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>If you asked me how much money autonomous cars would take to create and perfect, I'd guess maybe $10 billion.

And I would guess you're incredibly low. If you're using "perfect" to mean bring to market vehicles that can be sold to operate fully autonomously on public roads, you're talking about an industry-wide effort over decades. By way of context, a single company in the IT industry, Intel, spends more than $10b on R&D annually right now.
I have not been following cruise's development very well. Can somebody tell me how advanced their technology is to this day? What products have they developed so far and what are they currently developing? Their homepage just tells me that they have (or will) merge(d) with GM and has a link to job offerings.
We've already had our first accidental crash between intact satellites. If SpaceX and other low-cost launch providers succeed in making stuff like low-orbit satellite internet a reality, we'll need to figure this out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
I can't encourage this enough.

It was one of the most rewarding things I did in college. We launched a cubesat and used it to capture images of the curvature of the Earth and measure the Earth's magnetic field. The work to build the cubesat was tough, but extremely rewarding.

Edit:

Check out http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/spac... and see if you can find a local Space Grant program. They'd more than likely be able to either get you the resources or point you in the right direction to get going.

We launched ours via a ballon which had the cubesats attached to it. We needed a micro-controller (even easier to find now) a camera and our sensors. All very obtainable. I think the most expensive thing was the magnetometers which ran $80 a pop.
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>if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated

Downvote for disagreement has been on HN for longer than you've had your account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683
That is in fact how iPhones' encryption works, except the vast majority of users don't set a high-entropy passphrase [1] because a) it's not enabled by default (because of (b) and (c)), b) it's not great user experience, and c) most people don't understand or care.

This is why Apple also implemented the brute forcing protections that the FBI is trying to bypass via a firmware update.

However, I do think that it should be impossible to update the firmware (including via DFU) without either a) the passcode, or b) wiping the phone. If the owner doesn't know their passcode they'll need to wipe the phone anyway. Anyone else doesn't have any business updating the owner's firmware without their permission.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204060 "Change your passcode. Enter a new, six-digit passcode. Or tap Passcode Options to switch to a four-digit numeric code, a custom numeric code, or a custom alphanumeric code"
IMO, there is nothing greater good vs mass surveillance that will come of this.

This is an NSA wet dream privatized and privately funded by Google.

Sounds great but we all know what's going to happen with this data.
Depends on the architecture. If the game has dedicated servers, then they will built 2 separate pieces: 1. The game they ship to the client and 2. The server software which receives messages from the client and propagates world changes to all clients in the same game session.

If the game is PvP (like most xbox games), the there is only the single game, and a 'host' is chosen to act like the server above. This can lead to problems though like host advantage [1], so the networking logic has to be carefully designed in order to mitigate this effect.

[1] http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/73302/is-host-adv...
Common Fundamental Theorem of Software Development
Can anyone here comment on the rumors that some of the later challenges in Stockfighter.io use the Turkish stockmarket as a real-life backend?
Sound from 3D Printers can be used for reverse engineering
Write a script to rhythmically open and close the curtains, as well as turn the lights on and off for the whole floor. Then call OK Go and tell them to bring a drone because you got their next clip idea.
It's ridiculous and completely made up. He's treating prehistory like history -- we have absolutely no clue how this stuff evolved. Based on the role of art in history, it's highly likely that people did what they did with gold because religion / witch doctory, not economics.

"Rich people" with lots of stuff in the history we know about were rich because of force and threat, not trade.

Edited to add: that doesn't mean trade didn't happen, just that people mostly weren't "rich" off of it.
Seriously. Sam Altman has an interesting view of the world, which goes exactly as far as the boundaries of the SV bubble (bubble as in insularity as well as market inflation). He seems to be increasingly against anyone not exactly like him.
Wages generally stagnate in bad economies as a result of what you've said.

Even when I haven't been on the market, I've been paid the best when multiple firms are potentially competing for my services. When I'm in the market, having 2 offers in hand increases the value of both.
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They all have to do this.
So yeah, Sam is trying to recruit people into starting these kinds of companies.

Hard tech has always been "back" (when did it go away, Elon Musk?), but it is quite the pivot from the YC of yesteryear that capitalized on things like better UX for AJAX calendars, web hosting, and drag-and-drop file storage.

The really hard tech though really evokes that initial visceral reaction of "too risky" for investors, especially if there's no real indicators in the form of traction or an MVP ("well just wait a sec there, professor, the problem is hard, so we haven't solved it yet").

