skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would love to see a "test pilot core" but that's never going to happen as long as the major players involved in these technologies are companies that are looking to make the most profit possible

Wouldn't top companies lobby for a standard when they can meet it and other companies can't? Doesn't this happen in every industry, e.g. food and drug, aerospace, manufacturing, all the time?

> A "test pilot" that has access to all the different self-driving programs is a prime point of weakness for any kind of confidentiality or security that might be in place for these programs.

How do you propose evaluating them, then? Just use people as guinea pigs and see which system causes the fewest accidents? Do you think people will elect politicians who completely ignore public safety to satisfy the whims of corporations?
Did you know that the rate of hurricanes and other natural disasters has actually been decreasing?

Natural gas and coal save more lives in a day than all natural disasters will kill all year.
Is it clear that climate change is responsible for the extent of the damage?

Is it not the fact that too much building occurred in FEMA-designated flood zones? That too much paving substantially reduced the amount of available land to absorb flood waters? That draining of wetlands seriously harmed the ability of flood waters to subside?

Let's not water down the risk of climate change by attributing disasters to it when the primary causes were unrelated.
I bought my first boat, 31ft, with no more than three weeks of experience. Yes, more exp would be a great idea.
Maybe it's just that potential investors don't get how the startup is going to earn money?
Why would they answer you on here?

There would be a lot to lose and very little to gain. I would look for a less public format...if you want a response.
>Uber's platform is miles ahead of everything else

Huh, I don't know. There are about three competitors in my area. They all have an app. I enter my destination, someone picks me up, drops me off. Simple stuff. What's so great about Uber exactly?
I don't propose that children do any of that. That's what high school is for, and 4 years of "practice" is more than enough.
Good point. Probably no single simple correlation will do - higher fuel prices points to the one thing that Western Europe and Canada share off the top of my head compared to the USA. (That and nationalized healthcare. :) )
I wouldn't worry about it too much- this entire worldwide market is worth 1/200th of the US stock market
Why Bitcoin matters
The many streaming SQL options are cool - but how do you test streaming SQL as it comes to represent a larger part of your application?
Reflections on a trip to crypto valley
It's not crucial that you meet the same partner (opponent) again. It's enough for you to be in a population where there is a good chance that the partner will cooperate if you do. For some definition of "good chance" the right strategy is to try to cooperate yourself and then fall back on something else if it fails.

And this is interesting because it gives us a toy model of moralistic "Do unto others" (as opposed to rational exchange).
I mean as in using taxes to pay for recovery instead of property insurance. It’s an important feature of society that we do that for rare catastrophic events. But I think there should be a line that’s somehow tied to the probability of said event happening.
What happened to 3rd party chipsets? Seems like VIA, ALi, SiS, Nvidia nForce, all stopped making them for Intel processors around 2008. If there were alternative chipsets still around, we would see more motherboard makers adopting something like openBMC with an alternative chipset and using it. No Intel PCH, no Intel ME.
Maybe it'd be good to indicate in the title that this is from 2014.
I read that many residents were given subsidized or free flood coverage following Rita. That lasted 3 years and expired almost a decade ago. Few, if any of those policies are still being paid. Still leaves the question of whether we pay for this damage or leave people with nothing. Likely something in between the extremes.
> “In the beginning, a lot of people told me not to go to the tech industry [with this product], but to go to the porn industry instead,” says Tio, who created the product for his wife during their long-distance hiatus from one another. “But for me, this is not porn. This is not kinky stuff. This is about intimacy because a lot of couples are looking for solutions to maintain intimacy.”

It's like they're on the middle rung of the sex-positivity ladder, looked down upon by potential investors while themselves looking down at porn.
Antonioni's movies are like that. Contemplative pace, not much dialogue or plotline, beautiful pictures and actors/actresses, ennui, some philosophical thematic. Yet it's all highly engrossing.
I was stuck in traffic for 11 hours driving home to Chicago from the solar eclipse in Carbondale, IL. And I only made it half way home and had to stay overnight. That was the eclipse, not a massive natural disaster. I can't even imagine the secondary disaster a mass exodus might have been, with a million cars running out of gas.
Stormfront helped organize and promote an event in Charlottesville, Virginia that saw a man they radicalized use his car as a weapon injuring 35 people and killing Heather Heyer. Let’s play the video of that, juxtaposed with their editor’s comments supporting it, on loop at their newly parked domain.

That accomplishes the goal of demonstrating how repugnant their ideas are without a company having to give them a platform to radicalize more people.
While I agree, Aus has also had some success with IT projects.

