skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Lewandowsky heads Google's self driving car project now. Thrun is long gone, off trying to make Udacity fly.

He's an impressive guy. I met him when he was going to Berkeley and doing the self-balancing motorcycle for the 2005 Grand Challenge. He'd already done a startup, with a specialized giant laptop for construction sites for people who needed to see blueprints.

The LIDAR Google uses is from Velodyne, which was "Team DAD" in the 2005 Grand Challenge. The first version of their LIDAR fell off their vehicle, but they improved the mechanics and produced that cone-shaped thing Google now uses. That's really a research tool; a different approach is needed for production vehicles. (I still like the Advanced Scientific Concepts flash LIDAR; it's expensive, but that's because it has custom silicon. If you had to get the price down, that's where to start. No moving parts, all electronics.)

I'm kind of disappointed with Google's self-driving effort on the hardware side. I'd expected flash LIDARs, terahertz phased array radars, and other advanced sensors by now. You need to be able to see in all directions, but the requirements to the sides and back are less than for looking ahead. The CMU/Cadillac effort is ahead on the hardware side; their self-driving car has all its sensors integrated into the vehicle so you don't notice them.

(I had an entry in the 2005 Grand Challenge: Team Overbot. Ours was too slow, and we worried about off-road capability too much.)
That's awesome! I must have missed that announcement where it will come sooner than the next several years. Can you point me to it? The last I heard was in the roadmap [http://www.scala-lang.org/news/roadmap-next] and the earliest it is to be expected is in "Don Giovanni" which is not 2.12 or 2.13 but 2.14 which is, what, 4-5 years away at this point?

Unfortunately, we can't use dotc, we use Scala for a decently large project (220KLOC using wc -l) started back in the late 2.6/early 2.7 days which is gradually being ported to cross compile in ScalaJS. Having said that I will look into it for a side project. That's how our use of ScalaJS started. I had been attempting to use Typescript, but after giving it a shot, ScalaJS clearly beat it in every regard for our use cases, (well until the union types, but ScalaJs is still very very far ahead for us).

Thanks for the heads up!
It could merely be because different organizations have different hiring standards and cultures and usually gather the same types of people.
NPR Radiolab had a story on this recently [1] where amongst other things, a reporter visits a US military lab and tries sniper training with and without electrical brain stimulation. Pretty interesting.

1: http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/
FastMail seems very transparent. They provide aost of the stuff that I needed from an Email hosting company, even independent audits.
The Old Foursquare Is Dead
It's portable? That's assuming you don't wget sites for offline perusal.
Milner was poorly advised, however, if he was told that the winners were plausible rock star material.

It's a pity that von Neumann is gone. That was a man who knew how to party.
I've been kicking around the idea of writing something but I'd like to do it under my real name and so I'm paralyzed by the fear that I'll write something terrible and get bad reviews and it'll show up on my search results forever. Maybe I'm more afraid it'll just languish once it's written. I don't know.

Can you talk a little more about the ebooks? How did you choose a topic and could you point at a useful reference or two for how to market?
Oh come on. This is a specific BT service that allows your home router to be used by the public (for a payment to BT, presumably the home owner gets a cheaper service or some return on the deal?). Should BT really enable the searching of non-SafeSearch material via such connections? Should Google really prevent BT from implementing this system?

What is it about extreme internet content that you think is so important that BT should support it being downloaded via their customers home routers without those customers knowledge? Or is it that schools use such a system to block extreme content - presumably you think that the dreggs of the internet are appropriate for schools to allow students to access easily?

Google's not stopping you searching for whatever extreme content you like they're just limiting their enablement of such searches in circumstances where those in control of the internet connection choose for it to be limited.
Senator Al Franken's Letter to Uber [pdf]
Yes - there is a good documentation of this story in "The Paypal Wars"
I want to be able to turn off bounds checking if I'm 100% sure

But is everyone else 100% sure? Look at that CERT advisory I posted from Microsoft. "SafeBufferResize" - wasn't. Somebody at Microsoft was probably "100% sure".

