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This scenario should never be possible.

An autonomous vehicle should never be traveling fast enough to not be able to stop for any objects that could potentially jump out in front of it.

If there is a blind spot, slow the vehicle down. If there is a crosswalk, slow down.

What about animals though? I often see squirrels, geese, and deer in the middle of the road. Does the vehicle honk the horn and inch forward? Geese are dumb and will stand in the middle of the road until you scare them or they decide they want to cross, squirrels will actually challenge the vehicle many times.

Someone will die from an autonomous vehicle eventually, there's no way to prevent that just because of the odds of some fluke happening. If someone trips or purposely jumps in front of an autonomous vehicle then there is nothing that could have been done, don't kill the driver for the pedestrians mistake.
The aliens don't speak English. I imagine the author chose the word meat in the translation into English for effect.
HN Special has been great as well: http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/
Getting Nintendo's Pikmin's x86 PE it shipped with running?
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If I moved to a new part of the world where everybody hopped on one foot instead of walking...I'd find a way to teach them to walk though. Wouldn't you?
It is currently US only. Global release should be later this year.
IDK, it seems like a valid business practice to me - like how stories of virusses running rampant boosts (ineffective) virus scanner sales, or pictures of six-pack abs boosts sales of ab crunching devices.
I like it, but Chrome store would be helpful - then it'll load on all my PCs rather than just this one.
Ya, that's there to find about the stuff, but Wikipedia doesn't really know what has mattered to the World, it's only an encyclopedia!

That's why I'm asking the PEOPLE(HN Community) to tell me what they think is/was important to the globe...
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Unless their language makes no distinction between flesh and meat. It's all a matter of semantics anyways, the story might as well have been "They're Made Out of Carbon" and remained technically correct, but would have lost much of its charm.
It's worth every penny! :)
We can travel through C space. From context (and the fact that C often represents the speed of light), I assume C space is the 3d topology we observe where it is impossible to travel faster than C.
The universe initially expanded very quickly but not at the speed of light.

A university professor of mine[0] who was (perhaps still is) involved directly in international scientific efforts to examine the expansion of the universe once explained the speed of expansion of the universe to me in a way that made perfect sense.

Unfortunately I can't remember the precise details but the concept relates to a change in scale of the distance between bodies.

My best approximation is this: the measurable distance between two points can increase without either point moving if the nature of what is between the points changes.

You can pseudo-simulate the concept as follows:

1. Open Google maps at a reasonable "normal" scale

2. Affix two dots to your screen and take a guess as to the distance between them as if the dots were actually on the map

3. Zoom out the map quickly as far as it will go

4. Guess again the distance between the dots

The ground distance between the dots increases dramatically. One could argue that the dots moved apart at a great speed, possibly greater than the speed of light if the change in distance is sufficient.

Clearly we know that the dots did not move. The scale of what was between them moved.

During the initial stages of the universe things behaved very oddly.

[0] http://www.brunel.ac.uk/cedps/electronic-computer-engineerin...
Concur about use of the word "experiment". I started watching this last night, then realized it was just a dude talking about some crude drawings.

I'd love to switch back to Firefox. Make it as fast and as stable as Chrome, and I will. Until then, Firefox should go back to being called Mozilla...
You should get in touch with the folks at Denovo Sciences. They're working on a platform for CTC capture and identification.

http://denovosciences.com/
Does my resume really need open source on it?
Goodbye object literals too, apparently.
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This is how disruption works. Fiverr are doing to the graphic design industry exactly the sort of disruption that many of the startups we admire have been doing in other sectors for years - vastly reducing the price to the end user by using software to connect them with the lowest cost supplier. Exactly as the taxi industry decries Uber saying UberX isn't as professional or safe or fast, the design people are saying that the user is getting a raw deal as the product they buy is demonstrably inferior, stolen, ill-thought and slow. Just as Google did to advertising, Youtube did for television, Spotify did for music, and AirBNB did for hotels.

The incumbents all said the upstarts offered a worse service while failing to understand that there are huge numbers of people that don't want, or care about, the 'essential' qualities that the incumbents insist on selling. Disruption is made possible where an industry charges for things that represent no value to the customer. In the case of Fiverr, fortunately I think, their customers are people who want a logo that's better than what they can make themselves but without the bells and whistles like rounds of design changes, high quality vector artwork and Pantone reference colours. Designers think they need to charge for those things. They are wrong. Lots of customers are quite happy taking what they're given if the price is low enough.

