skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat. Maybe they can even put license compliance on their roadmap (they statically linked in OpenSSL).
Walmart Labs believe it or not: hapijs.com
You can't seriously believe that stuff about Apple deliberately slowing old devices. Quoting that really undermines the rest of what you are saying.
My comment relates to any boat around 40ft in length or less. A 60ft boat's expenses will be an order of magnitude higher.
But if you label it, why wouldn't you start labeling all other sorts of things?

Good question. More labels for everyone! I want to know the soil composition where my vegetables were grown, for example, and the average and peak levels of various airborne pollutants during the growing season.
> Going through selective breeding means the plants/animals live long enough to reproduce and likely reproduce sexually.

Apples aren't allowed to reproduce—a sexually-produced apple tastes like crap. We preserve a specific genotype through grafting.
The scientific consensus on GMO safety is actually slightly stronger than on global warming:
https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/29/pewaaas-st...
It turns out to be a lot easier to convince farmers to use better seeds than to change everything else about how they work. We have a lot of experience with successfully getting poor farmers to try better varieties.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug for the man who made it work.
Apple rejects Spotify's app update, Spotify calls approval process a 'weapon'
The definition of empire is a group of states or countries ruled by a single supreme authority.

All other uses of the term are metaphorical. We can talk about the McDonald's hamburger empire.

When we talk about the American Empire, we're also using the term metaphorically, because think what you will of the US, but it doesn't rule as a supreme authority over anything but a few islands. It may have friends, allies, interests, influence, bargaining power, but it has no subjects, no subjugated peoples. It may have largely founded what is now the world's economic and security order after WWII, but those are all voluntary.

The problem is that the overlap between superpower and empire makes the term empire confusing in the American case. "Powerful like an empire" and "an empire" are very different.

When we talk or think about the "American Empire", we seek similarities and ignore differences with the Roman Empire, European colonial empires, even the Athenian Empire or Soviet Empire. It makes it sound like the US can tell other countries what to do as it pleases, that the US rules over others. That's a very important mistake, even a dangerous mistake. Allies are not subjects. When a country asks the US military to leave, it leaves. See the Philippines as a good example (and further back as an example of the bad old days, when the US was briefly interested in having a real empire).

Today's US is an empire in the sense that Microsoft is an empire -- it is an empire of the willing who can leave whenever they like.

And if you can leave whenever you'd like, it's not a real empire.
I'm being working in this kind of application and there is no problem with the "shitload of monkey patching". Most of work was being done in the controller layer to filter the parameters. After you finished this you can safely remove the protected_attributes gem. To make this we created a migration sanitizer for the protected_attributes gem that I plan to integrate in the gem itself very soon.
CRISPR gene editing could destroy herpes viruses living inside you
Fair enough. Removed that portion as I do not wish to taint the conversation with my own (unproven) speculation. Thank you @zepto.
From "Max Dama on Automated Trading":
> Work shall set you free

The English translation of Arbeit macht frei? Really?
"Not all the pieces working together perfectly" is something that just seems to happen whenever there are large organisations... I remember a few years ago when Microsoft Azure's web interface was completely broken in the latest version of Internet Explorer at the time.
Exactly, it's not skin color it's culture and behavior.
There also is a SNKRS app that allows you to buy limited edition shoes. Must have for every sneaker head!
Extensive discussion of Tesla crash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011419

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012676 and many other posts.
This feels like a hardware play to me. Start off getting developers to use your inference library, determine the common cases and killer apps, then build an ASIC that does it all using far less power.

Perhaps the front facing camera might get a bit more interesting in the future for more than just selfies.
Extensive discussion of Tesla crash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011419

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012676
I remember hearing (I can't remember where) they contacted the ISP and they no longer had logs or maybe even the email account. There was some funny-business too, if I remember.

I work in film. Once the delivery is out the door the 'pieces' are generally archived, but even a few months later they don't fit together again. Trying to recreate the data when working on a sequel, for instance, even only a year later is a bit like the restoring the Xerox Alto series posted last week.
Well? Were they walking in roadways, and not moving to the sidewalk when instructed to do so?
> these are all things that can easily be attained with just about any well-factored system on any number of languages/frameworks

Not sure what your point it. I shared my experience working with systems, you can share yours (if you have any).

Yes, you can write any of the stuff in assembly. Erlang, Java, Rust, all can be written in assembly. You can serve web pages in that too, and even create distributed system by twiddling bits directly in the network card's receive buffer.

> This stuff is what frustrates me most about the vocal early adopting crowd.

Lol, early adopters ;-) Erlang turned 30 this year. It is probably older than the median age of people reading this comment.

> Again, this isn't language or framwork-specific.

