skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The test for a self-driving car isn't "does it drive as well as a human," it's "does it drive as well as a self-driving car which normally beats a human should."

This might sound like it makes no difference, but the car had LIDAR. That the scene was badly lit, whether true or not, is irrelevant; the car didn't use ambient light to see. If it could hit her under these circumstances, then it could just as easily hit her at noon.
Agreed. There is this concept of the wheel of energy, people tend to be good at different parts of the wheel:

Starting
Growing
Containing
Completing

Founder types tend to be amazing at Starting, and sometimes at Growing. But at a certain point, you need to bring in the people who are better at the Growing/Containing phase. IMHO most Founder/CEOs don't have this distinction and can't see how what makes them terrific at the beginning hobbles the company as it tries to become a stable business.
Analog Regulators Can’t Keep Up with the Digital Age
I agree with what I think your perspective is, that the internet is kind of impossible to regulate.

But maybe in this situation it's not so impossible to do something useful, Facebook is so effective at the moment because it's a centralized, surveilling monopolistic social network. This centralisation makes them easy to regulate.

You can imagine decentralised networks which would be impossible to regulate but it feels like they'd then also be harder for advertisers/propagandists to access effectively and use to control people's ideas.
You can't have explosive growth forever. At some point, you look around and realize that you don't need to worry about coming up with big ideas anymore and that what you've developed is mature enough to be a real revenue generator. Hykes clearly isn't the kind of person that likes to sit back so he's off to find a replacement, the guy that will be really good at streamlining what Docker does (and ensuring that the stock does well).
Well, I used to think I had a healthy relationship with drinking, but ohhh...

Not that social media is the same thing at all. But I have a degree in philosophy and was trained in my formative years to argue with folks. That's a terrible mode to be in on social media-- it doesn't serve the people around me and it doesn't serve me at all.

So I stopped arguing and just posted nice things, like songs I sing or good things that happen to me or pictures of my kids.

The problem (for me, maybe not for everyone else) is that:

- I can't really get out of the mode of arguing
- I'm constantly encountering people I love casually sharing memes that say that "people like me" are the root cause of all societal problems
- I'm constantly reading between a bunch of lines and seeing where folks I love are in fact doing terrible things for their families and relationships.

So, like, that's not at all a fun mode to be in

And it's worse when I have an impulse to check in on it dozens of times a day. To add to conversations that are dumb, to check in on some situation or other that has nothing to do with me, or whatever.

So no, I don't think that there is a super healthy way for me, personally, to work with Facebook specifically. The other stuff, I dunno. I don't mind message boards, instagram, etc. But I really gotta stay off FB.

Just like alcohol, it did a bunch of good things for me and I was using it for those good benefits, but just like alcohol it bundles its own problems.
Yet another groundbreaking story from the pages of the technology blog, "DUH"

- with apologies to Norm MacDonald
I agree with you, but unfortunately there aren't enough people voting to offset the union members and government employees who are voting.
To delete an item from your timeline from recollection there are three clicks involved - once of which I am pretty damn certain is blocked based on a timer in the back end. The Http request takes like three seconds to complete every time.
VideoLAN's president, jbkempf, was considering finding manpower to build an AV1 implementation a couple months ago. Not sure of the status now.
Holy cow, what is up with the slope of that line? I'd have expect it to level off but it looks like it's headed straight for inf.
It seems then the problem is with democracy. Time to disrupt it!
Here’s how to think clearly about the Fed, stocks, and interest rates
If information about you has to be acquired through a social graph by asking permissions at each node (person) and ultimately with the target themselves, it becomes significantly harder than the current condition. I can envision a system where Facebook and centralized data stores no longer have any reason to exist.
> The local American Samoan government has before taken a nuanced view over the issue, given concern about how aspects of Samoan life and culture “would be jeopardized if subjected to scrutiny under the 14th Amendment,” according to court documents filed in 2014 by lawyers representing the government

I wonder why the government wouldn't want that, and what ways they think it would jeopardize the culture.
I use Blender's built in video editor. It's got some rough edges but you get a full creative suite with it including compositing and vfx. Particles, filters, camera tracking, animate the video positions for any swipes or transitions you want. Considering the price, free, it's unbelievable what you get with it.
Human drivers and other autonomous cars could have avoided this accident.

Uber's systems failed spectacularly, and should not have been on public roads.

Now we learn that Uber and the governor secretly collaborated to enable this, to neutralize any effective oversight, and to keep the public in the dark.

