skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While automated driving is a relatively new field, the science and data of traffic conditions and accidents is quite deep. You don't have to blindly wait until your beta users get into accidents. In the case of the first fatality, how is it possible that Tesla engineers were unaware of a situation in which a lightly-colored vehicle might show up on days in which the sky is bright?

Of course they were aware of that situation. They chose to deprioritize that to reduce the incidence of false positives that came from overhead highway signs. Nothing wrong with attempting to squash false positives, which can lead to deadly situations themselves. But there was nothing preventing Tesla from doing adequate testing to determine what unintended consequences their software modifications would entail. They don't have to wait for someone to get decapitated to realize that there's a trade off in reducing false positives from overhead signs.
> there are many problems where a picture is not sufficient

like there are many problems where text is not sufficient

like there are many problems where code is not sufficient

like there are many problems where documentation is not sufficient

like there are many problems where using the right tool for the job is not sufficient
I guess you mean the 2.x as old.
That was a good piece of software while it lasted, and I miss it too.

But hey, it's M$ now, so get used to flat designed ads.
they do the same in many countries and call it disruption.
for example, Netherlands, where they were banned but ignored it. their office got raided few times by police and there is ongoing criminal investigation.

uber is just pirate taxi with nice website.
"the weights are such that the ANN computed this incorrect output for these inputs?"

Can we actually do this, for complex ANNs?
I'm moving to the opinion that whenever K-9 or human cop noses are used to generate probable cause, three mylar balloons must be filled, using a pump, with the air alleged to contain the illegal odor, and sealed with chain-of-evidence stickers. One balloon is later fed to an "electronic nose" machine, in a double-blind fashion, to create an arguably impartial report. Then one is for the use of the prosecutor, and one is for the use of the defense.

If the balloon does not contain marijuana odor molecules, all evidence collected in the subsequent search is inadmissible. One cannot cross-examine a dog, and human cops are no more trustworthy than any other witness that has a personal stake in the outcome of the case. What people can see and hear can be recorded by cameras and microphones, and examined after the fact by both sides in the adversarial process. Allowing smell, touch, and taste "evidence" for determination of probable cause seems to be an end-run around due process.

"I smell weed" or "the dog alerted [because I signaled it to alert]" should not be a substitute for judicial oversight of police activity.
Pure electric cars, pushing towards driverless electric cars. I'm fine with government money being spent on a future free of fossil-fuel-fed explosion engines and human-driven bumper cars.
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Half good, half bad:

House Bill 972 does make such video accessible to people who can be seen or heard in it, along with their personal representatives ― but they must file a request to obtain the footage. If the request is denied, the petitioners must go before the state’s superior court. Requests can be denied to protect a person’s safety or reputation, or if the recording is part of an active investigation.

Current state law establishes that dashcam footage is in the public record, and it doesn’t address body camera footage. But police departments usually consider body camera footage to be part of an officer’s personnel file and thus private. The new law will make body camera footage accessible under the same stringent new conditions that dashcam footage will be.

So, you have to request the footage (Acceptable IMO), but they can choose to deny the request based on safety (okay), reputation (troubling and confusing. I see no reason to protect someone's reputation from themselves. Blur a public version if needed), or if it's part of an investigation (makes sense to me). Making sure departments don't use a loophole to keep officer camera data hidden is a plus.

The only case that comes to mind with regard to safety is if officers enter my residence illegally (e.g. by accident) and catch me in a compromised position. If you couldn't legally be in my house anyway, you sure as hell better not release footage of me to the public while you were there.
Tesla was talking about their NHTSA VSS, your talking about EURO NCAP. I'm not sure how to compare the two.
Since the purpose of our product is to give each user his or her own execution environment to freely explore the software that stacktile is helping to demonstrate, we need to give that user access to his or her own container.

Perhaps the confusion is coming from the fact that a stacktile workflow is more than "pre-known" static content -- it is markdown coupled to a an interactive, running shell process in which code can be executed.

I hope that helps clarify
Yup. They clearly have an agenda that's more than just doing business. If all they wanted to do is make money for shareholders, they'd just comply with local regulations. They must be thinking for the verrrry long term, if they are planning on changing the structure of democracies to allow them to operate as they please.

Edit: To wit, appealing to the Texas legislature to overrule Austin's popular referendum.
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While abhorrent I do not believe that speech should be made illegal.
SentinelOne discovered sophisticated malware targeting European energy company
For anyone interested the intersection of rhythm and harmony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gCJHNBEdoc
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Also, I call bullshit on the idea that Musk isn't sitting on his fortune. It's everyone else's money he's using for fuel...$4.1B in government money IIRC plus god knows how much VC.

