skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The significant differences between people are primarily cultural.

This may be true, but I suspect that the reason for the "diversity effect", if any, is simply that it creates diversity of ideas. Whether that arises from cultural differences, biological differences, or some other source is likely immaterial.

There is some evidence that novelty-searching is more productive overall than goal-searching, at least in some contexts (video of a talk on the subject by its principal researcher, Ken Stanley, PhD: https://youtu.be/dXQPL9GooyI). Perhaps diversity contributes simply by increasing novelty within the organization---it's not that people are doing things better, but that they are doing them differently.
On the way up, energy use follows economic activity. On the way down, it's vice versa.
It's probably what you say and also a subsidy for capital management companies. They can force people to buy into high-fee funds.
lol, wow, I have a slight issue with transposing information... it caught me this time. Watch out you may catch lung cigarettes...
Just change don't to can't.
I’m super curious, how much was the original investment YC made (i assume 50k?) and what is that share worth today as they IPO?
That seems kind of odd. Drivers are never at fault? What country is this?

In any case, it's less about the law or even who is at fault, and more about level of safety expected from self-driving vehicles and how to improve it. This is going to be investigated like an airline crash would, and the investigation should show what needs to be fixed.
Never mind; you're better at this game than I am. b^)
As it turns out, countries with legalized prostitution have higher levels of illegal sex trafficking (the real kind, where people are forced into it as well). This is one of those areas where the rubber of libertarianism meets the road of reality. If you really want to curb sex trafficking, the best way to do it is to go after the demand side: decriminalize prostitutes, but punish pimps and johns severely.
Manu Saadia's Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek is kinda the reverse: it's an examination of Star Trek's post-scarcity economy, how matter replicators change everything, and what people do with their free time when they don't have to work.

There's a big hole in Star Trek canon of how Earth transitioned from ST:TOS to the post-scarcity economy of ST:TNG. I would love to see Star Trek delve explore that era instead of rebooting and rehashing so many prequals.

Here is a transcript from an NPR interview with Paul Krugman about Saadia's book:

https://www.marketplace.org/2016/09/07/world/economist-paul-...
That's very kind, thanks!
I don't know which country you are talking about.

Dash cams are of low quality, which means such low light situations are hard for dash cams, but easy for the human eye. That means, if the drive should have take attention, the situation could have been prevented.

Second, every modern technology can cope with this situation, except Uber. A regular Volvo XC90 would have enganged emergency braking, which is called City Safety.
That is incorrect. You don't need to specifically target the EU. If you handle data from European citizens, the GDPR applies to you.
> Clearly what's happening here is facebook is being targeted by traditional media.

I suspect that it is more that it is being targeted by people who want to distract from the Trump / Cambridge Analytica / Russia side of things, and people/organizations, including in the traditional media, who had pre-existing biases against Facebook are being “useful idiots.”
Sensor firm Velodyne 'baffled' by Uber self-driving death
As a commercial venture, absolutely. There will always be folks willing to buy the dream they sell.
Are you talking about radios or TV antennas?

Don't cell phones today still have antennas? - Are they lower power now than they were?
>I don’t think there’s an agreed upon testable definition of “healthy”...

I think it's a universal absolute that every individual has a healthy and non-healthy state. Regardless of our ability to classify that state accurately with labels or tests.

I know I had stupid transposed bit of wording... har.
> Waymo, formerly the self-driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble. As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per “intervention” in Arizona

There can certainly be arguments about whether the kind of miles driven are equivalent here, but with more than two order of magnitude difference it hardly matters. I expected Uber to trail behind the top a bit, but I didn't expect that kind of huge difference.

This looked bad from the start for Uber, and it's only getting worse. I can understand that tests on public roads are necessary to actually achieve the goal of autonomous driving. But that step should come after sufficient tests in controlled environments that indicate that you got the basics down.
Arizona, and all states really, should make this data and much more mandatory for testing. Not only that, but there needs to be a "minimum capability" you need to be able to prove before you're allowed to test on public roads.

No wonder Uber stopped driving in California, they didn't want people to see in what disastrous state their technology is. It's honestly ridiculous how reckless they are, all in the name of "winning" and being first.
Internet is also used by terror organizations around the world. Money is also used by terror organizations around the world.

Moreover, oxygen and water are also used by terror organizations around the world.
I think the way film making unions are organized is something to look into but my impression is that the problem space is more familiar when you look at what industrial worker unions deal with. That is: careers under a single employer instead of gigs where you go from employer to employer and have to basically get re-hired.
OK, OK, since the Korean War then.
No, that's just that no one knows who's turn it is.

