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Just the other day I was using the Tesloop [1] service from near LAX and the driver was praising the autopilot feature. I thought it was really neat at the time, but I would be much more hesitant about it now :/

[1] https://tesloop.com/
I did a stint in New Zealand; picked up some of the slang :)
I don't think that that is a counterpoint.

If anything it supports the previous comment.
Buses are great for getting people to the train, but probably only provided that the bus is a no- or low-cost addition to the train pass or fare. And middle class people will absolutely take buses that come reliably and frequently, especially once you get a plurality of them to feel comfortable together. Just like gentrifying a neighborhood.
She's obviously harmless. Instead of arresting her we should give her a bounty for showing us that so called airport security is garbage.
Change the classic saying: "When autonomously driving in Rome..."
I would think most people would be aware that the US has never nuked Spain and reconsider that initial interpretation.
Stop Faking Service Dogs | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15178803 (September 2017)
what if i told you there are blockchain companies backed by y? e.g. qsp coin
FYI most large apartment management firms in the bay area are so used to calling out fake ESA animals, that they'll end up finding out.
France have a peculiarly Gallic compromise - the light quadricycle. It's a class of vehicle weighing less than 425kg (~940lbs) with a top speed of no more than 28mph. Anyone aged over 14 can drive a light quadricycle without a license. They're a fixture of everyday life in rural France, providing independent transport for teenagers, the elderly and habitual drink-drivers.

They're deathtraps for the driver, but their limited speed and distinct lack of structural integrity mean they pose minimal risk to other road users. It's far from an ideal solution, but it seems to work. I understand that golf carts are a popular mode of transport for elderly people living in some private retirement communities; perhaps it would make sense for US states to legalise their use on the public roads.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35210572
Correct, "safe" was a poor choice of word. Alive and relatively unscathed according to the article is what I was going for. Thanks for the clarification.
On the topic of video games being useless, the computers that run top of the line games also end up being almost exactly what you need to run most scientific computing projects. So what a non-negligible amount of gamers do is when they are not playing run programs like BOINC. EVGA has a program that actually incentives this.
https://forums.evga.com/m/tt.aspx?f=79&p=1
> Aggressive screening by gender

That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.
AF_LOCAL (Unix domain) sockets suck for datagram messaging because both end-points need a filesystem name -- you can't have the client end-point be anonymous! The simplest way to have an anonymous client is to send a datagram socketpair to the server in a datagram, this way the server can respond over the socketpair -- but this is complex and significantly slower than if Unix domain datagram sockets just supported anonymous clients.

Meanwhile, if you want to write an IPC library that's portable to WIN32 and POSIX, and just about any OS that supports TCP/IP, then TCP or UDP works very well. In fact, nothing else does. But of course, you have to publish the server port number (and at least a cookie for authentication) for this somewhere (e.g., in /tmp).
> People keep saying this. But are have you also thought about how wasteful is Facebook or Instagram or Youtube are?

It’s like saying that actors are wasting food and energy by doing what they do. Facebook YouTube and others are here for our entertainment, meanwhile bitcoin right now is mostly used by people with a final goal of selling it and making money. Most of the miners I know don’t ever use it to purchase something or send money to someone. That’s the problem in my opinion
Because most modern vehicles are made to the same crash safety standards and would likely have a similar outcome?

The Tesla isn't magical, made of adamantium, or such.

Not to sound overly snarky, but as someone who has been a firefighter / paramedic for the best part of a decade, I've certainly seen my fair share of MVAs up close.
Why can't we just enforce a fine for fraud? Say $2,000 + having to vacate your apartment in 48 hours. With the money going to the landlord or service provider who calls them out.
When I first heard of the attempt to close Martin's Beach
to the public, I was amazed, but it turns out there was
a somewhat similar situation in 1891, about 20 miles south,
at what is now Bean Hollow State Park:
http://www.pescaderomemories.com/?p=335
I generally agree, but "many centuries"? Come on. :)
The equally interesting question is what you think computer drivers should do differently when driving near a car that is under computer control.

For example, if your computer control car knows that the car behind is also computer controlled, it could be more aggressive on the brakes to avoid a forward collision without causing a rear collision.
It is also true that cost of living is lower in France than in Switzerland[1].

[1]: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
That is true, but periodic Ubers are also way cheaper than owning a car. If you only need to travel once a week it would likely be far cheaper than car taxes, gas, and maintenance
> There are properly trained support animals that their owners are absolutely justified in having.

