skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the city, when there're many pedestrians on the roads, I would expect from autonomous car to drive slower and stop in case of pedestrian spotted (human drivers are smarter, but they usually violate speed limits and have worse reaction time)
Where is the 'E'?:

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/07/how-i-would-unschool-my...
I'd love to live in a world where roads were full of auto-driving electric cars that automatically went to recharge and were replaced by fleet cars, and stopped at various points for people to load up. Like personal, on demand busses.
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Does anyone knows any open source OMA push to tallk compatible server ?
"Feeling Good" by David D. Burns is a good resource. Lots of activities with writing things down.

Reading this now for the reasons "prescribed" on the cover, but I have discovered that (at least) half of the the self-help and productivity tips that show up here (or lifehacker), are already in this book. Don't let the title fool you; it's not as touchy feely as it sounds (okay, maybe it is in its examples, but the solutions are all along rational lines - see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_thera... and "A New Guide to Rational Living").
Forgive me, but could you reformat that? In Firefox, the code-ified view of your text is taxing to read. It has an unpleasant scroll bar and I forget what I've read by the time I get halfway through it, since I can't see it.
Isn't remote wipe enabled by default in iCloud?
The wetlab component of synthetic biology seems unnecessary when a lot of that work can be automated, which is where this idea of a cloud for biology has merit. Of course if you can do accurate simulations as you describe, that would be the best route.
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Good evening, John Anderton. Routing you to the pre-crime facility for detainment.
I keep considering moving to zsh. This example sure makes it look worthwhile. Thanks.
I think Caterham started off as a Lotus 7 replica. If I remember correctly, Lotus 7 was one of the only models that "open-sourced" their designs. That, and their "well-rounded" nature (cheap, sporty, easy to make), led to their huge popularity with the DIY community.
We like rehashing old news to feel better about ourselves.

Put another, less inflammatory way, Hacker News tends very highly towards the ephemeral. I would argue certainly more highly than reddit and possibly even more highly than something like 4chan.

This creates a detrimental effect because the discussion around these news stories is more long-lived than HN (the discussion vector) would let us believe.

This creates something I'd call the Hacker News Timeshift - blogspam based on yesterday's news purely on the off chance that the generated blog post will act as a vector for spurring the truncated discussion, thus generating plenty of ancillary or almost coincidental traffic to the blogspam.

Anyone who visits the new stories page once a day will see this effect in action for roughly 50% of the stories that were on the news page yesterday.
You don't really need ads for the shops you're already passing.
I would bet they can reconstruct the entire environment through their LIDAR records, play by play, and show the events leading up to the collision.
Hopefully I'll be wearing my google glass too! So, I guess so.

True privacy is very hard. You could set up a camera to read plates at some choice points and know the whereabouts of most of the people in your city. If you want to do something privately you have to act deliberately in this day and age.
I didn't know about + either -- neato! Thanks.
I think having a second gmail address just for emailin yourself files for public computers might work for you. Keep your personal email safe, and forward what you need to the other address. It's a good compromise.

Don't underestimate how vulnerable you are when your email gets hacked - virtually every service you use can be accessed by the forgotten password mechanism when your email is breached. I'm pretty lazy and have procrastinated for a long time, but with the recent attacks and realizing what a mess I could face if hacked I finally implemented two factor auth and I have no regrets yet.
here are a couple docs you might find helpful.

http://riakhandbook.com

http://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-wee... ...this has a section on Riak as well.
Ahh, forgot to mention; we've also recently partnered with Genomikon (http://genomikon.ca) to offer biological kits (think Arduino for bio) through Synbiota (all documentation and DNA code is hosted and editable on the platform).

So far we've only sent out one kit to a DIYBio group (still finalizing up production), but we hope it's the first of many.
From above the page indicators to the bottom of the screen is roughly 176 to 180 pixels on the retina iPhone.
Commuting does kind of suck if you're trying to roll in during rush hour. But without super-heavy traffic I find driving to be rather enjoyable in itself. Even more so if you're riding a motorcycle :) Perhaps the problem is not commuting, but the fact that many companies want their employees at work at 9:00 and out of work at 5:00?
I would love to see google incorporate the efforts of SARTRE, a system of caravaning cars on highways for reduced drag: http://www.sartre-project.eu/en/Sidor/default.aspx
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Right, made it a fair bit more readable now. I'm difficult to read anyway.
Some bank transfers can be reversed.
> I don't understand what the money is for actually.

I was thinking about remote storage and devices. For example, a backpack is stolen with your phone/tablet/laptop and you need to issue a wipe to it NOW before they are compromised.

