skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need for high speed - all these issues can be resolved by inching forward or back to get the car back onto the open road. (although obviously high speed is a bonus)

Connectivity you see is from a single mobile phone. A car could have a better antenna, service from all the mobile networks rather than just one, wifi fallback and a backup satellite uplink. If all those fail, you dispatch an engineer to find the car wherever it's stuck and add a solar powered LTE repeater.

If you have a map of the whole service area and know where you started and have a camera looking out the window the whole time, there is no need for GPS really.
After all the other practices you listed, I'm not sure why this one is surprising.
> Traffic lights will send out the same messages they send to humans by red/green lights to the cars using radio.

Most of the traffic lights in Las Vegas already support vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, although you need an Audi A4, Q7 or Allroad manufactured after 1st June 2016 and an Audi Connect Prime subscription ($33.33/month) to make use of it [1].

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/12/13923254/audi-v2i-las-veg...
>Opendoor is betting that there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who value the certainty of a sale over getting the highest price

How does that work in hot markets where sales are quick and certain? (a home in Seattle usually gets 6-10 offers). As a seller you're asking me to accept a lower price and pay a higher fee for little benefit.

Also, how does your model work if the housing market has a downturn? Suddenly all those arbitrage opportunities are underwater. Seems like what you are doing is basically real estate speculation.
Having a human on call to remote into a Car is still a viable option in most of the US. This is not a good fit for sub second response times or tunnels, but it vastly reduces the endless .0001% edge cases.

ED: Not hitting kids is manditory, not blocking traffic is mandatory, parking in every random stop is optional as long as their are safe places it can drive to.
> so a remote driver can take over a car

nope. nope.
Now you can score E5 pretty cheap on eBay even powerful dual cpu servers for a price of i7
As the other poster said, you run Django on Kubernetes for the same reason you run anything on it:

* Containers are an easy way to package an application so that it's easy to run anywhere, even if it has weird dependencies

* Eventually, you'll want to run containers on more than one machine for performance/reliablity

* Kubernetes makes it easy to schedule containers on a lot of machines, have them talk to each other over a virtual network easily, and provides a toolkit to solve a bunch of other random things you'll probably want (image updates, secret management, namespaces, authentication, jobs, etc)

So the biggest reason to run Django on Kubernetes is you're running other stuff on it, or just because it's one of the many ways to run a containerized app. Sure, you could write a Compose file and just run Docker on a single VM, but you're probably going to quickly want to add other apps or run on more than one machine, at which point you are likely going to look at Kubernetes, Swarm, maybe Mesos/Marathon, or roll-your-own container orchestrator.

Running Django on Kubernetes makes a lot of sense. Running something like Postgres on Kubernetes is the part that is admittedly more questionable. It's mostly just done for fun/as an exercise. Long term, databases will probably run in containers since everything else is. Short-term, for a serious project, I would probably just use a managed database service.
That's basically the only example I could think of: tracking if someone filled out a form field.

But in that case how can you tell the difference? I mean if they never clicked in the field or tabbed into it and submitted the form is that meaningfully different from they clicked into it and didn't type anything?

I can think of ways to work around it (keep a boolean for 'was filled out', a number that means 'they got up to field 17', etc.) but I'm still not sure you can draw a conclusion of 'they skipped it' vs 'they didn't enter anything'.
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Are there any guides or "best practices" for integrating payment processing with a Firebase backend? Does this mostly "serverless" architecture still require a server to store secrets, tokens, etc?
I'm guessing they want you to use the watch for this. It has at least a gig set aside for music etc.
Sure, availability can be addressed by paying more, but the entire value proposition here is that you pay less.

Is there a sweet spot where you still experience significant cost reductions but the inconvenience is small enough that you don't mind it? Well, certainly, for some people! But I think the number of people is going to be a lot smaller than many commentators think.

(The only cases I see where there's no increase in the rides-for-hire business after full automation is if the cost of cars drops to the point where there's very little incentive to try to reduce the costs for most people. Given that cars are quite expensive now, that seems unlikely. I can construct a scenario, but you basically have to believe that, first, the additional cost for driverless sensors+software is very low, second, that driverless software is so safe that you can drastically decrease physical safety features on cars, and third, probably that automation drives significant GDP growth).
Is this missing a sarcasm tag or are you honestly arguing that he's being weaselly about pH?
you are right, driverless cars are so passe the future are self-flying vehicles.
Government registries for otherwise law abiding citizens is counter to the Constitution. You shouldn't have to be in a registry to: fly on an airplane, own a firearm, or worship a certain way, and the government has been expressively prohibited from doing so (unlawful search and seizure).

