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This piece is really well written in an accessible style. It's even more clear than the original article, and does a great job of sounding genuinely kind to all parties (except maybe the journalist, who will be prepared for it).

Well done, Tesla. Well done for making awesome cars, responding nearly instantly to something you barely needed to bother with, and not letting your legal team rewrite everything you say into oblivion.
>We should also clarify that Tesla’s autopilot system was designed and developed in-house.

I thought it was quite odd the article was claiming otherwise. Remarketing an off-the-shelf solution for a feature that complex didn't seem like Tesla.
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I think he understands UX is important; the majority of recent changes are to the UX since the crypto is more or less stable. OWS probably has much fewer developers contributing to Signal than either Telegram and WhatsApp, so that could be one of the reasons they have to play catch-up.

There are also features some consider good UX but Signal shuns because they create confusion regarding the security properties (i.e. self-destructing messages). Signal's number one priority is security while that is not nearly as important for Telegram in practice. A lot of the UX advantages the latter has can be traced back to this essential difference.

I agree though that something like messaging multiple people without creating a group first is more or less UX-only and would probably make sense (groups are anyway a client-side abstraction only in Signal, servers have no concept of them, so making anonymous or automatically named groups on the fly should be doable)

Also probably getting in touch with OWS on their mailing list is more effective than hoping they notice random posts on HN. It is not the most contributor-friendly project on the planet but clearly articulated and focused posts are usually answered and so are issues/pull-requests that conform to their stated guidelines (do not add extra options, do not put security second, etc.)
They seem sort of defensive and needy. "Oh, the didn't reaaally make a better car then we did, we had that two years ago, and ours is so much better and ... ". Of course it is, the guy made it in his garage.

The classy thing to do would be congratulating the guy and encouraging even more open experimentation. I mean, they already are open-sourcing a lot of their work.

This statement doesn't seem in line with that.
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“The internet is not a law-free room”

This quote from a German politician sounds silly at first, but makes sense.

If a company wishes to get access to a market, they have to follow their laws.

I can’t start a company and sell pirated DVDs to the US – even if that might be legal in China.

And the US can then stop importing my products, and demand I follow their laws, or be blocked.

For you, as a solo developer, it is very simple.

Either you only focus on your own market, the market you know, or you accept to abide the rules of every market where you operate. Most US startups limit their services to the US only anyway, as you need a US address, or a US credit card, or a .edu email, etc.

But an internet without rules, without laws, would be the worst possible result for the consumer.

If someone scams you in a transaction? No way to get money back. If snapchat sells your nudes, or even blackmails you? No way to prevent.

We need those laws.
Serious question (I haven't used a merchant credit card account): do regular accounts come with any fraud protection? The reason I ask is, I was sent a link to this a while ago, which seems to say that Stripe does do fraud protection:

https://stripe.com/docs/fraud
I have actually tried to a make Elixir space sensitive but I was not comfortable on how it played out with the macro system. You can still see though some Python influences, like heredocs, doc tests, the System module, etc.

Still, past the initial syntax similarities with Ruby, it is a very different language than both Ruby and Python. You should definitely give it a try :)
Also, take this to the second derivative. You can learn to learn faster and more efficiently. You can set yourself up for success. You can start small, and gain momentum from there. You can learn to hack your motivation.

Will this guarantee success and a happy life? Of course not. But it will greatly increase your chances.
Another way to view it is that the biggest limits in your life are the ones you set.

I'm perfectly aware that some people start with huge disadvantages in life, but whatever your starting point, you can end up much higher. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.
I also am rooting for the underdog. But the fact of the matter is, once a non-human component is found at fault for a fatal accident, it'll likely set the field back a few years. It's not about betting that he will fail, it's more about doubting that he can achieve the level of safety, by himself.
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the forced use of 'real names' on YouTube

How is that possible, considering I'm still called "icebraining" on YouTube, and I never had to associate a real name with my account?
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This isn't might makes right this is a corporation pissing over laws, if this was some oil company killing seals would you respond in the same manner?

WhatsApp provides a service in a country, they gain direct financial benefit from almost 100M users, they received a subpoena and ignored it because it's Brazil, if this would've been a European nation they would most likely have complied, if it were a US court order they would for sure have complied.

The only "might makes right" here is WhatsApp ignoring the subpoena because they are an almighty multi billion dollar US company which thinks it's above the law. And on the other side we know that there's pretty much no company on the planet that would dare to defy a US subpoena or court order.

