skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think those two examples are very good for your argument. One is about public safety and the other is basically about military recruitment. There is a lot more precedence for those sorts of things than there is for mounting Google cameras to USPS trucks.
Hidden in your reply is an assumption that a scientific and reproducible method cannot be applied to spiritual quest. Hypothesis, experimentation and inference are basic steps in a scientific investigation but proving a hypothesis correct/wrong also depends on the instrument used e.g. if one doesn't use microscope one cannot directly show presence of bacterial cells. Similarly to prove that a state of thoughtlessness and beyond exists one cannot use the tools of thoughts, one has to observe by pure attention (without distracting thoughts) the state between 2 successive thoughts as a starting point.
Despite all the comments, it seems hard to gauge what would happen if something this insane were to actually pass.

Hopefully universities would find a way to "creatively adjust" their accounting such that graduate students are paid the same net amount as they were, but universities are big bureaucratic institutions and slow to change or adapt.

I'll only speak to what I know, which is fully-funded PhD programs in STEM. If this change hit students directly, it would be devastating.

If you look at top private institutions in the USA, you might notice that the socioeconomics of the undergrads skew rich-rich-rich but the STEM PhD students come from all walks of life (and countries all over the world). That's because the programs pay them enough to live on, albeit barely in many cases. If that fact goes away, so will the students.

Now maybe universities will be able to adapt and either pay enough to make up for it, or change their accounting. But most likely there will be a dichotomy where the richest and most successful programs have the easiest time negotiating the change while the others get hit hard.
The 1990 legislation creating the H-1B program was pretty specific that it was for getting skills into the country that could not be obtained locally. Considering all the notices that are supposed to be posted. It is abused heavily, but that was the intent.
There exist officials for whom that is true, even if that's not the norm.
In addition to what icebraining said: Under current law, these images wouldn't be copyrighted by the sheep, nor by the tourist agency. But the tourist agency gave them to Google. Google didn't take/steal/expropriate them. So why do you single out Google for your opprobrium?
I think FCA had not yet started to build an automatic driving team in house, so pairing up with Waymo would make sense and Waymo could push for a deal it thought worth making. Maybe Waymo got a non-exclusive deal, where other companies might have wanted some exclusive period with Waymo tech in their cars. Similar to what happens with cell phones.
Looks like you're right. I've never seen that usage before, but according to dictionary.com's third definition, that is "loosely" correct. An example of language evolving I guess!

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homonym
Or BigCorp would open an office in your hometown and hire you there anyway, because it was now impossible to get enough people for their job.

More likely still, significantly more SaaS in easily configurable packages as companies that can't afford massive dev salaries for an IT department turn towards GoogMicroSAP to fulfill their needs
WTF? Chromium (2016)
Batteries do not degrade all at once right after a software update.
The last Who Is Hiring went on for something like 5 pages, so it was a bit clunky to search for, in-browser, but the API makes it pretty easy to scrape/search whatever you like: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
I feel like a car has greater potential for comfort than even a "comfortable" reclining bus seat.

For example, right now the idea of a folding bed in a car isn't something you'll ever see as an option, since it would only really appeal to people trying to live in their cars, which probably don't overlap much with the "people who buy fancy cars with fancy extras" market segment. However, in a future where a car can auto-drive you on a long-distance trip, why not offer an actual bed mode in the car as a purchasable option?
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Should be marked (2014), but otherwise it's good!
Diablo 3 + expansions is the 12th best selling video game of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
Fine, here's my position: Immigration restrictions are a version of "separate but equal" segregation that is somehow acceptable to talk about. Anyone who wants to do a job, can do it, and is willing to move to where the job is should be able to do it, regardless of where they were born or what papers they have.

That they can't because a bunch of people have collectively decided to pull the ladder up behind them is unjust, unfair and immoral.
The evidence for the real profit margins being in the customer facing bit isn't strongly supported by the current market being so competitive that the companies run at VC-subsidised operating losses in most markets whilst fighting endless legal battles. If the secret sauce that changes all that is the self driving tech, the profit remains all in that. Ride locating software is relatively straightforward for a company with Alphabet's resources to develop, the business side less so, especially when its core businesses are notoriously poor at customer service and making far too much money from an existing search near-monopoly to want to risk attracting complaints about anti-competitive behaviour in new markets. And they could still can collect all that juicy data if other entities paid them enormous licence fees to run the consumer facing bit of an autonomous vehicle operation, maintain the vehicles, obtain permits in 1001 jurisdictions and design cars and ownership models to consumer preferences

Unique, regulated and highly complex software and hardware components seems far less likely to become commoditized than ridesharing apps that essentially already are, and of course viable markets for the driving tech exists even if the driver can't be dispensed with altogether.
It depends on what you do with the extra revenue after you repeal. Repealing it and using the revenue to lower corporate taxes may or may not be fair (maybe it creates more jobs for lower-income people, who knows). Repealing it to increase the earned-income tax credit would almost certainly be fair. You'd be getting rid of a tax break that disproportionately benefits more privileged people, and expanding a tax break that disproportionately benefits less advantaged people.
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Great discussion, but what about the more human-based issues?

