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Yep, they also used 3D building data for correcting position in urban canyons: https://www.uber.com/blog/rethinking-gps/

Seems unlikely that a Christian nationalist would be roommates with a trans person, no?

PEX was banned, but the ban was lifted in 2010.

...or suffer a more pedestrian fate of getting vaporized by bored Klingons.

Yes. Seattle had multiple chop shops scattered around the city, including this one dissecting cars under a bridge: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/is-chop-shop-operating-plai...

Yes, as it establishes the potential bias of the article author. If this article was written by typically a pro-nuclear author it would be much more noteworthy.

While not the entirety of the under-representation situation, the pipeline is absolutely the biggest contributing factor. Take a look at any CS class today and you'll see a sea of …

It really is a polarizing topic.

If you need me to explain to you how mobs attempting to burn down police and court buildings is indicative of advocating violence towards police officers, then you've got bigger pr…

Perhaps you missed the repeated actual attempts by leftist mobs to burn down the Federal Courthouse in Portland and the East Precinct in Seattle this summer?

Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many other US cities saw mobs attempting (and in some cases, succeeding) in burning down police precincts and courthouses this summer.

While the NYT has always had its share of bias claims, since Trump's election it appears that even the facade of balanced reporting is taking a back seat to their editorial agenda.…

I couldn't disagree more. The idea of denying the HN community an opportunity to read a touching and deeply personal story—simply because its ending isn't palatable to you—is incre…

Schrödingerona's virus

Dim sum restaurants can do this well because they can crank them out in volume. A stack of 4 piece dishes gets snapped up quickly as the cart makes its way through the floor. It's …

My parents sent me off to college with a laundry disk, and I remember thinking I should visit my physics professor's office hours and ask how it worked. In retrospect I'm glad I di…

No doubt it's an interesting product, and if they provide a good SDK for it then a lot of researchers and tinkerers will be happy :).

The MyoWare sensor is a popular component for DIY projects ( https://www.adafruit.com/product/2699?gclid=CJLytM3U0dICFQGT... ).

As someone who works with EMG, the hype CTRL-Labs has been pushing regarding their tech is over-the-top ridiculous. In short, it's a wearable band that uses electrodes to measure y…

It's certainly true that some minorities are underrepresented in tech. A lot of the irritation you're seeing comes from the repeated accusations and implications that this is due t…

One look at the website of Seattle's Garfield High School (34% black/latino) CS Club website pretty much sums it up: http://www.garfieldcs.com/ The makeup is similar at the college…

The head tax was a poorly thought out law that would have inflicted a lot of collateral damage on Seattle-based businesses without trillion dollar market caps. It was broadly unpop…

I take the bus from my neighborhood, transferring to light rail at the UW station.

Mass transit is a viable solution to people only when it's more convenient than cars. When the hassle of driving and finding parking is less than the extra walk/transfers/etc of ta…

The reason the streetcars went away in the US was because of competition from cars, which, not coincidentally, were beginning their rise to dominance ~100 years ago. GM and Ford we…