skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many drivers in India properly obey driving laws? My understanding is that it can be pretty hectic driving India streets and breaking the law is required to make forward progress. I'm guessing a self driving car as designed for the US roads may be useless in India.
This is going to change the world.

No more car insurance. Vastly fewer driving fatalities. Shared cars. Less parking problems.

I can't wait. Just take my money already.
A smartphone app would probably suffice, given that I can control a drone aircraft with one already.
I think you're underestimating the amount of pollution/resources that go into making a car. Reducing the overall number of cars produced would offset a huge number of those extra trips.
And not only that, but you can email them directly to your Kindle. So a third-party store could just ask for your Kindle email, have you add it to the whitelist and "then" provide a fairly streamlined experience.
Google announced the latest version of the Self Driving Car
$73 thousand and I'd believe it.
Discredited newswire here:
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/parkingmadeeasy-com-au-acq...
My co-founder was one of the first 3 people accepted to Canada from the US via the Startup Visa program (I'm Canadian, made him move) - We're fully realizing the benefits of operating in Canada as a CCPC. This article doesn't even touch on how much is actually going on here. Not only was the cover photo offensive, I question if they even researched the topic because they barely touched on IRAP which is just as beneficial as SRED.

Talk to any founder from Canada and you'll likely get more reliable info then was in this article. The compelling reasons to start a company here are many and they are no secret.
Haha, this is a pretty spectacular amount of cognitive dissonance you're demonstrating here.

Let's post-mortem this lunacy:

1) You misinterpret jsmthrowaway's initial comment as vaguely racist (or something), notice the word "throwaway" in his user name and get really excited that you can stand on your high horse and call him out for hiding behind the shield of internet anonymity when he wants to be a (you think) racist idiot. Even though his comment is a legitimate currency conversion remark. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=1+usd+in+yen

2) He explains that clearly you're mistaken (which, really, seriously, what a kneejerk response from someone who just wanted to show how clever they were, calling out an "asshole") and further explains his account isn't even a "throwaway" in the traditional, trolly sense of the word, citing his account age and the fact that he regularly actively posts to the account.

3) You, caught perhaps in a moment of clarity, though I think I give you too much credit here, realize you were too eager to pounce on the "asshole" for his "Yen" remark, and perhaps you misread it. Your latent erection fading, you counter by explaining that your history and karma are even _more_ impressive, somehow completely avoiding taking responsibility for a completely nonsensical leap in logic and accusation of wrongdoing, while doubling down on your cognitive dissonance.

4) The Aristocrats!
Griddit
Their comment might have more teeth than it appears. It's a datapoint to potential Amazon competitors about how they might coax away some of Amazon's clientele. While an Amazon competitor is unlikely to pop up, it's not completely impossible, either. The recipe is for Amazon to make mistakes and for those mistakes to be scrutinized by the public. In the internet age, people's low tolerance for injustice and inconvenience equals a business opportunity.
I bet you'll still need insurance (or the provider will need it, in a service model).

It should be much, much cheaper though. Most vehicle accidents are caused by human error -- the insurance would just need to cover accidents caused by mechanical or software failure.
Nope, the ISA power model is an input to their work.

And on the underlying question, there's been recent academic work on this, e.g. in [1]. Common wisdom these days (among many people at least) is that the architecture (ISA) doesn't matter too much w.r.t. power, as compared to the microarchitecture. The reason is that modern implementations translate whatever quirks exist in the ISA into a fairly uniform set of underlying micro-ops; an out-of-order superscalar implementation of x86 and ARM will look pretty similar. (Go read Bob Colwell's book on P6/Pentium Pro, the first out-of-order x86, for some more insight on this.)

The conflation of ARM/low-power and x86/high-power is a historical thing: x86 started on desktops and moved downward, while ARM started in embedded systems and moved upward. It's becoming less true as each heads toward the same target (mobile). Remaining differences in efficiency are mostly functions of implementation choices and engineering quality.

Big disclaimer: I worked at Intel after doing grad school in computer architecture, so I may be slightly biased. :-)

[1] E. Blem et al. "Power struggles: Revisiting the RISC vs. CISC debate on Contemporary ARM and x86 Architectures." In HPCA-19, 2013.
Maybe it's because I don't know Java, but the complete separation of interface for "ImmutableBagFactory" and an implementation "ImmutableBagFactoryImpl", and the fact you need a factory for an "ImmutableBag" in the first place... seems like very poor design. Even if it is common in Java (?).
"Customers aren't mine. I'm not allowed to send any of the people that buy from me a link to my website or collect any of their data"

I'm curious: which bookseller does let you do this? Barnes & Noble? Your neighborhood bookstore?
It will, if you look at a long enough time scale - eg hundreds of years - the issue of course is we keep leaving more trash every year.
It would in a few decades.
Dave Aucsmith: Rethinking Cyber Defense and Lessons Learned [video]
I think viggle is trying to disrupt this space. They use audio matching to "check-in" to shows from your phone, which earn you points you can redeem for tangible rewards, all while collecting viewer data at a more granular level than a neilson box.
It's a truly ancient anecdote; it probably predates the Internet.

