skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the computer only knows as much as its sensors tell it. If according to the sensors the breaks are not working, it doesn't matter that they defacto work - the only logical conclusion that the computer can take at that point is assume it's unable to apply breaks and relinquish command to the driver. And even multiple sensors can become broken - like here, the plane had 3 sensor pipes and they all became clogged with ice. The autopilot assumed that the values are invalid, therefore it couldn't continue functioning - and gave control back to the pilots.

Also, don't forget that you can't have redundant systems for everything, unless you want to be driving a tank. Imagine driving an automatic car and then some bird poo falls on the laser-sensor and the car literally can't see anymore(I am exaggerating, but the car can surely be blinded by something, the laser sensor on top can become dirty or damaged). The best it could do is apply full breaking force,but if you are on a motorway and there is an 18-wheeler behind you it could be a fatal idea. Again - the autopilot can't continue, it has to give control back to the driver - and the driver might crash the car if they are not experienced enough.
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Totally incredible. There are even traces of paint everywhere!
I had to have mine removed last year. Prior to that, I had about 2 years of periodic extreme stomach pain, which felt kind of like the pain you would have after drinking too much strong whiskey. The first time that it got really bad I went to an acute care center, they said it was either ulcer or gastritis. Eventually, after about the 4th trip to the doctor I ended up on the ER due to the extreme pain. They did an ultrasound test, and found gall stones logged in the duct leading to the stomach. Meanwhile I was put on a zero fat diet until the surgery (since fat activates the gall bladder and pushes on the stones in the duct).

Now this is something that gets me upset. Before the surgery, I had to go in for another test, where they observe the gall bladder by injecting iodine. Then after 2 hours the radiologist said there is a second part of the test which activates the gall bladder, so they could observe that. I then asked him what the effects of that would be, since the stones are logged in the duct, and I was on a no-fat diet due to it. So he calls the surgeon, then comes back and says "We are skipping that second test -- if we went through with it, you would have been in so much pain that we would have to hospitalize you". Again, this is an example of needing to know enough about your own condition, and not leave all the details in the hands of the professionals.
There's a question that interests me.

Employers are vocal about needing good employees. They are willing to spend on their recruiting. Some are apparently happy with the results of these bootcamps (for entry level coders, I imagine).

The schools’ revenue models differ substantially. App Academy, in San Francisco and New York, charges no tuition, but takes 18 percent of graduates’ first-year salaries

Why don't big employers hire & train, evening if they outsource the actual teaching to bootcamps? That way they will be able to dictate the toolset and the standards can be whatever they want. The costs are similar to recruiting costs anyway. Shorter average tenures don't sound like the whole story behind the lack of employer funded training. How can they be willing to spend $15k on recruiting but not on training. It doesn't make sense.

Big Banks once had very successful intense training courses lasting 2-6 months frothier traders. These contributed to their culture, built loyalty, actively assisted in recruiting, and culled the bottom of each cycle. The training programs were an asset.

If these schools can get someone to a solid starting point in 3 months, that sounds like a perfect fit for employer training. It takes a lot of risk off the table for students. Why not?

Is there some inherent advantage these schools have that facebook don't?
"View and manage your mail" permission is a deal breaker for me as well. Why is this a requirement?
its not free; he's bartering.

"Topic 420 - Bartering Income"
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html
Just don't promise "Free Upgrades 4 Lyfe" and then have to walk it back.
Given that the parent wrote that his job is exclusively JS, not that the parent only ever learned JS or never had a job where this was otherwise:

I wouldn't have taken that risk.
Very interesting find, but the website is a bit cumbersome (apologies for being pedantic here) to use. Found it painful to click open and read just a small paragraph related to each photograph below.

Another recent interesting newspiece on archeology was about the 'Antikythera computer' [1] that is apparently almost 2000 years old. Unable to find the most authentic source for that report as it seems almost everyone picked up the story later on.

And then there was one recent piece on HN about 40,000 year old Indonesian Cave paintings via Smithsonian magazine [2]. All this is very intriguing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8434338
> Improved search experience through the location bar [1]

Really happy to see this one. Previously single-word searches were so slow that I'd usually have time to remember that they are slow, press C-e, and enter the same search term in the search bar, all before the browser realises there is no matching host and does a web search instead.

1: http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/faster-and-snappier-...
What's quite interesting is that a few years ago, when you bought from the MAS, you assumed you will always be able to install the software and it will be kept up to date. Nowadays, the unfortunately reality is the opposite - it's very likely the MAS version is seriously lagging behind.

