skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's probably part of it, but the DMV seems to consider it a "manufacturers testing permit," which means that Volvo would have to be substantially involved in the process on Uber's behalf as they do not already have a permit of their own. [0]

The draft rules also require quite a bit of insurance and items like "autonomous test driver training programs" to be in place for a legal operation. [1]

[0]: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/testi...

[1]: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/211897ae-c58a-4f28...
Yet if you don't want to have sex, you don't have to, despite any evolutionary pressure to do so. So evolution is not a consideration when trying to determine whether you want to have sex.
The biggest "move out from home" push in the USA was mid-1900s government cold war propaganda, to live as a trendy "Nuclear family" with just parents & their kids.

While this was anti-socialist material, given its greater focus on individualism, it was rumored to also be intended to break up powerful family clans, as well as prevent future rise of the same.

Before these times, it was a lot more common for extended family to live together.
It's easy to imagine many proposals that don't restrict access to washing machines. For example a per capita progressive CO2 tax would be one. We generally have the mechanisms to implement binding international agreements about these things, it's just a question of political will.
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The cost of personally owned vehicles is already out of reach of lots of urban Americans; for them, differences in the cost of on-demand rentals (taxi, etc.) will be quite noticeable and have significant effect.

Suburban and rural residents will rely on personally owned, human driven cars longer, sure.
Well it's not like we haven't been making progress on general purpose ambulatory robots. Have you seen what some of Google's subsidiaries have built?
That "arbitrary price ceiling" is exceedingly arbitrary. You get a lot more than $130 worth of electricity from fissioning a kilogram of uranium even with present technology. In current U.S. power reactor designs (no breeding) you can get about a million kwH of heat from one kg of uranium. If you figure 30% efficiency and 12 cents per kWH, that's about $40,000 worth of electricity.

It should be clear that even with present technology uranium is economic to recover at prices dramatically higher than $130/kg.

If breeder reactors are used the recoverable energy from a kg of uranium goes up by a factor of 100 or so, making that kg of uranium worth about $4 million in terms of electricity.

With that technology it would be economically feasible to recover uranium from sea water, and there's enough of it in the ocean to last for billions of years.
Soda bans are not the way to go. If you're referencing the large soda ban proposed in NYC, I'm glad that atrocity was ultimately rejected. There are better ways to combat health problems than going down the road of telling people what portions of food they are and aren't allowed to buy. That legislation was especially hamfisted in that it attempted to target movie theaters - the law potentially being that if you want soda throughout your movie, either hope you can take up two cupholders, put it on the floor where it could easily get knocked over, or miss part of the movie to go back to the concession stand for a refill.

I don't want to eventually live in a world where I'm only allowed to order 8oz steaks (with the fat helpfully removed by law in case I got funny ideas about eating some of it) and small fries. It's a serious issue that people take that soda initiative as some kind of good thing.
From the Hoaxy FAQ:

"Q: What is the source of social media data?

A: At the moment we only collect data from Twitter."
That is all good when it's the first to do it like google was back in the day. These days everyone and their dog is doing a self driving car so they have to fall in line with the rules.
> Once a country hungry enough (China) succeeds with nuclear, US politics will catch up. They always do.

At least one journalist believes we are already trailing behind China, and have been for a while now[1]

1 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_prit...
This plant is all over California. I am actually surprised I have never heard of any fatalities.
Cant read the article since im not subscribed.

Why were so many people living with their parents in 1940 and why did it stop? Does the article explain that?
This can be true, but there's a more immediate reason they love them: the perception that the industry is safe leads to greater sales volume and much cheaper sales cycles.

As an example, consider restaurant sanitation regulations. If restaurants are frequently unsafe, people will learn pretty quickly that it's better to eat at home. But if restaurants are generally seen as safe, people will eat out a lot more. That benefits all restaurant owners.
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Fatal accidents often don't result in someone being jailed (fatal accidents that involve something like DUI do, and if there is an analogous human choice to deliberately cripple the self-deiving system of a vehicle that results in a fatality, the person linked to that act would likely be just as jailable as a DUI driver.)
This is the kind of comment that sounds sarcastic on first read, but is entirely genuine. Human societies, en masse, are terrible rational decision makers.

Or maybe it's that they're very good rational decision makers on the individual level, leading to the tragedy of the commons? So we'd need mass hysteria to cause group rationality? Ooop, that's the bell, Pretzel Logic class dismissed!
Not really that unreasonable, but maybe a bit high. I'd be more than willing to bet that if you down-scope your feature set by 10%, you'd cut development costs by 50%. What exactly are you building?
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"Compared to nuclear?"

Yes. Compared to nuclear.

