skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only really touches upon the financial implications of increased lifespan. Immortality in particular I feel isn't feasible for everyone, given a growing population with finite resources. In which case we'd either need some radical breakthroughs (e.g. being able to travel to other inhabitable planets), or more probably some kind of constraints on who can achieve immortality. Given the current trends for increasing the gap between rich and poor I'd be concerned that a future society would only give the benefits of increased lifespan to those who could afford it.
At fault doesn't always mean "sole contributor" to the cause of the accident.
For more balance, they have been driven a ridiculous number of miles more than the average car so saying "4 of 48" got ran into (since none were the fault of the self-driving car!) is intentionally misleading.
nosplit and noescape are internal details which are implementation specific.
toolz is pretty good at lazy fp in python : https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz
Macomb County (Michigan) wants 48K for GIS data most counties offer for free
Are those times for finding a solution, or for all solutions? If all, that is truly impressive!

Dancing links is a backtracking algorithm, just a nice way to optimize the backtracking.
Hypothetical:

I have a gambling problem. I store my banking information in my Passcard tied to my iWatch. I don't pay my bookie. He beats the crap out of me and takes my iWatch along with my banking information. Am I broke now?
That's information that should be on the homepage, not hidden away on some blog.
The funny thing about all the products you listed is that later iterations of these concepts have made (or are now about to make, in the case of VR) major impacts. Perhaps part of the reason these products failed to "shape the future" was because they didn't have the business and financial backing that can be offered by firms like Andreessen-Horowitz.
Are all the EE writing software these days?
It seems a lot of EE are software engineers these days. Are there any real EEs left? I am looking for an EE to work on a project.
So it's OK for Google to record license plates, but it's flip-out time when the police do it?
How is being unable to scale past an essentially irrelevant (globally) # of transactions "small stakes"?
> "deflating claimed expertise" and "assessing ability to perform a job".

This is a very important point, and also why I never claim to know anything I can't prove (speaking as a Linux Admin, not even developer). Everything in my resume points back to the github so whoever is interviewing can know exactly how far I've studied or had experience with a specific subject, and acts as a reference point for the job of course. Also lets me know which companies to avoid if they just care about random trivia questions rather than how much demonstrable value you can offer them.
In Mountain View? I'm not from around there but I'd guess zero?
Nginx's proxy module uses HTTP 1.0 by default.
Accidents, when non fatal, are such a waste of anyone's resources. And there are so many way to be cheated. I'm stunned no manufacturer included a logging device. Nowadays you have dash cams though.
I want to hear the argument about people who want to drive.

I enjoy driving. I like driving cars. I still drive a manual and will not buy an automatic transmission. I participate in car clubs and I compete in autocross events. I enjoy automotive photography and I do my own maintenance on my vehicles.

What happens to people like me who actually enjoy driving and the act of owning a car? Do my loves get phased out because the majority of people just think of cars as appliances? Will this give birth to "classic-driving shows" just like we have classic-car shows and cruises?

Not saying I don't like innovation, I'd absolutely love to own a Tesla Roadster, but some things need to be preserved.
This is true. Who today has a CRT that they care to use? Perhaps the $9 price tag or $24 with HDMI product is contrived.

If it had Ethernet or USB, it might be useful for experimenting with distributed systems.
Of course.

The most google can do: send you ads for shovels.

The most police can do: pull you in for murder because they correlated your car to where and when some body was buried.
founder of Streak here - totally understand if you're not a fan of Gmail. What email client are you using? Out of curiosity, have you tried http://inbox.google.com?
Another thing to keep in mind with DNSSEC is that DNS has a 512 byte limit when using UDP. Anything higher than that requires a full TCP connection - pretty costly. Anyone know if progress is being made on using ECC instead of RSA for DNSSEC?
> I think we're paying for a mistake made upon the alter of backwards compatibility

There's a book called The Old New Thing (I think I heard about it here on HN, haven't had a chance to get it yet) that discusses a lot of quirks that Windows has and how they came about. Usually there was a purposeful decision behind it, like you suggest with backwards compatibility. It'd be interesting to see if this particular case is addressed in the book.
It makes sense that not all items can be delivered. They still have to retain their profit margins. As automation ramps up and demand for services like this ramps up, the overhead for the markets will go down and it will be easier to offer the cheaper items as well.

