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HN is a SV echo chamber.

It will be a very long time before self driving cars are practical in parts of the US that do not have comparatively easy conditions for all the reasons you mentioned. Some cities in the southeast that have good automotive infrastructure will see adoption soon after the southwest. Self driving cars won't be typical in Boston or NYC for longer. Those sorts of cities don't have stupid proof markings for traffic flow the way cities that were built out post WWII do so there's a lot more subtle things involved in day to day driving that are hard problems by themselves. Odd intersections, potholes, situations where typical behavior is dependent on traffic volume, snow, etc. Rural areas add another set of unique edge cases.

Nobody is gonna pay extra for a car that can't deal with a set of conditions they encounter frequently. Have any Indian companies poured big money into driver-less cars lately?
My understanding is that if we did everything you say, it wouldn’t make a dent in the problem. It doesn’t really address the core problem with CO2 emissions.
My Twitter feed has nothing about snap so by extending your logic, Snap is dead product that noone uses!!

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Beware of observation bias.
> Unfortunately, researches and studies of personality statistics of vary large group of people(for example, behavior of an ethnic group) are very difficult and most importantly: they are politically incorrect, considered harmful and forbidden, as well as the conclusions will not be accepted by public.

Do you mean politically incorrect in China? Otherwise, I'd just call this kind of study Anthropology (of some form).
It's also Congress' fault because they insist on extremely expensive programs such as SLS and Orion.

See https://arstechnica.com/science/2010/04/obama-resuscitates-o... and https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/10/nasa-panel-argues-fo...

Quote: "The committee has concluded that NASA now has plans that don't reflect any sort of budgetary reality".
This is back in 2010.

More recommended reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System#Criticism
It is great that they're announced for an August release, but when I can actually BUY one?

Given that Naples (aka Epyc) was "released" in June, I went looking to actually buy one, and I could not find a single place selling them. Not Newegg, nothing local, nothing in Google shopping, etc.
It surprised me how childish a lot of supposedly professional adults could be.
Definitely. I've been in a number of discussions (read: arguments) about NASA's state of funding -- with some preferring to claim Trump has raised NASA's funding for space exploration substantially.

It takes 5 minutes on Google to find historic data of % of spending budget. To get to the moon ("and the other things") Kennedy/LBJ-era funding was between 1.19% and 4.7% if I recall correctly. During Obama's admin I think it reached a low of 0.46% after the recession. Trump raised that to 0.5x% I believe. Not exactly a windfall on NASA's scale...

I know I'm using relative figures here, but maybe somebody who's more informed can assess the reliability of a % of budgetary spending's impact on r&d in these cases vs. hard dollar figures which are probably a bit easier. USA budgets are not my strength. I just want to see Mars happen ("and the other things").
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Comprehensive explanation of how fucked up this is, from an autistic person instead of a mental health professional making money off stigmatizing us:

http://thesubjectsupposedtoknow.us/talking-back-about-my-def...

http://thesubjectsupposedtoknow.us/talking-back-about-my-def...

The cost of having to go through life with people believing all of that shit is indescribable. Like, this stuff makes people die alone for real. This stuff makes people unemployable and untouchable.

And it's a lot to do with the fact that "normal" people in our society have to be emotionally avoidant or they couldn't deal with how fucked up they're making everything on purpose. This is why emotional retardation is the definition of masculinity here. How can you dominate your slaves and have feelings at the same time?

In olden times, autistic people were probably the clergy everyone else turned to for moral guidance because we can actually think consistently without making every last thing about ego. It's not autistic people denying climate change over not knowing how to be a person if business ever did something bad.

I wish autism awareness would go the fuck away so I can explain myself to people instead of explaining why the authority on who I am is completely full of shit and needs their own therapy more than I do.

True fact: I'm an autistic psychologist and I encounter people with godawful theory of mind all the time, every day. Probably half the mentalization problems in autism come from the trauma of what the normal people do to us, but it doesn't occur to anybody that autistic people have feelings to be traumatized about.

Do people realize that the overwhelming majority of information on autism is highly pejorative, even stuff by autism experts claiming to be our friends?

http://thesubjectsupposedtoknow.us/tony-attwood-and-the-neol...

http://thesubjectsupposedtoknow.us/darold-treffert-and-the-a...

Asperger's isn't a real problem. It only looks that way because the normal people have decided to base nearly all social interactions on avoidance and dishonesty because they're lacking in emotional resilience because they're raised by TV, which makes them feel bad on purpose. Our culture is based on being a sleazy businessperson and making a religion out of that.

Autistic people watched the "good people" stand there and do nothing while they got bullied. We're not naive.

