skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really familiar enough with the law to say.

Let's say that some company builds a bridge that doesn't match the spec, to the point that it's dangerous. Maybe it falls down if any truck weighing more than 10 tons goes over it, when it was supposed to hold 40 tons. And let's further say that this weakness was the result of intentional cost-saving measures and a complete failure to investigate their consequences. But then let's say that the fault with the bridge was discovered after a few months before any 11-40 ton trucks had gone over it, so nobody actually died.

Would that be illegal under some sort of negligence or endangerment law? It certainly seems like it ought to be. Lenovo's actions are basically equivalent, except that it was (probably) just property at risk, not lives.

It looks like endangerment is indeed a criminal offense, and it doesn't require that the harm actually happens, just that the potential was there and that it was foreseeable. Would that actually apply here?
Following Justine's thesis: Do you mean that you feel you're an extreme person, like Musk, you must be what you are, which means that happiness is more or less beside the point? Or the opposite: that you're a non-extreme person, and feel that you're focusing too much on success and not enough on happiness?
Wasn't the NVIDIA "Denver" Tegra K1 originally intended to be an x86-compatible chip along these lines, then when they couldn't get the licensing right, it was turned into an ARM-compatible?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
Thank you for the reply.

Without writing an entire law review article in the comments, I'd say if no government (state or federal) can be bothered, given that they could almost certainly get a fine for less than $4 million (that's a lot of GS-11 man-hours) then reliance on the reputation economy seems like a good alternative.

And while discovery can be useful for getting information, in this case the information was publicized based on the workings of a different reputation economy (the security research community).

There may be some case that slip through the cracks, but I am unconvinced that the sui generis (to the US) opt-out class action mass tort system does more good than harm.
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Why on earth do you need the latest CPU architecture to browse the web. I have a laptop from 2002 and it runs chrome and browses the web just find. What on earth are you talking about?
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See http://www.nickkolenda.com/psychological-pricing-strategies/, recently discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501892
At that point they'd necessarily have some way to quantify dangerousity. There will be a ranking. Somewhere deep in the bowels of google, there will be a list, Top Ten most dangerous drivers. Google is about to get into the car insurance business.
I was reading HN on mobile but decided to pull my laptop over and upvote you (then comment; can't comment on mobile app) not because I agree with you or agree/disagree with parent comment but because you were highly civilized with your comment and your downvote.

You made a counterpoint, you didn't insult (the use of the word 'nonsense' is really common on HN counterpoints), you downvoted, then you explained your reason for the downvote. In all this now flame-wars were set.

I hope a lot of us will follow your path and make HN pleasant for everyone.

Thank you.
How much time is 'a very long time'?
I second phaser.
I love python, but if you are making games you'll probably want to share them and you can't beat html canvas
While it's not unbiased, his ex-wife's article on their marriage and this comment makes me think Musk has NPD. I was going to say he's a psychopath, but he has exhibited no signs of antisocial disorder. Rather, he's exhibited a lack of empathy and illusions of grandeur.

Seriously, it's more than possible to achieve great things while having an enriching family life. It's about involving your family in your dreams while working on having healthy relationships. It's possible, it takes a lot of work, but most worthy things are.
By inverter, do you mean DC to AC conversion? I don't understand why datacenters or cooling systems would use inverters. Or are you talking about switching power supplies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_inverter
Those who are actually fired are sometimes discovered working as a cop in another nearby jurisdiction shortly thereafter.

If you really want to punish a rotten cop, you need to prevent him from being rehired.
I guess by actuating the steering wheel with their knees
Exciting news for the RC and RC'ers everywhere!
MWh/sq.ft.

I am attributing larger footprint usage to trying to generate a similar power output given current wind mast technology. 10 wind masts alone don't take up the same space as 10 classic turbines, but the the number of wind masts necessary to generate the equivalent output of 10 classic turbines is greater that 1:1 due to wind swept area per turbine.
Interesting. I wonder what it would be like if Police Duty was mandatory service that everyone was required to perform, either like Jury Duty is supposed to work, or as a mandatory service for young people.
It's not just the trustworthyness of the browser vendor, but the scope. Any of the 177 delegates are trusted to sign for any domain on the internet. Further, those 177 delegates can mint CA=True certificates for anyone they like and our browsers trust those subordinates by default. That's what the author means by we can't know how many CA's we trust.

With DNSSEC there is one public key hash stored in the com zone which authenticates the public key for the paypal.com domain.

With many possible trusted paths for validation you only need to attack the weakest one, and because CA's are not restricted in what domains they can sign, you will still fool everyone.
>Not everyone agrees what is correct behavior and what isn't, so what would be acceptable to one person would not be acceptable to another.

That!

