skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I wasn't going any faster than the guy ahead of me" isn't a defense. But, should an accident happen and things wind up in a courtroom, "The car picked the speed" is a very good argument for joint liability (ie "it's partly Tesla's fault").

FYI, most every manufacturer of moving vehicles set their speedometers slightly high. On motorcycles it can be as much as 10%. This is to avoid any accusation that any inaccuracies in their product (ie changing tire diameter) might result in someone going faster than indicated.
Gridnik [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/territorystudio/status/65433800586446438...
Just to clarify, they found you via a 'Who wants to be hired?' post, not a 'Who is hiring?' post?
Public transit is a system. Uber will never put the subway out of business, but an Uber bus or other uber services could well nip at peripheral bus lines and make them uneconomic to operate.

This ultimately results in less feeder traffic for the subway, higher subsidy requirements and is overall a bad thing for the system.

Über's valuation is all about the market clout they are building. The fantasies of robot cabs are just a veneer.
It's unfortunate we have to be tracked so much to use the services, but I guess if it's not free then we're the product; This site does a pretty good job of providing the tl;dr of TOS https://tosdr.org/

Sometimes I feel like ignorance is bliss though, especially with how much information these popular services actually collect from us
Honest curiosity: What do you think you'll get out of it? A big chunk of it seems to be about definition. A lot of it hinges on knowing more about consciousness (and state-of-the-art seems to be essentially nil on that topic - the position that consciousness is magic is still taken seriously). There's discussions about the "duality" between hardware and software: while certainly a rich area to make arguments, I'm not sure it's really impactful or interesting.

There seems to be little to no practical concerns addressed. Which is fine - chasing things just because they're intriguing shouldn't be looked down on. I'm just wondering if there's more to it, something that'd impact people writing software (even for fun) or designing computers.
A solution for this is a JS bookmarklet that enables zooming:

javascript:document.querySelector('meta%5Bname=viewport%5D').setAttribute('content','width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=10.0,user-scalable=1');

I keep this on my bookmarks bar and use it most often to zoom in on text to read it better.
When dispensing medical advice that's this actionable, not well known, and promising miracles, please link to the research. If someone sees this and follows your advice to the exclusion of conventional treatment, and you're wrong, that would be very bad.

Downvoted.
Just to clarify, you were found via a 'Who wants to be hired?' post, not a 'Who is hiring?' post?
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It was not intended to be pedantry, though you are within your rights to see it as such. If you don't perceive a central bank with an interest in legitimizing a field of human endeavor for it's own interests as wrong.
As other articles have noted, there are many other fields that may be more deserving of a prize.
Given the economic damage that the recipients of the prize have caused, can we really say that it advances human knowledge in any other way than identifying what is wrong?

That is a very different impact than the majority of the other awards.

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Willpower is fake as shit. You'll note it isn't mentioned in the article body. Executive function is a thing, but it isn't what people refer to when they talk about willpower. Then again, usually people talk about willpower to establish a hierarchy between people who do a thing, and people who don't do a thing.
I've got sexsomnia. Unlike sleepwalking I'm not at much risk for injuring myself, but interactions with bed partners are less than ideal. It's led to some uncomfortable situations, particularly when I was younger and didn't know it was an issue. Thankfully low dose benzodiazepines knock it down.
I know what you mean! Everyone told me that I'd have trouble shifting gears with my left hand, but that wasn't a problem at all. The wipers, however, went on every time I turned.
I have to agree, even Intuit is in the game. Unless Square has a unique payment processing system that is some how oh so better than the rest of the processing world, there is nothing much here.
The car should flash the lights and scream "inattentive driver" to all around. After a minute that scream should become "Call police, my driver has fallen asleep" and the car should autopark at the local copshop to give a statement against its owner.

In all seriousness, this system to monitor driver attentiveness will generate lots of very discoverable evidence.
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Well, that escalated quickly!
Just to make sure we're clear, you found a position via a 'Who wants to be hired?' post, not a 'Who is hiring?' post?
I'm not aware of the technical details of how the user is tracked. Is it possible to be tracked even if the user has logged out of the social network website (based on the browser or machine being used)?
Is it actually scanning for signs, or is it using map data to determine the speed for the current road segment? I suspect it's actually the latter; reading road signs is a somewhat difficult CV problem, whereas having a well-annotated map is largely a solved problem already. (My old Garmin GPS had this data!)
They could easily offer premium priced bus service. You could probably really hurt MTA with 250k-500k displaced trips.
Hi, I'm the author of this post, and have shared it on HN in hopes of getting your feedback!

This advice isn't (or at least shouldn't be) anything new to those of your building your own businesses. However, the idea of "getting out of the building" and talking to others may be less obvious when it comes to producing technical writing works like books (or even blog posts).

