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Oh what a crock of nonsense! The best thing you can do is to stop reading cliches (even by the so called famous types) and ask those so called older folks with additional commitments, responsibilities et al, what life is really like.

I'm in my 30s and have what you call "more responsibilities" and can tell you that I now value my time more, get more s--t done in less time and overall are more productive than in my 20s when I had none of those responsibilities.
It's been a couple years since the last time I looked at Orleans. I must say though that even in the early days the documentation was pretty good; it's even more impressive now.
> Automobiles contain the prefix auto- yet nobody assumes the car is self-driving.

Actually, in that regard yes they do -- "auto-mobile" = "moves itself", as in, you don't have to pedal or Fred Flintstone it...

> Most people understand it to mean gears don't need to be changed manually

No, that'd be "automatic gearbox". As in "Do you drive a manual or an automatic?"

So "autopilot" would suggest it does the piloting as well (ie, the stuff the person sitting at the controls -- the common view of a "pilot" -- normally does)
See rant above about Lister. Well, technically could be external program but i was unable to find external program either. Of course there are plenty more different features not covered here
https://twitter.com/Gladwell/status/753717267008020480

> In retrospect this week's episode of https://t.co/2Mqc5Dwr4V should have included a trigger warning for Bowdoin grads.

This is not the writing of someone who is honestly investigating social justice issues. This is a pot-stirring self-promoter.
The biggest thing Tesla has done is design cars to be electric first. A ton of compromises have to be made to stick a gas engine (and a gas tank) in a car. A purpose-built electric car is, in several ways, capable of surpassing a gas-powered car (performance, crash safety) at the expense of having a fixed range. There's nothing in the hot hatch segment, because nobody has really been able to make a product at scale.

FWIw, when I owned cars, they were VWs. I loved driving them, and I never had mechanical problems, but the electrical components were a flaky mess.
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It's doubly foolish because the rates for autopilot are for human plus autopilot, not autopilot alone.

So at best they matched what a human alone can do. Meaning the autopilot has done nothing at all.
What distinction are you drawing between "first-class functions" and "function pointers"?
Per your link, The number of Vassar students in debt is twice that of Bowdoin's for ... the same reason? opposite reason?
> The more I write code the more I realize that the entire purpose of the code is to have some effect on reality, [...]

Perhaps. But there's the effect you get from running the code on a computer. And the effect reading the code has on humans.
Didn't they have some gratituous IO-monad stuff in the article?
Gladwell could write a great book about that. _Skipped: How Genetics Shape Generations_
I thought most fatalities are on the highway during good driving conditions, where the road is so smooth and boring that humans lose attention, fall asleep or staring at their phones. Speed is much higher when driving on those roads and there is a bigger chance a car will rollover/bigger impact.
Interesting. I assume they allow the special cases of tail recursion introduced by 'while', 'for' and similar constructs?
> Do you disagree that Tesla is using autopilot and not 'drive assist' or something like that to make the potential think their implementation is so much better than the rest of the world?

Their implementation is much better than the competition.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/semi-autonomous-cars-co...

> Or the fact that they don't push so much on keeping the hands on the wheel to make this more comfortable for the users vs. the rest.

I'm glad they don't. Here is why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv9JYqhFV-M
His point was not to compare US and UK.

His point was that miles driven on freeway (when you are using Tesla's autopilot) seems less dangerous than miles driven everywhere else.

He found the UK data and wonders if the same applies to the US. The implication is that if it did, then Tesla would be comparing apples with oranges in its 100m miles reference.
They have programs like these for health care in the US. Can be quite cheap, if you can stomach paying the first 6k USD (per year or so?) yourself.
So have I, and I have experienced mounting difficulties over the last couple of years, despite decent efforts to keep up with protocol and defense mechanisms. Delivery to gmail and hotmail/outlook accounts is becoming a game of chance.

I shall probably, with huge regret, hand over the delivery process to an external operator in the near future.
I work for a large ESP. The main reason this doesn't help is that spammers are happy to sign up and use stolen credit cards to pay any fee. You can't dissuade them with monetary cost.
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Perhaps journalists aren't managing editors at newspapers,
I would agree that autopilot miles are not equal to overall miles. I was not able to find data on which are most risky. My guess is that most accidents happen on surface streets but most fatalities on highways.
I have to say I have not looked into this in great depth, but this might be a great idea for a startup.
I built https://devarist.com for this purpose.
I am in Australia so I am not concerned about health insurance - more things like house, disability and car insurance. I can afford to carry quite a bit of risk, it is just the long tail that is an issue.
No, it's a problem with automation that has been well-known since the 1980s. There is not an easy solution to it.

https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/nsf_itr/794B/papers/Bainbridge_1983...