Again, point to where I said "nothing like this can be done in any other frameworks". Code reload -- can do it in Java. But you'll get paper cuts. Python -- can spawn an OS process to get fault isolation, but, can only spawn so many. Distribution -- spin another instance in AWS, talk gRPC with it, but now you are paying more money and have another library to maintain.

> But citing resilience, efficiency, scalability, and handling traffic spikes seems thin

Well would you prefer a whitepaper? It is an informal conversation. Do you ask for proof / benchmarks / whitepapers every time you talk to someone at a meetup? That must be fun.

But if you want a fun reference, pick up your smartphone, navigate to a web page. Does it work? Good. There is 50% chance it works because Erlang works. There you go, scalability, resilience and efficiency ;-) can share that at the next meetup's beer hour.
You seem to have very high standards for privacy. So I'm curious: If DDG doesn't pass muster, what search engine will you be switching to?
Six Centuries of Secularism
> If we get to self-replicating nanobots, I hope the level of caution there goes well beyond that of the Manhattan project.

We already have those and they are called viruses and bacteria for which we have pretty good defenses against them.
Genuine question: how do companies like DocuSign, HelloSign, etc. provide eSignatures without any kind of key authentication? Are they really legally binding?
I've had two encounters with cops in NV on the motorcycle (can't say that I've driven a car in NV), one county and one state. County was outside Ely. I'd swear I was outside the town limits and twisted it back up to 70mph. Nope, not out of town yet, and the speed limit's still 40mph. We had a nice conversation about the local area while we waited on the radio license check. Check came back clean, and I was sent off with a "long stretch of lonely road ahead, try to keep the speed reasonable."

Second encounter was right around Tonopah. Coming to a hill crest, Valentine One radar detector goes nuts, and a state trooper pops over the hill coming the other way as I am doing about 90mph (don't recall the limit, but it ain't anywhere near 90). He hits the lights. Fuck. Then, oddly, the lights go out. As I roll off the throttle in preparation for a nice Q&A on why he might have pulled me over, I check the mirrors and the cop's Tahoe is still rolling the other way. Oookay, then, hint taken.

So I'll see your anecdata and raise you one. I don't know your story, but at a minimum I well and truly deserved a ticket for encounter #2, and didn't even have to stop. Doing 30 over for #1 was a mistake, but I was still guilty as hell and traveling at "go to jail for reckless" speed. And I never obey the limit in NV when I'm outside of town.

I've touched motorcycle wheels in every continental U. S. state, and NV is the least of my worries for cops. YMMV, and it obviously does.
Care to address the parent's postulates, rather than calling names?
What both series were good at pointing out was the nature of a fair trial, and how each case fell short.
Different topic:

Why do they use www.duck.co as their development url and www.duckduckgo.com as their search engine name?

The latter is just way too long to type. Especially for casual users who has google set at their main search engine. Compare URL lengths:

duckduckgo.com 14 (10+4)

google.com 10 (6+4)

yahoo.com 9 (5+4)

yandex.ru 9 (6+3)

bing.com 8 (4+4)

baidu.cn 8 (5+3)

I really want to like duckduckgo, but the name is really not well chosen. Even google (with a relatively long name) at least have two repeating characters.
I like this approach the most. Turn a negative into an even higher value positive. Positive non-harmful revenge!

To a small degree, I tried talking and caring about the person which is how we found the minimum volume he could lower his music to. It's not low enough though, and I'm not sure if he'd be willing to use earphones. The issue remains, and I'm making progress resolving things from my end, including mental things like trying to accept that the singer is probably a great and sweet person who I have no reason to dislike.

As for these annoyances, I <i>have</i> recently been struggling to design an MVP for an idea I'm pursuing..
Calling it general entertainment pop culture misses the entire point of why it's interesting and honestly, it's quite self limiting to have such a perspective.

Try to open your walls up a bit man and soak up the complexities of culture and the laws we live in.
Ok but what about the limitations of technology?

Yes, self-driving cars will save lives if we assume that the self-driving technology is superior to humans in every way. That's almost a tautology though.

Self-driving cars don't get bored, but they don't seem to see white tractor trailers either. Technology has different shortcomings than people do. Whether tech shortcomings result in fewer lives lost than human shortcomings remains to be seen.

It's astounding to me that HN stories about self-driving cars sit right next to stories about iPhones and anti-virus software, and tone of the comments are diametrically opposed. If you read the comments on self-driving car stories, you'd think that technology can do everything better than people. If you read the comments on stories about iPhones and anti-virus, you'd think that everything has terrible bugs, vulnerabilities, and shortcomings.
The most common and relevant difference is that a graph database has a storage engine that is optimized for graph traversal. For example, in a RDBMS, another row is referenced via a foreign key which involves a lookup to an indexed column, while in a graph database, a node is often referenced by its storage location. This makes graph traversals much cheaper, and is also something that an RDBMS is unable to optimise for because of conflicts with the relational model.

