skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do "make" movies anywhere (well, a few places: Atlanta, Vancouver, etc).

But so far the companies, business, and performers are still based in Hollywood.

Question is: after a distributed generation or two, does that still hold as a natural law?
I am not sure I understand what you want to say but I assume you want to say that what I did was kind of cheating because I wrote code tailored to that problem and to work on data in a format that makes that problem rather easy? Correct me if I am wrong.

But they did exactly the same just that the query planer, optimizer, and compiler generated the code from the SQL query. They still picked a data set, a physical layout of that data set, and a query that would result in maximum throughput. That was not any random SQL query, it was a carefully picked one, chosen because it would be able to take advantage of all possible optimizations.
Not many people today would think of their "GNU/Linux" system as a Lisp machine anymore than anybody thinks of their Chromebook as a JavaScript machine, nor is it really comparable to the Lisp Machines of the past.
As hard as limitations are to remove, adding limitations later on is even harder. As a commenter above pointed out, bcrypt doesn't handle passwords longer than a certain length. Imagine you were moving from a hash without limit to one with a 16-chatacter limit. You would quickly wish you weren't so lenient on what passwords you accepted. The point is forcing reasonable limitations on people isn't always a bad thing.
This stuff needs to be regulated sooner rather than later.
Fatalities will happen sometimes, they are unavoidable sometimes, and what matters in the long run is if we can achieve a significant overall reduction in fatalities.

I haven't even read any of the comments on this story yet, and this type of pro-self-driving-car response is what I expect to be in the majority. That and anything anti-Uber :)
If the accident had happened with the autonomous vehicle of ANY company, we would still be talking about this and estimating the number of deaths per 100 million miles.

Therefore, I think it would be more fair to consider all miles run by all autonomous vehicles all over the world in the denominator.

It is for the same reason that we want to consider all miles driven everywhere, not just those in Arizona.
>The arrogance of Facebook's response to this breach

Is it even clear that there was a 'breach' of any kind that Facebook was responsible for? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems like the chain of events is:

1.) Third party (Aleksandr Kogan) creates 'personality quiz' app, Facebook users opt-in to share information from their profile

2.) Aleksandr Kogan hands off data gathered by the app to Cambridge Analytica, violating Facebook TOS

3.) Whistleblower (Christopher Wylie) lets world know that (2) happened

4.) Media / public gets out pitchforks and blames incident on Facebook

It really seems like Aleksandr Kogan, not Facebook, is the problem here.
I think it's a big one, too. Seriously: smokers age hard and the more you smoke, the faster it happens. It's a crapload of oxidative stress combined with sometimes serious end-organ vascular consequences (to say nothing of the carcinogenic effects).

That said, I imagine it's also a marker for other types of behaviours likely to age people quicker.
Silicon Valley needs tech, not the other way around. Tech needs investment though, and often flocks to where the money is. Right a lot of people are throwing a lot of money around Silicon Valley, so a lot of tech (or bullshit masquerading as tech) lives there.
This is an odd way of looking at in my opinion. Apple started making the newton tablet in 1987 and the iPad came to fruition in 2010. The underlying technology for a compelling and consumer-ready VR/AR/<buzzacronym of choice> is much harder problem to solve, it will naturally take longer. I think the software industry sometimes has too short a timescale in its understanding of "bleeding edge".
This is the basic design pattern: "Google mistakes entire web for malware"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/31/google_malware_snaf...
Yes. I'm in favour of safer drivers, robot or human.
Criminal liability is a different situation as there are very few industries with specific criminal liabilities (finance maybe).

But there are many industries where civil liabilities are required. In fact, any software independent consultant is civilly liable for their work, but it’s not specific to software.

IEEE has a section in their member toolkit that goes into why professional liability insurance is needed, https://m.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/discounts/...

The costs aren’t that high or at least they weren’t 15 years ago when I purchased it for less than $1k/year for $1M in coverage. Most people need this even if they think they are safe. If you’re the one who wrote the deployment script that erased $1M in data, it won’t be entirely mitigated that the script made it through qa.

Also interesting is that the engineer who wrote the Uber software is currently liable for criminal negligence, like pretty much everyone else. But you would have to prove culpability. I can’t find any examples of software engineers convicted so it’s hard to tell who goes to jail-developer, qa, or executive.

More info on criminal/civil negligence- https://www.theblanchlawfirm.com/?practice-areas=criminal-ne...
For Apple specifically, I consider it a particularly ominous sign.

When you look at Apple's history of identifying worthwhile business opportunities, it was all driven by one man - Steve Jobs. He is dead. And anyone else with his abilities is more likely to create a startup than to join Apple, spend decades rising the corporate ladder, and then reveal an unexpected talent for creating entirely new lines of business that undermine existing ones.
considering the 100's of pedestrians that are killed everyday in the USA

According to the CDC, 5,376 pedestrians were killed in car accidents in 2015. According to the WashPo, 28,642 pedestrians were killed in car accidents from 2010-2015. That gives a rate of 13-15 pedestrians killed per day in the USA. Too much, yes, but not hundreds of pedestrians killed everyday.