Blaming the victim doesn't illuminate any of these issues.
MeetByPin Messenger Bot
Well the Democratic party thinks all Mexicans should be offered US citizenship and be allowed to vote in American as well as Mexican elections, so giving Samoans citizenship should be a no brainer.
What does that mean, "marketing-first approach?" Is this a common distinction in the Hacker News culture?
At least people misusing the word "triggered" provide a good signal that they're posting in bad faith. :)
Pin based mini-social system that uses Messenger bot for user interaction. For mobile users.
I agree. The philosophy is different. Linux is focused on having the right thing working, at the cost of compatibility (sometimes). Windows is (or at least was) focused on extreme compatibility and the actual features of operating system seem to be slapped onto the features of the previous version of the OS.

This seemed to work well for Windows audience in the past, also for Linux audience, due to the fact that they have different uses and audiences.

People seem to have segregated into those users that just want stuff working and those that want powerful operating system that allows them to do whatever they want.

At least that was until sometime the Windows 10 came...
How about crowdsourcing the info somehow, maybe letting people enter it for their city from some source and making that public for everyone?
This title suggests a somewhat different piece than it actually is. The argument seems to be that cultivating a social media presence as a career strategy is not helpful at best and may even be hurtful for dividing your attention. That's probably true, but I like to use social media to have discussions, find out about local events, or get in touch with friends, and have never really thought that someone would hire me because they liked an opinion I posted on Facebook.
They are? IIRC they've not said anything about their cars being completely autonomous, or that drivers should do anything behind the wheel that's different than what they should do behind the wheel of any other car..
Software isn't a brick though, it is changing and updating and is a brick that has to be maintained. When you put software bricks together you get a construction that is more powerful than the sum of its parts. It is something inherently valuable in and of itself.
Yeah, just wanted to ask if you use an API to get events?

I've been working on something in a similar direction for Vienna. Tried to get SongKick API access, but they declined me. I also used BandsInTown on a project, but it's a bit limited. These days I'm just using Facebook Events, which is ok, but not perfect – can't get all the events in a particular city automatically. Managed to manually overcome this though.

But great work! Tried the app out and I really like it. Followed you on Twitter if you want to keep in touch. Would be nice to have some MusicEventsHackers group to discuss these topics :)
Does anyone else open Waze only momentarily to make sure their primary route does not have significant traffic? I don't need it to direct me the entire drive, so I just quickly check to make sure there isn't some catastrophic accident that will block my path. After that I shut it down, put on a podcast, and go on my merry way.
> If I wouldn't do something in public, I wouldn't post it to social media.

Not everyone has that freedom. Gay people in rural Alabama, women in the UAE, undocumented immigrants in Arizona. People fleeing abusive spouses.

> Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media?

Doubtful, but you are a person who doesn't face serious consequences for existing.
Why aren't they using shims and jigs? If you want to line it up right, make sure you have the right amount of mortar in the right place, etc, put a jig around it with some shims. It's the easiest way to build anything precisely that has to be done over and over again.
Unionize!

My union doesn't do collective bargaining negotiations.. I'm a tech worker...

It covers me legally should employers take too much of an interest in my personal life, etc...

They also run a news paper about engineering topics..
Rock64 – armbian
Apple should build a SwiftCloud
1) B-wing bombers have been slow and lumbering and functioned that way since the original SW trilogy...

2) Star Wars has always worked that way. Having the ships continue coasting would violate rules established in the original Trilogy. See, e.g., ESB, where disabled Destroyers promptly lost stationkeeping.

3) The Resistance's largest ship barely damaged the Third Order flagship; a portion was split off but the flagship itself was still functional. It was the massive amount of debris from the Resistance ship breaking apart on impact that caused most of the damage to the remainder of the TO fleet. This strategy simply doesn't scale.
>Most "brick" or "stone" you see in new construction is some prefab panel glued to something

Prefix that with "In the States".
> There should be a simple law: the mechanism for deletion of any user data must be no more complex than its creation.

That's one of the nice points of GDPR, albeit around withdrawal of consent. It must be "as easy to withdraw as to give consent".

That prevents the "call or fax us to cancel consent, but give it via a single tick-box on sign-up that you can never change". Deletion is a right under GDPR; although there's no specification it must be as simple as to create (as at very least you likely want some kind of simple confirmation before losing something).
and the one time I feel comfortable looking at Waze to scan the route ahead is when I'm stopped, and an annoying ad is in the way. It's utterly obnoxious and given Google's warchest is unnecessary.
I think the key word (that literally everyone is ignoring, as far as I can see) is the word "publicly".

The violation will exist if you break the terms publicly. Your private documents, Skype chats, and emails are not public, and you can say whatever you normally would.
If you watch the video, it's clear uber/the safety driver were at fault. Which made the rapid announcement that "nothing could have been done" by the police so surprising when the evidence was so clear. But now with this coming out, it all makes sense.

