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"The autonomous Google car may never actually happen."

Directly underneath that, an image captioned: "A Google self-driving car maneuvers through the streets of Washington in 2012."

This article is rubbish. It makes lots of arguments that sound valid, but are actually nowhere near being insurmountable. Take the first one, for instance. Supposedly, the need to map the roads is a huge burden. Well, what if they just design the cars so that when a road is unmapped they need to be manually driven, but after that has been done a certain number of times, can be driven on that road autonomously? Only a tiny proportion of drivers would even encounter that situation, and even new roads would become autonomous-compatible from day one. (or thereabouts)

Overall, the article acknowledges that varying degrees of autonomy are already being built into vehicles. To not come to the conclusion that these will be iterated on and become (more or less) full autonomy is short-sighted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3oc1Hr62g
Haha, I had the exact same experience. Although I'm not sure the dice cricket game I also wrote in maths class counted :)
I tried it out. Barely functional is pretty accurate unfortunately :(

I was using it on screens though as opposed to paper.
>Indian culture is a caste system.

US capitalism is also a caste system. Unlike the Indian system, it pretends very, very hard not to be.
"because your colleague uses some semi-random tool"

For extra fun combine that with not invented here syndrome and retired in place. "Git? whats git? never heard of it. Besides don't you know RCS is the industry standard for version control?" (which was actually pretty much true in 1985) And no this wasn't in '06 this was last year. I'm glad I don't work in that particular team!

And add some inter group politics for extra extra fun.
I would be careful with words like "must" when there are this many variables involved. It could be fiber, the types of sugar, etc. We do know that carbonation alone isn't causing this and fruit juice doesn't cause this.
I immediately trusted the first guy who wasen't smiling, but after reading the article I started to doubt my first impression. I have been burned financially, and personally
by full time Smilers? Or, that guy who just seems too happy
for no reason?
Print it out. Leave it on her desk.

Better yet, schedule a "brown bag lunch discussion" around the article, and invite your boss as well as several of your colleagues.

Your corporate culture is something you must work within, but it is also something you can change -- or at least affect.
You can't have outstanding performance with those tools, so I'm not sure whether you have your chances. It's a dilbertesque situation where employees can't perform well and the management self-reproduces with the least innovative people.
More details about the "young attorney" who had added "a kind of universal action clause" that allowed NASA to "sort-of invest" in SpaceX:

> I have to share with you, as a sort of sideline, do you know where our Other Transaction Authority comes from? The guy who wrote the [National Aeronautics and] Space Act, who was just incredible, was a very young guy. This was back in 1957, ’58. [Paul G.] Dembling. I had the opportunity a couple of times to talk to him, and he told a story which I’m sure is true. He was a young attorney and he’d only been practicing for a few years. The Russians had launched Sputnik [in 1957], and there was panic in America. We did have a military space agency, but President [Dwight D.] Eisenhower said, “I need a civil space agency.”

> Mr. Dembling was tasked with writing the Space Act, and he sat down and did a lot of research and he wrote it. He told me, “I did the best job I could. I read everything, but I knew in the final analysis there might have been something I missed. So I sat down and I said, ‘Well, how can I cover that?’ I can cover that by saying, ‘And NASA can do any other agreement, arrangement, whatever it needs to do to fulfill its mission.’” That became the Other Transaction Authority. You know how Sherwin-Williams [Company] paint covers the world? He basically said, “If I’ve forgotten something, use this.”

> … He said, “I sat there, and I thought I probably missed something. Now, what can I put in that will let them do whatever they need to do?” Back then, in ’58, the whole nation was roiled. It was still the Cold War, the Russians had a Sputnik, we could hear it, beep-beep-beeping. Those who were alive at that time can remember being taught to get under our little school desks and hunker down, like that was going to protect you from an atomic weapon. In any event, that was the climate of fear in the country, so getting a civil space agency stood up and running was very important. Paul came up with the Other Transaction Authority stuff. Who knew, right? Who knew?

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/C3PO/WholleyM...
I use a Macbook, the guy on my left a Thinkpad and the guy on my right a Chromebook. No issues noticed. IT supports it well.
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$650/mo is the avg. wage _after tax_ (around 150kHUF) -- I should have mentioned that. You're absolutely right that I got the minimum wage wrong (I meant net minimum wage though).
Me personally? Not really. Like I said, I've been using it for a while and it's fine, but I also haven't tried to "stretch" it yet, so my experience doesn't really mean that much one way or the other. It's pretty simple to make something that works well most of the time. It's harder to do that in a way that still works well for the weird corner cases. Shell scripts sitting in a directory waiting to be kicked off by init are supremely flexible in that regard. I'm less confident in the future of systemd that this will still be the case. It's a lot harder to customize the way my Mac boots than it is to customize an old slackware install.

