skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet there is a minimum viable issue to contend with. The average car will have an average value of dollars to go a unit distance and it cannot go lower than that very simply. The US Highway Safety board has computed this number for decades. Today it stands at ~$0.52/mile driven. This takes into account many many factors like gas prices, car maintenance, driving style, etc. Uber must pay drivers, on average, something more than 52 cents per mile. Yes, they may pay much less than that, but then you have to monkey about with driver mentality, average automobile efficiencies, road conditions, etc. Those are very difficult problems to tackle and are mostly outside of the 'wheelhouse' of Uber as a software company.
The same inertia that prevented them from switching to Uber in the first place?
What does Uber have that would not be feasible for any of those companies to build?

Uber doesn't lock in customers or create any switching pain whatsoever so their current customer base doesn't given them much of an advantage. Their software is slick and robust but it's not so technically advanced that a competitor couldn't create their own ride-calling and dispatch system (as evidenced by Lyft).
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When i was a kid, i had a Mattel Aquarius. Those early days were great. Whilst this project does rekindle some of that nostalgia, I'm not sure I'll be FAPping anytime soon.
One of the fun things on my Z80 CP/M machine was a 20MB Seagate SCSI hard drive with a 680000 controlling the drive electronics. Which is why I've never really understood people who focus on one chip to "define" a system, it really is about all the parts playing in harmony.
Absolutely right. Only one writer at a time (locally), but writers don't block readers of which you can have multiple due to the MVCC design.
Then sell the customers list to law enforcement to make side money! What a fantastic time to live in SV!
If the USA is the Microsoft of nations, as the article says.

Then would some current or future president be the Ballmer of the US?
Yes but most funds are marketed as repaying in 10 years and, even if some take longer, the VC presumably does not want that (since it, presumably, prejudices their chances of raising their next fund).

Expect an even bigger fund raise where they hope some other idiots, with even deeper pockets, will keep picking up the tab.
Thanks for your comment.

The idea behind the Lisp reader approach is that custom syntax is used for reading/printing objects of different types, not to demarcate syntactic elements. For example, double quotes are for strings, #P"" will read pathnames, and so on. In Common Lisp, some characters like [ and { are reserved for the user, meaning that no conforming implementation defines a custom syntax based on those characters. And you can define [a b c] to mean (vector a b c), which will build a vector, when executed, to hold the current values of a, b and c. The existing #(a b c) vector syntax is a literal vector that contains symbols.

From this point of view, for Clojure, I don't think it is a bad idea to have a short syntax for vectors, set and map literals. But then, those objects are used when representing code, not because it has a real added value but because the visible syntax is a little bit nicer (maybe, maybe not). That IMO complexifies tools that work with code and does not really fulfill a practical purpose. If that was for practical reasons, I think bindings would had been better defined as maps: as far as I know, they seem to fit more naturally than vectors for this task. For example:

(let {a 20 b 10} ...)

Somehow when compiling or interpreting the code, you could do "(get symbol env)" where "env" is the surrounding lexical environment associated with the let, which would be computed partly from a parent lexical environment and {a 20 b 10}. The environment and the map could be of the same type and be easy to combine.
But there is no such consideration, and it is actually a good thing that there is no link between how the code is represented and how it is interpreted (also, there can be different interpretations).

Basically, I find Clojure a little bit confused about its use of external data representation for code.
I would have preferred a simpler syntax for code and keeping those notations for data, where they are self-describing without additional context.
That's a weird market where the government artificially inflates the cost of car ownership. Like you say, that's never going to happen in the U.S.
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This is a wonderful piece of work. It could even be called defining. So it's curious that it says at the end:

"This film will not be shown to the general public without permission of the War Department"

Wiki tells me "the film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces", which lends some interesting historical context.
Lets just say its hard to take anything that Trump says seriously, seeing how many times he flip flops on even the most basic issues.
That wasn't their first, either. Were you there for release day of vanilla D3? Millions bought it at midnight only to stay offline for a couple days.
This is manipulation. Leadership is inspiring people to believe what you believe so that they motivate themselves to fight alongside you.
https://archive.org/details/AstoundingScienceFictionv41n1 for the first at least.
There's very little actual data here...

Oracle has a bit more data on their website..
https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/TGSQL/tgsql_optcncpt.ht...
Update link straight to the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tp6Ubf6mE4

Looks like decent driving in complex terrain. Got stuck behind some cars a human driver wouldn't have and I'm not sure it can turn right on red, but seemed impressively good at dealing with human and bike traffic.

Following distance seemed too far and start lag also seemed too high (large gaps would form before starting to move forward). It was able to creep close to stopped traffic but seemed to lag when starting.