I like that uber called the governor a "thought leader" as doublespeak for someone in their pocket, or who at least gave them their ear.

But doing this in secret is the real icing on the cake. great leadership there. Should we expect anything different from republicans/russians at this point?
FB seems to be using these tools as an engagement hook, ie. find the users they know are not engaged or lurking then lure them in with targeted emails about face recognition and privacy features. They probably love all the publicity as it gets people back in app to configure their privacy settings. I also suspect that the privacy settings' backends are 'being figured out' and users are just turning knobs that aren't connected to anything.
1200 core k8s cluster + 1.5PB ceph (shared nodes to some degree)
no issues with persistent disks etc, only "annoying" thing is to figure out RBAC initially

you just use a storagecontroller, then its no work whatsoever, ceph does the rest
> Companies that succeed are driven by burning vision, not by day-to-day operation people.

What is the evidence for this? We can throw anecdotes like Apple on one side and Unilever on the other, sure, but is there any study saying e.g. "Of these 100 promising companies founded in 1990, x% of the founder-led ones were successful by 2010 whereas y% of the outside-CEO-led ones were?"

Making a bold claim like "Companies that succeed have X cool-sounding behavior" is the realm of business books in airport bookstores. It would be nice to take a more data-driven approach.
Statehood for all territories.
"Striking a balance" and "not making too many assumptions" requires making assumptions about where is "balance" and what is "too many" — and we are back at assuming exact same things as before.

What the article amounts to is "use language I like better in your documentation". Albeit understandable, that is wierd position to me, though, perhaps there is some science on writing techniques and language use in order to make your material less discouraging and "easier emotionally" for people (similar to the famous example of positive vs. negative feedback in learning).
What? HN is a social media actually!

I use Twitter and ProductHunt.
Because America suffers from a severe dearth of caring about the greater good.
Adobe pushed really hard on SVG (also vector based), before the Macromedia acquisition. They were part of the W3C group that designed the spec and they produced the most popular browser extensions to support it. The Macromedia acquisition was most likely in response to a lack of interest in SVG from the public.

Source: I worked on the SVG extension at Adobe.
I was born in the Canal Zone when it was a U.S. territory. Both parents were American. By an act of Congress I am a natural born citizen. I’ve always been under the impression that it was well established that it is a power of the government to manage citizenship status for possessions/territories and whatnot. I’m surprised if there is any legal merit to the challenge. Though I do hope they win.

I went to American schools in the Canal Zone. I don’t speak Spanish and I always thought of myself as American. When I came to the U.S. to live my expectations about America did not correspond to reality. As time goes on this chasm is increasing. I’ve been in the U.S. for 30 years now. Samoans may end up regretting if they win!
Sure. It's probably not OK for you to pretend to be British while doing so.
Vax-loader ，auto build code for axios\vuex\cache
>You should know what you're signing up for, nobody should be surprised by anything in there.

I agree.

People will deal with this responsibility the way they deal with any other responsibility that an individual faces.

- Ignore it. Go on hoping that it doesn't affect them. Hoping that someone more capable is looking into it and will stop these companies from doing the wrong thing.

- Realize the significance of what they are agreeing to, and try to deal with it. They may find themselves hopelessly inadequate to deal with the might of Google/Facebook/Amazon/Twitter/Microsoft/Reddit. They may decide to be a monk going into hiding in the woods of no social presence, or they would try to live with the risk while realizing that the risk is always going to be there.

- Realize that the risk they knew about has materialized. They would realize that it has gone way beyond their respective abilities to handle it as an individual. They would try to band together and demand change. Class action lawsuits, and legal restrictions. We stopped telecom companies, credit card companies, mortgage companies, electrical, water, gas utilities from doing certain things as part of the law of the land. Internet services like Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Facebook/Twitter can get regulated.

- Outsource the responsibility. Consumer Protection Boards. Regulatory bodies. Auditors. Laws with punishment to get desired behavior.

I was surprised by the position of Google/Facebook/Amazon/Twitter/Microsoft/Reddit/Netflix on Net Neutrality, just the sheet hypocrisy of it.

They jumped up and down about an ISP possibly deteriorating the user experience for monetary gains. While they have been applying their powers for anything they wish, including political gains and psyops, not just monetary gains but power.

Why isn't Canadian Human Rights commissions jumping up and down over YouTube and Twitter accounts being silenced?

Baker should bake the cake but YouTube shouldn't show the video? I guess, the Baker should simply come up with community guidelines and call it a day.

