skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modern version is that Volvo has proposed putting magnets, in the form of nails, into pavements. This is to provide a hint of where the lanes are under snow. It also provides guidance for snowplows. These would probably be driven in by the same machines that stripe lanes. This is an old idea from the early days of automatic driving, but today they'd just be viewed as a hint, not something to be followed blindly.

There are areas where high visibility snow stakes are placed alongside highways for driver and snowplow guidance. Hokkaido puts large downward pointing arrows over snowy highways to mark the shoulder.[1]

Wire guidance systems have been around for years, for industrial robot vehicles. GM put them on their test track for Firebird III in the 1960s. But it's no longer necessary to have even that much infrastructure.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9303297,143.8076743,3a,75y,3...
f.lux is just a feature, not a product.

Browsers are just a feature, not a product.

Applications are just a feature, not a product.

Operating systems are just a feature, not a product.

Depending upon your POV, just about everything can be dismissed as "just" a feature.
I did and it's FUD.
Dating App Zoosk Destroyed by Tinder, Drops 1/3 of Staff
Ben Nadel on Staying Focused and Productive in the World of Programming
Top Startups to Work for in 2016 – EquityZen
The offence ie chatting to a some one - that's a verbal warning offence not gross misconduct aka instant dismissal.
> Github is the best there is.

Doesn't matter really as it's still a locked platform. The argument they're making is that they're developing in the open and they'd like some sort of expedited treatment because of the size of the project or because they're doing OSS. I don't think those two can go hand in hand all the way.
> "Where do you see yourself in five years?"

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Want to help? Forget subsidies and test programs. Just pass sweeping national legislation (eg. tie state programs to federal incentives) that makes roads autonomous car friendly and that don't pander to "jobs, jobs, jobs." Otherwise, states (like California) are going to make unfriendly laws, like the recent DMV draft proposal:

> At issue is the requirement that DMV-certified “autonomous vehicle operators” are “required to be present inside the vehicle and be capable of taking control in the event of a technology failure or other emergency.” In other words, driverless cars will not be allowed on California roads for the foreseeable future.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2015/12/18/california-...
Checkins are still there, they're just split into a separate app called Swarm[1] that integrates tightly with the core app.

[1] https://www.swarmapp.com/
A while ago there was a Coursera course about malware on Linux and Android. If I remember correctly they already repeated the course once or twice, maybe they'll repeat it again. I can recommend it, especially the assembler assignments were fun. https://www.coursera.org/course/malsoftware
Maybe "complain" is too strong, but he created a GitHub issue –notifying several hundred people– without running ag --version. Heck, he didn't even look at the output of his command. It was immediately obvious to me, from the limited information he provided, that it was a bash alias.
Pretty good article, and a great overview of the blocksize controversy.

Also a great exhibit of some stereotypical programmer social problems; we don't get a lot of middle ground, most programmers are either openly hostile and combative or so deathly afraid of confrontation and responsibility that they give away their authority so that they don't have to handle the pressure. Gavin should've kept control. Bitcoin is learning exactly why a strong central authority is so desirable in money exchange: it keeps the value of the currency stable by preventing panic and confusion over issues like this.

Many discussions of Bitcoin claim that this power is transferred to "the network" to make the final decision, which sounds very egalitarian and democratic, but Bitcoin failed to provide the controls that would prevent power hoarding and ensure that the people who depend on bitcoin were fairly represented. This is one reason why modern democracies are structured within the framework of a republic. This is probably one of bitcon's hardest to solve problems, since the hardware to get respectable hashrates is unobtainable for quite literally everyone who doesn't have access to their own microfabrication facilities. Even if one of the specialty bitcoin hardware makers had a really good, cheap chip, why would they share it? They'd hoard all the hashpower for themselves. Litecoin attempts to address this by hasing with scrypt, under the belief that it's harder to hoard power with custom hardware if the algorithm uses a lot of processing power and memory instead of just a lot of processing power.

Mike failed to mention one incentive that exists to prevent increasing the block size: miners get the transaction fees attached to each block they mine. If the block size is large, there is little contention for space in the blocks, and ergo there is not much reason to incentivize miners to include your transaction in the next block. By keeping the artificial constraint on the block size, people who own a lot of hash power will be gaining a lot more bitcoin for themselves.

I don't think this crisis is insurmountable. So much money has been sunk into bitcoin that I can't believe people are just going to let this cabal take it out. BitcoinXT will gain notoriety through the mainstream press and the resultant sell off among casual investors will freak the big players out and force them into running XT nodes.
>The folly of BitCoin is to believe that technical problems are somehow orthogonal to social problems. They never are.