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/pedestrian_safety/ind...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/ped...
To me this is heartening in a variety of ways.

One is that we're finally making good on the promise of the Internet. The hype was that it made location irrelevant. And it did for a lot of things. But somehow VC-backed web and companies were immune to that, even though money and software are both digital.

Two is that this is great news for founders everywhere. Before they often had to choose between family and success. Now they can have both. (That didn't matter to me much when I was 25, but now it's easier to see costs of that.)

Three, I think this is great for customers and users. A frequent and frequently valid critique of Silicon Valley startups is that many only make sense in our hothouse atmosphere. E.g., Juicero. There are real-world needs out there that we're missing because we don't see and spend time with the people who have those needs.

Four, I believe that this is good news for both our cities and our startup community. The flood of money has driven up prices just like it did during the gold rush era. That's certainly a problem for people outside of tech. But I think it's also bad for entrepreneurs: it keeps getting more expensive to build a team and a company here. Turning down the heat a little will make it easier for us all to succeed without having to take gobs of money.
Standard Oil is mentioned in the article.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a great game for patient people. If you're the controller-throwing type it's not for you, but I've never understood that mentality to be honest.
While I generally agree with the sentiment, there certainly are some good counterexamples of games that are almost purely programming problems. Games with mostly procedural content and/or novel gameplay - Minecraft would be a good example.
I thought you were asking about "the cost of driving slower"? I'm perfectly serious in my answer. Any transportation goal (with the possible exception of ambulance service?) that may be accomplished at high speed, also can be accomplished at lower speed, with sufficient planning.
Not yet, but the rumored 2k+ price tag should temper most peoples rush to buy one so it's unlikely to be sold out immediately like the Switch for example.

Craziest part of this is it just might be worth it.
There is a new minor patch released today[0].

I don't understand if this minor patch will fix this critical issue or not.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/19/gitlab-10-5-5-released/
> Can't we do better?

no. there's a reason our community has the reputation of being heartless. it's because it's true.
If they were dropping rockets on people standing on street corners. Yes, 100%. Your example is different because it was deaths of people involved in the projects who knew there were risks and agreed to them.
The goal is to use the best set of information available to us. I merely cited the normalized numbers because it's been asked various times in this thread - questions along the lines of "how does this rate compare with human drivers?"

The purpose of the extrapolation was to get a (flawed) approximation to that answer. By itself, it doesn't say much, but all we can do is parse the data points available to us:

- Uber's death rate after approximately 3 million self-driven miles is significantly higher than the national average, and probably comparable to drunk drivers.

- Public reporting around the Uber's self-driving program suggests a myriad of egregious issues - such as running red lights.

- The company has not obeyed self-driving regulations in the past, in part because they were unwilling to report "disengagements" to the public record.

- The company has a history of an outlier level of negligence and recklessness in other areas - for example, sexual harassment.
Peter Hastie, of sports-news site Bleacher Report, gave a talk at Erlang & Elixir Factory (2017) about GenStage (and Flow) -- there's a description of the talk and an embedded YouTube video at the bottom:

http://www.erlang-factory.com/sfbay2017/peter-hastie.html
These things tend to be based on the factual evidence of the case, as well as local and state laws. Talk to your lawyer.
Hype cycles are beginning to cause loss of life. Self driving cars are being allowed to operate at a far faster rate than other transportation innovations would have. This is because of the enthusiasm around technology. We need to realize the difference between social media apps and steel.
This is Facebook we’re talking about, not some mom and pop shop vulnerable to “bad press.” I really don’t see what sort of legitimate threat Murdoch could pose to Facebook outside of any threats they already face on a daily basis. If the threat of Murdoch “going public” with his feelings on Facebook were sufficient to threaten its very existence, Facebook would have gone out of business a long time ago.

And the point of my tongue-in-cheek comment was that Murdoch did buy MySpace, and utterly failed to compete with Facebook, or even to grow what little traffic MySpace had before he bought it.
Facebook Vigilantism Is a Scary Thing
The other proven model is autonomous metro trains. They are fully automatic, and should the system fail can sometimes be controlled manually.

This is preferable, because a child, blind person etc needs to be able to use the autonomous vehicle alone.
The OS (or browser, rather) probably shouldn't allow autoplaying sounds at all.
That's dumb. The term means someone who is walking. "Per pedes" means "by foot".
"100's of pedestrians"? 2017 was a record high for pedestrian fatalities, at ~6,000:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589453431...

