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Brad Templeton argues a perpendicular truck would look stationary to radar and be filtered out, so use LIDAR.

http://ideas.4brad.com/man-dies-while-driven-tesla-autopilot
I think the article plays a little fast and loose to make a point. Not sure, but I'd always believed / assumed that the confusion around this topic was based on confusing terminology around three ideas: physical gender, gender identity, and attraction.

Personally, I have no idea what to do about or with physical gender, which seems to be what you're replying to. I apologize if my reply is off topic.

This article mainly seems to deal with the gender identity and attraction layers (attraction only in so far as the many gender definitions).

My concern with the proliferation of gender identities is roughly in line with the article. Feminism and early movements were inclusive and intended to dispel the idea that men and women were mutually exclusive properties. Instead, I believe, they were intended to show that there was a spectrum between men and women that everyone inhabited. So currently I'm on the same page as the article.

But my concern isn't the logical aspect of non-binary (though that is where the article is strongest) so much as the intention. By listing and itemizing identity you've changed the intent. As a 30 something white straight male I can't possibly understand the stigma, so maybe having your own *gender is preferable, but on the whole it feels divisive and weirdly clinical. That seems self-destructive; instead of making whatever you want to be normative you're trying to prove you're different.

I could probably type pages more, but like you I am not up to writing a rebuttal. At the very least I appreciate the reasonable tone of the article and hope the response to it isn't harsh. This really is one of the most important issues of our time and it feels hard to have an earnest discussion about the pros and cons of how to approach the issue.

In the end I think I agree with the conclusion... We shouldn't be categorizing every possible identity or attraction; we should be making it a more normative part of meeting people casually / romantically to have discussion about who they are and who they're attracted to / into. By throwing up divides we're short changing ourselves.
Excellent analysis as usual! If this type of rewriting the cap table is legal, then what is/are the defining factors of illegal manipulation of the cap table?
I think sometime last year, Amazon removed the sales of Apple TV and Chrome cast from their platform. The platform decides what is profitable for them. After all the consumers and the businesses have their choices open on what to use. But i seriously want Apple to be diplomatic in this issue and allow whatever is best for everyone.
So, write your best code first or else you're below standard?
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I hate whitespace indentation on principle (and practice of copypasting code written in a different editor). But after spending too much time trying to parse endless )})})}}} in JavaScript, the Python approach seems like a much better way of doing it.

It seems like pure C programmers are pretty well behaved with their curly braces through.

Any radically different blocking paradigms besides indentation and parenthesis-like things?
No, that is an observed statistic.
Author: "R. M. Renfield." Very curious!
News flash: your man Obama saved you from that evil pipeline, so it isn't actually an example that supports your argument. (Too bad for all of us who live near a train track. [0]) And yes, if they could have pieced together a route entirely through Indian reservations and Muslim farms, they would have. Although I think you may underestimate the difference between losing one's home and [EDIT, thanks Joe:] getting a pipe buried under one's field.

[0] http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...
Yes. Apparently Autopilot sees lane markings better than humans in heavy rain.
By knowing the region they're working in.
Bananas is another example but they can't reproduce because they don't have seeds. To get the cultivar was like hitting the mega million lotto in the selective breeding process.
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I don't think that's a fair comparison, no.

A car is a multiton killing machine if used improperly. Speeding is substantially more dangerous than jaywalking, and it moves the risk to other people.
The Prius uses cameras not radar, and I've driven under hundreds of overpasses without incident.

More likely someone confusing the brake warning with the auto-braking shutdown warning. Because it uses optical cameras, driving into bright sunlight or into deep shadows can cause the system to shut down momentarily, and it beeps to let you know.

Even best case scenario that tweet has nothing to do with this incident because the technology and systems are different. Worst case it never applied the brakes at all, and the driver got confused.
Only those with high karma accounts can downvote. For example I myself do not have the ability to downvote.
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Shows how flawed the patent system is. The Dynabook predates that patent. I'm sure Apple with their exposure to Xerox Parc labs will use that and other examples to fight the case.
Actually there is a misunderstanding. I didn't write about everything — I had in mind carcinogenic stuff, dangerous enough to make people sick and kill some (in a large population). So when you write "such a broad category" and you have in mind literally everything — then that's not what I meant.
> A normal car drives about 100 000 miles in 10 years.