I realize this is a bit of a chicken and egg problem but we have seen how quickly startups or even technology being implemented by existing players can respond to increased demand.
LiveScript 1.4.0 – Source Maps and more
Though it's a clear transition, I'm sure there are plenty of EEs left. I wouldn't expect too many to use this site though.

Myself, I wanted to be a programmer my whole life but convinced myself not to in college, went EE/CPE, did a power internship, and then finally realized I should just do what I want.
So it would seem purely based on these numbers that the Google cars have had about 4.5 times the mean rate of property-damage-only crashes. However, these statistics don't show us what the shape of the curve looks like, so we have no idea what percentile the Google cars are in.

If we take Google at their word that not one of the 11 crashes was caused by the self-driving system, then these numbers aren't evidence against the self-driving car being safer even with human drivers sharing the road. It's possible the car was driving unsafely in some way that increased its risk of accident without ever directly causing them, but we can't even guess at that without knowing the probability of their crash rate being this distance from the mean by pure chance.

So, do you really think the roads will only be safer when all cars are self-driving--you don't believe there will either be an incremental benefit in overall safety as more self-driving cars get on the road, or a specific safety benefit to owners of self-driving cars?
Ask HN: What is the most inefficient part of your mobile app dev workflow?
I'm always trying to make my work flow more efficient and I've found that setting up a new app project is tedious and slow. From creating the initial project code, importing needed libraries, registering app id's with Apple. It just seems like there should be ways to make the initial setup more efficient.

What areas do you seem to get bogged down in and wish they were smoother and quicker?
And if there were no self-important driver to get pissed off, would "jaywalking" even be a thing? If the first automobile drivers had been poor folks with little political power (haha yeah right), "jaywalking" would never have been made a crime in the first place. Some streets will have heavy pedestrian traffic; the rational robot routes around them to lower-traffic streets.
You can use native code. Problem is that you need a compiler for it and so far optimizations is their main issue.
Not sure about this Russian chip but in the case of Transmeta and Nvidia Denver (and to a lesser degree, Intel x86 µops), writing the "native" code directly is not beneficial in any way.

The whole point is that the JIT compiler running in the CPU can make dynamic optimizations that's somewhat similar in nature to doing branch prediction and other optimizations modern CPUs do.

The native code executed by these CPUs is a poor target for static compilation. Without runtime data about which branches are taken, which memory locations are touched, etc, it is not possible to generate code that outperforms the built-in JIT or can compete with more traditional CPUs.

And besides, the JIT frontend in these chips is rather cheap in terms of power and performance.
I thought it was original when I saw it last month: https://twitter.com/cat_beltane/status/588359354136403969

Had you encountered it before?
What the Heck Is OAuth?
You're leaving some details out, here:

* The CA system is not overtly delegated to governments, and the top level domains of the DNS tree are.

* Most of the world's most popular and privacy-sensitive websites are locked into domains controlled by governments with aggressive signals intelligence programs.

* CAs are revokable without global coordination, and DNS zones are not, so if an DNS zone owner begins misbehaving, there will be few options to restore trust.

* Modern X.509 doesn't merely rely on the CA tree, but also on (a) pinning and soon (b) CT logs, both of which create Internet-wide surveillance systems that make it extremely risky to subvert TLS sessions using compromised CAs.

* For that matter, pinned certificate take X.509 almost entirely out of the equation for sensitive sites like Google Mail; attempts to MITM Google are probably what caused the last few CA compromises to be detected.