Many federal projects are now under a single sign on portal that works very well. Our taxes take less than an hour to fill out as most details are pre-filled.

And speaking for NSW, the RTA/RMS/Whatever-they're-called-these-days (our equivalent to the DMV for US readers) is almost fully functional without an in-person visit.
Have you tried with Linux namespaces instead of PRoot?

https://github.com/fsquillace/junest#linux-namespaces-based
For as little as clearing your browsing history[0].

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150606/16191831259/accor...
Houston's a very large place, and while there's bad stuff going on in places, there are also large parts of the city--probably most of it--with no particular damage. I'm in the middle of it right now and know people and organizations all over and most have had little or no problem (though sadly I don't have to go too far in my social graph to find people who left their house via boat).

The concept of a city-wide evacuation is, well, I'll be charitable and call it ignorant. Flooding here is nowhere near systematic enough for that to make sense. This is important to understand: the city remains largely intact and functional. The water's good, the power's on, the internet is on, two thirds of the grocery stores are open, emergency services are doing a great job, and some very large percentage of the city is just waiting for the damned rain to stop and the roads to clear to get back to normal.

It's just not a wide-scale evacuation scenario. And I know what those look like. And so does the Mayor.
I don't follow you. You seem to be saying that since athletics is about pushing the limits of the human body, it's already unsafe, so there's no problem with making it much less safe. I strongly disagree. For context, I'm thinking mostly of athletics (track and field).

Pro athletes generally strive to achieve excellence at some task the human body is adapted for -- running, jumping, throwing. But it's within the limitations imposed by their own human bodies, which are very well-adapted for keeping themselves safe while accomplishing these tasks. They know that going overboard risks burnout and injury, so their incentives are generally aligned with staying healthy. Chemically tricking the body into doing something long-term unsafe in return for short-term performance is a different ballgame.

(Of course there are a few outlier sports like American football and sumo wrestling which are just clearly unhealthy. Even for those, I don't see why we should make matters worse by sanctioning unhealthy PEDs.)
In this case, I believe, technically, the domain "belonged" to the domain registrar. Why? Because the registrant used the registrar's privacy protection.

While private domain registrations seem like a mildly useful privacy tool, factors to consider is that you are no longer the “owner” or your domain name (ICANN defines who owns the domain by what is published in WHOIS), and also that you no longer have any rights unless you sue the registrar.
Is that clear?

For desktops, Apple's sales barely register.

Servers? Nope.

Laptops? Sure. But Chromebooks have outsold them.

The only realm that Apple dominates is smartphones. They're great. I enjoy my iPhone. It also happens that iPhone sales are enough to be the biggest publicly-traded company in the world.
The engineering talent is severely lacking in Brazil to actually be competitive with Silicon Valley. I've worked in tech in Brazil and I wish it were better. Every single Brazilian engineer I've ever met good enough to work at Uber either already works in international markets like the SF Bay Area, Seattle, NYC and Amsterdam or they are in Brazil working remotely for international companies.

NuBank is the only tech company in Brazil I know of with solid engineers. Globo isn't that bad for frontend. UOL also has one single solid team backend with about four solid engineers.

Brazil's biggest problem is that it doesn't invest enough in education, especially English language skills. Every country competitive in software engineering has relatively strong English as a Second Language skills (at least among their brightest): China, India, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Europe.

If you don't have solid English comprehension among your country's most talented, you'll never produce world class engineering talent in sufficient quantities since the overwhelming majority of technical content is in English.
I found flights to New York on flychecker at 347 €
And that, in a nutshell, is my concern about fully autonomous cars, and the enthusiasm some express for removing all manual control because "computers are better than people".
Anders Breivik was a member of Stormfront. It's a breeding ground for domestic terrorists.
I would claim the core problem is an environment than incentivizes people to care more for their careers than for the actual work they are doing.

Sounds pretty much like Soviet Union, actually [0]. The chickens have come to roost, indeed. Managerial science driven process oriented organizations and what happened in the soviet countries share the same basic tenent: individuals don't matter. This is a cancer for performance and quality of life. The former should concern all economically minded people and the latter just everyone. It's not a lose-money, gain happiness proposition, it's a gain-money, gain happiness one.

The problem is that local optimization (career, prestige) causes the global system to reach an unoptimal state. In computer science we say - greedy algorithms seldom lead to globally optimal solutions[1].

Of course, no one is stopping from developing key-performance indicators for a person being a good person - but this seems really arse-backwards way to approach the problem as being a good person is what most people would prefer to do naturally given a healthy environment to begin with.

