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> But when boring suddenly turns to not boring? The current state of AI is very very bad at this.

"Boring" versus "not boring" is too vague for this statement to really be meaningful. Examples could be drummed up on both sides. For example computers beat humans hands down in at least some criteria fitting the "not boring" description, like reaction time and seeing in multiple directions at once, and probably some others.
> Are we saying we're eliminating the insurance industry for vehicles? That's essentially what this would do (the government basically assumes the role as insurance company).

Sort of. Self-driving vehicle manufacturers would self-insure.
These are categorized as experimental devices and Windows 10 is free to use on those devices for development and testing.

The UEFI secure boot requirements only apply if you want to distribute a commercial product and want to slap a "Designed for Windows 10" sticker on it - or negotiate a special distribution license with Microsoft (i.e. do not expect Windows 10 to be "free" if you want to use it in a commercially distributes product).
Is it just me, or was the entire "question" in the article irrelevant? Like, yes just "learning to code" doesn't make you a good programmer. But just "learning to write" doesn't make you a good author either. You have to get an introduction and basic skills somewhere, even if most people will never go on to develop or profit from those skills.
Gimmick.
Yeah, in Chicago, it's very clear that the onus is on the non-bus vehicle to avoid a potential accident. Which pretty much sums up the main tenet of defensive driving...
As society slowly starts to realize that more harm comes from denying teens recognition of their agency (and right self-determination) in their own sexuality -- that is, attempting to forcibly "protect" them from it -- than in acknowledging it for what it is, and guiding and nurturing them to be aware of the consequences.

Not that sexting still isn't, in general, a Very Bad Idea. I'd just like to think we'd be better off investing the minimal effort needed to explain why this is a bad idea, rather than attempt to prohibit it with ridiculously (and inhumanly) draconian penalties.
I'm referring to native apps on iOS and Android as the code commonality is huge, with just a small number of platform specific components. The biggest surprise though was how much I could port out for a web version (and Electron based Windows and Mac applications)
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Awesome, I will definitely be using this.
Which is a pity. I would love to see something like Electron for mobile.
People will defend and love Rails / Monolith a lot more if it was not the slowest framework out there.

And it is not that Rails don't scale, it is just very expensive scaling it.

José Valim
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/704320020432723968
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"Not living in Georgia" is worth a premium.
You want to get in on this bet? We could open up a pool on the prediction markets.
I'm pretty sure it's the bus. Generally a already moving vehicle with a green light on straight road has right of way. The correct action for the autonomous vehicle (or a human driver) would be to wait for all traffic in the lane to clear (for example, after the previous light turns red and there is a lull in the traffic), then make it's way around the sandbags.

Here's my artists rending. The vertical lane is just the right hand lane, and is "wide", but still one lane. The bus is traveling "up" and the Google AV tries to manenouver around the sandbags blocking it's way. Thinking that it can get around in time, the AV starts moving to the left and crashes into the bus.

I guess the "one lane" aspect is the confounding variable, but since the autonomous vehicle was stopped, then it takes on the aspect of any other stopped vehicle on the side of the road (ie giving up it's right of way). Just like if you have a road where cars are allowed to park on the side of the road, those cars cannot enter traffic unless it is safe to do so.

Edit: Actually, I have no idea. Did a quick read of California's right of way laws, and couldn't find anything that jumped out that would cover this situation.

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Looking at a map of the area, it's an extra-wide lane, as described in the report. Why would CA build it that way, instead of a full turn lane? I assume since it's technically a single lane, the fault actually lies with the bus, since it was attempting to pass within the lane?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/El+Camino+Real+%26+Castro+...
Bah, it's not just the first snow storm. They salt the roads so much in Ontario that people think they know how to drive in bad conditions but actually they just know how to drive in bad conditions on heavily salted roads. If they hit a patch of unsalted road they get in trouble quite quickly.

In my experience Saskatoon fares a lot better. They don't salt as heavily because it's often cold enough that salt doesn't work as well, and because judges don't blame the municipality for not salting when there's an accident.
Not really: https://medium.com/@scobleizer/don-t-worry-uber-lyft-drivers...
I think this is a good approach even if it takes you loner to move to the place you really want to be. I'm in your situation now and I just don't see the value of making friends where I currently am. To me, it's just a waste of time that could be instead spent on trying to get to the place I want to be.
Exactly this, made even simpler by the naming scheme that lets you have iOS and Android versions of the same component.
The difference is that today, it's normally the case that it clearly isn't the car's fault--whatever combination of humans, pedestrians, bicyclists, and just acts of God it is. If the car's brakes don't work properly even though they've been properly maintained or an ignition switch fails, the manufacturer gets sued. The wrinkle with the scenario in question is that it's not normally the case that programmed instructions in a machine can play a role in an accident and that's considered to not be a fault of the company programming the machine.

