skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You already don't have control over any of the other drivers on the road, some of which are unlicensed, impaired or even homicidal or suicidal.

Not to mention your car already has software that can kill you, even if it doesn't steer.

Even ignoring software, hardware can have "bugs" in it too that kill you. I'm not sure why you think engineering mistakes are "worse" when they are in the software vs the hardware.

Basically, no matter what it "feels" like, you are subjected to many many many forces outside your personal control.
I noticed the regulation says "remote sensing system" - does that mean SpaceX needs a license to record the video?

Broadcasting, at least to me, is not "sensing" - by the time images are broadcast, the "sensing" has already happened (even if by mere microseconds).
LOL just like everybody pays all their taxes on gifts right? Do you know how Monero works? Monero is completely private and there's too many exchanges for the government to audit them all, and besides that the laws are bound to change in the near future as crypto-currency becomes more viable. Stop being so cynical, it's a poor long-term life strategy.
GitHub will stop supporting IE in 3 months from now
Or it could be that they simply found out and would not like to risk being willfully non-compliant.
We don't want to be perceived as cheap, but super expensive isn't our plan either. We're free for companies below $10K MRR, then charge on subscriber volumes. We can offer custom pricing to high-volume/low-margin businesses, feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss nick [at] chartmogul.com
Coincidentally, the arbitrary nature of borders is a recurrent theme in the show.
Definitely. I think that eb is a great fit for certain applications.

One of the other hidden benefits of AWS is the API which is available for every service (I can only think of one thing you can do from the UI that you can't also do via the API) and maintained by them. (I know that cloud foundry offers this as well, as do other cloud providers.)

Leveraging that API really unlocks the value of the cloud.
Hey, I remember, same username and all!:) Thanks for saying hi, man!:)
People who "care" about the environment or animals but can't care enough to stop eating a "tasty" food are the ultimate scum. Why pretend you give a shit when you can't even give up a fucking burger?
I can understand that. I like cruise control because it lets me focus 100% on steering and watching the road around me.

Trying to maintain a steady speed and conserve gas is a fun challenge, but a bit pointless, because a) it's a distraction from more important tasks, and b) the computer can usually do it better than I can.
>Let's remember that many of our fellow hackers are likely Facebook engineers doing regular work, and are probably feeling pretty bad right now, even though the decisions behind what's going on is way above their pay grade.

Didn't we establish that "just following orders" doesn't cut it decades ago?
Yep, you built ramps, elevators, etc. You don't expect healthy staff to carry these guys/gals everywhere.

Yet, this is exactly what is expected of healthy staff when people with, for example, Asperger join the team and I believe it is not fair and not right. If they cannot interact in a reasonably normal way, they should be let go or isolated. There is no other way.

Folks in wheelchairs have totally different, physical, problems that are way easier to deal with from the POV of a company.
If you draw fake markings on the road people will follow them, especially if the sun rises parallel to the road.

I have personally watched this happen, last year (I think?) the where repainting the lines on interstate 64 near shortpump and for ~ a week that summer my commute there was insane, just a bunch of cars going 70MPH with no real lanes.
I would put Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind slightly above Laputa, but agreed otherwise :)
> One of the biggest such forums was called Experts Exchange.

By what metric? I don’t know anybody who was actually subscribed there (although they must have existed). Instead, people were using various other forums that were free. Some of these forums were absolutely huge, both in terms of number of users, and by the number of questions/discussions.

Experts Exchange started dominating Google search results, true. But I always thought this was merely due to SEO trickery, not because they were actually widely used.

Truth be told, I would be hard pressed to even call it a “forum” — typical forums (bulletin boards) functioned very differently.
One genuine question, is it possible for C++ committe to push for a simpler language by depracating features? Or this policy would have disastrous effect on the community?
Yes, but the package.json's production dependencies [0] includes codecov [1] for CI which includes request [2] which includes another 22 dependencies. Moving that to the devDependencies should be fine since the main script doesn't require any modules.

[0] https://github.com/talonbragg/message-palette/blob/master/pa...
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/codecov
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/request
What you're missing is that once you have a PIN the deniability goes out the window, so you're now on the hook for the fraudulent purchases. So as a card user you're trading a high percentage of fraud with no liability for a low percentage of fraud with absolute liability. Things are better for the bank, not the customer.
Perhaps it's the difference between the experimentation and commercialization phases of some technology.