Similarly, the query language is optimised for graph traversal types of queries, in a way that would not be possible in an RDBMS due to the relational model constraints, and also because some of the query operations would be extremely inefficient in an RDBMS storage engine.

> That sounds like graphs but Rethink is not a graph database (compared to Neo4j, GUN, Orient, Arango, etc).

With regards to the listed databases, some are, but the rest are not (and do not claim to be) graph databases.

Note: It's different people replying to you.
Many are out flagging tonight. This post was #15 on the front page with no related story above it (or below it, as I recall).

Now it is gone and tagged DUPE with no related story on the front page.
Backwards compatibility is one thing, but maintaining access logs is a bit different.
I can run Javascript on an Arduino does that make it a systems level programming language?

There's so many things missing from Go, from volatile semantics to memory control(good luck getting memory banks on PIC working).

Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's a good fit.
> my only real concern with GMOs relates to the IP rights

Also non-GMO varieties can be patented and have been patented. I see no reason why your IP concerns should be limited to GMO varieties only.
What are you switching to? As far as I know ddg and yahoo are basically just bing already. So what is an alternative you are comfortable with?
Wow, what are our options now?! Also, Yahoo now has information about general searches made by DDG users even if they can't get info on a particular individual.
Those numbers conflate "ever sold" with "sold in the last N days", and yearly vs. weekly usage rates. For regular usage (which would be expected to track sales, and possession) the numbers are substantially higher for blacks.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m...

Is a good meta-analysis, which on this particular data point leads to:

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rdusda.pdf

And in the OP's substantive point about "violent crimes", the FBI's crime stats prove them definitively correct.
Jack Ma: ‘Harvard rejected me 10 times’[video]
Please expand on some of what you're working on! I've been thinking about just this sort of "work" to start dipping my toes into, don't quite know where to start.
"Software is eating the world."
Every company is a tech company now. If you are a retailer you want to have a website. You want to do shopping cart analysis. You want to analyse what products and what quantities to stock. Once you reach scale and you want to keep an edge you need to build your own software.
I used to ask the time see job ads for Wal-Mart Labs. Why would this be different for any other company?
Adult easy listening is a pretty apt description for it, but LA here. I guess there's a That Neighbor Guy everywhere.
Yeah, the Tesla press release should still be on the front page, all things considered. 360+ upvotes in 8 hours. I believe having a lot of comments might increase a submission's gravity, but not to that extent...especially as the discussion doesn't seem to yet be flame-heavy.
Self-driving car startup Zoox raises $200M at $1B valuation
Original poster, specifically mentioned lists in Python, i.e. implying they wanted something equivalent to that. (Why does Clojure need them or Ruby or Python (lists)).
Anyone else's bundle update spazzing out on resolving dependencies? Guess I'll have to wait until other third party gems get the Rails 5 memo.
It's still not ready for general usage. On real-world codebases it has correctness issues that need to be sorted out, and there are missing features like longjmp and C++ exceptions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12005058
Yeah, but that's not how people's emotions usually work.

Although US foreign policy and intelligence decisions were more or less directly responsible for 9/11, you don't lecture people at Ground Zero about the dangers of blowback and not being aware of your government's activities.

There's no such thing as "condolences, but...", and Elon Musk has shown a pattern of this kind of tone-deafness before. Not to say he's not brilliant and not to say autonomous cars won't ultimately save many lives, just that he should either listen to his PR department if he overruled them, or fire his PR department if they did this without him.
Interesting, but seems unlikely to cause any serious problems for determined photographers, especially those using RAW mode who will adjust levels later.
There's some truth to the pattern, though; Once you're no longer the underdog, those seeking power will seek you out, and it's hard to prevent infiltration by the power-hungry.
FWIW, I should mention that I have tried one DB that seems to qualify as a graph database, in that it actually does seem to import and traverse edges efficiently, which is Blazegraph. You tend to have to search past several other things calling themselves graph DBs to find that one.

(But I'm a bit afraid of using it. Any armchair lawyers want to tell me if code that uses a GPL database has to be GPLed itself?)
The whole utilitarian "well fewer people died" ignores the distinction between me driving recklessly and killing myself, and me driving recklessly and killing someone else. Blame matters. If we can decrease the negative impact on innocent bystanders, making not-at-fault fatalities decrease, I'm not sure if I can argue against it.

In that case, it comes back to an old philosophical question (the trolley problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem). A framing I like is as follows:

"Suppose that a judge or magistrate is faced with rioters demanding that a culprit be found for a certain crime and threatening otherwise to take their own bloody revenge on a particular section of the community. The real culprit being unknown, the judge sees himself as able to prevent the bloodshed only by framing some innocent person and having him executed."

