skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that saying something negative about Apple or, now, Tesla, produces a quick downvote. On Slashdot, there's a striking phenomenon that saying something negative about Apple produces downvotes after about 15-30 minutes. Unclear whether this is a fanboy problem or a commercial "reputation management" firm in action.
ARMv8 has more registers in addition to 64-bit address space support, so almost all applications should benefit from the minimization of register spilling.
Ghostery blocked 14 trackers on the site and the editing was really offputting.
why all the hastle? get an espresso cooker / cafetierra http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot

low tech and not a perfect espresso, but cheap, durable, no moving parts, no lubricant
The same thing that happens if its obstructed from a human?
I have half a mind to just start giving away shell access to my servers I liked the person. But it's quite a time commitment, so I don't know.
BMW has already released this in the United States.
> Which resources are they allowed to use?

The system administrator at installation time.

> What defines which resources they are given?

Applications just have a request list of what they require.

If the administrator doesn't allow them for the given application modules (executable, dynamic library, function call,...), bad luck.
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I think that this "white knight" (as the other commenter put it) "here to help women" kind of corrective action, actually belittles them.

I mean, women are perfectly capable to understand that the one who wrote the above happened to be a straight male and so talked from HIS viewpoint.

They can also adapt what he said for their circumstances, as can gay men etc, and e.g respond with "yeah, I know what you're talking about, had that happen with a great looking guy that turned out to be totally vacuous", etc.

Speaking like genderless objects addressing other genderless objects with genderless pronouns and genderless generalizations doesn't really help anyone.
*flying a drone _commercially_ anywhere.
One thing rust has going for it is a very clear vision (safety, control, speed), which is based on fundamental concepts (e.g. lifetimes). Consequently, it has less of a need for a BDFL to declare what is or is not rust-ific.
Why should he have done that? He explains in details his reasons, and for somebody in his position. They sound perfectly valid, and he goes out of his way to say that his refusal is in no way a indictment of the Nobel committee. Other people have refused prestigious awards in the past, without being taxed of arrogance.
Sexist besides "macho" and "looking down on women" etc also means "pertaining to a specific sex".

The comment of the parent was that second thing, if anything.

He talked from his experience, and that was the one he described. Nothing sexist in the bad sense about it, and no need to de-sexify it to some genderless form to make it "understood" by others. Women, gays, lesbians, etc are perfectly capable of understanding what he said, and applying it to their circumstances.
The features look very inviting. When choosing a language for a new project, I am torn between Kotlin, Scala, and now, Ceylon.

Scala had its time, and I was a frequent user, but now I am not sure where it is going. It certainly helped bring functional programming into my vocabulary, and into a lot of other developers' too. But I get the impression that it tries to appease to many different notions, and lacks a core guiding principle. (In a more positive light: it is more democratic).

Kotlin and Ceylon seem to be more streamlined, and centered on a few core principles. Ofcourse, I haven't actually coded in them, so they might be presently appearing rosier than they are. Especially after trying Xtend, I realized that there are many corner-case (but important) scenarios that burn you when you actually try a non-trivial project in these new languages.

Would love to hear experiences from those who are using Kotlin, Ceylon or Xtend in production.
I miss TermKit[1]. Its a real shame that the developer abandoned it after it got a lot of hype. There's a huge opportunity for someone to come along and make either a new terminal encoding which allows rich, interactive output or extend VT somehow to which allows the same. If you could extend the terminal protocol, you might even be able to get it to work over SSH.

HTML+JS seem like the obvious way to do it - even though the web is an awful platform, its standard, cross-platform and fully featured. Its the perfect worse-is-better solution for this.

I think the hardest part would be figuring out how to reconcile browser-like UI events and file streams. Maybe you'd need to make a standardized event serialization format so your process could receive serialized events via stdin or something like that. I think it'll be a really hard sell if we have to abandon our unix pipes entirely.

[1] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

Previous hackernews discussion around termkit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734
EU publishes negotiation directives for TTIP
For the Performance model it loses 10 miles, all the others gain 10 miles.
FYI, the mods only (99% of the time) remove content if it gets flagged consistently. So it's less censorship and more community policing.
It used to be called "invariant". We found ourselves constantly explaining to people that "invariant" types were immutable.

Bowing to the obvious, we changed it to "immutable". This has been highly successful in that people immediately understand it.

