skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While one day we expect to have hoverboards that can effortlessly float over any medium (even water!), our current technology requires special types of surfaces."

so basically, they can hover something over a "special" surface, which is not that impressive
But you can't really generalize about Reddit nowadays, as it's a collection of tens of thousands of subreddits. There are still plenty that are fine.
Sure you could. 23 year olds who like to attend pokemon meetups. University chess club members. Small town attendees of quilting bees. Maker faire regulars.

They're self-associations largely based on personal interests, so it shouldn't be surprising that there are common personality traits within the groups. You miss out if you blanket-judge people based on them, of course, but that doesn't make them invalid.

That's in contrast to race, gender, etc. where the group is not self-selecting.
And google's approach is not the only one that scientists are exploring at the moment.
Some are relying on more "reactive" strategies see e.g. Professor Alberto Broggi's work with the university of Parma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Broggi). His vehicle doesn't make use of such an heavy map as the one used by Google.

What I liked in this article is that it reveals to the public that google's communication on the topic is really skewed. They try to make people think that the problem of autonomous driving is basically solved while many big challenges remain.
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I was talking to my parents about my latest side project, Anorak (http://anorakci.com) and they both laughed at the name.

I genuinely felt embarrassed when I explained to them that the majority of startups etc have "silly" names. As I was talking about Anorak to them, every time I said it's name, I felt silly.

And yet, it's never bothered me before.

I'm not changing the name, but it made me realise.
Let's be honest — "Firebase is here to stay" is true right until the moment Google decides it isn't. It is no longer your decision to make (in a way, it never was, if you took external funding).

I realize the intentions are good and I'm actually glad for the team, but I started taking a more realistic view towards these kinds of statements.
I think the only thing surprising about this is that it happened sooner than later. Eventually we will see more states imposing taxes on information.

In a sense, if they gave you free education and you used that education to create new information, then they own a certain stake in it.

Just like sales tax is used to subsidise or oversee certain business, data tax will be used fund cyber policing, censorship and such. Also, it may ensure that we don't drown ourselves into pointless data. Just like businesses are forced to engage in certain activities (typically innovative) that can generate certain markup for the whole system to be sustainable.
Haskell is a general-purpose programming language, and discrete simulation-type systems like Chip's Challenge can be very elegantly modelled with nice things like algebraic data types, pattern matching, etc.

The code is right there on GitHub, although if you're not familiar with Haskell (and lens), it might seem cryptic. But you'll see that it is actually mostly written in an imperative style. The logic is mostly pattern matching on events to generate record updates. This is a common style in Haskell and fits the domain well.

There are other more elegantly value-oriented ways of writing simulations in Haskell; look up functional reactive programming.
Or spent time trying to improve PHP.
Imagine a future world where we have a p2p search index (search.yacy.de), p2p social media (twister.net.co), p2p video streaming (tribler.org) and flatr, gratipay, karma, upvote, adsense through cryptocurrency. Would we still need a Google?
I got FragmentSalad, a great name. Haven't thought of a company to go with it yet, but that shouldn't hold me back...
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The road sign was just an example to illuminate my point.

There are a tremendous number of things to map. If they could all be understood automatically google wouldn't need to map them ahead of time.
There's nothing as canonical for js as K&R was for C. My guess is that it's just changing a little too fast.

If you want raw unassailable reference docs (to learn js from the ground floor in comprehensive detail) you can't go wrong reading the standards:

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...

http://es5.github.io/

The rest you kinda gotta cull from various resources. learn.jquery.com is nice and Mozilla kicks ass, as usual: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Information about ES6 generators and other stuff coming down the pipe seems to be scattered all over the place. Best resource I've found seems to be this one:

http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html

Though promisejs.org and promisesaplus.com are worth browsing.
Same way Orbital was awarded vastly more for CRS contract, by even larger margin. Reason is simple and completely valid: both Orbital in 2008 and Boeing in 2014 have much higher chances to perform to the expectation. So SpaceX makes a discount for risk.

In 2008, SpaceX did only 4 launches, of which only 1 successful, of much smaller light Falcon 1 vehicle, Orbital built 2 distinct successful launch vehicles - Taurus and Pegasus - and apart from that, it built complex satellites, being a company with 25+ years of experience and much more funding and track record. Should 2008 CRS contract be awarded today, it would be probably much different because now SpaceX appears more qualified.

