skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that but they were almost certainly already collecting much of this data before it was written into law.
I think self-driving cars can make trains much more viable by providing last-mile support to extend the practical range of stations. With self-driving shuttle taxis, a single station could serve a vast sprawling suburb easily.

And a switch to a transport-as-a-service model can make the advantages of the train much more apparent. Open Google Maps and ask for directions: Do you want to take a single 1 hour drive, or a 30min train ride with 5min connections at each end that costs less?

And then when people in the office hear about how your commute is 20mins shorter thanks to the new train line, maybe they want one too...
- Take a pen with black finish and run it under the letters, you’ll read at 1,5 speed (and it’s not a trick, it’s something children dp with their finger when they learn to read so it's quite natural).

- Stop saying words aloud in your mind when you’re reading.

- Try to catch two or three words instead of one.

Now, none of this is bullshit or skimming, I'm doing it and have same retention as I'd be 'spelling' in my mind word by word, I believe human brain is smart enough to process more than one word or you think it's a crazy idea? hehehe if so then good luck ;)

It's not about skimming or reading whole page in a matter of a couple of seconds (I don't think you can have great retention with that unless you have really great/photographic memory), but about basic skill which you can improve (just like riding bicycle or doing tricks on skateboard). There are some 'bad habits' of reading and eliminating this would improve your reading speed.

btw. I also know couple of mnemonic techniques that lets me remember things permanently and very quickly - again, no bullshit, just a technique as old as ancient Greece.
Oh, and I forgot one of my biggest gripes. There are no arrow keys in tablet mode! How the fuck am I supposed to read in tablet mode without arrow keys? Constantly reach out and touch and drag the screen? Are you kidding me?
Until they realise that Americans can look Mexican and Australians can look Asian.
I think you mean when an electron (or other charged particle) travels through water.
> Communication is key. You need to present your work in terms non-developers can both understand and relate to

The problem is: One is permanently surrounded by stupid people. If the business people were really smart (and those exist - they are just as rare as smart people in most other areas), I could accept the argument. Unluckily this is not the case. So presenting the work to "typical" other people (including non-developers) is like explaining Grothendieck-style algebraic geometry to a monkey.
Is this a good book to get into the topic? Are there any other titles that can be recommended?
Benchmarking MongoDB with Storage Engines: WiredTiger, PerconaFT, and Rocksdb
systemctl --version on Fedora
First, you need to take care of the virtualenv manually. This tool avoid that. You can completly ignore the virtualenv. You don't even have to populate requirements or learn about pip freeze.

Secondly, this tool allow you to freeze your requirement list at specific versions. So in your req file, you have the name of the packages you depend on. Bon on the req lock, you get all the pulled dependencies recursively with the version you are using right now. The first one let you dev more easily. The second one deploy more easily.

All that, for less complexity. Win win.
It is balancing risk with need and utility. Parents with young children need to drive places. Nobody needs to drink and drive. Many people think they drive fine after 4 drinks because they are such great drivers, but the evidence says otherwise.
saying that "purchasing is a voluntary decision" is kind of ridiculous. sometimes it's not. printer cartridges are a good example, because most of the major manufacturers do similar things with their cartridges and say you shouldn't reuse them. taking this further, they also say that you shouldn't put generic cartridges in your printer. a printer is something that in many situations (eg businesses) are not optional

if you switch shouldn't to can't (like lexmark is asserting) then it's not a choice

*edit for clarity
By my understanding, "most" officially means "uninteresting", and extra-officially means "those that make the comments section devolve into a flamewar" (which, in turn, means "most")
That's not speed reading, that's reading.
The snooper charter is very likely to be challenged and be declared unlawful, as British Courts have already ruled that indiscriminate data collection contravenes EU law and ECJ rulings.

Of course UK might leave before such ruling.
The problem is that most people stopped conscious reading nowadays.
there could be phones that include these sensors

Maybe at some point, but mobile phone applications need sensors that are small, light, low-power, less than $100 - wheras automotive LIDARs have different requirements (range like the stopping distance of a car, powerful enough lasers to operate in direct sunlight, scanning a mostly-flat surface, can use several watts and weigh a kilo or more, can cost $200+ if they need to).

If you have a great business plan that needs 3D consumer-priced 3D scanning, I'd start with a Kinect if I were you :)
The struggle with Rust
It doesn't happen with photons. Photons themselves always travel exactly at the (vacuum) speed of light, even in water, and they aren't charged particles. Cherenkov radiation happens with charged particles like electrons.
TL;DR On writes RocksDB is first, then PerconaFT, then WiredTiger.

