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Traffic waves aren't going away. As long as you have non-zero reaction times and slower acceleration than deceleration, the phantom waves will happen as a pure result of physics. Their discovery and subsequent modeling owe to our understanding of fluid dynamics. Computers aren't magical things that destroy the laws of physics.

Faster reaction times reduce propensity, but both higher speeds and closer following distances ameliorate the benefits of the faster reaction times and increase severity. If anything changes they'll become slightly less common but much worse.

EDIT: just to add to the criticism of this list of overly fantastical fantasies of autonomous cars, the ideas about traffic disappearing when people don't have to park are trivially disprovable. It's almost as if the author has never been to an airport or school pickup zone or any other place where people don't have to park but traffic still backs up for miles.
At Berkeley they are doing exactly that. If you've ever seen the movie "At Berkeley" there's a scene where the university president discusses that very issue, the University of California system cannot hope to match the salaries offered by the private universities. It would be instructive to go over the list of who stays and who decamps to Stanford.
You cherry picked an industry only a few decades old for your American Companies. If you look at established industries the largest companies are more than a century old as well, in auto GM and Ford have 3 times the revenue of BASF and more than twice as many employees, each. For comparison of the companies you listed, Amazon's revenue last year was $133 Billion compared to GM's $166 Billion.

The US's largest chemical company, fairly close in size to BASF, is Dow Chemical, also more than a century old
I'm going to make the statement that perscription drugs aren't like other products and shouldn't be viewed as such. People literally need them to survive. This whole system of having something you need to survive being subject to market forces like some other widget is ridculous. Price fixing is absolutely a reasonable tactic to employ when the market for prescription drugs in the US is as completely useless at delivering reasonable costs to patients as it is.
It is almost always the case when it is a generic drug. Also, try to check the price at the small non-chain pharmacy, cash price might be better.
Thanks, yep it's got a thermostat inside so it only runs when the radiator is hot, plug it in and forget about it. Best place to see reviews etc is Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radfan-Classic-Low-Power-Radiator/d...
> the JavaScript engine will not accept to optimize it

What does this mean? I don't understand if it's good or bad. Sounds bad but seems good according to the table?
Sorry if that was unclear. I do value retirement savings and understand the advantage of a pre-tax retirement contribution.

What I mean to say is that salaryX + 3% 401k match is not as valuable as salaryX + 50% salaryX with no 401k match.

The extra salary you need to ignore a lack of 401k can be debated, but at some salary, I just don't care.
Optimizing coding to maximize income is a major consultancy in the industry. The key is knowing what an Insurance company will accept without questions otherwise there will be a delay in getting your money or maybe you get nothing. Recently the coding system changed to a much more detailed version (which I think was in use internationally long before the US adopted it). I don't know if it's better but there are way more ways to code things today.
No worries, we hate low info product pages so have always tried to put as much info as possible on our website.
I was under impression, that US uses variant of ICD-10 (ICD-9 few years ago) nationally, so WHO browser [1] should more or less work. Not sure if it is copyrighted per se, but most likely official document from CDC or something. It may be a way to milk more money from patients, but at a serious consequences: CDC has biased statistics, changing doctor could be problematic, and probably the doctor risks losing their licence due to document forgery charges.
I thought that patients (both inpatients and outpatients) are required to give some form of confirmation (maybe verbal) on both correctness of anamnesis and understanding of discharge summary. One should probably always take copies with themselves to read those carefully.

It would be nice if someone more knowledgeable on actual particulars could expand (I'm from metric land)

[1]: http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/Z0...
Where do you think the money for the funding came from?

Net contributors to the EU, like the UK. We gave the EU more than they spent on us (of course, because there are poorer European countries).

You make it sound like you think EU funding money was a gift from other people. It was them doing us the favour of giving us some of our own money back.

If we choose to, we can spend exactly the same money in exactly the same way. Or we could democratically decide amongst ourselves to do something different with it.
Hello I'm the founder of PubCenter.

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This is the problem PubCenter is trying to solve. We cache articles from RSS feeds and save them... allowing you to retrieve any article, at any point in time.

PubCenter essentially is what Feedly Cloud offers. Or Google Reader's RSS database (before they went defunct). In our case, we're a non-profit and don't require any signups or log any user activity. It's just free, and no strings attached.

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Well, yes. That's the great unanswered problem of the world; what do we do when that runs out or we can't burn it without exceeding safe CO2 limits?

