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Elon is known for being closely with involved with his companies' PR. Here he acknowledges the music choice explicitly: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/799908000689336320
> That allergy is called limited time. You might bump into it, once you venture outside of university/ rich daddys attic.

That may be one of the causes, but the allergy I talk about is internalized myopia. Time is limited, yes, but it's worth to sacrifice some of it for learning in order to significantly improve your efficiency at using the rest of the time.

> If you re-invent a scissor, that only trained experts can use, because its basically two razor-blades taped to the thumb and forefinger- you accomplished all you have dreamed off. You reduced weight, you allowed for more precise use - and the likes of me will still call you out for missing the obvious.

And I'll still be calling you misguided, if such scissors after few days of training will allow those "trained experts" to outperform regular scissor-wielders by factor of 2. Or even factor of 1.2 - it'll pay for itself pretty quickly.

This approach that every tool should be made for the lowest common denominator, so that people can master them in 5 seconds of use, is IMO stupid. I understand that software designed by that may sell better, but for the tools professionals choose themselves - do people really think they've learned everything humans can learn the moment they leave high school?
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Mostly that some of us have had very poor experiences with them while trying to mind our own business. It's like living next to a cult's compound, and therefore having more concrete bad experiences with them than someone in the next city.

In my case, an IRC channel that I previously enjoyed (relationship-related) was unofficially absorbed into LessWrong's network of channels. This resulted in people treating it as a meat market despite being asked not to, then a debate platform despite being asked not to, some refused the existence of trans people to their faces because they couldn't logic it out, we had one argue in favour of cheating in a channel that explicitly mentioned openness and honesty in the topic, they damn near had a riot if we ever dared ban one of them for being spectacularly awful, and they generally put the value of other people's emotions at close to 0 in their messed-up logic for interacting with the world. This carried on for months. Apparently after I left most of them were finally banned, though not before a good many of the less awful people in the channel left for good. This was the first major issue the channel had in four years of its existence.

More generally, many people don't enjoy conflict, and the LessWrong way of discussing anything seems to be to turn it into a two-sided debate. Even when you're trying to discuss who you think you are, turning it into you defending yourself from attack. The concept of having a constructive conversation, seems to have entirely slipped past them, never mind the idea that not everything has to be debated right then and there.

Unfortunately, this isn't just my experience - various others I've spoken to have come across exactly the same sort of thing. Hence the extreme dislike from some people. I'm not sure whether the community explicitly pushes this way of interacting with the world, or whether it just attracts assholes and gives them a "logical" reason to be assholes, though.
I think watching this in real-time would be more informative. At 1:32, it pull out on what looks like could be a busy road, then stops before starting again. It doesn't look so bad sped up in the video, but not great in reality.
Absolutely yes. I can't wait for that day. We'll end up saving more lives per year than if we somehow banished war, at least in industrialized countries.

What's weird is the period we're entering, where the technology is becoming more and more capable, but we're still a very long ways away from full auto. Yet the hype machine says it's just around the corner. I'm betting we're still 10-15 years out. So how do we handle situations where the driver has to pay a little attention, but not that much? In airplanes, this has been a very dangerous area -- and things in airplanes usually happen much, much slower than they do in traffic.
I think that mostly depends on the community you are in. If you want to focus full time on family and baby you can probably find like minded communites as well. But being a YCombinator website HN is inherently about building businesses how to do that from different starting points.
Well it was certainly fun to watch. Aren't there more detection methods than just cameras? This is certainly the best one I have seen from them but I still want to see it at night, in rain, and such, times when people need the most help with driving. This was still too nice of weather to get a good impression of how far its come.

Also, if the driver wants to exceed the speed limit of a road will autopilot allow them? If so, who becomes liable since the system will obviously know the speed.

If the road had not been curved when it came upon the joggers would it have passed without stopping? Is that something that needs work on? I understand its erring on the side of safety.

So next drives, a night run, a rain run, and if they are really ballsy then both at one time. Would be cool to have someone throw something in front of it while its going through the parking lot, beach ball, etc.
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I don't disagree. But there was a plan, however inadequate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement
Grace Murray Hopper Memorial Park is right next to my apartment complex (we're across I-395 from the Pentagon and apparently she lived here when she retired because they kept calling her back in for consults). Somebody left some flowers there yesterday; not sure if it was because of this or something unrelated, but I thought it was nice.
> "They" probably have dirt on him

Her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shami_Chakrabarti
And anyone who knew Dukakis and Flyover country, as I did having been raised in the latter and then moving to Massachusetts for college in 1979, knew it was very likely Dukakis was going to lose.

