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Do unions still hold significant political sway these days? I can definitely see truckers pulling their weight to keep those laws on the books for commercial freight at least long enough to stay employed 'til retirement.
Autonomous cars have driven on the highway in real-traffic conditions [1], [2], although they had a driver at the ready in the event of any problem. I don't know about night or weather conditions for these instances.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VaMP (their citations pages aren't responding at the moment)

[2] - http://www.argo.ce.unipr.it/argo/english/index.html
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Read a little more here. http://betali.st/startups/status
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It will be enhanced in portait mode, showing more information at a time, and also more content when the keyboard is up, as mentioned.
It's weird. The first page lists an Aug 3, 2005 date when I view it.

That would be quite a trick since it was 2 years before the project was even started.

The other pages have what I assume is the correct date.
Ah well, then I stand corrected. So, now the question becomes, should you be allowed to add credit cards over the phone? Or does it become, how long should Amazon wait until they accept the new credit card as a valid ID?

For the second question, I'd say Amazon should wait until the user "confirms" the credit card. That is to say, send the user an email stating "Hi! New credit card added to your account. Click here to verify".
The most amazing part is that autonomous cars have completed 300,000 miles at all. Congratulations to the engineering team!

Around fifteen years ago, I read as a child with fascination an account in Scientific American about an automated highway project where sensors were to be placed every few feet on the road, and cars would follow them, until a driver retook control at the end. I imagined a future network of roads in which cars read from sensors to determine where they were, and was kind of saddened that governments didn't immediately start putting these sensors into highways. This is such a cooler solution, one that doesn't depend on a parallel development of infrastructure, one that would presumably take lots of bureaucratic steps that are naturally associated with usage decisions on publicly owned land (which makes sense).

What this reminds me of, rather spectacularly, is that if one method of getting to your solution fails, either because those sensors didn't work out, or the bureaucracy didn't, if you come up with a solution, and say "oh by the way I did it already", it's a lot harder for anyone to ignore it.
I think the implication was, is the liquidity level of 2007 inadequate and we need the liquidity level of end of 2011 (which is about an order of magnitude higher).

In the end maybe I don't care if these firms just transferring money between themselves but when people's retirement accounts and the fate of whole companies in their hands it seems there should be something preventing this (another meta-algo that punishes aggressive and pushy algorithm...?)
Hiccup is a framework that allows the Burp Suite to be extended and customized, through the interface provided by Burp Extender. Its aim is to allow for the development and integration of custom testing functionality into the Burp tool using Python request/response handler plugins.

While Burp is largely focused on web application security testing, the proxy functionality can also be of great use for broader web application testing tasks.

Check it out on Github - https://github.com/zynga/hiccup/

Example plugins - https://github.com/zynga/hiccup/tree/master/plugins/disabled
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When do you anticipate having the kit available for sale to the general public?
Flood the debt with inflation ;) That means the ECB buys the debt basically, but of course it creates the Euros out of nothing, so that creates more Euros for the same economical situation.

The reason behind that is that if the ECB buys the debt, it can keep the rates under a certain level, buying everything that's above with its - theoretically - unlimited buying power. Of course that has a few flaws. The Euro is then less valued, so that's a reason more for wanting even more return on bonds.
This brings up another question: How will these cars react when a street is blocked and unpassable, due to heavy snowfall (unplowed), heavy rainfall over the street, mudslides & rock slides, etc?

What about where a street has parked cars on both sides and just enough room for one car to go through the middle of the street - one of the narrow city streets where drivers have to wait in the intersection for oncoming cars - will these autonomous cars wait and let drivers through, or will they get stuck?
I believe they do, as well. IIRC that's how the realtime traffic data comes in.
This should be illegal long time ago -- think Captcha for buying/selling stocks.

The real issue here is that -- whoever was in charge of those stock exchanges hasn't properly addressed this issue as we all can see now its been growing slowly but constantly since 2007.
Thanks for the detailed info!

Combined with two-factor ssh auth[0] for using a public connection, looks my gpg file is the perfect solution.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029680
Now I'm curious to see what all the other apps look like in that resolution.
How could google index a page if the page requires an account to view? I'm pretty sure googlebot has no such account. Surely such pages are invisible to google.
You can access 4chan through Tor, now. It used to be blocked, but now only blocks posting.