And one day this will come to the software industry. Someone will make a service that enables businesses to build applications for $5. Apps that work, that scale, and that are 'good enough' not to need a developer any more. We will have to change the way we sell what we do, just as Fiverr is going to make designers have to think about the way they sell their services now.
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know that the NSA spied on then-President Dmitry Medvedev during his visit to Britain for the G20 summit in London in 2009.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you!, that the NSA would spy on the leader of a foreign country.
What about telling us what you want to upgrade?

Are you looking for a "better" looking interface ? Try Sublime Text, Atom or Brackets.

Are you looking for better $LANGUAGE support? Try any $LANGUAGE-specific IDE.

Are you looking for better scriptability? Try Emacs, possibly with evil-mode.

Are you looking for a better editing experience? There's nowhere to look.
"The turnips are swinging"? I just googled that, and you're the only result. Good expression! But where did it come from?
It messes up indentation of comments sometimes.
Given that we know very little about gravity and other effects that distort space-time, it's conceivable that faster than light travel may be possible without violating the relativity limit, by distorting space. We don't think that it is possible without producing the ability to travel back in time -- which is considered impossible --, but we also know very little about the subject.

We're nowhere near it, but clearly at the stage of: we know that we know next to nothing about it. Just have a look at the discussion around the Alcubierre Drive and you'll get the feeling that it is pie-in-the-sky science.

So, I'd wager it's not a "very probably no". It's a "we have no clue".
That's exactly my point. If the speed (= distance / tick) is represented by a float, then we can travel no faster than the max float value.
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That looks like a cumbersome way to define a map, like small arrays within arrays.
Indeed. That strikes me as an example of the NSA doing its job, as opposed to the warrantless mass surveillance it has also been caught doing.
A cool article because after starting the experiment, it points out low-grade thieves are incentivized to rip-off other's work.
The top tip "email to create an ice-breaker on the cold call" is very important.

I spent a lot of my professional life fundraising for startups. For 4 years my target was wealthy individuals, capable of donating at least $50k. Last year I founded my startup on the restaurants market and I continue to do a lot of cold calling. So I developed this process (start in (i) if you don't know the name of the decision maker, start in (iii) if you do):

(i) Call to the general contact number and ask for the <job title> of the company. In my case, the keyword is "responsible for the marketing", as restaurants have diverse structure, this could the owner, a manager, the cousin of the owner... Be sure to get the name, even if you can't get the person on the phone.

(ii) Call again with the name. Now you have more chance to get him on the phone. Keep calling until you get. Pitch briefly what you are selling (in one sentence) and what he is gaining with it (in ~five sentences). Ask for a meeting. The most important is ask for a meeting.

(iii) Often you will get a meeting. The same number of times you get a clear "no". But most of times he will ask to send an email. So send an email giving new information about how he can get value from what you are selling. Keep it brief, it is better to give new information, than a deeper explanation about what you said on the phone. The deeper explanation will be on your website, if he is willing to learn more.
If you have the decision maker name (and hopefully his email), you can start with this email. As the "ice-breaker" mentioned on OP.
Be sure to mention that you are asking for a meeting on the email too.

(iv) Call him in no more than two days after you sent the email. Ask if he got the email and ask for a meeting. Again. By now, if he is still refusing a presential meeting, you probably will never get one. Be prepared to quit on a prospect with no remorse.

This is the basic routine. But in any of these steps you might generate a real conversation (even if you never get to the meeting). And that is when you will learn about your customer, your market, your substitutes, etc.

Also regarding learning, my top tip: write down any Tough Questions you are asked. With time (and a lot of try and error) you will learn the best answers. Then you write your Sales FAQ. A very important document to read and refresh the memory before any sales call or meeting.
If that is true, what's the trade-off? There are no silver-bullets so if their approach didn't involve some potential "deal-breakers" Go team (or the ecosystem) would probably have offered a Go clone of it. Would be curious what they're doing there in Rustland..
Can you clarify what you mean when you say "Amazon marketing?" Do you mean being featured by Amazon, or algorithmically suggested to readers of other books, or something else altogether?

I am not asking snarkily; I am genuinely curious. I'm contemplating self-publishing, but I'm aware that Amazon is a pretty noisy landscape. If there are ways to power one's signal through the noise, I'm interested in learning about them.
I can potentially imagine a helper function like `mapFromObject`, but yeah I agree with you. That syntax is disheartening. Enough to make me want to keep using `hasOwnProperty`.
It is about an open WEB not Open Source.
An Open Source Browser controlled by a big corporation is still a problem if it has a giant market share.
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There was a marvelous episode of some "golden age" radio show that was giving "live updates" to a massive archeological find: the ancient island of Man Hat An was excavated, revealing wondrous finds... The Great Tomb of May Seas was opened, revealing all the treasures he needed for the afterlife such as huge rooms full of beds, clothing, entertainment, and even glass panels which magically showed events far away. Other such finds were noted, but it ended with clearing the great monument to their own doom, a stone-inscribed wall fearing the impending onslaught of the Post Men, whom "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds", whose ways younger documents noted "going Postal" being something to be feared.
You know wifi operates in the microwave band, right? Microwave ovens operate in the 2.4 GHz band. Wifi is limited to 1 W total power output, but it's not nothing.

