skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should invite a bunch of Prius drivers to MV to "test" with the self-driving cars on the road with them "driving normally". I'm sure they'd get some great test data out of it and help prevent lots of future incidents :)
> Why would such a fund exist for something that can be pin-pointed directly at the party at fault?

People should still be compensated when accidents happen, without the drag caused by trial attorneys attempting to extract as much as possible from self-driving vehicle manufacturers (which is going to slow down progress).

The benefits of self-driving vehicles from reduced fatalities and accidents alone are so great that a process and funding needs to be in place to allow continued innovation (if done with safety put first).
Depends on the model / style and how old it is.
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Maybe there's a case that parents can track their own children, though I hate the idea.

But that surely cannot extend to other children (i.e. the boy/girlfriend).

My mother was very much the "helicopter parent". The result was that friends never came round to my house, but I'd go to theirs and simply lie about what I'd done. "Why are you so tired?" is as easily answered with "we stayed up until 10am playing Warhammer" as "we drank three litres of wine and played GTA2 until dawn." Even my best friend's parents agreed my mum was terrible in this respect, and they'd fabricate cover stories if we'd gone out drinking somewhere and my mum phoned.
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I'm at a London based startup (MarketInvoice) that's open to sponsoring work visas and we've seen an increasing number of candidates from SF, not only for tech roles but across the board.

London isn't exactly known for cheap housing so there's likely other factors at play.
This is their lair. They are the worst here.
That doesn't work if you're trying to build native mobile apps.
The regular internet doesn't have the ease of entry and uniform data structure.

Hosting articles costs nothing from a technical standpoint. It also costs nothing if if they are irrelevant, because nobody will care to work on them.

The only possible downside could be readers that are unaware of the bad quality of some articles, but this could easily be solved by introducing a quality metric for articles.
It's probably one of the interesting social outcomes of a mixed self-driving / human-driven traffic that all the assholes will have more opportunities to behave like assholes, because they will be able to rely on the programmed friendlyness of self-driving cars. Eventually, tuning that friendlyness factor will become the new car pimping.
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Ah. So much simpler, actually! Thanks.
Yes, but now there's a version of Babel that runs in the browser and transpiles from JSX.
I meant that as in, I am not a mathematician.

When I am looking at code that is trying to find a smaller number I expect to see a < operator.
I should have been more clear though, I was imagining an infinite 'blanket', which I grab in the 'middle' (not an end) and tie a knot there.

Or does that not count as (mathematical) knotting?
I've found the same thing. Currently I'm involved in 9 different slack channels. Though it's great having more people to chat with, at what point is that just ruining productivity? I'll admit their branding is spot on though. People love their slack. I'm just not a huge fan.
We are at that point today, see the blogging around the "attention economy." Money is still the end game, luckily there is plenty of innovation happening around new ways to get you to spend more money without needing to apply any of your attention or wasting precious time.
Can the URL be changed to a source that at least links to the report, like http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/29/11134344/google-self-drivi... or http://www.wired.com/2016/02/googles-self-driving-car-may-ca...
Thanks for a thoughtful response.

> All major powers will behave along similar lines, and mainly for similar reasons (e.g. see the Monroe Doctrine of the US and how long it took to normalize relations with Cuba).

I disagree. For example, look at the other powers in Asia: None have militarized or coercive conflicts with anyone[1] - except China, who has such a conflict with most of them. For example, looking at the Western Pacific, why is it that S. Korea, Japan, The Philippines, Vietnam, and the U.S. all can get along with each other and resolve their problems with no military involvement at all (10 relationships); yet all of them face military, coercive threats from China? If China wants security, all they need to do is stop threatening everyone and taking territory. Certainly nobody has any intention of attacking China.

Look at the powers in Europe. Other than Russia, is there the slightest threat of military action between them?

The Monroe Doctrine is from 1823, hardly representative of modern U.S. policy. No U.S. neighbor is under threat of attack, other than by meddlesome U.S. investors and DEA agents. Do Canada and Mexico even waste a moment thinking about arming themselves against U.S. invasion?

> Russia is panicking because its own sphere of influence is being breached by NATO.

Russia might not be the best model of behavior. Yes, all nations are concerned about what happens on their borders, but in 2016 the great majority follow the rules-based international order rather than the older, barbaric mechanisms of killing people and stealing their land by force.

> the Chinese Communists, despite all the horrible things they have done, have managed to bring stability and economic growth to a country that was ruled by warlords for much of the early 20th century.

