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There's nothing to admire. The brutal repression started very shortly after Castro marched into Havana. The romantacization of his regime by elements of Western political groups is reminiscent of their praises for Stalin in an earlier time, or their enthusiastic support of Hugo Chavez more recently. It requires a willful ignorance of the facts, or a deeply troubling view of the world that accepts execution of dissidents as acceptable when used to achieve one's political goals.

Beyond the political executions and purges, one of the first orders of business for Castro was the establishment of Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in every neighborhood. Their task? To monitor the population for disloyalty and errant political thoughts.

My family escaped this horror and had to rebuild their lives from scratch well into adulthood and with children in a new land, so it really bothers me to see people praise anything about this monster.

Would you post a comment saying that you admire Hitler for his takeover of a massive industrial power? So why would you for Castro?
Really irresponsible of Tesla to name it autopilot.

My wife calls me crazy for not even using cruise control on our car.
Really cool to read about Aaron's start. I've just started smoking meat this year and it's a fun hobby. How many other hobbies do you get to eat when you're done!

I'm still trying to get a consistent cook, but I've already found a couple of variables to control for. And I've had one cookout where a couple of people told me they thought it was restaurant quality.

A friend owns a restaurant and said if the laws here weren't overly strict on buyint outside pre-cooked product he would buy from me to sell in his restaurant.
I don't know the answer to that, or about Roth 401(k) plans, but I think there are a lot of people overall with one or the other. I think that threatening either would have an effect similar to threats on Social Security, without the justification of it being insolvent.

IMO, at worst, Roth plans could get phased out for new contributions with existing deposits and the tax-free withdrawals honored.
> I guess what the Tesla autopilot needs is a lot of good publicity every time it avoids an accident which a human driver would otherwise have actually caused.

Sounds like a plan! Let's start right now. Here's an example of the autopilot dodging a reckless driver and avoiding a collision that many human drivers wouldn't have avoided: https://youtu.be/9I5rraWJq6E
I hate to play Devil's advocate here, but a traditional car on cruise control will absolutely become a lethal missile if its driver has a stroke. I don't think automation makes that particular use case more dangerous.
That's not really why this is getting attention. The core issue here is that Tesla is shipping a product called "autopilot", which gives the expectation that it is in fact an autopilot. In the background, people are hearing that autonomous cars are "3 years away!!!" so the expectation is that the Tesla Autopilot feature is the real deal.

Thus you have people watching movies, falling asleep, or driving on dangerous roads using a technology that nowhere near delivers what the name promises. The result is people are dying and getting hurt by an immature technology being pushed too hard by an irresponsible company.
It doesn't matter what they advocate for, it matters the perception of the technology. Just because Tesla doesn't explicitly say that it's a perfect system and says that the driver has to be aware at all times doesn't mean that actually happens, and with a lenient time frame without hands on the wheel it's not surprising that drivers would essentially give control to the car.
Is this a claim, your opinion, your interpretation of laws, or something else in between?
I guess, but it's lacking the dyadic relationship between the image and the music (or in your case: content).

That's what made that album cover so great.
Original source: https://www.fbi.gov/seattle/press-releases/2016/update-on-in...

KOMO seems to have misinterpreted the press release: the FBI is not closing the case, they're discontinuing active investigation. The case remains open, and new physical evidence is still accepted.
When they fight over building that are physically near the stock exchange to have less lag, I consider it a kind of front running.
Even if you could theoretically reduce airport connection time to zero between flights, a lot of time is spent just getting the aircraft to speed, and slowing down to land (all that gravitational potential energy has to go somewhere, after all).

Same principle applies to express trains, and dwell times at stations. The benefit of high speed is lost just decelerating and accelerating from every stop it has to make.
"As always, there are caveats. I have a degree in philosophy, but haven't read any of the classic literature on this subject, so I'm almost certainly reinventing the wheel. And although I lean heavily on what I've gleaned from Sarah, David, and Venkat, I'm not sure any of them would endorse what I've written here. You might want to think of it as my own funky synthesis — and if it comes up short, that's entirely my fault."

Greatest and most self-aware disclaimer I've read in a long time.
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This is a great explanation. You can see the thought process and care that went into the design.
Big Central TX BBQ fan here.

For those in Texas, it's not very well known but the family running Kreuz Market (mentioned in the article) opened a new location recently, in Bryan TX, 90mn North west of Houston.

And for the readers in the Seattle area, I recommend Jack's BBQ on Airport Way S. It's owned and operated by a Texan native (former Microsoft employee* ). Their brisket isn't bad!

* for the overlap between tech and BBQ :)
More neat stuff -- the redundancy of English text happens to be just right for making crossword puzzles!

