skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, the indicators could be used in the future to help diagnose the condition, as they were present in 83 percent of the patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Second, it suggests that diet and things like probiotics may be a way to help treat the disease by getting the gut microbiome back in balance.

This kind of reporting bugs me. They might have found a possible correlation here, that's all. Yes, that first item is a possibility because the correlated indicators could be used to detect conditions related to CFS, but the second item is pure speculation about cause and effect, and is jumping to conclusions about it pertaining to treatment.

Personal anecdotal insight - I have a genetic condition that affects both my gastrointestinal system and causes chronic fatigue-like symptoms. I'm treating both separately but because there's an underlying condition affecting both independently (probably), it doesn't mean that treating one will improve the other. It's a longshot possibility, but saying "may be a way to help treat the disease" is just interpretation and overly-optimistic hype.

The indicators they found do sound really interesting though. If validated it would be an amazing benefit to patients just to confirm that there's a biological factor to these conditions.
First of all, given the number of miles Teslas have driven before this incident, any study would have seen zero accidents. Second, drug studies are also too cautious, and many useful drugs are denied to the public on the basis of rare and tolerable side effects. (For example, look at weight loss drugs.)
Why do they say "duckduckgo-owned"?

It appears they are using AWS. Who really owns the server?

echo 50.18.192.251 duckduckgo.com >> /etc/hosts

Avoids needless DNS lookups; saves DNS logs from your footprints.
This matches my experiences in Chicago. A FOIA request got me all of Chicago's parking ticket data from Jan 2009 to March 2016 and I did some quick awk commands to find the most ticketed spots. I found some pretty interesting ones and even went to one of the spots to figure out why so many tickets happen in these spots - it's mostly just from signage issues and bad parking meters that let you pay after parking hours. In particular, a three car-length spot received 2.2 million dollars and a LOT of tows.

I called and emailed the alderman office that would handle that spot and got zero results. Tried contacting media outlets, etc, but nobody wants to help out in fixing the spot. Hell, I even posted on reddit and got downvoted for "trying to help dumb people".

It's incredibly frustrating that it's seemingly impossible to get anything done in any large city as an individual who just wants to help out.
Poe's Law ;)
"...is discrimination and illegal..."

Ain't that exactly what TFA is about, though? Doesn't seem to matter when the people in charge of upholding the law flagrantly break it themselves.
Jury awards HP $3B in damages from Oracle
It actually is. In Washington state there are signs along parts of the freeway reminding motorists to 'Keep right except to pass'; this is a friendly re-wording of state law.

I have -never- seen a police officer pull someone over for violating this law.

I also agree with the sibling poster that points out that the speed limits on roadways seem low.

I know of a few residential areas where the roads are improperly not arterial (but should be due to traffic volume) leading to lower speed limits than they would otherwise appear to support.

Highways should also have condition based speed limits; but really I'd prefer the HOV lanes are replaced with 'self driving car' lanes that have a speed limit in law, but based on the evaluation of the automated vehicles. Probably carpools should be given a kick-back based on occupancy volume.
They already convicted him, so they could just leave him in prison instead of risking double jeopardy. What I'm curious about is whether they can release him without a new trial and without anything like an acquittal, basically resetting to "investigation" status indefinitely. It doesn't seem like the right to a speedy trial would be violated, since he would be free and not part of a prosecution during that time, which would likely be forever.
> His point is strong

No, merely slightly less racist than yours, which is basically don't act differently than white people or you're an animal. News flash, white isn't the only culture there is and speaking differently isn't a reason to be harassed by cops.
Oh Wikipedia, wrong in the very first sentence. "Mise" can indeed mean "placed", but here it's a kind of gerund and means "placing". (I looked for a Wikipedia reference to describe how this aspect of French grammar works, but all I can find is http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-nouns-formed-from-...)
Why don't you try reading the letter OP wrote which got this man released instead of shody reports of hearsay "evidence" from a 2-bit not-even-cop trying to impress the detectives on the case?!
> I can run Javascript on an Arduino does that make it a systems level programming language?

Johnny-Five? It isn't running on the Arduino.

A systems programming language is one that is possible to write the whole stack all the way from the boot loader, with a very tiny help from Assembly in the process, like bootloader, interrupt handling, DMA.

The day I am able to write a JavaScript AOT and JIT, in JavaScript, maybe.

As for volatile semantics, many system programming languages in the early days didn't had them as well.

PIC, well. How would you make PIC banks work in a standards compliant ANSI C compiler without language extensions?

With Assembly of course, so can Go.

Also nothing prevents a Go compiler to provide extensions just like what many think of C features for systems programming are actually not part of ANSI C.

