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> It's also incredibly easy to fall off the blessed path where you can interact solely with voice...

I had this happen with Google Maps the other day. I was driving into San Francisco with the turn-by-turn directions when it said something like, "There is a faster route available in two miles. It will save 5 minutes. Tap 'Accept' to take this route."

So I had to fiddle with my phone in a hurry, in traffic (after all, traffic was why there was a faster route coming up), and hope I don't tap the wrong button or crash into anyone while looking for it.

Why couldn't I just have said "Yes! Please and thank you. Of course I want the faster route, why wouldn't I? Oh, sorry, I mean 'Accept'!"

The funny part was that the "faster route" was the way I usually go into that part of town anyway, but Maps had been sending me a different way because of congestion on the usually-faster route. Why did it even ask me to "accept" the faster route instead of just redirecting me the way it does automatically on most occasions?

Like the time I was heading south on 101 through Morgan Hill and Gilroy and Maps had me get off the freeway and take a side street for a couple of miles because traffic was stopped on the freeway due to a car fire. It didn't ask me to tap Accept then, it just gave me some very practical directions on the fly. That's how it should work.
If designers could use an interface design tool instead of some photo editing software, then most of the problems go away.

Spending time upfront perfecting a piece of art isn't a sensible way to approach design as its all make belief until you've written some code
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>I've always had the impression that the people I see in the media are completely fake and do not represent actual human beings.

I hope you realize that this impression has likely been conditioned into you by politicians and the media.
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Looks like they went back to del.icio.us

Are they selling the domain name?
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These religious/supernatural beliefs are inherently anti-statistical

No they aren't. They follow the Laplace–Bayes estimator for calculating the rule of succession[1].

I needed rain -> I did a rain dance -> it rained

I needed rain -> I did a rain dance -> it didn't rain -> I must have done something wrong

Both are perfectly valid rules of succession - not forgetting that most religious beliefs make it pretty easy to find something you did wrong. One might suspect these rules could have been caused by spurious statistical relationships.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession
Cool, lots of cars running on nuclear energy, then!
How awesome would it be if the dataset was made available? We've seen some great stuff already done with the HN Api.
This is really great discussion, thanks for that.

I'm not at all a Marxist (pretty pro-capitalism in general) but this does strike me as a case of over-financialization. Wasn't there some Marxist/socialist line of thinking that in late capitalism, so much gets accumulated that the economy shifts from one oriented around socially useful production of goods ("socially useful" is the broad sense, anything people want), to a purely financialized system driven more strongly by investment returns vs. profits from production?

I recognize there's always an element of balance between starting a company to satisfy the demand for goods vs. the demand for return, but cases like this make me think the investors are more in the driver's seat than marketers/product people thinking about what we should make.

Sort of like there's this giant mass of passive capital chasing yield and there isn't enough to go around. And I think this view is consistent with the idea that asset ownership isn't backed by a legally sound property rights regime in China. It seems a lot of this would be fixed if they could channel more accumulated domestic capital (profits) into housing, business equity formation, or even consumption.

It's funny to think that "make something people want" (YC truism) might be good investments, rather than products. But maybe true here?
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Well Nazis were arguably the biggest stain ever on human history.

Pretty much a reference point for any human being who has gotten some education.

Also a handy, lazy way to box-up anyone you disagree with or want to troll.

As generations move further and further away from WW2 people may stop relating to it though. Hard to imagine kids in 2100 using Nazi references. Might be climate destruction references instead.
I think you linked to an incorrect youtube video, though those GeoOrbital wheels look cool (and heavy!).

Actual link:
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This but with one minor correction, the developers usually want to fix the experience. It's the management / project owners / etc that use the aforementioned analytics to make their judgement.

Perversely, I've also often observed that those who spend the most time judging a sites performance on its analytics are usually the ones who actually use the site the least. or at least this is what I've observed with past projects I've worked on.
If it's unsurprising that YC picks based on their gut and not on any hard criteria... it shouldn't be. Surprise, almost all white dudes again!
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Right now the model for electric cars is that you charge at home overnight and run it down during the day getting to and from work. But if employers outfit their roofs with solar, you could invert the model. Charge during the day as an employment perk, and run down overnight to power your home.
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Can you explain to me why politicians and the media would want me to believe that politicians and the media are not real people? It seems like such a matter-of-fact thing to say to me but flies in the face of rationale. I'm open to your interpretation of what we're being spoon-fed.
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This seems really neat. I remember doing some database conversion using a shareware tool a couple years ago. And being able to self-host this is huge, since databases often contain secrets.
Or do the same, but on Android. Why can't devs add new voice commands to the system?
Look at all the cancer from 9/11 and that was just fine particles in the air.

