skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take cabs and cars everyday in Manhattan. It is as hard or harder to get a yellow cab than it has been in the 25 years I have lived in the city. My routine goes like this; if I can't get a cab in 10 minutes, I get an Uber. I end up taking Uber a lot more than I would like but that is just how it is. I am not only trying during rush hour and rain storms. Even in "light" volume hours getting a medallion cab is not easy. The providers that have been hurt the most by Uber are the old gypsy cab companies. These were TLC "black cars", usually beat up old town cars that were dispatched by radio. Their system of radios and dispatchers has been decimated by Uber. The drivers of those cars have in large part become Uber drivers.
As a Tesla enthusiast, would you buy a Tesla that wasn't capable of breaking the speed limit? Perhaps one that couldn't ever under any circumstances move faster than 70mph? That doesn't require fancy tech. It could be done today in an instant.

That's where I see the real sticking point for automation. Driving isn't about getting from A to B, nor is safety the top priority. If it were, there wouldn't be such a thing as a V-8 (or whatever the electric equivalent is). I find it very ironic that a performance car like the Tesla might promote "the path to full car automation". You think the gun debate is tricky? Try telling people they cannot do 51 in a 50 anymore.
That's a good question. He is under the impression that it's actually scanning them, but I honestly don't know (I am aware that the mapping data would be much easier to accomplish).
More like a dog to gently nudge the pilot if he is relying on a system that isn't working. Most issues I've read about happened when the systems either weren't engaged properly or automatically disengaged because their operating parameters weren't met anymore, suddenly forcing the pilots to take control.

Example Air France 447, where (presumably) the airspeed sensors where blocked by ice, which lead to the autopilot to disengage. There is also the theory that the pilots then made some of their mistakes based on the belief that the avionics would stop them from bringing the plane in an unsafe state and didn't realize that the system wasn't able to do so with missing information. (I hope I'm presenting this correctly, but that's what I remember reading afterwards)

There is also the training aspect: if a system takes care of something 99,9% of the time, the pilot is less experienced in the 0,1% where it doesn't. There is a reason the safest airline pilots often fly way smaller aircraft as a hobby and get some instinct for manual flying there.
The cameras can and do detect if a sign isn't stationary, etc.

For speed limits, the obvious technical problem is knowing when they end, if they apply to your road, or maybe a parallel road or an off-ramp, which is mostly easy for a human to tell, but much harder for a camera.

Even though the camera may be better on average processing all this information than the average human driver, it's an unanswered question, from a legal point of view, who's responsible when the camera is wrong.

Volvo has recently taking a stand proclaiming legal responsibility, but it remains to be seen if that's even a possibility in many nations.
I use rust with ios, and my bridging header just includes a single C header file. I don't see how it's any more complicated than using a C library.
It's a shame. HTML was originally meant to be quite device unaware, and display fine on toasters.
Show HN: VexFlow, a pure-JavaScript music notation and guitar tab renderer
Unless it becomes a bullet point on someone's feature list.
Iproute2 cheatsheet
Entrepreneur donates $1M to fight anti-terror law C-51
I may be wrong, but I think that they removed the "Tech Package" option (offered at initial purchase) and now instead offer the "Auto-Pilot Features" option.

I'm not sure if they install the hardware sensors regardless & only control access via software, though, but I'd be curious about this for sure. Anyone know?

IIRC, when the Auto-Pilot hardware/option was originally released the "Tech Package" was a pre-req to buying the "Auto-Pilot" option.
Meta-analysis answers all of the questsions, one can't be sure before one is done.
With the regular cruise control you still have to stay engaged with the road. Look at the video a few comments up. That situation is a nightmare - empty seemingly absolutely safe road, plenty of glowing digital distractions, a smooth quiet ride, warm and comfy, and relaxing music. That car is a rolling relaxation pod. I don't know if I have enough willpower in that situation to not become distracted or fall asleep.
"If a business model wouldn’t work if users had to opt in, it deserves to fail." (last line of the article)

Since the invisible hand of the free internet appears to be arthritic, a more visible hand (fist?) is necessary. And we have it in the way of request blockers such as uBlock Origin, wich can compleltely block Facebook's and Google's tracking in their tracks. As more and more people turn to subversive solutions such as privacy oriented request blockers and ad blockers, we may finally turn things around.

My hope is on an open source browser that is entirely privacy oriented, easy to use and adopt by non-technical users.
Interesting that while he's in the left lane the dashboard seems to be warning of a close object to the rear-left (the wall of the lane).
The map is only the start. No map can accommodate all the local changes and rules (small/temp construction zones) nor will local authorities always forward minor changes (school zones).
Not yet an entrepreneur (I guess I started my freelance business..), but I feel there are certainly lessons to learn from working at a large company.