One thing I do expect an autonomous driver with microsecond reflexes to do is get going through an intersection quickly and follow the car in front very closely at low speeds. I would want to see less than 1/4 car length at < 10 mph, which reduces congestion significantly. If the car lags 3 seconds before starting and leaves 3 car lengths at 20mph it is hogging the road and causing traffic.
We did see the same doubters in the early days of Amazon. And we see how that turned out. Personally, I'm not confident of either success or failure with Uber. They (and their investors) are making a big gamble. In their favor is that it is a very capital-intensive gamble, and I don't see any other companies stepping forward to make that investment. A large car company could do so, but they've not made the transition to thinking in terms of the future "autonomous mobility services" paradigm.
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Autosteer can also change lanes, and would avoid crashes caused by missing a vehicle in a blind spot. Seems particularly useful on a busy highway, with vehicles in adjacent lanes leaving far too little following distance between each other.
The 1571 had one 6502 inside, at 2MHz (double speed of the C64 Cpu) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1571
See related:

http://fuckingblocksyntax.com

http://fuckingclangwarnings.com
'explained' I read it twice and still don't understand what it's doing.
If there's an issue with certificate validation, the attack surface is already open.
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Car ownership is already not necessary. Both Uber and Lyft offer a car "rental" or leasing program where you will be given a car to use for the job for a fee which will be waived or reduced if you drive enough and do enough business with the car. They profit off of this or at least recoup money if you fail to hold up your end of the contract or in certain cases, you pay for the mileage you drive outside of work hours. This drastically reduces the capital necessary to start driving for these companies.
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Yeah I learned to return values and accept references very quickly, had to entirely refactor my learning project a day or so into it, but that was for the best.
Many, many thanks! I've updated the tutorial.
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They didn't want to do it, they were motivated by good leadership, now they do it. See how that's not different than what OP said?
Being religious or not has nothing to do with believing that effort is the dominant factor affecting success. I'm an atheist who also believes that effort reigns supreme. That doesn't mean that I don't believe that what we call "bad luck" can't come along and derail you, but I firmly believe - based on my own experience - that you "make your own luck" through effort and the decisions you make.

I grew in dirt-poor in white-trash / redneck-ville rural NC, but I've managed to work my way into a pretty good career in software development, living in a nice neighborhood in Chapel Hill. A lot of my high-school peers are still living in bumfuck, doing drugs, working fast-food, whatever. Was I just "luckier" then them? I don't think so. I think the primary factor is that I was more ambitious, harder working, and made better decisions. And I've had much "luck" along the way... man, it was minor and hard to notice. Because from my subjective perspective, I've busted my balls for everything I managed to achieve.

I still remember working midnight shift waxing floors for a grocery store, leaving work at 6:30am, heading to an 8:00am class (Discrete Math of all things!), suffering through 3 hours of classes, then going and crashing on a couch in the library for an hour or so, then grabbing lunch, hitting my 1:00pm class, then driving the hour home from school, to fall alseep, wake up, and go back to work at 10:00. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Some people will suffer through that shit, some won't. I don't see a whole lot of luck in the equation.
I finally switched from Gmail to ProtonMail this month as a New Year's resolution to make my privacy better bit by bit. Haven't tested Fastmail, but I like ProtonMail's simple webmail and the Android client a lot. Happily paying them for the service.

What are your experiences with Fastmail? Do they encrypt all your emails and in which country are their servers located?
You sound like you're mocking it, and I almost didn't respond, but here goes (hoping you'll take this in good faith): people in the west like to nitpick on this, but you have to understand that Islam was born in an incredibly sexist environment where when your dad died, you could inherit your stepmothers as wives. Women weren't allowed to own property or inherit. So compared to that, Islam was incredibly progressive (women allowed to own businesses, inherit, entitled to all sorts of benefits in case of marriage, divorce, etc that simply did not exist before). So strictly speaking polygamy is allowed in Islam (man->women, not women->man) but that is not an obligation by any means. As times have changed, culture has changed, people have just stopped doing that as much.

I grew up in a conservative, Muslim-majority country and in my 18 years there, I did not meet a single person with multiple wives. I heard of one person though - a man from a village who worked in the city had one wife in each location. I never met this man, but a distant relative knew of him. That's it. Every other person I met was monogamous. I'm not trying to justify something you think is wrong, just giving you a bit of perspective that I hope you'll consider.
Wow, I had no idea. But I did know that a bug was literally a bug.
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Like my former boss said: I'm not a team leader.

