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Disclaimer: I am playing Devils Advocate and I don't necessarily subscribe to the following argument, but:

Surely it's a question of balancing against the long term benefit from widely adopted autonomous driving?

If self driving cars in their current state are at least close to as safe as human drivers, then you could argue that a short term small increase in casualty rate to help development rate is a reasonable cost. The earlier that proper autonomous driving is widely adopted, the better for overall safety.

More realistically, if we think that current autonomous driving prototypes are approximately as safe as the average human, then it's definitely worthwhile - same casualty rate as current drivers (i.e. no cost), with the promise of a much reduced rate in the future.

Surely "zero accidents" isn't the threshold here (although it should be the goal)? Surely "improvement on current level of safety" is the threshold?
This analysis reminds me of a Princeton study 3 years ago:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/23/facebook-losing-users-prin...!
This feature already out (v59) caught my eye: "When we detect that disk IO may be slow, we send a network request in parallel, and we use the first response that comes back. For users with slow spinning disks and a low latency network, the result would be faster loads".

Wow, the browser is giving up on the OS. What madness given that typical W10 PC's with 2GB RAM (with the disk spinning in vain) have only two apps open: the browser and its adversary, the AV. Heck 4GB isn't comfortable anymore with several tabs open.
> I can safely, and, sadly, assure ...

why don't you go on and do it then with a good argument. No need to go all out, a glimpse of an argument would help, otherwise mentioning a person from what, 10 to 20 years ago is simply ad-hominem. There is no doubt that cs education is more than a fad.
> Why the downvotes? I want Firefox to be successful, it just seems to have lost its charm from when it was originally called Phoenix

Not sure about the downvotes, either, because I think you have a very good point.

However, I suspect that many people want Firefox to be exactly like Chrome, at least subconsciously. This is of course silly, because what do we win if Firefox becomes a second Chrome? Also, it would mean that Firefox will always lose, because every little difference to Chrome would be considered negative.

On the other hand, it might make tactically sense for Firefox to mimic Chrome for now, to win back the lost users.

In the end, I want Firefox to be clearly different from and better than Chrome.
?? Are you somehow suggesting that people involved in gun sales or drug sales on reddit are somehow meme generators keeping the culture alive?? People made the same arguments when /r/fatpeoplehate was banned and /r/niggers was banned, and before that when /r/jailbait was banned.

Nothing changed except the site got a bit better because a bunch of the assholes migrated to voat or remade those subreddits under different names.
I've been hearing about some good things happening in France too (and many further afield).

Bec Hellouin is a productive, healthy farm in Bretagne which follows permaculture principles. They've been taking part in studies to see how viable organic market gardening can be. Asking if 1/4 acre is enough to provide a job for 1 person (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8alcGWNyX8&t=7m35s).
Read more about them here https://www.fermedubec.com/english/ and the studies are linked to from this page https://www.fermedubec.com/la-recherche/les-rapports-scienti... (in english down the bottom).

There are also some good farms practicing agroforestry, an example later in the video linked to above.

The examples are such a small drop in the ocean, but from Sepp Holzer in Austria to Ridgedale in Sweden, momentum for restorative agriculture will grow. Hopefully swiftly, but that's also dependant on government policy.
I could be wrong, but I believe part of the reason for having a human behind the wheel is that it allows the testing to take place under existing driving laws. At some point prior to an unmanned vehicle being allowed on the road, lawmakers need to have some kind of framework in place to deal with any incidents that arise. With a human behind the wheel, a fully autonomous car is legally no different to cruise control - it's just a driver assist, and the human behind the wheel is still ultimately responsible for whatever the vehicle does.

In that context, the landscape changes significantly - instead of a self driving car that mowed down a pedestrian, we have a driver who was too busy looking at her phone to pay attention to what her vehicle was doing. From the various articles, it seems that she's not an engineer, and is there in effectively the same capacity as any other Uber driver. If that's the case, she's putting far too much trust into an experimental system. I agree that Uber could do more in the way of technological means to ensure the driver is paying attention, but at some point, an adult with a job needs to be responsible for doing that job.
Could you please share more about your application process? I applied for couple of jobs and in their career portal... never received even an acknowledgement.
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I am glad to hear the NTSB is investigating this and not just the local police (who would lack the technical resources to make a useful judgement). Have there been any statements at all from them so far?
That's true, but I merely intended to say that there are plans to introduce smart contracts for Bitcoin, and there is considerable support for this. Naturally, this is intended as a second-layer solution.
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Mercedes has used thermal imaging commercially for years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d03SuJ0TVcY

I would be very surprised if there is no thermal imaging in autonomous vehicles.
I've stumbled on a couple of bugs with Dejavu, and wanted to see if I can submit a bug fix. And, well, submit and fix them I can, but boy oh boy is the code terrible. Only use this on your own risk and on a throwaway ES instance, as the code quality in this case kind of implies there's major risk of screwing things up.
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redditors belong to many subreddits. by banning some subreddits, reddit doesn't just affect those subreddits, they affect the users who post in many other subreddits also. If they move to Voat, they will straighten out the site, they will bring good content, and then others will come for that.

