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The large part of the complexity of implementing self-driving cars comes from the fact that the roadway is not a fully protected space. You can find a number of examples of fully unattended automated vehicles that have been around for a while (for example, AGT people-movers that are common at airports), but they are dependent on a fully protected pathway so that they do not require very much intelligence.

So what about roadways? Freeways have a certain degree of protection, but it's still not comparable with an elevated train ROW. It is certainly possible to develop roadways with a sufficient degree of protection for less sophisticated automation to be reliable, but it would be very expensive: they would need much more intensive maintenance, traffic density would have to be quite a bit more limited, they would need careful physical protection with at least fencing. In the end, I don't think that the infrastructure investment would be worth it considering that the period of time for which this infrastructure is needed will probably be quite short (in infrastructure terms).
Given the hurricanes and flooding, it amazes me that insurance companies (and the government) continue to cover people living in such places...
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Don't measure by minimum wage. By that measure everything is going to look like a huge rise.

Despite Mexico being cheaper than USA. About 50% cheaper I would say. $120 pesos A DAY (about $7.05 dollars) is an small amount to live with.
When Van Dyke can shoot a gunless prone person sixteen times while twenty other cops just look on rather than stopping him at five or six, they're all rotten. If their training is no better than this, they should carry break-action pistols without magazines. On the other hand, in some cities it would be considered a miracle if an officer were capable of emptying his weapon without losing any shots downrange, so they have that going for them.
A commenter elsewhere said Racket had ADT's with langplai but also with langracket via subtypes of struct type with match macro. Said it was same style of programming.

So that's static typing (Typed Racket) and macros for sure. Possibly ADT's depending on whether you object to claim above. Should cover your list of requirements.
its not really that simple, even on iOS. I'd like to allow facebook to access the camera so I can take a picture to send to someone directly from the app. But that means I've given it permission to access the camera period at that point. Not just permission to take a single picture. Similarly I'd like to give an app permissions to save pictures to the os level photo db. But the permission isn't 'save' it's 'access your photos'. Which means once I give it permission it can look at all the photos on the camera.

I'd personally prefer more fine grained permissions. Permission to take a picture (and read just those pictures the app took), permission to save pictures to the OS picture db. Permission to read pictures from the os picture DB the app didn't take.

I actually don't know if that would be any kind of solution. Another would be if the only way to access pictures was an OS level ui. That way the app couldn't access the pictures directly.

at the same time that would limit useful things apps can do. For example the fb messenger app showing half the display as a live feed from the camera.
And the award for Best Story Title Innuendo goes to...

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"DHS Giving Firms Free Penetration Tests". Brian Krebs.
"[Mcdonald coefficient] In Silicon Valley and the larger startup and VC investing world, I often find that it’s surprisingly low, or even non-existent."
Source?

That was a self congratulating article filled with cynical judgments on people the author doesn't really know.

Many successful and wealthy people come from humble beginnings. Even many of the people I know who were well off since birth, do have their share of working in low wage industries. In Canada where the author is from, you cannot graduate from high school without 30 hours of work experience which will most likely be in "blue collar" industries. This is way before your shinny degree

This is in fact one of my favourite attributes of the American Culture and perhaps the main reason why US leads economically around the world. Work is valued and is not beneath anyone.
Is this the same as Google Apps accounts? I can't sign up to a google account without gmail from an address I previously used for a Google Apps account.
it doesn't matter. at the basic level, solved domain -- all that matters is that they do problems
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My sarcasm detector is hitting red here, but I'm glad to be of help :)
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Why take someone down when what they've done is awesome?! Just suggest improvements, be constructive.
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Hey HN!

I remember a discusssion from a few days ago about how ideas were worthless, and that only execution matters. I share a somewhat similar opinion, but I do think however that certain niche ideas can not only be simply executed, but can also serve as breakthrough or fallback income.

As it happens I get a lot of niche ideas (usually every day), some are dumb, some not, but best of all, they can be made into a functioning website without a lot of programming knowledge.

My question would be: Would anyone be interested in a blog with free project ideas?

Each project would contain:
- Name
- Available domain names
- Short summary
- Perfect CMS and the plugins (if there's a need for them)
- Suggested hosting jurisdiction
- Legal implications
- Whether there are any other sites in the niche.

Etc..
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I love this reply. It made me smile
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving...
It will probably have some effect, but that effect will be swamped by other considerations.
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Exactly right. Very little is at risk from rising sea level at high tide. Places like this are at some risk during smaller storms, because they're so close to the new mean. However, a whole lot is at risk from hurricane storm surges. The change in mean high tide is not the important part of the story, it's the change in extreme events.