Hmmm ... they may have caused more deaths than any regime in world history, tens of millions during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution (and ignoring the civil war). If you burn down your house and then build a new one, can you claim credit for building something from nothing?

> the ideal way to really reform a country is through diplomacy, and working with existing institutions, and modernizing them, rather than start from scratch

I agree with this, but I don't think the current Chinese leadership does.

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[1] With the exception civil war based conflicts in Korea and India/Pakistan.
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On the other hand Google has driven a lot of miles without an incident and this minor accident doesn't change the fact that their system is safer than a human behind the wheel. And unlike humans who don't improve after an accident, Google's whole fleet just got even more safe.
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Has anyone taken a close look at what's actually running? I suppose it could be a version of the Windows Kernel since they have it running on ARM for Phone and RT but I frankly wouldn't be all that surprised if they were running Linux with .NET Core on top.
I haven't really used Slack, but I had an immediate, negative, and surprisingly-visceral reaction when I saw one of their animal-ads on Youtube... Can you spot the moment it all goes horribly horribly wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6sSa5NpqUI

The lion-manager is gazing out a window, has a passing thought about "flying umbrellas". Naturally, he instantly sends a mass-broadcast, interrupting and disrupting the work of the entire office. (Who all, of course, leap joyously to implement his brilliant vision.)

Now, this makes a lot of sense if you want to sell copies of Slack, since it appeals to the managers with the power to approve-purchases and mandate-adoption... But it implies Slack is going to either become the latest tool-of-oppression at a dysfunctional company, or that managers are going to buy Slack with the idea that they can use it to micromanage everybody.

Further on, as the Slack team adds features, guess what kinds of features are going to get priority? The ones that sell. Which ones are those? The ones that lion-managers love and other-employees hate.
But that also provides evidence of the parent's point that "Most of us are going to expect nothing short of perfection from these machines to really trust them."

We absolutely wouldn't be OK with elevators that now and then fail in a dangerous way. Doesn't mean it never happens but it's considered to be someone's fault when it does.
Overall I think this is actually good news for people like typelevel[1]... that is people with a strong passion for Scala, a stronger community approach and a slightly different view than Typesafe/Lightbend.

[1]http://typelevel.org/
> People should still be compensated when accidents happen, without the drag caused by trial attorneys attempting to extract as much as possible from self-driving vehicle manufacturers.

Of course but the current laws today can drag this out when people are involved; why would cars be any different?

> The benefits of self-driving vehicles from reduced fatalities and accidents alone are so great that a process and funding needs to be in place to allow continued innovation (if done with safety put first).

We don't do this in any other industry as far as I know. It's a weird mechanic to make the manufacturers of automatically driving cars off the hook from accidents.

I understand the intent but I don't know how that works within our current legal system and wouldn't that encourage cheap, shitty-built cars since companies won't need to be liable?
I think he's implying that teaching them how to code and not how to design programs will be the new "vocational" equivalent. Although this issue seems like it just generally applies to the education system as a whole, not specific at all to coding... unless I'm missing some key point.

Also, I think perhaps the issue is with allowing "coding" classes to qualify as math/science credits may encourage some students to essentially come out of highschool with a working knowledge of how to write java / javascript to accomplish certain tasks but have little analytical training (ie the scientific method, math beyond the basics, etc)
You mean market-based salaries
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> Lot of snow and can't see the lane markers? Millions of people adapt every day to this during winter.

This could not be less true among people driving in unfamiliar conditions. (http://legacy.wusa9.com/story/news/local/virginia/2016/01/20...)

The difference is that all self-driving cars benefit from the knowledge created by bumping into the edge cases. People can only do this in an ad-hoc manner (i.e. personal experience, taught by mentor, etc)
> Even better, I can now create both iOS apps and Android apps at the same time

Are you referring to native apps, or do you mean by making a Web app with React you don't need to make native apps?
Check out https://github.com/ryanflorence/react-project, it’s very new but seems similar to what you are aiming for.
Having skimmed the article, I'll take a swipe at answering the headline: because "...entrepreneur" doesn't add anything to the discussion that millions are already having.

If nothing else, such an article highlights that self-absorbed personality that kind of comes from those that are way too quick to slap the "special snowflake" label on someone with a half-baked idea and a text editor. Divorce is tough, and the fact that you propped a web server doesn't make it any more or less tough on you than on anyone else going through the same thing. Oh, your experience is unique but it's hardly special. That's why we're not talking about it.
You've implied that you have tried the Oculus Rift CV1, and that you wanted to take it off.