* The cryptography in DNSSEC dates back to the 1990s; even the variant of RSA that it uses is obsolete.
I don't think it sounds that way at all. In fact, the woman even acknowledge she didn't know as much as she wanted to and was going to do more research into Abilify to be better-informed.

The linked article is actually part one of a five-part series. I encourage you to read the other parts before dismissing her "based on some anecdotal evidence".
My newly born son will be 16 in 2031. I wonder if he will ever get a drivers license.
Sorry, totally didn't see this....

My "office" exercises are pretty simple. First, I stand up, reach down and touch my toes (or, as far down as you can reach), then straighten up slowly, focusing on really using my hamstrings and glutes. Second, I cross my legs while sitting on a chair, then pull my knee into my chest for a few seconds. Repeat on the other side.

I do agree with the child's response, though--if you can find a good therapist, they can point you in the proper direction and spot muscle imbalances. Years of focusing on just my upper body (for rock climbing) left my legs pretty unbalanced. I've been working hard to fix that.
I Am the Creator of Ruby on Rails Tutorial. AMA During CodmentorOfficeHours-5/21
How do you hear that? It's basically a guarantee, and companies generally don't warrant against things they know will happen. The reason you get a 1 year warranty on things is because they are engineered to not break down within one year. After that, the incidence of failure goes up.

"We will pay for any accidents caused" means "this will not cause accidents". Because no company would do that unless they were sure it wasn't going to happen. Just like when Google gives $100,000 for bugs in Chrome. They wouldn't say that unless they were sure there were no or relatively few bugs.
They did manage to correct your name in the story, fyi.
So true, it gave you performance and seemingly additional addressing modes--wasn't just to obfuscate or be cute.
> Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts 2012
Native Apps in JavaScript with React Native (slides)
Yeah same. Sounds like the guy they featured just passed away, unfortunately.

My afternoon playlist: (at least) Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Goldfinger, Suicide Machines ... so many great punk/ska bands.
As an LGBT person, I agree.

I'm sorry, but I will not support anyone who's on friendly terms with Putin. My people come first.
For being a lower level language, Rust's abstractions really make feel closer to a higher level language than to C. It will be even more so if HKT's land.
Haskell type classes can not be implemented with zero runtime overhead in all cases, because it is possible to have an unbounded number of instances at runtime for a single type class. The Rust equivalent will just fail at compile time (of the trait implementation, not the trait definition) due to a recursion error.
Why use names such as SPARC and ARM when the products are neither? Is it some sort of joke/wordplay that got lost in translation?
Compared with? My reference point is python,java,clojure,c,c++. Python is huge and useful but messy and inconsistent. Java is huge and doesn't compose well. Clojure is underdocmented and hardly batteries included. C and C++ can't do anything useful without a bunch of extra libraries. From what I can see, C# is like java in this regard.

Go is a small incredibly useful and composable set of libraries that handles a vast amount of cases with a small amount of code.
Thanks. I feel stupid not looking at that first.
Good find. The text of the DOT website is a little vague, but I think you're right that the 1.45 per 1M number is only from police reports.

Data for GES [General Estimates System] come from a nationally representative
sample of police reported motor vehicle crashes of all types, from minor to fatal.
... Although various sources suggest that about half the motor vehicle crashes in
the country are not reported to the police, the majority of these unreported crashes
involve only minor property damage and no significant personal injury.

I guess that's saying the actual number should be about double, so ~3 per 1M.

I'm also wondering if any private operators of fleets publish stats. For example, does FedEx or UPS publish accident rates? I know those numbers would also be skewed, larger vehicles, more frequent stops, etc. But it could be another data point.
I think the article is taking it to mean what we want it to: don't write obtuse/opaque code just because you think that the straightforward way to do it, relevant language feature, natural abstraction, etc. is "too slow."

