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Fruit sorting systems have been in production use for years. They're very impressive. Vision systems, AI, robotics, and the ability to handle huge quantities of produce.

Here's a production scale apple sorting and packing system.[1] The part of the video for "big plant" shows the most automated version.

Here's a system for sorting peas.[2] Each individual pea is inspected using computer vision. Each individual pea. Anything that doesn't look like a perfect pea is kicked out by an air jet. Take a look at the speed at which the system is running, as a wide conveyor belt feeds hundreds of peas per second through the machine, with the good ones coming out on one conveyor and the rejects on another. That one machine is doing a job a thousand hand sorters could not do.

Automated cherry grading.[3] This video has a good explanation of what's going on, as size, color, stem length, and defects are all checked by a computer vision system. That system can process over 700Kg/hour of cherries. "We're enabling our clients to massively reduce their sorting staff."

Tomato sorting machine.[4] This video has slow-motion sections so you can see the tomatoes being sorted. The machine is far too fast for humans to even see what it's doing.

There are vision-based sorting machines for almost every kind of produce, and they're in wide use all over the world. All this automated sorting means that customers no longer need to examine produce in the supermarket. The rejects were removed at the plant, and turned into animal feed or something. This makes services like Amazon Fresh possible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cprDuf0ASzU
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyGR6A5MWG0
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3jlq03Gviw
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz88nsWL4kw
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I dig my x220, nicest laptop I've ever owned and completely repairable. I've replaced a few minor things and the screen with relative ease. I've seen a few macbook pros die bought before and after my x220 with things that just weren't repairable... forget that. If you want to buy something that lasts longer than the warranty without major hassles, get something repairable.
So why not let the entire population of Africa move to the United States? Borders are an antiquated concept according to you.
Hulu always had ads, and now they offer an ad-free version[1]. So they've moved in the opposite direction of what you're describing.

[1]It's not completely ad-free, there is a small list of shows that they couldn't get the rights to play ad-free and those shows have an ad at the beginning.
This is cool, and I'm glad its back. That being said, I got about 3 minutes joy from reading my profile again. Paid for it five years ago. Still not useful for me :/
Right on. It's the failure to build in the vacuum that is most upsetting to me. There is so much value in Twitter users' content that could be used in new and interesting ways. However, the company both fails to innovate on that front and prohibits its community from innovating. It's standing squarely in the way of progress :(
Yeah as long as this policy remains in effect nobody's going to get back on board.
Interesting b/c Microsoft had made a big push to promote the tablet form factor back in 2002, but the OEM devices weren't popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Tablet_PC_...
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They don't.
I wasn't quite ready to go with 'creeps should be removed from society for the good of the rest of us', but ok.
This seems to be a win for everyone.

People don't want to see ads, and they don't with this. Google makes the money they were already making from ads. And content creators are getting the money they would have gotten from ads. They probably make even more since people are not ad blocking and cutting down their income.

It seems less profit motivated, and more motivated at giving people what they want. If people don't want to pay they don't have to.
This looks awesome. I'm not sure if you've tried a limited trial already, but as someone on the creation side, I'd love to see & try the tools/system in place before entering my credit card and paying for a subscription. Maybe you can solve the content side of things by allowing filmmakers to earn credit through uploading content. Eg. If I upload 5+ shorts or 1 longer length video that pass a quick review, my next month is credited.
I'm waiting for AWS Lambda to support running a Docker container, right now its just Node.js or Java with a specified environment. I suspect they are running Lambda functions in containers already, hopefully just a matter of time before they expose that to any Docker image.
Absolutely could not agree more.
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UCI is lifting the disc brake ban. [1]

1. http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/04/bikes-and-tech/uci-to...
I have a suspicion that the CIA knew the identity of this kid and his associates within a few minutes of this Brennan guy figuring out his email had been hacked.
the software was abominable. The zune ran a version of MTP that was proprietary and so could not be used on older versions of Windows or Linux... while ipods worked beautifully on Linux.

Just getting Music on the Zune using the desktop software was an exercise in pain.
That's true, but it is only 7 shows, and they've removed ads from during the show. You get an ad before and after.
Overall this is a good idea - the fact that google is the one behind it doesn't give me any fuzzies though. They will always want to make more money from it - that's why they started with ads in the first place, and are now trying to go subscription.

My guess is this goes alright in the short term, in the long term they cluster fuck it, lest we not forget the Google+ fiasco. Probably won't muck it up enough to spawn rivals, but close. They really just won't be able to help themselves.

Still, give them credit: making money off other peoples content is a lucrative business, as apple has shown.
Vast majority of immigrants are unskilled.

