skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only the software itself weren't so fragile.

Because of the hype around conversational UI lately, I was curious to start up an example of such from a half century ago, hook it up to Slack and provide people some historical context, but it was written targeting an interpreter which I couldn't find a copy of for a machine I couldn't find a working emulator for. (BTW, If anyone has a working way to emulate a PDP-10 on 64 bit linux, and an image for that machine providing MacLisp, please let me know - <username>@gmail.com.)

Maybe that will never happen for today's languages, operating systems or architectures, but I wonder if in 2065 a curious engineer would, even if a solution for his curiosity existed in this archive, be able to get something working (within some economical limits upon his effort).

Too rarely is code written in a way that it does much other than happen to work, definitely not in a fashion that makes future code archeologists likely to be able to reapply it's core learning (algorithms, patterns).
It must get better, but I couldn't get through the first episode, which is odd, since I generally enjoy documentaries and dramatizations of true crime or investigative journalism.
Or "Driver Assist". Which would be much more reflective of its actual function.

"Autopilot" is not just a bad name -- it's outright misleading.
Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more
I agree, but I give them credit for attempting to do what they ultimately did not pull off: to find a smoking gun that changes a murder case, in near-real-time, for an audience of millions.

As a listener, this meant I honestly felt like I had wasted a huge amount of time on the show.

But I was rooting for them right up to the point at which I began cursing them.
Undisclosed and 'Truth and Justice' podcasts came very close to pointing a finger at someone.

The problem is that the original investigation was a sloppy and certain leads and discrepancies weren't followed up on.
Checked. Siemens 3T Skyra 2x2x2mm 104 directions, multibanded 6:32. Research scan.
> In which way is different from the ebay app or the Amazon app?

Because they're physical goods.

Section 3.1.5 of the new AppStore guidelines states:

> 3.1.5 Physical Goods and Services Outside of the App:
> If your app enables people to purchase goods or services
> that will be consumed outside of the app, you must use
> purchase methods other than IAP to collect those payments,
> such as Apple Pay or traditional credit card entry. Apps
> may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies
> (e.g. Bitcoin, DogeCoin) provided that they do so in
> compliance with all state and federal laws for the
> territories in which the app functions.

Spotify is not selling physical goods or services.

11.13 of the old guidelines (new guidelines not finalized yet) states:

> Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases
> or subscriptions to be used in the App, such as a "buy"
> button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book,
> will be rejected
I'm sorry why are you still typing? You apply anecdotal examples and your feelings with regards to this topic in the face of actual data. I've written some of those upselling algorithms, 2016 is a long ways from the comparative decade of the 90s you're offering up. Algos and robots can do many of the things you seem to believe to be too expensive, and they do so more cost efficiently and with a greater degree of consistency
And not all robberies and thefts are reported to /recorded by the police. There are vast differences between countries in those numbers.
On the other hand, the car theft numbers is probably accurate, because people need to report to get insurance.
The "Double Jeopardy" rule only appeals to prosecution. It doesn't mean you can't appeal your case. In the US we have a system that was designed to prevent false convictions, even at the cost of some criminals going free. That's why we have the "Double Jeopardy" rule, innocent until proven guilty, pleading the fifth, ect.
Soundproofing is difficult and expensive. To the point that it's usually better to move vs doing that.
Well, people are often convicted based on circumstantial evidence. That's why there is a jury, to weigh the available evidence. Personally, I wouldn't give this guy any help based on what I've read, and certainly not without reading the entire record of each trial. Also, the prosecutor should have definitely sought a lower charge of manslaughter after the 2nd hung jury.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TESTIMONY+IN+2000+SLAYING+CO-W...

Edit: added the following

Yeah, down-voting doesn't invalidate my my feelings on the matter, and looking at the appelate court's decision to uphold the verdict [1] just affirms that I would need a whole lot more convincing this guy is innocent.

[1] http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20CACO%2020111219009/PEOPL...
His blog: http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/

In case it isn't obvious to the OP, the suggestion here is based (in part) on the fact that Jacques Mattheij is also Dutch.
The Global 1% and the Asian Middle Class Have Gained the Most from Globalization
Baffling that an organization that regularly pioneers new web standards makes my back button useless upon entering the website
The OS does decide what to do upon middle-click. In X11 (which handles input events and actions on most desktop Linuxes), middle-click pastes text selection.

Shift+Insert is the keyboad equivalent of middle-click, BTW. Apple (or the ecosystem) doesn't have a monopoly on keyboard shortcuts; in fact, it has been my experience that Apple UIs focus on touchpad usage too much, to the point of completely ignoring and skipping keyboard shortcut support.
Ask HN: Best European country to work/live?
Ask HN: Best European country to work/live?

