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Everybody is rushing to develop their own self-driving car, then they change their minds in various ways, then team members change who they work for, some of them quit and start their own company, some fail, some got acquihired. They give deadlines and cannot meet them. Everyone is dying to be first in the market or something like it. Feels there is so much greed. I don't get it, what's the big fuss, why must everyone hurry? Can't they be just calm and progress in a sensible manner. I don't expect this thing to turn out to be winner takes it all. Automative industry is much like a close knit society where they depend on similar resources. It's not exactly the same as posh start up culture.
> arXiv only supports a handful of related disciplines, whereas Elsevier has literally thousands of journals in scores of disciplines

Yes, you should probably scale the operating costs of arXiv according to the number of papers published. arXiv's reported overall cost is a few dollars for each paper hosted. Compare this with Elsevier's subscription fees or most journal's $1000-plus fees to put your article in "author pays" open access.

> Someone still has to drive the blinded reviews

Yes, an editor, which in my field is essentially always an unpaid volunteer.

> Don't forget either that you have to keep a legal team on-hand to deal with how you handle all this free information

This should probably apply to arXiv to. Can you show me evidence that arXiv is having lots of legal trouble just because they are distributing PDFs? The only legal trouble I could see them getting into is essentially trolling from Elsevier et al about "their" papers getting uploaded.

> If you (royal 'you') think that navigating academic politics is so easy

I do not think this.

I think we agree that, as you say, "the technical part is not the difficult part", but I disagree with you in that you seem to imply that large for-profit publishers are somehow necessary (see your earlier message, "from technical details to user workflows to reputation/trust to administrative politics to scientific politics to sourcing verification/reviews to a hundred more things I can't think of off the top of my head"). Again, Elsevier has a profit margin of 37%, which is ridiculously high, and shows that a large part of the money they take in is a net loss for research. Of its other operating costs, I suspect that lots cover things like lobbying, litigation, having useless booths to be seen at conferences, etc., that research doesn't need either.)

To borrow an argument from https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/why-sci-hub-will-win-595b5...: contrary to most fields of human activity, if large for-profit publishers were to disappear overnight, I'm confident that a self-organized, free, Internet-based way to distribute and review articles would take over very quickly and run at a fraction of the cost. This isn't just speculation: Sci-Hub already exists, works fine, and the main obstacle to its growth is copyright trolling from large publishers, not some intrinsic difficulty.

So, in my opinion, the challenge to replace Elsevier is not technical (as you say), but it's not caused either by some intrinsic need for something like Elsevier: it's just a question of inertia of researchers and of the prestige of journals. Of course academic publishing is hard to do right, but Elsevier is not doing it right, they are simply milking the prestige of the venues and smaller publishing companies that they bought.
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You could probably be a good neighbour and turn down the transmit power on your router, your current setup is equivalent to dealing with not being able to hear a conversation in a crowded room by shouting at the top of your voice and forcing everyone else to get louder as well.
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"Google’s self-driving car team preparing to spin out from Alphabet’s X"

[http://www.recode.net/2016/12/7/13875208/google-x-self-drivi...]

on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155600
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If Google develop the car, they need to do all the end user support. This is not in the DNA of Google. If they provide the technology to a car manufacturer, they can extract a fair amount of money from them and they do not have to deal with direct end user support.

When my car has a problem, I want to talk directly with someone to get it fixed.
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This is amazing! Very nice to see there Russian radiostation from my hometown
Simple: everyone is looking for the next big platform. The smartphone revolution came by surprise to most and it has taken years for companies to catch up. Everyone is racing because they don't want to be caught with their pants down again.
The only example I can think of where that's obviously true is bipolar I disorder, where the most effective treatment (lithium) is very dangerous, but leaving it untreated can be very dangerous too. For other conditions professional treatment often does more harm than good.
Ok. I also had this "scrolling being faster than rendering" half a year ago or so, but switched to the Nightly version than which had the APZ feature (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/02/smoother-scrolling-in-fire...) integrated already on Android by then. And where this all worked pretty smooth. I thought this was already rolled out for stable, too...
This decision will be beneficial for the relationship between Google and the car manufacturers. Google will no longer be a competitor.

