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>The arguments that because humans can do it with two eyes any approach using more than cameras is wrong frustrate me to no end. Technology and engineering isn't about imagining the minimum theoretical requirements, it's about building stuff that works with what is available. People can navigate cross country without gps, but it's not wrong to put gps in cars.

At least as important, and something that comes up shockingly little as well (I don't see any responses to you yet on it here even!), is that overall humans stink at driving. Like you said, arguments begin with "because humans can do it" and need to be stopped right there, because that needs a lot of qualification. "Humans can do it"... with well over 1.25 million deaths a year worldwide [1] and another 20-50 million injured/disabled. Also these stats are actually worse then they look at first glance, because it's not a uniform age distribution. A lot of young people die on the roads vs other causes of death, which represents an even bigger loss in terms of human years.

Personalized arbitrary point to point mechanized transportation is so insanely valuable that it's well worth that kind of death/injury rate, or for that matter one vastly higher (as it was in previous decades before modern safety standards), but there is also no reason to use it as a benchmark for "acceptable" if the opportunity exists to do better. And in particular there is no reason to limit autonomous systems to human visual spectrum for information input. That doesn't cut it for a lot of adverse weather conditions, or even just for humans along the road or animals jumping across the road at night for that matter. A big part of the pitch shouldn't be to match humans, it should be to exceed them and by a sizable margin as well.

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1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/12/07/tra...
> I've worked with a few H1-B holders in Silicon Valley and they're awesome.

I see your point, but you can't group all H1-B holders in the same boat. The ones you worked were awesome, but I am sure many have worked with ones that were not awesome. I will note, I have worked with a few awesome H1-B holders too, but I won't fall for ALL being the same.

> If you are, like me, a software engineer, you should cheer every immigrant. They aren't competitors, they are complements and create more jobs.

It's hard for me to read this without thinking you are just virtue signalling. This is because across the board you can hear about skilled US engineers not getting the job, but yet find the companies that opted not to hire a US engineer has a ton of H1-B visas. You can't have a tech shortage, and at the same time have skilled workers in the same country struggling to get a good paying job in tech. This is also coupled with huge swaths of tech jobs being shipped overseas to the same places we are getting flooded with H1-B holders.

You could say -- well maybe the H1-B holders were more skilled? Maybe... But even if they were it is still a disservice to the US employees as they will not be given the opportunity to improve and hone their skills.

I also feel that people overlook the extra value a company has for hiring a H1-B over a citizen, even if they have the same skill and are paid the same. They get stickiness. There is a lot of uncertainty and a lot of stress moving from job to job. So often H1-B holders stay longer at companies when working conditions change for the worse.

> And if you are in SV consider that more than half of public tech companies were created by 1st and 2nd generation immigrants. 1st generation founders include Sergey Brin, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Pierre Omidyar, Stewart Butterfield, Sebastion Thrun, and Patrick and John Collison.

I don't think it is a good idea to conflate immigrants to H1-B holders. While many of them do stay and become permanent residence, many of them also go back to the country they hailed from. I don't have the time right this second, but I do wonder how many of the immigrants on your list were in H1-B programs vs other routes of immigration.
You can if the profits are redistributed to the workforce and not just captured by the leadership / elite. There's more people working than ever. Profits are higher than ever. Yet, wages are stagnating. Where did the money go?
They probably don't expect everyone to fix their stuff in time, but I'm sure the people who actually care about their product working are already taking care of it. Social logins aren't exactly rocket science. Especially when you use a library that does all the work for you.
More and more people I respect are becoming skeptical of Silicon Valley, or at least the attitudes attributed to it, to the point where I don't think convincing people is necessarily the problem any more. What is lacking is a solid plan of what to do instead.
"Iran may have rhetoric, but Iran isn't occupying anyone"

Well, Iraq and Syria would be two countries.

And if they could, they would be occupying many more.

Iran is not some entity trying to protect themselves from invaders, they are a theocratic dictatorship and they want to spread their specific brand of revolution throughout the region and the world.

Nukes involve us all so it's less a matter of sovereignty.

Nobody wants Iran to have nukes - not Britain, Germany, France, Russia, China etc which is why they are all signatories to the treaty!

If Iran tried to get nukes in the eyes of the above, they would pull out as well!

The issue here is more or less one of 'what Iran is doing' - not an issue of 'what we should do if Iran is cheating'.

So the headline of 3 major countries doing trade with Iran is not an abnegation of the nuclear issue, it's just a difference of opinion on what is actually going on inside Iran.
Looking forward to his upcoming book, "Digital Minimalism".
If you narrow your window enough to get the mobile (responsive) view it looks like separate lines.

HN really needs better code formatting.
But you don't know this for sure since you can't use any of these cars, right?

