skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red Hat Summit Hosts a Wedding – For Real
This has been long awaited:

Post.where('id = 1').or(Post.where('id = 2'))
We're a cyber security company and moved to Romania because around 1/4 of our employees were Romanians working remotely with us. Sure, if you are willing to work from home you can find a job anywhere it's available.
This is pretty cool. I've kind of moved on to Elixir and Phoenix for my web stuff these days, but it's still nice to see Rails going strong.
Most of the "sharing" or "on-demand" economy is based on this value proposition. Replace a manager's job with software and suddenly your taxi drivers, hotel workers, cooks, delivery drivers, administrative assistants, artists, visual designers, computer programmers, etc. can report to software instead of a person.

You could argue that the reason Uber etc. have found success recruiting workers for pretty shitty wages is because people are willing to give up that much money to not have to deal with a boss.

This trend also has a long way to go: for one, wearables will open up electronic coordination to people whose jobs normally require having their hands full, and two, improved AI will allow the automation of increasingly complex managerial tasks.
I've read about halfway through it and I'm just appalled. They prosecuted Jennings for the sole reason that they had no idea how to find the actual killer. But someone had to pay, and Jennings was the least unlikely suspect that they actually knew how to find (though they had to wait for him to come home from serving in Iraq!).

This conviction is a black mark on the record of the great State of California. And it really shows the dangers of listening too closely to victims and their families, who are (understandably, in their pain) often much too quick to fixate on a suspect. Yes, they wanted justice for their daughter -- I get that. But true justice required finding the actual killer. Putting an innocent man in prison is not justice for anybody.

BTW I've chipped into the GoFundMe campaign.
The Mercedes E-Class Drive Pilot seems to do this to some extent. For example even going from demanding the driver to place one hand on the steering wheel to requiring both hands.

https://youtu.be/Pq5LDi3-ChU?t=40m5s
But yet as a developer "i don't write good enough code, so we have a massive test harness to catch any bugs I might introduce".

Of course the goal is to operate at 100% efficiency, but in reality that's not going to happen all the time. Backfill channels like this are a way to make at least a little bit of money when sales a slow for a bit for whatever reason.

In terms of the problems the online media industry faces with advertising, the efficiency of in-house sales teams is not a huge priority atm.
Certain aspects of his campaign -- e.g. his lack of effort to appeal to anyone outside of his base, to the point of actively alienating the vast majority of US voters -- make perfect sense now.
The quality of your telephone service -- voice quality and can people even reach you? -- is powerful marketing or antimarketing for your business.

If I am a customer or prospect and I call you, what will it sound like? Is your self-hosted solution the best use of your time? What if your VPS provider gets a DDOS attack and your VPS and phone service is unreachable?

An executive's time is worth millions. Don't piss it away saving $25/month per employee.

Oh. And Google Voice. A steaming pile of telephone call spam and text messages is what it turned out for me. Avoid.

Serious people use serious tools.
Seriously, .or() always felt like a glaring omission.
They can put anything they want in the EULA it doesn't means it would stand up scrutiny in the court of law.

Autopilot features are in a grey area now since they are very new but Tesla is still responsible regardless of what they claim to be.

Seatbelts and Airbags were also in "beta phase" at some point, and more likely than not some people got killed by a deploying airbag in it's early days or by a seatbelt with a shoddy release function before everything was standardized but you could still sue for compensation in those incidents as well.
Fair. They could retry but I can't see how. They don't really have anything. Jay is a terrible witness and he won't hold up in a cross, given the amount of times he changed his story (the latest being his intercept interview last year). Cell tower evidence is questionable and their expert witness recinded his testimony. The timeline has never been solid and is even more of a mess after Undisclosed.

If they retry what evidence will they bring to the table?
Have you seen a 2016 Mercedes E-class? It has autonomous systems on essentially the same level as a Tesla, just without the flashy "Autopilot" branding. The new S-class coming out next year is going to have a lot more autonomous features on top of that, including Lidar (which Tesla lacks).
Been using Elixir / Phoenix as well, and it's been a breath of fresh air. That said, I'm glad that rails has been looking at projects like Phoenix for inspiration as it continues to grow and adapt.
Because not all of us are robots that only care about making our computers beep, boop and flash?
How come the radar in the Tesla did not detect the obstacle?
Looks like a solid and and relatively straightforward upgrade from Rails 4.2. It's hard not to feel Rails has become a bit of a slow-moving behemoth though, with this release four years after 4.0. I've still got a couple clients using 3.2 from 2012 and things aren't that different.

Smart money at this point seems like a significant portion of the Rails community could begin moving to Elixir/Phoenix over the coming years. The advantages from a language/VM level just look impossible for Ruby to overcome, along with a blub effect kicking in.
Funny isn't it? In 2nd world country (Poland) all internal transfers (inside country) are free.
Nice! The Turbolinks 5 presentation was really impressive
Congrats to the contributors and thanks for the hard work pushing this out!

