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As an American, I am automatically suspicious of any claim that video of a cop beating someone has been faked.

While we do tend to think that our cops are the best in the world at being unnecessarily violent against suspects, especially minorities and pet dogs, we are aware that cops in other countries are also capable of lesser brutality. Except in Scandinavia, where suspects are ordered into the comfy chair, offered the hot tea, told they have been very naughty, and given actual help towards not repeating their crimes--and that somehow actually works for them.~

We have a nationwide protest movement organized entirely around the suspiciously-high number of black men dying during police encounters or while in police custody. And every time, the video comes out, and the police say, "That isn't what it looks like. It was entirely justified use of force. We investigated ourselves thoroughly, and cleared ourselves of all wrongdoing. Thoroughly."

If an American cop can kill someone for "taking a fighting stance" and "moving a hand toward his waistband," I can consider that maybe Spanish cops might punch someone in the face for committing an overt and obvious act of rebellion against their national government, participating in an event that could sunder the political tranquility of the entire country. It might even be a really strong punch--like, enough to leave a bruise for a few days.~

Half of the U.S. is horrified at the idea of people getting physically attacked for the act of voting. The other half is sorely disappointed at the lack of blood in the streets. There may be some overlap.

Anyway, in the U.S., the police tell blatant and obvious lies whenever they get caught on camera doing something terrible. The cop-cheerleaders believe the lies without hesitation, and the cop-haters don't believe anything a cop says, regardless of the subject. So the only way to really counter video evidence is with more video evidence, from a different angle. All referees and umpires are blind when the call is against our team, but we will grudgingly accept video review of the play. All I have seen is the original video. I haven't seen the video showing how they faked those videos. In the absence of any such evidence, my default assumption is that the official government story is deliberately crafted prevarication.
US army is not authorized to operate on US soil. I like how you want to drag this conversation into something totally else.
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> China is one more country which is preserving its culture by speaking chinese

There's so many different languages spoken in China, many of which are dying or endangered. Moreover, China is by no means a mono culture. The government of China actively promotes a singular language and culture at the cost of those on the margins.
What bias, exactly, do you think I'm exposing?
It would only come to nukes if the other side escalated to weaponry just below nukes. In that case, it's not "nuking Americans in Seattle", it's "nuking well organized terrorist cells using advanced weaponry, in order to save further loss of life."

The point is that no matter how much "power" the federal government has granted to civilians via the 2nd amendment, the federal government will ALWAYS have more.
> Then why is there not more of NLP work/products on Indian languages? There's a market for it, a huge market, isn't it?

The market effects of linguistic diversity work both ways: having more languages increases the potential demand for translation tools, but the sheer number of long-tail languages also makes it hard to justify compiling a corpus and making a considerable effort to study each of these languages enough to build tools for them. Some language communities may almost completely lack the kind of highly literate people who would make this task surmountable, and those who could help, may already be working another more stable or higher paying job.
> I doubt an electric motor can provide enough braking power to stop any car at highway speeds in the distance required by most countries

This really isn't a problem. A hub motor should have no problem providing more stopping force than the tire/road interface can manage.

Heat is no problem either. Either dump the excess energy into a battery or just design a motor housing that can cool itself well enough. You have way more area and mass in a hub motor than in a brake rotor. You'd almost have to try to screw it up.

Maximum stopping distance laws are a complete joke. Anything can stop fast the first time. It's the 5th, 6th, 7th time that's a problem. Electric motors actually have the advantage in that situation because they fade more linearly than a hydraulic system.
If a founder and a co-founder can't communicate with each other and agree on goals and processes, you will not succeed.

You need make sure you're both on the same page. One way to do this is for you to list out the features in a presentation or deck. He can "sell" from that, not the code.
If you're just working on computer vision and world mapping, why do you need something bigger than an RC car? I started with a sonar sensor and an arduino on an RC car in 2012, and had a working prototype, but never secured funding (and eventually became homeless).
Why does the number matter? Lots of people here (including the person I was replying to) talk about the "right thing" to do, not about military power. If it's the right thing to allow for millions of peoples to secede, why isn't it the right thing for me and few buddies to secede? Are we inferior in some way? Where is the cutoff? Is it ok to secede if we are 1000 people? 10K? 100K?
Nice one cheers. I have no idea how .onion domains work, never used them/Tor
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On the other side, if I remember correctly a few AK47 and bunch of men was pretty strong against USA army in Vietnam. How come?
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I'm not sure I totally understand your point but a) a robot scooting around a flat concrete floor in a controlled environment is completely different from a car driving on real roads, and b) if they're ready to start full-size tests in these adverse conditions then they must think they're pretty darn close to having a viable product, given the possible consequences of failure. It's not like they haven't already done a massive amount of R&D to get to this point.
This is why you don't put all of your eggs into someone else's basket.
Indeed, the BBC are of course totally editorially independent of the people who decide whether they continue to exist and at what scale. Also, I have a bridge in Westminster to sell you. (It's fairly well known here that they tend to be a mouthpiece of the Establishment and whichever party's currently in power.)
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Didn't HP design and I think prototype something like this with memristors, calling it 'The Machine'?

