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I usually try to stop for stranded motorists, and likewise, I've been saved by strangers.

The most memorable was when I was a newly licensed driver, well over a decade ago.

I stalled my vehicle in the middle of a T-junction where the joined a main road at the top of a hill. I had just screwed up a relatively tricky hillstart. I then compounded it by flooding the engine trying to restart it in a panic.

So I'm stuck partially blocking a main road. If anyone had been going along that road and they hadn't been paying attention, they'd have hit me at a fair speed and caused a pile-up.

A car comes along the main road but instead of hitting me or going around, it pulls up to me. It stops, four guys get out. They yell at me to "put it in neutral" and then they start to push the car. (They then ask me to "take off the handbrake". In my panic I hadn't disengaged the handbrake, which made it more difficult for them to push the car...)

They pushed the vehicle to safety, made sure I was ok, and then drove off.

I've not forgotten that, and hopefully, I never will. I hope I'm remembered in a similar fashion by some other random strangers.
Eatsa has done a great job marketing itself as the automatic restaurant, so much so that many people believe robots prepare their food (their kitchen is just as labor intensive as any other restaurant). I actually spoke to their engineering director a while ago and I think they are going to have a hard time building any real robots (they are working on this and hired several engineers to do so). For starters, they had to outsource building their automatic cubbies - they couldn't build a moving door by themselves. But they are hoping to build an autonomous food preparation system more sophisticated and an order of magnitude cheaper than anything that exists today.

Something I see a lot is for someone with a lot of experience in pure software engineering to delve into hardware or robotics, and think he'll be able to just breeze through it (if it were so easy, there would be a lot more awesome consumer robots everywhere). What I found particularly amusing was the way he viewed it though. When I said robots are limited by the laws of physics, his counterpoint was that software was limited by the speed of light. He was dead serious, and to him that made the challenges comparable.

I look forward to seeing all the crazy food robots people concoct in the coming years. I suspect most people will realize it's a lot harder than they thought, and by the time the robot is useful it's too expensive to be profitable. Most people are unaware of the many companies in past decades that have tried and failed, including some that actually launched a product. This is definitely my favorite - an automatic hamburger restaurant from the 60's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE
Speaking for myself as somewhat of an outdoors adventurer: my wife and I still need a car for that stuff, but we don't need two cars anymore, and we don't use the one car we still have very much during the week (which means it will last longer). This represents a smaller, but still tangible, difference in car buying needs.
If Airbnb could launch anything in 2017, what would it be?
I'm no great pianist, but I've got a pretty decent grasp of music theory. Let me know if you come up with any questions.
Not sure. It could probably be a requirement to get government subsidy. The smaller firms without the subsidy simply cannot compete.
I've heard a lot of pet theories about this year, but mine is this: nationwide/worldwide popularity is a relatively new thing that was initiated largely by the advent of the TV.

TV was standardized in 1941, but World War II interrupted the rise of TV pop culture.

We're really starting to enter the years where people who had widespread popularity due to TV and movies are starting to die; 2016 is really just the beginning of a trend that will continue from now on.

I think there will probably be another bump around 2060 or so, when people who were really popularized by the internet start to die.
I just wrote a book about this. I cover 15 channels for finding clients, and only a few of them involve in-person networking.

Here's the website. https://www.breakingintoconsulting.com
We have a signup for a mailing list at the bottom of the page. If you sign up, you will get the chapter that explains the fifteen channels in-depth. And no, they aren't channels where you are forced to bid with super-low cost overseas labor.

I think the chapters on closing deals could be especially helpful for you. If you're seriously super broke, just email me and I'll hook you up. But I am planning on raising the book's price in 2017.
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"Japan is a mountainous, earthquake prone country, and they seem to have figured it out."

Japan's high-speed trains also cost a hell of a lot more than the OP is talking about. The Chuo Shinkansen will cost around $51 billion for a 286km train (i.e. half the distance from SF to LA). The Hokuriku Shinkansen was much cheaper, but still 10x more expensive ($18 billion) than the Chinese line. [1] Both make the LA-SF line look reasonable, if not exactly cheap.

