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If anyone is actually making this and needs a co-founder I can help when I have free time. Not interested in money etc, just to kill free time so I am not in to monetizing it fast.
I would prefer to team up with programmer, I am programmer myself, but to busy to do most of it at the moment. I can do testing and helping out though. I have extensive 9 years of IM, marketing and business management experience (all three are on my strong sides). I am working at the moment on a startup, but in few days my work code-wise is done, so I might have some free time here and there.
Anonymous donating would be fantastic.

My wife has a direct debit for UNICEF which sends a few pounds their way each money.

Yet several times per year they write to her and ask her to increase her donation or give a top-up sum. The next time she receives one she will be phoning them to cancel.

I really don't understand the psychology of charities.
I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that this is a comment on how smart people often accept stifling constraints on their thought and actions "because that's how it's done."

It is my belief that this self-driving car project is really a kind of first for Hotz. He's famous for finding and exploiting the error-modes in what other people built; now he's actually building something. Methinks he's about to learn a lot about himself and the nature of the world. He's clearly extremely smart, so I'm actually rather excited for him!
I always like to use The Girl Next Door (https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/The+Girl+Next+Door) for my handwriting ;)
I hope the design was originally with a different image. And then the image was changed, and it wasn't redesigned.
And chess players. Computers will never beat the best chess players.
Exactly the plan for outlier cases. Though perhaps not GTA...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMK-kajdgMA
> They used to. From 1987 to 2010, B&N owned a mall bookstore chain called B. Dalton. There were in every mall, but then B&N decided they didn't need that market anymore, so they liquidated the stores and killed the Dalton brand.

B Dalton was (as were other mall located bookstores at the same time) in decline when B&N bought them; the format was visibly on the way out even before online competition.
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Yes, It's one person. WE GET IT.

This article is a hero worship piece about a guy rather than a story about the technology. It's like how you can't find an article about Theranos that isn't actually just a photo-shoot/celebrity worship article about its founder.
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It can do even more than that. Warehouse organization, putting high usage/fast moving objects towards the front of the warehouse, reorganizing based on usage and expiration, restocking, kit packaging etc... Goes way beyond just picking things up with a fork lift and moving them to a different location. All things a person or team of people used to get paid in the 6 digits for are now just run by robots and AI.
GC and control over memory layout are two completely orthogonal issues. You can have either one, neither, or both.
advice I would give someone I know:

1. bankrate.com - go to 2-3 lenders go with best APR.
2. don't buy the most expensive house on the block.
3. don't buy any big purchases until it's closed.
4. look for good schools even if you don't need it.
5. stay away from condos and new builds.
6. shop home owners insurance yourself and save.
Even when there's no such thing as AirBNB, tenants who rent have absolutely, positively ZERO recourse against bad neighbors.

Zilch. Nada. Absolutely nothing. They can accept it, or find somewhere else.

It's great that a landlord is saying, fine, you can sublease the place short term. But we have to regulate that, you have to pay us to do so, and if you can't hold up your end we have the right to put an end to it.

This is the only reasonable way I can see to solve the problem of short term rentals.
I think this misinterprets what the history of the industrial revolution teaches us. When steam shovels replaced humans, it's not that only steam-shovel-makers had jobs anymore. Instead, new humans who would have been employed breaking rocks, were instead free to go invent or work in entirely new industries.

Entertainment, health care, and communications are industries that have exploded, in terms of economic value and employment, since the industrial revolution. One thing these industries have in common is that the value they provide is dependent on humans. People want to talk to people, see stories about people, and be healthy themselves. Technology enables these industries but technology does not replace the heart of the value.

Maybe someday if AI evolves into artifical persons, then AI could take part in conversations, be entertained, and wish to prevent it's own death. But that is probably a long way off, and might never come. It's not like people are working on artificial personalities now. No one is working on car AI that will tell its owner to fuck off, it's watching Mad Men and doesn't feel like driving.

The industrial approach to AI is to build better tools. Not to build new independent beings. Maybe it's possible that a tool can become a being, but we have no evidence at all that such a thing can happen.

So the future of employment will probably not be unemployment, it will be different employment. Truck driver jobs will get replaced by truck-driving AI, but the children of truck drivers won't miss it. They'll grow up in that world, and work in some other new industry, like virtual world designer or personal medical consultant or artist or athlete.
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I've used a GC language (Java) in hard-realtime systems successfully. Realtime Java (RTSJ) gives you control over which threads can trigger a GC and which operate in an arena. Even hard realtime systems have a very small core that's actually hard realtime, and real-time Java isolates it nicely.
The article doesn't talk about rich kids.
Real names just mean people are doxxed more often... which I interpret as an increase in bullying, rather than a decrease.

