skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish that cars had front brake lights so that pedestrians could see when a car is most likely stopping.
> They don't get "shocked", or hit the wrong pedal, and have faster reaction times.

Yes they do. You could perhaps argue they do so less.
"Google is an AI company, they just don't advertise the fact."
SoYouWanna write a business plan?
How do you eat out and still spend only 50 rupees on food? Here in Bangalore I'd be hard pressed to keep it under 100, and it usually reaches near 150 rupees.
I would prefer a open semantic web approach rather than a privately owned big database
I thought your ideal future was everyone riding bicycles ;)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699114
This is a great tool, I actually thought about something like this last year to share feedbacks on websites, but never got around to develop it. Bookmarked it, and I'll definitely use it.
You were a lot more confident that your app will go viral than I am about my apps :)

Have you launched similar stuff in past or was this your first shot at it?
And equally impossible to do in a way that is globally useful.
Correction: I realized that I might not be conveying it right.

Product is not yet another way to discover interesting things to read.

The moment you visit a URL, just as you are about to read it, the browser tells you that "hey, before you read this, this might actually be a waste of your time."
yes, I had an 8GB cheap stick (15 euro) that failed after some time. uploading worked for the firs 4gb or so, everything above that ended with an file size of zero or corrupted data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests
OK, kernel panics aside.

Unless they're using a random number generator seeded with outside data, all computer operation can be called deterministic and 100% predictable. Because it's 100% repeatable given identical preconditions. People? Not so / not currently doable.

If the wrong operation for a situation were performed, it'd be due to a higher-level decision going wrong, not the command. Meanwhile, people can "hit the brakes" (high-level command) and instead slam the accelerator (command not carried out). And fully believe they hit the brakes, and that the car accelerated uncontrollably.
They aren't hiding anything, they were combining three monocolor photographs into a color composite, but had to account for the time difference and the motion of the two planets. They posted the raw photos, there's nothing in them.

People need to quit jumping after shadows. The more people cry wolf, the less likely people are to believe it if a real conspiracy falls into their laps.
free: http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/

i think this is what stackoverflow uses
Buying and selling water is nothing new. Usually it is transported in agricultural products. (And pretty much any manufactured item, but the big use is agricultural products.)

This lets you do trivial substitution for a water deficit: import crops, grow less crops locally, drink the stuff you were about to pour on the crops you no longer have.
Agreed. Using Laura Ingles is completely arbitrary. What if you brought one of the first humans on North America around? What if you brought someone from 100 years ago?
I remember that guy too! that history was great. 35MB from russia it's amazing
Wholly agree. I just can't find any other info, and everything else is based off (hopefully) less precise data. Like hunches, or single-site polls, or who's-seen-what.
I'm granting that miles driven or number of cars on the road could go up, maybe way up. I'm just guessing, subject to actually doing the math, that increased efficiency and assumptions of reasonable limits on how much latent demand is actually out there could be sufficient to make time spent in cars, fuel consumption, emissions, or other metrics better regardless. Since we're using networking analogies, basically I'm guessing that current uncoordinated human-driven traffic is copper wire to an automated system's fiber-optic cable.

But again, it's just a guess, and I'd be the first to accept that I was wrong if the numbers didn't actually work out.
I've heard so many breakup stories recently that I'm starting to believe in many cases it's less risky to not have a co-founder and just get to the point where you can hire people.
Judge if your other co-founder brings value in terms of the business network with potential markets, partners or investors. If you feel that he is needed for the business to function then you should probably be looking to outsource the website. Since you have paying customers for your project, you can do a simple A/B test by announcing that you are going to release the feature in question and provide a sign up/ i am interested form. You can tell be the number of customers who would be interested in the feature versus your existing customer base.

If you genuinely feel that the non-tech co-founder is not bringing enough value to the table, you must probably be looking at buying out part or whole of the stake. However, I suggest that you get knowledge of the other aspects of the business such as accounting, tax filing norms and such. Most of the other stuff, you can find others to handle for you without parting with your equity.
Did the OP say anything about people needing to pay to use his product? Would you pay to use facebook? Probably not, but they have hundreds of millions of users. "using" is a good first step to know whether you should pursue something at all. Figuring out how to monetize is next step - users paying directly may just be one method.
I'm not a statistician, but something about that doesn't sound right to me.
Didn't Eric Schmidt say they'd know what you want even before you did? So no thinking required!
I shared his post at HN and he landed a job on Zendesk
I can drive a car with no driver, no driver, no driver... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA

Well it's a good song anyway, even if it isn't talking about an AI... yet.
Not necessarily. His cofounder may simply be oblivious to his level of concern. Until he's sat down and said "I'm not happy with A, B and C and if I can't get satisfactory resolution I'm going to have to stop doing this" (perhaps leave out the ultimatum part at first) then it's premature to either fight or run.
Just in case somebody doubts the amazing community HN is, I posted Rodrigo's twitter proposal last week and now he has a job at Zendesk.
This especially scares me as a cyclist. I'm sure they'll put a lot of effort into preventing automated cars from hitting other vehicles or slow-moving pedestrians. Now what about bicycles traveling around 20 mph in the right-hand side of the lane?

