skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's true at all. There was an article posted about the subject a while ago, but the thrust of it was that researchers think they need to do more to make cars behave like (fully attentive) human drivers rather than being weird anomalies that behave in surprising/irritating (to humans) ways if they're going to actually go on the road, and I think that's completely right.
> They are the pre-pre-pre-seed.

I guess we should credit Andrew Carnegie with pre^12-seed funding since he founded Carnegie-Mellon and a lot of relevant robotics research has taken place there.

Again, I am not discussing all of DARPA's activities, I am talking about the Grand Challenge you brought up, which I continue to maintain is minuscule compared to a million other sources and thus is terrible evidence that "autonomous vehicle development was funded by taxpayers" in any non-trivial sense.

> Nobody claimed that early stage investors are entitled to "all economic value".

You misinterpret my analogy. The point is that your approach, if taken seriously, would mean the government would have a claim on every single bit of economic value in the US, not that it would have full ownership of all of it.

> The statement stands that costs are socialized.
> "Autonomous vehicle development was funded by taxpayers" is a factually correct statement

Ha, yes, and we can also conclude that autonomous vehicle development was funded by Carnegie, Roomba, and my buddy Alex who runs a robotic delivery startup.
> This is the exact primitive you want for elections - tamper-proof logging

It is exact opposite of what is wanted.
You cannot really expect people who have to work for a living and do work for a vertically structured corporation to be ethical and to go against their bosses. The problem is inherent to capitalism and it can make people do far worse things than this, like killing people or promoting and making wars.
Because the year is 2000-2002 and you are embarking on writing a game engine targeting PC, Mac, Xbox, Playstation, and any other consoles or platforms that come onto the market before your engine is finished. Compilers and standards compliance was a shit show. Things like EA-STL might look silly nowadays, but there are many great reasons why companies rolled their own stuff back in the day.
You might also rest your foot on the brake in anticipation.
But neither attention nor anticipating controls is a concept that really exists in these autonomous system. They're "always ready". (yeah "attention" can exist in perception neural networks, but I am not sure that has much to do with keeping an eye out for a risky event)
It's shocking how many people with poor leadership skills end up in positions of power.
Uh, but it is speeding. I can't be the only person who's gone through a town that happens to have a zealous patrol officer who brings in huge revenues for the town (seems to be common around college towns). Exceptions are generally made when it comes to maintaining flow of traffic, but it seems like the Uber vehicle was by itself?
US Congress recommends to policy makers to get acquainted with blockchains [pdf]
sent from your mobile phone, made possible by an 8 year old slave working in the cobalt mines.
Legally, the driver may not have been at fault. Even so, I was taught as a child learning to drive that when I see a person in the median, watch them. They may walk out in front of you. They might even fall into the road.

So, be prepared maybe even by changing lanes before that point in order to get out of harm's way. Apparently, this driver wasn't watching, choosing to let the car drive itself.
Driving 38 vs 35 is hardly an unsafe difference...

These are machines. They should obey the speed limit.

For people learning to drive -- the first step is learning how to obey the rules. The second step is learning which rules can be bent. Let's focus on step one at the moment.
After a comprehensive analysis of the current state of regulations, the ecosystem, and potentials, Joint Economic Committee Report recommands:
- Policymakers and the public should become more familiar with digital currencies and other uses of blockchain technologies, which have a wide range of future application.
- Regulators should continue to coordinating with each other to guarantee coherent policy frameworks, definitions, and jurisdictions.
- Policymakers, regulators, and entrepreneurs should work together to ensure developers can quickly deploy blockchain technology to protect Americans from fraud, theft, and abuse, while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
- Government agencies at all levels should consider and examine new uses for blockchain technology to help make the government function more efficiently.
Not to be overly negative, but if you're going to the trouble of pointing a custom domain to this service, couldn't you just write a quick PHP script that mail()s out when it's accessed? As far as I can see, the only advantage of using this third-party site is convenience, a custom domain makes it much less so.
This is called comparative negligence. The theory being that there really is no such thing as an “accident” and that generally all parties involved share some negligence in causality. Obviously there are still freak occurrences. Courts adjust damages based on this all the time.

People slip and fall and hold business liable all the time.
DataFusion (Rust) vs. Apache Spark – First Benchmarks
I would hazard a guess you could make 99.5% of transactions with EFTPOS in NZ - the exceptions might be a few vendors at farmers markets (most take EFTPOS), sausage sizzles/ad-hoc fundraisers, fruit honesty boxes on the side of the road, etc. Maybe only 85% would take credit/debit, though.

From my experience in sydney/melbourne more places take credit/debit than NZ but also more places are cash only. Not as much penetration for EFTPOS.
Tittle is misleading, the Supreme Court rejected attempts to prevent redrawn congressional maps from going into effect.
According to ABC News, the Trump campaign considered using CA as a hedge bet in-case the RNC wouldn't share its data. The campaign ultimately rejected their bid for the general election [0].

