skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I misread the numbers in the original post. But what you say in your comment- well, that's not how it works.

To assess the risk posed by a driver, you wouldn't follow them around, constantly logging the miles they drive, counting the deaths they cause and continuously updating the probability they will kill someone, at least not in the real world (in a simulation, maybe). Instead, what you'd do is wait for enough people to have driven some reasonably significant (and completely arbitrarily chosen) distance, then count the fatal accidents per person per that distance and thereby calculate the probability of causing an accident per person per that distance. That's a far more convenient way to gather statistics, not least because if you take 1000 people who have causd an accident while driving, they'll each have driven a different distance before the accident.

So you might come up with a figure that says "Americans kill 1.18 people every million miles driven" (it's something like that, actually, if memory serves).

Given that sort of metric, you can't then use it for comparison with the performance of someone who has only driven, say, 1000 miles. Because if you did, you would be comparing apples and oranges: 1 accident per 1000 miles is not on the same scale as ~1 accident per million miles. There's still another 999k miles to go before you're in the same ballpark.

And on that scale, no, you can't know whether an accident in the first 1000 miles will be followed by another in the next 1000 miles. Your expectation is set for 1 million miles.

It's a question of granularity of the metric.
I'd say it's patent law, not copyright law, that make the licences possible to enforce.

Most of the patents are the result of a lot of research and cleverness. Some of the patents are the equivalent of looking in another drawer if the first one did not contain what you are looking in.

It's a bit arbitrary that an API isn't protected when some bullshit patents are. There is clearly much thought in some of the java APIs.

I'd like to see shorter protection time for patents thought, especially in areas where there are very low investment costs, like software development.
But they’ve already went and switched to OpenJDK.

Apparently the risk was not so large they couldn’t do it if they’ve decided to now
> The pencil is a game changer for many things.

The pencil support is nice to have. Game changer? I'm not so sure.
So if I have never joined Facebook, but fb has logged phone calls to me and associated them with my shadow profile - what is that?
A lot of legacy apps want to bring their party to the web, and game engines are using WebAssembly as a replacement for NaCl and Flash. Even big engines like Unreal are coming. It's a different kind of application and use case.
i know it will sound insensitive, but one person dying is not that big of a deal... heck 1000 people dying is only 10% of the amount of people that die each year for drunk driving[1] and you don't see liquor being pulled off the shelves.

however i do see how people (including me) are sheep and can be manipulated into believing anything. taxis and trucker unions can use this an opportunity to condemn self driving vehicles.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving
This is interesting :) Although it also seems to mostly use latex to generate pdf :/
If you reject the fact that the vast majority of plants are currently starving for CO2, you reject science.

Here is one of many scientific papers on the subject: "Carbon dioxide starvation, the development of C4 ecosystems, and mammalian evolution" [1]

[1] http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/353/1365/159
That soft delete is the next evolution you learn after learning not to issue SQL DELETE instead. But after that it would be more like event sourcing where an event to delete was issued. And then some sort of snapshot creator would translate that to it's current dataset/view as not being in the data.

The event source can always be replayed to see the data at any point in time, including recreating stuff.
Would you comment on what router and software you are using, how difficult it is to maintain, and any surprises you have had using it (things you depend on breaking).
> that's $8 billion down the drain

Not really. The amount of scientific and technological developments that we get even from failed missions is substantial. When starting a new project, all the findings from previous projects are not ignored.

What you are proposing is not necessarily a bad idea but, if that was the case, I would expect some comment saying: why do they construct three equal telescopes when we could use all that money and man-power to build three different ones that would help us much more?
Well, considering socialist thought has always relied on automation getting rid of menial, dangerous and other similar jobs, probably socialism. There are many schools of thought for how a market can/could/would work under socialism. Being rewarded for your effort is not outside of that. Instead of using AI to benefit the people at the top (apparently you), an equitable system where AI actually helps humanity as a whole would be required.
Zuckerberg likely to testify before Congress
To be clear, I was specifically responding to the parent who somehow acted like Volvo was somehow complicit in this crash and thus wrong to distance itself.
The question here is not so much one of fact, but one of law. And stuffing the jury isn't an issue with the appeals court.
The first gas car only had one gas station to use. Progress is made in small steps. We don't have to have the whole framework ready before anyone can use it.
> Was that a good faith attempt to engage in discussion?

Yes.

> What kind of response did you expect?

Something like this.

> How does it benefit you to come in and say the equivalent of "you all suck and wouldn't listen to me anyway"?

I don't hope to change your mind. But I want to change the mind of all the people reading this thread.
And can't even pass something to stop kids from being killed in classrooms in mass numbers. Don't hold your breath.
His argument is really strange. He notes, correctly that Congress's job is to put together a budget. But then he talks only about the party of the President. What he should be talking about is which party has a majority in Congress. And, indeed, during almost all of Clinton's time in office, the Republican party had very strong control over Congress.

