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Either you've not read my comments in this thread or I've not clearly explained my point.

Your statistic ignores the fact that autopilot is only used in relatively simple situations, and since you're measuring fatalities only, you need to compare it only with cars of equivalent safety ratings.

If you have statistics comparing humans and autopilot in relevant situations I'd be very interested, but the ones you quote are exactly the ones I'm complaining about as being nonrepresentative.

Even considering all miles equally, a rate of 1 per 130 million autopilot miles (a much too small statistic from which to generalise) still does not compare particularly well to a lot of cars driven by humans, e.g. the BMW 7 series.

Incidentally, it's not at all clear that the situation described in your anecdote even involved the autopilot functionality, as it sounds like it was autonomous breaking which is a standard feature on many cars.
It doesn't explain why it's "distinctively American", only that it's a modern Western belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism point out, for example, that "A passage of Laurence Sterne's 1767 Tristram Shandy, condemns plagiarism by resorting to plagiarism"

At http://listverse.com/2014/09/18/10-of-the-worst-plagiarists-... we read:

> "Few men have fallen further in the eyes of their scientific peers during their own lives than [19th century English biologist] Richard Owen ... Owen did a large amount of surprisingly blatant plagiarism, often stealing credit from people that were alive and in positions to respond. ... During debates about dinosaurs, Owen made his own accusations of plagiarism to discredit his opponents. He was ultimately voted out of the Council of Zoological and Royal Societies." Wikipedia says it was due to his plagiarism.

Or at http://mentalfloss.com/article/21761/4-famous-cases-plagiari... we can read about the 18th century Scottish literary forger William Lauder, who tried to discredit Milton's "Paradise Lost" by claiming it plagiarized from earlier works, which in actuality Lauder forged.

Or at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiat we see the French perspective:

> "Ce n'est qu'au XVIIIe siècle que le droit d'auteur se forme dans sa conception moderne, et que le plagiat devient juridiquement distinct de la contrefaçon. Diderot qualifie à cette époque le plagiat comme étant « le délit le plus grave qui puisse se trouver dans la République des Lettres »"

Google Translates says: "It was not until the eighteenth century that the copyright forms in modern design, and that plagiarism is legally separate from the infringement . Diderot describes plagiarism at that time as "the most serious offense that could be in the Republic of Letters" .

So, how is it "distinctively American" when English and French sources before the American revolution also decried plagiarism?
IANAL, but this could cut both ways, couldn't it? If the judge decides the effect is different than the intent, she could either say "the intent is valid so let's ignore the effects" (what you seem to advocate here) or "the effects are not what was intended so until the legislative branch makes a change we'll use the following interpretation in order to make the effects more like the intent". There may be a standard way of deciding between these two alternatives, but I don't know it.
It's interesting that none of the quotes from Torch and Theano folks indicate any shortcomings of Tensorflow, their sole counterargument is that using tensorflow might give Google more control.
I can agree on that point. The point of my comment wasn't necessarily the truthfulness of either quote, merely that they really need to follow through on what they are saying. Their hands and mouth seem to be in a state of disconnection.
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Upvoted you as youre right on all points.
Wow, I didn't realize there were that many.

Alaska makes total sense, given that bears and moose roam populated areas. I'm surprised by the others.
Ever seen "word2vec"? Each word is embedded in a high-dimensional "concept" space, where words that are similar to each other will be close by.

A CNN does this for localized sections of the images. Each layer looks over a wider area of the original image (because of the convolution) and embeds the "concepts" in that area of the image in a higher-dimensional space than the layer before it.
Eh, I've worked with teams in Arkansas and India and I'm not overly concerned. There are more barriers to collaboration than physical location. Culture and language are huge friction points when they don't align, not to mention responsiveness issues due to temporal displacement.

You can just "deal with it" and your budget, codebase, and timeline will suffer. It adds a lot of overhead. Hiring a worker a timezone or two away that speaks the same language and shares a national, if not regional, culture with the rest of your team is an entirely different proposition than hiring one on the other side of the planet that speaks a different language. It CAN work, I've seen it. But I've seen it be a deal breaker much more often.
Up until now it's been the realm of PL research. The Ptolemy language is one example I know of: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.86.... [PDF]

If you're familiar with duck typing, behavioral typing is (in essence) the reification of duck typing in a concrete type system. In other words, instead of specifying the type of your argument as "Array", you could specify "some type that is indexable, iterable, and can be appended to".

