skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But their valuation may not hold. It is currently based on the defensibility of a monopoly position. That position is predicated on the network effect in a 2 sided market (e.g. Ebay). With autonomous cars now you are talking about defensibility from consumer brand + economies of scale in a commodity market (e.g. United Airlines).
This is also more or less the exact formula for Lyft being less valuable than Uber as a company.
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Thanks for the response, and yes my question was genuine.

My thought on Windows >7 is that 8 and 10 have introduced many desirable improvements in various subsystems, but unfortunately one cannot have the old user experience (classic shell) with, say, new core subsystems and core system apps. Thankfully, I don't depend on Windows, so it doesn't affect me directly, though the times I have interacted with Windows 10 on a friend's laptop, I couldn't believe how much it regressed for power users. Simple things like login and logout are totally messed up now, as is the waste of screen real estate and Windows 1.0 style widgets with a flat theme plus low-contrast color palette, large-white regions. To top it off, even if one creates a custom install image with tools like nLite, Microsoft is known to reinstall stuff one absolutely does not want. Finally, the mobile platform inspired data collection services are out of place on the desktop, unless they're opt-in and optionally installed.

I once tried to use a Windows 8 tablet when it was new, and I could not figure out how to use the touch interface and there were no indicators, so I concluded that there must be a getting started tutorial one sees on first boot of the device. KDE and GNOME are repeating the same mistakes, by trying to make the desktop something it isn't. It's like trying to turn a PC into an Xbox with a WiiU controller, taking away precise input devices and efficient use of screen space. Making widgets large to suit touch use makes no sense if you control it with a keyboard and mouse.
Desalination needs energy (so does pumping of course). As long as you're not getting that energy 100% (including supply chain) from renewables you're making climate change worse.
NASA does provide most of the funding for the station, it also provided most of the funding for the other modules including the Russian ones when they were built, I'm not sure how the actual "ownership" is actually split.

Remember that the ISS started as "Freedom" NASA passed the designs of the various modules to be built by other nations.
What is WinSE?
So you're going to develop something for JIRA Server (internally hosted software). You'll be using Plugins2*

1. Start here https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/getting-started/gett...

2. Install the SDK (it has some pre-reqs) and build Hello World https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started/set-up-...

3. Bone up on Plugins2 a bit more https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-platform/buildi...

4. API Reference https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis (I recommend the REST APIs + Webhooks wherever possible).

I'm really keen to talk with you about your experience going through that - there's a lot of history and we're aware we need to clean up the journey.

_* If you were developing for JIRA Cloud you'd be using Atlassian Connect.
Doesn't Tesla's Summon feature qualify as Level 4?
And that's for the relative ease of driving in a US city. I just got back from two weeks of driving in Kiev and I'm pretty confident that we're a looong way away from being able to navigate that kind of traffic autonomously.
Do you mind expanding on that last point? I'm interested in your take on how/why a batch auction's advantage is eliminated by the rest of the world trading around them.
Yes, googling for the 32-bit parts of that 64-bit hex value gets me two distinct hits:

2015:

http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV1I9059.pdf

and 2013:

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/d76f090378914a9bb8...

Still, the string (instead of the binary values) is somewhat less probable than this to be an accidental match.
For all those claiming the solution is as easy as "just moving out of the desert", people aren't the only major issue when it comes to the Colorado River's water.

So unless you're willing to forego vegetables every single winter, those farms in the southwestern desert (as backwards as it may seem) are there to stay until they're too expensive to maintain.
> A very, very, very large, consistent, long duration market says that they're worth a lot

I agree with that. My point and the point of the GP is that the market isn't good at valuing some things.

The 'market' is just a tool, a technology, not a God or scripture. Any tool works well for some tasks and less well for others. Also, the concept 'free market' is a theoretical abstraction that doesn't exist in reality; the NBA, for example, operates a monopoly in a market distorted heavily by law, regulations, a collective bargaining agreement, and market power.

As someone said, Theory is a useful servant but a bad master, liable to produce orthodox defenders of every variety of the faith.[1]

[1] Harry Guntrip, as far as I know
After moving to San Francisco, I miss the TTC, YRT/Viva, and GO Transit a lot.
According to the link, in short, it says to notify your users (assuming you've been keeping track of them via a mailing list) and then posting an uninstall button.

As far as I can tell, there will be no way to programmatically transition users and their IAP outside of your chromeapp. Meaning, we will have to figure out a way to get users to register their purchases to a database.
Online freelancing, where you're competing with a global marketplace, for sure. If you want to get any sort of decent money from it, find and work for local clients in your actual area for short-term projects.
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Man, wait until people find out what Google employees get paid.
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I'm not surprised: I've only done one Lyft ride in my life. I arrived into Newark Airport and needed to get to New York City. Uber had a 3x surge, so I downloaded the Lyft app. I saw that Lyft was offering $5 if I did their ride share option, so I chose it.

