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Re:Tesla Is Facing a Crucible on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:41PM (#16613119)
I think that's just a Safari feature. Safari > Preferences > Websites > Auto-Play

"Stop Media with Sound"

I personally have all videos blacklisted, and I white list a few sites.

Re:Lyft Self-Driving on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @03:24AM (#16007722)
I don't think self driving cars will ever have a low enough barrier. You need data to train the cars, and you need a lot of data.

Google is mining millions of captchas for their self driving cars, they could publish their algorithms for it too, but unless you have access to all that beautiful training set, it wouldn't be much of use.

I have no idea how lyft or uber is going to get that much data, maybe potentially buy paying drivers more to stick sensors on their cars to collect insane amounts of data? But it's gonna be a tricky thing to get right

Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it on Friday December 08, 2017 @03:43AM (#15877514)
Probably because WaPo is owned by Amazon/Bezos
Re:Quantum Computing Explained on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:03AM (#15876981)
What's a good book for Quantum Computing? When I took Aaronson's class last semester I got so wrecked by everything, and it just felt like everything was so conflicting from many different resources
Re:My offer numbers from big companies on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:14AM (#15842407)
$14 is really low for programming in TX. Interns in (Houston/Dallas/Austin) get paid more than that. I think you just to look what's actually there, especially in the heath and energy business.
Re:My offer numbers from big companies on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:09AM (#15842379)
I think location matters the most
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:17PM (#15825882)
You should try posting to the UTCS page if you want to get some new grads
Re:Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:42PM (#15811979)
*she's really NOT tech-y, my mistake
Re:Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:41PM (#15811974)
I believe internal for dealerships to use. Again, she's not very tech-y so I'm not entirely sure.
Re:Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:22PM (#15810980)
My mom works for Mercedes and she's been telling me (She's really tech-y) they really wanna use Blockchain/Smart contracts to help validate someone before they purchase a car. Essentially before you buy a car, you need to verify you have the credit, cash, etc.. whatnot. She says that Diamler/Mercedes think they could make this a lot smoother with smart contracts and what not.
Re:The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:28AM (#15785296)
Interesting enough, over the summer at Microsoft, they were actually switching out for the 4k TVs. It wasn't that bad tbh. Definitely different. The Surface Books couldn't handle it very well (they didn't have GPUs) but the work stations did great.