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Well, that's just a clever PR lipservice move. They couldn't win the contract because they didn't have the ability to, so rather than failing embarrassingly, they blamed their exit on their brand-new AI principles to make themselves look good. This was the consensus on HN at the time.

I lived in Florida, and recall hearing that much of the state is actually below sea level. I saw some forests, but much of the state is swamp, or former swamps that were drained for suburbia.

> Kicking the crap out of Google in the courts is the one good thing Oracle is doing.

Could you elaborate on why this is a good thing?

Another example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

Gains are only realized when they sell, so liquidity doesn’t matter if they don’t sell.

While smarts are generally useful, is not creativity a stronger influencer in innovation? But I’m not sure what kind of test could measure creativity.

> Hmm, who do I trust, the guy who figured out how to land rockets onto a barge, or some “analyst” ...

This kind of comment is a disservice to all the engineers who actually figured it out. Elon Musk is certainly a visionary and a financier, but is not a 1000x engineer/mathematician who did all the work himself

> “Sorry, but..”

So are you refuting that the missions were incremental? Because if you look at the mission outcomes, they certainly were..

Yes, it was very incremental. They even sent the orbiter around the moon on a mission before even attempting to land. And there were a number of other tests (manned and unmanned), and even ones without an official Apollo designation.

More info: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html

As you described, the default is to yield, and so the vehicle can always yield and signal its intention to do so by breaking slowly. And I agree, there may not always be a sign (a storm or driver could knock it over), so the default should always be to yield.

Yes, it is practically useful advice, especially when you’re on a flight with no WiFi.

> McAffee who announced a few years ago that they will happily turn a blind eye on NSA&FBI malware.

Source?

As mentioned.. Libtin’s OpenSSL dependency can be avoided if you can do without WPA2 support. Not sure about libpcap though

With the ICO/coin ads promising 49,000% returns that I see here in the UK, I’m glad that they’re putting the brakes on it.

I agree, and I’m flagging this post as this user has spammed the same website repeatedly all day.

This is disgusting.

What a great list! I’d recommend adding “secure” too.

The iPhone already does safety, weather, and police notifications by default, and you have to opt-out. This is essentially the same thing, but users have to opt-in.

Meta: Alex, why are you linking to your own twitter and not the medium directly?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16506979

What’s your recommended method to make WP static? Have any of the other plugins broken for you from making WP static?

It was interesting to watch, but the presenter presents everything as truth, but aren’t many of his explanations still theories? I’d like to see what other competing theories there are..

> sounds like he could have used amazon turk.

Could you clarify how mechanical turk could have helped?

I bought a couple 27-40 hour audiobooks, so I just put my audible subscription on hold while I caught up. Switching between kindle & audio can definitely speed things up

> The details are a bit sketchy. Ask "how many thousands," and you're told, ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Off-topic: I was surprised to see that journalists are doing Unicode art in articles now, and I don’t think that’s wise. Wouldn’t this confuse a blind reader who is listening to a transcribed version?

Dupe. Comments here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16137727

Thanks!

Also, they have had Hangouts, Messenger, Talk, Voice, Allo, and Duo... most with the same functionality. What is up with Google's product management? Is there a strategy?