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I agree with what you are saying, and that it would be very dangerous to sell cars where drivers may be lulled into complacency of thinking they don't need to pay attention to the road, until self driving cars get good enough that human attention really isn't needed.

However, these are test vehicles. The driver's full-time job is to be focused on the road and what the car is doing. They shouldn't have any misconceptions about the need for them to stay focused on the road. Now granted, even then attention will lapse occasionally, just like it does when you are actually driving. But I don't think that being physically in control of the wheel is necessary for maintaining focus at the same level as a good driver. Driver's Ed instructors need this skill. Also some back seat drivers I know are quite good at maintaining strong focus on the road regardless of who is driving :)
Why is it at all quite obvious? How is arguing for being careful “such a stupid argument it’s really just not worth anyone’s time to entertain”?

Someone in this discussion has an insane amount of blind faith in technology which here literally killed a pedestrian, and it’s not the people who are arguing for just consequences.
Can someone comment on what are some compelling use cases for Magic Leap that can be developed using these APIs ? Still seems to me that they are constrained by a device that you need to carry
Actually there was a metric of accident per distance drived. It was often pull out by Tesla before their first fatal accident last year (IA didn’t saw rear of truck because of sun or smthg like that).

This metric was often decried because it had poor statistical significance. It would however be nice to update this metric according to this death.

Maybe now this metric would indicate that IA are more dangerous than human, will be interesting if the perception of this flawed metric will evolve in reaction...
Well leveraging rails and quality plugins makes for extremely short development time. Author mentions low server load for this app so prime candidate for rails imho.
How accurate is your AI?
> Healthcare costs are not unreasonable in much of the developed and developing world. Most countries have better outcomes and lower costs than here in the US. As another commentor says, healthcare seems to be doing fine; you seem to be assuming the US is the norm when it isn’t.

I'm going to cauterize the off-topic debate about the US healthcare system by pointing out that OP was talking about the expense to doctors of malpractice insurance, not about costs to the patients or medical outcomes.

Malpratice liability varies widely by country, but it's a non-trivial expense for doctors everywhere, and significantly higher in states with strong tort liability for doctors.

It's hard to imagine a world with criminal liability (or tort liability) for software engineers that doesn't ultimately end up with a system of insurance for engineers, roughly analogous to the medical malpractice insurance system for physicians.
In my experience, it's a combo of issues.

US manufactures were the first to automate, so many of them are with 1st/2nd generation gear that is designed for high throughput operation and not around setup time. These machines can take several hours to change what they make.

Also, manufactures have become jaded with new customers as they are constantly asking for them to move mountains for overseas pricing. Manufactures typically have a big enough collection of frequent customers that they can use bad first customer support as a means to filter out people who will go overseas anyways after they hear the quote the manufacturer spent a fair amount of time on. If a customer is willing to pass the gauntlet of trying to contact you, they are much less likely to disappear after you give them a quote.
The cars telemetry data will undoubtedly point to a unavoidable tragedy if it's just uber analyzing it.
> There aren't a lot of options when you need to have cars turning on roads with bike lanes. At some point the car lane and the bike lane have to cross paths unless you're going to build a fully grade-separated bike lane.

The problem is that the lane markings encourage vehicles to make turns from the non-rightmost or non-leftmost lane. One should not be crossing another lane when making a turn at an intersection. One should merge into the rightmost or left most lane in order to make the corresponding turn.
Instead of this, they should port Edge to Windows 7 and 8 and force people to get off IE 11.

So that I don't have to visit caniuse.com a dozen times a day.
If you have good judgement, it's quite easy to prevent a fatality. I.e. I go slower in places where I know pedestrians might jump out.
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This is quite the strawman is it not? I said nothing about "move fast and break things."
With sufficient data, I'd expect self-driving cars to be better at predicting what such leans mean. Moreover, for every one human driver who notices such a lean, there may be another human driver that doesn't even notice a pedestrian who has already started walking.
Driver assistance that takes care of everything (i.e. steering, braking, navigating, parking), that at the time the accident occurred didn't even require hands on the steering wheel?

Seems like an attempt to shift the blame off the autopilot system and onto the driver.
How do you deal with the issue that "more pull-requests" does not equal "better project"? My concern is that getting paid per PR does not address two things. The first is that if you have a two bugfixes that are closely related, you still incentivised to split it up just because that's how you get paid. The second one, how to deal with long-term projects? Because the more PRs I make, I can just make shitty work so I have more work to do in the future. I'm not concerned about the long-term of the project, only that I can get in as many PRs as possible.
> If these cars were restricted to special areas the analogy might make more sense, but I don’t expect to be dealing with a self-driving car or an industrial robot when I step outside my front door.