Requiring a credit card at least leaves a paper trail of some sort.
Works for me on both Chrome and Firefox. These are the Windows versions though, so YMMV. What does Ctrl-A do?
I agree - lists like these don't really have value if you're doing serious mobile web development. A few more examples of broken and inconsistent implementations:

• Viewport - this meta tag isn't supported on HTC phones, so your slick CSS media queries will expose a terrible UI in some cases.

• Websockets - the specification was changed after vendors implemented it, so you have to support multiple authentication schemes on the server side.

• Video - every vendor has their own take on how the controls should look, and certain vendors (I'm looking at you, iOS) disable or override the w3c default specification, so you have to sniff user agents to make a decent custom control. That's not to mention the difficulty of supporting all the various formats.

What adds to the pain is that the browser vendors don't always do a great job of keeping their APIs current, so you have to play the trial-and-error game to tease out the reasons you're having trouble - a game that is exceptionally difficult when the problem only occurs on the mobile device itself.
Vision is a word I don't like and gets thrown around a lot. It's not quantifiable. If you are a non technical co-founder you need to be able to bring in the money. That means you're either 1) Able to raise VC/Angel and probably have a track record, 2) Have serious connections/customers in the space you're starting a business in, or 3) Putting your own cash in.
Put another way, Google's Autonomous cars complete less than half of the total daily commute of a small metropolitan workforce.

That's not a lot of miles, but the fact that they've done it completely without accident is relatively impressive.
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I'd try to find a local iGEM team to join. http://igem.org/Main_Page That's the best way to build experience quickly if you are new to the field.
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Hi,
I want to learn the x86 assembly language. I was wondering as to which book would be the best one for that. Is 'Programming from the Ground Up' by Jonathan Bartlett worth using as a starting point? I use Linux Mint and want to learn assembly through linux. I only know a bit of C but its gotten into me lately that i would like to first learn assembly. Please feel free to comment if you think my thought-process is wrong. Thanks in advance.
ok, so I lied... we did have to kill a few chihuahuas to get this deal done. but it was quick and merciful. #RIP
My wife sees a neurosurgeon who's an eight hour round trip away. I've driven her there and back at least six times this year.

With a Google car, I'd a) be able to send her by herself and b) even if I had to come, I could work on the way, meaning I'd have more than a week's worth of vacation/sick time restored.

Yes, I'd happily accept ads.
All the spam in the world may only generate $200 million in revenue.
Yeah, there's nothing magical about the actual implementation (there are a couple more lines in the repo, though).

The Chrome extension is nice because it automatically executes on quora.com (and not elsewhere). Install and forget.
I think it comes along for the ride with "Find my <Apple Device>" which would for most users seem to be a fairly innocuous feature. I don't think the possibility of total data loss if they lost control of their iCloud account would occur to most people.
My favorite comment at MacRumors:

'But now dock can only hold one icon. Is nonsense~!'
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Microsoft proposes alternate spec for Web audio/video chat standard
A bit hard to replicate, but I found that marrying a systems biologists works rather well.
If you have an android phone, Google already has the capability to do this.
Isn't the way for Craigslist to remove its posts from search results via http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt?
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There are quite a few different payment processors here (Nets, PayEx, BABS, Dibs...), not really sure about how the backend works between banks. My card works in anything with a Visa logo, but there's no credit connected to it.
I'd be very careful counting the requirements for cookies as a bad thing (as seen in the github section):

First-Party session cookies are a totally valid use of cookies and actually help improving the security in that a session-id in a cookie will never be copy & pasted by accident (it happens to URL-based session-id's at times) and cookies can be marked as both httponly and secure, making it more difficult to impossible (depending on browser) to XSS the session-id away.

As such I would actually go as far as to prefer a site that requires (first-party session) cookies to one that doesn't.
4.5 the median would be somewhere around $225,000. That would be a very high salary for a developer, far above the median.

I also don't think that comparing to the median US household makes much sense. It would make more sense to compare salaries with other highly skilled and educated workers in very high cost areas.

It's sobering to enter the "elevated" salaries of software developers into a housing affordability calculator and search San Francisco or the peninsula for what you could buy at that price. Most households are dual income now, which does get you in the range of that 4.5x household income you mentioned earlier. At this point, you're into pleasant, middle class areas.

