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As someone who attentively listened to the podcasts but became increasingly frustrated by their sensationalism, I was most interested in the story of the one person never interviewed, the victim. Is it really such a shock to most of you that eyewitness accounts from years ago are terrible evidence on which to convict someone? That the criminal justice system as visited on poor people is filled with apathy and incompetence?

The state did a terrible job and there should be a retrial. But shouldn't that poor girl deserve more? Someone killed her. Maybe all the pontificators should devote themselves to her story with the ardor of their attention to Serial.
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> hyperpermeable colon

Sounds like a fancy word for the fanciful "leaky gut syndrome".
I'd love to see a checkbox for email notifications only on repositories I have commit access on... As it is, I'm watching quite a few, and while I like to check them all via the website every couple days, I'm pretty much stuck ignoring the emails, as there are way too many of them to filter the noise out.
We actually don't allow planes to crash. Crashes are a result of human error or catastrophic failure. When a crash occurs, the cause is investigated so that another crash never happens for the same reason. If a defect is ever found, all affected planes are grounded until they have been fixed.

I expect Autopilot to be disabled soon.

Edit:

>So basically we accept that in order for each of us to fly to our destination, 300 ish people must die every so often. Like a kind of sacrifice.

Your position is...crazy.

No plane will take off if there is a calculated chance that it could crash.
Really, where does Amazon use any Apple payment service?
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Strip out the youngest & inexperienced drivers who drag the statistics down quite substantially and you will soon see these automated cars are not as safe as experienced drivers.

The way the blog posting is written comparing miles driven per fatality, you are led to believe these cars are 38% safer than they really are. The figure being touted by Tesla counting miles driven doesnt tell you that those are interrupted miles driven where the software couldnt decide what to do and hands back immediately to the driver for a period of time, unlike a human who in essence is performing uninterrupted driving miles.

I wouldnt trust a dead duck in any of these automated cars at the moment but then a fool is easily parted with their money and I have noticed the United States IQ is in decline. Must be all the sugar consumed.
Huh. As a Mac/iPhone/Spotify user, this is the first I've heard of any of this.
There are enough youtube videos with people falling asleep in Tesla on the highway and a Tesla switching lanes and almost causing a frontal crash. These are known problems.

Maybe a billion miles are needed for a fatal crash, but for small mistakes it's much less.
Every event is truly massive. It's made worse by the fact that it's an entirely preventable problem. Surely the problem is that at the moment there's so many that car companies don't even count the minus-one points. It's minus 33,000 points per year in the US alone. [1]

What worries me is that we're dreaming up massive fear scenarios. I see the aim of the automation is to prevent the scenarios from ever happening. Sensible speeds with sensible distances.

We can never make it to having zero casualties unless we can first get to a stage where we can treat accidents as an abnormality. Something that needs to be investigated in the same manner as an aircraft crash.

I too hate terms like "acceptable losses" as well as it brings up the truly horrible "cost-benefit" analysis that Ford did [2] with it being cheaper to pay out to the dead relatives rather than fix the problem. I too worry that if we accept lower standards for software now, it will set a precendent with 'acceptable' deaths that will only get lowered.

If Tesla can apply the level of analysis that approaches airplane crash investigation as well as fixes to prevent each death - then I believe we're on the best path.

It's also worth noting that Tesla used the word 'crash' rather than 'accident' in this report, something which has been highlighted [3] as another thing we can do to improve investigations into road deaths.

[1]: http://blog.yhat.com/posts/traffic-fatalities-in-us.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analys...

[3]: http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/09/why-we-say-car-accide...
Apple Music has been out for a year today. After the initial three-month free trial, I would think that most people would notice $10 missing from their bank accounts every month.
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Yea. I wanted this since Rails 3.
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A google search shows several white trailers against blue skies. It's hard to see how a human could miss them unless there were weird conditions or they weren't looking that way. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=semi-trailer&num=30&source...
Exactly this. It's easy to do 'rails new' and push to Heroku, but when you've got redis, memcache, the worker process & scheduler etc etc you're really maintaining your own ecosystem. It's a lot of where time gets spent on production Rails apps.

Here's that slide, I believe: http://i.imgur.com/QzTCJS8.png
CoD got MASSIVE praise for it's first 2 games though. They were genuinely atmospheric WW2 shooting games (and, IMO, a whole lot better than the dreck that followed).