Can you give a source for that number as it seems a bit low given warranty numbers.
So if an argument is used by racists everyone else that uses it is racist, no matter how sound the argument is?

| If you give me a box full of cats and squid, and I pull out a creature that only has 4 legs, and I say "Typical cat" I'm not insulting the cat, I'm simply correctly separating it from the squid.

Now try it by changing squid to white and cat to black and see if you still think it's a good argument.
That introduces an imminent death that wasn't there before. Doing so with a deliberate decision changes the whole thing.

This is more like vaccines. They protect a great many lives from events not deliberately introduced at the cost of a small number of bad reactions. Is that number more than zero? Yes. Does it feel small if it's someone you love? No. Is humanity as a whole better off for polio vaccines? Yes, absolutely.

When we talk about weighing alternatives, we're talking about considering the status quo as an option that might be actively chosen rather than a privileged position.
The thing is, the data clearly show that police are using skin color as a signal in deciding who to pull over, and furthermore the data show quite clearly that skin color does not correlate with illegal behavior. So even in your "charitable reading" the premise is faulty. Black culture is no more criminal than white culture.

For example, black people who are stopped and searched are less likely than white people to have drugs. (This doesn't mean that black people are less likely to have drugs, just that police are more likely to stop black people without probable cause.) [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traffi...
This comment is puzzling, since authoritative nameservers only see actual end-user traffic on an occasional basis given the cornucopia of resolver caches in near-unanimous use (as well as the fat TTL on the yahoo.net side of the delegation). This denies Yahoo! the reliable data that you seem to think they've successfully pulled over on everyone, at least if I understand your comment correctly which I'll admit I'm having a hard time doing.

It's also an odd concern given that most everybody these days uses Google or their ISP's resolvers which would be far more interesting "nameserver level data mining." (I have a hard time believing Google successfully logs that traffic in detail, however.)
That's an advert for this guy's sensor technology.
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Good start for a year one survey.

I'm surprised there aren't more Java devs responding. Rust is characterized as a systems programming language, but Java is a language that has made incursions down into the C/C++ "systems programming" space over the last decade than any other language, and it is ripe for disruption by Rust due to Rust's superior efficiency.

In agreement with the survey, I believe this will not happen until there's good IDE support, and until more hardened enterprise-y dependencies/libraries emerge (e.g., database access to things like Oracle via OCI or ODBC). After an extended run with Rust, I returned to the Java 8 world briefly shocked to find a) how much more productive a good IDE made me and b) how productive such an IDE made me in terms of writing inefficient code! In there lies an opportunity. Rust should be attacking Java from below. The waste in a typical Java stack should make us all weep. The only barrier I see is perception around the ownership learning curve.

In bouncing between languages, what Rust lacks (and what other languages have) is the ability to pass the sip test...the first experience. Out of the box, untuned Java screams due to JIT and the IDEs; it's only far later when you try to do something serious that you feel the cost of the abstractions that help productivity, and you're in a forest of JVM tuning options and writing non-idiomatic Java code in order to get reliably performance and behavior. Rust requires too much faith at this point--that the microbenchmarks matter and that investment in mastering the borrow checker will pay off with more stable performance and behavior later.

Other points: Cargo is underrated. Traits over primitives is a huge win over Java's boxed collections. Community involvement and health is underrated.

Keep up the good work.
What does it being open source matter that much? Are you building a business or making a political statement? Are you not better off using what is provided on the system and hardware so that your app gets better?
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It is easier to complain, than it is to write code and find training data to use.

I find it funny that feminists and SJWs who find something wrong in IT, don't want to do their own version of it and would rather complain about it on social networks and blogs instead.

It is like they look for problems, but never solutions. That is why there is a sea of dudes, instead of complaining the sea of dudes look for solutions to the problems.
So they data mine this traffic at the nameserver level, just to reasonably say that DDG doesn't share info?

