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When you try to paint this as a beta of a marketable vehicle, yeah, it doesn't make much sense. However, this seems much closer to the long history of automotive concept cars, which have traditionally been impractical and designed to definitively show off certain features that may or may not make it to the final cut. By building a vehicle from the ground up without a steering wheel, they're much more readily able to get people asking the questions as to what's really needed in a car of the future.
"The downside is a more European attitude toward work— less intense, less ambitious, more likely to have wine with lunch, Mr. Adelman says"

As a Montrealer and a Sotware Engineer having worked at various size companies in this city, I can say I've NEVER seen my collegues have wine at lunch. Working in video game industry and sleeping at the office at crunch time (back in the days) I couldn't say my collegues or I 'lacked' the famed Silicon Valley work ethos ...
This article is fraught with stereotypes and coated with a few fragment of facts ...
Don’t give up on wearables just yet
Don't think you are gaining any SEO-benefit from one-page JS-only applications, just because Google made it possible for you to start ranking.

No one is expecting to get any SEO benefits that "normal" pages don't have. We are expecting to get the same chance of ranking as normal pages.

You mentioned that single page apps might rank differently or worse than normal pages. Do you have any source for that? (A source that is current, since Googlebot's improvements are quite new).
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I've seen it being referred to as "scroll up bar".
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> that you have bought at a steep discount from some provider in exchange for a large chunk of your privacy.

I have some doubt that the consumer observes this discount.

If consumers insisted on privacy-by-default, the point of sale cost would not be very different. It's just the industry standard not to provide this.

If we observe a steep discount now, it's because privacy-by-default has become a specialist interest that manufacturers can therefore charge extra for.
Thanks. Is this a recent change? It's only a problem I've noticed myself having in the last few weeks.
Give RefControl a try as well, it blocks the HTTP "referer".
I actually think it's a pretty smart idea. You don't have to "own" one of these, so it's not like you'll care much about the design suiting your style. They will be used more like taxis or delivery cars. You don't have to like that all taxis are yellow and look the same.
Of course they mine those longs, there is a lot of knowledge to be gleaned from them, mostly to improve their product. Also some places mandate some kind of data retention.

Deriving "history" from those logs doesn't matter much as long as they eventually get anonymized.

You should update your post to reflect the 9 month distinctions between search history and server logs.
No, this has nothing to do with niceness or evilness. It's just monopoly versus competition. If Amazon kills every publisher, there will be incentives for Amazon to be less nice than otherwise.
Yeah, it's not supposed to have a weird 'cheese Whiz' yellowish radioactive gravy (see the Article's picture of an unnameable monstrosity)
If Apple is a abusing his position as OS provider by using in their apps APIs that are not available to other app developers, I'm not sure if the right answer is "go and develop for Android instead".

What I think it may be different in Apple's case is that they don't usually build apps that compete with apps from other developers like Microsoft did.
Lisp was popular back when the "interesting" apps were things like compilers, AI systems, mathematics systems, GUI's, etc. See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Common_Lisp_software
Maybe they're actually going after the Asian market, and not the US one?

It never ceases to amaze me how narrow minded much of the North American market is about the dichotomy between cute and cool/powerful. (You could quite easily make the case some markets are the extreme opposite). The console market has this too, which is one of the reasons the XBox brand has a sort of imposed low ceiling on success outside of the English speaking world.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaPeRo They supposedly worked quite hard to balance cuteness, which was regarded as a necessity, with functionalism, and it's got enough echoes I wonder if the people behind this car had seen it.
Thankyou so much for that.

I had got as far as including animate.css in trying to get things working and I was just about to write here about how it didn't bl00%y work!!! All is working now, thanks for your well-spotted tip.
I'll update the post when someone from Google (rather than some anonymous account created for the sole purpose of debating this point) steps forward and guarantees that no information mined and/or copied from those server logs survives in user profiles after 9 months. You have definitely not made your point, they only speak about the IP anyway but say nothing whatsoever about the cookies, which are just as good (or even better) at identifying users.

Of course it matters that they derive history from those logs. That's what this whole article is about.

