skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people want to be without the company of strangers in their commute => a self-driving car will, on average, not carry more passengers than cars do now.

Most people want/have to arrive at work in a relatively short timeframe (7-9 or thereabouts)

Combining that with a 30 minute commute, the average autonomous car will be able to drive 2-3 people to and from work each day. It also will have to drive 1.5-2.5 times the distance per passenger (into town, back to pick up the second passenger, into town again for two passengers, another round trip for the third)

I think that will be a net win, but it will be less than that 95% idle figure hints at.

That net win will decrease traffic jams tremendously, though. It is anybody's guess what that will mean. On the one hand, ride times could go down, and automated cars could be able to make another round trip during peak hours.

On the other hand, people could move farther out into the suburbs, offsetting that. That is a serious possibility, as you could start working/shaving/brushing your teeth/reading/playing on your Xbox during your commute. If that happens, chances are that those who can afford it will want to own their own self-driving car, so that they can stock it with things they may want to use during their commute.

I think the latter is a serious possibility. Because of that, I am not sure we will see a decrease in the number of cars.
I meant a financial upside, in contrast to entrepreneurs. And it's definitely not structured as a loan. You forego your summer salary, its gone. All you've done is chosen not to pay yourself.
For those who don't know what this means:

"In modern times, the territory is generally and almost universally known as part of the West Bank."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shomron)
Computer Scientists Create “Unbeatable” Poker Algorithm – Big Think
Why don't you pay me to update it and keep half of the profits. That way you get to keep control of the app and half of the profits while I do all of the work. I made this public because I think it's a good alternative for you even we don't end up working together. But hey PM me if you're interested.
Well, humans aren't unbiased either.
No, it isn't like saying that.

It is saying that you can't expect all the players on the football team to collect the same salary as the star players, which incidentally is exactly what happens.
and UIS (also in the U of Illinois system) offers a BSCS online: http://csc.uis.edu/information/onugadmissions.html
There have been a few proposals for advanced bit-packing stuff, but most of it has been postponed as back-compat for later.

That said, by default enum/struct layout is undefined, so it's possible the compiler could be taught to optimize your usecase correctly. For instance Option<&T> is the same size as &T because &T is strictly non-zero, and we can therefore use 0 for None.
That is like a complete no-go. It took something like 6 years[0] to formalize the proof of Feit-Thomson, one of the first "long" proofs in group theory, and that was done by experts who understood both Coq and the proof. In the time it would take him to write the proof in Coq, dozens of mathematicians could learn the theory and independently verify it.

[0] http://www.msr-inria.fr/news/feit-thomson-proved-in-coq/
Something with a higher bar of quality than the typical consumer electronics you pick up in the bargain bin at Newegg/Amazon/Wal-Mart.

I think it's within the realm of possibility for consumers to install routers/gateways that are competently engineered. It's flat out impossible to ensure every IOT device a consumer owns has even the most basic security principles covered.
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Wow. That’s just bizarre.
Paid placement and/or referrals. The "Why these cards?" link explains:

"We are compensated by some of these issuers. Card features, performance and user interest are used to sort these cards."
Yeah, this article was terrible - both full of some serious holes in its actual facts, and then dripping with sloppy reasoning.
Levie owns 4.1% of stock http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/0001193125142...
When a company trumpets some bold statements for marketing purposes, I immediately think about the worst or most far-fetched interpretation of their language. I wonder if their marketing people are being coy and the honest truth is, in some ways, the opposite or far less than what they are saying.
Wow, I wish I could upvote this comment even more. It's a much more well-thought out version of what I wanted to say on this topic. Thank you.

