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As a kid who grew up on a farm, I found the non sequitur footnote to be delightful (and true)
Let us not forget the implied inverse of this title;

Stockton, California to take $500 a month of income from some residents.
Some people have tossed the idea out, with science, that Mars was once tectonically active, see

https://www.space.com/9683-surface-mars-possibly-shaped-plat...

and

https://www.space.com/17087-mars-surface-marsquakes-plate-te...
In iTerm Preferences, Keys, set Left Command to Control, then in the Key Mappings list, add each Cmd-xyz combo you want to preserve, and set its action to "Do Not Remap Modifiers".
Deceleration is almost more useful. Since we could beampower from lasers on earth for the acceleration.
When I write a review, I want to give 3 stars to most products, products that are good. I want to reserve 4 and 5 stars for things that exceed expectations. But when I read a review, I want to see 5 stars. Anything less than 5 stars means something was wrong. Why did the reviewer hold back? I think it's mostly because there are so many products with 4-5 stars. It makes products with just 3 stars look bad, even if it's 3.5.

For what it's worth, my interpretation as a writer is what the websites meant. Here are Amazon's labels for stars:

1. I hate it.
2. I don't like it.
3. It's okay.
4. I like it.
5. I love it.

Even closer to my interpretation is Yelp's:

1. Eek! Methinks not.
2. Meh. I've experienced better.
3. A-OK.
4. Yay! I'm a fan.
5. Woohoo! As good as it gets!

I don't think I've ever had anything where afterward I said, "This is as good as it gets." Still, if I leave fewer than 5 stars, I'm sure the proprietor would feel hurt and wonder what went wrong.

This is one reason I don't usually write reviews.
Any idea why the physics says it wouldn’t work?
How many version of Firefox do they intend to ship? I don't get it... If they are declination of Firefox, surely they should keep the fox in the picture no?
You can't see anything from GEO, it's just too far away to be useful. No way they'll put them out that far.
Could I use something like this to identify which of two or three people is speaking in an audio clip? Assume I can label several samples of each person's speech, then present an unlabeled sample for classification.
Vaccine-refusing community drove outbreak that cost $395K, sickened babies
>and a cloud of Kessler Syndrome fragments

Ugh, don't get me started there. Musk wanting to do all these internet satellites interests me but seriously gives me nightmares too in regards to Kessler syndrome.
The VAT figures into the "total taxes" of figure 1 as described in the last paragraph is broken out as "goods and services" category of fig 2. This still does not change the meaning of fig 1 where the US is strongly below average taxes.

If the wealthy are the most taxed in the US, how is it what inequality of both income and wealth is massively skyrocketing in the US?
Yodlee Incubator accepts applications for its 5th batch
They could, but they don't. Why is a bit of a mystery because in the long run this is destructive and it can't be that profitable.
Thing is this puts it in a narrow band of competitiveness between human-driven trucks (less capital-intensive, more expensive over time) and trains or sea ports (more capital-intensive but still cheaper than automated trucks). A lot of bigger cities where it makes economic sense to have this kind of hub-and-spoke model will already have trains and ports too, so it's a bit dicey.
Yeah, because it doesn't look like a sausage. The shape of it being a tube of meat is what people call a sausage.

The poster youre replying to doesn't say "ground beef" = " sausage" so I don't see your point.
If anyone's interested to read more, I know of them as "event cameras" (as distinguished from "pixel cameras". [0] is one of the universities doing research into them. We're intrigued to use them one day for our automation solutions, but they're a bit pricey at this stage.

A huge advantage of them is that you have practically instant latency on the output, as opposed to restricted frame rates with motion blur from traditional cameras. Have a look at [1] for a few demos. The spinning bucket path reconstruction and drone visual odometry are my favourites.

[0] http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/research_dvs.html
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3OFzsaPtvI
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As soon as higher-level programming languages such as COBOL, Algol, and FORTRAN came out; many clerks in the mid 1960's onward learned programming without knowing about the hardware guts or theory. Thus, the layering of specialties had already begun.
TypeScript can do runtime checks like this! Granted it uses a TypeScript framework (similar to AJV) that both does the runtime checks and preserves type information for your IDE and type checker. I wrote about it here:

https://medium.com/@stevenbradleyconsulting/from-0-to-type-s...
Putin settings aside some cash for his future retirement?
Replace Ruby with Python and I have the same feelings.
Quite a sensible precaution anyway, as network interruption may otherwise leave you with a partially executed script.
No, they can't explain ferromagnetism. Sometimes you use a semiclassical approximation, but that's a technical term. Don't look into the words used in Physics, this is not a social science, words in themselves don't carry an inherent meaning, they're just labels. You need spin to describe ferromagnetism, there's no room for that in a classical model of charges.

