skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its color accuracy is also better than most -- it has 10-bit screen colors for one. EIZO equivalent quality monitors go for $1500 and higher even for crappy resolutions.
Id love to be fast tracked - most of the people at my current employer use macs for day to day work, so having a slick native use case would be a godsend!

My ID is the same as my name here, karunamon. Thanks!
The question is can they compete with Amazon Prime and Microsoft OneDrive and Google Photos, etc or should they instead focus on building a great electric car to compete with Tesla.
I think the phrase you're looking for is "no true privacy advocates."
Great Point.
Morozov would say, "I told you so".
Even though I prefer email to all other protocols, that would be a great way to kill my inbox. It seems a but counter intuitive, but having so many chat/communication standards acts as a way to organize all my messaging activity. Email is formal, SMS is slightly less formal but more direct, Whatsapp is completely informal but more convenient for casual conversations than SMS, and though I don't use Facebook Messenger I'm sure it has a spot somewhere in there.
Did he see that driverless trucks made a delivery in Europe last week?
This is a good critique. Have you found anything better?
The minimum OS X version to run Docker for Mac is 10.10.3 :)
We've gotten used to huge commercial airliners flying on autopilot. Granted they have humans on board, but ask any pilot how much flying they do. Even helicopters can be put on autopilot after take-off. That's what the helicopters that run from Macau to Hong Kong many times a day are doing. I can see ironing out the kinks - pedestrians, roadblocks, car stops in front abruptly, etc... I would think you could have a truck lane only like the ones for buses entering the Lincoln Tunnel in NYC, and perhaps a guardrail that could have sections removed to open it up for traffic during less traffic times?
They can certainly apply as part of your team! Though you should give some thought ahead of time as to what their roles would be at Stripe. We're not currently hiring for the roles of CEO or CTO ;).
Tangible objects provide a higher sense of gratification, I suppose. $10-15 USD for a single, one-time, movie ticket or $1-5 dollars for a phone application.

And then there's the whole micro payment economy which is another thing.
At APh (the consulting firm that designed the Mattel Intellivision, wrote its system software, and most of the early games for it) the biggest insult you could give to a programmer was to tell them their Intellivision game looked like an Atari game.

This was NOT a slam against the Atari programmers. It was a reference to the graphics hardware limitations of the 2600, which made it ridiculously difficult to do things that were easy on Intellivision.

Not that Intellivision was a walk on the park...the mode most games used for the colors of things that were not sprites was demented, but at least the hardware sprites and their collision detection, along with the system software that automatically handled animating a sprite and moving it at a fixed velocity, saved us from many nightmares that 2600 programmers had to endure.

The 2600 had sprites, but they had limitations. I don't recall with absolute certainty what they were (when Mattel decided to do Atari games and some of that work was contracted to APh, I was not involved--I was working on games for what would have been the next generation Intellivision if the industry had not collapsed and laid me off, so my 2600 details are mostly what I remember Hal Finney and the others involved in the Atari games telling me), but my recollection is that there were limits on how many sprites could occupy overlapping vertical positions, and getting their horizontal position right involved software timing, so you had to do things like make sure different code paths took the same number of clock cycles. That is not fun.
Why do you think that? What if the trucks were electric?
Just switched from the OSX ecosystem to a Dell Latitude in the XPS 15" chassis running Ubuntu. Feels so good to be back on real Linux rather than good-enough-if-you-squint OSX-flavoured BSD. I commend it to you.
I'm one of those people with a bajillion unread emails -- 15,615 at the moment, but I feel like this is manufacturing a problem I don't have. Inbox zero or whatever does nothing for me. Here's like a sample of things I haven't bothered to click: "YMCA membership survey", "Recommended coursera courses", "grubhub order", "Mailing list update for a blog I read sometimes". These aren't really things I feel any sort of pressure to read, but I haven't put in a filter on them either because sometimes I want to see them. They're not really blocking me from seeing my important emails.

This notion that I'm "bad" at email or that I need to "do" something about this; why would I want to fix something that's working pretty much exactly how I want?

