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Well, politics for one.
Exactly. If Tasers are supposed to be an alternative to more lethal force, then metrics plz.
>If you don't mind, I guess like a sort of prelaunch feedback, what would it take for someone like you, willing to profit on bad corporate behavior, to instead become a leader for change?

I think it would take a few things, and I'll try my best to elaborate on why.

1. Ability to affect change.
I like to be successful, its one of my primary drivers in life. If I spend X hours working on some task, I want to see the results. Changing large swaths of people to do anything, is a challenge. So there exists this function of needing to wield enough influence over a large enough population that you influence corporate choices. Until you reach that critical mass, you are insignificant. A company by law exists to make money for shareholders, so expect them to ignore your small voice for a more profitable choice until your voice is large enough that ignoring you is no longer profitable. Same mindset applies to corporate fines. "We the ORG hereby fine your company $100k for this practice allowing you to profit $10MM" Cool... so we made $9.9MM we otherwise wouldn't have made. "So hit me with a fine. We can afford it." -Jaime Dimon.
Back to my original point, few people want to devote their working hours towards a problem they don't feel they can succeed at. You want me on your ship? Convince me my effort has a measurable effect. Make sure the effect is worth my effort.

2. Unified Direction
A centralized boycott platform sounds great in theory, but there are people that want to boycott everything, for every reason you can think of. I guess you'll have an upvote system or some filtering mechanism so the most popular ones get visibility/funding, but you will far eclipse the reasonable number of companies to protest. Everyone has different thresholds, but I doubt I would want to live a life where I'm boycotting your platforms entire top 10 list. Remember the Occupy Wall Street protests? Tons of headlines all over the place, even Presidential comments. Without looking it up, what were their goals?

3. Passion
I would have to care about the issue. Am I going to boycott YCombinator because their CEO built their house on an endangered sand flea population? No, I couldn't care less about the fleas. Would I boycott YCombinator if they decided my murder my family? Yup. Every issue falls somewhere on the scale of "does this matter to me." Its hard to become a leader for changes you don't care about. Some people are selfish, some aren't. Everyone decides for themselves.

4. Fads
This one is almost what I directly referenced in my original comment. Its popular to hate a company for a month, then something else pops up in the news and steals attention. How long do you expect to keep the boycott strong enough to matter? I don't want to be a leader hopping on the latest headlines every 4 months.

You solve those problems, and I would be the "leader for change." However, if you've solved those problems, you have no need for me.
How about running "aid trucks" that would be going next to truck on highway to charge it remotely, like jet fighters grt refueled? Once fully chearged aid truck make u-turn and feed off another truck going opposite way.
You are correct. I will edit and add some supporting references.

I don't know where Elon gets his numbers from, but according to EN 50126 practioners, human error is in the range of 2E-4 / 1E-3 whereas safety functions are classified at least SIL2 and that means 1E-6. In other word, the system must be x1000 better than a human.

Here is a good reference:
http://en50126.blogspot.it/2009/10/safety-integrity-levels-s...
Your comment made me laugh. We've all been there. The worst I have ever seen is someone who ran out of paper plates and started using phone book pages.
What is considered brute force and inefficient?

I'm relearning to play basketball and found repetitive drills on basic skills to be the most helpful. I shoot dozens and dozens of mikan layups and it's really helped my pick up game.
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When the Ch\wrch of Sc\w+nt\wl\wgy did this they actually had their cultists pay for the books. Most of them were then sold to second-hand book stores.

Because money actually came through to them, Waldenbooks and B. Dalton were happy to order enough to keep up with the fake demand.
There is a ton of people who still don't want to ride in selfdriving cars survey
It wouldn't be much use if it was widely-known to be easily gamed. Even as a revenue vehicle, the NYT would do better (at least in the past decade) to make these books pay for ads the old-fashioned way.
I think the real concern is that there is nothing in PATENTS that restricts itself to software patents, if tomorrow say a University patents a new AR/VR Chip and Facebook/Oculus infringes on that patent there the PATENTS would affect all researchers/students at that University.

