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I think with all the other things we've learned about their self driving program, it's unlikely to return. Months before this, there were other articles posted here that talked about how some safety drivers needed to step in every couple of minutes.

Uber's model is based around selling at a loss to undercut Taxis, Lyft and other ride sharing companies, just enough to keep the investment capital coming in, with the hopes of ultimately cutting costs by removing the driver.

Even with Waymo, GM, Tesla and others, I don't think we're going to realistically see wide scale deployment for autonomous vehicles within the next ten years. They have money to burn. Uber doesn't.

There's a lot of tax money going into that research too and it really needs to be fed back into the public transport infrastructure that's crumbling around the US. I wish research on autonomous road vehicles stayed in the private sector. They're cool tech, but they'll be useless if systems like the NYC Metro and Chicago CTA fall apart.
Fiber lasers are part of the solution, but blooming in air, and from target ablation is still a problem. What we really need for “ray guns” are phased array lasers and/or FEL’s. Just pumping more energy through conventional optics will make the problems I mentioned worse, not better.
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You have no idea of the complexity of things until you delve into Windows Side-by-Side...
You know how it is dawg. Gotta get them email addresses. How can I turn them into fat stacks?
If I were them I would def lie low, and perhaps mount a subversive smear compaign against the victim. Take out public service ads reminding people to look both ways before crossing a road, don't cross roads outside of crosswalk s at night, and etc. A reminder of the good old advice mom used to give. Shift public opinion of responsibility toward the jwalker and go from there.

EDIT: https://m.stamfordadvocate.com/policereports/article/Police-...
Ultima Underworld (1993), Ultima Underworld II (1994), Ultima VII (1994), and The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994) all come to mind quickly as computer-based action RPGs that preceded Diablo (1996). And the Japanese were making top-down action RPGs as early as the '80s, especially those made by Nihon Falcom (Ys) and Quintet (Soul Blazer). I would particularly cite Brandish (1991, Nihon Falcom) as a similar type of realtime action dungeon crawler (although it wasn't released in the West until 1995).

All that isn't to diminish the substantial achievements of Diablo, which was quite innovative. The fast, smooth gameplay was novel, as was the setting. It was compulsively playable and accessible while a lot of earlier action RPGs were kind of clunky. The art design was superb -- everything from the dreary, gothic environs to the satisfying animation and sound of a pile of gold bursting forth from a slain enemy. It's fair to say that Diablo was a milestone in ARPG history and highly influential.
Even without formal synchronization in user space code, context switches have overhead.
Why is it problematic? I think I lay my thoughts out pretty clearly.
But who would go to jail? The developer responsible for writing the faulty code? Or the QA team that missed it on review? The project lead who signed off and checked the code into the repo? The supervisors of any of these people? I'm really not sure how you aportion blame on something whose development is so widely distributed.
Just FYI: There are phones which accept two SIM cards so you can keep your number and insert a local card in the second slot.
But you'd be out-voted by elderly people who are afraid of losing their mobility when they lose the ability to drive a car.
PCIe 3.0 x16 already is capable of more than 100gbps per port.

900gbits total bandwidth for 18 NVLink ports would be abysmally slow.
My Health insurance has also been in limbo since Obamacare.

I was working in retail at the time and my employer used it as justification to immediately cut our health insurance and start paying us a once yearly health insurance subsidy. Obamacare seemed ok for the first year, but it has slowly crept up and is now insanely pricey.

Will the government ever learn that pouring tons of taxpayer money into a broken system doesn't fix it? If milk was $50 a gallon a good fix would not be to give everyone a $200/month milk stipend (unless you wanted those sweet dairy kickbacks).
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No, this faulty unintended acceleration: [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration...

[2]http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
Ecosystem depends on CUDA, it doens't care where it's translated to, no? So it would work with translation, until it's properly rewritten to use open APIs. It's a solution for lock-in that limits your hardware choices, which is a problem. You don't need to look for the problem, it's pretty obvious.
Yes, the developer.
Unless you are mentally disabled in some way, anyone can be successfully marketed. People like to believe they are special snowflakes that can rise above the influence of marketing, but hit them with the right marketing message and you got them.
"Stories of hospital OBEs" ins't reliable information, it's urban legend. If it was possible to obtain real information from OBE, it would be easy to demonstrate it in a lab. You'd need somebody who can experience OBE at will.
This is a great point. Not even humans do 100% of possible trips if they aren’t confident drivers, especially in bad conditions.
> I'd say if US gov had a plan of oppressing US citizens they'd just ban guns first. It's kinda hard to start civil war over this.

They'd ban guns for people who can't prove citizenship, then for people who fail a citizenship test, and so on.

