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That's an interesting development. Of course, that's how the Certificate of Entitlement system in Singapore is supposed to work: the island's infrastructure can support only so many cars on the road, and they have decided that this shared resources be rationed out by willingness to pay---so that the most economically efficient users get to drive the cars.

Of course, if they are more economically efficient per-car because they drive these cars more, the separate congestion charging might have to go up. Still a net win for the economy of Singapore---since they will be using the national share of capital sunken into the cost of cars more efficiently.

(I am talking about the cost the economy of Singapore has to pay as a whole to import a car. That's net of taxes and CoE which are just transfers within Singapore.)

I hope the government can stay non-populist, and not give in to shortsighted special interests.
I've been regularly coding in C for 30+ years. The language has evolved, the behavior on what you can do "to be dangerous" depends on the architecture, as opposed to the things you can do "to be dumb".

Do I consider myself an expert, no. A pro? No.

Libraries, processors, application being built always expose challenges and things to be aware of.

This is why I take exception with the phrasing of "Pro" based off of a reading list.
My top reasons why everyone getting into maths/stats/cs should go straight for deep learning:

a. recent findings are documented incredibly well in both research and code

b. because of its success, there are many areas for useful contribution at relatively less effort from the researcher

c. because of its success, it'll help you develop marketable skills

d. it's fun

Maybe it won't solve General AI, but it seems like a damn good foundation for the person/people that will eventually come out with ideas that move us closer in that direction.
Nonsequitor. The crown itself has no interest in spreading Wahhabism, but they do have an interest in keeping Wahhabis happy to avoid religion turning into an enemy of the state, or even worse, the state itself.
Agreed, but you seemed to be suggesting that the current homeless or very poor are something different than that, and different from you and I. I think this is an inconsiderate and inaccurate suggestion, by and large.
> On top of engineering spend they are basically at war with every single place they move into [...]

You mean with every single jurisdiction they move into? (Customers and drivers seem reasonably happy. At least they are not at war.)
Millennials are just at their moment in the marketing spotlight. Happens to every generation. As a whole they're at the traditional age when they'd be forming brand affinities which would last a lifetime, so companies are after them.

I'm not sure it works that way any more, but I'm also not sure it doesn't.
Is this like anywhere even close to the functionality of something like IntelliJ? Doesn't really sound like it. Linting and formatting, and completion does not an IDE make. How much code intelligence and introspection is there?
and if it's not a continuous function?
Advertisers are perpetually chasing the 18-35 demographic. This will never change.
I think you view of the world is rather skewed if you think "normal" people take a town car to the airport.

Even as a well-paid software engineer, I never use UberBlack—only UberX.
What depends on those things is our cronyism system that many people mistakenly believe to be capitalism.

Enterprises would benefit if the government stepped aside and let a true free market develop.
There's a gender divide on nuclear power
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It gets many times a framework called "flex", but it's misscategorized heavily. "flexible hours", "flexible working hours" and "we are pretty flexible" are just the first 3 examples I opened.
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Articles like this are ridiculous, because essentially all they say is "guess what, there are some smart people in X group!" There are smart/hard-working/passionate/etc. people in nearly every group. The question is, what are the ratios?
I know that tech company M.O. is creeping invasiveness by acclimating users to marginally more Orwellian incursions of their privacy over time, but are we already at the point where something like this can gain widespread acceptance? Seems like the willingness of the general populace to prostrate itself to our newfangled corporate overlords is only accelerating.
IBM actually has a system trained on a legal corpus, used for tracking down potentially-relevant case and statute law. There isn't a huge amount of client funding in legal AI compared to other applications, and the problems are much harder than more restricted domains like medicine and pharma, but there's enough cash to do some interesting work.
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Back in my day, "Pro" meant Professional, as in one who earns their living doing this.
What is that mythical "universal algorithm" ?
What's an example use case for Service Broker?
Cynically: that's why Uber doesn't want to win that kind of war.

They want to get in, and then work with the locals to establish some `sensible regulation'. Regulation that just happens to be cumbersome enough to deter new small-scale entrants.
I have never heard the War on Drugs framed in terms of promoting freedom. Can you give an example?
Are you eating large heavy meals? Try more, smaller, lighter meals.
I agree.