This comment doesn't even pass the laugh test for anyone who knows what happened to him in 2008 when all of his money was tied in his companies and then he got sued for divorce. He literally wound up running 3 companies that were imploding in different ways, and had to borrow from friends just to make living expenses.

He pulled everything off by the skin of his teeth, starting with his 4th SpaceX launch getting into space instead of blowing up as the first three rockets did.

He will raise money in every way that he can. Yes, this includes finding ways to get subsidies from the government if the government is willing to provide them. But it also includes investing his own money, time and effort. (And risking his life - his roadmap includes colonizing Mars, and he's serious about moving to that colony.)
Deploying Elixir releases
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The village voice talking about another company being a propaganda engine is laughable. Also VV requires logging into Facebook to leave a comment on that story too.
Here's a publication [1] which indicates your belief that whites suffer higher rates of death by police action is incorrect. The probability of a black being killed by police is ~ 3.5x the probability for whites.

Probably worth your time to read.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Glad you mentioned this.. All I can say is Damn, that's awesome. I didn't realize some types of progressions and styles were Raga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wra4p4zARw
Still waiting to be able to purchase a Google self-driving car as well...
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"... makes police dashboard camera and body camera footage exempt from the public record."

I may be wrong but wouldn't this make the footage exempt from FOIA? (Unless the people involved filed the FOIA request ...)
> But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers?

This is my line of thought as well. Same problem I have with the anti-nuclear environmental crowd. Are there substantial drawbacks? Absolutely.

That doesn't matter. The important question is not "Does this new technology solve all previous problems?" but rather "Does this technology solve a net positive number of problems while offering more opportunities for improvement?"

With decades of empirical data that average humans are pretty bad at reliably manually piloting powerful, heavy vehicles, I can't see a reasonable reason to reject deploying autopilot technology in an aggressive manner. And that sadly means a few deaths. But those should be measured against the number that would have died were nothing done, not against zero.
So, one more js-based app.

After Atom/Slack it became obvious there will be plenty of them (Webkit The RAM Eater) for every purpose.

I'd like to hear any technical details available.
Is it "offline" package like Atom? or "simple webview over web.skype.com" as mentioned before? etc
Outside of Europe and European-derived forms, harmony is very rare.

It's not rare, but it has different forms than western music. Maybe the most common form is pedal, which can be heard in this Tuvan form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo

Almost any time there are musical instruments accompanying singing, you'll get some form of harmony, like with this Japanese shamisen music: https://youtu.be/_k0wyAIkPhM?t=916

Native Australians have harmony that I would call pedal, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pDPuetPdg
"If You See Something, Say Something. Be Suspicious of Anything Unattended."

How is it creepy? Have you ever visited New York, its announced every 15 minutes or so on subways. This might even be something that city officials explicitly required.
>Mario and Zelda are played out.

The last 4 Mario games of this generation (New SMB, 3D world, 3D land, Mario Maker) have all been amazing, unique titles.

Zelda is a little bit harder, because the IP is a bit more restrictive. I honestly haven't played one since Twilight Princess (which I thought was great). The upcoming Breath of the Wild looks incredible though.

I hope they never stop making Mario and Zelda games, as long as they stay consistent with their innovation and creativity. To me, saying that they should stop, is like suggesting that they should stop making Bond movies.
That sounds good to. I think 3pt14159's implicit question was, "should Tesla be allowed to continue doing this the way they want?" not "Is tesla take the best of all possible approaches to car automation?"
My comment was downvoted for some reason... perhaps I'm mistaken (haven't tried myself) but I'm fairly confident Charles can do this. I've heard of using it to reverse engineer APIs from mobile apps that use SSL, Robinhood for example.

https://www.charlesproxy.com/

> Charles can be used as a man-in-the-middle HTTPS proxy, enabling you to view in plain text the communication between web browser and SSL web server.

From https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-prox...
JoshTriplett's comment was a response to "why would they not use lua?" The points were all made relative to "C and assembly programmers" using Python vs. the same using Lua.

You can't simply pull a few words out of the comment and assume it means there is no mismatch what C programmers expect and what Python offers. It doesn't mean that and wasn't meant to mean that.

You wrote "Lua's target audience is, at least in part, C programmers". That is also true of CPython. Bear in mind that these facts aren't that relevant. This code is not mean for the wider class of "C programmers". The relevant bit is "the target audience writes assembly and C". This is far different than "the target audience is assembly and C programmers", which appears to be what you think it says.