If there would be one set of rules that everyone would agree, then this idea could work. It works in ants, because there is no ambiguous ideas of what is right and what is wrong.

You could think that law suppose to be that set of rules that suppose to tell you what is right and what is wrong. But is not that simple, law doesn't ask you whether you agree with it, you just must comply with it. So if you disagree that listening to pirated mp3 is a unlawful, you might as well do it without feeling guilt. And even when law is already forced upon you, disputes still arise and disagreements has to be solved in court, simply because you cannot cover every possible situation in the rules.
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See this blog post for the appropriate context:

http://blog.onename.com/passcards/

This was submitted to HN earlier in the morning [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524702
Hah, lol. Yes ofc. But really, what you need for 10 people is ~1000$ worth of stereo equipment, not 10 sets of head phones... Maybe when we get dac's operated into our ears...

http://www.wyldeside.com/rpgs/cp2020/cw-cyberaudio.html
I rather the marketing message be like "we tested the self-driving car for xx million miles, and we had zero at fault accident."
I have been trying _very_ hard to get in contact with the folks that are discussing this approach; just preventing ADL constexpr tricks (through "friendly definitions") isn't enough.

I am still waiting for the relevant parties to reply to my emails, but an article explaining "everything" (and the different approaches (about 3 at the current time, in addition to "friendly definitions") will be published soon.

There is a lot of wording that has to be changed in order to prevent the semantics explained.
> A dad isn't in the delivery room just to "witness" the birth, or at least he shouldn't be.

But I mean, surely the "witnessing" is important on its own, no?
There are plenty of places people do this already. For example, this is common behaviour in Manhattan.
This is obviously a bullshit policy on the company's part, but I'm curious why she didn't simply leave her work phone at work. They can't track you if you're not carrying their tracker, and why would you want to have your work phone outside work hours in the first place?
Regardless of my gender, I also know that not every man is a sexist bastard hell-bent on shagging every woman he meets.

I really do find it ridiculous and offensive (slanderous, even) to suggest that all men (or 50% of men; it's not clear it the OP meant 50% of people or 50% of men) are like that.
More or less, yeah. The main missing features are that downcasting isn't implemented at present (since Rust's other features remove the need for most of it), and implementation is explicit instead of implicit (a design decision which I've elaborated on in the past).
Very little software is written that requires features from the latest CPU updates. There's not much of a need to address compatibility by emulating new features in the CPU itself. Windows 8 needs PAE, NX, and SSE2, which were available in cpus produced 8 years before release (certainly not all cpus produced in 2004 had these features, but many did).
Not everyone has to build rocketships. Let the few who want to take one for the team, and the rest can enjoy the fruits of their sacrifice.
I haven't argued otherwise. But modern accusers aren't expected to pay for the costs of the prosecution and the witnesses, or enforce fine collection via escalating blood feud, and relatively few people would argue reverting to such a system would improve the chances of the likelihood and level of punishment being closely associated with actual guilt.
I have a poor sleep schedule I've been trying hard to fix, to no avail.

I procrastinate to the extreme of often doing nothing for an entire work day (I'm a contractor and I just don't bill it!)--but because I won't let myself do the things I truly want, I end up on HN or similar for a large part of my day and accomplish nothing at work and much less than I could in other endeavors.

I'm interested in learning how to repair engines but it's hard to find approachable material online when I have a problem. Typically you end up reading tons of forums and deciphering lingo. (I know very little in the first place)

I have too many half-built projects.

My posture is suffering from sitting in a chair all day. That chair is a recliner (I work at home). I think I'm also experiencing poor circulation in my legs, perhaps from the recliner or the laptop sitting on my legs (it's a large, ~8lb laptop). I want to get back to the gym but my aforementioned terrible sleep schedule really gets in the way of that--just an excuse, perhaps.

Cricket just switched their cellular service to GSM from CDMA after AT&T bought them. Now I have a $600 brick, as none of the other CDMA services will take cricket phones for reasons they won't disclose to me.

I can't find enough time for all of my hobbies.

A business started with family members has caused strain and conflict, and the issues are going largely unresolved, with one person seemingly reaping the entirety of the benefit.

I could go on, if I thought harder!
However, that's not exactly what was announced. "Extra consideration" is what was offered in exchange for a good reference.

But what exactly constitutes, "extra consideration"?

It's the mandate of YC to find companies worth investing in and founders who are worth having a relationship with. So it's in YC's best interest to give all extra consideration possible to every single candidate. No?

So it sounds to me like it's a matter of giving additional preference to such candidates.

