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aianus mentions reaction times.

As well as that there's the lack of visibility.

[five]> [four]> [three]> [two]> [one]>

Truck five, if it has a human driver, needs to leave plenty of space so s/he can see what's going on with truck four and three. (Repeat this for all the lorries and they end up spread out) The computers don't need that visual space, because they're all linked with radio shuffling data back and forth.

> Imagine trying to merge into traffic or onto a bridge when some vehicles are longer than merging lanes

i) When the lorries pass approach a merging lane they either add some space between each truck, or they use a different lane of the motorway (because this article is talking about England) which allows people to move from the merging lane onto the motorway.

ii) Lorries will already drive in an informal ad-hoc convey. They'll keep a safe distance from each other. That safe distance isn't enough for a car to get into if the car is trying to merge from the entrance ramp. So if this isn't already a problem I'm not sure why it would be a problem with robot drivers. What's changed that suddenly makes it a problem?
I know, it was a response to those developeers wanting to stay away from OpenCL C code or using translators that would generate OpenCL C from their languages of choice.

Lets see if they are still on time to change the wave.
Note that this is a video interview.
Long-term, jobs disappearing is not a bad thing. It really sucks for the people who are left without a means of supporting themselves, but do we, as a society, really want to use humans for jobs that machines can do equally well? I for one don't want to work just for works sake. Very few jobs are actually enjoyable and those jobs that we can currently replace with machines tend not to be of that kind.
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Antifragile explained in 3 lessons – why systems like evolution and economy work
Great article, interesting questions and engaging answers. I especially liked the way the interviewee brought in conflicting perspectives, such as the enlightenment view of nature vs. the romantic view of nature in the debate around what's best for the environment.
Literally just a webview in an X window.
This is not a 'desktop app'. This is bastardized web.
Most likely by having the right appx permissions to do so.

Project Centennial is supposed to allow for 100% compatibility with existing Win32 APIs.

This is from last BUILD.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-692

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/msdevshow/Episode-56-Project...

This upcoming BUILD might have more talks about it.
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So I used to run an SaaS startup from 2012-2014 that was ramen profitable and required like 2-3 hours/week of work at most. It completely freed up my time, and I spent that time in part realizing that coding and running a software startup aren't really my passion.

I decided my real passion is sex, as well as passive income, so I started a porn startup, with me directing and acting in my own films. I made three films so far, and revenues from each film are growing film-to-film. The high costs of a shoot, however, still mean that I'm in the red, and I actually subsidize my costs with my bartending day job. The sole revenue model is selling the films on clip sites as downloadables.

I don't naturally look the "type," so mainstream work has been hard to find, but I have the technical capability to do the job. A startup is the way forward for me. Eventually, my goal is to build enough content to sell monthly memberships, much like SaaS startups.

I'm getting a little burnt out doing so much at once (i.e. writing, directing, producing, acting, editing, marketing, etc.), and I still haven't figured out distribution apart from my 13k Twitter followers and 1,000-strong organic mailing list. It has also been hard being so frugal just to save up for monthly shoots. I feel like I have to pump out fresh content with regularity to please my customers, who, though are numerically few at the moment, are pretty loyal in purchasing film after film.

I suppose what I'm asking is, how can I maximize the revenue potential of my startup? Failing which, how do I at least keep this going and sustainable so that I can have enough time, energy, and motivation to figure out the next step?
"These are hard questions, and a lot of people outside of us tech guys are thinking about it." It seems to me there is an easy answer. Building Robots that can kill people without supervision is currently a terrible idea. AI, or whatever you would like to call it, should not be allowed to take a humans being's life. We make our law enforcement officers pass psych exams before they are put in situations where they need to kill someone. Until a robot can pass the same exam, I'm not comfortable with autonomous killing machines.
The flip side of this is to find a good company that is in the metro area, but not in the main city.

For example, my commute from Sherwood to Wilsonville is 20-25 minutes. Since I'm not trying to drive through Portland proper, I'm able to use a back road that has 2-3 cards on it during 'rush hour'.

So I'm able to get the big house and the short commute at the same time by have a starting and ending destination that is not where everyone else is.
> What's the better alternative to billionaires getting their software for free?

Billionaires paying for their software?
Sure. I apologize.

these kids don't watch any tv

I assumed that you'd be able to extrapolate the behavior of the 18-34 year olds to younger people, and I assumed that you didn't mean any literally.

Of "youth" (13-24 year olds)[1]:

96% watch online video ("Youtube and similar, social media") for an average of 11.3 hours per week.

