skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i am referring to a 'legit' robot platform that has sufficient sensors, wheel tick counting, etc, to implement full-on SLAM to get around an area of your house or something (built up from raw sensor and control I/O), which I'm assuming is kind of the "write a decent ray tracer" or "write a lisp" of the robotics world.

turtlebot is like $2k, for example:

http://store.clearpathrobotics.com/
Not so strange. It's just an art piece and there is lots more of that kind of thing out there. Look into early 20th century surrealism for instance. Watch the film Un Chien Andalou.

It would be more interesting if it was not trying to be a knockoff of the Voynich manuscript.

Also, some anime is like this, for instance Porco Rosso and The Wings of Honneamise. Both of them take place in alternate realities.
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I think another space race would be a good thing actually.

In fact I think it's how we should solve all our international disputes: First country to put a man on mars gets the South China Sea.
Clearly, there is only one implicication: Google is Skynet and became sentient a while ago. Now it is looking into building a physical manifestation of itself.
Just note that you're defending this tweet:
"I'mma rape you in your mouth"
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The recent Ashes 2013 cricket game was so bug-ridden it was taken off Steam after less than a week. It looks like all refunds were handled by the publisher though:

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/02/ashes-cricket-2013-pulled-...
Or they will direct their talents not to the military any more (after honoring existing contracts) to other more non-violent applications.
4chan links don't generally live too long. i don't know what this is about really, but github staff took down the repo i assume is related https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

edit: google cache still has the main page of the repo up, fyi
The point I was trying to make was that this is great, but at the end of the day my final asset is a little simulator running on my computer that is basically only interesting to other robotics geeks and doesn't actually "do" anything. Some my earliest projects as a programmer were things like photo organization tools, online forum software, ANSI art editors, things that solved a tangible problem and that I could share and others could use. This aspect to it was key in keeping me motivated since it wasn't really a "homework assignment" that solved some abstract problem. I feel like there's a gap here.
> For example, much is made of the fact that real-life Special Forces soldiers aid in the development of these games for the sake of authenticity. That's great, but that authenticity is then baked into products that paint a wholly misleading picture about the realities of war. The Medal of Honor franchise is also guilty of this.

Obviously, any claim at "authenticity" of a game in which you play a bullet-sponge with health regen is laughable at best. People actually caring about authenticity would play ARMA, in which the reward for "heroism" is being shot by a bunch of pixels hiding in a bush 500 m away. But even ARMA (or least it was the case in the original Operation Flashpoint) is heavily sanitized. It's empty of civilians. No sniper shoots at children. Wounded are not trying to put their guts back in place. It's the Star Wars version of war, where the Stormtroopers either stand or fall, and innocents never get hurt.
I know there are many many subtleties in "X is easier to read than Y" (capitals vs lowercase, ligatures vs no ligatures, black on white vs yellow on black, etc) claims, but surely, blackletter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter) must be harder to read than modern writing. I can't find a paper on that, though. It probably would be hard to find subjects with equal experience reading that and modern writing.
How about 1/2 off the print edition while your at it? :-)
I do understand the reasoning behind it, just as a ML fan would like to see the possibility of proper support for GUI/Web for pure F# applications.

But I fully understand it, on my enterprise world JVM == Java and .NET == C#, except when doing small prototypes. It is very hard to use alternative languages, as managers always look for coding drones.
I'm sorry but how did this make it to the first page? Nothing new in this article and not deep enough to provide new insights either.
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> In fact, the single-player campaign is just something you do when you get temporarily bored with multiplayer. If a teenage player did think of what the story implies then I am sure that he is also smart enough to think about it further and conclude that that's quite silly.

By the same token, a campaign glorifying White Power would be perfectly fine. If developers are putting serious money into crafting a single-player story, and people are playing (in fact, I think I read some time ago a CoD developer expressing surprise at the number of people playing only the campaign and not the multiplayer), it's perfectly legitimate to criticize it.
"The shell is closely tied to running commands..."

s/commands/programs/

But yes, I agree.

To arrive at a return value, APL evaluates a mathematical operation, whereas the shell evaluates the result(s) of executing a file.
http://schaft-inc.jp/

http://www.industrial-perception.com/

http://mekabot.com/

http://redwoodrobotics.com/

http://www.botndolly.com/

http://www.autofuss.com/

http://www.holomni.com/

The common themes I see are:

- Movie industry

- Anthropomorphic robots

This is not aimed at utility applications, but seems to head into the human-machine-interface (HMI) direction.
Instead of motivating Indian students, it would make more sense to motivate those who are working in US. Education has its role to play but so is the experience that one gains.
You can have OO without classes.

