skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about LIDARs that aren't mounted on cars themselves but on streets which all cars can connect to. This will limit the useful range of such cars, but imagine manhattan decked out in these things and taxis or busses that only work in Manhattan. Could still have huge savings, especially if combined with computer vision as a fallback.

Edit: To be honestly my idea's probably not worth pursuing. I fully expect the cost of LIDARs to come down drastically in the next five years.
From my vantage point the utility of self driving cars is in highway driving. I don't really care for auto city driving.

In that context perhaps the problem is somewhat simpler if one assumes the infrastructure will be modified to help these cars. A lot could be done if each car communicated with roadside beacons and other locating systems. Some will voice concerns about privacy. I couldn't care less. Your movements are already far more traceable than they were fifty or a hundred years ago.

If I could manually get on the Golden State; engage auto pilot and be alerted a couple of miles before my exit in San Jose I'd be thrilled. I wouldn't even care if the thing pinged me every 15 minutes to see if I am awake.
This is what I was thinking. I am strongly considering setting this up. I don't have a use for the web interface.
I'm not sure I understand the point here. Why is this on Hackernews?
I don't want my function calls to be consistent with control structures.
From sniffing around a bit a year or so back, while considering them, they're pretty fast with "please reboot", but you'll have to get "real" OVH if you want support that will help you with more complicated questions. Reading HN, it seems that this is still the case.

OTOH, as you suggest, there are lots of questions a capable sysadmin can find the answer to without help.
I agree that the new styling a lot better with regards to positioning and sizing etc. but the colour scheme doesn't have enough contrast IMO. But I'll give it some time to get used to :)
How do you cope with people who are presently employed but want to interview? Do you expect them to find two days of absence from their present employer to test themselves at your company?

I mean for me that's no problem, but I don't live in the US and therefore have pretty liberal employee leave arrangements. I know that many companies in the US are a lot harder on giving out leave. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if this issue is minimised in the tech sector with their progressive business approaches.
This is really quite fun, nice work!
Very fun little game. My first try http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTIyNTMsInZlc... (12253 points)
Ask HN: will FWD.us impact wages for domestic programmers? 
I myself am an immigrant. But right now I have my green card and can count myself a domestic worker

I'm a little bit worried that maybe this movement can make market saturated and ultimately reduce my salary.
I don't quite understand the mechanism of this movement so I decided to ask.
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GIF, JPEG, PNG,... all these are not English words, so multiply possible pronunciations by a hundred (every Dutch speaking person I know pronounces them the Dutch way).
Gorgeous! Have good fun, thx for the link
You get warnings. I guess the aim is to allow people to run their code no matter how broken it is, while still giving a way to detect some errors.

Seems pretty odd to me.
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Snapsation: Where people and photographers meet.
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I think the article needed to be a little bit more reassuring for AirBnb's users that they won't run into similar problems. But I don't think that was the case.
The author starts with a false premise about what libertarianism is. How can I follow any logic that starts off wrong?
After all, Nathan's book is about ebook publishing. Wouldn't it be weird if it comes in paperback?
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It's not because they are measured by PPM that they are not high :P I have seen cases where a certain process deviates and gives more than 10 000 PPM of "out of range" quality. What's important is to understand the impact of the deviation and if this has a negative impact on the finished product quality. In short the answer is "not always".

To mitigate the issues in complex systems like planes and so on, the systems are built with multiple redundancies in place. That way even if something fails, the system remains stable and operative. So you don't need to have a "per trillionth" (and you are using the wrong word) quality system in order to deliver a very robust system.
What's the etiquette: is it fair to Google what you find on signs?
1:07 "no waste" -- did he just say he doesn't poop anymore?
What would you suggest as an alternative to nuts, for those of us who cannot eat nuts?
There's also a social bias in the commercial. People are socialized not to say negative things about other people, particularly not other people's looks, and particularly not women's looks. The artist was drawing off a verbal description; if people consciously filter out their negative thoughts before expressing them ("If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all"), then that verbal description will be biased.

The subject herself, however, is probably socialized not to brag, and so her verbal description filters out the most positive aspects.

On a side note, I'm curious what the results would be if you took someone on the autism spectrum and had them describe a woman they just met. Many such people have no such tact filters; would you get a more accurate drawing from them?
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Depends on what you are building.
So 'OpenCV' + a webcam is supposed to replace Lidar?

Props to this kid for being forward thinking, but this is a rather uninformed news article.
This doesn't help anyone's paranoia coming from robomartin! (Kidding aside, I think your profile cv got a little mangled. Try double line-breaks and log out for a sec so you can see it.)

