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In the unknowable category, it seems like the availability of self-driving cars will drastically change the cost-benefits ratio of driving and could easily lead to a dramatic increase. Are you really going to want to fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles, spending 2+ hours in transit time, when you could get in your personal car, browse the internet or read a newspaper for the 6 hours you'd spend driving?

I strongly suspect that any theories that we will be driving less will go out the window in the next decade or two.
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Well, I live here too. Maybe you live in an alternate reality.

You didn't answer my question. Do you think being mentally handicapped is good?
Is Pakistan is a failed state?
its bad coz litrally we dont know what will happen after our one mistake , so its bad from my sidee
You posted this 8 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664558

It was also posted 1, 3, and 4 years ago. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Si...
Also interesting to note that while car sales in the US declined steeply in '07 and '08, they are slated to have a consecutive record sales year in 2013, possibly surpassing the record year of 2005. [1]

In the last 5 years, many manufacturers have had substantial YoY growth - the luxury segment had 13.4% YoY growth in 2012. [2]

[1] http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/autosblogpost.aspx?post...
[2] http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1081451_bmw-tops-u-s-luxu...
Its worth pointing out that in Go something like a channel read can also be non-blocking. As can placing a value on a channel be.
The reason these safety features are considered required now is because of the number of people who did not manage to survive. The ones who lived often don't pay attention to the ones who did not until the numbers are looked at on a macro scale.

Car accidents are not always the dead man's fault.
Nonsense. I work long hours debugging various kernels, including Windows, Linux and the *BSDs. The quality of the OpenBSD kernel is amazing. Maybe Minix is better, but that's because it's educational code.
Thank you so much. Hearing so many people complain about something so simple to change - it's makes you inclined to just change it though, but I hear you as well.
"The list now features more than 250 publishers that he considers to be "potential, possible, or probable predatory" companies, which take advantage of academics desperate to get their work published."

Right there, the root cause of the problem: If you're "desperate" to get your research published, it most probably is not worth anything. These academics are not innocent victims, they usually know that these journals are not worth the paper they're printed on. But hey, it's another item in te resume.
You mean people use Bing? Joking aside, I didn't really get much of a chance to see a lot of screens (whiteboards, and all that), not to mention that this may have been before Bing. I mostly noticed in quick glances I would see someone sitting with a laptop with the Apple logo on the back, next to someone with a Thinkpad, for example; it seemed fairly random, with no single brand being dominant. Not to mention that since I didn't get a close look at a lot of screens, I didn't see whether they were running OSX or something else.

A healthy dose of dogfooding can go a long ways, I strongly believe; but checking out the competition to see where you stand is also never a bad idea, not to mention that trying out different technologies is just part of being professional. Moderation in all things and all that.
Apple as a company draws a level of devotion from its users that Google cannot even come close to matching. There just aren't that many Google fanboys, and they're not very likely to be working at Apple (many are likely at Google). But there's no way that all the Apple fanbois could get a job in Cupertino, there are just so many of them, particularly in the Valley. So there are plenty of them who end up at Google and continue to use their iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

Just walk around any coffee shop or conference in the Valley. Almost everyone will be using an iPhone. You will very rarely see an Android phone. And pretty much everyone will have a MacBook, of course.

In fact, I have gotten comments from people who have specifically noticed that I own no Apple products, because they find it so strange.
From here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Concurrency

"This page contains notes and information about how to write concurrent programs in Haskell. If you're more interested in performance than non-determinism, learn about parallelism first."

From here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.3/html/users_guide/lang-...

"GHC implements some major extensions to Haskell to support concurrent and parallel programming. Let us first establish terminology:

* Parallelism means running a Haskell program on multiple processors, with the goal of improving performance. Ideally, this should be done invisibly, and with no semantic changes.

* Concurrency means implementing a program by using multiple I/O-performing threads. While a concurrent Haskell program can run on a parallel machine, the primary goal of using concurrency is not to gain performance, but rather because that is the simplest and most direct way to write the program. Since the threads perform I/O, the semantics of the program is necessarily non-deterministic.

GHC supports both concurrency and parallelism."

Finally, the part that I quoted in the article:

"Rule of thumb: use Pure Parallelism if you can, Concurrency otherwise."

