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> The government mandates we MUST have insurance

This becomes absurd with self-driving cars. There are three types of collisions with human-driven cars:

1. Those caused by driver negligence.

2. Those caused by the owner failing to properly maintain their vehicle.

3. Those caused by a manufacturing defect.

With self-driving cars, the first one is impossible. A car that follows the law to the letter is by definition never at fault in a collision. The second one is still possible, but probably less likely. The car can take itself to the shop without your intervention, and I expect manufacturers would have it refuse to drive itself if you're too far off the maintenance schedule. The third category will now include bugs in the driving software, so the rate of collisions that fall under option 3 is likely to go up a bit.

Option 3 means that the manufacturer is liable, not the owner of the car. Since this encompasses the vast majority of self-driving car collisions, personal liability will no longer be truly necessary like it is today.
> This may be true, but the MySQL model of using primary keys from secondary indexes will mean that reads are inherently expensive.

With MySQL the indexes are usually kept in memory so there should not be noticeable overhead.
FLORIDA JUDGE made ruling in case of ambiguous FLORIDA LAW for FLORIDA MONEY LAUNDERING STATUTE

Florida's money laundering statute has no relation to any other state's money laundering statutes or to the Federal statute, aside from the use of the word money laundering.

Florida law enforcement tried to prosecute someone under an ambiguous statute, as even they were likely vexed by the name of the statute and a Hollywood interpretation of the supposed action. Florida law enforcement failed as the case under that Florida law really did rely on the definition of money as well as non-vagueness of the statute itself.
No, it (quite reasonably!) mandates that you must prove financial responsibility to a certain level[1] if you're going to pilot a two-ton hunk of metal at 70 mph around other people doing the same.

That has the side effect of requiring the typical person to buy insurance, as they can't afford the alternate means of establishing it.

Do you think that's somehow unreasonable? What standard would you prefer for determining when an activity should require such advance indemnification, and how does "driving a car" fail that?

Edit: Sorry if you just meant to make the bland, neutral point that more casualties -> more insurance revenue -> more insurance profit, but your tone suggested you think it's an unfair subsidy somehow.

[1] It varies, but here's California's form for alternately proving responsibility, which only requires you put up a bond of $35k, which IMHO is ridiculously low considering how much you could fairly be held liable for. I guess the logic is that "if you don't mind setting aside that much money, you must have enough seize-able assets in case you harm someone"? https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3a81272a-0834-43b6...
Really? That's odd. The iOS Contacts app merges Facetime and phone calls, but at least that's somewhat reasonable as that's still a call. CallKit in iOS 10 is standardizing it so all VOIP calls will be treated the same as FaceTime and phone calls.

iOS Contacts has a set of icons that look like the symbols on the app icons. That makes sense to me.
Employee is a legal term, were they really employees?
The vendors... same as they do for windows, for the oceans of hardware... Although ports of floss drivers may work out for a lot of devices.

For the most part the limitations are limited options for support... Right now operating a hackintosh is a really hard thing to do. With a blessed option from Apple, things would probably be come as, or perhaps better supported than with Linux. As it is, a lot of developers targeting Linux deployments are using Apple laptops.
I literally don't know where to get started with React. Does anyone have any resources for a web design newbie?
Corporations have been doing illegal things for a while now. All you have to do is to share a reasonable part of illegal proceedings with the government - it's called a 'fine'.
Sarcasm aside, I think you missed the point of my statement.

If you illegally take away income from a business, it can be classified as theft. If you do something else illegal that doesn't take away income, it would be hard to classify it as theft. Apologies if I was cryptic.
woah woah woah you are trying to make too much sense here.

Florida's money laundering statute wasn't any where as clear cut, and the judge recognized that and dismissed the case.

Honestly the part about bitcoin itself is a red herring.
If I tell you not to enter my house, and take no further steps to prevent you from entering my house, such as closing the door, it's still illegal for you to enter my house. If I tell you not to enter my business, and take no further steps for prevent you from doing so, it's illegal for you to enter (unless I have banned you for being a protected class). If I tell you not to ssh into a computer I own, and take no further steps to prevent you from doing so, it's still illegal. I think a lot of software engineers get so wrapped up in the technical side of security and dealing with anonymous and untraceable threats that they don't realize that for the most part, the law doesn't care about technical access control. It cares about social access control.
We should, but not at the expense of labor. We measure GDP; an excellent measure of how much productivity is being squeezed and consumed by capital owners/shareholders. We should be measuring for happiness/quality of life, and optimizing for that.
If the data exists it may get leaked. It's up to people to protect themselves through encryption and not messaging bad actors. If someone makes malicious actions post-leak then they should be dealt with. Information wants to be free. There's no fighting it.