edit So HP built one with 160Tb of memory, I remember it being proposed with memristors but haven't been able to check if the prototype used them... Does anyone know what is different about IBM's that let's them claim this as a first though?
Several forward thinking firms (including bozo recruiters) figured this out long ago. You don’t need a college degree to be talented.

“When you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people,” Bock said. Many businesses “require” a college degree; at Google, the word “college” isn’t even its official guide to hiring. > https://venturebeat.com/2014/04/25/why-google-doesnt-care-ab...
Zimbawe did exactly that after their hyperinflation reached a point where they had to print 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar banknotes.
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Beyond environment, is there another fundamental difference?
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> When actually hiring, you also have benchmarks that aren't purely relative, and past experience to fall back on.

(This problem is framed as hiring the best which I assume means closest to optimal weights on those non-relative benchmarks -- whatever "optimal" means.)

But your comment is interesting, as this problem was originally as "the wife problem": how do "you" -- presuming incorrectly even at the time all mathematicians to be male -- find the optimal wife.

The thing that made your comment funny to me is that in majority of marriage cases (by anyone to anyone) neither party has much, or any past experience to fall back on!
I really like the concepts behind Crystal. Building a Rails like framework on top of it might get super interesting. I trust thoughtbot in this area as they are thought leaders when it comes to the Rails way of developing webapps.
Of course these are just the beginnings and Crystal could still use some batteries in it's core libraries.
Sure, but none of that changes the point about not taking HN into flamewars.
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This is cited in the article.

Here's a map of areas within 45 min public transit access of Powell Street BART: https://www.mapnificent.net/bayarea/#12/37.8342/-122.2933/27...

To the articles point, it's basically:

* All of SF

* Downtown Oakland and Berkeley

* Other areas next to BART

To be fair this isn't considering driving or biking to BART + Ferry stations, which is leaving out a lot of other areas. But I think the general pattern holds.
That's pretty close. For our use case (and many others), the biggest culprit for increased TTI is the sheer size of the JavaScript payload and the time the browser takes to parse the whole bundle[1]. We still use React and other libraries on the server to generate the HTML but rather than sending all that JS down, Tony worked out exactly which client interactions still needed JS and wrote those in plain JS which resulted in a big TTI win as the browser simply had less data to parse.

1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1297&v=M1qm-AWWu...
>The part you're missing is that the Internet is still growing

Uh, no. I specifically called out the relationship to internet growth. Their growth has been exceeding it, I predicted it would slow down to match.

"I would guess that sometime soon their ad revenue growth slows down to match internet growth."
I graduated from University of Chicago. I'm here :)
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- Journalists =/= publishers

- Ignores non-negligible capital costs

- Complaining about politics in your social feed is asinine since many people are interested in politics and choose to share that interest socially, so you're gonna hear about it anyway
Look at the reverse: can the U.S. amend the constitution to say, "The U.S. is made up of the fifty states, plus Mexico"?

Certainly Mexico would hold a minority vote and not be able to influence the outcome. Does that mean that all the people of Mexico are "ignoring the constitution" if they don't want to be in the United States?
I do have a bias against independentism/nationalism because I've lived through it. I cannot give concrete documents about this because there aren't such. Contrary to police violence of which there are.
You don't have to be convinced, I'm just trying to express my opinion, not trying to convince anyone of who is better or worse here. But I can confidently assert that there are no "good and bad" in this story, just a war between two different stories with lots of falsehoods in both sides.
Fair points. I'm happy to push for all the things you just mentioned, and I certainly don't want to contribute to messing up the good thing you have going. :)
>Given Mac, is there much benefit over just using Linux?

FTFY
These solutions have already been found and implemented in developed countries around the world. The problems in the US are ideological limits that circumscribe the forms of collectivist action that are required to implement strategies that work. Singapore, Western Europe, Japan etc don’t have these limits and thus don’t have the problems that result from them. Heck in Singapore, upwards of 80% of people live in some form of public housing. It’s not means tested and there’s no stigma about it.

