skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To maintain speed up a hill, cruise control applies gas to accelerate the car against the increased component of gravity. This is to maintain a steady speed, but in a geared car (i.e. no CVT), what sometimes happens is that the car starts to lose speed as the revs in top gear drop out of the power band, and then it downshifts and hits the gas hard to accelerate and recover the lost speed.

Meanwhile, many humans who are NOT using cruise control do the opposite: they don't push their foot enough to counteract gravity and force a downshift, and just accept that they lose speed going up a hill.

If the traffic is dense enough, what can happen is that all of sudden your cruise control is downshifting and jumping forward just as you are overtaking a car that is itself losing speed. Potential for a rear-end collision at highway speeed.

Of course this isn't an issue if cruise control is only used in very low densities of traffic. But unfortunately it seems to be used wherever people feel like their feet need a break.
Seriously? That is your reasoning here?" Let's change something and I keep reading these scathing headlines about foreign bureaucrats and foreigners having jobs here, so let's get rid of them." One giant ill prepared and not really thought out knee jerk. That's one of the most stupid decisions I've ever seen.
I do think Apple is hostile to developers, because I don't want a vendor to get inbetween me and my user audience, but that problem applies equally to iOS devices and gaming consoles.

I didn't argue that point in my post. I'm aware the reasons for the iPhone not having a SDK on day one and the reasons for why gaming console vendors don't have a mass developer relations story are very different.

The more interesting point is that developer relations for gaming consoles and iOS devices are really conceptually pretty similar: Both require you to ask the device vendor for permission to ship your app. It's equally walled gardens.
This is not true. We can look at networks and manually look at their weights to determine what features it learned, even high level features. You can do it right now (by examining a pretrained network).

People don't bother to because:

1) it's a very boring problem (we already have a high-level view of what networks learn through various visualizations, and what you'd learn would be specific to one network learned for one dataset)

and 2) it's very tedious and not repeatable (have to do it all over for each new dataset and each new model).
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This comment refers to the Adam Pritzker and the Pritzker family [1].

> Mimi : I met Adam [Pritzker] while I was working at IDEO.

I didn't know about this family but I've visited Chicago enough to be familiar with the Pritzker Pavilion at Millenium Park.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_family
I can't recall any launches with only first-party games.

The N64 launched with only Nintendo titles, but it launched with only 2 titles, and was in some ways a fiasco. Some third party developers had got cold feet during the pre launch period and jumped ship to Sony.
Pokemon Go Is Driving Insane Amounts of Sales at Small Local Businesses
You have to pass a medical examination to get a driving license. Driving while medically incapacitated is irresponsible and illegal the same as driving drunk or on drugs. Unless we have a real self driving car, which Tesla is clearly not.
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You don't need getters and setters in c#. If you don't have any side effect in a read-write property you can just use an automatic property. The same for read only properties that don't need to be recalculated on the fly. And I hope that I don't need to explain why using a write only property is almost always a code smell.
In the other cases you can use a normal property with a backing field.
If your code is well written and you use the appropriate tools, only rarely you need normal properties (that are as annoying as getters/setters).

What do getters and setters offer that public fields don't?
Properties offer exactly the same advantage as getters and setters, fields encapsulation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_encapsulation
No wonder that you don't understand properties if you don't know why getters and setters are useful.
MagiControl?
Thanks for the link. I've been struggling recently in trying to explain a lot of ideas that seem to coincide very tightly with cybernetics. This gives me so much to read on! :)
If you really wanted to do it you would find a way.
The problems aren't trivial, and sometimes the solution isn't trivial, but that doesn't mean there aren't strategies that automatically mitigate some of the issues. Using database transactions, verifying things worked correctly, rolling back transactions with unexpected results, not making assumptions like "two users won't change passwords in the same millisecond", and so on can protect your product. PHP and MySQL are largely to blame as so many web developers started out building sites on a database that didn't support transactions if you used the default engine.

Basic software quality assurance is missing from the majority of web development businesses.
It's sad. I am a big fan of Tesla and had/still have very high hopes from them, but it's decreasing. It seems Tesla is hell-bent on committing suicide. This way, they don't need the fossil-fuel car lobby to destroy them. The BMW, Volkswgen and the likes of dirty-gas-guzzlers-producers would be chuckling now.

Why the hell are they so bullish on auto-pilot? I cannot see any sense in it. They must just concentrate more on the battery, charging-stations and efficiency/performance part of the equation. Instead, I am seeing more efforts are being thrown in not-so-relevant areas and that too aggressively.

Semi-automatic auto-pilot is the idea rejected even by Google. Tesla should learn fast and get back to its core business: battery powered electric cars, period and not the battery powered automatic electric cars.