In Julia (mind you this was just the idea I saw being considered), today you would do:

function foo(myarray::AbstractArray)
...
end

but in the future you might be able to do something like:

function foo(myarray::ANY{getindex(), setindex(), iterate(), append()})
...
end

what's really neat, though, is combining this with type aliases, you could have:

typealias Arraylike ANY{getindex(), setindex(), iterate(), append()}
function foo(myarray::Arraylike)
...
end
> Is there xenophobia? Are Americans looked down upon or treated differently?

Having these sorts of questions means you should definitely visit for at least a week or two before jumping into finding a job there. Head over and travel around a bit, see if you feel comfortable. Visit some coworking spaces, talk to people. If you have more questions on stuff like this, hit up some of the Digital Nomad / Expat groups.
I hope you don't consider this a nitpick,

> Tesla Motors was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning who financed the company until the Series A round of funding.[37] Both men played active roles in the company's early development prior to and after Elon Musk's involvement, with Eberhard the original CEO of Tesla until he was asked to resign in August 2007 by the board of directors.

Musk didn't found Tesla. That's from wikipedia.
For this particular client we had Administrator access. SMB was used since we did not trust Dokan and did not want to pay for CBFS.
They're also very secretive. They only say they do something new publicly when they have a product to show it off.
You get fired.
Thank you for the clarification; my apologies for venting at you as if you were MS. There were ways that the organization should have blocked the upgrade better; and I agree that the need for new drivers where old ones ought to be fine is definitely not MS's fault.
I don't think that solution works well in general. If you want to do cleanup of local variables, I don't see how you'd do that with a static function unless you're using globals everywhere, some awful god object, or terrible varargs hacks.
Ruby has ALWAYS set certain $global_vars based on a match. This borrowed (directly) something that Perl did/does, as well. This is not a new behavior. See docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.3/doc/globals_rdoc.html for "global", "predefined" or "magic" variables. That documentation has existed for many, many versions (not just 2.2.3, per the URL).

If you have issue with this sort of thing, you should go to Elixir. ;)
Twitter isn't profiting off their users, or at all for that matter.
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We wrote a blog post about it too https://substrakt.com/heroku-ssl-me-weve-come-a-long-way/
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China has yet to design a viable server CPU, so I find the claim very hard to believe.
> It's comprised of hapless morons who don't know what they're doing...

This sounds exactly like the free market to me. Hapless morons who don't know what they're doing—but try to reach their goals nonetheless—as far as the eye can see.
Vermonters also care about the environmental, social and fiscal consequences of major development projects in the state.

http://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/permit-handbook/sheet...

I imagine most resistance to this scheme is based in pragmatism. What's being discussed is essentially a paternalistic, religious company town. There is no way that a development of this size will be in any way self-sustaining; it will have significant impacts on the local infrastructure, culture and environment.
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That's a ridiculous interpretation of what I said. Nobody I know has ever had to bludgeon an animal to clean their yard, not even the person whose story spawned this whole thread.
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West Virginia, as of May 24, 2016

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The importance of the parts of a number matter in order of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures

So this ordering is least to most significant.
Apple "worked out the kinks" of iCloud by outsourcing it to actual cloud providers. They may become a cloud services powerhouse but they are way behind today.
Yes, if it was a 4 foot man eating chicken[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFlX1BudYw
> I wouldn't trade my nyc studio for a McMansion back in bumfuck SC no matter how much you offered me

With an attitude like that, I certainly hope you never do: neither you nor your new South Carolinian neighbours would enjoy it.

I live in a condo now, but I miss living in a house and not being able to hear anyone but my family. I miss playing in the back yard as a kid, and roaming around the neighbourhood on long summer evenings. There are many nice things about cities, and there are many nice things about suburbs, and there are many nice things about rural areas too.
Can you consider Dask integration?
http://distributed.readthedocs.io/en/latest/queues.html
https://github.com/dask/dask

It can handle parallel and distributed parts for you.

https://github.com/dask/dask
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> We can't let these hypothetical worst-case scenarios be an excuse to stifle innovation.

Yes, we sure can.

I don't want your "innovation" killing a bunch of people.

