skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for sharing. I remember seeing a reddit section for TIL which is general. I too had some thoughts regarding the same to publish in my blog.
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> These are encouraging numbers, says Chris Urmson, director of the self-driving project, because most of the incidents occurred early on. Only five took place during the 370,000 miles driven in 11 months of 2015, Urmson wrote in a blog posted on Medium. He expects the rate of these incidents to keep declining.

I mean sure he is biased, but the link doesn't really seem all that negative to be honest. Of course it will have issues in the early stages.
> every person in America doesn't need gigabit fiber right now

That's a pretty bold claim. Granted, Gb fiber to the home has limited uses outside of high bit-rate 4K / 8K TV; but to suggest that not a single individual out of 320M in the US (never min the rest of the world) needs Gb broadband? BS.
I'm not exactly a fan of C++, but this isn't fair. What you're describing is more of a problem with this project's coding style than the language. Most of https://github.com/google/ion/tree/master/ion/base is covered either by the STL or Boost; most of what the C++ committee has been doing lately consists of trying to encourage people to not do what this project is doing (by improving the breadth of the standard library).
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The only precedent the article cites is the French Revolution. How did that work out?

Famously, it's too early to tell.
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The two main commuter cyclists in my office have belt-drive bikes, so bicycle technology hasn't completely ossified. They also have disk brakes, and seeing how this is wintertime in New England, they're also rocking studded tires. I don't have this, but I'm a fair-weather cyclist. Its like electric cars--people don't notice how its been slowly moving forward.
Oh every 10 years you need a new bike, because there're no parts any more for your old one. It changes pretty fast!
Belts work for bike chains. Using those on steam engines.
Was the scrolling super weird for anyone else?
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> how many real-world businesses could benefit from the same type of invasive tracking ... we don't allow that sort of privacy violation in our actual lives.

We do, but apparently many even on HN don't realize it. Brick and mortar stores track customers through their phone signals (providing unique identifiers and location), cameras that can track where people go in the store and even what they look at, and more. Here are a couple of good resources where I've learned about it (though they cover much more than those issues):

* http://www.mediapost.com/

* http://www.iab.com/
I saw it deliver superior results enough that I spent a while figuring out how to get vimdiff to use patience.
Does this this [1] work for the console?

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388490/unicode-characters...
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2015 isn't the first year their Self-Driving cars have been on the road. (Gotta wonder how many accidents they would've caused in 2014!) I picked a quick link while I was trying to find sources for the parent commenter's request. But the report comes from Google, to the California DMV, so you have to look at the numbers and facts, not their PR text around it.

Urmson, of course, whitewashes Google's progress, it's his job. But if you look at the number of miles between safety-related takeovers, or these 'almost accidents', and compare to the estimate of human safety provided by insurance companies, it's hard to believe these cars are yet safe enough to trust on the road. The only reason they haven't been in an accident is because trained, professional humans have intervened.

Self-Driving Cars will probably, eventually, be safer than humans, but Google's PR team has misled people on how far off that point is. Last year Urmson indicated that he wanted to have them ready for consumer use before his kid got his driver's license in four years.

That's pretty unrealistic. Don't believe little old random Internet commenter me? Take it from Robert Scoble, who's been hyping self-driving cars for the last year: https://medium.com/@scobleizer/don-t-worry-uber-lyft-drivers... He's been to see or ride in a variety of self-driving car prototypes from a number of companies working on the problem.
I always take 6 or more weeks per year. Usually I have unlimited vacation. The few times I've been acquired by megacorps with ancient vacation policies I either "forget" to file for vacation and so does my boss, or I take unpaid time off.
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They have chosen to remain anonymous as the names and identities of specific individuals are not important.

Their philosophy: "Kaam chalu mooh bandh". (Stop Talking, Start Doing.)

Their guidelines are:
1. No lectures, no moralising, no activism, no self-righteous anger.
2. No confrontation, no arguments, no debates, no pamphlets, no advocacy.
3. Don’t step on anyone’s toes, don’t take sides in any ideological debates.,
4. Support existing systems and improve their effectiveness for the greater good.
5. Basically, get real. Treat everyone with sincerity, respect and dignity first, and the greater good will be an outcome.
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Oops! Thanks.