I'd be happy if they prove this wrong.

edit: many typos and grammatical mistakes, sorry.
Ask HN: Could a religion be started today?
If so, what ingredients would it have & what shape would it take? If not, what barriers would prevent it?

My knee-jerk reaction is that there's no way one could be created today. Freely available information, lack of privacy, and a vastly more educated populace would nip that sucker in the bud.
On the other hand, there are guys like Trump that prove logic and information don't necessarily determine what people believe.

This post* and its comments prompted the question.

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12078784
Lived in the bay area, LA and San Diego for extended periods.

If I were remote, focused on family, and somewhat price conscious, first choice would be San Louis Obispo: beaches, nice downtown, college town. My next choices would be San Diego (north of La Jolla) or Santa Barbara. If you are less price conscious and want to move north, then Half Moon Bay or Santa Cruz. Can find more remote places too that are amazing if you want that, like the Big Sur area or north of the Bay Area. Tend to like the places mentioned more than Carlsbad or Ventura, but those places aren’t bad by any stretch.

Been to Costa Rica, it’s nice, but more expensive than people think and issues with crime, like don’t ever leave your house unattended. Brother goes to Nicaragua to surf a lot, sounds like Costa Rica but cheaper and less stable. Mexico still feels too dangerous to me. About three months ago our nanny was scared to go home because of the crime. When I was in the military not too long ago, you needed a General’s approval to go. Some areas are probably good but doesn’t strike me as family friendly, more like retirement and vacation compounds. No idea about Panama, but all sound like an adventure.

Good luck and have fun. Remote sounds better by the day.
To reiterate, people already widely knew multiple layers solved XOR at the time.
Honda unveils first hybrid motor without heavy rare earth metals
Legal industry disruptor secures seed funding
3DS:
Cheapest/minimum option for small teams with download-only titles

*IS-SNAKE-BOX

*Note: A single IS-SNAKE-BOX unit is enough hardware for developing a download-only title. Card title development requires a CTR flash card for guideline checks.

====
WiiU:

Engineers

Each engineer will need a CAT-DEV kit for development.

Testing

For testing, CAT-R kits will need to be used. They closely emulate a retail Wii U. CAT-R kits can run games that have been burned to CAT-R discs, and they can also run images installed to the system via SD card. They cannot run retail Wii U games.

And you can run your soft on CFW'd 3DS or WiiU, but don't tell N about that.
> "We specifically advise against its use at high speeds on undivided roads"

You don't have to advise; you could mandate. The car knows how fast it's going and where it is, and with a little help from its Internet connection, can know when it's on an undivided road.
Humor me then. What's the point?
Pokémon Go is completely Driving People crazy here is how
> or in fact a legitimate reason to swerve?

Reasoning about what's legitimate can be a really fine line. Oncoming car, raccoon, fawn, human, doe, coyote, elk: some of these obstacles might actually be net-safer to not swerve around [perhaps depending on speed].

I'd be really curious if any of the autopilots have a value system that tries to minimize damage/loss of life. And how does it value the exterior obstacle against the passengers in the car?
If you can play Pokemon on mobile, you won't buy next 3DS, plain and simple.
Ask HN: Do companies ever request test solutions to build solution benchmarks?
After an initial 1-hour telephone interview, I was recently asked to solve a 2-hour data analysis code test. It went very well, but shortly after submitting my solution, an HR representative had a phone call with me that focused exclusively on side issues, such as what were my preferences regarding open offices or how I work in teams.

I was not asked about any of these topics in the first interview, and only a few hours after the first interview I had received an excited email inviting me to take the code test.

At the end of the second phone conversation, less than 24 hours after submitting my solution, the HR rep suggested that it was probably not best to continue the interview process since my feelings about certain things did not match the company's current policies.

I don't necessarily disagree with that decision, but here is the unusual part:

Just hours after this happened, I saw a new job listing from the same company for a position with nearly the same job description. But the title had been altered slightly to say it was a temporary position with the possibility for permanent hire. The revised ad also made it sound like the position was far more junior than when I initially interviewed.

I'm reasonably highly ranked on Stack Overflow for the main tech used in the test. Is it possible the company just wanted to see what my performance would be as a benchmark for a baseline? If companies do this, what steps should a candidate take to avoid completing such tests and investing personal time that results only in giving the company free performance data?
United States Patent: 9386089
No mention of Apple's mounds of cash that its holding without using it profitably.
Twitter isn't a product. It's, at best, a product-construction command line; every product they've had (photo-sharing before murderized by Instagram, for instance) has been accidental.

