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It'd be especially cool if it took both front and back radar into account. If nobody is behind you break more liberally but otherwise exercise more caution.

(It does seem like there would be room for such an "aggressiveness" parameter, since you can't predict the future breaking behavior of the car in front of you and it might have stronger or weaker breaks.)

Either way I hope all of this stuff works out to be a net win. We should know more in a year or two!
For x86, they fall behind a bit. For x64, they're faster than ICC in general. Definitely worth a look if you don't mind going to OSol.
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Whatever happens, I'd enjoy reading about it, especially lessons learned. Good luck to you.
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And yet, here it is on the front page of a fairly popular website, probably getting a fair number of hits, some of which will trust the NYT brand, skim over this particular article and then go on to soak up their multimedia content and other [hopefully better] articles. This seems to be a tactic.
Wishful thinking by whom? I have no stake in this.

Android has momentum -- it's good and getting better and bigger faster than the others. It will be the Dos/Windows of the mobile world (except more open).
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, electronic stability control is the most important technology since seat belts.

Yet, as recently as a couple of years ago, the Volkswagen Rabbit (Golf) was the only car under $20,000 I could find with the option, other than Suzuki. As an example, the Honda Civic did not have it, and you had to buy an Accord or an SUV to get Honda's version of it.

An electronic stability system "makes the vehicle go where you're pointing it by applying the (computer-assisted) brakes. I think this is definitely a milestone." This includes driving on ice, or making tight turns (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-hHWSQhKuc)

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/...
Yeh sorry the accel section got copied over by accident.

I do think the first section highlights one of the big concerns though. Regardless of scobles excitment this tech is still in the infancy. There could be a dangerous transfer period.
Interesting that it doesn't always perform in severe weather conditions as this seems like it could be when it was most useful, eg avoiding a pile-up in a whiteout. He mentions that you shouldn't be driving in such conditions but unfortunately Michigan is famous for rapid and surprising weather changes. Other than that it seems like very cool technology that hopefully becomes standard soon. It's nice to see that car manufacturers are willing to take things slow to avoid rejection because they think it is important as well.
There is a bigger vision for new kind of teamwork web service and methodology. It came from my own experience while leading a product development team for several years. General idea is to have a very light / low friction way of planning and tracking teamwork.

Most of current tools in the market focus on projects rather than teams. My believe is that there is a need for both.

To-do app serves as logic starting point for this, kind of a core.
The thing about ABS is that it operates on the principle of least surprise: It takes what the user expect brakes to do (slow the car down) and makes it work even when traditional brakes would fail to perform that task.

So it took a technology that the user expected to work in a certain way, and made it work better in that way.

It made brake behavior less surprising to the user.

This technology seems to do the opposite (at least, the way Scoble described it). It massively changes the behavior of the car based on some sensors, and then expects the user of the car to deal with the different behavior of the systems, all in a high-stress situation with alarms going off.
There's a lot of interesting automobile safety research going on in Silicon Valley. For example, Mercedes-Benz has a building in the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto where they design next-generation safety systems. My former roommate works there, and, though I probably shouldn't give details, I can say that there are some neat safety systems under development.

One tidbit: a number of stoplights in Palo Alto and Redwood City broadcast information about when they are going to change. A properly equipped car can receive that information and decide whether to proceed as usual or begin braking, even before there is a visible change. As a corollary, if the red light is about to turn green, the car can decide not to slow down.
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All that money invested in the Postal Savings System is, as far as I know, gone. As the article noted, it's invested in "safe" government bonds, i.e. the money has been long spent and with the current and rising worthy of a 3rd World country debt to GDP ratio it's vanishingly unlikely it'll ever be repaid.

Money isn't exactly invested in the Post Office, it's deposited in their savings accounts. Those deposits are guaranteed just like savings accounts in any other country. Well, if everyone tried to take out all their money at the same time we'd have a problem, but that's true of any bank in a fractional-reserve banking system.

Japanese bonds are one of the most liquid investments in the world. If you're are so sure they'll never be repaid, contact your broker and find a cheap way to short them! Seriously, if Japan defaulted we'd have a much worse crisis than the recent one. More likely, Japan will just gradually increase the tax burden and devalue the currency in order to pay the debt.
> The United States government is propping up some American industries, but again, not to the extent of the Japanese government in the 90s. If that were the case, they absolutely would not have let Lehman Brothers fail.

The problem with that argument is that the US govt may have changed its behavior after letting LB fail. Letting LB fail is also consistent with "we're going to make sure that politically-connected companies will survive".

In other words, LB's failure does not tell us that the US govt is not in the biz of propping up some american industries. It doesn't even tell us taht the US govt isn't in the biz of propping up the financial sector.