What's worse, as you say, is that there's absolutely no indication that some of those apps have been abandoned (apart from the very old Last Update date). The vast majority of consumers will just buy the software and not go researching whether the app they're acquiring has been left collecting dust.

And at the end, both consumers and developers lose out.
Wow. Is there any way to mitigate that?
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It's more likely to be associated with built-in malware protection/phishing protection from Google. In Firefox's settings under Security, you can un-check "block reported attack sites" and "block reported web forgeries" and these cookies should disappear after running BleachBit.

these types of cookies may seem benign and helpful to users (and maybe they are), but i also wouldn't doubt that Google uses this information for persistent tracking.

it's already been disclosed that NSA uses Google PREF cookies to track users: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10...

hence my other dispirited comment about the cookie UI...
edit: reworded/clarified
I have to hand it to IE these days, their performance boasts aren't just lip service. They are definitely outpacing Chrome and FF on canvas performance.

Chrome used to dither between best and second best in performance in the last 4 years, but for some time now IE10 + 11 have been the fastest browsers at rendering 2D Canvas paths/primitives/images by a huge margin.

I develop a canvas-based library and have a series of tests[1] that also serve as a (somewhat practical than usual) benchmark for how browsers compare when using canvas. Here's how long it takes to complete the tests on the big three:

FF nightly: 17.713 seconds
Chrome dev: 13.123 seconds
IE 11: 7.83 seconds

Chrome had an edge when I started out with canvas stuff, now IE is almost twice as fast as Chrome.

[1] you can run the tests yourself here: http://gojs.net/latest/tests/index.html but remember that its only meaningful if you compare results on the same machine.
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I agree with most of the points (pricing on the app store is the worst pricing model of any I've ever used), but I like that the apps are sandboxed. If an app requires functionality outside the sandbox, I'm happy to purchase and install a (signed) version straight off the browser.
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While I agree with a lot of points regarding the weaknesses of the MAS, I doubt there is an exodus in sight. Two reasons: normal users and EU tax laws.

1. I know a lot of Mac users that use the MAS as the only (!) source for their software (even Scrivener and other software has come to the MAS that before was only sold through the developer website). These are "normal" users that are not developers or hardcore nerds. And they never see any problems with sandboxing (they don't even know what this is). But - and that is the beauty of the MAS for normal users: Apple has their payment info on file, allows easy browsing the catalog, easy installation, easy payment and easy canceling of the order just in case. In addition: iTunes gift cards that are sold with a discount.

2. With the new VAT laws in the EU starting 2015, it will be a pain it the ass for small developers to sell software and services through their website on their own - at least for developers in the EU.

Of course, developers of business-related software for developers might see advantages selling on their own. But an exodus?
As a self-taught developer, I struggled with accepting that people like me are a minority.

For a long time I could not wrap my mind around why people did not put in the effort to learn new skills on their own. Eventually I realized that the reason is simple: they can't. Like you say, they either don't have the self-teaching skills or the motivation to follow through on the endeavor. I would be talking to friends and they would say, "I want to learn X so I'm thinking of taking classes at the local college." I would think to myself, "that's so silly, they should just buy a bunch of books for one tenth the price!" Because that's what I would have done. As time went on though I realized most people need someone to teach them stuff. They either never developed self-teaching skills, or let those skills erode throughout high school and college due to neglect. Maybe that's a commentary on our education system: it's too focused on spoon-feeding facts (and then test on those facts) and does not put enough emphasis on self-reliance.
Where is the ethical line between advantage play and cheating?
Not when people are drowning in garbage.
They made the location bar a search bar, which is a joyous occasion for me personally. Typing one-word searches in the location bar was actually what made me tear my hair for a week, and I'd find myself coming up with searches that included two words instead of one just to skip the lengthy DNS lookup.
Anyone who deliberately installs and uses spyware such as Chrome is clearly lacking it.
Text is just small pictures, so always bet on small pictures.
Anecdotal fallacy.

If a racist were to come on here and make hyperbolic generalizations about a group of people without data, they would also get called out on their bias. The fact that you are trying to worm your way into supporting it with hypotheticals shows that you are also ignorantly discriminatory.

>"This kind of seething diatribe is what's wrong with HN."
Has any team ever tried to put together a system equivalent to Steam for Desktop application distribution?

I'm imagining a cross-platform(Well, for desktops) store that would make it easy for developers to release applications, distribute updates, distribute trials and manage payments using a number of different models(single purchase, upgrade discounts, weekly/monthly/yearly subscriptions, all kinds of things).