Looking forward to Heroku working out of the box[1] and quiet assets moved to core[2]

[1] https://blog.heroku.com/container_ready_rails_5

[2] https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails/pull/355
Close is not the same and neither is the same as 1/134 million. Of course I have no idea if the differences are statistically significant, and it's likely impossible to tell given the lack of data on Tesla autopilot at the moment (new).
It's really weird that a comment pointing out scientific evidence is downvoted here.

Memory is bad, period. And we don't even realize it. It's extremely common to be absolutely certain you've observed something, which never ever happened.
What constitutes an empire though, the US is more than twice the size of the Roman Empire at it's peak. Surely that is not an empire?

It also influences other countries to an extent which is similar to other empires like the British did. It invades countries to keep trade going, and it's companies dominate the world much like the companies of the British empire did.

The only difference is that the US has finished expanding.

So what really constitutes an empire? Does it need an emperor? Does it need to constantly be questing to expand in lands?
There are entire car models that have had zero driver deaths: http://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/29/study-chan...

The Tesla Model S will now never be one of them, and in fact, is now among average for fatality rates that includes motorcycles, drunks, and other dangerous factors. It's now not even among the class of luxury cars that have very low driver deaths.

Right now self-driving cars are far too dangerous for public use.
The fact that Tesla will blame their users for anything that goes wrong makes me avoid considering one. Alone with all the hype they try to sell.

But what disappoints me the most is how the "tech" crowd will defend Tesla every time.Someone lost their life because Tesla can't put out a decent semi-autonomous driving systems and we are supposed to brush it aside?
As a Brit I'd just like to say that _that_ is how a country should grasp an opportunity. Rather than the bitchy whining I've seen from many of my compatriots so far!
The Origins of the Domestic Blueberry
When I was in college, the I-35W bridge collapsed and many people died. In my differential equations class the next day, my professor was handing back our tests and told us–a class of engineers–that every red mark on our tests was another dead body.

You might scoff and say that's hyperbole, or scaremongering, and you might be right, but I took it as a warning. It is our responsibility as ethical engineers to ensure that people aren't harmed by the technology we create. It's true that self-driving cars will likely be safer than human-driven cars, but that doesn't absolve us of responsibility. In fact, it makes it all the more poignant.
Would it be an antipattern (design and performance wise) to have huge documents in rethinkdb? for example, using a single document for each user in a web app.
It is as much system level as Oberon or Mesa/Cedar, both with proofs on how to write a full graphic Workstation with them.

As for Go, it is fully bootstraped in itself, including the whole runtime.

There are already some bare bones examples at OS Dev

http://wiki.osdev.org/Go_Bare_Bones

And there are people writing bare metal runtimes for the STM32F4 and STM32L1-Discovery boards.

https://sites.google.com/site/embeddedgo/home

For me that is a system level programming language.
What's really sad is that it took this long and what's even sadder is that there are many people who feel that it is working just fine.

Congratulations on your achievement though, that was really good of you and your dad to do.
Apple in Exploratory Talks to Acquire Jay Z’s Tidal Music Service
This thread inspired me to look this stuff up.
I think you're thinking of vOICe? https://www.seeingwithsound.com/
The problem seems to be that Apple is preventing Spotify from promoting its own method of payment outside the App Store. It certainly seems like bullying to me as it seems like Spotify's speech is being limited (I realize the App Store is not subject to the 1st amendment, but limiting speech still bothers me).
Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode
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Unless they're able to pull off 3x3 in the next year, I expect Ruby/Rails will start to lose a lot of mind-share.

*edit: For clarification, I use Ruby every day and I think its awesome! However, I don't want to see it lose popularity the way Pearl did. I'm concerned that if the language doesn't continue to innovate and improve, that I will lose ground. Lots of new languages have similarly great ergonomics, but get concurrency right, or are faster. I don't think improved concurrency is really on the table for Ruby 3, so I think 3x3 is going to be critical to the long term future of the language.

But, that's just my prediction and its likely wrong.
You have a higher tolerance for grating. I find TAL impossible to listen to weekly.

It embodies the elements of NPR that drive me nuts, without the pledge drive to give me a time out period. :)
A former felon with tons of press about his innocence is psychologically much less risky of a hire than a former felon without a ton of positive press(about perseverance, forgiveness, positive attitude etc.)
It is essentially AI kills driver. The truck was making a left turn in front of the Tesla, which was in the right lane of a 4 lane divided highway. The truck would have had to accelerate in the left turn lane, cross the divider, cross the left lane, then drive further so that the middle of the trailer was in the right lane. This takes at least 5-6 seconds for a semi, and if the semi were detected, there would have been ample time to apply the brakes to give the truck enough time to clear the intersection. If the autopilot system can't detect and respond to this situation appropriately, it shouldn't be able to be activated on a non-controlled access highway.
Learning to Search Better Than Your Teacher [pdf]
> He recently collaborated on a track with a French musician, delivering a spoken-word monologue on surveillance over an electronic beat, and recommended the title: “Exit.”

