skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those jam an aluminum block into the blade. I'm not sure what the equivalent would be for a car. Perhaps you could line the bottom of the car with rubber and then blow the wheels off. But there's plenty of problems with varying road surface and conditions and having a system that's never used.

But a decent brake system and tires can do 1G, which is pretty good. I suppose you could go to maybe 5G for a true emergency brake system (which would be pretty rough on the occupants, eyeballs-out), but it hardly seems worth the cost (in money, weight, maintenance, accidental triggering, etc.) compared to good sensors and the existing braking systems.
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> Saying, "You should let Apple buy you," in Athens would probably lead to a punch in the face fairly quickly

That is what I believe, and hope, would happen not only in Athens but everywhere. Although on a second thought, fanboys of any kind or perhaps most of the new generation would simply not care.

> anti-corporate attitude the largely leftist Greek population subscribes to

I believe this is not the case. For years Greeks would vote for right wing parties and the one left wing on the outside but really right wing in disguise one. I agree about the general anti-corporate attitude though.
You're saying it as if Elon was Genghis Khan. He's not conquering anything, he's just trying to solve two of the big problems of humanity, and he invites volunteers to help him. You don't believe in his mission? Don't join, and don't take places because you want to "build a resume" (it seems to be a recent trend now). It's not like he doesn't keep saying that Tesla and SpaceX are not ordinary jobs.
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Despite this, we still have a 2x19" mouse driven non-touch tablet.

disclaimer: I use Windows 8 at work.
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We're trying to use Udemy to teach a group to code in Providence, but can't seem to log in. Can anyone verify if its a problem on their side or our side.

Thanks for any help
"Once you internalize the many-worlds approach to programming, the implementation is pretty straightforward." are you serious? this is why people don't take Haskell seriously.
Hitching is way more common in Chile. People actually wait at toll booths to hop on buses or cars - sometimes with big baskets of donuts to sell. Despite what the article says, the only time I've hitched in the US was in a national park after rain unexpectedly started slamming down.
The more products they build and ship, the more cash they accumulate.
"Thought experiment: what happens next?"

I'll bite. :D

Publicly-accessible data from Dawn stops immediately. Specific data from the on-board components provided by the Netherlands, Italy and Germany are sanitized and given to the specific country. Everything else is classified under the umbrella of national security.

There is a hue and cry from many quarters regarding the blackout, bringing both the tinfoil hat brigade and legitimate scientists together.

The reaction of religious organizations run the full spectrum from warning of "work of the Devil" to those that welcome evidence of alien life as alternate forms of God's work.

The American media will ask the burning questions prompted by their internal research departments: what did the President know and when did he know it, and how will this affect the next episode of "Keeping up with the Kardashians"?

And the world will be subjected to a wave of horrible alien-themed movies, books and television programs quickly cobbled together to take advantage of the news.

North Korea will threaten the alien city with destruction if it doesn't acknowledge that Kim Jong Un is the ruler of Earth.

The price of oil will rise, inexplicably fall, and rise again.

The day-to-day lives of regular folks will otherwise be unaffected.
> the relevant question would be what a average person would have to pay in order to remove the malware and restore damages

And since the malware has already been removed at no cost, the actual, not just hypothetical, answer to that question is zero.
Perhaps not a checkbox but I've heard there's a "scale or 1 - 5" question about how well you think they will succeed. If they didn't expect founders to recommend people they didn't want they wouldn't ask whether they are unlikely to succeed.
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What makes it a strange comment? Aren't the two of you saying the same thing?
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I still did not have got enough time to test the new updates on windows but I sincerely hope they learned by now that what work for tablets does not necessary work on a desktop machines even if the screen size is roughly the same. Not everything is related to the screen size. I remember the full screen calculator on my laptop which was a clear example of the problem.
> Whatever number you look at, it's not that different from the major Spring releases, and Spring is a product even, not a spec.

Spring releases are every month. When there is a bug in a Java EE spec (like the WebSocket/CDI integration or the CDI annotation scanning in EE 7) you have to wait for the next major spec version to fix it. The spec has to be "perfect" for 3 to 4 years because there is no way to fix it.
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Canadian banks commonly restrict passwords to 6 characters in length
example: http://imgur.com/BiURTED
I'll have to admit enums are where I gave up the first time I read the Rust tutorial. They seem almost completely unrelated to enums in C and other languages.
Last time I hitchhiked, the driver was the Spain public enemy no.1. Escaped from jail a few days before, using that soap pistol trick, is still on the run, more than 30 years after.

https://www.google.es/search?q=rafael+bueno+latorre

Uh, never more.
Thanks. I'm honestly starting to feel like a crazy person for thinking that men and women should be equal. The fact that I have to get behind a VPN and make a throwaway account to express that I think equality is good and positive-discrimination is bad is upsetting.
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He said he plans to die on Mars ("just not on landing"). I guess he plans to do it being happy that the civilization is no longer facing imminent collapse because of energy and climate problems, and that humans are multiplanetary species.
Similar to how our sensation (or illusion) of consciousness/agency may be emergent phenomena of our brain cell network undergoing chemical reactions?
Only anecdotal. I think you are correct, the early adopters were confident travellers.