I just meant OO in general, not classes specifically.
And they do for this course, see the bottom of the page. If you only want to use free software this is a problem, but if you want to learn this is great!
Same for MIT2.01x I think. It's good product placement for them but definitely makes the forums less interesting than other courses where you have people working together to demonstrate how to use some program/language to solve problems in the course.
wow, there must not have been much to do back in those days.
Very interesting concept, but I was sort of hoping it was a Fermi Problem estimator.
It's so refreshing to read an end-of-year list that isn't a slideshow. One of the many things to love about web-friendly companies like Mozilla.
"Imagine a jetline with a pilot that never makes
a mistake, never gets tired, never shows up to
work with a hangover."
(he taps the prototype)
"Meet the pilot."
-- Miles Dyson, Termintor 2
Call of Duty isn't even a good shooter. The franchise has become the example of a dull, repetitive and undemanding interactive experience - I don't even say game because most of it are scripted sequences with almost no player interaction or challenge. And the rest of it is uninspired "gun down 10000000 guys walking direct upfront to you who are too dumb to even hurt you". Also this "authenticity" is basically laughable. Because there is none. It is not a authentic war game (like arma) and it is even too dumb, easy and restricted to be a simple straight forward ego shooter (like serious sam). It's the Michael Bay of video games.
There is indeed a correlation between a physical (or three-dimensional virtual) place and information. The ancient Greeks discovered this. The British historian Frances Yates wrote about this in her Art of Memory. What is lacking in computer UI is precisely taking advantage of this ancient insight.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot...

This is interesting because of the time. The Darpa grand robotics challenge is 1 week:

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121335

Now 2 of Google's recent acquisitions are A-list competitors. I wonder how much they paid for BD, and how much of a priority it was for Google to make the deal before the challenge and not after.
Yes, I that's Android Chrome with its crazy font size guessing :/

Chrome has also more HTML5 related bugs than all other modern browser combined, as JQuery devs mentioned in their blog (2.0 release). It correlates with my own web dev expierence as well. It would be great if Google would employ some QA managers.
I didn't have resume problems--I had a recruiter call me out of the blue and complain that my resume was for something other that the position he was attempting to fill!
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It's not that they are cumbersome, it's the cost. Currently you would be hard pressed to find USB sticks in bulk for less than $1, $1.50. Retail is much more. They are not disposable yet. It's too bad this product is vaporware. 2 gb (even 512 mb) disposable USB's would be great.
This is an excellent example of gothic font. I just started learning calligraphy and this was the third font to learn.
http://www.ageofarmour.com/education/font.html
I have a hard time believing this happened to you, as I have had interactions with Steam customer service for similar issues and they usually gave me credit. If you really think Steam's return policy is bad, let me know how Best Buy or Gamestop treats after you bought and played a game and want a refund.
It's amazing because it's so clearly, wildly complementary: Google becomes the prefrontal cortex to Boston Dynamics' robotic central nervous systems. I can't see this pairing as anything other than the beginning of the world of sci-fi robotics.
Yeah, I blame people who support nanny states for children who are afraid of thinking. These people think children are some fragile things which are incapable of thinking.

I've met kids who were raised as people instead of as sub-human property. They are not damaged. They can make solid choices. They know what's real and what's not, and fiction doesn't hurt them no more than it does any adult. Children are hungry for knowledge, and when gained it is exactly what makes people more resilient against what you fear.

On topic, CoD is not made for children. It's made for adults. But if a child was exposed to it and they understood it was all pretend do you think they would be in any way damaged? If they understood that in reality it's not okay to shoot people that playing a game would make them want to shoot people in the real world? Would they think it was okay to shoot Russians? That the US needs a larger army?

I grew up in a highly religious family and was censored from basically every media in fear of the "crap" turning me toward satan. Which was everything, and it makes me roll my eyes now what they thought would turn me away from their god. This is why I hold so much disdain for people who are so worried about kids being exposed to crap. Let the kids decide if it's crap or not. Talk with them about why they like it or not. If something concerns you about what they are interested in, talk with them to make sure they understand what is and isn't real, what is acceptable in the real world and what isn't. If they know what's real and what isn't why should they fear? Why should they be damaged in any way?
This is my project, and you're correct. It's governed by NZ law. You'd need to get lawyers in other countries to check for you to be sure it would work there.
They are also one of the biggest sites on the net with massive passive traffic. It's like saying every game can have the success of Minecraft.
yeah this is why pakis shouldnt be allowed near computers
The lack of fair use is a problem in non-US jurisdictions.

However, I'm not aware of anywhere where copyright lasts longer than the US (except in special cases like Peter Pan[1], even if that is really just perpetual rights to royalties from performance[2]).

Edit: Just noticed that [2] says copyright in Mexico is actually longer than in the US, but I'm not aware of the specifics of how it works.

