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I think the self driving car will finally be the death of the car. What's the point of owning a car, if you don't drive it? You are put out of control, the fun is gone, so why pay for it instead of using public transport? (I write this from a european perspective, where public transport is available).

The only thing I think will make it worth while is this: I drove the car (I drove!) to my destination, get out and then I can tell the car: 'find a parking'.

Owning a car stopped being fun 20 years ago (at least). Today, in a big city, it only enhances the stress level. So as a consequence it makes sense not to own one (let alone the costs). And it also makes sense that people buy vintage cars. This can be fun, if you like to tinker and don't have to rely on this thing to bring you somewhere and in time.
There's a bit more to it than that. I had a relative die of cancer recently, and it was a relief in a way because if they cancer hadn't got them, Alzheimer's would - and it would have taken much longer and been even worse for everyone.

The loss of memory in Alzheimer's simply means you stop remembering stuff. There's no brain fog so far as I can tell. You just - stop remembering.

It has a lot of unexpected practical effects. You can't give someone new stuff, because they won't recognise it as their's, or remember you gave it to them, and they'll think they've lost the old stuff (or someone has stolen it - which is a common delusion.)

You have to be careful about medication and feeding because they won't remember either. It becomes incredibly easy to overdose on meds by accident, or to forget to eat, or to eat too much.

Likewise shopping. When someone's memory is so poor they can't walk around a store and check things off a list, they need professional help.

After a while conversations become incredibly repetitive. In middle stage AS sufferers literally forget what you said at the start of a sentence before you've finished it. They forget they've already asked the same question six times in the last ten minutes - literally.

You can't teach them anything new at all. So if you try to buy various memory aids or anything that needs a bit of thought or learning, they won't find them useful.

Worst of all is the prospect of personality change. Some people become very agitated, abusive, and even violent - which can be a devastating surprise if they showed no signs of that before.

Eventually they stop recognising people or showing much awareness of their surroundings.

My relative actually became more settled and friendlier, which was a very good thing. But there were a couple of support meetings where we are all wondering which way things were going to go.

If they'd gone the other way, it would have been horrible - well, even more horrible - for everyone.
Are you sure he was a liar and not just an idiot? I had a boss who had some similar really deep-seated beliefs about the technical aspects of domain registration and hosting that he would stubbornly refuse to be corrected on. Oddly enough he's now running his own web development business...

Edit: Don't get me wrong, he was a pathological liar as well ;)
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If you're being very literal about the word "invented", then sure.

If instead you're using the word "invented" the way the authors are - that is, meaning making a technology enter the public consciousness and creating a mainstream industry out of it, then I stand by my original point.
Is this related to something he recently said? I am not aware of it. Can someone explain?
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Personally, I don't really see it like that at all. I mean they obviously will ask you for past accomplishments so they can see if you have the aptitude, but I don't see it as an application where you solely brag about yourself.

> YC always said it was more about the founders than the idea

I've heard this before. I do believe it's true, but only after the initial idea. They have had some cases where the founders applied with an idea, got accepted, and then found out that their initial idea wasn't going to take off. Now they are really investing in you, the founder, over your idea. The stories of Optimizely (https://soundcloud.com/akharris/startup-school-radio-ep-3-pe...) and Codecademy come to mind.
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I've received these calls myself. I don't think they are really from Google but from some spammy SEO company.

I also have been assuming that the reason I received a call in the first place is due to my contact information being linked to a domain name that I own.
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The real question here is why are low paid people unable to keep up with the cost of living. What is pushing the cost of living higher than a minimum wage earner can be productive for?

The answer is taxes and regulations. Taxes make everything more expensive. Regulations choke supply of everything from energy to land. Of course, some taxes and some regulation is necessary. But the first thing to do is to stop adding more taxes and regulations. Nobody can seriously believe that adding more taxes and regulations are going to make things better, so the first thing to do is halt and reverse direction.
In the case of such a blatantly selfish singularity, one possible solution for the safety of humans would be to create a collection of well-mannered singularities (more like multilarities) first, with the hard-coded instinct of never allowing a selfish singularity to exist. They could be called the anti-singularities. A comparable phenomenon in the real-world is when nations take down dictators before they become a serious problem. A selfish singularity is like a dictator. A greater power with less selfishness should exist beforehand to prevent an uprising. Similar to highway speed limits and antitrust laws, there could be laws limiting the maximum amount of power one consciousness can have. Having a bunch of separate yet powerful entities is essential since it mimics current society -- where even if one being were smarter than any other single being, it could not outsmart a large number of others working collectively. A computer system found thinking or acting selfishly would be guilty of a thought crime, punishable by deletion.
It seemed ridiculous at the time. I was 12, my sister 10 and my brother 6. We'd arrived together in Canada the previous day, so Canadian customs hadn't had any problem with the travel. We had return plane tickets for about 4 weeks later. The border police didn't ask us anything, but questioned my parents and made them empty the car and suitcases.