HAVE you tried the Oculus Rift CV1, and did it make you want to take it off?
[Network effect.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect)

Also due to this Wikipedia is build into a lot of things, like google search, or iOS Siri.
Correct and in today's society that is covered through insurance. Are we saying we're eliminating the insurance industry for vehicles? That's essentially what this would do (the government basically assumes the role as insurance company).
Don't worry, the best and brightest from all around the world-- especially India and China-- will come to replace them.
They also stay irrational longer than you'd expect.
> when trying to gauge the rate of return on those investments

Exactly, when trying to gauge your team. Not the end product they produced.
Java jobs are well paid and Javascript is the new BASIC. It's not a bad choice.
The human in the car exchanged it and thanks to the multitude of sensors and cameras this will be the single best documented fender bender in the history of the planet.
It's hard to say with such a short description, but as i read it, the google car never left its lane, just moved right to the edge of it's lane to avoid some debris.

Why did the bus move into an occupied lane?!?
This has nothing to do with preference and everything to do with jobs. Otherwise the headline wouldn't be what it is.
I didn't know a fund existed for vaccines but I found it might have an interesting application with self driving cars.

At its current state, self driving cars are not perfect. Roads were designed to be driven by people and it may take many years for road infrastructure and total adoption to properly support self driving cars. The one thing many will be able to agree on is there will be accidents and some people will be hurt at the fault of self driving cars but ultimately removing humans from driving will make roads a much safer place. The reason behind this particular vaccine fund (see link above) appears to align with problems that we will soon see as self driving cars hit the road and make mistakes but for the overall good.
Yes of course, but I would expect many commits between stable releases (patching issues). I guess this is just a different pattern where a solo-dev goes quitely working for a few months and then emerges with the next release.
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Considering the number of accidents after major storms I think your overstating the case. People are bad drivers in all conditions.

The problem with driving is you have to consistently do it well. You can make zero mistakes 99.99% of the time and be a terrible driver. One accident per 10,000 minutes would be ~one accident every year. Worse, a lot can happen every minute, so it's closer to not messing up for 600,000+ seconds.

The only reason people can drive is we build in very wide tolerances. ex: Car lanes are far wider than strictly necessary, you can fit ~2 cars in the average lane. Traffic lights have a significant delay where they are all red etc.
"Any inherent differences in productivity are dwarfed by the effects of being emotionally invested in your work and having lots of other people emotionally invested in the outcome."

In my experience, technology choices can make a massive difference in my ability to stay emotionally invested. If I'm constantly spending mental energy on the idiosyncrasies, strange bugs, and repetitive code required by my technology stack, I have much less time and energy to devote to making changes the customers will actually notice.
I think the poster assumed that the person was trained to fit their surroundings. We are all hyper-fitted to what we know best and what we encounter every day, and will probably fail spectacularly if we're unaware of that.
I was afraid I'd end up in a corporate IT department in a big company that does something other than technology as its main thing.

In Mikey Dickerson's talks about fixing Healthcare.gov he talks about two strains of programming: that descended from a more engineering mindset, and that descended from the IT department. (I'm paraphrasing badly: I'll try to find a better link when I have more time.) I guess I was using "Silicon Valley" as shorthand for the former.
I suspect this refers to the languages and frameworks in vogue (Rails, Node, Angular/React/Ember), emphasis towards open source, and using Apple hardware. There's still a ton of work done in unsexy companies on Dells and HP using PHP/ColdFusion/.NET/etc.
Ok, I laughed out loud on that one. This quote in particular, "The vehicle and the test driver 'believed the bus would slow or allow the Google (autonomous vehicle) to continue.'"

Bus drivers in the Bay Area are notorious for ignoring traffic (and pedestrians). Apparently there is some indemnity or statutes that make suing either the transportation agency or the driver nearly impossible and so pretty quickly people learn that the bus drivers drive with impunity. Plenty of stories posted to the local traffic column in the paper, and shared amongst neighbors and in the department of safety's "blotter" feature.

Google needs to go back and program their cars to always assume that buses are out to get them and avoid them at all cost, They are an active traffic hazard often operated by a disinterested and distracted driver. The only way to "win" is to not be where ever the bus is.
> It started out as a monolith actually, and grew out of that pattern when it didn't fit anymore.

