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This is me half-heartedly playing devil’s advocate. I think a lot of other people have caused more harm, but they are going after him and his toys because he’s being such an obnoxious little shit.

But that’s a bit of a problem. You get one high-profile conviction of this rent-seeking troll, and not as much attention towards more systemically harmful actors. So, a bit of a “finite legal resources” model and a bit of “bread and circus”.

But it’s a half-argued argument. I’m glad to see financial engineering narcissists get karmic Justice.
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"Collect customer information" consensual or not?
Still have ny HP41C, with XMEM etc, but no longer carry it with me since i41CX came out for the iOS devices. Inludes all the rom extensions too. When I get the energy the system is for sale - printer needs new batteries, card reader needs TLC or replacing. I also had but sole an HP16 programmers calculator, since there is also now an iOS (and OS X) version. PRG 16C. My first was a Bowen around 1964/5, then an HP 35 in 73?. Sharp made what is likely the first BASIC programmabe (actually they labelled it, I recently found several OEMs of it) that really impressed me. I have no idea what happened to mine. Also have still a Radio Shack Programmer's calculator.
> Let's not forget the US Govt blocked an attempted Sprint + T-Mobile merger to produce a viable third competitor in the space, ironically, in the name of competition.

I don't agree with you on this. A merger is never good for a consumer. I'm actually very glad it turned out this way. The purchase of T-Mobile by AT&T was also blocked and as an result of this T-mobile received $3B which they promptly invested to improve their infrastructure.

Now T-Mobile is a viable competitor to AT&T and Verizon and we still have extra choice which is Sprint.
Just realized this is now me. "A pile of individual pieces in a loose spaghetti wad" exactly describes what I've been made responsible for. Each source file shows scars of sprints where some poor fool was given a story and told "just make it work" with no concern for any big picture.
There's a Horror movie hidden inside this 2hr Yule Log video
Are there bots that downvote comments on HN? Why would anyone downvote this comment?
Your anecdotal evidence beats out a professor, sure.
Cruise Automation's software is a sloppy collection of special cases, coded by hand. We write ad-hoc rules to handle each situation we observe.

We don't really develop any neural networks ourselves. We use what we can get off GitHub: freely available research and school projects that we paste together, often without understanding them.

We use ROS (http://www.ros.org). ROS is not reliable for a timing-critical automotive system. That's why our cars drive so slowly/cautiously and stop so abruptly/frequently. It's because we're always on the verge of reacting late and hitting something.

Our technology is not "real" in the way that Waymo's technology is real. We build demos and promote them in the media. That's the truth.

Am I proud of this? No. But GM is paying for my house in San Francisco, so...
Also looks like you have to sign in with a social network? Double nope. Also looks like its an app instead of the normal connect screen, but since it's a mockup I'll give that a pass.

Thinking about it - not really all that different than the google wifi at Starbucks. Google definitely is mining some data there... how long you're connected, locations visited...
Yet it's enough to provide a significantly better quality of life than the US. As a 24 year old, living in America is rough. I'm $30k in student loan debt, struggling to find a job in a non-coastal region, and can become bankrupt and homeless with an unlucky illness.

And my situation is not unique, if anything, I'm above average. I'm lucky enough to have some money in my savings, a middle-class upbringing, and some personal finance classes under my belt. For someone not as lucky, it would be obvious to them that something is incredibly broken in our society.
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May I ask whats the capacity of an electron?
BuckleScript docs new website
There’s certainly a small and beautifully designed “I have read the [terms and conditions]” checkbox next to the field where you input your email (and no non tech savvy user/lawyer has ever bothered to click those links)
The stats course that I took in college was certainly calc based. There were two stats options:

"Stats for scientists" was a one semester course, mostly involving plugging numbers into formulas. There was lots of hypothesis testing.

"Math stats" was for math majors. It was two semesters, and focused mainly on proofs. I took math stats. I also ran a tutoring session for the scientists.

A problem is that the basic stats course is taken by a lot of students who wouldn't have gotten through calculus. So, building stats on top of calculus would have created two forbidding layers of abstraction instead of one.

