skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes more to be outstanding as you get older, so a 10 year old can be outstanding in several of them. And a collage student may keep up with 3 or 4.

However, none of the worlds best people in any of those, as in top 5, is also the worlds best any in any of the others. Not to step on anyone toes here. Michael Jordan was an incredible baseball player as in better than 99.99% of everyone that has ever played the game and by the 1:10,000 concept he may have been a dual genius, but that was not enough to be outstanding at the top level. And that is for two vary closely related sports.

So sure you can be outstanding in 2 or 3 of them but good luck finding people that can play at even just the professional level in Go, Physics, Sculpture, AND Poetry.

PS: My point is that collectively they don't share much in common. The Music / Math link while strong is not the same as the Music / Sculpture link.
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The typical human driver, due to reflexes, follows the car in front of them with 2s of response time, Indepedent of speed. Therefore you can really only hope for 1800 cars/hour/lane under ideal conditions and at speeds where the length of the vehicle is a rounding error. Self driving cars could safely follow much closer, perhaps 0.5s of response time. This by itself could increase lane capacity by 4x without accounting for bad drivers getting into accidents or just disrupting the flow. Self driving cars are going to be amazing.
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Sure, the first driverless car doesn't really help other people. But there are network effects. The more driverless cars, the better everyone else is off.

1. Owning a driverless car and leaving it parked would be a waste of money. Either rent out your car as an Uber taxi, or simply don't own a car, and use a driverless one as a cheap taxi to work. Long-term, if everyone had a driverless car and used it like this it leads to an 80% reduction in the number of cars required. Isn't that good for the world? (minus GM shareholders). That's some major congestion relief.

2. A lot of congestion is due to drivers screwing up. Bad lane changes, driving too close to each other, idling, etc. Google cars would smooth this out.

3. Easy to send the driverless car to the supercharger station to fill up while you're at work.

4. We get driverless buses too, right? Meaning cheaper buses, meaning more quantity demanded.

The author is correct though, in that a lower cost of usership will lead to a higher quantity demanded.

Some of my previous comments here:

http://vancouverdata.blogspot.ca/2012/08/googles-self-drivin...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6007977
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I implemented this design in LiquidSketch game on iPad some time ago. Amazingly it worked.
Note: This article is from 2007 and is quite prescient.

It's completely shameful how bad the specified read error rates are now.

It's to the point that if you read an entire disk 4TB you have a 32% chance of one bit being wrong!

That means hard disks can no longer be considered reliable devices that return the data written to them, you now need a second layer in software checking checksums.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4TB+%2F+10^14+bit++in+%...

For extra money they sell hard disks with 10^15 reliability instead of 10^14 - this should be standard!
It seems unlikely that this would have been used as a drinking cup, because it wouldn't work properly if it's moved around or tipped. Instead, it was probably a "temple magic" device, where a worshipper would have to buy some sacrificial wine and pour it into a mounted cup as a sacrifice. If they don't pour enough in, nothing happens, but once they pour enough the god "drinks" the wine. The wine probably fell down into a bucket attached to some mechanism that would make noise, or move something, or maybe open a door, to indicate that the god is satisfied with the sacrifice.
I was recently in Romania and was blown away at how casually people spoke English! A slightly American accent, with pacing and rhythm similar to a native speaker.

Contrasting that to German English speakers whom likely had high quality English classes throughout education speak with a specific accent and rhythm closer to that of the German language.

I don't know if their are technical reasons for this, but anecdotally Romanians had said they learned a lot of their English from watching dubbed TV and movies.

Someone else in this thread mentioned the show 24. It's fascinating that, indirectly, watching pirated copies of a typically Hollywood entertainment television show (which academic and intellectual communities may find "crude") can open up a wealth of knowledge and culture (English language only resources) for people whom, potentially, wouldn't have had the educational opportunities otherwise.