It's somewhat true that anonymity is disinhibiting... but that's a good thing, because it leads to fresh and creative thinking. You'll get plenty of noise, but there'll be plenty of signal too.
People in their twenties wrote those papers.
That's breakfast, lunch, and probably 5% dinner (a small minority of HQ), including cleanup costs (washing dishes, etc). You have to have some over-capacity as its a cafeteria - you can't run out of food at any time, so throw in an extra 10% - 20% food.

Then add in snacks and drinks, which come out to a few dollars a day per employee, including stocking costs, running the coffee bars, etc. That's a few drinks from the fridge, a coffee or two, a few bags of snacks a day.

And I don't know anyone working at any SV tech headquarters who don't eat the food every day. Personally I've maybe eaten not at work for breakfast and lunch...10 work days in the past year?

While the HQ gets economies of scale, smaller offices are more expensive. Y! SF catered for a long time before finally also switching over to Bon Appetit. Y! NYC provided a daily seamless stipend before they finally built out the in-house dining area.

Add in non-full time contractors as well, who generally get the eat at the cafeteria as well.

Bon Appetit is a standard, albeit higher end, food services company. They serve colleges as diverse as Cornell, Oberlin, the College of Idaho, Lewis and Clark, etc. It's the same company used by Google, Oracle, and eBay. It's hard to describe them as over-priced and overly-luxurious.
One app with 1,000 package dependencies? Sounds like a nightmare to me when it comes time to update them and ensure they didn't break anything... especially in a language without a compiler to help.
On the surface it's a horrible proposal with massive free speech and technical implementation implications. In fact, the first thing I thought of was: "ISISrolling" where people are tricked into visiting ISIS websites in iFrames and what-not in order to set them up for a visit by the police. However, as I thought about it more something struck me. We already have such laws on the books for child pornography.
My favourite Branson quote, though it may well have been an old adage he repeated, of course.

"If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline."
One thing I really liked here was the run through of failure modes in the readme, its refreshing to see the limitations of some software listed up front rather than glossed over.
> conflates consciousness and intelligence and this confuses matters

I think this is an excellent point. I like your example with colors, which shows that there is a difference between seeing (i.e. experiencing) colors and producing symbols which give the impression that an entity can see colors.

I don't follow any argument that proposed that computers can be conscious but other machines (e.g. car engines) cannot. In the end, symbols don't really exist in physical reality - all that exists is physical 'stuff' - atoms, electrons, photons etc. interacting with each other. So how can we say that one ball of stuff is conscious but another is not? And why isn't all of the stuff together also conscious? Why not just admit we don't know yet?

Consciousness may be hard to define, but lets take something simpler - experience, or even more specifically - pain. I can feel pain. While I can't be 100% sure, I believe other humans feel pain as well. However I don't believe my laptop has the capacity to feel pain, irrespective of how many times and in how many languages it can say 'I feel pain'.

Perhaps the ability to experience is the defining characteristic of consciousness?
Would work well in clean rooms and hospitals. It's hard to find tech that you can install somewhere sterile and keep it sterile. Keyboards - nope, mouse? Hm, they are ok.

We wipe everything down with alcohol wipes, so this bar looks like the business. Especially if you can fit a glass case around it / over it. We could fit them into laminar air flow workstations. Cut some metal, fit some glass parts instant computer aided control. Neat.

Ooooh, here is a photo of a screen inside one of the work stations: http://www.parallabs.com/products/ivf-workstations/ivf-works...
Why is “Legacy” a negative word?
> random multi-millisecond pauses break everything

Then either use a GC that doesn't have multi-millisecond pauses, or make sure your "plain" GC doesn't. Both approaches are used very commonly.
In the larger sense, aren't all the representatives responsible? Certainly the ones who voted for it. I know it is controversial, but they should be reading the bills before passing legislation. And the ones who didn't vote? What are we paying you for, if you aren't even showing up for your job? And even those who may have voted no seen to bear some responsibility, why didn't you raise an alarm? You should still be reading bills that have a high likely hodd of passing, even if your intention is to vote no.
> Plus, as far as children's books go, physical books are way, way better than ebooks. I might even go as far to say that ebooks will never replace children's books.

For me there is a log of nostalgia around going to Borders with my parents as a child. Regarding the eBook thing you may be correct, but for me they already have replaced real books. For 5 dollars a month through an app on iPad my kid gets access to thousands of children's books on-demand ranging from a direct page-for-page port to something more interactive with sound, interactions, and video. I, for one, welcome our e-book overlords.
Taxi Drivers and Uber Black Drivers Protest UberX and Lyft in Philadelphia
Like most hard problems, it's easy to pick off the low-hanging fruit and claim that you have solution.

