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databus··on Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour
Is there a way to know that this isn’t done with remote control, other than the company says so?
databus··on Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
Communicating financial or medical lies can lead to repercussions. The same should be true for communicating false political information.
databus··on The new Dropbox
I feel like this is going to be some huge electron-type update. Anyone know?
databus··on Setting up a second keyboard for more shortcuts in Emacs
Is it possible to do this on Mac? Have a second, external keyboard mapped to a different language than the primary keyboard?
databus··on NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
The First Law of Autopilot should be: Don't run into shit. If this fails then it's not autopilot, it's "Autocrash".
databus··on The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement
Going to court and losing, while not fun, should be instructive to the GPL community. A loss will either point out areas that need to be changed in the next GPL license version, or that a GPL-style license is not viable.
databus··on Moving on from Picasa
Where did you port your number to? Any suggestions for an alternative to GV?
databus··on Treesheets finally became open source
Thanks for that, good read.
databus··on Treesheets finally became open source
Is it common for a lot of the source code live in header files? E.g. https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/src/cell... I'm not being sarcastic, just curious if this is normally done these days.
databus··on Bootstrapping a Software Product
Have you personally had any problems with this setup? It sounds like for the scope of your company it would work well.
databus··on Bootstrapping a Software Product
Great deck! What business entity type (sole proprietorship, llc, ...) did you end up going with and has it changed over time?
databus··on Show HN: c
Thanks, I was wondering if that was the case. I'm used to long running programs.

My strategy in c is as soon as I write the word "malloc" I figure out where to put the free.

databus··on Show HN: c
I see 17 mallocs and not one free!
databus··on Startup rental website takes on Craigslist
"RentHop is free to browse and to post listings, but landlords are charged half a month's rent for every signed lease the website helps bring in."

Anyone know how you would enforce this? Seems like it would be easy for landlords/renters to circumvent the charging process.

databus··on What Kate saw in Silicon Valley
Weird, I asked and to my wife "scrappy" meant someone who gets into physical altercations. References were made to a family member who has a volatile personality.

To me, a "scrappy person" has always been someone who, when life or a situation knocks them down, they get back up and try again. I was not aware that this was a derogatory term.

databus··on Is AI Dead?
Mother Nature has been working on this problems for millions of years and has only come up with one solution. It's located between your ears.
databus··on [dead]
this is not appropriate.
databus··on Is Facebook just a passing fad?
Geocities?
databus··on The Y Combinator, or How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing
God, if I see another code example using Factorial I am going to hurl.
databus··on As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier
A couple years ago, as a happily married 35 year old, I took a few math and physics classes for fun at a nearby community college.

I purposely would not talk to the younger crowd for exactly this "Creepy" issue. Luckily there were a few older students around that I could talk with.

I found after a few classes that the younger people (especially home-schoolers) who had real interest in the technical subjects would seek you out in the math and science labs. I ended up being friends with a few of these students, to the point where they would ask to sync class schedules so that we could work on projects together. (Males only; there were some smart females in my classes, but for a variety of reasons I had as little to do with them as possible.)

It seems kind of unfair that a person feels compelled to distance themselves from like-minded people, just because of an age difference.

databus··on Apple posts profit of $1.05B, ships nearly 2.3 million Macs
This works out to be around 3.5% of world wide pc unit shipments for '08.
databus··on Early notes on GoogleApps
Best quote: "My bet on Microsoft in the late 90s just ran out of gas."