If I am mistaken please show me where it states that only the agreement is restricted to software patents alone.

I am completely fine with Facebook's choice at end of the day it's their hard work and right. However it's important to understand broader implications.
> fragile

... was the keyword, or at least that was how I read it.
Ironically this is not all that confidential. Anyone who works in an office on Capitol Hill has access to personal contact information for every single member of Congress. When I worked on the hill, I had a little book that listed the personal home address, telephone number, unpublished email, and classified email for every single member of Congress. Including information about their spouse and kids.
>Also interesting to note that even private citizens who are armed and are using it in self defense, are instructed to shoot to kill only

This is the bullshit cliff notes watered down for stupid people who can't think for themselves.

You escalate use of force until the threat is stopped. If someone comes at you with a shovel and backs down when you draw your gun you do not just shoot him because "that's what you do". If you do not need to fire your weapon to stop the threat then you should not fire your weapon. You should not draw a gun if you are not prepared to use it. If you shoot someone in the kneecap you'd better be damn good at convincing the court that it was because you have cop-quality marksmanship.

Obviously once a gun comes out you should call the cops to CYA but you are not obligated to shoot someone just because you've drawn a gun.
Hmmm, I'm not sure the equation is so obvious.

If you don't have a driver, then the vehicle amounts to just a couple motors, batteries, and sensor arrays.

It doesn't make a difference if the battery is located in the front "truck" part of the convoy, or whether it's distributed throughout the trailers.

For a very long chain of trailers, you probably want a set of motors for every trailer right?

And as you've speculated, there's going to be a sensor array in every trailer.

So basically, you have motors in every trailer, batteries in every trailer, and sensors in every trailer. At that point ... why do you need a "truck" on the front and/or why are they connected at all?
> getting the money to and from the exchange would be a gigantic hassle

No, it's a simple bank transfer. It doesn't matter if that's reported to anyone, transfer to an exchange in your own country and you're not doing anything illegal. And the topic is the difficulty of going around capital controls, not the tax burden of an ex-patriot. Bitcoin makes getting around capital control easy; easy doesn't mean legal. You're refuting things that have nothing to do with the topic being discussed.
More accurately, an operator will want lowest cost of operation. You can add complexity, cost, and failure modes to every single truck by making the battery swappable, then build infrastructure to swap the batteries, or you can just build more trucks. Given that wheels and axles are likely to be the cheapest part of the equation, I'm betting they'll buy more trucks.
> I...was stunned at how much they're charging so I'm pretty sure they've got a lot of headroom to do this.

The headline price doesn't actually tell you this. The fact that WF gets a 5% margin and Amazon gets 2% is what tells you there's a lot of room for price reduction.

BTW this is a classic example of how an asset can be worth more to the buyer than the seller (i.e. how you can get a win-win transaction): Whole Food's market cap was based on those margins, which are significantly higher than its competition. It was hard for them to move (lower prices, expand etc) as it would challenge their true differentiator.

While Amazon's investors are comfortable with lower margins, so Amazon has plenty of room in which to make experiments, move some of their supply chain expertise into the business, discover what parts of their existing model don't transfer etc.
FYI it's much closer to 1.6 km, it's 1609 meters. So for most maths, just times by 1.6 is close enough.
I like what I've seen of Elixir. (As a Rubyist by habit, I should.) But it doesn't do what Node does:

Use JavaScript.

We can say 'til we're blue in the face that that doesn't matter (and I do, as a Ruby/Grape guy for APIs), that matters. Lowered impedance mismatch is a thing. I use Ruby because I'm still more productive there--but that's a library problem (RDBMSes), not a language problem.

