skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the car has the capacity for manual override, the owner (negligence)

There are plenty of ways a self-driving car could mess up and cause an accident where you do not have enough time to react to it. Not "you should have been paying more attention". As in "You are not superhuman enough to react in time, period".

Say, swerving on the highway into oncoming traffic. Some (incredibly rough) numbers: if you're going 108km/h and the car suddenly swerves into the other lane of a two-lane highway, if it's 20m between start of swerve and hitting the vehicle in the other lane, that's 2/3 of a second. You can't do that. You (or rather, an average person) are not going to be able to recover in time. The reaction time for an alert driver is something like 0.7s on average. [1]

And that's not the most pessimistic assumptions either.

[1] First link I found: http://www.technology-assoc.com/articles/reaction-time.html
I vaguely recall a quote from Musk saying something like SpaceX wouldn't IPO until it was making regular deliveries to a martian colony.
And rightfully so. Some laws exist to protect the consumer. Most laws exist to extort money and funnel it to a very specific group of people.
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Great eye. Will fix. Thanks.
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I wish we had such course in school. I may have paid more attention! Fantastic use of contextual imagery with digestible content.
I'm curious: Would you have the same stance if you released some (non-free) software or a non-free hardware product and it was really successful? Would you want people to ignore the copyright then? Would you be happy for it to show up entirely cloned in the far East?

People seem to have this disgust of Copyright / paying for music / paying for films / paying for software and justify it with vague arguments about "fat cats" and "sticking it to the man" but then would obviously object to people taking their own stuff....
Completely agree. It's problem at the domain level, and not in REST per se.
What I mean is that the company would be in a better position now if he had left five or more years ago, because he is not a very good leader.
Oh god the arrogance and naivety.

Yes, all import tax laws exist with the sole reason of funneling money to specific group of evil people, this is absolutely true regardless of circumstance or the country or product category. Things like local market production and foreign trade balance and a gazillion other factors never play a role.

/sarcasm.

Even if the law is out of bad intention, the best way to get it changed is to break it right? Be..because JUSTICES TRIUMPHS ALL IN THE END RIGHT?

/facepalm
I have 3 Mailbox for Mac betacoins but nobody to give them to
You can download Mailbox for Mac (beta) here:
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have at them:

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The Content-Location response header can carry the value URL without a redirect. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...

With canonical representations (standardised whitespace and key sort order etc) a hash can be used as a content-addressable key in place of a UUID.
Did they talk about how they would make money, or is it a non-profit that YC is funding?
Jonahx your response summarizes my feelings pretty well. To add to this, I found the post perplexing considering that REST also has cache constraints as described at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch.... This makes some statements in the article strange. For example: "Very rarely will a RESTful URL specify an Expires header . . ." Leaving aside that Expires is not the only cache header http offers (see http://odino.org/rest-better-http-cache/ for others), the main problem with this statement is that it suddenly makes the system he is describing not-quite-RESTful. It raises the question are you really in a RESTful style if you throw your hands up and ignore the cache part of the style. I would say that ignoring cache is an assumption that Dziuba is making which partly results in the problem he describes, along with having incorrect domain modeling. Restore the cache piece to the system and it would be able to deal with the stale-price-problem just fine by noticing that the price is stale and requesting a fresh one.
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> Can you point me to any projects that manipulate UTF-8 encoded in-memory strings and actually use a different type for it them?

Glib seems to.

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.37/glib-Strings.html

Though in complete fairness the type appears to be just a "bags of bytes" type and so could hold anything, it's really meant to hold UTF-8 (as you can tell from the functions that append/prepend Unicode chars).
Hacking used to mean anyone using a keyboard.
AL,CHEROKEE,4930-01-442-9106,"DRUM,HOSE REEL",1,Each,1630.97,2013-06-20

AL,CHEROKEE,5120-00-222-2220,"MALLET,RAWHIDE ",3,Each,50.31,20120518

CA,LOS ANGELES,3530-DS-SEW-ING0,"INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACH, MOBILE TEXTILE",2,Each,0,2014-02-19

Stop this madness.
I haven't heard about Sandstorm before and while I'm not sure how it works yet, from the brief look at the project page I can tell one thing - they have their philosophy in the right place. I'll be following it closely because I appreciate someone finally noticing that the web and the cloud is frikkin' backwards and doing something about it.
I can't speak for rffn, but many people want to avoid using the 2.4GHz spectrum due to congestion.

In the 2.4GHz band there is a limited amount of space available, and there are now many wireless routers in typical residential neighbourhoods all competing for the same space. Many other devices such as cordless phones, baby monitors, and wireless speakers also use 2.4GHz and interfere with wifi signals. Most microwaves generate significant amounts of noise in the 2.4 GHz band when in use.

In the 5GHz band there is much more space available, and there are many fewer competing devices and sources of interference. The penalty of 5GHz is slightly less range, and more expensive wifi equipment.
It's a non-profit.
Roulette can also beat indexes, but usually doesn't.
That's not how it works. You're arguing against a system that nobody is planning to build.
> His argument continues that price is only one thing, there may be more.

Indeed. A new model is needed, and that new model would have all the relevant attributes. I can think of two ways to do this (using ActiveRecord-ish naming conventions).

One way would be to have an InvoiceRow to represent the presentational details of each row in an Invoice, like name and price, perhaps along with a reference to the actual model it came from, like product_id. The Product model could change, but the Invoice would still have all the InvoiceRows it needs to display and reason about that invoice without fear of mutation.

Another way would be to have a robust versioning system. So a Product might have only an id, and there could be many ProductVersions that hold all the real info (name, price, etc.) and reference the same Product via product_id. ProductVersions would of course be immutable. Then the Order model in the example would return product_version_id, and could therefore look up the actual name and price at the time the order was made.

For the narrow example from this article, I think the first example fits better and is much simpler.
Operational costs will prevent most of the MRAPs from seeing any use. 6MPG is horrible, and fuel costs are a big budgetary item for most public safety departments.
Immunity Project and BlockScore are my favorites. Both appear to be solving real problems at the right level of scope (rather than providing feature support for a niche, for ex.).
Well, if we look to religious texts, they have been the cornerstone of social control for millennia. There may be better tools, but judgement and shame have been undeniably effective.
That's a meaningless comparison unless you account for population differences. Per capita would be useful to show.
I agree with you. I re-read it multiple times and doing it again in these days. The content has been so helpful in critical situations in my life like the death of my father.
I should probably buy the Audible version too...

Another great book that I would like to suggest is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
with respect to neptune.io : What are some of the existing products that are capable of remediation ? Cant products like Whatsup gold do this ?
Early biotech funding takes off as life science startups make Demo Day debut
This was actually passed as a law in Georgia recently. They put billboards up telling slow people to get out of the left lane and gave out tickets en masse during the first week it was a law.
Agree with your comment, but an inundation of these type of comments on HN in the past seem like a very good indicator that the company will succeed to the tune of multi-billion$ valuations.
I guess I live in a bubble then because even the recruiters I've worked with suggested a "Side Projects" field on my resume. This despite my highly relevant employment history.
A little off topic, but if it goes off and is in the news, it will be useful to know how to pronouce Bárðarbunga: http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2014/08/19/how_to_pronounc...

The key is that 'ð' is not really a 'd' sound, it's a 'th' sound. But it's the 'th' sound you make in 'feather' and not like the one you make in 'this'. (Pay attention where your tongue is as you say the words; all "th" sounds are not alike. The other 'th' sound is 'Þ' in Icelandic)
"They are meant for investors who may cast doubt onto Microsoft's future with such a key member of the board stepping down."

Yeah, because Ballmer contributed so much to Microsoft. Just look at the stock price http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT&t=my&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

Ballmer was the CEO from January 2000 to February 2014
Intellectual Vultures would be a more apt name.
At the same time, here in Argentina we invented the Convertibility: "One Peso equal to One Dollar" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Currency_Board The main difference is that here the pesos were always "actual" bills, but the real started as "imaginary" bills.

It worked initially (better than I expected), but we have an inflation that was 1% or 2% over the dollar inflation. So after 10 years we have a 20% difference in price, but we maintained the "One Peso equal to One Dollar" until it exploded. IIRC in Brazil the transition from 1-1 to 1-X was softer.
Just ordered my glowing plant seeds today, really excited to see how it turns out.
"dead" means a mod killed a link, comment or even an entire account. You can go to your profile settings and select "showdead" to see dead posts.

At it's best, "dead" indicates spam removal, or a shadowban of a spammer. Unfortunately, when it's applied in appropriately, the poster doesn't realize.

In this case, there's a comment that I think was removed incorrectly.
Good architecture is a windmill? Something you tilt at, I'm guessing? Not heard a direct analogy like that.
No problem! Thank you, that page is interesting.
wonderful to see the "ML-like features in a C-level language" space being explored so enthusiastically these days.
If it shames people from joining them and filing garbage software patents, then yes.

You aren't going to convince someone that works at IV one way or another. Its not like they haven't heard the arguments before. Its just that they don't care.
Pretty good read. I'd love to go down there and visit some of these shops, just for the hell of it. I buy quite a lot of accessories from AliExpress myself

The server seems to be down/extremely slow to load. Try the Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UevJZk_...
> Speed limits in North America were lowered to save fuel during the oil shortages in the latter half of the 20th century and subsequently were never raised.

