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I believe voting requires far more responsibility and is much more dangerous than say, owning a firearm. So the voting age should be at least the age that your state lawmakers think is reasonable for owning a firearm. IMO.
What's the roadmap for mass transit looking like? Texas is such a car-heavy state.
Ask HN: App for which singer you sound like
So I sang a song and there was huge debate in my friend circle what singer I sound like. Now, I want an app which decides

Surely, it's possible with some AI or machine learning? Yes or No?

Anyone working on this? Or can tell me what can be used to make such an app.
A.I. Wants to Know How You Plan a Trip
You can't know what your future attitude will be like. Bookmark this post and review it 20 years later :)
Man, if I had 1.5 mil in cash laying around I'd be on the first flight to Spain or Italy.
I've always found that half the issue is with the name: Autopilot. On an airplane, autopilot means you can take your focus off of both the physical and mental act of moving the plane through the air, and if it needs you to intercede there is pretty much no emergency in which you wouldn't have a few seconds to react.

In a car, Tesla's Autopilot simply doesn't give you that. If you are reading and your autopilot exits, you could be dead before your focus can return to the road. Planes fly in wide open spaces far from hazards. Cars drive in busy, tight spaces where a fraction of a second lapse in control can be fatal.

I get that Tesla's implementation is analogous to what you find on a jet. But the environments make them very different. So start by dropping the name. It's not auto pilot, it's handsfree driving.
Lie about which is your sign. If the bad guy knows your birthday, they will guess the wrong sign.
Thanks for that feedback! We've actually been hearing that from multiple users and have added the feature to our backlog.
As an older software engineer (52) I have developed a good sense of what "new technology" has a fleeting "here today and gone tomorrow" lifespan. I have seen a lot come and go. This is especially true now with "web tech" which I quit paying a lot of attention to because it so ephemeral. It is my math background and numerical computing (e.g., optimization) skills that keep me ahead of the pack. Only the best of the younger generation will keep up with me.

Learn things that will be important for forever. Life is a breath and then we are gone.
They shouldn't for the same reason that McDonalds doesn't give equity to cows.
Student got in trouble for opening Firefox instead of Chrome
Fitness changed my life, and I wanted to use my strengths as a software engineer to help others explore the outdoors.

A lot of fitness apps present information in a newsfeed or through competitions. Unfortunately, this is the same kind of environment that is intimidating in a gym or any activity where there's a large group of people who have been doing it for years. I made Headings to make it comfortable for people to explore at their own pace and privacy.

Everything in Headings is private by default. So you never see others' stats, or have emotions about how you're doing compared to someone else. It also respects your privacy by not displaying ads, or selling your information.
As an aside, I save ~$1300 a year by bringing in lunch, and ~$550 per year in breakfast, in addition to controlling portions and nutrition. If I had been doing that for the past 10 years I could buy a new car by now, or put a pretty decent chunk into retirement. I now find it absolutely bizarre how many people at work go out for lunch.
An interesting opinion...do you have any evidence or citations (in either direction)?
Well what is it?
Why Webpack? (Or, How Not to Serve JavaScript)
In a lot of C++ game development this is a huge factor for productivity, especially since a lot of translation units may need to be touched when changing APIs. Being able to utilize an entire idle office for each .cpp file can make a big difference in build times.
>If Alice trains 30 hours a week for a year for a marathon and Candice trains 2 hours a week for a year who do you think has the better chance of winning?

If Caleb and Makayla study 30 hours a week for a year for SATs suffering parental apathy, lack of means, working an evening job, a bad school district, and Emma and John study 20 hours a week for a year, being primed from birth for college, with understanding parents, a nice weekly allowance, and a good school district, which would you bet is going to have the higher SAT average?

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-penci...
Like the person mentioned in the story with food allergies, I eat the same meal everyday for the same reason. I found a restaurant that will take care of cross contamination, and foods that don't make me feel sick. I'm going to milk this opportunity for as long as I can. I eat 3 beef patties, 2 chicken patties, and fries. For dessert I have some greasy corn tortilla chips. On the weekends I cook steak, brazilian cheese bread (Brazi Bites), and some broccoli.

The alternative is going from restaurant to restaurant, hoping they know about food allergies and take prep seriously, scrutinizing ingredients, then still ending up sick a few times a month. I'll happily take monotony for gains in health.
Could you elaborate on the integrity bit? Shady people exist everywhere,why expect Austin to be better?
You're still consuming food - Soylent is food.

There is no magic "food" quality that is granted to chemicals, at the end of the day you need your macro and micro nutrients and that's it. As it stands we're also well adapted for finding and consuming nutrition, so we've evolved means of enjoying consuming those chemicals in certain ratios.
You're on to something, but have it slightly backwards.

"First, do no harm."

