skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could argue that above 56 bytes the truncation wouldn't matter for security anymore, since you already have quite a bit of entropy to spare in my opinion.
Although it's comforting that this exact situation shouldn't happen again in an Uber autonomous car... there is no mechanism to share that learning with the other car companies. There seriously fucking needs to be a consortium for exactly this purpose: sharing system failures.

Also my problem with this is that a human death is functionally treated as finding edge cases that are missing a unit test, and progressing the testing rate of the code... and that really bothers me somehow. We need to avoid treating deaths as progress in the pursuit of better things
I would also be interested. LeanPub might also be a good shout.
> However the total tax burden is still high, e.g. there is a "freelancer" tax in Los Angeles with onerous reporting rules.

BS. The online form literally takes 5 minutes to fill out. "Creative artists" earning under $300,000 are exempt from paying city taxes, as are small businesses grossing under $100,000.
> Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking outside the crosswalk on a four-lane road in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe

Although I agree with your statement in general, it sounds like she was already walking her bicycle while crossing the intersection, and the fact that she had a bicycle was a moot point.
The FDIC could seize banks (don't they?) and still protect deposits up to the 250k limit. They could also require claw-back clauses for banks that want FDIC protection. Without the FDIC the first thing banks would have done in 2008 would have been to drop the savings accounts of a lot of regular people. It plays an important role for the average citizen.
Unless you define what you mean by "drive a car safely" I don't see how one can even begin to evaluate that claim meaningfully.
Tempe Police say woman killed by self-driving Uber car was pushing bicycle across street when struck.
Isn't that just /r/ShitHNSays/
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> Dust gets tracked in and ends up ingested in various ways as well.

What's this about? Is dust bad if ingested?
To clarify: that's more of a problem in programming the GPU in a portable manner, and that may or may not turn into a problem depending on the implementation. GPUs can do loops that run a different number of times per thread just fine, at the cost of having to wait for the slowest to finish. Things start to turn sideways if you want diverging branches though (at least AMD kind of has support for this, but it's limited). If you want animations to work there's a good chance your search would become pretty complicated and you run the risk of smacking into that.

Also, I doubt GPU vendors would add special-purpose hardware like that. They'd much rather just add some new shader instructions to help doing it.
She stepped out in front of the car in the middle of the road, it's not like a human driver would have done any better.
The scary cousin of this antipattern: the login form that browsers' built-in password managers can't see. Building the DOM using pathologically dynamic methods, using nonstandard input fields, giving the username/password fields ridiculous names, etc.

This tells me that the developers don't use password managers themselves, which means they probably use hunter2 for all their passwords, which means they don't know or care about conscientious security practices... not the folks I want to have built the site I'm about to use.
Sorry to offer unsolicited advice, but are you sure you wanna use a fixed IP for that? Seems more reasonable to ask people to CNAME to a domain you guarantee will always point to the correct servers.

This means you don't break the system when you move IP address. Moreover, should you ever need to, you can round-robin the domain for either reliability or load-balancing (though I doubt that would be necessary).
Yeah, possibly. On one hand, the Uber setup should be examined for flaws. On the other hand, we shouldn't get paranoid about the occasional traffic death when we've already decided (for human drivers) that this is acceptable collateral damage in the transport system.
I wonder which engine is the only one you're allowed to use it in.
There shouldn't be any testing on public roads until the executives and engineers are willing to put on blindfolds and spend six hours running back and forth across a track on which a hundred of their autonomous cars are maintaining 60 MPH in both directions.
>With the current plethora of widely-supported Web development frameworks, I really don't see any reason to use PHP or Wordpress for new projects.

Agreed. The thought of using raw cURL in PHP to write an API service layer makes me shudder.
Yes, there are indeed psytrance (goatrance) parties in Goa :) My friends make a regular trip there for the November full moon party season, like migrating birds.
Did the person riding along attempt to take control? I wonder if they will get held responsible..
100% agree with everything you say here.

