skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use a smartcard, you should use a class2/class3 card reader with pin-pad and never enter the pin on you computer. So the machine can replace the hash that is to be signed, but cannot intercept and replay the PIN.
The new podcast More Perfect from Radiolab seems to quite good in this genre as well. It is stories based the US supreme court cases.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect
"If you actually replace all human drivers with all computer drivers"

I drive motorcycle (and enjoy that), I doubt autopilot will come to those anytime soon..
By that logic, it is your vehicle and completely your choice to use the technology included or not.
No, you don't, unless you want an exhausted pilot trying to land in a crosswind at the end of a journey.

Aviation autopilot is very much "set waypoints, sit back", as if anything goes awry it lets you know, loudly, and then you have time to deal with whatever needs dealing with. The whole reason autopilot was developed was to combat fatigue related accidents - and it works.
> You're saying we can't understand the world through science?

We're having a hard enough time as it is understanding the physical, inanimate world, when it comes to applying "science" to human endeavors the results are much less certain, approaching crystal-ball-reasoning. People did try in the past to do just that, i.e. to make scientific "sense" about what happened in the past with us, humans, with the hidden aim of trying to predict what will happen in the future. Karl Popper had a really good book explaining why that was a terrible idea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poverty_of_Historicism):

> The book is a treatise on scientific method in the social sciences.[2] Popper defines historicism as: “an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their principal aim…”.[3] “The belief… that it is the task of the social sciences to lay bare the law of evolution of society in order to foretell its future… might be described as the central Historicist doctrine.”.[4]

> Popper’s criticisms of the poverty of the idea of historical prediction can broadly be split into three areas: fundamental problems with the idea itself, common inconsistencies in the arguments of historicists, and the negative practical effects of implementing Historicist ideas.

> iii) Individual human action or reaction can never be predicted with certainty, therefore neither can the future: “the human factor is the ultimately uncertain and wayward element in social life and in all social institutions. Indeed this is the element which ultimately cannot be completely controlled by institutions (as Spinoza first saw); for every attempt at controlling it completely must lead to tyranny; which means, to the omnipotence of the human factor – the whims of a few men, or even one.”.

And, to put it more generally, we do know that the Sun will probably die in the next 4-5 billion years, that is science based on induction, i.e. we saw that other stars similar to the Sun have lived that long in the past and so we expect the Sun to have the same lifespan. But this is not prediction nor forecasting the future, is really a very good guess. Science itself is a really nice and educated guess. The problem is that we're much better at guessing what will happen to the Sun, let's say, compared to what will happen to the stock exchange in the next 10 years or to who the president of Rwanda will be in 15 to 20 years.

David Hume has put down in writing the issue with induction better than a guy like me could ever do. From here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction#David_Hum...):

> Only through previous observation can it be predicted, inductively, what will actually happen with the balls. In general, it is not necessary that causal relation in the future resemble causal relations in the past, as it is always conceivable otherwise
I am very jealous. The bike is a fantastic tool for short commutes, but so many people decide not to use it because of safety concerns when riding alongside cars.

We need to see more roads dedicated to cycling. In San Francisco there is a large cycling community, but there are very few dedicated cycling thoroughfares, in fact I can recall only one and it is imperfect (but better than nothing) along the panhandle. We recently had two deaths in SF from bicycle and car mixed use roads.

What every city needs is dediccated networks of biking roads that are interconnected to get across the entire town that do not need to share the road with multi-ton vehicles that can so easily harm very vulnerable cyclists.
> I love Tesla, but make Tesla liable for this.

This is such a slippery slope, especially in lawsuit crazy USA.

> I wouldn't be a "beta tester" of self-driving technology for at least the first 10 years.

Yes, I totally agree.

> Make them pay for every accident that happens because of their technology, and you'll see how quickly they improve it and how carefully they release the technology.

I don't agree that the civil legal system is the right way to solve this. I also don't believe software developers for Tesla should be criminally charged for the death of drivers if it's shown that the software developers were not negligent.

What I really want to see happen, is that any autonomous cars have their software independently and fully audited before they're shipped in production vehicles.

This way, there is a neutral third party, certified by the NTSB, that certifies whether a self-driving car is road legal.

We hold drivers responsible if they kill someone while behind the wheel. I think that we're setting ourselves for a dangerous precedent if we also expect to hold software developers criminally liable. This is why the software in self driving cars must be audited and certified. This means there is a legal burden on software developers to provide safe software, and it removes the criminal liability component should there be a crash.

