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I love this article because it reveals just how terrible many of us are at truly understanding the impact that new technologies can have in the world. The author takes the possibility of self-driving cars and then basically predicts what the world would be like if we did EVERYTHING EXACTLY THE SAME except for the fact that there is no human driver.

Except that's not how this works. No driver means many of the costs of operating the vehicle change -- including the cleaning cost. It will become far, far cheaper to clean the vehicles, not less. Fleets will be able to intelligently organize themselves to drive to cleaning stations in the most efficient manner. With dedicated self-driving cars, it will be trivial to install a ceiling mounted camera in the car. You could simply take a picture of the car before the customer enters and after he leaves, and simply diffing it could give you some estimate of how "messy" it is -- and it could even be used to alert customers if they left something in the car. Accountability for what the customer does in in the car will be higher than ever.

Self-driving cars will make taxis cheaper AND cleaner.
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>The 2.1+ GC usually spends less than 1% of time in collection. That's fast by any language standard. The next step for Ruby will be a method JIT. There are two promising method JITs in development using LLVM as a backend.

I have read this number of times, now one Method JIT is shown, what is the other one?
Hotels cost orders of magnitude per night than renting an apartment, largely because of the cost of cleaning them. The ones that are cheaper are the ones that tend to suffer problems with cleanliness.

Taxis currently cost orders of magnitude more than owning a car. One of the main goals of a self-driving taxi service would be to radically reduce this cost, but it would probably be too expensive to do a manual clean between trips.

Maybe we just need to design cars that are self-cleaning as well.
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The Chinese press has gone super soft on Trump in the last few months, and they rarely talk about his discontentment at home. But that isn't much evidence, of course.

My comment on robustness is a bit tongue and cheek. Democracy provides pressure valves via elections (vs. brittle revolutions), so is a bit more stable than an autocracy, while American government provides further stability via separation of powers and checks and balances. I honestly think we will be ok with Trump, he can't do too much damage on his own, well, except for that whole nuclear football thing.
Very much, thanks a ton. Good luck
EU programmer salaries are way too low. In the US a senior web dev can make $200-300K. Good luck finding anything even close to that in the EU. Maybe if you're extraordinary, but then you can make a lot more in the US.
The article is vague about what the main problem was in the bosses view, which they must have told him at the original "needs improvement" meeting (they actually should have told him earlier in a friendlier setting, too).

If it was his non availability when expected (meetings/telecons) or missing explicitly agreed to deadlines, I agree with your non-professional label.

If he got a task to do in 3 days and delivered in 3 days he did just fine even if he was on a beach with the phone off the first day. In this case the failure is with the management who didn't know how to run a remote team (which is a rare skill, too).
I'm not sure if you're trying to make a point with a misspelling, but the term the media gave us was 'soundbite'.
Yep. The iPhone has close to 100% market share among visually impaired users, because the accessibility features are so far in advance of Android. Google have been playing catch-up for years, but they just don't have the obsessive single-minded focus on UI that Apple are famous/notorious for.

When the iPhone originally launched, blindness charities were protesting that the touch screen interface would exclude visually impaired users. Less than a year later, the iPhone was being hailed as one of the greatest advances for visually impaired people since braille. Say what you like about Jobs and Ive, but they set the bar for accessibility.
Do you know if using tf.while_loop speed things up? Using dynamic_rnn at the moment and it's _so_ slow. I'm not finding implementations using tf.while_loop, there's dynamic_rnn as you said but that's so convoluted to read (like TF code..).
I find that PIPs tend to compensate for bad management in general. By that I mean I know where everyone is on their projects and weekly checkups are a norm, if not more than once. I know a few people who have been on PIP at work, I have don't know how many don't complete it but it does tend to correct their manager as well since HR follows through with insuring that the program is followed. It is a program, HR has a check list of items that must be met each week by both manager and employee. This tends to remove some of the stress on the employee as they do see both sides have to play ball.

that being said there have been a few put on PIP I think would be better separated. I guess from this standpoint it does serve to protect company interest.

I do know that working remote introduces all new problems, the hardest I had to learn was to not let myself be distracted and I actually ended up with a personal check list that became natural after a time. I now understand how to make sure those who get more than one WFH effectively use this privileged and keep it.
Is it Twitter's choices, or society's choice to use Twitter?

i.e. do you think Twitter would have reached the status of presidential communication platform had it not made this choice?
~60% of US military in the WW II time period were draftees. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-...

Doesn't refute the idea that shame might have been involved, but...
Yes. https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-cons...
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It is ridiculous, but I also think folks tend to not like either viable choice, and often don't see themselves represented in the fringe parties - if they even have many choices in the category. I'm from Indiana, and often the only third choice was the green party. And that was only for presidental election, nothing for other offices.

