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> The scale and savagery of war on the eastern front is so mind boggingly incomprehensible

Logistic and thought behind the D-Day is also mind-boggingly incomprehensible.

Can we stop glorifying Stalin's butchery, please? Yes, they've managed to lose 10 times more soldiers than British and US combined and suffered enormous loss of civilian lives.

But you know why? Because Communist leaders had no respect for human lives.
A great book indeed, but a bit long for an introduction!
Counter to narrative, there is/was some US based panel production capacity, we do still make things here!

True, except those operations are owned by foreign companies, right? Particularly... Germany and China.
This is exactly why Tor is publicly available.
Author here, this is aimed at an overview of the field, with links to relevant resources, but not a preview of courses we give at Insight since every project is different here!
>That's the fundamental problem here. These vehicles will run into stationary obstacles at full speed with no warning or emergency braking at all. That is by design

I wouldn't say it's by design or expected behaviour because if a Tesla approached a stopped vehicle, the expectation would be the car would stop.
To be blunt, I'm kind of stunned that you are defending a system that you yourself describe as "like being driven by a tipsy friend". What?! Sure, I could sit in the front passenger seat while being driven by my tipsy friend and grab the wheel from him if he was about to steer into a wall, but that is clearly much less safe than just driving myself. And I definitely wouldn't pay for the privilege nor endorse it as a good way to travel!

This is what Elon's personality cult, and the psychological need to defend a large purchase, does to people. You are making excuses for a clearly defective product that wouldn't be acceptable if this was anyone other than Tesla.
So because the field is new, it's okay that a human being is dead?
‘I Was a Storm of Confetti’: On Why It’s a Good Idea to Lose Your Self
i think we over-attribute the success's of companies based on the talent of both their CEO and their employees.

Here are some examples: I've worked in the gaming industry at big company for 5 years. I've seen a ton of games fail and few succeed. I was on the most successful game team that made hundreds of millions of dollars. And, I don't believe our team was more talented than all the other teams. We simply had the right market timing with exactly the right game, inexorably leading to an enormous success. Within this company many other teams built clones, executed just as well if not better and yet, none of those games received the success as the first one with the right timing.
> A 'startup' is a high growth type business, typically funded by VC

What you are describing is a pump-and-dump, which actually is the most vibrant sector of the US economy, but that is not a good thing.
He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source.

Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous.
> I guess Google is a lot less popular now compared to like two years ago.

Or all antitrust cases are not identical on their merits.
About this particular comment and elsewhere in this thread, the sense of moral superiority westerners still have after trump, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica is just mind boggling. One would assume that by now one would realize one’s short comings. It also proves that there nothing intellectually or morally superior except for speaking English better then your average rickshaw driver in India. Is some parts of the USA even that’s doubtable.
No it isn't going to be cheap but it will be worth it. The more options we have, the more competition, the cheaper it'll get to capture atmospheric carbon. Hopefully our children and grandchildren will be able to start pumping billions of tonnes of carbon back into the ground.
You don't need reason, you need fast reaction times slowing the car and avoiding obstacles.

The same happens with humans. Reason is extremely slow. Pilots are trained to act fast training the subconscious, not the logical mind.
There was a cryptography community before there was a cryptocurrency community, by definition.
Life Pro Tip: Have better skills and be a better employee.
I hate this elitism attitude people have like everyone should have taken a 101 for every topic in the universe. If all bugs are shallow given enough eyes, all problems are "X 101" problems given enough people.

"So and so helped me fix a hard problem"

"Isn't that just [problem category] 101?"
I find it hard to think that a group of engineers didn't consider stationary objects when _designing_ an autopilot system. I would no longer consider it a flaw if it was considered.
Great idea.. still unlikely to bring down rent prices I assume without zoning changes.
Binary to Hexadecmals
Five days after the crash doesn’t seem unreasonable. I wonder if some kind of inerting compound can be developed for lithium batteries for use by firefighters and the like.
I think GP is saying that $1M isn't enough money to "get rich", and furthermore isn't particularly "for creating a language", for someone who could easily make $200K-$1M working on whatever Microsoft wants.

But GP forgot that the $1M was in 1997, before Google and Facebook and friends made non-founder engineers rich.
I write a lot of Zig. In fact, all my hobby projects are in Zig since I've started using it because I like it so much.

I haven't tried Rust, but I've seen enough of it to know I'd hate it. Where Zig has a clear advantage is that it is vastly smaller and simpler and does not enforce a memory management paradigm on you. There isn't even a default allocator.
Ask HN: Acquisition after 1.5yrs
So we are a startup that was launched 1.5yrs ago. We are working on some exciting stuff, are bootstrapped so far and are generating revenue.

Now we got approached by a fortune 500 company that wants to acquire us. This is my first time as a founder to be on this type of call, so didn't really know how to respond.

