skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversely, if a significant proportion of the cars on the road are autonomous and safer than human-driven cars, then the accident rate for everyone could decline, making insurance cheaper for both autonomous and human-driven cars.
This was a great read! There are some really cool ideas such as how information products are high fixed-cost low marginal-cost items and what that means for the market. It also has salient coverage of topics like lock-in, price discrimination, and the different ways that standards affect organizations. Thanks for mentioning this, I would also definitely recommend.
AMD shows how Zen–now renamed Ryzen–is its best chip family in a decade
I'm amused by the dissonance here between developing US policy w.r.t. subsidization and development of electric-first transportation and international investing houses willingness to invest.

I imagine they see it as a major opportunity to force better terms on companies developing these solutions for the US market. Which is probably exactly the goal in the first place.
They don't need to make them foolproof.

They just have to make them safer than human drivers.

And these days with everyone swerving as they text, the bar isn't exactly set very high.
I find this an interesting question. With the exception of OTC and prescription drugs (for which there are still lawsuits) I have trouble coming up with other consumer products when used as directed and properly maintained are still directly involved in killing people because... well, stuff happens. This isn't an argument against using autopilots but it is an issue that hasn't been really addressed so far.
We absolutely were talking about self-driving cars in 2006, when no less a "major player" than the US Government had already been investing in this "science fiction" idea for two years, in the form of the DARPA Grand Challenge races. The 2007 race even required compliance with traffic laws in order to win. Google's autonomous vehicle program is a direct result of this project - that's why they hired Sebastian Thrun, whose team won the 2005 race.

I don't know how serious it was, but part of the initial PR about the Grand Challenge included the goal that it would enable the US military to convert some significant fraction of their fleet of ground vehicles to autonomous operation within ten years.

I do think the previous poster was overstating their case a little, but not so badly as you seem to believe.
Test and Code #25: Selenium, Pytest, Mozilla – Dave Hunt
Yeah, think I saw the same statistic - and I believe it.

Tangentially related anecdote - years ago, the smallish company I worked for had one - ONE - person booking our travels.

Seeing as we were basically living out of toolbags at the time, trying to cash in as much as we could on a boom in a market in which we enjoyed a near monopoly, the office was often manned by the travel booker, our IT guy and an accountant.

All good, until the IT guy figures he can use his script-fu to automate configuration of new computers.

He made some mistake in the line having the computer decide whether it was due for a reinstall or not, leading EVERY computer checking in on the intranet to proceed with formatting its /usr partition.

So - travel booker arrives at work, boots computer, loses data. And, as a consequence, has no idea where anyone are anymore, much less any idea when she ought to get us back home or onto the next job.

Anyone checking in via VPN found their laptop bricked in seconds.

She claims it was the most surreal experience of her life, getting concerned phone calls from all over the world from field grunts asking what had happened - oh, and could they please be allowed to go home?

I was one of the lucky ones; I was on Guam with an agreeable climate, sitting on a crate of beer (parting gift from the vessel I'd just disembarked) and in no hurry to get home.

A colleague who was stuck in Nuuk was somewhat less impressed.

By no means a catastrophic data loss, but still...
Mutli cursor. There is plugins which try to emulate it, but it either didn't work or was lacking a lot functionnality. Other things bothered me, but the lack of good multi cursor implementation was a reason to stop using vim by itself. Just can't live without it now.
It’s going to be interesting watching how local police departments and municipalities handle the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles.

In my town (a suburban town with a low crime rate), the police spend the majority of their time enforcing traffic laws. The municipal courthouse is always filled with people, and if I had to guess, I’d say that 80% of the people are there as a result of a traffic violation, while the other 20% are there for drug offenses/other.

It seems like autonomous cars would lead to a drop in traffic offenses and thus revenue. Even if only a tiny portion of the town’s revenue actually comes from traffic violations (when compared to local property tax), there would probably be a lot more idle time for police.

I suspect that they will first start to raise our property taxes to compensate for the lost revenue, but I would think that the long term effect would be a reduction of municipal workers/police.

Of course, this doesn’t apply to other areas like Philadelphia, where police spend only a small percentage of their time enforcing traffic laws.
> A pair of headphones a month later than they should be that look exactly like their old headphones

??? Maybe we have different standards on what 'look different' should be, but these are functionally and design-wise worlds apart from their existing headphones.
Test and Code #26: Pyresttest – Sam Van Oort
> Yet somehow self-driving vehicles are supposed to completely change the mix of transit use when it's not really adding any capability changes.

Self-driving vehicles could be at your door within a 1 minute timeframe (say). That's a huge change, and will nullify the benefits of owning a car.

Of course, this will be possible because driverless taxi companies will have the logistics in place to make this happen (they know where every car is, and they can compute where to send empty cars to increase the capacity).

