skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
liable for collisions is quite laughable.

Without a root cause analysis of the accident I am not sure I would call it laughable. How would driverless unintended acceleration be any different from Toyota's recent unintended acceleration recall and liability? If root cause is a defect then they will certainly be liable. Now that isn't to say any and every crash involving a self driving car automatically becomes their problem, it will be on a case by case basis just like now.
I'm assuming they mean "run someone other than a programmer's day with JavaScript"?
Big four without any Java framework, but with .Net one?
And CakePHP as a major one, I wasn't aware it's still used.
Looks awesome! I wish I could do something like that.
Greece had very little to do with the ‘global’ sub-prime bubble, it was merely the following recession that exposed the fiscal irresponsibility, originally resulting from low interest rates due to Euro membership. When people realised that Euro membership does not imply northern European standards, Greek interest rates soared and since Greece couldn’t print money as in the good old days, there was no way to fulfil these interest rates.
According to the Kickstarter page, the Ouya was due out in March 2013:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...

I'm pretty sure I was one of the many naysayers who said the Ouya would never make that launch date. Hell, I once ordered underwear from a Kickstarter clothing outfit and that came at least three months late. I've supported several Kickstarters and none of them have delivered the physical goods within two months of their promise (I've even had one delayed by a year). The Ouya is late by a couple of weeks, if even that.

Congrats to Ouya for meeting their goal, here's hoping that their system is a success.
I started with MySQL and switched to Postgres. pl/sql, triggers, stored procedures, etc were the main thing at the time (this was before MySQL 5).

It seems like Postgres gives you more power and flexibility at the expense of slightly more work. Consider an auto-incrementing column. in MySQL, you just create it as AUTO_INCREMENT. In postgres, you need to create a sequence generator table (which is actually no extra work if you create the column with a type of serial). But with postgres, you can have multiple auto incrementing columns in a table. MySQL is limited to 1 AUTO_INCREMENT per table.
Good work!!!

Are there black and white poster templates? Color printing of posters is expensive and not necessary in many cases.
I don't quite understand what corruption scenarios fsck on Ext4 would save you from that ZFS wouldn't?

Most data on consumer's computers is 1 disk failure away from loss anyway, hence the popularity of cloud syncing services.
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Regarding sublime's API, can you split windows? Invoke subprocesses, and create REPLs?

Genuinely curious, but I think you can do a lot more with Emacs' APIs, and modify core parts of the editor since most of it is written in ELisp and you can easily swap out functions.
So try something. Ban neonicotinoids in some state like Washington. Monitor progress closely.

The current situation is like having a bug that only shows up in production. At first it wasn't so bad, but we're in day 8 and now half the data is disappearing.

You can't identify the cause without getting in there and trying things. Change. Monitor. Repeat. With a solid lead (and we have one with CCD), it is the quickest way to solve this problem.
Please tell me how my entire FS will be toast if the wrong bits are turned, especially when zraid2 is really the only valid solution that should be used.

I've been using ZFS for years now, i've had disks go bad, I've replaced them. ZFS has protected me from data loss better than anything else. In the past when I've had the disk lie to me, ZFS was able to tell me what files were corrupted and thus had invalid data.

I'm going to need to throw a [citation needed] on your post.
Ironically, GM crops may wind up bringing bees back from the brink of destruction, in spite of people motivated by uninformed opinions like this.

GM crops (in general, not limited to roundup) allow a dramatic reduction in pesticide use. While they might not improve the predicament of bees being fed pesticide-contaminated corn syrup, they will reduce the overall background levels of pesticides in many hives' environments.
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It's not just the satilite's you need to worry about try and put 10x the crap into orbit and suddenly the 300,000 pieces smaller than 1 cm below 2000 km altitude becomes 3 million. (It's paint flakes etc.) Which dramatically increases the amount of shielding required to survive the sand blasting and further increasing tiny junk up there and eventually the required shielding may become untenable.

Now, at some point clearing space junk is going to be worthwhile, but I think we are still a long way from that point.
The film "resonance: beings of frequency" says it is from RF noise like cellular & wi-fi. We can't hear it, but it is there, and if you put a 2.4Ghz phone beside a hive, the bees vacate. Perhaps higher intensities kill them?
fsck doesn't make sense for ZFS. If you want to check for fs integrity, you can scrub the pool. If you want to get the fs back to a state before there was corruption, you use the transaction history. If you want to import degraded arrays, there are commands for that. There's no magic in ZFS. What exactly is missing that you want to see?
Am I the only one to think it is crazy to integrate pesticides in the plants that end up in our food?
That's really awesome - I envy you guys ;)
Was that written by qeorge's step-dad?
Thank you for this story. I feel that the average person would have more empathy for the poor if they've ever experienced this type of situation. Happy to hear that there was light at the end of the tunnel.
if you happen to know actionscript 3, you can also use adobe flash builder or flash develop - as adobe air can target android/ios devices just fine
Maybe I'm just tired this morning but I wish this article could just get to the point. I feel like I'm reading a mystery novel but I am never going to make it to the end and find out who did it.
As a note, at first glance, this comment seems to be saying that they could not have been upper class because they weren't horribly condescending and close-minded, and that this is the entire definition of upper class.

