skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've been sued once for something, you cannot be sued again (and again, and again) for the same thing.

If you do the same thing multiple times, you can be sued for each instance.

If you run a scam that affects a million people, you can face a million separate lawsuits.
The term 'easy' is also relative, stop trying to be pedantic.
Less ironically, I'm looking forward to pushing a button on the dashboard of my ambulance that automatically preempts the road ahead.
It will probably be more expensive to insure a self-driven car but I don't se it being banned outright. It will be a luxury, a sport.
I want to hear the argument about people who want to ride.
I enjoy riding. I like riding horses. I still ride a horse and will not buy an automobile. I participate in riding clubs and I compete in horse racing events. I enjoy horse photography and I do my own hoof maintenance on my steeds.
What happens to people like me who actually enjoy riding and the act of owning a horse? Do my loves get phased out because the majority of people just think of transportation as appliances? Will this give birth to "classic-riding shows"?
Not saying I don't like innovation, I'd absolutely love to own a model-T, but some things need to be preserved.
Hi HN, I want to share a project I've been working on last months and find people who find this idea useful.
Demo is coming, but for me is critical to get some feedback at this stage.
Please share your feedback.
You mentioned cars as appliances, but you forgot the part where humans driving cars has cause of millions of deaths and many more injuries. I expect it will still be possible to drive cars manually, but in dedicated or isolated areas.
Ask HN: Has anyone else gotten support scam numbers from Microsoft chat support?
TL;DR Have you gotten a scam call center number from Microsoft's official chat support system?

Over the weekend, I had to reformat a Windows 8.1 installation, and the reason is pretty puzzling, if not a bit alarming. The owner of the laptop accessed Microsoft's chat support system directly from their website (I verified that it was the correct url) to get help setting up language settings for Microsoft Office.

The agent on the chat service immediately told the owner to call a phone number which turned out to be one of the numbers Indian scammer outfits use to trick users into letting them VPN into their system and "remove viruses" while actually installing rootkits, keyloggers, scareware, ect... I immediately severed the connection, reformmated, and checked the MBR, then got in touch with Microsoft support and let them know this is going on from within their own service. Of course I got the usual "We'll definitely check into it" response, and that was that.

Has anyone else had this experience? I understand that this happens when people start clicking on links that they shouldn't, but I am admittedly surprised to see it happen from their official chat service on the Microsoft support site proper. I'd like to know if my experience is unique, or if there is a history of this happening from within their support staff.

I won't post the number or the URL they took the owner to unless someone requests it.
They (the Russian government) will:

http://wccftech.com/arm-baikal-processor-8-cores-cleansweep-...

Not sure what MCST's ties are to the government.
People love to fly but not everyone should be a pilot. Same goes with driving. The driving test could get more vigorous and you might not be able to drive on all roads but you will still be able to drive.
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That's probably why it's not advertised. Because your car will tattle on you. I've often wondered about the black box in my car, if I were in an accident and I was going 71mph in a 70mph and they pulled by black box, would I be given a ticket even though I was not at fault?

Although I'm pretty sure only the manufacturer has access to this data (as part of their copyright on the car), so it would take a warrant for law enforcement to get it. I don't have proof of that, but I would guess that's why you don't hear about it more. It's only used when absolutely necessary.
We agree incremental use of global type inference algorithms is non-function.

But I am also saying you don't need to do that. Certainly don't need type-inference in the case where the ASTs are typed by construction. And the syntax directed algorithms can also infer somewhat.

You can also alternatively cache the result of global inference, which sucks for refactoring but preserves purity.
It is not a confidence builder when the page has a prominent advertisement for the book Napoleon Never Slept. According to those who knew him, he required an average amount of sleep, but in emergencies could stay awake and alert for a long time.
I apologize for being imprecise. We're aware it's more than just ADL or constexpr, but we had insufficient time to address it at this meeting. It's definitely on our radar, we flagged it as a high priority item.
Peeing Android Forces Google to Suspend Map Maker
Somehow we've gone from "Elon cares more about his business than he does about his employees - to the extreme."