Pretty sure thats exactly what DHH (the author) advocates for.
Good point. Language-level modular dependencies are one way to divide an architecture. Networked services are another.
I'm planning to keep the basic, most used APIs the same, but yes, there will be some breaking changes. Promises will follow ES6 API and advanced redraw control APIs will likely be changed to improve ergonomics and leverage good ideas from other vdom libraries.
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It would seem to me that Google's autonomous car insurance, which they must have bought from somewhere, would take care of this in pretty much the same way as other insured drivers are currently protected.

It really shouldn't be very different from, say, a fatal accident from a driver in a corporate-owned car.

Sure...PIP attorneys are going to go after Alphabet and make a big ruckus, but in the end, Alphabet has to have all this covered already as part of the plan.
I can mention one reason why it could happen and would:

Price

Taking your IT out of SF and SV means you could spend the money you save on offices and increase developers salary.

On the other side for developers it could mean better earnings with less being spent on paying rent and other services which could lead to more savings for you.

At industry level this would translate to a competitive advantage as you can build a service cheaper.
Sounds like we need a self-driving bus.
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Is the combination symmetrical? I.e. would we get the same result combining A with B than combining B with A?
Google's HQ is in Mountain View. Why did you have to live or buy a house in SF?
It doesn't even have to be in a place that doesn't get much snow.

First snow fall in Calgary looks like what you get in a standard snow storm in a city in the south east. Its even funnier if the first snow fall is early and then there are another two months of sun and no snow and then you get a repeat during the second snow fall. People have to relearn how to drive in snow every year.

People are bad drivers in good conditions, they just happen to be able to be bad drivers in bad conditions as well.
Few days ago I had a chat with a taxi driver in Tallin, very nice Estonian fellow in his 50s. On average he ends up working 80/hrs per week and he gets to keep (after tax, etc.) about 1/3rd of a fare paid by a customer.
I have a $100 bet going with a coworker at the office.

We defined self-driving cars: When I can pull out my phone in any of at least 5 major metropolitan areas around the world, order a driverless car, have it pick me up and deliver me to a specified location within the city in a timely fashion, with as little risk as getting in a taxi.

He is sub 20 years. I'm thinking more like 40-50 mark.

My thesis? We can solve the technical challenges, but so much physical, legal, and regulatory infrastructure needs to change to make this viable that it will be more than 2 decades until we see self-driving cars as a reality across multiple cities. Of course, I would be more than happy to lose the $100 as it would make everyone's lives better that much sooner. But I'm skeptical.
And here is the actual accident report [0]

"A Google Lexus-model autonomous vehicle ("Google AV") was traveling in autonomous mode eastbound on El Camino Real in Mountain View in the far right-hand lane approaching the Castro St. intersection. As the Google AV approached the intersection, it signaled its intent to make a right turn on red onto Castro St. The Google AV then moved to the right-hand sid of the lane to pass traffic in the same lane that was stopped at the intersection and proceeding straight. However, the Google AV had to come to a stop to go around sandbags positioned around a storm drain that were blocking its path. When the light turned green, traffic in the lane continued past the Google AV. After a few cars had passed, the Google AV began to proceed back into the center of the lane to pass the sand bags. A public transit bus was approaching from behind. The Google AV test driver saw the bus approaching in the left side mirror but believed the bus would stop or slow to allow the Google AV to continue. Approximately three seconds later, as the Google AV was reentering the center of the lane, it made contact with the side of the bus. The Google AV was operating in autonomous mode and travelling less than 2 mph, and the bus was travelling at about 15 mph at the time of contact.

The Google AV sustained body damage to the left front fender, the left front wheel and one of its driver's-side sensors. There were no injuries reported at the scene."

[0] - https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3946fbb8-e04e-4d52...
I would expect the contributors of Star Wars wikis, Pokemon wikis, etc, would want self-determined rule- doing best for their particular wikis. Wikipedia, with a broad reach, will have different rules/needs than a very specific/focused wiki.
It's just so fucking expensive to live here, and coupled with the constant drumbeat of money money money, and seeing the vast differences in wealth, it's just so so depressing.
Agreed.

Google needs to increase the settings on "Defensive Driving".

Just because the Google robot drives in a reasonable manner doesn't mean the humans around it will.
> The current state of AI is very very bad at this.

What makes you think so?
The issue for me is drive-by-wire. I'm cool with a computer trying to steer as long as it gives up when I try to fight it. I also preferred the cruise control where you could feel the pedal moving under your foot, because that was the master control tied to the carburetor or sensor that managed fuel.

I still think that self-driving stuff should be more enhanced cruise control and less "there is no steering wheel or controls".
Not just Europe - BMW drivers are the same around the world.