Looking at the book description, I take it that these are meant to be heuristics for guessing a random person's position in the class system? That seems more useful. I'm still not convinced it makes sense to apply that here, though, as the OP was working in these people's homes, and certainly has a very good idea what sort of people they were.
Isn't the best case GPS position only within 10m anyways?
If the safety margin doesn't depend on the size of the craft, I could conceivably see a single platform host a hundred modules from various different startups. So you'd only have one "satellite" in LEO, but it would have a hundred module slots rented out. You'd just have to pay to raise your module up to LEO and hooked up to it, for a 3 year lease, or something of that sort.

That's probably a startup idea in itself. The whole selling shovels in a gold rush, etc.
Yeah, that's it. Joe talked about it during a lecture last week. He says he's working to rebuild it.
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I misread this article title as meaning "ZFS has been backported to Linux 0.6.1". :)
"60 minutes for homework, 9 hours in TeX."

... 20 hours using microsoft word and the equation editor.

I'm surprised your classes didn't let you submit handwritten assignments.
Actually. It does.

Unless you assume that all hardware is perfect and that no bugs exists in ZFS (have been plenty of those in the past that just makes the whole FS completely worthless).

Nut no, ZFS doesn't need fsck. Because, we don't want it to need one. Oh, and we don't want to spend the resources developing one.

The only reason ZFS doesn't have a fsck tool is because in the enterprise world it doesn't need one. When it is needed you just restore from tape instead. It is that simple.
I'm in agreement with you on this. OUYA has proven to be very receptive to community feedback so it's good to voice concerns. It has a good chance of being reassessed.
Really dug your story, thanks for sharing. Great case for the benefits of continuous deployment especially in terms of job satisfaction given that this was your favorite memory.
| Suburban flight in the US didn't occur until long after cars became ubiquitous.

It seems you're not acquainted with the concept of "streetcar suburbs" [1]. The Wikipedia article goes into some detail; I recommend it for the curious who'd like to know how streetcar technology drove suburbanization before 1920.

FTA: "Because streetcar operators offered low fares and free transfers, commuting was finally affordable to nearly everyone."

This is not academic information about the distant past that no longer applies. Transit-oriented development [2] is impacting our cities positively today. It will be a long time before driverless cars have an impact.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit-oriented_development
Can't we all just get along: http://tjanczuk.github.com/edge/#/
The benchmark should has a new try further, when Asm.js will be added to V8. Sorting arrays of numbers could have another speed.
So this is a location sharing app, and a founder/developer posts privately shared locations on Twitter? Seems like a good reason to avoid using it.
This article explains in-depth why ZFS doesn't need a fsck tool. It's very much to the point in its entirety. I'm sorry content-free articles posted here lately have diluted your expectations.
Still, there is nothing that annoys me more than when someone who is well versed in one toolset, and new to another toolset has the audacity to conduct a comparison and pretend like they did it correctly.

I'm glad he provided source code, but he clearly doesn't know Node well enough to provide an Apples to Apples comparison. Maybe .NET will blow Node away? Fine, but make sure you know Node well before you do the test.

Still, it's a nice conversation to start. I don't care how much I hate the company that builds it: if a tool is best for a job I want to know about it.

But your complaint that nobody is doing the tests: C'mon, how many Node experts even have Windows laying around?
Add another keyboard pest that overrides all of the default keyboard shortcuts in the browser.

I've been watching the Firefox people debate whether this is a bug since 2007.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380637
I wonder if the app has a privacy policy.
Usually you can instruct your (color) printer to print in black and white, and it will print in various shades of grey.

You can also do this in acrobat (print to Adobe PDF using black and white)
If qeorge's stepdad's Reddit username is Trexlittlehand.

Interestingly enough I found that comment after going way down through the comments of this article yesterday: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/bees-buzz-each...

I thought, awesome trivia knowledge! And now my comment foraging is extremely relevant to a post today.
Questioning unsubstantiated claims, appeals to (very questionable) authority, and extreme generalizations doesn't require domain knowledge.
When Google lost its cool
(tongue-in-cheek) maybe you should try cricket?
love the domain name
A reluctant upvote, but only because the author has put more thought into the matter than the typical futurist.

