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> It makes me a bit sad that the political zeitgeist in the tech community is leaning towards "acceptable losses" when it comes to accidents in automated cars

Yes, this is another thing that makes me so angry about this situation.

Back in the day, I worked on a project to give autonomy to power wheelchair systems. In order to get it to market, we had to go through FDA approval, which involved testing the equipment in every conceivable scenario. We had to show how it performed in rain, snow, dust storms, sunlight, etc. and it had to be incredibly rigorous, defining all limitations, and how the user would be impacted if the systems failed.

If we came the FDA and said "Our system works in many scenarios, but we've found a pathological case where on certain sunny days it will crash into certain brightly colored objects, resulting in almost certain death for the user" we would have been summarily rejected. Non starter.

And yet we're willing to put a system with the above disclaimer (which should have been known to Tesla engineers. This is sensors 101.) on the market with absolutely no oversight? Seriously?
There are cloud based providers of Exchange that have more or less downtime than Exchange, or any email provider. I had hosted my own email servers for over 15 years because it was the normal thing to do when I started.

I don't remember the last time email has gone down for me, but calendar pain hurts me more.

On google now, and today's outage makes me realize it might be simpler to just install Zimbra and mirror it across two Amazon locations for another 10 years. I'm not a fan of email providers online because hotmail lost/deleted 15 years of my emails.
I prefer to look at it as a 'global adaption opportunity'. Always be positive, right? Also I am pretty sure this has been invalidated already.
A ton of positive press and publicity for the sake of making a buck are potentially at odds. Lurid stories tend to sell better than feel good ones.

If the goal is publicity to make a buck, that may well undermine him getting a normal job at all. It is entirely possible that (once you start down that path) the outcome will be that he has no real choice but to continue telling his lurid tale as the only means he has to put food on the table, like it or not.
Nowadays this list should include pony, wren, vio, Luna, nim, ...
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The changes probably solved the feature request(s) and it looks Rails-like and a lot of engineers would've coded in the same style.

Reading the instructions (), especially

"Your presentation should be something you're proud of. The user-experience and aesthetic aspects should be well considered."

I'd say they were looking for candidates who simply spend more time on the project. More CSS changes, more refactoring, maybe giving them a list of things you wish you had time to solve.

Entirely possible it's not code related at all. Them waiting for another candidate, somebody impressed them more for non-technical/coding reasons, hiring freeze the manager doesn't want to admit or internal discussions about the job role.

All you can do is send a nice email asking for feedback. If they don't provide that, move on.

) Took just 2 clicks to see the deleted files. It's possible to delete files from repositories including history.
For me it's interesting because getting to the truth in a complicated case is like debugging to find and fix a single specific bug in a large codebase. But I'm also weird in that debugging is one of my favorite parts of the development process.
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NTSB would only investigate a major road transportation crash, unless specifically requested. This mishap doesn't appear on their docket.[0]

Tesla is under a regulatory requirement to report all relevant mishaps to the NHTSA, even if they occur outside the US.

[0] http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/hig...
> but they can't include sensors to ensure customers have hands on the wheel?

They can and the car already does that. It just do not check very frequently compared to some of the competitors.
I just dont see how ruby can overcome the vm disadvantage to be honest

I don't know how mature it is, but couldn't jruby be the answer to this?
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I listened to Serial and enjoyed it, but have not been following the case fanatically. I think that the massive hype has caused a central point to be missed: The government alleged that Syed killed Lee, and provided a sequence of events. Serial raises many questions about whether that one sequence of events is accurate. It is entirely possibly that Syed killed her but not at the time and place hypothesized by the government. I think this gets missed in all the hoopla. "Retrial" suggests to me that it is the exact same scenario that will be tried once again.
I'm really not looking forward to the moralistic haranguing that's going to happen over the next few days. One commentator complained that the tech community is adapting an "acceptable losses" posture. I don't see a problem with this attitude --- anything else is unrealistic and is an argument against technological progress.

If our ancestors had adopted the attitude that we could do nothing not perfectly safe, we'd have never left the damn savanna. We'd have certainly never allowed aircraft to fly.
The EU and China have been fighting a war over Africa for 2 decades now, and China has been pretty much winning.

China has committed trillions to developing African countries they build hospitals, schools and "cultural centers" and then offer loans to cover huge infrastructure projects like roads, railways, ports and power plants all are later built by Chinese companies.

China is also smart they send chinese teachers to those schools they build teaching the chinese language and culture to Africans.

http://www.ibtimes.com/china-africas-new-colonial-overlord-s...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/12/c...

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/30/recolonizing-africa-a-modern-...

So when it comes to Africa the UK has probably considerably less prospects than you would imagine, especially considering that China and the EU have already made claims there.