If a buffer overflow in your code meant being fired, would you turn off subscript checking?
Awesome! Can't wait to try this out. Something that I wouldn't mind added would be to keep like a history of all the beers you have seen and the places you saw them at so if I am craving my favorite beer I can quickly see what spots near me i've been to have it, but then you could crowdsource it and search any restaurants anyone has been to to see if they have certain beers. Just a thought.

Oh, and if they are bottles the normal ml in the bottle and the ABV and a score saying best buy for your buck :p

Thanks for making this!

* heads off to the bar
45 minutes to be precise: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf
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It took me a few refreshes and multiple clicks just to realize I had to scroll down. I don't understand why someone would think unusable could ever be gorgeous. That page has one of the worst layouts I've ever come across and ironically it's supposed to be about enhancing users experience.
>stop bullshiting please
>racist as hell
>American scumbags
>stupid moderators

Stop mudslinging.

>I have kept proof

Please post.
> My headline here is slightly tongue-in-cheek.

You don't say...
>When you have a number of interdependent modules, then every change request and new feature has to go through that module's owner. If it's not their top priority (and it won't be), then getting your work done suddenly has a hard dependency on a team who is...generally pretty unresponsive, at least from your POV.

Is that true? Again, I've never done development on that scale, so I could totally be wrong, but I'm seeing this a problem with how changes are handled and releases are published.

I do work on some Open Source projects that are used by some big companies, the project has very good reliability because of CI, specification testing, perf testing for regression to the point that merging in minor bug fixes and pushing a minor release is pretty trivial.

Let's say only some of the teams practice good module management, ok fine, you fork the repo, fix the changes, publish your fork as your new dependency and move along on your way.

Does this take discipline? Absolutely, but it severely reduces complexity in the code. It mandates a certain level of pureness by forbidding certain dependencies in the vast majority of the codebase. The upsides are tremendous when compared to the slight inconvenience of fixing the occasional bug in someone else's module.
That is true, but everyone aren't running even recent-ish OSs. Also having relied on BT Wifi for about 2 weeks recently, I can definitely confirm that OSX's detection doesn't always work. About 80% of time, it's fine, the other 20% it's google for "asdf" and get redirected.

Also, BT Wifi tends to log you out every 20 minutes to 6 hours seemingly by random, forcing you login with your credentials again, and this need to re-login is something that OSX never detected.
So this looked really great and I'm sure it will be. I realize that there are a lot of barcodes, but I happened to see this thread while at Costco. I downloaded the app while here and it only recognized 2 beers from the entire beer isle.

Some were tricky but some were things that you definitely should have (like Sam Adams Winter). This will be really great when it's more complete but there is still some work to do
http://www.quora.com/How-did-Elon-Musk-build-and-organize-Te...
Humans climbing with Gecko inspired dry adhesives [pdf]
This is really incredible. To summarize for people who don't have access:

1) GT was a solar furnace maker that first offered to sell Apple 2300 furnaces so that Apple could produce sapphire screens for the iPhone 6.

2) Then Apple decided to lend GT $500 million and have GT own the furnaces and produce the sapphire (although it had no experience in producing high quality, production volume sapphire) for Apple.

3) GT became a captive supplier to Apple and had exclusivity
arrangements - so it couldn't diversify its business.

4) GT hit production problems with almost 50 percent of the boules of sapphire being cracked and unusable.

5) GT had operational issues, where people were paid to just sweep the floor over and over.

6) GT eventually filed for Chapter 11 - surprising Apple.

7) The iphone 6 didn't have sapphire screens.
non-paywall link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal...
You can also do !s to redirect to https://startpage.com. I believe they have the exact same search results as Google. (Without being Google)
Agreement states that we're independent contractors, but scope of work section tells:

As a Software Engineer at %company name% you will be developing
applications for the %company name% Platform.