Nobody ever found a shorter, equally clear term.
Holy cow, they JUST added streaming voice recognition? I haven't really followed Siri's progress since the early days but I thought that was table stakes, sheesh. I can't even imagine a voice service being usable in 2014 without it. Am I might just be completely out-of-touch with the current landscape for voice services, but Cortana isn't similarly hobbled, right?
Declare the parameter as 'const' and you know the pure function cannot mutate it. Declare it as 'immutable' and you know that nobody else can mutate it, either.
Ask HN: Stealth Botnet
CasperSpy is a new generation of botnet created by combine of 2 different botnet platforms. Agobot (IRC-based) + Zeus (web based) it will improve capabilities such as: polymorphic infection,spread itself and form grabbing for latest browser to make it more dangerous and more difficult to detect. Almost 2 years i developed this project and its open source too :)

Here the url: http://casperspy.com/

So what do you think???
By this time next year when they have 40,000+ vehicles all logging conditions and driver decisions, in car processing and OTA updates to their testing algorithms may be the better option. Google's fleet come back to base every day, Tesla have to think very differently in their approach and bandwidth could be their biggest issue.
Downvote away, but "meh" from me. This read to me like just another SJW alarmist, wringing their fists and crying "because social media". Women, like every other group, need to engage with the internet on it's own terms. The lights are out - so of course people are going to act based on their id. Hence the IDiots making all the rape jokes.

If people are making legitimate threats, then it should be a serious matter. Otherwise,accept there are sad morons out there who don't get to say this stuff IRL, and don't let it get to you. Sorry ladies, but creeps will always exist. So some sad Redpill fucks are making comments about some chick tied up? Yes, it sickens me, but "do as thou will" until you actually harm another human.

Full disclosure: white middle class male.
That's certainly a problem in politics, which is why in democratic countries free speech protections are usually broad enough to encompass everything short of incitement to criminal activity.

But on private online platforms the owner/operator is in effect a dictatorship, and users can participate or not as they see fit. While free speech laws prevent official censorship, nobody is owed a platform for the expression of their views; so if some trolls are discomfited by being unwelcome at many social sites, so what? Why should their putative right to say obnoxious things take precedence over others' perfectly reasonable desires not to be harassed, and the site operators' (typical) choice to cater to the larger demographic?
Ask HN: Developers-without-much-budget, how did you make your site look great?
So you're a great developer, you developed an impressive web app.

But you're a one man band, or a small company bootstrapping, without alot of cash to blow on expensive designers. Maybe you've got a few hundred or a few grand to spend on design.

How the heck did you get from something that LOOKS like a programmer designed it, to something that looks sexy and modern?

What's your story of how you did it? Did you somehow find a designer, if yes from where and how much did they cost? Or did you take some other path?

How does a developer without resources get a site/web app to look great?
Seems like a weird and slow way to handle peer discovery. Why not the traditional DHT? There's even a DHT lib written in Go and a package specifically to find peers with the DHT called wherez.
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@agildehaus

Elon and Tesla believe that their array of ultrasound sensors, GPS, and front facing camera will be sufficient without the addition of an expensive LIDAR roof mounted scanner. Google has under 100 self-driving vehicles in the field collecting data; Tesla is now making 2500 vehicles/week that will be collecting data.

My comment stands. The sensor networks are the same except for the Velodyne LIDAR device. Google has Street View data, Tesla will have a substantial fleet of vehicles collecting data towards improving their autopilot system.

Vast amount of mapping data do you no good if you have to test your scenarios in simulated environments (as Google requested they be allowed to do to the California DMV).
Yeah - naming things is hard. I agree that `immutable` is clearer than `invariant`. I would suggest `imm`, but that is damn ugly and more opaque. :(
Sadly the same happened with Lillith and Oberon machines from ETHZ.

Hardware targeted to a specific language only has advantage for a little while, until general purpose hardware catches up.

As for the economies of scale of UNIX workstations, former AT&T, Stanford and BSD students got lucky with their workstation startups.
Well, my GPS navigation app seems to know the speed limit most of the time.

Remember, even if the system isn't perfect, it can still outperform a human.
And this is why UNIX shells feel so primitive.
Does it taste like good Portuguese and Italian espresso, though?
Like asking a bank the best way to avoid paying interest.
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This. It is a neat product, but nothing beats a mocka boiler. Lightweight, tested, well never break. I see not reason to buy this product other than me being a nerd and loving tech, but when i go on a hike i will bring a mocka boilder
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Well, amazon does not plan to become walmart overnight...
>I find that online communities are most effective when strongly policed with unproductive dissent silenced outright.