Interesting results. Last months I saw the production use of MongoDB with RocksDB engine only once. Do you use engines other than WiredTiger (or mmapv1) and what were your reasons to do it?
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/dec/21/eus-highest-cour...
journalist here. There is hardly a week when I don't get an email or a call about if I "saw the mail about XYZ they sent me last week".

I think it has been around forever. Most people I know hate it, but there are still companies that put pressure on their agencys to "follow up".

That beeing said, its probably a low-effort thing that still has a medium to high chance to bring in customers.

Update: If you work in a company and force your media guys to do these cold calls, please stop. Nothing gets you faster on blacklists.
Because what the law says and what many employers think that they can get away with, isn't the same thing.
You are right in saying that autonomous cars, as we envision them for the near future, require some form of "proper" infrastructure to be able to perform (safely). However you are wrong in seemingly thinking that this infrastructure will never come.

As with many technologies, it is the infrastructure that is important ( cell phones vs cellular network, ethernet-enabled computers vs the ISP broadband installations, iPhone vs iTunes store, etc...).

Here it is similar and it is not so far fetched to think that in some future the road system will be modified in some ways in order to accommodate level 5 autonomous cars and people.

For example, the city of Drachten in the Netherlands has no traffic lights, road signage (stop signs, etc...) at all. They modified their infrastructure and got better pedestrian security.

From Wikipedia:

"Drachten received international attention for a traffic experiment known as shared space, a concept pioneered by Hans Monderman. Almost all traffic lights and signs have been removed in the town's centre in an effort to improve traffic safety, based on the theory that drivers pay more attention to their surroundings when they cannot rely on strict traffic rules. Previously the town's centre had an average of 8 accidents per year. In the first two years after the system was introduced, yearly accidents were reduced to 1."

It would be very interesting to see how level-5 autonomous cars would fare in Drachten...
if currency swings outside of sane levels the rule of law collapses. nothing is forever.
are you talking about the security stuff? i think in that case it's about the software that they assert is their IP, where this is the physical cartridge
it uses an API that doesn't exist in Firefox to only trigger on news.ycombinator.com
If the idea is related to the subject or work of the current company then in court they can claim inception for your later similar work. This happened in the case where an action figure designer left Mattel to produce new (and completely unrelated) action figures at home. In court Mattel claimed the inventor form the idea for the new concept while employed at Mattel and the court agreed so Mattel took position of the new idea. While the new idea was functionally different it wasn't novel enough to qualify as original apart from the inventors prior experience doing similar work.

To be more safe I would wildly alter the idea so that it applies in different functional applications for industries the current employer has no interest in performing. Then, at the very least, they cannot claim violations of non-compete status and you have a wider field of novelty.
> Fraudsters offering fake prizes and job opportunities swindled tens of thousands of U.S. consumers, giving Western Union agents a cut in return for processing the payments, authorities said.

I don't see it. I'm reading the actual court documents now, which I found by googling and going to the FTC's website:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/01/...

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/western_uni... - complaint

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/western_uni... - final judgement, which includes way more than just the monetary fine.
Since before email? Cold calls, catalogs in the mail, coupons, promotions... the medium changes, the sales principles do not.
Yes, but this can also be put as "not all people have talent for freedom".
Different use cases. You can't archive stuff from crashplan. If you retire the your machine, you either migrate the whole thing to a new one, or your backups will expire after some days.

So if you want single machine backup - crashplan is great. If you want long term service data backup - rsync is great.
The reason for Apple removing the headphone jack is finally revealed!
CitiBank used to send me spam about credit cards (I used to own one a few years ago). The opt-out link led to a page where I must fill out an elaborate form with the CC number and address and whatnot to unsubscribe from spam I never asked for in the first place :(
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"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained with stupidity"
Isn't there at least some buzz around optimizing water usage? Fine grained monitoring of individual plants using cheap sensors for example.
No one can really make that decision for you but the best advice I can give is seek out any watch that you're considering spending money on and hold it in your hand. Product photos, specs, and reviews rarely do justice to the personal reaction you'll have to the piece itself. I've been disappointed by watches that looked perfect on paper and been surprised by pieces that I never would have considered from just looking at them.

What did it for me when I bought my Rolex (2016 Explorer I) was the how the quality of its finishing felt in my hand. It practically vanishes when it's on my wrist thanks to how comfortable and unobtrusive it is but the materials, fit, and finishing on it show undeniably where a lot of the money went.
Nobody can sleep in moving self-driving car. Sleeping in stationary self-driving car can work (somewhat) if it is connected to the grid, because of necessary climate control. Then it still will be worse experience than sleeping in a camping trailer.

You can't expect to be able to sleep comfortably in a moving car. It will be like trying to sleep while someone tries to wake you up - noise and constant erratic movement. Even if you can get over it, to maintain safety you will have to be strapped to the bed and make sure that nothing heavy (even your phone) would struck you in case of an accident.

