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heyitskevin··on Tesla's Asymmetric War Against the Auto Industry
If you're interested in autonomous driving the author here Alex Roy is on the Autonocast podcast:

http://www.autonocast.com/

heyitskevin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
I always want to use this but find too many false positives. Is there a way to flag something for your attention? Mostly my issues have been finding jobs near me only to click and find that it's been matched to the wrong location.
heyitskevin··on Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri
I've noticed that since my Apple Music trial expired I have to say "play MY song Self Control" or "play MY album Endless" for Siri to properly work. If I don't do that Siri just says it can't find the music.
heyitskevin··on Show HN: I made a database of remote companies
It only shows listings for companies with verified profiles.
heyitskevin··on This should never happen
I wish we could sort by most starred to see what popular repositories have code like this.
heyitskevin··on Time travel: An isochronic map of travel times from London circa 1914
Walkscore uses a similar method for showing how long public transit would take from an address

https://www.walkscore.com/

heyitskevin··on Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?
The Plex app accesses your clipboard every time you open the app to check if what's in there is a link. If it finds a link it asks you if you want to add that link to your Plex Queue.

This functionality is used to add videos from the web to your Queue for later viewing.

heyitskevin··on Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications
For a cheap hosted option you can setup a Digital Ocean droplet at $10/month and use Meteor Up (https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up/tree/mupx) for your deployments. This will include the database as well.

That link is to Meteor Up X(development version) which uses Docker just like Galaxy. Once it's stable it'll be merged into Meteor Up. I've been using it for prod/staging pushes and it works great even with SSL.

heyitskevin··on Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More
Thanks for the link.

On first glance seems like writing in React is way more verbose and cumbersome than the Blaze equivalent. What are the benefits of going the React route?

heyitskevin··on Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More
Are there any good guides/videos on getting started with Meteor+React?
heyitskevin··on Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
For a visual of how far away Pluto really is from Earth(and really how far away everything in our solar system is from eachother) I recommend checking out Riding Light https://vimeo.com/117815404

"This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective."

The video is 45 minutes long and makes it just past Jupiter. It would have to be 5.5 hours long to show Pluto.

heyitskevin··on Apple Unveils a More Powerful Apple TV
Link to that discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193715
heyitskevin··on Procedurally generated HTML5 3D world with day/night cycle
Same thing happened to me. I also saw that a tree came through a building. I was just surprised that the building had collision detection :)

Cool demo though

heyitskevin··on Show HN: Twenty
This mode is a lot better and less frantic. Although when the next line falls it does break your heart :)
heyitskevin··on Hacker News 20/50/100 RSS feeds are down – Who manages them?
Amazing, thanks for this! I'd been trying to get by with using http://twitrss.me and @newsyc150 but the lag was bugging me.