Physicians, at least in Western medicine, are bound to the principle of non-maleficence. Their obligation is to take the approach (by action or inaction) that does the least harm to most people, NOT what helps the most people. This is an important, but subtle distinction.

This principle prevents, e.g. administration of a treatment that would cure 51 of 100 patients of a chronic but not debilitating condition while killing the other 49.

It's hard to imagine the quantifiable positive ill of telling someone something in person that they'd rather receive in email. But the underlying principle here is not in helping as many as possible but, overall, hurting as few.
The browser extension is how you we're able to get "go/" links working in your browser without having any kind of network infrastructure. We have other integration options without the extension but its the recommended approach. https://www.golinks.io/support.php#technical
It is just a proxy for other tech metrics. If VC funding is that high, number of software engineering jobs will be as high. And you can also conclude that public company presence will be equally high. I just did a quick LinkedIn job search and filtered by location. My rudimentary math suggest that there are over 12,000 "software engineer" jobs open in Bay Area, compared to ~2500 in Austin. Keep in mind, the Bay Area number is actually underreported as Google, Facebook, and many others just use a representative job posting
Yes, it was quickly ruled out. Was that the correct conclusion? How can we confidently say that the plane didn't evade radar? What about SIA68?
> What if the doctor couldn't get back to the hospital in time and this was the only way to tell them?

Well, that's not what's happened in this particular instance, nor will it be anywhere near the common case.

And if the doctor actually can't be there, then at least have the attending nurse break the news. As long as it's a warm body with good bedside manner.

We're big, squishy monkeys hardcoded to have contact with each other. We're particularly bad at making connections with people through a low-quality screen. It actually makes a difference when the person is there and present with you.
> while the people currently in American prisons might not be model workers, most of them could easily be gainfully employed on the outside.

A point easily refuted

PDF - https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/59416/...

https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/30/news/economy/former-inmates...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/business/out-of-trouble-b...

Even if the excons are model, PERFECT employees, the conviction could prevent them from getting a job.

Even if they have the greatest work ethic in the world, they might have gone into prison at 18 due to mandatory minimum sentences, came out at 23 with no skills and no money for education (or housing as a base of operations).

And, often the case, the system has fucked them, and they have no desire to participate in the system that fucked them.

I appreciate the author making such clear and well-stated points, that makes it easy to use to simple facts to refute his/her argument.
The FBI actively hires plenty of people that have smoked pot in the past, this was relaxed 8 years ago from the hard NO POT stance they had because of the above. In fact last time I was contacted by a recruiter I specifically asked about it and he said as long as you haven't used recently and state you're not a current user, you would be fine. Their clearance process is also run by them as with most agencies so consistency isn't always a thing. The most common component is OPM, beyond that adjudication rules and requirements are at the sole discretion of the acting entity. I won't go into specific waivers within other agencies, but I know first hand they're pretty common as long as you're not active military (even then there are always exceptions).

All said, I think the only real issue for a pass is law enforcement and their it's a gateway drug perspective. I also think that states will push back due to their perceived loses in fine revenues (because everyone knows the police should generate revenues right?).
>> I also think it's really, really dumb to push developers into management positions if they can't do the job.

This has been known forever, yet it still happens - Why?

>> I'd much prefer putting younger managers with great management skills into the mix...

One reason is it is impossible to tell if a young manager has great management skills. It's really hard to tell if an experienced manager has strong skills.

As a result, technical proficiency is used as a proxy for management potential. It probably has a stronger correlation than picking a random person, but is not great. The new manager is then really unhappy, quits or is fired or eventually learns the new skills and is successful.

Repeat.
Does legislature like this actually have a chance at passing? Or is this just bombastic liberal rhetoric to ignite the campaign trail?
I'm one of those people who can eat the same PB&J sandwhich every day for lunch and be fine with it. My wife on the other hand really goes crazy if she doesn't get enough variety.

I can't think of an evolutionary advantage of desiring variety, it seems (although I don't know if there is any studies to the effect that it is true) typical that various fauna have a 'typical' diet that they forage for and rarely vary. Even omnivores who are able to forage on a non-seasonally variable food stock.

From an economics point of view, as a single eater, having a limited variability, allows bulk purchases to take advantage of the economics of scale and reduces landfill waste (fewer containers overall).
We have no idea how exactly we evolved. All mechanisms we observed so far were about local adaptations to changing environment, not about jumps in evolution, and the level of optimization needed would probably require a quantum computer (or better) to be feasible in <billion years (that's just too little time even for some stupid traveling salesman problem, not mentioning deciding if one needs a new leg and how does the motorics and neural structure need to be implemented from scratch; we can't even come close to it with Deep Reinforcement Learning on largest supercomputers). Moreover, not a single person has any clue what exactly is consciousness and how does it emerge (if even), or if the whole Universe has any special consciousness layer. Yet let's reduce everything to some basic chemistry because that makes us happy and "rational". We are just neanderthals when it comes to science and understanding how does the world work. I hope this civilization keeps developing and our successors would laugh at our current scientific state-of-art, comparing us to chimpanzees.
Alibaba is a great example of why Amazon is NOT a monopoly.
No ACID as a feature - lol.