Oh, wow, here's a Wikipedia article worth looking at, "Historical polling for U.S. Presidential elections": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_polling_for_U.S._Pr...
A graph without the scientific theory that leads to an explanation is just an opinion at best

Erm, the graphs just shows facts, no? Whether there's an explanation already or not doesn't change anything about the observation. You are basically saying 'ok so an apple always falls down from a tree, but I cannot explain it, so it's just an opinion that it falls down instead of up'

As for a): the data likely comes from http://nsidc.org
The rules of publishing unexpected results are that you should have very strong evidence.

Everyone involved with this EMDrive thing seems to publish every few weeks with the weakest of evidence.
I don't think it's Pale Moon, since it displays fine for me. What are you using as an ad-blocker? (I'm using uBlock Origin.)
> For me a complete Linux experience would be xterm and sudo apt-get install build-essential. Is their anything like that?

Pretty much yes. With developer mode on you gain access to a terminal with bash and other expected utils. There is a mobile terminal application with custom keyboard which is more or less usable, you can also ssh into the phone without any problem. As for the package manager there is pkcon (probably some alternatives are also available), you can install build utils without any problem.

I've been using Jolla for some time before moving to iOS. It was a very cool experience. I really liked having a phone that I could hack and mess around with. The gesture based UI was nice, it was amazingly comfortable after getting used to it. The main drawback was the lack of apps and the reliability of the phone. The Android apps work poorly, they are sluggish and plenty of apps are not going to work due to lack of Google Play Services. Also with Android apps you get the old flawed Android permission model. The phone crashes from time to time, sometimes in the least suitable moment (stability varies between updates).
I think the point in the article can be understood in a more general sense: Only do "polite things" with other people if they fulfill a specific task. In "hiring" she also talks about that she in fact spends a lot of her time with other people, just not to find good VCs but good employees. So I think the article agrees with you quite well.
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I really hope Tesla would do a demo on the roads of India. If a car can self drive there I would have no trouble purchasing one. Indian drivers are some of the most resourceful drivers I have seen on my visits there, yes its complete chaos, but how they navigate through all that, while utilizing every bit of the road is, just amazing.

p.s I really enjoyed the choice of music on that video.
Even with AI, validation would still require a federated body which ascertains facts.
I think this solution could work if we have humans in the loop, curated reddit style.
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It's interesting. I was having a conversation about this on Facebook and looked at Wiki's "Timeline of Programming Languages"[1]. It really struck me that a lot of the pioneers in the 1940s and early 1950s had names like "Grace" and "Betty" and "Kathleen", but then in the late 1950s all the female names except "Grace" disappear. I wonder if that had to do with the fact that she was in the military and the other women were in the private sector?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...
I agree with you to a point, but I don't think you're seeing the reason why focusing on Trump's negatives is unhelpful.

When you vote you don't have to agree with everything someone says in order to vote for them. Some things that are said and done are seen as dealbreakers, stopping support for a candidate. However, the dealbreakers depend on context, and in the case of the recent US election neither leading candidate was particularly praiseworthy so it's very much a case of picking your poison.

What happens when people constantly paint a candidate based on words like 'racist' and 'bigoted' is you end up tarring their supporters with the same brush, whereas in reality those might be things people were willing to look past. In other words, focus on what matters to people in an election, not on the vehicle they've chosen to try to improve their country.

To spell it out even more bluntly, the number one issue in this election for the majority was changing the economy. If you're getting sidetracked by racism you're missing what matters most in the debate.
Can we use a game environment to artificially synthesize scenarios? I don't know if there are any that can generate realistic video.
It's just asking for someone to redo the movie with Kevin MacLeod for the soundtrack.

Come to think of it, I just feel like making a montage.
I wouldn't count (a) as an argument. Let's say 90% of the side projects become something. I would argue in that case you as employer could still profit from allowing it. You could be a first investor as long as it is cheap, or an early bird customer with huge influence on features and look&feel. The employee still learns a lot of things that he can flow into the rest of the team through presentations and lunch break discussions. And last but not least, if a smart new employee sees that input is encouraged he also brigns in more courage to his day job and feels less need to do his own thing.
Those professions require a combination of people expertise (category 2) and locomotion skills (category 4). They will be needed for a long time to come. In many ways the jobs require human-level general intelligence to perform properly and thus we may need to solve AGI before they can be fully automated.

