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Yes, but if you choose to use a CLI for your explanation, you are alienating an even larger portion of your readerbase who can't use/don't want to use the command line. I'm thinking in particular of Windows developers, who have to put up with a CLI experience that borders on the unusable (or at the very least requires a lot of work to get it set up), and a culture that views it as the domain of poseurs and prima donnas into the bargain.

In any case, I'm quite sceptical of the claim that you can teach Git more effectively through the command line alone. Here's why: the two most important concepts to understand before you can properly grok DVCS are (a) that your source history is a key integral part of your workflow and not just a sideshow, and (b) how revisions, changesets and merges relate to each other through the DAG. GUI tools do this very effectively by putting your source history, complete with a graphical view of your revisions, right at the front of your workflow. By contrast, the command line requires you to type git log --graph, effectively relegating it to a sideshow like in the bad old days of Subversion.

I can't help getting the impression that learning DVCS through the command line risks you ending up with an understanding of the subject that is fundamentally flawed. You see this in virtually every Git versus Mercurial debate that focuses on which one is better at branching and merging. Most of the arguments that I've seen leave me with the impression that the people who are making them haven't a clue what they're talking about.
How about this then: complaining about downvotes will invariably get you even more downvotes, and this time they'll actually be justified due to your attitude and tone.
Did you read the article? The author spends most of it attempting to justify that exact point. You may or may not agree with their arguments, but saying "I don't get it" without addressing any of those arguments isn't a useful response.
Let's clean up our oceans first? That plastic island out there has irritated me for years. Oh yea--and maybe stop eating so much fish? That includes Sushi. I had a girlfriend who called herself a strict vegetarian, but fish
don't matter. Yea, we had numerous arguments about the power of denial.
Especially considering that it's been available as a community patch since 0.8 days.

http://wiki.nginx.org/3rdPartyModules#Third_party_patches
I'd also like to see how many hours on average someone making $90K in gross revenue in NYC is working.
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The ones exposed to the web (the API) is standardized, well documented, and implemented by several parties.

(P)NaCL is none of those things.
When I first read the headline I thought it was a press release about an accident.
There also needs to be a 'pause for others' button so that a motorist in a side street can be let in to a congested road or for a motorist on the opposite side of the road wanting to turn can make their move. This is the usual scenario where a motorist flashes their lights to let someone through.

As a cyclist/pedestrian I am always amazed by this altruistic side of motorists and it would be a shame if 'the computer said no'. A little 'be nice' button could be a cool feature.
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Uber just came to my college town (San Luis Obispo) and their rates are absurdly high compared to anything else. Even if Uber drivers were less than 10 minutes away, I would wait the extra 10 for a cab and save myself the ~$20.
Me too. In fact, there was an accident last night in my neighborhood involving a black car and a drunk driver and I thought it was about that, despite Uber (kindly) chiming in on a local blog to say it wasn't one of their drivers. Thought this was some kind of horrible reversal.
Not in my experience (economics). An econometric class used Stata and I know a couple of statistics classes used SPSS, but beyond that it was use whatever you want, just get the job done. And for most people "whatever you want" was Excel, with a few people using Matlab. I never saw anyone using Stata when they didn't have to.

Admittedly one reason for this was that all student machines throughout the university had Excel installed and all the students had Excel on their laptops, while Stata was only available in a couple computer labs. And it's pretty much the same once you get out to the working world. No matter where go in the world or what office you walk into, if you sit down in front on windows machine, it will have Excel. Convincing your boss to buy you Stata or SPSS just so you can do a couple of quick statistical tests that you are perfectly capable of doing in Excel is just too much of a hassle most of the time.
In short remote syslog-ing.
It's useful if you want to log to a centralized logging server. This helps to have all your logs in one place and also keeps the logs safe, if someone breaks into your server.
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Uber truly is quite a leap forward in transportation.

But I am currently perfectly fine with them running into all the regulatory roadblocks. They have so far shown zero interest in working with the various constituents to figure out what the right structure is for their services. It's easy to say that taxis suck and regulation squashes innovation. But some of this stuff exists for good reason and until Uber acknowledges that, I'm OK with hurdles they are facing.
Keep in mind that the number of taxis on the road - and thus the number of jobs - is limited in many cities to the number of "medallions" issued (which represents the number of taxis that can be operating in the city at the same time.)

In major cities like SF and NY, the number of drivers is almost certainly actually increasing, as Uber has basically rendered the medallion (and the protection it provides) somewhere near useless for many classes of fares. Some jobs are certainly being moved from black car and taxi companies who can't compete with Uber on overhead, but the taxi market has been highly regulated to the point of limiting job creation for many years.
It won't do anything for non-Firefox users: things will just work, which is pretty much the entire point and a pretty huge difference from (P)NaCl and Flash.

asm.js is nothing but a "hint" to the JS engine that some optimizations are possible.