I strongly recommend:

https://deardesignstudent.com/a-designers-code-of-ethics-f4a...

and:

https://medium.com/@monteiro/designs-lost-generation-ac72895...

from someone who's done _way_ more thinking about these sorts of issues than I have...
Considering that St. Helena was a pretty miserable place back then I tend to agree.
>that house might have to be sold to pay their hospice care

I suspect this is the great Faustian bargain of the boomer generation. All the wealth that they helped themselves to in lieu of fixing the big systemic problems in economy and government will be traded away in the end for the modicum of comfort in their twilight years that a better functioning system would have provided anyway.
I'm not sure relying on max POST size for password length is a good practice. It would be hell to debug without a good documentation.
I don't disagree with you about at all about the ground truth of American polity. (I have a lot of family that voted for Trump.) From my perspective, the election sent the right message but through a profoundly dangerous messenger.

For me, Russia and Cambridge Analytica are not scapegoats: they are other problems that need to be addressed which are not orthogonal to addressing the economic inequalities aggravated by the current system.
Please don't let this company start with T.
This looks interesting! I love the idea of crypto currencies index fund.
>Self driving cars could potentially save tens

The problem is that we should be 100% sure that there will be less death and not allow the self driving cars on public roads before.

I don't think we have the real numbers, how many Km each car drive and how many times the human had to get involved to prevent a big crash. If there are laws and checks in place so the actual numbers are reported then I want to see them, I read all self driving topics here and never seen this laws.

Until we have the real number the fact that self driving cars will save more lives is just a hope for a far away future.
Indeed it is. Thank you.

One thing I forgot to mention is how bad, constitutionally speaking, NSL's and other pressures from the government are. We just don't know how prevalent it has become, perhaps the government is NSL strong-arming companies left and right at the moment... Which is why the legislation that enabled NSLs is unconstitutional imho.
Interesting insight. While self-driving cars should reduce the number of accidents, there are going to be some subset of people who are excellent drivers for which self-driving cars will increase their accident rates (for example, the kind of person who stays home when its icy, but decides that their new self-driving car can cope with the conditions).
For some additional context: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xq5cq6
You're in luck. The company this article is talking about was part owned by an American, and had an American high-level federal employeee as Vice President and their CEO has just been captured on tape talking about having done much the same thing in several other countries. Maybe you'll get your wish.
But is that the actual situation we're talking about? Or are we actually talking about a situation where the person may have been jaywalking but would have had a reasonable expectation that a human driver would stop? I walk a decent distance to work every day and I don't think anyone totally adheres to the lights and crosswalks (not least because if you do you will be running into the road just as everyone races to make a right turn into the same crosswalk you're in).
Yes. Me too
It doesn't matter - webOS died the day Palm was sold to HP.
I'm surprised to see so many negative comments about WebOS.

I recently got a LG TV with WebOS 4 for ~$700. Not the cheapest possible but by far also not a high end TV.

I was pleasantly surprised how well WebOS works and how nice the look of it is. Watching TV, Netflix, Twitch or DLNA streaming works great as well.

Some comments mentioned a cursor. But that's not the main input device, I usually use the arrow keys on the remote. I only saw a cursor on the (as usual on such devices) useless browser.
Wasn't Dota a mod? Like, the guy who made it had the intention to make this game (with the help of WC3)
>the US department of transportation should have set up proper certification for all of this

I think you're severely underestimating the path that something like this would have to take. The certification itself would be under so much scrutiny and oversight that it would take years for that to get done. Unfortunately, the technology is far more readily available and easy to get working than the political capital required to create a certification for this.
The problem for Uber is that if they lose this race, then there is no Uber. The outcome of this is that they will be willing to risk a lot in order to succeed. This seems to be collateral damage for them. Completely unsurprising as it seems they lied about running the red light in autonomous mode and the ran their program without proper licensing (and reporting). Nobody should be surprised that Uber was the first company to rack up an autonomous driving death.
Looking for something comparable to the raw resolution of the iPhone X camera (which is a descendant of the old Kinect camera). Mainly older cameras on the market: https://stimulant.com/depth-sensor-shootout-2/

On iOS, Apple won't let apps access the raw depth sensor data, only a reduced-resolution sample.
> Anyone who thinks that Amazon's P/E ratio is meaningful of anything don't understand how Amazon operates.

That's not necessarily fair. To the parent's point - if investors get spooked they would bail, much quicker and harder than if traditional fundamentals were there.