"It will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
Thoughts and habits are related, but they aren't the same. Interesting counterpoint to the replacement theory of kicking bad habits: https://www.nirandfar.com/2015/04/bad-habits.html
Families don't press criminal charges, the DA does. But if someone doesn't want to testify, a case can fall apart.
Why would a new term replace an old one? The new word means something different. Two terms that mean two different things, one does not replace the other.

Of course the OP just wouldn't "start using STEAM", do you really mean to imply that people organically started using the term "STEM" separately without ever discussing it?
It's like Jim Berkland, who has predicted 378 of the last 3
California earthquakes. /s
Uber and Lyft are basically equivalent services in cities they both serve. A 15% price increase for one is enough to drive lots of people to just default to the other.
The Linux kernel developers hate their solution, and they only used it because they can't think of a better one. It causes enormous increases in complexity and kills performance in many cases.

They revived previous work on this as part of the KAISER work in November 2017, and still had major bugs with it in February 2018 (ie, 4 months later). That's pretty similar to the 6 month timeline mentioned here.

https://lwn.net/Articles/738975/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/whats-behind-the-int...
This is idealistic, but generally, it should go up to the boss. Either the lead of the self-driving unit or the CEO of Uber. It's their responsibility to make sure the software is ready before testing it on the streets. They get paid a huge salary exactly because of the responsibility this is.
Absolutely false to say ACA is not at fault. It’s not solely ACA’s fault, but it is complicit. dramatic annual increases occurred every year after ACA. I’m not looking at statistics but my family insurance premiums over time.
In Australia, if you are the rear vehicle in a rear-end accident you are automatically at fault in almost all circumstances. The only exceptions I know of are if the front car pulled out immediately in front of the rear car, or if the front car was reversing.
I was thinking the same thing ... but I was going to steal random content from the Twitter firehose. You'll want a bit of smarts behind it so that it's not obviously you (e.g. don't post much when you'd normally be sleeping). It's relatively easy to automate a browser to do this these days (giving you a realistic user-agent and behavior). You'll also want to avoid registering key-presses at an unrealistic (or constant) rate. Apparently you can even be identified by your typing. I guess you could train it on your actual typing but that might be overkill.
Taxis are usually a bit pricier and also don't subsidize a large team of software engineers at Silicon Valley salaries.
Also probably helps that public buses are really really safe statistically.
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Repo link: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder

notably no LICENSE field or package.json field
I assume they keep track of it using cookies, so it's easily avoided.
https://millcomputing.com/ ?
They choose this path long ago when they took over a billion in investment + debt, and probably could be argued it was locked in even sooner than that. This a vehicle to get investors to that important rentier position and they have to make it or implode in debt trying. Their valuation has this fate baked in.
CDMA is winding up in the US also as all providers move off to LTE leaving their legacy infrastructure to die off at scheduled EoL.
>> I didn't choose to mingle those things. That's just plain what the facts are. I get that you don't like them, but that's tough beans.

There are two things in play here and they are NOT the same. The one the whole world cares about is weather APIs are copyrightable. Weather Google is guilty of copying part of Oracles implementation of the code behind the API is not relevant to API copyrightability. If you can't see the distinction you don't understand software or the real core of the case and should stop trolling. If you do see the distinction, why do you keep insisting on conflating the two?
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Ask HN: Why nobody competes with Adobe?
Adobe has sort of a monopoly on the creative tools market. Nobody seriously considers an alternative for their Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc, and for some people, these are truly the only products which can satisfy their sophisticated needs. However, there are more and more small (independent) creators of all kinds, who do not need all the uber features of the professional products but would rather appreciate an intuitive UI, cheaper price, and friendlier customer support. Every kid today is either a blogger, vlogger or web designer and it seems to me like quite a big market that would easily turn away from Adobe, had anyone created an alternative product with 40% of functionality that works flawlessly (!).

I recently had to interact with Adobe support, and my experience was quite terrible. I was also looking for a simple software to stitch together my GoPro videos but was left out with either free iMovie/Quick, which are too basic or a super-expensive Premiere.
Both times I was wondering, how come there's only Adobe on the market, why nobody dares to compete with them. So, HN, what do you think, why?

P.S.
I tried using Pixelmator (non-free), GIMP, OpenShot and a few more open-source editors - they don't stand the competition.
On the other hand, I use and love Sketch, and would really appreciate Sketch-grade competitors for the above mentioned Adobe products.
Uber could actually be a viable business if they gave up on being a unicorn. Right now, you can step out of an airport in a new country, pull out your phone, type in an address, and someone will drive you there. They're a universal ride-hailing service, and they could probably even charge a premium for that versus local taxis. Unfortunately, they're probably in too deep to become a medium-sized business.