The urban fatality rate of all fatalities is 1 per 100 million miles traveled: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

As of September 2017, all of Uber's autonomous cars have driven a total of 1 million miles over a period of 2.5 years: https://www.axios.com/ubers-autonomous-cars-have-driven-1-mi...

There's an argument to be made that autonomous vehicles are better for society and safety. But it sure isn't statistical.
LONG list of issues ahead:

Improve the price comparison items. No item stands out, so I began reading the left one, then wondering why it was crossed out.

Only after looking at the other items I found out which actually was your pricing.

I also do not like your "Git Invoicing" and "Git Tracking" lines. Perhaps use icons? Crosses/Checkmarks?

Placing of "Meet the Founders" seems weird. Add a link to the footer for that, imo. Also, "Meet the Founders" just has an image, but not even a text that explains who you are.

Not sure why the "Future Integration" items have arrows in them -- why do you want me to go github.com? I know that website already.

After signing up, I was redirected to `https://www.trapfi.com/success.html?auth_token=eyJhbGciOiJIU... [...]` but the site was empty. After refreshing it loaded. Chrome.

Every time I click on "Sign up" on the homepage I get stuck there.

Display the "Must me member [of board]" error on the UI. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/T954yLv.png

There is no way to sign out. Also, I always have to click login again, even when logged in.

Top right account name with image redirects to Github, which is also unexpected. Why have a link there at all if it's not from/for your site?

Repeatedly signing up creates more and more demo projects.

Mention that it is (presumably) only for US contractors.

Add a date picker to the Deadline contract detail field.

32.32.2018 got accepted as date.

Don't use a flexing biceps as Github repo icon.

Use a real font for the credit card add window. Also, it doesn't really look legitimate for some reason. I would not put in my card info on your site.

When on a specific Board, clicking on the gear icon shows a "Create Project" button, but it should just update the existing project.

Also, what is it now? A board, a project or a contract?

Why are you using airtable for those extra things, when you already have a drag and drop + modal UI? Why not reuse it and deactivate drag and dropping?

Small detail: When closing a modal, the search bar appears for 0.5 seconds. Sorta annoying.
I don't think the negativity is childish at all but completely warranted. This product seems to have all the hallmarks of vaporware designed to pump the value of the company through pure hype and zero delivery.
This is arguably correct. While it may be more pragmatic to practice lenience with wistleblowers, there is no moral principle to shield them from all consequences of their actions.

This guy was not just an observer of unethical practices. He was the technical lead for this behavior.

Whistleblower protections usually shield you from retribution by your employer. What people argue for when they criticize Facebook over this is more akin to immunity.
That's the type of thing that an excellent driver thinks about, but about 10x more thinking than I believe the average driver does.
Airplane (and car, for that matter) malfunctions can already kill travelers. Why not apply existing principles from those types of cases?
The trend I'm seeing is to immediately defend self-driving cars based on "but if you look at it statistically I'm willing to bet this is better than human drivers".

It is as if HN users expect the news headline to be: "an event occurs which is statistically speaking non-anomalous".

If one doesn't feel we have enough data to draw conclusions yet, then sure, fine. But a person just died. This is a newsworthy story and it deserves our best attention and discussion, not repetition of something obvious ad nauseam.
I think you have it backwards. It’s not that there is an asset bubble, it’s that labor is feeling the effects of globalization. The lifestyle that people in the US have come to expect (urban home ownership for instance) was a historical anomaly based on the United States unique position as the leading super power post two world wars that decimated the rest of the globe but pre labor globalization.

The reality is most people will never attain the 20th century consumer lifestyle and I think a lot of people would argue that’s a good thing.
Well, just because people react badly when confronted with personal tragedy doesn't mean you have to do the same when it's not applied to you.

For example it's clearly excusable to be angry / depressed / looking for someone to blame when a personal tragedy happens to you. But that doesn't mean you should replicate that behaviour when a tragedy happens to someone else. We should distance ourselves from subjects where we're emotionally compromised, not guide our decision by the example of emotionally compromised people.
Wasn't Fortnite just a quick clone of PUBG once they saw it taking off?
Which is actually a real thing, since each person's subreddits really do create a different experience.
Your're missing a key detail (the data was collected by a third party, which then handed the data off to CA against Facebook TOS), but I agree, this doesn't seem to be a 'breach' so much as abuse of personal data by a developer.
Uber halts testing autonomous cars after Arizona pedestrian is killed
If you're going to be super-literal about the word "need" then we can include pretty much nothing other than water, food, and shelter as "needs." But we wouldn't have a very useful conversation if we did that.
The app was allowed to scrape friend data as well, meaning that many more people’s information got exposed. That is on facebook.
Not if they also take normal drivers off the road...
Once upon a time when I was learning to drive, one of the exercises my instructor used was to put me in the passenger seat while he drove, and have me try to point out every person or vehicle capable of entering the lane he was driving in, as soon as I became aware of them. Every parked vehicle along the side of a road. Every vehicle approaching or waiting to enter an intersection. Every pedestrian standing by a crosswalk or even walking along the sidewalk adjacent to the traffic lane. Every bicycle. Every vehicle traveling the opposite direction on streets without a hard median. And every time I missed one, he would point and say "what about that car over there?" or "what about that person on the sidewalk?" He made me do this until I didn't miss any.

