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8 years ago
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on: Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos
It's not confusion as other Australians here have said they really do not behave like any other animal and appear out of no where at speed. A actual collision with one normally takes out the car and not just the kangaroo as well.
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8 years ago
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on: Fantastic DSLs and where to find them
Loop in Common Lisp is a good one.
cptn_brittish
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8 years ago
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on: Fantastic DSLs and where to find them
I think another difference at least for Common Lisp DSL's are embeded into the language (look at loop) and so people are comfortable with using them and somewhat how to write them.
This doesn't mean there isn't people who hate stuff like loop being in cl but it does go someway to showing why it's okay. I think the design of lisp encourages them as well (as the previous poster said) by the fact that the entirety of lisp is built up from a extremely limited amount of instructions so the entire language can be argued to be a DSL on top of a DSL on top of a DSL etc.
cptn_brittish
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8 years ago
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on: Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s
Some of the higher comments go into this and it appears that ARKit only implements some of a full AR Stack (Visual Inertial Odometry) while Tango supports it all (SLAM) so it can also have persistence between device reboots and be useful in bigger applications.
I will note I am just repeating the comment and you can see it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14640682
cptn_brittish
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8 years ago
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on: Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one
My experiance with symantec web protection (which I assume will use the same blocklists they are talking about) is that it has a ridiculous false positive rate and when I was still in High School they had blue-coat installed and it had a worse false positive rate. I would be very careful about running blacklists from those companies aside from anti-ad blocklists.
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8 years ago
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on: Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one
In what way are you more secure then when someone uses a .com domain? In both cases it is easy to register a url and turn into a malicious site. It really seems you are blackholing parts of the web for no good reason except to exempt yourself from actually performing a security check on the sites on the assumption all other tld's are safe.
cptn_brittish
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8 years ago
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on: Show HN: Sudo for Windows
By adding extra complexity to a shell command instead of offloading the process to small programs with a defined api?
I can see a lot more maintainability and portability of a implementation using FUSE to mount these systems as filesystems (so the abstraction is complete across the entire system instead of just in the command). Also the ease of having a abstraction which does not require special capabilities to be added to a program before it is useful is a reason that no system has properly supported these models before in this manner. On a UNIX system the same techniques could of been implemented sometime between the 70's and now to interact with environment variables and it has probably been implemented before but it has not gained mindshare as that approach is not scalable.
cptn_brittish
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8 years ago
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on: AsusWRT sends network traffic data to Trend Micro if certain features enabled
On the other hand some ruters use url's like
http://routerlogin.net and from my perspective that seems dodgy since that could mean all the routers are centrally configured somehow.
cptn_brittish
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8 years ago
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on: Lego Saturn V
In my family Lego is something passed down to the parents kids as it just doesn't die.
cptn_brittish
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9 years ago
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on: Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers
I think its because outside of rap there isnt many songs with the lyrical density and complexity required for anotations to work. Even most rap songs are very up front about what they are talking about.
Their only other major play is annotating things like scientific papers but I cant see the market for that being big enough to make money.
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9 years ago
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on: PHP: First Programming Language to Add Modern Crypto into Its Standard Library
I know python keeps some packages outside the standard library as once it's in there development slows down and the package needs to be worked on more often.
Did any discussion on this possibility come up as I can see cryptography requiring a quicker update cycle when bugs are found then a schedualed language release can give.
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9 years ago
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on: Survey: 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings
Since it's talking about savings I would assume it means highly liquid assets I would assume a house wouldn't be liquid enough to use in the survey just stuff like how much money you have saved.
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10 years ago
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on: Facebook quietly deprecated their Python/Ruby libraries for Instagram API
Sounds like the soap protocol. I've had to deal with it recently at work and paired with the suds python library auto generates the api for you
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10 years ago
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on: Required update to Pacman 5.0.1 before 23/04/2016
I would say in that case you could probably run 'pacman -S pacman' to just update pacman and then 'pacman -Syu' to update the entire system after that
cptn_brittish
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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
And a search tool so that you can compare salary's in your own field.
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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
It made me shaky if I had to share my Company's name as I am in a similar position to you where there are only 6 people at the company and I'm in a easily identifiable position there.
Currently that is optional so I put as much detail as I could about my position without giving away any company details.
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10 years ago
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on: G is for Google
It seems to me that Google is now the software arm and everything else is spun off into its individual niches.
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10 years ago
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on: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
Aside from initially installing Arch and the major programs I know I am going to use I have never had a major problem with Arch which required extensive knowlege of linux to fix.
All in all I'd say I have about the same number of issues with Arch as a normal Windows install.
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11 years ago
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on: California's Broken Jaywalking Law
infinity mph
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11 years ago
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on: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
The last time I had Facebook emails before I marked Facebook as spam every action which somehow concerned me on Facebook resulted in me getting a email and consequently flooding my inbox. Admittantly this was a few years ago when I finaly had enough of it so they might of gotten better but at one point they did.