The point being Tesla has actually shipped a product that's pretty good, and therefore, is currently the best in the market. Sure maybe Waymo's system is better but since I can't use a Waymo I don't think we should be counting it just yet.
Not saying you are wrong, but it's pretty easy to not give something the optimal name. Sometimes your work is just more useful for some purpose other than the one you intended.
That's nice, but the discussion was on business value. And for a business value individual opinions from tech-savy people are not that relevant.

Not that I would trust Facebook's numbers considering the amount of lying and shady practices they employ.
Yeah that's kinda what I was getting at.

Still sad that the two couldn't live side by side, a standard experience with a customization one.

I get why it wouldn't just if you were making a product now with two different experiences and one would take a lot more maintenance.

Still.... everyone's facebook or twitter account or whatever looks the same. Feels to me like we lost a lot of personality.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts#Logical_f...
Contrary to all economic evidence? Unions don't represent me. What "evidence" is there besides that? As a fiscal conservative republican/libertarian - unions do not represent anything about me. At all.

People being "not financially secure" doesn't mean that a Union represents their needs. Those are two separate - if related - issues.

"folks forget now" you seem to be ignoring one of my main points: Many Unions out live their usefulness.

There are points where Unions are great - and some of those points do exist today. I think Unions are important with regards to government agencies, for example - because the "employer" is massively disconnected from the lower level employees and in many aspects not accountable.

But the vast majority of Unions get created... maybe full-fill a purpose... then continues to exist as a detriment. A bureaucracy that exists unto itself and stops representing the worker and instead becomes another detached entity that's, for all intents and purposes, a net negative and a drain on a company.

IE: The auto industry.

You show me a union that factors in their base and covers the entire spectrum - and not 100% one party or political ideology... and we can begin talking about how a Union could or would represent all it's members...
Except that Facebook initially had a huge user- and mindshare in the US before crossing over to other countries, so it's expected that Facebook fatigue sets in first in the US before it starts affecting other countries.

In Europe it's the same story for Facebook. I remember Facebook predecessors that had the same "well my parents are on it now and the same idiots keep posting bullshit over and over so I just lurk now and then" moment and none of them is really important anymore. I mean. MySpace is doing better than all of the others, which is about as good as Yahoo!.
That is a great question. I have thought about this a bunch and am seriously considering leaving my job to pursue it full-time. But I have yet to get funding and I would have to spend some time planning. We booked them as a client last month so it is all new to us.
One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases
But the Apartheid regime in South Africa has collapsed, and so have (most) communist totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe.
Facebook climbs to 577m daily users across Asia
Cool list of fintech ideas
They tried that with mobile already, and with 93% of ad revenue from mobile I'm guessing laptops are pretty irrelevant to them even if they can make one sell with their own OS.
Exactly that. I know so many people with masters degree that cannot code at all. They only learned how to pass exams but have no ability to solve problems on their own. I would argue that talented people would rather avoid a place where they cannot learn anything useful and universities more and more become just that.
My view is that the US shoots themselves in a foot and that is good for other countries.
I’ve been building MyMoneyZen (https://mymoneyzen.com) an online personal budgeting course I’ve built with rails & react that exactly helps people step by step work out how to automate their finances.

I would love to hear feedback from anyone that does sign up and decides to give it a go.

My sister in law started it as a spreadsheet and used to sit with friends/family for 8 hours and help people work out how to automate everything till she finally decided to take the dive and build it into an app.

Probably should list this as a Show HN sometime and give more background.
No, but by that logic such connections existed less before Facebook etc. And this is indeed probably true. And I say that as somebody who doesn’t use Facebook any more, and who lives abroad.
Coursera Launches MOOC on Self-Driving Cars Specialization MOOC
Fair enough, but I am open about it to those I work with and those that hire us. I won't say what we do at this point and the app is not even public. It is something that in the end I am very proud of and just because I messed up in the past does not mean that I haven't earned everything I have worked for.
Polynesian Stick Charts
I have a server with 300TB of data. Incremental is the only way that my backups are going to be able to run every night.

But also, there are different styles of incremental. Some are dodgier than others.
Decoding a projection matrix
Exactly, I don't understand either. Most of my friends (and myself) just "cruise" social media as a way to keep casual contact with people we meet along our life.
Texting while driving comes to mind: https://www.nsc.org/road-safety/safety-topics/distracted-dri...
What is the effect of males selecting for docile females on future sons and daughters? Or do you believe that males aren't discriminating?
Building nanoparticles for kidney disease
> History seems to be littered with change that occurs when thinkers, talkers and dreamers can meet openly in public.