And then he started me on watching for suspicious gaps in the parked cards along the side that could indicate a loading bay or a driveway or an alley or a hidden intersection. And so on though multiple categories of collision hazards, and then verbally indicating them to him while I was driving.

And the reason for that exercise was to drive home the point that if there's a vehicle or a person that could get into my lane, it's my job as a defensive driver to be aware of that and be ready to react. Which includes making sure I could stop or avoid in time if I needed to.

I don't know how driving is taught now, but I would hope a self-driving system could at the very least match what my human driving instructor was capable of.
Uber’s New Rival in Australia: An Indian Upstart
My understanding, from talking to someone who works for the NTSB, is that the software controlling autonomous vehicles is currently completely unregulated, and that companies like Uber, Tesla, etc. have refused to provide access to their software for external review.

Recently I've seen a lot of comments defending autonomous vehicles from a statistical standpoint, but even if these cars have the potential to be safer on average, it scares me to think that the software driving a car is less regulated than its airbags or seatbelts. Especially considering the auto-industry's tenancy to ignore safety issues without external pressure [0].

Is my information outdated? Have there been efforts to review or regulate autonomous driving software in the last year?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
A portion of that depends on the funding on either side of the issue.

If the autonomous cars kill 1100 per year, but autonomous car companies fund a bunch of studies saying the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, it'll be politically acceptable.
Of course it was Uber. I'm sure they don't even give a fuck any farther than the cost to their brand either.
I'll take it
that is an interesting point. cycling, I often am forced to rely on reading the driver's intentions-something I don't really want to have to do; signals obtained from person sitting in the driver seat but not operating the vehicle could be totally irrelevant to predicting the behavior of the vehicle itself (and cars are not equipped to really signal those things very well).
Microsoft joins group working to 'cure' open-source licensing issues
For what is the credit card adding then?
> Well, for one thing, inserting into pg_catalog tables without DDLs should require privilege and be audited.

It does require privileges.

> Secondly, things like lo_export() should be disabled by default.

It's superuser only.
> It really seems like Aleksandr Kogan, not Facebook, is the problem here

Kogan probably breached the terms he agreed to with Facebook. But fifty million people trusted Facebook with their data and, when asked in their privacy settings, said they didn't want it shared with third parties. That information was then shared with third parties.

If someone calls my bank and convinces customer service they are me, it would be reasonable to say the bank was breached. Not electronically. But breached nonetheless.
reason news?

I'm guessing he meant "recent news." Perhaps it was auto-incorrected or faulty speech-to-text.
I have yet to see anything really intelligent and thoughtful in 140 (or even 280) characters.
Those incentives cut both ways. It also creates a huge avenue for rogue employees to suddenly craft themselves payout strategies.

The law firm that we use recently told about such an action they defended for another client. A disgruntled employee, who suspected they would soon be fired for lack of performance, "setup" certain actions, documents, prompted specific executive responses to emails, etc. The claim was that there was prejudiced hiring practices ongoing. However very little true evidence existed...most of it was in fact crafted by the employee.

The whistleblower action resulted in a meager voluntary fine that the company paid (didn't make financial sense for company to fight, easier to pay the $10K and move on). The ex-employee for their part received $1500. Currently they are in a recovery program for crack addiction.
I don't disagree that real estate is inflated due to cheap money, but I would challenge the idea that just because you were born in a city you have the right to expect to be able to own a home there.

As for the $200K comment, I meant own a home, not rent an apartment.
Nah. The Uber likely stopped in its tracks and it's in the picture too. You can see an official collecting evidence at the scene. The bicycle may have been pulled onto the sidewalk but it would be the sidewalk near the accident, not far away.
Former Lyft eng here. From my vantage point, as an industry, we're nowhere near where we should be on the safety side. The tech companies are developing driving tech privately instead of openly. Why can a private for profit company "test" their systems on the public roads?
The public is at serious risk of getting run over by hacked and buggy guidance / decision system. Even when a human operator has his hands hovering 1 inch off the steering wheel and his foot on the brake, if the car decides to gas it and swerve into a person, it is probably too late for the human crash test driver to overtake. This is going to keep happening. The counterargument FOR this is that it is overall a good idea for the transportation system if the number of crashes & deaths is statistically less than human operated cars. I see this as the collision of what's possible with what's feasible and that we are years away from any of this being close to a good idea. :( Very sad for the family and friends.