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I would argue that data layout is even more important the the data structure you use(see radix sort) which is also something the compiler can't control.

I pretty strongly disagree that with the meta-parent that it's the "compiler's job to speed up your code". It just doesn't have enough context to be able to do it effectively. I would actually prefer a predictable compiler to one that tries to do all sorts of magic tricks that can be perturbed by seemingly trivial code changes.
> The last people with jobs will be AI programmers

Geohotz makes a decent point. The way the industrial revolution reduced manual labour, and made thinkers and tinkerers much more valuable, the advent of AI (true AI, mind you, not the tiny stuff that we currently assume) might actually make us obsolete. It is a peaceful and yet terrifying thought.
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Or those of us who don't care about it enough to change it. There are a lot of things that in the right context are not worth bothering about.
Thanks for your reply. But imagine they are saying ,for example X is better than Y and given the fact that your aren't aware of X and Y, how we should handle this?
That's the point he's making. He doesn't want a base class.

If you aren't lucky enough to have them be of the base class you have to create an empty template superclass just to satisfy the compiler. Objective-c has a better solution and things can dovetail without being in the same class.

"Doing it wrong" implies that Swift is just inherently better without making a real argument about why that would be the case. And the OP is actually making a pretty convincing argument that it isn't.

Swift is awesome at doing things better than obj-c and it really does reduce a lot of template code. But maybe not in this particular instance (right now).
Thanks. The link seemed still to be single inheritance focus (sorry, I don't know the right terminology I come from a OO background.) but I could be wrong. Though I did get the sense that its just a interim step towards multi inheritance.

What about the dataframe and stats infrastructure? its currently in shambles. Any Idea when this can be expected to be fixed?
There are also some interesting incentives that go the other way. By getting the big property managers involved, tenants or regulators that are upset by how things are going have a new target for their wrath that:
- is making money from the deal (unlike landlords now)
- unequivocally knows the subletting is going on (unlike landlords now)
- has an explicit contractual responsibility to aggrieved tenants (unlike AirBnB or other tenants)
- has a lot of money that can be taken away if they lose a lawsuit (unlike other tenants), and
- has valuable unmovable property located in the jurisdictions where the harm is being done (unlike other tenants and AirBnB).

I'm not really sure whether these issues outweigh the points you made or not, but if this happens, it probably makes legal action against bad actors using AirBnB much easier.
Why is the first comment on HN minimizing this truly impressive project? Of course it's not perfect, he's ONE person.
Not your girlfriend but I thought I was receiving "envelope face"s.
AMD has excellent in-mainline-kernel drivers that work out of the box. It's much better, if not quite as fast, as the proprietary catalyst drivers.
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A couple of B&N shops around here are in malls. I have no idea if that's better for sales or not, but they seem overall just as dreadful as the non-mall B&N locations.

I greatly enjoy books, and bookstores, and have shelves of books in my home. I guess I'm not the kind of customer B&N wants.
>It's actually our cultural meme of pesonal responsibility that makes us blame everything on an individual's lack of discipline - even problems systemic in nature

This is the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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yeah, 60 hour weeks that are rule rather than a true exception mean that you have no/very little actual life.
Yes, it helps in professional career, and for some this is their goal in life, but for most of us, we work to live.

what working for somebody else means is (among others) peace of mind - I do my hours, extra effort if necessary, but that's it.
the moment i leave office, I can go climbing with my fiancee, take care of kids (not there yet), and generally do stuff I wil have fond memories of, rather than chasing gazillionth thing just to keep things running.
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I wonder about the linguistic difference between the terms "human property" and "human capital". One is synonymous with "slave" and one is synonymous with "employee" and yet "property" and "capital" are virtually synonymous.
I remember when that place was awesome, and I spent many happy hours there. I was devastated to see it go, but yeah, in the end it had hollowed out to garbage, stationery, and toilet humor. Bleh.
Yes, what if, of the thousands of people that will die today [1](and tomorrow and the next day and the next...) in traffic accidents, one single sprained ankle or whiplashed neck was caused by, gasp, a computer.

Your faux ethical hacking outrage is thinly veiled and entirely misdirected.

[1]http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...
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I'm from India, however I can't say that its cultural matter of never questioning. Probably we can put up the statement in other way "depends on the culture being followed in office".
The point is that the xp vm would be transparent. Microsoft has done various compatibility layers before - see windows on windows and windows on windows 64.

