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They tried. Boston Dynamics developed the Legged Squad Support System, a bigger, miltarized Big Dog, for DARPA and the USMC. It worked, and was field-tested at some Marine bases. There's video of this.[1] Troops said it was too noisy and not worth the hassle. DARPA dropped the project. There was supposed to be a subcontractor to build them a custom Diesel power pack, but that apparently didn't work out, and they had to go with the noisy gas engine version.
It took about $120M to get to that point. Boston Dynamics was entirely a DoD contractor from the beginning to the Google buyout, and DARPA was very patient in funding them.

I used to follow this stuff closely. Back in the 1990s I figured out how to do slip control for legged running across rough terrain, which requires something like "ABS for legs" to control slip. I have a patent on that, and that was used by the McGill legged robot in Canada. I was thinking high-end toys, like Aibo, or the humanoid Aibo that never came out as a product. But that market segment went nowhere. I could never see a business model for this.
I met the designer of the Furby and found out what costs were like for that. No way were we going to get legged running down to toy pricing.

Today, you could probably build a good running robot toy today for the $2K Sony is charging for their new Aibo, if you could sell a few hundred thousand. The compute power required isn't that high. Big Dog runs on a Pentium-class machine running QNX, with the balance servo loop running at 100Hz and the hydraulic valve control loops running at 1KHz. Batteries and motors are way ahead of where they were in the 1990s. Boston Dynamics' new smaller robots finally got rid of the hydraulics. All this is much easier to do than it used to be.

When Google bought all those robotics companies, I thought big things were going to happen. Then we didn't hear anything for years. People in robotics thought they must have a big secret project underway. Turned out that Google had no clue what to do with all that robotics expertise. Maybe Softbank will come up with something.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY42w1w0TWk
My 'affiliation' with NewsBlocks (I'm the founder and CEO actually) has zero to do with this topic. Are you suggesting that you would add another downvote simply because it is an ICO?
I think infantry is the only answer, really. The army still finds it really essential to have lots of guys walking around on two legs, who can go anywhere their opponents can go. And often carrying a serious weight, because having stuff with you is very useful.

They have lots of tracked things and flying things too, obviously. All of which will be ever more automated, too.

I can see other niches, like carrying wounded hikers out of canyons where you can't fly, but agree that hardly sounds like a billion-dollar industry. Industrial uses I'm more dubious, I mean any warehouse already has a nice flat concrete floor... lots of uses for vision etc. but not so much for walking.
I mean, afaict nomad uses docker to orchestrate docker containers...
2FA with SMS was a standout weird choice from Apple. I hope they discourage that quickly with a better alternative.
I guess it depends on how often you drive through areas with no cell phone coverage.
I don't think the issue here is so much the data (which is anonymized), but the conflict of interest. I know conflict of interest is par for the course in China, but for the individuals who made the decision that this startup should be given exclusive access to the data to then be given stakes in the startup is clearly a conflict. Doubling that conflict is the fact that they work for a non-profit, which has tax-preferred status and also received a stake in the startup.

Let me make an analogy here: I advise several startups and am given shares in those companies in return for my time. A few of them make software or sell solutions that the company I work for could use. At my company I can influence whether or not we use these startups as a vendor. It is clearly unethical for me to be involved in any decision that pertains to a company where I hold an ownership stake. It would also be unethical for me to take an ownership stake after I was involved in a negotiation with those companies. I would disclose and recuse myself from any such decision. That's without adding the extra (legal) wrinkle around non-profit status, which doesn't pertain.
To quote Catch-22 from hazy memory: "The men don't have to sign Pilchard and Wren's loyalty oath if they don't want to, but I need you to starve them if they don't."
Feeling the pain would already be a good start :-). With a lot of Javascript projects being very short term a lot of people never get the experience of maintaining a code base for years.
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The importance of using a reliable registrar can't be overstated. tierra.net looks like a small company, without 24hr support, and with an abandoned social media presence. Why would a company with 40M users use a tiny registrar to save 2 bucks on a domain name?
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ING in Germany uses login tokens IIRC and HSBC globally uses SecureID soft or hard tokens.
The KPTI Meltdown fixes mean that interrupt handling _is_ paging on a lot of chips out there.
This might be a bit of a stretch, but powered by the right legal team, they could very likely acquire a ton of very valuable patents that become relevant as the technology reaches a more mature state.

