skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US lawmakers are very reactionary in the case of gun laws too, it's just that gun owners usually have enough political pull to block them from successfully getting laws passed. (The current campaign for gun control is 100% a reactionary response to whatever's been making the biggest news headlines. For example, the vast majority of US gun homicides are carried out with handguns, yet gun control supporters seem to think it's absurd they're more tightly regulated than AR-15s - which are relatively rarely used to kill anyone and have more mundane uses for things like hunting - just because the AR-15s are in the headlines. The US's most deadly school shooting was done with handguns too.) In fact, I'd argue the reactionary nature of US lawmaking is important to understanding why "sensible", "common-sense" gun control laws are so strongly opposed in the first place.
Simple random search provides a competitive approach to reinforcement learning
"Each of the crashes that self-driving cars can be fixed and prevented from happening again."

If those situations recur exactly as they happened the first time, sure they can be prevented from happening again.

That is, if a car approaches the exact same intersection as the exact same time of day, and a pedestrian that looks exactly like the pedestrian in this accident crosses the street in exactly the same way, with exactly the same other variables (like all the other pedestrians and cars around there that the sensors can see), the data could be enough the same that the algorithm will detect it at close enough to the original situation to avoid the accident this time.

But it's not at all clear how well their improvements will generalize to other situations which humans would consider to be "the same" (ie. when any pedestrian in any intersection crosses any street).
Here we go. We'll now have the first traffic fatality trial where it's not drivers-trying-drivers but people-trying-a-megacorp.

(Disclaimer: I'm a bike advocate, so I may have a different perspective on some of this than most.)

Our car-based transportation system is far and away the most dangerous thing any of us accept doing on a daily basis. 40,000 die a year.

But when cases come to court, everyone on the jury has in the back of their mind "that could have been me if I lost concentration at the wrong moment, or made one bad judgement, etc etc."

So penalties are comparatively light for traffic fatalities. Big punishments are only meted out if the case is so egregious -- repeated drug use, flagrantly reckless behavior -- that the jury can be convinced that the driver is different from them.

In other words, drivers don't get punished for doing something dangerous, because everybody on the road is doing something dangerous. They get punished for doing something more dangerous than the norm.

In this case, there's no question that the "driver" is different than the jury -- it's a computer. Now the symmetry that made jurors compare themselves to the accused is broken.

The result, and what self-driving car advocates don't get, is that self-driving cars don't just have to be safer than human drivers to be free of liability, they need to be safe period. In a trial, they don't benefit from the default "could have been me" defense.

That's a HUGE requirement. In fact, it's probably impossible with our current road system. It won't just take better self-driving cars, but better roads and a major cultural change in our attitudes about driving.

As a bike advocate, I welcome this shift, but I also see how deluded many of the current self-driving projects are. Software moves fast, but asphalt and mentalities move slow. We're not years away from a self-driving transportation system, we're decades.

And this trial is just the beginning of that long story.
I think a lot of those problems can be solved with a few techniques:

In the case of the famous rm -rf /, having a flag to ditch confirmation (which, IIRC, the reason the confirmation prompt was not there in the first place is because "f" means force, but hey). I think about "zypper" (openSUSE's package manager), which has the -y flag for installs/updates, one to auto-accept licenses and one to force resolving conflicts aggressively so that there are, literally, no prompts. To me, having a -y and an auto-accept licenses is unnecessary, but I suspect that may exist for legal reasons. Having the extra flag for aggressively accepting conflicts is a really good idea because in interactive mode you're often given 3 choices and often all three of those choices will break something. Conflicts/package resolution issues aren't common and when the creep up it's usually because you've got a unique configuration and need to do some other steps before you're going to get a successful installation.

As for the "Are you sure?" GUI prompts where flags won't cut it, providing a "[ ] Never ask again" is usually suitable. Though in the case of Slack, I'm with you. My answer to that would be after a person has used @channel more than a twice in a day to throw another prompt up that says "You're going to get a reputation for being an obnoxious dick. Knock it off." ...and that's why I'm not a UX designer.
The higher-ups at facebook, and the other big techs, drink some special koolaid. They might not see facebook altering society, creating a new media landscape, as a bad thing. We assume that what happened over the last couple years, the disinformation campaign, was some sort of embarrassment for facebook. They might not see it as a problem. They might see it as a natural an inevitable outcome of technology, something not to be restrained.
Dirty secret: do that in Java too.
It is, actuators still have their lag, probably not much different from foot-pedal combo.
Luckily, Kotlin does provide much better ADTs, and Java can be swapped out for Kotlin 1:1.