What kind of results did your company get from your HN post compared to some of the other venues?
4-5 weeks vacation per year, tracked, and an option for unpaid longer leave, sounds great.
For those curious... 100k / 20 / 365 = $13/day, at $3/gallon (est) = 4.56 gallons * 20mpg (low gas milage) = 91 miles/day, or closer to 30mpg would be around 135miles/day, which I guess is possible. I was just thinking it seemed like a lot. Now, a fair amount of that is varying levels of taxes... but it's still significant amount.

I'm currently doing about 40 miles/day commute for work, and know people who are driving a lot farther than I am... while I was married, I'd drive about 140 miles to/from home on the weekends, staying in the city during the week, put many miles on my car and truck back then.
I wonder why management would want to keep anyone from bidding up the share price?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

It's proved for a subset of functions. Maybe you can prove it for more.
You left out the best:

machine code, a.k.a. hex bytes

assembly, a.k.a. assembler

C, a.k.a. C99, C11 (no, not C++, and "C/C++" is different too)
Ugh! Thanks for pointing this out. Working on a fix right now.
I just looked up a fare estimate and UberBlack is about twice as expensive as what I pay. So I suspect you're just as abnormal as me if you pay anyone at all to drive you to the airport instead of driving yourself. That actually drives home my point of not using Uber in this case. Why bother when I'm getting the same service for 50% of the cost with someone I know, trust, and have actually become friends with?
Please explain more what you mean by a "visual language"?
What advantage will such a system have?
Yes, like a taxi. The primary benefits Uber has over traditional Taxis are 1. price; 2. they have an app, and it works well; 3. drivers arrive in vaguely predictable times that are less than 45 minutes; and 4. it doesn't discriminate as badly as cabbies.

> Uber will never come close to moving the sheer numbers that public transit does. You can't do it, not enough road to fit all those cars. Especially in downtown cores.

I never suggested anything of the sort. Especially not at commute hours.

> So Uber competes with public transit as much as taxis compete with public transit.

I think we agree. I just noted that if Uber prices rose, some Uber users would prefer to use public transit rather than pay higher Uber prices or Taxi prices.
Having just recently spent probably in excess of 100 hours on an embedded systems project at university, I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with using embedded C.

You many want to reconsider your career path, then. Because I've been working on embedded systems for a long time now and it's always been embedded C. And it's looking like it's going to be that way for a long time to come. If you're using a kernel like Linux or FreeRTOS, even moreso.

The entire project is just a massive mess of cascading makefiles and #defines, and is amazingly poorly documented.

Again, welcome to embedded systems engineering. Enjoy your stay.
Exactly, he knows what he's looking for, exactly - also because of the HN post and release google's search ranking will be rating it higher than in the future. Say you search for https://www.google.com.au/search?q=xeon+code or something similar - you're not going to find it. OK maybe you should be better with your search terms but still, can we stop naming tech things the same exact name as other common tech search terms?
Alphabet, Google's parent and briefly the most valuable company on the planet has a market cap of 510.2B USD right now.

And no debt to speak of, I think. Normally you need to add the equity market cap and the debt to get the total financial structure of the company. (I just googled, and I think that sum is called the `enterprise value', if you subtract any cash holdings.)

See http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/08/does-this-metric-make-m...
I think also it's correctness of the information. Google can only infer so much about you. But for you to curate your own data, primed by them, helps them to better target relevant information and advertisements to you.

It's good and bad I guess. But definitely helps to build trust.
> The surgeon noticed he was sleeping and told him to take a walk.

Pardon me?! The surgeon didn't say "take a nap" ?

Your girlfriend's brother should see a doctor about possible apnea or other sleep disorder.
Yeah, they have a parallel strategy (for now) with their Xeon Phi hardware, but there's still a performance penalty vs Nvidia. A big problem is that all the software is written for CUDA and optimized for particular Nvidia cards - hence, software / hardware synergy.

Wouldn't be surprised to see them acquire more deep learning algo startups as well.
It's interesting to me that while id games always had good Mac support, Half-Life etc. and Counter-Strike (based on the Quake engine) were not added to Steam until 2013.
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Obvious bolt-on to Intel MKL too.
If the compiler writers union decides that the spec allows for 'format hard drive off on signed overflow' we can always change the spec to 'don't format hard drive on signed overflow'
Actually, if you watch the video of the LambdaConf talk, I believe you'll see me deride Lisp as having (and needing) dynamically typed atoms.