I mean, my CEO is an entrepreneur, so it seems that even just by watching some of that person's decisions and how it trickles through the company, I can learn what to do or not to do when I am in his position someday.

But really the people that we want answering this may be too busy running companies to comment on HN.
They intend for it to only be used in countries with slower internet. You can download the apk from http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/facebook-2/lite/ and it will work.
An interesting choice would be to retroactively undo the effects of the single click if a second one was detected.
> You: The city is stealing my car without probable cause in an attempt to extort money from me.

> City DA: No they're not.

> What's your recourse here?

File a civil lawsuit for the violation of Constitutional rights, to wit, the right against being deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process.

Report to the State and federal government for potential public civil and criminal action by those governments against the local government/officials involved.

Work to organize members of the public for political action against the responsible local government/officials.

Etc.

> Concepts like this one, as well as things like civil asset forfeiture, are so clearly in direct violation of the Constitution

Civil asset forfeiture in general is not in direct violation of the Constitution. There may be a valid argument that some of the ways it is currently employed are in violation of the Constitution, though even that is a weaker case than that some of the ways it is employed are just bad policy.

> We still have laws (Constitutional and common), and Peabody, Minnesota doesn't have the right to do things like put all the gay residents to death by legislative fiat & judicial compliance; If you found this occurring, you wouldn't need to file a lawsuit alleging that a constitutional overreach has been committed and demanding merely that the policy cease to be in effect. Instead, you would get some overriding authority, like the state police or the FBI, to run in with SWAT teams and arrest and prosecute every last person peripherally attached to the Peabody legislature or judiciary or law enforcement. For murder.

Or, not. Law enforcement agencies have the power to enforce the laws, but they generally have no obligation to enforce them, and quite often real and significant violations are fought with civil lawsuits by those affected rather than direct intervention and criminal prosecution by enforcement agencies. Even in cases where the general problem is one that enforcement agencies are interested in -- the civil rights movement provides numerous examples, where all kinds of serious violations by local and state officials were addressed, some by higher (particularly federal) law enforcement action, some by private civil lawsuits, some by political mobilizing and action, and many by combinations of those methods.
They very well may be doing the latter as well, but Tesla has specifically said that their camera reads the speed from road signs[1]

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/dual-motor-model-s-and-autop...
Edit: My initial comment was incorrect, corrected version below.

Chrome Sync encrypts sync data on the client. By default the encryption passphrase is your Google Account password. This allows Google to read the data, as described here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en

However, you can set a separate Chrome Sync encryption passphrase in settings. This second passphrase is never sent to Google at all and allows you to use Chrome Sync without Google reading the data. It should be obvious why this is not the default, as requiring a second passphrase is a very significant decrease in usability, but it's there if you want it.
I didn't say it precluded the other, Just that as more sites have a proper mobile view scaling becomes less necessary.
No need for theories we know very well what happened there in that flight and its basically the copilots who crashed a perfectly fly worthy planed.
It's a temporary problem though. Speed limits are set to try and keep people safe, by enforcing a maximum speed. Once computers drive the cars, the speed limit can be cranked up because reaction time goes up drastically and distracted drivers are nonexistent. I expect to see lots of changes in driving laws once automation takes over for exactly this reason.
Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures'
While companies like Uber and Airbnb cut through regulations that create artificial scarcity, they also cut through protective regulations.
There is more to being a pilot than the stick-and-rudder of flying the plane. Judgment calls such as whether to attempt a landing under less-than-ideal conditions are far more important.
>While planes have become so, so, so much safer because of all this automation, pilots uncertainty regarding autopilot functioning is a major concern nowadays, and the reason for several accidents.

If % of accidents caused by pilot interference on a working system > % of accidents caused by system malfunctioning and pilot ignoring it: people will still be against not allowing pilots to interfere. Even when it causes more accidents...

There's something about humans trusting humans more than machines that I don't fully understand. Systems can make mistakes but the amount of human mistakes is often exponentially greater to a degree of absurdity that humans are even trusted at all and yet people will side with the human over the machine.

Humans will always want human oversight - even when that oversight does more harm than good once automation reaches a certain threshold...

Special note: I'm not aware of avionics and the data on pilot interference w/ the system vs failure of pilot to intervene. So maybe this example doesn't hold very well for avionics...
It occurs to me that perhaps I should have linked to the source, https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-atom, or perhaps our docs instead: https://floobits.com/help/plugins/atom.