Having two people check something over is a good thing, telling two people that they should both start simultaneously to do work that might be duplicate is bad.
That bit about closure made me smile. You're welcome :). I owe a huge thank you to the HN member who emailed me to let me know about this discussion.
Next step, mine the rainforrest with sound detecting landmines? Technical solutions to social problems - any examples where this worked?
For one, because self-driving cars are supposed to be better than humans at seeing in the dark with all sorts of sensors - otherwise what would be the point of even allowing them on the road?

From the NYT article it seems that Uber's self-driving car systems may have terrible performance. Worse than humans performance is very likely at this point, especially when they seem to have this attitude towards self-driving cars:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17144090/uber-car-acciden...

Also, either Uber may have potato cameras worse than a smartphone camera, or someone made that Uber video look so dark:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
It seems premature to ask the question in the title at this juncture, doesn't it? DoJ is still investigating Holmes.
Right. But who were the buyers? Would the same buyers have bought 10 million shares at $29? Or was it thousands of smaller sized investors paying a premium? You need whales to keep the market stable and I don't think the whales would have bought at $29 ... look at the volume over time post IPO, not just day of. The big investors who came in cheap will buy back shares if the price dips... right now they are profiting off the pop.
I'm sure that "odium" isn't too far wrong, but I believe the word you intended was "onus".

One should probably not conflate mathematical proofs and empirical evidence in this context. Mathematics allows for certain proofs, where no belief is required, but this is not true for any empirical science. I wouldn't recommend ever betting against the laws of thermodynamics, but at some point you have to take a leap of induction, if not of faith.
Do you happen to know what the pricing looks like?
My guess is their code is buggy or not responsive enough to deal with things at the rate it’s needed. The hardware cannot but report the data to the SoC, it’s just that their software didn’t process it in time. That should be apparent in their logs. Is that not asked or probed?
I'm kind of stunned there was a company behind it. I thought it was only a joke. O.o
I used to make a few small contributions to https://github.com/msmhq/msm, but no longer have the time and nobody else has stepped up.

If you'd be interested, I'm happy to give you commit permissions - just shoot me an email (in HN profile).
I love using nested functions when I have to write state machine code. It's a hella a lot better than the old school way using macros to do the same thing.
You honestly think any alert human driver would have slammed into her as fast as that car did? I saw her in the video soon enough to have reacted, and I figure my driving skills are average. And that's assuming the lighting really was as bad as it looks from the video, which is dubious. My guess is that if I'd been driving I would have had time to slow down some, possibly saving her life.

I also find it in bad taste to blame this woman for her own death. There may have been a good reason she didn't see the car coming, but we won't ever know, will we?
Certainly, I've been very lucky. No argument there.

But the only thing I'm saying is to not over romanticise the past. The life of a 14 century peasant was not good compared to mine.

I also realise that a lot of the comforts I enjoy are because lots of people spent time in boring offices before me. The article sounds quite dismissive of that.

I'm forever grateful and do my part to help. Nobody owes me a good life.
My reading of it was the opposite:
> Pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection.

If a pedestrian is inside a crosswalk they almost always have the right of way. Outside a crosswalk it is not the case.
Why your startup needs Serverless Slack bots
Woah, emscripten in production. Yeah, color me impressed as well.
Considering the idea I was trying to convey with the word "cog" was "trivially replaced by any of the dozen others we have laying around"... yeah, at least a minimal level of specialization is a "precondition for non-cogs".
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The link you shared disagrees with you - it says that in Arizona vehicles always have the right-of-way outside of crosswalks:

"Pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. Where traffic control devices are in operation, pedestrians may only cross between two adjacent intersections in a marked crosswalk."
One of the best things to come out of all this controversy surrounding FB will be that people will no longer look at me like I have two heads when I tell them I don’t have a FB account.
General consensus amongst the developers that work directly with the person being investigated. It's pretty easy. Head butting with poor managers and broken company structures with ZERO recourse is the problem. The strawman you're putting up is not.
> It's a form of gaslighting. They are manipulating each of your realities in unethical ways.

This is the third time you’ve used the term in this subthread. It appeared in your original comment and now twice more. I am reminded of when a media outlet deliberately associates a politician with a given phrase. It looks like an attempt at marketing.
Thank you! I have started reading the paper, and it is interesting to read how the author lays out his hypotheses.