These robots aren't just innovations in bi/quad-pedal technology, they are making major advancements in gyroscopic monitoring, lidar, and many other areas.
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This makes sense for enterprise uses where an organization wants to keep private key material off a server, but don't want to spend the money for a enterprise security key manager.
yep, infantry seems like the obvious application. wasnt BD funded by darpa?
How do they offer SEPA transactions without TAN codes?
Like iOS 12 very promising overall from the sound of it, and a genuine step forward from previous years in the fundamentals of speed and stability just as they promised to work towards. One continuing (though not new at all to the release) disappointment I have with Apple though:

>The end of OpenGL and OpenCL on the Mac

A solid summary of the situation, but to me where Apple really deserves blame there is not having MoltenGL and MoltenVK (and perhaps some theoretical MoltenCL too) as 1st party projects. I completely understand them wanting their own directly writable and controlled low level graphics language and having that be the interface layer. They are pretty vertically integrated and are now even doing their own GPUs, but even before that on the Mac they have long built the OS very strongly around GPU capabilities (for better and for worse, basic VM experience is very mediocre if you don't have a hardware GPU to passthrough). If anything I'm mildly surprised in retrospect Metal wasn't done earlier, OpenGL wasn't working for them and it's that big a deal. Microsoft invested in their own graphics layer for Windows ages earlier.

But controlling their own low level layer doesn't mean that higher level non-proprietary interfaces shouldn't still be supported on top. Part of the point should be to enable abstraction there. Apple is a big enough player and platform that this shouldn't be a zero-sum game, and their perfectly understandable strategic concerns addressed by Metal don't preclude OpenGL continuing to be officially supported as a layer on top of Metal. Apple could have even done it as another open source project of which they were the primary sponsor even if they wanted to manage it that way.

This may be just another symptom of their unusual startup-type culture which lets them hyperfocus on specific products but reduces their corporate ability to multitask, but it's still a shame. It could have been just about supporting newer and better stuff going forward, not taking something away. Even if MolenVK/MoltenGL ultimately fill some of that void I don't think that should have been relegated to 3rd party only.
This is why you register your domain with MarkMonitor or Cloudflare. I cannot comprehend why they were so stupid to use a registrar that is not corporate oriented. This is just unreal.
Zoho CEO here.

Our domain was abruptly blocked by our registrar this morning. Our NOC team and myself tried to get in touch with them and they tell us "Contact our legal". Even I could not get in touch with anyone beyond their phone operator. The domain was restored, but as DNS takes time to restore, we are still facing issues. They later claimed there were abuse complaints about Zoho.com emails (which is our personal email service with millions of free and paid users). We received a total of 3 complaints from them and two of them have been acted upon and one is under investigation.

Once we dig our way out of this, we will find ways make sure no one takes down our domain again this way.
And you do a certificate program and not be as competitive as someone with a 4 year degree.

Why is computer science special? Most other degrees are meant to prepare you for a career.

Do you think most people can afford to spend tens of thousands in college to be a theoretical “better citizen of the world”?

What are the people who didn’t get an education that was going to help them get a job do?
A standard for exporting summary patient charts in plain text or PDF already exists as the VA Blue Button format. It works to an extent, but the lack of coded data limits effectiveness. And there are still practical problems in that most providers don't have easy ways to import files given to them by patients. There are serious security concerns with accepting files from untrusted sources.

https://www.va.gov/bluebutton/
Riven was also a huge improvement in worldbuilding. The world of Myst was often rather contrived; the places it depicted didn't always seem particularly "lived in", and the puzzles were often rather contrived in nature -- in many cases, their motivation was simply that the world itself was created as a puzzle. The rocket ship piano puzzle falls squarely into this category, for instance!

Riven, on the other hand, depicted a much more natural-seeming world, and its puzzles fit much more organically into that world. For instance, one early puzzle involves learning the Rivenese number system from a child's toy. Some of the Moiety puzzles seem a little artificial, but even those do have some in-game motivation (as part of a security system).
The stagnation of packet radio is due to FCC legal restrictions on data rate that are divorced from the reality of bandwidth usage in modern protocols.