The atmosphere is like any other system of waves -- increase the energy in the system, and you increase the amplitude (the frequency being largely limited by the shape/harmonics of the Earth). So, big surprise that we'll expect more extreme events with climate change. Warm ocean water is the fuel for tropical cyclones, so risk in these low-lying areas can only get worse.
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China has many serious problems, but its situation simply does not prove what you are suggesting here.

China is a once heavily communist country that has been transitioning its economy for awhile now, and it has been quite successful at it. The idea that it is a fake prosperity ignores the changes in quality of life that have happened.

The problems it faces now are not insurmountable. It is easy to list off everything China should do and point out the corruption, but it doesn't really prove anything about fiscal stimulus in the USA.

Dismissing the government stimulus/intervention without considering what would have alternatively happened, a long and deep depression, is disingenuous. That would have been a horrific result, and we would all be worse off.
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There's a lot of conceptual baggage that comes with the term "middle class", which makes it non-trivial for people to agree on. For example, is home-ownership important to being considered middle class? If so, how does any median income number make sense when there are areas where entry-level houses cost 3-4 times what they do in other areas? Cost of living is different in different areas. It's very easy to feel middle class with $150k a year in income when you work it out and find that after all expenses (mortgage, non-obscene car payments, utilities, insurance, food) you have a few hundred dollars each month to do with as you like, and you can live semi-comfortably, or you can save, but doing both doesn't seem to be in the cards. The common refrain of "move somewhere cheaper" doesn't look all that appetizing when it also means a massive pay-cut, and moving away from all friends and family.

So, can a person that makes $150k actually be middle class? I think so. There's so much more than just salary that goes into it.
Is it the principle or the price that makes people upset?

If the workers demanded a $1000 raise, is Lexmark just in firing those workers and hiring workers that are willing to work for less?
Hmm interesting. I have had people switch over to keynote.

What do you think about that?
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Often but not always.

OK guys, I have idea about cool startup, but since I am working on something else, here it goes - create a "Like" button that instead of liking, will say "Follow" - this will let you follow story. If any news outlet will post follow up, you will be informed. But then if after XX time the outlet will not post follow up - you will be notified to look for the end of the story elsewhere or you will be suggested some other outlets. With proper coding you can get huge thing in your hands. Do it. Do it now, I will use it. Even you Pocket - do it. Whatever do this, just give me 1% stock so I can support some charity with it in exchange of idea.
What a cool article!
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Is it implausible that any of the countries or people that I named might buy a newspaper?
Does this mean that everyone using desktop wallets like Bitcoin Core will now be downloading a slightly more bloated blockchain?
AES (and other symmetric ciphers) are vulnerable to Grover's algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm), which effectively cuts key sizes in half. AES-128 would be reduced to 64-bit security. This isn't a big problem in practice, since we can just switch to 256-bit ciphers like AES-256 and ChaCha20.

Public-key schemes based on factoring and discrete logarithms are undone by Shor's algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm), but there are asymmetric systems not known to be vulnerable to quantum algorithms. They are less mature, but researchers are working it.

There's some good high-level information at http://pqcrypto.org/ and in this paper: http://pqcrypto.eu/docs/initial-recommendations.pdf.
Ironically most of the "out of touch" high achievers have just managed to avoid the misfortune of having to waste moments of their life in menial servitude to some big corporation in exchange for a disgracefully low wage.

The experience is dehumanizing, and I have a hard time buying into the idea that having that experience benefits all but the least empathetic people.

One is likely to come out of such a mechanized experience 1) never wanting to eat the food there again, 2) having committed theft or graft by giving freebies to friends and acquaintances, or 3) feeling like an insignificant cog.

Much of success has to do with believing you are right in spite of others' doubts, and seeing the world in a novel way. In my opinion, oppressive institutional environments crush those aspects of people... Poverty and financial desperation crushes them too. Both force a kind of mental toil and constant stress.

