skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LIDAR's high cost[1] is prohibiting it from being commercialized. This article below was dated 2015 so price might have actually gone down a bit - but still a few orders of magnitude higher than cheap ultrasonic sensors and cameras.

This is actually common problem not only for Tesla. We won't see LIDAR in production cars (you will certainly see them in prototype cars as usual) until its cost drastically reduced

[1] http://articles.sae.org/13899/
I feel the same way as you in that I rarely read something that I bookmark. However either I may want to read the contents later or I do want to read it but am too busy. The end result is a pile of bookmarks that I wish to keep safely and if there was a better way to automatically organize and search easily.
Gut microbes responsible for the triggering of the process of neurodegeneration
This is also how the JW's started, and frankly continue. The simple, sad reality is:

People mostly believe what they want to believe.
It looks fun. I guess this one breaks backwards compatibility though, in the video there weren't any Wiimotes nor any kind of movement based input.
In the end, I guess it comes down to how acceptable a real watch is as compared to a smartwatch in your social setting.

For instance, I wouldn't be caught dead with a smartwatch when visiting customers (mostly real estate companies who I write software for) the same way I wouldn't be caught wearing a mankini.

I also would not be caught without a timepiece, simply because it appears unprofessional.

I do think the kind (or lack of)of watch a person wears says something about them, much like the kind of clothing does - and I share that kind of sentiment with a lot of people.
I've used the Wii U Gamepad to play multiplayer games in the car with my son (you don't need a monitor at all). Yeah it's a bit of a tight squeeze, but still fun.
TLDR penultimate paragraph of the conclusion:

> As a result of this strong focus on secure communication, WebRTC is currently regarded by some to be one of the most secure VoIP solutions out there. The main premise of having encryption by default is that a call is private at all times. Security and encryption are no longer considered to be optional features. And to round everything off, WebRTC is available free to everyone, providing a tempting and reliable framework for developers to build their next application.
IIRC, it was a huge issue for the 3DS. If you lost or damaged your 3DS, it was a real pain to get all your downloaded games back on a replacement device.
Developer finds a one-handed keyboard hidden in iOS code
Here's Your First Look at the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo's Next Console
Even before that, they had the N64 Transfer Pak. And before that they had the SuperGameboy. They've been trying to blend mobile and console since they had both.
Every TSLA will have the hardware fitted and on. Only if owner wants to use the feature, she pays upfront, or a little more if activating the feature later.

Other than being able to charge a premium for activating later why install it on all the cars? Tesla is basically using data from sensors that'd be in a Fully Autonomous Vehicle, driven by a human for at least a year. Thats a lot of free valuable data being collected for the cost of just the hardware installation!

Instead of doing all the testing and tweaking once car is street legal for test runs as an autonomous car, Tesla benefits from putting every single piece of hardware needed for its future as early as possible, just to mine this data gold.
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Were we in another era, where citizens and governments acted harmoniously in the interests of the people, I would probably agree with the author. But we're not.

We're in a cold war, not with Russia or China, but with our own government, who views the citizenry as a threat pool, even when history overwhelmingly reveals that most threats to governments come from opportunists within governments, and not from plebian revolts or terrorists.

FWIW, the DNC leaks have been rather underwhelming, at best revealing that nominating a candidate for POTUS is not much different than nominating a high school class president, i.e. it's mostly an exercise in clique formation.

The author might better spend their time and energy teaching the government how to act transparently and respect privacy than trying to convince the proles their sense of payback is immoral.
That's something I learned while interviewing at tech companies. They all have tons of perks but when I talked with the employees 2/3 of the people I talked to (I actually counted) complained about work/life balance at some time. I would rather work a sane amount of hours a week and have more vacation than have a rock-climbing coffee bar at work or whatever the perks are now.
Do people want to actually include others who don't want to be photographed in their photos, or do they just not want to ask everyone they photograph whether they should be permitted to?
Real apples often have worms and rot inside. Yet it's good enough for the world's most valuable brand. The whole point of using a symbol in branding is that you don't have to drag along every association that the real-world thing may have.

Mozilla's dinosaur was a powerful, happy fellow who is clearly not extinct at all. I always liked that as an image of how Mozilla is about defying expectations.
Building a Tiny Compiler in Swift
Reminds me of a classic The West Wing scene, when a missile test misses its target by 137 miles. Yes, every step is important, but 6/7 is still not a success.

LEO
That nine out of ten criterion that the DOD lays down for success in these
tests were met.

BARTLET
The tenth being?

LEO
They missed the target.

BARTLET
[with sarcasm] Damn!

LEO
Sir!