Find out whether sacrificing clarity for speed is even categorically worth it in this particular function, and find out whether your alleged speed improvement is proportional to its readability costs.
Many new cars have black boxes that log what the vehicle was doing, and they can be pulled in case of an accident. It's one of the benefits of having everything be electronically controlled these days.
I hope they already did that, they say they can track all moving agents around, and roboticists know physics so they know they have to dissipate energy as smoothly as possible in the system including all neighbors.
Integrating Google news feed
I am analyzing a requirement in which the client wants to integrate Google news feed into their CRM system, they want the accounts tab to show Google news relevant to the current account. Also they want to make sure users don't miss any news, which basically means storing news locally so that users can check back-dated news. Client has few thousand accounts so I need to write a daily job to get news for each account and store it in a database.

Can I do that? Of course I can't hit Google news servers 10,000 time every minute, I am okay with pulling news once a day over a period of few hours. But can I store the data returned by the google rss feed on my server in the first place? I don't get any clear idea from their support page
https://support.google.com/news/answer/40796
People still ride horses and we've had cars for over 100 years. I don't see driving going away, it just might be constrained in when and where you are allowed to drive(maybe like Autobahn in Chicago and Motorsports Ranch in Houston).
Also note that a very large reason for constructing Rocky Reach Dam on the Columbia was to provide power for an Alcoa Aluminum plant that is still heavily dependent on cheap energy prices. Chelan, Douglas and Grant counties all have nearly the cheapest power rates the the country.
I have found absolutely nothing true in your statement. The idea that companies have to keep people happy is laughable when you consider there are companies like AT&T and Comcast making huge amounts of money, companies like Hobby Lobby going to court to protect their "rights" to screw employees, and so many companies that treat employees like cattle.

And I stopped taking you seriously when you started talking about taxes and violence. It's the dumbest God damned thing out there in libertarian rhetoric.
Scaling Startup Teams [video]
> Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows.

I'm definitely guilty of using my web browser for PDFs most of the time, but when I use a standalone application I like Sumatra PDF. It's speedy, lightweight, and gets the job done. It is still pretty annoying that I have to install something else in the first place, however.
Two problems I had to solve in my Oxford interview (2013)
The driver is not the problem of cars.
It is the fact that in average 1,5 t and 10 m2 are used to transport 100 kg and 1 m2.
Driverlessness does not change the bad physics of car transportation decisively.
Are you surprised that disabling part of the website renders the website inoperable?
More than a few of the companies you might call "top startups" hire exclusively from the alma mater of their founders. ie Stanford, Harvard. Still hiring exceptional developers but with a slant on where they are coming from.
Fair questions. Civil engineering projects may not be the best analogy, because there are some special laws in that space, but maybe consider automobile recalls. How many people went to prison because a car's brakes or ignition didn't work? Criminal product liability is pretty rare afaik.
Could you describe some of the upsides of regions as compared to Rust-style lifetimes and borrowck?
How simulated annealing can improve your lunch
Pretty easy to s/cars/guns/g and s/driving/shooting/g in your comment and I think you may have a reasonable idea what the future holds...
I'd like to see you say something even remotely relevant to the topic at hand, instead of constructing straw men.
This is why we’ve programmed our cars to pause briefly after a light turns green before proceeding into the intersection

I programmed my brain to do this after learning to drive in Miami. I always look both ways before proceeding, just as I would before crossing as a pedestrian. When approaching an intersection, especially at night, I also try to look for what's coming from the side.

Intersections can be scary places

As a runner I find intersections terrifying and will typically cross instead a few hundred yards away. I'd rather jaywalk and have to deal with cars from only two directions. In my experience crosswalks are often the least safe place to cross.

Also, some comic relief:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEFYCaKakE (Starman)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_BtPZRbZxY (George Carlin)
What about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW7j2ipE2Ck ? (one of the Youtube Video suggestions)
While it's true that VC industry as a whole underperforms, the top firms, including a16z perform quite well. VC industry consists of lots of dumb firms. So, your arguments are somewhat misplaced.
As much as I'd love to see x86 go the fuck away, we have a lot more proven stuff working on that architecture -- including a lot of legacy or closed-source software that won't get ported soon.

