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This looks good in theory and is practical if the interviewee is out of job. If the interviewee is a full time employee how can they expect that person to spend a week in your office ? Do you expect him/her to use their vacation days ? Sure, they can get double pay but I don't think it's very practical.
Actually legally it is whatever the law of the land says it is.
That doesn't sound so bad. When I ported a medium sized system to Python 3 two years ago, I found serious bugs in four library packages. It took me about a month to get everything working. He's not reporting anything like that.
or abuse, ouch!

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That is not an actual migration guide. It's merely a meta-doc saying what types of things you need to pay attention to. I was looking for a specific list of things that would have to be migrated. The docs mention of reading the release notes for each versino of Python 3 isn't very helpful.
No. But I use Chromium so the source code is open.

I mean if we're going to go to this level of paranoid; then we might as well look at attacks on Firefox (which have been suspected to be used by the NSA against Tor Browser).
Let's put "ability to detect solid road in front of car" near the top of the requirements list. Whether it is a pothole, sinkhole, missing manhole cover, or missing bridge, it needs to be a mandatory requirement. From what I've seen of LIDAR imaging it seems like it is possible.
Have their been test cases in the relevant jurisdictions or is this just Uber's interpretation?
Okay, they are classified but I don't see that anything in the setup, or pip package management, seem to actually use them. Are they somehow used in actual package management, or just search qualifiers?
Lots of unhealthy or actually poisonous chemicals exists in your tomatoes, but in very low levels... dosage is what makes the difference...
I certainly agree that formal credentials are secondary to demonstrated competence, but in the specific case of neither credentials nor experience, people with credentials and no experience have always had the first choice at the job.

When you have neither, getting a job in uncertain, there are many variables outside of your control. But getting a degree is completely within your control so it is the better choice of your time. Given the monetary constraint ($3,600 / year for community college (x2) and $7,500/year (x2) for state college) From my experience the job you will get in year 4 (and during the summers of year 3 and 4) will pay you more and offer better advancement than if you had started working in year 1 and not pursued a credential.

If you already have experience, then you also already have a network of people who have worked with you and know what you can do, and getting a job is a matter of finding the person in your network who will vouch for you.
Yep, I worked for 4 years at ~$45k/y, spending nothing, and just had a year off, started by travelling for a few months and chilling for the last few, had the best time of my life, even started doing some side projects which I hadn't done since Uni, and really missed. Sadly I've run out of $$$ now and looking for some work.

I know it can be risky taking such a break from a career but I think it was worth it, I gained some great travel experience and better understand what I want out of life.
I thought it was a very good article, but disliked the comparison to the sad state of US trains.

The author knew he was being a little disingenuous with his comparisons to the sad state of US infrastructure, which is why he was careful to preface every reference to poorly automated train systems with the US. There are a number of automated systems worldwide that work pretty well. The Yurikamome was the first line that came to mind. Its not an extremely packed line, but having safety systems similar, like door gates, works very well. Automating a more used line would of course be more difficult, but not impossible.
Aggressive door closing seems to work pretty well in taming crowds. It might take an education period in the US, but once people realize holding a door won't allow you on the train and that it will only allow you to remove a trapped limb, people will be less inclined to do it.
"Everyone who reads HN probably has enough leverage to set boundaries."

I'm reading this at work while installing windows updates on a desktop PC for a client, don't be so sure.
> the levels describe modes of operation, not immutable car classifications

Look at the column where human attention is required ("Monitoring of Driving Environment"). Every car in existence requires human monitoring in every driving mode.

The moment attention is not required, the car company becomes liable. Volvo will release a level 4 car this year where they assume liability, however, that is only for a hundred people in Sweden.

"Around the corner" means widely available, and that's just not the case.

Right now Tesla does not reliably save the data from its accidents. How could a car company assume liability when they can't even save the data?
I'm not sure those "well-maintained urban spaces" are as simple as you seem to be implying. They have plenty of quickly-changing construction in the middle of active roads, out of date / invisible signs, and far more crazy drivers and pedestrians to interact with per day than in Middleonowhere Pennciltucky.

