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stefap2··on Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash
In related article http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-selfdrivingcar-idUS...

"Google said in the filing the autonomous vehicle was traveling at less than 2 miles per hour, while the bus was moving at about 15 miles per hour."

Google said in a statement on Monday that "we clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn’t moved, there wouldn’t have been a collision. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."

stefap2··on New Jersey School Eases Pressure on Students, Baring an Ethnic Divide (2015)
TLDR The school district, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, juggling too much work and too many demands.

Superintendent urged parents to join him in advocating a holistic, “whole child” approach to schooling that respects “social-emotional development” and “deep and meaningful learning” over academics alone.

Superintendent suggestion revealed a divide roughly along racial lines:

On one side are white parents who has come to see the district’s increasingly pressured atmosphere as antithetical to learning. “My son was in fourth grade and told me, ‘I’m not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my résumé,’ ” one parent said.

On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals, who said Superintendent reforms would amount to a “dumbing down” of his children’s education.

stefap2··on [dead]
TLDR During the incident this month, the constable was at Meyer's apartment to serve a valid eviction notice, authorities said.

The girl's father pointed a loaded rifle at Steele, and the constable fired a single shot, authorities said. The bullet traveled through Meyer's arm and struck Ciara, who was standing behind her father.

stefap2··on [dead]
TLDR Corbis, the photography archive owned by Bill Gates that includes some of the most famous pictures ever made, has sold its image and licensing division to a Chinese company.

Corbis, based in Seattle, was founded by Mr. Gates in 1989 under the name Interactive Home Systems with a vision that people would one day decorate their homes with revolving digital displays of artwork. That did not happen, but over the years the company acquired an enormous library of images.

But it has been the transfer of images from the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, an event that China’s Communist Party has aggressively blotted out of public view ever since, that has perhaps raised the most alarm.

“It should not be treated as a surprise if a Chinese media company’s decisions and actions were aligned with the policies and practices of the Chinese government."

stefap2··on Vietnam: Officials probe mysterious 'space balls'
Three minutes later, the protective payload fairing was jettisoned, unveiling the spacecraft and the Fregat-SB upper stage.[1]

The stage is made up of six overlapping spherical sections, only four of which serve as propellant tanks. Two remaining spheres are actually instrument sections, one containing unpressurized avionics, which can function in vacuum of space and another, pressurized, section holding a flight control computer, which requires a temperature-controlled environment.

At least four spherical gas tanks with a diameter of 375 millimeters and a capacity of 23 liters are carried onboard Fregat. [2]

[1] http://www.alternative-learning.org/nl/wordpress/?p=4082 [2] http://www.russianspaceweb.com/fregat.html

stefap2··on BMW i8 in WebGL
In Firefox I get "Loading...". In IE it shows only a blurry picture of what appears to be the front lights?
stefap2··on YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube speakers pronouncing it
This is fun way to discover random videos. I searched "invincible", and you get array of videos on topics from technology, cancer, health care to solar panels.
stefap2··on FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi
What if the building is intentionally built as a Faraday Cage thus preventing an outside signal? This way the signal is passively blocked and they can still provide their wifi inside.

Not that I condone their behavior.

stefap2··on 60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington
I have a feeling that in today's corporate culture he would be probably fired.
stefap2··on How to smuggle $1K into North Korea
That's actually true. Communism was suppose to be the next step after socialism. In communism we would abolish money, and people would take from stores only according to their needs. So we were taught in elementary school :)
stefap2··on Looking for a Sign: Hobo Communication in the Depression
See samples of hobo signs. https://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/museum...
stefap2··on Hawaii Wrestles with Vagaries of Solar Power
Try this through Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=Hawaii+Wrestles+With+Vagarie...
stefap2··on Vortex Bladeless, wind turbine without blades
http://www.vortexbladeless.com/
stefap2··on Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

    Monthly Gross Pay $29,166.67
    Federal Withholding $8,195.61
    Social Security $1,808.33
    Medicare $422.92
    California $2,831.70
    SDI $262.50



    Net Monthly Pay $15,645.61
stefap2··on Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
Doesn't have small villages.
stefap2··on Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
Since it was stitched using a number of smaller images printed from Google maps, wouldn't you end up with a bunch of "google-maps" watermarks all over the map?
stefap2··on Surge in Chinese tech stocks is making the dot-com bubble look tame
So, should we be shorting these stocks?
stefap2··on US Navy develops cannon-launched 'swarming' drones
Something along these lines? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vc...
stefap2··on Slurpee Waves – Frozen Waves on Nantucket
Related NY Times article: On Nantucket, Surf’s Up, if You’re Part Penguin http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/science/nantucket-frozen-w...
stefap2··on Show HN: My first startup, making premium long distance cyclewear
I gave up after 2 mins.
stefap2··on Computer Engineer Barbie Needs Men to Write Code, Can’t Reboot Computer
Barbie is designing a game but she admits, "I'm only creating the design idea, I'll need Steven and Brian's help to turn it into a real game".
stefap2··on For ‘Big Data’ Scientists, Hurdle to Insights Is ‘Janitor Work’
I do this with awk or sed scripts. This way I preserve the original data and have an exact and documented steps how the data set was changed. It was ages since I actually went manually into a file to overwrite information.
stefap2··on Czarist Russia in color (1905–1915)
The whole collection is here: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/?loclr=flik
stefap2··on Finding the best ticket price – Simple web scraping with Python
thanks
stefap2··on Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
it's now on their front page
stefap2··on I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee
"well, i can only say i procrastinate"

No there is my motivation to end the lunch break earlier.

stefap2··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
Is minimum car price $5000?
stefap2··on Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course
If I remember correctly we called it "audit a class". Visit lectures without actually taking the course for credit.
stefap2··on How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
The whole article sounds like an advert. TGTBT
stefap2··on The Story of My Desk
I have learned that this is the best way. And getting the furniture cheap makes me less afraid to modify it to my needs. If I destroy $10 table in the process I just get another one.
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