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It's part of the growing myth that is "self driving cars".

People seem to hand-wave and make up what these supposed future self driving cars will do - and worse, they hand-wave and assert they'll be objectively better at X than humans, without any evidence to backup the assertion.

Self driving cars are made by fallible humans using fallible programming languages and constructs. They can't possibly account for every situation or scenario - but people hand-wave and say it magically will.

Sure, one day you'll be able to sleep in the back seat of your car or read a book while it precisely weaves you between traffic only to navigate you right off a cliff. Or the neighbor's kid with a laser pointer prevents your car from turning into the driveway.

Driver-assisted cars are the real future.
Hopefully the docking station provides additional CPU/GPU power, otherwise this would be no different to a PS Vita.
What would be the business decision for them allowing cross device purchases? They might be selling the console at a loss for game revenue.
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Much like comments on the internet. Only 20% are meant to be taken seriously, and even then, only 80% of the message is serious in nature.
Not sure about that first one. We'll have to wait for the specs to release first.
How to raise successful kids without over-parenting
That's really more a navigational problem though?
Why would I want to use different services? I (personally) use godaddy, my company uses namecheap.

Both seem to be doing fine and we check in on them once a year.
Uber looks like it's using LIDAR. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-fir...
Goldeneye is an amazing game which I hope is ported. Perfect Dark was pretty good when played in multi-player. It pretty much was a Goldeneye sequel at that point.
The Fed is technically a privately owned entity, which is really a caba of banks (banks in the US 'own shares' in the Fed and basically run the show). It's at arms length form congress - as it should be - for monetary operations.

But for regulatory issues?

The US let's a group of banks 'self regulate' - moreover regulate other industries?

The seems kind of crazy to me.

I see the need for 'smart regulation' esp. by bodies that are as 'independent' as possible, but in this case 'independent' could mean 'conflict of interest' which is kind of the opposite of what we would want, no?
I'm actually on Firefox 49.0.1 too. I just thought it was one of my add-ons or DNS hacks. Don't want to report a bug for an edge case but if others have the same issue it might be something more serious. Worked fine in Chrome.
I imagine she has almost certainly not met anyone in person, that's how these scams work.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12743628
I think the future is self-driving public transit. I imagine minivans that perform dynamic route optimization. Instead of a bus that stops every block on a pre-determined route, use an app to input your pickup location and destination and the self-driving van picks you and a few people up from a small radius, and drops people off in a small radius. This will be faster and cheaper than both public transit and even driving yourself (no hunting for parking).
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The issue is that you might want to be able to display both – a darkness so deep that the nightsky looks bright, a brightness so bright that the sun looks dark, and at the same time a white that always looks like a page of a book, and a black that always looks like ink.

As said, it would be best if we had a way to specify colors in specific color spaces.

Then I could make a website that looks consistent no matter how bright the monitor is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12743628
^^ my thoughts exactly.
I would hope that the vehicles trust their own sensors before trusting the claims of other cars. The most a car should be able to lie convincingly about should be its intentions since they're unobservable. If car A says "I'm going to let you take this left" and car B tries taking the left and then car A tries to ram them, car B should ideally take evasive action (braking or speeding up) as it would from a human driver just randomly charging an intersection.

tl;dr: don't trust the client (or other drivers).
In case it's not widely known, rsync.net maintains 'gsutil' in the environment (along with s3cmd) so you can move data between google cloud services and rsync.net.

ssh user@rsync.net gsutil cp mscdex.exe gs://my-bucket

ssh user@rsync.net gsutil rsync -d data gs://mybucket/data

Although it should be noted that, circa 2016, the cool kids are all backing up to rsync.net with borg[1][2] (the "holy grail of backup software") which limits the use cases of gsutil with an rsync.net account.

HN Readers discount. Just email and ask.[3]

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[3] info@rsync.net
This is from July
As someone who also started with the backend, I found this site very helpful for learning CSS: http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

Don't start with a framework though; your goal should be to slowly build up your own. Why? Because that's how to best wrap your head around all the different layout quirks. All you need is an index.html and placeholding content; KISS. Once you've got a better fundamental understanding of how the pieces fit together, you'll be in a much better position to evaluate and take advantage of the various frameworks out there. If you want a middle-ground, check out Skeleton: https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton

As for JavaScript, it depends on what you're looking to build. My goal was to build single page applications, so I started with React / Webpack / ES6 (ES2015) / Babel. As a backend dev, I think you'll find the tooling rather familiar. I don't have any experience with Angular 2, so I'm not sure if that community has a different "standard stack." But Webpack is pretty sweet, and well worth learning, even if the documentation isn't so hot just yet. As long as you're running ES6, I think you'll find JavaScript is mostly similar to Python (with the biggest difference being JS is prototypical, and thus it's scoping behavior can be a little funky at times).
While true in general, let me present a counterpoint to that.

