skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everybody sticked more or less to the rules and if there are no severe injuries/very costly damages, then it's really just compensation costs.

I don't know the exact situation in the US (also I'm no lawyer or something), but in Germany when some kind of Negligence is involved people can lose their drivers licence temporarily or forever, may have to pay fines (on top of compensations) or even have to go to jail. (Edit: also a costly Medical-psychological assessment may be needed afterwards to be able to drive again in the future.)

Coming back to the costs, it's also interesting to say that insurances usually cover sums 1 - 20 millions. That's how much damage a single person can easily do with a car.

It's said that it's a plus that self-driving cars are somehow interconnected and learning from each other. You may argue they are thus one entity and may have to be insured like that. Ok, but that's maybe a bit too esoteric now... ;)
Why deal with these issues when there are great Windows 10 options from many vendors?
Lesson learnt: Much better to defend slavery without ad hominem than use a bad word.
Isn't googling more work than answering and hanging up if it's a robot?
Which is why it is so important that written knowledge survives civilizations, so that future generations can learn from the past.

With our current focus on digital media and "cloud", there won't be anything left in 2100 years for people to have a blick of what we are doing.
Actually, the phone call has been considered dead for a number of years now.

https://www.wired.com/2010/07/st_thompson_deadphone/
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Do most GUI toolkit whinges ever come to accept the fact that most of these issues would go way if Trolltech/Qt/Digia/Nokia would actually bite the bullet and create a simple C interface to the C++ that even other C++ compilers cannot link cleanly to?

C++ and its co conspirator Javascript have done so much to hinder programming development over the past 20 years.

Linux has been round for over and there isn't a decent opensource graphical debugger for Linux that Visual Studio will have to step in some time in the future. All this is soooo depressing.
I'm here for the same exact reason. I wonder why Medium attracts that kind of content? Why are people into reading and sharing that kind of stuff? I wonder how much of media metrics are real and meaningful vs. how much of it is forgotten a day later and meaningless after that?
- Advertorials. When it does work well: The Onion?

https://contently.com/strategist/2016/05/23/dont-make-a-comm...
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Windows laptops are hit and miss as well, nothing new, move along. Maybe when windows becomes Linux fully, I'll switch.

These described MBP glitches sound bad but don't sound like a trip to the neighborhood Apple Store couldn't fix.
The smartphone is a concept, a portable computer with Internet connectivity and a touch screen as a primary mode of interaction. I don't think we should limit our thinking to it's actual form. The key bit is the portable, connected computer. How we interact with it and the form of the actual device is hopefully going to evolve.
Facts: Hacker News gets a ton of articles posted from Medium, but very few of them get to the front page. Last time I measured there had been 4,108 posts from medium.com in 2017 (largest source of news for HN), but less than 3% of them got some upvote traction.

So you seem to be sharing a similar sentiment towards Medium than the rest of the HN readers.

(Even posting tweets to HN gets them double the attention than a random Medium post)

https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...
No, I said I could have drawn that comparison, but I wasn't going to, because it would be silly, just as knocking a cool project down because its creators aren't native English speakers is silly.
Why do you think that is? Is it something about our times, people in general, or having nothing better to say?
If I'm wrong tell me how.
The way iOS abstracts the filesystem away from user-view makes this less of an issue than it otherwise would be but still a good find by the author, as an aside surely I'm not the only one who thought of [1] when I read "APFS now treats all files as a bag of bytes on iOS" ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7xc_XqYO8
A misspelling, as Google will quickly confirm.
I've had great success with LSTMs for time series classification.
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I'm sorry it went badly then.

Your example intrigues me, isn't an interface enough?

Is what bother you that the return value won't be typed T but IIncrementable in go?
"After seizing a shipment of Stanley's Snake Oil in 1917 [Medium blog posts in 2017], federal investigators found that it primarily contained mineral oil, a fatty oil believed to be beef fat, red pepper and turpentine. That's right — Stanley's [Medium's] signature product did not contain a drop of actual snake oil [novelty], and hundreds of consumers discovered they had been had."

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377/...
He is not trying to excuse it though, he is highlighting a regional difference in culture and perspective that happens even within US borders, which is a valuable contribution to discussion. It should lead to a further exchange of views and perspectives by the people involved, not to punishment.
I believe James Brown at one time had business cards printed with "himself" as title.
I think it's reasonable to question the supposed invincibility of this thing, so not sure why you have been downvoted. These planes generally rely on a cumbersome sea borne platform which is a pretty juicy target for a hypersonic missile, and advances in radar systems are challenging stealth. If this type of weapons system is made obsolete by advances in technology or strategy that's a lot of eggs in one basket. However I don't doubt DARPA etc are coming up with weird and wonderful new concepts also. But the ingenuity and motivation of the Russians, Chinese etc. should not be underestimated. In certain areas their capabilities are superior.
I haven't ever said that there aren't other easy-to-use tools also.
I needed a small, convenient tool to obtain certificates which removes the effort of DNS check, ...
And I want to share this with you.
You have the option to do it manually, of course - full power to the programmer! However...

