skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You write:

"But I don't think people are arguing that total demand has skyrocketed"

and yet you can see that I am responding to a comment that starts with these words:

"Much of the demand increase is domestic"
I'm in exactly the same position. I'd honestly rather spend my time meditating, reading or playing outside in the world.

I rationalize the renunciation of social media by remembering that I'm looking to build something incredibly innovative. And to build something incredibly innovative, it helps to (first) step away from the crowd, (second) find a boon, and (third) bring it back.

I think you can worry about the crowd after the first 2. At least then you have direction amidst the chaos.
I agree the swipe at Google is unwarranted, but later in the article he mentions that the LIDAR sensors used in Google's cars cost $80,000 a pop.
Im not surprised.

I've found that Chinese phones are very good quality and exceptionally great price. Not only phones, but I've also found that Android tablets are priced literally at 'throw away' prices.

For example, I just priced a 1.2GHz quad core android tablet running Android 4.2, 512MB ram, 4GB storage, with SIM slot, for $64. 1

I also bought a phone from China. It's a quad 1.4 GHz, 1G ram, 16G storage, 2 sim slots.. It's crazy fast, the size of a Galaxy Mega, and was $200. So yes, if you do choose to buy from China, you cut out the likes of the Wal-Marts and Best Buys. Instead, you can buy directly from the manufacturer and pay 1/2 what you would normally pay. And with some of these prices, they are approaching technology that I don't hurt much if I lose.

Now, please be aware, if you buy a Clone phone from China, you'll likely get ripped off. They are made intentionally to defraud and deceive. They do that to the poor saps whom buy them, as well as the people whom they pawn them to. And their components are usually pretty bad. If you stick with the obvious Chinese phones, you'll be much safer in the long run. Those are bought by the Chinese, whom see cheap as a bad thing. (Of course, the Chinese swoon after Samsungs and iPhones anyways...)

1 : http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cheap-RK76-7-TFT-Touch-Screen... Unsure if reputable dealer, low sales numbers. Beware. Find at least 1000 sales.
Is average really a good metric there or are they only including people in investment banking/trading/similar positions? Otherwise its pretty meaningless number given some of the top people make $10M+ and I don't think the back office/cleaning crew/security staff positions pay much of (if any) a premium compared to non financial firm positions.
That can already happen. Modern cars have fewer mechanical linkages than you might think.

There are solutions to your proposed problem. You could require the car be taken into a shop for updates. This would make the update gradual (so the eggs are never all in one basket) and it would let mechanics ensure the update was applied correctly. You could also design the software to have a core that is never updated. It would monitor basic things like "Am I going too fast?" "Can I brake in time for any obstacles?" etc. Google uses this strategy IIRC.
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I believe vBulletin actually does this.
Thanks for the reply, that clears things up.
Yes. Thanks for reminding me to look at it again though.

I think it might be a little slower than I would like, but I will try again.
This is a famous German short story by Heinrich Böll, from 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arbei...
Ask Melinda Gates.
One of the author's main criticisms seems to be that BMW et are commercialized (e.g. good looking and cheap) self-driving cars and Google is making ugly expensive ones.

But I'd argue that concern is backwards. First, go for correctness. Perfect the algorithm and sensors, get the car working. Then look at scaling down the technology and making it cheaper. The fact that Google doesn't make cars (a point the author made) is kind of irrelevant, because this is a sensor/control/software problem, not a car problem.

Recognize that BMW/Daimler/et al really don't want true self driving cars. It's not really in their interest, because it would radically reduce the need for car ownership and would open up a new world of on-the-fly car rental. Human drivers required = good business. I'm not saying its a conspiracy, just that they have no passion to disrupt their industry in this way.

Even the cost is somewhat moot if the business model is different. Let's say the Google Car sensor package costs $100,000. That's cost prohibitive for individual ownership, but it would not be a problem for a business model like ZipCar + Uber, where you call a car on your mobile phone to get you, and 'rent it' for a short self-driving or assisted trip. If car use moves from ownership to renting, then many people can spread the cost of the sensors.
I agree whole heartedly and have been to some of the places you have. One thing I have noticed in some friends and acquaintances who've worked out of depression is that they can attain this loftiness to themselves. They feel superior to those who are where they once were. Once I saw that in real life, I began to extrapolate it to a lot of the comments on the internet that tear down the depressed. Somehow they lose their empathy along the way.
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I thought it was a pretty thoughtless statement too. Google doesn't need experience building cars. We have cars. The driver-less technology is what is missing and Google has the talent and money to do it.
I would have thought in the future all kinds of traffic circumstances would be handled by broadcasting information (such as "slow down") in a format native to the onboard computer. Then the guy in the hi-vis suit is just a redundancy for humans.
I wasn't aware of the controversy at the time, but I do remember there being a fairly rapid transition from .ARC to .ZIP on the BBSes I used around that time.
The spoke design is pretty clever, but isn't the real problem is going to be the tire? I can't think of any material that would be durable enough for those conditions and flexible enough to change shape with the spokes.
>Modern cars have fewer mechanical linkages than you might think.