How exactly do you plan to police Wikileaks? Twitter shaming? Thankfully they've proven to be immune to that.
Dutch elm disease (and emerald ash borer) wiped out natural tree populations in forests just as thoroughly as those planted in the city. While monocultures are not helping, that is a footnote to the real problem here: these diseases are invasive and native tree species have no resistance to them.
This is exactly what I thought, too. BMFWS pretty much covers this whole article, minus the color and images.
Survey suggests fear of anything new. Don't really need a survey for that. It's human nature. For most of human history new things were more likely to kill you than old things. I'd even go as far as saying it's an instinctive reaction.
>The camera icon is not just a picture of the physical world object. It is pretty universal symbol for taking pictures.

Which is why it makes no sense as the icon for a photo management application. The iOS Camera icon still looks like a camera, but having a camera as the icon for a gallery application that isn't actually capable of taking pictures is a confusing concept to many users.
Well, for one thing, if they say schemaless, then you are using the wrong tool for the job.

Sure postgres has JSONB (comparing to mongo db), Key value store such as HStore, but they do well if they fit on one machine. The moment you hit that scale you have to realize that there are tools specifically built for this.

There is the phoenix project https://phoenix.apache.org/ that salesforce is using for scaling. Definitely worth a try.

But again, the title of the article sounded nothing more than a rant to me.
Nice.

But, wait! Where's all the javascript? Don't you need React?
> Completely unattended driving (enter destination and taking a nap) is still up for debate. Requiring a machine to be watched seems like a pretty easy-to-pass regulation.

Requiring a human to watch implies a means for the human to intervene and take over. Having a human second-guess the machine will increase accidents. And having the controls available for the human to do so will increase complexity and decrease reliability.
Isn't a healthy accident insurance industry a form of the broken window fallacy? There's a few people in my life I'd gladly have back and shrinking insurance companies would be a tiny price to pay.
> someone's else own work

It's not like the person would have oome up with whatever without their environment. He is in a constant flow of input and draws his art from that. This goes for every kind of art so the product in the end is as well a product of the environment as by the guy who decided to fix it on the medium.

The owner has the right sure. It's given to him by another product of the environment a certain portion of people agreed upon some time ago.

It doesn't make it right or some kind of physics law. Especially not in the digital world where there is no "stealing". There is more of it after the act.
My alma mater's introductory CS course was entirely in Standard ML, and was a great (if occasionally painful) way to learn some of the fundamentals of CS without requiring any background knowledge.
You're still missing the point.

They refused my money.

They were happy for me to buy the work second-hand and ship it at great expense (and environmental damage) across the world to my home where I could have then scanned it into an electronic format.

All with NO further recompense for the author.

All I wanted to do was pay the author for their work in return for a downloaded copy of the next volume, just like I had bought the first volume, and just like they were happily selling it to other people.

Instead I was redlined on the basis of my nationality.
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The last I checked, they were surgically inserting magnets into their fingertips. Has there been any progress in the community?
This is purely opinion-based, but I think the problem is primarily local/city-level. That's where most of the current problem with ticket farming happens, and once driverless cars are commercially available I think it will be relatively unpalatable to ban them at a state level or higher.
Or perhaps people should start taking more cod-liver oil, like people did in the old days.
For the down votes, I didn't ask how to circumvent, I asked whether you circumvent. I guess the down votes are data points as well.
So arguably, they are using mysql as a storage engine rather than as a database.

They don't explicitly answer the question "Why didn't you use InnoDB/WiredTiger/etc. for your dataplane?", but you get the idea that they were very happy with the specific characteristics of MySQL for their use case and so they built on top of it. It also sounds like they had some deadlines (specifically, the death of their datastore) that they had to meet :).
So many vulns in WPAD. Best defense is don't use it.

Here's another recent one.
https://ripe72.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/49-...
I believe they use it for almost everything. They built all the graphs on top of MySQL data. I don't know what permanent storage is, but if you are referring to storing images and videos, I doubt. Highly doubt that. They may be storing pointers, but as a file system, I doubt. But I wouldn't know for sure, I don't work there. Oh, they do have Cassandra (well they built Cassandra)...
In a corporation, just about everyone is considered an employee of the company (in the legal sense), including major shareholders who do work at the company, as Jobs and Woz did. It's part of the protections provided by incorporation.
No matter in cyberspace? I guess their servers live in the cloud. ;)
At GitLab we're very excited about this. We think it is great to quickly get started on a new project without installing the dependencies locally.

