skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company that limits itself to online dispatch and doesn't own any vehicles itself (a) can expand to new cities at almost no cost, (b) can perform well on certain metrics like return on capital invested and revenue per employee, (c) faces no risk from buying too much capacity and (d) bears much less of the costs of risks like bad routing, mispricing or vandal customers, and so doesn't have to spend money mitigating those risks.

Of course, to get those benefits the supply of self-driving cars has to outpace the large companies' ability to expand. The fact your dispatch software can scale to 100 cities in a day is irrelevant if Google, Amazon and Uber are buying all the self-driving cars as soon as they come off the production line.
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But how certain are you that you were able to predict the next three? Did you stop her from saying them and write it down, and let her continue (without letting her see what you wrote down or watching you write it down)? If not, then you may just have been listening along with her and misinterpreted your own thoughts as having "knew ahead of time" what she was going to say, when all you were actually doing is simply comprehending it. It's a very real possibility unless completely ruled out like this.
it is grammatically acceptable to do so.. historically speaking, "they" and "them" were singular-inclusive pronouns.
Ha, and the next level is; just do it and wait for someone to tell you it's wrong, which they probably won't but you've already argued the alternatives to yourself anyway. So criticism at that point is just opinion and doesn't matter.
They address this a bit. Their CPU supports device virtualization and the default OS install dedicates a VM to just the USB ports, and the USB data lines are electrically disconnected from the HCIs when the machine is in locked mode.

I'd be more concerned about the wifi and bluetooth chips' firmware.
The intellectual property section towards the end of the rules[1] seems noteworthy (though not unexpected).

>Each Entrant hereby grants Sponsor and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free license to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, license, exploit, promote, reproduce, make available, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, and otherwise exercise all intellectual property and other rights in and to any concepts, works, inventions, information, designs, programs, or software that Entrant or his or her Entrant Team develop or submit in connection with the Competition or the creation of the Socialbot, including any of the foregoing included or described in any Technical Article or other materials provided to Sponsor.

[1] https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize/contest-rules
That's hilarious, but it doesn't use tensorflow. They seem to actually implement a neural net in spreadsheet cells with formulas for every neuron. That is insanely impractical and will be a million times slower and harder to use than tensorflow.
When you say "found with a big pile of drugs...it is not unreasonable to take the cash away" I'm going assume you meant "were found guilty in a court of law, the money was determined to be a result of illegal activity and was put into a fund managed with transparency and oversight by elected - not appointed - officials".
Holy crap I didn't realize it was that easy. That's incredibly scary, because presence on that list basically destroys your life, your family's life, and your ability to ever build a life - all because it is public and used for every background check under the sun instead of obviously protected professions like teaching, etc.
> The language may be complex

Compared to what?

Edit: This was not meant as a slight, I quite like Rust's comapritive simplicity when held up to other non-GC 'systems' languages.
I am quite sure that if you want to buy and so stuff with currencies other than the one you usually use, you are going to pay some conversion fees.
If he's trying to deposit USD into an account, he should have just wired it rather than converting USD -> BTC -> USD.

If, on the other hand, he already had $5-6k worth of Bitcoin somewhere, he could have eliminated one of those conversions and it would have cost about the same. Alternatively, he may have been able to find an exchange that accepts Bitcoin directly rather than through some intermediary with a conversion fee, in which case his total deposit fee would have been < $1.
No, all economic metrics from the UK are positive at the moment with the exception of the currency, which fell because the central bank had announced it'd devalue the currency if the vote went the "wrong" way! The BoE policy looks pretty questionable now: their predicted economic armageddon didn't take place, leaving pundits saying "well it would have done if we hadn't printed lots of money", ignoring that the mechanisms used to print that money don't trigger real business growth so fast.

I really don't know where you get the idea that the UK is somehow totally dependent on the EU in ways Switzerland isn't. Switzerland is far from an island. It has massive trade with both the EU and the rest of the world. That's why the Swiss Parliament is desperately trying to ignore the vote - they know Brussels will happily wreck the Swiss economy if it doesn't get its way, even if that also damages Germany (German devotion to the EU is perceived as bottomless in Brussels, it seems). Switzerland would absolutely suffer if its deals with the EU were terminated, and it's laughably far from self sufficient.

WRT what Zürich lacks, just compare the wealth of cultural events, museums and shows in London to what's available in Zürich! Don't get me wrong, for its size it does pretty well, and there are many other things London can't match (like the lake life) ... but you can't seriously claim a city more than 10x bigger provides literally nothing more.
To play devil's advocate for a moment, if I'm a criminal in the drug business, and I've got a bunch of money on me when you stop me, by the time you meet the burden of proof, I won't have the money any more. If you're going to seize it at all, you have to seize it when you've got the chance.