We need to stop letting special interest activists weaken this foundation.
I'd consider autonomous cars to be more safe than a car I drive when statistically I'm less likely to get hurt or die.

If there was some chance my car could get hacked, or other weird vulnerabilities that robocars had that traditional cars did not, I would still want to be in a robocar if my chance of dying was cut in half.
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The other two from that message that I didn't mention were auto-mono and a carrying case. Are those the other features you're referring to?

Auto-mono: I guess I see some people listening in only one ear sometimes, but that's not my way of listening to music or podcasts. The cheap Motorola headphones I use are traditional "headphones" and not earbuds. I prefer headphones over earbuds. But even if I used earbuds, I'm not interested in single-ear listening.

Carrying case: This is a big deal? On my walks, I "carry" my headphones on my ears. When I get home, I charge via a USB cable.

Whatever; I suppose I don't begrudge anyone for being excited by Apple headphones. I just find the hype level amusing and silly.
No, the iPod took what was a technically good-enough product category and slapped on a UI that didn't suck. UI is often the most important part of a product, and basically only Apple really got it when it came to MP3-players.
Yes, the official statement during the presentation of the Lightning connector was "for at least the next decade" if I recall correctly.
Another good example of a successful microISV (I just remembered) is Andy Brice (in the UK), the creator of Perfect Table Plan, a wedding seating planning software. He has been an ISV with that as his desktop app product for over 10 years, IIRC.

First got to know of him via his blog:

http://successfulsoftware.net

and have corresponded with him too on a few occasions.

He has many interesting / useful posts about the ISV business on his blog - on many aspects - from technical (he uses C++ and Qt) to commercial, though more of the latter, IIRC. I've read many, and found them interesting. Just got one today in my email, in fact. It's about how one-day sales helped him boost his sales some. (He tries various marketing / sales experiments now and then.) Another interesting thing is that he reviews or interviews other microISVs and their products sometimes - those posts are interesting too. There was one about a file compare tool which was doing quite well - Beyond Compare.

He also started another desktop product, HyperPlan, much after the first, and I read that it too is doing okay.
Right. In Dynamo you could store JSON with "middleName: null" and know that means "We asked, they didn't have it" as opposed to a record without a middleName key which means "we never asked".
> It could just as well be that the opposite will happen, because cars will suddenly become much more accessible for people who can't or don't know how to drive.

This is important to note. I'm on those margins, and have been saving for my first automatic car for ages. I live in a mildly rural community, and don't wanna wait for uber or whatever to deploy autonomous cars here.
Can I ask what you are migrating away to?
Superdata research projects Oculus Rift sales for 2016 to be 360K (https://www.superdataresearch.com/vr-market-update-october-2...)
(http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-11-29-vr-the-bigg... for the updated numbers which downgrade PSVR to 750k). Early CV1 goals stated by Iribe put the headset at 1 million (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/06/oculus-expects-to-sell...). Although this was a realistic goal the reality is way lower than the target, and that might be part of why Iribe has stepped down.

From informal conversations I've had in the past with both people from Valve and PSVR it seems like PSVR and Vive numbers are closer to projections. I think Vive stole a lot of potential high end buyers from Oculus, not launching with Touch was a mistake for them. I also believe this market is a lot more price sensitive than Oculus thought it would be, The Rift has currently sold 200K units more than the DK2 with a much bigger marketing push, more high quality content and a better product, but 2x (or 3x if you include Touch) price point. I wonder if they should have made a "Super DK2". Lower quality headset hardware but Rift quality tracking and touch support at a lower price.

Anecdotally, many people believe VR is a niche market that is comparable to 3D TVs and doesn't add much, but I've also met people that would buy a highend VR headset (quality matters also) if the price was right and the setup was easy. A "cheap" ($250-$400) easy to use all-in-one unit with inside out tracking, tracked controllers and a good library of games, software and content could be the tipping point for the VR market.
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This setup has become much easier since gpg-agent is auto-starting now and basically all you have to do is add "enable-ssh-support" to the config.

There's a description on how to get it to work with SSH on MacOS: https://mysteriouscode.io/blog/using-pgp-keys-from-yubikey-a...
I have the same problem, I get the rubber covers for them on amazon.
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This professor is a widespread urban legend and there's no source to prove it actually ever happened.
The other day I thought to look into refurbished server and workstation boxes. Lots of last-gen Xeon machines to be had for 25% of their original retail, often likewise outfitted with a workstation-spec NV Quadro GPU - maybe a good choice if you've been working on laptops for years like me and could make use of more cores.
See also zip bombs [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
I think safety is fine, especially in cities with not too crazy weather.