However the brand is so well known that ordinary people are talking about it, in my observations. Combined with cheap air travel it is magnifying tourism in my circles.
It's sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. If you take a car everywhere and barely move then by the time you hit 65 you will be in pain all the time and won't be self-sufficient. If you are constantly active you will usually have much better health outcomes and mobility later in life.

An article about how walking speed predicts life expectancy: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/walking-speed-surv...
> Apple philosophically isn't interested in making money.

If that were true, why not lower their prices, thereby making their products affordable to even more people? With their huge margins they could certainly do it and still remain solvent or even profitable.

Apple is, at a very fundamental level, not different than every other successful corporation: they are machines for producing profit. Anything else they happen to produce--products, services, jobs, pollution--is a by-product of that primary function.
Can anyone point to a deal where liquidation prefs are exercised? Because any buyer would have to be crazy to let those stay in place. (If you're buying for a price that the liquidation kicks in, then it's not a giant success and there are usually a dearth of options for the investors so they'd rather cave on the liquidation prefs than no deal.)

It used to be that they were terms for throwaway during acquisition, but perhaps things have changed.
If you have time outside of work, can you build a web app that does something for you and see how it goes, and how you like it?
I have not encountered this age-ism that you speak of, especially not against someone in their mid 30's. So, you should probably stop worrying about that.

Skill-wise if you've done a bootcamp and you feel comfortable coding then do a couple of example projects to put on your Github and get involved with an open-source project or two to make some contributions where hiring managers can see that you are actively coding. In this market, that should get you far enough. And don't be afraid to apply for positions you feel under-qualified for, because a lot of hiring involves looking for someone who is capable and able to ramp up skills as needed rather than relying on a very exacting skill history (and anyone who relies on such is probably doing it wrong anyways). You miss all the chances that you don't take!
If you used different HTTP methods, you'd already know which one to use, and don't need the action parameter. So the usage of the "action" parameter usually implies that that requests are all the same method. And if we don't want to violate the HTTP standard, that method must be neither GET/HEAD, nor PUT nor DELETE (as surely some actions are non-idempotent).

In other words, an action parameter which is actually used and which doesn't violate the HTTP standard, well, that almost certainly means that all requests are POST requests.

However, if all requests are POST, no matter if they are side-effect-free or not, no matter if they are idempotent or not, then this is not very REST-like.

Note that it is not important whether you think this argument does or doesn't holds for your particular API. My point is that this whole judgement is solely about HTTP methods, and has nothing to do with URLs being opaque.
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An acquaintance who works for one of Boeing's manufacturing plants told me of an encounter he witnessed between a manager and another employee regarding how hard they were being worked. The manager told the employee, in all sincerity, that "if Boeing wanted them to have a family they would have been issued one."
Here's a laundry list of problems with EU:

http://dealingwithcreationisminastronomy.blogspot.ch/p/chall...

(At a cursory glance it looks valid, despite the domain name.)
The Music experience. It's superficial, and it's imprinting in younger generations that music is just another commodity.
I'm not making a Luddite statement, just saying that listening to music by proxy without the physical or digital experience of owning the music itself is part of a general depreciation of music making.
> the desktop your experience is going to be degraded by sacrifices made for mobile

Or you can view it as mobile being enhanced by commonality of OS with one found on the desktop. If the same UI works in both environments you can see it as harmful influence of mobile on the desktop or you can see it as Microsoft not forcing you to buy and carry around two devices where one would suffice.

Disclaimer - I love my W8 transformer.
This is great!

I created http://sqlteaching.com , so it's wonderful to see Khan Academy's take. If anyone from KA would like to chat with me about SQL tutorials or anything else in general, feel free to reach out- rhc2104@columbia.edu
Great write-up! (And great work).

A little surprised there's no mention of looking at the implementation (src/grammar/parswr-larl.y, eg line 308) -- perhaps in the next installment?
> These days car ownership is so common

Yup, that's why Uber can't find investors anymore.