Edit: More to the point, it's a good question, even if the answer is "no."
This reminds me of a proposition put forth once (I think on tumblr of all places) that while humans are normally considered a "baseline" species in sci-fi, what would a sci-fi universe look like where humans were the superbeings?

There were dozens of replies along the lines of:

"I heard humans can survive losing a limb! Or even multiple limbs!"

"Their strength and tolerance for gravity far exceeds our own!"

"When one of their organs fails they can just swap it out with another compatible human that's died recently!"

It's pretty funny to imagine, and it's a perspective not often seen.
Practically a net neutral time saved in typing at the cost of readability of the object literal. I don't think there will be many cases where I'll be using Map over an Object literal.
Just use unencrypted wifi but do anything that matters over a good VPN. Assume you can't trust your ISP and local network anyway. All this moaning about wifi security doesn't make sense to me.
direct link: https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/497441756708098048
1. Make the collar hijack any wifi devices it can and use their CPUs to mine dogecoin

2. Use earnings to create more collars, attaching them to stray dogs

3. Revel in your stray doge empire
I think you can disrupt the design industry without setting up a structure that condones plagiarism.

So I would argue that http://studio.envato.com/ or even http://www.squarespace.com/logo/ are better examples of your point.
Non-Ionizing radiation means exactly that.

http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&Page&HPAwebAutoListName/Pa...
It's unlikely a well, that close to shore.
I reasoned about it in the same vein but with a different approach. We are running in a discrete simulation. The most you can move is one space quantum per time tick. That speed is C.
> does it matter if it was 1492 vs 1500? ... If suddenly the exact date does become important, it'll take our kids 90s to look it up

The issue is more subtle than that. In lots of cases the value of knowing the information is when it lets you make connections that you wouldn't otherwise have _realised_ were important.

Let's say you're reading something that happens to mention The Alhambra Decree. You've never heard of this before, so you do a quick Wikipedia lookup, where the first paragraph says:

"The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492 by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of Jews from the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year."

If that "1492" is a well primed trigger point for you — especially in a context involving Spain — you're much more likely to pause for a second and wonder if this might be related to anything else you know about that year. And, although the remainder of this page never mentions Columbus at all, it doesn't take you much searching to discover that there are indeed some very interesting connections between the two, some of which lead to further questions about Columbus' own religious background and leanings.

But if that 1492 doesn't have that trigger effect, you're much less likely to draw any connection here, and simply nod and return to your original reading.

We do that all the time. There are so many things that pass us by constantly because we simply don't even realise there's anything worth paying attention to. The more hooks we create in our brains for those to get snagged on in passing, the deeper you start to understand things, and the more interesting life becomes.
In my CS assignments I couldn't choose the languages.

The only thing was the seminar "current programming languages" where everyone had to do a talk about a language of his choice. I did "The Shakespeare Programming Language".
This requires you to trust the VPN, though.
Ha, neat hack to hide the pipes in pagetop by changing the text color. Unfortunately the default doesn't work for custom header colors :(

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbgv7fvb1y6qt3h/Screen%20Shot%2020...
>The Russian people deserve to know when their privacy is so seriously threatened by an unaccountable foreign intelligence organization.

That's rich.
It only goes back to 2009, but this could be used as a starting point I guess? http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.alexa.com/topsites
Of course the Wayback Machine could be used to find what websites used to look like in a certain time period as well.
He is 'one of the main dudes of the Internet', apparently.
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Hummm

My bet is that the Map() is turning an array of arrays into a map. And that in the future it will convert the original syntax into a Map as well
Yes. Of course the only evidence we have for causality is that we have not observed it being broken (and recognized that observation)
You could make it work for any colour with:

color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
My favourite[1] despite it's name

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...
>The Russian people deserve to know when their privacy is so seriously threatened by an unaccountable foreign intelligence organisation

As one of these Russian people, I'm more threatened by my own, completely unaccountable, government that does everything in its power to severely restrict rights and freedoms of our people.

