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I'm going to be "that guy" in the comments section this time, largely because I feel like I've been seeing this more recently and I've had to fix it myself:

I don't really get why it seems to be a "thing" recently for websites to have low-contrast text colors. This is at least the second time in a week I've seen light gray text on white background, and to not strain my eyes I went into the CSS for the website and fixed it myself by just making the text black. Another website was even lighter gray than this one, and it was very difficult to actually read the words. I'm honestly curious as to what it is designers see about the light gray text on white which is appealing to them. It feels like they should be straining to read it just as much as myself, but it still makes it onto the production website. If the person/people who have control over this end up reading this, I implore you to just change your "ol, p, ul" color CSS attribute to "color: black" or some such.

Otherwise: I like the idea of asking developers to read code. It is actually a wonderful way to learn good habits. I still have (good, hopefully) coding habits that I can attribute back to reading Half-Life 2's Source engine code a long time ago.
> how crashes are virtually never the byproduct of a single failure

There is the wonderfully named "Swiss Cheese model of accident causation" [1] elaborating on that. An accident happens when all the holes in the cheese line up...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
I don't think calling it AI is a stretch. It's a system with sensors, actuators, a knowledge base, and a ruleset; plus it can learn and adapt its ruleset based on success/failure. That's the textbook definition of AI.
Pretty simple production frontiers result. IT moved the production possibilities frontier outward about 30 years ago. Everything experiences diminishing returns.
Hey, I also work my ass off to the point of getting sick and I have accomplished nothing. By that I mean I have not made any money. I've listed some of my projects here and not even a single up vote. I don't like it but it is what it is. I'm simply trying to say that I'm no less ambitious, and that is probably true of a lot of us here. The gods of luck have simply not been on my side, yet.
2 of those examples are Indians, and the same corpus of research has shown that they face differing sets of stereotypes.

There's no way of denying that there is a pronounced dearth of East Asian leadership in tech relative to the substantial number of East Asians working in the field.
It is my assumption that white males living in these countries are old enough to hold leadership positions. One can safely assume a 12 year old is not immigrating to China to live / work.
Obstetricians have to pay a lot for malpractice insurance because they get sued a lot. I'm sure the cost and potential of being defensive with every patient makes med students look to other specialties.
Mark is at a place that he can really envision and execute a lot of things relatively easily that is unimaginable for people who are struggling for basic acceptance and success i.e most of us.

Success usually begets success and more determination.
In so far as such a regulation actually exists it's the MMEL list that was partially ignored because the procedures were in such flux on a new plane.
Yup, AGI should be able to "figure it out" at the runtime (when the two machines meet).
I'm aware of information out there. I've read other information out there. No, I have not spent hours pouring over the minutiae, but my question is not in bad faith.

This will probably be downvoted too, but, golly gee, I'm just trying to have an open mind here and seeing if someone can convince me that MCD should be at fault. A hot product is hot and inherently carries those sorts of risks. Yes, it was hotter than it needed to be. I get that. So what? How is it some sort of gross negligence? (That's a real question, not rhetorical--I don't understand. 180-190 is not out-of-this world hot, but yes, is extra hot compared to 160 degree coffee).

My newborn example in the grandparent post still applies if served at a cooler temperature. They'll get burned right away. And for adults? The temperature coffee is served at all coffee shops everywhere can be inherently dangerous and cause 3rd degree burns (see page 3 http://www.ameriburn.org/Preven/ScaldInjuryEducator%27sGuide...). While people may not understand the specific number of seconds required, they get the gist--be careful with hot liquids.
So you want to expose Go on the Internet
That's a pretty nuts assertion. Alexa is doing well for the sector but the sector is still incredibly immature and the general public is barely aware of it. That's not enough of a market dominance to really say they own it.
NO, obviously not. Just like I don't think people should get seriously injured in traffic accidents. But people do and car manufacturers are not liable unless there was a defect or there was negligence somewhere.
> Why bring up space elevators if you have no interest in saying or learning something about them?

Because when I looked into space elevators, the main problem was getting the cable strong enough for its weight. So, with spider silk, already amazingly strong, with carbon, a first guess, or hope, for an application would be for a space elevator.

So, in response to the OP, I mentioned the cable, string, whatever, for skyhooks, space elevators, or whatever.

