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Ron Gilbert is using Squirrel as a scripting language in the game Thimbleweed Park [1]. For someone developing games for as long as he has, I think it lends some credibility to it (though I would still evaluate it before I choose to use it for my use cases).

[1] https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/text_tron_3000
Wouldn't it be better to simplify the complicated code instead?
This could be a good strategy for the malware authors. This malware is easier to write, and being a parasite (on other malware) can pay of, if there aren't too many of them.

I guess the next step would be Mertensian mimicry (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertensian_mimicry), where malware like this starts to look like other malware that behaves slightly more ethically.

That way, victims who Google for reviews on the malware they got will see 'positive' reviews, and be more likely to pay up.
Can someone please explain how its possible to lose that much money? What exactly does that 50M constitute?
> Twitter, much more so than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the original form of their product

And I hope they stay that way. Despite reports on twitter's dropping valuation, I find it as an immensely valuable tool for staying up to date. I'd pay to use twitter.
> but actively steering a car while someone else is also actively steering it sounds pretty terrible.

My passat has most assist systems and I like how it steers. It tries very hard to get my attention and get my hands back on the steering wheel. It barely lets me keep my hands 15 seconds of the wheel but this is perfect for what it's designed to do: keep you in the lane if you are being distracted by something (eg: baby).

Even more it has various modes to get your attention back including detecting tiredness and inability to hold the steering wheel on the lane.
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Every time I click a vine video it takes ages to load. I can't remember a similar service with a crappier user experience

The Vine app lasted less than a week on my phone, because it was pretty much unusable. Yes, please, let me play a series of videos with sound while scrolling.
Also, Google doesn't drive it's test car on highway speeds with humans inside. Google self-driving car's speed is limited to 25 mph, so even if it hit something, potential that it would be lethal is very slim.
For me I don't think that would work, manually handling the receipts and entering them in a program is part of the process of understanding my spending.
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Might be more useful to adjust the title to mention the alleged use of Pokemon Go in determining a target's future location, to highlight what is presumably the main point.
Sure, but it's probably easy to check for the system that slowing, even a bit fast, is less dangerous than full frontal collision with a post.
I would assume it has to did with user acquisition costs or promotions in cities to re-engage existing users.
In the welfare state homelessness is not really a reflection of poverty. It is more a proxy for mental health or drug addiction.

If you can do a reasonable impression of someone interested in looking for a job then you will get your rent paid directly to a landlord and about $100 per week put into a bank account.
I read somewhere that Thailand is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer. It is therefore entirely possible that a substantial number of these job cuts with be in Thailand which definitely has dramatically lower salaries than the Bay Area.

source on the Thailand and HDs for those that are interested. This article from 2011 claims that 25% of global HD assembly is in Thailand. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f0f9a234-fb33-11e0-8756-00144feab4...
I think about three minutes. My VW Passat demands the hands back on the steering wheel after 15 seconds or so I believe. Same experience driving a recent Audi.
I think it already "really matters" that one of the companies that's had the least open platforms for a decade is making such a dramatic shift.
> Drivers who have a license that indicates that they will take responsibility

The fact that customers are licensed does not mean the seller is free from any and all regulation. Gun owners are licensed, and guns are required to have safety switches. Cars have a long history of being regulated [1]

Basically, anything that can contribute to deaths is going to monitored closely by consumer protection bureaus, and will probably be heavily regulated.

[1] http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/g-m-ralph-nader1965-1971...
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What shocks me about both Lyft and Uber's enormous burn rates are that they suggest the companies are heavily subsidizing their drivers. This subsidy is in part to spur penetration in new markets (as all marketplace apps must do), but also suggests that they have reason to believe customers will simply not pay a rate that makes the business profitable.

Assuming the latter is the case, i'm not sure if they have reason to believe this will change over time. Instead, it feels like the human drivers are really just plays to keep the company growing until hypothetical fleets of automated driving cars. In theory, such a fleet would deliver massive profits, but those fleets will be enormously expensive to assemble. Even when they are assembled each company should expect tumultuous legal battles in many areas.

When i try to make all the monkey math work, it doesn't seem to add up. Maybe i'm not enough of a gambling man, but i really don't understand how the venture market still supports business models like these.
"It's a winding road going through a canyon, with no shoulder," Shope told CNNMoney. The driver told Shope the car was in Autopilot mode, traveling between 55 and 60 mph"

Wow, really?

