skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big mapping problem that could maybe be solved by selling cars that have plenty of sensor hardware--can figure out curb positions to the inch and all that--but at first only use it for semi-autonomous features (lane assist, auto emergency braking, etc.). As people drive them, they're recording a ton of data that can be sent back to the mothership to build detailed maps will be useful to provide full-autonomous driving later.

Google might effectively pay for the data and field testing they're getting from early users by charging a lower price than you'd ordinarily expect for all that fancy hardware.

I don't know how all this will, in fact, play out; I'm just saying driving assistance and full autonomy don't have to be rival approaches.
Interactive 3D floor plan
I recently finished a project I worked on with a friend of mine.
It is an interactive floor plan of the school we are attending, of course web-based.
The different views of the building are full HD renders which get displayed via javascript.

The live example on the official homepage is available at http://www.brg7.eduhi.at/?Schule3D.
The website is in german, but there is a detailed description on http://www.schule3d.eu/standalone/en/. The code itself will be open sourced in the near future.

If you like the application/site/concept show us your love and vote for us at the cityhype contest: http://cityhype.departure.at/interaktive-gebaeudeplaene-zur-besseren-indoor-navigation/. (It is just one quick click)

We would be very happy :)
I'll tack on the fact that Microsoft wrote the piece of crap software that the malware installs itself onto as well. Something smells awful about this whole thing.
just a thought & playing devils advocate, but maybe think of it the other way? Non-techies might want analytics to feel more techie? Analytics isn't a rare term nowadays, especially for anyone interested in your product.
AB test every think you think you know, track it, bet on it internally with the team ...

re: other stuff

Site clean, main image clearly shows what you do in 0.5 seconds

maybe more 'meat' on the right side you integrate with, even if its 'beta','coming soon','planned Q3' etc
(remember - the time saving value your product adds goes up with the number of sites a customer needs to manage.. integrate more = more savings)

Newsletter/want to stay updated on our progress? (ask for my email address on page 1)

site metrics, where are folks clicking, where do you lose them? (checkout crazyegg)

conversion? email campaigns?

blogging & guest posting? - need more than one! even if its weekly release stats (my favorite is http://blog.foreflight.com/ as they mix news with tutorials and 'did you know's)

Any case-studies / testimonials?

screenshot to show ease or walkthrough to show time savings? (screenflow software)

best of luck!
Aren't those taxes passed to the fliers already? Ie for me the cost of tax usually exceeds the cost of the actual flight ticket.
Seems like the last half dozen OSX updates have 'fixed' the wake-from-sleep problem... yet it still seems to persist. Will this one be any different?
Communicating with a Space Probe using SDR – The ISEE-3 Reboot Project
The newest, shiniest gadgets? Like generics? You're kidding right?

Like putting words into people's mouths as a discussion tactic? You're kidding, right? So it also lacks some not-new "old dependable" gadgets as well. So what? I don't see what point you're making. Did you write that comment just to overlay in indefensible position on me?

As an exercise: Name a language feature Go doesn't have that's newer than generics.
That explains the url package names, but not the layers upon layers of folders. I think that might come from the way java forces you to do modules.
sounds like a great solution to the problem if you have the luxury of solving it before it is a problem. i don't think that demolishing and rebuilding the metropolitan Seattle area is a viable solution to the traffic issues that area faces.
I am using Google Spreadsheet as a simple back-end just using client-side JS (on a website to track testing of Firefox add-ons). I've been meaning to write a blog post about this because the existing blog posts I read each missed some details about parsing the spreadsheet data or accessing different spreadsheet tabs.

1. My data is on this spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheets/d/1CXdwQq...

2. I load the spreadsheet's tab "1816064743" as XML:
https://github.com/cpeterso/arewee10syet/blob/master/index.h...

3. Then parse the spreadsheet rows and columns here:
https://github.com/cpeterso/arewee10syet/blob/master/js/gdat...

4. And display the pretty results on my website:
http://arewee10syet.com/
The answers libertards give to each other and those we give to authoritarians are often different.