How isn't this "providing different tools for the two and recommending to use them in different situations" I don't know.
He's simply highlighting their hypocrisy.
It's not about "outgrowing" Etsy. Their entire model is based around avoiding commodity items and towards "boutique", handcrafted, or vintage. In theory, at least. In reality they're selective about the non-handcrafted stuff they tolerate (bought in scale from AliBaba) and what they don't.
So much misinformation.
Some part of me wonders how he can keep up this pace and thinks that he must have a computer program generating new frames somehow. Then I look at things like the sand castle and doubt that a computer program could have come up with anything like that and assume that we'd have caught on to any formulaic repetition by now.
Definitely a part time effort. Will let you guys know how it's doing for sure.
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I did TechStars as a 'HackStar' in NYC in 2011. It was a great experience where I ended up joining one of the portfolio companies full-time for the next 2 years. Originally I had applied as a solo-founder and was rejected on the basis that solo-founders can't handle the emotional roller-coaster of doing a startup.

Fast forward 3 years and I'm now a successful solo-founder and am launching an incubator for individuals this Summer in NYC check out: http://microha.us.
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Some people would prefer to use a theme that has a familiar backing to them. I think a lot of themes boil down to mostly using the grid system of the framework, but its nice to at least have familiar/standard grid to work off of once you've purchased a theme. Some people also prefer the visuals of some of these frameworks so allowing them to use the framework of their preference when you choose to sell a theme is a good reason to use something like this. Other elements and JavaScript elements like the modals and things are a nice bonus you get from theming a well-built framework like Foundation.
I think the marketing is particularly bad and devoid of messaging because what else are they going to say?

"Download Facebook Home, its an Android home replacement which includes none of the features of the basic Android launchers that you've been using since the day you got your phone. We'll move all of your stuff behind our wall of Facebook so it becomes more difficult to find."

I'm sure in a lot of cases it comes down to this: "Wait, if I install this I'll lose my weather widget? Forget it."
That.

And even if they get sentience, why will they get an ego, or greed (or any kind of desire that is not satisfying our desires)?

The machines probably just won't think they are slaves, because they probably won't be able to define themselves.
That doesn't answer the question of who owns the code. The code must have an owner to enforce the GPL or re-license or whatever.
Didn't you know? In the USA, Child Protection Services will rescue kids from homes so broken that they have no car!
Oh he was testing and seperate compliance system should (legal remit in many countries) highlight any transactions over a certain amount, £10k I believe in the UK. So yes it would of stuck out like a sore thumb in audit checks.

If he was serious it would of been many different accounts/transaction and then gets into the arts of money laudering/avoiding the first like auditors/checks.

Yes you do only hear about unseccessful heists, though the times are changing with regards to being more open.

In short he was testing the security of the bank and not the auditing and laudering aspects, which is when you need somebody with some accounting knowledge and banking knowledge.
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That has to be one of the most incomprehensible titles I've ever seen.
On the iPhone you can just turn WiFi back on after you switch on airplane mode. Simple.
It's fascinating to think about how overall economy might be affected by simply adding a row to a database. Did that money actually become real when that row was created? If the money was withdrawn and spent, wouldn't it be real then?

Makes you wonder about the regulation of money in general.
>Vanity Fair (yes, of all places!)

Vanity Fair had Christopher Hitchens as a contributing editor for a long time.

I'd say that alone gives them some journalistic credibility.
Let's break it down:

Medical —
Diagnosticians (Gregory House, M.D.) should absolutely be replaced by non-sentient decision/aggregation/clustering systems. Most medical things don't require talented surgeons. We can have PAs do almost all of the hands-on stuff. For the foreseeable future, we'll need actual doctors, nurses, and surgeons for emergency procedures.

For routine medical procedures, general purpose robots with enough dexterity to do autonomous medical operations don't exist yet. What we could have is a cluster of talented medical robot operators (in india? somewhere cheap) doing a dozen operations a day by telepresence with hospitals outfitted with standard medical robot equipment.

Law — Yes, they can be gone.

Teaching — Tricky. We don't have ractives or illustrated primers yet. Teaching is everything from helping a 5 year old write the letter S to yelling at undergrads who almost blow up a chemistry lab due to inattention.

Logistical jobs — automated cars, automated busses, automated truck driving. Yes, let's do that. I trust your 500 sensors evaluated 100 times per second are safer and more accurate than any human.
I'm glad to hear that. I think the ecosystem around Bootstrap has been wonderful and a lot of themes on wrapbootstrap are very nice. I'm hoping that FoundationMade can offer the same type of selection for people who prefer Foundation.
So there are less than 100 reports of interference of radio devices with planes. And then there is the study where 30% of the people said they do not turn off their devices.

The probability that something happens is minuscule, but above zero.

