skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Driverless cars can be driven around the clock

So in theory can normal cars. Many taxi companies (and I'm assuming at least some Uber drivers) share one car between 2-5 drivers to maximize the time on the road.

The other aspect you're not considering is that even after you take economies of scale into account a driverless car will almost certainly cost more than the market price of the current median Uber car. I'm guessing that $3000-5000 will get you a perfectly Uber-worthy car that will give you years of fairly trouble free use. What will a driverless car cost?

And that is ignoring the fact that most Uber drivers would have owned and maintained a car even if they had had a different job, so the only 'cost' is the marginal cost of extra maintenance being used as an Uber car causes.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if maintenance costs will also be higher at least in the short-to-medium term due the complicated and experimental nature of the components involved.

So even if there are long term savings I imagine that they will take a long time to materialize and even longer to show up in fare-prices, unless Uber decides to subsidize driverless fare to kick start the market.
How do you implement a research paper?
I may have read the comment I was quoting wrong but what I read was: if I, as a developer, create this software and centralize it/sell it as a service, I will have to deal with making sure data is secure (otherwise I get sued), while if I distribute with sandstorm, no need to care about securing the data, it's on the user!

I hope we can agree that having software available outside a private network is something of value, so I really hope that if I use sandstorm the apps contained are not designed to rely on being deployed on an internal network...

Note: I extended my previous comment's quoted text for better context on that reply
Spooky was presumably referring to American Football, which is wildly popular but faces some significant questions about the long-term safety of the sport to players.
It's really easy to make up statistics on the spot with absolutely no source.

I very much doubt that people would be getting paid to write any code if they couldn't implement a single for loop in their primary programming language.
For some frankly ridiculous definition of free will, yes. I think definitions of free will that this assumes - impossible to predict from pre-existing conditions - is synonymous with random choices. But random choices don't seem to be very free. Where is the agency?

I am the pre-existing condition that (largely) determines my choices. That's what makes my decisions mine and not just 'free' decisions devoid of context, responsibility or attribution.

So if my decisions are made by me and are not coerced or biased by limited access to information, then they are mine and they are free and I will happily accept responsibility for them. But magically occurring decisions free of conditions and not influenced in any way by my actual mental state or faculties are simply not my decisions.
I didn't read it all but some people are do dogmatic about things it is stupid. I have dealt with plenty of co-workers who read some book and promptly beat everyone with it.
You're right, I shouldn't blame only Bill, but having read a few books and many articles on the Clintons, I believe Bill was the worst at handling the situation, looking out for the prison-industrial-complex (always looking out for the big guys), while cutting back on welfare (never looking out for the poor), giving green light to cops to make it open season for arresting non-violent (mostly black) people for drug possession.
I've used it for several years and done a lot with it. Most of the niggles have been ironed out over time, though Android does tend to lag behind with things a little.

Most recently they introduced Hyperloop (not that one!) which allows direct access to native API's, use of cocoapods etc directly from JS. That would be fantastic if it didn't require a team licence of $1200/seat upfront to even use. With React Native taking off and Nativescript also offering native API access, I can only see it withering behind the massive paywall now which is a shame.

Personally, most of my new projects will now be React Native as I'm confident it'll be around and well supported for longer.
The latest Tesla masterplan includes a global fleet of self driving taxis too.
Graphviz/dot sucks. Here is yComp for the same function: https://imgur.com/a/5eP9k

The blocks and red edges represent the control flow graph and I can easily see the two if structures.

It lets you zoom. Mouseover nodes to get more details.
If its under 50 lines of code for some simple processing, I don't think another developer who comes in would have much trouble. Of course if that 50 lines of code is now 250 because it tries to get around a framework, then instead of finding a PHP developer to help out on the code, you now need a $framework developer.

Basically, don't use a framework unless you really do need all the features it gives you. Don't just pick a framework and try to cram your code into it for the sole purpose of using a framework.
Potentiometer is cool, but not as cool as a crank wheel operated clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GmY_UrbXnA
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I've been generating income from http://aminosoftware.com going on 11 years now. There have been updates with every release of SQL Server and a handful of bug fixes over the years but it's amounted to about 10 hours of work per year.