- Driver picks me up quickly, no problem

- Driver makes 3 loops around the airport to pick up my ride share, but she cannot understand the Lyft app's GPS/map and is unable to find the person.

- Driver decides to just leave the airport without picking the ride share person

- Lyft app cancels other ride share's ride AND my ride, while at this point we are on the high way.

- Lyft driver tells me to re-request the ride, but after a couple of attempts, I am unable to pair back with the driver whom's car I am in (kept pairing me with other drivers)

- Eventually I get out of the car, on the side of the highway, and order an Uber.

- Because I'm not in the airport geofence, I didn't get a surge :O
Google and Tesla and GM and other actual car manufacturers quite literally have the "platform" to build on, not Uber. Self-driving cars are a lot harder to build than a ride-sharing platform.

If one of those companies were to launch a self-driving taxi service that cost half as much as Uber it wouldn't take long at all for it to utterly decimate Uber's business.
This developer is asking about developing for JIRA Server though, so I pointed them straight at that content. Connect is great for JIRA Cloud.
Meanwhile solar panel manufacturers are suffering from oversupply, meaning not enough purchasing. This despite the fact that prices are now down to 60 cents a watt or less.

Solar will never be cheaper than coal because coal is a rock. it'll always be cheaper to go dig coal than to make something else. Politicians need to deal with this or we are all doomed.
Augmenting breasts? Now, there is an augmented reality app for that
Disclosure: I don't work for Revolution Analytics nor Microsoft. I think the code is interesting....
It limits the ability of value investors who do fundamentals research to profit. Arguably those investors are the ones who actually ensure efficient allocation of capital (the supposed purpose of the market). There's kind of a paradox of efficient markets - the more efficient the market is, the less value can be gained selling information to it.
There are a few startup companies that are building solution for zero g research as we speak.

SpacePharma is designing an end-to-end biological and chemical lab that can be launched on cubesats to perform experiments in zero g at the fraction of the cost and they aren't the only ones.

http://www.geektime.com/2016/01/06/beyond-spacex-10-space-co...
Your assertion that moving freight must come first, to me, has no apparent logic behind it.

Sure it does. It is the easier problem, and it makes sense to assume the easier problem will be solved before the hard one.

Self driving cars that move about long stretches of interstate highways with little to no interactions with intersections, pedestrians or complicated traffic patterns is a far easier problem than driving in densely populated urban areas.

If you think about it, taxi cab drivers barely need any qualifications to drive a cab. Truckers need more, almost as if trucking is a more demanding type of driving. By that alone, I feel like it's fairly apparent which would be easier to replicate on silicon.

Trucking is a far more demanding job than driving a cab, but that is only true for humans. What makes trucking demanding is long, rigorous driving schedules that require high degree of driving stamina. As it turns out computers have very high stamina and are very good at doing long rigorous activities without suffering any fatigue. This is as opposed to driving a cab where the difficulty of the job is not so much in the rigor of the job but more in what humans do better than computers. Which is mainly dealing with other people, understanding patterns and learning from past experiences.
What errands do you imagine a car will be able to do by itself?
Windows Sustained Engineering.
You only need to kill the species that bite humans (at least until others start biting humans).

There are extermination technologies being experimented with that have quite a high level of effectiveness:

http://fusion.net/story/333793/oxitec-zika-fighting-mosquito...
You pay a CDN to get better performance (globally) than you would get by default. It's up to the provider to decide what "better performance" means and build more infrastructure to support that.

As a customer, I don't see why you think you have the right to nit-pick about how they go about this or where global reach needs to be improved (which new endpoints to open). You pay your money and they decide which countries to spend it on.
I kind of agree with your underlying premise, but when I invest in a mutual fund / ETF, isn't that a giant investor that might be affected by HFT? And if that was costing the fund money, wouldn't that affect me (without me seeing it directly)?
Transportation is actually a huge one. Clipper ships dominated up through the mid-1800s; when steam power became reliable enough to cross the Atlantic, all the major sailing ship companies went under, and were replaced by Cunard, White Star, and Inman, all of which were founded within a decade or two of the development of reliable steam power. Then when airliners became reliable enough to cross the Atlantic, all the major steamship lines went under (Cunard is now a division of Carnival Cruises) and were replaced by air service.

Ditto with the transition from propeller to jet aircraft. The major aircraft manufacturers before WW2 were companies like Curtis, Wright, Hughes, Douglas, Grumman etc. After the jet age, the companies that successfully developed jet aircraft (Boeing, McDonnell, Lockheed, Grumman, etc.) survived, while those that didn't were bought up in firesales by their replacements.