Scotland already went through a period of energy resource shortage in the 1800s when there were very few trees left. Going back to only locally renewable resources might be like that again.
Yes, for people who don't know, this is how many things like directing users to a closer TLS endpoint for HTTP such that the overall connection suffers less latency.
That's interesting, but still that's only in one field. I'm curious if others can comment on the rate of change in other fields?
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You can also learn a ton about how to bend rules when cheating, something that's often useful out in the real world. I feel like half of what I learned in school was how to be better at avoiding doing things (including cheating, when applicable).

There's various ways to go about morals in general but "following the rules" in itself is not a good basis for morality.
It's likely that reusable Falcon 9 boosters will fly perhaps a dozen times before being retired. That's not a particularly long lifespan, and won't greatly interfere with making design improvements. Even flying a dozen times will make launches much cheaper than flying once.

Typical airplane lifespans are measured in tens of thousands of flights. It's not really comparable.
It's not only a case of "we didn't get these deals". The UK got them, it wasn't good enough so they left. If they want to rejoin they are admitting they made a huge mistake and can they pretty please come back?

Imagine you have a job, with a few perks other employees don't have, and you want more perks. And you don't get it, so you quit, complaining about how crap your employer is. A while later you ask for your old job back. What are the odds of you getting exactly the old perks back? ;)
Yes, regular folks can get in on an IPO. That's kind of the point - floating the shares publicly. Sign up for IPO's through your broker.
Despite this claim. It doesn't feel like it happens. Maybe, apps aren't writing the Cache files to the right place and that's why they aren't being cleaned up.
you are obviously right, but i think that in the specific case described above -- computer code -- we have binary digits as final and indivisible units.
Filling the top half would be more fun

https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/
They can already do it now and they aren't. If you have to convince the board, the shareholders etc to take on a risk that has a high chance of failure, it has even less chance of happening.

If a person has enough control at a company so as to be able to unilaterally spend its money, its not much different than having the money yourself.
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Correct, last article I recall reading about deciphering VBR from packet size alone was something in the neighborhood of 50% success rate.
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> who knows what will happen

A cyber-revolution. Dumb robots are not full deterrent against The People (in fact, they may make revolutions easier).

Artificial superintelligence is a very different matter.
You need food to survive as well, but any price fixing inevitably reduces supply. Reducing supplies of food is counterproductive.
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Not all of them are. At least my old one was way louder than my current. Same price range, too ($20-$30 I think, both were presents). I think I could use this one in my kitchen without waking up anyone. There's a good possibility that the old one was also noisier just because it was getting old and perhaps rattled a bit. Both are blade grinders, maybe burr grinders are louder by nature. I think if I really wanted it more quiet I could even wrap it in a towel or pillow :-p
Unfortunately we've seen similar leanings in more politicized fields.
This misleading part of the article has been updated for more clarity.

The concept of non-optimization is describbed in my previous article: https://community.risingstack.com/how-to-find-node-js-perfor...

tl;dr: you want to avoid patterns that prevent optimization: the ones with a red "no" in the table.
Ford recalls 440K vehicles for fire risk, door latch
Not bad at all.

A little self promotion: I'm part of a startup making robotics for recycling... maybe a little further along than this project :-) but it's a great start!

https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2017/03/21/carton-p...

http://amprobotics.com/
FYI: Idiomatic Javascript / Builtins should be fast with the recent revamp of the V8 engine (stop writing "CrankScript").

http://benediktmeurer.de/2017/03/01/v8-behind-the-scenes-feb...

https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/TurboFan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1FBosB5tjM
Can't say I'm a huge fan of Dropbox
One concern about Dropbox I have is its inability to establish itself beyond its File Storage / Syncing software. Salesforce.com, in comparison, has been acquiring companies left and right. Notable acquisitions of Dropbox, like Mailbox, have either shut down, or are nowhere on the impact map. As Dropbox user (albeit a free one), I don't find it useful for anything beyond synced storage (if there is any new addition in their interface, I might have missed it). After I started uploading pics on Google photos, I have little to store on Dropbox.

Synced storage might be big enough problem for it to continue to grow bigger, but I wonder if it's a meaningful moat. What if the storage + software gets commoditized to an extent that it becomes essentially free for most people?
Given that new ideas in a field often get reviewed by incumbents in said field (due to the requirements of pre-publication peer review) this can certainly delay their uptake or even full examination.

This kind of ingrained conservatism can delay progress both of a field and those examining it. It is a catch-22 as you want qualified reviewers to examine a paper so it isn't bunkum but equally those reviewers may slow it down because it is a valid advance in contrary to their position.

