skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really makes you consider why you would even want such an autopilot. From the description in this eulogy, it sounds like you must work even harder with autopilot on than if you were driving manually. Not only do you need to have the same alertness as manual driving, you also have to be ready to take over at any moment and try to detect if the autopilot has made any mistakes that might guillotine you, or worse.
Do your clients all have projects that shut down after a year then?

One of my clients has 2 projects in durandal that I've picked up. No-one uses it any more, the documentation sucks ass, there's sod all on SO, the original devs had only done data access pages, super easy, not the data editing pages, absolute nightmare, so you can't even copy what they did before.

It's a bloody nightmare to work in. Pages which would take me an hour or two in an older tech are taking me days in this half-baked SPA.

I'm not on the sidelines because I'm fretting mate, I'm on the sidelines because the messes left behind are a fucking nightmare for those afterwards and an absolute disgrace to the profession.

It feels like the framework switchers rip off their clients by giving them code in an untested tech, the code is almost instantly obsolete while claiming to be cutting edge, and then run away when the flaws in the new framework they've chosen becomes obvious and they can't handle it and the complexity is too much to deal with and they run off and start a new project in the latest koolaid tech, pretending it's not history repeating itself, ad nauseum.

Or perhaps, not everyone on the sideline is a Luddite and not everyone jumping from js framework to js framework each year has chronic ADHD that can't see a project through.
Many EU states are already issuing keypairs to their citizens, usually in a smartcard that is their national ID. This initiative is supposed to get states to recognize each others' keys.

There's not blockchain; entities can simply sign a timestamp to a document, and then people and other entities can either trust it or not. From what I understand, a private company can be licensed as an "verified" timestamper, and then sell its services to other companies or individuals.
Now add all the other sites we use on a daily basis. The scary thing is that most of us don't care, we are happy giving up our data in exchange for these services.
The Whole Rigmarole: Ben Johnson Bares All
I know you've receive a gazillion of comments like this in the past but I'm going to do it anyway: THANK YOU. Your work on that book is what got me my first web dev job. I've grown a ton since and have you to thank for it. Thank you so much.
I have no doubt there's plenty of innovative PHP libraries and frameworks, I (and many others) just believe they would be even better in another language ;)
For those who are not familiar with the USA esignature law, basically it allows any single keypress to be a lawful signature.

So typing "X" or the "1" on your phone keypad is proof that you assent.

No PKI, no non-repudiation, no identity verification, nothing ...
Poll: Is your team using or planing to use deep learning and AI in production?
It was blocked on mine too, thanks for posting a reason, I had assumed it was just bad editing. I have ABP but also have a "safe" hosts file[0] that blocks a lot of stuff like that.

[0]-http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Every time I've explored alternatives to try to get those kinds of numbers, it seem the bottleneck is more in the database than the application server.
According to wikipedia there were 32,675 fatalities in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i..., around 10 fatalities per 100,000 population.
In addition to the typical Rust places (users.rlo, /r/rust) and the typical generalist programming communities (proggit, HN) we also encouraged speakers to share the link to the survey at the end of any talks they gave (which gives us a good mix of both current users and non-users (especially if the talk is part of a generalist meetup or non-Rust-specific event)). We also included the survey in any official blog posts during this period (many of which, like http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/16/rust-at-one-year.html , we expect to be general enough to appeal to more than just our usual users). And we also urged our community members to pass the link on to their friend groups, as well as any other communities that they may be a part of.
> So personally, I find your appeal to emotion and thinly veiled "what about the children" shtick disgusting and immoral.

How do you counter a utilitarian argument without humanizing the situation? If my friend or loved one were killed by an ill-considered and poorly-implemented automated driving algorithm, no amount of statistics would convince me that the tradeoff was worth it. Who bears responsibility in that case? No one? I suspect that ordinary people won't accept that for a long time to come. At least with human drivers, the courts can decide culpability. At least with a human in the mix, we're all still operating within the same social and legal order.
> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There were lots of lights and reflections, and it was night

All those factors indicate the car was going too fast given the conditions -- autopilot or not. It appears that in general, the Tesla AP does not take road and environmental conditions into account (or weigh them heavily at least). In this case, there was no collision in spite of the conditions. But this should have been a giant red flag for Tesla engineers. Unfortunately, the story at hand tells us that they're not doing their job.

> Watching the video the first time, I didn't see the car before it was already in front of the camera.

I didn't either, not at first. But given just the first frame and knowing a collision was about to be avoided, my first reaction was the autopilot was going to prevent a rear-end due to a short stop, or it was going to stop as someone merged in from the right lane.