Bottom line: There are a lot of opportunities to increase the number of people doing those kinds of jobs, if the middle class and the working class receive productivity dividends from automation (through economy or government subsidies).
That probably applies to all companies that are so big that middle-management people aren't a rare sight. It's not just because they are bad people, but they need simple, reliable systems to keep so many people work in the same directions. Even awesome exceptions are a huge pain to them since each one creates organizational debt.
Radia Perlman deserves more credit than she gets. She invented the Spanning Tree Protocol at DEC. Also Elizabeth Rather, co-inventor of the Forth language.
It's probably a joke at the expense of people like Congressman Joe Barton from Texas, who famously said that wind was a finite resource and that harnessing it would cause the world to be warmer.
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> So I dunno. I see some arguments in favor of having the providers of networks be strictly neutral when it comes to content.

What's the network, though?

Consider a cable company, such as Comcast. The physical cable that they own that runs from their nearest facility to your home can carry an analog waveform that can contain frequency components up to something like 2.something GHz.

The cable company divides that 2+ GHz into several hundred 6 MHz "channels". The channels are logically independent.

In the Before time, in the long long ago, those channels were used for analog television signals. One analog TV channel would fit in one cable channel.

Nowadays, the cable channels are used for digital data streams. The stream on a given cable channel often consists of multiple data streams multiplexed together. For example, a digital standard definition TV signal with good compression takes much less than 6 MHz bandwidth, so a cable company can put several such TV channels in one cable channel [1].

In addition to using these digital data streams over physical cable channels for TV channels, the cable company uses them for other services. Internet is one such service. Others could include telephone service and security alarm monitoring.

Let's take telephone service. There are at least three ways the cable provider could do this.

1. Run it directly on top of one of their digital data streams in one of their cable channels, using some reasonable protocol for telephone control and voice data.

2. Run an IP network over one or more of their digital data streams, completely separate from the IP network that is used for the home internet service that they provide for you. Use any common VOIP protocol on top of that.

3. Run a common VOIP protocol over the same IP network that is used to provide your home internet service.

Which of these would be subject to net neutrality? #1 and #2 do not involve the Internet, so it is hard to see how net neutrality would be applicable. #3 does use internet service (although if it is the cable company providing the telephone service, the packets probably never actually leave the cable company's network), so one might make a case for net neutrality there.

Both #1 and #2 do make it harder for a third-party internet VOIP provider to compete, because using a third-party VOIP provider will use some of your internet bandwidth, whereas #1 and #2 do not touch your internet bandwidth.

[1] This is why when some TV channels go out on a cable TV service, there is often no evident pattern to which are down and which are not. The mapping from user-visible TV channel numbers to actual channels on the cable can be arbitrary.
> It's very easy to judge, but when you're in the situation....

I wasn't trying to judge, or to say my comments are pointing out things are inherently good or bad, just that I think that's how things are.

Who knows, maybe in 50-100 years tons of OECD countries will have homeless millions out of work, while the US is more-or-less similar to today...?
The car might have been playing on the safe side. If you look at the joggers carefully, only the left one is marked as an "in-path object", the other one has just an "object" box. They could probably tune down the collision prediction algorithm just a little bit, but that has to be done very carefully.
Question: Did u knew that there will be downvotes, but post-it anyway? Or you didn't expect the downvotes? I'm asking because I'm curious about the impact of the "politically correct" culture and its effects.
If you look at it from the perspective of the sane and rational (Tesla autopilot/a cartoon viewer) viewing down to the ridicule (Human drivers and their emotions/absurd cartoon scenario) I think it is well placed :)
My only exposure to anime is his films (friend suggested them, first I ignored the recommendation because they were "for kids" and some time later I watched "Spirited away" by luck and you know the rest of the story) and want to explore more, I thought maybe you could have some suggestions from your other favorites?
Indeed; for me this music has two primary connotations - "funny" and "sped up".
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Many 9-5 people have a house and two cars. For that kind of money you can pay a whole team for a year. The question is how you spend your money. And like with time it may need some out of the box thinking to free up some of that money. E.g. instead of buying new furniture use second-hand one that can be even found free online. Not as much "face" at the next party, but enough money to write 2-3 MVPs and get some product market fit.
I wasn't aware there was a debate.

> So what exactly does this mean?

We get a northwest passage. [1]

> How bad is this?

Northwest passage is pretty sweet.

> Why?

faster shipping between east and west coast, not as far as going around south america.

> Is it unprecedented?

yes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage
Yes, that was the point.

100 MB of DirectTV data costs AT&T the same as 100 MB of Netflix data; the difference is that it's being charged to a different person. Hence why I chose 1-800 numbers as an analogy. :)
That's really weird choice, who are picking these songs? :) I can't imagine they've licensed the music either... I guess next up is the "Highway to Hell" video
Better source about the same phenomena (from 2nd Nov 2016):

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2016/11/sluggish-ice-growt...