Node really is good-enough. I'd go for either a JVM or a BEAM-based solution if I was building things where there were significant and meaningful losses on the table if I fucked up, but for most things? Nah. Just...not important enough.
I'm a fan of interfaces that surface and submerge information at the behest of the user.

Intellij does this well since you can toggle everything with the key map, two key strokes and I have the conventional busy IDE interface, two more and editor with text and no clutter, which mode I'm in is dependent on what I'm doing.

vscode has it as well, they call theirs Zen mode.
"Anyone involved in the space knows the value is largely speculation"

I agree value appears to be driven a lot by speculation, but you are changing subject. We were talking about usage. It's pretty obvious from payment processors, from people in the industry (have you ever attended a Bitcoin conference and talked to users? I have), from usage metrics (increasing tx rate, which is normally not related to speculators, as buying and leaving coins on exchange doesn't create a tx), and from other sources, that usage of cryptos is growing.

So, no, you can't say you "just know" cryptocurrencies aren't used by anyone.

PS: I am a crypto dev, wrote miners, founded TAV (mining ASIC integrator), and have been in the Bitcoin industry for 7 years. I know a thing or two.
Yeah, this post is confusing. It reads as though I should expect `is` to be the same operator as `==`. But that's completely off. It's not that the integers are weird, it's that OP is misusing an operator. The topic could have been an explanation of what the `is` is, instead it's confusing and not helpful.
And the cats! They have feelings.
I'm not sure what to say when the code I recently turned in (and passed) for the path planning project of term 3 in Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer works better at changing lanes than Tesla's system:

https://github.com/andrew-ayers/udacity-sdc/blob/master/Term...

Then again, it does have a failure mode where occasionally, for some reason, it will direct the car to change lanes into the path of a much faster moving vehicle in the lane being changed to. Most of this is because it only runs the behavior planner every second or so in the simulation, and probably does get everything perfectly correct in the prediction part (I honestly am not sure where the problem lies, though).
I've found that the more competent and as a result confident the parents, the less they micro-manage their kids.

They don't feel the need to send them to private schools, have them be A students, get into universities, spend less time on their phone etc etc etc.

That's just insecure, overbearing parents.

There's some subtle irony in the same person who is part of a foundation saving kids in Africa, worrying about phone use. You'd think she'd have a greater perspective on these things.
>(I roll my eyes hard when people say stuff like "You should delete your Facebook account, you'll be better off.")

Your mortgage might be more expensive than it should be because of your facebook account.

https://www.ft.com/content/e8ccd7b8-6459-11e6-a08a-c7ac04ef0...

If the cost of your home increases by $10,000 in extra interest over the lifespan of the mortgage due to things your friends post on your facebook wall and you use facebook for 80 years of your life, will you still be happy with your $125 per year facebook subscription?
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I remember hearing there is not enough lithium in the world for all of Tesla's ambitions. They're hoping for battery revolutions
I love that page, information dense but with a clear hierarchy and progression.
Actually I was thinking last time I was driving from LA back to SF that one way to move faster with autonomous trucking would be to dedicate a highway lane during very off peak hours (such as between hours of 12 am to 4am) to autonomous freight trucks.

The lane could have flashing sign indicators similar to some carpool lanes in California to warn normal drivers about the risks.

When I was driving around LA, the rush hour traffic seemed to be made worse by the number of freight trucks on the road (presumably moving stuff into/out of Port of LA/Long Beach).
IMHO trucks are not the best option right now, the best option to launch them is when they get fully automated driving. This could be 2-10 years later judging from Tesla history (I know, automated driving has been in the 5-year-range for the last 50 years). However, specially for trucks, when these come out who would want a non-automated truck? Unless of course they are forward-compatible, then I have said nothing ;)
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Ask HN: How do I know if I'm joining a good team?
I'm hunting for a new devops job and have some interest from companies that seem promising. But I've been burned in the past with teams that said all the right things but in practice didn't have high engineering standards.