While Go is reinventing the languages of the 80s in the 2010s.
Boulder is actually getting quite close to SF in terms of engineering salaries. This is article is a bit late with spotting the trend.
What you are saying doesn't really add up.
If the environment is really that hostile because Trump was elected, it should not be fostering movements like #MeToo. It should have crushed dissent. A wake up call doesn't lead to something like that. There has to be some positive factor being overlooked.
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I am studying towards the RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) and right now I am learning about SELinux.

I am fairly sure that this could have been prevented by SELinux.
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We're building VulcanJS (http://vulcanjs.org) on top of Meteor. I wouldn't say it's dead, just that it's evolving into more of an all-in-one development environment (think Next.js or create-react-app, but more powerful) as opposed to a full-fledged full-stack framework (say that 5 times really fast) like it was originally designed to be.
I still have one of the 32GB developer units from when HP was trying to entice people to write for it. I ran Cyanogen and Evervolv on it for a while.

It will, with a bit of fiddling, run Nougat (see https://forum.xda-developers.com/hp-touchpad) but the various pieces of the support tools, ex. novacomm, are decrepit and compiling them on current Linux and toolchain didn't result in a working tool so you have to bodge around with old binary releases. Given how slow the device feels with Marshmallow and then Nougat, I will probably save my pennies for a newer tablet.

As to not booting, they're really hard to brick. They can however run down so that even the battery icon won't show. Try charging it using the original charger or other that can do 2A for a day or two then attempt a hard reset.
I also heard the story of a digital agency that rented a huge space, painted the walls with bright colors and hired a bunch of actors to pose as employees. The idea was to deceive and close a deal with a potential big client that insisted in visiting their offices.
Does Boulder count as the Midwest? Plus... Colorado/Denver/Boulder has a lot more sex appeal than Des Moines IA or Columbus OH so I’m not surprised it isn’t facing the same salary challenges as the actual Midwest.
I wouldn't be suprised if entire countries raised similar 'scape-goat types as sort of 'bat-man' practice for rich aholes with nothing to do.
Funnily, Old Slavic for bear is бер, cognate to bear. However, this word became taboo too.
I would suspect there were likely copies of the old code.

If you are sufficiently affected by the change, perhaps you would be well-served to track one down and maintain a fork?
A pipe-smoking ficticious entry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
Just don't dream of whistle blowing against the government itself or a federal contractor. Then you'll be utterly destroyed for such insolence.
Abstract data types have nothing to do with either algebraic data types or abstract classes.
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Of course, technology doesn't kill people. I never said it did. Right now I'm pointing fingers at people for what they're doing, not the underlying technology.

A wise man once said, "Drain the swamp." It's my civic duty to point out swampiness unabashedly and impartially.

Since CAs behavior, and by extension CAs customers, is inexcusable, swampy human behavior, I will stand against it. In the same way the DNCs actions against Bernie Sanders was inexcusable, the way the DNCs actions against Bernie Sanders was inexcusable, union corruption is inexcusable, corporate negligence is inexcusable, product misrepresentation is inexcusable, bullshit ICOs are inexcusable, authoritarian communism is inexcusable, the same way that history has been full of lying and deceitful politicians, priests, businessmen, lawyers, activists, messiahs I will stand against it.
Again:

> How is it not OK to have consenting people do these things but OK to have random people on the street participate in exactly the same tests?

Are you seriously saying Waymo’s (for example) testing practices are worse than just testing unsafe software in public?
So fucking predictable.
I'd love to hear what current FB employees have to say about this. Why do you continue working for FB?
Of course they do, it's not particularly difficult to make a non functioning plastic mockup.
Obvious criminality is not the same as obvious non-criminality.

You seem to be getting pretty worked up about this. The reason I don’t think the claim is obviously untrue is because I believe the magnitude of wealth involved, and often the scale of operations/actors, increase the probability of actions ranging from morally dubious but legal to outright criminal.

Per one of your other replies, we can quibble about the quote and what “behind every great fortune” means, exactly. You seem to be interpreting it to say that criminal action was a major factor responsible for the fortune, while I interpret it more loosely, the impact being irrelevant.

At any rate, I doubt the quote is meant to be taken strictly literally, and is more of an aphorism.
Because they profited from this firm and likely actively worked with them to enable what’s now being characterized as a “breach”. And this is one of many hundreds of other companies doing the same thing. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. If they are pushing back they are afraid we will find out how deep it goes.
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If anything, it wouldn't surprise me if the CA revelations led current staff to speak out to the press to make the internal division known. Alex is pretty effective as a leader; I'd be shocked if the vast majority of his team, if not his entire team, did not have his back on this.
Yeah, when you are young SV makes a lot of sense. But once you start a family? It gets very tough to stay here, very tough.
>who started his campaign on the idea that the overwhelming majority of Mexican-Americans were murderers and rapists.

