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Nothing taught in Australia, at least conventionally. My driving instructor was a retired police driver trainer, I benefited greatly from his experience and understanding of vehicles. Never had an accident, but avoided several via quick thinking + knowledge of how the car will react and what options I have when driving.
Agreed, my dad always described 4 Wheel Drive as a way for people to get stranded farther from help than they otherwise would have.
The author never made this claim. In fact, the author writes:

"Your parents grew up 30 to 40 years ago in a poor third-world country. I don't care whether they came from China, Korea, Vietnam, or any other Asian country --- chances are that they grew up much poorer than the parents of your middle-class (probably white) American friends."
Adaptive cruise control has been on high end cars for over a decade - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_syste.... It would be good to see it standardized as it can significantly reduce traffic congestion that's caused by over braking. I think BMW claimed that this would be happen if more than 30% of cars had the feature.
On long stretches of Highway in the American West, there really isn't a whole lot of driving to do except keep the car in the lane. It's pretty clear that we're getting painfully close to fully automated highway driving.
> I define my heirarchy by the ability of the species to comprehend the universe and its disruptiveness to other species. This is probably equally arbitrary, but it has at least some logic behind it.

I have a very similar view of the world, and when a friend tried to get me (last night!) to put it on firm logical footing, I was unable to.

Why should our ability to comprehend the universe be the yardstick by which we measure ourselves? I feel that it is a reasonable measure, but I can't give sound reasoning for it.

Somehow, I think this property (which appears to be unique to us, at least in our own biosphere) is deep in a way that, say, the ability to swim gracefully in water is not.
The user base will ultimately see the information at some point, and I'm trying to understand their reaction to the information.

I think you probably overestimate how much your userbase cares about you, unless you have cultivated an unusually close, personal relationship with them.

I mean, many of the companies that you do business with publish all their financial information four times a year. Have you ever gone through, e.g., a Google earnings report because its just so important to you? (Substitute with another company if you are not actually a Google customer.)
And let's not forget that there are still laws on the books in most (all?) states to compel passengers to wear seat-belts.

People are very peculiar about which safety features they wil like and use.
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> "What worked best wasn’t “self-denial and grim determination” but doing something enjoyable while waiting so that self-control wasn’t needed at all![40]"

The author and I have very different definitions of 'self control'.
I'm a vim guy myself, but looks like you just need the onSave hook that the vi config at the end calls.
[Edit: Whoops, misunderstood your comment.]

I think the author is grossly overgeneralizing. (cough Japan. cough)
The only similar ethnic group I can think of is Jewish immigrants. An abnormally high percentage of people with Jewish heritage are academics and white collar professionals (for example, look at Jewish physicists).
I think the point is that rarely would a human succeed in such a corner case, let alone in 99% of all cases.
(Estimated at 200k per year preventable deaths in hospitals alone.)

For the United States ALONE? I don't buy it. But prove me wrong by citing an authoritative source if there is one.
I do not know much about processor benchmarking, but is it not a little weird that the bench markers use software that is not independent of the hardware they are testing? It seems like they are asking to be manipulated: why do they do this?
I wouldn't describe fully automated highway driving as painful in the least. I'd be quite happy about it.

After all, highway driving isn't remotely interesting from a "driving" viewpoint, so I'd hardly miss it.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxFaGKHbEY

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JXDELFoSLU

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgBkIg9gKYY

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZ9lKptKb0

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aA2svGfvc

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhpj5XQEOA
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It's not a scientific judgement? How can you say it's OK to kill plants but not "animals," considering they are made of essentially the same thing? Where is the line?

It's fairly easy to trace the evolution of the nervous system from simple single-celled organisms to modern animals. Moral repugnance is a purely human invention.
I think you probably overestimate how much your userbase cares about you, unless you have cultivated an unusually close, personal relationship with them.

There in-lies the issue.. this project started many years ago as a platform for a small hobby related concept to a major business operation today. Our revenue model started from donations and ultimately moved to the fremium model. All along the way I have been intimately involved with the user base, and still to this day I am directly involved with the userbase.

There are many long time members of the site that to this day believe that their subscriptions "support" the site's operations vs. puts food on the table for my family and pays my salary (many don't know I've moved on to run this business full time).
I don't think increasing your speed will avoid tailgaters, rather it (in my experience) makes them go all the faster, to continue with thier tailgating ways.
I'm working on a fraud management tool for ecommerce sites that integrates the Twilio API to automatically call customers' phones to verify orders and record voice authorizations.
Is twitter more than a toy? The only real feature they ever added from an outside perspective (someone who doesn't use twitter) is someone elses search technology.