Also, building their own fleet of robo-taxis is insane when their current business model relies on (underpaying for using) people's personal cars.
>bbq off of a balcony

Your local fire marshal might have something to say about that.
I like the old rumor? of the doctor who put a piece of paper with a code word written on it, on top of a high shelf in the OR. As the story goes, no one was ever able to report the code word. This is not unlike Houdini’s code phrase for his wife to recognize a valid psychic (no dice there either), or the classic test of reiki practitioners [1].

1. “So you can feel my energy? Through clothing? Blindfolded? Great, here’s a thin fabric screen, you should stand on that side, and point to where I am on the other, if I’m there at all.” No one gets that either.
I'd love to try to figure that out!!! Do chromebooks have pens?
Maybe they thought they'd franchise out the tech, lease and loan terms the way they do for their cars now? It's a good point, I dont know what they were thinking, if anything aside from "that'll sort itself out when the time comes"
What about the 'safety' driver who paid no attention to the road until after the impact? The dash cam video showed them messing with their phone for the entire duration. They were legally in charge of, and driving, the vehicle. Much as I hate to throw the lowest member of the pecking order under a bus, this was absolutely their responsibility.
Just because they don't sell access to the information doesn't mean they're not being evil. That company is likely the worst in terms of user tracking out of all the companies mentioned in these comments.

After all, this is a company that tracks not only what books you read, but how far you've read it, how much time you spent reading every page and how many times you went back to previous pages.

This is also the company who has microphones placed in people's houses, happily installed by the users themselves.

Given the fact that so many people people trust them with so many things, and their desire to be a provider of every single service, they certainly are a much bigger privacy invader than even Google or Facebook.
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Seems like there should be some kind of legal process for figuring this out. People have died from faulty software before.

(Someone went to jail for VW and there was no death directly as a result of the emissions cheating.)
Ad targeting is Facebook's entire business model...where was this outrage a few years ago? It seems like this lawsuit is just piggybacking off of the current "Facebook is evil" theme we've been seeing lately.
But the DeLorean engine and drivetrain were produced by others (Peugeot-Renault-Volvo) and were common to many other vehicles. Teslas are of unique design, manufacture, and service.
I just used their self service system and they didn't provide any information about me that I didn't provide myself. For example, they didn't include my phone number, even though they surely have it since I a sure to have friends who has their mobile application installed.

My intention is to have a lawyer send them a letter asking for this information, but I'll wait until GDPR comes into effect first.
Ever been to FL or AZ? The oldest people you’ve ever seen are still driving, slowly, dangerously, and happily. No one is taking their licenses with the AARP, around. Meanwhile you may be overestimating the love very old people have for automation, the prospect of being killed by an SDV, or being driven around town by a machine.
Also, look how old my HN account is! LOLZ. I'm old :(
Are there any teams out there besides GM and Waymo that were doing much better than Uber at this?
Because open source has a very specific definition which the licensing on this application does not conform to. The ability to produce derived works is a key attribute of open source.

And I understand that these are your thoughts, but what I'm looking for is a clear and legally enforceable license, which seems to still be missing.
I'm sure if you asked people, many would prefer a newer airplane. I've flown on 30 year old planes in the past and while there was nothing wrong with the plane, it's still something that makes you think. But most people don't have the option to turn down a flight because of the age of the aircraft.
Don't propagate the false "planned obsolescence" meme.

Please don't apologise for poor treatment of customers on behalf of Apple. Remember the way they drove updates to iOS7, by essentially breaking all apps in the app store that weren't iOS7 friendly? Remember all the performance problems as otherwise perfectly serviceable older devices were updated to newer OSes they couldn't properly support? Remember how Apple provides no easy mechanism for downgrading again if an OS (or app) update does impair or outright break your device, nor any way to turn off the nags if it thinks you should upgrade even though all the reviews and real world anecdotes are saying the new version is a disaster?
Not quite, genetic algorithms represent the search space usually as bit sequences, so you can just mix subsequences from two parents, that's reproduction.

In contrast, evolution strategies have a search distribution, and compute a gradient update to that distribution from an entire generation. So it's really more 'search gradients' than evolution. The only thing 'evolutionary' about it is that the minibatches are called generations.
Nice! FWIW I think Procreate does a really great job of striking the right balance between options/flexibility and simplicity.
I'd argue that prosecuting a developer because his employer used his code to kill someone would be comparable to prosecuting a gun manufacturer because a customer used their weapon to kill someone.
what about things like aftermarket car parts? 3rd party phone cases?
> Edit: It's disgusting you guys are down voting me over this.