I assume there would still be insurance. But if my self-driving car causes an accident, I certainly shouldn't be "at fault" from the perspective of my insurance premiums nor should I be able to be sued--as would be the case today.
Exactly.

So let's stop the pretense that acceptable advertising is meaningful.
Interestingly, the opposite is true: young people are actually less willing to relocate for work than previous generations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/the-go-nowh...
They have driven millions of miles - in perfect driving conditions: great weather, lots of highways, all of it by day (how do I know that? Simple: Google would brag about their AIs being able to drive in rough situations if they were able to do that. But they don't. They just brag about a huge number of miles in undefined conditions...). That is exactly what the original poster criticized. When driving is so easy that it bores human drivers to death, todays' AIs can be better.

The problem is: real-life driving does not only consist of situations that even a child could easily manage. Humans are extremely good at letting their driving skills degrade gracefully when conditions get rough. AIs? They drive perfectly until they reach their limit, then they suddenly pull off epic fails - if no human driver is on standby to resolve the situation immediately.
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This is it. There is nothing inherent to CV that makes self driving cars unable to operate in snow. Humans already suck massively at it (and in the rain).

I remember driving home in a massive rainstorm at night about two years ago with around 2 meter visibility and was going like 20mph because I could not see shit. I had less sensory data than a computer with extra vectors of vision beyond sight would have had, and my reaction time is a ton slower.

Then a year later I'm driving in icy conditions and count five cars that either off roaded or rear ended each other in the span of 15 minutes because of the slick surfaces. I imagine self driving cars would do a much better job slowing down and budgeting for potential slippage than impatient humans.

There is nothing really magical about our eyes that give us better clarity in awful driving conditions, and we don't have radar and GPS fed into our brains to give us a clue where the roads are supposed to be - we just rely on historical context and past driving experience on the same roads.

How many hours would it take a networked fleet of self driving vehicles to outdo my historical context for driving on any of the roads I've driven on for a decade? Two? Maybe three? You just need to get the tunable parameters right though some good old genetic algorithm work like what Google is doing now with its test fleet and while it would be impossible to guarantee perfect performance in every scenario (because inevitably an earthquake is going to make a self driving car crash where nobody could have prevented it) it just has to be better than us, and that has almost certainly already happened.
Spread that over "the equivalent of 75 years of typical U.S. adult driving." (1million + miles) and the alpha version of this software seems almost on par with the average driver which is expected to file an insurance claim every 17.9 years.

PS: How often do you think the average drivers ed teacher uses there break?
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I remember, when the first Titanium Powerbook was released, having something akin to what I must describe, simply, as a "Writers Moment of Nirvana".

I'd just received the machine, a reward for a schedule met, on a Friday afternoon. Charged, ready to go, I put it in my briefcase (in 2000, this was a phenomenon like no other), and .. left the office. With the power supply, box, etc.

So I had a weekends' worth of "fresh tiBook" time .. a very visceral and surreal moment as I transitioned from "Ops-Center" bound, to "can hack Unix code in the park".

I climbed the hills of Griffith Park, and camped out at the (then-) recently burned-out hills, under what was once some old tree. I wish I'd known its species, but I'll never forget the scene; the entirety of the LA basin beneath me, as far as the Pacific, and me perched atop it. Press the button.

BONG!

I had nothing much to run on it, so I opened Terminal, fired up vi, adjusted the font to what was then an amazing degree of clarity, and wrote. For as long as the batteries held out, I set up my personal diary, pure text mode, and got it all out.

Still had power for a few mail-checks and touchups over the weekend, powered out on Sunday evening. The next day in LA, Monday morning, I went on the hunt for a power supply.

Hasn't been the same since.

My point? You don't need an app for that. Just vi.
> You realize that that sweet $140,000 Silicon Valley base salary at FaceGoogBox is worth less than that very middle class $80,000 in Atlanta, once you adjust for cost of living, right?

You're ignoring equity here, which after a couple years will be more than your base salary anyway.

With a total comp of $300k+, a lot SV workers don't mind paying $30k/year more in rent to live in the Bay Area. As many others have noted, it really is beautiful here...
One interesting case for microservices: distributed teams. Less coupled systems are easier to develop in less coupled organizations.
This made me think - and excuse my ignorance if this is a known and solved problem already - that for autonomous driver software there needs to be some significant degree of customisation allowable for local conditions, where 'local' seems to need to be 'in a local area, like the Bay Area' for example, not just country-wide right-of-way and correct side of road rules.

Here in South Australia public transport buses are extended unofficial better right of way standing (when departing from the curb), for example. There are also new laws determining the required minimum passing distance between a cyclist and a car to be 1m if travelling 60km/hr or less, and 1.5m if travelling > 60km/hr; and car drivers are allowed to cross double-white lines to avoid cyclists.