In other news, the US govt bought the rest of GMAC last week. GMAC provides financing for many GM and Chrysler buyers. (I think that GMAC also owns DiTech.)

Also, the US Govt announced that the sky is the limit for bailing out Fannie and Freddie.
Finishing up an Android app for Campfire, a web-based chat service. I did the app before they released an official API, and then rewrote it all. I think it'll end up on the Market this week. It's been a lot of fun.
I know that, but there already exists a syntax for strings. I thought he was implying something more.
Am serious. Hadn't seen that article, thanks for sharing. Heh.
What type of deflation are you referring to exactly? Do you mean the supply of money and debt (marked to market), consumer prices, producer prices, wages, or something else? Only wage deflation would be likely to reduce domestic consumption over the long term.
The disrespect and lack of ethics is not limited to Facebook by this behavior. The fact that Facebook is insecure does not make exploiting Facebook's insecurity any more ethical or proper.
The reason so many things start off as "toys", is because engineers desire technically sweet problems to solve, not user needs. What engineer doesn't love solving a problem, just because it hasn't been solved before?
I'm quite aware. The purpose is to get information about me through exploiting a service. You can put it in a little targeted spam to me to try to get past spam filters and get a favorable reaction.

It's snooping, and it's reprehensible.
Businesses like that "care" about their customers like ranchers "care" about cattle.

I don't suppose you're going to publish a list of your clients? Maybe for a fee?
I've had the radar-assist cruise control for two years (complete with braking) and everything, and I view it as a first step towards automated driving.

People aren't likely to accept automated driving (even if it's statistically safer than the average driver) but they will pretty readily accept driving aids that watch the car in front of you, and watch if you're in your lane, and what not. I expect those "aids" to continue to advance and expand with them being "aids" for a long time, until liability problems are solved.

And FWIW, I've had no issue when driving rental cars that don't have the radar/laser based cruise control. The experience of regular cruise control and radar/laser cruise control is sufficiently different that there's really no way to mix them up.
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In practice what it means is that if you're about to crash into something, and you hit the brakes, that it hits them 100% right off the bat, instead of the 50% or 80% that most people would go for.

I've not used the system in the Prius, but I've used a competing system and it's not at all surprising.
Given that HN loves gender differences, he probably did.

And on that note, I'm not sure the marshmallow study is particularly relevant to his point. The reason girls do better in school is probably for a number of reasons, maturity probably being key, but his point that boys are more rebellious is probably part of it. Guys are less risk averse than girls, which is probably why more girls tow the go-to-college line and more boys start their own businesses. For that he should have cited studies on gender differences in risk aversion and the benefits of risk taking, not the marshmallow study.
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"Even while I was there, we had what I suspect (but have no proof) were incidents of people leaking product plans, roadmaps, etc. (but no IP) to Intel."

I can't imagine Steve Jobs allowing this to happen at Apple. They have definitely caught people leaking things, and the consequences were swift and unpleasant for the leaker. Why can't AMD catch these people? Is there something preventing them from implementing the same kinds of measures to catch leakers as Apple?

(Using Apple just as an example, of course. I'm sure there are other companies who find leakers and make an example of them through the legal system.)
I have a car equipped with a similar system, and have a similar reaction (my car will slow down to a stop if I let it).

I've had no issues thinking that rental cars were the same, because the driving experience with "standard" cruise control and radar/laser cruise control is very obviously different.
The slowing down for a red is nice but the not slowing down because it is going to turn green is scary. My friend died in a car crash because he timed the light and saw that it was going to be green. A mild red light runner t-boned his car and that was that. I say mild red light runner because had he not timed the green perfectly he probably would still be alive.

Don't get me wrong this is promising technology but I would be hesitant to rely on it to do too much.
Sun has a very good range of hardware that goes far beyond SPARC, and Oracle is marketing it aggressively[1]

They specifically cited Java and hardware in the acquisition announcement, and I have a really hard time seeing the strategic value of the MySQL asset. Oracle has much more to gain from a "come to us when you're ready to sit at the grown-ups table" position.

1: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/29/oracle-scolded-by-ind...
I think the assumption that many important Hadoop applications run in a while(true) loop is a bit naive, exactly because you would expect this kind of build-up on any traffic spikr or performance degradation.
Not everybody uses geotagging, so you will be better off creating a list of people you want to provide the trends and then use a tool to extract that info.
The thing about .txt's on the desktop is that they are extremely minimalist, but still have exactly the one or two features you need to work exactly as you do.