To: "Would it be OK to be a dick if you're curing cancer?"

And when that didn't play, the argument was reframed again as: "You're harming countless strangers unless you're a dick."

Twist it anyway you want, if someone wants to be a selfish dick, they should own it, not rationalize it. I'm pretty sure the conquistadors didn't do what they did because they wanted to bring Christianity to the New World...

If you can't prioritize (what should be) the most important of your personal relationships above what you want to do, it's unlikely that the real reason you working is because you have a surplus of love for the world.
Accepted Rails Projects for Google Summer of Code 2015
If they were cooperating with the manufacturers the mesh could come as an export from the cad/cam package the hardware designers use.
From a sentimental perspective, I hear you. I've also enjoyed driving, taking care of my car, etc. That said, the idea that some things need to be preserved isn't going to keep human-driven cars in the mainstream if the world wants to go in a different direction.

Take a look at newspapers -- I have no fewer than 5 relatives bemoaning the collapse of physical newspapers. Because nostalgia. It's decidedly more efficient to get your news electronically. How long before The Times discontinues home delivery?

Even if (when?) self-driving cars become the majority, I think you'll still see hobbyist avenues for enjoying cars -- with, my guess is, higher expense to you and a lot more regulation on use (e.g. not allowed to drive in cities?).
I like how in your examples, "Google" is just algorithms, not the humans behind them, but for the police, you allow for humanity.

You may as well say, "the most police cameras can do: send you an automated speeding ticket", which is of course painfully naïve.

Google could do plenty of evil with your data.
Paul Graham Wants to Blow Up Google
I'm talking about the historical and anthropological record, not the Hebrew mythology. Of course the religion's modern texts would paint themselves in an infallible light.

So yes, Judaism is descended and evolved from Canaanite religion.
Interesting. The likely source for these data are the companies' corporate charters. These are all available to the public at the Delaware Secretary of State's office.

You can tell because they only discuss terms that go in the charter. Other things like registration rights go in separate contracts between the company and its outside investors.
Does go even have a usable debugger yet?
It is for finding the first solution. Sorry that I didn't mention it.
Self-driving cars will still have manual controls, for all of the minutiae at the beginning and end of a trip (mostly to do with parking).
Another interpretation of the Google bug bounty is that fixing bugs of a certain kind is actually worth $100,000 to them (but you're right that it would be hard to sustain if they expected to make thousands of payouts at that level).
Accepted Ruby Projects for Google Summer of Code 2015
In what regard? I'm not really understanding what you're saying. PyGame can be used to make Android games to a limited extent. HTML5 can be used to make games for literally any platform, and can be made into native iOS and Android apps.

But when you compare HTML5 and Android... one is a mobile platform and the other is a programming language. That's where my question lies. There's no one programming language you need to use for iOS or Android. Android and iPhone are not programming languages.
Wasn't it Patrick's point that being compatible with the consensus checks is insufficient for being compatible with Bitcoin Core?
Do you get actual offers or do you get asked to interview with them? There's a difference.

Yeah, a lot of my co-workers including myself don't like it because we're helping the rich get richer plus associated consequences.
When I took astronomy classes in college, I was introduced to a very cool program called Digital Universe. It's developed by the Hayden Planetarium (the one where Neil deGrasse Tyson is Director) and comes with a module to explore the "local neighborhood" of stars.

It was used in the astronomy program for education and outreach to the general public, and one of the cool things we would do with it was have the audience identify a constellation and then zoom in to see just how disconnected the stars actually are.

