skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they aren't, Uber will likely be able to survive the burn rate until the cars drive themselves. Uber just placed a "long term" order for 100k S-class cars.
What is your point? What does people making 6 figures on this site or 7 figures on some other site matter?

Is what I'm writing true or not?
Your charts don't contradict mine. They say yearly wages for certain households have gone down, I've shown wages+benefits/hour for workers has gone up.

It's true that CPI has it's flaws - inflation is wildly overstated. Medicine - one of the big drivers of increases in CPI (the other is education) is not even hedonically adjusted. If we properly measured inflation compensation would almost certainly be a lot higher.

Of course if you want to ignore all data which doesn't support your preconceived notions, I can't stop you. (Incidentally the data is from the BLS, not the fed. The fed just brings all the data to one convenient site.)
The are not really loser, they just benefited less. They also buy tons of electronics from China, also food and everything else.

Im also not convinced that this narritive is true. Other countries with free trade don't always see the same outcomes.
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Indeed big increase in revenue compared with cost of living. I'm surprised that you've decided to move to Seattle instead of switching to another company in SF. Can you please share the reasons why?
I'm not the OP but OpenBSD is missing some pretty key features. My reasons to use FreeBSD over OpenBSD are:

- Virtualization (jails, bhyve)
- Filesystems (ZFS)
- beadm (which requires ZFS)
- Linuxulator

Which really is a shame because philosophically I think I'd prefer the OpenBSD camp
Its fine to mention the cost to those small groups affected negatively. But just be clear that those groups are really special interests and having a policy to cater to those special interests at the, albeit small, cost to many leads to a lot of problems.
> If one believes that consciousness can emerge from software on a computer alone, it also follows that consciousness can emerge from placing rocks in a certain pattern following instructions in a book.

The word "alone" here is not correct. Claiming that software on a computer can produce feelings is not the same as claiming that software on a computer can produce feeling without having to interact with anything else. The latter claim is obviously absurd; organic life forms like us don't produce feelings without interacting with anything else, so why should we expect software on a computer to do so? But ruling out the latter claim still leaves open the possibility that software on a computer could produce feelings if it were interacting with the rest of the world in appropriate ways.

> I do not think consciousness necessarily can only be produced by organic life, but I do think it has to emerge from physical structures.

Rocks in a certain pattern are physical structures. So this doesn't rule out rocks in a certain pattern producing feelings.

> As of today we have no idea what properties such physical structures must have.

I don't think we're that badly off. We expect embodied brains of sufficient size and complexity to produce feelings, but we don't expect three pounds of jello to produce feelings. So clearly we have some knowledge of the properties that physical structures must have to produce feelings. They must have some level of complexity and heterogeneity; they must be able to store information in some way that is recoverable (three pounds of jello can "store information" in some sense, but there's no way to recover it in any useful sense); and they must be interacting with the rest of the world in appropriate ways. There's no reason why we couldn't eventually build computers with these properties.
If AFL-CIO comes out for Trump, the election is effectively over.

This will, not to put too fine a point on it, never happen. The AFL-CIO would never burn their bridges to the Democratic party, particularly not for a Republican candidate likely to lose in a landslide.

If Trump does get the GOP nod, it's going to be great fun for us sensible Republicans to watch the parade of theories of how he will still win despite being down in the RCP average by what I expect will be an easy 8-10 points.
Interesting. Pure coconut juice is reasonably easy to obtain here so that might be feasible.
Sublime texts “minimap” feature for vim (done with Unicode Braille)
Private (non-governmental) independent research institute on theoretical physics
I'll quote Nassim N. Taleb here :

With [...] macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, microeconomic papers wrong 40% of the time, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks[...], people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers with a better track record than these policymaking goons.

from https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10153658794008375

There is excellent evidence that many countries became prosperous because of protectionism: UK, USA, S. Korea... See for instance the book from Ha-Joon Chang, "Kicking Away the Ladder" (a digest can be found here: http://www.paecon.net/PAEtexts/Chang1.htm )

The use of averages conveniently masks the fact that most people lose while a few fat cats grab all the gains. When a group of 1000 people earns collectively 1 million, it's of tremendous importance if everyone gets $1000 or if one gets 999001 and all the others 1$ instead. "Free trade agreements" generally looks precisely like the latter.
SQL Server has everything that Oracle has to offer