Like what happens if I forget my phone in one of these ride-sharing vehicles and someone else had jumped in right after me?

What happens when someone trashes a vehicle? Are there going to be cameras in these vehicles to track bad behavior? If so, what about the privacy implications?

I don't have answers to any of these questions, but I'd be interested to see what you all think
I never realized what a pain the ass it is to drive a gas car until we got the Leaf, while keeping the gas car. It’s a first-world problem for sure, but having to go out of my way to “recharge” now seems so...primitive. As you say, it’s difficult to explain to the unwashed.
For non-personally-owned self-driving cars to catch on, you'd probably have to see an expansion of convenient storage lockers near parking lots.
I don't think the comparison is as apt as, for instance, a 1st class intercontinental seat on Singapore airlines.

https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/images/navigation/flying-...
I've been playing Starcraft 2 casually since launch and I'm confident that the crack-dealer model isn't applicable here, at least for the game's core 1v1 mode (which is what's being made free), due to the brutality of the ranked multiplayer ladder.

Skilled matchmaking ensures you lose 50% of the matches you play, and you have no one to blame for your failures but yourself. You can improve 100x and still feel like you suck at the game.

Addictive free to play games are easy by design, appeal to the broadest possible demographics and boost your ego by congratulating you for trivial accomplishments. Starcraft 2, by contrast, is arguably the hardest multiplayer video game in existence, and is far too challenging for casual addiction to become a problem.
True, but with these bugs it doesn't have to be the attacker that personally has physical access to the target machine. For secure sites the attacker may not be able to get past security, but if the device is innocent enough it might.

If you are a secure site you need to oversee the manufacture of all your USB cables, otherwise you don't know that someone hasn't put an attack into the cables you ordered.
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Visiting the US, it always surprises me just how polarised the people’s opinions are as you travel around compared with other western countries. I imagine in California (the most similar part to other western countries) and this thread this frustrates people, but there will be plenty of places where people are rubbing their hands together seeing this as a kind of American exceptionalism...
Because in the U.S. it's only used in private solutions. No public facing systems in the U.S. are even secure enough for this vulnerability to affect it.
IIRC, it was the fastest selling pc game of all time. That's quite a success.
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Consider ease of implementation too as I'm a one man team.

I know Go has concurrency built in but I've seen Java configured for concurrency as well... Just wanted to get the community's opinion.
Indeed. A day doesn't go by when I don't see drivers looking at their mobile phones, vans parked in the road on a blind bend, tractors which are wider than a single lane (or people who just think that because it's a country road they "should" straddle the middle of the road) etc.
Which exemplifies the barrier to long distance EV driving.

Taking you at your word, a vehicle capable of battery swap could also charge. It's not either-or. The value of the battery is mutable and would be less than $20k in an economy driven by swaps. But it would be a high value exchange. Bad batteries would have to be driven out of the system because lemons would kill it. It's more than a perception problem,you are right. What's the barrier to AV? Legislative and technology. Big problems, both with long-term high cost shape. Driving the market to EV+AV feels like a bad play. Feels like Newton driving to pass and handwriting recognition and that worked well for pads.. but not for Newton.
Don't think so. You can read the descriptions on page 17 of the report: https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/way...

For example: The steering system features a redundant drive motor system with independent controllers and separate power supplies. Either one can manage steering in the case that a failure occurs in the other
>Just because I formulated said ontology from sense perception doesn't entail that it references subjective concepts.

My point is that calling it sense perception will not make the subjective pre-conceptual experience of it go away. I'm not advocating a ghost in the machine here, but trying to show that neither the ghost nor the machine can survive as primitives when put under deep scrutiny, but I first need to demonstrate how neither can independently exist as a valid concept.

>this sort of skepticism necessarily presupposes the very knowledge that it attempts to undermine, and therefore it contradicts itself and is literally false.