I'll just add that it seems to me (in the US at least) that one's compensation is more proportional to ones's proximity to financial transactions and the size of those transactions, rather than it is to your overall value creation for society (contrary to what most libertarians, especially those in Silicon Valley, like to argue.) This is why financiers and executives make by far the most money while teachers and scientists make peanuts despite producing great value for society.
I think the conclusion from all this heists is that virtual money is much easier to steal. Next time you will see physical break-ins and so on. We've watched all those action movies where people risk their lives to get hold of $5M. Nowadays, you can do this remotely from the convenience of your home... but it will be easier for the old crooks to steal a key vs bags of cash, so, let's see how this goes forward.
This would be relevant if there was another proof of the ABC conjecture available.
1. Yeah and no. Sometimes it's a gut thing, or even prejudice. Other times there are very specific reasons - especially when we're talking about tech interviews.

Interviews are also in a pretty unique position to be quite honest with you. They have no real incentive to lie or even to be nice to you. Which isn't to say they always will be honest, but your odds are higher than they would be if you were asking say... your current boss about why you were passed over for a promotion.

2. Heck yeah to that.

3. There's nothing wrong with politely asking (not "pressing") for more information. If one interviewer out of ten gives you the information or feedback you asked for, that's a pretty good time investment - how long does it take you to write ten short, polite emails?
Only if you install it as root. I install nightlies in ~/local. It's not stable enough to be installed as root.
Architectural or design problems need to be fixed before merge.

Code review incentives only align if the patch isn't merged until it passes review (e.g. Linux).

If patches are merged before review, a code review is really just "hey FYI I did this, any glaring problems?". You may need some other methodology to fix architectural or design problems before the review. Pair programming does this for some teams, for other teams its only hiring developers they trust.
Good question. I don't really know the answer.
I worked at a company where the developers were very negative. Conversations just dripped with sarcasm. I think it's infectious. If the mentors are negative and overly critical, I think people become like them at some point, if only because that's the only way to communicate with them.
I think you have to be self-aware and just know when it's time to exit.
Our site has a whole Stackoverflow-based review and voting processes. So crowdfunding is a smaller part of it. Also, you don't submit a video. You just post the work and a preview if you see fit. The content can be of any type (doc, audio, video, images, HTML5 apps). It is worth understanding the site more before striking it down.
Transposing Clarke's law: sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from sincere bullshit. (And, of course, vice versa.)
I get that you're talking about people today, but we need to understand how the "MMR causes autism" sham started and propagated in order to prevent it happening again.

Most people who did not vaccinate their children were getting mixed messages from the media. A lot of English newspaper coverage was very unclear and there was plenty that was campaigning against MMR and for individual vaccinations.

You know that science understanding in the feneral population is low. You know that science reporting, even from reputable media outlets, is piss poor.

There's an extra factor here. Science reporting is terrible and that includes when the reporter has access to honest researchers telling the truth and a unified story. In the MMR case they had a crooked researcher telling them lies.

Andrew Wakefield had developed a single measles vaccine. For that to be sucessful he needed to stop people using the MMR vaccine. Andrew Wakefield was hired as an expert witness in a law case to prove that there was a causal link between MMR and disease. He was paid over £400,000 - and those are 1990s pounds.

His deceitful paper was published (although later retracted) in a well known respected peer-reviewed journal. Newspaper gave it coverage as a credible paper.

http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html

It's not that surprising to see people react in the way they did in the face of this determined crookery.
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In CloudHarmony's assessment of 49 cloud compute providers, Microsoft Azure was literally dead last in total downtime.

Number 49 out of 49 services.

If Verizon is offline for the entire time, maybe they'll be number 50.
I've started using FourSquare more and more recently for reviews. I just don't trust Yelp anymore.
Are audiophiles the most irrational consumers? They seem to be quite a bit more sillypants than the new agey alt-med crowd. Homeopathy is almost certainly just a fancy placebo, but the attempts I've read at putting a modern theory under homeopathy (e.g. water having state memory) actually sound less cuckoo than the stuff I see on audiophile sites.
That article isn't quite it either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Destiny#Controversy
Do you people not understand most of that infographic is a joke?
> The university has money to give out... The kind of research you can do...is not sexy enough.

