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The place I live has recently announced that they are furnishing and renting out the vacant units to people now. Though they seem to imply its meant for families of residents for visiting holidays and such. But it still feels a little like my place is becoming a hotel. Not sure if it will be discontinued past holidays or if non family will occur.

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While I don't know a lot about the subject, I would bet that's likely right. As in, there are very hard problems, but the actual mathematics are not all that hard.
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Agreed, but that becomes even more difficult with shifting trends in how people spend their free time. I'm disgusted by the number of people I know who actually boast about how few books they've read.
The guy clearly is technically brilliant. But I was referring to the results. Not how the results were achieved.

In the video, he claims to want to achieve level 3 driving. Let's see how he can do the following under non-perfect conditions:

- switching lanes

- stopping at lights

- turning cornerns

- turning left corners in traffic

Then we can move on to the more difficult situations.
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"I know everything there is to know."

I kind of took that to be like how Musk talks about needing to know first principles. In the article you can see that he was humble about what he thought he knew, took jobs here and there and eventually confirmed that he was at the cutting edge, that he knew 'everything there is to know' about this special area.

That's when he realized that he was qualified to try this. IMO, anyway ;)
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I'm asserting that avoiding support calls by the minority who can't reason about technology at all is not worth the tarnishing of the brand Philips did to itself when trying to get rid of those calls.
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How old was your child when you started it?
Very glad to hear that. Anywhere roadmap/ central place where I can contribute and follow progress?
Also they brought on the guy responsible for some of the earlier iPhone processors, which had great single-threaded performance (AMD's weakest point right now).
There have been people in my past that wanted to start a project that I didn't think they were capable of finishing, because either it was too large, they didn't have the skills/smarts (not that I thought they were stupid, just that I thought it would take exceptional intelligence), or both. A few of them succeeded, either in the original task, or the effort and journey was well worth the price paid.

Part of this was hubris. The thought of someone I considered less capable than myself accomplishing something I felt I could not damaged my ego. This was humbling.

Part of this was experience. The experience to know that attempting the hard or impossible is sometimes worth the effort, whether you succeed or not. This was educational.

Part of this was ambition. Ambition to do something new, to ignore the naysayers and noways when needed, and forge your own path, which I've always felt short on, but have steadily worked on over time. This is ongoing.
A child comment was deleted that called nemo44x's opinion "dehumanizing" because it didn't account for the extremely limited supply of housing. My response is below:

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The assertion that, for residential rental, anything that is not a free market is "dehumanizing" to "everyone who came after you" is not self-evident.

Consider this: when someone gets an apartment, they put down roots. Their utility curve is biased towards them wanting to stay where they are. They arguably should not be asked to swap the location of where they live as easily as a day trader would sell stocks. Think about commuting for a person already making ends meet with multiple jobs; think about the disruption to a child's schooling. Rent control is designed to account for this, to dampen the dynamic system of the housing market as an attempt for greater overall utility.

Whether it is optimal, whether it is overapplied - since utility can't easily be quantified, that's something that everyone will have a different opinion on. Quoth the Dude, "That's just, like, your opinion, man." [0] You're certainly entitled to call someone else's opinion "dehumanizing," and they are equally entitled to downvote you in return.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c
That's wrong. They have, for the majority of cards, a much higher performance-per-watt ratio, which is a different thing.
No, the bank does not own it. The landlord can sell the building to a new owner. The bank can not.
Earlier this year I swapped mouse hands to spread the workload out more evenly with my weaker arm, was a fun experiment with I think pretty good results.
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I actually have read up on it before I called it smoke and mirrors. While this is a year ago now, this is well after their cars were heavily marketed as being pretty sufficient and capable of detecting problems. ...Yet it couldn't detect the existence of a stoplight if it wasn't explicitly mapped ahead of time. And apparently, according to a Googler, the mapping required to make a road work with Google's self-driving car system is "impractical" to do at a nationwide scale.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/...

I'm not saying it won't ever happen, I'm not saying there haven't been developments in the technology. But people seem to have a disconnect in expectations of where the technology is, and where marketing departments for these tech companies want you to believe the technology is.
If it passes the written and driving tests at the local DMV, should the car be given a driver's license?
I agree with the other comment that generating this on the server is a security flaw.
That being said, I thought I would give it a try.
The manual verification process doesn't give me any files to upload. FTP is disabled.
(I am using Palemoon, if that matters)
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Kind of off-topic, but it might interest you to learn that adults are left-hemispace biased - consistently, we tend to scan the left side of our field of vision first, and in video games preferentially shoot at targets on our left. This holds true to a surprising degree across all the potential causes people have thought to test for so far - lefties do it, people in countries where they drive on the other side, people in countries where they read right-to-left...

