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by jpace121 9y ago
The strategy of combining simulation with real world data isn't particularly original, nor is the idea of using test tracks. The challenging part is how you do it. This article barely touched on that.
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by jpace121 9y ago
This whole situation has to be impeding Uber's CEO search. Finding someone willing to step into this kind of circus, particularly when the circus is over there heads, is going to be very hard.
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by jpace121 9y ago
This is an extremely smart play by Disney. Everyone realizes that content is king, which is why Amazon and Netflix are busy making their own content. Disney already has the content. This is them building the distribution network. People com
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Researchers hack a self-driving car by putting stickers on street signs(autoblog.com)
1 points by jpace121 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpace121 9y ago
I wonder how this would practically work in somewhere like America, where the cities are so diverse. I have a hard time believing that the rules that are the best for a big city like LA and San Francisco are the same rules that would work f
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by jpace121 9y ago
I wonder if any of this is related to the new NIST Standards[1], which have to be followed by research labs who receive government funding. I could see MIT, already having to retrofit a lot of their research networks, also changing around t
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by jpace121 9y ago
I have my resume in LaTeX and keep versions of it tracked in Git, which works pretty well for me. One thing I like about using LaTeX is that I can comment and uncomment bullets for various jobs I've done and modify the job description
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Kimbal Musk's Tech Revolution Starts with Mustard Seeds(backchannel.com)
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by jpace121 10y ago
Actual patent documentation can be seen at [1]. Based on the names on the patent, the work came out of Disney Research Pittsburgh, which does awesome research. [1]: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&a
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by jpace121 10y ago
The big benefit of using mbed is there really nice API which abstracts the hardware. The code for the API is Apache, and available on github[1]. Furthermore, you don't even need to use their online IDE to do anything. The online IDE ha
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Silicon Valley Discovers 'Making a Car Is Hard'(thetruthaboutcars.com)
2 points by jpace121 10y ago|0 comments
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The Stories That Bind Us: How to Build Strong Families(nytimes.com)
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In Depth on Udacity's Self Driving Car Curriculum(medium.com)
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by jpace121 10y ago
Not the OP, but I swear by cardboard, hot glue, and play doh. I make lots of rough scale "prototypes" with the above tools to get started, and spot lots of problems this way.
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Ask HN: What CAD software does your hardware startup use?
1 points by jpace121 10y ago|2 comments
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The History of the PB&J Sandwich(foodtimeline.org)
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Meet NextEV: The Biggest EV startup you've never heard of(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by jpace121 10y ago|0 comments
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by jpace121 10y ago
There is something to be said for having the underlying hardware be relatively simple. Someone who started with Arduino could reasonable be expected to grow, study the data sheets, and progress on to AVR C. Moving from the Arduino API to an
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Mark Zuckerberg: “The Hacker Way”(wired.com)
1 points by jpace121 10y ago|1 comments
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The History of the Diode(hackaday.com)
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Goals vs. Systems(blog.dilbert.com)
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by jpace121 11y ago
While this article somewhat makes fun of the overally idealistic, sugary, positive culture HubSpot built, I'd much rather work there then somewhere where everything is done out of fear.
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Mossberg: Apple's apps need work(theverge.com)
2 points by jpace121 11y ago|0 comments
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by jpace121 11y ago
In my undergrad studies in college, Facebook groups were commonly used as a way to create light weight shared group pages for study groups, projects, etc. I could see this being useful in the business world working in the same way. Specific
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by jpace121 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwJ0MH-4MA The talk above was on the front page last week some time and describes one method to write Python extensions in rust.
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by jpace121 11y ago
Link to the original Hacker News discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9518814 As a recent graduate, I much more agree with this author than the author of the original.
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Mutant Rights (2011)(radiolab.org)
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The Strange and Unlikely Genesis of the LearJet(tested.com)
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Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak(wozniak.ca)
454 points by jpace121 12y ago|495 comments
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by jpace121 12y ago
How does you system handle people who don't necessarily have large online presences do to other commitments. It seems like if you weed people out largely by what you can find on GitHub and Hacker News, you'd have lots of false ne

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