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Has this feature decreased safety? Tesla's first fatality came after 130 million autopilot miles whereas traditions in the US, we have one fatality every 90 million miles. If that continues to hold, this seems to be significantly safer with it's own set of caveats. Not altogether different than getting stuck in a burning car due to your seatbelt.
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If planes had to fly within centimetres of hard barriers there would be no autopilot.
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You forgot Poland.
If you think you can come run a team more leanly and successfully, I invite you to come do it - clearly, if there is a market inefficiency here you could reap the rewards.
Yes but one has a much higher barrier to entry.
You know what would really matter is if they'd let me make an HTTP request from their devices. Not sure that's ever going to happen. I can understand why they have always locked that down, but at some point the possibilites have to outweigh the risks.
> Especially considering that Jesus literally said he didn't want to abolish the old laws but then contradicted them.

There are two distinct laws found in the Bible. One is the ceremonial law, which applied to the Israelites and revolved around the sacrificial system which pointed to and culminated in Jesus' death on the cross. After this event, the old, ceremonial law (animal sacrifice, circumcision, etc.) was no longer necessary, as the type had met antitype [0][1][2].

The second, everlasting law, which represents the character of God Himself, is the moral law, found in the 10 commandments. These were summarized when Jesus said to love God and love your neighbor[3].

So there was no contradiction in Jesus' words. He came not to abolish the law, meaning the moral law, but after His death, the purpose of the old ceremonial law was fulfilled, and thus was no longer necessary. The moral law, however, was and will be forever necessary, as evidenced by the writing of New Testament authors[4][5][6].

After the Jews rejection of Christ was complete, all people were granted invitation to join the figurative, spiritual Israel[7]. Not coincidentally, if you study it out further, you will find that almost everything found in the Old Testament in literal Israel, events which led up to the death of Christ on the cross, were a figurative type of what spiritual Israel would go through after Jesus' death and ascension into heaven.

This evidence also goes a great length in explaining away most other apparent contradictions Christians and others find in the Bible.

[0] Galatians 3:19

[1] Colossians 2:16,17

[2] Ephesians 2:15

[3] Matthew 22:36-40

[4] James 2:10-12

[5] Romans 7:12

[6] Revelation 11:19

[7] Galatians 3:29
Furthermore, I imagine that an auto going down a road is far more likely to detect (or not detect) a situation where a human needs to take action right now. Aircraft have systems to detect approaching objects and things like sensor failures usually aren't going to require split-second action. (e.g. the Air France 447 crash involved multiple pilot errors over many minutes rather than a failure to take over rapid enough control.)
Lenovo's website does this: if you try to browse and customize more than one ThinkPad at a time, the site will get completely confused and start replacing the older one with the newer one, losing the older one entirely.
Pilots (require certification and extensive training) are different from car drivers.
That's 90 million miles among all cars.

I'd wager that if you compare it with cars at Tesla price point -- mostly luxury cars -- Tesla would look pretty bad.
It can, but at what price? Parent was questioning this data being "extremely valuable" - is sentiment analysis at $.001 per user an attractive proposition to a client? Likely. Is it still a viable product at $.01, $.10, $1 per user?
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I often frame my not-spending as a positive revenue, which works really well for small items. Don't run your business this way though!

For example, I didn't buy a coffee on the way in, that is five dollars more at the end of the day than I would have had otherwise, so the question becomes "Do I want five dollars for doing nothing?"

I have some habitual spends like that which are much easier to cut down on if I think I frame it that way.
> I am reluctant to email their customer support.

If this reluctance is out of security concerns, you could always ask for the best contact method to report security vulnerabilities without disclosing the vulnerability to that email.

Plugging their website into https://whois.icann.org/ may give you some alternative contacts if you just hate customer service.
My understanding was that the SDK at release 1.0 would have been terrible, and an expensive maintenance burden. The internal teams rushed hack jobs just to get the first iPhone out the door, there was a _lot_ of internal bugs and half-baked APIs.

So if you're arguing Apple is hostile to developers because they didn't have an SDK on launch day, then you haven't thought through what iterative development at very large scale actually requires. Giving developers access to tools that aren't ready isn't the best criteria.
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> AND they integrated live video directly into the app that many of those users already have, rather than a separate app most of them don't.

> "App constellations" may be a better user experience... if you bother to download the whole constellation... but I think a similar principle to "the best camera is one you have with you" applies.

I agree. Why does Facebook insist on Messages being a separate app then? They should re-integrate it into the main app for all the reasons you wrote.
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The difference here is the "grant full access" screen was never shown to users. That shouldn't be possible and speculation is that either the app somehow hijacked past the screen, or Niantic being an ex-google company was whitelisted to avoid this.

