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I don't think it's realistic to rampantly speculate about a situation where so little information is available. And I absolutely think it is nasty to talk ill of the dead when there is zero evidence for what's being said.

For all we know the driver had half a second to react before he died. Or maybe he had five minutes. The point is, we don't know. To start from that position and say it's "likely... the driver was screwing around" is pretty crappy.
I have spent 4.5 years homeless. Prior to that, I was an award winning student, and then a respected military wife and homeschooling mom. (Edit: Oh, yeah, I also worked for a Fortune 500 company for over 5 years.)

Being homeless has given me loads of firsthand experience with how cavalier people are about completely disregarding the human dignity and agency of individuals they view as charity cases. So, I felt compelled to speak up and say "Please, don't view this as necessarily a great idea. There is more at stake here than money. Please, don't sell this man out because of his current financially desperate straits. That can make it impossible for him to get the life he desires and it can be done to him without his permission."

And the degree to which people here are shouting me down suggests to me that, no, most folks here wouldn't ask. They think it's a great idea. I am a lone voice on the side of respecting his dignity, personal choice and right to privacy first and foremost. And I find it baffling that people can claim well "Obviously, we wouldn't do any such thing" while doing exactly that thing. I have always found that baffling. But here it is again.
I was even left with the sense that the tragedy actually felt by the writer was not so much the death of "a friend," as the fact of a blemish on the near-perfect safety record that Tesla has made part of their brand's cachet.
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in another interview with Vice, he says that 2/3 of the products were given out for free. That only the big corporation would pay full price for the product, so who cares? And that most of the profits (60%) would go into R&D.
Replace "autopilot" with "cruise control" -- would you have the same situation? Autopilot is basically advanced cruise control plus steering assist. From what I make of this story, this same accident would have happened with any other car with cruise control turned on.
Conservative manifesto of 2015. "Scrap the human rights act" and "curtail the role of the European court of human rights". This seemed to be reported more reputable UK news sources than just reddit (though your opinion of the guardian might vary).

There certainly seems to be more substance to it than just "random internet claims" :(

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/21/govern...
This may be a bit hard to test so I ask this more out of curiosity:

Do you feel there is more stability for businesses that have a stake in supporting popular open source projects than businesses that have proprietary software products?

Alternatively, do you feel that the number of abandoned or failed open source projects have a significant distinction from the number of abandoned or failed proprietary software projects?

I'd love to see some research on the topic, as while the classification of something being open source or not opens source has legal implications as to how it can be used and the type of community it attracts, does it really make a meaningful contribution to whether the group of projects or companies involved succeed or fail?
I'd also add that is a two way street. If it is legal to do such things where you live, might I recommend the musical stylings of GWAR and the Sony MDRZX110NC noise canceling headphones.
I think it's a great idea
I just use the code view in Dreamweaver quite often, not because I don't like Atom or VS Code, but because neither of them are good with S/FTP. A lot people still use Coda for this fact too. I still use VS Code when I get a chance. Not every project needs a repo, or a local environment. It may not be best practice, but some clients will force your hand into "cowboy coding."
Unless it's changed recently, drivers have to tell the car specifically to change lanes (using the turn signal) or else it won't do so. And yes, this is the same issue as that other fairly recent incident in which a Model S drove itself into a parked trailer when the owner summoned it (supposedly inadvertently) due to the height of the trailer bed above the ground. Very concerning to me given the prevalence of trucks on the road.
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The autopilot doesn't drive the car, the driver does. The autopilot is a help just like cruise control. Tesla are very clear (apart from the naming of the feature) that the driver must still drive the car.

The autopilot will avoid obstacles it can detect and the driver is expected to avoid others (since he has eyes on the wheel and eyes on the road the whole time).

I think they misleading thing about Teslas Autopilot I its current state is that they call it "Autopilot" while other manufacturers call this kind of assist features e.g "Lane Assist".

A distance-sensing cruise control can't be trusted not to crash into the back of the vehicle in front either, not least because it can't be sure it can "see" it. I suspect motorcycles and other small vehicles may fool radars just like this case seems to have been about contrast and colors in a camera sensor.
Hi, I run neocities.org.

If you're hosting other people's content, DigitalOcean instances will only get you so far. You really need to be a proper ISP and have control of things like the IP addresses to make sure that these abuse reports go to you directly, and not to your upstream provider that will eventually get sick of dealing with you and shitlist you. We used to use DO for the proxy servers, but learned quickly that this wasn't going to work long term. Throwing CloudFlare in front of it as we see here doesn't solve this problem.