Should only US and "western" nation's legal systems be respected? Is this some how morally compelling to you?
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Yes, part of what I was trying to say is why not get that handful of folks together and go to Japan, to the source. Logistics? Ego? Funding? Perhaps a trip is in the cards...
Given that in the US there is literally no level of safety which will satisfy even 90% of people, it's useful to have a bite-size entrant who can move fast and fail if needed.
excellent ! eye opener !

the last i faced this problem on a million request site, i just fixed the ulimit
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> When companies decline to obey local law, it's reasonable for them to be cut off from operating in that country.

It's possible. It's only reasonable if the local law is itself reasonable.
I think that most people would be a lot happier if they saw life as a series of low probability events rather than trying to create a story of accumulation.

Life does not accumulate things (luck, good fortune, bad fortune, karma, any other crap that feeds the story of continuity).

Life is about maximizing your exposure to positive low probability events, or the probability of them, and minimizing your exposure to negative low probability events, or the probability of them.

You're not working hard in work to get a reward, you're working hard to be exposed to more chances of possible rewards.

You're not exercise to avoid bad health, you're doing it to lower the chances of a series of low probability diseases.

I think this is the same thing you were saying. I think realising that life is a series of low probability discreet events, not a continuum that accumulates based on past events is a real life changer.

All you can work on is the process of finding the right events to be exposed to - having feelings about the outcome of those events is irrational and leads to unhappiness.
I think the best part of 'modern c++' is the fact that you don't have to use any of it (I'll make a concession for move constructors, that just makes sense).
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For Phoenix, the main constraints in performance are usually around configuration like the size of your database pool or if protocols are being consolidated. Once those are tweaked, you are usually good to go!

Generally speaking though, Erlang in Anger is a great (and free) resource and Observer is a fantastic tool. When we made Phoenix handle 2 million connections, observer was all we needed to find the bottlenecks. The fix was then to optimize ETS or introduce a pool of processes.

If performance is not what you expect, feel free to ping me or Chris. I personally enjoy doing this kind of work. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741109
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't see where it states that SymbOS provides preemptive multitasking. The facts page [1] states that "I want to give everything to SymbOS what a modern OS needs. Real preemptive Multitasking, a dynamic memory-management for up to 576K and more.", but thats not the same as it actually having it. I can't actually see how preemption would be possible on a Z80. Have I missed something?

CLiPS (on the same site) appears to support preemption [2], but that requires a C64. I don't know how that is achieved.

Very impressive work nevertheless.

[1] http://www.symbos.de/facts.htm

[2] http://www.symbos.de/mirrors/www.clips64.de/details.htm
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Success, of course, begets success. And vice versa.

That's kind of what this article was all about. That you can break through that barrier if you can understand what is shaping your thinking about how the world works.

Do you think it's possible you're conflating scepticism and pessimism with an increased understanding of how the world works? That is, with more experience?

I know I was very optimistic of life what I was in my 20s. Then, in my 30s, that optimism faded. Now, in my 40s, I've come to realize that I'm optimistic again, and I was just naive in my 20s. Perhaps this cycle will repeat or take a new form as I grow older. I'm kind of excited to see what happens.
Digital Guru is, in fact, very close to the original Computer Literacy site... which is just around the corner from the original Fry's Electronics location (on Oakmead).
There's an easy way to figure it out: record the sound of yourself sleeping using an app made for the purpose.
>I tried the beta briefly, but to be honest it came no where close to http://www.sequelpro.com for ease of use.

I would kill for a sequelpro that worked with other databases.
From the report
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...:

>Miles driven since start of project in 2009: “Autonomous mode” means the software is driving the vehicle, and test drivers are not touching the manual controls. “Manual mode” means the test drivers are driving the car.

> Autonomous mode: 1,320,755 miles

> Manual mode: 955,771 miles

So it seems the cars are self-driving only half of the time! The answer to 1) seems to be driver takes over all the time.
> While it's true that there are surges in demand in the normal morning and evening commutes, there is still a lot of excess driving capacity that is needed for trips other than those surges, and so you only have to have enough cars to cover those peaks.

Do we really have excess capacity compared to the peak demand? Put another way, how many people own a car and aren't using it at e.g. 8:50AM? At a complete guess I'd say maybe 5%?