If you can't innovate without endangering people, you need to "innovate your innovation" and come up with a way you can do it safely.
> How would you reconcile that with the fact that his wife is Slovenian?

What is there to reconcile here? Sexual interest never got in the way of xenophobia. Never stopped slave owners from sexually assaulting their "property".
Yeah... I was honestly confused by those numbers, but I'm citing self-report by Uber drivers (there are a lot of forums online discussing these issues).

They reported 10% on tax and 10% on fuel/maintenance. If you live somewhere with cheap gas, and don't count depreciation, then that 10% is plausible (obviously depreciation matters, but I think they didn't count it).

The 10% on tax is odd. Possibly it's about the self-employment premium (i.e. "How much of my earnings do I lose for driving Uber instead of working McDonalds?") Or possibly it's after EITC and other balancing factors - if Uber driving is your only career you aren't likely to be in a high tax bracket.
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This is silly. There have been so many "wins" in AI.

Get away from the hype. Go to an AI conference like IJCAI or AAAI. See what is used there.
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Ahh, thanks for the clarification I had no idea this was old behavior but it looks like the new method might allow them to deprecate what I would consider an anti-feature later.
Maps too, they're adding some really cool features that google doesn't have
> there may not be an economic rationale tomorrow, since the technology will not miraculously develop itself

And if we don't invade country X, it may come back to bite us some day, right? And if we don't prop up the auto industry buying clunkers and robbing shareholders to pay union reps top dollar, people will have to start riding bikes and millions will be out of work, right?

If you're hoping for miracles, the government would be the last place to go looking for them. Necessity is the mother of invention, and while one could argue that our society "needs" this technology just like it "needs" to invade other countries, centralized decision making never leads to optimal outcomes, let alone "miracles".
>and disgruntled employees,

that at least does not really worry me. Google is very paranoid over who can access customer data from the inside.

Government access is way more of an issue IMO. I would be way more creeped out by somebody going over my whole gmail history than my searches (audio or not) though.
Ruby continues to serve as a continuously fresh inspiration for Elixir. ;)
I've read the wired piece; GP said 'is being actively tested by John Deere and various farmers', implying that there were other lawsuits.
Chickens are not known for their predation of humans...
I would be careful with any blanket prediction.

China has a lot of question marks, really I think more question marks than at the turn of the century. In addition to the size of the debt mentioned earlier (much of it in state owned corporate enterprises, their often over-bloated nature often cited as a problem in itself), you have a market system that is somewhat undeveloped and subject to excessive government meddling (see China's stock exchanges and managed floating currency), constrained future growth due to future demographics (eg: an aging society with no "demographic dividend", a situation no doubt not helped by the previous one child policy), and problems with pollution and corruption that -- as Chinese society gets richer -- they are starting to get annoyed by more and more.

None of these mean that China is on the road to ruin, of course, and without a doubt China will continue to play a large role in the world economy in the future. However, I do think that how the Chinese government handles some of their financial system decisions will determine whether your prediction on finance infrastructure holds true. At present, I would not consider the Chinese financial system mature or stable enough to overtake Western ones, and I think the Chinese government has to make some hard decisions before that happens.
I would have gone deeper, but their site navigation wasn't working in my browser. That said, it definitely seems that in markets like the US at least, a large percentage of Android phones being sold today are late model Samsungs, LGs, etc. I'm sure you can still buy a PoS Android phone that doesn't really work properly, but it hasn't been the case that people are really buying those in masse for a few years now.

Motorola does have some cheaper options, even the Moto G you mentioned starts at 16GB, and it's a $200 phone that is actually pretty good, as you pointed out. The comment I was responding to was talking about "Android phones with 8GB in which the OS takes 5GB and undeletable apps use 2+GB" that carriers were supposedly duping people into buying. That's just not the case, and hasn't been for probably five years.
I don't see why an uber competitor couldn't do a similar thing with drivers. A taxi co-op seems like a no-brainer.
Why do they have to succeed outside of China right now? That market is so large that they don't have to until they are already huge.
I'm a bit of a germaphobe, so I may be over-sensationalizing the risk. But high human density seems to be a dangerous living condition in terms of illness. History has shown numerous plagues that have wiped out vast numbers of people living in dense human areas. With the continued resistance and misuse of antibiotics, it seems highly likely that we will see some sort of plague that will impact people in direct proportion to their direct contact with other humans.
And he said he admired them for it and if he could get away with it in their shoes, he would.