So, while I'm sure the world is annoyingly biased against lefties, not all of the asymmetry you see is because of handedness.
It got me excited. But slow to train. :-(
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>> drivers because the developers don't care

Yeah because developers have unlimited access to all sorts of GPU/CPU combos that the customers have...
Well, unfortunately, while the idea is admirable, with the current designs, for the majority of the cards, nVidia cards are consuming ~60% of the AMD direct competitors, which is very significant.
Or you can have your Ethernet equipment certified as Carrier Ethernet

https://www.mef.net/certification/equipment-certification-ov...
Good luck with your new idea. I think its much needed. You can also add review for cover letters, follow-up emails or guides on how to handle phone call interviews. Basically you can expand to many different stages of hiring process and even connect with head-hunters for special positions.
Awesome. Loving Codeception for PHP. Very nice to see it coming to node.
Give me a few hours, I'll strip some stuff out.
I'm not sure. See, the screenshot above. The confusion about this is the most difficult part of it and Amazon support just replies with a canned reply.

That is why I was hoping someone like jeffbarr could shed some light on this.. Looks nice it was just another vain attempt to get an answer from them :(
> they own the building, that's their call.

Tenants have rights. Landlords are not, and should not be, allowed to do whatever they want with their building.
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Hotz is pretty eccentric, but he's also pretty incredible. While technology wouldn't progress very far if everyone was like Hotz, I also don't think it would get very far without people like Hotz.
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He seems like a pretty cool and level headed person. If you watch the video, they're working on phase 3 of car automation which is basically when you're on the highway (or on the smaller roads) and the car takes over for you. It seems like google is working on phase 4, which I feel is basically too far off (no reason for us to need cars that can drive themselves without anyone in it). Also, Tesla, Mercedes, those are all phase 3 (Autosteer).

Also pretty cool he's working in his garage :P.
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he says phase 3 takes 99% of your driving task. So I guess it would be way more than that.
> They'll still have to be afraid of the switch to ebooks though.

Not if they do it right. I buy ebooks and hardly ever go to a bookshop these days, but I used to love browsing through physical shelves looking for "enticing" items and miss that experience dearly. Would I pay an extra £1 or £5 to get that experience back? In a heartbeat.

What they need is an augmented experience where i can show up at the store with my e-reader, go through books, and when i find a nice one, let me "point" the reader at it to download it seamlessly. The reader should figure out I'm in a bookstore and, after fulfilling my request, send a percentage of generated revenue to the store operators.

You could do this today, either as an Amazon affiliate or with a custom website API. You don't even need to risk overstocking: get one book for each title, nothing more. You could even open the API to third parties and let indy shops bloom. But you would have to be competent, forward-looking and not afraid of change -- qualities sorely lacking in the whole retail sector, and not particularly valued in publishing either.
I'm not the person you asked it of, but I suspect that what the person means is that you can amend a lease as long as it fits the legal requirements of the location. If you're in a city that doesn't allow short-term subleases, then you presumably can't amend your lease to specifically allow short-term subleasing.
Didn't know that. Cool, thanks for mentioning.
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For comparison, a similar hacker spirit underpins Tesla Motors propulsion tech: Back in the early 2000's, there was a young engineer driving around Palo Alto in a brilliantly hacked electric Porsche 944, which would do about 130mph on the highway.

His name was JB Straubel, and nowadays he's Tesla's CTO.

Best of luck to Hotz!
I don't doubt that you've found a lot of people in your area who are interested in it. But it doesn't even imply that it's more popular than Angular in SE MI, much less anywhere else. You can't offer up another anecdote and pretend that it's data.

And I'm sure you did fine work, but small business print shops are not exactly industry trend setters. What difference would it make in the bigger picture if you had chosen Handlebar for that project?
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Millions of drunk people drive on the roads. People can buy assault weapons, with no training and background checks. People who make self-driving software should be the least of our concerns.
They could make the dialog look like it will explode a mine. I'm not sure if the software can know when something isn't working but if it does and the last know bulb was a third-party bulb it could then remind you about it.
I'm in no way obligated to buy something in the store, especially when they have obfuscated policies regarding pricing. How can you justify a higher price in store when you have a lower price online and your competitor has a lower price and same day delivery? I get 25% BN discount from my gf's teacher discount and stuff is still more expensive than their own online pricing.