(Also, given zoning and city layout, most houses are a lot more than 5 minutes away from most offices. Even if my commute is 8:20-8:50 and yours is 9:15-9:45, we're probably both heading into the city centre from outside, so the same car probably can't serve us both).
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Pretty disappointing to Pingdom cripple the free plan like this without grandfathering existing free accounts. This is on top of them pushing the prices higher for the rest of their plans over the last year and relentlessly spamming you with messages inside their web interface to try and get you onto a paid plan. It certainly doesn’t inspire me with any confidence to move to a paid plan with the knowledge that they will continue this sort of behaviour in future.

Anyone got a recommendation for alternative services that are similarly capable in the free tier?
> Science can't prove/disprove AGW because there's no control, which means that it isn't and can't be a fact.

This is so wrong... If it was correct, what would be point of doing science? Let's face it - the point of science is to build models of reality. And every model (except of usage of the world in logic) by definition is a type of inductive reasoning about reality. The reason why we want to have models is to be able to predict situations where we don't have control; for instance, we don't want build two bridges that are to be used by people to see which one fails. So you're pretty much rejecting inductive reasoning in that sentence.

The AGW theory, specifically, is not a fact (GW is a fact), it's a model that tells us what's gonna happen (conditionally on our emissions) with the planet. And you can believe it's a good model even without having control (just like you can believe that a computer model of a bridge is a useful tool). For instance, because you understand laws of thermodynamics, and you can measure what greenhouse gas is.

(Oh, on 2nd reading, I understand where you're coming from. Model is technically not a fact, fact is some observation. But I guess in common language, most of the things we call facts are actually models.)
You weren't forced to do anything. They asked you, do you want to combine your accounts? A lot of people just immediately clicked yes without realizing the consequences. To this day I still have my old YouTube account with a username.
Here's a detailed report on the situation from one Brian Conrad, who attended the meeting: http://mathbabe.org/2015/12/15/notes-on-the-oxford-iut-works...
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I'd rather suggest "Four Views on Free Will"[1], much more in touch with the state of the art and not difficult to read.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405134860
I don't see this being of huge use to most media campaigns in which a human editor is involved...though perhaps it could be one of several first-pass filters used to go through a digital photographer's memory card to and filter out the weakest images (personally, as a photographer, a much simpler tool that can weed out obviously blurry or unfocused images would be much, much, much more useful than something that tells me what I hope I already know and enjoy doing: picking out my favorite photos)

However, this algorithm would be immediately useful for people who need to auto crop photos in a way more intelligently than "just fit this dimension and ratio"...but this function has been implemented to some degree by various other computer vision systems, such as Microsoft's Projext Oxford https://www.projectoxford.ai/vision
I've been using the beta pretty much well since day 1, purely as a quick and easy client for non-MySQL databases (e.g. SQL Server).

DataGrip is decent enough, and kinda-sorta works most of the time. Its design seems firmly rooted in the 90s, though, and the extra features (such as diagrams) seem to be bolted-on, half-baked "I can write this in a day!" tools that quickly fall apart after a few minutes' in-depth use.

It's frustrating, as there's a real need for a cross-platform, cross-database version of something like http://www.sequelpro.com

DataGrip's pricing also seems astronomically high for what you actually get.
Windows can run an executable with a GUI interface compiled for 32-bit Windows over 20 years ago...

Though it's far from perfect, Windows has a better binary compatibility record than ANY other OS for far longer periods of time. There is something to be said for that. It's only recently (for 64-bit windows) that DOS support (ntvdm) has been unavailable.
Robotic exploration is far far greater value for money than human exploration.
It's to ensure other apps don't install add-ons.
Not a common app, but GOG Galaxy is built on Qt
Look at the html or more embarrassingly the errors in the console :P. Their stats page has used it for a longer time, the global page seems to be something new.
"Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay (978-0395284254).
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Hotz is a talented hacker. Tesla isn't into hacking. As pointed out in another thread, Tesla has engineering processes in place to finish off that pesky final 20% that seems to drag on forever... I am certain that Geohotz will get sick of this project and move on to something new once the hacking part is over and the hard part begins.
Though it will surely be a (very) long process, I'm excited about the ways in which blockchain technology can improve the efficiency of the financial system. There's an amazing disconnect between the speeds with which we can execute and settle trades. The former is on the time scale of milliseconds, while the latter is on the time scale of days.