We told them that we are open to acquisition talks and then they told me to come back to them with a dollar amount.

Now I am not sure how to come up with that dollar amount. Clearly, they are not buying us for our revenue. This is a technology play.

How should I go about putting a number to it?

Thanks.
The Trump administration’s War of 1812 and D-Day gaffes
Dependent types are a solution in search of a problem.

Widespread adoption comes from an easy to use, backed by big name, solution to a problem people have been having.

Typescript is a good example - it came with VS Code integration out of the box, and some decent tutorials. It solves the problem of catching dumb type mismatch bugs at compile time, gives jump-to-definition, auto-complete and doesn't cost anything, it's opt-in.

Those are killer usability features!

Dependent types give type theorists a place to try interesting things. That's about it so far.

Regarding invariant annotations - people call those tests :)
I agree that your interpretation has a lot of weight. However, you're forgetting a couple of things:

-. could be a request from the VP's peer; i.e., another VP. Or from someone in a lateral org (such as HR).

-. the manager himself in your interpretation of events should have the power at least to fire (if not to promote).

The fact is: it was a very confusingly worded post and we've probably wasted more time on it than it warrants. :)
Glad you liked it!! Indeed, I could have written much more, but it felt like it was getting long as it was :)
> they answer their own question at the end

They do? Where?
Is there a fuel oxygenate you'd prefer to ethanol?

Ethanol isn't great on it's own, but added to gasoline in small amounts, it reduces emissions & smog.
>Fossil fuels aren't even close to going anywhere.

Completely agreed. We will be flying around in kerosene powered airliners, and burning natural gas for electricity for a long, long time to come. But that doesn't mean it won't draw down to a fraction of what it is today. Personal vehicle gasoline consumption, for example, will be almost nonexistent in 20 years.
Ship hack 'risks chaos in English Channel'
Ivanka got her patents apparently.
No, health inspections are instaneous spots checks. Audits are far more extensive and look at historicals. This is how nearly all audits work - financial audits, tax audits, compliance audits etc. They are not the same at all.

Furthermore an independent audit is still far more credible than believing something is true simply "because the CEO said so."
Hey Daniel, thanks for chiming in, and for unflagging this.

I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but my desire in sharing these stories was to start a respectful conversation based upon open dialogue - to help this community - not tear it apart. I also don't want to start a flamewar or delve into conspiracy theories.

Its too bad that these posts have been buried now due to how the algorithm works, but I appreciate you taking the time to talk about it and to unflag it.

So anyway, just wanted to say thanks.
I think "learn" is a bit misleading here but I do have to say it's a nice and intuitive overview of RL.
RL is quite hard and math heavy, I don't know if one can take a short cut in learning RL without solid graduate level math foundation.
Major Vulnerabilities in Foscam Cameras Found by VDOO Security
Apprenticeships: All About Them
Maybe. But my primary objection to this is that it will shift the cost burden of the legacy transmission infrastructure onto the poor.
Elon, with self driving car, high capacity batteries and powerful rockets had the ability to put people's life in danger.
The carbon is sequestered by turning it into fuel.
I think the issue isn’t Indian engineers living in India, but bad management of India-based companies who set the bar low enough for lots of bad “engineers” to join, making the experience unbearable for any good engineers that work there (if any). As a result the good ones leave and make a have career abroad.
He's taking a sabbatical, not retiring permanently. Sure, he needs to have some money saved up.
Article [1] doesn't mention pull to refresh; Article [2] mentions pull to refresh in the context of email;

There is no dark pattern here; yes social media itself is made to be addicting. Pull to refresh is an intuitive UX pattern that can either assist in enabling the addictive behavior, but it is not the cause of it, not only to be used in that kind of scenario.
MySQL also fit really well with PHP because the connection creation overhead without any type of pool is very low. Both technologies scale down well.

At least they used to. Lately I can’t keep even a tiny MySQL instance stable without a 1gb server.
Does the planet really need more gasoline?

Maybe it’s time we consider the opportunity to allow people to convert their private property into dense carbon sinks that support plant and terrestrial arthropod diversity.

http://www.elegantcoding.com/2018/03/reimagining-suburban-ya...

Maybe we should be considering every option we have to promote a healthy reduced CO2 environment.
Actually it's a LOT more than that, since each of the 5 colors has 128 possible values. There's some duplication (same color slot, trivial rotations and reflections and such) but I think the order of magnitude is probably "cluster of galaxies" at a minimum :-)
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It's like putting something on the blockchain-- I want it there so that I can point to it from the future as "my work" but without attracting too much attention in the meantime.