Just as reddit has toxic content, but hardly anyone goes there, so will Voat have the same characteristics....but at the moment, it's not like that.

reddit was mainly a tech forum when it started, then people started making it more accessible, then more people arrived.
I remember when it used to look like a nice, compact native dialog box* instead of a full-screen, space-wasting abomination that follows no standards for anything.

But consistency, visual coherency, discoverability and predictability are apparently all outmoded concepts in UI design, so opinions like mine -- that native applications should look and feel like native applications -- don't seem to be worth much among the cool crowd nowadays.

* https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/firefox-...
Amazing link. Thanks!
For those who haven't read the policy, what's banned is not the discussion of beer, tobacco and guns but discussion about buying beer, tobacco and guns (and other products or services) from private sources.

Clearly there will be some grey areas, such as a legal prostitute in Nevada offering sexual services. But my sense of this is that some authorities are leaning on Reddit, just as they have leaned on Craig's List and Backpage (and others) in the past, to deter dark web type activities.
Dang, how do I flag these?
Disable/uninstall FB from your phone completely and use https://mbasic.facebook.com in the browser instead.
Agreed. I am a member of a club for 2 years in Shanghai, and corporate club coach to help grow a Fortune 500 club stronger. I have seen extraordinary transformations in individuals; often within 1 year. I joke it is a club for all us introverts to get together, support each other, and find our voice. Regrettably I was always too busy or didn't prioritize this craft in my 20s (now 49). It is one of the best, cheapest, most efficient ways to upgrade your career skills bar none.
I see an agenda when people bring out freedom to mean one thing and only one thing without then mention the massive work done in the last hundred if not thousands of years in the field of philosophy. Freedom is not just freedom, and we have words like liberty, negative rights, positive rights, human rights, and so on to define all the variations that we put into the word freedom.

When a organization is working to bring freedom I don't say that they are derailing the spirit by demanding laws that define individuals rights. Laws are restrictions, but they are also conditions which are common to everyone. There is a rather large distinction between finding and fixing loopholes for common rights and creating a despotic environment, and that is the intent. Laws that fix common rights are intended to increase liberty. Laws that create despotic environments is intended repress those without power.

Linus Tolvards care about DRM but don't think a copyright license is the right way. That is his opinion. If someone want to produce code that can not be reused because of DRM then he do not care, or at least not enough to want a software license to enforce it. Other people disagree and that code that can't be used is of no use and thus any rights to have useless code is useless. They think that a software license is a good place to enforce this.
Completely agreed, but the law needs to take this into account. Human psychology can't just be ignored on this.
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They're neither "followers-only" nor "private" if there's no encryption.

Even if both me and my followers do run their own Mastodon servers.

This is terrible indeed. How is this any better than twitter? At least, for private tweets and such, they'd need a court order to get the information from twitter.
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They're just jealous you've done that ;) Be proud of your sabbatical. I'm planning on doing similar.
The average city dweller in the US doesn’t own a gun either. There are plenty of guns around, but often it feels more like a boogeyman than a real threat.
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Reddit and Youtube are becoming more and more draconian for one reason. They REALLY need people to stay on their advertisement platform. For instance Reddit has always had issues with its content clashing with advertisers. Youtube I think has gone into rougher times with its relation to advertisers (I remember proctor and gamble pulled their ads). When your advertisers complain about your platform having content they don't want they will remove it with extreme prejudice.

As an aside I am also dismayed in the fact that I find videos like these interesting but I will never own a gun but I like watching reviews and demos of them.
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Very insightful! Amazing.
Well, these are both alternatives. But I like your one more, let's work on that.
All kinds of edge cases are possible. That doesn't in any way address, let alone refute, the widespread concerns.
Anyone know if/when WebRender will be testable on Android?
Overlooked is how they became so ubiquitous: JavaBeans. It was well-meant, but it's left a lot of unintended pain in its wake (I'm looking at you, JPA constructors). Without that standard, Java code might feel quite differently today.

