The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car

Post by nascentmind » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 6:57 AM UTC

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Most of these people have passed the stage of caring about the desktop itself. I would say they are simply interested in a bash shell that sits on a reliable, well maintained, stable distro with good community knowledge. When you spend all your time at a prompt you don't really care about unity vs cinnamon vs anything else. Debian is stable and has fantastic package management, and Ubuntu builds on that with a vibran…

curious what myztic would recommend as well? ubuntu may not be 'ideal' but it works and installs a lot easier than arguably any other linux distro. i have no problem using debian/arch/etc but if you are just trying to get up and going ubuntu seems to always be the easiest.

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Post by joe563323 » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 8:40 AM UTC

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Well yes, he only built the software that operates a car without a person driving it, connected it to a car, and did it all by himself . One person. My point was that what 99% of HackerNews does is likely nowhere near as interesting or as difficult, so when the top comments are all shitting on someone who did something that's actually pretty amazing, HackerNews can go to hell. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.…

What he did was extremely impressive. But he's up against really high expectations. People expect him to have made massive breakthroughs in self driving car technology. Against that expectation, it doesn't seem so impressive.

Post by frame_perfect » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 8:41 AM UTC

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2) It's probably not a disk. I'd bet it's an SSD, or something. I doubt he'd use an HDD considering how relatively cheap it is now... and considering how loaded he probably is.

SSD = solid state DISK

Post by argonaut » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 10:01 AM UTC

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Simulated environments aren't accurate enough (inputs are too clean, other drivers don't act real, etc) and would end up training the software to do the wrong things. A more reasonable approach would be to record the activities of multiple safe human drivers across a wide range of situations and then train the software to act like them.

He said for testing. Not for training the neural network. But just seeing how it behaves in various situations, to find it's flaws, and see if it's ready for the road.