Maybe because of twitter realtime is the next big thing.
Is it morally repugnant to mistreat a plant?

Is it morally repugnant to mistreat an animal with just one (1) neuron?

Is it morally repugnant to mistreat an animal with just 100 000 neurons?

Well that's how many lobsters have. My PC has billions of transistors. Granted, that's not the same as neurons by a very long shot, but it's not unreasonable to think that we could emulate a neuron with a few tens of thousand of transistors.

Is it morally repugnant to mistreat a PC?

I'm not concluding anything here. Just asking. (Besides there's the other issue of defining "mistreat.") I'm just annoyed by empty, generic statements like this. They don't say mean much of anything, and do not make us understand the issue any better.
I've recommended a friend to implement similar marketing strategies. He has a small mac app (on HN previously), and he's already getting the good blog/twitter market, but I'm guessing he's missing lots of speculative queries. The kind where the user has a problem, and asks google in general terms.

I think it's a useful, and probably more sustainable (steady), marketing strategy in the long run.
Citing an authoritative source doesn't prove you wrong any more than it proves global warming is happening ;)

Be that as it may, see generally To Err Is Human by the Institute of Medicine (an arm of the National Science Foundation), which put the tally at 100k back in 1999, or Dr. Chunliu Zhan and Dr. Marlene R. Miller in a research study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in October of 2003.
I meant "should" in the sense that it is a good thing they rapidly being eclipsed by newer types of journalism, not that they should actively be shut down.

"Sure they have a ton of Pulitzers." Given that blogs have only become serious competitors to print media in the last 5 or so years this shouldn't be a surprise, and it certainly isn't a defense.

"They maintain lots of foreign bureaus." Again this is awesome, except now we can just get the info from residents of these areas.

"They broke the NSA wiretap story". Sure and folks on the internet broke "Document-gate" when people were trying to frame GWB.

I'm not against the NYT, but I am against them just slurping up content from the web, adding no value and then passing it off to their customers without credit to the original sources. I'm really against the factual errors brought up in the top post.
Common in the states? How did Freud, an Austrian, who either originated and/or popularized it, pronounce it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego#Id
"Painfully" close as in very close. I don't think he meant to say that automated highway driving was painful.
Instead of for minimalists, why not just say "...for You." The minimalists know who they are, and those who aren't sure yet may not be ready to jump into all of the associations.
Holy crap, enough with this scamville stuff. Zynga actually cleaned their act up fast and was pretty transparent. Fred also stated facts: it's a small part of their revenue. I just feel like we're beating a dead horse here. The scummy companies have been brought to light and the good ones are straying far away from this.
How about we put a GPS-enabled governor around your neck, in case you ever think of stepping on private property.
The "crusade" is a good way of raising awareness to the issue. I don't care much for generic animal right activists. In fact, I think most of them, and in particular Peta, are complete morons and deserve to DIAF. But proto-sapient animals are another issue altogether.

And there's not just mammals. Corvids are damn smart. Attenborough had a documentary showing Japanese crows dropping nuts on roads at traffic lights. They wait for cars to run over them and break them, and wait for the red light to go pick them up. Well, here's some original research: I've witnessed this happen in Europe, too.

There is also research showing that crows can recognize faces, AND pass the information to other crows that some particular person is bad.

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNuQURJJBlE&feature=youtu...

Edit: this is in the 4th video, not the 5th that I linked here.
Ask HN: Book recommendations on strong AI
I'd like recommendations on books / resources on the topic of strong AI. Strong AI being artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence. I know that we are not there yet but I'm a dreamer and the subject strongly interests me. I'm currently reading "Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach" by Russell and Norvig, but the book places emphasis on applied AI.Anything that will put me up to date with the latest research on the subject is welcomed.
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I'm talking about the submitter. The section header that the submitter linked to (#MM) is entitled "On Marshmallows and Gender Differences: Rereading Self-Discipline Research."
I've been working on my own personal expense tracking software. Not just because it will have exactly the features I'm after, but also as an exercise to re-aquaint myself with php/mysql, then moving to make it iphone friendly (as a web app) and finally to produce a iphone app version.
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"... this is the author here ... ummm i'm pleasantly surprised to find my article on HN. anyways, here are two other articles that are probably better than mine on this subject ..."

I added the post for a number of reasons.