It's more that if an autonomous car with no human stalls, due to a traffic light that's stopped working, or an oddly shaped plastic bag in the road, it's stuck, and would cause a traffic jam. Not sure how to resolve such a scenario, can't rely on someone remotely taking control, as mobile data doesn't have 100% coverage, so a human who is allowed access to the car would somehow need to get thorough the traffic jam to move the vehicle on. Can't think of an efficient way to resolve this situation.
http://www.velocitymicro.com/blog/xeon-vs-i7i5-whats-differe...

Biggest difference with i7 vs xeon, xeon can handle sometimes upwares of 1tb of ram now. i7 maxes out at 64gb. You be the judge. i7 were usually 32gb, especially the LGA1100 series. The LGA2011 were @ i7 handled 64gb. LGA 2011 Xeon's are all 64GB+. Also support for ECC ram. So basically if you are not pressed for raw CPU, and you need just a lot of cpu for simulations, VM's etc, xeon is your go to CPU. Xeon LGA2011 series has some crazy CPU Socket configurations, you can get a lot depending on the motherboard vendor. I think some as many as 4+ CPU Sockets. i7 cannot run in parallel with another socket I believe. Just like with the LGA2011 1600 vs 2600 series xeons.
I had the same problem with their earphones, but some reviewers mentioned that AirPods fit much better.
I'm so glad somebody works in this direction.
This is the last thing we require before moving our team over from hangouts (which is the only thing we use even though we pay for the whole g-suite).

Either a way to call-out, have external people call-in, or just allowing a connection of a 3rd party service (paid or otherwise) that lets us connect a phone line.
Motorola S305: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BH3I9U

They're from ~2009 or thereabouts. Traditional headphone form factor. Works great for my use case (pedestrian commutes to and from the office).
Well, you have to keep in mind that mistakes like this could turn into exploits.
I imagine they mean "basically" in the sense of "in the most essential respects; fundamentally" rather than "the opposite of acidic."
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Seems like she did an awful lot of "Strawmanning" in that article:

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/what-is-a...
> If you do any amount of work via command line or SSH,
> you need to be competent with one of them.

The one you need to be competent with is vi: it's part of the Single UNIS specification, so practically all random hosts you ever SSH to will have /bin/vi. This comes in handy when you're paged at 3am by a host you've never seen before, and you want to change some code quickly so you can get back to sleep. Being familiar with basic vi will save you time and potentially making an error scp'ing files from your dev host (which has your editor set up just the right way).
Communist != undemocratic

China happens to be neither communist or democratic
I think AMDs downfall started way before SB. AMD was competitive against Core and Core 2, but already Nehalem was rather... troubling. SB and the following iterations where just the death stab in many markets for AMD; after SB AMD didn't even try to compete with Intel in the server markets (their platform is six years old. Their newest server processors were released in 2012).

AMD fell the moment they failed to improve over K10.
I'll believe evidence - not authority.
It's not either or. Autonomous service for commuting is still highly valuable even if you retain your own car.

Over the medium term, this will only encourage ever more massive and distant suburb creep. Also, with longer commutes less tiresome, the negative cost of having a longer commute will be mitigated.

As for the stranger effect, there are many innovations on that front as well. Google is already has a working app that tries to arrange commutes for true ride sharing where passengers only compensate the driver for the pure cost of the ride. It's cheap and effective if you are a bit flexible in the morning.

I can see autonomous services being so cheap that they become the new corporate perk and companies find value by having employees ride together, share ideas, socialize, etc.

Also, the economies of scale alone would make a private automated car trip still cheaper than owning privately an autonomous vehicle.

The technology will move fast enough that the vast majority people will be switching from a human operated car to a self-driving car service. I can see the ad campaigns now. Basically showing people how much cheaper and safer and more convenient it is.

Cars can be seen like horses were before them, an expensive hassle that requires land for storage and usage. If you think about it, people have whole buildings just for storing cars, garages, like we did with horses, barns.

15 years from now suburbs will be built without garages and driveways. There will be a cottage industry for people to convert garages and carparks into more usable space.

20 years from now, multistory car parking lots will be the new conversion buildings like the old meat packing and textile plans that used to be in downtown areas that were turned into lofts. Polished concrete floors will feature the original parking space numbers. The open sides will feature panoramic views.