A little bit off-topic, I was quite surprised when I clicked the link, to find that the unnamed "French musician" is, in fact, synthesizer legend Jean-Michel Jarre. Why not mention his name? It kind of sounds like it's some random dude on youtube, but he's right up there with Kraftwerk and not even a little obscure :)

On another note, I think it's funny how many similarities this music video has with the intro-theme of TV-series "Person of Interest" :) The imagery and especially the vocal effects on Snowden's voice in the second half :)
It isn't the normal driving that makes self-driving cars so difficult. It's the edge cases that will be multiplied significantly when a large fraction of the cars are self driving. It will take decades, not "5 years from now" (which I have been hearing for years) to get these systems to work.
> ...a person openly said they're ex-CIA.

It was my understanding that he first misrepresented himself as a State Department employee, then for some reason came clean several years later. I think filtering that sort of behavior out has a lot more pros than cons.

> I considered something like Cyclone...

A lot of that can be done with compiler annotations, the disadvantage of course being that it isn't default behavior... which is consistent with the rest of the C universe - things are no more secure than you design them to be.

> If not, please elaborate.

That is what I'd say if I was an OO programmer, yes. But I'll elaborate anyway because... have you ever just been in the mood to write gibberish C?

/* New unreviewed code from untrusted source */
__attribute__((const)) /* More pure than "pure" */
static int newfunc(char* src, int len){ return src ? 0 : len; }

/* Imagine an incredibly comprehensive spec for this public function, right here */
__attribute__((nonnull(1,2))) /* No Cyclone needed for null safety here */
int pubfunc(char* a, char* b) {
/* ... */
if (a[0] == '4')
return newfunc(b, 4); /* Untrusted function covered under that amazing spec you imagined */
/* ... */
}
Upside of working on "boring CRUD apps that won't change the world": your edge-cases won't result in fatalities.

I hope Tesla learns something from this, from the outside looking in - they appear to have a cavalier, can-do attitude (nothing wrong with the latter) towards safety engineering. Release beta self-driving software to production vehicles? Yeah, why not?
Well of course it's not statistically significant, 1/134 is based on a single data point. At this level of confidence, all these numbers are equal. If this was the first fatality in 1000 million miles, it might be an indication of higher safety. Might.
>beamforming array to more precisely direct the "counter-attack".

you can just use it to "noise-cancel" in your apartment without "attack" component. After all they start to use active cancellation to decrease turbo-props noise for the passengers.
Just as an anecdote, the fact that Haskell does this (infers type signatures for functions) is one of the things I don't like about it, because it seems to often infer things that are surprising to me. I think inferring types in most places, but enforcing explicit types at the level of method definition strikes a really good balance. I care about the types required to satisfy interfaces, but enjoy not needing to care so much in implementations.

IDE support for creating method signatures by inferring types would be neat though.
That's actually not that bad. I can actually listen to it. Maybe some "To Live and Shave In L.A" will do the trick? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPtQI-KMvOc
If you are interested in learning about the case, I recommend reading the letter that my father and I sent to the District Attorney's office: http://www.ehrlichfirm.com/jennings/Ray-Jennings-Letter-to-C...
I heard it was the Airbus weirdness of steering setup that noticeably added to the problems (Separate, disjointed joysticks)
One pilot pulled up as hard as he could while the other one thought he was pushing down, making the confusion this much worse
Rapidly apply brakes. Seems like the safest possible way to avoid the deer without causing injury to driver + possibly others.
And here's more info about how: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2992605
Jay only admitted to helping Syed bury the body.
unfortunately, i agree with you. Ive moved to elixir for all web work and the erlang vm just blows ruby out of the water at restapi/web services stuff. Im a huge ruby/rails fan though, and have earned a living off the ruby ecosystem. I just dont see how ruby can overcome the vm disadvantage to be honest, though id really like to see them try
A long awaited release is finally here, Yoohoo!

Now, let the job of upgrading begins.

Also, I love how everyone found a feature they've been waiting for and celebrating it. Rails, always bring joy (pain comes in few years ;) )
Tesla Solar Wants to Be the Apple Store for Electricity
If Walmart started preventing their suppliers from advertising their other distribution channels besides Walmart, there would be a huge problem. It appears you misunderstand the complaint.
I wish I had API mode 4 years ago
It is possible he was expecting the Model S to auto-brake as it normally does, and possibly realized when it was too late and panicked/tried to swerve. But I'm just speculating, I'm waiting to hear the outcome of the NHTSA investigation.
I'm constantly amused by family-friendly pop culture references to that song, considering how incredibly offensive it is :)
+1000 for this!