In terms of salary, holiday etc
Also of note: Tesla often claims that their cars perform very well in an accident. It may be that a crash that would result in a fatality in the median vehicle on the road does not produce a fatality in a Tesla. So the salient number is not "fatalities per vehicle mile among all vehicles in the US," it is "fatalities per vehicle mile among non-autopilot-driven Teslas."
Speaking just for myself, language is thought and thought is language.

I used to be like that, but then I learned a second language, and learned to think in the second language. Soon, I realized their was a place in my mind where thoughts were formed, before being verbalized (although the verbalization happened so fast and automatically before that I didn't notice it). Then I learned to trust that non-verbalized part of my brain, and I could think faster by not using words.

Another way to see the same effect while not going to the effort is while playing a game like chess; you can think "she moves here, then I move there, the she moves there...." going with words through all the variations. But if you just look at the variations without putting them into words, you can go faster.
First Self-Driving Car Death Happens Pretty Early
It was very much meant for you. I'll just copy from my other response:

> 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.
Neither of those two features have been released by Apple.
It gets worse: people buy when times are good and sell when times are bad, if they've not held enough liquidity. This tends to amplify buying prices and depress selling prices.

It's also a strong reason to maintain liquidity and keep your nut (recurring expenses) low.

The dynamic turns up in a number of other areas. Natural resources markets: extractors are often pressed to provide more supply when prices fall because they've a large fixed cost structure, often loans, and the resource is all they have to sell. Monopolisation or cartelisation, or government-regulated stockpiles, are a common response (Standard Oil, the As-Is agreement, the TRO/Dept. of Interior quota program, Naval / Strategic oil reserve -- see also Tea Pot Dome scandal, Harbord list, OPEC). Farmers will double down in drought, see Ken Burns and Tim Egan on the Dust Bowl. Migrant or refugee labour (Dust Bowl and others).

Economic agents -- persons, groups, firms -- face both short-term essential and long-term cost structures. They can operate, for a time, below long-term costs, but only at the cost of degrading their long-term capabilities. They'll do so because if they fail to meet short-term needs, they die.

It's a tremendous market distortion. Perhaps one that drives the entire modern economy.
That's a reasonable question! I put that on our list for the next survey: https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/28#issuecommen...
I missed that point. I argue exponential compounding interest is not so simple and certainly not flat.

The US Federal government has required banks to produce standard term sheets that supposedly more clearly describe a bank's particular fee scheme. That is how bad "they" are.
Interestingly, I switched from synergy to a self-made ssh+x2x wrapper. Two reasons:

1. Ease of install; and
2. Backwards compatibility (Ubuntu 14.04's synergy just couldn't work with Arch's)
Hellbanning exists in a subtler form, though. For instance, my account.

Top-level comments that are literally seconds old are typically posted about 2/3 down the page. None of my votes appear to actually count. It's been this way for several months.

I'm used to it, but it's still very annoying and I wish HN would actually acknowledge they do this.
assuming every Ford is just as safe as a Tesla, you quite literally get thousands of fatalities a year.

Which is about right.
Ruby on Rails 5.0 Release Notes
You bring up an interesting UX issue.

If I need to be constantly available to my friends, "number of seconds to a text reply" is something that I need to minimize.

Longer passphrases prevent me from sending quick replies.
"This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated," states a post on Tesla's corporate website. "Among all vehicles in the U.S., there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles. It is important to emphasize that the NHTSA action is simply a preliminary evaluation to determine whether the system worked according to expectations."
IDK about statistical difference, but the mechanical difference between a brand new high-end full-size car and a twenty year old Honda Civic is going to be massive. Just look at the downward slope of that curve of fatalities per billion miles in each year. Also remember that those numbers are averages over the entire car population in each year, so most cars in the 2015 data are quite a bit older than 2015.

If we had data for the "high end modern full-size car" category, it would most definitely be lower than 10 fatalities per billion miles.
It was in the link at the end if his comment.
I wonder what the driver was doing when the vehicle crashed. Tesla says that the driver is ultimately responsible for controlling the vehicle but then provides a system that is likely result in the driver not paying attention--sleeping, reading, or otherwise being distracted. How can Tesla and the governments that license drivers resolve this situation?
That detail is only exposed when you click in the image on the right.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1613a/
Bay Area workers commuting from edges of 'megaregion,' new report says
AHHHH I was confused, and thought that he wasn't originally convicted (maybe this exposes my own hypocrisy).
So if I read it right the trailer merged from a Lane next to the Tesla? So the trucker had the Tesla in a blind spot? The article is vague.
Why does a company who makes shoes writes a "JSON parsing framework" ?
Good point, when I have been programming for a while, and someone asks me a question, it can take a bit for me to get back into human-language mode.
A direct reply from Elon Musk on twitter about why radar did not recognize the white side of a trailer across the road when the camera missed it:

"Radar tunes out what looks like an overhead road sign to avoid false braking events"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/748620607105839104

EDIT:

When the "overhead sign" comes down below overhead clearance of the vehicle the signal should not be masked. There should have been some braking action in this case. If there was not then the tesla autopilot is unsafe. This is the same blind spot discussed a few months ago that caused a tesla to run into a parked trailer using summon mode:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11677760

This seems like a serious flaw in autopilot functionality. Trailers are not that rare.

