skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google prototypes have a big, red stop button that,
> I assume, takes precedence over hackable software.

You think so? I would assume not. I doubt the car is just going to screech to a halt via some hardware switch, think about the danger of someone pressing that while in the center lane of a highway.

Instead it's probably synonymous with giving the software a "stop now" command. I.e. it would know to safely pull over to the side of the road, or take the next off-ramp in that situation.

So if someone had hacked the driving software that could be overridden.

I do think idibidiart is being overly alarmist. Self-driving cars don't have to be perfect, and there could certainly be malicious hacking incidents, but they're highly likely to outnumber the cases where people die now due to imperfect human drivers.
Good point. However, I can’t help to think that this makes it harder to make new friends, e.g. when moving to a new city.
Title is missing a word.
2.04 births is not enough to sustain a healthy population either, it's not irreversible likes some mainland EU countries but it's nothing to boast about.

And it's also quite a sharp decline since the 80's and 70's for Iceland, just like for any other Western country.
Surely if your going down that route youtube-dl is easier?
The performance of diesel car's in recent years has been quite literally miraculous. If you knew a little bit about engines you would know that something was a off for there to have been such a dramatic improvement in power, efficiency, and emissions at no apparent cost. Diesel has traditionally not been the most powerful choice so for the power to be comparable was very fishy. Now just about every single diesel manufacture is being investigate from Europe to Japan for cheating. Initial reports are already showing that Mercedes, Toyota, and plenty of other players all have significantly worse emissions and efficiency.

Europe is cracking down on diesel, and they're going to remove tax breaks that cheating manufactures enjoyed. Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, is talking about ban these vehicles from the city by 2020. This is the end of european diesel cars.
something like EV certificates for smtp servers?
Over many years of reading various essays on "types", this is the list of synonyms I've accumulated:

="constraints"

="rules"

="policies"

="contracts"

="semantics" (separate concept of MEANING from underlying DATA BIT representations)

="compatible semantics"

="capabilities"

="propositions" (and functions can be "theorem proofs")

="facts" about code that compiler attempts to "prove"

="tags" or "metatags" for compiler checking

="documentation" that's enforced by compiler
specify what is NOT ALLOWED e.g. "you can't do that"

="substitution", "compatibility"

="A set of rules for how to semantically treat a region of memory."

Because the list is synonyms, many concepts overlap. In my mind, the highest level of unification about "types" is the concept of "constraints". Related topics such as polymorphism is a practical syntax pattern that arises from data types' constraints.

Personal anecdote: I initially learned an incomplete and misleading idea about "types" from K&R's "The C Programming Language". From that book, I thought of "types" as different data widths (or magnitudes). An "int" held 16bits and a "long" held 32 bits, etc.

It was later exposure to more sophisticated programming languages that a much richer expressiveness of "types" is possible that the C Language "typedef" cannot accomplish. For instance, if want a "type" called "month", I could encode a "rule" or "constraint" that valid values are 0 through 11 (or 1 to 12). A plain "int" is -32768..+32767 and having "typedef int month;" provides a synonym but not a new policy enforceable by the compiler.
Surprised he didn't mention third party reputation providers such at Return Path.
Ask HN: CodeContext – need your help visually contextualising software
I think this could become an awesome project but I need help from fellow developers to make this a reality pls :) Together we could build an awesome "live" software wiki of sorts!
That's pretty cool.

A lens that can resolve 16k elements in each direction must be a pretty impressive engineering feat by itself. I do a little bit of optical design, not enough to know whether or not such a lens is possible at the state of the art today.

When can I get one in my phone? ;-)
And yet not a single nuclear accident caused by hacking.

Not a single airplane accident caused by hacking.

Doesn't that undermine your chicken little attitude to the dangers of car hacking?

If you want to kill someone in a car, buy a gun, wait for him to get in the car and then shoot him.

There are plenty of ways to do serious harm that are easier than becoming a hacking mastermind that can willy-nilly penetrate Google's security.
this is the little bit I have so far...
https://github.com/davkap92/codecontext
Most, if not all lenses, cannot resolve at 250 megapixels at the size of a APS-H sensor. Most of them stop at 20-30 megapixels, just due to limitations in light diffraction.

There are a few ways to get around this: developing better lens systems, increasing the size of the sensor, or using the gigapixel approach by stitching thousands of zoomed in photos together into one panorama.
The problem is not so much the attitude of the big guys. It is that smtp is fundamentally broken. we need a better mail protocol that ensures:
1. Traffic always encrypted and content always signed
2. Guarantee that the sender is who it claims he is
3. Decorrelating the email from the domain, a lot of users are prisoners of their current provider just because the address they gave everyone ends with the provider's domain name, very much like it is very hard to switch bank accounts
4. Ability to provide disposable adresses which can be deleted when spammed

3 and 4 would require a sort of token system
They are valued at $880M, and had ~ $200M revenue and $27M profit in the last financial year.

