skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-dep...
But they still need the actual vehicle hardware, chassis, motor, etc knowledge. CMU's robotics division is just provides the self-driving component.
Without knowing the details:

Confronting the person (after HR said not to!) was a terrible decision, and probably made the person extremely uncomfortable. Then following up with that person to contact HR sounds like straight harassment. I get that the author may have had honest intentions, but the party that initiated the complaint clearly was uncomfortable with contact. It sucks and it's awkward, but at that point you need to leave it.
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Sure. What really bothers me is equating pre-redistribution income differences with unfairness, -isms, discrimation, and so on. I resent being called a terrible person when all I've done is do my best work. Post-redistribution income is another story.
“From a G.M. perspective, we view this as much more of an opportunity than a threat” - G.M President

Something you don't hear big corps talk so about start-ups very often. It's promising.
Don't forget Apple.
Angular 2 versus React
Clearly?
It's not that hard once you get used to it

That's the point though. "Getting used to it" is a serious effort that a small team doesn't have the time or bandwidth to take on. You have to stop doing other things to work on the process, which may not yield anything because it's such a complicated space to compete within.

Trolling FedBizOpps doesn't tell the whole story about prime vs subcontract vs SBIR etc...and by the way the USG is net-60 or net-180 so you need to have the runway to deliver on a contract for up to 6 months before you see any payment.

I know for a small team like ours (4 people) it's just not possible given the uncertain outcome.
> I don't agree with your implication that "fascist thinking" is a thing of the past in Germany

'fascist thinking' in general will never be a thing of the past. Not in Germany and not in many other countries. But the level of fascist thinking is relatively low in Germany - compared to the decades before or even to some of the neighbor countries (hungary, poland, ...).
This is great. Now I just need to remember the shortcuts! I have such a giant collection of bash short cuts in my .bashrc and other dotfiles that I can't seem to remember ANY of them and end up just typing everything out in the end :-)
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From where, and as what nationality? I don't have any knowledge of the process, but these would seem to be important bits of information that you haven't mentioned.
>I don't see how it's different than a smartphone. Everyone carries with them a little microphone and GPS now. Who cares about using voice recognition in the home?

"You already have the flu, why worry about getting gastroenteritis?"

>And the real voice recognition should be turned off 99% of the time. It should just passively listen for a keyword before using any cloud service.

On tools like OP's link, or Jasper, etc. you have the source and you can verify that it's actually not sending out data permanently.
With the Echo, you're just hoping Amazon didn't do exactly that. You could watch the network activity, but that would just tell you that some data is sent back, sometimes.
compare that with setting up a stripe account and starting to charge end-users - you can probably go from a standing start to customer-funded cash flow in a day or two, without having to bone up on much of anything.
Selling to DoD specifically is even more fun. Well depending on who's buying you might get to play fast and loose for a while but eventually you'll get bogged down in certifications.

Also security clearance helps if you have to send people onsite to debug.

Also if you think <insert log aggregation as a service> is slow try doing that over the phone from a secure facility where you can't get logs sent to you, just have someone read them to you.

Oh and you get to use Python 2.4 and RHEL 5 a lot if you work on Linux.

Yeah startup people would run for the hills.

However once you break through and get your devices listed on approved list of devices, you can fun overpricing the crap out of your services: https://aplits.disa.mil/processAPList.action (kind of like going to medical school -- pay lots of money upfront, then extract later through overpriced products and services).
Skynet.
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I really like the idea here. Interesting how many of the projects are in .net, I wonder if that's just the authors language or if there really are a disproportionately higher number of .net projects well organized for accepting new contributors.
In the US, yes. My understanding that desktop linux is rather popular in asia, russia, and eastern europe, and I've seen that lenovo offers thinkpads with linux pre-installed outside the US.
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wow ... I appreciated all the details of what the experience of being deployed was like, and your thought process leading into it.
This strikes me as very odd.

For the vast majority of human history, work has always been something that was interwoven into our lives. From hunting and gathering, to farming and ranching, to woodworking and blacksmithing, and so on, up until the industrial revolution, nearly everyone "worked from home" and I'm unaware of any documented ill health effects from this. Intuitively, I'd suppose that aggregate stress levels actually rose with the advent of commuting to dedicated factory/office workplaces, as factory quotas and office micromanagement are far more psychologically demanding than the farm or home workshop in which you ( or your remote, usually undemanding lord, in the case of feudal work relationships ) set your own schedule and degree of competitiveness.
World of Warcraft:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-myQeNb9SnGo/VHGakel_c5I/AAAAAAAADQ...
I disagree. The half-dozen agencies we work with are net-15 to net-30 at most. We started out as a 4 person team just a year ago, and are now a 24 person team working in this market. So it can certainly be done if you just put in the effort to make it so.

