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Whenever I drive a Prius with ZipCar, the MPG numbers change wildly while I drive, and even the average MPG can change by 5–10 miles over the course of a decent drive. I assume the distance remaining estimate is based on that average MPG number, but since I have seen it change by significant amounts, that means the distance remaining estimate certainly is reasonably inaccurate.

If you always drive your car in the same manner then sure, you'll probably have a reasonable estimate. But similarly if all you do with your computer is browse the web, you'll also have a predictable battery remaining estimate. But while many people do drive fairly consistently, your usage of your computer probably has a lot more variety in terms of energy impact.
You have to pay vehicle registration fees every year. I don't see how this is all that different from that.

I can't imagine that $150 - even if it was per car, which it's not - even covers the overhead of ensuring that the company trying to test vehicles on public roads meets their minimum criteria. The requirements are pretty straightforward - following NHTSA guidance, insurance to cover injury/death, having a program in place to train drivers... this is the bare minimum responsible amount I would want these companies to be asked to do.
Thanks for the video. He mentioned that the pilot wave is made up of "some stuff", but never got back to that being one of the unknowns of pilot wave theory. Seems like that questioned will need to be answered before it is taken more seriously.
I wonder if AI-enabled taxis will use machine image-editing techniques to synthesize false evidence against each other in the future? :)
Google Cloud and Azure are pretty huge, which many people don't seem to realize. There is no way Amazon can relax, not with the enterprise experience of Microsoft and the tech experience of Google breathing on their necks.
You have antitrust laws to deal with any monopoly.
To be completely fair, if you are showing a project you have done, it should be a good representation of your abilities. Treat it like how other industries treat "portfolios" or "writing samples".
I had soooo much fun with that when I found out that one of my clients was connecting to a Logjam-vulnerable server and the OpenSSL-based code connecting to it suddenly failed without explanation after a security patch.

I found it by accident because I was able to reproduce with openssl s_server, which happened to be presenting a weak DH key by default as well.
I pay more for a minimally-sized instance for a non-trafficked web app on DigitalOcean every year. Uber has no legitimate reason to not pay the fee, regardless of the validity. This is just a company attempting to "screw the Man", even though they are basically the peak representation of SV Man.
If I'm not mistaken, It's just formalism. Mathematically a continuous wave function is equivalent to a countably infinite vector space.

It can be hard to switch between the two (as a chemist we are taught Schroeder and I have a hard time wrapping my head around Heisenberg)
I see it already - "What if <insert name> is Hitler"

Godwin's law always strikes
You can probably add "magnets RR signals" (a reference to remotely operated railroad switches) to the list of things that he could have done with amplification.
> Commuters just want to get to work reliably and they'd like a seat.

You forgot to mention afford it. Uber is jacking up the prices for those who depend entirely on public transit--the people who most likely feed you, clean your office, drive your Uber. The people who make the city function. Your convenience actively fucks over your neighbors.
LOL. I'm sorry, there might be a disconnect between us. You're not in the right order of magnitude ^^

It's easy to get $200k for ANYONE in the NYC/SF. Please re-read the first message from ceras that started this conversation:

"How does high performer compensation compare to high performer compensation at tech companies (who start at, say, $400K-$500k for what I'll call "entry-level high performer")?"
For the most popular architecture amongst developers (amd64 right now, i386 earlier), that was true until the last couple of years where Debian supports source-only uploads.
Don't know why you and any other pro-Uber voices are being downvoted/flagged in this thread. You're making a very sensible argument and I don't know why people would downvote/flag it.
The same way you solve this anyway, or the same answer you should hear when people say "how do you handle security with Docker": Continuous Integration.
Except the core counts, no other specs like frequency, power or cache. Are there any qualcomm docs.
> Commuters just want to get to work reliably and they'd like a seat.

You forgot to mention afford it. Uber is jacking up the prices for those who depend entirely on public transit--the people who most likely feed you, clean your office, drive your Uber. The people who make the city function. Your convenience actively fucks over your neighbors.

Reasonable? Sure. Close minded? Absolutely.
If a city wants public transit that fits the kinds of trips people actually take, they should figure out where people are taking Uber to and from, and they should build routes that serve those areas.

It reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) story of the college campus that was designed without sidewalks. After a while, the college built sidewalks over the parts of the lawn that were most transformed by foot traffic, because those were the paths people preferred to take.
google, facebook, amazon?
Don't forget that they're going to save a lot of money as soon as they can cut all those expensive human drivers out of the loop.
I will believe tbis the day I stop getting spam emails in my inbox.
A true engineer would want his work to contribute to public safety and wellbeing, not disregard them in the name of vanity.
> So job stress could definitely lead to life stress.

