skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While thinky is great and does a ton of heavy lifting for me, I've found it a little bit confusing when needing to write more advanced queries. I would personally recommend to start learning reql + rethinkdb with the rethinkdbdash[0] driver first. It helps with managing connection pools and working with Promises but still lets you play nice with the (very good) rethinkdb docs while ramping up.

[0]: https://github.com/neumino/rethinkdbdash
Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says
Did anyone actually say any of those things? Or anything coming close to those things? Or did you just invent a strawman to beat up on the media?
I like that companies are realizing you don't necessarily have to be a tech company to see value in publishing open source software!
Right. But public understanding of the word is not the same as trained pilots.

TV and games have fairly conclusively made the word mean "autonomous."
That's a good point, but I think things were more nuanced than that (at least IIRC ;)...I haven't re-listened to it since the original broadcast)...the victim's disappearance was not thought of as a disappearance until at least a week or so later -- her body wasn't found until a month later. Even though her family reported her as missing the day of her actual disappearance...I believe Adnan claimed that he thought she had just gone on some crazy trip, as teenagers are wont to do. Sure, the victim's family would argue that she was the kind of good girl who would never do such a thing, but she was also someone who carried out a sexual relation with Adnan without her family's knowledge or acceptance...so, your typical -- but complicated -- teenage drama, except that it ended in a tragic and mysterious murder case. But if Adnan is innocent, his excuse makes sense to me -- he knew what a rebellious girl Hae Min Lee was, and there was no reason to keep frozen in mind the day of her initial disappearance.

That said, it did bother me how he apparently never thought to call on her during the time of her disappearance, even though they were no longer a couple. That was probably one of the strongest pieces of circumstantial evidence against him, in my eyes.

One of the most compelling aspects of the case for me is that while I can see why Adnan garnered the sympathy of advocates and the interest of Serial's producers, at least enough to warrant a full season of coverage...I still couldn't quite shake the feeling that even if he isn't guilty beyond a reasonable doubt...that he might still be guilty of the actual murder. I can't remember the last time a story so full of ambiguity so completely captured my attention.
And you think when Google, Delphi, and Uber start selling cars, everything is going to work perfectly?
I think they should only be allowed with HSM's, from cheap smartcards to full-on tamper-resistant, if it's anything of significant value unless someone opts out of them. The amount of compromises of PC's, servers, and web apps means I trust an electronic signature way less than a physical one. Need extra security especially on the RNG's, timestamps, keys, and signatures.

Note: It will probably help that the best providers of inexpensive, secure IC's are European and already all over those markets.
I believe they were implying with the use of the word purportedly that it actually did not. As you mention, podcasting was already fairly large and growing quickly when Serial hit the spotlight. I get the impression that a lot of established podcasters/listeners got pretty frustrated with the notion that Serial was kickstarting this "cool, new podcasting craze".
Perfect! A no nonsense, innerHTML modification. Hah!

I transform my data into a JSON object, suited for the front end. So the only Controller -> View boilerplate is a "call the api" JavaScript function.

My comment is primarily a criticism of the JavaScript world where folks can NPM their entire server infrastructure (containing plenty of needless files)...
Amazon has both national warehouses in middle of nowhere (but near airports) for general shipping, and small local warehouses for 1day delivery in urban areas.
>I believe he did it. Firmly.

I don't understand the 'firmly' bit. The state's case was flimsy and the state's timeline was a total mess. The cell tower evidence was flaky and one of the state's expert witnesses rescinded his testimony. Jay is a terrible witness who changed his story multiple times. The state needs Jay AND the cell tower evidence to stick and I don't think it does.
Very new and fairly experimental technology that can kill you tends to be fairly heavily regulated. New drugs, rockets, aircraft, etc. don't generally get released via software update to the general public. They go through very regimented, restricted, contracted trials.

Tesla risks getting regulators to crack down on new car features across the entire industry if they're not careful.
Ford sells 6-7 million cars each year, so there's going to be close to 100 million Fords driving around globally. There's a little over 100 000 Teslas. So since there is 1000x as many Fords, and assuming every Ford is just as safe as a Tesla, you quite literally get thousands of fatalities a year.
Well, if you're in for a DIY solution, This seems to work well: http://hackaday.com/2012/07/03/noise-pollution-tit-for-tat-u...

Who let the Dogs out? The noisy neighbour tripping the acoustical switch did!
First of all, it's not "my language". I haven't even worked on the compiler for over a year.

Second, think about C++. A year after it came out, were 90% (say) of C users who had heard of C++ using it? I highly doubt it.

There simply isn't enough data to compare to. So you can look at that number and support any narrative you want by making up what you think a "healthy" number "should" be.
Thinking like this is why capitalism sucks.