Not sure I follow how this relates to the quoted sentence, but the problem with any explanation (physical or philosophical) is that it is always limited to discussing concepts and relationships between them and can never break the boundaries of what can be grasped by thought (this explanation not excluded). My attempt is to show that thought (and thus any object derived from it) is not the pristine reality, but something that comes after reality is processed. At most, thought can point in the right direction (e.g, understand it's own limitations).
8 bit video would've been so cool
> Are there going to be cameras in these vehicles to track bad behavior?

I don't think you really need that. You just need a feature to "send back" a vehicle that has been damaged or soiled and it should be easy for the provider to attribute the damage to a previous user.
Yes the schools themselves have a high variance distribution in what they are like and who they seek to serve.
Why do you think crime is a big deal?

If you just want to steal a car, cities are littered with them. If you want to rob people, humans are also not hard to find. And an autonomous vehicle will have excellent video recording, fast notification of police, and hard-to-disable vehicle tracking.

Weather, though, is a giant issue. Chandler, AZ has 90% dry days and rarely gets more than an inch of rain per month [1], so I think it's no coincidence they've started there. As a Michigander, I grew up driving in all sorts of shitty weather, so it's astonishing to watch San Francisco drivers fall apart in heavy rain. I expect auto-automobiles to be no better.

[1] https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/arizona/united-states/...
I completely agree, countries should not trap people.

But why is it "making it" in some countries to leave and go to America? Why not build up your own country and affect their living standards in a positive way?

Personally I have no desire to leave my country because I like it and want to make it better. I think that is a healthy way to think about your identity.
A closer analogy (rather than a bus) would be human-driven limousine: not bunched up with strangers, door-to-door service (not just "convenient" location). Even that considered, I am yet to encounter a limousine designed for long-distance travel (but that might just be because I'm not rich). Also, the human driver and the associated control interfaces takes up interior space which would have been put to other uses.

It's not about the driver for me - I would hire such human-driven limousine today (for a reasonable cost). I think the costs of finding the driver a place to stay and planning their trips in order for the driver to get home frequently makes such a service impossible today. This problem would go away if the car was self-driven - the service becomes scalable.
Indeed and unlike the 90s, SSDs are cheap now. :)
"Web 2.0" came around about 2004ish with Digg and other sites using AJAX. Or at least static content was not the defining factor. There were plenty of forums around in the late 90s with dynamic content.
> I doubt its usefulness

Tell that to the 70k people who use it in Chrome alone.[0] While for you it's not that useful, I've used it for years now.

I'd say Adam has built the perfect product for the target market.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-here/elif...
Oh, I get it. I know my driving is dominated by short run. But I also know that my desire for long run country driving is there. My key point wasn't to sell battery swap. It was to try and argue autonomous vehicle design should be decoupled from EV distribution.
That seems like it'd work, but I'm not sure what is gained by replacing Kickstarter with a smart contract (as opposed to replacing Kickstarter with a centralized alternative)
> "If a cars at an intersection are all auto"

... and the roadway is not used/intersected by cyclists, pedestrians, or anything that isn't an autonomous vehicle...

I think this stuff is super promising, but it alarms me how often we forget that streets are used by more than motor vehicles. The fact that roads are used by a mixture of users is a feature, not a bug.
FWIW, I use powerline Ethernet and I can pick up HF just fine.
Just as good as the narrow curvy American country roads: Not at all. All the self-driving fanboys are living in la la land if they think this tech is any way near practical for general use.
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I blog in markdown, I reddit in markdown, I trello in markdown, I github in markdown. I write books in markdown. It's become my writing method of choice. This is for me. I'm so glad reddit doesn't have that ugly, clunky, icon bar to let me bold or hyperlink. I'm so glad trello doesn't either.
I think you may have misunderstood your source. "Government grants" (which are going to go away in the next few years if Turnbull has his way) have nothing to do with student fees. They are effectively research grants, and other forms of funding from the government (since our universities are partially publicly funded). And since everyone pays tax, effectively everyone is paying for those grants.

As for HECS-HELP loans, this is quite different from a subsidy. It's a loan from the government that has a guaranteed return (pretty good deal for them). But even from your own source, international student fees are 18.8% and total "local" contributions (including HECS loans) are 19.9%. Which is effectively what my original point was -- approximately half of the funding directly from students is from international students even though much less than half of the students are international students (I never said that 50% of total university funding is from international students, please re-read my comment).

If you are a local student and you don't use HECS you still only pay <25% what an international student would pay -- because they have a different per-course-unit fee structure that's far more expensive.
> Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday nights driving for 12 hours (mostly sleeping)

It's really sad that the United States has let passenger rail deteriorate to the point that people are forced into this situation. Really, really poor foresight.
This is definitely happening.