You need to get to UHF before doing anything reasonable (if you call 56k reasonable) and by then, your range is toast unless your friend is on top of a mountain.
From what I've read, the main objection to this isn't the linking of the accounts for people who want it, it's that there's no way to opt out for people who want to use Google services on the web but don't want to log into the browser itself at all. I don't think there's any reason that they couldn't make it so that logging into Chrome automatically logs you into your Google account on the web as well without doing the reverse as well. To me, this feels like an even worse version of the "opt-in by default" issue; to opt out, you also have to opt out of logging into any Google accounts at all while in Chrome, which is a huge ask even for privacy-minded people who don't want to log into the browser itself.
Parent comment just states facts, why even bother suggesting they're affiliated somehow? Meanwhile I'm not affiliated with Zoho in any way, and can confirm their free service is awesome. I've got 2 custom domains on it and couldn't be happier
I did something very similar to this for my wedding seating assignments.
Maven is just right click + build to build. Or file + import to import a project.

The last time I worked with Vivado, I remember our interns couldn't manage to create a project or use an existing project after a whole week. It doesn't help that there are no tutorials from the vendor or the internet, or that projects can't be stored in source control.
"When Google acquired Boston Dynamics, it ended the company’s military contracts. Now that the company is owned by SoftBank, Mr. Raibert said, it could also return to military work."

Sounds like they haven't (yet).
The problem here is that these conflicts and preferences are constantly shifting. Two people can be good friends one week and decide they hate each others' guts the next week. And then they can go back to being friends again the week after. The Rosternator 3000 can't keep up with this so you're always going to be generating bad schedules for a certain portion of your people.

This is one of the reasons good retail managers ignore the advice of their time-keeping systems and give peoples' requests preference. The time-keeping system ignores all of the human aspects of the problem to focus on the least-important aspect of keeping a store running--making sure there are warm bodies in it.
>Even if the algorithm promised to reduce inequities, the upheaval involved — with nearly 85 percent of the district getting new start times — would hit black and brown families especially hard, the groups argued.

The article never really goes into this any farther. Was this just an empty point from the selfish wealthy families, or were they correct?
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I guess my issue is with the unstated, but negative, connotation of "being behind". If western companies being unable to get their hands on my medical data makes us "behind" then I think it's a good thing to be behind. As part of the West, I am happy to not be a "leader in the space" of AI if being such a leader necessarily requires careless sharing of vast amounts of private data.
> Now that the company is owned by SoftBank, Mr. Raibert said, it could also return to military work.

Ding ding ding doesn't matter.
This was not the company used. The domain registrar market has gone through consolidation and it ended up here. We have been moving domains and this is a cautionary tale for us.
Myst is kind of defined by it's lack of boundaries and structure. The point is to just boot up the game and start exploring and interacting. The story will slowly unfold as you explore the world. The only think you really need to understand is that all the buttons and switches do affect the world, so observe the results of all your tinkering.
I implemented it in Go myself, so I do speak from experience..., and the issues are known by core scuttlebutt devs(Just scoffed at and ignored).

> Why would I want to do that? I download and replicate the feeds of the people that I follow (and the people that they follow), and that ends up being about 2500 people out of the 8000 Scuttlebutt users.

Scuttlebutt gets actively clumsy in conversations that involve people that aren't in your FOAF range, whereas stuff like ActivityPub (and others, like IndieWeb) don't. So yeah, scuttlebutt is worse, IMO.

Oh, and scuttlebutt is also a constantly growing append only log for each person, so no way to garbage collect really old stuff. Again, a tradeoff, but other systems let you choose to remove old stuff, scuttlebutt just breaks if you try.
I haven’t noticed any with the betas, nor seen anyone talking about it, but my battery isn’t especially happy anyway on my 2012 Macbook Air so I’m used to not expecting much.
The type system in C++ (with templates) is actually incredibly powerful.
Ask HN: Niche Products, ever had success by partnering with Blogs, newsletters?
Have you ever had any success by partnering with blogs and news letters? How did you go about finding partners that were willing to do so? Did you look for complementary goods? What was your approach? Offer money for product placement? or offer 1 for 1 click exchange?
Our local police department (Oviedo florida) takes a police car 200 ft from the station and sits it by a 25mph zone that feeds into a 50 mph zone [1]. Now that my wife and I have both been ticketed (30mph) we go the speed limit -- what is even more weird --- going 25mph near a freeway is really dangerous as cars honk and freak out behind you swerving to get around you.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/28%C2%B038'57.5%22N+81%C2%...
Thanks for the response. I'm in the technology and policy program within IDSS and we have discussions about these "politics of technology" issues a lot. I'm sure you could become a case study in one of our classes if you wanted :)
This is a fireable offence for the CEO. There is no excuse for this level of incompetence. Makes me question all sorts of things now about Zoho. What else is run like a shit show over there?
Sounds like a good way of saying that one or both browsers is/are not following standards
To me it speaks of Software being "good enough" far more easily than it can be perfect.

