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Agreed. HN highlighted this artice a few weeks ago. It does the numbers and estimates a 400% increase in productivity by having trucks drive (themselves) around the clock.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/25/the-driverless-truck-is-com...
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I would think dealing with the SAME challenges simply at higher speeds would mean automation wins every time.
It's Chrome that uses a Bloom Filter.

Firefox uses a compressed Prefix set, which has no false positives (unlike the Bloom filter).
Serial number on MacbookPros start with a C, mine does at least.
I think this is similar to the issue that Americans tend to pay relatively high taxes and get relatively little in return, compared to citizens of other countries. I don't know to what extent this is a result of a few folks gaming the system to their own advantage (e.g. by paying very little taxes on a lot), or to the fact that by and large America is responsible for the security and peace of the global (and hence other states need not spend as much on global issues), or to the extent that American civil service appears from the outside to be very much a handout to people who can't get honest employment, or to the extent that government contractors are experts in milking tax dollars, or what.

It completely doesn't surprise me that we spend more on less infrastructure.
What does the IDE look like? Or do I have access to a terminal where I can use something like emacs or vim?
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Fascinating Intersection of tech and journalism. Techno-journalism?
looks like this could be great for interviews
Interesting. Just before I left Google they were looking to resell "old" drives from their machines. Basically after 3 years they had been depreciated, so the drives would be securely erased and sent to a reseller who would sell them (presumably marked as used) for a good price. However, those drives would have 20,000 - 30,000 hours on them not 4,000 - 6,000. When we decommissioned a bunch of Blekko servers the guys buying them were mostly interested in the drives (easy to resell) but again they had a lot of hours on them. Warranty replacements we had done over the years had a special label that said they were refurbs.

All of that to say I'm wondering who runs a drive for 250 days and then sells it. I could easily see a thousand hours being run as burn in to catch infant mortality failures but those are pretty much all gone after the first thousand hours.
Can you elaborate on this? I've tried Chromium once and again, but always fall back to Firefox as it feels better to me. Direct reasons are the address bar functionality and better privacy support out of the box, but also some generic feel is somehow just more familiar to me.

Firefox does have global freezes on particularly heavy pages due to the single process model. It's rare enough not to bother me much though.

As a tip, the Firefox Android version allows add-ons -- uBlock most critically. It's just great.
No reason that automated fueling stations couldn't be built. OTOH, it could just be a return of "full service" fueling, at least for trucks. Maybe even employ a few of the people that lose their jobs to automated trucking, though likely at a much lower wage.
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Pointing a taser at someones neck sounds like incredible lack of professionalism. How long are cops trained there?
BTW I'm using FF on Android too (and it's way better than Chrome, with a true adblocker which is even more important than on the desktop), but since the upgrade to Android 6 applications revert to the stock Android browser without any option to select FF instead, grrrr...
Not sure, I would estimate 15 million. It was maybe 17-20 million a couple decades ago, and has been declining.
In my opinion, comments lacking civility and passing relevance to the discussion at hand trump technical error as a bane of Hacker News. Charitably, I realize that some people might be new comers to the relevant skills just as others are to technical knowledge.
I always wanted a free alternative for pgAdmin. I hope the project continues... in open source.
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Good idea. How flexible are you to adjusting the trip locations for international affairs?
>Then he should be sentenced on the other evidence anyway

Yes, probably. I'm not really convinced that this isn't a violation of the fifth amendment, but I'm not a lawyer.

I suspect a jury would find him guilty anyway, and the fact that he refuses to decrypt his hard drive will likely not help his chances of convincing a jury that he's innocent.
Why would any police organization spend even 5ms on finding a stolen computer and have the complainant involved in a "sting"?
A "that" is missing, yes. Or "containing" would fix the sentence without a "that". Someone was probably either typing too quickly or edited the surrounding words and neglected to fix the result here.
>Also the email bug some university had that they couldn't send emails further than 500 miles exactly.

Clearly this is to prevent students from racking up the phone bill surfing long distance[1].

[1] http://bash.org/?142934
yeah.... unchecked assault, and you think an article is going to solve your problems. cowardly pussy. buy guns and matches and do it right. you want solutions or do you want things to get worse? they assaulted you and you did nothing. now you're enabling them to assault more people in more attack first questions later methods because you personally have turned people off of the caring service of the dedicated police.

BOOM. boom is the answer, lady.
What's with pictures of him as a kid? What does that add to the story? Sympathy?
These are pretty cool. It's more of a fluff piece, though; I wish it went into more detail.
The problem with flights is the time and trouble spent getting to and getting through airports so the flight time has to be long enough to justify the wasted time.
The IDE is powered by ACE editor, but you have a terminal that is 100% capable of running emacs / vim, but since the terminals are shared you can't have multiple cursors like you can in the editor.