"My car? Fuck the airbags, fuck the seatbelts! It is fast though!"
It's not a new legal theory, though. It's a return to the old one that predated the current state of affairs. In other words, it's a return to what the people who originally wrote our anti-monopoly laws meant them to do.
Brian Caplan is well known for placing long term bets on such things and having won all of them so far. Though his bet against Brexit happening is in jeopardy.

As for his pride in his home schooled sons, and their agreement with their teacher, I'd call that expected and understandable bias.
The government is already being dis-intermediated. You could look at this as the government eliminating their competition.

These companies have more revenue and cash on hand than many countries. Looking at the Bay Area, Google and Facebook are taking the lead on repairing and improving infrastructure because the government can't do it alone anymore.
That's fine also, but I don't think they're mutually exclusive. If lax laws have allowed monopolies to take hold, then the job of the government is to protect consumers by creating a free market - and that may mean breaking companies up. In the case that the monopoly is natural or sufficiently hard to prevent, the government should either take over the industry and run it as a non-profit or intervene in such a way that creates a free market.
As a Texas native, living in Austin for over 5 years now, here's my take on the complaints I'm seeing in this thread.

Traffic:
It's a common complaint, but I find it's really not as bad as everyone says. Though, the key to beating traffic is to reside as close to work as possible, and avoid 35 at all costs. Alternatively, live off MoPac or 183. I worked for a few years in downtown Austin, and lived up near Apple's campus. Getting to work was not bad at all (~20 min, given no accidents). My advice, stay North West to give yourself the option of traveling 183 or MoPac. Worst case, hit MoPac's Express Lane and you'll fly past the traffic. Outside of rush hour, the roadways are generally clear.

Heat:
Being a native, I actually enjoy hot summers, and hate winter. All of the waterways between Austin and San Antonio are fantastic. My typical summer weekend is spent on the river with a beer in hand. If you want to beat the heat, you have to get near the water. Go-tos: Lake Travis, Canyon Lake, the Guadalupe River, Barton Springs, etc. Summer nights are warm, so camping is do-able without all the cold gear.

Housing:
It's not "cheap" to live in Austin, but far more affordable than the Bay Area. Typical apartment rent per square foot hovers around $1.00-$1.50 (1br, $1,200/mo is typical). Typical home rentals closer to $1.00. To buy a home, you'll be hard pressed to find anything decent under $250k. There's a ton of new developments in the far suburbs, where prices are more reasonable.

Tech Scene:
There are plenty of meetups, conferences, and coworking spaces to enjoy. Most of my neighbors are in the tech industry. Nearly every Silicon Valley company has a presence in Austin. The job market is very hot.

Public Transportation:
I do miss this, having lived in SF for a few years. I live right near the Metro Rail line, and I've used it once. It takes forever to get downtown. I'd rather pay for a ride share and get there in 1/2 the time. As much as everyone complains about the lack of public transit, Texas is huge so having a car allows you to visit all of the towns between and around the major cities. We have Lyft/Uber, which is available even in far out areas like Cedar Park/Georgetown/Round Rock, and between Austin and San Antonio. Considering the cost of living, and your take home pay, you can easily afford a car.

Air Travel:
There was a mention of Austin not being a hub, however, there are many direct flights from Austin to great destinations (including international destinations). I've never had a problem here.

Geography:
This is lacking. You won't find beautiful mountains or redwood forests here. We have lakes and rolling hills.

Allergies:
It's manageable. Daily allergy pill and you'll survive.
Well, yeah. "with all the expected technology" is the important part.
... Throw it all in a blender with a can of Albecore tuna, some Vanilla flavored Soy milk and you got yourself decent breakfast or even a pre-workout drink!
Exactly - just because it can't pick up speech doesn't mean it's not useful. That it can pick anything up at all can be gamed to your advantage depending on the purpose.
>Autodidacticism can lead to new perspectives on projects, and allows people to focus on things that are important, but not emphasized in most colleges.

It also allows people to veer into becoming cranks, without appropriate teachers to guide you along the way. As long as we're exchanging anecdotes, in my undergrad I've met my fair share of "physics autodidacts" who seem to believe they've "solved" massive problems related to engineering/physics.
Well, Leonardo DiCaprio has a long-standing grudge against icebergs.
I've been doing this a long time and it doesn't matter to me.

And this attitude is why older developers find it harder to get a job (I’m in my mid 40s myself).

What older coders have that younger ones do not, is experience. This can often halve the workload on some projects. The older I get in this profession, the more results I get out of less and less code.