You can understand Amazon's strategy while being cautious about certain P/E ratios or fundamentals. The higher it gets the more future growth is priced in and if something goes wrong it could go really bad. The market believes Amazon can dominate any category. That's significant to their valuation. What if you have a failure in grocery and other categories? That peachy confidence could erode quickly.
The bike isn't going at speed when the light is red (at least, if they're following the law). This is when the green turn arrow should be lit: when bikes aren't moving.
That's not a justification for being lock-in jerks. Would you appreciate using ActiveX instead of HTML? We are lucky, MS didn't succeed with the above.
The entire pitch for autonomous driving is that it's safer than human drivers. If that's false it's not clear why we should continue to allow Uber to test their work on public roads.
You're assuming their database doesn't leak and that account lock becomes irrelevant. Some banks are probably even storing passwords in plain-text or very old hashing methods that are not very effective in 2018.
I don't understand your question in relation to my anecdote. Maybe you can re-phrase?
I agree with other poster.

For me it's a matter of doing things the same way so when I need to make an update to the code in a year it's intuitive.

"Be kind to your future self" is my motto.
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Did you ever take an engineering ethics course? One of the things talked about is the monetary value placed on a human life. You can't make that value infinitely high or literally nothing can happen. You also don't want it super low.
> that the power behind the attack — Russia, according to the UK — doesn’t think anyone else is ruthless enough to retaliate effectively.

I thought that applies even more to the USA running assassination programs[0] in over 76 countries now.

[0]: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/the-drone-preside...
You are begging the question. The claim 'there is no safe level' is based precisely on dubious epidemiological results like this, and this study is already being used to push exactly that claim. I am fine with <10ug in my blood because I am not yet aware of any natural or randomized experiments showing benefits from decreases in that level, as makes sense with any kind of plausible dose-response curve - the last few ug should matter the least.
> a Jenkinsfile[0] where you get a complete groovy DSL

Apache Groovy isn't "complete" as shipped with Jenkins. It's collections API is deliberately crippled so it doesn't work.
> Then it has to go up and down the "value adding" chain between the rep, the sales department, business management, purchasing, and finally manufacturing.

This times 10. One factor is that many US manufacturers incentivize their sales people so heavily that it actively interferes with getting things done, because that sales rep has to be involved every step of the way.

Another factor is the (apparently) natural tendency of all purchasing departments to become little bureaucracies that turn themselves into the customer by requiring the people who want to buy stuff to do it their way. ('Their' referring to purchasing or whatever the department is called.) Often that bad habit of turning themselves into the customer spreads to other departments.

In fact, I have seen software in use that turns entire sales departments into the customer, insisting that people calling for quotes spend far too much time providing information in the order the application requires it rather than allowing sales people to do what they are supposed to be best at: finding out what the customer wants and giving it to them for a price. I could have solved that problem, but it's tough to get directors interested in changing those kinds of things, let alone VPs and C level executives.
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For choice: manufacturer failures happen with normal cars, and you risk that every time you step outside your door. Likewise with building failures, construction accidents, etc.

For scale: the risk of death from a self driving car will probably be less than the current risk of death from normal cars, and will definitely be less than the risks incurred in the 20th century from cars, buildings, etc.

Self-driving cars are definitely a new and large legal development, but there's no reason to think existing legal principles can't handle them.
For Bezos, anticompetitive moves and very bad working conditions in some part of the company can be seen as crime by some people. No idea for Warren Buffet.
This matches my experience driving elsewhere. You need to adapt to the context, the car should not drive the same way everywhere.
Depends. Is it a fresh OS install on a brand new machine, or just getting your specific Dockerized app running on my machine?

If it's just your app, then it really should be nothing more than a docker-compose up --build, and perhaps a few 1 off tasks (such as setting up and / or seeding the DB, which should be callable commands you can run or exec).

The above should work for most web apps (there are exceptions of course), but if you have a fairly standard app I would strive to accomplish the above.

It should take only as long as it takes for the up --build to complete for the most part. All of my Rails, Flask, Phoenix and Node apps tend to be up and running in less than 10-15 minutes with 99% of that time spent on waiting for the images to build.

I also happen to teach Docker[0] and Flask[1] courses and out of the tens of thousands of people who have taken it, most people get the apps and examples up and running very quickly (spinning up a complex Flask app). If there's any struggle it's usually getting Docker set up initially, but that's quickly fixed in nearly every case.