> that you have to be young and crazy, desperately poor, or criminal to hitch hike, and drivers know that.

Obviously it just needs an app with driver/hitcher ratings. "Out of my last 10 passengers, 9 have reported in as Not Murdered! You can feel safe riding with me and my 90% survival rate."

I'd gladly pick up pre-verified people for free. Plus, en masse, it would knock a few tens of billions off other transportation startup valuations just for the fun of it.
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in x86, it's even worse - there are microcode translators, with the microcode running on special small ALUs, with their own code caches.
A Rust enum does does carry a numeric value, if it doesn't contain any other data (playpen link: http://is.gd/HwGajU)

enum Foo {
Bar,
Baz,
Quux,
Zot = -1
}

fn main() {
println!("{} {} {} {}", Foo::Bar as i32, Foo::Baz as i32, Foo::Quux as i32, Foo::Zot as i32);
}

A Rust enum is pretty much an exact combination of a C enum and union. If it doesn't carry any extra data, then it works just like an enum; if it does carry extra data, it works like a tagged union.
Except it will never be cheaper than public transportation. If public transportation is available, they will take public transportation. If public transportation is not available, neither will be driverless taxis.
One of the nice things about this approach is that it's broadly applicable to almost anything pre-scheduled. We use similar optimizations for matching drivers with jobs that need doing, and for optimizing routes across our system.
Congrats guys, love the product!
packaging in the form of containers

I don't really see that. Containers have mostly ingrained themselves into application deployment, but the trends in GNU/Linux packaging seem to be heading toward compressed bundles (combined with some form of access control like AppArmor or POSIX caps to get some form of sandboxing and resource isolation). At least that's what Ubuntu Snappy seems to be. This is similar to Klik, Autopackage, 0install, OS X bundles and even the Windows way of stuffing your DLLs into a single directory namespace (though with a common format and infrastructure).

Nix and Guix are in leagues of their own that have nothing to do with containers specifically.

Everyone else is sticking to the same conventional system package managers and I don't see that changing. The systemd developers are proposing their own odd scheme based on btrfs volumes that is still in its very early stages.
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I don't have much to say on hitchhiking itself, but it strikes me as another manifestation of the climate of fear we have in the US these days - violent crime of all sorts is way down, but we act far more afraid than we did even when it was much higher. To the point that our paranoia hurts us more than the crime did.

Even worse is how it can be self-perpetuating in situations like this - because hitching is so stigmatized, much fewer normal people are doing it on both sides, making the chances of getting somebody crazy higher.
@castratikron is right: scale matters. The local government doesn't care if I have a small barbecue, but if I set my own house on fire, it's a problem for them. Ultimately an economy depends on money flowing around; it has no intrinsic value, its economic significance lies in the productive assets left behind in its passing: a factory, an app, a road.

Leaving aside the fact that the economy is booming for wealthy companies like Apple, how Apple 'feels' is irrelevant. You're anthropomorphizing. It's a corporation, it doesn't feel anything (like for example, shame or compassion, emotions which can govern human behavior even without explicit regulation). Corporations have to be operated in the public interest---that's their whole original premise, though it seems most people have forgotten it.
>The class attorneys will be awarded $4 million

I think you are drastically underestimating this. $4M likely won't cover the bill for making copies of the discovery. Firms in similarly underwhelming class action cases have received $50M-$100M.
The buyer shouldn't care if they are in place or not. In many ways it is better for the buyer because they know the employees didn't get a payout. Now the employees are more likely to stay on with the buyer instead of "calling in rich".
If Apple's cash is repatriated to the US it is subject to tax. Everyone agrees on that.

However Apple has found a way to repatriate the money without paying tax whilst still claiming its money is offshore.

Look up 'Braeburn Hedge Fund' based in Nevada. They manage Apple's money by way of shell corporations and invest the cash in US stocks, bonds and other financial instruments.

The law should be tightened so that this kind of scenario is not allowed. Tricky to do but surely some clever lawyer can figure it out.
Freakonomics did a great podcast about this a few years ago as well:

http://freakonomics.com/2011/10/10/where-have-all-the-hitchh...
while arguing against your self is nice practice - diarrhea is just... you know... really messy. I hope you get well soon. :)
People get pretty excited every time physicists talk about information. The bottom line is that information manipulation is just Math, viewed by a different angle.

All that talk about the Universe being computable is just the old awe about physics being explainable. Different words, but the same meaning. None of that implies a computer simulation.
Did you actually read the article they are using as a reference for the 0.04 figure? http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2009/april/highwayserial_040...
I hope he reads the Declaration of Independence for 72 hours.
Is it meant to serve that goal, or is it just the case that in the past, it did serve that goal? Now that it seems nonexistent, maybe we need to provide some other means to achieve the same end?
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> What happens next depends on if there are living aliens there, or just an old city.

