skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't about single accidents; its about statistics. Autodriven cars don't get tired, or drunk, or fool around with the playlist. There is so much low-hanging fruit that its entirely conceivable that autodrive is already safer (statistically) than human drivers.

Add to this, that each time a special case comes along, the software can be patched and it won't happen again. Something humans are terrible at - learning from others' mistakes.
Wait, I think you are all just fucking with me...
Martha Stewart went to jail for lying about something. Also, don't confuse strict liability torts with those that require negligence or intent to harm. But certainly if a strict liability statute _is_ violated, you're right that it doesn't matter if it was "just a little bit".
No. This place hates humour, hates fun, and hates anything that distracts from the serious discussion that happens. I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200153
You are describing a zero-sum game.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200153
rm temp*

versus

rm temp *

(I know I'm not at a command prompt, but it felt so wrong to type that.)
Those were probably so-called "BCD" switches. You had four data lines because that's what it takes to represent all digits from 0-9, but not all 16 combinations could be dialed up, just 10. The result of putting N switches together in a control panel is a BCD number where N decimal digits are represented with N*4 binary lines.

There are a lot of surplus BCD and other types of thumbwheel switches on eBay, but I'm not sure if they're still being made these days.
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If there are any Django masters in the building: If you were starting a project today would you use 1.10 or stick with the LTS release (1.8)? I have a fairly mature django project using 1.6 that I would be borrowing a bit from, and my experience not upgrading off 1.6 due to pain makes it feel like an LTS path might be a good choice?
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>Is this a coincidence? Surely there can't be any physical explanation for this.

Coincidence seems like a perfectly adequate explanation to me.
no irony. a tip of the hat, nod of recognition. but also raising awareness of what is really happening. i respect the move, its creative and effective.
I haven't seen any world wars lately, have you?

Nuclear weapons are arguably a big part of the reason why.
No, not really. I am not a patient person and I am pretty good at certain aspects of this. If you know that doing X will actually make things worse and suck up more of your time and energy than foregoing X, it really does not take patience to sigh deeply at your computer screen and choose to pass on the option of shooting yourself in the foot.

Knowledge is power. Having it clear in your mind that certain things simply are not a path forward has nothing to do with patience and everything to do with having the right mental models, knowledge and education.

On the other hand, I am also medically handicapped, so sometimes I fall on my face anyway. But when I get it right, it has nothing at all to do with patience because I didn't get that gene.

Edit: Let me put that another way: Impatience is why I don't do certain things. If I know what a painful timesuck it is, impatience is my motivator for just not going there.
I think the antipattern is examining a function's textual arguments and trying to infer things from the names and such. I've had more trouble with that than it has saved me time, between not being able to diagnose things when the magic breaks and the sheer opacity of where arguments are coming from, not to mention all the other quirky little things that go wrong when you push a system that hard.

Just because you can introspect a thing does not mean you must introspect that thing.
The really unfortunate thing is that they're putting the wrong things into the proprietary firmware. I'd be fine with signed proprietary firmware that only enforces FCC limits and regulations. That would make it harder if I wanted to sell my used equipment overseas, but wouldn't otherwise restrict my freedoms.

I'm not fine with the bottom half of the network stack being offloaded to the proprietary firmware where we can't adjust or even directly see things like how many packets it's buffering and how it handles aggregation and retransmissions.
Reminds me a bit of the CitiCorp Center fiasco.

http://failures.wikispaces.com/Citicorp+Center

Not only did the architect miscalculate the worst-case wind load on the building but the builder substituted cheaper bolted steel connections for the originally-specified fully welded connections.

The problem was remediated by heavily reinforcing the connections of the diagonal steel braces in the frame of the building, but until it was done there was a very real chance of the building blowing over.
Extensive discussion of Papert here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201810
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> so there's bound to be unpredictable manually-driven cars still on the road for a long time that any driverless cars would still have to contend with as well.

Luckily unicorn-driven magic carpets don't face this problem.
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Ah, I feel bad, because I ran into this twice and didn't report this properly. The situations I ran into happened whenever I would combine filters and excludes, along with some joins. The system would simply drop filters, and just do a plain SELECT on the table. But ever since the 1.8 ORM update, I have no longer been able to reproduce this, so have assumed it was fixed through cleaning up the internals.

I did report a related bug[0] where the ORM gets confused by complex queries, but it didn't just drop the filter. It blew up, which is better but still a bit concerning.

[0]: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24386
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I think parent comment was suggesting that human-driven cars that behave erratically are better handled by opposing humans rather than software (that has not been exposed to dealing with the novel situation).

(Not that auto-driven cars don't produce less accidents when other human-driven cars behave expectedly.)
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Netflix already do this, see: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
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I'm under the impression that there was widespread democide during and after the Norman Conquest, particularly with the goal of eliminating the anglo-saxon nobility and aristocracy.
Personally I've considered Mae-Rim,
Cha-Om and Nakhon Nayok, besides where I am now (Ayutthaya, due to family). But there are lots of other places - it just depends what you want.

at this point I couldn't go back to living in an apartment, or even a town house - and I much prefer to live somewhere I can jump on my bike for an hours ride without worrying too much about motorbike taxis trying to kill me, rather than somewhere I can step outside and have 4 7/11s, a Mini Big C and a Lotus Express within spitting distance.

