skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think there's a threshold beyond which it becomes socially mandatory for all cars to be autonomous.

Economics are still going to be the driving factor (no pun intended) for the poor and working class. As long as beater non-automated cars are going to cost less than the (used but still newer) automated cars, and as long as cars are still going to be necessary in much of the USA, there are still going to be normal cars around.

At some point (say in 40-50 years, and if "classic" driver cars are outlawed) I think we'll reach that point, but then that weakens the argument of autonomous cars (and its benefits) getting here before the CA HSR project.
You are forgetting the law of demand here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_demand
tons of people there mate
Speaking from a Web/Healthcare IT startup experience: The BIGGEST challenge is that your buyer, user and payer are 3 different entities. Every budding healthcare entrepreneur wants to "disrupt" this somehow, but eventually almost everyone gives up and they either die or become yet-another-enterprisey software company that everyone loves to hate.

You can make a decent, linearly growing business if you can survive 2-3 years long sales cycles. So it makes sense that VC's don't want to venture into this space.
Thanks. Believe me, the practices you see preached on HN (which I personally agree with) are so far removed from the typical enterprise it's not even funny. Agile programming? Um, no - waterfall. Continuous deployment? Are you crazy?

But please remember that there are sometimes very good reasons for the bureaucracy. Do you want your bank doing continuous deployment? Pushing code to the production instance during normal hours? Do you want the NYSE to do this? It's fine when you're doing your precious little webapp (I'm doing them too, so I'm not disparaging!), but when you're talking systems that power billions of dollars of revenue, you make sure all the 'i's are dotted.

Hell, I was in a Scotiabank the other day. The PC was running XP.
They redid their calculations and reported an estimated piracy rate of 82%, instead of 90%.

Minecraft may of had huge piracy rates, but it still made a huge profit. You won't ever get rid of piracy but you can still make a nice profit.

r/gaming has about 850,000 users on it as well. The communities that pirate because of DRM may not be huge, but they are of a decent size.
Having been to Wenzhou just a few weeks ago, I just can say that it is a very ugly city, even by Chinese standards.

Wenzhou is not succesful because of less gov't involvement, but because there is a well connected network of overseas Wenzhounese that works as the worldwide distrubtion channels for cheep Wenzhou products.

The anarchy part is a consequence, not a cause. If you are rich in China (well in any developing country), the law does not really apply to you, you just buy it. Sucks to not being a millionaire in such a place.
So essentially your argument is that sitting at home, taking hits out of a bong every 30 minutes and watching movies is unproductive? I agree.
know some people enjoying 110-120+ mi/hour on that route :)
Most Americans aren't Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries, but we're all affected by these programs. Medicare sets a price floor on all procedures covered by the program.

Also, Medicare will not compensate providers for bad outcomes, but Medicaid is state-administered and usually just pays claims blindly. Entitlement arbitrage is bankrupting many states, but that's a whole other issue.

IMO, we've created a multi-headed hydra, where the only winners are the mandarins who understand the arcane regulatory structure.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. But in a well-run network, they wouldn't be able to install the software in the first place.
IME the state won't start talking compensation until after the Final Environmental Impact Report has been accepted for your segment.
The Wenzhou people are notoriously known for their merchant class. It was that area where proto-capitalism supposedly first started in China.
Most likly he was lucky to get a connection with some gov't official, that's the usual way you rise so quickly in China. Without Guanxi you will never get anywhere here.

But of course he'll never tell about that part. And the Western journalist doesn't want to hear it, because he wants to advertise "less government" with his story.
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I think the problem is that the underlying reality is so complex that you can't really talk about it quantitatively. Those shared illusions reduce to simple numbers some extremely difficult concepts.

As far as what's going to happen in a few weeks to cause everything to come crashing down, I think the problem essentially boils down to people making promises they can't keep, or end up not wanting to keep. This has been going on for a long time, and the sudden event at the end is basically just a critical mass of people realizing that it's been going on for a long time. The disconnect between sudden shift in the markets and no corresponding sudden shift in the infrastructure, workers, etc., is, I think, that lack of realization.

This is just how I see it, as a humble finance layman.
This is a good article grounded in actual experience.

As the former operator of the w8lvn packet radio bbs, i can heartily relate to you haven’t lived until you’ve hunted down transient connectivity problems resulting from RF weirdness in urban areas.

And he details real-world experience like "omnidirectional antennas suck".

Essentially, physics is not on your side here.
That quote seems more like political-speak than actual hard numbers. The article also said that the state government gave Apple $46 million in tax breaks, while local government cut their property taxes by 50 percent and personal taxes by 85 percent. I'm hard-pressed to see how the taxpayers aren't subsidizing this datacenter.
You're being downvoted because of the 'spoofed email' line, but I understand where you're coming from.