I was invited to interview at YC a few years ago and they declined to get involved with my venture. Indeed, I was quite a bit less experienced at that time, and I didn't realize that YC's real mandate is to find at least one company in each batch that will be a billion dollar company. My business model wasn't geared for that kind of growth, so I must not have known what I was doing when I applied to YC. However, if they had decided to provide me "extra consideration", they might have informed me of their feedback /before/ rejecting me instead of /after/ rejecting me, and then instead judged me on the merit of how I treated their feedback. In other words, to have judged me based on my capacity to learn.

Well, I didn't get funded that day, but I did meet one of the founders of a company that graduated YC the year before. He very soon after offered me a job as their first engineering hire. I worked with that YC company for a while, and it was there that I found out that just having gone to YC doesn't make a company's founders into true leaders. I saw the same thing at a Tech Stars company where I worked thereafter.

After all, genuine leadership is a function of individual truthfulness. In my experience, such a thing is only won through hard training by learning from a truthful person, and/or hard trials while trying to live truthfully.

However, one of the problems is that only truthful people can recognize and understand other truthful people. Not being able to recognize others' capacity without truthfulness, we need to be very careful about trusting our own judgements.

In that case, is the so-called "extra consideration" really able to be "extra consideration" of the person themselves, or is it simply the application of favor by using the heuristic of the candidate having worked under a YC grad?
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring entry-level test engineers to test self-driving cars
I'm becoming a serial defender of DNSSEC here :)

You are inverting your second question. Every zone that we trust 'com.' to sign can only be singed by Verizon. There's one single point of trust here, you know what it is, and can choose what point you want when getting a domain.

About that one trusted path, you are also inverting the issue. With X.509 there are 100 places you can attack, any one of them being enough to fool everybody. With DNSSEC you have one single place (more like 3) you can attack, and can only fool people about a limited number of sites.

Really, DNSSEC is objectively better than X509, as for every flaw in DNSSEC, there is one equal or worse equivalent flaw on X509. Except of course for the issue of publishing all the signed names, that is a different trade-off between DoS protection and obscurity, so you can have a subjective opinion about.
20 or so years ago, this comment would have been:

Is this where we're headed? Take any idea, and then tack on "on the internet" to the end?

Yes, that is exactly where we're headed. New and interesting technologies have a way of having very broad use cases.
I'll forward your question and if I can answer it, I will.
UNIX file locking is broken. Requiring all processes to play along. It suffices one process to ignore fcntl calls to corrupt files.

All non-POSIX OSes with proper file locking use the same approach as Windows does.

You can install telnet via the add features option from the control panel. Who wants to have such insecure program available anyway?

Commercial UNIX systems were know to charge at least $2000 for their SDKs, something that made many join the effort to improve GCC back in the day.

Windows NT family has had multi-threading since the day one, even at the kernel level. Which took ages for UNIX systems to catch up.

The only UNIX that matches Windows IO completion ports is Solaris.

The init is so bad that part of its design has been copied by UNIX systems, instead of using spaghetti init scripts.
no, I'm saying I would take advantage of their sexualized advances in order to get funding.

it has nothing to do with who is more deserving or not. seriously, how did you get that out of my posts?

it's all about using whatever competitive advantages you have.
Naw. It was funny. It was just too subtle for me the first time 'round (but I'm not the sharpest brick in the deck).
I think it's important to note that the 11 accidents the self-driving cars were involved in were the fault of the other driver.
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Can we also get a class action lawsuit started for their insistence on making keyboards WORSE with every new product release?
Ask HN: Alternative CRM to Streak for Non-Gmail
I am a big fan of Streak, and if I were to use Gmail, I think I'd definitely use it. Yet, I really dislike using Gmail, and instead am paying for my own IMAP/SMTP host.

I am looking for a simple CRM solution that would be as effective as Streak (ideally, also in terms of its price point..).

Any suggestions?
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The leading car can do several things in those scenarios, ranging from increased stopping time (which it should already likely be doing to maximize fuel efficiency), brake light usage, or in extreme cases changing lanes to get out of the way.
Are you talking about a vernor vinge story? I can't remember the name.
I think the binary thinking here is quite a bit simplistic. Think of "changing the world" not as a zero or 1 proposition but as a continuum. Some companies/products change the world for the better by 0.98 and some other ones only by 0.02. That doesn't mean you shouldn't fund the 0.02s. Because a lot of 0.02 in aggregate change the world by a lot.
Yeah I closed the tab after the "What is passcard" copy gave no extra information. I am still not convinced this wasn't something generated by that great startup generator.
Thanks. I don't like Calibre, but I'll look for a Python module or something to extract titles from pdfs.
And I suck at spelling :)
Interesting write-up. I also recently began using this font in my code editor. Loving it so far!
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It might eventually just look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlyOom0bwwY
All joking aside, that's exactly how traffic works in Portland.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that users will continue to be able to export all of their data (not just contacts) after tomorrow. The link provided in the above post only pertains to upcoming restrictions to the LinkedIn API. The API restrictions obviously restrict what third party sites/services can obtain, but, as far as I can tell, there are no new limitations on what a user can directly export via the following link:

https://www.linkedin.com/settings/data-export-page

Not trying to be pedantic here, but I think the "Export your data while you still can," is, perhaps, a bit of an overstatement. It's what got my attention anyway.