Docker containers helped a bit but still need local compute power (draining the battery, making your laptop hot, and spinning the CPU fan). Worse, sometimes you can't run the same things as you run in production (Elasticsearch cluster, etc.) because you don't have enough memory.

We think Koding is a great way to get the compute power of the cloud while still being able to use your local editor (Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Textmate) with their kd client. We're working on the integration in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4769

Please let us know what you think, will this enable more 'drive-by-commits'?
Might want to update your HN profile ;)
What makes you think Google will fight my ticket on my behalf? Surely, it would benefit them to have traffic laws written to clarify that the occupant is still liable for any laws his self-driving car breaks.

Also, as the other commenter said, the laws will adapt. The purpose of traffic laws is to maintain $X level of revenue, so if revenue starts to drop, local governments will increase the number and complexity of traffic laws until revenue is back to the expected level.
There were and are links owned and operated by universities and colleges.

As in, the sysop at foo.edu called up the sysop at bar.edu (a mile down the road) and said:

hey bill, 50% of all our napster traffic from the dorms
is going to bar.edu, and it is going through my-isp.net
and your-isp.net to get there. Why don't you mount a
transceiver on a pole and I'll do the same and we'll
establish this alternative route for those packets?

It is unfortunate that it was also common to rent "alarm wire"[0] copper from the phone company for a point to point link over DSL... I don't think that product is available anymore, because VoIP vs POTS.

0: "Alarm wire" is the term I learned to use to describe an electrically connected circuit from point A to point B in a town, where neither A nor B is the telco. The copper might physically go through the telco's building, but there was no POTS on it and if you apply voltage on the point A end, it can be observed on the point B end... I think maybe the term "dumb circuit" could apply, too. Anyway, these were cool because you could upgrade the DSL modem on both ends to get a faster connection without paying more per month!
In the Dock Preferences, click the box "Show indicators for open applications". You should get a black dot under (or to the side) of the app icon. I've used this setting for years.
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I'd expect the WSJ to know better -- this article (while technically correct) miscategorizes how insurance works.

First of all, the article states that premiums will go down -- a reasonable, but not proven thesis. We don't know what will happen to insurance volume or prices, both of which go into calculating total premiums.

Secondly, the article doesn't really describe to readers how insurers make money -- almost no auto insurers make money directly on premiums. They make money on the float they get from premiums. Competition prevents most from making money on premiums directly, with some exceptions (GEICO, with the low cost sales model comes to mind). A reasonable assumption is that float will go down (again not proven), but we're also in an extremely low-interest-rate world right now -- something that's tough on insurers anyway.

But almost neither of these points matter.

Auto insurance is a required by most states (some states allow you to have a bond instead of insurance). It's mandated. These laws have to be repealed, and likely will remain intact for years while the transition to driverless cars happens. Similarly, liability and insurance will be required for malfunctions, tampering, and bugs.

IMO, P&C insurance, and specifically auto insurance's, imminent death has been greatly exaggerated.
> Free Market is the US does not contain a well-informed consumer segment.

So the claim boils boils down to, people don't know how to shop around for auto insurance? Forgive me for scoffing.

And 1 in 7 is a lot lower than it would be otherwise.
Ah, but I wanted to give them my money. I do recognise their right to be recompensed for their work. However if they then decline to exercise that right....
Another thing that's going to take a huge it is police departments. Many of the initial encounters with police are by way of a traffic stop and patrol. With a self-driving car, there's no longer "probable cause" because the car is driving itself. This will cut off a huge source of income from the police and at the same time reduce the need to have so many police, which, in my mind, is a good thing. Expect entire highway patrol and regional agencies to be shuttered.
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The thing that is weird about the survey answers, is that we've been using technology to enhance humans for quite a while. This includes vaccinations, eyeglasses, cochlear implants, pacemakers, crutches, nutrition, the list goes on. None of these things are too far removed from the suggestions in the survey such as boosting the immune system through gene editing, or neural implants (how is that much different than a cochlear implant?).
Insurance is used for a fundamentally different purpose, to socialize risk.

A good quote I found: insurance transfers risks that already existed; gambling creates risk for entertainment.
That may be true of recent OS releases but it would be unfair to exclude what is planned for Sierra.

Additions like picture-in-picture look very useful. They definitely are adding more window management: a “guiding” mechanism to let windows glue together pretty easily, and tabbed windows in any application. Even if they didn’t, you can’t blame Apple for not rushing to provide features like tiling, etc. when there are multiple “tiling” and other window-management apps available on the App Store alone for a few bucks or less. Just go get one, and fix your desktop.