One thing that comes to mind is Linux (or Solaris, HP-UX, or other nixes) support. SQL Server is essentially Windows-only.
The "everything is a URL" concept is interesting. QNX uses pathnames in a somewhat similar way; programs with the privilege to do so can register to own some portion of the pathname space, and requests with such pathnames go to that program. The kernel has no idea what pathnames mean. This gets file systems out of the kernel. It looks like Redox is doing something similar, but not enough of the documentation is written yet for me to tell quickly.
These specific mistakes are useful for new Go programmers. For example, knowing that a pointer-to-slice is (usually) useless.
By giving all consumers less choices as to what goods they can purchase and from whom, do you think you're really making those consumers better off? All in order to benefit a few that happen to be in those industries for which the US no longer holds a competitive advantage
You can download the whole report from Microsoft (not surprising, since it came out top):

https://info.microsoft.com/CO-SQL-CNTNT-FY16-09Sep-14-MQOper...

I've posted a big version of the Magic Quadrant here:
http://imgur.com/3qFwPd6
We should be careful when talking about market characteristics of the market for college degrees, at least in the US. It is one of the markets that is most heavily skewed by government subsidies.

The US approach to Government subsidies on the consumer side of privately supplied markets in college and health care mostly seems to accomplish raising the prices of college and healthcare as market providers raise prices to what the relatively hotter markets will bear.
A former google AI researcher speculated on my facebook feed that google might want to use their Deepmind tech across all their AI ventures, and that Boston Dynamics, having taken a very different path, might not be in an easy position to switch over.
When I talked to drivers, I came to the conclusion that the drivers are paid more than the passengers are charged, which makes sense. Uber makes huge losses every year.

The hope is that this can last long enough before the drivers can all be fired and replaced with automated cars, or at least that the system will get better (i.e. better at stuffing cars full of people, more demand by training people to order the carpools, etc.).
We are not all perfectly rational salary-maximizing skilled negotiators with complete information.

I accepted a job offer at Google straight out of college. I didn't do much research on what was fair compensation for a new grad SWE or have any intuition for how to value my skills; I didn't even have other offers to compare, since I hate interviews. I just trusted I would get a nice job and they would pay me something reasonable (defined as "what people similar to me earn" - how am I to know what is reasonable in an absolute sense? There are many jobs in other fields I would find much harder that pay much less.) This thread is useful to verify.
Regardless of if TDD works, we see this argument pattern all the time, some magical claim for effectiveness is asserted via a methodology (always anecdotally), someone says "didn't work for me" and the response is ALWAYS "well you didn't do it long enough to get it!"

It's all just noise. Theres nothing wrong with having your pet theory, I just wish entire industries wouldn't carelessly hop on board every time some consultant comes up with an acronym and some promises.
I really think an AI race between states will be inevitable
Second that :) Reality is not binary. You can't reduce it to either 0 or 1...
Sorry, I don't get it. What is the bucket, what is the rocket, and what is Mars?
> What would happen if everybody would become Amish overnight?

How much land would that take? How would these new Amish afford the $10K/acre that the best farm land in the US can cost?
From the article:

"But Boston Dynamics’s creations were not quite as advanced as people assumed. The main problem the company had solved was getting its machines to move in a realistic manner, said a person familiar with the company’s technology, but full autonomy is far away. Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, said as much in an interview with IEEE Spectrum in February, when he acknowledged that in the videos, a human steered the robot via radio during its outside strolls."

So basically what they created was fancy R/C toys, not real autonomous and potentially beneficial robots that could do real work? Creating realistic movement is a hard problem, and the associated electronics and algorithms to move from point A to point B, but it's hardly novel.

Maybe this coupled with the fact a few others have mentioned the company was poor at working with other divisions is the reason why they want to sell it?
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Why would they be stocking old or faulty batteries?

It's not something where you share with other people. You stop in and get a charged battery from Tesla. On your way back home, you stop again and get your original battery back, now charged.
depends on what "publish facts" means. if you're being vague enough that privacy effectively ceases to exist, then no. you'll need to be a bit more clear and specific on what this means.
Assuming this comes to fruition[1], SQL Server is going Linux middle of next year. Crazy times in Microsoft land

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-s...
Not necessarily. If you've got a whole row of icons across the top/bottom of your screen representing running or available programs, for example, the quick animation showing where the window you just minimized went to saves you hunting right across your screen if you want to restore that window again.
You can't ease all of it, but if you are going to sign trade deals that benefit some workers over others, you should compensate the workers who lose their jobs.

