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Typically Common Lisp and its implementations provides a wide range of performance options. It's not limited to the model of some more primitive language runtimes, which provide only two modes (simplified): slow if implemented in the language, fast if it runs mostly in its runtime and library functions written in C. There are Common Lisp implementations which follow this model, too. But there are also many which have sophisticated runtimes with optimizing native code compilers.

To get to really fast code in Common Lisp one needs to write relatively low-level code with type declarations, optimization hints, low-level operators etc.

There is a part of Common Lisp which is as dynamic (more?) as Python: everything written in CLOS (multi-dispatch, multi-methods, method-combinations, ...) and expecially when using the CLOS MOP. Is it slower or faster than comparable Python code? I have no idea and I haven't seen any interesting benchmarks. The amount of CLOS use depends on the implementations. Some implementations have a lot of their library code and also much of the language itself (everything IO, error handling, ...) written using CLOS.
Fortunately we are at least 5 years away, probably more lie 10, from self-driving cars so this will be forgotten.
The point is that the existing speakers would like to preserve the language, but might not have resources for doing so. One good thing is that technology allows us right now to do archiving in an easier way. Recording speech, stories, and songs can be done more conveniently. Learning resources can be created in a better way. Problem is that the tools for all this might not be accessible to people living in remote areas if they do wish to preserve their language.
This is how things evolve.
Why does AI have to have access to all information? Seems a bit wasteful, resource wise, if you ask me.
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You're right; that's from a few weeks ago. It got some publicity yesterday as if it were newer.
A timeplan in writing? I have no idea how much time this is going to take. He's rather optimistic about it, in my opinion. It's really something we need to try in order to figure it out.
TH1 (literally "Test Harness #1") was originally conceived as a minimalist reimplementation of TCL sufficient to run the TCL-based SQLite test suite on SymbianOS. That use case never materialized. But later, when I needed a small and lightweight scripting language for Fossil, TH1 was drafted for that alternative purpose.
This is the most horrifying part to me:

Eventually, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration got involved, and wrote up a report which found that … yup, these drivers were stepping on the gas instead of the brakes, often with horrific results. That didn’t save Audi, for which sales collapsed and which almost pulled out of the U.S. market.

Despite thousands of hard working engineers, QA, Marketing, Sales, Legal and design people earnestly working to put out a safe, quality vehicle, Audi was almost undone by histrionic consumers. Really depressing when you think about it as a founder.
I'm sure Tesla has stacks of pre-prepared legal defense around the term, and they'll certainly make the same airplane argument.

My bet is it will quickly fall apart. Ask your average person what "autopilot" implies and they're going to give you the sci-fi definition of a completely autonomous driving system, not many people know about the mechanics and limitations of autopilots in airplanes.
IMO the best way to deal with Facebook is to have lots of friends, mark them all as casual friends and check infrequently. That way you mostly get just important stuff like birth announcements.

By marking friends as casual you tell Facebook that you only care about important stuff. Having lots of friends and checking infrequently ensures that the algorithm always has important stuff to show you.
Fairly sure that's by design.
> :o) Tesla is not using radars?! I am driving an '14 Audi A6 and I can tell you, the radars + software on it are the most advanced I ever saw.

TIL everyone on Hacker News drives a much nicer car than I do. The crash avoidance measures run in tandem with the autonomous driving features, but the system (which is mainly licensed technology from Mobileye) just doesn't get any depth intelligence from it. Presumably if autonomous driving pointed you into a brick wall, the radar stuff would still trigger the AEB features (autonomous braking).
I tried it on mobile firefox on my 2015 moto G and got the same message. Then I checked the "request desktop site" option in browser and it worked but the transitions were slow.
No, but I trust my OS distribution. I don't trust random third-party developer. I wouldn't add their APT repository willy nilly either.
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You're welcome :)
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Don't forget the overthrow of the Qing dynasty by the British in the 1800s.
That's permission for him to write about it. It's pretty clear from the article that he's offering opinions on these people to the religious groups who make the referrals.

> In the late 1980s, I was introduced to a self-styled Satanic high priestess.

[...]

> That background is why a Catholic priest had asked my professional opinion, which I offered pro bono, about whether this woman was suffering from a mental disorder.

> For the past two-and-a-half decades and over several hundred consultations, I’ve helped clergy from multiple denominations and faiths to filter episodes of mental illness — which represent the overwhelming majority of cases — from, literally, the devil’s work.

He sees 200 people over 25 years. He sees those people because clergy refer people to him. He gives information back to those clergy - "this person has mental illness", or "this person is possessed".