You can have little notes (note: call Roger after you do this)
-You can have
--nested
--lists

I think that what I want in a task/todo app is a text editor with tasky features.
What are the examples you're thinking of?
Playing around with Haskell LLVM bindings for a compiler of a small experimental language.
Were there similar phenomena during earlier waves of immigration?

For example, the majority of my ancestors immigrated to America from Prussia in the mid to late 1800s. In general, they were professionals or businessmen, a tendency which has survived through the generations to me. I've always been encouraged in my intellectual and business pursuits, though not to the exclusion of more frivolous activities. Perhaps the German work ethic was/is in play?
I can't see anybody who would be more inclined to use tarsnap than myself, and yet I wasn't able to register because I live in Canada. Why not hire an accountant or tax lawyer to figure that out for you? I was on the registration page and ready to give you money, but because you didn't figure out the tax implications, you lost some business.

Really, tarsnap looks like great technology and you are obviously very technically minded. But tarsnap doesn't look like a real business but rather a technology-based side project of yours. Which really is fine if that's all you expect it to be, but to somebody like me who sees a lot of potential in your ideas, the lack of business development is puzzling and frustrating.

in the end, thank you for your contributions to open source. It is very admirable. I would love to see you make a tonne of money off tarsnap and I really do wish you a lot of success.
Except for that the article is about self-discipline, not about gender differences or doing well in school.

(Unless you're talking about the submitter and not Kohn.)
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Thank you for taking the time to do this.

Articles should be broken down like this more often. Makes it obvious how much it's about nothing...
Forking + rebranding is perfectly viable option. A similar thing happened to the popular Mambo CMS, which had a big community and user base. Over time, everyone switched to Joomla, the rebranded free version - I don't see Mambo mentioned anywhere anymore.

If the same zeal and effort being spent to oppose Oracle were being spent to create a community around a fork, helped by the controversy it'd be a widely known thing already. Couple that with OS vendors choosing the fork over the "mainline", and in a few years the fork would be "the" MySQL, albeit with a different name.
Looks to me like approximately 1% of visits to your site result in a transaction (1146608 visits, somewhere around 12000 transactions in 2009) -- does this sound correct to you?
Well, that and any big new thing that's not a toy quickly gets crushed or acquired by an established company.

Engineers invent non-toys all the time. If those inventions are at all useful, someone will pay big bucks (either to the engineer or to a big team of competing engineers) to have it.
But does anyone actually dismiss Augmented Reality as a toy? Current implementations are generally at a toy level, but isn't the concept of obvious benefit?
Well, ok. This trick is the basis for the current version of your product, or perhaps "current business."

Is that fair? Or are you doing something other than, say, scraping http://www.facebook.com/search/?ref=ffs&q=farmerje@uchic... when I type in my email address? (At least WRT Facebook; other networks would naturally have different tactics.)

You don't need to be defensive. Every network is bootstrapped off another network. If you can get away with it, get away with it for as long as possible, but make sure you have an escape plan.

I assume that's what you're doing. Am I wrong?

That's not meant as a challenge, BTW. If I misunderstand your current product then the record should be corrected.
Driving cars is very dangerous. The earlier we radically change how we use cars the earlier we can avoid deaths on the streets.

I want an autopilot for cars as soon as possible.
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I don't see this; barring rarities, I see people posting links to stories already in the news media.

AFAICT, things just become popular on Twitter slightly before they're talk show fodder.
Hey Epochwolf,

I hope I'm not misunderstanding you, but I think that's exactly what I was trying to suggest in the article. The idea was that you could have:

- school/2008-fall/ecology

and that would be identical to:

- ecology/2008-fall/school
- 2008-fall/ecology/school

etc. To put this broadly in terms of data structures, our current filesystems use an ordered list, whereas I'm proposing using an (unordered) set.

g
In a way, isn't this kind of good? We're always going to be running short until the move to IPv6, and I've heard a number of consumer internet providers are starting to provide IPv6 addresses upon request.

Running out is going to happen eventually, so it might as well happen sooner, rather then later.
Yup! The question was: how might we move to a tag-based infrastructure while preserving our current interface, so that all of our existing applications and File/Open dialogs would still work.
"Think about that. If we could cut down on car crashes by even 5% we could save more than 2,000 lives!"

I don't know whether or not this is true, but the argument is fallacious. Without further evidence, it is a bit premature to assume that the fatal:nonfatal ratio in crashes prevented will be the same as that of crashes in general. It is possible, though unlikely, that a chance might only prevent nonfatal crashes.
Adaptive Blue is a company in USV portfolio whose primary revenue source appears to be affiliate links. Fred needs to understand why the links are under valued (though certainly not underpriced- they're much more valuable to Amzon than anyone else.)
BMW has a system in their top-end saloons that will safely pull your car over to the side of the road without crashing if the driver is suddenly incapacitated (e.g. a heart attack). These system are great and I hope we can overcome the social barriers eventually. Car accidents are still the #1 cause of preventable death worldwide.