"Spend 32 hours over a weekend quarantining and disinfecting an entire network because some dickhead decided he needed to bring in his malware-infected laptop to work and the standard company policy banning private equipment comes into focus pretty quickly."

Bet it was unpaid overtime too, wasn't it?

Take one instance I've seen: group of guys decide that they want wireless access on their floor. One brings his home WiFi router, and plugs it right in. So now anyone walking by with cursory knowledge of WiFi hacking could get all our data.

Just because they wanted Youtube on their BlackBerries.
I already know why a big sensor (DSLR) is good, and I know all about AV vs speed. I didn't learn anything until part 6, which is on the second page. From there:

- Good hand held technique - tuck your elbows in for stability.

- Exposure - if you don't mind a darker photo, you can dial down both the AV and increase the speed. The way cameras are setup, you usually forget this.

- More stuff about framing. I like his stuff about "room to move" - the subjects next step should be in the frame.

It's good, but only if you read past the first page.
Clancy's book is Rainbow Six, though the derivation from Seal Team Six is pretty likely.

I think that was the book that made me stop reading Clancy novels, come to think of it.
I know that, I saw that it was you. I also don't have a problem with it, it just caused me to do a double take and go check the site to see if my deja vu was real. I thought I would mention that because I doubt I was the only one who had that experience.
This is not a simple issue. The costs of financing debt are going through the roof. Austerity is killing growth which becomes a vicious circle as tax receipts fall. So the German policy of waiting (however well reasoned) makes the problem worse.

Perception is important here, either the markets (in terms of buying debt) or the populations (a run on banks) could bring things crashing down.

Meanwhile, Germany is booming on the back of a (for Germany) weak Euro, and this crisis has already claimed the governments of Greece and Italy. Fiscal rules should have been sorted when times where good (IIRC Germany were one of the first to break the rules on borrowing, years ago). As is, if someone breaks the rules others are powerless to act.

I can't say I share your optimism for a 'new era of EU dominance'.. austerity and no growth everywhere.
As bad as Epic's software might be, the rest of the software in the industry is worse.
That's true if you only consider human diseases; I suspect you could find trillions of copies of e coli
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Duplicate of http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39174/?ref=rss
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That's the readers of this site who are modding the dissent down.
Is humour not allowed?
I used to read a lot of self-help but I don't anymore. It's not that many books don't provide good advice but that the advice is really just common sense. Read a list of proverbs and you've basically got what most self-help books and blogs say covered.

A few years ago I bought into a lot of the self-help stuff. I read many books, and by the time I realized I was pretty much reading the same thing over and over again, I stopped. There were of course some esoteric Neuro-Linguistic-Programming Techniques I could try, but to me that seemed a lot like being a "cargo-cult" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming) programmer--introducing behavior patterns that are meant to be a stand alone module when you don't know how they might interact the code that is already there (i.e. your current behavioral conditioning).

To me, I think that reading self-help can be a necessary and important stage in personal growth. Necessary and important, but intermediate. The moment you graduate from self-help, is the moment you start creating your own path for growth that is meaningful for you.
The members of the species are immortal, but the species is immortal. The problem is that the sentence can be parsed either way.

There is a species of (jellyfish that are immortal).
There is a (species of jellyfish) that is immortal.
Work at a higher efficiency for someone who was unable to afford paying you to work at a lower efficiency.
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Guangzhou is also in southern China and noted as a 'city of new wealth', just a guess on my part if factory life and migration is the same (I have no insight on this whatsoever).
Personally, I think that without the FBI they would not have been caught. The laws here are very weak and corruption is very rampant. Without the FBI, they could just have paid their way out of the problem.

I'm glad that they are caught and would love to have more of these FBI + Philippine Government operations going on. I don't want this country to become a haven for criminals. With other governments involved I think it would be much harder to bribe themselves out of the situation.
But you're assuming that all the smartest students in the world go to work for the government. They never do- salaries would have to go up a ton before that happens. And tax payers would never allow that.
NameCheap is a great one. Also you can usually Google around and find a Godaddy coupon for a cheap transfer in and sometimes even discount renewals.