Self-driving cars (in some form or the other, under some loose definition of "self" and "driving") have been around since the 20s. But it still remains a vexing problem.

It is quite easy to program a car to stay between 2 cars and follow the car in front. It is quite another to have the same car drive on (a) a road without lane markings; (b) in adverse weather conditions (snow, anybody? Hotz should take the car to Tahoe); (c) in traffic anomalies (ambulance/cop approaching from behind; accident/debris in front; etc. etc.); and so on.

No offense to GeoHot, but I'd love to see his system work in rush-hour 101 traffic; or cross the Bay Bridge, where (coming to SF) the lanes merge arbitrarily.

The key challenges are not only to drive when there's traffic; but to also drive when there's NO traffic, because lane markings, etc. are practically nonexistent in many places.

Having said all that, I still admire his enthusiasm and drive(no pun intended). Tinker on!
Exactly. You can appreciate aspects of a person and the work they do without deifying them in their entirety. Linus Torvalds and weev (being an extreme example) fall into this category.
I think it's fair given his mission to "crush Mobileye".
Is unit testing the biggest duplication of effort in human history?
Are YOU safe on the road? Have you tested all corner cases on yourself?
This is why they rely on semantic versioning. http://semver.org/

Edit: I know this doesn't solve the problem completely, but comparing, for instance, a typical CPAN module's versioning scheme with what you get in npm, I'm far more confident in a lack of breakage in the npm case. :)

Edit2: For downvoters: I program in Perl and Javascript professionally. I'm speaking from experience (my boss just ran into this exact problem with a cpan module in production yesterday), not picking on Perl.
What makes a Hero a Hero?
Which distro, in your opinion, is 100% perfect and can't be improved on?
News flash, privacy is going to (keep) getting worse before it grts better. This is why the instant someone invents a totally secure and private way for me to exist online, I'm going to dump a truckload of money down their coffers.
Hrmm... Real time health monitoring could finally be the truly compelling reason to wear smart watches.
How Projections for Linux Smart Phones Mislead
IsMounted is an Antipattern
> Hippocratic Oath

The original one made doctors promise not to perform abortions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Original_oath

> in the course of my practice

This restricts everything that follows to the doctor's patients. I doubt any of them treated Putin.
I regularly use Microsoft Remote Desktop in full color mode over 3G from the UK against a machine hosted outside Paris, as an example of what's possible given enough effort, RDP is a bastion of pure awesomeness. I have on many occasions failed to notice I'm running gvim on the remote box compared to a local VM on my laptop. In full screen mode they're practically indiscernible if you aren't paying attention to the latency of your keystrokes. It's impressive enough that on a high bandwidth low latency connection, even small YouTube videos play well.

RDP is heavily integrated into the OS, I'm not sure where it derives its advantage, but for example, dragging a window across the desktop (requiring massive region dirtying) is somehow almost flawless. For example it might be quite an easy affair to delegate compositing and blending to the client, such that the client has a full copy of the bitmaps being dragged around the screen. VNC is intentionally stupid by design and nothing like that (it hails from an era when a microcontroller was preferable for cost reasons compared to a computer in some hypothetical X terminal design - remember VNC is from the 90s).

There is a ton of stuff Libreoffice can do this in this department to produce a compelling solution, alpha quality "release early release often" editions shouldn't be used to form a long term judgement, especially when examples of better implementations already exist, and there is real money on the table to motivate further innovation.
> 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

We will become the children of our new AI parents. We are building our future caretakers.
> It seems that by freeing the staff he's created what's effectively a chain of indie bookstores, where each one has its character determined by the staff.

ISTR that Blockbuster pursued a centralized alternative to this strategy (using community demographic analysis to make store stocking decisions, rather leaving store leadership independent), which was very successful until they ran into the whirling blades of Netflix; I think either independent or centralized demographic targeting of specific stores could work well for big-box bookstores, what probably won't for a chain with stores in lots of different communities is cookie-cutter layout.
There are already WebODF (http://www.webodf.org), used in ownCloud Documents, and OnlyOffice (http://onlyoffice.org)
Yes, because of the story. Child rape; child torture; full-view, un-anesthetized surgery. No thanks.
What I was meaning is actually not about external investors or so. My point is, sometimes even putting more equally competent technical collaborators won't work; it's like digging a tunnel: the working surface is only that wide, an extra worker can do little more than staring at the working man's ass.
I'm in complete agreement with your statement--that was my intent; I regret the confusion. Thanks.
Nice. I'm still struggling to feel I know enough to do my own thing other than lead gen and optimization for others.
To be completely honest, idea is just 10% of business. Any one man startup creator will confirm imo. Idea is good, but idea will not get you 50% shares of a project.