But you can also enable vim mode from the editor settings if that's your jam.
maybe the same reason they do the same thing for weed and prostitution?

you're an idiot.
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Maybe I should have said a WATWG YavaScript standard...

I didn't know the standard existed.

Generally, agree with the "let's put back every piece of dung in place after paving the cowpath" approach the WHATWG follows. Anosmic folks come to rely on the reduced friction coefficient...

I suppose that the Date.parse stuff was updated between ES5 and the living stabdard.
Seven months imprisoned without trial and counting. The technicalities about contempt and hard drives are a distraction; the real injustice is that, as a routine matter, the US government no longer gives trials without extensive pre-trial punishment.
what users overlook that every URL is checked against a database of URLs already in Google's 'safe browsing' repository

...the database of which is downloaded ahead of time and hence not transmitted to Google.

Read this:
https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...

because they're in bed with Google.

It's actually Yahoo, not Google, that funds Firefox.
This should be in use at those self-registry machines at food markets. I imagine that you place the food item on the scanner and it will automatically register it or ask for human input when something unrecognized is found.

Would decrease cheating perhaps?
I agree. A domestic train/pod based travel network doesn't have the same security implications as an airport.
by and large America is responsible for the security and
peace of the global

A task it took on itself mostly unasked for and unappreciated by the rest of that globe.
Why not filter on the basis on aptitude, or even attitude, instead of age?
Generic (compound) constraints could also be useful.

Like this:

(Value >= 0 && Value <= 1000 && (Value & 1) == 0) || Value in(value_enum)

Would limit Value to even numbers between [0 .. 1000] except if it's an enum (for error values).
Yes, especially when talking about languages and culture although these countries have many geographic, economic and social similarities. Same with Iceland, although Icelandic is Germanic. Even if so, Finnish is an officially recognized minority language of Sweden with almost 500,000 speakers. Then again, probably Arabic will overtake Finnish as largest minority language soon but I would hesitate before calling it a Scandinavian language.
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I've read in the past stories about cops getting tips from people that their stolen stuff is on Craigslist. At the time I thought it's cool they are catching people but I guess if they rely upon the thinking of a civilian who just had their laptop stolen going and saying "omg that's my laptop!!" "I mean sure the serial number is wrong maybe they are lying about that.. It's totally mine.. Hey police you gotta bust that guy!" It seems like that is very likely to result in lots of false positives since your average person is not a detective.. The police should be doing more digging on this stuff before they just assume stuff is gonna be stolen.. Especially if part of their MO is to look for people of color.. Completely unacceptable..
I assume it is to help you empathize with the person the story is about. Some people are interested in the human element of news stories, the photos are for those people.
I've read this description three times and I still have no idea what it does.
It's hard to blame unions in the US for any substantial part of the cost when areas with much cheaper infrastructure costs have much stronger unions and equivalent salary levels.
If this can happen over a stolen laptop, we have given the police too much power, resources and authority, and too little training, education and accountability.

They are essentially armed goons for those with property and the right complexion.

The people responsible for these actions make upwards of $180k a year and will suffer no repercussions for their actions. Let that sink in.
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I work for a publisher that produces several articles a day that include external links for reference. More and more I seem to be coming across cases where those links are now broken. In the near future, I will startup an automated script that checks for broken links (and I'm guessing I may have to get it warning on redirects since certain bad actors use redirects when they should be using 410).

When I have some decent results, I'll be ensuring the editorial team is aware of which sites in particular are prone to breaking links, and which they can trust. The net effect will be that we will be less likely to drive traffic to certain domains. Whether enough other people will do this to make any kind of meaningful difference is unknown, but it's certainly better to be a trustworthy site that it can't hurt to link to.

On a related note, I learnt this week that taken-down YouTube videos are a PITA. Not only do they give a 200 when requested, they also give zero results when looked-up via the youtube api. Sure, they can still be treated as a 'broken link' from our end, but it would be nice to be able to differentiate between a video that was taken down and one that may never have existed in the first place.
Or course, no one is entitled to it. And I do think focusing on disadvantages can be a problem, and make it harder to succeed.
What profitable side projects are you currently working on?
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were a fly-by-night sort of organisation like that.

In any case, the best developers I've worked with are the ones that practice the fundamentals on their own, regardless of whether they're degreed or not.
V8 has a JIT compiler that is extraordinarily, sometimes surprisingly fast for certain tasks.