Can't edit my original comment. Oh well.
Emacs Org-mode's org-babel functionality. I have a few org-mode files storing all the dotfiles, put under version control. I can update and deploy them from within Emacs.
and to think it only took an inordinate amount of lobbying by corporate interests
> it's hard to believe these cars are yet safe enough to trust on the road

Well yeah, but is anyone expecting them to be put onto the roads in the near near future?
It's because there are things happening, behind closed doors, that no one will ever admit to.

This is being rubber-stamped into place, because there's a massive government program at work, underneath all this, and it's been going on for years, and this is just one piece of it.

The names and faces attached to these events could be replaced with just about anyone, but the events themselves would transpire nonetheless, and here we'd sit, mystified by the news articles that continue to blow by, breathless and awestruck each and every time, day after day.
From the report that the fortune.com article links to:

> In 10 of the 13 simulated contact events, the SDC’s predicted behavior would have, in simulation, caused contact (though 2 of these involved simulated contact with traffic cones).

The 13 events happened in the 15 months from September 2014 to November 2015 (both incl). 424,331 miles driven.

Can the average driver drive 30,000 miles without making contact with a traffic cone or another car?
Another thing:

> Google [...] determined that the driver prevented the self-driving car from making contact with another object 13 times.

This phrasing suggests a notably lower threshold of failure than, say, "prevented a crash" or "prevented injury" or "prevented damage".
> No 3rd party analytics service can provide more accurate data than server logs. None.

Only if those servers are personally managed by analytics experts.
Also, because no one gives a damn, your phone will also shout out the names and MACs of access points it's connected to before. I have no idea why Android/iOS hasn't disabled / geofenced that yet.
As an avid cyclist, I have tried to convince my wife that I need a new type of bike every two years, or at least some ridiculously expensive and certainly unnecessary upgrade. Right now I can't take my eyes off of those SRAM Red eTAP.

n+1, after all
Our team is remote and we're 9 full-timers with a few contractors in the infosec space and it works incredibly well. I want to add that the main reason to work remotely isn't really about saving on office rental. We take that cash and put it back into our employees home work environment and tools like awesome hardware.

The biggest benefit for us is that our team is able to have a better work-life balance and keep a high level of productivity. e.g. One of our engineers used to have a 40 minute commute either way morning and evening. Now he works from home and can spend more time with his family instead of in his car.

It also lets us hire from all over the World. Our full-timers are all in the USA and we have people in Ohio, Florida, Maine, Washington and Tennessee. So it's a really diverse group but we're also very tight knit even though some of us have never met in person yet. Several in our team work in small towns so they enjoy a slower pace and more quiet time which (coming from a small town myself) I think lends itself to solving complex problems.

I'd agree that it's all or nothing with remote teams or you risk alienating half your workforce.

The best advice I can give any company going remote is to get Slack or an equivalent like IRC. It does a fine job of replacing the day to day contact you have with team members. Also twice weekly all-hands calls to sync up are great - we do voice not video and we go around the room and everyone updates us on what they're working on. In a way we have a greater sense of what everyone is doing than some brick and mortar companies I've worked for.

I think for software businesses remote working will be the way everyone works 20 years from now. It'll take a while for larger companies to make the shift because there is no very large company that does this yet but there will be and they'll prove the model and the imitators will follow.

It's also way better for the environment.
> Nobody is willing to foot the bill for a huge capital buildout.

False. It just so happens that it has been made illegal for those willing in some states.

The people benefiting from the fiber network are often to pay for it. Fiber co-ops are an example of this.
This idea is awesome that it makes learning more effective by self-explaining what we've learnt, and the result can be referenced by ourselves in the future using the language of our own.
And Joe is owned by a corporation, which is considered a person, my friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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I talk more about it in the comment below, but the latter is correct. Everything around the workout can be heavily refined because I do the same exercise every time. I vary time, intensity, range of motion, and sometimes even the basic approach I take towards performing the exercise, but my gym sessions have revolved around my arc trainer session for a few months now.

Eventually I will find an exercise to add onto my routine, I've experimented with kettlebells, but haven't yet committed to them. My ideal setup would be a home-built power rack so I can do basic compound lifts. For various reasons I've not taken on that project yet.
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This, daily TIL, like dairy has for me is nice way of introspection. I find whenever, if nothing else, I think for 5 mins about what I did everyday had immense value for me personally.
Can an algorithm have mens rea?
So what would happen to a federal judge if he just didn't impose the mandatory minimum sentence in a case like this? Wouldn't the constitutional separation of powers protect him from any consequences?
I primarily work with Ruby & Javascript. Most of my experience is with Rails but I've made significant contributions to Sinatra and Express/node projects. 1099 would be fine.
Is there any point to running ads on a small site / blog any more?