To slightly misquote Suzuki on his basic idea on how to maintain good character in a group: "Watch, but don't judge. But, do watch". [2]. Ie. make it understood everyone is responsible for their results but don't be an anal retentive accountant while you're at it.

[0] http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/index.html
This is a damn fascinating read. A bit like autobiographic Catch-22.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_algorithm

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditatio...
Exactly, and we get at least 10 of those days every single year.
Basically repeating the same clickbait content that any tabloid has been repeating for a good year without questioning any of it. Considering that Uber's 10000 corporate employees are just people for whom a job at Uber sits on their resume next to a bunch of lines including all the other big tech companies, what are the chances they're all sex-crazed monsters? What does Occam's Razor say about the following two scenarios:
- Massive conspiracy to amass all 10k predators under one roof, or
- Some problems exist, company's a large and well known brand, hence relentless bashing sells clicks?

This kind of mindless vitriol and happiness to throw out the baby with the bath water helps nobody, least of which the actual victims of harassment. Then again, I doubt the OP really cared anyways.
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Direct link to plain text version for those who prefer it: https://www.propublica.org/article/hell-and-high-water-text

It is also linked from the article, but embarrassingly took me a minute to find it.
It's likely your "ecstasy" in the 90s was laced with something else too like MDA, methamphetamines, etc.

But yes, MDMA anecdotally is much safer than anything else.
Imagine a train with 100 cars that can hold 50 people in each car. Imagine that train traveling from Houston to Austin in 3 hours, making three round trips every 24 hours.

That train could evacuate 15K people a day.

Imagine if each state maintained one of those trains. In a crisis, Texas could borrow trains from NM, OK, KS, LA, AR, MS, and AL. They could move a combined ~120K people per day (no pets).

Planning ahead a week and beginning the evacuation 3 days before the storm, you could move 360K people. That would leave only 4.6 million in Houston.
Maybe Houston will look like Venice except with more mosquitos and cockroaches.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/meyerland-home-raised-ahe...

The National Flood Insurance program is paying the same people 30% of the time to repeatedly rebuild their homes in flood prone areas.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/congres...

But since it's being paid for by insurance, we are going to get houses on raised platforms.
Sounds about right. Registrars have been taking down jihadist forums for a very long time merely for discussing violence; white nationalists must have realized they were living on borrowed time.

The article makes it sound like the Southern Poverty Law Center's findings were key in Network Solutions' decision. I wonder if the same will apply to other groups the SPLC tracks as hate groups. The Nation of Islam's domain remains with Network Solutions.
To me, this doesn't seem to fall under performance-enhancing drugs as much as medication for injuries sustained in the sport.
Extent of human radio broadcasts into deep space, compared to our galaxy
Feel healthier with Pilates, the latest fitness regime in London
The problem is there is a federal insurance program and it keeps paying out to the same people repeatedly - I put this in another comment but it's 30% repeat payouts.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/congres...
> Technology companies must be willing to disrupt themselves before the competition does

Kalanick described autonomous driving as existential to the company. He didn't see autonomous vehicles as a disruption, but as the natural progression. Human drivers are a stopgap measure until the technology is ready. The question is when that will be, and whether Uber can last until then.
i think the response would be that allowing racist tastes to persist in the successful model is itself an opinion embedded in your algorithm.

Its not that algorithm is an opinion, but that the goal achieved by it is defined with opinions (and thus, a successful algorithm is targetting those opinions)
When is the token sale?
Put me down for 500 ETH.
NPR touches on this[1], while they agree that putting people on gridlocked highways is counterproductive, they do wonder why the mayor had yet to call for an evacuation when it was now clear where people should evacuate from. Being that they now know the areas in danger and the areas not.

[1]http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/28/546721363/...
I was really waiting for them to explain in the article. It's like, no one understands what they do and you won't either cause we're not telling!
The level of vitriol targeted towards the mayor, usually referred to as "democratic mayor Sylvester Turner", on the internet during the height of this disaster is pretty disgusting.
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That's a good point. Four cups of coffee would put me in the hospital.
Gojek is also crushing Indonesia. They started a bankless payments system and are expanding beyond just rides now, pretty cool stuff that dominates in their own market.
> The question is when that will be, and whether Uber can last until then.

Why doesn't anyone ever ask if the competition can last until then as well?

Remember, you don't need to be faster than the tiger, you just need to be faster than whomever you're with when a tiger shows up.
But at this time they know the specifically affected areas where people face the danger of rising waters --but mayor still had not called for evacuation. Not a general evacuation, but evacs from the most affected areas in imminent danger. Even NPR is questioning the present stance[1]

[1]http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/28/546721363/...
For a real-life example, just look up "Tesla autopilot almost crash" on YouTube. There are plenty of people who let Autopilot drive when they really shouldn't.
Network Solutions is not currently the DNS provider for "stormfront.org". Cloudflare is.