I had no idea the concept of an atom had indeed degenerated all the way into complex numbers, which to me and to all decent Americans will always be a "cons" cell. Obviously I had not reckoned with the full and complete degeneracy of Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.10. Or something. If I knew Lisp, I could perhaps condemn it correctly.

In any case, sir: you are misinformed. A "dynamic" type system isn't actually a type system. At best, it's a sort of crutch for retired Jedis who can barely swing their obsolete, one-ended lightsabers.

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Cockroachdb is built on top of etcd. So far seems to work very well for their product.

I think this whole thread is a bit harsh and unfair to CoreOs and their solutions.
I sometimes will nap in a conference room for twenty minutes just testing my head on my arms which I have crossed on the table. Helps tremendously.
It's not that I left it out, it's just not in the data. Employers are not including this in their job posts.
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While driving home this evening listening to NPR's Marketplace, Kai Ryssdal specifically mentioned that Forbes removed Elizabeth Holems from their list of richest self-made women. Her stake in Theranos is now valued at $0 [1].

Capitalism giveth, and capitalism taketh away.

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I don't think the multiple is the relevant metric. People aren't going "should I buy 5 bus tickets or should I buy 1 uber x ride?" The number of rides is pretty much fixed. The choice they are making is "should I upgrade my ride experience, if it means I have to downgrade an experience in another area?"
So you should rather compare the price to other "upgrades" people are buying.
Here's a similar, real-world case involving GCC 6's more aggressive SRA and alias-analysis optimizations: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71120
People being jovial doesn't mean they aren't working. It just means they aren't stressed out about deadline or other pressure.

The deadline is extrinsic (At best, arbitrary at worst), missing a deadline doesn't mean the product was not getting made.
What if there is no opportunity for labor to make more money? Only to do existing work with less people?
I recall a story of how the windows 95 team (or the like) was crazy dedicated to backwards compatibility, so they had a check to see if the user was running Roller Coaster Tycoon and if so, disabled virtual memory so the game would run.

Though I'd like to know more details, like:

* Why does blizzard need to run in the sandbox on Mac OS X? The app sandbox is opt-in (though required for App Store apps)

* Can anyone set their team ID to blizzard's?

* Are blizzard games attack vectors?
I also saw "flex-time" getting hit.

I expect also stuff like "you can flex your hours".

IMHO, "Frameworks" is a strange column anyway.
What information does the extension send back to your servers?
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If UberBlack is 2x the price you pay, what you pay is close to 2x what UberX costs (depending on the market).

It's fairly normal to take a taxi to the airport (particularly at your destination), but paying 2x the cost of a taxi for a private car service is definitely "luxury."
Not sure if I understand how the referred-to press release is "against free speech" by "allowing rich and powerful to silence critics on Facebook". Does it mean if I am rich and powerful I can have arbitrary posts taken down that I don't like?
Check "react" and "backbone". They are probably false positives too.
Yay multi-tenant apps!
Post one for React Native
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This is from a month ago, but I just came across it now. From the sound of it, getUserMedia in Safari could be here soon but PeerConnection might take a while.
The most important raw stat is how many comments are there by month, over time? That will give some insight into how the tech ecosystem in general is doing.

I graphed this by month from April 2013 to April 2015 -- if you were to add the #s to today, you'd see a downturn in early 2016, but back up to April 2015 levels by now.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vzSbLNZjV9pqFclnPwxM...
Yep and the company the author worked at was founded by Peter Molyneux who is infamous for dreaming up stuff that's not possible in the real world with real constraints.
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Is there any improvement on the installer. SQL Server 2014 express was 30 step nightmare the same ghastly thing they had for SQL Server 2008, I should of bailed and recommended a winadmin at the point people were making parody sites about how to find the downloader http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DownloadSqlServerExpress.aspx. Then unresolved .Net dependencies (sure I'll go find them myself), followed by the #clicknext arthritis, and after about hr of gods know what it was installed. Oh wait tools.. I need the tools too..