[1] http://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/copyright/

[2] http://www.gosh.org/gen/peterpan/copyright/faq/#Copyright
Great. This company actually makes awesome things. I really hope Google doesn't ruin them.
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It basically looks like BigPicture.
I started reading the book, and half way through realized that the meteor sites will not work when client side javascript is disabled. Is that correct?

(I realize that a workaround could be to crawl your own site and serve it statically, but that's prone to pitfalls).
Nice idea to give free access to the book for one day. I bought it a few weeks ago can really recommend it. At the moment this is the only Meteor book I am aware of that covers all necessary topics to get you started.

I experienced one minor issue though concerning reading the book on a kindle (paperwhite): https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/book/issues/120 Luckily there is a workaround for that by sending the PDF to your @kindle.com email address using the subject "convert". This fixes the font issues.
Is "revenue" clear enough of a term for defining a split?
Put politics aside?

Nationalism is all we've got to push forward space exploration; While there were initially subtexts involving spy satellites and nuclear weapons, the tech has been there for forty years, and forty years ago we stopped making progress and settled into a holding pattern involving the Shuttle and a modest space station in some sort of 'spirit of cooperation' that is earmark- rather than goal-oriented.

I can only hope China's national inferiority complex is intense enough to propel human beings beyond low earth orbit once more, and shame us out of our hyperpower exceptionalism. Yes, shame - Russia can send someone to the ISS and the US cannot - and without the US feeling ashamed of that, there is no Dragon, no Dream Chaser, no Orion.

Without a political space race, there's no resources for this sort of thing except for the passing billionaire.
I guess when you are building killer dog robots for the defence department "Do No Evil" becomes more of an ironic catchphrase than a statement of principles.
Actually it's because of Virtualbox. I just bought a Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago to do some iOS native app development and Virtualbox is one of the first things that I installed. I already have my Ubuntu VM and my Windows 7 VM up and running, ready for when I need to do some work that is OS specific.

Not to say that there is anything wrong with VMWare or Parallels, its just that I happen to like Virtualbox and have used it on Linux and Windows as well.

I was originally planning on getting a used machine but when I looked at the prices of new ones and compared prices, the difference was just too small to take the risks of non-warranty hardware.
It's like meeting someone at the bar. A lot of people wouldn't ask them back to their place right away. But that doesn't necessarily mean being upfront and to the point wouldn't work, it certainly does, all the time. Someone like yourself considers it a positive trait, as do I.

It all comes down to chemistry and expectations. Engineering types generally appreciate candor, a somewhat unique trait, but it's definitely gaining some traction with other groups. I don't think many investors appreciate it, but that doesn't mean a cold email won't work -- but it better be extraordinary.
I assumed the final asset would be your education.

But there is a real gap here: You probably don't have any problems that a simple robot would fix. You can buy a Roomba if you want. The killer app for robots is the autonomous car, and that is coming. No one has figured out what you want a robot for in that huge gap. Heartland has a nifty $20K robot that will do light handling tasks. You still don't want one.

If you can think of a robot version of the little software projects, good on you.
This is really nice to read, but it's not that special. For example, the Dutch prime minister earns €144.000 euros a year. It's a high salary, but nothing at all that affords a palace. A good senior programmer earns the same in the valley, and the taxes here are higher.

I find this whole idea that presidents should be posh and it's super-special if they're not, well, a bit odd and basically thr wrong approach.

We should be amazed, instead, when presidents build ridiculous palaces for themselves, like the White House or Putin's Palace [0]. I don't understand why people can look at the White House with any sense of awe. To me (and I'm about as politically centred as they get), it's a giant show off of the haves towards the have-nots. Nya-nya, look at my fancy big white palace with lots of armed guards and hundreds of expensive paintings.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin's_Palace
No one here is criticizing veterans who do consulting gigs. I think it's great the opportunity exists in the first place.

Part of what I was trying to convey, and what I believe the post you're replying to was trying to convey, was the inherent surrealism involved in the whole process.

You have SF veterans coming home from an ongoing conflict, getting paid to consult for companies making entertainment products that purport to portray the very same conflict they just came from, and may even return to. It's just weird on many levels.

In an ideal world, these guys would be paid better and get slotted into executive-level jobs upon return, negating any need to do consulting gigs. On the other hand, as another poster pointed out: working with a game studio in that capacity is something akin to a movie deal; it's very, very cool.
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Why? Dogs are autonomous as well, but live happily without such philosophical conflict.
Some thoughts, more knowledgeable people might want to comment:

Set up a company in some "tax heaven" offshore country (source). In some another country (destination), register yourself as an employee of that company.

So basically, you (from the source country) will pay the salary to you (to the destination country).