I once had a great idea - a car that would drive backwards with complicated display system to show a road in the direction you are actually driving. The idea was that it would be safer than seat-belts. But there is a reason why seats (even passenger seats) in a car are front facing. In case of an accident everything will try to maintain it's momentum. If you would have a coffee or a phone in your hand it will struck you in your face.

That's a problem that makes sleeping in comfortable bed inside a car dangerous. You can't get around it for foreseeable future.
Microsoft has been going away from that path for quite a while now, ever since Balmer left. For example the .NET runtime now runs on BSD/Unix/Mac OS X and sql server was released for Linux.

Ultimately it is still in the interest of Microsoft if their toolchain is interesting because it is compatible among all target devices (PC, Xbox, PS, Mobile) so I'm unsurprised they are moving in that direction.
it is if your mistrust for google outweighs your time to check these things... maybe in that case you shouldn't say "for sure google is doing bad things" but you can mistrust and not use a product for fear of the company that produces it without current evidence
bitwarden was mentioned in a previous thread as a free and open source alternative to lastpass. It works on mobile and the desktop. Maybe it's worth to take a look - https://bitwarden.com/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 this history is long, search on your own for more.
I understand this is a valid concern for some, but I generate random long passwords and never reuse them, so I can live with unencrypted entry names (that contains site+login)
Why we still use HTTP is beyond me. And I don't mean about the speed issues. Why have a protocol that's so complicated when most of the things we need to build with it are either simpler or reimplement parts of the protocol.
I don't know exactly what the extension does behind the scenes, but I use Webex daily for my job and almost all my clients suggest just using the temporary application to join is a better experience by far. The extension constantly fails to launch the application correctly and from what I'm told does some other non-sense that causes CPU spikes and connectivity issues.

It also doesn't inspire confidence that this is the screenshot of the Chrome Extension they give users to encourage them to use the extension: http://imgur.com/a/Rsy3H

(For those who don't want to click, the screenshot showing the install has the rating from the Chrome Webstore, which is currently at 2 stars)

I mean, I applaud the honesty of showing us what users have rated it, but it just seems kind of sloppy to me.
It's unfortunate that you're being downvoted just for being cautious/skeptical.

Various aspects of rsync.net are periodically discussed on HN. About 417 days ago I raised a similar issue to yours, namely who is behind this company and what is the address.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10674029

At that time the owner responded on HN with clear information. It's unfortunate that, more than a year later, their website is still a bit of a dog's breakfast on this issue.
Same on Mint 18
Stratasys Teams with McLaren Racing for Rapid Prototyping
It's a feature, I don't want a third party addon of an app (even firefox) to fiddle with gpg and my passwords more than necessary.
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Maybe down to your Webex platform version - at work, we can get a dialback (Cisco SIP phones on desk and softphones), connect via computer or dial in to toll-free or chargeable numbers.

For meetings that fall into my evening, I join conferences via a tablet and the Android App, and connect to audio through it so I can relax or move about the house.
After a skim of this sub-thread I'm surprised no one mentions that it might be a benefit that as autonomous-car driving tech spreads around world (presumably with SF/SV being the epicentre), countries which are poorly equipped for autonomous cars start to find the momentum to overhaul their road network and driving education system.

Having been to several countries in Asia, it would be no bad thing to have a stepwise reform in how driving is done in these countries - think of the number of accidents that would be reduced.
Because these things happen all the time, including in Germany, and not just to immigrant workers:

http://www.equaltimes.org/exploitation-of-migrant-workers?la...

https://www.thelocal.de/20150602/eu-reports-widespread-abuse...

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/30/germ-a30.html
Paul has an entire book of his essays by the same title, it's a great read all kinds of programmers. :)
Let's just stop applying the term "hack[er|ing]" to marketing, please.
Yes, it's famous. I remember seeing it as a child and taking ages to see the cow, and feeling a "hidden picture" sensation when it finally popped out. Now, decades later as an adult, it immediately and unambiguously looks like a cow. I wonder if that's due to 1) learning the picture, 2) learning more about cows, or 3) learning more about high-contrast images.

I do remember hearing that it's one of those things you can't ever "unsee".
How Obama performed on 40 promises he made during his presidential campaigns
Vertical farms are going to be huge. They're almost fully isolated from the outside environment save for taking in local air and removing carbon from it. They require magnitudes less water than traditional agriculture and no fertilizers. You can build them in the middle of a downtown core if you need to. And you could optimize power consumption so that the majority of your energy comes from renewable sources.

