skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d feel a lot better about acquisitions if it ever resulted in anything better. Oh, they all say “now we’ll be able to do $WONDERFUL_THING” to ensure the deal is approved. After that, it’s either: something that people really like is killed off to save 4 cents a year, or service becomes crappier, or monthly bills mysteriously go up, or all of the above.
Take a look at lnav (https://lnav.org), you might be pleasantly surprised.
I think this is more of a complement to Selenium, where you can use Selenium to drive the browser to test the UI, with Polly providing recorded back-end responses.
I need to look into it more, but this might address a need we have to make it easy (and quick) for our front-end developers to run our test suite locally during development, without having to spin up anything in the backend or rely on flaky non-Production environments.

EDIT: I am aware there are many other tools that can address this, we just haven't had the time yet to implement them. :)
The example is form filling though:

await fillIn('email', 'polly@netflix.com');
await fillIn('password', '@pollyjs');

This is exactly like selenium code I've written to login. I struggle to see the difference in purpose.
I can see why journalists might be concerned about that, but I think whatever he creates should be judged for what it is - it's possible he has good intentions.
There is no such thing as anonymous data. The belief that something is anonymous is simply an aspect of statistical ignorance or naiveté.

And, since we can't know in advance all the ways data can be combined, recombined, projected, and analyzed there is no such thing as informed consent to use said data unless specifically restricted to a single analysis using only given data.
So, why do non-autopilot crashes keep happening?
Might want to rephrase the 2nd bit, if you're trying to conceal which BigConsultingCo you worked for.
But it's not impossible to have some tool that records all of those interactions to reproduce later. A smart enough tool could record everything since you open the site until you click save. It would not reproduce the functionality that is backend dependent, but iy sure can replicate the dom, etc.
Am I missing something?
It’s clear the Tesla is dealing with this as a PR/marketing problem, but the fail miserably even at that.

If you think it’s a PR/marketing problem and the system operates as it should, then stop calling it Autopilot and stop advertising cars with full autopilot capabilities*

* “Theoretically the hardware should be enough to enable full auto pilot some time in the future. At the moment use this other Autopilot, which is not really autopilot. Btw we made this really cool autopilot video, but it’s not the Autopilot you have in your car.”
I still don't get why we do this [mocking http endpoints].

Sure this makes the problem of mocking the server less painful. Well done. But I'd take completely integrated tests over these any day. Sure they're slower but that's more or less irrelevant with feature toggling, staged roll-out and continuous production monitoring.

It's totally possible to completely avoid mocking http endpoints thus making these tools completely obsolete.
lnav + mitmdump!
“a tax cut is actually a government subsidy” - only if you believe that all money earned by residents of a country is actually the property of the government, for them to distribute as they see fit.
Exactly. Always apply the DRY principle.
Not to shamelessly plug but if you're in the Bay Area on June 28, we're giving a talk that's a bit about performance, a bit about Netflix engineering culture: https://jstalks2018.splashthat.com/.
I think that may be one attraction. With relative ease to raise funds in US, they can gobble up other global competitors , especially if the competition is cut throat (so very slim profit margins). They can easily become the dominant player if they can keep raising funds and acquire competitors in few more rounds.
Same reason the autopilot crashes happen: Driver isn't paying attention.

Problem is that the autopilot system makes it harder for the driver to pay attention.
The video seems ludicrous. They fail to show that same test with a Tesla in autopilot crashing into the back of a car in manual mode. I doubt a manual driver would be able to ovoid that rear-end accident. I could be wrong, but they should demonstrate it with scientific results and facts instead of making fear-mongering promotional videos.
One part of the article I really don't understand, "The researchers relied on the millions of transaction records that are captured on the public ledgers of all virtual currency transactions, known as the blockchain, to spot patterns." Why is he looking at the blockchain for trading irregularities? Nearly all of the big exchanges just use a database to record trades and no actual cryptocurrency is transferred around except at withdrawal and deposit, so how can the blockchain possibly provide any insight?
I tried Firefox Focus, Firefox Mobile, and Chrome. Just tested again and it's working now though. Looks interesting!
Given the Model 3's poor stopping distance, you may unfortunately be correct that even an aware driver couldn't stop in that space.

Car distance (feet)
Model 3(orig) 152
Model 3 (new) 133
F-150 129
Model X 127
Camry Hybrid 125
F-150 Lariat 119
Model S 118
Porsche P.GTS 110 - Panamera
Chrysler 300S 109
I thought of Amazon Polly.. converts text to lifelike speech.
Its still a short/long term liability on their balance sheet... until they have substantial enough assets (eg 5-18B worth of future revenue) they are working out of a massive negative equity hole.
The occasional lack of efficiency/productivity should be reflected in your billable rate, that is, the rate should reflect your level of (relevant) skill, any specialized knowledge, and mean productivity, not max.

Then there is no problem with just billing the spent hours without any fudging one way or the other.
> Text is great, and most logs will be in text. But I also sometimes want to inspect data, or expand JSON, or view an image, etc etc. But let's even stick with text -- a good viewer would let me set up filters on a host of structured qualities -- filenames, lines, log levels, keywords, etc.

So, it sounds like you want a debugging library you can include in the language you are using to output structured debug lines and a client side that goes along with it to represent the usefully (or just use text+JSON and a JSON aware client), and to just stick it on top of syslog. I think that pretty much covers what you're asking for.
You can be sued for the entire value, but in all likelihood the lessor would expect you to pay until you or they find another lessee.
Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) 2.0
It's amazing how literally everything in this book is still relevant in 2018, it really is the bible of flying. Take for example this line:

> The so-called "elevator" is really the airplane's speed control, the throttle is really
its up-and-down control. This is hard to believe but is one of the keys to the art of piloting.
> /* start: pseudo test code */
HTTP/1.1 to the backend? How about HTTP/2 so people can run gRPC services straight through without translations?
Our local librarians are amazing. They help manage/operate the 3D printers including helping you fix/convert your files. They trouble shoot the PCs themselves, help connect people's random devices to the WiFi and manage the network. They know more about the books than I can ever comprehend (oh you're after a book on Japanese wood joinery? Sure 3 aisles down, about halfway down the aisle on the left, 2nd shelf from the bottom!). They're experts on information storage and searching, crafting complex queries in seconds for the various digital databases the terminals offer there. They do kids story times, and manage out of control families and troublesome patrons. All while being the friendliest staff of any Government amenity I've been to.

Such an underrated role in the community.
Yes, because everyone who doesn't share your unicorns and rainbows vision of crypto clearly has not thought about it. It couldn't possibly be that there are people who disagree with you.
I think, it is a nice idea and it's necessary due to increase of fake news, or paid news. Also I don't think it's the only solution but it may be the simplest way to counter.
Don't be so sure of not being so sure about that. The banks that got bailed out certainly weren't the only ones that existed, and in fact there were many more back then than there are now since they used the bailouts to buyout their competition. There are only 3 big 'just a credit reporting agency' megacorps and few smaller contenders. Given that our entire economy now is so heavily driven by debt and credit, it's not a stretch at all to consider that someone could be convinced that it's dangerous to the balance of power and to the economy in general to let one of the Big 3 go under.
The net loss is meaningless currently. You're quoting the $933 million as though it matters: it does not.

That's a sub 3% dilution on their valuation. Laughable with the capital that is freely flowing right now.

It only matters if the music stops at a time when their finances are in very bad shape. If you had polled HN about that, you would have gotten four years ago as the popular answer to when the music was going to stop.

Amazon took the exact same risk, bleeding vast red ink to expand aggressively, financing itself with free flowing capital during a bubble. So is this comparable to 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2007, none of those? Who knows, especially given the behavior of central banks is aggressively interventionalist post 2007.
Yes, you can buffer up and kill any misspeculated updates. You have to do this for ALL shared structures, not just data caches. Annoying, but not impossible.

The scarier part is managing bandwidth contention to shared structures.
Thanks, this discussion is going well. I want to add that it wasn't nhtsa, it was Tesla's data which nhtsa cited without any fact checking. But since Tesla has been parroting nhtsa's citation, they have since then withdrawn their support for Tesla's data. You would have read that in the article. Further we need to compare not only pre-aeb vs aeb vs aeb+autosteer, but also aeb+lane_keeping_assist, which we unfortunately won't have.

So, let me reiterate -- we agree that autosteer is lane keeping assist given more responsibility. If that's helpful to the driver or dangerous as it distracts him is a debate were should have with better data, which we don't have. Unfortunately, I personally don't trust Tesla giving data without any hidden unsaid caveats, given their behavior till date.

However, there is another topic we should talk about. Do you think improving autosteer lane detection with vision will make a car driverless capable? Because that's precisely Tesla markets their technology as, with coast to coast drive, or cross country summon, or driverless taxis. I personally don't believe a line following robot is enough for self driving. Infact, I like Google's approach more, where they drive only when the road is free of any object (3d mapped by lidar).

Even then, I don't think that's enough either. For example, say a ball bounces on front of you. I stop expecting a child or a dog running after it. I think driving means interacting with the environment, and responding appropriately to it, and would require a general AI.
You seem very angry and judgmental about people's choices about what to consume and it's not even very clear what exactly you are angry about. The only thing that you reference explicitly is lattes.
Whether or not owning a gun makes you statistically safer is another matter entirely from whether or not guns can be used for self defense. There is no shortage of real world examples of guns being used for self defense. So objectively they are used for self defense. They're also used for murder, hunting, target practice, looking nice on a shelf, etc.