I can't speak to Canada, but they were certainly raised afterwards in much of the U.S. The only exceptions I've come across are roads and highways that are frequently congested (e.g. in DC) or local municipalities doing the speed trap thing. But most states raised to at least 65 mph from 55.
Read the second half of the sentence you quoted.
I shyed away from bitcoin after finding out about the group that captured 51% of the blockchain.

Just knowing that's a possibility is a big nope for me
> The problem that I see with REST is that it leads in general to APIs that tend to transfer logic to the client.

That's just bad API design -- specifically poorly chosen resources.

> I know that there is some encapsulation because only a representation is transferred but still, REST interfaces tend to represent state and not behaviour. Am I wrong?

They by definition transfer the state of a resource. So, in a trivial sense, you are correct. Substantively, though, there is no reason an individual REST resource couldn't be an instance of a behavior, or that state modifications to a resource couldn't trigger modifications to many back-end entities (and other front-end exposed resources.)

To use RDBMS languages, REST resources are often treated like base tables when they should be more like application-specific updateable views. This has nothing to do with REST architecture, and everything to do with the fact that domain modelling is harder than implementing an API, and yet (regardless of the architecture chosen for the API) people often spend more effort on implementing the API than designing the domain model.
I've yawned between 10 and 15 times while reading the article...
>costing each user (and likely themselves when the users sue) hundreds of dollars in damage

Qualified immunity.
Investing in stocks is more labor-intensive than investing in funds. I can identify a few great managers that will do very well over time, write them a check, and be done. By your logic, why should anyone give YC or a16z money? I mean, if I know that YC is better at picking startups, why don't I just go pick my own startups? It's two different skillsets.

It's clearly not the case that I cannot select a set of hedge funds that is less risky than the S&P500. Fixed income funds, for example are much less risky (ignoring for argument's sake some details like inflation risk). I don't know if the "average" hedge fund is more or less risky than the S&P500. Depends how you define average. But no one is investing in the average, you couldn't do so even if you wanted to.
I don't really know about the implementation details or anything, I just went through the sign-up flow and was really surprised at how simple it was.
I was part of a "partnership" with IV and MagicJack.

http://www.intellectualventures.com/news/press-releases/magi...

Even though the PR seems to say that MJ is joining the force - you can clearly see that none of the original Vocaltec/Magicjack VoIP patents have been asserted against anyone else/used as defense in any patent lawsuit. By playing ball, we were able to use their patent portfolio to defend against the MANY patent lawsuits brought against MJ. It did help in a few cases when we were sued over a number of different VoIP and USB-related patents. From what I remember, though, it was expensive to be in their alliance and you had to contribute your own patents as well. The idea itself is interesting. I think a non-profit could better fill the need for everyone sharing a big patent blanket.
What type of quantum computer is Rigetti building?
Hardly any posts. Nothing that interests me.
I'm quite certain Intel is pretty focused on making faster, smaller and more efficient processors.
I should hire 150+ engineers oversea and get that Yacht-time tonight.
I'd argue that he'd likely make a poor decision regardless of the passion involved.
Thanks! Hoping you'll find we know what we're doing technically as well. :)

Funny thing: I think I get your e-mail sometimes. I'm temporal at gmail, you appear to be temporal.pl. I get all kinds of e-mail from people who simply strip off anything after a '.' because they apparently don't realize it's important!
Is this an iPhone 6 – or a Chinese clone?
You found an R&D company, the research goes slower than expected, and after five years you run out of funding. Result of that is: 1) you can sell the partial progress and recoup at least a little cash; versus 2) all your work is worth absolutely zip. If (1) is true rather than (2), you'll be more likely to engage in a risky R&D business in the first place. If (2) is true, you'll focus on something that will yield a sellable product quickly.

This sort of trajectory is not uncommon in industries that have a steep R&D curve. When I worked at an wireless R&D company, we had individual pieces of lab equipment the cost of which would fund a non-trivial web startup to an MVP stage. There are biotech startups that burn through hundreds of millions of dollars without getting to the MVP stage. What the company is left with if it can't build a sellable product before running out of funding is a major concern for these sorts of businesses.
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YC has stated several times that often companies will change ideas after they get into YC. YC thus isn't going to tell them to not do something just because it competes with another YC company.
They probably just generate a GIF with your beta code, that you enter in your apps. The apps then check against Dropbox's servers whether the code is correct or not, using a hardware ID (HWID) to restrict codes to a single device. Probably nothing outstanding apart from the branding ("betacoin").

