skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For balance, the property only damage rate that I could find per 100 million vehicle miles for passenger cars was 145, so, 1.45 per million vehicle miles.
Trends table 11 in the link
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/large-tr...

Now, many PDO incidents go unreported, but, medium does not offer a number for comparison, so, when you see the headline "11 accidents in 1.7m miles" you have no reference to whether this is high or low.
President of Liberland ‘arrested’ for trying to cross into own country
Were you buying their consumer line?
There are a number of cognitive biases that would suggest this is a bad idea, Sam. I'll leave you to decide which ones are particularly egregious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
No it doesn't. Rustdoc examines the "doc" attribute on every item for Markdowk code blocks and checks those. The "doc" attribute can be attached to an item directly, using Rust's general attribute syntax, or using so-called "doc comments" which are visually and lexically distinct from ordinary comments. In the case of single line comments (the preferred style), doc comments have three slashes instead of two; a good IDE or editor mode for Rust will highlight doc comments differently than ordinary ones.
It's not a question whether it works. It's a question of whether it's being used. And it's not, really. Those code paths are less tested and less performant, so why would you choose them even if you start a new project without baggage?

Python 3 won't see any traction unless it offers a clear improvement over 2. Some people think that's async. I have my doubts.
ok, so how do the IPCC 1996 predictions stack up to how the climate has changed in the last 20 years?
UX-wise, this an extremely basic (to avoid saying lousy) article. I ended up with the impression that their source of data is pretty much the feedback from beta users (which is great but highly skewed - to the technocentric pole - data).

I would like very much to know more on how they are working with end-users. Are they using ethnographic methods? Observing how Windows is used in the real world? How are they addressing cultural diversity? Are they having focus groups, interviews? What kind of telemetrics they gather? What have they discovered from their huge user base (and huge funding for their design project)?

This would be much more interesting - even to the layman, I think - than empty phrases such as, say, "people aren't squares".
Android uses MTP
Doesn't every open source project have governance in some form - be it implicit or explicit?

In the extreme case where code is written that never needs to be updated (which is hard given the changes needed for scalability and security, never mind additional functionality) - then maybe you might not need a governance structure.

The post highlights is that governance always exists - the question is how formal or informal it is, and what that means about the decision making process and its performance (e.g., speed of decisions, whether it reflects key stakeholders).
Works for me whenever I need to use it. Little more annoying for when I just want to my phone as a disk, but it still works.
It sounds like you are attributing the same space usage for these types of generators as wind turbines, when it appears they could be much more closely packed. I wouldn't expect ten of these to use ten times the square footage as the wind turbines. Additionally, I wouldn't expect ice to be flung as far (but I'm not sure what the oscillation is really like), but from the design, maybe ice poses other challenges to these.
>I don't really mean to sound caustic but you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

>Russia is a harsh country, with harsh people which has first hand experience of a territory

man, i'm a Russian.

> where western technology wouldn't simply stand a chance.

yes. Tell this to millions of USSR soldiers who was squashed by German tanks and aviation until USSR was finally able to ramp up the production of comparable technology in comparable numbers.

Before WWII the USSR's military doctrine (if one can call it that) was to respond to an aggression/invasion with a swift counter-strike using mostly cavalry and a bit of light fast tanks and kick the enemy back where it came from and deal with the enemy there, on their territory... The foundation of that "doctrine" was "glorious" (for the winners) days of Revolution 20 years earlier where such swift cavalry attacks were a powerful tool.

The same way today - manned tanks and aviation is going the way of cavalry 80 years ago. Manned tanks and aviation worked great in the WWII and for decades after that. And Russia today, like 80 years before, bets on the technology that worked in the previous victories (while not paying that much attention to the wars which were lost). With Afghan war that 20th century weaponry started to show it limitations for modern war - the war there there is no concentrated battle groups and fortified front lines, the war where a small relatively cheap, yet precise, weapon like Stinger easily takes out a valuable asset.

The drones will quickly become much better, much smarter and much cheaper. A one old "dinosaur" like F-15 or Su-27/35 (or even F-22) when faced simultaneously with 10-20 stealth drones able to go transonic or even supersonic with computer speed of reaction, able to continuously pull 10g+ without blood leaving the brain/retina/etc... and each firing an air-to-air missile almost simultaneously in choreographed attack pattern - should we make bets whether the pilot of the attacked plane would be able to execute all the necessary anti-missile maneuvers successfully ? :)
PDF viewer. Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows. Requires third-party install.

Copying and pasting text causes weird characters to be carried around (e.g. emdash), and I haven't found a reliable way to sanitise it.

Does notepad handle \n separated lines correctly yet?

Something about excel breaks the behaviour of the alt+tab stack. (if you have multiple documents open)

Also, it's annoying the way that - by default - excel wants to open everything in the same parent window. Why why why why why would you want it to behave like this?!

Apps that minimise to the small-icon part of the start bar (next to time) don't go to the back of the alt+tab stack.

A bunch of NTFS features are not exposed to the user interface.

Not quite in the spirit of what you're asking, but I think Windows file locking is a bad design. You can't copy that excel file (in pscp), because you have it open in excel.

It'd be useful to be able to mute an application from the OS interface, and to see an indicator for audio activity ion something like the task manager.

No strong answer to sshd.

No TCP-check tool in the standard install. Why on earth did they get rid of telnet in the standard build? If anything we needed a better TCP-check mechanism - they got rid of the only trustworthy one that was in.

Similarly with shell scripting - they actually neutered a bunch of features that were in NT in subsequent versions. Previously you could (just) ship a single bat file that would act as a self-installer for binary content. I imagine they disabled this to discourage malware. But - how is a bat particularly different than an exe?

I think it's a shame Windows doesn't ship with devtools out of the box, also. If it came with devtools, would be one less hurdle to getting newbies into programming. Offer good tools at every level - an assembler, a C compiler, c#-level tools, javascript debugger, visual basic. Microsoft's grew from a successful devtool company.

They should bundle a python API to windows and a recent version of python also. Make it easy to create and ship python on Windows. A community would just grow around this, with no further effort from them.

Would be good if you could choose a filesystem that had strong performance with git. Either make git+NTFS fast, or else offer a well-support FS that git does want to work on.

Weak scheduler, init mechanisms. (from user perspective)

There's no nice IPC mechanism available for casual development. Cmd kind of has pipes but they're horrible.

This is kind of evil, but if I was Microsoft I'd be tempted to make Access more accessible (i.e. ship with base office). As soon as users hit a certain level of scale they'll find themselves needing SQL Server. Access has huge lock-in to the Microsoft world. Much like the way a manager will create a microsoft word or excel document, and then suddenly you find yourself stuck with sharepoint everywhere - ugh.
Father of two kids I will not trade the moment of my kids birth for anything in the world. As for Mr Elon Musk, go home... you are another psycho CEO from america crime corporate
Over most of human hunter-gatherer prehistory, the population was not generally resource-constrained. (Rather, it was constrained over the long term by catastrophes, which could be related to resources, diseases, genetics, culture, or some combination.) Therefore, most of the time, banishment did not lead to starvation or even necessarily isolation. One just walked for some time, until one was alone or in more accepting company, and then started hunting and gathering wherever one found oneself. This actually leads me to wonder whether "banishment" could even have been an actual threat, before the advent of agriculture. What if the tribe "banished" some people, and then a year later found itself migrating into wherever they had settled? Would it "banish" them again, if it could?
I'm sure why using POST for readonly methods is a problem in the browser. It potentially messes with caching, but it should still function correctly. (Granted, this is probably a poor design design decision, but has nothing to do with correct functionality.)

As far as constructing the XML, you should be able to use something like xmlbuilderjs[0]. That said, I completely agree that dealing with REST APIs in the browser is far more practical.

[0] https://github.com/oozcitak/xmlbuilder-js/
> There are very strong CAP systems

There are not strong CAP systems -- that is the whole point of the CAP theorem. It's impossible. Am I misunderstanding you?
Snowden's NSA exposure vindicated by Federal appeals court
Are you kidding me? This page renders absolutely nothing with javascript disabled. This crap has to stop.
You'd want to get smarter, not dumber: taking into account the fact that the unpredictable (to the car behind) braking could in itself cause an accident, and calculating a best compromise to avoid both collisions, with priority to the more dangerous of the two (the fender-bender could be a great option if you avoid another car doing 50). I'd be surprised if their software doesn't support this kind of thing already.
I wonder how well this would work for WSJ type stories. Some of their stories are generic newswires, but the juicy stuff is from knowing insiders and building relationships over the years. A generic reporting service will tell you that "Company A unveiled product B" but will unlikely report that "Company A gave up a bunch of liquidation preferences to get a $1 bln valuation".
I'm changing the world. I'm changing history. I'm fully committed. His name is Theodore and he turns three in July.
>so that companies will think about it twice before pulling similar stunts in the future //

Is that how it will pan out though. I'd imagine it's more likely to be that Lenovo get away with paying a little of their profits out in the class action but still overall profit from the whole deal. Then companies will be encouraged to do so long as when they factor in the cost of the lawsuit they still come out on top.

IMO penalties should be such that a company doing this sort of thing makes no profit and is at a very real risk of having to be liquidated if they already weren't making a profit. For large companies the payout should be measured in $100 millions as that's the only sort of level of fine that will be noticed.

Directors in charge of that section that authorised or actioned the activity should be barred from being directors again and where appropriate face criminal charges. In Lenovos case if they can ever afford to do this again and if the controlling elements (or those who should have exercised control according to the org chart) aren't prosecuted under eg CFAA then the punishment will be too small.
Read the presentation this was the load testing for the Enterprise test, it's pretty much a torture test with 100% load time.

With this I'm actually surprised that the SSD's lasted as much as they did, for about 6 years now I've been using SSD's and the longest one of them survived so far is less than 18 months, and at much lower loads than what they've tested in. Since late 2008 I've been always running 2 SSD's for my main system drive in raid 0 with no much load on them other than games, some work stuff and the OS.
At any point in which the drive has no more spare blocks to relocate failed blocks too i toss it away and replace it (if read errors come close to critical i do the same). For the first couple of years the SSD's only lasted for about a year(my first Intel pair lasted something like 5 months, but those were shitty controllers), this time with the Samsung 840 EVO's i have a feeling that they might actually last the whole 2 year span of my desktop.
I think the main issue here, as has been pointed out by other commenters, is that choice between a personal life and between work even at companies like SpaceX and Tesla is a false dichotomy. There should be no person who is so singularly important to a task that s/he cannot afford to be away without notice for even a day.[0]

Dressing it up by saying you're changing the world is just another form of emotional manipulation.

[0] Anecdotal, but I work in the space industry. People taking off without prior notice for emergencies happens and doesn't elicit this type of response.
Didn't Lenovo release an update that removed the program? The relevant question for the court is probably, how many hundreds of dollars did the average Lenovo customer spend on professional Superfish removal? And the answer is probably zero.
The title is a little "Soviet", it's a russian company not "russia"
I'm sorry that your uncle passed away. I wish I could thank him while he was alive for the work he did.

You have an interesting point about passing on legacy, but then again there are so many people born every day, that there will be more than enough people to perpetuate the vision if they can learn about it. Having a child furthers memory only temporary. I myself don't know much about my grand-grandparents and have no clue about who their parents were. I doubt many people do. In the end, we all get forgotten, but our work may improve the lives of next generations.

> It is not an either/or proposition. It is worth in in the long term to find balance, not for yourself, but for the future of humanity.

I strongly agree, and that's how I try to look at it. I don't want to burn out, but I personally don't consider starting a family to be an important goal for me. I respect that it is for many others, and I believe they should be supported. Some people sacrifice themselves for others to have better lives. Some people are the others. And many are in the middle. I don't think any of them are making a bad choice.
You are correct! My right hand pinky finger doesn't have the dexterity it used to. I can crank out words with one "P" in them, but when I have to do the double tap of the "P" it becomes a real issue.
The console was broken for a long time primarily to make it possible to do full-screen VGA text modes for NTVDM-requiring apps. Enabling either or both required elevated hardware privileges so they shoved the whole rendering thing into CSRSS and it gave us the shatter attack and (later) no cut/paste as thanks.

I think we're paying for a mistake made upon the alter of backwards compatibility back when asking someone to use virtualization made you sound like a nut (and back before Microsoft had Hyper-V to offer as an alternative to customers who couldn't or wouldn't budge).
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To answer that question you'd basically need a model of the galaxy at the atomic level. The fitness of genes is not determined by the genes themselves, but by the environment where the organism lives. But "environment" means everything: all the other organisms it comes into contact with (of the same species and every other species), the food that's available, whether organisms it could mate with are awake at the same time, the climate, forest fires, climate change, gamma ray bursts, and so on.

It's an enormous question and an inherently chaotic process. I'm not sure how you could model all that accurately. Also, there's more than one solution to a given selective pressure, and at the end of the day, DNA mutations are truly random.

Let's consider a simple system: a cave full of insects and some crabs that can eat them. Initially the crabs don't live in the cave, but given that there are no other animals there, when they do randomly come upon the cave it's an all-you-can-eat buffet. The cave is pitch black, which isn't a problem for the crabs, but their eyes are useless and actually a liability, since they can be pierced more easily than skin, they can get infected, and they take protein and nutrients that, if not used, could allow the crab to live on less food, or be more vivacious and able to produce more offspring.

So there's a selective pressure on the crabs to get rid of the eyes. But this can be achieved in many ways: the genes that cause the eyelids to separate during development could be damaged, causing a layer of skin to permanently seal the eyes. Other genes being mutated may cause the eyes to never form in the first place. Another may prevent blood vessels from growing where the eyes need them to thrive, resulting in weird, misshapen but much smaller eyes.

