skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is we're really not that close to fully-autonomous cars. Even Elon Musk's most ambitious projections for "autopilot" are a car that can drive itself 90 - 95% of the time but will require an alert, licensed driver to take over if necessary.

Secondly, I don't feel that the possible rise of truly autonomous vehicles (if that even occurs within the next ten years) affects the main point of this article. In fact, the advantages of battery-electric over gasoline become even more pronounced in a world of self-driving cars. The only drawback (speed to refuel) becomes moot as fully-charged vehicles can be dispatched while others direct themselves to charging or battery-swap stations.
Honestly I think it's just a matter of a younger crowd being exposed to the term only in its gender-neutral form, and seizing on that use.
Any idea why on https://gocardless.com/merchants/new, when the Email Address input has focus, Cmd+Left arrow do not navigate to the previous page? Once the input no longer has focus, I'm allowed to use the shortcut again.
for one, get people out of their chairs consistently, a hell of a lot more often. Creativity is stifled sitting at computers. innovation and problem solving comes from a sythesis of ideas. Humanity sitting at a desk is not a physically optimal way to tap into the brain's higher functioning or generating energy from collaboration.
More details about SEO would be helpful, considering that's probably the MOST important aspect of going all SPA or not.

Are you doing some escape fragment/headless browser for googlebots?
Discovery from the lawsuit makes her out to be extremely unsympathetic. There's the accusation that Yishan hired her so she'd have a good title going into the trial. People probably react negatively to contributing to a related venture. By supporting reddit, perhaps they feel they're belong her, in some minor way. (Like buying DVDs supports bad copyright laws by giving money to companies that lobby for such rules.) Or maybe it's just mob "justice" if they view her as a crook.

There's also the "no salary negotiation" thing, which is either offensive to women, men, or workers depending on the argument.

It doesn't seem fair that Alexis isn't getting as much flak. It'd be cool, for the popcorn value, if reddit starts a backlash against him.

Edit: And wow, a lot of reddit users really take themselves seriously and think reddit's really Changing The World. So the CEO's more like a political position, where you get judged on irrelevant-to-the-position criteria.
>unless you have a cup or something and don't mind drinking from the bathroom faucets.

To my understanding, this is no different than using the tap from your kitchen sink. It still comes from pipes and tap water is tap water. It's mostly a mental thing.
If you really wanted you could use the HTML5 history API, with a fallback to #hashtags.
Portland, Oregon has them all over:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Bubbler
I have a few questions for the Density folks:

- How well does it handle people walking in side by side?

- What about someone pushing a cart or stroller?

- Can it tell if someone is walking in or out?

- How far does the laser reach? Would I need two sensors if I had a double or triple wide door?

- I assume these are battery powered? How long do they last?
Right. Snowdon was unlucky. He should have come to you for advice and filed some paperwork with management I guess.
You should spend more time talking to customers first. If you talk to potential customers before putting pen to paper or writing code you will either have a bunch of people interested and ready to sign up when you launch, or you should find out that nobody wants what you plan to build.
Dog parks usually have double fountains, one near the ground for dogs and a taller one that's more accessible for humans.

I don't blame you for feeling a bit disgusted, but it's possible that the salivary/gut bacteria of dogs might actually confer a benefit on humans' immune systems. There's a study underway at the University of Arizona to investigate this: http://www.uadogstudy.org/thestudy/

Dogs stereotypically have bad breath but a healthy dog on a healthy diet should smell OK. There are variations within breeds (and probably within humans in how those scents are perceived). Many dogs like to give kisses to express affection so if you get a dog in the future it's something you'll quickly get used to.
PMs impeeched over java applets? get real.
McDonald's customizes their menu in many parts of the world. I'm pretty sure they still don't serve beef or pork anywhere in India.
I do not disagree; but keep in mind that I've never spoken of "clearly superior", only desirable.

Also, since when did rationality enter the discussion? A beloved wants diamonds so their partner buys them. But diamonds are not worth anywhere near what's commonly paid for them.

