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Wow...I didn't know Uber allows violent felony convictions, but looks like they ignore any convictions more than 7 years old. Including murder.

Colorado fined them $8.9M last year for violating background check laws.

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/20/uber-colorado-fine/

"The PUC said the drivers should have been disqualified. They had issues ranging from felony convictions to driving under the influence and reckless driving. In some cases, drivers were working with revoked, suspended or canceled licenses, the state said. A similar investigation of smaller competitor Lyft found no violations."
Yes and no. The very action of braking will reduce available grip for the swerve. However, ABS and stability control mean you are at least quite unlikely to lose control if you try to do both at the same time. And of course, in this case, only a mild swerve would have been required, and adding braking would help scrub speed in the event that the obstacle moves in a manner that your swerve does not avoid.
An accident may be physically impossible to prevent, but that's not the only standard. Initial reports (from the police) say that Uber AV did not even brake. Is not braking at all within a 1 second window the performance touted by AV's detection and braking system?
i regret that i have but one upvote to give
I think it's a fair trade if you want to continue to run a business in a country, that country has a right to summon you to explain what your business is doing.
Yea I'm still baffled why this is 'news'. Facebook and Mark Z have been very upfront with investors and the public about the lack of privacy that users should expect when using their platform.
Better that than the tax being shifted to externalities like environmental cost, social costs or corruption.

(The most insidious cost is by starving public infrastructure such as education and transportation.)
>Hint: try to program under alcohol influence.

Seems pretty common. I've certainly done quite a bit of my personal projects while drinking.

Hell, gotta get to the Ballmer Peak! https://xkcd.com/323/
At risk of sounding like those armchair physicists on the internet (oh wait, that's exactly how this post sounds!) it's "obvious" that a black hole cannot form.

The standard lay explanation of what an observer outside a black hole sees as an object falls into it is that gravitational time dilation freezes the object just at the event horizon. "[A]n object falling into a black hole appears to slow as it approaches the event horizon, taking an infinite time to reach it.[62]" (wikipedia citing Carroll 2004). For an object with just short of black hole mass, this time would instead be just short of infinite. So how does the black hole finish forming? (A similar problem seems to apply in the interior, where hawking radiation evaporates the black hole mass after essentially no time has passed for the observer falling inward)

Changing argumentative tactics to something totally nonphysical and unrelated to black holes except by sharing the term "singularity", this feels to me like a function such as f(x) = 1/x or f(x) = -ln x as you approach x=0. Yes, if you can get all the way to x=0 you're at a singularity. But if you're riding the curve on your bicycle, the distance you've got to ride along the curve is infinite, so you can never experience this supposed singularity after a finite time.

This armchair viewpoint is obviously flawed in some way, or real astrophysicists wouldn't be talking about actual black holes like they existed, so I'd love to hear an explanation that tackles this specific objection.
Please stop spreading rumors and speculations. The graphic is an illustration and does not necessarily place the car in the actual lane. It clearly contradicts with the police chief’s statement that the victim walks right into traffic from center medium. It even contradicts with the left arrow pointing to the impact location in the same picture.
I don't think that respect for the victim and her family is an excuse to not release video footage. It's a valid reason to hesitate releasing actual video footage of a such a terrible event.

Sensor data is different. If Uber wants to help the story that self-driving cars are safer, then they should release sensor data to help substantiate any claims they may make in the future about what the car did and did not do.
From the article,

> “defendants made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose that Facebook violated its own data privacy policies by allowing third parties access to personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent,” according to the complaint.
Any browser plugin is inferior to using a hosts file. Hosts file's blackhole any network request before even attempting to make a connection. These browser plugins only help if you're using the specific browser — they aren't going to help that electron/desktop app that's phoning home. They wont help block inline media links (Messages on a Mac pre-rendering links) that show up in your chat programs which attempt to resolve to Facebook. They also wont block any software dependency library that you install without properly checking if it's got some social media tracking engine built in.

I don't even waste time or cpu cycles with browser based blocking applications. Steven Black's[1] maintained hosts files are the best for blocking adware, malware, fakenews, gambling , porn and social media outlets.

[1] - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/
Create a better social product to replace Facebook challenge
I block all js by default and whitelist as I go. Ironically my user experience is far better because I don't deal with intrusive dynamic behavior.
You could probably turn education free by reducing the defence budget by a few percentage points.

One of the reasons I'm happy to be European. Education is free in most countries. It makes no sense to burden young people with a load of debt when starting out.
> "Reverie Labs uses machine learning to scan public molecule research, modify and develop its own molecules, and license the drugs they create to big pharmaceutical companies. The startup claims it can sell molecule licenses for $100 million, and has already signed a milestone deal worth up to $87 million."