> To me it seems like an incentive problem

Why is it a problem if a buyer gets something that works well enough for a lot less time/money put in?

Further to that - specifications and requirements are often imperfect, poorly pinned down, ever-changing. Software creation out in the commercial world has shifted working patterns to try to adapt to that (Agile methods amongst others). Attempting formal proof of such soft, malleable systems would appear to be a fool's errand.
Having an older Mac Pro, I saw that it Mojave will do a firmware upgrade. I won't be using MacOs, but will be running the installer for that. Thank you Apple!
Yeah, maybe it's just a bow to practicality but if anything mildly surprised regardless because they've gotten quite serious about their own HSM implementation which is slowly starting to spread to more and more new Macs, and it's effectively universal under iOS. I sort of expected given initial thrusts like Apple Pay that they'd push hardware token usage way harder, with either direct support for Macs with T-series chips already or else some tie-in to iDevices. Ideally NitroStick/Yubikey/etc would come along for the ride and Apple would work towards a framework that could be used with other HSMs beyond their own, but at this point I'd take any major platform trying to move crypto auth forward over passwords/sms/anything else at all.
True. I started coding a couple years ago and used a static typed language for the first time a couple months ago. Definitely don't want to go back.
That would be enough, if I would compromise to forego use of sudo and relogin with ssh as root. I really would preper to keep the ability to only sudo the parts of composed commands that need it in my non-root shell session, though, which is why I'm still looking into this.

This effort will also allow me to use gpg and the programs that depend on it like my password manager, pass, to use the correct agent.
Google's agenda is to make money. Hinting that they have a secret agenda to take away people's guns is just unsubstantiated conspiracy theory nonsense.
Thank you for the kind words. I don’t intend to write articles under any particular name, since it’s too easy to become typecast, and have expectations develop around a name.

I dump my thoughts out in the open, under arbitrary handles, when I think at least one person could use the sound of my voice.
I recommend following the author Vicki Boykis on Twitter (@vboykis). I've been following her for quite awhile, she full of data science jokes.
FEC is forward error correction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_error_correction
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Myst wasn’t actually a very good game for this reason. A lot of the ‘puzzles’ were just clicking every pixel on every screen of the island to find some hidden thing. Riven was a good game though, with challenging but fair puzzles.

It’s basically like how Super Mario 3 is one of the greatest games of all time, but the only real was to beat the original was by cheating since the last level was an invisible maze with no internal clues on which way to go.
Still using El Capitan on my iMac. Should I upgrade directly to Mojave, or wait a bit?
I wanted to use this, but i couldn't get any answer from the developers if the App stores my e-mail credentials on their cloudservice. There was a review on app store where the user had their account overtaken in connection with installing the app.
Isn't this something that major contributors should decide among themselves?
This is not a proper use case for blockchain. Blockchain technology is primarily for allowing transactions between parties that don't trust each other. That's not a problem we have in the US healthcare system. Providers are all known and generally licensed by the government. They adhere to strict rules of conduct, and if one of them breaks that trust they are subject to civil and criminal penalties.

As a technical matter, no one has yet demonstrated a blockchain that can scale to the amount of data and transaction volume required to maintain a patient chart for everyone in the country. Especially if we include images and genome sequences the data volume is in the exabyte order of magnitude.

This is fundamentally a political and economic problem. Throwing immature new technology at it won't solve anything.
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This article clearly describes the challenges we are trying to solve at https://picnichealth.com/ (YC S14). Our goal is to take the burden of compiling and maintaining a complete medical history off of the patient while at the same time providing them with the utility of having access to and the ability to seamlessly share their records with future doctors.

Given the current state of EHR systems (and their lack of interoperability) this often means dropping into the world of faxes and paper. To deal with this we have built up systems for requesting, re-digitizing, structuring, and validating medical records (in whatever format we receive them).

If you are interested in working with us to address these challenges, we are hiring in a variety of roles: https://team.picnichealth.com/jobs
Unsubstantiated conspiracy theory ^
Maybe not the demo robots in and of themselves, but you can bet your ass the skills and understanding they have is a very profitable business.

I would consider them elite in this field. Making robots to task based specs should pay well, and the annuity comes nearly free. Service, consulting, upgrades, changes...