There is a far mix of rational/irrational behavior in most luxury purchases--it's not an Apple exclusive trait.
I'm using a german keyboard and the shortcut cmd-; is inaccessible because ';' is shift-,

I couldn't find a way to customise the shortcut in options. Sorry if I was too stupid to find it.

Great work otherwise.
For @chucknorris this feature has always existed.
Ditto rome. It just comes out of the wall in places.
I suppose parking garages would let a lot of the water flow through the open sides, whereas a regular building would receive a lot of force against the exterior walls.
Plan Would Let Transgender People Serve Openly in Military
What if the self-driving electric cab gets soiled with the last passenger's bodily fluids?
Pretty cool. Does the board show up as PCIe endpoint if it's plugged into a laptop?
World’s smallest computer can fit on the edge of a nickel
there are so many kinds of synesthesia. having diverse forms of synesthesia myself what I find interesting is that within some forms only direct confrontation or sudden discomfort results in the awareness of them

I m extremely accurate in detecting smells , while certain smells will causes extreme pain .
It was only in adulthood that I was confronted to explaining why smelling cooked onions cause so much pain in me.

as a result I realized that I actually smell geographically within a about 1 meter cylindrical field around my head .
where as onions are in an area inside my head that hurts though it is the same for, calendrical time and numbers.

We often just question our perception of the world when it is immediately compared to other perceptions, or results in discomfort.

I wonder how diverse human perception of the world can actually be without us knowing.
If humanity was blind but one person perceived Eyesight but had never learned to communicate his ability to "foresee things", run without hitting objects , this human wouldn't be able to reflect about it because it wasn't integrated in his way of communication.

Maybe for this human seeing a beautiful sunset would remain a dumb feeling, rather than a realization of what it actually is that made them feel that way, since his communication and reflection of the world was not focused on this sense.
Yeah, I'm sure the water's ok there, it's just kind of a PITA to even get at it. Sometimes, too, it comes out at some kind of default warm temperature and you can't change it.
It's almost like you didn't read the article.
Commander Keen.
Ha. I now have a throwback to my earlier days, when I subscribed to Ron Paul and I used to get all his tweets as messages on my dumbphone. And I read each single one.

Luckily, I bought a smartphone later and stopped being a libertarian.
Indeed! I haven't seen a "normal" drinking fountain in Portland in ages.

That said, I have seen homeless people do unspeakable things with them, so my trust is rattled.
Good write-up, interesting find about the lacking features. My take on the API Gateway -
https://medium.com/@john.titus/moving-a-simple-api-to-amazon...
> The truth is we're really not that close to fully-autonomous cars.

Google cars are pretty damn close to level 4 autonomous vehicles. They've driven more than a million miles fully autonomously, and Google runs their self-driving vehicle algorithms against simulated virtual worlds constantly (with data previously collected from their self driving cars).

We are so much closer to fully autonomous cars than people think.
It's Backbone. A pure state -> DOM function is also called a template. It works when the app is simple. The problem is that you do NOT want a pure state -> DOM function. It blows away state of things like mounted subcomponents and input fields. Look forward to lots of ad-hoc DOM coordination as your app grows.

Giving up efficiency in the slow part (DOM updates) in exchange for efficiency in the fast part (determining what changed) is backwards.
New programs are launching all the time or the scope of current programs is expanding out to include new products or features. It's never too late to get started, there's actually more work than researchers at the moment and it will be like that for many, many years to come.

In terms of how to get started, I definitely suggest monitoring the various bug bounty sites to see what's new and if a bounty's scope has expanded.

There's also a bunch of guides, tutorials, and tools listed on Bugcrowd's Forum: https://forum.bugcrowd.com/c/security-research
Same here in Norway (and the entire Scandinavia).
> What are these politcal benefits? Security benefits, seams like the EU is more likly to cause war then to make it go away.