This is not the Autosteer's fault, it's pure negligence
I think that is why they made the experiences so vastly different.
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The other downside of waiting until Uber has done the heavy lifting is that it universally gives Uber a first mover advantage in every new market.

Meanwhile Uber is expanding around the entire world while Lyft is still struggling with the US.
This might be a dumb question. How does that compare to Uber? I see Uber has been raising like a billion dollars every month I'm guessing their spending is a lot higher (especially having something ridiculous like 5000 non-driver employees).
cc65 will certainly scratch the itch you've got. Since control of the sound chip doesn't require super fast code, the significant overhead of running C on a 6502 won't be an issue, and you'll be in a familiar environment.

However, there are also lots of music editors for the C64, both native and running on PCs, that can give you very fine grained control of the SID without programming. I believe GoatTracker is highly regarded, but there are lots.
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Thanks for pointing that out, you two. Still, it's probably doable to increase the battery capacity a bit to get cruising time (vs high powered climbing time).

Not there yet, but probably within spitting distance of a few of the use cases on the edges.
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I think the play is more or less to strangle the higher priced and over-regulated patchwork taxi industries and build a more uniform national/international regulatory framework that's more amenable to these kinds of businesses. At that point prices will probably rise, and (they hope, and I think they're right) customers will see value in the better product that keeps them in.
I work at such a place (16.6, to be sure), and agree that it is indeed quite painful.

Fortunately, after almost 2 long years of pushing, a colleague and I finally convinced our branch of its technical merits and justified the business case to switch.
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No doubt, but both groups need to supervise their Autopilots because autopilots of any kind have always been supervised. That's the point the grandparent is making.
Could they be giving away 1 million of these a month?
Flight International, August 1934:

The relief which is afforded to the pilot by the
use of the Automatic Pilot permits him to devote the
greater part of his time to navigation, map reading, and
the operation of his radio installation, whereas with manual
control, his whole time is occupied with the actual flying
of the aircraft.

That was the original intent of Autopilot: offload the mechanics of flying so that the pilots could concentrate on finding their destination even at night or in bad weather: conditions in which the autopilot was also immensely superior to an infallible and easily-confused human, not the other way about as we see with systems such as Tesla's.

They didn't have to keep their hands on the controls, they could trust that the machine could handle everything except the one-in-one-million scenario.
Considered it. But the rules... I'll let the mods handle that one.
Yeah that's true. The ability to self-publish is a huge deal, and very surprising from Nintendo.
It looks like Microsoft is looking to expand in Mountain View a little:

http://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?...

See page 5.
> In comparison, when a Google self-driving car bumped a bus at 2mph, Google admitted fault, took the blame, and Urmson gave a talk at SXSW showing the data from the sensors and discussing how the self-driving car misjudged the likely behavior of the bus.

This is what we should be trumpeting. Responsibility, honesty, and transparency. Google's self driving car project reports [1] should be the standard. They're published monthly and they detail every crash *per requirement by CA state law (thanks schiffern).

Note: These reports are currently only required in California, and only for fully autonomous vehicles. So, Tesla and other driver-assist-capable car companies do not need to publicize accident reports in the same way. Tesla may be unlikely to start filing such reports until everyone is required to do so. We should demand this of all cars that are driver-assist during this "beta" phase.

Tesla owners and investors ought to be interested in a little more transparency at this point. It's a bit concerning that Tesla/Musk did not file an 8-k on the Florida accident. We learned about it from NHTSA almost two months after it happened.

[1] https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/
> Meanwhile, Apple welcomes developers from day one

That's utterly untrue. Can I ...

* run my own (i.e. unsigned) kernel extensions in OSX?

* run OSX on non-Apple hardware?

* distribute apps for iOS through means other than the App Store?

* distribute non-approved iOS apps at all?

* build apps for iOS that allow end-users to program their own devices?

Apple is actually incredibly developer-hostile, especially considering their early history with machines like the Apple 2.

This is what a developer-friendly machine looks like:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
They give out signing bonuses to drivers (as much as $2000) and free credits to new riders (as much as $50). Launching in new markets gets expensive quickly with that model.
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I couldn't agree more. Autopilots of any kind have always required supervision. Tesla doesn't call its car self driving and there are many warnings that it isn't. Ultimately, the system would be called Boris and people would still use it irresponsibly.
One argument I've heard that makes sense, specifically about uber eats, if the new app is a shit experience and gets one star reviews, it doesn't affect the primary product
I don't understand the reasoning behind your conjecture but I don't see that happening because of the different modes of interaction. Messenger is more of a 1-1 channel that focuses on the immediate. Facebook is more of a broadcast channel focusing on passive, asynchronous, entertaining items.