I could go mark them read even though I haven't read them and don't momentarily care to, but that only holds value to me if you assume that I view my unread email counter like some sort of unfinished task list -- which I don't. It's literally just a measure of things I haven't read. It means nothing to me.
Truck air brakes are finicky because they are mechanically designed to distribute brake pressure evenly across the wheels in response to one input -- pressure from the driver's foot on the brake pedal. An automated cab could communicate more information: desired speed, tolerance, required stopping distance, and general vehicle stability info, and a microcontroller at each wheel could combine that with sensor info about road conditions and temperature at that wheel to determine how much brake to apply and where -- all with faster reaction times than a human driver would be capable of.
How do you unsubscribe from certain topics? Would you have to email your friend and ask him or her to not tell you about politics? There's a whole lot of social pressure that means people are reluctant to do that.
Not just user experience, lots of things people don't immediately appreciate: construction (e.g. unibody sturdy metal), backlit keyboards, multi-touch trackpads, newest ports, mag safe, better battery life, thinnes, less weight, hi-dpi high quality monitors, seamless "sleep/wake" behavior, etc -- not to mention high resale value.
If whoever you hit's lawyer manages to make a case that the accident was worse as a result of your modifications, you might have a problem.
Delete your Facebook. There are a more benefits than being able to email; you'll stop pretending to be friends with those kids from high school, don't see your ex's new life, and you can get drunk with your friends without your aunt knowing.
It's a super interesting subject, but I don't really buy the argument that this will drive down costs for the consumer. Never mind that whole better standard of living line...that's just cheerleading. Companies have shown over and over again in the last two decades that they are capable of absorbing those new profits from efficiencies.
I would love to try it out. Use about 20 micro services for local development on my Mac. UserId is sdelmore and I am signed up for the beta.
You should apply anyway and describe your situation! Supporting additional countries is challenging from several angles (payroll, international tax structure, compliance, etc), but we can talk through your particular situation individually.
It is, you just need to explicitly include the protocol (http:// or https://). For next time. :)
Mentioned in the article, but there's a pretty big trickle down effect that will crush other businesses. Roadside motels, for example. And while trucks will still need fuel, I don't think the current economics of truck stops work if you just sell gas.

Maybe a surprise for the government as well, less tax revenue since the new drivers will drive in a more fuel efficient way, and probably require a smaller overall fleet (no need for sleep). Currently, an average truck pays ~$15k/year in road/registration/use taxes.

It's going to be a very visible adjustment for everyone.
Interesting, not exactly the last mile I was imagining; meaning the last mile from long haul to local distribution hubs.
This is a great idea, I've always been wary of mounting docker.sock into a container. Does a read only mount make any difference I wonder?
It actually talks about that in the article:

We still need to create on- and off-ramps so human drivers can bring trucks to the freeways where highway autopilot can take over.
"You'll be back." - Beer
> “It is not your customer’s job to set pricing. An optimal price is one that is accepted but not without some initial resistance” says Ash Mauyra explains in this great piece.

I can imagine this as general purpose advice but this is no way to build a loyal base. There are some services that I have that I begrudgingly pay for because they price so aggressively that they extract nearly all of the value from my subscription, and then there are services that I'm actually happy to pay the bill because it's such good value. Guess which services I recommend to others, and which services I actively look for alternatives for?
$630 for the graphics card is a waste of money for Lightroom.

Should have spent it on PCIe SSD or Xeon CPU.
Most popular desktop GPUs have been pretty well reverse engineered (or implemented from documentation) in Mesa, so you really can go and look at the nitty gritty details, and write assembly language if you so like.

The VC4 is also a fun target, because in addition to being supported in mesa, it is documented very well [1] and in a very popular product (the Raspberry Pi).

[1] http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-A...
I felt the same way until I got an Amazon Echo. I no longer feel like I have to string together a magic set of words in the exact right order. As long as I get all the keywords in there somewhere it figures out what I mean.
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As per the recent guidelines by the Govt. of India, "E-commerce entities providing marketplace will not directly or indirectly influence the sale price of goods and services and shall maintain level playing field" [1]. This might be blessing in disguise for Flipkart, as they can concentrate more on profits and operations, than fighting it out with deep-pocketed Amazon to woo the customers with discounts.

E-commerece is still upcoming sector in India, and have enough customers for multiple giants to survive.

[1] http://www.firstpost.com/business/decoder-100-fdi-in-e-comme...
Who needs punishment when there is plenty of process to apply?
> The take away phrase, in response to someone sending nonsense input, was "Some people just want to watch the world burn."