Many people seem to neglect or completely fail to understand the risk of increased perception of safety leading to an overall decreased safety in these systems. We can't have the best of both worlds – a machine's constant attention and reaction time coupled with a human driver's intuition – because the moment you give him an autopilot that he thinks will keep him out of trouble, the human sits back and stops paying attention to the road.

These automated systems may eventually become all-around better than any human driver, but it will be take many iterations to get there, and the first versions will certainly lack a human's ability to anticipate trouble before it arises. It will be a long while before an autopilot can say "hey, that car ahead is weaving unnervingly, the driver might be drunk so I should keep my distance" or "the cars ahead of me are curving slightly to the left, there might be a cyclist riding on the shoulder so I should slow down a bit and do likewise." And until we have that level of automation, I'm afraid our roads are about to become a lot more dangerous.
It's worth noting that they are already starting to do this in very small ways. Many high end cars will now automatically apply the brakes if you get too close to the car in front of you on the highway, for example.
The physical world is never going to fit one taxonomy neatly, let alone the conceptual one.
True of course, but I meant "does the fact that he is a physicist and not a climatologist affect the implication that he is being funded to spread disinformation?". The original article does not proclaim any particular theory on Global Warming. Rather, it criticizes the process by which science is being politicized. This strikes me as a matter for which any scientist should be allowed to speak.

I take offense at the notion that anyone who would want to question the process can be presumed to be acting out of pecuniary interest rather than a desire to find truth. So I ask again: Daniel, are you claiming that Hal Lewis and at least some of the 200 people who signed his petition are being paid to do so?
When a police officer indicates you must stop your car, you don't really have a choice currently. They doubtlessly will do their best to force you to stop, and if you choose not to, you will be chased, possibly collided with, and will likely end up with a gun pointed at you. As far as what happens after you do stop without causing an incident, you do have a choice, somewhat.

I do agree that this could create an environment where authority is in absolute control of the movements of citizens, a power which could (and surely would) be abused.
Silly name, silly company, silly product?
No, the poster didn't say whether or not he was selling a product. But generally, if you have to ask an audience if they'd use your hypothetical free product - you're doing it wrong.
So, like gun control, will a coming political battle be for 'auto control'?
Learning JavaScript in small bites, Part 1
Are you saying that I was doing it the wrong way the whole time? :D

I mean, you really can't make that a rule. I read (and re-read) important mails, I guess I'm not the only one, am I ?
I'd just like to add that Scott was by far the best speaker I saw at RailsConf '09.

A lot of great hackers/founders are dry and boring presenters. They could learn a lot from watching him.
Why? Because They Can
I still believed (or hope) that semantic web is the future of Internet.

If a very particular industry willing to open up their data in standard and extensible format (may be RDF or a simpler standard), like film theater listing their showtimes or governments release their statistical data in RDF rather than Excel only, many useful application could be developed on it and it is a big step towards semantic web already. And I think it is not too hard to do.
truly a great story and a great company. Congrats and keep up the blog posts!
Can you add a link to your original posting?
Even discounting buggy software; think hardware, wiring. It is quite possible that a malfunction will take place (they do, constantly).

I could go for "fully computerised traffic would be significantly safer than human traffic", but absolutes about the former being unfailing are just silly.
Had to upvote for the Jay-Z lyrics son!
http://elegant.ly/ is a great resource for finding designers. I have had a lot of success with the site.
Fake, if I'm not mistaken. I think the guy did a series of videos like this.
Windows Phone 7: the best choice for Patent Trolls.
Yes, it would be very useful for that as well as troubleshooting server responses (to test for things like caching, bugs, stuff like that).
This is neat but it sort of seems kind of trivial to solve. I guess it's interesting to see the different possibilities but if you are allowed to write some kind of program then it's just totally trivial.
Another way to look at it is you've been in 3 major accidents and survived all of them, so it may be that the chances of having a fatal accident may be lower than you thought?
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How to Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire: The Credit Card Concierge Experiment
My thoughts exactly.

