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Waymo Asks Court to Block Uber’s Self-Driving Car Project
Alphabet adds patent claim to Uber intellectual property theft lawsuit
... when the internet didn't take over what you were trying to read with a full-screen video ad.
This story is shocking and deserves public exposure.

The OC Weekly seems like the bizarre indie magazines available at a Communist coffeeshop in Berkeley, CA. Maybe it's just the illustrations. Either way, the medium distracts from the message.
I've seen reports of other states on the Eastern Seaboard considering the same thing (I remember Maine specifically, but I think there were more.)
Jokes going to be on them when the dollar crashes and they won't have easy access to their liquidity in bitcoins.
I guess it goes to show that developers are similar everywhere.
Don't be a jerk.
Product mix is more important than hitting the single "best" price.

Each customer has an amount that they want to pay. If you want to maximize profits you need to allow customers to pay as much as they are willing. This means that you need a product mix that allows the higher spenders to increase utilization up to their spending limit.

Think about how Amazon sells AWS or how a high earning mobile game has zillions of product bundles.

If you really need a single best price and are doing something with 10,000+ users, you can check out a tutorial I wrote here for mobile app price optimization: https://docs.improve.ai/docs/basic-price-optimization
Is it that cheaper to custom build, if you can't ebay them off at their half life point to recover some of the cost?
Right on. I had this cycle as freelancer. Higher rates resulted in higher quality work which resulted in higher rates.

People will respect you less if you tell you don't care about money. Unless you are superstar who makes $1000/hr while saying that money is not important.
In many ways, not having ObamaCare was better option for many people. If you have unemployed parents at home, the things are shit storm right now. They would be old and buying an insurance would easily cost you 10 grands a year if not more. Previously, it used to cost only half of that because you can optimize for plans that didn't had support for things like pregnancy. Now everyone pays for everything.

There is little chance of ObamaCare working as-is or with planned modifications. The big problem is that as soon as you eliminate pre-existing conditions clause, the cost to insurance company sky rockets. Even a single diabetic person can put a hole of 10s of thousands of dollars in insurance company's balance sheet. To compensate for this you need to either charge huge premium to everyone or have tons and tons of healthy people who are just giving away money in premiums. Neither of that is happening. As long as cost of health care is an couple of orders of magnitude over the norm, this can't work.

BTW, the reason this "works" for employed people is because cost of insurance remains hidden. An average employed American would easily earn 20-30% more income if employer didn't took away part of his/her paycheck and gave it to insurance companies.
> Your general obligation, or obligation as an IT guy may vary...

... by state.
What part of the costs given in section 4 of the article do they fall under?

Or would they be additional spending on top of the billions shown there?
It's probably in between. It's incredible how he does not talk about compatibilism in a serious post about different possibilities of free will. I don't understand how that can be missed on purpose. But, his arguments and content were coherent and interesting. I don't think it hurts HN to have this on the front page.
> Automated testing is the process of writing code to understand your code. We already have to understand our code. Testing is being deliberate about that understanding and writing it down.

Tests are documentation of code behavior. Who better to document that behavior than the person that wrote it in the first place.

> It's an integrated process, not something separate.

I agree. Though I'm biased since I've mostly been in SET roles.
> My own preference remains to find a non-zero-sum solution, where access goes up but overall cost goes down.

Compared to the pattern experienced under preexisiting policy, that's exactly what the ACA did (it wasn't enough to stop overall cost growth, but it slowed it.)

Obviously, more of that effect would be better.
Seems a fair bit of it was copy pasted without attribution or consent. Normally this wouldn't be a biggie for a (presumably) casual side project, but intellectual property rights are listed explicitly [1] for the website under the "Terms of Use" tab displayed prominently at the top of the page.

I still could never blame someone for showing a little bit of work, or hell even for self-promotion when you're just getting started. But if your gonna copy-pasta you might as well leave the code comments explaining things a little bit!

[1]:https://pythonspot.com/en/terms-of-use/
Logs of Blogs of Blogs.
Well, it seems like a catchy title and an image on the project's README.md is enough to get a couple dozens of stars on GitHub.
I feel you. But I think the lock-in problem can be solved if we can have some standardization of cloud services such that you can always move to another provider. That has to start with some big company developing an abstraction layer and open sourcing it, and then we can go from there. I think Netflix has a switch from Amazon to GCP; I hope be they'll standardize it and open source it.
Unfortunately, the posted article doesn't have any attributions. This is actually an old Zen parable:

https://www.thoughtco.com/empty-your-cup-3976934
> BestBuy also specificly stated that they do not condone employees accepting payment.