If you don't want to track pointer lifetimes, you can use interfaced objects, which are reference counted. There are tradeoffs there, but you get to choose them.

The Lazarus IDE is setup out of the box to have debug builds include heaptrc - running your program in debug mode gives you a printout of anything you forgot to free. This is what I've been using.

Do you have a particular example or data structure you're interested in? I'd be glad to help determine if FPC/Lazarus fits your use case.
They were distinct concepts, my great grandfather had both [1], so maybe in those other languages they didn't overlap in use like they did in America. For timing I found them in his address book he brought to France in WW1.

1. https://imgur.com/gallery/GNdcj
Don't Mac apps already have to deal with network and FAT32 drives? Or does macOS already normalize those?
Pre-decrement vs. post-decrement, etc.
Thanks. That's what I meant. I thought that counted as native.
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Opium is the most beneficial plant known to man.
Your solutions are wrong:
If opium isn't banned, everyone can grow poppies and enjoy natural opium latex. Nobody would use fentanyl. It wouldn't even be produced. And, yes, it cures alcohol addiction. Ethanol is a poison, morphine is a medicine.
I always wonder myself when I get to read ancient manuscripts and get to compare with modern days.

As humans we always lived a kind of ups and downs, regarding use of technology, relationships among countries, how open/closed the societies used to be, how travelling was seen and so on.

For example, in the ancient world there was already a kind of Erasmus, as Greek medicine students used to spend a few years with Egyptian doctors before getting back home and start practising.
>Only a few of the games I've backed ended up in a product that I would've bought

I don't have any special insight but I get the feeling that this is how very many game development investments pan out. Generally I think it's safe to say that commercial software projects are hyped and oversold.

It becomes most galling with games because they are software that people WANT to engage with, rather than being forced to.
Oh, I'll get right on that, then!

Right after I invent cold fusion and stop sarcasm on the internet! (Besides which, I do not believe anyone can know why secretive agencies in governments assassinate people, if you had been reading...)
I mostly agree with you, but how is this astroturfing? As in, who is either directly paying for / causing this article to be published?

It seems like this is just a traditional person supporting traditional things - i.e. actual support, not astroturfed.
I rather move to linux than to Windows, I'd say I am definitely not the only developer to say so.
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Fine, but you're saying that as though you assume I downvoted him, I didn't. My comment was from before his edit
After moto g2 I'm never ever buying a motorolla phone again. Ever.

Constant crashes, hangups, it takes 5 minutes to power on. I'm not alone, the internet is filled with people having the same issues. The updates to newer android versions made everything even worse. Worst phone ever, and I bought it because os the astroturfing on the internet.
I think that a car accident is the wrong example to reason about autonomous cars and their accidents. A better example would be a toaster that starts a fire, in that case the important questions are, was the manufacturer negligent and was the owner negligent. If neither, then the insurance company will just regulate the damages and nobody goes to jail.

That is also a model that works well for autonomous cars, probably with some kind of licensing of the car and a mandatory insurance. The thing is, we do not need to deter a autonomous vehicle from speeding or driving under the influence, we can directly program it to respect speed limits and not drink.
The first release candidate of Cropper.js v1.0.0 has been released
OP here. Thanks for saying that. Hard to disagree.
You are being very naive at best. There is at least a couple of problems with current Microsoft:

1) Windows is still closed source, their OpenDocument support is broken, and Secure Boot gives them an amount of power incomparable to anyone else in the industry: https://nudgedelastic.band/2016/01/i-am-still-not-buying-the...

2) DirectX 12 is Windows Store exclusive and it will never be possible to use DX12 apps on e.g. Wine: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft...

3) Patents: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3042699/open-source-tools/m... http://www.infoworld.com/article/2841412/open-source-softwar... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890580

Of course, all of these things are legal.
The game plan is easy to decipher. Bring them all in and have them appreciate the features we have, then start charging to ween off the non-serious bloggers. So ultimately, they are streamlining the user base of their platform.
>China is facing a demographic catastrophe.

you didn't refute that. you just said "life on the ground today is good." That's why its called a cliff. Things are pretty good right up to the moment you fall off.

