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"Like human" and "rationally" and "think" and even "act" are too human to describe robots. That's anthropomorphic. Robots will be like robots, act robotically, they will compute, operate, etc. Anthropomorphism is a childish mistake when studying animals, i'd say it's even more so when studying robots.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for but I've been working on a collaborative coding environment for clojurescript lately and am implementing the algorithm from this (incredibly readable) paper https://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/
I don't think he answered the question about the STEM and H1-B salaries. Also didn't answer contractors like Infosys and others who have shady business practices.

Glad to see someone writing about their experiences, but I don't think it helps to answer much of any questions except about your experience, which I thank him for.

Other than that, does this move the conversation forward? IMO, ess than I would like.
My motorcycle instructor advised me to "treat all car drivers as a lower life form, and treat taxi drivers as the lowest of the low." That mindset saved me a few times. U turns without warning, pulling over in prohibited areas without indicating, opening doors right in front of you - they probably aren't actively trying to kill you, but certainly can give that impression.
Or you'd do it cautiously. As a motorcyclist/bicyclist, I have to watch for this because drivers literally do it all the time, they call it "turning left."
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Not the parent poster, but I also worked in the tech space of outdoor advertising.

The camera based systems I saw used facial detection. The vendors were very keen to refer to "detection" not "recognition" since they (supposedly) only looked at faces and analysed them for demographic information, they didn't track you as an individual. (I'm sure they would have eventually - there's too much money at stake to not track someone's movements and show them relevant ads)

There's lots of vendors of facial detection software than claim to be able to detect:

- age

- gender

- ethnicity

- mood (though that one's a bit suspect)

- where your attention is focused

Most of the software does a decent enough job of most of those.

Some vendors would use the camera to track how many people watched the ad, their age/gender breakdown, how long it held their attention, etc. In those cases it was just about providing "performance" reporting to the advertiser. Often they would have minimum audience guarantees, and would keep running the ad until it hit its levels.

Others tried to target specific ads to specific demographics. They'd have a bunch of ads loaded, and would pick which one to show based on the demographics of current audience.
Read much about legal cases and you'll quickly realize how little "the letter" of a law (or any other collection of words) really, unambiguously conveys. Context is a necessary fallback in the interpretation of law just as it is in day-to-day conversation.

I haven't read this document in detail, but from what's quoted here it seems pretty obvious that the judge's argument isn't strong enough without reference to the law's creators. Its entirely plausible to imagine serious lawmakers making an AWA that was a "mechanism for upending the separation of powers". Only knowing the involvement of these same lawmakers (in part) in the law's creation is this interpretation ruled out- "orginalism" certainly, but here justifiable.
I'm natively from Portland and moved to the Bay Area. Portland is comparatively boring, even in terms of nature.

I am serious, but my thoughts have the added benefit of deterring people from moving to Portland :)
I'm really surprised theft is not an issue. Maybe the town is small enough that everyone is recognizable.

> All they need to do is to register for the service and download an app. They get charged for their purchases in a monthly invoice.

I wonder if he's aggregating to pay the fixed part of credit card fee just once a month per person. In that case, this is a great idea.

> Ilijason is considering other ways to unlock the door that wouldn't require using an app. He's ruled out face-recognition or fingerprint scanners, but is thinking of installing a credit card reader like some banks use.

Some banks use credit card scanners to let you in the door... what?
This is an interesting "investment" example. In addition to the listed trade-offs, the mortgage would've likely allowed 25% cash down in 1976, approximately $18,000. Furthermore, savings in rent would've largely gone toward mortgage interest, repairs and capital expenditures. Given these assumptions, the result over a 40 year period would be an annual return of 10.12%[0].

Even so, the approximate return from the S&P 500 (reinvesting dividends) over the same period would be 11.468%[1].

[0] http://www.moneychimp.com/features/portfolio_performance_cal...

[1] http://dqydj.net/sp-500-return-calculator/
> The context the law was originally written in is just fluff

The magistrate's job is to apply and interpret the law. Lawyers study the circumstances under which laws were created for years before they can practice, and magistrates are on the whole even more educated in law than your average lawyer. His commentary is appropriate and helpful for fully understanding his logic.
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> Farmed out the replication of every result to undergrads would, one be a practical/logistical nightmare, and two lead to less reliability in what a degree means.

Actually I think farming out replication to undergrads would be an excellent approach. Your final year undergrad project should be to choose an under-replicated study and repeat it, publishing your findings. Each individual study might be less reliable if done by an undergrad than done by a seasoned researcher, but if each study is repeated by say 5 undergrads and 2+ of them fail to replicate the results, that would be enough to indicate that the study warrants further attention.

