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The support question is really interesting. If Google is the company that takes the money, they will be the company that people would expect to handle refunds, returns and general support. Unless Google is planning something new, there's no way that they are geared to deal with the barrage of consumer support issues that will appear.

I don't see why the majority of online resellers would be concerned by being "reduced" to "back-end order takers". That's the easy part of the business, while payment and customer support is the expensive and annoying part. Most consumers are not loyal to any one online reseller anymore, Amazon excluded perhaps.

If I was to pick where I would want to be in terms of online retail in the future, I would want to be the business with the warehouse and just supply eBay, Amazon, Google and any direct shipping customer I could find. That's where the money is in the future, at least that's what I believe.
It's funny to read how differently this icon is interpreted. I always saw it as a menu and could for the longest time not figure out what this hamburger was.

I really like the "equal sign gone wrong"
Lol, fail - I don't understand the question:

#2 "REMOVING WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD MAKE YOU A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON?"

I'm not a native speaker -- what am I supposed to do here?
What does STRML stand for?
Just click around until you find what you need. You even get to know the entire app if you do that. You're not going to blast a nuke or kill someone by clicking, after all.
I developed the same habit in high school. It was really annoying to pretty much everyone I ever had a meeting with (or a class or a date or whatever). I lost a couple of really good jobs because of it. You really just need to change your habits. It's totally doable, too, if you convince yourself that you need a few minutes before the meeting starts to gather your thoughts or whatever.

Just set expectations appropriately and meet them. Show up when you say you're going to, and if you don't, have a damn good reason why you didn't. I have no idea why so many highly paid professionals are saying something other than that.
True, but the small company would presumably lose the contract if he left and went to do the same job at the larger company. That might well be worth fighting for.
I see. But why is this a security threat?
Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people – BBC News
It is if you do a poll of software developers ;-)
> Given what a single large deal can mean to the firm, hiring the kid of a CEO at a big company you hope to work with one can could almost be seen as a form of lead-generation or a business development cost.

It's actually seen as bribery and is illegal. From [1]:

> U.S. authorities are examining whether JPMorgan violated anti-bribery laws by hiring the children and other relatives of well-connected politicians and clients in China in exchange for having business steered to the firm,

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-08/jpmorgan-c...
> Putting the hamburger inside a box, so it looks like a button, increases use by 22.4%.

I'm glad to see evidence that shows the extremes of flat designs has stupid ideas.
I think I've developed a foolproof method for detecting whether someone is a zombie - in the philosophical sense of the word. (Detecting whether they are a zombie in the '28 Days Later' sense is much simpler and consists of detecting whether the person simultaneously rotting and homicidal).

My method consists of giving the person a basic education in a Artificial Intelligence or Philosophy of Mind and then asking them whether they believe that either consciousness can potentially be explained using concepts we already possess or that in fact it isn't even in need of an explanation.

If they answer yes, then they are probably a zombie.
That's not the reverse side, that's Unicode characters that look like upside down ASCII. if you look at the bullet points and underlining, you can see it's just asterisks and hyphens rather than dots and lines.

It does still look pretty cool though.
> fraying your way in a traffic jam to reach the correct lane

That is what makes Elon Musk's branding of his technology so smart. He is not replacing you the driver by a label such as “driverless car” or even excluding you from the driving experience with a “self-driving car” label.

Mr Musk's offer, an “autopilot”, is an opt-out to driving, an aid. Great branding, same technology.

Besides, people consider autopilots to be an old and well-known technology, because it has been used on airplanes.
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Dude, I bet those protocols were invented by humans. Humans mostly do destructive stuff. They're definitely very dangerous.
Page scrolling seems broken on iOS.
There's often no, or poorly implemented, undo on mobile so you risk data loss or mass-communicating something wanted to keep private or screwing up some setting and no way to retrieve it.

And it's not just "click the visible elements until you achieve the disired result", it's touch visible and invisible elements, combined with all the differen touch-gestures you know, in the hope that you'll get what you want, but possibly not.
I'm sure the electronic equivalent of traffic cones will appear pretty quickly - the cost won't be much more and the existing ones will be easy to retrofit.

I'm sure there will be a lot of interesting consequences and side-effects of this. I'd be very interested to see the result on the natural environment in 100 years time - with great concentration of people in cities there might be need to restore former wetlands and riverine habitats to ensure sufficient retention of water throughout the year. The shutting down of a myriad of small towns would take a lot of people out of the environment leaving more space for plants and wildlife. The possibilities are endless.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that if 'truck driver' was the most prevalent job in DC (instead of 'lawyer'), we would all be better off?
In a word: Risk
Solaris did it first.
...and on the other side, a linguistics professor is a bit more critical about his advice:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18345

(I expect there will be a post on that site about Zinsser's death too.)
Wish they'd give some example sql statements to fully appreciate it.
> until their inability to drive a car keeps them from the polls...