Although it isn't obvious any more because the parent comment has been flagged, it don't disagree with this at all.

OP pointed out that the language used in the article made him less sympathetic to the author's situation because it was over the top in his opinion. I happen to agree, it makes it harder to sympathise/empathise when you read what you perceive to be hyperbole.

> It's obvious you don't understand what someone on an H1B has to go through. You often feel trapped, because moving around on an H1B is not simple

Even with the personal attack, you make a good point though. With an H1-B, it is more than "just a job".
There's no reason to believe neural nets in 2016 will bridge the gap more so than folks saying this about nets in 2000 vs in 1990 vs 1980. The introduction of GPUs, more data, and variations in the models have lead to real improvement in specific tasks, but even those get stuck again. The leap to AGI is unclear if that's what's meant. You may be referring to synthesis techniques... but same thing. (They are cool though!)
I only know a few companies that promote a healthy work/life ratio.

I believe that on average non-tech companies treat their employees better and give them more right and freedom.

With non-tech companies you usually sell your time. But with tech companies you sell your brain power, if your side projects affect your brain contribution to that company for sure they don't want that.

So silly of them, I always say this. Companies should stop treating their employees as assets.

And let me say again, there are successful tech companies run by smart people that don't do this! And most employees including the founders are happier because of it.

At SunSed we believe that we should treat business like a passionate music band — making money is not the ultimate goal — the ultimate goal is to see people enjoying your music while you enjoy playing!
It's not about paying $150, but about agreeing to additional regulation, which businesses generally don't want. Uber might actually prevail, since tech is the most vibrant sector in the Northern California economy and all the local politicians want a local company, not one in Michigan, to bring this tech to fruition.

Edit: I don't understand the downvotes. I'm not saying that regulation is bad, just that businesses are generally anti-regulation. I'm also not saying that the California DMV should or should not regulate self-driving cars, just that the government might give them a pass.
Tarball downloads by Debian maintainers are secured using OpenPGP and the uscan tool, there are lots of packages where the upstream doesn't do signatures though.

https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch#Cryptographic_signature...

The Debian maintainers then sign those tarballs before uploading them to Debian.

Verification of the repo -> tarball process is manually done by some Debian maintainers, not everyone does that though.
(ql:quickload "packagename") works great in Common Lisp.

The QuickLisp package manager has been around for a few years now.
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I hate those title changes. Some page titles are completely useless when taken out of context. I really don't understand the zealous application of that guideline on HN.
Not me personally; I'm an EE, not a manager. But yes, they underpay. I'm only making market salary because I threatened to quit last spring.
Wait, I thought Amazon is NOT the place for work/life balance. Why is a guy that wants work/life balance working at Amazon?
Would this be kind of the physics equivalent of nonstandard analysis in mathematics? Nonstandard analysis (NSA) is an approach to analysis that essentially makes rigorous the vague notions of infinitesimals that Newton and Leibniz and the other pioneers of calculus based their work on.

Newton's fluxions and Leibniz's differentials provided great guidance, and in a lot of cases they even worked and gave correct results, but they were not really rigorously defined, and later mathematicians started running into serious problems with that approach. Those were resolved with the approach that we all now known and love (loath?): limits and the epsilon/delta approach to them.

NSA extends the real field to contain a new kind of number that is positive but is less than 1/N for any integer N, giving a new field called the hyperreals. You can then do things like define the derivative of f at x to be (f(x+h)-f(x))/h where h is an infinitesimal, work out that using ordinary algebraic manipulations, and then just drop any terms that are infinitesimal.

NSA goes far beyond just calculus. You can use these ideas all through analysis.

Seems pretty cool, and a lot clearer than a limits approach. So why has it not taken over?

I believe that a big part of it is that it has been shown that NSA and standard analysis are equivalent. Anything that you can prove in one can be proven in the other. Perhaps more important, one doesn't seem any better than the other at leading to deep insights. If you can't solve a problem in standard analysis, you probably aren't going to figure out the solution if you use NSA, and vice versa.

So while it might be overall nicer if we were starting from scratch to use NSA instead of standard analysis everywhere, so much is already done in standard analysis that switching now would be too painful.
If you don't say why you find this argument unsatisfactory then we'll be compelled to assume that you just don't understand supply and demand, just like SF NIMBYs.
It's not about the $ amount.

I respect and admire their attempt to "screw the man."
Companies don't make bank burning people out. Burning people out is a sign of organizational... corruption. There are more incompetent managers than competent ones, so you get things like this due to that.