Same applies to Boeing today - for all achievements of SpaceX, Boeing is a nearly 100 year old company which was in space business since before the space age, and about two orders of magnitude larger - for them, CST-100 is a simple device not presenting much technical risk.
But this would mean that the majority of folks in the company are like minded. Imagine, if I choose to use a Mac (because I am hipster), and my colleague on my right choose to use a ChromeBook (because he is a cutting edge geek) , and my colleague on my left choose to use a WinXP (because he doesn't want to change.)

Interoperability would surely take a hit, and imagine the IT support required.

/sorry for the sarcastic stereotyping...
'The Bright App Builder for the Enterprise'

'Enterprise' and absolutely no indication of costs, so it must be really expensive.

So the 'You' in 'Yes You Can' is not really just anybody like me ;-)
But Europe has comparatively strong public transit. So at least there's that.
SQS works fine when used from other hosting providers (or even from client-side JavaScript for that matter - with the right IAM token).
I also wrote something (before confd but I've yet to see anything that replicates it) for treating etcd like a filesystem and doing edge-triggered updates. You form directory structures, and those long keys get mapped to files on disk with their value as the file contents.

What really bugs me about these solutions -- confd, consul templates -- is that managing templated configuration files isn't as quick, but has been trivially possible with normal configuration management tools since their inception. When I think of managing HAProxy configurations, for example, I don't see Chef as a bottleneck. I can parallel SSH and run Chef on those hosts in 20 - 30 seconds. I don't care about the configuration being pristine, either.. because that's what backend health checks are for. That extends to a lot of their examples, but it's one of the ones that stuck out to me.

The things that I think are hard, or harder, are small bits of data, like database credentials, etc.... where people absolutely don't want to be making an HTTP call for every single thing, or don't want to define a template for hundreds of individual files that might be needed. That's a real bottleneck - you need something on top of these solutions to manage that. So for every file you care about being updated fast... you still need to manage a corresponding file.

I don't know necessarily how to solve that -- I treat K/V pairs as file name/contents pairs in my tool and don't think twice -- but it definitely feels a bit wrong.
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This is intriguing. Is there a link where I can learn more about this project?
Actually this smells like a business oportunity from the neighbour Romania providers to offer hi speed microwave / wireless links from over the border. Couple that with a mesh network, you got "free" internet ( as in free speech ).
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To be fair, most of the hype around the self-driving car don't come from Google, they come from people who are ... let's just say enthusiastic but who lack exposure in the subject matter.
I think in densely populated parts of Asia it's even harder.
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I'd be fine with a car that was automated only on highways. I could drive manually on local routes, and then for big journeys I would just head on the highway and turn on autopilot and take a nap, and wake up the next morning in Yellowstone or something.

It seems like standardizing information about just highways would be magnitudes easier than getting every single local route right. Companies could work with the government to standardize traffic and construction pylons/signals to be ideal for detection by robot cars. Traffic, construction, weather, and accident information for highways could all be standardized.
Actually this is just a smoke screen. As a native Hungarian I can tell you this. The Hungarian government is doing business with the Russians (we build a nuclear power plant funded by Russian loan) which the EU and the USA does not like. I don't like it either because Russia is blackmailing Hungary. There can be no good outcome of this situation because we either infuriate the Russians (we depend on the Russian gas) or the EU/USA. So the government came up with this tax nonsense as a distraction. As you can see they achieved their goal. Everybody is talking about the internet tax while the government is doing business with the Russians under cover. I don't like the 150 HUF/GB but I know how it works here. There will be an upper bound per month (say 4000 HUF) for the tax. The ISPs can put this tax as an expense in their books and in the end the user will see something around 1000-2000 HUF per month plus. This is how it goes here. Make no mistake I do not protect our government or the Russians. I hate both but I want you to see what really goes on here.
If anyone's interested in reading more about this, the [pseudo]science of determining personality based on a person's face is termed 'Physiognomy'. There seems to be little convincing evidence to support its efficacy. The most compelling, if anecdotal, example listed on Wikipedia is:

A physiognomist named Yoshito Mizuno was employed from 1936 to 1945 by the Imperial Japanese Naval Aeronautics Department, examining candidates for the Naval Air Corps, after - to their surprise - Admiral Yamamoto's staff discovered that he could predict with over 80% accuracy the qualifications of candidates to become successful pilots.
This is precisely the struggle that I've been having to deal with lately. Though, does anyone know if this works with OpenDirectory?
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They forget that Google also own a high resolution satellite company and they're working on a drone project - all which could be very useful for real time mapping.

About parking, this is less important for a taxi company.

And the incentives for self driving cars are huge , even as regional taxi companies, so connecting the traffic lights into the net(read only) as backup doesn't seem like a big problem.