I can imagine that a cheaper service will offer the same but, say, in 5 minutes.

Also, you will never have to find a parking spot, which may be an even better argument.
I respond to this link earlier in these comments. The so-called collaboration is of the same nature as any other communications company in the world responds to warrants, subpoenas, etc in their home country.

Despite the tone of the article, there is nothing to suggest that anyone at Microsoft was doing anything more than creating the most cost-effective method to handle requests it was coerced to fulfill.

Alternatives to "collaboration":

1. Deny all requests. Get held in contempt of court. Go out of business.

2. Have dedicated staff to manually dig through every data repository to handle each request in a bespoke manner.
I don't know how you do it in excel but if you generate a csv with UT8 data you can add a byte order mark[0] as the first byte and it will render correctly.

Once you add that, excel will open the file with utf8 encoding (if you use the utf8 byte order mark obviously). I haven't tried with other utf-* encodings.

Again don't know how to tell excel how to add that though :/ I've only had to deal with arabic in generated csv's.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
How Jerry Maguire Ruined the Sports Agent Industry
> seems that the rest of the world is leading electric car adoption way ahead of the U.S.

In parts of Europe, this is due to incredibly high taxes on ICE vehicles - that dwarf the US EV credits.

One of the reasons this is politically possible is because in areas with good public infrastructure, car ownership is a luxury (Or even a burden), while in most of the US, it is a necessity.
My actual suggestion was to hop on with the product team/co-founder. This article is a narrative about something we found pretty interesting during product development.

Similarly, the offer here is to take a deeper look at what we're building and a (quite genuine) offer to incorporate any suggestions you might have into our roadmap.
Caltrans and UC Berkeley were very seriously working on technology to have cars fully autonomously run on freeways. In fact my father was involved in the project some odd 20 years ago. The difference is that today you have more advanced technology, more private interests, less government interests and more media involved.
* Availability can be addressed with a dedicated option, where you pay extra (if a fleet) or get paid a bit less (if renting out your self driving car) to ensure there's always a car whose destination's time distance from you plus remaining trip length is less than some amount you specify such as 15min.

* To address the mobile depot use case, I've heard of proposals to have storage areas (possibly trunk, but not necessarily) that are only accessible by the owner, not by renters. Even that may not be perfect though, I do see your point.
I guess it depends? When I say "FPS" I mean anything from Doom to System Shock 2 - if it's a first-person view and the primary means of interacting with the world is via weapons, it counts as an FPS by me. I guess I'd call stuff like what you're talking about "pure FPS", but apparently that's the name of a specific dev studio with a very poor reputation, so who knows.
That's what the Apple Watch is for: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204691
This rocks!
Humm, maybe depends on which Chrome Box you choose. In my experience they work very well, only needing a reboot every now and then.

The main issue is people not taking care of equipment in shared spaces like meeting rooms. The technology is usually the least of your problems.
Your story sounds similar to something that once happened at Valve. Gabe Newell offered a sick employee an extended leave with pay and told him, "your job is to get better." I believe he's still with the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Wolpaw#Personal_Life
No one is suggesting that.

There are not many wireless earbuds in this form-factor / category.
the article could have covered the reason the UK was burning poor quality coal was that we were pretty much bankrupt by the war so needed to sell our good coal, and burn the cheaper bad coal
A lot of people here seem to be complaining about them falling out of their ears, while non of them actually tried to wear them first. Also everyone is stating things like this "I will use them two or three times during rush hours in London, bump into a couple people". But for me personally - I only use headphones while at my desk and I love current EarPods because unlike many other in-ear headphones they do not create any pressure onto my eardrum, I can wear them all day without any fatigue whatsoever, having a wireless version so I can stand up and walk around often sounds perfect to me. Also the only time when current EarPods are falling out of my ears is when the cable gets pulled or tangled on something, without a cable I don't see how they can fall out easily.
Self Healing Code with clojure.spec
Thanks for these. Out of curiosity, do you currently work with React on a daily basis?
My scuba instructor shared this piece of wisdom: "You don't have to swim faster than the shark. You just need to swim faster than your buddy."

People get this stuff wrong all the time. Especially when they're drunk, tired or texting. These cars won't be perfect but I think pretty good and conservative under uncertainty will be better than human, drunk and overconfident.
I will not buy a computer without a 5" floppy drive.
I will not buy a computer without a 3.5" floppy drive.
I will not buy a computer without a CD drive
etc.