It's a lot of work to curate your average stream of garbage coming from AdSense etc. I really want to find a targetted ad network from a smaller company who might actually care about individual customers (if anyone knows such an ad network for {food,cooking,photography,travel,restaurants,health} let me know).
> Can the average driver drive 30,000 miles without making contact with a traffic cone or another car?

The broken pylons at my closest bike lane and highway exit indicate that very few drivers can achieve this.
Yes, which is the scary part. Google's PR seems to keep insinuating we might be able to ride in one as early as next year, or that the law is somehow a burden to the progress of this technology.

There's already people advocating that California's laws requiring self-driving cars be driven by licensed drivers are potentially discriminatory, and Google's already complaining that their statistically-more-dangerous-than-people drivers currently require licensed drivers on the road: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-28/self-drivi...

Given where we're at, it's insane to consider California's laws anything but reasonable. We're a long way off from the necessary confidence to allow a driverless car to run without human intervention. But Google's constant indications that this law and others like it are a problem insinuates a much higher confidence in their technology than any reasonable person should have.

Frequently in these sorts of discussions I've often seen people talking about 2018 or 2019 as likely consumer release dates, which seems to be the real incredible claim needing defense.
How to get emails back from VCs
I've been approaching a select group of VCs, via cold email, and sometimes I get a response - sometimes I don't. My "social marketplace for contracts" startup (ContractIt) is going swell. We have a 13 person team, our product is being iterated and tested and we've been able to get valuable feedback.

I want to be taken seriously, and even if we're "too early" because we haven't launched yet - it's nice to begin conversations with these people. Perhaps I should be attempting to build a remote network, instead of going in cold.

Any tips?
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Most homes built before 1960 contain heavily leaded paint[0]. My assertion isn't that lead wasn't believed to be dangerous, rather that no one saw it as "seriously" dangerous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-based_paint_in_the_Unit...
To provide performance improvements that you don't get using the built in facilities.

You don't have to write these things yourself, but if you're trying to eke out every last drop of performance (either at runtime or build time) then you have the option to do so.
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I had an IBM PC Jr. I don't remember much of it except that it used a cartridge for DOS.

I will never forgive Creative for buying then decimating Henry Kloss' Cambridge SoundWorks. I so wanted a Model 12.
"one of the serious issues with C++: numerous code files in a project authored relatively recently that are dedicated to basic application plumbing such as memory allocation/tracking and concurrency."

For some applications, manually tending to the basic plumbing is a necessity and not a burden. I.e high performance applications tend to be memory bouns.

I agree that C++ is not a right tool for every job and that as a language it has issues. But those issues are not about verbosity nor about manual memory management - the latter is rather a feature.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls.. but are you honestly advocating murdering a Federal judge who followed sentencing guidelines? Exactly who should be put to death here?
Yes. According to this pro-Google car post (which is false, when you consider human interventions to prevent accidents), the average mileage between accidents for humans is about 165,000. I've seen claims that humans average closer to 250,000 miles driven between accidents as well. http://mashable.com/2012/08/07/google-driverless-cars-safer-...
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I'm curious to see if some vehicles AI develop road-rage over a course of period as it goes through self optimization.
Because those things are at different scales. I'm sure there are thousands of hours put into IT and moderation, but there are millions of hours put into content creation. The value of SO almost entirely comes from unpaid volunteers who produce the actual content.

I'm not trying to imply that this is morally wrong. I think parent comment is just trying to say that it puts them into an entirely different class of websites than journalism. They can afford to run on less ad revenue, because the amount of content they produce per employee is much higher.
OpenVMS is still among most reliable OS's & clustering ever created. First high-assurance VM software was done there. The Alpha processors' PALcode let us essentially do microprogramming in assembler code with its atomic execution having implications for concurrency work. Quite a few innovations of lasting importance under Olsen. I'm furious at his ass for not believing in desktops given DEC's accomplishments on other things. We may have been deprived of something awesome because of that.

Another thing to take away from DEC is motivation and process. DEC was a company made of engineers who built things engineers wanted to use. Such companies still wow crowds in headlines today and is a niche worth remembering. The other part was the quality-assurance regiment that I heard they used for VMS. They'd code new features for a week with tests, let tests run over weekend, and then spend entire, next week fixing problems rather than developing new features. This alternation made for some really robust code. They similarly payed close attention to design and operations with the collective result being systems that lasted years under load without reboot.

