skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is the Cruise RP1, the first autopilot for your car. ... Frees you from the pain of commuting, stop and go traffic, and long trips. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. ... Reserve yours at getcruise.com and join the driverless revolution." - Cruise RP1 commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEQqQj_zyHI

"Your Personal Chauffeur Keep your car. Just let it drive you."
- getcruise.com

"Be the first to experience Cruise. We're currently accepting 50 pre-orders for a 2015 launch. Order now to join the driverless revolution."
- getcruise.com, a few months ago. (Now the site offers only a wait list.)

If there's a "wrong impression" of Cruise, it's because that was the impression they deliberately gave.

I have deep misgivings about almost-automatic driving. Full automatic driving seems to be within reach, and is not that far away. It's almost-automatic driving that's troubling.

Suddenly handing control back to the driver when the automatic system can't cope is not going to work well. Commercial pilots have problems with that. Watch "Children of the Magenta" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10), where a chief pilot of American Airlines talks to other experienced pilots about how to use cockpit automation. Those are very well trained pilots. Yet this talk is about accidents which usually involved the end of a period where automated systems were flying the airplane, and then, for some reason, from conflicting traffic to weather to a runway change, the pilot had to take over. At that moment, sometimes the pilot didn't have full situational awareness, because they weren't flying the aircraft. That's when accidents happened.

Drivers are not selected and trained like airline pilots. An almost-autopilot puts them in a situation where they may have to take over suddenly. One cannot expect drivers to do that with a high degree of success.

The minimum safety requirement for automatic driving is probably to be able to pull over and come to a complete stop after a failure without user intervention. Or to drive slowly enough that slamming on the brakes is an adequate solution. That's probably why Google wants to initially deploy automatic driving on vehicles with a 25MPH top speed. At that speed, an emergency stop is a sufficient response to almost all problems. There's no need to be able to drive out of trouble at 25MPH.

A high level of driver ineptitude has to be well tolerated. People are going to use automatic driving when tired, drunk, stoned, or looking at a phone. That has to work, and work well. If not, people will die. This is a very tough human factors problem.
Unfortunately, it would probably make them worse. While mysticism and political extremism are loosely correlated and probably zero-to-negatively correlated once one controls for a general "religiosity" variable, at least some of these assholes in extremist movements are clearly not strangers to altered consciousness... and they're still extremist assholes.

Intention (set and setting) plays a major role. These drugs aren't "evil" and don't seem to corrupt good people, but when bad people use these drugs, they become more bad. (Source: lots of personal observation. I lived in Williamsburg for a few years.) I've seen plenty of people turn for the worse after using MDMA, LSD, psilocybin. All that said, I don't think it's just the drugs; it's also the environment, and probably the combination of the environment and the drugs in truth. Being around unhealthy people, often with bad intentions, makes for poor health.

A skilled therapist may be able to use the suggestibility of a willing person in a psychedelic state to purge him of harmful ideas... but that starts getting into a territory that some people find uncomfortable (sounds like "brainwashing").

I'm not saying that these drugs shouldn't be studied. There's no good reason for us to be 40 years behind in our understanding of these compounds and their effects on the mind. I think that they can clearly do a lot of good; but they aren't panaceas and, while I wish they could cure us of "the problem of evil", I'm not quite that optimistic.
I used to work in the largest brick building in Canada. In parts of the building that were under renovation, the walls were open and hundred year-old seaweed and/or newspapers were falling out. Pretty cool.
(I wasn't) correct in saying that the implantation of modified embryos was banned in 2008:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/22/section/3

Here's the relevant original text:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/37/section/3/enacte...

edited for error.
Business Angle of AngularJS
And yet, work began on MoarVM only in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoarVM
Except it's probably a byte or less.
What does S3 mean? Seems you guys are working for troubleshooting.
Ballmer set Microsoft on this course years ago. This is his legacy. Billions in the bank probably make up for lack of credit from the peanut gallery who think radical shifts in direction happen overnight.

He laid the foundation before he and Gates started selling their stock. The new Microsoft is beholden to Wall Street. It can't do an Xbox360 or Windows Phone or buy a Nokia. Ten years of Open Source projects at Microsoft are why analysts aren't calling for scalps. Ballmer made the next guys job easier.
If you go and drive round a roundabout three times in penance, they will forgive you.
Great news! Thanks. :)
Ah, I was not aware of all the details - all I'd seen was mention of Epstein being a "convicted paedophile" [solicitation of a 15yo IIRC] and then the details on the news of the age of the young lady connected to Prince Andrew and the picture of the two of them + the suggestion that she may not have been there entirely consensually.

Thanks for the added info - my example was clearly poor, but I think the concept still stands: that a dim view is generally taken of people in the public eye who have short-term sex-based trysts with those much younger than themselves (particularly with teenagers)?
Misha, is that really you? Come away with me to redder pastures, this place is no good for you. We can use their downvotes as cover to hide our communications. (See my profile! No matter what happens remember that I love you, and tell the others!)
Most states where they have warehouses they pay taxes in now (which is many many states now).
Maybe its my browser but I dont see anything unusual. All I see is blond, brunette, redhead....
last time I was in an AT&T store (december) the guy told me he had sold 2 Fire phones in 3 months.
In some states, "use tax" is due on goods or services bought out of the state and used in the state. I don't know how widespread it is, but I don't think there's a blanket law that applies over all the US.
It's the worst economic system, except for all the other ones we've tried.
I think it's totally the right thing to do. They can always adjust their price as the market dictates (where "market" is people who do/don't pay for the product, not HN comments).

Way better to charge and learn about what paying customers want, rather than make it cheap and hope to eventually convert them.
For the question, the start date of MoarVM is more interesting than the start date of Perl 6.

It's also not quite fair to start Perl 6 at announcement and PyPy at their first release (they were organized enough in 2004 to be applying for EU funds).
>I see now that it introduced into my psyche a fairly deep distrust of authority and convention which, under sober scrutiny, perhaps did little to help me always successfully nagivate my life.

I have one of those too, and I can see where my life could have been easier had I not stubbornly clung to my own principles and instead accepted authority; but drugs had nothing to do with that in my case. I'm not sure that I understand how drugs could have done it in yours.
IBM has been repeatedly sued, sometimes successfully, for age discrimination, so you can bet that severance package requires agreeing not to sue for age discrimination.

see, eg,
http://www.cookbrown.com/docuserfiles/file/Spring%20Newslett...
I downvoted him because he openly admitted to trolling.
I'm pretty sure the likes of Dell, Lenovo, Asus, NVidia and AMD would simply fork Windows for their own usage, and stop paying licensing... that would mean huge gaps in Microsoft's income... bad idea.

Opening .Net up, I feel is for a couple reasons. First, keeping developer mindshare. Second, Keeping Azure as a first-class platform for deploying .Net code. Third, reducing costs within Azure division that are tied to Windows' licensing. The fact that it's probably the right thing to do, is probably farther down the list.
Which is why I don't feel bad at all. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I first learned programming on the beloved C64 typing in basic program from the back of a magazine. Later, I learned how to draw and animate horrible looking sprites that dance (well, looked more like the Humpty Dance). Good times, until the power went out and lost everything since I didn't have a storage device at the time.
Starting my new side project, follow along with me
This[1] is the best battery door design I've seen on a tv remote.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGvuQFaDE4
I simply offered the anecdote for consideration.

I had three couples in mind. One went through IVF three times, the others two times each. In none of the cases were there successful results, though in all three cases there were significant financial costs. All three couples had a child (two of them more than one, so far) after they began using a modern NFP method to track the female partner's fertility; and the financial costs involved were a tiny fraction of the costs of IVF.

The anecdote certainly does not prove IVF does not work, nor was that my intention in relating it.

So what is the point? Well, many couples are oblivious to the existence of modern NFP and its effectiveness at helping couples both avoid and achieve pregnancy, without recourse to surgery and/or pharmaceuticals. I simply want/ed to help raise awareness of these methods.
That's a fantastic tool. Getting a site critiqued by people who know what they're talking is always a wise move when you want to quickly optimize a site. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating so I'd still recommend split testing different variations. Sometimes the results will shock you.
Because BASIC on an Apple II doesn't involve a massive JIT compiler running on a massive userland and drivers running on a massive kernel with virtual memory and processes and such. It instead involves a very thin layer over the firmware of the computer itself. Sure, you weren't doing a lot of PEEKing or POKEing, but the fact that you could do those things proves my point.

The sorts of programming you were doing was barely higher-level than the sorts of programming involved with an OSDev-style "Hello, world!" kernel[0]. My remark is not a stretch at all. At most you had a few thin conveniences (like having some graphics-related features already available to you, since Woz had prioritized that when he designed the Apple II's BASIC interpreter); beyond that, it was direct access to everything from RAM to tapes (unless you were running Apple DOS, but that was not at all required for BASIC programming on an Apple II, and the Apple II didn't ship with it).

[0]: http://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones#Writing_a_kernel_in_C
Everytime I'm reading the story, there is one question that I've never understood: why can't the just shutdown the servers itself? There ought to be some mechanism to do that. I mean, $400 millions is a lot of money to not just bash the server with a hammer. It seems like they realized the issue early on and was debugging for at least part of the 45 minutes. I know they might not have physical access to the server, but wouldn't there be any way to do a hard reboot?
I knit! Learning great new things and getting handknits out of it is pretty interesting. Once you get decent skills, you can knit without thinking too much about it but it keeps your hands busy.
I thought it was an odd adjective to use for a process where bugs equal death. He made a lot of money so that means a lowly developer can't question his choice of words ?
So you're telling me that when I buy the store brand toilet paper, I'm wreaking sudden havoc with the lives of thousands of families, all for the sake of saving some money?

I guess I better start buying Charmin. The $0.37 of savings totally isn't worth that! I mean, who could possibly have a clear conscience about leaving thousands of people in the lurch over a little bit of money?
If you fill the basement with oily rags for ten years, when the building goes up in flames, is it the fault of the guy who lit a cigarette?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4333089

I believe it was this, as it was a Guardian article - which has since been subject to the digital graveyard.
You don't, and can't. The purpose of having watchlists is so counterterrorist investigators can quietly monitor the movements of people they think will organize terrorist attacks. Notifying the people on the list defeats that purpose: it ensures that none of the people it's watching will incriminate themselves, or lead counterterrorist investigations to the other members of the plot.

That doesn't mean the lists aren't fraught or regularly abused. For instance, you surely cross a line from "legitimate investigative tool" to "tool of oppression" when the watchlist ensures you get an extra hour of screening at the TSA checkpoint.
As usual in catastrophic failures, a series of bad decisions had to occur:

- They had dead code in the system

- They repurposed a flag for a previous functionality

- They (apparently) didn't had code reviews

- They didn't had a staging environment

- They didn't had a tested deployment process

- They didn't had a contingency plan to revert the deploy

It could be minimized or avoided altogether by fixing just one of the points. Incredible.
Perhaps I'm reading this incorrectly, but as far I can see it was implicitly banned in the 1990 Act by section 3(3d). And then section 3ZA(5) as introduced in 2008 enabled the development of oocyte or embryo-modifying technologies to prevent mitochondrial disease.
To be pedantic, Atom Shell and NW.js are both based on Chromium (Blink), not WebKit
Someone should do this for ideas. Just poorly written ideas.
I'm in San Francisco and junior mid engineer.

Well a house is out of reach unless there's an event with payout or you have 200k in the bank.

Renting a one bedroom in the city is 1700-2500. So after taxes, etc you're looking at about 40% of monthly income spent there. If you're savvy enough to get into a rent control place, then you'll be paying about 15% of salary, but you'll have roommates.

Family in SF? Good luck
You compile ES6 at run-time in developer mode - ES6 compiles are cached and installing a plugin precompiles it on your machine automatically. However, if you're developing a plugin, ES6 will be compiled on-the-fly.

The summary is, It Just Works™, efficiently.
There's a difference between shipping on a pallet in the same semi trailer as 51 other pallets and shipping in a cardboard box from a fulfillment center.

Who's doing pets.com's modern equivalent now?
Wasn't Knight in trouble for some other things as well?
"Failed users are gonna generate a story line and visible effects..." True. But you act as though this is not a serious thing to take into account when weighing fucking consequences. Take a sample of everybody who crosses a busy highway blindfolded and survives. Cause, that's scientific.
I think you're right, sorry for the noise.
Not sure why I'm getting so many downvotes - nobody is able to consider the possibility that running a business on some of the most expensive, sought after real estate on the west coast with such slim profit margins couldn't have had something hugely to do with their shutdown? The issue with the wages seems like the straw that broke the camels back. If I'm totally off base with my thinking here, please explain how.
That's just a typo, it indeed does refer to io.js integration in WebView tags.
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty (2014)
Violently shutting down trading also exposes the bank to significant risk, eg. massively leveraged trades on stocks that were meant to be held for 3 milliseconds suddenly hanging on until the system's back up.

In hindsight, this would still have been preferable to losing $400 million, but quite obviously nobody at the time realized just how catastrophic this was going be.
Assuming trunk and 2.5.0 are roughly the same thing it seems like a decent performance increase http://speed.pypy.org/
Pretty neat.

I chucked mine up there and will be keen to see the feedback. Also thought the way it just keeps loading is fantastic. Easy to get on a roll as @prawn mentioned.
Reporting U3, or any other number, as "the unemployment rate" is intrinsically misleading if the underlying reality has changed. The system under discussion is not a physical system that we are discovering, it's an economic system that we are constantly manipulating. Frequently, the system is manipulated specifically to push one number or another in a politically desirable direction. This makes the reporting of any given number potentially "intrinsically misleading".