And remember, features “never used by you” does not equal “never used by anyone”. Can you not imagine someone starting a message on the couch from an iPad, realizing they need to attach a document that’s on a Mac, and wanting to go get it? Continuity is quite valuable, even if it isn’t used all the time.
It actually forks a new process per connection.
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So more from here: https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-two/

"Each Schemaless shard is a separate MySQL database, and each MySQL database server contains a set of MySQL databases. Each database contains a MySQL table for the cells (called the entity table) and a MySQL table for each secondary index, along with a set of auxiliary tables."

So... 1 table, with 1 index and manually created and updated secondary index tables.

With this scheme I can only assume postgres will work just as well or better.
This is usually a holdover of having the blog its own system (e.g. WordPress) at blog.example.com or example.com/blog and having the rest of the site managed by some other CMS or none at all.

Not saying there's a legitimate reason to do that, but just saying that's usually the technical reason for it.
> Personally, I am much happier knowing that (almost) all the people potentially plowing into me on the highway carry insurance.

Where do you live? While most people are legally required to the penalties for not carrying it are so weak where Im at a lot of people do not.
good job!! My fundamentals are strong now.
Still think there will still be a market for old school non automated cars. For the hobbyist or pleasure drivers on weekends. People still love their cars.
Could not find that use case. What would you charge to point me to the answer? I'm willing to pay.
Retail cost for the Point Grey camera is about 1.3k and Sunex is around $130. Total cost is running about 30-40k, including computer hardware.
A couple of good resources:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-horror-the-book/

http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html
If that is true, why don't they increase profits already? Why wait until self driving cars have arrived?
Exactly, and keep in mind many states have moved to a 'no-fault' model. So they don't actually care who is at fault for the accident anymore. So the question becomes, why doesn't everyone just insure themselves (IE. Their own car/medical bills to the level they are comfortable with) rather than insuring everyone else and praying the guy that hit you does the same.
Insurance is a field in need of some disruption, regardless. A few numbers, in case people find it interesting.

The average insurance company only pays out about 50% of its income as loss (heavily dependent on sector, but for auto it's about right). For auto, they all use more or less the same ISO policy docs. They mostly all use the same call centers. Their adjustors are usually shared. Honestly, the only thing that really changes is the marketing.

Which is why 30%+ of every dollar you pay them goes to marketing. For auto, they are in this weird local maxima where 40% is loss, 30% is marketing, and 30% is profit. They expect to keep a customer for about 2-3 years, and then have to repeat the whole process. It is really sad.
I make no such assumption, I'm just pointing out that it's the current framework that we have and that with it content creators are given actual rights and among those rights is the right to significant control over distribution and consumption of their content.
The article is a great starting point, but exercise in itself is not enough.

If you've worked for multiple years in a (seated) office setting, chances are you have tight muscles. Muscle tissue then gets glued together and stuff like forward rolled shoulders happens.

Now you go to a physical therapist with your neck or shoulder pain and he/she recommends you physical therapy. The problem is just, the area is too tight to react to the right kind of stimulus, so the trick is to first massage the area and then fix it with the right exercises.

Simple tools like a lacrosse ball (5 bucks) or a foam roller (10-20ish bucks) can work wonders IF used regularly and in the right fashion.

I've written about one part the issue here, called "text neck" https://bitehype.com/text-neck/ - I've also compiled some of these lessons into a free email course, where I dive into the topic a bit deeper: https://www.dailybitsof.com/courses/fix-your-posture

I hope that helps - open to any questions in that area (my expertise comes from years of injury/self experimentation, bunch of interviews with doctors, physical therapists and massage therapists as well as visits to sports clinics. Oh and of course interest).
Other declining industries will be emergency health care and organ transplants.
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the connections are idle, are routed to dozens or hundreds of separate processes themselves, and are held ready for fast response when that process needs to serve a request.

Unfortuantely, MySQL has no good replacement for Postgresql's PGBouncer which greatly mitigates the issue of cross-process connection pooling. (I'm actually working on one, but for Uber to use it they'd have to switch back to SQLAlchemy >:) )
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That's a common resort of people who've broken the civility rules here, but the rules have nothing to do with "the narrative". They have to do with protecting civil, substantive discussion. Those things ought to be orthogonal; that they aren't seems to be a side effect of people feeling that they needn't treat others well if their position goes against the mainstream. An odd supposition.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12162795 and marked it off-topic.