According to http://www.mtvoters.org/node/356

If you're unable to drive to the polls yourself, you have several options:

You can vote by mail.

You can catch a ride with a friend or neighbor.

You can get a ride from one of numerous organizations and agencies that offer voter transportation. Call your local election office to find out who is providing transportation in your community.
There aren't read-time macros (yet). I'm actually in the process of designing a new package system that solves this (among many other problems).
but it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers

It's 24 bits, so how about six hex digits, like HTML colour codes?
If you're intending to show how the previous argument is fallacious by constructing an obviously silly equivalent but substituting x for 'consciousness' then I don't think you've achieved what you think you've achieved.

'Love' or 'justice' or any other x that would work in this context depend themselves on consciousness and therefore the only silly part of the resulting argument is that "x is the universe itself" only works if x is the broadest aspect of the concept under discussion - i.e. consciousness itself.

I'm not saying the argument isn't flawed. It's possibly a hand-waving, question-begging, non-explanation. But it's a natural place to reach if, like me, you think a Descartian "I have qualia therefore I am" can't be hand-waved away as easily as some claim.
> I am not arguing for communism, because we all know
> how well that has worked in the past. We need another
> solution.

Do you have any ideas? Capitalism uses the market to allocate resources. Typically, when someone pitches an alternative it will boil down to some variation of government reallocation. This has many names, but all of them are a breeding ground for corruption and injustice.

Maybe we haven't been looking hard enough.

What if we start with your premise: capitalism is failing some regions. To avoid ending back at government-reallocation, we could add to it a second premise: the purpose of government is to enforce live-and-let-live and do absolutely no more.

Within these rules, can we find something new? It might help to stop seeing government as a God-Object to stick new functionality into, and instead consider whether there should be other objects in play.

So far I've got nothing. But I find myself thinking of business models, rather than social reform.
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The Simpsons were way ahead of their times:

Maximum Homerdrive (S10.E17). First aired March 28, 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Homerdrive

"During the [trucking] trip [from Springfield to Atlanta], Homer falls asleep and wakes up abruptly at the wheel of the truck due to taking a combination of pep pills and sleeping pills that he bought at a general store. He awakes to discover that the truck drove by itself with its Navitron Autodrive system. He informs other truck drivers, who inform him that he cannot let anyone know about the Autodrive system because it would make all truck drivers lose their jobs. However, Homer tells a passing bus about the system which causes an angry mob of truckers to get in a showdown with Homer, and he survives without the autodrive system. Homer and Bart arrive in Atlanta to finish the shipment on time, and then commandeer a train full of napalm to Springfield."
That's a either a very poor, or a very apt, metaphor. A resonant frequency is also the one that will destroy things, from a wine glass to a building. Tesla famously claimed he could build an earthquake machine based on resonance frequencies. If you find your resonant frequency, you may burn yourself out.

Allow me to make an interpretation. For the last many years you've had a goal, which is to graduate, first from high school, and then college .. and given your age, perhaps also graduate work.

Graduating is an easily expressed, realizable goal. There's an entire infrastructure set up to help you reach that goal.

And now, you're done. You're the Apollo astronaut who's walked on the Moon, come back to Earth, but the parades are done, and now what? See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5870958/Apollo... :

> "What can make it hard for people like this is that they're so highly motivated and they wait so long for a mission," Prof. Palinkas told Time. "There can be a deep sense of loss once the goals have been accomplished, and there may be no adequate substitute."

If that's so, then my first and second substitutes were startup jobs, both of which lead me towards burnout. I then got involved with social dancing, where I had a big, though local impact. I'm now researching the early development of chemical information systems, from punched cards to 1990, because it interests me, even though there are only a few dozen people in the world who would care.

If you have meaningful impact on 10 people, will that be enough? Or do you need to affect the world? Does it require being better than other people at something? Once you've achieved that, then what? If you become the next Marie Curie and get two Nobel Prizes, each in different fields, will you feel like you need to go for a third?

At some point you have to decide that what you're doing is good enough. You need to learn where that is.

