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I've had exactly the same experience in Bogota, Colombia.

There was a precise cliff-edge over which service levels dropped dramatically, and it came a few months ago when the lowest priced tier, which had nice, big modern cars with really professional drivers who knew the city, was replaced with a tier branded as 'uberX'.

The uberX experience, while still certainly usable, is a very obvious step down from the previous standard. To sum it up, it basically feels less like you're getting an on-demand professional driver/ taxi, and a lot more like you're just flagging a lift from some guy with a car.

The cars themselves are a big step down - much older, smaller, worn out interiors, sometimes even without seatbelts. On numerous occasions the drivers have been far from the professional driver standard. In general they get the job done but they sometimes don't know the roads very well, and I've run the full spectrum of issues like them taking forever to get to the pickup point, often driving past it and circling back round a one-way system etc, having to take ridiculous detours en route because they miss a turn, going via obviously gridlocked routes, asking me for directions along the way to the destination. All of the things you just don't expect to happen with a driver service but you might expect to happen if you asked a friend for a lift. It's not a guaranteed slick service like it previously was, at all.

I'm not sure what happened here but this, along with the Android app being fairly buggy and seeming to get worse over time (takes minutes to lock GPS coordinates, really kills my battery, sometimes completely freezes when you're tracking them coming to pick you up, gives you a locking error message when you've lost your data connection so you can't even see the map, or the license plate of the car, any more) has really downgraded my impression of uber from something which was all-round vastly better than taxis, to a something which is basically on the same level and that I'll just use when it's not that convenient to hail a taxi on the street. And I'm no big fan of taxis.

It's a shame, I used to rave about uber to anyone who'd listen, but if the level of service for the same cost continues to slide like this here and in other cities then I could see myself looking for and switching to competitors much more often where previously I had no real need or desire to.
It's under $5K for cameras, radar, and onboard processing gear.
There are still millions of machines that affected with HB.
And HB was different it was 1 single software and only limited versions, so if you haven't updated OpenSSL for about 2 years there was a good chance you weren't affected in the first place.

There are probably 1000's of various DH implementations that are utter crap, it's not like you can release a single advisory and make big news about it.
It is mathematically interesting and shows how physics behave if you change assumptions about the geometry of space-time.

Egan has copious documents on the physics of the Orthogonal universe at his website [ http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html ]
Astronauts and pilots also switch off. It's not a function of training, but boredom and/or distraction.
How did you write this embedded X server? Emscripten and a touch of magic?
> including a bunch of small features such as LED cornering lights, fog lights, and a rear trunk that opens remotely.

These were moved to the Premium Interior and Lighting Package ($3000).
Dark Souls definitely stood out for me.
I wouldn't worry too much - a lot of people already die on the roads in fully non-autonomous cars. We only need fewer people to die and it's worth it.
I didn't mean to imply that driving a motorcycle or a bike == illegal, or == driving for speed. As for breaking the law - traffic laws exist to both protect people from deadly accidents and ensure some predictability on the road, the latter of which is needed because humans suck at dealing with surprises, especially over a longer period of time.

What I mean is - going on a motorcycle trip on a scenic route? Sure, it's fine (a self-driving motorbike would probably be even safer though :)). The problem really starts when some people put fun in front of safety and e.g. start speeding.

TL;DR: have as much fun as you want, but not at the expense of safety. Want to have additional fun coming from doing dangerous things? Go do it somewhere where you endanger only yourself (and those who consciously decided to participate in such activities). Racetrack, private roads, whatever.
Pulling over to the side of the road and putting your blinkers on is (almost) always an acceptable solution to an automotive error. Much harder to pull that off at 35,000 feet.
I don't know, I was just presenting an alternative solution to the problem you were talking about. I imagine that the sides of the encasement would have to be pretty impermeable to keep oxygen out, but it's probably harder if the oxygen-containing air is pushing in and nothing is pushing out.

Playing around with the chemistry more, it might be possible to use a gas that oxidizes more readily than silicon, so that if any oxygen does get in it will be neutralized before it gets anywhere near the silicon. I'm not sure if that's possible to do with a gas, though.
Nice, and it works without the need for cruise control to be on, and at all speeds?
Tesla's cars can drive themselves starting tomorrow
Not possible; they interpret their mandate as universal.
Do you really need a UUID/GUID?
http://www.eweek.com/security/three-out-of-four-companies-st...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/279eff74-a00d-11e4-9a74-00144feab7...
With Facebook and other social media suspected of distorting people's perspective of their peer's social achievements... I wonder if a link can be drawn to recent mass shootings.
This is similar to what other high-end cars have, lane-keeping and smart cruise control, usable only in freeway-type situations. "Drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel." Mercedes calls this "Active Lane Keeping Assist", and has offered it for several years now. Here's someone using it with a can taped to the steering wheel to defeat the "hands on steering wheel" requirement.[1] All the major manufacturers have demoed this.