The system in the states is a multi-party system in name only: Functionally, it is a two-party system, hence the low participation in such political parties. I think this could be changed with proper legislation, but am doubtful this will happen in the current political climate.

Besides, it isn't like the green party could make everyone happy either, and doubt they'd have an easier time getting things done in congress.
If someone barfs in the taxi (which I think is quite common tbh) it may not be visible to the camera even if they wipe it up.

In either case, that car still smells like barf until it is really cleaned.

Pretty sure if I got in a car that was full of barf while on my way to the airport I would stay in the car (and probably barf a bit myself, too).
Ask HN: “Cheating” with boolean rules in machine learning pipeline
A while back there was an informative thread about production ML pipelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13821217

I didn’t see any discussion about using hand-crafted rules to tweak the outcome where the ML algorithm wasn’t discriminating well based on patterns in the data. In some cases a boolean rule might fix the confusion, especially if the rule is an actual business requirement, not an ad hoc tweak.

For example, I made a classifier to categorize mixtures of chemicals. For each type of mixture, we had a hazardous class and non-hazardous class (based on regulatory status). The hazardous and non-hazardous mixtures could be basically the same stuff, so the classifier often was confused between the two classes. A boolean rule fixed the confusion perfectly.

So, practitioners, do you “cheat” in your pipelines? How do you do it?
'Work-stealing' schedulers already do this - jobs are scheduled onto the core which created them and presumably touched their data last, unless there is load imbalance in which case other cores take jobs. I don't know about the internals of Erlang but I'd be surprised if it was not already work stealing as it's the usual technique.
> We're talking about people who do desire labor, but aren't willing to raise their price.

No, we're talking about demand. People who have the willingness and ability to pay what it takes to acquire the product or service they seek. Desire alone has no impact on price, and thus has no relevance to this particular thread.

> Someone who is offering $12 when the prevailing wage is $14 is clearly in the market.

Where are you gathering data that says someone will do the job for $14/hr? Just because someone doing a similar job for $14/hr does not mean someone else is willing to do this particular job for $14/hr, let alone $12/hr.

> Since you had to be that ridiculous in your opening, I can't imagine the rest of your post is in good faith.

Also known as my example taken to the logical extreme has helped you better understand the situation and the terminology used in economics. Glad that we're on the same page now.
It depends on whether you see all the impediments that are actually present. Many of them are invisible to people who are white and/or affluent, since they never affect such people and most such people don't have enough close ties to people sufficiently different from themselves to hear firsthand stories.
It's a bit of a complex topic. There's lots to learn from how their civil service is run, and how infrastructure is build, how the legal system is set up, etc.

My comment comes from having lived there and seeing what results they achieve in practice---without relying on eg oil money.

The main barrier to adopting Singaporean methods for eg "current commute mess in NY/NJ area" would be institutional, not technical.

Some very quick Googling turned up eg http://www.alphr.com/life-culture/1005939/building-a-smart-c... and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32028693 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Singapore
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Why? For penitence?
Love my macbook pro (linux), but the broadcom chips are such a pain. Almost enough me to drop Apple hardware.

I think this has pushed me over the edge.
What complete rubbish.
Assuming he wants to address the most common devices, he's right. Since smartphones run walled gardens, he can legislate around math. Doesn't close all loopholes, but he gets the majority.
To be honest, the current system is so dysfunctional that this may even be an improvement. It is shocking to me that only 10% of our immigrants have gotten here though merit. There was an article on nytimes recently about the Canadian immigration system, how successful and popular it's been, and how this is largely the result of a system that heavily priorities immigrants who are highly skilled and can contribute the most to the economy.

I distrust Trump just as much as any other liberal, but even a broken clock can sometimes be right. Any moves we make towards a Canadian model of immigration, would be a great improvement over the status quo.

https://nyti.ms/2ugNBLH

"Those admitted to the U.S. on the basis of merit have accounted for less than 10 percent of all legal immigrants over the past 15 years"

"The legislation would, for example, increase the number of green cards — which allow for permanent residency in the U.S. — that are granted on the basis of merit to foreigners in a series of categories including outstanding professors and researchers, those holding advanced degrees, and those with extraordinary ability in a particular field."
I think averaging 2TB of data served a day is popular!
It's because there is no meaningful parallel. Conversations are not economic transactions. Period. You can try to stretch analogies ("walking is illegal because of traffic lights!1") but that's stupid and unhelpful.