IIRC, Chrome hasn't implemented support for the pragma because they believe they can get the majority of the benefits by making V8 smarter.
that's a terrible analogy :) ! more like a taxi without having to speak to the driver or a personal bus.
> I'd say a handful of new jobs are created while the rest are just taken

This is true of virtually all claimed job creation numbers.
The simplest answer I could think of is getting remote syslogging for free. This also makes it easier to process nginx logs in realtime without named pipe trickery. I'm pretty excited to clean up some log ingestion code.
I'm living in one of the top cities in the Bay Area and they don't yet cover there.
I don't understand why all countries require startups to have investment. For one, most tech start ups don't need significant investment and can be boostrap. The average 30 year old has enough saving to get by for a year or two without any investment. I feel require investment is really a cruft of the past and shouldn't be a necessity for visas.
you could just plug in a joystick
Politically speaking, it is very, very smart that Uber is doing these sorts of studies. As a policy wonk, I wish they were a bit more open about their datasets, analyses, and methodology, but I can see how that would just hand their opponents chances to twist it.

Re: jobs created, note that Uber (very specifically, is my guess) allows us to assume FTE when they say "jobs," but is probably more likely referring to the total number of driver profiles created and used at least once. A Daily/Monthly Driver metric would be more meaningful here.

I'd also be interested to see the impact on parking (especially at peak times) if people are using Uber over driving somewhere and leaving their car parked (idle/slack resource) there.

PS - the lack of a footnote attached to (what seems to be a copy/paste) 1 in the subheading is grating haha
True, it's been available, but having it in the core means that it will get into Linux distros, i.e. people don't have to compile.
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Uber is pretty great, and I enjoy using it, but many of these statistics are pretty weak and out of context. As others have mentioned, using "income" to describe "revenue" is inaccurate. You can't compare making $90k driving an Uber to $90k at a desk job with a completely different set of expenses.

While the statistics used to determine the DUI rate in SF and Taxi crime in Chicago are beyond the levels of my knowledge and I can't verify their correctness, the calculations certainly seem a bit suspect. For example, as a pair city when doing a discontinuity test, they chose San Francisco, a city which notably, has Uber. The post doesn't mention a confidence interval or P value in a clear explicit way (outside of the table, with unexplained column headers).[1]

In the infographic, they claim these statistics as facts without mention of any underlying confidence intervals. I'm pro Uber, but this post seems to contain a lot of fuzzy math. It'd be interesting if someone with a statistics background could confirm or deny these suspicions...

[1] http://blog.uber.com/DUIratesdecline
Knowing an opening isn't the same as memorising moves. Knowing the opening is more about understanding the position, it's strength and weaknesses, the immediate tactics available, and the natural flow of pieces towards their strategical aims.

Yes, tactical lines do require more knowledge of concrete lines, because they are complicated to work out over the board. But at that point the memorisation should be a "summary shortcut" of your understanding or assessment of the position.

If it were about memorisation, what happens when both players reach the end of their memorised lines? If it's not mate, or one player being substantially better off (in which case, why did the other player memorise that line too), how do you proceed from there?

And that's where knowing an opening comes to the fore, the important part of the opening isn't the moves themselves, but how the game opens up to the middle-game. Understanding the types and structure of the middle-game that's derived from the opening is a far more valuable investment of time. For instance, knowing how to play with and against an isolated d-pawn - a significant number of opening variations lead to these kind of structures. Hedgehog structures, static double-pawn structures, backward pawns, outposts on an open file.

Knowing how to play a position is long term more valuable than memorising a routine of moves. Understanding over rote-repetition.

Granted, some positions are predominantly tactical, and those you need to calculate - either at the board, or before hand. Memorisation is a poor substitute for actual experience.

One of my proudest over-the-board achievements was understanding how to exploit the positional drawbacks of the Black side of a Stonewall Dutch. And beating a player 600-700 Elo stronger than me because I understood the White knight manoeuvre from f3-e5-d3, before exposing Black's backward e6-pawn by opening the centre with the f3 + e4 pawn advances. I spent a week trying to understand one model game of that opening, white's plan was logical, and the strategic aim of exposing the backward e6 pawn easy to understand and attempt.
And accepting that, NaCl is free and open source that is publicly developed, so I don't see any of the implications of your argument working.