I'm addicted to wi-fi in the same way that I'm addicted to electricity and running water.
If a major blockage is the idea that something isn't possible, then, "if I just try hard enough, I'll succeed," might indeed win the day. If what is important is skill and technique, then training might win the day. I suspect it's not one or the other all the time, rather it's one or the other depending on context.

That said, at the last moment or in a crisis, training is most likely to win out, but even this is not absolute.

Artillery crews were once trained to stay by their cannon to defend them at all costs. However, it was noted that in the face of counter-battery fire, most of the time the artillery onsite would all still function while the entire crew might be killed. (Guns being made of metal while people are made of red squishy stuff.) In this case, the training was wrong and those who went with their gut feelings (run like hell and take cover) were actually doing the right thing. Taking cover under counter-battery fire became the new training norm.
List Central was the first go at it. The second go is in stealth. It definitely has a price!
the decision to upgrade to the 260.xx nvidia drivers has been made exactly because earlier drivers have a performance issues related to text rendering (the most likely culprit of high cpu usage when using terminal).
You could try changing hinting and smoothing options to see if that helps.
Or you could just use nouveau - it got really nice in last 12 months or so.
This is the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752256

Oh, and thanks Sosa!
In families with such large numbers of kids, it seems it is often the older kids who at some point start to be charged with looking after the younger ones so, yeah it's "doable" but the parents aren't doing it all.
I was doing some low level tech support for an on campus group during college. I set up a simple samba network share for everyone to trade documents on and then set up a really simple backup system. (daily diffs burned to cd, weekly full copies on an external moved off site).

However I couldn't convince one of the departments to use it. Their manager insisted that it was insecure (since i, as admin, would have access to their data). so instead they traded data back and forth on 2 flash drives.

Needless to say, one day they lost a ton of work on one of the drives and i was told to recover the data....

i don't do tech support anymore...
Don't ask them if they'd use your solution, ask them if they have your problem.
ATI released new drivers that are compatible with 1.9, working fine for me here so far. Can't wait till the free software drivers get good evergreen support and I can dump the proprietary pain.
I had a 2GB Sony drive fail on me right as I was about to back it up. Worked on one machine, took it out, plugged it into another machine and it was dead.
It's ok: I only drink Coke Zero.
yes certainly nothing to the degree of fighting/stress/legal threats but op should be assertive in the initial conversation imho
The $10,000 Odyssey
"Google is the next Microsoft"
I think this statement is wrong. Google and Microsoft are similar in that they fail to deliver a small range of specifically engineered products like Facebook or Apple. Buzz and Wave were failures but Gmail, Maps, Adwords, and Adsense have been hugely successful. With today's announcement of their AI driven autos I think you can say that Google is exploring and innovating in variety of areas that Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft cannot compete in. Would love to hear peoples' thoughts.
I think this statement is wrong. Google and Microsoft are similar in that they fail to deliver a small range of specifically engineered products like Facebook or Apple. Buzz and Wave were failures but Gmail, Maps, Adwords, and Adsense have been hugely successful. With today's announcement of their AI driven autos I think you can say that Google is exploring and innovating in variety of areas that Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft cannot compete in. Would love to hear peoples' thoughts.
For all the sexiness that is the idea of automated cars, there is one fatal flaw: way more people are going to be driving drunk. Yes, eventually, maybe the tech is good enough that it won't matter what state you're in, but for now there should be a human operator there for emergencies; one that is able to respond quickly and isn't intoxicated.
The parent seems simpler. More importantly, it works on just about any Unix.
And that doesn't count the incredible number of serious-but-not-fatal accidents which surely cause much injury.
What about:

find / -type f -perm +x | xargs chmod -x

EDIT: chmod has to be the last program to be chmodded, in the above list.. :-)
martin, modified the landing page along with a sign-up page. please sign-up if you are interested.
hi, modified the landing page along with a sign-up form. sign-in if you are interested. :-)
I have made it a custom to stay one release behind with Ubuntu Desktop. When the next version is released (11.04?) I'll upgrade to 10.10. For servers I only use LTS versions.
East Palo Alto or West Palo Alto?
hi, i am going ahead with the first idea of contests for apps. started with a landing page http://www.appstowin.com , sign up if you are interested.
Its not hash tags, it's a combination of several data points
I'd like to know how often the human drivers have had to take over.
Also, there are really good free alternatives: googletest/gmock supports Windows, linux, and (I think) Mac.

The interesting feature appears to be 'Test "untestable" code such as statics, globals and non-virtual methods.'

I'm not sure how/if this could be done within vanilla C++, though maybe you could write a GCC/clang plugin to allow hooking of everything.
I read this backward the first time, because the way you say it really doesn't make any sense.