I'm not opposed to alternative formulations of QM, but I'd rather prefer people would try to come up with more fundamental theories than QM (if possible) instead of trying to get the same results with something else because for some ideological reason they don't like standard QM.

And it really is all about the measurements: Physics is an experimental science. You can think all you want and do crazy math and lots of gedanken, but we need at least a number and see what Nature thinks about it.
Not sure why people are disagreeing. That seems a blindingly obvious comment. There's so much today that would seem almost like magic to pretty much everyone living in 1960. But coice assistants? (And even just voice recognition.) almost certainly seemed like relatively "easy" problems. Perhaps less so to AI researchers than the general public but still.
> You poke someone in the brain (or drop some chemicals in there), their behavior changes.

An idealist can say: Physical objects, events, and processes, and the correlations between them, are all patterns in the experiences of minds. "Brain" is a pattern in the experiences of minds. "Poke someone in the brain" or "drop some chemicals in there" are also patterns in the experiences of minds, and so likewise is "their behaviour changes". The fact that the former is regularly correlated with the later is a yet further pattern in the experiences of minds. There is nothing here that cannot be explained by idealism.

> This is a pretty good reason for considering the brain to be the generator of our minds

A materialist explains these observations in terms of brains generating minds, whereas an idealist can explain them in terms of minds generating brains. Since both can explain the evidence in terms of their own theories, it is unclear how this could be a reason to prefer one theory to the other.

> In fact I'm not a thoroughgoing materialist

I'd be interested to know what your position is.
Exactly. Does the norm include women? Truckers are mostly male and women live longer.

Take the typical male life expectancy and knock off a few years as a result of sitting in a chair all aday the kind of diet you wind up having from always being on the road and "16yr less than the norm" seems perfectly reasonable
Why would companies know who's getting their products to review and why would reviewers know which products they're getting? I feel like an easy fix for this is to have the company send the product to Amazon first and then have Amazon handle the distribution to reviewers. There's no "quid pro quo" if there's no incentive to review a product favorably.

That's why Consumer Reports was so successful in the past. Their reviews were completely unbiased because the draw was in people paying to get thorough, objective reviews of products.

Now that revenue comes from ads and manufacturers all over the internet, it's hard to find reviews that aren't paid ads.
Lots of misconceptions here.

Let's start with the biggest: Mars settling is not. about. throwing. away. Earth. Heck, it's not even primarily about a backup for Earth. It's about starting a new civilization to expand the human experience and make the future a more interesting, expansive place. Literally 99.99999999999999999999999998% of the universe is not Earth. Mars would just be our first real step out, the first place we establish life outside of Earth (the point of terraforming, after all, is to cultivate Mars into a garden, a second full biosphere). It's the same kind of argument for why people choose to have children. The idea of it being necessary for the continuation of the species is not the proximal reason for it. It's an adventure.

Second: Antarctica has a few small colonies that have been grandfathered in, but it is actually illegal to build permanent structures on Antarctica. In spite of this, Antarctica sees tens of thousands of visitors every year. The reason people aren't trying to settle Antarctica is that it's effectively illegal to do so.

Third: Mars has a significant atmosphere that at low altitudes shields against all micrometeorites and all the acute biological effects of even the worst solar flares. It can be easily captured to produce both fuel and oxygen and even some water (yup, you can pull fresh water right from the Martian air).

Mars is much better for settlement than the bottom of the sea in essentially every way except transit time.

Fundamentally, should humanity stay confined to a single planet forever or should we venture out? If the former, that's an incredibly dark future and we should thus cancel the entire human space program.

But I think we have a duty to Gaia to spread life throughout the universe while we can.
Starting a Business as an Open Source Consultant (2009)
Please don't change the logo. I love the Firefox logo the way it is. Don't chase trends!
We would like to build a captive portal using OpenWRT, to implement social networks running on a LAN. Anyone who is interested in this kind of stuff and has some experience, please contact me at greg+captive @ at @ qbix.com
Not just intermodal. To get paid for delivering a trailer, I have to fax in the receiver-signed bill of lading to my company. You can do that at virtually every truck stop, or at a company terminal. I use an employer-provided phone app and my phone's camera to do that, but the fax is still heavily used by many or most drivers.
I don't need to understand metallurgy thanks to processors. I don't need to understand instruction set architectures or assembly language thanks to programming languages. When abstractions truly separate concerns, they make it very much possible to not understand, much to the benefit of the programmer, who now needs to keep significantly less in their head. Aren't you glad you don't have to be concerned with making sure your stack stays balanced thanks to scoping in C? Well, I'd like to write an API without having to be concerned about job scheduling, dispatching, logging, monitoring, etc. Understanding these things may make you a better programmer (or they may not,) but not having to understand let's you let go of things you don't need to care about and focus on what you're trying to accomplish instead.