[0]: https://diveintodocker.com/
[1]: https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/
Air travel and eating food at a resteraunt is an opt-in action. To avoid this risk, you would have to opt-out of using the public road system that you are required to use.
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> It also seems absurd on its face - they're essentially claiming to be able to not only do a accurate psychological classification on someone based on what they post online, but actually use that to work out how to manipulate their minds.

This is not dissimilar to the idea that Russia spending a few million dollars on Facebook ads and automated Twitter bots somehow played a defining role in influencing an election. Even within the context of 1.5yrs+ of 24/7 mainstream TV/internet news coverage, billions of dollars in marketing spend by both parties, the personal influence of two of the most famous celebrities in American history (Clintons and Trumps), a multi-decade legacy of highly partisan politics, etc, etc.

It seems measuring the real-world impact of these tools and tactics is completely ignored in favour of believing we're living in some fantasy scifi world where bots and pseudosciencey psychological profiles can make anyone president.

Has anyone asked how much impact these tools have had on the sales of consumer products over the last decade? If they've hardly revolutionized online advertising of consumer products to make people buy products they didn't want (which AFAIK it hasn't), I highly highly doubt it played a huge role in the election of someone a portion of the voting populace didn't want.
That raises an interesting question: Should there be the equivalent of the FAA for self-driving cars? (Perhaps this could be a function of DoT.)
I agree that innovators don't do their work in isolation. But I only partly agree that matters much in software.

Where I think it does matter is within the context of a company. There's still nothing better for innovation than getting the necessary people in together in a room. The high-bandwidth, low-latency collaboration enables creativity in a way that digital tools can't currently replicate.

But I think it matters less and less between software companies. Contrast it with physical manufacturing, where there's a real benefit being near your suppliers: you can show each other parts, work out issues, visit back and forth.

But in software, cross-company collaboration is almost all digital regardless. We don't know where our servers are. We don't know where our vendors' servers are either. Even if our offices are in the same city, we'll probably work out technical issues via digital means. I was just building something with Twilio, for example. They're blocks away, but I would never think about visiting them if I needed to talk with someone there.
Well, for one thing, I think I have misgivings in part because Uber hasn't really demonstrated an attitude that makes me think they'll be very careful to reduce accidents. (Also, the extent to which they've bet the farm on autonomous driving presents a lot of temptation to cut corners)
>There seriously fucking needs to be a consortium for exactly this purpose: sharing system failures.

This implies they're using the same systems and underlying models. If one model hit a pedestrian because of a weakness in training data plus a sub-optimal model hyperparameter, and therefore was classified a pedestrian in that specific pose as some trash on the street, how do you share that conclusion with other companies models?
Or shorter version https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236825193_Street_Ri... or podcast version https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern...

Indeed it has been known for a long time. This is an opportunity to reverse bad decisions made a century ago, regardless of how quickly self-driving cars actually are adopted.

https://www.strongtowns.org/slowthecars/
It may not be China, but it's very likely somewhere in Asia. Asia Pacific market is huge, next billion middle-class will mostly be in Asia.
Uber is responsible for this, and corporations are people, right? That reminds me I have an episode of opening arguments to listen to on the subject.
"These guys unlawfully got data from a lot of our users. Surely they will delete it if we ask them to, right?

"Now they want to buy a lot of ads on our platform, great!

"Also their ads are getting a lot of engagement somehow, let's make it cheaper for them to buy more!"
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You are correct that using previously obtained information over a secure channel will allow you to continue connecting to an unchanged endpoint. Again, not helpful when connecting to new or changed endpoints over an untrusted path unless you assume that all endpoint implement the mechanism (and, of course, that you trust the CA).
Apps and services not being forthright about what they do with your data is (unfortunately) the status quo. Facebook is the broker for this data in this case, and you'd be a fool to allot them any trust with it given their history. The Cambridge Analytica "scandal" is the system working as intended, but now with unpopular consequences.

Who could have imagined that a suite of tools used to manipulate and target users through commercial advertising and spam could also be used for political means.
What do you mean? Everyone making these comments is fairly certain that this is a completely trivial endeavor.
If self driving cars are only as safe as human drivers, why bother with spending billions to achieve status quo?

Unless it is a pure capitalist move.
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