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You don't seem to grasp the point of my comment. The format mangling probably didn't help.

I'm saying that the term MVC has been diluted and misused to the point that it no longer carries a specific -- and therefore useful -- meaning. It has become web 2.0 part deux.

Maybe you think that input->process->output is too simplistic to be the answer to every software engineering problem?

In the most general and abstract terms, no. Likewise, what value is to be gained from discussing application architecture in excessively general and abstract terms?
Yes it does. It could also argue for a diaspora to other parts of the solar system or universe. Humanity feels too penned up already. Doubling the life expectancy would make it at least linearly worse.
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Not all landlords are the same. I have a friend who rents a place in Venice and the landlord told them they could airbnb the in-law addition if they had no use for it. Presumably the person on the lease is on the hook for any damages anyways.
The Intel antitrust lawsuit was on Intel's behaviour in the 90s – it just took until 2005 to finally reach US courts (it was filed with the EC in 2000). By the time AMD had competitive CPUs, Intel had already stopped their practices to avoid further scrutiny.

AMD just stopped being competitive too quickly to gain a proper foothold.
>But if the landlord is ok with it... they own the building, that's their call.

Actually, it's very likely that a bank owns the building with a 30 year mortgage.
Its not that hard to do both.

A drop in a bucket is still a drop. And if there are many drops, and they start falling in a different bucket ...
Mid and lower class people can definitely get rich by saving. Of course their savings don't add up to millions, but you're completely disregarding the returns of a decent mutual fund. At 4-7% real returns, the amount they have after a 20-40 year period is wildly different from the raw amount they've put in/saved, due to the power of compound interest. So although they haven't SAVED millions, they HAVE millions.
If this is the "hacker ethos" then I want nothing to do with it:

> “I live by morals, I don’t live by laws,” Hotz declared in the story. “Laws are something made by assholes.”

> “ ‘If’ statements kill.”

> “I want power. Not power over people, but power over nature and the destiny of technology. I just want to know how it all works.”
The average consumer would blame philips for even allowing the bulbs... people on HN or various other tech circles know better. But do you know who leaves reviews on Amazon and calls their customer support line? The average consumer.

And most companies usually pay per call/minute to their customer care contractors.
Does that mean you can possibly also get indications of gusting in direction as well as speed from the terrain? That would be really useful for sailing, particularly inland. Or maybe that's a more local effect, and beyond the resolution of these models?
It was only a few sentences long, how did you miss all the facts? OP stated that he would have landlord be part of it ("have them manage the Airbnb") and they would do this because they would make money ("and they'd get a cut of the proceeds"), but before proceeding with asking about it the OP will check the lease ("I'd need to check the lease to see if I'm allowed to do it anyway").
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That statement is clearly tongue-in-cheek, come on. "I well-understand the cutting edge of this narrow research area" is less fun to say, but that's the meaning.
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>>I've seen average people achieve incredible things

In my opinion, we must never underestimate people.

>>but just because they started work on things that no-one else thought they could complete.

Nothing fails like smartness. The reason why a few people achieve the impossible while far more intelligent and smart people don't is because of the curse of intelligence makes them believe certain things are impossible.

The fool didn't know it was impossible, so he did it.
I'm curious about this; can you elaborate?
"Naivety is a very good thing at times."

He might not be naive.
The authors were asked about potential reasons, and responded with:

There are many pathways potentially linking family economic circumstances and brain structure and function, and we are very interested in two of them. The first is the investment, or “what money can buy,” pathway. Parents with more resources can buy more books and toys, afford better child-care experiences, provide housing in better neighborhoods, and provide better learning opportunities inside and outside the home.

The second possibility is the family-stress pathway: Families facing economic strain often deal with stressors that are associated with less responsive and less warm parenting. If the parents are very worried about how to keep the lights on, or they have to work that third job, they’re less able to be present with their kids.

I suspect it's a combination of the two.
> Kind of such for then to be fabless.

Shouldn't have sold their fabs, then.
Welcome to the rest of the world. We're being eavesdropped legally by your congress for ages. :-)
A valid point. In this instance, I know because we use Google Apps and store most other things in it. The email is in Gmail, so the difference isn't really that great when you think about it.