I keep seeing this as an excuse for older developers who don’t want to keep up the date and stay marketable. Code is code. At some point you have to put lines in editor to make stuff work.

Also, let's not immediately fetishize the newer stuff. It is often a less well implemented retread of older technology. Seems like people have less patience for learning existing systems, so they just re-write some quick and dirty replacement and call it good.
Perhaps it might be better if younger programmers learned the old stuff instead of just badly reinventing the wheel every few years.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Don’t brick and mortar stores collect inventory and trend data too? Amazon isn’t the first one to do this, they just put the data closer to the center of their business so it’s more public that they collect data.
I'm unsure why we should be looking at China for innovation. I can't really name anything innovative that came out of China in the last decade.

Many products/technology coming out of China are based on reverse-engineering or outright theft of intellectual property from European or American companies.
Everyone has different tastes, but there is some nice new music out there.

This for example: http://www.hawaiianreggae.org/artists

Nice and mellow, lots of young new artists. It's a pretty good scene.
There are multiple ways to represent the people and their best interests. It is not always the role of the government to do what is most popular. Raising taxes instead of increased deficit spending is an example of something that is often unpopular, but in many cases the objectively better option.
I opened 3 of the comments at random and they were all word-for-word identical.
Again, there's a lot more to think about. What about prices? Even if manufacturing costs remain the same, costs for consumers are likely to rise per unit quality in the absence of meaningful competition. There will also be additional downward pressure on prices paid to those factories if there are fewer (or one one) buyer.

As I said before, I'm not convinced that all of these things will actually happen. But the answer can't be as simple as "who cares...Amazon is just cutting out the middle man."
I don't know ML, but I was surprised too, since converting a series of points into Bezier paths of a certain degree seems arbitrary...
No, it's worse.

What's the purpose of monopoly laws? What is their spirit? Consumer benefit, right? If that is better served by municipal utilities, then while it may not violate the word of antitrust, it certainly violates the spirit.
What did he test though? That over a given decade, unemployment might be higher in one nation-state than a collection of others?

What's the hypothesis? Where's the valuable data gotten from this?

My idea of equivalent action: Me stating "the president 10 years from now will be the first 3rd party president ever."

Why? Who knows! And if I was right, and make a blog post that says "See, I was right!" And then point to a bunch of things that happened after my prediction that led to this result, what did we learn? Anything at all?
Is this a joke? It's terrible.
If the questions and discussion you have are hampered by what the parent commenter (and family in the article) describes as a shitty Skype connection, that may more than make up for the time purportedly saved by doing the talk remotely.

It's possible/likely that better technology will make this kind of remote interaction much more palatable and useful. But it's obvious that that better technology is not quite here, and yet the hospital seems to have OKed it, as if they were doing internal beta testing an experimental feature.
It's a game of hot potato, last one holding is the sucker
Subdivide it into economies that are broadly similar and the conclusion does not hold anymore. Germany‘s unemployment is smaller than the US despite having a much more regulated job market.
Problem is, the EU isn‘t really one homogeneous entity when it comes to job market regulation (Denmark is pretty laissez-faire, France much less so), so it‘s disingenious to treat them all the same.

On another note, his smug tone doesn‘t really help.
For the last month or so, my lunch/dinners have mostly been quinoa+bone broth+eggs and either fruit or a salad. Fairly bland, sure. I've never felt better. And when I do go out and "splurge", it really feels like a treat. I find that I'm incredibly sensitive to sugar/salt/caffeine now (I cut out coffee for green tea months ago).
> I've always found that half the issue is with the name: Autopilot. ...In a car, Tesla's system simply doesn't give you that [taking your focus off]

Yes, exactly. It's a level-2 ADAS - it's about helping you deliver correct inputs to the car, not about autonomous driving in any real sense - regardless of how advanced it might be in a technical sense, or how well-behaving in a best-case scenario! More like the fly-by-wire system in an aircraft than the "autopilot".

And I know that the users are supposed to be aware of this, but Tesla's marketing on this issue is far from consistent, in all sorts of ways. They're doing their users a pretty big disservice.
But we exist in the world where he was right - the article doesn't point to any methodology. It was 50/50.
The visualization of the data is aesthetically pleasing, but I can't help but think "forsquare is around still" while looking at it.
It's not either-or. The problem is that the current interpretation only looks at consumer impact, and ignores a lot of anti-competitive behavior that makes the market less free overall. In practice, this still hurts consumers, it's just that much harder to prove because of indirect effects - and so monopolies get away with it more often than they used to.
If all were forced to work or starve, I'd bet many would live in the same house and each work to pay their share of the rent, food, etc.

I know I'm stating the obvious, but it seems to me that this reality is not as abject as democrats make it seem to be.
Also, Austin was immeasurably better 10, or 20, or even 30 years ago (depending on who is explaining this to you).