So true. Thanks for reminding this to all of us.
Thanks a bunch for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
Your 20 percent tax on charity collections seems steep, was this made clear to the people who made donations?
Seriously. That's exactly the same thing that went though my mind when I read the title.

They obsessed over the plus like crazy. Removing it from search, removing it as the icon to open a new tab in Chrome. I still remember thinking "This is so petty and trivial. If Google+ is so great, it'll stand on its own feet, regardless of the number of plus signs"
I test drove Racket-on-Chez the other day by attempting to use the pict3d module (since 3d is an application that needs speed). My experience was as follows:

1) Install pict3d through DrRacket's built-in package manager - sudden, silent crash. Luckily I ran it from a terminal, which indicates an out of memory error.

2) Raise DrRacket's memory limit to "unlimited" and retry. Same result.

3) Google how to install packages from the command line. Wait for package to build. Build hangs during documentation. Eventually give up and ctrl-c. Hopefully it still works without docs? Racket packages aren't transactional, so every failed build leaves Racket thinking a package is installed, but it's actually broken.

4) Run DrRacket. Load pict3d and type oneliner. Incautiously press an F-key I assume will run the program. DrRacket crashes.

5) Run DrRacket. Load pict3d and type oneliner. Carefully run the program. Scene is incredibly slow but works! Then DrRacket hard crashes and locks my entire desktop so I have to go to a TTY to recover. My graphics are corrupted in a minor way. I haven't rebooted since then, and they're still corrupted.

I really, really like the look of Racket and want to use it in anger for a project, and I have a specific one in mind that would benefit from 3D, but this user experience is singularly bad. It's probably pict3d's fault, but there's no indication of this module being of "pre-alpha" stability. Or maybe it's an interaction with Racket-on-chez and C library interfacing. Let's hope it gets better.
The sheer and staggering amount of hatred for immigrants in here is appalling. If people had the same hatred for immigrants a 100 years, most of the ancestors of the balls of hatred on this thread would have been excluded. The skilled immigrant limit is a joke -- approximately 0.02% of the population. Also, incredibly hard: https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-bro...
AI could be used to improve the health outcomes of everyone. It all depends on how we use it.
The performance impact of removing jQuery (with pictures)
Hey, thanks again! I will be reaching out again to keep you posted. I am heavily leaning toward pursuing my dreams.
Can't say, haven't used dokku-wordpress. I know EasyEngine recently moved to docker images, which I'm not totally a fan of -- simply because you can only have X number of images per instance, iirc -- and that limits how many sites you could potentially host on a single server.
I think we'll look at headphones / earphones like cigarettes as well.
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Your link says in 2013 the U.S. was near its neighbor Canada on per capita carbon emissions.

That's still double the EU. But that's also 6 years ago; the gap will have closed somewhat.
You’ve forgotten how to protest. I recall you guys getting pretty upset over some tea with Britain.

Seriously as long as folks are content at home the politicians won’t give a damn about you. Go march in the streets en mass and things will slowly change.
We (https://linki.tools) use it for our main development tools product - 100% Racket in production. Check S10 (https://linki.tools/s10).

Racket is an absolutely gorgeous language. It's the kind of language that might look complicated but the important thing is to start with the basics. Yes, there are complex features in the language and big words that might be scary : continuations, impersonators, collapsible contracts, macros. However most of the time you don't really need these features.

Even the basic features of the language are enough to make your software shine. After you have a basic grasp, start to tackle other features of the language refactoring your code as you go.

Another great feature is the community. racket-users mailing list (hosted in googlegroups) is a great place to start asking questions.

You'll have a lot of fun. Enjoy your time in Racket lang. #not-a-typo
The danger of the exclamation point!
> I dont'agree with the Israeli occupation of foreign territories but I don't see what that has to do with the US's sanctions against Iran.

If, as an Israeli, one makes claims that the sanctions are justified because Iran is sponsoring terrorism, perhaps it's justified to look at whether Israel is not only sponsoring, but committing terrorist acts on its neighbors, unless Israel is somehow justified to do so, while Iran isn't.

> I can completely understand that a country which repeatedly has announced its intention to wipe Israel of the earth gets more than usual attention from the Israeli's.

Right, but my point is that isn't nor really a one-sided thing. Israel does it too towards not only Iran, but its closest neighbors, they regularly threaten to "bomb Lebanon back to the stone age", as an example.
Ha! That's exactly what I did sorry! I had the browser just taking up half the screen, and they split across a few lines.
It’s also sometimes needlessly expensive when companies make excess profits on medical gear. It’s up to governments (is really) to help everyone get access to improved care.
For difficult texts I prefer print books which I heavily annotate with cross references, highlights and notes.
AFAIK Lidar is using a variant of the well-known radar technique of using pseudorandom noise modulation to avoid some of the gotchas with fixed-frequency pulses:

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/479308.pdf
That’s fair. My response was partially to the general theme of the thread, and your comment described quite well the 1995 state of things.