The first example in RISKS is in 1994: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/15.59.html#subj3.1 but the canonical version of the story is in a Cape Town hospital in 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/20040624065333/http://www.legends...
Slightly off-topic, but is clisp still being developed? The last release seems to be from around 2010.
I think Google could reach their goal faster if they started with more controlled environments - such as baggage vehicles at airports or mining trucks. There are plenty of people in my part of the world who are paid six figures to drive a truck up and down the same road of a mine all day.
Mechanical failure was always possible with brakes.
This whole discussion turns on whether Amazon is a monopoly. That's the reason it's such a problem for Comcast to do it -- they have a hard monopoly on access to Comcast subscribers. You can't gain access to any Comcast subscribers by peering with Sonic, because the number of customers who simultaneously subscribe to multiple residential ISPs is effectively zero. Whereas you can sell your product to "Amazon customers" without selling through Amazon, because the percentage of customers who patronize more than one retailer is substantially all of them.
I never want to own another car. That is a huge amount of capital I could put towards Uber, or this.
"Sure, just like, any one of the computer manufacturers that Microsoft was pressuring in the 1990s could have just pulled out of selling computers with Windows and rolled their own OS."

Setting up an independent ebook sales portal isn't as hard as writing a new operating system and getting it adopted. Not by many orders of magnitude.

You need:

1) A credit card processor.
2) An email server.

That's all.
I like how people use tools for their own good and then blame them solely for everything going wrong. The least people using spreadsheet should have done is have a form of background check not using spreadsheet to check if their data is near correct value.
This article contains some serious p-value abuse. The p-value should be adjusted to account for multiple testing. You do this to minimise the effect that a hypothesis would be accepted purely due to random chance.

Try setting your p-value to your Type 1 error rate divided by the number of tests you perform. It will be much smaller, and this is a good thing. Significance should really test for significance, not random chance.
Also here's the accompanying blog post: http://karan.github.io/reddit-is-flawed/

It basically explains why I made this and what my vision is.
One of the cars my parents had when I was growing up was a VW Eurovan. The seat configuration in the car was a 'sofa' (fits 3) facing forwards and then 2 seats facing the sofa. On the left hand side of the car was a foldable table. As a kid it was fun to use it to play cards with the person in front of you or to eat, etc. etc.

0:50 over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBt-013d7Bw

I absolutely agree that cars can be much more fun when set up with different seating configurations.
That's a fair complaint. The PBKDF2 answer is quite satisfactory (though I think that these days 10k iterations is warranted).

What I'm much more concerned about though is the server-side encryption of the notes[1]. Having the notes encrypted with a key that's kept on the same server, however frequently changes, adds barely any security. It gives the illusion of security: they can now truthfully say "your notes are encrypted on the server, yay!" But that's disingenuous, because the keys are stored on the same server.

A much better system would be to encrypt the notes on the device, using a key derived from the password. That way, the server can never see the plaintext of the notes, except for during login and when the password is being changed[2].

[1]: http://inessential.com/2014/04/17/vesper_sync_diary_14_keys

[2]: This is actually pretty easy to get around, by not sending the plaintext password to the server for login, but rather a different password-derived key. But if it were built that way it'd make it a little harder to update all the notes when changing passwords. But again, you could fix that by simply storing an encrypted version of a randomly generated encryption key on the service, and simply re-generating that when the password is changed, without having to chain the note ciphertexts. Kind of like how OS X full disk encryption works.

I actually touched on this by mentioning it to Brent via twitter the other day: https://twitter.com/kob/status/471152663384440832
I always use patterns for non-core services. It works well except when there are annoying rules for passwords that don't match my pattern. However those are edge cases that force me to either remember my password or I don't use their service.

For my core passwords, such as workstations, email and servers, I still use a pattern but I tend to just remember those and therefore don't have problems when I need to change. For my work password I start it with number of months since I joined the company, and this follows along with the requirement to change my password each month.
Or for even any app:

open -n /path/to/application.app

From the open man page:

-n Open a new instance of the application(s) even if one is already running.
1. Not sure I agree with the first point. People hunting for a parking space once a day likely causes less pollution then a car driving itself to a charging station or depot twice a day. Plus, if these are an affordable method of commuting, you're going to be pulling people away from public transportation, and getting more vehicles on the road. If they're more expensive, then you'll just have people buying their own, and then they're in your situation, where they buy an SUV model since it's more versatile.