71% watch online subscription services (Netflix etc) for an average of 10.8 hours a week

57% watch free online TV services (amctv.com, ABC app etc), average of 6.4 hours a week

81% watch scheduled TV, average 8.3 hours a week

56% watch catchup or recorded TV, average of 7.5 hours a week.

Additionally, "The five most influential figures among Americans ages 13-18 are all YouTube creators"[2]

I'm not sure if this supports or doesn't support your arguments. I know I sure don't agree with the claim "The Coca Cola brand is dead because Snapchat". I didn't really understand the argument there at all.

[1] http://sandbox.break.com/acumen/Acumen%20Constant%20Content_...

[2] http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/survey-youtube-stars-mo...
Here in Berlin they have been working to build 2.2 new kilometers of subway since 2010. They expect to finish around 2020, having spent 500 million Euros.

Building tunnels is really expensive. Barring radical longevity improvements, I don't think I'll live to see an underground transportation network.
Aging is the real problem, and suicide by suffering elderly is unlikely to make young researchers turn their backs on the search for the fountain of youth.
> General lifestyle/nutrition advice to prevent/mitigate a huge spectrum of issues that occur as we age? Ain't no money in that science.

If the US had single-payer healthcare, the focus likely would be much more on prevention, because that would mean the government would get to directly save more money on healthcare. It would also encourage the government to put more money into research that the private pharma companies aren't doing, like you said.
>otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao

Every luxury food or drug tastes horrible until you've learnt to enjoy it. Remember your first beer or coffee? My guess is sugar would initially taste somewhat foul ('sickly sweet') if one was brought up without it.

EDIT: I'm not recommending that people start snorting or imbibing cocoa powder. However I think that if this were the only form of chocolate then one would quickly learn to enjoy it.
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Unfortunately this comment and this account (created only to criticise the bitcoin core team) is a good representation of the calibre of most of the criticism and attacks they have been copping over the last year or so.
Sadly I am sure we could program to easily pass that test.

Machines killing without oversight is a terrible idea regardless of the # of tests they can pass.
That judge should be a defendant instead.
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Obviously you need both, that's why I'm suggesting the focus should be on the biz.

I disagree that it's rare or expensive, it's quite the opposite. Most knowledge associated with it has little lifetime value and is constantly tending towards zero - a 5 year old code base that generates little income has a value of near zero or is a liability. You can hire an engineer for a year to build web apps, depending on country, for the price of a medium sized sedan.
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I noticed the tray icon for this in OSX isn't black. It would seem more native if it matched.
I meant it seriously, based on PG's essay.

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going.

The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually.

For as long as they could (which turned out to be surprisingly long), Wufoo sent each new user a hand-written thank you note.

[Meraki] got started by doing something that really doesn't scale: assembling their routers themselves.

When you only have a small number of users, you can sometimes get away with doing by hand things that you plan to automate later.
Graffiti is now a 'minor terrorism related act'?
It's a good thing for CEOs to not break the law, but I'm not sure telling them that multiple times in a blog post will have much effect......
Government officials just really like the word “cyber”
Since you seemed to ask: whose
Indeed. One of those early moves was into one of the run down apartments across the tracks from the Home Depot in Tigard, so that I could be walking distance to the little office park there.

Super cheap, and plenty of stuff around to do. Just not overly walkable or as pleasant as living in the Pearl District.

Then again, just like a fella can make up for a lot of unpleasantness given an extra 1-5 hours a day in free time, the same can be said for paying half the rent of a downtown loft. They still let you drive in to town on the weekends if you get bored of throwing darts at a plastic board and drinking Budweiser non-ironically. And working a software job while living in the "first month free" apartments, you can certainly afford to do so.
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In many cases these are not things that people do consciously, and in some cases they do it because they are pressured to make the wrong decisions without fully realizing the consequences. For instance, shareholders could push a CEO to expand the company when the financial situation does not actually allow it.

I agree that if someone willfully breaks the law that no blog post will stop that from happening, but quite frequently when and if it happens (especially in smaller companies where CEOs tend to be younger and less experienced) it is actually not intentional and rooted in incompetence rather than in malice.
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He's from Sydney. In Sydney, having a significant number of your colleagues (and yourself) doing monstrous commutes is incredibly normalised. The house prices and transport situation is just a nightmare.

You tend to not realise just how weird it is unless you moved to Sydney from somewhere else, or until you leave Sydney to go somewhere else...