Having control over your IP addresses adds a ton of bureaucratic and technical complexity and leaves out a lot of "cloud providers", including most of the big ones like AWS and Google Cloud. I really have no idea how you could run a real ISP on top of these cloud services. Without control over the reporting mechanism, there's no way to automate the process or streamline it. And you'll be at the complete whim of your upstream cloud provider.

Only after we started down the path of IP control did Neocities stop having problems with the occasional abuse reports threatening to take down all of our sites. It took a long time to find the right partners to do this with, but we finally did.

You can blame the NRA or DigitalOcean or whatever, but honestly at the end of the day, you're going to get a bunch of these from every random organization. Today it's NRA, tomorrow it's MLB because someone is using your web hosting to publish a pirated baseball stream. This isn't exceptional at all - Google probably gets tens of thousands of reports like this a day. The difference is that they control their infrastructure, so they decide whether a site gets blocked or not. As a web hosting provider, that's the position you want to be in.

I'm available for consulting for anyone that wants to setup a web hosting platform that can resist problems like this. We also now own an IP block, and are willing to discuss providing some IP addresses for groups like surge.sh or anyone that does web hosting of this nature. I can make sure the abuse reports go directly to you, and if they decide to try to go upstream and piss off the provider, they go through me instead of indifferent abuse guy at a cheap VPS provider that assumes you're running a hacked wordpress blog.
I don't feel like Autopilot will ever be able to take over 100% of the time - there are so many corner cases, so many unexpected/illegal maneuvers etc. to deal with that at least in the initial stages it would be wise to accept those limitations and not market it as Autopilot - instead make it DriverAssist or something.

It should really only take over in situations the driver failed to handle - asleep at wheel causing car to shift lanes when it is not safe - loud buzzer and lane correction to stay in the lane, not seeing object in the front - auto brake with buzz etc. Then it would be whole different story if it failed - the mistake was driver's to begin with even if driver assist could not correct it. And it will still save a lot of lives no doubt.

The whole idea that complex technology like this can guarantee 100% safe and reliable outcome 100% of the times is I think one hell of a over promise that will continue to cause people to become even more unaware and distracted than your usual car driver already is. And as this shows it will not always end well.

Edit: A Volvo Engineer had similar opinion - From The Verge - "Some autonomous driving experts have criticized Tesla for introducing the Autopilot feature, with a Volvo engineer saying the system "gives you the impression that it's doing more than it is.". That's exactly right.
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> Was travelling a little under 45 mph. There was some rain, but roads were pretty dry. I was watching stopped traffic to my right.
> I had an Uber passenger

inattentive faux-professional driver, chatting up a client (gotta get that 5-star rating) instead of watching the toad, driving too fast in dark, wet, complicated conditions (line of stopped cars to the right).
The accident probably wouldn't have happened if the driver was focused on driving the car... As opposed on letting the car drive itself.

When the autopilot acts correctly 99.9% of the time, you'd get incredibly complacent and inattentive. When you don't have an autopilot, you are paying far more attention to the road.
Yeah the thing that rubbed me the wrong way was how they responded to the NYT review about cold weather performance. I've been highly skeptical about Elon and Tesla ever since.
Python (Numpy/Pandas really) is our go to for all the usual reasons on exploratory with some R (but R is becoming too slow for our growing data sets). What we're really missing is a language that does parallel computing, not necessarily only SIMD (Cuda style), but something that can also be more flexible on algorithms which have step dependencies. Scala/Spark works here, but it's more about big business batch data in our view, whereas we are about big non-linear optimizations in finance (fixed income curve fitting on huge numbers of bonds), and a further requirement for soft real time. We're very very excited about the Knight's Landing Xeon Phi, which will, we think, give us good performance on SIMD, and much more algorithmic flexibility because it can also be treated as a 288-core Xeon (hopefully). I think Rust could be a very good fit here because I predict that these "mega-core" chips will become very important. We can tolerate very little latency between processes so we basically cannot go multi-node too easily. We are also relatively small so don't have super-computer budgets.
uh... homeboy industries is for homeboys... admitted gang members (guilty men)
I couldn't find any other details about the accident, but it seems from the description like it was a side collision at an intersection.

In order for that to happen, it's likely that one of the vehicles had to violate a stop sign or red light.

Note that the Autopilot isn't aware of these things (it won't stop unless a car in front stops). If the Tesla was the vehicle at fault, then most likely it was unawareness of this limitation on the part of the driver (or complacency thinking there wouldn't be any traffic).
They definitely do - I signed up to one the other week.