I wonder if this is really molecular innovation or does it result in derivative work from a machine learning algorithm pattern matching human successes.
Yeah, I also think it depends on what you're doing.

I'm currently in the middle of writing an application with Java, which is more or less just a GUI to enter things into a database. And both, the GUI code and the database code, is 90% just spelling out the obvious.

I mean, for the GUI code, context-sensitive autocompletion is still important, no doubt, even just so I don't have to type out "pnlInputTimeSpan" and similar all the time, but the naming is relatively consistent, so I could certainly imagine just typing it.

And there is something to be said as well about actually just typing things out, rather than also interacting with the GUI of your IDE. Remembering the name correctly and typing it, to me, feels closer to the core thought process than interacting with the GUI of my IDE.

Lastly, many people tell themselves they edit text all day long, so whatever helps to speed that up, even if it's just a few percent, is going to be worth it in the long run.
> We never did get to see the vision that was presented in that KS...

When we produced this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWAMr72VaaU) for the v0.2 release, we actually went though the LT kickstarter video and tried to deliver on the promises made there. I think at one point in the office we had them going side by side, showing the promise in LT and the reality in Eve.
> Jurors are asked if they will treat the word of law enforcement as always true. Jurors are disqualified if they don't say yes.

Realistically, jurors will instead be challenged for cause by the defense if they do say yes to that question.

They might be challenged by the prosecution if they indicate a bias against police testimony (either for cause or as a peremptory challenge, depending on the details and the prosecutor and the judge.)
Sounds like a nice option and a scary default.
The NYT graphic shows an empty road. Do we know that to be the case?

Is it possible the road had other vehicles blocking the view?
Three little questions to save your new job before it starts
Last male northern white rhino's death highlights 'huge extinction crisis'
Wage stagnation has a hand in productivity decreases. Wages are pretty much stagnant since 2000 even in upperclass compared to costs rising [1]. People are working harder and losing ground, that is exhausting.

The Great Recession gave companies a decade of excuses for not giving real money wage increases, not just real compensation which people can't actively spend as consumers [2]. America has efficiently worked out wage increases of real money, yes 'real compensation' has moved but people can't spend that and most of it is not used.

The velocity of money is decreasing at a scary rapid clip since 2000 [3]. More money goes to wealth as inequality has increased. Less money in lower/middle is changing hands.

All of this leads to less reason for longer term employees to innovate and increase productivity.

Wages do have an impact on productivity and the skills people bring, American businesses have efficiently worked them out for the short term gains and long term drain. Wages are a key aspect in capitalism growth that seem to be the most fought against. Companies today have forgotten that wages are as American as it comes.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/upshot/the-great-wage-slo...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
Could this be related to the tax law changes?
Given that another comment says she "suddenly" crossed three lanes of traffic and was on the far side of the car when she was hit, my suspicion is that the car thought she was riding the bike. Of course all of us computers know that bikes always go over 5 mph so surely she'd make it across. Why brake?

I want safe self-driving cars, when they are safe. But Uber's clearly-established cavalier attitude toward human beings apparently can't be trusted with self-driving cars. I'm disappointed that politicians thought they could.
did he leave after the acquisition? or is he still involved in the company?
Death of the sampling theorem?
I'll just leave this here. Arizona pedestrian deaths increased 9% in 2017.

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/arizona-pe...
Is this a startup or just an old-school company rebranded as a startup? Couldn't find a website for them (unless it's storage racks).
I had a bad year last year and the couple before. I defaulted on my student loans, they got sold off, and it just so happened that I was in a group of sold off student debt that didn't get the information sold to the new organization handled correctly so for me and a couple hundred thousand delinquents had their student loans lost in the mail.

It's completely unfair that mine went away and people that are upside down and have been "playing the game" are still in the slog, but it by a wide margin the most fortuitous thing that has ever happened to me.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2017/07/18/5-billi...
Well, considering the whole thing is in a test phase, they must have a recording of all the sensor data, including what the cameras saw.
> Blockchains provide a verifiably immutable log. This is the exact primitive you want for elections - tamper-proof logging.

i disagree. the exact primitive you want is a verifiable counter, where people can be verified as being allowed to add one to the counter, with no ability to determine who added to which counter. that is different from a verifiably immutable log.

also, there are scenarios where a blockchain can be mutated, and i bet you that the election of a country would provide a very enticing target for subverting the blockchain.