WeChat has been successful with the model that you talk though .... Never say never ...
I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Tesla probably could do a much better job informing it's customers what they are getting into, because they certainly aren't in a position to figure it out themselves. And they definitely can make their software better.

What I'm saying is, if your car injures someone while you sit in the driver seat, and you could have easily taken an easily foreseeable action to prevent it, then you are at least partially responsible.
Do anybody simplify LaTeX for these kind of jobs? Sometimes I think they have much in common, except that LaTeX is much more complicated.
As anonymously as possible, IMO.
This is going to keep happening until Tesla change their approach from a move-fast-and-break-things startup philosophy to sound engineering one that puts safety in design front-and-centre.

Traditional real-world enigneers have been drilled in this for longer than living memory. When the software guys decide to bring their software appraoches to the real world, this is what happens.

From 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12013713
Such a value system would be a nightmarish thing so I hope that it doesn't exist yet.

Just imagine your car calculating that it should let you die in order to save a group of school children... except that the school children were in fact a bunch of sheep that the system mis-identified.

The danger of AI isn't in paperclip optimizers (at least for now), it's in humans over-relying on machine learning systems.
The content creators are running for the hills. Almost all of the popular folks I followed no longer post content on a regular basis. It's usually posted as an afterthought. I really enjoyed the comedy section and the time constraints on the video length was great to show off creativity.
You've picked my interest, how would lowering regulation increase customer prices?
The company is actualy owned by Google.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12078702
Jailbreakers like to take credit but the App Store launched so relatively soon after the iPhone it's hard to believe it wasn't in the works from the beginning. A year to create all that tooling and polishing the APIs and building the store infrastructure seems on the mark.
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The problem is that you not only need a "hands on", but a "brains on" on the wheel. Which will turn autopilot driving in more unpleasant experience than regular driving.
Why not an arms race to burn through the other side's cash, thus gaining monopoly status for a time?
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Why are we putting a premium on 'retaining it's original features' ?

This looks like a logical fallacy.
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In other words, the exact rate is very uncertain when there's only one crash data point. They might be lucky (or unlucky). Well that's obvious, and I wouldn't call it lying at all.
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Tesla's not the only one at this. Google still has a good program that nobody seems upset about.
Tesla doesn't do recalls. They have OTA software updates
I am not saying prices would rise in direct consequence to a reduction in regulation. The premise is that they are pricing below market right now, and probably also for a more open market. This is an expense to them designed to create the open market they want.

Once they have it, they'll have little reason to underprice anymore. You need drivers to run this kind of business (for now), and they will create an upward pressure on cost (to a point) as they move between legitimate services based on who actually pays them a living.
Composition increases boilerplate code.
With simple inheritance hierarchies there is an inherent advantage in this regard.
If you use inheritance you don't need to encapsulate the "base" object and implement all the methods of the interfaces doing most of the time just a routing to the base object, you can just extend from the abstract base object and implement only the methods that you need.
Obviously if your hierarchy is complex then it is much better to use composition to have a better decoupling, but it has nothing to do with decreasing the boilerplate code.
Composition and inheritance are just two tools for different jobs.
If someone says Composition > Inheritance it is like saying Screwdriver > Hammer, a complete non-sense.
There is no tool that is inherently good or bad, it all depends how the craftsman uses it (or don't) in a good or bad way for the job.
>I argued for both. I argued for a change in the financial system, and as I elaborated on how I could see this come to pass

But see, the education comes first. You don't promise people sunshine and rainbows and then give them a condition. They will not hear about the condition. They heard about the prize and all they hear is the prize. And this is how so many tin-foil hatters are bread, convinced of lizard people puppeteering the whole planet in their spare time. Bullshit like Zeigeist. Concatenations with half the facts missing. Straight to the conclusions. This is the route you take when you want to trick people, not when you want to educate them!

And no, I actually don't see the problem with income inequality. People in general are living better. I don't particularly care that Mark Zuckerberg has a million times more money then me. I will be able to send to send my son to the same university as his. So who cares and why?