BTW, you contrast "comfortable life" with "meaningful impact". These are not necessarily opposites and you shouldn't think of it that way.
What struck me was the handwriting.
On the subject of historic maps of trade routes... I'm very interested in Asian history. One thing I've noticed is that, when viewing the 'Maritime Silk Road' maps in various countries' museums and throughout various sources, then ports and paths are completely different. Sure, there's some similarity, but the fact is these things are vague as all hell and represent some seriously dangerous implied semantics ("route was there, route was not there" sort of binary logic). The reality is that we know next to nothing about early human trade, much of which was conducted the the years BC by water. This is well backed up by archaeology, which places things like Roman coins in Vietnam, Indian silver and minerals in Melanesia, or even (for a later example) coins from 15th century Zanzibar in remote parts of northern Australia. People should bare these realities in mind when viewing this sort of thing, which essentially amounts to 1960s era fantasy-maps of the popular past. We can do better - but not much better - today; historical cartography still has a long way to go.
You found that Japanese stationery company via the www? So in your searches you may have seen "buy from X, they're great", followed by a bunch of people either saying "steer clear they ripped me off they're scum" or "I frequently buy from them. I had a problem once but they sorted it out really quickly"[1]

Also, in UK google might face some legal problems with distance selling regs unless they sort out the customer support stuff.

[1] if you place fake reviews having a few like this is probably a good idea. It's much more preferable to me to see things like this than a bunch of five star great reviews.
> Minecraft, the online world that most parents simply don't understand, is now officially the most watched game of all time on YouTube.

It makes sense for the third-highest selling game of all time where Tetris is #1 and Wii Sports is #2. Those were both bundle with hardware.
> ipv6

> someone blackholed the very important packets which say "fragmentation needed but DF set"

IIRC IPv6 never fragments and uses MTU path discovery (via ICMPv6)
Anyone who rides a bicycle in heavy traffic is far braver than me.
Well the cold war was a whole lot of "if you trade with them you can't trade with us"...
Why does it matter for your use case? Or are you planning on putting it somewhere public, like a bar (so the "no commercial use" term might have kicked in)?
Another great science fiction author from the USSR's sphere of influence is Stanislaw Lem from Poland - Tarkovsky also adapted a book of his - Solaris, which I personally find to be one of Lem's weaker works.
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Maybe. But is that so much different from the status quo? Agree on situations that require a human to direct traffic, but a lot of times when I'm driving on the 5 between Seattle and Tacoma I'm straight terrified of the other humans not knowing what to do in that construction zone around the Tacoma Dome.
"One further important detail to consider is that truck drivers are well-paid. They provide a middle class income of about $40,000 per year. That’s a higher income than just about half (46%) of all tax filers, including those of married households."

Or, in other words, they make slightly less than the average tax filer.
The correlation of consciousness in with certain physical structures doesn't necessarily mean it's created or even caused by them. This is where the distinction between 'intelligence' and 'consciousness' becomes crucial. The more we study the brain, the more we can identify things that are obviously the result of physical processes and the less remains to be explained by 'consciousness'. However the question becomes 'once thinking and intelligence is fully understood, does anything else remain?'

This is why thought experiments about zombies and chinese rooms are interesting. It's about exploring what would be left out (if anything) once a full physical explanation had been achieved.
This is in fact a highly interesting debate. Other than economic circumstances, I would argue that we have little reason to believe that human empathy changes substantially.

Slavery went away for farming and balancing reasons, child labour for productivity reasons and working women came for demand reasons (e.g. war).
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These scenarios can be solved by immediately triggering a remote driver to connect in and monitor the situation, or even switch to manual control.
I switched from lighttpd to nginx without any problems but going from textmate to vim took a while :)
Doesn't it represent a "list"? As in a menu, a list of things..
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So, the sender uses DonfFragment as a tool to detect the optimal packet size.

Alternative idea: when router needs to fragment a packet, router passes the fragmented packet through, but sends an ICMP to the source - "fragmentation happened". (Or the party which re-assembles the fragmented packet, maybe receiver, sends this "fragmentation happened" message).

So this IP packet does not need to be resent, the source can optimize packet size for future, and the network doesn't break if ICMP is disabled somewhere.

We don't want to constantly send these "fragmentation happened" ICMP messages (if they don't reach the source and it keeps sending large packets), so the router sends ICMP not always, but only for first 3 fragmented packets of that source in each 10 minutes.

[I am just thinking, it's not a real proposal.]
What's a Lada on top of a hill? A miracle.

What' two Ladas on top of a hill? Science-fiction.

What's three Ladas on top of a hill? A weird place to build a Lada factory.
> b) it's not that natural in Mathematica. The natural part comes from its symbolic nature. But if you look at the documentation and read about how they implement lexical closures, it's all vague and not that pretty. The implementation actually needs to rewrite variable names, IIRC.

That's indeed what Module does, and it is indeed ugly and slow. When we add parse-time macros it'll be trivial to fix this.