It makes my spine tingle when stories like this flip your understanding and perspective of things like the Hollywood Entertainment Machine. Things have value in unexpected and fascinating ways.
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As a primarily Java programmer, those folks need to be drawn and quartered.
Even I got the same Question in Mind.

Answer to this question can be found by only two ways (I feel So) either by using the cup or asking someone who has used it.

Can we get this kind of cup any where online?
On a related note, for anybody looking for freely available maths texts:

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http://mathbooks.reddit.com
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This misses the point, in many ways:

* Driverless cars means safer cars.

* Driverless cars means independence for people who otherwise are restricted (elderly, kids, blind, etc).

* Driverless cars are more fuel efficient. Sure, they aren't as efficient as not driving, but, just like driving with cruise control is better than not, complete automation will be better.

* Driverless cars will enable more productive use of the commute time.

There are probably many more benefits as well.

The one thing the author probably gets correct is that this will increase traffic load on the roads, and it is questionable whether it will increase efficiency of roadway usage more than it increases traffic load, but I'm guessing it won't. I can imagine a case where I have a single car, driving me to work, then going back to take my wife, then back to the house to pick up kids, then back to pick up my wife, and so on. In other words, a lot of empty drive time. This would be mitigated by a taxi-like "call the nearest car".
One question that interests me is what the self driving cars will do for congestion. One question I'm sure Google developers are asking is "What's the minimum safe distance between cars?".

If every single car is cruising at the same speed and distance between them, would our roads then be more or less congested? From the things I've read from German autobahn research seems to indicate that congestion should be less. On the other hand some roads here in Denmark seems to be design for less traffic that they currently carry and I doubt it would work if cars where forced to keep a fixed distance.

It would be interesting to get the reaction from the politicians, if some one like Google reported it's actually impossible to drive a certain road while following the recommended safety rules.
> [citation needed] one has to be privy to such contracts to make these conjectures, also they're software might have been of the "off the shelf" variety.

Fine, it's true, the contact could have said anything, including "if you are acquired, you are released of any obligations," although I find that hard to believe. Yes, and it could have been off the shelf with no support contact.

However, in my experience, having gone through an acquisition where the acquired company had existing obligations, those obligations were transferred to the acquiring company and understanding them were a large part of the due diligence.

> but you should get the facts straight before lobbing accusations

What was my accusation? All I did was quote the article. You tried to refute it -- claiming any interaction between PittPatt and the NSA was pre-Google -- by giving dates which were still entirely consistent with the article as written (docs from 2011, acquisition from July of that year).

> My main objection is that the NYT should have used "... now owned by Google" instead of "owned by Google" in their piece.

Again, I don't see any compelling evidence you've given for contracting the article as written. I'm going to have to go with the professional reporting on this one.

> as for 'companies that acquire companies' point, I don't subscribe to any guilt by association sort of animosity, this doesn't seem fair

That's fine, think whatever you want. We disagree.
> Democracy is having all your authorities under scrutiny and control by the people. It's hard.

Agreed. The population needs to be at a point where it can handle the responsibility of having discernment. They need to see beyond the illusions spun by those who wish to suppress the mind.

> Imagine a country where corporations can't sponsor political campaigns. Or where surveillance isn't monitored by secret courts applying secret laws.

That would be wonderful! I hope we get there soon.

These are basic tools used to keep the current systems in power. The people who wish to dominate us will use technology to keep people enslaved in the current 9-7, pay you taxes, buy lots of things, spend your life commuting, live the generic American Dream, don't decide what your actual dream is, culture.

My opinion; the system is run by intelligent and malevolent souls who make the money, impose culture, have massive influence, & power. If they are hell bent on dominion, do you think they want to allow transparency in how decisions are made? IMO, that will never happen with the current structure. They will simply take "Democracy" and redefine it to what we see today. I think we agree that it's up to the people to take their power back.

> Democracy isn't black or white, it's always a shade of gray.

I hear that. However, there are still dualities at play. We can go in different directions. Toward thriving or toward death.
For me those things are almost like a book cover. If I open a file and I see freakishly long lines I just assume that the content will be not well crafted.
It could definitely be used as a drinking cup, and would work the same even when occasionally tipped.