The core question is how much isolation optimizes future development while maintaining the ability to run older applications.
Because this article reinforces our bizarre cultural notion that one person deserves all the credit for some innovation.

Nevermind the ridiculous amount of engineering that was required to build all the tools he's using and the order of magnitude more engineering required to make this a safe, mass producible product.

But nah, let's just praise the founder, allow him to get rich while we all do the dirty work.
> And yet every time I try to get Matlab users to use something else (Python or Julia) the one thing they almost immediately complain about is the lack of a GUI IDE as good as the Matlab one.

Spyder offers a similar environment. It has a variable explorer, script editor, console, etc all in one window (which I think is what matlab users are looking for).
Most of the machines that you'll find in a small office are actually two separate devices. There's the x-ray emitter and an x-ray sensor. The sensor replaces the x-ray film that had to be manually developed, and is often just a USB device that integrates with whatever imaging application is in place. The sensors can be installed by anyone for the most part.
>Do I have a competitive advantage as a startup founder growing up poor?

No, it's all offset from not having great connections with the right rich people, not having personal safety net and deposits to be able to work for long in some prototype, etc, things much more important.

It might work out for you, but in general there's not much for poor startup founders over rich ones.
Being able to assess people is completely different from being judgmental.

The former is a result of experience and social intelligence; the latter is mix of bad attitude and superiority complex.
20 years later, do we have any evidence of a 1000x benefit, or even a 2x benefit?
Then you just threw out the baby with the bath water. This is reproducible study and what you are talking about is actually fraud that they can't be reproduced. Doesn't speak to this study or most studies like this.

The numbers are there in the project. You can reproduce your results from that. You can ask people the same questions that this study did. You can take from the same pool of people for your survey. You can also take MRIs of your sample.

Seems completely reproducible. It is an issue with the "So What...."
> Bloomberg goes for sexy.

I think it is more about the reporter's writing style. The reporter -- Ashlee Vance -- is also the author of a recent book on Elon Musk.
Just as Netscape Communicator was forked and decrapified to make Firefox, I'd love to see a decrapified fork of Firefox right about now.
Hah I just read "When Genius Failed" after finding it at my parents house over Thanksgiving. I'd known about LTCM, it's a case study in 2nd year classes in political economy/finance, and the book is a nice account of things.

LTCM's problem wasn't the BSM per-se, it was the fact that they went chasing after trading opportunities once the arbitrage space in bond/swap spreads had been, ironically, arbitraged away. In the process of doing this they leveraged themselves to the hilt and basically ran out of cash defending the positions.
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I'm a young-ish person, dreaming the American dream of purchasing a home.

Like a lot of people my age, I've had an almost pathological aversion to taking out loans or using credit cards extensively. I don't have suspect credit history, so much as little credit history at all.

The good news is I have negligible student debt and healthy savings, in addition to a job and current income stream that allows me to put a bit away each month. I already have about 10% of the downpayment for what I think I could afford saved up. I just have no idea what the next steps are.

Thanks in advance for any advice or resources to help cure my real estate ignorance.
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if we don't have laws currently, we sure as hell need them. i can't imagine letting everybody try their own self-driving software.
Yeah, it is a bit difficult to say either way. You could well be right.
To be fair, those B. Dalton stores were tiny. No way they could compete in the general-sales arena with so few shelves, when Amazon arrived with orders of magnitude more titles at lower prices and quick delivery, and drive-to or anchor bookstores were so nearby. They worked when bookstores were few and far between, and malls were the new place everyone went, but not when vast & cheaper alternatives arrived nearby and mall foot traffic turned to a less academic clientele.
Doesn't this sort of thing present a problem for the idea of life extension? Death serves important roles.
Remember, Yahoo acquired Inktomi, and effectively AltaVista & AllTheWeb.
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In the US, the law is written in defense of the host. The attacker is considered at fault for breaching a system that they are not supposed to have access to. From the CFAA(a)(2)(C)[1]:

>Whoever... intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains... information from any protected computer;

The spirit of this law is fine: security is notoriously hard to get right. We have to account for the human component that will inevitably fudge something. Thus companies that give reasonable attempts at securing their data yet still fall short in certain areas are still protected under the law. Conversely, companies that don't care are also protected due to the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030#a_2
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Or people tinkering with far more interesting things...
It's risk of a person's time, which is obviously a finite resource for each of us.