BARTLET
So close.

LEO
Mr. President.

BARTLET
That tenth one! See, if there were just nine...
I was thinking of this idea the other day when I came to an intersection where a stop sign had been hit. It was now bent in a way that faced the highway that did not have to stop. I was on a highway with no stop signs or lights for miles. What would the self driving car do in that situation? For both sides of the intersection.

Then I thought about another intersection by my old house. For years the cross street had to stop for traffic on the main street. One day I went to work, then I came home and it was all the sudden a 4-way stop. No database of stop signs could work either unless it was updated to the minute.
> Console with graphical power that rivals Xbox One and PS4. Check.

Where do you get this from? The specs haven't been released and they're showcasing some previous-gen games. I doubt this will have the processing power of the original Xbox One or PS4, let alone the souped-up versions of those consoles that are coming soon.
I agree and slightly point out a difference: John Deere tells you what you can't do to your tractor; Tesla Motors tells you what you can't do with your car, which is way worse as the forbidden use is not even diverting the primary use of the car in a way that would cause damages they wouldn't be willing to fix or something.

Basically, it's a car manufacturer telling you you can't drive certain people for a certain reason from and to certain places. This is way more invasive than a lot of what I have seen, and I live in an ex socialist country where the military/intelligence powers have more influence than the political.

I would understand this if they had something like a SIM lock where a carrier sells you a phone at a loss and forces you to use their SIM, but Tesla owners are paying the full amount. To be blunt: if we're in a brothel and you're not paying, you have no business telling me with whom to go upstairs.
I think that it doesn't have nationwide programs for every grade, with local tournaments running up to international tournaments, taught in school, and such a large part of our culture that we all know what a "soccer mom" is even as soccer still hasn't really taken over as our dominant national sport.

Not everything has to be competitive. I mean, duh, right? But taking an activity that was designed to be competitive and then trying to strip out the competitive part isn't a good idea. Far better to start over again and design something not competitive from the get-go.
I just don't have faith in Nintendo anymore, they have a track record now of so many failed consoles and disappointments, lack of third party support, even the new Zelda doesn't get me that excited (and I've been a die hard fan for years, playing Ocarina of Time as a kid made me want to learn how to make games). We'll see how this one turns out.
Our build server (TeamCity) does not have VS installed.

I can actually tell you the exact software installed on the build server:

1.) Window Server 2016 (Base OS)
2.) SQL Server 2016 Express with LocalDB only (used for longer integration tests that need to validate migrations)
3.) DotNetCore.1.0.1-SDK.1.0.0.Preview2-003133-x64.exe (.NET core SDK 1.0.1 download from https://www.microsoft.com/net/download)
4.) BuildTools_Full.exe ("Microsoft Build Tools 2015 Update 3" https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/#d-build-tools). If you have this, then you don't need the full VS install
5.) NodeJs (for running webpack as part of 'dotnet publish')
6.) TeamCity and Octopus Deploy agents

That's it.
I've yet to see an iPad game at the level of Skyrim. Yes, you could get the same graphics, but I doubt you could get one with such scale onto an iPad.

I understand that the trailer is not meant to reflect the exact console. But remember that Bethesda is behind this, and so we have their seal of approval, so to speak.
The problem being pointed to here is that it's not just official government accounts being hacked here. Private accounts of private citizens are being hacked for political gain.

Should everyone who ever worked for the government have all of their private email and correspondence exposed? Should anyone who is connected to any political party in any way be subject to having their private digital lives splayed open for everyone to see?

I could see if someone was exposing some specific correspondence that is relevant to government wrongdoing. But what purpose does it serve to dump everything from someone's account(s) indiscriminately? Does the guy that does the trip-planning for the Secretary of State deserve that?

Going down this road, one can see how these hacks can be used to silence dissent, punish political dissidents, influence elections, and who knows what else. Maybe it is inevitable given that there are many state actors who will do whatever they want to further their goals.

But who knows, maybe stuff like this will convince the powers that be that trying to weaken or ban encrypted communications is a REALLY bad idea.
Libertarian Silicon Valley entrepreneur man tells you how best to raise your child, of course it's on HN.
Car tells you that and you drive your car yourself until you clean it or remove the tape?
Yeah, once the technology stabilizes and the legal and regulatory frameworks have been established, there will be a big wave of adoption.

I predict that many in bigger cities will give up on owning their own car, and join car sharing services.

Then you can choose between a private car just for you, or a shared ride where the car optimizes routes and picks up multiple people.

Other benefits: it's just you? take a small 2 person car. On the way to a party with some friends? Get a nice Mercedes to drive you there. Need to transport some furniture? Get a pickup.