At this point, I guess it's just a matter of opinion. I think that when it's a stretch for two highly educated workers to afford a fairly ordinary house in a decent if unfashionable part of town, salaries aren't elevated to the point where I find claims of a crucial shortage credible. If that's what employers want to pay, that's fine, but I see no reason for special government programs designed to increase the size of this workforce - it would seem to me that it is responding rationally to market signals.
I don't think it's an inappropriate market. it's an opportunity for game developers to recapture the strength of the Facebook api - connect and actually make some cash using the Facebook platform. Keep in mind that gambling has existed on Facebook already, just the players could never win spendable cash. The mechanics compared to social games remain much the same, with the exception of there being external regulators watching to ensure that players aren't unfairly exploited

Given Facebook was originally intended for university age people, able to make a decision to fight, kill and die for their beliefs and country. I would argue such an environment is where one would expect to find people capable of making a judgment call over weather or notto place a bet.

If your argumentis that Facebook is a technology company and should not be involved in gambling then you are flat out wrong. Innovation should be followed where ever it emerges, otherwise companies will falter and die and we as a human society will miss out on great things. Not to say that gambling is an amazing piece of innovation although I am Sure there where some technical achievements in producing bingo frendzy, who should be the moral compass on what is a global network. If as a planet we can't even keep a clear line on what is statutory , on weather homosexuality is fine or a criminal offence, on of we should teach children about safe sex

It seems your stance against Facebook allowing play for real cash has little to do with the technology, and everything to do with a perception that gambling = bad. Please correct me if I am wrong

Which really is a shame to see on HN. I'd expect to see arguments pro or against based on the merits of what Facebook can deliver, on the demographics of the Facebook market, alternatives... Heck, how if in any way this alters the zynga play book.

I turn the question to you, where would an appropriate place for such games be?
Yes. I'll be asleep.
DoGoodBuyUs
Google, and the other search engines, should develop a standard that allows a page to tell the search engine if it does this kind of thing. More generally, it should be able to tell the search engine which of these categories the page falls under:

• Freely readable with no need to register. E.g., Stack Exchange.

• Site requires login, but accounts are generally free. E.g., Quora.

• Site requires login, accounts are not necessarily free. E.g., Wall Street Journal.

• Per article fee. E.g., many scientific journals.

• Content not actually available online. E.g., many hits on Google Books, where they have excerpts of the book online so you can find it via search, but to actually get the full content you have to by the physical book.

Users could then choose to exclude some categories from their search results, or to have some shown ahead of others.
The battery issue was strictly a software bug. A regression introduced because somewhere between upower or gnome power manager or wherever nobody could agree on the right number to use. It did work, then it didn't, because party A "improved" things, but party B wasn't ready for the improvements.

Anyway, the claim wasn't that the linux desktop can be made ready. It was that it's ready right now.
You've never heard a website referred to as a place? You need to get out more.
Oh wonderful. Replace one set of weaknesses with something much, much worse - allowing any customer service rep access to your entire credit card (including CCV)!

I do like his second idea though.
Unfortunately not.

There are good templates that you can use to give you decent design.

Realistically, it will be very hard to get a "great-looking-and-functioning" MVP on a $5K budget.
I learned x86 from "Programming from the Ground Up." It was pretty good but doesn't cover 64bit extensions. I would recommend it. Even if it doesn't cover everything what it does cover it covers well.
Exactly. Amazon has very good protections against someone ordering things with your credit card to their address, and that used to be their primary exposure. Not so much anymore.
I see you're on your way to the drug deal you briefly discussed over gmail, i've taken the liberty to ensure the local human authorities are aware.
Oh please, do condescend to me about what sites I have run and which I have not, much less ones I have or have not written myself.

Look, I (and likely many others here) know what you're talking about, and it's not necessary. You can deactivate things, sure, but you can also say "This cannot be undone," and people will know what that means. Software has commonly operated this way for almost the entire GUI era (at least). These things aren't cut and dried nor required, and they are entirely the product of business rules and policies, which in your case sounds like a little bit of "blame the victim" ("well then you shouldn't have uploaded it"). Users know what a warning means in this context, though.
I've yet to start my own company, but you better believe I have a working list of "co-founder" candidates in mind. I've been building the list for years and I believe the opportunity, and the components necessary to execute, will drive my choice when the time comes.
I disagree with this approach. Having used APIs designed in this fashion before, I've found that they have a bad tendency of overemphasizing complexity, and making it hard to accomplish basic tasks.

I'd much rather build out a UI for whatever use case I need to satisfy, fill it out with a mock API, and then replace the mock with a real data source.
The email notifications for System additions most certainly didn't exist when I wrote Dropbox about it. I did however, know about RSS but didn't choose to use that as a notification system (and wasn't aware it notified about machine additions or other system stuff).

