skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what my hypothesis: when it's physically impossible to stop (which sounds like it was the case, car moving at 38mph and you have a split second), my hypothesis is that the robot would plan to swerve around the obstacle instead of trying to stop. But the car can't turn 90 degrees immediately either so that could also be dynamically infeasible, but maybe it has higher probability to avoid the collision?
Would it be possible to update the title to match the one on the article?
I don't think it will work. Instead the failing effort will be cover to add more and more rules in an attempt to hide the obvious while blaming the victim(s) for breaking the rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIn8GJIg0E
In a team environment npm or yarn configuration would go through peer review, whereas getting used to typing npx increases your chances of falling victim to a typo.
You can read about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723278
Studies have shown that the rate of driving accidents is minimized when a vehicle travels at the same speed as other vehicles on the road. This means that in many cases, “speeding” with the flow of traffic provides the safest outcome. Although in the case of this accident, it appears that there was no surrounding traffic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
What speed would you drive if there was no speed limit ?
Is it? I thought it is not known. Some people believe it's "behr" because of "behrlohga" - "bear den" but there is more plausible etymology for that being derived from actual Old Slavic "trash"/"dirt" than "behr + lohg".
Don't trash all the systems based on Uber's system.

I bet my mercedes would've jammed on the brakes. I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that Mercedes' "driver assists" are safer than Uber's stolen garbage.
Jane Goodall to teach newest MOOC on developing compassionate leaders
>"...the incident occurred roughly 100 years from a crosswalk."

How slow are Uber's cars driving?
At some level, at some time, we're going to have to come to terms with the fact that these machines can be dangerous in certain ways. Probably ways that are slightly different than human controlled machines. Maybe safer on the whole. But certainly different.

Cars have been a menace for a century. We accept and adapt.
(Sydney resident)

Taxify launched here in December with 50% off rides, people jumped on board and ditched Uber.

50% rides ended - everyone went back to Uber, including myself.

Can't seen this ending any differently unless Ola is significantly cheaper.

____

Just tried to sign up for Ola and they couldn't even send me the verification text to sign up with.
You mean, they didn't know how to make a lie believable using science?
There's a difference though: in Java, the class declaration must mention the interface, but in Go it does not. In Go, you can declare an interface for a subset of a type's methods, in some other package, and use it there, without any change to the original type. You can create a new interface which a standard-library type satisfies!
I'm curious what does a cyber security company do? Do you do pen testing for other companies? Consulting? Also what is your background? Thanks
She had Eric Schmidt for crying out loud. Not suspicious at all.

https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-...
Wood paneling, Atari logo, no idea what capabilities it has but it looks cool.
It's likely that Microsoft's mobile OS contained large modules that the company was not going to open source either for reasons of company strategy (e.g., the kernel was probably a variant of the Windows kernel) or due to licensing restrictions.
Who said anything about morality? I'm talking about responsibility. Nice attempt to misrepresent my viewpoint. I call foul. Responsibility lies with you, friend, not the machine. Besides, how many trains and planes do you pilot daily? Also a train, unlike a car, is not a frivolous convenience operated by a privileged individual who has several other less-objectionable choices available for the purpose. And ironically if everybody got out of cars and onto trains they would actually be cutting the danger to others by a large factor.
Not all.
I don't know if the movements were suddenly under attack. What is more clear to me is many became more overt and loud after Trump was elected. There was a sense of urgency and threat based on nothing other than what Trump and others like Bannon had said. Mind you, just said. Whether they were actual threats (or are) is definitely a legitimate (if separate) debate. Your causality is, however, arguing that the reverse happened: the opening shot came from the Trump side.

I don't think this discussion has much to do with the Facebook story above, however.

I think the question of news manipulation based on headlines[1] affects both the left and the right and happened to be facilitated by Facebook and its hungry data chewers. It's got to monetize that somehow, right?

Oh, and I remember when the Facebook IPO happened a bunch of buddies at a large investment bank argued that there was no way a platform like that had any value, etc. and so forth. And I remember arguing that the data they had had some value, we just don't know (and I didn't know) just for what, yet.

1 - https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511... <-- You all must read this!
It is. As a leader myself, it's honestly embarrassing for my profession. I really don't get why it happens. Personally, that kind of basic shit is dealt with swiftly in my company. Leadership isn't rocket science.
Some employees probably feel that they can help move things in a better direction.
> Nearly every one has a grammatical error or a factual inaccuracy that is obvious after 2 seconds of thought.