Brandon and the Pixel & Tonic team are wonderful developers and human beings. They have a true care for their product. The community around CraftCMS is very friendly, helpful and empowering.

You can't go wrong with CraftCMS. I found my happy CMS ecosystem :)
Or maybe it's just a human behavior problem, and unfortunately it may take a few accidents of this type to train ourselves that AI assist doesn't mean we can lessen our attention.

Especially after hearing about incidents like this, you won't find me going through my email while letting "autopilot" do its thing. I don't think I would before this, but there's certainly a lower probability that I would now. I'm being trained.
Mostly off-topic, but if you haven't heard it before, you'd probably enjoy giving Criminal[0] a listen.

[0]: http://thisiscriminal.com/
It's tempting to say that some proof is not there yet, but considering the amount of studies published every year and inability to read even abstracts of all of them it's often far fetched. It was shown more than once that certain gut bacteria cure certain kinds of allergies: http://evidenceba.se/answers/17-allergies-can-be-treated-wit...
yes.
to the op,
did you find the line between what you want or think is reasonable to achieve vs. what the person wants?
that's a great act of communication.
I have fond memories of using Dreamweaver back in the day at school, but this seems way to little and way to late. Sure, maybe as a developer this isn't aimed at me (maybe it's more for pure mockup designers?), but what does it do that various Jetbrains products + Chrome dev tools don't?

I mean less was released in 2009 and sass even earlier than that, being that late to the party isn't a good thing. I think you need a great plugin ecosystem to make a success of an editor now, how are they going to encourage (or even support) that?
This should exactly answer zzalpha' question "why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?". :-)
> Have tried the civil route, but it's not working and it's not illegal to be a rude neighbor.

If it's loud enough or during certain hours, it definitely is. And even if it isn't illegally loud, you can try and complain anyways. From my experience the police usually don't care about the specifics and side with the complaint maker by default.

My high school punk band's practices were shut down way too many times by police, even though we would practice in a closed garage during daylight hours at a legal level. Because even if you're allowed to do it, what else can you do when cops are banging at your door saying you're not? Unless you have a Decibel meter and print-outs of local noise ordinances on hand, the response is generally "Doesn't matter, sounds too loud to me. Turn it off."
Personally I enjoyed the hold music tone episode. I think I like the investigative quality and the back and forth questioning that slowly reveals the layers of a situation.

The ones I have a hard time listening to are the ones where they have an actor read an excerpt a book. Sometimes it's interesting, and sometimes, it's just a guy reading a book.
We had this experience as well. We started using Thinky for a few projects, but found that as soon as we need more complex queries it became very awkward to work within Thinky to do those.

Eventually, we discovered ReQL by itself is just great to work with (especially with rethinkdbdash). Writing your own queries also has significant atomicity benefits over Thinky.
So that's why they called the feature "Autopilot"?
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I stand corrected about the term 'eye-height' -- apparently no one I could credibly find mounts their radar at eye-height.

Mercedes-Benz uses two different radar sensors:
"the DISTRONIC radar is configured to monitor three lanes of a motorway to a range of up to 150 metres with a spread of nine degrees, the new [DISTRONIC PLUS] 24-Gigahertz radar registers the situation immediately ahead of the vehicle with aspread of 80 degrees and a range of 30 metres." [1]

Volvo has a combination of grill-mounted 15° FOV radar and a 48° FOV greyscale camera behind the top of the windshield [2].

Volkswagen uses radar [3], but not sure where it's mounted. Honda's CMBS is a radar in the grill [4]. Subaru uses two cameras mounted behind the top of the windshield [5], and no radar, albeit radar is used with some of their other safety systems.

[1] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv20/07-0103-O.pdf
[2] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv20/07-0450-o.pdf
[3] http://en.volkswagen.com/en/innovation-and-technology/techni...
[4] https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/pubs/om/JA0606/JA0606O00...
[5] http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/news/a6852/subaru-camer...
Acceptable losses is the only possibility, if we are to have cars at all.

Everyone is on the side of less death, but since there are some inherent dangers in zooming along at 120km/h, the losses can only approach zero and will never reach it. The fact that cars are used at all shows that we make something like a utilitarian decision already. They are very, very useful, with a small possibility of personal catastrophe. Same with air travel, drinking beer, or leaving the house ever, all to different degrees.

If the autocars are less likely to kill me than human drivers, I'm for the autocars.
A signed zip is still dangerous. If the attacker can convince the user to download two files instead of just one, the attacker controls the names of the folders that contains the extracted zip contents (i.e. the name of the zip), so any app that looks at ../foo/bar would still be vulnerable.

The Info.plist approach (where the app declares that it has no such relative path dependencies and so should skip gatekeeper path randomization) seems like the best approach for fixing this "issue".