The best we might realistically ask for is that I get it back once the police can't meet the burden of proof...
For an example of how oversight do nothing for the end user take a look at the Brazilian model of state regulation "agencies" and how they get influenced by the bigger companies.
Setting async to false doesn't make it synchronous. Try adding another <script> after this one that uses $ and see what I mean.

document.write() is the only way to synchronously inject a script.
Or anything technical whatsoever. The article sounds very much written by a marketing person.
Can you imagine how long his blog post will be when he discovers event sourcing? ;)
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I get what you're saying with Ryanair (a sub-standard product sold cheaply), but I don't see the link with Uber. It's cheaper than taxis, and is a much much much better product. I consider Uber/Lyft "the full thing" these days, and taxis are archaic. Unclear if Uber's pricing is long-term sustainable, but even at higher prices I'd choose it every time over a taxi.
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G Suite .. really odd name. Then again, naming things is a hard computer science problem ;)
Wait, they did that? That's like blocking anyone from playing any games when they have the administrator password to their computers. Being very pro-rooting (for independence reasons, how do you "own" a device that you don't have access to?) this is a good reason to boycott the game on any phone.
This post is from (2013) but I doubt there has been any change in the past 3 years. It is concerning that there is any difference at all in shipping times when tape with the word "atheist" on it is used. The difference was significant (p<0.001). I would love to see a similar study with a variety of packing tape ("Atheist", "Christian", "Muslim", etc).
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To answer you seriously—I think a great contrast would be the simplicity of Go. The GC and type system are both the opposite of providing complexity to the user; they provide the only way to get anything done, and it's easy to keep in your head.

For the record, I prefer rust.
Although I agree with their conclusion, I'd like to see how it would go with other names rather than "atheist" as a group control to eliminate the possibility of a difference between branded and non-branded differences.
> What happens if you search for a term that matches a lot of rows? This is the case where ts_rank is very expensive. I'd be curious to look at the explain of such a low-selectivity query.

That’s actually quite unproblematic, if you have the tsvector as its own column (not just as index).

It’s far more problematic to actually load that data from disk.
It's been 10+ years since WoW launched, and that scaled better than Pokemon Go. It didn't need no fancy cloud or autoscaling or the few moore iterations Google got, and it's a game that you know.. actually has a use for networking.

You could make an offline Pokemon Go version and not notice any difference.
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I guess they wont be sharing the dataset of actual alexa searches so far.
Interesting, can you share why it would not make sense to use App Engine here (or why Ingress ran into anti-patterns)?
(I'm the author of the aforementioned article)

We tried using static verification with CodeContracts at the beginning of the project (2011). But this triggered us to litter the code with attributes dedicated to static verification only, which didn't spot many issues. The tool (which is a binary rewriter) was very slow (tripled compile time) and killed developer productivity and morale. It just wasn't worth it. We abandoned static verification, and later we abandoned CodeContracts altogether.
Maybe it works with better tools or other languages than C#, but my experience with it is bad and I don't recommend it.
With a statically typed language, maybe the best static verification tool is just the compiler.
I have to take issue with the opening paragraph. It says that research shows we spend 3 out of 5 days working on stuff we weren't hired to do. But then it says attending meetings falls under that definition as does gathering information. A lot of people need to meet to gather information. Of course that's part of their jobs. While machine learning can, I am sure, help a lot the fallacy the opening paragraph starts with makes me lose faith in the whole article. They also don't cross reference this 'research'.
Stereotype threat is yet another victim of the replication crisis - i.e. it probably doesn't exist. It's repeatedly failed to replicate. Funnel plots show significant evidence of publication bias.

http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.cc/science/article/pii/...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85192141/2013-ganley.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat#Failures_to_...

https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/tag/stereotype-threat...
Ask HN: Car repair ripping you off?
Do you ever feel like the car repair man is ripping you off? How do you deal with it?

If they say you need <x> service how do you respond?

Thanks
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oh good, that's what I was going for.
Well, the real advantage is the button can change or you can add more buttons trivially. Compare the on-screen dialer and keyboard of the iPhone to the old school 9-digit keypad. The former is superior for most use cases.

Also you can abstract away your GUI interface with a hardware button if preferred. I'm using a hardware keyboard to type this for example, even though this computer has a touch screen. I have this flexibility and customization options that the old school approach didn't really have.
Nah, Chicago's a big Verizon town.
I agree. If you could add the same tape with different words it would eliminate the possibility that the worded tape was interfering with some auto-sort functionality.
There's a whole section about event sourcing near the bottom :)
> when they were only a few hundred employees

So like 3-4 years ago?
>... Google Cloud customer...