As an investor, I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable shoveling stacks over to some guys who told me they were going to build true AI with a decade-long outlook. Yikes!

It's also a tougher proposition for founders. You're basically betting 5-10 years of your life on a problem that you don't even know you can solve with no revenue/exit strategy in sight. Meanwhile, that guaranteed salary at Google sure is looking more and more appealing.

I would almost recommend graduate school for these types of people looking to leave their mark on the world in solving a really hard problem where any real contribution only inches the world closer to solving it.

The struggle is real for all actors here.

For founders, the trick is finding that sweet spot where a problem sounds hard on paper (such as self-driving cars or VR headsets, wooo!), but actually is feasible using current technology (e.g. stick some lenses in a piece of cardboard), but due to timing or market forces or whatever, nobody is currently paying attention to it yet.

Then at least, you can execute just like an AJAX calendar app would and obtain the same outcome (to vastly understate the challenges involved!).
Frontend devs, please for the love of whatever you deem holy, stop fucking up the browser back button and scrolling.
How does an unusable page like this even pass preliminary design review? Perhaps the page works well on the 16-core desktop computers with giant monitors common in the ivory tower.
The title should be a penguin swims 5000 miles to see an odd looking penguin who happens to be a human.
See also: "Shared Source"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source
Tennessee Williams, “The Catastrophe of Success”
Jeez. This repo clearly isn't for someone like you, it would be much more educational for someone who doesn't know much about how this stuff works under the hood.

Creating a dead-simple software rasterizer goes a long way toward improving one's understanding of how apis like OpenGL and DirectX work and how to use them.
That's why it will probably take the best part of a century I reckon to fix
this problem.

Just wow.

But a question -- you say you won't use a ROV. But you say wireless is hard and autonomy is too hard. So that leaves what?

And thanks for taking the time to share.
I solved it! They reached out about a day later (edit: and asked for a copy of my resume) and showed me a couple of job listings I'd be a good fit for. They wanted me to relocate which was kind of a buzzkill, but it was fun getting to talk with one of their engineers about how they've set up most of their projects. They were super nice, but it does take a while to hear back from them.
I wonder what PG would think of his given his notion of "power" as exemplified by his language arc: http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html
Relatedly: http://squid314.livejournal.com/323694.html
Croteam makes awesome engines and awesome tools. Back in the Half Life/Quake 3 era when this game was originally released, it had by far the best tools for level editing, modeling, and scripting. Glad to see The engine reborn as an open source project!
I think you can use https keep alive to only require one tcp connection.
They are sentient. It is slavery.
Good point and great analogy, though I think EWD might be turning over in his grave. While the error detection built into compilers and the testing process are, in general, indispensable tools for developing stable software, a program that executes without any evidence of error is a great distance from a program that has been shown to be correct.
Darn, I thought they were setting a trend in windowing systems away from Mac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
Wait for "Yahoo shopping closing" news and see how big news it ll be on HN :)
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That's true. Seeing mask sets and EDA tooling get cheap at 90nm or 65nm could open up serious possibilities. The laptop still serving me well runs a CPU done on 65nm with other chips from even older nodes.
Of course we don't. If we did, we would have given them to Japan. Also, nuclear power advocates in the US would, imo, really not like Fukushima to be a decades long demonstration of the risks of nuclear power. Which it is going to be.
More technology for sending dick picks?

Jeez, can we please move on and do something that actually benefits this world with our talents?
Can someone either summarize what this is, or point to a another reference?

My questions: How does it make my life better. What can I do with this service, that I couldn't do before.

As others mentioned, the website is difficult to understand (for me at least)
Well,

The problem with recycling is that it's economics hinges on the price of oil. The recycling industry where I am (Northern California) has collapsed with the decline in the price of oil[1]. It would be better to use regulation to force recycling but in the absence of that a way to simply dispose of plastic bottles seems excellent.

It would nice if the bacteria would be put in dormant form on the bottle labels, making bottles pseudo-biodegradable.

[1] http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5288760-181/recycling-cent...
What's the purpose of the YC software team?
Haha, I definitely thought this was going to be about investments in the X Window System, not 11 different people joining YC.
My immediate reaction when I saw this on twitter: "YC is funding x11? But I thought it was Xorg now...".
This game is fantastic, and ate ~20 hours of a business trip earlier in its development lifecycle.

