skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not illegal to be a rude neighbor

In many jurisdictions it most certainly is illegal to be a rude neighbor. I don't know where you live, but in the U. S. having the cops show up to a loud party is almost a rite of passage. Where I in your situation here in Redmond, WA, I'd have one last civil conversation my neighbor, ending with "I'm hope we can work this out, as I'd hate to call the cops." And when that didn't work, call the cops.

Wait a minute, you don't live in Redmond, and this isn't that guy down by the Power Line Trail with the horrendous taste in adult easy listening, is it? If so, my sympathies as the dog and I can barely stand to run past there in the evenings, let alone live next door.
> Not only that, you'd expect drivers in the higher-income demographic of US auto customers to have less fatal accidents.

What? Why?
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You can use Android, Windows Phone, etc.

If you want a closer analogy, Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo maintain the only means of distribution for their consoles. Do you believe they should be forced to distribute anything?
I wonder what happens if you turn on airplane mode.
Surprisingly high quality of life among the circles that young urban professionals are likely to interact with ;)

EDIT for context: in eastern Europe, there is a significant urban-rural divide in living standards. Definitely not on the level of Rio de Janeiro vs. favelas or Johannesburg vs. Soweto, but more on the level of an upmarket US suburb vs. rural Appalachia.
Care to elaborate on where this website is inaccurate?
The situation is a bit confusing, did the tractor cross in a hurry just before impact ? was the victim really blinded by the colors ? maybe it's just vocabulary, a tractor trailer seems huge and hard to ignore.

Even though I'm eager to see SDV benefits, Autopilot seems like way too much hassle for such possible consequences. An overengineered auto cruise.
Wait... there are maintainers that encourage +1s all over their GitHub issues?
This is just factually incorrect. Google is developing self-driving tech just fine without releasing it to consumers as a "beta". So is Delphi. So, presumably, is Uber now. Personally I am also of the opinion that releasing autopilot in its current state (especially with the weak sensors) was not a good move in terms of safety for drivers. Great move for PR and gaining data, yes, but we can now make a very plausible argument that it has killed at least one person.
Fair, I wasn't reading it as a knock on the driver. I read it as a mistake for Tesla to hide behind the driver having ultimate responsibility when the reality is no driver is going to actually be attentive or even capable of taking over.
It can do (performant) joins.

https://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/table-joins/
This is pretty much what I was told during a Model S test drive recently, by the store associate. He was quite clear on what it can and cannot do.
newer, safer, well-maintained cars.
I'll admit that the word "screwing around" was unfair and judgemental, but I'm gonna be honest: I would never want to own a car with this sort of "autopilot with driver fallback" feature because I'd totally fall asleep at the wheel. Completely. So I didn't mean any judgment by it. I could have made the same mistake.

In fact, I'm judging the software, if anything. Any autopilot software that doesn't force the driver to be attentive is effectively taking the responsibility for driving onto themselves, and so cannot blame the driver for being inattentive. You can't say "I got this" and then at the last second say "oh shit, I need you driver!" even if you put warnings that you don't really got this, because you're dealing with human beings who do normal human things.

Yes, I shouldn't have said the driver was screwing around, you're right. But if the driver fell asleep, and a conscious driver would have avoided this accident? I still think it's Tesla's fault, because he'd be awake and alive in a manual car.
Why do you feel you are the lone voice on the side of respecting his dignity and personal choice? That is only true if a) he has the same priorities/perspective as you b) his priorities/perspectives are violated by the OP(there is no shed of evidence of this; plenty to the contrary.)

Also, his definition of dignity could be not being homeless or dependent on his kids. If that were true, it would be in contrast to your view on human dignity.
It says in the comments/description that the Tesla was driving at about 45 mph, which is entirely too fast in a situation like this. You have a lane of stopped traffic directly adjacent to an open lane. People constantly swerve out of the stopped lane in situations like this.

Further, it would have been common courtesy to stop and allow the car to turn and take advantage of the temporary gap in traffic. People allow me to turn in situations like this all the time, and I return the road karma when I can.

Overall, it seems like quite a failing despite the avoidance of the accident.
Then again, GM sells more vehicles in a week than Tesla has sold in its entire history.
All short-term rentals banned in Anaheim by City Council
They are trying to move to a subscription model, so they can continuously screw their customers.
Having driven through this area a few times, and also on Highways 93 and 50 ("The Loneliest Road in America"), I have to say that my favorite parts of Nevada are far from Vegas and Reno. The emptiness is quite wonderful.
Well yes. Total domestic US car production was two orders of magnitude greater than Tesla's was last year. Ford produced 40% more cars in 1911 than Tesla did last year. Just due to scale, no other company could manage this level of response.