Again, my understanding is that space elevators are well enough understood and the main issue is just the cable. So, given the OP, I mentioned the cable, mostly just the cable, without digging into the well understood details of space elevators. I wasn't trying to discuss space elevators in general, just the cable and just in response to the OP.
Contracts voluntarily signed and negotiated can still be unconscionable or contain unconscionable terms.
>yeah but its not like its pushed much outside of chemistry

Every science class I had in high school used metric. We also spent a fair amount of time going through it in elementary and middle school math classes.

My younger sister (by 20 years) spent a good deal of time on the metric system in her math classes.
Looks like a nifty kit indeed.
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It hopefully uses it's GPS in combination with the Google mapping data for speed limits along with signage on the road.

Hilarious to think about nonetheless.
Clearly this is an attempt at censorship which is evil and stupid;

Why should defamation laws that apply to newspapers and other media not apply to social media?

Another issue is that defamation spreads much quicker through social media than most traditional means and it is harder to hold persons accountable (especially when they are not in the same country).

So, it makes sense to evaluate what defamation means in the digital age. The parliamentary and judicial processes should show what is feasible and within bounds of the constitution.

(I understand the frustration. Are you a big ad customer? You can call Facebook and get them to assist you immediately. Are you the victim of provably incorrect personal attacks, no way you can get Facebook to help. Unless you cause a big media storm.)
> No, the article clearly states that they are under-represented. It cites 2015 report on diversity looking at 5 Silicon Valley companies: Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. The report finds that, "Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels. Asian Americans (including Indians) are 27% of the workers in these companies, but only 19% of managers and 14% of executives.

Yes, but Asian Americans are just 4.7% of the US population [1]. So even 14% of executives is 3x their expected representation. That's a very high amount of overrepresentation! Just it's smaller than their overrepresentation elsewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

> Height being a "confounding variable" in discrimination against both Asians and women seems like an interesting theory, but it doesn't fit the facts from the article :"This is worse than the glass ceiling effect that’s been identified for women

Oh, definitely I don't think we have anywhere near the data to claim it is 100% of the explanation here - which would mean it could be disproved using the method you used.

All I am saying is that we know height has a major effect on income and leadership position attainment. This is true in business, politics, everywhere basically. So for shorter than average populations, it is plausible it explains part of their lower income or leadership attainment. (Does it explain all of it? No reason to think that.)

And I am saying that this is an often-ignored factor, which shows that we aren't actually looking at this topic objectively. We have cultural blinders.
"OK Google... find ceiling repair near me"

I know it seems a bit overt, but I'm pretty serious... I find myself reaching for google now more often than I ever have before. They're a step past Alexa when it comes to the sheer data that Google has to pull from. My only complaint is sometimes I hit clear all, and I can't get back to the reminders auto-set via email invites.

I also don't like that they've effectively deprecated the hangouts UX... they made interacting via SMS outside the phone pretty painful. I know there's hard costs to the stuff that came out of Grand Central / Google Voice, but I feel like when they first launched Hangouts, the experience was better overall.

In general using Google's services works so much better than anything else I've tried. That said, it's kind of creepy ay times.
What a great example of why Twitter is a terrible communication platform!
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I think I misunderstood your comment and was responding to a different point. Sorry.
Yes. Yes, I do.
Yeah: I'd even argue that banning the sale of advertising space "by the click" or even "by the view" (as opposed to "by the action": where someone has to actually purchase the product being advertised before the website gets paid, which is a much better model anyway) would be a safer thing to do to civilization (and would have tons of other really nice effects; we'd probably finally get rid of those articles which are broken into 20 pages, one sentence a page, in the hope of getting more "clicks") than having state-sponsored censorship.

I mean: isn't it extremely interesting that we are now walking backwards to this point starting with "due to a lack of this kind of censorship, we allowed a very conservative person to get into office"; it is almost like this is being taken as an "opportunity" to get liberal people who otherwise would balk at this idea to get on board because now it is supposedly on their side and is couched in terms they agree with. I wonder if there are people who noticed this whole thing as their opening to finally broach the subject with Western civilization :/.
Good point about not correcting for medical speciality. I'm neither a doctor nor a statistician, but surely that pretty much invalidates the whole thing?
I think the point is if trains of several autonomous vehicles becomes common suddenly crash is worse than just one vehicle; more mass more energy.
I've read elsewhere that if you order Starbucks coffee "extra hot" it comes out at about 180 degrees. Some people recommend you order that temperature sometimes: http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-drink-extra-hot-201...