"That very few nations recycle or reprocesses?"

Way wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#List_of_s...

I count ten countries on that list.

" And where all the waste ends up in cooling pools forever?"

No country keeps waste "in cooling pools forever".
It wasnt anomalous, we were pretty much the only country not bombed to pieces and had an infrastructure to build upon while most countries were simply rebuilding.
Japan has second oldest population world-wide with 27.28% over 65, after Monaco, which doesn't really count (retirement home for rich people).

http://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/a01001/
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I also like the Tinfoil Security VPN setup, which does it for you fairly automagically using DO:

https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new
How much energy does that require?
Click on "web" under the article title (in HN). Then you can click on the link in google. It's a built in HN hack...
Apple Delays iOS SSL Requirement Indefinitely
You need a combination of solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and yes nuclear. What some forget is base load power. One of the main reasons natural gas is used as an alternative for coal despite still producing carbon emissions is because it also can be used as a base load electric grid fuel. Nuclear can provide clean base load power.

I understand many are concerned, especially after the terrible tragedy at Fukushima; however there are ways we can prevent that tragedy from ever reoccurring. By transitioning to nuclear technologies utilizing fuel cycles that consume nuclear waste or use fuels capable of reducing risk of meltdown accidents, we can get closer to both clean energy and safety. We don't primarily need nuclear but it should be considered in the mix at least for baseload considerations.
Probably the great depression and then war.
Aren't there uber drivers still that are suppose to monitor the situation? How is that different except the government is upset?
Were these the graphs you were looking at?

global temperature anomaly since 1880 -- http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/
carbon dioxide for last 400k years -- http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

One person I met seemed to think that CO2 would be balanced by algae blooms in the oceans, but he wasn't a climate scientist. Nonetheless, if the ice caps melt enough before CO2 is compensated for, they'll release tons of methane which is an order of magnitude more potent than CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions

Here's NASA's site on the evidence for global warming: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Here's a site that discusses the evidence that humans are at fault: http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/sci...
For the sake of high quality idiomatic code. I'd recommend creating the Erlang library and a separate Elixir one. But to be honest, I'm just so pleased to hear your even thinking if either of them :-D
The AWS Free Tier should list under limitations the fact that the small free/inexpensive instances are severely resource throttled which kicks in at inopportune times.
>And failing at it, see worldwide obesity statistics

This is more of a food quality issue than a food quantity issue. The strict hypercaloremic hypothesis is one that really is ready for retirement (and more or less has been retired in research circles).
The official accident reports are still available, as they always have been, on the California DMV's website.[1]

I remember only a few months ago folks were holding up Google as the model for SDC transparency.[2] How times change!

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12082893
I am from Canberra, Australia. We did not "roll over" as you suggest, but had discussions with Uber and the taxi industry from the time Uber first wanted to start working here.

As a result we now have drastically reduced fees for taxi registration, and legislation which allows Uber to work legally. From memory I think we also removed caps on taxi numbers.

If adjusting legislation to accommodate a new budiness is "rolling over" then I fear for the future of innovation that will be needed in the automated future.
>Either way, we need a larger and more capable grid, so that production and demand can be balanced over larger areas.

Yup. Larger power markets benefits every kind of power: wind, solar, and nuclear. There is a lot of resistance to this though. Every state would prefer wind sites build in their own state, rather than buying power from the windier state farther away.

If you had a truly national sized grid then the power distribution between even just wind and solar is remarkably stable.
As cool as this is, I'd literally be handing out Unifi AP AC Pros to customers with their tablets (at least, I think that's how the article explained what's going on).

Murder all of the bad Wifi. It'd fix half the problem.
Adobe Releases First Linux Flash Player Update in 4 Years
So are reactors, in fact everything is bulletproof if you only count the successes.
People think taxes are evil but for dome reason will accept warlords?
Good suggestion, that sounds tedious. Other related feedback I got included using IRR data from DBs like RADB or RIPE to automate populating the prefixes.
Backroom Trading of Phone Cracking Devices Is Sketchy as Hell
I'm curious... why is this such a bad thing? As a society (an American society, as this isn't true in many other places) we place a rather negative stigma on a person who doesn't leave home at the age of majority (usually 18).

This is a norm that I think we should do away with. And by that, I mean we should stop making turning that age the time that we flip the switch and the kids move out.

What I would suggest in its place... encourage them to go when they're ready. This places more responsibility on the parents in assisting with all the types of preparation that make one ready for leaving home.