What does this mean? If you mean nameservers might get to see your IP, that isn't true. At most they'll see your primary DNS resolver's IP, but if you use Google DNS or Open DNS they will only see that (I've implemented CDNs, and this is a very big problem for them if they operate at the DNS level - which most do).
I think the implication is for Google to just do search. Nothing else. Not to be niche product with a few users.
Being an early adopter for something that can kill you seems quite risky.
Mutation breeding is a scary process as its more likely introduce unwanted mutations. For example, a new breed of potato could have elevated Solanine(toxin found in the nightshade family) levels which has happened in the past.
Precisely. This half-way 'self driving but if something goes wrong it's the human's fault' is a terrible idea, because the more reliable it gets (while still being a 'driver assist' rather than committing to actually being a fully autonomous control system) the more likely the human is to not be paying attention when the shit hits the fan.
> Planes don't have to deal with semi-trailers or wildlife appearing suddenly in their path regularly either

Planes most certainly do have to deal with wildlife (e.g. birds) appearing suddenly in their path regularly.
On-demand volunteers? Hmm.
I've had a pipeline under my (rural) property for 40 years. No problems yet. Been planted in corn for 20 of those years - so I didn't even lose a strip. Never know it was there except for the boundary markers in the fenceline.
> A year ago, I saw a Dateline NBC episode about an Iraq-war vet, Sgt. Ray Jennings, who allegedly killed an 18-year-old girl in a parking lot. The evidence didn't persuade me, so my dad and I started our own investigation.

You're amazing!

I donate to The Innocence Project, because I think putting innocent people into jail is just about the worst thing you can do to someone short of rape/kill them.
What would prevent me from putting a simple IR filter in front of my phone?
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And yet, folks take restless-leg syndrome pills and Viagra without a second thought. As a society we're OK with some risk.
Yes, well if they are really running an eye tracker with your webcam to time GC pauses, then it's a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

But umm... they don't really do that, right?
Just being devils advocate here, but wouldn't the cache rate be more or less uniform and able to be interpolated out into real traffic numbers?

If yahoo observes that every 1 in 3 yahoo.com requests in NS lookups then they could still figure out the traffic?

In practice.... i doubt this is valuable data at all.
Had he been in development for 40+ years? Or was it a newer line of work for him?
FWIW, I started this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12013621 with the hope that we could collect some good examples of how people stay busy after retirement.

A great example for me is Don Melton, formerly of Safari and WebKit, who tweets routinely about his work on video transcoding [1]. I follow him on Twitter (@donmelton) and he gives me hope for any future retirement I might be lucky enough to have.

[1] https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding
This is exactly how CMOS/CCD image sensors (used in digital cameras) work [0]. Each "sub-pixel" is just a photocell which detects light intensity. A bayers filter on top of the sensor array filters light colors so different "sub-pixels" detect colors (light intensity of different parts of the visual spectrum) [1]

Enthusiasts sometimes remove the filter to get higher optical resolution or better contrast B&W images. You can even buy consumer cameras with this feature off the shelf [2]

NASA is doing the equivalent of instagram filters, making photos appear more appealing to the general public. NASA says (via. Space.com [3]):

"Creating color images out of the original black-and-white exposures is equal parts art and science," NASA said.

For example, Hubble photographed the Cat's Eye Nebula through three narrow wavelengths of red light that correspond to radiation from hydrogen atoms, oxygen atoms, and nitrogen ions (nitrogen atoms with one electron removed). In that case, they assigned red, blue and green colors to the filters and combined them to highlight the subtle differences. In real life, those wavelengths of light would be hard to distinguish for humans."

In other words, ignore the colors.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_M_Monochrom

[3] http://www.space.com/8059-truth-photos-hubble-space-telescop...
I can't grok what you're asking me but I'm almost certain the answer is no, as you've already inferred. Extrapolating DNS analytics to actionable intel is incredibly misleading in nearly every case on the service side, particularly since there are a number of caches that consider TTL a guideline and since large shared caches are commonplace.

Understanding what your company is doing if you run the resolver is where it makes more sense. But on the service side? You might as well hire a cat to report metrics by pawing a ouija board, and then you at least get cuddles with your random numbers.

Think of it this way: DNS is basically a different form of ARP, in a certain manner of speaking. I wouldn't try to quantify performance data from either except to troubleshoot operations.
A 2 sided marketplace to find a group exercise PT. Had no idea what I was doing on the business side of things and tried hard to build a product without figuring out if anyone wanted it.

Turns out, they did not.
A Chipotle exec just got busted for cocaine possession. Guess what the charge was, and guess what the proposed punishment is. Guess his skin color (or culture, if you prefer).
Which is funny since I have changed my hosts file and use uBlock Origin and extensions like that for anything that might have missed.
Congratulations, you just defined prejudice and racism, in case a few people in this thread weren't sure what it was.
The CDC data with comparison to other ways people die in the US is at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

Table 28 of http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus15.pdf#019 is relevant to this discussion
I think we'll find David Sacks is going preserve his blue chip reputation by leading the crippled Zenefits into the safe harbor of a rich insurance conglomerate or PE firm. Getting these investors paid out would be the ultimate amends.
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"I've lived in a few areas ..." - anecdotal.