Waking up to the sounds of birds rather than the sounds of street vendors and cars/motorbikes is amazing, and because it's not Bangkok we're still just 10 minkes drive from the centre of town (eg for immigration, amphur etc)
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The point is more one of framing, not of tolerance to assholes. If you restate the 'no assholes' policy as a set of positive traits that are to be encouraged then the framing effect is to cause people to look for those desirable traits and emulate them. A 'no assholes' policy frames things in a way that makes people look for assholes, and causes them to think negatively about personality traits, in terms of not being something undesirable. Instead of 'calling out' people for being jerks, bozos and so on, the idea would be to talk instead about how they could become better at teamwork, interaction with others and so on. So rather than pigeonholing them as something undesirable, you show them they are on the start of a path that leads to improvement.

I think the impact of these subtle semantic changes can be surprisingly effective, especially because it is all happening at an almost unconscious level. I also think some of it can certainly come across as a little cringe-worthy and perhaps rather strained. Sort of like the trend of looking for something to praise about everyone, and awarding certificates for merely showing up when that is the only positive thing that can be found. But, everything can be taken too far I suppose...
The philosophical answer would be "yes"; the pragmatic answer isn't that far off, at the risk of a cop out. All the things you suggest and more, by "playing field" I meant life, or less broadly, success in enterprise. Advantage in this case seems broadly wrought by connections and political/financial clout. (citing early Theranos board composition, funding, etc) To make my comparison stark by drastic example, many years ago I watched a friend go under trial for minor possession. Although in relative terms, the hits Theranos/Holmes will receive if some of the current investigations pan out may be larger, it seems unlikely to assume that she won't still derive such a significant windfall from her tenure in the interim and the publicity that comes along with it (good AND bad) to put her in a position in life that I assure you said friend would gladly trade for. The types of outcomes derived for these two people don't even seem to be in the same game, if we're talking playing fields. (this made even more comical given the potential breadth of impact of the respective crimes, a comparison I hope I can leave as an exercise to the reader)
I think this is a good idea, but if you want to tell the moderators something, you should send an e-mail to hn@ycombinator.com (as per the Guidelines).
According to @jedberg... they don't get any discounts other than hitting those top level tiers which are discounted. They pay the same rates as us peasants for the lower levels.

And yes, I'd imagine they heavily use reserved instances as their traffic patterns would be pretty predictable by now.
A second-year Physics student can work out RF shielding using Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, or just looking at the wave equation in the k domain (spatial frequencies). Electrostatic shielding is the hard bit addressed in the article.
The only thing preventing that is each service's terms, assuming the aggregator uses official API access.

In some big cities, Google Maps can provide this, sort of, Uber vs bus fare, for instance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203821
If you are going to be around and have time to actively upgrade the project every time a new release comes out until it's running on the next version of LTS, I'd choose 1.10.

If you are just going to write it, and not constantly improve and upgrade it until the next version of LTS, I'd choose the LTS.
It drains into the storm drains, and the pipes carry that off to wherever they go :-) which is the waterways. I know that because the code people had me build a grass swale to filter the runoff from the driveway before it entered the drain.

Some other homes on the hill had to be built on pilings because they were in an area which was loose dirt that had eroded away from higher up.

I'm not sure if 'clay' is the right word, I don't know much about geology, but the geologist definitely said compacted "glacial till" which he said was ideal.

Haven't had any settling problems so far despite an earthquake and lots of rain.

I passed on another lot where the geologist said the whole hill was going to slide away at some point. The seller didn't want to hear that.
Preface: My team has been using quip for the past 6 months (and switched from google docs). The value is in the collaboration tools.

Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. It's a really powerful collaboration mechanism especially for remote teams, and cuts down on emails.

It's extremely intuitive for digital natives, but completely turns how one views documents (as static and entirely separate from the comments on them) on it's head. It's less friendly to people who are long time MS Office users.
The Richardson 'REST API maturity model' describes how people commonly exchange HTTP payloads, how those systems can be augmented to get closer and closer to the ideas behind REST. Most people are perfectly happy with staying at levels 0 through 2, because HATEOAS is hard in the sense that you actually have to think about stuff like link relations, hypermedia mediatypes, and the semantic web. This is something most people on the 'normal web' don't even do properly, even though the 'normal web' is quite obviously hypermedia, and quite obviously an embodiment of REST. But despite its lack of deployment, Level 3 describes an API that has truly and unambiguously earned the right to call itself a 'REST API'.

In REST, these 'link relations' are extremely important, because they represent well-specified ways of relating one resource to another. They are as critical to REST as mediatypes (MIME types) are. In the graph theory sense, link relations are the label on an edge, URIs are the nodes, and mediatypes are formats that can be used as concrete representations of the nodes. The IANA maintains a Link Relations registry [1].