ESA's do not require training. Only service animals are trained.
Just do not do this if you drive a fire truck, obviously.
As a current Tesla owner and frequent autopilot user I can attest to this being a scenario where autopilot has not worked for me - traveling at high speed and approaching a stopped vehicle from a distance. I now always take it off autopilot when this occurs because it will not brake in time.
That's a thing that bothers me generally in the West. In theory there is a lot of open country but in reality there are huge areas of grazing land fenced in with no way to get through which makes hiking very difficult. In Britain and Germany they usually don't completely block off their land but there are trails going through.
I saw some mention earlier of known-bad microcode updates. I assume that's what's going on.
Probably no way this could possibly be abused.
Yeah, though some of their defenses have been a little ... on the nose.

"Autopilot was not active at the time of collision, according to logs"... because it was deactivated by hard manual braking a moment before, because Autopilot was about to cause a hard collision...
Typically I design applications to be as stateless and tolerant of restarts as possible, as they do get restarted during deploys anyhow. That is a minor issue compared to the difficulties around connection restarts and communication between nodes.

It is wonderful that Heroku now offers exec, which at least allows using observer and other remote debugging tools. The tooling keeps getting better—but there is no denying that it was designed for Ruby deployment, and working the BEAM has significant production differences.
People in the Northeast would also be well-served in these discussions by knowing that Amtrak falls into that same description in other areas of the country, especially the Southeast: where everyone smokes and drinks from brown bags, the shared rail means lots of stops, and stopping for hours because of a stalled car on the tracks is entirely too common.
Find out what? There is nothing to find out, it's easy to prove any dog is an ESA with the help of a friendly doctor.

You may be suggesting that lying about service animals is easily discoverable, which is indeed true. This is already illegal.
It's not "allows" - it's a top down attitude that everyone is expendable, dispensible and easily replaced by someone hungrier.
There might be. I don't know what it is.

As a former Mason, the teachings are symbolic. Few people think they are historical. People don't really do symbolic anymore. We do TV.

Not be too much of a curmudgeon, but I don't think our society at this time has much of a philosophical bone left in it. As a result, we mostly reflect on ourselves as narcissists. Look at Facebook. It's use is a known cause of depression. We feel bad because others make their lives look so perfect or interesting. We get in flame wars on political topics. We no longer appeal to traditions like Locke or Rousseau. We don't reason about things. We feel and are offended.

If what I said is even mostly true, how do you build a society on that? At this point we've stared too long into the abyss. Perhaps we need the "make-believe crap" to bind us. Perhaps its not crap, but rather what the world is and our ignoring is leading to our own demise?
Data visualization in JSON
I'm happy to send you the actual slides if that helps as well.
In New York these cards are basically sold by the PBA to anyone willing to shell out the proper "donation". Prominently displayed on the card is the year the "donation" is given to ensure that it becomes an annual ritual (if you want your card to be honored). They also give out stickers that are usually applied next to the registration/inspection stickers (even though it is illegal to apply other stickers there).
Interestingly enough, on HP's website with the security bulletin on Meltdown and Spectre, they have brief description of the vulnerabilities and a list of their many models. [1]

A few days ago, this had a schedule of microcode updates, with some models showing a date that the update had already been released, and most others showing anticipated release dates, with many (including one of my laptops) showing an anticipated release date of February 9 for the microcode. Now they all show "TBD."

And fwiw, I have heard a lot of people say bad things about HP products, but I have found their support to be much better than average. They are generally on point with fixing vulns, at least in my limited experience.

[1] https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05869091
That's unfortunate. Do you think it'll be worth the effort to port the LuLu base to Linux platform?
That’s not really true at all. Nobody is collecting a six figure pension from NYPD after 20 years. Some of the 30 year guys do, but the stress and other hazards of the job kill them early... you don’t see many very old cops. They die in their mid 60s.

Honestly, NYPD pay is pretty lousy — they hire so many cops because they lose officers after a few years to Suffolk County, Nassau County and the NY State Police, all of which pay significantly better.
Why is it so hard to fly with a dog? A person can fly with a cello if they buy an extra seat.

Source: https://gregorybeaver.com/the-2017-guide-to-flying-with-a-ce...
This is so fucked up. These should be 10000% illegal. And the fact that the police are totally cool with this and want to do it more? jesus. How low can my perception of the police possibly get.
Oh sure, kinda brain dead can't adapt to the new post cold war order of things legacy real-politik. Makes sense if your power and status makes sense in terms of cold war conflict.

But the Soviet Union is gone. The neoliberal transformation of Russia is a utter failure. The fossil fuel industry is walking dead at this point do to solar, wind, electrified transportation and the imperative to deal with global warming.

It's a classic people and organizations looking out for their short term interest + risk aversion leads to eventual catastrophe.

And as I mentioned, countries whose leadership have no particular interest in legacy cold war real politik or the Wests fossil fuel hegemony[1] are going to move and move fast.

