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> Greyhound didn’t innovate. The buses look like they are super old. No wifi. Exorbitant prices. It’s a terrible experience. Pay a bit more and you can take a train.

It may have been an isolated incident, but the Greyhound bus driver I had the last time seemed to have a really sour attitude and was not helpful at all.
Apple Maps when using CarPlay does this pretty well. You can use overview mode on the car display which gives you a map of your whole route. A list of instructions comes up on your phone.
I wish a new superpower wasn't authoritarian, shamelessly cheating, oppressive with humanitarian issues, IP theft, and straight up unapologetically Orwellian.

Imagine if say, Sweden or Canada were to be the next upcoming superpower.

Another way to say it is - If China was a democratic nation with the highest level of freedom and openmindedness and fix the issues US has. I have nothing against any particular race.

Just venting out what kind of world I wish I would die to.
How is the live traffic integration? I've been using Waze exclusively because of traffic data. I'm otherwise not very fond of the app and would love to move to something else, but the highly accurate and current traffic info is just such a time saver
>It could make sense for the government to step in here with a publicly owned transit service if there is a real market failure here in that it's not at all profitable to serve the sparsely populated North.

If its unprofitable, maybe its a bad idea to have unused transportation. While a few buses seem like negligible damage to the environment, I imagine this greater plan is to grow these locations that are in unfavorable geographic locations. Isnt this environmentally irresponsible?
A vegetarian diet often has significantly less protein (important if you're trying to build or maintain muscle mass) and less of some trace nutrients (zinc, iron, vitamin B12) than a diet including meat. It's possible to make up the differences and there are health benefits if you do, but it's definitely more work.
Maybe in some cases, but I've taken multiple hours long buses in Taiwan and multiple hours-long buses here in Canada and price and quality of Canadian buses is way behind the times; inconvenient, expensive, and slow.
I'm not much of a physicist, but I find the idea intriguing. Let me see if I understand. When you're talking about "the ions" you mean positively charged ions — nuclei, right? But there have to be electrons around somewhere so the whole thing is electrically neutral, right? Where are the electrons, and what are they doing?
But then I thought it’d be funny to try to find the core fizzbuzz logic.

The point is that there is no "core" logic anymore. It's been broken down and spread out over a dozen files, each of which does "one and only one (tiny) thing" according to the "best practices" of problem decomposition. Then all the pieces are glued together again using design patterns.
Then how can you derive that opinion? I understand all too well what a PhD is because of several credible reasons. It's a doctorate of Philosophy. The reason for that degree being in Philosphy, rather than Marketing, or whatever the the chosen path of study is, is because what you're learning to do is create a theory, evaluate it in a philosophical manner using theorems, and defend it, whether it pans out or not. It's to teach the candidate how to do research and present it in research journals, which is what makes a Ph.D. more valuable than, say, an instructor or an adjunct professor, who doesn't need a Ph.D but can also teach graduate-level courses, as I have. Instructors in a University know as much as or more about the subject they teach as a Ph.D. And they often do know more. In some instances, much more. But they don't have the other two responsibilities tenure-track professors have which is research and service, which set tenure-track professors apart in salary and prestige. It's not a fair system, but schools don't represent the real world in any shape or form, so that's just how it is.
Say you want to last minute cater for a small meeting or conference. Suddenly adding a 15 meal or 30 dish demand in to an existing fulfillment network is not going to result in 15 minute service, or even under 1 hour service. It's going to train wreck.
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Please go and read the paper. You seem to imply that the linked paper is something that it is not.

The contents of the paper is pretty much contained in its title. They took photos and saw faces reflected in eyeballs! That's it!

People have been doing that since, well, cameras were invented. And people have been staring into reflections in eyes since forever.

"My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,

And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;

Where can we find two better hemispheres,

Without sharp north, without declining west?"

-John Donne (1572-1631)
> Some analysts see it as yet another indicator that rural Canada is not only struggling, but slowly decoupling from the country’s thriving urban cores.

Sad story heard in a lot of towns around the US as well. What can a town do when all manufacturing/blue collar work was offshored a decade ago? And people think Russian Facebook ads are what propelled Trump to the whitehouse.
This kind of paper which describes a system is not uncommon in computer science. It's a way for future papers which use the system to cite it.

