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I don't even drive at all, and yet this thread irks me from the other direction. Dehumanization is an age-old tactic for enabling asshole behaviors, and bringing children into a discussion is an age old tactic for justifying irrational decisions ("Think of the children").

You claimed that any car may be driven slowly enough to avoid killing people on the road with only mere convenient to others. That's patently false: firetruck. And then there are several other posters claiming that it's the driver fault if any accident happens at all, due to the mere fact that the driver chooses to drive a car. If we remove every single vehicle in the US out of the street tomorrow, a whole lot of people would die, directly or indirectly. I'd like to see anyone stating outright that "usage of cars in modern society have no benefit insofar as saving human lives is concerned".

In the end, I think both sides are fighting a straw-man, or rather, imagine different scenario in the discussion. I read the original poster as imagine a case where swerving means on a freeway potentially being deadly for at least 2 vehicles, along with a multi-vehicle pile up. You're imaging suburban CA where swerving means some inconvenience with the insurance company. I have little doubt that everyone would swerve to avoid the collision in the latter.

Also since we're on HN and semantic nit-picking is a ritual around here, "avoid killing children in the road above all other priorities, including the lives of passengers" is NOT a good idea. As far as the car knows, I might have 3 kids in the backseats.
...which would be true, if there weren't an obvious and palpable power distance between management and engineering in 99% of cases. It may be in vogue to pretend that this power distance doesn't exist, but it does, and it means in practice that engineers often don't feel at liberty to be candid in these situations.

This problem is compounded when managers don't meet the minimum technical skill bar to rationally assess the tradeoffs presented to them by engineers.

If anything, good managers help ensure that this communication channel remains as bullshit-free as possible. Excellent managers actively elicit honest feedback, listen to it carefully, evaluate the risk / benefit tradeoffs, and insulate their reports from political consequences. Unfortunately, very few managers are excellent, which is a big part of why many engineers imagine management as this useless floppy vestigial apparatus.

(I say this from personal experience as a consultant: I learned really, really quickly exactly what managers do for you once I no longer had any.)
Best quote:

"These individuals are assisted in their quest by a media that long ago decided that it was completely okay with killing the society on which it parasitically feeds."
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Beautiful piece, thanks for sharing. I probably would not have noticed how filled with tritones it is without it being pointed out.

If you wouldn't mind me sharing an example which isn't nearly as beautiful :P . "43% Burnt" by The Dillinger Escape Plan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv8b6RPbnAc). It starts with an incredibly dissonant and jarring intro. Semitone intervals on distorted guitars to an almost unpredictable rhythm (there's a pattern, but it's not apparent in the intro). And the song doesn't really get any gentler from there. The last bridge before the outro is an aggressive halftone-wholetone diminished riff on the guitars and non-stop 16th note blast on the drums. Stop... And then... It comes back to that disgusting intro which loops until the track fades out. But now, it feels familiar, like home. And with each loop it sounds better. What started off sounding awful becomes comfortable in a different context.
I see two things with the reputation bit, both positive and negative:

If you release someone being arrested, and afterwards it is a case of mistaken identity or one is found not guilty, it can affect reputation. Arrest records are public, and even when it winds up being mistaken identity or a not guilty verdict, it impacts lives and jobs. Some folks would base their judgement on how you acted or where you were in that video.

In addition to things such as domestic violence (perhaps we should blur out faces of the victims, for example, and not show their naked bodies to the public).

On the other hand, some of these could damage the Officer's reputation, and I wonder if they could be denied for that reason.
Right, all the gangbangers and thugs want is respect from the police! Thanks for the laugh. Honestly though, I'm sure the police try to be as respectful as they can be at first. But because of things like BLM, they don't have a chance, since a cop even stopping and talking to a black person now is considered horrible racism. And probably speaking politely and respectfully would be considered patronizing or something. However you want to spin it. Police aren't here to be your friend. They are here to keep you safe. As evidenced in Dallas, they will even protect those so vehemently against them. But I personally don't think they should be obligated to show respect for people who don't respect themselves or others, which unfortunately, is a rather large percentage of some of these unfortunate communities where you probably wouldn't last a day.
If there's no "end game", why do they need such a large amount of funding?
> Freedom of movement is actually a fairly good thing, though.

