skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Levandowski is probably going to come out of this really well. Uber, not so much. Google's LIDAR technology is obsolete spinning-scanner gear, mostly from Velodyne. It's something you'd use on an experimental vehicle, not a production one. The production LIDAR systems are coming, they're all solid state, and they come from big auto parts makers like Delphi and Continental. So by the time the Uber case gets to trial, it will be moot.

Levandowski already got his money. Waymo could sue him, but what are the damages? Google isn't selling anything, so they can't show impact on their sales volume. (Neither is Uber. Uber's venture into self-driving is probably more to pump up the valuation than to provide a real service, anyway.)

I'm beginning to think that self-driving will be a feature that comes from auto parts companies. You need sensors and actuators, which come from auto parts companies. You need dashboard units, which come from auto parts companies. You need a compute unit, which is just a ruggedized computer packaged for automotive conditions, something that comes from auto parts companies. You need software, which may come from a number of sources. This may not be all that disruptive a technology.
I completely agree. I think people like Zuck and Gates are better off doing work via the private sector and philanthropy.

Also, regarding the types of people he's meeting. Yes, they are people one would expect a politician to meet with while campaigning. However, given our past election I don't think it's surprising that a man as intelligent as Zuck would want to meet them. He seems to genuinely care in his mission statement, even though I believe he's out of touch, and this tour does truly make sense as it is stated.
This is very clever. I'd like to be able to "guard" my account by declining certain transactions, even if I made them willingly or agreed to have them scheduled.
I think the difference here is that you see recharging as "not doing work" while the person you are responding to sees it as part of a natural work cycle.
I assume the biggest motivation for Google is not hurting or controlling Uber but preventing this kind of thing from happening again.

I assume there are a lot of people working for Google who are experts in the tech they helped create but no longer owners of that tech. By that token, Google would really try hard to keep this sort of person from leaving with their tech.
Your not gonna be able to deal with what the current situation has pivoted to and more than likely your collegues from the OG Group feel the same, I would approach management and if they arent willing to address the issue then get out of there. Your skills are in demand and in this industry you need to siwtch jobs every 2 years anyways if you want to increase your salary significantly.
Heh. I still find CSGO horribly addictive after 16+ years off and on CS games and I attribute it to CS's core mechanics being so great. It's not an "experience" like the most recent Battlefield but the gameplay carries it.

Onward is a vanilla game that's improved because of the "experience" of VR (and yes, it's very cool), but I'd take better gameplay any day. The game that finally combines gameplay with VR, that'll be exciting.
Alright, let's make a different statement on simulator sickness:

In the last two years, I've personally demoed thousands of people in VR, in a wide variety of experiences. In that time, one--maybe two--got sick. And it was mild discomfort. It wasn't keeling over, puking blood in the streets like every tech journalist begging for clicks makes it out to be. I know a lot more people with problems handling shaky camera views in movies and first-person shooters on consoles.
Related to the "Google Docs" phishing scam ?
Emacs has had both shell completion popups (via Helm) and a better git UI (magit) for a number of years now.
> Is this hackathon an attempt to capture IP in any way?
> Is this hackathon a poorly disguised recruiting event?

No. This is fully independent.

I want people to feel good afterward and not feel used.
I would recommend "Productive habits" for iOS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/productive-habits-daily-goal...

It's very clean and flexible.
ECMAScript modules are now supported in all modern browsers (with proper flag)
It's not your business strategy today. It's your business strategy next year when you need to get more users and/or get more money per user.
I just did 5 days at a resort with no working of any kind. Didn't even check email. Came back, went to the office for a day and now feel as terrible as I did before leaving.

5 days always worked for me before. Is there such a thing as permanent burn out?
Probably the same euphemism that has chicken in the fried chicken / beef in the burger?

Don't bother with it in London, elsewhere go where the locals are. A busy fish and chip shop in a small town is probably best, rather than a pub or a takeaway that also sells pizza/chicken/kebab.

I don't live in the UK any more, but last time I visited the fish and chip shop in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. Highly recommended :)
Mysterious Moving Rocks in the Desert Stumped Scientists for 70 Years
Supplemental Material with bunch of other examples: https://liaojing.github.io/html/data/analogy_supplemental.pd...
BitMover/BitKeeper. Nice idea but too late, the market has gone to git.

Which chaps my hide, git is an awful design, it's a tarball server pretending to be a source management system. Source management is basically an accounting program for programmers, it's suppose to faithfully log what you do. How does git do that when it has no concept of a file? Answer: it guesses about renames. And blame is slow because there are no file create or file delete events.

It was trivial for us to create a bk fast-export command and make it work incrementally. It's next to impossible to do it the other way incrementally because git doesn't have a versioned file object.