It doesn't have to be job guarantees, there can be solutions like wage insurance, free or subsidized retraining + relocation, and basic income.
"Don't use a Web framework" (#1), "use panics wisely" (#2), "be careful when reading from request.body more than once" (#3), "be careful of hidden allocations from pointers-to-slices" (#5), "be careful with the surprising behavior of naked-return-implies-return-0 feature of Go" (#6), and "be careful with the interactions between mutation and shadowing" (#7) are all Go-specific. Among popular languages, issues #5, #6, and #7 apply only to Go.
Forcing yourself to not write a line of production code without having a test in place to test it first produces a very high level of coverage over all your control paths. You wind up with the tests being an ad hoc specification for the production code. Not really a design as much as documenting the code.

This is a really irksome way for me to work, and I find that level of diligence difficult to muster. Often I will find myself writing the production code first and writing tests to cover after the fact. My coverage is probably not as high as it is when I TDD the code.

The cadence of TDD'd projects I've worked on professionally is painfully slow and predictable. If you're at a workplace that is giving you the time and resources to do it, then you're likely also pairing, which helps impatient souls like me stick to the program. My team has been blessed to have a devops guy who has a scientific mind and acts as informal agile coach while pairing - and he's probably the reason we do a good job on the TDD because he makes us all better at it.

If you're at a workplace that is encouraging TDD and pairing, you should be thankful and honestly try to do a great job at it. Your work weeks will be relaxed and you probably won't need to work much overtime. I wind up with lots of left over energy to burn on my home projects, which I appreciate.
I'd argue both hurt poor people. Wage growth typically lags behind inflation.
Every American benefits from imports. Not just a few. The value of consumer choice could not be overstated.

Besides, free trade puts competitive pressure on American corporations. The "fat cats" would love protectionist markets so they don't have to compete with foreign companies. This has led to much higher levels of service and more choices to all Americans.
A Framework for K-12 CS Education [pdf]
> How do you manage complexity in large JavaScript applications

By not making them large in the first place.

Take for instance the Facebook home when you're logged in. It looks like one unified app. But what you might not know is that it may be comprised of several different "applets" that are totally independent of one another. They may possibly not use the same framework, nor share code, and could possibly be built by several teams which are proficient in different languages and tools.

iirc, Spotify's app isn't built as one huge app. It's several different "applets" running in iframes. This ensures that each applet is totally isolated (so they don't kill each other even if they use different frameworks and versions) and self-contained (so they're testable individually, reducing the need for integration tests).
Why does it matter if sociology or political science are focused on what I wrote above? It's not like they're going to solve the problem of parasitic people with worthless degrees, since they are one of them. They won't eliminate entitlement mentality. They won't promote trades, because if they did, then why didn't they study trades if they're so great?

They won't do anything, except enrich themselves with high-paying parasitic office jobs in the government or some non-profit.
Hi there, author here -- mostly trying to be accessible. And I think in the tech community it is well understood that robotics is hugely difficult, but it seems like general public pretty much equates progress in software AI with progress in robots, which is clearly not the case. We thought it might be helpful to highlight this to people who aren't hugely technical.
The flight computers on any manned NASA spacecraft have not been made by HP. The Gemini capsules and the Space Shuttle used IBM computers [1,2] and Apollo used computers made by MIT (primary computers) and TRW (Abort Guidance System) [3]. I could also not find any information on a mission that failed in such a way.

[1] http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch1-2.html

[2] http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-3.html

[3] http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch2-8.html
What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace?
The installer worked under VirtualBox for me.
Nice, but the data needs cleanup / clustering (all the variants on "NEW YORK CITY", "NEW YORK, NY" etc).
With divine authority, we will take-over the official IBM PC line of products.

We will make a 100% standardized massive desktop that will be God's official temple machine.

We will force people to buy it.

It is no good to write high CPU demanding applications unless everyone has massive cryogenic desktops, also.

God says...
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http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Demands.html

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/FuturePCHardware.htm...
"I've yet to meet an anti-TDD zealot who has actually spent a month developing the art of TDD. The detractors tend to be people who write really brittle tests that are a pain to maintain."

I'm not an anti-TDD zealot, but I don't personally do it, nor require any of my developers to do it (but they can, if it helps them).

As with everything in software, some things work well for some people, and not so much for others.

Instead of TDD, HDD works best for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
That would work out nice for the current generation of professional drivers and there will be enough warning time for the future drivers so they can be OK when the moment comes.
Let's entertain your assumption that a near perfect consensus among economists isn't a reliable hint about the realities of the economy. Why should I trust you or some other group of people over the economists, especially when the economists' arguments for free trade match my understanding and intuition?
What would it cost to have a device similar to an android tablet 40 years ago? Billion dollars? Now you can get them for $100.