TL;DR -- A user will continue to be able to export all of their data after tomorrow, but third party services may be restricted.
The article is pretty clear that most of the light-damage, no-injury accidents don't get reported, and that all 11 accidents fell in that category. Half the point of the article is that this data is not well known.

Granted, taking those 1.45 and 55% figures, we might compare the 11 accidents to approximately 3.2 accident (reported and unreported) per million miles in passenger vehicles. Emphasis on "approximately".
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You might not remember your great-grandparents but your DNA does. Your family culture does. Much of what makes you, you is built from their legacy. If you are out there learning and applying skills that are making the world better, you can bet that a significant measure of that disposition comes from decisions made by them 100 years ago.

And a hundred years from now our decisions will influence the make up of people trying to advance humanity (or not) in their time as well.

We are lucky as humans that we have effective ways to pass on information to each other and to the future generations and to have plenty of people for that information to find purchase. But I think it is a deep mistake to discount the ancient (and more reliable IMHO) vectors of genetics and family tradition.

I respect people's very personal choices but if I could wave a wand and change one pervasive thing about our world it would be to have people take a much longer view and incorporate that in their decision making. Much longer than the span of their own lives. That shift would lead to very different choices than are made on average today.
I'm pretty excited for the prospect of a self driving car. My commute is about 40 miles round trip not too traffic ridden but I wouldn't mind relaxing a little. I would rather telework more often than two days a week, but it looks like he self driving car is more imminent.
Yep!

Latency and Inertia still exist with autocars. Anyone wishing to challenge physics may as well be awarded a Darwin Award.
This article is well-written, but its consideration of DNSSEC is superficial.

Illustrating example: the article asserts that, unlike X.509, DNSSEC has a "single root of trust". DNSSEC advocates like to make this point because it sounds like it makes sense: the DNS tree has a single root, DNSSEC is a PKI built on the DNS tree, ergo: single root of trust.

But that's not really true. In reality, every .COM name has at least the equivalent of two CAs: whoever controls .COM, and whoever controls the DNS root.

What's worse, both .COM and (less importantly) the DNS root are overtly supervised by the US government. In fact, all of the most popular TLDs, most especially .IO, are similarly influenced by US intelligence partners.

Further: if you want to analyze X.509 and DNSSEC in terms of "roots of trust", here's an interesting thing to consider: X.509 has a different kind of "single root of trust": the browser CA store. When a CA misbehaves, browsers will blacklist it. When .COM misbehaves, browsers will not be able to blacklist the TLD operator.

Here's more, of course: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
I can't remember all the details now. The main interpreter was MS C with CodeView in text mode was awesome. The routines were 68k assembly with pixel write modes, optimized character blt, and there was a scale-up routine. The only reason the sw implementation came close to hw was that the hw had quite a bit of setup which is quite a bit of overhead for small patterns which were typical (e.g. patterned horizontal rules).
I can't possibly work that out. The only answer is self-driving segways!
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You should have continued:

CloudFlare will make it clear whenever a feature will modify your content and, whenever possible, provide you a mechanism to allow you to disable the feature.
DMV/Police could benefit by buying a few of these cars to monitor traffic. Good cost/benefit for 24 hour untiring watch.
Am I the only one whos sad no one is really picking up dnscurve? DJB has some very interesting things to say about crypto in dns, and there nothing to stop you from having dnscurve and dnscrypto working with dnssec for a pretty nice potential future of dns.
Typeclasses benefit from the same "zero runtime overhead" in Haskell (but not Scala). This is particularly important in non-strict languages where inlining is a more prominent aspect of making code performant. Fortunately, GHC is a lot easier to understand WRT optimizations than gcc.

You revert to the OOP-style vtables if existential quantification is introduced because you have to pack code with the data, rather than being able to inline the data from a statically known index of methods into the concrete call-sites.

As it stands, I'm more likely to want Clean-style uniqueness typing in Haskell for a non-GC'd life-cycle for memory than I am to use Rust, but it's nice to see what we can accomplish with linear types baked into the compiler. Wish regions hadn't been abandoned, but it seems like somebody wanted Rust pushed into becoming a product quickly.
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That doesn't necessarily mean they made a wrong or otherwise bad decision, though. In a way, being too imaginative was what made Windows 8 perform poorly.