skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison to level 4 or 5 trains doesn't make sense to me. For a train you've got millions of dollars worth of hardware and track so the driver is only a tiny component in the overall cost. For trucks and taxis the driver is the biggest costs. The incentives for autonomous cars are much higher than autonomous trains.
That story was written by Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer and includes the phrase "our newspaper, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung". I read the SZ (on paper) and in my judgment the SZ does well on the points you mention.

But I bet you still don't have much sympathy for their appeal. It's always possible to find a fault.
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> You get 1 mark for the right answer and 2 marks for working.

I'm not sure I get what you mean by "working". Can you expand that a bit?
For years the top result in bing for "chrome" was a virus. Again bing showed the url as google.com and the site was made to look like google.
> The notion of waiting ages for programs to compile or assemble is mostly related to the older hardware.

Oh, I was talking more about older ways to organize the data centre: batch vs timeshare processing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing
That's a pretty shameless plug, but I might have use for this service, so thanks for sharing I guess. I especially like the 'freeloader' pricing plan xD
Obviously things are not that black and white. Parliament voted overwhelmingly to hand this decision to the people in the form of a referendum.
As someone who grew up in a neighborhood where Western Union/Money Gram were commonly used -- Only criminals use it. Full Stop.

Now, not all these criminals are violent or into drugs. Many were illegals sending money home. I get WHY they would use it, but it makes no sense for the US Government to even allow these services to exist.
Cambridge Analytica, the firm behind Trump and brexit?
Well, the pound goes up and down. Surely, rule of law is more important than currency fluctuations.
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Way back I remember when William Shatner's TekWar was brought to TV. One scene that stood out was when the lead was driving into town, it appeared that limited access roads; US interstate type; were done by car driving itself.

a similar idea would do quite a bit to move the technology forward and increase acceptance. we already have projects that create toll and hov lanes. why can't these also be equipped to assist self driving cars with their tasks?

While I think the Tesla videos were cool, even GM did something similar recently in San Francisco, they are still pretty much scripted events. Tesla is guilty of exploiting the over trusting side of the issue simply by product naming but some of their demos could lead people into assuming far too much ability; will that become a legal liability?
I posted to HN about Brexit's effects on tech before the vote and most people here said they'd rather not read about politics, then promptly flagged the article. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952724
You're right. Ever since distros made systemd default, computers all over the world have been catching fire, exploding, shooting jets of lava from their headphone jacks. It's the end times
You are not on reddit, here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
I'm not aware of server or desktop OS that isn't generally vulnerable to local DoS.
I think you missed my point.

I'm not saying that China and India will never have self-driving cars. There's obviously tremendous profits to be made in bringing cars to those markets.

My point is that a self-driving car doesn't have to be ready for those markets to be launchable as an excellent and profitable product. The iPhone very successfully launched in only select markets—and then made even more money after expanding to China. It'll probably be similar with self-driving cars.

Why exactly do you think a self-driving car has to be globally deployable before launching in the US?
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and insurance companies give various access some to everything more or less some to very little. In a public healthcare system everyone have access to the same, but the same is less. So there is a tradeoff.
If the system are not restricted by having quota on every computer resource its trivial for any local user to DoS the system. For the issue to be exploitable, you need to have restrictions in place and to my knowledge the only way to do so in the past was with seLinux. Today of course there is cgroup.
> I feel that I'm respected as a developer

Respected slave. Software developers are very fortunate to be on the frontier of the tech word. But that does not mean we are free from slavery. We are respected slaves who are in high demand. The only solution is Universal Basic Income. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income. And the best thing about being a software developer is we are the closest people to make the UBI come true. Every minute put in to developing the skill will not go waste. Whenever i find and report a bug to the Free or Opensource project i feel like i am contributing to making the UBI come true.
Although the specific cause -- (mode_t)-1 -- is something that you can't really do in many languages. So you'd likely have to write 0777 or equivalent explicitly down, making it so much more obvious what a bad idea that is.
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I agree. But a lot of people want to own the car because they want it to be clean and not used but others in a way they wouldn't.
I stand corrected. The inherited membership via GATT.
Active discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13470049
Yes. And of course, you still need to write a decent compiler to produce decent code.

The situation is similar to Lisp macros: yes, you can implement Prolog in Common Lisp in a few lines, but no, it won't be a fully featured and fast production system, unless you actually put in the work. (Paul Graham's 'On Lisp' makes these excellent points in the chapter on the Prolog interpreter.)