It has other modules for different astronomical objects/scales. They have a free version for download on their website:

http://www.amnh.org/our-research/hayden-planetarium/digital-...
Outlook got conversation grouping and good search (long as you let Windows Search index your mail) a couple versions back, IIRC.
What part of that website needs JavaScript?
There is no discharge port.
CloudFlare to open an office in Singapore
Funding people over projects is the right approach to doing research

I would argue this is already essentially the dominant model. There are already more plausible projects than there is money to fund all of them, and the credibility of the person doing the proposing appears to be pretty decisive in terms of whether you actually get funding or not. It also isn't that uncommon for people to be a little dishonest about the funding and play games to shuffle it around to accomplish different ends. It would be nice to eliminate that layer, but I don't think it would be a revolutionary advance in quality or anything.
Does the Google car not do parking?
I wonder if there will come a day when you can still drive your car, but you'll have to pay exorbitant insurance rates. That seems like a reasonable midpoint.
Agreed. The issue when collecting data is that it's a rabbithole, you need to have a lot of data to avoid shallow judgement, and careful jurors too. Going at 71 (74,75) instead of 70 might turn against you, but if you have enough evidence that the other vehicle would have it you even at 70mph then the system will work.
This is also how interfaces are implemented in Go.
Agreed. I just get angry when people think it's a good idea to chime in on "gossip". This isn't Gawker.
Note two replies of mine prior where I state ISO 8601 or similar. Also not where I said the json would be constrained to the message portion of the entry. Preferably there's a logging mechanism that takes care of that for you, so you can't screw up the timestamp and type portions of the entry. In that case, your entries become:

2015-01-01 01:01:01 Info Log message A
2015-12-13 12:34:55 Debug Log message B
2015-12-13 01:34:55 Error log message C
2015-12-13 13:34:55 Error log message D # let's assume that was 1 PM data for the sake of the example
2015-12-13 01:34:55 Error log message E

Getting the date is trivial. Getting the type is also trivial. Give a static field size to type and it's event more so. The point is, you abstract the message from the rest of it, so the message can't screw up the metadata of the entry, and log whatever you want for the actual message (xml, json, plain text, whatever, just no raw newlines). This is what we have today with syslog, sans newline replacement and a slightly different date format (but still unambiguous). It works. It's useful. It's VERY easy to filter type type or date. You can take the first X chars and split on space/whitespace if you need to. You can log a message of a few megabytes and if there's no raw newlines there's efficient utilities to ignore that until you have what you want (/bin/cut).
> Do self-driving cars have emergency stop procedures?

Yes, of course! Just staying on a road is a piece of cake. Most of the research for self-driving cars is dealing with unexpected cars and pedestrians.

> And how safe are they?

According to the article, 1.7m miles driven without at at-fault accident. Self-driving cars drive very conservatively.

> What if the car sees a tumbleweed that it mistakes for a boulder and puts it into emergency stop mode?

Probably the same thing that happens when humans make visual mistakes: it would slow down and stop.

Of course, the self-driving car is looking at the tumbleweed in the visible spectrum, using LIDAR, maybe IR and probably some other sensors. We just have our squishy eyeballs.
I'll admit that every time I see one of the self driving cars, I'm tempted to do something crazy nearby to see what it does, like cut it off or swerve towards it.

So far I've been a responsible adult and not done that But it's so tempting. Until I think of all the lives I will put in danger. Maybe they can invite me to a test track so I can be an a-hole to the self driving car in a safe and controlled environment. :)
Part II: Beware of a Microsoft-Google Internet Security Oligarchy
1) Can you find such an announcement or formal policy?

2) 'take into account' is not 'give your YC application extra consideration'. The former is neutral with regard to resource usage, the latter is not.
Wouldn't insurance rates just go down in general? Car insurance would be incredibly streamlined with self-driving cars.
Also belgium and germany. Getting too close to the street/sidewalk interface will often cause cars to stop even if you have no intension whatsoever of crossing.
Ask HN: Is the “Matryoshka Cipher” possible to write and implement?
Named after the Russian nesting dolls (a physical representation of the hidden data and the layers of encryption surrounding it) one example of the Matryoshka cipher would be the "Zvyozdochkin set" where six levels of encryption protect the central data core:

1. Outer level (Bergenia) is decrypted with key #1 to reveal the next layer.

2. Next inner level (ciliata) is decrypted with key #2 to reveal the next layer.

3. Next inner level (crassifolia) is decrypted with key #3 to reveal the next layer.

4. Next inner level (cordifolia) is decrypted with key #4 to reveal the next layer.

5. Next inner level (emeiensis) is decrypted with key #5 to reveal the next layer.

6. Next inner level (ligulata) is decrypted with key #6 to reveal the data.

The idea would be that each key would come from a different key chain, be of a different size and would not be allowed to have the same credentials as any other key.

How would a model like this be set up from both a mathematical standpoint and in code?
As far as I know, this is new ground for Russia, so the title could be warranted
Users have time. They just don’t want to spend it with you
The DEC Alpha AXP did this in something called PALcode. Unimplemented instructions generated a CPU interrupt that got handled by a PALcode emulator. If I recall correctly, one of the things it did was emulate byte-wise memory operations on older processors that could only do loads and stores on double-word- or quad-word-aligned memory addresses. It was quite a bit slower than having the requisite silicon inside the CPU itself, but I don't have the numbers available.

I miss the Alphas. Those machines were _awesome_.
Didn't think of the horse perspective. Thanks for that.

Still feels bad that some I love doing every day will be regulated to somewhere far removed from where I live and done only a few times a month at best.
Rent time on a track pr a private road. You can have all the excitement you want, and if you crash there's no risk to the rest of the public.
I'd be more impressed if they actuated the trumpet with their knees.
That would probably be very problematic here in Germany.
МЦСТ (MCST) was an abbreviation for "Московский центр SPARC-технологий", now it's just a meaningless letters. ARM in computer name means probably "Автоматизированное рабочее место" - "Automated workstation"
About 33,000 people die on America’s roads every year.

There will eventually be a fatality caused by a self-driving car. I wonder how many of these we will be willing to accept. Say self-driving cars reduce fatalities by 10x. That is, by switching 100% to self-driving cars there are 3300 deaths a year, but they are all caused by self-driving cars.

Would America accept that?

I personally doubt we would. I think the number will have to be in the hundreds at most, closer to what we accept from plane crashes.

How safe do self-driving cars have to be before we start using them?
Some areas just give a "brief" period where both lights are red. I'm surprised not everywhere does, or that is isn't increased.
I would love to watch some vids of that visualization they showed off towards the end
Why is it that we feel this strong urge to mess with robots? They may exact their revenge one day.
> Do my loves get phased out because the majority of people just think of cars as appliances?

Oh, you'll still be able to drive, alright. On private roads designated for those who want to take their life into their own hands.

For regular, public roads, your love of driving will take a backseat to others' love of continuing to be alive and uninjured.
This only works if all members of the population share the exact same set of values. Even then, it might be undesirable.

Mob stoning individuals for extra martial sex is an example of this behavior.

I don't think that would be desirable ..
In most places $140K is about the ceiling. In NYC it's not. Plus finances pay bonuses.

Furthermore, what does it mean to be good? If you're smarter than your interviewer or know more, they'll reject you. In general, I would say selling yourself has nothing to do with your programming skills.
(I assume you meant to s/Verizon/Verisign/ there.)

Are you saying that if I don't trust [current .com delegate] to manage my naming authentication, I can choose .ly or .io instead? I was trying to point out that DNSSEC can't do anything about googIe.com or similar i18n-style attacks.

I'm glad that TACK exists, and I'm glad people like tptacek are advocating for it. But DNSSEC and X.509 aren't the only two possibilities for the future of secure infrastructure.
My takeaway — pause slightly before responding to a green light. (Something I usually do already as it happens.)
Stop making ridiculous contracts. Reduce headaches
Don't get puzzled by logical OR in JavaScript
By design. Plus recall google got slapped for highlighting blogs with their own adwords service attached.
Whatever the GP meant, it's really a shame that we get 60Hz AC, convert it to DC, just to convert it back to 60Hz AC, and send it down the line where it'll get converted to DC again, just to be converted to 120kHz AC and to DC another time.

