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But there is none of that in these samples provided. It’s just memes and and garbage “viral” content a-la buzz feed.

I know there were other samples posted before that had more of what you are talking about. But I’m strictly speaking about the current batch and the article in question and screenshots from that article.

I’d imagine Facebook would cherry pick the most offending pieces to show off. And whatever evidence is currently presented seems weak at best.
You're playing apologist here and attempting to swat away responsibility in your final sentence. The article discusses death threats, harassment, and threats of violence. Your argument is that maybe they aren't deliberately doing those things? Sorry but, they're doing it on purpose.

When they discuss "trolling", the term is a form of purposefully attempting to enrage the victim. They're not innocent commenters posting on the internet.
Break the law? One surprising thing to me there is a ton of media attention on the SV right now (almost all negative) and that does not look like a coincidence. I disapprove of what FB is doing but on the scale of problems that Big Pharma, Health Insurance, big banks are causing thats not even a blip and yet most media attention and good amount of public outrage is fairly skillfully directed toward tech and SV.
> 1. Ethical. One thing is that you do a stupid thing and die. Another is that a technology fails in trivial circumstances that in theory are avoidable. A doctor can make also errors, but a medical device is required to be very safe and reliable in what it does.

I'm not sure I follow you here. Are you saying that because humans are known to be falible, but technology can be made nigh-infalible, that technology should be held to a higher ethical standard?

Those two statements don't connect for me.

I suppose that's partly because I am an automation engineer, and I deal a lot with inspecting operator-assembled and machine-assembled parts. If the machine builds parts that also pass the requirements, it's good.

It's nice if it's faster or more consistent, and sure we can build machines that produce parts with unnecessarily tight tolerances, but not meeting those possibilities doesn't feel like an ethical failing to me.
It's not too common to head to prison for a single DD incident. It's also worth noting that England&Wales and Scotland have different drink driving laws.

In Scotland, the BAC limit is lower than in England and the punishment is a 12 month driving ban and fine for being over the limit - no grey areas or points or getting away with it.

In England a fine and penalty points are common, repeat offenders can be suspended and jailed. The severity of the punishment can often depend on how far over the limit you are and other factors.
Because God forbid you tamper with the system partition.

The security features of android are the best argument for the stance Linus takes on these things.
Are there any HN readers from the Amazon team that wrote this who may comment on experiences using Python for the project? Is this the version that Amazon is using?

The team is "awslabs", which sounds very r&d.
Other innovations include an off road "hazard perception test" I'd be pleasantly surprised if derivatives of self driving software could reliably pass.
It's a stupid asshole, not a poor simulator. Maybe US is different, but in Europe most poors wouldn't get credit card to begin with. Even payday loans are strictly regulated. Many of them will know how to fix common plumbing problems too..
> Asymptomatic carrier.

An asymptomatic carrier is one who exhibits no symptoms of the illness but is carrier who can infect others. I don't believe that is the right analogy here.

With herd immunity you have a group with a large rate of participation, which effectively immunizes those that haven't been.

Facebook is the opposite in that you may not be "infected" but if everyone around you is "infected" you might as well be, because Facebook will piece together your information based on what your friends make available.

Plague almost starts to sound like a better analogy...
The low sunlight is hard to deal with by humans and computer vision isn't better. In the meantime, Tesla's CEO doesn't believe Lidar is necessary (https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16988628/elon-musk-lidar-s...).

My advice to the company BOD & shareholders: have him take the Udacity's self driving car online course and after the first project, he'll clearly understand how limited detecting lanes by CV only can be. To Uber's ex-CEO's point: LIDAR is the SAUCE.
It is the opposite, LiIon/LiPo batteries are inherently dangerous and can cause chemical fire for various reasons (overcharging, undercharging, puncture, high temperature, etc.). These things are monitored/controlled in any modern application in normal usage, but in a crash you have to remember that you are literally few inches away from a massive stored up potential chemical energy. The fire burns very hot, the smoke is toxic and assuming somebody gets to you in time, it can only be extinguished reliably using special dry powder fire extinguishers (Class D)...
If you send me a winky face in an email, you're probably thinking, "I'm being cute."

When I receive a winky face in an email, I'm thinking, "I need an adult!"
i was thinking about doing the same until i read this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16761389
That's Rust compiled to WebAssembly.