Letting in a few of the best and brightest from other countries makes sense. Importing millions of central/south American peasants is idiocy.
Indeed. Android should be able to play audio from videos while the screen is off by now. But Google doesn't even allow the Read Aloud feature in Play Books to work while the screen is off. I don't get that one at all.
Regular car manufacturers making electric cars want to visually distinguish then from their normal vehicles. But any good-looking design consistent with their existing design language is something they've already built. So they make something that's either ugly (i3) or impractical (i8).

Tesla doesn't have regular cars to distinguish from, so they can afford to make something that just looks like a normal luxury car (a Jag crossed with a Maserati).

You can also buy an electric RAV4 which looks just like a normal one but nobody does because what's the point of driving an electric car if strangers can't see how rich and virtuous you are?
Out of curiosity, I tried it on a 5K Imac (i5 cpu)

http://imgur.com/zmSOfPK

with other 25 chrome windows(god knows how many tabs), one showing live tv
If it makes you feel any better (it won't), anyone else in the company would have been summarily fired and barred from further work in the IC if they had done the same.
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"Schools as daycare" is a bit of an oversimplification. For starters, many people have rigid work schedules and do not have the luxury of getting their kid to school at an arbitrary time.
Libraries pay huge fees for that access. If it was cheaper we could have better service, better books, or better X.
I hate lazy heuristics like Betteridge's Law. The only thing it accomplishes is to make writers think 'hmm... if I'm going to explore this topic I should restate my title in some form other than a question so idiots won't skip it because it's a question.'
Well I agree the video doesn't prove anything. Would need to see a more controlled study. At minimum I would like to see what that line does without any sweeping.

If you watch closely you can see the sweeping appears to cause the rock to change handles multiple times, which would explain the straight draw shot. I mean, I've played on some very straight ice before, but never that straight, unless there was a problem with the ice itself. Even the straightest ice moves a couple rock widths on a draw. There are some shenanigans going on, not necessarily with the brooms.
Metabase is nowhere close to being a business-ready BI tool. I wish them luck, but their current product is basically a tech demo compared to the real, commercial products out there -- none of which require you to put your data anywhere in particular either (you can run Tableau against pretty much any DB platform out there).
Purposeful demographic replacement of white people to achieve political ends. Lovely.
>None of that is surprising - that information is commonly used as security challenge questions in phone support situations. //

The PIN at least seems like it should have been hashed, then an employee puts in a form the stated PIN to see if it's correct and the hashes are compared on the backend.

The other info though is needed for initiating contact and to allow customers to perform transactions (verifying card details for example).
I'm always a fan of being honest and authentic. Your mileage may vary depending on your boss's personality and attitude to work/life though. Previously I've recommended that in your next touchbase (you're having them right?) simply let your boss know that you're feeling burnt out and as a result not being as productive as you can be for the company and happy for yourself. One would hope your manager wants both things (productivity and happiness) and you should be able to steer the conversation from there to ways you can reclaim energy and happiness.
I don't like Windows that much, because I prefer open solutions. But is indeed a fantastic device.

Hardware is pretty similar to SP3, which is on its way to run smoothly under Linux. Quite soon everything will work with a stock kernel, plus Marvell drivers for wireless and the camera ones.

With a bit of ingenuity, I guess it'd be easy to come up with a nice tiling window manager setup.
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I thought CEOs were supposed to be decisive. Why don't I see anything actionable here.
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Why not make it simple for people and just use one name? How does the "technically different" part affect people?
I posted this b/c I was hoping someone would dive into these quotes:

The Delft researchers were able to entangle two electrons separated by a distance of 1.3 kilometers, slightly less than a mile, and then share information between them.

...

Researchers like Dr. Hanson envision a quantum communications network formed from a chain of entangled particles girdling the entire globe. Such a network would make it possible to securely share encryption keys, and know of eavesdropping attempts with absolute certainty.

This implies that entanglement allows faster-than-light communication (transmitting arbitrary information across the entangled link). I thought that was a no-no, and that entanglement still didn't allow FTL communication despite FTL-like properties.

Can somebody help out here?
I love the reference
> Purposeful demographic replacement of white people to achieve political ends. Lovely.

Why is being white so important? What's the difference? If the difference is no NRA, sounds like a decent trade to me.
I think 30 percent of their business involves promoting anything Kardashian-related. On some days there are no less than 4 or 5 stories about them on the front page of their "news".
How is what she's done different from "writing about her experiences"? She's experienced trolling, so she's writing about it.