Having a culture of trust replaced by one of distrust.
Quick Introduction to Internationalization for Spring MVC
I like it when driving through areas with strictly enforced speed limits. Otherwise I'd collect way too many tickets.
I'm very sorry about that, I was referring to the "Martin Fowler" brand/website, not you as the person. Can't change it anymore...
It still could be safer than most human drivers. We only have a few examples of their AI misbehaving. If it consistently crashed into the barriers, we would have thousands of deaths per day.
Ask HN: WYSIWYG/Drag Drop Widgets for responsive designs?
Are there any WYSIWYG/Drag Drop Widgets for responsive designs?
I agree. I think this technology needs smart roads to succeed, whatever this entails.
ssshhh Hacker News hates crypto-currency, most likely due to its ageing community. This a "get off my lawn" post, just move along.
"Have been"? This is not a new phenomenon. "Culture" in various forms have for ages (long before you and I were born) been used as a tool to control mindset. See Engineering Culture by Gideon Kunda for more[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Culture-Commitment-High-T...
You present a negative outlook that isn't necessarily the endgame of agile, but it's pertinent to frame it this way! Of course those are some very likely risks if the team doesn't claim its leverage and demand its stakeholders engage the development process responsibly, but that's the point of demos and signoffs.
They scaled up recently and now have ~150 POPs. They specialised on DDOS defense from the start so traffic volume isn't an issue for them. Everything below 100gbit/s globally will probably be well within normal fluctuations. But I guess they talk to ASNs that send a lot of garbage and ask them to investigate on their side.
When I was a kid there was a computer game called Lemmings...

What if all the connected autoupdating self driving cars suddenly learn to follow each other off a cliff in pursuit of an optimisation gone wrong.

It would be ironic if the Bulterian Jihad[1] were kicked off as a result of Elon Musk's machinations.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
He did, it is in the article.
Naive centering certainly is. That's exactly what caused this behavior. Just about any scenario where the car tries to split the difference between widening lane lines has the potential of causing this problem.

To make matters worse, it's trivial to run across a case where the road curves AND splits, causing the 'neutral' path to go straight into a barrier… which is exactly what's seen in the video. The straight path would be toward the split-off road, but it veers slightly to the right before splitting.

Makes me wonder if GPS can play a role in determining whether the lane markings are liable to seduce the autopilot into splitting the difference. Given established roads, the car should have some clue this scenario is approaching. If we can see a 'V' approaching on a simple freaking Garmin, the car ought to be able to have that information.
As for open-source crawler goes, I've heard of SpiderLing (http://corpus.tools/wiki/SpiderLing) which is somewhat specialized for building text corpus.
Really cool stuff!
> something you won't find in any European high speed road without deflectors that will make vehicles not crash against concrete.

You find those on the German highway between Berlin and Poland, for example.

> From my point of view all accidents until this time could be attributed to the civil engineer that build the road as much as the driver of the car.

On the other hand, other solutions would provide other "bugs", to stick with your terminology.

>Self driving will give us scientific evidence of what creates accidents like black boxes did with airplanes.

No, it will only give us data on what causes accidents for self-driving cars. Most new cars apparently are already fitted with EDRs[0], the only difference with self-driving cars is the number if sensors involved.
That used to be more of a problem in the past. Nowadays, it's very common for a computer to have its clock synchronized via either NTP or a cell phone network.
So besides money laundering, the other use case for the blockchain is tax fraud?
> ... the right to take a life is not a right a citizen should ever have, in any situation.

The right to kill in self defense exists in many countries but I belive in most countries it will result in an investigation and you'll probably have to go to court to convince a judge that you had

1. Reason to fear for your or someone elses life

2. considered (and if possible: tried) other reasonable options.

I think it would be extremely cruel to punish someone for defending themselves or someone else.

Also keep in mind that stopping an attacker without the option of hurting them seriously is way harder than if you are allowed to use any means.
This is such a gross techie statement. No it’s not. Human life is on the line, this is actual engineering. This isn’t writing some stupid social app on MongoDB written in JavaScript over the weekend.

Google has been at this for years, and with far better sensors, and even they aren’t there yet.
Isn't this where agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban come into the picture? They place some ground rules around "doing agile" for the immature teams to follow. As the team matures, they can drop or alter the rules as needed.

And I don't disagree that some teams might never be capable of doing agile in a productive manner. But, I wouldn't aspire to work on one of those teams, or for that team's employer.
Just wanted to chime in and say thank you. HN needs more comments like this.
German, French, English and Latin.
The story is kind of goofy, but the product looks very cool indeed.
An unsolved mystery? Someone should get Sherlock Holmes on the case!
> The consultants have taken over "Agile"

Taken over? Nah, Agile is native to consultants: Many of the thought leaders behind Agile are consultants themselves.
I would not be so sure of that. Self driving in all conditions is hard. The thing that bugs me is that these '90%' solutions are released on the unsuspecting public without some serious plain language about the software capabilities and what could be expected. Marketing should not trump safety, especially not the safety of people not buying the product.
My concern is, if you have both cruise control and lanekeeping, what's left to keep your attention and stop you zoning out?

I don't find steering onerous, but it requires just enough attention to keep you alert.