It's going to be really interesting to see just what deal would the UK strike with the EU if it even pulls out.

Boris Johnson said today that he will not be aiming to be the MP mainly because although being one of the leaders of the Leave camp he doesn't actually wants to leave.
Yep. I saw her speak at an event a couple years ago. She's also done a fair bit of research around humans splitting their attention across multiple vehicles--mostly drones.

I agree there can be handoffs but they mostly need to be in the vein of: I'm slowing down and turning over control in 30 seconds because there's something I don't understand coming up
That's very true, but if you know your product well enough, and you perform well conducted experiments, you can come up with a good estimate for this without actually having your cars travel 100 billion miles.
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Looks like there are some cars with zero recorded deaths. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/29/record-9-models-have-zero-hig...

Telsa isn't one of them...
Fatal crash of Tesla Model S in autopilot
More like being a boat mechanic is an integral part of the experience of owning a boat. Some people like working on cars, while most people take theirs to a mechanic. If you're the former kind of person then you're probably much more likely to have a satisfying boat ownership experience, especially if you buy a used/older boat.
I would cite any animal driven to extinction by a commercial market. If we agree that the criterion is where the good is no longer marketable, we can examine e.g. the markets for beaver or sea otter furs, the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks, and arguably the Tasmanian tiger. It's also not hard to find examples of mine or oil well exhaustion, which demonstrates the principle. I'm not going to insist that it's a common or inevitable phenomenon, my contention is merely that, as you say, there are circumstances which can promote it. Often these are market failures like a fixed price for a commodity, but perfect competition being something of a rarity, market failures abound. Either way, it's far more plausible, however unlikely, than interstellar trade or interstellar empires.
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Some people need do need to eat. It's not a cooicidence that entrepreneurship favors people of means who can take that risk.
I would recommend noise-cancelling headphones - a nice pair that are comfortable and won't hurt your ears for extended use.

My office uses internet radio at minimal noise levels just so the environment doesn't feel eerily quiet or like a crypt. But half the folks wear headphones (I am one of them - I can barely hear the radio). Books on "tape", music, podcasts, silence or white noise - whatever floats your boat. They are easy enough to remove if you need to chat with someone.
We've moved all of our backend offerings from Rails to Elixir/Phoenix. Despite some questioning the value of anything below 100ms response times there is a lot of data backing up the idea that Elixir/Phoenix can lead to a more maintainable and more economical solution. I spoke about this recently at RailsConf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhTQdcieQE

Don't get me wrong, I think Rails is an amazing technology but it doesn't fit the use cases and demands our clients have today.
According to the linked press release it will cost less than $200 million for an additional five years, so the cost is less than $40 million/year.
> async ? GIL fix ? more functional? faster execution?

Three out of these four boil down to "this isn't fast enough", which makes it seem as though the Python community is unified in understanding the problems it faces. :P
As someone who used to be a younger person that played loud music in bands, thanks for being the civil-conversation-first type.

Having been that younger person at one point in my life, I've never been a "call the cops first" kind of person. As you point out, kids often don't even think that they might be bothering someone. Kids'll be kids, eh?

Once you hit about 30 or so, though, it's time to cut that shit out. I'll still have a civil conversation first, but you only get the one.
I can see that, as such, I redacted my post. Sorry if I offended anybody.

Upon further examination, that "disbelief" seems to be underscored by the fact that Serial was really after a nugget of definitive evidence against Adnan -- for someone to come in and say, "I SAW this and that, and Anand is guilty."

If anything, such plans backfired for Serial, and I'm glad they did because a podcast shouldn't attempt to manipulate mass numbers of people's emotions to sway popular opinion in order to manipulate justice "ex post facto." To be clear, instead uncovering their "smoking gun," as pixel says, that is the nail in the coffin for Adnan being guilty, he is now getting retried for innocence because of the very shaky evidence in the first place that would have served as the impetus for a mass witch hunt for the keystone.

It's as equally appalling and repulsive as the situation I originally described in my redacted post, and realize that the Stuff White People Like reference was more of an observation of our culture's very real problems with bias and others' beliefs ("Damsel in Distress" and "yellow fever") and behaviors (as sad and offensive as they may be) which has led to the aforementioned mass pitchforking I described earlier, rather than a representation of my OWN internal beliefs. Quite frankly, I am a bit offended that you couldn't at least give me that benefit of the doubt before jumping to such conclusions. My points still stand regardless of if and how offended people are by its contents (and it actually supports my argument if they are).