There's a LOT more to this conversation, but I figure this is a good starter. :)
Gitlab.com is gitlab EE or CE?
It might surprise people but there is no stigma around adults living with their parents in other places. As if giving a stranger $1.5k+ every month is an indicator of adulthood. Save that money and put it into a retirement or savings account. Unless your job or life situation truly demands having your own space I see no reason to move out.
First-world countries with ready access to contraception are facing a birth deficit, which is being eased by immigration.

Sex-drive is hard to stamp out. Actual reproduction, not so much.
Why the Elixir language has great potential
heh good to know. thanks
In India this is pretty common as well. It makes meals etc. much easier, provides instant babysitters (the grandparents), and so makes it more flexible for a husband/wife pair to work and still have some free time in the evening.

Privacy of course suffers, but then again I with multiple kids like a lot of US households have, there isn't that much privacy anyway.

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> I often think that the "move out from home" pressure is a ploy by the real estate industry.

I think it's any commercial entity, right? When you move out of your parents' house, now you collectively have to pay/buy

- Extra rent

- Extra money for furnishing

- Probably more money for transport (could have carpooled with family or neighbors)

- More money for groceries (living on your own you will likely waste more groceries)

- Extra money for insurance (since it isn't a family pool)

etc.

So you're right, but possibly underestimating it. There is a lot of vested interest in convincing young people that living with their parents somehow makes them "losers" etc.
I'm going to be a cardiology fellow at Stanford in July, we use ultrasound often for both bedside informal exams as well as diagnostic echocardiogram. I've used handheld devices like the Lumify and Vscan, as well as the large tractor sized epiq machines. Similar to what is written in the article, my impression is that the actual hardware, specifically the transducer, is quite expensive to manufacture. The software and processing power continues to get cheaper but to have to best quality pictures, require expensive transducers. I've actually been very very impressed by the Lumify and I think it is getting near if not better than the quality of the gigantic epiq machines, primarily by having a very high quality transducer. This is indeed a hot area and knowing people who are actively doing development in the field, there are poeple trying things like having a giant paralleled transducers over the entire chest for continuous 3D images and other interesting ideas that are limited more by hardware than processsing power or imagination.
The Phone Cracking Industry Is a 'Cesspool'
Completely agree. Now you make me wonder if the stigma around this kind of life style is being purposefully pushed by moneyed interest like home sellers etc...
Well, we spend about 12 million labor hours per year editing Wikipedia[1]. We've put in like 150 million by now. Right now, we have 5,893 out of 5,095,532 articles in the Featured class. We have another 29,152 that are almost featured[2]. Based on some bold assumptions I just made[3], we could probably finish off Wikipedia by 2262.

1. Geiger, R. S., & Halfaker, A. (2013, February). Using edit sessions to measure participation in wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 861-870). ACM.
Chicago

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editoria...

3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/When_will_wik...
Stepping back, it's the capital doing the corrupting. The private/public interplay creates incentives to pilfer the public coffers in exchange for campaign contributions if you stick around and a cushy job if you don't.

It is the exploitation of government that is inherently corrupt and the exploiter who is the corrupter. The commingling of such interest leads to the pursuit of private profit in the name of the public trust.

The calls for less government are constantly in the name of removing the watchdogs and observers, the enforcers and regulators - the only counterbalance to this incestuous relationship.

They call for a removal of oversight to alleviate corruption and a forfeiture of authority and action to increase responsibility.

The only perplexing thing is how so many continue to be startled and bewildered by the direct consequential policies of encouraging such statecraft.
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Waymo is subject to the same reporting requirements as everyone else.

Google's reports will likely be transferred to waymo.com site soon enough, and new ones will appear in due time.
Its nice to "take a break" from static types once in a while and hack together some kind of data munging script in python every once in a while. But every time I have tried to go larger in scope I ended up regretting it. I'm not sure I would want to do any kind of dynamically typed programming professionally again.
> Human societies, en masse, are terrible rational decision makers.

Never seen "societies" making any decision. Most of the time, there are very few people in positions of power who make such decisions. If you want to see "societies" making decisions every single day, look at the market. Not so irrational at all, though.
Interesting, I am an nvidia owner but have read many times that AMD's software and drivers are much better now than they used to be. If that bit about the 480 is true that's appalling. It doesn't really surprise me the brand's product forums are defensive about the brand, I'd wager the Nvidia forums users respond to negativity about nvidia the same way.
Oh please, no! This was hands down, the worst thing I've ever experienced on linux.
I haven't met anyone intelligent who suggests we should go Solar.

Silicon tetrachloride pollution is the worst.
Yes, since they are refusing to get the necessary permits, which they could easily do.
> If you tested your water for lead 10 years ago society would probably label you paranoid

New York City sends you a free lead test kit, if you ask for it [1].