I hope the version they release for linux is add-apt-respository microsoft/linuxsql and apt-get install mssql-server

I wouldn't actually care for MS SQL Server but for a client third party software depends on a SQL server instance and hence a Windows server in the population.
It shows up in August 2015 at least, but doesn't make it onto your list or pie chart. There isn't an "other", so it just went missing.
It depends on what you do, when you're in more of a lead developer/team leader type position you don't only code on your own but have to routinely help/direct other devs all the time & it's easier to slip into working a lot longer (partially it's that you keep getting fresh problems, another part is that you aren't working on these problems alone).

I can easily imagine leading even a small-ish team of 5 to 10 other programmers who don't all start and finish the day at the exact same moment (so each may be working 9 hour days but it stretches over a 12 hours period) can make you "naturally" work longer hours if you don't keep an eye out for it.
I would benefit from this. I don't doubt that Curtis's views are probably offensive, but I haven't seen a clear description of them to conclude that for myself. I tried reading some of his writing, but it seemed so abstract and obfuscated that I gave up before understanding what he was trying to get across. I've seen one-sentence descriptions of his beliefs and they sound horrible, but I've also seen enough tweet-length mischaracterizations of others' beliefs to take those as accurate.

Is there like an intermediate-level overview of Curtis's offensive beliefs, with a glossary and index? I'd be surprised if nobody's assembled one; it could make the ad hominems so much more effective.
> Apparently function approximation is an important property

'important' sure but not always a good idea. When you are learning from finite (but potentially very large) number of noisy examples, the universal function approximator will try to approximate the noise also.

Learning is a delicate dance between the capacity of your learner and the complexity of the thing that you are trying to learn. The key notion is that it takes two to tango. If you have few examples, you are better of not using deep nets.

Stated another way, a universal approximator has infinite potential for distraction. "Hey shiny" and it could veer off in a direction you don't want it to go. You want to pick out army tanks from pictures and it might learn to distinguish pictures taken on a cloudy day from those taken on sunny days.
Actually, that algorithm is the result of many iterations of a simple algorithm written by a human. It is itself the output of the algorithm, not too different than the machine code generated by a compiler after optimizations. The author says as much and names the algorithm-producing algorithm:

But at the core the approach we use is also really quite profoundly dumb (though I understand it’s easy to make such claims in retrospect). Anyway, I’d like to walk you through Policy Gradients (PG), our favorite default choice for attacking RL problems at the moment.

What the human is doing is identifying the problem, writing a solution, and simply letting the computer work out the parameters through various statistical methods. But the resulting algorithm itself is pretty much in the narrow class of algorithms that were already described by the human. The computer just executed a dumb and straightforward search through a space of parameters, which itself was a simple preprogrammed algorithm.

Look, most of our science is also pretty much parametrized models, often with smoothness assumptions for calculus. Now with Deep Learning we may indeed find more interesting parametrized models. But that is a far cry from understanding abstract logical concepts and manipulating them to come up with entire algorithms from scratch to solve problems.
I think there is a categorization error here. Deep architectures are possible for many classes of learning algorithms: deep Bayesian nets, restricted Boltzman machines, graphical models, multilayer perceptrons, etc. Convolutional neural nets and LTSM are just two other types, and they exploit spatial and temporal structure explicitly.
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I really want to try modafinil again. I had two tablets over three days: half, half and whole. I could not see a difference between half dosage and whole dosage (200 mg). I couldn't figure out what the effects were, either. Until about the end of the week, when I realized I hadn't taken a sip of coffee in three whole days! That was pretty unusual for me.
At the current level, i agree the networks are "sloppily copying" patterns. However there is no inherent reason why networks will not be able to learn how to formulate problems, and learn how to devise strategies. If we consult brain science for this, there are no striking architectural differences between the visual cortex (a sensory area) and the prefrontal cortex (supposedly a cognitive area), and, as such, we would expect the same methods that apply to simple vision problems to be applicable to higher-level cognitive functions.
Pro doesn't stand for Professor or anything. If you have 30 years of experience with something, then generally speaking, you're a pro.
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Better than your average clickbait, but yeah cliffhanger-as-headline is a cheesey tactic.

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Well now I'm curious what job you replied to.
Here's one:
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