Capitalism is like this, but I don't see why in this day and age there isn't sexy research that you could do just about anywhere. Research -> Patents -> Profit. Just like in most startups, if the revenue model is nothing to sell and just hope VCs keep you flush, it's not going to work out in most cases.

It sounds like the research simply isn't profitable so the lab fails. That is the definition of capitalism, and the same reason most startups fail.

We need to make good research easier to monetize and more profitable, not figure more ways to hand out grants. At least that's the Economic argument.
like you say, email verification can be hacked just as easily. best answer is to use some authenticated id like facebook/twitter. regardless, why would someone bother....their terms have all sorts of stuff about securits laws, signing consulting agreements with jet etc...they must be auditing anyone in the running for stock.

agree about the ui thought....flash? 1990's much?
There was a pretty painful, several-hour Azure outage recently, but 102 outages is over an order of magnitude higher than my Pingdom/Clicky uptime data for a few sites in US East last year.
Depends what country your from really whether or not that would hold up. Depends if the US is going to user the overreaching arm to sort things like this out.
Yes, BizApark is pretty nice. Years ago, when Amazon rolled out EC2s, one of their marketing people gave me a $1000 credit to play with AWS. Microsoft BizSpark is even more generous.
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Hey, I have done some work on my fork, and now it plays NYAN CAT (didn't have any better idea...)

http://genabitu.github.io/screentunes/

You have to calibrate it before it starts playing.
bioinformatics and machine learning
To me this marks a turning point in the maturity of bitcoin - major breaches may still be a cost of doing business, but end users can finally hope for some limited insulation from such failures.
Well that's a pretty sexist thing to say, and why even bring gender into this at all?
Maybe. The study does show that people that multi-task a lot are bad at multi-tasking. But it says that they didn't find a significant correlation between perceived and actual ability, while also assuming a negative correlation in part of their write-up. They also found that most people rate themselves 'above average', but that's not surprising.
Although slightly off topic, you are missing a key point when you bring up the idle time of passenger cars. Passenger travel is not uniformly distributed throughout the day. There are peak times where extremely high bandwidth (everyone gets in their car in the morning to go to work and then again to go home at ~8am and ~5pm respectively) is needed. While ride shares will be easier with autonomous cars, we still cannot reduce current fleets by the amount you are hinting at with your '95%' estimate.
With 'more' terminology, I always wonder what the original was. "More" than 1% secure is... not terribly specific. "Best ever" doesn't really mean it's good, just that it's always been worse.

As a side note, I'm not implicating Azure here, just a general context.
On the other hand, getting tenure is like winning the lottery, so maybe 8% is not that bad a probability.
> This sense of stubbornness, dignity and pride is a part of what gives him the personality necessary to embark on a project like this

It is always interesting to me, as I see it often in the software world, that people expect extraordinary people to behave like ordinary people.
It doesn't even have to be political. I had a parent supposedly "so angry that he could not meet me in person for fear of hurting me" because his daughter supposedly came home crying from school every day due to my class. He was just a pushover parent who was being utilized by a girl that did not want to be in physics class. She was even bragging to her friends about how she was going to get her dad to have her pulled from the class.
> is more proportional to ones's proximity to financial transactions

Wow! I had precisely the same realization years ago -- compensation is based in part on proximity to the transaction and the relationship seems exponential. That's why salespeople quite often make more than inventors, engineers, etc. and why the final commercializers of tech make orders of magnitude more than those that develop it (e.g. Zuckerberg vs. Tim Berners-Lee).

The other factor is equity ownership and other forms of leverage.

There's an old atheist joke: that we should teach the Bible in school so we'd have more atheists. A similar effect caused me to lose my faith in at least naive and right-leaning forms of libertarianism. I worked for a while in business consulting. The only thing that kept me from becoming a full-on socialist was then working for a while as a government contractor. Both business and government are sausage factories. You just don't want to know.