This is NTSB level 2 automation, (Combined Function Automation).[2] ("An example ... is adaptive cruise control in combination with lane centering.") Google is at level 3 (Limited Self-Driving Automation), and going for level 4 (Full Self-Driving Automation).

The big problem at Level 2 is keeping drivers from using it when they shouldn't. Level 2 doesn't understand intersections at all, for example. Or pedestrians, bicycles, baby carriages, deer, snow, etc. That's why the major manufacturers are being so cautious about launching it into a world of driving idiots.

Volvo has now officially taken the position that if an autonomous car of theirs gets into a crash, it's Volvo's fault and they will accept liability.[3] Now that Volvo has said that, other car manufacturers will probably have to commit to that as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv9JYqhFV-M
[2] http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/U.S.+Departm...
[3] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/215832-volvo-well-take-th...
Erm... the main point he makes is like "oh, we could not do it before no matter how hard we tried, so let's give up and keep humans in charge" basically.

I'm sure no one believe we would send rockets into space if you look back long enough in time, yet we did it. Driverless cars are not a concept anymore, many prototypes are very close to being fully operational - it would be very disappointing to stop at this stage.
I don't know but lets' set up a workshop to figure it out!
Ok, though it really needs to work without cruise control to be a complete solution.
Reminds me of a great episode of Dirty Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3peqZ0RlA&feature=youtu.be...
That's not quite accurate: there were two separate instances where they hit someone with their jeep. Neither account disputes that part of the story.

We can reasonably say that the credibility of the accident theory goes down the more accidents one has in a short period of time.

That's not to say it couldn't have been an accident, but the very fact that there were two separate incidents is weak evidence against the claim of it being an accident.

The bigger problem, though, is that the driver used deadly force to attempt to escape and nobody alleges that Tesla's guards caused any injuries at all to the reporters. The closest allegation is that there was damage to their jeep.
a human not touching the wheel in most situations is a human that is NOT in control.
ok that makes sense ... thank you
> “That’s just proven to be a loser of an approach in a lot of other domains,” Mindell says. “I’m not arguing this from first principles. There are 40 years’ worth of examples.”

Yeah, and I have several millennia worth of examples suggesting that organized society at large is a worthless endeavor...
Actually, most map data _doesn't_ have speed limit data associated with it: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/675/data-source-...

Tesla is most likely using their machine vision system to identify speed limit signs, and then incorporate this data into their mapping data.
Here's my theory on how Facebook can be telling the truth here:

Your Tinder/Grindr matches are people in your local area. Your Facebook social graph contains people in your local area, even ones you don't know, through your local friends. The chances of one or several Tinder matches eventually intersecting with your Facebook graph are significant. When this happens, people interpret it as a deliberate act, not just a coincidence.

If you use Tinder in an area which does not contain any of your friends, and people from that area subsequently show up, and have no connection to any of your friends, that would be a lot more suspicious.
"For example, if they had 4 redundant pilot tubes on different places and other redundant methods to measure altitude and airspeed the AP would never have disengaged."

There's a lot to be said for that. The pilots didn't know their altitude and airspeed either. They thought they were overspeeding when they were stalling.

Some military aircraft, mostly the stealth ones with terrible aerodynamic stability, need that sensor data to stay in the air at all. If they lose the sensor data or the stability control system, the only option is to eject. So they tend to go in for more sensor redundancy. There's certainly no reason that large transport aircraft can't have more sources of basic attitude/altitude/airspeed info.
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You may be interested in reading, if you haven't, our 2011 position paper on Dyna. (The 2012 paper on what I think you would call propagator networks was fun, but is nothing you don't know already, I'm sure.)

http://dyna.org/wiki/index.php/Publications
I suspect it would be better, but I would also like to see a study. I work from home and have been experimenting with fairly non-traditional setups:

- sitting on a small stool with no back support.

- sitting cross legged at a low table

- standing with my keyboard at about elbow height.

All three are surprisingly good. I thought I would miss a chair, but I do not in any way. The stool is the least effort, but requires me to be careful of posture or else I get sore muscles. Standing is quite nice as long as I remember to keep shifting my weight around. Sitting cross legged is still difficult for me (lack of flexibility) for more than a few hours, but probably makes me feel the best when I'm done.

Eventually I want to transition to sitting cross legged for most of the day, but I think it will require a concerted effort at training my body to accept it. I'm a bit worried about blood circulation in the legs, though.