But mostly, like I said, it's just ugly. D-bus? Binary logs? Sure, you can build a working system like that, but just ugh.
While there is some truth to that, there are still lots of software and data exchange dependencies within the average large corporation.
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It depends on how often it happens. The stars move too quickly for birds to have star patterns hardcoded by evolution.

Instead they look at the sky and learn the star patterns as baby birds and use the observed pattern for navigation.
The first of its kind took place on 14. March 2014 in Mid-Town Manhattan with 225 people in attendance. The second conference for Python users in the Quant Finance space takes place on 28. November 2014 in London. The conference is organized by the CQF Institute and The Python Quants. One day of valuable insights and intensive networking.
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You don't need admin rights.

What you do need is a reasonable set of tools to be installed and a quick (under an hour) way to get items installed or updated.

What about a VM ?

Approach it from the tools use, do people use pads and pens or do they use Word?
Discussion from previous article in series: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8481487
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Doesn't sound so dissimilar to the EU's Internet tax that was planned years ago (not sure if its email tax plan was part of the same thing). I don't think it would be unreasonable to assume that this plan would get some support at European level.

In the UK our last government imposed an Internet tax, but at a flat monthly rate. Fortunately, it was scrapped.
I must have been lucky then, I've written several 50+ page documents with latex that included figures, footnotes, equations and citations and rarely had to do more than select a documentstyle and occassionally align multiline equations. The only real pain point were figure environments, otherwise I never adjusted any of the preset values and ended up with more than acceptable documents.
I've seen a company without MS Office. There goes shared network drives too. Everyone had the OS of their choice, the best tool for their work, and we never exchanged files.
Or, sound so foreign people look up the meaning--like Physibles? I guess that website could promote any name
though?
> Again, this is only for software where the developers have explicitly decided to hard-code in dependencies to systemd, which is not likely going to be everyone.

I'd put good money on this getting harder and harder going forward though. At some point it will be everyone, or at least practically everyone, because every Linux distribution with any mindshare will have been using systemd for years, and hard-coding systemd will be not a lot different than hard-coding calls to the C standard library.

Also, shims? How god-awfully inelegant can we be? "You don't like systemd? Cool. You can run something else (as long as it looks, feels, and behaves exactly like systemd)."

Look, I'm not a religious zealot. Systemd is what they want me to run; systemd is what I'm running. I can live with ugly software. It's not the end of the world. But oh dear god is it ugly.
If I'm not mistaken, prezi is hungarian and very widely used
In the Uber case you can sue the driver. So when deep-pocketed Google is the driver, I wouldn't be surprised to see people throwing themselves under the vehicles.
(If anyone is about to retort with "webcams!" you're missing my point. Someone needs to be sued. If Google convinces law makers to enact laws to endemify them, then the State will be sued first, then Google.)
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One might make the same argument about the cars we have now. If we cannot guarantee that there will be no deadly accidents, they cannot be deployed in such great numbers. Yet, car accidents are a major cause of death, and almost everyone drives one regularly.
This article does not mention handling directory services between short lived EC2 instances and SQL Server. Right now the guidance is to use SQL Server Auth; but Windows Auth would be far better to use, especially in these circumstances.
I really hate this mindset. These businesses aren't being killed by the internet - they've simply outlived their use.

This is the risk of being a business in transport. If a cheaper, faster and more accessible form of transport comes along you go out of business. Not because something has killed you or your business (you are perfectly allowed to still do your business as you like), but because you aren't useful anymore.

For example the milkman disappeared with the invention of refrigerated transport. Not because the milkman was killed, but because he was no longer useful.

Please, do not defend things that are not useful.

s/milkman/CD/
s/refrigerated transport/internet file transfer/
Actually I think it’s more related to the corruption charges: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-usa-hungary-idU...
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I see Modea, I think Medea, which is probably not the connotation you want. OTOH, who's familiar with classical mythology these days?
The fun part about the second amendment is the full auto weapon ban. If this is constitutional - then the same mechanism could be used to regulate other types of guns. If it is not (which current readings seem to hint at), then it should fall.

I really don't get it.
Absolutely not, only if they depend on systemd. If they follow UNIX conventions, they don't need to edit a single file. Writing a daemon init script was a solved problem decades ago, and that script will serve for every init system.
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Here's the latest data I know of on this:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi/components/...