I don't have the time, but I would be really interested to see a chart showing funding changes for NIH, NASA, etc. by year with the party in control of Congress at that time. Seems like that would give you a much better picture.
Not necessarily: OAuth Basic Flow does not require third-party cookies. With Basic Flow, you'd get redirected to github.com, making it a first party request. Github will then redirect you back passing an authentication code as a URL parameter.
Does this extension work more or less like every URL you would open in a new incognito mode separate window? Or is there some other more sophisticated solution in the background?
This thread seems to be full of people making baseless assumptions about GIMP that I don't see the GIMP devs themselves make or any open source enthusiast make.

Who here is claiming GIMP is a serious competitor to Photoshop, or even a competitor at all? Even the GIMP team doesn't (https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#are-you-trying-to-dev...).

Or that GIMP is targeting graphics professionals or graphics industry? Don't think so... "We do, however, acknowledge the fact that people will treat GIMP as Photoshop replacement no matter what we tell them, and that’s all right with us. You own this software, it’s up to you to decide how you make use of it."

It is what it is. A tool. That happens to be free and is good enough for some. As somebody above said, it's like complaining why emacs / kate / geany or whatever editor can't do something that visual studio can. If the industry wants a serious competitor to Photoshop, time for them to start building it anew or taking existing free tools nearer to that goal or funding open source devs to do it for them. Complaining and ranting against open source devs who have zero obligations to the industry is not going to achieve anything.
You missed a big reason for women not to take hormonal BC. Reduced or absent sex-drive. That's a large issue for a woman in a relationship and probably a large issue for single women as well.
Totally agree. And the amount of sexual access these upper class medieval Muslims had is pretty insane. Not only does IB marry women and leave them, he buys "slave girls" all the time on the cheap.
Public transit isn't a solution: it's slow, filthy, relatively expensive (for the value received) and public (I'd rather not sit next to someone who hasn't bathed this week). Uber, OTOH, is fast, clean, cheap-for-the-value & private.

Am I really stoked on Uber-the-company? Not really. But I love Uber-the-service. It's far better than taxis and buses.
I don't see how the size of the spec has anything to do with it. It could be the standard height of doors or the standard interface/protocol between every sensor and smart component in a smart home.

What if I create my own smart home server that can be a drop in replacement for some commercial product using just what I've gather from their public API? Is that infringement, when the underlying implementation is entirely my own?
It looks like the replacement has been compromised by other things however
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Is there any way to make the standalone Messenger open in the FB Container? The way I see it, the two are intrinsically linked since using Messenger requires an FB login.

Edit: After playing around, this also breaks the back button. If anyone from Mozilla is here, I think it would be better if an FB page opened in a new tab while keeping the original open.
well, for me over-ear hearing protection is much more comfortable for long-term use. putting things in my ear, plugs or earbuds tends to get kinda nasty due to how i sweat.

Like most people around here, I work in an open plan office, so most of my actual work is done with my '3m worktunes' hearing protector earphones on.

That said, I'll pay a considerable premium to not have to sleep with them on. (for that matter, I'd pay a reasonable premium to not have to use them at the office, but as far as I can tell, that deal isn't available to me.)

curtains do help, in my experience, but not nearly as much as modern construction does.
The author briefly mentions Haskell but I wonder whether they've build web services with it, or with another (loosely) ML-family language (e.g. OCaml, F#, or my personal favourite Scala). An ML-style type system is a huge advantage over Ruby/JavaScript/..., but for a web service I struggle to see a real case for going to all the effort of memory ownership tracking rather than using a GCed language with the same kind of strong type system; it would be good to see a comparison from someone who's done both.
I'll be very interested to see how this rolls out. Right now Waymo is extremely cagey about exactly what you can do with their existing vehicles. All the riders are under NDA. So I haven't found answers to pretty basic questions, like: Can you go anywhere in the test area? Can you go at any time of day? Can you go in any weather conditions? Can it go to places with no data service?

That isn't to say the service won't be useful for many even if the answer to most of those questions is "no". But urban environments are challenging even for human drivers [1], so I wouldn't be shocked if it's another decade or more before we have true, go-anywhere-at-any-time robotaxis in SF.

[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/uber-vehicle-takes-wrong-turn-gets...
Note that it is quite fine not to jump on to GTK4, because it will not be stable for at least a year. https://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2016/06/13/gtk-4-0-is-not-gtk-...
Zuck is the Chief Executive Officer of a $400bn+ company ( not that I think he is qualified, mind you ).
The syntax is not that bad but there are some poor variable names that make the code more difficult to grasp.