Additionally, there is an HTTPSEverywhere definition (you have to specially get it from their website) that forces all the 4chan content through SSL to prevent snooping by exit nodes.
Unless you've synced your iPhone to a Mac which gets remote wiped along with the iPhone itself. Then you've got problems.
What if they've had their mobile phone stolen and can't do 2-factor auth and that's why they're calling?
Cars will become more appealing than public transportation over time. As the downsides of cars fall away, their packet switched functionality will ultimately win out, particularly for wealthier people.
> think Captcha for buying/selling stocks.

I like that the side-effect would be a drastic improvement in OCR technology.
It's simple but impressive to see full Retinafied images in the browser. Now if we could just help everyone else on the web along...
How is the next 300 million dollar Batman flick going to ever get made if the studios let everyone go see the movie for free? It won't get made.

No it isn't because there is zero demand for those types of movies, in fact there is a huge demand. It is because of copyright that they get the up front funding as the studios can be sure they have protection to make up the cost at release time (if the audiences like the flick enough to go see it).
> They didn’t even know what they “knew”.

That reminds me of one of Hegel's better lines, from the preface to The Phenomenology of Spirit: "What is well-known is not necessarily known merely because it is well-known." (This particular translation is Walter Kaufmann's, if I remember correctly.)
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I've seen the Google self-driving car navigating within morning traffic in San Jose. There were two men with laptops in the driver and passenger seats, presumably monitoring the car and available to step in if something went wrong. It was also kind of surprising to see the roof-mounted device it used to map its surrounding. It was fairly large and rapidly rotating.
I don't think this will be a problem because we're likely to see a gradual move towards fully self-driven cars where humans still drive but the computer takes over only when needed to avoid accidents. Volvo already has a system that stops you rear-ending other vehicles and BMW has a system that safely pulls the car over if the driver suddenly gets incapacitated. Eventually the most advanced cars will never cause an accident while still being human-driven. From there the leap to let go of the wheel is not that big and I think it will be reasonably easy.
Unlike Mongo, which is a pin compatible architectural replacement for MySQL in most web app designs, you would probably never build a "to-do app" in Riak. Mongo is thus probably inherently easier to demo.

Moreover, if you just show someone the API for Riak and what it's capable of doing, you're not really giving them an appreciation of what Riak is about. To an application developer, Mongo's interface is probably much more congenial and full-featured.

I think there's a certain extent to which you either have the problem Riak solves and know why you'd want it, or you don't and no tutorial is going to change that. But that might just be an opportunity for a really creative tutorial.
You are correct. Felix Salmon comments: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-th...

> in 2008, a pattern starts to emerge: a big spike right at the close, at 4pm, which is soon mirrored by another spike at the open. This is the era of traders going off to play golf in the middle of the day, because nothing interesting happens except at the beginning and the end of the trading day. But it doesn’t last long.
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Yep, that is typical. 90% of the time, I am approached by someone who says "We have 90% of that things done and ready to go, we just need you to come on board and make it your own."

The problem is that I cannot make "my own" something I had absolutely no part in, from its inception.
I guess there could be some odd situation where someone comes up with something in the exact same manner I would have, but the chances of that are low.

The other typical behavior is business people who believe "the idea" is everything and that the building of "it" is a trivial task that a tech co-founder will want to tackle because they are unable to formulate ideas on their own.
[The reality is that ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is 99% of success. And tech co-founder will be as much business-oriented as any entrepreneur must be.]
I can't find any reference to '1-900-Huslter' in the source code of the actual article, so it looks like it's either poorly editorialized by the submitter, or BetaKit changed the title.

In either case, the editor should be aware that 900-numbers are very commonly associated with pay-per-minute sex-talk lines, and "Hustler" is the name of a pornographic publication on the more revealing side of the pornography scale. Both items are something I'm sure Clarity doesn't want associated with their brand.
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I wonder what kind of denial of service attacks we'll see on autonomous cars once they're popular.

Trivial example, could i choose to always pull out in front of the robot even if it's not my right of way? (presumably safe in the knowledge the robot will always give way to avoid a collision)

Could that escalate to the robot being treated as a mobile speed trap / felony snitch?

Interesting times.
I'm guessing that more accidents happen in intersections than on the highway. My understanding is that Google's self-driving cars are currently limited to highways and known-course driving.

