skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source? Those are extraordinary claims. I'm not aware of any other cheating anywhere close to the magnitude of what VW did. Also, what "defeat device" are you talking about? VW's cheat was in software; it wasn't some specific device.

And are you seriously surprised that it can take 1.5 years for a massive multi-billion dollar lawsuit to wind its way through federal courts? If you think 1.5 years is long, look at the Exxon-Valdez settlement, parts of which are still unpaid 28 years later!
Some models of Volkswagen now include driver fatigue detection, based on analysing steering inputs (and possibly other signals?). It just warns you to pull over, though.
This doesn't look like satire, they've even gone and created nrapress.org which mimics the actual NRA-ILA site. It is not obvious satire and the press release page looks absolutely authentic because they've ripped the NRA-ILA site design and are redirecting to the NRA-ILA site.
Perhaps algal oil? Soylent is taking that approach
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Is there any legitmacy left to the argument that we need technology to solve malnutrition?

Absolutely. Over a half-million children die each and every year due to lack of vitamin A. If they were eating the same amount of rice they currently do, but it was golden rice, they would be alive.

Going farther afield, if it were not for technology, people would have started starving by the hundreds of millions back in the 1970s. Even today we are one good pathogen away from billions starving - something like the Irish Potato Famine but on a much larger scale. There is a constant back and forth where we are constantly identifying threats and breeding responses. GMOs are an important tool to protect our agriculture.

Forcible redistribution of food from the haves to the have nots has its own problems. It would admittedly solve the vitamin A problem, but would create others. And it would emphatically NOT solve the problem of a potential crop failure.
> I am still pretty upset and maybe even somewhat traumatized about all the previous times they've fucked me over in scenarios like this. It starts out great and then gets ruined.

I haven't done much development using Apple frameworks. I'm curious, where has this happened to you before?
there is a difference between "the temperature is going up" and "this very complex system has no side-effects". one requires a rough model; the other requires a full understanding. one we have, the other we do not. it's not a fair comparison at all.
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I think you mean the 2017 E-class, they just started appearing at dealers in CA, and I'm excited to go test-drive one and see how much better it is than my 2014 E-class.

That said, it's my understanding that DISTRONIC still disengages if you take your hands off the wheel for more than a short amount of time, same as the 2014 model, and I haven't seen Mercedes make any announcement that the 2017 model will be so good that they're gonna assume liability for accidents.

All bark, no bite. It's great that there's competition in the autonomous tech, but I'm very skeptical of either Mercedes or Volvo standing behind that promise any time soon now.
Does anyone know how browsers go about deciding which CAs to trust? It seems like browsers should be auditing CAs if they are going to be making this decision on our behalf. An audit should have caught this design flaw.
I'm pretty sure that new evidence always means new charges can be brought. Also, I don't believe there is a statute of limitations for murder.
I firmly believe that all genetic engineering applications, except for human health-related medical interventions, should be delayed for at least several hundred years. Research, yes, but applications are out of the question for centuries.

Anything less stringent is open-ended experimentation on the only biosphere in the known Universe. It is hubris of the rankest sort.

Further I believe that this is a scientific view.

We know our ignorance is far too vast.

The only reasons to use GMOs are hubris and greed. That is it.

Either you are a scientific ego-tripper who can't or won't understand that real people have serious reservations about participating in your open-ended genetic experiment, or you just want to make a buck and don't care.

If it could be shown that, for some given application of GE, there is absolutely no other alternative to save lives, then that's something. However, I believe we can feed ourselves without GMOs by means of "applied ecology" ("Permaculture" etc.) so there is no call to use GMOs. These doubtless well-meaning scientists are using the reduction of "Vitamin-A deficiencies causing blindness and death in children in the developing world" to insist on a highly controversial technology. It's kind of just as ugly and self-serving as they paint Greenpeace to be.

The report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is quoted in the article as saying, "such crops are relatively new and that it is premature to make broad generalizations, positive or negative, about their safety."

We know we don't know enough. I don't want to eat your faith.
If you paint with broad strokes, yes. But selective breeding doesn't have the power genetic modification does and thus more caution ought to be exercised. And frankly it isn't an argument. Selection ought to be taken seriously. The misuse of antibiotics has contributed to antibiotic resistant strains that are a serious threat. Furthermore, the social dimension is important. Corporations like Monsanto are been involved in corrupt practices that aim to expand their control over agriculture. It's not necessarily the GM per se but the kind of GM they're doing (producing sterile crop that would force farmers to purchase more, or patents and the ridiculous royalties around them). Third world countries stand to loose in these cases because the crop is being pushed on them for nutritional reasons without considering the strings attached to them. Furthermore, Europeans tend to take a precautionary approach whereas Americans tend to release something to market and watch for effects. It's frankly a general practice that is a bit worrying and boorishly pragmatic. So there's that. The GMO bit is kind of a red herring here.
The report from Tesla says the autopilot didn't see the truck because the "white side of the tractor trailer" mathched "a brightly lit sky". It doesn't mention radar which should have had a huge signature. On twitter Musk addresses radar and says "radar tunes out what looks like an overhead road sign to avoid false braking events".