In the end I ended up cured of most forms of political fundamentalism. If there were quick easy sound-bite answers to these things, we would not be struggling with these same problems over and over again. They would be solved and we'd be walking around in some kind of sci-fi white toga world.
Check kibwen's post (my sibling). It's [dead] for some reason but it answers your question. I'll reproduce it here:

> Hm, an enum like `enum Color { R, O, Y, G, B, I, V }` is represented by a u8 at runtime (see for yourself here: http://is.gd/YkUY0l), which means that you're only saving a single byte in your `Piece` struct by doing that manual optimization. What was the magnitude of the speedup that you saw?
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Its most serious flaw is the assumption that everyone cares about money as much as he does.
That was a typo he meant, "because you do not see the value in what I am trying to protect." He corrected himself in a later email to the thread.
Glasnost?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost
Article raises a 21st century grammar question. If a sentence starts with the name of a computer command, and the invocation of the command is all lowercase, do you still capitalize the command name? Apparently the author thinks you don't, the man pages thinks you do, and Ken Thompson doesn't believe in capitalization at all.
Yes it is based on their work. MSRE was a successful experiment that gathered a lot of data. MSBR and DMSR were follow paper designs based on MSRE. We've combined elements of each. A major difference though is that we are not trying to be a breeder yet. Our first priority is to be very safe and lower cost than coal as soon as possible. We'll leave breeding and absolute minimal waste production for a second generation.
I'm not crazy!

Some text patterns (like, say, grep going through minified JS) make my monitor emit a weird noise I was having all the trouble in the world believing.

Now I know this tone actually exists
I'm confused. Do you mean you made x/3 as much as a software engineer? Average salary for a software engineer here is somewhere around 80,000 and I have not met a single teacher making even that.

Edit: Nevermind. As a software engineer you make three times a teacher's salary. I get it now.
I know what Markov Chains are (the probabilities for the next state of the chain is dependent only on the current state)

What I would prefer to know is why are they more useful than a more nuanced model with non-fixed probabilities, or memory of previous states? - given that these are not really harder to simulate.

It seems to me that Markov Chains are very often used as an inappropriate simplification.

Is there some mathematical advantage to using them?
I don't, if the question is forced. I tend to rewrite to avoid the question, though.
1. Linus is in a dominant position. Dominance doesn't invoke indignance when it's directed toward non-tribesman or by the alpha (the paper discusses this). What's interesting about this, is you can read whether someone perceives Linus to be an/the alpha based on whether they reject or accept his behavior. Further interesting, if they accept his behavior, they are likely self-associating with whichever tribe they consider Linus to be the alpha of (e.g., programmers, Linux, OSes, etc...).

2. Yes, I agree on a VC's concern of risks on the viability of a market. (See First Mover Advantage myth) I'm focusing more on the way it's communicated rather than the content or the why.

3. Yes, I think you're right that a VC is masking weakness if he asks this, as opposed to, "How are you different from X?" Though, IMO it's still an assertion of dominance, similar to a veil of bravado.
Reminds me of a German legend I recently read to my child, of Till Eulenspiegel. He traveled around in the middle ages and pranked people. Once a couple of professors challenged him to teach a horse to read. He immediately said "of course I can do it, but since horses are not very smart, it will probably take 20 years". His thinking was that before 20 years the horse might die, or the professors who challenged him might die, so he would be fine.
Nothing I said had anything to do with "HR" people.
$250k without a degree? In what area of CS? Finance?

What about for people outside of SF/NY/Finance?
If I am going to add a dependency for some shit like this, it better at least be exceptionally well optimized and have no bugs.
Fixed a bandwidth issue
I've never been able to find a way to be warm/positive/supportive/encouraging/empathic while also impressing on someone that their screwup might have cost the company six+ figures. Or worse - in some contexts, consequences can be kinetic.