The motivation to learn a new language and the excitement during the process are huge factors that will push many people to write a web service in Rust.
Shame, 'cause I'm not good at parties ;)
Awesome collection!

Putting on my digital preservation hat, I'd be interested in learning more about where the original scans live and why they're watermarked (could be something to do with how old the site is?) It's great that the site is backed up by the Internet Archive, but I feel like this collection could be better served if the original scans were added to the IA as well.
What exactly was 'copied' by Google? Was it actual code directly copied or just the general design / APIs that were mirrored by their Android Java playform?
I emailed hn@ycombinator.com about this.
I think the argument is that the set containing people who work with web UIs and the set of people who use Rust/Swift/C#/Go don't overlap very much, and generally people aren't going to learn a new stack unless there's an extraordinary external motivation to do so.
It will not be unheard of. Bits of story of Might & Magic 8 were thought out when the original Might & Magic 1 was created, along with most of e.g. magic system.
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If somehow a dog dies because of FB or Android then… maybe.
I think it's as simple as the fact that there's a much more embedded and longer running social norm that the government should be willing to spend a lot of money for the sake of national defense. Because of this norm people see the spending as justified. The norm of the government being a major contributor to science is more recent and not as deeply embedded in people's minds. So it seems more frivolous.
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Huh .. so why doesn't Google just release their Android Java runtime under the GPL? Seems like an easy win all the way around?

I thought the OpenJDK people needed certain concessions to release their VM under the GPL?
What's even more interesting to me is that /u/WalterGR is so biased that on this topic, unless he's lying, his brain literally cannot differentiate between identical and similar, and he is far from the only person behaving like this. Since we're on HN, odds are he's otherwise a fairly smart person.

This isn't just a typical argument about a matter of opinion - identical and similar are two distinctly different words, but he will be simply unable to see the relevance of that to what he has written above. I've been on the internet a long time, and there have been flame wars and various disagreements since forever, but there is something very, very different happening with people's minds now.

EDIT:

Once again, immediate downvotes with no rebuttal. Shocking. And while this is frustrating, and a bit scary for the future that critical thinking is almost nowhere to be found, the childish partisanship combined with self-important delusions is an interesting insight into the psyche of young university educated Westerners.

> Neither of those citations say that what the Obama campaign did violated Facebook's policies.

> The "But the Obama campaign did something similar!" is an argument based on false equivalence, used to muddy the conversation.

e·quiv·a·lence

iˈkwivələns/

noun

noun: equivalence; plural noun: equivalences

the condition of being equal or equivalent in value, worth, function, etc.

sim·i·lar

ˈsim(ə)lər/

adjective

adjective: similar

1.

resembling without being identical.

"a soft cheese similar to Brie"

synonyms:	alike, (much) the same, indistinguishable, almost identical, homogeneous, homologous; More
Perhaps this is a naive question - but amongst the hundreds of of things Google has invented or has patents on, isn't there something they can find that Oracle has trampled on, and then use it as a negotiation tactic for making this all go away? e.g., If an API can be copyrighted, can a container registry interface also be copyrighted?

I agree, this is all stupid, but i'm asking this from the perspective of just finding examples to allow all parties to back off.
Beyond that the exploitation actually increases as people get more desperate. Lack of education on how to manage money etc. leads to people spending more money in these gig jobs than they could ever make back. Uber is a good example, most drivers are unprofitable.
Great to hear you're giving it another try!

No ETAs, but the team is fully and exclusively focused on making Tower better every day (meaning: no other projects). We're working on Tower full steam!
I think it's something of a natural progression with accessory companies.

Their core competency is something innocuous like mousepads and power strips. Then they advance into more delicate and complicated electronics and the wheels fall off the wagon.

It reminds me of the early and mid-1980's when office supply companies decided that they should branch out from selling paper to making floppy disks. They were cheap, especially in bulk, but over time they had a much higher failure rate.

Eventually the only brands you could count on to work properly were BASF, 3M, Elephant Memory Systems, and IBM. (And probably a couple of others)
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> I'm not ignoring any facts.

You most certainly are.

Fact: They are willing to lie to me, and are unwilling to set up their systems in such a way that they don't have to lie to me.

Fact: They could also set up the system in such a way that their user's data couldn't be mishandled, but they choose not to.

Bonus Fact: They say that they store our data securely, but it's clear that they don't, if they can comply with a NSL.

You keep making up excuses for them, but those don't matter. The facts matter. If I'm wrong, then it would be easy to prove, and I'd ask you to do so.

> You're the one who is transforming "transparently obeying lawful warrants as they disclose they will" into "lying about data usage", or at least that's the best interpretation of what you're saying I can come up with.