I have one warning to you which I am not aware of seeing elsewhere for it: something about the color palette gives me severe eye strain, to the point of "physically painful to play", in a way I have never experienced before or since.

There exist several other games on Steam these days with the same core build-a-(semi-)autonomous-factory mechanic. My favorite of those that I've played so far is Big Pharma. It's substantially less advanced in terms of factory mechanics than Factorio [+], but the strategy is very, very deep, much deeper than you'd expect from looking it it. (For spoilers on that score, see my Steam review, which is the topmost one on the page. Capsule non-spoiler summary: best $20 I spent last year.)

[ + ] A fairly key skill for Factorio, which is present in Big Pharma but not relevant except at the highest levels of play, is timing the production of multiple subcomponents (which might happen in different quantities, at different rates, at variable distance from where they are consumed) such that one's production line never starves, blocks, or overproduces. It's Totoya Factory Simulator 2016 in this respect. When you get it right you get visual feedback (absence of congestion on your production line as e.g. coal stacks up because your furnaces aren't burning it because they're blocking on insufficient supplies of ore because you have insufficient electrical capacity because...). It feels like you're playing a symphony of borglike capitalist efficiency.
For starters, if they have a good understanding of the fundamentals they'll recognize that SOLID & "design patterns" are built on top of them. Both of those practices are about when & how to use the fundamentals.
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I understand your point, but GCP does address this in the terms of service (disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud):

7. Deprecation of Services

7.1 Discontinuance of Services. Subject to Section 7.2, Google may discontinue any Services or any portion or feature for any reason at any time without liability to Customer.

7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will announce if it intends to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to the Services specified at the URL in the next sentence. Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate those Services versions and features identified at https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation without these changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):

(i) required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or

(ii) doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.

The above policy is the "Deprecation Policy."
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I have been playing this for a few years and just started again with the release of the steam version.

If you ever enjoyed Tekkit (minecraft) or the more automated part of Dwarf Fortress, you will like this game a lot.

My favorite part is that basically any action or building (up to the far late game) usually pushes you to build it by hand once or twice, and then automate the process forever.

It is extremely satisfying to build your first solar panel array while fighting for every resource, and then a few hours later have your 5000 strong robot army assemble a blueprint of that same array in 5 seconds while you watch.

The game also has a really great mechanic where you are constantly unbalanced for what resource you need to build up, but only because you decided to expand and create, so that your plans always digress into other plans and other problems to solve.

Also, the multiplayer is great and works really well, though it has a weird setting where you can set your own latency, and it seems like the host and clients are in lockstep not allowed to skew (so if you have a laggy client its a problem.)
> I don't see how microbes degrading plastics is any better than putting plastic bottles in a recycling bin so they can be melted down to make new ones."

You don't have to waste money and energy sorting bottles out of the trash if you can just dump a bunch of this bacteria in your landfill.
So yeah, got this thing in my head while taking a shower this morning. Any feedback is welcome.
Maybe I'm in the minority on this but I felt this guide by twitter was poorly written. It has good coverage but concepts were just not explained very well.

The way I learned was reading from front to back "The Scala Programming Language" by Martin himself and starting a new project completely in Scala (which I'm launching soon). I'm sure that's not the best approach for everyone but using Scala in a practical environment in an idiomatic way really helps ground the concepts which can at first seem intimidating and difficult to comprehend.

Mastery is a whole other story...

p.s. I recommend Scala Cheatsheet if you are just learning: http://docs.scala-lang.org/cheatsheets/
Clearly the best method for dealing with radioactive waste is building a space elevator to get it out of the gravity well for cheap.
To respond to your points:

1) I assume you're referring to "Splunk for factories". You could make the same claim about plain-old Splunk. One business case is better real-time response to failure and later, better forensics. I agree, there are many factories where the process is perfected and the operators can read the tea leaves when something goes wrong. Another business case, and probably a better one, might be report generation for managers - people hate making the same reports over and over again.

2) Industrial software largely sucks now. But software in general sucked 20 years ago, and has improved much since then. True industry is behind the software curve by 10-20 years, so they are using old, bad (by today's standards) software. The thing is we've already improved that old, bad software - they just haven't adopted it yet. Once industry begins adopting "newer" software (think Java, .NET, web services) and they see the falling development costs and better features, they get behind it.