So it could be both (MoH was also praised a LOT).

Soldier of Fortune was praised mostly for it's "gritty" story and the "realistic" bullet damage (shooting different areas of a character had different visual wound results and reactions).
The two statements are related, the source being the second one. The first one is just a PR strategy.
I wrote my first post too fast.
Here is the meat of the Post:

"Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S"

1) The Sensors did not "see" the trailer due to Bright sunlight & <XYZ>
2) The Collision was at the WindShield Level and above but not to the Front

Neither of these sound like "Extremely Rare" occurrences. That part is just pure PR Spin.

Request for TESLA - You are doing great things to move the whole industry forward. Do not F* it up by being too aggressive here.

1) Do not rely on purely Visual cues use (multiple) Radars/LiDARs/Some thing that works irrespective of Visible Light conditions - so an additional Radar unit on Top that is checking for obstacles at the height of the car would make sense.

2) Improved Crash sensors

Till then DISABLE the system except in very limited circumstances even if the owner tries to activate it.
This is NOT a "Move Fast and Break things" situation. Some poor soul lost his life because of Tesla's inability to foresee this situation lulled him into a false sense of complacency (and partly his own inattention).
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A lot of name dropping on hacker news goes over me head because I've only been in the community a few years. I feel like Michael Hartl will be the name I drop 15 years from now whenever I'm discussing Rails and the origin of "modern" web development.
This took me aback because I've always heard that medical professionals and lawyers had the highest suicide rates, I guess that was based on incomplete or inaccurate data?
This could also be because of my limited knowledge of the Python community :P
> "it's best that people document/annotate their types,
> so we require it."

That may be how people interpret it (I'd be surprised to find that line in any official source), but the reason for this choice was ultimately technical, not philosophical. Having function signatures be the ultimate source of truth means that the typechecker can ignore function bodies entirely, which has large implications for the design of the type system and the layout of the compiler pipeline, and more importantly this feature enables fine-grained incremental recompilation at the function level (i.e., if the body of a function changes but its signature does not, then the compiler knows that consumers of that function do not need to be recompiled and can skip an enormous amount of work (assuming that inlining is minimal, which is indeed the case in debug mode, where incremental recompilation is intended to shine)). We're not taking advantage of incremental recompilation yet, but it (along with speeding up the compiler in general, as corroborated by the survey) is the primary goal of the compiler team this year (the prerequisite overhaul of the compiler middle-end is just about to land: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/milestones/Launch%20MIR%20... ).
Wow, that is some very damning criticism: "The distinction is that a Level 3 [Tesla] autonomous system still relinquishes the controls back to the driver in the event of extreme conditions the computer can no longer manage, which Victor (and Volvo) finds extremely dangerous."
Write your own programs to solve your own problems! They can either be real problems, or just stuff you're interested in. Over the last few years I've written a program to help me cheat at Scrabble (great for creatively thinking around a problem, especially trying to optimize it), and wrote a very basic 2D game engine, just to see how it was done. Sometimes my SO complains about something and I write a little app to solve that problem.
It's a very different experience, and clearly incredibly biased, but I agree that it's a good listen if you got into the case and are curious to learn more about the facts and players. Some of the wild theories they come up with though are simply incredible to me - they seem like level headed people much of the time, but the lengths they will go to suggest a conspiracy (where simple incompetence is a much more probable reality) can truly blow my mind.
etcd is a key value store that has features of ZK. ZooKeeper is strictly distributed coordination. Apples and oranges, no?
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I would love to see that too!

The one thing that comes to mind is that since each process has its own isolated memory space, Erlang's GC is not a "stop the universe" kind of thing, the GC can run in parallel with other processes.

(edit: again, this is just intuition on my part, I haven't remotely done the deep dive you're talking about)
And let's recall that this isn't a choice between "human drivers, no lives lost" vs. "AI drivers, some lives lost".

It's a choice between "human drivers, MANY MANY lives lost" and "AI drivers, fewer lives lost".

What would archagon have us do? Not have AI drivers until a perfect solution is possible? The "crash-unavoidable" scenario is an unavoidable reality as long as stopping distances/acceleration/reaction times are non-zero.

It sounds as if archagon would have us spend all our time looking at trees -- and none of it looking at the forest -- all while thousands of people die every year under the status quo.

