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Sorry you got downvoted. FWIW, I upvoted your comment - I pretty much always upvote replies to my comments, whether I agree or not, just to thank people for engaging in a conversation with me. The only exception is when someone is rude or nasty, which you certainly weren't. :-)

That said, I'm not sure I agree. It's not just programmers who benefit from physical keyboards, but everyone who types. And that's a lot of people. I've tried typing on an iPad and an Android tablet, and it's pretty awkward compared with a physical keyboard.

OTOH, a friend has a touchscreen ThinkPad, and while she is a touch typist, she uses the touchscreen all the time. It makes me a little crazy to see her tapping the screen to do things that would be much easier with the TrackPoint or touchpad and buttons, but I just bite my tongue and let her have at it. :-)
> 1. Young children seem to have the biggest capability in learning languages.

Is there any evidence that this is actually due to their capability? I would say it's far more likely it's their environment. IE, people are constantly talking to young kids. They simplify what they say to make themselves understood. And children have a huge incentive to learn to communicate - to get what they want from parents, or just understand the world around them. The same isn't true for a grown adult trying to learn a second language, in isolation, that they don't really need in their day to day lives.

Disclaimer: this is pure conjecture.
> For value types that's not a problem because they don't support subclassing anyway.

Could you please provide a reference for this?
Even a broad one like "a post on the Valhalla mailing list during the past summer" would be very welcome.

I'm eagerly awaiting for this feature and not being able to extend user-defined value types would be a bummer.
But things have been moving that way for a long time and until it becomes common place to travel in spaceships it's going to remain that way.

The real space age will again open up hardware, but make no mistake that software will play as important or more of an important role then to.
> The 4G specification requires a minimum speed [1] so LTE was launched to avoid exactly this minimum.

LTE is a name for a specific connectivity technology, it's a parallel to UMTS in the previous generation, not to 4G or 3G. It was going to be launched independent of whether it met the 4G minimum criteria. Standards-wise, LTE predates 4G. It initially looked like WiMAX might reach the 4G criteria first, but it tanked and then we were left with waiting for LTE-Advanced.
Yes, that is why I tried to frame my comment as a possibility, not truth : )
Just in case....

A sample space is the set of all possible outcomes of a random experiment. An event is a subset of a sample space.

Let S be the finite sample space with equally likely outcomes in it. Let E be an event. Then the probability of E is the number of outcomes in E over the total number of outcomes in S.

Now consider 52 cards in a deck. The sample space of outcomes here are the 52 cards. What is the event that the chosen card is a black face card? E = {J-club,Q-club,K-club,J-spade,Q-spade,K-spade}. What is the probability that the chosen card is a black face card? 6/52 by the formula above.

Monty Hall problem can be solved by using the above as a guide.

Sample space here : {switch, switch, stay-with-your-original-choice}. By the formula above, the probability of switching is 2/3 and the probability of staying put is 1/3.

If you're doubting the formula, I can provide you with a proof.
I've always liked this paper and still refer to it IRL as part of explaining how to stand up an operations team. Hacker News has covered it before with some worthwhile comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726496
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Is there any reason why, over the course of 30 years, no one took a helicopter suited for that environment up there? The article mentions them trying, but bad weather preventing them from reaching the wreck. Why didn't anyone attempt again when the weather was better?
In my experience, just knowing discrete probability and statistics is profoundly unuseful, especially when you walk out of class thinking you know the subject, sign up for a next course that involves real-valued quantities, and bomb everything.
Well, I like when people design for accessibility, like these guys: http://werebooks.org/robert-e-howard/guns-of-the-mountains/

I mean, I can read that. On anything. Compared to most of the modern half-grey stuff, it's excellent.
> One change is that I spend less time on video games because I realized while I had two years off that I was not getting around to them not because I didn't have time, but because they weren't my favorite thing to do in reality.

Wow, this really clicked with me.

Games had always been a big part of my down time, often as a platform to stay in touch with friends from my home town after moving away.

My interest and enjoyment came in waves, based on what we were playing, outside life and a bunch of other factors. I did notice though, that the amount of time I spent didn't really relate to how much I actually enjoyed the games (or gaming in general).

I realised I didn't actually like playing games as much as I thought. I started pulling apart exactly what I _did_ enjoy, and what was actually tied to gaming (vs something I can achieve / obtain elsewhere).

First, I stopped buying single player games. The social side was a big part of why I liked games, and most single player games I do play, I don't finish. They're generally from a friend's recommendation, so I've started borrowing games from them once they've finished. It seems to avoid the hype train too. ("No Man's Sky was fun for a few hours, but you'll get bored. Try this instead.")