"Do not condone" is different from "you're fired if you do that". BestBuy's position needs to be that it will fire people for this kind of stunt. If nothing else, it's tarnishing the brand's image.
Most of the cost is in processors and RAM so those parts can be sold at end of life. There are server recycling companies that specialize in this.
You should maybe check out who @zeynep is before you suggest she knows nothing about this subject.
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You're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem%27s_paradox ?

It's a rather limited edge-case in mathematics, it's misleading to simply assert that "everything is countable."
We don't have a ton of time, but i'm just here letting you know that the Winklevoss ETF will get approved at the end of the day today, and when that happens the price is going to skyrocket. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Until the code becomes impossible to comprehend as a result.
Conservatives have a pretty good grip on a lot of state governments, and it's a lot easier to do things at the state level than at the federal. Sorry for not making that clearer.
This is the Nth generation. Facebook has been continuously decommissioning old servers for years already.
Analysing over 40000 hacks(devpost hackathons)
On the one hand, I'm also curious, it's always interesting to see how things work.

On the other hand, if you're evaluating it in terms of use, why do you care? Your criteria should be, does it set good prices or not?
Self-employed people who could purchase insurance before without extremely high costs or no options due to pre-existing conditions are among those who pay higher prices than before the ACA, sure.

I don't see that as a "scamola".
Mostly I'm just curious what the shape of the code looks like for a scheme roguelike. What's easy, what's awkward, how easy it is to extend the rules of the world.

I've always loved roguelikes, and I enjoy reading scheme code too. The elegance and organization of really good scheme code can be a revelation!
BackBlaze, I really love their yearly Hard Drive Failure Reports.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-20...

Each time a very thorough post with good set of data to generate statistics from.
> Rust has a feature called traits. Traits are a way of doing compile-time static dispatch, and can also be used to do runtime dispatch (although in practice that’s rarely useful.)

Hmm, I dunno about that. If you need to keep a collection of callbacks, that would most certainly be a collection of Fn/FnMut trait objects, that is this:

struct Thing {
callbacks: Vec<Box<FnMut(i32) -> i32>>
}

and not this:

struct Thing<F> where F: FnMut(i32) -> i32 {
callbacks: Vec<F>
}

The same applies for any use of traits where the exact impl to be used is not known until runtime, like choosing a behavior from some set of behaviors in a configuration file.
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what is the value of a top level domain in merchandise specificalyl retally for soft goods and footwear such hats.com, belts.com etc.
There was also a BBC series that used laser scanning to develop underground maps of some areas, including ISTR parts of Rome.
Non-Turing complete systems can also allow extremely strong constraints to be embedded, while also allowing the type system to be decidable. Remember, while Rust makes a lot of noise about being safe, it isn't Ada Ravenspark, or ATS, or Idris/Agda.
You do realize that every latency you see on residential connections is magnified on mobile or even satellite connections?

If you have a RTT of seconds, 10 additional roundtrips can cost an entire minute.

These things become very noticeable very quickly if the system is in non-perfect environments.

Additionally, even with modern browsers it takes far too long to open a website — it should be 100% instant, less than one or two frames (16 or 33ms). That's not possible, as RTT is usually around 18ms between users and CDN edges, but at least it should be below perceivable delays (100ms).

EDIT:

My best websites hover around 281ms to start of transfer, and 400ms to the site being finished.

That's improvable, but most sites out there take literally half a minute to load.

Now go on a 64kbps connection, and try again. Handshake takes seconds, start of transfer is almost after 30sec, and by the time your website arrives your coffee has gone cold (a few minutes for a google search).

Years ago, Google was usable on dial-up. Now even the handshake takes as long as an entire search used to take. Notice anything?
Any sufficiently-capable team should be able to (trivially?) acquire funding to create a proper autonomous car outfit. The prize would be inconsequential relative to the startup costs, resources, and upside of such a company. It would be more like winning a Phase 2 SBIR grant.

On the flip side, any poorly-funded upstart is unlikely to make achievements capable of swaying public perception -- especially in comparison to the autonomous car divisions of big multi-national auto companies.