The easiest way to try it out is to install it via the package manager.
i like forward to every article colah writes - the way he explained backpropagation a few weeks ago was really interesting - never thought about it that way but was very helpful!
I stand corrected, I assumed that you could as you can rename what Siri calls you. Learn something new every day.
Reads like a spiritual predecessor to Facebook's Haystack: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...
This happens in LA already a fair amount in my experience. It's perfect for many productions where instead of picking up gear across town and sending a PA back and forth. The only down side is the repeatability and consistency that is valuable with using the same people who know where exactly to go and how to navigate the sometimes odd places.
When I used to train martial arts seriously, I often would wake up finding myself executing a joint lock on my pillow or something similar. I had to move my bed away from the wall to stop me from punching holes in it. I was always terrified that I would injure my girlfriend at the time, but somehow I seemed to limit myself to inanimate objects. I stopped training about 10 years ago and haven't had a problem since. Other people have told me it is actually quite common.
Then how is this scenario possible:

Set up Google account with password "abc" on PC1, use chrome, set bookmark.

Go to PC2, select "reset password" and reset Google account password to "123". Login to chrome with "123". The bookmark from before appears.
I like to always use incognito browsing sessions when logging into Facebook. At some point I cleared all my cookies too.

I remember a while back an article was posted about how to uniquely identify users without cookies though. I don't recall the exact method though, or if in this scenario it would require javascript and not just a link to a like button.
Any idea how related this might be to Wix sites getting de-indexed?[1]

http://searchengineland.com/google-working-on-fixing-problem...
The Company Determined to Fix Nuclear Energy [video]
I wouldn't be surprised. If I were to do it, I would set up a false "domain registar" page and log all searches and review them and register the domains of unique domains in order to block the original searcher in order to sell them it. It's kind of a grimy thing to do.
This study says standup desks are no good, you are not likely to be any more active than the people in the study just because you are not sitting.

The authors specifically say this in the press release in case you can't see it from the study

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_476860_en.ht...

Dr Melvyn Hillsdon -
"The results cast doubt on the benefits of sit-stand work stations, which employers are increasingly providing to promote healthy working environments."

I too don't like the result but the study is pretty clear.

How this study could contradict a large body of evidence to the contrary I can only see as it being a

1. Badly done study.

2. Blue collar vs White collar
Could you please take a 3 questions survey(
And, to be fair, the reason the FDA came into existence was because companies used to sell things that would seriously injure or kill you, and because there were no regulations they wouldn't advise you of the risks. Caveat Emptor doesn't help you if you have no way to become informed in the first place.
This is so clearly a fake demonstration. Watch the way the "automation" follows the probe car. It's so clearly leading it on and the woman is just going through an act.
Nobody prevented me from having Illumina sequence my genome (they gave me a hard drive with all the files along with medical interpretation).

The difference is that Illumina did things legally (including hiring clinical genetics analysts who pored over the details and made a number of calls about what was significant).

23&Me did not. They were doing something that they would have known was illegal. The FDA explained this to them, and 23&Me blew them off. Failing to respond to an accusation from the government is an amateur move and 23&Me deserved what they got. They only went back and negotiated afterwards.

You're complaining the government was restricting your freedoms but we have more than adequate evidence that 23&Me was acting irresponsibly.
> I am always getting the turn signal and windshield wipers mixed up

That happens even between cars that drive on the same side. It seems different car manufacturers have different standards as to where the turn signal and windshield wiper should be.
Who cares about speeding when you have all the time in the world.
It's more likely to be cranked down though, because that's more efficient and people might be less frustrated with slow driving if they can kill time on their phones during the drive.
Good explanation. I don't know if it'd be worthwhile to track logged-out users though.

Lumping it in with the same data that came from the last logged-in user would make the data less valuable, because there's far less of a guarantee of which user the data was collected from (imagine people using Facebook on a library computer, then logging out and 20 more people using the computer before someone else logs in).

I'm sure there'd be some use for the data though, so I'm sure Facebook will gather it if they don't already have plans to. They could just earmark it with the probability that it applies to the given user.

Or just lump it all together as anonymous data, I'm sure there's value in that too.
Er, do you think that's all spelled out in Tesla's privacy policy?
You either have intelligence, and creativity, and uncertainty, and accidents. Or you have computers and rigid logic.

Why does it have to be such a strict dichotomy? What are the specific tradeoffs being made between creativity and rigid logic? Is there really no way to pick something in the middle?

The interesting thing there is, when a space rocket malfunctions, when a car wrecks, or the stock market goes crazy... and it's a computer involved, it's always human error at the end of it. And, thus, intelligence that caused the problem.

Individual humans aren't always at the end of it. Sometimes you can trace the problem further, to the incentives applied to the human by some larger organization, society or system. Are human organizations also intelligent?