From what I understand, the primary purpose of the EU is politics and security. It was created by the survivors of WWI and WWII. They needed a way to prevent another European war, and the solution was to bind together into "ever closer union". It worked amazingly well -- one of the most successful acts of international relations I can think of -- war between EU states, who had been fighting each other for hundreds of years and had devastated the continent twice in the first half of the century, is now unthinkable. We were born with it and assume it, but from the perspective of 1945 and centuries before that, it's a miracle.

Another way to think of it: Why not have a democratic mechanism to decide common issues? Democracy is what we believe in, and the alternative is the anarchy of the strong abusing the weak.
Just out of curiosity, how much of TAOCP have you worked through in terms of exercises? I'm currently working through Concrete Mathematics and while it's a very good book, I'm also finding it very challenging, so I'm a little hesitant to even think about working through TAOCP...
> Gas stations will start to go out of business as many more electric cars are sold, making gasoline powered vehicles even more inconvenient.

That's a great point that I've never considered before.

> On the other hand, the potential exists for a huge rollout of home solar power over the next decade.

Electric cars will convince their owners to install rooftop solar panels, too, which will then convince them to get Powerwall-like batteries for backup, which will then decrease the price of batteries, which will then make electric cars cheaper and more appealing to more people.

It's a beautiful feedback loop.

And wow DOE's predictions are terrible (first source). It's almost as if they went around surveying car manufacturers about their plans to make electric cars in 2013 and then made their predictions for 27 years later based on that. Just terrible.

And 11% cars will be using ethanol in 2040? Really? I'll be surprised if 0.11% of them will use ethanol by then.

> The current range of a Model S tops out at about 300 miles. Even GM is extending it's Volt to 200 miles to effectively compete with Tesla.

Volt is the range-extender, and it doesn't come near that (for battery mileage). You're thinking "Bolt" which is not really meant to be the successor to Volt, because it's a full EV and doesn't have a range extender. That's what they claim it will do on battery alone. It will compete with Model 3, not S.

> Battery technology is difficult, but it would be extremely surprising if the available ranges don't double again in 5 years or less.

I agree. Part of it will be from the natural evolution of Li-ion batteries, and part from Tesla's Gigafactory coming online. I expect battery prices to drop in half again to around $100 in another 5 years, after Apple has launched its electric car, too, and Tesla has made a couple more Gigafactories + the natural progress in density of the batteries. After that we might need some breakthroughs to go to $50 or less per kWh.

$100/kWh should be enough to switch the "Early Majority" to EVs, which is half the population. The other half will need batteries to be $50/kWh (or less) to make EVs cheap enough but also with long enough range for the more conservative gas-powered car drivers, who probably won't accept anything less than a (real) 500 mile range on an EV.
Not sure how "retro" it is but I played a lot of Tribes 2 and would play it again.
I've seen a friend French-kiss his dog (he relished grossing other people out) and he didn't seem worse for it. Of course I wouldn't do it myself, but it can't be as bad as you think it might be.
Wait, what?

Why would you ever want to read from the DOM in a well-architected app? Unless you are building a component that can be "dropped anywhere", you control what the DOM shows.

If you need to read/write to the DOM, you can cause layout thrashing and seriously slow down your UI. You might have to resort to using a library like FastDOM to fix it.

I think you are overstating the "dangers" of having the UI be a pure function of the state.
My mom's strategy for the biggest items: lash them to the walls so that they don't topple or walk out of position. This doesn't solve the problems of falling plates, but it does mitigate death-by-cabinet.

That said 80% of the benefits are in location. If you're on flat bedrock, located away from the coast, you just don't feel the most intense shaking, and you won't face a tsunami.
Good to know. You can customize shortcuts by going to prefs>keys. Click the + to add a new key mapping. Press the shortcut you want. For Action choose "Select Menu Item…" and then find the item you're looking for in the popup menu that appears (Edit>Open Autocomplete…, in your case).
Just used it. Works great. When I didn't want to pre-pay for my funeral, it asked my "Why not" with a free-form text field for my reply, which I thought was interesting.
I think that "never had more than 5 users" is really the center of the problem.