My "office furniture" has come in quite a bit under budget with these schemes, though. I spent the equivalent of $10 on the stool. I use my closet (which has a surprisingly convenient shelf in just the right place) for standing.
Thanks for that explanation; I had thought similar to the parent until I read this and it just "clicked".
Send GET requests, delay POST.

Yes, the whole architecture would need to good undo-support.
Which only strenghtens the argument for self-driving cars. Hell, we even make those highly-trained professional aviators and astronauts depend on auto-pilots because it's much safer this way.
Is there a better word? Net revenue? It should be the bottom line of everything that scales, while the red line is the bottom line of everything that's O(1), like engineering. GAAP doesn't seem to have a specific word for that.
Magician Robert-Houdin performed this trick in 1846 (without the fingerprint reader) [1]

He used the "Light and Heavy Chest" to demonstrate his ability to remove the strength of men for political ends.

[1] http://www.themagicdetective.com/2012/05/politics-magic-and-...
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Because approximately no-one wants to live there?
Pretty much by definition, yea. If you can actually afford to leave your job (in other words are independent of it) for 1-3 years and go off and start something that might not even make money, you're pretty wealthy.
Well that doesn't technically preclude the parent's thought; we could simply be at the beginning of the curve in his / her graph.
Run your private key through the second command here: http://etherhack.co.uk/asymmetric/docs/rsa_key_breakdown.htm...
Pilots might look like they are sitting on their asses up there, but they aren't. They are constantly evaluating situations. Think of them like a bodyguard. They might look like they are just standing around doing nothing, but in fact they are constantly scouting for that one-in-a-million scenario. You don't want them heads-down playing games all day.
In our framework, we have for a very long time had a Q.Pointer class which contained functionality to normalize things between touchscreens and non-touchscreens. Among other things, it had the "fastclick" event: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin...

There is far more than simply relying on a "click" in touchscreens. For example the "touchclick" event is for those times when the keyboard disappears because focus has been lost in a textbox, but the click will still succeed: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin...

Also, drag-drop is broken in touchscreens WebKit so you have to roll your own, and much more.

You're better off using a library.
> I think this is why a lot of acquihires fail (like, acquihired employees leaving quickly). They way the acquired team works together doesn't mesh with the way the new company works.

I agree that there's typically a culture clash, but I don't think it's because the acquihired team overwhelms the existing company culture/process/etc. In an acquihire, most of the workers at the acquired company suddenly are working for a company that they didn't choose to work for. That's a ridiculously bad situation to be in as a developer: we have a great deal of choice in where we work, and it's poor strategy to let someone else decide for you just because they had enough money to buy out your boss. So developers choose. And they generally choose to leave because the acquiring company is overwhelming the culture they chose to work in with a culture they didn't.

This is different: everyone in this situation gets to evaluate the others and make a choice about their involvement in a business relationship. Of course there will be differences discovered after the fact that will result in both sides changing, but that isn't necessarily bad.
It is possible for sets of very few people to communicate in ways the NSA could never break. Examples: DH/RSA with ~2^14bit keypairs, OTP, etc. It's much harder on a large scale, but in the end, I think it's doable.

The NSA can build a giant supercomputer/ASIC system/FPGA grid, but they're not going to factor a 2^14bit prime unless they have working quantum.

The only problem then is, unfortunately, having correct, secure, and non-tampered-with implementations of all the requisite libraries.
By stating your intent to not be noticed, you have drawn their eyes.

Why else would you want that if you aren't trying to hide something?
So long as the self-driving car can cover every situation. What doesn't work is a system that expects the human to sit idle for hundreds of hours, then suddenly throws him/her the wheel and jumps ship. (Like the autodrive system in that simpsons episode where homer becomes a trucker.)
Note that the findings referenced by your first link are total B.S.: http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/04/no-75-are-not-vulnerable-t...
I'd be surprised if they didn't consider it: it's a common enough model in our industry that I'd even be surprised if one of them has previously worked as a contractor. There are a lot of unappealing things about contracting, though.
The first moon landings (Surveyor, Lunokhod) were robotic and were completely automated. The boost phase has been completely automated all the way back to the first manned space flights. After all, a monkey made the first flight. Other than lunar landing and some older docking operations, just about everything in space flight has been automated.
I think it's kinda bullshit that there seems to be no limit on the information that the government, Facebook et. al. can gather on me, but somehow I can't be trusted with information about my own genetic code unless it's been vetted by the FDA. It's not like I could go have a medical procedure solely on the basis of this information. Yet supplements and diet pills can make all kinds of bogus claims with impunity.
Ask HN: Blueprints for Cloud hosted corp net
Is there a blog post or blueprint that explains how to setup a corporate network on Aws (or other Cloud)? Including Directory Services, managing windows/Linux/Mac laptops, VPN to Cloud resources, access control, auditing. There are some online solutions like jumpcloud and forty cloud, but any one of those hacked and their customers are collatoral damage.
Keeping this PG: maybe it's a well-oiled team of robots?
I'm not sure who is downvoting you, but you're right. It's a really bad idea to pursue people as a security guard precisely because you may get hurt and I thought pretty much all of them were trained very strictly not to do this. No employer wants their employees to get injured over this kind of thing. There is good evidence that the guards here were not well-trained.