That's a big line in the batman movie "the dark knight". While it could have originally came from elsewhere, I'd be willing to bet it came from the movie.
Plz provide an English Readme.
Great writing. Reads like a memoir, but with the depth of an ethnography. I believe the company described here is Mixpanel FWIW.
Kathy Sierra's "Why the Trolls Will Always Win" might be relevant: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/trolls-will-always-win/.
This is a qualitative analysis at best. I live in both the PC and Mac world and I'll say this, Some of what you pay apple for is quality. I understand that many cannot fathom this, but their customer service net promoter score is very admirable. You get a quality machine. Style does matter, and you get style with a Mac as well. If style isn't important, explain to me why builders spend hours deciding on cases, lighting, and cable management. At the end of the day, these types of comparisons aren't going to sway anyone.
That's a bad argument. They spent $1K on a monitor. That can definitely buy a 4K monitor.
Reminds me how we assign points to tasks in an agile sprit. It takes practice and it helps to have small tasks in relation to which we assign points to the larger ones.
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"It's not unheard of to make trans-Atlantic contacts using 100mW, by bouncing the signal off the ionosphere. It's possibly to reach most of the globe on 25W via PSK31, with sound cards handling the signal processing."

That's freaking wild. I remember my brief forays into the subject also had me fascinated with the idea of meteor burst communication where I was bouncing stuff off exploding meteors. Haha. With further digging, the source of my first link was surprising:

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly...

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a228641.pdf

The second wasn't as DTIC is one of the most badass, if little-known, resources for technical information. Obscure, but great, insights buried in that organizations records.
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Not "banning" but you will pay higher insurance. Then we'll have a society where only the wealthy can drive their own cars for pleasure.
Because what is a story really but condensed data?
I'm skeptical. European roads are not American roads. According to google there are over 4 million miles of road in the US and there is very little standardization. I would venture to say that road quality is much worse in the US. I'm skeptical that the sensors in self-driving vehicles are capable of making long hauls on US roads.

> We may also need dedicated lanes as slow-moving driverless trucks could be a hazard for drivers.

I wonder if the author realizes the amount of money this would take in the US. Even if the federal government put up the money to make this happen on interstates, each state would have to come up with the money for state roads. For most states, the transportation budget is a ongoing battle and I can't see tax payer money going to automated truck lanes any time soon.

My guess is that driverless trucks will only be 'a thing' in very urban areas over a short distance due to safety, maintenance, and financial concerns. Therefore, the long haul trucker will still have a job at the end of the day.
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If everything was smooth and regular, trucks wouldn't have a problem. However, the roads, and the warehouse yards, are not.

A fully loaded truck traveling 55mph (on some roads they are allowed 65 or even 75) can weigh 80,000 lbs or more (in Canada under certain circumstances, 139,500 lbs).

That is a tremendous amount of force that must be handled properly 100% of the time, through rain, hail, sleet, snow - and with smaller cars weaving in and out of traffic all around them.
Code — typically within 50, sometimes up to 120.

XML documentation in the comments — up to 180: I find the smaller wasted height is, the easier it is to work with the code.
I agree there are examples that show what you suggest. There are far more examples to suggest the opposite though. If the technology becomes widely available and there are enough independent companies to promote competition rather than collusion, the prices have no choice but to go down.
How much did you pay for the super computer in your hand?
It's already not handled 100% of the time. I'll settle for 75% less freeway blocking by crashed big rigs.
> protects the confidentiality

For their definition of "confidential", which they can change at any time.

> certain limited circumstances

If they only intended the "required by law" example, they wouldn't use such a broad - and completely undefined - set of circumstances.

> guard against external threats

Google may have good security practices now, but an continually growing collection of highly-revealing tracking data is a very tempting target for many businesses, governments, etc. If Google (or anybody else) wants to claim that they are protecting your data, they should indemnify the subjects of their spying against any damages those caused by those "external threats".
I bought my current rMBP in late 2014, and it may well be my last Apple product... I've mainly been a fan because of the ootb unix support, and the touchpad (that's a huge deal for me). The screens are nice too, but others have caught up, and I can't see detail that well anymore.

The SMB/CIFS change from samba is what caught me, that was kind of painful. I finally upgraded to El Capitan, and not sure I like it much better. For the most part, OSX is the one that stands out in terms of how I use my computer... Ubuntu and Windows are closer to each other (with bash) than OSX, and once windows has native Linux subsystem in general availability, I may wind up using it more.
>I can see assholes trying to make sure that an automated truck can't change lanes

3.5 million truck drivers in the US alone. I suspect that would be your pool of assholes, and I'm not sure I would blame them.
Imagine an Asia where failure means we tried
Yep. We should fix that.

