skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A complex situation == a dangerous one for a prototype system. If it's complex, the car doesn't know what to do or has any reliability, and it makes the situation dangerous even if it were 'complex but safe' for some hypothetical human driver. The uncertainty is in the map, not the territory. Waymo checks disengagements in simulators to see how many are truly dangerous, and most aren't; Uber, for some reason, declines to discuss whether they do so and what the results are. Much like they declined to tell the truth about incidents like running a red light at high speed.

There is no reason whatsoever to believe that Uber's horrific disengagement record, which is orders of magnitude worse than competitors often in the same cities like SF, is because they are tackling orders of magnitude harder situations per mile or are orders of magnitude more conservative, and every reason, even before this fatality (the only one so far despite many self-driving programs running concurrently over years), to believe they were just plain worse.

> Not trying to defend Uber here, I'm just trying to understand the distinction between a high-level general statistic and it's real world implications.

Again, it has to be dangerous for someone. It can't be more dangerous yet not dangerous to anyone in particular. That just doesn't make any sense. Uber runs on the same roads and the same traffic with the same basic approach as everyone else, there's no confounder which could produce a reversal.
The commenter said it's a "very bad look". Followed by this:

> On the other hand, it sounds like it happened very recently; I guess we'll have to wait and see what happened.

How in the world do you see that as an assertion of proof.
And of course, how does it compare to kdb? So it seems less expensive, but also lacks the advanced query language.

The last tests I saw for kdb was the 1.1 billion taxi ride.

http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html

Where it basically outperformed every other CPU based system with slightly more complex queries.

Any comparisons planned?
That is, as they say, the naive view.
Is this like a voting ring situation?

Are people otherwise having trouble finding links to front-end JavaScript libraries?
What's the extension?
For the most part, Google's moonshot business have been a negative value to the firm. They've poured billions of capital into a number of these businesses without anything demonstrable to show for it.

If you think that the future might be different in that regard, then Google is probably undervalued to you. But keep in mind that things Google is doing in it's moonshot projects, while they generate alot of press, might not generate alot of cash. Interesting != Valuable.
Neat, thanks for the data.
I think most of the hype was coming from uninformed bystanders, not Magic Leap themselves.

Magic Leap revealed almost nothing about what they were working on until just a couple months ago; before then all we had to go on were rumors, statements from people who demoed some early prototypes, and a couple incredibly vague teasers from Magic Leap hinting at what they were doing.

If it weren't for the fact that they made headlines after receiving massive amounts of funding from investors (including Google, which makes for great headlines), most of us probably would have never heard of them.
All I can do at the present time is focus on the things I can control, such as not treating my body like a dumpster and exercising regularly.

Real rejuvenative treatments for aging seem to be like nuclear fusion - promising but always 20 years away.
I don't think the people arguing for a different standard are saying that it is ok for one person to die because people die every day. They're asking for observers to look at self-driving cars in comparison to human-driven cars. Because people dying is such a bad thing that we want to prevent, the relevant question should always be, "will this change make it more or less likely that somebody will die." And that is why it is relevant to compare pedestrian deaths from self-driving cars to pedestrian deaths from human-driven cars, but not relevant to compare it to skynet or thermonuclear war.

I don't know, however, how that comparison turns out. From the other comments, it looks like Uber's self-driving cars might be less safe than human-driven cars--in which case you and I would end up on the same side of the argument.
>>These companies also frequently market with 3D models: apple.com, ikea.com

Sure, but those companies have long track records of shipping stuff.
Why would they take back the bonuses when they profited from his actions? It's highly doubtful that the total fines imposed on Deutsche Bank exceed the total profit they gained, and given the size of his bonuses, he likely made them a lot of money all said...
> I think we're capable of doing pretty extraordinary things when you're thrown into the deep end

This resonates with me as I've been there once already in my life and felt the same thing. A very sudden life-changing situation popped up unexpectedly and I just had to dig my heels in and push forward. You really find out what you're made of when failure is not an option. It turned out great and got me a job at a Fortune 500 while still in college, but admittedly I've had trouble replicating that tenacity ever since. There has to be a term for the phenomenon, but you feel like you're in this advanced state of mind and somehow you just know you're going to hit the ball out of the park if you keep working. Thanks for sharing your story!
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LG TVs thanks to WebOS are the only TVs with a software experience that makes sense. Cool to see this news happening.
The singular success of SV might point to some of its values being linked to its success. “Correlation is not causation” doesn’t even apply, because regardless of causality (a->b, b->a, or even x->a && b) it would seem that it’s difficult to have one without the other.