As to garbage trucks: ever seen people pull U-turns randomly in the middle of the road in a busy city, or dive across 4 lanes to make an exit? Garbage trucks seem simple by comparison, and at significantly lower speeds.
That makes sense. The thing about decomposition is that there is more than one (a toolbox with multiple hammers). So even if you decompose, you have to look at multiple angles before you choose a decomposition.
<3 thank you! This makes me so much happier about my Switch preorder for gamedev purposes :)
Well, he was just doing a mental exercise on passing the most information, not the most utility.
Self driving cars could solve the problem of congestion and the problem of parking quite easily. If all cars were autonomous, then the flow of traffic could be optimised and things like traffic lights and roundabouts could be eradicated, this would drastically improve travel times. In an ideal world, no-one would own their own self-driving car, there would be a fleet (ideally state owned and taxpayer funded) that you simply order on-demand, like uber. This way there is no need to park. You simply arrange your pickup times either on-demand or ahead of time, so a vehicle is always there to scoop you up wherever you are.
I call it honesty. To be a good programmer you have to be honest about what you are doing. Smarts won't help.
This is a perfect example of UX side effects! Was never designed to be used that way but somehow through humans every day use it's become a thing. There is ample opportunity to make this better. And sadly in 10 or so years, you will be fined for using the wrong side...
> All it means, that most of those who use consoles don't want to play high end games.

It's actually opposite. Console audience (maybe with exception for Nintendo) wants to play high end games. This is why high end games sell much more on console SKUs. If by "high end" you mean AAA, of course.
That's certainly true for some drivers. But there are still plenty of good reasons to own your own car without sharing it. For one, sharing it won't earn you much anyway, because everyone tends use their cars at about the same time, travelling the same direction. Then, it is very convenient to keep some stuff in your car that you might need but don't want to carry around all the time, especially if you have kids. So I don't think exclusive car-ownership will disappear.
I keep hearing this rhetoric and one could say that this superficial thinking because it's very out of line with how people all over the world use their cars today.

I don't feel comfortable renting out my car to strangers while it's not being used. I'm afraid of it getting dirty, them not operating it properly and causing mechanical damage that won't be seen for weeks.

On the other hand, having an "on demand" car service as my only option would increase my transportation costs. My car is paid off, insurance is almost free and gas is dirt cheap in the US it might as well be free. If I had to Uber around with self driving cars my costs of getting around would skyrocket.

Are you suggesting having your own car as well? That's the only way I could see this working.
Then you should update your post to say that, rather than saying 2to3 didn't do anything to your code.
Frixion pens are erasable.

The ink turns invisible when heated. The pen has a rubbery tip on top which acts as an eraser when rubbed on the ink.
CZI is focused on disease. A focus on biomed research is reasonable...
Definitely the latter. Played a little too fast and loose :)
Well, if they really want high end games, they shell out for PCs and high end GPUs, because as you said, current consoles simply are behind. No API can work around that.

By high end I mean demanding, those which heavily load the GPU, and benefit from better ones.

So IMHO those who stick to current day consoles, are OK with not getting the max settings in demanding games. But why those who do want more, can't play their games using controller / sofa style gaming? I.e. I don't see an inherent relation between console style gaming and avoiding more expensive hardware.
Every programmer should be given ZX81 with 1kB of memory to start with.
*some
> I'm afraid of it getting dirty, them not operating it properly and causing mechanical damage that won't be seen for weeks.

With level 5; this doesn't happen.
Why do you think the `for` loop form loads the whole stream? That shouldn't be true, since `for` just calls `iter` on the object internally, and normal file-like objects by default are iterated line-by-line.

If you saw the migration guide but found it incomplete, you should edit your post to say that rather than saying there isn't one.
He probably wanted to say they're paid above average. In the same way doctors are not overpaid.
Have you seen the comments for this[0] thread?

* What happens when you need to change any single one of those passwords? Don't you need to change all of them?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12889807

edit: "any single..." includes the master password itself & any of the individual site passwords for that master password.
Oh, yeah, I totally agree. For cost reasons alone, the world will never be uniformly automated.

That's weird to change the definition that way. The levels describe an individual car, not all cars.
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I live in this area, completely agree, author is spot on.
Controversial opinion about Meteor by CEO Geoff Schmidt in another "Ask HN" 21 days ago:

> Meteor isn't going to take over all JavaScript development the way Rails took over Ruby development, at least not anytime soon. That's just not how the JavaScript ecosystem works. However, I think it will be the #1 full stack JavaScript framework for a long time to come and will continue to be a really great option for teams that want to build JavaScript apps quickly, especially apps that have a realtime or collaborative element. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303345
depends on where you want to go with the idea. Of course you can go all the way and say noone will own cars anymore and personal transportation will be ubiquitous everywhere, but it's much more likely that it will start slowly.