> That isn't a defense of this article, or of any of the current blockchain/election projects, but in principle, the idea makes sense.

but in practice, maybe it doesn't? elections aren't some academic thing.
Nice to see HackerNews create pull requests to make the list more up to date. I hope they get committed.

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/pulls
pretty sure Jesus never said such a thing, I think that's some old testament stuff.
As it should be. The deal spread seems kind of wide, though. I wonder why.
You should consider the scenarios with multiple contributors and single maintainer, where the maintainer is bottle neck.

I am not against the forks, but we also have examples like openwrt/lede split.

My perspective on this is only against splitting contributor base because of maintainer mismanagement.

Edit: in your emacs example, it is much more beneficial your changes (and a lot of others) pushed back to main project vs multiple emacs forks with minor improvements.
apk, is that you?
This is not the first time I've seen this ratio but it still blows my mind. It's, of course, unsurprising given that although it's a huge waste of tax payer resources they're a handful of ppl that actually profit lavishly from having this many ppl, who pose no physical threat to society, locked up.

I bet that these ppl will be your biggest obstacles. You should operate with the expectation that they will do everything in their power to protect their intrest. "Saving taxpayers money" literally means "removing it from their bottom line".

That said, I wish you much success! I wish more startups figured out creative ways to align their business models with the real issues affecting society.
That's why I think vehicle automation development follow the path where the computer is not in primary control of the vehicle and can take over quickly when needed. Unlike humans, computers don't have trouble paying attention.
What is it about programming the visual stuff that you like? For me I realized what I enjoyed about graphic algorithm is that you are constantly dealing with high level concepts like perceptional models as well as having to make a performant implementation using various approximations and what not. It wasn't necessarily the "art" part of it. Sticking to visual work:

* Someone has to create the tools that the games and movie industry has to use. Companies like Adobe and Autodesk that create 3D rendering and modeling software need tons of programmers familiar in graphics programming at all levels. Office source software like Blender is actively developed.

* Vehicle manufacturing companies like Honda, Ford, Boeing, Airbus, BMW all use tons of visualization and engineering software when designing their vehicles.

* Architectural firms use all kinds of rendering packages to visualize their buildings. VR is becoming a part of this and perhaps a place to get in early and become an expert in.

* Companies like Sony and Samsung that create panels deal with so applying human perceptual models to get colors and contrast correctly.

* Nikon, Canon, Fuji all offer hardware and software to the medial field and have to process X-ray, MRI info etc. Even in their consumer-level cameras lots of graphics know how is needed to process imaging data in their video streams.

* All of the tools mentioned above will have a user interface that has to be carefully and creatively designed to be used by creative people, analytical people etc. This is interesting in and of itself to me.

Things like video codecs and digital signal processing tickle the parts of my brain as game programming did.
I've been in plenty of cars driven by Uber/Lyft/Taxi drivers not to mention coworkers/friends/family who were decidedly below-average.
GAN with Keras: Application to Image Deblurring
They should take a lesson from the spotify API, friend listening feeds are out of reach for third party apps.

Since facebook apps request these fields so much, they could implement it as an opt-in/out checkbox "Do you want your data to be accessible by 3rd party apps without your consent through your friends?"

This way, if an app request friends access, they would get data only from the ones that allowed it.

It probably would remove a lot of value that can be extracted from their users, but facebook itself would still have all this data to use internally to target ads and they would limit the amount of data that can be exfiltrated to malicious 3rd parties without the consent of users.
Better than a transmitter would be a passive retroreflector. I believe these are even already available on the market.
Big deal, he has the most to sell. This would only matter if he sold a large percentage of his total. I would say if he sold 5%+ then it might be worth the trouble to report.
Stereotypes notwithstanding, a lot of regulations/laws do make reasonable tradeoffs. In this case, it appears as if the ADA guidelines do require a taxi driver to help stow a wheelchair but they don't require every cab to be a van equipped with a wheelchair lift. It would be nice if Uber allowed special requests although, of course, the number of options could explode quickly and it probably doesn't fit well with the Uber automated dispatch model.
This is certainly possible but hasn't been my experience. Most of Facebook stuff is xhr that is easy to block on the client side.

It's certainly possible that services are doing this on the backend, but it seems far easier to plug in Facebook's libraries in the frontend.
The police are comparing what would have happened if the driver was human. But Ai cars are supposed to have larger range of view. I personally feel waymo car would have probably noted and avoided the woman. And with lidar it's being dark is actually no excuse as it wouldn't matter.
Looks like a good alternative if you can't get root. It uses VPN to blackhole requests.
If you have root, I'd use AdAway[0] which changes the hosts file directly.