I fully agree, however it was an extremely large part of the "leave" campaign.
> Here's a statistic for you: 1.08 fatalities per 100 million miles driven. According to the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, that's the death rate on the American road as of 2014, the last year for which there is complete data.

This one per 100 million miles statistic keeps getting thrown around. I think we can come up with a better number for comparison (see #'ed list below)

I also think we can push for more transparency from Tesla and other companies offering driver-assistance systems. California already requires monthly reports on all accidents involving completely autonomous vehicles [0]. We should be getting this for systems offering driver-assistance across all states. Tesla seems unlikely to report on this until their competitors are forced to report on it too.

Here are a few reasons why the 100 million figure isn't as good as it could be,

(1) Those 100 million miles include all roads, not just divided ones where autopilot is likely to be activated

(2) Autopilot is less likely to be activated during adverse conditions like rain, ice and snow

(3) The 100 million figure includes all types of vehicle deaths, including those from motorcycles. Motorcycle deaths should not be compared to car deaths

(4) The vehicle price is lost in such an average. Safety reports are best done when considering cost. Obviously a 2016 Tesla is going to be safer than a 1990 beater

I'd like to see someone report a more useful statistic for comparison using available data such as this [1]. This guy [2] says it is 1 in 150 million when considering only divided roads. That would make Tesla's autopilot less safe than the average American driver given current statistics.

[0] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4sgxv1/while_te...
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The express caveat in Article 10 is not all that dissimilar to how the protections in the Bill of Rights are actually applied in the US; now, its true, that the caveats in the US are unwritten (at least, in the Constitution itself) and are found in case law which is itself grounded in the historical context of the Bill of Rights, the way in which the similar language in older documents which inspired the Bill of Rights was applied (which is held to illuminate the intended meaning of the language used in the Bill of Rights), etc.

Obviously, the ECHR, being between countries which lack the commonality of legal history and political culture had to make express what would be understood from context in a framework where the participants shared more deeply in a common legal history and political culture, but the substantive meaning isn't all that different.
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> Your life is ruined. You are a disgrace to your religion. Your wife has divorced you. Your child has a permanent disability. You've lost your job. All because due process wasn't followed.
By this logic, you can say "We'll do X for rich people. Since there are so many millionaires, it's a $60B business" for just about any hare-brained scheme.

If Lyft is burning $50M/month driving me across town for $15, or me and two strangers for $5 each, how does substituting a person for a dress or a shaving kit or a bag of groceries suddenly make it hugely profitable?

And if this is the case, why isn't Postmates / Instacart/ etc. getting billions in VC money to expand and corner this underserved market? Why did all the courier startups immediately go belly up in the dot-com bubble last time around?
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You are correct. Legal codes in many countries criminalize the act of speech itself.

This even goes all the way back to the concept of "assault" in anglo-saxon legal traditions[1] (which is the simple threat part of the pair "assault and battery". Many of us use "assault" to mean a physical attack, but it seems originally to be simply causing someone to fear.)

Again, though, you are arguing that because something is the law then that in itself makes it moral and useful.

Those who make slippery-slope arguments about the vesting of power in the state seem increasingly persuasive when we see the turning of the act of speaking into a crime itself. For further examples of "European" countries which illustrate the dangers you could look at Ireland's blasphemy laws which still stand.

1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault
The more I think about, the more I get inclined to believe that this guy has indeed to be on some drugs himself in order to do what he just did. Or that others need drugs to get in a state of thought in which this president happens to persist naturally due to madness!
I am not a young person but I am a graduate student with a lot of young friends. At my university, Facebook is primarily used as a carefully curated photo album and an event planner. The genuine social interactions on Facebook have moved into Messenger. Photos and videos that are not profession/parent friendly are only shared in group chats. Most people are in 3 to 10 active group chats.

A few years ago Facebook Groups were popular at my school but now only a few of the largest ones are active. When I transferred in to finish my undergrad, the groups were essential to meeting people. Now I think it would be much harder to meet like-minded students online because all of the genuine conversation is in semi-private group chats.
> Don't we all want the future to win?

Yes. To get there, we can ask for more transparency from Tesla and other companies offering driver-assistance systems.
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Actually, I've lived there too.