Wake me up when anyone (can) realistically do an independent reimplementation. Claiming that NaCl is "open web" is a sure sign of excessive reality distortion fields.
> For example, the median income on uberX is more than $90,000/year/driver in New York and more than $74,000/year/driver in San Francisco.

That is impressive. Even if you detect fuel and maintenance and health care, it comes to around 50k a year or so. That's quite a bit given that I assume drivers can choose to work flexible hours and possibly not as stressed out (compared to software engineer with 70k salary).
Thats useful as well as harmful! If I delete my browsing history from google search and chrome, does Google still backup these deleted history?
That's correct, and as you illustrate it's the possibility to have newlines and commas inside quoted fields that complicates things for grep/awk/cut/etc.

So instead of making a more complex version of tools like grep, we can make the data simple for these tools to understand. That's what https://github.com/dbro/csvquote does. It can be run in a pipeline before the grep stage, and allow grep/cut/awk/... to work with unambiguous field and record delimiters. Then it can restore the newlines and commas inside the quoted fields at the end of the pipeline.
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I hope they also add cache purge into the community version as well.
Mozilla has been playing a comparatively weak technical game for years.

Except for the part where emscripten completely ate (P)NaCls lunch in a way that works cross-browser.
Or put it another way: the GPS system is used to synchronize power phases, guide aircraft, cars, people, ships. It's built into emergency transponders, military drones and bombs.

Without that system, we're back to compasses, line of sight and dead reckoning. We lose the current insane advantage of realtime positioning anywhere on the planet.

That's 1 18 satellite system - and we absolutely can't run a modern civilization without it.
In this thread everyone discusses the actual numbers.

The numbers are not the interesting thing here - Uber seems to get battle-ready for lobby-work.

These numbers - correct or not - will be the ammunition their PR and lobby teams will use in the next months.
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What is going to happen to Java applets? You must use a different browser?

Firefox is now blocking Java by default. Java on the web is dead, killed by Oracle and JavaScript.
And that probably ties a great deal into wealth disparity in the first place, wealth being highly correlated with power as it is. Is it worth it, if everyone is affluent with plenty of leisure time and in good health, if a small fraction of a percent of the population control over half the wealth and means of production? Would such a society be stable?
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A bus is possible, but if this was a viable business, it should exist already. The only difference is the cost of the driver, so the automated bus might save passengers $5/day. Is that $5/day extra cost keeping this business non-existent at the moment? I'm a little skeptical.

Keep in mind your taxi service is cheap because it's on the road all the time. A taxi might make $250/day, and pay the driver half of that cost. That means the company is making $125/day per taxi. You're one of 15 or 20 people taking that taxi in a day, so the $15 trip is possible. If everyone was taking an automated car to work, they need to pay the majority of that $125/day price. Split it with 4 people, and that's just over $30/day each. Kind of expensive. Add more people and we're turning into a bus or public transit again.

Work schedules offset would help everything all around. If some people worked 7-3, 8-4, 9-5, 10-6, 11-7, etc, then we could decrease rush hour traffic, and use the cars multiple times to lower the price to $10/day, which starts to become interesting.

I like your idea of buying a car, adding it to a network, and getting money back when you're not using it.
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I doubt that will turn out to be technically feasible in the long run. There's no bug team working on Chromium that isn't Google Chrome developers, AFAIK.
Distros have been patching things like this for a long time.
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I never knew there was such a thing as the appendix. Thanks for the link!
This is a lengthy piece that makes the point that these publishers aren't entirely innocent (there's delays on both sides, and the publishers are owned by some pretty big companies themselves)

http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/amazon-v-hache...
I remember seeing an article a few years back about msft filing a patent for automatic language translation for instant message. Maybe that is why we haven't seen this done by anyone else?
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Any systemd experts know if there would there be any benefit to supporting journald directly, rather than through the syslog API, on Linux hosts?
I assume they're using accept-language. Because it's in Finnish on my work laptop, but on my home desktop and mobile it's in English. Anyway, here's link that goes always to English version. https://kutsuplus.fi/home?lang=en_GB
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syslog -> logstash -> elasticsearch -> kibana
Sounds like you are waiting for the VW Camper Van version to come out. However, if you could sleep and drive there could be a whole new class of commuters cluttering up the roads on 4-8 hour commutes, or a whole new breed of tourists that set the car to drive through the night to the next destination so they wake up somewhere different, outside some cafe for brekkie.
Finance in particular has way too many people who think things like this are a good idea and The Right Thing To Do: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections .

I think that's a pretty unfair criticism.

Firstly, it isn't clear exactly what you don't like about it. That it is Java? That it exists?