TL;DR: We're probably beyond the stage of a DARPA challenge for autonomous cars. Billions of dollars of private money is already flowing.
Suppose an incompetent employee plants evidence on a computer. The accused will have to mount a defense and pay an expert to examine the evidence and testify. Maybe a jury will believe it.

If it's done in a competent way, the disk can be altered. Code can be installed on the hardware that will plant evidence after the victim returns home.
Has Python killed Ruby?
If chosing to learn one or the other why would anyone choose Ruby?

Thanks
I'm guessing (hoping) most people didn't even actually look at what it was? Maybe they assumed it was related / a remake of Zuckerberg's Jarvis? [1]

As for demand for it, I'm not sure. Allo tried it, there's also a big wave of chat bots starting to get close to it, but I personally still find it it's simple to just do it myself if I'm already on the computer. At least with voice you can do it hands free. As the person above said, why not just use date instead of "what time is it?"

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarv...
Tracking which app is currently in use.

http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/

If you check out the video you can see what I am using it for.

When I started developing it there was no problems, then around when I pushed it to the app store Sandbox rules got more strict (Around Maverick) in Yosemite they made it impossible to have things run in the background instead it made a spinning gear up in the menu bar because we were using applescript which was so annoying and gave us so many complaints. We were not the only ones as you can see here https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/33333/spinning-...

I tried to talk with support about finding ways around that but they basically told me that was I was trying to do was not really allowed anymore and I would most likely not be approved next time.

The only way to get rid of the spinning gear was to use a different kind of library which wasn't allowed in the Mac App store so I pulled it.
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Can every real number be represented by a (possibly infinite) decimal? ...

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/409658/can-every-rea...
I worked on a hardware product that shipped for the Xbox 360, and it had an accelerometer.

I wanted to add a game achievement for "30 seconds of free fall". Achievable on something like the Vomit Comet. Going for 5 minutes of free-fall would have required something like a rocket. Nobody liked either of my ideas :-)
We are not talking about all personal liberties. Lets stick to the topic of regulation of Psychoactive substances. You don't face problems of abuse and dependence on, say, guns or Tanks.

> If there was a drug that gave the user unimaginable euphoria or was guaranteed to kill them with a 50/50 chance should we do everything in our power to stop that? Especially for the young and impressionable?

We do have a system in place for controlling access to substances like Alcohol and Tobacco to minors.
What complicated things would a permissions system not be able to handle?
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Haven't we learned that users will click "yes" on any dialogs that get in the way of what they want to do?

If you put an exit door on a sandbox and give the user the key, it isn't a sandbox anymore.
As someone who is playing around with it and hanging around chat rooms for it, I think it's mostly that there are a lot of gotchas and bugs. (For example, not specifying all of the fields in a task hard crashed the scheduler)
From having dipped into C++ at a point in my history, it make me think of C++ templates which were also turing complete. Many of skilled people with templates could go overboard into a point where a significant implementation of the program was in an very separated "template metaprogram space" where it was difficult to manage and debug. You would have to read some primary code, then start doing template transforms in your head to figure out what was actually happening. The compile and run-time errors that could pop out were also terrible and long, giant dumps of template syntax trees..

You can get absolutely phenomenal performance, but any major template capability has a high risk of becoming a DSL with terrible debugging ability and slow comprehensibility.

Judicious use could be very nice though...
How do you encrypt any user data without a password/key? Intelligentsia's iPhone app does this, and I deleted my account because I couldn't figure out how they were protecting my payment info.
Every bank in Canada probably. Because their back-end systems run on old IBM mainframes.
Just watched the webinar linked to. For me, one of the most interesting points, was the competitive advantage that freemium pricing combined with value based pricing can bring. Profit Well seems to be a case in point - there are a bunch of options for Stripe (et al.) analytics at the moment but it's got to be tough to compete with a fairly full featured freemium offering...
If you don't police drug distribution, wouldn't gangs/drug dealers just take over the city? i.e. it would be safe to deal drugs since its not being policed, so the "bad guys" would all try to corner the local drug market leading to turf wars and such...
I've just got an idea for a new smartphone game! :D
Microsoft Research is the genuine article. It's a world class research institution.

I guess Phoenixey/LLVM type stuff is probably the way the winds were blowing in the compiler community at large. It's interesting how a lot of things that used to seem impossible are now in multiple software packages.

You figure that once MS is rolling out a compiler technology in a big way, it can't get much more mainstream than that.