This seems to be a mistake repeated routinely throughout the tech world. You see it today's Netflix announcement about proxies. You see it with the software/media industries reliance on DRM. You see it with people trying to halt the NSA with stronger forms of encryption (or with the NSA's mass surveillance in the first place). Technology is not a cure-all and unloading an army of computer scientists on a problem isn't usually the answer.
There are two errors in your logic:

1) Mining power is still decentralized. It's not evenly distributed, true, but it is decentralized.

2) Just because some significant percentage of it is in China, doesn't mean it's controlled by one single entity like you're trying to present it here. It's still distributed across thousands of independent miners.
There are some open source projects with a large user base taking the step to us, for example https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman

Regarding the three demands in the doc:

1. GitLab has issue templates in EE and on GitLab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/28

2. GitLab has the award emoji function that doesn't spam and acts as a voting system https://about.gitlab.com/2015/11/22/gitlab-8-2-released/

3. We're open to displaying CONTRIBUTING.md more prominently, please open an issue on our public issue tracker that contains all our planned features https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues

I'll go sleep now but please ask any questions so I can respond tomorrow.
The author mentions that if GitHub was open source, they would implement these features themselves.

Gitlab[1] is an open source repository manager that supports local installs as well as public hosting at gitlab.com. If author appreciates open source, perhaps they should put their efforts into improving an existing open source option rather than relying on a proprietary solution.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master
except for cost

And the cost is falling with astonishing rapidity: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/01/chevrolets-bolt-is-an-el.... We may end up in a situation in which electric cars are cheaper and simpler than ICE cars sooner than is commonly supposed.

The scenario I'm sketching obviously isn't guaranteed, but it's gotta be more than 10% likely and probably less than 85% likely. At the very least it's likely enough to scare conventional carmakers.
I wonder what MH's naval capabilities are like these days O_o
It's not a good problem for the Open Source community after all.
From long-haul, in 15 years maybe about half will be gone.

Short-haul, maybe never.
Well his blogpost above was a well-layed out argument. Surely you could provide at least some links to counterarguments?
The first free effect based photo editor for Windows
Exeone has announced the first free effect based photo editor for Windows that can successfully substitute popular mobile Instagram-a-like apps. The software contains over 30 good looking effects and with one simple click it can transform an ordinary dull photo into a fancy looking one. Simple and intuitive use doesn't require any advanced design and computer skills, but powerful enough to replace a use of expensive software for the majority of users.

Software performances are quite respectable, it contains a set of high-resolution layers and export photo can be in original size, which is an advantage over other especially mobile apps, and represent good benefit for photographers and graphic designers who require photos in large resolution.

A group of professional designers and photographers have created a set of effects, layers and editing features in order to help enthusiasts get unique looking photos.

Vintager is available for download on the following site:
http://vintager.photo/
Software promotion video can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJcFarqdh4
And who will be initiating and paying for these lawsuits?
This is unnecessarily dangerous. Investing in "pilot programs" might artificially push self-driving technology through quicker than it's ready for and might result, not only in death and accidents, but damaging the image of self driving cars and pushing the technology back even further. Just because you want something doesn't mean you should artificially push it faster than it can be produced. That's like injecting your children with steroids because you "want them to grow fast so they can be happy quicker and get a head start".

Government is great at creating incentives and opportunities through laws and letting the business, creators, investors compete for the top stop. But choosing winners, artificially jump-starting pilot projects that would under normal market conditions not be created, is not what governments are meant for. We've talked about this on HN before during the Solyndra bankruptcy.

If they really want to help, give a tax cut for companies doing research, and sit down with all the parties interested in self-driving cars and ask them what laws or regulations are holding them back.

Plus we don't want this to turn into another Solyndra. http://www.dailytech.com/500+Million+Wasted+on+Bankrupt+Sola...
Can Tumblr save Yahoo?
Kelsey, you are very, very, very patient with shykes.

Shykes, jesus christ, I've been in the deep with docker long enough to have watched you guys make really, really poor decisions and then slowly backpeddal and redesign around them as you move forward with UCP and Swarm and more.

Ever regret not admitting that Pods were a good idea?

Yeesh. Some day Docker's VCs are going to get together and take away his tweeting privileges. At least he's not doubled over defending himself in this particular thread.
You're kidding...
"TO BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE WEBSCOPE DATA, UNLESS SPECIFIED IN A PARTICULAR DATASET, YOU MUST:
- Be a faculty member, research employee or student from an accredited university
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Exeone has announced the first free effect based photo editor for Windows that can successfully substitute popular mobile Instagram-a-like apps. The software contains over 30 good looking effects and with one simple click it can transform an ordinary dull photo into a fancy looking one. Simple and intuitive use doesn't require any advanced design and computer skills, but powerful enough to replace a use of expensive software for the majority of users.