Other examples where the trade off between security and convenience has to be made is the driving of cars and liquids on a plane. I'm really curious in which direction this debate will swing. (FTR: I'm all for convenience ;) )
We could use a political shakedown or two for the Mexican cartels.
Proponents of self driving cars seem to be forgetting the story that electric cars are telling us right now. People (en masse) will choose the immediately cheaper and more entrenched option. Maybe an electric car will save you hundreds on your gas and maintenance bills. But it's also $5000 more upfront. So people are not buying electric cars, even with all the studies showing that a great number of people will not lose anything by being range-limited.

Will self-driving cars cost as much as gasoline cars? As much as electric cars? Or will they cost more than both option? So pulling numbers out of my ass: who is going to be buying a $50,000 self driving car when they can get the electric option for $40,000 and the gas option for $35,000? We can't even get them to buy electric.
While sanctions for violating an NDA during an assessment aren't usually defined explicitly in the contract, most security firms would never divulge methods and results even in a sanitized account like this. Security firms rely upon their reputation since they're get a good look under the kimono.

That leads to either the bank approving of this article or Security Compass having loose lips. I can't imagine a bank signing off on releasing this info, as it paints bank security in a bad light.

I expect that somewhere, someone is contacting their internal IT staff to find the SOW for this pentest, and then contacting their legal dept.
> These academics are not innocent victims, they usually know that these journals are not with the paper they're printed on.

Are the poor sods publishing there supposed to live on air and light? They are publishing there because the rules of the game demand that they publish somewhere.

Seriously, what alternative do you suggest? I do agree that there are many colleges and graduate schools that ought to be shut down today, but neither myself not anyone else has any suggestion how to go about it.
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> Gt alum here. Gt is a great school, but who says that is a forecast of how well an online class will be?

Also GT alum here... GT is a great school, but frankly the online classes couldn't be worse than the in real life classes. I bet they'll even be taught by professors, rather than severely English-challenged TA's...
Sure but that is why I brought it up. Performance and safety are very often two sides to the same tradeoff.

Haskell is pretty much the counter example. But Haskell will always to be weird to most imperative programmers. This is why I am far more exited by Rust than by Go, it promises to deliver performance and safety in an imperative language.

Also, there are actor implementations on top of languages that are more performant than Erlang. E.g. see Akka for Java and Scala.
It's the same darn thing, so yes :)
Good article but perhaps focused too much on the single machine case and/or shared memory architecture. I think that getting the most our of parallelism at scale on commodity hardware is facilitated by or even necessitates good concurrency tools.

Ie the results of computation do no one any good if they are sitting in memory spread across compute nodes in the cloud and combining them back down to the point that they can be presented to the user as quickly as possible usually involves a fair amount of concurrent code.
I'm really searching for an Al Gore joke here, someone help me out.
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If government wants to enact regulation to direct traffic flow, it's far more effective to use simple tolls for this purpose. London is, in fact, a pioneer in that kind of planning (to their credit, IMHO, though I'm sure there are a lot of drivers who disagree).
Thank you! You are not the first asking for LESS support, we'll investigate the ways to properly integrate it.

Thank you for your feedback!
It is obvious, yeah. I wasn't implying you didn't know it was or anything, just explaining the first sentence to someone who might not have studied complexity theory.
Good point, the largest share ("majority") rule in democracy as we know it does tend to leave people out. Has anyone tried a political system where minorities are formally taken into account in the allocation of funds by percentage of the population?
I get the reference, with the PUA suggestions elsewhere in the thread, I couldn't tell if it was sincere or not!
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Publish or perish, unfortunately. If you lack the pubs, you won't get tenure. If you don't get tenure, you're shown the door. Sometimes research is actually not well understood and not published, but most of the time if it's not accepted to more mainline publications (and there are many non-predatory venues that are "easy publications") it's probably garbage. I get emails asking me to submit to bizarro conferences in strange places now and again. I think they scraped my info off publications from other areas, but I'm not sure. Either way it's pretty incredible what's going on here.
I considered the same argument you are making before posting my comment. However, for this to have happened in USA it means we are half way there or getting there.

The media is controlled by two factions now:
Government through access (you don't get to come to white house if you piss us off or you wont get the interview)

Large corporations and the major characters behind them. (i.e. Fox news, Viacom, etc.

This is not the path to maintain an open society. We don't need thugs like less sophisticated media controlled countries , we control media in a much more elegant way. But the results are the same!
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It is neither good nor bad. Neutral.

But regardless of your opinion, using it as an insult is uncalled for. Since essentially you're lumping people who already have problems in with whatever it is you're trying to insult.
Trying to figure out if you can add custom menu/actions to Gmail ?? That would be great
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Booking.com has been around since 1996. They are not a start-up according to the website's definition (max age is 4 years).
> the lie is that by following the signs, you can get from one train to the next in the most efficient manner

How efficiency is being judged needs to be specified here.