You can have socially reprehensible investors and companies, you can also have too much money.

Don't be evil my arse.
Agreed. This article is much better written.

The Tesla blog post arguably has more information: but its really just Tesla trying to cover their ass about the issue. The May 7th date also provides some better context: this crash happened nearly a month-and-a-half ago.
Tesla Model S crash occurred while the vehicle was in “autopilot” mode
That's the 64 dollar question. At present, they exist but are less efficient.
If items ("fn" definitions) implemented type inference instead of requiring the programmer to manually document something the compiler can figure out, the learning curve would be easier.

Especially with tooling that shows the type of any given expression (integrated with an editor).
Is there a statistical difference in accident rate between high and low income populations? If so, do we know what the fatality/miles rate is in the group that would be able to afford a tesla? When I read the blog post, I couldn't help but think that while tesla's rate might be smaller than the national average, it is also not a fair comparison to draw conclusions from.
Or invert it :)
Just so that we are on same page:

- "international" = "between nations"

- "intranational" = "within a nation"

Right?
As someone who previously fit the diagnostic criteria for PDD-NOS as a child and no longer does - I wonder how much of the described effect comes from a potential, sparsely documented trait of HF autism spectrum disorders that starts a person at a lower cognitive level but has more potential than others to overcome such a handicap?

I'd love to see more study in this - at age 15 (whilst heavily medicated) I had the social skills of a 9 year old, generally because of the lag of having to find processes that worked for me where neurotypical kids had a naturally good environment to learn these things. Since striking out and finding my own path I've grown leaps and bounds and many people I respect as having good social skills and emotional intelligence call me charismatic.

My hypothesis is that autistic kids /require/ a rational framework with which to work in dynamic situations, but while young do not have enough well-developed/healthy cognitive maps or experience to achieve a workable one until later. Couple that with low expectations and special treatment - necessary to stave off active pain but eventually turning into a crutch - had I stayed on medication/done what the doctors/teachers/parent said I have no doubt I would probably be on some sort of disability or at the very least not have the skillsets that have given me success today.

All that said, I'm certainly a firm believer of being able to grow cognitively at any age. There's just a hell of a lot of inertia that is very easy to get into - habits die very very hard and require a lot of effort to overcome. When you don't have the ability to do a hard reset and move away, get out of the space you're in it gets harder.
> I'm sorry, but that's a cop-out. What's the point of an autopilot if you have to avoid every single obstacle and react to every single thing as if the auto-pilot didn't exist?

You don't have to react - you have to supervise it though. It lets the driver monitor a system that micromanages steering, brakes and throttle, instead of doing that micromanagement himself. It requires the same attention but is less work.

> Unlike autopilot, cruise control has very limited functionality. No driver expects it to do anything other than keep their speed,

Well, these days you can often set it with a distance to the car in front using a radar. You then let the cruise control do something more than just keep constant speed, it will slow down if the car in front does etc.
The driver has to pay full attention though for anything the cruise control can't handle.

You seem to imply "what's the point of an autopilot if I can't take a nap". - well the issue is that it's a little too good to be called a cruise control, but not good enough for a nap. We're simply not there quite yet. At least not legally.
The double irish is going away come the year 2020:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
As I said, I firmly believe he's innocent, but based on your comment, I checked the timeline, and it is interesting to me that an officer apparently called Adnan the same night she disappeared. I have to admit, that would probably crystallize the relevant afternoon a bit in my memory.

That said, as other sibling comments are saying, one's memory is surprisingly poor. This is sort of tangential, but for example, I've sat in a classroom, where as an experiment on eyewitness testimony, someone comes in (without the class knowing what's happening) and in a very exaggerated manner steals something from the professor and then leaves. Literally a minute later, when asked, much of the class misidentifies major physical attributed of the 'perpetrator' (height, hair color, etc.), even when they are confident they are correct.
I'd probably lean towards using a virtual PBX hosted on digital ocean using something like twilio (OpenVBX) or tropo (TropoVBX). From that, you should be able to use most IP phpnes or use soft phone on a computer, combined with a decent headset.

That's a relatively inexpensive option, that would allow you to grow.
Racial Bias and Arrest Tech
I don't think they should have said anything at all in this case, beyond their condolences.

1. Autopilot didn't cause the accident, but they're sort of making it sound like it did by bringing it up

2. If people are arguing that autopilot contributed by making the driver feel like they didn't need to pay as much attention, the only way to defend against that is to blame the driver - why would you do that?

3. It's sort of invading the privacy of someone who recently died by detailing the crash, making it about Tesla. I don't believe other car companies would issue a PR release if one of their cars got in a crash, even with accident avoidance features on?