Even better, the more software and chips there are in your car the "better" the bugs get. Friends of mine had fun problems with a new Audi A5: about 10 times, it randomly turned off while driving taking about 20 seconds to come back, and handling a car with power-steering with the engine off is very hard! AFAIK, that problem hasn't been solved yet.

I've googled around a bit and here's someone with an 2000 Audi TT that just randomly turns off because the engine speed sensor broke: http://www.audiforums.com/forum/audi-tt-7/help-2000-tt-rando...
Seconding the rapid obsolescence point about Asian markets. The CEO of one of the leading mobile phone retail chains (440+ stores) in India (3rd largest global smartphone market after China and the US, might be second largest very soon) told me consumers are changing phones every 9 months on an average.

This is the mass market he's referring to, not the folks who're spending $600-800 on the latest iPhones or Galaxy Notes.

Still, makes me feel positively ancient given I used my Nexus One for nearly 3 years before moving to the Nexus 4.
How would an automated car deal with this kind of situation:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=17a_1382454285

It's probably even harder to handle if your car starts braking unexpectedly.
I wondered the same thing, he dismisses Google way too easily.

I can only imagine that either he didn't want to travel to the US, or that Google wouldn't give him a demo. So he justified it after the fact.
Yes, of course. But only they would ever know that. It's impossible is for that to happen in a way such that outside observers can be sure it's not sexual abuse.
If you consider creating, hosting and managing arguably one of the better email platforms a "guise"... "of marginal benefit".
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Except they do remain empty, which is why this is such an issue in NY and London right now.

Which now looks pretty much like this: "In a large swath of the East Side bounded by Fifth and Park Avenues and East 49th and 70th Streets, about 30 percent of the more than 5,000 apartments are routinely vacant more than 10 months a year because their owners or renters have permanent homes elsewhere, according to the Census Bureau’s latest American Community Survey."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/nyregion/more-apartments-a...

Per the article, 5% of Manhattan apartments now have absentee owners who don't rent them out. And below 96th street that figure probably doubles.
It seems to me that diverless cars will [at first] only work on prepared roads.

These are roads where only driverless cars will be allowed (perhaps just a lane on an existing road), and all the traffic, and lane, markings are designed for the computer to read. The roads are very carefully mapped out.

In some ways kind of like a train track.

The computer knows when it's almost time to exit the road and go to a regular road, and can alert the driver in advance. (Or simply pull off into a parking lot.)
Same here, thanks hdivider and asolove, that was a great read.
pfsense (as well as m0n0wall) runs great on ALIX and WRAP boards too, not just bigger hardware.

> If you're after real routers as in routing protocols like bgp and ospf
> and not security devices, both are not of much use. this is where vyatta,
> a open source Debian based router distribution is better suited.

Or BSDRP[1] or ZRouter[2].

[1]: http://bsdrp.net
[2]: http://zrouter.org
In the USA, the Baby Boom peaked in 1958 and was then followed by 19 years of decline in the birth rate, hitting bottom in 1977. Its the trough of the late 70s and early 80s who are now in their 30s and having kids -- they can not drive a flight back to the suburbs exactly because they are from a trough: there are not many of them, relative to the demographics before them and after them.
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Director James Cameron: "Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I'm going for that."

He said this to his then-wife :-)
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Thinking about the math for a bit, aside from places like One57, it doesn't make sense to build cheap apartments. The majority cost is in the structure and land, finishings are a pretty small amount of the total cost so why not spend slightly more and get "premium" finishings, so you can charge luxury prices?

When would it make sense to not build luxury buildings? The only time I can think is if you are trying to build in places like East New York or similar but I don't think that market can support new construction in the first place, regardless of the level of finish.

Also I believe the failure of rent control is well known, rent stabilization on the other hand is contentious (by people, not sure by economists) and started in 1974. Less than 2% of units in the city are rent controlled.
"But for all its expertise in developing search technology and software, Google has zero experience building cars..."

The article is fundamentally missing the point of autonomous vehicles---namely, that this is a _software_ problem, not a mechanical problem, so car building is an irrelevant skill. Automakers have decades of experience with all sorts of useful things, like machine design, manufacturing, fit and finish, etc. But they suck at software, as evidenced by the hilariously low quality of all* dashboard media/navigation/tech clusters ever. Google, on the other hand, is pretty good at software, and is therefore much better positioned to win in this space. Empiricism verifies this, because the Google autonomous cars work better than the automakers'.