Like I said, there are resources available to walk you through everything step-by-step FOR FREE, you just have to reach out and take advantage of them. No one can force you to do that, but you won't get anywhere if you don't start somewhere.
In NYC, where Uber/Lyft drivers are required to operate Taxi and Limousine Commission-licensed cars, citizens can file complaints via the web, leading to tickets:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/cyclistswithcameras
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I can't help but look at it from the other person's perspective.

They went to HR and were clearly upset/disturbed. HR then told this guy clearly to avoid contact at work. The guy then ignores this order and confronts the person.

I can only imagine the confronted person would say anything to avoid this author. Basically the author approached them (when told not to) and said "Hey, I am gunna get fired cus of you!". Who wouldn't just say whatever to get out of the conversation?

I can't imagine why they thought this would good to publish. Despite it being vague I can only fill in details with unfavorable assumptions.
Just wondering, do you think the fact that you "poked a bit towards the "unethical" side of things" played any part in you not getting the position?
<<I still think Uber has the right idea long-term with a completely autonomous fleet>>

I agree that this is probably the end state of this space, but I think this is much more Google's than Uber's vision - Uber is terrified of autonomous cars (since it eliminates the supply network effect of their driver network and opens up the space to anyone with deep pockets).

Once autonomous cars become a reality, I think you are going to see a fierce battle between Uber and Google.
> Confronting the person (after HR said not to!) was a terrible decision, and probably made the person extremely uncomfortable.

And to expand on that: It probably made the person extremely uncomfortable, even if the said person told you that it didn't. During your interaction with them, their priority may have been (and probably was) to end the interaction ASAP without escalation or conflict.
The story in Earthbound doesn't make a lot of sense. You play it more for the individual story elements than the actual overarching plot. Kind of like how the plot in The Big Lebowski is ultimately irrelevant.
You might be interested then in sandtable planning/training which is a core process for most Army Infantry and logistics units.

[1] http://www.army.mil/article/67057/NY_Guard_Soldiers_create_m...

[2]http://www.army.mil/e2/c/images/2015/02/05/380401/size0.jpg
They get more distracted by the phones I believe. Specially in between rides when they have to accept ride requests in a timely fashion.

I've seen drivers parked in lots when they are awaiting a request but in places where parking is charged such as downtown, I think they prefer to keep looping around blocks.

There may be an interesting case study to be made on the environmental impact of these idling cars.
Do you accept "it wasn't real free market" argument when free market policies and deregulation fail or lead to an increase of suffering, poverty and inequality?
Well that might be true, but when you're at home you have more choices of what you can be doing at any one moment, and too much choice can be stressful. Also when you're at work you have more external pressure from your peers to get busy, while at home you need to be more self-motivated, which is more mentally difficult.
Consider an analogous situation: the developer knows the email address of a user that pirated their software. They send them a link to a trojan that will wipe their hard drive when run.

An illegal action is still illegal when it is done as revenge for copyright infringement.

From an ethical point of view, consider that the damage could be inflicted on innocent third parties. E.g. if a negligent employee runs a pirated game on a computer that controls medical or industrial equipment.
In Praise of Idleness
From Developer to Manager
Or just disable JavaScript? Seriously: why would you brows for with JavaScript enabled?
> Windows 7 is no less secure than Windows 10

That's definitely untrue.

Both receive security updates, sure, but that's where the similarities end.

In terms of exploitation mitigation Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 pushed things forward, e.g. SmartScreen, Secure Boot (Device Guard), Control Flow Guard, Integrity Levels (inc. Restricted Caller), improved KASLR, improved ASLR, Isolated User Mode (Pass The Hash Protection), SMEP support, SEHOP, tons of new compiler-provided security functionality, and a more secure IE (better isolation/boundaries).
They also eat the lunch of the other car manufacturers, simultaneously lowering near term and future sales.
I played every game by the worst video game company ever
Monads to Machine Code
Great comment, especially the first paragraph. All one needs to do is watch the PBS documentary "Silicon Valley" to see how true this was. The space race was the driving force behind Fairchild and its many "children" that went on to become what is now Silicon Valley.
Landing the first junior development position can be hard, especially for remote positions. Just know that it is possible, and be persistent. Think of your resume as a marketing device and not just something that lists relevant work experience. When I was starting out I made it the point of my resume to highlight my skills as a fast and eager learner above everything else.

When you get to the interview stage, continue to sell yourself as someone who can figure out how to do the things you don't yet know how to do, because that is really the most important thing that employers are looking for when you don't have previous work experience in the field. People will hire you when they believe that you are able to meet their expectations, you just have to convince them that you can.