If I find a significant price difference, I'm going to buy it online. However, I will go out of my way to purchase at small business because there are benefits to that.
Sequel if you're a fan of desktop apps.

If you need something just like phpmyAdmin with better UI : SQLBuddy http://sqlbuddy.com/
The opportunity appears to be open to remote workers:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/60631/senior-javascrip...
This:

> A person in their 20's knows nothing, but thinks they've outsmarted the world...

Is a dangerous and gross generalization. I totally agree with the changing of perspectives point, but feel that this community has a very clear bias from the older gen (30s and up) against the younger gen (teens and twenties). That's all I'm saying. It's divisive. Instead of saying they "know nothing", it should be phrased, "still have a lot to learn."
Like they did with Bulldozer…?
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Waterstones also has a click and collect system.

You can order books on-line through their website and pick them up at any store. The on-line price is also lower than the store price.
And, for the case of subsidaries, etc, "one company" is equal to "the entity that has access to the users data".

Want to share userdata with some subsidary? Then you also share responsibility with them.
If by average consumer you are referring to "average purchaser of light bulbs", you are referring to a market that the Philips Hue products are not yet in.

The average Philips Hue customer is an early adopter who was willing to spend a large amount of money on a next-generation lighting system. This customer is an early adopter.

The question is not whether they should allow third-party bulbs, they already allowed third-party bulbs. The question is whether, after reaping the benefits of creating a product with compatibility built in, if it is a good business move to remove that feature via a software update.

People flipped out when their paid-for Kindle copy of 1984 was removed from their e-reader due to legal issues that were out of Amazon's control. And those customers were refunded. They chose to break the lighting of their customers due to user experience issues.
That's not small - that's huge.

Books are stocked sale-or-return. Upgrading your hit-rate from 80% to 96% takes epic customer insight.

I suspect the range has shrunk, so there won't be many quirky or indie books. But they're mostly doing okay online. So...

>It seems that by freeing the staff he's created what's effectively a chain of indie bookstores.

There must be more going on, otherwise staff would make random picks of whatever they're into and fail to sell them - which is what happens to a lot of indies.

But I think there's another difference - the UK still has a culture of literacy of sorts, while in the US that's much less obvious. So although the population is much bigger, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of active book buyers - as opposed to the best-seller-a-year crowd - is about the same.

Spread those over a much bigger geographical area and there are problems of delivery, stock choice, and logistics that don't apply in the UK.

The Waterstones model could possibly work in the US, but B&N would have to kill its warehouses, move its non-book stock online, and rent plenty of smaller city centre shops near business and tourist districts - which would be expensive and risky without some trial runs.
> Then it is not true a risk.

It doesn't feel like it when you're taking the risk. The older I get, the luckier I realize I am to have grown up in such a safe environment, to have gone to good public schools, and to live in such a developed society
From the article:

“I live by morals, I don’t live by laws,” Hotz declared in the story. “Laws are something made by assholes.”
> In a given week I might receive 1,000 applicants.

What tools do you use to manage that many applicants? Certainly not your inbox?
a function of greed, not competition. if we can put up x% returns forever no matter what, why not add and add and add. they were believers, and with certainty comes danger.
"Please signup"? No thanks.. There's very impressive alternatives that don't want my email.

eg: https://www.windyty.com/
In the northern states you'll often find furnaces, at least in older homes. In the southern states, it's pretty much all electric heating if it's recent (< 30 year old) construction.
And yet, in developed countries, decade after decade GDP on paper keeps going up and at the same time in real terms nearly everyone keeps getting poorer, so something has gone wrong with the assumptions on which this plausible-sounding economic model is based.
He is misquoting myself and/or other people who've talked about the encryption before. Sony has their own format they call SELF (secure ELF?) which works as follows: each ELF segment (not section) has a key/iv generated for it and is encrypted with AES-CTR (previously same keys were used for different segments, making it vulnerable to attacks). The keys are placed into the header and encrypted with AES-CBC. The decryption key for this is the important one, which if we obtain, allows the decryption of any* SELF. (So an mis-implemented encryption has happened before and doesn't mean 'oh the military uses AES, so anything that uses AES is unbreakable')

There's also the signatures which prevent modifying the SELFs even if we got the decryption keys. The ECDSA random-fail was what happened to the PS3. This has nothing to do with the encryption though. (There was also no "constant 4" that was just a simplification in the slide deck of the presenters. It was meant as a joke.)

