skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't say I speak for everyone but I mostly walk to get to places and drive when I have to. I live close enough to an ALDI to get most of my groceries by walking and I can walk to work too.

Owning a car means always needing a parking space, going out to get gas, paying for insurance, inspections, etc, having to be capable of driving (because when I'm sauced on a Saturday night I really want to get greasy food, but I can't drive soooo...).

If an autonomous car-share program cost about as much as the car payments and gas alone for the the amount we would use it, we would sell our car in a heartbeat. A car isn't much of a status symbol when most of your friends can't afford a nice one either. Kinda makes you look like a dick, in comparison.
(Cockroach Labs CTO here) We don't really anticipate making a lot of changes like this, but yes, it's possible that as the product and market evolve we may change our minds and relicense some CCL features as APL. Of course, we wouldn't move in the other direction - once something has been released under the Apache license it will stay that way.
This is what I see now:

http://i.imgur.com/bRcPZEU.png

Last time I tried to sign up, "captcha" was not an option, leaving only privacy-invalidating options. It might be dynamic. The criteria for them not displaying "captcha" as an option is unclear.
> The network effect is huge!

For now. Network effect requires connecting two populations: drivers-passengers (Uber, Lyft). Sellers-buyers (eBay, Amazon Marketplace). Etc.

As soon as self driving cars arrive, the Uber/Lyft network effect evaporates. Anyone with capital will be able to field a fleet of self driving taxis.
Gov employee here (18F).

If the operative word is "sent" and "all" the likelihood is zero, as I can assert I've never sent a private key to NSA, and I've made quite a few over the past few years.

That said, carlosdp makes a great point as to how one should behave. Even though not all private keys get shipped to NSA (can't make claims about other teams), the government is very public about other data sharing programs (see https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy... for example).

Even though all government agencies must disclose these types of programs, they are so numerous and often so difficult to decipher, the only rational response is to assume everyone has everything or could have access in the future.

The only way to avoid this is to build zero-knowledge systems on the server side, something I hope you'll see more of in 2017.
A corollary of this is that whilst meta-search engines didn't take very much of the pie for themselves, the fiercer price-competition they imposed did take a much bigger chunk out of airlines' margins, and particularly the margins of travel agents reselling airline tickets.

Uber at present is a travel agent, not an airline
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Click fraud is when you profit from the behaviour. You as a user do not in general profit from clicking the ad.
Sorry the docs are not clear. Right now you can only apply set operations on the entire string. Internally in the database core, we support substring operations, but we haven't exposed them yet mainly because we need to add the compliment to listen for these changes. We have a working collaborative text editor demo/prototype so hope to have more to say soon!
And now with them having become an online-only warehouse club [1] with Prime, there is even less reason to switch away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse_club
Here is some of that IIHS research [1] from Jan 2016 that gives lots of raw crash numbers broken down by manufacturer, type of system (AEB/FCW), injuries involved, etc. Really informative.

Some excerpts from "Effectiveness of Forward Collision Warning Systems with and without Autonomous Emergency Braking in Reducing Police-Reported Crash Rates", January 2016:

"FCW alone and FCW with AEB reduced rear-end striking crash involvement rates by 23% and 39%, respectively. "

"Among the 15,802 injury crash involvements in these states, the percentage of injury crash involvements that were rear-end striking crashes was larger among vehicles without front crash prevention (15%) than among vehicles with FCW alone (12%) or FCW with AEB (9%). Only 4% of rear- end injury crashes involved fatalities or serious (A-level) injuries."

"Approximately 700,000 U.S. police-reported rear-end crashes in 2013 and 300,000 injuries in such crashes could have been prevented if all vehicles were equipped with FCW with AEB that performs similarly as it did for study vehicles."

[1] http://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/SmartDrivingCars/Papers/II...
As someone who went to one of those schools, it's more simply that they all compete with one another and nobody feels like having those conversations anymore after the age of 25. The people that go to those schools tend to gravitate to NYC/Boston/Philly/DC, and we all know each other since those schools are all fed by the northeast boarding schools.
Interesting. I was poking around the MAME database and found that the Z80 was used as recently as 2010 by a company called Igrosoft to make video slot machines, along with some modern PLDs and support chips. They also use a YM2149-compatible sound chip for that authentic bleepy sound.

More details: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers...
It's not like C is useless either. It worked out for Arduino anyway.
Investors, early stage in particular, are optimizing for exits, not profitability. I know that's not what's on their mind when they're advising (I assume the best of intentions), and they do provide the best of what they have, but if that's what gets rewarded, that's what'll get optimized for, and there's nothing the "Good ones" can do about it if they want to be/remain successful.