But for some reason, he still is victim to the same trap that befalls many futurists: A misunderstanding of the new problems that arise.

Cheap taxis that don't require parking and can drive closer together at higher speeds is great. But new problems arise:

1) Bottlenecks on streets due to the expansion of cars in dropoff zones. Imagine the typical airport dropoff zone on a busy day...and then think about that happening on nearly every street. Through-traffic is guaranteed to grind to a halt.

2) Smarter cars do not fix transportation networks. Braess's Paradox is not just a theoretical scenario; It has been observed in multiple cities and sub-city networks. Increasing road capacity can and will increase travel times...and it gets worse when everybody is independently optimizing their paths while driving in the same direction.

3) Supply and demand matching for taxis is an easy problem when you assume spatially random demand for travel in spatially random directions during temporally random times of the day. In the real world, taxis have a limit on the number of places they can be at the same time...and the non-randomness of times, origins, and destinations creates real problems with the availability of taxis...in addition to carshares, buses, trains, etc. Thus, the hypothetical futurist scenario relies upon an abundance of taxis, which may or may not occur due to the delicate balancing act between marginal utilization and capital/operating costs. A taxi that is used twice a day during rush hour is a taxi that does not exist.

4) Deadheading (driving to a demand-location while underutilized) has costs of its own: Now your taxi ride is paying twice as much for fuel for the same amount of of human transportation.

A more realistic future involves smaller net benefits which can be only be partially offset to the extent that modification of urban geography permits; We may not be able to turn a hilly isthmus into a flat plain with grid streets, but we can move away from our archaic zoning practices that ensure non-random travel vectors. Carpool lanes will continue to have benefit. If, and only if we allow it, transit systems will become more efficient and less costly on a vehicle mile basis, compounding the benefit of grade separation in the still-gridlocked future.
I was in a demo the other day where the presenter mentioned "making Mr. Bojangles dance". Immediately I knew exactly where he got it. I asked anyway, he said, "well my first computer was a TI-99/4A". I was ecstatic! So was mine.
I think Core Data did that back when it was EOF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Objects_Framework
Crony capitalism
My friend works now for Skype/rosoft and they hired him particularly because of his knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript.
For a task that hasn't changed much in twenty years, the assistance you'll get from a how-to-fix-it book will probably beat the assistance you can get on the internet, just because the quality of illustration will be much better. Out of date copies are cheap, but the directions for hanging something heavy on drywall will be the same.
"...then goes on and sets up a benchmark which is more dependent on CPU than IO. Not to mention as mentioned here that benchmark itself is flawed."

Thank you. It amazes me how some people can write code in a framework like Node without even understanding the event-driven paradigm's strength and weaknesses. I was sitting there reading it, and then he states he is using a file sort??? WTF? As if anyone would use Node for that purpose.
I assumed this was about the grotesque legal abuses Monsanto leverages against independent farmers, and I was horrified. Finding out it was about some GMO scare-mongering...
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IPv4-only hosts like Windows XP[1], game consoles, and all embedded devices don't work with NAT64. You can do some kind of NAT464, but that's kludgier than DS-Lite.

[1] Doesn't do DNS over IPv6, so can't operate in a IPv6-only environment.
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Would it be so bad to just enter your seat number into the app?
Try it on mono?
Thank ya
and one more with screencasts: http://killring.org/hack-emacs/
If this is news to you you really haven't been paying attention...

http://www.osnews.com/story/22423/Should_ZFS_Have_a_fsck_Too...
You are giving yourselves too much credit. A nuclear war between USA and USSR would be the war to end all wars. It matters not what other countries did or did not do. The only reason it did not happen is because thankfully both of them were not that crazy. It would have been MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). So my point is, what exactly are you giving yourself credit for?
ST2's plugin interface and Emacs's interpreter are about a similar as Excel is to R, or an Accord is to an F1 car.

ST2's plugin interface may be nice and sufficient for most "normal" tasks, but there plenty of things you simply cannot do.
I have never been to India but my girlfriend spent six months there. She would laugh at the title of this article. In her eyes, India has to radically change culturally before the country may blossom. For example, one cultural problem is that too many people just acquiesce in the face of difficulty.
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Hoax.
Major TI-99/4A fan here too. Parsec was the awesomest shootemup of its time by leaps and bounds. Pixel perfect movement and collision detection. I got good enough to roll over the scoreboard. http://dos486.com/misc/parsec.jpg

The manual claims the sequence of level colors recycles after 16, but that's incorrect. Every level from about 13 to as far as I've reached somewhere beyond 20 is bright yellow. The manual also claims the game keeps getting harder indefinitely, but that's not true either, nothing really changes past level 4. The only difference is that the asteriod belt continues to lengthen each level, but that's generally a good thing as it's worth so many points.