Of course, you might want to go all the way to dependent typing. I think one of Ysabelle or Idris actually compile to 'low-level' languages like Haskell by default?

The main benefit I would like to see in Haskell is totality / termination of programs by default, and hiding Turing completeness behind something like unsafePerformCompute. Similar, we could split IO into IOReadWrite and IOReadOnly.

The former would be the same as the old IO, the latter's actions could depend on the environment but wouldn't be allowed to influence it (or weaker: would at least require idempotence?)---thus allowing more scope for optimization and human understanding when reading code.
If you are on a systemd system, you can check your version with

$ init --version
systemd 231
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT -GNUTLS -ACL +XZ -LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID -ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN
I wonder how important (in %) is that cost in relation to TCO of the equipment (and actually running the datacenter)

Not disagreeing, just finding this information interesting
I stand corrected. They inherited membership via GATT.

My information was based on the founding of the WTO in 1995 after the UK had joined the EU.
That looks very nice, I've been looking for places to put my backups, though I'm using Restic, is there any information on supporting that? Their documentation/faq pages don't work properly...
> Why would I even bother "owning" a car?

Talk about superficial thinking.

Half the time I get in the car it's for a spur-of-the-moment run to the store.

And while the bus stops 300 ft from my house I've never ridden it.

I don't want my car off earning money when I need it for something important like running up to Home Depot so I can finish whatever project I'm working on.

"The ideal state of a resource is idle and ready for work."
general brand name yes, but most don't even know how Rolex logo looks like, nor can they recognize their series apart from other manufacturers
I've got 4 TB's worth of photo's (All raw) and want them backed up.

With Crashplan Family: 160 per year. With the cheapest rsync.net: 1500 dollar's per year.

Yeah, not in 1500 years.
I think the headphone jack lava is more a pulseaudio bug
iPhone 7 jet black. Have used an iPhone since the first one came out; upgrading to almost every model (think I skipped one of the 3s).

It's just to the point where I've become so invested / spent so much money in the ecosystem it doesn't make sense to switch to anything else. I stay with it for the UI; the (getting better) integration with Mac OS. It's comfortable; I know it and it's reliable.
Apparently it does support KeePassHTTP, if you recompile it with a special flag: https://keepassxreboot.github.io/project
I imagine some years from now a high demand for this by tattoo removal clinics.
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> There have been a number of consoles that supports OpenGL. No-one ever used it, because the performance wasn't good enough.

That's why there is Vulkan. OpenGL doesn't offer enough control to address such cases and isn't even designed to be parallelized.
> many engineers get to have very intellectually fulfilling jobs.

As long as it is a job it is a form of slavery.
Could instead use FireFox on Android, which will allow you to install plugins, so you can have adblocking.
That's my life too.
I'm sorry but that is fundamentally incorrect (and shows a big knowledge gap).

Interesting article though, thank you for posting it.
They're neither children nor refugees. Please stop with fake news. We had enough problems in Europe last year because of this. Thanks.
Currently using B2 for syncing my restic backups. It's pretty nice and cheap even compared to AWS Glacier.
And assuming that A) the docs for the libraries do exist, and B) that, if the docs do exist, they don't look like the output of a million coked-up monkeys, that was then run through an automatic javadoc generator.

It's just staggering how shitty a lot of documentation is. I can forgive a one-person github repo for skimping on it, but I get a little irate when I'm using APIs from Fortune 500s and have to resort to decompiling because their docs are missing, incomplete, incorrect, or otherwise hot garbage.
jregehr recently wrote an interesting article about just this subject: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1446
Indeed. It's easy to imagine urban centres replacing internal traffic with a fleet of self-driving cars. If you're coming from somewhere else, park & ride.
> start a commune,

That does not mean you are not part of the capitalist society anymore. You have to get enough capital to get land and you will have to continue paying taxes.
Thanks, do you integrate it with any other systems?
Ask HN: How do you constructively criticize your employees?
Hello HN,

I started a small one man company with time as I gained more customers I got another person to help me with the programming.

But since then I find myself doing more work trying to fix his code and trying to get him to work in a way that doesn't upset our workflows.

Shamefully on my part, I get really angry and I want to scream at the poor guy but I don't want to make him feel bad. When I get angry I end up taking a few mins off my work to calmn down and then get back to work and try to help him. Or I end up doing his work for him.

