skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm skeptical about the business model in general, not related to any recent scandal.

The leaked financials[1] seem to indicate it's a losing proposition until self driving cars are relatively ubiquitous.

So whenever it does become financially viable, there's a pretty long payback cycle. And no obvious iron clad moat that keeps competitors at bay...ones that aren't under pressure to pay back investors for years of subsidized prices.

Of course, the leaked data is incomplete, and using unusual accounting, so perhaps I'm wrong.

[1] http://gawker.com/here-are-the-internal-documents-that-prove... and http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...
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To be fair, that has more to do with everyone now having mini super-computers in their possession distracting them than with speed limits.
An open question is how much the transition to the "knowledge economy" is changing how we work, and how we build our communities. Communities built solely around manufacturing are suffering today, while we see soaring demand for our dense urban areas (which they struggle to keep up with). This can be seen as the next progression from hunter gatherer, to agricultural, to manufacturing-centered cities.

Should we expect this to continue, or will the knowledge economy come to smaller cities, too? Will VR and telecommuting affect this trend?
the only relevant items here are arguments again mission critical software at large, not self-driving cars.
Couldn't understand, too, if their lives were terminated on purpose or all couldn't survive outside the environment. I'd appreciate any insight of it.
I'm not surprised that someone with a psychopathic desire to inconvenience people would seek employment in government bureaucracy.
You must learn to differentiate legality from morality.
For one, because where you go to college and whether the school has some student level "activism" about climate change has zero (or even negative) impact on actual climate change.
Which is really sad, because (and I say that as a hard core auto driver) riding a bike through the city significantly lowers your death risk (also by health benefits) as long as there are bike lanes.

Bike riders also solve traffic jams (by NOT going bar car), make cities more silent and more liveable, bring more business to local stores and restaurants etc.
Sketch.app name similarity with SketchUp can be a source of some confusion.
Very interesting thread. I would like to read answers for B2B.
And even at the historic lows, numerous studies suggest fatality rates would be even lower if we'd stuck to the national 55/65 speed limits.
I've designed and built a few of these. I've heard both sides of the argument (digital/analog). I find analog better in every way, but in my experience those who prefer digital time pickers are definitely vocal.

I've typically created a user config option in any app I've designed so the user can choose whether time pickers are digital or analog.

EDIT: I see that clicking on the numbers at the top pull up a dropdown, which I think is a nice touch. Designs in the past I've opted for a double-click or double-tap to activate the keyboard so user can type in the number if they wish.
If reducing speed is really desired, there are other ways:

- make roads narrower (either by optical illusion with narrower painted lanes or physically)

- reduce stretches of straight road: traffic circles are great at breaking up a straight line

- remove all straight lines from highways, making them perpetually in a slight curve. This is something that has been done in many place in Europe for newer highways. This breaks up the monotony of being on a straight stretch of highway and therefore feeling the need to drive faster. As an example, notice the slight curves in the limited access highway (A5) and compare to the 2-lane road that runs parallel to it (D605) in segments of straight lines:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/A5,+France/@48.4802471,2.7...
Agree. One thing I've never understood is why people ever thought it was a good idea to combine vehicle, foot, and bicycle traffic on essentially the same roads. Side walks are just another lane.

Communities need to enforce zoning that makes certain areas (malls, downtown, etc.) pedestrian areas only. Additionally, separate bicycle traffic onto different paths.

That would probably increase safety quite a bit.
That seems definitely possible. I think what the team was worried about is sticker shock -- $19/month might translate to something in the region of $200-250 for the scheme you propose. Does that sound bearable?
I feel like there should be an internet wide ban on comparing Sweden and Norway to the US, China, India or Russia or, hell pretty much anywhere.

Obligatory Reference to wit: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/08/29/will_everyo...
Which is really the deans and provost growing a power base that is dependent on them. They do not want to be dependant on a large group of influential professors. Better to foster a workforce of neutered adjuncts overseen by administrators who are not technically competent, and so design administrative regimes that avoid addressing issues of technical competence at all. The IRB is a prime example of this: people with a high school education provide administrative oversight of researchers working at the outer limits of human knowledge. It's insanity.
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>Not everything is about aiming for the lowest common denominator with the most profitable market.

No, but Facebook level businesses are.

>Random funny pics and cheeseburgers will always be greater markets, but that is irrelevant.

And so is Flickr in the context of the grandparent's comment.

>Nobody killed Flickr. It could use some interface and feature improvements, and probably some new administrators or project teams, but it's still there doing what it does.