To other libertards, we have to come up with a well-reasoned, thoughtful argument, with support and contingencies.

To authoritarians, we have to use a glib sound bite. Who will build the roads? Without government, who would possibly make the hamburgers and blue jeans?

In reality, a libertarded city might not have any roads at all, like Kowloon Walled City before they tore it down. It wasn't necessarily a nice place to live, but it got on well enough without roads.

Some libertards are kooky enough that they would build a city around ziplines, sleds pulled by teams of housecats, for-hire piggybackers, and go-go-gadget hatcopters. If there were any cars at all, they would be made of hemp, have built in pistol holsters instead of seatbelts, and be powered by Stirling engines burning moonshine. Visit New Hyperbole City today!

But seriously, either someone will build a road at their own expense, or everyone else will adapt to the lack of a road. What you certainly will not see are paved county roads with one mailbox every half-mile or so. A massive system of autobahns will not spontaneously appear, and it certainly would not be free to use. Rail networks, as you mention, would almost certainly more efficient use of private funds. People living where roads are not economical would simply buy off-road-capable vehicles and chainsaws instead of paving their own. Libertarded CONUS would start to look a lot like Alaska, except with more fanboats, ATVs, mudboggers, dune buggies, ultralight fan-gliders, mountain bikes, zeppelins, and such. People who like cars would have to pack in closer on fewer roads, and pay for their use directly.
No, it is not. You're assuming the "surely you can't call them fraudsters" part. No one is saying that. Matt Levine was quite clear:

'Now, to be clear: While it's just a complaint, and Barclays hasn't had a chance to respond, Schneiderman makes a pretty good case that Barclays was deceiving its big institutional customers. But this is not quite the same as making a good case that Barclays was ripping off those customers. The complaint is long on evidence of false advertising, but shorter on evidence that the "predatory trading" was actually predatory. There's a certain amount of foamy fulmination at "predatory trading," but nowhere is there any evidence suggesting that Barclays's institutional clients were actually harmed by it.'

The position that "Barclays deceived their customers, and should be punished" is also consistent with "Barclays did not materially harm their customers."
Thanks Scott. I understand that phlogiston thrived until real honest scientific experiments disproved it. Thanks to which "interpretation" before that point? Can't we call it "shut up, experiment and calculate"? Or, simpler, "do the science."
HE is awesome.
Very cool and voted!
Static methods are defined using class keywork.
> I kind of feel less confident about the choice around `rest` since there are many interpretations and implementation choices which may lead to a desire for competition here.

I feel the same about lens :)

Note that we didn't even upload a package called 'rest'. We uploaded a family of packages starting with 'rest-'.
Is it necessarily a good idea to make Go into a number crunching language?
Google Rebuffed by U.S. High Court on Privacy Lawsuit
If a court legalizes Batman then its court authorized, but he's still not a publicly controlled entity and those still a vigilante.
I believe tax breaks don't show up as government spending. If for example Boeing is given a billion dollar tax break, then the government has a billion dollars loss and Boeing has a billion dollars more. But that won't show up as a billion dollars going to the government, and then spent on Boeing, even though that is exactly what is happening.

I suspect that if tax breaks were accounted for, then government spending would be higher. It looks like US corporate welfare is around $200bn/year, although there are many larger estimates out there (eg count the banking bailouts). I haven't seen numbers for personal tax breaks, but adding them will make the number larger.
>Dobrowolny said MonkeyParking doesn't sell parking spots, but convenience.

>Herrera spokesman Matt Dorsey described MonkeyParking's statements as "verbal gymnastics." "It's like a prostitute saying she's not selling sex — she's only selling information about her willingness to have sex with you," Dorsey said in a written statement.