EDIT: Here's another great system expected to start trials in 2011:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/11/road-trains-and-modular-veh...

If you have a vehicle fitted with this system you'll be able to join 'road trains' where the front vehicle is driven by a professional driver (e.g. truck or bus driver) and the rest of the cars follow behind it - driven automatically.
I also agree about using Air. I've only used Tweetdeck and this app on it, but it's got me interested in developing on it.

I understand there maybe be certain issues with the platform but it doesn't come without it's strengths.
There are some really interesting risks associated with electronic stability control, though. One system used by GM on the Corvette works by comparing the input from an inertial yaw sensor to the current steering-wheel angle. Any disagreement results in selective application of braking at one or more wheels, as needed to make the two sensors agree.

Now: what happens when one of those sensors fails? http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-tech-performance/2336065-...

I wish I could find the video I saw earlier, where a Z06 doing about 90 MPH did a hard right turn into the wall at a drag strip for no apparent reason. I don't know with any certainty that the active-handling system was at fault in that incident, but it was enough to turn me off of the technology in a 500+ HP car.
Hah. Well, that would help me go after the 4chan market. Thanks! Fixed.
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Absolutely. The moment we develop an autopilot that is safer than average human drivers by a statistically significant margin, it should be mandatory in all cars. I am hopeful that we will see this during our lifetimes.
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What happened to MySQL isn't a consequence of the GPL. It's a consequence of MySQL selling out to Sun. About the worst you can say about the GPL in this situation is that the GPL made MySQL much more attractive to Sun.
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The thing to remember is that AMD is a small fraction of the size of Intel, and they have to cover the same market segments.

Not sure what you mean by this statement. Should AMD get some sort of special consideration because they are smaller than Intel?
When you say "I would have open sourced the whole thing", what you really mean is "I would have BSD-licensed the whole thing". There is no difference between dual-licensed GPL code and straight-up GPL code. In both cases, your rights as an end-user are identical. In neither case can you pick up the codebase after it's sold to Sun and start a new commercial endeavor on it that isn't GPL'd.
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Good work man.

One suggestion: I think it would be nice if you could tag when a task is "done". At first it doesnt mean much but I can imagine 3-4 weeks into using this id have hundreds of tasks completed. It would be helpful to be able to see when stuff was completed.
Sure, but that's not the same thing as saying they will be proven statistically safer, which will be the bar you have to pass before you can mandate them for everyone. I figure that's another few years off. But I agree that it won't be long now.
thanks for posting. Valve is a company I admire a ton. Steam has changed how I buy and discover video games.
We've spent many hours evaluating different backup services -- we're specifically looking for one with a partner program that's appropriate for our business.

The good news is, most services now (claim to) offer encryption as part of their basic package.

For Mac users, Carbonite does seem to be the best service available. For Windows users, I'd recommend SpiderOak, who are cheaper in most cases than other services, and they seem to offer a reasonably good client program.

For potential resellers, in our opinion there just isn't a good one available yet. We hadn't found CrashPlan though, and so far it looks promising.
One more argument is that there is usually a time gap between one light turning red and the other turning green. This gap should allow most of mild red light runners to pass through safely. (At least in my city in India this is true, the time gap is as big as 5 to 8 seconds)
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you didn't incorporate a single piece of advice you received in that thread

I filed a lot of it away for future reference, since I figured that having a website at all took priority over making it look as nice as possible.

Is [the current aesthetic] for your sake, or for your customers?

Both. Whenever I mention the possibility of changing the "feel" of the Tarsnap website, I hear an outcry from my current users. Of course, that is a rather biassed sample...

imagine I'm a potential enterprise client who, for compliance reasons, needs exactly what you're offering

If you need backups for regulatory compliance reasons, Tarsnap can't help you -- regulators need paperwork, and Tarsnap doesn't have it.

An illustration of your distribution strategy vs. Balsamiq's.
http://www.google.com/search?q=secure+online+backups http://www.google.com/search?q=mockups

I absolutely agree, and I think this is my biggest problem -- getting people to the Tarsnap website in the first place, when the crowded market makes it almost impossible for someone to find Tarsnap via search engines (unless they're already searching for "Tarsnap").

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Google really cares about how flashy a website looks...
N.B. saloon == sedan. (As with many of the Britishisms in my brain, I learned 'saloon' from The Economist.)
I intend to deal with GST soon.