"can talk back more aggressively than the others" - opinion.

"only race that seems have" - opinion.

"If I were a police officer" - I'm glad you aren't.

"I'd probably end up fining more black people" - clearly.

"My guess is that whatever gives black people a 'black accent' or voice is also what's responsible for the fining and bad subculture." - history is recorded so you don't have to guess. To fine someone for an accent is discrimination and illegal.

"they wouldn't be fined as much" - evidence please.

"I would also guess ..." - guessing is the basis of discrimination.

Rather than guess, I recommend researching for facts, ask why, make sure your facts are right, repeat. Bonus points for optimism, empathy, and assuming others want the same from life as you.
And a lot of people do not neatly fall into a 'black,' 'hispanic' or 'white' box and yet we see left wing parties and actors defending these labels, while attacking the traditional gender binary.
If anything, they should first endeavour to make their system consistent before discussing others.
> We're perfectly happy to let technology (literally) throw anonymous individuals under the bus as long as less people die overall, but what if it's you that gets hit by an auto?

If it's me that gets hit by a car, what do I care whether it was driven by squishy grey matter or solid silicon? It's not like AI-driven vehicles hurt more. I'm dead either way.

So assuming it IS going to be me that gets hit, I'd prefer we use whichever driving mechanism is less likely to be checking Facebook or texting its friends while in control of a ton of metal moving at 100km/h.
A distinction without a difference. White people in USA spent 200 years intentonally creating a correlatio n between skin color and poverty, and then spent 50 years crying "correlarion is not causation"
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Should [a lawmaker accepting a bribe / lobbying-money to remove restrictions meant to prevent people from dying] go to prison? In some cases, yes I would probably want that to happen.

Imagine a company and a few lawmakers that via bribes/lobbying remove regulations around asbestos (which is very carcinogenic) and start building houses with asbestos (because asbestos is inexpensive). Now people are going to die in cancer, almost for sure. The company and lawmakers are, in my opinion, killing people to make money. So, they should go to prison.

So I think I want laws that prevent companies _and_ politicians/lawmakers from suggesting-to-remove and removing important environmental restrictions meant to save people's lives.

Perhaps it sounds weird with laws about what regulations/laws might be canceled. Some kind of "meta laws". One way to think about it, could be a defense-in-depth. Now it gets even harder for some evil company, to make money by destroying the environment & hurting people.

I'm not sure all this would work out well in practice though.
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The reason why most other manufacturers haven't released their autonomous driving is not that their systems aren't as sophisticated as Tesla's, but that all systems out there aren't ready yet. Tesla is stellar in many ways but to release their autopilot was way to risky.
Do you why AfricanAmericans- "happen" to occupy the lower tier? 200 years of slavery, lynching, redlining, forced unemployment, and segregation, and then letting the cycle of poverty run on autopilot.
It's guilt beyond the reasonable doubt of the jury. Few people would ever be convicted if the standard was guilt beyond anyone's reasonable doubt.
I want to use DDG. I've made it my default search engine. But the result page is just so slow. Both in slow to load (v Google), and actual responsiveness. It's just slightly laggy, or at least it feels like that. Google has neither problem. I'm willing to put up with not-excellent relevancy, but the slowness is killing me.

I'm using FF 49 64-bit on Win8. Am I anomalous or does anyone else feel this at all?
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That's a great deal for your mom, I'm glad she was able to get such an amazing deal.

On the other hand, Zenefits is an unprofitable startup with huge internal problems. Clearly, expecting them to provide such sorts of benefits would be beyond unreasonable.
Entirely possible. When I was about your age I wound up taking off and teaching English to little kids in Thailand. That was a great experience that involved a refreshing amount of time away from a computer.

I was able to pick up my career afterwards easily enough. I actually wound up working on education related software so my little teaching experience may have even helped.

The only lasting (sort of) negative was that I met so many people in Thailand who were living dramatically different lives that the idea of living out the rest of my days in a cubicle become less palatable.
Are you doing anything with persistent connections? ActionCable won't be able to hit the same scale as Phoenix Channels (2 million usable active connections). That's a pretty big deal.
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