What would it cost to have access to the sum of human knowledge instantly 40 years ago? In video/text/audio form? Now they hand out wifi free in coffee shops.

In each case people/industries were displaced while generating enourmous wealth. The value of your paycheck may be lower, but what it can buy is incalculably more valuable. I would rather been poor now than rich 40 years ago.
I have a number of friends who do/did work there. They all seem happy and are doing cool stuff. The company has turned around recently and is pushing innovative tools and mobile.

The couple people I know who left did so not because of any problems w/Adobe.

If you email me I'd be happy to connect you.
Yeah, I think the structures that make buyers less price sensitive are a pretty terrible idea, but the government incentives/subsidies/etc don't change the fact that students are part of the market and are the ones setting prices (it just screws up the prices they set).
People that make up the DOJ want to win. They never consider the implications of their wins. They are sort of like Charlie Sheen.
Yes, that's why I said this statement will be true for the upcomming release. I don't think this particular feature is that important anyway. Being Windows only has allowed SQL Server to e much more performent in many cases. Cost is not a factor.
Economists would also almost unanimously agree that trade creates winners and losers, within a given country. TANSTAAFL

Often trade deals are sold with "some people will lose, more people will win, we can take some of the gains from the winners to compensate the losers and everyone wins!" The second half of that statement doesn't happen, largely because it's difficult to come up with effective programs that share the gains of the winners with the losers.

On the whole I'm a free trade supporter. It's unsurprising, however, that the losers will get pissed off and start flocking to demagogues like Trump. That risk is concerning enough that I've decreased my support of free trade, for reasons of maintaining a healthy civic culture.
"Don't use a web framework" definitely isn't something I would tell developers.

I really think good web frameworks is one of the reasons why the web has progressed so quickly the last ten years.
To be fair to those countries, all the developed ones already went through their major pollution fuelled growth spurt and now want to deny other countries that growth spurt.

The developed countries should be disproportionately paying the cost of pollution as they caused it in the first place.

I totally understand we need to stop, but it's a lot more complicated than you're presenting.
It is spot on observation about rather bad rules in Go about := and scopes that hit me as well. For example, the following compiles without warnings and even runs the first invocation of test successfully, https://play.golang.org/p/tYQSNjudGT :

package main

func test(n int) {
for {
n := n - 1;
if n == 0 {
break
}
}
}

func main() {
test(1);
test(2)
}
It should be noted that TDD specifically means writing tests before you write application code.

For example, at our shop, we don't require devs to do TDD, however we require test coverage.

I don't think anyone would argue that writing tests at all is a bad idea, I think the debate is whether or not your tests should drive your application code.
Bernanke was pretty clear that the extraordinary easing was made necessary by lack of fiscal stimulus. Congress should have borrowed a jillion dollars in 2008-9 and spent it anything with a positive multiplier.
The oppression in NK is one of the things that the second amendment is for. As it stands, the people of NK have no options.

Arms in the hands of citizens is not a guarantee against abject oppression, but it's a deterrent. Banning general ownership of arms is a step that a despot must take.

Naturally, a lot of people think the insurance is not worth the risk. And at the level of national politics it can be hard to separate the honestly concerned, the secretly malicious, and the useful idiots.

----

With crypto, it's pretty easy. The folks who want to ban crypto have an agenda to spy and control, or they are co-opted. Well, there are also a few useful idiots, too . . . .
The DOJ/FBI does not care about the damage. If they win, they get the benefits.. but all of the costs--weakened security, lost money, damage to companies, etc--are ALL external.

Don't kid yourself, when all of these things happen, the FBI will not stand up and criticize itself... it'll blame the company that made/maintained the backdoor.

When your company (or the company you work for) is compromised because of the backdoor the government mandated, it'll be your company's name on the notice being sent to your customers saying you lost their data; your company in court for the damage caused; your company that will foot the bill.
Posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11309814
DARPA provided much of the early funding for autonomous vehicle research.

The "Grand Challenge"s and all that.
See my reply here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315426
I don't understand your argument. This is an instance of the vast majority of scientists disagreeing with the policies of the vast majority of national governments.
Free trade benefits all people. Yes there are those who also lose a bit for it too but overall it benefits all it touches either directly or indirectly.

It brings the standard of living up in export countries, lower costs in import countries, and stimulates other countries to get into the act.

Not all industries are viable long term. Just like milk delivery faded in many areas so will some textile jobs. There are plenty of examples of widgets being made in the US alone from companies very young. It all comes down to this, do you look only for the negative?

I do know one thing is true. Any candidate campaigning on trade sanctions or the like is a loser and will make us losers too