Incidentally, that article includes suicide. Leaving aside the issue of whether or not somebody should be permitted to make such a decision about their own life, statistics don't apply to individuals in the way you are implying. While you could determine that owning increases the rate of successful suicide in a population, you cannot say it makes that man right there, named Bob more likely to kill himself. Because you don't know anything about Bob. Bob may be the sort of man who never even fleetingly contemplates suicide once in his entire life. If Bob were such a man, owning a gun would not make it particularly likely for Bob to commit suicide.

Furthermore whether or not Bob trusts his wife to not murder him with his gun is a matter completely removed from whether or not Bob ever uses his gun in self defense, or whether he owns it for self defense but never uses it for self defense (the later being orders of magnitude more common.)
The two things I don't see bittorrent utilized for nowadays are livestreaming, and file matching.
Sure, there's some demos of bittorrent live, but it's not hit the mainstream yet. 30-60 second stream delay should be plenty of time to sync video to everybody.
File matching would be neat too. Just scan your files against a DHT database and you'll never have to worry about losing them again. Just as long as there's seeds.
> The debt is already so large that this barely affects the momentum.

The idea that a 66% increase in the deficit "barely affects the momentum" is absurd reflects either your ignorance or your bad faith. Apply that logic to your personal spending and see how long it takes before you're bankrupt.
So...why is it that the default autopilot behavior isn't to slow down drastically if the driver doesn't initiate manual control fast enough?
maybe only on things that have huge targets on their backs?
I use R most of the time and I find R notebooks very data exploration friendly. It makes it easy to back and forth just like Jupyter notebook. Producing HTML files from Rmarkdown files is also analysis friendly.

99% of the time I use tidyverse with no noticeable impact on the performance. For that occasional 1%, I must admit datatable package works out really well. tidyverse pipes are so unixy that makes it easy to transition to command such as cut, head, sort and column if needed without any mental contortion.

I have used Python occasionally and with method chaining, it can almost simulate the "dplyr" like syntax. However, it is hard to find some obscure statistical test out of the box which is easy in R.
Nonsense. Absolute horse shit.

This is a tax cut paid for in borrowing that will be paid later with...taxes.
You can't do it with a real sphere because it's made of atoms and bends the space around it. Forget spheres, you can't even cut a string into infinitely many pieces.
Yes. Think about it this way: if having Autopilot on requires the same amount of attention/effort as having it off, then there would essentially be no point to the system whatsoever. The entire idea is that the system takes over some of the driving tasks to make the experience more pleasant, just like how regular cruise control is convenient because it frees you from having to pay attention to maintaining the car's speed by pressing the accelerator pedal.

The question is, does it reduce the amount of attention paid to a significant enough degree that it's dangerous? Consider subways -- most of them have automatic train control systems in place that could effectively drive the trains automatically. However, operators are still required to control the speed, largely because it keeps them engaged.

Give an operator nothing to do, and they won't pay attention -- this is basic human psychology (look up "Vigilance Tasks" if you're interested in further reading).
Whoa there.

I use lisp and R. While R evolved from lisp, which let's me understand how it does certain things, I don't know if I'd describe it as more like lisp than python.

Indeed, the analogy I use to describe to friends why I have a strong emotional distaste for R is to use the following analogy:

Imagine you grew up as a heterosexual male. In your early years, you have fond memories of a young girl whom you had a fling with.

She drops off your radar, and you run into her 30 years later. She's gotten breast implants, botched her face with plastic surgery, and went through a rather traumatic divorce and reinvention of herself.

To your friends who lived on an island where there were no women and kept in basements and were regularly beaten by other stats programs, she might even be beautiful, and she certainly pays them attention to their base desires that they crave.

To you, she'll always be a mangled shadow of her former self and what could have been...
Your entire rationalization is that 'too big to fail' is all about debt and credit, because that is such an inordinately huge part of today's economy. What business do you think Equifax and its competitors are intimately involved in, if not debt and credit?
Ludicrous and not 100% scientifically sound are two very different things. The Tesla doesn't appear to brake at all going in, as has been the case in actual crashes. A driver may not be able to avoid any accident but almost certainly could apply brakes to some extent. That braking can be the difference between life and death.
The video seems plausible. I mean, I regularly avoid road hazzards I cannot see until the car in front of me moves to avoid them. The key is to not be an ass and tailgate the person in front of you so you have time to react.
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid
I'm just a non-lawyer law geek (and former law student), but my understanding is: precedent does matter in small claims court to the same extent as in regular court, but rules of procedure and evidence are relaxed, the ability to appeal the judgment can be limited (not always zero), and the judges sometimes have less training than in regular courts. A lot of these specifics are determined by laws which vary by state, but I don't think any states formally take a different approach to precedent in small claims specifically.