It’s also important to note that the high reaches of other creative industries espouse values very similar to those of The Valley.
"Bikeshedding" should cover it if there isn't a more specific term. If not, then bikeshedding will.
Godwin's law simply states that Nazis will eventually be mentioned (with probability approaching 1).

Also, he's completely wrong. Hitler's reasoning was not to avoid a malthusian catastrophe. Pretty surprised people here bought that.
>a density of talent and capital unrivaled in the world

The Four Asian Tigers have already surpassed SV on that. There's obviously a government-related cultural gap that won't win them any popularity contests.
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You've got to be kidding or sarcastic about the poorer=disposable part, right?
That depends what the terminology problem is. If the problem is that you're going to be criticized by a bunch of pedantic linguistic prescriptivists who want you to use their terms in the way they want, creating new terms avoids that criticism.
> Something I've never understood and would greatly appreciate understanding: could someone ELI"5" how the concept of "parallel universes" will not always be a metaphysical instead of a scientific question?

At this point it's all theoretical based on our best mathematical modeling of the universe/physics.

> If there are truly separate "universes", then by definition wouldn't it be the case that there would be no way to test (or falsify) whether they exist or not

By definition? No. Extremely difficult and maybe impossible. Yes.

Keep in mind that before powerful telescopes, the outer planets were "guessed" at by mathematical modeling. Astronomers mathematical calculations led them to believe that there should be planetary bodies like uranus and neptune out there. It took further advances in technology/physics to corroborate the mathematical calculations/model.

The same thing for hereditary genetics and the proton/electron/etc. When the first theoretical/mathematical models were first made, we had no conceivable way of "seeing" a proton or DNA.
That was one of Wright's famous leaky-roof buildings.

http://journaltimes.com/news/local/confronting-a-legacy-of-a...
>> not repetition of something obvious ad nauseam.

The fact that Uber's self-driving car program has a worse deaths-per-miles-driven metric than human drivers is anything but obvious to me.

After an incident like this, it's natural to question whether anything needs to be done policy-wise. And, I don't see any reason why that discussion can't take place here in the comments section.

It seems like you want HN users to use the comments section to express condolences? Or, to just have an empty comments section?
I am afraid that you are introducing the off-topic debate. The end goal of healthcare is better outcomes for lower prices. Likewise, the end goal of engineering should be better technology for lower costs.

That healthcare in other countries is able to achieve this in spite of the medical malpractice insurance system points to the fact that such a system is not certain have to have the deleterious effects you confidently assume.

Whether it is a burden for engineers is another question. But the article and the discussion aren’t about the inconveniences faced by the engineers who programmed this system.
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Then make the officers of the company stake their lives on this, not the lives of innocent pedestrians.

If they're not willing to dogfood their own potential murder machines then why should the public trust them on the public roads?
It's much harder to use the browser app on Facebook than desktop. There is much more UX friction, which is a benefit in this case.
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No, but if you work in a city, you should be able to afford a home there. And that's increasingly not the case anymore.

Are you saying extreme length commutes should be the norm?
I'd think so too, but there is literally a crumpled bicycle in the photo of the scene. Also the Uber has a dent on the right side, which faces east.

It's possible she was walking her bicycle across the street, but that still looks pretty bad for Uber. That street is a straight shot with clear visibility.
Lately, I'm quite disappointed with the tech community's approach to the society.

Lot's of people are talking as if human beings are a resource which exploitation should be secured for the businesses and technical curiosities.

No, people, humans are what matters and it just happens that there are business opportunities and scientific curiosities. No, it not O.K. to kill few people to speed up the development of self-driving vehicles. No, it is not O.K. to have total surveillance so that we improve AI.
Sounds like you had a great driving instructor. Although I never had an experience like that when learning to drive, we did have to complete something in the UK called a "hazard perception test"[1] in order to get a drivers license. Basically a video version of what your instructor did for you. Until reading your comment today, I'd never really put much thought into how useful this is and how ingrained in my everyday driving it is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQRkmdhwJs
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5 years too late
When I had to go from my Palm Pre to an android phone it was a giant leap backwards in functionality and usability. They got so many things right from the get-go with WebOS, but it would have had to have been perfect to break into the already existent duopoly.

The ship has long since sailed and android now is almost certainly better than WebOS ever was, but this does make me nostalgic.
I don't have a lot experience with TV hacking, but would this be possible to build and run on my LG TV I have today or is this for legacy devices stuck with some special version of webOS? I think my TV currently runs webOS 3.0.
The quibble in this case would be the meaning of "developers." In the case of a medical device, the developer is considered to be the Manufacturer, not the specific software developers on the team. Considering how often teams change, etc., using the latter definition would be meaningless.
True. Or that visionary will choose the other alternative - Join Google/Alphabet or Amazon with it's internal startups
> That's a very bad look; the whole point of self-driving cars is that they can react to unexpected circumstances much more quickly than a human operator, such as when someone walks out into the road.