I can easily see how the second would happen, I wonder if Ingress (their previous inside google app) even showed up on your list of authorized third parties?
It's not so much that full autonomy is impossible. We "fire and forget" many type of systems with no possibility of human intervention--at least not in a timely manner. What you can't do is start an automated process, comforting yourself that an inattentive human can always take over in a split-second if the automation messes up.
With three accidents on "autopilot" in a short period, the defects in Tesla's design are becoming clear.

1. Tesla's "hands on wheel" enforcement is much weaker than their competitors. BMW, Volvo, and Mercedes have similar systems, but after a few seconds of hands-off-wheel, the vehicle will start to slow. Tesla allows minutes of hands-off time; one customer reports driving 50 miles without touching the wheel. Tesla is operating in what I've called the "deadly valley" - enough automation that the driver can zone out, but not enough to stay out of trouble.

The fundamental assumption that the driver can take over in an emergency may be bogus. Google's head of automatic driving recently announced that they tested with 140 drivers and rejected semi-automatic driving as unsafe. It takes seconds, not milliseconds, for the driver to recover situational awareness and take over.

2. Tesla's sensor suite is inadequate. They have one radar, at bumper height, one camera at windshield-top height, and some sonar sensors useful only during parking. Google's latest self-driving car has five 3D LIDAR scanners, plus radars and cameras. Volvo has multiple radars, one at windshield height, plus vision. A high-mounted radar would have prevented the collision with the semitrailer, and also would have prevented the parking accident where a Tesla in auto park hit beams projecting beyond the back of a truck.

Tesla is getting depth from motion vision, which is cheap but flaky. It cannot range a uniform surface.

3. Tesla's autopilot behavior after a crash is terrible. It doesn't stop. In the semitrailer crash, the vehicle continued under power for several hundred feet after sheering off the top of the Tesla driving under the semitrailer. Only when it hit a telephone pole did the car stop.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike crash is disturbing, because it's the case the "autopilot" is supposed to handle - divided limited-access highway under good conditions. The vehicle hit a guard rail on the side of the road. That may have been an system failure. Too soon to tell.

The NTSB, the air crash investigation people, have a team investigating Tesla. They're not an enforcement agency; they do intensive technical analysis. Tesla's design decisions are about to go under the microscope used on air crashes.

Tesla's spin control is backfiring. They tried to blame the driver. They're being sued by the family of the dead driver, and being investigated by the NHTSA (the recall people), and the NTSB. 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.
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Agreed, blocking API access was an overconfident move on their part, likely in the anticipation of display ads, and they never recovered.
Sometimes you need to spec requirements out carefully. Other times you need to dive in, prototype, make mistakes, and revise. Sometimes you need to research design tradeoffs for a month before beginning a single item of implementation, and absolutely none of that research can fit into anything like a "sprint" structure. Other times you need to neatly divide up a known or perpetual task into points-based subtasks for tracking, planning, and estimation.

All these things vary all the time. When I say "whatever works" what I mean is no one knows what will work for your team. No textbook will know that. It might consist of some composition of management patterns from some books, but often it will not, and you need to develop an eye for deviating from that. There is no recipe. There is no cluster of things that all the good companies had in common -- they all did (and still do) things very differently. Amazon treats people like shit and hammers on them -- and delivers good products. Google forsakes some income opportunities to selectively uphold their "don't be evil" mantra. Apple puts usability ahead of everything. Microsoft puts enterprise saleability ahead of everything.

All these different value systems, management systems, workflow monitoring processes, etc., etc., have places and times when they'll work. If you're stuck thinking in terms of rigid structures, you won't see it, and it truly can make a big difference.

In every job I've ever left from it has been because the process and experience of being managed in that role had led to burnout even after talking openly with managers about what wasn't working. I'm (perhaps foolishly) a very loyal guy. I'd love nothing more to stay at a company for a long time and get in a groove, even if I was leaving money on the table by doing so. But I can't seem to find any organization that values human-affirming management concepts over and above ritualistic adherence to bureaucratic process.

Anyway, I just see a lot of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" in this. If you are not already familiar, you may enjoy reading Moral Mazes, because I think it's impossible to approach the task of software management without first approaching the generic task of human management and how it fits into bureaucratic machines.
I don't know about its neighbors, but i'm talking specifically about Cuba.

Cuba was at the top of the list by the end of the 1950's, when its US-backed dictator had turned it into one of the leading developed nations in the world. Then the Castro regime comes in, and things don't go very well, but the Soviet Union floats it along for a few decades. Then things go down hill real fast.