I think perhaps the reason archagon is so aghast though is a combination of two things:

1) The illusion of [human] control and judgement. Implicit in archagon's reasoning is the idea that the outcome MIGHT have been different had a human been making a decision. Yet a human WAS in control here, and DIDN'T make a different decision. That happens. A lot. Archagon seems to be so distracted by the novelty of this situation that he/she has not noticed that.

2) The normalization of automotive deaths and safety engineering in the current industry. 90 people die per day in the U.S. due to errors made by human drivers. Every day human drivers are on the road, 90 more lives are snuffed out. If we follow archagon's hand-wringing, then how could we justify having cars AT ALL? Of course, the reality that many people would die because of the lack of cars makes even the abolition of cars a less than perfect solution with (according to archagon's apparent line of reasoning) a body count attached and all the moral implications thereof.
OK, substitute "audiophiles" with "recording engineers" then. The music you listen to will have passed through a bunch of 1/4" analog stereo jacks at the studio where it was recorded.
We're talking about JSON parsing here: a solved problem. Do those companies write their own JSON parsers? I don't think so.
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That 'gross physical characteristic' as you call it is actually present in both 'male' and 'female' humans, and can present in an ambiguous form:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quigley_scale
They may market based on price, but that doesn't mean that the prices are going down / bandwidth caps going up as fast as they should, or at all.
I don't know if he has written about it beyond the docs and various commits. He has talked about it many times on his podcast (which I highly recommend). Here is an episode that talks about the attributes API as well as his Relation#or work: http://bikeshed.fm/8

Definitely also checkout the episodes where he talks about Diesel.
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> Then you are not using the feature the way Tesla says you should, the only way Tesla says it's safe to be used.

Sometimes public demand forces vendors to add disclaimers to their products despite the fact that everyone knows the disclaimer is a lie. Drug paraphernalia come to mind.
how was it less sketchy?
Human nature is plenty bullshit. Especially when it gets in the way of accomplishing things that need large numbers of people.
A lot of super scalable apps don't necessarily use a "database". They use a heterogeneous set of data stores that are most appropriate for their particular use case. Or maybe they shard, or run a distributed cluster, etc.
On the contrary, every plane that takes off does so despite the known chance that it could crash.
If you listen to the Truth and Justice podcast, there are people doing exactly as you suggest. Often with semi-reckless abandon and very little to support their case, but they're trying to use what evidence they have to figure out what happened and who killed Hae.

Honestly, listening to it only resolves to me that it's better if most people didn't try to turn their attention to what really happened, because they're never going to be able to put together enough of the story at this late date to do more than ruinously speculate. Truth and Justice puts into better perspective how well Serial did finding what story there was to tell, and telling it fairly.
I once paid $80/mo for a year for a server I forgot I had.

It happens.
It depends on what your project does. If it's a fairly simple affair doing some CRUD or perhaps some kind of service (sign up for an account/subscription type deal) provided you're not doing things in a hacked together or otherwise sketchy way it should be fine.

However if you are launching a product that allows users to upload images which are then analyzed by an algorithm to determine what objects are in said image (read computationally expensive) unless you have specifically prepared for a huge traffic spike then you may have some issues.
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In what way is Apple Music better than Spotify? I've tried both and, other than catalog differences, I don't see one as really being better than the other.
I still do, but strip away as much of the interface as possible using uBlock Origin style rules, FB Purity, and Newsfeed Eradicator[1].

I use lists extensively to organize friends into groups (work, school, various hobbies). The number of unread posts in a list appears next to it, so I can see the amount of activity in each at a glance instead of endlessly scrolling.

If I really care to see what someone is up to, I just go to their profile.

Maybe it's due to my age bracket (early 20's), but having a an account is a major social benefit and I don't have everyone's email address.

[1] https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator - Highly recommend this, it's a great anti-time-waste plugin.
It is, sometimes. But a cache hit in 50-150ns beats the pants off of a round trip to the backing database or microservice, which might take tens of milliseconds. That's 100,000-1,000,000x faster.

