skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in that situation I would think that in the current climate the circumstance of the accident would also be taken into account by the public / the press. I.e. did it occur in a situation where a human driver might also have been unable to avoid it.

It would take a shift in perception, perhaps caused by mass layoffs resulting from the widespread adoption of self-driving trucks, before people would be disposed to hold self-driving cars to a higher standard than human drivers in order to feel safe. But it is not clear if such a shift in perception will occur. People still love Uber, even though the taxi drivers are upset.

I think that as things stand, most people would be OK with self-driving cars if they were convinced that AI drivers are at least as good as human drivers at avoiding accidents (wherever and whenever AI drivers are allowed to drive).
This will wait within the function, but won't block the caller.
Games are a very specific workload, and I find the focus placed on gaming performance in CPU reviews to be ridiculous. For another specific workload: software that can use 100% of 8+ threads, the FX CPUs are probably ahead of Intel CPUs in the same price range. They do run hotter, but that's not necessarily a huge drawback in a cold country.
That's what worries me about Trump. If he merely lusted for power and was willing to lie to obtain it, like a normal politician, it wouldn't bug me as much. Not that this is good, but it's something we can deal with.

I'm not sure it's even fair to say that Trump lies. He's outright incoherent. The words are just meaningless. Is it even a lie if there's no underlying intent? Consider, for example:

"I don’t want to have guns in classrooms although in some cases teachers should have guns in classrooms, frankly, because teachers are, you know, things that are going on in our schools are unbelievable, you look at some of our schools, unbelievable what’s going on – but I’m not advocating guns in classrooms, but remember, in some cases, and a lot of people have made this case, teachers should be able to have guns, trained teachers should be able to have guns in classrooms."

A normal politician might come out in favor of banning guns from school, then later on say that teachers should be allowed to have guns. That might be a rational change of of heart based on new information, or a response to big sacks of money dropped off by the NRA, or an attempt to pander to a new voter base. But when the change comes in the same freakin' sentence you just can't make anything of it.

I'm not worried that Trump will cause problems because of a lust for power and willingness to lie, I'm worried that he'll cause problems because he seems to be entirely detached from reality.

This is why I'm glad to see these people advising him. Maybe they can influence him in good directions. But I'm not terribly optimistic, because I'm sure Steve Bannon and friends will cancel it out and more.
I'm fairly sure that EMR and HBase would give us miserably bad performance characteristics for the kinds of workload we're describing here.

Why would I consider it for sub-millisecond latency tasks? Has something changed there I'm unaware of?
It wasn't that difficult. There's an arrow on the left of the screen. The first time I tapped the arrow and nothing happened so I swiped and got the camera. People complain about discoverability but that's exactly the way discoverability works, I think.
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VSCode isn't really an IDE as much as a text editor and competitor to Sublime, Atom, etc. You can build in some languages with it, but it's not a competitor to a full-featured development environment like Intellij's IDEA or Visual Studio and not anywhere near a mobile development-oriented IDE.

In addition, VSCode is open source, so to some degree its direction depends on what the community wants to happen with it.

That being said, re-branding Xamarin Studio (which in my experience, has been buggy as all get-out) as Visual Studio Mac without many significant new features seems more of a PR move than anything else. It'd be awesome if they'd put more money/manpower towards fixing it.
This is the one paper I know of: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/am...

I know of some small scale use at Facebook (where I work), where it has been used to verify a non-trivial protocol under various combinations of failures.
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OTOH, continually changing the subject (as is a particularly common tactic these days, in regard to Kremlin shenanigans, actual or alleged) and never addressing the facts at hand is n't exactly very helpful, either. Some of us are perfectly aware of the "big picture", thank you very much, and would just like to sort out the actual facts of what appears to have happened in this particular situation.

If someone has e.g. punched 100 people, that someone doesn't get to look astonished and outraged when someone 1/10th their weight merely slaps them.

In general, the whole "But Ma, he hit me worse!" line of thinking isn't very useful in understanding history and geopolitics. A better analogy to use would be perhaps the case of a hard-core alcoholic who feels livid and indignant when called on his drunken behavior by the local neighborhood crackhead. Which is of course, to some extent, hypocritical (even though the two drugs and their dependence syndromes are rather different) -- but also, in regard to the alcoholic's own situation, entirely irrelevant.

Getting back to the original article: at least there's clear evidence now that Podesta's account subjected to (and fell for) a phishing attack; which makes it more likely that the emails were in fact stolen (and not "leaked from the inside", as some have claimed).
I've always been intrigued by Swiss software.

I'd love to know what the Swiss themselves think about this system.

To any Swiss people on HN :

— Do you feel this had a positive impact on society?

