skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I guess "autonomous vehicles" were a solved problem the same way "portable music devices" or "smart phones" or "Tablet Computers" were a solved problem. But it takes _someone_ to push the concept over and move the category forward.

In all three categories (particularly portable music devices) - I would argue that Apple didn't so much as make the technology possible, as it did make them _popular_.

Likewise, with a autonomous vehicle - it isn't so much building a car that can drive itself - it's making a car that can drive itself _that I can buy_ that I get excited about.

Of course, Google has yet to deliver on the part about me buying them - but can you identify any other company that has done so much to get them driving on roads _with other people_?
Very related is this Firefox extension which does just the encryption portion: http://getfiregpg.org/s/home (I wrote the inline detection bit!)
Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting
The Murphy bed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_bed) is a traditional solution based on rotating the bed 90 degrees to form a wall, rather than sliding wood on/off it to form a floor. This guy's solution seems nicer in a way, but a bit more complex.

Actually I've wondered why Murphy beds, or something similar, aren't more common in space-constrained housing. They don't seem all that complex. The only widespread example I can think of that people actually use is Japanese sleeping on roll-up futon mattresses that can be put away during the day (though western-style beds are now common there also).
While not there yet, if projections hold up, I could tell you the same thing again in ~5 years.

I misunderstood the question - but if your goal is to become a millionaire (and you are in your mid-twenties) and you keep chipping away at things like 401k, ROTH etc you will have a great back up plan, with the magic of compounded interest, should the business attempts not work out.
Imagine what these could do for someone with alzheimer's.
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Is that "If you were to JIT a language like C it would probably be faster" true? I think a JIT C compiler would run into trouble with alias detection. Let's say that it removes an if statement because the variable a in the "if(a)" that starts it always is false. In C, code like "x->y = 1;" could affect the value of a, as could _any_ pointer dereference. If the JIT cannot prove that that could happen, it would have to insert a check "does this modify a?" for every such statement. I think there will be quite a bit of code out there where even a very smart JIT would not be able to conclusively prove that such aliasing does not happen.

Also, I do not accept that OpenCL argument. IMO, OpenCL is more similar to static compilation than to a JIT. It is as if you recompiled your kernels whenever you changed your video card (perhaps also when you change its configuration); it does not do things that a JIT would do, such as "hm, most of the pixels are black; let's optimize for that case".
I want to know how much money you make
healthcare costs will trump taxes as the #1 lifetime expense for almost everyone

This is hard for me to believe, since health care is around 15% of GDP and taxes are around 25% of GDP. The top 1% only pays about 28% of taxes, so even "taxes paid by the non-1%" are more money than all expenditure on health care.

sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_Comparison_-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/how-much-americ...
Don't ask smart questions - just put on the glasses
Thanks, and with help, our implementation will monotonically increase in convincingness.
I very much doubt that. Glasses restrict your field of vision, your movements and change the appearance and thereby the way others see you. No one wants to wear a pair of glasses just as an additional display for your smartphone you are too lazy to take out of your pocket, the cost is just too high.

However the display part doesn't really matter, what really matters is ubiquitous environmental recognition, voice recognition - not just of yourself but of everyone around you, no matter which languages they are currently speaking - and (three dimensional) image recognition. This will completely change how people interact and explore the world and each other.
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My favourite thread:

My uncle put down 500k for a new lambo, and makes around a million a year. The semi-mansion he lives in with my other uncle is fully paid off, the kids colleges funds are full and so is retirement, so a purchase like that is very affordable for him.

Response: What does your uncle do?

Answer: Lives at the bro-mansion and drives a fuckin Lamborghini all day, am I the only one who reads?!
Knuth would disagree with you. And PC LOAD LETTER?
Being stubborn as all hell?

"What do you mean 'can\'t'?" I'll turn this hp jetdirect into a router bwahahaha!
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I see you work at Google. How about advancing the conversation by telling us how Google stores its sessions?
Yes, but much as 9/10 employees won't ever make 7 figures, 9/10 startup founders won't ever cash out for 7 figures. Plus, in a cycle of invest-boom-invest-bust, your previous successes can be wiped out, making stable growth more difficult.
Interesting, is it open source?
Puzzle Pirates made jobs on the boat interesting - granted it was far from realistic. Each job was just a different puzzle game, and depending on the efficiency of the player at their "job", the better it would be for the voyage.

http://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Puzzle#Duty_Puzzles

Would this work in an environment that was attempting to be more realistic - probably not - but I am sure a similar dynamic could be used to make a task interesting. This is after all intended to be on star-ships well in the future.
"most people"

This is a baseless statement.