Treat self driving car crashes less like a witch hunt, and more like an airplane accident. In airplane accidents, no one is trying to point the finger, everyone is simply trying to determine the cause, and how it can be avoided in the future.

> Other regulations may not be sufficient on their own anyway, and the auto-makers will just do the minimum necessary to comply with them

Exactly. This is why tougher regulations are needed. IIRC even ECU code in ICE cars is currently audited. This emerged during the Toyota accelerator lawsuit.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204
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> Make them pay for every accident that happens because of their technology, and you'll see how quickly they improve it and how carefully they release the technology.

...or you'll see how quickly the industry dies off instead of pursuing the technology. I am not sure I want driverless car tech to go the way nuclear tech did in the 70's (via fear, banned tech, and large introduction of costly regulations). Some kind of balance is needed. An extreme solution won't be beneficial in the long run.
Actually, the semi driver is almost certainly liable.[0]

[0] http://www.salterhealy.com/blog/who-is-at-fault-in-a-left-ha...
But then they get to tack on "court costs" as increased fines.
This is dangerous advice. Chances are you cannot "handle your business" to such an extent that you can out-maneuver professionals with years of training whose sole aim is to put you behind bars.

Don't talk to police.
Even the podcast states at the end that his innocence is far from proven, but that it's not clear that he is guilty. This is another perfect case of reasonable doubt, there is not enough evidence to convict.

This would make for a great case to see what the public opinion would be if he were to be released from prison, only later to have found out that he really did it. Reasonable doubt is tricky, it will let criminals off the hook because the police can not make a proper case.
That's how many shares he had at the time of the IPO. They underlying source is correct for its time (2012), but whoever wrote the Wikipedia is misrepresenting it as being from 2015.
There are many other vehicles on the road also needing a human to drive them, tractors, heavy machinery, buses (that are not part of a regular, pre-defined route) ++.

In the future though, it will always be your fault, because you are one person trying to prove an accident was not your fault against a big-money company. Good luck.
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"We've worked closely with Yahoo to implement these new features in accordance with contractual terms and our privacy policy. To be as transparent as possible, we've written up details on the technical implementation."

As a search user, I couldn't care less about this stuff. I don't think it's even possible to build a good search engine "in accordance with contractual terms".
The NHTSA is full of smart people. They know that a Tesla in self-driving mode is safer than when driven by flesh and bones. Data proves it. We have millions of hours of self-driving Teslas and only one fatal accident.

Therefore I predict that this accident (and other future ones) will not significantly slow down the development, and adoption of self-driving cars...
I'm fine with that. Motorcycle riders kill almost exclusively themselves.
> Who even enjoys driving on city roads anymore? Or on highways? I drove on American freeways and it was mind-numbingly dull. Just acres of concrete all along the road with nothing interesting to see or do.

Who even enjoys writing code any more? It's just line after line of characters on a screen, with nothing interesting to see or do.

Yet another american claim that "I don't like something, therefore no one else must like it either", with the usual view that because something is terrible in America, it must be terrible everywhere.
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That is the my main issue with EU law making. They're aiming low to get everyone onboard, but countries that have already laws like that are likely to be overruled to something less. It's great for creating a united marked withing EU, but I just wish they would aim higher. Why settle for less when state of the art already exists and is widely used.
I wonder if this article isn't putting the cart before the horse. If you're not getting just older but also sicker it gets harder and harder to drag yourself to work each day.

Or, to put it another way, maybe you're working at 75 because you're not sick instead of not being sick because you're working.
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Not 100% because we'd still have accidents caused by sudden mechanical failures but there's no 100% effective, reasonable way around those.
I'd love to know your thoughts on the topic?
This reminds me of the shady tactics Dropbox used to acquire the dropbox.com domain. Before that, they only had getdropbox.com.

I suppose if you have VCs bankrolling you, you can do whatever you want.
Debuggers are special--the OS won't let unsigned binaries control other processes, no matter how they came to exist on your system.

Outside of that, Gatekeeper applies to executables fetched from the Web, can be disabled (harder on Sierra), and is easy enough to bypass--and you only have to do it once per executable. If signed, the certificate does need to be trusted to count--otherwise, it'd just be a fancy checksum.
Moonwalked http://coub.com/view/d9ncc
So someone who has made mistakes in the past but is trying to turn their life around doesn't deserve your respect?
No mention of the fact that the human driven truck pulled out in front of the care. From the description it sounds like the car should have break breaking hard - one doesn't just hit the side of a truck - the driver didn't see the oncoming car either.
"In the future though, it will always be your fault, because you are one person trying to prove an accident was not your fault against a big-money company."