The real interesting question is: does it really need "generalized intelligence" , or all the examples the article mentioned could be coded decently enough on a case by case basis, to a point where self driving car is much safer than a car ? We don't yet know the answer, but the current safety of Google's car are promising in that regard.
I am paying 50euro/month for 30Mbit/10Mbit Fiber in Luxembourg :/
In Italy I was paying about 25-30Euro/month for 20Mbit/1Mbit ADSL (and actually 20 was never 20 but more around 12-15..
12.45 EUR actually with VAT, assuming you just buy the Internet connection, and not as part of a package.
Hemingway used a fridge IIRC, cause he was so big.
How is that ironic? He even acknowledges himself that he learned this way from moving to Google, and acknowledges that they are the exception not the rule:

> "I remember years ago, when I joined Google, I looked at the personal technology that Google gave to its people. Google allowed people to use whatever they thought was relevant to them, when everyone else gave people a black laptop and a BlackBerry and said, “You are going to do it our way."
Hi there, I'd love to hear why you think that Tripomatic is difficult to use. If you don't want to write it here, could you get in touch with me at barbora@tripomatic.com? Thanks a lot!
I see you're taking his first sentence to heart then.
Quite interesting, although one shouldn't draw wrong conclusions like face-ism from it. When the corners of your mouth point downwards, it's a sign that you are afraid of something.

I guess being introvert doesn't imply to be afraid of something. More over, introverts, by definition, are difficult to characterize, so most people will have problems to detect introverts, rendering the title non-sense. ;)
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What is the best back end for an android app?
I need geolocation, chat, push notifications.
Anyone recommend me a particular BaaS (usegrid, deployd).
I've no much experience with js or JSON.
I've trying Google App Engine, but is a nigthmare, there a million of errors and the worse of all is that you can't find the solutions. They are constantly change the backend, and deprecating things, and de GAE plugin gives errors in Eclipse.
Any recommendations, node.js, mongodb, django REST,..??

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"Should"? They "shouldn't" be one thing or the other. They, as a group, seem to be, but why is that a threat to you if you like fishing? Just because there is a pattern to something, doesn't mean that that pattern is good (or bad, for that matter).

Why do we take such offence when people point out a trend or pattern, and we ourselves are an exception to that pattern (I say "we" as in many people, including myself)? Is it because we think being normal is superior to being unusual, and that we not being part of something that some other person thinks is normal is an implicit threat to our threat as normal people?
This reminds me of http://webdemo.myscript.com/#/demo/equation which recognizes handwritten equations. Also has an option to send to wolfram alpha to solve!
People are responsible for the actions they take :) If they want to use OpenBSD and play 3D Games it got to be difficult but if they manage to do it and be productive with it, it's ok.

Also you are going to get Linux if you are doing i.e iOS development. See the point ?
The pi is made in the UK, it does not make it better but it might be important for some people.
For those that didn't click though, the tweets they show for their POS tagger are great:

ikr smh he asked fir yo last name so he can add u on fb lololol

and

:o :/ :'( >:o (: :) >.< XD -__- o.O ;D :-) @_@ :P 8D :1 >:( :D =| ") :> ....

I'd love to see what Word2Vec did for that first one.
It still supports USB it just adds NFC, so you can still use it on your desktop/laptop - https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...
The company that raised over $800M and went public before filing for bankruptcy
Liability, lawsuits, litigation, lawyers. The future of autonomous cars is not limited by engineering smarts. The future of the industry will come down to how punitive the jury feels when Google Inc. dragged before the courts after a Google vehicle kills people. And these vehicles will, of course, kill people. But I don't see the "they statistically kill LESS people" argument working against "a machine made by Google ran over my children." Someone needs to be sueable, right?
Exactly. It works at Google because their engineers know their shit. Meanwhile, at your average corporation... That might not be the case, and you might spend loads of time trying to figure something out because your colleague uses some semi-random tool 'because hey it's cool!'.
A tool to save, search, share and make best use of code snippets/fragments.
I'm pretty sure this app doesn't solve differential equations ...
What interoperability? It's all in the web today
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Self driving vehicles are a new transport paradigm, potentially. The trajectory of these things is complicated with all sorts of intertwined positive feedbacks between technology, infrastructure, preceding technologies and succeeding technologies.

Roads were built for oxcarts. They followed routes used by donkey trains which followed paths used by walkers who followed pre existing animal runs wherever they could. The width of road cars and train tracks were based on the width of old roads. Shipping containers were designed to fit on trains and trucks. Ships were built to handle shipping containers, as are ports, depots and such. If you want to use something other than a standard shipping container, you probably need to design it to fit in to the shipping container world. It can all be traced back to wild goats making a path from one place to another.