[1] http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/1266/water-lead-te...
Now thanks to the other guy I can read the article. The graph makes it look like were only slightly higher then that the early 1900s where it was consistently higher then the last 70 years and also steady.
I don't think I understand what you mean about the composition of the atmosphere not having changed very much.
Like every other time Uber publicly throws a fit about a rule, it's an effort to get the rule changed in their favor.
Without large scale energy usage (eg. heating/cooling), large parts of the world (anything outside say +/-10 to 30 degrees of latitude) are practically unliveable for most parts of the year in modern standards of comfortable living. So you practically cannot reduce energy consumption without depopulating.

In terms of population reduction, history suggests any culture that does not propogate will be pushed aside by one that does. It will be interesting to see if there will still be a Japan in 3 generations.
Well it is an economic thing. It means that jobs and wages don't support independent living. It means that young people don't (or can't) migrate for jobs. It may mean that there aren't enough jobs or they are otherwise unqualified.
What you don't know, can't kill you! Or so they say :)
As best as I can tell, they don't even need $150 per car, they just need a $150 permit for the company as a whole. Their test drivers do need to be enrolled in the Employer Pull Program, but it looks like that's just $5 (this program lets companies track the driving record of their enrolled employees).
Uber disagrees with the DMV's interpretation of the language of the relevant regulation
Yahoo Live Email Search: Trawling Is Legal for Unreasonable Searches
Until fusion comes online
Hans Zimmer Teaches Film Scoring
For me, reduced consumption is about promoting different habits.

In most of western countries, the society is set in a way that happiness is directly tied to consumption. Marketing and the society in general, makes people feel that the only way to fill their lives is by buying things.

In some other countries, people may be able to achieve similar levels of happiness with lower consumption levels; for instance, by doing things instead of buying things.
Yea there needs to be an age I guess where someone is determined to be an adult, has anyone ever fucking thought about what it should be though, maybe it should be raised, maybe lowered, maybe determined by something other than just age. I don't know. Why can't you morons think about it though?
Does that let you work with the default type? What I was doing in c#:

function(T1 thing) {
//do normal T1 stuff here
var foo = arg as T2;
if (foo != null)
foo.T2Stuff();
//more normal T1 stuff
}

If I'm understanding your example I would have to wrap all the T1 stuff in a match.
A German Brexit would definitely be the nail in EU's coffin. Let's hope that never happens.
> But simply sampling 10 people is about as good as 10 anecdotes.

That is not generally true. It depends on what kind of statistical assumptions you make, or statistical analysis you conduct. The term statistical power describes our chance of correctly detecting an effect when there is one to observe. If the effect is small, then a larger number of samples are required to achieve a given level of statistical power, whereas if the effect is large, then fewer are required.

I recommend that you consider the question: if 10 samples are not enough, then what specific number of samples is enough? How do you decide? Fortunately, these questions have been studied in the field of statistics.

Let me give you an example. Let's say I told you that you will flip a coin in the air, and when the coin reaches its peak height, I will shout "heads" or "tails". What would you make of it if we ran this experiment 10 times, and I correctly guessed the outcome 10 out of 10 times? Perhaps you would conclude I really can predict coin flips. By comparison, if I called the outcome accurately only 5 out of 10 times, then you'd probably consider my claim false.

But, consider these two possibilities: (1) what are the odds that my guesses are really no better than random chance, and I've just guessed 10 out of 10 correctly by good luck? (2) What if I really am accurate 99% of the time, but I guessed only 5 out of 10 correctly by bad luck? Statistics allows us to evaluate how likely these things are.

If I'm doing the math correctly, then you'd expect someone to guess 10 out of 10 coins correctly just by chance once in every ~1000 experiments. So to see this happen is not witnessing an extraordinarily improbable event; run enough experiments of 10 coin flips and you will see it.

If someone truly has 99% accuracy, then in almost every experiment they will guess 10 out of 10 correctly. They should guess all 10 correctly 90% of the time. A person who is truly 99% accurate will only guess 5 out of 10 flips correctly once every in every 10,000,000,000 experiments. So it is extraordinarily unlikely that you will see someone with 99% accuracy guessing 5 out of 10 coin flips correctly. It can still happen just by chance, but it's really improbable.

Bringing this all back to the main topic, it is possible for a result of 10 data points to count as convincing evidence against the theory that there is a strong effect, such as that musicians are 99% accurate in discerning the type of violin, while it may be inadequate to evaluate whether there is a weak but still-present effect, such as 51% accuracy. Whether the number of samples is good enough depends on how small of an effect you want to measure, and how confident you want to be in your assessment.

A free book is available online called "Statistical Inference for Everyone" which introduces these topics. https://github.com/bblais/Statistical-Inference-for-Everyone