That's why I always wear videoregistrator on my helmet. It paid off for itself many times already.
The only thing I can see getting in the way is human nature and the feeling of lack of control.
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Kudos on reaching milestone.

Can't wait to try it out. When is the Windows build will be available? Days? Week(s)?
I was living and working on the east coast in a major city for about the past 8 years, and feel that culturally I resonate more with urban lifestyle, tech & university hubs, etc. Sense of humor is important to me ... I'm one of those people who was raised on The Simpsons, despite how cliche it is and how much Sean & Hayes of Hollywood Handbook would mock me for saying so.

The family situation has required me to move to the rural midwest to do full-time care and administration of a legal issue, provide childcare, and do many other things. I went to high school and college here, so I know the ropes, but it's not a place that I identify with or culturally fit into, and I think anyone who interacted with me for a few minutes would know that quickly.

I will always continue practicing presentation skills, but confidence in public speaking and especially confidence in speaking clearly and precisely about the technical work I've done are things that come naturally to me.

Firms from SF have been among the worst. The tech culture there just seems problematic and I think I would strongly prefer New York or Boston over SF, though for a good-fitting role, I'd consider really anywhere.

But after interviewing with a lot of SF firms and getting feedback that either (a) they would not consider paying adequate relocation or (b) they would not consider someone who is not currently working, I just focused my search on different geographic regions.

I tend to get a lot of first interviews based on my education and past experience, but after I answer questions about my current unemployment gap, it's like everyone just feels it's too complicated to bother fiddling with it at all and they just dismiss it without considering my skills.
> "set waypoints, sit back"

"and maintain situational awareness." Some failures can happen quickly, and the plane can change modes unexpectedly. Plus the warnings you receive may not be accurate.. see Air France 447.

You can sit back, but your role is to constantly check your instruments, your performance, your route, your radios and your environment.
You sound exactly like my mom, and I mean that in an incredibly positive way. She has fixed so many issues in public facilities just by picking up the phone and persisting. She can expedite anything, and she'll go to great lengths to help others. Her social network is massive as well. She hasn't worked in years, but I have insane respect for her and I envy her a lot!
What a fun read!

Probably worth mentioning that Russell's opposition to recursion which lead to him formulating "his" paradox offered type theory as a solution. Type theory also has quite the impact on computer science.
Even if self-driving cars will be 10x safer than humans, I doubt if they can eliminate all deadly accidents. Though many people die or get severely injured every day, each machine failure is treated as major news.

Similarly plane accidents are perceived way more and that perception persist over decades: "A sold-out 727 jet would have to crash every day of the week, with no survivors, to equal the highway deaths per year in this (USA) country."
http://anxieties.com/flying-howsafe.php#.V3YVE5N95AY

What that means for AI? Either we create 1000x more safer AI than humans, or we self-driving cars would face harsh public/regulatory opposition?
You make a good point that we should not completely condemn and deride people who have moved on from making bad choices and have become positive individuals for others to be around.

However, I think it is fair: someone who has spent 11 years in prison and continues to endure punishment for a crime they did not commit does deserve special treatment. He deserves to be where he would be had he never been falsely accused in the first place. I don't think that is with an ex-con/ex-gang recovery organization, no matter how good it is.
Needless to say there's a huge difference between spectator and active participant. We're not at the point that a person can just sit back and read a book in a self-driving car, yet sitting there, hands on wheel, and doing nothing but watching - that can get tedious.

Using a soccer analogy, I can go to sleep watching certain Euro Cup 2016 matches, but if I were playing on the field, obviously that changes everything. With self-driving cars, I'm somewhere in the middle (basically, a benched player).
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I can sadly see that quote taken out of context to justify the paranormal or other crap.
I don't think we can say statistically whether it is safer than humans right now or not.
Anthony Levandowski, one of the key people behind Google's self-driving car effort, built a self-driving motorcycle for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. It's now in the Smithsonian.[1]

[1] http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah...
When you see stories like this, it's hard to argue with the theory that the government is simply a stationary bandit.
This came to mind; «Teslas are so safe that they make headlines every time one crashes.»

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4n9tbv/tesl...
In my case, I was required to relocate from a large east coast city back to my family's home in the rural Midwest, where I perform functions to care for a family circumstance and they take up effectively a full-time job's worth of hours every week. It's all I can do to continue exercising and cooking healthy meals. "Working" a full-time side project that yields no short-term income is wholly and entirely physically intractable in my current situation.