I still don't totally understand why it was important for MS to push into JIT-compiled bytecode on Windows. From the end-user's standpoint, it just makes software slower.
I don't think it's organized. I've seen otherwise benign organizations and individuals (I'm not saying Uber is benign) dragged through the mud and later vindicated.

Many different publications pile on to vulnerable targets in order to catch up with reader interest. See Fatty Arbuckle, Lindy Chamberlain.
This article reports on a New Hampshire proposal: whttp://www.concordmonitor.com/time-zone-Atlantic-bill-754516...

And this one on a Rhode Island proposal: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/11/will-new-englan...

Both explicitly require Massachusetts to go first.

Maine has been considering it for longer (which makes sense, as it's further east), since 2005, according to this story: https://bangordailynews.com/2017/01/19/politics/state-house/... . The proposals there don't seem to be contingent on Massachusetts making the first move.

I couldn't find any references to proposals in Vermont or Connecticut.
It's interesting that the main reason you can think of is individual liberty. Is that, to you, the best reason cigarettes are available for purchase?

In my personal opinion, if it were possible to enact a law which would have the effect of ending cigarette usage in the US without any other unnecessary effects (cigarette company employees losing their jobs would be a necessary effect, of course; everyone dying because we nuked the world, on the other hand, would be an unnecessary effect), then I would be 100% in favor of enacting it.

Such a law is not physically possible. A law that says "no one shall smoke, buy, sell, or make cigarettes" would not end cigarette usage in the US and would have so many ancillary negative effects as to be worse than the current situation. We saw this with Prohibition, and we're seeing it right now with the War on Drugs.

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It's also worth noting that there is plenty of underexplored middle ground between criminalization and being available at every corner store, such as:

- illegal but not criminal: minor fines for using, huge fines for selling

- suspension of privileges like driver's licenses

- you have to register on a list when you buy and be subject to social services checking up on you (list would obviously be at least as private as medical info, and you get expunged when you get clean)

- available with obstacles such as doctor's prescription, or over-the-counter but still only a subset of pharmacies
You forgot the part where you rearrange the questions so that students have to get the latest edition to be able to get the correct question 2 on their assignment.
I am increasingly against sandboxed platforms on the desktop. We have a perfectly great sandboxed platform on every desktop already. It's called the browser.

What our OS overlords need to do is create great App Stores which are intended to promote the apps that explicitly cannnot do things within a sandbox, etc., and for the rest, increase hooks that are provided to web apps so they can act as first class citizens as well.
Yes--anyone with a pre-existing condition can buy health insurance, but insurance companies can charge Whatever they feel like. I'm sure they will be reasonable? Expect to be a bit suprised.

My hope is Americans finally wake up, and in four years, have a form of Single Payer.

(In the mean time, my hope is prescription prices come down.)
It listens, you don't type anything. It isn't multi-threaded so it must break from listening when it hears something and runs through all the if statements, spawns the commands and starts listening again.
I think at that point you could look into rsync.net
California to Give the Green Light to Truly Driverless Cars
Here's an example of one:
http://cashforelectronicscrapusa.com
Consider access, similar behavior, similar prosecution and motivation.

Motivation:
Police structure and culture are set up so that catching more criminals gives kudos but not financial incentive. Other behaviors are valued higher, such as keeping calm in a situation, endurance, ability to negotiate intense situations. Crimes themselves are only a part of police work, much is peace-keeping, presence, simple observation and record-keeping. Television of course, focus on the most dramatic elements, but upon catching a pedophile, incentive isn't necessarily the highest perspective of importance. You still have to touch the creep, take their statements, deal with it emotionally, transport them all over the place in your vehicle.

Similar behavior:
With the extremely rare exception of a few bad apples, very few police plant evidence at crimes. It has happened, just like hot air balloons sometimes fall out of the sky, but it's not a system which incentivizes and rewards the behavior.

Access:
Police aren't at the keyboards of peoples' PCs, whereas Geek Squad people are given complete access to computers often in peoples' houses and in private. Moreover, they're typically working with an especially vulnerable population, those with little technical literacy. Fabricating that evidence remotely is a chore and supposing users employ half-decent passwords and ignore phishing, non-trivial. It requires special training and even equipment.

Similar Prosecution:
Piracy and other forbidden data is more efficiently done by cutting things of at the source, typically by sophisticated actors who won't be in contact with The Geek Squad. It only rarely pays to go after individuals like this, or maybe there's more to the story than we understand from what the media tells us.