It seems to me there are ample opportunity for 'edge case' bugs to occur in the autonomous vehicle software when local conditions are taken into account, and an untested set of requirements are applied specific to a country / city / district.
maybe i'm just typing too fast. I tried "the best marigold" (for the best marigold hotel). I watched the i in marigold disappear from the search box. Deleting the string (by holding down the delete key, the X works just fine) takes forever as well. I'm using chrome if it matters.
Google self-driving car hit municipal bus
And C and Haskell teach you how to pick up those two in less than a week when you have mastered them.

If your goal is not to have codemonkeys - you need to give the people skills to develop themselves further - which means knowing how computers work.
Also, even if you can bid, cash is king. So, not only is everyone driving the prices up, but the winners are usually all cash. I don't know anyone who has a few million in the bank, ready to move on property. Sadly..
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Greenville and Charleston, SC are working pretty hard to become tech hubs. Charleston is booming to a degree that housing is starting to go the way of SF (which is nuts in this area) but Greenville and it's surrounding cities have virtually no risk of that degree of price inflation. There's just too much land and space.

I live in Easley, which is about 10 minutes from downtown Greenville and you can get a decent 1100 square foot, 2 BR/2BTH apartment with washer/drier for about $500 / month.

Houses tend to run between 80-110 / sqft.

Also, food is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73GcUAb2HO0
How can Wikipedia pretend to be the successor to Britannica though, unless they're as snooty and serious as that deadtree encyclopedia?
Site's down/struggling. Is 'mirage.io' hosted on MirageOS?
Yes, especially since the New Flyer buses also have cameras and data recorders.
If you're having trouble visualizing what happened (like me), here's the intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3859058,-122.0843836,3a,75y,...

Looks like the far right lane has double the normal lane width to accommodate on-street parking. The Google car, looking to turn right on red, attempted to use the right-most part of the lane to pass cars that were waiting to go straight, but there were sandbags covering the storm drain near the corner, so it had to stop. When the light changed, the cars it had passed continued on while the Google car waited for a gap, which ended up being in front of a bus, likely caused by the bus accelerating more slowly than the cars in front of it. The Google car tried to use the gap to get around the sandbags, assuming that the bus wouldn't just plow into it, but the bus plowed into it. Perhaps the bus driver assumed the Google car was parked and wasn't paying much attention to it.
My pop bought his place in the east bay right after Viet Nam for ~70k. They pay ~100 a month in taxes and whatnot as the mortgage was paid years (decades?) ago. The exact same footprint ranch house next door just sold to a couple with a little boy. She is a 'local' teacher, he is a recruiter in tech somewhere in SF city. Take a guess how much they paid for a 3 bed, 1 bath on 1.7 acres about 1 hour (on a good day) commute for him.

Yeah, 850k, and that was a steal. The mortgage alone is, what ~3k/ mo? Taxes and everything else push this up to ~4.5k to 5k/ mo, right? And this is going to go for how long? Oh yeah, 20 years.

My folks have no illusions that this sweet couple and little Benny next door are going to be there anymore than 5 years. Even all the way out in the East Bay, it is just not possible.

Get out now before this bubble pops again. Beat the rush.
Notice that it doesn't say it changed lanes; rather, it shifted to the leftmost-side of its lane, later to return to the center of the lane (which is when the bus hit it).

I get your point, though, and I imagine it could have gone something like this: Car predicts bus will slow down (as reported), moves back to center of lane. Bus doesn't, and the car's sensors inform of it. During the seconds (or the fraction of a second) before the collision, the car came up with the safest avoidance maneuver, and started executing it. Crash.
Having used Slack for over a year and a half, you nailed it.
Will there be changes to the vdom structure that might break MSX?
Short version:

1. Does react make you sad?

2. Refactor all your code.

3. React makes you happy.
Is it going to be regular?
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Even if you limit it to text/binary 0/9 you still have problems.

1. your url looks like gopher://dipstick.io/0file or gopher://watchingpaintdry.museum/9folder/file. The filetype is part of the url, but only the client is aware of it -- it's not passed to the server.

2. When using a URL, the client has one idea of the file type but it does not necessarily match what the server thinks the file type is.

2. Error messages. HTTP has a status code to indicate the file doesn't exist (or was moved, etc). Gopher can send the error message back as the payload but... is that in text format or binary format? The server has no idea what format the client expects.

Always sending binary data and using out-of-band status codes and file type just keeps life simpler.
> is it bad to make our homes work just a little better?

Not at all. Unfortunately, very few people are actually including proper security and risk costs. A device that improves energy use and makes usage data or admin control accessible by a network may not be "just a little better". The network attack risk may even make the device a net harm.

