skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't make things safe by optimizing for the common case, and "it can't be safe until after we have tested it on the road" is not a valid reason to allow testing of an unsafe vehicle on public roads.
Probably - its an arms race after all - at this time for the stupider systems the following steps can confuse them
1 - use makeup techniques to make the nose fade into the face and don't let it get a profile view - noses are very important - a prosthetic nose probably won't help tho, cause the nose is an orientation characteristic more than an identification one

2 - eyes and the facial geometry around them are secondary, so no nose and giant movie star sunglasses adds to the machines confusion

3 - collar worn sparkle lighting directed upwards is baffling to machine - silly things keep picking up the light sparkles on the face as feature points (heh)

4 - makeup patterns based on the WW2 ship camouflage mess up geometry detection

Now, all of that will defeat a simple recognizer but if the developers had a lick of sense, the system will still pop it out as anomalous.

Mission impossible facial masks could certainly help, but pretty much everyone is removing the IR filters at this point and the facial thermography would be all messed up

Then there's all the work going on in recognizing more than just a face - I've seen some stuff on incorporating more of the body into the recognition pattern (I've always wanted to watch one of those systems misrecognize Mitch McConnell as a turtle :-) As the available horsepower continues to expand, more of the totality of the individual can be recognized (my own accidental contribution to this is that cheap stereoscopic vision makes it a lot easier/more accurater to pick out foreground from background)
At the end of the day, I think Scott McNeally had it right in the '90s - "You have no privacy. Get over it" I am of mixed minds about this stuff in public spaces, the good and bad examples are evenly distributed
Good idea. You should add a preview of before and after the anonymisation.
Yes, as long as they can recognise them. It's possible to selectively reveal IPs to customers, so an attacking ISP would need the perspective of multiple users to find all VPN hosts. At an extreme, ISPs could run a whitelist instead of a blacklist (allowing connections only to approved hosts; denying by default). It's possible for services to be run on the same IPs / ports as legitimate services, forcing an ISP to choose between blocking both or none. An example of this is Telegram's use of AWS IPs, which when blocked by Russian ISPs caused disruption to other services. ( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/russia_blocks_googl... )
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Bookmarked! Well done.
Do they really care or have they been pushed to care?
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Travis although no longer at Uber should also be held responsible as he was the driving force behind the policies and culture of 'breaking the law' to get ahead.
What Comcast doesn't mention is that when you get a TV bundle to save on internet costs the fees they tack on for TV increase the monthly bill by around 40% of the advertised rate. Bundling TV is actually more expensive when you look at the total bill but people buy according to the advertised rate vs. the actual bill.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999367582271422464

What about trust?

Is there any formal proof (scientific paper) on the possibility of creating a "true" voting system? By "true", I mean that one can mathematically prove the correctness and fullness of the public data (ledger).

We created the zero-knowledge proof a long time ago. Why we can't create a reliable system for anonymous voting/social polls?
If the Uber engineers shared your confidence that it would play out that way, they would not have disabled it.

Redundant safety systems are a great idea, evidently Uber needed more of them, and integrating with the Volvo system might have been a reasonable option. It's silly to suggest that the integration would necessarily have been trivial, though. That's what I'm objecting to.
The other thing the tax bill removed was the exclusion of employer provided relocation support from taxable income. So even if an employer is willing to pay for relocation, that support shows up as taxable income.

The new standard deduction for single filers maxes out at somewhere below $43k. So if your income is anywhere above that, you'd get a tax hit for moving. But even the thought of that hit is a possible disincentive.
I think it is more typically done with old mines. Natural caves are far more complex systems and there are environmental concerns.
Yes it does. I had to build an autocomplete functor which generates an Autocomplete component for arbitrary types when I used ReasonML for my personal budgeting app.
I personally am happy about this. Maybe this will get rid of all the worthless alt coins that were created only pump and dump.

There are a lot of smart people out there working on some of these but I think the solution is the ones where alt coins are simple a 1:1 peg and essentially a side chain. All transactions are still mined by the same people so this attacks go away. At worst, we have 2 or 3 pools that are fighting for the fees and in the process keeping each other honest.
Don't forget an important part of the picture — feed autodiscovery tags. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery...
I think this is a valid point. I can't imagine effectively managing side effects without global state like in Redux.
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Generate heat through friction ... okay, that's crazy. But fire would work (& could be controlled through air flow).
Typescript, Redux, and Immutable.js work together as a pretty compelling stack, but they involve a fair bit of boilerplate compared to Elm or ReasonML.

Elm provides type safety, immutable data structures, and state management in a very compact but readable way. In fact, Redux was strongly inspired by Elm's state management.

All of these stacks are perfectly acceptable choices, so it comes down to a matter of personal preference. I'd encourage everyone to spend some time with Elm and ReasonML. I find them to be productive and very enjoyable tools.
Awk is basically what JavaScript syntax is based on (no really!). The following (while not terribly useful) is both awk and JavaScript:

function f(x, otherArgs) {
r = otherArgs["x"]
for (v in otherArgs)
delete otherArgs[v]
return r
}

JavaScript even uses awk-style regexp literals (though with PCRE semantics, and more features, etc.).
> Some of the worst code I've seen happened to be written in Perl

Second that. Worked with a guy who used (and adored) Perl for more than 15 years. His C++ code was so incomprehensible I had to rewrite many things in my spare time.
Yep. Stumble Upon was great for that. Using it was like pressing buttons on a slot machine. I think Stumble Upon lost it's way soon after they dropped the Firefox toolbar in favor of the integrated iFrame. Only Yahoo! when it first came out, made me feel the way SU did.
Pursued/actual level of gender equality.
Perfectly possible. If it's possible for China to ban Google and for Turkey to ban Wikipedia, you can be sure that an ISP can block a VPN. :) All they have to do is bad a certain range of IP addresses that correspond to that VPN provider.
I think this question is similar to me asking why we should have any "reality television" at all. The existence of a non-zero price demonstrates there is a demand, and quite substantial, for small cryptocurrencies. Just because they may not be your cup of tea ought not lead you to be judge, jury, and executioner in terms of their right to exist.
In addition to what Nathan has said, I'd add we needed a simple native command line tool that could be dropped into any server and easily work along other unix tools like cat, gzip, cut...
also - not pointing any fingers - I suspect for the same reason hexadecimal (which programmers shortened to hex) was used over the proper Latin sexadecimal.
> bigger mental burden on the programmer

Only sometimes. For complex enough problems I think mental burden of writing and maintaining software in less complex language will become more burdensome than the intrinsic burden that comes with more complex language.
Every time you drive a modern car, you fight for control with a computer driving system.

Somehow, it works out.
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Comcast's net profits per subscription is $5 per month. So Comcast on an average makes $60 profit per subscriber. I will not be surprised if Netflix would hit that goal in next 2 years or so. After all profits is what matters and not net income.

Comcast has to employ thousands of support people in India, thousands of technicians all across the USA, cut deals with city administrations, ply those cable lying vans and what not. It is sad that despite all this Herculean work Comcast gets bad rep and very little profits.
Don't you have it the wrong way round? The value (in $) of USDT crashes after they create more of it, because they create more of it (i.e. supply increases). I mean, surely it doesn't make sense to increase supply after USDT crashes (and hence depress the value further)?!
YouTube Testing Non-Chronological Video Order in Subscription Feeds for Some
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Yes, but most paid VPNs have several different servers and ports to choose from for this very reason. Its been a while but Private Internet Access' chat support was very helpful in troubleshooting my ISP throttling my VPN connections.
I could see Russia trying to stir the pot because formenting chaos with plausible deniability seems to be part of Putin’s strategy toward the west, although I would have imagined that the UK would be a more recent target. NK is trying to dethaw relations so that doesn’t make much sense. That leaves you with Iran. Unless of course it’s not a weapon at all. It could even be interference with US counter survalience technology.
https://archive.is/vNxkI
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Thanks for the tip. We plan to add an examples folder. We'll add a preview too.
Only partially off topic: I like the picture "Etienne Dupérac's bird's-eye plan view of the gardens at Villa d'Este, Tivoli" in the article, and (other than the fact that it can be seen as a giant water computer) specifically those multiple maze gardens in there.

The fact that there are multiple maze gardens in there makes me think that maybe this was not as a cool attraction, but with the actual purpose of someone being able to walk all the way to the center of it, sit there with a book or so and have some actual peace and quiet time without too much disturbance of others?

That's quite different from todays always connected world :)
Ask HN: Are you blocking EU traffic tomorrow?
I'm collecting best practices for blocking content on the web ahead of GDPR being enforced (and just curious too). Specifically interested in anyone using the 451 error code ("Unavailable For Legal Reasons").
From what kind of background do you need to come to understand that 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense [1] and most of the people in this world need to work all kinds of unpleasant jobs in order to survive? Is he living in an ivory tower isolated from the rest of humanity?

But I guess, good for him, he may have leaned something really new: a sizable number of people have a hard time, even in first world countries.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-househ...
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Wouldn’t having a specific target be illegal?
Having to do this for every single ad you might be interested in certainly is some way of proving patience, persistence or phone handling skills, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work at a company where that's what is seen as a huge advantage over other candidates...
Throwaway since embarrassed to ask this: What is the knock against Javascript?