Of course this only holds for cities and densely populated suburban regions. Or if you don't have to drive long routes on a regular basis.
> This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars!

... and if you look back at the launch of the iPhone you'll find the response is roughly the same. A healthy degree of scepticism.
The important question then becomes - is society OK with bugs and shortcomings in software and hardware killing people? (this is based on the assumption that even driverless cars will not be perfect, some people will still die on the road)

So far, society seems to not be OK with this (as-in we'd rather a person do the killing, even if we think that killing was wrongful).

We aren't OK with autonomous robots having weapons, even though they might be objectively better at guarding prisoners, military bases, killing "bad guys" in bank robberies, etc. We freak out when a fatality occurs at an automotive plant, and those robots only pivot in place!

If society is going to agree we're all OK with a bug left by some short-sighted engineer being responsible for people's deaths - then OK. However, I wager people aren't really OK with this, most just haven't really considered this aspect yet.
I'm 26 years old and have been playing soccer for 20 years. I've been playing FIFA since FIFA since '99 was released. I don't recall anything about the game influencing my on field play. Rather, it was the in real life playing affecting my video game playing, in terms of possession, when to keep it, when to go 1v1.

Now, this may not be true for everyone but I really looked at FIFA as an entirely separate thing from my real life playing of the game.

Perhaps it is more fans/casual players of the game that are being influenced by FIFA more so than more serious and experienced players. In Iwobi's case it may help them get a sense of who the player is but it's nothing compared to the scouting reports they go over with their managers in the days leading up to the game.
The first phrase is objectionable, the Pentium D was a (pretty badly implemented) reaction to AMD's announcement that they were going to bring their workstation and server dual-cores to the desktop. And while Intel technically did manage to take the crown the D was a pretty bad dual-core compared to the A64X2.
How Silicon Valley Treats a Trump Backer
Thanks for the feedback.

>I think it would be useful to give examples on how or where you your site finds an item at a price that I, presumably, was not able to find?

Right now I'd be checking other retailers, other price comparison sites, some tools, plus using a handful of tricks to save off the posted price. It's deal-finding-as-a-service.

I want the flexibility to be able to source differently later; e.g. if there's a lot of demand for one brand I might get direct from the manufacturer, or wholesale, etc. You as the customer should be agnostic as to where I get the product from, as long as it's the right price.

>Also not sure if the whole workflow of your clients providing prices for items and then hoping your site delivers will work. How do I know the price I provided is realistic at all?

I don't know either. I believe I'll be able to fulfill a significant portion of orders, but I won't know that until a bunch of orders come in.

If you a put in a price within a few percent of retail, there's a good chance we'll be able to meet it.

Also, I'm not charging tax out of NY, and most states have a dropship sales tax loophole. That means you could save 3-4% off the Amazon+tax price on most items even if I don't find a deal.

>If you already have the capability to find items cheaply, just list those items on your website and let people purchase them :)

Well, I've sold through Amazon and other channels and have had over 100k in sales, all from being able to find items cheap enough to resell. But to launch a website to sell you either need a narrow niche (which prevents mass appeal), or a huge investment to list many products (or big partnerships with sellers with lots of products). Allowing the customer to name the product lets me not worry about product pages, and I do think the Name Your Own Price mechanism is beneficial to all parties (priceline is valued at $73 billion because they brought a ton of value to users).

Eventually I'm going to want to open up to sellers/retailers, but even without that I think I can add value.
What's the background to MobilEye dropping them? Any articles about this?
Passenger claims that they severely sprained their ankle by tepping on a kid's toy as they got in. The claim is against the car owner, not Tesla.

In the case of Uber, the driver is there as a witness to dispute their account. In the Tesla case, nobody saw it.
I don't know, their mobile products are so anemic that it's hard to call them "me too". A RPi2 is more powerful than a 3DS.
Sure this can probably account for 80% of the general use cases, and surely the remaining 20% are the highly complex, low occurrence cases.

But I think saying this took 30 years is cheating a bit. There were fits and starts and long periods of no development until breakthroughs in other fields (machine learning) occured, which can now get us the rest of the way. Not to mention, the pareto principle doesn't account for Moore's law
So this is a good usage model, but I'm not sure people want to carry yet another tablet just for gaming. The only way I can see this thing taking off is if it can fall back into an Android tablet mode for web browsing, e-mail, etc. But as a portable gaming console, it seems pretty boss. I'm curious what the hardware specs are and how they differ from other tablets on the market.