People owning cars like today that drive and park themselves, after that maybe people are willing to rent out those cars when they don't need it. Many people probably would not do this all the time because they don't want to risk the car not being present when they actually need it in some cases.

Only after that and only if enough of self driving cars are available at all times, would people really stop buying their own cars.

Your idea of the drive-thru for self driving cars will also take some time to actually happen, self driving will not happen from 0 to 100 with all possibilities a reality from the beginning.
As far as I know, you can't call landlines with WhatsApp, iMessage, or FB Messenger. There's value in having a second number that is treated like a cell phone. I can register for accounts with it (Signal, Twitter, etc), and my real phone number stays private. During college, I gave out my GV number for privacy, but it didn't support MMS at the time. Couldn't get photos, and then they wanted me to use Hangouts & claimed voice would be phased out. It was a real bummer, and the Hangouts experience was strange, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

I'm glad this is being updated, because it provides value to me and definitely other people, too. If WhatsApp can connect you to landlines or function as an actual phone, then that's excellent news. Even so, I would still appreciate having more options.
So much conversation like this, it's crazy. Here's the simple truth. Apple makes phones. The best phones you can buy. Nearly every person over the age of 13 buys a phone. Many buy a new one every year or two. Apple controls approx. 12% of the overall market and approx 91% of profits. That's it. Compare this with the PC-market of the early 90s (10 years into a market segment). Apple is CRUSHING it's closest competitor (Sammy). Their phones are literally BLOWING UP. Take a flight recently? "No Samsung Galaxy S7s allowed". Sheesh. Apple and Tim Cook can piss into the wind for the next decade so long as the iPhone engine continues. And it WILL CONTINUE. It's getting better every 12 months.
Keep in mind: at no point has any manufacturer stated that a self-driving car - even at level 5 - would be allowed to drive itself around without a person in the driver's seat. The idea that people will avoid parking by having their car drive around empty is absurd, and completely out of touch with how self-driving cars would operate within the next 20-30 years.
Your intentional ignorance of the violent history of racism in our voting systems is your argument's own refutation.
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Is there any reason we can't just rely on autonomous cars in areas where these edge cases don't happen? Then as the companies behind this technology make more money, they can start working out the edge cases, but before then, even getting it to work in a given city seems like a huge win.
I guess I can finally upgrade to the kdbx (v2) format. I had to use kdb because there was no good kdbx editor for OSX.
Bait title for blog hits. These aren't unexpected consequences, they are some of the specific benefits. It adds nothing to the discussion as it's neither comprehensive nor insightful. Why does the author think autonomous cars are a net good? Thanks, he went on and on about a few things he wants to pretend are "unexpected". SMH
Good idea, thanks for making it!

> It's open source so feel free to fork, customize, contribute or whatever.

Could you add a license to the repo then?
API works around just fine like I said. I cannot recall any recent (in the past 10 years) AAA games, which don't run on the consoles. PC exclusives have not been setting graphcis bar for a long while.
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You mean Google is discontinuing the API? (They had an API? They removed XMPP federation and eventually support, if that's what you mean).

The libpurple/Hangups projects for chat clients is the work of reverse engineering the existing Hangouts protocol (which apparently heavily relies on protocol buffers).
The words were not there in the first message.
Level 5 doesn't mean the driver can't take over - just that they should never have to. The driver will always have the ability to take manual control; something that won't change within our lifetimes. Even if a company manages to legally release a "level 5" car in the next 50 years, it will really only be "level 4.5" - 100% automation under all conditions isn't in the cards for the very near future.

It astounds me how naive and over-optimistic we are seeing enthusiasts of self-driving cars behave. The industry is in its infancy, but people talk about it like our roads have been exclusively filled with them for decades, and all challenges and bugs have been conquered. Surely every person who talks about these cars like it's a solved domain can't all be prospecting, bandwagon investors.
> any running X app can do that.

Not on Wayland.
I mean TSA Pre. I just like to call it "Prime" as a joke.
Can't help thinking about Amigara Fault -- but more seriously, yes, nice zen/taoist perspective.
Given current ransomware trends, that seems like setting up a bunker but crossing a highway on foot daily. Sure, the nukes won't get you, but those cars will.

It's not that you're not allowed to worry about google holding your data (of course it is!), but it's pretty unsafe to be on the 'net without being properly patched.