In some, end-of-life organizations, burning people out can be a ... semi-rational decision, but .. it's an end-of-life company...
Have you even been in Paris or London?
Do you believe Qualcomm's will be any better value?
That's why you average it over some time, not just take the momentary usage.
True, but there is an existence proof for say, you at 25. And while strictly speaking there's no proof that you could know all the same things you know now, I find it hard to credit the idea that you wouldn't be able to retain your knowledge and your youth simultaneously.
It's actually a lot harder to have a violent run-in with a sane person. Crazy people really are more dangerous than normal ones.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mental-illn...
San Francisco is 3 times less dense as Paris. It's still a dense city by North-American standards, but it's not dense by comparaison to most big metropolitan areas in the world.
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sketch-measure just enabled me to share a design spec with a dev who runs Linux. Article was worth the read.

https://github.com/utom/sketch-measure
SQL (4.03%)
Lines changed on GitHub: 1,347
Tagged on StackOverflow: 363,595

It doesn't have that many lines on GH when you label it as SQL, but compare that to PL/SQL:

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Lines changed on GitHub: 3,561,189
Tagged on StackOverflow: 14,488
Then it sounds like you're interviewing at the wrong kinds of companies
I know a lot of low income people in SF who take Uber as it is much faster and way more reliable than Muni. These people don't have the privilege to be late at their jobs.
Oh really? Those companies each have 100m-worth of crypto-breaking hardware? Ok then.
Why is this on the front page of hacker news? Did everyone just upvote this without actually reading it?
Yep. A few people got busted for buying/selling the devices on Ebay a couple years ago. Not so legal to mess with traffic signals to speed up your commute -- damn tempting though.

One such article: https://boingboing.net/2006/04/18/man-fined-50-for-usi.html
If they weren't doing it before, they should definitely be doing it "now" (2015)...

IOW, we have to assume they're doing it, and have been for at least as long as this paper has been out.
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Yes, you could in theory rename everything prior to compilation for obfuscation/space saving - similar to how (some) Java protections worked.
It used to be strings all the way down before the object system was implemented in 8.0.

That incidentally is part of the reason why the expr command was created to process infix expressions since it would be too costly to keep converting sub-expressions back and forth from strings to numbers.

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.0.html
Instead of offering to work for free, why not propose an at-will contracting arrangement (as opposed to being an employee)?
Good question, I assume there is some way the compiler/runtime would dedupe these for the coder at compile time. However I don't honestly know enough about the Go internals... Honestly, I wrote more Go code during this blog post than I ever had, even though I had been reversing it for a while...
You have to consider the circumstances around the incumbents that failed to be re-elected. Ford lost the election because of his association with Watergate and particularly his decision to pardon Nixon. Carter lost primarily due to the failure of Operation Eagle Claw. George H.W. Bush lost because Perot came in and split the conservative vote.

Stretching back further in the 20th century, Hoover lost due to the depression and LBJ declined to run for a second term because the Vietnam War was so unpopular they knew he wouldn't have a chance.

None of those are conventional political circumstances. So while you're right that it's about 3/4 incumbent races won, it seems that if there isn't a massive ongoing crisis, scandal, or political anomaly, the incumbent's chances are very good.
It's not a question of private vs public. It's a question of space efficiency. A single rail line can transport 20 times more than a freeway lane (i.e. without street lights) Rail transit is vastly more space efficient than individual vehicles, autonomous or not.

Japan has private rail transit for instance. Property rights in the US would make it very difficult for a private operator to actually build rail transit. Japan's private system also works because transit operators are also real estate developers and can cash in on the land they serve.
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NSA owns a fab. I'm sure they have one already!
> I want to know if the red light run caught on video was while the car was in self driving mode. Of course there was a human in there, and Uber blames them, but what role did the self driving play?

I'm guessing if they had a permit, they would've had to disclose this to the DMV.
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Seems like a lose-lose:

- If you don't show side-projects, you don't have passion

- If you do show prototype-quality side-projects, you aren't skilled

- If you do show production-quality side-projects, you aren't sufficiently focused on your daytime job.
Didn't see in the readme: why "final"? I could see it being considered complete or failed, but it's unclear.
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But if someone makes a conscious choice to choose one that preserves locality, shouldn't they change their mind when "spooky action at a distance" starts happening? Non-locality is staring them in the face and they refuse to adopt a formalism that makes it explicit. They seem to like things that appear strange and non-intuitive.
I'm really sad to see this misconseption over and over on HN.

Please don't be rude.

Verbosity is so much worst than syntax complexity because you ends up having dozens of different patterns that do the same thing overall but with subtile differences on edge cases.

There's a level of verbosity/terseness that's ideal for (your average) human. I don't know precisely what that level is, but I think many programming languages, such as C++ and Rust, have stepped way past that line.