The only moment it can spill is when you fill it, at which point it would likely be in horizontal position.
Driving is a frustrating experience. When you're a passenger that frustration is decreased by quite a bit -- I always get out of driving if I can. Not having to drive is a MAJOR improvement to anyone's commute.

Think about it, you've now gained X-minutes to and from work or where ever per day to focus on reading, chats, etc.
The storage efficiency gains from RAID5 are not worth the risks, and when you go to RAID6, you lose even more efficiency.

You're better off with RAID10 (only need to read one drive to replace, not all the drives). Better performance all round too.
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I believe that SSDs fail differently, in some respects. If your SSDs "wears out", you may not be able to reprogram it (write to it), but you may still be able to read from it.

Edit: Apparently this is wrong. Read comments below
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>Driverless cars will enable more productive use of the commute time.

This is the main reason I am interested. I love taking the train to work because I can pull out a book, or my iPad. The experience is 100 times better than the stress of traffic.
A few years ago, I spent a month working out of my firm's SV office. Coming from Manhattan, it was quite a culture shock. Suburbia as far as the eye could see. But eventually I realized that people there chose to live that way. It wasn't just because they had kids and couldn't afford to live in the city anymore. Folks actually preferred their sprawling office park to a downtown skyscraper. Technology will be designed to enable that culture, and given the importance of Silicon Valley, probably spread it.

I still don't get it, but you can't say that Google isn't fulfilling a need. Its a catch-22: self driving cars are the right solution for America the way its designed now. And their adoption will entrench the design even more. The suburbs will get even sprawlier when people can commute an hour each way without actively driving. Its not what most futurists imagined that the world would look like, but it seems inevitable at this point. Urbanists can decry these trends, but who are we to judge people for living the way they want?
I started and sold a business in college. It was quite stressful and I missed out on a lot of great social and networking opportunities. I wouldn't do it unless it is a simple side business.

The only thing i regret is not studying abroad.
Seriously? The point of making that note was to communicate that I am reasonably intellectual. Analytics is made for normal people. Its like telling someone that the reason they don't understand Facebook is because they are not anthropologists or sociologists.
>visually, the comparison is comical.

That visual comparison is flawed. Just read the comments.
Arrgh. Emacs on the terminal is a joy, and is present on more servers than you think (dreamhost for instance).

Having said that I default to 'vi foo.txt' on the command line and feel like vi competency is a core server skill ...
Nail. On. Head.

What does it matter if the guy in the front seat is twirling a steering wheel or not? His personal possession is still taking up a vast area of a public space - the city street. He's still driving 150 polluting miles for a meeting that could be held just as well electronically. He's still using way too much energy to transport just one person, whether the oil is burned in his car or in a power station somewhere else. And he's still sitting on his increasingly wide butt.

Google's self-driving cars will entrench one of the biggest problems with Western culture, not fix it. The answers are mass transit, active travel, smarter workplaces and better urban design, not the same old cars but with the ability to twirl the steering wheel themselves.

(and before the obvious rejoinder: I live in an English rural town with a population of 3,000. I don't own a car. It's possible right now; it'd be much, much easier if public transport and bike routes got the same investment lavished on motorists.)
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A good video explaining it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q9Jim1abMo
I think I remember reading that that is something already being used as a loophole. So, closing the loopholes would have to include this particular strategy. I have no idea how that would be done or if our lawmakers will ever try to do so.
what a dumb language! operator overloading should have bound the equals method to the == operator without the programmer having to be aware of this. when in java do you ever want to compare if two objects are the same referenced with the same ptr? Never, so why not do the right thing by the user of the language.

At least be consistent between primitives and objectives.

Sadly, I have to use this language daily. My heart belongs to python, but java pays the bills.
assuming self-driving cars don't get road rage and try to cut people off, they absolutely will improve my commute[1]. the more emotionless drivers, the better.