I would be interested if "autobrake/autofollow" functions of other car companies have similar problems.
well sooner or later it would happen so Tesla was probably ready for it
Because they also make apps that integrate with the fitness trackers housed in some of their shoes.
http://jalopnik.com/volvo-engineer-calls-out-tesla-for-dange...
Scientists warn of 'global climate emergency' over jet stream shift
I'm a bit at a loss as to why general entertainment pop culture news is interesting to hackers.
PC DOS.
Pretty nifty... I like the view engine, and that it uses string templates, which makes sense for a lighter templating system. Overall nifty. I also appreciate that there's comparisons to some other alternatives, while not really bashing anything.

Personally, I've been pretty happy with preact for a few small things with redux. Though it's a bit larger, react does have a lot of safety net features, and very clear error messages when things aren't right, far more so than I saw with ng2.

In general, I'm really liking this movement towards micro-ui frameworks and though I would just assume stick to react+redux patterns, seeing things like this make me smile, as I'd rather move in this direction than the banana+gorilla+jungle that is angular (though the work towards getting tree shaking functional is interesting, I'm not a fan of the abstractions)
Guess our experiences are different. In F# I do this all the time, and I've never had it be an issue. In Rust, if I'm trying to play around with something, I have to figure out the signatures even when there's only one option.

I hear this argument that the inferred types will be confusing (from C#, F#, and Rust communities; I'm sure it exists in others) -- but they will be accurate! It's something the human has to figure out anyways, except without computer assistance. All because of some misguided attempt at enforcing documentation guidelines and verbosity on programmers, sight-unseen.

I guess users can wait for IDE support with a "show inferred types" option.

Edit: And just as a note, I really love Rust. My only core complaint is the verbosity. And that's a small price to pay since I'd either be paying with perf/memory usage (more expressive languages) or bugs and far more verbosity (C).
This was a very good suggestion! :)
He really is despite being right for I'd say most (maybe?) of the population. Especially considering that even news sites occasionally report on Onion News stories as real news. There's also examples like this scholarly study on misperceptions among people who mortgage homes:

http://www.satirewire.com/news/0106/dream.shtml
Yeah, I'm currently running 0.13.0.

It's really hard to compare and say better or worse than graphite, because it isn't an apples/apples comparison. I, so far, haven't figured out how to do roll up like graphite has built in, so I think I'm holding onto the high precision data. So that makes it not even close to a fair comparison. Still though, 12GB for our current data set feels reasonable. Back in 0.8 when it was more like 150GB for a month, that was not gonna work.

For a while I was feeding collectd into InfluxDB. It didn't really produce anything I could use immediately, and I haven't gone back to revisit it.
I would not call a sentence in a manual a "requirement"
A requirement would be when the autopilot didn't work unless one has at least one hand on the steering wheel. (Just like other manufactures do that)
Tesla knows people are not going to use autopilot hands-on (especially after the novelty wears off)
It's more like you bought takeout food but had to sign a licensing agreement that you would not be permitted to add your own seasonings when you got it home. Unless they were certified seasonings purchased at our restaurant. Using our branded credit card. And they sue anyone that attempts to market seasonings for their restaurant without paying them 30% of the sales price.
> a 1/3 "No" report is a problem

Or it could just reflect strong interest for a relatively young language. I'd love to write some Rust in my day job, but it's rough getting support for using new toolchains and package managers (i.e., cargo). Relatively modest changes (C++11, CMake) are ambitious.

Anyway, if a suitable greenfield project or even a job offer surfaced, I'd be extremely interested.
4 MHz Z 80A CPU, 64 KB RAM, 2 5 1/4 floppy disks (and later, 5 MB hard disks), serial printers.

http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/s700.html

http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/s700_ms_1g.jpg
discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011419
Rich people are also older, and older people have low accident rates.

In the end, the accident rate comparison to the global population is completely wrong.
In the aviation community, there is the major concerns over pilots becoming over-reliant cockpit automation instead of flying the jet.