Most intriguing is the link between how judicial systems that were setup to support the king may tend to be more corrupt since they were literally robbing property/money from his subjects. On the other side, the British system relies on judicial precedents and process, helping ensure a more fair trial between the government and property owners/business people.

https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/131389/original/Treisman2...
Ask a COBOL programmer about this...
It's interesting how perspectives differ; I love refactoring Rust code more than any language I've ever used, as it catches so many of my errors when doing so for me, at compile time.
Same here. It feels good. I've been writing lots of little utility programs in Rust lately and it has been great.
Um, except when Elon posts video compilations of their failures... (seems to me they're pretty open)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2PWKdQzuU8
The Korean war is not over. But OK, fair enough, I'll revise my claim and say that every war since Korea (i.e. in the last 65 years) has been a disaster. (And Korea was not exactly considered an unalloyed success even back in the day.)
I'm more or less in agreement, but I just though it was worth adding that the tuple's could actually have a lot of merit, I think I'd like to see them (Though I'm not sure the syntax is perfect parsing wise. It might be smart to prefix them, like `tuple [int, char]` or something.).

It seems like anonymous struct's fill the void, but a big problem with anonymous struct's is their types are never equal to any other, even if all the members are the exact same. So that means that if you declare the function as returning `struct { int x0; char x1; }` directly, it's actually mostly unusable because it's impossible to actually declare a variable with the same type as the return type. Obviously, the fix is to forward declare the `struct` ahead of time in a header file somewhere and then just use that type name, but that gets annoying really fast when you end-up with a lot of them. The tuples would allow you to achieve the same thing, but with a less verbose syntax and would allow them to be considered the same type even without forward declaring them.
Or just use petgraph, which does this for you.
I have read the whole website and failed to see one concrete example of action that the union could take to make game-industry employees' life better

Game Workers Unite is a broad-reaching organization
that seeks to connect pro-union activists,
exploited workers, and allies across borders
and across ideologies in the name of
building a unionized game industry.

Even compatible with the libertarian ideology :p ?
Yup, only terminations I saw in gamedev were very much with-cause scenarios(employee threatening physical violence).
Hmm, but why shouldn't games work like a Hollywood-style gig economy, since the need for labor varies depending on a game's lifecycle?
That looks pretty cool at first glance — I need to spend some time reading it in my free time to figure it out.
For people who claim it wasn't fair but he was responsible: that is a contradiction.

If it isn't fair, it isn't fair because his behavior -- however off-putting -- should not have lead to such severe punishment.

I don't have an opinion as to whether it was fair because I don't know the details.

I suspect the things that he did legally were often far worse than the things he did illegally.
Which side are you on?
Great explanation! I think you just made a few things about Rust click for me. Thanks!
> Fact is in a busy station on a morning even if you knew someone was a terrorist and could see him you couldn't actually shoot him without gunning down about 30 civilians between you and the bad guy.

The Met use the MP5SF (Single-fire) variant (routinely anyway - I'd imagine they have access to other weapons for specific situations), so it isn't necessarily accurate to refer to it as an SMG. It'd take serious misuse of such a weapon to end up gunning down 30 civilians.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/28/met-armed-police-...
The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep
It already exists: it's called Full 30. I am guessing not a lot of people use it because it's not YouTube.
Outside of your oddly combative use of the term cog, this is an accurate portrayal of an integral aspect of their process: distributing knowledge, capability, and reasponsbility across the team.

I am no capitalism apologist. The interoperability of technicians diminishes our marketplace bargaining power, thus diminishing labor's leverage over management/capital. At this point in my life, I have accepted this trade-off in exchange for
1) mutual code-review,
2) nights off on-call,
3) opportunities to learn new tech,
4) a product roadmap that can be prioritized without a freaking gant-chart to slot e.g. language-dependent work into language-adherent technicians' backlogs.

While these and other factors make my role less stressful, and my team more effective, I do concede that knowledge dissemination diminishes tech workers' bargaining power.
Yeah, Ping, I agree. It reads like they missed the key lesson of C — in Dennis Ritchie's words, "A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do." And some of the things they've added vitiate some of C's key advantages — exceptions complicate the control flow, constructors and destructors introduce the execution of hidden code (which can fail), and even static overloading makes it easy to make errors about what operations will be invoked by expressions like "x + y".

An interesting exercise might be to figure out how to do the Golang feature set, or some useful subset of it, in a C-compatible or mostly-C-compatible syntax.

I do like the returnable tuples, though, and the parametric polymorphism is pretty nice.
On some level I feel this question is just here to advertise the poster's project.

I think it would have been better if they had put their project in the comments like everyone else instead of giving themselves more visibility by putting it in the main question.