Blood baths are not acceptable, but positivity is not always capable of effectively communicating consequences. Positivity works best when very little explaining of mistakes is required.

Sometimes an empathetic explanation that something should be better will suffice. Sometimes you encounter "It works, it's fine", and something more than empathy is required.
Don't think that "data science" is a solid career trajectory for the next 20-40 years. It's a fad, driven by "big data" and the presumption that a vast an invasive dossier on individuals translates to value through marketing.

The (sorry) data on that is thin.

And it would hardly be the first time that a hugely promising career field has gone bust.

Over my lifetime, I've seen the technical "hot jobs" go from:

⚫ Highway and civil engineering (1960s - early 1970s)

⚫ Nuclear engineering (1970s to March 28, 1979).

⚫ Defense and aerospace engineering (1980s through 1992).

⚫ Doctor / medicine (through the mid 1980s and the rise of HMOs / "managed healthcare")

⚫ Petroleum engineering (1960s - 1980, 1999 - present, big empty hole 1980 - 1999)

⚫ Genetic engineering (mostly false starts: late 1970s / early 1980s, again early 1990s, again post dot-com bust -- but it's never really launched)

⚫ "Data Scientist" (2009 - present)

⚫ "Webmaster" (1997 - 2001)

⚫ "Mobile Apps Developer" (2007 - ~ nowish, starting to fade)

Just because you're getting your time in the sun now doesn't mean the glow won't fade.
So you are essentially claiming a profit to date >> $5.6M.

There will be lots of parties interested in that information.
We expect to be around 1/8th the capital cost for the reactor itself. We plan to use off-the-shelf turbines&generators marketed for coal so those costs are pretty well known. You still have to add in the switch yard and transmission lines which we won't provide any advantage in. Overall, though we expect to come in below the cost of coal and natural gas including the cost of capital. One can always use the regulatory system to drive up costs like has been done in the US.
I'd love to get some feedback on the site and the distro.

I know we're not _quite_ at 1.0, but we wanted to see if people thought this would be useful. My personal take on why OpenStack really isn't as successful as it should be is because it's such a pain to install, even though it's pretty useful once it's up and going. I figured if we could make it really, really easy to install, and then allow people to grow their private clouds organically, a lot more people might want to try it out.
> Are all functions commented?

No.
I am quite familiar and in fact that paper concludes that jitter is not detectable in normal consumer equipment:

"About 25% of the listeners detected jitter when its size was 500ns. When it was 250ns, however, no listener could discriminate the sounds."

...

"Nishimura and Koizumi made attempts to measure actual jitter of various DA systems during reproduction of music signals. They could not detect any jitter larger than 3ns in their measurements."

...

"So far, actual jitter in consumer products seems to be too small to be detected at least for reproduction of music
signals"

...

CONCLUSION
"The threshold values seem to be sufficiently larger than the jitter actually observed in various consumer
products."
I'm paying for Microsoft Office for the first time ever (when I've used it in the past it has been provided by school or work) because I can use Office on non-Microsoft platforms now. I can start an Excel document on Windows 8, edit it later on RHEL, and view it on the go on my iPhone. It's the era of the cloud. That's how things should be. It doesn't matter what system I'm running.
If a home has a desktop or media PC, it could potentially run a router/gateway VM on platforms like Qubes, Genode, etc. The router VM would be isolated from desktop/media VMs, and would have the benefit of running a BSD/Linux x86 OS that has automated updates. New wifi standards can be supported by upgrading a USB or PCI WiFi adapter, rather than buying a new router.
Sure. But no dozens of mathematicians are stepping up to take the roughly half a year (and novice-like zen) he anticipates it requiring to understand the proof. So if he wants it to happen: do a lecture series, or programmatize the proof, or write an expanded walkthrough book series to explain it in less condensed form. Or just complain to new scientist and see if any new folks decide to pick up the torch, I guess.