> One student could spend their time working on a important result gaining tons of insight and expertise while another could be stuck replicating a task that turned out to be worthless bullshit and have very little to show for it.

The whole point of science is that we don't know what will turn out to be an important result and what will turn out to be worthless bullshit. No study is worth a damn unless it's been replicated but everyone is too busy trying to land-grab the next little piece of unexplored territory to actually validate anything that comes before.

If nothing else, we need to regain the perception that a negative result is just as important as a positive result - to paraphrase Edison, discovering 100 things that don't work is just as important as discovering one thing that does.
You disagree but don't cite anything at all. Are you expecting a holodeck in another 2 years?

This is 'it' for the forseeable future, roomspace VR. If you have knowledge of better ideas that are feasible for less than $1,000, other than incremental upgrades to what HTC has put together here, you could become a very wealthy person.
Who's to say they haven't already tried actually? From what I understand, an NSL could be presented and it's validity argued but it would never be presented in an open court.
>I think I'll wait and watch the inevitable backlash before I spend my money.

To the opposite of Kinect, a LOT of tech journalist and enthusiast tried hololens. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with only issues about the field of view being raised. I personally tried Hololens, I was blown away by the technology. I own an Oculus Rift DK2 and I tried the unreleased consumer version of oculus rift. They are both great technology, and Oculus clearly offer a more immersive gaming experience, but I personally saw more potential with hololens, and generally speaking I thought the technology was cooler. Anyway, if you are genuinely interested, you should definitely try to get at any of the event where they allow people to try it out.
They will still be taking care of that out of what they get paid, I don't see any difference.
> Considering 30% of US land is owned by federal government (and there's more by states and municipalities), how would this replace the income taxes?

By taxing the land not owned by the federal government, since obviously it can't tax itself.

> Federal budget is comprised of 46% personal income taxes and 13% federal income taxes, so roughly two-thirds of it would have to be replaced by land value tax.

So? Look, to replace the entirety of federal revenue (which is more than you need to replace, since obviously things like fees for uses of federal land, which are part of federal revenue, aren't going to go away with a land-use-tax scheme) with land use tax on the 70% of land not in federal use, assuming a flat per-acre tax (which has the virtue of making calculation easy, even if its not the most likely tax scheme), you'd need an annual tax of $3.02 trillion / 1.7 billion acres, or a land-use tax of about $1776 per acre per annum.
The exact opposite has happened to cars. We've delegated route building to our GPS devices, and we maintain heading and speed until the computer tells us to do something different.
I'm not sure why the press release says that, but that is not t"DC"S is, and you're right there would be no reason to do that for any transcranial electrical stimulation protocol.

But in the paper, it is pretty clear they do hd-tDCS. Spatially there may be an attempt to target more specifically areas that are activated during normal flight activity, but there is no attempt to "transfer activity" which has a huge temporal and amplitude implication.
I got a job in Santa Monica, while living in Long Beach. Commute was painful at 45-60 min, and I only had to be at work by 10:30.

I moved into a 1BR for $1500 in nearby Culver City, which cut my commute down to 20-25 minutes. Not so bad. I'm across the street from a little downtown area with bars, restaurants, a movie theatre, 3 yoga studios, and a grocery store. Fairly walkable.

The job market is pretty hot. The problem in my job search was lining up interviews to get as many offers as possible at once so I could have my pick of the litter.

And even nicer weather than the Bay Area to boot.
Instead of "worth", perhaps "purchasing power" would be more accurate. The purchasing power of cash is generally reduced over time due to inflation.
On the product/company employment side of things, technical writing is a rich field, with many people who excel and push the boundaries of making the previously inaccessible clear as day. There's a living to be had there as well if you strive for the latter; you can advance and prove your value in any company.

For an anecdote, as a product person, I would kill for a technical writer who works really hard to understand our product, our customers and personas, and keeps up with our roadmap and release process with on-the-ball documentation updates and copywriting. I see tons of opportunity there internally.
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You're going to get a lot of hate for this comment, but it's probably the smartest top level comment in the thread. I've struggled with this issue a lot. Personally I think it should be solved with creative vesting schedules. Instead of vesting evenly over 4 years, vest some shares over time but save a big chunk that vests at exit.

Basically build in a big "you stayed until the end" equity bonus.

Right now I think the problem is that people think of their vesting schedule as when their stock becomes theirs and that's not really true. And most startups encourage (or at least do not dissuade) this illusion. That's a problem worth fixing.
This title could've been editorialized a lot and I'm really glad it wasn't.
Do you have a source of this data? I have tons of friends in the Bay Area who work at a wide variety of tech companies, and none of them are making $100k or less. I guess maybe they really are "all above average" but I find it hard to believe that the median salary for software engineers in the bay area is really $100k.
Cool idea! Looking forward to your post.
I wouldn't necessarily say cut out attorneys, but provide sane liability limits so that awards don't go much beyond costs actually incurred.

