skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of people in America who live half an hour from the nearest freeway is so small as to be irrelevant. Nobody is suggesting that 0% of trips be taken by car. It's fine if your grandmother drives around. It does not matter in the big picture.

What matters is if the 82% of Americans who live in cities are forced to crawl through sprawling car-choked landscapes, or are able to live in a walkable environment. High reliance on cars prevents the latter.

By the way you were wrong about that Japan vs US comparison as well. USA has a higher proportion of urban residents than does Japan. And they have plenty of trains in Japan.
maybe this is for you:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
I agree this attitude is common on HN. But is it really a recent development? Engineers are skeptical by nature. I feel like engineers are especially skeptical of marketing and "idea" people.
1. I want this!!!!
2. Too much anxiety, I'll wait until they have a couple billion more miles
Hmm. I actually really like the AWS management console. I find that everything is logically organized and easy to manipulate. That could just be because I've been using it for a long time.
Why did they do this? How do they pay rent and earn a living?

This is an unfair comment because I never met them - but I look at these expensive high-profile wanna-be high fame adventures and think these are simply people that have a lot of money and time and want to do something really cool. They even have a spreadsheet planning their next cool adventure.

IMO- imagine if their time was spent helping others instead of such high level of self gratification.

Parents who provide wealth need to provide and teach generosity and prioritize human giving too.
> Some might say "aha, that is how the patriarchy harms men too!" but I can guarantee you that no man has ever said to another "hey bro, you know what, we should like totally stop doing so much cool stuff"...

I think this assumes that the Patriarchy is defined as men deciding how things ought to be, when I think that it's more a trench our society fell into and can't figure out how to climb out of.
Well, SpaceX is taking the rapid prototyping/incremental improvement idea to a new level, and intends to land on Mars. Their first attempt or three are likely to fail. But would you care to bet on whether SpaceX or the US government will have successfully landed more spacecraft on Mars within 30 years?

(Elon plans to be living there long before then.)
Really? There's no protection for communication between private individuals in the US?
In that form factor? Unlikely.

My guess would be somewhere around PS3/360 performance, perhaps with better graphics.
I agree that city driving is a more complicated issue. Freeway speed limits are a much easier case, but maybe I'm just missing driving on the Autobahn.
There's a crowd that prefers GameCube + CRT for the extremely low latency.
Show HN: Coyote, an acme-tiny inspired ACME (Let's Encrypt) client
Before that even. I bought Essays After Eighty linked below and he began writing poetry when he was 15 which was around 1944. He was US Poet Laureate in 2006. An incredible body of work.
A road even with perfect operation can only carry about 2000 cars per lane mile per hour. That is /very easy/ to beat with any other kind of technology.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/domain-name-verificati...

if you own a domain, only people who pass domain ownership verification can make buckets with that domain suffix.

Combined with https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website it means you can easily host static websites by just populating appropriately named buckets with your domain suffix.

I think this is a very cool feature.
I'm not saying the games exist on the iPad platform. I'm saying that the hardware is certainly competitive with this and so it's not some super-impressive thing that this is coming out with Skyrim. Like, we have this hardware already.
> the first-gem iPhone couldn't kill people

Indeed, it took Samsung to develop that technology.*

*Joke; in fact Israeli security services invented it in the '90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash). Also there aren't reported fatalities from Note 7 explosions.
I feel like it will be mediocre at both living room and mobile gaming.

How can it possibly be powerful enough to attract third party developers?

Doesn't this compete with 3DS?
This is the same question that's in my mind. With it's form factor it could potentially replace both.

Part of the issue is going to come down to pricing. With a handheld each person needs their own device. If this can be kept sub $200 it's sort of a no brained. If it is priced similarly to consoles today it's a harder sell.

I am also left wondering if this could end up sold as different packages. It could be packaged as a full console edition and a handheld only lite edition at different price points.
don't compare europe with japan with regards to rail usage, they really don't compare. Japan's usage is over half again the nearest European nation; Switzerland.

plus in many if not most countries rail simply doesn't go where people need to be. in countries with a choice cars are winning out and with autonomous and eventual ev powered cars it won't be a bad thing
Whether they like it or not, the Firefox browser has always been, and still is, the most visible and widely used Mozilla product. From an outside point of view, everything else is a side project. Even Firefox OS has the word "Firefox" in it.

Maybe they should embrace the fact they they are a Firefox organization, instead of struggling to pivot into a brand that nobody is familiar with.
Yeah that's an excellent point. The Nvidia Shield (Tegra K1) can pull 15-20 watts while gaming. I can play hearthstone for like 3 hours when plugged in.

5V usb port at 2.1A = 10.5W = battery gets drained even when plugged in.