There have been times where I've worked on a long complicated article for a hundred hours or more and released it to the sound of crickets.

In my more recent works, I've been actively getting involved with people in my target audience, and might have dozens of conversations for a single ten page article before it even lands on the public internet.

Needless to say, the difference between those two extremes is huge! Happy to discuss more if anyone has thoughts or ideas to share.
Well yeah, and I use them, but they're a bandaid over the fundamental problem that just like in Perl, in R TIMTOWTDI. It's the classic 'we have 12 standards, time to make a unifying one - now we have 13' problem. I've sort of gotten used to it now, but it was majorly difficult at first for me (after having programmed for nearly 20 years) to get used to the concept that any task can be done in 20 different ways, each one just as 'valid' or 'easy' or 'maintainable' as the others. At least in C++ there are 20 bad ways to do something, and one good one - the way that Sutter covered in his columns. I know it's not quite fair to compare 'just' the C++ programming language to R and all its packages, but still.
>That said, I'm fine if people want that info anyways, but 23&Me would need to add a disclaimer that says "Your genetic test results and the risks attributed to them may or may not be accurate."

But they FDA doesn't allow it, even under this condition.

I think it's ridiculous that the FDA considers this okay:

A) "1,2,3-methyl dethyl has been proven in clinical research to make your life suck less. (This statement not evaluated by the FDA blah blah blah)"

But not this:

B) "You have genes X, Y, and Z. The current state of published researched indicates an elevated risk for skin cancer for this genotype."

Was anyone seriously claiming that 23andme was misrepresenting the state of the research? Were they providing or enabling any treatment based on this research without further review by a doctor?
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The vans are used to scan for "drugs and explosives," i.e. "[drug money] and explosives," i.e. "[drug money]."

I think the public would be slightly more comfortable with this type of stuff if it was actually being used for counter-terrorism.
I was surprised to find that the Autopilot feature is a paid $2500 upgrade, according to one source.[0] I'm not surprised that Tesla is charging for the upgrade, but that in all the press and enthusiast coverage of Tesla, I don't recall it being mentioned before.

[0] http://blog.caranddriver.com/elon-take-the-wheel-we-test-tes...
This is already a thing. A guy down the block from me was receiving a few pounds of weed through the mail every week for several months.
> (For the same reasons, daemons should not include daemonization routines but should run in the foreground. If I want it in the background, I'll arrange for my process supervisor to start it.)

If a daemon doesn't... daemonize into the background, it's no longer a daemon - just a process.

Silly loonix folks.

Please see the FreeBSD program daemon[1] or the FreeBSD handbook section 3.8[2].

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=daemon&apropos=0&s...

[2] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/basics-processes.html
> I suspect it'd take a considerable amount of time for a person to consciously make the switch and take control of the car

How different is AutoSteer from regual cruise control, in this regard? Or do you think that this level of automation might encourage people to distract themselves, without having quite enough technology to allow them to do that?
I used to have a silver motorcycle jacket (think power ranger). It was great for keeping the sun away, but with a couple lines of tape it would make a great mobile speed limit sign. Every telsa a I pass might suddenly read "Speed limit 15" and slam on the brakes.
> This machine will keep pace with traffic. OK. Does that mean it will break speed limits?

If the highway speed limit is 55 and everybody is going 70, you'll make the road a more dangerous place by going 55. I don't know how it works from a legal standpoint, but from a practicality and safety standpoint, I'd rather go with the flow.
Then the US needs to stand up and write some laws that respect human rights.
So is 1, but it doesn't seem to matter.
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directors rarely invest their own money in the company
From a rationalist perspective, relying on "willpower" is the same as just saying "I should really do that" without action to follow. To make changes in your behaviour, you should rely on forming habits, and you should make it as easy as possible to fall into those habits. This is how "fake it until you make it" works.

(Obviously, things get tricky if you have a mental illness.)
has been standing for 4 months. About a month ago noticed that my diaphragm has, for the lack of better word, "got straightened". Sitting, probably very incorrect, for 36 years - since the first grade in school - i always thought that it is just my body construction that i have that difficulty breathing full lungs while swimming or running. Lower back also feels better where it matters. And you can't really move while sitting whereis standing you do move a bit - like walking back and forward while waiting for that beast to rebuild.
There are plenty of apps that are guilty of this as well. Instagram comes immediately to mind. Not allowing pinch zoom on pictures I'm viewing on a tiny pocket screen (when there's no good technological reason for it) is a shame.