>FYI: minimum wage in most Chinese cities for an unskilled foreigner with any kind of get up and go is 200CNY/hr

But that's not the same thing as minimum wage. Many many Chinese people earn less than that. When you're a Chinese person you can't just hit up your mate on wechat for some bullshit English teaching job whenever you want beer money.
"The short answer is: if you're a minority, yes. If you're white, no"

You may want to re-read what you typed again. Perhaps you meant something else.
Angular is a huge framework with a very OO style written by java devs. You have to learn many things to be productive with it, including a really weird string templating language.

The most funny thing probably is the typescript sale pitch (I use and like typescript) where you actually don't beneficiate from typescript at all with half of angular (string templates means no type checking or intelliSense on component names, model properties, component apis, etc)

It's also pretty fat and not exactly performant. It's simply a no-no on mobile. Its niche use case seems to be backend developers who know OO well, FP not so much, developing low/average quality back-office apps quickly without having to care about what's going on behind the scene.

The angular core devs always favor magic and shortcuts over simplicity. Its API surface is enormous, so have fun keeping up with the versions.
It's optimized to get started quickly and be decently productive as long as you only use the core directives.

It's not terrible, but it's just not good if you care about the UX and maintainability of your app.
>But how realistic is it that we have self-driving cars without a backup human operator anytime soon?

The whole, "in case of emergency, grab the wheel" is just a legal formality. If you are not actively driving you won't be in a state of mind to be able to do that.

I think eventually there will be enough data to show that a human behind the wheel does absolutely nothing to prevent a crash.
Yes, people travelled a lot, specially merchants, that is also how Alexandria got many of its manuscripts.

The biggest difference was that nothing was assured about the safety of the travel.
> it has become the go-to site for tech musings written by unpaid people who can't be bothered to set up their own blogs.

This is it for me. If you want to write about tech, or the tech scene, and especially web tech, why can't you just build a site? I've built a few and I don't even do web development for a living so I had to teach myself some stuff.
Serious question: would it not be better to make opioid painkillers available again, rather that have people substitute with heroin or worse?
Fully agree. Replied in a different place, same arguments apply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13955241
Just read an interesting strategy for dealing with robocalls: answer and immediately mute yourself. They will assume it's a dead line and take you off the list.

Or do what I do and answer every unknown call with "911. What's the location of your emergency?"
No it doesn't. 50 years from now we'll be struggling with the consequences of climate change, and its fair to say the us gov has dropped the ball on that issue. The us gov is comprised of people who deny climate change is a real problem. Wait, this is sounding really familiar...
Wait, there's no charging light anymore? That's actually pretty sad. I like that on mine.
This is right. Sorry about that. In the future, I'll try to avoid editing a comment after someone else has commented on it.
I want to make the gzipped contents of my file it's name and leave the actual contents blank or whatever metadata. Thanks apfs!
There was a period where closing the GWX dialog counted as consent. Imagine arriving to your computer after that and seeing the win 10 EULA and we have updated to Windows 10, please accept this eula or go through the time consuming and potentially unsuccessful rollback procedure. Hardly counts as uncorced
With a sampling rate of 2 on the diagonal, you'd have a rate of 2.828 on the axes, with a square grid (2 * sqrt(2)). Unless I'm missing something.

Agreed about the complications of the hexagonal grid. We make implicit assumptions everywhere. Though I'm not sure they are insurmountable for some purposes; with graphics APIs like OpenGL, texture coordinates and samplers could be using a hexagonal grid relatively transparently. That would allow use of hexagonal displays even if the texture data is square.
Is it too late to queue the joke about it being 500k lines because the lack of generics and the resulting code-generation?

Reading about projects with 100+ types of collections can certainly lead you to think so.
strange, nobody i know use Google to chat or video call, some members of our family use Viber, i convinced few to Signal so they can talk to me, pretty much everyone has Skype but most of the people use it just on desktop and then when I would ask people around everyone use WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, but Google communication apps are pretty much dead here around me in Europe somewhere slightly higher than Signal but much much lower than Skype in popularity

BTW what is so awful about Skype Lite interface? a bit more cluttered than Viber, WhatsApp or Signal, but still ok compared to Messenger nobody has problem with judging by popularity
'Unavoidable' is marketing hyperbole.

Still very very early but Gene therapy will allow us to be more proactive and reduce/eliminate risk of identifiable cellular/genomic dysfunctions.
There's no need for a charging light because it's USB-C, so you know whether it's plugged in or not. Whereas with the MagSafe it could be only partially connected, and the only way to know that was the light. You still need to know whether the plug is actually plugged into the wall, but you can just look at the menu bar for that.
Less job creation.
Thanks for pointing this out. It is really good and important to know Ada's weak points. OTOH I agree that there is a great deal to like.
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> there is a huge gap in the enterprise software market for a simple cross-platform app framework with intuitive ways to interface to SQL and web APIs

I'd say that's the target market for Delphi. It's expensive but effective.
> Things are much easier for the file system if it can just treat names as bags of bytes.