These addicts and homeless have access to:
* 3 meals a day at various food banks
* Safe injection sites to decrease disease risk as a result of intravenous drug use
* Universal health care for when any of the above fails
* A sympathetic and protective police force that ensures people do not hurt themselves or others.

As a result I've never felt unsafe living there like I do when I wander through San Francisco.

Is the system perfect? No. The legacy of conservative governments meant that mental health assistance budgets were severely cut, and so there are a lot of people on the street that really need more government help, not less.

And let's not even get into the fact that Vancouver has most of the homeless population of Canada because it's the only city in the country where you can be homeless through the winter and not die from exposure.
Hungary's current government takes a dim view on a number of topics and strongly favors the rule of law, or the appearance of enforcing those laws. In 2015, refugees and migrants were walking across the border with Serbia, so the government installed a wall topped with razor wire to corral them towards the designated entry points [1] In 2010, the country's laws for press and media were significantly changed, drawing widespread EU criticism [2].

(I'm providing context, not wishing to engage in political conversation)

I think Uber made a judgement call that the Hungarian government would likely enforce the laws rather harshly, and did not want to deal with the consequences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_border_barrier

[2] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/hungary
Yeah, I think if people could go on a ride along with police in a troubled community at two in the morning they'd be singing an entirely different tune.
This is not true. Interception of communications is one of the Stingray's uses, as well as extraction of data from a phone's internal storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
Yes, it does look exactly like that:

https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2016/07/08/jubilee-jolt...
No, the equivalent in neural networks is a network which is trained to always output "Hello, world!", and I dare say that such a network would be pretty hard to reason about compared to the python equivalent.
Not sure about their long-term planning. It seems to me they're doing "just" business pretty well. Their strategy seems to be universally to burn money on lawyers so that local authorities can't ban them until they get to stay due to popular demand. It seems to be evidence of audacity, not necessarily of a long-term strategy.
> "The ability to scale with success is important, but designing products for high scalability from Day 1 is usually a mistake."

In my opinion, and having helped dozens of startups (friends or work), this is the biggest mistake I've seen. Engineers love to make things that scale, while business logic imply to leave it for when it is actually needed. I'd say it's #1 waste of time in a startup (in Spain). Also, when doing so mostly it's done without measuring anything, just doing it "for the sake of it".
The premise of this is a great idea. The sign up is pretty neat - def. suited to expected audience/users. However, no pricing info? I'll come back once pricing is displayed.
I don't know if a Google vehicle will ever be released to the public.

I would not expect an Autopilot to kill me.
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I suspect they're hoping to get bought by someone like Twitch or Steam which have otherwise relatively rudimentary chat capabilities, but is squarely in the gaming space.

As a Silicon Valley startup with no viable business plan (charging for themes and chat emojis? at some point "in the future"?), I strongly suspect being acquihired is their exit plan.
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> I absolutely want the future to win, and I'm terribly afraid that Tesla in its hastiness might hurt the progress.

Left unchecked, that's possible, but I think we have a chance here to ask for more reports on accidents involving autopilot. If Tesla were more transparent, it'd be easier to collaborate on solutions.
Part of the issue, however, is that police aren't civil to the public in the first place.

We expect folks in call centers to take all sorts of abuse. Folks working at the local pharmacy are supposed to keep a smiling face and professional demeanor, even if folks are yelling obscenities and insults in their direction. Folks tell retail workers that if they can't do that, or if they can't handle that, or don't like it, they need to find another job.

I don't see why we shouldn't expect that from police in most situations. I understand the need to be firm at times with some folks, but it isn't something that needs to be done at a traffic stop. Even if the person being pulled over is grouchy. Works both ways.

And yes, some folks will be harassed for their behavior, but I think it'll be a minimum.
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This is very hit-piece and I'm someone generally wary of Google.

Titan has owned and operated all of the city's remaining phonebooths for near 20 years. And I believe the MTA bus stop and subway advertising too. This is something they've already been doing.

Control Group developed those info kiosks you may have seen on subway platforms. They're good people that have got some cool tech. They even post in Who's Hiring here frequently (Hi, Ben!).