The redundancy of a language is related to the existence of crossword puzzles. If the redundancy is zero any sequence of letters is a reasonable text in the language and any two-dimensional array of letters forms a crossword puzzle. If the redundancy is too high the language imposes too many constraints for large crossword puzzles to be possible. A more detailed analysis shows that if we assume the constraints imposed by the language are of a rather chaotic and random nature, large crossword puzzles are just possible when the redundancy is 50%. If the redundancy is 33%, three-dimensional crossword puzzles should be possible, etc.
Some of my parents' interests rubbed off on me. I think it was because they treated those interests as things with inherent value, even if that value was just pure enjoyment, rather than as hoops to jump through en route to a lucrative career. A lot of my interests were due to what I might call peer pressure of the good kind, i.e., they were things that my friends talked about at school, such as music, electronics, and computers.

The only thing I can suggest is to surround your kids with interesting things and interesting people. We're fortunate to live in a neighborhood where you can't swing a cat without hitting someone with an interesting occupation, ranging from academics to artists and musicians.
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The problem is that Autopilot isn't really a self driving system, even it's marketed or popularized as such, so it shouldn't be treated as that kind of system. There are other cars that have the same or analogous technology (Lane Assist) but have much smaller time frames until they require the driver to put their hands on the wheel.
I've noticed people coming from high level languages tend to struggle a bit with the borrow checker, did you guys experience this? How did you deal with it?
>without sharing their bank account info

You should probably lead with this, because it wasn't clear until you stated it there. The parent comment made it sound like the problem you're solving is inability to just use people's self-reported account numbers in ACH without a verification process. This seemed strange, because companies do that already.

Doing something like ACH, but without leaking either party's account number to the other, is more interesting.

Regarding landlords, the property management company that owns most of my neighborhood asks for checking account/routing numbers from a web portal, just like CapitalOne and VW. The DMV dictates the forms of payment it will accept; it's not up to the customer to pick a payment service. They need a check or credit card in hand at the counter. I dunno about gardeners. If it were informal enough, I'd probably use Venmo. I'm not sure why asking him to give Checkbook the necessary information to actually remit the payment is any different from asking him to sign up for Venmo. (Maybe it is?)

>its about getting rid of 3 day ACH delay

For the companies I mentioned, the payment is always credited to my bill (and taken from my bank account) the next morning. I only experience the 3-day delay using the "transfer between linked accounts" features at my banks. I've read elsewhere that this delay is introduced by the banks as an anti-fraud mechanism, not an actual technical limitation.

If I pay someone using, say, Venmo, if they immediately hit "cashout" they will have the money in their bank the next day.
> They should change the name to "driver assist" or something more accurate given that mis-interpreting the system's function can lead to death of the driver or others.

While I definitely agree on the name change, it should be accompanied by a feature change. In its current mode, and especially if people know it has been renamed, the same stuff will happen.

When you take your hands off the wheel, it turn on warning lights, break increasingly hard (depending on what it detects behind it) and sound loud warnings in the car. If it's truly an assistive feature where you can't be inattentive, the only scenario in which you stop steering is when you fell asleep.
Note: this is fixed in ES6. Using `let` instead of `var` will treat each iteration's variable as distinct:

a = []
for (let i = 0; i <3; i++)
a.push(() => console.log('hi ' + i))
for (let e of a)
e()

Logs:

hi 0
hi 1
hi 2

Actually, it's almost surprising in the opposite direction now.
http://sfbay.wr.usgs.gov/sediment/southsfbay/depth_maps.html

there is a marina in redwood city, but notice how shallow the bay is south of SFO (aside from the channel) - much of that is mudflats (lakes don't have tides), marine preserves, etc.
Don't forget NASA Ames/Moffett Field. Not a company of course, but a staple of the bay area nevertheless.
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One of these things is not like the others.
I'd be interested to see how Google sees this.

Paving the way for autonomous driving by making crashes something that people expect sometimes?

Or putting people off autonomous driving by making people think crashes are not acceptable at all, ever?
2 words: Moffet Field.

Google is using the field for their corporate jets and some secret projects. They are refurbishing Hanger One for some of those projects.

How many cities have a large airfield for almost exclusive use available?

And wind tunnels?

And large hangers?

Google isn't going anywhere far.
If those terrorists showed up to a US security line (Which, unlike Istanbul, does not check for weapons at the entrance to the airport), the casualty count would have been far higher.
On the medical devices I've worked on, the risk analysis took into account that the users may not read the instructions for use or might be lacking in training. I'm sure that automotive is similar, which has had me wondering what the risk analysis looks like for the Teslas.
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There are tens of thousands of people either walking or driving the streets of Mountain View and Sunnyvale where Google is testing its self-driving cars. So, the members of the public are at risk.