I basically agree but I don't see Twitter or Facebook for example as communities. Those services are more like everybody at once all lumped together whether they like it or not. In the real world things like proximity and social interdependency force people to be more measured in behavior, interactions are mediated by cliques and groups with reputations and social pressure. In focused online communities you can make assumptions about content because it's opt-in and there is infinite space for alternative communities. I guess what I am getting at is that Twitter and Facebook are bad systems in that they don't give us bearings to make good social decisions on how to act (usually the opposite.) Facebook might actually be worse than Twitter in that it simulates communities but really a planet ruled by a weird dictatorship that doesn't care too much if you kill your neighbors as long as you don't embarrass the government. Twitter is like as if you have an instant 1-1 connection with every other living being which is why you get situations where a million people are each slamming the same person with one insult. It's horrifying but it's also very clearly not recognizable as a natural sort of social interaction so you shouldn't even expect it to be sane. It is a thing that literally should not exist. Something resembling Facebook could exist and be good, just not the Facebook we have now.
The first implanted mind-controlled prosthetic arm
Interviewer is annoying as hell, and the editing is horrible!
If you found this interesting, you may also like GCLI (as featured in the Firefox dev tools command line - or you can play with it here: http://mozilla.github.io/gcli/ ).
I used to work on automatic driving. I ran Team Overbot in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. (We lost, but we didn't crash into anything.) So I'm painfully aware of the problems of automatic driving.

You need to be both looking at the road with cameras and profiling it with LIDAR. (Or terahertz radar, once that gets going.) It's not enough to just sense the car ahead. You need to be able to detect potholes, ice patches, junk on the highway, small animals, and similar problems. We could detect and avoid potholes back in 2005. Since we were doing off-road driving, that was a normal driving event.

The reason for a high-view LIDAR is that you want to see the pavement surface ahead from a reasonably useful angle and get a 3D profile of the road ahead. Google uses the Velodyne spinning-cone LIDAR scanner, which is a lot of LIDAR units built into one rotating mechanism. That's a research tool. There are other LIDAR devices more suited to mass production. Advanced Scientific Concepts has a nice eye-safe LIDAR which can operate in full sunlight. It costs about $100K, but that's because it's made by hand for DoD and space applications. The technology is all solid state, not inherently that expensive, and needs to be made into a volume product. (Somebody really needs to get on that. In 2004, I took a venture capitalist down to Santa Barbara to meet that crowd, but there was no mass market in sight back then. Now there is.)

You can only profile the road out to a limited distance, regardless of the sensor, because you're looking at the road from an oblique angle. Under good conditions, though, you can out-drive the range at which you can profile the road. That was Sebastian Thrun's contribution, and won the DARPA Grand Challenge. The idea is that if the LIDARs say the near road is good, and the cameras say the far road looks like the near road, you can assume the far road is like the near road and go fast. If the far road looks funny, you have to slow down and get a good look at the road profile with the LIDARs.

Automatic driving systems have to do all this. "Driver assistance" systems don't. Hence the "deadly valley".

That's just to deal with roads and static obstacles. Then comes dealing with traffic.
It's very simple :)
Yes it is 2014 and we should be able to follow simple standards that has been around for quite some time.
IMHO, hipster JavaScript is called CoffeeScript.

1) do obj[if success then 'start' else 'stop']
2) ['milk', 'coffee', 'sugar'].join ', '
3) doStuff = (options = {}) ->
4) isThisAwesome?()
5) ### ... ###
6-8) ...
9) template = "Hi, my name is #{firstName} and my twitter screen name is @#{screenName}"

[1] http://coffeescript.org/#try:do%20obj%5Bif%20success%20then%...
Or magbe it's because Apple is routinely (and unfairly) maligned all across the tech sphere, especially in the comments, and Apple users on less polarized sites vote to compensate.
Richard Feynman on the Nobel prize when the interviewer asks him if his research was worth the Nobel prize that he won: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZF4vBreqmE
I was really touched that PG's greatest regret was something related to his family, and not YC or his larger professional career. As young founders we tend to forget (or are expected to anyways) where our real long term priorities should be, and I hope PG's own regret reminds us to think about it from time to time.
That doesn't mean that tea can't be made in that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
Somebody with the power should downvote this. Maybe it's worth talking 20 years ago, but after so many years of dubious results there should be a much high threshold for it to be worth noting.
thanks for feedback. to be honest, I was aware of the connotation, but no better word came to my mind at the time. feel free to suggest a better "brand name", if I will identify with it, I am open rename the project (and mention you in credits :)
Netflix in Europe without something like Unblock-Us or a similar VPN is almost a waste of money.
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It's mostly by the employees of the respective companies themselves. I once was working in a company (now a popular help desk company, famous within HN circles even) where the co/founder called up a few of his employees to downvote a comment that raised a serious but negative tone about his company. And all the employees were smart enough to use proxies to downvote the comment into oblivion. So, always think twice if it's worth losing your karma in a fixed game.
As someone with actual experience, do you think self-driving cars are in the near future (decade or two), or are the technorati deluding themselves?
Marketing Firms Are Mining Selfies
Sure, the Atom vs K1 comparison isn't necessarily in favor of Intel, but the comment you are replying to didn't mention Atom. I would argue that gaming consoles (micro or not) do make more sense with a X86 processor than what is available in ARM space currently. Think Intel i5 or AMD's APUs though, not Atom.
Somebody with power should burn this chap at the state for witchcraft, because his views contradict church orthodoxy.