Instead, the target audience is the narrower class of people writing EFI binaries and working with the EFI protocol. As JoshTriplett further clarified, the "existing development tools in that area already support Python", but apparently not in Lua.
> Except what the author said isn't actually true in any regard what-so-ever. Point out the start-up that has raised a billion dollars to take selfies or find imaginary creatures. It's such a wild exaggeration, it missed by 10 or 20 fold.

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Snapchat is an example of one that has, just fyi.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-snapchat-funding-idUSKCN0Y...

> Messaging app Snapchat has raised $1.81 billion in funding, the company reported in a U.S. regulatory filing on Thursday, a sign that investor interest is strong despite concerns among some venture capitalists that the platform is struggling to attract advertisers.
And almost entirely irreversible.
> Do you really think you have unlimited freedom of speech in the US?

Compared to Europe, apparently yes

> Try this: go to a playground and say to a parent ...

I doubt this would have the outcome you imagine. What would the police officer arrest me for? Expressing an opinion?

"Officer": "What seems to be the problem"

"Woman": "This man said he wanted to beat up my child"

"Officer": "Is this true?"

"Me": "Yes"

"Officer": "Why did you say that?"

"Me": "Someone on the internet told me I would be arrested if I did"

"Officer": "Go home."
They squashed a number of annoying bugs with this release - not least this annoying touch one:

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14367
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All-caps, REALLY?
Let's fight the prospect of genocide with an authoritarian fascist regime that seeks to control your speech with a secretive dragnet surveillance apparatuses.

People crack me up sometimes..
I'm not clear on it either, but I think it's some kind of cruise-control, with auto-steering. (If I'm wrong, someone please let me know)
That's a good point. Musical styles are inherently rule-driven. There are certain givens that are very strictly limited. For example, every Bach piece, and every similar piece from other composers, is written in 3/4 or 4/4 time. For the most part, it's just a steady stream of eighth notes.

European classical music is rhythmically crude and primitive.

I spent a couple of years studying the frame drumming of the central Asian steppes with a good teacher. The concept of "time signature", a basic European idea, goes right out the window. If you're doing something best described as "17/16 with the occasional 13/8 counter-rhythm", you start to understand how crude European rhythm is. Yet it's actually easy to play! That's because it's not a "bar", it's a seqeuence of phrases that may be two, three, or four subdivisions long. Memorize the sequence and it's pretty straightforward.

Likewise, equal temperament severely limits European melodies. Arabic and Indian music are far more melodically complex.

But if you measure every other culture by the values of your own, they all look worse.
I really hate this trend of packaging every web app into its own WebKit instance.
But if we see this in a more broad perspective, there is electronic music (not necessarily techno) that is as complex as Beethoven 9th. Specially if more avant-guarde electronic music is included, not just EDM.
There's some negativity around this product on this thread, but honestly I'm really glad Virtual Box is around and under active development.

I have both an active linux and os x env for dev and I use virtual box to manage and switch between. It's been super useful, very reliable, fast enough, and, btw, it's free.
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0.76 fatalities for 100 million Tesla autopilot miles driven? Is that extrapolated?
Seems like you are reading into this much greater implications than is intended.

Classical music is in general much more complex and sophisticated than pop music. This is undeniably true by any rational yardstick. Whether its better or not is completely a different question.
So ... the problem integrity.

No one ever said that the problem was easy
> VaultOS is a bit like Amazon Web Services or Google Drive, but for what's called "core banking" — the technology that allows banks to hold deposits and accounts. Essentially, it's the heart of banking, around which everything else is built.

I hypothesis they are considering what I've been working on for about 4 years now, which is basically a blockchain + container/VM/repo deployment mechanism for infrastructure services. The people who were most interested in what I was presenting were financial institutions. The primary reason why was because that software shouldn't change a lot as it handles money. Changes to software that handle money typically == loss of funds. If you build a piece of software that gets deployed and versioned using smart contracts/DAOs/whatever blockchain thing, you end up with a fairly robust way of managing financial systems, and the various contracts those systems manage, including cryptocontracts running in the containers launched by other contracts.