You need to put its existence into historical context. When it came out, it was before Google's Guava collections libraries were open source, so there were no decent collections libraries that did more than what the JDK libraries did.

That's the context GS Collections were built for.

(Disclaimer: I've never used them, but I do remember when they were released)
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i still dont get how it has 'created' jobs?
i get how uber is convenient/practical for a customer; how is it thaat beneficial for the taxi driver?
26. $3k in the bank.
But I would assume that heavy cut will end up eating your gains too?
I feel like you're giving a very one-sided representation of the issue. There were some very real concerns about the memory usage of the proposed modifications to phpng (you can see http://news.php.net/php.internals/74284 for an analysis) - what should have happened is that we just went over those changes and decided which parts are feasible and which are not. This happened eventually and now there's a full consensus on how this change is supposed to be implemented (64bit on LLP64, size_t string lengths, uint32_t array lengths). However before that happened the whole discussion was basically a pissing context between Pierre and Zeev. Pierre was most certainly not the one who got us back to cooperating.
Last commit was earlier this month: http://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/clisp/commit_browser
I made 2-3x as much by moving to California and then another integer coefficient greater than one when I moved to New York.

I don't understand this. If the "average" engineer in SV makes 120Kish, then the same engineer is making 40K in Canada? And they can make 240K in NY (with no additional experience)?

Are those number correct?

If they are: I'd note that salaries in Australia are more closely aligned with SV salaries than Canadian. Just in case anyone is looking to move somewhere...
Surprising how difficult this process is. You'd think that publishers would be careful about having matching names and icons so that it'd be easy for people on Android to find an app when they see an equivalent in the apple App Store.
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Bilingual speaker here: the German translation produced was very poor quality compared to the English one; the German speaker was enunciating excessively clearly, sitting in a sound studio and sticking to short, simple phrases with clear grammar.

From that point of view the demo was misleading - we heard an English speaker talking naturally and heard clear responses, but the other side of the conversation was quite broken, although possible to understand.

If both sides were speaking in real world settings the demo would have been honest but far less impressive to casual watchers.

Despite this misdirection I am still impressed with the amount it did manage to translate from the long, naturally-spoken English sentences.
Plug: the UK govt also has R&D tax credits, and it's what my company, GrantTree, specialises in.

They're similar to Canadian tax credits, but can give you up to 25-32% cash back, and are a fair bit more lenient on what passes audits (at least compared to the horror stories I've heard from Canada).

Feel free to get in touch with me to find out if/how you can get some of that in the UK.
You cannot shrug real problems off as "irrelevant".

Let me do a comparison to highlight how relevant it is:

1. iCloud: A user experiences an issue. Contacts your support. You finally figure out that the problem is caused by a system you have no control over. You tell the user a) there's nothing you can do about it b) they should prepare for it happening in the future. The user is unhappy. This repeats over and over again.

2. Custom sync: A user experiences an issue. You go to your server, find the root cause and fix it. The user is happy, and you also fixed problems for all the other users with the same issue. So this particular situation is never repeated again.

I've never said everything in your system had to be custom made. I emphasized, "it depends on what your priorities are".

If you priority is customer experience, then you can take the huge field of syncing, slice off a little manageable portion of it -- that makes sense for your app -- and attack it with elegance.

See you don't have to do a better iCloud, you just have to do a better slice of the syncing pie. Big difference.

Clearly not all developers are suited for this. But in a lot of cases, it is not only possible, but even advisable at the moment. Vesper is a good example.

(scenario number (1.) is not just a hypothetical situation you just have to look at the mountains of evidence: lot of apps had to remove iCloud syncing, because of the tons of complaints that flooded their support channels)
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At my organization we are not allowed to use any external service.
Few years back when Google was working on Google Wave project (the new email) they also had done a similar translation.. but i think it was only at text and document level. Microsoft has come up with some real problem solving solutions specially when the world is more Globally connected. Kudos to Microsoft research.
I personally use Uber at least 20-50x as often as I would use taxis. That is, for each Uber trip I take, I would take only 1/20 to 1/50 of the same trips via taxi given the choice.
Don't think of it as a camera. Think of it as a radar (that uses laser light instead of radio waves, hence the LI instead of RA in LIDAR).
Personally, I find it disappointing that this is perpetuating the inherent inefficiencies of the car concept, carrying a small number of people, usually a single person. The ultimate end game where cities are full of autonomous taxi vehicles that aren't owned, but paid for by usage makes sense though. You fire up an app / web link or SMS and a car appears within 5 minutes, drops off someone else and takes you on your way. Provided folk don't leave too many empty beer cans in the back seat...