I've turned on assistive zooming on my iPhone to overcome the limitation.
I've taken many NYC taxis and rarely experience problems.
We do bother to check. If you get pulled over for a traffic violation and you don't have a license, you'll go to jail.
These are really not convincing arguments. If anything, it seems the conclusion of what you're saying is that we need to be more rigorous in our testing and validation.
Many GPS show the current speed limit (I live in France) and it's pretty accurate. They know when we're next to schools, when there's no explicit sign, when a particular city changed the default speed limit, etc. Who would have imagined 10 years ago that Google Maps photographed all houses? The same happened with speed limits.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, ..."[0]

Why would the state be deciding who is qualified to be an officiant?

For civil purposes, think of the officiant as an additional witness
or co-signer of the license - more like a notary public or
master/mistress-of-ceremony than as someone designated by some
external entity to perform weddings.

For religious purposes, consult your entity, or their designee.

[0] currently contested in Rowan County, Kentucky, sigh.
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> 4) Alternate company, takes lower margin, pays drivers well and offer better customer experience.

It doesn't seem to me that your crucial step will work. Uber is worth >$50bn, but more importantly has a substantial amount of cash on hand. I can't imagine anyone could out last them in a price war.
Umm... do you even figure having a full time job into account? One that often goes into the weekends? Also, you are painting broad strokes.

1. With my time difference, I'd have to call my reps at a time when I'd normally be getting ready to sleep just to catch them in the morning.

2. In addition to that, not everyone has good internet connection. Especially if you live in a remote area. Prior to a year ago, my internet connection at home was fairly slow.

3. Yes, I'll admit that I forgot about Skype since it wasn't reliable for me in the first few years I was here. However, cost is cost. And having to manage Skype Credits, which I'd never use elsewhere, is just an extra burden compared to what it was like back in the States.
I'd imagine it'd play out pretty much like any other courier service? So long the couriers are plausibly not involved they're not gonna get in trouble right?

It's a boon for LE. They'll have access to the data. If they make enough fuss, they might even get Uber to encourage drivers to report suspicious activity. (What do they have to lose? No one wants to stick up for evil drug dealers.)

Remember how some of the Silk Road vendors were caught. LE found a couple suspicious packages confirmed to contain unlicensed medicines (supposedly via random inspection, but could have been secret spying, or regular gumshoe work). Investigators go to originating USPS office, look for suspicious activity. Quickly find it, make a bust.

Really, it should just point out the silliness of such contraband laws in the first place.
It appears that Uber significantly improved the coverage for the more economically and ethnically diverse boroughs of NYC:

(from the article):

CHANGE IN APRIL-JUNE PICKUPS, 2014 TO 2015
BOROUGH	UBER	TAXI	NET
Brooklyn	+1,123,969	+299,388	+1,423,357
Queens	+655,525	+191,974	+847,499
Manhattan	+4,045,735	-3,685,504	+360,231
Bronx	+126,283	-265	+126,018
Staten Island	+3,920	+192	+4,112
Manhattan (core)	+3,818,179 -3,830,621 -12,442

This lends credence to the accusations that taxi drivers exhibit racial discrimination and underserve economically disadvantaged areas.
Releasing driving assistance features as a 'beta'? What on earth does that mean here? Are the features ready to use or not? Do Tesla warrant that they work and are safe?

Maybe they expect drivers to treat it like beta software - "Please don't use these features in production cars. Make sure you keep backups of all drivers and passengers in case of bugs."
The bet here is that as opposed to a good value company (which can kick off an occasional dividend based on its profits) it's a growth company, and the opportunity here is to capture future growth. AMZN is a similar proposition.
I can't decide whether he's more like Niles or Frasier.
"If you only have time to learn one language, learn Python, because it's better for non-statistical purposes (I don't think that's very controversial)."

Actually, it is. When someone has only 3 or 4 years to finish their thesis and learning how to program is secondary at best, and they have to do it in a math-heavy department or field, there is no time or use to learn Python.
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Magnetic force decreases with the cube of distance from the source. Which is to say that it would take a ludicrously strong magnet at arm's length to do any damage to credit cards in their back pocket.
The technical details are simple.

When you are "logged in" to Facebook, your browser stores a unique token in a cookie that can identify you. That unique token is sent with every request the browser sends to FB, even requests you don't initiate directly.

These hidden requests happen all the time, like when a web developer embeds a FB like button on a page. The like button is actually generated and served by FB's servers (check your browser's dev console), and the request to show the button itself gets that cookie sent along with it regardless of whether you press it.

The tricky bit is that "logging out" might not actually be enough. I don't use FB so can't say for sure, but it is certainly possible to implement "log out" such that you can't see restricted resources or pages, but still have an identifying cookie on your machine. In this case the cookie itself would store a flag marking you as "logged in" or "logged out", but the cookie would still identify you all the same.
That's the reason for the R in RSU. It's not an actual SU until liquidation event.
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That's some funny math right there.
Care to go into a little more detail for those of us who are curious what it is that makes speed limit laws so complex?
No, you're right those events shouldn't be called independent!