Police need a reason to pull you over, and a car that's autonomously driven by a computer that won't allow it to drive at an illegal speed or unsafe manner is essentially immune to routine traffic stops. Provably so, because it has telemetry and video demonstrating that it's done nothing wrong.

So unless you manage to get the model with the broken tail light, these cars will actually make the police less happy because they can't pull people over randomly anymore.
Iwata: Don't chalk up poor software sales to piracy
Once everything runs in JS, the browser will become the defacto write-once, run-anywhere platform...
My zero-equity co-founders
"Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771607
I'm in, except that I don't have an idea for an app.
Doubt it. When this system becomes commonplace, the most common traffic violation will be operating a vehicle in manual-only mode.
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I'm an avid cyclist. I think I'd prefer a deterministic, law abiding driver to the average human.

What makes me feel unsafe are the drivers who break the law (you don't know who you are) and the drivers who hate cyclists and pass us as closely as possible, throw bottles at us, etc (you do know who you are).

What makes me feel unsafe is the unpredictability. I would expect a computer would just follow the rules exactly and be very easy to bike around.
That person you talked to doesn't know what he is talking about. You'll both fail for entirely different reasons. Coffee shops are better than street corners btw. Leave Palo Alto if you want a better slice of real people.
"Anyway, I rather hope I'm wrong. I'd really like to drink my coffee and read during my commute as my car drives me to work."

I was struck by this comment, because I do this every day...by riding the train. Automated cars, flying cars, double-decker highways, etc. are fantastic innovations, but I sometimes wonder if we couldn't do better than the car, at least in terms of our regular commuting. I ride my bike and take the train because I have that option where I live and I love it.
As a corollary, I thought it naive that the author thought that there shouldn't be some kind of rate limiting in the UI.

If there wasn't, one could reverse engineer the API calls that the UI makes, in order to gain access to un-limited calls.

A good lesson for developers - even though you may have a developer API, you should still consider your public interface as an API, because it can (and will) be reverse engineered.

Even better - use exactly the same, publicly accessible APIs in your front-end!
I wasn't making a value judgment, just wondering out loud. I thought it was going to be a new app for my phone ;)
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Plus they ask for an email address/password during registration which nullifies any possible gain of a quick registration.

You can unlink any both Facebook and Twitter after registration.
If only 5th Cell released Objectnaut, they'd have a great start!
I don't think the point was the pipelining itself, but how it interacts with google's handling of variability in response times.
Thanks, I missed it.
iphone, ipad html5 version http://m.ba.net/util/panoramic
FGM
I commute via bike in good weather and train in bad weather, but that option isn't available for many people, nor for many potential trips. The problem with trains is that the whole train goes on one route, so if you want to go elsewhere, you need to change trains, and have all the extra hassle and delay of switching trains and waiting for another train (and of course, there are many places that aren't served by subways, or are served only by commuter trains that come only once an hour).

In a car, you can choose your own route, which makes a lot more routes feasible to do in a reasonable amount of time. Plus, in an automated car, you can spend your entire trip reading and drinking coffee, instead of having the walk to and from the train, trying to juggle your coffee and umbrella and laptop all while trying to hurry to catch the train.
> The market is the only mechanism that can allocate scarce resources equitably.

The market allocates according to ability/willingness to pay. This is perfectly fine in general, but doesn't work so well when "ability" enters the picture for something considered a necessity.
Scribd is actually pretty cool, with some great tech behind it (yes, occasional bugs). Though I vehemently disagree with some of their business decisions. The idea of charging for download of other people's content just seems wrong. Ads = fine, charging for downloads = bad.
I know we're talking hypothetical percentages here, but if the automated car is right/safe in 99% of driving circumstances, how much help do you think a human will be? It's not as if humans are right 100% of the time. I'd gander we're closer to 97% or so, or possibly even less.

It seems to me, at some point, computers will easily out drive humans.
Or, more substantively, does the climate science field really look like something that has endless funding? If that were the case, then they'd be limited by manpower, not money.

Colleges and universities would be going all-out to attract talent to climate science programs, in order to be able to staff lots of grants and get the fountains of government cash. Promising high school students would be treated like football stars, with no NCAA limits on gifts, in order to fill undergrad programs. Graduate programs would likewise be dangling cars and sex in front of top undergrads.

Universities would be building Taj Mahal climate science research facilities, the better to hold all those grad students and get the fat grants from the government.

I don't really see that happening.

Nor does anyone actually think climate science is "where the money is". Why would anyone waste time on HN if there were trillions of dollars, or even hundreds of billions, flowing into climate science?

Even big science projects like the National Ignition Facility that approach $10 billion only do so over the course of many years.