They may not have intended it this way - but it's possible.
They were driving in San Francisco up until the accident, and stopped their tests.
It's too bad the original screencast page is gone: http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html

Edit: someone posted an archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20100817162301/http://dl-web.dro...
it is sexier to be a game dev than, say, working at Salesforce.

So what should we do, besides educate people about the reality of working in this industry (which is not really the point of an union) ?
That page is about crosswalks. The person who was hit was not in a crosswalk.
> Previously I would check my FB feed a dozen times a day

Wow. Is this still common these days? I rarely check FB. Honestly, I end up checking Twitter and HN way more.
Wow, some tech investors are taking it on the chin this week. Uber has to pay its customers now; this self-driving Hail Mary was the only thing supporting its value. [EDIT:] am I wrong about that? Tell me more!
For Cloud Foundry, Java is just one runtime target, provided by build packs.

You can run whatever you like, even Windows stuff. You only need to have (a) build pack(s) (aka runtime layer) and a stemcell (base operating system).

CF is like Heroku on steroids or like Lamda+API Gateway+Services for more complex applications.

And Pivotal provides one product of Cloud Foundry (
Pivotal Cloud Foundry), that can be deployed to various Cloud Providers (such as AWS, Azure or OpenStack). There are other vendors, like IBM (Bluemix).

I guess, you mixed it up with the Spring ecosystem, which surely a big driver in the adoption of Cloud Foundry. Pivotal is the core maintainer of the ecosystem.

And no, you don't need to be a big enterprise to run a CF.
Looking at the Tesla (the whole front of the car seems missing in the photo), it seems amazing the driver is still alive. I can't even imagine how the tesla crashed into the meridian to cause this kind of damage...
It's interesting how much the filing seems to revolve around PCF. I played with PCF a few years ago and was really unimpressed. More recently I've been consulting with firms using PCF and the devops guys there seem to really like it and Bosh, so it may have gotten better at least.

That said, I just can't understand why you'd ever pick PCF over Kubernetes. Sure, I get one deploys application code, and the other deploys containers. But after using the buildpack system for a while, I really think containers are the better solution (assuming you have the CI/CD to keep your custom containers up-to-date with new base images).

So it'll be interesting to see what Pivotal does there, and how they position PCF, especially now that they have their own branded version of Kubernetes[1].

[1]. https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/introducing-pivotal...
All organizations are reactionary and necessarily settle on the state of the world at the current moment. This is an extremely bizarre line of logic you are using.

There is always version lock in at some point, and NO workers like change if it's going to cause them to lose their livelihood. This has nothing to do with unions.

Why do you care more about protecting artificial constructs like companies at the expense of power given to people building the products?
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You should be an expert in Computer Science Basics. If I were a hiring manager, (and I have been in the past) I would probably push yours to the side for that reason alone.
“Weird” should be enforced socially and not by making it a crime enforced by the government.

If a friend of a friend texts you weirdly, tell your friend to tell them to knock it off. Getting the government involved is totally disproportionate.
I can't really disagree with anything you've said here, but the only thing I can say is that your comments might not be received well because they are very firm – "the exact same thing" is a pretty assertive statement that I think several here disagree with, on merit or not, and being a bit more flexible in communicating this (which, by the way, thanks!) might help others receive it better, not that it's your job to do that or anything, just sharing my pov.
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Uber's competitive advantage has always been its willingness to engage in unethical behavior. No surprise here.

They were forced out if California because their system didn't work so they just put it on roads in Arizona instead and killed someone.

Edit: grammar
Uber's valuation seems to hinge on them not only getting AV, but the combination of getting AVs, beating competitors to it, and having the capital on hand to build out a large fleet of AVs all without losing too many riders to other services like lyft.

However fast they were progressing towards real AVs they'll be progressing slower now. And even then it looks like they are behind their competitors.

If I could short Uber I would.
On 2nd thought, maybe the first responders cut off the front to get the driver out ...
BRL-CAD
Recording data from one million neurons in real time
It hit the “gore point” — basically direct front end colission with a narrow slice of concrete.
>Should also be technically trivial.

It would be technically trivial for a forum built with the typical MVC architecture with data backed up in a relational database - just change some templates, point the user ID to a global 'deleted' user, and done, or something like that.

But Hacker News is a project site built in a custom Lisp variant that runs on one core, mostly in RAM from what I understand, with all of the data in flat files, and I don't even know if they have a development server. Obviously, they can do it, but it may not be that trivial.

Or maybe they could bang it out in an hour, I don't know. It would be nice if they put up a devlog and talked about some of the issues they have with updating the site and what their future plans with it were. Maybe talk up Arc and Lisp development a little.