A defintition of independent events is:

A and B are independent events iff P(A|B) = P(A) and P(B|A) = P(B)

So that was just plain wrong.
The "what the heck is it doing" problem may not be a problem with inexperienced pilots.
Long story short, it's both hardware and software holding things back. On the hardware side, there is a lot going on with solid state radar and lidar sensors improving by the minute, while prices are down a factor of 10-100 from even 5 years ago. There are now sensors available for research and product development that in 5 years time will allow a semi high-end production car to robustly drive all traffic conditions on a highway.

Car makers (and suppliers) have to learn how to make software to make optimal use of the existing hardware, but they've got a long way to go, still. Every major player nowadays has a research center in Palo Alto or whereabouts, seemingly trying to learn how to do this via osmosis, but it will take some time until they really understand how to keep pace with information technology, and how to bring it into their mammuth manufacturing and legal frameworks. Nevermind the necessary mindset to pull it off.
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As a person who often had to deal with Manhattan cabbies who would lock me out if I dare mention Brooklyn: Good. Fuck those assholes.
>No. Parallel parking is not a complex nor difficult maneuver. It is total beginner territory... Anyone buying this car to avoid such mundane tasks isn't someone with whom I want to share the road.

Since you can't choose who you're on the road with, doesn't that make this feature more appealing?
The great point is, Tesla probably tested the sensors in shodow mode for years. What would the computer have done? vs What did the human driver do? They probably registered that the computer driving was 110% accurate compared to a human before enabling the feature.
You can usually come up with an explanation for why you did something. You don't have to "get to the bottom" of your own thought processes to do this: you just need to be able to reconstruct the symbolic manipulation part. This seems like a good thing for an AI to be able to do -- especially a truly "hard" AI that you'd trust to run things at a high level.
Zuckerberg demos Oculus ping pong
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"The craziest Oculus experience I've had recently is playing ping pong in virtual reality. You feel like you're right there with your friend even though they may be halfway around the world. And not only can you hit the ball back and forth, but you can turn gravity up and down to simulate completely different worlds -- outer space, under water and so on.

In our new Toybox experience, you can pick up objects, build things and play games. This video shows a few examples of what's possible. What's really amazing is sharing these experiences with your friends. We're getting closer."
Cruise control may encourage similar behavior (and contribute to decreased reaction time), but the fact that cars naturally drift - even on straight roads - is a very effective reminder to drivers that their constant attention is required.

Take away the need to steer, and the only thing drifting will be drivers' attention.
The math is essentially correct, but it oversimplifies some things, and it skips a number of factors.

Larry Summers recently shared his opinion on the topic https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-global-economy-i....
There are videos on YouTube of Bosch fitting their automated driving technology into a Model S [1] and performing demonstration runs on a private road. The software shown in the video displays quite a lot of information about what the sensors consider relevant from the car's surroundings.

[1] https://youtu.be/KwD1hjlbhwU
Hey there sthim. Slouchy author here.

I just wanted to say thank you for your comments. It really put a smile on my face to see someone liked my actual code.
Normally I'd consider your comment unhelpful and downvote it.

But discussions like this are loaded with people who assure us that certain ultra-common behavior "is illegal", as if that somehow settles it, so I'm going to tolerate otherwise content-free reminders that this is not true.
Keep in mind all new cars come with a button that allows you to peg the car's velocity at nearly any speed and it will hurtle down the road with no awareness of the lanes, other cars, or any hazards. It won't brake, and it won't even detect whether you are touching the wheel or peddles. It's call cruise control.

I have no earthly rationale for why we ever legalized cruise control in the first place, but that's the status quo we are comparing against. Anything that makes cruise control safer is an improvement. Arguably without cruise control most of these innovations would need huge amounts of lobbying to pass, but they're actually pretty easy to sell in comparison to what people have today.
Honestly, it just looks like more spam to me.
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I like 99%I's content but Mars' voice is my least favourite part of it. Sounds a bit smug and is not always clearly audible in the car. Much prefer Freakonomics.
Now that was a law that backfired... 23.5 centuries later, can the average person think of anyone else who lived in Ephesus back then?
It seems that you are looking for vignettes in fact. Examples of use

library('zoo');

vignette('zoo');

#####

library('ggplot2');

vignette(package='ggplot2')
How long until this makes it into the Mobile Safari on most people's iOS devices?
There is one open source: http://yacy.net/

The only downside is that it requires Java.