This is a society where being a wife beater is actually less of an obstacle to finding relationships than having an autism diagnosis.

The normal people want it to be middle school forever because they liked it there, at our expense.

Try to spend a week and make note of how many things you see shit-talking either black people or autistic people. Now imagine all of those things are directed at you and that's what daily life is.

Fuck you, too, normal people.
Use Falcon Heavy by SpaceX or New Glenn by Blue Origin for a fraction of the cost of SLS.

Orion may be worth keeping. It is limited to 4 astronauts which is probably too small a crew for a 2.5 year Mars mission. I do think that it could be built much cheaper, however.
I hate to agree with Microsoft, but I think this is correct. At least for the foreseeable future. The thing is, for all the cool stuff that AI/ML can do now, our best AI's are still really stupid compared to a human in the general sense. OTOH, making a narrow AI that can be really good at some specific niche task is very doable. So the model of "human complemented by AI" seems very reasonable to me.

Of course we might get to AGI one day, but my take on that is this: If the old saw that "it's the second 90% that gets you" holds for software, then for AI it's more like "it's the second 99.9% that gets you and then the third 99.9% that really gets you". And I don't think we're anywhere near finishing even the first 99.9% either.
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That's right, the reward for mining a block doesn't change just because you put more effort into it, and the difficulty adjusts to keep the rate approximately the same over time. The only reason it takes so much power to mine is there are so many people competing for the same limited prize.
I'm pretty sure the big reason Apollo was successful was that they had enough support to get the job done within that 8-year period. And, no surprise, Nixon's election heralded the end, although inertia kept it moving for a few years.
I could actually see the 'old woman with asthma inhaler' one being an actual product. The rest..not so much.
How is this a 'lost art'? I had to do this in college. Didn't we all?
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Which goes away once you're locked into traffic, and unfortunately driving a motorbike is not always practical.
With $10B and <10 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA
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Not only are viruses a cool (if somewhat nefarious) DNA-delivery system (though, HIV being a retrovirus probably means that it delivered RNA instead of DNA), but it can be targeted. HIV viral particles attack human immune cells, which just happen to be the general cell type that needs to be treated in this case! Using something like hepatitis or HPV probably would do the trick here since those viruses wouldn't have the keys to unlock the doors to get inside of the T cells.
Increasing the block will solve the problem until the new size is not enough, which will be very soon. A larger block means a larger blockchain, and the nice thing about the blockchain is that you can download the entire thing. With a larger block it will outpace the storage advances and will not be downloadable for the average user, which means that only specifically equipped entities such as miners will be able to have a copy of it, and that is a big problem.

10x the transactions is not much at all. The comparison with the VISA network is not a valid one - with micropayments the volume could be 100x or 10000x - we should be able to accommodate it.

The only solution is to begin handling transations off-chain. But the problem is that there is no one good proposal for it. Until it is clear how off-chain transactions work, we will keep seeing this sort of stuff.
Assuming a PC-12, about 79 gallons of jet fuel, one way. Seats for six, eight or nine people depending on the configuration. Let's say eight, so ten gallons of jet fuel per person per direction.

A gallon of jet fuel releases 20lbs of CO2, so 200lbs.

PC-12's are really efficient aircraft, both in terms of fuel usage, but also maintenance. Your average business jet costs 5-10 times more per hour to operate (not counting pilots)
I haven't taken the SAT in a long time, but I can speak on the GRE

For the GRE Verbal, you just have to memorize about a thousand words to basically get everything right except for the reading comprehension. that puts someone's score somewhere around ~158/170. I dont think memorizing 1k words is a very hard thing to do, though i am baffled that people dont do it.

For math, a person should memorize special right triangle ratios, prime numbers under 100, and some geometry rules. the rest is just practicing a finite set of question types.

Its all very coach-able
SpaceX's ITS could be developed for a similar cost as SLS+Orion, while being vastly more capable.
@sagarm 's comment clears this up pretty well, but to clear up the monopoly point:
You can always drive on a different road. It might take you a lot longer, but you have many options. Many (most?) internet connections are not like this. Even in suburbs close to big cities any one ISP often has a monopoly. My entire town only has Comcast, and it's very close to a large US city. Personal example, but there's no options.
But where are the people actually advocating for more competition amongst ISPs? Google Fiber couldn't even break into the market in silicon valley and nobody seems to care. Instead people seem to have been sold on the impression that we can regulate our way into better service, which is ridiculous.

Until we actually do something about getting last mile competition, last mile connectivity will continue to stagnate and we will continue playing these inane cat and mouse games with what an ISP should be allowed to do with their networks.
I assume the idea would be to stream in the content as required, rather than a giant upfront download, and maybe there'd be a way to prompt the user for a LocalStorage limit bump so that you could put player models or other common stuff in there?