How do you guys deal with situations like this, how do you help people get better and make them better programmers without making them feel bad? What do you do when you are angry about the quality of work of someone?

I am honestly a bit scared I get angry, since this is me managing just one person, I have more projects I want to work on so I will need to get more people in, and I don't want to be the sort of person that screams and terrifies people, but instead someone who helps build people.
OpenGL wasn't portable enough to be performant at the same time, for several reasons. I'm talking about Vulkan, not about OpenGL and its troubles in the past. Vulkan addresses the issues which you mentioned.
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That would prevent 2to3 from seeing them, though.
> There might be tariffs, and there might be concerns about moving data between the EU and a non-EU country.

More specifically there are concerns about storing EU-citizen data outside the physical EU and in ways which could not comply with the requirements of EU privacy laws.
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Luminal boom, surely?
what's your setup for incremental (supposedly encrypted) backups on Amazon?
Tell that to The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-c...
Actually all evidence of the campaign suggest that Corbyn and advisors were pretty strongly in favour of Brexit but couldn't be open about it - they pretty much had the 1970s view of the EEC/EU as a "capitalist plot".

See: "All Out War" by Tim Shipman:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01I9AEIPU/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...

[Edit: Absolutely fantastic book - it doesn't take sides at all and is pretty damming about everyone involved with the possible exception of Dominic Cummings (who had a blog article here on HN a few days ago)]
Please be elaborate satire.
Makes sense, from a usability PoV, thanks.
You're missing the point of the article. It's for the average Joe Public personal computer user who probably has no idea how to secure their own computer. The article isn't aimed at businesses.
Op seems to be right when even Wikipedia points out the liberal / left bias of the paper.

"The editorial stance of the newspaper is liberal and generally of centre-left,..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCddeutsche_Zeitung
Tesla:

> Because of the damage caused by the collision, the car was physically incapable of transmitting log data to our servers and we therefore have no way of knowing whether or not Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash.

Well that is even more troubling. Looking past the suspicious lack of logs from the car in the incident, it should be a rock hard lose-your-business-license requirement for any kind of autonomy in cars, that the log data is preserved in accidents. I can imagine very few scenarios where a black box type of device could not be salvaged from a wrecked car.

EDIT: From the wording, it seems like it may actually have been the 'transmitting' of the data that was impossible. That would make things even worse, if Tesla could not even be bothered to requisition the car data (through legal means if necessary) in a case where a bug in their software may have killed someone.
https://github.com/iridium-browser/iridium-browser/commits/m... says last commits of actual code was from Oct 2016...
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This is just a quick app that I put together for uploading temporary files up to 1 gigabyte for free. The files expire after 24 hours.

https://tempfile.cloud

It took about 3 hours to get this up and running, my design skills are quite limited, so that was the most time-consuming part.

It is built on Aurelia, uses Node.js as the backend and Amazon S3 for the file storage.
It will be great if it can be used for individual backup needs with the help of an awesome desktop app like their desktop consumer backup app. (Arq doesn't fit my needs).

Or with something like Borg.
The whole point is to make sure you can actually get to a browser that can access "A" sites, so it's not representative.
> No-one claims that gamedevs see lock-in as something positive

Not according to pjmlp apparently, who tried to claim lock-in doesn't even exist, except in the mind of FOSS developers.
In its most basic form it just requires a key file and an algorithm. But I agree that more complex operations need some DB.
I suspect it will be one factor but when combined with the possibility that the market for these data centers might turn out just to be the UK I can see why they might take a conservative approach.
The keyword here is "intentional community", and there's a long history of people trying to make it work and sometimes succeeding nicely.

But neither farming nor technology is key to making it work. The challenges in decreasing order of size are: interpersonal (requires a lot more collaborative effort and management of drama than you'd expect); legal/administrative (you still need to pay e.g. property tax & comply with building codes & farming law); cashflow (you still need to buy from outside, especially if you're hightech); and only then the day to day of growing food (which may be more labour than you or the community is used to).

On the <100 people scale it's like having roommates who are also co-workers. Hence the tendency for intentional communities to come with some level of cultishness to ensure the community sticks together without being pulled apart by individuality.
Yeah. It's like they are applying blindly flat principle without any taste for something nice or pleasant to look at. Maybe in the future, we will go back to something like this.
The truth, by definition, is one and the same for everyone.
>if the AI gets stuck in such a deadlock it'll be stuck forever, because nobody gives you side, you have to force someone to stop

Well, a sufficiently advanced AI would be able to "force someone to stop".