What can I look for during the interview process to sense whether a team practices good engineering, and other important things for my growth and success?
duno why people are just outright lying all over this comment section. disappointing
This course revolutionized my views on learning. After taking it and applying the suggested techniques I've seen an amazing increase not just in my competence but my confidence. It left me feeling empowered. I was almost a bit sad when I reached the end.
Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
And you can get lost for hours - I have - looking through cities you know well for the micro-distinctions, block by block in some cases, made in these maps. The scans and commentary -- the commentary is amazing -- date in some cases from the 1930s.

But here we are, 80 years later, and it's still rather the same. These maps were a self-fulfilling prophesy.

From commentary on the Pasadena, CA neighborhood just north of what is now Old Town, part of which was razed in the postwar decades:

"Many dwellings are occupied by Negroes and other subversive radial elements...The area is blighted and its future is a matter of concern and doubt."

This is a clear signal to invest in this real estate only as cheap rental, or if you want to eventually tear down and rezone. So if you live there and improve your house, you will never see appreciation in value, and you will likely eventually be forced, by design or neglect, to relocate.
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For another take on backing on human civilization, check out Neal Stephenson's novel Seveneves. Humanity evacuates 1500 people to orbit as moon debris decimates all remaining life on the earth's surface. As a story, it's pretty dry, but as a thought experiment, it's very interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
It is the most popular course on Coursera because it's ~3 hours of lectures and ~3 hours of study and it seems to be advertised for everyone who logs on to Coursera.

Andrew Ng's Course is 11 weeks and it's about ~5 hours a week and on top of that you'd really want to be quite able at High School Maths and have some programming background.
High-level visibility or detail digging? Or both, equally
One reason though, that the ML course was most popular, was because Coursera was founded by Ng, and that was the first course offered. Still you make some interesting points.
I'm not sure that experience implies skill but you make a good point.
Found: Centuries-old copy of letter written by Columbus and stolen from Vatican
It sounds like you value the persistence of understanding in a way that just isn't particularly important to me. The survival of my loved ones -- and that's a category that can go across species -- is absolutely important to me. The survival of evil space Nazis? Eh.

That said, I also don't really think I see being an evolutionary dead end as too huge of a concern. Many of us appreciate things that aren't truly keen from an evolutionary perspective. Consider how many of us will remain happily childless (perhaps not yourself) well into our 30s and beyond. Not amazing for propagating our own personal genes and yet, they're decisions we actively and happily make.
484 273 0091 calls multiple times such as 5 within one minute. When answered, there's no one there. I've blocked, and sent a text message threatening to report as harassing calls. So, how do I go about making such a report?
Easiness of the course is could be a big factor in it's popularity. A simpler explanation :).
I would say An Agent-Oriented Programming by Yoav Shoham. It certainly set my mind going and made me think about how programs could be organized. I still think, agents, systems of agents, and mobile agent code has a place in computing. Even though some form of RPC over HTTP won over mobile code, I look at the spinning up of VMs and cannot help but think that agents have a place. Combined with the tuple space stuff from Yale, I still see a powerful way to go forward.

1) 1990 http://cife.stanford.edu/node/599

2) 1993 http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/ioerger/cs631-fall05/AOP.pdf
It's not as if law enforcement doesn't know about the dark web, doesn't already monitor it and hasn't successfully raided it before. Anywhere Nazis can go, Feds and activists can go to.
That "Zero to One" customer is a big deal. You can now ask that customer why did they buy it in the first place? Why did they take their credit card out of their purse/wallet, type their info in, and click buy? What would keep them as a customer, etc.

The next step is to get to 10 customers, then 100...
The person being asked what the probability is doesn't know the fact, so the prior probability from their perspective isn't 1.
I think this is a good point. The company I used to work for had a different hierarchy that people would get promoted within but it was never made clear a) what you had to do to get that promotion and b) what sort of pay increases got you there. It was a small company that grew into a medium-sized one (30 to 150 people in four years) but any discussion of more formalization or salary bands going forward was poo-poo'd as being "too corporate".