You should choose the destination country which do not tax salaries/incomes paid by companies in foreign countries (there are countries like this, including in [eastern] Europe).
Strong AI is a really hard thing to achieve and it isn't always clear that it is a sell-able commodity to individuals. But something in the direction of an exocortex can be seen as valuable to individuals because it will give them additional capabilities.
I don't believe that things are so simple. Some things are not in a repo like Homebrew or MacPorts. Personally I chose to use MacPorts for UNIX world tools. I installed STS Eclipse from their site. Same with AppCode. There are other things that you need to go and hunt for.

Even on Linux, which has arguably the best package repo systems, you still need to go to upstream for important tools because the distros lag behind.
It's a fairly strong negative signal. Convince your cofounder to quit his job and convince him that you will definitely get funding. It will be a good test of your leadership skills.
David Bowie, Klaus Nomi, and Iggy Pop insist meh evil is plenty.
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Pretty sure unclean unmount potential just rose immensely. Whoops, the sticky note fell off… just lost data / corrupted my filesystem.
Have you looked at Groovy/Grails/Gradle? You can use the existing Java code and ecosystem or you can choose to do things the new way, you have access to a web framework similar to Rails, it's pretty nice.
The problem isn't with the American way of hiring, it's with the American way of voting.
I filled the forms and I saw you mention use of the tor-bundle.
Anonymity is very hard to archive. So if you guide people that need it, be very careful!
PLEASE provide them dedicated instructions to embed that bundle inside/behind proper firewall / virtual machine. Otherwise they can easily be trapped by some leaking streams (e.g. tcp/dns) outside tor to identify their IP. That all must be blocked! Hope to hear from your project.
Well yeah I guess if you count robotic mules as killer dogs.
Hopefully Google is cancelling all military contracts. Otherwise they will become part of the military industry which would be their worst decision.
Anyone who describes graphene as "paper thin" has no idea what they are talking about.
Because of my excitement I almost jumped into academia, for PL research. Then, I realized that I have a family to feed :) and after all, I never really wanted to become a teacher/professor.

As for the "real world" side - I'm in the domain where C++ is still the best tool - good enough high-level constructs (but could be better, of course, we're slowly moving toward it) along with low-level stuff and determinism.
I believe the core of VoltDB (the in memory storage engine) is written in C++. See here: https://github.com/VoltDB/voltdb/blob/master/src/frontend/or...

"VoltDB mainly consists of Java modules for easier development.
However, the core EE and its underlying on-memory storage system is
implemented in C++. Nowadays Java and C++ have almost same performance
for many cases, but C++ still outperforms Java on low-level memory accesses.
This is why we have EE and its storage system written in C++."
Silly me. I didn't even know that Virtualbox existed for the Mac. I too like it a lot in the windows environment and use it to play with Chrome OS. I'll have to give the Mac version a look. Thanks.
That's not true, at least with Python. It uses duck typing, there is no type check before execution. It just runs the code you give it, if you try to call a method that doesn't exist (split on a integer), it will just give an error.
There is a greasemonkey script:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121261
The you get your card company to chargeback every single purchase you made.
Why not use file system that can handle such misuse? Aren't there transactional file systems?
Help me write a book on how to theme Twitter Bootstrap
I've started the process of writing a book on how to easily theme Twitter Bootstrap. Before I get too far into the process, I thought I would reach out to see if anyone has any feedback on the proposed topics.

It would mean a lot to me if could take a minute to check out the below blog post and let me know what you think of the topics I have planned out. Please also feel free to suggest a topic that is not included in the list.

When the book is ready for download, I'll be giving away a copy + all the bonus materials to one random reader who leaves a comment. Thanks for reading.

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What isn't clear to me from that post is whether they're giving something for the open source community, or for a part of the Linux community that runs proprietary drivers, distribution platforms, games, etcetra on top of some open source?
Well, when I posted the comment it was like this

https://github.com/cisco/openh264/blob/3747f562492ea301b84e3...

view history here

https://github.com/cisco/openh264/commits/master/CONTRIBUTOR...
I think it's set up to help the people looking at the physical resources they have there (older and rare books on paper mostly), rather than someone looking to work exclusively with an internet connection. If you're not interested in the books, it is of course not a great place to work, though the cafe is pretty good for meetings.

I'm not sure it's really an appropriate place for entrepreneurs unless they are interested in accessing or using the books somehow. When all the other libraries have shut down or turned into Internet access centers, this one will still be valuable as a repository of the books we choose to keep as physical artefacts.
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Puzzling that you would only be concerned with violence from one source.
In this case what you're looking for is the "sweat of the brow" doctrine which holds that copyright is achievable through hard work and not just originality.

There are also entire classes of IP protection which the US doesn't recognise but are common elsewhere, for example sui generis rights.