Very few people other than those pesky customers, seem to care if a business is actually making money on its own these days.
Is the base size and confidence levels reported anywhere? I get professionally suspicious when reports publish percentage figure comparisons of rare events.
I don't know how extreme right-wing Gate is. only in the sense that it portrays JDF sympathetically, and possibly raises a constitutional issue about just how "expeditionary" the JDF is allowed to be. In the Gate storyline it emphasizes really heavily how the heroic virtue of individuals creates positive outcomes. It's an overly simplistic and romantic view of human nature and political realities, but it's really just intended to be some shonen fun.

When I think of extreme Japanese right-wing I think more like Yukio Mishima

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima

ultra-nationalist and imperial restorationist who led a failed coup attempt.
> The good news is that we recently released a Node.js SDK, where you could build a REST API off of it.

The Node.js server access is only for pro/enterprise license or not?

I'm reading this post[1] and this doc[2] and I'm not really sure.

[1] https://realm.io/news/first-object-database-realm-node-js-se...

[2] https://realm.io/docs/realm-object-server/#data-access

Thank you!
Once again, like "show your work," nobody is told precisely what "simplify" means. It would be preferable to teach about "form," and then about manipulating expressions to convert them from one form to another.

For at least one class, I noticed that my daughter's textbook had replaced "simplify" with "show in standard form," where they had been told what standard form is.

I was lucky to go through a K-12 math curriculum that used proofs. And I agree that the two column format is awkward. I'm reminded of Edward Tufte's critique of PowerPoint, that a restrictive template makes it harder to express ideas. I wrote my proofs and derivations the same way that they were presented in the textbook, and in class: In a conversational style. This had the added benefit of being able to learn that style by example. When we talk about "using" math later in life, it's not just using math to get an answer, but being able to explain and justify that answer to other people.
That's the problem, there's no getting over the learning curve when it comes to languages like Scala or Haskell. While you do get more proficient with time, you never get to the state where the language gets out of the way and becomes your friend instead of something you have to wrestle most of the time to enjoy the benefits it offers (which are also offered by Go, BTW).

I was disagreeing with your original statement, Go is not just a faster python.
What do you do for work that you have a strong need for a CSV validation tool?
> I don't think the rise of China has really cost much in the way of working/middle class incomes.

This contradicts your original statement.
The politics will hopefully be solved soon. A few red states, that are anti government and pro innovation (like Arizona or something) , will make them legal, and then we will start collecting irrefutable data that they are 10 times safer.
So I guess that beyond Cloud-to-Butt, we'll have a Butt-to-Cloud extension...
I believe most people are inconsistent drivers. Usually they do a reasonable job, but some fraction of the time they're worried about a sick kid, or a job interview, or a recent breakup, or whatever, and they aren't paying attention.

There are some truly consistently horrible drivers. But in general most people do ok most of the time. I think the real challenge is cutting of that really bad end of the distribution, which autopilot seems to be doing.
Fair enough. The form I see has no Step 5 (:

Unrelated note - that Dropbox link exposes what I assume is your email address. Interesting...
There's a scale of ideology here from, "everyone should be guaranteed to get exactly the same as everyone else regardless of luck and effort" to "life should come with no guarantees and everything is down to luck and effort".

It sounds like you're further to the left of that scale than I am, which is fine, except that it's harder to convince people to the right of me on that scale to move that far left.

Sometimes it's better to suggest small changes.
> We're trying to figure out if they are safer than humans.

No, we're not. We're trying to figure out if TACC has any impact either way. Accordingly, the null hypothesis is that they are no more and no less safe than human drivers alone. You need data to show the direction of the change. You just picked a direction (i.e., towards worse) that was more intuitive to you.
As I understand it, level 3 could still require human intervention at unforeseen times (e.x. weather, etc).
Thanks for the feedback! Agree it can be a little hard to visualize with just the text alone. We were planning on follow up posts, so we will make sure to include diagrams.
DoD uses https and crypto at the transport layer in SIPR. Lots of "type 1" crypto as well, which is its own special thing with NSA issued hardware crypto keys.
Please mention some of them.

I get Google bubbled all the time and receive either targeted ads or nag screens from Google itself. I would love to be able to use Gmail without such issues.

Additionally many sites fail to work properly unless certain tracking JavaScript is enabled.
Well the new model will have a new LTS every 2 years, with guaranteed compatibility as long as you didn't have any deprecation warnings. So you get 2 years to fix warnings, then a guaranteed working new version. I find it hard to believe anybody is doing anything better in this space.
> that might help her order a cable from amazon

I'm surprised there weren't (affiliate) links to Amazon in the responses - that would be such an obvious route to profit.
When Columbia turned down Richard Feynman because of the Jewish Quota, he went to MIT.
If you pay attention to the differences you see it as a satirical remark on the sloppy thinking, not a bot. A long tradition on HN.
Incorrect, the left lane is only for passing only in certain states, and mainly on roads with only 2 lanes of traffic in each direction.