/spent a year or so living there myself: my commute was actually about 30 mins (Hornsby - Chatswood), SO's was about 1 hour 15 mins each way into the CBD once walking time was added on...
>How much we repeat the mistake of Norma (taking the mythical average body and assuming that differences mean problems) today in talking about people's minds.

Makes me wonder which is the perfect text editor that everyone should use, is it emacs or vim?
I this case they may not have been. Given the US Airforce was selecting pilots with measurements within certain bounds their measurements were probably a truncated normal.
I wonder why more of these weren't built.
Well a bunch of AI researchers are not gonna say AI is gonna kill us is 5 years. If they did, they would lose their jobs.

If a self-improving AI could exist, it would be exponential in its self-improvement. So just like a supercritical nuclear reactor, it could conceivably go from undetectable level of activity to supreme intelligence within a very short span of time.

It would be like the nuclear engineer at chernobyl saying "is only 100MW comrade, is of not problem"
No, I think the context of that line suggests that they're referring to pro-terrorist cause graffiti being used as a way to identify terrorists.
All food is healthy. Diets can be unhealthy. It really is interesting that the whole science is concentrating on a single ingredient.
Surprisingly for me, bee pollen has pretty much halted my (at times severe) hayfever. Initially I took 1 per few days and had an 'internal hayfever' type reaction then soon enough my nose and eyes stopped reacting.

The local pollen cures are bunkum, imo, just teaching your body to deal with pollen in general does the trick. A large dose off any pollen, as found in bee pollen, seems to work wonders when taken regularly in spring. Ymmv, but I've struggled for a long time until recently.
From the latest Tonight Show (paraphrased): "When Domino's opened their first shop in Italy, they've introduced to the Italians something they didn't know yet: disappointment"

Also, Starbucks may not be for the locals, but have you ever tried to buy a cappuccino-to-go in Rome in the afternoon?
I think they meant you'll get the type for A1, A2 etc.
Developer time is a zero sum game. If one of these optimizations bites me and I spend one day figuring out what happened, I don't spend one day doing optimization somewhere else, where a much greater speedup can be achieved. Or, to out it in your money difference terms, I could be adding value to the program somewhere else, adding or polishing features.

It's a balancing game. Looking at it through the lens of % speedup, ignoring everything else is just stupid. In a perfect world we'd make decisions based on numbers. He provided his. Where are yours?
We've had autonomous killing machines since WW2, and nobody seemed to care until recently when everything got reframed in a scary Skynet/Terminator way.

Most people seem to get their knowledge on the subject more from movies than reality.
It's only useful if their "Who can view my story" setting is "Everyone". If it's set to "My Friends" you must send a friend request and they must accept it. There's also "Custom" so you can specifically block cooldad1969 or pick a subset of friends. Similar deal for "Who can send me snaps" — settings are "Everyone" or "My Friends".

edit: I guess this is a good example — without deep familiarity with the app you could assume they don't post to their Story if it's empty, or could believe that snaps received in the message view (not the main list) were recently taken (those have been sent from the camera roll)
Started it, barely went 10% in. The so far frequent "hey sign up for x" was annoying. And then it tells me to write questions and such, who's gonna answer those? I don't get it. So I closed the tab.
I find it interesting the way this was described at the end of the article. The idea that this is a necessary development in the case that some enemy uses ECM to disrupt the link between the robot and its human controller.

Because that will probably sound reasonable to most people.

"Hey, hey, hey now. We're not sending unmanned terminators out to battle to search and destroy any living thing.

This our cute little droney-drone drone. We call him Charlie the unicorn. Now if the bad baddy bad terrorists do something bad to Charlie and make it so he can't receive orders, don't you want Charlie to be able to protect himself?"

And the robot apocalypse begins. Not with an army of soul-crushing t-1000s, but with an M-79 grenade launcher dressed up as a puppy.

My guess is that by 2035, we will be mostly okay with it though. Putting AI in charge of driving cars is, by definition, letting AI make life/death choices. If we're okay with that, we are inherently accepting that these ethical situations can and will be accurately modeled.

If you can tell a car how to make a decision between hitting an old lady in the street vs. crashing into a tree and killing the passenger and get that right enough to please the public, I'm sure we can figure out how to tell a robot in a battle situation which person to shoot . . . well enough to please the public.
As a cyclist using a main road I feel a lot safer around lorries than around cars. Their drivers tend to know what they're doing and give you plenty of room. For one incident that was entirely my fault the lorry driver slammed the brakes, got out of the cab, checked I was ok and gave me a cheery "don't do that mate, you'll die". Contrast that with car drivers who will speed off even after hitting you.
>> People convicted in part based on flawed science are not obviously innocent.

