skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bigger issue is that city planners building public transit systems don't have the same interests as commuters. Inevitably they want to use public transit as an instrument for various social policies.

Commuters just want to get to work reliably and they'd like a seat. And they'd like to have a minimum of screening so that they don't have to deal with people with severe mental issues on the way to work.

In Toronto they've gone as far as launching a crowdfunded bus route, which the city had an icy response too. It had to shut down because of legal uncertainties.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/crowd-funded-bus-takes...
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/sorry-toronto-commuters-liberty-vi...

So I think the big problem with transit is that people in city gov refuse to recognise that commuters desires are perfectly reasonable. If the city won't provide them options then they should at least make sure there aren't legal issues with private providers.
Microsoft did not sell computers in the 90s...
Same, using Chromium I don't see anything. Weird thing is that I even tried disabling ad-block and still got nothing.
There's no way this is true. What court is going to allow a self driving car to kill a human "because accidents happen"?
Specifically the second "their".
it could very well be snake oil, but I make a living doing it (or at least knowing how to answer C++ questions during interviews. many of my jobs were advertised as SE but really dont require much actual coding (to my frustration)) and I actually enjoy C++.

Personally, I think both java and javascript (yes I know they are entirely separate languages ) are snake oil. But you know, I learned to program in them anyway.

I tried to find a happy medium where I learn about a new technology and see if it sticks. If after 3-5 years its still around, I give it a try. This worked for me for javascript and python. When python first came out (or when I first heard of it ) I said "no way, not learning a new language right now. perl works fine as a scripting language". Then year after year I kept hearing about it, and heard about perl less and less. Then I finally tried it.

But a couple years ago, I kept hearing about "coffee script" and "clojure". I said the same thing, "not touching it". And now, I hardly ever hear about them, and I barely even know what they are.
Vikings: World's first libre-friendly data center
> Levandowski was asked why Uber couldn’t just go test its vehicles somewhere else since California regulators clearly aren’t welcoming. He said that Uber’s engineers deserve to see their work displayed in the city where they work.

So it's okay to violate regulations because your engineers want to see their work in their city?
It needs to be well safer than that. Humans have a higher level of tolerance for mistakes by humans than mistakes by robots made by humans. Every death and injury from self-driving cars is going to be on the news and public perception is everything to this technology.

Fair? Probably not. But safety must be top priority here. We can't look like we're throwing this technology out there and hoping for the best.

And I don't think you can say Tesla's Autopilot 2.0 has been shown to be safer than humans.
But there are already laws governing that. This petition is calling for the cars to be banned until new regulations are invented but we already have those regulations. They're called the "Highway Code". Every regulation that a self driving car has to follow is printed right in that book, specific to each state and locality. Making a new law that says "that, but in a self driving car" is pointless. The law already exists. If it's being broken, it's being broken.

Yes, if a car is on the road and it's breaking the law, it should be removed from the road. But again, we already have laws that govern this. "But with a self driving car" isn't a special case. We've already written every law they need to follow.

People are killed from known issues with non-autonomous cars today, and companies are getting punished for them. There is already precedent. There are already laws. They exist.
Possibly. I did try to hunt down the name a couple of years later for a ranty blogpost about the prevalence guns in movie posters (as it happens). I looked at the posters for Megamind, but none matched well with my memory of the image or the tagline.

Understood, and agreed, on plot of Megamind and requirement for stereotypical bad-guy-with-gun origin story, but I think my underlying point survives. Even if this was the movie / poster -- smartest entity in the universe shouldn't require a gun (or at least would be ashamed enough to not be waving it about).

The idea that powerful / influential (regardless of good/bad alignment) people as portrayed in our pop-culture need to be seen to be holding a gun is regrettable. If you haven't already, start taking a note of movie posters and the ratio of guns:no-guns -- obviously ignore the romcoms etc genres.
It's a LEON CPU (SPARC architecture) with a FPGA for hardware acceleration. Languages are C, MATLAB, and VHDL. The function is to take a picture of stars and return where you are pointed in inertial space with lots of accuracy.
Because Ukraine is at war with Russia, 15% of territory and few major cities are lost, so salaries are dropped by 2-3x. Market for iPhones is low. This is why he is buying phone in USA instead of local seller.
As I can see, business of repairing of old phones is just overloaded, because most of people have no money to buy a new smartphone.

I have no idea why he claimed that. Maybe it's just Google translation made wrong.
Never mind as the viewing generation moves further and further from the old west era, the effects of being shot becomes more and more outlandish.

Check the early westerns and such and the guy will seize up and tip over, and that's it. These days they will take flight, either over a bar, table or out a window, from a standstill.

Never mind that they love going over the top with sound effects.

A gun shot is not that much different from a firecracker, and a punch is near silent...
The advantage of merging first is that you'd only side-swipe a cyclist.