But I do understand all the gross simplification CTurt made because the audience for this article is people who watch the console hacking scene, and in the console hacking scene, almost nobody knows anything about crypto. I frequently have to answer why brute forcing 128-bit AES keys is not possible. Then, inevitably, the asker will declare why we don't just try to guess then. Once I was informed that computers will become faster, so, in the future, we can brute force keys "at the speed of light." I asked them how many meters per second we can crack keys now.

* Okay, technically not any. I haven't gone into NPDRM, which is an additional layer of encryption for purchased games. Different keys are also used for different components (for example, kernel vs. user libraries).
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Can't we do both?

Apple dropped the ball here by allowing a password to be set to something that could not be typed at the login screen.

The user was stupid for performing this experiment without an escape hatch.

Stating one does not exclude the other.
Is it that hard to detect a clear danger like a car that suddenly stopped in front of you on the highway?
How bad is internet censorship in India?
When I open some websites, it is redirected to a webpage with just the following message :

“Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.”

Sadly, the webpage for which I'm getting this message is : http://hugo.pereira.free.fr/index.php
which is a harmless site whichjust maintains a list of open source softwares.

The warning message appears to come from an IP (182.79.218.37) which belongs to the ISP Bharti Airtel. This IP seems to be running "Netsweeper filtering service". A casual google search about this filtering software suggested that it is mainly used by authoritarian governments previously.

I'm wondering why such websites are being blocked? What other websites are being blocked?
Why is there no transparency of the policy by which content is blocked?
I think this number of "99%" is only valid for the large US suburbs which are way easier to navigate than a typical small town in Germany/Europe. Over here we have so many narrow streets, millions of pedestrians and bicycles, construction zones and so on. More often than not it is difficult for a human to figure out what is going on so it will be much harder for a car to do the same.
This the same guy that Sony wanted to put in prison for figuring out how to run code on the PS3...

That stunt is also what lead to a coordinated attack against PSN that took the service down for more than a month.
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Why not blame both parties here? I don't see it as a mutually exclusive "blame x or y" scenario.

This is clearly an input validation issue first and foremost, and we can blame Apple for that, but it's also a completely weird use case and obviously a non-standard path to password input given you don't have emoji keys on keyboards.

I don't expect average end users to know that unicode support in software is still iffy, but I would expect them to realize that having to bring up an alternate input dialog is deviating from computing norms. Doing weird things should trigger a red flag in everyone's heads that "maybe I shouldn't try this first on something I value". Doesn't even matter if it's a computer, you wouldn't try refueling your primary car with wine, despite it containing a plausibly similar sounding percentage of ethanol.
A nagging bug is ultimately one more thing you don't understand. I don't know about anyone else but as someone who loves to take apart things I don't sleep well when I find there's something out there that I don't understand. Besides bugs are a given if you're building something new and if you don't find them interesting you're not going to fix the most challenging ones. If you ever followed Linux kernel development you'll find many hackers enjoy fixing challenging bugs.
Why are we allowing these illegal hotels to run anyway? The government needs to step in and ban Airbnb.
The thing is, how many sites are going to have developers clued-up enough to incorporate this markup, but not clued-up enough to avoid stupid password policies that break password managers?

We only run into trouble because sites incorporate silly requirements like "you must have at least one symbol, even if your password is 48 characters long." Fixing that really seems like the better and more attainable goal.
Better question is "Do we have the measurements to be able to say what kind of losses/gains are done by differing policy?"

I'm going by logic that Ben Franklin said, "An ounce of prevention is equal to a pound of cure." However I admit that I accept this by experience, and not by scientific study.
People install all kinds of crap on their computer, forget about it, and later on don't make the connection that the outdated kernel extension they installed is crashing their machine.

(I speak from experience. I was able to track a surprising number of bug reports in my apps to internet filters, kernel extensions, etc. It's so common that it's the one of the first questions I ask customers when they report a bug. And it's why sandobexed apps are so successful -- all of the sudden you can install apps without worrying that they'll break your computer)
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