Lots of younger Nerds benefit from reading multiple viewpoints, yours, Alan Wayte ~ http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/after-high-school-guest-ar... and pg. The situation does not seem to be improving. Can anything be done?

Popularity is now pervading the Internet and persisting on places on social networks like Facebook, where bonds formed in High School can be continued with all the same dynamics. The catch, the playground is now being defined by Nerds. Changing the real world might be hard but what about social networks modeled in software? The same "social-ineptness" that makes Nerds good at programming has so far meant replicating ineptness in software. This is a hard problem and a hint to creating tools to manage or navigate such networks might be found in the science behind "Small World Networks" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network
I find these comparisons amusing. The NSA wiretap story documented unconstitutional malfeasance by one of the largest, most secretive organizations in the US government. The "GWB was framed" story involved knowing the typeface used in a fake document circulated by a private citizen and inadvertantly authenticated by a private news organization.

Similarly, I'd like to know who in Darfur is going to file the CNN "i-Report", or how many 140-character "Tweets" it's going to take to document the next genocide.

I'm not in favor of the NYT, but I think I have a decent bead on what the "new journalism" has in store for us (breathless promotion of context-free Flip Mino clips of Iranian protests on Andrew Sullivan's blog; TechCrunch), and I'm confident that most of its advocates don't really understand that @BreakingNews actually gets its news from big companies that pay people to actually report.
"Anyone can advocate for dolphin rights, but, as scientists who have done research on dolphins, they are in a position to make ethical arguments against keeping dolphins in a zoo for public entertainment."

"The rationale behind these arguments are grounded firmly in science. You have to be able to show the research that proves that one animal has no sense of self, while another (a dolphin) does, etc."

We are all in a position to make ethical arguments; I often do. But its not science. They are obviously in a position to know more about dolphins than most, but whether we change our policies regarding them might be grounded in science (for a change), but it is not, in and of itself, science, and they aren't experts in that.

As for a sense of self, I don't treat animals humanely because they have a sense of self, but because I do.
And when I say "franchise" I mostly mean that I'd like to work on a revenue sharing basis with folks who are in the niche that I'm targeting. Again, my reference here is the success that had iHanuman due to Tilak Pyle.

I can imagine that cooking might be a niche that would work. My mom watches a lot of cooking shows. I could imagine her following certain cooks that had videos to sell. But before I would go after the cooking segment, I would find a cook with these attributes:

has some videos to sell

is charming

is ambitious

believes in the idea of the site

If I could not find a cook with those 4 attributes, then I would not go into the cooking niche. I'd look at some other niche instead (skiing? tennis? fishing? hunting?).

I do regard this whole idea as more a marketing play than a technology play. Nowadays, web technologies are so mature, the tech side of this would be relatively trivial, compared to the marketing side of things.

I am surprised that chrischen is "only looking for technical founders". I really think the tech will be (relatively) easy. The marketing will be hard, especially in 2010.
Right, that's what I meant, apologies for lack of clarity.
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You're correct on some points, though it may slow other cars by way of simply being in the way. It wouldn't work on highways with passing lanes until a high adoption rate, but a single slow car on one-lane side roads will "bottleneck" any speeders. This alone would most likely increase safety.

Gradually as more people got the cars, things would get safer and safer. Once, say, 90% of cars on the road have governors, it'll be hard for a speeder to find the opportunity to speed.

Economic reasons could speed up adoption too. For example, insurance carriers would likely charge less for those with the device, and more for those without it. Governments could give those with the device a break on their income taxes.

But honestly, I don't think the idea has much traction. It's too emotionally charged which would make it difficult for politicians to implement it, and there are large switching costs from current cars. Self-driving cars will likely appear beforehand. Radar and governors and what-not are really all just bandaids for the real problem with cars; their human drivers.
30 years ago South Korea wasn't a poor third-world country. Very few overbearing Asian-American parents come from North Korea.
Good, we should then start making them liable for violations of laws as well. Dolphin researchers know for example that some dolphins like to form gangs and go around harassing other dolphins and forcing themselves sexually on female dolphins. Should we also send out the police patrol and lock them up?
I don't know, how do you pronounce it?
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You obviously don't want to publish your financials. So don't. Patrick doesn't get to read Matasano's financials either. Most people don't publish their numbers, and many of them have very good reasons not to.

He's still probably right: your customers don't care about your numbers.
The Zhan & Miller study in 2003 supported the IOM's conclusion of ~98k deaths due to medical errors. The 200k number you quoted earlier was "found" by a study by some random website and was not published in any medical journal.