Perhaps a move to post-publication peer review and greater pre-print deposition would help, but that would take a deep cultural shift.
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Unrelated and I'm sorry for that, but do you know of a good way to get rid of the scroll hijacking? I didn't find a lot of extensions for Chrome and the one I tried wasn't working.

It blows my mind to encounter this bad practice on a developper related website.
There's lots of things I can't say.
Hacker News gets about 300K unique visitors per month. That's ~0.0042% of the world population. Hardly a representative sample to make those kinds of ridiculous statements.
Many people work for less than the minimum wage, so I'm not sure if that counts.
We need food to survive, and market forces work fine. In fact, I would say that the U.S. supermarket is a model of market efficiency.
For anyone interested, MIT's systems class has students read two different papers on buffer bloat:

http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/papers/gettys.pdf

http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/papers/allman.pdf
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Darwin was thinking during his walks. During his writing tasks much of the activity was mechanical or the consolidation of notions arrived at during leisure. What society regards as 'work' largely comprises the application of existing knowledge and the running of errands.

>He was passionate and driven, so much so that he was given to anxiety attacks over his ideas and their implications.

Emotions driving emotions? No, he was right to be anxious about the consequences of his work. Though marvellous and important and interesting, not to mention true, it set up a huge conflict in the psyche of the West due to the competing claims of science and religion. Which still hasn't been resolved.
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Yes it is very unusual in this industry. As a matter of fact, it is so unusual that it will continue to exist for the foreseeable future since most companies depend heavily on the licensing model to survive. It's the heart of their operation - changing it would most likely have an adverse impact on their business.

But, it is going away with companies like Fenero, and now Amazon Connect, leading the way.

Amazon Connect has a lot of catching up to do since it is no where near the feature set required to run a real contact center (it can't even support blended agents or call outcome dispositioning and reporting!)

I totally understand why Amazon Connect may seem like a big deal for those of you outside of the space, or that aren't real close to the various advanced technological capabilities in this industry.

Check out this analysis for more:
http://blog.fenero.com/amazon-connect-is-not-only-over-price...
Not to rewrite is a very sensible decision due to the fact that the current way of programming is un-rewritable. For example, people don't write FORTRAN in every language. The choice of programming language often fundamentally change the way we approach programming. Switching language not only involves addition or reduction of language constructs, it fundamentally alters programmer's highest level thinking process. That is not a merit.

What we need is a meta-layer programming interface that isolates our higher thinking from lower language concerns to some degree. If you can keep the higher level understanding, then rewriting become less of a barrier. We need write pseudocode in every language.

I have been exclusively programming with a meta layer, MyDef, for quite a while, and I routinely re-write my Perl program to C, not without effort, but always a worthwhile effort trading for the goal of rewriting (speed in this case). I am a researcher, and I rarely write production code. But for production code, I think most software should consider rewriting in Rust.

Prototype in Perl/Python, develop in C, and produce in Rust -- makes good sense. It makes good sense in our current non-software industry, where researchers, developers, and producers are people with different focus and use different material and tools. This is not true for our software industry, where people who are not interested in researching or developing are forced to research and develop, and people who are only interested in research are forced to develop and people who only interested in developing are forced to research and produce.

My example: http://hz2.org/blog/send_more_money.html
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Wow if people go to Stanford for more money I can't imagine how low Berkeley pays.
Contributing to an open source project (coredns - who are super-helpful) was also one of the steps that I took to learn Go. It's a good early step but I still think you should do some tutorials before asking for a person's time.
True, that's better, should have thought of it :)
Workaround -- USB wifi dongle that requires a button press to connect to a new domain name.
> Or: we could just emulate what those other countries are doing to control prices

Because centrally setting prices is very difficult, and that difficulty scales super-linearly with size.

Every other country that controls pharmaceutical prices is significantly smaller than the US is, and they also fund much less pharmaceutical R&D than the US does[0], even though they essentially import the benefits of that R&D at reduced prices[1].

If the US tried to do that, pharmaceutical research would completely evaporate in the US, which would impact every other country that either produces or imports drugs produced in the US as well[2].

Instead, cross-border trade ensures that research funding is proportional to drug consumption.

[0] Until a few years ago, US funded more than half the R&D of the entire world. It's now around 44%, mostly because China and India have been growing rapidly.

[1] Even pharmaceutical companies based in Europe receive most of their R&D funding either directly or indirectly from the US.