Whether or not there will be a first mover advantage remains to be seen. It certainly feels as if Tesla has such an advantage for the electric car market with the huge amount of pre-orders placed for the Model ≡.
If you read carefully 2 of the suppliers are Italian : CLP for the central ring and Ansaldo for the superconductiong magnets.
I keep meaning to set something like that up but get stuck on the problem of giving devices on the private network the ability to interact with the guest network, for example I make pretty heavy use of Spotify Connect for streaming music to speakers, and have Philips Hue lights, both of which need some way of communicating with them from my phone.
I love this thing you've made. I've been exploring the world with radio since long before the WWW was invented. I used to carry a shortwave radio with me wherever I traveled back in the 1970s and 80s. I would lie there in the dark in Japan listening to the broadcasts out of North Korean screeching about the "Great Leader" (Kim Il-sung) or in Thailand listening to the Khmer Rouge (whom I couldn't understand, but I knew who controlled Cambodian broadcasts) or in the UK listening to Africans (not putting on a show for Americans but putting on a show for their own people) or on the East Coast of the US listening to callers to talk shows in the UK arguing about local issues. What do people there talk about amongst themselves? What do they like to listen to? What does such-and-such language sound like? I loved exploring the world this way.

My kids don't understand how magical the world is today--how they can do what cost me so much money and time and effort by doing nothing more than poking a few icons on their phones. These things don't mean much to them; they were born into a world where magic was just daily life.

But, things like this are still magical to me, even though I've been a developer for decades. Somehow, even knowing how the "tricks" are done, I still think it's magic. Just tonight, I fed YouTube into my HD TV and watched as someone walked around my old neighborhood in Tokyo with a 4K camera. Then again where I used to live in Seoul. And a couple of days ago, I found something for my father out in the desert a thousand miles from here by using Google Street View to "drive" down a remote highway, looking around until I found it. And now I can just spin the globe and point at a dot to hear a broadcast coming from that location. I've been listening to online broadcasts for 20 years using lists of online radio stations, but this is so much nicer.

I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one who sees all of this as real-world magic.
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All these side projects are just to keep certain developers busy until Goog figures out what to do with them. There was never any intention of making a viable car. Just R&D to figure out what can be done that would then be applied to Goog's ad business.
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Oh man, this is so much fun. I'm listening to radio in Islamabad, Pakistan, and the male and female host are bickering about how winter is, in fact, NOT coming this year. And now they're playing John Mayer.

So much more perspective than just whatever the news media wants the narrative to be about some of these places. (And I've traveled plenty, but this is just a lovely taste of day-to-day for people on the other side of the planet, but fortunately in English!)
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You can use now Slack to XMPP or IRC gateway and use native client for these protocols - as a result power consuption is greatly reduced. A minor problem is that Slack has no idea if you read the message or not (though they should easily fix this with XMPP gateway).

#no-to-calling-electron-a-native-app-movement
Ask HN: Why is there so little debate on Trumps plan to destroy net neutrality?
Wondering why there is no discussion of this huge issue when it is something that will impact startup founders so badly.
I have attempted this using https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/kubernetes-on-bare... . One can get quite far, but I am not sure it is worth the effort. I understand this is a vague analogy, but it feels like you're trying to setup email infrastructure when what you really want is to send email.

It is a lot easier on the public cloud, or easier still on a managed service.
Of course tastes differ but I didn't see much that immediately grabbed my attention (a bit of a letdown because it was the first thing I clicked on this morning). I guess ultimately that's a good thing because my backlog is still fairly long. Titan and the Nike book look interesting but I'm currently not in the mood for a "this amazing person/company" type of book.

I might pick up "City of Gold". "Make it so" could also be interesting those are the only two that immediately grabbed my interest.
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And then good luck configuring them.. UniFi is plug and play. Mikrotik, while relatively easy, requires much more work.
Maybe because I grew up reading HHGTTG I've always thought that of course a freely editable internet encyclopedia should be as inclusive as possible. No, I won't buy the deletionist argument. Personally, I wouldn't mind if people started to cite other sources than WP again. The WWW as a whole will be the ultimate Guide.
> You can also do this with Kafka but it'll be less transactional.

Could you explain why using RabbitMQ is more transactional?
I also think he does. Currently all new cars come with some kind of automated assistants, some even semi-autonomous. Unfortunately they are much less reliable than humans. They are still struggling with "easy" problems like keeping in lanes and occasionally I have to "fight" with the lane-assistant because it tries to push me out of the lane I'm driving, particularly in turns, bad roads or in bad weather conditions. I'm not counting the number of times when it just shuts off because it can't "see" the lanes or the lanes are "too complex" for it.

Or take the traffic-sign recognition systems. Seems easy, right? Not so fast. All the systems I tried made a lot of severe mistakes. For example sometimes they were thinking speed limit signs painted on the back of trucks or buses were real ones. Or they struggled when they saw too many signs or signs partially covered by something else.