[1] Other countries leaders absolutely despise being beholden to the oil/gas/fossil fuel industry.
I wish they would have gone with Holocene Era epoch for the year instead of using the same BC/AD // CE/BCE one we currently use padded to five digits. Makes a lot more sense to me if we think of this year as 12017 than as 02017.
> chili

More precisely, peppers get their flavor from stimulating the pain receptors on the tongue. Somehow, this morphs into pleasure.
I have been thinking about this more and more on my commute every day. Commuting up and down US101, I see so many Tesla's driving on the left lane, setting their autopilot to 65mph, just blocking traffic. There needs to be a visible indicator on the outside.

By the way, one can speculate there are interesting ways to trigger beeps inside these Teslas coasting on the left lane.
Unfortunately it's a different ballgame with warehouse work like at AMZ. There is no customer facing service aspect, and very little quality difference between employees. What quality concerns there are can probably be traced back to an individual employee very easily; returns due to poor packaging or wrong item can easily be pinned on the culprit.

It's unfortunate, but not all manual/hard jobs are valued equally and often because they are simply not of equal value. Item pickers are going to eventually go the way of cotton pickers in developed countries. One of my best friends works for a startup developing AI controlled robotic pickers. There is a ways to go and it'll start with human augmented AI's but eventually AI's will be picking, sorting, and packing everything.
They'll call your doctor and go to the full extent of the law if your animal is really an ESA. Sure you can still go to a doctor and mention that you're depressed an how an animal will really help you out...etc.

But I wouldn't assume that large apartment complexes just stand by idle. Most are tired of fake ESA animals that cause them insurance & tenant issues.
This is the drivers's fault. But how the heck did both the driver and the autopilot not see a bright red truck in broad daylight?
Send them off and let evolution sort them out?
There are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. They are otherwise completely normal.

They tend to not live long.
My best friend uses a (very well-behaved and trained) emotional support animal for PTSD that completely changed my perspective on emotional support animals. They would change your perspective, too. I agree with other posters here that some kind of minimal documentation is acceptable, and completely agree with a big fine for abuse of the system.

With respect to this news item, and since the law is pretty clear, what exactly do they mean by "documentation" here? "... it would require documentation about their health and, in some instances, a promise of good conduct"

Oh, so basically... Nothing worthwhile. These are the kinds of changes that just gum up any system and end up causing a bureaucratic nightmare after the whole thing gets tons of these totally useless processes and requirements slapped on. You wanna talk about fining people for something? There should be a fine for creating this kind of inefficiency.
That's very true. And if they are not confident about their predictions then it might be difficult to push back when people fraudulently claim to not have purchased something.
You register your cars with CHP on top of the membership card. It merely starts with a license plate frame. If you say you’re a member they’re able to look it up. Lying about that whilst pulled over is a bad look..
Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames
That's only if you consider the price of housing. Here's a good article which debunks the recent litany of articles about this narrative: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/01/california-is-...

TL;DR:

* California's unemployment rate is near the median, so it's not the high minimum wage limiting employment.

* California's labor force participation rate is near the median, so it has nothing to do with a lack of work requirements for welfare programs.

* California has the 5th _smallest_ number of state employees per capita, so it's not the massive bureaucracy.

* Zoning and permitting policies are largely to blame for the cost of housing, but that's driven by local government, and in any event California is hardly an outlier here, it's just that because the economy is so strong there's no hiding the consequences.
Keep in mind that this policy is in effect for the entire state of New York, not just New York City. There are thousands of cops on Long Island and in other suburbs that make far more than the NYPD.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/almost-half-nassa...
Assuming the pool is 80-90% male to start, to get to 50% I think one would have to be "aggressive" -- don't you?
Disgusting. Of course, if these got counterfeited to oblivion, the police would just make an online system. This has to stop. The state legislatures (and Congress!) need to step in. Judges lose credibility and may find themselves forced to retire or resign -- judges should really never ever avail themselves of this privilege.

Ultimately, the funding of police departments through fines needs to stop. This one's on Bill Clinton, who added 100,000 police officers in 1993 by having the U.S. government pick up the tab for two years. After those two years local departments had to find a way to fund the new officers.
Do you really think there will ever be a 100% driverless car? I find it highly unlikely. And the paradox is, the better self-driving cars get, the more trouble driver is in when they are forced to take over. Drivers will be lacking basic driving skill, and essentially will get stuck on snowy/gravel/flooded roads.
A cello doesn't give people allergies, or make noise. Honestly I don't see a reason why you shouldn't be allowed to travel with a 70lb dog if you buy another seat though.
Jupiter’s Swirling South Pole
The person who came up with the protocol needn’t profit. In theory Satoshi hasn’t profited off Bitcoin. To our knowledge the coins they mined to bootstrap the chain haven’t been sold.

The only people who need to be magically paid are the ones executing the contract... miners, signers, etc.