You also see examples of competitive industries that are entirely replaced by a single monopolist because of new technology. For example, tobacco was the cash crop of the south, lucrative enough to start a war over, with several numerous wealthy plantation owners forming the backbone of the South's social structure. When American Tobacco adopted the tobacco-rolling machine, they soon ended up with >90% of the market, the most thorough monopoly ever (even moreso than Standard Oil). It was broken up via antitrust legislation on the same day as Standard Oil; descendants include R.J. Reynolds and Liggett group, and still account for a significant portion of the tobacco industry.
Some combination of those things--warmer air holds more moisture, which leads to more rainfall in some places. Rain patterns shift. Some places will get more, other places less.
I 100% agree. Uber would like to own a 2 sided marketplace like Ebay, in which case it's nearly winner take all. The dynamics of ridesharing don't seem to match up with that. Every driver in NYC has 2 or 3 phones running multiple apps, the supply is not constrained to any particular network. Autonomous cars owned independently would obviously be smart enough to take the ride with the highest revenue. Thus the marketplaces are going to have to compete based on how much they pass through to the car owners. The margins are going to be paper thin.
Thanks for the suggestion - the summary info I read makes it sound like a lot of intuitions I don't have fleshed out well enough to explain thoroughly. It's likely going to be either great or maddeningly off in subtle ways. Either way I'm interested in watching it.
That's great :)

Just how it should be.
This is sometimes what happens, but it's far less efficient than the ideal. Specialization means that our engineers don't have to spend such a big chunk of their time learning different code bases and build systems.
Is it possible that your experience is not representative?
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> I can't see any government allowing it

What if they could apply a "time on the streets" tax?
Of course it won't be next year.

But as we get closer and closer to that inevitability, the value of Lyft and other non-autonomous ride-sharing companies will just get lower and lower.
> People are way, way, WAY underestimating how long it will be before "self driving car picks you up, takes you to location".

Thank you. This is a pet peeve of mine. Self driving cars do not exist, at all, yet, nor does anything that's really all that close but if you point that out on HN you'll be met with breathless disagreement.

Even more relevant, there's literally nothing in the historical record to suggest that the real breakthroughs when they come will come from a company like Uber.
The ISS engines might be more efficient than the F-1 was, so the mass could be less than 70 Saturn Vs. Still a ridiculously enormous amount of energy. Makes you wonder how we're ever supposed to build anything significant on or around Mars.
Areas with sprawl are best suited to car ownership.

Dense urban areas are better suited to mass transit.

Uber fills a niche of point to point transport that's current overutilized because of VC subsidization.

Even if you get rid of the driver, you can't expect everyone in an urban core to do point to point transit, especially with the inefficiencies of pick up and drop off.
Any thoughts on support vector machines & kernel methods? Is that stuff dead and buried, or what? (I've been out of the loop now for a while.)
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Two years, to be specific.

But if you want to maintain a presence on ChromeOS, you can keep updating your app indefinitely, but it'll only run on ChromeOS starting sometime in 2018. Or you can redevelop everything for the Google Play Store (ie. the Android store) if your ChromeOS customers are on new-enough ChromeOS devices to get access to the Android store, leaving old ChromeOS devices stuck on the old Chrome App version. Or you can redevelop everything as an entirely HTML5 single-page-app with all the lovely ever-evolving, impossible-to-keep-up-with features or lack thereof [1] of the web platform. Or you can redevelop everything and go full-native on every single OS. Or you can put all your JS into Electron and hope people don't mind a 60+ MB download. The choice of awful choices is yours.

[1] http://caniuse.com/
Driving straight, and at a constant speed is pretty easy, tesla has almost got it down.

Driving in weather is harder, but that is still a problem for city cars, I'm not sure why you think it is more of a problem on the open road.

The map data might be more frequently updated, but it is also more complicated. Stop and go traffic (with lane changes!), turns, traffic lights, construction, busses, etc. all add to the complexity of city driving.

The first thing for freight isn't going to be completely autonomous, it is going to be a slightly smarter tesla style autopilot, i.e. a driver who is alerted by the computer when he needs to take over (weather, pulling into towns, etc).

I honestly have the opposite opinion that you do: freight (ignoring the last mile) is a much easier problem than inner city driving.
Pretty sure 0.01% success rate is still better than human drivers.
You don't even need to kill all mosquitos, just the ones that bite humans and carry disease. South America actually did manage to nearly eradicate Aedes aegypti, though the success was short lived.

Aedes aegypti is not even native to South America- it's African. So eliminating it from the New World can't do that much damage given that the ecosystem got along fine before it arrived.
Lyft allows tips, which is nice (since <5 starring people is a death sentence, it provides a better way of differentiating between great and sucky). Both suffer from the problem of having clueless suburbanites drivers who often have no idea how to get around the city. It'd be nice if it were possible to filter on drivers who actually live in the city...
As a point of comparison, polio is similar, the great majority of cases produce no symptoms or only minor symptoms.
Because it brings accountability.
> Your counter is -- you don't do that? Of course you don't, because your shell is bash.