If I had to set about this, I would have an upstream fork of Chromium that would patch the various networking functions to blacklist known google domains, and then offer a flag to ignore the blacklist in the "obvious" spots (like when you go to google.com). Probably not perfect, but a bit safer.

If you're super serious, you could just 404 all access to google.
This is one of the worst "articles" I have experienced reading since joining Hacker News.

TL;DR This is all personal opinion: My main issue is with the journalism here. To me this article was disrespectful to readers, scientists and the people of Flint. Without making any accusations, I would be curious to know how this article was researched and in what capacity the journalist and the scientist this article is about knew each other before the article was written? Were they friends or classmates? (I don't have a problem if a journalist wants to write about one of their friends per se, especially if that person is part of an interesting story worth telling, but from an ethics and respect for readers standpoint I think that should be disclosed).

I like The New Yorker and read it regularly but after reading this long, long piece something felt very off. There was a noticeable lack of substance and accuracy, along with flowery misleading writing when it came to the science/behavioral science stuff suggesting the article was under-researched. But then the tenor of the writing about the scientist was a completely incongruity to the rest of the article (the language often felt like a letter of recommendation to a grad school on behalf of a friend).

Honestly, I have no idea if there was conflict of interest and I don't really care. The writing just made it feel like something fishy is going on. I think most importantly, behavioral science is interesting and has potential to do good work in many areas and all. But the people of Flint have fucking lead in their water...So a fluff piece connecting behavioral science to the Flint water issue is misleading at best and potentially harmful. It's misleading about what behavioral science can and can't accomplish; Flint was a government fuck-up in a place with serious systemic issues that need to be addressed. Plus 99% of what the article connects to behavioral science is really just people paying attention and helping other people in person. No behavioral science magic involved. Also the fucking "write a song" part of the article was a joke, that's an idea any Joanne Shmoe can come up with, that part of the story was not real behavioral science and pretty disrespectful to everyone.

Also New Yorker: I get your readers might not be interested in detailed science articles and they might prefer people stories. But I am very confident they want accurate stories whatever the topic. If you waste their time overly long articles of bullshit you will lose more readers. Come on.
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Yes, they had an API which could control and customize Hangouts https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts/
What are your goals for you research or project? Many ideas stumble not on the technology, but on the people aspects of the project.

If your goal is a single family sustainable farm, I've read reports of 2 or 3 acres being plenty for a family of four if you are in an area with enough rainfall (Ohio, for example). However, they needed to have outside income since their land did not produce everything the needed.

If you are thinking of a larger group like commune of 25 people, or a town like you mention, you will to look into the issues present in those communities, and getting food is usually not the biggest issue. For example, several co-housing projects fail due to the families involved not being able to raise enough money to purchase the land the need. Other small groups buy farmland but don't have the capital or expertise to actually farm and produce enough to be economically viable. Useful farmland is not cheap, and the economics get in the way quickly.

Farming is a complex business. It won't be "fully automated" anytime soon, particularly for the variety of crops people like to have. For example, my parent's potato farm also had a vegetable garden for carrots and onions, and they raised chickens. They ate a lot of soup, since that is what they grew without needing to spend money, meat was expensive. Economically they sold potatoes to have money to buy everything things they needed (gas for tractor, salt, tools, etc.).

Note: I am a cofounder at www.powwowenergy.com, a data mining company based in San Mateo CA where we help farmers be more efficient. If you are a data scientist or developer looking to help the world feed more people, drop me a note, we are hiring.
Or even specialized computers: the engine computer in your car might come with some license or restriction preventing you from transferring the engine computer to the next purchaser. That would require the next purchaser of your car to pay a few hundred dollars for a newly licensed engine computer.
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Given the presumed goal to convey as much as possible in as few words as possible, to me it's a tie between atomic theory and evolution. Maybe we could cram both into a carefully worded sentence.
That is the bane of a large company. A product that would've been successful user-count-wise and revenue-wise for a smallish startup starts looking like a failure when you operate in billions of users and tens of billions of revenue.

It's not that someone internally calls it out as a failure, but the constant pressure to compete for scarce resources (department budgets and developers in Google's case) encourages the internal politicking and resource wars. If YouTube or Search or Android is considered top priority at the moment, it's very unlikely some project like Google Voice or Google Talk have any kind of leverage in defending their budgets and/or teams.
I would have replaced carbohydrates by ego, but that would have been a bit too rich for him to say.