You'll find plenty of that in good old home-grown American propaganda, on both far-left and far-right.
I've got 3 of them in various states of working I'd happily ship to an enthusiast who'd value them. I've long since switched to the iPad Pro, but I'm too nostalgic to throw them away / recycle. What a wonderful device it was, just poorly price (before the fire sale).
NP in the number of data points received from all its sensors.
Sierra Leone's electoral commission distances itself from use of blockchain
The point of that persons comment was that you asserted nobody has looked at videos. Clearly they have.
Not necessarily: the greater portion of talent there are still there because they lack the desire or ability to work at interesting startups, funded or not. Compensation and opportunity abundance both will have to significantly change that.
That's true, but the standard library also has strictures about backward compatibility that have ossified some bad choices. The crypto examples you give are arguably exactly this; even the later ones are probably a mistake, but are at least consistent with what can't be changed.
re: case insensitive .. I've heard of a bank with a similar problem, I don't recall which, where the reason was legacy compatibility with touch-tone phones. The password was normalized to something you could key in on a phone.

This isn't an excuse, just a poorly-remembered anecdote as to how backwards some of these systems are.
The point is that fraud is illegal, and prosecuted when found, this is made very clear to begin with. Spreading information or misinformation is not, and it is up to the recipient to use critical thinking. If you believe people are being manipulated because they can't seen through blatant lies, then the problem is not in the lies.
I'm reposting just this link from another (my) comment below, because I find it incredibly relevant and insightful to anyone who wants to understand how adtech, news and Facebook combined programmatically to create a divisive (but catchy) morass of news:

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511...
No less an authority than Danny Baker . . . the comedy writer, born in '57? Or else who? How would he know about this?
> Where did you get this idea

The infamous news clip.

People do leave off the "and some, I assume, are good people", but that really doesn't make it much better does it?
What speed would you drive? Would you take close corners at 120km/h? People (on average) drive at the speed their actually very well tuned survival instinct tells them to.
Why pigeons deserve respect
> I tend to read a lot of other peoples’ codes

"codes?"

Plural form of this type of code is "code."

Stopped reading there. This is one thing I just can't get past when I see it.

Yes, I realize that I am not a superhero-level altruist.
Years of driving a big truck have taught me to take irrational behavior very seriously. And sometimes you can only anticipate that by looking at people’s faces, reactions, past behaviors, thinks like that. I wonder how do you teach that to AI.
If I am given a voterID, let's say an address from which I cast my vote. I can look at my vote on the chain to ensure it was cast correctly forever from that point forward. The node software would ideally be open source and publicly available. A full node could be run at each voting site, and potentially by citizens themselves even. You could run one to make the voting process even more secure.

A decentralized blockchain is far more trustworthy than a centralized database in this scenario. Say Russia controls the centralized voting database, they can just edit whatever value they want to say "Putin" and call it a day. It's not public. No one can verify their vote. It's under the control of one party. The entire point of decentralization is to ensure there is public consensus among multiple parties.

There are other discussions about how to allow or incentivize citizens to run nodes, mitigate lost or stolen IDs/private keys, prevent against spam attacks, etc...but it sounds like you aren't even open to discussing those because you equate the word "blockchain" with "snake oil".
I think I'll wait for the dust to settle a bit here, since it's hard to tell what happened. This is the wreck photo from the local news, showing a damaged bike on the sidewalk, and an Uber robo-car with front passenger-side damage, sitting in the right lane:

https://sharing.wcpo.com/shareknxv/photo/2018/03/19/poster_9...

It's hard to square that with someone darting over from a brushy median on the driver's side of the car. Hopefully NTSB will grab the sensor data and sort things out.

EDIT: This could get ugly...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe-breaking/20...

tl;dr -- A homeless woman was walking her bike across the road. "Safety driver" of the robo-car may have a record for attempted armed robbery. Uber disputes the driver's identity.
But isn't this the reason why most drivers, when seeing someone walking along a median (with a bike full of junk, no less) or even biking in a dedicated lane, will move into another lane to give some clearance? It doesn't sound like there were any other cars near the Uber AV, and it was relatively far from the intersection (in case it needed to make a left turn). So I'm wondering why it didn't make the decision to change into the right lane temporarily to make it less likely to be surprised by unexpected abrupt behavior from the pedestrian.
This whole exchange might have been avoided by simply clarifying that your idea of doing something was to change how the recommendation algorithm works.
If the edge of the roadway was full of parked cars, the person might not have been visible (to either man or machine) until she walked out from between them.
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Most drivers avoid the most serious penalties, and more importantly most victims are denied restitution, not because of sympathetic juries but because of insolvency.

The chance someone will cause a grave accident and the chance someone is insolvent are not independent variables.

You get some real horror stories in law school about people trapped in burning vehicles with no remedy for the surviving family.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-Wide_Volkswagen_Corp._...