No, the whole point of self-driving vehicles is that firms operating them can pay the cheaper capital and maintenance costs of the self-driving system rather than the labor cost of a driver.
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What I'm saying is unlikely as I'd most likely assume she was traveling along the sidewalk for some distance before being hit but there is always the chance she was walking the bike across the grass and came out from that direction (where those bushes are, they seem tall enough from what I can see)? This is all assuming when you say 'left' you meant on the left side of the Google Street View posted above, though.
I think dang described it best here [1]

It's not the lack of compassion, it's the lack of substance.

And I suppose it strikes me as lacking compassion and/or humility to come and use HN as a platform to recycle the same obvious idea, when the story is about a death. It would be different if it were about a tire blowing out.

Everyone knows how these statistics work on a macro level. That's not worth commenting here on HN, and especially not on this story.

I just think we could do better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621716
Your OS cannot play multiple audio streams at once? That sounds like Linux 10 years ago.
People are injured by malfeasance of a corporation involving many employees all the time, such as when a bridge collapses- There is nothing that says a police person needs to immediately find a single guilty person 10 minutes after an accident like this.
No. Facebook’s app Developer TOS are different than that of some random website, in that they require explicit consent. It’s a contract, not a one-sided passive statement and is therefore binding in a way a linked TOS is not.
Uber has shown very often that they are willing to break the law. It seems within their modus-operandus to just ignore these rules.

Essentially, Uber engages in regulatory arbitrage but taking into account the cost-benefits of breaking the law. I.e. if it breaks the law but is profitable for them, they seem to do it.
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Forgive my ignorance here, I'm genuinely intrigued: what's so special about MSVC's volatile as opposed to the regular volatile keyword?
I have a LG TV and I have not seen a more confusing and annoying UI to be honest. There is a delay when navigating the menus, leading you to pressing twice instead and then more lag, continuing in a cycle. Not to mention the TV is slow to start and after having it on for while, seems to just be getting slower and slower until you restart it.
Ah, clever, I like that :) Thanks!
It's not a question of whether Zuckerberg can take the criticism (that's his problem), but of the effect it has on discussion quality here (that's our problem).

(I appreciate the polite reply. It's surprisingly rare when there are that many volatiles in the air.)
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Rail isn't something you can solve solely with tech, though. It requires building new infrastructure, which requires enormous political cooperation, which is an intractable problem in our current political climate. Self-driving cars do require some political cooperation, but it's much less because it purportedly doesn't require new infrastructure.
What is it that's only allowing you to play audio from a single source at a time? On my desktop that sound just plays over other sounds, nothing pauses. I hate auto-play media as much as the next guy but your real problem is an awkward configuration or oddly limited device.
Humans also can't read humans' body language. A pedestrian waiting at a corner isn't waiting for the weather to change. They are waiting for passing cars to stop, as required by law. But passing cars speed by instead of stopping, unless the pedestrian does a lunge into the street -- preferable a bluff lunge, since most drivers still won't stop, preferring to race the pedestrian to the middle of the lane.
What would Microsoft and Amazon have been without Silicon Valley?
Is it clickbaiting or just misplaced hero-worship to call this the "fall" from "star trader" to criminal? Seems to me more like one minute he's a crook who hasn't been caught, the next he's a crook who's been caught. Rather than causing even a second of cognitive dissonance it should simply set you to scanning all his other accomplishments for fraud as well.
Given that OP was doing $0.45M just 7 years ago [1], doing $300M today would be some phenomenal amount of growth.

Maybe this is a “gross revenue” vs “net revenue” topic.

Especially given that the OP states in the same Link that he’d love a “$20m exit”.

A $20m exit on a $300m is a no brainer.

Either way. Being your own boss. Being profitable. And growing is awesome. Congrats.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2341124
Wait, so that picture / video of the bicycle on the ground at what looked like the scene had nothing to do with the accident at all? It seemed really focused on from my POV. I'd find it rather strange if the bicycle had nothing to do with it although this is just reporting, it's not like it's the official police report or anything.
Sure. Changed from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/microsoft-announces-.... Thanks!
I created a mostly unopinionated starter project [1] for creating RESTful APIs using Koa2 and ES2017+ features in a Node.js server environment as well as providing linting and testing support. It provides the setup for compiling, linting and testing your code but doesn't make any further assumptions on how your project should be structured.

