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> support for the notion

So it's a theory, not a proven "fact." Can we know for 100% sure before we replicate a sun and see the expected behavior and output?

I'm just taking issue with the liberal use of the word "fact" in my comment's parent. It seems to have become as diluted as "literally."
I only came to HN somewhat recently, around 2 years ago, but I've started to notice a very major change in the culture of this forum lately. There is so much vitriol and blanket insults being levied at anyone and everyone. The linked article is almost always a sideshow, and simply acts as a prelude for the battle in the comments section. A battle which has little to do with what the article itself says, and is simply a dumping ground for the prior beliefs and soapboxing that people actually come here for.

This above comment is a perfect example. I don't know much about Marc, but where I'm concerned, he's just a guy who has experience in the VC scene, was invited to talk at an event, and agreed to share his personal thoughts and strategies. I read through the article, and nothing that he said really stood out in any way, good or bad. The thing about self-driving cars was just him saying "look at the potential upside for people who're currently wasting time in daily commutes" and "don't nitpick so much on the things that can go wrong, that you lose sight of the potential for things to go tremendously right".

A little platitude-like, sure. But not really objectionable in any way. I certainly don't think anything he said in the article warranted a ranting about "hot air coming out of money-grubbing share-diluting quality-of-life-ruining tech oligarchs whose feet we're worshipping". If you really want to have a discussion about this tangent, write your own blog post, submit it, and let's have a discussion there. But it's sad to see the comments thread get hijacked by such superfluous soapboxing.

I realize that me posting this isn't going to do anything. This is a lost cause, and my venting is more cathartic than anything. The culture of this place has changed, and I don't think we can ever go back to how it used to be. I guess it's time to start looking for another place to frequent.
I would check out some of the other Elevr experiments. http://elevr.com/projects/
At this point, places like Scandinavia should have made it clear that socialism per se isn't the problem so much as cult-of-personality authoritarians who use the ideals of socialism as cover for bottomless corruption and ruthless oppression.
Italy just banned Uber in favor of taxis
I mean, personally I think everyone should be prepared to start a life of crime. But hiding your genes is like trying to hide what you look like - basically impossible. Privacy is about not being able to associate people's actions with them, not hiding that people exist in the first place.
A better question: given that it takes a month of preparation, and given my current experience/knowledge, do I have a decent chance of getting an offer from Google?

I don't really care what are the chances for an average US programmer. If I believe I have a decent chance, I will go through it, because it's worth it for me.
Not yet, but I am hoping for good things.

Trailer for previous movie by the director:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUWZZC8RWYI
In what way is that description inaccurate?
Thank you for that comment. I haven't fully digested it yet, but thank you.
You are absolutely right -- I was poking fun at the absurdity of saying that people as a culture or nation can be obsessed with self-improvement and perfection every waking moment.

I have heard the phrase used in the same empty way that many places must use it, along the lines of corporate pep-talks, such as "Listen up! We must improve and get better at what we do, etc. etc." This is obviously not the Toyota kaizen meme as said and did.
That will cause an immediate surge of investment into all kinds of storage systems.
Street maps? Kind of service their customers asked to buy? They don't know anything about why you're browsing but they know what kind of service you're buying from them because you told them. OK you could buy the basic corporate package because you like the download speeds and then just use it as a consumer to watch multiple cat videos at once, but most people aren't going to pay extra for the business package. It's like lying to political pollsters, a few people do it but not enough to invalidate the basic methodology of polling.
I think there might be a substantial difference between chess and go here: if you watch, e.g., AGA's reviews of the games on their youtube channel (by Michael Redmond or Jennie Shen), they make it quite clear that in the short-time-control game AlphaGo clearly outplays the human in a global, strategic sense. In fact, Redmond says the games get quite uninteresting relatively soon after AlphaGo takes the global lead, as it just tries to "wrap up". This is not about humans making blunders, like in chess, so it's seriously different from how chess engines play.

I think the main reason analogies with chess engines don't work very well is that in chess any piece can attack/capture any other piece, leading to some very intense tactics. In go, a weak group can't really attack a strong group at all.
Oh, yeah the divideSomeNumbers() function doesn't work correctly. It should probably be using:

var divider = dividers[divisor] || dividers[undefined];
That still doesn't explain how whether or not the user was illegally leaking documents is relevant. The request has nothing to do with that. You can read it yourself.
one of my deepest historical tech regrets is that I never got into MUDs

I did, however, play Trade Wars and the PIT on BBSs in the 80s...