As a pedestrian you already run a significant risk of being killed by a car. To the extent that we hold autonomous car makers responsible for these deaths (and I'm not saying we shouldn't), we should hold non-autonomous car makers responsible for the deaths their vehicles cause as well.
Video says bicyclist, written article says pedestrian. Video says they don't know if a person was behind the wheel, written article says there was a person behind the wheel.

There's enough discrepancy here that I'm not sure what happened until we see the onboard data (unlikely to be released to the public) or a statement from a trusted public official like the Tempe police chief.
I’m kind of in the Elon Musk camp here where you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette? Human-driven cars kill a lot of pedestrians today, but we can actually do something to improve the human-recognition algorithms in a self-driving car.

As long as self driving cars represent an improvement over human drivers, I’m ok with them having a non-zero accident date while we work out the kinks.
Indeed. This is why many cities are reducing speed limits.

In fact, self-driving cars may actually improve the situation if cars actually start complying with speed limits en masse.
I'm having a hard time imagining that kind of regulation of ML algorithms.
So what are the conditions in which auto landing is not used?
Their government is ~1/90th the size of the US Federal Government + States.

It's true our government is simply too big. Most of the serious problems we have, stem mostly from the inherent scale. We would be happier and better-governed if the Union were broken up in about ten pieces.
Benevolent: "(of an organization) serving a charitable rather than a profit-making purpose."

That's not how this word works. We can use another one.

I hasten to add, again, that I'm attributing nothing pejorative. I'm glad Epic have done this. It's great marketing that may be helpful to lots of people.
Magic Leap promised a completely goggles-free AR experience. You could load up hundreds of people in a room and show them AR demos. You could be on a beach and watch a communal AR event with thousands of people. You could teach in a classroom without any kinds of headgear or goggles or anything.

Magic Leap is 100% vapourware, even if they release some headset. Magic Leap are liars and cheaters and full of BS vapourwear claims until they release their Magic Leap thing with no headset that gives perfect AR to everyone. Until that day they are liars and cheats.

Edit: Source, magicleap.com circa 2015 or so.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150402084910/http://www.magicl...
Some years ago I saw (here on HN?) a video of an iPad app that showed kids drawing lines on blank paper, then tooking a picture of the drawings with the app. After that, they would be able to run nice games with those same lines serving as the scenario.

Does anyone know what was this?
There is, and the data doesn't look good.

There's typically 1 death per 100 million miles driven.

Uber's only driven a couple million miles.
Not a truly autonomous vehicle example but this is a case where most likely the car reacted before the driver was even aware of a problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APnN2mClkmk

I agree with the sentiment though. This has been a major selling point for this technology, but it has not been sufficiently demonstrated yet.
You know how git work right? It is decentralised! I don't see any added value! When I work on a project I always have the master, develop and feature branche(s) pulled from the repo on my machine. I could just create a new private repo or even a public one and push my local branches.
Uber: 1
Pedestrians: 0
Game on.
The article says that MS (like everyone else) expects there to be fewer and fewer "fixed-function" features in a GPU with more shifting over to software-defined shader code. But isn't this just an introduction of more fixed-functionality to the pipeline? So what's the advantage of doing it this way versus writing a ray tracer in the current compute shaders?
I think it’s fine to attribute miles to autonomous vehicles which have drivers that can intervene... as long as that is how they are used outside of tests as well.

Just a guess, but I doubt having a test driver that can intervene will help safety statistics for autonomous vehicles much. I think we’ll find test drivers will usually be unable to notice and react fast enough when they are needed.
Well, he says "custom engine" in the article but, he used XNA. When people hear "built an engine" they tend to assume the person spent years building it from-scratch. XNA is hardly from-scratch.

I think, in this case, the author meant he didn't use one of the big commercial engines. Aside from all that, I also agree that it's not a really big mistake.
But you would expect 20 years to be enough time to improve RAD tooling in areas it wasn't so great at for modern devices. Instead, at least as far as the web is concerned, it's mostly been missing.
TSLA does not have zero earnings.
> This is not how many people drive in non-autonomous cars?

No, that is not how people drive in non-autonomous cars. The phenomenon you're referring to is related to how sparsely
information is stored to memory when doing a routine task (even when you were fully concentrating). Just because you can't recall an activity in detail does not mean you were not paying full attention.
Here's a times article you reminded me of that mentions Saab engineers putting on crash helmets and running the 9-5 into a concrete moose.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/05/automobiles/behind-the-whe...
Does this require the client to pay by credit card? I've worked for several clients where they'll only pay by direct deposit, or check.
That actually makes sense since it encourages all vehicles to use the right most lane to turn right, rather than crossing in front of a straight through lane when making a right turn.
P.S. I don't know why, from the lightness of your text now, you apparently got downvotes. I gave you an upvote, when I responded.
Are you sure that supervised learning does not create the same classification capabilities in self driving car AIs?
> It's useful for facilitating connections with other facebook users.