Even if we disagree on the merits of HFT, we can surely agree that settlement is an unnecessarily slow and unreliable process. In September, 2011 (the most recent date for which I could easily find data), there was a failure to deliver $200M worth of stock per day! [1] In the Treasury market, the daily average is currently $50B! [2] Blockchain technology has the potential to solve this problem.

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

[2] http://www.dtcc.com/charts/daily-total-us-treasury-trade-fai...
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Interesting. I suppose its possible they made a deal with pebble. These things are never going to be sold en-masse, so why wouldn't pebble agree if someone came to them with a neat medical application.
Having worked in a university mathematics department I noticed that the pure mathematicians tended to keep themselves to themselves, for instance not attending talks by visiting mathematicians unless it was of direct relevance to their research. In contrast, we theoretical physicists would listen to any visiting speaker just for fun - even on occasion experimental particle physicists, applied mathematicians or computing specialists.
Perhaps pure maths is just more deeply specialised and leaves no possibility of such dilettanteism.
Would you buy a system like that from a guy? I wouldn't and I'd feel uncomfortable, just like I am around poor drivers, if I knowingly encountered one on the roads.

Its a neat project and a serious amount of effort, well done. But come on, as others have said - a setback to the entire industry would be the outcome if he had a crash - doubly so, since he's publicly stated he intends to use the same Israeli component that everyone else uses. Tesla should try and distance themselves from this type of enterprise.
The way it is portrayed in the article geohot seems to have a slightly flippant approach. Not sure if that's fair to him or not. ("Dude the first time it worked was this morning", "Don't touch that or we die.")
They came across in that statement as insecure and having self-esteem issues that they had to downplay or belittle the brilliant guy's work just to feel better about themselves or to dispel their investors fears of an imminent competition emerging to challenge their position in the market.
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>Have you tried their diagram tooling?

I'm not the OP, and I have tried the diagram tooling, walking away not just disappointed, but annoyed at the waste of time every time.

I understand that automated diagramming is one of those problems that looks a lot easier to solve than it actually is; the results were hilariously awful every time I tried it, though, even with pretty basic DB schemas with the most basic of foreign key definitions.
I am more surprised that Tesla did not make a point of saying 'Elon Musk did not encourage George Hotz to play fast and loose on San Francisco highways to win a bet' and 'there is no formal financial relationship between Tesla and geohot'.
Your question is basically "should you bet or not?"

Said like that the answer becomes obvious: It varies from situation to situation. Some bets are good and some are bad.
I don't understand how something, that anyone understands, can be this cryptic. Someone some time ago mentioned that all of Einstein's major papers on special and general relativitiy can be covered in a semester or two.

Isn't the hard part discovering this stuff?

How can anyone discover mathematical proofs but it is so impossible to communicate them that nobody in the world can follow your train of thought? I mean people are really, really good at communicating. It's kind of what we do.

I don't understand how anyone can publish proofs that don't succumb easily to understanding by experts who concentrate on them for a long time, perhaps with tiny hints by the author.

It's not as though we're looking at fragments written in a long-lost language we have no access to, from a culture nobody has access to, on unknown subjects, and with the authors dead hundreds of years ago! The author is right there. The subject isn't even art (like poetry criticism or something), it's fully rigorous.

Understanding someone's proof (for devoted experts) should be easy, right? What gives?
The 8-Bit Guy has some great videos about how graphics worked on the older systems (including C=64): https://youtu.be/Tfh0ytz8S0k
I think it is easy to praise growth mindset if you are the one who wants to learn and wants to get better through failing. But what about the other side of the coin?

Just imagine you are a teamlead and one guy in your team tells you "hey, I have found 2 new ways how not to impelent Feature X. May I work on feature Y and use the knowledge I gained fucking up feature X?"

Or you have a project team and the profect manager tells you "Hey, I found one new way how not to manage a project, how not to deliver on time and how not to motivate people. May I manage your next project and maybe waste an other million dollars?"

In my experience situations like these end badly...
Growth mindset does not imply you can achieve anything, just "you definitely can get better". Perhaps overconfidence can become a risk, but it seems a much lesser evil versus the cost of believing the opposite: "Here is your definitive level, for ever (don't bother)".
If you are on Windows, then HeidiSQL is very good (MySQL, MSSQL and PostgreSQL).

If you just want something very light and easy and runs in a browser, then Adminer is pretty good (not an IDE, but certainly better than PHPMyAdmin).
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