That's pretty misleading - I believe Google's parent company still own part of Niantic. So other customers shouldn't expect the (implied) same access to Google resources.
> If we as a society believe the person is still a danger, then we shouldn't let them out, ever.

This is not how justice works. If you want to create some other form of government, that's fine, just don't call prison justice.
You've been posting primarily ideological comments and that's not what this site is for. Beyond that, some of them (such as this one) are highly uncivil and we ban accounts that post like this. Please stop.
They'll claim to be exempt:

> In general, the more an internship program is structured around a classroom or academic experience as opposed to the employer’s actual operations, the more likely the internship will be viewed as an extension of the individual’s educational experience (this often occurs where a college or university exercises oversight over the internship program and provides educational credit).

It's still possibly over the line, and tacky as all get-out.
Actually, `Reader` adds a lot of boiler plate that's not present with traditional @Inject injection:

- All your functions now need to return a Reader[C,A] instead of just A

- You need to pass all the parameters explicitly in each method signature as opposed to passing just the ones that don't need to be injected.
Bitcoin is useful when you already have it. There's no point to go and buy it solely for purpose of transferring it (via some weird wb21). Neither you nor tradezero use it properly.
Your car stays the same. Unless you're replacing your car all the time, you're not enjoying these higher efficiencies.

Existing battery-electric vehicles become cleaner as their electricity supply becomes cleaner.
Think about what Amazon's turnover must be compared to other companies'.
That doesn't mean that financial institutions that won't deal with US persons are legitimate. They don't deal with Bahama persons either, even though they are licensed to do so. That might get them in trouble with local regulators.
Are you kidding me?

>I said "I basically never need to". Not that I never need to. But yeah, I basically never, ever need to

It is interesting to imagine why this innocuous comment has ruffled so many feathers.
I'm making this side project to help startups and people that want to become entrepreneurs. I need your feedback to continue working efficiently on this project.
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Of course! Who do you take me for?

Well, I haven't finished Diamond Age yet...

But I will, really soon!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Why would you even think of this as an issue? I had to read your comment, then read the replies, then read your comment again, twice, in order to actually understand what you were saying because it made literally no sense to me that anyone would have a problem with this.

Why does it matter? There are plenty of words that used to mean something and now mean something completely different when in context.
> how will bitcoin ever become mainstream?

I doubt it ever will become mainstream, but one path to "mainstream" is when merchants, banks, companies, and payment providers just accept Bitcoin rather than:

1) Pretend to accept bitcoin
2) Pay a sub-par service with high fees to convert any received BTC into USD immediately
3) Encourage customers that don't already hold BTC to pay in BTC, adding another conversion step from USD -> BTC

If 90% of the people I give money to just accept Bitcoin as payment, then it makes sense for me to have a "Bitcoin account", as payment fees could be lower.
Surprisingly my mechanic doesn't seem to rip me off, or at least I haven't caught it. My car is old enough that he knows that problems will pop up here and there so he just fixes them as they come up. He's playing the long game I guess.
It's unjust, particularly in it's current implementation, and it completely circumvents due-process.

At least in the US, which wasn't a nation in 1600, this is a prohibition-era deterrent that was reinstated by Reagan to punish drug users, and has been more currently used to fund law enforcement agencies in an astonishingly offensive manner.
Thank you for remembering this. Also worth pointing out that they too ruined their launch experience for millions because of features no one really wanted that were secondary to the core experience ;) (IIRC they did some sort of light simulation offloading and social / competition features in "the cloud" which made the entire game not function without an internet connection.)
I don't think it's a grammar thing at all it's a definition of the words thing, which guess what, it's covered already!

they

pronoun
1. used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified.
"the two men could get life sentences if they are convicted"
informal
a group of people in authority regarded collectively.
"they cut my water off"

2. used to refer to a person of unspecified sex.
"ask someone if they could help"
It is "Grammatically accurate" as the writer and reader thing it is. English has no official grammar. Singular "they" has been a singular pronoun for centuries.
That message was pretty weak given that they did things like fill out restaurant meals with soda and milkshakes, but for the home cooked stuff they used black coffee and diet soda.

You can totally eat reasonable portions at restaurants. You can lose weight eating at restaurants. Yes, it's probably a bit harder, mostly because you don't fully control the portion sizes, but it's entirely possible. Many restaurants also have reduced calorie menus now.
Great point. They created an MVP, it worked, and then put resources in when and where the needs declared themselves (stability, scaling...).
>going from $1M to $2M is almost inevitable.