2. Moving some depots outside the city will definitely help. Yes, some of the cars going into the city will be used for courier jobs, or tourist day trips, but that's an incredibly small percentage. You might have 500,000 automated cars taking people to work. 450,000 sit in a depot waiting for the evening commute, and 50,000 are used for people active in the day. Once again 500,000 people take their car home, and about 450,000 sit idle again waiting for the next day. How does this work as a business? If you use one of these cars for work, you need to pay for 90% of the cost, because that car rarely gets used outside of taking you to and from work. Sure, you could do a ride share with a couple of other people, but still, the few of you are renting that car full-time. It doesn't work.

3. If these can be solar charged, then surely a taxi can be solar charged, so there's no difference in fuel cost. You're paying a driver, and someone in an office answering calls, so there is an extra cost, and I think they have a use case here.

In short, these cars need to be on the road all day long, that's how they lower their prices and raise efficiency. That doesn't work for daily commuting. However, they would be an incredible taxi service. Imagine you have a fleet of 100 automated cars, people use an app to set their pickup/destination, and the cars find the most efficient way of organizing the routes and schedule. A car breaks down, and another one automatically reroutes itself. You could give people the option of carpooling with a checkbox. Let people register on the app, and upload a photo. So, you set your destination, and it says it'll be $10 and 15 minutes, or you can carpool with John (25/male), and it'll cost your $7.50, and 20 minutes. This could even happen while you're in transit. You get a pop-up on the dash. Want to lower your rate and share a ride with the person in this photo? Say yes, we'll credit $5 to your account, and take a 5 minute detour to pick them up. Worried about safety? You could review passengers, and only car pool with people that have a high rating and good feedback. I think that's exciting, it should offer lower rates to consumers, and you get to socialize with new people at the same time, so you might make some friends on your next taxi ride.
It's incorrect that salted hashes are obsolete or quickly attackable per se. Password hashes are a subset of all hashes. Therefore they are hashes. bcrypt uses an internal salt (as it says in the first two sentences of its Wikipedia page).
There have been self-driving trains for some time now (Nuremberg, London Docklands). There are more people to be responsible for on a train and I do not see why a bus would be a special case.
To do an OS in the 90s you just need to form Linux. That was it.

Adoption is hard for both scenarios.
I don't advocate deleting the history of my clients, do you have problem with reading comprehension?

The thing I "advocate" happens to be the best practice recommended by Google (if you'd care to dig into the docs, and no one does) for sharing the administration and viewing of Site Analytics groups (they're called Site Analytics "accounts" which are inside Google "accounts" so you can imagine that many folks get confused over what is what).

The best practice is not to create a new Google account and not to share that account's password with strangers (or even friends). There's a method for sharing just analytics with other Google Accounts, buried in the Site Analytics admin panel.

With that setup, the client will be creating a Site Analytics account within his personal Google account, and sharing said Site Analytics with my personal account. And I won't be able to see, let alone delete or disable their search history. Alas, that's not how things usually go.

People just don't get it, so they create new Google accounts over my head, share it with everyone, and everyone's search history ends up in the shared accounts. So when that accounts gets to me, I delete & disable search history. I know for a fact no one who ever logged into this shared account intended to share their browsing history with people.

Exacerbating the problem is the fact Google accounts are intentionally designed so that you log in and forget you're logged in. Google wants to know who you are. The accounts are also designed so that if you want a standalone account for analytics, it's a full-blown Google account, so you end up with people's search history in there (and a bunch of other services no one asked about, like email, docs etc.). And people don't understand the implications of sharing a Google account they've been logged into.

By the way, thanks for twisting my words and intent out of shape like you did. Now that I've had to waste the time to explain my original post as if to an imbecile, I'm sure everyone reading this will gain clarity about the situation I was describing. Cheers.
I know there are open-cast mines that already use remotely controlled/monitored and self-driving trucks. I think using it in an environment that they're used to, and which I presume would be most practical, makes sense. It is more helpful for them to research and build their technology where it will mostly be used, on the streets. There is more volume of traffic, which makes it possible to deploy 100 small cars cost-wise, and could lead to 'quicker' development as they won't always be slowed down by legal and other negotiations with airport companies and the like.

Just my thoughts anyways :)
If only my bike powers and steers itself
"Boycotting does nothing"

Actually for-real boycotting and similar types of actions like calls for coordinated divestiture do often cause changes, sometimes very big ones; but a few people posting on some internet forums is by no means a real boycott.

Personally I also have a number of issues with Amazon but none of them are serious enough to overcome the fact that they do retail sales on the Internet about a billion times better than anyone else (only Newegg comes close, and only in the narrow band of computers/electronics).
> Whereas you can sell your product to "Amazon customers" without selling through Amazon, because the percentage of customers who patronize more than one retailer is substantially all of them.