While you can avoid making it worse with idioms like only using constructor injection, you can't unwrite the billions of lines written to date.

Kotlin makes a great effort to atone for the sins of the past.
One of those techniques is on display here: make it absolutely clear that a journalist will have no access unless they relinquish editorial control and remain unswervingly positive.
This is what should have been reported at the time, but wasn't.
I don't know what is hard about setting up a PHP stack. "yum install" and you're on your way.

It's certainly no more work than setting up nodejs, ruby, python, a go compiler, etc.
Honestly thought this was an early April fool's joke base on the headline alone.
> the same way the NSA and Wall Street banks were likely emboldened because it will once again prove that after a short outburst of moral outrage people will go back to being complacent without substantive change being enacted

Stopping the NSA or changing Wall Street requires significant political power and cooperation, stopping Facebook from snooping on you requires individuals to stop using a website and maybe install a browser extension.

They're not comparable at all.
He can only shoot one gun at once. It's (much) faster to change a mag than to switch guns. Think harder about why he may have had so many. Maybe look into his very unusual non-history and the people around him.

If it's not obvious, officially what happened in Vegas is a coverup.
You're right that constant job jumping, or several sabbaticals would be a red flag, but I don't think that a single year off would be.

I was actually considering chasing another job last week, which would have better pay and more responsibilities, but decided not to, because I've only been in my current job for 6 months. It really isn't a good look if you're constantly jumping ship.
That's BS though. The fact that your employment history shows more than one employer shows that you're capable of taking off, maybe not for travel, but at least to another country.

You're almost guaranteed that someone you're hiring will leave after some time.
My understanding is that C#'s properties were designed pretty much exactly for this situation.
A dataset at the scale of Scihub would have to pay someone to keep all the various PDFs online (which IIRC is around 70TB by now), which would mean a DMCA or N&T or similar would take down paid IPFS hosters.

I'm not sure how many people would willingly play IPFS hoster for 70TB datasets for free and while not giving a shit about authorities knocking on the door.
This car failed the moose test. Legal details aren't relevant, it's plain rubbish. This is test track pre-alpha stuff, for crying out loud.
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This reminds me of this quote:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson

I wonder if he would be considered a terrorist today...
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Everybody has some kind of bias. Should a scientist be barred from studying greenhouse gas emissions if he is a known advocate of curtailment of fossil fuels? If not, why is that different?
This is a shit show now. A new technology is being tested, and the tester is a convicted armed robber, and was not even looking at the road during the test drive. I think every single person in Uber that has anything to do with this testing program is guilty of homicide, including the driver. This could've been at least non-fatal.
Python's properties are great for this. You can start off with public attributes and later switch to properties without changing the API.
Flash videos work. FF asks me if it should start Flash for it.

Some "html5" videos on Facebook and Twitter don't work.
Well, right, I think even if the camera isn't at all misleading you could have hit the brakes and hit the person at a lower speed.
This is only a problem because we allowed the web to become centralized around a few large hubs. It makes sense for Youtube to ban this controversial content. It's not new either, websites banning some types of content based on arbitrary rules is as old as the internet. It's not censorship, it's moderating your platform. The problem is that Youtube is so big and almost monopolistic that removing this content from Youtube effectively means removing it from the internet for a large chunk of the population.

If you don't want large monopolies to act as censors then don't put them in the position to do so. You're uploading your videos for free on their platforms, sometimes even expecting them to pay you for it. I can't really see how you can complain if they decide that they don't want to deal with your content anymore. Find an other platform or make your own, that's how the internet is supposed to work.
You're mocking the intelligence of gun control supporters and doubting their sincerity and credibility. As you seem to be knowledgeable about the subject, and seem to believe that only persons such as yourself are qualified to have an opinion on the matter, what would you consider to be actually sensible gun regulation?
For Java exists the Project Lombok, it works pretty well for this purpose, you can use getters and setters without polluting the code with auto-generated stuff. Have some other cool features like fluent accessors, builders, auto cleanups for close() and plugins for IDEs. IMHO every Java programmer should check it out.
I just love how they used a SNES controller as the, well - controller.
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Yes, I am saying that gun enthusiasts, the millions of normal Americans and people around the world who like guns, or even craft beer, or historical re-enactment, also like to tell jokes. They do not go to reddit to only talk about guns, but to other subreddits. It's quite easy to understand.

I am not saying they are the only people keeping the site alive, that would be silly. I'm saying that people that like to tell jokes will make the alternatives they go to better and more attractive, and make Reddit a bit less attractive.

