skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars on the autobahn will not want to hit deer, people getting out of their car while parked on the emergency lane, or people walking on the road to place a warndreieck (http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warndreieck) warning for their stranded car, a few hundred meters on, either.

And I expect that what constitutes an acceptable risk will go down and down, as long as technology allows for it. It's already happening al the time. Seat belts are compulsory, air bags are compulsory, ABS is compulsory, etc.

But yes, the frog get thing is not something I would advise to do. On the other hands certainly, in cities, it will be much, much safer for pedestrians to step out into traffic without paying much attention to that traffic. That will affect how pedestrians behave.
Suppose 100% of the responsibility is borne by manufacturers. How is this different from adaptive cruise control or ABS today? For one, the liability cross-section increases dramatically. In 2013, the U.S. auto insurance industry incurred $125 billion in damages [1]. With human error eliminated, this number will shrink. But it will also shift to manufacturers' balance sheets.

What about insurance? Insurance works with un-correlated risks. You mowing down a pedestrian doesn't cause everyone around you to do the same. This keeps insurance companies' instantaneous expected losses manageable. Coding errors and recalls are not un-correlated. If your car has an error, so does–likely–every other car in its run. This concentrates losses and makes them difficult to insure.

There are solutions. But systems will need to be built to allocate risk.

[1] http://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/auto-insurance
> There are three reasons why I disagree with this explanation. The first is that value questions are objective, and moral anti-realism is completely unjustified.

This is probably the longest-running debate in human history, and he dismisses it completely with a link to his undergraduate paper on the subject.

Putting that aside, the problem with this argument is it doesn't allow for changing beliefs. If we are only driven by fitting in with our group, then no political views would ever change as they wouldn't ever reach critical mass.

Just look at the changing opinions of gay marriage. Political views absolutely do change over time, and they can change very quickly. Yet this paper is all about how that is impossible.

> I have witnessed few political conversions, so the most I can offer is speculation as to how one might occur.

I feel like this is an admission that the paper is entirely speculative.
I doubt they sold that many operating system upgrades to consumers anyway, and corporations might be decidedly less hostile to subscription based licensing/support packages if they're getting upgrade paths that preserve backward compatibility for their custom software and less unwanted complication and indirect expense than the major OS update every four years.
I would bet that even autonomous trucks would have a human on board, partly to prevent exactly this scenario. They'd play the same roll as night security in a warehouse. No need for them to drive; they could sleep and play video games and do whatever. The truck would alert them if anything unusual happens.
Do you actually keep a voice chat line open throughout the day? Or 'when needed'?
> A human is not going to stop as easily, can drive evasively, is a potential witness, can call the police almost immediately

The only one of those that is more true of a human driver is the first one.
see http://stupidhackathon.github.io/ and http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521510
It is a deceptive description. I said PLN not PSL.
I doubt that they will ask for subscription for the OS itself. I think they are more likely to go the iOS/Android route and will try to monetize Windows with the App store introduced in Windows 8.

And of course owning the Desktop OS market continues to put them in a strong position in the profitable enterprise market which doesn't mind paying for features and support.
You can subscribe to the "basic" package: lower costs per call, but you can only use ls, find and vi.

The "pro" package would give you compilers and X, but for sudo and custom commands you have to choose the expensive "enterprise" package.
Can you give an example? It seems like the biggest problem with economics, for example, is that no one can say for sure what the outcome would be. Spending more money during a recession, for example, works only some of the time.
That's an ideology, that thinks that people are all 100% responsible for everything they do, can judge everything consciously, and cannot be manipulated to do stuff by things like advertising or peer pressure.

Sociological studies have proven time and again that this is not the case -- including in people that think that that's impossible for themselves (sort of like the Dunning–Kruger effect).
I posted a link to a Glenn Greenwald piece, which in turn references documents and links to further journalism.

So let's take just one of the cases. NSA hacked Brazilian Oil Company Petrobras to win bids on offshore oil drilling locations.
Perhaps it's me, but I think parentheses are one of the strongest selling points of Lisps. The less I have to worry about special characters, special evaluation, and indentation rules the better.

Also, I'm not even sure what some of the code in the demos even do:

set a
+ 1 2
, 3

supposedly translates into the Racket code:

(set a (+ 1 2) (, 3))
;; which is also
(set a (+ 1 2) 3)

I think you don't want set here ("set" is many things, but not setting variables: http://docs.racket-lang.org/search/index.html?q=set); I think you want "define" (http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/define.html?q=set#%28f...), which only takes two arguments.
This is an entirely reasonable question and shouldn't be downvoted. Cruise ships already have the infrastructure to handle populations of hundreds or thousands of of people, and in greater comfort than an ex-military ship. Also, they're relatively inexpensive.

http://cruiseship.homestead.com/cruiseships.html
Nice to see this here :-)

I am the one who helped them migrate their old WordPress theme to Layers (http://www.layerswp.com). I haven't quite finished yet, but I am pretty close.