Besides that, it would be very dishonest of me to downplay or fudge the explanation of my current period of unemployment. The family problem has been severe and required me to leave from a job, dedicate huge amount of time and money, and many other sacrifices. The only reason I could consider taking a new job is that the income would allow me to pay for people to take over the care duties I am currently personally performing. So the exact, real reasons for my unemployment are actually very relevant, important things for my next employer to understand and fundamentally be OK with.
>tractors

I would expect that it's quite easy to autopilot a tractor on the road. They already use autopilot in the field.
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This is an interesting point. Seems like it'd be useful if the car made you drive for 5 minutes out of every 30 of your trip

Edit: Also I realize that technically you are always driving. By driving here I mean in the active sense -- no automatic steering or cruise control
"Statistically"

Source? I hear that it is imperfect software.
I view retirement (distant future for me) as a chance to do unappreciated work. Does the world need a new birdhouse? Who cares. When I retire, if I want to spend 100 hours on a birdhouse, then I can, and I don't need to justify it to anyone.

I'll even say it's worth $5000 because I spent so much time on it, and put it up for sale on eBay. If nobody buys it, then who cares?

But sit around and do whatever the default thing is (watch TV, etc.): No thanks.
It's already more nice than what I expected.

Some really minor bugs that occurred while using it a bit (OS X 10.11):

- Scrolling when already at the end of the page sometimes makes a relatively big instant step (noticed this for instance on the hackernews startpage)

- The tabs aren't cropped in tab view: http://imgur.com/Q1Bxibo

- Tabs don't keep at which point you have scrolled when switching tabs

- After opening the address bar and clicking on the website again there's a short flicker.
Systematic bugs in self driving cars would be disastrous.

So if you see a Tesla car crashing on days with white sky, you want to know whether this can happens to you as well.
Here's the book that the article is talking about, so you don't waste time looking for it: https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Inside-Silicon-machine-...

Mad thing but I'm not getting it, the article was enough for me.
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>Data proves it.

[citation needed]

Tesla press release says this is the first accident in 130 million miles, whereas other vehicles had an accident every 94 million miles.

But that includes old cars, old drivers, drunk drivers etc.

Doesn't seem that much safer
In my understanding, there's huge tax penalties, both to employer and employee, for giving employees in the money options. Thus options have to be granted with a strike that is fmv or something approximating it. Excessively sandbagging the valuation would, I think, be consider doing the above.

Further, you don't think businesses are averse to golden handcuffs, do you?
It will be decades before farm machinery is replaced by modern tech. Decades. I would like HN users to very much stop dismissing any discussion on the topic of automated vehicles with glib reactions devoid of thought.
Yes, but you don't need to sit there with your hands on the yoke, feet on the pedals, wired to the nines waiting for disaster to strike. I used to take a book with me for longer flights (when you're sat alone in a plane for hours flying over cloud things get tedious), as short of having a wing fall off there isn't all that much that can go very suddenly wrong - and most of the "very suddenly wrong" situations will kill you regardless. Keep one eye on instruments, mutter intermittent obscenities at the oil pressure gauge - but mostly relax.
Nice, but robot-on-two-wheels is not quite the same as motorcycle autopiloting with human on top, who doesn't sit still and doesn't handle sudden movements well.
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Is there an article somewhere comparing how Servo and Chromium threaded compositing differ? I guess there is some work on Chromium side to render pages using multiple threads, but I couldn't find more information and how it compares to Servo's mechanism.
Should manufacturers be liable if a driver using cruise control rear ends someone?
They voted to introduce limits but they haven't been enacted yet. Some of the deals they negotiated are now in danger of collapsing as a result.
I'm kind of surprised to learn that the autopilot was relying on visual sensors (since I haven't read much about the Model S). I wonder if onboard lidar or radar could have prevented this accident.
To add an actual data point, in New Zealand bike rider fatalities are not the motor bike riders fault about 30% of the time and in non fatal crashes the figure is about 40%. www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Research/Documents/Motorcycles-15.pdf
I really do not like Tesla's strategy of luring the drivers to doze off while driving. However, the Guardian article on the accident claims that Teslas drove 130 million miles in autopilot mode, while the rate of fatal accidents is closer to 100 million miles per accident. [0] It is statistically complicated to measure anything from a single event, and ars had a nice article on the problems for self driving cars [1], but I would interpret this as a Tesla autopilot together with the human driver is as good (with some indication of slightly better) than a unassisted human driver.

Apart from that, it is important to remember that fatal accident statistics are not just numbers, but are tabulations of individual tragedy. My condolences to his family, but sadly we can not expect autonomous cars to be perfect in the first try.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/30/tesla-aut...

[1] http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/04/car-makers-cant-drive-th...