skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber seems to be the Mirror Universe's Google (think Star Trek's Mirror Universe, where humans formed a brutal empire instead of utopian society of explorers). Both companies found a way to make truckloads of money, and are now using it on (among other things) robotics research.
That is why "taking twitter seriously" and "outrages over twitter" correlates negatively with common sense and ability to reason for me.
I'm not sure how much that's the case. For many years now, Paris' lines 1 and 14 have been fully automated. I've been to Toulouse last year and their whole subway system – albeit small – is automated. I'm also pretty sure that the train one takes from Copenhagen's airport to the main train station is fully automated, but I'm not sure about the other lines.

All in all, I think the public acceptance issue can be mitigated.
Not to be a smartass, but some might find this point of view interesting:

Mathematics never pays attention to what objects ARE, but rather what they DO.
> He may need psychological help, but he's not autistic.

He may be, for all we know. Lots of successful programmers are. I agree with you that it's not really relevant to the current issue, though.
It looks like he is behaving like a normally developed adult person. Unless you consider every partner in a divorce to not be normally developed, nor anyone who's ever expressed hostility towards somebody else for what they appear to think of them. Most adults do these things. That makes it normal.
Well that makes me think the fraud angle is fairly likely...
Sure, he has lots of money, and so spending the amount some people spend on a house on a single night out makes relatively little difference to him (the equivalent of my buying a sandwich or something). But that doesn't mean it's a mature way to spend his money.
My guess is they are getting lots of complaints from folks running into dopes doing stupid things with SDR that interfere with others.

Looking at the noxious behavior of drone owners sets a few examples of the type of thing I'm referring to.
Why would it affect your PC? Should not they just lock down wi-fi module if they want?

I fail to see much difference between installing alternative OS on your PC and installing third-party software.
Wikipedia offliner kiwix released for iOS
Computers are the new Dumb Money
"Immature child" would have been fine. You may not be aware that autism is a spectrum disorder, with a very broad spectrum. I've got my troubles, but I've got a degree and a career and a life, and I do get tired of people assuming that autism means I need help getting dressed.
It is too bad he didn't figure out a way to settle down. Once you have a family and out of the party scene, things are much more normal. You have a routine and good priorities and a plan for the future. I think unlimited money combined with being in the high intensity and fairly superficial rich person's party circuit is likely not something that leads to fulfillment.

I know a bunch of fairly well off people and those with prioritized family lives seem to be the ones who are dealing with it the best.
> https://twitter.com/notch/status/637567218222563332

That's just the FU-money talking.
It made me think of incompetence, but I guess fraud fits too.

The rejection of scientific method was what scared me.
I guess I wasn't clear. My concern is over the journalism. I'm ambivalent about the technology. As a matter of public policy I see a lot of handwaving instead of data about the externalized risks of self driving vehicles and disparagement of people with safety concerns instead of reasoned engagement...e.g. there's a factual past about tetra-ethyl lead but not about realized benefits of self driving vehicles. One is history, the other still fantasy.
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All 4 of my games/apps have netted me zero. Oh well.
They had it coming, in that case. She gave them their payback.
You can't do that, you can't shift monumental costs on the other party in order to also shift blame for an imaginary problem.

Here we have imaginary problem (wi-fi "interference"), we have FCC who wants to shift blame for it to somebody else, so they try to force measures on users which, if properly enforced, will cost them tens of billions USD in collateral damage.

Because mind you, 99,9% users reinstall their OS a) not to mess with wi-fi, and b) to derive some personal gain from it. Where they got the right to sabotage millions of people?
>where a 520-day Mars experiment was carried out in 2011

They sure crammed a lot of days into that year.
Politicians "not understanding" something is an age-old excuse. They don't even give a fuck about anything besides themselves, because they're psychopaths.

They're smart too, because otherwise they wouldn't have managed to climb up the hierarchy of political power to their current positions, what with all the other smart psychopaths jockeying for position along with them.

So if it's in a politician's personal interest to vote X on whatever, then he will do so. If it's not, then he won't. It's as simple as that.

Understanding has nothing to do with it. It's not like they couldn't get someone to help them understand, if they wanted to.

Also, the Australian government (along with any others that can) has been doing the things listed in the article already. They don't need permission from themselves.
I can relate.

I grew up really poor and have had moderate success in the past few years. I try to keep myself motivated and learn new things and work on interesting projects, but every now and then I ask myself why. Why do I spend time working when it doesn't matter money-wise? When it gets like that, I just end up wasting the day playing games and regretting wasting the day... even though it doesn't matter.