But, I understand that you mean behind the wheel. Which is fun because the Google cars do not have a wheel. As I'm sure you may know, instead of a traditional steering wheel they have horizontally mounted, valve wheel with a handle. It looks a little bizarre when you first see it, but I would imagine it could be a safer, smoother alternative to the current standards steering wheel.

Unfortunately, I couldn't quickly provide an image; I've seen it multiple times on my walk to and from work.
> I guess what the Tesla autopilot needs is a lot of good publicity every time it avoids an accident which a human driver would otherwise have actually caused.

Even if that happened, people will cling to the negative news much more than the positive news, aka Negativity Bias. Even if Tesla has a stellar record overall, one bad incident, especially with a somewhat unknown technology, will be much more in people's minds than the countless positive incidents.
Their tenants include Nike, Deutsch Inc, Bank of New York and Barnes & Noble. They also donated space for Cornell NYC Tech to hold classes there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue#Google
No, apparently it isn't compatible with my moto e.

Unfortunately manufacturers don't make powerful phones in the form factor I like.
That notion is not very accurate. There is lot of value in teams being colocated.
There are things like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-5fKzmy38

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5rraWJq6E
That's fair! I guess no one wants automated cars forcing those behind them to rear-end, but eventually it does have to make this sort of decision.
And if it took any longer, I'd make this journey even less.

302,382 people flew from SFO to Europe in May 2016. That's a lot of people. Almost 5% of the Bay Area population and there are 2 more international airports in the region. [0]

[0] http://media.flysfo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/media/sfo/media/air...
Opticon or FastNet
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Thanks for the Wikipedia source.

Here is the law:

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/si/277/made/en/print

Checks by air and sea are authorized and implemented. The UK Border Force also performs spot inspections.
As long as it's not too bright out and the object isn't highly reflective and there's no glare and it's not too high and...

Given that the sensors can't detect a semi completely blocking the road, I'm reluctant to make any statements about what the Tesla can and can't detect.
What I don't understand is why Tesla doesn't whitelist roads where this feature can be used, since the manual sets very specific conditions. Especially given that the feature is currently enabled, they must know which roads work with high confidence values.

Or assume they wanted to do the right thing from the start, and they don't have this dataset. It's not as if we don't have OpenStreetMap (or as if they couldn't buy a commercial dataset) in which you can easily filter out straight highways.

With this it could probably even work without being attentive as a driver, which would be a killer feature over the current state of affairs (currently it has no benefits whatsoever, if you follow the instructions, which is why probably almost nobody does).
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I mean, GCC and OpenOCD had CortexM4 support before anybody else as far as I could tell. Keil and IAR wouldn't even give us a release date at the time.
That's what it does - it alerts drivers, and when their hands are off for some amount of time the car will pull off to the shoulder and stop until your hands are back on the wheel (IIRC).
Drawing a picture is a perfectly valid and legitimate start. However I think there are many problems where a picture is not sufficient and it's necessary to have good, reliable mathematics to sketch out our designs and prove properties of them.

A sketch is still useful the the absence of nothing else. But we don't build bridges and skyscrapers that way so why is it good enough for our data-centres and applications?

I don't think lives have to be on the line in order for software to be considered harmful if not built correctly. There are plenty of problems where having a thoroughly checked design will save you plenty of headaches and afford you many more opportunities.
No. It does not appeal to me at all. I think I would have thought that it was the bee's knees when I was a young teenager, though.
Unlike the Go spec that's prose only. Why is it not accurate? Does the language change that often?
That's kind of tone deaf, don't you think? Just because the crash might provide some useful data, doesn't mean it's something to look positively upon.
What I'm saying is I don't think it has anything to do with calling it autopilot, and even less to do with it not meeting the technical definition of autopilot.

People are using it in this way because they're able to, and they'll continue to do so until they're not able to. I think we agree here actually. The name isn't the problem really the issue.
I am less tech savvy than a lot of people here on HN. I had to look up fiber and the first hits were for dietary fiber. But it looks like you mean high speed internet.

If so, I will suggest you go with something that a generic internet user doesn't need to Google to comprehend. I assume you want to sell to everyone, not just tech insiders, since everyone needs internet these days. Plus "Sell to the masses, live with the classes. Sell to the classes, live with the masses."

So:

Data Demon

Mi Data Demon

Mi Broadband

Mi Internet

Mi-Fi
Yeah, because they likely have the phone number of someone they can call.
I wish the article had mentioned how much pain the event caused to the thousands of interns who were invited (by RSVP), left work early to get there, many travelling all the way from South Bay, and were told to wait for 3 hours outside and then leave as the event where 4500+ people RSVPed for was capped at under 1500. The arrogance and lack of communication from the organizers who claim to care about the interns was appalling.