[1] https://github.com/pranavpr/koa2-es2017-api-boilerplate
Why not hire them as a contractor?
Much of this is due to unfair tax credits in various areas. And instead of competing, the geniuses in Cal/LA have been raising taxes.
Wow, this is sad.

I always imagine I would feel uncomfortable when developing software in certain areas such as this, or e.g. for space rockets containing humans. Errors have a much higher impact than when only developing web applications where the worst case scenario is a tempoarily unreachable website, or maybe some data loss.
When I lived in California the press reported pedestrian and bicyclist deaths under the same "pedestrian" moniker.
This is a really useful and informative writeup.

However, to me it just highlights a lot of things that Wordpress/PHP is bad at. For one, no mention of testing here (or really hardly anywhere in PHP-land), although keeping the API logic in a separate class is a good idea.

Also, the flexibility/ease of use tradeoff going from wp_remote_get and friends is terrible. It's so frustrating that PHP doesn't have a better general networking solution than "idk, just fork to curl". The Guzzle library helps a lot here, but I don't see a lot of the PHP/WP community embracing it much.

With the current plethora of widely-supported Web development frameworks, I really don't see any reason to use PHP or Wordpress for new projects.
Depends on how you define "most", "retail", and "business".

Sure, Retail is generally a low margin business, but there are many caveats to that. Selling toilet paper isn't exactly going to give you double digit margins, but selling fashion might, or digital media.

Amazon's retail business is also structured differently than almost all of their comparables. With 90 million Prime members each paying $100 a year, that's $9 billion in free cash flow.

And I think it's probably foolish to think that AWS is going to end up being a low margin business. It definitely currently isn't, and it has a lot of the standard makings of a software business that can sustain high margins like Oracle or Microsoft. The Amazon offerings aren't just a set of simple web services, it's a extremely complicated suite of offerings that can be used as parts to write software tools in alot of different businesses. And given the amount of capital required to write a suite similar to that and the costs of a company would have to actually switch business applications off of something like AWS, I don't see why this wouldn't be a highly lucrative business.
I don't think that's really the problem. I mean, Obama's 2012 campaign scraped the data of Facebook friends of people who'd signed into the campaign website in order to figure out the most effective way to convince those friends to vote for him via microtargeting and other techniques, in particular working out which friends their volunteers could most easily convince to vote for him. We're not just talking about general profile information, but photos and feed activity. Apparently they were so aggressive about this it tripped Facebook's internal alerts. The New York Times spun all this as some clever, sophisticated breakthrough that marketers could take advantage of: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaig... (While they were more honest about getting those users' permission than Cambridge Analytica, they didn't have any kind of permission from the friends they were hoping to profile and target, much like CA didn't. The viral tweet doing the rounds attacking CA for comparing the two is misleading.)

The main problem Facebook seem to have is that the wrong candidate won the 2016 presidential election and the press need someone else to blame.

Incidentally, based on the reporting come out of the Trump campaign, it's not clear they were even doing much or anything in this area. Their campaign leaned heavily on exactly the kind of "political gut instinct" that article decries - used as an input to models rather than directly, and augmented with stuff like A/B testing, but still nothing like the data-guzzling microtargeting machine of Obama 2012. There doesn't seem to have been much sign of CA involvement aside from the initial check the campaign wrote them and their attempts to use Trump's victory in their marketing.
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Probably worth rehashing the infamous messages:

> Zuck: People just submitted it.

> Zuck: I don't know why.

> Zuck: They "trust me"

> Zuck: Dumb fucks.

A cynic would interpret the current state of the world to suggest that Zuckerberg, and by extension Facebook, considers a large segment of the world population "Dumb fucks"

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
Just get the f### off Facebook, already.

If you're the kind of person who votes based on targeted advertising, or the hyperbolic posts of people who vote based on targeted advertising, don't ask Facebook to change. Get the f### off Facebook.

If you don't like how Facebook is being used as an addictive propaganda tool by any and all political actors, including Facebook itself, then get the f### off Facebook.

Ask the Facebook "friends" you care about for an email address, phone number, or other messaging account and get the f### off Facebook.

You don't need up to the minute information on the playdate of your cousin's college room mate's toddler. Get the f### off Facebook.
That's not at all what happened here (least of all because I'm not the person who was trying to advance an argument).
Maybe, but not in the way WebOS did it. Palm Pre devices weren't top of the line but they had enough power to run HTML and JS apps. FirefoxOS seemed to focus on devices that really didn't have enough power, with hardware designed to hit a price rather than any performance metrics.

There may not be a market for a straight-up Linux system with first-class HTML and JS apps anymore, but judging it based on FirefoxOS isn't really fair.
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