Recently I watched a test of a semi-autonomous Mercedes S500 in a typical big-city traffic. During a 10 minute test-drive it managed to "unconciously" change the lane and drive 2 lanes for some time. And also it would have passed a crossing on a red light, if the operator didn't intervene. Nice try, but the car industry is still very far from making fully autonomous driving a reality.
"Oh, I must have accidentally mistyped a few digits, however, since I don't intend to use your service anymore, you can just delete it"

"Well, I cannot delete it"

"Oh, well, thanks, good bye"
Nothing noteworthy, aws lambda and api gateway with dynamodb to handle the submissions. Cloudfront/s3 for the static content. The only tooling i used was kappa which is a very lightweight deployment wrapper for lambda.
Honestly, there isn't one. Ironically the secret to a good wireless network is lots of wires, you can just about make do with wireless uplinks between your access points but in my experience it tends to have far more problems than running some CAT6 around the place. Its not quite as reliable as real network cables, but you could try powerline networking - performance varies pretty wildly depending on your wiring, but it will usually beat wireless.
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I second that. JS is singlethreaded by intention, and IMHO it's ok that way and the reason why the ecosystem mostly works and async libraries can be reasoned about. There are JS implementations (like Nashorn on JVM) which are multithreaded, and imho they would be a much poorer choice. Once you have callbacks and multithreading in a single system there are dozens of things you need to care about (from which thread will callback be fired, how to synchronize that with the remaining logic, ...) and the complexity grows immensely. I think that's exactly the scenario that the JS inventors wanted to circumvent.
What do you mean with the "nothing is so black and white" cliché in this context? The psychological reaction of onlookers has nothing to do with an action being ethical or not.
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I appreciate the overall message the article is trying to communicate "Silence is golden, in many contexts for many reasons - be considerate before you make noise", but, as an aside, the third reason, "command line programs", should include the a reference to stderr keeping things out of view of your pipe and doing a good job of making sure you don't clutter your command pipes.
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Even when it does require result shaping you can just use a non-standard-REST POST request where the requested information is in the HTTP body. Implementing GraphQL on the server side seems like a lot of effort for no immediate gains. I am pretty sure it works very well for Netflix and Facebook though.
But HHGTTG was far from inclusive. It was only edited by staff writers, and they had a team of central editors that would cut down long, detailed articles to their bare necessities ("Mostly Harmless").
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Being married is the norm in Japan? I thought they had a ton of singles.
Hm, wouldn’t addicts take money because then they can afford the next high / scratch that itch?

I wonder if she panhandled as a job. (Apparently very proficient ones can make $200 a day. The less homeless you look, the more people tend to believe your stories and are willing to give.) If she did it as a job on the side, maybe she didn’t want to swindle jhwhite.

A more positive outlook: She was in need and to proud to take money from (former) friends. Today, she doesn’t live on the streets anymore.
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That was a bit long winded, and please forgive me if it's a bit silly

It was neither. For somebody not working in science it was a fascinating and very illustrative summary and represents very much one of the reasons why I'm here.

Thanks!
Use of the word racketeering here is interesting. Wikipedia's definition is:

> A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, that will not be put into effect, or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist

But it sounds like they were engaging in illegal bribing, not racketeering. I don't know, am I misunderstanding?
Its mind boggling how such important pieces of our infrastructure can be pwned with rediculus simple exploits. This is not the first shell injection bug found in consumer grade routers. Far from it. Sometimes I think that all these companies rely on interns for R&D.
Ask HN: Why does a Raspberry Pi SD card corrupt with power loss?
SD Card corruption is something I've struggled with with the Raspberry Pi. I know that a "sudo halt" is the proper way to shut it down; not necessarily an option with an unstable power supply though. Is there a reasonable way to bullet-proof the Pi for, say, battery-power operations or other situations where power supply may be unreliable?
I personally think that mental illness is the rule and not the exception for human beings. It's just functioning mental illness which is validated vs. dysfunctional mental illness which is not validated. Most people, if not every single person, is mentally ill in some way. It's just when they start being dysfunctional that we call it out as mental illness and then they have to do a whole ritual to try to get rid of it or figure out ways to diminish its effects on the person.

And often it's the environment that makes people mentally ill. It's not even the person. So how can you treat the effect without changing the cause? You can't.