Asiana 214 [0] is a classic example of crashing a perfectly good airliner into a seawall on landing.

In the Boeing 777, one example of the (auto)pilot interface showing safety critical information is the stall speed indication on the cockpit display [1], warning the pilot if they are are approaching that stall speed.

Hopefully Tesla will optimize the autopilot interface to minimize driver inattention, without becoming annoying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

[1] http://imgur.com/bGsFTCG
I'm not particularly a Tesla fan and have no skin in that game, but I think people can both be defensive of the technology and genuinely, humanly sad about the loss of life. I don't see this as being cynical.
Sounds like it was crossing the highway.

> [...] a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S.

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss
Sounds to me like incoming traffic making a left turn, but again, vague.
It's cool to see this trend. I wonder if they're still using Adobe Experience Manager (formerly known as Day CQ). At a former employer, that relationship was a big reason why management pushed to build on top of AEM. Engineers objected because it had little in the way of online community or documentation, meaning that most implementation questions received answers along the lines of "Buy some time with one of these consultants."
The "white truck against the bright sky" seems to imply that the exposure depth and dynamic range of the camera may also have played a role.
Any concession means that the driver somehow isn't ultimately responsible, which is a situation noone wants to end up in. It's also ridiculous.
Haha.. Funny, I just moved out of there .
Apple Patents Technology to Block iPhone Cameras in Sensitive Locations
I'm not a fan of Ayn Rand, but I have read some insightful statements from her over the years. The one that has stuck with me the most is the idea that if you don't have a conscious, clearly defined philosophy, then your actions are still dictated by SOME philosophy. You just don't know what it is because you've never articulated it or thought critically about it. It is almost certainly a mishmash of biases and contradictions. By articulating your own philosophy (i.e., just putting it into words), you gain the ability to critically reason about it, better understand your own feelings and actions, and hopefully fix the ways in which that unarticulated philosophy was broken.

I'm sure there are lots of other people who are a lot smarter than I am and don't need to articulate things in order to reason about them, but I am not one of those people.
The range of most, if not all, digital camera sensors ranges into the infrared spectrum. I don't know if it's a useful part of the spectrum for this purpose, nor whether Tesla uses image processors that maintain the full sensor data. Would definitely be an interesting thing to work with, from a tech point of view.
"the highway perpendicular" it says. Neither noticed it "against a brightly lit sky".

I take that as the truck was crossing the street (from a side street) in front of the car, but because of the sun blinding the sensors and the driver, the car didn't stop.
Separation of morality and law is a recent trend. For most of human history, morality was the law. As such, it was a social contract born out of necessity and not some arbitrary installation.

It's fine to take a modern, legalistic, maximize-shareholder-value-or-gtfo approach and eschew the ethics and spirit of law perspective altogether. However, generally it would be irrational for corporation to expect a favourable outcome in a survivalist game on a legal field against the host government. That's why most corporations at least do lip service to ethics, community values, social responsibility and so on. Which leads us to square one.
My sympathies to the people who built the systems that make Autopilot possible. Even knowing it was statistically bound to happen eventually, this has to weigh heavily from the "damn, I should've thought of this once-in-a-130-m-miles corner case" perspective.
read it as Cod-emoji... Fishing for the best way to express yourself.
It's known to be vulnerable to correlation and other attacks even in darknet mode:

https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Security_summary

https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Opennet_attacks

It also gets almost no scrutiny compared to Tor, which got shredded with scrutiny. I imagine smart, well-funded attackers might find something. I wouldn't trust it as the only layer of security.
Clinics Offering Unproven Stem Cell Therapies Are Proliferating Across the U.S
You say you would remember better if you were in that situation, but how do you know? Some evidence[0] suggests that memories are more distorted the more they are remembered, so "reliving and remembering that day" may actually make things worse. Note that this may not affect your confidence in the memories. Since we're talking about podcasts, I should mention that there's a Radiolab episode[1] that discusses this.

[0] http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/09/your-...

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/91569-memory-and-forgetting/
No blog post yet, but it's on Ruby Gems

https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/5.0.0

Update: Blog post

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/6/30/Rails-5-0-final/
only on HN can I politely thank a fellow user, and for that social crime my comment is downvoted to oblivion, draining my karma. this site is unbelievably nasty at times.

HN mods/devteam: I vote please remove the downvote control for ordinary users, site-wide. its the simplest way to fix this old long-standing problem. simple, shotgun solution.
Tesla's statement[1] provides some more details

> What we know is that the vehicle was on a divided highway with Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.

Failing to detect the white side of a tractor against a brightly lit sky is something I can see camera/image based sensors struggling with, but not LIDAR based sensors.

[1] https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss