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Tesla has totally botched this. What Tesla has run into is the approach to safety that makes commercial air travel safe - figure out exactly what went wrong and fix it so it stays fixed. The aviation community is used to this. "Flying" magazine publishes crash reports in most issues.[1] Pilots read those. Manufacturers read those. People in aerospace read those. NASA collects near-miss reports to keep tabs on why close calls happened.

The aviation industry has experience with aircraft automation leading pilots into trouble, and so does the NTSB. Here's a former head of the NTSB commenting on the Asiana crash at SFO in 2014:[2] “How do we design this whole human-machine system to work better so we don’t lose the professionalism in the humans who are doing this?” Crash investigators are very aware of the problems of a poor man-machine interface leading pilots into a bad situation. That is the kind of thinking needed to make these kinds of systems work.

It's not about blame. Most air crashes have multiple causes. That's because the single points of failure were fixed long ago. This is somewhat different than the traffic law enforcement approach. The NTSB's previous investigation of a Tesla collision resulted in Tesla changing their system to enforce the hands-on-wheel requirement. That may not be enough.

Playing hardball with the NTSB is not going to work. The NTSB rarely uses it, but they have broad authority in investigations. They can get subpoenas. They can inspect Tesla's facilities, hardware, and software: "An officer or employee of the National Transportation Safety Board ... can ... during reasonable hours, may inspect any record, process, control, or facility related to an accident investigation under this chapter." The NTSB even has the authority to publicly disclose corporate trade secrets if necessary.[3] Aviation companies routinely cooperate, knowing this, and the NTSB seldom has to compel disclosure.

Incidentally, lying to the NTSB is a federal crime. The CEO of Platinum Jet Services tried to cover up some safety violations that resulted in a crash.
He became Federal Prisoner #77960-004 from 2007 to 2013.[4]

[1] https://www.flyingmag.com/tags/aftermath
[2] https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2014/october/21...
[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/1114#b
[4] http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/16/new.jersey.charter.convi...
>"That’s merely a measure of journalist opinion at 3 outlets."

No as per my actual comment - those are but three off the top of my head. The same sentiments have been echoed in many many more outlets since Wednesday.
We're not gonna "kill JavaScript" (quoting the article) just cause some people don't like the language.
eh I am not married to being a SaaS company and don't care about funding. I started the company to work from wherever and never once intended to raise funds!

Everyone doesn't have to go after some big VC play. I am 23 and really enjoy learning the way I am. Maybe one day I will care about a SaaS company but for now, learning and bringing in good revenue is more important.

P.S. I'd argue going out of business because you are too prideful to do things that bring in revenue is worse for a SaaS company, but too each their own!
"Morally ambiguous technology applied in morally unambiguous ways."

There's a difference between the mission (power tools for your habits) and the current stage (which is "garage SaaS startup")
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SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should comes to mind :)

But that aside - pretty cool!
I don't think I have to explain (though the first explanation that comes to mind is that you were familiar enough with the location to have a pretty good idea of approximately which direction you were facing).

The point is that magnetic field lines are a convenient diagrammatic tool, but don't have a direct correspondence to any physical reality. It's just like the way we sometimes draw electromagnetic radiation as a sine wave, but try as you might you won't ever observe little squiggly sine waves in physical reality.
I like the idea of just decide on something to build and than build it. Worst case scenario you get a learning experience. And I like building things I enjoy or products I really wish I had. So I get benefit in that way. With software inputs outside of labor are low, so you won't lose out financially in most cases.
Or keep them away from airports.
Yep, the NTSB is a federal agency that you do NOT want to screw around with. To me it's like Tesla wants to be an auto company, but it's some weird cargo cult version with a few parts missing
Right.

There's also a very very "fat head" in front of the long tail of what customers pay FB et al for their ads.

https://www.wordstream.com/articles/most-expensive-keywords

Suggests the 10 most expensive categories to advertise in are dominated by insurance, financial, and legal services.

I suspect when that curve is overlaid with the similar long tail curve of the disposable income of FB's 2 billion users - I suspect it'd be obvious that the vast majority of FBs income comes from super expensive PPC ads shown to people with a (globally) super high disposable income.

If you let the bay area tech crowd who're struggling to find a place to rent on their own because they're "only" making $160k all opt out of getting profiles and shown advertising for $25 or $50 per month, you'd probably make a existential dent in FB's profitability - much more so than if they just turned advertising off altogether for the lowest earning billion and a half people on their platform.
The point of the marketing page is to generate sales leads, not be a pure expression of our manifesto. That copy, in that place, does a good job of advancing our goal, even if it doesn't do a good job of communicating it.
You can also not not say not insignificant.
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Right, but my point is that if you have actively experienced discrimation, you're less likely to judge the research as unwarranted. You can argue with my off-the-cuff example, but as you mentioned there are many documented cases of discrimination that are hard to argue with.