In fairness, the article's claim about the high cost of Google LIDAR is solid.

*Yeah, I know. Tesla's doesn't suck. But they're not a real automaker yet.
I've also read that LIDAR doesn't work in rain, or even fog. I never see weather brought up in any detail in any writeups of autonomous vehicles. How close can we be if the sensors they're using only function on sunny California days? How will any car deal with the rest of the country where several months a year, a coating of snow can block any sensor from seeing lane markings, signs and signals, and even the outline of the roadway?
Can't edit now, but I meant to say:

"Ignoring the fact that equating what "normal people" would think in contrast to what a trained professional would think in the context of said profession isn't always an apt comparison..."
He knowingly lobbied for lower compensation rights for his workers. At the protests outside the fisheries he may not have noticed our protagonist given he was wearing crutches at the time and his hair had grown unkempt.
The dispensary application fee in CO is $18k. Karma is the thing that costs $18k.
It seems like they're aware of this but it's hardly their responsibility to avoid building a hack such as this...

Is that so? "Fsck the world, we got a business to run?"
I've mentioned this a couple times before but we hire Rails engineers for 24-40 hours a week + health insurance (in fact we're majority part-time at this point).

It's not for everyone, but it works well for us. We're all fresh and relaxed at work, and the free time is great for learning, side projects, exercising, travel.

Anyway, we're actually hiring right now: if you're in the Bay Area and looking shoot me an email.
But then our pranksters will merely hack together a parabolic dish and Raspberry Pi to emit faux stop-sign signals, then set up shop on the nearest mountaintop and snipe Benz's for fun. So now this is a signing/crypto and signal reliability problem, which is a bit harder. But still doable.
It has a constructor (to initialize the resource), a destructor (to release the resource), copy/move constructors, and lets you get access to the underlying resource. See http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr for an example.
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I'm genuinely interested to know whether garlic can be safe and effective replacement. I ask in all seriousness since garlic is said to have antibacterial properties (and was used topically as an antiseptic for wounds in WW 1 & WW 2). The thing about garlic is that our body never develops a tolerance for it. Is it true that bacteria can never develop resistance to the active compounds in garlic (ex: allicin) ?
Well, if you hash your password client-side, what's the difference from using clear text? A MITM will intercept your hashed password and use that to login.
Yes, I code as part of my consulting work. In fact that is what I do a lot.
Perhaps one of the reasons emotional language keeps appearing in this thread is that moral judgments can be viewed as nothing more than the expression of emotional attitudes, as opposed to propositions with any particular truth value. That kind of language may be essential to any productive conversation about ethics.
Some people here seem to think that indexing, measuring and slicing operations based on runes (code points) instead of bytes (UTF-8 code units) by default would be to be a good idea. It's not - you get the worst of both worlds: indexing is not a constant-time operation and a code point is still not a user-perceived character, because combining character sequences consist of multiple code points, even normalization doesn't help in general.

Other languages like C# seem to be different on the surface, but in fact they index and measure by code units as well (2 byte UTF-16 code units), not by code points.
So true, and still true for many (lucky?) men.
I guess it would be helpful to know the number regardless. Revenue as in gross, or at least the number of paid subscribers. But I think if they were able pull in this new round of funding, they must have some good number of sells lately.

There are a lot of websites with a lot of users but they die quickly too.
Right, so I should be ok about a company that recently lost 7 million passwords that were 'encrypted' using only SHA1, suddenly getting access to a whole raft more passwords?

Access to this many passwords is a threat even if my password is not one of them.

Finally, it may be opt in, but are they going to explain to the user that they get to keep a password for an account to which they have no legitimate right?
That´s a good example.
Its difficult to say if they've reached the end of their 'maximum optimization limit' or a local maximum.

The beauty of evolution is not to be stopped by limits, but to run near infinite instances of optimization algorithms over infinite time scales to over come the limits that exist.
Messing with traffic signs is, unsurprisingly, already very illegal.
I think trying to come up with too many special cases is just the wrong approach. Patents are intended to be somewhat property-like, and transferability seems like a completely reasonable thing to me. In fact, it would be quite challenging to prevent transferability without impacting a lot of contracts -- they'd just set up some power of attorney scheme to make it seem like the inventor is a party to the lawsuit.

The root of the problem is more closely related to the imbalance of power in a lawsuit: one party has the ability to subject another to great cost; with little or no cost to themselves, even if they are completely wrong. That imbalance is what makes extortion possible, and this bill seems to be more directly aimed at that problem.

To force the plaintiff to take on more responsibility, perhaps they could go further and require posting a bond for the cost of the trial in case they are wrong. That would prevent them from just setting up shell companies and then saying they can't pay when they lose. The judge can be involved in setting the bond amount, which should help sort out the rest of the problems and keep the incentives reasonable.
I will give you a little time before I spoil the fun. To see this header you cannot be a Google search bot.