If you have a human-supervised safety-critical automated system (where "difficult" situations are to be overridden by the human) you end up needing the human supervisor to be much more skilled (and often faster-reacting) than they would have needed to be just to do the operation manually.
> I argue that the statistical chances that 3 outages occur at the same moment at my 3 different providers on 3 different continents is less than the chance of a single outage at a single CDN.

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. You're probably running a pretty similar software stack on each box, so there's a chance that a software update could take down all three or a vulnerability could put all three at risk. I also have a hard time believing that any one cloud virtual server has many 9s uptime, so 3 together isn't likely to get you to Akamai's level.

But I prefer to rely on the large players simply because there's advantages to staying with the herd. If Akamai has an outage, much of the internet will be down. People will see that your site is down and attribute it to a larger problem. If your 3 boxes have a problem or your DNS provider has a problem, the fact that your site is down will be more apparent to users.

Also, uptime is not just a function of the percentage chance of an outage. The time to recovery also matters. What kind of monitoring do you have in place? How long are your outages likely to last vs those of a large player? If it take you 24 hours to recognize a failed server, then the chances of all 3 failing in a 24 hour period are probably a lot higher than a big player having an outage.

There's a lot that goes into high availability that you just don't get by putting your eggs in three small baskets.
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First, they don't act like that, and if they do that's dumb.

Second, how is that different from writing in a statically-typed language like Haskell/Rust/what have you and then compiling down to assembly which is for all intents and purposes dynamically typed? We do it hoping to gain safety from the typing, but do we lose the type safety in the machine code? (We don't, the type-safe language rules out compiling to certain classes of erroneous code.)
I don't get why people are so eager to defend Tesla autopilot. We've had Andrew Ng call it irresponsible[1] and Li Fei Fei say she wouldn't let it drive with her family in the car[2]. These aren't anti-tech luddites, but people with a very good understanding of the current state of the art.

I love Tesla, but they are SO weak at taking criticism or realising when they make a mistake.

[1] http://electrek.co/2016/05/30/google-deep-learning-andrew-ng...

[2] http://a16z.com/2016/06/29/feifei-li-a16z-professor-in-resid... (you'll need to listen to the podcast though)
Is it just me, or is Stallman agitating about something as trivial as this really pathetic and sad?
I would have thought that North Korea would be flagged as spam.
> Honestly, I'd be fine with optimizing products like that if two things were true:

If you're talking about technology being expected to break down and be cheaply replaced on the scale of single-digit years, it sounds like a never-ending nightmare. I'd need to add two more points, at least.

- Strict upgrades (that is, there must be nothing about a new version of a product that's worse than the one before it); if one feature/technology was present in the older version of something, the new version must provide the same capability. I'm thinking of the old hardware I keep around because of "That one thing that only runs in Windows 98" and "That one thing I can only flash over a parallel port".

- A mechanism to automatically, securely, and privately image the new machine with the previous machine's configuration and data. The nests I build on my machines feel like home.

Given only your first two points, I still wouldn't buy a machine that I didn't expect to last at least 5 years, and preferably 10.
Depends on the terms of their open marriage. You can still have infidelity.
> So does autocorrect, but I don't see people complaining that banging on the keyboard doesn't produce sonnets.

But a bucketload of rage-filled complaints about when autocorrect gets it wrong and your email to Sinead was modified to "Dear Pinhead"... :)
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Being reluctant to readily abandon "tools and ideas that worked for them in the past" in favor of adopting HN-buzzword-compliant technologies on flimsy pretext being presented by earnest people who nonetheless often have limited experience with the thing they're proffering and more often zero awareness of the similar fads that came before it is really, really far away from, "I am god. I've seen it all. I reject it all!"