With mechanical watches, it is not easy at all. Maybe if you take a simple hand wind large pocket watch (fewer parts, larger parts are easier to work with, higher tolerances), then yes, but this is the "easy mode". As in electronics, equivalent of maybe Atari 2600, which you can fix with huge transformer-type soldering gun and 30-ish USD multimeters and 60-ish USD oscilloscopes. But try taking this approach to miniaturized SoC in a phone or even a smartwatch...
In watches, take an automatic watch (with weight and gears which winds it up during wearing), date, maybe chronograph, moonphase, power reserve indicator, ... It will come apart to dozens of parts, some of which require special handling (hairspring), you need to lubricate all the required points, each with designated oils (maybe three different oils per watch!). Doable, but you need good knowledge, skills and expensive and maintained set of tools (e.g. look up Bergeon prices). You will also want a vibrograph and regulate the watch in different positions. If you create even a 0,1 % deviation, you are 1.5 minute off in 24 hours, 43 minutes in a month.

Yes, mechanical watch will keep for 50, even 100 years, but you are expected to have it serviced every 5 years or so and the service means disassembling it into parts and putting them back together (starting at maybe 150 USD even for 70 USD automatic watch). If you don't do that, they may work for 20 and more years, but it is hit or miss, they will wear out more and eventually when something seizes up or breaks, it will require much greater overhaul, replacing (more) parts.

An Apple Watch may be difficult to repair now because it is so miniature and modern and it is simply cheaper to throw it away and replace it with new one (this is the same with quartz calibers and mechanical watches with still-in-manufacture calibers priced less than the cost of full service).

But in 50 years, this may well flip around.
As for mechanical watches, the watchmaking is somehow in demise. In our (EU) country, 20-30 years ago, a watchmaker in every larger city could service mechanical watches. Now they only change straps and batteries, maybe change entire caliber and many "modern" watch service shops (stalls in shopping malls) only change batteries. ADs (authorized dealers) all work with a single person in the entire country or even send their watches abroad. How many skilled watchmakers will be there in 50 years (two generations)? In how many countries? What will be the prices?

As for smartwatches, in 50 years we may have 3D printers spitting out entire watch-sized circuits, cheap hobbyist home-grade SMT robots, miniature FPGA capable of running entire current systems... Much like you can now repair or rebuild game consoles from 70s, 80s or 90s using cheap tools, easily available parts, 3D print a new case, or even make them into a handheld with no problems (e.g. see Ben Heckendorn's projects).
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It's not the least bit surprising that a company like Rolex would not sell parts directly to customers. I imagine that 99% of the time that would end disastrously, and they would have quite a lot of customers who haphazardly dismantle their watches and then are unable to properly clean, lube, reassemble, and test them. Once that happens, you know who the customer is going to blame. This is exactly why companies like Apple are happy to sell you an iPhone but are NOT going to sell you a single capacitor or wire, or even a complete circuit board. Do you think Apple is going to sell you individual parts for that Apple Watch?

Continuing with your example, getting a Rolex serviced by skilled third party technicians, using genuine Rolex parts (because Rolex is happy to sell parts directly to qualified technicians), is not a problem. There are dozens of highly recommended shops in the US alone, e.g. https://www.bobswatches.com/more/watch-repair-service.
> Having the equipment ready and in action first...

That seems to be Ms. Caldwell's point: Without the software or regulations in place, it's impossible to know if the "equipment is ready." I don't disagree with her on this one.

(And I am long TSLA.)
You can't inherit debt. At least you can't be forced to accept it. (You can select to reject any inheritance, be it positive or negative)
Ok, Fair enough... I guess I just looked at the size and didn't get to "mobile device" to take with you... so I just missed the point completely.. :)
At 0:47, there is a car in the right lane, so it makes the right turn and immediately merges into the left lane.

Yes, you're supposed to drive in the right lane when not passing - some localities are more strict about this than others. For example, here in Michigan, there's a fine for driving in the left lane and not passing anyone for...one mile? Two miles? I forget, it's never really used. And you're supposed to "FALL" into the First Available Legal Lane. But in practice, if the second lane is open, people will jump across the first lane for the second - just watch your rearview as you accelerate and make sure the oncoming car wasn't moving over for you.

This is more aggressive driving than I would have expected from an automatic algorithm, but perfectly matches my expectations for the driver of a luxury sport car like a BMW, Audi, or Mercedes - and probably a Tesla, or a compact car driven by a young driver. I would expect a minivan, hybrid, or small commercial vehicle to wait. And I would expect a bus, garbage truck, or semi truck to just pull out and force the oncoming car to merge into the left lane.