I've since had the stupid questions. "It says you're going to a science conference. You don't look like a scientist." "Why is your passport empty? Don't Europeans travel a lot?"
I don't want to sound like a dick, but: why?

pip is damn fine.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9244005
Except I am bad with names, so when they ask somebody's name and you can't remember it then you get pulled aside for more questioning.
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You think you're disappointed? Well I clicked on the link to read the article because I misread the title as "love affair with cats", so welcome to the club. ;(
There's a wikipedia page with some of the more established ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_audio_programming_lang...
You're describing content, not form. Many websites also have to show the same things (login button => speedometer) but they don't have to look the same.
If the original plans were made within contracted hours, do the teachers own the rights to the work?

I ask this as my wife is an academic and I imagine her institution would not take a favourable view of her selling access to resources that they are likely to consider as owned by them.
You're right. You have to update the probability with all the knowledge you have. Although I would say self diagnosis has a very, very high false positive rate, and if you know you're a hypochondriac that would make the probability drop, plus we don't even have a test for this that is 90% accurate. I'm not sure the difference is an order of magnitude :)

I think my point stands that it doesn't make sense to test for extremely rare diseases because of a self diagnosis.
One thing to remember is that high-speed packet filtering is an unusual workflow and CloudFlare operates at a much greater scale than most of us see: most Linux devices are not connected to 10G, much less 100G, networks and they're usually doing more work than looking at a packet to decide whether to accept or reject it. The fact that the APIs and the kernel stack were designed many years before those kind of speeds were possible doesn't matter because most sites don't have that much traffic and most server applications will bottleneck at doing other work well before that point.

The example in the article found a single core handling 1.4M packets per second. If you're running a web-server shoveling data out to clients those packets are going to be close to the maximum size which, if I haven't screwed up the math, looks something like this:

1.4M * 1400 bytes (assuming a low MTU) * 8 (bytes -> bits) = 15Gbps

That's not to say that there isn't still plenty of room to improve and, as lukego noted, there's a lot of work in progress (see e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/615238/ on work to batch operations to avoid paying some of the processing costs for every packet) but for the average server you'd find bottlenecks on something like a database, application logic, request handling, client network capacity, etc. before the network stack overhead is your greatest challenge. The people who encounter this tend to be CDN vendors like CloudFlare and security people who need to filter, analyze, or generate traffic on levels which are at least the the scale of a large company (e.g. https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan).
Aha! You got it. And we also want to build the distributed kv part in a proper way.
Seems to bear a lot of similarity to standard deposition/examination technique. Because a lot of important things are decided on a paper record the standard techniques involve asking open ended questions and drilling down to details, often going back to cover the same ground again, hoping to elicit testimony that's implausible or contradictory.
They severely limited the amount of requests per minute (for example you can only reload your timeline 15 times every 15 minutes). They have also refused to open up the API endpoints that would allow those 3rd party apps to have a functionality on par with the official clients. They also limited the number of authenticated accounts under one app to 100,000, a limit which has been hit by some clients already.

That said it must be understood that tweetbot is probably the only worthy 3rd party client as of now. There are lots of Android clients but they are all of a very low quality. Whether this is because of the lack of incentives to build an app that uses an API that could close at any moment, or just reveals how bad Android apps are overall, remains to be seen.

Four years ago or so I used twicca, which was pretty good at that moment, but it hasn't been updated since then.

According to Ryan Sarver, former Twitter Platform Director:

"Developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no." "We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/twitter-development-ta...
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He's been saying for years that he'll buy NY Jets. Like in every interview. Surprising that you ask.
Out of curiosity, when is the last time you actually had fun driving your car? I live in California where 99% of my driving is dealing with traffic and road hazards. The last time I had fun behind the wheel was when I went to New Zealand on vacation.
I suspect that most people in major metropolitan areas would have more fun browsing facebook on their daily commutes than they actually do driving.
There are ways to work around this. The key is to not lie, but to tell a different truth. I used to do this in high school, when my parents were grilling me.