Niche was key for this to work.
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Also, It's true that many leaders (many of them black) at and before Clinton's time were advocating tough-on-crime policies to stop crime in their neighborhoods, however look at how easily a person was able to get locked up under Clinton's regime. His regime saw the highest incarceration rates ever, with a huge percent of prisoners being locked up for possession of cannabis, or crack. He passed the bill that allowed that. Warrantless searches, 1.5 mil people locked up each year for non-violent possession of drugs under him. Bill is a very smart person, and the Clinton's are for-profit. They know how to make money, and they pass bills and campaign for reforms where they know they will get the biggest donation to their foundation. I do acknowledge that it wasn't just him that caused the prison crisis, but I do believe he was the worst at it
Actual neural network papers are far removed from the impressions you get from popular science articles. Biological neurons were some inspiration for the abstraction, but the underlying model is more a direct evolution of the maths/stastical models. Griping that DNNs are not actually like neurons is akin to saying that Object Oriented programming is nothing like the organisation of biological cells it was inspired on. A useful abstraction is a useful abstraction, there is little reason to think that making the computational models any closer to physical processes is going to bring any improvements.

Neuromorphic computing is the field that tries to more accurately mimic spiking neurons, but making something useful out of it takes a backseat. It is still an open question if it is going to be useful.
PHP7 has removed a lot of the old cruft and made some small improvements to PHP's idiomatic syntax.

One great example is the removal of the mysql_real_escape_string function. http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.p...

Another is finally giving us a null coalescing operator, which is a solution for a constant pain point in dealing with raw PHP POST and GET parameters.

The full "new features" list of PHP7: http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php

The change log of PHP7+: http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
DOT VPN is one of the best i have ever used.
> currently accepted best practice for autoloading

According to who? FIG?

Are you aware that php has a built in auto loader that supports namespaces and is written in C?

> compose projects based on the packages they need.

Ah, the NPM/Composer golden brick road to development. Aka, the "I don't know what this is but I'm gonna lick it" approach to development, where you end up with 50 "micro-frameworks" or "utility libraries" each of which depends on a further 20 other libraries.

I have some issues with this site but it's right that the FIG is a joke, and anyone who claims its "best practice" is not paying attention.
There's lots of good advice in here. Don't underestimate what it takes to build a successful, sustainable SaaS business.

My #1 advice: Learn more about the stock market. Read blogs about ETFs and how to invest passive.
The public funds things that result in private profits all the time. I.e. education, roads, etc. It's not really outrageous. It's the state's duty to provide a platform for its people to excel.
Sorry, this version wont just paste back as is in shadertoy. Also it needs a random 256x256 bitmap in channel 0. The effect is the same as ozzy's original, except change ITERATIONS to 13 in his code to see the change (which is only slightly better). The other changes were for performance, which i improved slightly.
It's just an iPad inside a Mac.
Uber paid $680M for self-driving truck company Otto for the tech, not the trucks
Hahaha this is so complicated xD
If you're used to cmd or bash, the jump in verbosity is very noticeable and definitely gets in the way.

It might be a cultural thing, because I'm no fan of C# and its typical style either; no surprise then, that I find PS syntax exceedingly verbose too. It just feels excessively bureaucratic and awkward to have to write so much. On the other hand, bash, awk, sed, and all the typical Unix commands and its associated ecosystem seem like they "get out of your way" far more effectively.

c. There now is a cmdlet for doing so: Expand-ZipFile.

That example already shows the verbosity increase clearly - why is it "Expand-ZipFile", and not "ZipFile-Expand", "Expand-Zip-Format-Archive", or something else? In contrast, "unzip" is short and easy to remember. The fact that a native binary might exist for a given task is irrelevant to the observation that the shell's language is itself more verbose.

I'm actually curious as to those complaints: Do you never write a function in bash to abstract away something? A function in other languages? Is everything just a series of crystal-clear one-liners?

Abstraction helps reduce code duplication but is not useful when each line of the script is quite different, and in that case PS remains more verbose. Ultimately, the overhead is still higher.
The pros and cons of internal blockchains
You're linking to an old version. Here is the current version: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle/docs/Turtle-Tutori...
> It is very easy to write tiny secure code in PHP without a framework

Actually it isn't, like at all. A open source framework will always be more secure than the code you "easily write", because a larger pool developers can review,audit,test and fix that code.
The Language of Identical Twin Tennis Champions
My actual experience with making commercial design plugins for Photoshop and Sketch (http://designplugins.com/):

1. Exporting image assets from Photoshop, <$100 in 6 months, >1 year of work on and off

2. Optical adjustments in Sketch, <$1000 in 2 months, ~1 week of work

3. Exporting ICNS/ICO from Sketch, <$50 in 1 month, ~1 week of work
Indeed, nobody would want to do that, which is why Powershell exists. Scripting VB or Javascript against COM or whatever else the software vendor decided to use was generally an awful experience, if the interface was even documented at all. Powershell replaces all of that for system administration purposes - you can even run Powershell commands easily from within any .Net application and get structured, object-oriented output, which is what at least all the Windows Server GUI stuff does now.