Yes, it might all be utter bullshit, but it may also not be. If you refuse to accept or even explore anything which contravenes your worldview - your world will never change.
Terrible editing by Bloomberg.
GCLI is interesting, but I didn't mention it because I feel like it focuses more on the issue of command parsing / completion.

That said, that's a great topic to cover! I think GCLI does a pretty good job of command completion. The Lisp Machine did as well. I have friends who love some of the router CLIs, but not sure which one(s).
Drooodle: The subconsciousness of Internet in doodles
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The Uplift War begins.
Don't you need at least three actors, such that in a single failure condition you can use an election algorithm? I guess two are enough if you do regular snapshotting and the worst case time to restore from a snapshot is lower than the real time bounds you need to comply with.
Awesome talk, just like all the other lectures. Appreciate YC putting this out to the world for free.
I don't think 'our system has been trained to respond in the same way as the average driver' is much of a selling point. You want your auto drive to do the right thing, not the average thing.
Have been using the Moka pot exclusively for the last 4-5yrs. Love it!

The one use case where the Moka pot fails is when you don't have access to a hot-plate/stove/fire. But in urban environments (my office) I do have access to a hot water dispenser though. So something like this would be an interesting choice for me.
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How's the rok holding up? I always wanted to get one. But I read reviews that it had issues with balance and it would topple easily etc.
Most likely coming with the new hardware at L release.
Yes WIP (just started throwing it together now), not stable yet. I'll add that. Thanks.

A lot still needs to be fixed and done. Hoping this is a good way to get people involved. Would love any contributions you might want to make.

UPDATE: Made some updates. Give it a look now.
CLOS and CLIM always sounded to me like the names of programs you'd expect to see competing at disc wars, or racing in a lightcycle grid.
True. You can also get rid of the motor entirely and just use proportional valves and compressed air. Festo's robots work that way.

A common model of human and animal muscles is to treat them as two opposed springs, where the spring constant and neutral point are both adjustable. Mechanical systems for that have been built for research robots, but they're mechanical nightmares of cables, pulleys, and springs. Two opposed air cylinders, though, can directly implement a pair of adjustable springs. That's been done a few times on research robots. This gives you muscles of adjustable softness, just like humans. A running robot with spring-type energy recovery could potentially be done that way. (Humans recover about 60-70% of energy from one stride to another when running. Cheetahs, 90%.) Mechanical running machines with springs for energy recovery have been built. With fixed springs tuned for running, all they can do is run.

To make soft air springs work, you need position and pressure feedback on everything, and small, fast servovalves. Fast servovalves tend to be very expensive. They also have to be near the cylinders for good position control - too much air line and there's no way you can make the system stiff when you want to. Of course, you need compressed air.

Meanwhile, brushless DC motors have improved so much, and are so easy to control now, that the trend is away from pneumatics and hydraulics. Boston Dynamics' humanoid is all hydraulic (it's really a modified Big Dog), but Schaft's is all electric. Google now owns both, of course.
and quite light (they're almost always made of aluminium) which is a plus when packing for a trek.
I'm not enabling my auto-rotate screen and turning my phone sideways for this.
Huh? Apple and Tesla are both darlings of the tech sphere.
If this were a real discovery, why wouldn't it be published in a peer reviewed journal of some kind?

Pretty pre-eminent organizations with their names on this though - Hanno Essén, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanno_Ess%C3%A9n) Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, which, according to Wikipedia, "KTH is one of the leading technical universities in Europe [and highly respected worldwide, especially in the domains of technology and natural sciences."
Oh, they do break… I've had one explode in a newly renovated kitchen. Bent the metal vent hood above it to a frightening degree, missed my head by a foot or two and sprayed mocha onto the white walls and into every nook and cranny.

Not fun.
Also it needs compressed air capsules right? Those need to be refilled. :(
I'm also using SyncThing to sync some web servers, it sort of works well, though I wish it handled conflicts and symlinks better.

In my case git hooks would not have worked as each web server generates content that needs to be available on all of them afterwards.

I hope they're going to do well and get it to work smoother.
What about search? Would be great to have an ability to search by URL or title fragments
To use a local webserver, they would have to be on the same network (unlikely). To use the cloud based service, they would have to be on the internet (likely).
Have you ever had a package stolen?
There was an article on digg.com about Google becoming a worse search engine. The article was on news.yahoo.com

Someone commented "5 dollars to someone who points out the irony in this", I replied. The guy sent me $5 via Paypal. I used the $5 to get a .com domain (special offer on GoDaddy). The domain was for my web design portfolio, and that's how I got started.
Why not get rid of mutable data in the first place? That would make this language (and my others) much cleaner.
Well the bit n represents the version n, if this bit is at 1, this version is supported, otherwise it's not.