It's like a file system that has no inodes. To me, it makes no sense. But it won. Yeah. Not.
On mobile (my phone) the ads are within the flow of the article, which at first confused me because each ad is nearly a full screen. On desktop it is way better.
Yes, I am used to it from my day-to-day job. I probably don't test every edge-case as I do in my job, but it just saves me time and brain capacity (at least I have the feeling that the coding part in TDD is the easy one).
Just did a search, and if this site is correct, tundli is indeed the ivy gourd:

http://www.indian-cooking.info/Expert/Indian-To-English-Term...
Awesome work! Are there plans to incorporate Flow definitions as an alternative to the __assumeDataProperty helpers?

Edit: Looks like this is targeting compiler output, so Flow types would typically be gone by that stage. Integration with Flow could come via a babel plugin that emits `__assumeDataProperty()` when it encounters a convertible Flow type.
Yeah. I hope I will be able to pick one up for roughly the price they announced here. I could see this getting bumped up to $300+ from people buying just to resell!
JavaScript: how to bind properties into your css?
It depends on the kind of code you're writing, and where it is in its lifecycle.

Briefly:

* Humans can determine if your code does what it's supposed to.

* Automated tests can keep your code stable, i.e. make sure it doesn't change.

If you care about correctness you want manual testing and code review. If you care about stability you want automated testing like unit tests.

If you care about both correctness and stability you need both kinds of testing.

Personally I've mostly written libraries, where stability is very important, so yes, lots of unit tests.

Longer version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/03/26/why-how-test-softwar...
It's the same in the US
Controllermate at least can prevent the normal keypresses from registering for the OS (it's actually tampering with all the HID devices, via its .kext - your comfort level with that will vary, of course). Otherwise, yes, I can imagine that having the odd "6" inserted into the text of the active window could get old.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238786
I feel like I am in a very similar situation. Was lucky to work in a tight, high energy environment with real risk and spirited people for a couple of years. Now the growth is out of control and I don't know half the people in there. Employees are fighting for positions and roles under clueless management and it has become a soulles dull hell hole in a short year. The positive thing here is realizing what matters most to me. I don't care about money that much, and I'm not so sure it even matters to me what I do for a living as long as I experience that drive again. Thank you for posting the original post
PGConf US Local: Philly 2017
That's a very sensible comment, I should have expanded a bit more. I do not think that the mechanism I described is the only one influencing hunger.

Another, as you said, is our craving for sugary/fatty/salty things and the means to control this type of hunger are completely different (for example fasting).
https://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Tamashii-Nations-Vehicle-Chogo...

I prefer real scale models over Lego
Study Finds Gender Bias in Open-Source Programming
Some quality journalists are live tweeting the proceedings from inside the courtroom. Getting some great updates in real time:

https://twitter.com/CSaid

https://twitter.com/Priyasideas

https://twitter.com/inafried

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac
> Upcoming generations see Youtubers as their idols. It sounds stupid on the surface, but the ability to play a perfect game of Pacman wouldn't be the worst thing to bet on if you wanted to take over some big media company. Even if you don't have a tech billionaire stacking the deck.

Except talented players are not the most popular youtubers. The best pac-man player in the world is famously unpleasant.

> Like finding startup ideas, I don't think the killer VR app is going to come about from someone looking for killer VR apps. It's going to start as something silly done by the people messing around with VR today.

This is true. Most VR feels gimmicky to me now, but the best VR experience I've seen was 3d video with extremely well-calibrated audio. For some reason, that was the big difference for me, but I doubt anyone would have predicted that to be the case.
They still sell big ol' buckets of Legos:
http://www.target.com/s/lego+creative+bucket+10662
Tyler Cowen’s stubborn philosophical attachments
MisterBastahrd : r/cubancigars :: Zuck : Facebook
Do you mean 'proprioception'?

Btw, I'm working on something that I think has some relation to Gibson's vision of cyberspace—just the '3D information sorting' part though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvfMthDInwE (that video is very outdated unfortunately, but here's a newer screenshot: http://symbolflux.com/images/avdscreen.png)
Just to clarify #2 - I read that as meaning that liquidity is a reason for banks to like the move away from physical cash. Why customers like it is clearly security, though, you're right.
Sorry, my comment was ambiguous -- I was referring to the Google result. Thanks for pointing it out. The commenter that I was responding to made a great point that I agree with and was highlighting as a particularly good example of ML gone awry in the wild.

Other than the subjective statement that quarters are "useful", every fact in the google response is wrong.

Quarters are:

- Worth $0.25 (not $0.50)

- Not the largest. (Dollar coins and half-dollars are larger)

- Made of a blend of copper and nickel. (No silver content for circulating coins)

The picture depicts a standing liberty quarter that is no longer a circulating coin.