So what solution will occur? It turns out: it's mostly random. If one adaptation can occur with only a single mutation, it's obviously more likely to occur before another that takes ten mutations becomes prevalent. But even in this tiny, simple system it's still difficult to make a prediction as to the specific timing and mechanism that would result.
oh shit i aint no love
According to the companies involved, none of the accidents were the fault of the self driving car.

The Delphi car was stopped at a light, in manual driving mode, when another vehicle lost control, crossed a median, and hit the delphi car.

I haven't seen a statement from Google other than that the accidents were minor and the fault of the other vehicles.

I think today's news article flurry might better be titled: Humans run into self driving cars about as often as human driven ones, meanwhile self driving cars do not run into other vehicles.
"Hey Botticelli - I'll give you big bucks to paint the Magi. Bonus if you make Uncle Cosimo one of the main guys." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi_of_1475_...
> Over the course of a couple handfuls of machines

That's more than "your implementation" considering that it spans at least ten machines across about the same number of distros including Fedora (and one FreeBSD). But it's cute that you're so quick to say it's "implementation" when it's clearly broken across so many different environments.

Pulseaudio is a stinking pile of shit.
I was thinking the same thing. If Google start logging license plate numbers (and, hey, it's Google), they could build a database of known dangerous vehicles and automatically give them a wide berth.
All I hear is "this car gets in accidents." Maybe not the message marketing wants to send... ;)
Long story short: If you enable every member of a society to punish abuse, you get a righteous community.

But this has been known for quite some time: Transparency can fight corruption. That's why it may be a good Idea to put cameras on policemen, and that publishing public budgets is an inevitable step towards reducing corruption.
Interesting thanks for sharing. Hopefully bokeh might be able to address the visualization space with its upcoming statistical glyphs.

When you say "flexibility to use whatever I wanted to do my work", do you mean data munging and manipulation or statistical modeling packages?
I think a detailed performance comparison should be provided to be more transparent and to make developers start using Anko.
I mean I want to see how it differs in terms of app opening time, apk size, loading another view in app time etc.
It's also actively discouraged by the police for a number of reasons. Some of those reasons are even good: chain of custody concerns for any evidence on the suspect's person, danger to the untrained person making the arrest, danger to the suspect, and the possibility that the suspect will sue.
This is a thought I've been having myself a lot lately. None of the successes I have actually leave me happier at the end of the day, they just kind of exist. Trying to balance success with happiness is a curious dilemma since to so many people the two are intertwined.

Very interesting read though- I appreciate you linking it here.
Corporations are not people. They are arrays of people.

Specifically, they are C-style arrays of people.

In C, if you try to qualify (const or volatile) an array, it's actually the element-type that gets qualified.

(The straight syntax doesn't support it at all; the above applies if you try to create an typedef for the array type and then use it as a declaration specifier, side by side with qualifiers.)

In the same way that qualifiers on C arrays slide down to the elements, certain attributes, including responsibilities, have to shift from corporations to the member individuals.
This could be a big deal actually. Will pedestrian and human driver's behavior change if there is the expectation that the self-driving cars are going react incredibly quickly and reliably? It's hard to imagine everything just stays the same everywhere and as self-driving cars become more and more common.
I actually slip up and omit a "p" from time to time, but it's really the "e" - "rapel" vs "repel" - that threw me :)
Hi Sam, I hope you will consider solving these perception problems by making a more transparent and open application process, that weighs the value of each attribute on the application. The question being, for example, how much more does a good idea carry weight than a personal connection? Or how much more does a good team carry more weight than a limited, but clear market focus? This is surely something that you do internally when making your choice, and I think there is no harm in expressing it externally. It will help you attract more of what you want, while giving potential applicants more information about what you want. Personally, I felt frustrated in my last YC application that other teams with seemingly lesser abilities and project scope were accepted over our application, and it would be good for all concerned to be able to provide better feedback than simply, "we make mistakes sometimes'.
To not be legally "at fault" is important, particularly for a company with liability and public image at stake.

I genuinely look forward to future stats that will tell us self-driven cars have a much lower likelihood of even being involved in accidents, independent of fault. To me, that level of defensiveness and net safety is also a measure of progress.

As an example: Let's say a particular self-driven car has a low threshold to "stomp on the brakes, hard" at the slightest sign of danger. Will this keep it from accumulating "at fault" accidents? Probably. But can that behaviour effectively contribute to causing accidents that it's not "at fault" for (being rear-ended)? Probably. Safer roads? Difficult to say.
I think that gives the wrong impression, that office machine companies tried making computers and failed. Remington Rand, for instance, was IBM's principal rival in the 1950's, selling the UNIVAC. Olivetti had transistorized mainframes before IBM. I think the interesting question is why IBM survived while the rest didn't. My highly oversimplified answer would be the IBM 360 crushed them.