The most efficient route for the good of the whole system over its entire operating week may be quite inefficient for individual people on their individual routes at specific times. To traffic management analysis you are not an individual, you are part of the mass of a flow in a collection of interconnected flows.

If the signs were dynamic so could change gradually as congestion starts and moves around the system then this would disparity would reduce, as at quite times people can be sent the most direct way and at busy times the way that will reduce their impact on the congestion. That would be a costly upgrade though.
Oh, absolutely. People think of money in very concrete terms. Like physical currency.

But that hasn't been the case for a long time. Today, money is just a few bits in a database here and there. And of course, making yourself a millionare (or billionare) is as easy as inserting a row into a database.

Here is the important part: While the article insinuates this creation of money out of thin air as a victim-less crime, it is not!

Even worse, the bank does not lose a penny from this type of criminal activity. The ones who pay for it? We all do. By creating money out of thin air, you are increasing the money supply, which pushes up inflation due to higher demand for goods, which in turns reduces the value of the currency.

In other words, when you create money out of thin air like this, you are taking a tiny bit from everybody who uses the currency! Theft on an absolutely universal and massive scale!
Went to check out the application page, was greeted with a Sign Up modal (what the hell is f6s?) that would absolutely not go away unless I signed in with Facebook or LinkedIn (not going to dig into console hijinks for this). I just wanted to look at the application. You can technically read it behind the modal, but still. Getting really tired of these aggressive in-your-face Sign Up tactics.

edit: Ok, the console fix is really easy, but I feel like I shouldn't have to resort to that.
IANAL, but it seems that in US law, it can make a difference, but doesn't wave away the infringement completely. http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Innocent_infringement

In the case we're talking about, it seems like scenario #2 applies.
Ghost in the machine.

Edit: http://xkcd.com/686/
Your mind should never be totaly at ease and offset by the banks that have govermental or seperate assurances/protection for worst case sitiuations. So if bank goes compeletely bust then upto a amount is covered by a goverment or seperate entity. Then you don't have to worry as much, then you avoid onine banking and have that sidabled for your account and have to worry even less, get to know your local branch staff and then have even less to worry about. But never be completely at ease, even if you own the bank.
Couldn't help to notice:
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If you haven't already, check out The Economist. They have a strong, clear ideological bias, but the writing is excellent and it's one of the very few places to get any sort of news in English about parts of the world that The Times ignores.
Just walk around any coffee shop or conference in the Valley. Almost everyone will be using an iPhone. You will very rarely see an Android phone. And pretty much everyone will have a MacBook, of course.

This saddens me: so many hacker types accepting locked down platforms. As with many things in Silly Valley, I suspect it may have more to do with faddishness and hipsterism than anything else. Conferences I've been to (yes, in the valley), have been a pretty mixed bag, and tech enclaves I've known are also fairly light on the Apple product placements.
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> Personally, I'd love to see an example of a small real-world problem solved in e.g. Erlang vs. the same solution in checkedthreads.

Wide Finder 2 would be a good demo for checkedthreads, although it does involve some amount of concurrency in io.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/05/01/Wide-Finde...
Do CAs actually sign .onion certs? Of course they could go self-signed with fingerprint on the public-web site, but that would make it more difficult to use for fairly minor gain.
Thats hilarious!
Oh, I know its not personal. I know that the HN crowd seeks more technical content. Which I will be providing. Its just that, as of right now, this is pretty much what I got. But keep posted. I am building and releasing often.
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".NET, like practically all tolls by Microsoft, is good for one thing - Large scale enterprise development for Windows."

It came so close to being Android. In 2000, Microsoft previewed .NET Compact Framework for Windows CE devices. At the time I had an iPaq connected via Bluetooth to an Ericsson 2.5G phone, and I writing C# apps for it. My immediate impression was "THIS is what mobile software should be like!"

Seven years later, with NETCF an optional oddity on Windows Mobile, Android showed you could do a mobile OS using a Java-like managed language system for both system middleware and applications. Windows Phone is a bit closer, but it still isn't that.

Android was willing to be more revolutionary, replacing much of the Linux userland with managed language code. That was a big gamble, but that is what it took to succeed. If Microsoft were to take the Win 8 kernel and .NET, or successor technologies, and unleash their engineers to make something really new, they would be a fearsome competitor.

Dragging Windows onto tablets is a waste of talent.
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