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Goodbye to the Eye Fi company for good. When my Sandisk EyeFI stops working, I will find a solution from another company. They sold hardware. Now, they are trying to force customers into a costly subscription model. I will never be one of their customers. BTW, 20% rebate for becoming one of their new milking cows is ridiculous. They may see a declining market because wifi is getting built into gadgets, but the message they sent to me yesterday is like shooting themselves in the foot, and killing their own market by alienating possible future customers.

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Yes, same goes for "bioweapon defense mode". I find the marketing irresponsible and borderline ridiculous.
While flying is certainly safer than driving, that statistic speaks more to the gross volume of cars driven vs. planes flown than anything else.

The perception of danger in planes and self-driving cars is perceived as such due to lack of control. If a plane is about to crash, there's not much to do besides hold and pray. If your car accelerates when it's supposed to brake, you better be paying attention and act fast to avoid a crash. With your hands on the wheel, you're always in a position to act, and it's easier to believe that there's always something you can do to avoid disaster.
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Sorry, but I disagree entirely.

>Autopilot has been used for more than 130 million miles, noting that, on average, a fatality occurs every 94 million miles in the US and every 60 million miles worldwide.

This technology, even if imperfect, serves to make driving safer for the user, not the other way around. It's your choice not to be a beta tester; certainly no one will be forcing you.

And as others have said, the one at fault in this particular accident is the (very human) semi truck driver.
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Kek, or how I'll waste my free time going forward
I learned Rails through this book, which kickstarted my way into tech. It's an excellent resource that not only teaches you Rails, but also developing software as a professional.

Thank you so much Michael.
I don't think you can ever eliminate all accidents, but the ones that do happen shouldn't be as simple crashing into a truck in front of you because the sensors didn't detect it properly.
There have been similar studies showing that shorter/uglier people tend to get hired less than their taller/better looking counterparts - for the same skillset. Yet society, in the United States anyway, seem to be less concerned about this particular bias, even though it is just as "unfair". I think the exact things society pays attention to as unfair are largely arbitrary and cultural.

Racial biases don't nearly concern me nearly as much "incentive biases", which I feel does far more harm to society overall, yet most people strangely do not pay it much mind.
It would be interesting to know the a16z role here, they are known for adding valuation froth to get deals over competitors.
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Honestly? If that's all I knew about this hypothetical person, then no, I would not feel they deserve my respect.

I feel like "trying to turn their life around" is code for doing the bare minimum to live in a civilized society. (Get a legal job, pay your taxes, take care of your kids, and don't break the law)
Previously discussed on YC at [1].

The obituary of the driver, Joshua Brown, is now available. Age 40. Former Navy explosive ordnance disposal specialist. Worked with Navy SEALs. Studied physics and computer science. CEO of Internet of Things startup.[2] It would be hard to find someone more qualified to operate a vehicle with Tesla's "autopilot". Placing the blame on that driver probably isn't going to fly.

The NHTSA is investigating.[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011419
[2] http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2016/06/30/t...
[3] http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/RecentInvestigations
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Whether Tesla has a lower accidents/mile rate (or is some factor better or worse) is a red herring [1].

The key factor in whether this is a legitimate flaw in Tesla's system is: could an alert, competent driver easily avoid the accident?. An alternate formulation of this criteria is: would it be relatively easy for an engineer to hard-code a brute-force solution to the edge case, if they really wanted to?

Obviously we'll need to see the crash video to verify, but my guess is the answer is yes, this is a legitimate flaw in Tesla's system. Tesla's system should have been able to detect a car traveling perpendicular to the highway [2]. Tesla's system was unfortunately not sophisticated enough to detect a car that an alert human would be able to detect in their peripheral vision, and their system was not sophisticated enough to perform the simple action that a human would be able to perform (slamming on brakes). In fact, if they ever want to scale up to a full urban-capable system this is a situation they need to be able to handle.

Examples of accidents where I wouldn't blame Tesla's system: the other car swerves across the center divide and hits you head on, the other car is speeding and rear ends you, the car in the next lane swerves into you, the tire blows out and you hit a tree, etc. Although in the long-term we would ideally have systems that could handle these situations.

[1] We need to wait for more miles and (inevitable) accidents to be logged rather than rely on this one data point. Also my guess is highway driving is less fatality prone than urban driving, on a per-mile basis.
There is a bigger tolerance for error if it is your own fault. For example, compare how the risks of active and passive smoking are perceived.
Tao Te Ching is a good one.
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I don't get why you are being downvoted. There is not enough data to prove anything yet.
There is only one data point from Tesla so i won't read into it too much either way.