Either way, in a world where people are regularly streaming Blu-ray quality content over the internet, downloading a few 100MB per session doesn't seem unreasonable.
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I'm still waiting for this bug to be fixed: https://community.amd.com/message/2796982

Note: this isn't a bug in gcc, but looks like hardware bug related to hyperthreading.
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I don't think FH is enough for manned mars missions. It has enough delta V to land there but not to come back.
I graduated highschool in 2002 and college in 2006. I've never done square roots by hand or even seen how it would be done until now.
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A lot of consultants do exactly this in Dubai! Most have their families in Dubai, but fly to Kuwait / Saudi / etc for the week and come back for week ends see their families.
Law of Demeter, much?
This thread is about bitcoin, not ethereum.
They still diminish. Compare these two photos (look at the red tree in the middle ground):

FB: https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19477594_10155418324...

500px: https://500px.com/photo/218120761/sunrise-on-monte-fitz-roy-...
Interestingly the NFL uses the Wonderlic test.
...and yet, it's only four letters to spell 'race'. And its not there, anywhere. So easy to have said 'drivers will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion' or some such. And they didn't say it.
Which is exactly why they want to offload the responsibility onto someone else.
This page answers a question I was thinking about in the shower this morning: what is the latest date (as a UNIX timestamp) you can store in a regular postgres integer column, which has a max value of 2147483647 per the postgres docs. It turns out that the answer is January 19 2038 03:14:07 GMT.

I'm working on a project that involves sync, and we're keeping track of action numbers by incrementing the last action number, but for various reasons I was thinking, "what if we replaced the action_number field with the corresponding timestamp integer?"

Then I began to ponder which integer format to use -- if I could get a way with just postgres integer, or if I needed to stop up to bigint. It turns out I should probably step up to bigint if I do this :-)

Anyway, I could've just done this in ruby, but by the time I saw this I had forgotten I was thinking about it, and this reminded me.
> It always frustrates me when commenters are overwhelmingly undereducated about a topic but continue to make broad, sweeping generalizations.

This sentences describes about 80% of the comments in HN. We computer nerds like to think we know about everything.
It's a long standing model in the software world (freemiums, sharewares, etc). I suspect SoundCloud demographics won't withstand a mandatory subscription.
So, three years ago, I was attending DBC and getting my first exposure to web app development. Today, I write code for a living and am enjoying the work I do much more than what I had been doing before.

Did DBC give me an education equivalent to a computer science degree? No.

Did they teach me everything I need to know about data structures and algorithms? No.

Did they help me get my first programming job? Sort of, but not really.

But I did learn an enormous amount of practical knowledge in a very short time (basically: "How to build and deploy a database-backed CRUD app with a reasonable UI while working as part of a small fast paced team" and "How to research stuff you don't know the answer to and figure out how to do it on your own").

They taught me what I needed to know to teach myself the rest of what I needed to know to get where I wanted to be. And for that, it was worth it for me.

But I do have mixed feelings about the bootcamps in general.

They can be really helpful for people in certain circumstances (in my case: career changer who needed to jumpstart the learning process and get some practical guidance), but they sell themselves as something else ("Learn to be a computer programmer in 6 months!").

Sorry to hear they are shutting down. I suppose it was Kaplan's decision and the space has become so crowded that there must be pricing pressure on the programs and a limit to how many graduates the job market can absorb. Will have to go look into this some more and see what I can find out.
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Right, I think that the right thing to do was either pay to book the crew members with another airline (or private plane) or rent them a car. People have also said hiring a limo to transport that distance cost about a thousand, I don't know if that is true or not though, I've never hired a limo.

Thing is, I'm not sure those arrangements were actually considered by United though, they seem very short sided in general.

I didn't really consider resting times might be an issue though.

The important part is don't board a passenger THEN kick them off. If they are bumped, they shouldn't ever board.
You're right. FH would be only an intermediate step until ITS becomes available.
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Anyone can see the benefit of being able to harvest water out of the air particularly in areas where safe drinking water is inaccessible; however, I immediately think back to Physics 101... for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What about the plants/environment that depend on the water from the air for their survival? And what will happen if those plants start dying off? The ripple effect could be huge.
Answering as a current employee. When these were being phased out to start to lower costs students and graduates reacted strongly that they felt they were a large part of our value. Part of what makes us "us". As another commenter in here pointed out: bootcamps aren't for everyone.