I have managed to try and keep a similar lifestyle. I still live in a $800/mo apartment, but I like browsing $1mm+ houses and think about just buying one for an improvement in lifestyle.
I know you are getting downvoted, but still that type of "fuck all of you" comment is not mature. It is no longer in the moment, it is a long time later. He needs to figure out how to come to terms with what happened and let the bitterness go.

I think it is pretty obvious that he has some issues he needs to work out and right now he isn't.
Would you offer up the military industrial complex as an example of a planned economy NOT wasting money on dead projects?
Use your words, kind of like you just did. Throwing a disorder around as an insult is always the wrong choice.
Not to try to derail the conversation, but I have noticed a very poor understanding of statistics and experimentation in all of the "soft" sciences, in particular, the social sciences.

It is not uncommon to see published and "peer reviewed" work that makes sweeping claims off a tiny amount of self-reported data with nothing else to back it up. I have seen plenty of stuff that people on the "hard" sciences side of campuses would be embarrassed to even take responsibility for ... not to say they don't try to slip one by every now and again, but it seems systemic in the "soft" sciences.
API for “uber for x” creates on-demand fulfillment
The gov't has a very vested interest in any technology that makes utilization of existing infrastructure more efficient...
In my opinion (of a Midwest USA programmer with no sense of the market rates/conditions or customs in your area) you are not underpaid. Your employer sees you like an intern.

People who frequent this site will say you are underpaid because they don't place much additional value in experience/education and forget that most people can rent a full house for less than half the price of a bad studio apartment in Silicon Valley.

Could you negotiate to be paid more? Yes. Will your pay at a salaried job after you graduate be totally unrelated to what you're paid now? Yes.
This is great news. Side note: with a name like Phoenix, would it make sense to start at 2.0? :)
There was a really interesting, and more even-handed, Forbes article about six months back: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2015/03/03/minecraft-mar...
...here you are with an opportunity to link to them, and you don't. You don't link to them here in this thread, or in your profile.

I would have taken a look at them (if they're on iOS).
It doesn't require any malicious intent. An alternative possibility is that the things they were researching just weren't likely in the first place. If an effect that only has a 5% chance of being true in the first place, then even if you confirm it with a 95% confidence the chance that it is a fluke could still be as high as 50%.

This can be made worse if you test several different hypothesis, only report successful experiments, and don't replicate them.
Most radio modules would have an embedded firmware that in addition to the radio handling, should enforce regulatory constraints (i.e preventing the use of 5GHz DFS channels if radar use is detected).

Building these firmware images is something you are (usually) only equipped to do under NDAs from the silicon manufacturer (or only done by request from the manufacturer).

My understanding (and what I have gathered from previous threads on the subject) is the FCC is going after the embedded radio firmwares, and mistakenly (or due to extreme lack of knowledge) named OpenWRT,DD-WRT as offenders.

Otherwise, the effect of this would be to outlaw PCIe and USB WiFi, Bluetooth etc. cards/adaptors unless sold inside a computer with a locked bootloader.
There are many valid HTML 4.01 Strict pages that are unreadable.

For instance if you use white text with a white background while it may be a valid HTML document, it's not particularly useful for being able to read the information contained.

Even on Chrome the page is difficult to navigate.
> Money is not happiness. You would do well to understand that we are all human.

I thought that was bshimmin's point. Notch thought that Microsoft money would make him happy, and he hasn't yet figured out how to deal with the fact that it doesn't.
at a tangent: one thing I miss is "Under the Radar" from this Indonesian website. Here's a sample page. Google Translate works well enough. There's a bunch of good games scattered through those pages and most of them don't use horrible freemium models.

https://id.techinasia.com/game-radar-zeen-tiny-acrobats-dan-...

Does anyone know anything similar?
Eh, what. If governments have wanted to limit or curb trade or raise tolls - they have usually done so and the patterns of trade have followed the imposed restrictions. Google mercantilism for an example.

I have no idea what else this 'trade beyond government control' would be except smugling and black markets.
I'm actually pretty grateful to the editor who compiled them.

I don't care for Twitter and would have no way of reading this story otherwise.
Sure. But you said "This is not true at all and a common fallacy". In fact, it is quite possible to reliably win when the odds offered are better than the actual odds.

I guess we're just talking over each other - you made an assumption that I don't believe was clear from the context.
You don't need to carry a driving license even if you do drive. If you're stopped and don't have your documents then the police can issue a HO/RT1 notice, which requires you to present your license and your MOT and insurance certificates at a police station within seven days. Carrying those documents in your car can save you an errand, but it isn't legally required.
I find this scary because the author seems to attribute negative failure of replication to incompetence in a way that he doesn't treat the original success, and essentially ends up rejecting all failed replications - how many good results are sufficient vs how many bad results?

Is that what you meant?
Like a normal person's weekend.
When I look at the people I know personally who study psychology, sociology and related fields and see what they learn, I don't have any problems with believing that virtually everybody in the field is incompetent.