You're still stuck with OLE/COM for e.g. Excel automation, though, I think.
Twins, especially male identical twins, live longer
It was just some banter.
Berlin.
> Are you aware that php has a built in auto loader that supports namespaces and is written in C?

What are you referring to?
PHP was the first language I ever used professionally. The code I wrote - the code every single one of my colleagues wrote - was atrocious. We were paid bottom dollar ($30k in 2008) to write absolute shit code. The PHP community in my area was the same. All newbies, all paid barely more than a fast food manager, all writing code that could be taken down by a HS student with Fiddler.

I'm sure different experiences exist, but the majority of folks who I speak to have experiences that match mine very closely.

PHP is a ghetto.
> And then other developpers comes in, and have to learn how to use your non standard code

If you use a framework, new developers coming in often have to learn how to use it as well.

I've never hired a developer who didn't know how to use PDO prepared queries, which are the standard in my code base. Built into the language, escapes no matter what database you use, etc.

Good developers know how to write secure PHP code without a framework. They don't necessarily know how to use a random framework.

Bad developers will at some point take variables from a $_POST/GET array and use them unwisely regardless of whether you have a framework.
> If its under 50 lines of code for some simple processing

It doesn't matter how much lines you write. It has nothing to do with the number of lines but the functionalities and how many developers review that piece of code. Furthermore more a third party codebase is usually the code you don't have to test. You keep on talking about frameworks like it's a bad thing, but all frameworks are not equal in size nor features.
Cant help but feel that Herzog is going out of his comfort zone with 'Lo and Behold'. For me, he is at his best when looking at nature and in particularly Human Nature. His documentary Grizzly which the article mentions ends with his voice over “I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I can see only the overwhelming indifference of nature”, highlights his pursuit for understanding of why we do what we do.
This is not to say that I wont watch Lo,I'm sure he'll discover the humanity of our technology.
Yeah, it's almost as if malicious activity follows users, and there's no perfect security.
I know it's not the dispatcher himself. The voice, however, often says we are being held up by the dispatcher and we will be moving shortly.
Q: “How do you generate a random string?”
A: "Put a Windows user in front of Vim, and tell them to exit"
Fantastic. That's all what I have dreamed when I studied Computer Architecture.
The same we enforce it now- with nuclear regulation, e.g. http://www.nrc.gov/ http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/ip/intl-organizations.html#INRA https://www.iaea.org/ http://www.nea.fr/
I haven't seen many (good) blogs about ETFs, any suggestions?
I appreciate that you showed the whole process on how you are making money in 2 lines. Excellent. Thank you.
I used to have an Apple ][ and it's one of my few regrets that I sold it when I did. Luckily, I've still got the IIGS but it's not quite the same. I never made it to Tekserve before they closed either...maybe that's 2 regrets now.
A construct that can react in only one way to any given set of inputs (including its internal state, etc.) intuitively doesn't have 'free will'.

A construct that can react in multiple ways to a single given set of inputs, but does so by combining them with some internal inputs which are non-deterministic but generally random in nature, also intuitively doesn't have 'free will'.

What you need to really satisfy the intuitive concept of 'free will' is some analytical agency, external to our physical reality, which affects the outcome in some purposeful way. So, basically, a 'soul'.

Of course, to move past the 'intuitive' sense we're gonna need to actually rigorously define 'free will', which is something that is curiously lacking in virtually all discussions of this kind of stuff.
I can help create a very lightweight container image for this if you want?
"It's very easy to recognize a bogus livable cities ranking: if it doesn't include a single Swiss city in its Top 10, like the list above, look elsewhere."

Zurich and Geneva ranked 10 and 12 last year. To not put those cities in the top 10 seems reasonable. Being small and expensive usually reflects badly in rankings.
I am familiar with the concept of plants to growing towards the sun and following the sun throughout the day. I'm curious if a similar mechanism is occurring at the atomic level, causes new cell growth to converge onto a shape that maximizes electron transmission.
Uber wants to own the self-driving cars, rather than use other people's cars.

This does indeed change their business significantly, because now they have to buy and operate all of those cars themselves, rather than being "just an app" that takes a commission from what the drivers make.