Personally I would much rather have better above-ground transportation in the city than on the highway, but at that point I should be wishing for self-driving buses.
My personal rule is that I can spin in place, but I can't move and certainly can't google anything.

That said, it's a game where you pretty much make up your own rules.
Yes, you need to machine out the inside a bit.
This gets at a distinction I think matters: landlords vs individual owners. Landlords using AirBnB strikes me as against the ideal of AirBnB and I am not happy that they allow this. In fact when I try to locate an AirBnB spot, I always try to single out the ones that aren't from landlords but from actual individual owners (not always obvious).
You know, some of the things that ended up being super successful (Velcro, shopping carts) are the things that a whole bunch of people initially panned and rejected.

I feel pretty confident that this is the case right now. A lot of people here are shitting on these guys for creating something that completely contradicts our notion of nutrition. I for one, support this new venture and wish them the best of luck.
I for one will be sticking to breast milk.
"The land of the free" - Unfortunately that's more and more just a dream, in a world where more and more countries are more free than the USA.
Can't google shit, sure, but sure you can move. Just as if you were dropped somewhere on Earth and had to figure out. First tip to get is "do they drive left or right handed" :)
It's the ones you're not aware of that you need to worry about ;)

Apple PDF and Evince/Poppler are vulnerability-prone C/C++ codebases and have had bugs.

Chrome and Firefox builtin PDF readers are your best bet...
The optional typing in Groovy 1.x was really an instruction to the runtime, not compile-time type checking or compilation.

Groovy 2.x, with compile-time typing, only came out a year ago.
I forget the exact details but my current employment agreement has a paragraph saying I won't do contract or consulting work while I am a full time employee here.

Ethically, I would never be able to interview for your company. Don't most companies like tech companies operate in a similar manner? If so, aren't you limiting your hiring pool to either programmers without those types of agreements or thise whom are ethically challenged.
We're talking housing, not cars here.

The reason for banning unlicensed hotels is to ensure that there is enough space for actual rent.
Right.

But the news was also deliberately slanted to make whatever happened, worse.
"(how many people you think really empathize with you - vs. just going through the motions?)"

I don't know that I prefer people going through the motions of hating on each other. It's not necessarily honest and genuine just because it's unpleasant.
I have a wedding ring without chamfering, I like the snug fit and the trick to getting it off is in relaxing your muscles and turning it as you pull it off. I paid special attention to this aspect as we were fitting rings since I heard this argument before. It seems like most 'modern' (i.e., square, boxy) design do not have a chamfer, and I didn't have problems getting any of them off (well aside from the too small ones, of course).
That's the way you do it in normal text.
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Have you written a blog post about leaving and your time since then? I'd love to read.
I'm an optimist? :)
You'll often find such mealy-mouthed conclusions in write-ups of studies where the evidence doesn't confirm the author's hypothesis, and especially in anticipation of controversy. (in this case, your quote doesn't come from a study author, I guess)

If there's no benefit on average, then there's no reason to recommend on average (disclaimer: I take a chewy multivitamin because I remember being convinced by evidence that manganese is a bad thing to supplement, and most multivitamins have 2mg of it).
I don't think that tbilly said that it would be great, just that it would cruise to an easy victory amongst startup types.
Reversed stupidity is not intelligence.
I don't play for the points. I play to be dropped in the middle of a place and explore a place I would have never seen. But I do google since it is fun to be right.

Once I was dropped on a logging road in Canada. It took about a hour to hit a paved road and another 15 minutes to find a sign announcing the logging road ahead. I found a sign and googled it. Even that was wrong. I thought I was in Oregon but was wrong.
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Agreed. Working in games you really do get to work with smart people, yet with the power of C++ everyone wants to recreate their own String class, data structures etc. Game industry largely hates STL. There is also a distain for boost, another large collective of reviewed and hardened standard libraries (POCO is another nice one). The ego is immense at places like this. Programmers feel like they have to do this to compete or deliver over shipping and delivering products that work. Granted there are reasons for doing this such as keeping memory allocations through a common engine library to reduce memory and fragmentation but in most cases it is a moot point.

Performance does mean the most many times in this field for the AAA games out there, but not for most games. In web or app development if you are using custom data structures instead of native, in most cases that is wrong. How about consistent data structures that have been built and tested outside the company? The thing is though when the programmer that makes your 5th string class and data structures moves on it will be rehashed by the next, as other developers won't be as effective with them and recreate.