This is blatantly false. Where did you get this idea and why doesn't it raise a red flag for being so rediculous when you repeat it?
>Police believe she may have been homeless.

Police: "don't worry, she was an undesirable."

Next, let's watch them publicly leak her criminal background.
Psychographic data (personalities and traits beyond simple demographics) has long been known and used before Facebook ever existed, it's just much easier now that so many people are feeding data to a centralized system with easy access.

CA's CEO is seen presenting this clearly in 2016, specifically how well it helped the Cruz campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd5aVXLCc

Worldview Standard has a podcast called RawData where ep 1 of season 1 in 2015 talked about how a few likes on Facebook would let you know someone better than their own family, based on research from 2013: http://worldview.stanford.edu/raw-data/episode-1-uploaded

Obama's campaign used heavy data analytics for both runs, explained as early as 2012: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-us...

None of this is new. It was only either ignored or accepted before and has finally reached critical mass due to the amount of controversy and conspiracy today, along with the generally expected fatigue of social media and the now evident effects it makes on most people's lives.
Any apartment built in the last 10~15 years should not have those problems. Here is a rendering of an apartment in Gangnam, Seoul, one of the densest cities in the world (about 2x of New York).
http://ojsfile.ohmynews.com/STD_IMG_FILE/2016/0330/IE0019412...
As you can see, the apartments have parks and playgrounds surrounding it. The short building in the corner is a commercial building, usually with restaurants, cafes, markets, education classrooms, all within short walking distance. Number of elevators typically scale with the building height, the ones in the picture probably have 2~3 elevators, making the possibility that all are out of service unlikely. There's no real problem with street noise (I've lived on the 3rd floor) and with neighbors in typical circumstances (barring things like construction or moving day).
Popular starter apartments are around 80m^2 2 bedroom apartments, moving up to 115m^2 3 bedrooms as families get bigger and more established. This might be a problem for you if you like large places to live while living in a city, but that is an anomaly in recent times, I believe, based on what I've seen of older buildings in New York and LA.
These kinds of apartments are common even in the suburbs, where there is much less space constraint to need this kind of density, but the density makes everything much more convenient, attracting and being able to sustain more local businesses, which is why even in the suburbs you can have access to half a dozen coffee shops within walking distance.
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You're absolutely right that designers, regulators and, in some cases, courts should take every death (and accident/near miss) seriously. But it seems to me like there are two questions here. The first question is, "should we have self-driving cars?" and the second is "how can we make those cars as safe as possible?" When people say, "compare it to a human driver," they are suggesting a way to answer the first question, not the second. And that does not mean that they think the second question is "no big deal."
That sounds like a "I can do this job from home" kinda opportunity
How can you prove that meaningful "actual" data can't be reconstructed from synthesized data?
The general advice I've always gotten is that if you're looking for well-executed Go idiom, the standard library is your first stop.

And while NewAES might predate this advice, NewGCM (which returns an opaque crypto.AEAD) does not.
'the incident occurred roughly 100 years from a crosswalk' - deep space?
Anecdote: About a year ago when I was driving at night I almost hit someone, apparently homeless with dark-colored clothes, pushing a covered shopping cart across a 5-lane street with no crosswalk. Fortunately I was in one of the middle lanes so I noticed them and slammed the brakes in time (while risking getting myself rear-ended).
From their site:

"This challenge started in February 2015, and will run until the above address no longer contains the 10 bitcoins it started with, or until we lose interest. In 2018 we will likely reuse most bitcoins for other projects."

So I'm not sure what happened frankly.
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Uber’s self-driving car showed no signs of slowing before fatal crash
Black box with a ton of telemetry being piped into black box models though.
As a point of anecdata, I worked with Alex in 2005. He's a standup guy, and one of the best in the business.

I think what's missed in this conversation, is that this sort of shenanigans isn't really in the purview of a CIO anyway. Too bad he got himself mixed up in it.
I don't believe this story. The same Alex Stamos who did

http://exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php

Suddenly he's so concerned about transparency he's leaving over it? This report seems very fishy. All the sources are "according to current and former employees." Not one person willing to go on record?
Yes, defeating the claim of the article.
Your code should accept interfaces, not the S3 struct.

Interfaces are light-weight, and it's okay to define an interface that is just the subset of functionality your code needs.
I did not assert anything other than that extrapolating a single data point doesn't really tell you anything and is pretty irrelevant.
They already did, she was in prison for a year on charges relating to the 'dangerous' drug marijuana.

I called almost verbatim what the chief of police actually said in the other thread and had my comment downvoted and flagged for it.
When considering whether they're net saving lives we are now doing so from the starting point that self driving cars presently have a worse fatality record per real world mile driven than humans, including the portion of miles driven by humans who are unfit to drive or wilfully reckless.