And what is factually wrong about that? If I ask them if my data is being mishandled, they'll tell me it isn't. And by not notifying me of breaches of my data, they are lying about the quality of the security of their system.
From what I can tell, the general thinking in the government is "best-case scenario".

Rarely do we as citizens ever hear of their planning (if it exists) for alternative outcomes.

To be clear, I'm exempting disaster preparedness and stuff like that.

But if we look at all sorts for things, from wars in Iraq/Afghanistan, to legislation like Dodd-Frank or the ACA, all we ever hear about is the best case scenario.

I think your comment is spot on. The problem is the government only has one mode of thinking, and that has to increase waste tremendously.

If anyone here can corroborate or contradict my theory, I love to hear either.
Will/have you open source the hardware for OT2 like you did for OT1 (https://github.com/Opentrons/otone_hardware)?
I was discussing some work on some opt-out we're going to be offering customers so they can either accept or decline certain automated patches to their systems, and I found myself describing the opt-out as "real opt-out", because you can flip the switch to "no" and all that happens is exactly what you want; you stop getting those changes automatically. You can still apply them manually later, or selectively, etc. We don't terminate your service or charge you more or do anything else. You just choose whether you want the convenience along with the bit of risk of changes, or if you want the control and the responsibility.

And I realized I had been subconsciously calling this "real" opt-out precisely because what I encounter in life as "opt-out" does not match that description.. "Real opt-out" is distressingly rare. Almost everything I encounter in real life is the style of ratchet described in this article, to the point where my brain without consulting me decided I needed a new word/phrase for what we were doing.
B. Java is not licensed under the GPL.

OpenJDK is.
> Their primary mistake was not building several hundred more while the production lines were up and squeezing the production costs down if possible

Well, yea, this discussion is about high-cost government programs, and the fact that they didn't do things like this to reduce production costs is kind of the point.. Nevermind that such an aircraft may not even be necessary.
Partial git commits is a feature I have wished existed more than once. Looking forward to trying them out.
Some significant and useful additions to the type system. I'm very happy with how TypeScript is progressing along. Wondering how things are going with Flow.
I do... my 10 year old son lost a brand new pair of Under Armor shoes two weeks ago. Gone. Poof.

It was maddening as hell, but then I realized that I have lost bigger more expensive things as well. Also, I was a kid too... So I took a deep breath and he used his birthday money to buy himeself a new pair. I didn't have to raise my voice... he just "knew" not to test on this.
Was Mobileye actually part of the implementation of Uber's self-driving technology and was somehow disabled or not used properly? Or is this just a piece of not-so-submarine PR? If the latter, I don't understand the point of this article.
I didn't bring it up because it's not a reason to prefer vasalgel over hormonal BC.
Potentially, high class events (e.g. the Academy Awards). I can certainly see the massive value of having a luxury self-driving car shuttle celebrities to an event millions of Americans watch every year.

It's marketing for Jaguar and Waymo. And also, Uber has premium categories, too. Its got virtue signaling potential for the users.

And, to be fair, people have aesthetic preferences. I do. If you said to me, "this cardboard box will autonomously take you anywhere you want to go without ever crashing. Or you can take this Audi S7 will do the same but there's a 5% chance you'll crash", I'd take the Audi. Personal preferences can't just be ignored, especially in the auto industry.
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The Java API definition.
That's a fair point regarding progress regardless of outcome. But starting a new project to build on that basis is going to be a lot tougher if there's no "look at the pretty pictures" Hubble-effect to sway budgeteers.

To extend it ab absurdium, it does remind me of the joke about the theoretical physicist going back to bed when he finds his house aflame, because he invested in a fire extinguisher so a solution exists.
I just had a counter that tracked the DeleteList().Length
Noob question (as I’m not a biologist at all, knowing nothing about this field) : is it a possible explaination for the whole « energy flowing in the body » thing ?
If there in fact is a network of fluid inside the body that we didn’t know about before, can’t it explain ?
How Amazon Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Americans' Facebook Data
But it sounds like most are not doing that, and are content with allowing that pig shit to run into the water supply.
Well credit where it's due, the anti-fingerprinting is actually a TOR project. The project you linked to is an attempt to bring TOR's protections into the mainline Firefox browser. Obviously TOR has more stringent goals than Firefox so many privacy features are currently hidden behind the `privacy.resistFingerprinting` option in about:config.
Facebook Container Plugin from Mozilla Isolates Your Facebook Identity
I'm not seeing any [0]. Care to name one?

[0]: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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There's a tool called staticman - it doesn't integrate with Netlify CMS (yet), but it's a great git-based comments solution: https://staticman.net/
Not surprising, considering Google's entire existence depends on ads.
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Waymo fully mapped the entire area, so they know where it's safe to drive.
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