What's the downside?
That's easier said than done. There are tradeoffs on expressive type systems too. That being said I wouldn't mind more expressivity in the Go type system. I'm actually looking to implement my own small features(i.e optionals, variant types) in a Go superset.
The Impedance Mismatch Is Our Fault
Corporate-owned cars and trucks get into fatal accidents all the time now. There's a large body of civil law about liability, and (not coincidentally) a requirement to carry liability insurance. I don't see why this is different.
http://bicyclesafe.com/#righthook
http://bicyclesafe.com/#dontPassOnTheRight

the above article lists one mitigation for the right hook: "Ride to the left" and, similiarly "Don't pass on the right".

Would this guidance (for bicyclists) be applicable in light of self-driving cars (in addition to human-driven cars)?
Interesting but I don't think that's why most people can't get quoted - the real problem as I see it is that the exec's expertise has to line up perfectly with what the journalist is writing, and the journalist, who is most often a generalist and has no specific industry training, must somehow be aware of the exec as an expert. That's the toughest to make work because those forces don't often align.

The other way to get coverage is to pitch a story to a writer which requires some unique insight or data. Once you've done enough of those, then you might get noticed as an expert and therefore called upon to respond to a reporter with a question.

The final piece is the randomness of the news cycle and "hotness" of different areas. If you're in a sleepy space, you'll have to work a lot harder to get any coverage just because no one is writing about it.
> companies like Uber, Comma.ai, and to a certain extent Tesla who seem to not understand/appreciate how much work has to go into proving these things are safe before shipping them

Is there anyone who understands it better than the companies who are actually making them?
So basically there are four forces: weak and strong nuclear forces; gravity and EM.

EM is mediated by photons and visible matter is constantly absorbing and emitting photons.

Some particles don't though. Neutrinos for instance. They're dark, they don't interact with light.

So when observation showed that there needs to be more matter laying around than we could see some enterprising young turks said "hey, maybe there's a shit ton of dark matter" and that makes the math come out right.

the obsession is mostly because people who aren't astronomers seem to think "dark" is a metaphor and go "aha now that no one cares about the oxford comma this will be my new opinion"

Up for debate is what kind of particles make up the dark matter and how much mass is dark vs just poor measurements and/or some tweaks to gravity, but unless some one manages to disprove neutrinos: dark matter exists.
I'm not advocating a new law, and neither is the article. I just want Uber to take these cars off the road until they've fixed known safety issues.
> The units (currency) are all traveling in a circle, farmer -> feed store owner -> butcher -> farmer -> feed store owner -> butcher -> farmer

Note that price controls work iff you can dictate prices for each transaction - the price for meat and feed. Actually, in this case the feed store owner muddies the waters, as he is not a direct source of production. If you just think of a cow farmer selling cows to a farmer in exchange for grain, and the prices for the cows to grain is fixed by the state, everything works for a while.

Until the farmer realizes that he needs fertilizer for his fields to produce grain. He goes to the fertilizer producer, who is NOT under the state, and attempts to buy the fertilizer for the state-set price.

That price is either going to be too high, in which case the fertilizer producer sells the farmer all he needs and more, or the price is going to be too low, in which case the farmer gets none. By "too high" and "too low" I mean the price of fertilizer set by the market, the price where you can both buy and sell fertilizer.
Star trackers are usually just used for attitude, not position. I've heard of research to use them in conjunction with a camera pointed at Earth to resolve coastlines to get position, but it's very theoretical at this point AFAIK.
In some cities like Bangalore and Chennai in India, there are different classes of services. You pay extra for air-conditioning or lesser stops...etc. I believe the intention was to make some extra revenue from users who are willing to pay more. I'd support such a differential pricing mechanism in US cities. I don't care about the same things you care about and I'd happily take a cheaper option but for those who do this might serve them. May be it would make the transit agencies somewhat profitable as well.
It is no surprise to me that big government hates competition.
>I don't see why one of these turns would be inherently safer than the other. Either way, you still need to look behind you, in the lane to your right, in order to safely turn

As a cyclist, the difference is mostly one of expectations. If a car has slid into the bike lane prior to an intersection, I know that they will turn and that I should not try to pass. If the car does not do this, I may continue to bike next to them or even try to pass them in the intersection. This statement of intent is especially useful when the driver does not use their turn signal or uses it when they have already started their turn (which is often).

Also, it's the law [0] so it's not really up for debate.

[0] - http://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-21717.html
I think you underestimate their understanding.

Their goal is to be the first to market and swallow the relatively minor public image loss garnered from these accidents which, by their calculation, will be few. These losses will ultimately be offset by being a pioneer in the field and capturing a huge market share.