Go already has "pragmas" in the form of //go:...... And nothing prevents a Go compliant compiler to provide more.

The code for Xerox Star, ETHZ Oberon, ETHZ EthOs, ETHZ AOS are available for anyone that cares to read them and how it is possible to write a full stack workstation.

Or better yet, getting the 2013 edition of Project Oberon book and building the whole computer, including the motherboard.
Interesting. I don't think of Nike as being really interested in tech, besides Nike+
I assume there's a Java API for etcd? If so, it would be interesting to try to port Curator.
Religious flamewars are off-topic on HN. Please don't.
The first commit was in July 2015, 9 months after Swift was initially released.

It's very possible that an "off the shelf" solution didn't exist yet.
Brexit, Trump and the Ultimatum Game
We are working on it (https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/5067). Probably we could work together on the Java client first? It should not be hard given that gRPC supports Java.
It's an article about the thing this website (and company) is named after. Hence it's probably the most meta-recursive link that ever gets posted on HN. (BTW Dick Gabriel is a Zen-Lisper and poet. Wise programmers read everything he writes.)
Tool Tips with Pure CSS and HTML
John Deere are pretty cool. My college is 20 minutes away and they hire a lot of interns throughout the year.
> but they don't seem to see white tractor trailers either

Isn't Tesla using pure vision? Google also uses lidar, which fixes the problem. EDIT: Looks like I'm wrong and Tesla uses radar.

> Technology has different shortcomings than people do. Whether tech shortcomings result in fewer lives lost than human shortcomings remains to be seen.

Technology also gets better. Ten years ago, people were as bad at driving as they are today. Ten years from now, they'll be as bad as they are today.

Now compare self driving cars ten years ago to self driving cars today. And ten years from now.

> If you read the comments on self-driving car stories, you'd think that technology can do everything better than people. If you read the comments on stories about iPhones and anti-virus, you'd think that everything has terrible bugs, vulnerabilities, and shortcomings.

Those aren't contradictory.
I really think that messing with the underlying DNA of plants is more severe than trying to cross breed and selectively breed certain desirable traits.

> Also, out of curiosity - what sort of "devastating effects" could you realistically imagine?

Hard to say. We have a pretty lousy track record of thinking certain foods/drugs are safe, and then finding out years later that actually, they're quite bad for us.

Anything is possible. What if our change results in the plant becoming susceptible to a new bacteria that devastates entire crops? What if it undergoes a change in the wild, thanks to our editing, that starts producing huge amounts of amygdalin? What if we find out that a side-change that doesn't affect humans was actually contributing to something like bee colony collapse? What if something like this happens, and the plant spreads out of control in the wild?

But like I said, I'm not arguing for a ban on GMOs, either. I just think it's a situation where both solutions have their risks and rewards. I'm not prepared to give science a total pass, nor pass off people with GMO concerns in the same light as anti-vaxxers or climate change deniers.
Your small-group drug study would have reported zero incidents in this instance.
I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments at the original story explore this point:

This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycophant, who, possibly, having once "used this car to its full extent" in the prior avoidance situation, this time intentionally failed to take over control in order to test the autopilot, perhaps with the hope of getting another great avoidance success story and youtube video and/or to ingratiate himself with a celebrity like Elon Musk.

Some people can get a bit too cultishly infatuated with technology/social media attention/techno big-shots. We must think with our minds as well as our hearts.
Whether referring to the post or the poster, the comment is vapid.
From what I've read in the comments so far, you won't see it thinking in terms of speed of Erlang vs Ruby. It sounds like the gains come from baked in behavior, so that "Rails + Redis" or "Rails + Redis + nginx" is equivalent to Phoenix alone. I'm still only reading about this, though. No Elixir experience here.
Someone posted a great question here that they later deleted. My full response also wasn't submitted (and lost), so I'm trying to recreate part of it here. It was actually a good question about whether Rust's efficiency has been tested.

I've done some testing; Java is faster in terms of the sip test for a lot of stuff, especially for cases where you micro-benchmark single processes without regard to overall CPU or memory usage. However, when you scale up (to the point where JVM tuning comes into play), the raw performance in terms of response time is comparable, while the overall system utilization (e.g., "time" measurements of user/sys) is much better for Rust--Java uses a lot more system time due to JVM housekeeping threads. So more efficient is not a win for Java, even though wall-clock benchmark time might look better for a single process (as long as you don't look at overall system utilization.)

Java's performance comes at the price of more memory usage and higher variance in response time. You can attempt to constrain one or the other, but you can't constrain both at the same time. Microbenchmarks typically put a high enough ceiling on memory that they're relevant for very constrained loads. To be robust beyond the microbenchmark, incremental GC is required, which levels the playing field between Java GC and Rust's jemalloc. Still, even when you attain parity, the Java solution is using far more memory due to the JVM's OOP overhead.