It is much more important to understand what data structures to use when and what impact they have on performance. Most of all can the developer ship and understand what is best for the product (not the ego or what will make them look like the hardest programmer of all time -- i.e. Rewriting the string class again and it is 10% faster, even though that is not a problem at all). I have seen some horrible, leaky, buggy data structures in situations like this, because they thought that was the job as led on by the interviewing. I have only really seen this while working in the game industry which I love but it is a problem with shipping product when this bike shedding happens over improvements to the game, engine or real custom needs i.e. the UI libs, event/messaging systems, naming/conventions are typically horrible in situations like this.

I also blame consoles for many of these problems as the libs are so jacked, incomplete and old that performance becomes a huge issue and you have to have custom structures just to use the hardware right especially in graphics, physics + networking libs. Yet mobile I have seen less of this problem even though there is less hardware to work with. The next time you play a game and the networking totally sucks, or a game takes forever or simply doesn't ship, understand the culture of the company and the industry might have something to do with it.
"the stone would fracture along pre-existing crack lines."

"The failure mechanism is that it CRUSHES the stone to dust"

Presumably these weren't diamonds then...? Those would be expensive mistakes.
If we relinquish control of our automobiles to a central system, even busy intersections would not require vehicles to slow down or speed up more than ~5 mph to all safely pass through. Just one example of how auto-autos could achieve an unprecedented balance of safety and efficiency.

My question is, how far beneath the current human-driver accident rate will the AI-driver accident rate need to be before you accept that it is a better driver than you?
"anywhere else you would get summarily fired" Speak for yourself. I've never worked anywhere where someone got fired for speaking English.

"What if that email was to a female kernel dev?" What if it was man? A martian? A lickle putty tat? I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here saying here.

"What if a whizkid reads ... deepthroating means?" Whizkid? Doesn't know what deepthroating means? Were you home-schooled?
I've recently used Prefinery (https://www.prefinery.com/) to handle a Beta launch. Highly recommended.

Out-of-the-box support for "viral" social referrals, exporting to MailChimp, webhooks to notify of new sign-ups. Nice minimalist bootstrap interface as well.
for over 15 years i've scrolled down webpages using the arrow keys. can't do this with newsblur. everything else about newsblur excites me and i want to explore it, but having the down arrow go to next story just breaks my usage so hard...

sure i got a mouse. i try to avoid using it too much.
But they could only afford a bitten fruit not a fresh one.
I don't understand your argument. We are talking about kernel architecture (and specifically, monolithic kernels vs microkernels).

Specifically, I brought up QNX as an example of microkernel-based OS used in the wild, as opposed to Hurd and (presumably) Minix - which gets to show that they can be made to work. However QNX is marketed is no concern of mine.
Not to mention night driving...
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He also invented and prototyped OpenID.
In an appropriately powerful language, it could be a function call.
"go right ahead" Yeah! My neighbours can go fuck themselves! Always complaining about my 3am parties and my friends from the Silencers Are a Crime Motorbike Club. It's my turn to be selfish!
That's what used to be called liberal, before that label got re-used.
Question for designers: how do you share your designs with clients/team, in order to explore both design & workflows? (this would be at Photoshop stage, no coding started yet. An example: the series of Instanote mockups from the article)

Do you do this as a series of images in any order, or do you use some tool such as Invision, to build interactive prototypes?
Practically speaking, it is not supported enough to be any useful.
Pretty much all food products.
When it's posted on the front page of a news site, it's hardly confidential any more...
I used iRedMail to setup department mail server and it just worked. I had no problems with configuration: IMAP, SSL, SMTP - everything works out of the box. Spam protection is also adequate, at least for a relatively low-volume usage.
Challenge mode: Leave the guessing map at default zoom. 20 minutes or less.

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K-Meleon[1] also provides an option to turn off tabbed browsing. Just go to Edit > Preferences > Browsing > Tabbed Browsing and uncheck the "Enable Tabbed Browsing" checkbox.

NOTE #1: K-Meleon's last update was 3 years ago.

NOTE #2: If you are using multiple proxies it has a built-in menu to switch between them. This is its "killer" feature

[1]: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/download.php
You hit the nail on the head. Reality wouldn't let you do all of that without compromises, and we didn't agree where the compromises should be. But that wouldn't stop a politician from promising all of the above. :-)

That said, we did find broad agreement on many things that are completely off the political map in the USA. For example we could reduce the size of our military, liberalize drugs, get rid of the DEA, and reduce prison populations. All of that saves money. We also agreed that none of us actually expect Social Security to still exist when we need it, and so we'd prefer it replaced in the long run by something out of the hands of the politicians. Something along the lines of Australia's Superannuation would make sense. (But it wouldn't be fair to do it like Bush suggested - where it is privatized but with cutoffs that massively reduce what people can expect to get.)

Absolutely none of that is in the public discourse. But it would have been more popular in that office than anything being offered by the political parties.