They might even intend to fix these problems, but they are by no means show stoppers. Companies do not have morals. They only have balance sheets and single digit number of lives barely even register.
> Even pro-transit politicians and officials have begun to see ride-hailing services as an acceptable substitute for public transit. As a result, cities across the country are making important decisions about transportation that treat 10-year-old companies as fixed variables for the decades to come.

The 2nd avenue subway is going to take tens of billions of dollars and several decades to complete. Why shouldn't the possibility of self-driving cars be taken into account when making these sorts of billion-dollar multi-decade planning decisions?
Is it merely an organizational statement that over-30's are worth less and need remedial training?

No that was not the point.

The point is that new employees, students, practically live in a different world that older employees. The point of the system was that students would teach older employees how to operate within this "new world". It's an approach to make sure that older employees don't get stuck in their ways of thinking.
> It sounds like San Francisco needs to modernize roadways they've improperly added 'bike lanes' to to include dedicated right turn lanes on the OUTSIDE of the 'bike lane'.

The city is starting to do this in quite a few spots.

The standard marking at the moment is to put a solid white line along the protected stretch of the bike lane, which becomes a dotted white line about 50 feet from an intersection. That's supposed to indicate to cars that they should merge if they want to turn right. In practice cars don't seem to realize this often.

Also, over years of consistent bullying from cyclists I honestly think drivers are in many cases afraid to enter the bike lane at all, even when they should do it to safely merge for a right-hand turn.

Anyway the correct answer is to do the full lane crossover as you suggest, but it's awkward on single-lane roads.
Reading about Milo reminded me of MSOffice Ribbon. And now I wonder if there are reflection or theories about social fluid dynamics and how to redirect a flow of people into something radical-looking without creating turmoil.
Yeah, it took forever to load here too.

It looks like this, for those who are curious: http://i.imgur.com/O576J4N.png
While this is (presumably?) true, the self-driving car should still be programmed such that it doesn't break the law. If the law says you need to merge into the bike lane before turning right, well, the car needs to follow that rule too.
Shit drivers.

Notice that you can flip a setting on Intel stuff that sync updates.

Best i can tell most if not all of the complaints comes from people using Nvidia's proprietary drivers without attempting any tweaks, and blaming X11.
Clojure's an odd, unlispish language, at least for us Lispers and Schemers.

CL is still very good at what it does: all current implementations have solved many of the problems you mentioned, and there are a lot of libraries that will run across implementations.

CL is a beast, but clojure is a mess. Scheme is elegant, but has a radically different, more ALGOL mentality than CL, at least in some respects. Some of it is good, some is bad. I love it, but there are things that I would rather program in CL any day.

IMHO, clojure has neither the practicality of CL nor the elegance of Scheme. It has its advantages, but it's not ideal.
That works fine for a daily cycle. The backup plants still get paid every day.

But will it work for a yearly cycle, where solar/wind output varies from year to year?

Can a backup plant survive a year or two when it isn't needed and therefore isn't paid?
Qualcomm Demos 48-Core Centriq 2400 Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling
> "Why are the Democrats still obsessing over gun control, when all it does is cost them one election after another?"

Because tens of thousands of Americans are being killed every year, including children being massacred? [1]

Incidentally, those crazy Democrats were only asking for a ban on assault weapons, which was in place from 1994 to 2004, and supported by Ronald Reagan. He also supported the Brady Bill.

Of course, that was before the Republicans descended to the point where their whackjob would-be president suggested that his supporters should shoot his opponent, and lied about having her jailed.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/20/gun-control-...
No, I don't SJW ever. I hate that shit.

I'm just talking to people.

Thanks.

(Edit: I happen to be a woman. Wondering what I could say that is comparable hardly makes me an SJW. Geez.)
You don't? UPS can't stop its drivers from making mistakes.

Uber can absolutely fix known issues in its vehicles.

If you have more control, you have more liability.

Edit: Uber probably has product liability. Which is very different from liability for an employee's actions.
Maybe languages should provide starter pack, not batteries (as in libraries made noob friendly). Just enough vocabulary in a module to go along with most needs.
And so Apple managed to make $6 off of you by removing a feature. Great.
Debian sure has, but I wasn't talking about Debian.

Fedora on the other hand just doesn't, or at least not in my typical usage. Maybe third party package managers would help in that regard, but if I'm going to babysit my distro I'd rather have something I can understand, like Arch.
It's illegal, but people do it.
You cannot.

All cars must have liability insurance covering anyone you hit. You are not required to have coverage of your own vehicle (unless you lease or something).

It sounds like he is talking about the latter.
The Ugly F Word
Racket isn't Scheme. It is its own dialect. That's why it's no longer called Scheme.