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-campaign-phased-out-use-o...

As for the parent, people love to cry about whataboutism, but it is useful to see how people respond when something is done by their favored politician versus an opponent.
Fear of litigation.
Facebook’s rules for accessing user data lured more than Cambridge Analytica
My understanding is the people who answered the quiz were a fraction of the 50 million people's whose data was "used." The quiz was a small sample so they could run their analytics on the larger data set.
What? I agree it works, but it's pretty insecure. Paper ballots can just be swapped out for other paper ballots. With a public blockchain (or something like it) you could always look up your vote and by nature it cannot be changed. The vote count could be tallied instantly as well and recounts are unnecessary.

Blockchains can't ensure no false votes are cast for deceased or unwilling participants, but it honestly would be better than paper in many ways. I am not advocating people use some third party token to do this. That I believe would be unnecessary. Am I missing something though? I don't understand the overwhelming hatred any blockchain related tech gets on HN. This is one area where I think it could provide real value.
What would it cost to re-make them at the same quality and quantity? $12M does not seem unreasonable at all.
Try setting your default search provider to DuckDuckGo for a while. Searching for things on Amazon as you describe becomes "!a thing I want". Bang commands[0] are life changing.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
What? All of those places have hardware support for DirectX, but none of them (barring Windows phones) actually have DirectX running on them.
The difference is that in NYC the cops can get away with that just by taking the surveillance tapes from the local businesses and then destroying them. In this case presumably they know the video will eventually come out.
Goals 1 through 5 are addressable by using election scrutineers[0], without introducing problems 1 and 2.

I like crypto as much as the next person. But the bigger picture means that simpler, dumber systems that rely on lots and lots of humans are more suited to the problem space.

[0] http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/scrutineers.htm
I've heard about BEM many times and been forced to use it on a lot of projects. It seems to be reasonably commonplace I was hoping for some smaller tips so here's one I use very often.

Vertical height of text comes up a lot in CSS. It seems many people do not make liberal enough use of the line-height property. Line height is a magic bullet when you need some text to take up the correct amount of space.

With it, and your element styled to inline-block, of float left, or however you are using it. You are able to modify the font size later on without having any effect on the element's surroundings. It's also automatically centered vertically and you can change it without much effort.

Not enough people using line-height.
With your opinion on Caterpillar, I feel like I need to share that I once spilt the contents of about 10 beers on top of some of their bigwigs.

You're welcome.
Given just how poorly we react to terrorism and sharks, I’m not sure if that’s the direction I’d want to be headed in. I’m in favor of automation, but not with Uber’s “move fast and break things” attitude. Responsible, ethical, and careful developments of dangerous technology, even if the danger promises to be reduced compared to the norm in some future iteration, is a must.

Keep in mind that some version of “killled by robots” has been in the zeitgeist of fear for decades now. In that sense, “sharks amd terrorists” might not be a bad comparison. It will not take much to ruin a good thing (automation) with typically scummy practices. The important thing to remember is that automation doesn’t require the likes of Uber playing fast and loose with it to become a reality.
No, the woman hit by the car was a pedestrian, not a cyclist.
I've just checked your pull-request, but the resulting pdf is on article form instead of book. I'm talking about the latex document class:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, oneside]{book}

It has to be ran with pdflatex..
The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right
I've been trying to find video evidence of the crash, and have been unable to do so. The closest I've found is a myriad of news reports showing the stopped car and police scene.

On reviewing this evidence however, there is one thing that sticks out: the damage to the car appears to be entirely on the passenger side. If the woman "darted out from the median," then she managed to clear at least half of the traffic lane before being struck. That makes it more likely that certain prompt evasive actions could have prevented the fatality, which does not look good on Uber's part.

I, for one, am glad that NTSB is looking at the crash.
It's unclear, because no facts are presented just someone's interpretation of some camera footage that isn't shown.
The Dec update was a couple of minor bugfixes. It had been a long time since the previous update, and there haven’t been new features for ages. It is quite featureful, so this isn’t egregious, but it is indicative of an app that you’d have to say is, at best, in caretaker mode now. There are a ton of unaddressed bugs at https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/issues.

Also the iOS version had been in beta for a long time, and was eventually released in attenuated form (a free read-only notes viewer).

I’m not writing this to bag the app at all. It’s still my primary note-taking app. But on present evidence I don’t think anyone would say it has a great future.

Quiver got a lot right, at least for me, and hit a kind of sweet spot between the overwhelming closed-platform-centricity of Evernote, and the minimalistic text-oriented note apps. And it was for the most part nicely implemented - performant, very mac-idiomatic, and with lots of nice usability touches. I still have ambitions to build apps based on its notebook files, just because I want to continue using it for my notes now, but suspect the app itself has a limited lifespan.
What exactly was the person in the drivers seat doing?