If they were in startup world those numbers would probably make them over $1BN in valuation.
I think that would depend on a lot of factors. Some people have more bandwidth for social stuff and can cope with keeping in touch with old friends and also seeking out new ones. Others can't.

But, also, if you are online, you can already know people in the new city. I am somewhat prone to having my friendships start online and then become IRL instead of the other way around. While I am probably not the norm, I am not some bizarre statistical outlier these days either. Plenty of people meet people via Internet and move the relationship to meatspace.
I never said that Uber should go away. I am pointing out that neither are Taxis, that they are two different services for two different markets. Taxis provide things that uber cannot, one cannot totally replace the other.

As for airports not optimizing transport for Canadians, airports should do exactly that. Any city wanting to be a business hub should indeed try to accommodate international travelers. And they all do. If canadians have a rough time at a US airport, I think it safe to assume the Chinese, Japanese, Arab or Indian business traveler will have it worse.

Car rental is not an option for many international travelers. Licensing issues mean most will never bother. BART is great, but it isn't for the uninitiated traveler on a dark night. The routing is not intuitive. And it is really loud, not a pleasant experience after a long flight.
> That works if you’re a billionaire with universal name-recognition like Trump

Ben Carson is #2 though. But that's probably also due to the "weak"* candidates.

* I think you mean relatively unknown compared to a former first lady.
Was hoping for a smokeping alternative.
Looks nice like nload but not as useful as mtr. Mtr not only tells you the latency but also gives you the route and where exactly the loss is happening. (Minus the graph)
> Why would it be released? It isn't like anyone is claiming he is still alive.

I'm claiming that Bin Laden may still be alive.

Or, quite the opposite, he might have been killed long time ago.

Without body, Obama's claims about Navy Seals killing Osama Bin Laden in 2011 are unsubstantiated.
Given the future of technology in this field, what other goal can they have ? and does it even matter ? because it will happen with them, or without them.
Without more information,
it is necessary to look at least once
at each number in the array.
If the array is of length n, the
the performance is O(n). But
looking at each number in the
array just once, also O(n), is
also sufficient.
So, looking at each number in the
array just once is the fastest and is O(n).
Done.
Certificates for SMTP servers are meaningless without DNSSEC because crossdomain email servers are a thing.
I normally use Minunit which is 3 lines of source code.

http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html
Having run my own email server about a decade ago I can kind of understand why they are just rejecting things. Dealing with spam for even just a handful of domains was a nightmare.
Joke answer: the blockchain!

Real answer: It comes down to trust (duh). But, how do we manage trust online? How do we manage trust in real life? Real life trust is through association of groups. But, groups online are meaningless. A "gmail user" doesn't belong to a community, they belong to The Nation of Google.

How do we break down online identities into manageable, trustable communities? How do we bootstrap new communities into the system so we don't end up with a pre-selected list of blessed communities while others languish in obscurity?

Open questions, no answers, and if you say Facebook you have to run 20 laps and give me 1000 pushups.
I agree there is more benefit than harm, but I doubt any self-driving car will be legal without a manual override... if at least for national security reasons.
There is - this is effectively what DKIM does. Reputation systems calculate reputations over email server identities, not email sender identities (subtle distinction).
Did you try to acquire reputation by having real people with accounts in "known" services send emails to your server?
The name of the method seems a little sensational. Many scientists have become hung up on specific models when actually all they care about are making predictions from their data. This paper is reaction against that trend, but I have to wonder if a boiler plate machine learning algorithm wouldn't perform at least as well.
I don't think self driving cars will be allowed in a major way unless there are guarantees that humans can take over purely manual control. That is my point, not that self driving cars are a danger in and by themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi is the Japanese name for this phenomena. There were several articles about it a few months back, like:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/0...

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/in-japan-lone...

http://qz.com/380685/photos-cleaning-up-after-japans-lonely-...

They say you mentally breakup with your spouse/partner some time before before actually do so. From what little I can glean here, the same can (not always, just can) hold true for dying alone.
This guys story is a sad one but I'm sure we're missing some important information here. New mail servers get set up all the time, it's not impossible for such servers to be accepted by the big players.