Dave Chapelle here is talking about mental illness caused by Hollywood, he says calling someone mentally ill is dismissive, it's not the people ... but the environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRzqsfO8F4U
Agreed 100%. I don't get it why anybody would need dozens of apps to spam you ads, drain battery life and collect your contacts, location data and whatnot when you can easily access the same services via a browser without all these mentioned drawbacks. An anecdote, but after cleaning my girlfriend's phone (she's asked for it), its battery life increased nearly twice and cell data usage was reduced by ~30%.
The Unifi access points are capable of wireless uplinks, but performance isn't going to be anywhere near as good as running some network cable. Otherwise as other people have commented you're looking at some of their ISP grade wireless network gear but that's probably overkill for the distances in question, its more designed to provide wireless ISP services across several kilometres than a bridge up the hallway.
Any good resources for learning it?

I keep hearing good things about this little language.
At first glance, Google becoming a car industry supplier like Delphi or Bosch seems just as weird. I kind of was expecting them to eventually go for the robocab business, with the steely bits manufactured by some Chinese OEM or underutilized plants in Detroit, Wolfsburg or wherever. It could be nicely phased in in limited access, limited range, low speed settings like e.g. island resorts.

But repeating the Android model, generously handing over software to whoever wants it so that they get a huge market share seems so much more consistent. This is Google, after all. If people can "ok Google" their car to actually take them to search results, Google's stranglehold on local business discovery will be even stronger than it is today. And on the reverse side, when it came to the point where people would "Hi Audi, take me to...", they could get quickly pushed of large parts of the search/decision market that originally emerged from web search and that they then so carefully extended to Maps, Android and voice assist. If cars become "Siri-smart", drivers won't use Google maps anymore. Seen like this, Google's self-driving endeavors suddenly appear like a forced defensive move, very much unlike the quirky billionaire's moonshot hobby vibe surrounding other parts of X.
Well, this has been going on for decades in the case of opioids, resulting in a national catastrophe, and no one has been arrested yet.
I chose Sofia, Bulgaria. I pay about $500/mo for all my expenses. It's true that I could find that in the US as well, but I'd be hard-pressed to find something that isn't deeply rural.

In Sofia, I'm in the capital. There's lifestyle necessities like grocery stores, fast internet, etc. Plus I won't need a car because of the excellent metro. If I want to catch an American movie or a show, there are malls/theatres. It really has just about everything I need.

It also helps that my wife is Bulgarian.
Having read most of the "quality gurus" (including Deming) and a bit of Drucker...your comment catapulted the book up my reading list. Thx.
It is OK for doctors to have financial relationships with companies, for example, to be a paid speaker or consultant. But I don't think those are "kickbacks", and there's a distinction between those relationships and what the Justice Dept. is prosecuting here

https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
How did you make that switch flip? I'm struggling to find it for years.
This is a part of the unix philosphy I often forget, but agree with just as much as the rest.

As an example: I love curl for piping the data to stdout per default, but I'm frequently annoyed by the progress bars I didn't ask for, especially if a script involves multiple curl commands.
Big risk/reward situation. Althoug the reward is possibly gigantic. It's not even clear that it's possible as described yet, imho. i.e. Fully autonomous vehicles. It's somewhat likely to be a winner takes all situation in terms of market share, patent ownership. I'm exaggerating slightly but I can't see there being more than a couple of big winners in this space.
Once upon a time (and probably still now, though it sounds like they've generalized their idea a bit), SoundHound was a Shazam competitor with a nifty feature where you could sing or hum the song and SoundHound would actually manage to figure out what song you're singing. I definitely preferred it over Shazam by a long shot, but its song database was a bit lacking (or maybe the recognition piece was working too hard), so I'd often have to try again with Shazam.

I've since switched to a personal policy of "no Google stuff on my phone", which means not having access to the Play Store. I haven't checked lately to see if SoundHound is on Amazon's app store (it wasn't when I first checked, but neither were Spotify or TuneIn and now they're both available, so I might go do that).
Wow, that's a great question. I can't decide if it would be in 20 years or 40 years ago. Just to be part or witness of creating Internet as we know it or as we will see it! When some of the above problems don't exist any more because of technological advancement and some worsen because of the very same reason, but we no longer see them, because no one is looking at the wild parts of the world.
I guess most companies need to pretend that they are a cool tech company with a "challenging line of work". The sheer shortage of programmers manifests a developer-centric market where using the cutting-edge technology matters, even if the business considerations make less of a sense.

Take for example, Walmart Labs move to Node.JS + React [1]. The rationale is quite obvious here. It's a step to distance from the corporate portrayal of "Walmart" and create an image of a nimble, developer-friendly team (There maybe other important reasons, but I'd assume good PR mattered a lot). Contrary to what HN may suggest, the first thing that exhilarates a developer (the early ones to say the least) isn't the business, it's the tech.

[1]: https://blog.hellojs.org/walmart-labs-releases-electrode-mov...