— Maybe more important, would you recommend this to other governments?
Is it really unambiguous? There is no grammar, but the spec describes things in English. It's really hard to avoid ambiguities and impossible to proof unambiguousness without formal methods.
Both the noise and sight of drones is unpleasant. I can't imagine rich people wanting a stream of drones flying over their homes. One more thing poor people will have to put up with in the future.
Then add more trains until you don't need to look at a schedule anymore (every fifteen minutes at the absolute worst).

EDIT: Punctuation
A lot of buildings already do that with packages that are delivered to the front door, I doubt in building neighbors stealing your stuff will be an issue.
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You nailed it. People frequently point out the unattended delivery aspect or talk about shooting drones from the air to get "free" packages.

At the end of the day it's a lot easier for theieves to just follow the UPS truck.

I am still waiting for Prime Now in Vancouver!
Interestingly, many competitors of Amazon already have that technology - take for example http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2016/09/08/a-new-mer... this concept.
One reason, because I started using it long ago, and it works for me, so...

Second, after looking at KeePass (very briefly), it appears to be .net, and while it 'would' run on Linux, I'd have to install .net for Linux (Mono), and I'm just not going to do that.
I'm certain drone delivery will be a premium service for some time to come, even with Amazon working tirelessly to do their own logistics the cost of purchasing drones, maintaining them, keeping enough spare batteries charged, etc. is not $0. I already pay $4 at minimum for next-day delivery with Amazon Prime, if they want to charge me $6 to get a kit of memory or a cable in 30 minutes instead of having to drive to Best Buy (and pay a lot more than $6 extra for) I would happily do so.
I have been very interested in Open Voting Systems for quite some time now and have been following Open Voting Consortium, Alan Dechert and more for many years now. It is a problem that I think could have better solutions. There are many good ideas out there for this, and many include paper and open source software.

I have compiled a list of reading materials here for those who are interested.

https://github.com/ElijahLynn/open-source-voting-systems
Not at trump's level, but I agree. Why aren't we doing something about it?
You know that more than 5 UPS trucks have been hijacked in the last 5 years so I don't know why you are asking me for such a silly comparison. I have no proof but I would guess amount of people that will [Hijack a UPS truck] < [Shoot down a drone].
Oh, come on, you don't need a branch to do a conditional subtraction. Reify the condition to 0/1 and use multiplication, or use AND with a two's complement of the condition.
Some mature orgs have done a good job of automating this, but it really depends on the industry. Finance and FinTech, for instance, are ahead of the curve here. Most government entities on the other hand don't even realize there's a curve ahead, as do many utilities companies and some healthcare firms. So to your point about it being a big problem, "it depends on the company."

As for strong developers in the appsec world, certainly. Especially if you have a strength in the automation side, you can easily carve a niche out for yourself. The main two areas where I can see a dev taking charge are in driving the use of security features in frameworks product teams already use (this is a HUGE bullet being pushed by notables in AppSec as it reduces the effort involved in uptake of secure coding practices) as well as in leading automation of new tooling in support of new frameworks. There's also the angle of developing custom solutions to address firm-specific problems, something appsec people without a strict development background will have a hard time doing.

Quite a few appsec leads prefer bringing in developers with a breaker mindset in as appsec hires, so yes, there's always room. Depending on how you answer the question "what does 'secure ~10 webapps' mean?", you can probably easily score a lateral move into AppSec (Senior Dev -> Senior Security Engineer or Senior AppSec Consultant/Engineer).

My keybase profile has all my contact info if you want more tailored guidance. Even if you don't join my firm or any of the other firms I have a hand in shepherding, we desperately need more people in appsec, so I'm all about sharing this knowledge.
Depends on what you mean by "panned out". The tech works, but society isn't interested in trains since it was developed and matured.

We pushed cars, freeways, etc. Not just in the US. Other countries followed along for their own reasons.

It's like nuclear; the tech can work fine. We just don't have the interest.

I blame lobbying against public utilities, personally. Decades of pro-privatization rhetoric, getting people to buy-in on their own vehicle, versus pub-trans.
I've also always thought it was wrong to assume your adversary knows to try only passphrases.
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How's that self driving truck going to get the package to the door?
Is Elon Musk a supervillain?
Super relevant because today I got the annual reminder to check my Social Security statement online.

Go to login, password expired. Expires every 6mo. Also, requires punctuation. I type in a typical strong/long password and it says "weak" until I append ! to the end and magically now it's "STRONG!"
My prediction within the next 10 years, a majority of jurisdictions will ban 2-stroke leaf blowers. Electric leaf blowers are a thing now. A combination of pollution control and noise control, along with a viable alternative, will gather enough support for these bans.