If this is something that the city wants, I don't see that there's another way that they would get it. The real problem that I have with LinkNYC though, especially in midtown where I live, is that all the terminals have become 24/7 campgrounds for the city's homeless. They charge their phones and browse the web there. There is no way that I would use one of these things now.
Veertu exists now - it's in the app store, and uses Apple's Hypervisor.framework (just like Docker for Mac). I purchased it because having Apple supply the in-kernel virtualization component strikes me at the Right Thing (tm). Veertu runs a 2D Windows desktop fine, but it does seem slower - I guess they haven't matured a full stack of accelerated virtual graphics drivers etc.
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I don't think it made it into the non-gaming press last time, which it seems to have done now. Even getting the gaming press to cover it was an uphill struggle for TB if I remember correctly.
On the contrary, this was just released:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evid...
Thank you for telling us these details.

I can't help but I note that you benchmark the drive with a block size of 1024. Minimum block size of a modern SSD is 4096, anything lower would just cause unnecessary load. Also if you want to benchmark a drive/block storage I highly recommend using fio.
See also Enzyme, a testing library specifically for React, that allows you to easy assert on both deep and shallow renders of the React DOM.

https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme#basic-usage
Thus showing that nobody in the North Carolina government cares about minorities once again.
Cool logic. I guess we should stop prescribing drugs because there is no failsafe when people ignore dosage and directions. We should stop selling microwaves cause people might ignore warning and put a cat there... There is of course an alternative of people actually being responsible for doing stupid things and not blaming everyone and everything for their own actions.
Maybe a better idea would be a Google Forms instance to submit listings, then some manual validation and normalisation, and s script to pull it from the Google Docs spreadsheet and generate a static web page. Makes for cheap and easy hosting, and you could easily map the events and companies on Google Maps or OSM if you add a lat/long field.

That way, it'd be easy to submit and even easier to consume the data.

And if you kept the dataset open, people could reuse it in a bunch of useful ways.
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The 3.5mm jack is typically the only remaining unmediated "analog gap" on a phone.

Since there's no way of doing authentication signaling on it in a way that can be enforced without mutual cooperation, there's no way to limit access and/or monetize the audio experience any further than it is right now.

USB-C removes those obstacles. This only lives in the land of potentiality right now, but the path is pretty clear. Once you have accessories that can mutually authenticate, you can limit access in exchange for money. This is technically a "slippery slope" argument, but I think capitalism gives us ample evidence to show that it's neither an illogical nor improbable step.
> But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers?

Yes it must. I can readily accept responsibility if there was something on the road to which I wasn't able to respond properly and resulted in an accident but if it was autopilot that screwed up I would sue $brand's ass.
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It's certainly fascist in the original sense of the word: government and corporations operating as a single bundle of fasces (sticks). And also clearly becoming fascist in the popular sense of the word.
You can actually create multiple volumes and then stripe them together so you should be able to get above 16TB with a bit of work.

The reason we focus on SSD exclusively for most of our services is that there are obvious performance benefits and as we look into the future the prevalence of spinning disk will continue to decrease over time.

That being said, if we are only providing SSD there are going to be customer use cases where it's not going to make sense, but that's also part of looking into the future.

So you should be able to create a larger striped volume to run through your batch processing and then depending on how you plan to access that data afterwards you can ship that off to an object store if it's going to be accessed infrequently.
This is tough. I see the intent and logic in this bill. At its core, this is a win for citizen privacy and data protection. It protects the integrity of criminal investigations, and limits public outrage without context. (E.g., a 30-second clip of a cop tackling someone presented as police brutality, omitting the previous 30 seconds of the individual resisting arrest or being a hazard to the health of himself or others.)

The downside, of course, is transparency at a time when public trust in police and proper oversight is at an all-time low. And the "oversight" piece of this is critical. We simply don't believe answers like, "Our internal investigation shows that the officer acted correctly."

So I do think this is the right move, but this needs to be coupled with real reform in independent police oversight and investigation.
TBH, visiting non-uber cities is a complete pain in the ass for me; I would prefer uber even at the same price.

The are less likely to rip you off, easier to catch (just press a button), to keep a record on for reimbursements, to pay (by cc), etc.
Wait, wait. So it's a right to record, but if I go out and start recording stuff I get called out as privacy violator? So which way is it?

(I'm pro-recording here btw.)
See whether there's an observatory near you that has public viewing nights. I've seen Jupiter and a couple of its moons at the Hampstead Observatory. It's a much less frustrating experience than a backyard telescope when you're just getting started, IME, and you can meet some cool people too.