So, management failures & desktops aside, Ken Olsen and his company DEC exemplified some good, lasting lessons for creating and marketing high-quality systems. Worth remembering both for this.
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Original discussion (2 weeks ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953381
>Not in the traditional individual sense, I think. All AI drivers across the whole world will seamlessly exchange and synchronize with each other their learning experiences, resulting in self-driving vehicles that improve at an exponential rate.

That's a nice picture of free-form learning from inputs, but the reality could be quite more rigid.

I'd expect something more like gathering "black box" style information of the situation (the analogous of a stack trace or core dump), and having programmers trying to improve the algorithms, while also taking into account all the safety issues that could go wrong, than some "let's change my behavior because I was penalized" neural-net/ML way.
SDA in a political thread mention Dr Carson where we have some folks with some awfully weird ideas about his religion. I was a tad bit offended as I grew up studying SDA and Catholic doctrine (mixed household). I guess there are still acceptable prejudices. The downvotes on the post pointing out Carson would have the same problem as Romney was just relish.
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If you make hard things easy to do, then people that don't know what they are doing will do it (poorly). They'll set up a server once, and never maintain or update it and it'll eventually be hacked and taken over by spammers. I set up and maintain our mail servers and work, and for my personal email, I chose to point my domain to Gmail to let Google take care of it, I don't want to expend the effort it takes to run my own mail server.
At least here in Italy no :-)
I was a VMS admin for a few years. I have tremendous respect for DEC tech.
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One might choose to define mens rea as the difference between a bug and a feature.
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Very true, bandwidth is very expensive today. Some comments to your post:

- Actually, and quite surprisingly, the "cache everything" mode only adds around 25% of used bandwidth in practice. But even 25% is already a big difference if you pay 10 or 50K of CDN bills per month.

- Indeed useless bytes download can create overall congestion brings harm to the network in general, and should be avoided. It's especially true for websites that don't have the money to pay big CDNs and stream with dedicated server with limited capacity.
So SQL is an acronym for an acronym?
How disappointing, when I read the headline I thought Google was supporting PGP signing and encryption of emails. They could easily do so in their web and mobile clients, keeping emails safe from prying eyes.

Though that would also prevent analysis of emails for ad targeting, so they'd have to do it as some sort of paid project.
Yes, but the phrasing is also Googles and they have all the incentives to spin it that way.
The gun(s) were not used in the commission of a crime.
The fact it allows the death penalty shows that the 8th amendment is essentially meaningless. Glossip v. Gross showed that SCOTUS doesn't even care how the death penalty is carried out. If the state can kill you slowly and painfully, why do you expect it to prohibit anything else?
I still love how people simply assume fingerprints are unique even though there has never actually been any studies with a large enough sample size to make that determination

Fingerprinting, at least for the purposes of criminal investigations is pseudo-science at best, akin to the now debunked microscopic hair analysis.

DNA is always given as a probabilistic statement "there is a 1:1,000,000 chance this DNA belongs to someone else"

However with fingerprints, like microscopic hair analysis, it was simply match/no match... a binary state that is given far far far more weight than it should. The perceptions of the examiner weigh heavily on the outcome.

Finger print examining is an art form, not a scientific discipline
Also, I used to lift. Many times, I wished I would have bailed on an ineffective workout rather than push through. If I'm not feeling right, I'm prone to getting injured. I will not work out with a trainer again for this reason. I want a strict routine, doing the same build up every time will allow me both to refine in the direction of greater comfort, and to allow me to sense when something's off.

My lifting strategy is to take it very slowly, do not worry a single bit about making gains on any particular day. Injury is to be ruthlessly stamped out through borderline excessive caution and getting to know your body very, very well. I would rather skip a whole month of lifting than get a single injury, no matter how minor.

In fact, I'd rather not lift at all than have more than the remotest possibility of a lifting injury. That shit just sucks way, way too much. Once the weight on the bar gets heavy, I want to take exactly zero chances. When I get back on that particular horse, I want to still be doing it when I'm eighty years old.
My wife and I have been happily married for 40 years and we attribute our success to negotiations. We recognize that we don't always want the same things and we make deals. I know this sounds cold but it reduces our tension to near zero and really works for us.
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2012 - we have million users, we will find how to make money.

2013 - we have 100 million users, we will find how to make money.

2014 - we have billion users, we will find how to make money.

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