I don't think it's going to do a very good job driving in San Francisco city streets (but then, who does?)
TechCrunch Poll:  Would you ride in one of Google's self-driving cars?
All the answers were blurred after loading for me.

What browser are you using and do you have javascript enabled?
If we agree (and I do) that trading should be throttled, what is a reasonable speed limit? Once per second? Per day? Is there a precedent?
That's the x-axis.
The imposter part is, they send spam titled "EFF Newsletter". Most people I know who won't open any spam will open that spam.
Interesting, but what does this have to do with HN?
Does anyone have any good ideas on how we might mitigate the negative consequences of this technology?

I recently dismissed the problems of people printing firearms in a 3d printer as not really being much of a threat as currently firearms are already ubiquitous. However having a potential personal bio-weapon design lab on your desk, would seem to suggest were are entering a whole new paradigm in dangers to humanity and our biosphere.

As an example and a serious question: why won't someone eventually create a virus tailor made to target their enemies? Whether that's an entire race of people, an individual or a family.

The genie is definitely already out of the bottle so I guess the only solution is better defences. We're going to have to get good at identifying threats (possibly in real time) and be able to create effective solutions near instantaneously. Or isolate ourselves in self sufficient habitats as a precaution.

In my mind's eye I can see Bill Joy tapping his watch and saying "Any minute now ..."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
Curious, could you point to a blog post or article that explains how to do this?
Because it doesn't matter what they SAY about it, it matters what they do about it. I'm sure they could get back into good graces, but they won't with all likelihood.
Will it be a problem when you have 50 autonomous cars in close proximity? Potential for crosstalk from the sensors? Similar to headlights at night making it so you can see, but blinding oncoming traffic.
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I've been getting this feeling lately every time Alsup steps up like this. At first I couldn't quite put my finger on it. it was more than just "finally some sanity for that patent stuff."

I figured it out today. When Alsup shows up, its like suddenly there's an adult in the room.
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The problem for me isn't commuting, it's having to invest so much money into a huge pile of metal and plastic that someone distracted by someone or something in their own pile of metal and plastic can destroy in an instance, possibly killing me and anyone with me. Or maybe I get distracted and the result is similar.

I just don't see the few cases where it's enjoyable to be worth the other costs. I'd consider it similar to smoking in that regard.
I just checked your profile.

You work on a search ranking tool for IOS.

This line of questioning seems a bit odd given your experience. You should be giving us advice :-)
I would like to work on this project if I could retire. Either that or Inkscape.
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You could also hire a limo. I suppose in the future you'll be able to rent a google car for a day, but you don't have to wait for self-driving cars. They're here today, the self just happens to be a human.
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>> Eating food from a tube could also give us a lot more free time but we don't do it because it is not an enjoyable experience. We not only enjoy the flavors and textures that regular food provides, we also enjoy the rituals that accompany eating. In this regard driving cars is somewhat similar.

Yeah, I felt this way for about two weeks after I learned how to drive. After that, it quickly got tedious and boring.
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I have no idea how synthetic biology works, but have a couple of questions from the applications section in the link.

They talk about designing vats of bacteria that extract gold from water. If this level of customization is possible, is it also possible that you could use this to create new disease strains ? For example, can you take a Tuberculosis and engineer it to make it harder to cure? Or create entirely new diseases with elements from different infections?
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The mobile web version of Google Maps still doesn’t have retina graphics, so it looks very ugly on most iOS devices.
> A new generation is growing up programming apps (yes, on their desktop computers right now) for this new world and can easily share their creations with millions.

For Android, yeah.

Thing is, I'm teaching "creative computer stuff" (which includes programming) to kids at a volunteer centre. One of the kids came to me and wanted to know if I could help them build an app for their iPod Touch.

Turns out the costs of writing iDevice apps is quite prohibitive to most teenagers.

First, the SDK+simulator is only available for Macs running Mac OS X 10.5.4+, not just any "desktop computer" will do. That is a problem because the "Young Researcher's Centre" runs on donated PCs, most of them old WinXP office machines that are perfectly serviceable for most of our purposes. We never get Macs though (well one time a really ancient one, I doubt one could develop apps on it).

If you do have a Mac, apparently you can get the SDK/emulator for free, I think (Apple's site said "free!" a lot but kept on directing me to some page where I had to pay. I gave up when I found out it couldn't be done on a PC, anyway).

But then comes the next problem. Your app just runs on the simulator. You need to join the "iOS Developer Program" in order to actually run it on a real iDevice, unless you jailbreak it, (which I'm not going to teach the kids mainly because I don't want to be responsible if they accidentally brick it).

The iOS Developer Program costs $99 per year.

Trust me, no kid is going through all that trouble just to have "something that looks like an app running in a bloody simulator", there has to be some tangible end-result.

From there (Wikipedia) "applications can be distributed in three ways: through the App Store, through enterprise deployment to a company's employees only, and on an "Ad-hoc" basis to up to 100 iPhones."

IMO it is ridiculous to teach children a valuable skill (programming) merely in order to immediately sell their services/work on some App Store market. They're children, they need to learn and play--of course if they want to try and sell their apps it can be a valuable experience but it should not be the only reason or the only way. The first point is that you write code for the sheer thrill of having that kind of control over your own devices.

I'm not sure how the "enterprise" method works, but I doubt we'd be eligible.

So finally you're left with paying $99 yearly in order to liberate 100 iPhones so you can write your own code for them. Whoop-tee-doo. And I'm probably forgetting about a whole bunch of ways Apple can get in your way as you try to actually go this route.

Suffice to say, after having figured this out, most kids realized their next phone was going to run Android.
fair enough....but both the above referenced docs were written by 3rd parties so they are not Basho's to give away. But your point is well-taken and a doc revamp is underway.
I really hope he presses charges and brings yet another wrongful suit against the state. Police officers must be held accountable for things they do and if it is a public area then they should act accordingly. A judge already ruled this many times, when will they learn.
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I would say that it shows evidence of the increasingly common trend of police officers frequently greeting citizens going about lawful activities with violence.
Well, I think having proof of shipping to show bank, customer or police would help too if one is notified of a dispute - that itself should be a deterrent for pathological customers.
I think you are confused.

iCloud was NOT hacked. There was simply a mistake made by a customer service rep as acknowledged by Apple.
LOL, I get that a lot too.
"The first version is 90% done.", they say.
"I just need to delegate it to a tech co-founder so I can focus on business.", they add.
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For me, "co-founder" starts at (100 / n)%, where "n" is the number of co-founders.
Link to video:
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/x/ (paranormal) is pretty bad lately. The problem with /x/ is inconsistency. It seems to happen in bursts. A rare really good thread tends to inspire more good threads for a while, you get few days to a week of good content.

I realize mods on 4chan is a touchy subject, but /x/ could use a good mod that deleted excessively repetitive threads. there are some boards where that's not such a big deal, and some boards that thrive on repetitive and troll threads (I'm thinking of 4chan's pressure release valve, /pol/). But /x/ would be better served by having a mod conscientious of, not so much curating good content or killing trolls, but deleting the EXTREMELY repetitive threads that inevitably go nowhere.

Also, it is a matter of opinion if the roleplayers are a problem. I would argue that the lazy, bad roleplayers are the problem. I think they add color when they're good. Part of the excitement of /x/ is that it exists on the fuzzy periphery between fact and fiction.
And what does that have to do with HN?
I'm doing quick 3 min survey on what people think about certain venture capital firms and see if there is any correlation to their industry, location, school etc. Will post results back here upon completion.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VCstartup
I liked "Professional Assembly Language" by Wrox, its concise and has good explanations. Knowing assembly does let c pointer wierdness make sense, and it will definately make you realize c is a very "High Level Language", just saying hello world in x86 is a biotch :)
It creates liquidity, which makes it easier to buy and sell shares when you want to buy and sell them.

Unfortunately, the only time you really want liquidity is during a crisis, which is when all the HFT firms exit the market, since they're in it to make money, of course, not to act as a regulated and guaranteed market maker.
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Not to mention countries like Germany, where you are required by law to make your address public. Honestly, I've always viewed whois protection as a huge scam. Those who really want your address can get it with trivial ease, and those who don't want it won't seek it anyway.
...Do you do any fact checking?

I just checked the source:

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yup that's one of the biggest fears with respect to bioterrorism.

engineering bacteria to produce new strains or even deadlier toxins is well within realm of synthetic biology (although currently extremely nontrivial).

Falling synthesis prices and better assembly techniques however will make the repeat-test cycle fast enough to debug and engineer such organisms.