It somehow manages to feel self serving and make Tesla look bad at the same time.
If he actually didn't do it, then who did? I have to think we'll never know at this point.
Does anyone know exactly what this is in technological terms? I'm thinking maybe it's a PKI that assigns an ECDSA private key to each EU resident?

Then their talk about timestamping makes me think maybe there's a blockchain involved?
Actually they quite clearly state that in this blog post:

"In other words, Bioweapon Defense Mode is not a marketing statement, it is real. You can literally survive a military grade bio attack by sitting in your car." [1]

[1] https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/putting-tesla-hepa-filter-a...
> If items ("fn" definitions) implemented type inference instead of requiring the programmer to manually document something the compiler can figure out, the learning curve would be easier.

No, it wouldn't. Not when the compiler is spewing error messages about types you didn't even mention, especially if the compiler inferred that type on the basis of code in some random other file you didn't know about.
It's pretty well established that humans (e.g. [1]) that humans have a lot of trouble paying when they don't need to be actively engaged most of the time and also have trouble taking back control. In a consumer driving context, I have zero doubt that, as systems like these develop, people will start watching videos and reading absent draconian monitoring systems to ensure they keep their eyes on the road. I'm not sure how we get past that "uncanny valley."

[1] http://hal.pratt.duke.edu/sites/hal.pratt.duke.edu/files/u7/...
You either fail to understand how BTC actually works, or you are purposely disingenuous for the sake of argument.
> The fact that the autopilot is so good that it "almost" works as a driver is an issue for Tesla as we can see here.

If only someone could have foreseen these issues...

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/27/11518826/volvo-tesla-autop...
http://www.thedrive.com/news/3753/former-google-exec-and-ai-...
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/3909/volvo-rd-chief-teslas-auto...
Looks like an improvement, but if I can't design angular views, react components, backbone views, or ember templates, than it is not much use to me. Javascript is integral to all the design work I do at this point.
As a potentially related point - in autistic individuals there is markedly less synaptic pruning:

http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(14)00651-5?_r...
I think this kind of gets to the nut of the whole discussion here on HN. Everyone's talking about whether or not what the Yes Men did was legal, but IMO, the question is why did DO take them down over a legal threat ("...the NRA sent a legal complaint...")? The vice article was pretty ambiguous, but if this was a suit or court order, CloudFlare wouldn't be able to "pass." This apparently wasn't a court order, nor was it a DCMA takedown (or Vice's writing is just really bad). And it looks like youtube told them to come back with a court order.
Sure, here's my own personal opinion about some of them :

-Probably the most spectacular nature in Europe

Romania IS a beautiful country (in a old fashion kind of way) but i really double it that anyone who traveled around Europe a bit would say it has "most spectacular nature". Dunno, go to Faroe Island (as a example) and tell me afterwards how "most spectacular" is Transylvania.

-The largest number of tech specialists in the EU

That is actually the most misleading part though. Not sure if RO has the largest number or not but a potential investor should be aware that most tech specialist are actually located in Bucharest not Transylvania. And the gap in salary requirements/ skills between the 2 is actually pretty big (Bucharest >>> Transylvania). Heck until a few years ago Bucharest was the only IT "hub" in RO.

-Excellent private healthcare system

Yes and no. If you have a serious health problem , you'll get "shipped" to a state hospital and those are bad.

-Some of the greatest festivals in Europe

Guess it also depends on music genres. I'm into metal , for instance, and the metal festivals in RO are definitely not "greatest". It's not like we have Wacken here.
Lövheim cube of emotion
Ah gotcha. I sped my reading right through that operative.
> They have to defend autopilot not only to protect the brand but to protect the public's perception of autonomous vehicles in general.

Why? Why not just build the cars people want? (including cars that people want but don't realize they want yet)

There shouldn't be a political agenda associated with engineering. Build what is needed. Build what people want. Build what people will need. But never "defend my reputation and the reputation of this device that I'm making"

EDIT: I mean, I get why Public Relations are important and so forth. So Tesla is certainly free to do what they want here. But lets not pretend that this carefully crafted "condolence" piece that has come out roughly one and a half months late is anything but damage control for this company.
I wish this question could be directed at the people who put him in prison.
> In IllumOS non-privileged users are allowed to create hard links of setuid executables which is necessary in order for exploitation of this vulnerability to achieve privileged code execution.

> NOTE: Various Linux distributions have incorporated patches that restrict symbolic link behavior, preventing security vulnerabilities such as the one we are about to demonstrate.