> Now if you compiled C# to webasm you potentially wouldn't need the .NET runtime

Why not? How does C# work without the runtime? As the docs for .NET Native say:

> You can continue to take advantage of the resources provided by the .NET Framework, including its class library, automatic memory management and garbage collection, and exception handling.

So you still have that runtime code in your binary, even if it's not JITted.
bizarre statement

is there any point in saying that a hypothetical brain-dead, comatose bodybuilder is stronger than a starving man?
Or you can do what I did and switch to Windows. I'm 100% happy with my Surface Book Pro, after having nothing but MacBooks for years. I even used to work at Apple.

But it's now time to use other platforms for laptops and desktops.
That's awesome!

I still think that's an order of magnitude too high for a lot of use cases, but much easier to swallow for sure.
I can't say anything about Linux on XPS 13 because I didn't tried it, but for build quality... that's questionable. In my small company we have horrible failure rate with XPS 13 (seven of eight had some problems, from failing fans and SSDs to 'it just died on me'). Macs are much better in that regard. And the price between these two is comparable.
A lot of human-driven car accident victims have done nothing wrong at all.

Almost every driver thinks they're better than average.

Even when it's a stupid person dying from their stupidity, it's still a tragedy.

I really think data driven analysys is the way to go. If we can get US car fatalities from 30000 a year to 29000 a year by adopting self-driving cars, that's 1000 lives saved a year.

Agree with your point #3. If Tesla autopilot only works in some conditions, its numbers are only comparable to human drivers in these same conditions.
Probably not...

> and was accompanied by seismic activity in the area.
Make that 99.9999999999% effective, according to "sources".
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On my storage server, I've set a reminder to check for a few settings on log-in, because I'm currently too lazy to set it up myself.
Is it? It used to be.

And you can buy Chromebooks or Microsoft Surface products if you want strong hardware/software integration.
Agree, I am not convinced it is a net benefit for the overall environment. Plus they will consume more energy because of inefficiencies in transport and storage.

But there is still an immense environmental benefit: they will pollute in places (industrial areas, mines) that are not places where people live (big cities). So the population will benefit a lot from moving where the pollution takes place. And it's not just air. Noise pollution, dirty buildings, etc.
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They're dissatisfied with their performance measured by the time they put in. In turn team mates are blamed for hindering their progress in the ranking system.
I've been reading the 'Hackers' book by Steven Levy, and the way it describes what makes hackers what they are is exactly this kind of tinkering and problem solving.

One thing that's been fascinating me this past decade or so is that clearly programming and lots of other 'nerdy' stuff is quite mainstream now, and as a result the 'old-fashioned' concept of a hacker (or the 'hacker ethos' or whatever) seems to have become less of a specific subculture.

But at the same time, I've been trying to do some 'code school' style teaching and I find that there's still a very distinct difference between the coders who mostly just want a job and see coding as a viable path (and even enjoy it, much of the time), and coders who have that same kind of 'hacker' mentality.

It's hard to describe, because it's not just about skill or 'good code' or 'productive results'. I guess it's some degree of unusual passion or excitement about the whole thing. And definitely a tendency to just 'hack it' and coming up with sometimes horrifyingly creative solutions to the problem.

For example, one guy I was teaching was incredibly messy in his code style, undisciplined, and clearly copy/pasting stuff from Stack Overflow on occasion. But when we talked about computers, programming, what kind of cool stuff he'd like to build, he was clearly different from the others. Where the others would sometimes diligently go through the Rails Tutorial chapter by chapter, with him sometimes the only thing that got him to actually learn was to give him something that 1) tickled his particular passions (games), and 2) was problematic enough that he'd be cursing at his computer until well after the 'official' study time.

And while his solution rather predictably was often messy, different from what he'd been taught, and somewhat unconventional, he usually figured it out and there was almost always some 'cleverness' to it.
The other big difference is that in a plane high up in the sky and relatively far away from any others, even if the autopilot demands the human take over, there is still a lot of time to react. Many seconds to even minutes, depending on the situation.

In a car, the requirement is fractions of a second.
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Yeah that's me :) At least the second part, because with Emacs I don't really need to be invidious.