(I've never used a lanekeeping system, though. Maybe I'd like it, I dunno)
Backwards compatibility is very important.
When you fail at your job, you can always complain about something.

These are excuses and attempts to get press. Nothing more.
I was curious about your ex girlfriend and was hoping that you married here and that was the reason why she is your ex girlfriend now but apparently not :(.
The only way these types of devices will ever gain traction is if they are unobtrusive or subdermal. And subdermal is the upgrade path—no one will volunteer to have surgery in order to try something out. This is doomed unless they can figure out how to make it unobtrusive. No one's going to wear a janky-looking jawbone, even by themselves.
Not GP, but I'd definitely call that a positive! That's one of my issues with single-inheritance OOP too... There are many hierarchies you might want depending on the aspects you're interested in.

"A glass of juice is certainly a drink, but it is also a source of nutrition -- but not every drink is. There's not much nutrition in a glass of water. Likewise, there are many sources of nutrition which are not drinks. [...] A cup of tea is technically a source of energy (it is hot, it contains thermal energy), but so is a battery. Do they have a common base class?"[1]

(I remember a better example using soft drinks, but I couldn't find it with a quick google)

[1](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1079003/5534735)
I'm sorry but Tesla PR == Tesla. If they don't have a good grasp on this they should STFU until they do. That would make Tesla even worse in my book.

Their job is not to put out the best numbers possible, their job is to inform. Most likely they were more worried about the effect of their statement on their stock price than they were worried about public safety.

If they do put out numbers (such as 85K trips past that point) then it is clear that they have access to engineering data with a very high resolution, it would be very bad if they only used that access to search for numbers that bolster their image.
Based on the article text, it looks like it wasn't even NOAA following up so much as SpaceX doing their due diligence at the very last minute and realizing they needed a license too late to get it approved. In which case, it's probably the billion dollar launch vehicle provider whose processes really warrant the most questions and not the three person bureau tasked with navigating license applications through other areas of government.

It's amazing how people can get from a description of that sequence of events to tinfoilhattery about bureaucrats "flexing their muscles" with "trumped up reasons". If anything, a logical explanation is probably the opposite: NOAA doesn't have enough control of the remote sensing licensing process to do a flagship government contractor the favour of forcing a license through, and certainly don't have the power to rewrite the law to accord to people's views that SpaceX's videos aren't sufficiently high resolution to matter.
Depends entirely on the card! Annual fees can be either $0, as small as $30/year, or as high as $500/year (AMEX Platinum) and up. AMEX Centurion is invite only, it's for millionaire high spenders and has a $2,500/annual fee. Barclays Luxury Card is open to everyone and I believe it has a $900/year annual fee.

Some cards waive the annual fee the first year and some don't. It's whatever the card issuer decides makes them the most money.

Personally, I pay two annual fees and have a third one waived for now. Some of the cards I have I've downgraded to the less benefits no annual fee version of the card after collecting the annual fee version benefits for a year.
How large are these embroidery files? I feel like this is something that a SQL database might be able to help with. It's probably not an ideal solution, but remember that a filesystem is really nothing more than a database, which organizes files on-disk in a particular way and indexes them so that you can find them. It obviously has serious limitations due to its hierarchical nature, which is why relational databases were invented, so using existing tools it's probably quite feasible to create an application that uses a SQL database to index all the embroidery files and store all this data on them (license, whether it's a derivative of another one, and tags), and then if they're too large to just store in the DB itself, just point to files in the regular filesystem.
I wouldn't be. The energy is in O365 at the moment, isn't it? VBA is the big programming environment at the moment and it's basically VB6 and hasn't been touched in a long time. There's also that JavaScript thing, which I think is still pretty half-baked.
Cool, a data point.
Not like that but I worked for a company and we were low on staff, one by one, each programmer quit without getting reinforcements even though this was stated many times. It wasn't until myself resigned, the last programmer on this particular project, that the people in charge woke up and hired several guys from another country less than 1 month before my last day at the company.

I got told to train them in the application but how far can you get in like 2 weeks with a remote team, really? They seemed very competent however, so maybe not really a horror story but the whole thing was totally unnecessary because if we had gotten reinforcements when asked for it, maybe not everyone would've resigned.
Henti overdosed. The epidemic is real.
I'd bet that if they one day drop that promise from their page they'll quickly hit the HN front page. If you don't trust, just monitor their policy page for diffs.
Back then they still held to the belief that humans could make rational decisions given proper factual information.

Then can all of psychology barreling in, and marketing lapped it up like like rats do sugar-water. End result was that the mentality changed to the masses being dangerously unstable beasts, with only marketing knowing whats best for everyone.
Both. There isn't much dark matter in our solar system (estimated at 10^-18 solar masses), so well within rounding errors.
I completely agree with that. Actually building pro-quality chips that compete with top end Intel chips is really hard and is likely more of a bottleneck than 3rd party software.