The 2-6% difference in wages (depending on which study you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_S...) can still be very significant.

And of course we should continue to discuss all the other reasons women don't end up going into high paying jobs.
But not quite!

It's rare to have a running addiction, but common to have a running habit. Is the line the strength of the compulsion, or the effect on the human...?
Well, it really was better, for this reason: because you had limited options and limited control, you had to sit/listen/watch/read through segments and articles that you didn’t necessarily agree with, forcing you to be exposed to other ideas. Sure it wasn’t perfect, but there just simply was not an echo chamber like what exists today. Like any healthy diet, your news needs to include things you might not necessarily like, but you could wash them down with the other frivolous bits. Today you can just binge on candy all the time and like any kind of addict, people get really upset when you try to take it away.

Further, there was a pretty big stigma associated with buying tabloids, but today you can indulge without anyone having any idea what you’re looking at.
Memories, always most fantastic
Trump, Having Denounced Amazon’s Shipping Deal, Orders Review of Postal Service
People in the developing world do starve, actually. And if in some instances (i.e. Zimbabwe) reasons are mostly political, in many places arable land isn't exactly abundant, and climate isn't ideal for growing crops. Improving irrigation etc. would improve yields even without GMOs, but given the economic realities of those countries it is a less feasible option.

Also, there is no contradiction between selling some crops on export markets and not having enough food for internal ones. These could be different crops for one, and for another, farmers need to make some money, too.

It is not surprising that HuffPo would get confused about anything that smells of science, I would think that an opinion of a large number of Nobel laureates is as good as appeals to authority go. While they might be wrong (although conflating them with paid-for doctors advertising cigarettes seems rather disingenuous). At the very least I would expect some well-designed studies showing some negative effects of GMOs, not arguments ad hitlerium or that Monsanto might make a profit. By itself I do not see how it is a bad thing, unless it can be shown that they are trying to hide known dangers.
It’s certainly false though the sentiment might still be valid, basically that the lack of smarts isn’t something that’s holding up more inventions from coming into this world.
> The point is that magnetic field lines are a convenient diagrammatic tool, but don't have a direct correspondence to any physical reality.

Magnetic field lines correspond as much to physical reality as anything possibly can. https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/80913

Also here's a trippy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZsojDdEbE
The death of a person is not a material to teach things to the public. A better approach would be naming the thing honestly.
Customers are also a great source of project ideas. You can pick a customer, like "small business owner" or "wealth advisor," and interview them.

My favorite question that leads to ideas is "tell me everything you did from when you started your day until now," and dig into all the annoying/painful things they mention.
My interpretation of the article was that it was the opposite — it puts it on.
To be fair, the CEO of Checkr advocates strongly that a service like Checkr is one way to combat this exact problem.

Traditional background checks are very blunt tools, where decisions are very binary. If an individual is a felon, there is typically zero room for negotiation. This is often the case even with just a misdemeanor. There is usually very little trusted, low cost, easily accessed data, which can balance out or provide a more nuanced view. A service like Checkr is able to provide a much more comprehensive picture, with more depth and nuance, so that employers can be more discerning and less binary.

Also, it's not as if applications don't already specifically ask for information on criminal record. The standard is that employer has this information, without doing any actual background checks. I imagine a comprehensive background checking service would mostly serve to incentivize an employer to hire a subset of previously convicted individuals that they otherwise wouldn't have, and not the other way around.
As long as you are judged by a 'jury of your peers,' there will always be people who take plea deals if they feel the evidence against them might be enough to convince a jury.

I'm not sure there exists a 'fair' system that can operate without some sort of jury, but as long as there's a human element no trial has a guaranteed outcome.
I don't not generally wish anvils to drop on anyone, but I make an exception for the people who decide that the best place to put a baby changing table is right next to the jet-engine hand dryer.
> We choose as a society about the trade offs

> I’ll tell you the commercial they’d like to do, if they could, and I guarantee you, if they could, they’d do this, right here. Here’s the woman’s face, beautiful. Camera pulls back, naked breasts. Camera pulls back, she’s totally naked. Legs apart. Two fingers, right here and it just says, “Drink Coke.” Now I don’t know the connection here, but goddamn if Coke isn’t on my shopping list that week.

-- Bill Hicks

Oh yeah, it's always "us as society" when things get pushed by actual individuals working at specific companies with whatever means they can grab, to whomever they can push it on, side-effects and consequences down the road be damned. "We as a society" decided Colin Powell should lie his butt off in his presentation about Iraq before the UN.