TBH I do actually like Unix and Plan9, but having read a big part of cat-v website in the past, most of the views there are fanatical, and are more bitter, cynical and disingenuous than I can ever force myself to be. Especially the way incredibly useful and important OSS projects are denigrated and misrepresented is really annoying (see the harmful stuff section, for example).
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I wonder if decentralized voting for NNTP could actually be a good use case for some kind of block chain.
Drink driving rarely attracts a prison sentence. In the vast majority of cases it attracts a driving ban along with a significant fine. The sentencing guidelines have imprisonment as an option for blowing over 120 where the limit is 35 (in England and Wales, it is lower in Scotland now).

The UK went through a major cultural change relating to drink driving several decades ago, it isn't viewed as acceptable, the police get tip offs on a regular basis.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/item/excess-al...
> Development of that plane is likely profitable even if you'd only use it for EU-US East and US East-West. 3h flights LON-JFK and JFK-LAX/SFO (if supersonic over land is allowed)

It won't be, and Concorde's 3h30 flights between JFK and London or Paris were not enough.

> Most of them will already pay >$2,000 per flight (or their companies).

That's cute. Circa 2003 standard round-trip on Concorde was >$10000 (that's around 14k in 2018 USD), discounted "celebration" fares were $7k. For $4k you could do Concorde one way and 747 the other way.
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“Food, Ivan Arnoldovich, is a subtle thing. One must know how to eat, yet just think – most people don’t know how to eat at all. One must not only know what to eat, but when and how.’ (Philip Philipovich waved his fork meaningfully.) ‘And what to say while you’re eating. Yes, my dear sir. If you care about your digestion, my advice is – don’t talk about bolshevism or medicine at table. And, God forbid – never read Soviet newspapers before dinner.’ ‘M’mm . . . But there are no other newspapers.’ ‘In that case don’t read any at all. Do you know I once made thirty tests in my clinic. And what do you think? The patients who never read newspapers felt excellent. Those whom I specially made read Pravda all lost weight.”

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I don't know how many fans mine has but it's never been too hot, certainly never something I thought was unacceptable.

If you are doing multithreaded machine learning or some long running intensive tasks across all cores (which few applications do but developers often do), then the fan does kick in and you can hear it. Not really been a problem for me though.
Seriously. Congress should just concentrate on this list. Just put language around this, and I think they'd have a very reasonable set of gun laws.
You can talk yourself into working on anything at all with this rationalization.
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Creativity, and grit. Sometimes provided by different people.
This is only anti-user from one point of view (where jailbreaking is beneficial). It's completely pro-user, where the user wants to ensure that the environment is what they expect it to be. It really depends on who the user is and what they want to achieve.

Otherwise you could describe something like process memory protection the same way: not being able to read/write directly to a root process is taking the control away from the user after all.
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Out of curiosity, how are you supposed to react if an emergency vehicle wants you to go forward when you're by a set of traffic lights with a camera?

I would think to look carefully at all directions and, if visibility allows, pass the red light, then contest the fine with an "emergrncy vehicle passing through" defence. But what is the official position?
That's helpful context. I were to guess, you're dad is probably thinking the company is his and you don't need the money right now because you're young and have a bright future. He can just hold on to the equity until he has retired/cashed out. Then he will pass it so what is there to worry about....

It must be frustrating for you to be in this position. Unfortunately I don't think there is much you can do.

The bright side is that you have amazing experience building up a company and I assume from your other comments, no debt. After multiple attempts, your dad finally has a successful company. You have your health which is your most important asset and you are financially stable.
Razor blades are small. Assuming parent poster shaves every single day of that ten years, and each blade only lasts for two shaves, they'd need about 1830 blades.

That's 19 boxes of these, which probably fit in a shoe box.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Derby-100-Extra-Shaving-Blades/dp/B...
Within the Christian tradition as I understand it, you could read every single word ever expressed about God and you still wouldn't understand. It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library.
> you should check the autopilot against a rested and concentrated driver that drives slowly and with a lot of care

You raise an interesting point, accidents are not normally distributed throughout the driver's day, or even the population. Your likelihood of having a crash with injuries is highly correlated with whether or not you've had one before. A substantial number involve alcohol, consumed by drivers previously cited for DUIs.

We keep using average crash statistics for humans as a baseline, but that may be misleading. Some drivers may actually be increasing their risk by moving to first gen self driving technology, even while others reduce their risk.