I recall smoking pot while playing trade wars in about 1991 or so... and I was trying to corner the market on grain, but instead of buying all the supply with my massive bank roll, I accidentally sold all my grain and screwed up my position on the galactic totem pole.
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We can't look/talk to each other at lunch without staring at our phones why do we think we're going to spend quality time with people in a self-driving car? The car isn't a solution to that problem.
And _that_ is the purpose of the State.
uhm, playable on linux?

EDIT: wow - yep linux DL - fuck yes!
It's really a fascinating phenomena when you think about it.

Technology has warped and dominated our world and culture to an extent it never has before.

I like to imagine a little scene: a primitive man bows at the feet of another who fashioned a knife out of a mammoth tooth.

That's more or less what we still do today.

The technological and scientific have replaced the religious as the ruling dogma and organizational frameworks of the world. Just as many folks in the middle ages probably couldn't conceive of the radical changes that would happen were religious hegemony toppled, it's hard for us to conceive of a world where the ruling technological caste loses their influence.

But what a wild world it might be.

What bothers me the most about our current age is our lack of questioning when it comes to technological progress. We have a sort of close your eyes and jump philosophy when it comes to technology--we seem to go ahead and create new technologies before a. considering the full scope of their possible effects, and b. developing the requisite social, political, and economic structures to support the shifts they'll bring about (e.g. in the case of self driving cars and automation of work in general we will have to switch to an economic model other than capitalism if we are against a very slim few having the majority of the world's wealth, more so than is already the case, which is hard to imagine.)

Of course, it's not possible to predict all of the side effects introducing new technology will have--for example, I doubt Tim had any notion of the extent to which the internet would change the world when he came up with an idea that let you view the documents your buddy had on his machine, but here we are.

Still, I think we have a bad tendency to accelerate change in the technological sphere while social, political, and economic structures remain woefully antiquated.
The alternative explanation is that God created stars. And that He did it such that they seem to create heavier elements through fusion. But that's just an illusion. Because, you know, the Universe is only 5000 years old.

And that alternative will pass fact checking, unless they exclude literal readings of the Bible.
Some linguists (mostly Western) have advocated transitioning to a mixed system of characters and pinyin. I don't think that will ever happen because an uglier and less harmonious writing system could not possibly be devised. Chinese would be much better off with something syllabic and square, like Hangul. With some amount of fiddling I think it could be made to work for most of the different Chinese languages and potentially even elucidate cognates between them, retaining one of the main benefits of characters.
It's for high profile cases like this that Groklaw was an indispensibile site for in-depth legal analysis. Are there any sites that offer similar content like techdirt?
Worth noting that while I might otherwise agree with your position, the thing you're missing here is that this isn't a case as you're used to seeing them, and neither guilt nor innocence is being determined here. Preliminary injunctions function very differently from other legal proceedings.

What Waymo might do is offer proof that Lewandowski stole the documents. What Uber might do is offer proof that he didn't, or that even if he did, it doesn't matter for some other reason. In determining whether or not an injunction can proceed, the judge isn't being asked to determine guilt or innocence, but to determine, based on the strength of the evidence, whether or not they might later find something like guilt or innocence enough that an injunction should or should not be granted.

If Waymo were to offer continuous video of Lewandowski stealing the documents and taking them to Uber, uploading it to their servers, and then implementing them in their self-driving cars, a judge would almost certainly find that guilt is probable enough to establish positive grounds for issuing an injunction, but that does not mean that Lewandowski is found guilty in the way that we usually associate guilt.
And the graphical interface is not only _very_ different, but works poorly in tmux.
The other possible explanation is that there is a formula for success. It's just extraordinarily complex and we haven't figured it out yet, so we just attribute it to this thing called luck, the same way ancient people didn't understand thunder and attributed it to gods expressing their anger.
We do things like scroll your name - one character at a time is rubbish.

Then we do a digital pet (think tamagotchi) and again, with a low pixel count this is crap. They want to draw unicorns or fish or bunnies. None of this is possible.

After that they want it to beep when the pet is hungry. No can do.

All pretty basic stuff.
Practically speaking, things are more nuanced than the article would imply, though - they're not 3000 completely unique characters, and at least for a lot of nouns, the radicals do serve to broadly categorize things as, e.g. "related to water", which can serve as a reading aid similar to how root words do. The author further claims "With a phonetic writing system like an alphabet or a syllabary, you need only learn a few dozen symbols and you can read most everything printed in a newspaper.", but that's only accurate insofar as reading means "pronouncing"; it's a tradeoff with being able to infer meaning.
You originally asked where property rights come from. That's the question I was answering.
It looks nice and I will certainly try it. But, no support to Py3? Common, guys, it's 2k17
I do like the idea of almost a rolling office. I've always wanted a sort of vagabond life fueled by tech. There so much out in the world and so many people. It's a shame that we're often stuck in the same places for such long periods of time.