I agree that building a solid Github profile can take a lot of time, but in my experience having something is far better than having nothing. After I added a handful of simple programming exercises I had done (mostly from weekly school assignments) to my profile, I started getting a heck of a lot more call backs from potential employers. As a junior developer, just having a profile puts you ahead of most of the competition. How well built out it is doesn't matter as much at this stage.

As for sample programming tasks, it's pretty common. Not every company does this, but it's something you should expect. Less than half but more than a quarter of the companies I was applying for at a junior level were asking for this. They shouldn't ask you to complete a task before the initial interview though. If they do, I would pass.

Good luck.
Peter Thiel advocated for everyone not to go to college ? I think he advocated that college may not be the necessary for some people. But, I don't see what that has to do with the discussion at hand
Our children will look back on the callousness we had when we killed others the same way we look at the overt racism and sexism in our grandparents' generation. There is no moral or right way to kill someone that doesn't want to die.
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> take my parents, for instance, who refuse to get into a car not driven by a human.

I think people are doing lots of things that they couldn't imagine doing before those things existed/became widespread. How many people would never get a cell phone and has one now?

People need to see that stuff works and then they become adopters.
Yeah, but the path to $20M+ in revenue is a LOT quicker in the government market. Setting up an "MVP" app with Stripe and such is easy to get some quick pennies, but the investment in going after the government market will get you some serious dollars - long term. Not only that, but the government will fund something if they consider it innovative. DARPA essentially funded the Silicon Valley before the VCs moved in, after all.

Nothing of any worth comes effortlessly.
Isn't that just a marketing and PR problem, first and foremost?

"The new [insert brand here], safer than any other vehicle ever developed [insert statistic here]. It will bring you where you want to go, fast, safe and while you can tend to the things in life that really matter [insert family/reading/working montage]."

I'm no adman, but I think it won't be too difficult to sell this. And if all fails, lower insurance rates, or rather higher insurance rates for manual drivers, will sway a lot of people.
Yes. "Performance Improvement Plans" are also the kiss of death. When it looks like you're about to be placed under one, fairly or not, you should attempt to find other employment ASAP.
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That doesn't stop people from saying Americans don't know geography, or don't speak more than one language, or think a $10 hamburger is the height of cuisine. Stereotypes don't have to match reality.
That logo... yikes.
You are not wrong. There is no consistent way to do this today -- most of it is in debate, and there is no standard.

The most reliable way is to rely on your system firewall to prompt you to open up a port when an application binds to it (which can be accomplished with the default firewall software on a modern system.) Again, this is technically possible with IPv4 too, it's just impractical due to address space limitations.

> there is no protocol that allows me to allocate addresses per application on a central home router

Correct. But the whole point it to take the router out of the loop for this, and only use it as a coarse firewall. With IPv6 very device gets a separate /64, so it can simply allocate from its own pool of 10^19 addresses.

> And applications punching holes via APIs does exist in uPnP and NAT-PMP, but isn't that the same thing as what you dismissed above as a hack?

Not the same. With IPv6, you do not need to coordinate across multiple NAT devices (or even worse if you're double/triple NATted as in some countries.) You're also not limited by the maximum NAT table sizes (again amplified in the double/triple NATted situations.) Since each system has 10^19 addresses (preallocated out of a global pool of 10^38 addresses), these can now be treated as system resources and managed intelligently by the kernel.
Don't put HD background images on your website! Desktops have bandwidth caps too and most people are only interested in the page text not frilly multimedia.
The long term future is not human vs machine armageddon, but human-machine integration. We are already cyborgs with our addiction and dependence on smartphones (not to mention ppl with pacemakers, prosthetic limbs...)

Actually, it would be kinda cool to plug into the Machine. So you don't have to type and click to give instructions. Just think about it and the Machine Spirit will make it happen.

But I think this one is not for 2016 :)
Or just avoid XYZ.
When that happens you can almost bet that it will be a hypercompetitive market which is likely to eventually be dominated by car manufacturers. I mean why do you need Uber at all when you make the car itself and all of its inside. It's not as if the software to coordinate pickup and drop-offs is rocket science. And neither is customer service. I look forward to how cheap and easy it will be and how the manufacturers will cut out of the middle men out of everything.
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This argument seems a little, I dunno if I have the right word for it - pointless?

Picking on doctors seems popular when it comes to professional regulation, but in reality we do this every day for everything that is non-trivial that we can't fully understand ourselves.

So we bring doctors under state regulation (rather than self-regulation via the AMA) - who will run this regulatory agency?