On the other hand, Tesla doesn't do this for every accident. They are treating this one special because Autopilot very carefully, and in a fully controlled manner, drove the car directly into a semi-trailer, which is more than a little embarrassing for the company. And terminal for the driver.
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Google Play Services (a closed source, Google-copyrighted component) has been slowly eating more and more of the stuff that was previously handled by AOSP.
That's odd. First they try to close borders to migrants, and now they welcome migrants?

How is that supposed to work?
The question being, is that what I believe, or fear?
Tesla Draws Scrutiny from Regulators After Autopilot Feature Linked to a Death
Why I’m Unlikely to Ever Return Microsoft’s Love
I am going through that right now. For a long time I was working more on infrastructure in the background where we just had to make things working for other engineers without execs paying much attention. Now I am working on a product and the whole process is a nightmare.

- Long meetings with directors and project managers who never read any previous reports so you spend hours explaining the same thing again and again.

- Demanding precise estimates while requirements are nebulous

- There is always one more manager who pops up from nowhere who derails a finally reached agreement with bringing up another nonsense issue

- There are plenty of managers who come into a meeting who monopolize the first half hour asking questions that have been asked and answered a long time ago. Then they monopolize the second half explaining the stuff they learned in the first half with an authoritative voice. They forget everything soon and three weeks later it's the same.

- Creating more teams to make "quick decisions" consisting of insiders who spend weeks deciding how often and when they should meet.

- Some VP inserts another angle into the project that gets refuted several times but somehow keeps coming back.

It's insane. The only explanation I have is that some people are just social and political animals that enjoy talking for hours and getting nothing done. They view work's purpose as having meetings, talking about things and looking good in front of their own manager.
For entertainment value, might I suggest the Hoon syntax page?

http://urbit.org/docs/hoon/syntax/
>The autopilot will avoid obstacles it can detect and the driver is expected to avoid others

I'm sorry, how is that supposed to work, exactly? How does the driver know? Sounds like the driver has to avoid every obstacle - to avoid the case where the autopilot fucks you, like this one - and in that case, what is the autopilot doing?
They've raised more money under private equity than all the rest of the rounds combined x 5. The last round, by a private equity firm, was almost the size of all other raises combined.

They've raised 15 rounds that are publicly known. Every single raise since Sep 2013 has been under private equity. This sounds more like the company is being sold on the private market and each new owner is putting in a year's worth of cash infusion for operating costs.

Are those fund raising rounds? I dunno. But it's one of the weirdest fund raising profiles I've ever seen.
Looks like the old Linux Eye-Fi server hack may need to be dusted off.

https://github.com/dgrant/eyefiserver2/releases
I would love to read this article, but I cannot scroll the page. (Chrome on OS X.)
This is really cool and well done. I'm unhappy with the stats they chose though.

I thought that 20x less robberies seemed unlikely so I clicked their source. They were using the absolute number of robberies not per capita. The way they used it is sneakiness bordering on outright lies. This kind of bad-faith abuse of stats always irritates me.
Rust ia drop-in-C I think.

So you could probably write your Unreal Engine game in Rust.
They already do in the back of the trailer where most collisions are likely to take place (it's typically a welded set of cross-beams that go down to roughly bumper height). I think that very few collisions are of this side-on type that would make it worthwhile to add side panels as well. It's kind of one of those "how safe is safe enough?" situations where you have to compromise at some point.
It really hurts the user experience sometimes. Kindle books are an example I hit a lot. Amazon can't do purchases in the app without using Apple's in-app purchase system, which would likely cause Amazon to sell at a loss. They also can't even link to their web site, which of course still allows payments even on the phone. So if I want to buy a book, I have to manually go out of the Kindle app, into Safari, go to Amazon, find the book I'm interested in, purchase it, then go back to the Kindle app and hope it synced. If Apple would be less idiotic here, I could be done with one touch.

And of course Apple has iBooks and doesn't have to worry about losing money on each sale because of a 30% transaction fee.
For reference: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer_(ep...
Are you saying there is no grass anywhere else in the universe?
I don't find that to be true at any place worth working at (and I've worked at Google, Microsoft, and Twitter among other places). All had fairly reasonable work/life balance, though I imagine it depends greatly on your team and tolerance for bullshit.
Why not play something that's actually bad-

SONG FOR THE STUPID RAVER SHITHEAD WHO LIVES UNDERNEATH ME AND ALWAYS PLAYS HIS SHITTY...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0C3fFnmLvo
Let's break down the modern, flashy PR move and check some reality:

LGBT rights in Romania (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Romania)
- Decriminalized in 1996
- Gender identity: change of legal sex allowed since 1996
- Discrimination protections: protections since 2000 (still don't national ones in the U.S.)
- No marriage
- No civil unions
- Adoption HAAAHAHAAH cmon be serious

LGBT rights in the UK (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_King...)
- Decriminalized in the 60s - 80s, way before 1996
- Gender identity: change of legal sex allowed since 2005, way after Romania
- Discrimination protections: protections since 2010, way after Romania
- Civil unions in 2005
- Marriage in 2014
- Adoption since 2005 / 2013
I remember Switzerland introduced some limits on movement awhile ago, right? How did EU react and what did Switzerland lost afterwards?
Given that MY view is that he should fundamentally have a say, there is no way that what he wants for himself in any way contradicts what I am saying here. You are putting words in my mouth based on prejudice. I have not suggested he should value being homeless. Nowhere have I suggested any such thing.

I suggested that he should be given options and not have publicity crammed down his throat as his only option. If he desires to go the publicity route, awesome! More power to him. But if he doesn't desire it and is given zero options, he may go with it because he has been in prison for 11 years and the world has changed and he has few connections out in the world and a fuckton of obstacles.
Because they can afford cars with stronger safety features.
Self-Driving Car Driver Killed in Florida Collision, a First
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Yes but that monopoly is granted by the humans in the territory, and humans are the ones that exercise the state's power.
Best nature in Europe, sure
I honestly think it would decrease. There are more managers than management work so they start creating their own work. That applies to all roles when there are too many people. Designers will redesign constantly when they have nothing else to do, programmers will refactor evertyhing, bureaucrats will create rules.
"If our imperfect software kills you, too, rest assured that we will offer our empty condolences to your family while simultaneously using technical language to absolve ourselves of any possible fault"

Do you think that reassures Tesla owners?
That is not true. The Play Store, the Amazon AppStore and other smaller stores are all choices the consumer has at the time of purchase, and second there is the Web. You can buy on almost any online retailer with an iOS device and in fact iOS users rank consistently among the top spenders on the mobile web.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ios-users-outspend-andro...
The nature is really nice and food is great. But I've been robbed there... And the way how they achieve the fastest internet connection is really ugly -- cables are hanging from everywhere, historical building or not, it's really touch to take a photo without cables.

Just google for Cluj cables
The Classic fork already includes a max transaction size.
They closed borders to migrants who were not likely to set up tech startups. They try to lure migrants who are likely to set up tech startups.
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Ya. Armchair treehuggers, like their brethren on the right, can be exhausting. Every year, feral cats kill billions, wind turbines 500k, office buildings another 100k...

Focusing on least harm is far more constructive then selective outrage.

(I volunteered at Audubon for a decade, trying to conserve habitat for fish, birds, trees, etc.)
If you haven't listened to the original season...despite the insufferably overwhelming hype it has received (including for its purported role in single-handedly revitalizing the podcast industry), Serial is still very much worth a listen. It seems a lot of people were annoyed by how it didn't advocate a strong conclusion (e.g. Adnan is innocent/guilty)...to me, that was never the point...I loved it not just a time capsule of the late 90s and coming-of-age stories in general, but also a compelling portrait of how fragile our individual and collective memories are. Even without this recent, dramatic development, it's one of the best pieces of journalism I've experienced in recent years.

edit: grammar, and obligatory link to the website for the first season, which itself is a great example of online journalism in how pieces of evidence discussed on the show were also uploaded with further explanatory writing: https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi

One of my favorite bits was the lengths the producers went to confirm whether or not Best Buy had a payphone 15 years ago. The show, IMO, also served as a great example of how to do investigative research and is a must-listen for aspiring journalists for that reason alone.
Okay, I'll bite: Python programmer doesn't know how IEEE rounding (IOW, every programming language of which I'm aware) works, announces ignorance to the world. And this is on HN why...? I ask that sincerely, not the usual snarky "passive-aggressively stating that I don't think this should be on HN" way. What object lesson did I miss?
Driver killed in Tesla Autopilot crash filmed a close call earlier this year
Etcd looks more and more promising as its usage and development activity increases. Anyone using it internally as a standalone part in the system (e.g. not just for k8s or coreos)?

Using e.g. gRPC shows great promise, but systems like ZooKeeper still play nicer in more traditional Java shops, or do they? How hard is it to use etcd from the JVM?
They should at least let the drivers sign a contract that they 'll be putting themselves in danger.
> My experience with thinking in abstract domains matches this perfectly—and I bet it can be trained/taught.

Well, when I first started reading mathematics books I found them extremely difficult to read, and had to labour over each statement that was made to try and get the structure of the thing they were defining -- nowadays a lot of the trouble has subsided, because I'm more able to visualise it. An example of this are the set-theoretic ideas of sets, union, intersection, etc.