I love the aesthetics and creativity of games, and a lot of my enjoyment comes from just experiencing and absorbing that. I'm sure the SEGA and Nintendo sound chips constantly chirping from my TV set up the brain pathways that make me enjoy repetitive Techno so much now.

I've gone from playing guitar, to a stable of synthesizers and samplers. When an old NES tune pops into my head, I'll start jamming rather than fire up a game I've finished a dozen times.

I don't know if there was a point to that ramble, I just thought I'd share.
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They may be using a public transit route which goes in only one direction or can only be boarded at the point on the other side of the loop.
Cost of the incident response and remediation can easily be millions for a large corporation.

The malware on that belgacom server has probably required them to scrub all of their email servers and more that can't be cheap.
On a couple occasions I've tried narrating vignettes from my own life in a detached omniscient candid way, which a) makes me feel ridiculous, like I'm making fun of myself, but b) is sort of therapeutic, like I'm forgiving myself for my head being full of stupid vanities which look very small from a little distance.

So maybe that's the angle?
Actually you DO own it in EU, and can do whatever you like with it (borrow, sell).
I get that tech companies want self-driving cars really bad because they smell billions of dollars in "disruption" but no matter how good AI gets, I have a suspicion it won't actually do better than a decent human driver can do. It's not about processing speed, it's about experience and reflexes, which granted, not everyone has.

Let's see a self-driving car win a Formula 1 race--and even that controlled racetrack environment isn't the same as the real world! It's actually harder to drive on the typical American roadways than it is to be on a track.

And yes, I am aware that AI stuff is improving exponentially or whatever, but the more I think about this, the more I think it is mostly a pipe dream to grab headlines and be a "look over here" type distraction for the purposes of raising funding.

In terms of safety, people will still lose their lives, they will just die from different kinds of car accidents than the kinds we have now.
I watch my ublock log to decide if I'm ever visiting a site again - if the log has more than just cdns and maybe a google ad or too - I'm history.

I deliberately set it to allow the bing/google ads and the analytics, but I'm not allowing everything under the sun.
dup of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12739564

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733856
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The A380 now has the capability to respond to resolution advisories (RAs) on autopilot.

You're correct that most do not, but there's now one that does.
That is charmingly optimistic.
Except it's not jobs just for people who are older, it's companies explicitly saying they do not discriminate based on age. No one is saying they'll only hire someone 40+, unless they're looking for 20+ years experience which implies your age.
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2 San Francisco-area earthquake faults found to be connected
Brokerages pass on trades to market makers. They don't promise a price, they just tell you which price is available through market makers, and when you decide to go ahead with a trade, they go on the market, and you hope that the price market makers were advertising earlier is still what they're offering when you come through. Brokerages make a profit by passing on your order and taking a percentage of your total sale, not by making a profit on the spread.
This is the worst of both worlds--having people become complacent behind the wheel while a computer drives only to have to suddenly become engaged which you know isn't going to happen. A lot of people nod off while driving as it is. Take away the "you're going to die if you don't pay attention" part and then imagine what happens!
Not an expert, but what you describe is testing different parts of the system. Real world data tests that the sensor system is creating an accurate model of the environment, whereas simulated data ensures that the vehicle makes correct decisions for any given input model.

e.g. real world data tests that the vehicle can detect a stop sign. Simulated data tests that the vehicle stops at a stop sign.
>In terms of safety, people will still lose their lives, they will just die from different kinds of car accidents than the kinds we have now

If self driving cars kill 20 thousand people a year, it would still be a major improvement. 30 thousand people die every year from human drivers.
Basically we can't survive space radiation... Even going to Mars.
Uhm, per his story, he was working for "the enemy" and took his work home so he could get better at it. Shouldn't you be angry at someone so diligently working to harm you?
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Its not marketing decision, MobilEye dropped them, this is Teslas emergency plan.
> The most interesting thing about self-driving vehicles is that there is a legitimate reason people should never be able to modify the firmware on their vehicles. The risks would be very high.

Tough. We have liability law to cover that.