As far as I can tell, there is no way to guarantee a 'secure' delivery of documents via email. SMTP might be used rather than SMTPS and you don't always know what servers handle the email when in transit.
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Hello, post author here, were you thinking about downloading the NASA sound clip or the web audio recreation?
Sounds like Daunt simply recalled what made Waterstones so attractive as it rose to prominence in the 1980s.
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I do not believe feedback on renters does anything to meaningfully curb abuse, especially because abusive renters will be the ones least likely to groom a profile of positive reviews.
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"His self-funded experiment could end with Hotz humbly going back to knock on Google’s door for a job."

The biggest thing here IMO is this is self-funded. Any startup trying to do what he is doing in this environment would have raised $50 Million, hired 100's of engineers from top notch schools, become accepted in YC, and have Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, Sam Altman and all singing their praises.

Kudos to him for being self-funded.
Its so much fun to see people who crossed their 20s doing nothing close to great, get so jealous.
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Essentially this. There was a talk by Sony at the 2013 LLVM Developers' Meeting: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/#talk8

From the slides:

Initial development hampered by secrecy

- Blanket secrecy policy included compiler project

- No advice/feedback from the group consciousness

- Sitting on features and bugs and fixes applicable upstream

Clear value to working openly with upstream

- File a bug; somebody else might fix it

- Send a patch; people will review/advise

- Bigger features can get better design review

- Putting private changes upstream reduces merge pain

And:

Merging once per upstream release was a nightmare

- We stuck our fingers in everywhere

- The 3.0 merge work took three months
I'm a fan of DDR and there are many others on the Internet. It seems like Konami doesn't want to take our money (no new products for home consoles in a few years). I'm very confused why that is. My guess was that they make more money in the arcade, and home machines were canabalizing that. It doesn't seem like a plausible theory. Very strange company. I wish they sold the IP if they didn't care about it and let someone else give fans what they want.
That's completely wrong. Invest in a mutual fund monthly and you'll be amazed by the power of compound interest.
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"If you're going to browse the showroom it is more than a little backhanded to then buy from an online competitor with less overhead."

How so? Why is it my responsibility as a consumer to ensure that certain companies stay in business?
An automated tool for capturing and sharing knowledge will truly make the world a better place. Learning can be faster , reducing the cost of education. People across the globe can connect based on topics of interest and knowledge, yielding more economic and job opportunities.

A personal knowledge base is far more valuable than what it might seem at first glance. Very happy to see you have articulated clearly and made people realize it. A PKB has great potential for knowledge transfer within organization or even at research labs for new people to familiarize with literature. Many people want to capture their thoughts for writing a book someday, but current tools aren't good enough for this. Sadly, a person's social graph is well captured today rather than their knowledge graph.

With these thoughts, I started implementing Hyperbook - www.getbook.co few months back. Currently it is in beta and really working hard to improve it every day. We got good feedback and reviews from thought leaders in content curation and knowledge management industry. Thanks for bringing the problem for discussion. It gives me motivation that is very much a worthy problem to solve.
>Are they?

They are. See for example this article[0] from earlier this year and the HN comments[1] from about a month ago.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/business/the-economics-and...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10597487
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You can use LDC if you prefer (Lesser Developed Countries.).'The Global South' is often used in economics circles. There's no term that is wholly satisfactory.
I don't think this would help at all because 1) most people are not interested in making their own self-driving car and 2) the small niche who is interested isn't going to worry about following the laws, as Hotz states in the piece.
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> I would totally agree with you IF this kid hadn't proven his chops with iPhone and PS3 hacks, not to mention building a self-driving car in his garage.

Impressive as they are, his chops still don't support his claim to "know everything there is to know". The Dunning-Kruger effect is in full swing.
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I carry genes for brown eyes and blue eyes. My eyes are brown. A child with a blue eyed partner may have brown or blue eyes depending on which of my genes it gets. Most things are not as simple as eye color but even if they were all binary, the combinatorics are so massive that a composite description of a child based on their parents would be a total fabrication.
The preceding question mentioned an experiment they are running which can help test this belief. I think you're not giving the authors enough credit by not mentioning that they clearly understand their beliefs have not been tested:

"The only way to really test that is to move beyond correlational studies and conduct experiments. I’m part of a team of social scientists and neuroscientists from around the country who are planning to do just that: We’re currently fundraising for and piloting the first clinical trial of poverty reduction."
The management is horrible. They're out of touch with the individual stores, push questionable initiatives, constantly reshuffle areas, have poor inventory management, and their IT is roughly 1995. They have plans to cut the number of stores, but they're not being aggressive enough. If they had strong leadership, they'd focus on customer experience; create a nice place for people to spend time enjoying books, not chasing the latest and greatest tech fad.