If I become a remote/work-from-home/smb-owner I'd love to just being a self-driving car doing stuff on the go and also changing where I am all the time.
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Ah, sorry! Yeah, there are definitely a few unfortunately.

Thanks for trying it out though! :) Do you remember what the bugs are so I can fix them?
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It's a marathon not a sprint; so start now
In EU and USA, flying a passenger aircraft requires reserves of 30 minutes minimum (more in some cases, never less)

if your flight time is 20 min, you cannot legally take off

if your flight time is 31 minutes, your flight cannot legally be planned to be over a minute long
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I've always wanted to visit Shenzhen. Ever since I studied it in a required elective in college ("Design the City") I've admired it.

sn: Sometimes the required but irrelevant/"easy" classes do provide some value. Anyone in college should remember that you need to expand your mind a bit too and sometimes take these stupid classes seriously enough to get something out of them.
I take these with a grain of salt. Each person's style is different. For some people, working out of 5-9 is something they run away as fast as possible. For some, work is their passion.

Disclaimer: Google employee.
"When one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing" - Pascal

The same likely applies when reading too often and too little.

My brain needs time to synthesize information. I'd be very impressed if the subject of that little anecdote at the beginning of this article--that guy who apparently reads even while brushing his teeth--recalls more than 30% of the content he listens to.
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How often do employers give that out? Are you telling me I can tell how much my friends used to make?
Wasn't the lawsuit kicked off by Waymo accidentally receiving an attachment intended for Uber from a manufacturer that looked incredibly similar to their designs? Isn't that design proof that they were using Waymo's custom LiDAR?
That's a pretty arrogant statement. Can a science fiction writer not have knowledge of linguistics?
Awesome news! so this means anyone will be able to run their own instance of Wire.

It's written in Haskell and some Rust, interesting.
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I am actually working on being able to create recipes. The one thing left to do is clean up data. I currently have ~9k ingredients and I am working on a system so it is 1:1 (eg: Not have more than 1 instance of the same ingredient worded slightly differently).

I will make an email blast to users when it is released.

Thanks for trying it out! :)
"Modifiable" is fundamentally contradictory to a core concept of Islam; the Qur'an (mother of books) is infallible and not open to change by mankind - it has existed beside God from the beginning and transcends time. This is where it is quite radically different to Christianity (New Testament).
Both AMD's and Intel's OSS drivers are 'clean room' separate codebases to their internal closed drivers. It may be that they are specifically avoiding some features/rewriting possibly infringing code in these cases.

As far as I know, we have yet to have an open driver to get the same performance as their closed windows ones in all cases. There may be reasons behind that.
You're right that the Industrial Revolution was incredibly violent and cruel, but that's not the point "Marc" was trying to make. He was trying to say we're destroying and creating jobs all the time, so nothing to see here.

What we're doing, now, is destroying whole sectors of the job market.

It has happened before, yes! -- but it was horrible then, and it will be horrible now (and now we have youtube, which they didn't have in the UK or India in the 19th century).
"But they need to do it transparently, from the beginning. They should say it clearly and upfront: for this position, our budget is somewhere in this range"

This goes both ways I think: For this position, I am looking for something in this range, are you interested or not?
two thumbs up if something can be done to improve this that makes my complicated solution below superfluous
The request was to identify a "government official impersonator" not a "critic".

Either that was really the real motive of the officials that made the subpoena or not (my guess is actually not btw), is certainly not up to the lousy journalist that wrote that title to decide.
For some reference: DMD (the reference D compiler this thread is about), which consists of about 160000 lines of D code and 100000 more lines of C++ code, compiles in a bit over 3 seconds on my machine.
“Three of the top five hedge funds are using Foursquare data to give them an investing edge.”

When you absolutely can't find a viable business model, the last resort is to shrug, and see if you can sell your data to hedge funds.
Read about him on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai

He worked as a lawyer for Verizon before becoming FCC chairman.
As a freelancer, I'm fairly up-front about my hourly rate. If they want to pay it, I'm happy. If they don't, that's fine too. If there are other interesting aspects about the project that make up for the lower pay, we can negotiate. But it saves me time not having to talk to clients who can't afford me.