Also, it would be a safety risk, not a security risk.
The wiiu gamepad is only functional when it is within line of sight or about 15 feet of the home console. It isn't really portable. The advantage is that it can still be used while the TV is displaying something else.

Yes, this device would have more opportunity to suffer physical damage based on the nature of its design but I think that cost is easily justified.
> Isn't this hackernews??

This level of negativity is typical for HN. Look at what happened when dhouston announced Dropbox- the second comment was about how any Linux user can trivially replace it for themselves:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Supercomputer learns to defeat Pong from pixels in under 5 minutes
Doesn't look like things got auto migrated.. (whereas for the other cases they did get auto migrated)
The Microsoft Update Catalog no longer needs the terrible ActiveX components
Hello, I have recently put together this little app to brainstorm/generate business names, startup names, products etc.

It's sort of a hybrid between the Shopify business name generator and InstantDomainSearch.com. It has plenty of suggestion as the first one but with the speed of the second one.

As far as I am aware there isn't another tool that can generate 3,000+ available domain names based on the user's keywords in ~100ms. Or at least I couldn't find it when I needed it.

I could actually generate 1,000s more in nearly the same time but updating the browser's content turned out to be one of the major bottlenecks to keep the app snappy and responsive.

I wanted to learn a little bit about sockets and domain names so I came up with this. The web app is implemented in nodejs/express while the back end database I had to implement it in C++ and Qt5. I sort of built my own version of Redis but with minimal memory footprint and maximum speed. This way I can also easily implement multi-threading which Redis does not support. That was the fun part of the project. :)

All the communication between the browser, the server and the DB is done via socket.io to minimize latency. Switching from REST API to socket.io reduced the latency by 2/3s.

Anyway, let me know what you think about it. I'm eager to have your feedback and advice on how to improve speed, usability and quality of suggestions.

Thank you!
5 and 8 story apartment buildings is not a typical American environment by far. I grew up in exactly the same environment as you did -- pedestrian friendly, highly available public transit, protected courtyard playgrounds, wide sidewalks on both sides of the streets, where kids riding bikes are not forced onto the road, etc.

This is a very different environment from most of America.
Is there any other console that can play Skyrim smoothly on the go? No, which is why this is impressive. We'll have to wait for the specs to be announced before we can confirm that the docked console is behind the rest.
Back in the day, comedy and art had a lot of curmudgeon, sardonic characters, losers etc..

Try reading 'Andy Capp'.

They just don't allow such zaniness anymore.

Everyone has to be happy and PC.

Think Annie Potts in Ghostbusters: "Ghostbusters, waddya want?"
Starting today, IT administrators using Microsoft Edge (or other browsers) will be able to use the site for downloading available Windows updates.
Sure, "bug" as a term is as elastic as you want it to be. I was pointing out the false equivalence you implied by writing "cheaper". Testing and linting does not provide the same value, so calling it cheaper is a kind of fallacy.
Yeah I was wondering about this too - will the 3DS be carried on and essentially be the low-powered option?
Maybe the cars will be safe enough we can get rid of those restrictive laws.
How the US Department of Commerce Promotes Open Data
Not to mention that "better driver than average" is a very fuzzy definition, and more than 50% probably hit at least one of the possible categories, e.g. safer? Quicker reaction time? More pleasant to other drivers? Most comfortable to ride with? More technically skilled when it comes to difficult conditions? Able and willing to go fastest? Gets the fewest speeding tickets? Etc.
I have come to think this is coming from a certain righteous attitude. Everyone knows about the old norm of slower traffic to the right, but people give up on it when 1) why should I get behind that guy in the right lane who is driving slower than the limit, just so you can speed and 2) if you want to speed, find your own way through traffic, not my problem. There's also the variant of, I'm speeding and people are getting out of my way, why should I get out of your way because you decided to drive even faster than me. It just encourages faster and faster driving. I live where it's very common to see anything from -10 to +30 the limit. Which is just dangerous. The safest thing to do, is to stay where you are and let the fast guy find his way through or be forced to slow down. So I do kind of agree with this being an outdated norm that doesn't apply to today.

What you're taught in driver ed means nothing after a little time on the road dealing with the norms of other drivers and the inconveniences they impose on you. Nobody wants to be inconvenienced any more, even if it's the "right thing" to do.

Some what related, I feel I notice in last 10-20 years people absolutely refuse to miss their turn/exit. They will create a very dangerous situation swerving across lanes and cutting people off at the last second rather than saying "oh dang, I will need to do a U-turn ahead".

Another example I notice is, the use of a turn signal is an expectation of the right to change lanes. People actually get angry with thoughts like "I put on my turn signal, everyone else should slam on their brakes so I can change lanes because I need to turn now!"
Every Windows user get a separate Linux.