Isn't the obvious question why does it also tune out huge overhead road signs which are moving from left to right across the road?
> African Americans commit a disproportionately large amount of violent crimes. It seems reasonable to expect that they also commit a larger amount of misdemeanors and minor infractions.

There is no obvious causal reason to link violent offenses and non-violent offenses. In fact, in my experience, I would expect an inverse causal relationship. I know quite a few ... people ... who would pick your pocket, steal from your house, etc. but would never actually physically assault somebody.

Your statement might be true, but some data is required.
At least there's an Android app. Anyone remember the shoes that would only talk to an iPod?
Sorry but I'm not anti-GMO.

I'm for intellectual honesty and believe thoughtful claims should be presented sincerely and carefully as a matter of course whether I support them or not.
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That's kind of the point of shares, isn't it? They're super manipulatable and for just this reason: you can get rid of people you don't like. They can fight in court all they want, but a private company will probably win.
In all your replies, you haven't given concrete example of "I need arrays because tuples or lists can't do X".

Complaining in the abstract isn't helpful.

If Elixir had arrays, why would that be better than using other enumerables like lists or tuples?
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FWIW, here is the Tesla press release as it was submitted to HN (and now already off the front page): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011419

Not sure if your comment is meant to insinuate that Tesla is being more transparent than it needs to be. Its press release, dated June 30, refers to a fatal accident that happened on May 7. Judging by the first sentence of that press release, it seems to have been spurred because the U.S. decided to open an investigation yesterday. Tesla has had 50 days to say something and they waited until the day after they learned about the investigation.

AFAIK, accidents in which a consumer complaint is received or in which a defect in a vehicle or vehicle-part is suspected is sent to the NHTSA [1], which then decides whether or not to conduct an investigation. The NYT article makes it sound like the NHTSA has been in contact with the Florida Highway Patrol...I don't see where it says that Tesla went out of its way to tell the NHTSA (at least compared to other automakers)

[1] http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/flatfiles.cfm
Does anybody know the status of Clang/llvm's webassembly backend? I haven't heard much of anything about its progress recently.
I'm thinking I'll code till the day I die. So much cool tech is always coming out - so much to play with and invent! I also have very time consuming hobbies - reading, playing video games, pen and paper role playing games, board games.
I do not like GMO* and try to avoid buying the stuff. I understand that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it has no ill-effects compared to non-GMO foods. For me there are two main arguments for avoiding it, one selfish, one less-so.

1. The less selfish one: GMO is strongly associated with massive monoculture. The lack of genetic diversity presents serious systemic risks.

2. The selfish one: The majority of GMO encountered in a US supermarket is modified for resistance to herbicide (canola, roundup) [citation needed], rather than for nutrition, flavor, or texture. Though not a strong signal, being non-GMO correlates with higher quality. (Yes, I prefer buying uncommon cultivars where e.g., the tomato hasn't been bred for mass transport)

While I don't think there's anything a priori wrong/harmful/etc. with genetically modifying organisms, I think the current applications on the market are not ideal. I would love to see the cost of GMing food come down to the point where we don't have oligopolies controlling seed production and see some more beneficial uses of the technology.

* If you consider cross/selective-breeding GMOing, then just s/GMO/roundup ready crops, BT-corn, flavr savr, etc./.
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I listened to the whole series and ended up feeling he was guilty. Then I felt annoyed with the project. I'd spent all these hours getting familiar with a killer. What a result from this project - maybe a guilty man will get out of prison.
Very interesting that you suggest highway driving is the safest part (I assume in the US). In Australia it is country driving that is the most dangerous. An area the Telsa self driving feature would be very suited.

http://www.mac.sa.gov.au/campaigns/country-driving
Management must have represented to investors that they were in full compliance with state regulators. I wonder how serious of a fraud this "release of claims" protects them from.
Tesla Driver Killed in Crash While Using Car's 'Autopilot'
Another obviousness: why would you tune out a sign that is at a height which the vehicle will impact?
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ZK is zab - similar to Paxos but not Paxos
Volunteer. There are so many good opportunities most places, you just have to find ones that interest you.
Unfortunately wealth and prosperity usually coincides with polluting the environment.