Nothing, because the car was clearly supposed to be driving itself.
You are assuming that all accidents are independent events and neglecting black-swan risks.
The only reason to have an interface is to decouple the use from the implementation (other than some fairly specific reasons that the article mentions like sealed interfaces).

To decouple the use from the implementation we generally are either adapting the implementation or narrowing it. In the latter case, structural typing saves you boilerplate, in the former it likely doesn't.

The OOP consultant set calls the the concept we are dancing around Dependency Inversion. In Java it very routinely results in wrapper classes. In the most basic cases those classes are pass through boilerplate, but those are fairly rare in practice. Golang dismisses with those.

In more cases in practice, you are actually defining the interface that matches the call site demands and modeling different implementations to that. Golang's structural typing doesn't help much with that.

I tried (not terribly successfully) to write up some of this in the DIP section of this http://kc.my-junk.info/di-ioc-dip it uses scala for the code samples, but it should be fairly easy to see that golang doesn't remove much of the wrapper code if I'd used that.
Crossing 20M Private Searches a Day (duckduckgo)
youve missed the point.

the point is: anything complex can be dismissed as "just x,y,z" if you dont appreciate the massive body of work behind it.

i made that point because OP observed that "ml is just affine transformations" or something to that effect. yes, that's one way to frame it - if youre okay overlooking roughly 30 years of research.
> With a public blockchain (or something like it) you could always look up your vote and by nature it cannot be changed. ... Am I missing something though?

Ballot secrecy. Without it you get vote-buying and voter coercion. If you want to see what that looks like, ask your legislators about which lobbyists they met last week.
Their candidate lost.
The straight-faced comparisons to the inflation-adjusted valuations of the Mississippi Company and the South Sea Company made me chuckle: both of those companies ended up in calamitous crashes!

* The Mississippi Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company

* The South Sea Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

None other than Isaac Newton lost a fortune by speculating in South Sea Company stock: http://www.businessinsider.com/isaac-newton-lost-a-fortune-o...

By the way, we may owe the use of the word "bubble" for describing financial bubbles to the appropriately named Bubble Act passed by Great Britain's parliament in 1720, during the South Sea stock mania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Act
The Facebook Brand
It's not really clear if the author views this as an improvement. To me, it seems like needless churn - another reason I'd like to get off Mac.
Video: https://youtu.be/eiYoBbEZwlk
I wasn't saying that in jest or exaggerating for dramatic effect. It's simply reality that today, unless you are drunk or high, you can kill someone who is walking in a crosswalk with your vehicle and get away with not even a ticket:

https://twitter.com/KeeganNYC/status/530515713405231105

Afterwards, police will, as in this case, make up a story how "the little kid broke free from its grandma" and decline to charge.
Should the US retire the penny and nickel?
Yes, while working a telemarketing job for quick cash secretly I encountered just this sort of thing. I had spent all of my graduation gift money meant for my first apartment right after high school and had to take a night shift somewhere. I found this telemarketing place and they had a dead simple test they used for prospective hires. My friends told me they would hire anyone no matter what. Surprisingly, someone failed the test and left angrily. Later I found out that they hired someone specifically to stage this event night after night. The reason was because if a group of people witnesses somebody fail it makes them feel they need to hold onto the opportunity. I saw this work time and time again- every single person who showed up for the job took that job and didn't question it. They also did this because they cashed every last check of every employee that left and there were a lot of those. It was grueling and I would even leave on a bike and ride through the woods to get there just so my family wouldn't notice. Made my money back and then some then quit all in time for college. You see, I learned that fake employees are just a part of growing up and growing wiser.
Trump got 41% of the female vote.
Of course a self driving car should be able to speed. My understanding is that speed limits are set by measuring the speed people are driving on the road and then determining a speed at which roughly 15% of the drivers are exceeding that limit. There is an expectation that people will speed, but by setting the speed limit a little bit lower almost all traffic will fall under safe bounds. Driving 38 in a 35 zone is completely reasonable. I probably would have been going 45 - 50 if the road was empty. If self driving cars aren't allowed to speed, they're going to be a nightmare for passengers and other drivers. Obviously different people have different feelings about the issue of speeding, but personally I lose my mind when I get an Uber driver that's driving to slow. Try and think about what it would be like if a computer followed every traffic restriction to the letter of the law rather than driving like an actual human.