As for California vs Vermont, those are in different states and under the jurisdiction of different federal courts of appeals. Therefore the only directly binding judicial precedents shared between them would be from the US Supreme Court (and some from England at the time of US independence).

However, if there's no controlling binding precedent, most courts would be willing to consider other states' sufficiently relevant judgments at a persuasive but non-binding level.
From a recent article[0]:

> When a car is moving at low speeds, slamming on the brakes isn't a big risk. A car traveling at 20mph can afford to wait until an object is quite close before slamming on the brakes, making unnecessary stops unlikely. Short stopping distances also mean that a car slamming on the brakes at 20mph is unlikely to get rear-ended.

But the calculation changes for a car traveling at 70mph. In this case, preventing a crash requires slamming on the brakes while the car is still far away from a potential obstacle. That makes it more likely that the car will misunderstand the situation—for example, wrongly interpreting an object that's merely near the road as being in the road. Sudden braking at high speed can startle the driver, leading to erratic driving behavior. And it also creates a danger that the car behind won't stop in time, leading to a rear-end collision.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274179
Shared access to shared resources, like a rented storage unit, or anywhere combo locks are used by multiple people. Somewhere between work, with a professional security team and people I've never met, and my home, with a very very short list of people with keys, is the use case for Masterlock's version of this product (because I've used it/their app; I can't speak to the linked product's app).

I rent workshop space with several other people in a shared warehouse (think semi-private TechShop), and the previous two options are keys, which get lost and is one more thing to keep track of, or a combo lock, where the three numbers can be shared with friends, and in the end there's no way to know who has access unless the combo gets changed, plus it's something to forget. Having a Bluetooth enabled lock allows us to grant, but more importantly revoke access over the Internet.

The lock itself does not need Internet access via WiFi.
That's part of mocha or whatever. Polly is the server part.
In that video, does the Tesla try to brake, and brake hard?

This seems to be the case -- if you watch the video the Tesla is at a full stop about 10 feet after the car, implying it must have hit the brakes hard way beforehand.

In that case, I don't blame Telsa for crashing -- you literally are baiting it into the crash a la a bull with a flag. You make it follow one car, prevent it from changing lanes, and then have an obstacle parked in the middle of the lane.

I'm all for getting Tesla to be safer. The accident count has gotten way too high. But this seems to be a test that is rigged, and Tesla did break.
It's not always easy. Especially not if your API is stateful.
Because it's been shown that it does not account in any way for stationary objects. It doesn't see any danger at all ahead.
I read a few of each in High school. Koontz was fun but to me felt a bit more targeted for mass appeal (as weird as that feels to say in comparison to King). Then again, for King I was reading stuff like The Stand and The Dark Tower series, which may or may not be indicative of the rest of his work (which I mostly know through the movies made from them)?
What's a W-9? Tax form for judgement income?
Clojure's not often mentioned clojure.inspector namespace contains two functions: inspect-table and inspect-tree. They roughly approximate Console.table() and Console.dir(). I tend to get more mileage out of inspect-tree, but even so I find it limiting. I dream for a graphical object diffs and a version that when passed an atom or ref, auto-updates when it changes.
I don't fly, but it's a tough road. Senior pilots at the big airlines make good money, but it takes a lot of years working for peanuts at the regionals to get there.
Hope you teach your new students 'crabbing' techniques during cross-wind landings before sending them off solo. I remember during one solo cross country taking-off from a V-shaped private field lined with 50 foot trees, zero evident or forecast winds, and after second rotation (which just happened to be at tree-top level) was hit by a cross-wind from the left. Now as we know it's not particularly healthy to attempt flying sideways 70 feet AGL so full right rudder was applied until the wings 'bit' and ascent was stable. Interesting that early exposure to cross-wind landings did trigger that immediate corrective response.
There is an entire genre of such tools now. Some names to look up are BlackDuck Hub[0] (commercial) and CoreOS Clair[1] (opensource).

At Pivotal we use both -- BlackDuck is built into a number of our pipelines and Clair is shipped as part of PKS (in the Harbor registry[2] contributed by VMWare).

A lot of our customers also use other security scanning tools that have expanded to include container scanning.

[0] https://www.blackducksoftware.com/products/hub

[1] https://github.com/coreos/clair

[2] https://github.com/vmware/harbor
Ooh I should have provided more context. I only use Chrome for development and when I can't for the life of me figure out which addon in firefox is breaking the page.

FWIW, I still use SS on chrome, now that firefox has SS I can hopefully just use purely FF for browsing and just have a different profile with minimal addons. I'd still have to have chrome for development though.
machine learning has been tried a dozen times and failed every time.

Other developments catch up, like compiler technology. Not directly related to branch prediction, but: We are much better at polyhedral optimization than the last time people tried VLIW, for example.

Besides, the last major VLIW push (itanium) DID have SpecEx AND Branch Prediction, and did NOT have delay slots.