I'm a motivator.
How has this been enforced? and what about sub-domains?
Perhaps math classes should focus less on remembering algorithms and more on inventing your own algorithms by solving novel problems. In that context showing work is much more meaningful.
It is always interesting when someone who believes themselves to be a great leader, discovers that they are not. And since many of the traits that make great leaders, self awareness, humility, honesty, Etc. are missing in these folks, the world around them sort of explodes when that realization hits. In my experience it is a time when they are most likely to embrace 'leadership through politics.' It is always a strong signal that it is time to distance oneself from the faux leader's area of influence.
As one of the people who lived through/was affected by this, I can't ever in good faith support or work for Riot because I just can't shake the "this is the kind of person I would never want to work with" feeling Pendragon earned himself. Since he's one of the primary founders, that feeling is inextricably emotionally tangled up with how I feel about the company as a whole.

Here's a video that goes in depth if y'all are wondering what this is about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBI9NlPqRi0

Thankfully it doesn't matter anyway, because Dota 2 is simply a better game ;)
> The movie-makers were giving Christopher raw data, just like in real life, and he was trying to analyze it.
...
> In the final movie, the screen visuals are a mixture of ones Christopher created, ones derived from what he created, and ones that were put in separately.

I wonder -- did he synthesize the handwriting samples under analysis or was that from the film's conventional creative team? I read Chiang's story after having seen "The Arrival" and IIRC the descriptions weren't anywhere near as clear about the circular nature of the sentences.
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Parents get children to do things they don't want to do using lots of techniques which I would not call manipulation (autocratic leadership, for instance). Personal trainers similarly, also drill sergeants.

Edit: clarity
They definitely receive more in federal funds but I am not sure if this takes into account local money raised through levies/property taxes.
Is there a functional demo or video demonstration? All I see is a marketing page ...
Only because go has redefined the terms.

…

foo = nil
bar = foo

// this check may or may not evaluate as true
if (bar == nil) {
…
}

Saying that `bar` here isn't actually equal to nil if it's an interface is tautological. It's not, but only because the language has defined this to be the case. Go could likewise define `1 == 2` to evaluate to true, and you could reuse the same semantic reasoning to defend it.

The point being argued is that it doesn't matter that go defines this to be the case, the point being argued is that it's surprising, frustrating, and can lead to bugs. Particularly when `bar` starts off as a pointer to a struct, but later is refactored to be an interface type. Code that used to work still compiles, but now encounters a runtime nil panic.
Sell the list of those using social media in the car to existing advertisers too. Extra high levels of engagement!
This was theoretically due to a lack of "live streaming" rights. It is of interest as an example of how the power to (not) cover events has shifted from public broadcasting to private.
I often think about turning my game time into productive time, but my game time is right before bed as de-stresser. I play to relax, socialize, and have fun. I need this time everyday.

I'm not sure your advice applies to most adult gamers. College students and kids addicted to MMO's and pay-to-win garbage, certainly.
> It wants to compete with your car - imagine 12 lanes of L.A. traffic composed mostly of Ubers.

It's close to competing with my own car. I'm in West LA and use Uber daily, but only use my own car once or twice a week.
With C you almost always know what you have, and can always cast it to anything else you want (safely or otherwise).

With Go, I'm never sure what I have (pointer? reference? something other and weird?), and can't cast things that should be castable.

Either way, I'd still rather take Haskell or Common Lisp, but I'd gladly take C over Go after having used Go for a highly multithreaded communications server.
ALL LIES - Pendragon replaced the whole site.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100712013033/http://www.dota-a...

The wayback machine is great. I heard these rummors years ago and they never stop. Look up the site from whatever date you want.
Mescon closed allstars.com on July 22, 2010 citing dropping statistics and his love of League of Legends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_the_Ancients

DoTA -Allstars is a variant of DoTA and had been passed down from one person to the next in development and is stil developed by IceFrog at Valve.
The whole thing seems very cowardly. If Snowden truly thought he was acting in the best interests of his country, he could have:

1. Leaked only information about the NSA spying on Americans within the US.

2. Stayed within the US and faced the music.

Instead, he damaged America's ability to collect intelligence on foreign countries by revealing our capabilities, and then fled into the arms of our adversaries who have used him as a propaganda piece.

Our country exists with the freedom, prosperity, and influence we enjoy today because millions of men were willing to march to their deaths for it. Meanwhile, Snowden can't even face a jury of his peers for an act of civil disobedience? He must not think much of his cause.
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Re, the community:

Early on riot was horrible at community management. They fired Bobaganoosh, eliminated all RP aspects of League by cutting out descriptions, stories, and the JoJ! A lot of people started to flee, and when Riot realized it, they promoted Nikita from intern to the posterchild female that gamer guys oogled. Around that time, before I quit playing I angrily sent an email how Riot was killing their community and needed to do some sort of "Summoner Highlight" segment to promote their fans that care. Nikasaur picked up on that idea or already had it and started showcasing summoners, which was cool.