Your starting date will be %date%. You will work as a full-time member
of the team from %my location%. Full-time member assumed
to be working five days in a week (Monday till Friday), 8 hours a day.
Wow, this stuff is a lot further along than I thought. The Stanford team was apparently climbing the side of a building with these.
Basically, the problem is that no sane person will let you mess with their teeth unless you lack the proper credentials, and experimenting on oneself can be painful enough that almost everyone will quit after their first equivalent of an off-by-one-array-access segmentation fault.
Senator Franken writes to Uber CEO demanding answers
Would love to see a 3D print button on your site sometime as well! printtopeer.io/api

Disclosure: found of P2P
Think this will just be on BT Openworld, which they resell from anyones BT router.
Surviving the Series A Crunch
You should check out codementor.io. A buddy had a really successful time with it. Paired with 2 mentors and went from having 0 knowledge to an app on the App Store in 5 months.
> If a buffer overflow in your code meant being fired, would you turn off subscript checking?

If I could get fired for my implementation not being efficient enough (and the performance hit from the bounds checking mattered as shown through benchmarking, yadda yadda), then yes. :)
You already have to pay BT to use these hotspots.
For me I get: "You've reached a subscriber-only article.", ie it's paywalled there too.
> That contract with Google was set to expire this year, though, and it look [sic] like either Yahoo made an offer Mozilla couldn’t refuse or Google decided to walk away from the deal.

I imagine most of us are assuming the latter?
> Get up at 7.30 and go to class

> Don't take joke classes

> Don't study too much

I sense some conflicts of interest here...
Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. In my experience you gotta really stink it up to get fired in this industry.
They forgot to put the link to the npm module ;)
I think it would be more precise to say ¬p → ¬q rather than p → (q is possible), where p = E is a 10× Environment and q = ∃ a 10× developer in E.
1. It's in a separate channel from the home owner's data. They shouldn't care what's in it.

2. They're invading the privacy of everyone not downloading 'extreme content'.

3. Privacy invasion is not appropriate in anything that pretends to be generic internet access, extreme or not.
Why Taylor Swift Made the Right Decision
Managed Services vs. Managed Resourcing
You get access to the wifi network on other routers. You don't get anything else in return - this is included in the cost of the bill.
You can phone them and get them to disable it on your router.

Their routers seem to have no QOS - one computer doing an update will kill internet for others in the house, presumable this is the same if other users are on the 'BT Openworld' wifi it shares.
It is fascinating to note that the changes occurred in the white matter portion of the brain. The general thought (challenged recently) is that only the gray/grey matter neurons 'mattered'. White matter was just conduction between the grey matter neurons (which had all the intelligence). The final quantity of these grey neurons was fixed shortly after birth and people kept losing them as they aged.

If it turns out the body can recruit white matter in learning then suddenly we have 10-50 times more cells (white matter/grey matter ratio) that can participate in intelligence. I suspect the way intelligence is organized would also differ between the white and grey regions. Not to mention how they interact with each other!. It calls into question a lot of the assumptions computational scientists make in coming up with the complexity of a simulated brain. We might be at the start of understanding how truly complex the brain is.

A good overview of this understudied portion of the brain is the the book "the other brain" by douglas fields.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-Brain-Breakthroughs-Revoluti...
If you say that even 1 dead person is a horror story, then I'll agree with you, and stop this discussion.

Otherwise, if some lesser number is not a horror story, then please explain why 190 dead people is a horror story. Roughly what level would not be a horror story, but 'merely' tragic?

Is that level based also on the number of trips, or amount of distance traveled bike? Or is it simply the absolute number of deaths? How does that compare to the number of people who die by walking, running, swimming, or kayaking?

We cannot eliminate all risk. What level is acceptable? You seem to suggest that no risk is acceptable. The vast majority of the world seems to disagree with you.
Will you accept an anecdote?