Is he providing treatment to them? If so he's abusing their privacy. Is he merely researching them? Let's see the ethics committee approval that allows a researcher to label people as demonically possessed.

(Note here he leaves no room for "not possessed and not ill".)
I applaud the OP for pursuing this so far. I'd probably just have returned the device, demanded my money back and bought something else.
> assuming it's not a smoke screen, he'd be easy to dox.

So what? Just because he doesn't want his name in the article doesn't mean he's scared to death about his name coming out.
The thing is there's no real need for self defence to that degree in New Zealand. You can carry pepper spray and you'll be more armed than anyone trying to attack you.

I understand people from the US feel they have the right for protection/whatever, but if you're unwilling to trade that "freedom" for everything else the country has to offer.. I think you need to review your priorities.

If you're a hobbyist you can join a club and apply for permits for various forms of firearm. We do obviously restrict some forms from civilians as they're deemed to dangerous for those who don't use them in their line of work (ie military, NZ's version of "SWAT") - just as you'd limit people from performing surgery or practicing law without a license.
It uses radar, but combines that with the cameras to discard "obstacles" that the cameras tell it to, like road signs (big flat surfaces are very reflective to radar). The cameras did not see the truck and so told the radars to ignore it.
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> C11. C99

2k-30+70 weirds things.
Or open up the search feature and search your microwave for "Hot Pockets". Or the microwave could have a camera viewing the inside somehow. Think of today's microwaves with a $50 tablet built in.
This is just completely false. We've been putting them at bumper height for 10 years because that's where the system ends up working best with the greatest number of targets to see

Who's "we"?
But it uses flash, which turns off people like me.
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This is not a setback for automatic driving. This is just a Tesla problem.

Let's all hope that's how this is remembered 10 years from now (or whenever) when automatic driving is actually ready.

It's not a given that people will remember this as a Tesla-only problem. Instead it might be remembered as that time when autopilot got people killed.

And when it's actually ready... what Tesla is doing today, might delay or slow the adoption of real autopilot. And that would be a real setback for the real thing.
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It is rapidly getting worse. It doesn't help that many cities are shipping their homeless people to Seattle. Literally buying them bus tickets.

http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/portland-begins-sending-home...
> because [the bumper is] where the system ends up working best with the greatest number of targets to see

Do you have a source for this? It was my understanding Google went with their roof-mounted approach because of the blind-spot issue. (They also went with Lidar over cameras because of the white-truck-in-bright-daylight problem.)
See also FreeContributor [1]

[1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor
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Try Varnish, for stuff like this it's pretty perfect.
Volvo has placed radars at the top center of the windshield. They had a blind spot at bumper level, so later Volvo systems added a second radar down there. And a LIDAR. [1] One radar at bumper level is just enough to keep from rear-ending the car in front. That's not enough for a hands-off "autopilot". You need at least two, or beam steering in elevation, like the Fujitsu unit.[2] (Although that has only ±9° of elevation, not enough at bumper level to eliminate the need for a higher sensor.)

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025386/volvo-v40-watches-the...
[2] http://www.fujitsu-ten.com/business/technicaljournal/pdf/38-...
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I agree completely with you that the large amount of healthcare regulation is the ultimate culprit for the extreme high prices Americans pay.

My argument is that the root cause of all of the regulation is not the best interest of the patients, but what is the best interest of the doctors.

Doctor backed trade organizations push for more and more obfuscation of the actual price a consumer pays in order to be able to charge more. They don't allow pricing or quality to be openly shared in the marketplace, and they don't allow new entrants to compete.

Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but entrepreneurs are prevented from doing so by archaic laws that harm patient care and increase prices. These regulations are vigorously defended by doctor backed trade organizations.. it's in their best interests to keep their cash cow.
I think it's a bit different - these communities (which BTW are a minority even among orthodox religious Jews) choose to speak Yiddish and not Hebrew to express their detachment and disconnection with modern Jewry and specifically Israel. Secondary consideration is the status of Hebrew as the holy language, not to be used in mundane and profane matters. This was long the case in the Jewish diaspora, but with the start of the Haskalah project and the idea of Israel as the Jewish state, this has changed. These communities have not accepted these changes and thus try to preserve their way of life as it was beforehand. The use of Yiddish here is more of a consequence than the reason.
To the point, here's a previous post by the same author about the topic, and which touches on Level 2 systems like Tesla:

"Self-Driving Cars Will Thrive With More Regulation"

Level 2 automation is not really a self-driving car, and from the driver’s perspective, sitting there staring at the road and waiting for something to happen is probably worse than just driving the car. Moreover, since people don’t actually pay as much attention as they’re supposed to when using these features, these systems will probably also cause some accidents, even as they prevent others.