People will vote me down because the idea of a speeding self driving car sounds scary, but I personally can't wait until the software has advanced to the state that it can confidently drive 200 mph on the 5 from LA to the Bay Area. (Presumably they'd have to build a much bigger better 5, with special lanes dedicated to autonomous vehicles)
What about the other sensor data? Did the police watch the LIDAR pointclouds and the RADAR maps too? Or are they basing their judgement on only one sense input? Seems to be the latter which means they're spouting off without knowing what they're talking about.
Or maybe you don't visit your friend so often. Or you decide that 90 minutes on the train is better than driving, or maybe your friend gets tired of making a 2 hour trip to the city, so he moves closer.

There are lots of alternatives that don't involve you spending more time driving.

While it's true that goods will cost more to transport if it takes longer, that higher charge is amortized across many products in the truck, so is a very small portion of the finished product.

So if a radiator fits in a box 16x24x6" or 1.3ft^3 and a 40ft truck holds 2400 ft^3 (subtract 20% since it won't be a perfect fix, so 2000 ft^3, so you can fit 1500 of them in the truck.

If a truck+driver costs $100/hour, that means each radiator will cost 13 cents more.

Or, another way at looking at it -- all of the parts that make up a car aren't going to be bigger than a car (sure, some space is lost to packaging, but there's a lot of empty space in a car), and 6 - 10 cars can fit on a car carrier truck, so each car will end up costing around $25 more.

Though since we're talking about urban speed limits, and there aren't many urban car manufacturers, slow urban speed limits won't affect the price of cars.
The car didn't have a driver's license. The driver did, regardless of the amount of assistance provided by the car. What is troubling is that the breaks were never applied.
How to Use Color in UI Design Wisely to Create a Perfect UI Interface?
A friend once told me about a girl in their cs 101 class, who learned about arrays, and proceeded to make every variable an array. When queried, she responded, "I might end up realizing I need a multiple of the variable, and this way I won't have to change anything when I do".
Generally you would want to avoid descendant and child selectors. With rules like

ul > li > a

.selector .selector1 li a

The system will check ALL anchor tags and move left until it has completely matched the rule. This makes the above selectors extremely expensive (perfomance-wise) and can cause slow page-loads. Tag selectors and universal selectors are generally a bad idea for this same reason.

And using inheritance to select elements indirectly is actually better for performance than directly selecting the inheriting elements. For example, if you want to set typography for an entire page, instead of selecting all p and h1 tags, just select the body tag.

Here's a link to a more in-depth explanation of all of the above with examples:

http://mdn.beonex.com/en/CSS/Writing_Efficient_CSS.html
This is probably less the case with self-driving cars, as I imagine they're using pretty new or well-maintained vehicles, but there's usually a 5mph leeway with speed limits due to slightly mis-calibrated speedometers. I anecdotally remember hearing this being the reason for speed limits that end in "5" rather than being multiples of 10.

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/40113/do-any-stat...
Senator Wyden's March 19 letter to Mark Zukerburg:

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-cambridge-a...

Zukerburg has 24 days to answer about his privacy policies, and how they've been been used throughout this episode. Wyden also asks how Facebook has kept up with its agreements with the FTC in regards to its mandated privacy reports.
This is true for organizing small events with friends but unfortunately for larger events like local concerts and such it gets hard to keep track of all the shows happening as someone active in the local music scene.

Not to mention how difficult it is to put on shows without facebook promotion.

Unfortunately Facebook is practically only platform where all the shows I care about are organized on.

That being said, I've recently got off and now I depend on friends who stay on Facebook or word of mouth which has worked out, but I don't put on shows.

Unfortunately Facebook has it's place.. for now
Yes. And on HN the first article will get artificially removed from the front page by the owners of the site, and the second article will get artifically boosted onto it.

Also, it'll be a long-ass time before Uber's half-assed bullshit will be as safe as a human driver. Only deeply fucking stupid people trust Uber on this one.
A shot too low!!
That intersection isn't really. There's an overpass over Mill that she may well have lived under. In that case, it would not be well lit at all.
Unless you were texting while driving, changing a song, eating, talking with a passenger, or talking on the phone (even handsfree).

Or, it was dark, your (night) vision isn't the best - but passes the drivers test, or you were tired.
> Blockchains have the potential to remove all doubt.

Secure cryptography and other algorithms that verify authenticity have the potential to remove all doubt. Blockchain has very little to do with it.
Hilary Putnam and the mind of Aristotle (2016)
> This applies almost equally to most language reference material I've come across but I'm asking politely, please spend more time on the toolchain.

I have a chapter about the python installation in this book but in the documents I usually give to my students I also explain how to use pip and virtualenv. I may add something about the basic tooling, at least enough so that people can get up to speed with python.

Edit: removed "spent an entire chapter on the python installation".
No, when police are involved that's one of those 'maximally invoke your rights' situations. The police are the enemy. Get whatever brigade of lawyers you can afford and stop their efforts in any way you can. This is true whether you're an unfortunate person who happened to be driving while black or a multinational corporation.