It has a 20Whr battery, if I'm at 90%, and I'm wary of draining it below 10%, that leaves me with 16Whr = an hour at most of gaming on battery alone, on a brand new full capacity battery.
Forth in embedded systems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

"Did you win the Putnam?"

Yes, I did.
Airbnb Wants to Strike a Deal with Politicians in New York and San Francisco
A Theory of the Learnable (L. G. Valiant) [pdf]
I've always seen durability from the perspective of Amazon telling me, "Look, we're going to lose your data - here's how quickly you should expect it to rot." Basically, take the number of objects you have, and multiply by: 1xe-7 each year. So, if I have 400 Billion objects, (4e11) - Amazon is going to lose approx 40,000 of them/year, and I should be prepared for that.

With regards to your Asteroid Strike (And other disasters such as Riot, Insurrection, War, Hurricane, Earthquake, etc...) - these are all disclaimed in the agreement you sign with Amazon under a clause known as Force Majeure - which essential means, "Acts of God". The durability clause comes into effect under the normal course of business, not exceptional events. For those types of scenarios, you'll want to have a business continuity plan in place, not a durability formula on your storage service.
Since at multiple times the video shows you can walk away with the console with the game still running, I don't think the dock will do anything more than charging/HDMI
Same nuget been a huge pain in this. I would have been nice to have a ready made msbuild script that would result in web deploy packages (we release with on premise TFS RM) but we were able to make one manually. I expect .net core to have better integration with TFS soon (if not already in the next release)
>Unfortunately this is really common on HN nowadays.

I see things differently. Anyone who criticized Theranos was met with the same reaction, "Everyone on HN is so negative!" But the questions were valid. Look what happened.

The same thing is occurring with Tesla. Yes, there is fantastic work being done, but many people here can't separate marketing from the real world. It's shocking, frankly.
Yeah, and why does it have to be that way? Everyone knows that micromanagement never leads to good results. So why do we simply accept the system as it is, instead of trying to make it more efficient?

If you ran a company the way government is run, nothing would ever get done because there wouldn't be enough consensus. We do it in government because of "democracy!!", but the end effect is horrible waste and no one's happy because progress is sooooo slow. This doesn't mean we need to switch to an authoritarian model (because that does have real dangers), but it really should be possible to streamline things more and eliminate the micromanagement. Only give Congree the ability to pass high-level budgets, for instance, and don't let them micromanage funds: only allow career department heads to do that, so that smaller decisions are not (as) political.

For instance, Congress should have no ability to tell the military what weapons systems it's going to buy or fund R&D for. The military should make that decision itself. And Congress should definitely not have the ability to make decisions about what State military installations are placed in, or which bases are closed, etc. These decisions should be entirely within the DoD. (This is why we have stupid stuff like US Navy bases in landlocked midwestern states.) Congress should only be able to make high-level decisions, such as granting the military a certain budget for the next several years.

You haven't proven your assertion that government cannot be run as a business, all you've done is state a tautology.
I think that's a big part of why Nintendo still has purchases tied to devices. As a way to push people to buy the same content over again. They don't push out new digital content fast enough to keep the income flow up if they aren't getting you to repurchase things.
Reading through your comments, I think there's really only two resolutions to this situation. The first is that your mother in law will run out of funds, and die penniless. From what you say, that seems to be where this is heading. However, the only other resolution I can see is that she realizes on her own what is happening. You can lead her to the water, but you can't make her drink it. Realistically, I see that happening in only one of two ways. Option one is that he admits to it being a scam, and cuts contact himself (or gets arrested for it). I don't think that's likely. However, option two is, as others have said, she could try to plan a surprise (or even a non-surprise) visit. If you propose this, I would recommend you do so in a positive light - don't say anything along the lines of "well, if he's real, he should want to meet, right?". Rather, phrase it as the next logical step. It only makes sense that two lovebirds should meet, after all, so she should accept it pretty readily, if you propose it as what's the next best step for their relationship.
this is a gorgeously written piece. The knee-jerk reactions in here that this is propaganda without merit seem to lack reading comprehension or imagination.

The piece does not say "never leak emails ever", the piece says "only link emails that are of civil interest", which is exactly the position that Snowden has been espousing for some time. It says "with great power comes great responsibility", not "all hackers are bad! obey the government!"

It doubly says that if we permit all leaked emails, governments could use this against us by leaking things anonymously. The suggestion here is that honoring anonymously leaked troves of emails without considering their civil merit is itself a back door around the fourth amendment. At some point the government will anonymously leak something to wikileaks and use it against a citizen. The danger here is that were the government to effectively coop wikileaks itself, which you think is anti-government, it would become a brutal and effective trojan horse. If we put blind faith in wikileaks, it will eventually be co-opted by the institutions for which it was designed to provide oversight.