I think we're still very far away from a definition of "intelligence" that would let us answer all these questions. It's not clear that current AI research is bringing us any closer to that definition.
There are a lot of rules of conduct cab drivers are required by law to follow in Chicago. Stuff like, they can't harass you for cash if you want to pay with a credit card.

You can't really complain about general rudeness, but most usually the really rude behavior breaks at least a couple rules.
Yup, it takes a reference measurement of your upright posture. You should see your webcam indicator light flash. Slouchy then uses this reference to periodically check for slouching.

Please note that some Mac cameras require time to "warm up", so if yours is one of these then check slouchy.ini for a camera_delay config option.
Is it also possible that the user be tracked or is being tracked based on the machine used to access the internet (maybe over time for one to one mapping of user to machine)? Just curious.
Yukon Moose Hunting
Queue the James Bond movie sub plot where an evil villain takes control of his tesla/whatever autonomous car and he has to use a combination of hacker shell commands and sheer brute strength to save both him self and bond girl he was seducing while the car chauffeured him back to his luxury hotel suite...
Some problems are less temporary. The required energy over distance goes up as well, thus limiting your action radius. Furthermore, the amount of road noise produced rises as well, which is another important limiting factor in high-density areas.
She's barely 49% confident. I understand she doesn't want to enjoy a demo effect in a moving vehicle with 2 guests but it's a bit disturbing to see her hands constantly willing to grab the wheel.
Hence "everyday applications."
I am convinced that the people who do these shootings do so because they have an ego that cannot cope with their societal impotence.

That is, they think they should be more liked, more powerful, be able to get girls, be in charge of things, free from criticism, unable to be bullied (which is reasonable) etc... but aren't for any given reason.

So their recourse is to prove to everyone how powerful they are by shooting them up. The worst part is, it is pretty powerful and it destroys communities, which is what they want. They want to be able to say they destroyed a community because that's how they are proving their power.

I don't see any solution to this. Preventing them from getting access to the tools that could empower that could help but is really hard to do, especially in the US, because banning guns or whatever likely wouldn't work 100% of the time. If they are smart and dedicated enough they will find a way to get/make bombs and guns.

So I see no real solution here.
"Once computers drive the cars, the speed limit can be cranked up because reaction time goes up drastically and distracted drivers are nonexistent."

That doesn't mesh with areas where robots have already taken over. The robots moving freight around shipping terminals don't move any faster than humans driving trucks. The robots I see delivering drugs in hospitals don't move faster than the nurses.

Speed limits aren't just about the cars. Noise and pedestrian safety are big factors. There is no technology yet that can allow a robot to see around blind corners. They may have a 1/4second faster reaction time, but that won't mean they could be trusted move much faster towards a crosswalk that might see a bike cross at any second.
That's a fully adequate description of Github to a lay audience.
>> Starting this month, Facebook will use them to track your visit to every Web page that displays the buttons—even if you don’t click on anything.

This is why I have had everything from facebook.com or fbcdn blocked on any sire other than facebook.com for some time.
Parallel parking is not complex or difficult. But if you're out of practice it's slow and annoying to fidget your position. It won't be in your muscle memory, and it's nice to push a button and not deal with tight navigation.
Their disclaimer said:
The genotyping services of 23andMe are performed in LabCorp’s CLIA-certified laboratory. The tests have not been cleared or approved by the FDA but have been analytically validated according to CLIA standards. The information on this page is intended for research and educational purposes only, and is not for diagnostic use.
Take the job. Spend 30-60 minutes per day on marketing activities before or after work.
> Even though the camera may be better on average processing all this information than the average human driver, it's an unanswered question, from a legal point of view, who's responsible when the camera is wrong.

There may be some jurisdictions where this is the case, but in most I'm familiar with it is fairly well settled that the human driver of a car is legally at fault if the car is driven in violation of the law, and the human driver of the car is also legally responsible for assuring that all mechanical features of the car are maintained so as to not interfere with the human drivers ability to assure that the car is driven in accordance with the law.

(In many jurisdictions, the manufacturer may have liability for accidents and injury due to manufacturing defects, but that doesn't generally absolve the driver for being responsible for driving consistently with the law.)
Over the years I've posted snippets of stories from my life in the Yukon.

I'm a Software Engineer by day, and learning to be an outdoorsmen on the weekends.

Many people expressed interest in the ability the North provides to hunt your own local, organic meat, and wanted to hear more about my experiences as a newbie hunter.

Here's a writeup of my first hunting experience in the North, I'd love to hear what you think.
Domain registration for edwardsnowden.com
This title has at least two valid semantic interpretations.
I'm mildly disappointed.

<bad assumption redacted>

I'd argue that Facebook's moves create wealth, and are better for people in the long run. The opt-out policy allows this type of system to exist.