Killing for a social medium, even more so a business-run social medium, is not about not being able to do "what it does".

It's about being unable to monetize it, it losing mind-share, people moving away, the action getting elsewhere etc.
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UK SURVIVED NAZI threat because of Land Lease and eventually US pouring resources into beating back Nazi and Japanese threat.
>...Let's be fair: Mayer didn't have a real chance at fixing this company

As a user, I found almost all of the changes made to sites like I once used (like the main page or flickr, or the finance page) to be worse than before she was there.

She did some very bad hires such as Henrique de Castro who in 15 months got over 100 million in salary, stock and severance.

She wasted billions on acquisitions that did not add value.

The comments from Yahoo employees since she was hired were never very good, and her behavior with employees was said to sometimes be somewhat bizarre (such as reading a children's book at a comm meeting)

I agree that she likely never had a real chance at fixing the company, but I don't think that proves that no one couldn't have improved the company.
It's anxiety-inducing for me just to look at. I would never work at a place with an office environment that looked like this.
Be careful what you wish for. It sounds like you want camera traps which issue tickets with the apathetic efficiency of a robot.
If you can explain why it's so bad somebody's medical info gets leaked out, I'm all ears. As far as I can tell HIPAA makes medicine more expensive. That's bad!

What if you could opt in to healthcare that was 20% cheaper, but was only subject to contractual promises of medical privacy, not the HIPAA. Would you take the deal?
A better quote, from eminent philosopher Kanye West, would be "Having money isn't everything; not having it is."
Seems like quite a cool app and simple to implement as well. Aligning the images if the phone is not held still could be a problem.
> that clearly implies we should remove the Kim regime

No, it just means we can discuss it without moral censure. There have been lots of multilateral and unilateral interventions, covert and overt, since World War II. Global stability is built on great powers not warring with each other.
That works great for me! Thanks!!
> Traffic cops are reasonable unless they're running behind quota

It's kind of funny to watch on the last two or three days of the month how many of the state troopers are out on the interstate, doing speed traps all day long. The rest of the month, you'll almost never see them, unless they are escorting an oversize load.
Per capita, or per miles driven? My limited experience is that people in the U.S. drive a lot more in general, so per mile driven would be a more meaningful measure of road safety.
You can't turn it off because their service just went down? Sounds like you're dealing with a situation here.
>Quick, what's the reaction time for Waymo's driverless cars? Support your answer with evidence.

>For extra credit: describe what the reaction time is for Waymo's driverless cars are during various points of the garbage collection cycle.

Aight, I'm not familiar with Waymo's cars specifically, but with <10K in hardware (maybe <5K now) you can design and build an autonomous vehicle kit that has a reaction loop that runs at a soft floor of 15 adjustments per second. I'm sure that with better hardware you can increase that to 60+, and 15 per second is already about 5x better than human reaction time, and fast enough that it can react to changes every 6 feet at highway speeds, and every foot at neighborhood speeds. A 60 aps loop means that its recalculating everything every 2 feet your car travels on the highway.

And yes, this isn't incredibly difficult.

For reference, in my experience, running 2 cameras and a low power lidar (along with associated outputs to hardware actuators and such) off of a 2013 (or maybe a 2011) macbook pro, the limiting factor was always the lidar's 15fps framerate.
> "Humans can calculate arithmetic perfectly accurately, why do we need computers to do it for us?"

It's more like humans can think, why should we trust a computer with a task where unforeseen circumstances can arise?

Further, if I got the current state correctly, no self-driving car system so far works in rainy conditions.
I think they are just closing the source as they make it commercial...

Edit: Oh, nevermind - on the home page they explicitly say that they're open source.
I think there's an implied suggestion here that the number on the sign would go up to match the enforcement, not the other way around.
My parents paid for the yahoo mail plus for years. But Yahoo didn't care at all. They offered no way to get the account back.
>In Japan this is definitely true.

To be clear, I included that 1st sentence there for context so the subsequent sentences make sense. Same contextual reason for sentence #4. Yes, Japanese people may think that and yes, non-cognitive skill includes persistence, etc.

>, but taking an entire paragraph

When I'm saying "paragraph" may be false, I'm talking about sentences #2 and #3 and not #1 and #4.
Nice catch. I forgot those categories and collections :-)
> Yeah, let's just ask the engineers who are solving one of the toughest robotics problems ever to rewrite the entire house of cards that is their technology stack without any vulnerabilities.