On the other hand, we do face a real Hindenburg threat here. Zeppelins flew thousands of miles safely, and even on that disaster, many survived. But all people could think of when boarding an airship after that was Herbert Morrison's voice and flames.

I have already heard people who don't work in technology mumbling about how they think computers are far more dangerous than humans (not because of your nuanced distinction, but simply ignoring or unaware of any statistics).

I worry we're only a few high profile accidents away from total bans on driverless cars, at least in some states. Especially if every one of these is going to make great press, while almost no pure human accidents will. The availability heuristic alone will confuse people.
I never implied the two were mutually exclusive.
Typical rant. I doubt that guys has real computer science education. If he had, he would know it's not about language. You can write terrible and beautiful code in any language. Maybe he is just jealous that languages like js opened door for many new programmers.
Ask HN: Docker Swarm Experiences:  Advantages or Disadvantages?
Has anyone had any experiences putting Docker Swarm into production? What did you use it for and what was your experience?
I wonder why people downvote posts who wonder why people downvote posts in which others state personal experiences...
This is massive for AWS Lambda (and we've waited a long time for this). We can now use async/await without transpiling our code. Thereby making it more readable.

We should hopefully see improved performance and startup times.
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That one only does 4k at 30 Hz (acceptable to some, not relevant if you're connecting a FHD display). But others -- even cheaper ones, in fact -- seem to do 4k at 60Hz (HDMI 2.0).

Apple really should be including an HDMI 2.0 adapter with every USB-C only laptop. Instead they're selling an HDMI 1.4 adapter for $69. Kind of insulting.

Not that other manufacturers are better. Dell's new XPS 13 is USB-C only and I'm sure there's no adapter in the box. They sell a "mini-dock" which includes Ethernet and VGA (!) in addition to HDMI (indeterminate version) for $59.
I like her posts and read/upvote them whenever I see them. It always seemed natural that they'd be on the front page of HN. It's the sort of content I'm here for.
A few thousand smart people worldwide surrendering their more or less smart but however interesting AI ideas and their very own private psychometric data for a lottery ticket (say 1-2% winning chance) worth $2500 + unnecessary internet services? Come on YC, you can do much better than that.
Kind of strange, reading that on a news site, pretty much telling you to stop using their site.
In South America, specifically Argentina almost all households have a Bidet. It baffles me that a country like the US doesn’t have them as a standard device (at least in homes), considering the amount of food in the average American diet.
Most people aren't murderers. On the other hand, con artists when the expected risk to marks is minimal...now we're talking!

I've been had by local traffic cops in $COUNTRY, just a few km after crossing the border: two lanes in one direction, separated by a solid line ("no changing lanes"), running parallel for about a km. Left lane suddenly ends - asphalt gradually narrows from the left until there's only the right lane left. Your options are a) crossing the solid line into the right lane, and...wait, that's all, there's no way to go off the road. And guess what, traffic cops conveniently positioned right there: "you have crossed the solid line, that's a ticket and XYZ in local currency" "but there's nothing else I could have done!" "we don't care, you crossed the solid line!" Repeat until ticket is paid - note that this is obviously targetted at people who are not likely to fight the ticket (and presumably a mistaken/illegal road marking) in local traffic court.

I could imagine a very similar scenario set up to trip up SDVs (and fleece their presumably affluent occupants). The problem comes when con men underestimate the risks, and accidentally kill people.
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>And IQ test is good filter for that

[citation needed]
> having a conviction for domestic assault;
> having a drug or alcohol addiction;
> having a TBI

I know the YouTube incident, specifically, was not a mass-shooting incident (4+ casualties, not including the shooter) but the comment you replied to specifically mentioned mass-shooting.

That males are overrepresented seems fairly self-evident, but is there a noted link between DV, TBI, and addiction(s) with mass-shootings? I've never heard that angle.
Some people here use downvotes obviously to unfavor opinions they don’t like or that you have a bad experience with their loved products... downvoting should be bound to write a reason, as it’s encouraged in Stackoverflow...
I don't get it. These two are the same thing.
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One of the reasons I haven't blocked hackernews with /etc/hosts is because of it's noprocrast feature.

Most of these sites know they're potentially harmful, the better ones acknowledge it and help their readers avoid the harm.
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