It's amazing that Google would put that in production.
If you're interested in being financially independent, I would take a look at the following article:

https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/12/07/the-ultimate-guide...

They look at the 4% rule, what it's based on, and see if it's actually valuable for those looking into early retirement.
Interesting how it's not feasible to rescue her right now but it's possible to be in contact using a sat phone. Wonder how she is doing on her provisions: water is abundant around her but as ice, so she needs heat to recover it... but food? Did she had provisions for those many days ?
amend the constitution to ban jews from running for president

jews are a security risk

jews are loyal to israel, not the usa

judaism is essentially organized crime with some tall tales

jews are criminals and sadistic thugs

they will destroy the USA if you let them
I have that Falcon, it's pretty cool and I agree that the Saturn V here is a super great value.
> if the purchaser don't have any documents

But it's not the purchaser who is suing - it's the original owner, who already got paid.

So why is he suing to get paid again, or get a car back that's not actually his?
Fraud fraud fraud. These are 99% pump and dump schemes.
I think it's important to understand that Dreyfus doesn't think that AI is not possible, but that it's not possible via computation, i.e. computers. He considers consciousness and understanding as emergent properties, not something you can code. He also used Heidegger's concept of Dasein, "being in the world" as Dreyfus translated it, and argued that such being can't be programmed.
One issue with VR is the market is so small, the quality of even the best games is relatively low. Onward is basically made by one person, and although you cannot directly compare Onward's development with Rainbow 6 in 1998, mostly because of easy and cheap availability of 3D engines and assets, the original Rainbow 6 had a significantly larger team, budget and sold roughly 10x (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Rainbow_Six_(vi... Onward has sold so far(http://steamspy.com/app/496240)...

This might be an unfixable flaw in the VR market, but really all of this stuff seems like good business opportunities to me. If what people want out of VR is cheaper, better hardware and better games, and there isn't a fundamental flaw with the concept of VR, of course.
> The process is "panicking", but it is still reliable enough to post a message to Slack? Even writing a log entry

Well.. most likely yes. If I invoke panic, all state is exactly as it was just prior to that statement. And even if not, it's not gonna "launch the missiles" if that slack post or log-write fails now, is it?

> Even writing a log entry might be too much

"Too much", how? Either it succeeds in which case it'll help you, or it won't which has the same result as not attempting it in the first place: no log entry..
Not sure what a "three headed fund" is, but the sample you gave would diversify out of the US, assuming the 25% bond fund doesn't just hold US debt.

You really shouldn't care about the number of funds you hold, assuming you don't take it to extreme levels, just that you don't hold only exposure to one country.
skodas are decent cars, it's just they are priced too high compared to Korean or even some Japanese brands which are better in all aspects
Wow it's rare and also great you know how to write for both platforms. I'm focusing more on React Native because I don't know any Java...
I really like all of this. In particular I wish there was a way of setting your own fraud prevention constraints instead of having the bank try and figure out what your patterns are. I assume they don't because they're afraid of Average Joe disabling everything because they're annoyed and know the card company will reimburse it all anyway.
There are no good AR headsets right now. The Hololens doesn't have enough field of view, processing power, or battery to make it very useful, especially not as a development computer of any kind. And while the Meta 2 is tethered to a PC, it's also garbage. I'm not aware of any others that its actually possible to acquire right now.
Under tough surveillance, China's cybercriminals find creative ways to chat
Thanks!

One thing good came out of it, so the indie translation on the book 5 made the 'blessed' translator work around the clock. She has to release her unfinished translations as they came out. She wasn't sure how to translate "The Order of Phoenix" and got it wrong for half of the book (order ~ the order came out of the phoenix's mouth) and then they had to change the translation halfway through (order ~ the group with hierarchy).

We were very quick to realize that was the wrong translation. I was surprised (and somewhat pleased/impressed) that the publisher/official translator didn't refer to what we did to avoid that mistake.
Node.js and MongoDB Simple Example
The disruptiveness is measured by the effect, not the effort.
Biking in drizzle isn't hard or all that dangerous, and if it's not drizzling too much is pretty fun (it keeps you cool).

Biking in sub-freezing weather and snow is entirely different.

Does Cleveland even have any bike lanes?

Interesting how you call people who seek practical, comfortable weather "trend seekers", and you seem to think that enduring brutal winters is normal.
I agree with you and expect experiences to get better as the industry learns.

With nothing to back this up, I think the VR headset is a mass market item at $400 (or the price of a console) and better tech (mainly lighter headset, slightly improved panels). I guess with that belief the question is will the industry continue to subsidize those hardware improvements while developers figure things out? Or perhaps VR hardware will improve regardless of gaming success.
Lets not forget ruining two perfectly fine rubber plunger, if you did it DIY.
Yes, what we see is that it seems to be very focused on groups and not so much brands. The only real advantage we see is that it should help SEO on our website, but not much more.
I'm sorry, but in what reality is this "political dishonesty" "blowing back"? The ACA has overwhelming support in most US populations by a wide margin.