The following very simple project has helped me immensely.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/281msj/fast_off...

It's taken me from working in an obscure company on an obscure project into being at least somewhat heard of in the specific field. People are using this in lots of projects and it's been ported to many other languages. It's opened up networking with others in the field and in interviews I've had people state "yeah we looked at your code, it's really clean and efficient".
NCQ works well when many writers are trying to get access to the hard drive. Of course this works well, unless you attempt to do more IOPS than your drive array supports for a continued amount of time. At that point applications that require fsync or write barriers will get terrible performance due to latency , and you should re-evaluate your storage. Which is the whole point of queues don't fix overload.
Understanding the iPhone 6 Plus Screen
I learned a lot from this post; thanks! As a MS employee (but in research), it is fascinating to study these differences. I also believe that the single codebase view is inevitable given the need for agility in the modern marketplace.
I was discussing monitors with a colleague today, and we speculated that what we wanted was an e-ink monitor - not a laptop, just a monitor. Use a conventional flat panel for the main screen, but have one or two e-ink screens off to the side for documentation etc.
To be blunt, where's the innovation in Yahoo! Search? They're using Bing data and the result page images in the article look like a clone of Google's.
I'd like to see Rust + Qt used, but isn't it still in early development? C++ bindings from Rust is a tricky issue.

Other than that I don't agree with you. Qt has quite a lot of developers. I always had little respect for Google's choice of Java in Android which was made for the sake of getting more developers. If anything, by that logic Rust would have way less potential developers than C++.
Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?
This is a tough one. I have seen Etherpad [http://etherpad.org/] being used a lot. The there is Zoho suite of apps [https://www.zoho.com/] but I am not sure if they really match your requirements completely.

For writing and other docs, I personally use Dropbox but I know that is not the same as working in the browser itself.
What about the move from Talk to Hangouts? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-s...
1080 is absolutely not wide enough for today's software and web sites, but 1200 is mostly manageable. Anything that is too wide for 1200 either has too many columns as an attempt to use the absurd width of most monitors, or its lines of text are too long to be readable.
Isn't that sort of by definition though? 1% of users use this feature all the time - but the total use of that feature is low.

I guess i'm wondering why not? seems like a good heuristic, even if wrong.
> It should be noted that Yahoo has a five-year contract to deliver search results from Bing in the US

Isn't that 5 years remaining on a 10 year contract?
I think I'm a human, but I did not realize that boy was on a trampoline instead of a wakeboard until you pointed it out. I think the water in the background confused me. I was also probably biased by reading the network's label before reaching my own judgment.
I don't think this follows. "Random output" is an idealized model that no actual, specific hash function achieves. I already said that having such an F would worry me, but "if F is computable, H is not secure" is a strong statement and I'm wondering whether it's backed up by math, not-quite-math-but-good-reasoning, or handwavy bluster. Please don't take this as an attack, though - I appreciate the attempt!
Similar/realted (from what I can tell) stories:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/10/shattered_apples_jil... (interesting info on Sniper weapons pod use of sapphire in comments).

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/19/gt-advanced-sapphire-fai... (references the WSJ article)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/19/us-gtadvanced-bank...
Were these concerns over Light Table for internal use by these companies? If so, then that sounds a lot like ignorant fear-mongering, either by counsel or execs playing armchair IP lawyer. I understand resolving the "sales objection"; it's just disappointing to see these licensing misconceptions persisting.
You'll find some recently-announced privacy initiatives interesting:

* http://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/11/10/introducing-polar...

* http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/tracking-pr...