The world's richest 10% produce half the Carbon pollution.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/worlds-richest-10-produce-hal...
Or maybe we are just making up narratives to explain regression toward the mean?
An outdated version of the HN code is in http://arclanguage.org/install
A bit off-topic, but that satire was so good it was great.

I support the right to bear arms.

Other than being childish ("dumb laws") and poorly worded (emphasizing "at risk"), there wasn't much I'd disagree with. I expected satire to have a little more humor.
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Ask HN: Your favourite project site/demo?
I want to make a little demo site for a script I have written, and am browsing for inspiration/bootstrap templates. What's a nice simple one pager that you've seen floating around?
I was hoping it would be for older software (say, from before github or even sourceforge) that's currently scattered across the Internet. I've been trying to locate the code for the MC6839 [1] and have yet to come across it. I've come across the binary, but sadly, no source.

[1] A floating point package (IEEE 754) for the 6809 in an 8K ROM (position independent). Apparently, Motorola wrote it, made datasheets available but never actually sold any. Then in the very late 80s they (from what I understand) released the code into the public domain.
Astronomical cameras don't capture color information in the sense that our eyes or consumer digital cameras do. They are "black and white" only detectors. To get color information, several images are taken with different filters in front of the detector. Afterwards, those images can be stacked and each layer assigned a color to create a composite image.

Making this a "true color" image that exactly mimics what your naked eye would see ranges from difficult to impossible (like in the case of UV data). It's also unimportant, because we mostly use color images as a visual aide (of course!). The "science" is in comparing and contrasting the individual "color" images.
There are quite a few and of course it depends on your needs. Personally I like AWS and SoftLayer. They both have world class data centers and tons of different advanced ways to build and configure systems, numerous availability zones across the globe, etc.

DigitalOcean is a really wonderful, cheap, and performant solution for rapid prototyping and other projects where you don't want to be burdened with unnecessary complexity or high costs. I often use a DigitalOcean droplet as a personal development environment for this reason.

However, I don't think DigitalOcean is a great fit for enterprise systems or for projects that are ready to start planting deep roots. In other words, it's probably a bad fit for someone looking to provide hosting for 38k sites.
There is one extremely simple [1], unequivocally positive GMO success story: Rainbow papaya in Hawaii [2,3].

In the 90s, papaya ringspot virus was about to wipe out papaya cultivation from Hawaii. Scientist (the leading scientist was Hawaiian born even) transferred a gene from the virus to a cultivar of papaya, making the cultivar resistant to the virus. Hawaiians have been happily producing papaya ever since.

But still the general anti-science, anti-GMO sentiment is strong. Banning GMOs seems to be the fashionable thing to do. So in 2013 the main island in Hawaii banned the cultivation of any GMO crop [4]. Except the papaya. They have been safely growing and eating GMO papayas for 20 years, and growing papaya is economically important to them. But with some cognitive dissonance they can still jump on the "GMOs are dangerous" bandwagon, and ban all other GMO crops. Talk about hypocrisy.

[1] There are other successes, but their stories are more complicated. For example herbicide tolerant cultivars are usually 'good', considering that they facilitate switching from more toxic herbicides to less toxic, but the story is more complicated, and can be quite easily attacked by a populist demagogue.

[2] http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/pap...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering_in_Hawaii#...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering_in_Hawaii#...
Does this mean that Yahoo results appear in DDG?

Will DDG power Yahoo search in any way?
Is this actual Yahoo tech or Bing result enrichment by way of Yahoo?
There should have been a control experiment where a person's likeability, intelligence and "hirability" are assessed when both women and men say the same things with and without modulation to make sure it is really neutral.
It is easy pickings for cops in many poor areas, driving older vehicles, having obvious damage, and worse a light out, its a freebie to the cops. Best of all, there is a good chance of no license, suspended license, drugs, or alcohol.

I am curious about studies of outlying areas, how much of their revenue is also disproportionately from minorities or do you just need to be poor?

The saddest part its not just fines that bury inner city poor, but all those little costs government imposes on people through fees and similar.

I do love your idea that all fines and confiscations must be refunded to the population as a whole. However I figure some communities might latch onto the local interstate for a boost.
> Being able to handle large traffic spikes and continous connections is a game change from what I found

This isn't specific to Elixir/Phoenix/Beam.

> Some parts of the cluster would be crashing and restarting for a while, and there would be no need to wake everyone up

Like any well-designed system that separates concerns. Again, this isn't language or framwork-specific.