Now imagine radioactive fine particles with half-life of decades.

Sure, the death isn't instantaneous. But the suffering and early death will be massive. After the US nuked Japan (twice) the real damage was to those left living for the short time afterwards and all the radioactivity an slow death.
Nice.

A presentation on this (or similar) subject would be nice at PyData Paris (http://pydata.fr/), the CFP is open.
It is possible to massively distribute joins but it requires a much more sophisticated database design than you see in most distributed database implementations because the whole system has to be designed for that use case e.g. support for ad hoc inter-node orchestration and data flows. At that point you basically have a parallel database instead of just a distributed one.

And if you add an additional requirement to correctly execute ad hoc consistent joins under very high write workloads and continuous failures, then it is definitely non-trivial engineering. But it is possible, I've designed implementations like this before, it just requires a very high degree of effort and skill that is rarely applied to the design of typical NoSQL databases.
The Daisy ad was important as ads go (all the more so as legend for only having aired once) but I maintain, nothing was larger in the American psyche than martyred president whose banner Johnson carried.
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Thanks for the detailed response.

So it's hard to get the resources in a single hospital, what about collaboration across hospitals or even the department of health ? Seems like a worthwhile goal.
Here's the interactive map.[1] Most of those charging stations are not public. Hotels and auto dealerships have some of them. I've been looking for them in Google Maps. Here's one that's in a public parking lot and has signage.[2] You have to pay for parking to charge, but that's not unreasonable in Tokyo.

[1] http://www.chademo.com/wp/jpmap/
[2] https://goo.gl/maps/M5WYLuM4uEK2
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There are dozens and dozens of petrol stations in my city, but when my tank runs low i only really go to "my usual place" that's near my house.

It's useful to have abundant stations in e.g. an emergency, but i assume most drivers refuel at their leisure.
> I just wish Signal was easier to get through a firewall. ... I couldn't even make messaging work through a firewall...

That's really, really strange. I sit behind an IPv4 NATting router whose policy is "default REJECT unless the packet is related to a connection that conntrack knows about". [0] The device also runs UPnP, but Signal never attempts to forward any ports. Full disclosure: I have good IPv6 service, but textsecure-service-ca.whispersystems.org doesn't have any AAAA records, so I don't see what that would have to do with anything.

My friends and I can use both Signal text and voice messaging without issue.

Just what sort of obscenely restrictive firewall are you behind?

[0] You know, a typical NAT firewall configuration.
None on desktop. Possibly due to uBlock?
They don't ask "do you like this?" anymore. They ask something like "show more like this?" and I'm afraid clicking No will remove tweets from people that happened to be in the "while you were away" section.
This pretty much mirrors my experience.

I feel like they rushed their launch partners (or themselves if they're self built). I haven't tried to find any more bots because of how bad the poncho UX was.
I wish people would take the California earthquake situation more seriously. We've had decades of warning yet are still minimally prepared for disaster. The sad thing is, the only way we'll see real change is after a major earthquake where thousands of people are killed/injured. Then people will fight/sue/vote for change. It's just like in the city I live in, where we have multiple known-to-be unsafe traffic intersections. Only after there's a serious accident and someone sues the traffic lights get built. It's unfortunate that even today, the cost of change is priced in human lives.
What even constitutes email growth at this point - more people gaining access to the Internet? Creation of new MX servers? Signups to Gmail?
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It only takes one person at Twitter the corporation to edit their tweet database and change the sha1. The Bitcoin blockchain is nearly impossible to tamper.
Better tell every developer in the world.
No, it isn't. If everyone in the room were passive investors, and a company like GM starts losing money quarter after quarter, the passive investors will not sell GM. The company will continue to maintain the same stock price. They will continue to issue stock to cover their losses. Issuing stock increases market capitalisation, passive investors will buy in, and keep giving the company cash. On the other hand, new companies will have no active investors looking at them. No active investors to issue IPO's to.