Key points:

- Analyses only the Arctic (as seems to be best practice)

- Provides context by analyzing sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation
What if the GPS data is outdated?
I think the authors specifically solved that problem by raising money and paying others to code.
Even the fact that this is a serious possibility is an indictment of the machinery of US elections it seems to me. A free and fair democracy pretty much depends on the trustworthiness of it’s electoral process.
A nifty trick. It is also not just about the hours you can get out, but also about getting some premium hours with focus and flow. If you do it in the morning you have more of these for your own product instead of for your day job.
> Google is at the end of the day a service, and if you go on their lawn and start shitting all over it, what do you expect will happen?

Or, rather, Google is a utility. At least Gmail is by now.

That has very interesting implications.
I always imagine what the US would be like if the trillions of dollars and millions of man hours had been spent on domestic projects instead of foreign wars. Infrastructure, education, training, transport, logistics, etc.
It will be open source versus closed source. Automation lends itself to being computer driven and people will be desperate for a way to share in the benefits, so they will rebuild from scratch and open source their own automation tools. It's already happening with the Fab Lab Network[1].

[1] https://www.fablabs.io/
Given who Snopes assigned political "debunking" to and the predicable results, you could also label this item as "Fake but Accurate", the "website known for its biased opinions and inaccurate information" is accurate enough for enough of their political items.

One things I don't get, though, is why so many organizations destroyed whatever credibility they had remaining in a futile attempt to win this election for their preferred candidate, I mean, this was an "it's my turn" race, a bit like Dole in 1996 and Romney in 2012. Especially prior to Trump winning the Republican nomination, was it really that important?

Note that this goes all the way to the DNC for the party itself....
For the same reason it makes no sense to keep your Sega Saturn games when you now have a Playstation.

There are some testing scenarios which Tesla should be able to use, ut none of the software from MonilEye has relevance to Nvidia's platform.
What does it do on roads without any lane-markings? My country has lot's of them outside the cities.
Forget parking, the cars would be driving, ferrying people and goods around, as much as possible when not charging. No need to own one, just hail one when you need a ride.
s/convince buyers/avoid mass accidents caused by drivers becoming even less attentive than they're now/. Cruise control doesn't cause that, but a "90% there" self-driving solution will.
No, because if you read the twitter post it says:
"Something is very very wrong."
Where is that derived from? What the scientific theory that predicts that such a drop in the global ice sheet is very wrong?
I'm not saying that something could not be wrong, but giving a graph and claiming that something is wrong is not very scientific.
For all we know this could be very wrong, mildy wrong, no wrong, good etc

EDIT:
For a) I took a quick look at the site but couldn't locate the graph. Again I'm not saying it's falsified, but pointing to the original source is always nice. If nothing more we could get some additional details.
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Do you have evidence for the first claim?
Hit the "past" button under the title and you'll find two previous HN discussions, 4 and 7 years ago.
Well, give them time :). Maybe they can use this video to leverage the generated PR into getting themselves allowed to shoot the next video at more difficult conditions :).
> Which, in turn, will make Twitter an endless bot flamewar.

I think Charles Stross tried to warn us about this. Get ready for weaponized memetics.
Sadly one of the largest tranlation corpus of multiple languages can't be used for copyright reasons i.e the user made subtitle files that are shared all over the internet.
Every week a few hundred episodes of different shows are released in different countries that are translated by users into many languages.
Now that I think about it an app that could transcribe the words spoken in a TV show and then would translate it using google translate would be a huge with the manga crowd. Though Japanese hasn't been added yet.
I remember him saying somewhere that he didn't use CGI because he wouldn't have the time to master it any longer. He explicitly didn't say to oppose it for artistic reasons. But, yes, sorry, no reference.
Whether or not Ms. Hamilton invented multithreading, she definitely figured out how to handle thread priorities well enough to get the lander on the moon.

There's a great photo on her wikipedia entry showing her standing by her source code pile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)
Normally if there's no priority sign, the principle of priority to the right[0] should be employed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_to_the_right
That's not really that fast... and probably doesn't hold up anyway under diverse request types.

http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-min... etc
OP here, made this as what I thought was a good mobile equivalent to those mouseover dictionary browser extensions I used to use for studying Japanese on Firefox like Rikai-chan.
Once they're dying under an automated society which should be able to give them everything they need, social ownership over the means of production (some form of socialism, most likely) might seem a lot more palatable.