On the other hand, I graduated from college in 1986, and we did all of our calculus by hand. I wonder if a potential compromise today would be to teach stats by exploration using random numbers. You're still doing integration, albeit numerically, but maybe it wouldn't seem so forbidding. And by playing with random numbers, you can learn the hard way what erroneous conclusions you can draw from them.
This is why I think we need to be absolutely upfront and clear about our priorities here. Too many people, too often try to quell these fears about parking, or shadows, or traffic, or whatever.

I propose total, brutal honesty and transparency: more density means more housing, more people, more traffic, more shadows, and less parking.

It also solves one of the largest issues facing our cities: affordable housing.

Let's just be entirely clear that that's a more important outcome than the impacts on your free parking spot, the shadows on your garden, the number of people crowding up your favorite parks and cafes, and on and on an on -- even on the loss of existing home values.

I hear your objections. I don't think you're wrong to have them. They are perfectly rational.

They're just less important than the alternative.

This is an enormous country. There is room out there for your single-family housing. But not in our most urban areas. There are policy goals that vastly outweigh anybody's desire to live in a bucolic country ranch minutes from skyscrapers.
> Your customers connect to your free WiFi with an email address, social media profile, or phone number. [...] Target your customers with email and SMS promotions that are easy to build and keep customers coming back.

I'll just keep using my mobile provider's data service that I already pay for anyway. More spam is exactly what I don't need in my life, ESPECIALLY not SMS spam which has no effective filters or controls.
Don't subscribe from their website, but from their app. You can cancel on your phone without having to call them.
I think much of the discomfort comes from the fact that white collar crime typically goes unpunished. (How many CEOs went to jail after the financial crisis?) There is the perception, warranted or not, that Shkreli was prosecuted simply because he stands out, which would be unjust.
Who remembers the System 7 Update 1.1.1?
My understanding is that "driverless testing" here means either (1) moving the safety driver to the back seat or (2) following the vehicle with a second vehicle with a remote kill switch.

Thanks for posting that link though, I've been curious to read more about this.

"""At first, most of Waymo's driverless cars will have an employee in the back observing the vehicle's behavior. If something goes really wrong, they'll be able to push the "pull over" button to stop the car."""
How do folks working in different time zone work in general ? Is the firm open to folks in orthogonal timezone?
If you like old calculator hacks, you might be interested to know that some early calculators (such as those from Wang[1]) could natively perform only addition, subtraction, e^x, and the natural log. So to multiply numbers, they took e^(ln(a) + ln(b)). See also: factor combining [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC#Factor_combining
> There's a hyperbole to express on both sides, but I can understand why people who are worth $1-5 million and are past their 50s might feel threatened by this sort of development.

They can sell their house and live a life of luxury virtually anywhere else in the world.

I have a hard time sympathizing with such people. They're not out anything—they're amongst the most privileged people in the country.

Sure, I understand where they're coming from. That doesn't mean they have my sympathy. I understand why billionaires advocate for lowering their own taxes—that doesn't mean I give them an ounce of sympathy.
this would've been a brilliant idea about 6-7 years ago when mobile data was more expensive.

Still not too late though.

I'm sure squatters that sit at cafes for hours at time would be more than happy to fork over their information for free Wifi
I don't mind if my boss or the CEO of the company gets rich, I think they're good guys. I'm just worried they would sell out instead of keeping the company private.

Take Tumblr for example - they sold to Yahoo. Verizon bought Yahoo. If I was an engineer at Tumblr I'd be pissed that an evil monopoly like Verizon that's fighting against net neutrality is suddenly using my code.

I'm more humble now than I was in my 20s, and I don't think my code is anything special, but I still fear that the private company I work for will sell everything I built to someone I consider evil. If I have no control and no equity I'm going to act like a mercenary... I'll do the job efficiently and according to specifications, but they don't get anything extra. If they have an idea and have me build something that gets them rich that's great - but I'm not going to be like the guy who built GMail on the side at Google... I just do the job they tell me.
I want to do this for cats and call it 23 and Meow.
Fully charged and ready to drive upon arrival? :)
Is there an official Apple page already for this? If not I wonder how many people will end up restoring their iOs devices.
I spent the last 10 years in a moderately rural area, and unfortunately unless you want to be a Walmart greeter or work at the Amazon store there aren’t a whole lot of employment options left. The last few tech jobs there were very quickly being sucked out by centralization into various cloud services.
Indeed. I couldn't imagine it being otherwise. What I wrote was ironic, of course.
I see they re-invented asynchronous logic, such as Chuck Moore's chip today uses, for their digital fabric.
Slavery was outlawed. That was likely unimaginable at one time.