Cloudflare rejects IP-only requests. The IP address is 104.20.30.134, but using that in the browser address bar won't work.

curl --verbose --insecure --header "Host:stormfront.org" https://104.20.30.134/forum/

ought to work, but it doesn't. It gets stuck at Cloudflare's NGINX server.

It's still available on the Internet Archive.[1] Runs vBulletin, so the posts didn't get archived, just the titles.

Stormfront has been around for decades, getting little traction. It's partly David Duke's site, or was. Now it's just a forum. It's about as nutty as the usual white militia crowd, with which there's some overlap. Compare "vdare.com", which is somewhat white supremacist and pro-Trump. There's a whole spectrum of groups like that.

This was a bad decision by Network Solutions. If registrars start censoring everybody the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center don't like, they're going to run head-on into the Trump supporters. That won't end well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170818020428/stormfront.org/fo...
I've always considered extremists as "canaries" --- you may not agree with any of their views, but their existence serves as a "buffer" of sorts, to show where the current boundaries are. Thus, when they disappear, what is next considered extremist will gradually edge closer to normalcy.

In denouncing racism and other forms of extremism, we have to be careful not to turn society into a heavily normalised monoculture that, ironically, many of these extremist groups are themselves proponents of.
Was stuck in the same horrible jam, too, finally bailed out and spent the night at a rest area, never saw one so full. Some part of the traffic was caused by poor planning on Illinois' part, having massive construction on 57 at the most inappropriate time.
People have been doing Prisoner's Dilemma with different payoff amounts since the dawn of PD, and of course this can result in qualitatively different strategies.

But sticking to just the rules, rather than the results. Is is the snowdrift game just a payoff score tweak? Or is there some structural difference that I missed?
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The hyperlink won't be a vacuum. It's just a low air pressure chamber. The plan has never been to maintain a vacuum since that's too difficult at such large scales.
I think the main goal is to receive pull requests in order to curate the list. This would not work by copy and paste.
Hi James,

There is a professional marketer who was a speaker at an event I attended who really impressed me with her self-branding. Both her LinkedIn profile and her website are very good and they inspired me a lot to create a good one for myself.

http://www.karenx.com/. The linkedin link is at the bottom of the page.
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Ooooh I read this fantastic introduction the other day and wrote this wee HN demo using Cheerio. https://gist.github.com/veb/c1beab69b5eb1b07123e5eaf55b80320
ARM chips are going to end up with management cores for the same reasons that the ME exists.
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6 million people / 60 people per bus = 100K buses.

If each bus made 10 trips, that's still 10K buses.

If you assigned each bus to one of 100 evacuation depots around the city, that's 100 buses per depot.

It would take a remarkable team to manage a depot like that, and you would need 100 such teams. Plus 30K drivers. Plus refueling logistics. Plus pit crews.

"Just put them on buses" is easy to write and enormously hard to pull off.
Of course, there's a small but non-zero percentage of the population that endorses, supports, and embraces those views. Showing the driver acting out those views isn't going to drive off those supporters.

I have an Israeli friend who's now thinking of relocating back to Israel--her synagogue gets regular threats right now (it didn't used to), and someone hung a banner reading "JEWS DID 9/11" on a freeway overpass near from her house recently (she lives in a heavily Jewish neighborhood, the placement was intentional).

Good on them for shutting down Stormfront.
sounds like the tests are bad.
The decision of not to evacuate seems justifiable. But the deeper problem is mass evacuation is not even an option.

What happens when a disaster that's 10x or 100x bigger comes?
In snowdrift, in the case where your opponent is uncooperative, it is better for you to be cooperative.
Two things:

1. Please do not test a web app with Chrome only, we don't want to go back to a world with a single browser

2. > So, until puppeteer supports this, we will rely on jsdom, a package available via npm

JSDOM is not just a package on npm, it's an engineering piece of art
Your university does not have a library?
If raising gas taxes would save 12,000 lives per year then America should definitely do it. It's a social problem that doesn't require technological solutions.
> I was, on the other hand, hoping to promote healthy discussion and pose some good questions related to IT procurement here in Australia. There needs to be a happy medium between what I've wired up and an $86M solution.

A related story for this discussion: QUT students design a $500 cloud-based census server four times better than IBM’s $9 million system [1]

[1] http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/qut-students-design...