Let me know if you have any feedback!

btw, I also helped them migrate their forum from bbPress to Discourse: http://discuss.seasteading.org
Screenshots of DropZap puzzle game on Apple Watch. Do you want to beta test it?
Screenshots:

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A3JtdOXmGZMHf3;DC2E79B4-AD9E-4D77-AC5C-49E8207F7D2E

If you would like to beta test DropZap on the Apple Watch, please send me your email via a.michail@me.com.
Or...

ssh host 'bash -s' < /path/to/local/script
Discounts for developers who happen to be students
You might very well be right. It might be a fundamental flaw of Git that in order to use it, you have to understand its innards. Certainly, in order to use it effectively, and in order to avoid disaster, you need to now how it's storing data.

I've never used it, but I've heard that Mercurial offers most of the power of Git, with much less of the pain, and an easier user interface. I'm willing to believe that this is true. I'll even believe (whether it's true or not) that Mercurial does provide a nice abstraction layer, one that allows you to ignore the underlying implementation.

The thing is, that doesn't matter at this point. Many people (including me) have gotten through the Git learning curve and now find it to be fantastically useful. I'm far more productive with Git than I was with SVN or CVS, and I'm not the only one to feel this way. As a result, you now have an ecosystem of tools, tutorials, books, etc. that all build on Git -- not to mention companies such as GitHub and GitLab that supply (relatively) easy-to-use tools and interfaces.

Also: A large part of Git's power stems from the fact that you're always thinking in terms of commits, and where those commits fit on your repository's graph. I'm not sure how you can abstract away from that, even if it's an interesting idea in theory.

A combination of critical mass (among open-source developers and a growing number of corporations), an ecosystem, and a powerful (if hard to understand) data model has made Git the standard nowadays. It's a crying shame that Git is so hard for so many people to get... but I've found that in my own work, the learning curve was more than worthwhile, and has made me more productive.
Microsoft may also be planning to monetize Windows with the app store introduced in Windows 8, similar to the Google Play Store paying for Android.
I like Source Tree for Windows and Gitg/Gitx on Linux/Mac. Also recommend downloading P4 Merge and setting that up as your default merge tool.
New FarmLogs Alerts Put Crop Health in Crosshairs
> And I expect that what constitutes an acceptable risk will go down and down, as long as technology allows for it.

Well, I do think that the risk of pedestrians on the autobahn isn't something we optimize for.

In the city? Yes.

Reducing the risks of occupants? Yes.

Driving defensively on the autobahn because someone might walk into the traffic? No.

The potential optimizations for the restricted environment that will be made there will be for increased traffic flow, more flexible lane switching or things like that. Maybe even saving fuel by driving in the tailwind of another vehicle.
> Now, with windows 10, my security updates will come bundled with my unwanted OS changes.

Had this experience with Mac OS X. For 10.4 they switched to a new, dynamically linked libstdc++ that used the new Itanium C++ ABI. 10.3 had a statically linked libstdc++ and the old ABI.

They pushed out an OS update that installed the new libstdc++ on 10.3, breaking linking against libstdc++ with standard cxxflags. You see they had integrated cross-compilation for 10.3 into the new Xcode on 10.4, and didn't give a shit about people who were still compiling stuff on 10.3.

I decided after that that if Apple was going to break working compilation on my OS because I hadn't upgraded to the newest and shiniest, then they didn't really want my money. They seem to be doing OK without it, and I'm doing fine without them.

If Microsoft pulls this sort of stunt with Windows, then fuck everything about this change. They're such sticklers in the opposite direction, doing so much to ensure backward-compatible everything that the house of cards sometimes comes crashing down, that I don't think that will be a problem with Windows 10+x.
Building Prototypes Dan Gelbart part 1 of 18 Introduction [video]
... Do we have to censor everything now?
Thank you! That was a good answer. Just one thing: OneDrive works well, if I may, I suggest giving it a try. Re: software development: I just live inIntelliJ for Clojure, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Typescript, Clojurescript, and Python. IntelliJ runs about the same on every platform. I write my books now with markdown and leanpub, so for writing also operating system choice does not matter.

True confession: I tend to cycle slowly through OSX, Linux, and Windows 8.1 because I like a little change. Similar to programming languages. My strange way to have fun :-)
Reminded me of streamlinejs (https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs) but I guess what makes your library better is that there you don't have the compiler overhead they need, right?
Because it has the kind of support enterprises needs. Not your typical "I don't know how the fuck monetize so I'll pivot again" mindset.
Why is a 99p price tag so attractive?
I really like the fact that you can monitor remote servers!