I also note that even though that blog post is now 6 years old wording to that effect still has not made it into the google privacy policy, which I assume to be the binding document in cases like this.
Cup-holders in a future car aren't the hallmark of timeless design. This makes me curious to know more about this inappropriate decision.
Hey Jacques, I think it's even more than 7 years :). Reading a lot of your stuff, hope we'll meet again soon!
But it does require the user to be vigilant and not give every app all permissions (i.e. the root access aptitude et. co require). Do you really think that is reasonable to expect from every mobile phone user?
That's not cheating. And every other shop would do it the same way. You don't give away anything for free. Ever.
We use the FFT to simulate aperture diffraction in our computer-generated images. Example: http://www.indigorenderer.com/sites/default/files/features_a...
I should be in your hometown somewhere in the next few months, drop me a line at jacques@mattheij.com with your cell number in it and I'll buy you dinner.
Personally, I don't drive; it freaks me the hell out. However, I've got a housemate who does drive, and he has several thousand dollars worth of ham radio equipment installed in his car. I also have friends who do volunteer fire work and other first response type duties. Doing things like that in a rental would be near impossible.
Not true. As soon as you go just a little step further, your query cannot be represented by the GUI stuff anymore.
Sure, check out pgloader (this guy re-wrote a Python program into Common Lisp and wrote about the experience), the European Lisp Symposium ( http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-programme-ful... ), it's used by Google (ITA, air fairing system), it was used by Naughty Dog for their PS1 and PS2 games (they still use Lisp for scripting), it's been used by NASA, DART ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin... ), Cyc, there's a European company I can't remember the name of that uses Common Lisp for its train scheduling system. There's this new Swedish music company that uses Common Lisp for their software.

If you want to see much used applications in the Common Lisp community then check out all of Edi Weitz' software http://weitz.de/

Most Common Lisp that you use is in stuff you don't see, there're no Ruby hipsters here.

EDIT: Oh, or why not something like StumpWm? Really, thre's a lot of cool Common Lisp software out there.
>>After the list of reasons people dislike it are resolved, it won't be Perl.

So "people" will never like Perl? Good argument! :-)

Well, what are the reasons to dislike Perl, then?

>>OOP and Unicode etc that require coding against a different abstraction than Perl.

1. Perl, with Moose, has arguably the best OO of the common scripting languages (inspired by the Common Lisp Object System).

2. Perl has probably the best Unicode support of the common scripting languages.

Basic advice:

To be a language war troll you need to know enough so you can make people angry. If they laugh at you, it is a failure.
> I don't need to have someone caption the image for me to understand the broad range of situations to which the caption "jump" applies.

I'm more interested in metaphor and analogy.

My 3.5 year old son said "look at the rain! It is bouncing like hopping frogs!"

I don't know if he created that. It's not in any of his books. I guess he jumps like a hopping frog at nursery and transferred that to rain.

I'm not so interested in a computer that is trained on frogs, and which sees a hopping frog and describes it as such. If it saw a hopping cat and said this thing is hopping but I don't know what it is, then I'd be interested.

Am I being too harsh on the robots?
Does this apply to the same extent to phones as it does to an operating system? Apple has made devices that don't even have an app store - nobody cries foul that the Nokia 1100 only runs Nokia software.
Being a programmer, a sci-fi fan, and always excited by new developments even from a young age, I thought I'd never reach a time where I would find it difficult to accept new technology. Clones, immortality, interstellar travel, tech-enabled telepathy, bring it on.

I now realise that sitting in a self-driving car will cause me to press on the ghost brake pedal while sweating with anxiety every time it needs to slow down, while kids who will grow up with these things will not even raise their pulse by 1 beat per minute.
Agreed, but the point here is that it makes people more trusting towards it. I am guessing that if it looked more sleek (think: Ferrari) people would be more scared of getting in the vehicle. Big eyes, round shapes, smile without teeth... it doesn't look dangerous at all. That was also one of the points of this article (as I understood it).

I wonder how would it look if Apple made one too? I am sure it would be much more stylish.
Programming in dynamic types is not easier because you can jump around the type system more dextrously. Programming in dynamic types is easier because you (mostly) can forget that types even exist. That leads to lesser cognitive load, and that always makes a thinking job easier.