If that were true, I could easily borrow it now and make my way there.
While this is an interesting story, and it's sad to see this sort of stuff happening, I'm kind of more focused on what makes a shoe atheist. Are holy shoes blessed in some manner, or are all shoes naturally religious and some process is applied to the atheist shoes to make them secular? Based on what I can tell from the site, atheist shoes really just need to say "I'm an atheist" on the sole, but I want to believe there's more than that, because what sad individuals are buying shoes just for that. (And if people only buy the shoes because of the style, why do the shoes need to have such sacrilegious soles?)
Sorry we didn't make this explicit, but we'll be three zones for GCE in Oregon "soon" (i.e., us-west1-c will be online).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
I knew this was coming. Great stuff.
But the goal is to transfer USD across international borders...
Misleading title. Its easier and cheaper to use bank wires when sending USD. What he did just seems foolish to me.

I have had people from across the globe send me BTC in minutes with a few button clicks and no additional parties involved.
Yes I have lived this recently, two devs competing for most clever code in an oo codebase, it was a spaghetti lava layer mess of styles, and one was the lead. Horrible experience.
I get what you're saying - but the reality is that globalization is to blame. Years ago, if one was born ambitious and able, with enough luck they'd get relatively 'rich' and most likely stop when they hit that point. Nowadays, the same type of person has to accumulate a much larger amount to feel any satisfaction. And, it doesn't help that those with wealth have clustered together.
The results are interesting.

But as a godless guy, I don't get it. Why would I care about the theological stance of the people who make my shoes? Why would a shoemaker want to advertise its religion, or lack thereof, on its shipping boxes? We can't leave tribal politics out of shoes now, even?
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At what point does one have to start to be considered independently successful?

- You inherited a lot of wealth and a CTO position at a father's company

- Parents gave you money and bought you stuff

- Parents gave you a place to live

- At least you had one parent

- Being an orphan, at least you were born in a first-world country

- At least you were born at all, thanks to the medical care in a third world country

So, unless you are an orphan from remote parts of Africa who built a Fortune 10 company from scratch your success is not your own? We all owe it to the girl who invented the wheel. But then maybe she had a rich parent who gave her stone carving tools to play as a child, so that's not really an achievement, is it?
Most lines have working AC. But I bet that anyone (myself included) that complains about the NYC subway being hot is most likely referring to the 10-15 minutes of hell standing on a subway platform in absolute delirium-inducing 95 degree, 100% humidity, Gotham city fresh air.
I was under the impression that Elm rolls it's own virtual-dom?
> Either way, this aspect is independent of the point I was making above and which is that functional code is not inherently easier to test than procedural code.

That's true, you can certainly just write procedural code in functional languages and there's no benefit. However, you also have the ability to structure code in a way that is testable and is actually more structured than the equivalent OOP style. By which I mean: the operations on the dependencies are more constrained (since they can't be replaced or duplicated, etc).
I thought that, too, but decided to give them credit for an open solution to a hard, neglected problem. Let's face it: we need parallel developments in each of these areas since nobody is going to do all of them. It's good so long as the pieces can be securely composed by an integrator later. Just like the old incremental MLS paper or Karger's smartcard project. A piece at a time, even if extra time or cost on individual pieces, increases odds high-security product will emerge in long-term when each parties' interest (or funding or management) is often short-term.

If they were serious, I'd say work with Genode team for FOSS or partner with Sirrix to port their TrustedDesktop system to it. Both are using models with low TCB's and trusted paths architecturally similar to B3/A1 systems. Turaya used by Sirrix is basically Perseus Framework with pre-built drivers, VPN, disk crypto, management software, etc. Batteries-included. Here's Perseus:

http://www.perseus-os.org/content/pages/Overview.htm

I think a port of TrustedDesktop to ORWL-like solution would be a nice start on secure desktops for businesses or individuals willing to pony up dough. Can use something like Genode once it gets mature enough with necessary components. I've moved on from separation kernel stuff to HW-centric security but combining a thing that works with one that might seems like a good default for now.

So, a Turaya-like product combined with ORWL. I'll add requirements of parsers auto-generated LANGSEC-style with any TCB code run through SAFEcode or Softbound+CETS at a minimum. Kernel on bottom is seL4 or Muen (SPARK). Drivers done statically in subset of C or SPARK amendable to thorough analysis. Would that strategy for rapidly getting a high-security product out the door address most of your expectations or exceed them?
It's considered exposing yourself. Yes very scary.
Wait staff have their own minimum wages. Iirc it's under $3/hour.

That said, it's not uncommon to get at least minimum wage.
I've noticed a steady movement by companies to treat anyone with X number of years of experience as "senior" rather than their capability. Your definition is far better but harder to gauge compared to years of experience (likely why they do it this way).
Just to nitpick, I shouldn't be allowed to smoke a cigar around a campfire on BLM land?
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(2013), please.