For example the scikit learn paper: http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume12/pedregosa11a/pedregosa11...
Unfortunate, in your opinion. Personally, I love dense cities and really dislike suburban and rural living. Everything is so convenient and there is always something to do that doesn't require driving for 20+ minutes.
This paper is not about AI.
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Definitely depends on the route. I used to live in Indiana and flying out of Indy was as you described. I now live in Denver and I always need to upgrade if I want to guarantee sitting next to my wife.
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A couple years ago I forked Slick and removed the font references.

https://github.com/jryantaylor/slick
I would be too driving from Prince Albert to Flin Flon.
Completely agreed. Knowing the limits of one's knowledge and accepting feedback when one is misinformed are important skills. I believe I already do that and I certainly don't plan to stop.

If I have a competent tech lead under me, I wouldn't be pushing for a certain technical way to do things except if the requirement came from some external constraint like the business or another team, and I would accept the limits of technical possibility.

I might share my technical input if it happened to relate to my area of expertise in a way that wasn't otherwise sufficiently present, but I want my team to know their stuff, not to defer to my technical knowledge out of some personal need to be the expert. Also my input != final decision, with respect to technical decisions, if I'm not tech lead on the task.

Even if I had to push for or against something, I'd do my best to defer to my tech lead (i.e. not me) to actually come up with and lead the solution. It's not a manager's place to prevent a tech lead from conducting a discussion on technically how to achieve the goal within the applicable constraints.
The article says that he has spent 300 million dollars and bought 67,000 acres of land.
Hyperbole much? The same arguments could be made about any technology. Modern medicine would have been considered whichcraft centuries ago. Rock and Roll music was the “devil’s music.” People were murdered when they dare share scientific discoveries that were deemed blasphemous or heretical.

And, to be fair, the “system” has always had the power to punish and silence. The NKVD didn’t need AI to send people to the Lubyanka basement or to the gulags. This anti-AI pontification is ridiculous. ANY technology has the power to enslave just as it also has the simultaneous power to enlighten and uplift. People were brutally murdered long before there were tools to do so and yet, those very tools have protected people just as much as they have harmed. So it goes..
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I'm not sure what that has to do with this person planning a town.
I was about to say 'Florida', but I looked outside, nothing's on fire... so googled it.

Pakistan.
I love this excerpt of your life. I was pretty young at that point, but had similar experiences (though shorter trips) going up and down BC as a teenager. Instead of techno records I had CDs in a case on my lap. Eventually (after 4 or 5 years) someone was decapitated on a bus and my parents insisted I take a car. Strange times and a much worse ending than yours.

I'm sometimes nostalgic for the trees, rocks, lakes, etc. No concerns other than my discman running out of batteries or running out of change for drinks at bus stop vending machines.

edit: Remembering now that toward the end I had an iPod mini. That would have been 2008. The problem with the iPod was that you couldn't swap batteries.
For the observer:

Don't worry, this is still politically slanted. It's "not depressing" that donations pour in after some wacko burned "LGBTQ books" (for children, left out of the headline; also, exactly four books).

Not sure I have time for that much news, depressing or not. And I definitely don't need to be told that it's the opposite of depressing that some people are getting into a tit-for-tat over LGBTQ children's books, a subject I'd love to hear nothing about ever.
You can always buy the car when the service actually stops, no?
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Agreed. There is a real poverty of deep "meta" thinking today.
35k is low even for straight out of university. With a few years of experience it’s closer to 50-70k€ (57-80k$)

That said, when I was doing the math on moving to the states, a +80% increase in salary still left me with less money in NYC vs Amsterdam. (I have kids: healthcare + kids education + rent basically wipes out your income in the US, it doesn’t in Amsterdam)
I'm with him, though I maybe don't agree with the assumed tone about it.

Precisely what surprising thing went from being assumed non-possible to known possible through these folks' efforts?

This paper is pointing out that if you have sufficient fidelity, you can do this -- which isn't the science fiction part of the film plot, it was fundamental and now widely known (and frequently repeated in popular CSI type television and film, to the degree it has now spawned many parodies).

What was science fiction in the film was that somewhere "beyond the year 2000" you'd have a source image of sufficient fidelity to try this with -- and the paper hasn't changed that either, it is quite unlikely you are going to find matching fidelity images (39 megapixel) out of e.g. security camera or child abuse stills anytime soon.