By contrast "People who want to mislead you" may try to use this number, but even their attempts are undermined by changes in the underlying dynamics.
it's medium's lame "war is boring" blog. they take a mundane fact about military/aerospace and draw it out with meandering, barely relevant stories in wannabe new yorker style. it doesn't really work for anything besides clicks.
"I find this pretty surprising in the finance sector.."

...not to anyone who has worked in financial software
can an admin update the title to s/Go/GopherJS/ please?

as it is, I thought I was looking at the output of a Markov chain.
Did the article specify that some one person was at fault?
In the story he points out that there was no kill switch.

And, as has been found in other disasters in other industries, kill switches are hard to test.
All of the DNA replication machinery that operates in mitochondria is encoded in the nucleus, translated in the cytoplasm, and then transported into the mitochondrion:

"The remaining ~1500 mitochondrial proteins are encoded in the nucleus, including all proteins needed for replication and expression of the small mtDNA genome (Falkenberg et al., 2007)"

from http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0092867409012458/1-s2.0-S009286740901...
How to create a Bitcoin address from coin flips
Seems also to work if you have only cutting edge SSH (since its split by modern/intermediate) which is nice
I have the same fear, but I wonder if that fear stems from lack of training and or documentation and or time.

When I ask myself why I am afraid of deploying to production servers its always because I don't fully understand what the deployment process does. If I had to deploy manually I would be lost at sea.

Is it just nievete thinking that enough documentation and training makes that fear go away?
It seems to me that the 'three people' metaphor is a bit misguided. I'd look at it as an organ donor-ship to an embryo - just a special organ that gets copied into every cell.
Maybe. But they should do congress first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yT48wiRue4
Standard and Poor's Is Sorry About That Credit Crisis
> It's pretty offensive to muslims to lead your characterization of al-Awlaki with the fact that he was Muslim

It may very well be. But OP is not saying al-Awlaki was a muslim and therefore not worth bothing about raising a stink regarding constitutional issues, but rather that large swathes of population believe that.

Heck were are dealing with people who thought (and still think I bet) that Saddam Hussein was "al Qaeda".

> The law should not try to insert itself into foreign military matters.

All is well except for those pesky constitutional issues. If this was Russia or other countries which (I am guessing here), do not have the same rights in their Constitutions as US, there wouldn't be much to discuss.

So "foreign military matters" needs to be discussed a bit more. See, US is not at war with Pakistan. It is friendly with its government and allegedly is allowed by said Pakistani govt. to pick off people on the ground to kill using drones. So this needs to be talked about. Are we at war? Is "Global War On Terror" now an conventient cop-out to let us do this there without those Constitutional rights people getting into our business? What if those tribes in the mountains brought drones and started dropping anthrax boms or grenades on our cities, would we understand that as an equitable retribution and so on.
Media Keys for music in the browser
Although interestingly this version is not as pretty and much slower.
and if you do it all well, you are paid the avg dev salary.

The value of a good dev is a realised only when someone screws up.
I was really interested in Atom but I found it to be a little sluggish (particularly when I switched it to the background) and sometimes unstable on my Macbook.
Still in search of the perfect book api
It feels more and more like the only responsible way to engineer systems is with a built-in always-on-in-production chaos monkey, to always be killing various parts of them. Normally this is done to ensure that random component failure results in no visible service interuption, but in this situation, you'd also be able to reuse the same "apoptosis" signal the chaos monkey sends to just kill everything at once.
Middle management never cuts jobs. I mean, they might do 1 or 2 out of 100. But they never do 20% across the board without a push from above. It's diametrically opposed to their own self-interest (having underlings to justify their position.)
Agonism isn't antagonism. Though, some of the first and newer antidepressants are antagonists or mixed agonist/antagonist. Some forgo significant SERT binding altogether.

Their simple narrative wouldn't have been torn apart by LSD research anymore than the industries other offerings.
Marketing Died
Video of the winning game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCQHAbGsAA

The author's list of milestones illustrates the key components of this achievement, as well as some limitations:

https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack#milestones-reached

Awesome work, Jan Krajicek!
Nothing that couldn't be done before with the CLI, but the visualization is nice for unbalanced leadership/assignments.

It's also really nice not to have to generate my own assignments.

Maybe I'll contribute a tool to do other helpful tasks such as adding replication to a topic when developers create topics with no replication.
Ah yes, this story is legendary. I discuss it in my JavaScript Application Design book[1]. Chaos-monkey server-ball-wrecking sounds like a reasonable way to mitigate this kind of issues (and sane development/deployment processes, obviously)

[1]: http://bevacqua.io/bf
The legacy ad industry is wrong about ad blockers