Dropbox engineers on HN, correct me if I'm wrong.
Here's a list of their shell companies:

http://www.plainsite.org/tags/intellectual-ventures-shell-co...
Thank you for your clarification.

"The founder or the LLC or Corp have to stay in US using the same process they used when they entered US"

If the founder of the LLC / Corp enters the US using an F1 visa, how can they stay in the US? F1 visa will expire no matter what, Bachelor usually have about 6 years, Master have bout 3 years, basically F1 holder can not stay in university forever.

H1b visa can expire too (up to 6 years), but with H1b, the employer can sponsor the H1b holder to greencard.

What would happen if the startup got acquired and the founder are F1 or tourist visa holder? Can they get paid if their LLC is a US based company?
It can make sense to invest in hedge funds even if you don't expect your hedge fund portfolio to beat the market on average, if the hedge fund is uncorrelated with market returns. This is a basic result of Modern Portfolio Theory, but the intuition is that sometimes with the stock market down you will have better performance in your hedge funds (and vice versa), so your account will be less risky in the sense of having shallower troughs. If you want to take on the same risk (i.e. have troughs that are the same depth as if you just held stocks) you can invest more of your capital in stocks/hedge funds vs. bonds/cash, which means you are making better returns. It should be noted that the hedge fund universe is extremely broad, and different funds have different risk/return characteristics.

Venture capital is different because it is both correlated with market returns and the average fund significantly underperforms the market,[1] so getting good returns in venture capital is pretty much a question of getting allocations in the top 20 funds, which are persistently the best. They have the best returns in part because they have the best reputations and thus access to the deals that provide the highest returns (top entrepreneurs would take Andreesen Horowitz's money over money from Unknown Partners on the same terms).

1: http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20repo...
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Maciej Cegłowski's ongoing twitter commentary on these things is priceless.
Awesome, I remember reading Amit's page many years ago in ~2000 or so as a student. Nice to see it's still around all these years later. Here's a wayback link to the page 15 years ago, still pretty similar info: https://web.archive.org/web/19991111192444/http://www-cs-stu...
How are you measuring leadership ability? If it's just stock price then I think there are far more appropriate words to use.
seems like losing a few at sea is nothing compare to the fire : http://www.cargolaw.com/2006nightmare_hyundai_for2.html

How would you put out such a fire from under/inside the stacks of the containers? (and given the content of the containers with consumer goods - plastic, plastic and more plastic ... )

What are the limits on the size of a ship? Width of Panama/Suez channels? Lets say they would build by 2019 (they plan to start this year and be done by 2019) the Nicaragua canal :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Canal

"The proposed canal would be between 230 meters and 520 meters wide and 27.6 meters deep."

And Egypt also invests billions in improving (and as i remember - building new pieces) of Suez.

So, how about double length and double width of the Triple-E?
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I think it must have been almost 15 years ago, when I first stumbled across his page. Nice, that it's still around.

See this link in the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990117080207/http://www-cs-stu...

:)
No sir, there are many alternatives. I wrote my own.
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Care to explain which of those "most laws" exist to extort money? It's common to hear this sentiment parroted around, but never does it come with anything backing it up. Until that point, people like me have to assume that sentiments such as that are purely self-serving.
> The left lane is supposed to be a passing lane.

No, its not. Except where it is. This varies from place to place -- differences in law represent different decisions about whether or not this is true by different communities.

> If you are one of those people that set the cruise control and doesn't move over when people are behind you

There is a difference between the left lane being reserved for passing and a convention of slower traffic being expected to move right. The reserved for passing rule is much less common -- either as law or social convention -- than some form of slow-traffic-move-right rule.
I'd be curious to know what returns have IV realized for it's investors to date?

Also, "Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that IV kept asking the same companies to reinvest, and if they didn’t, the threat was that the company could always find something to sue one of the entities over."? Sounds like an extortion racket.
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Looks like we both had the same thought ! :)
>Are those for tear gas?

Almost definitely. There are a variety of less than lethal projectiles that can be fired from a 40mm grenade launcher. Everything from tear gas canisters to rubber projectiles.

Even the most overzealous SWAT team wouldn't use a grenade launcher with real fragmentation grenades in a populated area. Fragmentation grenades kill by producing shrapnel, which is just too indiscriminate for police use.

That being said, I do remember a story about a SWAT team attempting to drop a homemade bomb out of a helicopter, so you can't be 100% sure.

Edit: Found a link to the police helicopter bombing story. The improvised bomb caused a fire that spread to 50 or 60 other houses.
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-rad...
Yeah, I would tend to agree with this. These data are derived from work originally done by the U.S. federal government. If they had chosen to make it freely available without a FOIA, public domain would have applied. I don't think having it being a result of a FOIA changes anything.
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