I'd definitely recommend keeping your hosting separate from your domain registrar. Let the hosting companies host websites and the registrars register domains. I've yet to see an all-in-one solution that is both the best registrar and best web host.
The way I see it is the neurons in your head are going to do what they're wired to do. You can't change physical law, and any amount of success or failure won't change your brain structure. Your perception of the world is essentially constant. You don't need help being a person any more than a dog needs help being a dog. Just exist and do whatever.
I do. This has been an elaborate troll and I can't for the life of me understand why it was upvoted. Of course they're over-worked and under-staffed.
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True, but there are knock-on effects of creating 50 new jobs in a town of 3400. These 50 people now have money to spend locally which could result in the creation of many more low wage jobs to service the new business.
I got downvoted for not hating the IT dept.
There's no reason to think homeopathy works. Testing has been very poorly done, there's no measurable mechanism of action, and they can't even explain how a body could distinguish the intended active ingredient from the thousands of contaminants which were surely present in similar concentrations—that stuff isn't prepared in cleanrooms, and distilled water is far from pure.

http://lesmondine.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/homeopathy-theres...

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/11/measuring_contamin...

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html
MRI scans of accomplished meditators have shown significant changes in brain structure, as do players of certain video games. People do change--whether or not that's a matter of free will is a discussion you'll never reach the end of.
Not sure. My startup does not have that problem.
Although it changes it is still in the human range, close to your original personality, and the delta is negligible. Your brain is essentially the same.
They added torrents at some point. I'm currently downloading all the albums using my max bandwidth.
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They gave Apple those breaks to get them to build the facility there. No breaks 0 revenue, breaks some other > 0 revenue.
I'm not a neuroscientist so I won't argue that point. I think as far as self-improvement and personal growth is concerned, however it seems that at least on a surface level that people can alter their behavior. Again, whether they are hard-wired to do so because of brain structure I don't know.
I imagine that being tech-support-for-techies, you also end up with interesting issues, rather than "can you put that link back on my desktop" or "my printer's not working again". No self respecting techie will do tier 1 or tier 2 support if he can help it, but in a tech environment it might actually be interesting.
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"Hm, can you short a currency somehow?"

Check out Proshares UltraShort Euro http://www.proshares.com/funds/euo.html
Respectfully disagree.

China is getting its incredible growth mostly because of the relaxing of communist idealism and the increasing dose of laissez faire allowed by the central government.

Let Chinese do their own business, they will move mountains.
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I'm on 11.04 with gnome-classic and working well. The key is to go back to the previous releases compiz via ppa.
A cheap PC would be cheaper without an MS tax, unless MS was willing to give Windows away for free to keep Linux from getting a foothold. Sure, the money may not be much, but if you don't perceive a difference in quality, you'll buy the $.98 can of beans over the $.99 one. $115 is hardly a theoretical lower bound to the price of a PC.

There are also large organizations that would like to cut costs wherever they can, and can't be expected to make up the Windows tax by installing crapware like a vendor can. The city of Munich is the most well-known example of a big player switching to Linux. The effort was not a complete failure but was something of a disappointment - I don't think Munich ended up saving any money when you consider the labor costs, etc. But if Linux had been ready and the transition had been more successful, you'd see a lot of imitators following Munich's lead.

But it's probably a moot point anyway. I think Android will end up swallowing the PC market like a classic disruptive technology and stealing Linux's thunder anyway.
If anyone else was wondering what the other chess book is, it is Rook Endings By Grigory Levenfish and Vassily Smyslov.
OTOH, the IT cost to support competent users is lower, since they don't come crying to you every time the printer needs paper.

In the scheme of things, I wonder which effect predominates.
I think there's been a big misunderstanding somewhere - I interpreted nolanw's "arts faculty" to mean liberal arts, not arts in the contemporary sense. So when I read baddox's reply I assumed he disagreed with how I interpreted it - i.e. I thought baddox was claiming math does not belong in the liberal arts. Heh...very confusing. What I'm trying to say is that there's a 99.9% chance that we're all in agreement and it really hinges on what nolanw really meant by "arts faculty".
Is there a particular statement from Orszag that you feel Politifact should have addressed?
Entrepreneurs in any country are never typical, he played by local rules and succeeded at least for now good for him. I also suspect that price of failure there is significantly higher then here.
That's interesting. I'd instinctively presumed that HSR would be much more energy efficient than flying, but the quick research I did indicates you are right. Electric HSR probably has the edge if you are willing to assume hydroelectric generation, but it mostly comes down to projected ridership. A full plane beats and empty train, and vice versa.
Over and over as I read this article I was reminded of stories of London just before and at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, both in reality and as parodied by Terry Pratchett as Ankh-Morpork.

...the flipside of which is that in London if not A-M, the living conditions of the poor and unlucky in that time period were truly atrocious. That's not directly addressed in the article, although it's hinted at in a few paragraphs (and in the photos).
That is mostly because it's a different webclient. I have a server running in the office. No one is using it because the webclient isn't good enough.
"For chess, deliberate practice includes deep analysis of grandmaster games."