Women eventually gained the right to vote. That was a long, hard battle too.

Average education level of women in the era of Lincoln was elementary school age. Slaves were forbidden from being allowed to learn to read.

I have read that in terms of relative wealth, our first president was the richest president we have had. So it seems to me that we have made progress on that at the societal level already.

It doesn't have to happen, say, in the span of a year or two for me to think it worth espousing. I am an old woman who raised two special needs kids. I am okay with taking a longer view than the next 5 minutes, so to speak.
>Right wrong and moral? From perspective of whom? Those are such subjective constructs. Is it right, wrong or moral to actively attempt to triple the population of an already densely populated area when there are millions of underutilized acreage in the continental US?

If bay area land was not underutilized you would not need zoning to artificially constrain housing supply. We would also not be supply constrained on housing.

Artificially causing a housing shortage is arguably immoral because it cause high housing costs that in effect limits access to the rare opportunities found here. It makes it almost impossible to grow up with lower middle class parents or work in a low-pay low-skilled position, and mingling with the tech crowd to work your way up.

* A snapshot of more recent U.S. Census migration numbers shows that nearly three-quarters of those who have left California for other states since 2007 earn less than $50k a year.

* San Francisco's African American population has declined from 13.4% of the population in 1970 to 6.1%

* 41 percent of San Franciscans spend 30 to 50 percent on rent, despite a lot of rent control for longer-tenure residents and a population average income being $104k as well as median $77k

It also limits the number of and kind of opportunities that can be found here.
>As long as the money i spend on the card is less than the money i place on it i only have unrealised capital gains.

Either you aren't in the US, or you don't understand how capital gains work. What you describe is exactly a taxable event (could be a loss, could be a gain).

Selling X shares of a capital asset for $Y is always taxable, no matter if you also buy X more shares, or $Y more in the same period of time. See also: wash sale [0].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/washsalerule.asp
"But realistically they won't be able to build an unlimited amount of houses"

Unlimited is quite the stretch goal, but, frankly, why not? We've done it before. San Francisco doesn't need to be Midtown Manhattan to drastically increase its population. It just needs to look like most of Queens (or Brooklyn, which would be even better).

We've built Queens before. We've built Brooklyn before.

It's not impossible, assuming you don't make it illegal.
Tl;Dr

It's slightly more accurate to say if

F(s) = 1^s + 2^s + 3^s + ...

Then

F(1) = -1/12.

This is still a lie, but the truth is that F(s) does make sense for a large domain of s, and there is a unique and canonical way of extending F(s) to a larger domain which contains 1. And then that new function evaluated at 1 is equal to -1/12.
Check out their investor presentation which compares their idea of AV ride-sharing with existing ride sharing services:

https://www.gm.com/content/dam/gm/events/docs/5265893-685163...
Ok yo, at least for US jurisdiction you would need to report those individual bitcoin sales as taxable cap gains events (either loss or gain depending on the cost basis). Does whatever exchange you're using make calculating cost basis easy? Like do they send you an 8949 or all the details easy to fill out? Otherwise that sounds like a huge pain to get everything straight for every purchase (even if it's just daily sales). If the exchange makes it easy it might not be that bad. My 8949 / sched D already got like dozen+ entries on it, what's a few dozen more? lol. But if the exchange doesn't provide easy cost basis and makes you calc it on your own, ugghh no thanks.

They also went into some detail about wash sales, which is going over my head.

But yea this sounds like it would vastly complicate your tax preparation. Unless you just don't report it and cross your fingers that you don't get audited I guess?

Of course, this is now 3rd hand from a CPA, and only applies for US federal taxes.
Given the lack of a powered descent mechanism I'm thinking it'll be more of a crater surrounded by bits of aluminum, plastic, and lithium.