That of course makes it more dangerous too, but it's a trade-off.
To be fair I'm not comfortable taking my eyes off the road as a passenger with a human driver. I think people underestimate the fear of not having control. This will be a major issue to overcome and for some it will be like the fear of flying on a commercial aircraft. The fact they know it's safe doesn't really help much.
>> "This won't pass Apple's automatic check for private API, but you could do some clever swizzle. IMO it's ok to use this in production (if you can get pass the app review), Apple is using them in their app anyway"

Private API's shouldn't be used in production. When Apple changes them they can update their apps to support the changes. They won't document these changes, you won't know about them, and your app is now broken for your users. You have to work out how to fix it, then submit it for review, and if they catch your private API use this time around you've screwed your users.
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We are RoR team with 4+ years expertise.We get projects through an intermediary. Every project we work on is brought by him. Few days back he spoke to us that the client is coming to visit the team and he wants to introduce my team as his company. The only benefit we get from this is that he has promised more projects in future.How do you think we should react to this?
I've also seen behavior like this with NoScript. Sometimes it's a total crap shoot as to which functionality works/doesn't work when you enable/disable certain scripts.
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Plenty of killer bugs are smashed in compile time by the most simple compiler checks.
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Resizing PNGs? Works only reasonable if you make them smaller...
> I now realise that sitting in a self-driving car will cause me to press on the ghost brake pedal while sweating with anxiety

No it won't. :) In next versions you will probably not be facing the road anyway. Do you "ghost brake" when driving in the back of a limousine?
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Is a car parked on a street really an imposition on you?
You are fundamentally misunderstanding a monopoly position.
I hate her live appearances with a passion (can't speak of her articles). How can someone that annoying get the best interviews in the industry? As an example, the landmark Bill Gates / Steve Jobs sitdown - all she did was annoy with sudo sexual innuendo, completely trivial questions and played up drama.
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That's not likely to happen. Nor will anyone else from any other company volunteer to walk you through their policies and infrastructure.

If a "history" isn't associated with a user then there is no issue there, on the other hand they can still run a mapreduce job on it and extrapolate spelling corrections for example.

You ought to at least include Google's blog post for the sake of completeness.
“We despise the culture of obsolescence, the culture of waste, the cult of the ephemeral,” reads a sort of design manifesto titled “The Vignelli Canon.” “We detest the demand of temporary solutions, the waste of energies and capital for the sake of novelty. We are for a Design that lasts, that responds to people’s needs and to people’s wants.”
“There are too many people with no education in graphic design. And because they have access to computers, there’s no end to what they create — signage, newsletters and so forth,” he once told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “It’s pollution! They have no idea whatsoever about the dignity of type. If they were pharmaceuticals companies, we’d all be poisoned. But we are poisoned anyhow, visually.”
Moving past the Rails asset pipeline
Maybe nerds, sorry, educated tech users, will eventually accept that Jobs vision of computers as appliances is what many (most?) people want.
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This is a horrible way to think about it, slack doesn't need to deliver 4x the value, it just needs to deliver $6 worth of extra value per month.

Even at the very cheapest end of the spectrum, a developer is going to cost at least $60 an hour, fully loaded. If slack can make them 6 minutes more productive a month (ie: 12 seconds a day), then slack is worth it. These are productivity differences that aren't even measurable in practice which means the rational thing to do is to just be price insensitive and adopt the tool that works best, regardless of cost.
I agree. A key part not mentioned is that you have to fund the salaries before and it's only paid much later! As in after you close your fiscal you then have to submit and it takes about a year before you're paid. So in total you have to cover the salaries for two 2+ years before you're paid. You also have no guarantee you will be paid.

It's also only on developer costs that are accepted and only on R&D work: none of the business costs etc are covered. In many cases these are just as significant or more.

There's also a reason that a consulting industry has started around it, it's a good amount of effort. Again helping more advanced companies as they can afford the costs for the 2+ year it takes before you can get it back. And again nothing is guaranteed.

Essentially it's not good for startups or smaller companies, it really only benefits companies of a medium size that were alreday going to cover this expenses by reducing some of their costs to increase them growth rate. But for a small company, less than 10 employees it's really hard to actually take advantage of the program in real life.
And you are fundamentally misunderstanding that anti-trust law is about more than just monopolies.
Personally, I like simple things. Like my life; I like to keep that simple. I try not to lie or mislead people because I found that that leads to no end of complications and painful situations.

If I were in your place (from what you have said), I would not agree to misrepresent your relationship with this person and furthermore I would seriously reconsider whether I would want to continue to deal with someone who is willing to do this. It would be hard to believe that I was not being mislead by him. A reputation is easy to lose and hard to recover.
A little bit more than last year they did an impressive* demo from English -> Mandarin. There were slight errors that sometimes flipped meaning (but only slightly hindering, which made it more believable). This seems to be a first step along productization of that research.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/08/microsoft...