Seems Apple is just always ahead of the crowd in getting rid of things.
Yes, admit it. Don't lie to yourself.
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Recovering p,qp,q given e,d,Ne,d,N in RSA
This is what the Watch is for.
Just an FYI to anyone who didn't know this, the facebook app records audio in the background. It then targets ads to your conversations. Use the browser version if you want some semblance of privacy.
Explicit closing tags are only needed when dealing with more complex examples, like basic conditional or loops (arrays). Rather than try to teach you on a hackernews forum, you can learn all you need to know about the syntax in 5 minutes here: https://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html

There is even a ClojureScript implementation: https://github.com/fotoetienne/cljstache

Yes mustache, JSX and all the other templating syntax aren't pretty, but my point was that Mustache is the best I've come across so far. elegance and simplicity are in the eyes of the beholder though, so to each their own.
What we know about AMD's Ryzen so far
>"[...]Interestingly, while the London fog was highly acidic, contemporary Chinese haze is basically neutral,” he added.

This kind of weasel-wording is a smirch upon science. It's either basic, or neutral.
I think that if you hide how much they are actually spending it is very unethical. But if there is a clear price on what you do, then by all means.

Back when I used to play LOL alot (3-4 games/day), I spend probably 200-300$ on skins. Not because it made the game better or that I derived that value from the skin, but because I valued the game and wanted to support it.
Is there anything planned to support multiple nodes. So that one can test outage scenarios, load balancing across nodes, etc?

If not what other local deployment method do you suggest that works good? (All other methods seem to be deprecated)
Honest question: can you point me to some other earbuds of the same size that are totally wireless (not even a bridging wire) and that also include a microphone, etc.?

The AirPods honestly do seem like a somewhat unique entry into the market to me, but it's such a crowded market that I could have easily missed a competitor somewhere.

That said, the lack of any sort of wiring is actually a negative to me, because that's primarily what makes it seem like these will be so easy to lose.
...But how do you extract that data otherwise?
Hollywood vs VidAngel: the legal battle over filtered movie streaming
Ok, let me explain: it’s going to be Angular 4.0
Farewell Zen, Hello Ryzen: AMD’s Eight-Core CPU Runs at 3.4GHz+
I think editors provide at least two more things: Code completion and global refactoring. Eclipse/IntelliJ users in the Java world can pound out entire programs in seconds using nothing but keyboard shortcuts. Are there features like this for other languages?
It's a poorly-chosen title but a very cool project: it's not a source-to-source translator, you as a programmer are writing C++ instead of CUDA, and it compiles down to either CUDA or ROCm depending on whether you've got an NVIDIA or AMD GPU.

Very cool!
What's the battery life?
No, it looks like you can listen to just one:

"Optical sensors and motion accelerometers work with the W1 chip to automatically control the audio and engage the microphone, giving you the ability to use one or both AirPods."
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The U.S. didn't lose Andrew Ng. [1]

And to call him "the" top guy in ML is a bit of a stretch, though he's certainly one of many.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng
You're right! I own red wired ones which made me completely sure that the new ones will feature this colour too. Too bad.
My first question was "what about OpenCL", and they seem to address it here: https://github.com/GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Tools/HIP/blo...
I guess this depends on your ears; I've never had a pair of in-ear phones that don't fall out after 5 minutes.
6 years of working location independent
im using the previous version of ios 10 (one before current) and it has some weird battery draining bug and will shut off my iphone 6 plus at 30% and it's very hard to repower on without a charge source (e.g. ext charging battery). it also drains my battery heavily.

the current version supposedly fixes the battery drain (not sure about the shutdown bug) but introduced a bug into another app that i use and don't want to risk upgrading for either.

and this is the problem. apple charges premium prices but their software has gotten sloppy. macos and ios10 included. i upgraded to the latest macos version, sierra, and my escape key would not work for some reason (i was using vim and ended up doing ctrl-c? to activate) then i find out that killing siri on mac would fix the problem. then i found out a couple days later that their new macbook pro would not have an escape key. gee i wonder why they never caught this bug in testing?
Single cores might be slower but with more of them you can run much more processes at the same time.
They won't have to... all the web-bugs and web-beacons will allow them, in combo with Facebook/Google/SMS/phone-call data, to determine with a very high degree of accuracy who is Muslim and who is not.

It's almost as if no one ever heard of "dual use" technology before.
"double-tap" ?? Isn't that jargon used by snipers to describe the use of two rounds of ammo?
Does AMD now have an equivalent to Intel's open-source tboot for DRTM?

In the past, AMD avoided artificial "enterprise" segmentation with security features like IOMMU, but did not always have the necessary BIOS, board (e.g. TPM) and open-source tooling that Intel solutions provided.
The backdoor allows access to the Skype application which is running in the same environment as the process 'abusing' it.

It's stupid programming and perhaps could be used for convenience by a worm or virus but it does not allow privilege escalation.