Cost (dev, support, maintenance, etc.) conscious managers are going to ask tough questions like, "Why would we use Node.js and MongoDB to build a financial transaction processing switch?" and "Why would we deploy a Hadoop cluster to do offline analysis of only 4GB-5GB of transient data per day?" and "Why would we front Elasticsearch with Kafka when our write-load is well below what a small ES cluster can handle and the data is non-critical?" and "Why would we deploy Mesos for infrastructure of <20 machines that has no dynamic multi-machine scheduling needs and never will?"

There's an almost never-ending barrage of stuff like that I contend with. Which is fine. It's part of my job, and despite hard-earned cynicism... myself and my teams have still managed to build all manner of things with all manner of relatively esoteric tech.

Erlang, Rust, Elixir, Scala, Cassandra, Riak, HBase, Kafka, Storm, Spark, Ansible, Cobbler, Packer, Consul, Vault, LING, Rumprun.

No stranger here to including feedback and ideas to determine the best tools for the job that needs doing and their associated costs (dev, support, maintenance, etc.). I'm also no stranger to the flights of fancy that beset engineers who end up inventing reasons or overstate their problem space in attempts to justify using new shiny things.

Take it easy mate. Cheers!
This is two weeks old and is on front page of HN for the first time on a sat night...a little late to the discussion
I think their points here are valid, but I must admit that it's starting to shake my confidence the way that, every time something bad happens, they instantly respond with such strident defensiveness.
I think people have a massively idolized view of home appliances from the 1950s and 60s. Most men knew how to fix their appliances, because those appliances regularly broke. My grandfather lived til his death with the washing machine he bought in 1968, and it required him to fix something about once a year.

To say they were somewhat less efficient than modern ones is an understatement - I replaced a late 1960s, 3.5ft fridge in this flat when I moved it. The old one would barely make ice. My new fridge is not only 7ft tall with a freezer that hits -32C, it does so with the same power draw as the old one. It's not perfect, I had to get it fixed once - the freezer coolant started leaking. But that was a $60 fix, and otherwise, it's been going strong for almost 15 years. It also cost $500 - which is similar to what it would have cost in 1970, with the caveat that these numbers are not adjusted for inflation. That $500 in 1970 is equivalent to $2300 in 2002, when I bought it.

I have a washing machine of similar vintage, and I'd like to get a new one... but I'm waiting for it to break. No luck. It's been going strong with a single repair, and it only cost $220, or a little more than the Kenmore washer I found in the 1970 Sears catalog for $190.

The truth is even if we accept that these goods are inferior, it's because we as consumers made them that way. We'd rather buy 3 appliances over 30 years than pay 3x as much up front, then hold on to it and service it for that time.
People keep repeating that. I not only run my own but I've helped other organizations do it, and if you have a clean IP range it's usually not a problem. No, you can't do it from your home DSL line, but that doesn't mean you can't do it.
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Perhaps, but I was replying to the parent comment, which did talk about dynamic languages and copy paste code to production.
My Turkish friend told me the Turks have been aware of attempts of destabilize their country. It was mostly the general population that came out and stopped the military coup.

The Turks don't want another Syria or Libia where western backed rebels have made those places no-go countries. Turkey at least has a very friendly and thriving tourism eco system.
"The Avionic Flight Control System (AFCS) provides manual or automatic modes of control throughout the total flight envelope from take-off to landing."

Lockheed L1011, 1972. Flight trials led to demonstration of a fully automated trans-continental flight, from rest to rest. Pilots did not touch the controls.

Incidentally also the only airliner which was certified for operational Cat IIIC autoland, with zero visibility. Frequently used at London-heathrow but needed a ground-control radar to guide the pilots to the gate once the aircraft had stopped itself on the runway.

Aircraft autopilots are technically capable of completely controlling the flight but are restricted from doing so by technical provision ( e.g. lack of rearward-facing ILS / MLS for departure ) or regulatory caution ( e.g. not executing TCAS collision-resolution automatically, even though every FBW Airbus can do this ).
What do you mean?

Somebody wanted to write code in a particular way and extended the language with a couple of utilities for doing so, then decided to publish it for others to use.

I don't see the problem. Could you elaborate?
It's a bummer that many people feel the necessity to lock their doors, too.
Birth control pills are prescription because they can increase the risk of a woman getting a blood clot. In the case of women who smoke, it's a drastic increase.