If you look at JavaScript pre-ES6, you had at least 10 ways of doing OOP with really different behaviors when it came to inheritence or encapsulation. This makes the code so hard to understand.

The problem with JavaScript OO was, in my opinion, the use of prototypes.

As long as you introduce syntax to help with what people are actually doing (and not juste because it looks cool) syntax addition enhance the code readability.

This is simply an unsupported claim.
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Jarrett Walker, the writer of that blog post, makes actually the same point in another post. In public transit there is a trade-off between maximizing ridership by focusing on great service on a limited number of lines, or maximizing social service by multiplying lines that go everywhere but do not offer convenient service for commuters.

Walker has long been an advocate of making that trade-off apparent so taxpayers know what they're getting, and of re-balancing networks in favor of maximizing ridership. It means fewer lines, serving dense parts of cities, and running frequently.

Edit: the ridership/coverage tradeoff http://humantransit.org/basics/the-transit-ridership-recipe#...
Good point. Seems like the company's attitude is: "show us you're passionate and have side-projects, but of course, once you work for us, we want all of that passion focused strictly on us."
You can't be serious. You expect beginning students of the web to start with XML Schema? Have you ever taught beginners in technology?
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No, they're not different from anyone else for having a profit motive, but Microsoft, on the other hand, had a very long stretch of using underhanded and illegal tactics to stifle competition. I would argue that they're STILL abusing their monopoly position on the desktop. THAT is what makes them different than the rest, and that, to me, is what tempers my attitude about these recent announcements.

Another difference is that the other examples you've listed here are all free software. Of all the glowing coverage Microsoft has been getting of late, only .NET on Linux is comparable. But you're never going to get Windows-forms-like applications on Windows (which a surprising number of people seem to think will happen). It's only the web stack. Does ASP.NET really stack up well against Rails or Node.js as a web application stack on Linux? I don't know, but at the least, they have some catching up to do.

But, really, I think it's another example of my main point. Microsoft could have used some pre-existing open source project and built on top of that, but they chose to create another language for the future. It's even pretty good, by all accounts. It's just that, in a world of PHP, Javascript, C++, Ruby, Python, Erlang, and all the rest, what place does a closed-source language and compiler have? They had to make it open source.
Yea pretty sure google, facebook, and amazon servers are busy, you know, running google, facebook, and amazon. Business can't afford to have resources like that NSA sitting around for test. The government throws out more hardware in a day then most business buy in a year. Literally thousands of perfectly good i7/i5s being destroyed because they don't have up to date TPM / secure boot stuff
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Is the air conditioner more efficient than suffering drag from open windows? Each has been commonly recommended at different times, and the correct answer depends on your compressor and body shape. The optimal cruising speed might be anywhere from 40 to 60 MPH, depending on your engine torque, transmission, and tires...
You aren't personally/individually wrong in wanting this, I get the sentiment, but if everybody started thinking and wanting this, the emergent effects would be a step backwards for society. This may not change your mind, but you can at least think about that.
Maybe a good balance is to show a very small number of production-quality side-projects: like just pick your top 1-2 things? (Just brainstorming)
Counter point:

Running a compelling simulation of a shoot out only requires a handful of vectors in memory and a couple of vector operations per frame.

Running a compelling simulation of a social interaction is impossible given our current tech.
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Not true. People fail all the time. It's shockingly more common than I imagined possible.
Phrased the opposite way: "when you're young, you think you know everything"
Works for me on my iPhone 7.
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> He mentioned that the pilot wave is made up of "some stuff"

Could the stuff be dark matter or dark energy?
Is there a word for being simultaneously shocked and not shocked at the same time?
You can also get attacked by a pack of rabid dogs. It's just less likely.

"Mentally ill" is a deflection that waters down the statistics. People with a combination of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and substance abuse problems are more likely -- I believe 5-7x more to engage in violent behavior.

I worked in a central business district (not SFO) in a large office building where I'm personally aware of at least a dozen muggings and a half dozen attempted rapes by homeless people who turned out to be suffering from that combo. The company hired valets and provided escorts to employees, particular female employees to parking and mass transit. Eventually a change in local administration brought a police crackdown that resoled the problem.

That's not to say that all homeless people or people struggling with various maladies are all bad. But they do present a higher risk, and it's not unreasonable for people to want to keep a wide berth.
Gasoline taxes do not currently cover highway maintenance costs: http://taxfoundation.org/article/gasoline-taxes-and-tolls-pa...

As for buses, it is a good thing if they are cheaper than cars. Encouraging public transport use is good for the environment, for people who cannot afford to own a car and also reduces congestion in the streets.

By your argument we should also have a sizeable congestion tax for driving a car during peak hours as well as a substantially larger gas tax.