And anyone willing to join Facebook to keep up with the event invitations. You don't have to post anything at all on Facebook to do this. I definitely know a bunch of people who use Facebook that way.
Do you have something in your terms that IP of all submitted PRs are only transferred and the work is only usable by clients upon completion of payment? If not, you should. Developers need to be protected from clients who might think it’s okay to take their work and not pay. This has been a standard clause of all my contracts as a consultant for the last 6 years. I wouldn’t do a project without it.

EDIT: Additionally, do you do anything that checks if a client refuses a PR, but then the code from the PR finds its way into the codebase by some other means? Seems that's another vector worth protecting developers from having their work used without payment.
In fact, it's all bike lanes in California, unless they are marked otherwise. Drivers are required to move into the rightmost lane in the last 200 feet before turning right, including merging into a bike lane.

There are exceptions, but only if there is signage or road markings. For example, if there are two or more lanes marked for right turns, then obviously you can turn from any such lane.

(A little-known fact about that: most California drivers are aware that you're allowed to turn right on a red light after making a full stop, unless there's a "no right turn on red" sign - but few seem to know that this rule applies to all the lanes marked for right turns, not just the rightmost lane.)

Most bike lane markings change from a solid white line to a dotted line about 200 feet from a corner, to give drivers a hint to merge into the bike lane before turning. But even if the line doesn't turn dotted, drivers are still required to merge into the bike lane unless there is a specific indication otherwise.

However, the majority of drivers seem to be unaware of this rule and turn right from the auto traffic lane, creating the risk of a "right hook" collision, which the law is intended to avoid. I've actually had other drivers honk at me when they were waiting in a line of cars to make an illegal right turn from the auto lane while I made a legal and proper turn from the bike lane.

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has an excellent info page about this:

http://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes-and-right-turns/

Laws on this do vary in other states. But at least in California, if you see a driver merging into the bike lane before turning right, it's not because they are a terrible driver, it's because they are following the law and (hopefully) increasing safety for bicyclists.
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Maybe for 1-3 days turnaround local is better but it you can wait a week, the overseas prototyping can save you a lot of money. You have to deal with the communications gap but you can hire people locally to bridge that gap.
> There is not necessarily any reason to believe that the current mix of inequality conditions are particularly cruel or unfavorable.

This is precisely the arbitrary value judgement that we do not have to accept. You (and others) don't believe that it's particularly cruel or unfavorable, and you're just wrapping that judgement in a mantle of inevitability.
> When there is a local event or situation, Twitter is pretty valuable

That seems like a perfectly fine use of Twitter. Not sure why you'd need an alternative?

You don't have to maintain a list of people to follow and watch your feed to get utility out of it.

I mostly interact with Twitter on a case-by-case basis. Either via events, looking at a specific users profile, or coming across tweets via the media or on Reddit.
The developers have no control over the sensors, tires, weight of car, testing budget, human backup operator, or a million other things that went into this happening. Hell developers probably told who ever they could to not release this. Management at Uber and who ever approved this thing should be held accountable.
Probable cause is the balance we've arrived at over the centuries. Do you have statistics or only conjecture? Or a better solution?
FYI, that's traditionally known as the Stalin camp.
Lower the chances of, not prevent.
I understand and personally am very cautious around driveways especially if they don't have perfectly clear sight lines.

I just find it odd when cyclists out of principal decry riding on the sidewalk when the danger of riding with traffic is well known and America has an abundance of long empty sidewalks in suburbia and around office parks.
Hi Jan from ArangoDB here.

2-digit TB of graph data is for sure a serious graph :) Depending on what you actually want to analyze and how the graph is structured, you can either use our Pregel integration for high-level analytics of the data set or use SmartGraphs to shard the data to a cluster and perform in-depth traversals, pattern matching and such stuff. SmartGraphs is an Enterprise feature but free for evaluation and testing. Please note that the suitability of SmartGraphs depends on the structure of the graph itself (e.g. do you have or can identify communities to shard by efficiently)

We created a series of tutorials which guide you through such a process https://www.arangodb.com/pregel-community-detection/ (next step always at the end of each tutorial). You can choose between two storage engines. Think RocksDB is the better choice in your case, as everything is persisted to disk (data/indexes) and you can configure how much main memory should be used, so you can configure the trade-off between performance and main memory yourself. If you have fast SSDs it's even better, as RocksDB is optimized for that.
> But if your solution is to just scrap the whole thing, that is anti-immigrant

That is utter bullshit. Advocating scraping H1B is not anti-immigrant, particularly when many of us are also pro-DACA, and for increasing our general immigration quotas. But it's wrong to target specific workers for wage suppression, whether that's programmers, construction workers, or field workers.