Friday night: go out with quiet friends. Saturday AM questioning: "How was your evening?" "Fine". "OK".

Saturday night, go out with less quiet friends. :) The Sunday AM questioning was rather more rigorous.

So I described what I did Friday. There were telling hesitations, of course. But 90% of the questions had immediate and honest answers. Just with the day changed.
Certainly your experience of a journey from communist Poland to Germany was full of Brave New World experiences. Now that that regime is gone, your travel is easier. The GP is pointing out that the rest of the world appears to be adopting the tactics that you encountered 20 years ago. Traveling to the US or Israel, for example.
I'm more of a "for fun" DJ (occasional parties, events, but mostly just my basement) but I'm tempted to try mapping the 4 stem tracks to the 4 knobs on my basic controller (gain, high, mid, low) in Traktor since it apparently supports the format. Probably not something I'd want to have permanently enabled but an easy way to play around with it. I guess if I wanted to map a key to toggle between EQ and stem track levels it might work.
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Thats kind of what Peter Thiel is all about, he doesn't believe in the current educational system.

Alot of the fellows do end up going back to school and they're all smart kids who wont have trouble returning to any university they wish to attend.
> If instead you're using the word "invented" the way the authors are - that is, meaning making a technology enter the public consciousness and creating a mainstream industry out of it, then I stand by my original point.

Still wrong. iPhone didn't create a mainstream industry, inf cat, the smartphone growth pre iphone and post iphone (200-2009) was the same
I fully agree. We saw one here yesterday (my timezone), actually.

In that thread, another HN commenter posted this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_audio_programming_la...

I used ChucK in college, and considering its functional use in performance art of many kinds, I'm seeing a lot of these proverbially "reinventing the wheel" in different syntax....ad nauseum.

Where I see the real potential is using the native language of DAWs (digital audio workstation) like Protools, Ableton, and leveraging their native languages to write new scripts and library extensions for hardware.
Most people drive cars because it's much faster, cheaper and more reliable than public transport.
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This guy's whole schtick is just recycled 80s self improvement stuff updated for the digital age, and for some reason everyone takes him seriously as if he has anything at all to do with tech. But NOTHING can make this whole "I'm gonna buy a sports team!" thing feel relevant to this century.
Only an anecdote from my life, not wanting to prove that you're wrong or something like that:

My family has never owned a car (mother is the only one who even has a license) and in the part of the world where I grew up (Switzerland) that was no problem. I make extensive use of the public transport here as I own a GA, a general subscription which is valid for almost the whole of Switzerland (exceptions are mostly ship lines and mountain railways).

For me it feels quite weird to travel by car because I am so used to take the train or bus.

Maybe I'll learn it someday but for now I have zero need to do so.
And no, I don't recommend lying to border guards. :(
> Meanwhile, DOTA2 is a thing...

After an IP battle that was settled out of court.[1] Valve also does not use any of Blizzard's assets in Dota 2.

[1]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/11/blizzard-and-valve-settle...
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"when is the last time you actually had fun driving your car"

I usually have fun looking forward to driving a longer distance. Once I am in the car, stuck in the usual jam while trying to leave the city, the fun is gone. And it doesn't come back when the road finally gets empty late in the evening.

I used to own a convertible. It was fun using it on summer evenings and nights, in the countryside.
> Can someone kindly explain this in terms of word-sized chunks of data made of bits, grinding through a Von Neumann machine, perhaps illustrated using C code snippets?
> This is because there is no use-case for professional users.

I don't know, it can still useful for generating your initial cells for complicated systems (defects, interfaces, etc.), and it can always be useful to test an idea qualitatively before you do a high-accuracy calculation.
These are known scams. Google does not call businesses telling them to sign up so they can remain indexed.
There's an interesting article on the other side of the story -http://www.livemint.com/Companies/7CN7u5d4i3bfYgBAZLdLpM/Wil...
That's crazy. The Louvre is amazing. You could spend an entire week in there.
My observation has been that for my wife even a good lesson plan is just a starting point that she will spend hours tailoring for her students. For the most part this site is selling ideas and outlines(which are already plentiful and free on the web or via co-workers). I would rather we spend our money on something that reduces her work load or removes some pain point from her job.
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Very cool project! But I agree with the comments about the name is unfortunate
> The second strategy is to be so good at this as to believe in your lies/stories you're telling.