I really still have a lot of doubts about this idea that they will even try it. It doesn't seem that there is really anything in it for them in doing this.
"Don't worry, an update will fix it" is a cold comfort when an OTA update broke it in the first place.
I made it from few thousands per month of salary to my first sell for $1MM in 2004. I thought I was rich. Then I start meeting people much richer. My last exit was with $17MM check. Guess what - I still feel I'm poor.

The point being, rich people don't look down - they look higher at people who are richER or wealthy (few people in America are such as Buffet, Gates, etc). I assure you Zuck doesn't sell his stock to be rich and "done with it"; he's looking at Bezos fortune and that's where he's aiming at. Greed never stops and there is always something/someone bigger to look at.

Fun fact: I know a buddy in Bezos close circles and he told me Bezos is not looking up at anyone but keeps growing like crazy NOT TO lose his position. So there you have it; always a reason to get up just another morning and make just another buck.
If both drivers (human and autopilot) can make the same mistake, doesn't that make your crash rate higher?
I run a few websites, and you bet that each of them will give shutouts to each other.

They are all free, they all help users.

git and github has helped me, and ive never paid. I consider all of this fantastic.
Not necessarily about cred, but because he's not in an industry position or otherwise has the insight that Apple "co-founder" suggests. Don't get me wrong, I think he's was as vital to Apple as Steve Jobs was in its pre-iPod era.
yes I just stumbled on the boundaries talk and started sucks/rocks. Watched like, 2-3 hours of video this morning already, will be paying for it - its VERY good :)

Thanks for the list
> More than likely, that's because the commercial companies who needed the license got the license.

More likely: they just woke up to the possibility of showing the world they exist.

> Probably because the technology on this payload fall under the requirements of the law to need it, and the company who owns the payload didn't get the license.

I don't see what it has to do with payloads.

> Or, NOAA was unaware of the satellites until now and realize they need to follow up.

It's not about the satellites, it is about the launches, specifically video from orbit.
Hey, I think I should respond, as I agree with you that loved ones should not be tossed aside easily. Passion projects are pretty important too and should be fostered. It's important to please one's own being too. Anyway, it was indeed an exaggeration for comic effect. Anna (not her real name) is a lovely person. We did break up, but much later on and completely unrelated to the project. She was actually very quite happy with what I had built and had once made an angry remark about how much time I was spending on it. The majority of the article is true, but I did make up one or two twists just for the comic effect. I'm also not really interested in a mansion. So far.
Sorry, could you clarify your comment? Who has failed at their job, and who is making excuses and attempting to get press?
It is, but in most part it is hurting spammers and shady ESPs :)
CodeWarrior, now there's something I haven't thought about in ages.
"Vaporware" doesn't distinguish these from well-intentioned efforts which stagnate in development hell.
We've reverted the title to that of the article. Thanks!
> Tiny cameras stuck to the side of SpaceX rockets should not be classified as "remote sensing systems."

I would say they should not generally be classified as "remote sensing systems." 'Cause you know someone would push things too far.
To be honest - dropbox is still burning investors money, right? AFAIK they are not profitable even today.
Do you plan to publish usage statistics over the coming weeks? I'd be keen to know what kind of (valid DNS) volumes you've seen since the announcement. And if there are any obvious patterns of ASNs or countries using it a lot (unless you don't want to disclose that to avoid being blocked there).
You don't need the sensor data, it's obvious. The lane markers widened, and 'straight' is into the (not seen yet) barrier. If the barrier end had a mockup of the ass-end of a car stuck on it (about three times as wide) the Tesla would freak out, panic brake, and still think it was in the center of a single widening lane. It's not mysterious what the car was thinking.

If the overall shape of the road wasn't veering slightly to the right, the car would probably not have chosen to swerve to the left into a barrier, but the car sees the lane widening equally in both directions. Simple as that.
This puts Telsa at odds with itself.

The feature is called Autopilot after the namesake of flight systems where the pilot doesn't need to be constantly hands on. It is marketed as an autonomous driving system that allows the car to drive safely without human intervention.

In the same breath, Tesla says that it isn't really an autopilot system, and that even though they market it as autonomous driving, it is still essential that you act as if you were driving.

As you've stated, it's a tool for assisting drivers. So why do they market it as fire and forget?
Exactly. It just works in Excel, but if you have Excel then it makes spreadsheets easier and more useful.
This over-the-top gaming PC is an engineering marvel
What rules are they not following?
From TFA

"It appears that NOAA has recently decided to start interpreting or enforcing a decades-old law: "

So yes, SpaceX approached NOAA, as they should. And NOAA did not give them the required license in time for whatever reason.