The Constitution doesn't guarantee a right to private communications. This is the problem. Period. The 4th amendment was sacrificed during the anti-drug/anti-black eighties. Right now the moment information leaves your home -- whether its a phone call or a letter or a bitcoin transaction -- the government has the right to intercept that. They don't even need a warrant in practice.

It's going to require a Constitutional amendment, really a new 4th amendment, that will clearly and unambiguously extend privacy to a person's communication and data. Complaining about taxes on barter isn't going to help and is nothing but distraction.
I bet you could make millions. Or even tens of millions. Great for a start-up. But Google doesn't bother with such small fry---especially if it comes attached to a complicated hardware business model.

At these small numbers, they are more likely to just give away access to the software for free.
I'm pretty sure robot cars won't randomly drive into bike lanes or park in them or make illegal turns or ...
It amuses me to think somewhere there is a team of engineers developing barf detection systems for driverless vehicles. Perhaps using a combination of camera, sound (imagine collecting the training data for barf sound machine learning!) and scent detection.
As presented in the article, the learned behaviour suggestion is a complete non sequitur.

I suspect it appears clear to you only because you share the author's preconceived and possibly subconscious notion.
Fixed, thanks. Someone should comment about how autocorrect is destroying our civilization :)

(I love autocorrect which I think enables us to concentrate more on meaning of communication than mechanics - occasional errors aside!)
I always knew kids that wanted to start their own business - at least in high school and college. I grew up poor-to-middle class, nothing special, living in Indiana. I'm about 39 now. Some folks just don't consider it so young, just like changing professions in one's late 20's. It usually goes along with the dream of not having to answer to a boss and/or working hours one wants to work, but not always.

But I do think more folks would try if they could take the college money and invest it in things like starting a business, no matter what the business is, and wish more folks had this option.
Of course you're downvoted. You know who benefits from mass immigration of cheap skilled and unskilled labour? Growth/profit oriented businesses, aka the majority. And you know they'll fight for their profits.

After WW2, immigration dropped, while a lot of new work in all areas was popping up. Result - labour shortages and decent wages, more or less.
More info is available here:

http://boosterok.com/blog/broadpwn/
http://boosterok.com/blog/broadpwn2/
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If only there was a modern way to make a quick daguerreotype or even a watercolor of the state of the car at the end and beginning of rides ...
No needs to play the Trump card IMO. The minute politicians started using Twitter to describe their policy you could tell it was over. And it happened way before Trump.
You should be happy about any US anti-immigrant policies. It'll stop some brain drain from everywhere else :)
Have you actually read the CVE and articles? This is not Apple-specific at all...
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Maybe I wasn't not clear enough, my point was the hi-res photos used in the research appear to be of higher resolution than what the public version of Google Street Car zoom offers.
I think he's just saying that broadcom is the only option with macbooks.
Living costs are proportionately lower as well, even within the US (and many have chimed in saying most US devs don't make anywhere near SV salaries).
I think you hit the nail on the head there.

This is also what makes "social networks" so frustrating to technical people: it's not about your idea or even its execution. Rather, it's about how many other apes you've groomed in the past, to the point they'll back you up ("retweet") no matter how stupid your argument or insipid your tweet. The politics of it, tribalism.

A 140 character limit doesn't help of course :-) but the need for soundbites, a shared communication channel for quickly correcting/reinforcing our perception of reality, goes much deeper than that. Twitter is just a medium.

Where it gets interesting is when you consider why human group-think and "shared" perception of reality has been so successful, in evolutionary terms. Why are apes not simply rational animals, instead of spending so much energy forever climbing social ladders and adoring celebrities? Why these complex super-human social hierarchies (religions included), what makes them so efficient?
> that assumes no further advances can happen

...by humans.

> We will invent new things to do. Or, god forbid, maybe just spend some time relaxing and enjoying life instead of working ourselves to death.

With some luck we'll be good pets.
God forbid you live in nice clean cities.
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>Would you consider it just for you to be imprisoned for your views alone?

In most western democracies, you can be imprisoned for a multitude of "thought crimes" - denying the holocaust, inciting racial or religious hatred, encouraging acts of terrorism etc.

The US has uniquely strong protections for free speech, but even there I expect that many people would support a ban on certain kinds of speech. How many Fox News viewers believe that jihadi preachers should be locked up? How many New York Times readers believe that white supremacists should be locked up?
Awesome idea. Have you thought about a marketplace perhaps? Say for instance I create a package with all the cities in the world or all species of canine, host it in a marketplace and others can buy that data package to use in their own projects.
Money isn't the only metric for most people. Better healthcare (even if you lose your job), more paid holiday leave and paid maternity leave are all things people take into consideration.
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and I thought he's a good and smart guy because he made fun of trump.
True. However, the parties currently in government when that decision is made would prefer not to be voted out of power due to economic pressures.
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I played around with OpenCV a lot in 2011. Just wondering what is the current playing field like in 2017.
I hear you. The same goes for deaf children being born to hearing adults. The treatment they get often is horrifying, yet being deaf myself, I understand the horror of the parent. "how the hell am I supposed to talk with my child, how can I raise it..."