You'll be screaming to allow modification when your trip is 20 minutes longer because a bunch of rich assholes paid Tesla to route all traffic around their neighborhood.
There is a fallacy of "appeal to authority" here. If it's my property, I'll do as I please with it. Risks? Look at the risks we face with DRM of all kinds and how are rights are reduced and eliminated for the sake of corporate profits.
There is no price point when hardware manufacturer (mobileye) refuses to sell to you
wow tl;dr? did they find the plane or not? whats the big reveal? what did they blow open?
Same. DFW at least plumbed some of the psychological deep-end that I (apparently) have as a white male nerd. Such as: some confusing feelings about class and the relative merits of high- and low-brow art, and this strong un-expressed emotion (evoked in IJ chapter 1) of being fundamentally unable to make myself understood. (Not to say that I actually have anything important to say, but, on an emotional level, the sentiment is in there.)
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Oh baloney. Have you any experience with current car tech? It's pretty freaking basic, all things considered. Anyone who codes enterprise applications for a living can deal with a car's ECU, including ABS, traction control, all of it. The autonomous stuff is "scary AI" but if it's not open sourced, I don't want it.
You are "The Quiznos of Marketing Ideas".
They dont know, thats how they killed couple of people using mobileye hardware before.
I don't really buy into the software licensing bs--it was forced on us without any choices. It is the worst kind of legal bs there is. "You paid for this but you have no rights to it." Uh, yeah, keep thinking that.
I tried, but the article lost my interest after several typos and terrible usage of bold + italic, which makes it mostly unreadable.
You know that all car curently always has some form of software in its driving/braking system right?

What's next?

A blender has some kind of timer software in it so you can't use it in commercial unless you are on blender network?
A TV has software for programmable channel in it, so you can't use it in your bar unless the TV vendor allow it?

Software is their implementation detail, I buy the resulting whole product.
So, basically, it looks like there's a reasonable probability that this guy isn't the leaker.

I know that if I wanted to actually blow the whistle on somebody like the NSA, I would make sure to plant the evidence on somebody else to give them a juicy target to latch onto.
the problem was http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/09/tesla-dropped-by-mobiley...
Or maybe replacing/expanding the trackpad, something similar to 10gui?[0] Less downside to replace the function row as a trial balloon than the trackpad. And keep the keyboard!

[0]: http://10gui.com
> I have a suspicion it won't actually do better than a decent human driver can do.

I have the opposite opinion. I don't think self-driving cars are going to start on ALL roads, but on specific routes that are expanded as required. Eventually all routes will be covered, but it will take time. In truth, 90% (99%?) of my driving is on the same routes, so I don't think this is going to be a major issue.

In the end, I don't think this is going to be about what you, me, or even Tesla thinks. It will be about what insurance companies think. If self-driving cars turn out to be as good as they are promised to be, having a license for driving a car yourself will get more and more expensive. As more riskier drivers have less licenses, those insurance fees will ratchet up and ratchet up, until they are prohibitively expensive.

There's a model for this type of thing... Singapore. This is the type of place that I think will use self-driving cars first. When it starts to happen, I think the transition is going to be very quick.
I was expecting an explanation for why they sold a bunch and no more after a few days.
I don't think stats will be enough to overcome the human perception factor. Self driving cars have what I consider to be an insurmountable pr problem.
The article makes it somewhat clear that the altitude was too high for most helicopters to land and take off or hover, and that the Bolivian authorities would not allow a Peruvian helicopter that could handle the altitude participate in the search, allegedly out of pride.

Once a year or two had passed, the interest waned. An airplane with an inexperienced crew flying into a mountain while trying to land in a thunderstorm with only primitive and inaccurate navaids looks like an unfortunate accident, then and now.
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FWIW, I just turned 70 and I'm still being offered more coding work than I want. It is VBA, though :)
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Hint: the title is phrased as a question.
>practically no applications

This is the general problem with math education in general. Just equations. Solving equations is relatively easy. Coming up with them is where the real challenge and innovation is.
Disingenuous? I'm not lying, he is publicly a Rust enthusiast. It would be no less true if I said this about Steve Klabnik regardless of his contributions to Ruby on Rails.
Hey, the human eye is a damn fine camera and has the equivalent of a room's worth of NVidia cards in processing power behind it. It does have very poor depth perception compared to radar or lidar, a quite limited field of view, and an inability to see through fog but lets not sell a person short.
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This is the number one issue people who post jobs on job sites have. Too many useless clicks and completely unqualified applicants such as plumbers applying to programming jobs.
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I think americans are going to get left behind in this technology. It's not just the crumbling infrastructure, it's the lack of public transport options. I expect there will be plenty of cities around the world that will be adopting self-driving car technology long before the US does.
Thanks will check that out
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"a shortest-possible walking tour"...
I disagree, I think it makes Python look really good. Being an interpreted, dynamic language where most internals are represented by a hash table, it'll never compete in terms of raw speed. The people who choose Python choose it for the ecosystem and productivity, and from that perspective it's actually to its benefit that it's easy to replace your bottleneck code with a faster implementation. The only high level language in my experience easier to drop to C/C++(and now Rust) would be Lua of the luajit flavor.
Not to mention, plane autopilots don't have to worry about traffic.
The solution does not use public transport. Also, checking Google Maps shows that the roads are not one-way. This suggests that the claims of the authors that this is an optimal solution is incorrect.
Human drivers who generally do a decent job still have bad days. They still get tired and distracted. They still can't see 360 degrees around them all the time.