But you and I are not the driver of this car. The driver should have known the highway was not divided, should have known of the possibility for cross traffic, and he should have adjusted his behavior accordingly. I guarantee you there was also a sign (before the start of the video) indicating there is an opportunity for cross traffic ahead. Given that, those white headlights (they look reddish in the video, but in real life they would be bright white) should caution the driver that a car is probably looking to turn.

The autopilot did not take any of this context into account, and that's exactly why someone is dead today. It's operating with superhuman reaction speed, but with the common sense and wisdom of a 10 year old.
I normally see things like caching as an attempt to overcome poor architecture.
http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html

Now you can give all your income as you desire.
Ok, seems like this isn't really unprecedented:

2015: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2015/06/24/1700Z/wind/isobaric...

2014: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/10/14/1500Z/wind/isobaric...
I'd love to read more about it. Do you know if he has written anything about this work?
I analysed the bit I'm interested in and stated I abhor the bit I abhor.

What are you failing to understand?
Correct me if I am wrong, but can't the Sequel ORM accomplish this as well?

Post.join(:author).where(:author__name => "John")

(the above is purely from memory and may have syntax errors).

In any case, it lets you drop into raw SQL as a last resort.
Yes, you would need at least a D/A converter and a preamp in the headphone. But why would you want to do this? Good headphone DACs/amps are relatively big and heavy and they run on batteries (yet another thing to charge). The Fiio E5 is a small headphone amp (no DAC), and it's still the size of an iPod Shuffle.
Some of my more sophisticated friends take this a step further and taunt me for not securely hiding notifications and buying a smart watch.

This confuses me because Bluetooth over the air does not strike me a secure mechanism (is it just Bluetooth; ironically scant detail unless my Google-fu is off, likely at this hour for me).

http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/android-wear-hack-alert...

And do I need yet another smart device? The mobile first movement, with shinier crap, moving away from standard protocols, leads me to believe I have been passively perpetuating the biggest wart on computer science's labors. I am kind of embarassed, a few years in and late to the party, I bought an Android phone at all.
I had the same problem with my neighbor. He switched on his hi-fi at 7am every day. I asked him not to do it so he turned the volume up. I made a playlist in response with songs like Lustmord: Terror against Terror, Suicide Silence: Bludgeoned to Death, Marduk: World Funeral, Last Days of Humanity: A Divine Proclamation of Finishing the Present Existence, Nile: Annihilation of the Wicked, Cannibal Corpse: Purification by Fire, Meshuggah: Bleed etc and switched it on at 11PM and left it on for 2 hours. There is silence ever since. I consider myself a good neighbor but when I experience this kind of abuse I usually respond in kind with great effect. Catch 33 from Meshuggah is also quite effective as a whole.
>> "He really said that?"

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/05/08/beats

"The problem with this theory is that those licenses (to my understanding) aren’t transferable in the event of an acquisition. Music label executives may be dumb, but they’re not that dumb."

>> "They're not approving it because supposedly Spotify built in their own payment system which is a clear violation of App Store guidelines. Could be wrong but that's what I read."

Maybe but I think it was a strategy. Spotify wanted to grab attention. The origin of the issue is really the fact that Apple is not releasing the 30% tax for music streaming services. This is unsustainable in the music business where there is close to 0 margin. The labels take most of the revenue.
I talk about this at length in one of my recent talks but the short version is we wanted to optimize for reuse via named scopes
low jitter, low latency, high concurrency workloads.
Feels like GitHub is one of the very few websites that do email Right.
I'm still fairly new with Elixir/Phoenix (as I think most of us still are), but so far I feel intuitively that it's more maintainable and I admit that I don't have the experience or numbers to back that up yet.

There are some things that you simply must use other tools for in Rails, because it can't maintain state like Erlang can. Once you start adding in these other things, you're no longer just a "Rails app" but you're really creating an entire system. Now you've got different things you potentially need to test, and you're adding in extra stuff to your system to monitor and measure the different parts of your system. You might do the same thing in Erlang/Elixir, but you also might not. You can potentially keep your entire "system" inside Erlang, either in one node or distributed. So right away simply having that option sounds like a huge improvement in maintainability. You've got everything running in Erlang, monitored and supervised in Erlang/Elixir, more easily testable using ExUnit or whatever.

And I think @bcardella talked about this in his RailsConf presentation (linked somewhere in the comments here).. but the performance you get from Elixir/Phoenix is potentially a huge improvement in maintenance. How much time have people spent in NewRelic or whatever measuring and tuning their Rails apps, getting the caching and everything working just right? People are writing Phoenix apps with zero caching that are performing better than Rails with caching. When people aren't having to go debug and diagnose these kinds of performance problems they get to work on actual features.