The United States comes in at 8th highest obesity rate, after Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, South Africa, and Mexico.
That ci on the end hard to remember. I checked and anorak
is taken--as usual, but there's got to be something else? Maybe Theanorak?
Are Amazon and Flipkart literature leeches? Not so fast
The factual difference is that those companies don't just have the ability to trawl through your data, they actually do it.

Imagine you allowed Facebook to send people into your house to take pictures, so they could see what cleaning products and the like you buy and sell that information to advertisers. The government wouldn't need a warrant to subpoena those pictures in Facebook's possession of what's in your house.
I agree, but I'm no milkman.

Amazon (books etc), Google and Facebook (advertising), Apple (music and movies), and many other Internet companies take jobs from Hungarian voters. And as far as I remember these companies don't pay much tax.

They probably add some jobs, but if you worked in the bookstore, the advertising agency or the record store, and your job was lost to the Internet, you would be the one feeling the externalities of the Internet.
Ullman is one of the authors of 'Foundations of Computer Science' [1], a well-respected (but out-of-print) introduction to CS theory. I suspect he's borrowing both the intent and the name.

[1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
Maybe you have a higher tolerance for these problems. Or were you learning from better resources that you can share?
I can tell you for sure, why Lithuania has fibre and 4G across country.

Most EU money are invested into country's infrastructure, there were lots of debates whether it is wise, as infrastructure by itself does not boost production. I can just assume that Romania and many other East Europe countries did the same.. It is not cheap at all to fiber up whole conutry, but when you have "free" money to spend, it suddenly becomes an attractive laundering option.

In my opinion, saying that country X has fast internet because users desire is a wild guess and only. I am sure Americans love watching video and skype'ing too.
I'd say telling a bug reporter that their report is useless because "we're too lazy and dumb to fix it" is being hard to get along with. Besides, that's far from the only example. A quick Google search brings up dozens of cases where systemd developers and evangelists deride even those who ask basic questions about it. It's a perfect example of "it's our playground, find your own" that is so juvenile and antisocial that it bothers the hell out of me. And that's not even the reason I don't want to use systemd; I simply prefer traditional init systems like sysvinit and Slackware's BSD-style init system.
Doomsday cults missing their deadlines never seem to suffer much harm.
The Internet, while most of us don't care, has negative externalities
as well:

- killing hundreds of thousands of businesses such as bookstores, movie
rental stores, record stores;
- makes it possible through IP telephony,
email, the web, collaboration tools etc. to outsource millions of jobs;
- is a time consumer like no other before;

With that philosophy, agriculture would still comprise 100% of the economy. Yes, everybody, even kids, would have a job, but who wants that standard of living?

Also, about wasting time on the internet, maybe for you socializing or gaming is a waste of time, but before internet people also did this, additions already existed back then you know.

Yes, the Internet creates businesses as well but I don't think I've ever
used a Hungarian Internet business. Also, the outsourced jobs go mainly
to Asia. I could see why a conservative government would tax the Internet.

That's because you don't live there. When you know several languages, you see there are huge properties outside the five eyes Internet.
>So the government came up with this tax nonsense as a distraction. As you can see they achieved their goal. Everybody is talking about the internet tax while the government is doing business with the Russians under cover.

Sorry, but lest this is marked as "informative" by anyone due to it coming from a native Hungarian, I'd like to say (as a neighborhood) that this "it's a distraction" sounds like the usual ideas of how goverment works put forward by some blogs, columnists, that are not really grounded in reality.

It's not like Hungary only does "business with the Russians" for the very short term that this will be in the news, for it being a "distraction" to be effective.

It's also not like there would be any popular backslash on "doing business with the Russians" at this particular time either, so that they would need a distraction.

It's more likely that they just wanted an extra tax and some extra dough coming their way, and came up with this, sans distraction nonsense.
I work in related field(s) in the technical sense (ie, NLP/Knowledge Engineering etc, but not related to law or legal services at all).

Is this a real problem? Is it really as simple as some ontology linking?
How do you achieve the same outcome with pf or ipfw?
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I think your general argument is a reasonable one if read in isolation. Unfortunately it seems quite possible that rayiner's characterisation of the law is correct, and that the law just happens to be bad and/or anachronistic in this area.

In general, I don't think privacy and data protection laws are anything like strong enough in most jurisdictions today, and I think the data mining industries (and governments) are pushing the boundaries of acceptable behaviour as far as they can as fast as they can so they can then claim that their behaviour is normal and accepted and therefore "OK" before those laws catch up.