Yeah of course I'd use Bash because Powershell only just became available for other platforms, but that's not my point.

I understood his point like this: the grandparent of his post said powershell has some bad things for scripting. Someone responded to that by saying it's not just for scripting. He said something which I understand as 'that's not quite right, I see a command as a stepping stone to writing a script', To which I finally responded 'I enter a lot of commands but rarely write scripts in [my interpreter of choice's language] because that language just isn't that great, and that's fine because the language is great for its purpose: command line usage'.

And compromises are inherently bad (in a way), that's the definition of a compromise: there are two or more mutually exclusive options and different parties have different first choices. Since they're mutually exclusive, a compromise must be made which is acceptable for both, but it's the first choice of neither (or at most one of them). Compromises are necessary for a dual-use language, but they don't make it prettier for both usages either.
I see what you are saying, that people staying in their houses is preventing people from moving out and the houses being destroyed and apartments built in their place.
Any alternatives for Javascript USB connectivity on Windows machines? Just a Node.js install?
> Traffic will be insane if people can send their cars on errands without having to sit in the resulting traffic, or if hired cars can drive halfway across the city to pick up the next fare with no impact to the car's owner besides wear and fuel.

Of course, what do you care what traffic is like, if you're being driven? So you get to read the news for an extra fifteen minutes, or have another beer.
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DSV: Delimiter Separated values. readelf uses a delimiter matching the regex /\w+/. In AWK, this is $FS by default, so AWK will parse this by default. Or you can pipe

tr -s [:blank:]

To cut, which will give you the row you want.
Water in Southern California is a complex issue that isn't given its proper due - and desalination plants aren't the cure-all that people assume.

Desalination plants: are expensive to build; are more energetically expensive than most alternatives, which means they are also more expensive to run (its tough to take salt out of water); inefficient - compared to alternatives, more water must be processed to create the same amount of potable water; environmental concerns, from intake (water intake may also 'suck in' krill, young fish, etc. which form the bottom of the food chain) and what happens with all of the concentrated 'sludge'? Dumping it back into the ocean would surely increase salinity in the area creating dead zones; time consuming to build - more water is needed now, not 10 years from now.

In L.A. specifically, there are treatment plants like Hyperion which perform secondary treatment on waste-water and then pumps that treated water 4.5 miles into the ocean. Does it make sense to treat waste-water, pump it into the ocean so it picks up solutes like salt, then desalinate it so that it's potable and then pump it back to shore? It makes more sense to upgrade facilities so they can perform tertiary treatment to make waste-water potable - it'd be cheaper than desalination, and much of the infrastructure is already there.

Also in L.A., storm runoff gets directed into a pipe system completely separate from the sewer system, so after a rainfall all of the water gets collected and essentially directed straight to the ocean via the stormdrain system without any treatment (and it also picks up massive amounts of debris and pollution along the way). It would also make sense to treat and store that kind of run-off instead of letting it go to waste (and pollute the beaches as well).

Israel is often given as a shining example of desalination, but they also recycle something over 80% of their water for irrigation. Essentially, they used all alternatives before adding desalination. L.A. imports over 80% of its water, and only recycles ~2% of it.
This is nowhere close to true. A 1060 is only "low tier" for someone who subscribes to /r/pcmasterrace; for regular PC gamers it's a solid mid-range card.

Also remember that the GeForce 3, when launched, cost $600, which would be $800 today (and this was a consumer card equivalent to the 1080, not a professional card like the Titans).
Silly to say the market is natural when it is something we have made that exists within the rules we decide.
"You send your order to exchange A, it does a partial fill for 1000 orders, and sends the remainder to exchanges b,c,d. An HFT firm sees your order to exchange A knows its not going to fill and sends its own orders to buy the liquidity on B,C,D and then sends sell orders at a higher price to B,C,D, your order fails to fill and you have to issue a new order at a higher price."

Maybe, but that seems like a pretty risky strategy. A simpler and far less risky strategy that would look very similar (admittedly only if you're looking exclusively at orders on the book and not fills) would be for HFT market makers to cancel or reprice their existing resting orders on exchanges B, C, D in response to getting or seeing a large fill on A.

In the strategy described by the parent, in addition to having to cross the spread, the HFT firm would also be at the back of the line at the next price level (unless maybe they already have an order there? but no guarantee that it's the right size, or maybe they have multiple small orders and cancel whatever is in excess of the position..).

So I'm genuinely curious: is what the parent describes something that is really that commonly done? This is one of the things that made me highly skeptical of Flash Boys. It seemed to me they observed a phenomenon, came up with a single explanation for it and never even considered any other possibilities that didn't fit the chosen narrative.