[2] Which is literally every other country in the world, even countries like India which do not recognize US pharmaceutical patents.
Its been a while since I worked in the field but I'm pretty sure the main sources of electrical power in Scotland are the nuclear AGR sites at Torness and Hunterston B.
Okay, before I read them, are you saying that these books contain evidence for the rather startling thesis that hours of labor are not required for achievement?

Because if they are just laying out what you need to succeed (focused practice, immediate feedback, elemental skills or whatever the current theory might be) then, although valuable, it doesn't speak to the matter at hand.
The author of the story should have been terminated on the spot. "I pulled the headphones from Bartholomew’s head, cracking the plastic in the process" Really, as a coworker I would have stoop up for Bartholomew.
Yeah, science is just so hard these days.
> If one has a good sit/stand desk and spends a lot of time coding while standing, 10 minutes lying on a bed is incredibly replenishing for example.

Pomodoros[0] are life changing. While writing a paper/fiction/code/anything, I force myself to take that break; even if I'm on a roll. Sometimes I leave myself a note "When you get back, solve this particular problem/write this particular part" or I'll scrawl some shorthand solution for the problem on my whiteboard. I'm way way more productive if I do anything else for 10 minutes, whether it's laundry, video games, lying down, reading fiction... doesn't matter. It's almost like my brain is working while I'm relaxing.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
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As others have stated, DNSSec only solves for authenticity of the data, not privacy.

DNSCrypt has been designed to both authenticate, authorize and encrypt the channel.

Using both in conjunction means that you have a private connection with authenticated data coming from the upstream resolver. Now the obvious issue is you don't know what the upstream resolver does with that...
I think it's somewhat the point of an IPO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering
you're arguing against a strawman, the post you're replying to was discussing the posthumous will specifically.
I hope you're right, and I think you might be, but keep in mind that much the same was said about fission power in the 1950s. The classic phrase was that electricity would become "too cheap to meter."

This wasn't an outrageous assumption given how cheap fuel costs were. But it turned out that running real-world nuclear plants had enough other costs to not be much, if any, improvement over other sources of power.

Fusion fuel is really cheap, but that doesn't necessarily mean that fusion power will be.
How early should you hire a UX designer?
It's not explicitly stated but reading this I get the feeling the idea of "trade mastery" is centered around the individual when reading this post. Personally the most significant developments in my career and skills have been when working with others who are better than me. For me that means finding a workplace with skilled individuals who are capable problem solvers in their own regard (their own specialty and methods - with overlap of course). Second to that, and only by a very slim margin is that in such a workplace I would want be working on an interesting product/ service.

So prefacing this with the fact I am currently on a good salary. Would I take a pay cut to work in somewhere where I am more closely surrounded by superlative talent? Fuck yes I would.
Scientists and Entrepreneurs are two very different kinds of people. Creative thinkers vs Executers.
This exactly. ESPN was forced to sign such exclusive contracts in order to get the content. They are not permitted to sell the content any other way (like to individuals). It's a terrible contract they cannot get out of. If Disney pushed ESPN out on its own, that entity might be might be able to renegotiate. Of course the NFL for example could always sell the content to some other sucker then. Sports content is a nasty business.
Why do they need to expand beyond that? Am I idealistic to say a company can survive just by doing something really well. Salesforce is hardly a paragon of a well-executed clear and consistent vision.

I pay Dropbox because I can rely on their backups any place at any time, not because their storage is cheap.
> We've know about this for years though. Libreboot, Coreboot and even Google have begged Intel and AMD to provide chips without backdoors installed and they have refused.

Not to defend Intel/AMD here, but they might have refused because the ME (or AMD equivalent) is now required to initialize portions of the platform.

x86, by nature of being an x86, starts in 16 bit mode and requires a lot of configuration to get it working as x86_64, not to mention the plethora of IO attached to a modern CPU.

If you read some books on the ME [0], you'll find that it not only does DRM stuff, but it's also quite involved in the initialization of the IOMMU (or something similar to the IOMMU, my memory fails me) and other modern x86 subsystems everyone has grown accustomed to.

So it may simply be that Intel isn't willing to put a dollar amount on engineering a CPU able to operate without the ME to do this extra initialization.

I think the eventual solution will be a new CPU architecture which doesn't have so much legacy baggage attached, and which allows for x86 compatibility via an emulation/translation layer. I'm actually quite interested to see how well Microsoft gets along with x86 compatibility on their upcoming ARM port of Windows 10.

[0] http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781430265719