For online purchase of books? Not even close to "substantially all of them".
You submitted this a few hours ago. Deleting then resubmitting is not good.
Isn't overall sales for Amazon published in their annual report?
> And Amazon has a huge stake in two major policy issues upon which this touches:
> (1) Monopolistic collusion in e-books; and

Pray tell who is Amazon colluding with?

> (2) Net neutrality

Amazon doesn't offer last mile internet service as far as I'm aware. Are you alluding to some neutrality violation in their role as ISP for AWS customers or ...?
Aero just turned off when I opened up the icon list. Windows 7, Chrome 34.0.1847.131. Anybody else got that?
At a guess, using a browser with a file upload form downloaded from the same place where the file will go.
I closed my Dropbox account in response to the Condoleezza Rice thing, but it was an easy action to take since I hardly ever used it anymore anyway (because Google Drive works much better for me).
Thanks, thats why I stopped buying on Amazon.
They actually dropped the "systems" bit on the home page because people told them it wasn't a systems language.

"Systems" in Rob/Ken's time was services/servers - what we call applications these days.
Why is the market "online purchase of books"? Something is wrong with selling your book on the shelves at Walmart etc.?

Even so, what barrier do customers have to purchasing at some other online retailer? Where's the insurmountable switching cost?
That looks cool, and sitting facing rear is safer too!
Great, this is one of the best games I've ever played. There are mods for it too, which will hopefully also see Linux support.
This is a just a possible outcome (or maybe inevitable if you look at history) when you build a business on someone else's platform. Whenever humanly possible, try to have a more direct path to your customers. Of course, I realize that's easier said than done.
Does this mean more people are taking Taxis?
Totally agree with you, Managers do need to respect specialized people, and also vice-verse.
Not quite the same, but [Interfake](https://github.com/basicallydan/interfake) is a pretty cool tool for creating mock APIs :-)

Would be even better with a way to do something like this though :-)
An introduction to SNMP
CppCat Checks OpenMW: Not All is Fine in the Morrowind Universe
What we always do - find more time and capital for more interesting projects.

What did housewives do when they didn't have to stoke a fire to make dinner or out dirty clothes through a wringer?

The relentless increase of technology improves everyone's lives even as it replaces manual labour. It's a non-stop process that shouldn't be messd with.
Facebook is implementing Emoji icons for Messenger
I predict a maximum price of $9k, but suspect the target price is $5k. For reference a SmartCar in this market (California) is $15k. Low power and a minimal interior means the main costs are the roll cage/safety features and the drivetrain. The marginal cost of the self-driving functionality is low, and Google can amortize the fixed costs very easily.
>They won’t have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal… because they don’t need them. Our software and sensors do all the work

This sounds amazing.
These stats are mindblowing. Uber is available to a little less than half of all Americans and with an average pickup time of < 10 mins. I'm amazed they were able to accomplish this in 4 years. Travis Kalanick is an insane entrepreneur.
I really enjoy this feature because it gives users who read long posts (especially on mobile) quick access to the navigation bar when they need it, but without the screen-hogging characteristic of older position:absolute nav-bars. With regards to the visual distraction, I find that I almost never scroll up unless I'm done reading. Continuously scrolling down feels natural, and in this case, the header will stay hidden regardless.
There's already open issues in GitHub regarding the differences in generator syntax -- I commented in one:

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/1787

I guess the class has been renamed in trunk, but according to this, the syntax differences still remain:

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/1871

And while we're at it, might as well point out the missing Closure::bind and Closure::bindTo from PHP 5.4:

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/1203
I really wish they could give more data on how they reached their median income stats. I realize they have no incentive to release that. Curious how Lyft and Sidecar measure up as well.
Without the exercise capability.
I'm not in the Bay Area and am in Phoenix? Would this still apply?
Only if we stopped putting more crap up there for those few decades (where a "few" is probably more on the order 10 to 100 ... yes, decades). Human exploration and exploitation of space resources is far too important to the short and medium term benefit of mankind — leaving entirely aside its implications for our long term survival — to wait it out.
Avocado is an extension to Origami so, yes, they play really nicely together.
Other times it's about boycotting, but this comment isn't. It's about "doing business", and it is a very relevant warning to other entrepreneurs who need to choose if they should bet on Amazon as a distribution platform.
I've conversed with numerous Sidecar drivers and they earn no more than $30/hr-- and that's before deducting expenses (gas, wear & tear, etc.). And most of them work part-time

Also, if an über driver makes $70k++ and a software engineer makes $100k++ base... that's kind of sad.
Note that turning off your google history does absolutely nothing on googles side besides flipping one bit which stops you from having access to the data too. They're still collecting all your searches and associating them with you.
Thanks for all the answers. As a heavy Simplenote/NVAlt user, this tells me I should wait until Vesper has apps on all platforms I use (iPhone, iPad, Mac) and reevaluate then. For the moment, I'll stay with simplenote, but keep watching.
Indeed, that is exactly what it does.