I vote we make dividends deductible for the corporation, and treat capital gains as income, since it is.
Docker ID: cjsaylor

Would love to try it out.
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"The average age of a commercial driver is 55 (and rising every year), with projected driver shortages" and "The loss of jobs representing 1 percent of the U.S. workforce will be a devastating blow to the economy" don't really add up. There is more and more jobs that young people don't want to do and this is probably one of the best examples. They have to be automated or at some point we won't have anyone to do them. In addition, this is going to take more than 10 years to get both regulations and road improvements to make this happen, so based on the current average age, a lot of them will be near/past retirement.
I'd imagine any smart working team would negotiate this heavily. This setup appeals heavily to someone like me (with 2 other people specifically), but I would also be personally be asking for $300k+ salaries for each person + signing bonus + RSUs. It would be a happy medium between a lengthy and pricey acquihire and getting 3 developers/PM people who you know already will work well together.

I'd recommend that anyone doing this that they negotiate their salaries very heavily.
Hmm -- the question shouldn't be 100% human vs 0.5% human, the question is 0.5% human vs 0% human. Can somebody helicopter into a new situation and make a decision quickly about what to do.

Flight may be a bad example because the time constraints are so short. Changing the scenario to an automated fedex truck lost on a rural road, the truck can pull over and wait a few minutes for help. In this case the solution probably isn't to tag in an expert but rather to call the delivery recipient for directions (same as a human driver would do).
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As I scrolled through I thought the same thing. I can't put my finger on it, but something about the photos is very off-putting.
The video card in question should handle it without issue...
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Most of the truck freight carried on highways should be on railroads instead. It's economically and environmentally far more efficient.

The reason it is still carried on highways is because the highways are heavily subsidized while the railroads are not.

For example, most of the reason for expensive highway maintenance is the fatigue damage cause by trucks. Fatigue damage goes up as the cube of the weight, and the weight fees charged trucks don't remotely pay for it.
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I don't think you'll get higher single core speeds on a Xeon...
Art has, for thousands of years, flourished under a system of patronage. Sometimes patrons really wanted art, sometimes they it was just a selfish indulgence, but unless they were commissioning something specific the art was generally left to its own devices. I could see Soundcloud thriving under such a system.

And how much of this money lost was due to technological vs. human costs? How is it that a streaming site needs nearly 200 employees anyway?

Soundcloud could be thriving, but then they seem to have put people at the helm who prioritize spending money above all else.
Here's an article about the self-driving trucks that were referenced in the OP: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/07/convoy-se...

They still had drivers in them, but the trucks were automated (it doesn't mention if the drivers had to override it at times or not).
I'm not from the valley or the US and don't know the accuracy of those words, but it feels really real.

If anything, it's stunningly well written. Great post.
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Ideally a user should get at least 10x the value than what they paid.

When pricing, I try to go for a price that people pay, but with resistance from X% of leads. Then you can give some/many of them limited-time discounts, which nudges them over the edge.

If you don't price high enough, you don't have room to do that. If you don't have resistance, you have no-one to do it for.

And people are MUCH more likely to buy when there's a time limit and they might lose something if they wait too long.
What, don't you like monospace fonts??
I am hopeful that robots can fix it, but most likely it will take a little bit longer... robot trucks will save on fuel, brakes, and tires, as they can be programmed to minimize sudden acceleration and taking a turn too quickly (scrubs rubbers off the tires).
Awesome! It would have been nice to see a video of the machine in action.
> the weight fees charged trucks don't remotely pay for it.

Source?
Honestly, I'm not sure that most people understand the extent to which commercial airline flight is automated. For example, most people are shocked when I tell people that pilots are required to let the plane auto-land under very bad visibility conditions.
I wrote and sold applications on Windows for decades. I never asked for nor received permission from Microsoft to do that, and neither did any other vender I've ever heard of. Windows was never a "walled garden".
The reason. If people are attacking her there's a reason. It might not be a good reason, but there's a reason.
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Probably no assessment of Rockefeller and his influence is complete without mention of Junior and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre .
It is so easy to just throw in some vague ideas without any substantial data behind it. A more logical and researched answer to this article is - https://medium.com/@sumanthr/why-private-flipkart-doesn-t-ne...
Until Dockrap (and its various predecessors and friends) are compatible with IT depts setting their VPN config to disallow local network access, fuck all that hipster stuff and use good old self-configured services. Hipster bullshit that can't be used in any org that remotely takes care of their network (hint: any big corporation will mandate this by contracts with huge liability figures in the contracts).

To the users: if you can't configure a simple local web server for development, you should not be qualified to develop a web service. Period. (Hint: Apache and PHP is included in OS X, but a bit outdated to be fair - but you can install/upgrade to a OAMP stack using MacPorts in MINUTES)
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|I don't care what their excuses are for not pushing it longer than 4 years. It needs to happen. Period.

Okay. How about five years as a minimum?
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en
If only it didn't still need the proprietary CUDA SDK.