This piece is a defense of your right to privacy. I'm confused as to why it's being met with such resistance here.
Why Code Snobs Are Invaluable
This isn't web development. You don't risk lives with your beta release

First: Why do you always need to assume web dev is stupid. Or less impactful. Imagine a bank website showing 10,000 <your currency> less in your account. I myself paid several customers a penalty/reimbursement, when because of our website, they suffered. And I am sure there are websites/apps which are more critical.

Second: You are assuming, they have done a half-assed job and hurrying to release. If you look at the earlier thread[1], several people have explained, how Tesla has 100s of millions of kms of their customers driving footage, using which they have trained the AI/ML algos. So I won't be surprised if these cars can do well enough in the dark.

Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self driving cars, recently has taken a turn to self driven cars just using cameras and AI. In his own words[2] he says, that we humans also just have our two eyes, so cameras should do the job well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12748863

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfEFnYxej8 (Audio is bad for upto 20 minutes, then its Okay)

Edits:
100s of millions of kms of their customer

can't --> can
Might have more luck if people are getting paid for the bandwidth that is consumed.
How to increase the chances of success in a team (part one)
Research in focusing on just a few datasets in that case because they need labelling.

In this case, what you need is mostly "what would most humans do?"

There would be things to refine about that (e.g. prevent speeding; analyse how humans reacted right before crashes etc. and improve on responses), but as a starting point it is immensely useful.
Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery: There’s an Important Difference
I get that realism isn't the goal (nice) but it's frustrating to me that the players felt slow like they're running through a peat bog and the keeper can't kick the ball :)

But you're right, I haven't spent more than an hour with any of the games since '99 (most recently FIFA '16 came with my PS4) so I'm definitely not very skilled at all!
I'm in the opposite camp as you are. I'm thrilled that this appears to be a gaming only device. I have devices that do what my tablets do. My 3DS has hundreds of hours into it. I love having a portable device that is for gaming only. I don't want notifications popping while looking for Rupees or a phone call when trying to hunt for legendary birds.

I also have no issues carrying a separate device for that. IMO, touch gaming for anything beyond the basics is terrible. Even Minecraft is way better with a mouse and keyboard or controller.

Having an all encompassing device from a company that has continually nailed portable gaming is something I will continue to buy. The big screen of this, for me, is an added bonus.
but the companies that they want to work for have codebases in C++
This actually looks amazing. I haven't bought a game console in a while and have in fact been actively avoiding them in favor of PC gaming and Steam, especially now that we've got the Steam Link and Steam Controller. However, this has enough value add that I could totally see myself buying this. This might just be the best thing I've seen from Nintendo in a long time.
I'm not a gamer but it looks pretty innovative. I wonder about the strategy of announcing 2 months before Christmas and launching 3 months after though.
No, it's a car manufacturer telling you that they do not want you handing over control of a vehicle to ridesharing programs that they cannot be sure are compatible with their self-driving systems. Ridesharing programs will literally be giving control inputs to the car, and Tesla has determined that those inputs should come either from licensed drivers or from their own ridesharing program. Because they're not dumb and they know that if a malfunctioning Uber or Lyft app causes a Tesla to get into an accident, they'll probably be held liable anyways.
FIFA 16 came with my PS4
Now go look at Theranos, and what the defenders were saying here.

Or the hundreds of other bad ideas that were criticized and failed because they were bad ideas. Picking a few big successes doesn't make an argument. Because, I agree, there are naysayers for everything. I'm glad; keeps people honest.
> "It was now bent in a way that faced the highway that did not have to stop."

Did you know about it because you saw it being bent or because you drove there before and knew that there should be a stop sign?
How do you know? Do you have some kind of inside information? All we know is that it's running on a Nvidia SoC.
The future will not arrive evenly distributed.

How many truck routes only run across sunny roads?
The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966-1989 review – a ‘long farewelling’
The larger point is those recommended (not minimum) hardware requirements are still for the special edition and aren't blowing anyone out of the water.
Looks cute, but (just take this as feedback for your "onboarding" process) I don't like to sign up for things without being able to test them. Like GoDaddy, you should allow a user to search for a domain name, see the price, and then sign up. At least, that's what you'd have to do to get business from a curmudgeon like me.
Maybe this would be a problem sometime in the future when autonomous cars don't have manual controls anymore, but if the cameras were disabled for some reason you can just take control and drive off the dirt road your self, and head to a car wash.

I don't see this really being a problem that has to be worried about.
At least several Xbox one titles seem to have local multiplayer. Skylanders is a good example.
All of the TES and FO3/4 games have been using the same engine since Oblivion. Bethesda now calls their internal build of GameBryo "Creation Engine" but it's very much the same thing. I think you can actually still pull "GameBryo" out of the EXE using the Unix `strings` util, and you can definitely see it from the game data.

So "ported to the FO4 engine" doesn't really mean much. It's like saying that Half-Life 2 has been ported to CS:GO's engine. Yeah, it's a more modern build of the engine but it's still the same engine and it's not going to look or run drastically different unless the assets are also revamped at the same time.