Three do "all-you-can-eat" 4G data + 200 minutes = £23/month (50% off first 6 months)
I just find this initiative mind-blowing.
In Western Europe, Eastern part has quite of a bad reputation, especially on subjects like safety or development.
I've recently heard about several good opportunities there and this makes me even more curious about Romania.
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I'm absolutely confident this has no potential for abuse when abuse is being filmed.
Even minimum corporate taxes wouldn't work, no? You'd also need to make sure there is no way to artificially extract these profits by imposing withholding taxes on most transactions inside a specific economic system (i.e. the EU). This seems almost impossible to do.

> Companies will end up in court when their definition of an arms-length price/interest rate is significantly higher than what the national tax authority considers to be reasonable.

A second issue I see is that smaller countries will often see certain transactions as "at arms length", whereas larger ones (with higher corporate tax rates) will not. But if a multinational can produce valid evidence from, let's say, 3 different jurisdictions that a transaction is at arms length, this will often be accepted by the court as being at arms length. In most countries, the burden is on the tax authority to prove something is not at arms length.

So yes, countries are often screwing each other over. Add to that that each country wants to stop avoidance (loss of tax revenue), and at the same time attract investment (by granting fiscal deduction for special interest groups) and you end up with a big mess.

This whole tax game is essentially basic arbitrage within a complex framework.
I am a little surprised they havent acquired webflow, like they did aviary.

I would think adobe's niche would be a more indesign like interface not a text editor.
And regardless this was primarily an after-the-fact technical analysis with relevant information to other Tesla owners, the primary purpose was not a formal announcement of a death. The news typically handles that role.
I not sure this purported program could include the homeless, for per the infamous Form 4473 (https://www.atf.gov/file/61446/download has a 2012 version), you've got to supply your "Current Resident Address", which cannot be a P.O. Box.

Which doesn't forbid possession, or legal purchase by private sale, just maybe doing it through an FFL as the mechanism necessarily is detailed in the web site.
I'd totally move to Transylvania. Wonder if I can still work remotely from there... I mean they're only 11 hours ahead of PST.
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This site is pretty broken on latest stable Chrome on Android. As soon as I start scrolling I see solid white or grey blocks. Sometimes, at certain scroll heights, I see some text. But mostly I can't actually read the content.
This is probably my favorite database to work with currently. Real time, relational document storage. Best of three worlds.
Check out uswitch, they have a few unlimited data deals: https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/compare/sim_only_deals/

(Select "Unlimited data" from the filters on the left-side)
Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.

It appears to me like this is a case that shows the limitations of stereo vision as the main sensor system guiding the Tesla autopilot.
I would even venture to say that it could have possibly been avoided using LiDAR technology. According to various interviews however Elon Musk is not a big fan of LiDAR [1]:

“I don’t think you need LIDAR. I think you can do this all with passive optical and then with maybe one forward RADAR,” Musk said during at a press conference in October. “I think that completely solves it without the use of LIDAR. I’m not a big fan of LIDAR, I don’t think it makes sense in this context.”

[1] http://www.techinsider.io/difference-between-google-and-tesl...
A lot of modern cars have cruise control with radar for keeping distance to the car in front. Some use the same sensor to auto brake for obstacles at city speeds. I'm sure some will also alert for obstacles at highway speeds, but likely don't auto break then, for safety reasons.
Ha! That was brilliant. I'm glad the mentioned vampires, because sadly that is about the only thing I know about Transylvania.
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Ehhh?

The Tesla suspension issue with non-disclosure agreements also made front pages, just a week or two ago.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/11/tesla-revises-nondisclosure-c...

Tesla's blog is their primary marketing / damage control arm. Anything they publish there becomes instant news.
"(T)his is a court of law and not a court of justice."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Associate Justice for the United States Supreme Court)
One person's satellite is another person's space junk. When will DARPA admit they've got an antisatellite laser at Holloman AFB?
The effects I described were experienced by me during the calibration period, where I took higher dose than me and my therapist eventually settled on. Perhaps it might work differently for some people, but this is what I heard from other people who suffer from ADHD and tried to take higher doses.
I was going to suggest finding the exact same music as the neighbor and playing it out of sync.
UK is the second largest economy in Europe. That fact is not going to change just because they no longer count themselves in Europe. If transylvania is a good place to open an office, it is as good as it has already been. Brexit shouldn't influence anyone based in London to move to transylvania.
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Human nature is definitely bullshit.
Good question. I wouldn't be surprised if the existing hardware already incorporated some infrared, but I really have no idea.
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It's only similar in terms of "vehicle pulls in front of the Model S". The type of vehicle (car vs. truck), time of day, traffic pattern, etc. all seem to be quite different based on the sparse information in the article. I will also point out that as you have already seen, Autopilot failed in a "similar situation" as well: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-s-summon-under-trail...
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Have you ever just said F@#%k it? ..Wiped the slate clean?
Just dropped the mic..and walked away into a whole new uncharted life? *Career-wise that is.