So I'd advise a young person to perhaps find a way to do a job like that for about a week to gain that empathy and then never look back. The soul is enriched by addressing high quality problems, not low quality ones like someone in a hurry who wants french fries that need to be carried from the machine to the drive-up window.
Quixotic is a characteristic I appreciate more and more in software projects as I get older, as my own efforts seem to increasingly tilt at windmills.
NTRU is another quantum-secure (i.e. thought to be quantum-secure) cryptosystem. It can do most things we demand from public-key cryptosystems. More generally, there is no known quantum attack that significantly breaks lattice-based cryptosystems.
A serious question: When will we see a truly new OS built from the ground up? If there is a space where there seems to be little innovation it is in the space of new OS paradigms. Flavors of Windows or Linux - are there really any commercially ready alternatives today or in the very near future?
Who says that people "don't give a shit"? People disagreeing with your opinions, and down-voting your posts, is not necessarily a sign that things have changed or that the down-voters are cruel. Unpopular posts have been around a long time.
I thought title meant some socket library or socks proxy? Came here to mention how, out of context, people would be confused wondering what Netflix foot underwear has to do with networking.

Only to realize I was the fool. ;)
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That is a great show that demonstrates sci-fi's greatest strength. Its ability to speak about our current time via metaphor, allegory, and extrapolation.
I don't mean to imply that minimum wage is a valid measure, it's just one of the only measures provided in the article. Perhaps, in some places, 160% of minimum wage is decent.

My interest is: "What is a lot in (that part of) Mexico?"

In Malawi, for example, $7/day would be life changing. Despite being American, I know far more about Africa and Europe and some parts of Asia than I do my own neighbors to the south and I would like to know more.
How can I cite thoughts in people's heads?
Their opinions on why they switched?

NPD[1] often does research on consumer technology choices. I would've checked there for starters.

[1] https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/home/
Have you ever owned a Lexmark? I had a mid-level color inkjet around 2004, it was my first and only time ever with that brand. That's how bad my experience was. Not that I'm in love with HP or any of the alternatives, I'm really apathetic about them all- except Lexmark (and Xerox, which I only dislike because of how crappy they treat corporate employees and how damn expensive some of their middling hardware is).

Side note, I print so little that I switched to a laser printer YEARS ago and I've only used like two toner cartridges. I got a $150 Brother multi-function black and white laser like 6 years ago and share it with my TP-Link router to all the machines on my network with very little issue. First page print time is pretty slow, but I usually don't even pick it up from across the house for a while.
I'm using a computer right now. I use a cellphone when I'm out, and use a tablet in bed/on the couch. I use a laptop when not home.

I use my computer to stream games on TwitchTV. I also run a Linux VM on my personal computer to run caffe for neural net things. Let's see your tablet do that...
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In Miami and Fort Lauderdale the high tides were pretty dramatic around the time of the blood moon, but in terms of tide that was a phenomenon, I still don't think the tide has returned to normal since the blood moon but its definitely in a process of returning to normal.

As to rain, it usually will rain daily during wet season, yet "flooding" occurs maybe a dozen times over the year when storms have significant rainfall, and this is nothing new and so in my opinion not related to sea level rise. My opinion is "flooding" from rain is isolated to places with bad drainage, for example its more likely to happen miles inland in a place like Kendall more so than Brickell which is right on the Bay, or even more locally where one street may have flooding but the very next one doesn't.
This is exactly what I need. I've made peace with the fact that Google knows much about me because I use their services and they made the OS and major apps for my phone. I have Facebook purely to get the occasional message or invite from a friend, and I hate how exposed to them I feel for needing this minimal functionality.
It's probably hopeless generally, but thought you might like to know that Huxley himself rejected BNW later in life and offered a new take on things in Island. So it's not really fair to the author to use Huxleyish as a synonym for BNWish. Sorry I don't have a cite, read this in a biography of Huxley that had a cite. The wiki page for Island hints in this direction though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
Thanks, but that's not what I'm after - let me rephrase my question.

Acid/Base homeostasis is obviously important, and the body works hard to maintain it, no question about it. However, there is a claim (e.g. the one you made) that an "alkalizing diet" is healthier in some way than a "common" diet -- and I'm looking for a reference for that.

I have found references saying that ingesting sodium bicarb (the ultimate alkalizing agent) was shown to help with very controlled amounts and strenuous exercise, and was otherwise either useless or harmful. I have found many claims, but not one properly supported by an experiment, that an "alkalizing diet" (which often includes acids like lemon juice or apple cider vinegar in those descriptions with some hand waving) is good for you.

So, my question is: I am trying to understand the origin of the "alkalizing diet" argument, and see whether it is science, pseudo-science or myth; can you help me with that?
The (provably) best "general purpose" quantum algorithm is Grover's algorithm. The problem it solves is as follows:

Given an arbitrary function f(x), and a desired output k, find the unique input z such that f(z)=k.