If this is true, could studying (reading) good code do the same for programming? One could, for example, begin to write an application and find code to a similar application where they would be able to check why things are implemented a the way they are as they go along. The tricky part here is deciding which code is worth studying.
Wow, thanks for taking the time to write out your thoughts. There's a lot to think on here, but I'm liking what you've laid out.
It's not only a question of skills, it's a question of knowledge.

I am a good developer, but I don't have the slightest clue about e.g. ActiveDirectory. The IT department in my company is nothing spectacular, but when it comes to the kind of issues that I know nothing about, I am glad they have set policies that I just need to follow unthinkingly.
def __init__(self, ..., foo={}):
self.foo = foo

In this case, 'foo={}' is evaluated once, and returns a pointer to a dict(). After that, foo is always pointing to the same dict, not to a newly created empty dict.

Run this in a Python interpreter:

class PhoneBook(object):
def __init__(self, names={}):
self.names = names

phonebook1 = PhoneBook()
phonebook2 = PhoneBook()

phonebook1.names['Bob'] = '+1 555 5555'

print phonebook2.names['Bob']

The only thing that is really safe to put in the defaults are immutable values.
Just a note: Short and leveraged ETFs are designed to match intraday movement and are poorly suited for long-term holding. It says as much on the website.

To wit: YTD EUR/USD is down .2% and that ETF is down 5%.
So, I couldn't help but notice that you wrote this:

$ easy_install smtproutes

I think there's a couple typos in there. For example, you could have spelled it this way:

$ pip install smtproutes

Using pip (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) makes you a better ecosystem contributor. Also, I noticed you're internally using asyncore, AKA Medusa. This is a Bad Idea, period; you won't scale and you're using what is essentially dead, horrid code. Consider rewording the statement entirely:

$ pip install Twisted
$ twistd mail ...

Now you have a real SMTP/POP3/IMAP server at your disposal.

But yeah, I'd so much rather that you not use asyncore. It makes us cry. I'd even let you keep easy_install if you compromise and drop asyncore!
It sounds like it was an old school PBX style attack, and making use of voice bridging type features to make calls via business lines. This style attack has been around for a long time, and quite frankly isn't really hacking in most cases - generally the systems are using default passwords, or it can also be a social engineering style attack via the operator/secretary of such systems.
The IT department's morale builder is a contest where the winner gets to pull the network cable from one luser's cube.
a similar thing occurs for job motivation, which research has shown is not necessairly linked to job performance
At that point you could probably just do some simple edge similarity tests instead of sending it off to the Turks.
I didn't elaborate my original story for brevity. Their firewall inexplicably blocked some technical articles I was trying to read for my job. So Firefox through my own proxy was the only way.

Also, I reported all these tricks when I left. I hope they read my emails.

As for seizing root on my current machine - okay, you got me.
The problem (or one of them) is that if the euro splits up into many separate currencies, the values (exchange rates) of those currencies are probably going to fluctuate greatly. This causes all kinds of problems for governments, banks, companies, and even individuals as the value of your debt, the cost of supplies, the price of your exports, etc. all change dramatically.
The direct jobs will be given to qualified people. It's not apple's fault that (likely) nobody in town is qualified.
Well, the body does overreact to things: look at the Spanish Flu. If a policeman told you that your family were all killed in aeroplane crash, you'd react in a certain way, even though it wasn't true and they injected no chemicals into you. To me, homeopathy is a way of hacking the body. Anyway, I've mentioned homeopathy once before on HN and was also downvoted, so probably not a great place to bring it up.

Add: if a doctor said you only had 5 months to live, you'd probably start doing all these things you'd never got around to doing, or thought you could do, the bucket list - then in 5 months when you're still around, you realize it may have been a lie, but your depression has lifted and you have a new lease on life: that's what I think homeopathy is supposed to be: tiny signals on certain levers, accepted as true, leading to massive effects.
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With the ECB acting as the lender of last resort, there wouldn't be a sovereign debt crisis at all in the Eurozone: Interest rates just couldn't have risen so high. I'm pretty sure that would have fixed the problem - not Greece's crazy expenditures, but the spreading of a lack of confidence in other Eurozone states debts.

To get there, (mostly) the German and European leadership would have needed/need to reassure (mostly) the German public with different rules that would make a new Greek case impossible, and to make it understand that the more timid you are, the more you're going to pay for the crisis, Germany included.
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> I'd have them fired within five business days if it meant I had to send spoofed mail from their address containing horse porn to the head of HR to pull it off

At least you're creative when you put ethics in the back seat.
now that we know more about photography, could someone teach that guy something about post 1996 webdesign?
Added to my netflix list. Thanks.