If Uber is not careful with cost management, it could very well sink the company.
You list many reasons why Uber drivers might be considered employees. It's worth noting two more absolutely huge ones: they have literally no ability to set the price of their work, and no ability to subcontract it to someone else. Those are two attributes that are characteristic of employees.
a "single for loop" and a "fibonacci method" are different enough.

there are loads of people who take money for working in PHP, and they're closer to pc86's view of things than yours. I wouldn't say "99%" but... there's a lot. A LOT. I've run (and attended) several local tech meetups in my area, and ... there's a huge amount of technical talent, but also a surprising number of people bumbling around with wordpress, drupal and other systems. They generally don't have a clue what't they're doing with respect to PHP code, but they make a living modifying themes by cut/paste stuff from forums.
If you marry yourself to a single framework you remove a lot of degrees of freedom from PHP (which might be good or bad depending on the case) and introduce a set of rules that might or might not all be good for you.

It might save you time, initially. But at some point you will have to sit down and learn what the framework is actually doing behind the scenes (is it really secure? why is it so slow? I really need to implement this obscure, unsupported by my framework, thing), and you might not be so happy about your choice. Thinking about this ahead of time will save you headaches in the long run.

Think of PHP as sandbox programming. Such an open language, there is a lot of freedom, so many ways to achieve a specific result. The takeaway from the article is that "always do X" shouldn't be a thing, considering a) the vast possibilities and b) your purpose. Frameworks might be too much bloat, patterns should happen naturally, not forcefully. Security should be paramount, but it shouldn't be a blackbox behind third party code, you should be able to explain how you are protecting your users. Etc.

This is not a "don't use a framework/standards/etc" rant. I see it as a reminder to double-check if the current... trends/standards? match your actual needs and wants.
> Good PHP code exists, it only got a bad name due to "web developers" with no formal programming education stumbling across PHP and going "aha this can generate my html etc" and then proceeding to make a pile of mistakes.

It got a bad name due to the weird nature of PHP which is still a template engine , no matter how much features you had on top. It's like developing webapps in pure HAML, Jinja or Handlebars.

PHP also has a lot of bad design language wise, due to the incompetence of its creator and early maintainers when it comes to language design.
Yeah..."A novel electrolyte also keeps the battery from heating up and catching fire." We'll see how novel it is. I'll need a few cells, about 20min and a hammer as a literal smoke test at least
Also, he mentions that company uses framework, won't scale and start ripping it apart to take unnecesary parts. You don't do that for a 50 line script
I've released 3 tech courses in the past year and it's anything but passive.

You'll end up spending ~2-3 full time months creating each course. Then you need to market it (or use a platform but then you don't build up a customer list of your own that you can use later), and on top of that you need to support all of your students by answering questions (not as bad as you would think but it's something you need to do constantly).

Then in 6+ months when the tech you've created your course on gets updated you have to go back and re-record your course to keep it relevant. There are some tricks to minimize this burden depending on what tech you're creating content for, but I would say as a whole expect to re-record the entire course every year. By this point you'll end up re-planning the entire course, so it's not a simple thing.

This doesn't mean it's a bad idea, but don't get the idea that you just create the course in a few tough weeks and then sit back on a beach while you sell dozens of copies a day for years on end.
> Consciousness can't spontaneously appear

Why?

> Consciousness can't spontaneously appear so the only way it's possible is through quantum phenomena.

I don't understand at all how these two statements are connected.
I know I'm generalizing here, but this is another consideration:

Most people who go into IT do it because they enjoy working with technology. When they're working in IT, they want to work with computers, not people. Add in the common problem that techies often have a hard time understanding a non-techie's problem or explaining the solution to them ("You're telling me you don't know what a file browser is?"), and it the above observation becomes somewhat understandable. (Although not really excusable.)

Librarians, on the other hand, know from the outset that they will have to interact a lot with people - in fact, that's what most of their job is about. That's a whole different mindset to start a job with, and it will also attract people who work well with people.

(Having said all that, I have only had positive experiences with the IT support at out university - whenever I went to them, they have always been very friendly and helpful.)
5 reasons 3D-printing genitalia is great
The title could be expanded by "are spread on the Facebook Network", since websites, containing Facebook scripts, also scatter these phishing attacks. I downloaded and reviewed several of them. Their code is at most mediocre but they contain several surprises which I summarize at the moment.

What's certain is that Facebook always benefits from these scams (earnings via ad impressions).
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