One way you can solve for this is strict products liability. Normally we ask if there's a defect in design or negligence. That produces costly litigation where a lay panel reviews a bunch of technical engineering documents with no special training, with highly varying outcomes. Instead, just have the manufacturer pay some statutory compensation whenever their product causes harm. The social harm of the thing will be borne by its purchasers.

It's hard to do that with car accidents though, because driver error contributes so much to outcomes, it's often weird to punish the company.

But we could vastly simplify the auto insurance system and improve the safety of these vehicles by forcing them to just warranty against harm once drivers are out as a factor. (Insofar as a warranty is a promise not to do harm with a fixed penalty up front based on breach.)

It would be fitting if such a statutory regime were the earliest primary laws about AI, because that would officially make a requirement that ai does not harm humans into literally the first law of robotics.
When there's a crash, all information related to the crash should be public information: all raw telemetry information collect by the car, and the logic used to evaluate that telemetry. The idea any portion of this is proprietary is dangerous. If a police officer asks a human driver questions, and they refuse to answer, they can be compelled. If they are asked if they can think of anything else relevant that hasn't been explicitly asked about the accident, and they say no, and it turns out they did and were withholding information, that's a crime.

There must be equivalents for autonomous driving. They can't be allowed to shield themselves behind "proprietary information" claims.
I thought computers excelled at matching numbers?
But you need access to that data first.
Yea, there just seems to be so many things that aren't adding up yet. The news footage also showed a damaged bicycle but there is not mention of a cyclist in the article. I hope they release footage soon.
> The more interesting question to me is why is CA being called out for it?

I mentioned this in another thread and got immediately downvoted, which I predicted would happen. I will add more context here to perhaps avoid that. What I said was:

"What changed is that an attack vector has been found to take out Cambridge Analytica. The Democrats are in full political warfare with the Trump regime, and this is just another salvo."

To be clear, I am not a Trump supporter, and identify as a far-left progressive, so I'm only stating what I see to be happening, and not attacking the Democrats. Secondly, I used to work at a gaming company that was the largest 3rd party integration with Facebook, and saw that this type of data leakage has been the norm and not the exception for at least 8 years.

Trump has been under a (mostly deserved) multi-pronged attack by various left-wing media, political, corporate, and voter organizations since he got into office. What is happening is that many, if not most, upwellings of public sentiment against his presidency are actually engineered through the very same sorts of PR firms as Cambridge Analytical, even though most people think the that it's organic. There is obviously organic disgust for Trump, but it's being fed and amplified and warped and guided using the same social media techniques that Cambridge Analytica uses, which is ironic.
I was alive as well, and just barely starting to get into coding, so my analysis will not be very accurate.

However, in a pre-google web, most sites would add thousands of keywords to their meta tags, hoping that even when the site was not relevant for most of those keywords, they would get the click, get paid by the ads and be incentivised to create more.

And since in those days the concept of relevance (and all that the page rank brought) was still far away, the sites themselves had to catalogue themselves, thus creating the keyword spam.

I remember jumping between search engines; Excite, Altavista, Yahoo, and not getting very relevant results.
Where's yours sent from, an angel's ass? Anyway let me know when all my evil deeds finally make you innocent so I can take a rest.
I remember early reports about self-driving experiments saying that some of the issues where because the cars were driving at the speed limit, which is usually not the case in the US with the human drivers.

Maybe they decided to change it.
Maybe we could put bumpers on these cars until they are official? They don't need to look cool right now.
I think you are confusing the legal term “at fault” with the subjective term of “blame”.
Uber suspends self-driving car tests after pedestrian death in Arizona
> are there plans to extend the book to include the design of the distributed Client-Server Application?

I do not know how I could integrate that in this book specifically, because it is not something that a regular user would need to know to be able to use Python per se, but I would like to publish something eventually. Maybe something like "up to speed with socket programming in python".. :)

Basically, I give my students two files (client.py and server.py) with a basic and very simple use of sockets, and guide them to build a basic shell client app that sends messages to be evaluated by the server and to receive the result back.

Other is a very basic http server with sockets. These are not production-ready things, I'm just interested that they learn the concepts. You can check something about this http server in this blog post of mine: http://joaoventura.net/blog/2017/python-webserver/
I'm not sure what's the big deal here; the demoscene has been doing realtime raytracing for many many years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11848097
I agree. People wish not to avoid death, but to lessen their fear of death.

Arguments about how relatively safe self-driving cars will be are beside the point. A self-driving car is something that can kill you. The fact that death by self-driving vehicle is especially rare makes it especially scary.