It is rare to even see these negatives addressed by the people promoting IoT. I consider this extreme negligence, as any problems from a network attack are paid by the end user. Like coal based power, insecure consumer devices avoid paying for their negative externalities.
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pretty cool description for the masses of what decentralization means.

I'd love to see a decentralized replacement combining the functionality of LinkedIn & Glassdoor.

LinkedIn so that we can share CV's and skills with the right people and Glassdoor so that the feedback (or lack of feedback) of hiring managers becomes more visible. E.g. companies should be rewarded by giving feedback to candidates (or to recruiters who then give the feedback to candidates). Glassdoor started out in the right direction but has moved on to a business model where they earn their money from job-ads (copying LinkedIn).

You shouldn't have to spend crazy amount of money to some shady middleman (whether these are recruiters, LinkedIn or Monster) to find the right talent. And also job seekers shouldn't have to go through these channels and be treated the way they are.
> I was lucky enough to find out that Square has an Atlanta office

Was the salary the same, or was it adjusted?
The money is made by being able to predict the future, be that lottery numbers, disasters or the future earnings of companies.

Modelling startups is hard, because there is so much estimation and variance. But the fact that it's hard is why its so important.
> You realize that that sweet $140,000 Silicon Valley base salary at FaceGoogBox is worth less than that very middle class $80,000 in Atlanta, once you adjust for cost of living, right?

I find that very hard to believe. If you make $12,000 a month in SF and spend $3,000 a month on rent (which is pretty generous for one person), you still have more leftover money per month than your entire paycheck at an $80,000 annual salary.
I think that would be a little too controversial for me to try to start out with.
I've heard from german address/data brokers (Schober) that they send out targeted mailings via email and then location pinpoint high value targets for product/ad category X - then they visit these locations in persona and take pictures of their houses and cars to add more data to the profiles.

What a sick world this has become.
I don't (and won't) live in the Bay Area, but I live on the west coast, in an area a lot more expensive than Atlanta. When I got serious about moving to a "low cost of living" area and started doing the math, I found it to not be nearly so cut and dried. While housing and taxes are cheaper, many other things cost the same or more. For example, it's often MORE expensive to go on vacation from a cheaper area because the airport is smaller and there aren't direct flights to as many places (granted, not an issue in Atlanta). And of course everything on the other end costs the same regardless of whether you're coming from SF or Des Moines. Buying a car costs roughly the same (sales tax and car registration may make a small impact). Gadgets and electronics cost the same. Food may cost slightly less, but not in proportion to the pay difference. Cable, internet, cell service, health insurance, etc. all cost about the same.

When I put everything on a spreadsheet, the lower housing costs in other parts of the country didn't sufficiently make up for the drastically lower salaries. YMMV, but I encourage everyone to very carefully do the math before making these kinds of decisions.

(I do think that SF may be a special case, since it's SO expensive, but even then it's worth doing the math.)
Maaybe for the "easy" stuff like public transport. But for many of the specialised jobs that also boil down to a human operating a vehicle, e.g. excavators, log cutting machines, snowplows etc. it takes a human who already knows how to drive a car many months, even years to learn how to do it. Since the market for these machines is many orders of magnitude smaller than for cars, and each machine type is so specialised that there is limited overlap, so the cost-benefit ratio is much worse than for cars. Thus I think it will take a lot longer for these jobs to be automated away.
How are there taxes so low?

I know in Chicago if you were old past a certain age you got some tax breaks (MAYBE at some point a tax freeze). Does SF have some kind of tax rate freeze?

But ya, live is too short to spend a million bucks on a 2 bedroom house.
This is funny. I feel the same way

It doesn't mean they are bad drivers, but not being in control gives you a very different view of the situation

I guess since you don't know their "internal state" you don't know how recklessly they are driving actually
"Enlitic has tested its software against a database of 6,000 lung cancer diagnoses, both positive and negative, made by professional radiologists. In research soon to be published, its algorithm was 50 percent more accurate than human radiologists, Enlitic said."

If I'm the patient, I want the AI to make the initial diagnosis, then highlight parts of the image most relevant to the diagnosis, and present links to guidelines or research articles backing up the conclusion (or whatever kinds of citations are most relevant to a radiologist). Then the radiologist either confirms (which will be the majority case, if the A.I. is as good as advertised), or disagrees and replaces with his or her own diagnosis. Note this requires a more sophisticated design and interface than a simple "cancer/not-cancer" output.

I want a human in the loop. Sometimes A.I. systems can outperform humans over all, but when it makes mistakes, the mistakes are things human "common sense" would have quickly ruled out. When it comes to my health or other topics I consider important, I want both the strength of an automated system and the intuition of an expert, applied in a cost effective and efficient manner.

A.I. should be a productivity enhancement tool for my doctor, but I'm definitely not ready for an A.I. to be my doctor.