Unless something has changed since the last time I was in San Fransisco, the backpages of just about every alt-weekly are loaded with ads for people technically only selling "escorting." A couple hundred feet from my hotel was a bathhouse that technically only sold massages. There was an awful lot of businesses that technically were only selling "glassware" and not recreational drug paraphernilia.
They'll live in a utopia free to pursue artistic and self improvement endeavours!
Completely un-scientific benchmarks of 13 embedded databases with Python
That's amazing! This is the best thing made with css3 I've ever seen.
I don't have the expertise to dissect this code, so I will choose instead to criticize the name of the project. My opinion is valuable, relevant, and provokes further discussion.
High-Skill Immigration Reform Is Dead This Year – Again
You are missing the point. He said why he downvoted you and you replied with a general rationalization on why he should agree with you, when that's entirely NOT the point. You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar. We probably all agree with you in some fashion, just not the way you put it.

And, just in case YOU can't figure it out, the blaming statements you are making are due to the use of 'you' in your comment.
Evernote Hires AI role
Yet when I visit a small country town with a giant road through the middle, there is still no traffic there. If big roads induce traffic independent of any other factors then this should not be true - the mere presence of the big road should have created traffic.

While I understand there's a really point to this paradox (it really happens), I hate the simplistic conclusion people reach that it is always wrong to make a road bigger. Sometimes you really do need a bigger road. Sometimes you really need more public transport or something else. It's complicated, and we need better models of it. But reducing it to one line slogans doesn't help that.
Well, no, it isn't perfectly clear from the article - are the courts in a position to independently evaluate No-IP's efforts, or did they trust Microsoft's legal team regarding their insufficiency?
Google Blurs The Line Between Web And Native Apps On Android
I know no recent LTE baseband phones that have this isolation.
There was none, that I'm aware of. It was a long, drawn out affair over more than a century, as far as I know. If you're looking for a direct analog to the situation with interpreting quantum mechanics, then I'm afraid you won't find it.

The analogy I draw from it is not direct, but merely: scientists unavoidably think of their work in certain ways that are themselves not tested. This thinking influences their work.

(You've made some changes since I responded, so let me respond to your last question: No, they cannot. Just as choosing what articles goes into the newspaper makes the news inherently subjective, scientists themselves choose what problems to work on, and experiments to carry out. You want them to just "do the science," but what science? The mental framework that helps them decide what science to do is what Kuhn calls a paradigm, and my claim is that the interpretations of quantum mechanics are such a paradigm. That, then, means that the interpretations are important, even if we can't yet directly test them.)
I'd much rather live here in NYC on $60,000 than $60,000 in Oklahoma or elsewhere in middle America, unless I was raising a family. There's plenty of free or cheap stuff to do here that's very enjoyable if you enjoy a simple life.
2048 finds its way to MP3 players
2048 has made its way to MP3 players now... What's next?
i just want to note that as far as i've seen, the ocaml community has little to no animosity towards f#. there are lots of ML dialects out there and the prevailing mood seems to be one of cooperation rather than competition - it's nice to see people explore the design space.
This looks really good. Best of luck!
I don't know a lot about this either, and my understanding might be incorrect, but the comparison seems very different to me. These dark pools are full of slow moving, like minded institutional investors that tend to buy and sell the same thing at the same time. In this scenario, my understanding is that HFTs are providing them access to a market that is not as homogenous (the public market).
Law is a terrible career these days. Talk to folks just getting out of law school about what their career prospects are like, don't talk to folks who are lawyers. The latter have already cleared numerous weed-out processes (getting into law school, getting through law school, getting a job after law school) that chew people up and spit them out. About 20-25% of T14 law students (and virtually none from lower-tier law schools) make it to BigLaw positions paying $160K/year. The rest become small-town attorneys, public defenders, assistants in the DA's office, or go to work for boutique law firms. These positions pay about $40-75K/year, barely more than a public schoolteacher, and yet they have law school loans to pay off. Even if you do get a BigLaw position, it involves being some partner's bitch for 7-10 years until (if) you make partner yourself.