Exactly. Start with the potential customers and figure out what problem they need to be solved, and then figure out a way to solve it. Then you go to them an show them a mockup of your solution. So for getpowerhelp, ask people in the complaint line down at the power company if they would use this app, and show them a mockup on a tablet, and collect an email. Or ask people waiting in line at the Western Union office if they would use transfercorp instead, and show them mockups. The screenshots or mockups would only take a few hours to make, and you might find that the people in line at the power company really just want to get in someone's face and scream, not fill in a form, and the people at Western Union need to send cash, so an app won't help them. Those are questions it would be great to get answered before you invest too much time building anything.
Edi Weitz's "Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach", listed on Amazon for December 2015.
We just need to add outlets everywhere. I'd love one, but I don't have a place to charge it.
> PG used to run a couple straw polls per batch asking founders who was most likely to succeed, and I recall Airbnb winning both the votes in our batch by large margins.

You're mixing up the idea (which seemed lame) with the founders (who seemed great). Presumably this happened also because once you get to know people (especially within 3 months) you can make a much better judgement about their potential. The VC/pitching situation is flawed in that you usually only get < 1hr to sell your vision. VCs love to say "we back teams" which is translation for (1) founders already did something significant (2) founders came from prestigious backgrounds (3) the investors personally know and have worked previously with founders. 3 is obviously ideal, but can be rare.
I've always thought that the Google cars have driven 95%+ of their miles in Mountain View, CA where every single aspect of the roads have been digitized, tested and tweaked a million times over. If you stuck one of these cars in a brand new city, it wouldn't work nearly as well.
+1 for conemu. It's approach and direction seem to be different than iTerm2, but still a must have on Windows.
But CouchSurfing didn't prove there was a profitable business there. And Airbnb is basically proof of that. If Airbnb stuck with the "stay in a shared room with strangers" approach they also wouldn't have figured out how to make money. As other commenters have pointed out, they shifted to a wholesale vacation rental model (ie HomeAway and VRBO) and that changed everything. They got the benefit of sticking to the "sharing" narrative while making money from the pure vacation rental market.
Show HN: First Python project: Spaceship – chat and file streaming in Terminal
You might want to work on improving your ability to focus. If you're that easily distracted, then you might need to work on mindfulness. It isn't like it's banging a gong every time the number changes.
Then it drives to a location to be cleaned at that passenger's expense. And depending on the nature of the issue, it may be treated as intentional vandalism.
I would still buy a gasoline car just because there are no charging stations near where I live. Yeah you can charge at home, but if I have to take a longer trip? At least for me, I will wait until charging stations become more available. Could be a chicken and egg problem.
Ok, we took "loaded" out of the title as arguably loaded.
Send it to the service hub and ask for another?
> They've driven more than a million miles fully autonomously

Zero of those miles were at a speeds > 25 mph. And the cars have averaged > 1 accident per 100,000 miles.
Is there a shortage of CPU cycles I don't know about? I knew California was having some water shortages, but now CPU Cycles too!
Well, its title is "The really big one" after all.
How quickly could a fleet of Google vehicles ingest a major metros geographic data? Assume a similar project as Street View, with minimum wage drivers piloting the data collection vehicles without autonomous mode turned on. Days? Weeks? Under 6 months for sure.

EDIT: Current street view coverage: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/68384?hl=en
What would a stop button in Word be like? It really depends on the type of webapp and experience you are trying to create.
Maybe an autonymous paintball sentry?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc
Wow guys, this is great... I'd manually tried setting something up with PushBullet for a few long running commands, but just hitting a shortcut combo is much nicer...

brew installs and bundle installs and the like will be a joy now!
PHEV. 2016 Chevy Volt with 50mile Electric range and 41mpg when running on gas may be what you are looking for.
Another take on the idea of finding the complete specification is Parnas Tables. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jmatlee/talks/parnas01.pdf

I'm thinking it could be interesting to combine some agile technique like ATDD and user story mapping with such a disciplined formalism.
Audi's TTS autonomous vehicle sped up Pike's Peak successfully 5 years ago:

http://www.wired.com/2010/11/audis-robotic-car-climbs-pikes-...