That said, all Model S are expensive and fairly new care with good safety features compared to the average car on the road today. Thus,I wonder if it is better to compare the 1 fatality / 130 million miles statistic to Model S (and S-class / 7-series) fatality rates while not on Autopilot mode.
Ah, awesome. Thanks for finding it!
"in New Zealand bike rider fatalities are not the motor bike riders fault about 30% of the time and in non fatal crashes the figure is about 40%."

In Lithuania it's even worse, around 60% (2014 data).
eIDAS has different levels of trust and a service (from a country or company) can require a high level of trust to perform an operation, for example using a smartcard.

For German speaking people, you have some pretty well put together documentation on the new eIDAS directives here:
https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/DigitaleGesellschaft/eIDAS...
I agree that this is a problem, but are you sure it isn't simply a class issue? So someone with the name "Fiona" is probably middle-class and someone called "Tiara" is probably from a much lower class.

It might not say anything at all about the relative worth of the individuals concerned, but it is the kind of social cue that will be picked up (possibly sub-consciously) by those having to sift through a large pile of applicants in order to produce an interview short-list.

The fact that this reaction actually says more about those having the reaction is beside the point.
Java 5: 2004. Java 6: 2006. Acquisition: 2009-2010. Java 7: 2011. Yu're kind of right, but I had always interpreted that the acquisition had delayed every decision-making and effectively halted any release of Java, until they got the approval of the acquirer about the contents and scope of the release.
It doesn't display web page properly: https://i.imgur.com/VwBJqf7.png
Be interesting to see whether the reviewer gets any more bargains to review after that?
Where the blame lies is a question that can probably only be answered on a case by case basis in the courts.
I disagree. Tesla should only be liable if it made false promises (i.e. advertising "read a book while driving"), but that does not seem to be the case.
"Visiting foreigners" stand out less than blacks (to whites) because America defines "black" as "Other". The racial division in America is often described as black v. white, and sometimes as white v. nonwhite, but is best described as black v. nonblack. Every other ethnicity has a chance, however slim, to sue for entry to whiteness. Attempts to compare the experience African Americans to other ethnicities are complicated because these groups are not similarly situated with respect to racial bias.
You need an Apple Developer Cert.

Here's the relevant tracking issue for the same problem in Rust.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27694
If I recall correctly, there was a group of mixed race people walking around with rifles at various events, without incident.

I think groups might be less likely to stir trouble than a single individual, for a variety of reasons. But I could be wrong, it would depend largely on the responding officers, I imagine. If the citizens are being peaceful and do not act in threatening ways, I would not expect trouble.
There might not be such a distinction in France. It was a summer job with some level of mentoring, which we just call "internship". It's entirely possible that this is what Americans would call an apprenticeship, my vocabulary is not wide enough to know for sure.
Could you explain what's wrong in that image?
It absolutely does not.
Why is boost not in the external libraries?
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But does an offence of J walking for someone on probation breach that probation?

Genuine question as I don't know. But essentially laws like that become tools with which law enforcement can excercise malice toward individuals if they please.

I am reminded of a story of a man out on probation, who used a knife for his work. He had been out for a while, normally the knife was concealed as it's required to be. But it was visible when he was stopped on his way home from work. The state of New York has pretty strict laws at their disposal, and they chose to use them in this case, and the man who had been getting his life back together was thrown back in jail over what is essentially a technicality.

Laws that seem harmless and unenforced should be removed, less they be abused. Just like it is best to remove a deprecated function when it's no longer in use, lest it become a risk.
Alright. This sounds like something we should be
eventually doing. Not sure if we should prioritize
it right now. GPG-signing the binaries for
extra verifiability is another thing we
could do in the meantime, though it doesn't fix the OSX issue.
Yes they're still using AEM and struggling with the same issues it comes with.
That costs a health care company very little.
Part of the issue, of course, in America, is... who's going to pay everything necessary to get an injured person's life back on track?
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Don't forget manufacturer liability. 100x safer self-driving cars would still cause 330 deaths and 22,000 injuries per year. Each one of those could result in a negligence lawsuit against the manufacturer.

Even in the case of "mostly" autonomous vehicles where it could be argued that the human driver was lulled into complacency.

And it's unclear if the insurance industry would shoulder that like they do human errors. Serious accidents can bankrupt responsible people after insurance is exhausted, and those would all now be concentrated on manufacturers with much deeper pockets. Plus there's all the single-vehicle accidents which currently don't result in lawsuits, but would with autonomous vehicles.
I think the Tesla does have front facing radar, but radar isn't as precise as a visual camera; so the autopilot hardware probably uses a combination of sensors.