Medicine is a decent career if you get through it and can deal with the hours, but it also has a massive weed-out funnel. At my (top liberal-arts college) alma mater, the admissions department had a joke: "95% of you are pre-med. By graduation, about 2% of you will be pre-med."

This is also why your main thesis, about women having an information advantage about the career world because of their relationship partners being older, doesn't hold. There is a strong selection bias in relationship partners. Lawyers find it much easier to find girlfriends than unemployed law-school graduates who went back to live with their parents. Anyone who uses their personal relationship choices as data on how the employed population as a whole functions is getting seriously biased data.
I'm reading that paper now (and I'll read the other later tonight). Thank you for linking to it, it's interesting so far.

I'm a little confused though: in the beginning of the paper, it seems to be supporting some of my thesis, that the modern global economy is more interconnected than it has been at any recent point in history. e.g., "We conclude that our world is different: commercial and financial integration before World War I was more limited. ...integration is deeper and broader than a hundred years ago."

...maybe they go on to refine that point in a way that refutes me. I'll keep reading.
I really like this. I'd love to see scrobbeling to last.fm integrated. Is this something you'd consider for a future release?
> Well, uh, then why does Microsoft need to do anything, if it's still as good as they day it was first sold?

It is, it's just that it was broken the day it was first sold.
Do you also want to steal into libraries in the night and set fire to their microfiche collection?
LEGO + databases = A lot of fun :)

http://rebrickable.com
I did this once in an interview, but it was a high level "how would you tackle this problem" question. We already had a solution implemented though, so whatever the candidate said wouldn't have mattered much. I think real world problems are far better than the algorithm implementation problems that plague interviewing.
"the current left-right political divide is largely a debate over the point at which government taxation and spending becomes undesirable and inefficient"

I disagree. It's more about a notion of "fairness": whether you think that the government can improve fairness, in what situations, and at what cost of efficiency.
If you happen to be above average in say english language for instance.. and you know a lot of words and sentences, poems.. but the thing is.. if you choose the speak in the english you know better, you will communicate with fewer people.. or you can just jump to a lower level to communicate so everybody can understand..

Intended side effect of irony?
That actually already works. Just need to connect your last.fm account at http://hypem.com/find_friends.
Very interesting! Can't wait to share this with my Mom! Thanks for the great tips!
Anyone got a link to the TRO? Is this part of the public record?
You can read No-IP's formal statement here: Thttps://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-mi...
Your analogy sounds nice, but your examples of epic failures do not hold up at all, they just show a lack of familiarity with their respective fields.

AAA game studios spending tens of millions of dollars on extremely complex game engines. The rendering part of it is significant but not nearly the largest part of it. You can take the Unreal Engine 4 for a spin now for just $20, and you'll see the incredible engineering feat that it is, and that's just the core engine. Almost every AAA title is an engineering marvel the industry as a whole can be proud of.

Demoscene demos can be brilliant and intricate, but they are just tricks in comparison.

I'm not expert on database technology, but it is a field worth millions in investments no doubt. Yes, open source technology is giving the big corps a run for their money, but you can't be seriously thinking CouchDB comes even close to the breadth of features and business solutions Oracle offers its customers.

I'm not an IC designer either, but have you ever seen a graphics card run Linux? FPGA's and GPU's can't do what CPU's do, and there's good reasons for it, again these products just don't compare in complexity. Besides, Intel's CPU's nowadays integrate GPUs that can render a mean scene.

So I'm not sure what your point is anymore. In my opinion these are not the plumbers, these are the ones designing the new materials and techniques that enable the plumbers to do their thing.
I maintain a list of upcoming developer conferences in this GitHub repo:

https://github.com/MurtzaM/Developer-Conferences

I currently track conference name, website, hashtag, and city. I am also considering adding a list of sponsors for each conference.