Fact of the matter is that it IS just a podcast (and shouldn't be misconstrued in ways that cause it to become a "perversion of justice" as so many have), and the fact that you interpret it as more than such might convince me that you're part of the problem as well. Not only that, it's arguably an abuse of the media to attempt to infringe on one's Fifth Amendment rights (imagine if Adnan HADN'T been convicted or if he had received LESS than a life sentence or if he was under consideration for retrial with a potential death sentence!).

There's a very good reason people stay out of the limelight as much as possible whenever they're in trial.
Article summary: EU doesn't systematically invest in Africa to benefit the average African.

This is true. This has always been true (especially compared to China). Brexit doesn't change this.
I think the meaning was software systems and services, not Operating Systems... though it's always bugged me as well.
Exactly what standard do you hold beta features before release? For the sake of the future of humanity, we can't get into a situation where nothing new is allowed so long as someone, somewhere might get hurt.
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No, but they tend to stick to the LTS releases and the kernel tends to not get a version update for the life of the device.

So it doesn't track the latest, but it's also not "really old" in that upstream Linux still considers it a supported version.
Yeah i can't believe this is not bigger news. The Tesla AI was almost good enough to replace an attentive driver. But almost is not good enough.
I have worked with Silverstripe before and as you mentioned about CraftCMS I find it flexible and lean compared to Wordpress - I feel like it is much easier to be close to the data etc so great from a developer point of view.
It is OpenSource and has been chosen as the common web platform for NZ Government so presumably this means it hosts some pretty large sites.
Seems odd to me that the autopilot doesn't use them together, as it would seem that the autopilot would easily be able to see with the camera whether it was a sign, as at least in the United States they seem a somewhat uniform green.
I suspect you could probably convince smaller businesses to be ok on the background check, with disclosure. If I were hiring, I'd do it on his merits (Iraq vet makes up for the extra hassle with a background investigation, at least for me.)

(Also, fuck the DA. What is it with SoCal and horrible DAs?)
What about benchmarks and performance updates/regression/etc.? I'm sure the CUDA to OCL switch was a preformance hit at least in some cases (and compared to the equivalent CUDA code). Has anybody worked on something comprehensive?

Would be good to convince he Phoronix guy to add it to his standard set of OpenCL benchmarks. He has the hardware and a good benchmarking/reporting tool, but somebody will need to pester him to do the benchmarks right.
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Dance?
There were lots of lights and reflections, and it was night, and the turning car was black. Watching the video the first time, I didn't see the car before it was already in front of the camera. Watching the video second time and knowing what to expect, then I of course see the car in advance.
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Noise cancelling only really works on ambient noise, so unless your coworkers are queuing up "Music for Airports", it won't really help. It also can't create silence, and will still damage your hearing over time. The best solution is for the people that want noise to just use headphones!
Do you have proof of the "better performance" claim?
I like the sequel gem's syntax even better: Post.where(:id => 1).or(:id => 2)
I am not sure what happened in this situation, but I have to warn any HNers that have teslas or might get behind the wheel of one -- do not rely on the autopilot!!! If you are using the autopilot you must be in a heightened sense of alert, not lowered. The autopilot can get you into a dicey situation, and then you have to take over control and react very fast.
> more maintainable

I get that the Erlang VM is really nice for some things (I made my first contribution to it in 2004!), but I'm curious about the above statement, as I haven't had the time to dig into Elixir/Phoenix yet.
I'm glad that rails has been looking at projects like Phoenix for
inspiration

Other way around.

Phoenix was explicitly inspired by Rails and founded by Rails core members. Elixir was first created by a Rails core member. Phoenix is the performance-really-matters successor to Rails.
That causes the front end of the car to pitch forwards, which can actually increase the severity of a collision with large animals.
A drum machine off ebay and a big cheap amp should do it.

If you want to go full psi-op you need something like "It's a small world" or Barney on repeat.
They don't have to. With a good architecture (caching, etc) Rails scales well in the overwhelming majority of cases. Performance is only one of many things to worry about when choosing a technology.
Looks like now's a good time to mention that the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book has already been updated for Rails 5:

http://railstutorial.org/book

Sales actually just launched on Tuesday (announcement here: https://news.learnenough.com/rails-5-edition-of-rails-tutori...), and you can pick up your copy of the new 4th edition here:

http://railstutorial.org/code/launch

That link includes a 20% launch discount, which expires tonight at midnight PDT.

As with previous versions, the new edition focuses on the core principles of web development, so there isn't much Rails 5–specific material in the update, but I am planning standalone Learn Enough tutorials on things like Action Cable and Rails API (http://learnenough.com/).
What if they let him walk now, and then in 5 years stumble into evidence that could get him convicted. Could they retry him later? If so, that seems like a better strategy than jumping into a retrial now with what is apparently not enough of a case to re-convict.
There aren't any specifics, because asceticism is everywhere. From the Zen Buddhist writings of Dogen in the 1200s to modern U. S. Christian Baptists, there's going to be someone standing nearby telling you music and dancing are not good things (one example common to both Dogen and some Baptists).