Sex-negative has nothing to do with it. Plan B is non-prescription.
RMS does not know how search engines work

If he's searching for "celebrity threesome injunction" the top results are the most authoritative for that expression. Meaning: they have to be the best sites that have that expression. Which happen to be the ones that are censored (UK based websites)

When you add the name, you are removing those previous results that don't contain the name
That they are using it in official statements should tell you exactly how intelligent Tesla is being with self-driving technology.

This is also the company that thinks level 4 self-driving can be done without LIDAR. They're idiots, frankly, completely ignoring the difficulties of computer vision (both in computation and optics) that will not be overcome anytime soon. Even their fatality seems to have been rooted in their camera's inability to distinguish the color of the truck from the color of the sky.

Tesla hasn't even taught a car to navigate an intersection on its own, much less all the things Google's car is capable of these days.

I think what all this shows is the importance of regulators getting off their asses and establishing standards for self-driving vehicles. Perhaps the fatality was the event that will get them in gear. Poor guy.
Because HN loves to bash on Tesla and since nothing negative has come out in the last ten days they felt the need to re-discuss a two week old article
Migration via quantum mechanics
I always sprinkle my JavaScript
Except that crontabs are usually somewhere in /var. :)
you're right. this isn't stealing, its just fraud. the person doing it simply drains the company, noting is actually earned.
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It could end up in a legal historical litigation.

You Know the story with the microwave and the cat inside. The old ma that just wanted a Quick solution to dry its beloved pet.

That's the same thing with the guy driving in its Tesla with the Autopilot on. He just believed in the marketing campaing
I think most accidents are within a couple miles of home. It's so familiar people stop paying attention.
That won't protect against the dopant level attacks, but you could have an automated test run to ascertain dopant levels on chips that you decapped - if you want to take paranoia to the absolute limits. That would take serious time and money to setup computer controlled micropositioners and expensive source measurement units, etc.

Iirc, there was a group from the CCC working on using image recognition algorithms to extract netlists from decapped chips. I'll have to look that up...
Everyone seems to get hung up on "mastery" or being a professional. Well guess what? You know what made me more receptive to music theory lessons? Thousands of hours of guitar practice. Practice feeds on itself. Once I was proficient with the physical basics of the guitar, I naturally reached out to all of the YouTube lessons on theory. The theory that now seems very straightforward would have been lost on me as a beginner.
But how do you decide to stop sprinkling your JavaScript and go full blow React (serious question)?
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It'd have the features of fish shell (https://fishshell.com) and would be able to pipe structured objects between programs like Windows Power Shell.
We want to use a custom domain, but TLS with custom domains isn't possible with github pages. https://glowing-bear.github.io/glowing-bear/ isn't exactly nice to type.
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> I don't get why people are so eager to defend Tesla autopilot.

I think there's a strong recognition that self-driving vehicles, when they can be made to happen generally, will be a significant social good. And that it's tricky to get there unless society is willing to put something out onto the streets.

It's taken fifty or more years of popular human-driven vehicles to get to the stage that most of our cars are pretty safe, and quite a lot of effort in improving road design too.

Eventually, though, I suspect it won't be solved until we redesign the roads. A significant part of rail safety is that the signalling system can sense whether there is a train on a stretch of line. (via the rather simple technique that the axles form an electrical connection between the two rails) Right now, it's as if we're trying to do autonomous traffic by an ant colony model -- independent agents that know nothing about each other except what they can sense. Which is always going to be harder than if the road can help them out too.
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It's hard to change the name from "Autopilot" to "Merely assist you in straight line, but please regain control when there's a white truck coming from the right [1], and DO NOT TOUCH THE BRAKE [2] because it disengages the emergency stop".

It's especially hard when you sell the Autopilot for $2500-$3000 [3].

[1] Reference to the last accidents

[2] http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/another-driver-says-tesl...

[3] https://www.tesla.com/models/design see pricing
I'm not terribly surprised that once again Stallman understates complexity of something he doesn't understand. To him making sure that incoming data isn't pre-filtered is as simple as making sure that all of the narrowed query results are part of the broader query results. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

I'll try and apply this kind of reductionism to something else: if search engines are this simple, how come there's no viable GNU alternative to Google? Absurd, I know, and so are Stallman's ramblings. It's OK to hold DDG to a higher standards that anyone else out there. But talking nonsense out of lack of understanding violates the same higher standards we should expect from rms.