How we’re currently trying to address these problem is a bit like trying to address climate change while refusing to believe it exists.
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Fraud and problems should be seen as two different things.

This looks like a clear case of fraud. lying to investors and regulators. That isn't a "growth problem" from having a target on your back, its a legal/cultural/approach issue that probably existed from the start and grew large enough to bite you in the ass.
Now you are distorting my words and that is not a way to have a good conversation.
I find this ironical that the technology(in this particular case their site) which is considered as a savior for these languages and dialects, by archiving them, indexing them, can get itself rendered as something to stay away from instead of making this resource accessible.
While the substance of the tools that everybody use has mostly converged, there are still many signals of wealth that I think you overlook.

- The iPhone X and Apple Watch with Hermes bands are a far cry from an average Android phone.

- I see plenty of Teslas in PA/MTV. But that aside, I see even more Google/FB buses - isn't that a higher level of differentiation, where you Uber/Lyft or take the corporate shuttle to get driven around?

- Ok, I mean there are still arbitrary borders and restrictions on immigration that make being a migrant worker a living hell in many places of the world. I'd guess they aren't experiencing a triumph of capitalism (or democracy, they can't vote in the places they work).

- Other social networks thrive on differentiation - Tinder Gold and The League position themselves as the dating apps where you can avoid the ugly and the plebian

- Mass media content has always been intended to be consumed by the masses. But that doesn't mean that it's the same content that the rich consume. Broadway shows and other in person performances are not replicated by TV or other mediums. I had a very interesting conversation about how the movie/theater divide plays out in Cuba but perhaps that's for another time.
- It's odd to talk about the egalitarianism of travel by saying 'everyone has flown on a plane.' The transformation of air travel into a necessity is an artifact of the accelerating pace of global commerce which has created these very distinctions. The latest trends in air travel are in fact the additional polarization of the experience for the rich and poor - the near-universal embrace of 'basic economy' at the same time as 'ultra-luxury' flights a la United Polaris, Boom, or anything from Emirates.
Thanks for this, I'll take a look and definitely hit you up if I have questions.
> Before Trump won, the idea that the voting machines could be hacked was - if you were to believe the media - a Trumpian conspiracy theory

No, it was well-documented fact long before Trump was even considered a candidate aside from his abortive 2000 Reform Party effort, that came to light particularly around the 2004 election and has been intermittently in the news since.

What was (correctly) viewed as a Trump camp conspiracy theory was that there was a massive conspiracy to illegally deny him an election win, including by hacking voting machines, not the idea that it was possible to hack voting machines.
I think the series is truly separate and worse than the original. Clarke even said he'd never intended the line about "Ramans do everything in threes" at the end of the book to actually lead to sequels, only to beg the question of what happens to our solar system next. The sequel books do a far worse job of answering that question than the readers' own imaginations, I think. I'd never made the connection to the co-author but it makes sense. I ripped through the first book so quickly, and then picked up the second and couldn't even finish it. I could feel it devaluing my enjoyment of the first it felt like such a different, inferior story.
Give me the ability to create the contract via a GUI, fund it in real-time, hedge it for me, and transfer funds to USD as the contract executes. Do all that for me and I'll never use another bank or payment processor again.
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They do have plenty of freedom, own embassies, own top-level domain, lots of local laws, complete control over education (that is basically the foundations of the strategy of independentist movements during at least 20 years). It is basically the money what drives all this, you are spot on. I wonder what is your reference for regional freedom exactly? I think the next step really is total independence, which is what part of the society wants there.
I'm gonna clarify that I actually want the independence of Catalonia, because I think that's the only possible resolution, but I just disagree with that. It's a fact that Spanish autonomies have a lot of freedem in how to apply even the centrally decided laws.
What does “recent past” mean for you? Estonia became independent in 1920 (or 1918 if you count since the beginning of the war of independence) and was independent until the Soviet occupation in 1940.
I'm always blown away by how crisply is Alan Kay able to put complex thoughts into words. I feel that the level of clarity I can achieve on the scale of a sentence or two he can achieve on the scale of several paragraphs.
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Bravo. Now you need to factor in toilet facilities, and presumably potable water access so everyone can piss enough to cool the building hahahaha...
When your trading partners do not recognize your independence you won't be trading with them.
Agree. And people who want density first - how do those people get to work without transit. Transit comes first.
This statement is too broad.