And another

Getting to level-three automation, where the car mostly drives itself most of the time, seems imminent. But the actual advantages of level-three automation over cruise control and early warning systems seem dubious. If people are distracted when the car needs them to take over, then level-three automation could end up being more dangerous than the older systems. And if people aren’t distracted, which is to say they are grimly staring at the road with nothing to do for hours at a stretch, then it seems worse than actually driving the car.

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-15/self-drivi...

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-12-01/winning-th...
> The problem with habit reinforcement is that you've simply created a feedback loop.

> "You like [music type]? Here are more bands/artists of [music type]."

So far I've found the opposite. Pandora has exposed me to music that I never would have sought out on my own. In fact I can think of several artists that I would have judged by their cover, so to speak, and never given a chance even if I had stumbled on them on my own, instead of coming to awareness mid-song that "I don't know what this is, but I kind of like it."

My wife teases me about this a little bit when she finds me listening to music that she says isn't 'me' or doesn't seem like something I'd like. She's right, but I guess Pandora knows my tastes better than she does (and better than I do, to be fair.)
I have to wonder, this largely seems to have coincided with the fantastic decrease in crime since the 2000's onwards. Coincidence?

I largely agree with the article. This needs to be lauded and discussed.
I also have this happening to me.

I get texas dmv emails and sometimes signup emails from websites.
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Sure, but the unstated assumption there is that stage won't also force-feed you the side of a tractor trailer through your windshield.

Currently Tesla's cars act as though they've satisfied that assumption even though they haven't, and someone died over it. Tesla absolutely should not be acting like they've created a self-driving car with safety features that let you ignore the road when in fact they are driving assists and you still have to maintain awareness.
Looked at it a bit more - yes, that is the one.
This is true. I'm biased, of course, but to me the administrative costs are what's breaking the back of medicine. The roles of physicians and nurses are essential (I'm not saying that they can't eventually be automated, just that they have to be done). Those of administrators generally are not. But the growth in administration has been astounding:

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/pnhplongsetweisbartversion-12...

So, sure, we can cut physician salaries and nursing salaries (nursing pay collectively is about the same as physician pay). But I don't see a downside to trying to reduce the administrative burden as a means of cost reduction.
Do you feel the same about the rest of your culture too?
> Daimler actually shipped something intended to do this and beep/yell at you if it thought you were "distracted" or tired

https://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/technology/videos/detail/titl...
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Let's not also forget how certain neighborhoods in Seattle react as well. Queen Anne (Upper) and Wallingford, for instance, seem to shuttle homeless off their hills rather effectively.

I work in Pioneer Square currently, and am keeping an eye on what the shiny new Weyerhauser building on Occidental (probably the largest public concentration of transient folks in Pioneer Square) does to the situation.
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There are multiple paths to that destination, Google is taking one without the pit stop at 5 minutes.
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> It's quite likely, now that the NHTSA is looking into this crash, that Tesla will have to do a recall and retrofit one. (Along with hands-on-wheel sensors.)

Will they? Considering that those are driver-assistance systems it's always the human in charge, no?

The driver would also have died if he had just enabled "dumb" cruise control and noticed the white trailer.

Of course more advanced automation systems should do better and tesla should improve, but from a technical perspective it's still just an assistance system.
This is from 2013 (please add that to the title) and of interest historically because here 3 years later since, well they haven't managed to fend them off yet.
How so? I'm sure he revealed exactly as much as he intended to by his surroundings. He's not exactly leaking classified info, just contributing a personal opinion.
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FWIW, when I think about cutting physician pay, I think about incentivizing new supply, as it is likely the most effective way to do it and also probably the fairest.

I definitely have lots of concerns about the mega institutions that are swallowing hospitals. It's hard to believe that they really do much to improve outcomes for patients (and it's pretty observable that they haven't done any good for prices).
German, however, has schadenfreude, gestalt, eigenvalue, angst, weltschmerz and poltergeist ;)
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Oh that was much better, the Verge one was sparse and the app I was using basically passed it through Readability so I had a hard time visualizing the accident. Thank you!
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The ideal dental treatment would be a dental vaccine(against the mouth bacteria that destroys teeth and harms gums), letting future people not even being aware to dental issues(or maybe just use a monthly/weekly mouthwash). . there was even a startup aiming for that but it stopped due to fda and problems creating a trial.