Almost any regime that didn't have such an antagonistic relationship with the US would probably have done better. But it's clear the US was intentionally hurting them in order to pressure some sort of additional revolution so they could install a new dictator. That never happened, so the US forced them to suffer the continued loss of US trade. We could have lifted it during the 90's famine (the OAS lifted its embargo 30 years prior), but still no. I don't see why anyone would downvote my parent comment; the UN has been agreeing with me for 25 years.
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I don't really disagree with your point but literally every other mobile and smartphone platform that existed before the iPhone was released with an SDK at 1.0.
It's not about the body count. It's about instilling fear and confidence in the government.

The US government's approach is pretty obvious is to attempt to prevent attacks through various means (reducing risks at airpoint checkpoints, keeping tabs on ammonium nitrate sales, etc), pursing investigations of people deemed vulnerable to terrorist manipulation, and blunting the impact of anything that does happen. When you watch the public coverage when something happens, there's a few common narratives, and they are always focused on portraying the offenders as loners who "aren't taking orders" from anyone.
And you have not read the comment he/she is replying to:

Meanwhile, Apple welcomes developers from day one and there are so many applications developed that it's hard to get user attention amongst the app store noise.
The 5.3M number is not adults receiving RSA, just some number the newspaper made of thin air as an estimate of the total people who may be benefiting from RSA.

The actual number is 2.53M families receiving RSA, with no soecific details on how many people by family (from the agency POV, the number of people actually doesn't matter much. They are taxed as an entity and receive RSA under the same conditions)
It was Web Apps only originally and that was the battle call from Apple. It wasn't until GeoHot (and others) rooted the phone and we got app stores like Cydia that Apple really started to care.

It was with the launch of the iPhone 3G when they came out with the SDK + App Store and it was a really well executed coup.

Do you know how you got software on your phone before the iPhone? Getjar or side-loading (with a proprietary cable almost no one had with apps that would sometimes hard break your phone).
The Pennsylvania Turnpike crash is disturbing, because it's the case the "autopilot" is supposed to handle - divided limited-access highway under good conditions. The vehicle hit a guard rail on the side of the road. That may have been an system failure. Too soon to tell.

This is the one I'm very interested to hear more about. From what I've heard, Tesla's self-driving is very aggressive in swerving to avoid obstacles -- was hitting the guard rail the result of a deliberate swerve, and if yes then was there a logic error, a sensor error, or in fact a legitimate reason to swerve?
Tesla needs (or is going to be forced) to issue a recall soon. Putting "beta" technology in a car isn't OK when it puts drivers and others on the road in danger. This is especially problematic because people have a preconceived notion of what "auto pilot" means and just because Tesla says it's not ready for prime time so therefore you should "keep your hands on the wheel" doesn't make it OK to put into production.
Maybe Rupert Murdoch is feeling adventurous again. I mean he did buy MySpace once.
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Hindsight is 20/20, no pun intended. Why was this shipped at all? I mean the self-driving features. This has now done way too much long-term damage and impacted all self-driving initiatives across the board. Just like they opened up their patents to benefit everyone everywhere by ushering the age of low/zero-emission vehicles they should have done the same for the self-driving features. This should have baked in the lab for another 3-5 years.
More details here:

http://www.teslarati.com/what-happens-ignore-tesla-autopilot...

Based on that account, it seems the warning is triggered if the road becomes curvy. There may also be additional triggers.

It seems insufficient to me. IMO there should be an interval of at most 5 seconds before the first warning, and another 5 seconds before the second, and then the car should start decelerating.
Considering that every letter sent through the post office is scanned, interpreted by computer and stored, it's not unreasonable to assume that serial numbers are at least scanned when they return to the Federal Reserve.

Beyond the police angle, metrics on how quickly money is circulating is probably useful data for Fed economists.
I'm certainly not a power user. I mainly use Twitter to keep up with friends and acquaintances in the tech community. None of the other platforms seem appropriate for that.
I was once involved in helping diagnose a race condition in a website whereby a user could change another user's password if they changed their password at approximately the same time. When looking at the code it was not at all obvious that there was even potential for the issue until you knew it was going on...

Some on this thread are acting like these are trivial problems to avoid. I think they are wrong...
Flying a plane is more difficult, therefore requires more training. But driving a car requires licensing (certification) and training.
>I fail to see the point.