Worst case scenario there is a bug in the API that allows privilege escalation, then it might be a sandbox escape, if it is possible to use the API from inside the sandbox which I doubt.
12 Years Later: Jira Still Can't Merge
I agree with all of this.

I would also add; that I will stay consider these vehicles to be unsafe until the manufacturers can prove to be beyond a shadow of doubt that I or the local computer are the ones piloting the vehicle.

When a random person can remotely take control of a vehicle; whether it be the windshield wipers, or full control of the vehicle, then it is not safe to contain a power source in the vehicle near a public road. I don't want 4chan driving me into another vehicle.
OSGi, probably. Which is kind of hairy. But it's a difficult problem on the JVM.
I think the concern is more about availability. How long does it take for a car to show up each time OP needs to go to the store?

This is a problem with Uber now. I need to be at the airport at 5:00 AM tomorrow morning and I'm just hoping like hell that there will be an Uber around. Most drivers will be home sleeping.

Low-volume times like my example above are where autonomous vehicles can shine. Making the economics work during times of high volume is more difficult. You can always buy more cars, but that's just that many more cars you need storage space for outside of peak hours.
When I say raw data, I mean the data that's already been processed from original sources and stored in the data warehouse (that is, the warehouse data as it existed in our database and not how it was presented through third party tools like Tableau). I agree that for high level stuff like visits, etc, dashboards help out a lot.

For some more specific examples where open access broke down:

1) We had a fact table with vendor IDs and service start/end dates. If the service end date was null, that meant service for that vendor was active. To correctly pull the number of active vendors, you would want to do something like "select count(distinct vendor_id) from f_vendor_service where service_end_date is null". Users often queried this table without distinct in the count and without the where clause, resulting in inflated numbers. We did end up adding "Number of Active Vendors" to a dashboard, but then people would return to the warehouse table to get the number of active vendors in 2015, etc. and their clause would be wrong.

2) Our vendors could be classified into one or more categories. Among the vendor's categories, one category was selected as the primary category. There were cases where people wanted to pull counts on how many vendors were in X category, but they would always end up querying for how many vendors had X as the primary category instead of how many vendors had X as any category. We had to provide a dashboard to get these numbers reported correctly.

3) We had a pageview_log table, and people would want to examine URLs to see what the least visited pages were. However, their regular expression ability was lacking, and despite our documentation, people would still use bad regexes and pull bad counts that would be used to justify product decisions for shutting down sections of the site. Again, we put this behind a dashboard so people wouldn't query pageview_log manually.

So, from my point of view, curating information behind dashboards isn't giving people access to the raw data. The original desire was for teams to create their own dashboards, but due to their bad queries, the data team ended up having to spend a good chunk of their time maintaining all the dashboards in the company. When you have people writing raw queries in Aleph, how do you prevent them from making the same types of mistakes that I illustrated?
You can't just go out and get a $25 Bluetooth headphone and expect a consistent result.

The whole point of the brand is that you're getting a quality, consistent product.
I don't know the best place to say this... I'm always a little sad whenever Apple announces earphone related technology -- their earphones simply do not fit in my ear; they simply fall out. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem? Or problems with other specific pieces of technology?
OK.

https://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-ipho...
I have to say, I owned a Samsung ARM chromebook (which I promptly wiped and installed Linux on), and it was great. Fanless, and the battery outlasted me. Performance left a bit to be desired, however, but this was an older ARM chip too.
Why should local municipalities foot the bill for adding beacons to stop lights, etc? I get trying to make infrastructure friendly towards self driving cars, but the general public should not be footing the bill for someone's life choice to buy such a vehicle.
I entirely agree with your point with regard to a fixed-schema, row-based, relational-like datastore. But in a KV-store like DynamoDB, there's a different set of possibilities:

[1] key present, value undefined or null or some other special type

[2] key present, value is empty object of its expected type

[3] key absent

In schemaless datastores where the value's content somehow determines its datatype, it can be difficult to enforce a distinction between scenarios [1] and [2]. Meanwhile, in an externally-schema'd datastore (like most RDBMS), you don't have option [3]. I am familiar with the practice of mapping "we don't have a known-good value for this" to omitting the key in an KV-store, while in an RDBMS that semantic meaning is mapped to a NULL instead.
Yep, using it in my main work project right now (as well as the sample app I'm writing for my tutorial series).
Simple workaround: prefix every string with a fixed character. Advantage: it will leave the lexicographical sort order unchanged.
That's a key point here.

The cars don't have to be perfectly safe, just safer than the average driver.
It's not really a proper solution as it kills app updates. (In a nutshell, the article advises disabling automatic updates)

So yes, ridiculous..
AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT all have market caps larger than XOM

http://dogsofthedow.com/largest-companies-by-market-cap.htm