People convicted in part based on flawed science are also not obviously guilty. It is difficult to impossible to weigh how the jury weighed the evidence. So at the least they should be afforded another trial excluding the flawed evidence.
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On CentOS, I can do "yum search something" as a regular user, while "yum install something" or "yum upgrade" require root privileges.

I think it's similar with the pkg command on FreeBSD.
Im actually more confused
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My personal experience is that mode definitely counts even if time extremes might override it. My bike commute is the same time as my car commute (Los Angeles). I for one vastly prefer the reliably 20 min biking to the 15-25 minutes of driving and dealing with traffic.

Similarly I used to opt for a longer public transit commute than a car because of the active engagement that I needed with traffic in the car.
Pretty sure if you called airbnb, they would have arranged alternate accommodation.
Can anyone recommend some advanced tutorials for making a 3D engine with OpenGL? I'm looking for something beyond rendering simple polygons with gouraud shading. How do you handle loading large worlds while maintaining a high frame rate? How do you make scenes more realistic with shadows and ambient occlusion?
my understanding of aiming mechanisms esp. wrt. airborne missiles and drones, is that the pilot 'firing' is merely giving the go ahead for launch and the targeting mechanism takes over from there. e.g a heat seeking missle.
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It's more of a Shelbyville idea.
Sorry for a confusing wording. I was referring to the newly generated tag variables A1, A2, ..., An. The next typing pass after solving the equations is to substitute those tags with the type values found by Prolog.
I think that's a bit hyperbolic. Whatever "damage" AirBNB guests cause to the local community, it surely ends after they leave.
In the UK at least, receipts often are contracts and often have one or two terms on them. The singing is to prove you acknowledge the contract.
Ads are the lazy way to monetise anything. I love Duolingo's example, where they've built out a translation service on top of their language-learning platform: while learning a new language, people contributed to the translations Duolingo could sell to their clients.
I bet they make %% more than by running any amount of ads.
I don’t know about that. I think the motivations you have for starting to commute by bike in the first place make a big difference.

In my case, I had been using public transit (buses) as transportation for more than ten years, and frankly, I was completely fed up with it. For my current commute, the buses would never come on time (either 10+ minutes late, or just a bit too early). Then, when I’d finally catch my first bus, it would always reach the last stop just late enough for me to see the second bus (that I’d have to transfer on to) reach the stop I’d have to get to and leave.

That’s not even mentioning all the other annoyances, like:

• (sometimes) waiting more than an hour for a bus to arrive

• the commute regularly taking 1.5 hours each way because the buses would regularly come too late or too early (on the very rare occasions when I’d catch both buses instantly, the commute would become a blissful 45 minutes; I truly treasured those days…)

• etc.

Finally, I got completely fed up of it and was desperately searching for some other way to get to my destination. After doing some research, I realized that I lived right next to a huge bike trail that could take me almost half the way, so I ended up getting a bike. Frankly, it was the best decision I’ve made in a long time. My commute is now 2 hours each way, but unlike the situation with the buses (where I was just waiting half the time), with the bike, I’m actually doing something (riding it), so the time passes by so fast, I always find it unbelievable when I realize that, somehow, two hours have just elapsed without me even noticing it.
"Core" isn't proposing a hard-fork to change the way difficulty is adjusted, one developer was and he changed his mind after realising this wasn't practical: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016... (Also, that's Luke-Jr who I guess technically counts as a Bitcoin Core developer, but uses his own heavily modified client.)
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I learned humility for how "normal users" use computers back in the late 1990s when javascript reporting of display settings were first coming out. A trivially easy thing to change and improve your experience ... and yet the vast majority of users didn't.

Choose really sane defaults. Autoconfigure if possible.

And on the other side, I've got a few fixes, patches, and documentation to my credit in some larger projects and products. Nothing truly wizardly, but solid basic stuff.
"As a CEO you are obliged to keep the company on the right side of the law."

This advice is akin to "don't do drugs." The devil is in the details. And the details aren't always black and white.

The hardest challenge in being a CEO isn't in knowing your obligations. The challenging part is making compromises in order to make good on competing obligations...without letting shit hit the fan.
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This is like learning how to write a ray tracer, or learning to write a compiler, etc. etc.

In other words, it's elucidating to do, but unless you're an industry veteran or subject matter expert, you should almost never do it with the intent of actually using the result.
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