(I’m not sure what portion of leaf blower noise is caused by the fan vs. the engine. I suspect even if the fan creates the larger component, it’s probably less annoying than the buzz of a two stroke engine).

EDIT: At the moment, I think gas powered units are still more powerful. But with battery technology going the way it is, and prices falling, I’d be surprised if a backpack electric unit doesn’t become cheap enough to rival current gas units. And even with some reduced power, users may prefer it to having to mix oil and maintain the units.
USP, FedEx and the USPS all leave your packages in unsecured areas. These drones would have to literally drop your packages off in a city. Those are very different actions.

The logistics of even getting close enough to the ground to not obliterate your package, in an open enough area, while avoiding people and other obstacles (both stationary and moving) is a nonstarter for even small cities imo. Good luck in NYC.
But how do you verify that each voter is authorized to vote, and that only one vote was cast? It seems if you involve a digital system you're kicking the trust bucket down the road.

The security of a digital systems is "good enough" IMO, especially if there's a public cryptographically verifiable ledger. We bank online where the banks essentially only hold cash in the form of a database entry. The benefits of digital voting means we can have more granular input in our government's operations. I don't see paper ever scaling to meet that demand.
LOL, Martin Luther:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
I conceded it is a bug. I merely claimed you will make some. Because, you will. Period.

You also have an odd misconception. It isn't having lower standards to be liberal in what you accept. It is actually harder. Much harder. And you should do it.

Easy example from finance. You shouldn't just take one currency. You should take in as many currencies as you can understand.

Does this mean to be magical? No. But you should ask, "how many different ways could this be given to me?" And you should instrument this with a marker for "unexpected."
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If you honestly think that only 2 UPS trucks were hijacked last year based on my post then there is no reason for me to reply to you.
actual filing: https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/12/13/disney.pdf
Maybe this would self-regulate. If someone is the kind of person that would make a mess on an autonomous car ride, maybe after calling the service again and having to wait for a replacement due to someone else’s carelessness, their attitude would change.
many urban buildings have rooftop access. having a landing pad (could be nothing more than a rubber mat with a giant QR code on it) would be workable if the resident can confirm a delivery time to be on the roof. or they could leave the package there, if the building residents use it like a shared mail area.

having said all that this idea of drones flying around all over the place semiautonomously is crazy to me. maybe i'm getting old.
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Just FYI: Baudelaire died in 1867, and was born in the 182x.

Not exactly "Renaissance".

(I'm also French, but my litterature teacher had explained that "spleen" was an organ in English)
Add me to the pile of people who have experienced this problem more than once.
It's possible they'd have no choice: https://aviation.uslegal.com/ownership-of-airspace-over-prop...

Note I'm explicitly making a vague, handwavy argument in the direction of current laws about property owners and their ownership of the airspace over their property, as I am not anywhere near expert enough to opine on how that would precisely manifest in this case. I'm only opining that there exists already law that matters.
Even smart pointers can trivially cause memory unsafety. The simplest example is that std::move-ing a uniq_ptr makes the original nullptr, which is just sitting around, waiting to be dereferenced. This compiles cleanly with all warnings enabled on every compiler I've tried it on, yet that dereference is UB.
I noticed it didn't deliver a holiday fruit cake. Probably due to the weight limit. Logistics will get better but without some weight increase this is going to be a long way off from useful.
When the regulators start regulating, I imagine they'll introduce serious penalties for shooting down an aircraft.
>Were to so eager to flame me that you couldn't be bothered to read my post properly?

Yes, as well as reflexively downvote. Please enjoy the irony of what you wrote and the subsequent reaction.

(FWIW, I upvoted your comment)
'Bit' does not translate as 'octet'. 'Byte' does.

Minor remarque changing nothing in the meaning of your message.
One good thing that could potentially come out of it is a divorce of the Office of Science from the DOE, and closer ties with the NSF and Universities (Department of Research+Office of User Facilities?), but I'm sure UC/Bechtel would oppose this.

I'm personally not likely going to be affected much, outside of wage freeze, unless the government decides it doesn't care about finding earth-ending solar system objects, but it's hard enough trying to do science in the USA and the wage gap between the non-clearance employees in the DOE and industry is increasing. If it gets much harder, brain drain from the Office of Science to europe is probable - more so than a migration to industry I'd imagine.
I think every person reading malpractice is huge in Italy, took that as Italians are huge in malpractice...

And, I still see race as a dodgy concept.
In what way does the [original announcement][1] include "personal attacks against Gruber"? His name is only mentioned once:

> Because Gruber’s syntax description leaves many aspects of the syntax undetermined

How is that in any way a "personal attack"?

Furthermore, Gruber was given [two separate opportunities to review the name of the project before it was published][2] (which he ignored), and after the spec was published and Gruber did object to the name, one of the developers of the spec [immediately apologised][2] and changed the name to Common Markdown. How is that "jackassery"?