EDIT: From the Tesla website:

> Every single Model S now rolling out of the factory includes a forward radar, 12 long range ultrasonic sensors positioned to sense 16 feet around the car in every direction at all speeds, a forward looking camera, and a high precision, digitally controlled electric assist braking system.

https://www.teslamotors.com/de_AT/blog/dual-motor-model-s-an...
Rubik's Cube. Try solving it yourself for a while (a few months/years). You will probably not completely solve it, but even solving one face, trying to solve a second one, trying to complete rings instead, etc, should get you to experiment and use new thinking models.
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"Most of the jobs constituting valuable contributions are going to be paid"
This is not the way things are. This sounds more like something a politician told you to believe. The most valuable workers in our economy are underpaid (farm workers, waitresses, teachers, etc.), if they aren't totally voluntary already. (parents and caregivers)
In truth, when everyone has to make an income to survive, it instills a type of desperation in a society just to produce enough value to pay that next installment. This type of motivation is what leads impoverished South Americans to destroy the largest rainforest on Earth, or African children to work in gold mines exposed to toxic mercury, dragline fisherman to deplete great oceans full of life, the list is endless. This is all the stupidity of "growing" the economy, while bankers and politicians end up being the only one's "enriched" while the planet is irreplacably decimated.
Dreamweaver is (or was, back in the day) a good implementation of a category of software that does not really exist any more.

Back when the web stated, creating a web page meant mostly writing html, with a bit of graphics and scripting thrown in. The idea was that by using Dreamweaver, regular people (i.e. not expensive software developers) could do the layout and formatting of web pages. And it worked pretty well for that.

But it turned out that "creating html from text and image content" is not a job any more that needs specialized software.

On one side of the spectrum, web developers do not create static html any more, but full-blown web applications where html is just the output. If you are using e.g. a js templating framework, a visual tool like Dreamweaver wont help you very much.

On the other side, if you're a business user putting text on web pages, you are probably not creating html pages, but entering the text in the web interface of e.g. a CMS system.
Self-driving is a common feature on modern tractors. It's been available for almost 15 years.[1] Even when there's an operator in the cab, it's common to have automatic steering to keep the rows precise. The usual setup involves a pseudolite on the farm as a local reference for GPS correction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7xc45LyhoU
I get the same libssl.so.1.0.0 missing lib on F23 as well. I've tried creating a symlinked file... but it still doesn't work.
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That quote's taken from the tl;dr-equivalent at the start of the article. It seems to be summarising the following, from further down, which I think is perfectly reasonable:

> Karl Brauer, an analyst with the auto research firm Kelley Blue Book, said the accident served as a signal that the technology might not be as advanced and ready for the market as some proponents have suggested.

> "This is a bit of a wake-up call," Mr. Brauer said. "People who were maybe too aggressive in taking the position that we're almost there, this technology is going to be in the market very soon, maybe need to reassess that."

I think that's perfectly reasonable, e.g. it may take 5 or 10 years to reach some kind of approved minimum safety level, especially since such safety approval standards/processes are still being developed. Just because Tesla's cars already have an "auto-pilot mode" doesn't mean the technology's ready for widespread deployment.

Regarding "as close to 100% as you can get", that's not stated in the article. Instead, it says:

> The federal traffic safety agency is nearing the release of a new set of guidelines and regulations regarding the testing of self-driving vehicles on public roads. They are expected to be released in July.

> At a recent technology conference in Novi, Mich., the agency's leader, Mark Rosekind, said self-driving cars should at least be twice as safe as human drivers to result in a significant reduction in roadway deaths. "We need to start with two times better," Mr. Rosekind said. "We need to set a higher bar if we expect safety to actually be a benefit here."

Again, I think that's reasonable. While a fully-automated road system would probably be safer than human drivers, we're not going to get an overnight switch; the harder problem is the transition, with manually- and autonomously-driven cars coexisting.

It's not just a case of swapping out more and more cars, since self-driving cars will behave and interact in different ways (as an obvious example, looking at the occupants won't give you any information about intentions/gestures/etc.); hence it's worth waiting until a threshold higher than break-even is reached before beginning the transition.
I think this is a change that cannot be done just after retiring because the mindset is not prepared. This is something that has to be cultivated during years so when the moment of retirement comes, you keep doing your alternative things instead of wondering "what should I do now?"
+1. If your finances are sorted out, it's good to take a break from work for 2-3 months and do absolutely nothing. What you once craved, 8 hours of sleep, hanging out with friends, traveling, spending time with family etc, once you experience them for a long enough time, will start hurting and you will start craving for work. I think it's a myth that one can just chill out forever, which is why I also believe that UBI will also work.
My Toyota RAV4 has adaptive cruise control and can auto steer back into lane if I'm too far off. I wished that it could auto follow a lane. It has everything that it needs to make that happen.

But I also like that they dumbed it down that I have to have the hand on the steering wheel otherwise it complains loudly.

Automotive car crashes should be investigated with the rigour of aeroplane crashes. The only way to make it safer for the next driver is to learn as much from the bug here and fix it.