In other words, the immutability of the blockchain should be able to be applied to infrastructure provisioning. My sense is that is what is happening here with VaultOS.
FOIA applies only to federal records; similar state public-records laws have their own restrictions, based on what the state considers publicly-accessible records, and what it considers either protected personal information or sensitive government information; it seems likely that the sharply limited request process identified in the article for access to the police camera footage means that these are not accessible to the general public under the state's general public records law (otherwise, the limited request process would be superfluous.)
> if it's part of an investigation (makes sense to me)

This part seems curious to me. Isn't that exactly when a person "who can be seen or heard in it, along with their personal representatives" (e.g. accused person and lawyer) would need access to such footage? Perhaps there is some nuance here about what constitutes an active investigation?
If dash and body cam footage was available easily, you're not gonna like what you see. And people will then be up in arms because they are being harassed for their own bad behavior on camera given to public. I personally want body cam footage to be seen because I know it will cause that backlash and it will show the public how terrible their neighbors are and they'll understand why the police are so necessary (and necessarily rough sometimes) to keep society civil.
So, if I'm reading this article right:

1. YouTube streamers are getting paid to play games on stream by content creators / publishers. That's great, and much more interesting than an ad (it's nearly impossible to the product to actually be terrible and have this make it look good). The company, the streamer, and the consumer all win to a certain degree here.

2. A company was punished for breaking the law and lying. Great!

The only thing missing, for me, is a disclosure from the streamer that they are being paid to play a particular game. Just be honest, it'll make for a more compelling review.
"If you see something, say something" (spanish "Si ves algo, di algo") is NYC's campaign in the aftermath of terrorism, and has been going on for over a decade. Its origins are not creepy and at this point most of the city's population is used to it. You can see it especially on any MTA properties such as subways, where they worry unattended luggage may contain a bomb, so they ask people to report such.
I'd argue (if provided with beer and a forum) that it is a very professional approach once you acknowledge that once you have applied a pretty low bar BS filter, the average, and probably great VC, has no better way of predicting massive success than a crap flinging monkey. Oh, coupled with the fact that almost all VC returns come from the gigantic winners.
What about cases where "poor technology execution" is the root cause behind "we didn't move quickly enough" or "we didn't build the right features" because you didn't move quickly enough, and the product architecture made change too difficult?
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If you have better numbers, feel free to mention them. The deaths per mile is for highway driving, and I assumed the deaths:injuries ratio is the same, but that could be wrong.

I disagree with the "single lane" though: if Autopilot enforces driving in a single lane, and that turns out to be safer, then that's all that counts.
Playstation is more or less expensive depending how you go. XBOX is way cheaper, almost free (to start development). I would explicitly say but there are a ton of scary documents you have to sign.
Pedal tones aren't really the same as Western harmony. You can't transition from one key to another. The pedal is more like a consistent pitch reference. Likewise, countermelodies aren't necessarily harmony, although harmony is technically countermelody.
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Autopilot absolutely should start slowing the car down if the driver takes his hands off the wheel for more then a few seconds. Anything else is reckless.

I was, however, responding to the specific scenario of 'Driver has a stroke --> Self-driving car becomes an unguided missile' by pointing out that it the exact same scenario as 'Driver has a stroke --> Regular car with cruise control becomes an unguided missile.'
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The question "Was GamerGate driven by misogyny?" can now be answered. How many people raise the issue of ethics, regarding this situation, will clarify how many people really did care about ethics when Zoë Quinn, Brianna Wu, and Anita Sarkeesian were under attack.
"Most startup failures were caused by building the wrong product, or lacking strong sales skills, or not having a viable business model" <- the first one of these is the biggest cause of startup failure, and is technical.

Startup technical diligence needs to check for a minimum level of ability and beyond that, ability to find the right direction to build in.

The idea that what product you build is not the responsibility of the technical team is almost certainly why you think there's no point in doing technical diligence.
So I like your explanation a lot, it's actually the best explanation of music theory I've come across so far (if its true, that is :-))

Nevertheless, I think math can be very useful to describe the various music styles, elements that make up these styles, and the ways to compose these elements. That would be using math in a descriptive way. I like for example the 2 book series "Musimathics" (http://www.musimathics.com/). In the end, nobody knows how much of music can be understood by viewing it through the mathematical lens. I suspect quite a lot, if not all.
> Article is light on what it would take for Uber to be compliant as a legal dispatcher service.

Typically the problems are: a) surge pricing b) rates that do not follow the government set rates c) refusing service to certain customers d) no mandatory insurances e) do not accept cash payments in cars.
Yes, you get access to evidence if it's going to be used against you. That's a whole separate thing.
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From the article:

> We can formalize the above considerations by giving rules for a toy language L over an alphabet A. In the parlance of theoretical linguistics, our language is generated by a stochastic or probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) [41–44]. We will discuss the relationship between our model and a generic PCFG in Section C.
So if the police officer's reputation would be ruined by evidence of them committing a crime, then the footage can't be released?

Sounds like the exact point to me, block camera footage that shows crimes of officers.
That sounds like this one guy who is trying to get me to work for free for his "company".

"What kind of cyber security does your server have?"

Speaking to me in buzz words is a huge red flag.