Not to downplay the severity of the issue, but there is a big difference between 100k and 200k lives.
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Thanks for the source. That was easy to Google with the clear information you provided. No, several of those causes of death would not fit the usual definition of "preventable deaths." Those patients may not have received the best care that they should have received, but it's overextrapolating to say that they died but for errors in treatment.
It's interesting that the pronunciation has a bit of history to it.

From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software

The name of the company is currently written with a lowercase id, which is pronounced as in "did" or "kid", and is presented by the company as a reference to the id, a psychological concept introduced by Sigmund Freud. Evidence of the reference can be found as early as Wolfenstein 3D with the statement "that's Id, as in the id, ego, and superego in the psyche" appearing in the game's documentation. Even today, id's History page makes a direct reference to Freud.[17]

However, when working at Softdisk, the team that later founded id Software took the name "Ideas from the Deep" (a company created by John Romero and Lane Roathe in 1989), attributing themselves as the "IFD guys". Since "id" can be seen as a shortening of IFD to "ID", some have been led to believe that it can be pronounced "eye-dee". The logo was originally capitalized, but was made lowercase with the release of Doom. It has never been the mixed-case "iD".
I wouldn't call it exploiting; I'd call it 'harnessing public resources', since most of the information collected through this service from Facebook is supposedly public.

Also, how can you have a 'favorable reaction' to spam given that...

> If I ever get an email with my name from a company I've never given information to, I... delete that email.

I also agree that this is snooping. However, this is just a tool, and should be used responsibly. Abuse would make it reprehensible.
If you wonder what brought this on, see the following HN post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028418

Thanks,
jsb is correct; they made this change a few months back.
For once, I think TechCrunch is the one with all the credibility in a debate.

You can hand-wave all you want, but two things are fairly clear: Zynga's founder said they build traction in part on scam offers, including distributing malware, and Fred Wilson is an investor in Zynga and is therefore far from a neutral observer.

You can tell people to just get over it, but isn't that basically an open invitation for other companies to try to build up traction on scam offers and then come to Jesus when they make it big or get found out?
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This is coming from a high-school dropout, so it's typical do as I say do not do as I do advice: Learn to finish at least something.

After reading your story it sounds like you are very good at starting stuff but not very good at staying until the job is done, that could turn in to a real liability in the long run.

If you get lucky doing a start-up (the chances of which for a first-timer are relatively small) then you should definitely count your blessings, for everybody else there is always the job scene.

edit: Oh, and nothing precludes you from doing both, if your start-up takes off you can always drop out. If it doesn't you'll have at least some marketable skills with a piece of paper to help you along and one failure notch on your belt.
I remember this great article on the subject and Jewish families.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010crat_atlar...
Mostly you just need to ask and not have been covered on Mashable.

tips@techcrunch.com

Let them know who you are, why it's interesting, and why it's news. I think your narrative, "BSD security guy creates idealized secure online backups" is interesting enough by Techcrunch standards.

You should also watch Arrington's Startup School talk.
I'm far from convinced. On the one hand, their shape and their environment explains why they never copied the concept of technology from us. On the other, it does nothing to prevent them having art, literature, math, or creating a pidgin and talking to us. And on the third hand, we anatomically modern humans spent our first 150,000 years doing essentially sod all, so we can hardly complain.

I would want evidence of bidirectional conversation before calling them "people". Otherwise, I think they're "almost-people". Maybe near-future science can uplift them the rest of the way.
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Really, in what way? How much less should we spend to fix this problem if there is only 100,00 deaths?

I feel car deaths are much worse. Most hospital deaths affect people who are already sick, and elderly, whereas car deaths can hit anyone at anytime.
No, you should leave that to the Dolphin police.

To force human norms and laws on Dolphins would be to anthropomorphize (sp?) and that is exactly what the article warns against.

If you start of from the assumption they are non-human persons then you'll have to admit to their right to self govern their society.
The best thing we can do is kill cars alltogether. Move to a more european style of cities, with medium to high density living, which makes public transport more practical.
Plants and animals are made of essentially the same thing? Plants have no nervous system and absolutely no capacity for suffering. It is impossible to inflict pain on a plant. By contrast, most animals are capable of experiencing physical and even mental anguish. Once you admit this, good luck trying to build a coherent moral argument for why human suffering should be abhorrent while all other forms of animal suffering are fair game. This is "speciesism," a term introduced by the philosopher Peter Singer in his famous book Animal Liberation. I have never read a convincing refutation of the argument therein.

There is a line. It simply requires some thought to elucidate it.