Nowadays something a bit like a Venn diagram appears in my head, that I can manipulate at will. One thing to note is that I used to put a lot of focus on the names of variables, whereas now I think more about what it represents in general.

I would add that something similar happened with programming.
But Digital Ocean could be partly accountable in a libel / slander suit if they don't take action after being notified.

Taking down the content is the easiest way not to end up as co-defendants with the Yes Men.
And how many times do human drivers fall asleep in cars with no automatic driving features of any kind, and get themselves killed in a situation where Tesla's Autopilot would have saved them?

I'd recommend trying it before you knock it. I had similar reservations, but after using it for nearly a year, I find that I'm more attentive and more awake with it than without it. A couple of weeks ago the system refused to engage (broken sensor somewhere) and I had to drive 80 miles home manually. It was exhausting! The mental effort of staying between the lines and maintaining a safe distance from the next car is pretty significant. Getting rid of that frees up more of your attention for the bigger picture. Now, I'm sure for some people it just frees up more of your attention for texting or sleeping, I'm sure I'm not representative of everybody, but I think it can easily be a net win for many.

I always pay attention while Autopilot is engaged, but I'm able to look farther down the road and take more care when checking out traffic to the rear and sides than I can when I'm doing it all myself.
Jon Eldan, a former corporate attorney who works with exonerees, runs a project called After Innocence that may be able to help/provide some guidance with respect to healthcare, pro bono legal representation, and social services: http://www.after-innocence.org/
Because jumping from "women are under represented" to "and none of them are hackers" is quite the leap. I'll let you google how statistics work to figure out why that would be.

I considered qualifying the statement but realized it should be a waste of time for any moderately educated person but apparently that was my bad. Oof!
A better statement might be: "Don't be clever, let others be clever for you."

Obviously, stdlib functions are going to be highly optimized and the compiler will put hardware-specific performance hacks in for your benefit. Smarter people than you wrote, vetted, and approved that code. Use it, and don't ever try to be that smart yourself.
Oh they know. It's just that the expected value added to their car sales, even factoring in the negative PR and potential lawsuits, is >0
Probably referring to the new "reactions" feature. https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-...
Wouldn't it be hilarious if they were being really tacit about something like this? In an exceptional scenario, the autopilot disengages and tells the human user to take over. So maybe the autopilot drives into an untenable situation, disengages, the car crashes and kills the "driver", and then the statistics say "Well, Autopilot drove X miles and it was fine. The crash occurred while under human control..."

As they say, it's not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end.
I did no such thing. I only countered one specific scenario that you proposed.

Both justifications exists, along with an multitude more justifications.
The driver has to be aware of every obstacle and observe the autopilot avoid them, or intervene should it fail. Yes.

Have you driven a car with a distance-keeping cruise control? It's very comfortable to let it do that and just watch it and take over when it fails (it's limited in the braking and acceleration it is allowed to do). I can't take my eyes of the road or my hands off the wheel for even a second but it's still useful because it removes all the micromanagement of throttle and brake and just lets me supervise.
It's possible to +1 comments now without adding a new comment (and notifying maintainers)
I've used ISA-L as the backend implementation for erasure codes in OpenStack Swift.

There are two versions of ISA-L. The open-source one includes some optimized erasure code libraries. The other version is free (as in beer) AFAICT but it requires signing a license agreement with Intel. This version also includes some other optimized libraries for hashing, crypto, and stuff like that.

https://github.com/openstack/liberasurecode is a plugable C library that you can use for erasure coding. It supports some simple EC algorithms itself and works with jerasure and ISA-L.

https://github.com/openstack/pyeclib is a Python wrapper for liberasurecode.
No paywall: https://archive.is/zo1lE
I was thinking of starting a website a while ago and even bought the domain, then released it, called www.helpahomelessperson.com. The goal behind it is/was to just list a homeless person and their needs, a person who is more well off would have to post their listing most likely and they would take pictures, video interviews and tell their story for them.

Then you would have people that wanted to help (visitors) and would browse around the site and find a story of someone who struck a chord with them and they could donate anonymously or publicly in terms of anything they wanted.

The key to the site is for someone to be an amabassador for the homeless person and really get that persons story out there and up on the site. The 'internet' would do the rest.

Also caution would need to be taken to not force someone to accept a person's donation, because some people might expect something in return or just be bad news, like a company who just wants publicity.

Anyways, the idea is still valid, I just haven't had the time to pursue it yet.

This happens all the time I am sure. Would be a great Show HN.
My facebook feed has helped me realize how much I hate my friends and family