I generally agree that the SF-LA line is too expensive, but the OP's reasoning is just completely wrong. India and China are cheaper because everything in India and China is cheaper than the US.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-cost-differences-between-...
>Cars are definitely more than a commuting device, they are cultural

I am from a generation (in my 40s) were most of my friends do not like the robot car idea because they love cars and driving. To me that is a very weird thing; I hated driving since I got my licence (well over 20 years ago). It is a nuisance and waste of time and I would never do it again if I did not have to. I find the cars I am supposed to like, like sportscars uncomfortable and beauty of a piece of transportation does not come into the equation. I do not know what it is with that obsession. But most my friends have it nonetheless. Which makes me have plenty of volunteer drivers who love to drive 1000km for fun while I read or work.
In the part of Africa I am from, building inspections are a money making scheme for councils. You get charged for every single stage of the building, the footing, the foundation, window level, roof, connecting to the sewer (if there is sewer in the area). I get the need for the inspections but like many things in life it is how they are implemented that makes the difference.
I do not think US mineral rights are much of an issue. Australia has similar, or perhaps worse problems with high cost intercity high speed rail. Every time a Sydney to Melbourne fast train is investigated, cost estimates are among the highest in the world per kilometer, without the challenging geography of California.

I suspect some form of rent seeking (or likely multiple layers of rent seeking) is part of the problem.
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Do you... bicycle...? If yes, how do you get your gear to XXXX?

This is always worth a chuckle. I love pedaling past cars stuck in traffic, with a fancy bike on the rack.
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2. Read books

3. Family and work balance
The problem is often (though not always) that the inspectors applying the standards can act in arbitrary and capricious ways. A professional contractor will often have one inspector approve a technique or design, then have another inspector come along and tell them to tear that section down and rebuild it.
The problem is definitely political, but I don't think it's a corporate conspiracy. Americans just don't like paying taxes, and aren't willing to pay taxes at the rates that would make Euro-style public transportation (with a mix of buses, trams, commuter rail, intercity trains, etc.) viable. Even in the cities that have marginally-decent public transportation systems, they're chronically underfunded.

You could probably build a hell of a public transportation network if people were willing to pay what they currently spend on average on automobile-related expenses (or even a substantial fraction of it) towards a shared network, but people have been making that argument to the American public for the better part of a century now and it's not gained a lot of traction.

I'm not sure that self driving vehicles really change the underlying political calculus that makes Americans unwilling to pay for that sort of public infrastructure. But they could still be an improvement, in safety and resource consumption, vs the current status quo.
Previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8698131.
proper is the good one
It's Ivan Bratko's book. I think he only wrote one about prolog.
It's a matter of planting seeds. Always be prospecting. I go into depth in this in my book, https://www.breakingintoconsulting.com ...

Doing work for free and blogging are just two of the channels I name. I also provide thirteen other channels, with in-depth description, including copies of ads I posted that generated results. That information is free if you signup for the mailing list. And the book itself contains myriad details, including sales 101, closing techniques & so forth.
The French already said they could build the California high speed train for half the current estimate, or something like that. As mentioned in other comments, it's the popular opinion and government fragmentation in the US that makes this impossible. In France, the train builders and operators are nationalized (roughly) and the central government is much more powerful (not in terms of absolute power but rather in public acceptance). So in France, where high speed trains have been successful for years, the state run constructors can get eminent domain, lay track and run trains with only a few nimbys that most people ignore. Another way to see it is if Parisians want to take a high speed train through your back yard to get to the ski or sun, too bad for you. That doesn't happen in the US with weaker central government and stronger property rights (for corporations too). Japan and China are the same way (centralized command-based government).
I solved the first couple from a previous year's in pure x86 as a means of making them more interesting. A few hundred lines of terrible, terrible x86.

I was amused when it performed even worse than expected - thanks to the lack of console buffering when I eschewed linking in the C stdlib (I forget if I instead invoked WriteConsole or what...)
If you think the existing air travel infrastructure was built in its entirety for "a fraction" of $64B (in 2016 dollars), I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

Most of the cost of air travel is hidden in places you don't think about, and might surprise you if you knew how much it added up to (or how much tax money -- in the US, around $300 million per year currently, and around $9m/year of it in California -- goes into subsidizing unprofitable air routes in order to keep airlines flying them, for sake of maintaining connectivity).
If you're interested in web development (and perhaps even if you're presently not), you may want to take a look at Elm. It's a functional language that compiles to JavaScript and is almost entirely developed for the purpose of building web components and applications. The way the functional features and other language features are explained as directly benefiting the developer experience is pretty cool.

https://www.gitbook.com/book/evancz/an-introduction-to-elm/d...
That price is inhumane. Assuming the worker can solve 1 captcha every 10s in average, when working full time at 25 working day and 8 hours / day, a worker can clear 72000 captcha per month, grossing $72. The take home pay might be like half of it? Even in developing countries, $36 per month is too damn low for that mentally taxing work.
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Apparently you haven't read the many lipstick threads here on HN...
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The Chuo Shinkansen is a very special kind of expensive, since something like 80% of that 268 km is going to be tunnels they have to drill. It works well to illustrate the point that you need some more nuance to compare costs.
I have plans to relearn undergraduate mathematics (upto Functional and Complex Analysis) and learn the basics of computer science (just Algorithms, Data-Structures and Discrete math) in the first half of 2017. Being able to do this successfully would mean a lot to me.