Those with less privilege typically need to spend that time addressing immediate financial imperatives rather than focusing on delayed financial or academic rewards.
I'm pointing out that as a social movement alt.med is driven in part by a mismatch between the real success and reliability of scientific medicine vs. the claims made by its authorities.

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Not all Starbucks coffee shops are generic. Some of them have really nice layouts with cozy corners and comfortable couches and they play jazz or classical music at reasonable volumes. But those tend to be in high-end areas, and B&N is definitely not high-end.
You are asserting that the major brand doesn't need to defend its brand image because people have a strong recognition of the brand image...
It is for this reason Elasticsearch 1.x advocates using 'copy_to' on mapping attributes that may encounter collision. Elasticsearch 2.x explicitly throws exception whenever it detects mapping collision.
The steering is massively torque limited by the car's EPS module(5x lower limit than Tesla). It can't turn hard right, it can lazily list to the right, giving you tons of time to react.

I actually have put a lot of thought into safety :)
nemo44x may not own the building, but her/his home is there. A home has greater meaning than its enclosing walls and a roof. It's the difference between a "home" and a "house". The home transcends ownership; the home goes beyond the physical space. Homes provide privacy, intimacy, personal expression, retreat. They are a place to love, to cry, to heal. They are a basic piece of the human experience. And all modern societies value them beyond their economic and materialistic dimensions.

In high density areas, local governments have codified the value of "home" into law. NYC has housing laws that offer protection for people across the spectrum. From rent stabilization and eviction laws for the homes of those in lower income brackets, to Co-op and condo laws that protect the home of some of the wealthiest residents.
In the article the researcher does say that she wants to move from a correlation study, which this is, to a controlled study. They're trying to get funding/approval for that.

TBH I'd prefer that researchers at this point would stick to saying that they've made an interesting observation, which they have, and do less of the speculation.

Though that would have made a very short and quite dull article so I understand the urge to extrapolate a bit.
If this article were tackling extreme poverty, like in the families that literally wonders how tomorrow will be, I would probably agree with the finding that this scenario greatly affects the brain structure.

But implying that brain development is directly affected by the family income, without any other cultural aspect whatsoever, that's bullshit.

Brain development is not a money problem.
I'm afraid this may be also the end, more or less. From this point onwards, things get so much harder and more labor-intensive, that doing everything alone seems impossible.
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Sounds like the typical case of people who after having "made it" try to make it all about character and personal effort, ignoring the systemic issues poor people have to overcome that rich don't which give them a big advantage.

In other words, ignoring that while some poor kids may win in "hard mode" doesn't change the fact that rich kids play life in "easy mode", and as such, it's much easier for them to win, and much more of them will win, any merit and hard work put into it being equal.

It's like showing some succesful despite the odds black man in 1960 to show that "see, Jim Crow and racism doesn't matter, it's all a matter of will".
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I think Claim 1 is actually more about determinism; that if by knowing all the inputs you can reliably get the same outputs what you have isn't consciousness.

Neural nets are somewhat starting to escape that dynamic but there still isn't a neural net that reliable pulls in a continuous stream of randomness to generate meaningful behaviour like our consciousness does.

Now to be honest; I'm not entirely sure if John Searle would agree that that is consciousness when we do get there but I do agree with him that deterministic consciousness is essentially a contradictio in terminis.
> I'd love to see a decrapified fork of Firefox right about now.

That was possible when a bowser only needed to know HTML and CSS and a bit of javascript.

But browsers now are delivering app functionality, and so they're going to be huge.

We need something like "Contrast rebellion", but for page sizes. There's no reason WSJ / NYT / Atlantic / etc pages are so freaking huge - almost always that cruft is getting in the way of me reading the content.

(And if they're reading this: that cruft means I am less likely to pay for a subscription. "I open a page, it loads quickly, I read it" is a nice experience. "I open a page. I get a throbber. Some content loads. It jumps around as other placeholders load. Content pops in and out and under different banners and boxes. It jumps around as fonts are loaded. Eventually, everything is ready." Thats what I normally get and it sucks.
Typical twenty year olds don't read all the state-of-the-art papers on a subject before saying they know it all. It sounds more like he's caught up on the latest AI research and fundamentals.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7915-most-scientific-...

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-most-published-scientific...
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It's not ignorance on the part of the journalists. They did not claim causation. In fact they outlined possible root causes.

The problem is how you are reading the article.
Except I don't think Philips advertised that they are using an open standard. It's just what they used for the implementation.