I did say "very expensive". But yes, if we're serious about correctness, safety, and security, I don't see any other choice. We should scrap the crap and spend the $billions necessary to rebuild it right.

Ideally. We don't really need to go that far. Isolation is possible and not that hard, see Qmail: http://hillside.net/plop/2004/papers/mhafiz1/PLoP2004_mhafiz...

> Of course even machine checked proofs will have trouble finding vulnerabilities that creep in during the specifications stage or exist in the realm of hardware.

I'm no hardware specialist, but you can still prove the correctness of the design of such and such hardware. The actual chips can still fail the specifications, but that's easier to test once you know the design itself is correct.

Also, specifications themselves can be checked. Only the high-level properties must ultimately be decided and reviewed by hand. Not that they won't be complicated or numerous, but that's still much smaller and easier to deal with than the entire implementation.

> How do you isolate your sensors from external input and expect to do anything?

I wasn't talking about the normal sensor input, which of course can be tricked the same way human sensory input can (for instance with a big flash or something). I was thinking about sensor command, such as which way they should be oriented or something. Though I expect most sensors will have no such input, and will only output to the system.
Myspace isn't dead either. I mean I can log in and there are people on there I'm sure.
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Let's add some context.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 129-226k dead

Nazi Holocaust: 4.9-11m dead

Soviet Holodomor: 1.8-7.5m dead

Cambodian Genocide: 1.7-3m dead

Armenian Genocide: 800k-1.5m dead

Vietnam War (all deaths, US period): 1-3m dead

In terms of human death, WMDs have historically been the least of conflict-affected people's worries, compared to starvation and drawn out total war.
...sarcasm?

purport: appear or claim to be or do something, especially falsely; profess.

Would you choose the guy who _purports_ to be an electrician, or the guy who _is_ a licensed electrician?
Despite that this is a heartbreaking story, there's really no evidence to suggest that Uber is responsible for his suicide. We've all had shitty jobs where we felt overworked and perhaps discriminated against, but our actions are our own responsibilities.
I think this needs to be drilled into young drivers heads so the highways of the future have less morons on them.

In fact, I think it needs to go a step further - ALWAYS stay to the right. Only move to the other lane to pass or turn left.
Be careful what you wish for. It sounds like you want camera traps which issue tickets unapologetically and with the relentless efficiency of a robot.
> NURBS (Non-uniform Rational B-Spline)

I believe NURBS stands for Nobody Understands Rational B-Splines [0] :)

[0] http://www.springer.com/productFlyer_978-3-540-61545-3.pdf?S... (pdf)
Do I understand the use-case correctly ? :

1) Create designs in sketch (mainly core components)

2) Code those designs in React that will generate the React translated version of the sketch

3) Use the react generated sketch to build non-core component designs in sketch
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4) When the core design changes, update the react component to match the new designs

5) All the other components in the sketch will automatically start using the new updated sketch component
The bottom line of the article gets it totally backwards: "Raise speed limits, make roads safer." It should really be "design roads for lower speeds, make roads safer".
windows.. meh
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Geographically, Sweden and the US are immensely different. Sweden, as well as most of Europe, is densely populated and has good public transportation infrastructure. The US on the other hand is a very large area with low density and poor public transport.
IIRC it's still like 30-40 % higher when considering distance.
Opera...
Right. It's illegal to exceed the traffic limit. It's immoral to speed excessively in way that causes needless risk of physical harm to other people.
For purposes of the thought experiment, assume the distribution of severity is roughly the same between the two.
A human is behind an account. There need to be ways to recover an account when certain measures fail with non-tech savvy folk like my elderly parents. Yahoo offered no way to recover the account.
55? That's ridiculous! Sure, it'll save a few lives, but millions will be late!
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CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS

Also, I'm suspecting you're not a Spanish speaker, so I guess it's okay to discount a channel that over 10% of the US has utility for.

Cable TV is a relatively recent invention, has quickly declining subscription rates, and has always been billed as premium.
> [...] the maintenance headaches with MySQL started to have negative effects on our teams morality [...]

As a general observation, "morality" (eg moral values) might be the wrong word there. Guessing you're meaning "morale" (?), which is more like "how happy our team members are".

That minor nitpick aside though, thanks for sharing. :)
That's misleading on purpose.

"Houseold" accounts for children, single income families, and ignore benefits and unemployment. Last but not least, it's scaled for the UK, not London.