When they run bash for the first time, system asks them to create a default linux user. Typically, this is also the only user.

Mapping Linux users to Windows users would be quite problematic, e. g. with user such as nobody or apache that are typical to Linux.
You don't have to send it to Switzerland or even to a local dealer. There are a lot of reputable, independent vendors that will service, for example, a Submariner, for a fraction of what Rolex would charge.
Despite the non-existence of children in that video, don't forget they still sell a lot stuff to children. My kids aren't old enough to be running around with 3DSs with all their friends yet, so I don't know how prevalent it is in practice. But if everyone who had a Wii could also that easily pick it up and cart it somewhere, that would be a huge network effect compared even to the 3DS. There is a very good chance this could become a Thing for that age group, and given how children are, it could simply become expected that you have a Switch.

Also... since no one else has mentioned it yet and it's not really worth its own comment... this is a wildly better name than "Wii". The Wii was a success, but I'd say in spite of the name.
This is legal in California.
You can buy a kindle with ads for $50 or a kindle without for $70. I don't like the way all this is progressing.
I dunno. I'll grant that it's a clever idea but those half-controllers aren't going to have all the buttons that a full controller does, so games using that mode will be restricted in what controls they have. Plus, the ergonomics is not going to be as good as a full controller as well.
I think you bring it on in a bit too negative way, but indeed, many people have competitive drive and when we speak about 16 to 19 year olds playing in a competitive team, most have quite a bit of that drive, so a foolish team-mate who loses games is frustrating.
I'd be impressed if a self-driving car could cross Ho Chi Minh City during M-F.
Apple is working on e-ink keyboard for future MacBooks
I vastly prefer gaming with people locally to doing it over the internet so there definitely is some market there for it but it remains to be seen how big it is
You don't own your iPhone, your music, your car, your house ...

Even though you paid for them ...

I have a new toaster for sale. Must use my electricity, nobody else's :)
For one, sending false data != controlling other vehicles.

And on the other hand there is plenty of opportunity to include encryption with gov/mfn signed keys, crosscheck received data with sensor values, etc.

The benefits far outweigh the risks.
I actually had a DO instance hacked, via Wordpress exploit. I guess I wasn't keeping my Wordpress up to date, or not running a security plugin I didn't know I needed. Had to shut the whole thing down, start up a new droplet, reload the website from backup.

Meanwhile my WP sites on DreamHost are happily humming along, automatically upgraded, any problems are promptly attended to by their support team. $12/month, unlimited sites/storage/bandwidth. I do not work for DreamHost.
To me, I think of cloud as a business term that describes infrastructure that can be easily manipulated with software (or dashboards). That's what DO provides albeit with WAY less functionality than AWS (but at a much lower price point).
This is epic and something really needed. All current bokmark managers sux IMO more or less.

However, without browser and mobile plugins I wouldnt touch it. I use digo free now and the great thing about it, is it works everywhere directly in browser. Its also exportable locally. I dont like its bulk management.
The Jalopnik review of the video was pretty critical, essentially claiming that the test was done under the best possible conditions and this doesn't demonstrate that Tesla is getting any closer to automatic driving on more typical roads. (I don't know whether that's right or wrong, just thought it was an interesting analysis.)

http://jalopnik.com/teslas-proof-video-for-their-self-drivin...
Did you even read that email? It's from an academic in the Arts and Humanities world and the whole email is basically just a guy waxing philosophic to Podesta about the current election. In context, there is NOTHING revelatory about that email. It's just private correspondence.

That email is the perfect example of wikileaks publishing material irresponsibly. There is nothing in there that is in the public interest, nothing to justify the violation of the privacy of Podesta or the sender.
With this plan, couldn't the attacker just fake n cars, and thus your car would be determined to be the one that is uploading false information?
"Now they come with software and a prohibition against customer modification or repair."

This is not entirely unreasonable, they can probably justify it some way, of course it's probably just a away go guarantee their service contracts.
Different TLDs at different registrars, I guess. I don't see that feature relieving a big pain point either.
There are two major things that I'm curious about:

Price point: How much is this going to cost per unit? I'd imagine it's going to be much cheaper than the other current gen consoles

Battery life: If it doesn't get more than 1-2 hours, or else come with some way to extend the battery life via an accessory, it will be kinda underwhelming.

That being said, this is a very intriguing idea, and is a good focus on an easy to understand concept. Funny image: Two people playing on a Switch with the controllers snapped onto it, doing some top down game like air hockey or something.
It was originally instituted because a student drowned in the Charles river because he didn't know how to swim. Age might be different, but the majority of people who drown don't know how to swim. Teach your kids to swim, they are WAY less likely to drown.