Your examples of previous banning was about toxic subreddits where the main focus was on toxic "jokes". I'd agree with you, toxic joke tellers are probably going to always joke toxicly. But a gun enthusiast, a craft beer lover, a historical re-enactment, an adult porn star, they are not primarily makers of toxic jokes. I hope you can see the difference here.
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There are tons of altcoins competing with bitcoin, but not many altprecious competing with gold.

Gold is safe.
You're assuming increased revenue won't go toward:

- Increased marketing

- Upgrading facilities

- Moving facilities

- Hiring more drivers at the same wages

- Paying off corporate debt

- Acquiring more corporate debt

- Owner salary

- Owner profit

Most of which would have an outsized impact on the health of the company compared to changing the driver's salary from $8/hr to $10/hr.
I am a Firefox developer. Bug reports with specific examples of Firefox being slow, e.g. on a certain website, or with a certain hardware configuration, are very useful. Profiles even more so.

If it being slow really is a rule rather than an exception, then perhaps there is something in your configuration making it that way. Or a specific website that you happen to always have open. It's not normally always slow for most people, so again, this would be useful to know about.

It's true that often developers only test on Chrome, and in making sure it runs smoothly there they happen to make something that performs badly on Firefox. If we know about these websites then we can see if it's something we should change on our end, or get in touch with the developers ourselves.
Better link: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-0-0-released/

Being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16647445
There are other ways to immigrate to the US besides H1-B? I don't understand you claim that H1-B is the only way anyone immigrates to America.
They arent worried about the chip. The fear is that the chip represents a mistake in handeling, was it dropped? You wouldnt buy new bulldozer with a dent even though nobody really cares. You need to know the dent isnt the result of something more important.
According to the filename, those are iPads, which implies they could have been displaying anything (not just GPS).
Japan is fond of its old temples though.
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Who can name the bigger number?
Wait, if someone tells you they find Facebook useful to keep in touch with friends, you'd tell them they're wrong?
You're mischaracterising the issue. Cheese isn't the issue at hand. Caloric efficiencies are a valid point, but here the greater harm is done by the huge thirsty corn fields that encompass the horizon.

The question as I understand it is whether the surplus production/exports are worth not scaling slightly back on the extensive farming.

Either diversifying production, letting a part of the area to fallow or splitting large "strictly for profit" farms into distinct units would have many benefits ecologically and possibly even help revitalise the rural towns.
The ninja is the reference standard for real-world pedestrians. It's up there with the surprise moose. Systems that can only detect bright peds are going to be horrific meat grinders and lead to autocar hell instead of autocar heaven.
> At least it should have been able to steer around Herzberg to the left without hitting her.

Does the car have immediate 360 degrees perception? A human would have to look in one or two rear view mirrors before steering around a bike, or possibly put himself and others in an even worse situation.
Move fast and break things. Fake it till you make it. Drink the koolaid. All hail Silicon Valley. Blah.

The ugly truth is, when looking at the high-end camera photos of the accident spot, a human driver had a 50-50 chance of avoiding this accident. This car didn't even react. But that's not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the infrared or heatcam tech is fairly advanced and would have seen this person even in pitch black. But it seems Uber chose to do "testing on production" and released an experiment onto the roads. It's well known that lidar tech has problems during rains, snows and low light. Sure, driving it is great for machine learning, but at what cost? Especially when everyone expects so much more from this tech than to equal human drivers. The goal should be to remove accidents from the equation. But, especially for Uber, the goal is just to profit.
It is usually encouraged on HN to argue with / respond to the points made by the person you in discussion with, not the vocal minority/majority out in the world who hold a different view.

Otherwise you get two people talking past each other. The fact that there are people who are fans of gun control AND express themselves immaturely with vapid politicised statements appealing to emotion doesn't excuse the almost trollish characteristic of the "do you think women should be defenseless against rapists" above.
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I have better things to do with my time. My comment wasn’t aimed at any one company. I think you misread my comments as fanboy cheering for autonomy by the whole point of my comment was centered around the fact that the technology cat is out of the bag. That’s just reality.
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Talk about your passions and what you did to stay busy. Tell recruiters and interviewers about your passion to stay busy while traveling and how you didn't bulk at the chance to take a risk.

Be prepared to discuss any issues that arrose at your last job that encouraged you to take the time away.

Hopefully you have a positive reference or two from your freelance work or prior jobs.

A year of travel is an understandable and common activity in our field. A company who understands this is also a company that might understand when you need personal time down the road.