It reads something like this:

"If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header"

I got this when I was sniffing my own network packets while browsing wordpress.com lol I was trying to demonstrate BREACH attack back in summer....
APL uses, by default, an origin of 1. Having used APL extensively for probably around ten years for everything from database management to financial, mathematical, image processing and even DNA sequencing applications I would conclude that an origin of 1 is not a problem. At least it isn't for APL.

That said, APL does have a system variable known as the "index origin" that allows you to change the origin as desired when needed. The variable is called ⎕IO (pronounced "quad i o". The "⍳" operator is roughly equivalent to python's range(n) function.

With the default ⎕IO set to 1:

⍳10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

a ← "This is a string"

a[1]

T

If you set it to 0:

⎕IO ← 0

⍳10

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

a[1]

h

You can use this to your advantage during computation. For example, to go along with your image element calculation, you could set your index origin to 0, do the math index and whatever else needs to be done with ⎕IO at 0 and then go back to 1. I found the concept to be really powerful.
don't blame the system for having massive, glaring flaws!

or... do, do that

THE SOLUTION IS TO REGULATE, except that capitalists use their enormous wealth to lobby against any and all effective regulation, but that's not capitalism's fault lolz
> ".. moral judgments can be viewed as nothing more than the expression of emotional attitudes.."

I sense that you hold an underlying assumption that morality cannot be attained through logic and reasoning.
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As you said that total domestic demand hasn't increased as it was just a change in preference, I was implying that no one is arguing that the total demand for housing in the United States has suddenly skyrocketed. The change in preference, as you called it, creates demand in specific areas of the US while creating a surplus in many other areas. I believe the impact of foreign investors has only increased the localized demand however they probably haven't done much to increase the overall demand for housing in the country.
Easier said than done. What happens when the power goes out to the city's system? Can we trust the city to keep traffic info up-to-date? What happens when there's too much interference? When you're in a tunnel with the roads broadcasting above you?

Self-driving cars are the future, but these solutions that seem simple will still need a lot of work.
I tend to think that Life is fair enough (to an extend) and the more effort and hard work you deposit, the better outcome you'd get.
so, find a job in any organization you'd be ok working for, and work your a*s out and try to learn how others do it as well in the process.
http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/timothy-noah/100566/jfk-mons...
I don't understand why trusting LI with all your email is worse than trusting Google with all your email.

Sure, if you do it for your corporate email, you may be violating the rules of your employer, but that's between you and your employer, and not enough reason to keep others from using an amazingly useful service for their own personal email.

Lost in all this discussion is just how awesome Rapportive is - the desktop gmail version has concretely and significantly changed my life for the better, and that's not hyperbole. Being able to research people without leaving my inbox has saved hours of time in my life, made my communications with those people more effective, and prevented me from making at least a couple serious errors.

All that is worth the added risk, especially for my personal email. Curious: does everyone in this thread have equal outrage for those widgets that log into your email clients so that you can invite your friends?
> There's nothing stopping them from doing this right now

Well, except finite federal resources and having other law enforcement priorities besides marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state law.
For experienced engineers it would be around 40-70k Euro. Depending how experienced you really are, how the demand for the language is (e.g. higher for iOS), on the stage of the company and how much equity you get.

You need to factor in the cost of living when comparing this to US or UK salaries. For 600 Euro/month you will get a nice multi-room apartment in a central area without sharing it with anybody else. Lunch in a restaurant is about 5 Euro and food in supermarkets probably the highest quality for the cheapest price anywhere.
the CONTRIBUTING documentation seems to be a good place for this on GitHub, too.
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I did run into at least one eminently reasonable use of how Go source is defined to be in UTF-8. Comments in the crypto libs just use math symbols where they're handy, like this in crypto/rsa[1]:

// Check that de ≡ 1 mod p-1, for each prime.
// This implies that e is coprime to each p-1 as e has a multiplicative
// inverse. Therefore e is coprime to lcm(p-1,q-1,r-1,...) =
// exponent(ℤ/nℤ). It also implies that a^de ≡ a mod p as a^(p-1) ≡ 1
// mod p. Thus a^de ≡ a mod n for all a coprime to n, as required.

Sadly, the spec requires identifiers to be just Unicode letters and digits, so we will never experience the power and glory of emoji function names in Go.

[1] http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/rsa/rsa.go
It's never the fault of the businessman because capital is amoral, but there's a case to be made that his choices are an instance of poor ethics.
(2) Could be looked up by someone easily, and could potentially turn foreign readers/customers off for no good reason.

I think you're better off just banning IPs. You can get a blacklist to start if you're really worried about it.