That's ok, you don't need to see everything.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12080495

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12082604

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However, most of that software can be filtered and controlled via the API. Part of the reason Twitter is so hostile to third party apps (with exceptions) that duplicate its own functionality is so they can get analytics about actual users and not marketing bots.
"We don't care about these platforms anymore, so let's open it for indy crapware"
Bug bounty programs are interesting. I wonder if it wouldn't be a good use of tax payer dollars to pay people at the nsa or similar organization with computer security responsibilities to churn away at these programs. As in "spend one month a year doing big bounty programs, collect your normal salary, keep whatever you earn" ...
Very interesting but Labour can't do anything about it if they can't get into government, which is the case all the while Corbyn is leader.
They won't, though.
Yes, the original commenter was taking issue on the literal point of whether or not there was an SDK on day one as stated in the top level comment, not with the (somewhat obvious) broader point that Apple enthusiastically embraced third party developers for iPhone.

But that's HN for you - we are all a bunch of pedants who love to point and yell when something is incorrect - I include myself.
Spending $75K on college doesn't make sense for $120K a year. Any degree that is in demand enough to earn 120K a year you could probably get from going to a state school a lot cheaper. You could probably stay at home, go to Jr college and transfer.
anyone who has launched titles on a gaming-platform-to-be will be able to tell you about half-baked APIs. :-)

A buggy, half-baked API is better than no API at all, though.
i agree with both of you

i think we need to merge and supplant imperative and functional
Is there anything published that shows the true history of Apple's intentions for developer support and on the iPhoine and when in time?
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I'm seeing a recurring theme in this thread (and others) accusing Christians of using circular / irrational arguments to substantiate their beliefs.

I'm a Christian and here is my assessment of the nature of faith.

Everyone lives by faith. When you decide to get in an airplane, you go by faith that the plane is sound, the pilots are skilled, etc. Same idea with driving to work, picking a job, getting married, conducting an experiment. By virtue of the fact that no one knows the future, we all must at the most basic level, live by faith.

Faith is commitment without knowing (with 100% certainty).

Of course that does not mean faith has to be blind and irrational. You make observations about the world, hear testimony of people you trust, think through the issues and come up with your conclusions.

Atheists weigh the evidence (e.g. if God exists, why is there so much evil? Or why does God not reveal Himself more clearly?) and don't see God.

Theists weigh the evidence (e.g. why is there something instead of nothing at all? or observe the improbability for the conditions that allow life in Earth) and see God.

Blanket accusations that theists having no rational basis for their beliefs are not fair. There is rational basis for either camp if one is open to honest researching and listening.

Throughout the ages there were and are great rational thinkers who profess faith in God. (e.g. Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton)

This is to say again, everyone lives by faith. I have great confidence that God exists, but can not 100% prove it. The atheist can not prove He doesn't. I concede that I could be totally wrong. A rationally honest atheist will concede the same about their own beliefs.

So we all make a decision.

Our death is the day of reckoning. Only then will there be the possibility to know for certain if what you have chosen to believe was right or wrong.[0]

TLDR; In issues of existence of God, afterlife, etc and therefore meaning, we cannot know for certain either way. So make the best choice you know how and we'll all find out if we were right later.

[0] Technically, in the case that I'm wrong (about the afterlife), we won't know much of anything.
What the hell is happening in this comment thread? Do we not all realize that, per-mile-driven, Tesla's auto pilot is much safer than human driving?

I thought we were prepared to deal with the inevitable crashes, but based on the chicken littles here, maybe I was wrong.
What an asshole ransomware... talks about your files being moved to a hidden partition, even though it just deletes them directly...
Yes and no.
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This a thousand times. Why is this allowed? And then going the extra mile and calling it autopilot which has all kinds of connotations about not needing to give a fuck about what the vehicle does. Bad bad bad. Recall and remove the feature until it's ready for actual use. Don't put everyone else on the road at risk so you can beta test.
They have value to anyone who has an interest in selling interest / location / cross-device based advertising, so that's exactly Facebook, Google, Microsoft. Yahoo would buy it for exactly the same reason they bought Tumblr - trying to stumble on a new business model via acquisition.
Personally, I save money by not buying stuff. Otherwise I tend to buy secondhand. Requires some sort of lifestyle to get this to work, since you don't always find stuff the moment you need it.
Not needing/wanting to spend money, is also a (new) mindset; appreciating or even realizing/knowing what you already have. Yes, this is very close to tree-hugging-hippie-style-living, but what the heck :)
Also: never, ever spend money you don't have. Don't borrow money. Maybe for a house, but never, ever for a car, t.v., laptop, whatever.
You're both right. That's exactly how aircraft autopilot systems work... and it doesn't work. There have been several plane crashes -- most notably AF447 -- which resulted from autopilot systems disengaging when the (human) pilots had insufficient situational awareness to safely take over control of the aircraft.