So everyone has to pay into insurance including people who don't use it normally.

That's. The. Point.
>re-generated by the JS each time the page loaded.

yes, regenerated because js files are also stored. So the menu
generating functions and all constants needed to generate menus were probably present in downloaded js files. But imagine, site that is also fetching data via ajax and render that data somehow. When you save and then reopen saved page, you might not get exact state as you were in time of saving. There are many reason why state would be different (you could be logged off, etc...) So if you send saved page to somebody, he/she will see different state of page than you. All of this could be eliminated if browsers saved state of DOM instead of page source code (and js,css resources).
WordLift 3.12 released
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> The easiest way to guard against "all" malicious input is write a vague law without clauses that demand mens reas, which means that regardless of whether or not you knowingly broke the law, by violating its provisions, you automatically did.

Most criminal laws have a mens rea component (strict liability is rare), but almost none of them have a requirement of knowing that the act was illegal. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" is not limited to strict liability offenses.
Brutal winters and high crime rate, what else? Of course, there's lots of other problems like decrepit infrastructure (like the water pipes in Flint nearby), and I seriously doubt there's any kind of nice downtown area to walk around in like in nicer cities. I hear the suburbs are OK, but that doesn't exactly make me want to live someplace.

Basically, AFAICT, Detroit sounds like someplace that would be OK if all you wanted was to live in the suburbs and never leave your house, and you have zero interest in outdoor activities, and don't care about going to nice restaurants downtown. The crime downtown is terrible, there's huge stretches of abandoned neighborhoods, the winters are horribly cold; I honestly don't know why anyone would want to live there. The location surely made sense a century ago back when shipping on the Great Lakes was a big thing and the location was sensible for manufacturing and shipping reasons, but those reasons are all gone now.
Why you should learn graphics programming
Build yourself a Linux
>Texas is quite nice, and has great weather.

No, it doesn't. It's hot. And the people are conservative; nothing nice about that.
Show HN: I built a bot to remind me of what topic I should revise next
maybe i was not clear, there is no need to show participants at all, they would be fine with love text chat, you only need one video stream of trainee, which would be very cheap, they could even use Youtube
In simplest terms that don't depend too heavily on philosophical references or terminology, I believe he means the philosophical task shouldn't be to prove a thing is or isn't, but that a thing could be—that a set of plausible explanations exist or could exist to provide enough convincing power that a given system of thought or a different state of affairs is not impossible to conceive of or consider capable of existing.
> My one and only point is that lying to your employer, to set yourself up so that you can somehow get through your low-points, means you are either in the wrong job or in the wrong profession.

Not everybody is still young in this field. Some of us have learned some "tactics" on how to handle with other humans.
When I was younger and more inexperienced, I also thought that pure honesty would be rewarded with pure honesty from the other side. As long as you do things with the best of intentions, I guess some sensitivity to human conditions is a better long term approach..

I'm not really disagreeing with you, it's just that things are not so simple as you put them. If it's for you, great, but for the other 90%, it's not..
We may just have different approaches to this sort of thing.

My personal experience has been that my VR development PC, which cost me around $1200 in the fall, has been great. I opted for parts just below the top of the line because I thought that would be the sweet spot. (I opted for a GTX 1070 rather than a 1080 for example). I have had no issues so far, but perhaps over the longer term I'll wish I had opted for the top of the line build. That is not the case yet. I see your point about buying for the long term savings rather than needing to upgrade every year. I haven't yet had issues with that but that may be true over a longer period of time.

Additionally, if you choose to buy a PC prebuilt rather than building it yourself it costs a lot more so your price range becomes more accurate than my estimates. That said if I were to give a cost estimate to someone who wanted to get a PC for VR development I'd tell them they can build a PC that can run everything for around $1200 USD and it would be completely adequate for development work for at least a year or two. As someone pointed out above that doesn't include the headsets, so the whole endeavour is still quite expensive.
Ready Player One nailed the only use case that might be a game changer for VR: remote schools.

Edison thought education would be the killer app for the phonograph. Zworykin thought it would be the killer app for TV. The One Laptop Per Child people thought it would be the killer app for laptops. The tablet people thought it would be the killer app for tablets.

Education doesn't seem to be a technology problem. Would Udacity or Coursera be better with VR? Probably not.
To be fair, Texas isn't really part of the "Deep South", and isn't really known to be as backwards and racist as places like MS, AL, etc.
Hah, nice. Love it.