*Well relatively, it would be super lame when compared to the kind of tech one would find in a child's toy aboard a starship.
All the players are synched to play the same game. When the timer runs out, the next game start. Using the chat room feature you can vote to EXTEND or SKIP the current session.

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And you are like arguing with a neanderthal beating his head into a wall. Glad we devolved into basal insulting.
100% FUD.

There is no evidence that Google is going to punish my website for being rendered with JavaScript, as you imply with your first two comments.

Google is indexing the HTML generated by JavaScript, and the links in that HTML. Not some non-web custom format like SWF.

JavaScript driven sites work just fine with modern screen-readers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A... and in 2014 97.6% of screen-readers ran JavaScript http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey5/#javascript

In 2013, 92 out of 93 visitors to a UK government webpage supported JavaScript: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi... And mixed into that 1.1% were users getting broken JS, behind firewalls, disabling JS, etc.

Google making this change does not force you to build a JavaScript-driven website, but it does make it more attractive .
Not to be too pedantic, but...

Felienne Hermans actually implemented a Turing machine in Excel, without using scripting: http://www.felienne.com/archives/2974

There was an HN post about this in September 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416631
precisely! or you can use matchMedia (or my lib enquire.js [0]) to selectively enable/disable the entire feature. This might be preferable than @media in your CSS, because it does away with scroll listeners where they're not needed.

[0] http://wicky.nillia.ms/enquire.js/
I also don't really understand why you want to grep the whole block instead of the single word 'ILLINOIS'.
Why are they out of place? Sports cars lack them because you're supposed to be focused on driving. If the you aren't driving, I would think cup holders would make more sense than ever.
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...and the operations version of that is that all normal operations are performed under restricted permissions that cannot "do anything", while the full "do anything" permissions are only broken out during a major crisis.

Such an approach would have prevented this incident where "normal" operations were being performed and accidentally ALL the servers were rebooted at once.
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Too many people here are way too furious at anything apple/closed source to discuss anything.

1) you still own your phone. Don't be silly. Jailbreak and builds apps to your hearts content. Vendors can choose who and what they allow in their store. Physical or otherwise.

2) apple makes virtually all the profits on consumer hardware, but has Tiny market share. Really. It's no an abuse of a monopoly if 20 percent of people can't use a private API on their telephone.

3)equating access to private APIs in a private store with morality is a truly warped view of the world and a disservice to actual issues with morality society faces.
The feature is going to be opt-in, and only available when an user is composing an update, not always-on. Audio recognition is apparently done in-app and only fingerprints are sent to Facebook (but this is less clear from the linked piece and the other sources mentioned there).

Still, scary as hell that something so invasive is one tap away from being on by default.
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I doubt they have done the ANCAP/NCAP ratings (given the recent story about how lots of AUDI models are not NCAP rated it could be a while).

There is a tubular 'roll cage' type of thing going on with it, reminiscent of rally cars and kit cars. Given that rally cars have roll cages and normal cars do not, I for one look on a roll cage as a good thing, even if the rest of the box is prototype bits of plastic.

Part of a safety rating is the effect a car has on pedestrians. People can get killed by hood ornaments even at a relatively low speed. To date very few cars have been specifically designed with pedestrian safety in mind. One of the few was the Austin Metro and that was a long time ago. It does look as if the Google people have thought of pedestrian safety - it is a big part of the self driving concept and it also appears to be part of the implementation. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the final implementation of the driver-less car is in a whole new level of safety compared to regular cars with the difference being like the difference between 'tame' and 'wild' animals.
> I think the real breakthrough will be achieved by a completely redesigned and appealing car.

Hopefully, on a Tesla. Tesla range and safety design + self driving. I'd pay six figures for that.
Yay, good news. By the time Apple uses ARM instead of Wintel CPUs for OS X, I hope that SBCL will be ready for ARM in at least the same quality it now has for x86_64.

BTW, are there any comparisons between SBCL's “Python” compiler and an LLVM backend (mocl seems to have one)?
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Funny how Microsoft owned 90%+ of installs globally. Just because everyone copies apple doesn't mean everyone uses apple and needs to bend to their will. It's the opposite actually.