Current state of software is only appropriate for some use cases. Email/text messaging (like 4chan) are not practical uses. Financial business logic handling is a great use case.
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Exciting. Test it in rainy Seattle and freezing Alaska, too. If this works, this would show real, tangible leadership in the field. No one can do this yet, and autonomous driving tech is not to useful if it craps out in inclement weather.
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It's a healthcare provider, of course people want to see someone they "know".

And it's not just the humans that like to stick with a certain vet, but the dogs too. We went through several vets until we found one our dog liked (well, at least he didn't hate).
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I think theoretically you could get deal with sprung weight with an active suspension but I am not sure how well that would work.
If the only way you feel that you can attract talented workers is for some other place to go under, you're not trying hard enough.
> If Google created a new HQ in Kansas City, with it's fiber links, and low cost of living, and added really great benefits like free day care, etc, then won't software engineers move there, especially those that are ready to start a family? I bet you they would. I definitely would.

Maybe some, but I'd be really surprised if you get substantial numbers of your top people to move - which effectively blocks the overall team moving.

A Google Staff engineer makes $400k+. On such a salary, the high cost of living in the Bay Area really isn't a problem; sure in Kansas you could afford a mansion on that salary, but a lot of folks (myself included) prefer "paying" for the Bay Area's weather, scenery, and culture over larger living.
Yeah, the more they "improve" it, the less I want to use it.
We had problems similar to this, but we were all technical and we were all opinionated about the ways we code. We solved it by having a code review process. Setting up a review board (https://www.reviewboard.org) is a good start. To create code co-ownership and keeping all the people on the same page, code review helps you communicate better, and get familiar with the code base. You, as the more technical one, can ask your co-founder to review your code as well.
If you don't see what's wrong with what you posted above, read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take them to heart. It's not hard to use this site as intended if you want to.
and then theres a 37% chance the best was among the rejects and the algorithm fails.
I've commented this before but it's worth mentioning these fantastic interactive SVGs again:

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What happens when we eventually train AI to write code for us? Then "programming" would be a lot more like data entry than creative work.
Sadly, it's where their audience is.
The tradeoff is that if you make anything resembling Bay Area wages in Kansas City, you can pay off a lovely older house in a walkable neighborhood in two years or so.
He didn't use a car to commute before (I'd hope) given he was in the middle of SF. But now he likely needs one to get to the grocery, take his kids to school, etc even if he's WFH. And he's likely also using more energy at home, too. So yes, more pollution - and if a lot of other people moved there, higher prices too.
Would self-determination have argued in favor of the secession of the south?
Lots of people make this claim with no evidence. It's understandable to feel insecure about future career prospects in our fast-changing industry, but honestly I'll believe it when I see it.
Not only India's. Any developing country's nuclear scientists are either missing, given citizenship in a first world country or "went abroad" for research. There are many actors who do not want developing countries to progress in anyway. Be it nuclear,social or economic.

China is a good example in resisting these warfares/sabotages by foreign actors. They have effectively controlled foreign actors in meddling with their social & economic aspects (controlling fake news, social engineering by controlling the internet). Supporting homegrown technology companies than foreign ones. India should follow the same.
It's not just that. Ever since he has got his position he is trying to promote India's ethnic values and culture and he's not saying "Bhaiyo aur beheno bas hindi bolo" ( brothers and sisters just speak hindi) and nobody is imposing the language hindi on anyone. But if you're living in a country and serving people(working in government sector) where almost majority of the people speak hindi don't you think you should have some sort of understanding to treat the people in their own language? I live in india and i have seen situations where people find it easy to grasp hindi than any other languages. Out of all those 1600+ language majority of them resembles and sounds like hindi ( just few accent differences are there) rajasthani, marwadi, mewadi, Bhojpuri,urdu, Haryanvi all resembles hindi i.e. if you know even a little bit of hindi you can deal with majority of north indian languages.
But the effective rate gets much closer to 50% as your income goes higher and higher, no?

Within that 1%, you have people who make several hundred thousand dollars a year (I think they make up the majority of the 1%?), and their effective tax rate is closer to 34%. Whereas those who make millions a year, their effective rate is much higher, closer to 50%. Unless my math is off.
To answer the headline, sure, and you don't even need the second.
In the case of a real car, you aren't just reacting to the environment. The actors in the environment (cars, pedestrians, traffic light sensors) are reacting to you as well.
> they probably suffered much more than others

You must be joking... :-(