If none of these major services ever learned that his server was OK, it's likely that users weren't unmarking the mail he sent as spam. And that leads to the question of why not.
It's only a matter of time before we start seeing peering issues between major email providers. This is not a system for sharing, it is competition.
There's a lot of boasting in this field, but the FAA claims that your number 3 , does only work in a simulator , not on certified planes.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2496667/cyberwarfare/fa...
A similar thing has happened in the past:

>> "Gracia was selected to represented [sic] Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Run & Hide", produced and composed by David Brandes. After the German national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest it was revealed that Brandes had bought thousands of his own CDs to ensure chart placement, a requirement of the ESC"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracia_Baur
Windows doesn't keep up with it well. We had alot of issues with VDI workstations running 10GB interfaces. Lots of weird latency problems, solved by presenting a 1GB adapter.
Why Aren't There More Women in Tech?
Students in Switzerland build a wheelchair that climbs stairs
I have to disagree with you on most of the above. You cannot expect students who want to learn how to code to also learn about the DOM and write things like path DOM nodes by hand. This library is made to abstract DOM-specific functionality into something that they know from known and tested tools like Processing. There is a world of difference between writing SVG's by hand (or generating them in pure JavaScript) and using Rune.js. Just try to write the following example in pure JS, and I'm sure you'll see what I mean:

http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/examples/form/path_to_pol...

I agree that CIELAB is a very useful color model, which is why I also teach the difference in my class. But HSV is a great way to move away from rgb(255, 255, 255), and I've had nothing but success using it over the last 5 years in my graduate classes.
As a citizen of the USA, I ask you kindly to put a sock in it. This kind of hateful, authoritarian, unamerican attitude that values law over freedom goes against the very ideals this country - ruled by we the people - was founded upon.

Snowden easily the most honorable person in this whole situation, for one reason alone: he kept is oath to defend the constitution.

All those laws you want to see Snowden sacrificed upon are inferior to the oath everybody in the intelligence community had to take. That oath was to the constitution, and not a particular law, government, or politician.

You claim to want to see people face the consequences of the law, but you're deliberately ignoring the content of Snowden's message, which confirmed unconstitutional actions of many people in government. It is a shame that it took one person risking their life and possibly living forever in exile to reveal the corruption of our govenment. It is a terrible cost that the espionage act has been abused so badly with Binney and Drake, making it necessary for Snowden to bring evidence with him. In case you're forgetting, people tried going through "proper channels", and it lead nowhere.

If you had any intention of having a useful discussion about Snowden, you would know that he wouldn't get a fair trial, as the espionage act doesn't allow a a "public good" defense. You are calling for a start chamber style show trial, not justice.
Sure, but as all code that actually exists in the real world uses the whitespace sensitive syntax, you're still going to have to interact with it to get things done.
I haven't driven diesels much, but have driven gasoline cars all of my life. How is the diesel "driving experience" better?
It seems to me that one would not only have to record the whale but the actions of basically all whales (if this does travel across oceans then studying local whales might miss a lot of data). Then you could do some deep analysis on the correlation of while recordings with actions of the whale population. Of course you could try to just study a pod or local group of whales to try to decipher near range communication, but depending on how often they communicate long range, this might have too much noise.
Distributed systems recovery via optimistic logging and checkpointing (1990) [pdf]
According to the EPA [1] CO2 accounts for 82% of all US greenhouse gases from human activity, and 31% of that CO2 comes from transportation.

The EPA says [2] that N20 account for 5% of all US greenhouse cases from human activity, and 5% of that N2O comes from transportation. N2O is a more effective greenhouse gas, with a Global Warming Potential 298 times that of CO2.

31% of 81% is about 100 times as much as 5% of 5%, but when you then include the GWP of 298 for the N2O, doesn't that mean that the N2O emissions from transportation are actually about 3 times as damaging as the CO2 emissions?

That also implies that any reduced CO2 in the VW cars is not going to be anywhere near enough to even make a dent in compensating for the extra damage from a 40x increase in N2O.

[1] http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.htm...

[2] http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/n2o.htm...
His passport was revoked the day before he left Hong Kong.[1]. He traveled to Russia on what turned out to be an invalid travel document issued by the Ecuadorian embassy in London [2] (same one that Julian Assange is holed up in).

[1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-source-nsa-leaker-snowdens...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/02/ecuador-rafael-...
Im really curious why this matters to so many people. It only matters if you own part of the company and if this is the case, you most likely took part in the decision making process that gave the ceo this dalary.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384656
YouTube has had this problem, with people buying and selling video views. I remember that at one point YT did a sweep to remove fake views and quite a few videos uploaded by professional music studios did in fact drop a lot of views all at once. Whether they were actually purchasing views or whether they were innocent is an interesting question.