The difficulty is that privacy is something of a Pandora's box situation -- once lost, it is almost impossible to truly restore -- with the added twist that it's mostly important to protect against "it would never happen to me" situations, which means the average person doesn't realise or doesn't care what they're losing until it is too late. I'm afraid the data miners will win (or already have won) and for at least one generation the safeguards that privacy should bring them have been lost for life.

Realistically, most people probably won't suffer great hardship as a result. The worst they'll get is some spammy advertising. The people we should worry for are the innocent ones who will nevertheless spend months trying to fix their credit after identity theft, or paying a fortune to accountants when they are investigated for (negligently) suspected tax fraud, or going through a hellish legal process for months to defend themselves against false accusations, or trying to get permission to travel on holiday after being put on some list because something they said was taken out of context, or having their candidacy for public office undermined by character assassination, or in the ultimate worst case who are dead because the SWAT raid/drone strike/other severe and immediate action left them no chance to set the record straight. These are among the reasons privacy and data protection really matter, but to the extent that anyone is really questioning laws and practices today they seem more hung up on Facebook and Google mining data to serve ads.
They want to distract Hungarians not foreigners.
Except it doesn't, really, scale well in practice. Even now, writing and maintaining large documents in Word is typically an exercise in frustration. Don't get me wrong, there are many things it does well. Books aren't one of them, and neither is technical content (e.g. math) or other complicate typesetting and structuring.

This may just be an implication of mixing typesetting and writing tasks.
It's not a philosophy. It's how politics work.

I don't think Hungary will return to pre-industrial times because of an Internet tax.
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Link to the same chapter in the 2.0 version (Stallman’s annotated version) of the same book:

https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/faif-2.0.pdf#chapter.6
There are some startup in China providing similar apps, basically they are using deep learning to search problem photo in a problem set(middle school, high school problem sets and exams). Like this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wenba.bang...
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> I don't think Hungary will return to pre-industrial times because of an Internet tax.

It will not return but they'll be stuck there. This will have a chilling effect on the economy, and about all new jobs enabled by the internet? no new job will be created, they'll go to other countries without imposed tax barriers.
Anyone think a remote directory service would work well if a lot of your infrastructure is hosted elsewhere? I wonder if latency would become an issue.

Also, how hard is it to set up/care/feed a basic directory service? I've toyed with FreeIPA which was easy (http://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page, based on 389 DS). I actually did not realize Samba now includes a directory service and might check that out.
Anti-India propaganda, that's all.
If it's a mindset you can't change willfully, then it's not usefully a mindset. This is also what makes depression a disease, not simply a mindset.
Do you even know that stupid cookie law is only specific to EU?
I'd be more interested if it could provide the LaTeX code for the scanned equation. Then you could write equations by hand and simply scan them in.

I'm halfway through a thesis, so it's too late for me, but others could have a notorious learning curve eased somewhat.
Agreed. When I wrote my master's thesis, I started by trying to use Google Docs. That lasted about two hours.... Then I tried LibreOffice. That lasted the rest of the first day. Finally I borrowed my wife's Macbook and switched to Word. It remained an exercise in frustration, even to do simple things like set page numbering in the pre-body content (intro, acknowledgements, ToC, etc) to Roman numerals vs Latin numbers in the body, or correctly setting up headers & footers, or matching footnote styling to the department's style guide. As the author states here, all this complex styling crap is a huge distraction from creating content, but because of how Word works, you can't just work in the old mode and leave the styling for the end. It has to be created inline or you're going to have a really bad time trying to fix it later.
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Does Stallman still have a bad case of RSI?

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html

I was under the impression that he could no longer code.
I think there's some history missing here.

"The RFC proposed a split of the traditional message submission and message relay concept."

What this is misses is that the former specifications never accounted for message submission in the first place. In the beginning, an MTA was installed on every system, and "sendmail" was used to get email submitted into the MTA. So there was no need for any other protocol to do this. But this only worked on Unix.

When less-well Internet-connected hosts came along (eg. Windows), there was a need to be able to submit mail to an MTA that was on a different host, since one was no longer present locally. Lacking a specification for this, MUA implementers just re-used (and overloaded) SMTP, by making the MUA pretend to be an MTA.

This caused a mess because MTAs were liberal in what they accepted (Postel's law), so they needed to tidy up badly formed submitted email such as fixing up headers. But this broke MTA to MTA transmission because email flowing that way ended up getting modified in unexpected ways, breaking old assumptions that MTAs generally only added headers.

And finally, more recently, the spam problem meant that MTAs needed to authenticate clients requesting relaying, since they didn't want to be labelled as spam originators.

Proposing "a split of the traditional message submission and message relay concept" was really just about sorting out the mess that we de-facto ended up in.