Never mind car crashes, if the people who get killed in wars of aggression saw more than the raw fact of them having being tortured and/or murdered, if they just saw the profits for select individuals, and the way faceless masses cheer "liberty and convenience!", they'd be more than cool with it, that's obvious.

A society is made up of acting and thinking individuals, and referring to decisions made "as a society" is not really from that realm. Start with your own position, or with why you don't have one in favor of such abstractions that hold no water.
Makes you think they don’t really want to go after the buyers.
Everyone's repeating the 73% number, like it's some shocking statistic.

It's meaningless number in isolation. For example if backpage.com captured 70% of the sex ads market, I'd expect it to also capture the sex ads related crime at the similar rate.

If craigslist has 90% of ads for selling beanie babies, it will also have a hand in significant majority of beanie babies selling related crime.

So the question should be how big backapage was when it came to sex work ads, to make sense of this number.
How many of those cases involve defendants who can afford the lawyers that Backpage.com's execs can afford?
I can't find a NY indictment, but the CA one is easy to find. Backpage principals are charged with:

* Systemic _knowing_ commercial promotion of prostitution.

* An elaborate internal management process focused on concealing evidence of their knowledge of prostitution, including internal employee training.

* _Knowing_ commercial promotion of child sex trafficking, in ads that included photos, in which their policy was to strip out keywords indicative of child sex trafficking while still running the ads.

* A long series of money laundering schemes to collect money from sex traffickers without routing those transactions through banks and credit card processing services.

* An elaborate series of financial moves designed to conceal their assets from prosecutors.

This isn't Craigslist. They ran the site like a criminal conspiracy, which is what it was.

I imagine they've plead guilty because they would have lost calamitously at trial, and the sentences they'd have received after a jury conviction would have been horrific. I'd imagine that if you were Carl Ferrer, you'd be thinking, "the prosecutors are going to show the jury a bunch of ads depicting children known to have been trafficked, with evidence that we knowingly massaged the ad to ensure it could be published for our profit".
Django Model Lifecycle Hooks – Inspired by Rails Callbacks
Replace “space flight” with “launch vehicles” and it’s accurate. NASA stalled out in that department, between the Shuttle and SLS, due to bad management and politics.
I have an unusually strong hatred of these machines:

* They are incredibly loud

* I inevitably end up spraying water all over my pants

* I have large hands and it takes forever to dry them
Hey all -

Just wanted to share a little package I made to add lifecycle event hooks to Django models. I often find this style of hooking into events easier to reason about than Django's built-in Signals.

Feedback is welcomed and appreciated.
Right. At the moment, pretty much the only way to reap the benefits of persuasive tech is to be Facebook or it's ilk.

So what this is about is bringing that same tech to places where you can actually reap that benefit, instead of your corporate memetic overlords.
Well, you could repeat the experience and arrange for a double-blind trial or something. :)
>>That sounds more like equity to me than a loan.

It sounds like the principal and interest paid back is a fixed and predetermined value, rather than proportional to the company's revenue, which would make it a loan.

The innovation here I believe is conditioning repayment obligations on the company having sufficient revenue.

So in a sense it's like a loan contract with a clause allowing you to get a repayment holiday when your business is not earning enough.

This, like all loans, has much less upside potential than equity.
A few years ago I went to a seminar run by DWave and I really pressed them along similar lines that you were asking. A few of their engineers basically walked me through the concept.

As I understand it - and someone please correct me where this is wrong:

If you have designed an algorithm/program that optimizes for some minima (ex gradient descent), then you as the developer will need to map that algo into their system which basically creates a quantum topological map.

That topo is loaded into the QC and then it is run and outputs the "coordinates" of the minima.

Makes sense if you can
1. Convert your algo into something that can optimize for minima

2. Convert that into the topo space

3. Have no need for real-time results
I think what he meant is that if you look into the process of how products and system are designed, you will likely find out most of them quite comprehensible, and more than often made by a group of men/women that are not necessarily passionate about it. Hence with great passion and even average intelligence, there is no reason we can not achieve a far better product than the current one.
"Wired explains that SRL tested 1,200 phones … "

Did anybody else get an image of giant flame throwing robots trashing piles of cellphones at some underground warehouse event (which eventually gets shut down by the fire department and cops)???
I wish more federal agencies did this to more arrogant corps. People have died and tesla is responding by blaming the dead people for everything! Not even a semblance of a good investigation.

Elon Musk should intervene and apologize if he has even a bit of humanity.
I originally had a meetup group and it being local really limited the opportunities. I then switched to building an online Facebook group and scaled that. All of what I do can be done remote so it didn't make sense to limit geographically.