Just pushing that intermediate 60Hz AC into 120kHz would already bring a huge benefit. But we should be looking at ways to bypass that first conversion entirely, and increasing the size / reducing the number of those second to last AC to DC converters at a minimum.
Creator of MediEvil Unreal Engine 4 Demo Wants to Remake Conker
Srsly, it amazes me when ppl don't get out of the way for emergency vehicles.

IMHO one random day out of the year, you should be equipped with heavy machine guns and allowed to blast anyone in your way. A simple solution for a simple problem.
What completely infuriates me is pedestrian crossings that don't automatically allow pedestrians to cross when the lights are in a state that would allow it.
I've been thinking a bit about good places to adopt this early.

Lānaʻi might be a good candidate: absolute isolation from other road systems, a small population (3000 people), and a single owner (Larry Ellison) who's just the sort of filthy rich technophile who might be willing to replace an entire island's cars.

Singapore could be the first major city to make the move, due to its authoritarian government (hey, I don't like it, but it might make this easier), strict rules to keep the stock of vehicles relatively new, and relative isolation from other road systems (only two bridges to Malaysia).
What's Wrong with Electric Bikes
There is a minor bug: Any mouse event over the control panel, even a mouse wheel spin, causes the drum to stop and or start. This leads to strange starts and stops of the drum if you happen to zoom in while hovering over the control panel. I would expect the drum to start and stop spinning only on clicks.
There could easily be modern manifestations of this too. Mob beatings for a 1 percenter that they deemed corrupt. Humanity will always find a way to get too outraged over something.
I agree with you. There are many problems with staffing agencies and this is one of them.
Criminal proceedings against an entire company don't result in people going to jail, right? Holding people personally responsible is probably not appropriate with this, but holding the entire company criminally responsible and levying fines well in excess of actual damages seems reasonable.

Regarding automobile recalls, it looks like GM got hit with some fines for their ignition switch shenanigans, beyond actual damages. But it looks like this is a regulatory thing rather than a criminal thing. Maybe this is another place where special laws get in the way of generalizing.
neat map. Now I know why I get such reasonable pings to game servers in Australia from Seattle.
This is an awesome start, but ultimately of limited usefulness to me. When I was recently shopping for a new refrigerator I really wanted one of these new fancy fridges with the larger area for produce. The problem was there was only 1 that would fit my oddly shaped space, and i wasn't sure if the dimensions listed included the hinge for the door or not (i had a cabinet above the fridge), and it was going to be tight.

What I really wished I could do at the time was take out my phone, take a picture of my space, give a few measurements for reference, and have you render the new fridge in the space.
I was also wondering if the car should be programmed to honk.
Cybersecurity firm accused of staging data breaches to extort clients
In which I make you hate Ruby in 7 minutes [video]
I am able to access some of his syllabi for his law and policy classes from his homepage (for example, here's a syllabus for Digital Surveillance [1]), but can't find very particularly much on his politics.

Does anyone know where he stands on public policy with regard to IP law, civil law, domestic surveillance and domestic propaganda?

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall13/cos597G/
Manual driven cars will not disappear, what will happen is Insurance will go through the roof as more self-driving cars are added to the roads. There will be some roads declared for self-driven cars only and some that will allow both.

Enjoy your cars now!
Why One Silicon Valley City Said “No” to Google
And typeclasses in Haskell as well.
We run a technical meetup at OpenDNS called OpenLate and I might be able to add some thoughts on to your post. We are a very attendee-focused event, but as an organizer, we have actually achieved an incredible value from it. The value for us includes a handful of technical hires, recognition in thought leadership, and actually some sales deals too. All of these are side effects of the community that we have created, who come for our series of various technical talks. We don't recruit and we don't push the OpenDNS brand but, by creating quality events with interesting topics, people continue to attend and learn more about us too.

http://www.meetup.com/OpenLate/