This despite any time annual reviews coming around and there being a round of promotions that would kill morale the following week.
Very interesting. Thanks for the info. I honestly haven't given much thought to how much I recall; I figured that I remembered what I remembered and that was that. Perhaps that should receive more attention.
Most of the major OEMs do. The security update rate for upper tier phones runs about 75% within 3 months these days.

Anyway, I was responding to the comment "Most of serious security issues still require full OS updates." This is demonstrably inaccurate since the security patches do not require a full OS update.
This wouldn't be suitable for long range OTR trucking, but great for shorter regional trucking. Delivery drivers like UPS or Fedex don't hit 200 miles a day and other trucks in denser areas also travel shorter distances and diesel fumes in urban areas is a huge concern. There are plenty of use cases for an electric truck that can travel 200 miles, even if it won't immediately replace diesel or gas.
Right, I agree, I am not convinced of my first point. As you point out, the first users were likely mostly technical people. This is reinforced by the fact that the first courses offered were almost all CS/ML/Math related.
The rocket engines also put out a ton of ionized particles that can interfere with the satellite signal.
>I sorely hope the person you responded to manages not to feel too attacked and gives a frank and truthful answer on where their line is with respect to not wanting to profit off a corporate scandal.

Nope, never felt attacked. Takes a lot to get me riled.

I don't go seeking companies that break laws to enhance profits.

However, I did notice a long time ago, that constant publicity will have an effect on stock price. This is fairly common knowledge. Bad publicity and "public outrage" will frequently result in lower stock prices. So I take a look at their underlying business, see if its sound, then make a bet (buy shares) that the public will move on shortly.

Is that profiting on corporate scandal, or market (public sentiment) overreaction? Up to you to decide.
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>I don't see how you can get to L5 without L2 and the learning that is going on in these cars today.

You can use the automation as a backup safety feature until it's L4. For example, the car has the ability to stop if you try running a red light, but you otherwise are required to drive the vehicle.

Automated cars don't just have to be better than humans, they have to be as good as humans with automated safety features.
Aaaaaa I'm not specifically talking about for-loops
How did you respond to those requests?
I wonder how this type of security hardware compares to other clouds (AWS, Azure, etc...)? Do they have something comparable?
good point.. but that depends on the cost of the sensors, motors, etc. You could have a reduced set of sensors on the trailers, and more advanced set on the tractor.. and that may be cheaper than adding advanced sensors to every trailer.
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Delegation is Inheritance

http://wiki.c2.com/?DelegationIsInheritance
In the UK in the South you can similar salaries to London without the expense of London. I am a Senior .NET dev can I could get £50-70k. The expense compared to London is about 75%.

Up North in the UK get £40K for a senior dev is pretty hard work but everything costs half as much so it is totally relative to where you are living in the UK. The South is crowded with no infrastructure to handle it (driving in a nightmare).

Gibraltar is probably the best place to go if you can get a Job in Europe. Spain is stupidly cheap. Wages are less than say London, I lived like an absolute king on £27,000.
By manually moving the constants from .const to .data, I got this program:

program main
integer m,n

call corrupt(7)

write (*,*), 7
stop
end program main

subroutine corrupt (a)
integer a
a = 4
return
end

to output 4. Thanks for pointing this out, 'concede_pluto. Pretty weird!
> There's no way that crap is as mentally stimulating as content from the 90s (or before). It's optimized for addiction.

Commercial children's content has been optimized to be an addictive tool to sell toys since well before the 1990s; OTOH, there's plenty of quality content now, too, it's just that, as an adult, you are more likely to seethe difficulty of separating he wheat from the chaff.

Plus, people have been decrying the moral decline of society compared to their own childhood for, based on historical evidence, as far back as we have historical evidence. And it's probably much older.