Also, my personal opinion (from the outside) is that Bethesda doesn't seem to have done a good job maintaining their codebase. Fallout 4 still doesn't really look any better than Skyrim (the facial animations are especially terrible), it's quirky/buggy as hell (framerate-locked physics in 2016?) and it runs like shit even on high-end machines. An engine from a game released in 2006 shouldn't struggle to hold 50 fps at 1440p on a 780 Ti. TF2 gets slagged on a lot for its shitty codebase but it's nowhere near that bad.
Hi, I'm releasing Myrtille, an open source project to provide an easy access to remote desktops and applications through a simple web browser (without any plugin).

It's quite comparable to Guacamole, but is more specifically intended for Windows as it uses IIS and .NET (C#).

There is nothing to install for the end user (just needs a browser, which have it working on all devices and operating systems), and a lightweight RDS gateway server side.

Current version is 1.2.1 and stable, with a growing community.

Feedback is welcome. Thanks :)
Sure, but how do you believe someone loves you and is going to marry you without seeing them? Buy her a ticket so she can find out
I think this really gets to the crux of the conditions that motivate and lead to this sort of product culture: a litigious society.

If people feel its desirable to combat this trend, they need to be willing to take more legal responsibility for how they choose to use their products. Otherwise, compromising on full unrestricted ownership is the price paid to cover manufacturers' insurance costs.

Note: this isn't absolute - there are many cases of corporations simply abusing this outright, like snowwrestler's Amazon example - but it's certainly the case for Tesla and a lot of others.
I can't imagine how complicated it must be to develop a decent game that works with a full controller, half a controller, 2 full controllers, 4x1/2 controllers, etc
There was an article outlining rollout of "Multi Process Firefox" over on https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/08/02/whats-nex.... My favorite Mozilla art direction will always be the socialist propaganda branding as seen on https://www.google.dk/search?q=mozilla+soviet+propaganda&prm...
Nintendo hasn't sold devices at a loss unlike some other game console makers. At one point they were the only major console provider to make a profit on the device.
> into the actual thoughts and motivations

why do you think you should have the right to this? it is quite extreme. anyone's "actual" thoughts are their own business. judge them by their actions. godknows, there's proof enough out there about how shitty the US government is.
You buy a Leaf because you're okay with a cheap, disposable golf cart. After incentives, a $36K Leaf is only about $16k-18k.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12752248
Why don't you or family scam her first, and then give the money back slowly?

The thing about Nigerian 419 scammers is that , like most companies, the people you deal with are low wage call center employees, not the ringleaders who get the profit
The Omega navigation system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_%28navigation_system%29

This paragraph seriously misrepresents VOR:

"Meanwhile, the aircraft’s other navigation system, called VOR for very high frequency omnidirectional range, relied on localized radio transmitters that told pilots only where the beacons were, not where the plane was."

I suppose that's the hazard of having an outdoor writer describing aircraft systems. VOR plus air traffic control and standard instrument landing procedures would be perfectly adequate for that approach.

On the other hand, VOR maintenance is a thing, made harder by inaccessible terrain and budgets.
https://electrek.co/2016/10/19/teslas-new-self-driving-car-c...
> First: Why do you always need to assume web dev is stupid. Or less impactful. Imagine a bank website showing 10,000 <your currency> less in your account.

The impact of that, terrifying as it may be, is still significantly less then the impact of a self-driving-but-buggy vehicle into the side of a semi.
That assumes that the remaining problems are best solved using our current machine learning techniques. It may be that it takes several additional long periods to find the breakthroughs necessary to finally solve the remaining problems. 100 years can go by quite fast.
It's not flair though if you are doing a rabona because you saw your favourite player do it the other day.

Genuine flair is the ability to do the unexpected. At best, these games open our eyes to these possibilities. At worst, they teach style over substance, and our game is poorer as a result.
The video sports games and live sports games have a certain potential for synergy, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/sports/soccer/the-scouting...
iPhone 7 Modem Performance Tested in a Lab
What I mean by the analogy is that people outside of the startup can have the same feeling about the startup entrepreneur (e.g. thinking they've been mired up in a scam.) the difference is there isn't one in the startup case.

So do something - like visit the love interest - that differentiates between these cases.
>>There have always been kids who wanted to play sports the fancy way, with flair, long before video games.

I had a friend who was a boxing coach in the sixties and seventies and he told me about all the young lads that tried to box like Muhammad Ali, but with painful consequences.
You mean when a puddle of mud simultaneously covers the cameras (front, rear, side facing), radar, and ultrasonics? I guess the vehicle would slow down and pull over (the driver can always take over you know).

Will the new form of vandalism be any different than letting the air out of someone's tires, also rendering it incapacitated?