(Yeah, asteriod belt. Parsec misspells it. Blew me away that I played the game for ten-plus years before I ever noticed.)

Awesomely, Texas Instruments released a number of TI-99 cartridge images as freeware. They're included with several emulator distributions. So you can legally and easily play Parsec and TI Invaders and a couple dozen other TI games. http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=Clas...
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Susan Williams (RPG maker kickstarter campaign mom) update video makes me sad.
Yeah, we know that things like this happen - it happened with the RIAA / MPAA / DCMA too and has happened long before that.

This is another political outrage story that doesn't fit the spirit of Hacker News. Nothing technical to discuss, nothing but politics. Flagged.
That is an interesting approach, basically assuming that the first stage is "lost" and try to land it. If you do land it win! if not, well you didn't need to anyway.

Does anyone know if the landing will be parachute assisted like the solid rocket boosters of the shuttle?
Interesting: the original article (at sciencemag.org) mentioned as source in the nypost article is from 2012
Don't use `checkinstall`, use FPM:

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
The pool data is stored on disk, but when a pool is already available on the system that information is cached in memory and on disk in a zpool.cache file. That data may be stale or wrong, you can in that case export the zpool and re-import it (or if it is missing, re-import with -f to force it).

It then reads the data about what zpool a disk belongs to from disk. That data is itself stored in multiple locations so that it is unlikely that all of those are corrupted, after importing the disks you can run scrub.

If the pool metadata itself is corrupted, generally you can roll-back to a previous time when the data is not corrupted.

This document: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/6mhupg6qg/index... describes fairly well what all the options along the way are.

None of the failure modes described would be any better if there was a fsck tool available... in all file systems it is going to cause dataloss.
Yeah, same here. I don't get all of the hate for GMOs (not Monsanto et al). They have done a lot of good for the world and nobody is forcing you to consume them or their byproducts. Literally millions of people would have starved to death without them.
True, on the comment page of their kickstarter a lot of people expressed their concerns over the CC requirements. I really hope they will at least communicate on that particular issue soon
Florida, actually.

I guess I should update my profile. It's kind of neglected.
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Is it wrong of me that I wouldn't mind turning one into a Linux system and not run Android or play games? (After all this is Hacker News...)
The reports of system problems are already rolling in, though. In particular it seems that the controller has perceptible input lag; that's an immediate killer for pretty much any gaming-related product.

They might have shipped, but it remains to be seen if they shipped something that's any good.
the generalized form of this technique (which you can also use to see if somebody has a font installed locally) is to basically create two rules:

.load-base { font-family: comicsans-ms, verdana; }
.load-test { font-family: fancyfont, comicsans-ms, verdana; }

and periodically check that the width of a line of nonsense text for both classes is not the same. Blank has the obvious benefit that it will be obvious when 0 != something else, but you can do it if you have some reasonable expectation that some other common font will exist with different metrics than your fancy font.

interesting to see the process behind the font, though.
It's funny how some people are pro-science (e.g. evolution) right up until that conflicts with their hatred of other things (e.g. nuclear power, GMO).

Great headling by the way! If I hadn't read the article I wouldn't have known that the "Monsanto Protection Act" was buried 78 pages within a "Continuing Resolution" which is required to keep the government operating at all.
That doesn't solve the problem of the app not even working because data can't be passed back and forth. The app requires dynamic information to work correctly, and if that data going back and forth is inaccessible or not possible then it's pointless.
Um. Mono supports just about everything these days: http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility

There is a reason why people are using it to simultaneously develop for Win, OSX, Linux, Android, iOS, XBOX, Wii, etc....
Typically, people print large posters at places like FedEx Kinko. Converting color posters to B&W ones, although sound trivial conceptually, sometimes poses a practical challenge. One is you don't exactly know how the color posters will look in black and white.
Yes, and? Unless they're making stuff up, I don't care about them not critizing Russia or trying to improve its image by exposing actual flaws elsewhere.
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An ODROID would probably be better for your purposes.

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/main.php
Last I checked, this looked like the way to do it.

http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/

It apparently can build for iOS and the web (via GWT) too.

Though I can't see any reason they couldn't start supporting some HTML5 games as well assuming it can support a browser.
very cool; thx
Here you go: http://static.adit.io/pestilence/
Why would you do that? The days of yearning for a small hardware platform on which one can install Linux are over. You can fit Linux on a computer that would fit in your wallet.
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