If the attention comes, no worry. If it doesn't, perfect.
It's not expected behavior, but it seems to be what happens if you don't prevent it.

https://insideevs.com/tesla-model-s-rear-ends-another-parked...
When Is It Time to Build Your Own Blockchain
Yeah, sometimes I worry this pattern is inevitable as well. At the very least, though, I'd like to see us paying attention to the issue this go-around with crypto/blockchain
Exactly. It's not just music, consider modern and post-modern art. Even earlier art can be seen as a form of protest against the tyranny of the establishment of yore.

It's interest to see which parts of our civilization came which side of the divide. Market economy, for example is a great way for a young enterprising person to find their own footing away from the old (hence startups). Academia OTOH went totally the other way (hence grad school).
I am not shorting the market, that doesn't make sense for my situation, but I am betting against it. Rather than buy shares of stock-based funds, which I consider to be overvalued, I stopped adding cash to my IRA and started sending the money to the mortgage company instead. That way I get a guaranteed 3.75% return.

3.75% may be small compared to the long-term returns of the market, but it's awfully attractive compared to a net negative return on securities that lose value over the next few years.
One more thing to note - anecdotal evidence indicates that Tesla cars did not attempt to center within a lane prior to an OTA update, after which multiple cars exhibited this "centering" action into gore sections (and thus required manual input to avoid an incident) on video.

To me, that this behavior was added via an update makes it even harder to predict - your car can pass a particular section of road without incident one thousand times, but an OTA update makes that one thousand and first time deadly.

Humans are generally quite poor at responding to unexpected behavior changes such as this.
Apparently when CO2 is injected into hot underground basalt deposits, it is absorbed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration#Mineral_c... (last paragraph of section)

So I would guess the reason for producing synthetic CaO from CaCO3 is that extracting natural CaO is uneconomical.
"Already been done" is a quitter's excuse not to enter the market. If you care about the problem, you should be able to compete.
"Soon" is a relative term. This will change over the coming decades.

Fuels' primary advantage are their density of storage. But as the cheapness of renewables comes to dominate energy production--i.e. the cost of intermittent renewable will soon be cheaper than even just the fossil fuel cost of energy--we'll see price swings based on the variability of renewable production, and the mismatch between the time of supply and demand.

With electric cars, every home will have ~2-4 days worth of storage in their garage. Charging the cars will present one area of time-flexible demand, to suck up the variable production.

For the seasonal variability of renewable energy, it might make sense to store energy from the more productive season for use in the less productive season. However, synthetic fuels are quite inefficient, round trip, if you're making them from scratch, lets say 50% at best.

If the seasonal price swings are greater than 2x, then I think we'll see some synthetic fuels made as long term storage, as long as synthetic fuels can be made cheaply enough. See for example this other front page post for current best-case estimates:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257291

However, in the long term (50 years?), there's no room for fossil fuels. They will just be too expensive compared to renewable energy to make economic sense. Synthetic fuels, perhaps, but not fossil fuels.
So human drivers wouldn't crash here? Or a good, attentive, best-case human driver wouldn't crash here? Because those are not the same set, and it seems the former set has crashed into this particular barrier multiple times.

I don't think it's acceptible that a vehicle with adaptive cruise, lane keeping, and emergency braking would hit this barrier without any mitigating braking or action, but the actual state of drivers on the roads and human traffic fatalities is pretty grim as-is.
I think he's a psycho (could be a good thing, wait) who cares about two things:

a) Tesla making enough money to make Space X work

b) Being able to establish a colony on Mars, using Space X

I think he's super honest about the Mars stuff. I also think he's being super deceptive about the Tesla stuff. Is that ethical or not? I don't know. From his larger point of view (risk of earth annihilation vs a bunch of rich americans dying in Tesla failures)... who knows.
Me personally: no. But friends of mine owning an agency do this with all their clients. The gist of it is: don't think project, but iterations that deliver value every time you end one. The customer pays per iteration.
It's been too long to edit my post, but what makes you think the company that the CBP is using has any EU offices?
It's a hardware limitation. If you have a radar, the only way to get a signal out of it is to ignore all stationary stuff.
> There's also an ongoing lawsuit to consider -- as Ars Technica documented in 2013, Apple was forced to majorly change how FaceTime works to avoid infringing on the patents of a company called VirnetX. Instead of letting phones communicate directly with each other, Apple added "relay servers" to help the phones connect.

> Presumably, someone would have to pay for those servers, and/or figure out a way for them to talk to Google or Microsoft or other third-party servers if FaceTime were going to be truly open.
This is the real factor at play: Bodies are moving to the area faster than new units are being constructed because of zoning laws an other regulations which limit the speed at which new developments can be made. In Los Angeles it takes 2 - 3 years to break ground on a new apartment complex because of all the regulations mandating permits, surveys and reports that must be complied with prior to construction. This ensures only very large players can enter the market and raises the costs to develop new units, keeping prices high.
I do have the really secret stuff on BitBucket. :)
Ask HN: Is there a community that stays focused only on technology and startups?
I am struggling to understand your train of thought.