So where did it originally come from? Who did it or said it first? I have absolutely no idea, nor do I care. So, yeah, you're on your own. :-)
> replace an attentive driver

It's unrealistic to assume that human drivers are attentive all the time. Autopilot never gets tired, never eats, never applies makeup, never sneezes, and never gets distracted by screaming children.

You have to compare autopilot to realistic humans, not your platonic ideal of what a driver should be. I'm sick and tired of people making statements about road transit predicated on the idea that real humans pay attention to the road with 100% fidelity at all times.
Some of the features of TurboLinks 5 are inspired by things Phoenix did with it's channels, I think
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That's exactly the requirement the Model S has. It starts beeping at you and gradually brings the vehicle to a stop if you take your hands off the wheel.
Every life is special. Every life is sacred. Every life has rights and hopes and dreams and its own special contribution to humanity.

Yet, losses have to be weighed against the alternatives. Would you think it ethical to not put out seat belts, because they don't save lives in all cases? Or may even be harmful in some circumstances?

"Acceptable losses" is certainly a distasteful and dehumanizing perspective. Yet how else should we reason about seat belts? Or anything similar that is going to help save lives in the vast majority of cases, but may fail in some?

We don't always have the option of perfection. And is it really ethical to stand by as special, sacred lives end because we can't save every life, every time?
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New grads/young professionals track me down regularly asking for "career advice" (a job). People my age/older email me about potential job opportunities. Coffee with either of them is pretty effortless given that both of them will typically come to you. Meetups[0] after work usually start at 7. I probably get to about 3 or 4 a month which is plenty to build a superficial network outside of my immediate friends and family. I don't have children. Even if I did though, trading 2 nights a month my significant other for personal/career networking isn't all that unreasonable. A friend of mine runs a meetup and he has 3 kids.

I sleep 7 hours, I'm at work/commuting 11 hours. That leaves me with 30 hours on weekdays to divide however I please (obviously there are other basic sunk costs like basic hygiene and eating). I've found that once I quantify the time I have in life, it's a lot easier to notice when it's available and be productive with it. I'm really not even one of those super motivated people. I just like to be conscientious of my free time.

[0] http://www.meetup.com/
GM's cars don't have autopilot driving their passengers into a semi (that I know of)
Revolution?
I use jRuby, which is great and an amazing piece of engineering. However, with Rails, you're only see about a 20% speed bump and out of the box it uses too much memory to run on Heroku's free tier. You'll also miss out on the gems with c extensions (for now I think that's about to change). Additionally, there seems to be a performance regression around includes and case statements. Your devops story can also be a bit trickier, depending upon what you're experienced with. I like jRuby a lot, but it's a mixed bag for the moment.
Thanks for your reply! Do you manage from abroad or did you personally relocate as well?

Hope your move proves to be a success!
And so I block. :)
Based on how this unfolds, we're going to have self-driving cars in 5 years or 50.

But the Tesla PR machine has been great at handling emergencies so far.
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Actually the Iceland bit is out of date. Network there was too unreliable. We're in Amsterdam and LA as well as New York these days. Amsterdam has the hardware that used to be in Iceland including full replicas of all email.

Amsterdam was also hit by last night's ddos. They were hitting mx, and our secondary mx is in Amsterdam.
I find working with functional languages and type systems (w/ dialyzer in this case) makes my projects more maintainable in general. Might just be a personal bias towards them though. Note: I haven't used Phoenix but I'm a fan of Erlang.
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We have this at my office as well. I do my best to humour the guy, and he often plays good music, but occasionally plays rap, which immediately kills my concentration.

I've spoken with my direct manager and my team about it, and the compromise is that whenever he's playing music I don't like, I simply put on headphones and go about my day. Everyone is totally cool with this arrangement, even the music man, who tries his best to be inclusive and will often ask everyone else (myself included) for musical requests.
One more example of a weaker side prevailing against the sronger.
I don't know whats going on with latimes.com but their infinite scroll is bugging out on me and loading pages ever 200ms and jumping around.

`Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2782.0 Safari/537.36`
"These people" and "nothing" was ignorant and harsh. Apologies to any white hat developers involved in these things.
>> Self driving tech is poised to save many many lives.

Based on what?
I think most folks are finding that distribution in an erlang based application is a lot simpler, because you don't need to pull in things like redis for pubsub, memcached for caching, etc etc. erlang solves a bunch of problems in a rather elegant way that are solved in the java/python/ruby world through gobs of duct tape.