By killing one innocent, you can save many. Likewise for self-driving cars. By killing many innocents, you can save even more. If google said, "We're going to round up a bunch of people at random and murder them, but our cars will never crash," we wouldn't say "Innocent deaths have gone down and so it's acceptable." But if the same people died via malfunctions and chance, our response might change. The trolley problem isn't very palatable, but we'll need to collectively answer it.
Tesla driver dead in Autopilot crash earlier credited the system for saving him
It's only generous in dotcom terms. My mom took an early-retirement package from Kaiser Permanente as a bog-standard phone-room nurse: free no-copay health insurance for the rest of her and my dad's life. Free treatment, free prescriptions, free equipment. Free everything, for life.
Were they instructed to do so as frequently as white people?
There's ddg.gg, but I don't know if that's an official domain and it's not necessarily easier to remember.
The Ethical Non-Dilemma of Self Driving Cars
Didn't Eduardo sell his shares in the ~$20 (or even high teens) range?
ddg.gg 6 (3+3)

https://duck.co/help/company/short-domain
> Any result that produced by produced with genetic modification can be produced with selective breeding if given sufficient time.

This is actually what plant breeding companies are currently doing. First they plan which gene they need to modify. Then they produce large numbers of randomly mutated individuals (using radiation or chemicals to introduce random mutations), and then modern genetic screening methods help them to filter out the individuals with the desired mutation. Then they do several generations of crossings to isolate and transfer the modified gene to the cultivar.

This takes about a decade of work, but it can be cheaper and faster than the legal work to get a GMO variety approved for production, which also takes at least a decade. Or after a decade of legal work the result might still be a rejection, especially in Europe.
Re: the Ometa language, a sequel that is hosted on Javascript is Ohm: https://github.com/cdglabs/ohm
Those sound like good candidates for arbitrary, hard to defend, catch-all offenses for "I don't like you and am going to charge you with something."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980977
Yep. Release should still be up. Without more detail on the specific algorithm used and log of the relevant events, it will be hard to say much more.

However, I see no reason for this article to have been memory-holed. It is not based on the Tesla release, contains information the Tesla release does not, and I have seen no other story on the front page, let alone better than #15, that this could be considered a dupe of.
News like this, and CRISPR, and pending patents on genes, seems eerily similar to the prelude to Gene Wars...

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/gene-wars/
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Searx is pretty cool:

> A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

[0]https://searx.me/

[1]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

[2]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
How to Convert Video to Google Nexus 7?
That's incredible. Kudos for her taking that deal.
There are so many urban legends about "Monsanto is evil". Do you have an example of some actual evildoings?
Odd they didn't mention performance improvements in the blog post. From my understanding, there have been some massive gains (of which, some commits date back to early '15!) One of them which has been killing me, is that model schemas were not preloaded on app boot, which led to the first few dozen requests (depending on how many workers you have on Puma) perform 100+ sql queries and add over 1s to response times. Not only were they not preloaded, but they were not cached across ActiveRecord::Base.connection's

Good work rails team!
Here's the NHTSA investigation information. This is the beginning of the process that leads to recalls.

INVESTIGATION Subject : Automatic vehicle control systems

Date Investigation Opened: JUN 28, 2016
Date Investigation Closed: Open
NHTSA Action Number: PE16007
Component(s): FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE
Manufacturer: Tesla Motors, Inc.

SUMMARY: ODI has identified, from information provided by Tesla and from other sources, a report of a fatal highway crash involving a 2015 Tesla Model S operating with automated driving systems (?Autopilot?) activated. This preliminary evaluation is being opened to examine the design and performance of any automated driving systems in use at the time of the crash.[1]

INVESTIGATION RESUME

Manufacturer: Tesla Motors, Inc.
Products: 2015 Tesla Model S
Population: 25,000 (Estimated)

Problem Description: A fatal highway crash involving a 2015 Tesla Model S which, according to Tesla, was operating with automated driving systems (“Autopilot”) engaged, calls for an examination of the design and performance of any driving aids in use at the time of the crash.[2]

[1] http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/RecentInvestigations
[2] http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/cs/jaxrs/download/doc/UCM5...
As a Candian in Cali, I too, was fined rather large amounts for minor (though admittedly consistent) traffic violations.

I suggest this is mostly a problem with how law enforcement works across the board in America.

Also - going to see a 'judge' for a minor traffic ticket? That's crazy.

In Canada, you get a ticket, you pay it, done.

And there aren't crazy traps everywhere etc..

That African Americans happen to occupy the lower tier of the economic stratum (not saying this is right), means they are much more likely to be thrown by any disbursement of these fines: 'not showing to court' for tiny offenses can be worse than the offence itself.

Perhaps it's exasperated by racism, but it's more of a general problem.