For now, many people use Block instead, which does dynamic scoping and is a bit cheaper. I actually really like Block, because it gives you the convenience of a couple of globals that you don't require you to keep passing them along among your backend functions, but they're properly bound to the lifetime of your function (and are re-entrant etc).
IPv6 does have fragments. Routers will not do the fragmentation. They just drop the packet and force the client to do it. It can be horrible if you're using a tunnel broker and don't lower your MTU.
That is strange; I bootstrap regularly with `--enable-debug` and have not seen an arithmetic overflow during bootstrap (at least, not for a long time).

It would probably be best to carry on a conversation on a formal bug report; did you file one at the url it listed?
The entire point of affirmative action was to provide unearned opportunities based on the color of your skin. With the theory being that over time it would help boost the well being of minorities (at the time mostly African Americans). That by forcing open opportunities, the next generation would do better, and the generation after that would do even better, and so on.
I find myself thinking of a grassy field swaying in the wind.

I wonder if they should try painting them deep green or something.
it does is validate that you went to a top tier school

Even a graduate of a top-tier school will struggle with that whiteboard stuff after 10-20 years on the job. A real working programmer just doesn't use this stuff day-to-day. The real purpose of it is as an age filter.
Yeesh. The basis of their complaint seems to be rooted in test score (and possibly grade analysis) but they neglect the increased homogeneity that it represents. Asians may have a tighter distribution of metric based qualities with a mean at the higher end of the spectrum when you cut by race but it's quite possible that there are other deficits that cannot easily be highlighted through a metric based comparison alone.

It's hard to form a full opinion without the type of information you'd only have access to as a member of the admissions comittee.
Read the title and immediately knew it would be PMTU.
We got hit massively by this at CloudFlare (though we were not explicitly filtering ICMP, but changes we made to our infra meant that PMTU packets got lost) We wrote a blog post about this too: https://blog.cloudflare.com/path-mtu-discovery-in-practice/ and the solution to our change: https://github.com/cloudflare/pmtud
I hasn't been proven to be any faster than conventional machines under fair testing. It is unclear that it has any algorithmic advantage as of yet.
Would you really be confident that in 20 or 30 years time, pilots will have the same job description as of today?

Yes.

"Autopilot" systems are, in terms of capabilities, well behind even current widely-deployed technology in ground vehicles. In the air, an autopilot system is essentially glorified cruise control, and nobody asks when cruise control in cars will take over for humans. Autoland systems are pretty far behind automatic parallel-parking features in modern cars; autoland requires significant human decision-making, human input and human oversight to function.

And the purpose of autopilot/autoland is not to replace the pilot, but to relieve the pilot of mundane tasks the software can do perfectly well, freeing the pilot to do things software still is -- and likely will continue to be -- bad at.

Unless, of course, you think friendly human-serving general-purpose AI will be available within the next two or three decades (I don't).
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And/or Google could enter the review business.
More like a sweet pair of Milonov and Mizulina, judging by her (?) nickname.
I don't believe truck drivers will become jobless. They'll just become truck operators. Trains are far more easy to automate, but even bullet trains in japan still have
"train drivers" to supervise them.
I Think people would pick up on that more if it had more but thinner lines. Or maybe broke up the lines into something that looked like text.
I have extremely high standards for my text editor: its features should make me very productive. I am more productive in vim than I am in sublime, but I've never once fretted about the fact that my vim screen updates are gated to the speed that my terminal window can draw, and that's certainly nowhere near as fluid as sublime.
1. The heck? Software Dev is the most common job in WA, VA, UT and CO but not California?

2. I'm coming round to the idea of a non-means-tested basic income. This would mean there are no marginal effects. For instance, in many countries, if you get paid unemployment you lose it when you find employment. This means you might need a very high income to make it worthwhile, because you'll be losing the benefits as well as your free time. If it was simply a non-dependent income/tax break (if you have an income) you wouldn't get this high effective tax rate. You could work or not work, totally up to you. You can take a side job, try new industries, etc.

There would also be less of a circus about controlling that you're sending job applications (adds up to a LOT of apps for jobs people may not actually want), courses about how to write a CV, and staff to send out the money.

3) Other benefits of self-drive:

a) You don't need to drive as fast. These things won't need to sleep, so that's a good few hours a day extra. You can drive slower, saving fuel, and still arrive on a current logistical schedule. Driving slower also means you can have a bunch of trucks really close to each other to save on aerodynamics. You could write software to plan truck trains for this purpose.

b) They're all going to be electrical. I know, they aren't currently. But electric is just taking off now, while ICE has had plenty of development. A lot of complication in modern cars is the ICE. You need to lug a transmission with you. You need to mix the fuel with air. With electric, you have regenerative breaking, engines are smaller, and batteries will only get better. You'll use less energy, which will push the economics towards slow moving land-trains.