This stuff is what frustrates me most about the vocal early adopting crowd. If it makes your team vastly more productive, that sounds like a great win for you. If you subjectively like it better, that's also perfectly valid. But citing resilience, efficiency, scalability, and handling traffic spikes seems thin -- these are all things that can easily be attained with just about any well-factored system on any number of languages/frameworks.

Get off my lawn.
[Off topic] I am surprised that the DA reopened the case, particularly with an actual jury verdict under their belt. What incentive do you think the DA had to reopen the case? Were they just afraid to lose on appeal? Speaking of appeal, how far up in the court system did the appeal go? And was the original prosecutor still at the DA's office?
As I understand it, both Paxos and Zab will result in similar performance characteristics, since writes need, by design, to be coordinated with peers and serialized in a strict manner. In this sense, Etcd and ZK are very much alike, irrespective of how they are implemented internally. I wouldn't be surprised if Etcd was found to be faster and more scalable than ZK, however.
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The 130 million miles is not Model S overall, but Model S with autopilot engaged. It's also only the first 130 million miles, so the sample size is currently 1. This will be much more interesting to look at in 5 years, and at the moment it tells us nothing about Model S.
Yes that's a good point! This seems to be simply a case of bad customer service rather than bad technology. I guess Another reason not to use DigitalOcean for projects requiring high availability I suppose.
Get a hobby, it will save your life and your marriage. Heck even having pets help. the idea is to not have idle time
> I believe that this is a scientific view.

> hubris

Don't you think there is maybe a little hubris in you thinking you know the scientific view better than 107 Nobel Price winners?
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I don't know if everyone is this way, but at 50 I am losing a little of the starry-eyed excitement. I've seen a lot of the same ideas come around again and again as a new great thing. And yet the pace of change is so fast, if you try to stay current you feel like you never really become an expert in anything. You get jaded.

If and when I "retire" I would not see myself not working, but I do think I might do somthing completely different and new.

I could see walking away from computer tech entirely. In fact that idea is pretty attractive, honestly. I'm old enough to clearly remember the days before the internet, before mobile phones, before being constantly connected to everything 24x7. When you would leave the house or office, nobody would be able to get in touch with you and you could do what you wanted to do without interruption or distraction. It was nice.
Clickbait. One crash whose cause hasn't yet been completely analyzed doesn't prove anything.
It seems to be taking more of a South approach, and I really like this. Shake out conceptual issues, find an API that works well, iterate a bunch. Django release cadence is pretty slow, so having it simmer outside of it makes a ton of sense.

If it's a big hit like South was, it'll get rolled in and we won't have to immediately start deprecating things due to an un-tried design.
There is a wide range of scientific computing libraries for Python. I'm fairly sure none of them have been ported over to Ruby.

If you're not interested in that not much.

I'd say the only thing that's different between the two languages is when you ask "How do I write fast Ruby" the people who work on the VM and libraries yell back "Here are N fixes that improved the speed of the runtime two fold."

When the same question is ask, but as "How do I write fast Python" there is a resounding "You write C/++, not Python."

I think that's, in my opinion, the biggest differences between the languages: their community's and their community's attitude to optimizations.
Who says I can't articulate the difference? You seem to be incapable of avoiding jumping to some seriously erroneous conclusions throughout our exchange here. I most certainly can articulate the difference, and have succinctly done so more than once while reiterating what specifically I am targeting with my comments—a target you continue to ignore and brush aside. You seem to want to argue. I see no indication that writing hundreds of more words will move the needle of this discussion. You make assertions and ask questions that are wholly divorced from my point, and seem to somehow entirely miss the point of every statement I've made.

For your edification, I run a business. I do not pursue complicated measures or hire accountants to minimize or avoid taxation, maximize expenses, or anything similar. I practice what I preach, as the saying goes. And such behavior is entirely counter to everything I'm saying is important here.
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Yahoo, the company that saves your unsent and deleted email drafts forever and will turn them over to law enforcement even though they say that should be impossible?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-deleted-yahoo-emails-le...

Maybe Yahoo is sincere in their privacy pledge, maybe they're not, but one thing has already been proven: they don't have a good enough grasp of how their own servers work to make that promise.

Very disappointed in DuckDuckGo. I expect they won't be around for too much longer, much like Yahoo.
I do sure hope that any agreement DDG has made with Yahoo doesn't get cancelled by their eventual new owner.

But if Dan Gilbert ends up being the buyer my guess is that he'd actually like Gabriel Weinberg enough to continue. Not so much with Verizon or the private equity firms bidding.