That is harder than it sounds. Even sociopaths have a hard time outright lying. Or keeping lies straight.

The technique being used here is one of consistency. Is your story consistent? Does it have all of the details one expects from a normal story? Are there any hesitations when recalling the story?

It is very difficult to come up with consistent and detailed lies on a moments notice. The better approach (used by lying CEOs on news shows) is to have a different story that you tell in detail.
> where defleshing was performed as a burial ritual

yes ... as a "burial" ritual ...
I would say being a Thiel fellow itself will make it easier for them to get into a top college.

That said, it is a bit ironic that Thiel is against the current educational system since he has undoubtedly benefited from it
Tech celebrities such as Guy Kawasaki have had teams of tweeters working for them for years: it seems reasonable to assume large numbers of people are employed to interact with show biz personality obsessives...just like all the faked autographs the Monkees etc used to mail to their fans...
You're right I'd forgotten about that. I wonder would they make more from selling the iPlayer than licensing internationally ...
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They offer basically similar services that use data in very similar ways to Google. That claim by them always seemed more like an attempt to put a positive spin on their much less successful cloud offerings. They have iAds etc, but it hasn't really taken off like Jobs obviously hoped.
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"Sharing Economy" doesn't really apply to lesson plans they are not an object that must be shared it can be duplicated and used concurrently by an infinite number of people.
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Wait your last sentence lost me: why did you write "and means that the machine is 100% compromised regardless."

I am root, I have arbitrary memory access on the jumphost. I could write a tool, like the heartbleed poc, to find the data I want.
I think self-driving cars won't stop car ownership, because if your car drives itself it's basically a very small moving home. If you're 'living in' instead of 'driving' your car, you'll want it even more customized than if your attention was mostly on driving.

Take a look at the rear seats of executive towncars, for examples of this kind of thing. People who can be driven everywhere in their own cars will go to substantial lengths to get them just the way they like them, whether that's for working, entertainment, napping, or whatever else.
Ugh, it's an operating system. Why would "Premium Android" be a contradiction in terms? What's so great about iOS that makes it so "premium"? Jeez, with these apple fans and high horses.
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Or traveling to the US, for that matter. I still don't understand why border guards ask incoming US citizens where they are going and what is the purpose of their travel.
Its the author here. Thanks johnpjoseph for putting this up. Happy to answer any questions :)
Can you expand on this a bit with some actual technical details about how you think it doesn't scale enough?
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I guess it won't be hard to partner with an indie game artist, replace the sprites and title and turn it into an original game.
I was trying to copy some files over to my iPhone and couldn't. Just plain couldn't. You had to use iTunes, which doesn't run on Linux, so apparently you're shit out of luck. Want to copy files from Linux to the iPhone? Get an Android, apparently!

How's that for a premium experience?
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1. When you DJ, your main resource is attention — and while I have experience with Ableton live sets, trying to juggle more than 4 channels of a track that you sometimes heard once or twice before is not a very good idea, tbh. Also, Stems format was created by NI after they already succesfully creates Remix Packs format, and in my experience, 4 channels that Remix Packs have is quite a good balance — not to say that all NI Traktor gear is created for 4 channels in mind.

2. Once again, extra features not only complicate implementation, but also user experience. What exactly would you be able to do with time offsets and repeats that you can't do with Traktor's deck looping and loop recorder already?
Reminds me of the Softimage demo in ~96 (after Microsoft bought them) where they compared SGI and vanilla PC box. The guy explained that if the PC being 1/10th the cost of SGI, even if it was half as fast it would still be worth it. Then, to the great satisfaction of Bill Gates, near him on stage, he said that the PC was actually faster than his SGI workstation.
Wow this is incredible stuff. I work with shaders everyday so have an understanding of the concepts discussed, but I've never visualized them like that! Really captivating.
My understanding is that many school districts have in fact tried to get a piece of the action in recent years.
aws-aurora is a fancy storage engine + fancy replication

You can't divide the data on multiple servers (sharding)

It will come a time, when you'll exhaust the biggest machine they have available, and then you're stuck
They already did it with remix packs, and all their gear is created for working with 4 tracks anyway.
From what I understand you typically need a 'base-line' of normality to know when someone has deviated from that. People can get nervous or make mistakes at any point. The best way to set the base-line is to have a general conversation to put them at ease and then ask the more consequential questions. This could lead to longer queues though which would be an unfortunate side effect.

TL;DR

Use the deviation from the base-line to work out if someone is lying.