Another type of YouTube video that is taking advantage of youtube blocking/copyrights are happening.

Basically these are YouTube videos that are about current events, content or blocked content with a robotic voice or music that describes the event with a series of photos, text, news and sometimes video clips.

Basically anything that is blocked from youtube, the algorithms post these robotic news videos that drone on that are algorithmically generated on any small news event that may fit this gap.

Lots of events like terror attacks, shootings, sports clips that have been removed, etc will flood in as soon as other content is blocked or removed or copyrighted and youtube can't have real videos about it.

This happened frequently after the Vegas shooting and other major events.

It also happens all the time to NFL content. For instance I was looking for Pierre Garcon's injury on youtube to see how serious it was, here's the type of fluff you will find (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1hZibQCdR8 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI1CN0uDu-w & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cJqaE4Em4 as an example and there are thousands of just Pierre Garcon's injury) because nfl videos are blocked immediately. If you search in google "pierre garcon injury youtube" you will get nothing but these videos.
Mail in ballots for everyone solves the problem imo (CA has this)
Yeah looks very good.

http://undertow.io/
SNAP down 16% in after hours trading (at 4:54pm eastern time):

https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASNAP&ei=bSsCWpmn...
The article here is from 2012, so not surprising that devices made as early as 2012 would be affected.
> and he started typing a phone number using the top row of the keyboard instead of the numpad

As I'd expect any good programmer to...? As a 100+ wpm touch typist (including symbols + numbers) and former finance professional, I use the top row of the keyboard for numbers.

How is having 8 fingers available that don't have to move much going to be slower than using three that have to move up and down?

I get the point that the programmer wasn't behaving like the users; that's a good critique, but I'm picking up the vibe from this comment that you think the numpad is inherently better for that sort of thing? No way...

Edit: huh, seeing the chain of comments here, I guess I'm in the minority? I don't see how someone can consider them a touch typist (type quickly without looking at the keyboard) and not be able to reach and use numbers and symbols, but maybe a lot of folks here are like that? How do you program with numbers, and ampersands, and parentheses, and asterisks and the equal sign and underscores and all that, having to look down at the keyboard???

It just seems obvious to me that a skilled typist would be much faster using the top numbers than the numpad.
I would not trust YouTube unattended with a child, I don't even trust television unattended with a child.

Things like Netflix and home media servers are the way to go IMO.
Denmark grants VISA if you find a job making > 62k USD per year.
OR you work in an industry on the "positive list" which includes management, doctors, research, and tech jobs in general.

I'm sure lots of countries have similar rules.
Yeah, I think Waymo is much better off selling shovels to prospectors than trying to mine all the gold themselves. A lot of people will try to get into the ridesharing business, some of them much better capitalized than Waymo.
What happens when you leave your phone on the bus or train? You hope some Good Samaritan finds a way to return it to you, or hope the people who manage the vehicle find it whenever they do cleaning or maintenance. Why would this be any different?

Regarding a trashed vehicle, one imagines the next rider will have a way to note that in the app or in-vehicle UI. Cameras... Maybe, depends on how people tolerate it.
You're the one thats bringing in all this insulting classism. No one said "dumb rednecks" except you. No one called black people "poor and helpless" except you. No one in this thread suggested poor people have high levels of gullibility except you. I implore you to let go of this straw man.

Everyone is susceptible to propaganda and information warfare. Rich and poor, black and white, urban and rural.

Critically examining the way false information is spread via social media is not insulting or classist.
You are right. I was wrong. I am sorry.
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The US is the third world country of all first world countries. Tribalism, poverty, uneducated masses, bad healthcare.

The only thing in USs favor is their tech leadership and petrodollars.
> We take a 23yo Chinese engineering graduate as he's going to begin peak productivity - the USA didn't have to invest in his k-12, scholarship his university, clean the water he drank for 24 years, etc. Instantaneous social profit.

That's only the half of it. The US gives out far more F-1 student visas than H-1Bs (roughly 3x). That means that US infrastructure trains the student, but then the US doesn't get to take advantage of his or her output. Its really a lose-lose for the US.
Internally Google still uses Python 2.7 only.
To be honest, the most effective way to get a job is through friends referral.

The 2nd most effective way is to be part of networking event of the company that you want to work for.

The 3rd best place to get a job is through relevant tech meet up in your area.

Nothing beats direct human connections when it comes to getting a job.