See Aerofarms[0] for an example. I've heard of companies in Japan developing similar technology. If I meet the right people I might take the plunge and build one myself.

Traditional farming needs to go. It requires huge amounts of land to be cleared, fertilizers, and a large amount of fresh water. Most of what goes into such farms is wasted. Then you have to ship the output over large distances. Better to go vertical in my opinion.

[0] http://aerofarms.com/
Sure:

At a process level look at how researchers share anonymized data about patients in clinical trials for one example.

Technical solutions (some of which use cryptographic techniques) exist as well, many of which are described in Peter Wayner's book Translucent Databases: http://www.wayner.org/node/39
I also forgot, that I had to UPDATE THE EUFI/BIOS to get the fan to work after ACPI resume! The origional EUFI/BIOS was actually broken.
Yes. I don't know why more time isn't spent on this aspect. It would totally start competing with air travel at that point for sure. I travel all the time for work between cities 4 hours by car or 45 minutes by air. So car is slightly longer all in given fixed costs at airport on either end. But I would do it ALL the time if I didn't have to drive it myself!
I know almost nothing about Lidars and I was unable to find an answer to my question:

What happens if you have a few dozen Lidar-equipped cars in the same spot? Is there something like crosstalk, scatter or noise between the cars which result in Lidar artifacts?
Robot-proof your kids by teaching them to perform “unpredictable” jobs
Will 2017 Prove 'Blockchain' Was a Bad Idea?
> A non-self-driving car will (by definition) always be cheaper than a self-driving car

I don't think that's true at all. A self-driving car can save money on not having to have a steering wheel, pedals, hand-brake etc. Possibly even won't require airbags or seat belts if safety is improved massively

non-self driving cars could become expensive luxury cars
Just forward those emails to sp@mnesty.com[0] with your personal info removed from the subject and body.

You can also send abuse reports with the help of SpamCop[1].

And of course, if you use GMail/Google Inbox, marking them as spam also helps.

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[1]: http://spamcop.net/
"(ideally state owned and taxpayer funded)"

Why "ideally"? That would be a recipe for broken, dirty cars. People won't take care of government property (or property that doesn't belong to them in general). You don't usually see privately-owned cars driving around with ugly graffiti tags, nor do such cars typically smell of urine, the way that public buses and train cars often do.

With respect to cars specifically, ask anyone who's worked for a rental car company what kind of condition the cars often come back in. People abuse the crap out of rentals to the fullest extent they think they can get away with. This isn't specifically a modern phenomenon, either -- consider the old-time phrase "I'm going to beat him like a rented mule."
Yeah I agree with that. Although that's arguably similar for many high-end brands. I certainly know of Chanel, say, and even know their general history somehow, but I wouldn't recognise their products in a line-up with clothes from the cheapest high street stores.
Yes you can. You report it on oss-security mailing list and request a CVE and one will be assigned to you.
The strange connections we feel to people we follow online
Look into the history of Mantle, why Johan Andersson wrote the spec as it was, gamedev is a good place to start.
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Did you know that polkit, the systemd replacement of sudo, uses JavaScript to validate permissions?

This was the response: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-De...

systemd is a bomb waiting to go off, IMHO.
Really interesting comment (by TheRadicalModerate (cute handle)) attached to that IEEE Spectrum article.

Posits that we don't need each and every auto manufacturer to be building and developing these systems (sensors + AI). Just a handful or two of large players (and they need not necessarily be auto manufacturers themselves) all building and developing to minimum national standards.

Basically like the driver theory test these pieces of software must all pass the same criteria and standards. They can do better, they can set the bar higher for themselves, but there needs to be an pretty exhaustive check-list of compliance.

That way when you're buying a car you're not wondering which edge-case is going to get you or someone else killed.

There are going to be fatalities and injuries along the way, that's for sure, but so long as the number of fatalities and injuries is well below the current horrific rate this tech will be beyond revolutionary.
Are you certain that Chromium does this too? Because their documentation explicitly contradicts your statement: "This is done using the computer's normal DNS resolution mechanism; no connection to Google is used." Source - https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-pre...
Interesting. I do stick to Python 2 features, but put in some work to ensure my programs are valid Python 3. I'm not a very skilled Python developer, so the simplicity of that strategy is attractive.

One thing that I notice is that your project is a library, while mine is a program. I wonder if that also plays a role.
>Did you RTFA ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
InVision’s 2016 Digital Product Design Year in Review
That the first thing to build is trust. The disease that plagues companies is not communicating out of fear you'll get in trouble if something is broken or didn't get done. Build trust to counteract fear.
> While clients (probably) could ask for chunks in a chronological order and then get the data in a sequential manner [...]

Why probably? This is exactly how the immensely popular Popcorn Time worked.