Not trolling, besides lack of types it seems like a pretty darn solid, ubiquious, elegant/straightforward language to get things done.

For people with strong opinions about this, what is so horrifying about Javascript to you?
Incredible. What is this software doing on real roads?
>At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision (see figure 2).

>The system is not designed to alert the operator.

>The vehicle operator intervened less than a second before impact by engaging the steering wheel.

>She had been monitoring the self-driving system interface

It seems like this was really aggravated by bad UX. Had the system alerted the user and the user had a big red "take whatever emergency action you think is best or stop ASAP if you don't know what to do" button to mash this could would have had a much better chance of being avoided.

Things coming onto the road unexpectedly isn't exactly an edge case when it comes to crash causing situations. I don't see why they wouldn't at least alert the user if the system detects a possible collision with an object coming from the side and the object is classified as one of a certain type (pedestrian, bike other vehicle, etc, no need to alert for things classified as plastic bags).

I don't see why they disabled the Volvo system. If they were setting up mannequins in a parking lot and teaching the AI to slalom around them I can see why that might be useful but I don't see why they would want to override the Volvo system when on the road. At the very least the cases where the systems disagree are useful for analysis.
This is a big deal. Cryosleep is probably the most likely change to occur in our lifetimes that could bring about significant social change.

Given that it slows your metabolism, I think it’s likely that we’ll be able to extend overall lifespan. Effectively we maybe able to put people to sleep, and have them wake up 50 years later.

Those “temporal refugees” will of course be completely out of sync with society, and like a living message from the past.

Of all the weird sci-fi stuff, I think this is the most likely to actually happen and the impact could be massive.
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I think that Redux provides two things that people like:

1. A pattern to organize their state in that was testable and repeatable

2. A way to maintain global app state without prop drilling

I think that (1) is actually the reason that many people pick Redux in the first place. The amount of global, app-wide state in /most/ applications is fairly small IME. I think that the ReasonML team (which works semi-closely with the React team) is banking on things like Apollo, "suspense", the new context API and other things to further reduce the need for a global state store like Redux.

The ReasonReact devs are trying to follow the principal of least power in providing something that solves (1) for component-level state, which solves the 80%, and wait for the rest of the ecosystem to shake out for the rest.
That reminds me ADA selling points about 20 years ago: Type safe, concurrency, and easy to read syntax.

Of course ADA didn't made it outside military contractors.

Anyone dos know why?
I think drugs, especially drugs like meth, are usually an important detail in vehicle collision investigations.
> The man, who authorities identified only by his surname, Yu, is accused of having stolen around $17,000 worth of potatoes in 2015.

That's a lot of potatoes to move!
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>the first crews to Mars may have to deal with day after day of seeing nothing but the star-flecked blackness of space.

Yeah I don't understand this at all. Currently there is a Space Station circling the earth which people spend months at a time on, and they're busy as all hell. I doubt there will be nothing to do on a trip to Mars.
You're being very charitable in your assumption that Uber 'engineers' gave it much thought at all.

(Were any Professional Engineers even involved in this? Or was it just a bunch of "software engineers"?)
Why need a full storefront? Why not make them kiosks that others can put in their existing stores to boost foot traffic? i could see this being something walgreens added (like redbox).
If Tether is a scam, they'd care more about the value of Bitcoin and the altcoins being propped up with it (as that's where they'd be actually making their money) than the value of Tether.
What do you think about software engineering assessments?
> making separate implementations no longer necessary

Until you actually start to implement gesture disambiguation and realize that pointer events are useless [1][2]

1. https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/178

2. https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/216
Comcast makes $5 per subscriber in profits per month. Netflix with $12 per month revenue might end up making $5 in profits pretty soon. That is all that matters.

Also Netflix is not a Comcast competitor. Healthy Comcast network helps Netflix too. It is like saying SpaceX is bigger than Disney. Comparison makes no sense.

Netflix is not gonna hurt cable as much as ipod did not hurt FM radio. So I think people need to take a chill pill.
Why not just put it into USD when they are done for the day?
In NYC Verizon FIOS starts at $40/mo for 100/100 service.
PureScript has a lenient FFI so you can choose to use 99% pure functions if you like (at your own risk).
By that logic McDonalds, Home Depot and Walmart would have been out of business decades ago. Local store turn over has zero indication of management.
The irony is that this is 100% the what MobilEye said in their in their model demo I think 3-4 years ago.
Their CEO said that the regulators cannot regulate all breaking conditions and should should only test for false negatives exactly to prevent this.
He stated that dealing with flase positives is going to be in the best interest of every manufacturer and the easiet thing to do is to disable the breaks completely but that would be fairly easy to detect in any structured test or a test drive.
Any thing else would be a problem because you would be stacking tolerances and worse creating test cases with a clear conflict of interest where the interests of the car maker and the regulator align.
I would disagree with you slightly. Energy is not totally fungible. I can punch you in the face or shoot you with a gamma ray (edit: though of course, I would never do either), and it would have very different effects, potentially. Same for a fastball vs a small caliber weapon. Heat, light, and kinetic energy are important distinctions - particularly when you have a bunch of 30k flywheels in close proximity and one of them catastrophically fails. Now, I know that's the first thing someone would think about deploying a bunch of them and they would take precautions. Li batteries are less kinetic and more thermal and that's a bit easier to manage/less likely to cascade.