We were up front about these things being part of our program because we want to focus on the human aspects of people as much as technical skills. That meant some people were better suited to join other places, but some people came specifically because of this part of it.
Goldman's been inching away from the "white shoe" aesthetic for some time ---> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/business/28lloyd.html

but there's an important lesson to be learned here about simplicity. simplicity in aesthetic. simplicity in uniforming and above all, simplicity in presentation.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? Composer is the most popular PHP packager and its two core commands - update and install - make updates to and install from the composer.lock file respectively
Not just simple speculation, explicit "greater fool" speculation.
I am not an expert, but I heard differently. IBM z13 CPU had to decrease the frequency compared to its predecessor, because they had a rule that the CPU should be able to operate on contents of L1 cache in one cycle, and they decided to expand L1 cache a bit. So I think "wires are too long" problem is alive and well when it comes to L1 cache size.
They should cut the defence budget. 611B/year it's a joke.
>Isn't prevention better than cure?

No. There is very rarely an example of a regulation being passed in the fast moving field of technology that has no poor side effects. Unless there is a glaring problem, it is reckless to pass regulations for what-if scenarios.
Well, if you think that C is going to go the way of conversational Latin, that would probably be accurate. I doubt that's accurate, because:

1. The fact that fewer people are choosing C for other projects doesn't mean they can't or won't learn it for kernels.

2. Nobody has yet to produce a language that is clearly superior to C for systems programming. Otherwise, we would be seeing movement towards that language instead of Java and Python.

The other thing to remember is that these are GitHub projects; the vast majority of them are not going to be kernels but application software or libraries. That would explain the moves from C to Java and Python; it's easier to write applications in those languages.
I watched that video, the following comment was the most interesting observation for me (I'd want to research this more, but it's an interesting starting point):

Historically, because the oldest bookstore which called "新华书店“ in China is state-owned, they do not have the right to drive the customers away just because they can not buy the books. On the other hand, during that time(1940s), more than 85% of the population are illiterate, so the goverment encouraged people to read in the bookstore and deliberately pulled the price of books. Economically, because the bookstore in China is a collection of various other business projects, such as Tea bars, coffee shops, Stationery shops and so on(you can find these in the veido), so a large number of customer flows will generate huge business benefits. In fact, many bookstores in the UK also allow customers to do so. These are the reasons why this 'porblem' happend in China. I suggest you, please do a little investigation before making a rash judgment
That's almost true, and is a well known part of pharma strategy. For example Botox was initially approved for hyperhydrosis (excessively sweaty palms and armpits) and was used off label for its most well-known application, wrinkles. It was finally approved for wrinkles only recently having been approved for other things along the way.

Any MD can prescribe any (non-opiate) drug for any indication. But the drug companies are prohibited from doing what you say: telling docs about usages they haven't proven in trials. Sometimes the sales rep will drop off a scientific paper (often funded by the drug company) about some other use of the drug -- enforcement in this area is uneven.

If they do want to advertise new uses they need to do new trials. And though existing trial data can also be used, if the dosage regime is different or, say the patient pool tox risks are different (perhaps the new indication is less serious than the orphan one) whole new tox studies may be needed. Which seems fair.
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This article is a non sequitur. Spends the first half taking about the rising usage of low precision work in ml and then talks about how CERN is still using high precision.

Seems like the missing bit is talking about how CERN could benefit from low precision? But it's certainly not in the article.
I've always wondered the legality of doing things like this. Have there been cases where someone was taken to court (in the US) for reversing an API from a mobile app or website? Assuming no malicious action or intent of course. Could the CFAA be used in this case, even if the intent was just to understand the API for personal use?

With so many IoT devices out there relying on 3rd party web services that may or may not be around a year from now, I expect that the right to inspect and understand these APIs will become more and more important. Not to mention wanting the ability to build interactions between devices where the manufacturer may not have interest (IFTTT, etc).
My teachers noticed it in the 3rd grade. I was able to write cursive, but it took me far longer. The result of this is me using a device called an Alphasmart (they stopped making them a couple of years go), through the rest of my education.
>Every time I hear it happen when passing though the USA

Which country do you live in? I didn't know there were countries that forbid the airlines from overselling seats and forced them to fly airplanes with empty seats when there are no shows.
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Seriously! "The U.S. military budget is higher than the nine other biggest military budgets in the world combined."
It's insane.

Btw for 2017 it's 773.5 billion USD.
A not insignificant amount of SpaceX's funding (especially considering the critical time of that funding) is from NASA. They are also leveraging decades of NASA research in their engine and rocket design.

I'm a huge fan of SpaceX, and think they (and other like them) represent the future, but they have a little ways to go before they are completely financing their own R&D (at the moment they're still spending a lot of public dollars).