But since the 'normal web' is used by humans, we don't need link relations to traverse a website; we can instead use context clues, familiarity, or other techniques to achieve what we want on a website; the entire discipline dedicated to coaxing humans into interacting with websites is called 'UI/UX'.

Meanwhile, Kinlan envisions... well, to be frank I'm not entirely sure what Kinlan envisions because after mentioning 'headless web' he writes a lot about service workers, notification hooks, then points to ways we already use the web in ways that aren't out of our own volition, like in WebViews and IFrames (which he writes about in detail here [2]). I think his point is largely that every app maker wants to control the viewport around which content is surfaced, so they can add their own control and bring their own community, auth, ads [3], etc, and we're finally at a point to where the web platform has matured enough to make these websites or 'web includes' access capabilities offered by the device or the device's platform runtime, such as notifications, sensor data, and the like.

In a sense, they're not contradictory at all. The Richardson model clearly strives towards the semantic web, while Kinlan's writings predict that the semantic web has essentially failed, leaving people to write custom scripts and parsers and crawlers and bots to mash web content, some of it 'Web Platform-enabled', into other places.

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relation...

[2] https://paul.kinlan.me/slice-the-web

[3] https://paul.kinlan.me/rise-of-the-meta-platforms/
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Right, and the subject matter (at least at the outset) has a large influence on the culture that develops. Challenging subject matter tends to attract people who share those traits.
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I am in California for health reasons. The dry climate and low levels of ragweed are good for me.

I like California for a lot of reasons, but the deciding factor is my health.
I'm surprised nobody else has suggested it as a theory so I will.

One reason to host your service on a competitor's platform is if you intend to be purchased by that competitor. It brings your technology portfolio in alignment with theirs and makes the integration of the two platforms after acquisition easier.
I sat in on a masterclass where a student played this piece. The instructor was this surly, ancient old lady, and pretty famous concert pianist, who proceeded to scream at the poor kid playing the piece, calling him a 'show off' and a 'jock.' She forced him to play some Beethoven piece which he knew, but hadn't prepared, which unsurprisingly he struggled with, only fueling her anger. Still today I don't think I've ever seen, in person, anyone more violently insulted on stage!
Thanks. It's not so much that we don't work on it, just that we work on product improvements that move the dial more than django upgrades. But you certainly accrue tech debt to do so.
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Thanks! I saw that after more digging. It still should be under features IMO. And they say in "Level 2" security data is encrypted at rest. Who holds the keys? They should make that clear. It should only be trusted if the end user holds the keys.
As much as I cheerfully upvote snarky jabs at HN's pretension to highfallutin', superior-quality commentry, consistently downvoting effortless one-liner comments is a great way to ensure that they generally don't happen.
You get similar issues with libraries that you use for flask or pyramid too though, if you don't upgrade it for 4 years.
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IANAL. Every time I've been part of a distributed group that has tried to use track changes, we have given up. In some cases that means "keep the language in git and dump it into word (or preferably, pdf) when you absolutely have to", and in others it means "Joe has the master; send him your changes in 'change the first sentence of the fourth paragraph to the following...' form".
Classic redirection. Nice move.

While no one should be OK with Theranos' historic missteps, I applaud a startup taking both business AND massive scientific/technical risk. They have everything to prove at this point.
Sure. I was only pointing out that there was no possibility of this project being blocked on any grounds.
> No, my logic is that it's a problem to give up your other rights but throw a fit about any mention of gun control because "MAH GUNS"! My argument is also that it's incredible paranoia to talk about how your guns are going to keep you safe from your government. <

I am sorry, but I refuse to believe that you're participating in this thread because you care so much about our other rights. You don't, period.

Every other argument you're making(like bringing up Australia) betrays your sentiment.

I don't want to give any of my rights, but I DEFINITELY don't want to give my right to keep and bear arms nor my first amendment rights.

> Again, do you really think Australians are having trouble sleeping at night because they are afraid they might wake up and "Oh, military rule. Guess we'll just go with that then". <

Let them sleep peacefully. I don't give a crap. If you live in America, then move to Australia. If you already live in Australia then sleep peacefully there.

As far as I am concerned, the healthy skepticism about the government is the best thing about America.
And it seems to me a trivial step to then say that formalized knowledge churned through the science leads us to things that are impossible for birds.
So you think that capital investments (in this case property) should have zero risk, in other words guaranteed returns?
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Have to disagree. Within the last year I tried to get my team to migrate to Office Online and the lag was terrible to the point where you simply can't collaborate on documents together. I have no issue with Office 365 in general, but if you're trying to do online document collaboration, Google Docs is miles better.
Try it again - it got a major upgrade a while back and it now does everything I ask of it. Including my company's accounts, which have to handle four different currencies and tax reporting regimes. There is a nice python library that allows a script to suck data from our 12 bank accounts daily, do most classification, and update the sheets directly.