And much, much harder for applications if that "bag of bytes" is an invalid UTF-8 sequence. You will end up with an invalid string (or an exception), and trying to open that file will then fail.

I'd really hope that Apple checks that the filenames are valid UTF-8 as they otherwise can end up with very interesting security bugs.
"with the intent to distribute" is what you need to figure out how to explain to a hiring manager (if that's on your record like that, I have no idea how detailed that information might be). Questions like what were you thinking, did you know the law, the consequences, etc. The hiring manager probably couldn't care less about drugs, they want to assess your ability to make judgements.

In any case, I'd suggest you keep your dev skills above average. That will help make this situation less important. With a shortage of skilled professionals, certain things can be ignored provided they aren't too blatant (or are shown to have improved).
Hope this time the encouraging development does not end like Sirtris Pharmaceuticals story. Wishing Dr Sinclair in the ground breaking research he is doing. Question - will big pharma be really interested in anti-aging?
Even with normalization, you can just sprinkle an arbitrary selection of non breaking zero width space characters into a string and create an infinite variety of identical-looking but distinct codepoint sequences. Treating filenames as bundles of bytes is fine, but at that point it seems dangerous to assume that interpreting them as encoded strings is a valid way of distinguishing them.
The human being the wheel is actually intervening kind of a lot. That's the issue not legalese.
In other news, statistics from 2014[1] suggest that since the autonomous car crash was reported yesterday (11:29pm EST, Mar24), 9 people were killed by human drivers under the influence of an intoxicant of some kind.

Autonomous vehicles will have challenges that human drivers do not -- like software vulnerabilities -- but those are problems worth overcoming if it means that poor decision making by humans can be reduced.

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[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6430a2.htm
Why does CL feature an ascii rendering of the golden menorah?
anecdotal but had chronic sinusitis , allopathy mentioned only surgery as last option and that would also comeback after 5 to 6 years added sleep apnea. 3 months of regular Ayurveda and 12 days intense treatment. No issues now and very happy.
I mean, an article about a picture that doesn't show or even link the picture? Come on Bloomberg.
Its 2017 and we developers still don't have an OS/Laptop combo that delights us. Its a series of compromises, particularly with linux.

I'm wondering why there isn't a linux on laptop combo thats just great. Lack of resources? Demand? Is linux so fragmented that it can't martial the dev effort on laptops?
Who knows. But it seems damm sure that the first successful use case isn't going to be a self driving taxi if they do ever exist. It's arguably the most difficult of the common use cases. Uber's strategy seems literally insane.
I meant that despite the claim that C++ is a general purpose language, it is not popular among average developers. People would choose for a new project C#, Java, Go, Python, Scala or Javascript, but not C++.
I've just told older Chinese that the Taiwanese don't want to be a part of China and they tend to give it another thought.
There's an entire subculture of fake "you can do anything" motivational stuff on the web. The purveyors are direct descendants of Tony Robbins and Dale Carnegie and whoever was selling that stuff before him.
Clearly this article upsets a lot of people but it ties together two important issues: One is that economics drives SV's best efforts towards the problems of the affluent. This gets extra flack because of all the (mostly hollow) talk of "changing the world" you hear from every startup CEO.

The second issue is that as science advances, there are fewer important problems that can be solved with a quick technology fix, and there remain a huge pile of problems that require political solutions. From what I've seen, those are much harder problems to solve, which suggests an upper limit on how far we can invent our way into a better future.
There is a missing product in the market right now. These high-end GPUs are all designed to fit into decade old computer cases. The pcb and chips are tiny and thin, you should be able to throw the actual guts of a GPU like a frisbee. GPU manufacturers should be designing external GPUs, instead of consumers having to purchase enclosures and power supplies for GPUs still designed to go into pc cases.
This is definitely a stumble for Apple, that much is beyond debate.

But as someone who uses both 2012 MBP and new HP Win10 laptops every day for work and play, let me say this: the Windows world might seem suddenly enticing, but you will NOT find greener pastures there, on average. That ecosystem is still a mess.
I really dislike the new keyboard and it might be the reason I end up returning my new MBP. The key presses feel inconsistent (escape/arrow keys need a harder press for no clear reason), the tactile feedback isn't great... I wish I waited until the next MBP generation while they fix it.
Most importantly, APFS is first being rolled out to iOS where this isn't as much of a problem because the user never really sees the filesystem anyway.