Self driving cars can also be tested in real life environments with safety drivers behind the wheel whose own driving shortcomings are unlikely to coincide with software error. This is believed from the OEM's own telemetry to have prevented several accidents with early generation Waymo
(Edit: and apparently one was present in this vehicle and was unable to prevent the accident)

Of course, there's a PR benefit of taking the drivers out of the car at this stage of their development, and it appears this has taken priority...
I have only seen abstract data types used to describe stacks and queues, and never in the context of a larger design where the underlying implementations weren’t data structures but objects. Do you have any good examples?
Gerrymandering has already destroyed our democracy
Just to be clear, we are big fans of HomeBrew don't think it is their problem. We just need a solution to sign binaries.
Here's the original quote from his speech in 2015:

> When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best ... They're sending people that have lots of problems...they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

"They're rapists." is pretty self-explanatory. "And some, I assume, are good people." is indicative of Trump's sense of the scale of "good" versus "bad" people.
Thx, version 65.0.3325.162 on Windows here. Weird.

Doesn't seem to be fixed with reboot also.
Of course. But there's also the possibility that in this case the snake oil actually delivered an election result.

RoI is actually irrelevant. The two bigger issues are that this shouldn't be being attempted, and - more importantly in a genuine democracy - it shouldn't even be possible.
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There's also the fact that we now have two people telling mutually exclusive versions of the truth: the whistleblower and the CEO. At most one of these two people can be correct. At least one of them must be wrong. If the whistleblower is correct then the CEO has lied to a parliamentary select committee in the UK.

Now that the CEO appears to have been marketing some of the things that CA and its partners (possibly SCL Group) can do (involving bribery, hidden cameras and Ukranian sex workers) to an undercover journalist[0] , CA is becoming something that can unite people in dislike just by its very essence. The more light that is shone the worse it seems to look.

This is developing into quite a political story in the UK and it seems that unless there is a great big cover up (and it doesn't backfire) that this is only going to get bigger.

I think the public anger is justified, but I'm surprised it took an almost cartoon-villain figure of a company to raise the awareness of the value of data to those that are prepared to pay for it.

[0] https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
We can solve it quite efficiently. You can define an index on a columnstore table and we will maintain order on a per node basis
Given current road and vehicle design, that's an incredibly impractical goal. There simply isn't enough separation between pedestrians and roadways; to keep injury risk negligible you'd also have to keep speed incredibly low (way below speed limits) on all but the best limited access highways.

If the vehicle can only crawl at 5MPH because you never know when a pedestrian might just dive in front of you... that's just impractical for real vehicle operation.

It's one thing to hit the brakes because somebody decided to jaywalk without looking; another to expect there is always enough space to stop in those situations.
That’s honestly the smallest part of election validation. How do you know everything was recorded to the log correctly or at all? In other words, the actual “election” part where you verify voters and collect results, which has nothing to do with blockchain. But even if that is all done right, how is the blockchain itself being run? Blockchain data is only as trustworthy as the systems doing the verification. A centralized blockchain is no more trustworthy than a centralized database of any kind. And a distributed blockchain has its own attack vectors. Rubbing blockchain on it is not a security solution.
> DirectX doesn't work anywhere except Windows PC's and the Xbox.

And most new phone chipsets. And a lot of old phone chipsets. And a lot of ARM-based single board computers. And a lot of non-Xbox consoles like the Switch have hardware support for DirectX...

DirectX is in a lot of places you would not expect.
I've been coding Elixir professionally for a few years, and working in security for longer, and I recommend against using Coherence for anything but toy apps. It's a fairly full-featured Devise-substitute, but the code quality isn't great, and a lot of the less-used features haven't had any sort of real-world testing. There's been a few trivial, high-severity security vulnerabilities in it, and I wouldn't be surprised if more are hiding.

For example, when I last read through the codebase it was common to find features that simply wouldn't work, because the code referenced hardcoded parts of the sample application.

You'll also going to run into a lot of issues trying to migrate off of Coherence if you ever need to support anything other than form based username / password login.

I think it really is worth the effort to go with Ueberauth [0]. You'll need to do more work upfront, but the maintainability gains will quickly pay off. You can even use :ueberauth_identy [1] to provide username / password based auth without too much trouble.

[0] https://github.com/ueberauth/ueberauth

[1] https://github.com/ueberauth/ueberauth_identity
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It's also worth noting that the quote he presented from the Oculus Rift thread was criticizing someone for pointing out that it is less concerning if surgical training equipment crashes than if surgical equipment crashes, not for saying that it is no big deal if someone dies in surgery. I didn't see anyone in that thread saying it would be ok for VR surgery equipment to fail.