Software performances are quite respectable, it contains a set of high-resolution layers and export photo can be in original size, which is an advantage over other especially mobile apps, and represent good benefit for photographers and graphic designers who require photos in large resolution.

A group of professional designers and photographers have created a set of effects, layers and editing features in order to help enthusiasts get unique looking photos.

Vintager is available for download on the following site:
http://vintager.photo/
Software promotion video can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJcFarqdh4
Lobsters?
I've used Bitbucket for years and I've never seen "multiple assignees for an issue" as something which is available. I've just looked at a couple of our (private) repositories and I still can't see how you would do it. Either that feature doesn't exist or it's used in an extremely obscure manner.
The box with the "new fine print" links to https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT And yes, MIT is compatible to GPL.
... or feeling left out (you can't participate in a conversation with friends or cow-orkers, who are fans of the show you couldn't legally see yet). Or feeling disconnected from the global culture - after all, we have XXI century, a big part of the global population lives in a shared culture. Not being able to relate to what your US friends are talking about, or what their news articles say, is also a problem.
For pet projects my advice would be a RESTful Angular Front-end and some styling framework like bootstrap or foundation. If it's a legit project I'd recommend hooking up with a Front-end developer and/or a designer/dev.
I probably used a bunch of libraries that had a JQuery dependency in my life.

Maybe I should have been clearer?

I never called its API "personally" ;)
Ah, classic middle ground fallacy.

What if I say X is we must all stop working and you say Y, we should carry on as we are?

Do we fire half the company?
a long time ago the us decided to tax gas on volume rather than price. if gas is $1 a gallon, the tax is $0.25. if it's $4, the tax is still $0.25. It would be difficult to impose a new gas tax, even more difficult to impose a price based tax.

I think a lot of the oddity in regulation (and taxes) is those are fights that were won. It's not exactly sane, but sometimes you have to go with what's achievable over what's right. And then hope the net effect pushes behavior in the direction you wanted.
I've witnessed Jono's outstanding work at Canonical/Ubuntu, and as you can see from his comment above he's a great guy. No matter what you think of Github, I think you should appreciate this.
> adds cognitive overhead to the process

Yes! The maintainers deliberately want to add cognitive overhead so the quality bar for creating issues is higher.

By having simple zero-friction forms, you haven't removed cognitive overhead. You've simply shifted the cognitive load into the followup messages asking for clarification of "reproduction steps", "version tested". The issues' threads therefore begin with "meta" type questions which duplicate the checkboxes and dropdowns you were trying to avoid.

The default can remain zero-friction but it seems very reasonable to offer options for maintainers to gain some control over their inbox.
Free supercharging.
Why doesn't the fed just use higher taxes on gas to disincentivize gas guzzlers, and let the market take care of the rest?

Pigouvian taxes on high-carbon fuels are ridiculously unpopular. The median voter (http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Polici...) does not perceive the TCO of cars, the fuel supply chain, and parking spaces (http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/1932...). So CAFE standards and other kinda crappy, second- and third-best workarounds get used instead.
Because it's not. Most commenters here forget that bitcoin is not a fixed thing. It evolves. It forks.

All kinds of famous/important people predict Bitcoin's death every week, but it just keeps going.
MVC is broken, the SAM pattern can fix it
Agreed!

"Arcade Fire - Don’t get me started." ;)
lobste.rs

it's invite only, though.
The most important thing is not even that GitHub is the best but that everybody is used to GitHub.
> And yet trackers are filled with content available on Steam, iTunes, Amazon instant, etc.

At least for video/audio content, none of these paid services can match the quality (e.g. bitrate) of pirated torrents.
No, the point being made is there is no 'equilibrium' because the game is not repeated.

Equilibrium meaning 'if everyone votes this way, there is no benefit for any individual to vote differently' - that doesn't apply when the pirates are trying to determine what to vote for the one and only time they'll ever vote on this question, not knowing what anyone else will be voting.
Chargers work outside, I fully expect to see charging infrastructure built out for:

-Work parking(Leeds cert already has started this)

-Apartments(upscale working to downscale probably)

-Exterior parking.

Even if you don't have a garage there's no reason you can't still plugin where you park at home(or at work) since most chargers are all weather.