Another example of a hidden "cost" of Rust comes from things like Unicode support. Recently I tested a regex-heavy algorithm that used burntsushi's regex library for Rust. In initial testing, Java blew it away. What I later realized was that the default Java implementation I used did not support Unicode characters. When I enabled that support, and enabled incremental GC (to support the scale of testing I was performing), the performance was similar.

This is another example of Rust being mischaracterized up front. Older languages took short cuts, and fare well for the low end of testing (the microbenchmark). Rust tends to look forward and to the bigger picture.

Anyway, sorry you deleted your legitimate question. It was a good one, and the kind that will make Rust better.
One interesting fact this analysis is missing is that the board that must have approved this deal is mostly series c investors. Even if the deal is a good way to right past wrongs, it is still an instance of a board paying itself. Still, very nice thoughts. I agree that this is likely what happened.

That said, there are some assumptions in here that we need to remember are assumptions. We don't know for sure what was and was not in the disclosures. And, thinking back on the news about the actual software program, I don't remember that it "facilitated and attempted to cover blatant regulatory violations." Didn't it just run down the clock on an online course but NOT go through any material or take tests? Maybe it was not as obviously material as it seems now.
Even worse - They write their own url encoders:

https://github.com/uber/multidimensional_urlencode
You definitely need to know more than just "3d blob at position x" because your expectations and avoidance will be different for car, truck, motorcycle, road sign, human and especially for things like "grocery sack" vs "cinder block". Less relevant on the hwy, but it definitely isn't simply an "easier" visual task. It is convoluted with things that make it easier (multiple cameras) and things that make it more difficult (real time adaptation).

Edit: even not needing to know details like "dog breed" it still needs at least a solid 200 object classes to cover not-so-edge cases (which is what had the 6% error rate in 2014).
How to know if you’re in the know – A quick guide for tech visionaries
Who do we fault in an accident? We can't imprison an algorithm or put it in jail.

No, but you can sue the company that built the faulty product, and in certain extreme cases imprison the responsible individuals.

rights of individuals outweigh the utilitarian benefit

What rights are being violated here? People are choosing to use unproven technology, which actually appears to be approximately as safe as humans driving.
What did he study in prison?
I did the same at the same age as well, except I was teaching English in Japan. After only a few months of that, I had a burning desire to be back in a coding career, and to be as far away from eikaiwas as possible.

If you've never worked outside the tech industry, you would be amazed at how good we get it.
That's great to hear. Can't wait for TensorFlow to fully support Windows, that's the main thing stopping us from using TF instead of MXNet as a backend. Any news on that?
I'm not sure it's related at all, but anecdotally I found myself often falling sick after completing a crunch period at work, or taking a 1-2 week off from work. Nothing serious, but a cold/fever typically.

As if being busy forces the body to not allow any sickness.
Didn't they respond by pointing out that the claims made in the review were false? Was there more follow-up to that story that I missed?
There's a balance to how flat an org can be. One can still have a 100,000 person organization that is only 7-8 levels deep. e.g. Starbucks has ~120k US employees and is about 8 levels from a barista to CEO. My organization is about 3k people and is about ~5 levels to the CEO.
Here's a comment from 5 months ago about one example - not me personally but it's one of the major case studies in the AU rail industry - that covers exactly this topic. It also sort of morphs into general discussion about alertness tools in physical design.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017034
Are you able to share any more specifics? Or at least translate them into a generic enough description of what he was able to do in the basement that it is relatable here?
This. I am baffled by friends and family that talk about how they couldn't retire because what would they do? My response is to list the many, many things I want to do that I can't because I 'have to work': read more, learn new languages (spoken & computer), take up the piano/guitar, try new games (board, tabletoprpg, computer), write, program, etc.

The only reason I ever get bored is because I don't have the time, resources, and/or other people to do what I want. The thought of not having to rely on a work schedule to provide necessary resources sounds wonderful, not threatening.
> Do you agree that have had quite a few miraculous people in our history as a nation? Many founding fathers, presidents, judges, military service members, and the like have chose what is best for the long-term at the expense of themselves.

No actually, we've had virtually none, and this easy to see if you attempt to count them and state their numbers in terms of percentage of the total population inclusive of their lifetimes. 1000, even 10,000 such are merely statistical noise basically equivalent to 0.