This "oh it's AOT compiled so it's faster" mantra is not accurate causation.
From developer productivity standpoint how does Go (with or without framework assistance) compare to Node or Rails/Python?
Exactly. HL is for 200-1000 km. distances. Suborbital is for intercontinental. By the way, getting to orbit takes an amount of fuel similar to flying USA to Australia. Once we stop throwing the planes away . . In between those distances is flying.
If you gave ai seed funding and ago on the stock market.. Would that still be a conpany when you leave?
To be sentenced he would have to be charged, which he still isn't after 7 months...
Does Windows accept non-ASCII characters in account names? If so, you could use MRIüser.

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99% of systems patched in under 12 hours. I know CoreOS doesn't have a high number of instances in existence, but that's still an insanely fast turnaround.
Audio is an incredibly rich feedback mechanism for all kinds of mechanical processes. And the fascinating part about it is that our brains process it so effortlessly. If the data your ears can analyze from your car were presented visually, perhaps as a scrolling FFT spectral graph or plots of a host of sensors, you'd never notice a momentary misfire or a tiny change in pitch. It would be complete data overload! But even untrained ears can pick out errant noises.
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The HL paper wasn't FUD to torpedo the HSR project, as I see it, it was leveraging existing skepticism (and also quite a bit of irrational opposition) with HSR to draw attention to HL. I don't think Musk cares one way or another about HSR, I think he cares about getting people to work on realizing HL so its ready for his Mars colonies, which is the real point of the technology.
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try turning off JS and just whitelisting sites on mobile - it's in-crea-dible .... content loads, I can navigate through it ... amazing.
Phonetically C-number and serial number sound close enough that I'd suspect C-number is a memetic mutation of serial number. I wonder if "Derek" was trying to look up the UUID of the system.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/25/mac-101-finding-your-macs...
In the article, the guy seemed to believe that it wasn't the serial number. That it was something you had to turn the computer on for or something.

> Derek tells the woman the C-number is off. Not the serial number—they were looking for some other number in the computer.
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> Unfortunately, you’ve got a lot of police misconduct, but I never thought it would be on this level. [...] You’re innocent until proven guilty. I was guilty until proven innocent.

He was investigated, nothing was found, and he was released. He wasn't arrested, charged, taken to jail, let alone "guilty until proven innocent".
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Sure not technically broken, it is semantically broken as the meaning has changed.
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There are much better motivations for log-odds and the logistic function than just ensuring the predicted values are bounded probabilities.

If you want to do bayesian updating of your model upon seeing new data, and you want to express this as a linear function, a sum of log-odds values is the way to do it.

The best way to understand this is to learn about "naive bayes" first. If you start with naive bayes, but replace the values that are based on observed frequencies with values that you can just optimize for your objective, you get logistic regression.
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There are a lot of cities in the US where thefts are being treated by cops as a "meh sorry just call your insurance company.." So many police depts have been trying to do something to turn that mentality around since people are pretty pissed about it.. I had my laptop stolen about 10 years ago and that's exactly what happened.. The cop showed up like 5 hours after it happened and was like "yea good luck!" And catching people in the act is exciting for cops so it's something they are interested in doing.. It's good PR and interesting for cops.. Until this happens..
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Things should be clearer now that the "Stage Process" [1] is more transparent. Object.observe made it only as far as Stage 2 ("Draft"), but async/await has already pushed on to Stage 3 ("Candidate"), making it much more likely it will hit Stage 4 ("Final") just as soon as a plurality of web browsers support it. (...and as soon as it hits Stage 4 it will be included in that years final spec, under the new annual review process.)

[1] https://tc39.github.io/process-document/
I think that's being pedantic; multiple redirects really don't break the spirit of the clause.
Moving countries means dropping Office or dropping your existing MS account
This page contains a list of countries using Jury in various way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury
The service should not reuse your username for someone else. Or, perhaps, it should not reuse your user ID, and offer a username resolution service?
That's a good point :) But they are breaking laws in the process. God, the US government is even breaking the habeas corpus, the most important law of all, and nobody bats an eye.
I've been thinking of this exact thing for a few years now, good to see others are interested too. I think there is HUGE potential for an app that can accurately (within a reasonable error range) count macro-nutrients through pictures of food, but I think that is WAY more difficult than you would imagine. How can you train a classifier to tell how much butter is in a dish? How can you account for food that is literally underneath other food?

Maybe a combination of spectrometer, weight, and photos would be a future solution. I certainly don't have an idea of how it would be implemented, but I think using data from all 3 of those sources could be a good step.
This comes from a confusion of definitions.

In common language, a berry is something small that you can pick, usually to eat. That biologists studying plants operate with another definition is really a separate concern.

It's similar with vegetables and fruit, e.g. a tomato. I imagine most people will group a tomato with vegetables, rather than apples and oranges.