[0] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/
You may be thinking of http://newsdiffs.org

Here's the page for the article in question: http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.nytimes.co...
Voicery and Storyline are the two that connect with my interests.

I think Voicery does itself a disservice by featuring a "pick the human voice versus pick our machine voice" demo quiz on their website. I got 100%, and it led me to emotionally response "they have failed", but in fact the voice sounded great.

A more useful demo would have been to hear a range of different voices and be able to put my own text in and hear it read back.

But it is not the point that a machine voice can be determined versus a human voice. The important question is "does the machine voice sound good enough".

Instead, their marketing approach has forced me to make a comparison in which my conclusion was that they tech "lost" in some sort of contest.
Recidivism rule sets using baysein methods is outlined here that provide transparent methods for accurate predictions. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.07810.pdf and her talk about it here https://youtu.be/MjxcwKN2dXs

Having personally spent 2301 days in prison 19-26yrs old I found that many factors are at play in those who return. Truly look forward to what you are looking to accomplish and am open to helping however I can.
That would penalise cyrillic languages and Greek, which use more than one byte per letter, but need roughly the same number of letters per tweet as English.
I found your assessment out of context. The context of this article was essentially: "Should we force hackers to come work for us via selective service, even if they are older than the current cutoff age? Should we change the cutoff age to make this legal?"

Yes, the military might be doing "impressive" things with people who VOLUNTARILY join, but I can assure you, if you draft hackers to work for the military in the same way you draft truck drivers and infantryman back in the 60s, you will get few if any good hackers. I know exactly zero hackers who think joining the Marines is an appealing venture. That was the essence of my comment.

Nice try though, appreciate the propaganda about using 3D printers to waste less money killing people in other countries that never attacked us though. Thank god we are saving big money doing that.
The word pontifical has a pontifical air to it, don't you think?

To answer your question about the question....it ends with a question mark, so it's probably a rhetorical question suggesting that Zuckerberg has his hands full at the moment. I'm sure you've seen the headline about MPs requesting his presence at a hearing.
LOL who is that? — I don't think I'm apk.
And the conspiracy theories start...

Mmmm, I wonder if the aliens dropped him off during one of their UFO flights?
Can any lawyers summarize the actual lawsuit?

What do these investors want exactly, more money?

The stock price went up by any measure, from Feb 3, 2017 to Mar 19, 2018, so it can't be compensation for that. Unless they are willing to give those gains back?
"Just disagree" is unconvincing and you'll need to be seeking a profit if you want accepted to YC.
The things in Python you call types are traditionally referred to as tags. Tagged values are values of one type (the type in Python) but which can still be distinguished based on a run-time check of their tag.
I'm pretty amazed the SDV didn't "see" her, and yet the photograph shows the SDV and the bicycle in the same frame. I mean, yes, I'm sure it can stop from 38mph in, say, 60 feet under perfect conditions, but there's no way a human reacted to the collision and slammed on the brakes or hit an emergency stop button quickly enough to bring it to a stop with the bike in frame like that. I wonder if the vehicle is programmed to do a full panic stop on collision -- which, in and of itself seems a bit dicey, in terms of determining when to slam on the brakes (bird strike? dog? deer?)
How is this any better than using the sci-hub plugin?
Thanks for the reply, interesting view.

>You should reconsider your hesitance here. Intellectuals need to stop tapdancing around the issue of white supremacy, and call a spade a spade.

I am not a US citizen and don't know anything about this person, so I stand by my position on being unqualified to say (hence asking).
Actually on a side note, I agree with you, but on the other hand am equally concerned about the 'level platform' (e.g. 'my opinion is as valid as your scientific method') that we currently have in society.

Having said the above - Yes, I am a hesitant debater in general, so for other circumstances, I agree.

>http://fortune.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-car-crash/

The reference you provided seems a little tenuous to this to me FYI (and is also a single data point). That flippant comment from a single police force regarding a corporation does somewhat reflect the power of companies at the moment, but I am not sure whether it shows anything more than this.
Side note, the police also said along the lines of "we will not rule out prosecuting the driver" (paraphrasing) which strikes me as terrifying, as the driver was arguably avoiding negligence as much as possible, while Uber could be considered grossly negligent here.

>They are an institution historically grounded in anti-labor terrorism and slave catching, crafted entirely to elevate the security of private property above all other societal concerns.

To play devil's advocate here, so were the Dutch[1], Swedish[2] governments etc.) - Which are among the more democratically represented countries we have at the moment (no where near a pure democracy, but still some of the best we have). These nations now have comparatively liberal prison and policing systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Slave_Coast
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_slave_trade