Even if there are problems, you are curing a cold with surgery. it's all about risk/reward. And your ratio sucks. Big time.
A lot of that is different from the original, but IMHO not against the "concept of microblogging".
It's probably a combination of those $50 free ride deals, which are likely only available in specific markets, and the loss from having semi low cost rides, as well as heavy marketing.
That might be valid for most apps or services, but I don't think Facebook needs to worry about their app rating too much. It's almost a required app for most people. Not to mention the rating on the main app took a pretty heavy dive when they separated Messenger out anyway.
If planes had to fly within centimeters of hard barriers there would be no pilots.
Yes, and? Obviously people continued to investigate in subsequent years.
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They are absolutely excited about the time when self-driving cars will be actually here.

But the real play here is to use taxi service as a pretext/generator for building up an on-demand courier service [1] with superior returns -- and performance that vastly dwarfs any incumbents.

[1] https://rush.uber.com/how-it-works

EDIT: after the introduction of courier services, picking up passengers serves as a baseline load [2] (to borrow from electricity distribution terminology) to keep drivers incentivized to be on the roads, but the real prize will be the courier tasks.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load_power_plant
Just curious, is YouTube still operating in its own campus? San Jose, correct?
Musk is losing its mind. Blaming the user won't work long with life critical systems. Unless he expects backing from the NRA, putting complex and dangerous devices that can't escape dangers themselves in the hands of the average joe will create incidents. And even if he's legally not to blame I don't think he's gonna sale cars long with such images in the public mind.

I hope he's not putting too much hubrys in the AutoPilot thing and try to enforce it at any cost. Soon there'll be so many corner cases, AP will only "best used while parked with nobody inside nor outside the car, preferably with engine stopped too".

The reason I liked Tesla/Musk before is that he pushed quality and safety Unconditionally. I'm starting to think it was mostly nerd honeymoon phase. Either revamp the logic (sensors-recall and software) or disable it.
Uber claims to be profitable in the US already, and it's their massive competition with Didi in China where they're burning cash ($1B/year). http://fortune.com/2016/02/18/uber-profitable-us/
> Do we not all realize that, per-mile-driven, Tesla's auto pilot is much safer than human driving?

Good question. It's not safer. Tesla's quoted statistic of one death per 94 million miles driven in the US is not as useful as it could be. That includes motorcycle deaths and roads and conditions in which the Tesla AP is not likely to be engaged. When you limit it to divided roads, the rate is more like 1 death per 150 million miles driven [1], which makes the Tesla less safe than your average American vehicle, and that still includes motorcycles.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4sgxv1/while_te...
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Unfortunately, no. For IFR you have to be able to fly an approach at the primary airport, then fly to the alternate airport, do an approach there, and then fly an additional 45 minutes. After each approach you have to be able to fly the missed approach procedure, which necessarily involves climbing. Just being able to cruise for 45 minutes is not enough.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.167
Because they can (well, at least they could until now). Instagram made it with 13 employees and they supported a similar number of users.
Or they are looking forward to the introduction of self-driving cars? Rather than waiting for self-driving cars to actually arrive, by which time the horse will have bolted, they are trying to lock the customer base in now at a high cost, banking on the money lasting until self-driving cars arrive. Once self-driving cars arrive, costs fall, competitors are locked out, and they make a big profit.
Facebook had essentially all of WhatsApp's users, and they still paid $20B for it. I should have said "users and the time the spend on it".
I think the value of "autopilot" for me would come in increased awareness when my attention is fading. When I'm coming home at 2AM from a gig and the road is long, straight, flat, and boring, my attention wanders. Sure, I start out strong, but soon my eyes just don't focus correctly anymore. I roll down the windows and turn up the radio to stay awake but sometimes I don't realize how I got from here to there.

That 30 minute trip could end in disaster or, using something like "autopilot", it could end with me pulling into my garage without issue. I tend to think that it will be very useful in these types of situations.
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Whoa, interesting... was business marketing part of the plan, or just happened?
> Obviously the UK is not likely to vote itself off of that council and they have veto power.

As we are seeing with Brexit, formalities are not going to matter much if willingness to collaborate vanishes: the fact that the UK has veto power "on paper" in the Security Council is an anachronism which, if not voluntarily relinquished, will have no effective practical value. There are lots of ways that the other powers can "convince" the UK to not use its veto power.

The obvious fact is that it is not fair that a nation with such a small weight in population terms has so much power in one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

The same applies to France, but I have already heard that France is willing to cede its seat to the EU.

The core of the problem, anyhow, is that the Security Council, as it is structured now, has no legitimization: it must be reformed so that the interests of a wider share of humankind are taken into account.
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