Personally I think it would be funnier to put a Tesla into an eccentric comet-like solar orbit. That way future generations could train their telescopes upon the return of the... car.
Probably not. What basis do you have to think that any government, let alone all of them, are going to adapt it?
A few years ago, AdaCore's Robert Dewar observed that nobody has ever been killed by a flaw in Avonics software. That's perhaps not a good elevator pitch for a hockey stick startup but it's a good testament to the capabilities and skills of the people in the High Integrity community.

It's true that High Integrity development is not compatible with deadline or budget driven projects.

But there is a lot to learn from the High Integrity community and I think it's a shame that people who claim to be interested in making software more reliable ignore a community with decades of experience doing just that.
I don't know about being designed for it, but me and a few coworkers had a great Friday afternoon a year or two ago screwing around with http://zty.pe/
Ah, that's an interesting shortcut.
Unlikely to even arrive on mars, typically we need to make course adjustments en route and a car doesn't exactly have thrusters. Hence the comment in the tweet about being in deep space for a billion years or so.
That's numberwang!!
Super late to this thread but the best video I've ever seen on how docker/containers work is this one:

Jessica Frazelle's (docker core maintainer) talk on how to build containers in pure bash and C:
http://containersummit.io/events/nyc-2016/videos/building-co...

There's also this one, which is similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPuvDm8IC-4&t=1103s
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Wow, with such a well-reasoned argument how could I not be convinced?
Small hybrid-electric airliners ready for take off
I guess the bottom line is that homeowners are never going to stop fighting growth in their neighborhoods and are never going to be swayed over to the YIMBY viewpoint. And people who can't afford housing are going to continue trying to implement measures that might make housing more affordable for them and will never give credit to the NIMBY viewpoint.

This is not a problem that can be solved by piecemeal legislation or random lawsuits. It is also inextricably tied to effective mass transportation and needs regional planning, legislation, and funding over the next couple of decades. We should be designating major swaths of the Bay Area as urban corridors with high density housing, world class rail service, and highly incentivized job centers. We would also need to overpay the existing residents in the path of these new urban corridors with either shiny new digs in the luxury high rises or well above market buyouts.

We need a regional leader who can articulate and sell this vision to all the residents and politicians of the Bay Area, not just the young, professional city dwellers. The approach has got to be a win-win investment that every type of person sees some benefit with (even if that benefit is "great, focus all the city folk to those corridors and stop bugging me about changing my neighborhood").
> What I mean is T-Mobile + Sprint is still third by customer count. And not really a close third.

I don't know where you live, but in LA County I have as good (if not better) reception than Verizon.

I switched to T-Mobile (I think in 2013 or 2012) from Verizon and never looked back, in additional to good coverage the bill is always the same amount (it doesn't suspiciously grow month over month), they don't seem to make "mistakes" with my bill that cost me more, don't charge me if I go over quota (just slow down the access) and comes with free perks such as free texting and data even when traveling internationally.

The T-Mobile is actually considered a shitty (as treating consumers badly) service in Europe so I'm very glad that at least for now we do have competition and if T-Mobile will become too big, at least there might be a chance for Sprint to grow as well.

In my opinion Sprint right now is where T-Mobile was 5 years ago.
Don’t confuse yourself - YOU don’t see it as an unjust assault, not “people.” The 64% of Americans who do own a home would say otherwise. Also, houses are not like stock, nobody lives in stock.
It seems like if shortcuts ‘just work’ in physics, that should be a good sign that there is probably a mathematical justification waiting to be found.
Do you have a source for the ability to SSH?

I've used it myself on several models: Gear S2, Gear S3, Gear Fit 2.

Tizen is a full Linux. If I remember correctly, it even runs X for the GUI (although I think it's been replaced with Wayland in Tizen 3).
Exactly, vector calculus is a useful learning tool, but not used in most higher level (e.g. General Rel, plasma physics, etc) or numerical (super computer) physics calculations.

Raising and lowering Kartoffel symbols and their covariant derivative forms make manipulating the coordinate transforms possible (4-6 dimensional)... otherwise it would just look like pages of equations.

Interestingly, mechanical engineering also deals almost entirely with tensors... and they've developed extremely intuitive visualization tools.