I, for one, don't want my bank controlling my money supply or telling me how I can and can't spend it.
Can you elaborate some more on how clutch differs from phonegap. Or why I'd choose clutch instead of phonegap.
Considering that I'd guess the number of phd astrophysisists at under 10000, a generous 50% female ratio, and 95th percentile for level of attractiveness, we're looking at 250 potential matches, or .4%. Odds are low, but not off the charts low and only improve if there's less than 50% women. Whether awkward or not, it's not unreasonable to ask given the chances.
My posts are only visible for me, you are more lucky then me. :)
Neat, but I'd prefer a bunk bed (motorized if you want to preserve the geek factor) so that all the dirt from my shoes don't fall onto my pillows through gaps between those plywood panels. If this is on the West Coast, I'd also be worried about getting my head smashed with that printer in the event of a midnight earthquake... but maybe that's just paranoia. This looks like a really nice way to make the most space out of those old apartments with unnecessarily high ceilings.
Ask HN: Get sued for trademark infringement over Github repo name?
A few months ago I built a network security tool with a few friends at a hackathon. We won 1st place and I put the code up on Github under some throwaway name that we came up with while hacking. We didn't bother to check if the name was used by anyone else, because it's just the name of my own personal Github repo, right?

A week later, the developer of an open source project with the same name asked me to remove or rename my repo. He doesn't have a registered trademark, but he's been using the same name for a few years so he claims a "common law" right to it, which seems legit. But, I can't believe that someone would care about the name of someone else's repo.

He messaged me and my friends several more times. We ignored him since we had no intention to turn the code into a real product.

But today, he had an attorney send us this:

"...under the rights afforded to him under 1125(a) of the Lanham Act, Mr. ____ requests that you either rename or remove your project from Github, as well as any other places which use the trademark _____ to describe the project. Having another piece of open source software use this term creates unnecessary confusion in marketplace with Mr. _____'s prior use."

It's not like we can get sued for the name of our Github repo, can we?
Nice! We'll standardize the URL structures so anyone can write their own extension to interface with the protocol, but we'd love to have more contributors on Privly. There are many components that we can carve up and work in parallel.
I thought D3 didn't work for IE 7/8 ?
Ah. I didn't think about the fact that the overall pool of astrophysicists was small.
Google Goggles: A new way to hurt yourself (Project Glass parody)
> If a number is used only once in the entire program, why bother giving it an enum?

Software changes, and is often changed by someone other than the original author.
"Not to piss people off, of course, but to provide a commentary layer that doesn't necessarily require the consent of the site owners."

You mean like Hacker News, this very site we're conversing on?

Another problem in your top five is precisely that nobody thinks there's some sort of dearth of places to discuss things without the "consent" of the site owners. Third Voice at least preceded even Slashdot as a big site, let alone everything else, and they could make the argument with some faint trace of plausibility, but now the solution that should have won, did: There's all sorts of aggregators, forums, and more to the real point, communities everywhere. Want another one? Five minutes on any of dozens of free blog sites, free forum sites, free wiki sites, free aggregator sites, bam, another community. There is no missing commentary layer out of the control of the main site, the web has long since created it, refined it, and even moved through several generations of them.

This is a solution searching for a problem, which is a major part of the reason none of these attempts have ever reached critical mass.
There's a huge difference between planes and these others. Power plants can run on a huge variety of other sources, like wind, solar, hydro, or nuclear. Cars can fairly reasonably run on electricity. Airliners as we know them must use some kind of high-density liquid fuel.
>Nothing worse than game design by committee.

Notch clearly disagrees: "The game is still extremely early in development, but like we did with Minecraft, we expect to release it early and let the players help me shape the game as it grows."
Learning from Psychology to Build Better Game Interfaces
According to the info, that's all YouPorn uses CDNs for (page assets minus video). That might, or might not have changed recently.

I'd imagine that paying extra for shaving a few 10s of milliseconds off latency might not really be much of a benefit in this type of a business, they are not doing VoIP phone calls. I'd imagine having fat pipes on a decent tier is #1 here.
I'm new to iOS development, can you briefly explain how your solution differentiates from the following:

Sencha Touch, Appcelerator Titanium and Phonegap

Thank you!
The effect of a driverless car isn't necessarily that it drives itself. It's a car that's aware of its surroundings and provides feedback to the driver. Mercedes already implemented collision avoidance, driverless car can potentially prevent running over curbs, pedestrians or provide better control.
In any case, lack of innovation is a pretty easy way eventually lose ground.
It's been edited; the original submission was "The end of the sonic boom is in sight". Though actually that doesn't seem that inaccurate; the "supersonic breakthrough" discussed in the article is precisely the effective reduction of sonic booms.