Lastly, having your own car will be a throwback element. People who like to 4x4 or work on their own cars (a huge market that might actually grow in the medium term) will fill this but, even then they'll use automated services to commute. The number of people who have hobby cars (off-roading, auto racing, vintage collectibles, restoration) will skyrocket because a car no longer has to be a daily driver.

Or people might care less about cars, I don't presume to know the complex of a future of human desire. But, in a world full of cheap cars that you driver yourself, automated car services will still create so much value that people will still switch.
They are staying consistent with a 40% IPC improvement number, which is great. This should finally be competitive with Intel's current offerings.
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That is simultaneously really helpful (thanks for sharing) and an utter indictment of their software quality.
> Traffic lights will send out the same messages they send to humans by red/green lights to the cars using radio.

I live in the capital city of an EU country, population 2 million, and there's a traffic light about two blocks away from where I live which has not been functional for about 2 weeks now. And the bad thing is that the other traffic lights from that intersection DO work, so you cannot rely on the road-signs, like one usually does when ALL traffic light from an intersection malfunction (from loss of power, mostly). So I'm a little skeptic that traffic lights will be able to "reliably" guide no-driver vehicles using radio signals anytime soon.
Wow, I've been working with Oracle for a million years and I didn't know that.

Fortunately, now that I'm over a million years old I'm probably not going to freak out about it no matter how wrong it seems. I might relax my pro-NULL politics a bit though.
My phone is showing the same battery and shut off issues. Your phone might be one of the ones Apple has identified as having issues.

Check here: https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/

I checked there and my phone is eligible for the battery replacement.
Wish I'd seen this doc before I started using Notes - would have given me a much clearer perspective (although... I might have 'grokked' as much at such a young age).

Notes left a bad taste in my mouth in 96-97, as I was working at a company doing custom Notes app (not originally, but we morphed in to Notes after I started). I was tasked with doing Notes app customization and creation on and for laptops with Win95 and a whopping 8m of RAM. Doing anything in Notes was painful. We had one project where we got... 32m I think, and that was certainly bearable, but I was canned shortly after that...
past the point where emissions cuts alone can keep long term warming below 2 C

Isn't that 2C supposed to have come from "just give me a damn number" rather than any analysis of likely impacts?

I'm going to be very amused if we somehow stop any warming without reducing co2, and die off when all the shellfish keep dissolving.
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Violent crime is almost entirely concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods, and the people living there don't generally have the means/ability to move.
I think you meant to say fusion. Fission reactors have been in productive use for decades.
I have the exact same problem. They just aren't a great fit. I walk my dogs every night for 1 hour and enjoy listening to podcasts during this time. I tried some Mopow bluetooth earbuds but they weren't any better. I'm considering some large headphones this holiday season.

On a lighter note, I live in Canada so for 6 months of the year, my toque holds the Apple earbuds in my ears.
Do you have a source for this? It seems fairly unlikely for a lot of reasons.
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How does it change the economics of the situation? More volume or shorter rentals? Would having more frequent rentals mean that rental companies would want to produce their own cars?
> Reluctance makes sense for them. It's similar to the consulting project I had at uni with an O&G company: everyone knows they should pivot for the sake of the next generation.

Honestly, I think the issue is that auto execs and the general public have very different views of the world.

From an executives perspective, EVs are an over-saturated, incredibly niche market that's nearly impossible to make money on. They already spend a ton of money investing in EVs and the general public doesn't care about their EV offerings and they barely sell.

The general public seem to hold Telsa up on this pedestal of innovation and point to them as an example of how automakers need to be if they don't want to be seen as dinosaurs. But I bet if you talked to Mark Fields, he'd say something along the lines of, "Nobody is going to buy an $80,000 Ford EV."

The general public is clearly not interested in actually buying EVs right now. Heck, they don't even like hybrids. Instead Americans are happily buying pickup trucks and crossovers, then complaining about about a company's lack of innovation.

Ford has the biggest lineup of EVs (with a sedan, van, and compact hatchback offering) and probably the best availability of EVs in the USA, yet they only moved 24,000 EVs this year. Telsa moved about 38,000 Models S & X in the same time period. Total USA EVs sales were a hair over 133,000. This is in a country where pickup trucks easily sell over a half-million units a year and a beige family sedan will move 200,000.

So I don't feel like the large automakers are reluctant to adopt EVs for any other reason besides the fact that the market needs decades of double-digit percent grow in order to support more than two key players.
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