Not sure if you consider feature requests but I would love to be able to monitor ZFS as well with it.
> and presumably turns features like IOMMU on/off based on the card present.

Presumably. Yeah. That's why I asked in the first place ;)
Microsoft Word does not paginate footnotes properly. There is a legal requirements for footnotes to be paginated in a certain way in legal documents. As far as I know only Word Perfect does it correctly and hence has locked in the US DoJ. I have to admit that it's been many, many years since I talked to anyone at Corel, so I don't know what else they are doing.
>No, "hackers" are people which means they're no better, or worse, than others.

Obviously everyone is people (fallible, etc). That doesn't mean each subculture doesn't have standards and ideology that its members ascribe too (even when those are not 100% explicit in the "10 commandments" sense).

>Why are you trying to make the subculture out to be something it isn't?

Because the very notion of a "subculture" means members share some specific attributes.

If they didn't, then a site like "Hacker News" wouldn't even make sense to follow, in the sense that it would be exactly the same as any other mass culture social voting site, e.g. Digg, Reddit's front page, etc. You might argue that the only shared attributes are an interest in hacking and computers (and startups). Then again, others would argue.
Some variant of this comment is also constantly being made in "X written in Y" threads and it's getting a bit annoying. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907143, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8751303, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6160293, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436736, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9061312, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163537, etc.)
Deceptive title. Actual headline: "Media dementia scare over hay fever and sleep drugs".
Human rationality is a myth.
They are not, in fact 'objectively' better, because the degree to which you prioritize each of those things differs based on each person's values. Take welfare, for instance. Social welfare programs help the vulnerable, and undoubtedly some non-zero percentage of people are taking advantage of said programs wrongly. In the US, people who are liberal are more interested in the former, and people who are conservative are more interested in the latter.

This is a chief reason why one group is for it and the other is against it. It's not that liberals don't think welfare fraud exists at all, they just don't think it's a big problem compared to the good such programs do. And it's not that conservatives don't think such programs do help some deserving poor people, they just hate the thought of some of their tax money going to someone mooching off the system.
Known issue [0], should be an easy fix.

[0] https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/where-is-firefox-os/issue...
As I understand it, the lowRISC project is proposing to do something like this: http://www.lowrisc.org/
The change happen because circumstances change and so you change the groups you belong to. But I agree there are other factors too.
heh, yeah, if I _had_ that information.

When?! When?! One day, is that not enough for you?! One day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
"As humans"?

As americans perhaps, though I doubt even that. Personally I have no memory of when exactly I heard about it.
Are you sure you were using floating point math? Compiling 1.0 / 0.0 should not give errors or warnings. 1 / 0 will, on the other hand.
3) This is a fad. They'll do 1) for a while, but in about a decade (plus or minus a few years), there will be another release of Windows that is again branded under another name/number.
Internal documents that keep track of the "official launch dates."
I think they realized that joke is getting a little old.
I'd continue the argument to include a discussion about the monopoly on the use of force, and the use of morality by the minority to subjugate the majority.
Link to the original Hacker News discussion here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9518814

As a recent graduate, I much more agree with this author than the author of the original.
Looks like we have a political disagreement. Beliefs can change, but they usually do not change quickly or easily. That's why we call them beliefs.
Actually my point was that given OP is from Somalia there are a lot of Somalian expats in Melbourne, and Also restaurants, which might make it a more attractive location to migrate to.
Actually yeah this basically crossed my mind as well. I was thinking more that it should be part of Ubuntu by default. In the traditional market, the loops of funding things are more or less closed. If you want something you pay for it and therefore fund it. If it doesn't get enough funding, it's because it's priced incorrectly, or it's not desired. The Free Software gift economy, for all its benefits in the area of user freedom, is entirely missing these price signals. See: Werner Koch. There has to be something to remind us who exactly we should be paying if we are so inclined.
Every commit will be accepted to create a compelling novella
misread as " I've got the b*lls and emotional scars to prove it!)"

..still would like to salute that!
If you bought Windows XP in recent years, the DVD already installed Windows XP together with the latest available Service Pack. If you buy Windows 8 right now it automatically installs Windows 8.1 from the disk. It will work similarly for Windows 10, regardless of the nomenclature they are going to decide on.
I use that here... The fact that it is needed at all is already a failure of the OS.

And the Desktop app itself is sort of unstable, and classic shell is also sort of unstable, the combination result in lots of crashes, specially if you are having issues while trying to play some games (example: on my machine every time I scroll the map too much in Arcanum from Troika Games, it crashes, crashes the desktop, crashes the classic shell, and the mouse stops working completely... it is really amazing, it crashes so hard I am impressed instead of frustated).
Barely registered to me. It had high symbolic value, but the practical impact of Osama bin Laden's death was next to none.
Raymond Chen, Microsoft’s Chuck Norris
It's inspired by Jarvis from Iron Man. :)
"Save money on the average payout and you save money overall" is a decent argument if and only if the number of payouts remains fixed, which it most certainly won't.