What you're doing is reasoning by anecdote, thinking a few examples mean something by ignoring the hundreds of millions of times the anecdote is wrong. You have to look at all of the people if you're going to make relative claims like "quite a few" because it's not quite a few, it's practically none.
Once you're in middle management, it's all about putting on a show like you're contributing in order advance & not get laid off. Honestly, I think it's a survival tactic.
e.g. http://amzn.com/B00UTEHH8K claims "Lock and Unlock Your Smart Phone or Tablet Quickly, Hide the App When You Leave Your Smart Phone Alone"
If law-enforcement is for-profit and a necessary piece of the budgeted income, doesn't that demand that laws be broken? If the city is going to in the red unless it meets ticket quotas, then aren't people who break the law providing a service to the government?

For-profit prisons create similar problems. It becomes in the best interest of those profiting from these systems to encourage systemic crime. The problem was exposed years ago in the media, why hasn't it been dealt with?

I think this is evidence that the people running those local governments are insane. Would a rational minded person ever support such a system? It doesn't take a genius to look at the long term consequences and think "Maybe this plan needs adjustment."
The relevant data is here.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...
I see a lot of rudeness on Hacker News, but your comments in this thread went past careless rudeness. You were a genuine asshole. It doesn't matter how mistaken the other person was, or how far short of your technical glory they fall, you can't treat others like that here.

Had this been a first offense, I would have posted something like: "If you know more than other people, the thing to do is provide correct information. Then we all learn." And I'd have pointed out that going on about "several flaming errors about basic[s]", without specifying what those errors actually are, is just a putdown that adds no real information.

But you've done this many times before, we've given you many warnings already, and you've ignored them. That indicates that you don't want to use this site as intended, so I've banned your account.
Let down effect: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/article...

In psych class we were given the analogy of people getting sick right after mid-term/finals (after a period of sustained high levels of stress)
I doubt it. But you might not prefer it to, depending on the threats you want to secure against. If you had extremely valuable secrets, someone could just execute you and use your NFC jewelry to unlock those secrets.
When I want to use the non-default search engine (non-default is usually ddg). When trying a search engine for the first time. When using a public computer.

Biggest problem is on mobile. On Chrome (for iPhone), I have the following options:

1. Google

2. Yahoo!

3. Bing

I don't see any way to add a search engine not on the list.
If autonomous cars can lead to a significant reduction in road fatalities, then we aren't we in the right direction ?

I was hoping that the discussion here would consider the outcome of autonomous vs non-autonomous cars in totality instead of having an emotionally charged outburst against a big corporation.

Yes, maybe this is not the right time for Tesla to go all defensive but that's expected & that's how almost any company would respond. Why waste all the energy discussing that only.

Yes, people will get careless with autonomous cars, but don't they do it with regular cars too ? Cellphone, coffee, makeup, etc. So I disagree that autonomous cars have to be perfect.

An automobile is like a weapon in the driver's hand. If they aren't careful, they can hurt someone including themselves. Autonomous systems are there to help reduce the chances of mundane accidents due to the driver being distracted or less than capable. They are not their to replace a human yet.

My point of view is that if a human can't avoid a collision, don't expect the autonomous system to fill the gap. It's their to catch "some" of the errors that a human might make, it's not a foolproof safety net.
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Thanks, that was what I was looking for. It should be the default url.
It's really not that bad to manage that manually! The models we replaced with Joi validators, the relationships we weren't using anyway anymore because Thinky has some limitations to them, default values are easy in Rethink, index management just became part of normal migrations, and referential integrities aren't actually guaranteed in Thinky since it's not atomic so we found explicit chained promises to be more intuitive :)

Thinky and raw ReQL definitely work together, don't get me wrong! But as our project scaled we found 95% of our code had become raw ReQL for atomicity, performance, and relational reasons, so it just didn't make sense to use Thinky in future projects. Our original RethinkDB project still contains Thinky, but it'd be cleaner if we just made a complete switch at this point too.

To each their own though, of course!
The northeast, NY/NJ/PA/DE/DC/MD area has a vibrant economy aplenty. Within a 3 hour radius, there's virtually an unlimited amount of jobs across a ton of industries.

The places that scare me are places like Chicago & Atlanta. Outside of Chicago, there's virtually nothing. Outside of Atlanta, it's the same, which usually means moving across the country for something.
End of nations: Is there an alternative to countries?
http://www.georgiapacking.org/law.php

While Georgia allows open carry of long-guns without a permit, white people walking around with AR-15 rifles would probably be stopped and questioned by the police regardless.

Open carry of handguns, and concealed carry of any weapon, in Georgia is only legal with a Georgia Weapons Carry License, which is only obtained after a background check and review by a local probate judge.

While someone of darker complexion might run into trouble with certain racists on certain police forces, I don't think it's fair to damn the whole state's laws based on that. So called "Terry" stops are not allowed, no matter what color someone's skin is.
"You write C/++, not Python." - That's present in ruby as well, there are a few ways to embed C code in ruby to get speedups.