There is also a talent shortage in industrial software, because there are higher wages and better working conditions in the desktop, web, and mobile industries. However what has happened is we are now in diminishing returns in those latter three industries because they are saturated with talent, while all the cool things we've built to service those industries can now be repurposed by hard tech. It's the reverse of what happened after the Cold War ended and defense industry veterans fled for greener pastures in Silicon Valley.
Ok I found this, but it's just as nebulas.

"As proud as we are to have played a leading role in developing satellite technologies, we have realized that our vision extends far beyond boxes in the sky. As Google revolutionized search for the online world, we have set our eyes on pioneering the search for patterns of change in the physical world. In order to focus firmly on the future, we’re pursuing that vision under a new name – Terra Bella."
> I learned that before that clause had been part of the standard contract, there had been a manufacturer who decided unilaterally that half of the noise suppression capacitors in the schematic were "unneeded."

I don't understand how putting that in the contract is supposed to help if the manufacturer being used is pulling stupid "you didn't say the product actually had to work" semantics games that would get them smacked in any reasonable court anyway.
No, they don't: https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=zXtrctoj6zH7o...
Pretty sure Lavabit tried to fight this exact same type of ruling, and lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

While i'm not a legal expert, it seems the major difference is the size and name recognition of the companies.
Patent battle over LARPer’s foam arrows heats up
The reality is that in most cases in order to be successful you need to constantly talk to customers, both to sell and to get feedback. Having social anxiety is a pretty strong negative signal.
if you can't convey why your project is interesting or important why would anyone care? even here in text form you aren't doing a good job of selling it
Goddamnitsomuch.
No, they do not, they just chose to take the easy way out and prevent flashing an open source firmware.
Go to every business you've ever visited, go to their filing cabinet, and remove every record that you've been there. Go to every library and bookstore and remove every record of things you've read and bought. Etc.

That's not the same as cancelling all your accounts and credit cards; you'd still have them, just not your visit data.

The most extreme thing you could do in the real world is delete your identity and start over from birth.
My mechanical co-founder swears by Hackaday.
It's somewhat different, but a great place to see mechanical projects.
This needs to be framed as a political issue. This is Obama's Justice Department. What do you think Hillary Clinton's Justice Department will look like?

If this is bothering you, get out and vote for Sanders. These next few months are the only window where we have a chance to fix this before being locked into 8 more years of a power hungry DoJ.

The entire tech industry should be taking a stand right now. Setting the policy of the FBI & DoJ is more important than net neutrality or SOPA. Not to mention picking the judges that will be deciding these cases for the next 20 years.
The sense I have from working in environmental microbiology is absolutely not. There simply isn't that strong of a selective pressure for the degradation of plastics, especially because (a) plastics are incredibly rare compared to other microbial food sources, even in "plastic rich" places like the pacific garbage patch, and (b) it isn't clear that there is any energy advantage for producing this enzyme in most environments- I'm not even sure the end products of the reaction are used in energy production or assimilation at all. Thirdly, even if plastics were abundant and this pathway did provide a useful source of energy, it is almost certainly not as energy efficient as the common enormously successful microbial pathways for energy production and catabolism that exist when their reactants are in high abundance. Fourthly, I'm fairly sure the reaction rate is slow enough that degradation of macroscale plastics would only occur in concentrated bacterial cultures or when exposed to concentrated stock enzyme. Your iPhone case would never be at risk- I also highly, highly doubt that macroscale degradation could occur due to naturally produced enzyme alone even in soil and ocean environments, where there is rich microbial life.
Fifthly, because it is a naturally occurring degradation pathway, if there were any significant evolutionary advantages these gene products would already be widespread in the microbial ocean or soil environments.

Essentially, I am almost certain that the risk of using concentrated enzyme to remove micro or milli scale environmental plastics, or even seeding local sites with cultures producing this enzyme, are 0. In reality, I don't think that there would be many plans to use this outside of bioreactors, and best case scenario it could clean up local environmental microplastics!
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A ton of it did. There's many subtopics for algorithms, microarchitecture tricks, hardware accelerators, I/O schemes, improvements for RTL/transistor optimization, and so on. Each have enough papers it can be hard to fibd stuff. Most of best stuff gets patented and controlled by dominant companies.
Feds put heat on tech firms for master encryption keys (2013)
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Hey, you said you just wanted a car, you didn't say anything about an engine.