They are free to mutilate that standard as they see fit for their own product, and since they didn't make it into a selling point, there is no reason for them to expect compatibility.
If we know that L is a list, and that is all we know, we don't know what type (car L) is.

If we know that L holds the value (X Y Z), then we know that the type of (car L) is symbol.

> The type of "symbol" is not specific enough

It absolutely is specific enough. It's a fundamental type in the language.

We just don't know what kind of symbol for certain purposes. If we only know that some object O is a symbol, we don't know whether whether it is self-evaluating (nil, t, keyword symbols in CL) or bindable (any other symbol).

In this particular case, not only do we know that (car L) is of type symbol, we know which symbol!!!

We know the exact identity of the object: it is X.

If we know this at compile time, because L is a quoted list literal, we have the strongest possible information about what it is, even more precise than most type information.

> as what operations will you allow to be run on symbol if you're working in a statically typed Lisp with type inference

If I know that O is a symbol, then we can, for instance, compile the (symbol-name O) operation such that O's type tag isn't checked; however, if there is a special representation for a symbol nil, we have to distinguish that. In this case we know that X isn't nil.

> If symbol is a character

... then you're talking about a completely different language that isn't one of the mainstream Lisps. At best a very oddball dialect.

What Lisp tutorial have you been following?

Perhaps you have confused symbol objects, and the use of a symbol as a variable name (X having a value binding in a given environment, and the value of that binding being a character object).
I don't really see your complaint here. He did build A self-driving car, not THE self-driving car. Its an impressive hack as you noted, maybe it can turn into something bigger with more time and energy. So what is the point of shouting this down with an "ITS INCOMPLETE", it wasn't as if this is a KickStarter promotion or even a product. Geez. Get back to hacking.
I've been using an AMD card for years now. It's stable, works fine for every day use without problem. I'm particularly fond of the fact that the installer itself builds distro-specific packages for installation (deb, rpm, etc.). That said nVidia does outperform, especially in games. And if you don't play games the open source AMD drivers are almost good enough to make the proprietary driver unnecessary.
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> I feel like poor kids actually have an advantage because they have a natural instinct to try harder to survive.

Anecdotal evidence

Not to take away from your achievement BUT you are sadly the exception. You are not giving yourself enough credit.

I have adopted and fostered children from abusive impoverished lives. They are great and are in college but they still struggle to achieve it in a timely manner. They also struggle with grades though they actually are above average in intelligence.

PS Top .1 % income children are also impacted negatively but they have an easier fall back (Grow up and financial means to give themselves unlimited supply of alcohol and drugs) Where I grew up these rich kids were having 3rd world diseases like scurvy since they just ate what they wanted.
Sometimes it's not a crazy thing to do. I'm writing in ASCII not, but my input format isn't always set to this.

Depending on combination of input method and storage method, especially when the screen doesn't display the number of characters being inputted, it is a mild pain. One to learn from, but a pain.

Working with colleagues don't use English regularly and that have a variety of IMEs (that in most cases display an identical result) and don't expect to hit Ctrl+Space, or whatever shortkey is being used for every input form... input tools that expect ASCII but don't return feedback are huge levels of pain.
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Putting a prototype self-driving car on actual roads without understanding the difficulty of that project seems like a legitimate, substantive criticism, and I don't care how many people are involved in the project.
Pretty sure that driving for Uber is a way to rake up more miles (training data) rather than actually test the system.
You could go to your bank (or whatever bank you like) and ask them to determine how much of a house loan you would qualify for.
2% faster haha, you don't play any games do you? Nvidia cards are much faster than AMD since a while now.
That's not how this works. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim, not the other way around.
Yeah, that makes sense.

In my case I believe our city recently (or might soon) change the rules of short-term rentals to only allow for rentals longer that 30 days.

What I was specifically thinking of doing was taking my family to another country for a month and renting the place out for the duration to help cover the expenses. Hopefully the longer term rental would weed out many of the types of people that might trash a place.
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> to me, they are well within their rights to decide: "hey, we don't want competitors to benefit from our product(s)"

I'd say: the products cease to be theirs when a someone buys them, and the consumer is the one who benefits from being able to choose competitor's products.

Toyota did a lot of work designing my car, but they don't get a monopoly on selling me carpet mats. It's my car and I'll put what I want in there.

> I am sure you can find open{source|hardware} alternative if you don't wish to support Phillips anymore.

True, but if you bought something expecting interoperability and it was "upgraded" to be closed, you'd have a right to be upset.