The only exception I'd make to that would be cases of withholding a known defect, like the self driving car equivalent of the Takata exploding airbag fiasco.
My favorite "feature" of the pre processor is when I include Windows.h and then get a super strange compile error in my code because a macro Windows defines (with a super generic name) matches part of a name in my code (which is in a namespace btw) and expands into some unholy thing that is invisible at the source level... Fun times.
The largest non-primary residence sector is the residential property for rent. Considering that any tax increase very quickly finds its way into a rent increase, what's the rationale for punishing renters?

It's almost a double whammy for someone who wants to buy a house, but can't afford the current prices or was outbid by a cash buyer going over asking price. Cheer up as we've incorporated the price increase into your rent.
Your point is obviously part of a much bigger legal philosophy debate, but one problem with your pov is that legal code is not that precise. It's much less precise than computer code for example, and even computer code produces tons of bugs due to the programmer not being precise enough. So the legal text by itself is often ambiguous and judges have to guess what the legislators meant to write.
We can also make digital lane markers, doing whatever the case may be. If we have future infrastructure built with autonomous cars in mind, they can easily be better in those situations too.

The hard part of this we're trying to force self driving into our current infrastructure and traffic. If the bus was self driving, they would have communicated properly and merged perfectly.
You are overly exaggerating the field of view issue. I've tried the hololens twice already (the untethered version they will be shipping). Field of view is definitely smaller that I'd like, but it's MUCH bigger than a 6 inch phablet at arms length. It's closer to the size a 24 inch monitor sitting on your desk at arm length.

Almost all tech journalist that tried it were blown away by the experience. Most of them mentioned the field of view issue, but I haven't read anyone saying that it was such an issue that it made the technology any less impressive.
I beg to differ. It doesn't remove that many cars, really. How often do you see a bus pass by? Every 20 minutes or so? Count how many cars pass by in the same amount of time, and some of them carry multiple passengers. (I have no problems with buses here in Europe at all, just sayin'..)
this looks really cool but have there been any recent updates or is the source code anywhere I can look at?
True, but it could be turned into executable Lisp code without much effort. As could a XML format version of it.

Besides, square brackets is the most common representation of lists. It's difficult to find round brackets denoting lists outside of Lisp and dialets. I doubt that's a coincidence.

Given that Apple already uses Scheme in its sandbox implementation [1], it wouldn't be too outlandish to assume those are related somehow. The notation is a bit off, but it's nothing a few macros wouldn't solve.

[1] http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/10/sexprs_in_leopard.html
> From what I understand, an NSL could be presented and it's validity argued but it would never be presented in an open court.

Both the validity of the NSL and the application of a nondisclosure ("gag") order to an NSL (not all NSLs are inherently gag-ordered) are reviewable by court, and gag orders have been struck down by courts.

So its not at all the case that an NSL would never be discussed in open court. Still, its impossible to say what NSLs have been issued with gag orders that haven't been struck down, since those particular orders would not be publicly disclosed.
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I'm (probably) months away from doing something similar, although I'll be moving back from NYC.
This story is getting a lot of press coverage. Reuters, CNBC and Wired are already covering it.

When Cruise (YC 14)'s car hit a parked car at 20 mph in SF last month, there was no press attention.[1] Even though it was across the street from the main police station.

That Cruise crash is an example of the "deadly valley" between manual driving and fully automatic driving, The vehicle made a bad move which prompted the driver to take over, but too late. This is exactly why AVs can't rely on the driver as backup.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/bc21ef62-6e7c-4049...
Hmmm....the flash and the CPU are opposite each other? Interesting. I wonder if that was done on purpose to make it harder to mess with things, or they just ended up that way because it made the layout and routing simpler?

If they were not opposite each other, then the following approaches to spying on or tampering with the system would be possible:

• Cut the write signal between the CPU and the flash so that the CPU cannot erase anything in the flash.

• Cut all the control, data, and address lines between the CPU and the flash and insert a man-in-the-middle device that can allow or block CPU access to the flash and that can read/write the flash itself.
To be fair, you can use the forward / backward arrow keys to navigate around the features, but it isn't clear upon first attempt. It also doesn't solve the issue on mobile, where arrow keys aren't available many times.
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> We’re advising Triplebyte candidates to favor companies making this change, and we’ve already convinced 12 companies to pledge to do this.

This is incredible.