Linux distributions also restrict hardlink behavior, which addresses this issue. This seems like the key point. In current Linux, by default, you can't create a hardlink to someone else's file, setuid or otherwise.
You can remember what you had for lunch? Lucky~
Speaking just for myself, language is thought and thought is language. I've talked to other people about their inner monologues (or lack of one) and everyone has different experiences (or different perceptions of similar experiences, a la the blind men and the elephant).

Unless I have articulated a thought in my head in terms of language, I don't feel like I have thought of anything at all. My nonverbal "thoughts" are just a mishmash of emotions, memories, images, sensory input, reflexive reactions to things, and pseudorandom associations that pop up occasionally.

If other people can think in depth about abstract concepts through some means other than imagining words to describe those concepts, I'm either very very jealous, or they don't mean the same thing I do by words like "thought" and "thinking".

In the same way that we use language to serialize ideas from one person to another, my own mind uses language to communicate with my own lower-level cognitive processes. Those low-level processes are the real sources of thought, but without language to interpret what bubbles up from that level, and without language to steer thinking at that level, I would lose the ability to debug my own brain (root out biases, play devil's advocate against myself, examine my own mental state, make good life choices, understand other people's points of view, etc.).

I don't know if this applies to anyone but me, but without using language as a tool for reasoning, I feel like I would 100% be a product of my environment, and not someone who is capable of imagining different paths that my life could take and then going down one of the non-default paths (which is good, because otherwise I'm pretty sure I would've been dead or in jail by age 30 :).
> "theoretically, if there are 2 of you, we can cut the time in half".

Is antithetical to him claiming that "he knows how to manage developers." Nine women can't make a baby in 1 month.
They definitely sound very defensive to me.
Analogy: think of the police system. Yes, in a dysfunctional society, police can beat you up, demand bribes at random, even kill you. Yet we all agree that police do useful work.

Is the correct solution to this problem to introduce a technical system where everyone can hide perfectly from the law if they spend some time and effort? Or is the correct solution to implement a system where the powers of the police are clearly and strictly limited and where the punishment for transgressions is severe?
But aircraft pilots are of course very different from typical car drivers: more educated, much more strenuously vetted -- and much more likely to understand and act in accord with the caveats you're describing.

Regular car drivers? These are the ones yakking on their cell phones, texting, doing conference calls, eating take out -- and falling asleep in droves at the wheel, already. Inasmuch as the distinction between Autopilot and a truly automated control system may be crystal clear to you -- you can be dead sure it won't be, to many of these people.
> In math ( * ) is a binary operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_product

I am talking about Empty Product.

In all Lisps I know ( * ) returns 1, (* n) returns n.
Which makes sense.

Shen's example is confusing for me.
Wondering if this is related to the attack on Fastmail.
Apart from the software part of it. I wonder how they handle issues like sensor malfunction.

If your eyes aren't at their best, you know well to go to a doctor and not be driving in the meanwhile. Will the car with autopilot refuse to start or go on autopilot if the camera/sensor/radar has an issue?

So yes you are right, its either full AI or nothing.
Let us code
I created a text chat app for learning to code: letzcode.com
The problems with global inference are action-at-a-distance, which leads to very poor errors.
Did you listen to the podcast? Jay ADMITTED to it. And he walked.
> any other explanation

He may be convicted again. I didn't think they established motive all that strongly, and something was odd about the guy who claimed to have helped bury the body.
A roller coaster is a physical object. A CAD drawing of it is a model. I could make a roller coaster from the model, but the model is not the roller coaster.

On the other hand, the universe is nothing more than the set of constraints that we call "science". The universe is the model, and science is an effort to duplicate that model.
I agree that it's necessary to be very, very careful with nomenclature, operator instruction, and user controlled options when dealing with anything safety related in a product marketed for the general public. But I can see where Tesla might be coming from calling it "autopilot": they're following along in the same vein as previous "autopilot" systems such as those found in aircraft. As your wiki link states, aircraft autopilots of varying complexity have been around for a very, very long time, but they did not ever mean "no need for a pilot". The ancient RAE naming of "pilots' assister" is probably more descriptive of the function to the average person, and by the same token Tesla could have called it "driver assistance" or similar. Even so, I think Tesla would have a reasonable argument that the term "autopilot" has been around for over 100 years and it was always a safety assistance feature, not a driver replacement. That argument would be strengthened by the fact that there's already a widely used term of full automation: "self driving car", which they didn't use.

At the same time it never hurts to be overly cautious, if only because terminology is such a trivial thing to change and the cost of confusion (even if only in terms of PR, unfair or not) can be significant. Operation of aircraft is a significantly more niche area with significantly more stringent requirements at all levels then operating a non-commercial motor vehicle, so it would be reasonable to expect pilots to understand more terms of the art.
You can click the "web" link at the top of this page to do the same thing.