MCD here was routinely serving it at 180-190.
I sometimes use my Vive on Windows for 2D tasks. Its pretty neat, if not a little unpolished. I can make my screen be the equivalent of a 60" TV only a few feet from me, use my full FOV, tile a lot more windows, control how much and what color lighting enters my eyes (goodbye awful office fluorescent), etc. I think there's merit to the idea of a VR windows manager environment running native VR apps. With the proper polish this could be a game-changer. A bit how everyone was skeptical of the iPad, but it really added something to the computing ecosystem that wasn't there before, but didn't and wasn't mean to, replace desktops.

I could see AR/VR headsets adding to the computing ecosystem similarly.

>I can see it for some niche applications (3d modeling or CAD, maybe) but for MS Office cowboys? What's the pitch?

This is what people used to say for multi-core processors, dual displays, high res displays, etc. The reality here is that even "average" computer work will find ways to use extra capacity via innovation, features, etc. Who knows what a VR Excel would look like, but I imagine it can be done well.
I will try to give it a look through. For me, it's hard to absorb material so depressing and discouraging as this appears to be.
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>Did anyone go to Asian companies and see that all their executives are all feminine, un-charismatic, pushovers?

Racist stereotypes don't have to be logical.

>Are we to believe that they are all also all "feminine, un-charismatic, pushovers?"

When is the last time you've seen media depict an Asian male as sexual virile? When is the last time you've seen an Asian male kiss a woman on screen in Western media. For every one instance I can think of 10 depictions of exactly what you described.

I say this not because the media is solely the cause of these perceptions but it is clearly representative of the greater societal attitudes at play here.
There's so much disinformation on this case. For instance, I was once told that the McDonald's franchisee was violating even McDonalds policy by keeping his coffee "even hotter"—because he liked it that way. And that one of the outcomes of the case was McDonalds removing the temperature control from their coffee machines to ensure consistency.

I have no idea if that's true, but I suspect not.
I agree with this perspective. However, you have to wonder why we don't have more Alexa skills in the platform. Here are a couple of my thoughts.

1. They require you to say "Alexa, tell <app_name> to <do_something>"; This pushes all 3rd party services one level deeper.

2. Amazon competes with too many companies and services these days. Instacart devs won't want to work on a skill within a platform that is itself is a competitor.
What do you propose as an alternative? Simply allow people to intentionally mislead people for their own gain?

I know a cynic will say "well thats what media does!" but no, it doesn't. Not at the level that the current breed of fake news and propaganda is doing. Exaggeration and taking things out of context are one thing (and in some cases nearly as bad), but totally inventing stories about people and using that to manipulate people is awful. I don't think "outlawing" it is the right way to go about it but there has to be a label that says "This is not a reputable organization" so that people that don't know better don't stumble in there and not know the difference and end up ready to shoot up a pizza place to save some imaginary children.

What has go to with this though is a totally open algorithm for declaring something fake news, essentially a non-partisan fact-checked breakdown of exactly how some source was declared to be "fake" and maybe some other automated metrics.

Granted, this will not catch the people who desperately want to believe the fake news or who already believe it, it is just to keep more gullible people from stumbling into the trap. Just like Chrome warns you when a cert isn't valid, why not say "hey you are leaving the beaten path of facts, proceed at your own risk". I'm not saying its up to google but search engines are a logical choice, but it has to be done transparently and there has to be an appeals process in case it was a mistake.
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And manage the people who, most likely, set him up with all that he needed to do it.
No kidding. I find it impressive both that he put aside (not found, this had to be a very deliberate decision given the demands on his time) 100 hours to do this, AND that he got all of it done in 100 hours.

Is there anything written about his personal schedule/habits? When does he go to sleep at night? When does he wake up? What kind of hours does he work?

I mean really, he has a kid, is CEO of a huge company, exercises, and still has time to do this project. My hands are more than full trying to exercise, learn Chinese, and run a small company, I have no idea where he finds time to raise a kid in there. Incredible.
I agree with the sentiment, the hours of course are the assembly time. When people ask me the role of an architect I try to impress upon them that well architected subsystems will be readily composable into a variety of forms and uses. That amplifies the millions of hours of research and development into a tool that can be wielded by a motivated individual or team to tremendous advantage.
If only Germany would have the same allergic reaction to power consolidation that it has to anything resembling Nazis.
Using an inflation calc [1] that amount from 1970 today would be worth approximately $6,273,872,679,045. So that would be $125,477,453,580 spent on R&D, and we actually spend close to $132,600,000,000.