It starts with the little things. I remember bringing up on HN the bullshit surveys most students do for their Master's thesis that are statistically worthless for the reasons said students don't understand. I've been told that hey, it's MSc, not a PhD, it doesn't have to be research-quality, etc. But hell, if people are willing to rely on bullshit methodologies for their Master's, when exactly do you think they'll learn the right way of doing things? Does the statistics god dispense additional levels of enlightenment when someone crosses the PhD threshold? I don't think so.

And honestly, it's not that much better in the hard sciences as well, on the undergraduate level. Maybe they won't let you get away with bullshit stats, but they'll happily let you get away with fabricating results and tweaking data to fit the model. Studying today is about only one thing - do everything you can to pass the exam. Research ethics? Never heard of it.
But then again you may spend the cost of a house in some african village when you have a dinner out with friends.

Just like a car going at 60mph isn't breaking any speed records - but a human would.

It's all relative :)
As a programmer I see matrices as an abstraction layer. Without them, formulas for 3d calculations get very long and error prone.
As far as I can tell, everyone around him was pushing him to sell, because Minecraft's maintenance is a burden and because he could be set for the rest of his life.

I don't think for a second he needed more money than he already had, or that he thought this would make him happier. And he and ez broke up even before he sold Minecraft anyway, he was never really happy.

> bshimmin's point

I thought he was being a little mean about it. Just my opinion.
CTLInfo is the result of a few sleepless nights spent
understanding and reverse engineering some of the CTL
obscure format

I wonder what the reason is to use a userunfriendly system like Windows and then spend hours and hours fighting it?

No matter how much time you put in, you will never win against an OS that is working against your interests.
I agree with VA's approach on this issue, let people do what they want while they're testing. If they screw up hold them responsible as you normally would. When this kind of stuff starts getting sold that's when the possibility of more involved regulations should be addressed. Some regulation that makes sense now might be a hindrance if/when this sort of stuff hits the market.

Having these cars on the road in NOVA is gonna suck for anyone on the road near them. On all the roads in VA with two lanes in each direction the lane that is the "passing lane" is dependent on who's where so it's common to see someone pass someone on the right, then move left so someone else can pass on the right. I doubt this kind of adaptive behavior (especially since it's legally grey) has made it into the software that's running in "production" on these cars. Additionally I find that road speeds there are very variable (when there's not a volume induced backup). Sometimes it's close to the speed limit, sometimes someone doing 70 in a 50 would be the slowest one in the right lane. While that's not technically obstructing traffic, and is technically a misdemeanor (20 over the limit = reckless driving), practically speaking it is obstructing traffic (which is less safe, which is why it's a traffic offense in the first place).

At least VA has mile long stretches at every merge and a separate turn lane for everything because otherwise the timidness of these vehicles would cause a lot less problems for other people than they would elsewhere.

edit "two lanes in each direction"
It's a very straightforward use case, actually. We have c++ code on the AI/ML side of our company, well integrated with the rest of the stack. For some of our ideas in this area though, lisp was clearly very suitable, so we tried ECL. We mostly call c++ functions from lisp, and eval some lisp code on the c++ side. It always worked without problems. I only had experience with sbcl and clisp before, but ECL proved very mature and well designed. We love it and don't intend on looking back.
The text is quite small. Zooming the page overlaps the text in the body with the text in the menu, making them both bigger.

http://imgur.com/vDzwNmF

This is on Chrome on iOS.

I'll happily file a bug report. Anyone want to help me do so?
Planned economy might direct this effect, but they don't - if the system gives leaders an option to prolong the agony, then they invariably use it, and the system suffers from it.

For examples in planned economies, USSR had a lot of examples, and this article is another. For examples in otherwise-freemarket-but-not-in-this-case economies, see "too big to fail" situation with bank bailouts, and your own example on USA military industrial complex - where failed projects get propped up instead of allowing them to die as they should, thus in the end harming the long-run perspective in the whole sector.
>> I'd still want a build server to ensure I hadn't managed to pollute my dev environment with and undeclared dependency before I pushed my code to production.
>In my case, the production server is the build server. You can't have dev dependencies there, because you don't develop there.

The problem is not that dev dependencies exist, the problem is that they might be undeclared or unrecorded. I have imagemagic on my dev machine, but if it isn't installed as part of the server setup script, then it won't be on the production server. The tests might run fine on a dev server that happens to have imagemagic on it, but fail in production.

>Integration tests run on the dev

If you run your integration tests in your dev environment, you might not catch some on the fly configuration changes or utility installations - undeclared dependencies.
Set up a virtualenv with defined versions of all dependencies, on install the python code there. And tar up the virtualenv.