We can see that using classical computers, this problem is O(n), where n is the size of the domain of f. However, Grover's algorithm can solve this problem in O(sqrt(n)). It has been shown that O(sqrt(n)) is the best possible solution to this problem on a quantum computer.

This means that quantum computers effectively halve the key-size for a brute force attack (and probably most other types), but doing any better than this would require exploiting some structure of the cryptosystem you are trying to break. To my knowledge, no such structure has been demonstrated for any major symmetric encryption algorithms.
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Thanks -- that's from the original article, whose contribution describing an easy way to set up a local OSM server is what I was applauding.
It was on my Moto-x (2015).
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This is the kind of reasoning which bothers me about Go. How can you write a language that you expect the world to use based on assumptions which are only true within 'Google'

Brittle.
You're knit picking. ;-)
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What's a non-computer activity? :P

I cook, I exercise, I play video games (PS4. That's not a computer, right? :P )
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Your comments are excellent; I think dang is just hinting at the fact that such religious discussions are not welcome on HN, which is a private domain he gatekeeps.

Bad for business, you see :-)
good lord. read some history. if you're not afraid of inflation, you haven't lived long enough.
Expressing your opinions today is a pretty big thing too!

For example, here's mine: In my opinion when some dude enters a conversation and calls a huge chunk of the people in it "intellectually lazy and weak", that dude is kind of an asshole, and probably thinks that he is way smarter than he actually is.
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Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Mexico is nowhere near that poor. It's sometimes called a "upper middle income" country along with the likes of Brazil and China.
Antiviruses are useless and you probably shouldn't be using one in 2015. Run the ISO in a VM if you don't trust it. (I didn't downvote you.)
New operating systems are still being created. Barrelfish[0] for example is quite promising. The "commercially ready" part is much more challenging.

[0] http://www.barrelfish.org/
Not to speak for Userify, but assuming the prices are 'relatively similar' to other DevOps hosted service type tools, I'd be happy to pay.

The ability to arrange user by projects, and then roles in projects has been awesome. You could have devs who have full access to development servers for project #1, limited access to staging, and no access to production, while having totally different levels of access on a different project, etc. You don't have to organize that way, but you basically get an org structure of a top level group that contains any number of child level groups (so, two levels of organization).

The total number of options are limited, I would say Userify is focusing on doing their one thing (or few things) really well.

Paired with Puppet scripts, AWS, Deploy Bot, and Laravel Forge, I'm able to deploy PHP, Java, Python, and Node.js apps to all kinds of funky server configs and access management is not even thought about any more. Just put the right keys in the provisioning scripts and the server gets the correct SSH user list and user keys.

Also, being able to centrally revoke privileges is also very awesome as contractors come into and out of projects.
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Poll: My company uses Go/Node/Python for production class microservice
Please answer if you have a number of services in any of these languages - not just one or two.

Do take a minute to share your experience. Looking for insights not evangelism.

Please upvote, as not enough companies have micro-services and this needs airtime to get a significant sample.
> how much faster is it than ad-blocked webpages?

Poke at it out yourself to get a feel for the answer. Find any recent article on any site of one of these publishers that have enabled AMP pages. You can find a list on https://www.ampproject.org/ or any AMP-enabled site you find. Once you've found an article/web page, view source. Look for a line in the html that reads:

<link rel="amphtml" href="AMP URL HERE">

If you don't find that tag, the article is not AMP enabled, so find another article that is.

Now, grab the URL at that href attribute and compare it to the original non-AMP URL you started at. Turn on/off ad-blockers, use a cold cache / hot cache, have fun. Don't forget that this comparison is not including the additional speedup gained from using the AMP Project (Google's) CDN.
It isn't fixed on my phone, and we've already suffered through years of it.
> the idea that I need socks that can talk to my TV

when you put it that way I really don't see the appeal anymore
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This one takes the cake for me: “It scares me what Facebook is doing with AI,” Hotz says. “They’re using machine-learning techniques to coax people into spending more time on Facebook.”
any particular advantages over node.js + es2016 async/await?
If you go ahead and read the article, you'll realize that it's more about Facebook complaining their business will be more heavily regulated in Brazil than outright censorship.
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Gates speaking about the "fixed mindset" vs. "growth mindset" reminds me of this [1] article by Aaron Swartz.

[1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck
Yeah. That's sort of my problem. I know a good deal about Malawi and very little about Mexico. Do you know what a passable wage looks like in Mexico?

Exchange rates, which are the implicit basis of this article's concern, is a much worse metric than minimum wage.
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I would have much rather you written the long post than this useless short post.
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