Perhaps the tolerable accidents rate will be increased for India.

Or, even simpler, India wont get self-driving cars -- the same way countries in the developing world don't get lots of modern services and/or conveniences until they have the infrastructure for them.
You’re right, I hadn’t taken that into account.
> But no matter how you slice it if you want to support multiple graphics APIs you do have to pay a tax in doing the QA and possibly custom development for each one.

Because the portability of APIs like OpenGL only happens in theory when you restrain yourself to a specific set of hardware.

The combinatory explosion of vendor extensions, driver bugs, shading language differences across versions and drivers, differences between OpenGL and OpenGL ES, force any studio that wants to keep sanity in their code, to write an OpenGL adaption layer anyway.

So if one if forced to write an adaptation layer anyway, then better go for the API that properly exposes all hardware features with less bugs and better tooling support.

This is one reason that while there are third party OpenGL wrappers to game consoles, or even first party ones like on the PS3, no one bothers to use them.

Taking the PS3 as an example, OpenGL ES doesn't define how to take advantage of the SPUs, other than via extensions anyway, thus making the code PS3 specific even if OpenGL ES is being use.

While at the same time less performant than the PS3 native API due to the OpenGL ES driver semantics.
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> Because Cameron never considered for a second he could lose the referendum. He was an idiot.

Was he an idiot? Or did he figure that, if he did lose the referendum, he needed to put as many obstacles between the result and the actual Brexit as he could?
Vulkan was influenced by DX12 designs not the other way around, Vulkan is currently lagging behind.
Mantle was written by Johan Andersson and as a result of DICE working on FB3 for the XboxOne.

The Vulkan spec diverges quite a bit from Mantle and is considerably closer to DX12, and again this isn't because DX12 somehow copies Vulkan, but because quite a few of the people involved like Niklas Smedberg and Aras Pranckevicius have been working with the XboxOne/PS4 for quite a while.
No, but ads will.
If you do some more research you will find that some people will indeed be forced off their land if he gets his way. They will be compensated but they will be forced off their land. There is a major difference as these people aren't interested in revenue, some of them haven't even been made aware they need to appear in court.

The following write up explains the issue in more detail and there are countless more articles and blog posts explaining the situation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mark-zuckerberg-kauai-la...

Mark is greedy because it's just a holiday house that he doesn't really need to own. He is just causing a bunch of people grief so he can have his own way and his own playground. Ironically he wants privacy (haha). He is bullying people with lawyers and money.

If he wants to be Gordon Gecko type figure, be Gordon Gecko. But this generous philanthropist angle is a hoax when he is behaving like this.
Let's face it Corbyn is probably the worst Labour leader since Michael Foot
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> I think the reason is, people hate other people's freedom.

Most people, even if they don't like the actual system, are 'invested' in it and don't want any change. Changing rules in the middle of the game would take any meaning (already residual) from their past life strategy. All would have been just a big waste of time.
> Why would I even bother "owning" a car? What the more reasonable approach is time-sharing of multiple vehicles, like Uber.

A huge problem remains though : how do you avoid having dirty/smelly/broken cars all the time when everybody is sharing cars ? People are usually way more cautious with there own stuff than with others'.

The city bike-sharing systems around the world usually chose «indestructible» bikes to deal with this problem, but as a result you get a really heavy and uncomfortable bike and I don't think you could do this for cars anyway: no matter how robust is your car, spilled drinks or food on the seats are still a pain … This kind of system definitely needs a way to avoid the tragedy of the commons.

Elinor Ostrom[1] showed that there are mechanisms to regulate this efficiently, but you need to actively deploy them and it's better not be an afterthought.

If you do nothing and let people be toxic human beings, you'll end up with shared cars in worst shape than public transport (because in public transport you have a kind of social pressure that limits the bad behaviors)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom
I have submitted before, but got no love :-(

What's different? it supports attachments, works great on mobiles. Has local storage for keeping up to 10 inboxes and supports socket.io for instant msg retrieval. Written in nodejs, mongo, and haraka.
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humorous that Google is facilitating installing Windows.
I have seen a couple of news on communal violence (resulted in death) originating from a facebook post, is there any statistics on that?