He's been consistent too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCabT_O0YSM
But I don't think most people get 5x the benefit from living in Boston vs Raleigh. That said, I strongly suspect the greater Raleigh-Durham area is going to dwarf Boston in population in another 15-20 years. It's been growing like gangbusters, honestly since about 1980, and although property has become quite a bit more expensive, it's still nothing like the historically dense urban centers. For example, I'm in the process of selling my 4300sqft house in a beautiful neighborhood in Cary for $525k so I can move to San Jose (into a 1700sqft hovel I paid $1.35m for). If an expected salary for an experienced tech worker in the RDU area is in the $125-150k range (say, 10+ years exp), and is in the $175-220k range in the SFBA, that money goes MUCH further in a second tier metro like Raleigh-Durham.
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The enterprise edition allows you to disable more telemetry than the other versions, but it still sends some data back.

There is currently no Microsoft-endorsed way to disable all telemetry, no matter how much money you pay, or which version of the software you buy.

I'm excited by France's decision. I hope the telemetry-free version of Windows 10 will be available outside of France, because I'd happily pay a bunch of money for it.

As it stands, I'm stuck on Windows 7 because I don't like the UI in Windows 8, and I'm not a fan of the telemetry in Windows 10. I've only run into a handful of apps that don't work because my OS isn't compatible with very new versions of DirectX/.NET, but these problems will only become more common with time.
I thought you people are all about freedom, independence, and property rights.
This article left a really bad taste in my mouth. I don't believe GoSnaps == GoChat in terms of complexity and the constant back patting and self congratulating is really distracting. There were a couple of decent takeaways but largely the whole post revolved around how "How smart am I?" and "What great foresight I have".

I really don't approve at all of the GoChat shaming going on. The author may be 100% correct that GoChat made mistakes in writing code that doesn't scale well but that doesn't give him a blank check to beat and berate GoChat. It reads as a very discouraging post to newer/less experienced programmers in my opinion, essentially "Don't even bother making something unless you know it can scale to millions of users" which I think is a terrible message to be sending.
Working from the West coast regularly with people in India, Europe,and US east coast, I disagree.

You certainly have some benefits of having teams spread out around the world, as you could virtually have someone working at any hour of the day.

But communication is very hard with the foreign countries, because of 2 things: time difference, and some language barriers. Even with only the 3h time difference, communication with the east coast is sometimes problematic.

It really depends on how your team works, but let's say you insist on code reviews before submitting code, then you can easily loose days between a dev in India and a dev in the US.
This has been tried throughout most of human history (and often succeeded, by reasonable measures of success.) See http://www.ic.org/ and http://www.communalstudies.org/
Without the mormons, Utah would likely be identical to Wyoming - barren and empty with no major airports, but perhaps an interstate or 2 to get you through as quickly as possible.
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I think equating "best engineers" with "superstars" means you might be bringing your own associations to the topic. (Not unfairly, that's a standard association in the Valley, but still.)

The few NASA engineers I've known have been superb as NASA employees. They weren't grand innovators solving problems on their own, but they were knowledgeable and intelligent. They had deep understanding of the tools they worked with, were rigorously careful and formal, and understood the problems and tradeoffs of their work far beyond any spec they were handed.

To me, that counts as being one of the best engineers in the world. These are people who know what they need to do, why they need to do it, and how they can best accomplish it. In the case of NASA, that generally means doing something radically different than you would at a tech startup, but these people are still brining enormous ability and great care to their work.
I've always wondered why tech salaries in Western Europe were so much lower than the US (exc. Silicon Valley effect).

Could it be the proximity to similiar-culture Eastern Europe where inexpensive developers are easily available?
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So the fact he didn't even reinvent it but used the paper makes this an entirely different case to me. Hm.
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If you download Google Maps, this is probably even lower. I had maps downloaded before Pokemon Go came out, and my data usage is below 20 mb.
Like Wikipedia, it strives to be a great first-order approximation (from where you'd browse over to the canonical sources). Unlike Wikipedia, it doesn't make this too clear, and I have met people claiming that SO intends to obsolete primary sources - a tragic misunderstanding.
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