We as programmers love writing solutions to problems that have been solved hundreds of times. How many node.js http frameworks exist? Or JS frameworks for that matter? But the thing is, for the most part, when it comes to API servers, there's a crazy amount of overlap between what they need to do. They handle HTTP requests and spit out a response. Someone has written this better than you can, so you use an HTTP library. You probably want to serve multiple endpoints on one port, so you route with the URL. What do you do, implement a radix tree, or use a mature, well-tested, high performance library? If you are sane, probably the latter.

All serverless is is a realization that most HTTP servers don't need anything special in terms of routing, scheduling, monitoring, etc. By turning an HTTP server inside out, you can allow the developer to focus on exactly one thing and give them a platform that is stable and inherently scalable by virtue of being stateless and making scheduling an implementation detail.

If you have a very efficient engine to execute functions, and a very robust and scalable HTTP server, and you can write your app logic to be stateless (locally, anyway,) there's no reason to believe that the serverless approach would be any technically worse than the old school approach.

I feel likewise similar about static files. I don't need to write and operate yet another static file server. I can use Amazon S3 + Cloudfront, or Firebase, or GCS, or any other solution. It doesn't mean I don't know how. It's an admission that I have no special requirements, and would like to focus on the things I'm writing that are particular to my app.

What's dangerous? Not serverless, for sure. What's dangerous, is programmers implementing everything from scratch because they can, doing their own operations when they don't have the resources to.
Shouldn't it be around 49%?

Or is it just bumped up due to an old electoral algorithm Amazon uses?

Hmmm...
Commuting is a bigger potential market than freight by 2 orders of magnitude, and an autonomous truck company that doesn't do the first and last mile is begging to be disrupted by the company that does.
I'm curious how much scientific research they did for the cards.
You're pretty much describing a truck or a bus in that breaking up a train is one of the things you need to do to allow it to travel on non-dedicated/special right-of-way.

And, with respect to freight, a lot of the easy automation is handled by trains. A huge amount of truly long distance freight in the US (including but not limited to bulk cargo) goes by train for much of its overland transport.
I’m of two minds on this. I loved the original Falcon on the Amiga (it actually talked! “Pull Up! Pull Up!”). I thought I wanted more and more realism. But at the same time I feel like all the sims lost their way trying to be too realistic. I was a huge avaiation buff as a kid. I loved flight sims. But it all stopped being fun when I had to learn so much just to play. It turns out ramming the afterburners and chasing down bad guys is a lot more fun when you don’t have to worry about scraping the engine on the runway on takeoff.
Yes. I find that the positive reviews are often more useful than the negative reviews. If a positive review is five star but still mentions some negative things, it feels authentic and I can go off of that. This is how I deal with the problem where people won't give anyone less than five stars because they don't want to hurt their livelihoods.
Exactly. That’s because FiOS routers allow tech support and their website to acquire information about your network, including your WPA passphrase, devices connected on your local network and more.

For that reason alone it’s best to have your own equipment not tied to the ISP, IMO. The ISP can already see all of my plaintext traffic, DNS requests, and MITM all my sessions if they wish. I’d rather not give them full access to my private network on top of that.
Lots about monetary policy, and very little about what will actually cause the next big recession. Bank executives, shareholders, and creditors have learned well from the last go-round. They can do whatever they want, and unless their interests are opposed to those of Goldman Sachs, the USA government will bail them out. It won't be smaller next time.

This will continue until it brings down the republic.
Is Optimizely's Stats Engine Worth It?
> clean your room

ahem, "wash your p!"
> I bet if you time traveled and showed Siri/Cortana to an AI researcher from 1960 they’d be incredibly disappointed.

It's a common misconception that the 1960s and 1970s were a time of unbridled enthusiasm in AI. In fact, there was a ton of pessimism back then too: for example, ALPAC [1] was so pessimistic about the future of natural language processing that it got the US government to pull most of its funding.

I think if you were to show Siri, Alexa, etc. to some of those folks they'd be pleased that we've gotten as far as we have, while acknowledging the obvious fact that there's plenty more to do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALPAC
I'd expect the utilization for commuting to be much lower though. The truck could pretty much run 24/6. What's the car doing at night? Even utilization of the fleet won't be the same during the middle of the day.
That's mostly because of:

1. (As others have mentioned) a lot of freight is intermodal so containers in particular shipped for long distances by train also travel by truck for the first and last X miles.