Finnish and Hindi are the two languages I wish to learn in the next year.
I want to read the full story, including how Microsoft was involved with Cyanogen(Inc/Mod).

(yes, it was involved, use Google to search for previous news.

For example at one point CyanogenInc partnered with MSFT so they have a Microsoft sponsored Android flavour with several Microsoft apps preinstalled. https://cyngn.com/press/cyanogen-announces-strategic-partner... http://www.businessinsider.de/why-microsoft-cuddled-up-to-cy... Now it smells like the "embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy that MSFT is using with great success for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

So I hope at one point we will get the full story.)
I am a programmer with a lot of experience who has written a lot of things from scratch (not in Haskell).

I think most documentation sucks and I dislike trying to read it, because it's very hard to get a picture of what's going on, and what these procedures / data structures / etc are really for.

I am much happier when I can just look at a straightforward and clear example, and then just use the documentation to look up specifics of how things work after I already get the basic idea.

It's not because I "need worked examples of things to understand them", it's because that is the way I like to work, because I have had many instances of my life of trying to make sense out of documentation that seems to have been written from a mindset of "formal writing involves not actually telling the reader what things are really for, straightforwardly". I don't know why that disease is so common, but almost all documentation is like that.
that is cool....
You can make `models` a package, where `models/__init__.py` just imports models from the package's modules (`models/thingamabobs.py` and ` from .thingamabobs import Thingamabob`).

Also, you shouldn't need to worry about database connection logic in Django unless you're doing something very specific.
Relative to past engineering challenges, this represents a drop in the bucket. There is sufficient precedent to be able to emulate existing solutions for all portions of the track. Compare that to engineering accomplishments of the 20th century that had to be designed from scratch: the Itaipu dam, Panama canal or the US highway system.
1) Deep Learning
2) Figure my way around DevOps
3) Get more proficienet with ES6 and Go
It takes new humans 9 - 12 months to walk; it takes new humans 3 - 4 years to talk in complex sentences that are mostly grammatically correct and say things most people can understand.

The usual argument in favour of A.I goes something like this: each new human has to learn these things for themselves, whereas A.I. only has to learn to do it once, ever.
Yes, granted. But again, the Hokuriku line was "normal", and was still 10x the cost of the Chinese line.

The point of citing both was definitely to show that you can have a pretty large variance in costs, even if you're the world expert in building these things in earthquake-prone areas.
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I have tried to order food there three times in SF and was so creeped out I had to walk away.
From poverty, violence, suicidal, and expelled to becoming a physician
Even I recently started with ML/DL but my approach is more theoretical way. I started with Andrew's course, but alongside doing Python Machine Learning textbook,while testing my self on Kaggle. I hope to build some interesting system soon. The only thing I am worried about is getting a full time job, which I think always require someone with 2+ year experience.
> NYC cabs average 100,000 miles per year and use 1976 cars.

I don't think that's true anymore.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/industry/taxicab_vehicles_i...

http://nypost.com/2013/10/28/citys-final-fleet-of-crown-vict...

Anyway, If the cabs were getting 100k miles per year, how often were they getting replaced?
* become an expert in PostgreSQL

* improve my knowledge of Erlang

* catch up with ES6 (not really useful, but, just in case)

* learn how to scale my side projects from 5-10 initial users to 100-500 (some seo, marketing, sales)

* how to be efficient with my time
What also happens in Japan is that the train company owns that land, the mall, and maybe a couple apartment buildings nearby, so that they have an interest both in people riding the train and shopping at the mall (so e.g. the train company has an incentive to keep fares low enough to keep shoppers coming).

A significant portion of Japanese train companies' income comes from retail real estate.
Math-wise, well, it's a matter of where I go to college, I figure it'll have a huge effect on basically everything that happens thereafter. I definitely want to continue on my path towards understanding the Weil conjectures and that kind of thing, so I plan to be able to compute sheaf cohomology for schemes by the end of the year and learn more algebraic number theory. (And maybe look at representation theory.)

CS-wise: learn enough ClojureScript to be able to make convincing mathematical (etc.) visualizations -- I recently got a taste of Figwheel+Reagent and I'm hooked! -- and be able to manipulate Haskell transformer stacks better.