Obviously people should open businesses - but hey, there are so many ways to do it. If you have ONLY idea, then do this two steps:

-learn basics of languages needed to start it on Codecademy so you can also help in testing, double checking code and writing some small things - like initial code for the website so the developer can focus on important things

-learn some marketing and business. Those are not that hard actually and best resources are forums imo. Start with Fastlane forum, BHW forum and BuilderSociety. All information you need for making successful startup are on this forums. Then read a bit about other startups on Medium and especially focus on startup postmortem - VERY important to learn from their mistakes.

All of this will take you 2-3 months to learn assuming you spend ~4 hours every day on them. While doing it all socialize like crazy liking and interacting with people from your startups niche on Twitter and Facebook.

Once you are done you have skills necessary to be very good idea co-funder that will bring enough to the table to want 50%.
I thought the article was good. It started with a basic premise, "Should we ditch Python and other languages in favor of Julia for technical computing?" Then the article shows several methods for speeding up python code to be faster than using julia. I was a little disappointed that pypy was not mentioned, but it is a good introduction to speeding up python code.

I think the flaw in the article is when it switches to answering, "did the Julia team [write] Python benchmarks the best way for Python?" Then it rewrites the fib implementation to use a cache, which makes the comparison to the julia version completely ridiculous. It also does all sorts of optimization which clearly deviated from the spirit of the benchmark, naive python vs naive julia.

I wish the conclusion had been written in a way that clearly answered the original premise, should we ditch python for julia? The article clearly showed that there are a lot of good ways to speed up python code. Looking for algorithmic complexity wins (like in the fib example), using cpython, using numba, and profiling all can be used to speed up python code to the level of naive julia code. Which leads to the conclusion, if all you want is faster code there is no need to ditch python for julia.
livery drivers drive for Uber != All Uber drivers are livery drivers.

Tenants who have landlord's permission to rent on Airbnb != All people who rent on Airbnb have landlord's permission.

And yes disruption is always when it happens to others, when it happens to you, it looks 'unfair'.
"Parked along the underground racetrack are a pair of mammoth six-story conglomerations of computers, crystals, wires and magnets: Atlas and C.M.S., each operated by 3,000 physicists who aim to catch and classify everything that comes out of those microscopic samples of primordial fire."

Is that a typo? Are there really 6,000 physicists actively doing work on the large hadron collider?
From assholes. i.e. other people.
There is also ONLYOFFICE: http://onlyoffice.org
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That's not true. I've lived in the south all my life and I've never even seen electric heating. The predominant systems I've seen are all gas powered. Water heaters seem to be split 50/50 between gas and electric as are stoves.
well, there is still none. So even the most conservative projection of "one" would have missed.
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Isaac Newton invented calculus in his early 20s
I don't know that they're completely orthogonal, GC by nature controls the allocation of objects which implicitly means that the layout in memory is controlled by the GC algorithm.

For instance if you have a GC that compacts then by definition you cannot guarantee object relative layout. This object layout is critical in making sure that your traversal order is cache and pre-fetch friendly.

AFAIK struts+arrays in C# are the only construct I've seen that lets you get close to explicitly control ordering of objects. In almost every other GC'd language you end up needing to use a giant byte array(hello emscripten!) in order to make those guarantees. If you work in that manner you're throwing away 90% of what makes the language useful and paying the cost of not working with the objects in their native form.
Refreshing; kept nodding my head, in agreement, as I went along. Thanks.
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Here, the arm with reduced swing is not on the gun side though. It's on the other side I think? Assuming the gun is holstered under the jacket close to the left breast.

"..where trainees are taught to keep their right hand close to the chest "

This appears to be a different thing than keeping the arm close to a waist holstered weapon
I've seen "malls" mentioned a few times in various comments. Can you elaborate on why you think B&N should be in malls, given the current poor state of malls in the US? Many are seeing financial troubles, or shutting down completely.
How is it different from giving half the test subjects a potential cure for cancer and the other half placebo? Scientist do that kind of thing all the time.
Vladimir Putin Immortal?
You won't love them less, but they will grow up in a world where they are not necessary. They will struggle to feed themselves, and the value of their effort will be low. They will be relegated to mundane, highly simplified tasks. Economics are cruel.
> The bottom line is that even for a native speaker, if you encounter a new character, chances are you don't know what it means or how to pronounce it. If it's simple enough, you may guess, but that's it.

Native speaker here, this is definitely true. On top of the characters

Also, children learn the phonetic alphabet[1] before learning the characters. That's why it takes so long to even read a simple magazine: no one uses the phonetic alphabet outside of lower level elementary school.

This article is like the "Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes"[2] but more like "Learn to read 0.01% of Chinese characters in 15 minutes", but interesting nonetheless

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo

[2]http://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/