The economy will stagnate. Eventually the entire portfolio the room holds will be money losing companies, burning up the country's capital.

The half of the room who are active investors contribute greatly to the economy's long term growth. They could either have negative long run returns as passive investors, or positive long run returns that are less than passive investors.
Downvoted because this information is trivially discovered. :(
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Hmm, I didn't get your dichotomy... By "half" did you mean the first half? IMHO the main dish of SICP is chapter 4 and 5 (ch1-3 is just laying foundations), and the content of latter chapters is strongly connected to system-level things like compilers, run-times, processor design etc.---it's not as immediately applicable as like the Dragon Book, but SICP gives you the perspective, in a sense that it shows broader possible design space within which you can locate the current OS / hardware / language technology.
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> I needed rain -> I did a rain dance -> it rained [...] I needed rain -> I did a rain dance -> it didn't rain -> I must have done something wrong

This is a textbook example of a non-falsifiable experiment. I'm not sure why you would argue that you can draw meaningful statistical inferences from such an experiment.
That resonates with me; thank you.

I still think it's a bullshit marketing term.
And, as the article hints at, refuelling with gas takes minutes vs. hours for electric. It'll probably take a couple orders of magnitude more electric chargers than gas stations to support the same number of each vehicle type.
That's an awful candidate experience and misses an opportunity to get more interviewers calibrated :(
They needn't be distinct. Writing is random selection with replacement.
I got up early everyday and read a chapter before work and tried many of the exercises. Now I use the whole set as an almost daily reference where I work. The prelim math you can get from MITs 6.042 either on OCW or the reg school site https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring16/class-material.... if you just want to understand on an applied level what's going on. I did it in MMIX using the book 'The MMMIX Supplement' by Ruckert to check answers.

Re: SICP I noticed Harvard and other schools typically have an intro to CS course then a course after in abstraction using OCaml or other functional language. The syllabuses I've found for these second semester CS intro courses looks almost identical to SICP ToC except no hand rolled compiler which is probably the single most useful chapter I've ever read in any CS book.
Sometimes revolutions happen quietly, very quietly.

(actually, that could be an electric car company slogan)
I personally love the bus, but it can vary greatly from place to place (and even from bus line to bus line).

But this is a great illustration of self-driving cars: it's public transit for the upper-middle class. (The middle class can't afford a reliable car for the whole household; the rich have chauffeurs.)
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Although my middle of the night crisis was that I meant the Archean, not the Hadean. sorry, was shooting from the geologic hip, and I'm more of a geographer than a geologist.
Asymmetric is a nice touch (sets you apart from restic and attic/borg)!

I've PR'd this project into the restic/others list.
FWIW, I don't have any dog in this race; I'm just a HN reader who liked Pinboard and voted for it.

Is it possible to address the points raised by `beeboop' and `killwhitey' above with the data available -- would long-term HN members have been enough to put Pinboard over the top ? (i.e. the vote brigading had no substantive effect and it was just the phone conversation that prompted the decision)
Interesting. Does that require you to use Neon though? Also, seems like a "contact us for quote" kind of situation.
Show me where to get a NoScript replacement and I'll consider that Chrome or Chromium might have a clear advantage in security. But if you try to point me at an extension that only blocks JavaScript based on URLs, I'll consider you very misinformed.
I'm skeptical about the robots leading to mass unemployment thing too, but for some different reasons. It kind of assumes that:

1. There won't be room for people to operate freelance or outside of a structured business. Which given its commonality in the web design and marketing industries, seems unlikely.

2. That pretty much every business, without exception will decide to replace human staff with robots. I suspect this is more likely among large corporations than mom and pop groups that actually know their employees and don't see everything in pure statistics terms.

3. That some groups won't deliberately avoid replacing its staff for reputational reasons. There's a market for organic food, a market for free range food, a market for fair trade food and a market for no GM food, so there could just as easily be a market for products made by humans only.

4. That people will always pick the cheapest and technically 'best' option from the largest companies and hence the companies using them will somehow conquer the market. But McDonalds and fast food chains didn't kill the restaurant business.