I think the uncontested parts of the story say that the driver is in big trouble here for using lethal force against them, but I also think the guards should be trained not to put themselves in harm's way.
Cars seem fundamentally different than his other examples: Spacecraft, underwater vehicles, and airplanes. The importance difference is cars have a clear, visual grid of where they can travel and where they cannot travel. Painted lines on the road and navigational signs provide a construct of the environment around them.

Maybe the closest comparison is subway / metro rails. There are already many fully automated subway systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...
python string also has 0 results. It doesn't seem like this is quite ready yet.

The website also added a new page to my browser history for every character that I typed in the search box, which is kind of a pain (also, it's slightly amusing that it added so much to my browser history when the search engine presumably gives weight to websites that occur frequently in its users' browser history).
You might double tap near a button, to expand it and give yourself a larger target.
"...as close as possible to the creepy line."

Great stuff.

Blog posts are just too boring most of the time. We need more direct quotes from the people toeing the creepy line.

That is the behavior that should be tracked. What do you think these "engineers, designers and policy makers" get up to each day? Maybe lots of "pretending to believe" they are doing something meaningful?
Hands off the wheel does not mean not in control if you can put those hands back on the wheel instantly. Take the hands off the wheel, get in the back seat, and take a nap. That's what I would call a driverless car.

The "hands not on wheel" argument has been made by many a defendant. Courts don't buy it anymore. If you are in the driver seat, inches from the controls, then you are responsible for the motion of the vehicle. Which is why you can be charged for drunk driving even though the car never moved. In the seat or at the controls = in control = not driverless.
Good. I don't see why those should be deleted. You can access it from the web interface, too.

Unfortunately they do not have chat logs from before 2011, when chat and messages were merged.
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There's also https://cipherli.st/ which, imho, is better. What's really awful is the sets are similar yet almost disjoint, only agreeing on 4 cipher combos:

DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA

Personally I use the shorter "strong" config off cipherli.st
I think it may take decades before cars are 100% autonomous in all situations. But if the AI can handle almost everything, it could take over and let the humans read a book, and alert them in the rare case their input is needed. Fleets of autonomous taxis and trucks could have remote controlled operators monitoring them.
I agree. Self-driving system that expects humans to take over randomly every now and then when something unexpected happens is much more dangerous than 100% self-driving or no self-driving - it exposes only the worst aspects of human driving while removing the best.
Can someone explain what "breaking a prime" means? What is the output after your year of computation?
There are still some elements of uncertainty in car driving. For e.g. driverless cars are confused by cyclist doing track stand[1]. Hopefully with enough data driverless car could overcome these difficulties.

[1] http://road.cc/content/news/162468-cyclist-doing-trackstand-...
The hard part of self-driving cars is not staying within the painted lines of the road, the hard part is avoiding other valuable things like cars, trucks, bikes, people, wildlife, etc. There is no reliable visual grid for those things.

Subways handle this problem by being given dedicated underground tunnels which exclude all those things. And even subways hit people sometimes when they fall onto the tracks.
I'd have picked a different legend: the sword in the stone is more similar to how this works, the sword can be wielded by anyone after the king pulls it out of the stone, and this hammer can be wielded by anyone after the engineer pulls if off of the magnet. Thor's hammer can only be wielded by him, ever.

But it's still awesome.
Time for team leaderboards/recommendation systems on LinkedIn, Stackoverflow etc
> Theres real threats out there

Grow some balls. I'll take a 1% chance of dying to terrorists every year over an Orwellian government that passively intercepts everyone's communications.
This is an incredibly pedantic definition and has nothing to do with what Google is doing.

Google's car has logged driverless hours - despite where a human can be sitting. Are you seriously implying that a human sitting in the driver seat is controlling the car without touching it? If its not driverless, how is the car navigating? Through psychic powers?
You're right, I understand his motivation now, and I hate society a little more.
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> the US needs that ability for national security

Bullshit.

> recruitment monopoly on the best and the brightest in the field of cryptography and computer security

Again, bullshit. The NSA can't compete on compensation and there are plenty of people who refuse to work there out of principle alone.
I think that may be the link I wanted, actually, but I took what I found after a quick search. Anyway, Heartbleed wasn't quite fixed overnight, or even in a week or more.