Would love to hear your story/musings/wisdom.

thanks
You could merge multiple cameras in software, it's actually pretty straightforward to stitch them together in OpenCV. Basically just have to correct for the difference between cameras & their physical locations, but that is trivial since they are statically mounted on the car.
Relational documents? That sounds like graphs but Rethink is not a graph database (compared to Neo4j, GUN, Orient, Arango, etc).

Do you have a link to explain what you mean?
"Surprisingly high quality of life"

Nope (i'm from Romania). I like the "presentation" overall but some things are stretched to the limit there :)
Tesla collision avoidance system fails 2 out of 3 homebrew tests
It's not just about Tesla though.

They have to defend autopilot not only to protect the brand but to protect the public's perception of autonomous vehicles in general.

Self driving tech is poised to save many many lives. So from a utilitarian perspective, it's probably justified to take extraordinary measures to make sure reactionary media and public whim doesn't kill it off, however uncomfortable that might seem in the short term.

Whilst this case is incredibly sad (and I don't want to downplay that in any way), if you're trying to minimise the overall amount of fatal crashes, exonerating the tech is the priority (if it is truly not at fault).
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We use Google Apps for our 15 person company. We currently get separate phone service from ATT/local VOIP provider. I was thinking about moving all of those lines to Google Voice as our primary number(s), to save cost. If you've set this up, how has it fared? Is it reliable/enterprise-ready in such a context? Did you set up landline phones with it? Or just had headsets to go with the laptops?
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All I can say is that I would not want to be a Tesla engineer on the Autopilot feature.

And I know what you're thinking - it's not because I think some poor engineer is going to get the axe (ok, maybe that's not what you're thinking). It's because I would not want to be responsible for the code that needs to deliver millions of people billions of miles in their car. It's a daunting responsibility.
What's sensationalized about 'Tesla's autopilot that encourages inattentive driving misses a big white trailer crossing the freeway'?

This is as bad as it sounds.
Nice job, Adrian Docea!
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Slanderous impersonation of a person or organization is not inherently protected by freedom of speech.

This is technically correct, but you're putting the cart before the horse. By definition, "slander" is basically an act of false attribution (or impersonation) that is clearly without merit (i.e. does not promote legitimate discourse) and causes egregious harm (to specific individuals). The Yes Men's video is clearly satire, and as such, is just as protected of a form of free speech in the U.S. as donning a mask of Trump or Clinton, standing atop a milk crate in Union Square, and "impersonating" those figures.

Of course, Cloudfare apparently chose not to offer any "back" to the Yes Men once they got the nasty note from the NRA's legal people -- but that was just a business decision; it has no bearing on whether the content they were hosting was legally protected or not.
Now that's a way to learn about a country I did not know much about. Great impression in my mind! Sounds too good to be true though. Any true experiences here in HN?
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This is pretty and all, but it just seems like an opportunistic ad by the tourist board of Transylvania.

If freedom of movement between the UK and the rest of Europe is lost by Brexiting, and they're still willing to accept Brits then I'll be impressed.
You are forced to use Apple for payments. It's entirely stupid to say "well you don't have to let users pay in the app". Every single user expects to be able to pay by credit card on their phone - the phone is a bloody computer. Imagine if your desktop PC only allowed payments via a Microsoft service that charged the application developer 30%. This would NEVER happen, as the very concept is absolutely ridiculous.

There is no technical reason to not allow an app developer to use an alternative like Stripe as their payment processor. Apple tries to sugarcoat it by using phrases like "seamless integration" for end users, never having to enter their credit card number. The reality is, it has nothing to do with user experience. It is 100% about getting that 30%. Nothing else.

I accept a certain level of a walled garden by buying into the Apple ecosystem. I absolutely do not condone charging developers 30% for payment processing. I buy apps from the store, and developers get shafted just for that. I have never, and will never, perform an in-app purchase without first checking whether I can pay the company directly. I don't care if it's $9.99 in-app, and $9.99 on an external web site. I will ensure that I pay outside the app whenever possible. The problem is that the majority of users do not do this. And they shouldn't have to.
It's worse with Firefox. Scrolling is much less smooth but at least I can read a little more text (instead of Chrome I used Opera.)
Maybe premature to think about this, but once the full story can be told, this seems like the perfect candidate for Serial Season 3...I'm really fascinated to know what jurors, detectives, and prosecutors were thinking.

(Coincidentally, the accused murderer who was the focus of Serial's first season, has just been granted a new trial, according to an announcement just 5 minutes ago http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/serial-adnan-syed-new-t...)