A low accident rate is not a good thing, psychologically. Only when a risk is comfortably common can we comfortably begin to ignore it.
That's not what the ads were saying - they were talking about how CGI spent(or didn't spend) money in Haiti
At the end of the day, government is made up of people... And people can't help but be interested in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. That's how I explain this doc which I couldn't really have imagined being published this soon even a few years ago.
That's not facebook data, that's DNC/Obama data, accumulated over time by other canvassers including your friend. They've done that since before Facebook even existed.

Facebook's product is not selling that data, it's selling ads using the data. You can only sell the data once, you can sell the ads forever.
How does the police determine that a vehicle "made no attempt to stop" today, without video and sensor data?
It does when "people finally caught on" is the reason.
More like cue them into how dangerous walking out into traffic is.

Cars don't stop on a dime. Everyone knows that. If there's ok visibility there's no excuse for getting hit by one that isn't going absurdly fast (assuming you don't use a circular definition for "absurdly fast")

Sure, the car isn't supposed hit the pedestrian but the pedestrian also has an equal obligation not to just dart out into the road.

And before you ask, I don't drive to work.
That is immaterial.

The promise of autonomous cars is that they will be better drivers than human drivers.

That autonomous car, by going 3mph above the speed limit, already failed at the most fundamental level: following the rules.

And it was not even an obscure or ambiguous rule at that, as I assume that there are signs prominently displaying the legal speed limit. But even if there aren't, the rule book covers those situations in an unambiguous way (or at least it does in my country).

Accidents are excusable. Shit happens.

But deliberately failing to follow the rules? That cannot be tolerated.
Funny how this story has been pushed off the front page of HN prematurely.
My real world AWS sdk s3 experience: I have an uploader interface (I only needed to upload). The concrete uploader has the s3 code. The fake uploader has any custom result/err I need to test against.
Xilinx's Project Everest: 50B gates of adaptive computing? This is a kind of wow
were they spreading misinformation?
Request denied. The sign says speed limit. What about a plain language sign are you not groking? Legally it is speeding, and it's an opinion to call it impeding traffic. And as a result of speeding, there's certainly civil liability attached because the car would not have been where it was, when it was, had it been driving at or below the speed limit.
> Perhaps it will finally cue people in to how intrinsically dangerous cars are.

Until you consider the _billions_ of miles that cars in the US drive every month. Cars are exceptionally safe, and they're getting better every year.. because we keep driving _more_ miles year after year, yet fatalities continue to drop.

Also, how do you interpret facts like: California has 30% more people living in it than Texas, yet TX has a _greater_ number of roadway fatalities than CA?

> they're still orders of magnitude more of a risk factor for ordinary

The problem is: you absolutely cannot view vehicles as a _single_ risk factor. Thus, any comparison between human drivers and AI drivers on these terms is flawed from the outset.
I don’t know, but made no attempt to stop is according to the police.

Uber’s self-driving car was traveling at a speed of 40 mph when it struck a 49-year-old woman in Arizona Sunday night, and did not show significant signs of slowing down, police said today.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17140936/uber-self-drivin...

If you’re saying that the whole “blame it on the homeless lady” routine is premature the im with you though.
Most of the time is waiting for npm/yarn to load up! The whole process on a fast connection is closer to 10s :P
Well, it's been said for years that Google's biggest competition is not MSFT or Yahoo, it's Amazon. Put in that context, I think it makes sense. When I want to find the best price for a product I generally search two places: Amazon and the Google Products search. Doesn't make sense for Amazon to get a cut if Google doesn't.
Well, if we can get a standardized raytracing api built into any os, that’s a pretty big deal.

Also, ray tracing, marching, and casting has been real-time for a while, for some definition and degree. Graphics has always been about tradeoffs, though, and this seems markedly more general purpose than anything I’ve seen before.

I’m excited, even though I don’t have any Microsoft products outside my Xbox.
> My point is that if you had been able to communicate and collaborate with other developers and had a good idea of what problems were already solved and what problems needed to be solved, you might have turned that ingenuity into useful innovation rather than new wheels.

My point is that if you ask nearly any web or JavaScript developer everything new is always "a reinvented wheel". I do mean always. Most of these guys need a popular framework just to turn on their monitors and even when you take the framework away they generally consider any code written still some kind of a framework.

This isn't a technology problem it is a social problem of bad developers striving for normalcy when everything they see is "invented here" syndrome. The fastest way to solve for that problem is to separate yourself from trends and socially acceptable approaches. You have to keep those opinions to yourself though, because it shines a spotlight on peoples' insecurities.

I have spent nearly the entirety of my career learning this the hard way. Most developers don't want to be expert rockstars. They want to be employable. Urban centers are where you go to increase your chances of employment. You can innovate from anywhere.
The npx part is only to setup the project, which is making a package.json and a src directory.
There was mention of her walking her bike.