Also I'm pretty sure Putin had way more interesting things to do than read this letter.
Being able to stop for anything that jumps in front of your cars is impossible at any speed. You could be going 5mph, if the thing jumps close enough your reaction speed will never be good enough to brake in time. it's the same with the car's reaction time. It doesn't matter what speed you pick, accidents can happen.
If anything, self-driving cars would be allowed to drive a lot faster, since they have far faster reaction speeds and far more information about their surroundings than human drivers.
Maybe you can monkey patch Object.prototype to include a toMap function? That way you get nice literals and the benefits of maps.
We now have a few dozen HN "beautifiers", "mobil"izers. I guess the relativity in beauty perception makes it impossible for one of them to win the hearts and become the one.
Thanks for clearing that up. Did he make a fake ID to open the Blockbuster account? It sounds like he had more than your credit card. If all he had was your card Blockbuster wouldn't be able to go after you, they wouldn't have the necessary ID information.
Bookmarks should be replaced by "app/website" drawer that shows up on your homescreen. They are useless when they are hidden in a separate window and you have to always remember to go to them. It is faster to search for them or have the them come up in the amazebar.

Instead if the new tab window provided a list of "installed/bookmarked/recently used" webapps/websites, then it will make the experience of bookmarking a lot more relevant.
I think once the aliens got past the whole meat thing they'd find much common ground as fellow bigoted beings.
I was trying to find opinions that weren't political, but were badly wrong. Your three examples fall mostly under the heading of Big Lies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie)
Stasi-ist?
Of course you could already use prototype-less objects as maps (Object.create(null))
Which time zone?
> And one day this will come to the software industry. Someone
> will make a service that enables businesses to build
> applications for $5.

I think that happened already with open-source, offshore, and sites like elance.
Not really, just bumped into $5 dollar fee, my card didn't work and I had to leave the house. I'll do it tmrrow and post the link ;)
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The map constructor simply takes an iterable.
Is there any point toposting this aside from smug reassertion of the local hivemind's belief in equality of humans an hypothetical thinking machines? Because I don't see any insightful reasoning in this piece aside from simple reversal, which is only convincing if you already a believer.

The reality is that we don't know how minds really work and we don't have thinking machines. The belief that the limited knowledge about brain chemistry "explains" consciousness is similar to the belief that knowing how semiconductors work "explains" hardware and software engineering.

Edit:
Down-votes on an opinion without any explanation in reply simply prove my point. This is a hive-mind belief and opposing world views are not tolerated.
Semantic arguments about the meaning of stealing are only appropriate in discussions about copying other people's stuff. When it's our stuff getting copied, then it's theft plain and simple.
The slower speed would allow for the vehicle to crash into the wall (if that's the only option) and everybody would live.

Unless the person falls from above, from a blindspot, or falls a few feet in front of the vehicle, it should be able to stop or maneuver around the object without a problem. Cars are VERY maneuverable, especially when you add computer controlled reflexes.

Yes, autonomous vehicles would have a much higher speed limit (having a supercar would actually allow you to get to work much faster than people with normal cars) but they should also be able to recognize higher risk areas and know to slow down in order to minimize the likelihood of killing someone.
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I know, but science fiction satire can be written in a way to be still pseudo-scientific. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline
The thing is - I've always been willing to pay a great deal more for software online than on CD - it has more value to me.

The fact that it costs zero dollars to produce (on the margin) is immaterial.

One good argument though, against eBooks being more expensive - you can't resell them, or ven easily give them away, or lend them. That issue, right there, should make eBooks worth less to the person buying them - but having nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that they cost less to produce.
> new

It's not all that new. Subdispatch with anonymous functions has been done before:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Simple#DISPATCH-STRATEGY

As for readability, Roda kinda shoots itself in the code by not having any highlighting on that snippet, but generally yes, you want to keep dispatch trees to small apps. On the other hand, using P/WSGI apps you can stack apps inside one another, scaling trees without getting a moloch. Not clear on whether Roda supports that.
It's an array of (key, value) pairs. The Map constructor takes an iterable of pairs.
It didn't seem like this was anything against Krebs, the author just continued to point out that Krebs did have something of a vested interest in pushing this (Hold Security in general) as legitimate.

I have no idea who the author is, but the content does seem plausible/correct/interesting. I will admit to not really believing the original story myself (a safe statement now that others have more publicly stated the same thing, but honestly I didn't) so there might be some bias in believing this side, but this isn't the only person questioning and some are very credible.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/over_a_billio...
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Good one, I've fixed it with color: transparent, instead ;) Check it out
Fixed. Tks
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