The only novelty here is that the researchers have access to still camera that can take a photo of fidelity required to make this a real thing in their controlled conditions -- which is a little cool I suppose, but is that surprising? Things reflect light, and that kind of capability from imaging sensors is fairly established (yet still not widely available enough to produce real world applications).

They lean on this abstract with these crime solving use cases -- and if those things were real (even if you cheated and used the very top of the line consumer video recorders or security cameras or phone still cameras) then sure yeah that'd be remarkable and maybe people would be surprised by that (precisely because it is not physically possible).
I'm surprised our federal government didn't offer to heavily subsidize the bus routes.

There really isn't any other way to travel across Canada at a fair price anymore.

We subsidize almost all forms of transportation, from the tiny GO railway system in the GTA at $2/ride, to VIA rail's cross-country treks at hundreds of dollars per ride.

Perhaps the numbers are really that dismal that subsidies didn't even make sense?
I’m sorry but I find it hard to trust the competence of any person who creates a company straight-up called “Blockchains”. Such a money grab. Imagine starting Internet, LLC during the dotcom bubble.
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That’s awesome. It’s a powerful idea to abstract cloud resource provisioning. Makes multi cloud much simpler.
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Re-reading and honestly. I just don't think your response to thread OP was clear in the way you have imagined it.

You mention walking vs flying as an appeal to extremes, but you dropped in trains right after. That takes away from your point at the critical moment. And your Facebook as a luxury comparison just doesn't really get your point across. It's not like you told me to sell my children to fix my financial troubles.
the link doesn't state the kindergarten claim as far as I can tell.

Is this still done in both the West and Russia?
It's not really a right. It's a law that someone "can't". There really is a big difference.

I'm not saying it's wrong, but the deliberate abuse of terminology undermines the discussion of real rights.
That's where I make a few dollars. I'll do any computer work for my neighbors, no matter how small, for a minimum flat rate if it's one hour or less. Its commonly only a few minutes of work, but the (usually elderly) neighbor also wants to talk, and I'm paid for one hour, so sure, I talk. Win-win.
My thoughts exactly, those are the images I typically search. Wikimedia commons does seem to have a bot (and/or some kind of manual process) that collects some of the creative commons photos from Flickr, but not all of them, even if they are good photos that are well-tagged. I usually search both sites, so I have a good sense of how often a photo appears one on site and not the other. Incidentally, it would sure be nice if Wikimedia commons allowed you to filter by license type.

I do hope some bot out there is collecting and archiving Flickr's creative commons photos before they disappear for good.
Indeed. Having hyper accurate greenery mapping may make for a cool tech demo, but has very little utility. Maps are about information density and color utility. Having 10 different shades of green doesn't really convey anything that's useful for my normal usecase.
I read this article in a very sarcastic tone. Wondering if that was intentional.
Yikes dude, glad my little project helps
The fact that they used the N5 for the pre 4.4 OS renders is truly confusing.
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I have a knack for finding good driving roads with Google Maps.

It doesn’t really work in satellite view because the trees make for a ton of visual noise at the relatively low resolutions shown.

A good indicator for me is green in the map, and no street view (street view tends to cover busier routes, I drive roads street view wouldn’t bother with)
You missed that one part:

>I mean we're still talking about very low absolute levels.

So no, I don't see how it logically follows, whatever that means, that people Turkey or Croatia would be more likely to resort to violence to solve problems:

-Germany's crime rate is very low, and even 3.5x a very small amount is still very small. Croatia's is lower, but it apparently doesn't count because reasons. (For information, the US has never had any war on its own soil since 1865 and still sports higher homicide rates than all three of these countries).

-Unless a country is literally at war or does lynchings or something, most violence typically happens within an underclass and rarely spreads to the middle to upper classes and becomes a cultural trait affecting the general population.

-Cities are often more developed than the countryside, and the original poster was mentioning Istanbul. I get that there may be dodgy areas like in every city in the world, but does it logically follow that a whole culture shift in the entire city (or even country) stemmed from that specific number increase, and led to a peculiar general attitude when bumping people in the street? Here I'm lost.
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I dislike it because it slows my consumption of the map; annoying while walking, possibly dangerous while driving. We're all accustomed to reading lines of text in their entirety, which results in endless repetition here. Training the eye to look only between one set of red dots may be possible, but I doubt it would ever be as effortless as reading a discrete word with whitespace around it. I do agree every road should be labeled when there's space - perhaps even at regular intervals when there's space, but making the labeling continuous is counterproductive.