The development os self driving cars as a major mode of transport depends on the development of stuff around it. Infrastructure is probably the big one. Our roads are built for human drivers in standard cars. If when roads start getting features designed specifically for robots, the whole thing could accelerate. I don't just mean physical infrastructure of roads, but maybe the whole ruleset and/or economics of it.

Many old cities have a problem with 10 sq Kms of inner city traffic. Some ban or limit vehicles here. But, if people use robo taxis instead of cars, these inner cities can have different vehicles. Instead of big cars that must deal with trucks and highways perhaps inner cities can be handled by slower, lighter and safer like vehicles like golf carts. This might help solve some safety issues.
I'm maybe a bit more libertarian than most HN readers, which is already a bit more libertarian than most people (especially Europeans), but when I do support taxes, I'd rather they be as broad-based as possible, unless they're targeting something which has negative externalities.

Universally applied VAT is (aside from the data-collection requirements) proven to be one of the least economically distorting taxes -- creating the least deadweight loss.

This tax seems almost pathologically bad -- taxing something with largely positive externalities. Normally you try "sin taxes" which tax things reviewed as having NEGATIVE externalities (CO2, smoking, even unhealthy foods).

It's like taxing people for reading books, or for volunteering their time to useful charities, or for picking up litter on the street. Actively discouraging something which has positive returns to society as a whole when people use more of it!
Then what's the point of privacy policies if they are rendered useless by Smith vs Maryland? Then the privacy policies should only have two sentences:

"We can do whatever we want with your data once you give it to us. Problem?"

The truth is the government is just using the Constitution/rulings as it suits them. They've changed the meaning of the word "relevant" to mean millions of people for 3-hops from the target. They are doing the same with Smith vs Maryland. They're just pushing it to its very limit, or even far beyond the limit. But I doubt that if the Supreme Court from back then were to rule in a contemporary case like that, it would rule the same way.
You made your account with your choice of name just to post this comment?
Probably true, I mostly stopped paying attention around 2010, so when I occasionally hit it now my subreddits are not highly curated to stay ahead of the horde.
Its a nice idea Ranjeet. Reach me if I could be of any help to you
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I think the author is also missing the implications of static mapping being only a partial paradigm in the car as a whole.

While I can't speak for the specific project, I imagine in addition to static/procedural mapping, there are generalized machine-learning algorithms & gradients which take into account arbitrary weights on context (traffic laws, potential loss of life, traction & other situational data, avoidance costs, actions of surrounding drivers, etc) and optimally, produce a decision that is as close to a human reaction as possible, while boosting efficiency and minimizing for injury.

And I imagine the resources are available to test the edge cases in simulated conditions more extreme (though perhaps less variable) than those encountered on public roads.

It may be another 5 years, but the solution is simply one of technological advancement--better static routines combined with more efficient behavioral models that produce better outcomes than the reaction of a human nervous system.

(And this is somewhat disheartening for an admitted 'petrolhead,' but innovation is an unstoppable force)
Ellison probably just thought they were stealing his shiny IP which he had bought and wanted a sweet share of all those handset profits. Which, by all accounts, he had all the right to test in court no matter how infuriating it was.

I don't think Oracle cares that much about independent developer goodwill. I don't see how they would have to. Oracle and along the same vein, SAP and their ilk are giants in the corporate world. They operate in space were corporate credibility is much more important than developer goodwill.

Note: I might be totally wrong, please correct me.
As long as there is significant unemployment, an employee will never feel safe to change these situations for the better. As long as the pay is low, they'll never be able to just chuck a job on ethical principles - they can't afford to.

These problems aren't something that should be sucked up. They're abhorrent and I'm surprised that you're trying to defend it. It's not like it's difficult to not be sexist/racist/homophobic...
The chip on the Pi was designed for set-top boxes, not tablets.
Well road testing starts January 2015 in the UK, and in Gothenburg from 2017 [0], presumably many other European countries have similar plans so we'll see!

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28551069
How come you are not looking for a new job then?

It's one thing having to use Windows for development. I've done it, you can work around lots of issues with Cygwin and other separate tools that enhances the development unfriendliness of Windows. If you are developping in Java, it's even less of an issue as Java itself and most of its IDEs are cross-platform.

But being so locked down that the only thing to do development with is Notepad++ (you can't even run vim or emacs?), that's actually so far beyond that even a complete non-tech person should be able to see that this is harmful to your productivity.
Next up, PHP compiler written in brainfuck