And that's before you get into the issues with the version of basic income posited by this article. The 10,000 dollars example is completely inadequate to live on in a lot of the country (especially the large cities), so there's the question of what to do about the insane house prices and such.
> The theory isn't that "statistics are the ultimate language of the brain".

That's not the theory of this specific paper, but the says that this researcher considers this paper a "first step" towards this more general theory.

> This theory is falsifiable, because you can ask people their confidence in the original measurements, their confidence in a decision depending on that, and then use Bayes' rule to see if those confidences have propagated.

If your standard is that humans will apply Bayes' theorem correctly, completely intuitively, as more evidence becomes available, I think it will be very easy to falsify that.
I'm a sysadmin who uses python27, centos and rhel on a daily basis and I've never personally installed it - simply for not knowing anything about it, nor has anybody asked me to install it. The name rings a slight bell, but it doesn't sound like anything a python package would sound like, so I can kinda see how I could have just overlooked it many, many times. Besides, installing numpy/scipy/etc is just a few commands away to having a similar build in comparison, anyway, so I've never even needed to think about alternatives.

I understand your frustration, but calling us assholes and lazy is just a little harsh. At this point, I'd have hoped it was understood by everyone that this wasn't the sysadmin's fault. How insistent or pushy or hoity toity are you were when asking? I've been woken enough times while on call after a 2.7 upgrade to pretty much give up on it, so even the request gives me a blinding headache these days. So yeah, I'll probably be a little grumpy at that request and I will take my time with it on top of the other things going on. If I was called lazy or an asshole for bringing these issues up, be ready to wait.

Hell, to flip it back on y'all, would it hurt to have proper shebangs? For every developer who asks for a 2.7 upgrade, I get three more asking to downgrade until they fix their badly self-deployed code, despite plenty of preparation. It sucks pretty hardcore.

That said, I have a flood of baseline rhel/centos machines to install soon, so I'll try to include it in my builds.

(most of these issues I've had are in larger environments where best practices are best-effort, through legacy swamps.)
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Thanks, merged!

Yes, the main reason I wrote it is asymmetric cryptography.
It's a touchscreen device with voice as an afterthought. Devices where voice is primary will be designed differently.

Car navigation systems would be a good place to start.
How do you look at that chart, say "it's flat the last 3 years" and ignore the three boom bust cycles before it?
The "Kevin talked to Maciej and it didn't seem like it would work out" part seems pretty straightforward. The voting brigade thing seems dumb, but Kevin was pretty explicit that part wouldn't have mattered.
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Now, I'm just waiting the next hilarous talk Maciej will give about this YC case.
Yes, but you are forgeting a very important decision, usually how these things go, the person doing the decision for now and the person doing the decision later aren't the same one.

So companies keep doing this, because whoever does the "cheap" decision gets his/her bonus for reaching the target and moves on.
I wish there was an edit button for older posts: I meant to qualify that. The actual pragmatic quality may be higher (particularly re terrific speed optimisations, with bitmasks etc), but the cleanness and readability I feel has dropped (some due to extreme modularisation, which is v useful but makes reading source painful). There aren't as many comments, which seems kinda minor except in the context of Jeremy Ashkenas' attempts at literate programming, esp via Docco, which IMO was fairly successful. I still use Underscore source and docs as reference. LoDash I find has pretty awful docs in terms of how they're arranged vs Underscore, but that could just be due to experience.
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I disagree completely. In your hypothetical world, what if they were all private gas stations? That would certainly affect the economics of owning a gasoline car for the worse, if you also had to build and maintain your own gas station to go along with it. But apparently we shouldn't take that into account?

Here's another hypothetical: What if every single private charging station in Japan was owned by the same individual, and he refused to let anybody else use them? Would that change your opinion? Because from the perspective of someone who's deciding which kind of car to buy, that scenario is functionally identical to the current reality.

The only infrastructure that affects "viability" of a new technology is infrastructure that's available to use. A bunch of roped-off private infrastructure doesn't change the equation for anybody whose not already a member of the club.
I don't understand what's so bad about being healthy and fit? You'll feel better all around and be sharper mentally too.
Sure, but those aren't the people who are caping up for them on Hacker News. (I mean, some may be, but in general I'm skeptical.)
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Yes. Storing as it's on cloud. I should be able to browse on cloud storage as I do on device. Basically, maintaining replica of device on cloud.