I thought the trend in flywheels was magnetic suspension and removing mechanical linkages? Admittedly I haven't kept up.
>but is it possible for ISPs to block particular VPNs ?

yes, at both the network level (by blocking IP ranges belonging to VPN services) and protocol level (ie. known handshake sequences for VPN software). but both can be easily bypassed with a few google searches.
Nice little FUD by WSJ in their subheadline: "Pedestrian tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana" -- not referred to again in the article, moreover I have trouble seeing the relevance to the accident.
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I'm irritated at myself for swallowing Uber's initial line on this (and the interpretation of the officers who reviewed the cam footage provided by Uber) without sufficient critique.

This accident should have been avoided. No excuses.
So out of curiosity, are you looking to do this because you can't work out what is necessary, or because you choose not to comply with the requirements?

Also, from some advice I've seen, if someone is actually physically based in the EU, but they access facilities over the 'net via a connection that appears to come from the USA, the person is still covered by the GDPR, and so the company providing the service, even though they can't tell that the customer is residing in the EU, might still be required to comply with the GDPR.
It seems strange to me that PornHub would be entering the VPN space - it's already got pretty stiff competition as it is, it'll be tough to beat off the exiting players if they wanna get a firm handhold. Though with various governments banning any VPNs they come across, maybe it's not so bad to get some fresh meat.
However much thought they gave it, I guarantee that everyone in this comment train has given it much less. It wasn't a trivial decision, their choice is not prima facie evidence of negligence.
According to DOJ [1], "Someone" is Fancy Bear [2] and the FBI has seized control [3] of the C&C domain (ToKnowAll.com)

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear

[3] https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/24/fbi-seizes-domain-russia...
> But my understanding is that you would not be using redux (if you are now) because it doesn't make sense in a language like ReasonML.

Why would using Redux not make sense? It's not like the problem of sharing state between components goes away with a functional language?
It seems incredibly short sighted too! Buy the rights to streaming a show that someone else made could, and probably tends to be far more expensive than producing your own in house content...

Plus I do genuinely believe that Netflix has been successful in creating new interesting, quality content and partnering with a variety filmmakers. Some of their docu-series have rivaled HBO's Documentaries!
I don’t think the “erratic behavior” quote is related to the stock Volvo emergency braking system. The report notes that that also existed and was disabled (justifiably) while Uber’s self-driving system was active. But apparently Uber’s own system had an emergency braking function that was also disabled:

> At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision[..]

[emphasis mine]

> In Uber’s self-driving system, an emergency brake maneuver refers to a deceleration greater than 6.5 meters per second squared (m/s2).
Another Lisp based game was Abuse.

http://abuse.zoy.org
My point is more about ethics in tech than a specific language. I expected downvotes, but wish that the industry were different.
No, they’re diving in because they want the early growth and infrastructure without the need to build it themselves.

That “rounding error” can be seen in a different light, it’s an area of the market that is making significant progress YoY.

This isn’t a play for the next year, it’s seeing the YoY growth of this vertical within their market and wanting to capitalize on that.

The world is and has been moving towards “easier” and services that provide immediate gratification. In-store meal kits are right in that category.

People don’t want to buy homes, cars or big ticket items anymore, there’s a culture of “leasing” because of the inconvenience that goes along with the maintenance/upkeep of those items. In a similar vein, lots of people view cooking “healthy” meals to be difficult (it’s not) but are willing to spend a little more to get a simple meal to cook that is either healthy or gives the illusion of being so.

$200M is dirt cheap to acquire the talent, and all of the existing processes of the company.

Add in the scale of someone like Kroger, and the price per unit they can acquire is going to be vastly cheaper then someone like Blue Apron or the various other meal kit startups.

You end up placing these in their stores on endcaps and other areas where it’s only a bit more per person to buy a meal kit that’s marketed as “healthy” and they’re going to fly off the shelf.

This is one acquisition that makes a ton of sense to me, and Kroger likely sees In-Store meal kits as continuing to grow tremendously YoY.