If you are a male in your 20-40, living in London, being the source of income for your household. 70k couldn't be further from rich.
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about what I say

Why are you posting here then?
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My Nexus 6p takes amazingly good photos - I rarely use an SLR now.

The main problem I have is that it shuts down after 10-30 minutes of use - no help from google. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=227849
Makes me want an iPhone. (see below Huawei might be fixing)
I stumbled upon this presentation to local city leadership by the police department (https://youtu.be/BJNCCAJUEgM?t=9m36s). The commentary by the police contradicts some of these facts from this article but I would have to assume there is a vested interest in saying "pulling people over more saves lives." There are likely many variables at play so its hard to say what truly helps prevent accidents...
"If every car sets its cruise control at the same speed" I wish cruise control use was more common on the highway than it appears to me, at least in eastern Massachusetts. I don't want to play passing games; I just want to leave my cruise control set at the speed limit.

Instead, many people seem content to do a bad job modulating their speed with the pedal on hills, and average just under the speed limit instead; or swerve like a maniac across as many lanes as it takes to get ahead a few car lengths. It's really frustrating.
Some of this may be due to the skillset to obtain a license in most states in the US is a quick written test and a 15 minute driving test in a parking lot, whereas other countries require actual studies, hand-on road instruction, and about 30x more cost ($32 for Georgia vs ~$1000 for many European countries).
Now that's interesting. I must admit that I know little about Jews and their history.

I know that Ashkenazim have a high prevalence of certain recessive diseases, which suggests that they tend, to this day, to be somewhat endogamous. I don't know how much of it is due to their own culture, and how much is due to the fact that they were up to WW2 stigmatized by the Catholic church for being, as a people, responsible for the death of Jesus (without which Christianity wouldn't exist, yet it was held against them, go figure...).

I also know that there's an derogatory Hebrew word, goy, for the out-group. But at the same time AFAIK before WW2 Jews were portrayed by racist nationalists as "filthy internationalists", i.e. an existential threat.

Regardless of the prior strength of the Jew identity prior, WW2 gave us a fiercely nationalist/tribal Israel (defined as constitutionally as a Jewish state, where interfaith or non-religious marriage are not possible, etc...), which in turn gave us the rise of the modern Jihad as a reaction to the oppression of Palestinians and the support of US/Europe to Israel (well, the Irak wars didn't help either).

I wish we could dispel that madness. At this point, territorial and tribal fights are a net loss, to every one but weapons merchants.
> At some point someone is going to invent a scheme that uses names instead of numbers and reshape the internet again...

That exists already: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...

Scroll past the port numbers, and you will find plenty of protocols with only a name registered. This name is used by DNS SRV records. If you’re designing a new protocol today, you don’t need a reserved port number. Just do what Minecraft did and require SRV records to point to whatever port number is used. The load balancing and failover features of SRV records are a nice bonus.
I see lots of positive messages (look at any thread about Rust or many of the Show HN posts), but I get the most value out of the criticism and arguments on HN, which some might call "negativity".

Also, people write about and discuss things that are relevant to them. All those topics are relevant to our industry, if not our everyday lives. Why shouldn't we talk about them?
This is essentially what the DC region has with Virginia's Express lanes, though the difference here is only 10 MPH.

The waste of space and resources that was required to put those extra lanes in, and all of the traffic control measures could have EASILY doubled the number of lanes on the beltway - alleviating traffic for many many years to come.

Instead, they've just created a false economy around the pricing of convenience. It's essentially rent seeking by the government.
There are no perfectly safe computers... even when air-gapped, they can get compromised. But one problem with modern cars is that they are connected whether you like it or not.
Been using Gett in NYC with excellent results. Car availability is hard to beat, even during peak hours and the special flat $10 rate in manhattan is quite the deal. Never tried Juno but will check it out.
There is absolutely nothing sensitive in that document. The order of battle and the past deployment are public knowledge and public domain. There are references to the prophet hammer (with extensive information about it in a few books). I did have a clearance, but this isn't posting anything that is classified whatsoever.
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> but it seems to me that home owners like myself compete with each other to bid up the price of property

That seems like a side effect of the global crash in interest rates: People buying homes with cash are currently competing with borrowers with much less than 20% down and low interest rates.

btw, this is somewhat intended, and is the reason the Fed dropped rates to zero in the first place. If assets were not reflated, the recession would have gone much deeper. Unfortunately, "assets being reflated" means, as one example, people buying assets (homes) with cheap money.

It will be interesting as rates return to normal and the Fed starts to shrink its balance sheet later this year.
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