At present, there are only a few Schemes that are practical: Chicken, Guile, Chez, and Gambit seem to be the big players, with Cyclone, Chibi, and Bigloo bringing up the rear.
It seems a bit silly to me that the author uses number of method calls (which is only like 4?) and lines of codes as a metric for how slow the function is.
Agreed. This falls under the general rule of always assuming a car could perform any action (even if it's wrong or illegal) and making sure that you aren't in the way of it doing so. Err on the side of your own safety, even if you have to slow down to do it.
Any sufficiently advanced type system is indistinguishable from magic.
(2009)

Just noting this content is from 2008-2009 and the related book was published in 2009.
What happens if a city decides to buy, or even build, their own autonomous vehicular fleet as a replacement for aging public transit? And isn't this inevitable anyway?
Very interesting, thanks.
I have no side code projects to show
No. I've known people arrested for that. I'll drive with an expired license, an expired registration but never without insurance. It is just such a stupid thing to do.
Oh, I see. I guess it must be a US thing?
The JVM has very fast reflective invocations. Lookup is reasonable.
Well, I wouldn't focus on the MOND part of Verlinde's recent work; the crucial things are that it's emergent gravity, that it's strings underneath, and that he proposes a long range entanglement between strings from which he argues the CDM-like generator of the metric emerges (or, if you like, from which the MOND-like kinematics emerge).

From a couple of days ago :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176483
Sometimes I wonder where everyone's driving to. They're driving physical cars, into a physical office, to work on digital information? Surely middle management has a better way of keeping tabs on their minions.

Cities should give companies tax incentives to keep employees at home. Just stay off the road. Live in a part of town where you can walk to get your groceries and snacks. Incentivize mixed use developments instead of suburbia hell.

Having worked from home the past year I can't understand how people put up with cubicles. While I make more now, I'd be willing to take a big pay cut to keep my sanity.
Boy, if you think Uber is artificially subsidizing rides to a predatory degree, just wait until you see the numbers on light rail.
If I'm not mistaken it's actually Volvo's technology
Because I've found most masters and PhDs don't have a rock solid understanding of ALL of the Computer Science undertones.

Some are good at datastructures, some are good with algorithms, some are still studying concurancy, parallelism, and distributed systems, and the rest know cryptography (which I hold as not being a Computer Science discipline).

Very very few people have a rock solid grasp of everything (that I consider) in the CS field. If he underwent this curriculum and actually learned all of what he said he did he's a genious. He'd run circles around most people in a university who claim to know the material but are 5, 10, 15 years out of study.

One of my professors is running a class on C and writes everything like K&R (and doesn't use free after he allocates memory. He just allocates and forgets!). Another I have is teaching a programming language concepts class and he says "All of these crazy lazy evaluation nonsense languages are useless" in regards to the entire LISP liniage.

Again, by doing all of these you're far ahead of the curve.
Meanwhile security researchers publish security exploits against your now outdated device. Damned if you do, damned if you don't [upgrade] it seems.
This is probably a tremendously dumb question, but what are the major impediments to literally sticking a big freaking balloon to the top of a rocket and floating it up much of the way?
In .NET, You're supposed to use reflection for discovery and then generate the code, at runtime, in a Assembly which is loaded and JIT'Ted by the runtime just like any other library.
It is possible to suspend Bitlocker. This works by writing the key somewhere on the disk. Then when you reenable it the key is removed again. This is necessary if you normally store the key in the TPM chip and you're going to do something that will break its trust, like updating the BIOS.

The recent update would suspend Bitlocker during the installation which is not a nice thing to do automatically.

It doesn't mean Microsoft has the keys though.
This article makes some interesting assertions, but does very little to back them up with facts. Yes, in sparsely populated areas the availability of Uber often justifies cutting back on bus services -- but Uber is far superior to a once-an-hour bus service anyway. In some cases even allows for an increase in public transit usage, by handling the "last mile" (where individual vehicles are a good solution) and delivering people conveniently to and from train stations (whereupon they can switch to what public transit does efficiently -- moving a large number of people at once).
"Ride to the left" isn't helpful when there's a bike lane, because you're already taking up a whole lane (the bike lane). It would defeat the whole purpose of having a bike lane if you had to take up a traffic lane to prevent people from right-hooking you.

"Don't pass on the right" is only useful when traffic is going slower than bicycle speed (i.e. during rush hour when the streets are clogged, but not any other time).
I think for every story you hear about a guy in his 50s who only knows how to program COBOL on mainframes, there are 10 of us ("us" - well, I'm 45) who are learning new, valuable technologies all the time.
>bullying from cyclists

How on earth do cyclists "bully" drivers? Drivers aren't going to die if cyclists hit them.
Which is why I included the word "appreciate". I know full-well why they're doing it.
I hear you. GitLab self hosted is fast but GitLab.com is too slow. From Monday we're having a daily 50 minute call to coordinate our efforts around https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly We'll try to reduce IOPS and make GitLab.com fast.