It may attract more trolling but pretending it isn't happening also doesn't generally deter the determined.
The latest Nobel prize in Chemistry might be a good start, more specific examples can be like specific (and apparently fairly recent) mutations in the XRCC1 gene that greatly reduce the risk of bladder cancer (which smokers normally have 3-5 times greater chance of contracting) in smokers.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

And there are probably 100's of other studies of various examples, our bodies constantly evolve to adapt to new environmental factors smoking is a fairly recent one but is still something that you could evolve to live with, not that we should count on that tho...
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Yahoo Sports was a quality product,until the redesign that I understand Mayer micromanaged. Now I find it unusable and I find myself going to nfl.com, mlb.com, or ESPN instead.
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I agree as well: although, from what I've read, it seems she's taking the bad seriously. Seriously enough that some screws are getting loose:

She began to read.

"Bobbie had a nickel all his very own. Should he buy some candy or an ice cream cone?"

Mayer held the book up, to show the employees the illustrations.

"Should he buy a bubble pipe? Or a boat of wood?"

Another illustration.

"Maybe, though, a little truck would be the best of all!"

Employees in URLs exchanged looks. At their desks, employees in remote offices grew confused.

What was Mayer doing?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-yahoo- nicholas-carlson-book-excerpt-2014-12
This is dumb on so many levels. The name, the branding, the backstabbing of the content creators, the availability restrictions. Of course, they are Google, they can get away with this. Deeply uninspiring.
"as there been any evidence that there was actually anything sensitive on the account?"

Wikileaks is publishing all of the supposed files, so they do exist and have been leaked.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/21/9583464/wikileaks-cia-ema...
Ask HN: Why is Riak support mostly missing from Apache's big data ecosystem?
I've been investigating Riak to do data analytics and I'm kind of baffled at how few support there is for it in the whole Apache Big Data ecosystem.

The only thing I can find is Basho's own Spark add on.

Why? Is Cassandra really better for the generic data analysis use case? Or is just the default and it is not well perceived within Apache to add support for 'outsiders'?

I'll likely commit to Apache tools for the analytics, and am worried to have to bake many times things on my own with riak.
Self-driving drifting electric DeLorean from Stanford
After that obviously pre rendered shoot'me up video, I honestly don't believe this video.

No pictures or description of the hardware or technology used.
This mostly shows off the silliness of the jury system. Why on earth does anyone think grabbing 12 randoms is gonna somehow lead to proper application of justice? I could see it when the US Founders may have thought it'd be other well-educated folks like themselves - it's a good check (if that's what they indeed intended, I don't know). Why would we think untrained folks are going to do a good job figuring out complex things and properly weighting evidence? Courts already have an issue with not understanding Bayes; adding to it by bringing in even less critical people isn't going to help.

The style is weird too. The juries don't seem to be able to do their own investigation; they are passive, relying on a presentation given to them. They should be able to ask questions, inquire about things like the base rate of an occurrence. And things like jury instructions, telling people to disregard info or their biases. This is simply not how human brains work. Let alone untrained ones. We'd be far, far, better off having a panel of judges. And proper review to identify systemic issues.

Someone said "If I'm guilty, I'd much prefer a jury; if I'm innocent I'd prefer judges".
1. Quitting and finding a new job doing the same thing (dev I presume) might not solve the issues. It could lead to additional stressors that worsen the problem.

2. As an employer, make it easy for me! Be able to say what's going on matter-of-factly with a focus on how you feel and how it affects yourself. Don't focus on other people, now is not the time to air grievances within the team. Come up with a few options you'd like to try and lay out the pros / cons (ex. lightened work load for a month, different project, extended unpaid vacation for 1-3 months).

3. See a psychologist! It may be hard to find a good one, but it is totally 100% worth it to have a professional that you can talk to openly.
1. This is not cash in a bank.
2. Innovation is a requirement not an option.
3. Innovator's Dilemma completely contradicts the point you attempt to make in #2.
I thought they'd bought Redtube.
So in practice this means that if you pay for the subscription you get access to less content.
Also, the IT Crowd version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxO6CZptck
If you're feeling burned out and you've put over a year into your current job, I'd highly recommend you consider switching jobs. My own opinion is, if you're not feeling passionate about your work, the first thing to try and change is the work itself!

On the side of speaking to your manager, what's your relationship with this person like? Its easy to see someone speaking to you about burnout as a warning sign that you should consider replacing them. If that's your manager's reaction, you'll need to start looking for new work anyway. I'd suggest being _really_ careful about how you bring this up with them. Make sure you focus on the positives (I love this job, I really like my colleagues, this is a personal issue), over talking about any negatives.