Anyway I wouldn't worry. De-spamming websites is a well understood problem by this point. Spotify can build an anti-fraud team if such practices become widespread.
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I think at least this first part reads like an explanation of the events of the last two centuries and based on my very light arm-chair historians knowledge I failed to see any obvious lapses in their analysis.

Like any analysis, though, it should be read as interesting postulation based on known facts, rather than a complete explanatory model in itself.

I fail to see how cheap solar or new life forms would provide more arable land. Sure, we can invent - I don't know - an edible nutritious city kudzu that grows everywhere and provides nutrition for everyone but until that happens I think the american farmlands do provide a considerable asset like the article stated.

I see no obvious reason why at least a partial singularity nirvana could not come to being but until it does - no one really has a clue what it would look like and analyses like these must stick to understood reality and politics.
They already have a dedicated PCIe card -- it's the standard 10GigE NIC they're using.

What they're doing is bypassing the kernel overhead of header parsing, demultiplexing and copying to user space. Instead, the network card's ring buffers are mapped directly into the user processes' address space.

The application is almost certainly still talking TCP/IP (or maybe UDP), and there are no changes at the physical layer at all. It isn't a case of a file descriptor being hooked up to generate voltages on a cable at all -- in fact, the overhead of read()/write() calls on a file descriptor is one of the things they're trying specifically to avoid!

http://dpdk.org/ is an open-source library to implement this kind of thing, mostly aimed at Intel NICs.
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it was an unnamed Marine colonel, not Iraqi civilians who had decided to topple the statue; and that a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team then used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist and made it all appear spontaneous and Iraqi-inspired
--

The propaganda machine around this event is disgusting.

Take down Saddam's stature by all means, but do not fake it, especially to your own electorate.
The main issue with asyncio is it is incompatible with some of the best packages in the ecosystem atm, e.g sqlalchemy
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I take it to mean that for a high MPG vehicle, a diesel offers the better driving experience. A 50 MPG gas car won't get out of its own way.

Take fuel mileage out of the equation, though, and IMO diesels suck to drive. You drive one strictly for the mileage benefit (or arguably torque if you're towing something).
Seems like you'd still need the 350ms delay (or some amount of delay) for pinch-to-zoom because the two fingers don't touch the screen simultaneously. The sensor reads the first finger's touch and the software has to wait to see if a second finger touch comes in before it decides if the first touch is a tap or the start of a pinch.
Do these things actually help us develop software at increasingly large scales?
Crossdomain web hosts are also a thing, and HTTPS works fine. (Sometimes with particularly hilarious definitions of "fine", like CloudFlare's former practice of putting dozens of customers' websites in the same certificate, via subject alternative names.)

If you're worried about the fact that your mail host and web host can now impersonate each other, we can just define a new X.509 extension for "I can only be used for email". You might even be able to get away adding a new option to the existing Extended Key Usage field, but it's possible that enough clients don't enforce it rigorously enough.

Ideally, you'd also want an SMTP equivalent of strict transport security.
Serious question, however stupid, ignorant or offensive it might sound: why is the following anti-semitic? Because it was false in Nixon's times? I'm not that familiar with the history of the United States in the 70s.

You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana are Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.
> There's nothing time-critical here.

The sooner truth comes out - the faster we learn from our mistakes.
How does this compare with this paper? They are both discussing the meaning of the word "type".

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2661154

There was a good blog post by Stephen Kell that I can't find now (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/)

"The concept of "type" has been used without a consistent, precise definition in discussions about programming languages for 60 years. In this essay I explore various concepts lurking behind distinct uses of this word, highlighting two traditions in which the word came into use largely independently: engineering traditions on the one hand, and those of symbolic logic on the other. These traditions are founded on differing attitudes to the nature and purpose of abstraction, but their distinct uses of "type" have never been explicitly unified. One result is that discourse across these traditions often finds itself at cross purposes, such as overapplying one sense of "type" where another is appropriate, and occasionally proceeding to draw wrong conclusions. I illustrate this with examples from well-known and justly well-regarded literature, and argue that ongoing developments in both the theory and practice of programming make now a good time to resolve these problems."
Immediate response:

> President Clinton — young, smart, dynamic, the first president whom I understood politically (one of us, I thought) — demanded that Nixon be judged on nothing "less than his entire life and career."

Notice how this is neither a commendation nor an exoneration, attempted or otherwise. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was saying at any given moment, and what those words meant.

Also, this is golden:

> Remember ... the far-right kooks are just like the nuts on the left ... but they turn out to vote.

Thus we have the Southern Strategy, which leads directly into what the GOP is now.
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I've only been using it for a few seconds, so I don't know if I'm off-base here, but isn't that what the third-to-last icon at the top does (box with diagonal arrow)?