> Also, the propreties that they are getting feel like being knocked back a decade--is it due to the fabrication facilities that they have?

Most likely. Top of the line stuff needs a lot of money and expertise -- Russian companies don't have that much of the former, and Russia exports or rent^H^H^H^H uses a lot of the latter for outsourcing.
Make events attendees want
In all seriousness though, what would happen in this case? Do self-driving cars have emergency stop procedures? And how safe are they? This is still a serious concern about self-driving cars for me. Especially since digital image recognition still isn't that great. What if the car sees a tumbleweed that it mistakes for a boulder and puts it into emergency stop mode?
RubyGems Passes 5B Downloads; 101,000 Gems Total
Happy to hear that. I don't know why it's not advertised more, it's reassuring and enforcing at the same time. Maybe people would flock toward log-free models out of a reflex to drive carelesly.
I can already imagine intense debates about whether to outlaw human-driven cars in a (perhaps not so) distant future.
I think it's perfectly acceptable to expect that the enthusiasts will be the ones to preserve the things they love that fall out of favor. I enjoy driving on a nice empty road as well, but I don't think it's something that "need[s] to be preserved." It's something we have to do that we've learned to enjoy and do more than we need to. If it stops being something we have to do it's up to us to make time to do it for pleasure.
someone needs to read up on their IFF logic tables.
I don't suppose you guys have found a way to make it economical to model, texture and animate products en masse? ;)
Thank you for having a consistent policy that even sama isn't above. :)
Immortality would introduce some new challenges (possible cultural stagnation, an even more entrenched elite class (only a problem if you're not a member of the elite class I suppose), etc.), however, it would also solve (or at least mitigate) a lot of problems, some of which are hinted at in the article (medical costs, social security, etc.)

I'm not sure overpopulation would be such a huge problem - birth rates are already declining all over the world and I suspect indefinite lifespans would only accelerate that trend. Besides, there are still plenty of ways to die other than old age, we wouldn't be truly 'immortal' :)
Driving isn't going to go anywhere, but I can see driving being "penalized" via exorbitant insurance rates - so much so that the it probably might offset the cost of buying a manually driven car.
It'll probably end up being a hobby, albeit an expensive one.
I hate gestures, especially on larger screens. It 100% ensures I will need to be using two hands, at which point I might as well just have a button. Occasionally I'll try to swipe and find there is a smudge on the screen or maybe the humidity has gone up and my hands are a bit more grippy and whoops, there goes the entire phone out of my hand. On something the size of an iPhone 5, it's fine. On an iPhone 6+ (where you have less of a hold on the phone one-handed anyway), that's a big deal.
School Districts Embrace Business Model of Data Collection
Microsoft isn't the problem (this coming from someone who didn't take an internship offer on ideological grounds).

They already have that discount (aka government contracts they would get blacklisted for if they didn't agree).

The way to stop this isn't to make snarky comments about Microsoft since that just builds up/reinforces distrust on a random company.

The way to stop this with the same amount of effort is to make snarky comments about the US government/lack of oversight. That will atleast reinforce distrust towards the government. Enough of that will lead to change.

Your mind is shaped by what you read.
This is a strange comment. Most people I see on HN like Lenovo because of the quality of their machines. Where I can see a purchasing manager or head of IT against them at the moment is because they surreptitiously installed software which caused a security risk.

If you're fine with your company's data possibly being compromised in the future then continue your ordering from Lenovo.

I will still buy from them because I always make it a habit to do a clean install whenever I get a new computer just because of all the crap every vendor adds to consumer PCs.
LoL, it is not fully automated. Unfortunately, the economics isn't something I can talk about.