[1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown/

[2]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...
Once you solve self-driving, I imagine mess detection is rather trivial :).
At 400ft, you can't really hear a modern car on modern pavement. But you certainly can hear a busy street.

One single drone may not produce a lot of noise but a whole group of them might be a different story.
> He said he doesn't need to dedicate time to have people tell him the exact same thing everyday

I don't believe that every president before Trump simply put up with redundant meetings. This is the busiest job in the world, presidents are intelligent people, somebody would have put an end to daily security briefings if they weren't useful before now.
The scientific and technological approach to these problem is pragmatic, of course. In the most parts of the world dogmatic science was abolished after the middle age.

So I don't know what your comment actually tries to communicate, apart of this strawmen thing, which itself is a strawmen.
As a person who gets outstanding benefits (& some $) making deliveries I think this is great.

Getting mail 6 days a week is not necessary. And if this allows a knife to cut out all highway routes and some rural ones and replace with only drones that would be advancement. Mail is not a right but glued now to legislation. No need if nothing-above-me areas get only drone service.

I ponder this. As the ups and FedEx and Usps guys converge in the same address, we often talk shop. I wonder what an Amazon drone would say to a competitor drone when they are at/near the same address? "Man, my supervisor is always watching me?" or "they loaded up this flier unbalanced"
I think that climate change denial is an example of a Cargo Cult, with parallels in every aspect with the ones seen in the Pacific islands.

The cult leaders have spent their whole lives debating with people and poring over the wording of documents, they then see another group of people threatening to drive the narrative in society in future and react by adopting the debating style of this group and by trying to detect linguistic errors in scientific documents. They miss the point that their skillset just isn't applicable to the problem.

The cult followers were in a clientelist relationship with the leaders before, they have received cargo in the past and would like to continue to receive it in the future so are happy to go along with the cult.
What I would really like is to end up in a situation where email clients all support text/markdown. It really hits the sweet spot between plain text and HTML. It has enough structure to show a nice outline, and the triple back-tick syntax is great for marking bits of text as code.

All without specifying how everything should look. You can read it as unformatted text, or let the mail client format everything in a style you like. This is sort-of like HTML without CSS (using the client's default stylesheet), but also very well readable as unformatted text, and free from the abuse of HTML email.

Alas. More and more companies are giving up on plain text email (even though this is required by the standard), and simply send you a hyperlink to click if you have plain text as your viewing preference for email.
This is probably what they said about many other of the world's worst dictators and human rights abusers until they actually did dismantle all the institutions that opposed them.
It depends a lot on the wind and the size/shape of the propellers. When I fly my DJI UAVs up near 400 feet above ground on a zero-wind day it's very easy to hear when I'm outside. When they get to be ~500 feet away it's much harder to hear. I've never been inside while flying, but my wife says she can't hear it when she's inside. On a breezy day, the wind through the trees covers most of the noise while I'm outside, but the variation in the noise when the flight computer is compensating for wind makes it a little easier to pick out.

Bottom line: you'll probably be able to hear these large Amazon UAVs when you're outdoors and when they're within 500 feet of you.
The name was picked by French people who were not aware of the English word.
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The age old last mile problem. I don't think anyone is suggesting getting rid of mass transit and in fact self driving cars could be the best thing ever happen to mass transit (no need to park at the train station if coming from the suburbs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile_(transportation)
Autonomous trucks and cars will be here long before drone delivery is actually a thing. For now Amazon can get easy free press for delivering popcorn... they might as well start a group focused on carrier pigeon delivery.
This is a good point. Drones will probably be used for very prompt delivery. So the problem of unsecured packages will probably not be that important, for the same reasons that the problem of unsecured delivered pizzas is not that important.
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$10 is the "willingness to pay" (the number is in the article). There's no good estimate of drone delivery costs since the interested parties cherrypick locations and distance.
Your stance that people trying to mitigate global warming are acting like "climate change is some vengeful god who we must sacrifice for and express an unshakable belief in." is ideology. Your denial of the scientific consensus is ideology. Your coming here to post in an expression of your ideology. It doesn't matter if you want the sea levels to rise or are just in denial of the facts and think they won't.
Sure if one out of every three had vomit, syringes, or feces it would be a huge problem. One out of three seems incredibly unlikely and off by at least a couple of orders of magnitude.
You are still introducing a conditional by detecting the need to subtract, and iterating backward through memory is horrific for cache performance. If you need a specific, non power-of-2 sized buffer, then of course you make that design decision and pay the performance penalty. But I restate it's odd that you weren't even aware of the cost in 1992 as a system level programmer.