, outside the US it becomes a lot more complex. It becomes a requirement to hire people from the US and a ban on local singers who didn't emigrate from the US.

There is of course the letter of the rule and the spirit of the rule. The piece is explicitly about black Americans. Does that mean it can't be performed by non-Americans? By people who aren't black? If it turns out there are no black opera singers in Hungary, does this mean Hungarians shouldn't be exposed to this important piece of black culture? It does feel a bit like one of those cases where a totally justified attempt to to justice to an oppressed minority in the US turns into American cultural imperialism once you leave the country. Then again, it is a piece of American culture.
The Tesla sportster had a two-speed transmission, and I'm fairly certain the model S also used one as well. I know they replaced a ton of them on the early production.

Later production doesn't seem to find the transmission necessary.
Edit: Better link: https://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm

https://www.av8n.com/physics/spacetime-welcome.htm
Did you see the JS?
I used the Microsoft one for a project, it wasn’t bad, but it had a specific language bug (I don’t remember what) that meant a common phrase didn’t work for us, so the project swapped to google translate.
That's for overstaying a visa. A large number of illegal immigrants simply arrive illegally.

Page 5 in this document shows numbers, with Mexico at the top. [1]

And here is another source showing almost the same numbers (i.e, Canada nowhere in site). [2]

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/18_1214...

[2] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-...
He was charged for skipping bail. People shouldn't skip bail unless they feel the court won't give them a fair trial. UK courts give people fair trials (or in this case a fair extradition hearing). He promised to the court to stay at home, so he was released from jail on bail.

He then broke that promise.

7 years ago the argument was "Assange shouldn't be extradited to Sweden because Sweden would extradite him to the U.S" [1]

This was bullshit, if the U.S. wanted to extradite, they could do that just as easily in the UK as in Sweden, and they've now proven that.

Further his argument was he would face torture and/or the death penalty [2]

UK won't extradite him for any reason
1) unless the U.S. files an extradition request (they have now, it's not hard to do),
2) that's approved by a U.K court, which means looking into chances of inhumane treatment, death penalty, etc. Sweden has the same rules.

All of these facts are consistent with what people were saying first thing this morning and yesterday.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-12011867/julian-assange-spe...
[2] http://klamberg.blogspot.com/2012/08/extradition-of-assange-...
Love Jquery -- but hate Jquery slim build. Let's say you create a widget that expects jquery animate or ajax for some functionality. You publish your widget and users who use your widget like it and then they try to optimize page load time by using Jquery slim. And all of a sudden , some parts of your widget are working and some are not.
There are smaller vehicles that are used to plow just the bike lanes in some parts of the world.

It probably doesn't matter so much though because the percentage of people who continue biking even in cold winter and with adverse snow conditions is quite low.
Beginners will be enjoying the "novice effect" and will benefit from handling as much weight as possible after learning the movements, which should happen in the first one or two workouts. Extending the rest periods as long as needed to finish the next set will benefit the novice more than the experienced lifter.

Shortened rest periods are good for prioritizing growth over strength, i.e. body-building. One can only begin "body-building" after establishing a sufficient base of strength from which to start.
>There's this book, that makes good points about the complexity of the situation in Afghantistan, and the US intervention:

Sorry, no. The US has terrible foreign policy, yes, but religious fanatics like the Taliban are a cancer on humanity. They seek to keep women as chattel and murder homosexuals and anyone else that doesn't conform to their insane ideology.

Anyone who informs on them is a hero, and people like Assange who go after them are villains. It's no coincidence that Assange is buddy-buddy with racists like Sean Hannity (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-ass...). He just wants to be in the news, and doesn't care if he has to stand side-by-side with fascists, racists, and religious fundamentalists to get there.
I didn't get much either, but this is a link that I will be sharing with many of my less privacy concerned friends and family members; the ones who keep asking me why I refuse to get a doorbell camera or smart light-bulbs. I think this article makes privacy concerns accessible to people newly thinking about it.
OP said they won’t go to prison because Trump wasn’t found colluding. It’s nonsensical. As though, Trump not telling Russia what to do means it didn’t happen. We know beyond a doubt Russia interfered. We also know Assange was one of their stooges. Read the indictments.
It’s odd, I just heard Greenwald pinning it on the Trump admin. Not the legacy of of Obama’s DoJ. I guess he’d like to see Trump personally involved to rescind the prev DoJ indictment?