How not to product manage 101.
I'm somewhat more optimistic that Lyft will fare better in certain cities than Uber because they seem more willing to work with governments and seem like less of a "bully" (although they did act the same as Uber in Austin recently...), but they also seem to wait until Uber goes into a city and kind of lets them take the brunt of the assault in the hopes that they will fare better.

However, hearing that they're losing up to 50MM per month is quite disconcerting, and it makes me wonder how much time they have and if they will break even. Even at a large valuation ($25 billion if I remember right?) they seemingly can't continue at such a loss without a drastic change to their business model or continuous large outside investment. I think one of better things they could do is really use their positive PR as a strong advantage, because they don't have major blunders like Uber (e.g. Uber gets $3 billion investment from Saudi Arabian investment fund and adds one of their managers as a board member).
TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees a New Top Language: Assembly
Next month's Firefox 48 is looking Rusty – and that's a very good thing
I think lawsuits and government intervention will kill self driving cars for the next decade or two. Even if autonoumous are 10x better, thats still hundreds of deaths per year that will be attributed to a half dozen autonomous car maker's software.
It's not lack of situational awareness after the autopilot disconnected that caused AF447 to crash.
For me a good way to save money is 'not have it' and not get used to spending it. Each pay cycle I move set %'s of my income into 5 separate accounts.

These are;

Daily spending, risky investments, safe investments, lifestyle savings (e.g. holidays or other luxury spends) and bills/fixed expenses.

Often I will dip into lifestyle savings if I overrun my daily spending.

The best simple extension would be to have something that tracked my current spend for a month against time left in a month for my 'daily spending' account. But not sure I'd want to give just anyone access to my bank details.
The rule of the Dancing Pigs applies here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs
>Google's self driving car group gives some awesome transparency reports every month, including details about every accident

Google isn't doing this out of the goodness of their heart. They have always been required by law to send autonomous vehicle accident reports to the DMV, which are made available to the public on the DMV's website.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/testi...

So the transparency itself is mandatory. Google merely chose to control the message and get free PR by publishing an abbreviated summary on their website too. Judging by this comment, it's working!

For example, here's the full report on Google's accident in February, the first one where the autonomous car was the vehicle at fault: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3946fbb8-e04e-4d52...
But is it safer than the BMW system that does the exact same thing?

I also seriously doubt it's much safer than driving a normal car in the same situation. Musk threw out a bullshit comparison with general vehicle fatality stats. But Autopilot is used in a situation that's safer than average travel--highway driving in good weather. Most deaths happen at intersections--not highway.
$50 million burn rate per month? Time to go public!

That president broke a cardinal rule of VC-backed startups -- never reveal your numbers. Although some do, admittedly.

But at that rate of burn, it's pretty surprising he got approval to disclose that. If I'm an LP -- looking at the #2 in the space -- and they're treading water against #1 while losing $50M a month -- I'd rather check out the #1 in the space.

Although Uber's burn rate is also quite high -- losing $1 billion dollars in China alone: http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/19/technology/uber-losing-1-bil...
> If they're managing their own servers that would add a lot of overhead I suppose. If they're just running off EC2 or Linode or whatever then there's not a whole lot of staff there.

The needed headcount in both cases is nearly identical as well as quite significant at Vine's scale and with their type of product, and your assumption otherwise is a pretty clear indicator that you don't have much experience managing an operations team. That's okay, not everyone does, but you should listen to those around you rather than assume you know best in this case.

In operations it gets pretty tiring having engineers explain our role, strategy, and headcount to us, most particularly when this takes the form of criticism such as "you don't need a lot of [or have too many] people to do that," which comes off extraordinarily condescending and diminutive. The one thing that does not exist in all of computing, ever, from Joe's Web Design through Twitter and beyond, is a perfectly-staffed operations team. There is always more work than operators, and always "there are too many of you" sentiment. Always.

Sizing operations is an inexact science but one which yields "too many operators" approximately 0% of the time. When your operators propose dropping GPUs in the fleet to mine cryptocurrency as an additional revenue stream, you might (might) have too many. But not until then.

I'm trying to give you credit here that you mean well but the rest of your comment is somewhat suggesting that I shouldn't, so take it as you will, I suppose.
I've been seeing nothing but ads around here for 50 dollars free and I know some people that have been taking advantage of it. Maybe they should scale that back.
It's already something other cars on the roads have. Tesla just did it on the cheap and Tesla gets more press because it's not a 100 year old car company and its founder is Elon Musk.
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Even though you're reluctant to email their support, you can contact them without disclosing the specific issue and just ask for their security contact (or a person who is authorized to handle this kind of issue). An alternative is to contact them by phone number, if they have one readily available. Also what MaulingMonkey pointed out, you can see if the whois gives you any more contact info.
From wiki:
"An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required."