Thanks :)
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This is terrible, he can change whatever he wants.
I think Vision is worth something I mean it can easily justify .01% of a company. The real question is what else you bring to the table, this can be money and contacts but again without a lot of money where talking tiny slices of the pie.
Fee is usually peanuts, at least in the govt. colleges. I paid a royal sum of 400$ of tuition fee for a 4 year degree that helps me make way more than that every day. Govt. spent close to 20k on educating me. I did pay taxes in India for 6 years before moving abroad but still that 20k made my life. And that's what I owe to my country. Paying 20k or even 2,3 times that would be an easy exit. The only way to truly pay it back is to make something better in India. But what exactly, is something I think about all day. But I am pretty sure I will have an answer soon.
thanks for the piece of advice.
I am sure a lot of people young and old will find it useful
"Again," or "still?"
I definitely agree with both of these points on vision. I could have done a better job on articulating what a non-technical founder should/could bring to the table. Thanks for the input here guys.
Very good to know (and wow). Thanks.
Again, this just isn't true. See the movie industry learning that to avoid piracy of new movies from killing profits, they need only release worldwide all at once. People will happily pay money for the experience of the theater; they pirate when it's the only way to get something or when a company is asking too much for something.

Secondly, absent ip, they'd just make more but cheaper movies to target more niche markets; the blockbuster isn't really a great business model to begin with, it just works because law makes an artificial market for it. If the market can't naturally support the blockbuster, then they should go away. A world absent more Michael Bay flicks is a better world anyway.
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Autonomous cars are the next big tech that changes the world - I put them up there with computer, Internet, and smart phone.

When economists think about technology, they look at it as a productivity booster. From that angle, robot cars will have a huge impact - so many commute hours will be transformed to work, or even leisure, which also boosts productivity.

So many smart people are about to be given a 10% or better bump in time to make and to do.
Which is why I type random data I wouldn't remember and don't write that stuff down either whenever I'm asked to provide an answer to a "security question". They're the worst idea someone could think of to implement a security scheme. I am appalled at the fact that most (all ??) of the big names on the internet use them. Even google who should know BETTER what with all the first class software engineer they have.
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LinkedIn Gives Developers More Clarity on Platform Policies
>That's just evil.

No, that's protecting the patent.
For RNAseq the analogy works pretty well.
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HN is turning into a Reddit clone, with all the karma mongering included.
There is no reason for banks to have any security questions at all, or even passwords. They can mail security tokens to all their customers and rely on the postal office validating the identity of the customer. And if the security token breaks or is lost they can just mail a new one.

This is what all or virtually all Swedish banks do.

Only websites where the users need instant access or you have a low profit per user cannot afford security tokens. Banks are obviously not included here.
It is always interesting to see what my iPad decided I was trying to say. I wish the edit window was a bit longer. I don't check back immediately.

For the record, "Munich" == "Which" in iPad-ese.
I don't know much about this situation beyond what is in this article. Are they measuring success by the number of individuals being prosecuted? Was the goal to reduce piracy or to prosecute citizens? The article makes no mention of a lack of copyright infringement reduction, which is what I would (naively?) assume is a reasonable metric for inefficacy.
Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack
So will susceptibility to car sickness become a federally-protected disability?
whenever I meet someone who is learning something new and they're angry with themselves for how 'stupid' they are, I remind them that this is actually the peak of learning

Probably not. You learn best from material that is at the right level--not too easy but also not too hard. Your level of preparation determines whether something is too easy, too hard, or just right. If something is too hard, you're usually better off finding easier material and working your way up to the harder material more gradually if at all possible. Trying to learn from material that's too difficult is inefficient. You won't get to your destination faster by starting your car in third gear.
I think Andy would probably agree with you that vision is a component of a "hustler", but does not a hustler make.

I would imagine he would recognize his sales experience as a key component of his start-up value, both in terms of 'stacking cheddar' and also in evaluating the market potential of a product.

The hustler can set the product development vision, but it better be based on a keen understanding of customer need, market readiness, and his team's ability to execute.
I like this approach, Josh. Lots of us non-designer non-dev. types need honest and brutal feedback on ideas/product more than anything else.
At the University of Utah, we have the 'E' grade also.
Thanks - The Riak Handbook seems very nice. But they don't count, you have to buy them :) These kind of docs should be free (to entice prospective users on getting started with your product as fast as possible).
Same boat here, and another Richard Feynman quote that I keep going back to when I encounter situations like this

"What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman
This is a great guess that makes a hell of a lot of sense to me. A simple elongation of the phone really doesn't fit in any mental model I have of Apple's design decisions.
Entschuldigung. :-/