You might be the first recruiting startup to really advocate for the engineer.
An approach using React: https://github.com/gilbarbara/react-joyride
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That's a point, robots as toys. But then it's just some advanced puppet, all the fuss about AI can't be just aiming so low.

And the propension of human kind to create life is real but it's more fruitful in biology, with clones and so on. Robots are machines. To me there's a gap, it is another realm, the most advanced robot will never compare to the stupidest human or even a dog.
> My view is that property taxes fund the very things that make a particular neighborhood desirable, like good schools, roads, parks, and other local services.

I think you're arguing that richer neighborhoods should have nicer schools, roads and parks. Granted, SF is an exception here, but that's precisely how things work elsewhere in California.

And if richer neighborhoods don't get that, California made annexations pretty easy, which is why you see those tiny municipalities in the vicinity of Los Angeles, San Diego, Anaheim, etc.
Do you live in the suburbs? This could become true, but more because of the increasing urbanization trend making public transit more attractive than cars in more places.
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So if this interpretation sticks, seems like there's a risky but effective new anti-surveillance method in town:

1) Draft law expanding surveillance for criminal cases
2) bring the law for a congressional vote
3) make sure the vote fails

-> now you've shut the FBI and others off from access through judiciary writs
Ahh, my background in decentralized P2P systems engineering, along with the phrase "Foscam admits that disabling the P2P option doesn’t actually do anything to stop the device from seeking out other P2P hosts online (see screenshot below)." lead me to believe they were using a DHT or other decentralized P2P system. I'd need more details to determine if they use a set of centralized coordination hosts or if they use a DHT or other decentralized system for the hosts coordinating the hole punching.
> And unfortunately there's no easy way to use the best of both sides.

How about using the "self-driving AI" only as "really advanced automatic assistance". Humans will still drive the cars, but the AI will kick-in in those boring situations where the humans turn off their thinking.
An intriguing idea, but the information on the website is sparse.

What is the screen's resolution? How big is battery? How much does it weigh?
One thing to add... It's only in rare parts of the US that real estate appreciated so much, but you would have gotten those equity returns anywhere in the country.
> What's important is the letter of the law, the relevant preceding decisions, and the judge's reason and conscience (which is checked by appeals). The context the law was originally written in is just fluff.

The "relevant preceding decisions" include decisions specifying what canons of construction are used to interpret the meaning of law, and those decisions do hold out that legislative intent is a factor to consider when resolving the correct interpretation of words that can reasonably interpreted in different ways before considering that intent.
Outputting the pre-processor result is not that helpful, you're still stuck with deciphering things.

macro expansion is useless, again, for same reason you can't marry it to actual code. If you can do this now, would be at most curious (not interested) as it's evil to begin with.

A production build in the embedded world, typically means you don't have symbols. Often they are stripped to save space and unless you have a USB stick or something you carry with you with map files, you're still toast.

And there are a whole host of other reasons why they are just pure evil:

1. Global scope only.
2. Unexpected results rather than error messages - ISO25259 won't even allow you to do this if that tells you anything.
3. Can't use sizeof
4. no type checking. Every compiler I've used, including GCC, won't warn about if an int is compared to unsigned.
5. can't take the address
6. worst, substituted value need not even be legal in the context the #define is created because it is evaluated at each point it is referenced allowing to another evil problem of being able to reference objects that are not declared yet.

I could go no... and I haven't even touched on strings yet.

with so many problems, I have a hard time justifying or championing their use.
This definitely resonates with me. I've been a Twitter user since the very early days. Early on, I could tweet something (even something mundane) and get dozens of replies. More if it was something interesting. These days, no matter how interesting the Tweet, I'm lucky to get 2-3 responses (including likes). Clearly I'm not an unbiased judge of the quality of my Tweets, but by any measure I'm finding it MUCH harder to get responses these days.
I know this is malicious to those who want the web to be open, but I love it. Not because I particularly agree with the motive, but it's just such a cool demonstration of the power of React. Doing this has never been so easy. Google has been doing this for a while for a few of their products (Google Plus is one of them, I believe), but they've got large engineering teams who can commit time and resources to protecting data.

If you have a justifiable business reason for doing this, then your life just got a little easier. I think this would also help against some forms of XSS too - so there's some silver lining for you.
Oops, I should have said Restricted Stock (not RSUs). Founders get restricted stock (with vesting), so why not the first several employees?
Sorry, but the scrolling of the page is just confusing.

Even if it was done with a good and helpful intend. For a lot of people it's pure pain if you take control of the scrolling.
This is VTA (formerly Santa Clara County Transit), not Muni.

Regardless, both (and A/C Transit and BART) have extremely strong unions.