>The Uniform Vehicle Code states: Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic ...

>All states allow drivers to use the left lane (when there is more than one in the same direction) to pass. Most states restrict use of the left lane by slow-moving traffic that is not passing. The table below describes the law in effect in each state.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
I wouldn't know what to put on the other keys. Whatever is most useful to sight-challenged people. Maybe the traditional typewriter keys don't need anything, just the keys around the edges.

EDIT: OT, I was mildly surprised that Google Translate doesn't translate braille.
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Are we talking about using SMTP via the onion service, or just regular SMTP through an exit node? The onion service comes with its own crypto and would not need TLS on top of it (though you're free to use TLS anyway, like Facebook, if it makes sense because of how your infrastructure is set up). There's no exit node for hidden service connections (or any other node that sees the plaintext other than the hidden service itself).
Node.js isn't a framework. It's a JS runtime, and for most purposes can be considered a variation of JavaScript. However, like Go, Node.js has such a rich networking support in its standard library, that some people go "frameworkless" when developing web apps in Node. But not as many as in Go, probably.

Something like Express would be more analogous to Phoenix in Elixir.
Do you actually believe that cruise control is less safe, to any non negligible degree than human driving?

You are bringing it up, but I don't think you are doing this for any reason other than to be contrarian.

Also, ALL cars have cruise control right now. So the 40 percent STILL applies to all these cars.

The correct way to frase the study is that "99 percent of cars are level 1 autonomous cars. For this 99 percent, going from level 1 to level 2 would make them 40 % safer"
It means the government takes in more money than it spends.

Depending on the policy of the Fed (or other issuer of fiat currency), the money supply may be increasing or decreasing at the same time.
Why the funny domain name? Is there any technical reason why they cant use protonmail.onion?
First, VS 2015 CE does come with `git` and `perl`[1] so you don't really need Strawberry Perl. Perl itself builds fine with the 2013 compiler (which is installed alongside 2015), so if you needed to, you could just build your own.

Second, you don't really have to do that much

perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --gen-nqp --backends=moar --prefix=c:/opt/perl6
nmake
nmake install

is sufficient.

Third, I was told `panda` is no longer the preferred module installer[2] and told to use `zef` instead.

Frankly, both create too many droppings for my taste.

[1]: https://www.nu42.com/2016/02/perl-spreading-windows-visual-s...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/41416011/100754

[3]: https://github.com/ugexe/zef
Sidehelm operates the same way many ETL or logging services do. Everything that it does is completely automated and any data retained is for the end user to inspect, not us. Any domain specific data error that happens, we would notify you for you to fix and replay through the pipeline.
Okay. I was hoping for quotes from the text itself.
wait 5-10 years? there aren't any self-driving cars in commercial use right now. VC investors often have long term timelines (depends on the fund and it's objectives). It's not exactly a distraction tactic to say "our timeline projects out for a decade and we expect to be operating in the red until the technology and politics aligns and comes to fruition, at which point we make infinite money forever."
The car should immediately pull over and shut down if it detects any activity on the driver's Twitter or Facebook feeds: Social Media Strike Out!
Super cool. I'm impressed.
On the first point, there's an interesting discussion to be had about what we mean by successful---for any given student, they're just as well off on average at Vaughn Aeronautic College as U Chicago (and better off at Stanford, Princeton, or MIT). However, Vaughn takes so many more low income students that their marginally lower success rate helps so many more.

As a graduate of an elite college coming in from a highly privileged background (and thus as someone trying to minimize cognitive dissonance), I do think we would lose something if we as a society only put our resources into colleges that focused on lower income students. That said, I wouldn't be too bummed if more of my tax dollars ended up in places where it was actually helping people who benefited from that help.
The thing is that this is really only true for people in dense urban environments. For instance, parking is not an issue in suburbia. There are use cases, like getting from your home to the train station, but it's not nearly as universal as it is for people who can currently get by with no car at all.
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I went in the opposite direction. I rote-memorized the table, and then discovered different ways to compose the numbers while playing around with them in my head later.

Of course, "multiply then add" is the only easy algorithm to use when the numbers are larger than the size of the table that you know, so most things beyond 10*10 (and some squares above that) are going to default back to that anyhow.
How does one get started with that?
I recently saw a very enlightening video on the subject of individualism versus collectivism that somewhat echoes your thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNB38U04sNM
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It's customers are fucking g happy. What's the end game you're talking about? Have you invested into them? As a customer I LOVE them. As a student, I studied them in HBX.
Right now the only way to listen for changes on the server is through the Node.js SDK provided in the professional/enterprise editions. The open-source Node.js SDK does not support opening/writing/listening to synchronized Realms.