B&N will linger on, since they have no real competition anymore with the demise of Borders. People still buy physical books, and book readers still like to visit bookstores. But the long term outlook is probably a 50% reduction in stores.

Oh, and they pay their employees like shit, though all retail does to some extent.
:cringe: Apparently I, need to expand the comment text field and re-read my comments before posting. Hopefully, you could infer my meaning from the word vomit.
How do you train it for emergency situations (i.e. a car suddenly turning left in front of you)? I'd imagine it would be hard to get many of those in the training data set.
He thinks machines will take care of much of the work tied to producing food and other necessities. Humans will then be free to plug into their computers and get lost in virtual reality.

Well, that's an astronomically depressing future.
You are misunderstanding the sentiment. No one is saying 30 year olds know everything, they are saying 30 year olds _realize_ they don't know everything.
Lots of indie stores with the buying clout of a chain too!
Most people get wealthy by working for other people. Depending on what you call wealthy. 1-2M in investment accounts and a paid off home is very affluent/wealthy to me.

Also, to say those people aren't creating wealth is very offensive.
I think you are way out of line here. I have family that lives in Section 8 housing. They are a danger or annoyance to no one.
Sounds like you need to take a larger deposit. Then you could rent it out for 1-2 nights at a time, assuming a cleaning fee that covers your costs, without worrying about damage. Not that the $1 million in insurance wouldn't cover you either way
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Yes. They have stopped building malls.

http://www.businessinsider.com/shopping-malls-are-going-exti...
How is this different from VCs who focus on seed stage? There are a number of such funds out there and some have been very very successful, I don't understand this "Micro VCs are coming" thing if the definition is really just "VCs who focus on Seed stage" because they've been here for a while.
I don't see any reason why I'd love my (true-AI) artificial children any less than my real children :)
He has a company: http://comma.ai.
Absolutely, particularly for tenured positions that are for-life, you are creating a constipation effect where the old, much less active researchers are just hanging out occupying space that could be used for a new, more productive faculty. Our university just cleared room for one more faculty after the emeritus died at the age of 92.
Do you even use Slack? I don't work for Slack but your comment is so misleading.

> but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable.

No it is not. Look at the top right and type your words. If you use free plan, only 10k message will be archived, other than that it will be deleted.[1]

> Mailing list archives are handy when you are looking for a solution to a problem. With Slack, a lot of that knowledge disappears.

Its a tool for direct communication for group, not for documentation. I think you miss a hammer for screwdriver.

[1] https://myabuy.slack.com/pricing
Hackers enjoy bug finding or simply building new stuff. Why would they like fixing bugs? Why would any developer enjoy it for that matter? Yes, it's something necessary that all developers should know how to do, but that doesn't make it enjoyable.
I totally agree with you. Banning a bad customer from your store is one thing, banning them from all other (subscribed) stores as well is way too much.
I just want to confirm the sentiment about how subjective interviewing is. I recently switched to using a coding challenge instead of a traditional interview loop. I would take candidates out for coffee pitch them the team and position, ask them some questions about themselves and then explain how the challenge would work. The first time I did this I decided to give everyone the challenge, even people I was sure were going to eat it, just to give myself some good data about how tough the challenge was and if it needed to be tuned. I was shocked by how bad my tech-radar really was. Not so much on the upper end, I can spot the winners still. However some of the people who I thought would eat it did a lot better than I thought they would. It made me realize how subjective interview loops really are, with little to no chance of the interviewer to be shaken out of their biases if they don't want to be. Not that coding challenges are perfect, but I'm never going back. I will refuse to participate in interview loops now - on either end.
>NVIDIA isn't exactly losing this race

Because AMD has been putting out great cards the past few months, completely revamped their their driver software. Meanwhile NVIDIA has been doing not much of anything. The latest reports have shown AMD regaining market share in discrete CPU's and this trend will most likely continue. AMD has ZEN coming out next year, and they will probably be profitable again by the end of 2016. AMD isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
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Hardly? Last generation the 290x was easily competitive with the 780 Ti, particularly at higher resolution.