World is equally dismissive of deaf people, adults and children alike, especially those who choose to sign rather than to speak and try to hear, which is often futile.

Sign language is exceedingly cheap and every single one of us can learn it from birth and even earlier than spoken languages. It is the de facto, noninvasive linguistic solution for all deaf children But we as a society dismiss it immediately because, hubris and interia of social norms. the same is for preventation of autism.

I know two loving parents who give all of their time to two of their autistic children, but I can see their effort take toll on them. They cannot go anywhere without their children throwing a fit. It is sad. It is a struggle for us all. Especially you!

The same is true for deaf children whose parents neglect them over dinners, over events, the deaf child is alone and neglected. We have fought for more awareness in the last hundred years, and its slowly getting better, but the stigma is still there.

But do I blame the "white man"? It is baseless and reductive to "Skin Color". That's why nothing ever moves forward. Because we keep on criticizing the ownership of skin pigmentation.

It is baseless to label the whole light-skinned party for the vain crimes of greed and prescriptive thought.

Rather, I blame the rich, ego-filled man. The rich, ego-filled people who are the criminals. The people with a western view of the world, dismissing all the richness of humanity for riches of cash and vanity. The western thought.
There is a supportable argument to be made that the Depression/WWII generation pushed for many of the policies which, temporarily, drastically improved life for the average American and effectively created the much-lauded "American middle class". And a supportable argument to be made that their children promptly froze, rolled back or outright repealed those policies and gains upon reaching an age when they wielded significant political power.

Without arguing about terms like "selfishness", the motivation can be laid on the economic conditions those generations faced. Depression-era Americans grew up in a time of great economic hardship, and so pushed for legal and social safety nets (Social Security, labor unions, etc.). Their children grew up in a time of economic ease, and so had no understanding of or motivation to preserve those things, and saw them as impediments to their further enrichment (if we get rid of the union, my business is more profitable; if we slash entitlement programs, my taxes are lower, etc.).

A good parallel is the anti-vaccine movement in the US. The threat of serious vaccine-preventable diseases is fading from living memory, as most parents of young children today have never lived in a situation where such diseases were a realistic consideration. Thus they see no benefit from vaccines, and over-value the rare side effects (and believe, out of fear, charlatans who fabricate claims that vaccines cause problems those parents are familiar with).
It's a fair question. I don't know.

But the causal ordering here shouldn't change how we feel about Twitter.

As an analogy, it's a bit like if you have a candidate running on a racist platform in an election.

Maybe you can validly ask whether they are causing racism or whether the racism is causing them; but either way you shouldn't vote for them.
Republicans are "afraid" of unknowns. People, places things. It seems to be wired in. They are not really racists, just they are "afraid." Probably goes back to ancient days. Who is that stranger? Do they carry a disease, will they take my wife, etc. Why take a chance?

While Democrats seem to welcome the unknown. Take that chance. Lets just take a leap. WTF, life is to experience it all. And then we die.

Seems that we are really not ready to live in urban areas yet, with all these foreign "tribes", amazed we all do.

Conservative friends: OMG that food is so spicy, how can you eat it?

Liberal friends: Give me more spice! Pile it on!

I'm an old WASP, pile on the spice, drop me off where I don't speak the language, can't figure out the food, toilet paper? What's that? Life is so short, I'm ready to just take any chance.

Mars? Sign me up, one way is better.

:-)
If only 10% of your immigrants are there on merit... maybe your legal definition of "merit" is way too tight? Loosening it while decreasing the amount of non-merit-based green cards available would be the obvious solution.
"those holding advanced degrees, and those with extraordinary ability in a particular field."

Would be interested to see a break-down of degree and field. I will posit that majority of H-1Bs are Masters holders in IT field from the same country.
I'm not sure what this post is complaining about. Whatever is advocated at the end seems to be exactly what the managers at this company did.

How can the author say that they don't see the point in these plans what it appears that they were able to correct their behavior and stay at the company until it went under?

"By the end, they were quite happy with my work." Looks like the author is building this whole drama out of nothing.
So since this is in the firmware is it safe to assume that this affects all devices with the broadcom chip, regardless of what OS they're running?