Each new human driver also has to be trained from scratch; when we're starting out, we're dangerous, all of us. An experienced human can't download their knowledge into a new driver telepathically. But software (including AI models trained with data from millions of road miles) can be copied into new cars, no problem.

> It's actually harder to drive on the typical American roadways than it is to be on a track.

Highway driving is relatively easy to automate, compared to driving on surface streets with pedestrians, bicycles, etc. Even if self-driving only worked on the highway, it'd still free up a huge amount of time for a lot of commuters. That'd be worth it even if self-driving cars didn't improve the accident rate.
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I briefly worked on a molecular dynamics project which was for small RNA fragments with atoms numbering in the hundreds. It needed quantum effects simulations to understand two states of the molecule, which could not be explained otherwise. It also required clusters of computers to finish. Modeling proteins is an entire different game. Especially considering the infinite possibilities of proteins and the billions of different proteins that exist in the wild.
>>Autopilot is the correct term. I'm tired of always having to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Your argument fails as the analogy of car drivers with airplane pilots fails on various grounds.

a. The airplanes, which provides autopilot facility, their pilots have to undergo more rigorous and stringent training than what a ordinary car driver has to undergo

b. for different types of airplane autopilot systems the pilots have to undergo different types of trainings (you have not mentioned what kind of autopilot you have used, but I'd doubt if your autopilot training on one type of plane will automatically certify you to drive all kinds of auto-pilot planes out there, even within the same airplane category)

c. what Tesla is doing is on one hand it is saying (in fact, screaming in its adverts) that "we are bringing autopilot in cars", "we are bringing autopilot in cars" but when it actually is bringing just a driver assistance system and when that causes accidents, Tesla is putting blame on the customers for not understanding what is autopilot. This is not fair, as Tesla does NOT put any requirement for more rigorous and stringent training for its drivers the way airplane manufacturers/airliners put. So, Tesla is playing with the lives of not only its drivers but also of the other road users.

You are welcome to counter-argue my points. But this too much hoohaa about auto-pilot by Tesla and the subsequent bad publicity it is going to bring them is not good for them. People will not be subtle then because Tesla is not being subtle in their adverts now.

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The Shadow Brokers are still active online.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/57le5u/thes...

However nothing in the message proves that it was written recently.
For #2: why does your mind need to run in a simulation at 1% rather than just wait in cold storage until the technology allows for it to be run at 100%?

And then, what if I made the argument that because the universe will inevitably repeat itself again, it is technically its own form 'cold storage' that will one day awaken again to simulate you..?

This is how I've found a little peace with death. That given there is an infinite amount of time, why can't it happen again? It's already happened once...

So after I/we die, an unfathomable amount of time will pass in an instant. Our sun will expand and devour the Earth. Eventually the universe will collapse. But after a universe of universes have swirled around each other, being born and dying, one day - when the right conditions are met - we will awake again?

I think it begs a bigger question though. Should this life, should/does humanity deserve to be repeated infinitely? When you add up all of the pain and suffering and weigh it against the beauty, is it worth it? For now I think it is.
The joys of working for a company with in house developers, as long as I don't use something that would be extremely difficult to bring a new developer up to speed on (accounting for the necessity of said solution as well) I can generally make a case to use whatever.

I've got a mix of C#, Python, Kotlin and pl/pgsql code running in production right now and we've also for projects written in Node.js that are live as well. I've even got some F#!
Not if those things aren't the bottleneck. Scalability is such a buzzword. The correct term is "performance" or "overhead". Scalability matters when you're talking about an entire system that you're deploying on many machines -- the problem space and technical discussion is different to fixing a performance issue in Python.
No one is disputing the possibility of ambiguity, but a few single-word examples is still a long way from "interpret any way you want." If you need to be precise about temperature or fashion or animal taxonomy or physiology, you can be, and a textbook is a better example than the observation that few people understand a language that is no longer in general use.
They didn't target the actual crash site, they targeted the ice flows downhill from the plane. Since it was a big thaw when they were there, they found a lot of recently melted stuff, including body parts which were rumored to be absent. They found magnetic tape almost certainty from the flight recorder, but due to shaky international relations and bureaucracy it's just sitting around without being analyzed.

Despite this, from their research its become increasingly obvious what happened. Bad nav, bad nav, bad weather, bad ground crew, language barrier, bad practices, and bad company policy caused the plane to come down.