Also international left is still on his side defending him, but thd US left want to see him hung out to dry. Interesting split.
This is what you get when the state government is basically the standard oil octopus with its tentacles into everything and the majority of state decisions are made by people who don't acknowledge anything outside of I95. They could have just passed local laws but doing it state level lets them pat themselves on the back more so of course they do it to the detriment of everyone else.

>eliminates the community’s ability to use common sense

The higher entity telling the lower entity they can't be trusted to think for themselves is a really common theme in MA politics if you're looking for it. I'm not sure how we got here but it sucks.
Not the first to make this claim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
But it isn't the perfect reason. I live on a dead end road (road ends at the creek), it doesn't take much intelligence to realize the pavement is nearly worn out and so will be replaced soon. However because the road doesn't go anywhere, there is no need for any bike lane. If anything it needs a basketball hoop in the middle - all that hard surface is wasted on cars: let the kids play when there isn't a car coming.
Here's a map from the Globe of bike accidents reported to Cambridge police from 2010-2014 [0]. Unfortunately the map no longer loads for me, but the accidents are mostly along major roads and the area is still discernible, especially when compared side by side with a map of the area [1]. As the article says, Cambridge Street, Broadway, Beacon Street, and Mass Ave are all hot spots.

Would love to see data combined with Somerville, since I'm sure the stretch of Beacon between Porter and Inman would be similarly populated. These are also only accidents reported to police, so I would bet they lean towards more serious accidents.

[0]: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/05/map-bike-crashe...
[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3773046,-71.1224085,14z
I suppose that reporting does happen or at least could be made to happen under the new system.

I used to make $80k per year in salary(which is far less than most of the top decile in the USA) and in one of those years had over $10k in capital gains. In the same year I thought about buying a house to rent out. I ultimately didn't do it, but if I had, then I would have had to declare the income as part of my tax return filing process.
Just as one data point.
This was surprisingly weak. Security cameras? Who cares? Here's what we really should be worried about: Google. They know everything. Our browsing history. Probably which porn sites we visit. Our emails. Which services we use. Our passwords (if stored in Chrome). Our schedule. Where we are and where we're going (Maps). Security cameras? Laughable. Google (and to some extent FB, Microsoft and Amazon) is where the danger lies.
PageSpeed and Lighthouse measure the site load mark you down for things it thinks you could fix. For a head to head comparison like this WebPageTest is often a better tool:

non-amp: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/190411_1B_7c5b8e0d2f067ad...

amp: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/190411_RF_776066ee3b0226f...

Your site does pretty similarly with non-AMP and AMP. On the median of 9 runs PLT and fully loaded time are better on AMP, but speed index and time to interactive are better on non-AMP. Digging into it more, the time difference is completely due to how long it takes your site to serve HTML, and the biggest thing you could do to speed your site up would be making the server return the HTML sooner, perhaps by adding a cache.

Testing with curl, your site takes 880ms on average to serve non-AMP, but 1120ms to serve non-AMP. Graph: https://i.imgur.com/BlWqSoo.png

That's not an AMP thing, that's a your-serving-stack thing.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, and used to work on mod_pagespeed)
How is it that, say two decades ago, telephone companies or banks would not dare to think about selling their clients' information, but right now it seems like it's the most normal thing in the world? What went wrong? Why do we accept this behavior now?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-ass...
Wouldn't infrared cameras work better? Or does the forest blocks a persons heat?
Their argument is that bicycle collisions increase at intersections and, I assume, decrease in segregated bike lanes. That is understandable since most automobile accidents also happen at intersections.
Breaking into government computers is a crime.