[1]my theoretical commute. in reality, my commute is a ten minute bike ride along a riverbank.
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Don't forget "mile-wide inch-deep" generalist geniuses. They aren't particularly gifted in one area, but are able to achieve simultaneous competency in a very large number of discrete disciplines. We used to call these folks "Renaissance Men", but the recognition of excessive achievement in specialties has virtually eliminated recognition for that kind of intellect.
I work at a hosting company, and we're using RAID10 exclusively.
80 or 100 is both fine, but I prefer 80. Shorter lines are simply easier to read.

It just like reading a text online. Most people would prefer shorter lines, compared to one extremely long one. It's simply easier to keep track of where you are.
Video editing features are all quantised to one frame – that's why Avid shows that frame as a range, not a point. Audio editing tends to be continuous rather than discreet, so it's a different UI strategy. There's no "end of word" to speak of, there's "end of beat", and I can't really tell you about that. I will tell you that I couldn't find any DJ tool which matches Avid's semantic level. One that comes very close is the Serato Itch, along with the Novation Twitch controller - overloaded semantics on every command, sharp mode separation, at no compromise over control.
This is already well known in enterprise storage, and one of the solutions is erasure coding. Some products implementing this exist today and others are currently in the works. Basically you go to something like 20+5, instead of 4+1. Of course this only makes sense when you have 50+ drives in a tray.

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Which is why when you see a codebase like Plan 9/9front's, you can't help but be in awe.

Most of their lines are incredibly compact. In fact, a lot of people who first read the code suffer a bit of a culture shock. It's just too... simple, and readable. Especially for C. This causes some to knock their own particular style of ANSI C as inadequate.

I think it's a testament to their genius. You'll probably never find a codebase as massive yet as readable and grokkable as theirs. If you're used to modern Linux code that copiously uses glib, D-Bus and a whole bunch of other libraries, you'll either find it a huge breath of fresh air, or completely blasphemous.
Yes, this article is way off base, it will be referenced to years from now as a joke about how no one saw the trans-formative technology coming.

Don't get me wrong, nothing beats the "live where you work principle" in terms of efficiency. it should be the primary choice for professions that this is possible. this principle would also do wonders for the financial and ethnic diversity of neighborhoods instead of the tossed salad we have today.

Driver less cars will have a huge impact on efficiency and safety as they become the norm. someone already mentioned driving efficiency, but as the safety record of these vehicles sky rockets, cars will become lighter as they won't need to be designed such rare high speed collisions. This will also greatly improve efficiency and shrink the carbon footprint.
There was an update in 2013:

http://www.zdnet.com/has-raid5-stopped-working-7000019939/

And based on a sample size of 1, it looks like desktop 4tb drives still have an URE of 10^14:

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/barracuda...

Then there's of course SSDs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eULFf6F5Ri8

Yeah, no. I don't think it's fair to compare raid0 and raid5 for durability -- but ssds seem to have very low ure-rates, and you can now (almost) reasonably get 1tb ssds. Not sure about how long they can be realistically expected to last, though. Long enough (2-3 years) for when you'll probably want to replace those 14 1tb ssds in raid6 with a three 16 tb ssds in raid1 with one hot-spare?
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> get off my lawn

no
The only gold I see in that gold rush is from acqui-hire.
I don't think so, because the column is in the middle; as long as the tube in the middle is narrow, whichever way you tilt it the height in the centre will be the same as it was at the start and nothing comes out. I guess if you tilt it past horizontal to drink out of while the cup's more than half full then you have a problem - but that sounds more like a feature than a bug.
They most likely forgot to renew their cert on time, which is worrisome from a gov't institution, but not necessarily a sign of evil activity.

I'd try to contact them through other means (i.e. phone, email, etc.) to 1) schedule my appointment out of band and 2) notify them that their certificate has expired.
For a modern spreadsheet it would not be unreasonable for a user to expect symbolic arithmetic rather than floating point error soup.
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