Other than that, I'd like to learn some French (marathoning Engrenages was the best decision ever!) and not forget the little German I know.
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He wants to get into the practical application of machine learning, not machine learning theory.

This is a common mistake people new to the field make. You can be very successful by learning how to use machine learning frameworks, and that doesn't require lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. Not that it hurts.

vayarajesh, start using Tensorflow, you'll reach the ability to reason about problems to which machine learning can be applied, and how to apply it, much more quickly than starting by starting at the root of the tree of knowledge. You can always learn as much math as you want in order to dig as deeply as you want, but first get a sense of what you're dealing with.
Are we being hailed by intelligent beings?
I'm not suggesting that adults will always learn faster than children. You will no doubt notice that you did not spend your time the same way that your children did. Did you spend 24 hours a day thinking and struggling in that foreign language? There is a big difference to being exposed to language and concentrating on it. Restricting your self to thinking only the thoughts that your language enables you to think is difficult for an adult (well, impossible really).

I'm not entirely unaware of the literature in the area. I spent 5 years of my life teaching English as a foreign language. A large percentage of that time was spent doing research in language acquisition. As far as I am aware, ever since Chomsky the general consensus has been that there is no different mechanism for language acquisition in children than in adults. There are still some researchers who disagree, but that happens in every field and is healthy.

But, you aren't going to beat a child in learning a language unless you do some very specific things. That's because they spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week learning language. Even when they get to school, their school work is primarily surrounding language activities until they get to be about 10 or so.

An adult's secret weapon is the ability to read. If you use that to direct your learning, then you can go quite quickly. Like I said, though, getting to an adult level of proficiency in less than 10 years is pretty difficult, but it's not impossible by any stretch of the imagination. The same level proficiency for a 10 year old child is very, very unusual.

For things like accent and getting tones correct all the time, that's a bit of a different story. Only about 2% of adult learners achieve native level proficiency in that kind of thing. But it's not something that will hold you back from normal communication. Event then, I'm aware of some specific language training you can do to help, but most people are not really interested in going that far.
Algorithms and datastructures :) I Want to interview better.
That's the problem. There has been so much propaganda about the impossibility of government to do anything right that people don't even try to run an efficient government. But they also don't try to shrink it so money just gets wasted. This happens with healthcare, defense and infrastructure.

I think this may get even worse with Trump. During Bush's the Republicans just cut taxes while spending a lot of money on war so I would expect the same to happen again. People like Paul Ryan only turned into deficit hawks when Obama became president. They will probably forget the deficit now that they are in power.
They did that in Portland (I used to live there). They built the MAX line out to the airport, and put an Ikea and an outdoor shopping center there, and it was frickin awesome. People would even haul stuff from Ikea on the MAX!

Everywhere they built the MAX line, shops and commerce would spring up around it.

Of course, there's still a small, incredibly vocal contingent who opposes public transit no matter what.

Happily, they were able to keep extending the MAX in different directions despite that small, vocal opposition.

Portland got a lot wrong, especially with the homeless, but their public transit is just great.
Per your numbers 64B / 9m per year = 7 thousand years California could continue subsidizing those air routes for the cost of the track. Can't you see the disparity in cost?
Back in the day, the rule of thumb I was given was to divide by 100. Probably better than this calculator.
I worked in two PizzaHut locations in the UK and it wasn't cramped, not was the ethnic makeup of the kitchen substantially different from the rest of the city.
That's to keep service on a few routes that get direct subsidies. That's not the cost of running the entire airport and air-travel infrastructure in the state, which also runs on a lot of direct or indirect taxes. And it's not the cost of building out that infrastructure in the first place.

And I suspect that when you add it up you'll find that $64B is not much money compared to what having a well-developed air-travel network costs, and in fact this sort of argument is precisely the point people make when they argue for building out better rail service along major corridors: the cost seems steep when someone presents you with the bill up-front, but we routinely pay and have paid bills just as high or higher for things that we'd now yell and scream about if they got taken away.
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One problem with domestic air travel in the U.S. in particular is all the dead time in getting to the airport, security, boarding. In comparison, here in Japan you can show up at the airport 20 minutes before your departure time with no problems. If you didn't book a ticket in advance, make it 30 minutes to get a ticket from a vending machine. It really is an air-BUS.

The question is what kind of security theater will end up applied to high-speed rail in the U.S.
Neat!

A while back I worked on a couple of Common Lisp projects that used the equations behind Spirograph curves to generate animations synced up to music.

The results were really neat: https://vimeo.com/147813490

And the code: https://github.com/jl2/spiro-animation

I also made a GUI version that allows tweaking a bunch of settings: https://github.com/jl2/qt-3d-fft