(Incidentally, Twitter is a good source for finding what titles were before they were edited. In this case I found it at https://twitter.com/#!/newsyc20/status/187650762111844353)
As tech founder / owner of a Bitcoin casino, https://StrikeSapphire.com, I think this is great. If it's real. And if the Royal Mint doesn't stick their nose into how we change cash. And if our users can remain more-or-less anonymous, and transactions can stay free, and we can change it out without paying a rake to the Canadian government, and there's no risk of double-spending or chargeback or backdoors in the client that let one government or another come in and raid your funds when it suits their interests.

Nothing on their website gives me confidence that any of those issues have been addressed, or will be. And in truth, the idea that a national government would open up an unmonitored currency for System-D sounds just-William-Gibson-enough to be plausible, and just too Neal Stephenson to not deserve a rimshot.

What's a lot more likely is that this is a big-ass trojan horse for the media to make sweet love to for the next few months while castigating Bitcoin for supposed flaws, and eventually deeming it "unsafe", followed by "illegal", for the general population. It's a PR stunt to compete with BTC in the eyes of a non-technical public. And it'll probably work - for a non-technical public.

But the flaws in a system like this will likely become apparent much more quickly than, say, the flaws in the Federal Reserve system did. Nothing with a backdoor, closed code or centralized "trusted distributors" stays safe for long these days. I really had to laugh when I saw their nifty graphic over here:
http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/devguide/ecosystem.ht...

But we're not biased. Hell, we'll start accepting the junk if it's as good as they say. Let the best currency win.
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> You are correct that "The CEO's job is to allocate resources to initiatives that will make the company money"

Actually that's not strictly true. The CEO's job is to satisfy the shareholders/board of directors. Normally that coincides with making the company money, but not always - the idea of a legal duty to maximise share value is a widely held myth. In the case of Google, most of the shares are still held by the founders. If they just want the company to do cool and impractical things they have the right and the capacity to make it do so.
You want the display to overlay the environment.
Contact lenses move with your eyeball - glasses don't.
This means that you would need to precisely track the lenses somehow - probably with an apparatus affixed to your head.
=> Glasses are preferrable.

Regarding genetically engineered eyeballs: what if they get a virus?
Yeah, the more I think about these glasses the more the Motorola acquisition makes sense. If you look at some of the products Motorola makes, eg:

http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and...

You can see it is a fairly short leap to producing all manner of interesting hardware, including AR glasses. I think Google is starting to realise that so many of their ventures are getting stymied by depending on 3rd parties for hardware that it's eventually going to be a threat to their core mission (organizing information, etc.) I bet they've had high level talks with OEMs about things like this and always get frustrated by the low margins they operate on and the need to reap immediate profits for anything to happen.
"X is hard, let's go Y"

Is this a reference to consultant_barbie on reddit, or is this meme more widespread?
I'd be worried about being the next Saeed Malekpour.
For some guys, it's the anguish of constantly being in the state of wanting to make a move, but not knowing how.
The DEC Alpha didn't have byte addressing either.
I installed a new Win7 partition last week. Yep, almost exactly 2GB memory usage at start. This was a clean Win7 Pro, no third-party crapware installed.
Ironically, the video cannot be played on a stock iPhone.
It doesn't, but you can get a comparable experience by pairing it with svgweb and some javascript extension functionality (i believe map and forEach off the top of my head). You can't do as much, but you can get pretty close. I've been using it for work and hope to have it in a shareable format at some point.
I'll rephrase for hassy. "investing" is for suckers. the only people making any money in the market are professional traders who aren't at all making decisions based on "trends" or "fundamentals".

see: dynamic hedging by nasim taleb--a book that sits on many professional traders desks in which taleb makes more than a few points about trading.
Every resume that came across my desk while I was managing in Japan had a photo attached to it.

As far as I know, it's still standard practice throughout most of Asia.
Instability vs Readapaper
Grantoo lets college students earn tuition by playing games
Whoa, it aborts infection if you have XCode installed?

Is this just to prevent itself from infecting someone's computer that might be able to study it?
or cheating--the oracle knows all about that.
I've also been audited. If you didn't cheat in the first place, you're not going to be in trouble or have to pay a lot of money.
The pricing seems funny. The Gold plan is more than twice the price of the Silver plan but you get only twice the product. Similar but worse when going from gold to platinum.
Nearly half of U.S. corporations issuing Macs to employees
So Notepad++ and Vi/Vim will be outlawed now then?
At least it is easy to check if you're infected. According to this tutorial, it's also not difficult to remove the trojan: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashb...
* graveyard shift
* student with low class load
* vice president of USA (what does he do?)
* unemployment
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This is really in reply to powertower's statement (above or below since I couldn't reply directly to the comment) that they aren't using a CDN for their content. Here's the source domain for the content on one of their videos:

cdn1.public.youporn.phncdn.com

This domain resolves out to:

cdn1.public.youporn.phncdn.com.swiftcdn1.com

Which is hosted by a CDN company called SwiftWill.