I also strongly believe that cars should pass a rigorous test of edge cases and be scored on that.
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One problem of automation is that when an algorithm fails it reverts to 100% stupid mode, without any fallback. In this particular case the program didn't understand there was a truck, so the car drove full speed into the truck. As a result, the outcome of accidents with AI driving, while rare, will probably tend to be rather gruesome and this might lead to some really bad reaction.
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DDG has now date filter support.
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How does single family zoning work? How do they even define family? I'm not at all familiar with how zoning works in the US.
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Sacks is the perfect person to figure this out. Lawyer, consummate CEO, keen product mind, huge network. He's got a product that touches 100% of employees and can be given away for free and still make $1000/head. After Yammer he could easily of retired.
Last time I looked into Etcd, I got the impression that it was great at handling a high-volume of read operations (theoretically read-scalability) but bad for handling high-volume of write operations (since every write has to be propagated to every node in the cluster via Raft)? Is this still the case in v3?
That would be very foolish of duckduckgo, their whole niche is privacy.
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This could backfire because it's a strong argument that you're not really interested in using the domain yourself. If you argue that this domain is important for you because of your brand you shouldn't put it up for sale at the same time.
Fixed: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/12003

There's a more serious error in the url parsing
that caused this, due to some wierd stuff google
is doing with punycode. I haven't looked into that yet. But youtube no longer crashes -- so you can now enjoy window-shopping on youtube!
Just buy Spotify already, stop beating around the bush Apple
Or you can use !s for StartPage and have results from Google.
As a casual observer, I have been incredibly impressed by what he's done since taking over at Zenefits. He's such a great role model.
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jeez where are those numbers coming from :)

For Discourse which we host in general we spend HALF the time in database calls and say 20-30% of the time in ActiveRecord bullshit.

Lets say we erased all of the app cost using some magic, we would still only be saving 50%, so twice as fast, now erase some ORM bullshit, say another 50% faster, so at a super ambitious totally unrealistic setting we could be 4x faster.

For applications that spend most of the time in the DB I am not sure how switching languages would give you 12x improvement.

For non-dynamic stuff what is behind rendering don't matter anyway cause you can cache before it even hits the app.
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I miss SVGs, <audio>, Youtube embeds, and the layouting is off.
Sometimes mouse wheel doesn't work, was stuck once scrolled. Biggest problem is keyboard layout isn't right.
I tested on OSX, nice work overall!
Ah, I see. I suspect that's just servo picking a
different font on your machine. It works for me.

We have some issues with choosing fonts IIRC.
That link is pretty good at explaining the DNS delegation, TLS and NoScript. However, as DDG runs on AWS, they don't have sole control of their servers anyway.

Edit: output of a DNS/Ping tool I wrote for a book:

Enter a hostname or IP address:
duckduckgo.com

Performing DNS lookup of duckduckgo.com
Complete, duckduckgo.com = 54.229.105.92
Performing reverse DNS lookup of 54.229.105.92
Complete, 54.229.105.92 = ec2-54-229-105-92.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Complete, duckduckgo.com = 54.229.105.203
Performing reverse DNS lookup of 54.229.105.203
Complete, 54.229.105.203 = ec2-54-229-105-203.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Complete, duckduckgo.com = 46.51.197.89
Performing reverse DNS lookup of 46.51.197.89
Complete, 46.51.197.89 = ec2-46-51-197-89.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Complete, duckduckgo.com = 176.34.135.167
Performing reverse DNS lookup of 176.34.135.167
Complete, 176.34.135.167 = ec2-176-34-135-167.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Complete, duckduckgo.com = 176.34.155.20
Performing reverse DNS lookup of 176.34.155.20
Complete, 176.34.155.20 = ec2-176-34-155-20.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Complete, duckduckgo.com = 176.34.131.233
Performing reverse DNS lookup of 176.34.131.233
Complete, 176.34.131.233 = ec2-176-34-131-233.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Pinging duckduckgo.com 4 times
Ping attempt #1 of 4
Success
30 ms
Ping attempt #2 of 4
Success
30 ms
Ping attempt #3 of 4
Success
30 ms
Ping attempt #4 of 4
Success
29 ms

Press any key to exit...

Source code (C#): https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ASP.NET-Core-1.0-High-Per...
150,000,000 miles on autopilot, one fatality. Humans, it's 66,000,000 miles per fatality, in the US. Admittedly the sample is small, but still, it suggests an advantage over humans.
I don't understand why there's such unanimous words of support for someone who directly contributed to the half million deaths in the Iraq war. I know it's unrelated to his case, but perhaps his prison sentence and current predicament can be seen as karmic retribution. I know that's not how justice works, but I don't think we'd see such enthusiastic support for a serial killer who had trouble supporting himself after getting released.