It's the same reason you'd never find a modern CPU without multiple layers of caching.
Any recommendations for noise cancelling headphones, preferably with Bluetooth? The apple earbuds aren't cutting it at work for me.
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"[Noise canelling will] damage your hearing over time"

Do you have a good source on that? I'm thinking about getting some noise-cancelling headphones for office use.
Every country that is issuing machine-readable passports is effectively issuing a keypair (stored in the passport's machine-readable chip). See: http://www.icao.int/Meetings/TAG-MRTD/Documents/Tag-Mrtd-15/...
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I'm not suggesting that anyone spend much time entertaining ideas like the prime cookie or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I'm merely pointing out that theory does not dictate outcomes. I'm happy that they have disproven the EM drive (or that this appears to be the case), but one of the things that's bothered me about the discourse surrounding this phenomenon has been the notion that we should immediately dismiss it as "impossible". Surely, it was improbable. But that's just what it was: improbable.
I suspect that is largely because the product is bundled with the iOS. I wonder how it doesn't on Android, where people have to go out of their way to install it.
The retrial had very little to do with Serial, and everything to do with the fact that the prosecution withheld a cover page from one of their star witnesses which would have caused him not to give the testimony he gave had he seen it. That's it. A key piece of "evidence" was the Leakin Park call, and the cover sheet that was withheld states that the location data from the Leakin Park call (an incoming call) is not reliable information.
You're right. I openly accept this criticism.

Steps have already been taken to to get us to the point where a provider is no longer a single point of failure. To be honest this isn't a problem we had anticipated.

I expect Surge will be provider agnostic sometime in the close future.
I knew this would happen from the beginning, but actually seeing it happen breaks my heart.

I really can't interpret this as anything other than Jay-Z trying to be like Dr. Dre.

The difference is Dr. Dre's company actually created a product people wanted, and he deserves the success.

As for Tidal, how is this not different from union workers going on a strike? Except that people going on a strike do have legitimate reasons. For the "exclusive" artists who were on Tidal they're all rich people already. They just wanted to make more money.

They created absolutely 0 value with this company, all they did was create a collective with enough critical mass to matter and monetized on it. And when I say "monetize", it's us the fans that they monetized. It's almost like a betrayal.
An actual likely explanation since the other comments are busy being cynical: Their library was authored in August 2015, which was roughly a year after Swift's initial release. It's very likely that they critically needed one of the features in the Features section of their README and nothing off-the-shelf at the time offered it.
All my new development these days centers around node + browserify/webpack with a react frontend, or just plain javascript for small projects.

WebSockets would have been a cool addition four years ago. There is little compelling case for new development. Sorry to be so harsh.
Oh, don't play around with your neighbors, take 'em straight to this gem:

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This oft-quoted piece of advice is starting to sound like "have you found Jesus yet?" to my ears. Yes, yes – we know, we know that's an option worth considering (if feasible).
Does an ethics course provide some sort of framework to think about questions like this? (as a thought experiment?)
Also I imagine that police would see your car and investigate, (with best intentions) interrupting any solitude. Perhaps if you left a note saying that you were going for a walk, had ample water, weren't out of your mind, and the time/date you intended to return.
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Unfortunately in the music business there is only one business model. The one the labels command (with very minor differences between each service). Apple business model for streaming is the same than the spotify one except they don't have to pay the 30% tax.

The only way to command the labels is to control the market. Apple did it with the iPod and iTunes. They were able to set the .99c price for any song. The labels were upset about it.

Apple is trying to reproduce that with streaming. They're initial goal was to release a cheaper suscription ($7.99/month).
First off, you should make a difference between driving alone on a small country road and being in heavy traffic on the highway.

Either way, your calculation does not take into account that moving the hands happens in parallel with the critical (most time consuming) step, namely mental processing of the situation and deriving a resolution. So that makes no difference.

You probably meant to say that the attention itself is missing for a split second? But that's something that can be said about car phones, eating food, etc, too. This is just within your individual responsibility, and this is what the law wants. It is, in fact, a risk-reward weighting. We can't use absolutes here ("not a single death is acceptable"), that would be ridiculous. The guy who wrote the parent comment explained that quite well.

(not a tesla driver myself, I dislike driving in general and use my car very rarely)
The main alibi was that he was in the library where he would sometimes check his email after school. Question: Why can't they ask whoever his email provider was if there's record of him signing in after school? Why didn't they ask the library if they kept logs on the computers? If a court asked yahoo for some sort of log record from 1999 would they even have it? I suspect they would. Would adnan even remember his email address from then?
It occurs to me that wheelchairs have a very low fatality rate when not autonomous, but the same is not true for cars.
I met a lady in a coffee shop once who wore earplugs and headphones. She wore the earplugs so she could play the headphones really loud without damaging her hearing, while blocking out all the ambient coffee shop noise.