Besides, the article you referenced says that they are using nginx to act as an external engine for static content such as css, js, etc.
I'm pretty skeptical about people's ability to multitask like this. We all like to think we can do several things at once but many studies have shown we're basically interrupt driven single-tasking organisms. You simply cannot walk and watch where you're going while also watching something in your glasses. People think that having the screen overlaid onto reality solves the problem, but the problem isn't really visual in the first place, it's mental. Try even reading a (real) sign while walking along and you'll find you're bumping into people, dangerously strolling across roads without looking, etc.

I really want these to work, and I can see in limited situations (manually turn them on to look something up, etc.) they could. But I really deeply doubt they can work they way people are imagining.
Exactly! I think in a weird way the mundane elements of the game could even be fun, provided there was a strong MMO backbone to it with guilds, clubs, etc...
also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann#Anonequity_project_....
AI: Is pain the key?
already done. I was asked todo it for my ungrad thesis.
You've made five total trades?
So all people who use Oracle database would also abandon Oracle since it's close source?
Ask HN: HS Senior Project on Open Source -- Interview Candidate Wanted
Hello members of HN!

I come to you today in need of some help. At my school, all Seniors are required to complete a "Senior Project" prior to graduation. For this assignment, I have chosen to learn about the open source movement and its tremendous growth in recent years. As per the requirements, I must conduct an interview to use as a resource.

This is where you come in, dear hackerne.ws community. If anyone can claim to be: "An expert in the field being studied, an individual with some valuable piece of personal insight, and/or someone with first hand knowledge of the topic," I would GREATLY appreciate any help you could offer.

Here are my interview questions:

1) Please tell me a little about yourself, how you first started using open source products, and your place in the open source movement.

2) In your experience, what are the main advantages to open source software?

3) In your experience, what are the main disadvantages to open source software?

4) How do consumers benefit from open source software?

5) How do businesses benefit from open source software?

6) Where do you see open source going in the future? Any predictions?

Thanks again, everyone!
Game publisher Electronic Arts is voted the “Worst Company in America”
Interesting. I can't imagine svgweb runs fast or well though. What about just binding data to HTML using IE8? You can make some creative graphics with absolutely positioned divs.
As someone who used to sell Mac computers, I used to get asked the question "Is it true macs never get viruses?", to which I replied "No that's not true." (It was just an apple reseller store afterall so I was never compelled to bend the facts.) I'd try to explain the caveats a bit: a smaller market share and the unix based operating system requiring more permissions, yada yada, being "prohibitive" to an attack but still vulnerable. Still, for 3 years that question came up a few times a week, even as apple started taking off (2006-2009 ish) and grabbing more and more of the market.

I guess it was just amazing to me how disinformation like that flows so freely. It probably started out with the caveats but eventually got boiled down to "Macs never get viruses". And what computer company is going to publicly correct that statement?
Why can we assume she hasn't had botox injections?
JavaScript: It's a Language, Not a Religion
Wow. It hardly seems like there's been enough time between Convore and this for this to look as solid as it does. Grats ericflo and company.

Any ideas on an approximate time table for when the Android version might be expected? (ballpark is fine, months vs years is the kind of answer I'm hoping to find.)

Offtopic, I feel like I should start a poll for who says "sue dough" vs "sue doo". It struck me as funny when I heard it in the video backwards from how I say it.
Similarly, people are also perfectly capable of working while thirsty, hungry, scared, cold or tired.

If you're an actual post-pubescent person, you could do a simple experiment: Try to do serious work with half the screen playing video of attractive people, then try it with video of three-toed sloths. Do they require the same amount of executive functioning? The same amount of energy? Assuming of course that you're romantically indifferent to sloths, that the number of cuts per second is roughly equal, etc.

Suppressing phylogenetically old parts of the brain is never free, even when it's desirable. Is this sentiment inexcusable in the workplace?
little endian words, big endian instructions?
They seem to be making a bit of a comeback actually particularly in spare bedroom/offices.

My mom built a "library" in their house that has one and my sister in-law recent switched the futon in their spare to a Murphy bed. I think part of it is design, newer ones are very slick.
They've certainly "turned around" where it matters to the company: https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:IBM