My comment about the non-nerds being the apparent problem is not that I actually think that. It’s that this sentiment often comes up. But reality is that we have way more nerds online now than before.

And overall the whole article is basically an advert for a new blogging system. Which may or may not be fun to use, but pining for the days when XSS was a desired feature.
Yes, but half the world isn't actively trying to destroy most people/nations.

And yes I do recognize it must suck ass to live in Gaza and I feel for them, and hope for a better future where their lives don't suck ass. I have no idea what to do about it though.

I know it's inconvenient for Europeans and progressives who think they can just lift the blockade and stop operations in Syria and everyone will live happily ever after, but when that filters through my ears it becomes "we don't give a fuck if you live or die."

Why should I care about the opinions of people who don't give a fuck if I live or die?
Are you implying that putting some filter over my facebook picture isn't an effective method of protest?
If this system existed, would you be pilling to port your phone number over to us today to try it out, potentially even paying slightly more upfront?
I don't get the ridicule the argument about sovereignty is exposed to. Of course that is one of the most important discussion within the European Union.

You can argue that external forces decrease the room for maneuvers for a single nation. Just as you can argue that member states have the tendency to fiercely guard sovereignty anyway and did so in the past. Nothing to say against that.

But to say that sovereignty is not an important issue to discuss within the European Union isn't an informed position at all.

Most new laws are enacted by the EU in most member states.
the classic "we didn't have nice things when I was a child, so I shall socially constrain my children's options in a completely different era in the same way arbitrarily" style of parenting. I'm sure your kids will be grateful and excited /s
Substantially harder to trace, too. A missile leaves a pretty obvious trail; a container on a ship carrying thousands of them in NYC's harbor is going to be harder to attribute to an attacker.
Ummm, honestly I think it is very easy for them to find but I am not certain. It was not fraud, I bought drugs on the deepnet and ended up getting in a fight with someone involved. When all was said and done, I was caught with drugs. I had a problem and have worked hard to correct it over the years. Thanks for the response.
Assuming the only other alternative to making the Foxconn deal is "and nobody else wanted to use the land for anything that would have created any revenue or jobs or benefit to society" you're still not right.That's rarely the world we live in though, so it's worse than that best case scenario.

As part of the deal, it has seemed very likely that Foxconn will use eminent domain to seize property from people. If the whole debacle really does shit the bed and "no profit, no rebate" then I think there's a valid argument to say that there was no "public good" need to seize that land. This isn't even getting into the infrastructure costs the state has to lay out on road work/etc, or the cost of legal fees, court time, etc this project draws.

There are costs. They have nothing to do with rebates. This deal has a really high probability of being a net loss for the state (plus creating a likely "fool me once..." feeling with the voters for the next project that feels similar).
But at that point you are approved for a GC and are just waiting for the country quota.
Thanks Sam. I hope you love the mission enough to switch!
Here's a good overview of different possible scenarios though when choosing a container : http://www.jancarloviray.com/blog/paas-comparison-2017-dokku...
The thing is that if you are an established "alpha male" either in the hierarchical sense or in the sense that you are self-sufficient, there is little need to engage in intra-group aggression, and in fact that would likely be detrimental as others are more likely to want to strip you of leadership roles if you are violent to them.

So it's quite possible (but uncertain) that women are attracted to dominance and leadership but not so much to physical violence itself, especially if the women does not think it serves any purpose, or if it shows weakness ("can't get any respect, so resorts to physical violence").
Radical Autonomy can improve the odds of building the right thing
> An unprovable statement is, in fact, exactly such a non-computable function

In any rigorous logic it is not. An unprovable statement is a non-existent value whereas the non-computable function is a mapping to a non-existant value. Sure there are ways of turning one into another (however there is not an isomorphism), but that does not make them the same.

> all we need is a meta-logical jump from "computing S(x)" to "checking if the statement 'S(1) = 0' is correct" -- the latter of which is also trivially not possible (because S is not computable).

As the other comments point out, you can't check just one case. f bar's definition makes it computable at a bunch of functions.

The lecture you linked in the article actually has a follow up where it goes into showing that a formal language would be able to prove any computable function's value. It isn't hard, but it requires some thought.
I believe I spy a fly in the ointment there -- Saudi Arabia, where some of these hold true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia

“We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.” -- from emails leaked from the office of Hillary Clinton, who was US Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
Killing Google Reader in 2013 was what got this death march of Google EOL'd projects noticed, IMO. You now can't trust them for product longevity outside the core search and email.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...