Because if it can't do everything else my current tablet can, I'm gonna have to carry a tablet AND this thing. Done right, Nintendo can make this thing the first real challenger to the iPad for mass-market adoption. But they've gotta treat it as a first-party Android device and get updates out ASAP and not muck with the interface too much. I'm willing to bet they could work out a rev-share agreement with Google on the Google Play store and Google Play Apps (and keeping their own Nintendo licensing scheme).

But let's not kid ourselves here: Nintendo is a Japanese company and it operates like one. That means they'll try to own the entire value chain and miss out on any network effects, while simultaneously moving themselves from a market with a 5-10 year refresh cycle to one with a 2-3 year refresh cycle. While it means they could sell more tablets to repeat customers, it also means that they have less time to be patient for success (as happened with the Wii and WiiU) since it also increases customer churn. Network effects and platform lock-in are a lot more important when the refresh cycle is shorter, because there are more opportunities for your customers to jump off the train.

I wish Nintendo luck, and I think that this is a good usage model. But I'm not convinced it's compelling enough to displace the tablets that people are already carrying around with them unless it can also duplicate the capability of those devices.
My opinion might not be popular here, but when I studied computer science, there was a big discussion about the ethical aspects of our job. Especially, I had the opportunity to speak with Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum [1] a couple of times, who always remembered me that users don't know what we as programmers, technicians and scientists know about the limitations of a solution. So we have the duty to ensure that our solutions don't harm and don't fuel unreasonable expectations.

From the Wikipedia article [1] about Joseph Weizenbaum:
"His influential 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason displays his ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out his case: while Artificial Intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions because computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom."

So, asking "but what if ..." in a responsible way should always be a big part of any innovation. Just shouting "hey, we are hackers, lets innovate and be open" isn't always responsible.

As a bonus, there's a great archive [2] about Joseph Weizenbaum with audio and film clips for anyone interested. Most of the site and the documents are in german unfortunately, but some transcripts are available in english as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum
[2] http://www.ilmarefilm.org/archive/weizenbaum_archiv.html
The math in the following image is not going to change regardless who is driving the car. If you want to have a city, you need to have public transport. If you want to have a suburban sprawl, that's another story.

http://www.boredpanda.com/space-required-to-transport-60-peo...
It might be less "I have spares" and more "well, I've got these other kids who still need functioning adult parents, can't fall apart just yet", and then you muddle through for another 10-20 years until those kids are adults, and by that time you've had time to deal with the loss without completely losing your shit.
It'd be far easier, cheaper, and less time consuming to just put a bag over your head.
Gentlemen, now it's just miserable.
This is one of my favorite nuggets of internet history–also excellent because the thread ID (500) makes it easy to find since it'll redirect from: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/500.
Wow. Just wow. Amazing! Hope it changes everything forever. For a while I thought it was driving way too fast then realized that it was just fast played.
True. But they add the hardware only if you pay for it up front.

Tesla has the hardware in every car it sells, and will be mining super useful data with all these sensors, and tweaking it's software (machine learning based on real use cases for a year) before it puts it out to the public! The scale of data mining that can be done with Tesla's approach is near impossible with other cars (if they continue to sell the cars with and without the sensory hardware)
Nobody would be developing mass-market self-driving cars right now if not for Musk.
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I wonder who decided/approved the use of a song about death and funeral procession (Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones) in a video about "driving" without hands on public roads...
Have you considered that your mother probably has all the information necessary to impersonate you and acquire debt on your credit?
Please update your post to indicate that the quote is taken from a message to Podesta. The URL is misleading as you have it.
"To unpack that, Podesta's correspondent is bemoaning the fact that politics has begun to be covered as entertainment and celebrity gossip."

I thought he was saying they've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and conspire to produce a compliant and unaware citizenry. That's what he says.

"He suggests that any hope that things will take a turn for the better after the election is misplaced, and that there's a larger issue: "we"—and by this he clearly means media elites, people in public office, and in general the milieu to which he belongs rather than some shadowy cabal of which he is a member—have not upheld their duty to help keep an informed and skeptical citizenry."

Except he says 'we've all been quite content to ... conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry', exactly the opposite meaning.

"He suggests that misguided attempts by the media to keep people compliant and docile have started to wear thin but that in the absence of information and understanding all that anger is liable to attach itself to a demagogue like Donald Trump."

Indeed.

"In short, he is advocating the exact thing mentioned in the article: informed civic and political participation!"

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

"And who is this dark and Machiavellian correspondent? This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ivey"

So, a close confidant of the Clintons (Bill made him Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts) and with strong connections to the current Dems (team leader in Arts and Humanities for the Obama transition).