This is extremely helpful feedback, as we have been exploring how to expose this functionality at lower prices or in the free developer edition. One option would be to include the ability to register listeners through the dashboard similar to AWS Lambda. Would that help?
It's a great joke, but a poor strategy. Remember the end game: minimize harm. The universal solutions that remove human error have a better long-run potential to minimize harm, since they can exceed the effectiveness of even the most attentive and cautious human driver.
You could dump a million blocks in the queue, but that's probably too fine-grained. Each block is an allocation and there's some amount of overhead to executing blocks (though I've never measured how much). So unless each element actually takes a long time to process, you probably want to batch it up into larger segments. Dispatch has an API explicitly meant for this scenario (doing concurrent work over an array of elements), which is dispatch_apply() in C or DispatchQueue.concurrentPerform(iterations:execute:) in Swift, though the block is just given an index and it has to do the legwork of reading the correct elements from the input.
Again, a blank assertion that is in truth contentious. I apologize for my tone, but it frustrates me when armchair economists comment on the internet and phrase opinions as facts. It is not at all an established, consensus fact that the US Government lost control of monetary policy after 2008. In fact, quantitative easing and interest on reserves are two policy levers that central banks continued to pull after hitting the zero bound. Short-term interest rates are not the only tool, nor the only framing, of monetary policy.
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I don't think it would 'encourage' (as in motivate) me - but I expect that I would * learn braille.

After a while of using one, I expect that if I touched (or is it 'read'?!) some braille, I'd just think:

> Oh - feels like an 'a'.

* So if you meant 'encourage' as in 'support', yes, sorry, I agree. :)
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Link seems to be broken.
I want to know why there are considered to be "indigenous peoples" of Hawaii at all, it was a normal, internationally-recognized country ruled by a Hawaiian with subjects as its inhabitants for almost a hundred years before the US annexed it. It had formal land ownership laws before it became part of the USA.
I'd like to point you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13314770

TLDR: Rust did the hard work of convincing others to try it out and evangelize the language, and as a result, it has become popular and has grown a strong community.
I am not sure why mortgage interest deduction gets such a bad rap. It allows a lot of people to be able to afford homes which they couldn't otherwise. It helps the housing market/industry and banking industry.

Apart from that a lot of other countries has it. If I had to change something I would actually add a rental deduction to help those who can't afford to buy housing instead of removing mortgage interest deduction.
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"It's just a bloody fucking fuck" is reasoned?
If I recall, many of the worst school districts (inner cities) also spend the most dollars per student. I've been told this multiple times, but can't look for a source at the moment. Can someone else confirm or deny?
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Fair enough. I'd still say that invalidates your original comment.

>I think it is reasonable to assume that Tesla TACC is not less safe than Tesla non-TACC, therefore the conclusion is also relevant to comparisons between Tesla level 0 (entirely human-driven, no assist) vs. Tesla level 2.

Is it really reasonable to assume it's not less safe in this case? Neither of us can say either way, seems like it would be impossible to assume either way.
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This accident reduction is driven not by the auto-driving part of the package, but the emergency response part. The autonomous breaking and evasive steering that occurs when an accident is imminent is what is preventing accidents.
The blog posts have a ton more detail and make for fascinating reading (or browsing the pictures):

https://dekunukem.wordpress.com/

It's an interesting take on retro; gives the user the feel of a retro computer without all the gnarly period-accurate hardware. Also amusing that the STM32 supporting CPU has far more power than the main Z80 CPU.
> strong bias against women

Where exactly?

> wages are lower than men

Yes, Ive come across this study, which simply compares average wages.

Contrary to popular belief, this doesn't at all imply getting paid less for the same job.

> less likely to be in positions of authority

True. But why?

In practice, many well-intentioned strides towards "equity" end up just lessening equality, and bringing gender, race, etc into consideration (gender, diversity quotas, etc). These are policies that practically translate to "reverse discrimination".

And I reject this obsession with equity. Not all jobs need to have every portion of the population equally represented. The best qualified candidate should get the job, regardless of e.g. gender.

Meritocracy is the only sane approach.
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My early education used sticks and cubes like that. I don't remember different lengths with different colors, but that makes a lot of sense as a way to teach addition.

The 1000-cube fascinated me. I think the classroom only had one of them, so the teacher kept it, and we never really got to use it (and it was hard to gather 10 100-squares to build your own).
For those unaware, "AEB" stands for "Autonomous Emergency Braking". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system

Did Tesla cars have AEB prior to Autopilot installation? If not, then this suggests the 40% reduction in crashes may simply be due to the installation of an AEB system. What effect Autopilot's other features may have would remain uncertain.