http://moralmachine.mit.edu The general law is that people always have the right of way unless it's unavoidable. It's important that self driving cars do their best to not kill people and follow the law. Though, I don't think all these 'kinks' will be out for another 10 years.

I really dislike converting Python to a different language. What type is this? Go 5 libraries down to find out ;)

That's a common misunderstanding. Python's type system is in the unit tests necessary to ensure the code is doing what it should. This is a boon because all of the behavioral rules are co-located for efficient reference. ;)

It's more a traits system than a type system. Who cares if it's a list so long as I can append to it?

I sleep 6 hours during the week and 10 hours on the weekend. I pretty much only remember my dreams on the weekend. I wonder how much that relates to sleep deprivation. I only lucid dream if I sleep for 10 hours on vacation.

I've been this way since high school

Cefsharp with the winforms host is good. I'm not sure how anyone can stand the wpf version though... No matter how simple I made the app, it was still noticibly laggy with it having to render in such the terrible way. I looked at chromely for a few minutes but the amalgamation of all those projects turned me off.

If you like CefSharp with WinForms, then likely you will like Chromely too. Chromely on Windows is like CefSharp hosted on Winapi ("thinner" WinForms, if you may). And Chromely has a lot of implementations out of the box, that lets you hit the road in minutes.

I hope you will give it another shot sometimes later.

Probably actual rise -- access to the internet and news has increased to nearly e everyone and it's all depressing. You can view the constant stupidity and ignorance of the nation and get upset or ignore it... Those are pretty much your only options. I choose to mostly ignore it...

It wasn't an option. They turned it on without asking for many people and you had to disable it with a flag.

Only in Dev and Canary (and I believe Beta there for a little bit). And an option default-on is still an option.

Apple doesn't have a dedicated MacOS development team anymore and laptops are normally harder to steal/gain access than phones. They have had quite a few security vulnerabilities in the past few months that anyone with physical access could exploit.

It really annoys me that these articles spread like wildfire... I read it and was like no way did I read that right... Just no way. Not sure why Google likes promoting this kind of story (entirely fictional) especially when it comes to science and biology.

ISPs are paid to handle the connection between you and the WWW. The bandwidth they charge you for is the highway. Them throttling services is not fair because you're paying for that highway. What about them charging more would make you think the rest of the internet will eliminate ads?

The Android permission scheme is slowly becoming more granular. I'm not sure what the reason was from the beginning to have such generic permissions. When you saw large lists of permissions on apps before marshmallow, you had to accept them all, now it requests for each on first use but I'm still not a fan of apps that want everything.

Android is a decade old. Our expectations of what apps would and wouldn't do, and would and wouldn't be capable of doing has changed. Back when the apps on my phone were in the range of being 400 KB to 600 KB, I don't think people even fathomed the complexity and power our devices are at right now, and their ability to secretly handle ever increasing amounts of our personal data without having a meaningful impact on device performance.

I never expected pine to upload my contact list (or email) to some third party server - or BitchX to steal my chat logs. Yet both programs could have done so.

The difference is that before Android, in the world of windows - we already had a culture of spyware bundled with freeware - as well as viruses/RATs - and plain malicious software - that made it plain that simply allowing random code to execute in a context where it could read data and/or sensors (gps,mic,camera etc) would be a disaster.

There were to workarounds: stewardship (the Linux distro model, like software in debian main etc) or sandboxing.

Android chose too little of each, which essentially amounted to a false sense of security. And here we are.

iOS is of similar age and managed not to fall on its face. This is a really bad excuse.

It's not meant to be an excuse, Android has not aged well, and Google has done a poor job putting security at the forefront of their platform. Apple's taken a lot of flack over the years for making developers jump through new hoops all the time and having such heavy restrictions on their platform, but its clear the users have benefitted in other ways.

iOS had it's own issue, where Path uploaded a user's entire contact list without needing to ask permission for it. That was a wakeup call for Apple, and it should have been for Google too.