So it's seems to have been a set amount just adjusted for inflation the whole time.

1 - http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm
Thats just it...

There are edge cases where a bug is intermittent... and is masked by something on the client side, especially possible with browser plugins. In fact, plugins were the cause of 2 of these for me... Where some issue on page load was causing a bug, but then JS was changing the source away from what cased the bug, but a refresh wasn't guaranteed to have the same information (this was a fast changing log-viewer, for one of them) ...

So you end up not being able to capture the init state of the page... but the bug wouldnt show up without JS enabled because the error is in the JS...

Not common case... but it seems like fetching from the server is MORE work for no reason when the data is already there...
The situation described was Linus going nuts about an unchecked branch being posted for discussion. The question was asked how this can be avoided. The point I was making was that technical, workflow-management oriented solutions can solve these things before they happen.
The design of that library isn't mine. It's from "Graphic Gems IV". I just rewrote it in C++ as all inline, when I needed it for a physics engine in the 1990s. It's been used in a few college courses.

In general, overloading operators beyond arithmetic is a bad idea. It just leads to confusion and strange mixed-mode semantics. Python suffers from this. "+" is concatenate for vectors of numbers, but addition for numpy arrays. You can add a vector to a numpy array in Python without getting an error. Guess which action takes place.
Not defending the argument, but I suspect the author was referring to the reduction in safety equipment installed on autonomous vehicles leading to more grisly accidents.

From the article:
"One of the claims made for autonomous cars is that they can be lighter, shedding heavy metal crash cells and expensive safety gear, like airbags, saving fuel."
That is my point: We don't need to understand the communication means. Instead, we should just declaratively say what we want the machine to do, and it will figure out the rest.
I think you're very right, and we shouldn't get into an Airbus-vs-Boeing discussion here.

Nevertheless, I wonder whether that particular accident would have happened with the physical link between yokes, rather than the side sticks; and whether there are lessons to be learned from that regarding UI/human-system-interface.

But then, how idiot-proof should planes be...
Likewise even in finance there is serious overrepresentation at the junior levels (and overwhelming overrepresentation in terms of applicants) yet the same near total absence of Asian leadership
I pulled the numbers from here, which states that they are in current USD:

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
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A Keurig brews at 192 degrees by default. After dispensing into a room temperature mug, it can fall 10-15 degrees. McDonald's served theirs at 190. 15 degrees may not sound like a lot, but it means the difference in 3rd degree burns is a few seconds vs. 10s of seconds.
On the one hand, I generally agree.

The things I'd really like an assistant for around the house--and which I pay people to help me with in various cases--are vacuuming, cutting the lawn, dusting, doing (and putting away) laundry, doing (and putting away) dishes, etc. Activating lights with a voice command is pretty far down the list.

That said, given enough smarts and interfaces to enough online services, a purely virtual assistant would still be pretty useful for a lot of people. "Book a trip with these general parameters." It uses my preferred booking services, knows my preferences, and comes back with some choices. Get to the level of at least a competent personal admin and that's a service I'd be willing to pay for even if it can't pick up a broom.

Expedia gave an interesting demo at AWS re:Invent around a digital travel agent. It was a very simplified demo--and, of course, Expedia specific--but I think it did give you a glimpse of what's possible.
The figures I used are shown as being in current USD:

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
I think there's some law or truism that every geek who becomes a billionaire spends more time automating their house than it would take to just walk over and turn on the light switch.
This is correct. But the cost of filing a provisional is $130 for a small entity. Maybe it's $1500 if you have an IP firm do it. Writing a provisional is well within the grasp of an engineer. Claims in a nonprovisional application, well that is for a specialist.
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Linear extrapolation gone awry.
I don't think you can categorically say that (but are welcome to make that accusation). Are you saying that because we as a society make comparisons to Hitler, it's okay to call an Asian woman in a leadership position something like "Chairman Mao?"

If a black person were compared to Mugabe, is that also racist? What if you compared an Italian person to Mussolini? is that racist?

You can ask more asinine questions but you're really skirting around the real question here (with a fairly clear answer).
Impostor syndrome vs. Dunning–Kruger, how does that work?
I was going to say that free speech in a fundamental human right but then you mentioned the economy and I'm all on board for censorship.
Fake news isn't fraud. If it was, no new laws would be needed, because fraud is already illegal.