Or create a .deb or .rpm package out of the python code.

In a non-trivial setup, just doing a 'git checkout' isn't enough for a deployment.
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> creating a similar effect in some cases to the desired one, but likely less effective than a row-column or other 2D approach

I have actually implemented and tested a 2D overshoot, and it gave worse quality/filesize ratio.

Perhaps by accident (or less obvious correlation), but this order seems to give most compressible pattern.
Here's another data point for you:

i was hired as a casual to develop software in an academic environment after finishing my undergrad & honours studies. I did this for a few months before lining up a permanent job. This was backend python, numpy, scipy, git, applied mathematics. & roughly full-time work, as i wasnt studying any more.

~2009; Australia; AUD$35 / hour.

pretty good money when one is still in the habit of living like a student on < AUD$15k / year.

edit: different perspective:

* what alternatives are available to you?

if you can find another place willing to employ you for more, you could switch jobs.

* what alternatives are available to your employer?

if your employer can replace you with another eager intern/student at a similar rate, they have no particular motivation to pay you more, unless you've gained relevant experience there that is valuable to them, or they consider you particularly capable and wish to keep you around, etc.
Based on some brief experience at Oracle, accepting outside contributions is a legal nightmare - it is frequently less expensive to do a clean-room re-implementation of a feature than go through the lawyers and contract negotiations now and in the future to get code ownership rights worked out.
I would say that in all cases, any decision taken by the computer would probably be miles better than a decision made by a human driver in such a hypothetical situation. Firstly, the computer will have a much better overview of what's going on than any hman would. Secondly, a human is most likely to just panic and slam on the brakes as hard as possible.
I'll just point out that your assumption that I'm only doing a "git checkout" is completely unwarranted.
1) Because MSFT provides great corporate support for desktops. Keyword: great. Not good. Great.

2) Because people are used to it.

3) Because Office products are the de facto standard, and they run best on windows.

I could go on, but you get the point.
For fun, to illustrate that it can't be trusted, because what you want to use isn't available for the alternatives. First few reasons that spring to mind.
I'm using "dev environment" and "dev server" distinctly. The dev environment is whatever I have on my computer, the dev server is a server that mirrors production. If there's a dependency on your dev environment that isn't on production, you'll catch it when you deploy to one of the dev servers. Same with the integration tests.
Yep. OP here. I left the country 15 years ago but care deeply about its downward spiral in to US-style totalitarian anti-democratic corporate hegemony. New Zealand seems to be doing a lot better, though still on the same path.

The sad fact is, I feel more free here in China than the US/UK, and it seems to me that Australia's only a little behind those jurisdictions in its rapid descent.
Everyone talks about how great the alternatives for office are. Buy they are good. Not great. Even office word online is better than Google docs.
I find the idea of a "family life" nothing but boring.
Was thinking this knowledge could be used as a recruiting tool, then immediately this came to mind...

"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada..."
It would only take a motherboard with a PCIe slot and an unlocked bootloader to circumvent that strategy. You would use it to flash the firmware in whatever device you want to unlock and then use it on the computer with the locked bootloader.
Technical reasons are usually not that important to large business.
These academic pay walls really are a cancer to learning and human knowledge.
It's always been a pet peeve of mine that people depend on the medium of text so much. My impression is that much of this information could have been better communicated with graphs. Better yet - interactive graphs!

The only real reason why someone would stick to text that I would think of is that they don't have the time, skills or resources to use something else. Maybe pg doesn't _personally_ have these things, but I'm sure that there are tons of designers who would love to help him out.
I'm not hating on derivatives, just the notion that being long gamma is always the best strategy. There is no best strategy.
an ot silly question, just seriously curious: how is Node used in this stack? To serve php pages?, as the webserver?
Windows isn't lying. Microsoft openly lists what certificates Windows includes on their site. The fact the root certificate store on your machine only lists certificates it actually contains is to be expected.

This is just a UI failure.
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That depends on what you find meaningful. Some like to build model houses, other like to report from dangerous places, some or out to help people and some just have children.
This person has an adolescent understanding of blockchains. Blockchains are for regulatory arbitrage, as for permissioned ledgers, these are merely the newest round of altcoins.
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From that point of view, the interesting thing would then be why this particular abstraction layer works well which is what linear algebra answers.

This is in some sense the process all math students go through. The formulas for computing determinant and multiplying matrices look really complicated and it feels like a mystery as to why it works at all but then linear algebra explains all of that slowly.
This is not really how a lot of cab companies work. Drivers can end up leasing cars or medallions from cab companies too. Cab drivers get screwed by cab companies, which are, contrary to the narrative that needs a counterbalance to Uber as the "bad guy", not corporate model citizens.