This generation the Fury and Fury X aren't quite as good as the 980 Ti (turns out Maxwell is really good) but aren't bad either.

I like AMD, but CUDA >>> OpenCL, so for any scientific computing Nvidia is the way to go. For gaming the 970, 980, and 980 Ti are too good this time around. AMD isn't far behind however, and next generation could easily flip things around.
If they manage to buy or license the MGS IP from Konami I'd be very excited
The authors clearly understand the limitations of correlational studies, as evidenced by explicitly mentioning such limitations. You are ascribing conclusions to the authors they have not made.
they'd still get mad at Philips when a third-party bulb breaks

I don't disagree with you -- a subset of customers are going to be angry regardless of warnings, they only go so far. But the issue at hand is how best to deal with the problem they have publicly stated was the reason for this decision: Some subset of third-party bulbs do not work ideally in their ecosystem. Option #1 was to warn customers of this problem and let them decide. There are several other options that were available to them. The farthest down that list, and worst option they had was to disable the bulbs. I would expect that last option to be used only for bulbs that caused fires or other safety issues. That wasn't the case (or I would have expected them to have stated that directly since it would have been something a lot of people would have understood). I don't think Philips realized how major of a feature this is, particularly to early adopters.
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If a self-driving car is designed around neural networks, then does that remove the liability dilemma introduced when such a car is involved in an accident? The car panicked and crashed.

If we could move the liability to the car itself, then maybe we could just add the car to its own insurance policy, you know, as if it were a dependent, like a teenage driver.
I bought my first Goosebumps books at my local B. Dalton. I have no idea why they closed it...I felt like it was the perfect size. Or maybe that's just nostalgia talking.
Why does it need to stop if you agree that its a fact of life. No one is saying 30 y/o's are enlighted, just that they have a bit more perspective. The same can be said for twenties vs. teens. It's not that teens are idiots - they are just teens with the life-experiences & perspective of a teen
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No one is disputing that there are many people like that; the question is, how many in relation to more savvy customers, and whether this amount is in any way significant for the company.
You are, of course, assuming that his system was built properly to maintain manual override. If the vehicle is drive-by-wire, I have no idea if his way of hacking the vehicle would have possibly impeded those systems.
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>I'm not confident we can argue Google or anyone else has done much better. You might notice Google has never announced testing their cars where snow occurs, for example.

This is a sensor limitation. They have fully admitted this several times (heavy rain too). Equating the fact that this guy can't handle any emergency situations with a sensor limitation all of the lidar systems suffer from is stupid.

Google has shown many times that they have logic to handle routes around obstructions, construction, etc as well as cars running red lights, pedestrians walking into the street, etc. At least read up on something before you call it smoke and mirrors.
The Galleria is basically there to serve out-of-town oil money and the rich folks in West U, Upper Kirby, Rice, and whatnot areas, I would say.

EDIT:

On the plus side, we still have some good book stores, like Brown Technical Book Shop (http://www.browntechnical.org/). :)
There was a lot of eye-rolling stuff said in that debate.

Several of them referenced ending encryption and how the terrorists had "encrypted cellphones" (in the latest shooting they used fucking Facebook Messenger! To a public Facebook group no less).

Then we have Carly Fiorina saying she would be great at combating terrorists because of her "technology background" (philosophy and medieval history major, then masters in marketing and finally an MBA). I guess being HP's worst CEO now qualifies as a "technology background." She did also say something incoherent about some god algorithm we could use Minority Report-style, which I'd criticise had it made any sense.
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Because wage slavery is ultimately not much better than slavery, and its abolishment does not necessitate the collapse of society. A world where no one is forced to work is a better world.
Maybe if you're in the market for a Titan X or something, but the R9 Fury and 390 are both great cards for their price point. Performance will also be impacted by nvidia software like hairworks and God rays.
Stats and dataframes now has someone working full time on it. It will get appreciably better soon.
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