I claimed that there is redistributing wealth from society to business owners via welfare for low paid employees. In my understanding of the world the wages that are necessary to sustain the work force are $X and employers are paying $X -$Y. That $Y is the amount covered by welfare and what I am considering to be the wealth redistribution from society to the business owners.

That seems consistent with the idea that if the $Y subsidy is removed, then employers would be forced to raise wages or lose their workforce.

For example: if I have a nice car that my parents cover the lease and they stop covering the lease,I will either have to increase the amount of money I spend on the lease or lose the car. Just because I can respond to the change doesnt mean wealth wasn't being redistributed from my parents to me

Edit: it also appears that we are triggering hn's anti flame war measures as I have to wait some time to reply to you now. This has been a unheated discussion to me, but there will be delays in any responses now
Other coverage:

* By NBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225957

* By Quanta Magazine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17210982
> the following another car heuristic is dumb.

It's the Machine Learning equivalent of Zen navigation: http://dirkgently.wikia.com/wiki/Zen_navigation
https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html Reinforcment learning for the average person is a big waste of time. Probably for anyone atm
Well they must be convinced one way or another.
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Not sure.

Yeah, I am familiar with those scenarios, which kind of allow those countries to benefit from EU agreements without losing too much of their independence, in comparison with other European countries.

I am also regularly in the UK, and for many people it wasn't clear what being outside EU meant regarding European companies with HQ in UK.

Having such agreements would allow a kind of win-win situation, leaving EU while allowing many of those businesses to stay in UK.

That is just a personal opinion, in any case I don't have any vote in UK matters.
Wow, that's great to hear! I hope you post something here when that becomes available. Cheers.
"npm link" only establishes a symlink between the two directories and doesn't respect .npmignore or behave in any comparable way to publishing a package and installing it. Sometimes the only way to debug is to repeatedly publish and re-install the package you are developing.
> driving in an uncontrolled environment is really a general AI problem

Is it? Unless you are talking about NASCAR, an adversarial game where rational agents compete for road space, driving is essentially a physics problem: maintain a speed and direction that does not exceed the vehicle's ability to correct them so as to avoid any stationary or mobile obstacle.

In this case, the vehicle was accelerated to a speed (72mph) that far exceeded its safety speed against oncoming stationary barriers (0mph).

I concede that discerning what is an obstacle and what is drivable road surface is a hard computer vision problem, hence the tendency to simplify it using 3D data, radar/lidar etc. But still, not quite general AI.
This came up last month and a Tesla driver had this to say.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822623
This is brilliant. Create a $10 tier to receive swag perhaps
So essentially everyone I know. We're not talking windows mobile here.
No, the carbon is sequestered buy pumping it deep underground. There's no reason to make fuel if you don't plan on burning it.
That's interesting because its also well documented that "Poverty decreases IQ" studies are contentious and not well replicated.

> Mani et al. (Research Articles, 30 August, p. 976) presented laboratory experiments that aimed to show that poverty-related worries impede cognitive functioning. A reanalysis without dichotomization of income fails to corroborate their findings and highlights spurious interactions between income and experimental manipulation due to ceiling effects caused by short and easy tests. This suggests that effects of financial worries are not limited to the poor.

Comment on "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function" (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259207757_Comment_o...
The only wrong with this is the octopus logo has 9 arms
Wow. The start of that concrete lane-divider looks incredibly dangerous for a highway. It pretty-much just "starts", with only some sort of object that they call a "crash attenuator" in front of it. I would imagine its purpose is to dampen/dissipate kinetic energy and maybe deflect oncoming objects from hitting the concrete slab directly.

I don't even see any sort of road-bumps to warn drivers of this dangerous obstacle approaching.
The problem is the price of buildable land, not the buildings on it.
Carbon capture by weathering Olivine rocks is estimated to be $11.81 per metric ton of CO2.

http://www.innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/oli...

Rock weathering is a natural process, so there is no need to mess with transporting hydrogen or limestone to make some complicated chemical reaction. We just need to dig up olivine, crush it and spread it out over the ocean which will also fix ocean acidification. If we're going to geoengineer, weathering still seems like the least expensive option.
And a helpful lesson for all the "excessive government regulation" people.
Indeed, indeed. It's a tough issue and I do sometimes slip into cynicism about it. At the very least, I hope by being aware of it we can mitigate the worst outcomes, even if we ultimately always see some degree of re-centralization.
Jump off point for VirnetX

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirnetX
You can have different cameras for sign recognition if you can't deal without color. But BW cameras have huge benefits from sensitivity in the optics all the way to processing power in the backend without much downside.
Well, I assume he's going to be smart about it and have at least six months' income.
"A gore (British English: nose),[1] refers to a triangular piece of land. Etymologically it is derived from gār, meaning spear."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_(road)