Hopefully someone like Google finishes that up.
Wellington has a good dev and startup culture (that is, for New Zealand). Housing prices are a lot lower too, expect a massive wage cut though unless you're doing remote work for SF-type companies.
I found this article to be very thin on data to support its thesis

Yeah. I'm a grant writing consultant, and virtually every large municipality has a group of organizations that receive HUD Continuum of Care funding to deal with homelessness. There are problems with this system (see http://seliger.com/2012/11/11/huds-confusing-continuum-of-ca...) but it exists and the lack of even mentioning it is a red flag.

I don't know about Seattle's specific situation because we haven't worked for any of Seattle's CoC organizations or its public housing authority, but I do know in general that a lot of funding for homelessness organizations exists. (Seattle also has a powerful NIMBY lobby, which likely exacerbates homelessness and drug treatment issues.)

There is a term, the name of which I forget, that is named for a physicist who used to read the newspaper and who was always annoyed by the science reporting, which got essential facts / ideas wrong. One day he realized that if the newspaper was getting essential facts / ideas wrong about science, the other sections probably weren't much better; he just didn't know enough about the topics to know what was wrong. That's how I feel reading the article.
Having more specific or less specific words is not necessarily a weakness or strength of a language - sometimes being able to express both happiness and luck in a single word might be useful, and I imagine it is easy to specify either one or the other concept with a quick paraphrase if necessary.
What qualifies someone to be "of note"?
Wonderful! I've long been a fan of end-of-life Turbo Pascal and Object Pascal thereafter. I love the language's simplicity, type safety, and speed. To my eye, Object Pascal is the goto language for minimalist OOP. In the spirit of C, it's short, sweet, and sufficient.
not quite. The term "lingua Franca" originally referred to a Mediterranean trading language - certainly a Romance language but not French. Yes for a while French was a lingua Franca in the modern sense but the term doesn't come from French.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
There are cues and phrases to drop which can alert a competent server as to the experience level - and possible expectations - I will have of the meal.

Maybe I've just been bing-watching too much Silicon Valley lately, but I pictured Erlich Bachman saying that right before the waitstaff rolls their eyes on the way to the kitchen before they spit on the food. A competent server might very well be tuned in to manipulation as well as being able to sling a mean plate of food.
Including seriously long and detailed code and algorithms and discussions about sam. I got a really nice byte based lookup table method for computing CRC16s (any feedback points) from a Byte mag in 1976. Don't see these today.
There are some neat tricks there about interleaving bits from two operands. But what about from 3?
I'm sure that eliminating the subsidies would help coral to feel good.

The 20G$ is only the direct cost. But what about the environmental cost? The social cost of concentrating wealth in the hands of rich companies? The loss of water resources to hydraulic fracturing? Or the lost benefits of not investing in something besides a dead-end energy technology?

Seriously. The worst problem with economists is that they tend to confuse the cost of something with its price.
The British class system plus geography (I grew up in the Midlands and south) means it takes me a few minutes to understand anything at all of the Scottish clip, and a few seconds for the Geordie one. The Irish is no problem, but real (not mainstream tv) Irish would be.

But, in my experience, people speaking these dialects could communicate with someone from elsewhere easily. They're also less different than they would have been decades ago.
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Thanks. It started feeling like Wired after a few paragraphs so I bailed. Filler piece I guess.
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There are. It is mostly illegal to import drugs from overseas. There used to be 90 day exemptions that did in fact lead to many older Americans creating tour groups with the express purpose of crossing into either Canada or Mexico to purchase 90 days worth of drugs.

Big pharma lobbied to end this practice and it appears to be in a bit of a gray zone. When it comes to visa workers, we know that the rallying cry is 'severe shortage of skilled workers'. The analog talking point for drug imports is 'safety - think of poor grandma ordering some blood pressure meds and instead getting fakes or worse'. We can't allow imports and it's for your own good, citizen.

It is absolutely illegal for a wholesaler to import drugs for resale, though. This would essentially destroy big pharma's monopoly overnight, and it is absurd that this is rarely discussed. American consumers essentially subsidize the cost of medicine for the rest of the world (similar to military protection), and it is a large reason we spend more per capita with worse health than every other peer.

Interestingly, Trump is one of the few candidates that has ever pledged allow imports and cut off the pharma industry embargo. See point #7 on his page's plan for health care reform. Hillary's plan says vague things like 'more affordable health care for all working families' with no description of how this will be accomplished.
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Eh?

Dentistry is one of the few fields of medicine that seems to know exactly how to fix whatever is ailing you and can do so at a cost that can be reasonably borne out-of-pocket without the clowncar of the insurance industry showing up.

I'd say that it's a huge success!