Again, some of this is just my intuition on it more than real experience to back it up. I've built a couple apps with Phoenix and I do enjoy it more. They're not big enough for the performance to really matter, but I do feel strongly that they're simpler because I'm keeping everything in Elixir code and not having to use, for example, Sidekiq in order to do anything async.
The usability question with partial automation has always been this: Will humans mistake excellent automation for perfect automation and come to rely on it and fail to provide adequate oversight?

Tesla's PR engine here makes a number of cringeworthy statements. For example, they say "Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky." While the statement is literally true (the driver apparently did not notice the trailer, and the sky was brightly lit behind the trailer) it also invites the reader to mistakenly infer that the driver was paying attention and did not notice the tractor only due to the lighting situation. Maybe they were paying attention, but we'll never know.

The PR also reports the average vehicle miles driven in the US per crash death and reports the number of Tesla automated miles driven without a death. That invites the reader to make a comparison of apples and oranges: the US figure is for roads of all types whereas the Tesla figure is restricted to those types of roads where autopilot works.
But is reliance on proprietary security mechanisms really a sensible solution? The individual has to rely on the security, with no way to verify that there aren't any backdoors in the smartcard, for example.
That's the real scandal here if there is one. Tesla has been capitalizing on their autonomous driving feature, and promoting it in an unsafe way to do so (after all, it'd look a lot less impressive if all the demo videos had alert drivers with their hands on the wheel).

The truth is that autonomous driving is something every major car manufacturer could develop and demo tomorrow, but large companies like Ford/GM/Toyota are way too risk-averse (or some would say, responsible), to promote it in such a way.

Here's hoping that Tesla doesn't poison the well for autonomous driving.
Fantastic, time for me to leave my music library behind for the umpteenth time and move to greener music platforms. You failed me Hovito, just as Grooveshark, Napster, iTunes and many others did before you.
It also is way better than Spotify for me. It's everything I wanted out of a music service.

Spotify was never going to have me as a subscriber but Apple Music was so much better (for me) that it was a no-brainer.

But then I always preferred Pandora over Spotify anyhow (different use cases I know, but still).
>> "they run on batteries"

I think that's the point of lightning - they can derive power through the port. As for size I think there's already a few products out there that manage it. I saw one reviewed a few weeks ago.
If the host PC is compromised, does a cheap smartcard help? Just capture the PIN (like you would a password when they logon to their bank) and replay at will? Maybe if the user is very careful to only keep their smartcard in for the minimum time required it helps.

So long as other bank protections are in place, it shouldn't be a step backwards. If it's used to move all liability to the consumer though, then it's a problem.
I too have been using ZK for many years now, and it's pretty great.

Etcd can provide faster election notifications but it comes at the cost of etcd still being pretty new, so be prepared to get cut by the bleeding edge :)
Hey look at these other companies writing their own software too. It's crazy:

A taxi company: https://github.com/uber
A hotel company: https://github.com/airbnb
A clothing company: https://github.com/gilt
Back button broke for me too in Chrome OSX. Takes you to a 404 page. https://learning.mozilla.org/codemoji/#/404
> "Retrial" suggests to me that it is the exact same scenario that will be tried once again.

I think that is very unlikely. I am not a lawyer, but I have never heard anything that indicates prosecutors have to present the same case upon a retrial. I imagine they will present a case with full knowledge of everything from Serial.
If the headphone jack rumors are true, I'd bet it has nothing to do with audio quality and is more about the limited usefulness of the old jack. It plays music fine, but has no support for microphones or controls (like the fast forward / pause button on Apple earbuds) without weird nonstandard hacks (like the extra ring on the jack of Apple earbuds).
I've found this to be the case. While RethinkDB has many features to help you drill in to nested content, you'll end up missing document-level features fairly soon and want to split things up.
The loss is of Joshua D. Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio. A former Navy SEAL and technologist. Josh was a member of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six) prior to founding Nexu Innovations.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ohio/obituary.aspx?pid=1799...
[Tutorial] Creating Map Visualisations in Python with Basemap
That's why you have Marshall Project. https://www.themarshallproject.org/#.t1nzcmhDj

Sure, if you have money, it helps in that you are likely to be aware of the Marshall Project, able to contact them, etc. But other than that, it is accessible to everyone.
>As a listener, this meant I honestly felt like I had wasted a huge amount of time on the show.

That seems like such a weird conclusion to me.
> My hand being on the wheel at all times is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for verifying that I am paying attention and am ready to take over control.

Yes it is. Set your ego aside for a second, forget about how good or bad of a driver you are, and consider how long it would take anyone to move their hand back to the wheel and take control.