Having a human present is a significant deterrent against robbing in the first place and against liberal use of firearms because if things go south with a human present then the charge is murder. A robotic truck presents no such deterrent. Lower the risk of knocking off a truck, and more trucks will get knocked off.

I'm not saying it can't be solved, I'm just saying that the solution won't be "buy insurance."
Because if you were in the space you'd know that 330m monthlies is a worthless metric. This isn't a website, if those people are popping in once a month, they aren't really using it. MSN Messenger was never a success, and never really fit any strategic need or user need. They offered nothing to the market, and died when more useful products took their place with lower numbers but a more active, and valuable user base. (Skype).

For all their work, I believe MSN messenger robbed themselves of the opportunity to discover their own value by trying to bootstrap someone elses success. Try to at least hear me out on this, because if think this is a good strategy to apply to a startup you are kidding yourself -- as a startup MSN messenger would have failed, and as an internal product it was also a significant failure (but one that took too long to be realized as such)
Don't Write Code, Deliver Products
Given the comment you've just linked there leads with "This hackathon is a good example of the hypocrisy of the progressive movement", and you think "hackathon" is some sort of brand name requiring certification ... I urge you to consider the possibility that the problem lies not in the rest of the world outside yourself.
Everything you wrote is reasonable except this:

> To put in perspective, you should only do a test if you have good a priori chance of having a positive.

There are several reasons to run a test that yields a small posteriori probability even after a positive result (i.e., a test such that most positives are false positive). The most common reason is that this test is much cheaper (or has fewer risks, etc.) than a more accurate test. The protocol, then, is to run the cheap test and then run the expensive test if you get an initial positive result. The only time you end up believing it's a true positive is when the expensive test returns positive.

This is fairly common in medicine, for example the syphilis test: http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/syphilis-tests
Since the same is true of Haskell, can I add this tagline to everything made with Haskell without people complaining?
> Your monthly subscription payments will come in the form of monthly Azure payments.

Leverage their desktop monopoly to gain market share in the cloud? Sounds familiar. Maybe Azure is just part of Windows, like IE?
Presumably because cruise ships aren't meant to provide any sort of sustainability, like farming, and requires fuel.
I agree that property rights are not as objective as some would like to believe but there are some clever alternative methods to solve disputes. For instance, Ronald Coase addressed this issue in an article called "The Problem With Social Cost"

> A candy maker had had the same property for over 60 years when a doctor moved next door. After eight years passed without incident between them, the the doctor built a consulting room right against the confectioner’s kitchen. The doctor then found that the noise from the confectioner’s equipment interfered with the doctor’s ability to work, and in particular to hear with a stethoscope. The doctor filed suit to force the confectioner to stop using his equipment. The court recognized that the confectioner might suffer some hardship – thus admitting to the reciprocal nature of harm that Coase would later recognize – but it argued that to avoid even greater (unspecified) individual hardship and inhibiting land development for residential use, the confectioner must stop

Coase proposed considering how the parties might settle the dispute in a market transaction once the court made its findings; for space reasons I will present a simplified version of Coase’s argument. Though the doctor had won, in a market settlement he would be willing to allow the machinery to continue to operate were the confectioner to pay the doctor a sum that was greater than the doctor’s loss of income from having to either move or install sound abatement material. Conversely, had the confectioner won, in a market settlement he would have been willing to accept payment from the doctor to stop using the noisy machinery if the amount were greater than the confectioner’s costs to move the equipment or install sound abatement material.

In difference with Pigou, for Coase the general principle in cases of damage is that each case should be considered for its particular circumstances: “When an economist is comparing alternative social arrangements, the proper procedure is to compare the total social product yielded by these different arrangements” [0]

I'm not saying one solution is perfect but I am just more open-minded as to how disputes are handled without the use (or threat) of force. It's always interesting how a crowd like HN is so vehemently anti-authoritarian in some respects is willing to grant so much liberty to that same authority in some respects.

As far as "underlying good", that's above my pay-grade. To me, I just read that as either "think of the children" or "national security".

[0] http://michaelbrennen.com/2014/04/12/externalities-2-ronald-...
I had Windows 8 here, Windows 8.1 force-installed itself, I found no way to opt out, or even to control when to update, I was working one day and it suddenly decided to shut me out and update itself to 8.1, there was no "cancel" or "wait" button.

So, MS already pulled a stunt like that recently, why they would not do it again, specially if they want people to use some shiny new tech part of their 3e strategy?