I'm glad they've moved on and up from that. Jax dodge best dodge.
There is an old saying in FPS games: when luck becomes skill.

Basically, you move the luck in your favour. Using the situation at hand for you.
Also see the Interplanetary Transport Network, a network of routes through the solar system that take the lowest energy paths, using Lagrange points to change direction. They aren't the fastest routes, but if you want to glide around the solar system this is where you travel.

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I don't know how long your durations on the wheel are - but microsleep[1] is notoriously hard to self-diagnose, even for drivers of non-self-driving cars.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsleep
No don't use typedefs there's no real reason[1] and it may cause problems. Also if your peer can't read a function pointer I don't know what help you plan on getting from them anyway, chances are you are helping/teaching them, not the other way around.

[1]: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/typedefs.html
How can the site tell you're using the extension? And so what if it does? The site can guess you're using a password manager by noticing the instant password entry. The malicious logo, that's really a problem for your browser to deal with. Using an extension to help you talk to a site you already talk to is not really a leak, given the purpose of such extensions.
Yep, that's right, thanks. The public key is, of course, calculated based on the private key (these are RSA keys), hence why the brute-forcing still involves the private key, but it's not a hash of that key.
There is no such thing as "luck" really. It's just a word we made up to use in post-hoc analyses in order to justify certain interpretations.
Is humility necessary for one to be a great leader? Steve Jobs and General George Patton spring to mind.

I agree that a plurality of those traits are commonly found, I've always wondered about causality and importance. Not disagreeing, genuinely curious about your opinion.

Edit: clarity and expansion
Author here. Sorry to hear that. If you want to let me know where I lost you via email or here, I'd be happy to revise it to be clearer.

I think it takes a certain skill to overcome the curse of already knowing something and then explaining it, and I'll definitely have some blind spots.

Thanks for reading it twice!
"Is Uber/Lyft the starting point for calling a car or is it Android/iOS ; or is it Google Maps/Apple Maps ; or may be it is Siri/Alexa/etc." - This is an extremely good and often overlooked point. With Apple, Google, and Amazon now offering AI-powered smart-home devices (i.e., Google Home, Alexa) as well as mobile assistants like Siri and Android Assistant, they will increasingly own the first point of contact for a user when they need to hail a car. You could hail a ride without even having to open the Uber App at all, meaning that from a consumer perspective the relationship has shifted upstream to the phone OS or connected device, and Uber now becomes the behind-the-scenes middle-layer that runs the dispatch logistics. Right now, Google/Apple/Amazon operate under the guise that they are "integrating" with Uber's services, but when Google and Apple roll out their own autonomous vehicles (which they already are working on) and Amazon starts rolling out autonomous logistics (i.e., trucks and drones) then they will own both the upstream point of contact, as well as the downstream supply of cars/trucks/drones. When they have built the user behavior of people ordering directly from a phone OS or in-home device, what's to prevent them from connecting directly to their self-owned fleet and cutting out the middle layer (Uber) completely? While everyone is focused on Lyft...Uber's real competitor is one or all of the above situations. Piggy-backing off Uber in the connected home / OS integrations is as classic of an example of a trojan horse maneuver as I have ever seen.
Second level domains. There are waayyyyy more subdomains, as you note. You can see some information and estimates on this here:

https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/01/04/tracking-the-us-governments-p...

We (18F, me) personally measured at least 26,000 (though some of these are used as redirects or are just error pages, etc.).
You are absolutely right - the general problem is super hard.
But even solving a specific use-case is hard for most developers who haven't done it before. It just takes a ton of time, and you often get some details wrong. And when you think you nailed it, then new requirements turns up :-) The result is that many apps don't work very well offline.
That's why we have spent several man-years on making a general solution with sufficient flexibility to cover most use-cases. We want to enable all developers to be able to add offline first and real-time features without the hassle of reinventing the wheel every time.
I like this idea too.
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Subdomains generally get automatically included when a second-level domain is preloaded. So, for .gov domains that fall under scope here, their subdomains will all have HTTPS enforced by modern web browsers.

Web browsers enforce preloading by considering each domain as having HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) set, and so it gets the strict treatment: only https:// connections, and no clicking through certificate warnings.

Some more detail on all this here:
https://https.cio.gov/hsts/
Of course, that BizSpark money has an expiration date and, in the meantime, you're trying to figure out a business model. I think the concern is that you don't have one today, so who knows if you'll come up with something that pays the bills down the road.