Lets be generous and assume half a second. 60 mph * 0.5 seconds = 44 feet, or roughly 3 car lengths before you've even begun to re-assume control of the vehicle, let alone take the appropriate action to handle whatever is going wrong.
Why we need an alternative to venture capital
I could never understand why Tesla needed the auto-pilot feature. They have too much on their plate already. What possible benefit could it bring to justify adding such a high risk decision?
It seems newsworthy that the world's first robotic car, specifically designed to see and react to road conditions, drives into the side of a truck.
Spotify bitches about the App Store
> That also explains why Apple is not approving the last Spotify app update. It's war.

To be fair, Apple has a long history of blocking apps with the own payment and subscription system.
QR code maybe? I think that might work...
Autopilot doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better than the average human driver.

On average, humans are rather unsafe car drivers.
Maybe 3. Who doesn't notice $10 a month on their card? People with little spare money would feel it, and people with lots of spare money usually get that way by paying attention to their finances.
> Based on what?

Human drivers are very bad. We kill over 32,000 people a year (and that's a 60 year low, just a few years ago it was over 40,000).

So if self driving cars are just a little better than humans, they will save many lives. If they are a lot better than us, they will save many more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12009990
Well the name does stand for God What an Awful Racket so I thought it fitting. Plus its what Dave Brockie would of wanted.
As you can see from the website, it's not just for ex-gang members but also for previously incarcerated men and women looking for job training and a leg up.

Perhaps Ray could decide for himself once your GoFundMe funds run out.
Removing the headphone jack doesn't magically make the lighting port more capable.

There already exists a range of audio equipment and headphones that use the lightning port on existing iOS devices.
I would love to see someone take a deep dive into why their Phoenix thing is "so much faster" than with Rails. I mean really look at the whole stack from the VM, to different pieces of the framework like views and DB interaction. Erlang definitely does concurrency well, but it is not that much faster than Ruby in terms of "raw speed". I'd be fascinated to see someone actually do the work and look at where Phoenix is eking out those gains.
Please know more facts before passing judgement.

We told Digital Ocean that we were open on the issue and that we would rather take down the site than risk having all our customers disabled.

We asked for one of two things either 1) we be sent a takedown notice from the trademark holder OR 2) Digital Ocean be sent a takedown notice from the trademark holder

Digital Ocean took down our customers sites knowing full well that they didn't have to.
This article - from NTV, one of Russia's major TV networks - is for those who suggested there would be no mention at all about Snowden's criticism of the anti-terror law among major Russian media outlets -- or if there were any, it would be presented only in mocking or condescending terms.

Here's my attempt at a refurbished machine translation:

Snowden referred to the new legislation as a "Big Brother" law which would "take the money and freedom without security improvements."

On his Twitter feed the ex-US intelligence officer said that the new laws are "not only dangerous, but also impractical." In support of this Snowden drew attention to the rule according to which operators must keep records and reports within six months.

The so-called Anti-Terrorism Suite was introduced by the chairman of the Duma's security committee, Irina Spring, and passed by the Parliament on Friday, 24 June. In particular, it specifies life imprisonment for international terrorism, sentences for failing to report the impending attack, and new rules for storage and reducing the age of liability threshold for terrorist crimes to 14 years.

Snowden, who formerly worked with the NSA, because famous throughout the world after as he told about the large-scale surveillance, organized by US intelligence agencies. In 2014, American was given a residence permit in Russia. In the US, Snowden faces up to 30 years in prison.
If you're talking about contemporary literature, then maybe, as I wouldn't know much about recent stuff. If not, then you're... I don't even know what to call it... to dismiss the french, russian, spanish, italian classics... wow.
Thank you! I somehow dead-ended before finding these.
IF the mark hasn't registered an opposition might be an option.
http://www.inta.org/TrademarkBasics/FactSheets/Pages/Opposin...
>> "Maybe but I think it was a strategy. Spotify wanted to grab attention with this. The origin of the issue is really the fact that Apple is not releasing the 30% tax. This is unsustainable in the music business where there is close to 0 margin."

I definitely agree it was a strategy. No way Spotify thought they would get away with that, it's a PR exercise. The issue isn't Apple's 30% though - it's Spotify's business model. Apple charges all publishers the same flat rate. If you can't sustain your business on it either leave the App Store or force your users to register through your website. I can see how it sucks for Spotify but it is not unfair in my opinion (unless Apple had a monopoly on streaming music, then it would be anticompetitive but for now it's an advantage they have and should be free to use).
First, you said:
>> That also explains why Apple is not approving the last Spotify app update. It's war.

Then:
> The origin of the issue is really the fact that Apple is not releasing the 30% tax.

I'm honestly not sure if you're contradicting your first statement or if I'm misunderstanding your choice of words.

Is Apple failing to pay out? Seems like I would have read about it if they reneged on their contract with a highly visible third party.