"The car made five runs during a week of testing, reaching the 14,100-foot summit in 27 minutes. The very fastest drivers — in cars putting down more than 900 horsepower — do it in 10 minutes and change, so clearly the car isn’t terribly fast. But the point isn’t the speed, it’s the fact there was no one at the wheel. According to Audi, race officials said an expert driver in car like the TTS would complete the course in around 17 minutes."

Note that none of the accidents Google cars have been involved in were while the vehicles were in autonomous mode.

http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/
Out of curiosity, I looked up estimates of what I would guess might have been the largest tsunami in recent history--the one associated with the KT event 65 million years ago. And, yes, it created tsunamis much larger than we've ever seen.

To put it in perspective, it seems like a 10km asteroid would cause a 1.5km tsunami along the nearby coasts if it crashed in the middle of the (contemporary) Gulf of Mexico; a 200m tsunami if it crashed in the middle of the Indian Ocean; and a 100m tsunami if it crashed in the middle of the Pacific.[0]

Some coastal areas would experience this more than others because of geological formations, naturally, even holding distance from the impact site constant.

[0] I'm not sure how much this depends on angle of impact, speed of impact, and composition, if it does at all.
What do you use ProxyCommand for? It seems hard to support, but I'd like to know more.
tsunami monkey?
as posted on the website no data is stored. Data is not shared/sold. if we get donations this will keep working, otherwise we will close it. this is it.
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Interesting to think about small towns that lack electric car infrastructure: if many of those rely on tourism (thinking a remote seasonal vacation town), as their customers increasingly drive electric cars, they will have to change, which will bring more infrastructure to the whole city.
Major security threat: LinkedIn, Facebook, GitHub and secondary email addresses
My big qualm with the electric cars that I don't read about is the 40minute-1hour charging. People complain that charging stations aren't near them, but the convenience of pulling into a gas station filling up and being ready for another 400 miles in less than 5 minutes is hard to beat. Even if the charging stations were all around, 5 versus 40-60 min is a big difference.
Even that's misleading - as so many of the examples depend on visual cues, the phenomenon appears to be a purely mental one and has nothing whatsoever to do with one's nervous system.
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/usb
> The reason electric cars will take over our roads is because consumers will DEMAND them. Electric cars will be better than any alternative, including the loud, inconvenient, gas-powered jalopy. The iPhone demonstrated that smartphones are infinitely better than the feature phones which dominated the world in 2007.

The smartphone revolution analogy makes me cringe. Electric cars are currently playing catch up to their gasoline counterparts in almost every metric except emissions. When the iPhone was released it quite literally leapfrogged the competition (with the exception of battery life). What gives author?
Rechargeable batteries are larger and less efficient than the equivalent non-rechargeable battery, and you then need some circuitry and mechanism to charge them. A charger might well be more expensive than the card, significantly larger, and more intimidating for prospective users. And the card itself would then last less time on battery and would likely be thicker and heavier.

On the other hand, making it rechargeable would allow for a pile of "charge card" puns.
Really nice design! Impressive routing, I was surprised you were able to fit two DDR chips on there as well.

It's still too bad that all the tooling for this is closed source (Altium, Xilinx ISE / Vivado, with the latter being far more offensive). But the Spartan 6 is a really nice chip otherwise.

It seems like the target application is compute acceleration. Do you have any particular applications in mind?
I read the whole thing in gripping detail with Mt St Helens out my office window... I was imagining the horror of not being able to blog about my death as the Tsunami was approaching...
About 5% of my searches are blocked based on keywords alone, and none of those are meant to be pornographic. I believe, and have found from my own experience, that censorship is impossible without collateral damage. It is unavoidable.