* http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/11/12/quantifying-t...
Space Weapons
Yes, we're looking into that. Agreement says that its regulated by Delaware law and hearings should be done there.
I think that was pretty nice of them to give you a refund.
If there is an impending catastrophe, the profit motive is irrelevant. The issue is one of short term (profit) vs. long term (environment) thinking. Saving the planet while still appealing to the profit motive would be great, but if that's not feasible, do we just let the planet go to hell...?
And also would inflate the price. I don't mind WiFi only. And in the worst case you can make a WiFi hotspot from your handset.
Not the OP, but I'm also interested. The example you provided was right on.
The new default search engine is changing, so if you are using the current default engine for your country (Google in the US), then your search engine will change to the new default (Yahoo in the US). It will not affect users who are not using the default search engine.
Unless you're in Chrome or Firefox in which Google's certificates are pinned
This is a real wakeup call - raise bigger seed rounds to last until you're a breakout success.
Plus, even in what you've quoted, is there anything you can cite as faulty/wrong? The media doesn't have to be a court of law, and I really don't see anything controversial in what was stated there.

The entire first sentence I quoted is indefensible.

The claim, though false, set off a wave of outrage that eventually escalated into a campaign against all the designers and critics who have argued for making gaming culture more inclusive.

Link to proof that the claim is false? The fact that the journalist has assumed it is false means they have critically appraised some amount of evidence. For a parallel, imagine if the recent coverage of the Bill Cosby allegations was mentioned as "These claims, though false..." Yeah, it would reveal a bias.

As for the second part of that sentence and rest of the paragraph, the journalist admits they have aligned themselves on the side of the alleged victim but then goes on to state the position of the 'other side' in an unflattering light. This is a 'strawman' debate tactic.

I don't disagree with the ideas stated in the article... again, I really don't understand the controversy because these games sound great and I would love to try them out.

I wish someone from the 'other side of this' could come in here and provide some rationale for why they think inclusivity threatens their gaming culture. If I'm in a group of only men, we all act very differently than at the office. Social interactions are 'normal' only in a given context.

In first-person shooters over network, guys are pretty foul-mouthed (understatement of the century) and yet we might not even know each other's names. Do you believe they should be censored? Or do you think you should just not play those games? Because if you believe they should be censored, you've answered the question as to why they are scared. If you would rather play another game, then there is no controversy.
Autonomous Taxi Service in Germany (2010)
So what exactly is your goal? If you don't want anything that has advantages over a typical color LCD, then use driver settings to make it grayscale. Is that a 'fake' option?
I have done too many things in the past (which are now dead) to even remember them all.

My current project is making me a handsome $2-3 a week is an Andriod app for children. Money from admob. I am trying to slowly growth hack it in various ways.

One is to get translations done on fiverr.com to countries where it is popular.

An other is to think about improving my 'asking for ratings' UX so that I can compel people to give feedback and therefore improve the app, reduce the % of uninstalls.

This is based on a simple idea that the number of installs stabilizes:

Let new installs / day = N

Let uninstalls = U

Let % of uninstalls per day = P

Let total current installs = C

Then U = P * C

This is stable when U = N
So when N = P * C

Therefore C tends to N/P

So for example 100 new installs per day at 1% uninstall rate = 10000 installs eventually and no more.

But get the % down to 0.1% is the same effect as getting 1000 new installs per day.

So this is part of my plan.
Apple Relabels “Free” Download Buttons on iTunes and Mac App Store to “Get”
Good article. Shows why the executive branch is responsible for this mess.

The 2009 dissent, led by a senior NSA official and embraced by others at the agency, prompted the Obama administration to consider, but ultimately abandon, a plan to stop gathering the records.

The secret internal debate has not been previously reported. The Senate on Tuesday rejected an administration proposal that would have curbed the program and left the records in the hands of telephone companies rather than the government. That would be an arrangement similar to the one the administration quietly rejected in 2009.

Good news is the patriot act now expires in a couple of months and the party will all be over. Oh, wait. POTUS will have to sign the law fixing/extending it. Or not. Its all on him at this stage.
What programming languages are the oDesk job in? I am also a student and need to start making some money freelancing.