And yes, if you go around calling people "anti-immigrant" (like you just called me) and "racist" who normally should be your allies, you are helping elect candidates like Trump. Because most people won't stick around with you when you do that. They'll defect to the other side, the side that's attacking you. It's human nature.
cars are already machines built by companies which sometimes malfunction and kill people (both drivers of the vehicles and people around them), this is just a new way in which they can malfunction, I don't think it's as dramatically different as you're saying
Maybe, but it may make it substantially more accessible and easier for the average developer that isn't a domain expert in a dozen areas of graphics rendering technology and doesn't want to use a pre-built engine.
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As far as I know all self-driving car programs use some form of machine learning, so they aren't exactly "pre-programmed" in the sense of good old-fashioned AI based on strict, pre-determined rules.

What exactly do you mean by "deal with driving"? Drive without a single accident, ever? That's obviously impossible in practice. Drive better than humans, who in 2016 killed 37,461 people in the US alone? I don't see how that would be impossible - human drivers have a limited field of view, slow response times (average time to break is ~2.3 seconds), and are frequently distracted, sleepy, drunk, etc.
What measures have you taken to prevent abuse? What happens when a freelancer gets connected with a client, spams a bunch of non-sensical pull requests (or maybe he splits the same work into needlessly small PRs)? Is there any kind of approval from the client side? I guess this is a double-edged sword as you fall into the problem you're trying to solve -- clients might hold off payment.

Great stuff. Especially excited about Ethereum payout.

P.S. please make your site work without JavaScript. There's nothing dynamic about the landing page.
I noticed that the author pivots from the sexist discrimination that she experienced at the hands of other women, to frat boys talking about porn stars. Probably most would agree those are quite different facets of sexism.

I don't think much progress will be made until we are honest with ourselves about how sexism works and who perpetrates it. Certainly it's all due to patriarchy, and works to the benefit of (some) men. But that is separate from the question of how it works and who does it.
I used Rails because that's what I am familiar with. I don't tech stack makes any difference though.
Which still wouldn't be true because Standard Oil, adjusted for inflation, was >$1Tn.
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The main issue with current compute shaders is intersecting with arbitrary geometry in a fast way. I expect that the main thing they will add is raycast() function that propagates the ray to the next surface, similar to how RenderMan shaders or OSL works.
Or does the prospect of onerous regulation outweigh the competitive advantage?
What mistakes has Uber not learned from recently? They changed their leadership. That shows some learning.
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Would love to see this integrated with something like https://pcpartpicker.com/ ... Right now, I just limit their results to amazon and newegg. But if I could keep a unified cart, that makes it a little nicer of an option.

On the one hand, waiting weeks for a part isn't fun since I've gotten used to Amazon's turn around time. But on the flip side, Amazon doesn't do a great job of giving you better options when shipping will be delayed, and filtering those results/sellers better.
It's great that Markopolos has found a way to make his forensic skills pay.
Sorry, I just pasted the text in the article.
So this is it then? First fatal accident involving a fully self-driving car which might have actually been the car's fault?

Well, it was obviously going to happen sooner or later. It'll be interesting to see what the fallout is. Up until now regulators have been, surprisingly, taking a pretty relaxed approach to regulation of self-driving cars. Hopefully this one accident doesn't impede development on other autonomous car programs too much.
Google image search "protected bike lanes".
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Updated. Thank you for pointing me towards that as I was currently unaware.
This will make it easier to port existing shaders from high end VFX to real-time, like RenderMan and OSL shaders for sure. Trivial even.
What meaningful distinction are you drawing between a 1mb limit and a 256 character limit?
We do hold non-self-driving car makers responsible for bad manufacturing. But in accidents not due to manufacturing we primarily hold the human drivers responsible. I agree with you overall, but the problem is that people seem overeager to hold no one responsible at all, sometimes based solely on a blind faith that self-driving cars will be safer than humans soon, and that the deaths along the way are just the price we will have to pay—as if there is no other option between no self driving cars at all, and the “move fast and break things” attitude that here resulted in a person’s death.
Simply being of Hispanic origin is NOT probable cause.