I hope your answer is "doctors" because any other answer is nuts, and would remind me of the Cultural Revolution where the distrusted intelligentsia were systematically ousted from positions of authority and replaced with proletariats. And then millions of people died from insane agricultural, industrial, and medical policy...

All professions that are non-trivial are always going to be largely self-regulating, because its members are the only people qualified to regulate it. Which isn't to say that this doesn't pose risk for corruption and conflicts of interest, or that self-regulation shouldn't answer to the population at large, but the idea that this delegation is somehow sycophantly or somehow inherently bad is... silly.

The regulatory systems we establish - whether self-regulating or regulated via state policy - are a bargain. They're imperfect but there is no other way about it, unless you want to go down the path of having architects dictate medical policy or doctors dictate building codes. (though I do detect the sentiment of "software engineers should dictate everything" a lot on HN)

This whole blog post has shades of anti-intellectualism that creeps me out a bit - that assume that the intelligentsia must be malicious, and that they have somehow subjugated the rest of society to their whims. We've heard this rhetoric before, and it didn't lead anywhere good.
I have a Passport and love everything about it. I think the Priv is going in the wrong direction (BB10 OS is much better than Android) but I can see why Blackberry is caving to that market.

That said, if an all-Android Passport came out,I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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> Above all it had a REPL and I could program outside Xcode (which I hate).

If that's the "above all", not sure what his beef is with Objective-C. You could always program outside of Xcode and various sorts of REPLs were/are available.
Seems like a lot of wasted tax $. Why are they wasting their $ and time to patent a board game, a way to get state of a GUI, child car seats? There's no way those things would even hold up, no way they'd even bother legally battling them, and just overall pointless.
Human sensing is very relative. Just two days ago I was in a museum about tricks of the senses [1]. At one station there were three sandpapers. One fine, one medium and one coarse. You had to first rub your hands on the outer ones simultaneously and then both on the one in the middle (the medium one) at the same time. Although it was one uniform sandpaper it felt different depending on the hand. I think with taste and smell it's very similar that smaller differences only really matter in direct comparison.

Even experts after training will have a hard time, there are some studies out there where sommeliers didn't notice they got white wine with red food colouring.

[1]: http://turmdersinne.de/en/home
GM is not in the taxi business and has never been in the taxi business. They see this as a way for manufacturers to get into the taxi business and perhaps one day dominate the taxi business. Cut out all the middle men.
The farmer at the beginning hit it head on. Have you ever met a peacock? If so, you don't have any qualms about eating one.
You're not supposed to tip Uber drivers, that was one of the main selling points of Uber. The fares are higher than yellow cabs to compensate for that.
52 factorial
How affordable will this be? Example, the rates for fairly current model cars can be near a hundred a day, if not triple by week. So is GM going to cut this rate? Then to top that off if you are in NYC the medallion rental can be over a hundred a shift. This is on top of your gasoline and insurance costs.

Now is lower tier cities costs should be lower but that chunk coming out to rent what I assume is a fairly newer model is going to put a dent in your money making. You are in effect paying the car off for someone else.
I think cube00 is making a joke. :)
Do you have evidence of this? I didn't think it was possible to find out what drivers rated you and it seems odd that they'd expect a cash tip when the point of the system is that it's cashless.
IPv6 looks like a the x86 64 bit architecture.

On the paper it is better.

In real life it brings only headaches that do not worth the trouble.

And for those who says memory, I answer that it is easy to make a 32 bit CPU with a 64bit memory adressing.

IPv6 still requires IPv4 to do MPLS.
IPv6 has no de facto standard to make autoconfiguration.
IPv4 CPE are already bloated and hardly work with a fair level of simplicity
I hardly know any decent IPv4 sysadmin even in ISP.
The IoT will imply constant connection from your device to the manufacturer while being connected to your internal network... this is a leak to me. I don't want my lightbulb to be able to sniff on my mails.

What IPv6 is good for? A lot of KPEX, concentration in ISP sector, a lock in effect... else I don't see.
You really do need to set boundaries, so the article's not wrong. On the other hand, I couldn't juggle my child's preschool and my spouse's teaching schedule, if I didn't have flex time.
Uber planned to buy 2,500 driverless cars from Google (GX3200, investment of $375m), announced back in 2013 [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/
Ask HN: How do I learn to manage a team?
I recently quit my job at a company with a very flat management structure to join a startup as a partner. I now have 5 direct reports, but no experience in how to effectively delegate work or otherwise manage them.

Any suggestions for reading material to help me learn to manage or tools to help me organise myself in how I deal with my team?
The lack of proper syntax highlighting and long lines is making this really difficult to follow on mobile.