Apart from being easy to consume, the map tiles must also be in sync with the company's brand and design ethos. Its hard to imagine Apple's minimalist aesthetic delivering these tiles.
The question is: what is the practical path to that world?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Yeah straight info on major stuff would be good.

That's interesting - I have no idea why that could be the case - I'm googling around to help it.
This was actually the exact reason for me to stop riding, at my parent's insistence. I wasn't worried for my safety, but they were horrified.
Yup! The dead giveaway - airline miles follow the passenger, not the purchaser.

My mom used to travel constantly for a Sales Engineer job, and in her telling the opportunity to arrange your air travel for optimal frequent flyer miles was an acknowledged piece of compensation for the hellish travel schedule.
> Maybe they should unionize? They could then elect representatives and have a seat at the table with management.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_VL4gqrCHc&t=392

But if they did that, they be giving up control over their careers and the right to deal with their problems with their supervisors, one on one. /s
I'd LOVE to see a video of this demo running linux.
No references off head but I stumbled upon it while working on airline related project some years back. The key thing being proper cost accounting showed it wasn't lucrative as portrayed.

Citations on premium class margins don't account for the higher costs of servicing such customers (ground/airborne food and entertainment, lounges, transportation, exclusive services, etc).

While some may have a few planes with higher #s of premium seats, many fleets (especially N. American ones), are comprised of mainly economy class seats. This is obviously less true for newer airlines or those upgrading most/all of their fleets. The invention of more seating groups like premium economy (same cabin, almost no difference in service offered and cost to do so) has made one of the biggest differences to date.

Sales also extend to business and 1st class seats - this and frequent flier upgrades show that premium tickets are often sold at less than full markup.
That's pretty much what I'm aiming for while I build it out behind the scenes - I just want the option to not get slammed in the face with some crazy depressing stuff.
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Just cracked your challenge. Should I apply? You will get a package of a developer & PM :)

I believe I might have a strong case for an O-1.
It's just scraping everything right now - I'm working on a proper filter for it.
hopefully has better selection than fooda.
And these days it's $75+ by train or bus to get to London (edit: from Toronto. Had to visit a dying relative in hospital there).

I imagine it was really something to arrive at that terminal downtown and step out to a meeting like that.
There is a difference between being popular and being a monopoly.
I'm sure "China" went from China Proper to enveloping Manchuria, southern China, and modern-day Xinjiang through purely peaceful measures as well...

[I should note that I find these types of discussions useless in the first place. No problem among living humans was ever solved by arguing over whose ancestors were less barbaric...]
Then what happens when it can’t read your fingerprint or face?
I feel the same way as you, but the HN crowd is different in this sense from ordinary people.

Our first resort is a search engine and a FAQ page, and possibly making a forum post.

For many people, their first and only resort is to ask a person on the phone, no matter how factual or trivial the question is.
And here is a music video, shot entirely in the reflections in eyes in 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=72&v=odBF4WN1cB8

It spawned a Gizmodo photo contest titled "Reflections in the Eye":

https://gizmodo.com/13-images-reflected-in-someones-eye-5054...

People have been having fun with that probably since cameras were around. I, too, wonder how this is a paper.
It's also more sustainable. Especially the suburbs only work financially because all the infrastructure is subsidized by the urban core. On top of that public transit which is a lot better for the environment is much more viable in a proper city.
The number of times i've seen broken down greyhound buses, i can't imagine the "chinatown buses" could be too much worse.
that looks like 2GIS maps

EDIT: check out this map of Dubai: https://2gis.ae/dubai?queryState=center%2F55.274674%2C25.197...

Also check out its search UX. Try searching for "grocery"
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I’m confused. $75 for a train to London from where?
Newegg? They have the callback system, as well as estimated wait and # in line.
It's 2018 and somehow we all believe that humans have changed over a few hundred years but the idea that groups of humans that lived oceans apart for thousands of years had 0 divergence from each other.

Amazing how we can change so much but still be the same.
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They were quoting a scene from Blade Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0
A laser array of 100MW(optical) spread over a 10-km aperture. Pointed at a 6kVolt photovoltaic array on the spacecraft directly driving a solid lithium ion thruster.