That's the clear opposite of what Tesla's manual suggest. If it required hands-on wheel and constant attention, call it what it is -- a driver assistance system, not autopilot.
If you are very poor then clearly doing something to increase your income makes a lot of sense.

For most people on HN I'm not so sure, most roles have a ceiling that is very difficult to get above without moving into upper management or starting your own business. The odds don't look so good then.

On the other hand having some FU money will improve your quality of life significantly. Just being able to say no to that morally questionable feature your boss is asking you to implement or turning down a weekends work when you want to go to a friends wedding has a strong impact on your well being.

Having savings and investments means having choices, having debts imprisons people.
Scientology is obvious example. But sure. Most religions, even old one tend to adopt parts of other religion quite closely. Which also makes Scientology more unique.

Some others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movement...
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Something like this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/time-is-money/oopp...

Note I haven't used it.
The clouds are rarely full of rocks. The planes have pilot/copilot and cabin crew. The pilots are highly trained professionals. The systems on the planes pass extremely rigorous testing to be certified.

Chances of gaining control and awareness of the situation in a timely manner on an airplane are higher.
Extrapolating from the past doesn't always work. In this case maybe you are not accounting for future illness or burnout.
Tesla should contact the design team which creates the manuals for Ikea to create a purely graphical "owners manual" clearly describing what the autopilot can and cannot do. Admittedly, a lot of the Tesla marketing seems to indicate otherwise, but the autopilot is just a very sophisticated lane and distance/speed assistant. It seems to handle the typical freeway very well, but does not promise to handle most other driving situation.

For example, it does not handle any crossing traffic, nor stationary obstacles as well as debris on the road. Off the freeway it is entirely the responsibility of the driver to keep the car safe, the autopilot cannot (by design) handle most of the situations.

The discussion of having the hands on the wheel is a bit a red herring. Having the hands on the wheel limits the amount of distracting things you can do while driving, but the key point is paying attention to what is going on. Hands off on an empty highway, why not? But when a truck appears on the horizon with some potential to cross - better be prepared to take action. The same applies to small country roads, and especially when the autopilot starts to warn the driver.
I use Amazons wish list for this, most of the stuff I put in there never gets purchased.
Slow-cooker meals are indeed great. Very cheap to fix, makes big quantities, and they can be wonderful. Throw things in at 8am, at 5pm you have hot, delicious food in quantities to throw a dinner party or eat for days.

My wife and I did a "month of slow cooking" to try recipes. Most were good and many are part of our regular cooking rotation now.
Meh.. I assumed it was a buggy case that allowed more than an hour of hands-off time.
> The problem is that the qualitative effects of a drug are determined not just by its molecular structure, but also by the dose, the route of administration, and the type of person using the drug.

Environment also plays a role. I took a great deal of LSD for a few years way back when. I got into a rut of having enormously bad experiences for a while and came to believe that there was something terribly wrong with my psychological state, leading me to take it only in solitude so that I could enjoy my favorite music to it without corrupting the experience for others. At some point, I reluctantly agreed to dose with my then gf and was shocked when she told me she had never seen anyone so happy and positive in the midst of a trip.

About a year later, I had resumed taking it with close friends and the bad times seemed long gone. I dosed with another close friend for the first time in two years and had an awful experience. It hit me that he had been with me for every bad trip that I'd ever had. We had been friends for years, but something about our dynamic was causing me tremendous anxiety in the moment. I never took a hallucinogenic drug in his presence again and the bad times again subsided.

On a side note, if you watch some of the army experiments with LSD administered to soldiers in sterile lab rooms from the Cold War era, it's no wonder some of them are suffering so much. It makes me feel bad for them just thinking about it.
Java is a quite awful language honestly. And I use it everyday at work. Generics implementation with type erasure is a pain and complicates things a lot. There is no automatic static type inference and before Java 7 you had to specify twice the generic types in the same statement. This adds a lot of "complexity" or noise when reading some code. Checked exceptions..do we want to speak about all the complexity that they add?
Before Java 8 there was absolutely no first class support to closures, and if you wanted to have something equivalent you had to use an anonymous inner class... Very simple, eh?
All the streams (as in input/output streams) are heavily used and while sometime they are useful, they complicate needlessly the code.
The streams implementation (as in the Linq-like feature) is more complex than Linq.
Honestly I can't say that Java is a simple language.
It may be true if you just use loops and basic statements, but you can say the same for pretty much every other high level language.
Finally I'm quite perplexed for the reasons why you want to kill inheritance.
While it is true that when it is abused is bad, ditching it completely is wrong because used in the right way can make you code simpler.