What other data would be useful or interesting?
It’s Time to Talk Seriously About Facebook’s Awesome Power
It's simply incorrect. Where you found that information?

In section 2.3 android is mentioned explicitly: "These features are more useful on Android (besides micro-benchmarks) where a vast RAM doesn't masquerade redundant allocations."

In section 5.2 you can read: "This prototype requires -target:jvm-1.7. Right now scalac doesn't produce the newest class file format of JDK8. In the meantime, -target:jvm-1.7 can be used on that platform. A discussion about performance at: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scala-internals/uBxprJixpwk/...

If you will check that link first sentence in the thread is: "To recap, the new backend supports Java 6 and 7. In an experimental branch (based itself on the experimental backend) there's now support for MethodHandles, building upon "Late Closure Classes", ie the ability of the new backend to materialize anonymous closure classes as it emits bytecode."

So yes, it supports java 1.7. And yes, it can help on android.
Ask HN: I need to develop an educational game that is rpg
I need to develop an educational game that is rpg

I'm a web developer, I have no experience in game development but I need to play roles in mobiles and web browser.

that could be used to develop engine? (fast)

thank you very much
Things like this could be a big deal.

Part of an unhealthy food culture is some people find it hard to cook, both the difficulty and the time involved.

A well price oven that's easier and quicker might have a lot of run on health benefits.
This is probably another big threat to the environment, since I would imagine that suburbs pollute much more per capita than urban areas because of the necessity to use automobiles.

Maybe. Or, while we're speculating, maybe spreading out the impact (even if it is in total greater) is good. Highly concentrated human activity causes very dramatic damage to the environment. If you spread the same activity, or even more activity, over an area many times as large the impact may not be felt.
> I confess I don't understand why the focus is so strongly on the taxi-replacement market; it's interesting, sure, but largely unviable outside metropolitan areas.

Yeah, but metropolitan areas contain lots of people, and also fairly high concentrations of money, so serving them is particularly attractive.

> It can't serve people who go shopping and want to use their cars as lockers during the shop, or people who leave sports gear in the car while they work then go to the gym later, or a number of other cases.

Well, sure, it doesn't serve the "use a vehicle as a stationary storage facility" role very well. OTOH, if it sufficiently reduces the per-use cost of using a vehicle as a vehicle compared to traditional ownership or taxi-with-a-driver, it can free up money for alternative, at-destination lockers.

> Who pays for them?

Lots of possibilities, there: cities (perhaps particularly suburbus) as last (few) mile(s) connectors for mass transit systems. Or companies that want to disrupt the taxi market.

> It'd be an expensive business to set up and you'd have regular arguments about taxi licenses that'd make the fuss about Uber look tiny.

So, maybe Google just does it directly. Its not like they don't have a huge pile of money to pay the startup costs.

> Who'd clean them? You bet people would do unsavoury things inside them.

So, like a hotel, you do a user agreement that covers that, and have internal video monitoring (like most public transport) to identify the source of problems and assign responsibility.

> Fit a 'self-drive' button to my next mainstream car though, and you have a killer product.

Yeah, that incremental upgrade is the more obvious direct market for consumers, and its easy to see why conservative players are focussing on it. Its also not surprising that Google's vision is bigger and less conservative.
The quality of sleep is important, too. Sometimes, you get that 6 hour sleep that feels like an eternity and you are reborn when you wake up. Most of the time, we get 8 hours of mediocre sleep - guess which one's better?

There also seems to be a Ballmer's peak to sleep - too little and you're deprived, but too much and you're groggy and slow. 7 hours seems to do it for me - I am well rested, yet still on that invisible edge that makes my body push harder when I need it, unlike a seemingly good 9 hours of sleep, after which I just can't seem to engage that certain drive that makes me think quick and be creative.
6. Retirement of the baby boom generation.

7. Low birth rates.
Side note: I recently ported all of Plug to Swift (dev build, not yet released of course). Swift is a great leap forward!