There's also a huge incentive to built charging infra at shopping areas as you've got a captive audience(for 20-30 mins). There was a leaked slide deck a while back from some of the SuperCharger contractors showing businesses in the area where SCs installed seeing at 50% boost in revenue.
I am not surprised to see this first attempt at radically changing how we think of currency is having trouble. I'm surprised that the Winklevoss Twins bought so heavily into it. Hopefully the investors in this industry can take the reigns away from China.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/05/gemini-winklevoss-bitcoin/
A lot of these points are fair and interesting, but I fail to grab some of the points, especially that one:

Ability to block users from an organization.

What does blocking users mean? Blocking from commenting/making PR/cloning?

Why blocking a whole organization from an open source project?
What would prevent such users to use a personal account instead to do what they organization counterpart is blocked from anyways?
> Also, I don't want to have to maintain an account on a Gitlab (or equivalent) server for every project. Anyone who has enough interest to troll through issues on a project or open an issue already has a Github account. It lowers the barrier to entry for your project.

There are multiple ways to go around this, OpenID, Mozilla Persona, or any third-party authenticator.

> The final thing is just name recognition. People trust code from Github. They shouldnt, but a Github URL legitimizes your project more than git.abrakadoodle.io.

I see this more of an additional reason for big projects to move away from Github. It gives unwarranted legitimacy to everything on the platform.
I like the theory of the flat-office culture or philosophy affecting this.

Then again, it could be the kind of anarchic Libertarian or laissez-faire bent that we see with reddit that makes it exceedingly different to grant special permissions and privileges, especially across subreddits/issues/users/orgs. Or maybe user experience just doesn't matter for today's start-ups; maybe we've passed the Overton window for start-ups deciding it's not worth caring about their users.

A lot of the time, I feel like more of a user+ than a(n) (super)admin on my own repos. I might as well have the permissions and tools to ruin my own project - in the name of pure unadulterated freedom if for no other reason.

The dashboard and notification system have always been POS, too, so it might just be that everything that basically isn't tethered to a GUI is on the bottom of the totem pole.
> If you think that it isn't a failure then you obviously didn't comprehend Hearn's writing.

Clearly, anyone who disagrees with you just doesn't get it. No room for disagreement here, I see.
Obviously I don't really know the answer but maybe this is partly due to the 'no such thing as bad publicity' phenomenon.
https://lobste.rs/about - It is like hacker news but requires invites.
What, you didn't use mosaic? I used mosaic, on VMS no less.
The executive branch can move money around, but it can't pass laws without the legislative branch, and 2016 is going to be a really bad year to try and pass a law.
I know they've only recently released new permissions for organisations, but they're still extremely lacking. As far as I can see, there's no way of setting permissions at a group level.

As an example of how this would be used, we have a Github team within our organisation which is used for non-technical people to post bugs. These people have no reason to be able to see or push code to the repository, they only need to be able to create issues. This applies to every repository in the organisation. As far as I can see, and without manually adding every single repository to the team, there's no way of setting global permissions permissions for a team. This seems like a major oversight to me.
High quality dashcam with a month long of looping storage would cost about $50-100 each - locked inside that security department.

Time for them to make them all real cameras.
I've had pretty good success with feature requests in Github – but I agree that it at least _feels_ like it depends on who is replying to you (or even what state of mind they're in; copy paste responses has been had).

Anyway, a good example of a successful feature request – shared since it might help others in their quest for success – included me attempting to reduce the problem, scoping it and suggesting a solution. If you can find examples of this problem over multiple open source repositories (in my case nodejs) it seems to contribute to it getting fixed.
Yes, but, the article states

> ...the block chain is controlled by Chinese miners, just two of whom control more than 50% of the hash power.

That's a pretty unique situation.

If a predominant amount of hash power were concentrated in China, but distributed among some large (100+ to 1000+) number of miners, that would be fine. But a system of any kind is no longer decentralized the moment more than 49% of that network is entirely controlled by a small [enough] group of people.
> Every checkbox, text-field and dropdown you add to a page adds cognitive overhead to the process

I do concur, but there should be at least some of them. One shouldn't have to hope that people will be kind enough to submit proper issues, the platform should force them somehow to do so. I think, if a study of github issues was made, we'd see that about first five messages on a given issue would be those of maintainers craving for more input. What is the output of dmesg, how is your configuration, what is the output of the process, can you run it with the verbose flag on... A bit of cognitive overload is good, so that who submit bugs are those who take the burden of doing so.
> Money is an artifact of the state

I would suggest "money is an artefact of societies" would be a better way of expressing this - people will otherwise get hung up on whether complex societies, with currencies, that don't look like modern nation-states, disprove this statement.