It's upsetting that good software doesn't have a good way to be distributed and searched for in 2014. I feel like we, as developers, should be taking the initiative here, not sitting on our haunches hoping Apple and Microsoft give us something that works.
What more should be customized? It seems quite good currently. And I've heard of Lobsters, but that's not dedicated to sales, and I haven't heard of Pullup, and couldn't figure out what that was by a Google search, is it focused on sales?
Didn't the change the introspect jQuery event structures land recently? Is this in FF33?

http://flailingmonkey.com/view-jquery-and-jquery-live-events...
>very sluggish with creating new tabs

There was a bug (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=409126), but it seems to be fixed. However last comment there hints on another related bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=407889

Maybe you have bookmarks with foreign characters on bookmark bar too?
Anywhere is going to come across as inferior to Silicon Valley from that point of view, but that doesn't mean there isn't some tech development there to hurt.
Wait: http://besttimebank.org/Links/Time%20Dollar/IRS%20Ruling.htm

The IRS has issued three local rulings that Time DollarsT are tax exempt. They have given three reasons for this status.

1. An hour is always an hour, regardless of what is offered

2. They are backed only by a moral obligation and are not legally binding

3. Their purpose is charitable.

edit:

Q: Are TimeBank Hours taxable?[0]

A: No. In several cases TimeBank Hours have been ruled tax exempt by the IRS because an hour is always valued at one hour. There is no legal responsibility on anyone's part to redeem a TimeBank Hour, and the purpose of TimeBank Hours is charitable. Read the IRS rulings here[1]. And more articles here[2]. At some point this could be challenged and we think we have a great case to make that our time spent helping one another should not be taxed.

[0] http://danecountytimebank.org/faq

[1] http://assets.danecountytimebank.org/IRS_TimeDollar_Rulings....

[2] http://actionhub.timebanks.org/taxonomy/term/72
Aren't these technology firms "above the law", though?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8437030
Interestingly this weekend at Cingleton, Rich Siegel announced that BBEdit was leaving the Mac App store... not for any one technical issue with it but for "sanity".

Essentially, the app store dynamics add stress to the process of shipping mac software for most developers and they add this stress at the end of the release cycle when a developer is already at their most tense moment.

Having deployed many products on Apple's stores, I can say that I completely relate to this and so did the crowd at Cingleton. I expect many other apps to follow suit...
The page linked by riquito indicates that jQuery events introspection will land in FF34.
the Bliive guys are really nice. I contacted them some months ago to know if they would open-source the stack and they quickly replied (that they couldn't yet though).

I am involved (until the next meeting, I plan to resign from the managing committee) in a LETS (local exchange trading system) and one of the benefits we seek is to (re)create "social link" between people of the same geographic community.

Bliive doesn't put the accent on that, it seems to rely on internet/skype for contact.

Timebanking is an interesting topic. In the Dane County they are using it for some young offenders instead of criminally charging them. http://danecountytimebank.org/projects/dctb-youth-court-comm...
Yup, the guys at Paddle are: https://www.paddle.com/
> And would open-sourcing the browser really kill them?

No idea why not, but it's a different group than MS's other Open Sourcing efforts; The Dev tools people are happy to show their ASP.net mvc work[1], among other things[2], but IE falls under their Windows group, so it's a different set of people making the decisions.

[1] http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest

[2] https://roslyn.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest (hell yeah)
The PT Cruiser was another concept car that was mangled from auto-show to production:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Pronto_Cruizer
And it is even the #1 browser in places where Chrome can not be used (thanks to US export regulations) and in places where people think about security (Germany).
I've complained about the lack of app trials via the mac/iOS app stores for years now. It would be SO EASY for them to incorporate this functionality for developers to allow, where I can try a full version of an app for a certain amount of time and then it would lock me out until I purchased it.

Not having that feature has easily stopped me from giving at least 50% of apps I've found a shot simply because I don't want to make a blind purchase based on 5 screenshots.
Safari doesn’t support them either: http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime
I agree with all four points mentioned by the writer, IMO of those four reasons, the biggest problem is the absence of "paid upgrades"

Not being able to charge for updates is a problem that affects almost every single paid app (assuming the app is supported across multiple versions and major updates) in all the app stores. This is an unsustainable proposition for most developers.

At a recent Seattle Xcoders meeting in Redmond, our speaker spoke about how he had given up his indie business and had now switched to contracting (disclosure: I run this meeting and had asked the speaker to speak).

At the meeting, I noted that Apple made its profits through hardware and they could therefore afford to make their software free. Similarly, Google is an ads company and so they don't need to charge for their software. However, the dominance of these companies means that most users/consumers expect all their software to be free (and the small minority that downloads paid apps wants upgrades to be free).