One other thing missed in the article was the inclusion of a VIP table for interns at "elite" companies or with connections.

Is this how to promote inclusion in tech?
half the chapters are empty...
Hey, look! An App Store update today! Who could have predicted it??
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I bought a 300hp toy of a car last year. First time ever buying a new car in my life, I had no idea how easy it was and now I understand how people get in trouble. Drove off the lot with it with just a couple signatures, and didn't make a single payment for almost 8 weeks. Not a penny down or in interest, principal, registration, taxes, etc. I don't even remember the term-- either 5 or 6 years-- at 2%. Not a subsidized rate from the manufacturer either, simply an auto loan from my bank.

And that's a depreciating asset! Granted, one that can be repossessed, unlike an education...

So yes, 8% is exorbitant now, at least in the US. Of course, those 8% loans may have been taken out ages ago. I'm not sure what the state of higher education loan refinancing is.
I'm assuming that the parent comment meant relocating out of the bay area altogether.
I don't know how often serial numbers are checked, but I imagine that if those bills had been in circulation, they would have been retired by now (banks will take damaged/worn-out bills out of circulation to be replaced). I'm sure that the serial numbers are recorded when bills are taken out of circulation, so if the DB Cooper money was circulating, the FBI would have heard about it.
Ah okay, I don't own a Tesla and this wasn't covered in news articles.

In that case, it sounds like it might actually work more or less as it should. It's just a bit useless in its current form.
If Lua did the decent thing and insisted that you declare every variable first, it wouldn't have this stupid problem. Squirrel should probably do it, too. Python certainly should! (Even Javascript, misguided as it is in so many respects, has strict mode!)

This sort of static checking massively increases the amount of code you can look after without going insane. Add static types too, and you're even better off.

(Last time I used Lua, I modified it so that all variables had to be introduced before their first use, either using `local', or a new `global' keyword. More static checks, and no more accidental globals.)
I don't see how this analogy applies at all. We are not viewing the universe from the outside looking in at the "words," but rather make up the universe ourselves. In some sense, we are the aforementioned pixels.
You are looking for Nim: Python-like syntax, faster than Go, statically compiled.
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Having antibiotic failure as the method for arresting the massive human population (7B people) would require carnage that makes World War II (~70M deaths) pale in comparison, even if you correct for the lower global population of the day.
That is a good example.

On the other hand, whilst hedonists may shirk some responsibilities, perhaps their focus on pleasure also ends up improving their ability at finding pleasure in the situations they find themselves in. If you intend to find pleasure, you may find it easier to recognise the opportunities to create it when they arise.

So to go back to your example of looking after parents when they get old, perhaps a hedonist would be resistant if that involved acting as a servant, but may be good company for them by playing games, telling stories, etc... Not all acts of compassion require self-sacrifice.
Yes, a little.
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Damn. DAMN. I didn't realize it was that shallow. (I'm familiar with the RWC Marina as I bike by there on my commute, and in college I rowed out of Seaport). Thanks. Obviously it goes without saying that if the water is only (say) 5m deep, there's a hell of a lot of crap between 0m and the 5m floor.
The changing height is not as much of an issue; plenty of lakes vary in height by 5-10ft and docks accommodate it just fine.
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I would love to have something like Dialyzer to do static checks for Lua, but luacheck is a lot better than nothing: https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck
> The problem I see is, Tesla is the only one actively testing autonomous driving.

And that is the problem right there. Tesla is "testing" a feature that is being shipped to consumers in a finished product. They are providing the most minimal of safety training regarding the feature, and not even enforcing simple technological measures to make the car safer in this mode (e.g. making sure your hand is on the wheel. They have the sensors in place that test this already, and yet they do nothing with that data).

So essentially, the users are beta testers. They are testing the limits of the sensors. Looks like they don't work on white colored trucks blocking the highway. Sorry you were decapitated, we'll fix that ASAP though!

This is what happens when you bring the "work fast and break things" mentality to an area where "break things" means "people die".

To be clear, I am very pro autonomous car technology. I am a robotics engineer. I've worked on these systems. But this is the exactly wrong way to bring them to market. As more people die due to tesla's autopilot not being a true autopilot, it will color the public's view to reject this technology before it's even mature enough to save lives.
Lily's design is actually pretty unique; it feels a lot less "me too!" than the others.
I'm using it on a moto e (2nd gen) and it's working perfectly, you just don't have the AR stuff since there's no gyrometer. Maybe sideload the apk ?
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You might be romanticizing meaning itself there.
Past discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciml.info
They could run a lot of data collection while only providing the (presumably safer) automation level of other high-end cars.