But, when that mission arrives to inspect the lights, couldn't we expect that contact with alien technology, even if it is just an alien laser, to profoundly change our science?
This was posted sometime ago and I really enjoyed : http://sqlbolt.com/?rp
I will definitely check out Khan's academy course as well!
I see what point you are trying to make and would just say I'm not worried about plugging these things into a drone delivering parcels while rerouting through difficult weather.

However, I still don't see why you would want to take it beyond that. I imagine that some people do in fact want to put in "the Emotion Chip," and I still have the same question; why? I don't think human desire is the same as goal setting or that facial recognition is the same as interest. That's good programming, what I'm talking about is something different.
Which reminds me of this RMS classic:

http://www.art.net/Studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...

I can't say I disagree with RMS. Having a child is really nothing special. Every other person on the planet does that. And while I respect that for many parents, having their own kid is the best moment of their lives, I think RMS is right to point out that except said parents, no one else cares. It's a huge problem on social media now; one of the most annoying things is people continuously spamming everyone with photos of their newborns.
I do not typically read all the references in addition to the article. Re-reading the original article, I don't know why I thought the 0.04 number was a California number.

Still, rate per capita is useful for identifying "what are our top problems" but potentially very misleading for evaluating "how risky is this activity I am thinking about engaging in"
I would call it "honesty", and it's very refreshing that they not only acknowledge the problem but offer a solution. Making fun of them for this is punishing good behavior and providing ammo to any number of marketing people at MS who would rather the company never admit that anything is wrong, ever.
FWIW, the site is blocked in Russia, though the most regular proxy works around it just fine, yet.

I wonder what have the author written to trigger the censorship filter.

The halter of censorship is pressing ever stronger. Пора валить :(
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Fantastic stuff. I love the example this sets.
Cheers. Learned a fair amount in building it (about underwater cabling), so feel free to ask if there's anything you'd like to know.
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That could be true... assuming that the government is able to adopt innovations and cost saving measures across all of their public transit systems fast enough to keep up with price drops from private industry.

I suspect that will not be the case. While public transportation may catch up on price (if the political will exists to push it there), I do think there will be a period of time where hailing a self driving car will be cheaper than some or most public transit options.
Putting people temporarily out of work is not a reason to not move society forward.

I do not see where I suggested that.
Right, because they're unions. :)

Just go back to that tutorial with your C hat on and substitute the word "union" for "enum" and I promise it will all make sense. All your intuition about C unions will cross over just fine, and the new Rust rules (they're tagged at runtime and the compiler enforces that you can only ever use fields of a runtype-checked subtype) are straightforward extensions.

Likewise the linked blog post begins, comfortingly, with "Traits are interfaces". Once you get beyond the new jargon, you find it wraps a concept which is 95% compatible with something you've been using for years.

That the Rust team seems to find no value in this kind of naming, preferring the excess precision that comes with Create-Your-Own-Name, is what I was calling "pretentious jargon" in a previous post in the thread. It's really not that bad (I mean really, they're just names), but it doesn't speak well to where the designers heads were when they invented this stuff.

Really, that's what's starting to creep my out about Rust. Just like C++ 30 years ago, it seems like Rust has caught itself up in an internal rush (among its rock-star language nerd designers) for Masterpiece Status and sort of forgotten the goal of creating a practical tool for working programmers... At some point in the near future I have to wonder if we're going to start seeing blog posts about choosing a "sane subset" of Rust with which to develop software.
Wow, KA hits another one in the outfield!

The audio that highlights part of the code is awesome (much better than watching a passive video), and the fact that everything can be executed in real time is awesome. Good job!
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The second problem would be clearer if we knew how much scratch space we had. Is it zero? Is it O(1)? Is it O(n)?
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default method implementations makes traits behave like mixins, it's very useful (and it is a form of code reuse).
But now you've got a great story to tell! Think of how many more you could get.
Thanks for the link. Checking it out now.

Anyway, after around 5 to 10 hours of investigative reading on EU, it seems quite worthy to think about/ follow up on.

At the minimum it's become quite apparent that the Astronomical Standard Model has plenty of spots which are expressed as truth, when there are real problems with observation. I'm not even claiming EU is going to better, but staunch supporters do highlight some interesting inconsistencies and seemingly misguided judgements of modern astronomers. That's not to say their own pet theories are bound to be better though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524516
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Wyoming just criminalized citizen science