If there is no requirement to be onsite, I'd steer clear of meetup. For the same effort you can grow something across the US/outside/etc
You wait around, lift, and check, of course! Then you scrub your prints from the lid and the flush handle. This is how you use the bathroom incognito.
Wow! I just watched his video on the PacMan kill screen, and it finally made sense. I’ve read multiple posts about it before, but having it all presented in a video format with animations made it all make sense.
The Hubble is amazing, but i'm not sure how it advanced space flight. wasn't it a shuttle package? ISS was Soyuz and shuttle launches as well, if i recall correctly. So, yes, there is a ton of innovation is space 'stuff'. but space flight? that seems like more of a stretch to me.

Perhaps Delta and Atlas rockets were amazing innovations. They did great jobs with the recent mars missions. I don't recall getting particularly excited for many mars launches. (the missions were cool though).

Those boosters landing together though made me fell like a little kid watching a shuttle launch. But those boosters man. Maybe that's not innovation but that landing sure felt like a big moment to me.

I think the parent poster is trying to say, for a long time it felt like small refinements.
Off topic here. But, I see those phrases as different, as most people probably do. I see non insignificant as...a few. If they'd said 'significant', I'd assume a high percentage.
That is FAR from the worst case scenario.
Sometimes the right way to solve a problem is to alleviate the symptoms.

Like dog cones. The solution to some skin issue is to not poke at it, and that's it. If you stop poking at it, it'll fix itself.
Could you elaborate? I'm curious to read specifics.
> It is extremely common for my car to warn me to keep my hands on the when WHILE I have my hands on the wheel. Even shaking it a little will sometimes not cancel out the warnings.

This is not what I experience. Maybe the sensor in your steering wheel is faulty? For me, the warning goes away as soon as I lightly jiggle the steering wheel (I stop as soon as I encounter any resistance).
I was implying that it would make an interesting academic paper.
then reverse them into vacuum
> an 80% chance of you doubling your money, a 50% chance that you 10x and a 25% chance you 20x your money -- honestly, why wouldn't you do that?

One, you mucked up your arithmetic (80% + 50% + 25% > 1). (I’ll assume you were expressing cumulative probabilities.) Two, you left off the tail of the distribution where one loses money.

Put together, I’d say no to your pitch—schemes promising a greater than 100% chance of making lots of money and 0% chance of losing any are 100% scams.
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Removing something perfectly legal, because public opinion is against them is cowardly.

Being a company that advertises DDoS mitigation and then drops a customer, because they get attacked a lot, is a cop out.

Being a company that will argue that they are not responsible for what their customers post legally, while by contrast dropping customers based on their content is pretty much censorship.

Don't think for a minute that dropping Daily Stormer wasn't just about public opinion and turning bad PR into good PR.
One day the AI will escape and he won't be able to stop it that time.
I've seen variations on these experiments for years, but they all seem at least somewhat contrived and don't actually tell me what I really want to know: Do people actually become sick more frequently because they use hand dryers vs. paper towels? One would think that more bacteria colonies on plates would make illness more likely, but it's not a direct measurement of increased rates of illness. That's what I want to see.
It seems to be a plea deal rather than an actual indictment.

Someone please feel free to show me the actual trafficking indictment; I didn't find one on a cursory look.
Everyone wins except for the prison industrial complex. And they got the big lobbyists.
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Alas, it's not possible for an app to block notifications on iOS. You can do more with Android, tho.
Iron filings do a pretty good job of showing us "lines" in physical reality.
The government is absolutely allowed to limit speech on this level within the bounds of the 1st Amendment. Fire-in-a-crowded-theater and all that.
Do you think the users are not already paying for it? If you click on an ad and buy the product, you’re paying for that impression as well as 100s of others that resulted in a small annoyance instead of a conversion.
So many people willing to go to bat for backpage, but why? It's supposedly a moral opposition to censorship or what not. IMHO, it's really a fear that there will be a general crackdown on sexual content online. Great in my opinion, since porn has done so much to destroy our society. The sooner we censor porn the better.
Spoiler: It's corroded and full of gunk - either fungus or bacteria because it's a nice warm spot with plenty of moisture and heat.
That's exactly what breakdowns in hardcore do.
The autopilot can (and probably did) malfunction, but the responsibility rests with the driver.
I'd imagine the same way other real estate investors do--buying up foreclosure inventory from banks.
Why is it that all this general interest news stuff doesn't fall under the HN guideline "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."?

I've resisted saying anything for a long time because it never seems to go well for people complain, but... Come on, so much of what gets posted here is morning talk-show junk. What's the deal? Have I misinterpreted the rule?
It'd expect someone to eventually submit such a patch, though I don't know how urgent this issue is. Iptables isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so Cloudflare can continue to use this method on the edge nodes.
It could matter if there's an outbreak of something transmitted via the digestive system.
Hm, I’ve read elsewhere that burning human flesh smells not unlike cooking pork. I think I’m fine not finding out for myself.