2. A lot of freight is relatively local in nature, so it makes more sense for it not to be intermodal.
GEDCOM-A file specification developed by the LDS
http://www.thewirecuttter.com
Specifically, consumer goods and services. Not land or real estate.
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>Their current userbase is mostly less-tech-savvy people

Really? I thought it was the complete opposite, as it's the free software browser (chromium/chrome aren't really free in spirit because they are too closely related to Google), and the standard browser on Linux.
Fun fact: in Germany you can get cinema (flatrate!) subscriptions ranging from EUR 226 per year ($264) [1] to EUR 399 per year [2].

While I understand that $10 per month is far too low to cover the costs, it is beyond me how expensive US cinemas are. I paid ~$19 for a cheaper spot in a 2D movie and a small drink at an Oakland cinema. In Berlin that gets you a 3D extra-length movie (3h+), a lot of popcorn and a big drink.

There's even a cinema where you have someone going around bringing you stuff, a footstool and guaranteed space around you for EUR 10 ($11) per ticket -- it even includes a glass of sparkling wine. [3]

[1] Independent cinema chain in Berlin: https://www.yorck.de/shop/das-kinoabo-unsere-jahreskarte

[2] Bigger cinema chain; includes 2D and 3D movies: https://www.cinemaxx.de/zeitkarten

[3] "Premium cinema" in Berlin: https://berlin.astor-filmlounge.de/astor-film-lounge.html
I agree for the most part, but it's not quite as simple as just having better accident rates. That is one thing, but there are other considerations as well. When there are accidents, are they predictable ones, or is it completely random? Did it make a decision that we cannot explain which led to the accident? People aren't going to like completely random accidents, even if there are slightly fewer of them. Can we assign fault in the case of an accident, sometimes, always?
Thanks.

I had no idea there's a full scale electronic war on the streets of my city.
The second part of your analogy is off.

It's not billiard physics to general relativity, it's billiard physics to fluid dynamics and predicting the exact route of a stick through a set of rapids.

In economics our biggest complaints are around failure to determine that we're near a singularity and failure to predict behaviour through singularities (in a signal processing sense). It's understandable, as we all strongly care about the path of the stick, yet still unreasonable.

Macro is a decent enough tool most of the time, as are traditional fluid mechanics approaches. What we don't have are ultra precise CFD tools but in our arguments we act like we should/do. Sometimes traders think that they do have a great CFD solution and that's how we get LTCM crashes!
Some of the most recognizable logos are bland and uninspired.
It's in the article:

"Under the rules taking effect in 2021, a plane would switch to one-minute tracking automatically when systems detected it was in distress because of turbulence, mechanical difficulties or an unexplained change in course, such as during a hijacking or if the crew became unconscious.

Pilots couldn’t turn the system off after it activates automatically, ICAO said. The system would deactivate itself once the plane was flying safely again.

However, a pilot could turn off the system if it was manually activated.

The challenges tied to minute-by-minute tracking include adding computing power and internet bandwidth to process larger volumes of data. The tighter system also may require reserving more space on the flurry of satellites being launched to satisfy demands for constant internet connectivity."
16 years on the board for me. From Cornwall, to Oxford, to Boston MA. Weird seeing the pictures of Sean Goff riding a sketchy ramp in Iffley Road in 87. He's still a regular at the new Oxford park, on the same spot as that ramp, and he still destroys it! As others have said, this is a strange mixing of worlds, skating and HN. It's great to see people come out of the woodwork!
Changing a famous logo is almost always a bad idea. The reputation of a brand is inextricably tied to the logo, for some reason in the buyer's mind. If you change it, the feelings have to start from scratch.

It doesn't matter if the font is outdated. Think if Coca-Cola changed its logo, or the New York Times, or Pininfarina. Okay, that last one was for me. I don't expect most people to know Pininfarina.
As a former Mozilla donor, I think this blog post communicates “we have more money than we know what to do with.”
This kind of reply shows how ignorant and retarded you are about Xinjiang and the history of concentration camps. Uighurs have been attacking innocent Han people for years. There has been a series riots against innocent civilians. These are the terrorist attacks on the innocent Han civilians. The US has been labeling muslim attackers terrorists for many years. Criticizing China for protecting its own innocent civilians from attacks shows exactly the double standards. When there is an attack in the US by muslim attackers, it is called terrorist attack. When China protects its innocent civilians, it is called "concentration camp", while you have a President in the While House labeling Mexicans drug dealers, criminals, and rapists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...