But freelancing is a different market than salaried employment. I think for salaried positions it's up to the employer to be open about their pay range.
Something I always thought was cool about dlang was that you can talk to the creator of the programming language on the forums. I don't write much D code as of now, but I always visit the forums everyday for the focused technical discussions. Anyways, congrats on the big news!
That isn't the only reason why they'd drop the request so fast. Even if they had a good reason for the subpoena, they were using the wrong type.
So you claim you're more afraid of inconsistent mobs than the government when it comes to suppression of dissent, or are you just derailing?
How are Blockly and Scratch related?
I think one of the very good features of D is that it provides a lot of infrastructure that helps with lots of little generic things -- things that are not really needed in the language, but help reduce the amount of code you write or simplify common actions you take. It seems like Walter (and all the other contributors) have distilled their experience writing programs into creating a language that helps a lot with some of these things.

Stuff that I particularly like.

Assert/Enforce: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/assert.html ,
Unit testing: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/unit_testing.html ,
Contract programming help: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/contracts.html, and http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/invariant.html ,
Scope (love this): http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/scope.html

And the other usuals -- templates, mixins, etc....

BTW, I mostly use D as a better C than as a better C++...
> Are you an IP lawyer?

No. Nor do I claim to be.

Did I say that excuse was ill founded, or that it has no basis or support in fact? No. It is, indeed, a valid excuse. That doesn't mean it's a good excuse. Who is going to sue then over IP? AMD? Intel? NVIDIA is touted to have the best drivers. By that logic, NVIDIA should sue Intel, after all, Intel got into graphics much later, so they must be violating NVIDIA's IP, right?

When it is said that "NVIDIA cannot open their source because of potential litigation", that is an excuse, not a reason. That is a potential difficulty of change, not a reason to be stagnant.

I understand how those at NVIDIA might think they need to stay proprietary. There are several valid excuses they can use to support that claim, but each excuse I have heard does not hold up in reality: NVIDIA certainly can and should change.
100% agree. People fight their own little personal battles (unrelated to the article) in the name of pride and internet points.

The comments sections are almost impossible to read because the signal to noise ratio is getting so large.
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I don't think so. It's easier to say that on paper, but in the real world, there are things like emotions, irrational people, and expectations.
I'm not sure if you mean to be hitting on old Marxist tropes on purpose or if you've just absorbed some of the talking points, but I highly doubt that any poll of people who lived outside of "western standards of affluence" and then later inside of them would reveal that people actually like affluence.

Yes, median household income has stagnated in the U.S. since 2000, while both the low-end and the high-end have improved. Can you support your claim that it this correlates with "neoliberal" policies? Where in the world has life gotten better that you think is a better model? Can you please name a place on earth where something other than free-market capitalism has proven successful?

I never claimed that no one in the U.S. or U.K. was in poverty. I claimed fewer were than before, and fewer are than in countries will less access to technology and capital.

Your other point -- that people in extreme poverty can actually be happier -- well, I don't know what to say. Feeding starving people more often seems like an intrinsically worthy goal to me. I can't imagine the pain of not having enough food for my children.
I agree, learning to really communicate with some other species on earth seems like a worthwhile challenge that would push us in interesting directions.

On another thread (about dolphins finding ways to eat octopi without getting suffocated by still-alive-and-fighting disembodied tentacles), some similar thoughts came up.

I have to wonder if one reason for slow progress is that we've bored our subjects. Maybe we should send poets and musicians as ambassadors, not literal-minded scientists.

I read of a researcher who played recorded dolphin sounds for dolphins, and she wanted to teach dolphins to say names she made up for three objects. I don't think the results were very encouraging. But that might be because the dolphins found it pointless.

Dolphins are aware of one another's sonar. So, they would never need to vocalize "Look at that over there." They already know what pod-mates are paying attention to. Why would they verbalize about things that are already obvious on the pod's echolocation radar? They might not have a use for concrete nouns. Dolphins' vocal communications might deal with abstract things like social dynamics, emotions, intuition, and humor.

One other clue: I read of a recording of an upset, irate dolphin. When slowed down significantly, it was clear the dolphin was mimicking it's trainer's reprimands. So, we have to start by admitting that their processing speed is way higher than ours. They're also the only animal with a more highly folded cortex than ours.

These are creatures that can be taught a command that means "innovate" - do something different that you haven't shown me yet today. Maybe innovation is a key aspect of their language. Maybe we need to think way outside the box about what a language could be.

As for dolphins and building ... they don't need protection from sun, rain, and snow; vast swaths of ocean are just the right temperature for them; they can sleep with half their brains at a time while swimming; and they are not interested in stockpiling food for later. What do they stand to gain from building?

What dolphins lack in material culture, they might make up for in social life, poetry, philosophy, and music. Maybe they're looking at us with pity: "Their pod dynamics wouldn't be such a mess if only they didn't waste so much time and effort building stuff..."