One definition makes sense in a food setting, another definition makes sense when you're trying to understand how stuff works.
That is decided during a trial, and the decision is the outcome of the trial. The 6th amendment says "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial", the 7th amendment says "the right of trial by jury shall be preserved", and the 5th amendment says "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".

I would interpret what is happening as a de-facto trial by judge, not peers, and thus a deprivation of liberty without due process of law, which must include a trial by peers.
Those are just examples of a high-level language and a systems programming language though, and the expected result is the same as comparing Perl/Tcl/Python with C/C++, or whichever decades old variation of this topic you want to pick :)
Viewing the PDF using either the github viewer in Iceweasel 38 or downloading it and viewing it in Atril resulted in 2.1GB memory usage in a spare Jessie / MATE VM I had lying around. Close Atril and Iceweasel, ps -ef to check they're gone, look at top - and Xorg still holds on to 1.14GB.

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Other countries definitely use juries, just not as universally as the US. They more often just have a judge or a panel of judges, or sometimes a sort of jury that includes judges.
I was only vaguely aware that receiver detection was a thing but had no idea how it worked. Googling around based on some of your keywords opened it up and also produced this declassified CIA gem 'Agent Hazard in the Super-het'

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Adobe Flash - When you download and installed Flash for Opera or Firefox, it would trick you into installing Chrome as your default browser unless you noticed and unchecked a box: http://i.imgur.com/Uldw6X3.png

Java - When updating, Java on Windows would often trick you into installing Chrome as your default browser unless you noticed and unchecked a box

Avast, AntiVir, etc - Nearly every free antivirus on Windows was paid by Google to install Chrome. The free antivirus would notify you there was a new version and if you clicked the UPDATE or CONTINUE button without noticing and unchecking the box, you'd wind up with Chrome installed and set as your default browser: http://i.imgur.com/hNZLbmL.jpg

The majority of the non-techies I know and had set up with Firefox have no idea how Chrome got on their machines and became their default browser. I'd wager a lot of Chrome's desktop userbase on Windows is due to shady bundleware arrangements.

Chrome was still engaged in the above behavior the last time I checked.
Right, log(p/(1-p)) is the logit function; its inverse is the logistic function.

Here's another motivation for why logits are practically useful: Bayes' Theorem!

You've probably seen Bayes' theorem in the depressing form:

Pr(C | E) = Pr(E | C) Pr(C) / Pr(E).

Here E is evidence, C is a claim, and Pr() is the probability function mapping sets of possibilities to their probability. It says that the probability of a claim, given some evidence, turns out to be the probability of the evidence given the claim, times the prior probability of the claim, divided by the prior probability of the evidence.

If you've gotten a little further with it, you may have seen that (if you work out a lot of mathematics) you can tack on a | O to all of these probabilities, where the O stands for old-evidence about the world, so that you can make this expression recursive:

Pr(C | E O) = Pr(E | C O) Pr(C | O) / Pr(E | O).

(In case it's not totally clear, when I juxtapose sets I intend to mean their set-intersection, which is usually analogized to a sort of "set product". So `E O` above means "both E and O": given both the old evidence O and the new evidence E.)

And if you've gotten a bit further you may have seen that in practice we often will use the fact that Pr(E | O) = Pr(E | C O) Pr(C | O) + Pr(E | !C O) Pr(!C | O), where ! is of course set-complement or the prefix "not-". This allows us to write:

Pr(E | C O) Pr(C | O)
Pr(C | E O) = ----------------------------------
Pr(E | C O) Pr(C | O) + Pr(E | !C O) [1 − Pr(C | O)]

Same theorem, but a lot more complicated because it's a lot more real-world!

But we can actually rewrite this last expression using the odds ratio,

Odds(A) = Pr(A) / [1 - Pr(A)]

in a much simpler form as:

Pr(E | C O)
Odds(C | E O) = --------------- * Odds(C | O)
Pr(E | !C O)

The recursive formula therefore looks like a chain of multiplications of factors due to newer and newer evidence.

On the assumption that a bunch of pieces of evidence are independent, each factor decouples from the others and just becomes some factor W_i. The logit expression looks simply like:

log(Odds(C | E1 E2 ... En)) = log(Odds(C)) + log(W1) + log(W2) + ... + log(Wn).

The logistic regression is therefore assuming a linear approximation: each continuous factor F_i that you're studying corresponds to some independent piece of evidence E_i which contributes some factor W_i = log(Pr(E_i | C) / Pr(E_i | !C)), and we're assuming that this logarithm-of-a-conditional-probability-ratio can then be roughly approximated as a_i + b_i F_i. We collect together log(Pr(C)) + Sum_i a_i together as some leading coefficient A and then we get our fit as N+1 variables (A, {b_i}).