It is going to be an uphill battle for any "software" company to survive in the future. IMO that applies primarily to indie devs (I'm one myself) who sell apps in the app stores, but the problem also extends to large companies like Microsoft.
Thats antiquated. Software besides console games are rarely purchased on shelves in stores anymore. Any software you can buy from the store can usually be purchased right off the developers site. In fact who says "Man I really need a new copy of XYZ, maybe ill run up to BestBuy and see if they have it..." Yes its nice for developers that this distribution channel even exists, but its hurting devs and customers more than helping them.
It's possible to learn too much from a crisis. Fast growth inherently has risks like this, but overall the premise is not wrong.

Computers and the internet are important. We do need lots of people who can make them do new things. These skills are possible to learn, with talent, motivation and investment of time.

The late 90s was fueled by the correct realization of these things. It just misjudged the value of early versions of everything. The Microsofts of the internet launched 10, 15 years after the web started to blow up. The mistake was thinking that all the land would be grabbed by 2002.

Today's tech growth is more real, like the industrial revolution. It's productive, even if it produces stupid pictures sometimes.
I don't see the humor. When I bought a new mac recently, i logged into the mac app store with my apple ID and instantly had all of my apps on my new computer within 5 minutes. Over 20 apps licensed and installed in 20 minutes! In contrast, it took me the better part of a few hours to download and license Sublime Text and remember the URLs for all of the other software, let alone find and check the license keys. What could be easier?
Has anyone provided numbers on the percentage of deficits that would be covered by closing loopholes, and the following effects on the global economy?
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jessep is right - you cannot have a large amount of cheap and high quality software.

Note that there are some very large difference between the software on iOS and Mac. On mobile system, the vast majority of apps are more akin to small consumables - like having a can of coke or a cup of coffee.

On the Mac, you have much more complex software, that can take years (and even decades) to develop. This software requires serious investment of resources and time. If the ecosystem cannot support it, it won't exist.

You're right that the iOS store is designed to encourage a lot of choice at low prices - that's what sells iPhones. This might be okay for consumables but a non-starter for professional software that exists on the Mac.
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/25j41u/adblock_...

The only true fix is to remove it, although changing the ruleset and finding out which tab has humongous numbers of iframes is probably a good start: according to link 1 ABP has a static memory consumption of ~60MiB, plus 3~6MiB/iframe (since it's caused by the stylesheet size, I expect the precise ruleset impacts that)
Agreed, sandboxing is important. I don't mind vetting a company externally of the App Store if they intend to run outside of a sandbox.
> Do you think learning a new stack because of a fashion is valid reason ?

Yes!

> so back-end is going to be a REST Api with ASP.Net Web Api secured with OWIN/Katana

REST APIs are what Node is best at! You should definitely at least try to write your API in Node.

> I slightly disagree your find an existing framework and continue approach. Because in my opinion if i code everything i will learn more

You will learn more if you code everything, but you're also not learning from the wisdom of the community. Node is used in a very different way from ASP.NET, Python, PHP, etc. You should learn "the Node way". It's always better to learn how each language does things rather than trying to recreate another environment that you're already used to.

Since this is just for the presentation layer, your Node code would be absolutely tiny -- you're not going to learn very much anyway.

I'd suggest using Express. Most Node servers, especially small ones, are based on Express anyway.
It's not just signing, there's sandboxing too. Some apps have avoided the app store or have somewhat less-capable app store versions because of the sandboxing.

I'd actually love if they could get the Flash plug-in into the app store, especially if it was a crippled version that could only play video or games, just to get rid of Adobe's updater.
Interesting, thanks. I'll have to check this out.
"FALSE"

https://twitter.com/jack/status/522064958474186752
In south Indian classical (Carnatic) music the greatest modern composer is Tyagaraja (1767-1847), who interestingly was a contemporary of Beethoven. Tyagaraja was prolific in a form of composition called a kriti, at once both structured as well as intense.

The kriti eventually led to the modern Carnatic concert format, in the early twentieth century. Where concerts once used to be night-long expositions of virtuosity in rural temple festivals, the modern concert became a brisk 2 hour affair that catered to urban schedules. A couple of 'heavy' abstract pieces, then a few kritis serving as anchor, rounded off with several light blitz pieces (usually scorned by the cognoscenti).
Ah thanks, missed that. Shame they didn't stuff that into the release -- it would have been incredibly valuable.
I was just thinking "wow, someone should build this." Going to go check that out yesterday. Thanks.
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