In other conversations we also agreed that in general it is better to make rules simple and clear with the right incentives, rather than trying to add rules and counter rules that are guaranteed to give perverse incentives and a field day for lobbyists. For example we have laws mandating fuel efficiency standards, with complex exceptions saying that different types of vehicles get different treatment. I can't say anything about the net result other than that I'm sure that it lets politicians say that they solved the problem, while giving established Detroit companies some benefit. (The most obvious candidate for a benefit is that the regulatory mess is a barrier to entry for competitors.) But if you simply tax carbon fuels steeply enough, then incentives will be right. And then if you redistribute those taxes back to people in direct payments, then people can afford the taxes, and are left pushed to choose efficient vehicles for economic reasons.
One of the benefits of microkernels is supposed to be their resilience (since code that would otherwise be in the kernel is now in servers and can be restarted if it goes wrong or upgraded in place without taking down the whole kernel).

That sounds like a pretty good practical benefit to me.
You are wasting my time. (That's a good thing!) Thanks!
Live in countryside, take care of sheep and planting!
> By the standards of anywhere else there is only very right / slightly less right.

Depends. Germansy is rather social democratic, but to a German government subsidised housing (via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) and universal minumum wage sound vaguely socialist.
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Well, there is a place for "magic numbers" if considered within context.

Most people here would read 0xFF0000 and automatically think "red".

But I agree that in this case a define would have helped.
FYI: RFC 3920 was obsoleted by RFC6120 in 2011.

Implementing a lot of features is a lot of work. How is this different from any other protocol, or any kind of system?
It depends!

If you can afford to hire a programmer to code for you it'd be fine, so you can focus on other things.
- I don't care how much money these guys make out of this

- I don't care what they do to their own bodies

- I do care that they don't have any rigorous testing done before offering this to the public without disclaimers.
Most accounts remember you've authenticated until you log out. That's never been a problem for me
First, my comment was not directed solely at you but at the conversation in general.

Second, the original context of that conversation isn't kernel architectures, but what particular kernels "offer".

Discussing kernel architectures as if they're a practical advantage is surreal.
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It's also a matter of attitude. If you're not willing to put up with having to study for what you perceive to be arbitrary interview questions, you probably won't do well with all the other annoying things that can't be changed that big companies tend to have.

Which is kind of what many people in this thread are saying when they say they don't want to work for a company stupid enough to use algorithms and data structures questions as their main interview method.
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Resilience is the requirement. "Microkernel" is a possible means to an end, not the end itself.
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This is a brilliant idea.

I love the fact that you can explore really obscure parts of the worlds in a couple of seconds and it almost feels like you're there. It's a great way of getting a feel for a place before visiting too.

I also love maps in general so this is a really cool mixture.
Let us deploy your nodejs code.
Your leg is being pulled, a little. Mach-o is the mach object file format, Brian Kernighan's C 'hello world' program is being used as source for, I think, a test. It's checked into the go tree with version history all the way back to its primordial source.
Nikola Tesla might have something to say about that...
That was tight: http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTEyNzgsInZl...
I used to work with Thomas Bushnell, who was deeply involved with the Hurd at the beginning. His claim was that microkernels offered theoretical advantages on paper, but practical complications that Stallman seriously underestimated.

He says that he had originally suggested taking a BSD kernel and rewriting all of the (then) legally risky bits, and he still believes that this would have been straightforward, and if they had followed that route then Linux would not have stolen their thunder. But he let Stallman argue him out of it, and that was a mistake.
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Relevant XKCD (the current one!) http://xkcd.com/1215/
My C module is APSW - a python wrapper around SQLite - https://code.google.com/p/apsw/

It supports every version of Python from 2.3 onwards with the exception of 3.0. I provide binaries for Windows and astonishingly people are still downloading the 2.3 version.

As you stated, most of the work is done by feeding the C preprocessor relevant information - https://code.google.com/p/apsw/source/browse/src/pyutil.c

It did take me considerably longer to make my test suite work. This is because I have 99.6% code coverage, and it exercises a lot of edge/error conditions. The test suite code (in Python) is written to run under both Python 2 and 3 as is and has to use some of the similar tricks with exec as the article mentioned. Fun challenges are constructing invalid UTF8 sequences in all Python versions and that sort of thing.
I think he was waiting for a billion dollar. That's why he didn't really cared about money at first, but building a billion dollar company.
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I rather expect that latency and bandwidth would be significant issues there, not to mention jamming attacks.
I had the opposite experience: once I was dropped in Macau. Where else do you have signs in Portuguese and Chinese and a large baroque church in ruins? I had sub-kilometer precision without even moving.