This is too funny.
I don't know how their blog is hosted but wordpress in general is very chatty with the database backend, and I really don't think the site getting crushed by HN is indicative of fundamental issues with container technology. If it is then there is a long list of technologies that HN has exposed fundamental issues with by crushing their content sites :).
But somehow doctoring results is not controversial?
Building Check-In Queuing
> Why is foreign influence bad but domestic influence OK? ...How about undocumented immigrants living in the country?

The nice thing about a concrete example is it collapses hypotheticals.

Cambridge Analytica illegally deployed foreign workers to American campaigns [1], used improperly—perhaps illegally [2]—obtained data to target voters with messages that were at times conflicting and generally designed to inflame disagreement. CA took active measures to conceal they were behind these messages and takes active measures to conceal its own backers. Its (now former) CEO is on tape [3] attempting to sell services which violate the FCPA [4].

We need a solution that preserves Internet freedoms while protecting against this.

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-cambridge-...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/politics/alexander-nix-cambri...

[4] https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract...
very cool. would love this for nashville, willing to help =)
I agree that the article is very poorly written, and inaccurate in places.

But at this point, having seen thousands of customers use Basic auth over HTTP, I don't actually care how sensationalized the article is. If it gets people to stop doing it, I'm all for it. We can explain the nuances later.

Frankly, the nuances of /why/ it's bad are somewhat less important than just knowing it's bad. This isn't true for all cases, but I would argue is true for what is probably one of the most common issues we see.
You guys do realize this is how it works right? If you have any alcohol in your bloodstream, any accident you get into is automatically your fault and you were driving under the influence. The circumstances of the accident simply don't matter anymore, you're the one thrown under the bus for the whole thing.
The 1Password 7 Beta for Mac
I remember that Microsoft was able to deliver critical fixes practically overnight. This assumed that once you see the problem the fix is pretty straightforward.

Unfortunately Spectre and Meltdown aren't straightforward and go to the very heart of how the OS works. It's not at all easy to fix this when you have enormous amount of software working on top of it depending on every little quirk your solution provides.
Show HN: PAL 8000 Overview – Interactive Neural Network Experimentation
> I would say the pedestrian was legally more than 50% at fault in this horrible accident.

Which is fine for Uber-as-operator if they were operating in a state which uses a contributory negligence or modified comparative negligence rule, but a number of jurisdictions—Arizona, for instance—use a pure comparative negligence rule where, e.g., an injured party that is 99% responsible can recover 1% of damages from a party that is 1% responsible.

Moreover, it's no help for Uber-as-manufacturer if strict product liability principles are applied. Now, it's not clear to me that they would apply to Uber as manufacturer as long as the product isn't sold to a third party, but even if they don't apply under current law, Uber using operating a service directly with the product rather than selling it to other operators as an end-run around liability for an unreasonably dangerous product invites a change to the law which would extend such liability to manufacturer-operators.
Docker Founder Solomon Hykes Announces Exit from Docker Inc
Another way to look at this article is that Basic authentication may be a perfectly acceptable implementation over HTTPS, as opposed to something like Oauth2 when you aren't even using it for authorization. I've seen APIs that aren't user-facing at all and use Oauth2 merely for authentication. Pointless. Your best line of defense is HTTPS.
Show HN: Password Puppy
If I had to pick a more common phrase to research on HN, it would be "growth hacking". By marketing-first I mean growth hacking/PR is priority #1.

I'm not saying anything against this person professionally or personally, it is more a textbook example of marketing hustle as key to financial success. I prioritize technology ahead of marketing, and am currently struggling to flip this around.

PS. I didn't know Docker was YCS10, so props to YC for connecting with this person early. Growth hacking definitely fits into the YC culture.
Yes, but the problem with Charles (well, iOS related at least) is that iOS websockets don't go through the HTTP Proxy configured. They're just considered a raw socket. Thus, even on desktop Charles, it's a nogo.
Upvote bot?
Bitmovin's comparison: https://bitmovin.com/av1-multi-codec-dash-dataset/

MSU's comparison from a couple of months ago: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New...

The x265 guys complained about the recent MSU test: http://www.x265.org/x265-incorrectly-represented-msus-2017-c...
Whats the setup time for a robot that lays bricks? If you've ever seen a team of skilled masons/bricklayers build a wall, they're pretty freaking fast at it. I imagine the time to transport/setup/calibrate/etc a robot would eat up whatever performance gains it would have over humans - unless perhaps its a really big job, but how many of those are being built these days?
Unless you're losing mostly lean mass, that 10 lbs/week represents a 5000 kcal energy deficit every day. With base energy needs around 2500 kcal/day for most people, no diet will get you there.
Scalable design for network visualization
...and as of today, it's -25% in a 3 weeks. Not a weak signal anymore.
Solomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he founded