Adding this is not a mature response to downvotes. I was indifferent to your original comment. I downvoted because of this addendum.
a good read. a few points/observations:

* zero mention of the lack of GUI development. seesaw is no longer maintained and javafx support is very spotty

* I have the strong impression it's Clojurescript users of the language that are driving a lot of the feedback, and the javascript culture is very different from the java culture. I would take some of the criticism about elitism and the perception the language/community is fringe or staid or stagnating with a big grain of salt. For example this one:

> Cognitect need to climb a few rungs down the ivory tower and engage with the community as if it were in fact made up of human beings trying to do their jobs.

Sounds like a frustrated dev with the presumption the language owes him free support.

* I think the conclusion is spot on. Lots of low hanging fruit that could be addressed without major changes.

I'm very happy with the state of Clojure. As I get older and more experienced I appreciate slow change and a steady hand at the helm to the exhilarating pace and deluge of new tech and new paradigms and the diaspora of blog posts and gists and stackoverflow debugging sessions and brand new developers and their attitude problems (get off my lawn!).

Clojure is solid as a rock.
> making things incompatible with other browsers for no discernible reason

The reason is simple, Chrome is Google's bitch just like IE was Microsoft's bitch.
> People there will want to build as many things locally as they can.

I can just see the “Mars First” and “Buy Martian” slogans now.
This title really should be updated. Even the title in the linked story says that this is “alleged,” and there is zero evidence in the story other than the say-so of one media-hungry individual. Further, Palantir has issued a flat out denial, yet this headline appears on HN as a statement of fact.
"· Gone Dead (pre-trading): Succeeded to raise funding and completed the process, however was not listed on exchanges for trading and has not had a code contribution in Github on a rolling three-month basis from that point in time."

I don't know ICO mechanics well but why is this a criteria? Can anyone explain?

*Edit: I mean the code contribution in Github portion
Interesting. I didn't know that. That's for sure something to keep in mind when communicating to others, so as to avoid addressing something as though its common knowledge.
I do have a catestrophic policy, I wasn’t clear above. Agree it is a risk, but it’s not unlimited. However, The list prices are sham values. Why do you think the doctors would be willing to accept $20k from one payor but not another? Medical billing ultimately becomes a game of persistence, and you can wear down the billing office and reach a settlement that ultimately. Been there, Done that!
People generally don't want a new license or a modified license. In my experience, software licenses at big organizations are a bereaucratic nightmare. Often, you just want something on the pre-approved list.
For example, I've been working with Haproxy this week and it feels like every search is turning up the same 5 unrelated, but unhelpful articles.

Not sure what changed, are other devs experiencing the same?
I can profoundly relate to it myself as by moving alone for studies to a university in a completely different country, a lot of things changed in my life. It is not only that you replace many of the troublesome habits, but also you are making yourself busy familiarising with a new environment. It is like with every other change, which causes us to go out from the comfort zone, however, in the end, we are satisfied with the changes we agreed to.
That is a really scary thought because it has probably already been thought up by someone in politics already. That's too easy a win card for it not to get played pretty quickly
It’s not regular app load times where I notice it. It’s things like Safari’s url bar autocomplete responding slower and slower with each update. Like noticeable lag with each keystroke. It doesn’t matter which default search engine is set either as I’ve tried various things to improve the situation giving the OS / Apple-built apps the benefit of the doubt. It’s things like the how picking an image in Photos and directing it to share as an SMS or email gets slower with each update. Like many seconds before the SMS composer shows up. And so on and so on...

Speaking of wives, mine has the same slowdowns as me. It happens on our iPads too. We like being on the same OS version so we have the same features and emojis and such. We have to let each other know when one of us gets tricked again into updating so the other can too. It’s a source of much frustration for us.

Whether it’s nefarious overtly planned obsolescence or just the “accidental” lazy kind where they put less effort into supporting older hardware, the effect is the same and it sucks.

I should get to choose to upgrade. Period.
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They can probably survive with human drivers, they just won't survive with $100 bil valuation.
But again, to be clear, it's not free software according to the commonly accepted definition of free software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
The developer’s boss(es) seems more useful in this case. Unless a single developer was grossly negligent, then throw them in there too, but even then their supervisors are on the hook for signing off on grossly negligent software.
"/s" at the end of a comment means the author was being sarcastic ;)
You downvoted my comment? That's cold blooded. What's your deal? Did your father not love you enough? OR TOO MUCH? Get over yourself dawg. I'm just responding to your comment. Maybe I'm new to the community here. My account is only 12 years old.
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I will be starting a recently approved medication that I think others considering taking would be interested in hearing experiences from someone taking it. What would be the best way to get my experiences across to others while at the same time possibly generating a little income? A blog? What services would you recommend? What are their payment models?
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