In FoodCoin the cooks would get paid, the health inspectors would get paid, the poisoning investigators would get paid, the underwriters would get paid when those people do their jobs and lose their stakes when they don’t. The eaters would pay.

These people are paid for doing work in alignment with the contract incentives. A good cryptocontract makes it hard to get rewarded for work that goes against the planned incentive scheme. A bad one fails at this.

In order for this to work without a centralized payment gateway like PayPal, you need to issue tokens. Those tokens will have a value of TOTAL_TRANSACTED_PER_AVERAGE_HOLDING_PERIOD. Their price will depend on speculation about that value over time. Contracts finding more use will tend to have a bigger TOTAL_TRANSACTED_PER_AVERAGE_HOLDING_PERIOD.
I, and several of my friends when I used to live in Phoenix, were big walkers. Its evening? go for a walk around the neighborhood. Walk to work, even though it was like 1.5 miles...just...walk.

Each of us were stopped at least once by police for being suspicious...near as I can tell (we were all >middle class white people) all that was suspicious was us walking on sidewalks. Outside of the biggest cities America is actively antagonistic towards walkers. My sincere belief is because of the assumption that they are poor and should be judged.
Yes, but package managers for it for non debian based distro's are bit of a mess.
I saw this today:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detectron
You realize that some people don't like and/or afraid of dogs, right? That said, you can "easily" fly with your dog when you check them in.
Chik Fil A owner operators also comfortably in this realm of income. Both companies get a lot of the same things right for customer and employees.

P.S. If you get put down as a reference for a potential hire at Chik Fil A corporate, don't be surprised to find yourself in a 45+ minute discussion about the hire. They take vetting seriously.
Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
Believing it is what got us here in the first place.
I'm actually surprised by this. Isn't this something which the numerous brake-assist systems are supposed to handle easily? The radar should see far enough and Doppler should tell the relative speed.
wow. nice hack
Is this the replacement for the Surface 3 we’ve been waiting for?
I was thinking, is it possible to attach a weird control gizmo to your car and call it autopilot, and blame the device when it crashed?

It is not allowed in Japan (where I live) because of the draconian vehicle inspection program, but I guess in some US states it is more liberal.
> Some thought the direction was wrong - not gathering enough test data (unlike Tesla).

FWIW if you gather a ton of data and don't have simulation it's pretty much useless. Also it's expensive to keep around large amounts of data. Tesla didn't even have a simulation team until relatively recently.

> Some saw the tech as fairly old. Remember much of Waymo's code was written by Urmson 10 years ago. Probably all C/C++. Not very nimble and quick to extend.

Do you work in autonomous vehicles? Most teams are using C/C++. If you're not waymo you probably use ROS.

If you've ever worked at Google you'd know their C/C++ stack is among the most pleasant to deal with because much of the bad cruft from those languages is abstracted away in stable libraries.
In any event lacking this feature is not evidence of a "leaky sandbox" in Chrome.
From a technical perspective—why would Tesla not have taken more care to address this scenario? It seems like low hanging fruit in comparison to other challenges that autopilot has to be able to handle.
With the bank bailout in 2008, our dollar was effectively halved. Probably what we are seeing now.
Yes I understand that your criticism was about journalistic standards.

My point was that they didn't violate any standards, by telling you who Zinke is right after mentioning his name.
I had been under the impression that Maytag had moved all their production to Mexico and elsewhere, but apparently not. According to this article, they moved some of it back to the US from Mexico (note: Whirlpool owns Maytag).

http://www.toledoblade.com/business/2017/03/19/Huge-Whirlpoo...
Or genetic engineering works, like gambles sometimes do, and societies that embrace it totally leave more conservative, risk adverse cultures in the dust.
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Over Christmas I talked to a new cop in California and someone who worked at a crime lab. Both making over 100k after a few years, paid overtime and 80% pension after 50. Definitely picked the wrong career.
Usually those stats focus on deaths or shootings, which have fallen as crime has decreased and cars have gotten safer.

But, if you look at workplace injury and sickness, police don’t do well. They have higher incidence of heart disease, higher probability of auto accident injury, and other issues. It’s a tough gig.
All the people here excoriating Torvalds for using mean language couldn't do in a lifetime what he does in the average week.

Let the man get his job done and stop pretending to be offended by someone who communicates effectively.

I'm tired of this pearl-clutching nonsense from the youngsters in tech.
For the record in NZ although we do say that, we usually spell it 'Maccas'.
Not just Google. This is standard in any major tech company. His behavior and abhorrent and there is no excuse. Tech should embrace mentoring, learning, constructive criticism, and learning from failures. Yes, this is hopefully a once in a lifetime situation -- but our values need to transcend that. This is not the first time that Linus has swept decency under the carpet. Linus would be such an HR issue at most companies and likely shown the door. If anyone is championing or approving his behavior, this will not win you support and 'points' long term.