Finally, perhaps this is a good chance to speak to your boss about taking on a new project, or trying a different role for a little while? A change in your day-to-day might make things seem a lot better :)
I don't think anyone should be surprised that an intelligence agency - that has repeatedly violated its own country's law, and actively contributed to the weakening of civil rights - be guilty of this sort of negligence. That is exactly what happens when an institutions is allowed to grow unchecked, with no or little civilian oversight or consequences for the wrong-doings.

What's scary is that this kind of clueless, and technology illiterate, people are actively involved in shaping the future landscape of massive data collection.

I think we are about to witness, in the next decade, multiple "incidents" where millions, perhaps billions, of private records about innocent citizens will be leaked because of this kind of negligence.
Now that the internet very much is a part of real life, I believe the more appropriate word is AFK:

DeSeno guest-starred in fewer than 80 selfies at TwitchCon, which makes his face far less popular AFK than online
"The bank account vs. debit card is one time on setup - and has little to do with day to day interaction. Not do I see how the UI is obtuse - it takes 3 clicks to pay someone."

I like Venmo, but I vehemently disagree here. Every time I recommend Venmo to someone who hasn't heard of it, I have to explain why they should give their banking information to a company they've never heard of. It's an onboarding disaster. I recommend Google Wallet to most people now since it's both a trusted name and doesn't require linking to a bank. My conversation is usually as simple as "Hey download Google Wallet - it's an easy way to zap money between people - and send me $x".
Sorry, Jack. I had a lot of ideas for leveraging your info 5 years ago.

Still do, in fact. It's not like Twitter has done any of it.

But.

I. Simply. Can. Not. Trust. Twitter.

So, enjoy your floundering.
What, you're suprised about this?
> What proof is there that these people were "losers" and slackers as you put it?

VPN usage statistics. We have to take Y!'s word for it, but most news stories about the policy change say that Mayer looked at usage statistics to find that many work-from-home employees were working less than full time. I can't find a cite right now, but I thought I read that several employees would go weeks without logging in once.
Yeah, but Ford didn't offer any pig who could dig up a compliant judge the ability to go spelunking through the dna of myself and all my relatives.
I'm sorry that you felt confused by your inability to understand our corporate decisions that were best for us at the time.
More interesting than some Twitter posting is the systemd bug report dealing with this:

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1495

This amongst others has the reactions of the systemd developers, including Lennart Poettering who questions why this is appearing now on Ubuntu and states that "initrds have rescue shells built-in, it's not that this was unfixable":

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1495#issuecomment-...

And Jóhann B. Guðmundsson who is of the opinion that people should "adapt their workflow to current times":

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1495#issuecomment-...

Of course, the deprecation of an actual file as /etc/mtab (on Debian Linux at least) pre-dates the creation of systemd by a couple of years:

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494001
My fear is that some managers take this as a sign they need to think about replacing someone - I'd be really careful about taking this option unless I had a really great personal relationship with my manager.
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This company seems to be lurching from one PR disaster to another. I have never seriously developed a twitter API-based application because as long ago as 2012 the restrictions were already on the uptrend, and the writing was on the wall for anybody betting their application on the Twitter ecosystem. Throw in the declining quality of the average tweet and you have a recipe for a company which opened up a new Internet use case, but never capitalised on it (as others adopt its MO). It reminds me of Xerox Parc, in that in invented something awesome without really understanding what it had created, nor how to use it properly.

In my view, Twitter = Yahoo. It won't die, it got there first, but it didn't really "get it", and so it will never win.
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"Super pissed?" Really?

Unless you have some sort of obsolete bank then paying your landlord by check is just as easy/fast as any app.

This is how I pay rent:

1) login to bank website

2) click bill pay

3) put in amount in the right place (this was previously set up)

4) Click make payments

The bank then mails your landlord a check. You can even schedule payments automatically.

If get a new landlord:

1) click add company or person to pay

2) click person

3) Enter person's name, address, and phone number.

4) Click add person.

And do you expect your landlord to pay a premium to take a credit card?

You can also pay every one of your bills at the same time (credit cards, loans, etc...)
No, it means that to avoid the situation you just subscribed YouTube forced everyone to agree to be on the subscription plan or they'd effectively be kicked off of YouTube
They aren't random. They get vetted by the lawyers for being dim and pliable. An actually random jury would be a vast improvement.
Would be interested in what you can offer when youre ready. Im helping businesses implement BI more from a strategic perspective. I dont get involved technically , its just part of my consulting.
>The only thing it accomplishes is to make writers think 'hmm... if I'm going to explore this topic I should restate my title in some form other than a question so idiots won't skip it because it's a question.'

Which would result in more accurate, less biased and clickbaity headlines. I don't see the problem.